Mega Thread The Random Thoughts Thread Part 1

[Trewth]

When I was a whippersnapper my newsagent was also the local deli owner, who was also a keen surfer. He would give me so much shit every time I went in and bought a copy of Australian Bodyboarder Magazine that I ended up ponying up for a subscription so I didn't have to deal with him anymore. Growing up a lid grommet was tough.

 

[finbarr]

When I was a whippersnapper my newsagent was also the local deli owner, who was also a keen surfer. He would give me so much shit every time I went in and bought a copy of Australian Bodyboarder Magazine that I ended up ponying up for a subscription so I didn't have to deal with him anymore. Growing up a lid grommet was tough.

One of my fondest memories of childhood is going into the local deli for my bag of 10 cents worth of mixed lollies and thumbing through the copies of Tiger Beat or Teen Beat with KISS or Shaun Cassidy on the cover.

 

[Eddie Dingle]

One of my fondest memories of childhood is going into the local deli for my bag of 10 cents worth of mixed lollies and thumbing through the copies of Tiger Beat or Teen Beat with KISS or Shaun Cassidy on the cover.

 

[finbarr]

Not until I was older m8.

 

[chiwigi]

Our local newsagent saves all those cd's on the front of music magazines and gives them to me every now and then. I chuck them in the car and on my daily pilgrimage up and down the M4 listen in to whatever turns up.

Among the barely listenable shit I endure (Mojo/Uncut/NME/Q best new releases 2015) there are some amazing discs they come up with. On the weekend I was listening to music that influenced/inspired Mick Fleetwood to start a band. Lot's of blues and old rock and roll and all of it was really ****ing good. I am no fan of Fleetwood Mac in fact they bore me senseless but it was a really good listen. The Keith Richards one was shit hot too.

What is your favourite newsagent story?

They used to sell single cigs for ten pence, I used to buy them and re sell on the school bus for twenty pence.

 

[Eddie Dingle]

Not until I was older m8.

It was more for the double entendres in your post than the mag.

 

[powermacs]

Our local newsagent saves all those cd's on the front of music magazines and gives them to me every now and then. I chuck them in the car and on my daily pilgrimage up and down the M4 listen in to whatever turns up.

Among the barely listenable shit I endure (Mojo/Uncut/NME/Q best new releases 2015) there are some amazing discs they come up with. On the weekend I was listening to music that influenced/inspired Mick Fleetwood to start a band. Lot's of blues and old rock and roll and all of it was really ****ing good. I am no fan of Fleetwood Mac in fact they bore me senseless but it was a really good listen. The Keith Richards one was shit hot too.

What is your favourite newsagent story?

Dad used to pick me up from school on Fridays and we'd go to Sefton Park news agency to play keno. Some weeks I'd get a Wendy's hot dog, other weeks I'd get a toasted cheese sandwich from the cafe.

 

[raman]

It's not the rain ruining the cricket today, it's the constant ads for The Farmer Wants a Wife.

Put on a show where all the participants of that one are fed through a giant meat grinder. That I would watch.

 

[Grave Danger]

What is your favourite newsagent story?

Not so much newsagent, but The Paper Man was a legend in Woomera. Twice a day he'd make the round trip between Port Augusta and Woomera to bring us our Advertiser in the morning and The News in the afternoon. He was a barometer for the state of the 'Port Road' (Stuart Highway), which for a long time wasn't sealed for about 100km between Wirrappa and Yorkeys Crossing*.

It's fairly arid anywhere north of Port Augusta, but every few years you'd get the sort of rains that fill Lake Eyre and sometimes the Port Road would be impassable (darlings!) - even to our redoubtable Paper Man. But 99.9% of the time The Paper Man would complete his twice-a-day trek and the good folk of Woomera would get their daily dose of Max Harris or Max Fatchen, Geoff Kingston or Boti Nagy.













* keep a watch out for them Yorkeys!

 

[edgie]

It's not the rain ruining the cricket today, it's the constant ads for The Farmer Wants a Wife.

