The Thread about Nothing....

Llama - first in Masters. I think, only about 24 seconds off the day's best time. Stupendous effort.

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Originally Posted by paulambry

Llama - first in Masters. I think, only about 24 seconds off the day's best time. Stupendous effort.

17:44. 14 seconds off best time in A/NRS. First off in my grade, they started me 10 secs early, tried to correct it, then sent rest of the field 20 seconds early, then +20secs to everyone's on-the-line time. So I'm taxed +10 seconds on the final result. Still won. [censored] timing systems is a little tiring to be honest.

Best ride I've had in a while though. Won't be a GC contender, I'm there to ensure others won't be.

gplama said:

Best ride I've had in a while though. Won't be a GC contender, I'm there to ensure others won't be.

So, you're there to pretty much be a [censored]-blocker on wheels then?

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Originally Posted by alienator

My guess is that the Parkes dish was stowed pointing up (they do that when it gets windy and perhaps other times)--or was pointed up, scanning the sky looking for transient interstellar events while the Earth rotated--the weather conditions were just right, and what you saw was scatter seen by weather radar. Weather radar usually uses S-band EM frequencies, and the Parkes dish is opaque and thus a reflector at those frequencies. S-band is good from short distance to long range distances, so no matter how far away the weather stations, an image like this is what you would see once all the stations' radar returns had been stitched together in a single image.

Besides, everyone who's not an idiot knows that aliens use cloaking technology so that their ships can't be seen with radar or laser beams.

I like it. By the time it's parabolic reflection has reached the satellite in question, it's a profound thing. Thanks alienator.

Well done Lama. And by the way the Mont has nearly sold out again. You up for it next year? I'm certainly not fast enough, but if you want a gentle social team, I'll sponsor it.
If I'm in it, of course. I'm not some starfucker.

Well done lama. Not bad for a fat [censored]!

The Elegant Gentleman's Guide to Knife Fighting was a bit hit and miss I thought. Some riotously funny stuff, but equally some seriously unamusing stuff too.

Oh yes, well done Llama!

[censored] blocker - Yep! I have a lifetime of chase-sit-on-chase-sit-on to repay for years of having it happen to me.

Not sure about the Mont24 Beeps. Awesome fun last year though. If the planets align we might be there.

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Originally Posted by matagi
The Elegant Gentleman's Guide to Knife Fighting was a bit hit and miss I thought. Some riotously funny stuff, but equally some seriously unamusing stuff too.

And sadly I'd never even heard of it until I saw that clip on some Seppo website.
I'll leave my flag at the door.

Well, I might, if I had one. But I don't, and I won't, so I sha'nt.

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Originally Posted by gplama

Not sure about the Mont24 Beeps. Awesome fun last year though. If the planets align we might be there.

You know you want to, and perhaps even need to. Now that Vadar's not taking the frustrated roadie trophies from you these days, you've got to give yourself those pure riding pleasure moments occasionally. Although having done Kowen outside of a racing weekend recently, there are some wonderful tricky little hidden sections they can't afford to send 3000 people though in a race, so you'll just have to come up and enjoy it all and more again before then.

Have you ridden Stromlo yet?

Ha. This is half funny. These guys play a prank on their mate by rigging cold kegs through all his plumbing, then put cameras around the joint to watch his reaction when he comes home. Skip to the 5min mark if you just wanna see the money shot

Watch

Well, it's certainly no worse than the last, first few in the series. Eh, cobber?

Quoted post said:

Originally Posted by 531Aussie
Ha. This is half funny. These guys play a prank on their mate by rigging cold kegs through all his plumbing, then put cameras around the joint to watch his reaction when he comes home. Skip to the 5min mark if you just wanna see the money shot

Watch

Don't get me wrong, I won't complain when you blaggards prank me like that, but really, why not just the one keg at a time on the single pipe from the meter? Granted it might not be as cold from the tap so quickly, but still.

matagi said:

The Elegant Gentleman's Guide to Knife Fighting was a bit hit and miss I thought.  Some riotously funny stuff, but equally some seriously unamusing stuff too. Oh yes, well done Llama!

That is exactly what I thought Ma. Some of the cleverest skits I've seen for ages, and many that were a swing and a miss. And yeah, again, Lllama - you never cease to amaze me. Your [adjusted and corrected] time put you right up there among Australia's best pro riders. You are farken ace.

alienator said:

My guess is that the Parkes dish was stowed pointing up (they do that when it gets windy and perhaps other times) ...

... for a game of cricket.

alienator said:

... Besides, everyone who's not an idiot knows that aliens use cloaking technology so that their ships can't be seen with radar or laser beams.

Yeah der! As if anyone doesn't know that.

Apologies for blatant self interest plugs, but here is an interview with the retiring Cookie.

http://cyclingtips.com.au/2013/11/interview-with-baden-cooke/

Can't believe I didn't drop it in here earlier.

Come on Vadar, come out of retirement and bollock me for being too soft on the doping questions, you know you want to!

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Originally Posted by Jono L
Apologies for blatant self interest plugs, but here is an interview with the retiring Cookie.

http://cyclingtips.com.au/2013/11/interview-with-baden-cooke/

Can't believe I didn't drop it in here earlier.

Come on Vadar, come out of retirement and bollock me for being too soft on the doping questions, you know you want to!

You should have asked him about the night following this; [IMG]files.cyclingforums.comdevil.pngOpen ↗[/IMG]

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Damn sprinters get all the chicks.

Picture tells a thousand words ;-)

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Originally Posted by Jono L
Picture tells a thousand words ;-)

did he score? :-)