"This is not the opportunity for curiosity."
Now, anyone who knows anything about this surfing life has had eyes glued to wild video clips coming out of Australia’s east coast. Tropical Cyclone Alfred, due to make possible landfall in mere hours, would be the first to hit south of Brisbane since 1974. As a rare Category 2, it could pack quite the punch with extremely high winds, scary flooding, etc. Queensland premier David Crisafulli warned, “There is a chance this cyclone will cross in the middle of the night with a high tide. That is not the time to be making your evacuation plan, now is the time.”
But.
Very dreamy waves just right ahead of that aforementioned time. The sort of perfect racing right-hand barrels that have lit imaginations since Australia’s Kirra, Superbank, etc. became a thing.
Beloved surf champion and savvy businessman Mick Fanning joined a who’s who of local talent in wrangling the dreamy perfection seen here.
And here.
But things almost went horribly wrong for the three-time number one. Fanning appeared to suffer a gruesome injury that nearly popped an eyeball from its very socket.
Downplaying the severity, the platinum blonde simply shared, “Couple of stitches to go with a couple tubes. Good to go again haha.”
Well, Alfred is on schedule to kiss the Lucky Country as Thursday turns to Friday.
Brisbane Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner would like you to know that “This is not the opportunity for curiosity.”
Sensible.
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Unreal clips from Aus the last few days. Hope everyone stays safe
Big here but garbage blown out foamy slop.
Might clean up in next couple days.
I’ll prob go out for a flogging to say I tried.
live stream from the kirra lookout. looks hideous. they guys commentary is classic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HERHgdkO-w&ab_channel=MadeinAustralia
Good to see a coupla girlz get some screamerz
One would hope mick hit the ski to reset
from the footage, looks like some propah dredjahs, mite.
Though, I think the cameramen should have been at least another kilometer away from the action.
Keep an eye out for that storm, lads.
hope everyone comes out okay on the other side.
Imagine ufc showing that injury. Fuck we’re soft cunts.
gray whales in the channel giving out high fives! i am curious yellow…no sharks here, mate?
https://www.vcstar.com/videos/news/local/2024/04/04/abundant-wildlife-thrives-in-the-santa-barbara-channel/73174539007/
They’re saying up to a meter of rain in the hills. That’s nuts.
Sounds like Parliament Funkadelic meets Frank Zappa
Do y’all measure using the same meters we use north of the equator?
I’ve cut my dick worse than that Mick.
wait, Mick cut his dick too?
Hold up, I gotta injured dick story too. Ya ready? Way back in the olden days I was tending bar at Steamers in Haleiwa . You know those days when men were men, chicks were nasty hot and the coke and quaaludes were real? Well my shift started at 10pm, just after dinner service and right about when it started getting interesting. Mason and Coco’s mum would be spinning tunes in booth until 2am and that’s when things would really start getting nutz. By 11pm Frankie the bouncer had already cracked at least 3 patrons and yet the night was still young with many more hours and head slaps to go.
Anyway, I had this regular customer who I hadn’t seen in weeks so he finally comes in and orders his usual Lowenbrau beer and I says to him “Cuzzy, long time no smell”. He turns to me and said “yeah I broke my dick”. So I told him to ease up a bit and take a break. But he says “no, fo’ real, this chick broke my dick”. He explained that she was reverse cow girling him and he was digging the view when all of a sudden she wildly contorts and his dick broke. So he limps it to the doctor in grievous pain. The doc did x rays on his possibly permanent flaccid member and, whew, no extended damage. But he was under strict doctor’s orders to not get it up for at least a month. And this is where my broke dick from some chick story ends.
That’s one bad broke dick story !
Don’t really care about the broke dick story as most regular participants have one. NOW this story must be a late 70s or early 80s story before Lemmon 714s disappeared. I must ask, did you ever smoke one out of a bong mixed with Jamaican redbud?
Damn it Madeoff. You heartless bastard. Have you no sympático for braddahs with broke dicks?
