Random Random Chat Thread XL

[Doss]

Chocolate lettuce ... yuck!

I have a relative who eats lettuce with cream and sugar on top.

No lie.

The mind truly does boggle sometimes.

 

[CourtzMajora]

I have a relative who eats lettuce with cream and sugar on top.

No lie.

The mind truly does boggle sometimes.

Uh ... nope. Strange but whatever floats their boat haha.

 

[Doss]

Uh ... nope. Strange but whatever floats their boat haha.

It doesn't float my boat, let me assure you.

He got diagnosed with high cholesterol a while back. The imagination doesn't have to be stretched too much to imagine why.

 

[Lord Nicholson]

Going back to the last page, the Sandler film Funny People - it's actually a quasi-adaptation of The Great Gatsby.

I thought it was pretty good!

 

[Howard Moon]

Thought it was ok for Sandler fare, it didn't induce bile like normal

 

[Andronicus]

What percentage of Sandlers roles have been based on the way he played a drunk billy maddison?

 

[Beerfish]

Anyone watching the Kabbadi world championships on Fox Footy? Saw it come up in the guide and was like wtf is that? Watched a bit last night and I was like wtf is this? As far as I can work out you have to touch your foot over a line while the other team pairs off holding hands and tries to stop them.

Those crazy Indians (no racisto).

 

[Lore]

Anyone watching the Kabbadi world championships on Fox Footy? Saw it come up in the guide and was like wtf is that? Watched a bit last night and I was like wtf is this? As far as I can work out you have to touch your foot over a line while the other team pairs off holding hands and tries to stop them.

Those crazy Indians (no racisto).

The EFC website had a video about the Australian team practicing at TVSC... It's the first and only time I've heard of it before and I still don't get it

 

[Beerfish]

The EFC website had a video about the Australian team practicing at TVSC... It's the first and only time I've heard of it before and I still don't get it

Campbell Brown is the captain. Apparently Milne is on the team too but I didn't see him. Think I'll be going for India on the basis of that alone.

 

[GUMBLETRON]

Watched a bit of it in India. Amazing.

 

[Beerfish]

Watched a bit of it in India. Amazing.

In what sense? Amazing sport or amazing it's considered one?

 

[GUMBLETRON]

 

[Beerfish]

I was quite chuffed I managed to work out a rule. The defending team can go over their own red line but MUST be holding hands with another teammate before doing so.

 

[EnolaGay]

WTF are you guys talking about?

 

[Beerfish]

WTF are you guys talking about?

The Kabaddi World Championships.

 

[Howard Moon]

Anyone find this Phil Hughes stuff unsavoury? It was a tragic accident, why trawl back looking at words and sledges?

Nobody enters a sporting field with the intent of killing someone.

 

[Whispering_Jack]

Anyone find this Phil Hughes stuff unsavoury? It was a tragic accident, why trawl back looking at words and sledges?

Nobody enters a sporting field with the intent of killing someone.

It's an inquest and essentially a workplace accident resulting in death. Inquests are common for workplace fatalities.

 

[Howard Moon]

Don't mind the inquest as such but the family Making points of sledges made by players, I guess... I understand they are rightly devastated.. but the these guys are all former teammates too and probably hurting aswell, this would be re raking over the embers maybe?

 

[Pweter]

Don't mind the inquest as such but the family Making points of sledges made by players, I guess... I understand they are rightly devastated.. but the these guys are all former teammates too and probably hurting aswell, this would be re raking over the embers maybe?

You're spot on. We might as well introduce a no bouncer rule while we're at it. 20 bouncers at a batsman in a knock of 100+ balls is well below the 2 per over allowed.

Did the umpires think anything unsavoury was going on? Did the match referee think anything unsavoury occurred?

It was a tragic set of circumstances, but everything was confined within the rules and the spirit of the game otherwise the officials would've stepped in.

 

[Howard Moon]

It's easy to go back and Cherry pick heat of moment comments in isolation a re relate them to the tradgic end..

Be like That bloke Clarke sledged falling over and breaking his arm the same day Clarke got in his grill and said we are going to break your fing arm mate...

 

[Whispering_Jack]

It's pretty simple, the inquest is there to look at every little detail and see if this can be avoided in the future. Clearly it will come out as a terrible accident and nothing really could have prevented it, but it's just a matter of process

 

[Beerfish]

Was watching an episode of The Winners Rebooted last week (mainly because Paul Salmon was on) and one of the games they showed was Round 6, 1984 Fitzroy v Essendon at the Junction Oval. Anyway, one of the commentators was a Mike Fitzpatrick. He had me in stitches with his blatantly biased calling. Just as there's no way the play that was allowed back then would be allowed now, there's no way a commentator would get away with that kind of stuff today either.

 

[Pweter]

It's pretty simple, the inquest is there to look at every little detail and see if this can be avoided in the future. Clearly it will come out as a terrible accident and nothing really could have prevented it, but it's just a matter of process

I agree however sledging didn't cause the death and, at least going by what's being reported, there's been way too much focus on the sledging.

 

[Pweter]

Was watching an episode of The Winners Rebooted last week (mainly because Paul Salmon was on) and one of the games they showed was Round 6, 1984 Fitzroy v Essendon at the Junction Oval. Anyway, one of the commentators was a Mike Fitzpatrick. He had me in stitches with his blatantly biased calling. Just as there's no way the play that was allowed back then would be allowed now, there's no way a commentator would get away with that kind of stuff today either.

So he's always been a kent when it comes to Essendon?

Did he sound like a self entitled smug prick, or did that only come later in life?

 

[Beerfish]

So he's always been a kent when it comes to Essendon?

Did he sound like a self entitled smug prick, or did that only come later in life?

He sounded more pissed off and frustrated because despite it being close for 3 quarters we piled on 8 goals to 1 in the last to win by 51 (the big fish ended up with 8 for the game).