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30-11-2019, 11:36 AM
#226
Re: Tip Rat Green Straight to Tribunal
Originally Posted by
Go_Dogs
Serving time or suspended?
Time I believe. Has already served two months on remand.
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30-11-2019, 12:25 PM
#227
Re: Tip Rat Green Straight to Tribunal
Originally Posted by
bulldogtragic
Time I believe. Has already served two months on remand.
Are sentences still automatically cut by a third for good behavior?
I always thought that was a huge irony
They say Burt Lancaster has one, but I don't believe them.
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30-11-2019, 12:31 PM
#228
Re: Tip Rat Green Straight to Tribunal
Originally Posted by
Twodogs
Are sentences still automatically cut by a third for good behavior?
I always thought that was a huge irony
I'm not sure, I'm a while out of the game. WD54 is the man to know the answer. You're right on it being somewhat ironic, Alanis Morrissette should've added that into her song.
Rocket Science: the epitaph for the Beveridge era - whenever it ends - reading 'Here lies a team that could beat anyone on its day, but seldom did when it mattered most'. 15/7/2023
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30-11-2019, 01:21 PM
#229
Re: Tip Rat Green Straight to Tribunal
Originally Posted by
bulldogtragic
I'm not sure, I'm a while out of the game. WD54 is the man to know the answer. You're right on it being somewhat ironic, Alanis Morrissette should've added that into her song.
That works given that quite a few things she mentions aren't technically ironic-like rain on your wedding day, well no that's just bad luck unless you are marrying the weather forecaster and they said it was going to be fine but...
They say Burt Lancaster has one, but I don't believe them.
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30-11-2019, 01:25 PM
#230
Re: Tip Rat Green Straight to Tribunal
Originally Posted by
Twodogs
That works given that quite a few things she mentions aren't technically ironic-like rain on your wedding day, well no that's just bad luck unless you are marrying the weather forecaster and they said it was going to be fine but...
Yeah, it's a catchy tune but most of the things aren't ironic. I thought it was just me that thought the song lyrics misunderstood what irony is (for the most part). Thank goodness WOOF exists for us to dissect it.
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30-11-2019, 01:28 PM
#231
Re: Tip Rat Green Straight to Tribunal
Originally Posted by
bulldogtragic
Yeah, it's a catchy tune but most of the things aren't ironic. I thought it was just me that thought the song lyrics misunderstood what irony is (for the most part). Thank goodness WOOF exists for us to dissect it.
What else would we do in the off season?
We have to reanimate the general knowledge quiz that we manage to *!*!*!*! up every year soon too. I *!*!*!*!ing love that quiz and the arguments it provokes!
They say Burt Lancaster has one, but I don't believe them.
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06-12-2019, 08:57 PM
#232
Re: Tip Rat Green Straight to Tribunal
Originally Posted by
Twodogs
What else would we do in the off season?
We have to reanimate the general knowledge quiz that we manage to *!*!*!*! up every year soon too. I *!*!*!*!ing love that quiz and the arguments it provokes!
I've always thought Alanis M. was very so so. I once saw a concert where she just ran from side-to-side across the stage for 5 minutes. Wtf!
There is not one instance of irony in the song.
In the 70s there was a Swiss animal lover who traveled to world to observe animals in their natural surroundings.
He was in his early 80s when he went to Komodo to see the dragons.
He got eaten by the animals he loved. Isn't it ironic.
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06-12-2019, 09:15 PM
#233
Re: Tip Rat Green Straight to Tribunal
Originally Posted by
merantau
I've always thought Alanis M. was very so so. I once saw a concert where she just ran from side-to-side across the stage for 5 minutes. Wtf!
There is not one instance of irony in the song.
In the 70s there was a Swiss animal lover who traveled to world to observe animals in their natural surroundings.
He was in his early 80s when he went to Komodo to see the dragons.
He got eaten by the animals he loved. Isn't it ironic.
They can smell blood from six miles away.
They say Burt Lancaster has one, but I don't believe them.
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07-12-2019, 12:10 AM
#234
Re: Tip Rat Green Straight to Tribunal
Originally Posted by
merantau
I've always thought Alanis M. was very so so. I once saw a concert where she just ran from side-to-side across the stage for 5 minutes. Wtf!
There is not one instance of irony in the song.
In the 70s there was a Swiss animal lover who traveled to world to observe animals in their natural surroundings.
