Random thoughts not worthy of a thread (Part I)

[Gasometer]

The Night Of.... shaping up as brilliant TV

Two episodes behind already...bad news but good news also.

 

[blackshadow]

Excellent as I've been iQ'ing it and, as you do, couldn't remember why I'd done so sight unseen (which usually leads me to deleting the lot). Will check 'em out now.

You'll sit down and watch the first three episodes and be totally blown away.

I think we're living in a golden age of television - so many amazing shows happening or recently happened.

Breaking Bad
Fargo
True Detective
There's Night Manager
Broadchurch
Luther
Game of Thrones
Bloodline
House of Cards

I think we can safely add The Night Of to the list of great contemporary TV.

 

[Grogg]

You'll sit down and watch the first three episodes and be totally blown away.

I think we're living in a golden age of television - so many amazing shows happening or recently happened.

Breaking Bad
Fargo
True Detective
There's Night Manager
Broadchurch
Luther
Game of Thrones
Bloodline
House of Cards

I think we can safely add The Night Of to the list of great contemporary TV.

Black Mirror

 

[blackshadow]

Black Mirror

Will have to investigate this.

 

[Twinkletoes]

Congrats to The Beast, Eric Wallace, on being signed for 3 years by the Carolina Panthers NFL team as a Tight End.

 

[Arden]

Congrats to The Beast, Eric Wallace, on being signed for 3 years by the Carolina Panthers NFL team as a Tight End.

Mustn't have spent enough time with Nahas if he's still a tight end.

 

[Twinkletoes]

Panthers sign TE Wallace, waive WR Hamilton
Posted 10 hours ago

Bryan Strickland Senior Writer
Twitter

CHARLOTTE – As the Carolina Panthers made their march to Super Bowl 50, one of their biggest fans made a decision to try to play for his favorite team.

But while Eric Wallace had the look of an NFL player, he hadn't played the American version of football since high school, more than a decade earlier.

"Coming back, the decision was whether I'd play basketball again or continue along the football path and put pads on again," said Wallace, a former college basketball player who returned to his native North Carolina in November after playing Australian Rules Football for three years. "I hadn't played football since I was 14.

"But the window was still open, so I decided to go for it."

Wallace's decision to chase his dream, no matter how long delayed, paid off Monday when the Panthers signed the tight end to a three-year contract, the standard deal for a rookie who at the age of 27 is anything but your standard rookie.

To make room on the 90-man roster, the Panthers waived wide receiver Cobi Hamilton.

"I grew up a Carolina fan," Wallace said. "Today, the dream came true."

Three weeks ago, just months after putting on pads for the first time since high school, Wallace approached wide receiver coach Ricky Proehl at his training facility.

"I walked into his office and told him I wanted to play for the Carolina Panthers," Wallace said. "It was a short chuckle at first, and then he was like, ‘Are you serious?' I was."

The 6-6, 260-pounder worked out for Proehl the next day, running the 40-yard dash in 4.6 seconds. Monday, two days before players report to training camp in Spartanburg, S.C., Wallace worked out for other Carolina coaches. Hours later, he signed.

"It's surreal," Wallace said. "I have size – you can't really teach size – and speed. I'm faster than I look. I'm a smooth athlete, pretty good with my hands."

Wallace stopped playing football at Glenn High School in Kernersville, N.C., more than a dozen years ago to concentrate on basketball. It paid off in the form of playing time at three different colleges - Ohio State, DePaul and Seattle. In the summer of 2012, Wallace was looking into the possibility of playing pro basketball overseas when he was approached about participating in an Australian Rules Football combine.

"August came, I was like, ‘It's a free trip to L.A. Why not?' " Wallace said. "Out of about 35 of us, three of us got invited to the real combine in Melbourne, Australia. Out of those three, North Melbourne signed me."

Wallace ended up playing three seasons in Australia as a ruckman,

"The big guy who enforces things, kind of like a basketball center," he explained. "It's a very physical sport, with no pads. It's fast-paced, nonstop like basketball. Guys are clearing half-marathon numbers during a game. It's also highly skilled. Everybody has to be able to kick, run, catch.

"It's a different physicality. The AFL is more free flow where you've got a man and you guard him. The NFL, it's more head-to-head, trying to stop a 270-pound man running at you."

Wallace decided to return to American football after getting advice from some former NFL players he knows, among them defensive end Simeon Rice. Wallace got his foot in the door by scoring an invitation to the New Orleans Saints' rookie minicamp, and now he's come full circle by returning to play football in his home state.

"I'm just here to learn, here to help," he said. "It's kind of like when I went to Australia. I had no idea what that game was, but I learned it from scratch. The good news is that I'm a blank slate, no bad habits."

http://www.panthers.com/news/articl...Hamilton/e5d69b8c-ab47-473e-a6c1-59edb18b2ce1

 

[Twinkletoes]

Mustn't have spent enough time with Nahas if he's still a tight end.

