Yeah, but even in Dry Season, it's got the highest male to female ratio of any city in Australia because of the mining and military communities and the rape-a-thon reputation that comes from being 30% more likely to be raped in the NT than the Australian average and more than twice as likely than in Queensland. I guess if you're into may or may not be consensual group sex, Darwin's a great place to live. But I'll stick to very occasional visits. Have you by any chance engaged the services of some kind of medical professional? Or would that be too much common sense to expect from someone who thought sparring drunk might be a clever plan?
I was already crafting an angry response to this in my head, then I looked at your user name and realized that you're Australian and I don't give a shit about your opinion... AMERICA! FUCK YEAH <a class="postlink" href="http://i.imgur.com/r68g0.jpg" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://i.imgur.com/r68g0.jpg</a>
Doctor's appointment in 2 hours. In retrospect I probably should have gone on Saturday, but hadn't slept and was in enough pain that moving seemed too difficult.
Osteopath's sounded like complete hippies when they were first described to me. But I'm a convert after seeing one. They use witchcraft and black magic or something. Which I find much more effective than the crap that Orthopedic surgeons and physios have tried.
For those of us in the league this is a vice which allows us to enjoy a sport we have liked/loved for a long time while potentially earning some scratch on the side. Given what you've posted here about your lifestyle you're going to ridicule our recreational fun? What gives?
His involves sex. Yours involves what is after basketball the most boring sport in the history of sports.
I'm confused, is it the group sex/multiple partners, the BDSM, the recreational drugs and dancing or something else that makes me too uncool to make fun of fantasy sports? I'm genuinely curious here.
Oh come on, Soccer and Hockey are the most boring things I have ever seen. Hockey is just soccer on ice where they hit each other. The Yankees are worth 1.8 Billion dollars, what is the best hockey team worth?
If team value determines coolness, Soccer would be cooler than Baseball since Manchester United are worth $1.86 Billion. And Forbes think the Yankees are actually worth $1.7 Billion.
That's why I said hockey team because I know those soccer fans in other countries are lunatics. How much you think a US professional soccer team is worth, a bag of nickles?
If only they made some kind of gay pornography that you could watch without having to gargle a fist full of Valium first. Wait, the world's largest source of Tennis and Golf revenue, who took the already boring sport of car racing and took all the right turns out of it, is giving the rest of the world shit about having bad taste in sports? And LA Galaxy is worth like 100 Million. Which is hilarious since Beckham's full deal to play for Galaxy was worth somewhere in the vicinity of 250 million.
I have to put Hockey above baseball in terms of less boring. I've only been to a single Cincinnati Cyclones game, there in a lower league than the NHL and the shit was blast to watch. Unlike soccer the puck can move from one end of the rink to the other much faster than soccer on a field. Seemed like a lot less down time getting to and moving the puck around than soccer. I've already said my piece on how boring watching the sport of baseball is.* As far as the rise of fantasy sports, Ive mentioned growing up in a non sports oriented family. Fantasy sports require a helluva lot more intimate knowledge of the ins and outs of sports than I have so I've basically missed the whole train. I don't know if Scootah is knocking just fantasy baseball in terms of girls not participating but as fantasy football has exploded in popularity most girls I know that know anything about football are in fantasy leagues. The second most popular sport with girls Ive known is baseball, mostly for the reasons Dcc outlined. * I can't find the Simpsons clip where Homer notes how boring baseball is when he has to go beerless for a month. The announcers' commentary is fucking classic.
Do you hear me arguing for Golf or Tennis? And I don't know why rednecks like watching cars go around in a circle for hours. But, soccer sucks. It really is awful. They rest of the world besides the U.S. loves it, kills each other over it and riots. It really blows though.
I'm knocking baseball because it's incredibly boring. I was knocking the idea of manning up and getting involved in a fantasy baseball league because fantasy sports are masculine in the same sense that dungeons and dragons is masculine. It's a group of dudes assigning arbitrary point structures to imaginary teams and it's nerdy as fuck. The irony of having this argument on an internet forum isn't lost on me. But I still maintain that much like the level of your world of warcraft characters, how you placed in the chess league, or the costume you wore to comicon, participation in fantasy sports should be a shameful secret, only discussed with people who you know share that shameful secret. I'm just saying, The way American sports fans spend money doesn't leave a lot of room for casting stones at foreign sports fans.
Yeah but it has already gained acceptance from girls, at least the cool ones that sitcoms always write about, then is ceases to be shameful.
Id say it is more accepted by the girl population in general than the narrow slices of girls that like D&D and WWE.