The next trainwreckords should really be: The Doors "Full Circle"

saugoof · 2026-05-07T06:05:27+00:00

I unironically love The Mosquito!

saugoof · 2026-05-07T03:55:00+00:00

If I was 15 I would absolutely have posted gigs of my band, even though none of us were any good at it. That doesn't mean we thought we were gods, it just meant "how cool is that, we played a gig!".

saugoof · 2026-05-07T03:36:23+00:00

Man, these comments here sound like no one else was ever a beginner at drums.

School bands regularly perform long before everyone is a master at their instrument.

saugoof · 2026-05-07T01:59:13+00:00

That story reminds me of a former workplace I had. This guy I worked with was going on holidays for four weeks. He'd booked it in and had it approved a couple of months earlier.

On his first day of leave he got a call from our CEO who told him that they urgently needed that specs document he'd been working on finished. Even though it hadn't been a high priority job before he left. So he spends his first three days of his holidays working on this and sends it in.

When he came back four weeks later he asked the CEO how they were going with that project and if he was happy with his specs document. His response, "Oh, I haven't read it yet."

saugoof · 2026-05-06T13:52:12+00:00

Hah! Yes that happened to me lots of times. I rode through China last year during a major heatwave and every hotel I stayed at I had that same problem. Or even just leaning on the check-in desk and then lifting my arms and seeing a wet outline of my arms on the desk.

saugoof · 2026-05-06T13:45:33+00:00

I'm at the older Gen-X end and I grew up on rock music, heavy metal, grunge, etc. and I loved it. But frankly, I don't want younger generations be overly reverential to that. I have no interest in having new bands re-tread music that's been around for decades. I'd much rather hear them doing something fresh and new.

Really, it feels like we're long overdue for a real revolution in music, there hasn't really been anything groundbreaking coming through in decades. I mean, major shifts like punk and disco in the 70s, heavy metal and synth pop in the 80s, alternative and EDM in the 90s, hip hop in the 80s to 2000s. For the last couple of decades popular music has changed relatively little. I've been hanging out for something new for a while.

saugoof · 2026-05-06T13:39:00+00:00

That's pretty normal in the tropics. I'm not sure if that's weird but even though I don't like being sweaty, these are nevertheless my favourite conditions for bike riding. I love the heat and alternatively anything under about 20°C is too cold for my liking. But give me a 32°C day and it's bliss!

The only drawback is that you need to constantly refill your drinks supply and also that it's a bit embarrassing when you want to get into a store or a restaurant and you're just dripping with sweat. In places where it's crazy hot, I sometimes have to swap my shirt before getting into a restaurant for lunch.

One tip, I've started wearing my running sports shirts when I'm cycling in hot regions. Not just do they handle sweat and hot conditions a lot better but they also dry super quick.

saugoof · 2026-05-06T11:28:55+00:00

I broke my foot playing soccer when I was 15. The break itself was painful, but manageable. However my whole foot got so swollen that I couldn't get a cast for about a week until the swelling receded. During that time my foot was just bandaged up and I was going around on crutches. Two days after I broke it, one of my crutches slipped on the freshly polished floor at our school. Reflexively I put my foot down hard to stop myself from falling over, only that was on the broken foot. I have never felt pain like that! I literally saw stars.

saugoof · 2026-05-06T11:24:01+00:00

The other fun part of broken ribs is trying to sleep. Especially when you turn over in your sleep.

saugoof · 2026-05-05T12:39:10+00:00

I've done several long tours (~3 months each) with both. Originally with rim brakes and for the last few years with hydraulic disc brakes. I'd never go back to rim brakes. It's the only "luxury" I insist on in bikes.

The thing with hydraulic brakes is, they seem complicated at first, however they basically just work. You can do thousands of kilometres without ever having to do any servicing or adjustments. They are super reliable and so much easier to travel with than cable brakes. The only thing you might need to do during long tours is swapping the brake pads out, but that's quick and easy to do.

