He's Fungry!

cfsmtb said:

Amongst a host of road issues in the meedya, the last paragraph of this
one accurately illustrates the shallow priorities of Melbourne's
younger road users. Bloody callow whippersnappers.

Makes many of my cycling exploits (in search of food & beverages) look
relatively tame by comparison.

'P-platers face phone ban' (http://tinyurl.com/bft2p)
".....In some cases, they had held a licence for just a few weeks.
Others offered feeble excuses for their behaviour. Last month, a
23-year-old Docklands P-plater booked at 206km/h on the Eastern Freeway
at 3.10am told police he did not realise they would be working so late.
And in June, an Altona P-plater, 19, nabbed doing 173km/h on the
Princes Freeway at Laverton said he was going to Carlton for a
kebab....."

What amazed me on last night's news ( or was it the night before) was
one of the P-platers being interviewed asked, if there was a phone ban,
what they were supposed to do if the phone rang. Hmmm, how about not
answer it, or even, get this for a radical idea ... turn it off (I know,
it's the work of a heretic).

DaveB "enjoying mobile phone free time on the bike and motorbike"

"cfsmtb" wrote in message ...

Quoted message said:

And in June, an Altona P-plater, 19, nabbed doing 173km/h on the
Princes Freeway at Laverton said he was going to Carlton for a
kebab....."

173?! ... doesn't sound like his commo was 'fully sick' enough..

cheers,
GPL
:fully sick commo driver: 😉

DaveB said:

DaveB "enjoying mobile phone free time on the bike and motorbike"

I have lately been making calls and sending SMS's while riding.

I just have to try to remember to lock the key pad before I start riding.

My record is 5 SMS's, all blank, in one ride. I will have to put a dummy number as first name in the address book. Andrew is getting sick of me.

I can't get the [censored] out of the backpack when the cricket goes off!

I hate the way old(er) people hang it on the young 'uns 'cause they have a bit of fun with everything (ie: cars, drugs, sex, firecrackers, brakeless fixies on the road).

As if in the '60s & '70s no one did burn outs or raced each other. It's not that I'm justifing this sort of behavour, sure it's wrong etc. But as if anyone is going to change 1000 yrs of evolution & force teenages (early 20's) to behave themselves....

cfsmtb said:

an Altona P-plater, 19, nabbed doing 173km/h on the Princes Freeway at Laverton said he was going to Carlton for a kebab....."

the drawing power of a kebab is indeed strong, young skywalker

F"fully sick moyyyytt"Dutch

Marx SS said:

I can't get the [censored] out of the backpack when the cricket goes off!

I hate the way old(er) people hang it on the young 'uns 'cause they have a bit of fun with everything (ie: cars, drugs, sex, firecrackers, brakeless fixies on the road).

As if in the '60s & '70s no one did burn outs or raced each other. It's not that I'm justifing this sort of behavour, sure it's wrong etc. But as if anyone is going to change 1000 yrs of evolution & force teenages (early 20's) to behave themselves....

Darwinian theory in action. Quick, everyone on the forum who is over 35 write down 10 things you did before the age of 25 that could have/should have killed you!

Who saw the ABC doco on how young'uns' brains are not fully developed until early 20's and that's why they indulge in risk taking behaviour?

Equally, it is a function of being an oldy to criticise the young'uns' behaviour.

This is how the world works. 😄

SteveA

SteveA said:

Darwinian theory in action. Quick, everyone on the forum who is over 35 write down 10 things you did before the age of 25 that could have/should have killed you!

SteveA

1. Jumping out a tall tree & safely landing in a pile of garbage
2. Being attacked by dogs/cats/horses and a large [censored] parrot
3. Being thumped by parent/s/siblings/grown ups
4. Commencing smoking & drinking pre-teenage years
5. Several NYE celebrations
6. Car accident, friend took corner too sharply, spun car, landed on roof.
7. [censored] drugs
8. Moving to Melbourne
9. Walking in front of fast moving VLine train in Alphington
10. Several Jobs From Hell

cfsmtb said:

6. Car accident, friend took corner too sharply, spun car, landed on
roof.

I did that whilst driving a convertible.

Theo

"flyingdutch" wrote in message ...

