Here’s an older one, in case the others fail.

Skeptic Pete said:

This is a MUCH more sensible thread title.

I approve.

Agreed, it has a nostalgic feel to it.

In 1967 I had a spiffing blue Vauxhall Viva and was dating Sue from the Water Board.

In 1967 I was 8 and wasn’t even thinking of dating anyone.

Girls!! Yucko

>In 1967 I was 8 and wasn’t even thinking of dating anyone.

Ditto. But I had a small crowd of female admirers including Joycelyn who became my offical girlfriend the following year.

Bubblecar said:

That’s it, except I didn’t have the racing strip or spotties.

Bubblecar said:

I bet Sue from the waterboard was impressed with that bit of kit!

Bubblecar said:

>In 1967 I was 8 and wasn’t even thinking of dating anyone.

Ditto. But I had a small crowd of female admirers including Joycelyn who became my offical girlfriend the following year.

Oh yeah I had female admirers at that age too. I think one of them was a girl named Sue.

All they wanted to do was kiss me.

EEEEwwwwwww

I was just looking up replacement lithium batteries for my Canon digital camera.

The original battery was 1050 mah.

The replacement ones on eBay are 1500 mah.

$5.69 each. Free delivery in Australia.

How good is that?

>How good is that?

It’s pretty damn good.

Well I hope my ghost/psychic letter is in tomorrow’s Herald.

Editor rang on Wednesday and said it would be in soon.

Skeptic Pete said:

Well I hope my ghost/psychic letter is in tomorrow’s Herald.

Editor rang on Wednesday and said it would be in soon.

Was she calling from Mumbai?

Skeptic Pete said:

I was just looking up replacement lithium batteries for my Canon digital camera.

The original battery was 1050 mah.

The replacement ones on eBay are 1500 mah.

$5.69 each. Free delivery in Australia.

How good is that?

Probably ex Boeing :)

Skeptic Pete said:

Well I hope my ghost/psychic letter is in tomorrow’s Herald.

Are you being haunted?

>>How good is that?

I don’t know Skep, I don’t know if that is good or not.
Someone here will probably know though.

Skeptic Pete said:

I was just looking up replacement lithium batteries for my Canon digital camera.

The original battery was 1050 mah.

The replacement ones on eBay are 1500 mah.

$5.69 each. Free delivery in Australia.

How good is that?

What’s mah stand for?

>What’s mah stand for?

Miles an hour

>>What’s mah stand for?

It’s like mother, big mother.

eg.
Mah she’s making eyes at me
Mah she’s awful nice to me

mAh stands for milli ampere hour and it is a measurement of how many milli amps of current a battery is capable of producing in one hour.

UH OH………

How bad does this look!!

http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDR043.loop.shtml#skip

Bubblecar said:

Skeptic Pete said:

Well I hope my ghost/psychic letter is in tomorrow’s Herald.

Editor rang on Wednesday and said it would be in soon.

Was she calling from Mumbai?

Auckland I think

Witty Rejoinder said:

Skeptic Pete said:

Well I hope my ghost/psychic letter is in tomorrow’s Herald.

Are you being haunted?

Only by PWM

I ordered a camera to sit on the dashboard of my car today. I’m gonna film the idiot drivers and make a YouTube channel called “Fkn Qld Drivers”.

Witty Rejoinder said:

What’s mah stand for?

Milliamp hours.

Storage capacity of the battery

So the new one will last 1.5 times as long before needing charging.

>>I’m gonna film the idiot drivers and make a YouTube channel called “Fkn Qld Drivers”.

That’s because you drive a gay man’s car.

Divine Angel said:

I ordered a camera to sit on the dashboard of my car today. I’m gonna film the idiot drivers and make a YouTube channel called “Fkn Qld Drivers”.

Brilliant!

I’ve been thinking about it for a while and then I talked to Bill who showed me his camera.

YouTube has dozens of Car Crash Compilations taken from the car cameras of Russian drivers. Crashes are so common there they all have cameras for insurance purposes.

