Discussion manangatang's Diary

[manangatang]

​

Dear Diary,

Wow – what a first week of the season!

I’m sitting writing this in the cheese room at the Snow Dome. I like it because it’s quiet, and I can talk to the cheeses without feeling the searing judgement of the human soul.

I’ve taken a particular shining to a wheel of Comte, who I’ve named Simon. Dr. Schnitzerhund doesn't really seem to like him, but then again he wasn't a fan of Mr. Tebbitt at first. Now they're famous friends.

I mostly felt good over the last week, although there were a few bumps along the way.

What I’m thankful for:

Diary; this week was very exciting because I got to meet a new friend - tony. Tony’s mum seems to be pretty unsupportive with respects to his Xbox passion, but I do like that she bought him a PS3 in the end. He seems a standup guy and I hope to get to know him better.

It’s lovely to have new friends because it takes my mind off the hate-fuelling emotions of Season 28. Between tony, Simon and Mr. Tebbitt things are looking up.

I also found out that a poster that I thought had disappeared two seasons ago – The Jesus – was actually still around our community. Not only is he not dead, but it turns out he’s on my team! It’s really lovely to see old friends again.

I found some really great articles to read - one was called 'Enough Is Enough' and it was so good I read it twice.

And to top it off, my Qooty team won! We beat the Fighting Furies, who are a fairly scary bunch of people. They scared off my new rookie before he even had the chance to post. I guess that bit was sad, but I'm trying not to dwell on it as Tarks kicked lots of goals.

What made me sad:

I heard that a player for the Bombers breached some sacred rules, which seems pretty bad really. I wonder if the league has some legendary-style entities who could wade in and ensure the principals of these sacrosanct rules are upheld. Anyway, I'm sure that the person they call 'Admin' will punish them with the full force of the laws we spent the entire last season refining.

I also read somewhere that this ‘Admin’ person tried to cheat in a fantasy online community tipping competition. I don’t know if it’s true, but the mere thought of this made me cry for a little while. I had to have a roast beef sandwich to cheer up after that.

Goal-setting:

I got a really lovely note from a guy who sounds like he’d be particularly helpful at a scrap metal recycling centre.

​

It turns out he’d like me to make this thread a bit more like Ljp86's fixture, ladder and stats thread. Specifically, he’d like me to ensure I maintain staying power, stamina and persistence.

​

It’s a really lovely thought and cherished and constructive feedback. While these are the very same traits I have been asked to exhibit in my bedroom, I think I should set myself a similar goal for this diary.

So my pledge is to ensure that this thread lasts longer than the 'SFA Season 29 Fixture, Ladder and Statistics' thread. I need to prove that I have staying power in the hope that it gives me a much-needed self-confidence boost.

So, in all, I feel like I'm in a pretty good space. I've gotta go now, because it's time for me to sit and read jokes to Simon - he loves jokes.

Until next week,

- Tang.

 

[manangatang]

​

Dear Diary,

How are you? Good? Well that’s nice!

I’ve got SO MUCH to catch you up on from the past week.

On Thursday I went to visit Dr. Schnitzerhund for my weekly meeting. This week he did something a bit different. He made me look at some pictures and I had to say the first thing that came into my mind.

​

For this first one, I without hesitation yelled out ‘Two ladies dancing on a slightly overcast spring morn!’

​

The second one was even easier. Clearly two friendly forest creatures enjoying a delicious vegetarian tagine.

​

The third one was a little trickier. I could have gone a few different ways, but ended up opting for ‘the unslaked, yawning chasm of my existential dread’.

At this point I couldn’t help but notice that Dr. Schnitzerhund looked a little bit disappointed and wrote some things down in his book.

What I’m thankful for:

The week started off on a very exciting note. There’s this guy called Kennedy Parker – you might not have heard of him. But he said some nice things about my diary. I even got a Nunez - I'll use it wisely!

