Things that make you laugh

[Lightning McQueen]

Reckon the bottle of rum is the prescription for whatever ails you, HH3. It'll either poison or drown the bug in your system, or at least it'll be too drunk to buggerise with your immune system.

Have tomorrow off due to a massive hangover.

[Magellan]

The boss might give him another bottle and a wad of cash!

[stan]

Doesn't really make me laugh, but makes me happy.

Im pretty crook, and slept in this morning.

My missus rang work to talk to me, and they told her I hadn't come in, and she couldn't get me on the mobile coz I was snoozin'.

She rushed home from work to make sure I wasn't dead, and woke me up about 9am.

I dawdled around the house getting ready and she said "You don't seem too worried. You're gonna be an hour and a half late to work without telling anyone".

My response, "What are they gonna do? Sack me?" (with a chuckle).

Get to work, everyone's happy to see me. Walk into the owners office. He's hands me a bottle of Sailor Jerrys and an envelope with Xmas cash in it. Then tells me to go home whenever I want.

So today I get a sleep in, a bottle of my favourite rum, a pretty decent wad of cash, and an early minute.

Where the **** do you work?

[HH3]

Ive built up a heap of brownie points lately, including a promotion to second in charge below the owner. Plus i havent had a day off in 6 months.

The bottle and bonus where just coincidentally on the same day i slept through my alarm.

[am Bays]

Darwin Mob

http://www.news.com.au/national/northern-territory/police-arrest-darwin-woman-who-reported-for-bail-in-stolen-car-and-with-meth/news-story/18784578cf5b89c2f726005990fd8777

[Brodlach]

Superstar month on Foxtel- Tonight it's Tom Hawkings!

Who next? Jarrod Patrenko?

Alex Rance today

[Failed Creation]

[am Bays]

Reading The Keepers, Malcolm Knox's new book over the last few days after getting it a week ago.

Steve Rixons account of the 1984-85 Sydney test amtch agaisnt teh West Indies when Border won the toss and elected to bat against Marshall, Holding Garner and Walsh on a green top. The NSW players (Rixon, Dyson, Bennett and Holland) said we've got to bat last pre toss despite knowing they we're going to be in a world of pain on that deck if the Windies bowled first.

Dyson go out early and so Wood and Wessells got pummelled in the next 90 mins as the Windies got excited at the pitch and bowled too short.

Wessels has come in at lunch and just has let rip at the NSW boys calling them all F***wits and p****s and they've all just laughed at him and Rixon has told him to p!ss off, just get out there and make 150 and we'll win this!

Funnier when you read it....

Good book though. Especially like reading about the back up keepers those with sliding doors moments who could've been but never were or were only just....

[Magellan]

Reading The Keepers, Malcolm Knox's new book over the last few days after getting it a week ago.

Steve Rixons account of the 1984-85 Sydney test amtch agaisnt teh West Indies when Border won the toss and elected to bat against Marshall, Holding Garner and Walsh on a green top. The NSW players (Rixon, Dyson, Bennett and Holland) said we've got to bat last pre toss despite knowing they we're going to be in a world of pain on that deck if the Windies bowled first.

Dyson go out early and so Wood and Wessells got pummelled in the next 90 mins as the Windies got excited at the pitch and bowled too short.

Wessels has come in at lunch and just has let rip at the NSW boys calling them all F***wits and p****s and they've all just laughed at him and Rixon has told him to p!ss off, just get out there and make 150 and we'll win this!

Funnier when you read it....

Good book though. Especially like reading about the back up keepers those with sliding doors moments who could've been but never were or were only just....

'Dutchy' Holland and 'Max' Bennett bowled us to victory in the Windies second innings IIRC, back in the days when the SCG turned big time on the last day.

[JK]

[Pseudo]

^ from those halcyon days when the sport was referred to by its proper name.

[Magellan]

^ from those halcyon days when the sport was referred to by its proper name.

Hear hear. The term "Australian Rules" is now almost non-existent. Well done AFL, corporate branding uber alles.

"I'm off to Hindmarsh to watch Adelaide United and Melbourne Victory play a game of EPL" said absolutely no-one ever.

[carey]

Groups of people getting to the Strikers game 10mins before it starts expecting front row seats. F**k wits.

[Magellan]

Interesting pictorial insights into Chris Gayle's lifestyle (above those we've already seen in the last 36 hours) from his twitter feed.

http://www.theage.com.au/sport/chris-gayle-makes-light-of-10000-fine-on-instagram-20160105-glzyoh.html

[Failed Creation]

^ from those halcyon days when the sport was referred to by its proper name.

Hear hear. The term "Australian Rules" is now almost non-existent. Well done AFL, corporate branding uber alles.

"I'm off to Hindmarsh to watch Adelaide United and Melbourne Victory play a game of EPL" said absolutely no-one ever.

I'll never call soccer 'football' either, and it shits me when I hear others do it.

'Aussie Rules' is football, especially for those fortunate enough to live west of the Barassi Line.

[HH3]

The only sport I've ever called football besides Aussie Rules is gridiron. And I only started calling it football this year after being around so much of it. Its just what its called.

Having said that, Aussie Rules is "footy" and gridiron is "football" in my household.

