Random Things on Your Mind (Part 5)

[brucetiki]

For those planning on checking out the LFL this season - they just cancelled (sorry, suspended) their season.

Adelaide was to get a team this season (playing 3 matches at Hindmarsh), but pretty safe to say the concept was a flop (last years matches were played in near empty stadiums).

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

What's LFL? Ladies Football League?

 

[Vooligan]

What's LFL? Ladies Football League?

Yep. It's actually not as entertaining as you'd think... Well, atleast not after the first 60 seconds.

 

[brucetiki]

What's LFL? Ladies Football League?

'Legends Football League' (formerly known as the Lingerie Football League).

The official line is no TV partner (i.e. 7mate saw they were wasting their time with it and dropped the coverage), but apparently they have one for 2015.

The fact that they play on a 50 metre pitch shows how much of a joke the game is.

 

[Twist_of_Lemon]

Was out seeing Bury Tomorrow play at BlackMarket last night and there was a guy during the gig trekking around the room looking for someone who ordered a bouquet of flowers. Dude looked genuinely terrified of the metalcore music and slam dancing. Did a full tour of the room before probably realising he wasn't at the right place.

Very random.

 

[DREAM TEAM BUFF]

'Legends Football League' (formerly known as the Lingerie Football League).

The official line is no TV partner (i.e. 7mate saw they were wasting their time with it and dropped the coverage), but apparently they have one for 2015.

The fact that they play on a 50 metre pitch shows how much of a joke the game is.

Lingerie Football seems big in the US

 

[brucetiki]

Lingerie Football seems big in the US

They've also grown up with the core sport it's based on though, plus other variants like Arena Football. Over here they have to resort to the sleazy element of the sport to get any traction.

 

[brucetiki]

After going to the Vintage Boats, Trains and Planes festival, all I can say is God I really hate kids

The museums were pretty good - the Railway museum is excellent (especially when the red hens are out like today/tomorrow), and the Maritime Museum is a good one to go to on a quiet day. The aviation museum is pretty average - too much of a focus on pre-jet age aircraft. But way too many kids running around (and way too many lazy parents not willing to control their kids).

 

[lincsPJ]

...all I can say is God I really hate kids... way too many lazy parents not willing to control their kids.

i think you've contradicted your target of hatred. kids are kids, blame the parents.

 

[brucetiki]

i think you've contradicted your target of hatred. kids are kids, blame the parents.

Point taken - too many parents that think their children are perfect little angels that can do no wrong. Even at work we're told not to approach a child if they're doing something wrong but to approach the parent (because us correcting the child comes across as 'that man told me off' and the parent will then call up and complain that we were bullying the kid without even knowing what was said).

 

[lincsPJ]

drove past the port today, people everywhere despite the shitty weather.

 

[brucetiki]

Bob Such has passed away

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-10-11/sa-mp-bob-such-dies/5807072

 

[DREAM TEAM BUFF]

^^^

Been very ill for most of the year

 

[brucetiki]

Yeah, didn't stop the Libs taking a heap of pot shots at him, and yet you have Marshall tweeting a condolence tweet - hypocrite much...

 

[PrideOf]

Don't usually get into Bathurst, but that race today was insane.

 

[alex_is_on_fire]

Yeah, didn't stop the Libs taking a heap of pot shots at him, and yet you have Marshall tweeting a condolence tweet - hypocrite much...

To be fair, he should never have ran. in the election.

He knew he was sick before the election and now his seat has to have a bi-election.

 

[Draft Bored]

Don't usually get into Bathurst, but that race today was insane.

I used to be obsessed with V8SC but have gone off it in recent years.

That race was the best I've ever seen at Bathurst. So many drivers looked like they had it in the bag only to have it taken away from them. Tears galore. Awesome.

 

[alex_is_on_fire]

Who won?

 

[Draft Bored]

Who won?

Chaz Mostert (FPR) with a few corners to go.

From last to first.

So many crashes, track deteriorated and had to be stopped for an hour, about 5 drivers looked like they had it in the bag.

 

[Draft Bored]

 

[Draft Bored]

 

[DREAM TEAM BUFF]

Chaz Mostert (FPR) with a few corners to go.

From last to first.

So many crashes, track deteriorated and had to be stopped for an hour, about 5 drivers looked like they had it in the bag.

& 10 S/Cars

 

[Vader]

Mostert was far from the only driver to have a story to tell. At one point Whincup was 1 lap down, after a cross-country excursion and drive through penalty (for unsafe re-entry to the race track). He managed to un-lap himself and then got time back courtesy of a safety car. He led the race by 3 seconds going into the last lap, only to run out of fuel a few hundred metres before the finish. He rolled across the line in about 5th or 6th.

 

[Smoooothy]

Mostert was far from the only driver to have a story to tell. At one point Whincup was 1 lap down, after a cross-country excursion and drive through penalty (for unsafe re-entry to the race track). He managed to un-lap himself and then got time back courtesy of a safety car. He led the race by 3 seconds going into the last lap, only to run out of fuel a few hundred metres before the finish. He rolled across the line in about 5th or 6th.

i wonder how he would have fared had he listened to his team in the preceeding laps telling him to save fuel

couple of laps of short shifting would have seen him through i reckon

 

[Vader]

i wonder how he would have fared had he listened to his team in the preceeding laps telling him to save fuel

couple of laps of short shifting would have seen him through i reckon

Maybe, maybe not. It's all hypothetical. Mostert & Whincup were doing 2:07 laps at the end. Those driving to "fuel numbers" were doing 2:09s. It's likely he could have got to the end without running out of fuel. It's less likely that he would have finished #1.