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

[perthblue]

Why do Australians hate things shutting on a public holiday so much?

 

[kane249]

It's inconvenient for visitors to the city and counter jumpers don't deserve the day off anyway.

So why do electricians and tradies deserve the day off than?

 

[quotemokc]

Can people stop indicating right when they are going straight over a roundabout?????

 

[Plugger35]

Can people stop indicating right when they are going straight over a roundabout?????

That shits me too, if you're going straight through a roundabout you shouldn't be indicating at all but some plonkers indicate left, right or both as they go around half the roundabout even though they are aren't actually turning left or right but going straight through.

They think they're being courteous but it's just idiotic and confuses other drivers.

 

[The Speaker]

That shits me too, if you're going straight through a roundabout you shouldn't be indicating at all but some plonkers indicate left, right or both as they go around half the roundabout even though they are aren't actually turning left or right but going straight through.

You should indicate when you're leaving the roundabout, but that's always to the left and only as you approach the exit you want to go into.

 

[gaskin]

That shits me too, if you're going straight through a roundabout you shouldn't be indicating at all but some plonkers indicate left, right or both as they go around half the roundabout even though they are aren't actually turning left or right but going straight through.

They think they're being courteous but it's just idiotic and confuses other drivers.

If you were taking your driving test and didn't indicate coming out of a roundabout you would fail.

 

[Van_Dyke]

That shits me too, if you're going straight through a roundabout you shouldn't be indicating at all but some plonkers indicate left, right or both as they go around half the roundabout even though they are aren't actually turning left or right but going straight through.

They think they're being courteous but it's just idiotic and confuses other drivers.

You do realise that you’re meant to indicate left upon leaving the roundabout

 

[Feerits Elf]

That shits me too, if you're going straight through a roundabout you shouldn't be indicating at all but some plonkers indicate left as they go around half the roundabout even though they are aren't actually turning left but going straight through.

Yeah, nah

 

[Reynolds Number]

Why the hell are the shops closed on a public holiday in 2018.

We close the shops but good grief if we close the pubs.

 

[Plugger35]

If you were taking your driving test and didn't indicate coming out of a roundabout you would fail.

It must have changed since I took my drivers test, I can't recall being taught to indicate at all if i was going straight through a roundabout and I've never done it in over 20 years of driving.

 

[Kram]

So why do electricians and tradies deserve the day off than?

Because it takes 4 years of training instead of 4 days.

 

[kane249]

It must have changed since I took my drivers test, I can't recall being taught to indicate at all if i was going straight through a roundabout and I've never done it in over 20 years of driving.

I got my license 20 years ago and it was in the law back then.

Most people don't do it, but it's still in there

 

[JackOutback]

I got my license 20 years ago and it was in the law back then.

Most people don't do it, but it's still in there

25 years ago, and yes, it's always been law.

 

[XXRL]

http://www.roadrules.rsc.wa.gov.au/road-rules/roundabouts

The one that does my head in is "Turning vehicles must give way to pedestrians" - if I had a dollar for every time I've been abused / nearly killed crossing a road as a pedestrian with right of way...

 

[Scotland]

I got my license in 2001.

When did learning how to merge stop being a thing? Or was that never a thing?

 

[Plugger35]

I got my license in 2001.

When did learning how to merge stop being a thing? Or was that never a thing?

i can't recall being taught how to merge either but it should just be common sense if you've been driving in traffic for any length of time.

 

[Scotland]

This is it.

Address is 18 something something..

Hai Beerfish

https://www.realestate.com.au/property-house-wa-victoria+park-128189922

High $800s to mid $900s, pls.

 

[Power Raid]

Hai Beerfish

https://www.realestate.com.au/property-house-wa-victoria+park-128189922

High $800s to mid $900s, pls.

Fk

I just did a search on realestate.com and you get pretty shit value in vic park these days. To think they were going for $220k around 2000.

I don't mind spending $1+m on a home but if I do spend anything like that, I want it to feel like I have a nice home and not a shit box.

 

[perthblue]

I got my license in 2001.

When did learning how to merge stop being a thing? Or was that never a thing?

my driving instructor never taught me to reverse or parallel park

 

[Scotland]

Fk

I just did a search on realestate.com and you get pretty shit value in vic park these days. To think they were going for $220k around 2000.

I don't mind spending $1+m on a home but if I do spend anything like that, I want it to feel like I have a nice home and not a shit box.

You're old enough to have bought a $1m house for $200k and have enough money to buy a $1m house today.

I'm not sure you realise how many people hate you.

 

[Power Raid]

You're old enough to have bought a $1m house for $200k and have enough money to buy a $1m house today.

I'm not sure you realise how many people hate you.

my first property was $27k being an apartment in Semaphore (80s), followed by an villa by Flinders university for $67k (early 90s). The returns on these were pretty ordinary at best.

I had to liquidate to go back to uni in the late 90s and buy an apartment in East Perth for $225k. Not being financial until ~04, I missed out I guess on the massive uplifts in perth (in the traditional sense) during the first waive of the boom. I got a massive break though that changed my life. I tried to buy the commonwealth bank building on the mall for $6.4m by syndicating with Navy mates in $100k-200k licks. It was delivering a 30% rental return from a 10 year CBA lease alone and was only 40% leased out. Cutting a long story short the asking price went out of my reach and a rich jewish man, who I approached for funding, paid me ~$1m to go away.

I then got really lucky in Jakarta where $80k-120k could buy you an apartment renting out to foreigners for US$40k per annum. I moved them on for $600k-800k but they're now selling at $1+m.

In 2008 I picked up loads of property from the almost bankrupt property developers just before the critical 30 June deadline. The first home-owners grant then gave the sector a crazy and unforeseen lift generating 35%-85% returns in a 9 months turn around period (the time it took to sub-divide). Better still, I didn't have to pay for it until I sold it. Despite the positive financial outcome, it was probably the only business I regret getting involved in.

I've probably lost money on my home but that's definitely a home and not an investment. However, it does highlight property doesn't always go north.

Good times will come again in property but I think young people will need to think globally rather than locally. Otherwise, it will be a grind for the average person with $1m property prices and be bogged down in debt...........and I hate debt.




on balance to the kids today who have to pay more. My first full time job paid $3.57 an hour or $180 after tax, after a 60 hour week. Suddenly $27k and $67k doesn't sound cheap.

 

[JackOutback]

I got my license in 2001.

When did learning how to merge stop being a thing? Or was that never a thing?

And now they are redesigning roads to try and remove merging rather than expect people to know how to do it properly. Dumbing down our already dumb drivers.

 

[The Speaker]

It must have changed since I took my drivers test, I can't recall being taught to indicate at all if i was going straight through a roundabout and I've never done it in over 20 years of driving.

Well you should start.

 

[perthblue]

Shits me when I'm giving way to someone approaching the roundabout, only for them to turn left without indicating. Arseholes.

 

[dont bowl there]

Well you should start.

What would be the reason to do so? You can't indicate early as it would seem you are turning left, by the time you indicate left to go straight you are already leaving the roundabout. Who are you indicating to?