The 2012/13 Off Season Thread

[Suitman]

Another soccer riot.
Big f**king deal.

Suity

 

[strider]

Well that's the other side isn't it, there is a language barrier, we wouldn't understand any interview and we just aren't as interested as a whole.......

its not even just a language thing .... there just isn't the same communication in alot of places in the world .... these days there's probably a news crew in every toilet block in the US

but yeah - its also an issue of not being as interested .... and i don't think it's just australia in that boat, the whole world is the same

 

[MarkInTheStands]

This is the bit I don't get.
I heard about the kids in the US dying - it's been the lead story all day on every news bulletin on radio and tv.
But until this very minute, when I read your post, I hadn't heard about the 20+ kids stabbed in China.
Are the lives of those in less fortunate countries less news worthy?
I wonder how many kids died of famine in Africa today?
I bet it's a lot more than those that did in a massacre in wealthy America.

The world makes me sad too often.

Suity

Yeah, agree Suity. The media selection (and community reaction) of/to comparative tragic situations always makes me wonder a bit too. Why we hear so much about a certain situation, and nothing about other ones in different parts of the world? Sad times.

I'm not sure it's about not caring as such, rather what is more relevant to us. China is not relevant to our culture, the US on the other hand, much like the UK are very much linked to our everyday lives........

I'm not sure it's ever been any different in fact it's probably been worse, it just seems more shocking when it is kids!

I heard about both events within a few minutes.

I heard about China as a side note to the US killings.

20+ people stabbed in a stabbing in a school in China, 0 Fatalities. Vs 29 people shot 28 fatalities.

 

[Gary Gutful]

Instictively, I agree with Suity.

Brings to mind an old skit on the original D-Generation show. They had a mock TV news broadcast, and at the top of the screen there was 'The Deathometer', which registered the number of deaths reported in each news item. They started with something like '3 people have been killed on NSW roads', and the Deathometer quickly counts up 1,2,3. A few similar reports follow. Then they finally report "32,000 people have drowned in Bangladeshi floods".....the Deathometer rises by 2....and when the newsreader is sure that it has finished moving, he explains..".....those are, of course, racially adjusted figures".

I remember that skit. Unfortunately it is as true now as it was then.

 

[Kornstar]

@12thManBillyB: I read in the Sun.Tele. that I have "survived" to be on The Back Page next year. Nice choice of words Rothfield you f**kwit.

:lol:

 

[Poupou Escobar]

I remember that skit. Unfortunately it is as true now as it was then.

On the same note, do you reckon Chinese people care as much about a bunch of American kids attacked as they do about their own?

It's human nature. Ethnicity (or whatever you want to call it) is just a natural extension of family. Blood is thicker than water.

That's how you get 20 thousand people at Aussie Stadium waving Turkish flags during a Socceroos match (in 2004). There certainly weren't 20 thousand people travelling here from Turkey to watch their team - nearly all of them would have been Australian citizens and most would have never even been to Turkey.

But blood is thicker than water.

 

[Gary Gutful]

On the same note, do you reckon Chinese people care as much about a bunch of American kids attacked as they do about their own?

It's human nature. Ethnicity (or whatever you want to call it) is just a natural extension of family. Blood is thicker than water.

That's how you get 20 thousand people at Aussie Stadium waving Turkish flags during a Socceroos match (in 2004). There certainly weren't 20 thousand people travelling here from Turkey to watch their team - nearly all of them would have been Australian citizens and most would have never even been to Turkey.

But blood is thicker than water.

You obviously haven't drunk the water in Adelaide. That shit is thicker than blood...

 

[Maroubra Eel]

That's true Poupou. I work with heaps of Mediterranean Descendants and they all refer to some other country as "my country".

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Why wouldn't they when every merkin encourages them to?

 

[Maroubra Eel]

Who knows what the crazy Mediterranean Descendants are thinking?

 

[Poupou Escobar]

I dunno mate.

 

[Barry O'Speedwagon]

shit is thicker than blood...

Very true, in most cases.

 

[Gary Gutful]

Very true, in most cases.

I'm guessing you've never drunk XXXX?

 

[Barry O'Speedwagon]

I'm guessing you've never drunk XXXX?

...hence the qualifier "in most cases";-)

 

[Gary Gutful]

...hence the qualifier "in most cases";-)

Yep - we've all been there. A harmless barbecue with the neighbours can suddenly turn into a night of sitting on the caroma all because you forgot to bring along your own beers and are forced to drink a XXXX gold from the stash....or maybe this just happened to me....

 

[Maroubra Eel]

Yep - we've all been there. A harmless barbecue with the neighbours can suddenly turn into a night of sitting on the caroma all because you forgot to bring along your own beers and are forced to drink a XXXX gold from the stash....or maybe this just happened to me....

You deserve this for not taking beer to a BBQ.

 

[Gary Gutful]

You deserve this for not taking beer to a BBQ.

Let's just say I learnt a very important lesson that day.

 

[The Elephant In The room]

Yep - we've all been there. A harmless barbecue with the neighbours can suddenly turn into a night of sitting on the caroma all because you forgot to bring along your own beers and are forced to drink a XXXX gold from the stash....or maybe this just happened to me....

I usually stand at the caroma when taking a leak, but each to their own Gary.

 

[Gary Gutful]

I usually stand at the caroma when taking a leak, but each to their own Gary.

Standing is for girls!

 

[IFR33K]

You deserve this for not taking beer to a BBQ.

That's where you black fellas go wrong.

As a Mediterranean Descendant, I'll supply all the meat and grog at one of my bbqs.