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@Bones said in Happiness Scale:
@voodoo said in Happiness Scale:
Why is this in my Happiness Thread @Bones?
This is not happiness any more than I’m happy I didn’t buy a penthouse in Gaza last year
Take this nauseating shit elsewhere!
We won 10-0.
Not sure it helps but I’ve been the bloke causing strong minded men to vomit because my foot was pointing the wrong way. Done a fair bit of damage to myself over 30 odd years in the game, but it’s disconcerting when you look down and your kneecap’s doing its best impression of a naughty schoolboy’s tie.
Apart from feeling a bit embarrassed for nauseating everyone, I’ve never given much thought to what or still less who caused it. Injuries are part of the game. Even gruesome ones. If I’m honest, it’s that risk that makes it so much fucking fun.
And it was easier mentally to get back on the pitch after that horror show than some other less disastrous injuries. Probably because it was such a freak thing.
Enjoy the win and your new reputation as a bonesnapper. I would.
Edit: I didn’t scream though. But that was mainly because I was too busy 1. Trying to wack my knee back into something close to what nature intended and 2. Worrying about how fucked my ski season was.
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@Smuts yeah snapped the Achilles before and that was surprisingly low on pain, just felt like someone had accidentally kicked me in the back of the leg. Have to admit I let out a scream or two a few years ago when some cuntface sucker punched me from behind on the way out of a breakdown, but I maintain that was just an effective soundtrack for the blood squirting out of my chipped eye socket. And maybe the fact I thought I'd lost my eye.
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@Bones said in Happiness Scale:
@Smuts yeah snapped the Achilles before and that was surprisingly low on pain, just felt like someone had accidentally kicked me in the back of the leg. Have to admit I let out a scream or two a few years ago when some cuntface sucker punched me from behind on the way out of a breakdown, but I maintain that was just an effective soundtrack for the blood squirting out of my chipped eye socket. And maybe the fact I thought I'd lost my eye.
You’ve always had such a way with words
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@Bones said in Happiness Scale:
@Smuts yeah snapped the Achilles before and that was surprisingly low on pain, just felt like someone had accidentally kicked me in the back of the leg. Have to admit I let out a scream or two a few years ago when some cuntface sucker punched me from behind on the way out of a breakdown, but I maintain that was just an effective soundtrack for the blood squirting my chipped eye socket. And maybe the fact I thought I'd lost my eye.
That could have been any of us.
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@Catogrande I think it was my captain
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@Catogrande said in Happiness Scale:
@Bones said in Happiness Scale:
@Catogrande I think it was my captain
My new hero.
He’s pretty clever to punch someone “from behind” and hit them in the eye I must say. He must have Inspector Gadget arms.
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@Bones said in Happiness Scale:
@Catogrande I think it was my captain
Oddly enough we did have such an altercation at my club. Scrum half was a farmer. Second row was an agronomist. You’d think they’d have something in common. Immediately post match one kicked the other in the bollocks. Yes it was the farmer, the gobshite 9. Agronomist was the captain.
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@MN5 said in Happiness Scale:
@Catogrande said in Happiness Scale:
@Bones said in Happiness Scale:
@Catogrande I think it was my captain
My new hero.
He’s pretty clever to punch someone “from behind” and hit them in the eye I must say. He must have Inspector Gadget arms.
Be happy to show ya if it's that hard to believe.
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@Bones said in Happiness Scale:
@MN5 said in Happiness Scale:
@Catogrande said in Happiness Scale:
@Bones said in Happiness Scale:
@Catogrande I think it was my captain
My new hero.
He’s pretty clever to punch someone “from behind” and hit them in the eye I must say. He must have Inspector Gadget arms.
Be happy to show ya if it's that hard to believe.
I don’t think your reach extends to New Zealand
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@MN5 said in Happiness Scale:
@Bones said in Happiness Scale:
@MN5 said in Happiness Scale:
@Catogrande said in Happiness Scale:
@Bones said in Happiness Scale:
@Catogrande I think it was my captain
My new hero.
He’s pretty clever to punch someone “from behind” and hit them in the eye I must say. He must have Inspector Gadget arms.
Be happy to show ya if it's that hard to believe.
I don’t think your reach extends to New Zealand
I have infiltrators everywhere.
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@MN5 said in Happiness Scale:
He’s pretty clever to punch someone “from behind” and hit them in the eye I must say.
Unless that someone has their head up their arse?
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@Catogrande said in Happiness Scale:
@Bones said in Happiness Scale:
@Catogrande I think it was my captain
Oddly enough we did have such an altercation at my club. Scrum half was a farmer. Second row was an agronomist. You’d think they’d have something in common. Immediately post match one kicked the other in the bollocks. Yes it was the farmer, the gobshite 9. Agronomist was the captain.
The agro-no-mist sounds like the angry one; literally, a person who gets upset when there's no fog.
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Right - so, back to trawl the collective knowledge/experience of The Fern...
- My proposed move to Vancouver has been torpedoed
- But... Seattle is now on the table, and they're getting pretty serious about it
So - Seattle... what do people know?
My own very cursory research to-date:
- Expensive, but via Sales tax rather than State-income-tax... so make big purchases out-of-state (how does that work with shit like amazon,ebay,etc?)
- Climate - Constantly overcast, except a very good two months of summer. In general - similar overall average of temperature/rainfall/sunshine compared to NZ, but much "curvier" when looking at the graphs - hotter hots, and colder colds... more seasonal differences
- 150+ breweries (I'm sure that's with plenty of bullshit padding up the numbers)
- @Smuts - you had the very fucking useful tips on the drug-scene in Vancouver being sketchy... any idea if that extends south of the border?
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Sorry @Kruse never been to Seattle.
Edit to add: one of my best mates lived in Seattle in the aughts. Worked for Microsoft and was well looked after, with no kids. But he rated the city and State. Lots of quality outdoors activity nearby and said Seattle was very livable.
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I've visited, went for 4 days with Mrs CF who had work. My impression was very positive after having no initial desire to go. Food was great, people are friendly, it was easy to get around using public transport. Went out to an island in the sound, which was lovely. I enjoyed it more than Vancouver when I went a few years later
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Cheers guys - I was starting to think the Collective-Fern-Knowledge-Base was falling down on this one.
But yeah, both @Smuts and @canefan comments gel with the anecdotal stuff I'm getting from others - but everybody has been visitors.
Interesting that a few people have mentioned "Friendly" - when there's apparently the phenomenon "the Seattle Freeze", and Washington actually rates 48th of the 50th states in "extraversion", but the Seattle Freeze sounds like it might be more relevant to people moving into the city/state, rather than visitors.
Happy to have tourists, and take their $$$, but not so happy with Johnny-come-lately types moving into their city? Fine by me, in fact - sounds perfect. Friendly people creep me out.Anyway - I'll give it a go, see what I make of it. bestbikingroads.com seems to suggest I probably won't hate it, during Summer at least. And 150 breweries should keep me busy during the long winter.
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