Blog : label 'sport'

This is not a new thought by any stretch of the imagination. Those that get paid the most are, generally, those that provide way less value to everyday hard working people than the value provided by actual everyday hard working people. Feudal, maybe? Top heavy, by a long shot. Sports people, meh Actors, meh CEOs, meh Politicians, mostly meh Finance dealers, absolutely meh Corporate Lawyers, fucking meh to the max Top health practitioners are paid a lot and I can go with that. Here's a list Google spat out (US dollars) Law Firm Partner (Elite International / Corporate): $350,000 – $2,000,000+ CEO / Managing Director: $250,000 – $1,000,000+ base Investment Banker / Managing Director: $ 250,000 – $800,000+ ⚕️ Neurosurgeon: $450,000 – $750,000+ ⚕️ Cardiothoracic Surgeon: $400,000 – $680,000+ Quantitative Systematic Trader: $200,000 – $600,000+ Chief Financial Officer: $220,000 – $600,000+ ⚕️ Orthopedic Surgeon: $380,000 – $600,000+ ⚕️ Plastic & Reconstructive Surgeon: $375,000 – $...

[click/tap the photos to open each album] A mid-year school holiday is a joy to behold, 3 whole weeks off, and having seen how hard teachers work (especially in remote Australian communities) I will fight anyone that moans about it from afar. Getting out of Papunya is a priority, there's just not a lot to do here and after a while one can go a tad stir crazy and so we had pre-booked a few get aways. We had a mate from Waitārere Beach come over for a week and, whilst we based ourselves in Alice Springs , we did manage to pop back home well as visit the Ochre Pits  - having said that there was a lot of drinking  and eating . During the Friday rain our mate witnessed the Todd River dribble back, and we trudged around the mud of the 2026 Alice Springs Show - loved the cakes and vegetable winners. Our final week saw us in Brisbane for the Wallabies v France game but not before we took in the Friday night cabaret with  Blanc de Blanc Encore  a five-star, adults-o...

Shouting, cheering, yahooing, and generally barracking for your team whilst watching the game on TV is not only allowed, it's mandatory :) and it is a primal, subconscious reaction driven by mirror neurons firing in your brain, an emotional need to release adrenaline, and a desire to feel connected to the game. Your brain has a network of mirror neurons that fire both when you perform an action and when you watch someone else do it and so, when you see your team make a break for the try line, your brain simulates the experience, causing your muscles to tense and triggering an urge to physically react or shout. As I wrote back in 2003 there is a huge "we" phenomenon where sports fans psychologically project themselves onto the field, often referring to their favorite team as “we” and are so deeply invested in the outcome that our brains experience the highs and lows as if we are playing. Yelling at/with the TV is also an involuntary, cathartic release of that nervous...

I'm a bit all over the place with the Screens theme but hey, who cares! Here's the Connecting set of 7, along with Celebrity , and Watching . I think it's Computers  next and then we're done with this theme (sounds like a chore, but it's not really). Lot easier just to join the albums tbh: 🖼️ Mike's daily photo - From Then To Now 🖼️ Mike's daily photo - Themes Connecting (via screens) Celebrities (on screen) Watching (screens)

I don't take many photos of TVs or computer screens so this was a challenge.  I did, however, get 7 photos although one isn't even on a screen as I was still in Stadium mode from the previous week, oops.

 … but mostly the Wellington Regional Stadium (Westpac, Sky, and now Hnry). Sport theme is done and dusted, stadia below, and previously we had kids , cricket , and rugby . Next 4 weeks we're gonna attempt a theme of Screens with the 4 weeks being Celebrity , Watching , Connecting , and Computers .

I can't be sharing too many photo's of my kids as they're all growed up now and it's not for me to do. To get around that with this week's theme of Sports: Kids I've tried to be a wee bit sneaky, did I succeed?

The live, free, and community updated international men's rugby fixtures iCal calendar is ready for next year's Rugby World Cup to be held here in Australia, 1 October to 13 November, 2027 . Of course the calendar has all the international rugby games between now and then, the upcoming tests between the Northern Hemisphere and the South, the 2027 Six Nations, and everything else but heck, we all know what they are really, prep games for the World Cup. iCal / Google Calendar Men's Google Calendar - Add the Men's Fixtures and Results calendar to your Google calendar. Men's iCal  - If you want the Men's Fixtures and Results calendar in your Apple, or Microsoft, or anything else product, then this is for you. Venues Seven host cities: Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, Newcastle, Perth, Sydney and Townsville. capacity: 53,500 Wales v Zimbabwe  (2 Oct) South Africa v Italy (3 Oct) England v Zimbabwe (8 Oct) Fiji v Canada (10 Oct) Japan v USA (15 Oct) Argentina...