Digging into the past...

[Jackal]

You just took the artists word? Meh, how would you know if he tattoo'ed fuckwit on it?

Hmm, I think I'm gonna start tattooing people in papiaments.

[hmm]

i didnt take his word. i just saw it before on some places.More than one. i took it's picture. i just brought it to him.And he made it.
Stop caring about my tattoo.

[Andrew]

Actually Jackal brings up a good point. A lot of people do get tattooed with Chinese characters and whatnot that do not actually mean what they are led to believe. That's why it pays to research beforehand, as you did.

[Stevan]

You know Stevan.it is not nice.i dont think buildings in Ozland would stand a 7.4 earthquake,too.

No, no they wouldn't. My point is that with all your problems your country manages to get some basketball coverage unlike us.

I know where I'd put the earth quakes if I could relocate them...

[hmm]

it is mainly because of we have one of the youngest population in the world. And almost everyone here is a basketball and NBA fan here. NBA Jersey and misc. sales are very good on Turkey. NBA became a big market here.Also there were some Turkish guys who came from USA,who tried to bring NBA TV for years.They have a big share on bringing NBA TV.

[Matt]

sorry if i seem a lil unpatriotic but in the TV guide it's AUS vs........ for everything. I wanna see the BEST, not Australia, I want the Best

and why is there so much womens basketball???? they suck arghhhhh

[J@3]

Most of us in Australia are happy to watch athletes we're familiar with and know will do well. As opposed to some American we're seeing for the first time.

I don't know about you, but prior to last season would you have rather watched Laker games or Pistons games? Exactly.

[Matt]

^^^me, Pistons of course

i don't care if i know an athlete or not, i want the best competition, not crap. I don't want any watered down versions or anything like that

[J@3]

I see your point, I just think alot of Australians would disagree in principal...

That being said I could've done without that 15 minutes of table tennis I just watched

it means dragon.i dont know if it is chinese or japanese or any other language. Maybe ancient. All i know is it means dragon.

The tattoo is an old Arabic proverb, it means "Allah Akbur.....OFF with his head"!!

[Andrew]

sorry if i seem a lil unpatriotic but in the TV guide it's AUS vs........ for everything. I wanna see the BEST, not Australia, I want the Best

and why is there so much womens basketball???? they suck arghhhhh

I believe SBS is going to show some more basketball games that don't feature Australia. Tomorrow morning (sometime between 12 AM and 7 AM I believe) they'll be showing New Zealand vs Italy for example. I'm assuming they'll be showing a few USA games as well.

I like the idea of SBS showing some events while Prime jumps around. SBS seems to be catering for fans with specific tastes while Prime is showing clips and highlights from everything. A little better than the 2000 coverage, but I thought Nine's coverage of Atlanta was far superior.

[Stevan]

I'm just waiting for my folks to bring home the TV guide so I can see what's going to be shown. Might have to check on the net too....
Whatever men's games are shown, I'm going to tape.

The coverage is always Australian-biased, that's just the way it is, and it's understandable, though it can be frustrating. Chanel 7 will cut into whatever they're showing to cut to an Aussie winning a medal. Again, understandable.

In 2000 they normally showed basketball late, like 1 or 2 am, they showed replays which were un-interrupted and I thought that was great, I didn't care what time it was. Shit like Russie versus USA... This time we might see some stuff during the day time, because that's when they'll be replaying stuff over here while Greece sleeps. Hopefully there'll be some hoops. And like you guys mentioned SBS will be showing more specific uninterrupted stuff.

Like I said, I'm taping anything they show! Hell I'm even excited about seeing the Boomers play, that's how basketball starved I am. That and I endured the Opals game yesterday and I'm dying to see some guys play the game the way it should be played.

[J@3]

New Zealand mens vs Italy mens on SBS at 6:30pm in Adelaide, so that's like 7pm in Newcastle

There's more basketball on SBS at 4am tonight too but I don't remember who's playing, if you go to the SBS website they've got a really good TV guide.

[Nick]

Like I said, I'm taping anything they show! Hell I'm even excited about seeing the Boomers play, that's how basketball starved I am. That and I endured the Opals game yesterday and I'm dying to see some guys play the game the way it should be played.

Yeah, i'm in the same boat. I can't wait to see some men's basketball. (Y)

Hey Jae, what's the SBS website linky?

Did you guys see the women's beach volleyball?? WHEW! Talk about hott. They were wearing practically nothing.

[Stevan]

yeah the women's volleyball is good. Haven't seen any very good looking chicks yet, but I'm hopefull!

Jae was right, I got the TV guide - Italy versus New Zealand at 7:30 on SBS, and then during the night/morning on 7... I'll check the guide and post up more times later.

[J@3]

http://www.sbs.com.au I think

[J@3]

I found this at Ozhoops.com.au...

· Sun 15 Aug – Men: 7.00pm NZ vs Italy (SBS)
· Mon 16 Aug – Men: 5.15am Australia vs Greece (Channel 7)
· Tue 17 Aug – Women: 5.15am Australia vs Russia (Channel 7), Men: 6.15pm Australia vs Angola (Channel 7)
· Wed 18 Aug – Women: 6.15pm Australia vs Japan (Channel 7)
· Thur 19 Aug – Men: 9.30pm Australia vs USA (Channel 7)
· Sat 21 Aug – Men: 4.00pm Australia vs Puerto Rico (Channel 7)
. Sun 22 Aug – Women: 4.00pm NZ vs Czech Republic (SBS), Women: 9.30pm Australia vs Brazil (Channel 7)
· Mon 23 Aug – Men: 3.00am China vs USA (SBS), Men: 6.15pm Australia vs Lithuania (Channel 7)

[J@3]

Lol I just saw Sean Marks throw down a big two hander on some Italian dude, I miss this sport

[Stevan]

Sean Marks, LOL! He threw down a couple of two handed facials, and then an open one, none of which were too pretty but you get that...
And only after the third dunk (which was totally open) did a New Zealand fan in the crowd stand up and shout "In your face!"
Pero Cameron spent half the game pulling his shorts up. Fat bastard.

[J@3]

LOL true, everytime NZ called a time-out I was hoping they'd take Fat Pero off and replace him with the David Beckham wannabe.

[hmm]

it means dragon.i dont know if it is chinese or japanese or any other language. Maybe ancient. All i know is it means dragon.

The tattoo is an old Arabic proverb, it means "Allah Akbur.....OFF with his head"!!

Shut up Wiggle. it is not arabic.if it was arabic my mum would recognize that it was arabic.

[[Q]]

Wow, I never realized how many Aussies hang around here...
Adelaide, Melbourne, Perth, Newcastle...

[Jackal]

It's Andrew's fault. Him and his Australian Mafia.

Pff, Repole & Chetto will take all of them out.

[.]

What about mine? Polish mafia is badass

[Jackal]

I've never heard of the Polish Mafia. Plus I'm reading Puzo's Godfather which is why I brought up the Italians.