Lord_Lucan said:

>>I’m gonna film the idiot drivers and make a YouTube channel called “Fkn Qld Drivers”.

That’s because you drive a gay man’s car.

Often I also listen to gay man’s music as well :)

Bubblecar said:

they all have cameras for insurance purposes.

This is my intent. But if I catch a particularly stupid person I’m happy to hand the footage over to social media… I mean, the cops.

Bubblecar said:

mAh stands for milli ampere hour and it is a measurement of how many milli amps of current a battery is capable of producing in one hour.

That would be milliamps per hour. 1500 milliamp hours, on the other hand, could be either one milliamp for 1500 hours or 3000 milliamps for half an hour, or many other situations that satisfy the maths…

Divine Angel said:

Often I also listen to gay man’s music as well :)

DId anyone else here wathc the ABBA show on ABC the other night?

Poor Molly. He just doesn’t get the credit he deserves.

Or so he says anyway ;-)

>That would be milliamps per hour. 1500 milliamp hours, on the other hand, could be either one milliamp for 1500 hours or 3000 milliamps for half an hour, or many other situations that satisfy the maths…

I just copied and pasted the first Google hit, oblivious as to whether or not it was entirely accurate.

>>Poor Molly. He just doesn’t get the credit he deserves.

He’s just a vegetable.

Skeptic Pete said:

Divine Angel said:

Often I also listen to gay man’s music as well :)

DId anyone else here wathc the ABBA show on ABC the other night?

Poor Molly. He just doesn’t get the credit he deserves.

Or so he says anyway ;-)

Hit on the head too often.

Angus Prune said:

That would be milliamps per hour. 1500 milliamp hours, on the other hand, could be either one milliamp for 1500 hours or 3000 milliamps for half an hour, or many other situations that satisfy the maths…

YEs and with my standard abttery I can get, according to the manual, 390 shots from a full charge.

The new battery will give me almost 600 shots between charges. Awesome.

Hello Earthlings in 1967! I come from the future. We have cameras in our cars and women who wear meat and movies filmed in 3D on other planets (we’re all moving to Pandora’s moons).

Well Princess and I were lucky to get our 4k walk in today.

It’s bucketing down now/

Have you checked her for ticks today?

Feb 1967. My parents and sister have just moved to New York and I have been dumped in boarding school.

Divine Angel said:

Have you checked her for ticks today?

Yes, but not as thoroughly as I should.

morrie said:

Feb 1967. My parents and sister have just moved to New York and I have been dumped in boarding school.

Did your mum/dad move to New York for work?

Cool & calm outside this end. The stew’s nearly ready so I’d better start transferring operations to the garden table, beginning with the wine & water.

morrie said:

Feb 1967. My parents and sister have just moved to New York and I have been dumped in boarding school.

How old were you morrie?

Witty Rejoinder said:

morrie said:

Feb 1967. My parents and sister have just moved to New York and I have been dumped in boarding school.

Did your mum/dad move to New York for work?

Yeah, my father worked for an oil company and went to work at their headquarters.

ROFL

““He ought to take a Bex, a lie down or another look at the situation, because this whole situation arose because Mr Thomson allegedly was too keen to get his kit off in front of strangers.” “

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-02-01/thomson-lawyer-threatens-to-sue-over-ofarrell-remarks/4496618

Bubblecar said:

morrie said:

Feb 1967. My parents and sister have just moved to New York and I have been dumped in boarding school.

How old were you morrie?

15

1967 I was 5 and running free around a dairy farm :D

Skep-: tic tic tic tic
Kid-: What’s that Skep?
Skep-: tic tic tic tic
Kid-: Christians! you’ve seen some Christians, where are they Skep?
Skep-: tic tic tic tic
Kid-: Skep says they are everywhere.

morrie said:

Bubblecar said:

morrie said:

Feb 1967. My parents and sister have just moved to New York and I have been dumped in boarding school.

How old were you morrie?