I see that your decades-long and undying lust for ludes is unabated. I too feel your pain.
I cried the day they pulled them out of the market in 1986. The black market ones just weren’t the same.
Never bonged ludes but I do know that, to this day, there has never been a better leg spreader than combo quaaludes and blow.
Opu, I fear those babies these days the same way I fear blow. My final experience on ludes, paired with Cuervo and Little Kings, involved the Rush Moving Pictures tour in ’81 I believe. BUT man that was a fun night…and sweet, innocent Sonya kept me upright.
Now as for BDS or broken dick syndrome, don’t get me wrong as that is a horrible malady and I suffer with those who endure it. BUT I learned to manage the stroke to avoid that injury as down time is like lengthy flat days.
AXS TV last night. Classic Albums: Rush 2112. Ayn Rand and Peart’s lyrics. old man Tom Sawyer may have been BDSed from the screech in Ged’s singin…
before the harvest all I had was leaf and smoked it and sold a brown shopping bag to a junkie for $100 so he could stir it up into oil. never got the $ and never got the oil. broke my junk.
Sad story!
what a thread. my premier film features the Marschall Band song Can’t Ya See What That Women,etc..then correctly directing to the East of a unsigned art work of a goose. and the camera liftin up and down as if to stimulate…eggs. and then Maui and hana & maaleaa and landing at Ft. Durruessy. cone sushi. michelob, and water time. the colonel brought us there. speed freak!
BDS victim: BW?
best thing about Steamers was sitting on the the tailgate with a twelver, watching the fights in the parking lot.
Fight Club every weekend.
black beauties and china white and a one-armed gal and my buddy snoring on the sidelines while growing Kona gold in Ahualoa and no BDS and next day busted by Operation Green Harvest.
Why you and Otto both go straight to dick talk? You not straight?
Dick’s are rad! And bumholes! But totally straight to discuss!
Xox
the brits really fucked this up…they should have kept the prisoners on the island in Europe and shipped the aristocrats down under
So many of them have migrated north to the US and Europe as they struggled with the toilet water swirling the wrong direction along with being controlled by China. BUT there are days when I think about moving down there so I call one of my token Oz or NZer buddies to set me right
buying the dip??
No, I’m absolutely bored right now. Seems a little bit early with all the mayhem going on in the markets and with the geopolitical noise. But I am getting hit pretty hard by some smart people telling me to look at adding to silver, gold positions as well as the miners in that space. Not sure I’m ready yet and IF Ukraines settles out that could be a challenging bet so I sit and I wait.
candidly not sure what to make of it all. Just sitting pat for now. I’m no trump fan, obviously, but the media’s pavlovian ‘sky is falling’ response on everything is tiresome. And while I’m generally intrigued and impressed by the economists I’ve met in real life, I have next to no faith in the pronouncements of the ones who are willing to make bold declarations to news outlets. As for precious metals, really have a hard time shaking my bias built up over a lifetime of watching conspiracy theorists/tinfoil hat types preach gold.
The uncertainty is frustrating many in the capital markets and specifically with the private equity and CRE space as they try to price deals. This is in part due to the movement of the 10 year treasury which can leave a buyer exposed to higher deal costs. As for gold, I’ve always held but I’m not a sky is falling guy so I haven’t loaded up. No one has a clue where this is headed, especially economists so we wait…
Will Parko be sledding down the hill?
or punch other lads who are sledding down the hill?
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Watching the Aussie news on YouTube. They’ve ramped up the “everybody better be terrified” to category 5 levels.
Can’t blame em, if it’ll save a few lives (just before elections). They’re not fuckin around at all with this one.
Never seen dozens of different surfers get stand-up pits in macking waves, outside of Pipe, at their home break. Some of the best surfing I’ve ever seen online were in those livestreams.
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It just micked him
Crows beak?
Australia might have surpassed Brazil as claim capitol of the world with that clip.
More claims than the Tweed Valley Children’s Court
They can add that to the title of burn capitol of the world