Quoted message said:

the drawing power of a kebab is indeed strong, young skywalker

F"fully sick moyyyytt"Dutch

There is a place in Footscray (or North Melb, that area anyways) where there
is a hooker joint, and a kebab truck right out the front.. I drove past it
late one night with a mate.. a dark road with not much going on.. as we
drive by he points, "check it out, a root then a kebab - what a combo!".. a
truly memorable moment.. arhhh geez..

cheers,
GPL

SteveA said:

Marx SS said:

I can't get the [censored] out of the backpack when the cricket goes off!

I hate the way old(er) people hang it on the young 'uns 'cause they
have a bit of fun with everything (ie: cars, drugs, sex, firecrackers,
brakeless fixies on the road).

As if in the '60s & '70s no one did burn outs or raced each other. It's
not that I'm justifing this sort of behavour, sure it's wrong etc. But
as if anyone is going to change 1000 yrs of evolution & force teenages
(early 20's) to behave themselves....

Darwinian theory in action. Quick, everyone on the forum who is over
35 write down 10 things you did before the age of 25 that could
have/should have killed you!

Me first me first.

!) Had gf whose father was one of the top rifle shooters in the
country.. and a nut (She is now a senior copper)

2) Held lap record for La Trobe Uni Bundoora on a motorcycle.

3) Went shooting with a serving police officer ( I swear I felt the wind
from the bullet and he was shooting at a spider; notoriously poor eating.)

4) Katana 1100s do MORE than 150 miles an hour.

5) Ummm we wont talk about that one.. lets just say always bring guns to
knife fights.

6) Big ferraris do MUCH MORE than 150 miles an hour

7) Deb mashed potato an explosive? Who would have guessed?

8) What do you mean force 7 winds? We wanna go sailing.

9) Me and Mike go LOOKING for the local gang.. and find em

and

10) That was going out with an Irish girl. 🙂 THe television made a
hell of a bang bouncing off the wall. Glad I ducked.

Quoted message said:

Who saw the ABC doco on how young'uns' brains are not fully developed
until early 20's and that's why they indulge in risk taking behaviour?

Equally, it is a function of being an oldy to criticise the young'uns'
behaviour.

This is how the world works. 😄

SteveA

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

>> "sinus" == sinus <[email hidden]> writes:

sinus> My record is 5 SMS's, all blank, in one ride. I will have to
sinus> put a dummy number as first name in the address book. Andrew
sinus> is getting sick of me.

Scary statistic, 70% of 000 calls are made in error, the overwhelming
majority from mobile phones. Doesn't' matter if you lock your keypad or
not because 000 can be dialed with the keypad locked, although you still
need to press send.

Only real defence is a flip phone or carrying it in a dorky looking belt
case. Assuming you've got a belt. Or a Crumpler case for the
Crumpler. Assuming you've got a Crumpler.
--
Cheers | ~~ __@
Euan | ~~ _-\<,
Melbourne, Australia | ~ (*)/ (*)

On 2005-08-16, sinus (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:

Quoted message said:

DaveB said:

DaveB "enjoying mobile phone free time on the bike and motorbike"

I have lately been making calls and sending SMS's while riding.

I just have to try to remember to lock the key pad before I start
riding.

My record is 5 SMS's, all blank, in one ride. I will have to put a
dummy number as first name in the address book. Andrew is getting sick
of me.

jkkjaskjjksajksdjksadjkjfm, ncvcxnmxm,xGIVE ME A NEW BIKElkasjklslsdaskladsljkdsalksdalksadlj

--
TimC
}> Is "wrongest" an actual word?
} It's a perfectly cromulent word.
Which, when used, embiggens us all.
-- Jeff Ramsey, Steed and D. Joseph Creighton in ASR

Quoted message said:

3) Went shooting with a serving police officer ( I swear I felt the wind
from the bullet and he was shooting at a spider; notoriously poor eating.)

You just made me giggle like a very small child. Most undignified. Bad man.

I started this so I suppose I should put down 10 things:

1. big motorcycles, 200kph, no helmet

2. seriously large amounts of alcohol

3. seriously large amounts of alcohol which lead to sleeping in mate's front garden in Canberra in T shirt and shorts in middle of winter

4. getting into pen with Brahman bull and annoying it until it charges

5. rock climbing unprotected - "no worries, it's just a boulder"

6. avalanche at 6,000m on a snowy peak in Nepal

7. a certain turbo charged European car, a mate and 240kmh heading west out of Brisbane (in my foolish yoof, my biggest 'booked' speed was 196kmh but that was before that sort of speed was an automatic licence looser - $110 fine if I recall)

8. surfing through road culverts when creek was in flood - "what? snags in the pipes under the road? - never!!"

