The glass is not half full, nor is it half empty. It's just twice as big as it needs to be. It's a bit like the Earth's population. It's not 6,446,131,400 people too many, or 6,446,131,400 people too few, but there are some people in the world who don't possess the intellectual capacity to get their thought patterns beyond they're repoductive organs. I mean PLEASE, surely nobody lacks that much originality and creativity that they resort to saying 'I think you should die.' I'm sorry, but I can't even put into words how little that insult actually insulted me. On second thoughts I can - None at all. I've had people look at me and it be more insulting. And they were asleep!
But before I get into stripping down Mr Anonymous' arguments, I think I'll pay him out a bit more. For the love of Pete, if you really wanted to insult me SIGN YOUR NAME! Not only does signing it anonymously make you look like a complete coward - which further degrades my opinion of you so that I will take nothing you say to heart - but it also makes it much more personal. Instead of just being a random tool who stumbled onto my blog and spammed it up (and did a poor job at that! That's nothing compared to some of the spam I've done before. And my spam was tasteful), by signing your name your signing a person behind the screen. So I would know that somebody actually sat there and typed that garble, which would make it slightly hurtful.
Well no it wouldn't because the spam was just a bunch of crap thrown together and posted, but it would have given a higher chance of being hurtful. Silly Mr Anonymous. And because I hate typing the word anonymous, he shall be henceforth known as Crapface McCrapbrain. Or just Tool.
'I really want you to die.' 'I think I should crap on your face.' Do these two quotes even require commentary? I could, if I really wanted to, complain about the unoriginality, the absolute disgustiveness and the down right pointlessness of it all, but why bother? You all know all of that. Instead, i'll skip straight to the part that just bewildered me.
Let's rewind a bit to see what he had to say.
"remember when you sucked my dick? I cummed all over your fucked up face.. Stuck my dick up your horse mouth and made you lick my cum nice and good.. Ohhh... I hope you die you scum bag ass wipe. I am going make you take it up the ass.. Just wait." The underlying discourse of his insults are that I am gay, and because I am gay I should die. Then to prove that I am gay he says that he has performed certain undesirable sexual favours with me. Forgive me if my logic faulters somewhere, but wold not having sex with me make him gay? Can you spell hypocracy? Maybe its our beloved Prime Minister, John Howard, who made the comments. Sorry, now I'm just being ridiculous, the comments were at least just cohesive.
Quick recap, just for the heck of it. He is going to kill me because I am apparently gay. I am apparently gay because I had sex with him. Therefore, he is gay also. Therefore, he insulted himself. Therefore, he should kill himself. Yeah, way to insult me. Next time try putting some thought into your spam.
Now that I have that sorted I can continue with my blog entry.
Greetings and salutations everyone who is tuning to my largely overdue entry! Thank you for sticking around, your company has been a pleasure.
So I've got a physics exam on monday, and then I'm done for exams for another term. After that I have to dwindle three pointless days of school down before the holidays commence. Hurray for me and my free trip to Cairns from the 11th to the 16th, with free accomodation and *some* free meals. Anti-hurray for me and my 6:30 am departure time, and needing to be there at least half an hour before my flight. I never knew half an hour existed before 6:30 before! How terribly depressing. I'm not a huge fan of flying either - it turns my ears inside out - but I do love airports. I can't imagine Cairns' airport being anything to publish a book about though.
Did I hear someone say that the last couple of weeks of school have been interesting? Well they have been. I became a champion by winning the Metropolitan Final, failed a Maths A exam (or so I suspect - possibly should have studied, or listened in class, or even got a text book which I still don't have. meh) found out I got an A for my Ancient exam where 80% of the answers were guessing and the remaining 20% were me pretending to sound like I knew what I was on about, handed in the greatest Physical Education assignment Ferny Grove High as ever seen (which will still recieve a D) and still haven't found out what mark my English short story recieved. If Mr K hasn't marked it by tuesday, I'll do something I will regret later! I could quite possibly write a letter of complaint!!
On a different note, I need a Red Paintings ticket. I believe I shall venture into the city tomorrow to purchase said ticket, if they are not all sold out. I hope they aren't sold out, because I am yet to see them play live. Though if I do go, that means missing out on the YouthSpeak competition thing, and I was going to have great fun preparing a speech on a current political issue. Oh dear, I wont get an opportunity to offend hundreds of people at once again for a while, but I would rather go to the Red Paintings.