He was in his early 80s when he went to Komodo to see the dragons.
He got eaten by the animals he loved. Isn't it ironic.
When I lived in Singapore for a few years in the 90s, I once saw a Komodo dragon walking across the street near our apartment. It was on the way to the park. I have no doubt some Singaporean had it as a pet but then it grew so big just let it go.
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07-12-2019, 07:01 AM
#235
Re: Tip Rat Green Straight to Tribunal
They are a very impressive animal. Are able to feast on much larger prey because once bitten, even if the victim escapes, the bite site quickly becomes infected due to the virulent bacteria that inhabits the dragon's saliva. Infected wounds smell and the dragon's tongue can detect the smell from miles away. You can run but you cannot hide.
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07-12-2019, 12:16 PM
#236
Re: Tip Rat Green Straight to Tribunal
Originally Posted by
merantau
They are a very impressive animal. Are able to feast on much larger prey because once bitten, even if the victim escapes, the bite site quickly becomes infected due to the virulent bacteria that inhabits the dragon's saliva. Infected wounds smell and the dragon's tongue can detect the smell from miles away. You can run but you cannot hide.
It's impressive but I'd rather try to escape one of those than come up against a cassowary with chick in the wild.
Far North Queensland 1992 I saw one in the wild with a chick in the Daintree. The tour leader just said "Walk backwards Verrrrry slowly and don't take your eye off it. That thing kills more people than saltwater crocodiles"
They say Burt Lancaster has one, but I don't believe them.
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08-12-2019, 04:25 PM
#237
Re: Tip Rat Green Straight to Tribunal
Originally Posted by
Twodogs
Are sentences still automatically cut by a third for good behavior?
I always thought that was a huge irony
Originally Posted by
bulldogtragic
I'm not sure, I'm a while out of the game. WD54 is the man to know the answer. You're right on it being somewhat ironic, Alanis Morrissette should've added that into her song.
Unless the court set a non-parole period he's serving whatever the court has told him to serve.
All things considered, he hasn't done too badly to only get 9 months.
Ironic is quite possibly one of music's biggest crimes against the English Language.
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08-12-2019, 05:24 PM
#238
Re: Tip Rat Green Straight to Tribunal
People have been taking the piss out of Ironic for years.
TD, your guide was talking BS.
Nobody's looking for a puppeteer in today's wintry economic climate.
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08-12-2019, 07:28 PM
#239
Re: Tip Rat Green Straight to Tribunal
Originally Posted by
jeemak
People have been taking the piss out of Ironic for years.
TD, your guide was talking BS.
I think he just wanted me to move away from the bird toot sweet. He was keen to take back as many people as he started out with. Thinking about it maybe he said that cassowary have attacked more humans than saltys in the last however long it was?
Did you know that both genders of cassowarys have pseudo penis's that aren’t connected to any of their internal reproductive organs?
More recently, a 75-year-old Florida man was killed by a cassowary he had kept as a pet at his exotic bird farm.
In 1999, Queensland Parks and Wildlife ranger Christopher P. Kofron analyzed 150 documented cassowary-on-human attacks. Twenty-two percent of attacks resulted from the bird defending itself, its eggs, or its chicks, 5 percent were triggered by somebody getting too close to the cassowary’s food, and 73 percent involved a cassowary that associated people with free meals.
There are only two confirmed cassowary deaths in the last 100 odd years. It's ironic that the most recent cassowary death wasn't even in Australia.
Fascinating birds.
They say Burt Lancaster has one, but I don't believe them.
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11-12-2019, 05:37 PM
#240
Re: Tip Rat Green Straight to Tribunal
Originally Posted by
bornadog
When I lived in Singapore for a few years in the 90s, I once saw a Komodo dragon walking across the street near our apartment. It was on the way to the park. I have no doubt some Singaporean had it as a pet but then it grew so big just let it go.
Originally Posted by
merantau
They are a very impressive animal. Are able to feast on much larger prey because once bitten, even if the victim escapes, the bite site quickly becomes infected due to the virulent bacteria that inhabits the dragon's saliva. Infected wounds smell and the dragon's tongue can detect the smell from miles away. You can run but you cannot hide.
I achieved a life long dream a couple of years back of travelling to Komodo National Park to see the Dragons in the wild.
Brilliant trip and well worth it, the dragons are as impressive if not more than you imagine them to be.
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