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January 5, 2007 at 5:36 pm
I’ve tested the waters for 2007 by a few quick posts - and yes, there seems to be the usual number of moonbats in the wild.
January 5, 2007 at 5:41 pm
Hi Murray, how are you tonight?
January 5, 2007 at 5:41 pm
Well don’t bring them here, we’ve just had the carpets cleaned and whinging shit stains are so hard to get out.
In other news the infamous Tom Paine of SR & SNN fame is in town (Wellington) is anyone is interested in meet up some time over the weekend.
January 5, 2007 at 5:44 pm
Good evening Lycyna, I seem to be suffering from some kind of narcolepsy actually. I keep getting tired and crashing out.
Perhaps I’m allergic to socialism. Will ACC cover the cost of moving to a more reasonable climate do you think?
January 5, 2007 at 5:52 pm
You don’t need to move. The climate is coming to you.
Or did you mean a more reasonable political climate?
It would be good to catch up, and the occasion of TP’s visit would seem a most worthy ocassion. What did you have in mind for the weekend? Meet up in town perhaps; or head over to your neck of the woods? Or other?
January 5, 2007 at 6:01 pm
I have a BBQ if you feel like traveling to a warmer clime.
January 5, 2007 at 6:06 pm
Well we’re mobile so we can met up somewhere if you like.
January 5, 2007 at 6:12 pm
You are most welcome to come out for a pleasant afternoon by the beach, partaking in BBQ fare and a few beers. The weather forecast out this way is good. Could be a nice change from the Valley. It’s about a 45 minute drive via the Haywoods.
Interested?
January 5, 2007 at 6:13 pm
Alternatively, if the weather turns foul, I can travel too.
January 5, 2007 at 6:20 pm
If it’s east coast weather it’s good - finally … NIWA have it right … not for Nov-Jan tho.’ If they can’t predict micros then macros ….???? They really don’t do much better than the astrologers, do they???
January 5, 2007 at 6:33 pm
But their power is growing. They have more believers.
PISCES - You’re in luck. As the waters rise, you will grow gills and return to the sea.
CANCER - You are particualrly suspectible to global warming. Stay indoors for 600 years.
AQUARIUS - This is the dawning of the age of Global Warming. Move over. It was probably your fault anyway
LEO - If I said Climate Change will bring only good things, you know I’d be lion. Panic. It might not be in your nature, but its the only rational course of action
GEMNI - First you say its cooling. Then you think it’s warming. I have three letters for you - AGW. Stop being undecided and just BELIEVE.
VIRGO - Your virgin innocence is about to be swept away with the first melt of the polar ice caps. The Polar Bears will die, and your $5 donation to WFF didn’t help. Try to do better.
TAURUS - Any alternate thoughts about AGW is bull. Your stubborness is not a worthy character trait unless you stubbornly believe us.
hangon, dinner time … you get the idea. Back soon.
January 5, 2007 at 6:37 pm
& Zen. we’eve had our waters tested too .. & the result is that it is not potable…& not only due to animal but also human(animal) faecal matter … bummer, eh?? … & we essentially take from a river (albeit a very close bore).
January 5, 2007 at 6:46 pm
Evening all you wellie weather freaks.
Now when “I” was a lad (where have you heard that before?) we used to draw our
emergency water supply out of a creek during late summer autumn when the tank watyer gave out. The creek was a repository for dead sheep and other greebly thngs but the Public Health Department (1962 ws the worst drought in Northland history) reckoned that if the water hd run over 25 years of shigle during sunlight, all the bugs would be zappoed.
Not sure if it worked and can’t remember if Mum boiled all the drinking water. However, I can confidently recall I did not die at the time.
BTW, yesterday was the first really decent hot day of summer here. Still cool at nights.
January 5, 2007 at 6:46 pm
Oh dear. sounds like you need a decent resevoir built up in the hiils, with the surrounding area free from human access, and then have the water piped from the resevoir instead of the local river. Be handy in times of drought, when the river levels fall too.
I had a water filter fitted. Doesn’t quite handle the flavour from bore water though.
