The totally off-topic thread

[JohnK]

He obviously does not snore or have restless leg syndrome, I have been sleeping in separate room since I went back to work full time. I need a good nights sleep to function the next day.

Not sure how my wife and daughter put up with my snoring. A 2 bedroom place would be ideal.

 

[JessicaTam]

Yes, 2 adults and infant in front seat.

And yes I do realise....

Well if no one else is going to say anything, I will.

Watch !

And I will add to it...

@JohnK, and everyone else for that matter:

Please, please, please, don't ever put a child in the front seat - whether you have airbags or not. (In fact worse if you do have airbags).

I have been to too many car accidents and have had to help too many parents with their grief. I also have images that will be with me for the rest of my life. So if not for your children, or your spouse - for me: Don't. Ever.

 

[ALH]

And I will add to it...

@JohnK, and everyone else for that matter:

Please, please, please, don't ever put a child in the front seat - whether you have airbags or not. (In fact worse if you do have airbags).

I have been to too many car accidents and have had to help too many parents with their grief. I also have images that will be with me for the rest of my life. So if not for your children, or your spouse - for me: Don't. Ever.

I’m an adult, and was injured as the driver in a head on collision last year. The airbags did enough damage. The seatbelt has left me with severe injuries, but nothing compared to what would happen to an improperly restrained child in the front seat of a car.

 

[straitman]

I’m an adult, and was injured as the driver in a head on collision last year. The airbags did enough damage. The seatbelt has left me with severe injuries, but nothing compared to what would happen to an improperly restrained child in the front seat of a car.

... and probably nothing compared to no seatbelt or airbags.

 

[JohnK]

I haven't thought of this trick before.

Touch on with Gocard, walk though barriers on way to train, turnaround and look shocked then touch off with GoCard and continue walking towards train.

What excuse would you use when you get caught? Not sure how I managed to touch on and off at once?

 

[Quickstatus]

... and probably nothing compared to no seatbelt or airbags.

Here is an important report:
Passenger Cars and Occupant Injury - Accident Research Centre

17% of hospitalised crash victims did not wear seat belts compared to a 6% non seat beat wearing rate in the general population.

No seat belt = higher chance of injury requiring hospitalisation (comment on benefit of SB)
BUT ALSO
Drivers who don’t wear seat belts tend to be involved in high speed accidents causing hospitalisation. ( comment on the drivers conduct)

Small cars are not as safe.

Safest place in a car apparently in back seat - but I’m not sure if this is actually true because the study would need to examine only the cohort with back seat passenger as many crashes only have one occupant - the driver

 

[Denali]

Kids under the age of 13 in front seats is a big peeve of mine and yes, 13.

Im totally judging you as a unsafe parent if your kid is in the front seat.

 

[Quickstatus]

Me to husband: 8 athletes have bolted from the Commonwealth Games.

Have they found the Sierra Leone athletes who absconded from 2006 CG in Mel. I thought some tried to seek asylum

The authorities who spin the story by saying it happens every Games is not really good enough.

 

[Denali]

Have they found the Sierra Leone athletes who absconded from 2006 CG in Mel. I thought some tried to seek asylum

The authorities who spin the story by saying it happens every Games is not really good enough.

Isn't Melbourne still looking for Harold Holt?

 

[mrs.dr.ron]

Isn't Melbourne still looking for Harold Holt?

He has been living in China since '67

 

[cove]

Did Yassmin get deported from the US?
She wanted to do work in the US but I don’t think her visa allowed her to work.
Same thing happened to a former employee of ours.

 

[cove]

Harold Holt would be about 120 now.

 

[Denali]

Did Yassmin get deported from the US?
She wanted to do work in the US but I don’t think her visa allowed her to work.
Same thing happened to a former employee of ours.

She was there for a speaking engagement and sent home by border control.

Apparently wrong visa but she used same visa for same reason many times before. Tightening of visa rules or google hit on her name and "Muslim" ?

 

[Denali]

Harold Holt would be about 120 now.

A friend of ours died during a scuba dive about ten years ago, the body still not recovered.

 

[mrs.dr.ron]

Harold Holt would be about 120 now.

Actually 110 !!!

Harold Edward Holt, CH (5 August 1908 – 17 December 1967), was an Australian politician who served as the 17th Prime Minister of Australia, in office from 1966 until his presumed drowning death.

I remember the big theory was the Chinese abducted him in a mini submarine ........

 

[Pushka]

I haven't thought of this trick before.

Touch on with Gocard, walk though barriers on way to train, turnaround and look shocked then touch off with GoCard and continue walking towards train.

What excuse would you use when you get caught? Not sure how I managed to touch on and off at once?

Weren’t you just posting a couple of weeks ago about informing authorities when people did tricky things?

 

[cove]

Yes I gave Harold several bonus years. He would be needing a geriatrician to keep him going.

 

[drron]

She was there for a speaking engagement and sent home by border control.

Apparently wrong visa but she used same visa for same reason many times before. Tightening of visa rules or google hit on her name and "Muslim" ?

She was on a tourist visa although working.

 

[cove]

Yes I thought she did not have a valid visa to work in the US. Tourist visas are no good for working over in the US.

 

[Denali]

My usual sleep pattern before going on holidays.



My current sleep pattern now I'm walking more/being active.



Me.