The totally off-topic thread

[erkpod]

Which is good in theory and there is definitely a blast of air as trains arrive at and leave the station, but during the 7 minutes between trains it is oppressively still. (at least for my adelaide dry heat acclimatised body.

If there was cooler air in the tunnels, that would help. But sometimes it gets that bad that it is bad regardless.

I remember the day in January that reached 46°C in Sydney. That must have been an awful day. Lucky for me, I was on my way to New Orleans in an Amtrak sleeper.

On that day, people I knew were saying that every non air conditioned train should have been canceled. But if you remove 30% of the trains (as it was at the time) on a Friday afternoon peak, then what?

 

[erkpod]

The best game of Marco Polo I ever had was at Peer Support camp prior to becoming a Peer Support leader in year 11 at high school.

It's probably not going to happen tonight at the MEL drinks...

 

[medhead]

If there was cooler air in the tunnels, that would help. But sometimes it gets that bad that it is bad regardless.

I remember the day in January that reached 46°C in Sydney. That must have been an awful day. Lucky for me, I was on my way to New Orleans in an Amtrak sleeper.

On that day, people I knew were saying that every non air conditioned train should have been canceled. But if you remove 30% of the trains (as it was at the time) on a Friday afternoon peak, then what?

i'd disagree about cancelling non-A/C trains in Sydney. They, at least, have windows and doors that can be opened. In humidity, airflow is always a relief, IMO. But then I grew up in Cairns and we never had A/C in our car or house.

 

[erkpod]

i'd disagree about cancelling non-A/C trains in Sydney. They, at least, have windows and doors that can be opened. In humidity, airflow is always a relief, IMO. But then I grew up in Cairns and we never had A/C in our car or house.

As I pointed out to them, trying to get 100% of the normal peak load onto 70% of the normal peak trains just would not have worked on that day especially.

When most people I know have a sookylala about being on a train in Sydney, their normal 1 way trip is usually between 10 minutes to an hour. I could be on that train for up to 4 3/4 hours.

I've got a few friends in England & it's quite entertaining hearing them complain about the heat. With the benefit of historical hindsight, the English gave themselves the raw end of the pineapple!

 

[bass_ke]

Cruising the Great Lakes. About 4 degrees and 60 km/h winds

 

[markis10]

View attachment 17611Cruising the Great Lakes. About 4 degrees and 60 km/h winds

Watch out for the pot holes

 

[NM]

There were blue and orange buses? I'm a bit younger than you so my memory isn't as complete. I do remember laughing at school that we had 'MAN' buses and wondering where the 'Women' buses were.

The "orange" buses were these Volvo units, I believe the first BCC buses with air conditioning.


The "blue" ones were a variety of older vehicles, including the Leyland Panther:


but I also remember some of these very early in my school commutes, but they were painted a light green I seem to remember.

 

[erkpod]

When I did my status run to Adelaide recently, it was strange for me to see a bus painted in the new Sydney bus colour scheme doing Adelaide route work before it comes to Sydney.

 

[markis10]

Buses in Brisbane are mostly yellow because they are bananas, they travel in bunches.

 

[SeatBackForward]

Buses in Brisbane are mostly yellow because they are bananas, they travel in bunches.

Shouldn't they be coloured Grape then?

the theory of why buses bank up has been extensively proven mathematically by transport engineers, it has to do with dwell time. Dwell time is the bane of most urban transport systems.

 

[markis10]

Shouldn't they be coloured Grape then?.

No, occasionally they even have a Monkey driving them, the grape color is reserved for future Nightrider services.

 

[SeatBackForward]

No, occasionally they even have a Monkey driving them, the grape color is reserved for future Nightrider services.

and which also explains the concept of "bendy" buses.

 

[erkpod]

So what am I doing instead of being at my Place of Employment (3 wonderful days off!) or flying down to MEL for the AFF drinks tonight?

I'm installing & updating my AFF Flight Tracker. Of course I am.

 

[Buzzard]

Trying to find the motivation to head outside to the post office to return some goods to M&S. It's just tipped over 30 and supposed to get up to 32 today........

..... so it's warm then

 

[Buzzard]

I always enjoyed my waiting at Mueseum when they sent a Diesel through the city loop.

Don't you mean Mark Foyes :?:

 

[Buzzard]

1. Flew in a Fokker-100 yesterday..........

I remember my Grandfather telling me about all the Fokkers he shot down during the war. Might have been a different type though, not the 100

 

[Flashback]

..... so it's warm then

Ended up hitting 34, hottest day since 2006, so yes, it was warm

 

[JohnK]

Anyway, I'm puzzled that his heirs can do what they are doing. Am I looking at this wrong or something?

Does not sound right.

In my opinion (and I have no doubt) the world, society if you like, has been going the wrong direction for a long time.

It is almost time.

 

[medhead]

Shouldn't they be coloured Grape then?

the theory of why buses bank up has been extensively proven mathematically by transport engineers, it has to do with dwell time. Dwell time is the bane of most urban transport systems.

And occasionally (as in regularly) one bus is so late that 2 buses running the same route are one behind the other. SWMBO even had this one day where the [rooster] driving the second bus stopped every time the first bus stopped. Resulting in a jam packed first bus and an empty second bus.

Does not sound right.

In my opinion (and I have no doubt) the world, society if you like, has been going the wrong direction for a long time.

It is almost time.

You're the only one brave enough or stupid enough, given the underlying topic, to comment on my post.

 

[JohnK]

You're the only one brave enough or stupid enough, given the underlying topic, to comment on my post.

Probably stupid but the underlying topic should not have any bearing on my comment.

Someone purchased a painting a long time ago and has handed it down in their family and now someone is claiming the person that sold that painting was under stress and should not have sold it and is really the rightful owner. Does the current value of the painting have anything to do with the claim?

There was a lot of plundering going on in the dark ages. Do we return all that treasure to the rightful owners?