Play Nice Random Chat Thread: Episode III

[Val Keating]

Separate incidents divided by decades, but some strong historical linkages between the two events.

They chopped hands off for stealing and instituted severe (Nazi-esque) collective punishment quite often in Leopold's time. History has not treated King Leopold well.

Of course there’s a link. Do you think what’s happened to places like Aleppo in the last couple of years will be felt in 50 to 100 years? Most definitely it will.

 

[Val Keating]

Yeah, I lived in Brussels for a year and there's stuff named after him EVERYWHERE, metro lines and stations, squares, palaces etc.

Lots of Congolese there too, one thing I found interesting is that the Congolese folks are by and large the friendliest and most polite folks you'll meet, you can go to Matonge, the African area, in the middle of the night and walk around like its broad daylight.

The North African areas like Molenbeek and Schaerbeek? They aren't the "no go zones" beloved by flogs that Groin guru watches on YouTube, but they are pretty rough and ready, there's certainly a vibe there. You'd keep your wits about you and there's high crime relatively speaking.

And the Congolese didn't go and shoot up Paris or bomb my old metro station or the airport either.

Despite having more historical motive to attack Belgium than Moroccans.

Spose it’s a bit like us having stuff dedicated to John Batman till this day, despite all the bad bad stuff he did. Not as devastating as Leopold (though I’m sure the indigenous people of Australia and especially Tassie could make a strong argument that he was just as devastating to their community).

 

[Val Keating]

Apologies if this is a bit self indulgent. Most people probably won’t have a clue what I’m on about.

It just occurred to me to clear something up if anyone’s been paying attention to the stuff about my grandfather.

It’s a different grandfather to the abusive one I mentioned ages ago. That’s my mums dad. He was a campaigner.

I was raised by my mum because my dad split. Ive never known much about that side of the family. It’s my dads dad that was the army guy.

Not sure if anyone gives a shit, but just in case

 

[Groin guru]

Yeah, I lived in Brussels for a year and there's stuff named after him EVERYWHERE, metro lines and stations, squares, palaces etc.

Lots of Congolese there too, one thing I found interesting is that the Congolese folks are by and large the friendliest and most polite folks you'll meet, you can go to Matonge, the African area, in the middle of the night and walk around like its broad daylight.

The North African areas like Molenbeek and Schaerbeek? They aren't the "no go zones" beloved by flogs that Groin guru watches on YouTube, but they are pretty rough and ready, there's certainly a vibe there. You'd keep your wits about you and there's high crime relatively speaking.

And the Congolese didn't go and shoot up Paris or bomb my old metro station or the airport either.

Despite having more historical motive to attack Belgium than Moroccans.

Congratulations. You've got the record for most mentions in a calendar year. 2 year olds crave less attention than you

 

[Gasometer]

Tough night after that loss

 

[Dan]

 

[Val Keating]

 

[Del191229]

GreatBradScott - Conroy as king shit of soccer in Australia?

I say EXCELLENT, this will relegate it back to being a few weirdos running around a deserted park on a Sunday afternoon before re-running some battle from the 1450s in the carpark where it belongs.

 

[Groin guru]

Have you got anything positive to offer? Or are you going to continue to drone on about Essendon, umpiring, and tin foil hat conspiracies? Geez.

I feel like I can step in and answer than one ham. No... JeanLucGoddard has nothing good to offer.

 

[GreatBradScott]

GreatBradScott - Conroy as king s**t of soccer in Australia?

I say EXCELLENT, this will relegate it back to being a few weirdos running around a deserted park on a Sunday afternoon before re-running some battle from the 1450s in the carpark where it belongs.

David Gallop has already beaten him to the punch, sadly.

 

[Del191229]

David Gallop has already beaten him to the punch, sadly.

The sooner they stop the pretendwendy "yay everybody soccer in Australia is for everybody being happy and having a FUN experience in a SAFE SPACE the better".

Yes it works in the MLS but we're not Americans and they at least get Rooney and Zlatan etc to watch.

Soccer here should be:

Melbourne Makedonia Alexander Killed Your Grandad vs Melbourne Hellas Macedonia is Part of Greece If You Say Different One Phone Call Mate Fifty campaigner* With Baseball Bats

Republika Srbska Perth .50 cal 1354 vs Croatian Blood Eagles of Vengeance

Sydney Brigado Rossi vs Western Sydney Il Duce Formation

War Criminals Adelaide v Newcastle Nails Bombs at the Consulate Of The Illegal Occupiers Entity

The Cup

Everybody Else v The Muzzies

 

[Flawed Genius]

Soccer here should be:

Melbourne Makedonia Alexander Killed Your Grandad vs Melbourne Hellas Macedonia is Part of Greece If You Say Different One Phone Call Mate Fifty campaigners With Baseball Bats

Good grief

 

[Val Keating]

Just a bit of Shaq getting in the mosh pit. Dude cracks me up

 

[SpiderBurton22]

Just a bit of Shaq getting in the mosh pit. Dude cracks me up

Haha, there was another video of him in the front row of another set.

 

[Hojuman]

" Hey, we're in Bali ! Let's do some coke yeh " ?

No boys, bad idea.

 

[gokangas]

" Hey, we're in Bali ! Let's do some coke yeh " ?

No boys, bad idea.

From the whispers it may not be what they were doing but who they pissed off by having very loud mouths.

 

[kangaspurs]

I get that it's a different culture, and a different context, and all that, but a possible sentence of 4-12 even just for using drugs is ****ing mad. Why would you even risk it?

Have to appreciate the hypocrisy though given Bali does everything it can to capitalise on people heading there from Australia to absolutely get absolutely blind for a week or two.

 

[Hojuman]

Mushies still legal there ? Was there in '79,'83 & '86.

Not ventured back since.

 

[Hojuman]

From the whispers it may not be what they were doing but who they pi**ed off by having very loud mouths.

And if you thought our coked out mates in Bali were stupid, along comes this fella;

https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2019...meth-smash-into-police-cars-eastwood/11337664

 

[giantroo]

 

[Orange Peanut]

Tbh I wouldn’t have bought it in here but he got me a ban on Twitter so I couldn’t approach him on there. I’ll leave it alone now. I made my point

Your account is still there mate. Was this because you tagged him in that caption thing?

 

[Horace]

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[Val Keating]

Your account is still there mate. Was this because you tagged him in that caption thing?

I only got a ban for a day. At the time I thought he got my account suspended. Even made another account more inline with my Bigfooty name. He reported me because I went a bit nuts at him over something. Heaps of profanity. Pretty silly stuff really. I spose I can be a bit ‘triggered’ as the twittersphere would say.

Side note, interesting that you know who I am on Twitter. Any clues as to your handle?
I follow a heap of people on here and some follow me but apart from a couple I have no idea who’s who.

 

[Val Keating]

Mushies still legal there ? Was there in '79,'83 & '86.

Not ventured back since.

Don’t know if they’re still legal but there’s at least one bar that you can buy them over the counter and sit on some beanbags and relax/tripout/go into psychosis

 

[tazaa]

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Trumpet
Boris
ScoMo

I get politics is politics, but these men are considered leaders.
It’s embarassing it’s come to this.

Canada and NZ must laugh at the state of it all