......................How To Manage Moving Stress.......................

................ and don't think I won't bitches :)

T minus 8 hours till touch down.

Shalom.

Damien.

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.............Current Moving Mood.......................................

.................................... drained.............. exhausted................. stressed.

Redemption comes tomorrow.

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.............Just Coz.......................... Taylor Lautner.....................

.....blow job mouth................................ check.

.....hot bod............................................. check.

.....legal age of consent........................ fail.

.......................two out of three ain't bad - and I am eternally patient...........

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................T minus 48 hours..................................

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...........we have arrived in the hotel and I wish I could say that we have collapsed into repose with some dignity like this hottie below..............

...................but we accidentally packed our dignity into one of our boxes and can't find it now so we probably look like this...............

Shabbat Shalom all.

Not long now.

Damien

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.......................Got Gay Much? .............................................

......................Nelly & Diddy are just good friends..................... really............................................... no homo.
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.........Just Coz............... Bluntcard......................................

.................but isn't that why we go there?
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..............Man Candy Tie Over ...........Again :) .....................

Photography by John Gress....... his blog HERE.
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..................So Sick Of Packing.............................................

...........................Moving sux.

That is all.

Oh -------- red wine rocks.

Shalom

Damien.
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...........Just Coz...................... Man Candy To Tie You Over ................

...................cheers all.

Shalom

Damien






















Photography by John Gress
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................................Sporadic Blogging................................

...................Shabbat Shalom All.

As you all know I am moving to Oz on the 9th of November.

Blogging will be sporadic for a few weeks whilst I move and then get settled.

Thankfully, my Mum has found us a great apartment in a gorgeous complex in a great location in Brisbane - Yay for the Mummy :)

Until then, I appreciate your patience and your loyalty as always.

Shalom

Damien
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.............Carlos Acosta............. Cuban Ballet Superstar.........

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.....Just Coz......................... Fave TV Themes.....................

................... *sigh* those were the days :)

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..........Meme Time.......... I GOT TAGGED !!! ...................

...........by Kevin over at The Lisp - with THIS meme - damn his ass !! (Too late........)

Dinner And A Movie Star Meme

1. Pick a single person, past or present, in the film industry who you'd like to have dinner with, and tell us why you chose this person.

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson - because someone who says yes to play gay in a Travolta movie HAS to have a sense of humour :)




Plus, he gave a SHITLOAD of money to education and ill children - and it is well known there is QUITE the IQ in that gorgeously buzzed head of his!


2. Set the table for your dinner. What would you eat? Would it be in a home or at a restaurant? And what would you wear? Feel free to elaborate on the details.




It would be my place, and it would be casual.

It would be on a low set table on cushions, keeping the casual theme going and the entire room would be lit by candles. I *love* eating by candlelight.

He would be wearing some light-weight fabric pants and a comfortable shirt as would I. We would both be commando.

I would have some simple cheese and cured meats to start with - definitely some King Island Bree. We would chat about his day - because who really asks him about anything OTHER than the tatt and the bod (I'm thoughtful that way).




Then we would have roast beef with my world famous cheesy garlic potato mash - made with GOOD parmesan (...said a-la-Ina-Garten).

Roasted spring vegetables and a nice, smooth Australian shiraz would round it out. We would then chat over the rest of the shiraz as dinner settled, then a little while later it would be a chocolate tartlet with some King Island Cream.

We would then retire to a HUGE pile of cushions and pillows to lounge, leer and chat.

I don't do naughty stuff on the first date - but there would be tongue action let me tell you.




3. List five thoughtful questions you would ask this person during dinner.

(1) Why can't there be openly gay wrestlers so that there can be some social challenge to the red necks who patronise wrestling??

(2) What is Vin Diesel like as a bottom (I am certain Travolta told you)?

(3) Why does Hollywood force people into the closet?

(4) What exactly is criminology and how is it applied exactly? (He has a criminology / physiology degree)

(5) What would you like for breakfast?




