Mega Thread The Random Thoughts Thread Part 1

[El Zorro]

Since when have our major roads become the general workspace of any/every tradie/roadworker etc?

No, I dont mean when a road crew is making repairs to that road, or even the pavement running along that road.

It's a growing trend that general workers, be it on a building site, the side-road or its pavement or just a standard building. They pull up on the main road, layout cones and 25km/h signs for about 300m either side of the worksite, block off lanes then park their heavy equipment or ute or small truck in that lane, dump materials on the road sometimes taking up to two lanes. Once they've achieved the difficult task of unnecessarily bottle-necking major roads and thoroughfares, they proceed to travel a decent distance AWAY from the mother******* main road to do their work.

**** I hate Adelaide traffic. For such a small city with a relatively well planned out road network, it has without doubt the most horrendous ******* traffic I've experienced and now we have to put up with arsehats using the main roads as their personal ******* work areas.

****

One of my pet hates.

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[Magus]

Since when have our major roads become the general workspace of any/every tradie/roadworker etc?

No, I dont mean when a road crew is making repairs to that road, or even the pavement running along that road.

It's a growing trend that general workers, be it on a building site, the side-road or its pavement or just a standard building. They pull up on the main road, layout cones and 25km/h signs for about 300m either side of the worksite, block off lanes then park their heavy equipment or ute or small truck in that lane, dump materials on the road sometimes taking up to two lanes. Once they've achieved the difficult task of unnecessarily bottle-necking major roads and thoroughfares, they proceed to travel a decent distance AWAY from the mother******* main road to do their work.

**** I hate Adelaide traffic. For such a small city with a relatively well planned out road network, it has without doubt the most horrendous ******* traffic I've experienced and now we have to put up with arsehats using the main roads as their personal ******* work areas.

****

OH&S.

 

[raman]

Since when have our major roads become the general workspace of any/every tradie/roadworker etc?

No, I dont mean when a road crew is making repairs to that road, or even the pavement running along that road.

It's a growing trend that general workers, be it on a building site, the side-road or its pavement or just a standard building. They pull up on the main road, layout cones and 25km/h signs for about 300m either side of the worksite, block off lanes then park their heavy equipment or ute or small truck in that lane, dump materials on the road sometimes taking up to two lanes. Once they've achieved the difficult task of unnecessarily bottle-necking major roads and thoroughfares, they proceed to travel a decent distance AWAY from the mother******* main road to do their work.

**** I hate Adelaide traffic. For such a small city with a relatively well planned out road network, it has without doubt the most horrendous ******* traffic I've experienced and now we have to put up with arsehats using the main roads as their personal ******* work areas.

****

If only the people who actually needed to drive drove, this wouldn't be an issue.

 

[tribey]

When is 'Express Post' - "Guaranteed next day delivery", not guaranteed to be delivered the next day? When it's Australia Post Express Post "Guaranteed next day delivery".

My sister, living in Melbourne, sent me a parcel a few days before my 10th birthday.

In the lead up to the big day, it didn't come.

I rushed home from school on the day, it hadn't come.

1 week passed. 2 weeks passed. 3 weeks passed. Enquiries at Australia Post were met with shoulder shrugs.

Then one crisp June evening as I was bouncing a tennis ball off the front wall as I was want to do, a balding middle-aged man in an Australia Post one-tonner pulled up with a parcel in hand.

"Is your mum home?"

- "She's just gone round the corner to the shops".

"Make sure she gets this".

- "Shucks Mister, I'll make sure".

It turned out to be Kung Fu for the NES. I waited a month for Kung Fu on the NES. Let down.

Fast-forward 4 years and mum and said Australia Post contractor were dating after meeting through the local church. The first time I went to his place he showed me his shed where he worked on all manner of cars including his classic 50's Chrysler. I was more interested in the stacks and stacks of parcels littering every spare corner and shelf.

"It's a bit naughty, but I often get a backlog, so I decide which parcels are and aren't important and deliver them all eventually".

OBVIOUSLY LITTLE TRIBEY'S 10TH BIRTHDAY PRESENT PACKAGING WASNT RAZZLE-DAZZLE ENOUGH HEY KHENT is what I would've liked to have said.

