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It may be Good Friday, but it feels like Saturday (as does every Good Friday). And the congested Easter weekend fixture list is now only the one Premiership game. Back even up to a few years ago, the team that did the best over the Easter weekend won the league.

Oh how I miss that. Still, Southend played today - and lost. The play-offs are looking a bit distant now.
 
I have to admit, I did think the play-offs was a goal too far for them - but there is still a few games to go so it could still happen.
 
The whole English football league thing confuses me.  I think I have some of the basics down, but overall...it's weird.
 
Everything confuses me.  So I just shrug and turn up the music.

Whats going on today around the world of Maiden fans?
 
Wasted CLV said:
Everything confuses me.  So I just shrug and turn up the music.

Whats going on today around the world of Maiden fans?
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I translated this from Norwegian:


METAL FAIRY TALES!

Scenario:

A princess is held captive in a castle by a Dragon.

POWER METAL:

The Hero comes riding in on a unicorn, sneaking past the dragon, rescues the princess and makes love with her in the Magical Forest...

TRASH METAL:

The Hero comes, fights the dragon, fucks the princess.

HEAVY METAL:

The Hero comes riding in on a Harley, Kills the dragon, drink a couple of beers and fucks the princess.

FOLK METAL:

The Hero comes with a lot of friends, playing flutes and a whole bunch of wacky instruments. The dragon falls asleep (from all the dancing), everyone goes home without the princess.

VIKING METAL:

The Hero comes in a viking ship, and slays the dragon with an Axe, skins it and eats it. He then rapes the princess, pillage and burns the castle before sailing home.

DEATH METAL:

The Hero comes, kills the dragon, kills the princess, goes home.

BLACK METAL:

The Hero comes at midnight, kills the dragon and crucify it in front of the castle. He then rapes and kills the princess, drink her blood, before crucifying her next to the dragon and walking away.

GORE METAL:

The Hero comes, kills the dragon and tosses the intestines around. He then fucks the princess and kills her. her then fucks her again, light her corps on fire and fucks her a third time.

DOOM METAL:

The Hero comes, sees the dragon and says "Fuck... I can't beat that", becomes depressed and commit suicide. The dragon eats the Hero and the princess.

GRUNGE METAL:

The hero comes, makes the dragon depressed, and OD's in the princesses chamber after three days.

LOVE METAL:

The Hero comes riding in on a white horse, singing "Myyyyyyyyy Truuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuue Looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooove". the dragon flees. The Hero rescues the princess and lights a cigarette, but dies on the way home from a broken heart.

PROGRESSIVE METAL:

The Hero comes and play a 26 minutes long guitar solo. the dragon kills himself out of boredom. The Hero enters the princesses chamber and plays another 26 minutes guitar solo. The princess runs away in search of the Heavy Metal Hero.

GLAM METAL:

The Hero comes. The dragon drops over from laughter upon seeing his outfit and make-up, and simply lets him walk on by. the Hero enters the princesses chamber, steals her make-up, before painting the castle pink with nail polish.

NU METAL:

The Hero comes in a car. He fights the dragon, but dies when he gets tangled up in those ridiculously wide clothes he's wearing. The princess takes part in a reality show.





...AND THEY ALL LIVED HAPPILY EVER AFTER...

:lol: :lol: :lol:
 
It's Easter time. I'm with my family tomorrow and on Monday, celebrating chocolate rabbits and coloured eggs. And on Tuesday, school starts again. Looks like I'm not taking Russian next semester, but Hebrew. And I've already got most courses for the winter semester 2009/10 planned.

The other day, I sent a friend of mine a message asking her if she's ready for her exam (she missed the initial one which I already took, and therefore has to take a make-up test). A minute later, she called me, panic-stricken and asked me what I meant. I had to explain to her that she's got an exam coming up for her.

As for today, I got a phone call from the ex-boyfriend of a friend of mine who might be in town tonight and in that case asked me if I wanted to have a beer with him. And the details are even more complicated than that.

And I'm done with the first chapter of the Aeneid.

Funny world.
 
Per, sometimes you seem to have the most organized and most complicated life of anyone I know...  ;) (I say that in jest towards you).

Hope the weekend goes well for you!
 
