Non-AFL chat thread

[giblj]

Nic Maddinson with 1/1 off 0.0 overs today to go with his hundred, nearly as legendary as his moustache or that time he fielded with a toasted sandwich in his pocket. What a guy.

 

[Chicago1]

Could someone please translate the post above for me? I'm just a visitor here and don't understand. Well, I do know what a toasted sandwich is, I think.

 

[giblj]

Could someone please translate the post above for me? I'm just a visitor here and don't understand. Well, I do know what a toasted sandwich is, I think.

Well it's a highly unusual cricket stat in that the only ball he bowled (read pitch thrown) for the day recorded the final out, conceded a run and didn't count as a ball bowled in the stats. There's not really an equivalent in baseball unfortunately, it's just an interesting quirk of how cricket stats are taken.

 

[Chicago1]

That's far too complicated for me to comprehend. I'm still working on what a sticky wicket means. Sounds dirty.

 

[giblj]

That's far too complicated for me to comprehend. I'm still working on what a sticky wicket means. Sounds dirty.

haha, it's a potentially complicated one even for people who follow cricket. You don't have to worry about sticky wickets these days, they use protection now.

 

[NBates]

So to continue what a crappy few days it's been, I fell in the parking lot of the doctor's office(Nephrologist[kidney specialist] - a Richmond supporter who was dressed in black with a yellow scarf on), the doctor who I was seeing about the reasons why I've been so weak at times that I almost had fallen. Not even my cane helped me keep upstanding. I fell face down on concrete and bruised my forehead and scratched my glasses. We went up to the doctor's office for surely they would have some medical supplies to clean up the bleeding wounds. No nurse at the office. Not even an emergency medical kit. The kidney doctor saw me after about a half an hour and cleaned the wounds. Good news is that my heart and kidneys aren't the problem of my fatigue. I do have Chronic Kidney Disease, but that's not causing the low blood pressure and weakness. Neurologist might be next. And new glasses. At least I have Medibank.

My forehead looks like I was headbumped by Toby Greene. I'm just going to tell people that I was beaten up by a drunk Tigers fan.

Not good Chicago [emoji856] hope you're feeling better soon[emoji38]

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[Chicago1]

Thanks. I'm now on meds to see if my blood pressure will raise and stabilise. I'm glad I travelled around the Pacific/Asia when I was younger and even enjoyed riding roller coasters up to five years ago. I went on about 200 coasters while I was back in the states. Now I'm excited if I can make it down to the bus stop.

 

[Chicago1]

It's Victorian Seniors Festival Week! Free public transport, dancing, celebrating and extra nap time! Almost as exciting as Trade Week. Almost.

 

[Wizard17]

It's Victorian Seniors Festival Week! Free public transport, dancing, celebrating and extra nap time! Almost as exciting as Trade Week. Almost.

Watching paint dry is about as exciting as trade week right now lol

 

[Dannnnnnnnnn]

https://www.bigfooty.com/forum/forums/video-games.255/

Of course there is.

I don't travel there much though as the games I play are mostly TBS and RTS games that rarely have threads or doing random challenges on minecraft.

Just bringing this over here to respond to - but you're always welcome to make those threads.

 

[Wizard17]

Rts 4 life

Remember a game I played a while back on Company of Heroes as the Germans. Had a battery of about 4 Nebelwerfers with about 200 kills each because the stupid AI kept on blobing up his forces at a bottleneck. So many fried yanks lol.

Love my Nebbies and Hummels in good arty maps.

 

[Wizard17]

I love some of the Easter eggs and funny general speeches that appear in the Total war series occasionally. I once had an Admiral called Akbar and some general in m2tw say something about faeries and elephants and another say something along the lines of "is that my wife in the enemy's lines, well we are ****** now". I'm guessing the developers had fun making up those lines.

 

[VitalDread]

Remember a game I played a while back on Company of Heroes as the Germans. Had a battery of about 4 Nebelwerfers with about 200 kills each because the stupid AI kept on blobing up his forces at a bottleneck. So many fried yanks lol.

