Wittenoom Superthread

[Axver]

Are you kidding me?....Who ever the local team is, the commentators are biased.

Like Eddie McGuire with Collingwood.

This is my point exactly. Australian commentary is the pits.

Compare Aussie rugby commentary to commentary from anywhere else in the world. During the Rugby World Cup, there were some games that the Australians couldn't be bothered commentating, so we got some English commentary. I nearly cried from happiness.

And fuck, I miss Kiwi commentary. I think the difference is that Kiwi rugby commentators know the All Blacks are the best team in the world, so they don't need to go on about it, while Australian commentators want to think they're the best in the world at absolutely everything so they need to go on about it to convince themselves of this "fact".

 

[Cin]

I have no idea what you guys are talking about but you all seem reallly passionate about it!!

 

[Axver]

Y'know what sickens me? A Current Affair and Today Tonight.

FOAD!

I think they should be renamed A Current Hysteria and Xenophobia Tonight.

 

[coolian2]

Hey, you're meant to FUCKING TACKLE!

 

[bono_man2002]

And fuck, I miss Kiwi commentary. I think the difference is that Kiwi rugby commentators know the All Blacks are the best team in the world, so they don't need to go on about it, while Australian commentators want to think they're the best in the world at absolutely everything so they need to go on about it to convince themselves of this "fact".

Thats not being biased at all

And I don't know anything about Rugby (Oh thats right....I don't have Pay TV!) I'm made to believe there are no games and then world cup's every 4 years!!

 

[major_panic]

I think they should be renamed A Current Hysteria and Xenophobia Tonight.

Yeah, I remember watching one of them when the Govt first decided to "intervene" in the NT. I wanted to throw the remote at the TV.

 

[Axver]

It's like skydiving, really, only slightly less regulated but a fair bit safer. Besides, you look cool, and occasionally girls come to look at teh zomg shiney! objects.

Plus, there's the Asian anime crowd, who're always fascinated by us. Pity there aren't many good-looking ones there. They're usually the weird geeky Asian guys.

To me, it looks a hell of a lot more dangerous than skydiving. If your main parachute fucks up, the odds of your reserve parachute fucking up on the same day is wildly slim. In what you do, if you just slip a tiny little bit, someone's lost an ear, no?

 

[major_panic]

This is my point exactly. Australian commentary is the pits.

Compare Aussie rugby commentary to commentary from anywhere else in the world. During the Rugby World Cup, there were some games that the Australians couldn't be bothered commentating, so we got some English commentary. I nearly cried from happiness.

And fuck, I miss Kiwi commentary. I think the difference is that Kiwi rugby commentators know the All Blacks are the best team in the world, so they don't need to go on about it, while Australian commentators want to think they're the best in the world at absolutely everything so they need to go on about it to convince themselves of this "fact".

Aussie cricket commentary makes me lol. Especially the Chappell bloke and Tony Grieg.

The only one I have respect for, really, is Ritchie Benaud.

 

[Cin]

Y'know what sickens me? A Current Affair and Today Tonight.

FOAD!

ooo ooo, let me get on the complain train too

how many times can they re-hash the same stories?? Crabby neighbour disputes, hard done by families, shops scanning prices incorrectly and the lovable Aussie characters

 

[major_panic]

To me, it looks a hell of a lot more dangerous than skydiving. If your main parachute fucks up, the odds of your reserve parachute fucking up on the same day is wildly slim. In what you do, if you just slip a tiny little bit, someone's lost an ear, no?

DON'T WORRY!

The university is surrounded by hospitals!

 

[coolian2]

Aussie cricket commentary makes me lol. Especially the Chappell bloke and Tony Grieg.

The only one I have respect for, really, is Ritchie Benaud.

Apart from Benaud you're better off listening to ABC Radio

 

[Axver]

Thats not being biased at all

And I don't know anything about Rugby (Oh thats right....I don't have Pay TV!) I'm made to believe there are no games and then world cup's every 4 years!!

Hey, statistically, the All Blacks are far and away the best rugby team of all time, and quite possibly the most successful team in any major sport (I believe only Brazil's soccer team could challenge that). I can go for winning games over 83% of the time over the span of more than a century.

And at least you have the likelihood of getting pay TV sometime. I'm stuck here in the sporting wilderness.

 

[coolian2]

ooo ooo, let me get on the complain train too

how many times can they re-hash the same stories?? Crabby neighbour disputes, hard done by families, shops scanning prices incorrectly and the lovable Aussie characters

Don't forget meeting the con-man in the carpark!

