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Belgium, Javapolis and the Poms lost - history repeats itself...
For those 1000+ developers coming to Javapolis next week, please do drop by the Atlassian booth and say G'day. Scott and I will both be there giving JIRA and Confluence demo's (mention this shameless plug and we might even buy you a beer ;))
I'm a bad boy, I still haven't finished my presentation - I'm not even really sure what it's supposed to be on. The topic is so broad ("Open Source Java"). I suppose I did write a book called "Open Source Java Programming", so I'll start from that!
On the topic of history repeating itself, I'd like to draw every Englishman's attention to my favourite quote of the week (from the Fitz Files in today's SMH) - Derek "Robbo" Robson from the BBC Sports website:
Nowadays we [English] fools are forced to sit through humiliation after humiliation as a bunch of superfit, sunscreened larrikins make our boys look like ninnies. Jonny's drop goal was just a blip. We can counter that there's more culture between the average working man's toes than there is in Australia, but who wouldn't swap William bleeding Shakespeare for a Darren Lockyer? Or a nice looking church like St Paul's for a Glenn McGrath? I bloody would. So what's the answer? Present the current British prison population with as much sporting equipment as jumanly possible, in the hope that history repeats itself..."
Absolutely hilarious. Amazing how riled up those Pom's get when they lose at sport isn't it?
(BTW I'm in London next week - if anyone wants a JIRA or Confluence demo, or a beer, or to talk about classic Australian sporting victories, please do let me know ;))
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What the fuck was this post about? I'm confused... You all should just learn a real sport like baseball, football (the American kind, think rugby where the players are 6'6" 350 lbs), or basketball, then we could all speak the same language again.
Hey Jason, American "football" players wear armour -- how hard is that?
Last time I looked it was the aussies who couldn't hack losing at sport... albeit because it doesn't happen every day! As for these International 'American' sports... baseball I think is called rounders - and it's a girls game... basketball is called netball - oh and it's a girls game too... and American 'football' is rugby with padding, where they allow you to throw the ball forward so that there's less chance of getting tackled.
For the record I'm norn irish and we're crap at sport, so I can sit back in blissful ignorance and enjoy taking the piss ;)
*cough* real sport jason? Talk about the most artificial ball game ever. Hell, even the grass is fake ;)
Should try AFL, now there's a game that just makes sense: give some guys a ball and a field with some goals at either end and get them to make up some rules that make sense and that's pretty much Australian football for you.
AFL rules:
- Kick the ball through the goals to score.
- If you catch a big kick, that's worth a free kick.
- If someone grabs you you have to get rid of the ball,
- you can't just run the whole length of the field: you have to bounce the ball every 5 metres or so (cos that's hard).
- No offside and other dodgy rules, no padding, alternate offensive/defensive teams etc. Just a ball and a few posts at each end.
oh and the other rule is that if you happen to be within an inch of the goals you must try and kick the ball out of the stadium to keep the crowd happy ;)
As for the poms: flukes aside, they're used to losing mike, the rugby world cup was a prime example, a lucky field goal in overtime leads to crazy celebrations.. but then the next match with us was around 45 to 15, then again recently was a similar margin.. and life returns to the normal order again. ;)
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