"Hamish MacBeth", now that was a great show. I loved the 'pomade' episode - can say no more or I'd be a spoiler.

Help! was on Sundance channel night before last. I can say no more.

Stop naming Shows! I know Blockbuster Online does not have many British* shows! And when they do it takes a while, I want to see "A Bit of Fry and Laurie" sooooooo bad but it is on Long Wait

In Other news. I finaly updated my list on the first post.


*I recently got shot down, I was so excited that they had Terry Pratchett's Soul Music, then the next day they removed it from the system!

Disregard the last post, continue to name at will, I'll endure the pain and write them down somewhere, I'll find a way to watch them

My lobby for getting cable or satilite TV has started up again, but I'm having trouble, we could get the @#$%& one if we gave up Blockbuster, I might be able to handle that with the free DVR thingy on the deal, but the package that includes BBC America (or maybe the real BBC is available in the "International" channels) costs double. And the fact that a friend of the family used to have the Dish and it went down at the first sign of rain shoots down the idea, thar be some rain down here in The Bluegrass State

Anton,

might I suggest a lifestyle that allows you to spend some time in the YUK, or even OZ or Kiwifruitland, as it appears that even us colonials within the olde empitre still get things faster than does the New World.

Come to Oz - a pie floater isn't sufficient deterrent to a dedicated Beeb watcher.

And we don't have those *everywhere* throughout the country.

Not yet, but like cane toads and the AFL, its only a matter of time.

I wonder how hard it would really be to emigrate? Gawd a lot of my stuff would get thrown away if I did...



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Not really. There's a huge market for imported stuff among the intellectually challenged in Oz.. Bring it out and sell it - make a fortune.

Just keep the valuables to yourself.

And I'm back, my PC went bang over the weekend and now I've got a new one!
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Hi numbers! Ah, how I wish I had a new PC...

AFL.... The most bizarre perversion of rugby that I have ever seen aside from Yank football.

Apologies for the sudden absence. Ubuntu updated and used about 3 times my allowed quota so I was cut off for two weeks.

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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
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I'm not sure that I want to defend AFL per se - when I were a lad growing up in NSW the Victorians' insistence on ignoring Rugby League (instead, playing what we refered to as aerial ping-pong) was seen as a sure sign of their degeneracy as a separate Australian race.

However, if we are talking about 'perversions' then surely picking up the soccer ball and running with it was the first perversion (perpetrated by some cove at Rugby School, if legend has it right). Moreover, making the main aim the scoring of tries (aka: touchdowns) by flopping over a line when in possession of the ball, instead of the kicking of goals is perhaps an even greater perversion of the original game.

AFL, for all its faults (that absolutely no-one understands the rules, being the main one) at least removes the latter rugbyesque perversion by returning the game to its goal-kicking roots... though allowing a point for missing is admittedly curious.

Re Aussie Rules.

The original inventors, whoever they were (since seeing a program on ABC about the inclusion of a aboriginal game which used a stuffed possum skin as a ball and which was kicked to a person further down the ground) included the 'behinds' posts for a very specific reason. That is the encouragement of old jokes.

For example:

Two old ladies seeing their first Aussie Rules match and one of them said to the other 'We must go now'. The other lady asked: 'Why?'. The first old lady replied 'Because I just heard one of these supporters say 'We've only kicked five behinds since half time' and I don't want to get away before they reach us.

But if you like perversions consider the Awfully Fatuous Lot who allow carrying forward of past nonAFL history into the AFL era - eg The Brownlow Medal - and allowing Victorian clubs to brag about their VFL histories as though they were AFL but denying Port Adelaide the same right.

I think AFL will be nonexistent in fifteen years as it masturbates itself right out of public favour and the individual states return to their local competitions with a new national league of club games as is done with SBS type football.

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A picture is worth a thousand words. A chocolate is worth a thousand pictures.

I remember when ESPN first started they didn't have enough content to fill the 24 hour period (only one SportsCenter per day, imagine!) and so they used to show "Australian Rules Football" a lot. My dad and I loved to watch it - it seemed so utterly insane compared to ours...

Which is soo much saner.... :P

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"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

Sanity is defined by the normal behaviour of the culture against which the individual's actions are compared. Back in the USSR the Russians used this definition for, as they said, that dissidents would be crazy to become public focusses. So those who did were sent to mental institutions.

American football is not crazy. It is a public demonstration of phone box stuffing, except that there is less point. What other game replaces most of the team depending on whether they are going forwards or backwards. I think that this is partly to blame for the cock ups of American military endeavours in Viet Nam, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc, because the soldiers expect to swap over depending on whether they are shooting or being shot at.

This is not to denigrate individual soldiers who performed admirably on the whole, just the management systems and attitudes.



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> What other game replaces most of the team depending on whether they are going forwards or backwards. <

I will have to mention that next Sunday. Hysterical! Oh well, I've liked many a stupider thing (no really, I have)...

Heh. They actually got one of our kickers in the early/mid nineties in. He failed miserably....

But the game makes no sense to me. Line two groups of people up and say "Go!" (or "hut!" or whatever it is...) and they charge into each other. If you are going to do it properly, give them sticks to hit each other with.

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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

I know it's stupid but the gladiatorishness gets me.

Plus Peyton Manning is so dosh garn cute with his little commercials...