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Hopefully I can catch it in an Aussie bar here in Bangkok, so can anyone provide the details? Thanks.

Main Event. Undercard starts at 6 pm.

oliver are you telling me you can get foxtels main event channel in thailand?

ps. main event are screening jones-calzaghe full fight as we speak and are gonna be showing heaps of jones fights during the next week

adamheight wrote:oliver are you telling me you can get foxtels main event channel in thailand?

ps. main event are screening jones-calzaghe full fight as we speak and are gonna be showing heaps of jones fights during the next week

I'm not sure but there are few Aussie bars around Bangkok so I'm sure they get an Aussie sports channel, or at least a channel that carries Aussie sports.

6pm? Bummer... that would be about 2-3pm in Bangkok, when I'm working :( Even if the main event isn't 'til 8 or 9 NSW, I tend to work later on Wednesdays.

oliverfennell wrote:

adamheight wrote:oliver are you telling me you can get foxtels main event channel in thailand?

ps. main event are screening jones-calzaghe full fight as we speak and are gonna be showing heaps of jones fights during the next week

I'm not sure but there are few Aussie bars around Bangkok so I'm sure they get an Aussie sports channel, or at least a channel that carries Aussie sports.

6pm? Bummer... that would be about 2-3pm in Bangkok, when I'm working :( Even if the main event isn't 'til 8 or 9 NSW, I tend to work later on Wednesdays.

do the australian thing and throw a sickie

I have known some of these Wednesday night cards to go on until after midnight.

Brute wrote:I have known some of these Wednesday night cards to go on until after midnight.

Yeah but there's nothing worse than a huge card with mundine fighting a can at the end. At least here we'll get 2 great fighters going at it at the end of the night. Plus I got Thursday and Friday off! :)

Surely you're not counting Gainer as one of these prospective great fights??

adamheight wrote:

Brute wrote:I have known some of these Wednesday night cards to go on until after midnight.

Yeah but there's nothing worse than a huge card with mundine fighting a can at the end. At least here we'll get 2 great fighters going at it at the end of the night. Plus I got Thursday and Friday off! :)

oliverfennell wrote:Surely you're not counting Gainer as one of these prospective great fights??

He said two great fighters. I think most would imagine he was talking about Roy Jones Jr and Danny Green. How ever I understand you definitely wouldn't say Danny was great because he is Australian and you probably wouldn't say Roy is great because he isn't British...

Marlin wrote:

oliverfennell wrote:Surely you're not counting Gainer as one of these prospective great fights??

He said two great fighters. I think most would imagine he was talking about Roy Jones Jr and Danny Green. How ever I understand you definitely wouldn't say Danny was great because he is Australian and you probably wouldn't say Roy is great because he isn't British...

I heard on the British forum the other day that apparently Haye's career has already surpased RJJ's.

Marlin wrote:

oliverfennell wrote:Surely you're not counting Gainer as one of these prospective great fights??

He said two great fighters. I think most would imagine he was talking about Roy Jones Jr and Danny Green. How ever I understand you definitely wouldn't say Danny was great because he is Australian and you probably wouldn't say Roy is great because he isn't British...

OK, calm down, I simply misread the word "fighters" for "fights". Please don't tell me you got offended that I criticised Gainer, who is accepted the world over (except when he's fighting an Australian) as one of the most boring boxers in the world.

Anyway, I know you get riled up when I don't support your ideology that every Aussie fighter, ever, was the best, ever, but your usual retort about me and British fighters is actually wrong. While naturally I support my countrymen, I am capable of forming balanced opinions about them, and believe it or not, I have been known to criticise them. While an Aussie fan criticising an Aussie fighter seems to be about as taboo as a North Korean criticising Kim Jong-il, such restrictions do not exist in the United Kingdom.

So, by all means engage me in debate, but give it up already with sarcy comments about me loving all British fighters just because they're British, because it simply isn't true.

Then again, you could always just tell me to fck off, which seems to be about the extent of your debating skills aside from the one above. As well as definitively putting me in my place, it will also earn you a laughing emoticon from Toppity.

now now lads. But do think you should take toppitys advice OF and chuck a sickie.Just rock up clutching your stomach and then run to the toilet every 5 minutes.While there run on the spot for 5 minutes to build up a sweat. after 1/2 an hour of this you will get the rest of the day off for sure........well perhaps.Would work here

oliverfennell wrote:

Marlin wrote:

oliverfennell wrote:Surely you're not counting Gainer as one of these prospective great fights??