January 5, 2007 at 6:47 pm
years = yards
ws = was
watyer = water (maybe it was watyer with all that crap in it)
shigle = shingle
January 5, 2007 at 6:49 pm
Evening Adolf. I remember as a lad traipsing around the hills and drinking from streams. I always used to walk downstream at least 50 yards, so I could be sure there were no dead sheep. There were a few occasions where this wisdom proved useful,
Some-one taught me to drink from the stream following white water - the water breaking over rocks helped oxygenate and cleanse it apparently.
I can’t recall dying either. Did something right.
January 5, 2007 at 7:04 pm
I can’t get away from bloody water!
January 5, 2007 at 7:09 pm
Thank God I’m a Leo.
January 5, 2007 at 7:10 pm
Ares:
Beat shit out of the moonbats and proclaim yourself King!
January 5, 2007 at 7:16 pm
Poor old Jordan just too a right hook to the jaw from Fran O’Sullivan. On his own comments section!!!!!!!
January 5, 2007 at 7:32 pm
Aries:
Who works from morning to evening,
And never likes to be outdone?
Whose walk is almost like a run??
It is the Arian!!
Oh Oswald, such a burden!
January 5, 2007 at 7:39 pm
Colour me heart broken.
I Jordon is going to make a living out of being a bullshit talking apologist for a corrupt government he’s going to have expect people to call him on it.
January 5, 2007 at 7:47 pm
Burden, schmurden!
We play hard too!
January 5, 2007 at 7:49 pm
Murray, did you find another workshop? I’m reading a very ponderous account of the genesis of Beyond The Fringe, That Was The week That Was, Private Eye and the Pete ‘n Dud show. Private Eye were given an office buck shee on condition they didn’t leave it unlocked. One of the silly buggers forgot to lock up one night and they got kicked out. Don’t forget to lock up next time, Murray.
January 5, 2007 at 7:51 pm
Oswald, you’re just a bid woman’s blouse.
January 5, 2007 at 7:52 pm
big, oswald, BIG.
January 5, 2007 at 7:56 pm
At this stage I’m actually looking for somewhere new to live with a garage. This will slightly increase my production ability by 300% on what it was.
currently it’s at 0%.
January 5, 2007 at 8:04 pm
A big girls blouse has something worthy playing with inside!
January 5, 2007 at 8:07 pm
Well this conversation is taking a disturbing turn.
January 5, 2007 at 8:12 pm
So why not over the hill in martinborough .. pinot noir territory .. a stones throw from the capital … lots of artisans … probably cheaper digs.
& … re. casting. Have you ever done hollow bronze casting …I’ve always wanted to do a full nude …but never known anyone offait with the practice.
January 5, 2007 at 8:12 pm
Cricket anyone?
Q. What is the height of optimism?
A. An English batsman putting on sunscreen.
Q. What would Glenn McGrath be if he was English?
A. An all rounder.
Q. What is the main function of the England coach?
A. To transport the team from the hotel to the ground.
Q. Why is Freddie Flintoff the unluckiest bowler on tour?
A. Because he was born in England.
Q. What’s the English version of a hat trick?
A. Three runs in three balls.
Q. Why don’t English fielders need pre tour travel injections?
A. Because they never catch anything.
Q. What’s the English version of LBW?
A. Lost, Beaten and Walloped.
Q. What do you call an Englishman with 100 runs against his name?
A. A bowler.
Q. What’s the most proficient form of footwork displayed by Strauss?
A. The walk back to the pavilion.
Q. Who has the easiest job in the England touring party?
A. The guy who removes the red ball marks from the bats.
Q. What does “Ashes” stand for?
A. Another Sad Horrific English Series.
Q. What do English batsmen and drug addicts have in common?
A. Both spend most of their time wondering where their next score will come from.
Q. Why are English cricketers cleverer than Houdini?
A. Because they can get out without even trying.
Q. What does Harmison put in his hands to make sure the next ball almost always takes a wicket?
A. A bat.
January 5, 2007 at 8:16 pm
Hollow bronze is a whole bigger ball game. I’d need to spend several years working my way up.
Also need to find about $50,000 worth of gear and lots of pretentious people with more money than understanding of art to buy the stuff.
Currently considering anywhere from Levin/Masterton south (until it gets to the blue bit).
