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[serial_thrilla]

Reacts are very serous business, manangatang. The simple act of sending a sad react to someone can ruin their day. Isn't that right Proper Gander?

 

[Proper Gander]

Reacts are very serous business, manangatang. The simple act of sending a sad react to someone can ruin their day. Isn't that right Proper Gander?

I thought I made it very clear that your 18 sad reacts in an hour went entirely unnoticed

 

[Headless]

Reacts are very serous business, manangatang. The simple act of sending a sad react to someone can ruin their day. Isn't that right Proper Gander?

I thought I made it very clear that your 18 sad reacts in an hour went entirely unnoticed

Wow, Gander. You're being sad reacted by other people?

 

[Proper Gander]

Wow, Gander. You're being sad reacted by other people?

I wouldn’t really know Less. I HAVEN’T NOTICED AT ALL!

 

[Proper Gander]

Oh shut up.

 

[Grand Uncle Horace]

Delighted to read your genial write up of your week visiting the Colosseum.

 

[manangatang]

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Dear Diary,

I simply HAVEN'T HAD THE TIME to be a borderline psychopath this week – there’s been SO MUCH to do!

I've been wrapping up a Qooty Tipping and a SuperQoach comp and - let me tell you - I won't miss the spreadsheets. I will miss the camaraderie and people getting annoyed at me for tagging them all the time. Looks like it's back to being lonely for me.

Later on in the week just gone, Dr. Schnitzerhund approached me with an AMAZING idea he’d had. Since being in prison, he’s been particularly interested in the psychology and dynamics of the prison system. He came up with the idea of creating a prison experiment, inviting volunteers to be classified as either prisoners or prison guards.

He even started creating a mock prison before someone told him it’d been done before (and it wasn’t all that successful)…



It's a shame, because I was going to be cast in the role of a 'bitch', whatever that means, and I was keen to see how it played out.

Other than that, I’ve been torn between the Sweet F.A., the committee room and the e-AFL competition, which is REALLY starting to heat up!

And if that isn’t enough, I’ve been making countless lists for some rookie’s media threads! What a time to be alive.

What made me happy:

The week started with the e-AFL SUNS playing and winning their first ever final! We beat Tarks’ team (Lollingwood), and now we find ourselves playing in a prelim final on Wednesday.

I can't remember typing ‘Touk Miller’ as much in my entire lifetime as I have in the last month or two.

And at the end of the week, my Mt. Buller Demons enjoyed a big win against our friends, the Royals. This was very exciting, because it meant our team finished in the Top 4 again. This means we finished 4 places above the [team that shall not be named]!

On another front, there was a significant swell of support (nice alliteration) for Headless to take the INT 2 spot in the Season 29 All-SFA team. Let’s ride the wave all the way to the committee room!

Finally, as I was scanning the internet for inspiration, I saw a heartwarming picture of two carrots hugging. It made me smile.



What made me sad:

I have been reading this thread by Headless all season about me NOT BELIEVING the season’s most prolific media posting clubs, and all year I assumed that I probably could believe it. It turns out that I actually couldn’t and that’s made me think deeply about who I am and what I’m doing with my life.

Also, there's been a whole discussion about AIDs that has really distracted from my enjoyable consumption of Tarkymetrics. FOR ****’S SAKE – PEOPLE JUST WANT TO SEE THE STATS. I was particularly looking forward to the part where Tarks goes postal about one particular captain making too many team changes.

Learning of the week:

I learned a valuable lesson this week about recruiting in the Sweet F.A.

It turns out that it’s actually important to do more recruiting and to GO HARDER.

This is scary new territory for me, as I tend to roll with something that’s more similar to this.



It worked for Proper Gander, but apparently it’s not what we’re supposed to do…

I must ponder this.

Until next time,

- Tang

 

[Proper Gander]

One of the carrots is wearing headphones. The other has strange underarm hair.

 

[manangatang]

One of the carrots is wearing headphones. The other has strange underarm hair.

Yes. And they're seemingly in love despite this.