I learnt a new word this week from my friends at the Warriors. The word is ‘Morans’, which up until this week I thought was an old-school furniture brand and/or a Melbourne crime family. But these guys seem to use it in another way – I think it’s meant as a compliment as they were calling me and my teammates ‘morans’ all week!

I also saw someone write the word ‘shinninigens’ and it really brought a smile to my face.

What made me sad:

I walked into a room earlier this week and there was lots of fighting and arguing and emotions. The boss of the room kept surreptitiously placing pressure on people in order to get his own way. The people in the room had to make a decision and there was a lot of paranoia and arguing and talks of going to the pub BUT THERE WAS NO PUB.

I’m not sure if I want to go back into that room for a while because it made me feel like ripping my own brain out.

My match thread also made me sad - for two reasons. The less important reason was because my team lost (boo). The margin being so close to our [loss that the doctor doesn’t want me to write about] caused me to put my fist through Simon’s cheesy brain. He’s fine; I just taped over the hole with a picture of pantskyle.

The main reason I was sad is because Dinsdale posted a picture of a rack of hanging shirts. The shirt rack was some hyper-modern and free-standing setup, and the shirts looked really nicely pressed. He said that they weren’t his shirts, but I never did find out whose shirts they were, despite asking several times. I fear that this will just serve to feed my ‘anxiously disappointed monster’, as Dr. Schnitzerhund has labelled it.

Inspiration:

This week, against a tide of shouting and sadness, there was one little trooper that rose above it all. This guy may not have a head, but by gosh does he have a heart!

Headless just quietly went about creating some really neat media and his posting was such a giggle!

Perhaps - as we go through our week this week - we could all try to be just a little bit more like Headless.

 

[Tonga Bob]

View attachment 820199​

Dear Diary,

How are you? Good? Well that’s nice!

I’ve got SO MUCH to catch you up on from the past week.

On Thursday I went to visit Dr. Schnitzerhund for my weekly meeting. This week he did something a bit different. He made me look at some pictures and I had to say the first thing that came into my mind.

View attachment 820168
​

For this first one, I without hesitation yelled out ‘Two ladies dancing on a slightly overcast spring morn!’

View attachment 820160​

The second one was even easier. Clearly two friendly forest creatures enjoying a delicious vegetarian tagine.

View attachment 820165​

The third one was a little trickier. I could have gone a few different ways, but ended up opting for ‘the unslaked, yawning chasm of my existential dread’.

At this point I couldn’t help but notice that Dr. Schnitzerhund looked a little bit disappointed and wrote some things down in his book.

What I’m thankful for:

The week started off on a very exciting note. There’s this guy called Kennedy Parker – you might not have heard of him. But he said some nice things about my diary. I even got a Nunez - I'll use it wisely!

I learnt a new word this week from my friends at the Warriors. The word is ‘Morans’, which up until this week I thought was an old-school furniture brand and/or a Melbourne crime family. But these guys seem to use it in another way – I think it’s meant as a compliment as they were calling me and my teammates ‘morans’ all week!

I also saw someone write the word ‘shinninigens’ and it really brought a smile to my face.

What made me sad:

I walked into a room earlier this week and there was lots of fighting and arguing and emotions. The boss of the room kept surreptitiously placing pressure on people in order to get his own way. The people in the room had to make a decision and there was a lot of paranoia and arguing and talks of going to the pub BUT THERE WAS NO PUB.

I’m not sure if I want to go back into that room for a while because it made me feel like ripping my own brain out.

My match thread also made me sad - for two reasons. The less important reason was because my team lost (boo). The margin being so close to our [loss that the doctor doesn’t want me to write about] caused me to put my fist through Simon’s cheesy brain. He’s fine; I just taped over the hole with a picture of pantskyle.

The main reason I was sad is because Dinsdale posted a picture of a rack of hanging shirts. The shirt rack was some hyper-modern and free-standing setup, and the shirts looked really nicely pressed. He said that they weren’t his shirts, but I never did find out whose shirts they were, despite asking several times. I fear that this will just serve to feed my ‘anxiously disappointed monster’, as Dr. Schnitzerhund has labelled it.

