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bedford said:
Had to put it bac 2 weeks due to car issues and finances
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:(

I'm going to be too scared to ask in another two weeks. I hope things take a turn for the better.

If you can't change the outside world, maybe work on changing your inner experience? They're are always people worse off than ourselves and some of them find a way genuinely to radiate warmth and love and find the good in whatever they have left. I don't mean to sound preachy (at all!) - this advice applies to myself as much as anyone else. It's good advice.

P.S. How have I never found this thread before?
 
Interesting comment by Pat Dangerfield on losing a Premiership tonight on Fox.

“If you only ever view winning a Premiership as the measure of a successful season, you’re going to be bloody lonely”.

Food for thought.
 

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The Blue Max said:
Interesting comment by Pat Dangerfield on losing a Premiership tonight on Fox.

“If you only ever view winning a Premiership as the measure of a successful season, you’re going to be bloody lonely”.

Food for thought.
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That's honestly a fantastic sports mentality to have and full credit to him for saying so. (I have genuinely not heard anything wrong about Dangerfield).

Genuinely wish I could have had that approach with my own sporting achievements (or life achievements), I was a state champion in opens, captained Victoria in teams, medaled at national teams twice (including breaking Victoria's 20 year men's sabre drought in teams with a bog performance in the quarter finals), oceanic teams for Australia bronze and represented Australia at Oceanics, world cup and Grand prix levels.

Yet when I think about my career I can only think of 5 odd days in pride, I feel ashamed I never got an individual nationals medal, I feel ashamed I wasn't as good as others and that younger fencers overtook me at the end, or that I never took my fitness/ diet seriously until I hit 30, or that I got lucky with the world cup selection and was probably not at that level in hindsight.

You train and give up so much to do sport yet you always get the "you're lucky to be athletic", or "Don't you wish you did a bigger sport?" Or "You weren't even that good" from others.

You know you can go to local level for fun, but feel bad for essentially beating up on people, but at state everyone is half your age and passing you gradually... You feel out of place.

So now doing a different sport at states this weekend but even at club level getting some clap about being "lucky" to be quick or have decent hand eye... Not like I trained on it for years or anything. And accidentally put myself under pressure if I succeed "it's to be expected, his an ex sports person" but if I fail I know I am going to be crippling in myself... Yet I feel like I have to fill the gap and enjoy competing (I know toxic).

Genuinely if my wife didn't have her first big fight this month (boxing) or require me to help with mortgage (we pay equal share and I love her) I probably would have done something to myself by now honestly have felt like I have lost my spark and an ashamed at some of my last behaviours.

I honestly feel sorry for AFL players and modern athletes (with the exception of Toby Greene) and they genuinely do not deserve the pressure or scrutiny they get out under.
 
PD’s view is very much that of most Olympians - coming 2nd is not losing - it’s being ‘2nd best in the world’.
 
The Blue Max said:
Interesting comment by Pat Dangerfield on losing a Premiership tonight on Fox.

“If you only ever view winning a Premiership as the measure of a successful season, you’re going to be bloody lonely”.

Food for thought.
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He makes an interesting point.
Most years there's usually 5 or 6 teams with a decent chance of winning the Premiership, so I don't necessarily agree even if I do get where he's coming from.

Altho making a granny or deep into finals can be considered a successful season especially for a team on the rise.
 
Ticky009 said:
I left it way too late. Julius Caesar by the Bell Shakespeare company at the Opera House. Sigh. Would have been a nifty treat on my holidays.
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Did you just miss tickets? Or have they already played?
 
Ticky009 said:
40%!!! Fracking hell that upsetting and depressing.

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Indeed it is. But the recent Tanner Bruhn circumstance got quite a lot of airplay & what happened there doesn’t help.

If anything, it’s the preceding two figures that I find most alarming and depressing.
 
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Bonz said:
Did you just miss tickets? Or have they already played?
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I just missed out on tickets

I AM GOING!! Thanks for that PM Bonz. Without the prompt I would have never worked it out.
 
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The King! said:
Anyone got any good news? Done something you are proud of early in 2026?
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I did 4 days of Year 6 camp and didn't tell any of the incompetent colleagues I work with they were a ****ing idiot. I'm proud of that.

In all seriousness though, the good news was I got to spend 4 days with a group of kids that are bloody amazing and leaves me confident the world will be in good hands in a few decades time.
 
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Mister B said:
I did 4 days of year 4 camp and didn't tell any of the incompetent colleagues I work with they were a ****ing idiot. I'm proud of that.

In all seriousness though, the good news was I got to spend 4 days with a group of kids that are bloody amazing and leaves me confident the world will be in good hands in a few decades time.
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That's great well done
 

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Mister B said:
How about you mate, you've got plenty to be proud of at the moment with your family.
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Me personally I finally got back in the 22 mins for 5k last week after battling different niggles and lack of ability ha ah, long way to go.

Kids have been smashing school lately which is always good :).

Work wise on higher duties currently hoping to make it permanent .
 
The King! said:
Me personally I finally got back in the 22 mins for 5k last week after battling different niggles and lack of ability ha ah, long way to go.

Kids have been smashing school lately which is always good :).

Work wise on higher duties currently hoping to make it permanent .
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Good stuff mate. Keep working on that time, bring it down fraction by fraction. I've been loving cheering on TheGoatBaron as he works through some personal movement goals at the moment he should be proud of.

The kids are crushing it! So good to see.

Well done on the higher duties. I've actually gone the other way in dropping back responsibility and that along with saying no to a few things I consider an achievement for someone who tends to struggle to say no even when being taken advantage of.
 
Mister B said:
Good stuff mate. Keep working on that time, bring it down fraction by fraction. I've been loving cheering on TheGoatBaron as he works through some personal movement goals at the moment he should be proud of.

The kids are crushing it! So good to see.

Well done on the higher duties. I've actually gone the other way in dropping back responsibility and that along with saying no to a few things I consider an achievement for someone who tends to struggle to say no even when being taken advantage of.
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Walked 4,000 steps 5 days in a row now. I’m gonna weigh myself tomorrow. I’m feeling better after two B12 shots. Wake up with no brainfog and agitation now.
 

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