The totally off-topic thread

[JessicaTam]

Today’s skies were cloudy so did a bit of instagramming. I’ve been posting on insta too and have had lots of likes from pilots, airforce, and Adelaide 500 Team. So I’d like to think they are making special effort to fly around me :j

TKWYA (They know where you are).

 

[TheRealTMA]

Why doesn’t Barnaby stop giving interviews and just go away somewhere? Getting really really boring now.

Resign from parliament and open a news agency and child minding centre in Tamworth or somewhere... must be good C&W songs in it all.

 

[Pushka]

Bloody Council Inspectors. Today I drove closer to the Clipsal Track to get close up pix of the FA18 flyover. There was an 8 hour parking area right next to the track but away from entrances so deserted except for the time when the flyover was timed and then it was packed. Perfect. Parked my car in the 8 hour park but noticed there were odd No Standing Zones. Of course parks filled up so latecomers used those few parks. They were going to be there for all of 15 minutes.

These delightful scenes greeted people as we moved back to our cars 15 minutes later.




I didn’t get pinged. But was disgusted. They knew it was only for a short time and not people going to the race.

It is a hot button and I’ll be writing to the CE.

 

[Pushka]

Last pix for today. FA-18

 

[ALH]

I dont even let the colours and whites, tshirts & underwear mix on the laundry floor.

But I think my husband likes messing with me, more likely he simply doesnt care, because he ignores my designated segregation spots and theres anarchy when he puts his dirty clothes in the laundry.

I dont even wash his stuff with mine and visa versa.

You would not like me

I have 2 piles. Everything dark in one. Everything light in the other. I figure I’ll let the washing machine do it’s magic stuff for me

 

[drron]

Giving back to the community? Buy coffee trees in northern Laos, a more sustainable operation to growing opium for the local hill tribes.

Saffron Coffee - Saffron Coffee

Or this in Luang Prabang.
Visit Big Brother Mouse in Laos
We have donated 2 school libraries.You get it back in spades-
Mini report-A day in Laos.

 

[Pushka]

You would not like me

I have 2 piles. Everything dark in one. Everything light in the other. I figure I’ll let the washing machine do it’s magic stuff for me

Snap.

 

[ALH]

....Laundry is in my budget, I refuse to spend thousand (or save thousands with reward seats/upgrade ect) and spend my free time doing the laundry.

.......I dont like travelling with dirty laundry.

Completely agree with you here!

Mr ALH always gives my mum some cash to get her laundry done when she travels, and she buys him a present instead

 

[cove]

If you want a good laugh have a look at Melbourne’s cough parkers.

 

[Cossie]

Or this in Luang Prabang.
Visit Big Brother Mouse in Laos
We have donated 2 school libraries.You get it back in spades-
Mini report-A day in Laos.

I remembered your tr and packed a heap of things for Big Brother Mouse, couple of hundred biros, hundreds of pencils, about 10 boxes of coloured pencils and stuff like caps and sort of backpacks and other knick knacks, there were meant to be another 400 pens, but Lastway managed to take 3 weeks getting them from Sydney to Canberra so they didn't arrive before we left.
Last year I posted 70 pairs of reading glasses and 400 pens to a place in Pakse after we got home, they even made it.

If we come back next year, which I'm sure we will, we'll bring a lot more.

I can't sit and practice English with students though, as you may have noted my spelling is atrocious and getting worse, plus trying to explain grammar, no way!

 

[Cossie]

Just saw this when checking out the cricket score, I know the batsman will be feeling a bit crook, but I also hope Sean Abbot is ok as well.

"Over in the Sheffield Shield, Australia's premier first-class competition, 20-year old WIll Pucovski has been diagnosed with a concussion after being struck on the head by a bouncer from Sean Abbott."

More here:

Vics' Pucovski hit on helmet by Abbott bouncer in Sheffield Shield

 

[Pushka]

Just saw this when checking out the cricket score, I know the batsman will be feeling a bit crook, but I also hope Sean Abbot is ok as well.

