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Post by dambuster41 on Aug 1, 2016 15:40:54 GMT 10
Well I have been watching football this week, and I think the scrums are getting more sillier every game. one bloke in the scrum puts his leg out and they through the ball under it and the reff yells out. and its play on. really its a bit silly. Dambuster41.
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Post by epictetus on Aug 1, 2016 22:40:20 GMT 10
I don't know why they have scrums in Rugby League. As you say, they're farcical.
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Post by ducati on Aug 3, 2016 9:21:30 GMT 10
Are "Silly Games" played by silly players for the "benefit" of......sillier spectators?? It does seems THAT way!!!
Ducati
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Post by madametarot on Aug 3, 2016 10:20:51 GMT 10
Are "Silly Games" played by silly players for the "benefit" of......sillier spectators?? It does seems THAT way!!! Ducati Yes Pali that is correct - but even sillier people do nothing that is fun.
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Post by cster on Aug 3, 2016 12:39:29 GMT 10
Are "Silly Games" played by silly players for the "benefit" of......sillier spectators?? It does seems THAT way!!! Ducati Yep good one Ducati, and they say all the violence occurs off the field in soccer. hah. To enthuse of a sport seems to mean, its quite capable of turning the most honest scholar into a dithering idjut if his team isn't winning.
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Post by epictetus on Aug 3, 2016 13:47:46 GMT 10
I used to like playing silly games at school (though not cricket because too incompetent) and quite like watching them as a grown-up (though not cricket - too boring). Games substitute for battle, don't they, and tests of skill and knightly behaviour (jousting, archery tournaments and the like). I liked to catch and run and kick. That's a boy thing, isn't it? OK, so lots of boys don't really go for it, but lots do. And more girls are playing sport now (and doing better on the sportsmanship side).
I don't know a lot about Rugby Union, but can see the point of scrums as a strategic device. Can't see what they achieve in League (they're totally predictable), but I suppose they have a role.
We're about to see the best of the best strut their stuff in Rio. Although the Games as a concept is seriously compromised, the events themselves will be contested by young people from all over the world at the top of their form and with huge amounts of effort and self-discipline behind them. They deserve recognition.
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Post by cster on Aug 3, 2016 14:13:17 GMT 10
Yeah I also believe that if you cant put the ball, in a scrum, right under the faces of the players in the front row. You deserve a penalty and sent form the field till the next game.
Mastery of anything will see the player enjoy the game using that skill set. Its that which we sometimes fall short on. Mastery. We also fall short for the collaboratively minded children who will play for fun but not involve themselves in competition that may favour an advanced skill set.
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Post by red750 on Aug 3, 2016 20:16:34 GMT 10
I'm not a rugby follower as such, either league or union. However I do watch league matches on TV because my daughter is a Melbourne Storm member's ticket holder. I do not think a scrum is a fair method of restarting the game, because the feeder (scrum half?) feeds the ball where the opposing team cannot reach it. What is the point of locking down in a scrum? In AFL, the umpire bounces/throws up the ball so the rucks have an equal opportunity to hit it down. If the ball bounces off centre, it is recalled and rebounced. Boundary umpires throw the ball over their head from out of bounds stoppages, again, rucks have equal access.
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Post by dambuster41 on Aug 4, 2016 10:46:44 GMT 10
hi Peter, I learned to fly on cressey station in a light aircraft the boss owned, we used to take the doors off and shoot wild dogs and pigs, the boss was a piolet in the air force, the first time I flew with him he put one wing under a tree to chase horses out so they could be musted. his wife was with us, and she was finding bags for me to be sick in. he taught me to fly so he could shoot from the plane, I never took off or landed, but I had about 20hours flying time under the belt. We went to a sheep station once half way to Darwin. the boss was buying sheep there, when leaving 2 young cowboys picked up the tail of the plane to turn it around and the prop hit the ground, we stopped it and the boss filed it a bit, we took off ok. about 20miles from Richmond we had to land on a dirt road, it was vibrating. we stayed there till morning, and then we got a new prop delivered.so that was fun and games my first forced landing. I never did get a license wish I had, Dambuster41.
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Post by dambuster41 on Aug 4, 2016 11:07:51 GMT 10
well did anyone try making a time capsule. I have 5 in the shed that took me about 15years to fill and seal. I have one I put in the water just off Brisbane, and a lady at Southport rang me and told me they found it at the gold coast, I put 1 more in the ocean a lot further out to sea, it may end up in china you never know. I have started one more, not very big, I have put that 100 years of ANZAC coins in it, and some of our money to, it will take me about 12months to fill it, its a good hobby. they all get handed to the grand kids when me and my wife go to god, you have no control after that, the lids are sealed and screwed, and not to open till the year 2050, but that's up to them. Dambuster41.
