Mega Thread The Random Thoughts Thread Part 1

[diegodcg]

Melbourne looks like a good place for someone who wants to work with sports though

Plenty of football, rugby, cricket etc

I watched a couple of Melbourne Storm games last year and they were pretty good

 

[Schulzenfest]

So, this is currently a thing for some reason:



The hyperlink leads to Cahill's Wiki page too.

 

[Contested Marx]

Ditto Adelaide

Less Victorians here guy

 

[Doctor Feel]

So, this is currently a thing for some reason:

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The hyperlink leads to Cahill's Wiki page too.

I see you have not visited the Jay Schulz page, and you call yourself Schulzenfest.

 

[Jim Dixon]

Lesson to take out of this discussion: People dislike everyone from every other state, but Adelaide also hate their own.

The main objection to living in South Australia is that there's way too many Crows fans there.

#heapsgood #fruchotopia #malcom

 

[JimmyBeerCans]

Melbournites carry on like they live in New York or sumpthang I dunno, It's ok just underwhelming from my point of view.. full of shit bands, copious levels of bogan that outweighs Adelaide no matter how much they pay us out for it & they are constant beggers of approval to the point of twatism.

 

[Grave Danger]

I did not realise before that Melbourne's population is nearly as big as Sydney's: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Australia_by_population though both are smaller than Rio's

I'm still very ignorant about Australia, but I'm getting there

Like Rio, Sydney has the Mardi Gras...

Melbourne doesn't have a Mardi Gras, but it does have Moomba...

South Australia also has Moomba...

 

[finbarr]

South Australia is the ******* worst state in the country by a long long way. However, Portz.

It all depends. Adelaide has it's problems like anywhere else but all in all it's pretty good. At least you can pretty much plan to do outdoor activities well in advance and know there's a better than fair chance you won't get rained on. And as a cyclist there's nowhere in Australia that even comes close. The fact you have Norton Summit Rd, Gorge Rd, Montacute Rd, the old Freeway, and the hills that lie beyond them all within 7 or 8 km's of the CBD is unbelievable. There's a reason Adelaide produces more elite level cyclists than any other single city on earth. If you can ignore all the shit stuff here there's an awful lot of advantages.

 

[Doctor Feel]

South Australia has the breakaways near coober pedy.

I went there recently, it was completely deserted. I did a doughnut in 4WD, took a piss off the cliff, and left.

Coober Pedy, yes!

 

[diegodcg]

what about Perth? It looks so goddamn isolated there in the West

I know Tame Impala come from there. Maybe boredom took them to drugs which in turn made them write some pretty good psychedelic stuff

 

[Dylan8]

what about Perth? It looks so goddamn isolated there in the West

I know Tame Impala come from there. Maybe boredom took them to drugs which in turn made them write some pretty good psychedelic stuff

Several members from Tame Impala in Pond if you weren't aware why I'm linking this

 

[diegodcg]

Several members from Tame Impala in Pond if you weren't aware why I'm linking this

Never heard of Pond before tbh will check them out

 

[Dylan8]

Never heard of Pond before tbh will check them out

They're pretty neat. Very similar vein to Tame Impala.

 

[Grave Danger]

what about Perth? It looks so goddamn isolated there in the West

I know Tame Impala come from there. Maybe boredom took them to drugs which in turn made them write some pretty good psychedelic stuff

I know we used to have the highest rate of Ritalin prescription in the world and Balingup to the south is known for more than just *world class* truffles...

#pooeckert

 

[I Dont Care]

South Australia has the breakaways near coober pedy.

I went there recently, it was completely deserted. I did a doughnut in 4WD, took a piss off the cliff, and left.

Coober Pedy, yes!

