Sunday, September 16, 2012

I still haven't taken it off

Here's what I did this weekend.

Yes, I am deliberately flexing for the camera.
And that's between shopping, picking up Charlie, editing a thesis and making offerings to the Gods of Hard Rubbish. I should be on a bloody Centrum ad.

It also turns out that if you're last in line to pick up the medal, you have to make the speech.

I'd like to fank me teammates. Youse are fukkin tops blokes, hay?

The more astute, long-term readers will notice that about two years ago, when I had identical news, I was wearing the black shirt belonging to Saturday's vanquished side. No, I haven't switched clubs. The slightly sad part about the game was that we had two teams in the same division who were (almost) equally as good and ended up in the final together. I've stood on that other side. It sucks. Every clap for your conquering foes (pictured above) hurts.
But, hey, whatever. You've got to know defeat to appreciate victory or some shit.
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8 comments:

  1. AnonymousSunday, September 16, 2012 at 10:02:00 PM PDT

    Congrats! Not bad for a one legged bloke.

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    1. franzySunday, September 16, 2012 at 11:19:00 PM PDT

      I'd like to say that that leg has grown back and is no longer an issue. But but that would seriously be robbing me of one of my last remaining, non-pissweak excuses for why I'm still so slow.

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  2. JacobsTuesday, September 18, 2012 at 5:39:00 AM PDT

    Put it away!

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  3. RiverWednesday, September 19, 2012 at 1:03:00 AM PDT

    I could spout some stuff about being a good loser and a gracious winner, but I'm just not that into sports.
    If it's going to hurt me, I'm going to avoid it.

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  4. MedicatedMooWednesday, October 10, 2012 at 8:39:00 AM PDT

    Well done Franzy - I recall a post of yours a while back re witnessing some karma on a bloke who'd done you wrong a season earlier...?

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    1. franzyWednesday, October 10, 2012 at 5:18:00 PM PDT

      Thank you, thank you. Yes, that bloke is still playing and we beat his team the week before.
      But you know when you go back to your high school reunion and the cool arseholes have all gained weight and work at Coles? It's sort of like that. The few times I've played against him since, he's gotten slower and he actually smells like whisky on the field. Classy.

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An explanation of The Joy Division Litmus Test

Although it may now be lost in the mysts of thyme, the poll below is still relevant to this blog. In the winter of 2008, Mele and I went to live in Queensland. In order to survive, I bluffed my way into a job at a Coffee Club.
It was quite a reasonable place to work: the hours were regular, the staff were quite nice, it wasn't particularly taxing on my brain.
There were a few downsides: In the six weeks or so that I worked there, there was about a 90% staff turnover (contributed to by my leaving). This wasn't seen as a result of the low pay, the laughability of staff prices or the practice of not distributing tips to staff, rather it was blamed on the lack of work ethic among Bribie Island's youth.
However, one of the stranger aspects of the cultural isolation that touched our lives during our time "up there" was the fact that nobody at my work had heard of the band Joy Division.
The full explanation is available here.
But please, interact a little further and vote in my ongoing poll. The results are slowly mounting up, proving one thing: people read this blog are more well-informed about Joy Division than anyone who works at the Coffee Club on Bribie Island.

Have you heard of the band Joy Division?

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Champions of Guess The Header

  • What is Guess The Header about? Let’s ask regular “Writing” reader, Shippy: "Anyway, after Franzy's stunning September, and having a crack at 'Guess The Header' for the first time - without truly knowing what I was doing mind you - I think I finally understand what 'GTH' is all about. At first I thought you needed to actually know what it was. Don't get me wrong — if you know what it is, it may help you. I now realise that it's more Franzy's way of invoking thought around an image or, more often than not, part of an image. If you dissect slightly the GTH explanatory sentence at the bottom of his blog you come up with this: “The photo is always taken by me and always connects in some way to the topic of the blog entry it heads up.” When the header is put up, the blog below it will in some obscure way have something to do with it. “Interesting comments are judged and scored arbitrarily and the process is open to corruption and bribery with all correspondence being entered into after the fact and on into eternity, ad infinitum amen.” Franzy judges it, but it's not always the GTH that describes the place perfectly that gets it. “The frequent commenters, the wits, the wags and the outright smartarses who, each entry, engage to both guess the origin and relevance of the strip of photo at the top (or “head”) of each new blog and also who leave what I deem the most interesting comment.” It generally helps if you're a complete smartarse and can twist things to mean whatever you feel they should mean - exactly the way Franzy would like things to be twisted." - Shippy Blogger and GTH point scorer.
  • Nai - 1
  • Lion Kinsman - 2
  • Will - 2
  • Brocky - 2
  • Andy Pants - 2
  • The 327th Male - 3
  • Mad Cat Lady - 3
  • Miles McClagen - 4
  • Myninjacockle - 4
  • Asheligh - 5
  • Neil - 5
  • Third Cat - 5
  • Adam Y - 6
  • Squib - 6
  • Mele - 6
  • Moifey - 7
  • Jono - 8
  • The Other, other Sam - 14
  • Kath Lockett - 15
  • Shippy - 19
  • River - 32