Random Random Chat Thread XL

[Lore]

Docking their tails prevents fly strike. Hadn't heard the shearing one before although this article appears to debunk that theory whilst also backing up what you say. Interesting.

I think it's to do with the lack of anaesthetic. Oh and mulesing.

 

[TheBrightSide]

Honey is off the menu for hardcore vegans too.

 

[Lore]

Honey is off the menu for hardcore vegans too.

Yep. I'm not vegan but I have a friend who is, and she tells me about it sometimes. It must be difficult to remember everything you have to avoid. It seems really difficult, like it's almost a philosophy and lifestyle thing as much as a diet.

 

[Beerfish]

I used to have a boss that was born and raised in South Africa but was of Jewish heritage and spent a lot of his adult life working in London before moving out to Australia. He was some sort of religion where he couldn't eat anything that had a cloven hoof or feathers or scales or something. It sounded bizarre to me and this guy tried to make out he was hard core religious but was one of the most foul mouthed, short tempered people I'd ever met. Asked me at a work do whether I was a '**** or arse man' and casually went on to tell the whole table about his wife's hysterectomy and subsequent medical problems afterwards. He also pulled me into his office and tried to tear strips off me for daring to read an email trail that was attached to an email he sent me which basically caught him out lying to me. How dare you read the trailing emails! Nobody does that!

But yeah the eating rules were just weird.

 

[TheBrightSide]

Yep. I'm not vegan but I have a friend who is, and she tells me about it sometimes. It must be difficult to remember everything you have to avoid. It seems really difficult, like it's almost a philosophy and lifestyle thing as much as a diet.

Yeah I stopped eating meat about 40 years ago (around 5 yo)
I went vegan for a little bit but it is way too hard. Too many things are off limits.
I think it was vegan cheese that broke me. It's crazy expensive and tastes terrible.

 

[Lore]

I used to have a boss that was born and raised in South Africa but was of Jewish heritage and spent a lot of his adult life working in London before moving out to Australia. He was some sort of religion where he couldn't eat anything that had a cloven hoof or feathers or scales or something. It sounded bizarre to me and this guy tried to make out he was hard core religious but was one of the most foul mouthed, short tempered people I'd ever met. Asked me at a work do whether I was a '**** or arse man' and casually went on to tell the whole table about his wife's hysterectomy and subsequent medical problems afterwards. He also pulled me into his office and tried to tear strips off me for daring to read an email trail that was attached to an email he sent me which basically caught him out lying to me. How dare you read the trailing emails! Nobody does that!

But yeah the eating rules were just weird.

Yikes. And he was your boss? How does someone with so few social skills end up in management?

Religious food rules are a bit difficult to keep straight. Some of it is to do with how it's killed, I think one of them uses separate kitchens and separate utensils for animal flesh and other animal products (so no beef burgers with cheese in them). I don't think I've heard of no cloven hooves, no feathers and no scales before. What does that leave? Pigs and camels?

Yeah I stopped eating meat about 40 years ago (around 5 yo)
I went vegan for a little bit but it is way too hard. Too many things are off limits.
I think it was vegan cheese that broke me. It's crazy expensive and tastes terrible.

What was it made of? :S Making meringue with chickpea water was the most random thing I've come across so far.

 

[TheBrightSide]

What was it made of? :S Making meringue with chickpea water was the most random thing I've come across so far.

It's soy cheese. I like most soy based stuff, but they can't nail cheese yet.
Chickpea water meringue does sound pretty random, makes you wonder how people discover this type of thing!

 

[Beerfish]

How does someone with so few social skills end up in management?

Accountant.

 

[Lore]

I apparently officially have NBN now.

Down speed: 4.5mbps.

Same as it always was.

I'd put this in the what shits ya thread, but being annoyed about that is more energy than it's worth really. /indifference/

(It's FTTN btw)

 

[TheBrightSide]

I apparently officially have NBN now.

Down speed: 4.5mbps.

Same as it always was.

I'd put this in the what shits ya thread, but being annoyed about that is more energy than it's worth really. /indifference/

(It's FTTN btw)

Spoke to Telstra recently about the NBN upgrade, apparently we have no choice about it with BigPond.
It's actually going to be slower than what we have now.

 

[Lore]

Spoke to Telstra recently about the NBN upgrade, apparently we have no choice about it with BigPond.
It's actually going to be slower than what we have now.

Yeah, I'm on Telstra too, on an NBN ready plan so no choice, not even much warning. Got an email on Friday saying 'you'll get your new router on Monday'... like ok thanks can I just use the old one that I only bought a few months ago, that was meant to be NBN ready? Apparently not... gotta use their one.

Oh and the new router/cabling doesn't support the phone line without power so if there's a power out there isn't anything for emergency calls unless your mobile is charged I mean lots of people probably don't have home phone lines anyway, and I barely use mine, but in an emergency situation it should still work, surely?

The internet here is slow because of a cable between here and the node being screwed up, which they apparently can't fix because it's under someone's driveway. Fibre from the node to wherever makes no difference anyway...

