The Perth Thread

[Biggie]

haha not too bad by Wandering standards but yeah its still pretty cold. Would love to live out here but Im not much good as a farmer unfortunately

Would be a tough gig as a farmer.

Has to be in your blood I reckon.

 

[Admiral Byng]

I can never be bothered indicating to leave a roundabout - sometimes give a half hearted flick of the indicator, but rarely

It's him!
Let's get him fellas!!!

 

[Nothing]

I'm noticing lately a distinct increase in the number of people who appear to believe indicating is optional when driving on the streets of Perth. Has anyone else noticed this?

I was doing school pick up this afternoon and a lot of parents park in a side street. There's a car stopped in the middle of the road. Like 5m from the left curb. No indicators. No stop/park lights. I stop behind them for 5 seconds. Drive around them to reverse into a car park. They roll up alongside and glare at me. Apparently parking in the middle of the road is the new signal for I intend to take that car park. I roll down the window and suggest that using an indicator to indicate your intentions might assist in other road-users understanding their intentions. (Or words to that affect)

 

[Biggie]

I'm noticing lately a distinct increase in the number of people who appear to believe indicating is optional when driving on the streets of Perth. Has anyone else noticed this?

Arrogant campaigners.

All of them.

Their time is more important than anybody else.

 

[Kram]

Would be a tough gig as a farmer.

Has to be in your blood I reckon.

At least the mega wheat sheep farms they have to be born into it and inherited from their old man because of the massive cost of the land and equipment. And it's not really the toughest gig around when most of them are loaded.

 

[Procrastinator35]

I was doing school pick up this afternoon and a lot of parents park in a side street. There's a car stopped in the middle of the road. Like 5m from the left curb. No indicators. No stop/park lights. I stop behind them for 5 seconds. Drive around them to reverse into a car park. They roll up alongside and glare at me. Apparently parking in the middle of the road is the new signal for I intend to take that car park. I roll down the window and suggest that using an indicator to indicate your intentions might assist in other road-users understanding their intentions. (Or words to that affect)

Was this the aftermath of that exchange?

 

[Nothing]

Was this the aftermath of that exchange?

Nah. It was school pick up. Both cars were 4WDs.

 

[Milang_Panthers]

At least the mega wheat sheep farms they have to be born into it and inherited from their old man because of the massive cost of the land and equipment. And it's not really the toughest gig around when most of them are loaded.

They aren't all loaded. Most are asset rich (land, equipment etc) but don't actually have a lot of actual money. Sadly these days a lot of kids aren't taking on the family farm, which is fine that's their choice.

 

[Kram]

They aren't all loaded. Most are asset rich (land, equipment etc) but don't actually have a lot of actual money. Sadly these days a lot of kids aren't taking on the family farm, which is fine that's their choice.

True but I swear I've never ever met a 'poor' farmer in the wheatbelt.

I think all the smaller farms are just getting absorbed into bigger ones.

 

[BALKAN]

I have started indicating less and less these days. Dunno why. Come@me

 

[Beerfish]

I have started indicating less and less these days. Dunno why. Come@me

Don't worry. Someone will. Just a matter of time.

 

[Off The Couch]

I made the mistake of reading the Carnarvon article on Perth Now and then the comments


So much for moderating comments - disgusting

 

[JoseMourinho]

I made the mistake of reading the Carnarvon article on Perth Now and then the comments


So much for moderating comments - disgusting

the article is gone now.

 

[kane249]

I made the mistake of reading the Carnarvon article on Perth Now and then the comments


So much for moderating comments - disgusting

What was the article?

 

[Kram]

I have started indicating less and less these days. Dunno why. Come@me

I don't think my old man even knew that the indicator sticks existed on cars.. He didn't drive in the city much though.

 

[Off The Couch]

What was the article?

Carnarvon shire refusing to replace the Australian flag with an aboriginal flag for NAIDOC week.

 

[kane249]

Carnarvon shire refusing to replace the Australian flag with an aboriginal flag for NAIDOC week.

Geez, I can only imagine the comments that would have attracted.

 

[Illinois Nazi]

Carnarvon shire refusing to replace the Australian flag with an aboriginal flag for NAIDOC week.

Didn't see the article but can imagine the carry-on (from both sides of the argument).

Would depend on how many flagpoles they've got I think. From memory, flag protocol is that you do not replace the national flag under any circumstances, however if you have multiple flagpoles then for something like NAIDOC week (or whatever) then another flag can be flown with equal stature to the Australian flag. If you have only one flagpole then the Australian flag stays.

 

[Off The Couch]

Article from WA today

http://www.watoday.com.au/wa-news/s...ly-aboriginal-flag-wa-mp-20160528-gp63dw.html

 

[Scotland]

I spent a good 10-15 minutes getting from Canning Bridge to the Narrows yesterday about 6.30pm.

No accidents, no traffic anywhere else - just a couple of merge points. FFS Perth, sort your shit out. You don't need to merge at 5 km/h.

 

[Bomberboyokay]

At least the mega wheat sheep farms they have to be born into it and inherited from their old man because of the massive cost of the land and equipment. And it's not really the toughest gig around when most of them are loaded.

True but I swear I've never ever met a 'poor' farmer in the wheatbelt.

I think all the smaller farms are just getting absorbed into bigger ones.

National Farmers' Federation loves to ham up the Doing It Tough™ shtick for more government subsidies and free shit for it raining too little or too much. There are struggling farms but there's a good number doing very, very well. No distinction in the PR angle.

 

[Scotland]

Farmers have always socialised their losses and capitalised their profits.

Farming is like teaching, though. Everyone has an opinion yet 99% of people don't want to do it.

 

[Kram]

Former West Coast player Ian Downsborough is still a farmer I think, him and his brother Craig were nice blokes.

 

[bradrowe#32]

Farmers have five great years and say nothing. Then they have one poor year and want subsidies and are on ABC Radio in tears. It's been like that forever.

 

[craigos]

To be fair to Farmers if it didn't rain regularly every living plant in my yard would be dead. Who can be arsed watering things.