Put on a show where all the participants of that one are fed through a giant meat grinder. That I would watch.

There's some shit out there but it is shit I begrudgingly accept others may like and watch.

I have never, ever, met anyone who has watched farmer wants a wife though.



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[Jim Dixon]

It's not the rain ruining the cricket today, it's the constant ads for The Farmer Wants a Wife.

Put on a show where all the participants of that one are fed through a giant meat grinder. That I would watch.

That show is STILL on television?

 

[Eddie Dingle]

There's some shit out there but it is shit I begrudgingly accept others may like and watch.

I have never, ever, met anyone who has watched farmer wants a wife though.

Plenty of campaigners do or they wouldn't keep making it.

 

[Power Girl]

Plenty of campaigners do or they wouldn't keep making it.

Unless the farmer really really wants a wife

 

[Eddie Dingle]

Unless the farmer really really wants a wife

Farmers should be complaining about city folk and a lack of rain.

Nothing else matters.

 

[Portia]

Farmers should be complaining about city folk and a lack of rain.

Nothing else matters.

Incorrect.

Sometimes there's too much rain.

 

[Power Girl]

Farmers should be complaining about city folk and a lack of rain.

Nothing else matters.

you forgot daylight savings because they miss their stories on tv. They get all confused and remember that extra hour of daylight fades the curtains

 

[Eddie Dingle]

Incorrect.

Sometimes there's too much rain.

Never too much rain round these parts. Been dry now going on 8 year or so.

 

[I Dont Care]

When I was 12 and shoved a copy of Razzle up my jumper and walked out.

We've all been there

 

[I Dont Care]

you forgot daylight savings because they miss their stories on tv. They get all confused and remember that extra hour of daylight fades the curtains

When they trialed daylight savings up here in QLD years ago a local farmer wanted to sue the gov'mint 'cause he cut himself shaving. True story

 

[raman]

When I was 12 and shoved a copy of Razzle up my jumper and walked out.

Amateur. What you do is go out the back of the newsagents' at night. All the unsold mags are stacked up with only their mastheads removed (they sent them back to get a refund from the distributor). Goldmine.

 

[edgie]

Plenty of campaigners do or they wouldn't keep making it.

Well I've never met one and I know plenty of campaigners.





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[Power Girl]

When they trialed daylight savings up here in QLD years ago a local farmer wanted to sue the gov'mint 'cause he cut himself shaving. True story

i can make a lot of tenous links but i don't even know how that would work.

 

[I Dont Care]

Amateur. What you do is go out the back of the newsagents' at night. All the unsold mags are stacked up with only their mastheads removed (they sent them back to get a refund from the distributor). Goldmine.

Been there too. Country towns.

 

[Rising Power]

Amateur. What you do is go out the back of the newsagents' at night. All the unsold mags are stacked up with only their mastheads removed (they sent them back to get a refund from the distributor). Goldmine.

The building that is now a rug store on the corner of South Rd and Manton St used to be occupied by a distributor of magazines. For years (in the 1990s anyway) they had a massive skip bin filled with magazines on pretty much any topic/hobby/pr0n/comic you could imagine. Only had to scale the 7ft barb wire fence to get into it. Now THAT was a gold mine.

 

[Contested Marx]

It's not the rain ruining the cricket today, it's the constant ads for The Farmer Wants a Wife.

Put on a show where all the participants of that one are fed through a giant meat grinder. That I would watch.

There's some shit out there but it is shit I begrudgingly accept others may like and watch.

I have never, ever, met anyone who has watched farmer wants a wife though.



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Wife and daughter seem to enjoy it. Can't stand it myself, but it's the more 'wholesome' of the dating shows (as in it focuses less on the underlying bitchiness that these sorts of shows tend to have, MKR for example). But these shows are there to encourage Netflix subscriptions anyway.

I still think Brayshwarh-hor-hwahhr is what's ruining the cricket. That and a C grade Windies team.