Posts by Yamis
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Well at least Veitch is reading in front of an audience. As a school teacher I'm left standing in front of mine 4 hours a day, 5 days a week making shit up and trying to keep a straight face!!!
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To use two non-number-related examples: 1) if a halfback throws a hospital pass to a first-five, it gets described as "average", when, in fact, such passes are poor, bad, etc, etc. If it was an "average" pass, it would be a regulation, good, easy to catch pass.
2) if a fullback makes a clearing kick and the ball slices off the side of his boot and bearly makes any ground, it gets described as an "average" kick, when, again, it is poor, bad, dreadful, etc. If it was an "average" kick it would be kicked well and make a bit of ground.
You have to blame our boot licking, cheerleading rugby commentators for a lot of that.
Many an AB ballsup (or any of our professional rugby teams for that matter) have shocking handling errors, kicks or performances in general described in harsh terms like "average", "didn't have a great game", "will be disappointed with", or they simply won't even describe it at all. Probably part of the reason why some of the ABs were smiling seconds after the whistle last weekend. Didn't they realise people around the country had just erupted into violence because Mealamu drifted too wide on defence? ;)
At least the league commentators (and the radio ones are the best) will call something a "shocker", or somebody is having a "nightmare", or a "brain explosion". All great sporting terms that get the blood pumping. We shouldn't have to put up with light-weight words during sport, It's War!!!
Full credit to you other posters though. You're all giving 110%, some of you even more, and can go home proud of your performance.
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In 2007 he won the TV Guide Best on the Box Award for Best Sport Presenter for that role giovanni. Maybe it was for the lame banter with Oliver-Kerby because I struggle to see how anybody can win an award for presenting news. It's like winning an award for driving to work, or getting the mail out of the letter box.
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Jean shorts apparently
Very flattering
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I think what most people need here is closure.
On a fairly different note I saw a T-Shirt at Victoria Park Markets earlier today that simply said
"I shaved my balls for this?".I've been trying to suppress out loud laughter ever since.
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I couldn’t read the whole Perigo article; I got to the bit where he said Veitch had exceptional talent and realised it was clearly a wind-up.
Yeah, that's gave me the shits too. The guy is into sport and has a lot of energy, that's about all I can say for him. You only have to listen to him for 5 minutes on RS in the morning and to have a clue about the subject yourself to realise how hard up RS must be.
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Anyway, I hear Eliot had a batpole.
Heath Ledger fell down it.
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That's way the f, out there from Perigo.
A few interesting comments below it all, and a few curious ones.
One of the things I find often in arguments like this is people using terms like "crazed mobs", or variations of it, lumping an entire segment of the community, or world into one bucket with no evidence of any such thing. It's a bit like the "they're out to get me line". Who's "they"?
I've been following the case fairly closely although I admit I skip talkback radio at all costs but I am never sure who people are referring to when they make those kinds of statements. I'm assuming he has seen these mobs in the street, or went door knocking and did a survey.
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The prosecution needs little details too. I work for them ;)