AlSymerz

Darkness - The Gasoline Solution

Black Mass - Ancient Scriptures

Voivod - Killing Technology

Guilt Machine - On this Perfect Day

Manowar - Fighting The World

Metallica - Garage Inc.

C.O.C. - Animosity

Rainbow - Rising

3 hours ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

Yeah, I've never really pictured you as being particularly aerodynamic.

 

In Australia we have Qantas the flying kangaroo. I'd more likely be Plummet Air the flying wombat!

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26 minutes ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

It is certainly a long god damned way. 10,000 miles. I've made the journey back and forth several times, I have to board a nearly 6 hour flight to the west coast then suffer the nearly 15 hour flight down to the netherworld of the southern hemisphere. It's not as bad on me physically going down as it is coming back for some reason, not sure why. 

The 2nd trans-Pacific flight leaves typically later in the evening, then they give you some shitty food once you level off at cruising altitude about 2 hours into the flight, and then they turn the cabin lights down low for 10 hours and you either sleep or you don't. I don't. Abut 90 minutes before you land they bring the lights up and offer you some shitty breakfast, and then everyone squeezes past each other in the aisles to make their little trips to the shit excuse for a bathroom, and prepares to land. Once on the ground the fun continues because they herd you down to baggage claim and then you have to wait in rope lines for 90 minutes to get through customs. There always seems to be a ton of flights landing right around the same time early in the morning local OZ/NZ time. The whole trip door to door is about 25 - 30 hours depending on how long of a layover you have between flights in LA or SF or Vancouver or Houston. And then you're standing there with your bags at what the locals think is 7am, but for me it's 3pm the day before and I was up all night the night before that, so I've been up for like 34 hours at that point. But it's only 7am for them so now I'll be up all day again until Ozzy nighttime comes around and it's time to go to bed, another 16 hours give or take. So yeah a trip to OZ means I'll have to stay up for 50 hours straight. But that's ok I can do that, I never sleep anyway, (it's 4:44am right now as I'm typing this). because I know that I'll finally be able to go to sleep at some point after 50 hours and then she'll be apples.

It's the return journey to the states that messes me up real bad. That flight leaves OZ in the mid afternoon, call it noon. 14 hour flight back to California, landing 2am Aussie time, but it's 9am the day before in California, still 3 hours before I even got on the fucking plane. A few hour layover (could be 3 hours, could be 6 hours, we'll call it 4 hours) in that shithole of an airport, (LA is the worst) then a 5.5 hour flight back to NY. Takes 90 minutes to find the bags and drive home. Walk in the door about 11pm local NY time, but my body thinks it's 1pm the next day, I'm wide awake can't sleep.  

Yeah it's a cunt of a trip, you're not missing out Vic. America's basically just like OZ anyway except we don't have the funny accents, the weather's a bit cooler (depending where you're going, if you're going to Florida to see Navy it's hot as balls just like back home) and everything's just a bit dingier & dirtier. And god forbid if you have to go to the doctor while you're here without insurance you're royally fucked.

I'm not a good flyer so the chances of me ever going to the UK or the US are slim. I'm not afraid of flying but I just get uncomfortable in the seats and walking around the plane isn't enough for me. I also can't sleep on planes which can really suck. I remember multiple times coming straight from night shift, driving for 11 hours, then staying awake until the afternoon flight so I could sleep on the plane and not sleeping a fucking wink. Then having to stay awake and listen to the outlaws waffle until the wee hours of the morning. Flying across to Perth (5 hours there and 3 1/2 back) is more than enough for me. 

Perth to Melbourne is quicker but it feels longer because of the time change, but the 3 hour drive home is also a major PITA  if it's a late arrival. Driving takes us 4-5 days and it's much more enjoyable, and I get less time with the outlaws.

NP: Phantasm - Wreckage

20 minutes ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

No need to explain Doc, I do that shit too and I'm no teenager, and I've never even been across the pond to London. I'm pretty sure me 'orrible faux English, Aussie and Kiwi accents are all basically the same one, but in my mind I know which is which when I'm doing them. For the Aussie one I just say "Good eye might" a lot, and the Kiwi one is all 'how ya goin' and everything is 'sweet as.' The Bri-ish one I just leave out the T's and substitute F's or V's for all the TH sounds and say bruv and bloody 'ell and wanker a lot. My Irish and Scots accents are different than my UK-OZ-Kiwi one, but even worse if that's possible. Those two are pretty much interchangeable as well. They basically both entail saying 'fook' a lot and for the Scots one everything is fooking cunt this and fooking cunt that. I mostly do it around the house when no one special's around but it keeps me amused.

It's mildly interesting (to me at least) that you Yanks go across the pond to London and we Aussies go across the ditch to New Zealand. Of course Kiwi's come across the dutch when they come here, but I think for both Kiwis and Aussies going to London or the US is just a fucking long way.

Sabaton  - Primo Victoria

22 minutes ago, Thatguy said:

Regrettably they do.

There is no accounting for bad taste

Alestorm - Live At The End Of The World

At Fyschwick the beer is not the only thing fruity, so are most of the residents.

S.O.D. - Crab Society North

Do they sell fruity beer?

Blaze Bayley - Circle Of Stone

3 minutes ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

If I could be fucked to figure out how to do it, I would make this my sig.

I wouldn't have thought you'd want to look stupid with every post

4 minutes ago, SurgicalBrute said:

Im getting kinda mixed signals here

That's pretty darn obvious

1 minute ago, SurgicalBrute said:

Probably more along the lines of naming one terrible black metal band

Fruity Beer is actually the name of my favourite BM band.

Just now, GoatmasterGeneral said:

Now on this doll, please point and show us where that terrible bad evil sick twisted black metal man hurt you.

 

Just there ^

15 minutes ago, SurgicalBrute said:

...but can you actually name one of these fruity beers you hate so much?

 

That would be like naming all the terrible BM bands.

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21 minutes ago, SurgicalBrute said:

No sensitivity here. I really don't have an issue with you liking beer, hating it, or being completely indifferent to it. I just disagree with the assertion that beer and beer that has hints of fruit in it's flavor profile are somehow two separate things.

Dude that was aimed at who it quoted and was total shit stirring because no one hates kittens and everyone should hate fruity beer.

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21 minutes ago, Thatguy said:

Blimey. First I got accused of hating kittens, now I hate beer.

 

Stop being so sensitive.

All beer is shit, fruity beer is just more shit.

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