4. When all is said and done, select bloggers to pass this Meme along to.

Scott at Bill In Exile - 'coz he will roll his eyes when he gets this :) ...
WM - Maybe it's just me ...
Mutt over at Mutton Chopped Mutant ...
The Java Junkie ....
Ben at Ben In Leather Land ....

Shalom

Damien

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..........Just Coz........................Men In Heels.....................

.......................don't know why........













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...............................Because This Never Gets Old............

....................and he is damn funny - and talented...... I heart ballet.








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............................When Insults Had Class............................

These glorious insults are from an era before the English language got boiled down to 4-letter words:

The exchange between Churchill & Lady Astor:

She said, "If you were my husband I'd poison your tea."

He said, "If you were my wife, I'd drink it."

A member of Parliament to Disraeli: "Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease."

"That depends, Sir," said Disraeli, "whether I embrace your policies or your mistress."

"He had delusions of adequacy." - Walter Kerr

"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire." - Winston Churchill

"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." Clarence Darrow

"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it." - Mark Twain

"He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.." - Oscar Wilde

"I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend.... if you have one." - George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill

"Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second... if there is one." - Winston Churchill, in response.

"I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial." - Irvin S. Cobb

"He is not only dull himself; he is the cause of dullness in others." - Samuel Johnson

"He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up." - Paul Keating

"In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily." - Charles, Count Talleyrand

"He loves nature in spite of what it did to him." - Forrest Tucker

"Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?" - Mark Twain

"His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork." - Mae West

"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go." - Oscar Wilde

"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination." - Andrew Lang (1844-1912)

"He has Van Gogh's ear for music." - Billy Wilder

"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it." - Groucho Marx

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..............Bringing The Funny...........................Just Coz...........

......click on these for the full dose of shits and giggles........ :)

.......... I Knew I Loved Alec Baldwin And His Craziness For A Reason...............

Alec Baldwin thinks he would "kill" Renee Zellweger if he had sex with her - because she is so slim.

The 51-year-old actor has criticised Hollywood actress for their slight physiques, saying he would never be able to shoot romantic scenes with most of them as he would do them serious damage.

He joked: "Women today are so skinny. If I did a love scene with them, I would crush them. If I did a love scene with Renee, I would kill her!"

The film star also criticised the gulf between men and women's pay in the acting industry.

He thinks many male stars are paid far too much, citing Tom Cruise - who has earned around $US33 million ($35.5 million) over the last 12 months - as a particular example.

Speaking at Elle magazine's annual Women in Hollywood dinner and awards show, website E! Online quotes Alec as saying: "I believe we can balance the scales if Tom Cruise would lower his quote by a mere $US29 million ($31 million). I realise this may be a bit unfair since he's not here to defend himself and I really don't want to put this all on one man, but if I had to, that man would be Tom Cruise... I assure you my salary would not make a difference."

.....WTF...Oy Vey.......... There Is No Lifeguard On Duty At The Gene Pool...........

How do these people survive?

ONE

Recently, when I went to McDonald's I saw on the menu that you could have an order of 6, 9 or 12 Chicken McNuggets.
I asked for a half dozen nuggets.
'We don't have half dozen nuggets,' said the teenager at the counter.
'You don't?' I replied.
'We only have six, nine, or twelve,' was the reply.
'So I can't order a half dozen nuggets, but I can order six?'
'That's right.'
So I shook my head and ordered six McNuggets
(Unbelievable but sadly true...)

TWO

I was checking out at the local Woolworths with just a few items and the lady behind me put her things on the belt close to mine. I picked up one of those 'dividers' that they keep by the cash register and placed it between our things so they wouldn't get mixed.
After the girl had scanned all of my items, she picked up the 'divider', looking it all over for the bar code so she could scan it.
Not finding the bar code, she said to me, 'Do you know how much this is?'
I said to her 'I've changed my mind; I don't think I'll buy that today.'
She said 'OK,' and I paid her for the things and left.
She had no clue to what had just happened.

