Banter 2021 Off-Topic Chat Thread - PART II

[Partridge]

More trivia, wasn't there a Pope who died of the hiccups?
What a horrible way to go.

There was a Pope whose corpse was dug up and interrogated (that is, put on trial). By another Pope too.

No I'm not kidding.

 

[Braklet]

Yeah we know

It's grim indeed.

I share your concerns about crowds. The only time I ever got scared at a show was a Rolling Stones concert with festival seating. The crowd behind surged forward, we got pressed, there was nothing you could do.

 

[Braklet]

Depends on the gas. Some absolutely do.

I told you, I really love bean burritos!

 

[Partridge]

It's grim indeed.

I share your concerns about crowds. The only time I ever got scared at a show was a Rolling Stones concert with festival seating. The crowd behind surged forward, we got pressed, there was nothing you could do.

You wonder how it can still happen. The first time was way back in 1979 in Cincinatti. You'd think 42 years on they might have learned something.

 

[Shell]

The dickhead rapper literally tells his audience to ignore security.

Thats probably a start right there

 

[Shell]

He and whoever was IC of that concert or the promoters gonna be up to their eyeballs in lawsuits. For a long time.

 

[Shell]

It's grim indeed.

I share your concerns about crowds. The only time I ever got scared at a show was a Rolling Stones concert with festival seating. The crowd behind surged forward, we got pressed, there was nothing you could do.

The only time ive ever been GA/standing in front of the stage was U2.

Pretty chilled audience that one. No surging

 

[Cataholic]

The fastest seppo pro baseball pitchers throw it at 160kph (100mph) or more (and it doesn't get slowed down by hitting the deck).

Ted Williams, arguably the greatest hitter of all time, claimed that at his peak he could actually read the writing on the ball as it came towards him, and nobody ever seems to have doubted his word.

Didn't they do the same thing with Bradman?

He claimed he could tell which part of the ball / seam he hit, and was tested somehow and proven correct?

 

[FredLeDeux]

Didn't they do the same thing with Bradman?

He claimed he could tell which part of the ball / seam he hit, and was tested somehow and proven correct?

Very probably.
Some special players have the reflexes/eyesight to do this sort of thing, whereas everyone else has to pick it up from "tells" in the bowler's actions/body/hand/arm.

 

[Down at K Park]

Depends on the gas. Some absolutely do.

I think he was referring to natural gas. They do add a smell to it.

 

[Spazz Cat]

There was a Pope whose corpse was dug up and interrogated (that is, put on trial). By another Pope too.

No I'm not kidding.

I take it he pleaded the fifth

 

[FredLeDeux]

I take it he pleaded the fifth

Would have been a good idea, from memory after they found him guilty they chopped him up into 5 pieces and chucked them into the Tiber.

 

[Spazz Cat]

Very probably.
Some special players have the reflexes/eyesight to do this sort of thing, whereas everyone else has to pick it up from "tells" in the bowler's actions/body/hand/arm.

Even Warney. 80kms (for me) is still bloody fast. The good batsmen could pick wronguns and flippers out of the hand.
Just how?

 

[Spazz Cat]

Would have been a good idea, from memory after they found him guilty they chopped him up into 5 pieces and chucked them into the Tiber.

Goes to show. You should never represent yourself.

 

[cats_09]

 

[FredLeDeux]

Next you'll be telling us he doesn't shit in the woods.

 

[Shell]

There was a Pope whose corpse was dug up and interrogated (that is, put on trial). By another Pope too.

Was this them?

 

[Shell]

 

[Spazz Cat]

More trivia. But 7th Day Adventists believe the Pope is the Anti Christ. (I think)

 

[Spazz Cat]

Which is just ridiculous. Everyone knows it's Bill Gates.

 

[cats_09]

Next you'll be telling us he doesn't sh*t in the woods.

It's one of those weird things I remember watching and it stuck with me

 

[Shell]

Which is just ridiculous. Everyone knows it's Bill Gates.

Nah Zuckerberg

 

[Spazz Cat]

Nah Zuckerberg

Nah. Roger Federer.

 

[Cataholic]

 

[Cataholic]