Still, cold case closed.

 

[Eddie Dingle]

if they closed this thread down and 'cleaned out' anything that could be considered slightly offensive to anyone there would be about 28 pages left..

especially from all you ween hating campaigners....

Be careful.

 

[Phhht]

OH&S.

Yeah look, I can appreciate that there is a need for people working near roads to be safe. That there are rules that govern these potentially dangerous sites.

But the other day, after waiting nearly 30 minutes to get through a bottleneck caused by the closing of 2 lanes, I noticed that the actual work was being performed at least 100m down the side road. Bunch of workers repaving the sidewalk, on the side road. They'd parked two trucks, dumped a load of paving sand and a pallet of pavers across 2 ****ing lanes on the main road. Put up the signs and cones, some guy leaning against one of the trucks with his 'Slow' lollypop sign, whilst another guy was using a mini dozer thingy to transport the paving sand and pavers 100 m plus up the road.

How the **** does OH&S justify that?

Too many of these guys are simply using the main roads as their work space when they have no need to. And it's like I'm cursed or something. I swear I'll decide to drive to Perth one day and guaranteed I'll be traveling through the Nullarbor Plains without another soul and there will be a ****ing road closure coz a farmer is moving his water tank from one side of the house to the other.

 

[Phhht]

If only the people who actually needed to drive drove, this wouldn't be an issue.

Yeah I know it'd help but seriously, I've spent a reasonable time living in Sydney, Melbourne and even o'seas in larger cities and honestly, Adelaide makes up excuses to **** up traffic flow.

As I said, you'd think Adelaide was a population of 2 or 3 million with the amount of traffic bullshit we endure.

 

[Duck Farmer]

Still don't think we have a problem? Statistics sourced from UNODC in collaboration with the government.

Jamaica not in the Top 10 for cannabis use. I call bullshit.

 

[Magus]

Yeah look, I can appreciate that there is a need for people working near roads to be safe. That there are rules that govern these potentially dangerous sites.

But the other day, after waiting nearly 30 minutes to get through a bottleneck caused by the closing of 2 lanes, I noticed that the actual work was being performed at least 100m down the side road. Bunch of workers repaving the sidewalk, on the side road. They'd parked two trucks, dumped a load of paving sand and a pallet of pavers across 2 ******* lanes on the main road. Put up the signs and cones, some guy leaning against one of the trucks with his 'Slow' lollypop sign, whilst another guy was using a mini dozer thingy to transport the paving sand and pavers 100 m plus up the road.

How the **** does OH&S justify that?

Too many of these guys are simply using the main roads as their work space when they have no need to. And it's like I'm cursed or something. I swear I'll decide to drive to Perth one day and guaranteed I'll be traveling through the Nullarbor Plains without another soul and there will be a ******* road closure coz a farmer is moving his water tank from one side of the house to the other.

Yep. Health and Safety is over the top in most areas of work nowadays, IMO.

 

[John the Butcher]

When is 'Express Post' - "Guaranteed next day delivery", not guaranteed to be delivered the next day? When it's Australia Post Express Post "Guaranteed next day delivery".

And the guarantee is only a free satchel

 

[LukeSA]

Yeah look, I can appreciate that there is a need for people working near roads to be safe. That there are rules that govern these potentially dangerous sites.

But the other day, after waiting nearly 30 minutes to get through a bottleneck caused by the closing of 2 lanes, I noticed that the actual work was being performed at least 100m down the side road. Bunch of workers repaving the sidewalk, on the side road. They'd parked two trucks, dumped a load of paving sand and a pallet of pavers across 2 ******* lanes on the main road. Put up the signs and cones, some guy leaning against one of the trucks with his 'Slow' lollypop sign, whilst another guy was using a mini dozer thingy to transport the paving sand and pavers 100 m plus up the road.

How the **** does OH&S justify that?

Too many of these guys are simply using the main roads as their work space when they have no need to. And it's like I'm cursed or something. I swear I'll decide to drive to Perth one day and guaranteed I'll be traveling through the Nullarbor Plains without another soul and there will be a ******* road closure coz a farmer is moving his water tank from one side of the house to the other.