So, that's about it from me for this very boring saturday. Hopefully tomorrow will be more excitementful. Tonight might be fun, apparently the seniors are going somewhere for youthgroup or some other such tomfoolery, I'm not quite sure. Monday's sure to be a blast! It's always fun failing physics. Maybe I should just write 42 for ever answer and hope the marker of the paper has read Hitchhikers Guide, and will find it amusing and pass me. Or maybe not.
Speaking of amusement, I saw the new Charlie and the Chocolate Factory movie yesterday. Or, if you would like to be more accurate, the only Charlie and the Chocolate Factory movie, because the original one with Gene Wilder was called Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Bit of trivia there for you folks, you can thank me later. It's quite an entertaining escapade. Johnny Depp was, of course, brilliant, just as Deep Roy was. Christopher Lee was in the movie as well! His role shall remain undisclosed for everyone who desires to see the film but has failed to meet the needs of this desire. I think Christopher Lee has the most amazing voice; it's just terrific. That's also why he made such a great cast for Saruman in what was too hastily called "The Lord of the Rings." Complete torture of the most fantastic books in history, but some of the acting performances were great (others were terrible
*coughOrlandovoughViggocough*). Meh, what can you do. Peter Jacksons new movie, King Kong doesn't look too bad, only because Jack Black is in it. If I were older, gay, and living in California when gay marriages were legal, I would have married Jack Black. It's a pity then that I'm not older, gay, or living in California when gay marriages were legal. Oh well, I guess I'll have to confine my secret-celebrity-cruch-which-isn't-really-a-crush-because-I-have-never-met-her-so-I-don't-know-what-she's-like-so-the-crush-is-more-of-an-admiration to Stephanie Macintosh. She comes a close second.
Eep, I said that was about all from me 300 words ago. Though I bet nobody is surprised, because I do possess the rather annoyingly frustrating and downright irritating trait of rambling on and on past what is reccommended. Meh, I got nothing else to do. I mentioned my truly terrific P.E assignment above, didn't I? Thanks for bringing it up. You know, I think I might as well post it here to show everybody on the internet how truly terrific it is. I am aware that it will double the size of my entry, but frankly I couldn't care less.
Just a bit of background on the assignment first. It was supposed to be a research assigmnent (opperative word being 'supposed' - somehow I think it turned out more of an opiniative piece) about why Touch Football is included into the HPE/PE curriculum, why it doesn't get much media coverage, why people's perceptions of the sport are incorrect and all that other boring jazz. I decided to make it more interesting. It won't do well though, I included words over two syllables - Mr Janetzki wouldn't be able to read it! Its blasphemy, such awell written Physical Education essay? It will probably be ritually burned by the Sport department. Oh well, it was fun to write and its sure to ruffle Jetski's feathers. I don't like him much, so I hope he feels discomfort whilst reading it.
So, without further ado, here is my PE assignment outlining why Touch Football is included in the PE curriculum. Please don't be perturbed by the fact that Touch Football isn't even mentioned until two thirds of the way through the essay
*grin*. One last thing before I post my essay. If you have read this far - congratulations! 1600 words of absolute garble! And if you read to the end, there is something wrong with you. 1200 words to go!
ChildrenÂs sport is as socialist as the former U.S.S.R  every child gets a go and all sports are considered equal. Just as history illustrated with the progressive destruction of the Soviet Union, socialist organisations only operate in theory. As sport progresses from a recreational, ÂletÂs keep fit and have a good time type mindset to a professional and even amateur level, it grows more and more capitalistic. ItÂs like the United States and Cuba. Cuba represents the hundreds of thousands of children and teenagers enjoying a game of cricket. The United States represents the eleven men that are currently in England making a mockery of Australian sport.
Sport, as a whole, has developed into little more than another branch of the entertainment industry with the sole purpose of keeping the economy stable. Australian culture has placed a heavy emphasis on sport and its champions, so from a young age children are motivated to excel in their chosen sport. Whether it is for fame, glory or money, children want to play sport. Those children that donÂt want to are usually forced to by their parents living their own dreams and aspirations through their offspring. Sixty-two percent of children aged between five and fourteen years participated in sport outside of school hours in the year 2004. Bear in mind that this figure does not encompass school sport, which is compulsory for children in this age bracket. ThatÂs 1.6 million children, all with dreams of being the next Ian Thorpe or Steve Waugh. Unfortunately certain sports have higher participation rates than others, and thatÂs dictated by the media.