 

[Proper Gander]

Yes. And they're seemingly in love despite this.

I saw it more as a carrot-style Madonna and Child. Which made the underarm hair and headphones slightly weirder.

 

[Headless]

Wow. I recruit one player to the league in Proper Gander, and even that is mercilessly taken away from me.

When are you going to do something for ME, mang? Why don't you ever make celebratory threads about me?!

 

[Tarkyn_24]

Collingwood is not my e-AFL team. I have no e-AFL affiliation

 

[manangatang]

******* lol!

stomping is a feature in this thread.

 

[manangatang]

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Dear Diary,

I’m a husk.

A metaphorical hollowed-out seed or nut casing.

I feel like the past week has grabbed a spoon and scooped out my innards, doubtless to feast upon the fleshy fruits of my very soul.

It’s been a LONG season, and according to some dude’s stats thread we’ve been posting HARD (just like we should GO if we’re recruiting), so it’s fair to expect the wheels to get a little wobbly.

Around the Sweet F.A. boards, I’ve noticed that people seem to be talking themselves around in circles, as though there’s nothing left to bring. Someone ranting about expansion conspiracy theories. Some people saying there are none. The same person ranting about conspiracy theories again. It's a doom loop.

In spite of this, the energy at Mt. Buller has been good.

Tarks’ pet suckling pig (his name is Jason Wild) remains uneaten, Headless has been fielding interviews from all manner of Qootball media about the new and marvellous song that has been written about him. Van_Dyke has been working furiously on some secret plans - I think he muttered something about a ‘leadership coup’ but it could have been ‘need a ship poo’ so I don’t really know what he’s doing.

So why am I feeling like a husk?

Maybe it’s because Dr. Schnitzerhund has started training to become a prison guard and has limited the number of appointments he’s taking. Maybe it’s because my crayons ran out and I haven’t been able to draw my feelings.

Or maybe my husk-like status is due to the week’s wild variation between insanely high highs and disappointingly low lows.

What made me happy:

The thrill of coaching the eventual winner of the inaugural e-AFL season is indescribable. That’s right, Diary, my dear SUNS managed to win the whole ****ing thing! I was able to put the disappointment of Touk Miller losing the e-Brownlow behind me and rocked on in to witness the glorious and historic SUNS victory.

if I'd known about the cameras, I would have flipped the bird too

The game was basically won by a dominant display from my new favourite player – Jarrod Witts. I call him Wittsy (it's a nickname I made up all by myself). He’s disarmingly handsome and SUPER-TALENTED!

In addition, my beautiful Mt. Buller Demons managed to win a final against the Furies. It might not sound like such a rare thing (and, honestly, it’s not), but that doesn’t mean it’s not enjoyable. We now get a week off to rest and recuperate.

The most beautiful part of our win was the fact that we could #doitfordeaneus or, more precisely, he could do it for us!

4 : 19.25 {rHFF} - Shepherded through for a goal.
Fighting Furies : 13.6.84
Mount Buller Demons : 13.10.88
4 : 19.3 {C} - Textbook ruckwork from Tigerturbulance.
4 : 19.37 {lW} - JackBero looking for a lead.
4 : 19.42 {lW} - Gets hands off within the nick of time.
4 : 19.46 {lW} - You've got to get rid of it son.
4 : 19.5 {rW} - Van_Dyke signals for his teammates to present.
4 : 19.54 {lHFF} - A kick in the general direction of sante.
4 : 19.58 {lHFF} - Howzat? Great mark to sante at full stretch to his left.
4 : 20.02 {lHFF} - sante takes off.
4 : 20.07 {CHF} - Quick hands to Oddhawk under pressure.
4 : 20.11 {rHFF} - A lookaway handpass to moginie.
4 : 20.15 {rHFF} - He handpasses to deaneus.
4 : 20.19 {rHFF} - deaneus has a shot from fifty.