He said two great fighters. I think most would imagine he was talking about Roy Jones Jr and Danny Green. How ever I understand you definitely wouldn't say Danny was great because he is Australian and you probably wouldn't say Roy is great because he isn't British...

OK, calm down, I simply misread the word "fighters" for "fights". Please don't tell me you got offended that I criticised Gainer, who is accepted the world over (except when he's fighting an Australian) as one of the most boring boxers in the world.

Anyway, I know you get riled up when I don't support your ideology that every Aussie fighter, ever, was the best, ever, but your usual retort about me and British fighters is actually wrong. While naturally I support my countrymen, I am capable of forming balanced opinions about them, and believe it or not, I have been known to criticise them. While an Aussie fan criticising an Aussie fighter seems to be about as taboo as a North Korean criticising Kim Jong-il, such restrictions do not exist in the United Kingdom.

So, by all means engage me in debate, but give it up already with sarcy comments about me loving all British fighters just because they're British, because it simply isn't true.

Then again, you could always just tell me to fck off, which seems to be about the extent of your debating skills aside from the one above. As well as definitively putting me in my place, it will also earn you a laughing emoticon from Toppity.

By the way, Ollie, when does Darren Barker risk his unbeaten record on a World Title challenge? Isn't it getting about that time?

I thought the "whining pommy bastards" label went out of fashion in the 1980's?

I'm British but I've lived in Brisbane for many years and never noticed any overt anti-Brit sentiment.

Is it a secret Aussie "men's business" thing? Perhaps my Aussie mates all have a dig at me in the boozer while I'm away from the table having a piss!

We just enjoy a bit of fun at Oliver's expense. No harm meant.

Collins2000 wrote:I thought the "whining pommy bastards" label went out of fashion in the 1980's?

I'm British but I've lived in Brisbane for many years and never noticed any overt anti-Brit sentiment.

Is it a secret Aussie "men's business" thing? Perhaps my Aussie mates all have a dig at me in the boozer while I'm away from the table having a piss!

I read recently that Oz is still the #1 destination of people arriving from England permanently. 68% were English citizens migrating, and the other 32% are........Australians coming back to Oz

I didn't realise you were here. How long have you been out here?

Brute wrote:We just enjoy a bit of fun at Oliver's expense. No harm meant.

I know. I was just giving him a bit of moral support and letting him know it's only a bit of internet banter.

bollox wrote:

Collins2000 wrote:I thought the "whining pommy bastards" label went out of fashion in the 1980's?

I'm British but I've lived in Brisbane for many years and never noticed any overt anti-Brit sentiment.

Is it a secret Aussie "men's business" thing? Perhaps my Aussie mates all have a dig at me in the boozer while I'm away from the table having a piss!

I read recently that Oz is still the #1 destination of people arriving from England permanently. 68% were English citizens migrating, and the other 32% are........Australians coming back to Oz

I didn't realise you were here. How long have you been out here?

If they brought back the assisted passages there would be a million Brits coming out every year, I reckon!

I actually came here in 1968 as a kid on the Angelina Lauro.

We lived in the immigration hostel at Point Walter in WA.

But my old man hated Autralia. He found Australians to be boorish, apparently. Can you believe that?

He just didn't "get" them and was constantly whining about the UK. The sort of bloke they coined the "whinging pom" term for.

Anyway, he got his way and dragged us back to Rotherham.

Later, in early 1990's , when I was married and had 4 young kids, I got the chance to come back with work.

Best days work I ever did!

Funny stuff. Your dad man reminds me of a couple of characters from an old Norman Wisdom film. His family would get down to Torquay every year for a holiday and they'd get the same caravan every year and end up meeting up with the same family every year. Norman's character would go get himself a pint at night and stand at the bar with the husband from the other family, and they'd have the following conversation. Every night:

"bit rainy today"

"aye"

"not a bad pint though"

"aye"

"aye"

"aye"

"aye"

I spent a couple of years 'over there' about 20 years ago. Went over out of boredom and ended up having the time of my life. These days I understand a hell of a lot of Aussies go there specifically to make money (accountant types). Completely the wrong reason

p.s. I once saw a woman walking down Talgarth Road in West Kensington wearing a Tesco's shopping bag over her head (I kid you not). Please explain

bollox wrote: Funny stuff. Your dad man reminds me of a couple of characters from an old Norman Wisdom film. His family would get down to Torquay every year for a holiday and they'd get the same caravan every year and end up meeting up with the same family every year. Norman's character would go get himself a pint at night and stand at the bar with the husband from the other family, and they'd have the following conversation. Every night:

