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  1. I posted this on another thread. If you're suffering from lack of sport syndrome, checkout this on the weekend. If you're in Las Vegas, Australia's NRL is putting on a double header at Allegiant Stadium to kick start the season, otherwise it's being televised / streamed on Fox Sports1. NRL Las Vegas 2024: How to watch rugby league games in America including time, TV channel, live stream & more | Sporting News Australia
  2. If you're suffering from lack of sport syndrome, checkout this on the weekend. If you're in Las Vegas, Australia's NRL is putting on a double header at Allegiant Stadium to kick start the season. NRL Las Vegas 2024: How to watch rugby league games in America including time, TV channel, live stream & more | Sporting News Australia
  3. The 49ers had their chances to win and blew the lead they had due to some silly errors (penalties and turnovers) and, from unfortunate injuries at crucial times. Had the defence been on the ball as it were, the touchdown could easily have been avoided. I don't profess to be an expert of the game, but I know enough to see that final play coming a mile away. In any contact sport the best defence is play the man who has or is about to get the ball. Sour grapes if anyone thinks the game was fixed and if in the very improbability that it was, whoever devised the plan to send the game into overtime is a genius albeit, an evil one. I'm surprised no-one has suggested that the fix was actually San Francisco taking a dive.
  4. Rumour has it that Taylor Swift is suiting up for Chiefs "Special Teams"!?
  5. After watching her constant denials on just about everything relating to Trump on umpteen YouTube videos (of officially sanctioned debates), at the US Senate, it is abundantly clear Marjorie Taylor Greene is a fuckwit. She has called for and endorses a secession that would divide the blue and red states and even went to the extreme in calling out for a civil war. China, Iran, North Korea and Russia to name a few would love that to happen and would no doubt take advantage of the situation if it came to pass. The NRA and gun manufacturers would embrace the "opportunity" to sell more guns. Greene touched and rubbed the cock on a life size cutout of Trump that was telecast on TV. Lauren Boebert is not any better after she was seen fondling the genitals of her companion and vaping along with other inappropriate behaviour at a live theatre production, once again caught on video. In short, they are both wankers. You could throw Sarah Palin into the mix of idiots as well. I think Trump is on a hiding to nothing and will probably be found guilty of all charges and ultimately go to prison and ruled not eligible to run for the Presidency. His greatest achievement whilst in office was to provide tax cuts for billionaires (being one of them himself), millionaires and corporations. Some of his supporters aren't the sharpest tools in the shed either, Trump asked them to help fund his legal fees and they actually donated their hard earned when he could and should've paid them. Btw, I couldn't care less for any political parties anywhere in the world. Politicians are self-first, Party second and the country a distant last.
  6. I found this on Facebook. Not exactly hot but interesting, nonetheless.
  7. Australia defeating India to win the Cricket World Cup in front of a 120000 strong, home crowd. India was undefeated leading into the final. Australia lost their first two games against South Africa and coincidently, India, then won nine straight.
  8. They say Joe Rogan doesn't broadcast false and misleading information? Listen to the bloke he's interviewing. Research much?
  9. Reggie29

    football

    Not so happy for the Poms.
  10. France eliminated from the Women's Football World Cup in a penalty shoot-out with Australia. The Matildas are waltzing into the semi-finals.
  11. Australian Women's Football Team The Matildas beating Denmark 2 - 0 at the World Cup in Sydney and now heading for the quarter finals. Germany and the USA already eliminated. England next? Here's hoping.
  12. Why was the ball changed? Most media are dickheads and don't represent the public contrary to their beliefs. Due to early work starts I haven't been able to watch the games live and sometimes catch "highlights" on the news sports reports. It's over until the next series in a couple of years back home. The home team should always win given home ground advantage, so we'll see how England go over here especially without Broad.
  13. It's funny how Piers Morgan complained and claimed it would be a travesty if Australia retained The Ashes because of the weather. Short memory. Here's a tip, win the first two tests and you won't have to rely on the weather.
