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06-07-2012, 06:19 PM #1Senior Member
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One For the Ragged And Dirty Aussies
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06-08-2012, 04:58 AM
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The strangest things come from the N.T. Barramundi & blues singers
06-09-2012, 09:29 AM
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+1^ I agree. Reckon the wet's build up gets to em and makes go a little loopy.
06-13-2012, 12:52 PM
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I dunno...I think the top end just attracts that sort of crazy meself...
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06-14-2012, 12:54 AM
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Yeah I could live thereOriginally Posted by MickR
06-14-2012, 03:38 AM
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A Quick Question for the Aussie's. I saw in the news that your Olympic committee had some kind of crap fit and punished a couple of your men on the swimming team for posting pictures of themselves with guns whilst in America. My first thought was, the committee was over reacting to a couple young men screwing around, who had not hurt a soul. Question, what is the thought of the average person in Australia?
Just curious, Don V
06-14-2012, 05:23 AM
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They signed a contract with the AOC so the AOC decides what is appropriate & not the average Aussie but IMHO the boys were just being boys.
06-14-2012, 09:50 AM
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I agree with you. Those guys have a bit of a history... but that is totally unrelated to this incident. And it turns out that the swimming team were actually taken to a gun range as a team building exercise once, which to me makes this whole episode seem a bit hypocritical, IMO.
06-14-2012, 11:34 AM
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Media over-reaction it seems. Problem is a lot of city people tend to swallow the garbage the media feed them. Having said that, I think the average Aussie couldn't really give a rat's about it.
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06-17-2012, 09:17 AM
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One of the young men in question is lucky not to be in jail for serious assault (IMO), so I think there's a sore spot there in terms of PR - hence the overreaction (again, IMO). However, I have an issue with the idea that sports men and women need to be saints. This view seems particularly prevalent for Olympic athletes and I question why. People are people. Just because you can swim fast does not make you immune to being an asshole.
James.
