Saturday, 20 March 2010

UQ against blogging oppression

Clearly being forced to hobble on crutches all week has made me little bit more agitated than usual but posts made on other blogs commenting on the way we here at UQ Ultimate function have really got my back up….

For those of you who are unaware Frisbee players are not only obsessed with that silly piece of plastic but also have some strange passion for blogs. Cutting a long justification short, the Brisbane (even QLD!) Frisbee scene has one leading blogger who I’ve recently come to realise has a monopoly on our local frisbee blogging service.

Without needing to name names (because its so damn obvious) Brisbane’s Frisbee blog expert, recently asserted blog dictator, has his finger in every pie! He has a strong hold on every single avenue that any Brisbane Frisbee blogger could ever reasonably blog about and what’s more its fricking hilarious, informative and a great way to procrastinate. But if any newb decides to create something of their own it looks outdated, rehashed, B-grade.
However the injustice does not stop there, the chief blog artist has used his powers and influence to create his own Frisbee blogging regime. He has taken it upon himself to set up rules about blogging recently criticizing layout, content, heckle/humour mix etc and sees himself as the final authority on all subjects. He may claim this is all friendly, helpful advice but then why do we constantly feel like we’ve been told what to do?

My fellow friends, as this is a student blog its time we students do what students do best! No not downing jugs of beer and living off mi goreng… I’m talking about protesting!
Like the unknown rebel in Tiananmen Square lets take a stand against the oncoming tank that is the oppressive Frisbee blogging regime that only looks to control us and hold us back!
Here on this blog from today we will about post about who ever we want, what ever we want, whenever the hell we feel like it! Whose with me?! (You guys better not leave me hanging out here all by myself)

If you have no idea what I’m talking about take a look at BUB’s post Full Hand, UQ Ultimate Blog got absolutely roasted. Not sure why JDR likes to specifically rip into us compared to other clubs… but he seems to do it a lot (actually Dojo gets a fair hiding as well). Is he secretly pissed off that we keep winning Club of the Year? Who knows….

Now to completely contradict what I was ranting and raving about - if anyone would like to start regularly posting stuff about BPL you are more than welcome. Perhaps a newb to BPL could give us the scoop on the goings on between the big ego’s of the league?

9 comments:

sensei said...

Fight the power Kaitlin!

Anonymous said...

Im with you!

JdR has gone mad with power!

Ryan said...

Stick it to the man!

Jack said...

I love a bit of controversey!
Kaitlin's recent involvements with the JDR across the blogs are fantastic! They go well beyond Dojo's smack.
Keep it up!


P.s. I will however side with JDR on the Lovers blog thing. Your blog hurts my eyes. Eye straining ftl!

Pete said...

Heh. excellent ranting. I give it a B+

Moto said...

I will raise the comment made by you on the Full Hand post.

This UQ blog is primarily about wednesday night UQ league.

If the BPL teams started posting their reports/comments/general rantings I'm sure any information in relation to wednesday nights would be lost.

And what about UQ at BUML, do they get a mention?

Realistically, UQ should have a blog specifically for each league, but only one. I know there has been alot of discussion from the BPL UQ teams about cohesion under the UQ umbrella.

TL;DR This blog is about wednesday night league. BPL and BUML should have/get their own blogs.

Anyway, that's my thoughts.

Jack said...

Moto, have a read of any other BPL blog. Aside from Dojo, all the blogs have one post per game.
One post per week will not clog up a blog.

I also know that reading a game report on a higher level of ultimate (which is usually also a good read with humor) might be good for the enthusiastics of UQ's begginer league. Beleive it or not, but there are players there that find Wednesday nights too easy and wouldn't mind a bit of insight into where they could go next.

And don't cut girls out of the equation either. Remember, BPL is an OPEN competition.

JdR said...

Jeez, I hope you guys never open a restaurant! One bad review and you're burning down the newspaper.

Brian said...

Oh you have no idea