Interesting stuff
I'll have my people get in touch with Slaters people and see if we can find out what's up.
I wonder if he peruses the SN articles and comments.?
Ha ha that Kelly and Swellnet thing is weird, im sure you guys would have asked him some very good questions, not this throw away trash stuff above
I like Kelly and his surfing but he aint perfect he clearly has issues as we all do.
Im going with gsco theory of a bit of rebranding but freeride76 might be onto something too.
flollo wrote:
He’s back on top
https://www.instagram.com/p/CpLj1WTsgnD/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
Saw that and Twitter not dead yet either.
"Muhammad Becomes Most Popular Baby Name in Irish City
Muhammad was the most popular baby name in Galway, Ireland’s fourth-largest city, last year, the country’s government has confirmed."
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/02/27/muhammad-becomes-most-popul…
indo-dreaming wrote:
He’s back on tophttps://www.instagram.com/p/CpLj1WTsgnD/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
Saw that and Twitter not dead yet either.
Nope, not dead any time soon. And plenty of cash in the pocket to keep it running for a long time. Especially with the newly established low-cost base (as they got rid of deadwood). Although many people here want it to go bust I'm afraid it will not happen. Musk got the formula right; Twitter brings the worst out of people and it's a massive and easy dopamine hit so they won't give up on it. All he has to do to make it profitable is let it loose and maintain it at a minimum cost. He's on the right track in that regard.
gsco wrote:
Trying to improve his online content, presence and image after getting splashed across the net as a nut job conspiracy theorist and anti-vaxer etc.
Drowning out the negative publicity and content with new online content that has increased and prioritised visibility and exposure in the search engine and social media algorithms.
Speaking of algorithms...social media is definitely pushing Kelly my way. Here's another dated about week ago. I actually learned a new term...."mucoid plaque." Eeew. Skip to around 1.17 if you wanna be grossed out by Kelly's fasting info.
https://armchairexpertpod.com/pods/kelly-slater?fbclid=IwAR2sPKkGCOAigw…
https://www.kidsnews.com.au/animals/orca-duo-port-and-starboard-kill-17…
This popped up in my google feed.
goofyfoot wrote:
https://www.kidsnews.com.au/animals/orca-duo-port-and-starboard-kill-17…
This popped up in my google feed.
Goofyfoot. How’s things? Getting any of the waves of late ? Kids News, now thats my level. Interesting little article. I was looking at the percentages cast by residents, 40% wanted intervention to address the sharks deaths.WTF. Leave the biological world to itself it doesn’t need us.
Speaking of kids, your little 4 year old had a birthday in Feb. Has he or she shown any inclination towards the ocean and possibly surfing on some little device ? All the best.AW.
AlfredWallace wrote:
https://www.kidsnews.com.au/animals/orca-duo-port-and-starboard-kill-17…This popped up in my google feed.
Goofyfoot. How’s things? Getting any of the waves of late ? Kids News, now thats my level. Interesting little article. I was looking at the percentages cast by residents, 40% wanted intervention to address the sharks deaths.WTF. Leave the biological world to itself it doesn’t need us.
Speaking of kids, your little 4 year old had a birthday in Feb. Has he or she shown any inclination towards the ocean and possibly surfing on some little device ? All the best.AW.
Hey Alfred, yeah pretty full on article to have on kids news you think? Oh well, they need to learn about that stuff at some stage.
Couple of waves here and there, looking good over your side this week. Might head over Wednesday if the forecast holds up...
Yeah the young one is keen to get in the water. I'm just being mindful though of turning him off. Last time we went he got tumbled by a couple of mini white wash waves on the shore and that was the session over ha ha. Got a second hand 8 foot foamy off gumtree and he's content to just lay down on that while i push him along.
The first father & son G-land trip might be a few years off yet!
goofyfoot wrote:
https://www.kidsnews.com.au/animals/orca-duo-port-and-starboard-kill-17…This popped up in my google feed.
