Official Match Thread S28 Second Preliminary Final - Mount Buller Demons v Sin City Swamprats @ Snow Dome (MOTR)

[Restricted Free Agent]

Sometimes I forget how bad 2010s music is. There are maybe 15 decent songs in here and maybe 5 good ones. The rest are one-dimensional generic pop bullshit which I blissfully forgot existed until I heard them again.

 

[Restricted Free Agent]

Did we win?

No.

 

[akkaps]

Because she’s better at cricket than you?

Ouch.

 

[Far Kern]

Recently I met a terrific young doc who is completing specialisation in infectious disease. After chatting for a while I asked her why she had chosen this specialisation. Her two word response was "climate change". She then rattled off numbers about the emergence of diseases in parts of the world where such conditions were not known ... malaria and yellow fever in some now wetter areas, increased incidence of respiratory conditions in areas experiencing dryer conditions.

In Darwinian terms we are the victims of our own success as a species. Frankly there are way too many of us trundling around the planet.

Hundreds of years from now if there are still historians they may scour public policy to find measures from this era that contributed to the possibility of life. I can think of only one policy from our our era that future historians will look kindly on - the One Child Policy In China. It cut exponential popln growth in that country.

Socially it’s pretty ****ed up though.

 

[Grand Uncle Horace]

Socially it’s pretty f’ed up though.

Sure, no doubt. It is certainly less fekked than some other joints. Generally they stomp on the right targets. For me they lost credibility when they dropped the I child policy.

 

[Grand Uncle Horace]

I would have given them carbon credits

 

[Far Kern]

Sure, no doubt. It is certainly less fekked than some other joints. Generally they stomp on the right targets. For me they lost credibility when they dropped the I child policy.

Are you a Chinese bot?

 

[cooney]

No.

Prove it

 

[Far Kern]

Prove it

I’ve seen the pics. She is a chick.

 

[Restricted Free Agent]

Prove it

Demons - 0.2.2
Rats - 12.2. 74

 

[akkaps]

Demons - 0.2.2
Rats - 12.2. 74

If your gonna post a fair scoreboard. At least make it look legit

Team Pump - 0.2 (2)
Alberton Swamprats - 12.2 (74)

 

[cooney]

I’ve seen the pics. She is a chick.

That’s not what I asked.

 

[cooney]

Demons - 0.2.2
Rats - 12.2. 74

Ok so Chelsea 0 Liverpool 5 or hawks 0.1.1 to bulldogs 12.6 78

 

[Restricted Free Agent]

Ok so Chelsea 0 Liverpool 5 or hawks 0.1.1 to bulldogs 12.6 78

With Sancho and Chilwell joining in January we'll mount a late charge for the title and win the damn thing! Up the Blues!

 

[Grand Uncle Horace]

Are you a Chinese bot?

lol. Not quite. I suspect I might struggle to enter the country nowadays.

But as I say their experiment in popln growth may well be the one thing from this unhappy period of world history that humans, 300 years from now, may consider to have been useful.

Your dad sounds as though he was a sharp and wise man. I am not a demographer but at one stage I had a bit to do with ABS. The joint work involved particular Census questions and some other ABS surveys and analysis. (I admit to bias. I consider ABS and its staff to be national treasures)

The folk I met in the course of these projects included some outstanding demographers and statisticians. Invariably they brought breadth of thought to population issues be these growth, health or education.

Some were involved in outside work hours modelling of popln growth projections, not just in Oz but globally. Their views pretty much correlate with those of your dad. Inevitably his work on malaria would have drawn him into areas beyond the science to demography, broader popln health issues and possibly climate change. He would have enjoyed chatting to this young Infectious Disease specialist I mentioned last night. I bet she is aware of your dad's work.

 

[Grand Uncle Horace]

Shyte ... just realised how off topic the above post is. Back on topic, the stunt pulled by Joshua W Spoon was truly a dreadful wheeze. Many a Dee or Prat(t) would have had a sleepless night, tossing and turning fitfully worrying about where the game and their team stood.

As a person with a neutral interest in the outcome of this match, I call on Ant Bear to intervene. I accept he has, yet again, been placed in an invidious situation. Still, Mr Spoon has committed a terrible Qooty crime for which he will need to pay a high price. Some PMs are suggesting a term in Banhammer, others are suggesting he be shanghaied to the Gumbies for a period of five seasons. I sense the dark hand of Barrybran behind the second extreme measure.

I expect the Vegan Bears are disturbed by the recent aberrant behaviour by their leader JoshWoodenSpoon and will be undertaking their own disciplinary measures.

#LetTheGameConclude

 

[AceAndy]

Shyte ... just realised how off topic the above post is. Back on topic, the stunt pulled by Joshua W Spoon was truly a dreadful wheeze. Many a Dee or Prat(t) would have had a sleepless night, tossing and turning fitfully worrying about where the game and their team stood.

As a person with a neutral interest in the outcome of this match, I call on Ant Bear to intervene. I accept he has, yet again, been placed in an invidious situation. Still, Mr Spoon has committed a terrible Qooty crime for which he will need to pay a high price. Some PMs are suggesting a term in Banhammer, others are suggesting he be shanghaied to the Gumbies for a period of five seasons. I sense the dark hand of Barrybran behind the second extreme measure.

I expect the Vegan Bears are disturbed by the recent aberrant behaviour by their leader JoshWoodenSpoon and will be undertaking their own disciplinary measures.

#LetTheGameConclude

Exactly what has JWS done ?

 

[Callums_Guns]

Exactly what has JWS done ?

Congrats on your S28 Premiership

Fantastic effort this season Ace

 

[Grand Uncle Horace]

Posted 7/8ths (or thereabouts) of the game.

 

[Grand Uncle Horace]

Congrats on your S28 Premiership

Fantastic effort this season Ace

Have to agree with CG. The Dees and Prat(t)s are quivering messes. The Drags will canter through their game v the Dawks and are inevitable Premiers.

 

[AceAndy]

Congrats on your S28 Premiership

Fantastic effort this season Ace

Thanks mate , been a very enjoyable season.

 

[Callums_Guns]

Have to agree with CG. The Dees and Prat(t)s are quivering messes. The Drags will canter through their game v the Dawks and are inevitable Premiers.

May know result but please let me pretend we could still go through to the GF

 

[Callums_Guns]

 

[cooney]

With Sancho and Chilwell joining in January we'll mount a late charge for the title and win the damn thing! Up the Blues!

You’re dreaming! Sancho would much rather come to us Chilwell should stay where he is cause he will probably be playing champions league next year and stay second on the table

 

[Barrybran]

Shyte ... just realised how off topic the above post is. Back on topic, the stunt pulled by Joshua W Spoon was truly a dreadful wheeze. Many a Dee or Prat(t) would have had a sleepless night, tossing and turning fitfully worrying about where the game and their team stood.

As a person with a neutral interest in the outcome of this match, I call on Ant Bear to intervene. I accept he has, yet again, been placed in an invidious situation. Still, Mr Spoon has committed a terrible Qooty crime for which he will need to pay a high price. Some PMs are suggesting a term in Banhammer, others are suggesting he be shanghaied to the Gumbies for a period of five seasons. I sense the dark hand of Barrybran behind the second extreme measure.

I expect the Vegan Bears are disturbed by the recent aberrant behaviour by their leader JoshWoodenSpoon and will be undertaking their own disciplinary measures.

#LetTheGameConclude

JoshWoodenSpoon is the Vader to my Luke