Superthread LXXI - Honouring Phil Hughes. 63*

[Drew-Sta]

How did that happen?

 

[Drew-Sta]

And oh gosh, am I sick of the 'Thanks for being a friend' movies popping up in FB-land already.

 

[thorson1987]

How did that happen?

Well he is used to balls on the chin. Only a matter of time before they hit him in the jaw.

 

[butchmcdick]

nothing better than getting into a sporting groove..

great to hear mate..

hell, i know i look forward to my touch footy game all week..

my hockey I'm starting to waine on though... Particularly after copping a ball to the jaw today

ouch..

The Molly Meldrum injury

 

[muzby]

How did that happen?

don't know if it was an intentionally dangerous hit or not, but blocked the other guys shot at goal, he got the ball back a few seconds later, i came in again to stop him, he reverse flicked it where my head was..

I gave him B.O.T.D. that he didn't mean to hit me, think he was just trying to get a shot at goal..

Well he is used to balls on the chin. Only a matter of time before they hit him in the jaw.

The Molly Meldrum injury

har dee har.. But yes, even reading the paragraph i just wrote you could take it that way..

but it's come up a pleasant shade of purple..

 

[Apey]

Ugh, of all the power sections to go out in our house it's the one with all the TVs, DVDs, computers and the modem. Why do you spite me oh lord. Thankfully I am a resourceful man and have set up a man cave (modem + laptop) in the kitchen with the help of an extension cord.

 

[Bulldog Force]

So I watched Into the Storm last night. Might I just say after seeing that movie... I'm so glad I live in a country where Tornados are an extremely rare occurrence. It's a unique movie too that uses cameras used by the actual actors to film the footage. Yes in a movie with an EF5 tornado there would have to be plenty of special effects, but with these special effects it gives you an insight as to what it is actually like to experience such a tornado. The most unrealistic thing I saw in the movie was a tornado that turned over a blew up a car... causing the tornado to catch fire. Yep... a flaming tornado :lol:

 

[AlwaysGreen]

I watched wizard of Oz once.

 

[Bulldog Force]

I watched wizard of Oz once.

I don't know about the ferocity of the tornado in that movie, but I doubt it's anywhere near an EF5.

 

[muzby]

my jaw hurts

and i have a random lump & bruise on my kneecap.. Don't remember that happening...

 

[Bulldog Force]

my jaw hurts

and i have a random lump & bruise on my kneecap.. Don't remember that happening...

Quite crying and suck it up. Enough with the drunken nights... we don't want Muz junior heading down that path now do we.

 

[Bulldog Force]

Interesting. It's 2014, and I just got an email from another African scammer claiming that I'm the 'love of her life' and that her parents were murdered and that she has $3,750,000 waiting for me. You think by now they would've found an alternate form of scamming people.

I strung the last one around for nearly 3 years. I wonder how long I can get this ones high hopes up for :lol:

Man I'm enjoying stringing this one along... she's eating right from the palm of my hand :lol:

She even sent me pictures of herself and she looks like an absolute clown. Surely doesn't look like someone on the wrong end of the food chain.

 

[muzby]

so read a good book earlier this year, 'think like a freak'... one of the sections in there was around why nigerian scammers still say they're from nigeria, even though their location is a dead give-away that it is a scam..

it's essentially a 'self weeding garden'..

this review of the book explains it well:

Where the Freakonomics formula still works is when Dubner picks up on some interesting recent research and weaves a compelling story around it.

There are two great examples in this book, though strikingly in neither case is the research by Levitt.

One concerns Nigerian email scams.

We've all had them: the ones that tell you a huge sum of money needs to be transferred out of Nigeria and that you will get a big chunk of it if you allow your bank account to be used as a temporary deposit point.

All you have to do is supply your bank details. Who on earth falls for that any more, especially now that the mere mention of Nigeria is enough to signal to almost everyone that it is a con?

Work by the computer scientist Cormac Herley shows why the scammers still insist on specifying Nigeria. Sending out millions of emails is more or less costless, so having millions of people ignore them doesn't really matter. What would cost the criminals is spending time and money setting up a fake transfer with people who twig halfway through that it's a trick and get cold feet.

By choosing Nigeria they are importing a gullibility-testing device into the original pitch to discover the vanishingly small number of people who still don't know. Anyone who responds has already signalled that they are completely in the dark.

It's a neatly efficient way of ruling out false positives and tracing the few clueless needles in the haystack of the worldly wise.

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/may/15/think-like-a-freak-freakonomics-levitt-dubner-review

 

[Bulldog Force]

so read a good book earlier this year, 'think like a freak'... one of the sections in there was around why nigerian scammers still say they're from nigeria, even though their location is a dead give-away that it is a scam..

it's essentially a 'self weeding garden'..

this review of the book explains it well:



http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/may/15/think-like-a-freak-freakonomics-levitt-dubner-review

Well that's interesting. They're smart... but I'm smarter. What they're not prepared for, are people like me who know it's a scam and while like to string them along and play them for fools :lol:

 

[ek999]

Except they also now know your email address is a valid address and can send you more spam or onsell your address to other scammers.

Ignore and delete

 

[Bulldog Force]

I'm happy for them to have that and keep baiting me. This email address they're using is pretty much a secondary email address I use for testing purposes and junk etc... using it to sign forms on websites and what have you. It doesn't contain my name in it at all - they'll be none-the-wiser.

 

[Drew-Sta]

Your IP address, on the other hand...

 

[Red Bear]

People need to accept that the Wallabies just aren't good enough. Doesn't matter who the coach is.

It always amused me when Deans was coach, the masive agenda against him from sections of the media (Danny Weidler for example) as he didn't necessarily pick certain favourites (Cooper), despite results generally being reasonable except for when they played the All Blacks (and that last Lions tour which was a Kurtley Beale f**k up away from a series win).

Since then the results have been worse, as they struggle against others as well :lol:

I don't particularly care, Rugby generally bores me. There's a real xenophobic attitude when it comes to foreign coaches in Australia, the minute the results aren't perfect the knives are out. Always easier to attack the coaches than the boards behind them and the players (it was similar with Mickey Arthur).

 

[Different kind of Rabbit]

I'm happy for them to have that and keep baiting me. This email address they're using is pretty much a secondary email address I use for testing purposes and junk etc... using it to sign forms on websites and what have you. It doesn't contain my name in it at all - they'll be none-the-wiser.

Just make sure you open every file or link they send you, just so you can vet it and make sure its completely safe.

 

[Bulldog Force]

Just make sure you open every file or link they send you, just so you can vet it and make sure its completely safe.

Yeah that's all taken care of man. The only files these scammers really send are photos of 'themselves' that Hotmail already scans and displays a small thumbnail of. I don't open anything with a foreign/unknown extension. Also never use the links either.