Cow in Te Puke ends up at KFC after being swept away by floodwater and chased through town Cow in Te Puke ends up at KFC after being swept away by floodwater and chased through town

They should make this a moo-vie.

@antipodean said in What are you listening to, right now................:

@MajorRage said in What are you listening to, right now................:

I hate every single thing about this. Every bit.

But I fucking love this song.

Australian of the Year doing some sterling work already

looove that song. in fact that whole album is excellent and that's what i am off to listen to now

Jan 29  /  Television & radio Lisa Loring, the original Wednesday Addams, dies at age 64 Lisa Loring, the original Wednesday Addams, dies at age 64

Loring was just five when she starred in the 1964 TV adaptation of Charles Addams’ macabre cartoons – a performance that has set the character’s tone for decades

@Tim said in Favourite Comedians:

Retired ZZ Top is a great bit.

I didn't realize the subject in the song was immortalized in a Dolly Parton-Burt Reynolds movie.

@barbarian said in Parenting:

@Rancid-Schnitzel I don't actually think my parents will really mind. My dad just has a very deep connection to the place - he went there, he taught there for the vast majority of his working life, he coached sport there, he practically lived there. Still works there now in his retirement.

So saying we're taking our son elsewhere may come as a blow, but we just can't afford it. Which is almost a luxury because if we could afford it I'm not sure we'd want to send him there either, and THAT is a much tougher conversation...

Enrol the tyke as your dad's kid?
(It's a joke)...

@RoninWC I expect about 20 memes……not two. Sort it for next time please.

House of the Dragon - watched it on flights over the xmas break, really was just fine for me, lacking in characters im really rooting for...they're all kind of dicks, that combined with the fact we know where it all ends up and i can take or leave

@booboo just need the Gin

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@taniwharugby Some good old school rucking going on in Indian rugby.

@Kruse said in Electric Vehicles:

@NTA said in Electric Vehicles:

@antipodean said in Electric Vehicles:

@Kruse as a motorcyclist I always try to keep in mind what disparity exists between what I'm riding and what they're driving.

Overtaking a proper performance car on my adv bike is a dumb idea if they want to get a move on too.

Good big vehicle beats good little vehicle.

Actually... one thing I learned after watching all the Fast&Furious nonsense... apparently it's nothing to do with the vehicle, but all about the driver.
Dominic Turetto said so.

And a 42 speed gear box

Grumpy at myself at what could be considered a "how I failed today" event. Didn't bother charging phone and buds overnight as I decided to take my 27,000 MAh battery pack to work, only to find it's dead flat too...

@MajorRage said in Movie review thread...:

I only got into at 5. Then out of it around 8. Was a good period.

So you got into it at the Mission Impossible/spy team level and the out of it at the superhero level.

I'm a fan of decent popcorn entertainment, and the Fast Saga 😉 did that pretty well from 5 up until the latest one.

@booboo Even at double/triple/whatever times seed shows how dull an airline pilots job is!

@Kiwiwomble said in Star Wars VII ****contains spoilers****:

COVID finally made it into the KW household so spent quite a bit of time watching tv over the weekend...got around to Bad Batch...its fine....can take or leave, would like to know what theyre going for in a bigger sense, thought there was going to be more about Omega...why is she female?....or more about them trying to liberate clones...there is some but its very sporadic

The Omega question seems to be that we are expected to accept simply that she was an experiment and nothing more.
Where is seems to be heading is a slow realisation by the Batch that they need to stop just surviving and start actively doing good/fighting the Empire. How that ties in with the other canon and timeframes and where it ends up I have no clue. By the time of Andor and Rebels they don't seem to exist (or at least aren't mentioned).
I think the show is best to stay as a side series with no real connections to main storylines. It can introduce new places and characters and provide more depth but little more.

An utterly awesome game

Andy Chalk  /  Jan 27  /  Gaming software The best Dishonored game goes free on the Epic Store next week The best Dishonored game goes free on the Epic Store next week

It's the best because it's free.

