This forum is dying

Bro Deal

It was easier when there were more active threads. Now that the season is winding down and the Unnamable has chased a lot of people off, you are SOL.

You could post to the "thread about nothing" to boost your count. The problem with that it is somewhat incomprehensible. It appears to be a combination of aussie slang and popular culture/current events that often make it opaque to us sepos. It sort of reminds me of when I saw Oasis being interviewed on MTV and they were forced to subtitle the interview.

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"You are like the wind and I like the lion. You form the tempest. The sand stings my eyes and the ground is parched. I roar in defiance but you do not hear. But between us there is a difference. I, like the lion, must remain in my place. While you like the wind will never know yours." -- Mulay Hamid El Raisuli, Lord of the Riff, Sultan to the Berbers, Last of the Barbary Pirates

Bro Deal

You never saw that episode of Family Guy? Peter's father is getting on his case for not being religious so he goes in search of a religion, but ends up forming the church of the Fonz.

I guess I could have referenced the episode of Married with Children when Al sets up the Church of NOMAMM.

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"You are like the wind and I like the lion. You form the tempest. The sand stings my eyes and the ground is parched. I roar in defiance but you do not hear. But between us there is a difference. I, like the lion, must remain in my place. While you like the wind will never know yours." -- Mulay Hamid El Raisuli, Lord of the Riff, Sultan to the Berbers, Last of the Barbary Pirates

Crankyfeet

A big element in the early influences of Australian culture were the cockney convicts and settlers who arrived in the early to middle of the 19th century. The Australian penchant for slang is similar to cockney. And Australia is fairly loose with its censuring and guidelines for TV broadcasts. It isn't uncommon to get "bloody" and "piss" and other soft swear words on the nightly news. The Australian Tourist commission did an advertisement for British television recently where they had an attractive Australian model (Lara Bingle) telling Brits "Where the bloody hell are ya??" It was quickly pulled off the air. But this was an Australian Government production!!

Also in Australia, the term "stuff" or "stuffed" is synonymous for "fark" or "farked". This creates for Australians visiting America, an interesting sign above the cash register at Build-a-Bear, which reads,

"AFTER YOUR CHILD HAS CHOSEN A BEAR ,YOUR CHILD CAN GO TO THE ROOM AT THE BACK AND STUFF IT THEMSELVES."

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Crankyfeet

I think you're missing Klodi's point. She wasn't offended as a result of not seeing the episode. Its pretty obvious its from Family Guy. If she was feigning offense at all, it was probably because it was a statue blaspheming Jesus Christ. However, I don't think she was offended. The whole reaction was most likely exaggerated. Or was it?

I've found its easy to get meanings crossed, especially sarcasm, when you don't use emoticons. Trouble is: emoticons = girls = gay. Though I am the one guy, who uses them, who isn't gay. (Although my boyfriend thinks I'm gay).

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Bro Deal

I am happy that Fernando Alonso crashed out in Japan today. Karma's a bitch.

Too bad about the Ferraris. I am sure Kimi would have won today.

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"You are like the wind and I like the lion. You form the tempest. The sand stings my eyes and the ground is parched. I roar in defiance but you do not hear. But between us there is a difference. I, like the lion, must remain in my place. While you like the wind will never know yours." -- Mulay Hamid El Raisuli, Lord of the Riff, Sultan to the Berbers, Last of the Barbary Pirates

Crankyfeet

Speaking of the Fonz, you made me remember my childhood watching Happy Days (note age Klodi). Some trivia re. "The Fonz": ABC and the producers of the show had a disagreement on Fonzie's attire. ABC didn't want him to wear a black leather jacket, because they thought it was a less than wholesome image for their cutesie idealistic 50's show (Fonzie wore mostly red or white jackets in the first couple of series). After the producers remonstrated, ABC finally allowed the producers to dress Fonz in a black leather jacket, but only if he is riding or around his motorcycle in the scene. The producers responded by putting a motorcycle in every scene that Fonzie appeared, including indoor scenes.

Also in the first season, Richie had an older brother, named Chuck, who, though rarely seen (usually on his way to basketball practice), was basically written out of the story after season 1, with no explanation for his disappearance. The phenomana of characters inexplicably disappearing from TV series' is now referred to as the "Chuck Cunningham Syndrome" in entertainment circles. (trivia source: Wikipedia)

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Bro Deal

I am going to have to google for pictures of this. It sounds too bizarre.

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"You are like the wind and I like the lion. You form the tempest. The sand stings my eyes and the ground is parched. I roar in defiance but you do not hear. But between us there is a difference. I, like the lion, must remain in my place. While you like the wind will never know yours." -- Mulay Hamid El Raisuli, Lord of the Riff, Sultan to the Berbers, Last of the Barbary Pirates

Bro Deal

Hmmm, I was not able to find a good example. I did come acorss this in my search, though.

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"You are like the wind and I like the lion. You form the tempest. The sand stings my eyes and the ground is parched. I roar in defiance but you do not hear. But between us there is a difference. I, like the lion, must remain in my place. While you like the wind will never know yours." -- Mulay Hamid El Raisuli, Lord of the Riff, Sultan to the Berbers, Last of the Barbary Pirates

Crankyfeet

The higher the post count in this thread, the funnier it looks on the GT forum page next to its thread title.

Klodi, you could be getting etched into the annals of Cycling Forums folklore. Members in 20 years time may nostalgically refer to the "Klodifan: This forum is dying" thread.

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Crankyfeet

I see you're keeping up the unwritten "This forum is dying" thread rule of posting some eye candy every 5-6 pages.

But I don't get the relationship to the sentence in bold? Sorry, I read your post again......it was collateral undamage .

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Crankyfeet

I don't think the omnipresent motorcycle lasted more than two seasons before ABC caved to Fonzie's popularity and let him wear what he wanted.

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Crankyfeet

I'm now replacing the Troll Slayer's picture in my mind with your new image find. Of course, day-to-day, the Troll Slayer is disguised as a nerdish cycling dorkette with appropriate flat-pane spectacles.

However the above image still doesn't hold a candle to NNS.

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Crankyfeet

Bro - nothing personal intended on that Worlds RR picks thread I just posted on. I imagine you as the sort of guy who doesn't assume a different viewpoint in a debate means anything personal.

But speaking of imagining you - I'm having a hard time not picturing you as looking like Chow Yun-Fat due to your avatar.

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Gregers

Cranky, it's a complete hijack (but what isn't on this surrealist's dream of a thread) but do you know anything about the USA's Zimbabean winger who skinned Habana tonight. Easily the fastest man at RWC and possibly, with the sole exception of our local flaky, speedster, Tom Varndell, the fastest in the game, period. For non-believers, apologies. This will all be completely, incomprehensible gibberish (at least it's wholly in keeping) and will probably result in this thread finally being locked.