Aussies rule at Olympics

I am justifiably proud of my native Australian Olympic team, third in the medal tally now but, a country of 20 million with 20 medals to date, one medal per million citizens, who can top that per capita result.

Aussie, aussie, aussie, oi, oi ,oi,

Well you guys were a shoe in for the boomerang toss so that one shouldn’t count.

Oh ya! Wait until the winter Olympics, you won't be so talkative then...

It's those fast sheep they have down there, great for training......

The Winter Olympics in Oz consist of football, beer and motorsport (we don't go home when it rains....oh no he didn't)

Leave Baaarbaaara out of this

slefain wrote: It's those fast sheep they have down there, great for training......

is that why the team uniforms consist of gumboots and velcro gloves?

aussiesmg wrote: The Winter Olympics in Oz consist of soccer, beer and motorsport (we don't go home when it rains....oh no he didn't)

Fixed That For You

Of course you're good at the summer games...what the hell else are you going to do down there during the summer besides train for the Olympics, chase critters and shovel dirt?

Last I checked, the Aussies aren't taking the medals per capita either...they're second to Armenia.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/olympics_blog/2008/08/next-star-in-me.html

Bryce

We don't play soccer mate, we play real football, check out Australian Rules Football on Youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVKG4QTMWDM&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TA4gmMvye5M

Note: our boys play the whole game on the field and do not wear padding, don't try to compare our football against your on field chess. The other Australian football is Rugby and that is the only game the players wear tape around their heads so their ears don't get torn off their heads.....need I say more.

Don't mistake Australia for England it only reveals your ignorance.

I apologize for being an ignoramus. I was joking, but I apparently hit a nerve. I knew rugby was popular in Australia, but I didn't know there was an Australian rule football. Normally when I hear someone from another country talk about "football," they are either referring to association-football/futbol/soccer or American football.

Hell no mate, we take drinking, motorsports and football very seriously, no nerve hit but I know I do sound p***d when I defend my native sports, for that I also apologize.

Soccer is treated as a shiela's sport by real aussie men, as a rule

Back to the real thread..............go aussies,

aussiesmg wrote: Hell no mate, we take drinking, motorsports and football very seriously, no nerve hit but I know I do sound p***d

I'd sound p***d too, if my toilet-or is it the loo- flushed backasswards and I had to drive on the wrong side of the street.

aircooled wrote: Oh ya! Wait until the winter Olympics, you won't be so talkative then...

I think these ARE the Winter Olympics down there.

They are indeed. It even snowed recently!

Aussie rules football and Rugby is some serious ass-kicking.

I was reading "Sex Lives Of Cannibals." It's about a guy who spent some serious time in a south pacific island of Vanatua. He organized a Super Bowl party for himself, wife, and some friends. They're comment after watching it was "So the fat one falls down on the skinny guy?" Gives a bit of perspective. "Wait, Wait! That play ended so let's take a five minute break so all the fat guys can catch their breath."

The Aussie's are doing really well at the Olympics aren't they? They had a hell of a team on the movie "Beerfest".

aussiesmg wrote: Note: our boys play the whole game on the field and do not wear padding

Most of the "padding" is on the head and top of shoulders. It lets you hit people a lot harder. Per second played i dont know of any sport that has nearly the injury rate that American Football has.

Here is a good example of some nancy boy pad on pad action

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0Y9wt3XkHo&feature=related

Someone tell me IF the train wreck that is the Canadian team gets a medal.

J

the paper this morning said they were about to get to their stronger sports, the paddling events

25 and counting, Aussies rock.....

Padding is padding mate, our guys tackle just as hard. I'd like to see some stats on that injury rate.

From my days in Aspen as a bartender; What's the difference between a canoe and an Australian ? A canoe tips.

Aussie rules football is the E36 M3. I compare it more to backyard football here in the states than anything. I do imagine a lot of those Aussie rules football players sport IROC Camaros though, they just love the mullet and what better way to compliment a bitchin' hair style than with a IROC!?

I watched the videos of Aussie rules football, including the rules explanation. Cricket makes as much sense to me.

DirtyBird222 wrote: I do imagine a lot of those Aussie rules football players sport IROC Camaros though, they just love the mullet and what better way to compliment a bitchin' hair style than with a IROC!?

In Australia, the mullet hair style goes hand-in-hand with the 'one tonne' ute.

They make a hell of an onion too

They make a hell of an onion too