Society & Culture Things in life you just don't understand

[Off The Couch]

Hope the wife is okay Quivorir - I can imagine it must of been a terrifying experience for both of you and I can understand why she would be feeling frightened right now.

Hopefully constantly talking about it will start to lessen that fear otherwise as ridiculous as it may sound she may need to get some counselling before it becomes a major issue

 

[Scotland]

This kind of statement is always made to teams on top. Yet they forget the champions in those teams are the ones driving the success, and the other depth players play at the level of a solid contributor.

Brisbane Lions during the 2003-4 seasons kept getting the "They've found another gem here". Same with St Kilda during the late 2000s.

Geelong I'm sure got this treatment too in the early part of this decade, and now it's our turn.

Once Hodge, Burgoyne, Mitchell retire, we're going to be midtable.

Good teams can survive for a finite period on momentum. Plus still having Mitchell and Lewis in the middle helps...

We were the prime example of this in 2007. Judd injured after half a dozen or so games, Cousins AWOL, Kerr missing a chunk of games - and we still managed to finish top 4. We eeked every last bit out of the team we had to nearly beat Port then nearly beat Collingwood to go out in straight sets, then once Judd and Cousins left for good and Kerr missed basically the entire year we crashed in a heap.

The difference between your mid range and bottom 6 players and your stars is that the former can't keep up playing at a high level for nearly as long. With the current example you take out say Roughead and Sicily steps up and people immediately deduce that Hawthorn just have a whole stack of spare guns sitting outside their 22, despite the same Sicily having no influence a week earlier.

It's partly systems and partly mental IMO. Within reason good teams should be able to rotate players in and out without losing form, because as good as you are you're never going to have the same 22 available all season. It just seems that there is a mental wall that isn't there when key players miss a few games that is when they are gone for good. Obviously you can only replace so many key players at a time, which is why good clubs (like Hawthorn) manage their list year to year.

 

[jamaican_eagle]

My driving instructor told me to. Always have since.

sun not bright enough?

 

[BALKAN]

sun not bright enough?

It is not to illuminate your path, it is to be seen. A lot of European countries have mandatory headlight use at all times while driving. It makes your car more visible and allows other drivers to more accurately judge your speed and distance.

 

[PP34]

i gotta admit, reading that my heart rate increased and it was like i was there. completely understand why your wife is so jumpy. i think even brett michaels would understand too.

she should be given a bravery award or something. to be able to push back against an intruder while being scared shitless is bloody awesome!!!!

wearing a high vis vest? um if you're hiding from someone might be an idea to take it off. or did he just come from work?

you did nothing wrong. natural instincts kick in and you dont know what you are doing. next time it maybe different. similarly its natural when blokes get together to talk shit "yeah i wouldve kicked the shit outta him", "if i was there....i would've fought him IRL". but only you knew the circumstances, and most importantly your family were unharmed.

from personal experience when my relos in LA house was broken into (we werent in the house at the time), it was frightening. we called cops when got there. the following x minutes was scary. door bell rang and we all jumped. it was the cops. took photos etc. i thought it was cool to finally speak to am american copper.

anyway, back here in oz after sometime we asked were assailants caught. yes. seemed it was a syndicate comprising of latinos, azns and blacks. husband and wife up the road werent so lucky, they were home at the time of the break in, and were subsequently shot. still get chills thinking about it.

Yeah I confused a silhouette of a couple of tradies with their toolbelts leaving an invoice at my front door (new fence) as a 13 year old with burglars with tools ready to work on the door. Just froze until adrenaline kicked in and I then called the cops. The fact that they disappeared (obviously later realised they had driven off) allowed me to relax and gather myself in case someone appeared, but I would've been straight out of there if the door actually opened or a window opened up.

Was scary looking out the window, and thankfully I looked outside right as the police car pulled into my drive. Would've absolutely lost it if the door bell rang or they knocked and I didn't know it was them.

 

[Catfish Alley]

Sometimes people forget though. I don't get why people drive in dry, sunny conditions with headlights on. That's a noodle scratcher.

It's standard on most newer cars. At least, it is over here anyway.

 

[Brad Goodman]

I don't understand how morons weren't aware you are supposed to drive with your headlights on at all times...

 

[Quivorir]

Hope the wife is okay Quivorir - I can imagine it must of been a terrifying experience for both of you and I can understand why she would be feeling frightened right now.

Hopefully constantly talking about it will start to lessen that fear otherwise as ridiculous as it may sound she may need to get some counselling before it becomes a major issue

She seemed alright this morning, last night she wouldn't feed the dogs though (dog bowls are in the laundry) but she was walking around the house without issue this morning. Will take a few days but she'll be right. She's just gotta realise it was a fluke incident.

 

[craigos]

It is not to illuminate your path, it is to be seen. A lot of European countries have mandatory headlight use at all times while driving. It makes your car more visible and allows other drivers to more accurately judge your speed and distance.

I don't understand how morons weren't aware you are supposed to drive with your headlights on at all times...

