Mega Thread The Random Thoughts Thread Part 1

[tribey]

Adam Scott on fiyahhhh!!! Two wins in a row and could well take the Aussie Open too. Best swing in golf, great guy, hope he knocks Tiger off and gets to #1 next year.

And Crows fan #teamanyoneelse

 

[Dobie G]

This is good to hear, Chevy -
One area that PAFC's 2014 membership drive will focus on is the east of Adelaide, with particular attention paid to the greater Norwood region.
A market-priced season package focused on bringing fans to Adelaide Oval will be on offer.

When I was a boy in the fifties and early sixties -living in Evandale and going to school at Wellington Road (Trinity Gardens today) and Norwood High - the Adelaide Oval was only a tram ride along Payneham Road into North Terrace, then a quick walk down King William Road and across the Torrens into the Oval.
No pain at all.
The pain in those days was reserved for Norwood's on-field lot, and a look at the SANFL ladder at the end of nine seasons out of ten would not have labelled the Norwood region as 'greater.'

Hey Lockhart I went to Norwood High in the '60's when Ivan the Terrible was the principal

 

[Lockhart Road]

Hey Lockhart I went to Norwood High in the '60's when Ivan the Terrible was the principal

Hey back, Dobie. I too remember Ivan. He was terrible.

First year Norwood High was 1960, the first year Penfold's Vineyard at top of Magill Road was cleared of vines enough to pluck 13-year-olds out of primary school and put them into long trousers.
1963 - secured Leaving Certificate, then left, joined Commonwealth Public Service, Repatriation Dept.

Teachers: C.C. Wilmott, Hayden (husband of Mrs H), Roberts the Redhead, Peake the Poodle.
Puppy Love interest: Miss EBERT the Student Teacher! She was a study alright.
Love interest: Jill Daniels. (Jill, if you're out there, reply c/- Alberton GPO Box 5015.)

Rexie J was also at Norwood High two years ahead of me.
Hey, Rexie ... WTFR You ??

 

[Relativity]

I have a serious question....

Why is the sky pitch black at night?

The sky is only ever "pitch black" at night when there is cloud cover. Otherwise, unless you are looking at the sky from a light polluted region, stars will always be visible. The fact that you can see stars at night is that light is being reflected off them from a light source eg the sun. If you are viewing the sky at night from a city the reflected light is obscured by the city lights.

 

[Relativity]

I get the water inference but water is a visible liquid and can be seen especially when compacted eg earth..

but the gases are not visible even when compacted or we would see them in our atmospere eg oxygen

Gasses can be invisible or visible depending on their density among other things. Other factors are the presence of particles of matter. Water vapor is "invisible" and yet we can see a rainbow. This is a consequence of light refraction or the separation of the varying wavelengths of white light in to its roygbiv components. Colour is merely a consequence of white light filtration.

 

[Relativity]

Wind comes from palm trees swaying back and forth.

Ignoramus. Everyone knows that wind comes from wind farms.

 

[King_Tredrea]

Let's be honest here, no-one can ever or will ever prove how the world began. It's all just opinions. People can choose to believe whatever they want.

 

[King_Tredrea]

What WINOCOP is saying is essentially correct

 

[Dobie G]

Hey back, Dobie. I too remember Ivan. He was terrible.

First year Norwood High was 1960, the first year Penfold's Vineyard at top of Magill Road was cleared of vines enough to pluck 13-year-olds out of primary school and put them into long trousers.
1963 - secured Leaving Certificate, then left, joined Commonwealth Public Service, Repatriation Dept.

Teachers: C.C. Wilmott, Hayden (husband of Mrs H), Roberts the Redhead, Peake the Poodle.
Puppy Love interest: Miss EBERT the Student Teacher! She was a study alright.
Love interest: Jill Daniels. (Jill, if you're out there, reply c/- Alberton GPO Box 5015.)

Rexie J was also at Norwood High two years ahead of me.
Hey, Rexie ... WTFR You ??

Started a bit later in '67 so just missed you and left just after the school hall was finished in '71, most of the teachers you mention were still there. A few more were Berlin (french) was a bugger, Peglegs Prentice (latin) good teacher, Conway (maths) was ok, Miss Balwin didn't teach me- great legs walking through the yard, Ford was ok for some obsure one off media subject, Jamieson (economics) enjoyed him.

Jill Daniels is that her current name?

 

[Power Raid]

Let's be honest here, no-one can ever or will ever prove how the world began. It's all just opinions. People can choose to believe whatever they want.

