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FYI I was being sarcastic... @MN5 mentions that almost as much as the legend of Charlie Ngatai!
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@mn5 said in TV Serieseseses:
@crucial said in TV Serieseseses:
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@taniwharugby said in TV Serieseseses:
@mn5 drinking, what's the story there, not sure I've heard it mentioned before
Puts David Boon to shame.
On a pound for pound basis Boony is at least respectable I suppose, what was his exact tally?
On the way to London? 52 cans. I only remember because it is one for each week of the year and it is seriously questionable.
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@snowy said in TV Serieseseses:
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@taniwharugby said in TV Serieseseses:
@mn5 drinking, what's the story there, not sure I've heard it mentioned before
Puts David Boon to shame.
On a pound for pound basis Boony is at least respectable I suppose, what was his exact tally?
On the way to London? 52 cans. I only remember because it is one for each week of the year and it is seriously questionable.
i call bullshit! on my last flight they had run out of Heineken AND shiraz by the end of dinner service. 2 drinks is getting harder and harder.
Yea fuck seriously MN5, everyone in the world has heard of Andre's drinking. Shut the hell up. That said, sounds like Flair put away and absolute fuckload himself.
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@mariner4life said in TV Serieseseses:
i call bullshit! on my last flight they had run out of Heineken AND shiraz by the end of dinner service.
Yep, #metoo.
I have worked several AKL-HKG flights just before the sevens and advised extra "catering" would be required. We got some extra but still ran out. One guy doing 52 even with a stop in Singapore meant that the other 350ish people drank fucking nothing. Another myth busted I reckon.
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David Boon scored 21 Test hundreds, including seven against England, but he also may (or may not) have posted the most famous half century of all.
While Boon has always refused to talk about it, several teammates swear he downed 52 beers on the way to the 1989 series, breaking a record of 44 set by Doug Walters and Rod Marsh on earlier tours.
While Boon has said that reports of his record were "a Hans Christian Andersen fairytale", that’s not the way Geoff Lawson and Dean Jones remember it.
Lawson says he was keeping score on airline sickbags and Jones claims to have paced Boon through 22 beers, just the other side of Singapore.
Jones says he went upstairs and fell asleep, waking to loud applause and the announcement from the plane’s captain that Boon had reached 52.
"I know there are plenty of stories flying around about me that have been greatly embellished over the years," Boon said back in 2006.
"But that’s how it is… we played our cricket in an era where blokes learned never to let the truth get in the way of a good story."
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@nepia said in TV Serieseseses:
I opened this thinking it was the TV thread.
Edit: Did the emoji's disappear with the update?
piss of Stargazer. You Hawkes Bay boys are all the same
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I want it to be true. So much. I love the nostalgia of what cricket used to be like. Or at least, what we are led to believe it used to be like. A simpler time, when our athletes were also piss rats. And airlines cared more about the comfort of their guests, and their ability to get wankered on a long-haul, than their bottom lines.
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Love that it was announced by the planes captain that booney had broken the record.
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@virgil said in TV Serieseseses:
Love that it was announced by the planes captain that booney had broken the record.
If that happened these days the flight crew would be sacked and we wouldn’t hear the end of it.Yea but the "crap from Stuff" thread would be great fun for about a week. Think of the outrage articles
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@mariner4life said in TV Serieseseses:
And airlines cared more about the comfort of their guests, and their ability to get wankered on a long-haul, than their bottom lines.
Ah yes. Hot women used to be able to sit on the jump seat (not a euphemism) and not hidden away behind a bullet proof door. When you asked for a beer (as a passenger) they gave you a six pack because they couldn't be bothered coming back to you every 5 mins, just every 30. As for airline's bottom lines - that is why the fun went out of the flying job and the world is screaming for pilots to take them places. Supply and demand is pushing salaries up nicely though.
As for the PA - I would have done it back then too (and delivered a tequila shot to the fat prick).
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@snowy I remember as a lad being allowed to visit the pilot on the deck of a 747. That's one thing CF Jnr will never get to experience
Oh and metal cutlery (except on Business class funny enough. Don't they think that terrorists can afford to fly business?) -
@canefan said in TV Serieseseses:
@snowy I remember as a lad being allowed to visit the pilot on the deck of a 747. That's one thing CF Jnr will never get to experience .Oh and metal cutlery (except on Business class funny enough. Don't they think that terrorists can afford to fly business?)
It really is a shame. Fuck Bin Laden.
We used to let passengers on the flight deck for take off and landing (which most airlines wouldn't do). It was fun and I don't think that any of them walked away thinking that computers did all of the flying.
I had a sim instructor on the jump seat (for an observation flight) during a landing in a Typhoon - he pretty much shat himself and he knew what was happening. It could be quite an experience - even if you were in charge - ish - mother nature has her say too.As for metal cutlery and terrorists - just ask that stupid model on the "absolute crap" thread" how effective a bottle is, even before it is broken. How many of those are on board? Without knowing what airlines pay for cutlery, I do know that plastic weighs a lot less than metal. Weight is fuel, and lots of it on a long haul. We are back to airlines and bottom lines, maybe that is just my cynicism.
I should mention a TV series as this thread has completely derailed, even for the fern.
I liked Seinfeld...
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@mariner4life said in TV Serieseseses:
I want it to be true. So much. I love the nostalgia of what cricket used to be like. Or at least, what we are led to believe it used to be like. A simpler time, when our athletes were also piss rats. And airlines cared more about the comfort of their guests, and their ability to get wankered on a long-haul, than their bottom lines.
There's an extensive analysis in google books - "The best australian sports writing 2004" in a story called "Fifty-two not out."
Doesn't seem to throw up a url that works.
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Watched first couple eps of Altered Carbon...so far so good.
I like James Purefoy, Kinneman has bulked up (unless they use a double) come a long way since his scrawny awkaward days of The Killing (which seemed to be his break)
Few tidy females and a bit of t & a.
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@taniwharugby said in TV Serieseseses:
Watched first couple eps of Altered Carbon...so far so good.
I like James Purefoy, Kinneman has bulked up (unless they use a double) come a long way since his scrawny awkaward days of The Killing (which seemed to be his break)
Few tidy females and a bit of t & a.
I just wish that the dialogue wasn’t so mumbled. It’s probably just me being an old bugger, but there are too many shows now where half the effort is trying to hear what the characters are saying
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@taniwharugby said in TV Serieseseses:
Watched first couple eps of Altered Carbon...so far so good.
I like James Purefoy, Kinneman has bulked up (unless they use a double) come a long way since his scrawny awkaward days of The Killing (which seemed to be his break)
Few tidy females and a bit of t & a.
After a great start the nudity tails off, the violence stays at a level I find acceptable though.
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@crucial haha I turned the subtitles on...I do that often ow which helps me when i watch alot of foreign stuff now too
