The Pie Rollercoaster (The latest installment of AFL by a Pom)

Perhaps this in itself was a portent of things to come: after all the Man Utd of 1985 – Jesper Olsen, Remi Moses, Frank Stapleton, Arthur Albiston to name but a few Old Trafford legends… – was another team that consistently flattered to deceive; a club with a big past and a colourful, but rarely successful, present.

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AFL for Poms (or by a Pom)

The moment when Cousins walked through Melbourne airport, hair freshly shorn to a number two crew cut (6mm) and, we later learnt, with his body freshly waxed all over was priceless.

“Come test me then, fuckers,” he seemed to be saying. “Oh, you can’t. Ha!”

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Homeless World Cup, Melbourne

Bruce has been idle. Well, actually, he’s been rather busy, resulting in this site being inexcusably neglected.
However, Bruce has also been at the Homeless World Cup, a thoroughly enjoyable experience that anyone in Melbourne should check out before it finishes tomorrow. He’ll be there for the quarter-finals this afternoon, praying that the Scots can beat [...]

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Barefoot bowling: reclaiming the lawn from the wrinklies

The $12 bought two games, a pot of Cooper’s (who sponsor the weekly session at the Fitzroy Victoria Bowling Club) and a bbq (snags, chicken, lamb chops, salad) as well as the chance to mingle with the characters who inhabit these parts – one team included a man in ninja outfit and another in cream safari suit and matching hat – and the opportunity for such unwittingly hilarious conversational snippets as “Sorry, did I just hit your balls?”.

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This programme was brought to you by Satan: Australian television

do your tweezers really clear butt hair better than every other butt tweezer on the market?

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