The Letter "S" (part 2)

Don't worry, you don't really need to prepare anything for tomorrow - I'll be doing the presentation myself.

1. Sport

"Australian sport deserves quality piss taking or none at all."

I audibly awww-ed when I saw that quotation ;-)

Australians are a nation of active people and they do a lot of sports but it doesn't mean that they are going to worship their sportsmen and sportswomen blindly. They always retain a healthy dose of irony and humour.

Asked about cricket, they would say something like that:

Cricket is a game that moves about as fast as a Jamaican on valium. It involves watching 11 men in white clothes stand around a field for a few hours, then break to have lunch, stand around, then break again to have a cup of tea, stand around, then go home. The same thing occurs for another 4 days, and then after all that effort, both teams call the whole thing a draw...
Remember, "Australian sport deserves quality piss taking or none at all." So true ;-)


Australians pride themselves on inventing football. That's correct. Football. (see the link under science). However "footy" may mean different games in different states. More on that here.

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2. Talking about sport, we can't possibly forget about Sydney 2000 Olympic Games.















But the main point is to be able to have fun.


3. Science and the inventive Australian mind.

Have a look at the long list of Aussie inventions.


4. Subcultures

A short preview of what we'll be watching in Film Club next week.