Food, Drink & Dining Out The Perth Thread - Part 2

[Breva_]

He is very well known in the eastern suburbs. When I was at Midland TAFE around 2000 pretty much every kid in the class had some funny story about some silly thing they had seen him do.. About a year later in Midland Gate I heard a bit of a commotion and a sort of screaming and barking, turned around and sure enough there is this bearded bloke pushing a bike.. Had never seen him before that or since though.

Think he is just some handicapped bloke that lives in the hills and for some reason rides some ridiculous kms all around Perth every day.

I did a lot of works on the railway lines when they electrified them, used to see him everywhere. Was always a highlight of the day watching him go off at some poor unsuspecting motorist.

 

[Kram]

I did a lot of works on the railway lines when they electrified them, used to see him everywhere. Was always a highlight of the day watching him go off at some poor unsuspecting motorist.

Probably an exaggeration but people told me he would do stuff like get up in the morning then ride down the hills then all the way to Fremantle and back in one day. He must be pretty fit..

 

[Beerfish]

Probably an exaggeration but people told me he would do stuff like get up in the morning then ride down the hills then all the way to Fremantle and back in one day. He must be pretty fit..

Crazy fit.

 

[Breva_]

Probably an exaggeration but people told me he would do stuff like get up in the morning then ride down the hills then all the way to Fremantle and back in one day. He must be pretty fit..

I'd see him down around Cottesloe a bit when I was working around there & it's said he lives around midland, so I'd believe that.

 

[ioppolo]

Where's the Street view from?

He pops up in different locations every 5/10 years

 

[Billy ray]

I remember being at lathlain train station after a demons wafl game in the mid 80s, and he rode down the platform screaming 'thanks for the ride, thanks for the ride, thanks for the ride, whoop, whoop whoop"

so loud.

i was 10 at the time. wondered what the hell was going on.
and here, 30 years later, its clear as crystal in my head that memory.

 

[Plugger35]

Did anyone else hear Clint Wheeldon ripping into that old bloke that was complaining about ABC sports talkback not talking about Moto racing?

Clint absolutely shut him down, he said if he you want to talk about motorbike racing then talk about it, don't just ring up and complain about it.

You could tell Clint didn't give a s**t about motorsports like me, Clint is good with AFL, soccer and rugby union, as a rugby union man he checks out.

 

[Scotland]

I've never understood people who do that. It's talk back, if you want to raise a topic then raise it.

George Grljusich had no time for it either. But then he had no time for most things.

 

[Plugger35]

I've never understood people who do that. It's talk back, if you want to raise a topic then raise it.

George Grljusich had no time for it either. But then he had no time for most things.

Yeah like Clint said people complain that all they do is talk about football on there but the majority of callers and listeners want football talk.

Not many people give a s**t about motorsport apart from the diehard motorsport fans and even calling it a sport is being generous, it's boring as batshit.

 

[Scotland]

'I think you guys spend too much time talking about football and cricket and don't give other sports a go'
'Do you want to talk about something other than football or cricket?'
'No'
'Thanks for calling'

 

[Off The Couch]

Fairly hosing - will it never end

 

[Shane Hird]

I think my roof is about to go..

 

[Perth gal]

I think my roof is about to go..

Where are you? Is it windy?

 

[Scotland]

How are we still 200mm+ down on the long term average? For about the 50th time this year it feels an ark could pull up at any moment.

 

[Perth gal]

How are we still 200mm+ down on the long term average? For about the 50th time this year it feels an ark could pull up at any moment.

 

[Smeg Head]

Yeah window rattling hosing.

And Scotland I think we managed an averagish Winter for the first time in ages, but Summer and Autumn were dry.

 

[Scotland]

And now my Foxtel is out.

* off, winter. You had your turn. Let someone else have a go.

 

[Scotland]

Yeah window rattling hosing.

And Scotland I think we managed an averagish Winter for the first time in ages, but Summer and Autumn were dry.

We only average about 45mm the first 3 months of the year and got 30 or so. We're actually down for June/July/August and it doesn't feel like it.

 

[Smeg Head]

We only average about 45mm the first 3 months of the year and got 30 or so. We're actually down for June/July/August and it doesn't feel like it.

Becuase we have been getting maybe a third of the long term average in recent years. This winter will be as wet as come into the future, the average has been trending down since the 70s I believe.

 

[Scotland]

And our dams are still a 30%.

 

[Shane Hird]

Where are you? Is it windy?

Safety Bay. Wild winds and bucketing sideways rain.

 

[Shane Sheridan]

Hosing in the 6024. Remember as a kid the figure of 869mm as our average rainfall, down into the low-mid 700's now I think

 

[Illinois Nazi]

6023 hosing represent!

 

[WCErevival]

Was a struggle to drive home then. Felt like Newman in Jurassic park trying to get to the dock.

 

[Off The Couch]

And our dams are still a 30%.

This is what annoys me - the water is obviously running somewhere. The problem is that we can't keep clearing land and building new subdivisions around our dams without expecting the run off to change. Seems to be common sense to me but maybe I've got it all wrong