Inspiration:

This week, against a tide of shouting and sadness, there was one little trooper that rose above it all. This guy may not have a head, but by gosh does he have a heart!

Headless just quietly went about creating some really neat media and his posting was such a giggle!

Perhaps - as we go through our week this week - we could all try to be just a little bit more like Headless.

those f***en shirts tho

 

[Nunez]

Ily

 

[Dinsdale]

those f***en shirts tho

I'm glad to see my post threw you guys into such a quandary that it affected you on gameday, every time I had the ball I could tell you were thing "wtf Shirts"

manangatang did the word shinninigens make you smile because it was misspelled so badly? Shenanigans is the correct spelling, sorry to point this out but its just the lack of attention to detail makes people look moranic.

See you guys in the finals.

 

[manangatang]

manangatang did the word shinninigens make you smile because it was misspelled so badly? Shenanigans is the correct spelling, sorry to point this out but its just the lack of attention to detail makes people look moranic.

OH HOW SILLY OF ME FOR NOT PICKING UP THAT I SPELLED THAT WORD INCORRECTLY. I AM A DUNDERHEAD.

Spoiler

 

[Dinsdale]

OH HOW SILLY OF ME FOR NOT PICKING UP THAT I SPELLED THAT WORD INCORRECTLY. I AM A DUNDERHEAD.

Spoiler

I know <sheesh.gif>, theres no need to shout in that font.

 

[manangatang]

​

Dear Diary,

This week was a bit of a dark week for me.

Our Qooty team had to play the [team that the Doctor told me not to name] and it brought up quite a few surprising emotions for me.

In our meeting this week, Dr. Schnitzerhund asked me to draw my feelings. I haven’t done anything like that before, but he told me to draw what I envisage my happy place would look like.

​

I thought it was pretty OK, but Dr. Schnitzerhund didn’t seem too happy with it.

In other news, it turns out that even if you tape a picture over the hole with a sexy picture, a wheel of Comte just doesn’t last when you punch a hole through it. My dear, dear friend Simon is gone.

It’s OK though, because I went back into the cheese room at Mt. Buller and got to talking to a pretty friendly wheel of Gruyere, who told me that Simon wasn’t actually that nice to the other cheeses anyway. Turns out he was a bit of a curd.

So I think I’ll call my new friend Simone.

What I’m thankful for:

The very same scrap metal compactor I referred to in my second diary entry looked to have had a pretty tough week - I think everyone believed that he really wanted to leave his club (shock). But I think the whole thing was really just a bit of a giggle because he kept calling himself ‘Crushy’ and people didn't seem to believe he really wanted to go in the end. What a relief!

I really like WaynesWorld19 – sometimes I don’t really know if I understand what he’s saying, but something he said this week made me laugh and laugh and laugh.

​

Times valuable pheasant sounds like a great name for a font!

Also, we won another game of Qooty, which is nice. The [team that the Doctor told me not to name] are a bit strange to share a match thread with, but 38 scoring shots helped!

What made me sad:

There seems to be a lot of secrets in the league at the moment, and this has me worried. I know I’ve reached out to a lot of people and exposed my deepest, darkest fears and feelings. Now I’m wondering if they’ll be laid bare to the public. @Loonerty‘s thread about Tony Lynn 15 sounded particularly worrisome, if what I've heard is true.

I was also sad to see that The Filth Wizard and Noobz0r had a fight in public this week. I don’t even know why they were fighting, but I must admit that I cried several times about the whole sorry affair. Dr. Schnitzerhund says that when two beautiful, loving souls clash like this, he thinks that they usually get tired of fighting and just – for once – want to be fought for.

Learning of the week:

Diary; this week provided me with a steep learning curve. I have taken on a new job around Sweet.

The pay is shithouse and the work itself is questionable, but I guess it’s something new, right?

So basically what they have done is turned my name a bright blue colour (it’s a bit gaudy, honestly) and given me a view behind the curtains and into the unseemly depths of the league.

