The totally off-topic thread

[love_the_life]

There needs to be a better name then. Elective means choice - there is none here.

MrP has spent the day in Adelaide's carpy Immigration hole. AirNZ flight lost power and computers and they couldn't even get the luggage off the previous flight. Of course there are no clubs airside. They did not provide any food. Arrived at 9.30am and only just now cancelled. This is for work. They then had to go down and get luggage and then head back upstairs and hopefully rebook the one flight tomorrow. A cough day.

Hopefully will be better tomorrow :shock: Fingers and toes crossed.

 

[Pushka]

Hopefully will be better tomorrow :shock: Fingers and toes crossed.

Now rebooked for 10am tomorrow. Stuck with Hotel fee paid for tonight. Had to cancel appointments. Costing the business around $3000 in income loss and hotel fee we can't recoup.

 

[Pushka]

Facebook memory 2 years ago today.

 

[medhead]

Hydro where the water only flows down to generate and is not pumped back up hill = low polluter

Hydro where brown coal-fired power is purchased to pump the water back up-hill to the high storage (responsible for high 90s% of total electricity generation) = 95% as bad a brown coal-fired.

Again WHOLE of FUEL CYCLE. Some small operational matter does not represent the whole fuel cycle - the cost of all that concrete and construction, etc. etc. etc. Besides operationally the snowy system only needs to pump water back when there is a lack of rainfall. They cannot possibly do that all the time.

 

[medhead]

I don't know about coughpy days. But I was just driving home from the city when I ran into a guy on a pushbike who was riding on the wrong side of the road. Turning left, check to the right for cars, see a space, look left and accelerate at the same time, there is this push bike right in front of me. :shock: ARGH!!! BRAKES!!! Bang! That was pretty coughpy.
Thank everything I didn't kill him. He seems ok, and starts walking back to a house about 4 up the road on that same side. faded home made looking tattoos, it's his mate's bike, he needs it to get to work, "We don't need to involve the police", just give us some money to get the bike fixed, just let us claim against your insurance...
Needless to say 90 minutes later I've finished reporting it to the police. Even more coughpy.

But the poor bloke seemed nice enough and I'm very glad I didn't kill him.

There needs to be a better name then. Elective means choice - there is none here.

There is always choice.

 

[JessicaTam]

A don't know about coughpy days. But I was just driving home from the city when I ran into a guy on a pushbike who was riding on the wrong side of the road. Turning left, check to the right for cars, see a space, look left and accelerate at the same time, there is this push bike right in front of me. :shock: ARGH!!! BRAKES!!! Bang! That was pretty coughpy.
Thank everything I didn't kill him. He seems ok, and starts walking back to a house about 4 up the road on that same side. faded home made looking tattoos, it's his mate's bike, he needs it to get to work, "We don't need to involve the police", just give us some money to get the bike fixed, just let us claim against your insurance...
Needless to say 90 minutes later I've finished reporting it to the police. Even more coughpy.

But the poor bloke seemed nice enough and I'm very glad I didn't kill him.



There is always choice.

Glad you are both ok. Yikes. :shock:

 

[medhead]

Glad you are both ok. Yikes. :shock:

He had a helmet on, I reckon that saved him much more serious injury.

 

[whatmeworry]

I don't know about coughpy days. But I was just driving home from the city when I ran into a guy on a pushbike who was riding on the wrong side of the road. Turning left, check to the right for cars, see a space, look left and accelerate at the same time, there is this push bike right in front of me. :shock: ARGH!!! BRAKES!!! Bang! That was pretty coughpy.
Thank everything I didn't kill him. He seems ok, and starts walking back to a house about 4 up the road on that same side. faded home made looking tattoos, it's his mate's bike, he needs it to get to work, "We don't need to involve the police", just give us some money to get the bike fixed, just let us claim against your insurance...
Needless to say 90 minutes later I've finished reporting it to the police. Even more coughpy.

But the poor bloke seemed nice enough and I'm very glad I didn't kill him.



There is always choice.

Similar thing to me happened a year ago. Turning left from a carpark on to a street. Look left for pedestrians and right for pedestrians and cars. Clear, so inch over walkway ready to turn left and then bang. Teenager bike rider flying into my bonnet on the left side. Bike lanes on both sides of street but he is riding on the footpath.

Clearly your bike rider, his fault riding on he wrong side.

 

[Flashback]

Similar thing to me happened a year ago. Turning left from a carpark on to a street. Look left for pedestrians and right for pedestrians and cars. Clear, so inch over walkway ready to turn left and then bang. Teenager bike rider flying into my bonnet on the left side. Bike lanes on both sides of street but he is riding on the footpath.