Russell Ebert can

 

[Power Girl]

Man I can't wait for footy to start so I can read stuff about actual footy.

 

[raman]

Let's be honest here, no-one can ever or will ever prove how the world began. It's all just opinions. People can choose to believe whatever they want.

Or they can choose to believe things that there is evidence for and are therefore the sensible things to believe.

 

[raman]

I didnt say faith was evidence its actually the biggest hole in creationism

Creationism is nothing but hole.

 

[raman]

my main point was each theory has just as much holes as the other as well evidence of each...

That's so far from true, and indeed one is actually a theory and the other has not reached that level, as a class of understanding.

 

[Killer Power]

And Crows fan #teamanyoneelse

Really??? Thankfully i'm able to divorce the subjects of football and golf. If for example Boaky was a massive Tiger Woods fan then it wouldn't faze me.....even though Tiger is a self centred knob. Arguing with someone about their tastes in football teams is about as pointless as arguing with them about their taste in women. Each to their own.

 

[Killer Power]

A debate about religion......excellent. Must be nothing happening in politics.

 

[tribey]

Really??? Thankfully i'm able to divorce the subjects of football and golf. If for example Boaky was a massive Tiger Woods fan then it wouldn't faze me.....even though Tiger is a self centred knob. Arguing with someone about their tastes in football teams is about as pointless as arguing with them about their taste in women. Each to their own.

Ordinarily I'd agree, but http://www.afc.com.au/news/2013-11-15/coming-soon-walker-and-scott

 

[raman]

A debate about religion......excellent. Must be nothing happening in politics.

At the start of the day we were talking about science

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Started a bit later in '67 so just missed you and left just after the school hall was finished in '71, most of the teachers you mention were still there. A few more were Berlin (french) was a bugger, Peglegs Prentice (latin) good teacher, Conway (maths) was ok, Miss Balwin didn't teach me- great legs walking through the yard, Ford was ok for some obsure one off media subject, Jamieson (economics) enjoyed him.

Jill Daniels is that her current name?

Also Lockhart Road probably a discussion best had via PM. I'm not comfortable with people's names being thrown around who have no idea they are being discussed here.

 

[Zakk Wylde]

At the start of the day we were talking about science

Weird Science rules !

 

[Jumbo]

Britain’s Prince Charles Might Be Related to Dracula

Yep, it seems Prince Charles just might be a descendant of the historical Dracula, also known as Vlad of Walachia, or to his more intimate associates, “Vlad the Impaler.” At least that’s what some historians think, and if you doubt the future monarch of Great Britain could ever be related to such a tyrant, Charles has even admitted the fact himself. He stated that genealogy has proven his kinship with the dastardly prince. Because of this, Charles once joked that he had, “A bit of a stake in the country (Romania).” Peasants being impaled by the thousands. Hilarious!

 

[MP_]

The Alberton Swamprats have a facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/AlbertonSwamprats

we have also had a couple of retirements so there are spots available for people willing to give others shit in a fantasy football competition

http://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threads/alberton-swamprats-season-17-team-thread.1035367/

 

[Lockhart Road]

Also Lockhart Road probably a discussion best had via PM. I'm not comfortable with people's names being thrown around who have no idea they are being discussed here.

Understood, Ford. End of thread within a thread.
I got carried away with the nostalgia. My apologies to all.

 

[raman]

Britain’s Prince Charles Might Be Related to Dracula

Yep, it seems Prince Charles just might be a descendant of the historical Dracula, also known as Vlad of Walachia, or to his more intimate associates, “Vlad the Impaler.” At least that’s what some historians think, and if you doubt the future monarch of Great Britain could ever be related to such a tyrant, Charles has even admitted the fact himself. He stated that genealogy has proven his kinship with the dastardly prince. Because of this, Charles once joked that he had, “A bit of a stake in the country (Romania).” Peasants being impaled by the thousands. Hilarious!

I'd actually be a bit more surprised if this was not the case. European royalty and nobility is basically just a gigantic bag of inbreeding.

 

[BIG MATTY WHITE]

That's so far from true, and indeed one is actually a theory and the other has not reached that level, as a class of understanding.

we are getting way away from the point of none can be proven and depending on your beliefs none hold more water then the other.... we can argue this until the cows come home but we will be argueing about some thing that has no resolution....

One has a following of billions of people the other doesnt...you can say one is better hold more fact ...

funny thing is the big bang theory was started by catholic priest....not a scientist...