Mega Thread The Random Thoughts Thread Part 1

[JimmyBeerCans]

Tennis is lame. Hamish McLachlan fits that sport like a glove.

Would suit his brother better too

 

[Eddie Dingle]

Tennis is lame. Hamish McLachlan fits that sport like a glove.

Bride and I have tickets to the men's final tomorrow night from our dear friends at Emirates.

I'm going just so I can laugh at that ****ing miserable git Murray when he loses and to try and land one on hames chin.

We went on Wednesday as well and saw Kerber win which was ok but tennis crowds are the shittiest sports crowds in the history of world sport.

campaigners. Every single one of them.

 

[finbarr]

Bride and I have tickets to the men's final tomorrow night from our dear friends at Emirates.

I'm going just so I can laugh at that ****ing miserable git Murray when he loses and to try and land one on hames chin.

We went on Wednesday as well and saw Kerber win which was ok but tennis crowds are the shittiest sports crowds in the history of world sport.

campaigners. Every single one of them.

Awful. A moth lands on the court and they lose their shit. Hilarious. Ball gets stuck in the net from a serve. Sides are splitting everywhere. Cyclops beeps and they mimic it by whistling (I know it doesn't beep anymore but anyway....). Then there's Henry Leconte, people singing "Let's go Lleyton, let's go", etc, etc, etc.

 

[finbarr]

The one and only time I can stomach tennis is the US Open. The crowds there don't give a shit about being quiet, planes flying over constantly, brawls in the stands.....it's pure chaos.

 

[edgie]

Bloody electric razor, on charge for 5 hours, gets about 5 minutes of battery life.

Now, to put it back on charge and hope I can finish this shave before bed, or do the unthinkable, and use a razor for the first time in about 3 years...

 

[finbarr]

Epic wait for Vietnamese takeaway.

After blaming the new girl for the delay, the restaurant manager profusely apologised and gave me a "complimentary" bag of prawn crackers.

Pity I'd already paid for the f@%king things over an hour ago!

Haha, what a cheap prick. Of all the things they could have given you for free they give you prawn crackers. They don't even qualify as food and would cost about 5 cents worth of ingredients to make for an entire days supply.

 

[Doctor Feel]

Bloody electric razor, on charge for 5 hours, gets about 5 minutes of battery life.

Now, to put it back on charge and hope I can finish this shave before bed, or do the unthinkable, and use a razor for the first time in about 3 years...

I got given a voucher for the shavershop on my 20th birthday. I'm 27 now and I still use the clippers I bought from there. Were around 200 if i recall (philips is the brand) but they do a great job and I charge it maybe once every two months as the battery lasts ages. Still sharp as they are tungsten blades.

 

[Doctor Feel]

I have no idea why there is a place for a "sport" like UFC in this day and age.

 

[Del165198]

Haha, what a cheap prick. Of all the things they could have given you for free they give you prawn crackers. They don't even qualify as food and would cost about 5 cents worth of ingredients to make for an entire days supply.

prawn crackers are the shit

 

[finbarr]

prawn crackers are the shit

I like them too, but you'd surely want a free dish for your troubles, not a bag full of pink aerated wafer.

 

[Del165198]

I have no idea why there is a place for a "sport" like UFC in this day and age.

Is it the bald megalomaniac making squillions while the fighters get their brain cells battered in for peanuts that bothers you the most?

I dunno, it's mostly pretty civilised these days and the concussive knocks don't really compare to something like NFL for post-career damage.

I've kinda lost interest in MMA over recent years due to the watering down of cards, too many weight divisions etc. It was fun when it was just roided up monsters bashing the hell out of other in Japan, or freakshow fights where 600lb sumo wrestlers fight 155lb guys etc.

 

[Dylan8]

I have no idea why there is a place for a "sport" like UFC in this day and age.

Presumably in place of the presumably dying V8 Supercars market

 

[edgie]

I got given a voucher for the shavershop on my 20th birthday. I'm 27 now and I still use the clippers I bought from there. Were around 200 if i recall (philips is the brand) but they do a great job and I charge it maybe once every two months as the battery lasts ages. Still sharp as they are tungsten blades.

My corded Phillips died, actually 2 of them, and now back to using the cordless Samsung my parents got me about 5 years ago. Blades are beginning to get dull and takes forever and a day to charge, but still preferable to razor shaving.

 

[edgie]

I have no idea why there is a place for a "sport" like UFC in this day and age.

It's an incredible sport and diverse sport full of depth, I refer to it as the AFL of combat sports. I have coached a good mate in several semi-pro fights, and are his sparring partner

 

[JimmyBeerCans]

This is the prawn crackers before being cooked.. a cross between a guitar pick & latex type look

 

[Del165198]

that looks delicious... brb eating a kilo of plastic rose petals

 

[edgie]

This is the prawn crackers before being cooked.. a cross between a guitar pick & latex type look

Thats my guitar pick. I use a thin see through red one!

 

[Dylan8]

Thats my guitar pick. I use a thin see through red one!

You would be the greatest one man ACDC tribute band

 

[Grave Danger]

Bloody electric razor, on charge for 5 hours, gets about 5 minutes of battery life.

Now, to put it back on charge and hope I can finish this shave before bed, or do the unthinkable, and use a razor for the first time in about 3 years...

 

[Del165198]

what's it like then?

 

[Dylan8]

one of the greats

 

[Del165198]

I watched Showdown in Little Tokyo tonight.

goddamn it's brilliant. for those unaware it's made by the same guy who did commando, but with cringe and shit movie factor bumped up a couple of notches. thinking i might need to upgrade my shitty dvd copy (with a print that seems to have come from a 4th gen vhs recorded off the tv) to the new blu-ray though.

some classic quotes:
Johnny Murata: You have the right to be dead.
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Yoshida: You are dead!

Chris Kenner: Hell sucked! We are back!
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Johnny Murata: We do this right. Like a cop in the 20th century and not some warrior, we're gonna get this guy. And when we're done we're gonna go eat fish off those naked chicks!
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and of course...

 

[edgie]

You would be the greatest one man ACDC tribute band

Ah, perhaps, but the beauty of AC/DC is no job is simple enough for one man. The lead guitar, the punishingly tight rhythm section, and iconic frontman all require dedicated performers.

Whatever happened to the rock n roll frontman?

Your Freddie Mercury, Robert Plant, Bon Scott, Bruce Dickenson, Steven Tyler, Alice Cooper, Axl Rose... since sometime in the early 90s, every rock, punk - just guitars as a whole - band needs to have a singer that also plays an instrument! No wonder rock is dead. Even Marilyn Manson was a proper frontman.

Even my beloved Airbourne have a singer that also plays lead guitar. Ridiculous.



PS, Love your work on using the term "tribute band", but unfortunately you miss something:

 

[Grave Danger]

what's it like then?

 

[Del165198]

one of the greats

that is amazing

the original at the gates version destroys the fleshgod apocalypse version of that song though. there's just something kinda soulless about those guys (not in a cool metal way either). do they actually sound like they do on record live? it just sounds too overproduced and perfect. not my bag, baby.

kneeling weirdo playing baby drums nails it though