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Post by angra on Jun 22, 2013 2:00:41 GMT 10
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Post by Matthew Of Canberra on Jun 22, 2013 8:49:07 GMT 10
That was the weirdest ad I ever saw.
For reasons I honestly don't understand, I still have an advertisement running in my head after (probably) 30 years. It's an old ad for a mitsubishi colt. It was cheesy as heck, and basically consisted of a young woman examining her new car. The voiceover went ...
"When a nice young filly gets herself a colt, she'll want to check out its ... muscles" (girl squats beside the sticker that says what sort of engine it has)
Then the voiceover says something I can't remember
Then it says "and the comfort of the ride"
I can't google up evidence of the existence of this ad. It's not on youtube. When I quoted it to a friend this week she said could remember that last bit, so I don't think I imagined it.
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Post by angra on Jun 22, 2013 9:39:24 GMT 10
A question - why aren't there more sports where men and women compete against each other?
I reckon the current Australian women's cricket team could defeat the men. And add soccer (real football), and basketball, and even tennis.
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Post by Matthew Of Canberra on Jun 22, 2013 10:24:00 GMT 10
I guess if you could pick sports where body mass isn't an important factor (excluding most footballs, most martial arts) then it could be interesting - let teamwork and skill take over.
Hockey? Ball games with hoops? Lacrosse? Fencing/kendo?
Has anyone turned paintball into a sport yet? That'd be interesting.
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Post by angra on Jun 22, 2013 17:03:30 GMT 10
And Golf, maybe? Perhaps BMI could be used as a handicap system. I seem to remember Navratilova thrashing a male tennis player who said women were no good. I know for certain that my wife can beat me at most things. And you mentioned paintball - www.youtube.com/watch?v=VX9rDGRmBrs
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Post by chookmustard on Jun 22, 2013 18:19:39 GMT 10
Matt is drinking again
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Post by angra on Jun 22, 2013 18:34:59 GMT 10
Well maybe.
But what is it about footie codes and shorts?
Soccer players have them baggy and hanging.
NRL seem to have found a normal balance of length and height.
But AFL is a nightmare - they are so short, I'm, sure they don't need toilet paper.
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Post by Matthew Of Canberra on Jun 22, 2013 19:18:57 GMT 10
"Matt is drinking again"
I'm afraid there's no merit badge for guessing that. But I'm not sure exactly when you were referring to.
I mean ... I'm drinking NOW. But I wasn't drinking when I mentioned the body mass thing. I was drinking when I was complaining about youtube and ads. I think it's a nighttime/daytime thing.
But the youtube ads thing really annoys me. I don't watch a lot of (well, any) TV. So ads are pretty much always new and interesting to me. So when I SEE an ad, it's usually quite fascinating - I do actually want to pay attention and work out what they're selling me, or at least look at the cars and/or pretty girls. But youtube's before-video ads don't let me do that. Which is stupid ... because I might actually BUY something.
Re the AFL shorts ... I'm guessing it's just a way to get women to turn up to the games. And there are probably useful epidemiological applications, like ... is circumcision still a popular choice? Maybe that's the sort of information we can get from AFL broadcasts.
To be fair ... those guys are flippin' supermen. No disprespect intended. I never was, and never will be as fit as any professional or semi-professional AFL player. I have absolutely no interest in the game, but those guys are awesome, and I mean that in a totally straight, girl-lovin' way.
I've had a strange week. On top of a couple of other annual trials, I applied for my job. It's a contract thing - every now and then we have to re-apply and prove that we're still on the ball. Except that I applied for a job that I don't actually do. I'm not sure if it was an oversight, or some sort of complicated plot, but the description of the position I applied for is one which I haven't actually done in years, and I have no particular desire to go back to (not that it's a BAD job, it's just that ... well, let's just say it wasn't the thing I was best at). So I turned up anyway, I shined my shoes and got a hair cut and a clean shirt and remembered how to do a full windsor, and they asked me a bunch of questions that I never had a chance to prepare for. I have heard (but have not yet confirmed) that I aced it. Never underestimate the response "well, I haven't ever done that, and I'm not completely sure what the right answer is, but I'm happy to have a crack at it anyway" (I actually said "crack at it").
