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[Andonis1997]

Not exactly dandy at 6:00am on a Monday morning.

But it's easy on a Sunday morning...............................

EDIT: DAMN IT, I thought I did a funny until I realised I got the lyrics wrong....

 

[Dylan8]

ha

oh, was this not a joke

 

[Gibbsy]

Probably, but there isn't a place I can top up between my house and across the road (where the bus stop is)

Heaven forbid you have a place right next door where you can top up! Sometimes you have to travel out of the way to do things. You can top up online btw, although it takes a couple of days (poor on Myki's behalf)

I'm glad you took the fine and didn't bitch about it, hopefully it teaches you a bit of a lesson though

 

[Dylan8]

I'm glad you took the fine and didn't bitch about it, hopefully it teaches you a bit of a lesson though

ffffff**** the police gibbsy

 

[maggotz]

I'm sore from two days of football at the USAFL Nationals, but before I head to bed for the night I thought you mates might like to see this pic. Sorry for the poor quality of the photo. The Manly-Warringtah Giants came over, held a coaches' clinic and played an exhibition game and hung out here with us all weekend. I got a shot of them as they were tossing a (gridiron) football around.

I asked a couple of their footballers about the quality of the USAFL and was pleased to hear that they thought our division 1 and top division 2 squads could be competitive in the 4th division of AFL Sydney. I thought that answer was quite impressive, considering how new the sport is to the US and Canada. Especially when you consider that teams like our own Columbus Jackaroos, which is nearly 100% Americans (we only had one Aussie playing with us this season) playing for a club that's just a few years old, could conceivably competitively play lower level footy in Australia. I'm sure that wasn't the case as recently as years ago.

While I was chatting with them and taking a few photos, one of them was getting chased by a bee and was complaining about the bugs here, and I, of course, welcomed him to Ohio.

Our club failed to defend our division 2 premiership, losing GF to Los Angeles Dragons, the club we slaughtered last season for the cup.

Division 1 premiers are New York Magpies, def. Orange County (California) Bombers by 3 pts.

I was on our division 4 club merged with Orange County Bombers (sister club to Essendon). So, all of us that didn't make our "A" squads played together against smaller established full squads and got hammered in all three games. But, it's my first year playing, I'm 18 years older than the second oldest player on our team (literally 3x as old as the youngest on our squad) and I scored two goals (both in a game playing with our "A" side) in 5 games overall this year, so I'm already looking forward to next season!

I don't know if I have enough good photos from the weekend to justify a thread, but if so, I'll post. Cheers!

 

[Spanna_]

Ah, we just call it a Smartrider.

I haven't needed to use public transport for quite some time so I'm not familiar with paying a bus fare with anything other than a dollar coin.

That thing is so easy to use.

 

[rabbitoh21]

Re: Myki, can't you guys add direct debit? Or is that not a thing in Melbexico?

 

[akkaps]

Re: Myki, can't you guys add direct debit? Or is that not a thing in Melbexico?

Direct debit?

Lol. Melbexico.

 

[Gibbsy]

Re: Myki, can't you guys add direct debit? Or is that not a thing in Melbexico?

You can have it take out a certain amount of money off your credit card each week/month, if that's what you're talking about

 

[Bryce_Jersey17]

Re: Myki, can't you guys add direct debit? Or is that not a thing in Melbexico?

Just remember, the Myki cards aren't as "sophisticated" as our Opal cards, which still don't include options for any students or pensioners

 

[rabbitoh21]

Just remember, the Myki cards aren't as "sophisticated" as our Opal cards, which still don't include options for any students or pensioners

Well that sucks

 

[Andonis1997]

Metrocards bishes

 

[akkaps]

Part II:

So I topped my my ticket yesterday with $5 at my local train station. This morning go to my local newsagent to put $80 on my card. All good, sussyssfully put money on my card. (These two landmarks are on the opposite side of the my house yo the bus stop)

And so I get to the bus stop and see ticket inspectors there. Thank **** I topped up.


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I have another story where I was on a tram ride, I had money on my myki, but didn't tap on. Inspectors come on board, check my myki, and it's all good. No fine, no nothing. So from that I think that only check if you have a positive balance, and not whether you touched on.

 

[lmach]

I can't remember the last time I caught a bus or train. Probably when I was in Melbourne.

 

[Gibbsy]

I have another story where I was on a tram ride, I had money on my myki, but didn't tap on. Inspectors come on board, check my myki, and it's all good. No fine, no nothing. So from that I think that only check if you have a positive balance, and not whether you touched on.

If that was the case then you could start with $10 on your card and never be fined, even if you never touched on. I think it would have been either a technical fault or your lucky day.

 

[Dylan8]

I can't remember the last time I caught a bus or train. Probably when I was in Melbourne.

Interest story akkaps

Metrocards bishes

Do they still have these?

 

[Andonis1997]

Interest story akkaps

Do they still have these?

Yep. I haven't used one for ages though.

 

[Dylan8]

My only run in with ticket inspectors was at night with a couple of m8s, there were literally no other people on the train except for a group of like 5 inspectors. We'd just picked up and were going back to my mates a couple of suburbs away, when we ran onto the train as it was about to leave the station. Thankfully this helped my friend's excuse story re not touching on (no one had a topped up myki anyway) about how we were chased by some disgruntled youths who were gonna roll us, so we luckily jumped on the train when we were bolting away.

They let us off after a few questions (lol who do they think they are) but one of the guys standing at the back of this bizarre pack of ticket inspectors looked comically suspicious the whole time. He knew.

 

[lmach]

My only run in with ticket inspectors was at night with a couple of m8s, there were literally no other people on the train except for a group of like 5 inspectors. We'd just picked up and were going back to my mates a couple of suburbs away, when we ran onto the train as it was about to leave the station. Thankfully this helped my friend's excuse story re not touching on (no one had a topped up myki anyway) about how we were chased by some disgruntled youths who were gonna roll us, so we luckily jumped on the train when we were bolting away.

They let us off after a few questions (lol who do they think they are) but one of the guys standing at the back of this bizarre pack of ticket inspectors looked comically suspicious the whole time. He knew.

Sounds interesting.

 

[Dylan8]

Sounds interesting.

I knew this was coming as I was re-reading it

 

[Bacon Warrior]

I once talked my way out a $100 fine for over-riding when I was a rebellious young shit stirrer. Probably the peak of my edginess and delinquency.

 

[Andonis1997]

we were chased by some disgruntled youths

If you said these exact words, there was no way they would have allowed you to get away.

 

[Dylan8]

If you said these exact words, there was no way they would have allowed you to get away.

Spoken like a true disgruntled youth.

 

[Andonis1997]

Spoken like a true disgruntled youth.

What the **** did you just ****ing say about me, you little bitch? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I’ve been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I’m the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the **** out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my ****ing words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, ****er. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You’re ****ing dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little “clever” comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your ****ing tongue. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You’re ****ing dead, kiddo.

 

[Klim]

What the **** did you just ******* say about me, you little bitch? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I’ve been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I’m the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the **** out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my ******* words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, goose. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You’re ******* dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little “clever” comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your ******* tongue. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You’re ******* dead, kiddo.

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