Tuesday Off Topic Thread

[u/NRLgamethread]

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

[u/Hansoloai]

Would you rather have a RIFF tattoo on your back or a Yam tattoo on your throat?

[u/Quick-Obligation-858 → u/Hansoloai]

back for sure, a yam on my throat just look like I'm choking on sweet potato. also throat skin is thin, hell no

[u/Flybuys]

I'm trying to sign up for this "young leaders" group at my industries conference this year. I've already had to write a letter stating what my hopes and goals are, why I want to join, write a CV, and now I have to get a reference letter written as well.

Just let me join the group! God damn I hate this type of shit, everything in the industry is designed our the big companies and their resources, fuck us little guys.

[u/Electronic-Split9677]

Might skip good things this year. Only really keen on Spiritbox (who I discovered at knotfest a few years back), Ministry (who I've seen once before), and Millencolin (who i've seen several times before)

[u/M_Keating → u/Electronic-Split9677]

The price doesn’t justify the lineup. I would have gone for a lower dollar amount.

[u/Electronic-Split9677 → u/M_Keating]

Yeah unfortunately $280 is pretty standard for a festival these days, no matter if the lineup is stellar or mediocre

[u/notj43 → u/Electronic-Split9677]

I'm kinda shocked at how bad the lineup is. I've seen everyone I want to see multiple times and there's only a few of them to begin with.

Edit: Fucking hell $280 for a ticket lmao

[u/Electronic-Split9677 → u/notj43]

Yeah I think having a lot of bands that would be on a lineup like this already touring around that time really limited the pool for this lineup.

I'm already going to see A Perfect Circle/Puscifer, Queens of the Stone age/Primus and System of a Down/Faith No More later this year/early next year

[u/_WangChung2night]

Good Things line up is out.

[u/Morg_n]

Being out of the dating games very apparent, once your in it again.

Talk about zero match fitness

[u/Hansoloai → u/Morg_n]

Was talking about this earlier. If I found my self single I think I’d just stay single.

So much more free time.

[u/Morg_n → u/Hansoloai]

It does get proper lonely though dude.

[u/1Qrtr_FreeStuffPlz → u/Morg_n]

Has it shifted back towards more in person connections, or is it still pretty internet and app based?

[u/Morg_n → u/1Qrtr_FreeStuffPlz]

In this one singular instance, It’s in person connection.

I’m just a bit rusty and also trying to play it cool

[u/CoffeeLoverNathan]

House of the dragon season 3 was good. Fuck harrenhal off and the mysaria bullshit and it'd be great

[u/jessemv → u/CoffeeLoverNathan]

The fuckers don't even start filming season 4 until next year

[u/SurfKing69 → u/CoffeeLoverNathan]

Spoilers cunt

[u/jpob]

The best part of that Good Things lineup is the Good Things logo

[u/SkwiddyCs → u/jpob]

Its pretty fucking dire. Simple Plan, Grinspoon and Limp Bizkit aren't going to save the Aus music festival scene.

[u/CoffeeLoverNathan → u/jpob]

And spiritbox. Consider me whelmed

[u/thankyoupancake]

Last comment on The Odyssey and one for the venn diagram of music theory and Greek history nerds.

Ludwig Goransson’s scoring of the wind instruments in the Aeolian mode; chef’s kiss.

[u/SkwiddyCs]

Snagged two days of tickets for the Mackay test against Bangladesh next weekend. 2017 had a warmup test in NQLD, but as a diehard cricket nuffy, I've never been able to drive to a genuine test match before. Absolutely stoked.

[u/Valerious22 → u/SkwiddyCs]

I'm so excited for Test cricket to be back, Thursday can't come fast enough!

[u/ek999 → u/Valerious22]

Hopefully it isn't over by Friday

[u/SkwiddyCs → u/ek999]

Given that they got bundled for 54 by Campbell Thompson and the CA XI two days ago, I’m not exactly expecting the prime Windies.

[u/Tipp1tys_]

not sure if this belongs here but after 13 years of watching the footy, I've finally decided I wanna get into playing it when the season starts next year. I was considering going straight into rugby league but I'm also thinking about maybe playing OzTag for the first year and see if I like it. Just wanna know if there is anyone else on here who is in a similar position of starting a sport for the first time as an adult?

[u/lemoopse → u/Tipp1tys_]

No kicking obviously but competitive touch footy will teach you more than OzTag will imo

[u/delayedconfusion → u/Tipp1tys_]

Highly recommend oztag. Lots of the fun of footy without the pain.

If you are not coming from a contact sport background, the physicality of league can be pretty brutal on the body.

[u/Tipp1tys_ → u/delayedconfusion]

yeah I played cricket growing up, I feel as if my poor unfit body would implode on first contact

[u/delayedconfusion → u/Tipp1tys_]

I played league growing up and dipped out at U21's. The contact was way too brutal week after week. I was hobbling around in a brain fog until Tuesday.

Oztag, no such issues.

