Posts by Megan Wegan
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Sounds like someone needs to learn to skate!
I would love to, but am scared. I could barely skate as a kid, when I wasn't afraid of falling, and am currently covered in bruises from falling down the stairs in my house. I think roller derby would be the end of me!
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I am still gutted that Smash Malice didn't win...Rita Anguish is the best pun I've heard in ages. But Suffer Jet, she was teh awesome.
Why can't there be roller derby every week?
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There was going to be one (and still may be) but I gots all busy with the paying work
no, no, I meant NZPA. As in, the service Stuff lifts from. I did not mean you, Hadyn, should do the media's job for it.
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I'm all cross now, and shan't be any fun.
Not even a PA story or anything. Freaking ridiculous.
It really is just a simple as calling it sexism thought isn't it? Just say'n.
Well, yes. And also no. But I am to cross to elaborate.
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Which is why <hobby-horse>you should all be following the White Ferns stick to the Poms on Sunday</hobby-horse>
Oh, and I will be. I'll also be moaning to anyone who will listen about how come when the women are playing in a world cup, and dominating, they still get shoved down the news bulletin behind, like, a chimp playing football or something.
But for me, echoing Megan's earlier comments, it's not the talent that I mostly watch for, though (code-shift) Masaga's playing brilliantly at the moment, it's the drama.
Don't get me wrong though, I still love the talent. Sachin crafting an innings, Shane Bond offering up a gorgeous yorker, Richie dominating the breakdown. Or Reggie Miller stroking three-pointers like, as my dad told everyone he coached to, he was pretending the ball was his girlfriend's face. Or pretty much any Federer vs Nadal match up.
I actually think half the time it's not the sport I love, it's the awe that I hold these people in. Cos look what they can do.
And, more geeky, than nerdy, surely?
I'm in the same camp, Noizy. I'm going with geeky.
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It's important to give the proles 'something to believe in' lest they start to believe in their own power to change the course of history.
I've written about this before, but I have never really understood people who don't 'get' sport. At it's heart, good sport is pure drama. Good guys, bad guys, motifs, history, underdogs, and in the end, one side (hopefully the good guys) triumphing over the other. It's storytelling.
Plus, there is lots of good looking people running around, an excuse to drink, and to, by being a fan, feel like you are a part of a community.
What's not to like?
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a triple-decker pun.
Yes, I did wonder if that were the case, but I thought maybe I was the only person that far in the gutter.
Snigger.
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Can I just say (love corsets too, etc etc etc) what impressive restraint Ms Hart shows, using the phrase "boning up" to title this post, rather than the myriad of other titles I'm sure she came up with.
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The jock stereotype is 'games', I think: forced sport with weird moral overtones. If your school was really into that, it takes a while to be able to really enjoy sport as an adult.
I loved 'games' as a teenager, despite being wretched at them (uncoordinated, unfit, and with few fast twitch muscle fibres evident). Even bitchy private school netball girls didn't diminish my love of cold canterbury mornings running round a square of concrete chasing a ball.
My moment of hating sport was in my late teens when, like an ex-smoker, I hated sport. I was all "people are dying, there's been 3 murders, and all you people care about is RUGBY????"
Clearly there's been something of a reunion since. -
Don't forget Hadyn, if you a girl, you can't POSSIBLY like sport.
Particularly if you are a girl who likes shoes and dresses, and *gasp* boys.