  14. https://www.9news.com.au/national/snake-news-new-venomous-species-declared-in-australia/5fec05c9-0672-4254-b2bd-438b9a9856e7?ocid=Social-9NewsS&fbclid=IwAR0xH35jLruQrKUJ33t-XNrF0lIpj8niI4zanj4sT6siaTmiqFo8r06SdAg
  15. Happy Fourth of July.
  16. Only a three-hour stopover then another at Dallas and finally N.J. 20 hours after leaving Sydney.
  17. My daughter and son-in-law are going to a Boston Red Sox vs. Tampa Bay Rays game next week, June 3rd. I'll be watching although it'll probably be at some ungodly hour! Go the Sox.
  18. The newlyweds are off on their honeymoon. They arrived in L.A. about three hours ago. Next stop Dallas, Texas, then Newark, N.J. Cruising to Nassau, Bahamas via Cape Canaveral, Florida for 7 days. Then flying to spend a couple of days in New York and finally Boston for a few days checking out Salem, MIT and a Red Sox game and then home.
  19. Anyone watched this? Let me say from the outset I haven't watched this, however I have seen the trailer and followed the discussion since its release. Although I take critics with a grain of salt I tend to make up my own mind when it comes to movies and music etc. Having said that I have read some of the reviews. The Netflix Cleopatra documentary produced by Jada Pinkett-Smith (yes, Will's wife), has failed miserably as both critics and viewers alike have mercilessly canned the show for being historically inaccurate. The Egyptians have filed a lawsuit as a result claiming Netflix and the producers have distorted and stolen their culture and history. They are also going to produce their own factual documentary. First of all Cleopatra was born in Alexandria, Egypt of Greek - Macedonian heritage that dates back to Alexander the Great. Coins, and paintings depicting her show her to be Caucasian and Egyptian records back up the evidence, yet the producers have labelled the Egyptians racist for disagreeing with them!? They have cast a British actress of African descent in the lead role. One of the producers interviewed said and I quote, "My grandmother told me, I don't care what they told you in school, Cleopatra was Black." Now the issue here is not about racism, it's about presenting facts and evidence that provides the truth as is the purpose of a documentary. They haven't it seems, consulted any Egyptologists or Antiquities experts or worse if they did they ignored them or edited them out completely. According to the feminist producers, Julius Caesar who conquered and colonised nearly as much of the ancient world as Alexander did, along with Marc Antony and the other Roman males, were weak and insecure. If someone wants to make a re-imagining or a what if of a subject then fine, do it and call it for what it is, a fictional docu-drama. What they have done is changed the story to suit their political views based on what's happening today rather than what happened back then. The Woke movement is rife in the US where they deny history good and bad and change it to suit their agenda and politics. Like dismantling Confederate Statues and banning the confederate flag in some states for example. They have even infiltrated Hollywood and the arguments from both sides border on insanity. This includes bagging the movie made in the sixties starring Elizabeth Taylor, where the producers are complaining about how Cleopatra was portrayed. Gal Gadot is starring in a new adaptation releasing sometime this year, so it'll be interesting to see how that is received. Disney have been heavily criticised for casting coloured and / or ethnic minorities in their animated and live movies. There is no problem if the story is a work of fiction as there is a certain poetic licence to be taken because an actor is an actor no matter where they come from and unless a scripted character is clearly defined as a certain race or gender then anyone can play the part. William Shakespeare, who coincidentally wrote a play about Julius Caesar and Cleopatra used male and female actors interchangeably. He also cast ethnic actors where necessary. However, when it comes to historical productions it is a different ballgame. Imagine the uproar and rightly so, if Russell Crowe portrayed Albert Namatjira (an Australian Aboriginal artist) or Tom Hanks played Martin Luther King? To be an accurate and honest portrayal you would have indigenous actors in those roles. I learned only yesterday that John Wayne made a movie years ago, Genghis Khan, wtf!? To try to change any nation's culture or history or is not only wrong but disgraceful.
  20. A bit late but my daughter was married last Friday. A very proud father.
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