THREE
A woman at work was seen putting a credit card into her floppy drive and pulling it out very quickly.
When I inquired as to what she was doing, she said she was shopping on the Internet and they kept asking for a credit card number, so she was using the ATM 'thingy.'
(keep shuddering!!)

FOUR
I recently saw a distraught young lady weeping beside her car. 'Do you need some help?' I asked.
She replied, 'I knew I! Should have replaced the battery to this remote door unlocker. Now I can't get into my car... Do you think they (pointing to a distant convenience store) would have a battery to fit this?'
'Hmmm, I don't know. Do you have an alarm, too?' I asked.
'No, just this remote thingy,' she answered, handing it and the car keys to me. As I took the key and manually unlocked the door, I replied, 'Why don't you drive over there and check about the batteries. It's a long walk....'
PLEASE just lay down before you hurt yourself !!!

FIVE
Several years ago, we had an Intern who was none too swift. One day she was typing and turned to a secretary and said, 'I'm almost out of typing paper. What do I do?' 'Just use paper from the photocopier', the secretary told her. With that, the intern took her last remaining blank piece of paper, put it on the photocopier and proceeded to make five 'blank' copies.
Brunette, by the way!!

SIX
A mother calls 911 very worried asking the dispatcher if she needs to take her kid to the emergency room, the kid had eaten ants. The dispatcher tells her to give the kid some Benadryl and he should be fine, the mother says, 'I just gave him some ant killer......'
Dispatcher: 'Rush him in to emergency!'

............MEGAPOST ..................................... RUGBY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ...........................

Rugby union is a full contact team sport, originating in the early 19th century.^[2] One of the codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand. It is played with an oval-shaped ball, outdoors on a level field, usually with a grass surface, 100 m long and 70 m wide.^[3][4] At each end of the field is an "H" shaped goal. It is one of the most popular sports in the world, being played in over a hundred countries, on every continent.

William Webb Ellis is often credited with the invention of running with the ball in hand when, in 1823, at Rugby School he caught the ball while playing football, and ran towards the opposition goal. Ellis was immortalised at the school with a plaque commemorating his innovation. 25 years later the first rules were written by pupils^[5] - this was one of recognized events in the early development of rugby; others include the Blackheath Club's decision to leave The Football Association in 1863, and in 1895, the split between rugby union and rugby league.

Rugby union has been governed by the International Rugby Board since its formation in 1886 and currently has a membership of 115 national unions. In 1995 the IRB removed restrictions on payments to players, making the famously amateur game professional at the highest levels.

The Rugby World Cup, first held in 1987, takes place every four years, with the winner of the tournament receiving the Webb Ellis Cup. The Six Nations in Europe and the Tri Nations in the southern hemisphere are major international competitions held annually. Major domestic competitions include the Top 14 in France, the Guinness Premiership in England, the Currie Cup in South Africa, and the Air New Zealand Cup in New Zealand. The Magners League is a transnational competition involving the three Celtic nations of Ireland, Scotland and Wales, with Italian involvement planned starting in 2010–11.

Rules

Main article: Playing rugby union

Ireland and Georgia contesting a lineout in the 2007 Rugby World Cup.

A scrum

A rugby tackle: tackles must be low down on the body, with the aim of impeding or grounding the player with the ball

Rugby union is played between two teams; each team starts the match with 15 players on the field and may make replacements (for injury) or substitutions (tactical changes).^[12] In international matches, up to seven replacements/substitutes are allowed; in domestic or cross-border tournaments, at the discretion of the responsible national union(s), the number may be increased to eight, of whom three must be sufficiently trained and experienced to provide cover for the three front row positions.^[13] Players in a team are divided into eight forwards (two more than in rugby league) and seven backs. Forwards are generally bigger and stronger, and take part in the scrum and lineout, while backs are generally smaller but faster, more agile and often the main points scorers for the team.

