Haha Aussie news is always so cringey man, I can’t stand the sound of it on in the background when I’m skyping home haha
Lozzaroo89 (17/07/2014)
hogtrumpet (17/07/2014)
Ratty46 (17/07/2014)
hogtrumpet (17/07/2014)
So… that is some nice weather we are having, eh?
yeh but its a bit toooo hot by midday
This is how the Australian news media is reporting the British heatwave:
http://www.smh.com.au/environment/weather/britons-brace-for-a-sort-of-heatwave-20140717-zu2pf.html
(Sent to me by my mum this morning).
Haha Aussie news is always so cringey man, I can’t stand the sound of it on in the background when I’m skyping home haha
Baahahaha!!! Love it. On the flip side my mother has just informed me that Perth is freezing at the moment with an artic 12 degrees!
Jarrod (17/07/2014)
Lozzaroo89 (17/07/2014)
hogtrumpet (17/07/2014)
Ratty46 (17/07/2014)
hogtrumpet (17/07/2014)
So… that is some nice weather we are having, eh?
yeh but its a bit toooo hot by midday
This is how the Australian news media is reporting the British heatwave:
http://www.smh.com.au/environment/weather/britons-brace-for-a-sort-of-heatwave-20140717-zu2pf.html
(Sent to me by my mum this morning).
Haha Aussie news is always so cringey man, I can’t stand the sound of it on in the background when I’m skyping home haha
Baahahaha!!! Love it. On the flip side my mother has just informed me that Perth is freezing at the moment with an artic 12 degrees!
Mmmm 12 degrees, I hate the heat, I left Aus for a reason! ha
I miss Australia
Markie76 (17/07/2014)
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There are a hard core of riders who seem to believe aggressive riding & speeding gets you there quicker - it’s 50/50 sometimes it will, most of the time it just gets you to the next red light quicker - if they decide to stop. :ermm:
Blanket riders - people on mopeds who are all over the place, in and out of the tiniest gap, avoiding stopping in case the imaginary monster chasing them catches up - their moped blanket will protect them from all evil… unless it rains, when a lot of them seem to disappear… :doze:
Interesting plates - show/small plates have been around for a while but now seeing plates mounted in front of the rear wheel on bigger bikes - so almost completely obscured by the rear wheel. Hmmm, is it a case of “oh it was like that when I bought the bike officer” and they expect “oh ok, on your way guv!”. They must move it for the MOT but it brings up the question whether any Police officer would pull over a bike like that, personally I think Police standards vary greatly between officers these days and thats why you can get away with show plates and cars/trailers with hand written plates. Perhaps there is ‘guidance’ not to bother with such stuff :Whistling:
Lets not forget 4.
- Those that whinge and complain and tell us all about it and how bad it was - John 8:7
Art (17/07/2014)
I miss Australia
Don’t worry Art we’re all moving over here
But I wanna move over there with all the little Arts
Art (17/07/2014)
I miss Australia
Me too. I loved it over there. Might well plan to retire there (if they’ll have me!).
Australia has gone so far towards regulation and rules its mad.
If you think police are bad here forgot there…and filtering is illegal …and yes you will get stopped.
They have stopped drinking on the beach for fcuks sake!
everytime I go it seems to have slipped more and more down the road towards a police state.
superoli (17/07/2014)
Australia has gone so far towards regulation and rules its mad.
If you think police are bad here forgot there…and filtering is illegal …and yes you will get stopped.
Filtering isn’t specifically illegal- the issue is that whilst filtering you will be breaking other laws around riding safely.
You do get stopped a lot more though- you’re right there.
Although from July 2014 in NSW you can filter legally- they ran a trial in Sydney and unsurprisingly it revealed that traffic improved so they rolled it out.
Other states are looking at it too (although probably not Queensland).
We are heading back at some point- I’ve been away for 15 years, my wife for 20, and our parents are getting older and need some help.
I’m going to miss the fairly liberal UK policing compared to Oz.
They have mobile radar absolutely everywhere- I’m going to have to behave.
superoli (17/07/2014)
Australia has gone so far towards regulation and rules its mad.
If you think police are bad here forgot there…and filtering is illegal …and yes you will get stopped.
They have stopped drinking on the beach for fcuks sake!
everytime I go it seems to have slipped more and more down the road towards a police state.
lol I bet they ain’t banned barbecues on the beach like they seem to have done over here on certain beaches…
What’s the point of having a beach bbq without beer?
monkimark (17/07/2014)
What’s the point of having a beach bbq without beer?
There is actually a rising number of teetotaller in Oz.
I’ve been off the booze for quite a while now- didn’t have a problem with it but simply got to the point where I didn’t want to do it anymore.
monkimark (17/07/2014)
What’s the point of having a beach bbq without beer?
Yeah what else have you got to look forward to. Sand and a few stones. Unfortunately monk thats what its come down to. Thats what our country as become!!
That’s because all the lairy drunk Australian 20 somethings are in west London
hogtrumpet (17/07/2014) [hr
There is actually a rising number of teetotaller in Oz.
monkimark (17/07/2014)
That’s because all the lairy drunk Australian 20 somethings are in west London
I know you’re joking but to take that seriously for a second- they aren’t coming in the numbers that they used to as
a) the exchange rate is more favourable than it has been in the past
b) you earn more in Australia than you do here if you’re looking at bar work and other ‘traveller’ types of jobs
c) all the jobs that travelling Aussies used to do have been taken by Eastern European.
I didn’t want to post on the ‘Immigration’ thread but really when people say ‘coming over here taking our bloody jobs’ they should be saying ‘coming over here, taking the bloody Aussies jobs’.
Tell me about it
In 2005 I was arrested for smoking on a NSW beech
In 2009 I was chased down by Sydneys finest for going through the the Harbour Bridge auto toll without a tag
In 2011 I was fined for wearing a hat in Asquith Sports Club bar
Art (19/07/2014)
Tell me about it
In 2005 I was arrested for smoking on a NSW beech
In 2009 I was chased down by Sydneys finest for going through the the Harbour Bridge auto toll without a tag
In 2011 I was fined for wearing a hat in Asquith Sports Club bar
Arrested for smoking on a beach? Haha
I saw a classy young lady in a tracksuit enjoying a fag while watching the seal show at Chessington a few weeks ago, noone batted an eyelid ha
Art (19/07/2014)
In 2011 I was fined for wearing a hat in Asquith Sports Club bar
Was that because it was the only thing you were wearing? :Whistling:
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hogtrumpet (17/07/2014)
**I didn’t want to post on the ‘Immigration’ thread but really when people say ‘coming over here taking our bloody jobs’ they should be saying ‘coming over here, taking the bloody Aussies jobs’.
I’m an east european and taking a bloody aussies job would mean taking a BLOODY HUGE PAY CUT!!!