did steven bradbury deserve the gold?
was he really the fastest?
the silver medal winner was from seattle.
would you be asking this question if It was an Englishman who fell over and an American who won?
Of course not.
You would be saying Your boy won it and deserved it.
Just like us ozzies are saying now.
My view after watching the replay a dozen times is that the American wasnt gonna win anyway. I even think he started the crash of the others as he was desperately trying to push past the (korean?).
Nationalism is alive and well.
i been out of the org a full 20 years.. what progress have i made?.
well, im not angry anymore at the org.i dont even hate the gb.
i learnt a lot from reading all those old watchtowers about mind control.
I been out of the org a full 20 years.
What progress have I made?
Well, Im not angry anymore at the org.I dont even hate the GB.
I learnt a lot from reading all those old Watchtowers about mind control. But this has had an effect that has spilled over into the "real" world. Ive become very anti government, anti media, because, now, I see mindcontrol in my soup.
Im anti social and havent ,in many ways, broken the patterns I learnt while in the Borg, of treating people badly because I was jealous of their lifestyle of doing what they wanted. I learnt to be an asshole
to cover my desire to secretly run with worldlings. This hasnt changed.
what else?
Work.
Im a manual worker, Ive tried getting a formal education but cant seem to go thru with any course and finish it so as to gain the qualification and get a good job. I still look at people in their suits, ties and BMWs and tell myself they are "contemptible" because they prostitute their "purity" to the beast system.Sell out their principles.
Still the same arguement I used when I was a dub teenager condemning successful people because I wasnt allowed to be one of them.
I used to paint, write and read a lot.
In painting and writing I was well above average, but those things seem to have faded from me now. I havent touched a paint brush in 5 years. I painted out of psychic pain, purging myself. There seems nothing left to purge.
Good things that have happened:
Ive paid my house off, and we sit quite comfortably, but God, my life is so ordinary. Im disappointed that this is as much as I seem able to achieve.All in all, still alot of issues that are getting no nearer to resolution, are they.
I feel Ive been robbed of an essential opportunity to direct my own life, educationwise, that I seem incapable of retrieving.
Doubtless wsomeone will now suggest this or that self help book.
Ive read and practised dozens of them. Going thru with the change seems the problem. Perhaps this is part of my genetic heritage, and has nothing to do with the dubs.
at least my son and i did, i'm assuming the rest of ya'll did too .
for those of you who weren't there you'll never guess what happened at the restaurant.
were there talking about various things mostly related to our shared watchtower experiences and our waitress walks up behind me and taps me on my shoulder and asks if i'm a witness.
Hehe.
Good on you flower. You are one of us "Evil" and "Satanic" ones now.
How does it feel? Not so bad is it.
I'll bet the waitress thing spun you out considering youre a newbie apostate. Dont worry, youll get used to it and soon enough will see that its THEM who are the hypocrites. Not you.
Story....(about hypocrisy):
There was this dub, I was DF and he lived in the flat opposite me.
Anyway, he NEVER spoke to me cause I was DF. One day he comes up to me in the driveway all smiles and shakes my hand like a long lost pal.
Guess what?
He wanted me to help get him a job in the place I worked at.
Sure enough I put in a word for him and he got the job.
Soon as he started working there, he went back to ignoring me as a DF person!
Hows that for hypocrisy??
Youll see lots of things like that from here on in.
that's tonite's mystery question.. post your answers here.. winner will get an invite to taste the shiraz at the next sydney bbq.
sorry no fares will be paid!
cheers,.
Once I was camping with my brother at Licola in the sticks.
One the second evening we ran out of Jim Beam and drove sixty miles thru the woods to a pub and bought 2 more bottles.
Getting back to the camp he tripped as we entered camp and broke both bottles.
Ive never spoken to him since.
once upon a time in the kingdom of heaven, god went missing for six days.
eventually, michael the archangel found him on the seventh day, resting.. he inquired of god, "where have you been?".
god sighed a deep sigh of satisfaction and proudly pointed downwards through the clouds.. "look michael, look what i've made.
I admit to being a Manchestarian.Close anyway.
(Rochdale specifically)
does looks really matter in love?
would you go out with someone who was not physically attractive if he/she had a big heart on the inside, a great personality, lot's of things in common with, etc...i guess i'm asking what's more important to you the person on the exterior or who he/she really is underneath?.
lara
Ive always been drawn to unusual women myself.
Pamela Anderson boobs, statuesque blonde models, etc, have never been my interest.
I find women who are a bit out of the mould attractive. Doesnt matter if theyre fat,have a big nose,a small nose,small boobs,big feet,rounded shoulders. All imaterial.
I just look for one thing...
How does it FEEL.
If it feels good, thats it.
Do I like them? Is there a vibration there that is exciting?
Is she interesting?
I find I become attracted, often, to women I initially found interesting personalities.
All in all...looks dont count with me. As long as we are within reasonable parameters. Im just looking for the vibration.
When the vibration is there, "ugly" can become "beautiful".
An old mans opinion...
let me try to be the first to congratulate steve bradbury for skating a brilliant race and winning australia's first winter olympic gold medal!
which is surprising because the population of australia probably wouldn't know what snow was if it slapped them up the side of the head.
flip
yeah.
but he didnt.
Let the ozzies have their moment of sunshine. We have a bit of a complex down here. Feel isolated, feel a bit second class. Winning gold and having Russell Crowe about to win back to back oscars is good for our psyche.
let me try to be the first to congratulate steve bradbury for skating a brilliant race and winning australia's first winter olympic gold medal!
which is surprising because the population of australia probably wouldn't know what snow was if it slapped them up the side of the head.
flip
In Winter there is snow cover down to around 3000 feet in Tasmania, Victoria and New South Wales.
There are approx 8 major mountain areas in Vic Nsw, that get snow cover 3/4 months of the year.
Lots of skiing.
I watched, for the first time yesterday, the Canadians performance on replay..they wuz robbed
let me try to be the first to congratulate steve bradbury for skating a brilliant race and winning australia's first winter olympic gold medal!
which is surprising because the population of australia probably wouldn't know what snow was if it slapped them up the side of the head.
flip
is this true?
As an Aussie I havent heard anything about it yet.
Doesnt sound like the kind of victory anyone would really want.
I also heard they reversed the decision on the Canadian sketers giving them their gold. Is that true?
(I dont watch tv)
despite all the rain we had last night, and the forecast of possible rain today, the sun is shining!.
that means that the aussie "apostate" bbq is still on!.
(ok, there's still a few clouds hanging around but they don't look too threatening.).
nasty, glarey, burney thing.
I agree.
