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  1. J

    2024 F1 Thread

    Not read about Slim withdrawing...he should and sponsor somebody else. PER been a pay driver for the last 3 years IMHO... He should wander off to commentator land on Mexican TV.
  2. J

    2024 F1 Thread

    Heard Brundle had a drive of the latest cars the other day...maybe he is making a comeback.
  3. J

    2024 F1 Thread

    "I" won, but "WE" lost... If PER stays at Red Bull I hope Horner gets a lot more coin out of Carlos Slim, to make up for losing the Constructors. It's the only reason they havent fired him. And the fact that VER doesnt want anyone as good as him as a teamate...or else they would have hired SAI...
  4. J

    2024 F1 Thread

    Late watching the race again because of Gold Coast V8's. Interesting race, some action and overtakes...legal or not. The stewards are onto it now so hopefully the stupidity will die down. TSU banzai move at the start escaped attention in all the other mess. PER has gotta go. Love the photo...
  5. J

    What was your most memorable in-flight meal?

    My most memorable both involve Vegemite. Once in Qantas J on way back from China after 3 weeks of rice and noodles, the hosty made me a vegemite sandwich and it was great. Another trip to US I think, again QF J, on way home after a few weeks without, I asked for a vegemite sandwich... she went...
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    Is Aussie Aussie Aussie an Appropriate Call in 2024?

    I get "Welcomed"... the FA literally says "Welcome to (name nobody knows)" etc. Then they acknowledge elders etc. as if they built the Airport. I have literally had tourists asking me why we landed in (name nobody knows) I wanted to go to Brisbane...
  7. J

    QANTAS Founders Museum

    QANTAS has DSC on now.... If you are not doing a "road trip" and only want to see Longreach you can fly in or train in and get tours pretty easy. Im glad Im not the only one who thinks the booking system is cough. One thing I noticed is these towns only have 4G, my phone is normally on 5G, it...
  8. J

    Is Aussie Aussie Aussie an Appropriate Call in 2024?

    Would prefer that than the Welcome to Country BS....or monitors that have words on for cities you cant even pronounce let alone know where they are.
  9. J

    QANTAS Founders Museum

    Yes I know, and informed the museum. The road is the main A2 Landsborough Highway from the East, the Hudson Fysh bit is about 2kms from the museum turnoff to the town. It is obviously a council stuff up, the sign at the town end is correct, this one is opposite the museum entrance but. The...
  10. J

    2024 F1 Thread

    To summarize Ant... And since he was ahead he can take the racing line...he went off the track and got a strike, Lando overtook outside the track and got 5 seconds. Max knows the rules, Lando could have redressed, he asked the team they said go on. If he had got 1 more second ahead he'd be the...
  11. J

    2024 F1 Thread

    Saw that...Brundle joked about it later saying he had better introduce himself properly. All 3 trophies were apparently changed as Pirelli didnt issue the fancy trophies they had designed and promoted all week when someone said they looked like some other design. The pix look like a lego man...
  12. J

    2024 F1 Thread

    Been slow to watch it all myself due to MotoGP as well...how about the wildlife! And the tear off wheelie at the start! Ant explained it all very clearly, Max was in front at the Apex, Lando overtook off the track. Both got penalties for the offence they committed. Are the rules...
  13. J

    2024 F1 Thread

    Just sack PER already and put TSU in...or better still RIC. Even LAW got to P3 in the first quali in the RB. Some Haas's up there as well. Good to see Danica back to balance out the pommy worship of HAM, though they will not have much to say today after his lack of performance.
  14. J

    A bit of humour

    Was Excited to see the Northern Lights in the Tropics the other night!
  15. J

    Slam, bam, thank you Ma’am, 48 hours in Queenstown

    "Have a Speights with ya Mates" was an ad I remember from my trips. Fergburger is always packed...even 30 years ago on my first visit.
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    Slam, bam, thank you Ma’am, 48 hours in Queenstown

    So did you do get to Fergburger? Another place I recall is Winnies, a basic pizza joint that is more of a bar after hours but the party trick is the roof opens up...so its winter and snowing, the bar is hot from people dancing and ovens etc and next minute it is snowing inside and cold. It was...
  17. J

    QANTAS Founders Museum

    In Longreach I read about a "Secret WW2 Air Base" in Charleville, it was only another 2 hours in the wrong direction but hey let's go! In WW2 when things were looking shaky in the Pacific, the US built a secret base in Charleville, it was chosen because it had a rail line, and was self...
  18. J

    QANTAS Founders Museum

    I hadnt been out there since 1988, I went to Expo 88 and drove back the inland way to see the NEW Stockmans Hall of Fame. The HOF doesnt seem to have changed one bit from memory... The recent dinosaur fossil discoveries have really kick started tourism in the Winton, Richmond, Hughenden areas...
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    QANTAS Founders Museum

    A few days later got to Brisbane and decided to find the Gresham Hotel where the first decision took place...the hotel was on the corner of Adelaide and Creek St...it was flooded badly in 1974 and demolished, a tall office building is there now. BUT just around the corner on Queen and Creek St...
  20. J

    QANTAS Founders Museum

    Longreach Cemetery the next day. These three guys were delivering a DH-86 to QANTAS from England, they landed at Longreach and were going to Brisbane, at dawn they crashed about 10 minutes from Longreach, some Kangaroo shooters were at the crash site in minutes but they all died...as well as a...
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