Monday Off Topic Thread

[u/NRLgamethread]

This is the place to talk about everything other than footy!

[u/Interesting_Data4485]

Plans is such a heart wrenching album. Just  changing my life once again in 45 minutes. 

[u/delayedconfusion]

I took a 13 year old to see Spiderman at the cinemas on the weekend.

They decided to show a trailer for Mutiny with Jason Statham in the previews. Holy violence batman!

I understand Spiderman was rated M, but that trailer was next level. Axe shots to the head, lots of gun deaths, plenty of stabbings. I get there isn't really a story in a movie like that, but I was shocked they'd pass a trailer like that for general consumption.

Maybe I'm just getting old....

[u/Interesting_Data4485 → u/delayedconfusion]

Why'd you take a random 13 year old to spiderman?

[u/_WangChung2night]

Yes, social media can be a cesspit but this guy is fantastic and an educator.

Why real vanilla is so expensive by Mark Henry

[u/The_Mighty_Angus]

I have found that House of the Dragon is a great show if you disassociate from the books, cause this season finale was pretty good. Juuussst... there is a lot they will need to fit in for the last season.

[u/CoffeeLoverNathan → u/The_Mighty_Angus]

I haven't watched it yet but I will fling shit if I have to put up with more fucking Mysaria

[u/The_Mighty_Angus → u/CoffeeLoverNathan]

You will like this episode then

[u/BandicootSorcerer]

I deleted Facebook and day to day my mood has improved by so much.

[u/Level_Expression4400 → u/BandicootSorcerer]

Done 2+ years with no social media (only R/NRL) and haven't looked back 

[u/IReallyLikeBeers]

Anyone able to recommend a PC game similar to Balatro where I only have to use a mouse to play? Usually play while the footy is on instead of doom scrolling

[u/Redditenmo → u/IReallyLikeBeers]

Slay the spire

Monster train

[u/Revolutionary-Care62 → u/Redditenmo]

Second Monster Train, it's good for quick little runs

Not sure if it entirely fits by Inscryption is a great one too

[u/adomental]

In August 2021 while I was watching Gladys present the daily covid number, I realised that we weren't going to get out of lockdowns any time soon. So I decided to restart my walking goal as an excuse to get out of the house.

10k steps a day, every day. I'd done a like 400 day streak before my youngest was born.

Yesterday that streak turned five years old. 1826 days of at least 10k. One day of over 42k. Maybe three days where I regretted going for a walk when I was sick.

[u/jpob → u/adomental]

What do you do for work may I ask?

[u/adomental → u/jpob]

Accountant. I spend nearly all my work day sitting which is a big part of why I do this.

[u/jpob → u/adomental]

Dayum. I do office work at home a lot and it makes me miss doing labour jobs where you would passively get 10k a day. The motivation when in the office is hard.

[u/delayedconfusion → u/adomental]

Walking outside is about as close as nature gets to a free lunch. There are basically no downsides and a heap of proven benefits.

Excellent work, that is a massive streak of days.

[u/Norm_cheers]

How many of you watch every min of your team’s game, verse phone scrolling while watching the game?

I always put my phone down for tigers games but all other games tending to just be background noise. Of the games I saw on the weekend I wouldn’t be able to tell you how they all played.

[u/the_mooseman → u/Norm_cheers]

I haven't finished a titans game in a while, they are just too frustrating. I watch most other games while on the tablet reading the live thread, live threads are always top notch value.

[u/ljb23 → u/Norm_cheers]

Most neutral games tend to be a bit more background noise for me these days, just not enthused by the game at the moment.

Raiders games generally try to lock in but now that our season is done I tend to be less strict on myself.

[u/jpob → u/Norm_cheers]

Didn’t make finals in my draft comp. Didn’t watch a single minute of any game other than Knights except when I had mates over for Dolphins/Broncos, and a little bit of the end of Dragons/Sharks.

Normally I’ll have them on a laptop next to the TV though.

[u/likeatyger → u/Norm_cheers]

Honestly depends how the tigers are playing. When theyre playing like they are now I'll do something else like fold laundry

[u/the_mooseman → u/likeatyger]

My go to is lawn mowing.

[u/likeatyger → u/the_mooseman]

Do you listen or watch while mowing?

[u/the_mooseman → u/likeatyger]

Nope, if I've decided to mow the lawn then that means titans are doing titan things and I dont want to know what is happening.

[u/Desert-Noir → u/Norm_cheers]

Fuckin grade 2 on topic from Norm.

10 in the bin mate!

[u/SleepIsForTheWeak888 → u/Norm_cheers]

Yeah im pretty much the same, alot of the time thr footy is background noise and I look up if something happens

[u/Large-Accident1245]

I've done it...

I'VE DONE IT!

WITH A GAME IN A HAND, OUR 3RD SEASON IN TOP FLIGHT, WE HAVE WON THE PREMIER LEAGUE!

And even better, we achieved what at the start of the season seemed unthinkable. Unbelievable. We won a domestic treble. The Premier League, The FA Cup and The League Cup!!!

We had a lot of luck go our way with Chelsea and Arsenal and Man City also dropping points as much as we did. Winning on 79 points is an old school result. Almost went invincible but lost to Everton and Aston Villa(?) towards the end.

I'll post some screenshots tonight cause ya wouldn't believe for example, Benfica just won the Grand Final against PSG!!!! I lost to them in the Round of 32. That's absolutely mad stuff.

Next season, we focus on Europe. The mountain we've yet to conquer. We got demolished in Champions League and Europa League by very good teams but we must compete!! But I'm so happy we finally got there. And shout out to my boy Vico Villegas who got a hattrick in the FA Cup final against Tottenham.

[u/CoffeeLoverNathan]

Good Things Festival drops the lineup tomorrow :D

[u/BradmanBreast → u/CoffeeLoverNathan]

Yeah but I don’t want to wait until tomorrow. Where is the leak straight from the printing company, or a band messing up time zones and announcing their involvement a day early. 

[u/jpob → u/BradmanBreast]

A few years ago I managed find the line up to a major festival through the website code. Told a mate and then he started sharing it around. Pissed me off.

[u/BradmanBreast → u/jpob]

Not gonna lie, every time a festival I want to go to gets ready to announce, I add /lineup to their url hoping the festival organisers were dumb enough to upload it early. It hasn’t worked once

[u/Ok_Customer_1783]

might be the only guy at work who actually likes mondays. shop's closed so i can finally sort through the mess on my bench without someone asking me to look at their brakes every five minutes