January 5, 2007 at 8:16 pm
Salt in to a wound Zen. You’re quite a nasty shit really … but then again probably quite appropriate. Going home must be an awful proposition for them … but perhaps the one dayers???
No … thy’re buggered really.
January 5, 2007 at 8:17 pm
Is it true that half the team have asked for asylum… but been refused for because they claimed they were cricket players?
January 5, 2007 at 8:22 pm
Definetely go to Martinborough Murray. Lots of pretentious money there. All you have to do is flog them bronzes and tell them they have a secret gold content. Simple, see?
January 5, 2007 at 8:23 pm
Not a lot going over here- I have been asking around, as I know another chap also looking for a house with a large workshop.
Martinbourough would be more expensive than Upper Hutt!
January 5, 2007 at 8:25 pm
Hollow casting …. not so. I did some solid casting & the guy had an LPG tank & vacuum cleaner set on blow & that created enuf temperature quickly to do the job.
January 5, 2007 at 8:27 pm
I believe there was some discussion of a full sized nude. Not a simple undertaking.
January 5, 2007 at 8:30 pm
Ever think about getting into casting lead bullets for sale?
January 5, 2007 at 8:32 pm
Hardly a challenge. All I need is the molds.
January 5, 2007 at 8:33 pm
Used to load my own shot gun shells … but did it too much with the same old casings … hence one came out the breach & took me to my knees … & being a slow learner so did another … no earmuff days .. so now, as you guys have gathered, I am of questionable balance!
January 5, 2007 at 8:35 pm
ouch.
January 5, 2007 at 8:37 pm
Not a challenge, but possibly a money-maker.
Moulds are available at the Upper Hutt Gunshop (or TradeMe for less!)
January 5, 2007 at 8:38 pm
I don’t follow cricket. Was I being nasty? Lucky its only a game.
January 5, 2007 at 8:40 pm
Mymy hasn’t Farrar gone all lefty
January 5, 2007 at 8:44 pm
Bullet production is mind numbingly boring, when I was semi-pro shooting I was sponsored by Hawksebury River projectiles. When you soot over 4000 rounds a week just on practice it gets a little outta control for making your own.
January 5, 2007 at 8:48 pm
It’s not a game. its a job .. I must say tho’ it was sad to see those three retire as they had indeed become synonymous with the ‘job,’ so to speak.
January 5, 2007 at 8:52 pm
& yep … I used to spend my evenings reloading, & my days shooting. Always amazed me how I repeatedly bruised my shoulder & stressed my ribs each season tho,’ like I said a slow learner .. or too much powder!
January 5, 2007 at 9:00 pm
Yep, that’s why I happily buy my projectiles. Oh, to be rich and shoot only factory ammo!
hell, I think its a chore reloading about 5000 a YEAR!
I seem to be immune to recoil. it takes a full-power 45-70 in a light carbine before I start noticing it…
January 5, 2007 at 9:10 pm
Me is here. Anyone else still around?
Whale Oil, u still here?
January 5, 2007 at 9:12 pm
Evening all;
Kids just back from central - been doing th catch up
Boy whaleoil you took the word right out of my mouth, DPF is definitely in the chardoney S club these days.
Where is Ben Couch when you need him?
January 5, 2007 at 9:13 pm
Still here
January 5, 2007 at 9:16 pm
Did DPF suddenly get a govt contract or something?
January 5, 2007 at 9:18 pm
Night All. Off to get a dose of pommy humour. I’l probably need it before tomorrow’s through. Mind you, it’s only the pajama game.
January 5, 2007 at 9:19 pm
I miss 24 on Friday nights. Anyone here work in TV who could push for replays of Series 1?
January 5, 2007 at 9:20 pm
Adolf, how’s the book going?
January 5, 2007 at 9:24 pm
Gooner I think you can get series 1 of 24 on DVD.
Then you could replay it anytime you like.
January 5, 2007 at 9:27 pm
And it would only take you a day to watch it all!
January 5, 2007 at 9:31 pm
Evening folks
January 5, 2007 at 9:31 pm
Thanks Andrei. I’ve never seen Series 1 so must get it. I have a few spare days right now too.