It's been a strange week. I'm hoping to take some time off in a few weeks and, well, stop drinking.
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Post by jack on Jun 22, 2013 20:21:37 GMT 10
Yep... Ugh, what a week! ... or fortnight! My father-in-law flew over to the UK in early May. An octogenarian, he'd been feeling poorly for some time before he left, and felt like crap all the time he was over there but ascribed it to the atrocious weather they'd been having. When he flew back into Tulla a couple of weeks ago they took him off the plane in a wheelchair. My sister-in-law and her partner collected him from the terminal and took him directly to a hospital. For a week or so it was supposed he had some flu or other bug and was being treated for what they thought was a pneumonia. Then Monday last, my wife calls me at work to say they've now diagnosed him with stage 4 lung cancer. Wha' He was supposed to have a year or so to live if the cancer was treatable, otherwise maybe less than 6 months. So all week we've all been devastated, albeit mostly soldiering on. Then Thursday, my wife calls me at work to say they've decided it's actually a less aggressive, asbestosis-type cancer, and the doctors are now saying the illness is manageable, in the sense that he'll probably die from something else before he'd die from this cancer. Not the happiest news in itself, but everything's relative and after the Monday prognosis we're all relatively elated. zOMG, getting older SUCKS!
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Post by angra on Jun 23, 2013 0:03:08 GMT 10
Jack - similar thing happened to my Dad. He's now bed bound in a nursing home and can't remember what he had for breakfast, though ask him about seeing Bradman play at Adelaide in the forties and he's right on the ball. The good news is that he was quite an artist and the local college have an exhibition of his paintings which are pretty darn good. John Bertrand has one (he of Americas cup fame).
Mum died of lung cancer in '95, and my sister of pancreatic cancer the next year even though both were teetotallers, never smoked and were vegetarians all their lives. I reckon living is a bit of a lottery.
And MoC - good luck with the job. I'm about to go through a similar process. The wife's getting sick of me staying at home all day. I rather fancy a job on the railways as we live next to a station. The C36 rattles through most weekends! You can smell the coal smoke as it puffs up the line.
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Post by Matthew Of Canberra on Jun 23, 2013 8:32:04 GMT 10
"felt like crap all the time he was over there"
It was probably the flight itself that did it. I think most planes have an internal pressure (in flight) equivalent to 8000 feet, which is tough on anyone with heart or lung trouble who doesn't normally live on a mountain. Apparently it's one of the the nice features of the new mega-jumbos that they can keep the cabin pressure equivalent to 6000 feet instead. I only know this because alistair cooke once started one of his letters from america explaining that it had taken him several days to recover from a cross-atlantic flight.
"now saying the illness is manageable, in the sense that he'll probably die from something else before he'd die from this cancer"
That's a good outcome, given the starting assumptions. I'm sorry to hear about it, though. Getting old does indeed appear to suck.
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Post by Matthew Of Canberra on Jun 23, 2013 10:23:45 GMT 10
Holey smokes. Back during the noise and bother and each-way-bets and opportunistic science-bashing when that volcano erupted in iceland ... it might have been just a tiny bit useful and enlightening to all concerned if somebody had talked a bit about this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laki#1783_eruptionWow.
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Post by angra on Jun 23, 2013 10:28:19 GMT 10
I'm sure some good person here can help me with this.
What's the best way to grow Cannas?
A neighbour is digging up a large bed and has offered us the bulbs.
Just stick 'em in the ground, or what? Sun?
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Post by Matthew Of Canberra on Jun 23, 2013 12:58:16 GMT 10
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Post by angra on Jun 23, 2013 17:09:28 GMT 10
Oh my God. My lovely wife asked me to show her something funny on the Internet thingie, so I Googled "funny babies youtube" and now I've lost the use of the computer for three weeks.
Don't go there!
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