Points can be scored in several ways - a try, scored by grounding the ball in the in-goal area, is worth 5 points and a subsequent conversion kick scores 2 points. A successful penalty kick or a drop goal each score 3 points.^[14] The values of each of these scoring methods have been changed over the years. The team which scores more points wins the game.

At the beginning of the game, the captains and the referee toss a coin to decide which team will kick off first. Play then starts with a drop kick, with the players chasing the ball into the opposition's territory, and the other side trying to retrieve the ball and advance it back. If the player with the ball is tackled, frequently a ruck will result.^[15]

Forward passing (throwing the ball ahead to another player) is not allowed. The ball tends to be moved forward in three ways - by kicking, by a player running with it, or within a scrum or a ruck (formerly also a maul). Unlike in American football, "blocking" is not allowed, so only the player with the ball may be tackled or rucked. When a ball is knocked forward by a player with his/her arms, a "knock-on" is committed, and play is restarted with a scrum.

When the ball leaves the side of the field, a lineout is awarded against the team which last touched the ball. A number of players from both teams line up, at least 5m from the sideline, and the ball is thrown in by the hooker. Lineouts are one of the chief differences between the two rugby codes, as they do not occur in rugby league.

Games are divided into 40-minute halves, with a break in the middle. The sides exchange ends of the field after the half-time break. Stoppages for injury or to allow the referee to take disciplinary action, do not count as part of the playing time, so that the elapsed time is usually longer than 80 minutes. Unlike in many other sports, there are no "time outs". The referee is responsible for keeping time, even when—as in many professional tournaments—he is assisted by an official time-keeper; when time has expired, whether at the end of the first half, or at the end of the game, the referee will wait until the ball is 'dead' before blowing for half-time or full-time.

The field of play on a rugby pitch is as near as possible to a maximum of 100m long, and 70m wide. There are several lines crossing it, notably the half way line, the goal line/try line (on which the goal posts are located), the "twenty two", which is 22m from the goal, and the dead ball line, which is 10m behind the goal line. Tries are scored between the goal line, and the dead ball line. A ball over the dead ball line is out of play. Rugby goalposts are H-shaped, and consist of two poles, 5.6m apart, connected by a horizontal crossbar 3m above the ground. Unlike some other sports, there are no goalkeepers, and the section underneath the crossbar is not used. The original pitch dimensions were in imperial units, but have since been converted to the metric system.

There are generally three match officials - a referee, and two touch judges, who indicate that the ball is "in touch" and other decisions with their flags. In addition, for matches in high level competitions, there is often a television match offical (TMO; popularly called the "video referee"), to assist with certain decisions, linked up to the referee by radio.^[16] The referees have a system of hand signals to indicate their decisions.

Common offences include high tackles, collapsing the scrum, not releasing the ball when on the ground or being off-side. Penalties can be taken by the non-offending team in various ways - taking a short, tap kick then running with the ball, kicking the ball from hand (punting) for field position, place kicking (for goal) or choosing a scrum. Players may be sent off (signaled by a red card) or temporarily "sin-binned" for ten minutes (yellow card) for foul play, and may not be replaced.

Rugby league football^[1] (or, more commonly, simply rugby league)^[2][3][4] is a full-contact form of football, played with a prolate spheroid ball^[5] by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular grass field.^[6] Rugby league is one of the two codes of rugby football, the other being rugby union. Over the decades following the 1895 birth of rugby league, the rules of both forms of rugby were gradually changed, with rugby league's deliberately resulting in a faster, more open spectator sport,^[7] and now it and rugby union are distinctly different games. Rugby league is frequently cited as the toughest and most physically demanding of any team sport in the world.^[8]

The primary aim is to carry or kick the ball towards the opponent's goal line where points can be scored by grounding the ball; this is called a try.^[6] After scoring a try, the team is allowed the chance to try at goal with a conversion - a kick for further points.^[6] The opposing team will attempt to stop the attacking side gaining points by preventing their progress up the field by tackling the player carrying the ball.^[6]

Rugby league is most prominent in Australia, England, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea, being the national sport in the latter.^[9] France and Wales also have professional clubs. New Zealand are the current World Cup holders as of 2008.

