Conversations

I have meet some special people over here.

AFL Football guy.

You see him about 25% of the times you go out, he wears a complete Aussie rules football outfit complete with ball and comes into a pub throwing the ball to people. He gets really upset if people don't catch the ball or fail to throw it back intermediately. It puzzles me how well he is accepted by the other pub patrons ... you don't get people with other hobbies going out and doing such displays. For example you don't get joggers run into the pub in full jogging gear then running round in circles. He is yet to throw the ball to me but when he does I'm sure something interesting will happen.

The six million dollar feminist.

She was an absolute joy to talk to, she like a lot of feminists had long given up on the whole equality idea and was gunning for world domination. Talking to her was really hard because of how funny most of her arguments where. She really didn't even want to concede that men had a physiological advantage over women. Claiming unfair training practices and traditions where the real reasons.

On one point I did agree with her, this annoyed her even more. She claimed that men and women should compete equally in sports and not be separated. I agreed, but for the wrong reasons. I'm not a sports guy but I would probably watch mixed men and women competing in sports because ... well ... it would be really funny. We argued for about two hours, but where strangely taking it in turns to buy each other drinks for the whole duration. I would say something really outrageously sexist then see if I could recover using intelligent debate and some minor Jedi mind tricks. I was having a lot of fun but she was starting to get pretty upset, so I started to concede a few points to cheer her up then went on my way to go talk to the girl that looked like Kyle that had just entered the bar.

Khaleel

Khaleel was a strict no drinking, no pork eating, pray five times a day Muslim. He had grown up in Saudi Arabia. I'm not sure how or why but we get on really well, he even calls me brother now, which I like a lot. I don't think we have ever agreed on a single point but we have a lot of fun talking about it. He was having quite a few problems adapting to Australian life. Everyday backpacker things would be happening to him and he really felt like he was living in hell sometimes, I found myself talking him down quite a lot. For instance he saw a girl kissing one guy and then an hour later kissing another guy. For a guy that pretty much believes in no kissing before marriage (yeah that's right not even kissing) this really shocked him.

It was really interesting listening to him as his belief system was just so alien to me that I found it and the reasons behind it absolutely fascinating. I held a great respect for him and his principals and put my points across accordingly. I felt really jealous of this guys perspective hes got so many wonderful experiences and surprises coming his way in his travels around Australia, I was going to do my best to make sure he was in a position to enjoy them.