 

[Howard Moon]

crackpot Malcolm blight moon theory idea ahead - caution.

Fan participation, we have never really nailed it here in the AFL.. we get the old hand clap chants and what not, the odd booooooooooooooo or balll but is that really helping your own team?

look in the round ball game for example, the home team gets an extra leg due to their fans on constant song - but in a more refined example, look at the home fans behind the away keeper - they sweat on one little mistake, then jump on him, they wait for him to prepare to kick off and do the slowly ascending into panic loud noise - it tangibly creates nervous panic.. oh crap, no options, gotta kick, where will i go..arrrg.. the ascending noise is like a panic alarm.. its only small, but its a little thing that the fans can do to actually affect a moment in the game.

We sometimes do it, if the cheer squad is behind the oppositon kick out merchant and hes made a blue, but its never really an organised thing, its a few yobbos driving it and it dosent really take off.

im here to ask, lets drive some fan particpation...lets make it hell for whoever is kicking out from full back against us.. but ive got a better idea.

Tippa..

defenders never know where he is, so in their minds, hes everywhere - they sunconciously rush their kicks because of the implied pressure

then you get that moment tippa is actually clsoing you down, the crowd gets into that excited ascending rushed creshendo, half our fans saying heeesss got you!, half their fans saying youre hotttt hurry uppp - it creates a panic in the bloke with the ball.

imagine - we could as fans actually re create that

even if tippa isnt about - when an opposition player has a ball in space in defence, they crowd as one starts the eeeeeeuuuhhhhiii heeeres tippaaaa look out !!

id love it if as a fan base we could be innovators, and try something (possibly silly) like this... it might only affect 2 or 3 players a game.. but in this league where things are so close, it could be the difference between winning and losing, if we get another repeat entry or two

 

[sameolds33]

Yikes. And he was your boss? How does someone with so few social skills end up in management?

Religious food rules are a bit difficult to keep straight. Some of it is to do with how it's killed, I think one of them uses separate kitchens and separate utensils for animal flesh and other animal products (so no beef burgers with cheese in them). I don't think I've heard of no cloven hooves, no feathers and no scales before. What does that leave? Pigs and camels?


What was it made of? :S Making meringue with chickpea water was the most random thing I've come across so far.

no cloven hooves, no shellfish (ie no scales) etc is garden variety Jewish. My best friend at school was Jewish. The dietary laws about unclean animals are set out in the book of Leviticus.

 

[Lore]

no cloven hooves, no shellfish (ie no scales) etc is garden variety Jewish. My best friend at school was Jewish. The dietary laws about unclean animals are set out in the book of Leviticus.

I'm a bit confused, double negatives, ergh. I thought they were allowed "cloven" but not allowed "not cloven" hooves... i.e. they can eat cows and sheep but not horses or camels?

 

[sameolds33]

I'm a bit confused, double negatives, ergh. I thought they were allowed "cloven" but not allowed "not cloven" hooves... i.e. they can eat cows and sheep but not horses or camels?

yeah, could have that wrong...I recall something about animals that chew the cud being good tucker (ie sheep and cows but not pigs.)

 

[Lore]

yeah, could have that wrong...I recall something about animals that chew the cud being good tucker (ie sheep and cows but not pigs.)

That sounds familiar. Google says "cloven hooves and chew the cud"; camels chew cud but don't have completely cloven hooves, pigs have cloven hooves and don't chew the cud, both are not kosher.

 

[Lord Nicholson]

Fan participation, we have never really nailed it here in the AFL.. we get the old hand clap chants and what not, the odd booooooooooooooo or balll but is that really helping your own team?

look in the round ball game for example, the home team gets an extra leg due to their fans on constant song

That's because things happen in our game and we don't need to fill dead airspace.

Soccer is in the top 1 of things I wouldn't want the AFL to become.

 

[Gumby2Hurley]

Fun fact, we won all our home games at the MCG this year .

 

[Harlequin]

Note to self: don't make a cake when you're pissed off.

Not thinking I lifted the beaters out of the mixing bowl whilst they were still going. Bloody chocolate cake batter everywhere

 

[Max Headroom]

crackpot Malcolm blight moon theory idea ahead - caution.

Fan participation, we have never really nailed it here in the AFL.. we get the old hand clap chants and what not, the odd booooooooooooooo or balll but is that really helping your own team?

look in the round ball game for example, the home team gets an extra leg due to their fans on constant song - but in a more refined example, look at the home fans behind the away keeper - they sweat on one little mistake, then jump on him, they wait for him to prepare to kick off and do the slowly ascending into panic loud noise - it tangibly creates nervous panic.. oh crap, no options, gotta kick, where will i go..arrrg.. the ascending noise is like a panic alarm.. its only small, but its a little thing that the fans can do to actually affect a moment in the game.

We sometimes do it, if the cheer squad is behind the oppositon kick out merchant and hes made a blue, but its never really an organised thing, its a few yobbos driving it and it dosent really take off.

im here to ask, lets drive some fan particpation...lets make it hell for whoever is kicking out from full back against us.. but ive got a better idea.