Goofyfoot. How’s things? Getting any of the waves of late ? Kids News, now thats my level. Interesting little article. I was looking at the percentages cast by residents, 40% wanted intervention to address the sharks deaths.WTF. Leave the biological world to itself it doesn’t need us.
Speaking of kids, your little 4 year old had a birthday in Feb. Has he or she shown any inclination towards the ocean and possibly surfing on some little device ? All the best.AW.Hey Alfred, yeah pretty full on article to have on kids news you think? Oh well, they need to learn about that stuff at some stage.
Couple of waves here and there, looking good over your side this week. Might head over Wednesday if the forecast holds up...Yeah the young one is keen to get in the water. I'm just being mindful though of turning him off. Last time we went he got tumbled by a couple of mini white wash waves on the shore and that was the session over ha ha. Got a second hand 8 foot foamy off gumtree and he's content to just lay down on that while i push him along.
The first father & son G-land trip might be a few years off yet!
Goofyfoot. Good stuff. I made the mistake of over encouraging my son who is now 21. When he was 12 or 13 and showing he could handle the ocean, with good water ability, I stupidly paddled him out to 4ft surf at 13th one day in Spring, he copped two decent set waves on the head, got rag-dolled and paddled in and argued with me the whole way home. No longer surfs, the board I’d purchased for him no longer in use so i offered to buy it back, hows that I actually forked out twice. Lesson to be learnt there ‘dad’.AW
I’ve never heard of this happening from a commercial operation. Sunny Coasters get your extra strength fruit? beer while it lasts
https://apple.news/AXgBL9bNDT5GYSs4SWYkSAQ
Someone ought to do us all a favour and recall every disgusting fruit beer produced in this country. I’d rather drink warm vb
seeds wrote:I’ve never heard of this happening from a commercial operation. Sunny Coasters get your extra strength fruit? beer while it lasts
Had a beer with my son at the pub yesterday arvo while we waited for a towie. He orders a schooey of Matsos mango beer. Oh the shame. To add insult to injury I paid for it.
seeds wrote:
I’ve never heard of this happening from a commercial operation. Sunny Coasters get your extra strength fruit? beer while it lasts
Who needs extra strength fruit beer when you can get this now?
https://www.drinkstrade.com.au/victoria-bitter-goes-extra
How's this for extra strength?
Too tough to ever be recalled seeds. It's the essence of the West.
icandig that is funny.
VJ I’ve never had an Emu Export. Are they any good? Here in Queensland it astounds me how popular Great Northern beer has become. It is seriously the pits. I rather drink hot VB, as Durutti said, than that insipid swill.
Emu bitter is on par with VB it’s definitely an acquired taste as is EE .
Mate up here loves his Melbourne Bitter. I stick to Coopers geen red or stout. Don’t mind an Asahi or Singha when at a restaurant.
Knock a few reds back all arvo huh Seeds.
That why you were creeping around stalking me on here yesterday?
Those reds do pack a punch and can make crew pretty obnoxious...and weird.
Maybe time for a break...or stick to the mids.
udo wrote:
https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/travel-stories/french-bac…
Nice! I agree with this, I know a lot of Europeans who come here and absolutely love it.
udo wrote:
https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/travel-stories/french-bac…
Looks like he is spending a lot of time pulling cones. Not sure how reliable the $15k is.
Yeah adding up the going rate and 50 hours a week = 16k earnt.
So only spent 1k on living expenses in 3 months? That's $333 a week and he said he paid rent with his misses of $300. So maybe split, leaves $150 a week to live off..
blackers wrote:
https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/travel-stories/french-bac…Looks like he is spending a lot of time pulling cones. Not sure how reliable the $15k is.
Yeah tell the frog he's dreaming.
Said he pays rent and has a car. What does that run on , sunshine and rainbows, and how much did that set him back? And if he's renting he must also be paying for his own food. Doesn't remotely add up.