15

February, so I was actually 14.

On my way through Perth yesterday, I picked up a massive 500g jar of dried French chanterelles for $110. That should make tasty additions to my meals for at least a year.

Spider Lily said:

1967 I was 5 and running free around a dairy farm :D

I was 14 and untamed.

Whoops, I appear to accidentally begun the FNDC. Somehow a bottle of Coopers Pale ale has made its way into my hand and emptied itself into my mouth. And I didn’t even notice.

1967 – the year I was dux of 2nd form at Manly Boys High. It was all downhill from there.

My sister went to Manly Girls High…

morrie said:

Whoops, I appear to accidentally begun the FNDC. Somehow a bottle of Coopers Pale ale has made its way into my hand and emptied itself into my mouth. And I didn’t even notice.

Good when that happens.

I used to ride my bicycle all over the place, with a hammer and cold chisel carried in a Paddy Palin rucksack, looking for fossils. I made a small shed where I carried out chemistry experiments. Minor explosions and melt-downs were common-place.

Fun times.

:)

Michael V said:

My sister went to Manly Girls High…

Tomboy’s high?

roughbarked said:

Michael V said:

My sister went to Manly Girls High…

Tomboy’s high?

.
Yes, an unfortunate name for a school.

Michael V said:

I used to ride my bicycle all over the place, with a hammer and cold chisel carried in a Paddy Palin rucksack, looking for fossils. I made a small shed where I carried out chemistry experiments. Minor explosions and melt-downs were common-place.

Fun times.

:)

I’d already found my first opal under the cellar of a local government building being constructed at the time. My father threw it away into the dark saying, “this is an agricultural community. The last thing we need here is opal”.

Better than Girly Man’s High, I suppose.

My father sent me to Red Bend Marist college thinking that would straighten me out but removed me three months later due to excessive violence by the headmaster.

Divine Angel said:

Better than Girly Man’s High, I suppose.

That was the boys camp.

Divine Angel said:

Better than Girly Man’s High, I suppose.

.
They tried to make me into a Manly Boy at Manly Boys High. Mainly by the regular application of the bashing-by-peers system. Success was limited.

I had found my first “opal” in 1959 at Wagga. Proved not to be an opal after all, but cracked quartz. I found my first real opal a year and a half later at Coober Pedy. Cloudy opaque white-straw-coloured insipid stuff. Then many more the following year at Lightning Ridge, noodling. It was 1970 before I got to White Cliffs.

Ah bullying.

Can’t say I miss those days. I was bullied for my name, my hair (it was quite greasy when I was a teen), my marks (Dunno what happened but I was pretty smrt back then) and I was also the skinniest girl in school so there were rumours I had AIDS :-/

Oh, and 1969 was my first look at The Grawin. 1977 was when I started my first mine at New Glengarry (near The Grawin). Never made a bob, but had plenty of fun. Gave it away in 1990.

Maybe I should have another go, seeing paid work is difficult to come by.

Divine Angel said:

Ah bullying.

Can’t say I miss those days. I was bullied for my name, my hair (it was quite greasy when I was a teen), my marks (Dunno what happened but I was pretty smrt back then) and I was also the skinniest girl in school so there were rumours I had AIDS :-/

.

Yeah, not fun. Leaves lasting issues…

Fortunately, not as badly as some poor kids :(

Michael V said:

I used to ride my bicycle all over the place, with a hammer and cold chisel carried in a Paddy Palin rucksack, looking for fossils. I made a small shed where I carried out chemistry experiments. Minor explosions and melt-downs were common-place.

Fun times.

:)

I didn’t do the fossils bit, but the shed and the explosions is very familiar :-)

I met a bloke in Cairns lat week who went to Manly Boys high (as did my father in fact) and he recalls catching some form of large spiny yabbies in or near Manly Dam. I have never heard of that before. Have you?

