Why is it.................?

[Tassie f100]

Originally Posted by slowsnake

Bloody idiots, that's it, the amount of times I came across stranded travellers, and they dident even have a shovel?
Leave em there, just drop em food and nappies, they got plenty of water, let em wait it out, they wanted adventure and they got it!....stop complaining

Spose its a bit like someone finding you on the side of the road with a big roo and a busted radiator.Presume you are saying I would be better off leaving you some water and food rather than trying to help get you closer to home,maybe with a tow rope.Like why don’t you carry water and a spare radiator.

[slowsnake]

Originally Posted by Tassie f100

Spose its a bit like someone finding you on the side of the road with a big roo and a busted radiator.Presume you are saying I would be better off leaving you some water and food rather than trying to help get you closer to home,maybe with a tow rope.Like why don’t you carry water and a spare radiator.

I have!...and I did....gave my details, vehicle, approximate length and weight, wrote in detail damage, new radiator, bit of heating and hammer work, gave it to the next driver who stopped, he leaves, I sleep, I wake up to the RACWA tilt tray driver knocking on my window, towed into town, already ordered a new radiator from Perth, be there at noon, on my way 3pm, all done and dusted.

[wodahs]

idk they need help so give them help
but they are bloody idiots
got all the off road gear but dont know how to use it or have a shovel
just like people that buy big caravans but have never towed a thing in their life and have a vehicle too small for it and end up flipped
unfortunate theres not to much you can do but help them after the situation

[slowsnake]

Originally Posted by wodahs

idk they need help so give them help
but they are bloody idiots
got all the off road gear but dont know how to use it or have a shovel
just like people that buy big caravans but have never towed a thing in their life and have a vehicle too small for it and end up flipped
unfortunate theres not to much you can do but help them after the situation

They let it dry out a bit, then back the damn thing out, they dident just drive along and fall Ito a mud hole the exact shape of their vehicle, you can see the tyre tracks going in, they have hit a wet patch and tried to back out and instead of getting out to check the situation and assess their next move, they more than likely just put it in reverse and dug themselves in deeper?....idiots, they are a very dangerous species, and very common in the outback, it attracts them like flies, its a dangerous place and will kill you, simple as that, the outback is a death trap for the wary, nevermind the unwary

[Itsme]

Originally Posted by wodahs

idk they need help so give them help
but they are bloody idiots
got all the off road gear but dont know how to use it or have a shovel
just like people that buy big caravans but have never towed a thing in their life and have a vehicle too small for it and end up flipped
unfortunate theres not to much you can do but help them after the situation

No amount of digging will help them when the whole area got soaked; you need to wait for it to dry a bit before recovery of vehicle can be done.

[Syndrome]

Why is it Patrick Swayze has been dead for more than a decade but there is still no sequel to the 1990 film Ghost?

[prktkljokr]

I have the same truck, well a newer version but the same with the super singles, you let the tyres down and they will crawl over everything, have never bogged it once, its been in mud that just sucks you in just throw it in low 4 it just keeps going, great trucks if you know how to use them and have the proper equipment.

Unfortunately we have people who need saving from themselves from time to time and just think because it has 4X4 written on it they wont get bogged, they dont understand that you need to take different action in different terrain, I rescued a 4WD once and the guy didnt know you had to engage the hubs for it to be 4WD.

Hey they have plenty of time waiting, they could dig a little out each day and be out of there themselves by the end of the week

[slowsnake]

Originally Posted by prktkljokr

I have the same truck, well a newer version but the same with the super singles, you let the tyres down and they will crawl over everything, have never bogged it once, its been in mud that just sucks you in just throw it in low 4 it just keeps going, great trucks if you know how to use them and have the proper equipment.

Unfortunately we have people who need saving from themselves from time to time and just think because it has 4X4 written on it they wont get bogged, they dont understand that you need to take different action in different terrain, I rescued a 4WD once and the guy didnt know you had to engage the hubs for it to be 4WD.

Hey they have plenty of time waiting, they could dig a little out each day and be out of there themselves by the end of the week

Absolutely correct PJ, spot on

[PG2]

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[wodahs]

i like christmass
it doesnt matter how much i tell women i may look like santa but im not , they still fell the need to sit on my lap
but i come from a big family and they all do their thing on christmass so i get left alone ~ and im happy with that

Originally Posted by DJR-351

I did mean bottles

i thought prktkljokr meant bottles too

[Citroënbender]

Saturday’s my day off everything; unfortunate that Christmas lands on it this year. Normally I mow the lawn or go for a country drive.

[slowsnake]

Originally Posted by Citroënbender

Saturday’s my day off everything; unfortunate that Christmas lands on it this year. Normally I mow the lawn or go for a country drive.

Well last year I pulled the waterpump, changed timing belt and rebuilt the fuel pump, I finished it on Cristmas afternoon!

It's still sitting there and she has never driven it?
So much for Chrismas cheer, lol, but, this Christmas I hope to be doing more with my other neighbours sore neck, back and front ribs, she claimed today that her hamstrings are sore!..I was trying to tune a kiddies ukele and the "twang" on the second string made her rub the back of her upper thigh, which she asked about getting rubbed sometime soon.......

But makes up for last year's lack of " joie de vivre "..