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Post by ducati on Aug 9, 2016 7:25:44 GMT 10
EXCELLENT POSTS!!! Dambuster...but...but..are you REALLY sure that you will not be charged under the "high seas pollution law"? You know....all that rubbish being dumped at sea or...from the shore!?!?! Shame on you...no rubbish bins collection/service in your area!?!?! Cster...Once (many years ago) they were innocent games....a bunch of "blunt pencils" chasing each other and/or a ball on a playing field...but NOW it is a bit too much..throwing/grubbing each other balls in a scrotum (or is scum..or scrum...scrap??)...pretty disgusting!! As they say in Argentina...tell me of pastimes and will guess the amount of dark matter installed in the...head of the "practitioners", or is called grey/blue/green matter? Madametarlot (or is Madameharlot/madamecharlot?)...GREAT post!! Your overflowing production of posts posted would be the envy of a matches's factory production!!
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Post by madametarot on Aug 9, 2016 12:47:41 GMT 10
EXCELLENT POSTS!!! Dambuster...but...but..are you REALLY sure that you will not be charged under the "high seas pollution law"? You know....all that rubbish being dumped at sea or...from the shore!?!?! Shame on you...no rubbish bins collection/service in your area!?!?! Cster...Once (many years ago) they were innocent games....a bunch of "blunt pencils" chasing each other and/or a ball on a playing field...but NOW it is a bit too much..throwing/grubbing each other balls in a scrotum (or is scum..or scrum...scrap??)...pretty disgusting!! As they say in Argentina...tell me of pastimes and will guess the amount of dark matter installed in the...head of the "practitioners", or is called grey/blue/green matter? Madametarlot (or is Madameharlot/madamecharlot?)...GREAT post!! Your overflowing production of posts posted would be the envy of a matches's factory production!! Thanks Pali I thought I was going to be left out for a while there. Match sales must be down with the downturn in smoking and the upturn in gas lighters. It reminds me of the young teenage girl who went topless to the beach and came home crying. Her mother asked what happened. She said a good looking young man came up to her and said, "Have you got a match, mate?"
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Post by cster on Aug 9, 2016 17:34:44 GMT 10
Hey Ducati, great post. I suppose the grey matter could have a blue green algal bloom, might be called an artistic streak, No??
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Post by mipela on Aug 14, 2016 20:31:36 GMT 10
Ducati, If you were a motorcycle engine, I detect that you're not running smoothly. Think you ought to get someone to check your tuning maybe ?
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Post by ducati on Aug 15, 2016 19:38:32 GMT 10
Good evening Mipela!!!! If ( and I do write IF!!)YOU (Mipela) were holding an inflated wheel, with both YOUR hands and....if somebody held up your 2 legs off the ground....you could be used as a...wheel barrow!!! Ducati.
PS. I am busy filling 11 time capsules with all kind of rubbish....will "dump them capsules" out to High Seas or, may be, take them to the rubbish tip!!!
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Post by mipela on Aug 16, 2016 16:37:50 GMT 10
Palli Ducati, (there's a poem in that)
You are not showing enough reverence Palli. A wheelbarrow ! Tsk, tsk, tsk !
As regards, your time capsules, I detect from this confession that you are more a follower than a leader !
You be nice to me now - otherwise I might give you poetical prominence and you'll be hung out to dry !
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Post by epictetus on Aug 16, 2016 23:29:20 GMT 10
There was a young bloke named Ducati Who pretended to be a bit batty. He stirred and he stirred Till at last he was heard And then he became almost chatty.
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Post by cster on Aug 17, 2016 16:41:02 GMT 10
It's becoming contagious he he
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Post by dambuster41 on Aug 30, 2016 17:38:49 GMT 10
well the time capsule I was going to drop in to the sea at the barrier reef is back in my shed, I changed my mind about dropping it in the ocean they are all home, when I kick the bucket they go to the grand kids. I have no control after that. I am making time capsule books now they are the things I print you punch 2 holes in them a nd put them in. I have already sealed one. it has Dians death photos in it many other things. it is sealed after about 12 years. it will be worth reading in 40 or 50 years time. Dambuster41.
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Post by madametarot on Feb 27, 2018 13:01:16 GMT 10
Well I have been watching football this week, and I think the scrums are getting more sillier every game. one bloke in the scrum puts his leg out and they through the ball under it and the reff yells out. and its play on. really its a bit silly. Dambuster41. They should swallow their pride and do an Aussie rules ball-up.
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Post by mipela on Feb 27, 2018 15:12:56 GMT 10
'Ullo Madamtarot and all you other Queensland layabouts, Still at it I see.
Thank you Sediba for the unobtrusive email and yes, I will monitor and join in as I see fit. Like a few others, I departed, I found it hard to put up with the gathering momentum of juvenile crap. Hopefully the perpetrators (who I see are still 'lurking' and probably contributing) will have lifted their game.
Like a few others, I sorely miss the old 'SOL' forum. With hindsight, the 'rules' were the means of keeping it enjoyable.