"Over in the Sheffield Shield, Australia's premier first-class competition, 20-year old WIll Pucovski has been diagnosed with a concussion after being struck on the head by a bouncer from Sean Abbott."

More here:

Vics' Pucovski hit on helmet by Abbott bouncer in Sheffield Shield

Yeah. It’s rather strange isn’t it. I wonder what is happening here.

 

[love_the_life]

Another one bites the dust (for MASH fans):
MASH star David Ogden Stiers dies aged 75

 

[VPS]

Yeah. It’s rather strange isn’t it. I wonder what is happening here.

Apparently he's fine - walking around the dressing room. Apparently twitter have been very harsh on Sean Abbott (poor bugger it wasn't his fault)

 

[JohnK]

Ah. This is like anthropology to me. Do you want them to go? Or not go?

Please go. Who cares what Barnaby has done, hasn't done, or is going to do.

 

[Cossie]

Apparently he's fine - walking around the dressing room. Apparently twitter have been very harsh on Sean Abbott (poor bugger it wasn't his fault)

Exactly, it's all part of the game, even if they banned short pitched bowling, batsmen would still find ways to get hit on the head.
I hope Sean deals with this ok, it must be very hard for him and there will always be a****s that will say inappropriate things.

 

[Denali]

Bloody Council Inspectors. Today I drove closer to the Clipsal Track to get close up pix of the FA18 flyover. There was an 8 hour parking area right next to the track but away from entrances so deserted except for the time when the flyover was timed and then it was packed. Perfect. Parked my car in the 8 hour park but noticed there were odd No Standing Zones. Of course parks filled up so latecomers used those few parks. They were going to be there for all of 15 minutes.

These delightful scenes greeted people as we moved back to our cars 15 minutes later.
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I didn’t get pinged. But was disgusted. They knew it was only for a short time and not people going to the race.

It is a hot button and I’ll be writing to the CE.

Some places we go to often, we pay for all day parking and on leaving, would give the parking ticket voucher to someone driving in, as we only been there for a few hours but paid for all day.

Now council requires us to have our car rego plate on the parking voucher so cant pass it on for someone else to use. Aholes council/parking bean counter.

 

[VPS]

Some places we go to often, we pay for all day parking and on leaving, would give the parking ticket voucher to someone driving in, as we only been there for a few hours but paid for all day.

Now council requires us to have our car rego plate on the parking voucher so cant pass it on for someone else to use. Aholes council/parking bean counter.

You'll find a lot more of that in the UK

 

[love_the_life]

Some places we go to often, we pay for all day parking and on leaving, would give the parking ticket voucher to someone driving in, as we only been there for a few hours but paid for all day.

Now council requires us to have our car rego plate on the parking voucher so cant pass it on for someone else to use. Aholes council/parking bean counter.

Wilson Parking has been given the control of a number of places here and they have the same system - need to put in your rego and then prepay for the amount of time you think you need. Stinks as if you are quicker than you thought, bad luck and if you are longer you run the risk of being clamped (big signs around). This includes some on street parking around us as well as parking for the private hospitals here in Canberra. For people who are parking near where we live I always suggest they park in the Realm Hotel carpark (which is right next door to the Wilson one) - the first hour is free then you post pay for the amount of time you have used. For Canberrites, the Wilson deal where we live was done by Doma who still own part of the buildings/common areas in Realm precinct. Body corporate have had legal advice and it's basically water-tight.

 

[Denali]

Watching Gerard Depardieu food show reminds me of things I use to have growing up and havent since I lived at home, my mum was a good cook.

Things I wished I knew how to make like mum, chicken giblet and heart risotto (my job was to clean the giblets) and her stuffed artichoke (cooked in a pressure cooker) .

My dad use to make a dried cod dish called Baccala, that I hated. It smelled.