Universal Love TRTT Part 8: Random thoughts also sack Hinkley

[dirty2]

After taking a redundancy package and was a stay at home dad for 2 years I went from 74kgs to up around 108ish kgs in 2 years (Also stopped playing football).

Once I started work again... I dropped down and I now sit at 88 to 92kgs. Would like to get to low 80's but I enjoy my beer and ice coffees to much.

 

[LFC2010]

I wonder if Dusty Martin was involved?

https://t.co/KSCNvVxnWT

 

[Power Girl]

From what I can remember, (waiting for PG to clarify) it's on an indoor court but the basket is a literal picnic basket on its side and players may have had some form of sticks or brooms but this could be Mandela affected.

It just sounded like the kind of game you made up as kids when you're at a big family gathering and were banished to the shed to play and had to make do with what was there.

I'm not trying to invoke your wrath Power Girl keep that for Edgeworth and his Monocolor Dreampants (size men's 24)

It was just something I fell into as a teenager because I played basketball. It did feel rather made up. There were no sticks or brooms but that could have made things more interesting. The rings were as you accurately stated literal picnic baskets but they were huge. Far taller than any basketball or netball rings with no backboard.
I got asked to fill in and only played for about a year but played state carnival but that was probably more to do with that no one had heard of it and I was Erin Philipslike (in my head) with a basketball in my hand.
Also one of my PE teachers at high school played Korfball for Australia and made us do a teaching block of it.
Now to others what obscure sports have you played?

 

[Kiss from a Rozee]

I had a quick look and it doesn’t seem like they use sticks of any kind. The basket is a piece of council equipment that someone’s nicked from roadworks and I think it goes in the middle of the court. Weird.

You what’s a good, slightly obscure game? European Handball. I remember playing it in Year 9 PE class over a couple of weeks and loved it, being goalie was hard work at times though.

I had a mate who played beach handball which looked like the biggest party lol

 

[Prison bar Pete]

Now to others what obscure sports have you played?

dragonboat racing (I represented the state, but a drunk dugong would have been eligible at that time)

 

[manureid]

We had a blackboard duster soccer league in high school. Played across the back of the classroom with chairs as goals at either end. Had a small 'neutral zone in the middle that if the duster came to rest in there it was a tackle area, otherwise you stayed on your side. Duster off the wall was the play. Made it hard to stop. We used to stay in at lunch to play. 10 team league. 5 minute games. Used to pilfer dusters from other classes and tape ends to make them last longer.
League got shut down when teachers who could not find dusters realised where they were all going.

 

[tribey]

For those interested:

Hardcore green ideology reminds me of Port’s detractors.

“Grow the pie, Port! Do something to appeal to more people, Port! Do something to get bigger crowds, Port! Do a better job of attracting sponsors, Port!”

*Game Day Village, cedes share of AAMI Stadium sell-off, NTUA and other industry-leading stadium initiatives, sponsor unveiling at MCG, China strategy*

“... no! not like that!”

is to,

“We must do something about climate change and carbon emissions! Right now!”

- “Nuclear power can supply abundant and reliable baseload power that is essentially carbon-free”

“I’d rather see the planet cook tyvm!”

 

[JimmyBeerCans]

I used to play indoor football with socks

 

[Contested Marx]

It was just something I fell into as a teenager because I played basketball. It did feel rather made up. There were no sticks or brooms but that could have made things more interesting. The rings were as you accurately stated literal picnic baskets but they were huge. Far taller than any basketball or netball rings with no backboard.
I got asked to fill in and only played for about a year but played state carnival but that was probably more to do with that no one had heard of it and I was Erin Philipslike (in my head) with a basketball in my hand.
Also one of my PE teachers at high school played Korfball for Australia and made us do a teaching block of it.
Now to others what obscure sports have you played?

Year 9 or 10 had a brand new high school sports teacher who was a former state champion level lacrosse player.