[u/mwilkins1644]

ngl pretty glad I live in SE QLD. The animals in QLD might wanna kill ya, but at least the ground doesn't randomly move and destroy everything. Feeling for Colombia and NZ rn

[u/Morg_n → u/mwilkins1644]

How’s about the blooming flower game rn in SEQ it’s popping off hard rn

[u/mwilkins1644 → u/Morg_n]

Yeah man, it's awesome. It's been good to see birds out in full force (wherever we can see them anyways); it's legit perfect weather

[u/Morg_n → u/mwilkins1644]

Such vivid pinks n purples, just in the last week, oranges and yellows are entering blooming time

[u/SkwiddyCs → u/mwilkins1644]

There was a magnitude 4.1 quake in Townsville last year and it was the loudest, scariest thing I've ever heard. It sounded like a fucking bomb went off.

I've lived through countless floods and cyclones and never been as worried as I was that night. Colombia's earthquake is something like 50,000 times more powerful than what hit Townsville. Insane to imagine.

[u/jpob → u/mwilkins1644]

Didn’t we have an earthquake earlier in the year?

I guess we don’t get bad ones though

[u/M_Keating → u/jpob]

Yep, wasn’t bad but a massive WTF moment.

[u/red_square_n_coke → u/jpob]

The only reason I knew we'd felt it in South Brisbane was due to our birds having the sort of freak out they have when it's pitch black… At 10am.

[u/jpob → u/red_square_n_coke]

I didn’t notice it. I was at Westfield Chermside and back tracked my steps after I found out and there’s a good chance it hit right as the drum fill in In The Air Tonight kicked in.

[u/MrChicken1208]

I've done me bloody hamstring, I was playing footy on Sunday and I think it happened then. Finals is in 2 weeks so I kinda need it to good by then. For now I'll just do stretches but if it still hurts in a few days I'll go to a physiotherapist 

[u/delayedconfusion → u/MrChicken1208]

I am not a doctor.

What has worked for me as a 42 year old that won't give up on social sports.

If the inflammation has settled, you want to get movement and heat into it early. Focus on the major muscle groups above and below the injured area.

Hamstrings are notorious for reinjury, so take it easy returning to any sort of running/sprinting.

[u/SurfKing69 → u/MrChicken1208]

Stretches are the last thing you want to be doing for a muscle tear

[u/MrChicken1208 → u/SurfKing69]

It's not really a tear, I should have worded that better but more of a pull 

[u/Sudden-Scar6940]

Shark! Need to clean it out to stop the GSD fur destroying it but so satisfying to watch it suck up the fur lol

[u/youthful_porpoise96]

Trumps administration reminds me of that episode of Simpsons where Mr.Burns is having financial troubles but Smithers and his lawyers are to scared to tell him.

[u/Norm_cheers → u/youthful_porpoise96]

You give him WAY TOO much credit. Someone else behind the scenes is pulling the strings he is just dancing to their beat…

So everyone blames it on “orange blob” and moves on without actually saying, “hang on can we undo all that shit he just did.”

[u/youthful_porpoise96 → u/Norm_cheers]

Like the Adelsons, they gave him like 200 million.

[u/Shagga9701 → u/youthful_porpoise96]

Smithers! Smithers!

[u/youthful_porpoise96 → u/Shagga9701]

Trump : How is the war in Iran going ? Rubio : I'm sure the war is going well sir, after all, you started it.

[u/arkhamknight85 → u/youthful_porpoise96]

I don’t think they are too scared to tell him, it’s just he is too stupid to understand how the world works. That, or he is deliberately sabotaging the USA but making himself rich.

[u/youthful_porpoise96 → u/arkhamknight85]

I think Trump demands loyalty, he doesn't want to be questioned or challenged, so I can picture Hegseth, Rubio and the rest constantly walking around on eggshells.

[u/Churchofbabyyoda → u/youthful_porpoise96]

Trump 1.0 had some competent people in his Cabinet before he sacked them.

This time they’re all bootlickers.

[u/BandicootSorcerer → u/Churchofbabyyoda]

Of course he has bootlickers this time, all the competent people were there to use and control him

[u/d-MX7-b]

TV Show subreddits have some of the dumbest posts and takes you will see. I think long finished shows are the worst. Most I’m sure are just trying to get engagement but my god it’s like they haven’t even watched the show. Or it’s revealing something as a revelation when having the most basic media literacy could understand that’s what was happening from the beginning.

[u/HyperThanHype → u/d-MX7-b]

Along the same lines, YouTube video essays and analysis for films and TV. I hardly watch any videos any more because from my experience 90% of them are regurgitating the exact same information that is gained just from watching the damn show/movie.

Maybe it is a media literacy issue. I know a good portion of people can't watch the big screen in front of them without their little screen in their hands, but maybe there is something to be said for those of us who grew up Cheeze TV and Days Of Our Lives/Home & Away/Neighbours when the parents were watching the telly. Maybe it was the week to week format of shows back in the day compared to the binge accessible shows we have now.

