Mega Thread The Random Thoughts Thread Part 1

[Dylan8]

Just bought an ipad air... What's everyone's favourite apps ??

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dont be too extreme now

 

[finbarr]

The second season of Twin Peaks really lost it's way with Lynch going off to do other projects and really having little to no input for the most part. Some of the sub-plots were just awful - Audrey's love affair with that Billy Zane character was crap, and that whole Andy vs Dick Tremayne with the orphan kid was just utter nonsense.
But Lynch came back towards the end and put everything right.

 

[raman]

The second season of Twin Peaks really lost it's way with Lynch going off to do other projects and really having little to no input for the most part. Some of the sub-plots were just awful - Audrey's love affair with that Billy Zane character was crap, and that whole Andy vs Dick Tremayne with the orphan kid was just utter nonsense.
But Lynch came back towards the end and put everything right.

Have to admit I never hated that bit (after all it gave rise to Pete's line "Audrey, there are many cures for a broken heart. But nothing quite like a trout's leap in the moonlight"), but generally I think you're bang on target.

The absolute worst sub-plot was James' involvement with the skanky blonde femme fatale. Ugh.

 

[Zakk Wylde]

Nespresso pod verdict - Arpeggio & Ristretto FTW

 

[finbarr]

Oh **** that was awful!!!

Edit - In response to raman. Big Footy doesn't allow me to quote posts on PC.

 

[raman]

Oh **** that was awful!!!

Edit - In response to raman. Big Footy doesn't allow me to quote posts on PC.

Seriously?

 

[tribey]

Nespresso pod verdict - Arpeggio & Ristretto FTW

Ristretto and Fortissio Lungo for mine

 

[It Just Is]

Bernard Tomic has a very punchable head.

 

[Schulzenfest]

Bernard Tomic has a very punchable personality

FTFY

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

If it is the same story I am thinking about, KO'K had been a guest at cricket match and Jagger had convinced Kerry that Jerry thought he was pretty cute so he thought things were going to progress a bit further, then the punch line came:

Here we were, the 3 of us, one of the most attractive women on the planet, the famous womeniser and sex god........and Mick Jagger, followed by that guttural laugh for the next 5 minutes.

It was gold.

I have a mate who is heavily involved in both cricket and footy and has been booking Kerry O'Keefe for sportsman nights in SA since KOK started appearing on The Fat on ABC TV before he got his permanent gig on ABC Radio's international cricket coverage in 2001.

On Saturday I gave my mate some tickets to the basketball I won, so he could take his boys to the 36ers game. He asked me how much I wanted for the 4 tickets and I said nothing, but I want a favour. I told him I wanted him to call KOK and tell him, to tell the Roy Orbison story and the Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall threesome story on Sunday after lunch and that way I could tape it and pass it on Power Raid

Anyway he pulls out his phone and rings KOK - no answer - so he leaves a message asking KOK to call him back and figures hes probably on air anyway. one day i'm going to pinch my mates phone. he has about 700 sporting celebrities number in it.

So he asks me to write an email to him, saying what I want KOK to talk about and he will txt KOK tonight after the basketball.

KOK gets the message but the pommy capitulation means he doesn't get time to work it into his call. My mate sent me the message he sent KOK and KOK's reply message, and KOK said thanks as my mate said a few other things in his txt.

My mate called me today and said that KOK supposedly told the Jerry Hall story, but not the Roy Orbison one, after the game was over and it would be on podcast. I wasn't listening then and I can't find a podcast of it. But I have found the following.

His 35 minute chat during the lunch break. Jim is on it, Grant Mitchell, Harsha, Agers, Princess Grace, Warnie, Michael Clarke and a few others. You can listen at the following link. He does say within the first minute that at the 1980 Lord's Centenary test he drank half a dozen pints with Mick Jagger and his father Joe and reckons "to just be on the drink with Mick Jagger has been the highlight of my life".... pause... then the cackle.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-01-05/grandstand-farewells-kerry-okeeffe/5185314

Meeting the queen at the Centenary Test in 1977 and the queen crushing his bowling hand as a plot to stop him taking wickets on the last day.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-01-03/farewell-kerry-meeting-the-queen/5184226

Rocking the Casbah
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-01-03/farewell-kerry-rock-the-casbah/5184194

Explaining Skippy the Bush Kangaroo to Harsha Bhogle
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-01-03/farewell-kerry-skippy-the-bush-kangaroo/5184204

Where is the groin?
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-01-03/kerry-farewell-where-is-the-groin/5184132

Kerry O'Keefe on why he reckons Sri Lankan commentator Roshan Abeysinghe's nickname in the Australian cricket team would be 'Bjorn'
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-12-27/okeefe-on-abeysinghes-aussie-nickname/4434642

Harsha, Kerry and the Naga chilli
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-01-05/kerry-okeeffe-is-dared-to-eat-a-chilli/3759720

 

[finbarr]

Seriously?

