train in the gym, which is not like me. I am not exactly at the stage where I can start fights at the pub, but when I am it will be OK, as kickboxing doesn’t seem to subscribe to the “only for defence” ideology of some of the less ruthless martial arts. I think this is some time away.
It is a long time since I have participated in a sport, but I am loving it. To be honest, the last time I felt like this was Tweekin, early 1997. I guess dancing is a sport also. Except in dancing people don’t consent to you hitting them. Or kicking them. I have very bruised shins from blocking roundhouse kicks all morning - my partner was not there so I trained with the teacher, in a way the pain made it more enjoyable becaue I felt more tough or something. This could be because as a teenager I watched Kickboxer, starring Jean-Claude, and learned that kickboxing is all about sharpening your shins by kicking trees until they fall over. I can understand that scene a lot more now. Will have to rent it again. Tom Po! Tom Po! I guess now I have two things in common with Jean-Claude.
Why do they never seem to have kickboxing on FOX Sports anymore? It used to always be on, but as soon as they found out that I was interested they axed it. I sent them an email about this. I await their response.
I definitely want to continue with kickboxing. I feel so calm afterwards, others have noticed the change. I have also noticed a change in my body, not much, but it is there. I am glad that Kirsten talked me into it.
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is like Tobruk. Wake Island is like Wake Island. Kirsten will probably have nightmares after seeing a German corpse loll back with fixed dead gaze towards me. Corpses are like corpses (except the IRL corpses don’t sort of fade away a few seconds later).
I like the terrain, I like using vehicles. I like parachuting out of planes because I can’t bloody fly the things. Tanks are fun. Deck Guns are fun. I had to turn the antialiasing up to “11″ though, as the textures tended to be a bit flickery. If you get in a jeep, you are a sucker, and deserve to die by hand grenade. Softcock.
Stupid gamearena was password protected, so I had to pay for the bandwidth. It was worth it though. I was a real soldier, in a real war. I got a medal for ass-kickingness. It said so at the end.
This game is everything that Operaton:Flashpoint could have been. No gamma problems. Just radness.
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really made of plastique? Am I in danger? Why didn’t they put one of those retun air holes on the other side of the lid? Why am I compelled to blog every little thing that happens to me?
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- BBQs
- Open Bars
- Actors wearing (presumably) X-Box character costumes
- 4 Bevan bikies, with Molls, riding through the crowd
- A tattoo booth (I got 2)
- A confusing Stomp/metalhead/b-boy crew
- Fire Twirlers
- MC Angry Anderson
- Pool Tables
- Quite a few X-Boxes
I left early, for fear of getting too drunk (I know, how un-Australian). A lot of people will have hangovers tomorrow.
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He got me thinking, though. What ever happened to the use of rhyming slang in the vernacular? Did someone accidentally let a policeman onto the trick, thereby making the rhyme system useless for its intended purpose (obfuscation to avoid the law)? It is a sad fact that Australian slang has devolved almost to the point where adding an ‘O’ to the end of a word is the extent of our customisation.
The Westie/Bogan/Bevan population seem to be the only holders of a true slang, but to me that population is tainted by association with The Dog-Man, who roams near my workplace. He speaks like a dog would, were it to attempt speech, more like a bark or growl than words. He lives wild, is wild. I feel sorry for him, perhaps with treatment he could be happier, instead of scaring everyone by growl-muttering as he walks along the streets of Parramatta.The government is definitely stealing his thoughts. Poor Dog-Man.
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There are also a lot of lemons. An frozen diet coke.
The Lemon Thunder:
Ingredients
The Juice of one lemon
A lidful of Rum
frozen diet coke
Method
Add to glass in order, from top to bottom.
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SPOILER: he died at the end, and I breathed a sigh of relief. Soon it would be over and I could go to the bathroom. That was the best part of the movie.
*The main Navajo had very white teeth.
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