Clearly your bike rider, his fault riding on he wrong side.

I can't remember the rules in Australia, but in the UK it's illegal to ride on the footpath, unless it's a designated cycle path (and will have said markings on it).

 

[whatmeworry]

I can't remember the rules in Australia, but in the UK it's illegal to ride on the footpath, unless it's a designated cycle path (and will have said markings on it).

Illegal here in Victoria as well unless a shared path. Could vary by state.

 

[whatmeworry]

Adelaide 1966.

[video=youtube_share;RkNeNF2-Esw]https://youtu.be/RkNeNF2-Esw?list=PLCAD05A7F696C34B9[/video]

0m00s - Magill Estate Winery (?)
0m52s - A very green and well maintained Victoria Square
1m01s - Class H Tram car 369. Was repainted brown in 1971 and ran until very recently - http://www.flickr.com/photos/henkg/3378665314/
1m14s - Walking North along King William St past the GPOs) - http://www.flickr.com/photos/gr8ca5hman/2040009548/
2m20s - Adelaide Railyway Station & (now) Casino
2m51s - Driving through Mile End and past Perry Engineering (Railway builders) - :: BORAL's First 60 Years ::
2m58s - Chrysler Assembly Plant at Keswick. Closed in the 60s and moved to Tonsley Park where it becamse Mitsubishi
4m16s - Moreton Bay figs at the Adelaide Botanic Gardens
4m43s - Possibly the old Kelvinator factory on Anzac Highway where radios were manufactured. Later taken over by Email Limited - kbe.com.au
6m42s - Probably the now demolished North Adelaide School Of Art on Stanley St, Nth Adelaide
7m05s - Arriving for dinner at the now demolished Adelaide International Hotel on Brougham Place - http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn4361716-v
7m10s - Restauarant was the Colonel Light Room at AIH - http://www.asia-discovery.com/australia/adelaide/adelaide-international/fac.htm
9m04s - Victoria Park racecourse with a half built Queen Victoria Hospital in the background
9m42s - North Adelaide Golf Course
10m24s - Central Markets. Either Cocos or McMahons Fruit and Veg
10m35s - Botanic Hotel
10m42s - Ferris Wheel on the roof of Cox Foys, now Renaissance Centre, in what is now Rundle Mall (note sign for Beatles in Full Colour!)
11m20s - Clothing store on Melbourne Street North Adelaide
12m19s - Deccas Place restaurant on Melbourne Street - SLSA: Messenger Press Collection B 70869/18661 - Wine list Decca's Place Restaurant : wine list.
13m03s - Now gutted Regent Theatre on Rundle Mall (Street) - Regent Theatre in Adelaide, AU - Cinema Treasures
13m36s - Sorrento Restaurant on Hindley
16m13s - King St bridge over the Patawalonga?
17m45s - Popeye ferry getting lost down at the weir, then heading back up under the Frome St bridge and returing to Elder park again.
18m54s - Wading Pool at Rundle Park. Since filled in with gravel, still can be seen - http://bit.ly/olwzDF
19m34s - BBQ at Rymill Park. Pretty sure that was there until recently
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[esseeeayeenn]

I'm fuming.

 

[Princess Fiona]

I'm fuming.

Why????????

 

[Pushka]

Illegal here in Victoria as well unless a shared path. Could vary by state.

Riding on the footpath is legal in SA. Everywhere.

 

[Pushka]

I'm fuming.

I'm annoyed.

 

[mrs.dr.ron]

I'm annoyed.

I'm in a sh!tty mood.

 

[JessicaTam]

Riding on the footpath is legal in SA. Everywhere.

Only if under the age of [-]10[/-] 12*, or accompanying someone who is.

[-]*I am fairly sure it is 10.[/-]

Edit:

250 Riding on a footpath or shared path
(1) The rider of a bicycle who is 12 years old or older must not ride on a footpath.Penalty: 1 penalty unit.

* Ok, it is 12.

Nationwide - not sure about WA

 

[Steady]

I'm fuming.

I'm annoyed.

I'm in a sh!tty mood.

Maybe it's contagious

 

[blackcat20]

Only if under the age of 10*, or accompanying someone who is.

*I am fairly sure it is 10.

In Vic I think it's 12.

 

[TheRealTMA]

Riding on the footpath is legal in SA. Everywhere.

Unfortunately it's also legal in Qld. More's the pity.