 

[major_panic]

ooo ooo, let me get on the complain train too

how many times can they re-hash the same stories?? Crabby neighbour disputes, hard done by families, shops scanning prices incorrectly and the lovable Aussie characters

We're real Aussies - we're all living next to the neighbours from hell, being cheated by Safeway and Coles' price-fixing and we're all white families with 3 kids aged 2, 5 and 18!

 

[Axver]

Aussie cricket commentary makes me lol. Especially the Chappell bloke and Tony Grieg.

The only one I have respect for, really, is Ritchie Benaud.

Tony Greig brings the lulz. Get your own lulz, limited to a special run of 200 and signed personally by Tony Greig, for only $399! Framed for $499!

And Richie Benaud is the best commentator ever. For any sport. The man is a god.

 

[Cin]

Don't forget meeting the con-man in the carpark!

awwww and then he shoves the camera.

 

[mysterious_jen]

hai cin

 

[major_panic]

And at least you have the likelihood of getting pay TV sometime. I'm stuck here in the sporting wilderness.

Oh, what's that I hear? SPORT GOT SOLD OUT TO PAY TV AGAIN? Oh that's right, we normal people who can't afford to pay $40 a month don't deserve sport!

PAY TV, LARRY HAS A MESSAGE FOR YOU: FOAD.

 

[coolian2]

awwww and then he shoves the camera.

Mr X, what about the poor families?

Mr X, what about the X family, when will they get their money back?

 

[Axver]

Yeah, I remember watching one of them when the Govt first decided to "intervene" in the NT. I wanted to throw the remote at the TV.

There was a really fucking disturbing ad a year ago for one of them, I think ACA, about the "tide of Asian immigration" that for the first time outnumbered white immigration, "creating a community within a community", and the story was going to cover "the fight to stop it", i.e. the immigration, not the isolated communities.

I nearly vomited.

 

[Cin]

hai cin

I think my neighbours would qualify as being from hell. They always have delicious smelling BBQ's while little ole me is having spaghetti with cheese for my tea

 

[major_panic]

Mr X, what about the poor families?

Mr X, what about the X family, when will they get their money back?

*sincere reporting tones*
"Mr X, how do you feel about having cheated the Australian public?"

"Mr X, how do you feel about having lied to the Australian people?"

 

[Axver]

Oh, what's that I hear? SPORT GOT SOLD OUT TO PAY TV AGAIN? Oh that's right, we normal people who can't afford to pay $40 a month don't deserve sport!

PAY TV, LARRY HAS A MESSAGE FOR YOU: FOAD.

Being sold to pay TV is the kiss of death too. Just compare attendance at international cricket over the last ten years, which is on free-to-air, to attendance at domestic cricket over the last ten years, which was sold in that time to Foxtel and now struggles to attract 300 people to the MC fuckin' G.

 

[bono_man2002]

Hey, statistically, the All Blacks are far and away the best rugby team of all time, and quite possibly the most successful team in any major sport (I believe only Brazil's soccer team could challenge that). I can go for winning games over 83% of the time over the span of more than a century.

And at least you have the likelihood of getting pay TV sometime. I'm stuck here in the sporting wilderness.

I'm not saying they aren't the best team in the world. But look if its Uruguay Vs Fucking at Fucking's home ground, The Fucking Commentators are going to barrick for fucking

 

[major_panic]

I think my neighbours would qualify as being from hell. They always have delicious smelling BBQ's while little ole me is having spaghetti with cheese for my tea

REPORT IT TO ACA!!!!!

 

[Axver]

*sincere reporting tones*
"Mr X, how do you feel about having cheated the Australian public?"

"Mr X, how do you feel about having lied to the Australian people?"

"Mrs Simpson, why do you hate Americans?"

I saw that episode for the first time on Saturday. For a new episode, it wasn't that bad.

 

[major_panic]

There was a really fucking disturbing ad a year ago for one of them, I think ACA, about the "tide of Asian immigration" that for the first time outnumbered white immigration, "creating a community within a community", and the story was going to cover "the fight to stop it", i.e. the immigration, not the isolated communities.

I nearly vomited.

I would have loved to have been interviewed for that story. *pulls nunchaku out* What's that? You say you want a fight to stop it?

 

[Cin]

REPORT IT TO ACA!!!!!

they swear a lot and park their bogan cars all over the nature strip. . . . . . . I think we're onto something here folkss

 

[coolian2]

*sincere reporting tones*
"Mr X, how do you feel about having cheated the Australian public?"

"Mr X, how do you feel about having lied to the Australian people?"

That's the one

 

[coolian2]

they swear a lot and park their bogan cars all over the nature strip. . . . . . . I think we're onto something here folkss

They aren't foreigners though, are they?