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  1. Well on several occasions I did give in to pressure from my boyfriend and watched Dawson's Creek with him.

     

    Did I enjoy it despite myself? Only by constantly imagining slapping the whiney brats. Plus I generally got lucky afterwards. Which meant I felt pretty damn good the next morning.

    lol. Methinks you avoided that one?.

  2. Link to Swedish newspaper...

     

    Click on "bildextra Lägenheten blåstes ur - vinden kollapsade" and there are 24 pics in the new window which can be view by clicking the arrows at the top.

     

     

    WOW Man, you are lucky to be alive. I can see that was no gas explosion, Too much shattering of stuff to small pieces, indicitive of an extremely sharp shock in a small area, not the expansive push of a gas explosion.

     

    With gas, it lays the walls out flat, and blows the roof off, mostly. Looking at that picture, i BEAT you he had a commercial quality explosive, like actual dynamite, or something like that.

     

    He was a crim, you say?. like a bank robber type, or a gangster type?

     

    How exciting was that?. Or could you have done without the excitement?. ;) So glad you are alright, mate. Think how it would have ruined our christmas, if you had of gotten yourself blown up !.

     

    :ohmy:

  3. I mean, look at that thing:

     

    poly20.jpg

     

    "Lucy in the sky with a twenty..."

     

    The $10 note is almost as wild:

     

    poly10.jpg

     

     

    The colours on those photos are not quite right. The twenty isn't quite as garish , and the ten is slightly dull, compared to a mint example.

     

    The Twenty is a "Lobster" or a "Redback". Can't remember what we called a ten.

     

    Thats A.B. Patterson on the ten,

     

    When they reached the mountains' summit, even Clancey took a pull, It well might make the boldest hold their breath

    the wild hop scrub grew thickly, and the hidden ground was full of Wombat holes, and any slip, was death.

    But the man from Snowy river let the Pony have his head, and he swung his stockwhip round, and gave a cheer,

    And he raced him down the mountain, like a torrent down its bed, while the others stood and watched in very fear.

    . . . .

     

    And he never drew his bridle, till he landed safe and sound, at the bottom of that terrible descent.

  4. They changed the $20 bill this year. I don't remember exactly when, but they've added all sorts of colors to it. It's trippier but still not as trippy as Australian money. Whoever designed Australian currency was definitely experiencing a heavy acid trip!

     

     

    Kiwi notes have Birdies !. :icon_redface:

  5. I'm really glad that Keanu is a fellow smoker. Non smokers playing characters that smoke never pass off with me, and it's one of my major pet peeves.

    Someone probably told him it is a "Handle" on Johns desperate view of things.

     

    What about the scene where John lights up a gasper off the flaming dagger in Calcutta, then casually biffs it back and takes out Kalis' statue. that was MADE for cinema, thinks I.

     

    Do you think the WHOLE KR as JC bit, could be a ploy of the AMERICAN CIGERETTE COMPANIES !??? .

  6. I'm bored as hell today someone give me a decent dare .

     

     

    OK, I got a good one. next time a workmate says " What? " to you , go into the " Say what again, motherfucker, I dare you." scene from Pulpfiction. :blink:

     

    We do this all the time, in the scrapyard. probably be much funnier from a bloke that has a hogleg, we only got sledgehammers and crowbars n shit.

     

     

    :laugh:

  7. " Oh joy :icon_rolleyes: the "change that into the OLD NOTES, please" woman has got into MY LINE again" says the checkout girl. :tongue:

     

    Sorry Angie.

     

    Do you have coloured money now?. When did that happen?. Are there a lot of counterfeit notes in circulation INSDE the us?.

  8. Taken by trickery

     

    From the grey winters swans-way,

     

    eaten by firelight.

     

     

     

    ( Not only Hai, can , but it's a RIDDLE   :p  )

     

     

    Eggs? No, wait, fish from a frozen lake!

    Fish, aye. The grey winters swans-way was just me trying to explain what the water out at the point of Samsons bay was like. i actually had a day in mind, where the fishing taxed even my ( swallows what little modesty he has about his fishing ability ) :lol: great skill and accumulted knowledge, and I used a piece of ancient lore so secret and hoary that it belonged in a museum, and . . . Success. then i went home, frozen to the bone, and cooked him up on the woodstove. probably the most delicious food i made for myself ever.

     

    not QUITE Mauis' fishing up of the north island, baiting the hook made of his Nans jawbone, with the blood of his own nose, on a line made from his mothers hair, but eminently satisfying nonetheless.

  9. exactly. I used to really worry when i knew neighbours were doing, or having done, renovations. The myrid of ways you can destroy a building just used to pray on my mind.

    Five minutes lack of attention with a set of gas bottles, and you would be in orbit. people do it all the time, on building sites. They give an apprentice a job to finish at the end of the day, they get a call on their cell phone, and don't quite shut off the regulators. Or the one i have seen three times now. they can't be arsed carrying the bottle stand up a few flights of stairs, so they TAPE the greasy bloody bottles to an upright. Something goes wrong, the bottles topple over, and the regulator cracks clean off. 60 kilos of compressed oxygen spills into the air.

