Sunday, 6 September 2009

Are You Not Entertained?


This reminds me again why I like Australia and Aussies.

After taking a snide shot at Russell Crowe's fitness when a picture appeared of him having a fag and a couple of tacos at the end of a bike ride. Reporter Annette Sharp found herself challenged the next day to go on a bike ride with him.

To which she gamely accepted, fair play to her and I love the quote.
"When you make a living throwing stones you expect that one day someone is going to lob one back. This was that day."
I can't see any of own columnists behaving in a similar manner, unless perhaps it's a brisk walk through the Tuscan countryside.

Full Story The Sydney Telegraph

"After a couple of hours on the bike, you've earnt a couple of fags"
Russell Crowe
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8 comments:

  1. George Bernard Shaw said of the Americans and Brits, "They are two peoples separated by a common language."

    In the US, "having a fag after a work-out", has a completely different meaning.

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  2. Heh! But then again, sometimes that's exactly the reason for the workout... :)

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  3. I can't recall wether I was told this as a joke or as a FOAF story, but apparently.

    Some years back an American tourist was wandering through a rural English village when he saw the sign "Faggots For Sale".

    Entering the shop he asked "Say Mam" ( I can't do the accent) "What do you do with these faggots you have for sale?"

    "Why sir" she replied " We burn them"

    "Damn" he replied "and I thought you Brits had gone soft."

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  5. Dear Pseudonymph
    I do indeed, I can think of very few Aussies or Kiwi's I haven't liked ( Although there once was a Tasmanian I worked with who really got on my tits)

    My best mate is an Ocker currently living in Tokyo and until the last Ex, I pretty much exclusivley dated Sheila's and Kiwi's including one North Sydney Bears fan who broke my heart.

    I've only ever visited Queensland and parts of the NT, but it has some of the best people and scenery I've encountered. ( although I'm told parts of Mexico are quite nice)

    I tried several times to emigrate, but my skill set never gave me enough point's and now my age is against me. But be assured if I ever win the lottery, I'll be on a plane to Cairns faster than you can say 'She'll be right'

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  6. "Why sir" she replied " We burn them"
    "Damn" he replied "and I thought you Brits had gone soft."

    I lived in the UK for 3 years. When I first arrived I was sitting on a bus and an effeminate man sat on a bench in front of me. All of a sudden, he turned around to me and asked, "Care to go a fag? He popped out a pack of Woodbines."

    I thought I'd been propositioned for the price of a really crappy cigarette.

    Some months later I was out playing baseball with some other American ex-pats on the weekend. When I arrived back at my flat, the landlady asked me what I was doing. I calmly told her, "I was shagging some balls." She turned away from me red-faced. It was only later that I realized I had been misunderstood. I thought she wasn't a baseball fan. (US English: Shagging balls means playing catch with a baseball)

    In the US, if you're "pissed", you are angry (not drunk). In the UK if you're pissed you may be angry but you're also drunk.

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  7. I thought I'd been propositioned for the price of a really crappy cigarette. :) LOL

    I have to correct you though, it is always 'pissed off' for angry and just 'pissed' for drunk, thus avoiding the confusion and you can of course combine the two e.g.

    "What's the matter with Mark?"

    "Oh never mind him, he's just pissed and pissed off"

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  8. Or: it's better to be pissed off than pissed on.

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