Mantas
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Usual work day. Up at 5.30-6.00 am Quick breakfast and hit the road 6.00-6.30 am.
A late sleep in for me would be 7.00 am. Haven't done that for ages
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My brother spend two winters up north WA. He now refers to ANY surf over here as "East Coast Crap"
You guys are blessed.
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I'm still laughing
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Yer . High tech BongsQuote:Originally posted by db le spud:
WTF are you making? Bongs?
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Yeah, the SJ community seems to be doing its part to fight the declining birth rate in Japan!
I didn't realise Japan has a declining birth rate. So has Australia.
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Exactly. As a trademen I work withQuote:Originally posted by db le spud:
1 litre of water at sea level weighs 1kg and boils at 100 degrees centigrade and freezes at zero.
Metric wins.
Copper pipe( in inches )
PVC pipe ( in mm )
Air flows (feet/min ) and ( litres/sec) depending on the manuals.
Brass fittings (both inches and mm ) depending on the brand.
Temperature ( fahrenheit and celcius ) deending on the type of controls used
Water flows. We seemed to have escaped the imperial curse on that one.
The Australian government jumped straight onto the metric bandwagon in the 70's thinking the US and UK were sure to follow.
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Sorry boys .still learning.Quote:Originally posted by Bushpig:
mate, edit your post and using the full reply form, paste that into the url button provided, then give it a shorter name when it prompts you. It is severely skewing the thread!
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Spud- I wonder how many people have a Nat Young story like that?
Some people say he had it comming. Judging by the photos, he had a LOT comming!
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Isn't the Hawaiiian Ironman being held in Kona this comming weekend? That means 1000's of extra people there.
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The whole imperial system.
inches, feet, yards, chains, miles, pounds, aaggh ! Why do we need 2 systems?
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BP- I knew you were a surfer (well almost
). Haven't met a WA boy yet that doesn't surf. I don't subscribe to the micro racist culture in surfing regarding the pecking order of surfers over body boarders. As long as your having fun it's cool with me. P.S. Just don't tell my surfing mates I said that
Ocean- I was going to guess Midget. Yer shame our surfing elder statesmen are behaveing like dickheads. Nat young sounds like a real tool to me. I actually met the guy that knocked him out at that famous Angourie incident. Imagine being famous for that.
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BP I thought you would be a surfer ?
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Does FT like Aussies?
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Quote:Originally posted by db le spud:
Many Australian small town working class surfers can't come to terms with the fact that an Australian citizen isn't necessarily an Aussie just like them. And that confusion leads to resentment and nastiness.
Quote:I’ve never much liked the narrow minded Aussie yobbo culture of surfing (in Australia),
Quote:The other thing they don't get is that the negative emotion towards "imported" only holds water because Asutralia is itself so isolated plus defensive/resentful about foreign things being 'upper class' (its a hang-over from the English working class habit that grew from being a harmless character spot in Mother England to a fuggin swollen blister when relocated to remote AustraliaQuote:I reckon I'd struggle to drink Australian beer ever again. Like the people, Australian beer is all the same. QUOTE]Pretty nasty Stuff Spud. How is it that no matter what the thread topic your comments all end up with your loathing of all things Australian? This was from this thread alone.
Mantas, I know what you were getting at by asking "are you sure that's why they wouldn't talk to you" and FU , Politely.
I know the kind of people your talking about.
But to use such broad sweeping statements, stereotyping and generalisations is something I won't take. (more of a working class ignorant trait really)
Just remember YOU are doing all the attacking here. I'M doing the defending.
You have made your choice and I respect that, but I happen to be very proud of my country. I know it's not perfect, but I love it passionately, warts and all. Every time you attack it or it's people i will defend it. And I can take a joke. You only have to look at some of my posts to see that.
I've already had a lecture from you about the diverse people and opinions in this forum.
I Don't have a problem with the 5000 people on the forums opinions. Just yours. I don't care if your the Japanese presedent and you have 1000 000 posts to your credit.
Jeez man...... Why does it get under your skin so much?. What did we ever do to you.? Haven't you noticed how much you bag Aussies? If I felt that much loathing about my country of birth I would of burnt my passport long ago. I bet yours is tucked safely in the bottom draw. Just in case things turn to shit.
How do you manage to turn a nice thread about surfing into 'Spud's therapy session for his loathing of Australia '! -
12 - 14 deg. Noooooooooooo. Way
Try drinking that after work on a 42 deg. day !
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Are you sure that's why they wouldn't talk to you ?Quote:Originally posted by db le spud:
I met some guys in Fiji. They wouldn't talk to me because I could tell the difference between VB and Fiji bitter. -
This is a surfing thread you blokes. Something as important as beer should have it's own thread.
My 2 bob's worth. Beers beer. I don't give a shit. I'd drink wet sand!
The only beer i can't drink is warm canned beer from the cupboard that my inlaws give me when I go over to England. It's just wrong!!
I don't care how many hundred years they have been doing IT.
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Ooar Come on ! Tell me he's not coolest dude on TV. They just don't come any cooler.Quote:Originally posted by Thunderpants:
Horatio Caine constantly taking his lame sunglasses on and off
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What about those dramas (particularly UK dramas) and movies where the cameraman films like he's pissed.
For god's sake hold the f@#kin thing steady !!
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Interesting point Sub zero- I'll leave it to a Seppo to explain that one.
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Stop poofter bashing and get back to Niseko/ Aussie bashing
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Quote:Mate, next time I'm in your neck of the woods, I'll bring a slab around!
I reckon we could fill a bucket of dribble between us.
Th elure of Indo is pulling me back again. My kids are 7 and 4. I think it's time to show them the 'real world'. I took them to Whistler and Hawaii this year. They have no idea really.
My bro showed me some footage he shot in SA this May. That place named like a rock It was sick and only 3 guys out. The shark factor must be keeping dudes away.
Speaking of sharks. one of the local fisherman counted 22 great whites in 1 day of Stockton beach. 10 km from my house. It is turning into a juvenille feeding ground. You might of seen these guys catching them from the beach on TV. One of those guys live at the end of my street. His name is Mullet.
Got no idea who your uncle is.
Thunder- Don't know where boards will go next, fat ,thin, more fins, less fins, who knows? -
getting to old now for hardcore surftrips, time to move on to softer sports like snowboarding.Quote:Originally posted by db le spud:
Why aren't you spending this time, money and leave pass from the wife going surfing? hmm.
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Isn't it amazing. All the boards around now. mals,mini-mals, fishes, afterburners. My brother has about 11 boards of all descriptions. He explains to me in great detail what they are alll for,Quote:Originally posted by Thunderpants:
Not the boards for you guys, but please take a minute to enjoy some beautiful boards anyway
Me. I have had the same 2 boards for the last 7 years.
Come to thik of it I've had the same snowboard for 10 years now. Might be time to upgrade.
SJ Babies
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Amazing.
So who's having all the babies then?
Our goverment now offers $5000. Aus to anyone who has a baby.
China offers finacial incentives to have less children.