1 hour ago, Willmoy1947 said:

1 hour ago, WalkingCivilWar said:

I love Swamp People!
Who doesn’t love Troy “Choot ‘em” Landry?! Louisiana Cajun on his quest to find a “honey-hole.” Talks like he has a mouthful of cotton wool and needs subtitles despite speaking English.

Dagnabbit BBO, pick another example of insidious septic yank-ism!

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I'll give you a hint....a mate of John Wayne's was the first one i heard use it........Gabby

Gabby Hayes? Walter Huston uses it in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.

Edited April 25, 20232 yr by Demonised
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1 hour ago, Bitter but optimistic said:

The insidious undermining of Aussie English by septic tank slang is driving me bonkers. I'm about to spit the [censored] dummy.

Couldn't agree more.

@WalkingCivilWar you have such a great command of our wonderful  language I would like to see it a lot more in your posts, rather than the slang.  The slang can be amusing at times but can't say I'm a fan of it as a substitute for English.

Hate to think what @Demonstonemakes of it!

2 minutes ago, Lucifers Hero said:

Couldn't agree more.

@WalkingCivilWar you have such a great command of our wonderful  language I would like to see it a lot more in your posts, rather than the slang.  The slang can be amusing at times but can't say I'm a fan of it as a substitute for English.

Hate to think what @Demonstonemakes of it!

[censored] oath Luci !

I'm with you !

Just now, Lucifers Hero said:

Couldn't agree more.

@WalkingCivilWar you have such a great command of our wonderful  language I would like to see it a lot more in your posts, rather than the slang.  The slang can be amusing at times but can't say I'm a fan of it as a substitute for English.

Hate to think what @Demonstonemakes of it!

Thanks Luci. I’ve already had Demonstone question me on this very issue and as I told him, this is how I message with my teenage son. Despite living in the same house texting is our main means of communication and his habits have become mine. Soz! 😁

Besides, I’m a proofreader. It’s kinda liberating to not give a fat rat’s about the Queen’s English when I’m not working. Again, soz! 😁

 

1 minute ago, WalkingCivilWar said:

Thanks Luci. I’ve already had Demonstone question me on this very issue and as I told him, this is how I message with my teenage son. Despite living in the same house texting is our main means of communication and his habits have become mine. Soz! 😁

Besides, I’m a proofreader. It’s kinda liberating to not give a fat rat’s about the Queen’s English when I’m not working. Again, soz! 😁

 

Get with the times WCW. It's the [censored] King's English.

Just now, Bitter but optimistic said:

Get with the times WCW. It's the [censored] King's English.

The [censored] Queen’s English, the [censored] King’s English… who gives a flying [censored], AMIRITE?! 😝

3 hours ago, dl4e said:

I hate the filth.

Not as much as me. I loathe them ... and their people*

 

*I use the word loosely. Admission ... having said that I don't mind McRae, and Moore. 

 

1 minute ago, WalkingCivilWar said:

The [censored] Queen’s English, the [censored] King’s English… who gives a flying [censored], AMIRITE?! 😝

Not so WCW ..... surely as a proofreader .... accuracy is paramount.

9 minutes ago, Bitter but optimistic said:

Not so WCW ..... surely as a proofreader .... accuracy is paramount.

“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet”

Yep, quoting Willy S. to remind you that the English language is the same today as it was the day before QE2 passed away. The name changes nothing. Fo shizzle. (Sorry, now I’m deliberately goading you and Luci, for S&Gs). 🤡

3 hours ago, Clintosaurus said:

This time of season is about banking wins. Nothing more. Who cares how scared some of you are of the Pies.

I'm scared of them but will take a freshly banked win.

10 minutes ago, WalkingCivilWar said:

Fo shizzle. (Sorry, now I’m deliberately goading you and Luci, for S&Gs). 🤡

That isn't a very nice way to treat your DL buddies...😐

3 minutes ago, Lucifers Hero said:

That isn't a very nice way to treat your DL buddies...😐

You know what they say: you know someone really likes you when they hang sh!tt on you. Or did I just make that up? 🤭

3 hours ago, dees189227 said:

So come king's birthday if we are both top 4 teams do you reckon we could get more than last night? 

It's also a special day for neale obviously as well 

I’d be disappointed if we didn’t. It was so obvious that our players loved the support they received on the night against Richmond. Mention was made of our crowd in player interviews and by Goodwin. They crave for our support. 

I went to the Collingwood Essendon game. I felt for the first 3 quarters, Collingwood was not playing all that well and were beatable. At 3 quarter time I jokingly said to an Essendon supporter sitting next to me wouldn’t it be funny if the Pies came back and won. In that last quarter Collingwood players had the inner confidence and lifted and took the game on and won.  They ‘fed’ off the noise in that last quarter.  I have no doubt. Again, their players and coach acknowledged how important the crowd is to them.

So……those of us that can, please turn up on King’s Birthday.  If you do, it will be a bigger crowd than the Richmond game. More importantly, the players need you (and like the Collingwood players will need to have self belief and take risks, take the game on when it comes to the crunch).  If we are on, we can beat them. I know it sounds stupid, our players will need us being loud and backing them in. GO DEES!