Love my Nebbies and Hummels in good arty maps.

i used to love setting up mass machnie guns nets around the ground since most players took ages to get tanks

I love some of the Easter eggs and funny general speeches that appear in the Total war series occasionally. I once had an Admiral called Akbar and some general in m2tw say something about faeries and elephants and another say something along the lines of "is that my wife in the enemy's lines, well we are ****** now". I'm guessing the developers had fun making up those lines.

man, Total War is hands down my fav series

 

[JEDi 44]

Remember a game I played a while back on Company of Heroes as the Germans. Had a battery of about 4 Nebelwerfers with about 200 kills each because the stupid AI kept on blobing up his forces at a bottleneck. So many fried yanks lol.

Love my Nebbies and Hummels in good arty maps.

There goes that 'jumping between languages' thing that you do, again

 

[Wizard17]

i used to love setting up mass machnie guns nets around the ground since most players took ages to get tanks

I like doing that together with Nebelwerfers as the Germans. MGs pins them and the artillery takes them out.

Later on I just go on a rampage with a Tiger and a few Panther tanks. They just don't die people have to put so much effort in just to kill one of them.

 

[JEDi 44]

Can someone please explain to me what the hell Marcus Adams is doing playing goal keeper for the Syrian Football team??

 

[JEDi 44]

CAAAAAAAAHHHHHHIIIIIIILLLLLLLLLL!!!!!

 

[Chicago1]

Just saw the devastation in Santa Rosa California by the fires. A friend from university lived there. I visited her prior to my original journey to Australia in 1975. Haven't kept in touch. That part of California is(was) so beautiful.

 

[giblj]

CAAAAAAAAHHHHHHIIIIIIILLLLLLLLLL!!!!!

 

[Wizard17]

Jason Behrendorff should be playing in the Ashes after that.

 

[giblj]

Jason Behrendorff should be playing in the Ashes after that.

Should be considered based on the fact that he's been one of the best Shield bowlers for years, bizarre that he hasn't played a test yet.

 

[Wizard17]

Should be considered based on the fact that he's been one of the best Shield bowlers for years, bizarre that he hasn't played a test yet.

The hero: Having bowled just one over on debut in Ranchi, Jason Behrendorff made the most of his full complement tonight, removing India's entire top four in the space of just 12 deliveries. Afternoon rain and muggy temperatures created perfect conditions for the left-armer to exploit and he did so to finish with 4-21 from four overs, the third-best figures by an Australian in T20I cricket. Most impressively of all was the fact that only one of his four wickets was due to a big shot from the batsman; the dismissals of Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli and Manish Pandey would not have been out of place in ODI or Test cricket, the star Indian trio simply no match for Behrendorff's swing and nippy pace.

 

[MJ_Dogs]

So Socceroos will play Honduras in the last qualifier for the 2018 World Cup. All because of a crazy last day of north and Central American qualifiers where the US did the biggest choke job of all time. Panama score in the 89th minute to go straight through. Honduras upset Mexico to now play Australia while the USA, ranked 28 in the world lose to Trinidad and Tobago ranked 99 and go out altogether. Amazing

 

[maddog37]

So Socceroos will play Honduras in the last qualifier for the 2018 World Cup. All because of a crazy last day of north and Central American qualifiers where the US did the biggest choke job of all time. Panama score in the 89th minute to go straight through. Honduras upset Mexico to now play Australia while the USA, ranked 28 in the world lose to Trinidad and Tobago ranked 99 and go out altogether. Amazing

Is that a good result for us??

 

[MJ_Dogs]

Is that a good result for us??

Yep. It's the best we could hope for. The US would have destroyed us. Panama is slightly ahead of Honduras and they are very good defensively so with our shocking ability outside of Cahill to find the back of the net, Honduras is a great result.

That said, Honduras is a much better side than Syria and light years ahead of Thailand. So we're still up against it