In other news, the Panthers have also announced the signing of Robbie Nahas' ex girlfriend as Wide Receiver. *boom tish*

 

[kangaspurs]

You'll sit down and watch the first three episodes and be totally blown away.

I think we're living in a golden age of television - so many amazing shows happening or recently happened.

Breaking Bad
Fargo
True Detective
There's Night Manager
Broadchurch
Luther
Game of Thrones
Bloodline
House of Cards

I think we can safely add The Night Of to the list of great contemporary TV.

Mr Robot as well. If you haven't seen it check it out, captivating dark, psychological thriller-type television.

 

[Gasometer]

You'll sit down and watch the first three episodes and be totally blown away.

I think we're living in a golden age of television - so many amazing shows happening or recently happened.

Breaking Bad
Fargo
True Detective
There's Night Manager
Broadchurch
Luther
Game of Thrones
Bloodline
House of Cards

I think we can safely add The Night Of to the list of great contemporary TV.

True Detective Season 1.

One excellent episode of Season 2 doesn't count.

Sopranos was the Godfather of all of these.

The 80's actually sowed the seeds...Hill St Blues...St Elsewhere..Miami Vice...LA Law...Moonlighting...all shattered the mould of what tv should be.

 

[Gasometer]

Is Night Of on Foxtel View Anytime?

 

[Gasometer]

And don't forget Mark Jackson on Open Mike tonight.

Train crash interview at its best.

 

[blackshadow]

True Detective Season 1.

One excellent episode of Season 2 doesn't count.

Sopranos was the Godfather of all of these.

The 80's actually sowed the seeds...Hill St Blues...St Elsewhere..Miami Vice...LA Law...Moonlighting...all shattered the mould of what tv should be.

Sopranos, The Wire, West Wing and Deadwood and a bit later Mad Men were all more ground breaking than those 80s shows those heralded the more recent crop of quality television.

Deadwood, sopranos and the wire are definitely among my favourite TV series ever.

 

[Gasometer]

Sopranos, The Wire, West Wing and Deadwood and a bit later Mad Men were all more ground breaking than those 80s shows those heralded the more recent crop of quality television.

Deadwood, sopranos and the wire are definitely among my favourite TV series ever.

No.

If those shows didn't break the mould of plot...character development...taboo subjects...different styles of filming and production quality and standard...you would still be watching the 'Happy Days' template based on the 60's formats.

Without these shows challenging the status quo then the evolution to this golden era would not have happened because the leap would have been too great.

 

[Gasometer]

Anyway...pleasing to see Turnbull set up a RC today.

But here's a tip.

****ing act on the recommendations.

 

[Gasometer]

The culture of normality of the perpetrators in 4 Corners.

Shocking.

 

[giantroo]

Anyway...pleasing to see Turnbull set up a RC today.

But here's a tip.

******* act on the recommendations.

And his minister...

 

[Gasometer]

And his minister...

I think I watching this buck passer on APAC at the moment.

 

[giantroo]

At a press conference in Canberra Scullion told the media that he had never seen the footage aired by the ABC before and was out at dinner when Four Corners was broadcast.

“The PM rang me, fairly agitated, and said, ‘Have you seen it?’ And I said, ‘No, mate.’ He said, ‘You better go home and see it. Give me a ring.’” Scullion said.

http://junkee.com/indigenous-affair...e-four-corners-story-was-out-at-dinner/81868/

 

[Gasometer]

How did that chair restraint legislation get through the N.T Parliament?

 

[Gasometer]

At a press conference in Canberra Scullion told the media that he had never seen the footage aired by the ABC before and was out at dinner when Four Corners was broadcast.

“The PM rang me, fairly agitated, and said, ‘Have you seen it?’ And I said, ‘No, mate.’ He said, ‘You better go home and see it. Give me a ring.’” Scullion said.

http://junkee.com/indigenous-affair...e-four-corners-story-was-out-at-dinner/81868/

Yep.

That's him now.

He should be ****ing sacked as well.

So much for Ministerial Responsibility.

 

[giantroo]

 

[Gasometer]

Arse clown.

Doesn't know why so many NT kids are in jail.

Poverty.

Poverty.

Poverty.

 

[Gasometer]

Outside of last night has anything come to light about his offences out of jail?

Has he ever been out of jail?

And if he is released...he needs intensive assistance.

 

[giantroo]

Arse clown.

Doesn't know why so many NT kids are in jail.

Poverty.

Poverty.

Poverty.

And they are looking at cutting the dole after you have been on it for 6 months. Watch the crime rate sky rocket.