Things that you don't understand

[mypaddock]

Why people like cricket??

[GWW]

Cricket is fine, but I have no idea how anyone can follow a repetitive sport like Rugby League. Also, why soccer (which I dont mind but i dont rate it anywhere near footy) has the off side rule to restrict scoring. Off the subject of sport, I find it difficult to understand economic principals relating to foreign debt.

[Dirko]

Cricket is fine, but I have no idea how anyone can follow a repetitive sport like Rugby League. Also, why soccer (which I dont mind but i dont rate it anywhere near footy) has the off side rule to restrict scoring. Off the subject of sport, I find it difficult to understand economic principals relating to foreign debt.

If Soccer didn't have the offside rule it'd be a shambles. Just put a couple of blokes on the goal line...

I rate the offside rule, but I don't rate when they don't pick it up....

[Booney]

Cricket is fine, but I have no idea how anyone can follow a repetitive sport like Rugby League. Also, why soccer (which I dont mind but i dont rate it anywhere near footy) has the off side rule to restrict scoring. Off the subject of sport, I find it difficult to understand economic principals relating to foreign debt.

If Soccer didn't have the offside rule it'd be a shambles. Just put a couple of blokes on the goal line...

I rate the offside rule, but I don't rate when they don't pick it up....

Completely disagree. Introduce the basketball like pass-back rule in soccer and get rid of the off-side rule. If you want to be a lazy prick and loaf on the goal line while your mates defend then so be it, you'd be like playing a man down.

[Dirko]

Introduce the basketball like pass-back rule

Since when do they have a pass backward rule in basketball ? Or do you mean once past the half way line you aren't allowed to go back into your defensive half ?

[Booney]

Introduce the basketball like pass-back rule

Since when do they have a pass backward rule in basketball ? Or do you mean once past the half way line you aren't allowed to go back into your defensive half ?

Correct, it's called a "pass back" if you take it back over the centre line when you have taken it forward into your own offensive half.

[MatteeG]

Introduce the basketball like pass-back rule

Since when do they have a pass backward rule in basketball ? Or do you mean once past the half way line you aren't allowed to go back into your defensive half ?

I reakon thats what Booney's getting at. "Cross Court"..

[Dirko]

Introduce the basketball like pass-back rule

Since when do they have a pass backward rule in basketball ? Or do you mean once past the half way line you aren't allowed to go back into your defensive half ?

Correct, it's called a "pass back" if you take it back over the centre line when you have taken it forward into your own offensive half.

Thought it was called Back Court violation, but anyhow.....They need to introduce that rule in the AFL too.....

[Booney]

Introduce the basketball like pass-back rule

Since when do they have a pass backward rule in basketball ? Or do you mean once past the half way line you aren't allowed to go back into your defensive half ?

Correct, it's called a "pass back" if you take it back over the centre line when you have taken it forward into your own offensive half.

Thought it was called Back Court violation, but anyhow.....They need to introduce that rule in the AFL too.....

There is no cross-field line in Aussie Rules...?

[Dirko]

There is no cross-field line in Aussie Rules...?

Can be if you paint one one it.....

Hell they **** around with every other rule why not give it a go....

[Footy Smart]

I'll start off with a serious one.

Why is it that some Government jobs that are not going to get filled by a new employee advertised ?

In the past couple of months, I've been to 3 interviews only to find out that the positions were taken internally and "already filled" .

Please spare me the hours and stress of completing the job and person specification profiles and travel expenses and just send me a letter saying I was not successful.
It's not only the expenses but the raising of peoples/families hopes and constant rejections that get people down.

It depends in the agreement with the unions. Some jobs need to be filled and will be done so internally but they will advertise because that is the requirement in the agreement. Weird I know but that is how some of it is done. Yes it does suck alot when this happens but that is how some places go about things.

Also if a redeployee is interested in the job and has expereince that fits the J&P criteria they are given the position over other applicants!

[whufc]

Leave soccer rules alone, the game is still principally the same as 100 years ago unlike the AFL which is currently a completly different sport to what was played when i was a teeneager in th 90's.

[Psyber]

I'll start off with a serious one.
Why is it that some Government jobs that are not going to get filled by a new employee advertised ?
In the past couple of months, I've been to 3 interviews only to find out that the positions were taken internally and "already filled" .
Please spare me the hours and stress of completing the job and person specification profiles and travel expenses and just send me a letter saying I was not successful.
It's not only the expenses but the raising of peoples/families hopes and constant rejections that get people down.

The bureaucracy is required to pretend they are seeking the best person for the job, despite the fact that they know they are going to appoint someone with the "right" political attitude, or for some other reason of expedience.
That's how in the 1980s a guy affiliated with the Victorian ALP who was sacked from a job in public housing in Victoria finished up as a Regional Manager in WorkCover SA.
He was later tried and gaoled in Victoria for the frauds he had committed over there.
The female WorkCover SA employees he had sexually harassed while here were glad to see him gone.
[ I can't say anything more specific, but I was involved in dealing with the WorkCover issues.]

[Lightning McQueen]

Mandarin.

[FlyingHigh]

Why people whinge about the heat, even on mild-warm summer days, and then treat their bodies like sh!t with what they eat and drink.

[Drop Bear]

Why computer gamers think using the term "noob" is a payout. I normally stick with old-fashioned words like "d*ckhead", "wanker", etc.

[FlyingHigh]

I'll start off with a serious one.
Why is it that some Government jobs that are not going to get filled by a new employee advertised ?
In the past couple of months, I've been to 3 interviews only to find out that the positions were taken internally and "already filled" .
Please spare me the hours and stress of completing the job and person specification profiles and travel expenses and just send me a letter saying I was not successful.
It's not only the expenses but the raising of peoples/families hopes and constant rejections that get people down.

The bureaucracy is required to pretend they are seeking the best person for the job, despite the fact that they know they are going to appoint someone with the "right" political attitude, or for some other reason of expedience.
That's how in the 1980s a guy affiliated with the Victorian ALP who was sacked from a job in public housing in Victoria finished up as a Regional Manager in WorkCover SA.
He was later tried and gaoled in Victoria for the frauds he had committed over there.
The female WorkCover SA employees he had sexually harassed while here were glad to see him gone.
[ I can't say anything more specific, but I was involved in dealing with the WorkCover issues.]

I see it as the public's call for transparency amongst government gone mad. For example, I used to work at a Local Council in a small country town, and when regulations were bought in regarding competitive tendering, we had to get three quotes for any plumbing work over a certain dollar value, even though there was only one plumber in town, and the next one a hundred km's away.

Then again, some football club constitutions require advertising the coaching position every year, regardless of results.

[lebron]

Females, abso-effing-lutely!

[Strawb]

Females, abso-effing-lutely!

+1

[Jase]

Why computer gamers think using the term "noob" is a payout. I normally stick with old-fashioned words like "d*ckhead", "wanker", etc.

I totally agree, though I still think the worst payout I have ever heard was actually directed at me, at Woodville oval...

I was giving one of the Eagles players some friendly advise regarding his kicking for goal when from out of nowhere, and completely unneccessarily I was assaulted with a "shut up ya minda" by an elderly female Eagles fan...

Oh the profanity....