The totally off-topic thread

[amaroo]

Am currently watching television in Chicago and am so glad Australia basically forbids advertising medicine.

I have seen advertisements for conditions I doubt I could even mention here! The list of potential side effects should put people off but I guess the drug companies reckon they're covered and the money is too good to really care.

I've always found the Germans have the best TV ads

 

[Flashback]

Yes but no where near as good as those in the USA.
And today in Luton there is this funny blue stuff above our heads!

I would concur on that point! Lovely day.

 

[Mal]

Yes but no where near as good as those in the USA.
And today in Luton there is this funny blue stuff above our heads!

Ugh. Reticulated blue water from a plane?

Rome is beautiful today. 18 ° an a clear day. Unfortunately we are stuck on the runway (and have been for at least the last 10 mins) as a punishment for arriving early

 

[amaroo]

I must be getting old!

Bought a pushie today. Geez, I've forgotten how good riding a bike can be....

 

[markis10]

I must be getting old!

Bought a pushie today. Geez, I've forgotten how good riding a bike can be....

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Hope yours came with pedals! Probably not a good time to mention cycling is a lot more dangerous than frequent flying.


Fatalities per million hours
Sky diving
128.71
General aviation
15.58
On-road motorcycling
8.80
Scuba diving
1.98
Living (all causes of death)
1.53
Swimming
1.07
Snowmobiling
0.88
Passenger cars
0.47
Water skiing
0.28
Bicycling
0.26
Safer Flying (scheduled domestic airlines)
0.15
Hunting
0.08
Cosmic radiation from transcontinental flights
0.035
Home living (active)
0.027
Traveling in a school bus
0.022
Passenger car post-collision fire
0.017
Home living (including sleeping)
0.014
Residential fire
0.003

 

[amaroo]

Bugger. I swim too :shock:

 

[jetlagger]

I must be getting old!

Bought a pushie today. Geez, I've forgotten how good riding a bike can be....

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Is that an electric one?

 

[straitman]

Just been watching Sunday Night. Good to see that Dick Smith is big noting and spreading BS as usual :!:

 

[amaroo]

Is that an electric one?

LOL - maybe I should've got one of them No, It's old school "with" pedals....

 

[markis10]

Bugger. I swim too :shock:

Lifes short play hard, I cycled tonight.

 

[Cruiser Elite]

Bought a pushie today. Geez, I've forgotten how good riding a bike can be....

Giant Roam XR - perfect bike to add a Hurricane Conversion Kit -
The Electric Bicycle Co : Australia's best electric bicycle and electric bike manufacturer - now that would be clever!

 

[JessicaTam]

So are my chances of surviving skydiving improved if I wear scuba gear and land on a school bus? :shock:

 

[drross]

Probably depends on wether you're riding a motorbike or a ski-do at the time.

 

[JohnM]

LOL - maybe I should've got one of them No, It's old school "with" pedals....

It doesn't have any pedals in the picture .

 

[amaroo]

It doesn't have any pedals in the picture .

Optional extra! After much thought - I decided on the pedals and left the lycra on the shelf

 

[Flashback]

I must be getting old!

Bought a pushie today. Geez, I've forgotten how good riding a bike can be....

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Very similar to mine .. except mine has pedals :mrgreen:

 

[Rox]

http://www.jokelibrary.net/xOtherAtoM/b_to_e/bicycle-shorts1.jpg
http://www.jokelibrary.net/xOtherAtoM/b_to_e/bicycle-shorts2.jpg


Before you are tempted to invest in Lycra, google "why bicycle shorts are always black"

 

[TheEmu]

So are my chances of surviving skydiving improved if I wear scuba gear and land on a school bus? :shock:

Wearing a parachute would also help considerably.
Please post a photo before you take off...

 

[SeatBackForward]

So are my chances of surviving skydiving improved if I wear scuba gear and land on a school bus? :shock:

I thought it was a cat with a piece of buttered toast that helped?

 

[Pushka]

I don't like mamils.

Matt Shirvington was another to watch.