Cheers, Mipela
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Post by Sediba on Feb 27, 2018 15:50:59 GMT 10
'Ullo Madamtarot and all you other Queensland layabouts, Still at it I see. Thank you Sediba for the unobtrusive email and yes, I will monitor and join in as I see fit. Like a few others, I departed, I found it hard to put up with the gathering momentum of juvenile crap. Hopefully the perpetrators (who I see are still 'lurking' and probably contributing) will have lifted their game. Like a few others, I sorely miss the old 'SOL' forum. With hindsight, the 'rules' were the means of keeping it enjoyable. Cheers, Mipela Hi Mip, Great to hear from you Greg
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Post by madametarot on Feb 27, 2018 16:13:22 GMT 10
'Ullo Madamtarot and all you other Queensland layabouts, Still at it I see. Thank you Sediba for the unobtrusive email and yes, I will monitor and join in as I see fit. Like a few others, I departed, I found it hard to put up with the gathering momentum of juvenile crap. Hopefully the perpetrators (who I see are still 'lurking' and probably contributing) will have lifted their game. Like a few others, I sorely miss the old 'SOL' forum. With hindsight, the 'rules' were the means of keeping it enjoyable. Cheers, Mipela Ullo Mip, not much happening, We all have to change our ways to keep up with modern trends. I am thinking of taking up soap carving and vertical fungi gardening I am finding liquid soap difficult to carve,
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Post by bejay on Feb 27, 2018 19:53:33 GMT 10
Hello there, I received an email today about this new format. I haven’t been here for a long time, I had almost forgotten the address. Wasn’t quite sure what it was until the email arrived to my in box. I was a member of the Ulysses forum, from the early days up until it was no longer being the fun it used to be. Then later I joined Dung Beatles under a different handle. Left there and joined Motorbikes and other things/Cup of tea. Dropping back in to say, like the new format.
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Post by Sediba on Feb 27, 2018 19:56:58 GMT 10
Hi, Thanks for dropping by. Hope you'll stay and participate from time to time.
Turtle is still around and posts about once a month. We're a bit worried cuz we made the changes without him
Cheers ... Greg
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Post by bejay on Sept 15, 2018 18:49:58 GMT 10
Guess what, It's me, I'm back again for a look about and see whats going on here. Whats being talked about. Been busy since I was last here. New car. New computers. New town. New house. My old laptop died a drunken death. Red wine spilt and fried the motherboard. Forgotten log in names and passwords to make life difficult. Any ways Hello.
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Post by Pedro on Sept 16, 2018 5:22:41 GMT 10
BeJay, Great to hear/read from YOU!! Sorry about your laptop. Same thing happened to MY laptop, 3 years ago! I managed to "save It" by taking IT to Alc. Anom. They disintoxicated it and, after Pedro paid $6.80, they returned to me in good working order!! Pedro PSS. Look forward...to read your next post....due by the end November 2018!!
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Post by qjumper on Sept 21, 2018 9:49:00 GMT 10
Hello there, I received an email today about this new format. I haven’t been here for a long time, I had almost forgotten the address. Wasn’t quite sure what it was until the email arrived to my in box. I was a member of the Ulysses forum, from the early days up until it was no longer being the fun it used to be. Then later I joined Dung Beatles under a different handle. Left there and joined Motorbikes and other things/Cup of tea. Dropping back in to say, like the new format. Ullo Bejay Them there good-old bad-old days I belonged to the Historic MC club and the UMC, the historic club was about the bikes but the UMC was about who was rootin' who, and who had not paid. The only memorable bright lights for UMC were Clem and Johnny B. and Tone. Johnny B was a God Botherer but I still reckon he was not a true believer, he was a pretender but he liked being the GB guru at the top of the mountain. (or tower) The Bling Brigade could be a bit annoying especially the ones who had loud exhausts and wore ear plugs - wotta wank -no one else wants to hear them. Tone was the resident Speed Demon but he did not realise there were about 1 million more interesting or more exciting things to do other than ride around in a circle scraping foot pegs. How are you going, Bejay. I believe the trick to life is to adapt to your circumstances with a new range of interests, if necessary. Trying to hang on to past activities can be frustrating and or dangerous. Hence I sold my motorbike and my kayaks and my motorhome before I was 72. I could have kept the MH longer but SWIMBO lost interest in using it. A pacemaker and blood thinners and less reactions makes MCs an even greater risk. Remote kayak trips are likewise. So I still play bowls and do a bit of workshop stuff, art and I recently wrote a screenplay. I follow a lot of sport, and crime dramas on Foxtel.
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Post by bejay on Sept 21, 2018 23:20:16 GMT 10
Hello qjumper. I'm fine and also bikeless, bikeless for a couple of reasons but often think about remounting. I left the Ulysses because it was not my cup of tea anymore. As for their forum, I said it was no longer any fun. Overtaken by egos and arguments and a couple of other members brash heavy handedness. A few good people with a decent sense of humour and good manners left and so did I. Why pay for something your not enjoying anymore. I do believe that, that club lost a good deal of membership around that time..... But that's all bye the bye now..... Water under the bridge.
Though I still have good friends that I have made during those days/years and now interact on other social media. Dung beetles also, not my cup of tea either. Time passes by and we do look in other directions and develop other interests.
I popped back in here to have a look and see whats, what. To me seems to be a quiet corner for the quiet fireside chat. Perhaps a funny story or two.
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Post by Pedro on Sept 22, 2018 6:45:48 GMT 10
+++Water under the bridge.+++ Here it is the North Italian version: Water gone PAST the water mill, does NOT grind wheat...UNLESS...it goes past another water mill..further DOWN the river!!
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