That’ll make for interesting board meetings. Plimer vs Downer. I can see them going at each other, hammer and tongs.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-02-01/downer-appointed-by-rinehart/4496542

large spiny yabbies in or near Manly Dam
—-
No, I haven’t. I walked a lot of bush in that area, and found lots of rock engravings, but I never went yabby catching.

Michael V said:

I had found my first “opal” in 1959 at Wagga. Proved not to be an opal after all, but cracked quartz. I found my first real opal a year and a half later at Coober Pedy. Cloudy opaque white-straw-coloured insipid stuff. Then many more the following year at Lightning Ridge, noodling. It was 1970 before I got to White Cliffs.

I took out my first mining lease at White Cliffs in 1987

Michael V said:

Oh, and 1969 was my first look at The Grawin. 1977 was when I started my first mine at New Glengarry (near The Grawin). Never made a bob, but had plenty of fun. Gave it away in 1990.

Maybe I should have another go, seeing paid work is difficult to come by.

I have plenty digging to do at White Cliffs if you are interested in gouging.

roughbarked said:

Michael V said:

Oh, and 1969 was my first look at The Grawin. 1977 was when I started my first mine at New Glengarry (near The Grawin). Never made a bob, but had plenty of fun. Gave it away in 1990.

Maybe I should have another go, seeing paid work is difficult to come by.

I have plenty digging to do at White Cliffs if you are interested in gouging.

.

Hmmm. Could be interested. Still have a short shovel and two nice light (one-hand) short picks. I also have a light jackhammer and a sinking jackhammer.

Serious?

(I’d need to discuss with Mrs V, but I think she might be happy to lose me for a while.)

Lord_Lucan said:

In 1967 I had a spiffing blue Vauxhall Viva and was dating Sue from the Water Board.

i’ve owned a vauxhall viva, it was brown

the brains behind that machine must have been at lunch the day they wired the thing

the hazard lights and indicators were somehow all wired to one spot as i remember behind the dash

Michael V said:

roughbarked said:

Michael V said:

Oh, and 1969 was my first look at The Grawin. 1977 was when I started my first mine at New Glengarry (near The Grawin). Never made a bob, but had plenty of fun. Gave it away in 1990.

Maybe I should have another go, seeing paid work is difficult to come by.

I have plenty digging to do at White Cliffs if you are interested in gouging.

.

Hmmm. Could be interested. Still have a short shovel and two nice light (one-hand) short picks. I also have a light jackhammer and a sinking jackhammer.

Serious?

(I’d need to discuss with Mrs V, but I think she might be happy to lose me for a while.)

Yes, I’m serious. I wouldn’t have mentioned it otherwise. I Have several jack-hammers and shovels and self tipper etc. Just need the extra back bent, digging.

wookiemeister said:

Lord_Lucan said:

In 1967 I had a spiffing blue Vauxhall Viva and was dating Sue from the Water Board.

i’ve owned a vauxhall viva, it was brown

the brains behind that machine must have been at lunch the day they wired the thing

the hazard lights and indicators were somehow all wired to one spot as i remember behind the dash

Less holes to drill?

roughbarked said:

Michael V said:

roughbarked said:

I have plenty digging to do at White Cliffs if you are interested in gouging.

.

Hmmm. Could be interested. Still have a short shovel and two nice light (one-hand) short picks. I also have a light jackhammer and a sinking jackhammer.

Serious?

(I’d need to discuss with Mrs V, but I think she might be happy to lose me for a while.)

Yes, I’m serious. I wouldn’t have mentioned it otherwise. I Have several jack-hammers and shovels and self tipper etc. Just need the extra back bent, digging.

have you gentlemen ever thought of building a salt pyramid?

wookiemeister said:

roughbarked said:

Michael V said:

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Hmmm. Could be interested. Still have a short shovel and two nice light (one-hand) short picks. I also have a light jackhammer and a sinking jackhammer.

Serious?

(I’d need to discuss with Mrs V, but I think she might be happy to lose me for a while.)

