Non-football related stuff that really makes your day

[DanO]

Quidditch

You learned me something today Mason. Never heard of Quidditch. Sounds like something from Harry Potter maybe?

[DanO]

It’s Australian Rules Football, Deborah. In my humble opinion, the best sport on this rock.

Extremely summarised long story short, …. I lived in Australia, late 70s / early 80s and my dad took myself and bro to the 1980 Grand Final @ the MCG….. Tiges v Collingwood Magpies.
Tigers smashed the Pies that day and followed them ever since.
The season traditionally starts with Richmond v Carlton…… This morning was just incredible. 🐯

Another piece of info……. -OZ- , Lions forum member, (Panoptes’ good buddy) —->> he’s a Magpies fan. I remember having that discussion on the AFL thread that TonyG reluctantly started.
Anyone on here remember that? On the older forum format.
I was chatting about AFL and pi$$ing TonyG off with it…….. So he created a thread for it. Myself & LFiJ were the only contributors really.

Oh Ya. I remember.

[Marko69]

Yep, DanO-Boy, from Potter.

I think there was either an xbox or PlayStation game dedicated to quidditch. Memory of seeing the tv screen and people on broomsticks flying around at Superman speed.

By the way……. If you spell Quidditch wrong on google ——>> google corrects it.
Made up fantasy games from JK’s head are corrected on google.

[El Axe]

Quidditch also has the dumbest scoring system. Catching the snitch is worth 300 points. Everything else with all the other players is very unlikely to ever make a difference of even 100 points.

It would be like at some random point of a football game, they threw a baseball out in the middle of the field and both teams had designated players that had to go get it and the team that got it got 300 points, ending the game.

[Marko69]

Quidditch also has the dumbest scoring system.

Only the scoring system is dumb?

[El Axe]

Only the scoring system is dumb?

lol, I'm not a potterhead, but I did enjoy the series and my daughter grew up with the books & movies. She attended a local Harry Potter summer camp one year and they had a version of quidditch, but they had to change the scoring rules because they were totally unworkable. Oh sorry, rubbish.

[Marko69]

Bit more on the AFL here with Rogan.......

https://youtube.com/shorts/xhnwoQbRHGc?si=DM9o_3j_8E_SnkWy

[Marko69]

Been very busy, but just caught the 3pm news on radio 2.
A newspaper reporter accidentally copied into a US Defence group chat! 🤣🤣🤣

Aw ffs! What an absolute shower of complete clowns 🤣🤣🤣

To be honest, If i was the newspaper reporter, id have tried to lay as low as possible to get more info!

“Yes, we’re bombing the houthis in Yemen in a few weeks.”

“Ok. And what are you and Carol doing this weekend?”

“Grabbing some food then maybe taking in a movie. Fancy it?”

“Oh yes for sure.
I’ll get those extra missiles ordered then we’ll be there!”

[THE STEE]

When I had my heart attack six years ago I had 65% heart function, my cardiologist called three days after my last visit to her to tell me I had normal function. All my treadmill miles and weight training has been worth it. Now if the Lions can win the big one

[DanO]

Good job STEE.

[edindetroit]

When I had my heart attack six years ago I had 65% heart function, my cardiologist called three days after my last visit to her to tell me I had normal function. All my treadmill miles and weight training has been worth it. Now if the Lions can win the big one

After some recent chest pains and feeling off they did a bunch of tests and didn't really find anything. Last thing he suggested was a calcium scan that insurance won't pay. It's only $125 so I agreed to it. Got the results back and I am at a level 0, the best score you can get and a cardiac health equivalent of an under 35 year old and I am almost 66! Like you my wife and I are pretty active and I credit all the time on my bicycle with helping that. Now if they could just get it to stop skipping beats. Rather unnerving to feel your heart stop for a second.