The totally off-topic thread

[Bundy Bear]

Say 'Hi' from me.

I did when I saw them this morning in the Hilton lounge, after I got up stupidly early to go for a 10km run.

Finished in about 63 minutes, had a good starting position front of the yellow joggers group but starting at the front of that group showed how unfit I was.

Why do I run, to soak up the amount of food and alcohol I eat and drink when I go flying.



5 years in a row, I think anat0l got me started on it.

And Happy Father's Day to all the dads out there in AFF land.

One reason I try and get to Brisbane this weekend, the run and Father's Day are on the same day.

 

[cove]

That's good Bundy....blame absent friends!

 

[TheEmu]

63 minutes is a pretty fair effort for someone "unfit", Bundy - well done!

 

[Pushka]

Thanks RAM. Mum is dealing with the speech issues well. She was very articulate before and would always be asked to do the Thank You speeches at Senior Citz/Probus etc. She tries to say complex words, gets mixed up, laughs, then says "Hmm, I'll say that again". And when she wants a laugh we ask her to say Cinnamon. It's an old joke. She really is an example of positive spirit.

 

[Pushka]

Just read a good article about a Lady whose husband had a stroke at the age of 46.
My partner had a stroke at 46: how my family's life changed one sunny day

Thankyou for that. A "like" doesn't seem appropriate. That article resonated with me too.

My greatest fear has always been having a stroke. I don't fear cancer although it has significantly touched my family. I fear stroke. Which up until five weeks ago had not occurred in my family. Go figure.

I've now decided to make the most of every day. If I have a stroke, in my seventies, I hope that it isn't a small one. That's a bit grim for a lovely sunny Sunday.

 

[JessicaTam]

I have just spent a very pleasant hour chatting* with Missy Higgins and listening to her sing.

*Ok, not quite, but I was in the front of the audience as she spoke with the interviewer at the N^GV Ian Potter Centre

^Yeah, right!

 

[penegal]

I have just spent a very pleasant hour chatting* with Missy Higgins and listening to her sing.

*Ok, not quite, but I was in the front of the audience as she spoke with the interviewer at the N^GV Ian Potter Centre

^Yeah, right!

Funny story - I got chatting to her in an infamous Collingwood bar once and had absolutely no idea who she was. Afterwards my friends were all starstruck, and I still didn't know who she was until I went home and looked her up.

Nice girl.

 

[JessicaTam]

Funny story - I got chatting to her in an infamous Collingwood bar once and had absolutely no idea who she was. Afterwards my friends were all starstruck, and I still didn't know who she was until I went home and looked her up.

Nice girl.

Oh dear. Tsk, tsk.

 

[cove]

Anyone tried the build your Magnum ice cream in Sydney's Centre Point ? Pretty good crowd was building when I walked past.

 

[anat0l]

Anyone tried the build your Magnum ice cream in Sydney's Centre Point ? Pretty good crowd was building when I walked past.

Sister and I did it when it was in Melbourne. Nice novelty trick if anything. We got there at opening to ensure we could afford to wait.

 

[Hvr]

You be the judge, four crimes are presented with various circumstances about the offender, the crime and its effect on the victim. You get to select what your sentencing option would be then listen to the actual sentence given.

You Be The Judge

 

[JohnK]

Found out today I'd won first prize in a raffle
Went to pick up the prize and found out its a round of social golf :!:
An oxymoron I think

Ah. The game they play in heaven.

Can't you sell it JohnK ?

Or gift?

 

[medhead]

Ah. The game they play in heaven.

Somehow I'm having trouble seeing Princess Fiona playing rugby union.

 

[Bindibuys]

Anyone tried the build your Magnum ice cream in Sydney's Centre Point ? Pretty good crowd was building when I walked past.

I walked past it at Helsinki in June. Will be in Sydney this friday, might see how long the line is and give it a go.

 

[drron]

Doing a cruise ending in Guayquil next year.Need a flight GYE-MIA to resume our Circle Pacific ticket.AA not releasing any J sAAver awards.Revenue ticket on US aa.com $US1125.On Aussie site $A2725.Now which site do I use?

 

[medhead]

New low for Adelaide drivers. Road raged at 4:20am when there were 3 other cars on the road. Why? Instead of lining up behind 2 cars, at a set of lights where slow starters have seen me miss the light during the wee small hours, I used the completely empty right hand lane. Older gentleman in a pullover with grey beard. Apparently no one is allowed to use the other bits of the road.

 

[RAM]

Anyone tried the build your Magnum ice cream in Sydney's Centre Point ? Pretty good crowd was building when I walked past.

Was going to with daughter on Friday but then when we went to look at it - all was not what we had assumed.

You do not get to 'make' it yourself.

You get to observe one of the staff doing it.

BUT that is only after you've spent up to 7 minutes (how long we watched one 20 something struggle with the 50+ choices of what you want them to 'dip' your magnum into. "I think I'll have xx_ no make that yyy and zzz with some bbb, no second thoughts can we start again? I'll have xx_ and zzz with some aaa and fff. Can I have fff & ggg," and on it went.

You get the picture.

They have a PC screen with all the options and you get to look at a card with them on and have to make up your mind. There were three screens/operators at once. Not one person's order went forward in the 7 minutes we watched and they had been going before we walked up.

Some Uni should study this operation - ability to make quick decisions not good. I kept thinking no wonder the number of pedestrians getting hit has risen. I could just see these people stepping off the footpath (without looking anywhere but down at their phone), hearing a car/truck horn blare out, look up and start to wonder - 'Do I jump forwards or backwards, forwards or backwards,' CRUNCH, SPLAT (cue sirens).

So we gave up on the idea - as we could not make our own but watch someone do it much the same as an Ice Cream truck does. There were 19 people in the queue before the screens so figured it would also be a long wait.

 

[drron]

Sounds like being in the queue for a coffee.Sometimes I think I must be very unusual as I just ask for a cappuccino.
Really bad in the US where you will hear orders for a decaf latte with organic grass fed goats milk,a touch of Tahitian vanilla bean essence,the scent of Gandhi's sandals and served in a thimble.

 

[amaroo]

Sounds like being in the queue for a coffee.Sometimes I think I must be very unusual as I just ask for a cappuccino.
Really bad in the US where you will hear orders for a decaf latte with organic grass fed goats milk,a touch of Tahitian vanilla bean essence,the scent of Gandhi's sandals and served in a thimble.

Worse are the tossers that hog the staff by ordering coffee in a pub :evil:

 

[SeatBackForward]

Sounds like being in the queue for a coffee.Sometimes I think I must be very unusual as I just ask for a cappuccino.

I wish a lot of places would instigate a "Queue for people who know exactly what they want and have everything ready to pay"

Really bad in the US where you will hear orders for a decaf latte with organic grass fed goats milk,a touch of Tahitian vanilla bean essence,the scent of Gandhi's sandals and served in a thimble.

I was at a coffee cart over the weekend where the staff were taking one order, fulfilling the order before taking the next order..surely its more efficient to take a few orders, then batch up the coffees?