The totally off-topic thread

[Deleted member]

Gross hyperbole

 

[Julesmac]

Gross hyperbole

Yep. It's gross alright

 

[Buzzard]

If I fly with VA I can still get into the QF MEL F lounge, right? Right?

Hello ... anyone there?

OK, let's move on to Plan B....

 

[Cruiser Elite]

Received email this morn from Flightfox - anybody know / heard of this mob?

 

[clazman]

Received email this morn from Flightfox - anybody know / heard of this mob?

A Canadian company, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flightfox

 

[Princess Fiona]

Received email this morn from Flightfox - anybody know / heard of this mob?

I used them a few years ago and didn't have any problems. This was in the first iteration of the business where your flight requirements were sent to several people to get routes/fares. A couple of AFF'ers did work for them before they changed their business model.
Haven't used them in the current set up.

 

[PLANT]

Do the accc need to be called.
Pub meal:
1. Picture shows two king prawns on Atlantic salmon $26
2. States with king prawns BBQ
Receive meal..... One prawn.
Give back meal and are told by wait staff been handing out 1 prawn meal all night.
Takes to chef comes back and says picture is one prawn in half WTF!!!!!!
OFFERED REFUND.
Hungry took meal
Is this false advertising?
Every pub in chain has this offer as monthly special!

 

[Pushka]

Classic. Very hot in Adelaide this weekend. 41 tomorrow. There are 2 Soccer fixtures - men and women. Original fixture was for women's match first, lets say 1pm as a warmer. To be followed by the 'main match' of the men. Lets say 4pm. It was decided it was too hot for the men to play at 4pm so the match was shifted to 7.30pm. So in line with that - the women's match shifted to 4pm.

Clearly male soccer players are softer than women.

 

[Walter_Plinge]

What a load of bollocks this article is.

An unreconstructed curmudgeon like me would say: "That's Fairfax for you. About as good as it gets."

 

[TheRealTMA]

Gosh, I didn't believe how naive I was. Why hasn't JohnK warned us of this dastardly plot!

Here are its main contentions:

• “Planes are not supposed to make clouds and yet we see them doing so in our skies every day.”
• “Three huge global corporations now own almost all of the world’s airlines. They have modified their aircraft to spray chemicals unknown into our skies during flight.”
• “Large private, corporate organisations [are] ... modifying our atmosphere without the knowledge and consent of society.”
• “We think their insane plan to block our sunshine is unnecessary, dangerous and nothing to do with science or protecting us, but more to do with financially motivated weather control.

The contrails conspiracy is not only garbage, it's letting aviation off the hook too | George Monbiot | Environment | The Guardian

 

[TomVexille]

Clearly male soccer players are softer than women.

Obvious if you've ever watched soccer

 

[Pushka]

Obvious if you've ever watched soccer

Indeed. No wonder soccer never really captures Australians. So much writhing in pain for a nothing touch.

 

[drron]

Now,now as a lad I played soccer.A goalkeeper-was the biggest on the team was the rationale.My last game was my finest but ended in the injury that lead to my knee replacement 60+ years down the track.The opposing player made his shot from point blank range.The ball hit me fair in the middle of the abdomen,his boot just a little lower.I was carried off and told later that they couldn't prise the ball from my arms so full time was called as only a minute to go.

 

[mannej]

Dr Ron, we have a little bit in common. I too was a goalkeeper, however my last game nearly 10 years ago I ended up with a subluxation to my larynx amongst other things. The striker decided his knee wanted to meet my throat so that was the end of my playing days.

 

[cove]

Mannej I had to google that one. So much for a non body contact sport.
It isn't easy to stay out of harms way in a whole lifetime of activities and getting rebuilt by the medical profession seems to be a great help for many of us.

 

[Flashback]

After having decided to not play hockey due to travel/work this season, have "filled in" the last 3 weeks and each week have ended up with cut up knees - no love lost!! Enjoying it though and good to be having a run.

 

[anat0l]

I didn't play any sports whilst I was in school, except for during physical education classes once.

Probably best achievement I ever had was knocking up 30 runs in a game of cricket for physical education class in grade 10.


I played chess in high school, if we can consider that a sport. If there are two incidents that come to mind as "exciting".... one of them I was playing a long game (usually, when there are few games left, the players who have finished their games start to watch the ones left). A win was necessary to win that round for our division. Finally, I had got a winning position after quite a struggle, but I had a big problem - although I had a better set of pieces and a nominal win, I was running out of time on my clock. With double the time I had left I would have been just fine, but I was struggling to force the win whilst my opponent was simply putting up a rather defensive position. Eventually, I gave up my material advantage to end up with an unusual position that turned out a win for me (for those who know chess, I had four connected pawns against one rook). The chess clock buttons being pounded quickly, I wrapped up the game with about 15 seconds left on my clock.

The second incident is probably my best game ever, as it was against a very good player. How good? Well, for those who know Brisbane schools, the school was ACGS (also known as "Churchie"). The senior team of that consisted some of the best chess players of that age (or even overall) in Australia. In fact, that team went overseas to compete in some schools world chess championships, and came second. Needless to say, against every other school in the competition, they obliterated their opponents, often winning a clean 4-0, or in some cases the other team might eke out a draw or two.

They came to play us. One of their members apparently was caught in a detention, so he couldn't come, so our fourth board player won by default. My good friend as third board lost his match, as did our first board after a valiant effort (the first board player is now an international chess Grandmaster). I thought I was struggling considerably with my game as the pieces were disappearing, but he had the material advantage. As every chess player knows, the less pieces on the board, the more important an extra one. My only plan seemed to be to try and use my pieces to control as much of his territory as possible, making it as difficult as possible for him to launch an attack, whilst making it as easy as possible for me to defend my position. Eventually, my pieces were in the correct position and I managed to surround his king. Final score for our division was 2-2 - we got a draw against this team. Apparently, the news of my win rippled through a few grapevines in the other schools' chess teams.

 

[Foreigner]

Just noticed bookmarks on Google Chrome are displayed differently.

 

[Flashback]

Just noticed bookmarks on Google Chrome are displayed differently.

Been like that for a while now - if you want the better way, just type chrome://bookmarks into the address bar.

 

[mannej]

Mannej I had to google that one. So much for a non body contact sport.
It isn't easy to stay out of harms way in a whole lifetime of activities and getting rebuilt by the medical profession seems to be a great help for many of us.

Bit of a misconception that Soccer is a non-contact sport. Whilst the degree of contact isn't as high as the other football codes, it is still there.

IMO the actions of the opponent were deliberate, but to this stage apart from the initial recovery period I haven't had any issues from the injuries. The ENT specialist did a good job, but I guess that is the risk of sport isn't it...