January 5, 2007 at 9:32 pm
Old habits .. they’re still calling you Gooner mate, you’re gonna have to tell them to get ……. it right.
January 5, 2007 at 9:35 pm
Andrei - you need to widen the display column at TBR. Having such a narrow posting column seems to reduce its readability. (I was going to say “mojo” but present company dictates otherwise)
January 5, 2007 at 9:36 pm
It says Gooner in the name slot, whats the damn problem?
January 5, 2007 at 9:40 pm
Feel free mojo to call me Saint Nick.
January 5, 2007 at 9:41 pm
Zen, I loved the cricket jokes. You should put them up on SH as a post.
January 5, 2007 at 9:42 pm
What, not “The Great Emperor, his royal excellency, the right honourable and venerable, Augustus Nick” ?
January 5, 2007 at 9:43 pm
Oh, they are jokes are they? I thought they were news reports.
January 5, 2007 at 9:43 pm
Night all. I’m off to the scratcher. Got a big day tomorrow startring with a 3k swim along Takapuna Beach starting at 7:45. Gotta watch the jellyfish.
January 5, 2007 at 9:44 pm
Saint Nicholas is Santa Clause of course. My Christmas holiday goatee has some grey in it too. Must be a sign of old age.
January 5, 2007 at 9:45 pm
See what happens when you change your name, you end up in moderation.
January 5, 2007 at 9:46 pm
One of my kids was born on xmas day … no prizes for guessing his name.
January 5, 2007 at 9:47 pm
Eric.
January 5, 2007 at 9:47 pm
What about the teacher who asked the children in class what their father’s job’s were.
She went around the room to hear “Policeman, Lawyer, Office Manager, Insurance Agent, Mechanic, Truckie, Fisherman, Engineer” etc. Then they got to Johnny.
“Well Miss, my dad is a pole dancer in gay bars. Sometimes, he gets offers from the patrons, and if the money’s good he goes back to a hotel room and performs favours for cash.”
There was stunned silence and the teacher hurriedly changed the subject and got the kids working on homework. She took Johnny aside and asked if his Dad really worked in a gay bar.
“No Miss, he’s actually on the English Cricket Team, but I was too embarrassed to say”
January 5, 2007 at 9:48 pm
Mary?
January 5, 2007 at 9:48 pm
Rudolph?
January 5, 2007 at 9:48 pm
Bob?
January 5, 2007 at 9:49 pm
Pyong Kang?
January 5, 2007 at 9:50 pm
& you don’t follow cricket??
January 5, 2007 at 9:51 pm
Only from a discreet distance with a telephoto lens.
January 5, 2007 at 9:53 pm
No, not really much of a cricket fan, although I remember going to a one day match in Sydney on a nice summers day and that was a good experience.
If a match is on TV, I can get sucked in. But I hardly watch TV now.
January 5, 2007 at 9:56 pm
Happy 2007 to you all. My started well…iTunes finally has my band (Growing Old Disgracefully) tunes on it. Which is about freaking time.
The English got stuffed in the cricket didnt they? Ouch!
January 5, 2007 at 9:58 pm
Ali Khamenei is reported to be dead.
One less turd in the sewer if so.
January 5, 2007 at 9:58 pm
I used to run a wire form the large mantle radio to my room to headphones to listen late at night … rugby too. So as to not disturb parents/family.
January 5, 2007 at 9:58 pm
When I was a wee thing, that was.
January 5, 2007 at 9:59 pm
Hey Andrew do have any use for a female vocal on the other side of the pond?
I’m sure with modern mixing something can be pulled off.
January 5, 2007 at 10:04 pm
I used to get up at midnight to watch TV (downstairs from my parents room). They had chinese kung fu movies on, the soundtrack was in Cantonese or mandarin with french subtitles, or French with English subtitles (when I lived in Canada).
I also went most weeks for quite a while, to the Chinese theatres and watched 3 martial art movies kung fu movies in a row - special price of $5 for the three. Sometimes they had English subtitles.
Awesome.
January 5, 2007 at 10:09 pm
Did you ever take the move from watching to doing the art?
