59 minutes ago, daisycutter said:

yeah, but i hope they had vegan, gluten-free, non-dairy, low-sugar, halal, kosher and nut-free options available 

Alas Daisycutter, just buckets of kale.

21 hours ago, Moonshadow said:

When you arrive at Casey, wind your watch back 30 years.

Maybe that's why CS forged the relation with the city of Casey. He knew playing games out there would spark that whole nostalgia thing he was aiming for.

3 minutes ago, Return to Glory said:

Alas Daisycutter, just buckets of kale.

handy for bbo if he took his pet alpaca along, i suppose

1 hour ago, daisycutter said:

yeah, but i hope they had vegan, gluten-free, non-dairy, low-sugar, halal, kosher and nut-free options available 

Hipsters out in Cranbourne? My god they are extending their sleeve tattooed tentacles out everywhere. 

Just now, Colin B. Flaubert said:

Hipsters out in Cranbourne? My god they are extending their sleeve tattooed tentacles out everywhere. 

not for the locals, colin, but the more sensitive, pampered types making the pilgrimage to our colonialist 2nd home

5 minutes ago, daisycutter said:

not for the locals, colin, but the more sensitive, pampered types making the pilgrimage to our colonialist 2nd home

It's the thin edge of the wedge, Daisy. Encourage that sort of behavior out there and where will it all end? 8 Bit out in Footscray is a good example of where this type of villainy leads.

19 hours ago, Wiseblood said:

First world problems.

What an existential dilemma. Is it even possible to experience a first world problem in Casey?

Jumping the fence at Casey is another option.

1 hour ago, Colin B. Flaubert said:

It's the thin edge of the wedge, Daisy. Encourage that sort of behavior out there and where will it all end? 8 Bit out in Footscray is a good example of where this type of villainy leads.

oh, i agree fully. you see, my original comment following rtg's comment was in the same vein. but you knew that 

i'm sure though that casey will get around to finding the delights of a mobile eftpos machine before too long, but i'm afraid dieter is unlikely to ever recover from his traumatic experience and darken casey field's doorstep again. he should have listened to his wife, because there is one thing poles know well and that is the virtue of mowing the lawn on the weekend before all else

4 hours ago, the rolling fog said:

Dieter - should have just jumped onto the Ticketmaster site on your phone, bought the ticket online and got the guys on the gate to scan the barcode on your phone. Very common nowadays - FYI for next time mate. 

Noice

3 hours ago, Old Bear said:

Dont know if you were there for Womens game against Brisbane

Torrential rain and 2/3 of the crowd left before half time

It is a winter game and that happened to be a wet day.

And you guys think you have it hard.

I was going to India last month but they cancelled the note equivalent of the $10 and $20 notes. That represented 86% of the currency on issue in a country where 90% plus of the transactions are in cash. To say it caused chaos is an understatement.

Came to Hanoi instead. Not much eftpos here but the bia hoi (fresh beer) is cheap!!

30 minutes ago, daisycutter said:

oh, i agree fully. you see, my original comment following rtg's comment was in the same vein. but you knew that 

i'm sure though that casey will get around to finding the delights of a mobile eftpos machine before too long, but i'm afraid dieter is unlikely to ever recover from his traumatic experience and darken casey field's doorstep again. he should have listened to his wife, because there is one thing poles know well and that is the virtue of mowing the lawn on the weekend before all else

The lawn was just the bloody start.

You're right about Polish wives, they know what their husbands ought to be doing.

I saw a Tea Shirt for sale in Eumundie recently ; 'Pray for me, my wife is Polish'.

Or, in a Polish cake shop in Carnegie I told the Polish owner, Hey, my wife is Polish.

She replied, Polish girls, they keep you on your toes.

The trouble is, I replied, I'm not a ballerina.

56 minutes ago, old dee said:

It is a winter game and that happened to be a wet day.

