Things that sh*t me the fifteenth part

[Gralin]

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[Shell]

Apparently there is some big yacht race on.

And some big thing on an oval where grass grows.

 

[The Tigers Nuts]

Society went through a phase were screens had to keep being bigger and better and here we are today with kids and teens more than happy to watch hundreds of hours of stuff on a phone an foot away from their face.

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[Over The Post]

Well humour is subjective of course (and I make a lot of unfunny jokes)

You're no 74561347 , that's for sure

 

[Over The Post]

Vet bills. Discourages people from taking in rescue dogs.

The rescues I've been involved with always do full vet work while fostering before adoption. It's the biggest expense by far, even with sympathetic and discount vets, and why they're always short of dough.

 

[Over The Post]

fu** I hate Bunnings.

We are as one

RIP Masters

 

[Over The Post]

It's as if they think 150+ years of institutional homophobia can disappear by displaying an expensive bit of cloth. I'd suggest looking at the sort of people they recruit might be slightly more helpful.

Like people named "Nic Holas"

 

[Over The Post]

It was most probably a re-gift.
Italians do that all the time with panettone this time of year.

Absolute lol, I was given some earlier this week with an expiry of Feb 22. Guarantee its a leftover from last Christmas.

Was, not is. Went down nicely with a cuppa.

 

[Shell]

We are as one

RIP Masters

Lol. I doubt I would have liked Masters either

 

[Shane Sheridan]

It was most probably a re-gift.

Italians do that all the time with panettone this time of year.

 

[Over The Post]

If I do go go faster on the open hwy it's almost always behind a car or 2 speeding so they would get done first.

Been there, done that. I was tail end of a group of about 5 cars, all safely spaced, all doing 110-120km/h. Cop was hiding on a side road just over the crest of a hill. Came sailing up behind with a disco light show, I pulled over and waved him past so he could get the ringleader, no dice. He'd got the lead car at 117 and grabbed me because I was closest, when I pointed out there were four cars between his radar and me he invited me to show up in court to prove it.

And it won't save you from a camera, anyway.

I drive a manual without cruise control, I get really shitted off at having to pay constant attention to my speed than actually driving. Speed on my satnav is closer to line of sight so I'm not having to actually look away from the road and under the steering wheel, then look up and refocus, but its still unsafe and a massive PITA.

 

[Over The Post]

I’ve actually seen the studies and read about a town in europe somewhere where they abolished speed limits and let the natural speed of the road dictate and accidents went down.
...
Speed limits are a necessary evil.

Having just told us why they aren't.

campaigners gonna campaigner. You can have all the limits and restrictions you like to inconvenience and shit off everyone else, and campaigners will still campaigner. Just look at the constant stream of ultralockdown quarantine escapee campaigners all happily campaignering and shitting on the rest of us.

Throw the book at the campaigners doing careless / dangerous / culpable driving and encourage safe, responsible driving for all.

 

[Kram]

Been there, done that. I was tail end of a group of about 5 cars, all safely spaced, all doing 110-120km/h. Cop was hiding on a side road just over the crest of a hill. Came sailing up behind with a disco light show, I pulled over and waved him past so he could get the ringleader, no dice. He'd got the lead car at 117 and grabbed me because I was closest, when I pointed out there were four cars between his radar and me he invited me to show up in court to prove it.

And it won't save you from a camera, anyway.

I drive a manual without cruise control, I get really shitted off at having to pay constant attention to my speed than actually driving. Speed on my satnav is closer to line of sight so I'm not having to actually look away from the road and under the steering wheel, then look up and refocus, but its still unsafe and a massive PITA.

True but they don't have cameras out on the open road here, used to have the odd speed trap but haven't seen any of those either in years its just in the towns as well. Only have the occasional patrol car going in the opposite direction.

 

[Hawk Dork]

Apparently there is some big yacht race on.

The oldest ocean yacht race in Australia
Melbourne to Launceston thats on Tomorrow

 

[Caesar]

The oldest ocean yacht race in Australia
Melbourne to Launceston thats on Tomorrow

This is a little disputed, I believe the Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania claim the Bruny Island Race holds the title

 

[Hawk Dork]

This is a little disputed, I believe the Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania claim the Bruny Island Race holds the title

If only Kerry Packer decided to promote that one we would know about it

 

[Paul66]

Sounds perfect.

Thanks. It was.

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[Plugger35]

My yachting claim to fame is this bloke who was the brother of one of my mother's friends.

Tom Schnackenberg - Wikipedia

He was the sail designer for Australia II in the 1983's America's Cup and also the design coordinator for Team New Zealand in the 1995 America's Cup.

He helped both Australia and NZ win an America's Cup but you wouldn't know it, he's one of those humble nerdy yachting geniuses, a Kiwi Ben Lexcen.

 

[troybe]

Why does that shit you?


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[Plugger35]

Why does that sh*t you?


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He didn't give me a leg up into the America's Cup, my mother's friend's son who was a mate of mine got to work on One Australia in the 1995 race.

That was the boat that sunk.





Dodged a bullet there.

 

[74561347]

Sydney to Hobart is silly. Don't they realise how much faster they could go if they turned their engines on

 

[Plugger35]

Sydney to Hobart is silly. Don't they realise how much faster they could go if they turned their engines on

I'd love to see a few blokes in a dinghy with an engine win the Sydney to Hobart.

"Well we went out into Sydney Harbour to catch a few fish, saw these yachts racing past and thought why don't we have a crack".

"We fired up the engine and wouldn't you know it, we've gone and won the Sydney to Hobart".

 

[Over The Post]

Tom Schnackenberg - Wikipedia
a Kiwi Ben Lexcen.

He hasn't had a Toyota named after him though.

 

[Plugger35]

He hasn't had a Toyota named after him though.

You haven't driven a Subaru Schnakenburg?

They were one of the best sellers in NZ back in the 80s and 90s.

The Toyota Lexcen was slow to start but once you engaged the winged keel gear it came home with a wet sail.


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[Caesar]

Went to a lecture by Schnacks back in the 90s, very analytical mind about sailing… think he used to be an engineer or a physicist or something

 

[Plugger35]

One of my favourite books.

The story behind Australia II winning the America's Cup and he talks about Schnacks and his boys reworking the sails overnight to get them right.

People think it was just the magic winged keel that won the America's Cup back in 1983 but there was a huge team behind it that made it happen.




I'm not a sailing fan but it's one of the greatest achievements in Australian sport, Australia II coming back from 3-1 down to win 4-3.




Everyone was into sailing back in 1983.