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If the money earns a return then there should be no issue. I would be more concerned they are looking to tax it for consolidated revenue.
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I wish to apologise for being caught on camera having turned a blind eye to things.
Now that my personal situation has turned to a loss in finances, I will spend the next 48 hours crying uncontrollably and trying to speak.
Failing spectacularly.
But it will be deflected that i am bold and strong with potential mental demons from failing at hiding.
For I am an Australian cricket leadership group member.
Who is not Warner, because I'm watching this shit on my 47 OLED's with popcorn.
#Aussiesportsbloodia
Now that my personal situation has turned to a loss in finances, I will spend the next 48 hours crying uncontrollably and trying to speak.
Failing spectacularly.
But it will be deflected that i am bold and strong with potential mental demons from failing at hiding.
For I am an Australian cricket leadership group member.
Who is not Warner, because I'm watching this shit on my 47 OLED's with popcorn.
#Aussiesportsbloodia
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They made a stupid mistake and will pay a price but the over the top reaction from the do gooders and media is a joke.
S. Grant in court for belting the **** out his Mrs and hardly word from the moral police
S. Grant in court for belting the **** out his Mrs and hardly word from the moral police
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I wish to apologise for being caught on camera having turned a blind eye to things.
Now that my personal situation has turned to a loss in finances, I will spend the next 48 hours crying uncontrollably and trying to speak.
Failing spectacularly.
But it will be deflected that i am bold and strong with potential mental demons from failing at hiding.
For I am an Australian cricket leadership group member.
Who is not Warner, because I'm watching this shit on my 47 OLED's with popcorn.
#Aussiesportsbloodia
You heartless goul
Pass the Kleenex.
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I wish to apologise for being caught on camera having turned a blind eye to things.
Now that my personal situation has turned to a loss in finances, I will spend the next 48 hours crying uncontrollably and trying to speak.
Failing spectacularly.
But it will be deflected that i am bold and strong with potential mental demons from failing at hiding.
For I am an Australian cricket leadership group member.
Who is not Warner, because I'm watching this shit on my 47 OLED's with popcorn.
#Aussiesportsbloodia
Typical of many and pathetic post. This guy didn’t murder anyone didn’t hurt anyone. What he did was overlooking something that is gone every game just about. I agree it is worst way of ball tampering and he deserves a big punishment which he has got. Far to much imo but it’s over. He is hurting obviously. He isn’t acting. I’m convinced there are people out there who won’t be happy until he gangs himself. Internet bullying at its best. Media bullying at its best. It’s time to lay off these guys. No one knows what it may take to tip these guys over the edge
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Na , Grant's a bigger campaigner .
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What does bloodia rhyme with I wonder...
Since you're obviously donning your trollish persona, let me educate you so that you might gain knowledge.
The word it rhymes with is bolded in your quote.
I'd also hazard a guess that after 15 hours on a plane, the last thing you generally want to do is front the media, even if you flew first or business class.
Now, using Smiffy's press conference with shock jock tabloid junkie guy quoting MAFS questions leads us to point 1;
What does bloodia rhyme with?
Now say you're sorry, turn the phone off and enjoy whatever it is you're doing under that bridge.
You heartless goul
Pass the Kleenex.
Mad props to Smiffy and Cam for fronting the media, not saying they're crocodile tears, but more 80% raw 20% "I've just screwed myself royally" as it's not even the 12 & 9 month that's the issue as that's what, 2-3 tests & IPL as they subcontinent it, but more the plethora of sponsors that have dropped off personally and through CA because of the initial admission of it being planned.
That was the worst media handling of a situation since the cameras zoomed in Cams groin region where everyone could spot it in a lineup of pluggers selfies.
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Complete rubbish post. Don’t try and pretend the post was about media. It was about smith and how he had false tears and only cared about looking after himself. Typical of people who just want more blood and won’t be happy until the guy hurts himself. I wish I could think the worst of people like you seem to be comfortable in doing.
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Jeez you talk shit...
