Certified Legendary Thread Covid, Life, UFOs, Food, & Wordle :( Part 2

[JuniorB]

Our boy is on the plane home, left the UK yesterday, arrive Perth today and then to Canberra tomorrow and the to the South Coast for his final journey. His plan was to stay in the UK but he wants to be here now.
Matter of weeks, the deterioration is rapid now. We had to do some ‘creative writing’ to get him on the plane and going through his end of life care and plan to enable him to stay with us for as long as possible rather than hospital. He needs to see whales, see and smell the ocean from our balcony for as long as he can.
His mums inconsolable and it doesn’t seem possible our beautiful intelligent boy won’t be with us much longer. So much left behind.

One shining light is Carlton are still shit and that helps me through the dark nights.

Thinking of you with a heavy heart, Jimmy.
It just seems so wrong that children go before their parents.
No words can describe it.
Just know that all of us here wish you only the best.

 

[NMBB]

All good, I’m just have a whine. It helps

Not a whine - let it out - it's so tough for you all - we all salute your bravery

 

[jimmy35]

Not a whine - let it out - it's so tough for you all - we all salute your bravery

Ive got the easy part mate but thank you.

 

[jimmy35]

Thinking of you with a heavy heart, Jimmy.
It just seems so wrong that children go before their parents.
No words can describe it.
Just know that all of us here wish you only the best.

Thanks mate appreciate the thoughts.

 

[Phil Inn]

Well I'm sorry to be a pain but here goes. I read a piece on a blog and just had to write because it crystallised a lot of things I have been feeling and experiencing myself..

Although the context of the blog post is AFLW, it speaks more to some universal truths now. How feckless the AFL is in its pretensions of supporting diversity and inclusion, while providing precisely zero actual support. Of the growing malevolence and impunity of right wing trolling on social media, in which I include Big Footy. The way people look the other way when it happens. And the dismal sense of tiredness and failure that comes from being yourself, only to be vilified, and find when it happens the supposed good guys are suspiciously absent.

I find it increasingly difficult to find any sense of belonging in footy. It is made clear in ways big and small that people like me ae not welcome, this is not our place, what do you expect etc etc. Trouble is, increasingly nowhere seems to be accepted as a place we are welcome.

As it says in the blog, "It’s un PR like to phrase something this way, but on social media in 2024, it’s easier to build a brand as a shitweasel than a kind enthusiastic person"

The shitweasels are winning. Misogyny, homophobia, racism, cruelty and hatred are the new normal, the new acceptable, just another part of the discourse, or an edgy amusement for those who only have hatred left to fuel their lives. It is getting worse, and nobody seems to actually give a single shit.

Keep sweeping it under the mat, thought we could do better than that, I hope we can….

One thing we haven’t discussed in this blog very often is the notion of sustained leverage in public relations. There’s always been a selling point that you can leverage PR during certa…

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[NMBB]

Thought of a few of you when I saw this - no names......

10 things you don't realize you're doing because you're highly intelligent

Being highly intelligent can sometimes feel like a double-edged sword. On one hand, you’re quick to pick up new concepts

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[Phil Inn]

I think it may be time given we are going to have a team from Tasmania soon to just step back and ask ourselves


Is this a good idea?

 

[gouki88]

I think it may be time given we are going to have a team from Tasmania soon to just step back and ask ourselves


Is this a good idea?


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That last paragraph hits like a truck!

 

[Phil Inn]

That last paragraph hits like a truck!

or a shovel

 

[leon123]

That last paragraph hits like a truck!

yep, i was reading going, yeah, well, these things happen.

Until, the last paragraph, thats different I thought

 

[NMBB]

I think it may be time given we are going to have a team from Tasmania soon to just step back and ask ourselves


Is this a good idea?


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So the mother was on the interchange bench and the husband dropped to the reserves?

 

[Phil Inn]

So the mother was on the interchange bench and the husband dropped to the reserves?

I interpreted it more that the mother was in the coaches box.

Unlike the other son who was in the wife's box.

 

[NMBB]

Unleaded 91 petrol $2.09 Hawthorn East this morning

Unleaded 91 petrol $1.61 Geelong Portarlington Rd this afternoon

 

[leon123]

Diim sim and pineapple pizza. We are a lucky country, multi cultural cuisine influences

 

[NMBB]

Diim sim and pineapple pizza. We are a lucky country, multi cultural cuisine influences

Went to Staple Eatery and Deli in Portarlington last night - has Italian theme but is run by Nepalese. We had a quite superb wood fire pizza and Nepalese curry.

 

[manicpie]

Went to Staple Eatery and Deli in Portarlington last night - has Italian theme but is run by Nepalese. We had a quite superb wood fire pizza and Nepalese curry.

Does Portrlington still have the biggest population of Maltese people during the holidays?. I remember going there as a teenager and everyone camping on the foreshore were Maltese.

 

[NMBB]

Does Portrlington still have the biggest population of Maltese people during the holidays?. I remember going there as a teenager and everyone camping on the foreshore were Maltese.

Not sure but I do know that at one stage the Portarlington caravan park was one of the biggest in Australia.

 

[manicpie]

Not sure but I do know that at one stage the Portarlington caravan park was one of the biggest in Australia.

It was massive back in the day

 

[Obese Arachnid]

Does Portrlington still have the biggest population of Maltese people during the holidays?. I remember going there as a teenager and everyone camping on the foreshore were Maltese.

I remember that, met a nice girl there but I didn't get anywhere.

She was a Malteaser.

 

[NMBB]

I remember that, met a nice girl there but I didn't get anywhere.

She was a Malteaser.

What is your definition of "didn't get anywhere" - you didn't get to stroll on the Portarlington pier?

 

[JoinDate]

At the hairdresser today and saw this in the bathroom. Thoughts, NMBB ?

 

[NMBB]

At the hairdresser today and saw this in the bathroom. Thoughts, NMBB ?

Totally awesome, insane

 

[Phil Inn]

I remember that, met a nice girl there but I didn't get anywhere.

She was a Malteaser.

you see, maybe given the quality of the local supply, she just wasn't impressed by your mussels

 

[NMBB]

Wife not in a good mood - I may not be responsible for what I post here

 

[JoinDate]

Made this today. See the tasteful collingwood coloured accents in the handle.