Posts by Rich Lock
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Field Theory: Four Years Ago, in reply to recordari,
Those black jerseys were pathetic, and in the end bothered me greatly
You're not talking about the black jersey worn by Mr Sonny Delight himself, I take it? That wardrobe failure seemed to get a lot of people rather hot and bothered. Around 50% of the population, by the sounds of it...
Given his talent for self-promotion, it wouldn't surprise me if someone in his camp had been at the seams pre-match with a pair of nail scissors. Look at the footage of the way the jersey rips, people! Back, and to the left. Back, and to the left.
We're through the looking glass.
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Field Theory: Four Years Ago, in reply to Andre Alessi,
Yeah, The traffic jam after the fireworks finished didn't clear going out of Devonport until around 10.30 yesterday evening - we can see the devo end of Lake Road from our bedroom and it was nose-to-tail for 2-3 hours heading out.
The ferries into town were suspended from around 5.00, but even when I was walking home at 3.00, the queue was back to the library.
Mt Vic looked like a christmas tree with all the torches on the slopes. We were down on the stretch between the navy base and the ferry terminal, and it was getting pretty darn snug.
Town was rammed even when I left at around 2.00.
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OnPoint: Sock-Puppeting Big Tobacco to…, in reply to BenWilson,
which would most likely be opting for therapy, or going cold turkey and sucking on it
Or, y'know, not sucking on it, surely?
Just trying to lighten the mood. Coat, getting, gone.
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Hard News: Everybody's News, in reply to Simon Grigg,
Literally millions of people around the world were able to see through the 'evidence' and pretexts for war which they were presented with. Sometimes it was laughably easy to tear apart the arguments, such as with Colin Powell and his inaccurate and plagarised presentation (not that tearing them apart made any difference).
I'd dearly love to ask Bill Keller why, as a highly-paid, highly trained and experienced media expert, he wasn't able to this, when these millions of amateur citizens were able to so without really breaking a sweat.
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Well, if you want to go there, then let the thread death spiral continue!
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The unfortunate thing (for me) about that was that those sorts of tunes were conflated with genuine groundbreakers
In the end, I just loved to dance
We ain't no suit-wearing businessmen like you, Simon...you know we're just dancers I s'pose, and we want our pop funk beats.
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Hard News: Those were different times ..., in reply to Simon Grigg,
Yeah Simon, leave Babs aloooone!!!11!!!
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Hard News: Te Qaeda and the God Squad, in reply to Emma Hart,
yuh-huh.
Oi, can't you just stick to 'Hart's Rule'-ing your own threads?
I inadvertently found out about the bandana code the hard way (fnar!) back in the 1980's as a callow youth who was rather dorkily try to look like a member of a boy band or something.
My dad had a similar experience back in the '60's in San Franciso when he was on his OE, working as an ice cream man, which involved wearing an all-white uniform (apparently this was code back then, but reference needed). It took him a while to work out why older gents were so friendly towards the young naive pom in the big city.
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Hard News: Te Qaeda and the God Squad, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
Heh. I'm not clicking on that link , but I assume it's this?
My wife sometimes expreses concern at the bruises I acquire at training. I usually tell her that nothing could be more harmlessly hetrosexual than rolling around on the floor grappling with other sweaty muscular men.
As an aside: a leather pride flag? One learns something new every day.
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The difference between thunderflashes and powergel is quite wide, though, no?
Wide enough for one to concern me only a little, and the other quite a bit.