I am learning that many of the people that post around here are just plain weird and are probably not the kind of people I should be sharing my diary with. Guess I’ll just keep an eye on them.

 

[Noobz0r]

Sorry that mummy and daddy were fighting, mang.

 

[manangatang]

Sorry that mummy and daddy were fighting, mang.

This head movie makes my eyes rain.

 

[The Filth Wizard]

Sorry that mummy and daddy were fighting, mang.

I'm over this. Change your signature.

 

[Elton Johns Wig]

 

[Noobz0r]

I'm over this. Change your signature.

 

[The Filth Wizard]

We're back as friends.

 

[Noobz0r]

We're back as friends.

friends...

 

[manangatang]

We're back as friends.

This diary has magical healing powers!

 

[Ned_Flanders]

View attachment 824224​

Dear Diary,

This week was a bit of a dark week for me.

Our Qooty team had to play the [team that the Doctor told me not to name] and it brought up quite a few surprising emotions for me.

In our meeting this week, Dr. Schnitzerhund asked me to draw my feelings. I haven’t done anything like that before, but he told me to draw what I envisage my happy place would look like.

View attachment 824225​

I thought it was pretty OK, but Dr. Schnitzerhund didn’t seem too happy with it.

In other news, it turns out that even if you tape a picture over the hole with a sexy picture, a wheel of Comte just doesn’t last when you punch a hole through it. My dear, dear friend Simon is gone.

It’s OK though, because I went back into the cheese room at Mt. Buller and got to talking to a pretty friendly wheel of Gruyere, who told me that Simon wasn’t actually that nice to the other cheeses anyway. Turns out he was a bit of a curd.

So I think I’ll call my new friend Simone.

What I’m thankful for:

The very same scrap metal compactor I referred to in my second diary entry looked to have had a pretty tough week - I think everyone believed that he really wanted to leave his club (shock). But I think the whole thing was really just a bit of a giggle because he kept calling himself ‘Crushy’ and people didn't seem to believe he really wanted to go in the end. What a relief!

I really like WaynesWorld19 – sometimes I don’t really know if I understand what he’s saying, but something he said this week made me laugh and laugh and laugh.

View attachment 824222 ​

Times valuable pheasant sounds like a great name for a font!

Also, we won another game of Qooty, which is nice. The [team that the Doctor told me not to name] are a bit strange to share a match thread with, but 38 scoring shots helped!

What made me sad:

There seems to be a lot of secrets in the league at the moment, and this has me worried. I know I’ve reached out to a lot of people and exposed my deepest, darkest fears and feelings. Now I’m wondering if they’ll be laid bare to the public. @Loonerty‘s thread about Tony Lynn 15 sounded particularly worrisome, if what I've heard is true.

I was also sad to see that The Filth Wizard and Noobz0r had a fight in public this week. I don’t even know why they were fighting, but I must admit that I cried several times about the whole sorry affair. Dr. Schnitzerhund says that when two beautiful, loving souls clash like this, he thinks that they usually get tired of fighting and just – for once – want to be fought for.

Learning of the week:

Diary; this week provided me with a steep learning curve. I have taken on a new job around Sweet.

The pay is shithouse and the work itself is questionable, but I guess it’s something new, right?

So basically what they have done is turned my name a bright blue colour (it’s a bit gaudy, honestly) and given me a view behind the curtains and into the unseemly depths of the league.

I am learning that many of the people that post around here are just plain weird and are probably not the kind of people I should be sharing my diary with. Guess I’ll just keep an eye on them.

Yes! The hate is swelling in you now. Take the goon. Use it. I am unarmed. Strike me down with it. Give in to your Fury. With each passing moment, you make yourself more a Fighting Fury.

 

[manangatang]

​

Dear Diary,

After last week’s sadness and troubles, it was nice to spend more time around The Snow Dome with our friends the Hawks.

During the week, Dr. Schnitzerhund recommended I employ some positive mindfulness techniques to help me learn a little more about myself and who I want to be. He wanted me to think about my ‘best possible self’.