[slowsnake]

Originally Posted by Citroënbender

Saturday’s my day off everything; unfortunate that Christmas lands on it this year. Normally I mow the lawn or go for a country drive.

Christmas is for children and old ladies!.......

[jaydee]

Originally Posted by slowsnake

Christmas is for children and old ladies!.......

I love the food, hate the hassles, but the food...

[slowsnake]

Why is it that traditional Christmas Pudding have coins in em!.....

[marty351]

Does this neighbour have a pool?

[slowsnake]

Originally Posted by marty351

Does this neighbour have a pool?

No, but she has a little tank outback with motorbike frogs as residents, worse part is my shoulders and neck are too sore, all that damn rubbing on the bonnet, near done me in!......

PS, glad this is a Ford Forum and not Volkswagen...

[Giant Cranium]

It’s meant to be a silver six pence. But it was to give good luck and wealth for a year to whoever received it in their slice.

Why is it that people believe is this sort of stuff?

[Charliewool]

Originally Posted by Giant Cranium

It’s meant to be a silver six pence. But it was to give good luck and wealth for a year to whoever received it in their slice.

Why is it that people believe is this sort of stuff?

Christmas/Santa/kids/pressies/pudding/good luck…
What’s not to believe?
Some of my best childhood memories.

[ford71V8]

I'd forgotten about the coins in the cake thing....I was pretty young and then it stopped

[slowsnake]

I wrote this May 1986, not sure why, dad died New Years Eve in Perth, same year, maybe a bit of melancholy crept into my mind, I was in hospital in Sydney, liver failure, I was in nearly 5 weeks, close to death and just thinking about stuff, there were 4 beds in the ward, and 3 or 4 times a week I would wake up in the morning and have a new patient in the 2 beds opposite, the old patients would die during the night, bodies very quietly removed in the dead of night, and a new person!
Asked nurses "am I in the right ward" she replied yes its the "linga longa" ward?.....its where people come to die, I asked if I was dying, she said you are in the right place!.....sh.t, stuff this I don't wanna die yet, and I fought hard to recover, I did, but took a year or two.

But I was writing poetry, and I had a memory of a typical white Liverpool Christmas!

I will post it when I find my book, 100s of poems too!

[slowsnake]

CHRISTMAS

A young girl walking, footsteps resounding wildly from nearby houses,
Thoughts of love fill her head, but not for the first time!
Eyes glazed, everything looks fresh and wonderful,
Snowflakes fall ever so gently, each one perfectly formed, but different.

The night sky, velvet blue, low clouds, quite still, bleak, forbidding.
Street lamps glow dimly in the distance, bluish white corona extending.
Singing and laughter assails the ears, everyone seems overjoyed.
Children waiting ever so patiently, so naive, so blatantly sensitive.

Parents busy themselves, preparing, cooking, wrapping, all is ready.
The atmosphere is electric, children wait in controlled anticipation.
Waiting, patiently waiting, for tonight is special, tonight is Christmas.

BB.

[Tonz]

Christmas puddings yummy

yes wrapped in muslin/ old flour bag.
boiled in a tin bowl, (glass was too expensive ?)

my dear beloved ..."I did it for the kids, now the grandies love it" Our puddings have the following
assorted genuine silver coins, miniature horse shoes, love hearts, thimble, walking stick,
there are other bits but I cannot remember and dare not ask her, she would laugh till next week, especially after old comments about bloody things trying to break my teeth.

[Tonz]

we kept stuffing ourselves silly until we found the bits.

agree on half price modern puddings, inject some port into them add brandy to outside.

Lions clubs also do a cool cake. I buy several to keep me going for a few mon....weeks

[Tonz]

pliers will cure that

[Syndrome]

Why is it hundreds of thousands of people march in the streets of Melbourne yesterday yet such a significant event is not on the front page of today's Herald-Sun newspaper?

[Syndrome]

Why is it we lovers of soccer were always called sheilas and poofters yet the first high profile football player of any code to come out is Dean Laidley of Aussie Rules fame.

[jaydee]

Originally Posted by Syndrome

Why is it we lovers of soccer were always called sheilas and poofters yet the first high profile football player of any code to come out is Dean Laidley of Aussie Rules fame.

[CoupeKing]

Originally Posted by Syndrome

Why is it we lovers of soccer were always called sheilas and poofters yet the first high profile football player of any code to come out is Dean Laidley of Aussie Rules fame.

Laidley was a receiver (pun not intended) and each team has at least one. It's rare for them do get a hard ball get, but it's their role.

I think the outside hate (if you will) is directed towards to some of the players and their astronomical wages.

I like soccer, but only the highlights or world cup.

Then there are divers in AFL. But compared to soccer, it's like comparing apples to planets.



And there are fly fishermen out there that couldn't give a rats about either.

[FoxtrotGolfXray 5.0]

...so hard to find anyone interested in building me an approx 3.5m by 6m steel-frame gable-roofed shed with a roller door at one end attached to my existing house?

95% of the garage places I have contacted won't touch it at all. Not even interested.

I found one local guy who is 'interested' and got a quote from him in February (which I was very pleased with, btw), but since then I've been trying to get him back here to run through a few details, without success! I've even told him numerous times I'm happy to proceed with the work so slot me in to his schedule, but nothing! I'm not sure he's really that 'interested'.

Very frustrating.