Death of..

[The Skeez]

With impending death of rugby league due to various reasons, I’ve also noticed the demise of other professions in light of increased public scrutiny.

Whether it be the sport that brings us here; or the scrutiny of a soldier for war crimes; or the media who report on these issues to keep citizens accountable; it’s seems that there is a lot at stake for sportspeople, the war machine or the fourth estate et al.

Is this a sign of things? Pandemic, fires, flood and plagues. Maybe Israel Folau knows something we don’t?

[rented tracksuit]

With impending death of rugby league due to various reasons, I’ve also noticed the demise of other professions in light of increased public scrutiny.

Whether it be the sport that brings us here; or the scrutiny of a soldier for war crimes; or the media who report on these issues to keep citizens accountable; it’s seems that there is a lot at stake for sportspeople, the war machine or the fourth estate et al.

Is this a sign of things? Pandemic, fires, flood and plagues. Maybe Israel Folau knows something we don’t?

Izzy knows his stuff but the death of Rugby League may not be one of them as he's trying to get back in!

[The Skeez]

I am saddened to tell you, the sand boy is dead.
Ever since the advent of the kicking tee and the reformist Thurston picking up the cradle eliminating the poor kids job, it is now over. Sigh

[Paddo Colt 61]

John Keats wrote about the transience of the material world and so it goes with sport. How many footy jobs of yesteryear have dropped off the evolutionary trajectory. The zambuck in the square St. Johns outfit and the army stretcher was a quaint feature from 1908 to the 70s, maybe later. The kid with the tray of nuts, cones etc (for the crowd of course) has long gone now and so it's wend your way up to overpriced junk food. The guy who rang the bell to begin and finish. The Lock position as it had been since 1908. 5/8, Fullback, Wingers and Hooker likewise. 30 cents admission.

But I agree, the life expectancy of contact sports is limited. The NRL is a brutal arena and financial liability is potentially enormous plus contact sport doesn't quite fit a much more progressive First world becoming increasingly feminised which is a good thing.

I am liking the effects of the crackdown except for the diving of course.

[The Skeez]

John Keats wrote about the transience of the material world and so it goes with sport.

What do you make of the Channel 7 Soldiers v the Channel Nine Fact-checkers PC?

[rented tracksuit]

What do you make of the Channel 7 Soldiers v the Channel Nine Fact-checkers PC?

Oh stop it!

[zac]

what about the bloke who ran out with the bucket of magic water, most of it spilt by the time he arrived

[Paddo Colt 61]

[QUOTE=The Skeez; What do you make of the Channel 7 Soldiers v the Channel Nine Fact-checkers PC?

Firstly VCs are PR exercises aimed at bolstering support for conflicts that go bad. (See the the battle of Isandlawana and the clutch of VCs that followed). They're sucker bait for the otherwise uncaring mass of the population who know fcuk all about much but are welded to Anzac (about which they are also mostly ignorant as well).

More importantly however, news outlets are supposed, in a so called Democracy, to present the polity with unvarnished facts so that informed political decisions can be made. In this instance a proprietor with a soldier boy fantasy has his news outlet, which usually reports car crashes and "misbehaving" minorities, barracking for a VCer who, on the face of it, is clearly a murderer. Not just barracking, footing the bill for the defamation action.
Of course both parties 7&9 are right wing and make little pretense at objectivity. It is really a credit to 50% of voters whom are not influenced come election time.

The amusing situation on the Right is that business is tearing its hair out at the anti China campaign being waged on purely ideological grounds by a government dominated by Christians and highly influenced by religious zealots in the US.

[rented tracksuit]

That'll do me for today. I'm going off now to find some free internet porn.

[The Skeez]

The amusing situation on the Right is that business is tearing its hair out at the anti China campaign being waged on purely ideological grounds by a government dominated by Christians and highly influenced by religious zealots in the US.

What do you make of Gregory Clark’s summation of the events at Tiananmen Square?

[Paddo Colt 61]

[QUOTE=The Skeez; What do you make of Gregory Clark's summation of the events at Tiananmen Square?

Haven't read it but I have been aware for some time that there was far more to the story than our media has gone with over time. Days before the event unarmed soldiers of the PLA, assigned to keep order, were set upon by mobs, murdered and hung from bridges prompting the understandable no more nice guy from the CCP. To broaden the perspective, the well regarded Brookings Institute (attached to Harvard) has, for years now, surveyed satisfaction with Government around the world and China, at 94% citizen satisfaction, leads pack. That is not CCP polling, it's American so those at Tiananmen were not representative of the majority "Quiet" Chinese.

Before any numbskull reader dismisses this as propaganda, preferring to believe Murdoch or "Gimme a sign Lord" Scummo, I got it and much more objective info from the website "Pearls and Irritations" which is edited by a former Head of Prime Minister and Cabinet. The site also features the writing of former top level public servants, academics and quality journalists.

Anything that you read about China in the MSM needs to be taken with a huge shake of salt.

[Paddo Colt 61]

I did read the Gregory Clarke piece on P&I now that I checked. There are many informed voices but our dominant political party prefers the voice of God or the Republican Party when God is temporarily out of signs to give. What a rolled gold goose and a lot of yez vote for him. The MSM is practically owned by a tried and true warmonger.