How many female football games of any code are telecast on free to air television? Absolutely none, and this can be reflected by only 9000 girls aged 5-14 playing Rugby League in all of Australia. On the reverse side of this coin, how much male Rugby League propaganda is filtered through all media outlets? Saturday the twentieth of August saw the Courier Mail add a special lift out into its edition, a football lift out. Fifteen pages devoted to Rugby League, Rugby Union and A.F.L, with much of the information repeated again in the regular sporting section. The numbers of junior football players illustrate that there is a market for this, with 76 200 boys playing Rugby League and 184 200 male junior A.F.L players.
Free to air television dedicates sixteen timeslots throughout the week to football matches or shows analysing football matches. Netball gets one timeslot, and hockey gets none at all. There is no equity in sport whatsoever, and the feminine sports get the short end of the stick. Despite the fact that it is the third highest sport for participants for both female and male, netball still only gets one timeslot, according to the Sunday Mail TV guide. This is because of the target audience of the programs  the stereotypical football loving, stubby in hand, middle-aged and balding Australian male. Netball is a pansyÂs sport, so they donÂt watch it. It is because of this Australia has grown to become a nation who only follows masculine sports, such as football or cricket. Even the non-gender specific sports only rate on the popularity scale with the menÂs side of things. If Ian Thorpe wins a gold medal, it makes news headlines. On the other hand, Petrea Thomas winning a gold medal only deserves a passing mention at the end of the news program.
It is because of this that Australian role models ascend from the football field or cricket pitch. This does not reflect positively on Australia, because the behaviour of these role models isnÂt something you would want your children mimicking. Sporting Icons have always provided those lesser of skill than them with a role model. Whether they consent to it or not, their behaviour is looked upon and impersonated. So naturally, when a young sports star comes to prominence in the media, they behave in the same way as their predecessors. This would be all well and good is society was stuck in a time capsule, but however groovy it may be to be suck in the seventies listening to Led Zeppelin and protesting the deforestation of the west coast of the United States, society has evolved and changed its unwritten laws in morality and political-correctness. However much the sporting role-models of today want to behave like the sporting role-models of yesteryear, they need to somehow gain the mental capacity to think for themselves and set their own example. The only foreseeable flaw with this is that is requires sports persons to think as oppose to simply copying someone else.
Where does Touch Football fit in? Frankly, it doesnÂt. It is the outcast of the sporting society. The tomato of fruit, or the Derren Hinch of journalists, if you will. Its popularity is barely worth a mention, its media coverage is poor and lacking at best, and it perception by non-touch playing people is distorted. Its participation rate, however, is surprisingly high. It is ranked in the top ten most popular activities for females in Queensland if we are to believe the Queensland Government website and the male participation rates arenÂt too shabby themselves. If so many people play it, why is the sport looked upon so negatively.
The answer is plain and simple; people just donÂt know about it. In a certain edition of the Sunday Mail, there were 26 pages dedicated to sport, with seventeen of these pages devoted to football. Taking into account horse-racing results and boating information, it does not exactly leave a plethora of pages to work with for the remaining sports. How many pages did Touch get? Not even one; it was little more than a column. The article wasnÂt about news, not about the Australian team, and not about up and coming stars  the article was one hundred percent weekend results of various competitions around the metropolitan area. ThatÂs some riveting reading.
This then begs the question; why is Touch included in the HPE/PE curriculum? There are several logical reasons, coupled with one or two not-so-logical reasons. It could be included as to break the stereotype placed on the sport and to increase students awareness of it, thus increasing its popularity. However, the more likely reason is its accessibility. ItÂs not only a relatively easy sport to play and teach, it requires minimal equipment and nobody is excluded from participation. All one needs to play is a stretch of grass and a ball. Are the HPE staff taking the moral high ground or simply doing whatÂs easiest? Perhaps it is a mix of both column A and column B.
Touch Football is by far the most unappreciated, unacknowledged and unknown sport in Australia. The four other football codes  Rugby League, Rugby Union, A.F.L and soccer  all feature prominently in the participation rates of both juniors and seniors, and all four feature prominently in all media outlets. If Australia were to be generalised, football would arguably be the most popular sport, with swimming and netball providing contention. There are no arguments as to what sport get the most publicity, and it is this publicity that steers everyone young and old towards the more illustrated football codes and away from Touch. The capitalist powerhouses of football, cricket and swimming force the honest peasants, such as touch, to the bottom of the social ladder. For shame Australia, for shame.
Final word count = 2868. Sorry guys!