Things that are skully's fault

Phil Hughes playing for the Pears next year - Skully's fault all day long.

Sucked in, Bas.

the fact that for the 1st time ever I have sympathy for Basil - skully's fault

Basil wrote:Phil Hughes playing for the Pears next year - Skully's fault all day long.

He'll score so many runs they'll change their name to the Pairs to honour him

and of course fuse is now going to play the whole season....skully it would seem does have a lot to answer for

I don't believe in an interventionist skully

Skullys fault that the bloke who hit TUSQH didnt hit him harder


DUMPED Aussie cricketer Phil Hughes says he was not the instigator of a fracas that broke out at the Star Hotel in Macksville on Boxing Day, with the axed Test opener claiming he was punched by a complete stranger who was giving him "lip".

A witness told Confidential that Hughes, who spent the day at the Bowraville Races before arriving at the Star Hotel, was involved in a dust-up with another patron on Monday night after the two men exchanged some heated words.

They were then embroiled in a scuffle about 7pm before the mystery man, who has not been indentified, was escorted from the premises by pub security.

Hughes' manager James Henderson said that, while there was an altercation, Hughes was not the instigator.

"Phil was with a big group of friends and family and they were approached by another guy who had had a bit to drink and was giving (Hughes) some lip," Henderson said."The man who punched Phil wasn't with his group at all. He just came at Phil and hit him for whatever reason and he was later escorted from the premises.

Hughes lost his shirt in the melee but went home to change into a replacement before returning to the hotel to continue drinking.

"Phil was not escorted from the hotel. He came back after changing his shirt and stayed on until it closed just after 9pm," Henderson said.

The incident was not reported to police. A pub spokesman claimed: "It's the first I've heard of it."

skully is actually in the area ...

lardbucket wrote:skully is actually in the area ...

Explains the weak punch.

Went past that pub twice in the last week. Would've happily stood in for the weak twat that swatted Fuse. Woulda done Bails proud.

I heard the Chief has "flagged up" the skullymobile ...skully's fault of course ...


Drivers with Aussie flags on their cars 'more racist' research shows

by: Todd Cardy From: PerthNow January 24, 2012
RACISM: Research from the UWA suggests people who fly Australia car flags are more racist. Picture: PerthNow PerthNow


DRIVERS who fly Australian flags on their cars to celebrate Australia Day are "more racist" than people who do not, according to research from UWA.

University of Western Australia sociologist and anthropologist Professor Farida Fozdar and a team of assistants surveyed 513 people at the Australia Day fireworks on Perth's Swan River foreshore last year to find out whether there was a link between car flag flying and racist attitudes.

Professor Fozdar said the team found that of the 102 people surveyed on the day who had attached flags to their cars for the national holiday, 43 per cent agreed with the statement that the now-abandoned “White Australia Policy” had “saved Australia from many problems experienced by other countries”.

She said that only 25 per cent of people who did not fly Australia car flags agreed with the statement.

Under the “White Australia Policy”, which was non-official government policy until after World War II, non-Europeans were barred from migrating to Australia.

The survey also found that a total of 56 per cent of people with car flags feared for Australian culture and believed that the country’s most important values were in danger, compared with 34 per cent of non-flag flyers.

Thirty-five per cent of flag flyers felt that people had to be born in Australia to be truly Australian, compared with 22 per cent of non-flag flyers. Twenty-three per cent of flag flyers believed that true Australians had to be Christian, while 18 per cent of non-flaggers agreed with the statement.

An overwhelming 91 per cent of people with car flags agreed that people who move to Australia should adopt Australian values, compared with 76 per cent of non-flaggers.

A total of 55 per cent of flaggers believed migrants should leave their old ways behind, compared with 30 per cent of non-flaggers.

“What I found interesting is that many people didn't really have much to say about why they chose to fly car flags or not," Professor Fozdar said.

"Many felt strongly patriotic about it - and for some, this was quite a racist or exclusionary type of patriotism - but it wasn't a particularly conscious thing for many.”

The research backs up an opinion piece from PhD student Michael Britton, who has lectured in history and politics at Curtin University and Notre Dame University, which argues that flying an Australian flag on a car may actually be a sign of disrespect for the country.

Did they actually get paid for that?

if they did ...that's skully's fault too

skully is to blame for this thread lurking at the bottom of page 8....as well as all manner of things