5 hours ago, Fanatique Demon said:

 I gave our Roomba a pretty solid workout this afternoon.

Seems a bit bizarre to me Fanatique but …….hey ……each to his own!

13 hours ago, Demon trucker said:

YOu should stop lying, on channel 7 news the police  acknowledged there was very few tradies protesting today and many more antilock down protesters

Yes and the police and & news tell the truth Ho Hummmm

Thats the problem Fake News

15 hours ago, Demon trucker said:

YOu should stop lying, on channel 7 news the police  acknowledged there was very few tradies protesting today and many more antilock down protesters

They basically used similar tactics the Proud and Boogaloo Boys used on January 6th (as shown by the Four Corners expose). Blend into the crowd and spread chaos.

This thread was started with the intention of being a light-hearted distraction. Can I suggest if you want to discuss the merits or otherwise of Melbourne's lockdowns, protests or the media that you take that debate elsewhere? In the meantime, the rest of us will enjoy the leadup to the most significant game in MFC history since September 1964. 

I dare say this is a good omen

1 hour ago, Colin B. Flaubert said:

They basically used similar tactics the Proud and Boogaloo Boys used on January 6th (as shown by the Four Corners expose). Blend into the crowd and spread chaos.

Your spot on and I know that very few protesters where tradies, saying Dan Andrews know it was the union and that why he shut the construction is a big lie, he is vindictive and often punishes everybody if a few goes against him, shutting down government projects is economic vandalism. 

1 hour ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

Can I suggest if you want to discuss the merits or otherwise of Melbourne's lockdowns, protests or the media that you take that debate elsewhere?

Did you miss this excellent piece of advice, Demon trucker?

1 hour ago, Demonstone said:

Did you miss this excellent piece of advice, Demon trucker?

Agree, what has an earthquake got to do with Football, this is now a political debate and shouldn't be of the football board.

A mate of mine passed away the night before the quake.  I reckon it was him saying Go Dees as he left this mortal coil.  The earthquake can be nothing but a good omen for us.  It is emblematic of the seismic shift in our team, our skill, our selflessness and we are hell bent on getting the big one.  When you raise hell, you have to make a lot of noise and shake things up a bit.

I've decided to forgo the cheese platter and eat mine off a tectonic plate on Saturday night.

40,000 felt reports received...that's huge! Many thanks to anyone who submitted one.

https://www.ga.gov.au/news-events/news/latest-news/victorias-biggest-earthquake-on-record

 

On 9/22/2021 at 5:41 PM, Webber said:

Looks just like an easily distracted cat to me, SB. The weird thing is that animals are particularly sensitive to impending earthquakes. I remember being amazed at the stat from the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami that no dead animals were found after the event other than those in ‘captivity’, meaning fenced, penned, caged, etc. It’s apparently well established that animals know it’s coming well ahead of time, so p***-off for high ground. Birds are the first to react, by going noisy nutty, then flying off en masse pre-earthquake. There was another story about a small island off the Indian coast, inhabited by indigenous peoples, which was in the direct path of the wave. All survived because they’d made for high ground well before the Tsunami arrived. Probably by paying attention to the birds! 

This may interest you as a member of the medical profession Webber. Last year I was caring for my father with advanced Alzheimer's. One evening he had a crazy flare-up like nothing even close to what I had experienced previously - he was completely out of control. Super anxious and rambling about death and trying to find some car keys to flee the house. I had to call another family member for support, and while I was on the phone a decent sized earthquake struck off the coast of Darwin, enough to briefly rattle the house. Afterwards he chilled right out again, like nothing had happened. I have absolutely no doubt that it wasn't a coincidence. Have you ever heard of anything like that before?

46 minutes ago, Skuit said:

This may interest you as a member of the medical profession Webber. Last year I was caring for my father with advanced Alzheimer's. One evening he had a crazy flare-up like nothing even close to what I had experienced previously - he was completely out of control. Super anxious and rambling about death and trying to find some car keys to flee the house. I had to call another family member for support, and while I was on the phone a decent sized earthquake struck off the coast of Darwin, enough to briefly rattle the house. Afterwards he chilled right out again, like nothing had happened. I have absolutely no doubt that it wasn't a coincidence. Have you ever heard of anything like that before?

I won’t be surprised if research shows “mundane” (I.e. entirely physical) crises resolve mental episodes. The human brain is great but it’s a piece of work. 

2 hours ago, Skuit said:

This may interest you as a member of the medical profession Webber. Last year I was caring for my father with advanced Alzheimer's. One evening he had a crazy flare-up like nothing even close to what I had experienced previously - he was completely out of control. Super anxious and rambling about death and trying to find some car keys to flee the house. I had to call another family member for support, and while I was on the phone a decent sized earthquake struck off the coast of Darwin, enough to briefly rattle the house. Afterwards he chilled right out again, like nothing had happened. I have absolutely no doubt that it wasn't a coincidence. Have you ever heard of anything like that before?

That’s extraordinary, Skuit, and your instinct about its non-coincidental nature is worth trusting. Not to get too heavy, but if you follow your thread to ‘brain filter theory’ -  based on consciousness being non-physical, and that Alzheimer’s renders his ‘filter’ dysfunctional, who’s to say it wasn’t revealing a consciousness link much like that which animals exhibit and act on naturally. His mania therefore could have been a form of pre-cognition of the earthquake. There’s a whole plethora of  ‘non-coincidences’ people have like this, most of which go unreported sadly - due to fear, shame, ridicule, etc. I can already see some here reading this with a WTF dismissal. PM me if you want to chat about it. 

13 hours ago, Skuit said:

This may interest you as a member of the medical profession Webber. Last year I was caring for my father with advanced Alzheimer's. One evening he had a crazy flare-up like nothing even close to what I had experienced previously - he was completely out of control. Super anxious and rambling about death and trying to find some car keys to flee the house. I had to call another family member for support, and while I was on the phone a decent sized earthquake struck off the coast of Darwin, enough to briefly rattle the house. Afterwards he chilled right out again, like nothing had happened. I have absolutely no doubt that it wasn't a coincidence. Have you ever heard of anything like that before?

There is no doubt that other non-human animals have some way of knowing an event such as an earthquake is to occur before it happens. It would therefore not surprise me if humans might be able to as well. Perhaps our cognitive processes supress belief in what otherwise might be considered to be unbelievable. Any, I can understand that your experience may not have been "just" a coincidence.  

We have knowledge gained from insights over thousands of years. We didn't always understand gravity until Newton saw an apple. And whoever worked out that ocean tides were related to the phases of the moon was probably first thought to be a lunatic (pun intended). 

A MFC player won the Brownlow . A great omen !!!!!

This may have been said .