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I actually think he’s genuinely upset. I heard someone saying Smith has nothing outside cricket and left school at 16 so has not much going on. The guy is going struggle. It was a minor scale thing that usually gets a week off. If the Essendon bans were in proportion to these penalties there would have been a heap of life bans. They are flogs and idiots but they are getting crucified by the media. Listening to the crap from that pontificating tool Whatley makes me want to throw the radio out the window. They were dickheads who can’t even cheat well.
It's a case of drawing the line on tampering and will be interesting to see if the ICC have the balls to go hard if any other country does it.
Now firstly it's a bit rich that the poms who invented it and then the sub-continent which fixes games should criticise all high and mighty.
Secondly, they screwed up and will pay for their mistakes.
Some of the public reaction has been a disgrace and OTT.
I doubt there is hardly anyone out their who hasn't stuffed up at one time or another.
My biggest concern is their mental health.
They have done crime and will do the time.
As you say, they haven't murdered someone, r*ped or acted like Catholic Priests...
Then again, we punish innocent children by keeping them in detention camps, so what did we expect?
Where's Whately's outcry for them?
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If they gave those guys a year of for bringing cricket into disrepute, we should give our players the same treatment. Year bans for everyone who played today.
pretty much. and Richo should do a Lehmann
Not sure if anyone else follows MArk MAnson, but really love the guy.
Here is an extract from a recent article which relates ot our previous discussion:
Modern democracy was basically invented under the assumption that the average human being is a selfish delusional piece of shit. The belief went that the only way to protect us from ourselves is to create systems so interlocking and interdependent that no one person or group can completely hose the rest of the population at any given time.
Put another way, the founders and Enlightenment thinkers understood that the games of politics and statecraft are inevitably played at the level of bargaining and transactional relationships, and therefore systems need to be constructed in such a way that no one person (or organization) can win too much, too often.
Most politicians make their names and their livings by existing in a vast web of transactional relationships. They bargain with their voters and donors. They bargain with each other to build coalitions and alliances. They bargain with other branches of government and political parties to jockey for prominence and position. Politics is a transactional and selfish game, and democracy is the best system thus far for the sole reason that it’s the only system that openly admits that.
There’s only one way to threaten a democratic system: by demanding one’s own desires and pleasures are more important than anyone else’s. That is, by being childish.
This is what extremists are: childish. They’re a bunch of ****ing babies. Because extremists are intractable and impossible to bargain with, extremists are, by definition, childish. They want the world to be a certain way and they refuse to acknowledge any interests or values other than their own. They refuse to bargain. They refuse to appeal to a higher virtue or principle above their own selfish desires. Therefore, they ruin everything around them.
Extremists are dangerous because they know how to dress up their childish values in the language of transaction or universal principle. A right-wing extremist will claim he desires “freedom” above all else and that he’s willing to make sacrifices for that freedom. But what he really means is that he wants freedom from any other values. He wants freedom from having to deal with change or the marginalization of other people. He wants the freedom to pursue his own impulses and desires.
Extremists on the left play the same game, the only thing that changes is the language. A leftie extremist will say that she wants “equality” for all. And that she will give up anything for it. But what she really means is that she never wants to feel inferior or harmed. That she never wants to feel threatened or unsafe. Essentially, that she never wants to feel pain. And demanding that everyone be treated equally at all times, in all circumstances, is one way of running away from that pain.
Extremism, on both the right and the left, has undeniably risen in the past few decades. There are likely many complicated and overlapping reasons for this. But I’ll throw out one idea: that the maturity of the voting population is deteriorating. American culture is based on the indulgence of pleasure and avoidance of pain. American consumerism has become so good at indulging these childish impulses that much of the population has come to see them as rights. Extremists on the right respond to the fact that they believe climate change is a hoax or evolution is fake with the claim that they have the right to believe anything they want to. Extremists on the left respond to the fact that people are inherently unequal, and a free, functioning society requires there to be winners and losers by claiming they have a right to whatever treatment someone else has.
These are childish views. They deny reality. And when you deny reality, bad things happen.
The problem is that the media (again, both on the right and the left) has discovered that reinforcing the childish wishes of extremists on each side is good for business. That’s because extremists, like children, are compulsive. They don’t know how to stop. They are addicts for their cause. They throw their lives away for it. And because they will throw their lives away for an imagined cause, they make for the most impassioned audience. And with the internet squeezing the media’s business models dry, they’ve slowly had to resort to pandering to the most reactive and virulent people out there: the childish extremes. The extremes get the most attention. They get the most clicks. And they cause the most controversy. So they dictate the media’s discourse.
