CureTheSane

AC/DC are one of the most overrated bands ever.

Great White are one of the most underrated.

3 hours ago, Glen said:

I guess at the end of the day he left for Sweet - am I right on that? (ie wasn't pushed?)

So this guy is an ample replacement. 

Damian is the second replacement.

And yes, he left on what appeared to be very amicable terms.

OK, so I listened to the new version, and it was good, but missing 'something' which was basically the exact sound of the original lol
My next thought was that live, Damian will be spot on, and possibly even sound better than Paul as his goal will be to sound like the originals more than Paul, as live Paul will vary and change a bit just for fun.

Then I played those two version together, lined them up and then alternated muting one at a time.
Was surprised at how close they were. Really matched well, but still all those inflections and unique voice parts changed the song a bit. Probably sounds as good as Paul could have done, as he likely wouldn't replicate them the same either.
 

3 hours ago, Glen said:

yeah those first 2 are like my fav CiS songs 

Makes you wonder if the new singer can nail them as well as the others

22 hours ago, Glen said:

not sure the songs needed re-recording but there you go. 

100% Why change perfect songs? Guarantee I won't like them more.
Assuming this was a Best of compilation, I'd be asking where the following songs are
Unicorn
Only In Vegas
Unfinished Symphony
September Rain
One Small Step
Narnia

That said, their are a lot of great songs to choose from, but would be hard to omit those...
 

On 9/10/2021 at 12:30 AM, Geoff said:

Of course I put my vote in for no-one wear masks. Unless you want to, in which case, go for your life. But at no point, ever, should they have been mandated, and now we look at a situation where they will be part of our lives for fuck know how long. Looks like forever to me, if I'm being honest.

But don't put them on kids. I keep touching on this, but what are we trying to become? If every move we make from now on is some pathetic, whimpering effort to prevent someone from possibly dying, let's just all kill ourselves now and be done with it. Problem solved, then no one can die anymore because we're already dead. 

If the stupid fucking thing doesn't affect kids, and people are vaccinated - first of all, why the fuck are vaccinated people still wearing masks? How many zeros do we have to put behind the initial 0. something chance of dying from this thing before we get on with things? But don't bring kids into it. Anyone with a child knows how much this is already fucking up their lives. My boy was layering me with questions after I read him his book tonight, about when this is ever going to end, when he can see his best friend again, if we'll ever go on holidays again. On top of that I want to know if he's ever allowed to play sport again? It's still not in the "roadmap" coming up in October when we're 70% vaccinated. Still to dangerous for a child to kick a soccer ball in a christ forsaken wide open space. And will school, for about 4 weeks, actually open on October 25th? I'm not holding my breath. It is pure fucking cruelty what this garbage is doing to kids. 

Putting a mask on a child so they might not infect person B who is vaccinated, so that person B might not pass it onto person C who is also vaccinated and seriously, when does the hideous paranoia ever end?

I keep asking myself what the point of these vaccines are because nothing about them is changing how scared everyone is of this virus. Yes, we're all slowly getting vaccinated, but we still can't do anything we couldn't do before we were vaccinated, and our upcoming "freedom" still features everything we took the vaccine to escape from. So what's the point in it all? 

Said it before, and I'll say it again. Never in my life have I understood more if and why someone chooses to take their own life in this period of time. That tunnel is completely void of any light at the end of it. 

Aside from the mask debate, which is a different argument, I'll say that if we are wearing masks to protect us from covid, and also protect us from spreading covid, then why the fuck aren't kids wearing masks?
Maybe they don't get as sick as adults, but THEY CAN STILL PASS IT ON.

Personally, I'd be a fucking lot more likely to wear a mask WHEN I'M IN A SITUATION WHERE I FEEL LIKE I SHOULD, if it wasn't mandated under fear of fines etc.
I walk the do by myself, not coming close to anyone else, and I MUST wear a mask?!?!?
 

On 9/10/2021 at 7:27 PM, Geoff said:

Interesting call, mate. There's a few dozen to chose from, but it wouldn't be my pick. But its hard to make a wrong choice. Maybe 'Cold as hell' for me? 

So many great songs...

Indie Queen
Better Off Dead
Cigarette Lighter Love Song
Cold As Hell
#27
Mrs. Jackson
You're So Yesterday
Every Monday
not to mention a killer cover of Reelin' In The Years
 

49 minutes ago, Glen said:

2. I have no real burning interest in US politics

has to be the statement of the year to date, yeah? lol

Does any country have kids in masks?