2 hours ago, whatwhat say what said:

aints are the best defensive side in the competition - conceded 100 less points than the next best, geelong, and their points for is pretty solid too, coming in mid table

fwiw we are 2nd for points scored (2 less than the cats) and 6th for points against

in terms of points differential we're third with +143 behind puddy tatts (+173) and aints (+153)

Geelong’s points differential is a result of an anomaly achieved by playing against a 2nd rate Sydney. 

Edited April 25, 20232 yr by Gawndy the Great

Just saying, I think there is a chance for World Peace if I can be happy about the Pies winning

A great round of football. Things to love (non MFC):

Weid having a good day out, really nothing but love and hope for the young fella. 

Geelong are done, nothing about the Sydney smashing makes me think otherwise. They have loaded up on easy kills as we did with WCE, but now they have to earn a few more. 

Darcy Moore well spoken young man, not better than Gawn, but still a damn fine captain.

Collingwood, You can always judge a man by the quality of his enemies, who doesn't love that the premier rivalry from AFL/VFL history is back. I love the way Collingwood play, it is exciting to watch, will be even better when we beat them. All those shaking in their socks about Collingwood, we are that good, we make other teams scared, but they are not perfect, we have weapons, we only need belief, go find some.

Nick Daicos, has transcended Collingwood, it's like potting the All Blacks, makes you look churlish, he is a phenom, that said, we have a couple of our own...

Bradley Hill, love that he has found a path to clear air, consumate player, that Jack Sinclair goes OK too, St Kilda doing well and Carlton sucking balls is proof that AFL is a team game and that prima donnas (Hello GWS) will fail. Love that Carlton is still trash. Likewise several other games this year, effort brings reward. 

King's Birthday - 96,000 please

Otherwise:

Umpires need work, increase the cash or whatever incentive is needed, umpiring is much like policework, is not a skill that can be learnt in an academy, it involves experience. Getting the buggers to have a feel for the game, allow for intent and taking their own ego out of decision making requires alot more people doing it so we can get the elite for our game. 

 

   

 

As revolting as it was to see Collingwood win. It's for the best. Moving ahead of them is in our control with a win on Kings Bday. Essendon now below us! It's important that we build on this and bank some breathing space at the top of the ladder. I can see there being a huge logjam of clubs from 3-11 this season alll within a game or two of each other coming into the final month of the regular season. We don't want to have to burn ourselves out just trying to make the top 4 again.

Saints, Bombers, Crows and to a lesser extent, Port, Carlton, Dogs will have an easier fixture than any of the top 6 bracket from last season due to where they finished.

 

Edited April 25, 20232 yr by John Demonic

11 hours ago, WalkingCivilWar said:

Wonder if Nick ever wakes in the middle of the night to see Josh standing over his bed staring at him.

#SecondFiddle 

That's eerie.

 

I'd like to see Essendon drop two in a row, good for the competition and friendships.

3 hours ago, MT64 said:

That's eerie.

 

Have you seen your own avatar?

🤡🤣😝

1 hour ago, layzie said:

I'd like to see Essendon drop two in a row, good for the competition and friendships.

Thanks Layz! Now I know why last night DL was temporarily Bizarro World.  I thought we had our own private full moon. That’s the only explanation I could come up with as a reason to why things got so weird on here. Now I realise… Essendon’s loss had us all giddy and no one was their usual self, (apart from a couple of posters who are inherently weird all the time.) This thread and the postgame thread can now resume normal programming. 😁

Edited April 25, 20232 yr by WalkingCivilWar

36 minutes ago, WalkingCivilWar said:

Thanks Layz! Now I know why last night DL was temporarily Bizarro World.  I thought we had our own private full moon. That’s the only explanation I could come up with as a reason to why things got so weird on here.

That is hilarious!!  I actually checked the full moon cycle last night as so many threads went a bit feral. 

 Great minds think alike🥂

Edited April 26, 20232 yr by Lucifers Hero

3 minutes ago, Lucifers Hero said:

That is hilarious!!  I actually checked the full moon cycle last night as so many threads went a bit feral. 

 Great minds think alike🥂

Put it this way, Luci: when @dazzledavey36 and I agree with each other, you know there’s something otherworldly going on. 

Yesterday was a manufactured Game. not sure what Free Kicks were paid in last qtr, but if they had paid anymore to TWSNBN they wouldn't have got out alive.  It was all about a spectacle up until then, from three qtr time it was who lasted long enough.

10 minutes ago, Willmoy1947 said:

Yesterday was a manufactured Game. not sure what Free Kicks were paid in last qtr, but if they had paid anymore to TWSNBN they wouldn't have got out alive.  It was all about a spectacle up until then, from three qtr time it was who lasted long enough.

Didnt an ump award a soft free to Essen-done  about 30m out from goal with 5 minutes to go thereabouts.  He missed. Might of been Parish.

3 hours ago, WalkingCivilWar said:

Thanks Layz! Now I know why last night DL was temporarily Bizarro World.  I thought we had our own private full moon. That’s the only explanation I could come up with as a reason to why things got so weird on here. Now I realise… Essendon’s loss had us all giddy and no one was their usual self, (apart from a couple of posters who are inherently weird all the time.) This thread and the postgame thread can now resume normal programming. 😁

Definitely some howling warewolves around.

Edited April 26, 20232 yr by layzie