Tippa..

defenders never know where he is, so in their minds, hes everywhere - they sunconciously rush their kicks because of the implied pressure

then you get that moment tippa is actually clsoing you down, the crowd gets into that excited ascending rushed creshendo, half our fans saying heeesss got you!, half their fans saying youre hotttt hurry uppp - it creates a panic in the bloke with the ball.

imagine - we could as fans actually re create that

even if tippa isnt about - when an opposition player has a ball in space in defence, they crowd as one starts the eeeeeeuuuhhhhiii heeeres tippaaaa look out !!

id love it if as a fan base we could be innovators, and try something (possibly silly) like this... it might only affect 2 or 3 players a game.. but in this league where things are so close, it could be the difference between winning and losing, if we get another repeat entry or two

I often yell gleefully "watch out, Tippa's coming!" Even when watching on the tv, hoping the opposition player is thinking the same thing and will panic

 

[Doss]

Got a seat unexpectedly easily on the train this morning. No one gave me a sharp look as I walked towards the seat, even those who stood near it already.

I now fear I have sat on a munt patch or turd and everyone is silently laughing at me.

 

[Howard Moon]

Got a seat unexpectedly easily on the train this morning. No one gave me a sharp look as I walked towards the seat, even those who stood near it already.

I now fear I have sat on a munt patch or turd and everyone is silently laughing at me.

you know when the train is more empty, everyone automatically sits in the criss cross formation?

ie, in a 4 pack one sits on the window, the opposite window side is empty then a guy sits on an aisle... its common legroom protocol... then those gaps get filled up as the stations go by.

usually i will sit on the aisle - and every time without fail, when we have 3 in, and the 4th seat is empty beside me, somebody wants to come sit down - i just shuffle over to the window, nobody wants the scene with the person trying to squeeze in past legs and bags and arses.., everone sighing and humpfing like it has ruined their entire day..

anyhow, when i shuffle over, the person about to sit always nearly drops dead from shock - like ive done something so great, so unexpected... they genuinly have to thank me.

whats wrong with the world?

the simple act of me shuffling over a seat is such a feat of kindness

just do it people!

 

[Mercurial89]

you know when the train is more empty, everyone automatically sits in the criss cross formation?

ie, in a 4 pack one sits on the window, the opposite window side is empty then a guy sits on an aisle... its common legroom protocol... then those gaps get filled up as the stations go by.

usually i will sit on the aisle - and every time without fail, when we have 3 in, and the 4th seat is empty beside me, somebody wants to come sit down - i just shuffle over to the window, nobody wants the scene with the person trying to squeeze in past legs and bags and arses.., everone sighing and humpfing like it has ruined their entire day..

anyhow, when i shuffle over, the person about to sit always nearly drops dead from shock - like ive done something so great, so unexpected... they genuinly have to thank me.

whats wrong with the world?

the simple act of me shuffling over a seat is such a feat of kindness

just do it people!

Its just so insanely rare, most people are deep into looking at their phones they don't even know someone is coming to claim a seat.

Sadly what is not as rare is people who usually take up more than one seat due to their obscene girth trying to fit into a half seat gap (made all that much worse in Summer).
Stand for a bit, I guarantee you have been sitting all day, you might even burn some calories.

 

[eth-dog]

I always sit window seat, facing opposite direction if possible

 

[Howard Moon]

Its just so insanely rare, most people are deep into looking at their phones they don't even know someone is coming to claim a seat.

Sadly what is not as rare is people who usually take up more than one seat due to their obscene girth trying to fit into a half seat gap (made all that much worse in Summer).
Stand for a bit, I guarantee you have been sitting all day, you might even burn some calories.

sometimes you end up sitting 180 degrees facing the aisle with your back to the girth - perching on the morsel of seat they have left for you...

you know another thing? call me crazy, but sitting in a 4 pack is an art, its a communal dance that requires all 4 people to act in a symbiotic fashion, 8 legs and knees all intertwined in the church and steeple lock. Its an untold thing, if i need to stretch my legs for a minute, opposite pulls theirs back, if opposite has numb legs, ill move mine aside - nothing needs to be verbalised, its all a muscle memory, the learned art of co habiting a 4 pack

then... someone has the gall to bring their laptop into the mix - instantly he/she has renedered the system defunct, has thrown off the delicate balance. He/she now needs to have legs and knees camped in the one spot all trip, he/she has now monopolised a huge chunk of the communal zones with their oblong of chinese plastic parts, fan spewing hot air into the mixer...and with the laptop, comes the accompanying laptop bag, which sits on the ground muddying the waters more.

Mr Laptop user, dont think i dont see you, trying to make yourself look large when i enter - trying to make your 4 pack look unappealing to the new sitter.. like a its a feat too great to join into.

needs to be a new rule, sure, laptop is fine in a less packed train - in a 4 pack. nope, put it away and play your part in 4 pack ettiqute.