Weird to me, heaps of kids getting covid here (mostly mildly) abut passing  it on to others.
Not sure why these little fuckers aren't in masks.
Either everyone in masks or no-one in masks.

Haha, yeah, my comment was meant to be ironic.
Freedom is long gone.
It won't ever be like the UK with everything opening up quickly.
I mean we've been told here that we'll be in lockdown for at least another 2 months.
Our only hope is that Gladys decides to be a real leader, and we are compelled to follow.

1 hour ago, Darkstone said:

That show has a very loose definition of the word "Star".

Wow, what are you saying there?
They may be quite tight!

Just heard about your freedom day up there Geoff, you lucky bastard.
October 14th.

Jar Jar Ding Dong, from Will Ferrell's Eurovision movie.
Fuck me that's an addictive tune...

42 minutes ago, Darkstone said:

I think it was more to do with leaked conversations bagging co-workers and public opinion after he left his wife for a younger woman.

Never understood why people got so upset with anyone getting a divorce nd moving on with their life.

10 hours ago, Leykis101 said:

I bet Oz wouldnt mind having Howard back in the PM seat would they?

Was never a fan of his.
I have always liked strong leaders.
Paul Keating (PM) was incredible, Jeff Kennett (Victoria) was also amazing.
As I've said before, I'm pretty non partisan, the two best political leaders for me are from either side.
These days the gap between both sides is pretty slim, although lately Labor have slid back further left.
As a rule I guess I lean further to the right. If you're in business, you tend to do so.
But Howards always rubbed me the wrong way, but he turned out to be a strong(ish) leader.
The last one we've had.
 

5 hours ago, Glen said:

you'll be glad to know that I dont know Trump - well im certainly glad I don't anyway.

saying issues are personal and not related to US politics does not mean me and Trump are exchanging Christmas cards.

Strange that you would think that, but now its cleared up, you don't need to mention it anymore. 

Thanks for listening 😁👍

 

Maybe he stopped sending you Christmas cards because you come out on the internet and slam him by referring to your personal relationship with him  

These things have a tendency to go sour from time to time.
I used to have a great friendship with Obama, but he is a jealous man, constantly glaring at me when I'd chat to Michelle. I though at one point he could accept my friendship with his wife, but in the end he just severed ties, no explanation, just stopped sending Air Force One over to pick me up for a visit.
To be fair, I probably started to lose interest when he lost office, I'm a bit fickle like that. But like you, no Xmas cards  

49 minutes ago, Dead Planet said:

Wait...Australia has politicians who aren't idiots!...WTF!...you can send a few of the non-idiots to Canada...

haha, yeah.

But to be fair, generally these are smart people. They don't get there by chance.
Fair that anyone can get in if you talk the talk and sell yourself, but then to get to be a leader of a state, or in a federal cabinet, usually at least has the better pollies.

That said, that bitch Queensland leader, either unknowingly or knowingly misquoted the Doherty report for reopening.
All the other leaders kind of had to stop themselves from belittling her for being so stupid.
Worse than that, this bitch gloats about her state 'being open' with a big smirk, and has young kids not being able to be reunited with their parents because they went to visit grandparents across state lines before lockdowns and border restrictions.
Unlike Glen and Trump, I don't personally know her, so I can't say for sure that she is an absolute bitch, but everything she does sure indicates that she is.  

6 hours ago, Geoff said:

Western Australia and Tasmania apparently saying today they won't open borders until the country is 90% vaccinated. Wasn't mentioned in the story, but I assume Queensland on the same page? Good luck with that one, geniuses. 

So one of two things happen to WA and Tasmania (and other states too, I am sure of it)-

Option 1 - they live separated from the world until the sun swallows earth.

Option 2 - they realise they're complete fucking morons and join the rest of us in restricted freedom misery. 

Queensland will bail when the rest of the country opens and they get no tourism.
HOPEFULLY, they not only miss all of December, but also most of the rest of summer because people pre booked in December and didn't consider Qld.
Also the preier there is a fucking idiot. And I mean that in the true sense of the word, At least McGowan is smart. He's an asshole for sure, but he knows what he's doing, as wrong as I think it is, but at least he's not just an idiot.

19 hours ago, Glen said:

its almost guaranteed we will have to get annual jabs

 

 

Looking more like every 6 months at this point, hopefully graduates to annual.

19 hours ago, Glen said:

what grief. you disagreeing with me? 🤣

I actually don't disagree with you that much.
Its just annoying when you come out and say you're not left and then proceed to slam an ex republican president every opportunity you get.
You may not consider yourself left, but everything you say smacks of being left.
And there's nothing wrong with that.
Just annoying at times and digresses from the issue at hand (eg: Afghanistan)
It's just like a constant change of subject.