4 : 20.23 {rHFF} - And a little dance from deaneus as the ball sails through.
Fighting Furies : 13.6.84
Mount Buller Demons : 14.10.94

I’m also really positive about the prospect of moving out of lockdown – I might even leave the cheese room again. I’ve got a list of things to do once I do get out – throw a rock into the lake, get a haircut, lick a park bench…

What made me sad:

Nothing else could fit into this section alongside the news we received about our dear friend deaneus.

He’s a well loved figure in the Sweet F.A. and its various Werewolf games, and we were devastated to hear of the fight he has ahead of him. Having said that, we’re right behind him and will be cheering him on from our virtual football world.

Learning of the week:

This week’s learning is more observational than formal, Diary.

I made the discovery this week that podcasts often work better when at least one of the guests is out and about – on the move, if you will.

Whether it’s wandering through random fireworks shows, almost being run over by a truck because you were distracted by a recumbent bicycle or raiding the booze section of a local IGA, taking things to the streets is obviously the best way to go. The audience loves it, there’s an element of risk and quite clearly the finished recording product is the beneficiary.

If you have cats named after old footballers who break toilet seats, well that's just cream.

Until next time,

- Tang

 

[Tarkyn_24]

That diary was WiLD. By far the best media this season.

 

[Tarkyn_24]

Also mang do you know how I go about getting a refund for my e-AFL membership? They cut the whole thing short by about ten rounds and I want a pro-rata return of my investment for all of the pretend football that I missed

 

[NaturalDisaster]

Also mang do you know how I go about getting a refund for my e-AFL membership? They cut the whole thing short by about ten rounds and I want a pro-rata return of my investment for all of the pretend football that I missed

**** off tarks

 

[manangatang]

Also mang do you know how I go about getting a refund for my e-AFL membership? They cut the whole thing short by about ten rounds and I want a pro-rata return of my investment for all of the pretend football that I missed

If you’d been an e-SUNS member like Lord_Flashheart you would have no such issues.

 

[manangatang]

​

Dear Diary,

This was a landmark week for MANY reasons.

While on the surface it may have appeared that we had a ‘week off’ from Qooty, I can assure you I kept myself as busy as a hungry man with no hands trying to eat rice with one chopstick.

The most exciting landmark for me was the releasing of lockdown restrictions at Mt. Buller. Richard_Cranium told us he was sick of not being able to hook up with divorcees at the buffet of the local RSL, so he was making the executive decision to throw open the doors.

First order of business for me was to take my ‘iso hair’ and go to the local barber...



Then it was straight off to my local for a succulent hotel meal and one or two Rosés (which Tarks likes to call ‘bitch diesel’).



I then finished off my day of excitement by sitting and watching two pigeons copulating. It was very gentle and wholesome to watch, and lasted for what seemed like 2.5 hours. But it was really 3 hours.



It just felt so good to escape the confines of my lockdown and get back to doing normal things!

What made me happy:

If the excitement of my first day of getting out of lockdown wasn't quite enough, get a load of this!

Dr. Schnitzerhund called me with some rather moving news on Sunday evening. Apparently our vanquishers from last season had suffered defeat and would not be playing any further in season 29. I don’t like to enjoy the losses of others, but I must admit to feeling as though a great weight had been lifted from my shoulders.

So momentous was this revelation that I feel ready to attempt to write their name again. Here goes.

Drag.;&urivjds

Not bad - I’ll work on it.

My own team plays another preliminary final this week, and I simply couldn’t be prouder of them. We’re going to keep pushing on to #doitfordeaneus! (apparently he’s changed his name, so I'm trying to remember to use an exclamation mark).

What made me sad:

Some people are too blindly and mindlessly reliant on ‘stats’ when deciding on the All-SFA team, regardless of whether or not the position of the nominated player actually accumulates silly stats like 'DT points' or 'kicks'.

Accordingly, I have decided to commence a crusade to make a wider range of on-ground positions more appealing and rewarding. I might even use STATS to do it!! I'm sure Tarks will help me.

