TV Serieseseses
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@salacious-crumb said in TV Serieseseses:
@salacious-crumb said in TV Serieseseses:
The Flair one was successful enough ESPN have already greenlit a 30-For-30 about Andre (in-production).
I mighta had my wires crossed. There actually is a new Andre the Giant documentary, it’s out April on HBO (not ESPN), and advance word is it’s awesome. Here’s the trailer:
What a legend. Amazing drinker.
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@taniwharugby said in TV Serieseseses:
@mn5 drinking, what's the story there, not sure I've heard it mentioned before
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@taniwharugby said in TV Serieseseses:
@mn5 drinking, what's the story there, not sure I've heard it mentioned before
I thought he was teetotal.
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@bones said in TV Serieseseses:
@taniwharugby said in TV Serieseseses:
@mn5 drinking, what's the story there, not sure I've heard it mentioned before
I thought he was teetotal.
He is now
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@mn5 said in TV Serieseseses:
@taniwharugby said in TV Serieseseses:
@mn5 drinking, what's the story there, not sure I've heard it mentioned before
Puts David Boon to shame.
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@crucial said in TV Serieseseses:
@mn5 said in TV Serieseseses:
@taniwharugby said in TV Serieseseses:
@mn5 drinking, what's the story there, not sure I've heard it mentioned before
Puts David Boon to shame.
On a pound for pound basis Boony is at least respectable I suppose, what was his exact tally?
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FYI I was being sarcastic... @MN5 mentions that almost as much as the legend of Charlie Ngatai!
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@mn5 said in TV Serieseseses:
@crucial said in TV Serieseseses:
@mn5 said in TV Serieseseses:
@taniwharugby said in TV Serieseseses:
@mn5 drinking, what's the story there, not sure I've heard it mentioned before
Puts David Boon to shame.
On a pound for pound basis Boony is at least respectable I suppose, what was his exact tally?
On the way to London? 52 cans. I only remember because it is one for each week of the year and it is seriously questionable.
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@snowy said in TV Serieseseses:
@mn5 said in TV Serieseseses:
@crucial said in TV Serieseseses:
@mn5 said in TV Serieseseses:
@taniwharugby said in TV Serieseseses:
@mn5 drinking, what's the story there, not sure I've heard it mentioned before
Puts David Boon to shame.
On a pound for pound basis Boony is at least respectable I suppose, what was his exact tally?
On the way to London? 52 cans. I only remember because it is one for each week of the year and it is seriously questionable.
i call bullshit! on my last flight they had run out of Heineken AND shiraz by the end of dinner service. 2 drinks is getting harder and harder.
Yea fuck seriously MN5, everyone in the world has heard of Andre's drinking. Shut the hell up. That said, sounds like Flair put away and absolute fuckload himself.
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@mariner4life said in TV Serieseseses:
i call bullshit! on my last flight they had run out of Heineken AND shiraz by the end of dinner service.
Yep, #metoo.
I have worked several AKL-HKG flights just before the sevens and advised extra "catering" would be required. We got some extra but still ran out. One guy doing 52 even with a stop in Singapore meant that the other 350ish people drank fucking nothing. Another myth busted I reckon.
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David Boon scored 21 Test hundreds, including seven against England, but he also may (or may not) have posted the most famous half century of all.
While Boon has always refused to talk about it, several teammates swear he downed 52 beers on the way to the 1989 series, breaking a record of 44 set by Doug Walters and Rod Marsh on earlier tours.
While Boon has said that reports of his record were "a Hans Christian Andersen fairytale", that’s not the way Geoff Lawson and Dean Jones remember it.
Lawson says he was keeping score on airline sickbags and Jones claims to have paced Boon through 22 beers, just the other side of Singapore.
Jones says he went upstairs and fell asleep, waking to loud applause and the announcement from the plane’s captain that Boon had reached 52.
"I know there are plenty of stories flying around about me that have been greatly embellished over the years," Boon said back in 2006.
"But that’s how it is… we played our cricket in an era where blokes learned never to let the truth get in the way of a good story."
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@nepia said in TV Serieseseses:
I opened this thinking it was the TV thread.
Edit: Did the emoji's disappear with the update?
piss of Stargazer. You Shield Snorters boys are all the same
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I want it to be true. So much. I love the nostalgia of what cricket used to be like. Or at least, what we are led to believe it used to be like. A simpler time, when our athletes were also piss rats. And airlines cared more about the comfort of their guests, and their ability to get wankered on a long-haul, than their bottom lines.
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@virgil said in TV Serieseseses:
Love that it was announced by the planes captain that booney had broken the record.
If that happened these days the flight crew would be sacked and we wouldn’t hear the end of it.Yea but the "crap from Stuff" thread would be great fun for about a week. Think of the outrage articles
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@mariner4life said in TV Serieseseses:
And airlines cared more about the comfort of their guests, and their ability to get wankered on a long-haul, than their bottom lines.
Ah yes. Hot women used to be able to sit on the jump seat (not a euphemism) and not hidden away behind a bullet proof door. When you asked for a beer (as a passenger) they gave you a six pack because they couldn't be bothered coming back to you every 5 mins, just every 30. As for airline's bottom lines - that is why the fun went out of the flying job and the world is screaming for pilots to take them places. Supply and demand is pushing salaries up nicely though.
As for the PA - I would have done it back then too (and delivered a tequila shot to the fat prick).