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That's so sad.I've never seen snow.
That's so sad.
It really is, I'm 44 and still get all over excited and me and the 2 terrors I call my kids will be found with our collective noses pressed against the window looking up and waiting to see if it's snowing...
Even though someone broke the sledge last time
........ and I keep getting 'Dad we need a new sledge since your fat backside broke it...'Nice innit?
It really is, I'm 44 and still get all over excited and me and the 2 terrors I call my kids will be found with our collective noses pressed against the window looking up and waiting to see if it's snowing...
Even though someone broke the sledge last time
Nice innit?
You bring your family along when you go sledging?! Wow. That is stone cold man.. Stone cold...
Found this by the way. Sledge, sled, sleigh. Tricky:
"...A sledge is normally taken to mean ‘a carriage mounted upon runners instead of wheels, and generally used for travelling over snow or ice’. It shares its etymology and meaning with sled, a form which the OED describes as being ‘chiefly dialect and US’. It does, however, have some meanings that sledge does not have. They include ‘any of various devices made to be towed along the sea bed’ and ‘a kind of river-boat used on the Ohio’. Sleigh has the same etymology, but generally describes a sledge which can be drawn by horses..."
My head is stuck on Thors hammer when I hear the word sledge...
That's so sad.
That's true. But on the plus side, I do live 45 minutes to an hour away from this...
There is a road that runs between the beach (Surfers Paradise, Gold Coast) and the city. My grandmother owned a unit in a smallish complex just a little north of the main centre of Surfers Paradise and on that road. So, we basically just had to go downstairs and cross the road to get to that. I grew up enjoying trips to the beach many times during our school holidays.
Sorry, snow wins every time.
Sorry, snow wins every time.
I would trade my cold and wet and dark with that view in a heartbeat.
I'm migrating south with my wife on a rope when the boy leaves the nest. By the way Khelder, are you into Aussie Rules? Played it for a couple years in Copenhagen when I was a young man. Very "underground" here in Europe, but excellent fun!
Not for the faint hearted mind. [video=youtube;OqymJpIhpPY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqymJpIhpPY[/video]
Sorry, snow wins every time.
here you go...
a nice holiday snap from our visit to New York last weekendsadly this wasn't me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRv7G7WpOoU
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I don't think you want to know what I think of Americans...here you go...View attachment 98919 a nice holiday snap from our visit to New York last weekend
sadly this wasn't me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRv7G7WpOoU
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That's so sad.
In Africa for example, many have never seen the snow, and never will see it
Wait, I have ...... It's here somewhere ......no, I do really.
here it is .... Ta Da!
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By the way Khelder, are you into Aussie Rules? Played it for a couple years in Copenhagen when I was a young man. Very "underground" here in Europe, but excellent fun!
Sorry. I'm really not a fan. I prefer (to watch) a game with a bit more structure, ball control, and... brute force. I prefer Rugby League when it comes to football. And that comes with the ultimate rivalry between Queensland and New South Wales in the State of Origin (best of three matches played each year):
[video=youtube;6frCiZO1WT4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6frCiZO1WT4[/video]
How on earth did Aussie Rules take off in Denmark?!
Sorry. I'm really not a fan. I prefer (to watch) a game with a bit more structure, ball control, and... brute force. I prefer Rugby League when it comes to football. And that comes with the ultimate rivalry between Queensland and New South Wales in the State of Origin (best of three matches played each year):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6frCiZO1WT4
How on earth did Aussie Rules take off in Denmark?!
Good ol'boys I see. Some young globetrotters from NZ and OZ coupled with a very helpful Australian embassy got the ball rolling so to speak, on a very small Scandinavian league. I think we were 5 clubs in the whole of Denmark. We were North Copenhagen Barracudas.
I even made the national team in a promo game against England. Not alot of Danes to choose from... Many of the players in the league were boys from down under.Coming from soccer I really enjoyed being able to use my arms as well, and also the unknown factor of what that damn ball would do if it hit the ground... I was more of a runner than a hitter mind. Tried to avoid the worst hits. Some of those aussies and kiwis really enjoyed a good scrap. And then down to the pub for some Fosters, or any kind of beer for that matter.
Edit: Found this. Apparently still alive and kicking:
http://www.dafl.dk/
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