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The FAT Website has had over a dozen bloggers writing about their lives around the world for over a decade. Topics cover everything from food, music, sports, travel and general musings on the minutiae of everyday life. The FAT Website blog first started in 1999 as a means for five high school friends to stay in touch as they independently traveled around the world.

A-League 2013/14 – Round 1 – Smash and Grab

SYDNEY FC 2 NEWCASTLE JETS 0 CENTRAL COAST MARINERS 1 WESTERN SYDNEY WANDERERS 1 MELBOURNE VICTORY 1 MELBOURNE HEART 1 WELLINGTON PHOENIX 1 BRISBANE ROAR 2 ADELAIDE UNITED 3 PERTH GLORY 1 Vacancy It’s been an eventful week of football in Australia.  The opening round of the season saw a record 100,000+ fans in attendance and tv ratings continuing to ...

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A-League Season Nine Preview

A-League Season Nine It’s finally here!!!!  Ermagerd, the A-League has the longest off season – a miserable 172 days – and tomorrow, the wait is finally over.  The 2013/14 season will kick off with Newcastle Jets travelling to Sydney FC in an early preview of who will finish in the middle of the table. After a shitty 2011/12 season which ...

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Grand Theft Auto V – Finished and reviewed

I finished GTA V over the long weekend.  Thoroughly enjoyed it.  You can find the full review here. One of the most memorable missions in the game involves a drug-induced hallucination where Michael flies over the city.  There’s a bitchin’ soundtrack that plays while Michael soars through the air and I had no idea what it was until I finally ...

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Lets Talk Horror Films

Can you believe its friggin’ October already?  Where has the year gone? There’s plenty to like about October.  The football is back on.  The big budget video games come out this time of year.  The Oscar-bait films start running at the cinema.  And there’s Halloween. For me, October is a good excuse to watch a bunch of monster movies and ...

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Cat Among The Pigeons by Agatha Christie

The reason I became an avid reader of Hercule Poirot books as a kid is twofold.  One, I love a good murder mystery.  Two, David Suchet is amazing and watching The ABC Murders on TV made me a fan for life. It’s only as I’ve gotten older and read more about Agatha Christie herself that I’ve gotten to understand the ...

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Youtube Tuesday: A-League Season 2013/14 Teaser Video

Our off-season is so ridiculously long 🙁  Hurry up, October 11th.  Hurry up. If you concentrate really hard on this teaser trailer from Fox Sports, you will see the mighty Brisbane Roar for about 0.5 seconds.  Clearly the focus will still be on the bigger clubs with their Del Pieros and Shinji Onos.

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