Here is an extract from a recent article which relates ot our previous discussion:
Modern democracy was basically invented under the assumption that the average human being is a selfish delusional piece of shit. The belief went that the only way to protect us from ourselves is to create systems so interlocking and interdependent that no one person or group can completely hose the rest of the population at any given time.
Put another way, the founders and Enlightenment thinkers understood that the games of politics and statecraft are inevitably played at the level of bargaining and transactional relationships, and therefore systems need to be constructed in such a way that no one person (or organization) can win too much, too often.
Most politicians make their names and their livings by existing in a vast web of transactional relationships. They bargain with their voters and donors. They bargain with each other to build coalitions and alliances. They bargain with other branches of government and political parties to jockey for prominence and position. Politics is a transactional and selfish game, and democracy is the best system thus far for the sole reason that it’s the only system that openly admits that.
There’s only one way to threaten a democratic system: by demanding one’s own desires and pleasures are more important than anyone else’s. That is, by being childish.
This is what extremists are: childish. They’re a bunch of ****ing babies. Because extremists are intractable and impossible to bargain with, extremists are, by definition, childish. They want the world to be a certain way and they refuse to acknowledge any interests or values other than their own. They refuse to bargain. They refuse to appeal to a higher virtue or principle above their own selfish desires. Therefore, they ruin everything around them.
Extremists are dangerous because they know how to dress up their childish values in the language of transaction or universal principle. A right-wing extremist will claim he desires “freedom” above all else and that he’s willing to make sacrifices for that freedom. But what he really means is that he wants freedom from any other values. He wants freedom from having to deal with change or the marginalization of other people. He wants the freedom to pursue his own impulses and desires.
Extremists on the left play the same game, the only thing that changes is the language. A leftie extremist will say that she wants “equality” for all. And that she will give up anything for it. But what she really means is that she never wants to feel inferior or harmed. That she never wants to feel threatened or unsafe. Essentially, that she never wants to feel pain. And demanding that everyone be treated equally at all times, in all circumstances, is one way of running away from that pain.
Extremism, on both the right and the left, has undeniably risen in the past few decades. There are likely many complicated and overlapping reasons for this. But I’ll throw out one idea: that the maturity of the voting population is deteriorating. American culture is based on the indulgence of pleasure and avoidance of pain. American consumerism has become so good at indulging these childish impulses that much of the population has come to see them as rights. Extremists on the right respond to the fact that they believe climate change is a hoax or evolution is fake with the claim that they have the right to believe anything they want to. Extremists on the left respond to the fact that people are inherently unequal, and a free, functioning society requires there to be winners and losers by claiming they have a right to whatever treatment someone else has.
These are childish views. They deny reality. And when you deny reality, bad things happen.
The problem is that the media (again, both on the right and the left) has discovered that reinforcing the childish wishes of extremists on each side is good for business. That’s because extremists, like children, are compulsive. They don’t know how to stop. They are addicts for their cause. They throw their lives away for it. And because they will throw their lives away for an imagined cause, they make for the most impassioned audience. And with the internet squeezing the media’s business models dry, they’ve slowly had to resort to pandering to the most reactive and virulent people out there: the childish extremes. The extremes get the most attention. They get the most clicks. And they cause the most controversy. So they dictate the media’s discourse.
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Wow, that's spot-on, thanks for sharing, will definitely look into more of his work!
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Premier Cricket final at the Junction today was a welcome distraction to anything AFL related.
The article itself pertains to growing up.
https://markmanson.net/how-to-grow-...et-newsletter&utm_content=read-how-to-grow-up
Steve Smith is not going to struggle. However, he is going to have to adjust to not living on a salary of $5.5M a year. Poor bastard. No wonder he was crying
That's $100,000 a week. And he threw that away over ball tampering.
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did you play mate?
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Nah just went down for a look. Siddle got 6 wickets for Dandy so was good watching.
this is basically freud's model of the psyche with swearing thrown in. the child, adolescent, and adult is classic id, ego, superego.
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