Do you ever get the feeling that everything everyone does is done just to piss you off, i get that feeling all the time, i would have normal blood pressure if i didn't drive.

 

[I Dont Care]

Since when have our major roads become the general workspace of any/every tradie/roadworker etc?

No, I dont mean when a road crew is making repairs to that road, or even the pavement running along that road.

It's a growing trend that general workers, be it on a building site, the side-road or its pavement or just a standard building. They pull up on the main road, layout cones and 25km/h signs for about 300m either side of the worksite, block off lanes then park their heavy equipment or ute or small truck in that lane, dump materials on the road sometimes taking up to two lanes. Once they've achieved the difficult task of unnecessarily bottle-necking major roads and thoroughfares, they proceed to travel a decent distance AWAY from the mother******* main road to do their work.

**** I hate Adelaide traffic. For such a small city with a relatively well planned out road network, it has without doubt the most horrendous ******* traffic I've experienced and now we have to put up with arsehats using the main roads as their personal ******* work areas.

****

This is not just a problem in Adelaide, but it is even worse when they don't use witch hats and speed signs, or any signage at all, just the flashing orange light atop their ute, in an 80 or 100km zone

 

[I Dont Care]

My sister, living in Melbourne, sent me a parcel a few days before my 10th birthday.

In the lead up to the big day, it didn't come.

I rushed home from school on the day, it hadn't come.

1 week passed. 2 weeks passed. 3 weeks passed. Enquiries at Australia Post were met with shoulder shrugs.

Then one crisp June evening as I was bouncing a tennis ball off the front wall as I was want to do, a balding middle-aged man in an Australia Post one-tonner pulled up with a parcel in hand.

"Is your mum home?"

- "She's just gone round the corner to the shops".

"Make sure she gets this".

- "Shucks Mister, I'll make sure".

It turned out to be Kung Fu for the NES. I waited a month for Kung Fu on the NES. Let down.

Fast-forward 4 years and mum and said Australia Post contractor were dating after meeting through the local church. The first time I went to his place he showed me his shed where he worked on all manner of cars including his classic 50's Chrysler. I was more interested in the stacks and stacks of parcels littering every spare corner and shelf.

"It's a bit naughty, but I often get a backlog, so I decide which parcels are and aren't important and deliver them all eventually".

OBVIOUSLY LITTLE TRIBEY'S 10TH BIRTHDAY PRESENT PACKAGING WASNT RAZZLE-DAZZLE ENOUGH HEY KHENT is what I would've liked to have said.

Still, cold case closed.

Did young Tribey ever score any said parcels? Go on...you can tell me

 

[xflamedancer]

Yeah I know it'd help but seriously, I've spent a reasonable time living in Sydney, Melbourne and even o'seas in larger cities and honestly, Adelaide makes up excuses to **** up traffic flow.

As I said, you'd think Adelaide was a population of 2 or 3 million with the amount of traffic bullshit we endure.

I wouldn't drive in Perth then if I were you. Perth drivers have to be the most pig ignorant in the country. i.e. when you are merging onto a Freeway build up to the ****ing speed limit BEFORE YOU GET ONTO THE ****ING FREEWAY. Sitting at 80 ****ing Kmh as you come off the ramp is going to get someone killed. When it rains Perth drivers go to pieces and doesn't have to a really decent sort of rain either a, 30 second sprinkle is enough. YOU DONT HAVE TO ****ING SLOW DOWN TO 30 Kmh BELOW THE FREEWAY SPEED LIMIT WHENEVER YOU TURN ON THE ****ING WINDSHIELD WIPERS, YOUR VEHICLE WILL STILL FUNCTION NORMALLY AT HIGH SPEED WITH THE ****IN WIPERS ON.

I feel much better now

 

[StuMan]

 

[Del165198]

I wouldn't drive in Perth then if I were you. Perth drivers have to be the most pig ignorant in the country. i.e. when you are merging onto a Freeway build up to the ******* speed limit BEFORE YOU GET ONTO THE ******* FREEWAY. Sitting at 80 ******* Kmh as you come off the ramp is going to get someone killed. When it rains Perth drivers go to pieces and doesn't have to a really decent sort of rain either a, 30 second sprinkle is enough. YOU DONT HAVE TO ******* SLOW DOWN TO 30 Kmh BELOW THE FREEWAY SPEED LIMIT WHENEVER YOU TURN ON THE ******* WINDSHIELD WIPERS, YOUR VEHICLE WILL STILL FUNCTION NORMALLY AT HIGH SPEED WITH THE ****IN WIPERS ON.

