The Thread about Nothing....

62vette

I'm betting footy - 'twas a fypo

hdtvkss

same here, i do trainer work outs all week and outdoors rides on the weekend ( excluding the work commute, but thats jsut a recovery ride)

as for the MTB on dirt, how deep are your pockets?? MTB + mud = constant repairs and breakages.

62vette

Yeah, the top of Pikes Peak was hard on the lungs, and that was just after driving up. And that road was an non-stop adrenalin rush being my second day ever driving on that side of the road.

bbp

Of course mtb adds skills, and at the very least its a nice diversion from traffic, etc. Do it.
But also buy yourself a beater road bike. $1 or 200 can get you some incredible older road bikes on ebay. Old top of the line cromoly gigs with downtubies which you can still use your current 9 and 10 spd wheels on with friction, or chuck some brifters on cheap. Take the time to shop around, hell, buy two or three of the buggers and teach yourself about what you like in terms of geometry. Everyone needs a pub bike.

Eilert Pilarm

welcome then mates! g'day an' that!

seppo? that's funny. never heard that term before. but dont bother me at all. but feel free to let us know what the hell it means

I flew an aussie airplane at Oshkosh the other day, the GA-8 Airvan. F*ckin brilliant!
nice job mates....it's a great airplane. we're gonna fly it up here in Alaska out to the mine every day. hopefully we'll get a factory tour down there in your summer/our winter

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classic1

..and made about 7km from my house.

http://www.gippsaero.com/ZoneID=141.htm

Apparently they are the airplane equivalent to a ute ( or a pick-up as you seppos call them) .

Hitchy

Actually Saccy, I agree with you & was just thinking the same....she clearly loved her job & I'm assuming mods don't get paid...so it's a pity for her....just wish she hadda attempted to resolve things rather than just go 'bull in a china shop'.....I'm assuming she 'cracked it' & resigned, rather than be shoved?....expat?......So whose starting the "bring back Koffee thread"?.....anyone?....anyone?.........

jock.c

In honour of the goings on of the last little while, I'd like to move a motion that August 1 be observed as "The International Give a Seppo a Break Day". Along with the Horses' Birthday celebrations that is.

Oh, and for our new players: seppo = american. Here's how it works:

Aussies are pretty lazy with the lingo by nature and tend to shorten everything into a single syllable or a rhyming word/phrase wherever possible. It mostly stems from the hard working blue collar workers of the 50's and 60's. So somewhere along the line americans were all refered to as Yanks. In all likelihood a visiting Yank probably got offended because they were from Missouri (not New York) so rhyming slang was used instead - septic tank rhymes with yank - kinda like a covert way of saying Yank without offending anyone. There's some irony in that, but it takes us an age to explain irony to a Yank so I'm not going to try. Anyway, did I mention that we're a lazy bunch? Well septic tank is three syllables and, quite frankly, rolls off the tongue like a brick. So it was shortened to seppo (more than likely so that some little Iti (that's an Italian migrant blue collar worker) could understand what was going on). In some contexts it is shortened even furtherer to just sep.

Clear as mud?

531Aussie

Yeah, and spot if he's wearing a rug!

I dunno if I could do that anymore -- too many boneheads.
I nearly gave my Vai ticket to a guy I knew out the front of the Palace that night, coz I was only half-hearted, and he really wanted to see him....but I didn't. This is pretty obvious, but I thought the highlight was The Attitude Song with the 3 guitars. What happened to that young Aussie guitar player?

the last gunslinger I saw was Holdsworth at The Station Hotel, in Greville St., about 9 years ago. He just threw together a band of local guys. I reckon they make half that stuff up. He was amazing, but VERY boring to watch.

I saw Vinnie Moore at The Corner; he was pretty amazing, too. Every bit as good as Vai.

I saw a Frank Gamble clinic -- I was a bit disappointed. I mate of mine got to pick up his guitar after the show, and said the strings were virtually touching the frets.

I used to be a huge fan of Jim Hocking (The Astros, etc), and i went to the Musos Lounge every Monday night, just to watch him do 5 songs! I dunno how he got such a good sound out of a non-preamp Marshall and 2 Boss Overdrives!

Jack Jones blew me away as much as any of the guys above. He's a farking freak!! But now he cares too much about music to play like an 80s wanker -- he just does Hendriz licks, and hangs out with his hippy mates in Ackland St.

climbo

existence - SS MTB is the way to go, makes you tough as nails and hardly any maintenance.

Hitchy

well, just in from tonights idea of a joke from the 'coaching nazi'......2 hours E2 & 90 mins at E3!....this isn't funny....think I'll wrap myself in a crownie & collapse....oh & look in the yellow pages for a new coach...this one is trying to kill me

cirrus

G'day! How'd you score a flight in the Airvan? (I used to work for Gippy Aero in a previous life). Very jealous that you've been to Oshkosh, I moved back to Oz two years ago and have missed going to Oshkosh. It's a fantastic place for an aviation nut!

Jono L

Truth be it, I'm only in year 11, Schools out at 2:00pm on tuesdays for me, so I'm home from mordi before the ride even begins

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