Shuff's General Chat Thread ... #73 - Talk about anything and everything...  

In my opinion,anything you can bet on is fixed in one way or another.

I personally believe Pacman won the fight.

there was a bloke that did that years back mudbutton, as i remember, he sold advertising space on the bottom of his shoes.

:lol:

there was a bloke that did that years back mudbutton, as i remember, he sold advertising space on the bottom of his shoes.

Might be a good way for me to earn a bit of extra revenue when I go to the pub,earning money while I'm sleeping it off

Edit;Which has made me think I don't think I've been in a club or pub for over five years

i think i need to lift my headlight aim now.. noticed the other night the beam distance is noticeabley shorter since its been lowered.

Might be a good way for me to earn a bit of extra revenue when I go to the pub,earning money while I'm sleeping it off

Edit;Which has made me think I don't think I've been in a club or pub for over five years

Apparent alcohol consumption in Australia peaked in 1974-75, at 13.1 litres per person, and then fell away.

It began to rise again in the middle of the last decade, but has been on the decline for six consecutive years, due to factors ranging from health concerns and personal circumstances to price and personal safety.

i think i need to lift my headlight aim now.. noticed the other night the beam distance is noticeabley shorter since its been lowered.

does it have a a little dial which makes the headlight tilt up and down anywhere in the car?

does it have a a little dial which makes the headlight tilt up and down anywhere in the car?

HOT CHOCOLATE'S ERROL BROWN DIES AGED 71

Hot Chocolate frontman Errol Brown has died at his home in the Bahamas, aged 71, his manager Phil Dale has confirmed.

The musician - who had suffered from liver cancer in recent years - passed away earlier on Wednesday at his home in the Bahamas, his manager Phil Dale has confirmed.

Phil described Brown as "a wonderful gentleman" and added: "There was always music around wherever he was. I've been with him in the middle of Australia and he has got an idea for a song and started writing."

The star had a string of hits with the band throughout the 1970s and '80s, with tracks such as 'You Sexy Thing', 'Every 1's a Winner' and 'So You Win Again' charting in over 50 countries.

Errol was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for services to popular music for the United Kingdom in 2003, and later went on to receive an Ivor Novello Award for outstanding contributions to British music the following year.

The frontman - who also had hits with 'Emma' and 'It Started with a Kiss' - completed a farewell tour in 2009, and admitted at the time he felt his time had come to retire because he was "losing energy".

He said: "I just feel it's time now. I'm losing energy.

"Now in my life I feel I've done my thing, and I don't want to come out half-heartedly. It's time."

Following the tour, Errol thanked his fans for their support by saying the love he felt at the string of shows would stay in his "heart forever".

He wrote: "I would like to thank you for coming out in large numbers right across the UK to once again show your love and support.

"The atmosphere at the concerts were the best ever and you played your part in making me realise just how wrong it would have been to have just drifted away and not say goodbye. The love I felt at each concert will stay in my heart forever. I wish you love peace and happiness in your lives. Love You, Errol x (sic)."

A Current Affair host Tracy Grimshaw flown to Westmead Hospital by CareFlight after horse riding accident

POPULAR television presenter Tracy Grimshaw was flown to Westmead Hospital after a horse riding accident at a property in Sydney’s northwest this morning.

A CareFlight helicopter landed on a property in Arcadia believed to belong to Grimshaw after it was reported a woman in her fifties was thrown from a horse at around 10.25am on Thursday.

It is believed she was unconscious for around 15 minutes after the accident, which was caused when the horse was spooked by a lawnmower.

The 54-year-old host of Channel 9’s A Current Affair is an avid horse rider and was wearing a helmet

The helicopter reportedly arrived within seven minutes and was closely followed by NSW Ambulance paramedics and NSW police.

CareFlight’s specialist trauma doctor provided initial treatment to ensure she was in a stable condition.

Nine Network confirmed Grimshaw would not host tonight’s program.

A Nine spokesman said: “Tracy had a horse-riding accident this morning and was taken to hospital by CareFlight.

“She is fine, but still under observation.

“The ACA team and everyone at Nine wish her a speedy recovery.”

Cameron Williams is understood to be standing in as host for A Current Affair tonight.

Grimshaw first joined the network in 1981 reporting for National Nine News in Melbourne moving on to present the channel’s morning news in 1985.

She co-hosted the Today show with Steve Liebmann from 1996 to 2005 before taking up her present position with A Current Affair in 2006.

One Horsepower takes out Grimshaw

One Horsepower takes out Grimshaw

no more modifying slav?

So much for professional courtesy, they will have to call in the stewards

James Garner, Witty, Handsome Leading Man, Dies at 86

James Garner, the wry and handsome leading man who slid seamlessly between television and the movies but was best known as the amiable gambler Bret Maverick in the 1950s western “Maverick” and the cranky sleuth Jim Rockford in the 1970s series “The Rockford Files,” died on Saturday night at his home in Los Angeles. He was 86.