Obviously wanting to promote his passion sort, in his first term he got the school to buy all these lacrosse sticks, balls and goals and we spent three weeks non-competitively learning how to play until he thought we were ready to play a match.

That match was a bloodbath. It went Lord of the Flies campfire instantly. All the rules about sticks and not hitting opponents (or teammates for that matter) went out the window and we broke half the sticks, every kid either had bruised shins or black eye or smashed nose.

We never played it after that.

Next year he tried Greco Roman wrestling and by the end of the first lesson a kid had a broken collar bone.

We were restricted to non contact or non-weaponised sports after that.

I had a quick look and it doesn’t seem like they use sticks of any kind. The basket is a piece of council equipment that someone’s nicked from roadworks and I think it goes in the middle of the court. Weird.

You what’s a good, slightly obscure game? European Handball. I remember playing it in Year 9 PE class over a couple of weeks and loved it, being goalie was hard work at times though.

The above is probably why we got a summer of handball was pretty fun, except played outdoors on the bitumen court so we all ended up with ragged knees and elbows.

 

[Contested Marx]

Also one Christmas I was given a tennis set (I wanted cricket gear) that came with the rubber band you peg into the ground so you can hit the ball back to yourself.

This was at a big family gathering with lots of older cousins and before long we are playing cricket with the tennis ball pegged in half a metre in front of the crease. The 'bowler' would stretch the ball as far back as possible while the batsman faced some Geoff Thommo / Shoab Aktar / Brett Lee hybrid delivery which would maim or emasculate depending on the angle

 

[Contested Marx]

More memories from my dud of a school. Triggered by the blackboard duster story.

Year 12. We would fill ice cream tubs with water and freeze in the home ec fridges.

Hot afternoon study periods (bludge times) would be spent playing a form of soccer with these blocks of ice on the asphalt basketball courts.

It was like a big fat hockey puck. Once again this was stopped after a few weeks when a) teachers didn't think it was a good look and b) someone's ankle Charlie Dixoned on the giant ice cube.

 

[bomberclifford]

Yeah mate, you're lonely because of the money.

 

[edgie]

I remember when a mate from rugby territory brought his rugby ball to school once so we could play that at lunch instead of footy. We had no idea what we were doing and ****ed around, and a literally grabbed his ball and left. Probably went to the library to play digimon or something.

 

[Macca19]

I used to play indoor football with socks

Yep socks, balloons. Used to do speccys off the couch with balloons

 

[Macca19]

More memories from my dud of a school. Triggered by the blackboard duster story.

Year 12. We would fill ice cream tubs with water and freeze in the home ec fridges.

Hot afternoon study periods (bludge times) would be spent playing a form of soccer with these blocks of ice on the asphalt basketball courts.

It was like a big fat hockey puck. Once again this was stopped after a few weeks when a) teachers didn't think it was a good look and b) someone's ankle Charlie Dixoned on the giant ice cube.

We used to play a form of british bulldog mixed with basketball on the concrete basketball courts called crash. Was basically basketball with tackling and hip n shoulders. Was great fun until a kid got shirt fronted, his head hit the concrete, blood pissed out everywhere and he ended up in hospital for a week.

 

[edgie]

Meanwhile at my old high school allegedly a girl was r*ped in the basketball court storeroom during a PE lesson.

 

[xflamedancer]

It was just something I fell into as a teenager because I played basketball. It did feel rather made up. There were no sticks or brooms but that could have made things more interesting. The rings were as you accurately stated literal picnic baskets but they were huge. Far taller than any basketball or netball rings with no backboard.
I got asked to fill in and only played for about a year but played state carnival but that was probably more to do with that no one had heard of it and I was Erin Philipslike (in my head) with a basketball in my hand.
Also one of my PE teachers at high school played Korfball for Australia and made us do a teaching block of it.
Now to others what obscure sports have you played?

Electric Light Cricket in my Port Cheer Squad days. They had courts in the Port and in the East(?) Parklands

 

[Kiss from a Rozee]

Hardcore green ideology reminds me of Port’s detractors.