I'm also starting to be worried about someone who is seemingly taking a long time to COME. It feels like it would be frustrating or potentially even problematic for it to take so long.

Learning of the week:

With a dearth of late-season media available for my perusal, I decided to head on over to Harvey’s latest committee appreciation article. I was expecting to see Maslowe’s hierarchy of needs evolved to a 'hierarchy of nerds', but I got so much more than that!

I found myself enthralled by a wild conversation about mead, woodfolk and about how a pyramid has to be at least as large as a loaf of bread to be legitimately considered a pyramid.

I even learnt that the word ‘axes’ is more interesting than I first thought it was. It’s a plural of a wood splitting implement, a plural of the perpendicular lines on a coordinate grid or graph and is even a present verb!

I’ve been thinking about that a lot.

Until next time,

- Tang

 

[Tarkyn_24]

Is this really how you plan on asking me to do all the heavy lifting Mang?

Because I will gladly obv

 

[manangatang]

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Dear Diary,

I have news; equal parts exciting and dread-inducing.

The Mt. Buller Demons have qualified for another Grand Final.

I’ll be honest – I want to just feel plain old excited and PUMPED. But something is gnawing away at me – an unvanquished sense of dread.

When I first heard about it, I let out a little squeal and then descended into a weird fever state. Concerned about my behaviour and state of mind, Headless kindly locked me in the cheese room for two days.

While confined, I didn’t let myself remain idle. My mind was racing with vivid images and waking dreams, and so I took my trusty ‘carving spoon’ and set to work creating shapes out of cheese.

Here’s what I made…

First of all, I made a sculpture of my captor…



I then decided to carve a statue in honour of the vanquishing of my tormentors from last season…



…then I thought I’d do a carving of Tarks’ pet cow (his name is Andrew Tranquilli)…



Finally, I got spiritual and spent time carving a nativity scene, in the hope that my homage to the Baby Cheeses would help in our plight this week…



At this point I started continually braying like a satanic donkey, so Headless released me and now I’m feeling much better.

A quick shower later and I’m now ready to hit this Grand Final HARD.

What made me happy:

In our preliminary final against the Wonders, we were 29 points behind at one stage in the third quarter. For those playing at home, that’s quite a lot.

But situations like that are just a breeding ground for heroics, and we had plenty of heroes to help pull us out of the hole and send us to another Grand Final - how exciting! Callums_Guns kicked a couple of cheeky last quarter goals and Headless stood around looking pretty. It was really nice to see.

The Wonders’ ‘last dance’ was finally executed, thus ending a very clunky and unexpectedly stretched metaphor. I think I speak for the rest of the Sweet F.A. when I say ‘thank **** for that’.

It was also most excellent to see the inclusion of three of my teammates in the All-SFA team – they should be most proud.

What made me sad:

I was genuinely saddened to see my worst nightmares confirmed in the selection of the All-SFA team. My dear friend Headless, who has had one of the all-time great posting seasons and who has done more for an unglamorous on-field position than anyone else in league history, was snubbed.

It would truly have been my proudest captaincy moment, and I’m feeling more than a little disenfranchised with the whole ****ing league. The system is broken.

I post this with disappointment rather than hope...



Learning of the week:

I have learnt that some people have dyscalculia when assessing the quality of nominees for an All-SFA team. They insist that possession count and DT points should be the only thing to consider when assessing the stats side of team selection. This of course just leads to 13 midfielders (including rucks) being selected in a 20-player squad.

I learnt that such people quake in horror at the idea of potentially depriving that 11th best midfielder a spot in the team, or - even worse - confining them to a spot in the back pocket.

For these people, it seems a real shame that our teams can’t all just feature 20 midfield positions and must instead adhere to archaic constructs such as ‘defence’, ‘attack’ and ‘interchange’.

I have a way of fixing this, and I must do so. Hint: it doesn't involve 20 midfielders.

Until next time,

- Tang

 

[Grand Uncle Horace]

manangatang - Simone has joined the Wonders in disgust after your carvings and completely inaccurate depiction of #TheLastDance