His publicist, Jennifer Allen, said he died of natural causes.

He was a genuine star but as an actor something of a paradox: a lantern-jawed, brawny athlete whose physical appeal was both enhanced and undercut by a disarming wit. He appeared in more than 50 films, many of them dramas — but, as he established in one of his notable early performances, as a battle-shy naval officer in “The Americanization of Emily” (1964) and had shown before that in “Maverick” — he was most at home as an iconoclast, a flawed or unlikely hero.

An understated comic actor, he was especially adept at conveying life’s tiny bedevilments. One of his most memorable roles was as a perpetually flummoxed pitchman for Polaroid cameras in the late 1970s and early 1980s, in droll commercials in which he played a vexed husband and Mariette Hartley played his needling wife. They were so persuasive that Ms. Hartley had a shirt printed with the declaration “I am not Mrs. James Garner.”

His one Academy Award nomination was for the 1985 romantic comedy “Murphy’s Romance,” in which he played a small-town druggist who woos the new-in-town divorced mom (Sally Field) with a mixture of self-reliance, grouchy charm and lack of sympathy for fools.

Even Rockford, a semi-tough ex-con (he had served five years on a bum rap for armed robbery) who lived in a beat-up trailer in a Malibu beach parking lot, drove a Pontiac Firebird and could handle himself in a fight (though he probably took more punches than he gave), was exasperated most of the time by one thing or another: his money problems, the penchant of his father (Noah Beery Jr.) for getting into trouble or getting in the way, the hustles of his con-artist pal Angel (Stuart Margolin), his dicey relationship with the local police.

“Maverick” had been in part a sendup of the conventional western drama, and “The Rockford Files” similarly made fun of the standard television detective, the man’s man who upholds law and order and has everything under control. A sucker for a pretty girl and with a distinctly ‘70s fashion sense — he favored loud houndstooth jackets — Rockford was perpetually wandering into threatening situations in which he ended up pursued by criminal goons or corrupt cops. He tried, mostly successfully, to steer clear of using guns; instead, a bit of a con artist himself, he relied on impersonations and other ruses — and high-speed driving skills.

Mr. Garner on screen with Julie Andrews in “The Americanization of Emily” (1964). Credit Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, via Photofest
Every episode of the show, which ran from 1974 to 1980 and more often than not involved at least one car chase and Rockford’s getting beaten up a time or two, began with a distinctive theme song featuring a synthesizer and a blues harmonica and a message coming in on a newfangled gadget — Rockford’s telephone answering machine — that underscored his unheroic existence: “Jim, this is Norma at the market. It bounced. Do you want us to tear it up, send it back or put it with the others?”

In his 2011 autobiography, “The Garner Files,” written with Jon Winokur, Mr. Garner confessed to having a live-and-let-live attitude with the caveat that when he was pushed, he shoved back. What distinguished his performance as Rockford was how well that more-put-upon-than-macho persona came across. Rockford’s reactions — startled, nonplused and annoyed being his specialties — appeared native to him.

His naturalness led John J. O’Connor, writing in The New York Times, to liken Mr. Garner to Gary Cooper and James Stewart. And like those two actors, Mr. Garner usually got the girl.

Mr. Garner came to acting late, and by accident. On his own after the age of 14 and a bit of a drifter, he had been working an endless series of jobs: telephone installer, oil field roughneck, chauffeur, dishwasher, janitor, lifeguard, grocery clerk, salesman and, fatefully, gas station attendant. While pumping gas in Los Angeles, he met a young man named Paul Gregory, who was working nearby as a soda jerk but wanted to be an agent.

Years later, after Mr. Garner had served in the Army during the Korean War — he was wounded in action twice, earning two Purple Hearts — he was working as a carpet layer in Los Angeles for a business run by his father. One afternoon he was driving on La Cienega Boulevard and saw a sign: Paul Gregory & Associates. Just then a car pulled out of a space in front of the building, and Mr. Garner, on a whim, pulled in. He was 25.

Mr. Gregory, by then an agent and a theatrical producer, hired him for a nonspeaking part in his production of Herman Wouk’s “The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial,” which starred Henry Fonda, John Hodiak and Lloyd Nolan. It opened in Santa Barbara and toured the country before going to Broadway, where it opened in January 1954 and ran for 415 performances. Mr. Garner said he learned to act from running lines with the stars and watching them perform, especially Fonda, another good-looking actor with a sly streak.

why was the nag on a horse would be the first question.

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that guys got at least 3 accounts imo muddy, you see the same 'people' bumping his wanted thread all the time

that guys got at least 3 accounts imo muddy, you see the same 'people' bumping his wanted thread all the time

I've no idea why this appeared on this thread. I was going to post something toxic but changed my mind.

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