The totally off-topic thread

[tuapekastar]

Does anyone here watch If You Are The One? It is a Chinese dating game show on SBS2, thankfully with subtitles.

The premise is that one guy presents himself to 24 women. Each woman has a light & if she doesn't like the guy, she turns her light off. There's a series of Q & A rounds & videos where you can learn more about the guy.

From what I figure, the women stay on the show over a number of episodws until they get selected for a date. This can mean that sometimes, a guy will come onto the show for one specific girl.

I haven't laughed so hard at a show for some time.

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I have seen it (in fits and starts) and it is quite amusing, though unlikely I would become a devotee. One other I have surfed on into is something on SBS 2 (Ch 32) called MXC. Seems to be a strange Japanese game show overdubbed with ridiculous (and quite amusing not to mention a little risqué) English speech. Again, unlikely to become a devotee but it does provide a few laughs.

 

[Robbi]

Do council workers still get a day off if it rains consecutively for a minute and a half through the night?

That long? Are you trying to give them pneumonia or something?

 

[erkpod]

I have seen it (in fits and starts) and it is quite amusing, though unlikely I would become a devotee. One other I have surfed on into is something on SBS 2 (Ch 32) called MXC. Seems to be a strange Japanese game show overdubbed with ridiculous (and quite amusing not to mention a little risqué) English speech. Again, unlikely to become a devotee but it does provide a few laughs.

Is there a Japanese game show that isn't strange?

When I was over there I didn't watch a lot of TV but when I flicked through the channels once, there was one show with about 10 female contestants wearing different brightly coloured tracksuits. During the bit I saw, they had to place themselves in weight order.

 

[somebol]

Funny sign at kix.

 

[erkpod]

There's so many funny (to us) signs from Japan - many more if you include the use of Engrish.

 

[JohnK]

Don't procrastinate if you want to book cheap flights.

 

[erkpod]

Good luck to all the Sydney firies working on that building site fire in the CBD. Media beating things up as normal.

Unrelated: I've been providing tech support to my mum & her computer for the last 3 hours. It even baffled the support guy I called.

 

[JessicaTam]

Don't procrastinate if you want to book cheap flights.

I think that must be golden rule number two, after 'don't fly direct'.

 

[JessicaTam]

I had a little giggle to myself this afternoon. I flew MEL-ADL and handed a small box of choccies to the cabin crew as usual. CSM came around and gave a personal welcome to three of us in Y, including the gentleman next to me. FA gave me an (unsolicited) hand grenade to drink, and replaced it as soon as I had emptied it. Walked off the plane and headed to the QP. I was walking behind my flight-neighbour only to see him walk through the 'frosted doors'. I guess CLs don't get all the love.

Thanks QF. (hic)

 

[drross]

Good luck to all the Sydney firies working on that building site fire in the CBD. Media beating things up as normal.

with you erkpod.

 

[JohnK]

I think that must be golden rule number two, after 'don't fly direct'.

LOL. Decisions are not always that simple. And the longer you wait....

 

[markis10]

The drivers down the coast are having issues working out the difference between roads and tram tracks.

 

[erkpod]

That guy got a far way along the tracks though!

There was a case in Sydney last year where a taxi driver turned off Parramatta Rd & turned onto the train tracks. Lucky for him it was a quiet line with an hourly service & a signal box is located at the level crossing where the incident occured. He got nowhere near as far as the guy in the photo.

 

[markis10]

That guy got a far way along the tracks though!

There was a case in Sydney last year where a taxi driver turned off Parramatta Rd & turned onto the train tracks. Lucky for him it was a quiet line with an hourly service & a signal box is located at the level crossing where the incident occured. He got nowhere near as far as the guy in the photo.

"Darling, lets try a shortcut through the traffic, could be a bit bumpy"

 

[TomVexille]

The drivers down the coast are having issues working out the difference between roads and tram tracks.

And this person somehow has a license to drive?

 

[JohnK]

And this person somehow has a license to drive?

There are lots of people in the same boat.

A licence is not a right. It is a privilege. The sooner we apply that to licence applications and renewals the better.

 

[medhead]

Not just tram tracks.
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[erkpod]

Why couldn't that guy on the O-Bahn just drive to the next place that it meets a regular road? It's not as though vehicles don't drive on the route.

 

[TomVexille]

There are lots of people in the same boat.

A licence is not a right. It is a privilege. The sooner we apply that to licence applications and renewals the better.

These people frustrate me daily :evil:

 

[markis10]

Why couldn't that guy on the O-Bahn just drive to the next place that it meets a regular road? It's not as though vehicles don't drive on the route.

Have a look at the wheels and their location to the edge of the pit, would not take too much to drop the car into the pit, possibly making it wedged.