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or for Rick...

Don't let it Rattle your Cage

Tentative fist

Acknowledged.

I shall accept sicond gracefully despite my disappointment as that is the sort of person I am.

I say tentative but it should have been more of a prodding fist because, as you know, I can never really be an official fist due to my antipodean time zone. So Galts, you are the real fist mate.

Effing freezing overnight here during the weekend (for us) but I'm not really shocked to see it's going to be 25, 26 and 27 degrees C towards the end of the week.

Tird, i have been having issues accessing the site as it appears to be under maintenance.

Morning, notches.

Ruined my chance of a fist as well, good thing PJ was so gracious.

Tempted to boycott this thread until my 'Rattle your Cage' post is acknowledged as a work of genius, but I fear you are all beneath it.

I got it Jules. I was just responding by repeatedly posting in the style of 4'33.

Will have to acknowledge that the two posts above are very good posts to show that they're not over my head - my second acknowledgement of the morning.

Thanks supes. Impressive. Knew I could count on you.

Sopping wet fist!

Sicond.

What, no mackintosh? Summer downpour I take it.

P155ing it down here also...

Tird

Dry as a bone here. Bit chilly though.

I don't mean to upset and alarm everyone, but we've had a little bit of rain in London.

we have been due a while to be honest, so it is not the worst thing.

It rains here all the time. Makes Manchester seem like the Atacama Desert.

This could turn into a meteorological version of the "4 Yorkshire-men" sketch

It's been raining solid here for 47 years

Luxury! It rained here before the Big Bang and we were glad of it.

Big Bang! We had a creator that killed everything on Earth barring 1 dude, his wife, 3 sons and 7 of some animals and 2 of the rest for some reason.

And we still went to school.

We used to dream of being killed.

Galted wrote:We used to dream of being killed.

Aboriginal?

rIck_dAgless wrote:

Galted wrote:We used to dream of being killed.

Aboriginal?

That's what the rock art says... according to some interpretations. Big snake come down and.... you know the rest. (bugger us all up!)

Pal Joey wrote:

rIck_dAgless wrote:

Galted wrote:We used to dream of being killed.

Aboriginal?

That's what the rock art says... according to some interpretations. Big snake come down and.... you know the rest. (bugger us all up!)

Dream time shizz, and cool art.

rIck_dAgless wrote:

Pal Joey wrote:

rIck_dAgless wrote:

Galted wrote:We used to dream of being killed.

Aboriginal?

That's what the rock art says... according to some interpretations. Big snake come down and.... you know the rest. (bugger us all up!)

Dream time shizz, and cool art.

Should watch the full movie if you get a chance. A bit dated now but it was quite captivating when I first saw it. Talking about rain... and imagery.

Spoiler:

Full movie here... need to rewind it a bit.

The Last Wave:

First fist in a while, as work calms down a tad...

Morning.

Captivating fist, Rick. Sicond.

Interesting film. Times have changed but the Dreaming never does...

i could not access the links alas, as the video has been removed for my region, for whatever reason.

Morning, peej.

Morning Rick.

The lawyer in it spends most of the time in the pouring rain.

Queried a phone bill today and got a huge reduction in my monthly charges. Makes you wonder why they didn't offer me the same thing a lot earlier. Went into the shop rather than go online or over the phone... seems to be the best tactic when the competitor's store is in the same shopping centre.

My phone bill stays fairly static TBH, i also have my dad put on my contract as he is now using an internet ready mobile, and is still convinced that if you send someone a picture you need to re-mortgage the house.

I am kinda hoping he goes over so i can give him a b0ll0cking over the bill and get some of my own back.

My dad's gone from ranting and raving about how pointless text messaging is (saying how if you've got something to say then talk to the person) to communicating almost exclusively by text and whatsapp, his messages generally contain more emojis than words.

My mum went through that phase, however she stopped when she found out she was sending a sarcastic emoji rather than a smiling emoji.

Hilarity ensued.

Galted wrote:My dad's gone from ranting and raving about how pointless text messaging is (saying how if you've got something to say then talk to the person) to communicating almost exclusively by text and whatsapp, his messages generally contain more emojis than words.

I used to walk past people with mobile phones and mouth 'w*nker' or 'kn*bhead'. That was back in the early 90s, when the people using mobile phones were w*nkers and kn*bheads.

Looks like Julius's post upset a few people who had mobiles back in the early 90s.

Must have missed it. I was on the phone to my broker here last night.

How's it going Mr G?

Haha, hope it was one of those bricks with an aerial sticking out.

All good here, cooling down which I guess means things are heating up down your end?

Exactly... ha ha.

Yes, it's heating up nicely. Warm on the weekend they say. Chilly now at night though.

There's already bushfire warnings and arguments about how they should have cleared some of the new growth since the last fires. There was a nice ironic photo I saw the other day of some heavy snow on the burnt black tree branches. You can never win with the weather extremes here...

Haha

If i have learnt anything from watching "Outback Truckers" it's that Australian weather is either 40 degrees plus, or absolutely p155ing it down, and nothing inbetween.

Tird

"Outback Truckers"... lol.

Was nearly killed by one with my Dad in '86 but all is forgiven since we survived.
This happened just north of Canberra in a place called Collector. (really!) That road has long since been bypassed by the new motorway now.

Going on a bit of a road trip myself in about 3 weeks time... before it gets too hot. Going up to Moree in the New England region, then back down to Narrabri in the central west. Might pop into Parkes after that on the way home to check out the intermodal facilities being built for the inland rail.

For some reason, Mrs Dagless is obsessed with the show and watches it every day, it is usually on when i'm cooking (she can't cook for shizz) Though it does drive home (pun intended) how f**king big Oz is, and your road trip would possibly constitute several laps of Britain.

Actually Narrabri is still in NE (going through there too) but I meant Narromine which is west of Dubbo... the Hub of the West.
That still makes me laugh.

Then heading south through Tomingley, Peak Hill (near The Dish - which beamed back pictures of the moon landings) before reaching Parkes.
Might also come back via Cowra - the scene of the Japanese P.O.W. breakout in 1944. There are some nice memorial gardens there now.

Did a quick measure, Rick. Roughly 1600 km or a shade under 1000 miles. 4 days, 3 nights.

That's quite the trek, Lands end to John o'groats is a tad over 600 miles as the crow flies.

I consider anything over 50 miles as a road trip...

Unmichaels fist.

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Was too busy composing my gracious acceptance of the Friday fist and lost out.

Well done, Rick, good to see you getting back into form as the Christmas fist approaches.

Tird

Oz is far too big for its own good. Did both the Indian Pacific and the Ghan rail journeys a couple of times and they both lasted longer than a German opera! Only realised what I'd let myself in for when it took 15 hours to get from Sydney to Broken Hill (Broken Hill is still in New South Wales).

superflyweight wrote:Tird

Oz is far too big for its own good.  Did both the Indian Pacific and the Ghan rail journeys a couple of times and they both lasted longer than a German opera!  Only realised what I'd let myself in for when it took 15 hours to get from Sydney to Broken Hill (Broken Hill  is still in New South Wales).    

I'm still stuck in it... it's so hard to get out of the place. German opera. lol.

I've been to Kew Gardens before, that's also quite big.

I nearly got lost in Regent's Park when I was a kid.

Fist.

Might be a Bank Holiday for you soft bunch of Morris Dancing imperialist c0ck munchers, but not for us Scots.