Yes but the fact that the ground has only cover for a few hundred spectators means thousands get wet

Not referring to playing conditions

33 minutes ago, dieter said:

The lawn was just the bloody start.

You're right about Polish wives, they know what their husbands ought to be doing.

I saw a Tea Shirt for sale in Eumundie recently ; 'Pray for me, my wife is Polish'.

Or, in a Polish cake shop in Carnegie I told the Polish owner, Hey, my wife is Polish.

She replied, Polish girls, they keep you on your toes.

The trouble is, I replied, I'm not a ballerina.

diets, i think anyone who has to learn that gawdawful, tongue-twisting polish language is entitled to be a little difficult, eh?

1 hour ago, daisycutter said:

diets, i think anyone who has to learn that gawdawful, tongue-twisting polish language is entitled to be a little difficult, eh?

A language of cascading sibilants...

1 hour ago, Old Bear said:

Yes but the fact that the ground has only cover for a few hundred spectators means thousands get wet

Not referring to playing conditions

Given we are referring to the women's game, this could be read in quite a disturbing way... or in BBOs case, the usual way.

6 hours ago, Return to Glory said:

I too was stunned that there are no corporate boxes and champagne on arrival.

I was in a private box sipping 30 yo scotch and feasting upon chicken and cucumber sandwiches all afternoon RTG, i call it 'home'.

47 minutes ago, dieter said:

A language of cascading sibilants...

went to school with a  wojcikiewicz. no one could spell his name, let alone pronounce it

so we just called him wojer 

4 minutes ago, daisycutter said:

went to school with a  wojcikiewicz. no one could spell his name, let alone pronounce it

so we just called him wojer 

"Welease Wojer!"

16 minutes ago, daisycutter said:

went to school with a  wojcikiewicz. no one could spell his name, let alone pronounce it

so we just called him wojer 

What, pray tell, is your ethnic origin, DC?

With a name like Dieter mine is obvious. It was a hard cross to bear in North Sunshine from 1956 onwards, especially when my dear mum sent me to school in brand new lederhosen, but I have to say I wore my German identity with pride and a lot of courage. It's why I'm interested in where people are from, why I have a special affinity with the underdog. Ironically, in that 1958 grand Final witnessed at my grandmother's house, the loser, as my daughter would say, was the Melbourne Football Club. Hence my allegiance. 

12 minutes ago, Wiseblood said:

"Welease Wojer!"

Wewease Wojar, Wisebud.

3 hours ago, Emerald said:

Jumping the fence at Casey is another option.

Sounds like the sort of place Trump would build a wall around and people would get shot attempting to scale out of, not into.

22 minutes ago, dieter said:

What, pray tell, is your ethnic origin, DC?

With a name like Dieter mine is obvious. It was a hard cross to bear in North Sunshine from 1956 onwards, especially when my dear mum sent me to school in brand new lederhosen, but I have to say I wore my German identity with pride and a lot of courage. It's why I'm interested in where people are from, why I have a special affinity with the underdog. Ironically, in that 1958 grand Final witnessed at my grandmother's house, the loser, as my daughter would say, was the Melbourne Football Club. Hence my allegiance. 

i've told you before, diets, think hard and it will come back to you, or just wait till you are fully sober 

9 minutes ago, daisycutter said:

i've told you before, diets, think hard and it will come back to you, or just wait till you are fully sober 

I suffer from terminal amnesia. Give an ex digger a clue? 

I'm old enough to demand, don't riddle me!

I know, you're an extra terrestrial ring in, brought to terra firmus on the wings of the Phantom.

Also, I'm a busy man. I have my finger in many meat pies. Some days I don't know whether it's Monday or Monday week.

All that is constant is the scintillating commentary from my beautiful wife - all Polish girls are genetically blessed with the god given gift of pulchritude - and the constant demands of a teenage daughter, who is at least 50% genetically correct ,who mistakes her father for an ATM.