     

    I jumped out a second story window once, when i saw that happen. luckily, none of the times resulted in a fire.

     

    Ot you get someone using a homemade connection, so he can run butane or methane through his Oxy-actelene rig, as a cheap source of pre-heating the work. JUST so he doesn't have to carry a second set of hoses and regulators with him.

     

    I used to be just a LITTLE worried about apartment living, till my sister-in-law burnt down my flat one night. :ohmy:

  10. It just depends on what you're used to.  8-)

    :o

     

    I always wonder what the sexlife could POSSIBLY be like, for the deformed guys you see in pornos.

    Mine is not small, rather fatter than the norm, if the girls can be trusted, and yet not porno material, by a long shot. ;) And I have more often then I would like, made girls feel uncomfortable, in fact have always to restrain myself while in the act.

     

    And then you see some fella on screen, with a chopper thrice as long as mine. :blink: And you gotta think, how can he, and the girl he is with in his normal sexlife, possibly BOTH enjoy sex?. always feel sorry for them, actually.

  11. Went and saw National Treasure yesterday.

     

    Now, it could just be me. . . .

     

    I had to sit here for five minutes before i could remember a single scene from the movie !.

     

    I did like the distracted genius roll that Cage played, he was so good in it, that you couldn't see him acting, most of the time. And his offsider, was me, I swear it was. :) The way everyone just ignored him, till they wanted his skill. the way he exaulted when he ACTUALLY beat them at their own game , JUST ONCE OH LORD !. ;)

     

    And the bad guy was pretty damned good too.

     

    I WAS AMAZED to see New York seems to have an AIRCRAFTCARRIER docked on the side of the Hudson river, as a MUSEUM !.

     

    lol. Always a surprise, what a big place the US is. too much money for their own good, and far too sure of themselves, but they do get stuff done . ;)

     

    And the running history lesson was pretty cool.

     

    But it really was just brain candy. it had nothing much to say about the human race. Entertaining. thats all.

  12. Theres been a big explosion in the building where I live.

     

    Happened about 3 1/2 hours ago.

     

    In one piece but really shaken up.

     

    Sitting at 7 11 as seen in the pic I put in "View from my window" thread.

     

    The building has been evacuated.

     

    Apparently there have only been 2 who are injured.

     

    Never heard such a loud bang before, the building really shook.

     

    Will update later...

     

    link to swedish news though I know only Red can understand it.

    Shit dude, glad you were not hurt. Book into a hotel tonight, do you think?.

     

    And stop lighting your farts, man, it is not fair on the neighbours. ( we laugh in the face of Danger, brave the mouth of hell, remember? )

     

    Look after yourself.

  13. Like all American coins it was made with dense metals.  It was a large, solid coin for what was then a solid, secure country, even with our assassinations, Vietnam War and political turmoil.  Truly, it was hefty enough to be a small martial arts throwing weapon.  8-)

     

    Sorry, I used to collect coins as a kid.  :blush:

     

     

    No mate, that was very interesting. The bit about Ms Anthony was, because they tried the " Lesbian " ploy on the women that forced our Government to give women the vote ( ahmm , the first in the world to do so ). their ploy didn't work, however because New Zealand legislation had no reference to Lesbianism, nor did people know much at all about it. We HAD them, of course, it was just never discussed, so people didn't know it was " Wrong" ( disclaimer : the author of this work does not think it is in the LEAST bit wrong, for women to like to bump uglies with other women. . . . Wait, let me check. . .hmmm. . . . :closedeyes: Hmmmmm. . . . . :wub: Nope, not wrong at all. I COULD be pursuaded to consider it wrong on close examination of the evidence, however, and in the interests of responsible behaviour, will closely examine any such evidence as I would be permitted to. Where was I?. (cleans the steam off his eyeglasses )

    Famously, when the (British) Government took it's new repressive legislation to Her Majesty, Queen Victoria, she laughed and said " Women CAN"T un-naturally love other women, they are not built that way " and the Prime minister funked explaining to her. :unsure: I don't know if thats true, but it is funny.

     

    As for your coins-as-throwing-weapons, not a silly thing at all. If I am ever out and about, and sense trouble, I put a 2 dollar coin in my left hand. All you want to do, is give yourself an opportunity to escape, and anyone will flinch if they get a coin in the face. Right hand is for someone hardened to warfare,and just keeps coming like I would. ;)

  14. haha yeah :D thats the one. I biked up and then rode some 10 k's or so round to sumner.

    Great story by the way! Getting hassled for being a piker by miss devoy :D hehe. I totally walked my bike a lot going up. Its hard yakka! but I will go back, and rider up without getting off one day when my fitness improves :D

    lol. You have a chance mate, don't let yourself get old and out of shape like I did. Just ride your bike every week, and never stop.

     

    She was plain Ms Devoy, in those days. Dame Susan now :wub: I do so admire her, and Barbara Kendell , not because they have won sports competitions, but for their attitude to life. I would go live under Babaras back door step, like a troll, and bite the legs off anyone that came to distress her. I offered once, but she thought i was just some STALKER, and took out a tresspass order against me. :tongue: ( Joke )

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