My first recollection of alienation was going to a Bruce Lee number in which I am sure I was the only person with english as a first language.
January 5, 2007 at 10:10 pm
Our Amah used to translate for us.
TVNZ good well do with few of the Cantonese programs. I was particular fond of the adventures of Ultra Man who used to beat up guys on rubber monster suits while smashing models of Shanghi. Also Justice Pao who seemed to be a kind of Zen Judge Dread. Most western judges don’t have pole arms in courtroom. They should give it some thought.
Beats the puss out of the “reality” crap they’re force feeding us these days.
January 5, 2007 at 10:14 pm
Something like Banzai USA, as on tv2, now??
January 5, 2007 at 10:22 pm
Jesus christ why did we stop at two?
January 5, 2007 at 10:39 pm
There is nothing lefty about oppossing self appointed dictators.
And there is nothing lefty about criticising a party for running massive budgets deficits and spending too much tacxpayer money.
January 5, 2007 at 10:48 pm
morning all, off to work and in my professional opinion this is a strange thread!
January 5, 2007 at 10:52 pm
Hello DPF and OFS.
Yes Mojo - got into martial arts big time in my younger days. But that’s something for another chat - it’s time for some shuteye. Good night for me too.
January 5, 2007 at 11:11 pm
TTFN from me!
January 6, 2007 at 12:32 am
Good evening or morning everyone.
Apologies for being late.
Just arrived in York a few minutes ago.
I keep telling my parents to get a computer and there are no cybercafes in their little village. But they won’t listen.
Hopefully, you will still be awake when I log on next week.
The weather is so cold and grim in Britain (but no snow) that my folks are taking me to the Costa del Sol in southern Spain for a week.
Mum did not like my suggestion of the Cumbria Lake district.
So off we fly out on Sunday.
I hope the time difference and easier availability of internet will work in my favour.
Belated New Year greetings too.
Cheers
Darren
January 6, 2007 at 6:11 am
Friday night there.
I keep having trouble with the concept of living your used time (hell, I don’t even get an hour until it has been used by New York and Washington, DC - yeech, one might prefer hand-me-downs from one’s sister).
January 6, 2007 at 6:53 am
You must be ahead of me, its only 1pm here on Friday…… Once again, I’m falling behind
Good luck with finding another workshop, Murray. Sorry to hear your work isn’t productive at the moment. I’m sure you’ll be fine. Even better than before.
Chin up and flaunt yo shit, boy!
At the starting of the week
and someone speaks you hear them speak
It’s only monday
Negotiations breaking down
see those leaders start to frown
and so did monday.
Tomorrow never comes until it’s too late.
You could be sitting taking lunch
the news will hit you like a punch
It’s only tuesday
You never thought we’d go to war
after all the things we say
it’s april fools day.
Tomorrow never comes until it’s too late,
tomorrow never comes until it’s too late
You hear a whistling overhead
Are you alive or are you dead
it’s only thursday
You feel the shaking of the ground
The feel of candles all around
is it your birthday.
Tomorrow never comes until it’s too late,
tomorrow never comes until it’s too late.
Make tomorrow come, I think it’s too late
Jenny
–the Blackhawk Lovin, Green Bay Packer Cheerin - Gemini
January 6, 2007 at 6:58 am
You blokes are right about the cricket - it was embarrassing stuff. They only beat the Black Caps 3-0 last time out too! Yikes!
January 6, 2007 at 10:16 am
Crap, by the time it was Friday (not even night) here to comment , it wasn’t Friday there anymore.
January 7, 2007 at 7:47 am
So anyone who thinks that Bush is raking up a bit too much debt and spending taxpayers’ money a bit too freely (not having vetoed a single spending bill) is a lefty? How exactly does that work? Are you all a bunch of big-government Republicans? I thought what seperated the Republicans from the Democrats was their difference of opinion on the size of the ideal government. When did they both agree that huge government is good government? You know, it wouldn’t kill you to disagree with something that Bush does once in a while. Try it, you would be surprised.
January 9, 2007 at 8:18 am
Bush is not a conservative (unless one views the MSM and such as mainstream). He is ore slightly right. Which looks far right from the vantage point of the MSM, or academia, or Democrats.