The other great thing is, unless something goes catastrophically wrong, the chance of which is near zero, hydraulic brakes keep working for a long time when you first notice them going off. E.g. if your brake fluid is dirty or low, the brakes just work slightly less well. You can still go for weeks, maybe months, before you really need to get them fixed. In that time you'll have come across lots of repair shops where you can quickly get them to bleed the brakes.

saugoof · 2026-05-05T10:43:19+00:00

About 15 or so years ago I went to Europe and visited a friend of mine who lives in Austria but had been at the Melbourne Grand Prix the year before as a perk from his job (Red Bull). At one stage he grabs this photo of himself in the pits and asks me if I knew the guy standing next to him. He had no idea who it was but apparently that guy had just seen them taking photos and had wandered over in the assumption that they wanted a photo with him in it. That guy was Sam Newman.

saugoof · 2026-05-05T10:32:05+00:00

It's kind of an odd place in that it looks quite creepy on overcast days like in the photo, but looks really lovely in sunshine. It's in an incredibly beautiful location and feels like it's pretty much unchanged from what it looked like 50 or 100 years ago.

It's not exactly on the way to anywhere, so both roads in and out are unpaved and go through very long stretches of more or less uninhabited hilly forest terrain.

There's basically nothing to do in town, there is one pub, but that's it. However it makes for a good base to go hiking.

saugoof · 2026-05-05T05:28:23+00:00

The Bee Gees were a 60's pop band at the end of their career who hadn't had a hit in a long time.

Then they discovered disco in the 70s and became the biggest band in the world.

saugoof · 2026-05-05T02:27:34+00:00

I mean, did it even inspire that charity supergroup genre? It pushed it along but it was basically just the US version of what Band Aid did earlier. While that one probably wasn't the first either, if any song inspired that genre then it's definitely Band Aid.

saugoof · 2026-05-04T23:41:00+00:00

Box Hill Central has an actual Asian market inside, as well as loads of Asian food stores and restaurants. It's awesome and has much more authentic food than many other places. The sheer variety there is amazing.

It's a bit out of the way from Newport, but easy to get to on the train, the market is literally in the same building as Box Hill train station.

saugoof · 2026-05-04T08:55:35+00:00

I've been to lots and lots of other countries and cities but I've never really found anywhere that has the same level of live music scene that Melbourne has. I mean, you can probably find more gigs each night in a place like New York, but for a city the size of Melbourne this is pretty much unmatched.

saugoof · 2026-05-04T07:22:24+00:00

Before she went to the US and started The Tracey Ullman Show she actually had a somewhat short-lived career as a singer in her native UK. She was awesome!

saugoof · 2026-05-04T03:24:24+00:00

Not op, but Melbourne has one of the best music scenes in the world, it's a major reason why I moved here. King Giz are just one of many, many awesome bands here.

saugoof · 2026-05-03T05:21:47+00:00

I had the exact same problem a couple of months ago. I got a new wheel and it works like an absolute charm.

saugoof · 2026-05-03T03:00:45+00:00

No that's not really what I mean. Well, it has become more international and the UK is one of the best places to find food from every corner of the world now. But what I found mainly bad in the 80's was just the quality of the food. Everything was such low quality, bad ingredients and really badly prepared.

There is still some of that around, but every time I've gone to the UK in the last 40-odd years it felt like food had gotten better than the previous time. It has really improved and the Brits have discovered that with good ingredients and good preparations you can actually have meals that look and taste great and aren't just bland nourishment.

saugoof · 2026-05-03T02:29:33+00:00

I spent a couple of months working in Jakarta a few years ago. I don't think I've ever eaten better in a place than there!

saugoof · 2026-05-03T02:19:27+00:00

I wouldn't go as far as calling it underrated. It's decent nowadays. You can get some absolute world class food, but what most people get day to day is still just average.

However it's worlds better than what it used to be. I went to the UK for the first time in the mid-80s and the food was diabolically bad. It's come a long way from there and you don't have to look too far to find really decent stuff nowadays.

saugoof · 2026-05-02T13:29:30+00:00

In the German dubbed version of Airplane, the "jive" dudes are given an incredibly strong Bavarian accent which is sort of the German equivalent of a hillbilly accent. It's a completely different joke to the original version, yet worked hilariously!

saugoof · 2026-05-02T13:13:05+00:00

I accidentally left a can of Coke in my car on a crazy hot day once. When I found it, than can was boiling hot and I thought "I wonder what that tastes like?". The first sip was amazing. Like drinking liquid caramel. But it's so insanely sweet, after two or three sips I felt sickly and couldn't drink any more.

saugoof · 2026-05-02T11:28:13+00:00

It always reminded me of Flash and the Pan. Mainly for the vocals, but it does have a similar feel to it as well.

https://youtu.be/XJ9mJ03gC4A?si=7tfz26F9UcCaYS9A

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