Things I Don't Understand, Part Four

You can read part one here, part two here, and part three here.

Sport and Racism in Australia

I'm going to add my voice to the Adam Goodes "debate". I say "debate" in "inverted commas" because it shouldn't really be a debate.

This shit is racist.

Hot Sport Newz~! 26/07/15

In this edition:

• Blame It On The Nicky
• FIFA PUNK'D
• Sport for Nerds
• The Intolerant Hulk

NRL Season Schedule Proposal

An article in Monday's SMH by Brad Walter highlighted an interesting problem the NRL currently has around scheduling - State of Origin is very successful commercially, but it's success is now detracting from the NRL competition that should be the foundation of professional rugby league in Australia.

The iiNet Story

When we moved just before Christmas, we decided to shop around for home internet. We elected to sign a 24 month contract with iiNet.

This was a terrible error of judgment.

The following is a full chronological account of my experiences with iiNet. It is long, but this is legitimately the minimum amount of words I could use to document every moment of incompetence.

iiNet - a #2. Finally, truth in advertising.

Cold Sport Newz~!

Cold rather than hot because some of this is old newz~!

This edition features a selection of stuff I wanted to rant about over the last few months but it was too hard due to experiencing "technical difficulties" still not fully resolved.

(There will be a story about that debacle when it is fully resolved. Unless something radically changes, it's not going to be very favourable to companies represented in advertising by smug Irish backpackers wearing bad sweaters.)

Let's get to the newz~!

Eurovision 2015: My Votes Are In!

For the first time in years, I watched Eurovision. Not live, the replay. I'm not getting up at 5:00am on a Sunday. I like to sleep in. So I get up at 5:40am when one of my children starts screaming, bring them into our bed, get headbutted and kicked for the next two hours, before getting up before you do anyway. A nice lie in to start a lazy Sunday.

Anyway, I watched Eurovision and they forgot to count my votes!

I greeted Vienna with "Hello, Lounge Room calling, here are the votes from Rob..." and got the disconnected tone.

So here are my points to be added on: