Mega Thread The Random Thoughts Thread Part 1

[manureid]

He really is your drunk uncle who you avoid at family shows.

 

[edgie]

http://www.nintendolife.com/news/20...tion_coming_this_november_ships_with_30_games

Cool idea, but missing far too many games.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Crazy finish to the Tour De France in stage 12 tonight.

The winds were so strong at the finish on top of Mont Ventoux - that looks like the landscape of the moon because 200 years ago they chopped down all the trees up there and all the soil has been washed away - so they brought the finish 6km down the mountain. But that meant they had way too many people in the last 5 or 6 km of the adjusted course as those that would have been in those original last 6km came down the mountain and parked themselves on the side of the road. The barriers were only erected on both sides of the road for the last 500m. The winner thought he had 2 km to go because the norm is the last 2 km has barriers on both sides of the road. It meant that 6km to go to the 500m to go mark there were way too many people on the side of the road..

There was a 10-12 man breakaway that were 6 or 7 minutes in front but the next main group had the top 15 or so General Classification leaders were a together when Froome, Aussie Richie Porte and another rider made a breakaway from them at about 4km to go had been going for about 1.5km and had a gap of 300m or so. The crowds were so big, a couple of the camera motorbikes slammed on their brakes stopped and the Richie Porte smashed into the motor bike and the other 2 were right behind him and all 3 went flying off their bikes. Somebody pinched the yellow jersey's bike. Froome looked lost, no support vehicle around, so Froome starts running up the hill in his cleats. He ran about 500m before a neutral service vehicle turned up and he took a bike. But it was too small for him but he kept riding it until his team vehicle finally arrived with 400m to go. But he lost a shit load of time and all the dozen riders he left behind him, passed Frome and he got to the finish line well over a minute after them. Froome went from 28 seconds lead to over a minute behind the new yellow jersey holder. But it's all provisional at this stage as they have only awarded.the stage winner and the non yellow jersey jersey leaders their jerseys ie sprinters and king of the mountain pts leaders.

Most bizarre finish I have seen. Nobody has ever seen the yellow jersey run up the mountain in a stage before. Froome is white British - Kenyian, so he was showing some of his Kenyian running roots. It's a bloody mess and who knows if they will neutralise the results for everyone behind the 3 that crashed.

Watch the news tomorrow/tonight to see the crash and the yellow jersey running instead of riding his bike.

 

[Powerstufff]

RussellEbertHandball Powerstufff Rodriguez is playing Thebarton on November 29. Pre-sale tickets available now.

Thanks. I saw that when I went by Thebby Theatre the other day but I won't be going again. It was fun last time but his voice is giving out, plus there were a few too many shouty dingbats in the audience. Yes good on you shouty dingbats, you love Rodriguez. Perhaps though that was implicit in you buying a ticket. I have his 2 albums on the car sound system, that'll do me now.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Froome didn't have his bike stollen. There is footage of him leaning it on a stopped vehicle. It was damaged. Bit of a BS excuse.

The 3rd rider with Froome and Porte, Mollima got up and finished the race without any real issues. Story from French TV coverage is Porte and Froome will be given the same time as him. Porte will have a sore head as he smashed it into the motor bike. He's had 2 bits of bad luck now. A mechanical failure the other day when there was no support vehicle close by and he was with the key riders and lost 1 minute 45 seconds. Without that bad luck he would be pushing for a podium finish.

 

[Steve Dore]

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I went to an Open Day at Fort Snelling where they had soldiers dressed up in uniforms of all the wars the US army had been involved in along with the weapons of the day. At the WWII display they had a captured MG42 which they fired at intervals during the day. Makes an incredible sound when firing over 1,000 rounds per minute. It literally sounds like someone ripping a linen sheet only much louder.

 

[Steve Dore]

Cher calls Tony Abbott "twiddle tosser" and later admits she has no idea who he is.

 

[Papa G]

So the new Perth stadium has bought the rights to a RL State of Origin game in 2018. Interesting.

 

[Eddie Dingle]

So the new Perth stadium has bought the rights to a RL State of Origin game in 2018. Interesting.

Does interesting mean "who gives a ****?" In your house too?

 

[Prison bar Pete]

no vicious doberman ones?

 

[spookism]

Haha British PM Teresa May shocks the world and makes Boris Johnson the Foreign Secretary. This should provide some internationals laughs.

When he was Mayor of London he referred to Turkish capital Ankara aw Wankara and he said A Obama's Kenyian heritage meant he did like the British Empire and the British. He was asked about this and said the US is the first in line of his apologies. Let the fun begin Boris.

Brexit just keeps on throwing up some serious winners doesn't it

 

[Steve Dore]

Nice attack: At least 70 feared dead as truck rams into Bastille Day crowd in French Riviera city

 

[JimmyBeerCans]

Thanks. I saw that when I went by Thebby Theatre the other day but I won't be going again. It was fun last time but his voice is giving out, plus there were a few too many shouty dingbats in the audience. Yes good on you shouty dingbats, you love Rodriguez. Perhaps though that was implicit in you buying a ticket. I have his 2 albums on the car sound system, that'll do me now.

I liked it better when he was supposedly "unknown" before that film came out, he's now popular with derps like David Penberthy who think they've made a discovery.

 

[Papa G]

Does interesting mean "who gives a ****?" In your house too?

Not the game itself, I haven't watched 5 minutes of the SOO this year, more from a stadium usage, flog off to the highest bidder interesting. Whilst I think it is a pipe dream that the Victorian's (AFL and Vic State Govt) will ever relinquish the GF, it does further open the conversation and in the year 2 million and 38 or whatever it is that that the current MCG contract expires I'm sure the AFL will use it as a massive bargaining chip to get money from the VIc government. Which of course they should as the AFL "industry" with the thousands of hangers on and related industries/tourism etc it has, is a massive money spinner for the Victorian economy.

 

[Eddie Dingle]

Nice attack: At least 70 feared dead as truck rams into Bastille Day crowd in French Riviera city

What was nice about that you sicko?

 

[Steve Dore]

What was nice about that you sicko?

Sacre bleu! I should have posted that with an outrageous French accent.

 

[Grave Danger]

Nice attack: At least 70 feared dead as truck rams into Bastille Day crowd in French Riviera city

Fifth Republic 0 : First Caliphate 1

 

[Steve Dore]

Fifth Republic 0 : First Caliphate 3

FTFY

 

[Dylan8]

where da boy tribey at

Concerning lack of a 'vanilla'-tier thread to kick us in to gear in order to finish 9th and give us false hope for next season.

 

[Lagooner]

Much, much better than Facebook. Much better.

One of my mates said to me once that Facebook makes you hate your friends and Twitter makes you love strangers (or something to that effect).

I'm pretty sure he's stolen someone else's quote but nevertheless I think there is some merit in it.

 

[bomberclifford]

One of my mates said to me once that Facebook makes you hate your friends and Twitter makes you love strangers (or something to that effect).

I'm pretty sure he's stolen someone else's quote but nevertheless I think there is some merit in it.

Facebook makes me hate myself and Twitter makes me hate everyone else.

 

[Lagooner]

Facebook makes me hate myself and Twitter makes me hate everyone else.

Maybe that was it!

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Not the game itself, I haven't watched 5 minutes of the SOO this year, more from a stadium usage, flog off to the highest bidder interesting. Whilst I think it is a pipe dream that the Victorian's (AFL and Vic State Govt) will ever relinquish the GF, it does further open the conversation and in the year 2 million and 38 or whatever it is that that the current MCG contract expires I'm sure the AFL will use it as a massive bargaining chip to get money from the VIc government. Which of course they should as the AFL "industry" with the thousands of hangers on and related industries/tourism etc it has, is a massive money spinner for the Victorian economy.

This is a big reason why Mike Fitzpatrick's Stadium Australia Group won the right to manage the new stadium and not the WAFC consortium - ie attract more events to the ground, more than 22 games of footy and maybe 8 days of cricket.

More events = more rectangle sports playing big games there. I assume there are still plenty of kiwis and cockroaches and cane toads who moved over in the mining boom, still living in the west and they attend and it will go close to a sell out if they set the ticket right prices.

 

[Eddie Dingle]

This is a big reason why Mike Fitzpatrick's Stadium Australia Group won the right to manage the new stadium and not the WAFC consortium - ie attract more events to the ground, more than 22 games of footy and maybe 8 days of cricket.

More events = more rectangle sports playing big games there. I assume there are still plenty of kiwis and cockroaches and cane toads who moved over in the mining boom, still living in the west and they attend and it will go close to a sell out if they set the ticket right prices.

Everyone in Western Australia is hooked on meth.

Whatever happens will happen very quickly.

 

[Eddie Dingle]

where da boy tribey at

Concerning lack of a 'vanilla'-tier thread to kick us in to gear in order to finish 9th and give us false hope for next season.

Can you blame him if he wanted some time away?

Poor campaigner is an absolute **** magnet.