deb
Yes. Everything about the show is quite brave, I think. The fellas who submit to the makeover (I've watched about four episodes), the producers, the advertisers, and the very funny queer-eyed mentors.
Prolly what I miss most about TV.
If the Packers had gone to the Super Bowl...
But they didn't.
<moment of silence>
So aside from that, "Queer Eye."
Nope.
Went kerflooey back when the Cubs looked like they could win (even the possibility caused a rift in the space-time continuum, perhaps), we could prolly un-kerflooey it but decided to see what the enforced asceticism would be like, hasn't been half bad. About a quarter bad. Even a tenth.
we have done without tv since the last typhoon december 2002.
after the cable company repaired the lines, about mid 2003, we found that we were doing quite well without television. i do admit getting the urge to renew the cable service when fooball season comes around.
Fooball? You folks really do do things differently down there.
patiodog wrote:Fooball? You folks really do do things differently down there.
ok, football, american style..........
the aussies are trying to convert guam to play rugby
rugby
pueo wrote:the aussies are trying to convert guam to play rugby
rugby
At least then you'd have someone to play against. No-one but Americans play American fooball! (love the fooball
) And we're closer than America!
I'm told Canadian football is a more exciting, faster paced game than American football. I watch neither, so I wouldn't know. Just wondered what the American & Canadian opinion on that was.
I also hear that American beer is like water compared to Canadian beer. I don't drink beer, so, again, I have no idea. Opinions beer drinkers?
Deb, the Cubs are a baseball team, the second oldest professional baseball team in America. They have not won the World Series (as the championship is called) since before the First World War. The perrenial cry of the Cubs fan is: "Wait 'til next year." Some Cubs fans have lived long, full lives and died while waiting 'til next year.
Canadian and American football have the same origin. The first game known to have been played in the "modern" form was between McGill University and Harvard (in 1898, i believe), and was played according to "Harvard rules." Since that time, there has been a divergence in rules. The Americans play on a field 100 yards in length--the Canadian field is 110 yards in length. The American rules allow four attempts to advance ten yards, which if successful, allows another four attempts--these attempts are known as "downs." The Canadians allow only three downs to advance the ball ten yards--therefore, the passing game (throwing the ball down field as opposed to running with it) is much more important than it is south of the border. There are differences in scoring, as well, but this is enough about 'Merican sports in the Coney's thread.
caprice wrote:I'm told Canadian football is a more exciting, faster paced game than American football. I watch neither, so I wouldn't know. Just wondered what the American & Canadian opinion on that was.
I also hear that American beer is like water compared to Canadian beer. I don't drink beer, so, again, I have no idea. Opinions beer drinkers?
caprice
Both true. Additionally, American marijuana has less THC than rolled up Canadian Shield autumn maple leaves.
The alcohol content of US beer is apparently about the same as what's classed as "light" beer in Oz.
deb
Set speaks sooth, re the 'Cubs'. To be a Cubs fan is to be a tragic figure. When Cubs games are televised, and as the camera pans those sad kissers, one is immediately reminded of Pauline Kael's description of Leslie Howard..."born with a face to be betrayed"
I hate beer.
I hate football.
of course, as is the way with these things, American football looks absolutely bizarre to Australian eyes - accustomed to the free flow of Aussie rules and soccer - and even rugby, which has, I think, some of the huddly thingies that gridiron has.
Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! I may not be able to go to my new job!!!! Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!!!
My current job is in an agency which is an outreach of a major teaching hospital. Our budget has always been quite separate. The hospital has gone way over budget - and has frozen the filling of any positions. This - if the powers that be decide to unquarantine our budget - means I cannot be replaced. My boss will not allow me to go if this is the case, since the team cannot function without the position - we are tiny and totally overwhelmed as it is. WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!
I am starting to like our federal Opposition leader - Mark Latham - right winger though he is, for the sorta almost left wing Labor Party.
He is promising to close down the very lavish prime Ministerial residence in Sydney, Kirribilli House, if elected - (The PM has an official residence in Canberra as well, called The Lodge - the current PM does not formally live there, he formally lives in Kirribilli House becasue, as scurrilous rumour has it, his wife refuses to live in the same city as his mistress, but I digress) - and hand it over to the state government for public use.
He was asked by the media where he would stay when in Sydney, if he becomes Prime Minister - (he was raised in a working class suburb in Sydney) - he paused for a moment, thought about it, and said "I guess I'll doss with my mum."
Oh no!!
But not allowing you to go... that's not how it works, is it? Can't you just give notice and go, even if you are dragging a desperate administrator or two from each leg?
Oh, but there was something about coming back to this job, later, right? Is that the rub?
sozobe wrote:Oh no!!
But not allowing you to go... that's not how it works, is it? Can't you just give notice and go, even if you are dragging a desperate administrator or two from each leg?
Oh, but there was something about coming back to this job, later, right? Is that the rub?
It is a six month secondment. At this stage. I want to keep my job!!!
