Such Is Life - Ben Cousins Doco

[silentangst]

Yeah fully. You get people going on about how they got shitfaced on booze but you can't share your own experiences. In the past I have probably come across as some total straightedge when it's really that I was indulging in things that are unmentionable to others lol.

Yeah same here the majority of my peers think I'm boring because I don't really like drinking. If only they knew

 

[OND43X]

$10,000 a week sounds abit much. with that you could get about 1oz of coke and 1/2 oz of meth, and there is only one time i done 28 grams of coke in a week and after day 3 ur nose is swallen and your re-dosing for no reason. no way i would have even bothered to go to a footy game let alone play

 

[phase_dancer]

Avoid further price discussion.

 

[bud.lightyear]

i really don't get how a footballer can get such a honoring huge send off for lying about illegal drug use, yet the presenter of the X factor gets given such a shameful send off for alcohol abuse...... Seriously something wrong here

think someone said this, but he got done for woman bashing. granted he was drunk, but bashing any woman is FARRRR worse than smoking a crackie. in my book bashing girls lower than low, and he deserves as much shit as he gets for it. especially considering she was such a babe.....

Although i am pretty fucking pissed that our dead troops are like the 4th - 5th story down the headlines..

it disgusts me that cousins is put before these people that have died for nothing..

and i am equally pissed and absolutely disgusted that everytime one australian soldier dies, a huge media storm follows and stories about his life and family yadda yadda go on and on.

newsflash people: there have been 21 australians killed in afganistan. there are at a bare minimum 11,000 civilian casualties directly attributed to the war, with a top estimate of nearly 35,000 civilian deaths including direct and indirect (disease, famine etc) effects.

when are we gonna see people caring about them? and they didn't even sign up for this war, aren't getting paid for it, and certainly do not get immortalized like these 21 insignificant casualties of people who are getting paid, wanted to go, and will be put on a pedestal for the rest of their lives.....

sorry for going off topic just does my head in how so many people think that life in their own country is more precious than any other life in another. 1 life=1 life, just because someone isn't from australia doesn't mean they are any less valuable, as unfortunatly many australians seem to think.

 

[silentangst]

I agree bud. I won't go into it anymore here, and I do have a lot of respect for our soldiers, but you're right.

 

[footscrazy]

and he deserves as much shit as he gets for it. especially considering she was such a babe.....

Heh? What was that about 1 life being as valuable as another?

Anyway back to Ben Cousins, I think the attention it's given drug use/abuse is probably good, although they still make it seem like what he did is some fantastical, way out thing deserving of a whole media hullabaloo when in reality, addiction/drug misuse affects so many people, not just celebrities and sports stars...

 

[iPKNHRD]

Australia glamorizes drug use, its simple.
The documentary should have been on real heroin junkies doing it tough, not a smug fuck high profile AFL player. No disrespect to the game itself even though personally, I don't like it.

and i am equally pissed and absolutely disgusted that everytime one australian soldier dies, a huge media storm follows and stories about his life and family yadda yadda go on and on.

newsflash people: there have been 21 australians killed in afganistan. there are at a bare minimum 11,000 civilian casualties directly attributed to the war, with a top estimate of nearly 35,000 civilian deaths including direct and indirect (disease, famine etc) effects.

when are we gonna see people caring about them? and they didn't even sign up for this war, aren't getting paid for it, and certainly do not get immortalized like these 21 insignificant casualties of people who are getting paid, wanted to go, and will be put on a pedestal for the rest of their lives.....

sorry for going off topic just does my head in how so many people think that life in their own country is more precious than any other life in another. 1 life=1 life, just because someone isn't from australia doesn't mean they are any less valuable, as unfortunatly many australians seem to think.

I completely agree, and what pisses me off more is that the moment I open my mouth up about this type of stuff, its been implicated upon everybody to think that whoever talks down Aussie' troops are disrespectful. When I say things like the majority of them are trigger happy and having the time of their lives down there, I feel reluctant to do so because of the influence the media and everything has had on me but I realize that this shouldn't be the case. Someone needs to speak up about these things without having to feel ashamed, simply because they weren't manly enough to join the army or that they were not brave enough to go over to Afghanistan. What bullsh*t.

 

[TripppAR]

You mean dumb enough.

ANYONE that joins the military is a fucking moron. Period.

 

[TripppAR]

And if its under the guise of serving our country, then i find that disgusting as well. This country has slipped BADLY into a pathetic nanny / police state. With more coming soon. YOU CANT EVEN BOIL A BILLY IN QLD WITHOUT A PERMIT!?!?!?

The diggers would be rolling in their graves... especially at the anti-swearing laws in QLD also now.

This country does not serve us. Nor does OUR government. THEY WORK FOR US..that seems to have been twisted over time and more people are starting to rely on the government for everything.

And its only getting worse. WIthin 4 years i believe we will be living in a one world government system with similarities to nazi germany.

 

[Busty St Clare]

To be fair I'd say that a digger could probably walk down the street with his girlfriend in 1944 without having some drunk screaming at his mrs to "Show us your tits you skanky cunt!"

You can't really blame authorities for cracking down on antisocial behaviour because in general the public has become crass, drunken louts with no social skills. If you complain about your rights in today's age then you would have had a right tizz living in Qld in the 70's and 80's.

 

[TripppAR]

lol.. sure... QLD has always been tougher. But thats not my point..


My point is that all these people crap on about how great Australia is and how great it is to be an aussie.. but i find myself less and less enchanted with "the lucky country"...

:-(

Politicians and the media are ruining the hearts and minds of this once great nation.

 

[Busty St Clare]

Personally I blame professional rugby league and AFL. It was a better world when the unclean masses had to work for their weekly pay and real gentlemen played rugby not for money but for the glory of civilisation and the chance to get your balls jammed in a desk.





Oh, how I miss my balls being jammed.

 

[leigh12]

fukn spewin i missed it , the bloke in the methadone line was crappn on bout it
anyone know if its available to dl ? heard sumfin bout a doco being made

^ Haha. I remember going to the footy soon after he was first busted and there were a lot of yelled comments about him being close to the white line etc, haha.

hahha

 

[hyroller]

..And he doesn't know how to smoke a crackie without toasting it

lol... that bit did my head in as well...

my story is pretty similar to cousins'... in my 3rd year of uni, I was taking more drugs than ozzy osbourne, handing everything in late, partying as much as I could - and STILL pulling off better grades than I had in the two previous years, making the honour roll with flying colours 8)

it does re-inforce drug use at a sub-conscious level, if you are still achieving successes elsewhere in life