Dave,
you wrote:
> > What I have noticed is ( and bugger Frisbee golf - who's interested in
> > that) is the hypnotic effect Aussie Rules can have on the satellite TV
> > screens in the pubs over here - this seems to be because nobody
> > understands what the 'Rules' are - so they forget all their pints and
> > stand fascinated and puzzled craning at the screens.
> >
> > Best
> >
> > Dave
Bugger and Aussie rules football go together, quite well. Of all the footie
codes in Aussie land, this is the MOST homoerotic. What do football players
really do in scrums? I once read a story, based on a reading of Foucault's
_History of Sexuality_, that rugby was invented by an elite British school,
called Rugby, to stop the school boys from buggering each other.
The mind boggles. What do real football watching men do? Perhaps Guattarri
and Deleuze are right when they write in _Anti-Oedipus_ we are all
heterosexual publicly and homosexual privately. (Sorry, can't cite the above
mentioned article, just a wavering memory from decades past.)
Chris Jones.
ps. . . it may have something to do with not understanding what the rules
are, perhaps?
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