[Magellan]

I'm of the view that there are a number of sports around the world that are perfectly entitled to call themselves 'football' - Australian Rules, soccer, both rugby codes, American football, and there may be others. Somewhere in world they all legitimately identify as a form of football game, and I don't think any code has a right above others to claim ownership of the word.

Whether your favorite code is known as 'football' is another question, is based on the roots of the code in the location and depends on where you are geographically and who you're talking to. With my Aussie Rules mates, I'll use 'football', but I'll also use it with soccer friends. I'll also use prefixes like "Australian rules" or 'round-ball' to make myself clear when it's unclear from the context.

Here in SA, Aussie Rules is known as the 'football' code. In NSW, it's rugby union or league. In Manchester, it's the round-ball game. I wouldn't go into a pub in Merseyside and proclaim that the Liverpool-Everton derby wasn't 'football' and that the real deal is a different code played in Australia.

[Failed Creation]

I'm of the view that there are a number of sports around the world that are perfectly entitled to call themselves 'football' - Australian Rules, soccer, both rugby codes, American football, and there may be others. Somewhere in world they all legitimately identify as a form of football game, and I don't think any code has a right above others to claim ownership of the word.

Whether your favorite code is known as 'football' is another question, is based on the roots of the code in the location and depends on where you are geographically and who you're talking to. With my Aussie Rules mates, I'll use 'football', but I'll also use it with soccer friends. I'll also use prefixes like "Australian rules" or 'round-ball' to make myself clear when it's unclear from the context.

Here in SA, Aussie Rules is known as the 'football' code. In NSW, it's rugby union or league. In Manchester, it's the round-ball game. I wouldn't go into a pub in Merseyside and proclaim that the Liverpool-Everton derby wasn't 'football' and that the real deal is a different code played in Australia.

Good call.

I'm just curious as to why the media has made a big push to call soccer 'football' here in the last 10 years.

[Booney]

I'm of the view that there are a number of sports around the world that are perfectly entitled to call themselves 'football' - Australian Rules, soccer, both rugby codes, American football, and there may be others. Somewhere in world they all legitimately identify as a form of football game, and I don't think any code has a right above others to claim ownership of the word.

Whether your favorite code is known as 'football' is another question, is based on the roots of the code in the location and depends on where you are geographically and who you're talking to. With my Aussie Rules mates, I'll use 'football', but I'll also use it with soccer friends. I'll also use prefixes like "Australian rules" or 'round-ball' to make myself clear when it's unclear from the context.

Here in SA, Aussie Rules is known as the 'football' code. In NSW, it's rugby union or league. In Manchester, it's the round-ball game. I wouldn't go into a pub in Merseyside and proclaim that the Liverpool-Everton derby wasn't 'football' and that the real deal is a different code played in Australia.

Good call.

I'm just curious as to why the media has made a big push to call soccer 'football' here in the last 10 years.

Fox Sports' Simon Hill leads that charge. His unwavering blind faith in the round ball game is unnerving. Nothing the A League does is wrong, nothing the other sports do is right. While he's the almost unofficial spokesman for the round ball game in the country I think it will be held back.

I heard him talking about video referee being a potential in the sport, he said "Football (sic) is a flowing game, there are no stop/start like rugby scrums, or tackles, Aussie rules marks, goals etc." Has he not noticed after a player is felled anywhere, let alone in the box, there's a break in play? Has he no noticed when a shot flies wide of the target, there's a break in play?

Well said Magellan.

[Jase]

I'm of the view that there are a number of sports around the world that are perfectly entitled to call themselves 'football' - Australian Rules, soccer, both rugby codes, American football, and there may be others. Somewhere in world they all legitimately identify as a form of football game, and I don't think any code has a right above others to claim ownership of the word.

Whether your favorite code is known as 'football' is another question, is based on the roots of the code in the location and depends on where you are geographically and who you're talking to. With my Aussie Rules mates, I'll use 'football', but I'll also use it with soccer friends. I'll also use prefixes like "Australian rules" or 'round-ball' to make myself clear when it's unclear from the context.

Here in SA, Aussie Rules is known as the 'football' code. In NSW, it's rugby union or league. In Manchester, it's the round-ball game. I wouldn't go into a pub in Merseyside and proclaim that the Liverpool-Everton derby wasn't 'football' and that the real deal is a different code played in Australia.

Good call.

I'm just curious as to why the media has made a big push to call soccer 'football' here in the last 10 years.

Fox Sports' Simon Hill leads that charge. His unwavering blind faith in the round ball game is unnerving. Nothing the A League does is wrong, nothing the other sports do is right. While he's the almost unofficial spokesman for the round ball game in the country I think it will be held back.

I heard him talking about video referee being a potential in the sport, he said "Football (sic) is a flowing game, there are no stop/start like rugby scrums, or tackles, Aussie rules marks, goals etc." Has he not noticed after a player is felled anywhere, let alone in the box, there's a break in play? Has he no noticed when a shot flies wide of the target, there's a break in play?

Well said Magellan.

As an English person in Australia, I still call the game soccer... its just easier as everyone knows what you are talking about...

Booney, with regards to Simon Hill, while he is a cheer leader for the world game He is also a very harsh critic of what goes on in the game...

Anyhoo I love Aussie Rules, soccer union and most other variations of football...