Forty odd years ago, before he started crooning the Neighbours theme song, Barry Crocker was the unlikely lead in an irreverent flick about an Aussie lad on the loose in England. In The Adventures of Barry McKenzie, Bazza cuts an ocker swathe through the local women and the poncy establishment, always with a can of Foster’s in his…
How to handle a gloating Pom
There’s no sugar coating this. Today is going to be hell in the office if you work with a Pom. Heaven help you if you’re an Aussie working in London. If that’s you, get the hell out of Dodge. At the very least, chuck a sickie or quit your job. But we don’t have to…
A Winter Olympics… with no snow
When the International Olympic Committee met last weekend to decide the host city for the 2022 Winter Games, it had a choice between two cities: one with snow and one without. But who needs snow, right? After all, the last Winter Olympics were held in the tropical slushie of Sochi. So Beijing got the nod….
A college education in how to hit a woman
Foul Play: Edition 6 This is Florida State University player De’Andre Johnson, 19, hitting a woman in the face at a bar. It cost him his place in the university football program. As it should. Days later, his teammate Dalvin Cook, also 19, was charged after allegedly punching a woman multiple times outside a bar….
Battle of the boofheads
If we’ve discovered one thing from the Adam Goodes episode this week, it’s the dumbest person in Australia. It’s been a hotly contested tussle. Some of the comments put forward wouldn’t look out of place in a Miss Universe pageant. But from the primordial slime has emerged a clear winner. Come on down, Griffin McMaster….
Goodes’ treatment a problem for us all
To the people calling Adam Goodes a sook, instead of going to work today take the tools of your trade to the nearest stadium and do your job from there. Ignore all those people insulting you from the stands, the ones leaning over the fence and into your face spitting bile and hatred. The better…
English cricket and other maulings
You know you’re in trouble when former Aussie Prime Minister John Howard starts sledging you about your sporting prowess. The noted cricket tragic reckons England’s batsmen have a ‘psychological problem’ with the Aussie bowling attack, which has left them ‘just a little bit spooked’. Which is all true, of course. But it’s a bit rich…
Reader’s request: The meat market of elite sport
Try this exercise. Take your first and last names, put a ‘the’ in front of them and a ‘brand’ at the end. See if you can say those four words without sounding like a tosser. Can’t do it, right? Now look at this announcement made last month by the world’s third highest paid athlete. Long…
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