I feel much better now

not really exclusive to perth
i use to drive to work on the southern expressway every day. the amount of ********* that don't know how to merge onto a ****ing freeway....
there's an accelerator pedal ****ING PUT YOUR FOOT ON IT

instead you'd have these people going 60 and oh there's a car 500m back better slow down even more.
i ended up in a (minor) pileup because someone was too slow to merge so they ended up STOPPING. car behind them (naturally) ran up their arse, and i ran up theirs, and the car behind me stopped about 2cm short.

 

[LukeSA]

not really exclusive to perth
i use to drive to work on the southern expressway every day. the amount of ****silly people that don't know how to merge onto a ******* freeway....
there's an accelerator pedal ******* PUT YOUR FOOT ON IT

instead you'd have these people going 60 and oh there's a car 500m back better slow down even more.
i ended up in a (minor) pileup because someone was too slow to merge so they ended up STOPPING. car behind them (naturally) ran up their arse, and i ran up theirs, and the car behind me stopped about 2cm short.

That infuriates me to no end, i am normally doing about 110km/h at the end of the merge lane. People have a habit of cutting me off on the Southern Expressway, here i am driving in a lane and someone cuts me off changing lanes, stamps on their brakes and then drive 10 under the 100km/h limit.

Lots of drivers piss me off but there is a special circle in hell for people who cut me off because they were in the wrong lane, again on the southern expressway normally i like to drive in the middle lanes, someone in the inside lane suddenly decides they want to get off at Marion Road and cut me off and drive through 3 lanes of traffic.

 

[edgie]

A selection of roles Sylvester Stallone has turned down:

Beverly Hills Cop
Die Hard
Pulp Fiction
Boondock Saints

To think, Bruce Willis would probably be beneath Dolph Lungdren in the pecking order if Sly had any sense.

 

[StuMan]

Just the thought of Stallone as John McClane makes me want to cry.

He did the world a favour turning that down.

 

[raman]

Highlight of the work xmas do - aside from that thread that got deleted - was one Crows fan trying to tell another Crows fan that Simon Tragenza was better than Ricciuto.

 

[Doctor Feel]

 

[tribey]

A selection of roles Sylvester Stallone has turned down:

Beverly Hills Cop
Die Hard
Pulp Fiction
Boondock Saints

To think, Bruce Willis would probably be beneath Dolph Lungdren in the pecking order if Sly had any sense.

Burt Reynolds turned down Die Hard ffs. Who was casting? Renny Harlin?

As massive as his career was you've got to feel for Sean Connery, turning down Dumbledore and Gandalf but signing onto The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

 

[raman]

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Seriously, if there is a request field on a hotel booking web form, use it. I tend to ask for three limes in the bar fridge, and it always happens.

 

[edgie]

Burt Reynolds turned down Die Hard ffs. Who was casting? Renny Harlin?

As massive as his career was you've got to feel for Sean Connery, turning down Dumbledore and Gandalf but signing onto The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

Yep, very bad move, but Ian Mckellan nailed Gandalf harder than Shean Connery every could. That role ended up in the right hands. As for Dumbledore, the first actor was the best, but Connery would've done better than the replacement.

Then he cracked the shits over Extraordinary League and retired from acting.

He could've ended up like Christopher Lee, but nope, he plain chucked it in.

 

[LukeSA]

Burt Reynolds turned down Die Hard ffs. Who was casting? Renny Harlin?

As massive as his career was you've got to feel for Sean Connery, turning down Dumbledore and Gandalf but signing onto The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

Funny story, they originally approached Frank Sinatra for the role in Die Hard.

From Wikipedia...

It is based on Roderick Thorp's 1979 novel Nothing Lasts Forever, the sequel to 1966's The Detective, which was adapted into a 1968 film of the same name that starred Frank Sinatra. Fox was contractually obliged to offer Sinatra the lead role in Die Hard, but he turned it down.