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Post by Deleted on Jan 15, 2007 4:23:41 GMT -4
I'm just peeved that I actually know who both of those people are.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 15, 2007 10:11:14 GMT -4
I too need to echo the "Aussie athletes get a free pass" hate. It seems like Aussie athletes can get away with murder, and it really gets annoying after a while. Sex videos? Rape scandals? Public drunkenness? Wife/girlfriend beating? It seems like everytime one of these things happens, there will be a headline in The Australian, a couple of days of negative publicity, a public apology, and then Poof! It's back to hero status. It really makes me wonder, what must people from other countries think of us when we slap these people on the wrists and then return to treating them like gods? Our treatment of athletes is one of the few things about Oz that I actually find embarrassing. This, of course, doesn't include Kiwi athletes, who are always wholesomely delicious.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 15, 2007 11:15:52 GMT -4
I agree that our worship of athletes/sportspeople is embarrassing, and it's not as if Australia doesn't have anything else to offer the world. A vaccine for cervical cancer came out of Australia, for dog's sake. Our emphasis of sports works to the detriment of any sort of intellectual, cultural or scientific development. It's no wonder our intellectuals head overseas. Here's some wholesome deliciousness now. Mmmm, thighs.
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Post by hal9000 on Jan 15, 2007 11:54:07 GMT -4
I knew there was a reason I didn't like Matthew Newton.
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Post by Yossarian on Jan 15, 2007 18:07:37 GMT -4
I knew there was a reason I didn't like Matthew Newton. Like father, like son - from what I've heard. As to the athletes, I don't think that pandering to their bad behaviour is specifically Australian. Mike Tyson? Kobe Bryant? David Beckham? The Duke basketballers accused of raping a stripper? Obviously varying degrees of misbehaviour but all of them have had a lot of support from the media and their fans: Those women put themselves out there! What did they expect? It's just lads being lads. His private behaviour doesn't impact on his sportsmanship blah blah blah. It drives me crazy too but I think the problem is wider than Australia.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 15, 2007 19:42:06 GMT -4
I agree to a certain extent, Yossarian, and I don't like the fact that athletes in any country can get away with some of the crap these people pull. But you must admit that Australians revere athletes to an unhealthy extent, even more than Americans. In the States, some athletes (like Kobe Bryant, for example) can and do get away with pretty much anything, but it isn't like that with every athlete. Living in Baltimore (for the time being) there's a huge stink right now about this baseball player, Rafael Palmeiro, who broke some big record, then got caught using steroids. He was a hero, and now he's practically a criminal, and that stain on his reputation is not going to go away. I have a hunch that were he a cricket player, he would indeed be criticised for steroid use, but then he would stage a comeback a year later and would receive positive reviews for "coming clean" or would become the spokesperson for the "there's so much *pressure* placed on athletes, I had to take steroids...it wasn't my fault!" camp. Or both. Point is, IMO, Americans don't seem to put up with as much as Aussies do. They still put up with too much (this thing with the Duke basketball players makes me sick), but they do seem to have some vague idea when to say enough is enough.
On a more cheerful note, EvilMinion, I love you. That picture is *so* becoming my wallpaper.
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Post by Yossarian on Jan 15, 2007 19:53:39 GMT -4
Matthew Newton has now lost his gig with Nova: He simulated a sex act during a NYE broadcast? Wha-at?
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Post by hal9000 on Jan 15, 2007 22:39:43 GMT -4
Between the 9pm and 12pm fireworks there was a 3 hour special. MApparently, Matthew Newton seemed both drunk and stoned. He pretented to play the piano with his penis, simulated oral sex on John Foreman. Oh, and apparently, pushed the other c-Listers out of the way so he could be at the front of the group during the final sing-a-long.
Problem is, it was pre-recorded.
I've never seen her act in any-thing, but I've always had a mild girlcrush on Brooke Satchwell. Great tits.
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Post by Yossarian on Jan 15, 2007 22:51:19 GMT -4
Between the 9pm and 12pm fireworks there was a 3 hour special. MApparently, Matthew Newton seemed both drunk and stoned. He pretented to play the piano with his penis, simulated oral sex on John Foreman. Oh, and apparently, pushed the other c-Listers out of the way so he could be at the front of the group during the final sing-a-long. Problem is, it was pre-recorded. I've never seen her act in any-thing, but I've always had a mild girlcrush on Brooke Satchwell. Great tits. Klassy guy. His parents must be proud. Brooke Satchwell is hot in a girl next door kind of way. And she's made an effort to do some interesting things post-Neighbours so I have to give her props.
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Post by Yossarian on Jan 16, 2007 20:48:48 GMT -4
Oooh, I'm double posting because I am mad! Matthew Newton's lawyer had the nerve to say the following in respect of his assault charges: The fuck? What does one have to do with the other? There's a war going on so domestic violence in Australia doesn't matter?
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