My life is as well-organised as an Italian garage.  :bigsmile: Sometimes I'm amazed at how sane I still am...

The weekend will be fine though, family meetings are always very... relaxing. Hope yours will be good too!

BTW, don't be surprised if I'm going to ask you some motorcycle-related questions in the next couple of days.
 
I will happily answer any motorcycle questions!!  God, I gotta be good for something  :P

Yeah, the weekend will be pretty good...going to dinner and a 'garage band' tonite.  Tomorrow will be a late-rising morning, but I get my kids for the evening, so it'll a good time all the way around!

(ps-- glad you are sane!)
 
Wasted CLV said:
I will happily answer any motorcycle questions!!  God, I gotta be good for something  :P
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Good, just give me some days so I can make them sound less stupid. ;)

Yeah, the weekend will be pretty good...going to dinner and a 'garage band' tonite.  Tomorrow will be a late-rising morning, but I get my kids for the evening, so it'll a good time all the way around!
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Sounds great! Time with the kids is always well spent. :)

(ps-- glad you are sane!)
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"In a world gone mad, only a lunatic is truly insane."
 
Perun said:
Good, just give me some days so I can make them sound less stupid. ;)
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Dude, seriously, I spend all day filtering through peoples questions to find out what they really want to know (more on that later)... no worries at all, mate!

Sounds great! Time with the kids is always well spent. :)
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yeah, they are always fun... and the kids are all excited cause our litter of puppies is old enough to be fun and playful... (anyone need a puppy? --ha ha)

"In a world gone mad, only a lunatic is truly insane."
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Amen!

So... I was just thinking today how much fun this bike shop job can be.  Lots of days, it seems as I'm the 'walmart guy', just pushing parts across for cash.  but other days, when its a little slower, i can be the 'bike shop guy', answer questions, take time to really work with guys and girls that wanna ride and have lots of questions about bikes... send them in the right direction to get the most out of it all-- those days i remember how much fun this all is!  (today has been a good day)

-- tho, interesting note-- yesterday, one of the guys took a 'fake' $50-- weird, cause it wasn't even on 'real' paper, it was clearly a photocopy... but first fake bill i've ever seen.
 
LooseCannon said:
The whole English football league thing confuses me.  I think I have some of the basics down, but overall...it's weird.
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Weird? Perhaps because I follow it, it's not so confusing to me.

However, when the play-offs came into play, that used to confuse me - initially, I had no idea how they worked. An idea they borrowed from Ice Hockey, I think (I could be totally wrong here).

Now, the Scottish league has it's own quirky rules like when the league gets down to the remaining last 5 games, the table is spilt in half and no team from the upper half can fall into the lower half (and vice-versa) despite what points they get overall - so a team that finishes 6th can have less points than a team that finishes 7th and still be 6th. Now that is weird! That said, I do see the logic in why they do this. From wiki:

Wiki - The most reliable source of information on the planet said:
During the course of a season, which runs from August until May, each club plays the others at least three times, either once at home and twice away or vice-versa. After this first phase of matches, by which time all clubs will have played 33 games, the league splits into a 'top six' and a 'bottom six'. Each club then plays a further five matches against the other five teams in their own section. Points achieved during the first phase of 33 matches are carried forward to the second phase, but the teams will compete only within their own sections during the second phase. After the first phase has been completed, clubs cannot move outwith their own section in the league, even if they achieve more or fewer points than a higher or lower ranked team, respectively.
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I do find those Scottish league rules very weird.

In my own match this afternoon, I was moved into Centre Back, and took a real onslaught (I blame the midfield). Plus it turns out my pulled quad in my right leg from two weeks ago hadn't recovered fully, I also picked up a calf strain in that leg, and the left leg is covered with some huge cuts and bruises. I'm in so much pain right now, time for a few beers I think.
 
One of Homer's finest quotes. :D
In other lame news, I played to my wife the Dickinson v Halford vid on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtlxsR85d9Q

Now, while she admits that old Rob is a good vocalist, she still maintains that Bruce is in a different league (no, she's no a Maiden fan in the slightest - just admires Bruce's vocals). Played back to back, I have to say Bruce does win.
 
Monday!!

I survived the weekend!  almost wanted to kill a few people, saw a good band drank some beers, all in all, a good time!
 
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