Superthread XVIII

[God-King Dean]

lol, job agencies.

Actually, I could understand why they never call back even when there is a job available. I lose the will to live when they are doing their interviews.

 

[StormChaser]

As I mentioned in the tickets thread, I'll wait til after week 2 of the finals when all the Dragons fans are selling theirs on E-Bay.

Technically this is against the law and you COULD have your tix voided at the gate.................................when the people who's job it is to scour ebay and the likes can be arsed that is.:roll:

 

[God-King Dean]

lol, that's your job I bet.

 

[adamkungl]

Technically this is against the law and you COULD have your tix voided at the gate.................................when the people who's job it is to scour ebay and the likes can be arsed that is.:roll:

Is it illegal even if sold at cost price?

 

[StormChaser]

Haha not my job, mine is much more menial that that. It's not illegal if sold at cost and you don't have like 15 of them to offload.

 

[adamkungl]

Haha not my job, mine is much more menial that that. It's not illegal if sold at cost and you don't have like 15 of them to offload.

Ok, so Merge fans selling their tickets after they choke is ok then

 

[Different kind of Rabbit]

Last year, a lot were going for below cost.

 

[Different kind of Rabbit]

Scalping NRL grand final tickets would be a massive risk imo. There are 80,000 of the things available to start with and if the Grand Final ended up being say Melbourne Storm vs Cowboys or something like that (just as an example), it'd be lucky to sell out. If it were 2 sydney teams, you'd be cheering but its a big risk to take.

 

[Different kind of Rabbit]

Ok, so Merge fans selling their tickets after they choke is ok then

I got a bite in the GF ticket thread with my comment. Then for some reason, Timmah comes riding in on his big white horse and starts sticking up for the mergers.

Can't work that bloke out sometimes.

 

[Different kind of Rabbit]

Technically this is against the law and you COULD have your tix voided at the gate.................................when the people who's job it is to scour ebay and the likes can be arsed that is.:roll:

lol

One of the ticketing companies has started its own after market site. Essentially, they hold back tickets to certain shows and then offer them up at a later date for a premium.

Legalised scalping....

I guess its ok when they do it though.

 

[Bazal]

It'd have to be a f**king big horse for Tim to ride it...sure it wasn't a Sei Whale?

 

[Different kind of Rabbit]

Someone painted a Clydesdale...

 

[adamkungl]

Dkor, its in Tim's "best interests" to stick up for the Dragqueens

 

[Different kind of Rabbit]

Oh, thats right. His Missus is a St Merge fan. I forgot.....

If mine were into St Merge, we'd have never hooked up. One of the conditions of dating me is that you can't support the Dragons.

Unfortunately, that precludes Dean and I ever dating but thats a loss I'm willing to cop.

 

[StormChaser]

lol

One of the ticketing companies has started its own after market site. Essentially, they hold back tickets to certain shows and then offer them up at a later date for a premium.

Legalised scalping....

I guess its ok when they do it though.

That's always gone on, just not so blatantly I guess, but a certain amount of tix are always held back for one reason and another.
You have to be careful on ebay that the tix you buy are actually legit, we get incidents at ALL big events where fake tix have been sold to unsuspecting suckers.

 

[Dutchy]

Gotta w9 'till 29th here. Hopefully old man backs up his word.

I wont come to the GF, no money

But I am keen for pissup before, and after.

 

[adamkungl]

When me and the ladyfriend first met, she told me she was vaguely a Dragons fan because her sis is a big Dragons fans.

I didn't put much thought into it because I didn't know we were gonna hook up...but she went home and told her sis that she met a bloke who's a roosters fan. Her sis said "Never date him"

3 weeks later...."Hey sis, you know that guy whos a Roosters fan you said not to date...."

 

[Timmah]

I got a bite in the GF ticket thread with my comment. Then for some reason, Timmah comes riding in on his big white horse and starts sticking up for the mergers.

Can't work that bloke out sometimes.

Wasn't sticking up for the mergers at all. Thought it was pretty clear that I simply found it funny you'd take a stab at a club for a lack of success when your club is about to celebrate it's 40th anniversary. Are Souths competing with Cronulla for longest premiership drought?

 

[Eelementary]

Garts how is your brother in law doing now?? is he getting help?

Hala i understand what you mean about the counseller trying to get to the core of something, but i dunno, the way he went about it and the way he said it...it was awful and he really creeped me out.

and yeh Eeele, i have a history of drug addiction, mental illness and alcoholism in my family too. ive always tried to ignore it and bury it, but i think perhaps genetics is a factor.

that's why i want to make a change because i don't want to end up dead at 35 like my uncle and grandfather

As Twizz said, you have a great attitude. IMO that is the first step .

It's tough. But it's achievable.

And if it helps, I am serious - PM me (add me to FB if you really want) and I would be all too happy to be a listener.

And I can sympathise with the whole low self-esteem thing. All my life I was a tubby kid. A few years ago I started playing soccer regularly and lost a lot of weight. Then, through a series of personal events, I just stopped caring and fell into depression. I put all the weight back on. And I mean a fair bit. It's coming off, slowly. I'm not as big as I was.

But then you combine it with the fact I was not happy with my direction on life and my self-esteem levels were pretty low - I felt I had very little worth, mainly because I felt I was going nowhere and had nothing to offer.

I worked through it. It was tough, but it's mostly behind me.

Anyway, point is - I like to think of myself as a good person, and if I can help in any way, I will try to do so. Plus I can sort of relate, because I, too, have always had similar problems.

But I hope everything works for you. I sincerely do.

 

[Different kind of Rabbit]

Wasn't sticking up for the mergers at all. Thought it was pretty clear that I simply found it funny you'd take a stab at a club for a lack of success when your club is about to celebrate it's 40th anniversary. Are Souths competing with Cronulla for longest premiership drought?

We may be on a drought but we are still the most successful club in the history of Rugby League.

Besides, I wasn't criticising for lack of success, on the contrary, they are a very successful club. They just have trouble making and winning the big one. I was criticising for the fact that they look like Phar Lap for 22 weeks of the year and then break down and always end up in the glue factory come the finals. If they don't win the comp this year, I doubt they will ever win it again.

Best team all year, great defence, possibly the best coach in the history of the game at the helm, their biggest rivals for the crown knee capped by salary cap rorts and 10 weeks out from the finals, one of the top centre's in the world falls into their lap, just in time to get his match fitness back for the big games. All of the stars have aligned for them this year imo and they will never get this good an opportunity again.

If they can't win the comp this year, they can't win it ever.

The bastards are probably going to be celebrating hard at the end of the year, but why should we let them have it all their own way?