Yes, I’m serious. I wouldn’t have mentioned it otherwise. I Have several jack-hammers and shovels and self tipper etc. Just need the extra back bent, digging.

have you gentlemen ever thought of building a salt pyramid?

Have made lots of small ones.

roughbarked said:

wookiemeister said:

Lord_Lucan said:

In 1967 I had a spiffing blue Vauxhall Viva and was dating Sue from the Water Board.

i’ve owned a vauxhall viva, it was brown

the brains behind that machine must have been at lunch the day they wired the thing

the hazard lights and indicators were somehow all wired to one spot as i remember behind the dash

Less holes to drill?

the lights blew one night

the step father discovered some break at the central solder joint behind the dash

hang on

the hazard button was where all the wires were joined, it wasn’t even soldered together

roughbarked said:

wookiemeister said:

roughbarked said:

Yes, I’m serious. I wouldn’t have mentioned it otherwise. I Have several jack-hammers and shovels and self tipper etc. Just need the extra back bent, digging.

have you gentlemen ever thought of building a salt pyramid?

Have made lots of small ones.

Yes, but they are pour imitations of what W and I have in mind. :-)

morrie said:

roughbarked said:

wookiemeister said:

have you gentlemen ever thought of building a salt pyramid?

Have made lots of small ones.

Yes, but they are pour imitations of what W and I have in mind. :-)

it was suggested pumping bore water into a mould where the salt would form after evaporation

the mould would just get smaller and smaller as it reaches the top.

the mould could be something as simple as polystyrene, easy to move around

wookiemeister said:

morrie said:

roughbarked said:

Have made lots of small ones.

Yes, but they are pour imitations of what W and I have in mind. :-)

it was suggested pumping bore water into a mould where the salt would form after evaporation

the mould would just get smaller and smaller as it reaches the top.

the mould could be something as simple as polystyrene, easy to move around

You’d need really salty bore water.

roughbarked said:

Michael V said:

roughbarked said:

I have plenty digging to do at White Cliffs if you are interested in gouging.

.

Hmmm. Could be interested. Still have a short shovel and two nice light (one-hand) short picks. I also have a light jackhammer and a sinking jackhammer.

Serious?

(I’d need to discuss with Mrs V, but I think she might be happy to lose me for a while.)

Yes, I’m serious. I wouldn’t have mentioned it otherwise. I Have several jack-hammers and shovels and self tipper etc. Just need the extra back bent, digging.

.

OK, cool. I’ll discuss.

Do you make your drives full height?

Michael V said:

roughbarked said:

Michael V said:

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Hmmm. Could be interested. Still have a short shovel and two nice light (one-hand) short picks. I also have a light jackhammer and a sinking jackhammer.

Serious?

(I’d need to discuss with Mrs V, but I think she might be happy to lose me for a while.)

Yes, I’m serious. I wouldn’t have mentioned it otherwise. I Have several jack-hammers and shovels and self tipper etc. Just need the extra back bent, digging.

.

OK, cool. I’ll discuss.

Do you make your drives full height?

I hate bending.. so yes. The opal bearing area usually is within 2-4 metres anyway

roughbarked said:

Michael V said:

roughbarked said:

Yes, I’m serious. I wouldn’t have mentioned it otherwise. I Have several jack-hammers and shovels and self tipper etc. Just need the extra back bent, digging.

.

OK, cool. I’ll discuss.

Do you make your drives full height?

I hate bending.. so yes. The opal bearing area usually is within 2-4 metres anyway

.

Right you are.

Michael V said:

roughbarked said:

Michael V said:

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OK, cool. I’ll discuss.

Do you make your drives full height?

I hate bending.. so yes. The opal bearing area usually is within 2-4 metres anyway

.

Right you are.

We should ask Boris to come along too.

What about this one?

Bubblecar said:

What about this one?

Mine’s better.

This thread has easy-opening sauce:

….and a creepy ol’ bacon snitcher:

Morning Pilgrims, drizzling with no wind to speak of in the Pearl of the South Specific at the moment.

Here, huge black clouds looming in the east.