“Grow the pie, Port! Do something to appeal to more people, Port! Do something to get bigger crowds, Port! Do a better job of attracting sponsors, Port!”

*Game Day Village, cedes share of AAMI Stadium sell-off, NTUA and other industry-leading stadium initiatives, sponsor unveiling at MCG, China strategy*

“... no! not like that!”

is to,

“We must do something about climate change and carbon emissions! Right now!”

- “Nuclear power can supply abundant and reliable baseload power that is essentially carbon-free”

“I’d rather see the planet cook tyvm!”

The problem is private ownership of energy. Capital will always favour the solution which completely ignores the concept of “sustainability” or the existence of an environment that can be destroyed.

The benefits of a coal power plant (money) are reserved for the private individual. The costs (literal deaths, destruction of the environment, deathmarch towards climate collapse) are shared by the public. The only way those costs get actually addressed is through public ownership.

 

[Kiss from a Rozee]

Watched “Defendor” from 2009 last night. Very quaint little movie about an intellectually challenged man played by Woodie Harrelson who believes he is a super hero who fights against a drug cartel.

Pretty dark humour, awesome message, Harrelson absolutely owning it. Definitely had its flaws but I quite liked it.

 

[_VXV]

Meanwhile at my old high school allegedly a girl was r*ped in the basketball court storeroom during a PE lesson.

 

[Del165198]

Hardcore green ideology reminds me of Port’s detractors.

“Grow the pie, Port! Do something to appeal to more people, Port! Do something to get bigger crowds, Port! Do a better job of attracting sponsors, Port!”

*Game Day Village, cedes share of AAMI Stadium sell-off, NTUA and other industry-leading stadium initiatives, sponsor unveiling at MCG, China strategy*

“... no! not like that!”

is to,

“We must do something about climate change and carbon emissions! Right now!”

- “Nuclear power can supply abundant and reliable baseload power that is essentially carbon-free”

“I’d rather see the planet cook tyvm!”

Nuclear isn't being stopped from an en masse rollout because of green groups. The idea that green groups have any sort of major power is pretty laughable as in most areas they've been pushed to the fringe.

Nuclear isn't very popular amongst the general populace, most of whom don't identify as green.

It certainly isn't cheap, or quick to roll out new power plants. As much as the risks can be downplayed and minimised, those risks do still exist and the public is paranoid about it.

It's an interesting debate. Shutting down existing plants that were perfectly fine seems the wrong way to go. Building new ones.. I'm not convinced the money couldn't be better invested elsewhere.

 

[Prison bar Pete]

Electric Light Cricket in my Port Cheer Squad days. They had courts in the Port and in the East(?) Parklands

South Park Lands off Peacock Road (now an ephemeral wetland). I'd stop and have a look from time to time: interesting version of the game.

 

[Garibaldi Red]

Electric Light Cricket in my Port Cheer Squad days. They had courts in the Port and in the East(?) Parklands

South Parklands. The Greenhill Rd end of King William Street.

I played a season with a few blokes I knew from Edwardstown footy club.

I would think most would’ve played Brandy at school but did anyone else play it with a cricket ball?

I used to play a game with the next door neighbour, it involved a dart and a beach bat.

 

[xflamedancer]

South Park Lands off Peacock Road (now an ephemeral wetland). I'd stop and have a look from time to time: interesting version of the game.

South Parklands. The Greenhill Rd end of King William Street.

I played a season with a few blokes I knew from Edwardstown footy club.

I would think most would’ve played Brandy at school but did anyone else play it with a cricket ball?

I used to play a game with the next door neighbour, it involved a dart and a beach bat.

Thanks, I couldn't remember which parklands they were in, I used to play with the Wilson's at the Port back in the early 80s.

 

[Dylan8]

You what’s a good, slightly obscure game? European Handball. I remember playing it in Year 9 PE class over a couple of weeks and loved it, being goalie was hard work at times though.

European handball a close second to futsal for PE sports.