Mega Thread The Random Thoughts Thread Part 1

[Steve Dore]

...... what is the Adelaide Slide? I was listening to the radio the other day and they mentioned it as some sort of dance move.

I have no idea. I have never been into dance moves other than the side step and the don't argue.

I suspect you'd have to ask a hipster.

 

[PowerForGood]

They don't have Fritz in Sydney

And they've never heard of Woodies Lemonade. ...

 

[Puddy]

I with bomberclifford, I'm not slagging off at SA.

Adelaide has its faults but so do all places. I've lived interstate and OS and came back to SA because I found I couldn't afford the great lifestyle I have here anywhere else.

That doesn't stop me from poking fun at the Adelaide people who back the "heaps good" mantra and believe that SA has the best of everything in the world.

Lifestyle. We have middle class families who cant afford electricity and running water ffs

 

[Lou Zyffer]

And they've never heard of Woodies Lemonade. ...

... 'cos the flavour, lasts so long.

 

[Eddie Dingle]

Lifestyle. We have middle class families who cant afford electricity and running water ffs

Middle class?

 

[Doctor Feel]

Mini Haiku.

Beautiful man. Beautiful.

I demand a Byrons Firen SA Haiku.

 

[Steve Dore]

Lifestyle. We have middle class families who cant afford electricity and running water ffs

WTF

I was clearly referring to my lifestyle.

I would also suggest that if a family can not afford electricity or running water then they are not middle class. It is a sad day when middle class welfare no longer covers the cost of powering your super large screen TV in your home theatre room in your extremely energy inefficient 4 bedroom, five bathroom neo-Tuscan villa and the cost of the water required to top up your swimming pool over summer.

 

[finbarr]

Adelaide has always been a city of contrasts. For everything bad there is a direct opposite. Musically, Adelaide punched well above its weight for years. So few seem to recognise how influential a group of Adelaide people were on Seattle's so-called "grunge" scene from the mid-80's to the early 90's.
To quote from Mark Arm, of Green River and Mudhoney fame - "Obviously, I didn't make grunge up. I got it from someone else. The term was already being thrown around in Australia in the mid-'80s to describe bands like King Snake Roost, The Scientists, Salamander Jim, and Beasts of Bourbon."

King Snake Roost was an Adelaide band the evolved from the ruins of Grong Grong. Guitarist Charlie Tolnay would later record with Jello Biafra as Tumour Circus. Salamander Jim was a brilliant band that played swampy blues "grunge" with 3 of its 4 mainstays, Martin Bland, Stu Spasm, and Lachlan McLeod, being from Adelaide. Tex Perkins, who spent 2 years in Adelaide, fronted the band. Perkins had been referred to as "The High Priest of Grunge" at a point in the 1980's.
Bloodloss was another Adelaide band that had a big influence on those people in Seattle. So much so, Mark Arm himself resurrected the band in Seattle in the 90's with original Adelaideans Martin Bland and Renestair EJ (RIP), touring and recording/releasing new material.
I could go on but I won't bore you all much more. Anyway, not everything about Adelaide = bad is all I'm saying.

I'll leave with this photo of former Morphett Vale High student Stu Spasm with his then wife Kat Bjelland (Babes In Toyland), Courtney Love, and Kurt Cobain.

 

[finbarr]

Mods, I know I've taken this thread way off topic so feel free to move my post. Apologies.

 

[chiwigi]

Lifestyle. We have middle class families who cant afford electricity and running water ffs

No, no we don't. We have middle class people who bought houses and cars they can't afford so have to tighten up to pay their bills.

 

[Papa G]

WTF

I was clearly referring to my lifestyle.

I would also suggest that if a family can not afford electricity or running water then they are not middle class. It is a sad day when middle class welfare no longer covers the cost of powering your super large screen TV in your home theatre room in your extremely energy inefficient 4 bedroom, five bathroom neo-Tuscan villa and the cost of the water required to top up your swimming pool over summer.

The size and definition of what the middle class is has grown so much over the last 20-30 years.

 

[chiwigi]

The size and definition of what the middle class is has grown so much over the last 20-30 years.

Because there is no working class anymore. The definitions are obsolete.

We now have

CEO, Partners, Big Business
Trades, Professions and management
Semi skilled
Unskilled
Underclass

 

[tribey]

People on Facespace baking the club over the membership backlog.

"HI I JOINED UP WITH AN ESSENTIAL TIN MEMBERSHIP IN MAY 2014 AND NOW WANT AN EXCLUSIVE AUDIENCE WITH FOS WILLIAMS' GHOST BUT YOUR NOT RETURNING EMAILS AND THE PHONE LINE IS ALWAYS BUSY POOR FORM PORT POWER DONT YOU WANT MY MONEY OMG"

 

[Eddie Dingle]

People on Facespace baking the club over the membership backlog.

"HI I JOINED UP WITH AN ESSENTIAL TIN MEMBERSHIP IN MAY 2014 AND NOW WANT AN EXCLUSIVE AUDIENCE WITH FOS WILLIAMS' GHOST BUT YOUR NOT RETURNING EMAILS AND THE PHONE LINE IS ALWAYS BUSY POOR FORM PORT POWER DONT YOU WANT MY MONEY OMG"

Why do you look at the facebox man?

 

[tribey]

I find it hilarious when you lot slag off SA. It's bloody amazing and seriously one of the best places to live in the WORLD!

The irony of the complainants on this board is noticeable in the fact that a lot of the things you claim SA to be deficient in are almost wholly caused by the total obsession with footy!

Not many musicians? - they play C grade for Salisbury.
Architects - Colonel Light Gardens B Grade
Hipsters? - Mawson Lakes FC
artists? - Well you get the idea.

The only problem with SA is it's full of South Australians.

 

[Byrons Firen]

I demand a Byrons Firen SA Haiku.

argh
South Australia
so much more
than 1/2 hr behind
In Qld
its beautiful one day
perfect the next

Here
its Monday one day
Tuesday the next

There you go
Poet and I didn't know it
and getting worse
with every verse

I'll see myself out.

 

[tribey]

Why do you look at the facebox man?

I also enjoy the work of Dane Cook and lubing my 'nus with tabasco.

 

[Portress Hill]

i left adelaide in 2004, lived in qld for half of that time away. id do anything to be able to move back now ive got a family. you people need to start to appreciate what youve got (cant move back cos of a foreign partner who refuses to go there)

 

[raman]

No, no we don't. We have middle class people who bought houses and cars they can't afford so have to tighten up to pay their bills.

Don't forget the credit card debt!

 

[Lagooner]

I also enjoy the work of Dane Cook and lubing my 'nus with tabasco.

Jesus why don't you go support Glenelg while you're at it!

 

[raman]

Jesus why don't you go support Glenelg while you're at it!

Someone always takes it too far.

 

[raman]

Michael Slater on the Cricket show just introduced Taylor "Rex" Walker.

 

[5um0F1]

No, no we don't. We have middle class people who bought houses and cars they can't afford so have to tighten up to pay their bills.

I'm struggling to see where my new Harley is going to come from before next summer ....

 

[Eddie Dingle]

If I have the biggest flat screen tv in my street am I middle class?

 

[Steve Dore]

If I have the biggest flat screen tv in my street am I middle class?

Where you live* in Sydney that just makes you a social climber

* I'm only guessing roughly where you live.