I think he's just farting in our general direction.
I did a month on $250 + bills probably around 4-5 years ago. My wife and kids left to visit my in-laws so I was solo. I wanted to test myself to see how frugal I can go. I could do it again although I would need more than that as things got more expensive. But not too much though, I reckon I could pull it off with $350-$400-ish.
Minimum wage is $21.38
Casual loading is +25% = 26.72 per hour
x 50hrs = $ 1336.25
12 weeks @ 1336.25 = $16035
And he says he saved $15000
He hasn’t mentioned his tax yet
I would guess he has a hot partner who can get paid well for ending things happily and he gets to keep most of his $16000 -less tax
Or maybe he’s scyting about making only
$1500
When i was younger i worked as a landscape gardener was only getting $17 a hour from memory about 30K a year, for about a year i tried to be as frugral as possible, no drinking, no eating out, not even buying lunch, lived alone in a caravan in a caravan park, i saved about 17K (from memory just over a year) the money was what got me into the real estate market.
eat-your-vegies wrote:
Minimum wage is $21.38
Casual loading is +25% = 26.72 per hour
x 50hrs = $ 1336.25
12 weeks @ 1336.25 = $16035
And he says he saved $15000
He hasn’t mentioned his tax yet
I would guess he has a hot partner who can get paid well for ending things happily and he gets to keep most of his $16000 -less tax
Or maybe he’s scyting about making only
$1500
Did he say how much he's earning? I didn't actually see it anywhere.
Isn’t fruit picking paid by how much you pick ? Edit ………my mistake I see now he was earning minimum wage.
This is a great read, making the case for the closest parallel to the current Russia-Ukraine War being the Crimean war of the 1850s, and that Putins goal was to defer EU transition away from fossil fuels. I feel like the author covers a lot of really useful historical parallels, but then doesn’t really nail the link to his conclusion re energy dependency. But it’s a good read for history nerds.
https://carnegieendowment.org/politika/89261
udo wrote:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-03-20/alby-mangels-travel-documentary-…
Hero of mine growing up.
What a life well lived...
yeah, me and my brothers absolutely loved his shows, and all those 'gorgeous chicks' he had alongside him at different times. It was fantastic stuff, and it further inspired a growing sense of adventure in me. We'd go on day treks up creek systems, just exploring and looking for some mischief, regularly quoting Alby on the way. Thanks Alby
Alby Mangel. Legend.
Ahead of his time. Insta-recorded his travels and became an influencer.
Imagine how cool it would be if you rocked up to some little island searching for waves and old Alby (now Jim) was living there, fark that would be the dream..
Loved those movies as a kid, Harry Buttler and the Leyland brothers, were cool, but Alby he was the man.
Loved watching him when I was a kid.
Sounds like he had a fucken rough childhood. I’m sure his Mum would be stoked with what he achieved.
Legend.
I often wondered if Alby was inspired by the 60’s show “adventures in paradise” . It’s a show we were all glued to as kids…
Sorry Optimist
You went down the complete opposite road to Alby.
This has to be a beat up. Look at the photo.
https://apple.news/AJJfuFn9NRBGopuskF_MN1w
Interesting: solar storm, maybe some Aurora Australis for us southerners:
https://www.sws.bom.gov.au/Aurora
https://www.sws.bom.gov.au/Solar/1/4
Currently reading KP7, which might get to Victoria. Has been occuring today, maybe to continue into the night.
https://7news.com.au/technology/massive-solar-storm-due-to-hit-earth-sp…
Has Surf Aids Byron Bay changed Ownership and are they still operating...
Does anyone know?... Freeride ?
Yew! Bronte McCaulay just took out her 2nd Surfest.
W.A legend!
Would love to see her get back on tour and see her at Pipe and Chopes.
One of oz's most underrated surfers in my opinion.
I've seen some crazy dash cam shit but this one's a beauty.
Lucky the boards weren't on the roof.
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Have it cunts