9. lying on bottom of 10 person spa in local pool/tennis club/gym for 15 minutes breathing from the air bubble jet on the bottom so I could frighten unsuspecting girls by grabbing them by the ankle when they got in

10. "gotta take the (sailing) boat from Mooloolaba to Brisbane. Don't worry about the cyclone warning - its too far north, it won't come down here. Faaaark, we're surfing down a 30 foot wave. Whheee. Shiiiit"

Steve(How did I make it to my age)A

Resound said:

Quoted message said:

3) Went shooting with a serving police officer ( I swear I felt the wind
from the bullet and he was shooting at a spider; notoriously poor eating.)

You just made me giggle like a very small child. Most undignified. Bad man.

🙂

SteveA said:

I started this so I suppose I should put down 10 things:

1. big motorcycles, 200kph, no helmet

2. seriously large amounts of alcohol

3. seriously large amounts of alcohol which lead to sleeping in mate's
front garden in Canberra in T shirt and shorts in middle of winter

4. getting into pen with Brahman bull and annoying it until it charges

5. rock climbing unprotected - "no worries, it's just a boulder"

6. avalanche at 6,000m on a snowy peak in Nepal

7. a certain turbo charged European car, a mate and 240kmh heading
west out of Brisbane (in my foolish yoof, my biggest 'booked' speed was
196kmh but that was before that sort of speed was an automatic licence
looser - $110 fine if I recall)

8. surfing through road culverts when creek was in flood - "what?
snags in the pipes under the road? - never!!"

9. lying on bottom of 10 person spa in local pool/tennis club/gym for
15 minutes breathing from the air bubble jet on the bottom so I could
frighten unsuspecting girls by grabbing them by the ankle when they got
in

10. "gotta take the (sailing) boat from Mooloolaba to Brisbane. Don't
worry about the cyclone warning - its too far north, it won't come down
here. Faaaark, we're surfing down a 30 foot wave. Whheee. Shiiiit"

Steve(How did I make it to my age)A

!1) Rally car down mineshaft.

BTW in Queensland at least riding while talking on a mobile will get you a ticket. Remember that whole bikes are vehicles to thing etc etc.

SteveA said:

I started this so I suppose I should put down 10 things:

1. big motorcycles, 200kph, no helmet

2. seriously large amounts of alcohol

3. seriously large amounts of alcohol which lead to sleeping in mate's front garden in Canberra in T shirt and shorts in middle of winter

4. getting into pen with Brahman bull and annoying it until it charges

5. rock climbing unprotected - "no worries, it's just a boulder"

6. avalanche at 6,000m on a snowy peak in Nepal

7. a certain turbo charged European car, a mate and 240kmh heading west out of Brisbane (in my foolish yoof, my biggest 'booked' speed was 196kmh but that was before that sort of speed was an automatic licence looser - $110 fine if I recall)

8. surfing through road culverts when creek was in flood - "what? snags in the pipes under the road? - never!!"

9. lying on bottom of 10 person spa in local pool/tennis club/gym for 15 minutes breathing from the air bubble jet on the bottom so I could frighten unsuspecting girls by grabbing them by the ankle when they got in

10. "gotta take the (sailing) boat from Mooloolaba to Brisbane. Don't worry about the cyclone warning - its too far north, it won't come down here. Faaaark, we're surfing down a 30 foot wave. Whheee. Shiiiit"

Steve(How did I make it to my age)A

GPLama said:

"cfsmtb" wrote in message ...

Quoted message said:

And in June, an Altona P-plater, 19, nabbed doing 173km/h on the
Princes Freeway at Laverton said he was going to Carlton for a
kebab....."

173?! ... doesn't sound like his commo was 'fully sick' enough..

cheers,
GPL
:fully sick commo driver: 😉

At least he didn't reply, "You must have trapped me when I slowed down for the bend" 🙂

Ritch

On 2005-08-16, SteveA (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:

Quoted message said:

I started this so I suppose I should put down 10 things:

I lead such a boring life. Wait, the rule was what was done under 25
wasn't it?

Hmm, got to think up a few projects I can do in the following 8
months.

--
TimC
When I'M trying to get somebody fired, I always walk a mile in their
shoes first. That way, when I get them fired and they get all angry
with me, I'm a mile away, and I'VE GOT THEIR SHOES! HAW HAW!
--Beable van Polasm, alt.religion.kibology