What's mildly amusing you today?

[squirell nutkin]

The MIL is arriving today for her birthday visit and she just called to say she was leaving. She called just as "Lucifer" by the Alan Parsons Project began playing.

Talk about an "At Bat" song!

[ZenGum]

Mildly amusing me today (although I suspect it will wear thin over the next few weeks) is the media hysteria surrounding the Melbourne Storm.
The Storm are a rugby league club, founded in the mid-1990s as part of the superleague shennanigans.
Turns out they have been deliberately cheating the salary cap. Careful, calculated, deliberate cheating; two sets of books, hidden in a secret file in the secret safe, kind of cheating. Been at it for years.
Now that it has come out, they have been thoroughly spanked: stripped of two premierships, three minor premierships, all associated prize money (well over $1 mil), fined $500,000, stripped of all this years points, and not eligible to win any points for the rest of this year.
Ouch. But still, they were deliberately cheating. It is quite possible that the club will collapse under this and never rise again.
I find it amusing for two reasons. The whole club was born when aggressive business muscled its way into sport. Now folks seem startled that they were doing business just like, well, business. No kiddin?
The other source of amusement is how the media are in a tizz about it all as if it really mattered. The Biggest Scandal in Australian Sport Evah!!!
Yawn.
Given what rugby league players get up to (steroids, drugs, drunkenness, public violence, rape, gang rape ...) this is really quite mild.

[xoxoxoBruce]

That's because you're not a fan. Imagine what LJ would do if it happened to the Cowboys.

[Griff]

Originally Posted by ZenGum

Given what rugby league players get up to (steroids, drugs, drunkenness, public violence, rape, gang rape ...) this is really quite mild.

American football has similar problems. I find the disconnects startling. The team I follow got rid of a guy for smoking dope but have so far hung on to a guy who is an unproven but obvious serial rapist.

[DanaC]

Yehbut....drugs are bad, mmmkay?

It never ceases to amaze me that people (by which I of course mean the media :P) seem regularly to be, as Zen suggests, surprised when a business enters a previously unbusinesslike area and then that area starts to become businesslike. With all that this implies.

We recently had a media storm of our own that, frankly, surprised me somewhat. The captain of the England team (football) was found to have serially cheated on his wife. And in particular that one of the women he cheated with was the partner of a team member. Reaching absurd proportions when people (by which I mean the press and a few particularly vocal individuals) began calling for his removal or resignation as Captain, not on the grounds of poor captaincy (arguably fucking a team mate's girl could be considered at the very least an unforgivable faux pas); but, rather on the grounds of immorality. He ended up stepping down from the role.

Quite aside from the irritation of various public figures waxing lyrical about the moral role of a captain and footballer; having every red top paper salivating over the details of the affairs, as aided by helpful ex-conquests in shag-and-tell exclusives, was unpleasant. The exclusives I'd have expected; but the moral panic seemed a little over the top:P

[ZenGum]

Wait, Tiger Woods plays football for England too? Or should England be "En-gland"?

Yeah, the star player and Captain of an Aussie rules team had a similar situation, being sprung bonking the vice-captain's wife in the toilet at a pre-season party. Had to resign, but came back the next year for a different team.

[Shawnee123]

I just found out I will be supervising the new position we are interviewing for today.

Ha! I said, when I took this job, yeah I don't want to be in charge of anyone anymore.

It won't be bad. I feel like I should ask for more cash.

[HungLikeJesus]

Just make sure you teach them wrong - for your own amusement.

[Shawnee123]

I shall teach them to drape their countenances in the finest of pancakes.

[Shawnee123]

We could skip this afternoon's interview: this first woman was awesome! The director and asst director thought so too. The afternoon interview is with a current employee from another office on campus. She will really need to BRING IT.

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by ZenGum

Mildly amusing me today (although I suspect it will wear thin over the next few weeks) is the media hysteria surrounding the Melbourne Storm.
The Storm are a rugby league club, founded in the mid-1990s as part of the superleague shennanigans.
Turns out they have been deliberately cheating the salary cap. Careful, calculated, deliberate cheating; two sets of books, hidden in a secret file in the secret safe, kind of cheating. Been at it for years.
Now that it has come out, they have been thoroughly spanked: stripped of two premierships, three minor premierships, all associated prize money (well over $1 mil), fined $500,000, stripped of all this years points, and not eligible to win any points for the rest of this year.
Ouch. But still, they were deliberately cheating. It is quite possible that the club will collapse under this and never rise again.
I find it amusing for two reasons. The whole club was born when aggressive business muscled its way into sport. Now folks seem startled that they were doing business just like, well, business. No kiddin?
The other source of amusement is how the media are in a tizz about it all as if it really mattered. The Biggest Scandal in Australian Sport Evah!!!
Yawn.
Given what rugby league players get up to (steroids, drugs, drunkenness, public violence, rape, gang rape ...) this is really quite mild.

That'll teach you to follow or care about League...

Should have been following Union.

[ZenGum]

Hey, I never said I cared about it. It was just in the news.

But yes, Union clubs are much better scandal-wise. I wouldn't be surprised if they are cheating in some way, but they'll be clever and discrete enough to not get caught.

[Shawnee123]

I'm amused.

[Clodfobble]

One of my corporate contracts has picked up a client that has offices in the UK, and would like their voiceover audio for those modules to be done with a British accent.

But they really don't want to deal with finding new voicetalent if they don't have to. So they told me to go ahead and record a sample and see if the client is convinced.

I have absolutely no idea if it'll fly. I haven't practiced a serious accent since high school theatre. It's gonna be nuts if I get recurring work off this.

[HungLikeJesus]

I hope you'll post a sample.