Here’s what he asked me to do:

• Take a few minutes to imagine that - in 1 year’s time - you are expressing your best possible self strongly. Visualise your best possible self in a way that is very pleasing to you and that you are interested in.
• Imagine in vivid detail that you have worked hard and succeeded at accomplishing your life goals. You might think of this as reaching your full potential. Don’t think of unrealistic fantasies, but rather, things that are positive and attainable within reason.
• Write about the details of your best possible self.

Here’s what I wrote…

​

The Doctor told me to put redacted in some places and not to really tell anyone, but he did say he would tell 'the authorities', so that's pretty cool!

Oh diary - Simone and I are thinking of taking our relationship to the next level! She’s a really fine wheel of cheese and I was thinking of asking her to a date. Faith No More are touring Rod Paver Arena shortly, so I thought that would be a good thing to do with her.

Note before I forget: check that it’s OK to bring a whole wheel of cheese to a concert.

What I’m thankful for:

One way of looking at the walking steel compactor's current predicament is to wallow in grief for his lack of team. However, I think about this differently. It seems like Metalcrusher will now get a lot more free time to crush metal while he waits to qualify as a DFA. This is great, because I think a lot of have a real problem with processing of recyclables. His ability to crush metal will be very helpful for our environment. Plus, he doesn't have to play for a team he didn't seem to like!

I had a hearty guffaw this week as I read through some media articles in my spare time. Once again, community leader WaynesWorld19 gave me the chance to have a real giggle – he’s such a wag!

​

Learn't is a GREAT word and totally supports Wayne's accusation of this other person being as dumb as dogshit!

Our week with the Hawks was very special – they are a lovely bunch of people really. Letting us win the match was great, and NaturalDisaster's brand of aggressive banter really made me feel warm inside. I’m really glad they got a completely brand new to Bigfooty and the SFA poster to join them!

What made me sad:

I was reading a very interesting piece of media from my friend Headless and then came across a post that made me cry real, wet tears.

​

I’m not sure if somebody took a poo in Kennedy Parker's breakfast cereal, but comments like that tear at the very fabric of this league.

I keep hearing about so-called White Knights and it got me thinking. Are there no Knights of colour? Are we making important minority knights feel bad by just using this derivative and exclusionary terminology?

I also got sad thinking about the time Branchy got punched in the face. Poor Branchy.

Learning of the week:

I learnt a new word this week Diary. It’s ‘doxxing’. It’s a pretty funny word, isn’t it?

The dictionary of Google tells me that this is where someone searches for and publishes private or identifying information about another person.

Now - I have no idea why somebody would do this, but it just feels a little bit mean. I feel very sad about the whole thing.

So now I’ve resolved to cease my intricate plan of publishing my list of people I most want to cuddle. I think publishing phone numbers, names and photos of close family and pets might qualify as doxxing, so I’ll err on the side of caution. It's a shame because the last 4-5 months of cyberstalking will go sadly unrewarded.

Until next week!

- Tang

 

[Dinsdale]

The font is better but why is it all in bold?

Sent by shoephone via Tapatoe

 

[manangatang]

The font is better but why is it all in bold?

Sent by shoephone via Tapatoe

Both the font and the type weight have remained exactly the same throughout this thread.

Are you on drugs?

 

[Headless]

Better font colour this week, mang. Good change.

 

[Barrybran]

I think publishing phone numbers, names and photos of close family and pets might qualify as doxxing

So many pets doxxed this week. I want to steal cuddle them all.

 

[manangatang]

So many pets doxxed this week. I want to steal cuddle them all.

It’s true Barry. The pets are the real but silent victims here.

 

[Barrybran]

So many pets doxxed this week. I want to steal cuddle them all.

Proper Gander should be ashamed of herself but so very proud because she's produced the best Sweet FA thread this season

 

[Proper Gander]

Proper Gander should be ashamed of herself but so very proud because she's produced the best Sweet FA thread this season

Hey Headless - get in here for a moment