Apparently it's an Internet Explorer thing...

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Apparently it's an Internet Explorer thing...

Something on IE doesn't work properly? Hold the phones!

 

[Ford Fairlane]

The second season of Twin Peaks really lost it's way with Lynch going off to do other projects and really having little to no input for the most part. Some of the sub-plots were just awful - Audrey's love affair with that Billy Zane character was crap, and that whole Andy vs Dick Tremayne with the orphan kid was just utter nonsense.
But Lynch came back towards the end and put everything right.

Once they revealed who killed Laura Palmer Twin Peaks was cooked. I barely remember much of the following season. Brilliant TV in its first season with an amazing cast of off-the-wall characters. These days Lynch could have included Frank Booth (although sadly without Dennis Hopper).

There is talk of a revival - David Lynch is casting for a Twin Peaks promo = although it could just be to coincide with the Blu Ray release of Twin Peaks.

In a similar vein (pardon the pun), Buffy should never have returned after Buffy died defeating Glory. There were a couple of superb episodes in the following two seasons but the air was out of the tyres.

 

[SureBuddy]

Just bought an ipad air... What's everyone's favourite apps ??

Foxtel Go app. Provided you have reasonable internet it is crystal clear to watch.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Just bought an ipad air... What's everyone's favourite apps ??

Angry Birds - stand out from the crowd!

 

[Seanybruz]

Given the recent topics have revolved around BB & the Cricket I thought that a few might like this

 

[finbarr]

Once they revealed who killed Laura Palmer Twin Peaks was cooked. I barely remember much of the following season. Brilliant TV in its first season with an amazing cast of off-the-wall characters. These days Lynch could have included Frank Booth (although sadly without Dennis Hopper).

There is talk of a revival - David Lynch is casting for a Twin Peaks promo = although it could just be to coincide with the Blu Ray release of Twin Peaks.

In a similar vein (pardon the pun), Buffy should never have returned after Buffy died defeating Glory. There were a couple of superb episodes in the following two seasons but the air was out of the tyres.

David Lynch never wanted Laura Palmer's killer revealed, and had the network not demanded a closed ending he never would have revealed it.
Aside from all the goofy stuff in the second season there was some great stuff there to keep people interested. The Windom Earle stuff, and how it all tied in to the search for the Black Lodge, the bigger role for character's like Major Briggs, the One-Armed Man, Lynch himself as Gordon Cole, were all great parts of season two. But each time I watch it back I do find myself fast forwarding over large chunks unfortunately.

 

[I Dont Care]

Could never get into Twin Peaks, vaguely remember judging it between bizzare and boring. Nor does Breaking Bad interest me, in fact the only recent tv series that I have enjoyed is Criminal Minds. I suppose that after about 8 years of only having a diet of Austar/Foxtel, as we couldn't get a free to air signal, has poisoned my ability to enjoy tv anymore, I rarely watch tv other than the footy

 

[bomberclifford]

Angry Birds - stand out from the crowd!

Star Wars Angry Birds is where it's at.

 

[bomberclifford]

I would never have picked you as a Buffy fanboy, Ford.

 

[Macca19]

Apparently it's an Internet Explorer thing...

Works for me at work on the old IE browser. BF is just a shambles on the new IE browser though.

 

[raman]

I would never have picked you as a Buffy fanboy, Ford.

He's not a true fanboy if he doesn't like season 7.

 

[Steve Dore]

Works for me at work on the old IE browser. BF is just a shambles on the new IE browser though.

IE 11 is very buggy. Compatibility mode is broken in IE 11.

 

[finbarr]

Yeah, it's only since I "upgraded" to iE 11.

 

[raman]

Yeah, it's only since I "upgraded" to iE 11.

Does this fix it?