Sun is setting and you're approaching a hill with the sun in your eyes a vehicle comes over the crest with it's headlights on making it hard to distinguish the car from the sun. You hit the car and kill the family, including their 4 month old puppy, all because they had their headlights on.

Motorbike headlights are always on, after speaking with many people the above (poor) example is often mentioned as to why they shouldn't be always on.

p.s. If the only reason you can't see a car in broad daylight is because its headlights aren't on, you probably shouldn't be driving.

 

[Brad Goodman]

Sun is setting and you're approaching a hill with the sun in your eyes a vehicle comes over the crest with it's headlights on making it hard to distinguish the car from the sun. You hit the car and kill the family, including their 4 month old puppy, all because they had their headlights on.

Motorbike headlights are always on, after speaking with many people the above (poor) example is often mentioned as to why they shouldn't be always on.

p.s. If the only reason you can't see a car in broad daylight is because its headlights aren't on, you probably shouldn't be driving.

Every* road authority in the world is wrong?

*not every

 

[FrankGrimes]

Sun is setting and you're approaching a hill with the sun in your eyes a vehicle comes over the crest with it's headlights on making it hard to distinguish the car from the sun. You hit the car and kill the family, including their 4 month old puppy, all because they had their headlights on.

Motorbike headlights are always on, after speaking with many people the above (poor) example is often mentioned as to why they shouldn't be always on.

p.s. If the only reason you can't see a car in broad daylight is because its headlights aren't on, you probably shouldn't be driving.

and if somebody cant work out the difference between a car and the sun setting you prob. shouldn't be driving either!
I drive a lot in on country roads and found its much safer to drive with lights on.

 

[Xtreme]

Is this supposed to be funny ? I smirked once

 

[jamaican_eagle]

How come whenever someone goes batshit crazy and kills people for fun (as we see happen in USA quite a bit) there always has to be a motive?

What I'm saying is, whenever a random act of violence or terrorism happens, the media/people always say: He must've had a mental illness, or he must have been on drugs, or he was doing it for religious reasons.

There are perfectly sane people out there who aren't on drugs or religious, who just want to kill people for fun sometimes. Yeah, they're probably psychopaths but apart from that they might not have any other mental illnesses.

I'm not sure whether its fear or denial that there are people out there who just genuinely want to hurt people, yet most of society has to concoct these elaborate stories of mental illness to justify in their own minds that there are no evil people in the world.

 

[akkaps]

Is this supposed to be funny ? I smirked once

What the **** did I just watch?

 

[GWBogan]

What the **** did I just watch?

Heavy boobs.

 

[Always Ballin]

That women exist on the internet. I've never believed it to be true.

 

[edgie]

With my stance on guns it would never happen.

Wouldn't have helped at all given that LEGALLY you need to store it outside the household... as in, the garage.

 

[TheFreshBanana]

How come whenever someone goes batshit crazy and kills people for fun (as we see happen in USA quite a bit) there always has to be a motive?

What I'm saying is, whenever a random act of violence or terrorism happens, the media/people always say: He must've had a mental illness, or he must have been on drugs, or he was doing it for religious reasons.

There are perfectly sane people out there who aren't on drugs or religious, who just want to kill people for fun sometimes. Yeah, they're probably psychopaths but apart from that they might not have any other mental illnesses.

I'm not sure whether its fear or denial that there are people out there who just genuinely want to hurt people, yet most of society has to concoct these elaborate stories of mental illness to justify in their own minds that there are no evil people in the world.

Psychopathy is a mental illness.

 

[adammania9]

How songs like Hello by Adele actually become #1. Who are the people who actually request the song? I've never met someone who liked that song. And who attends concerts of people like those? How do some things and people actually become so popular?

Smoking. Absolutely pointless and anyone who does it is an idiot, regardless of your reason.

Development of technology - seriously, how did some nut come up with ideas like how to connect this and that and Bam! You have the telephone, and how do laptops even work if they're so small? How does shit go together and work so perfectly in a 1cm thick screen?

 

[Richo is God]

How songs like Hello by Adele actually become #1. Who are the people who actually request the song? I've never met someone who liked that song. And who attends concerts of people like those? How do some things and people actually become so popular?

Have you seen how many hits on youtube it has?

 

[Cruyff14]

How songs like Hello by Adele actually become #1. Who are the people who actually request the song? I've never met someone who liked that song. And who attends concerts of people like those? How do some things and people actually become so popular?

You don't understand people like different things?

 

[adammania9]

You don't understand people like different things?

Where do the people that actually enjoy these songs live?

 

[TheWoodenSlug]

I like Adele. She certainly isn't going to revolutionize music - her songs all follow a pretty standard formula and pattern, so I can see why a lot of people would find them boring, but I think they are pretty well written for what they are - easy listening pop.

Also her voice is undeniably great.

 

[MrsEddieBetts]

She has a great voice but I can't stand the maudlin dreck that she sings.

 

[Cruyff14]

I quite like(d) Hello.