For me the Biden show has the potential to supersede the trump show.
Less entertaining, and less one liners, but I foresee a run of huge fuck ups, followed by Trump level sooking, but probably only half the trump level bad press.
 

8 hours ago, Glen said:

as I've said all along I wouldnt wish Biden and the left on anyone, but you clowns keep believing what you want.

my issues with Trump were purely personal. Now rectified 😉

Well that clears a lot up.
I did not realise you know him personally, probably should have said that and saved a lot of grief  

People who died from the black plague are looking down laughing at us and our pissy disease..

now THAT was a fucking reason to isolate.

4 hours ago, Glen said:

never said suck it up.

Just stated that living with COVID isn't all roses and that's in a country way more vaccinated than Oz. I mean the US in that statement. But same applies to the UK.

No we don't know what its like in Oz suffering with a long lockdown,  but you also don't know what its like have 1500 people die a day in your country. 

Neither is great trust me.

Your country remains locked down cos opening at your vaccination rate with the delta variant would be pretty disastrous. 

its obviously not great and mostly your government is to blame. Rollout was poor initially and then they ditched Astra due to ridiculous over reaction to a few 1/100,000 risk of a blood clot. Crazy.

 

Our big fuck up was to invest heavily in Astra.
Forget if it was legitimately problematic or not, once the press got hold of it, our govt reacted and banned its use in under 60's, but saying it wasn't safe for under 60's
That pretty much fucked our stream of vaccinations.
Like I said before, the US can thank Trump for making his accurate call on Pfizer.

So now we wait for the other vaccines to eventually arrive, so that everyone has the option to get jabbed.
To be clear, my complaints about how our governments are handling this are not especially personal.
I am very fortunate, haven't been fucked over as much as so many other businesses and people.

Right now the govt is handing out money everywhere.
It will need to be paid back, but my kids and their kids.

Even comparing my state to NSW, I bet if you overlay the graphs they match pretty well, but NSW has always been more reasonable about restrictions.
And that's the thing that is fucked, just how ridiculous some of them are.
Kids not eating of drinking in parks, of a blanket ban on removing your mask to drink alcohol because one street allowed a pub crawl. Reactionary much?

I thought this was a band my daughter liked?
But she's into a lot of alternative shit.
Maybe I have my wires crossed, because this is a great song.
Know nothing about this band.

Well no shit.

Vaccinations help combat the virus.

One thing that should be known is all day we hear politicians saying "get the jab"
What fucking jab?
My adult daughter (and all 18 to 39 year olds) became eligible to get a vaccine only a week ago.
So she tried top book and the earliest appointment was January lol

today she was sent a link from a friend and in a gap of 5 minutes, was able to book an appointment for 3 weeks from now.
My other kids also tried, but were too late, and the appointments were all gone.

So it's not really as much of an issue in the other parts of the world.
We've been so fucked over that everyone is desperate to get jabbed.
Hell, Geoff didn't want one if I remember correctly, but has it.
Pretty sure Darkstone doesn't want one, but I bet he'll get one.

I still say Australia will approach 90% vaccinated.

BUT, and I've said this before, until you've lived under these fucked up conditions, you just don't get it.

We have now been in lockdown for 212 days since the pandemic started. Add another 60 or so, and we're starting to get towards a year of full lockdown, unable to work, one person per family does tyhe shopping, one hour exercise etc

There are more people in hospital due to self harm and suicide attempts than there are for covid illnesses.
Our mental health aid agencies are crying for help. Many have stopped answering calls, literally. 
I last saw my daughter 6 weeks ago. Another 8 weeks until I will get to see her if I obey the rules. In the meantime, her grandfather, my ex-father in law, passed away, and I was not allowed to be there for her. (we are bother double jabbed)
Businesses are fucked. Especially hospitality, restaurants, and pretty much every shop that is not allowed to open (the ones the do not offer essential service)
People are losing their livelihoods.

What good opening up in December if they just go to their businesses to close them up?
No weddings, 10 people at funerals, we all know the drill, try living with it for this long.

So yeah, I get that we can't go back to NORMAL right now.
The vax rate it far too low.
But the way we are living is so destructive that the long term effects vastly outweigh the risks of weakening restrictions and partially opening.

As I've said before, nobody believes that even with 80% vax rate we will be allowed anything close to normal.
Easy to shout 'suck it up' from the UK, but how about if your government suddenly said " the hospitalisation and death rate it too high, we're going to lock down again"
How would that be?