Sporting Emos don’t do irony

Posted by Ant Rogenous on Monday 8 September 2008, 1:54 pm
Categories: GroupThinkFC, Sport  Tags: Tags: , , , ,

Thought I’d better post the result of GroupThinkFC’s epic clash on Friday before we resume our losing ways tonight. We beat what turned out to be the most prophetically named team in history 14-1.

But what should have been a thoroughly enjoyable milestone victory over Target Practice turned out to be a drag for several reasons:

  1. They were Emos.
  2. They were violent.
  3. There was a girl on the team, who got away with being the roughest of all of them because the referee clearly didn’t feel right about penalising a girl — and we didn’t feel right about decking her.
  4. They were utterly humourless about their abilities (sic).
  5. They pretty much conceded defeat in the first few minutes by deciding to defend for the entire match — an astonishing strategy, given how many goals we’ve had scored against us.
  6. During the match, Testiclegate erupted, with one of their players accusing a GroupThinker of “grabbing his nuts”. Bullshit — we only ever do that to people in the bar afterwards, and almost always after buying them a house riesling.

Still, a win’s a win. Huzzah.

Toaf — who, to the eternal shame of every other GrodsCommenter*, was the only person to tip a GroupThinkFC victory — takes out the betting prize: a season pass with front-row tickets to our remaining matches, valued at $0.00.

But since he’s currently living in Nairobi, we’ll be auctioning it on GrodsBay … as soon as The Editor designs and gets it working.

* With the exception of EC, who declined to predict a result but — as always — declared her undying support for TehPeople’sFootballClub.

Question/ response

Posted by Scott on Saturday 3 March 2007, 10:10 am
Categories: Media, Politics  Tags: Tags: , , ,

Andrew Bolt asks:

What is it with the Left and violence - both the verbal and the physical?

The Right responds:

Spy agency ASIO, the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and the bomb squad are investigating death threats and a “suspicious incident” outside the home of star Labor recruit Maxine McKew, it has been reported this morning.

Four men holding torches were discovered underneath Ms McKew’s car, parked outside her North Shore home, on Thursday night.

The incident followed a number of death threats against the former journalist since she announced she would take on Prime Minister John Howard in his seat of Bennelong.



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