I am 'opalled' at your enviromental treatment of our shitholes

 

[JimmyBeerCans]

Jeezus all australian cities are pretty f****** great in truth..... imagine the third world shitholes you could of been born in

 

[diegodcg]

Don't we human beings love to complain. Isn't Australia 3rd or something in Human Development Index (HDI)

actually I just checked and you're 2nd, after only Norway, in the 2015 report. Brazil is 75th. Jesus ****ing Christ, we're behind Argentina and Mexico. And Cuba. And Iran. Bloody hell my country sucks

 

[diegodcg]

Jeezus all australian cities are pretty f****** great in truth..... imagine the third world shitholes you could of been born in

haha I was typing something similar (above) at the same time you posted this

 

[Doctor Feel]

On Coober Pedy, that place is finished. I mean completely finished. Every single tourist attraction is boarded up, dilapidated, graffitid and completely deserted. Most of the shops are closed. The whole experience there was surreal. You could stand in the main road and see and hear no one. I actually thought I was in a movie because all I could hear was the wind blowing through things and galvanised stuff banging against each other in the wind.

One of the only people I saw was some angry lady who told me and my mates off for climbing on what was left of the set from the movie Pitch Black (which was filmed at Coober). Even the pubs and bars were completely empty. The only real action we saw was a group of indigenous people fighting another group of indigenous people, and one of them was lying in the road inebriated while the local constabulary tried to converse with him.

The whole thing was very bizarre.

 

[Powerstufff]

Titus O'Reily ‏@TitusOReily 4h4 hours ago
The catering at Gary Ablett Jnr's wedding was simple but watching it being prepared was amazing.

 

[diegodcg]

Since I was a teenager I've had this fixed idea that I need to live abroad for a while. I love other cultures and learning about different places (case in point: it's 3am in Brazil and I'm here asking about Perth). I learned to speak English mostly on my own as part of that desire. My Plan A was to study in England. I got accepted into the London School of Economics but couldn't afford it as the bastards wouldn't give me a single penny in terms of financial support. Since then I've changed fields of work from economics to sports. I'm now applying for sports-related courses in England but there's an economic crisis going on in Brazil and the current pound-real exchange rate is crazy. No way in hell I'll be able to afford them either (or maybe I could, but then I would have money for nothing else, and the cost of opportunity is too great). AFL football, this forum, my Australian boss, all helped opening my eyes to other opportunities. I now live in hope. If I'm still in Brazil come December this year I'll just breakdown. This can't happen.

 

[diegodcg]

They're pretty neat. Very similar vein to Tame Impala.

Yes they're good. I let youtube do its thing and play their videos automatically and I'm enjoying their songs

 

[JimmyBeerCans]

On Coober Pedy, that place is finished. I mean completely finished. Every single tourist attraction is boarded up, dilapidated, graffitid and completely deserted. Most of the shops are closed. The whole experience there was surreal. You could stand in the main road and see and hear no one. I actually thought I was in a movie because all I could hear was the wind blowing through things and galvanised stuff banging against each other in the wind.

One of the only people I saw was some angry lady who told me and my mates off for climbing on what was left of the set from the movie Pitch Black (which was filmed at Coober). Even the pubs and bars were completely empty. The only real action we saw was a group of indigenous people fighting another group of indigenous people, and one of them was lying in the road inebriated while the local constabulary tried to converse with him.

The whole thing was very bizarre.

Haven't been there since i was kid, my mother as a young teen spent an anxious night there.. the bus driver had to stand guard by her door, t'was not many females there in dem days by all accounts lol

 

[raman]

On Coober Pedy, that place is finished.

It ever started?

 

[RonSon]

Yep. My favourite haunt is Renmark - easy to just go bush there driving for an hour or two and not even know if you are in another state, but you never see anyone anywhere and the land is completely pristine. So much Callop, and the carp are the size of your leg.

The drive to Queensland/ Northern NSW is long, but so worth it, the Glasshouse mountains are awesome.

Hehe, I'm not much of one for photos or video so this is the only photo I have of my car and trailer [waaay in the background from 10 years ago - but it hasn't changed. 4.2l diesel. Unstoppable]. That is taken in a camp ground by Minyon Falls in the forest near Byron Bay.





And this is one of the Fraser island hill climbs. Harder if it hasn't been raining for a while on the sand. Good stuff.



Fraser is awesome. Though passing on the tracks can get interesting.