The game is played at a semi-professional and amateur level in several other countries, such as Samoa, Tonga, Fiji, Ireland, Scotland, Russia, Lebanon, Germany, Japan, United States, Malta and Jamaica.

History

Main article: History of rugby league

The roots of rugby league can be traced to early football history, through the playing of ball games which bear little resemblance to modern sports. It is then important to acknowledge the development of the modern football codes and two separate schisms in football history.

In 19th century England, football was most prominently played in private schools. Each school had its own rules based on whatever playing field was available to them. The rules could be categorised as either handling or kicking forms of football. The kicking and handling forms were later codified by The Football Association and the Rugby Football Union (RFU) respectively. Rugby football had its origins at Rugby School, Warwickshire, England.

In 1895 Rugby football was beset with a schism that resulted in the formation of the Northern Rugby Football Union (NRFU). Although many factors played a part in the split, including the success of working class northern teams, the main division was caused by the RFU decision to enforce the amateur principle of the sport, preventing "broken time payments" to players who had taken time off work to play rugby. Northern teams typically had more working class players (coal miners, mill workers etc.) who could not afford to play without this compensation, in contrast to southern teams who had other sources of income to sustain the amateur principle. There were similar movements in other countries. In 1895 a decree by the RFU banning the playing of rugby at grounds where entrance fees were charged led to the famous meeting on 29 August 1895. Twenty-two clubs (plus Stockport who negotiated by telephone) met at The George Hotel in Huddersfield, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, and formed the "Northern Rugby Football Union".^[11] Within fifteen years of that first meeting in Huddersfield, more than 200 RFU clubs had left to join the rugby revolution.

A similar schism occurred in Sydney, Australia. There on the 8th August 1907 the New South Wales Rugby Football League was founded at Bateman's Hotel in George St.^[12] Rugby league then went on to displace rugby union as the primary football code in New South Wales.^[13]

In 1954 over 120,000 spectators watched the 1954 Challenge Cup final, setting a new record for attendance at a rugby football match of either code. Also in 1954 the Rugby League World Cup, the first for either code of rugby, was formed at the instigation of the French.

1967 saw the first professional Sunday matches of rugby league played.

Television would have an enormous impact on the sport of rugby league in the 1990s when Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation sought worldwide broadcasting rights and refused to take no for an answer. The media giant's "Super League" movement saw big changes for the traditional administrators of the game. In Europe it resulted in a move from a winter sport to a summer one as the new Super League competition tried to expand its market. In Australasia, the Super League war resulted: long and costly legal battles and changing loyalties, causing significant damage to the code in an extremely competitive sporting market. In 1997 two competitions were run alongside each other in Australia, after which a peace deal in the form of the National Rugby League was formed. The NRL has since become recognised the sport's flagship competition.

Rules

Main article: Playing rugby league

The rules of the sport have changed significantly over the decades since rugby football split into the league and union codes. The objective in rugby league is to score more points through tries, goals and field goals (also known as drop goals) than the opposition within the 80 minutes of play. The try is the most common form of scoring, and a team will usually attempt to score one by running and kicking the ball further upfield, or passing from player-to-player in order to manoeuvre around the opposition's defence and is worth four points. A goal is worth two points and may be gained from a conversion or a penalty. A field goal is only worth one point, and is gained by drop kicking the ball between the uprights in open play. If after two halves of play, each consisting of forty minutes, the two teams are drawing, a draw may be declared, or the game may enter extra time under the golden point rule, depending on the relevant competition's format.

............................Now for some serious Rugby hawtness............. enjoy all. Shalom. Damien.

*whew*

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