"bit rainy today"

"aye"

"not a bad pint though"

"aye"

"aye"

"aye"

"aye"

I spent a couple of years 'over there' about 20 years ago. Went over out of boredom and ended up having the time of my life. These days I understand a hell of a lot of Aussies go there specifically to make money (accountant types). Completely the wrong reason

p.s. I once saw a woman walking down Talgarth Road in West Kensington wearing a Tesco's shopping bag over her head (I kid you not). Please explain

That's my old man to a tee. Except it was Whitby every year, same boarding house, same people, same banal 'conversation'.

Don't know about the woman with the bag over her head but it reminded me of a joke for some reason.

An english tourist is driving through the outback and stops at a pub.

He is at the bar having a beer when he realises he need a dump.

He trundles off but the toilet door is locked and there is a sign saying "Not in use".

He goes back and the barman motions him towards a dark area to the back the room.

Getting there he finds two piles of crap and some rolls of paper. He looks over at the barman who gives him the thumbs up and then points at the bigger pile of crap.

So the guy drops his drawers and does what he is busting to do.

As he is doing up his belt, another patron wanders over and makes as if to take a shite over the smaller pile.

Suddenly the barman leaps over the bar, grabs the 2nd guy, yanks up his shorts and throws him out the front door.

The englishman looks quizzically at the barman who says "I've told that guy before not to use the ladies facilities!"

oliverfennell wrote:

Marlin wrote:

oliverfennell wrote:Surely you're not counting Gainer as one of these prospective great fights??

He said two great fighters. I think most would imagine he was talking about Roy Jones Jr and Danny Green. How ever I understand you definitely wouldn't say Danny was great because he is Australian and you probably wouldn't say Roy is great because he isn't British...

OK, calm down, I simply misread the word "fighters" for "fights". Please don't tell me you got offended that I criticised Gainer, who is accepted the world over (except when he's fighting an Australian) as one of the most boring boxers in the world.

Anyway, I know you get riled up when I don't support your ideology that every Aussie fighter, ever, was the best, ever, but your usual retort about me and British fighters is actually wrong. While naturally I support my countrymen, I am capable of forming balanced opinions about them, and believe it or not, I have been known to criticise them. While an Aussie fan criticising an Aussie fighter seems to be about as taboo as a North Korean criticising Kim Jong-il, such restrictions do not exist in the United Kingdom.

So, by all means engage me in debate, but give it up already with sarcy comments about me loving all British fighters just because they're British, because it simply isn't true.

Then again, you could always just tell me to fck off, which seems to be about the extent of your debating skills aside from the one above. As well as definitively putting me in my place, it will also earn you a laughing emoticon from Toppity.

I just don't understand your infatuation with coming into the Aussie forum "sharing your balanced opinion" slagging off every Aussie fighter every chance you get. If you don't like our fight scene why bother following it? Why do you expect us not to support our fighters? We know most of them are domestic level fighters and we enoy the sport domestically.

I can only imagine you like coming in here to rile us up and bait us. That is your M O in here. Just like your M O in the other sports forum is to let everyone know how wonderful and well travelled are and how that clearly means you, and your opinion, is superior to every one else.

Marlin, when you say you enjoy the sport domestically does that include the bouts on the Mundine undercards? For every decent well-matched fight there seems to be 5 blatant mismatches involving local guys bashing up pathetic Fijians and Thais who spend the first 90 seconds picking the spot on the canvas where they are gonna flop from the first half-decent punch.

To me, that isn't doing any good for anyone.

I am genuinely interested in discussing this.

Collins2000 wrote:

Brute wrote:We just enjoy a bit of fun at Oliver's expense. No harm meant.

I know. I was just giving him a bit of moral support and letting him know it's only a bit of internet banter.

Back in the days of the ten quid migrant an Englishman decided he had made a mistake in moving to Australia. The locals refused to treat him like the Duke of Kent.

He sells everything he has and goes down to a shipping office to buy a one way ticket back to Blighty. Girl in the office counts up his money and says "You are sixpence short."

Englishman goes out into the street and sees a drunk coming the other way. Bails the drunk up and says "Excuse me sir, do you think you could let me have sixpence so I can go back to England? "

Drunk suddenly brightens up and says "Shit! Is that all it takes? Here's two bob, take three of your pommy mates with you! "