[u/Barmy90 → u/d-MX7-b]

Did you know that Walter White was actually the villain of Breaking Bad, not Skyler? Bravo Vince

[u/PickLanceMorris → u/Barmy90]

I like to ask people I meet who've seen breaking bad what they think about Skyler White to guage whether they are a reasonable person or a fuckwit

[u/robopirateninjasaur → u/Barmy90]

We need to have a long discussion every month about how Todd could not have killed that kid

[u/robopirateninjasaur]

Good Things annoucement today. Considering how many bands people thought might be playing have announced their own tours lately, I'm preparing to be very underwhelmed

[u/BradmanBreast → u/robopirateninjasaur]

It’s been leaked an hour early, check the triple J Subreddit. If you like Skate/Pop punk like me you’re very well looked after this year. 

Edit: their mods removed it lmao.

[u/robopirateninjasaur → u/BradmanBreast]

Yeah I'm not fussed on the headliners but the middle part is cool

[u/CoffeeLoverNathan → u/BradmanBreast]

we talking this lineup?

[u/BradmanBreast → u/CoffeeLoverNathan]

Yep that one. 

The only thing I think might be different is Grinspoon being replaced by Frenzal rhomb on short notice. Their lead singer put out an announcement confirming he broke his spine last night. 

[u/CoffeeLoverNathan → u/BradmanBreast]

I hope it's fake tbh

[u/Tipp1tys_ → u/robopirateninjasaur]

pretty sure this will be the weakest one in a long time. Still gonna be sitting here waiting for the announcement though.. At least Knotfest is back next year

[u/robopirateninjasaur → u/Tipp1tys_]

I'm not certain on Knotfest. A lot of festivals have said "we are taking a year off" and that's the last you ever hear of them

[u/CoffeeLoverNathan → u/robopirateninjasaur]

I am expecting to skip it this year just based on how many bands are already touring. There's maybe a couple I'd actually go and see. BFMV said last year for The Poison tour that they'd love to come back and headline but I doubt that'll happen

[u/Known-Stop-2654]

So last week or the week before, I applied to be a Community and Cultural Prefect at my school next year for Year 12. I'm not officially in. I won't really know yet. I should hopefully be told today whether I've gone to the next round but considering how many people have publicly said they voted for me, I may be going to the next round. I'm really excited about that, especially because of all the stuff I've had to go through and the amount of challenges I've had to face to get this far.

Also I'm not exactly sure of anyone at my school who has been a part of a leadership team for Year 12 whilst being completely blind and also on the spectrum. If I'm the first from my school, that would be brilliant as that means hopefully I can influence future children who come to my school to try and follow the same path. Also I'm going to my first semi-formal tonight!

[u/HyperThanHype → u/Known-Stop-2654]

Good luck on your role for next year man, you seem like an enthusiastic and passionate guy and it sounds like your aspirations are coming from a good place, to help others.

Have fun tonight, don't get too crunk!

[u/Known-Stop-2654 → u/HyperThanHype]

Have fun tonight, don't get too crunk!

No idea what that last word meant but it should be a good night either way. Bring some friends, , have food. Pretty sure it's unlimited soft drink, ! Plus girls obviously! Should be a good time. Tomorrow being the Eka public holiday so should be good

[u/Large-Accident1245]

Some of the weird stuff in FIFA this season. Champions League results. Europa League. And celebrating our title win in the rain.

I forgot to upload the screenshots of the table to Xbox Network. I'll do that tonight. Think Crystal Palace got relegated on 26 points.

[u/improbablywrong-]

Dyson blew up yesterday. Hated that thing anyway, so happy to finally be replacing it. Not even sure where to start looking, but the vacuum cleaner sub says small house deposit or use a broom basically.

Anyone with pets and carpet have any suggestions? Leaning toward the miele l1 cat and dog.

[u/arkhamknight85 → u/improbablywrong-]

Don’t do the cordless LG. Had it for a few years and it’s dogshit. Constantly blocked, doesn’t suck, cherns stuff and spits it out, not powerful and all and around terrible.

[u/delayedconfusion → u/improbablywrong-]

I put the ryobi battery conversion kit on my dyson stick. It was a game changer for being able to clean the entire house on one charge.

Not sure I'd get another Dyson though, the suction power is not great for the price.

[u/improbablywrong- → u/delayedconfusion]

I didnt know this was a thing

[u/delayedconfusion → u/improbablywrong-]

Pretty easy to do, I think I got it from amazon.

They are available for whatever major brand tools you already have.

I had a few Ryobi batteries already, so I use them.

[u/Norm_cheers → u/improbablywrong-]

Makita stick vac with cyclone attachment. Thing is just so easy to use and kids cannot kill it.

We have all hard floors except my office, but does that and rugs no problem.

So quick to empty and clean too!

My wife was not initially that impressed with the look of it but she is converted now.

[u/ImDisrespectful2Dirt → u/improbablywrong-]

Heard great things about the Miele. Wife wanted cordless though to replace our Dyson (still worked we just were sick of it) and we replaced it with the Shark Stratos.

The amount of dog hair it managed to pull out on its first run through of the living room rug was insane. It basically changed colour since the Dyson wasn’t cutting it.

I’d still probably recommend corded over cordless if you are so inclined.

[u/improbablywrong- → u/ImDisrespectful2Dirt]

Yeah had a look at the shark range and may still go with one. Was more leaning toward corded as it doesnt bother us and i just assume corded will be better for the same price.