The Rialto Report  /  Oct 5, 2014 What Happened to Honeysuckle Divine? The Rialto Report What Happened to Honeysuckle Divine? The Rialto Report

Honeysuckle Divine was a legendary stripper of the 1970s - with a particular talent that involved Jergens lotion and ping pong balls. This is her story.

@dogmeat isn't that literally what starfleet was? exploration rather than military, the first Enterprise barely had any weapons and several of the stories were about being outgunned and having to upgrade to protect themselves, i would be happy with a bit of both

I did notice the future story line is lacking some of the old favs, both bad guys and goodies (borg, klingons), wondered it it was either trying to not just walk the same storylines as previous shows...or they were holding them back for big roles in future series

@taniwharugby the most charitable comment you could make is that it's ambiguous

B1M finally has a Kiwi subject

@antipodean Fake News

It's a hidden valley with dinosaurs and shit

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If you have to explain a joke.....

@Victor-Meldrew

I like a lot of dub music, reggae etc, but Bob Marley is the fucking worst song writer in history. Just cheesy garbage. Awful.

@Tim that feels like a scene written by Gervais.

Does Horrorshow qualify?

Reckon he’ll end up on the chain gang. Not.

@Crucial said in internet/streaming:

@NTA said in internet/streaming:

@Crucial awesome. Great portable option which I assume will make moving from the temporary to the permanent site (or anywhere else).

Spoke to my mate who lives down the South Coast NSW. Had fibre pulled through to his street about 9 months ago and recently got a letter to say it was ready for a tech.

My street got the fibre done in about August. Hopefully some time before June it happens. I keep hassling my Federal MP - the Communications Minster, no less - but she's unresponsive....

Not sure if the installation process you guys are using but the way NZ did it was that when you saw trenches being dug for a “fibre rollout” that was just an empty conduit being laid between junctions. When you order a connection to the premises a fibre will be blown through the conduit. That way a connection is made by conduits and the fibre join is at the junction. Fibre splicing equipment is hugely expensive so a join outside the house could be done but isn’t efficient.
Congratulations on joining the modern world though.

We already had pits capable of running fibre next to copper so no trench work required. This part of suburban Sydney they did a bit of future proofing.

Other than that - yeah they'll feed the fibre up from the pit to my house, following the existing copper connection. I've got a space all ready for them. Phone line is tied to the patch panel on the right of screen. Street condution ends about 800mm on the wall with "Fibre Box Here" - external wall as well so piece of piss.

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@Bovidae said in Bogans with kids:

It would be interesting to know when titles and ranks were no longer allowed. We had a family friend whose first name was Major. He would have been born in the 1920s.

Just laughed remembering Catch-22

Hot but enjoyable trail ride yesterday from Coronet to Arrowtown.

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@Tim said in Good podcasts:

Moreover, the Bolshevik coup d’etat of October, 1917, far from an obscure bit of history

This is an odd statement, would anyone claim this as an obscure bit of history?

On a family holiday to Oz when I was 10 a visitor turned up to our Sydney hotel.

He was quite chatty and knew some really keen card tricks which my Mum wasn't keen on us learning.

It turned out that my mums Dad dies when she was six. The four kids were farmed out for a few years to various rellies - my Mum lived with her grandparents.

Then my grandmother got the family back together again in a new home complete with a boarder. This was quite the sensation back in the 1930's especially as the 'boarder' was a Jew.

Our visitor was my Uncle David, the result of the boarder and my grandmothers 'flatting arrangement'.

David had fled to Oz in the early 60's to escape the NZ Police. Obviously not serious enough to be extradited, but he was a definitely a wide boy. Very flashy. lots of cash. Most interesting for a young lad the model for the nude model at the Three Sisters in the Blue Mountains was his girlfriend.

He was shot dead two years later in a gang related incident in west Sydney, so that was the only time I met the guy.

@Catogrande It's OK I only had the one day in the office - coz ol Corona was indeed back with a vengeance so spent 6 days confined to my house - no visitors , energy or excitement.

Back at work now as it's Financial Yr End, but feel like shit.

Happy 2023 one and all.

@broughie 😁 Does look a tad uncomfortable doesn't it.