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While lesser parts of the country were off growing fat on the couch yesterday, Queenslanders were hard at work and one of them was IT systems professional Jake Smith.
Which means today, he's earned himself a little break.
Instead of responding to tickets and sooking Baby Boomers unable to print something, the Betoota Shire Council worker is watching the basketball game that's currently underway in America.
Jake has it up on his phone, with the sound off, you know, just vibing as he told our reporter earlier today.
"Yeah, ha ha, not working too hard while the game's on!" he said.
When asked which team he's going for, the 34-year-old said neither but he would prefer it if the San Antonio Spurs won because the New York Knicks are just a celebrity team, followed by fair-weather fans that are often covered in shit tattoos with nothing between their ears except for runny dog shit.
"Totally. My team are the Clippers. Clip nation!" he added.
Jake said he got into basketball because he grew up in a pretty stable home in a suburb of our cosmopolitan desert republic that doesn't immediately make people cringe. He also attended a mid-tier private school where basketball was on offer. Other pseudo-sports like volleyball, field hockey and water polo were also made available to students at the forgettable co-educational academy in a suburb younger than most of the people living in it. His parents still enjoy each other's company and are very supportive of Jake and his siblings, no matter how lacklustre their professional endeavours are. His father would probably be ok if they were gay. He got driven to school and picked up. In a late model Toyota. They went on family holidays. From the moment he was born to this very moment now, he'd really wanted for nothing. Everything he's ever desired as been at his finger tips. He has had a good life, and will continue to have one. One the rest of us should envy.
"And that's pretty much why I like basketball!" he said.
More to come.
