What's on your mind?

[AlSymerz]

Hmmm that's sweet, my wife decided to work full time this week and less than 2 hours into the week she emails me to tell me the house needs to be cleaned up for Christmas day. It probably wouldn't have been so bad if she hadn't finished the email off with, "oh and I didn't plan to work all week just so I didn't have to vacuum". Of course I totally believer her.

 

 

[Dead1]

1 hour ago, KillaKukumba said:

60,000 years is a quick time?

I'd also argue that if Aboriginals had such habits they wouldn't have lasted on the same land for 60,000 years.

 

Actually it was in about 5,000-10,000 years or so of arrival.   

Noting Aborigines took a long time to spread across continent some areas were cleared sooner than others.  Also up to 10,000 years ago Aboriginal populations were much smaller.

As such Tasmanian megafauna survived up to 41,000 years ago whereas certain mainland areas were already cleared by then.

 

Archaeological record shows a decline in tool sophistication not long after megafauna became largely extinct.*

 

*Only about half a dozen species survived to arrival of Europeans - saltwater crocodiles, emus, cassowaries and a couple of species of kangaroo.   

 

[markm]

OK, so I've never been a big sports fan, and tbh, I don't know when I've ever watched a televised soccer game in its entirety, but the World Cup final today was quite a game. 

[AlSymerz]

I'm just glad it's over so I can watch Jeopardy at dinner time again instead of rehashed soccer news.

(Yes I know how sad that sounds )

[RelentlessOblivion]

Between that, a 2 day test match, a BBL team being bowled out for 15, and the continued decline of LeBron James there’s plenty happening in sport right now. Yes I am that stereotypical sports crazed Aussie…

[markm]

Fing Jeopardy? Really? What is this, 1986?

[AlSymerz]

In 1986 we could only dream of Jeopardy

[markm]

When did Jeopardy come to Oz?

[AlSymerz]

I have no idea, as far as I remember it was never on free to air TV. Pay TV (other than massively expensive satellite TV that required 20 foot dishes) didn't make it here until the mid 90's and even then take up was only about 35% of the population. When only had about 25 pay TV channels but some of them were full of US talk shows so it was probably on one of those channels into the 00's but by then pay tv customers had dropped even further. Now days our multi-national free to air tv station has it on 5 nights a week and Alex hasn't died yet so we are still 12-18 months behind the US

 

[markm]

Great Gods. 

[AlSymerz]

I agree, we'd have been much better off getting Jeopardy rather than shit like Letterman and Sienfeld

 

[Dead1]

With regards to watching sports and following sports teams, I don't get it.

I don't understand why watching other people play a game is so entertaining or exiciting.  I really don't understand why people go for teams outside their own geographic area.  I also don't understand why people are often fanatical for a team, let alone one that has nothing to do with where they live.

I did used to like watching UFC when it was more wild brawling and less rules and there was plenty of blood.  But I enjoyed the violence of it just like I enjoy the violence of watching war.  I couldn't care less who won or lost as long as there was copious amounts of barely regulated violence.

[Hungarino]

12 minutes ago, Dead1 said:

With regards to watching sports and following sports teams, I don't get it.

I don't understand why watching other people play a game is so entertaining or exiciting.  I really don't understand why people go for teams outside their own geographic area.  I also don't understand why people are often fanatical for a team, let alone one that has nothing to do with where they live.

I did used to like watching UFC when it was more wild brawling and less rules and there was plenty of blood.  But I enjoyed the violence of it just like I enjoy the violence of watching war.  I couldn't care less who won or lost as long as there was copious amounts of barely regulated violence.

What does your therapist think about this?

[FatherAlabaster]

14 minutes ago, Hungarino said:

What does your therapist think about this?

He's in the basement dungeon with most of his family and he thinks whatever Dead thinks he should think if he wants to keep his toes.

[AlSymerz]

If he gets just two of his toes cut off he could use them as ear plugs.

 

[Hungarino]

Thanks, that is the craziest thing I have read in quite some time.

[Dead1]

1 hour ago, FatherAlabaster said:

He's in the basement dungeon with most of his family and he thinks whatever Dead thinks he should think if he wants to keep his toes.

Win-win situation.

2 hours ago, Hungarino said:

What does your therapist think about this?

Lot's of people like watching violence - I mean how many people are going to see new Avatar right now?

In any case real war is far more interesting than movies etc.  There's not just the application of magnificent amounts of firepower but also the strategies, tactics, doctrine, technology, the personalities. 

I still remember getting a sense of exhilaration of watching a Serb jet attack a local Croatian ammo dump...though spending the rest of the day in a basement whilst ammunition cooked off was a bit meh.  😁  

 

[RelentlessOblivion]

28 minutes ago, Dead1 said:

With regards to watching sports and following sports teams, I don't get it.

I don't understand why watching other people play a game is so entertaining or exiciting.  I really don't understand why people go for teams outside their own geographic area.  I also don't understand why people are often fanatical for a team, let alone one that has nothing to do with where they live.

I did used to like watching UFC when it was more wild brawling and less rules and there was plenty of blood.  But I enjoyed the violence of it just like I enjoy the violence of watching war.  I couldn't care less who won or lost as long as there was copious amounts of barely regulated violence.

Plenty of people would question why yourself and others are so passionate about having a passion for metal, getting captivated by various TV shows, invest so much in moviess etc. Ultimately it’s a form of entertainment, which appeals to some people and not others.

[Dead1]

14 hours ago, RelentlessOblivion said:

Plenty of people would question why yourself and others are so passionate about having a passion for metal, getting captivated by various TV shows, invest so much in moviess etc. Ultimately it’s a form of entertainment, which appeals to some people and not others.

Well said.  We are strange creatures.

[AlSymerz]

Wow, two days in a row with sunshine, three days without rain. I'm not used to this sort of weather.

 

[Dead1]

1 hour ago, KillaKukumba said:

Wow, two days in a row with sunshine, three days without rain. I'm not used to this sort of weather.

 

Yes sadly it's starting to feel like summer.  My allergies have gone from nearly none to out of control.

[RelentlessOblivion]

I hear you Ku, I’m even having to water the garden again…

[AlSymerz]

It's weird going out and watering the garden everyday, hopefully soon all the watering will pay off with some vegies.

 

[RelentlessOblivion]

Mate I’ve got more spinach, mint, basil, parsley, and thyme then I know what to do with.

[AlSymerz]

Yeah herbs have been growing throughout the wet, as have raddishes and carrots. Hopefully with a bit of sun coming on I'll soon have lettuce, cute-cumbers and cucumbers, cucumelons, capsicums and cabbage. I've also got some hybrid strawberries that are coming on which need some good warm weather to shoot some good runners off.