Mantas
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So I've outed you as a 'surfer' with my interogation ay?
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Geez we all have a lot in common don't we?
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I'd like to know how many surfer are here?
Where do you surf?
What's it like (particularly those who live in Japan)?
Do you snowboard or ski?
If you were given a perfect powder day on an untracked mountain or a empty line up at one of the worlds best breaks. What would you choose?
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Keep this thread going!
Here's a couple of a tour i did out of Whistler. The lunatic leaping off the cliff isn't me, he did this all day. A worthy photo just the same.
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I think he was lucky alll up. He also old me his neck hurts when doing combat training, the helment is heavy and they pull multiple 'G's while swinging his head around looking for the enemy.Quote:Originally posted by Mantas:
He now has a perminent neck problem caused by the forces during ejection. Rad hey? -
He said one of the''nozzles' failed and the thing went nuts, totally out of control. When he ejected he was not far off the water. His chute just opened and did one swing before he hit the water. He now has a perminent neck problem caused by the forces during ejection. Rad hey?
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I know a guy who ejected from a Harrier jet in the middle of the Indian ocean. The plane started going nuts shortly after he took off (vertically) He ejected while the plane was at 90 deg. If it was rolling the other way it would of spat him straight into the control tower of the ship! The Navy salvaged the plane from the bottom of the ocean and did a full autopsy on it. they found the cause of the whole thing was a dodgy split pin!
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Couldn't tell you the make or model of mine. All I know is it is much better than the other 2 I had.I Don't go much on brand names. It's warm and comfortable and only cost $50 canadian.
Hopefully I wont get to test out it's crash qualities.
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What is it with the chickens?
A friend of mine was a professional chook catcher for years. Every now and then a shed full of chickens ( your talking thousands ) would get a disease. To sort out these diseased chickens they were all handed a peice of water pipe and told to "practise their golf swing!"
One time he was catching turkeys, a much bigger and more aggressive bird, when they ganged up on him. He had to take refuge on top of some fork-lift pallets tell help came !
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I once worked on a watermelon farm in NW Australia. We would arrive at 7.00 am and form a human chain between the tractor drop point and the road train. The melons got passed along the chain untill all three trailers were full at around 4.00 pm.
The guy who passed the 7lb. watermelons to me was a 18 stone moari. He passed them to me like rugby ball !
I then moved onto a sunflower farm where we walked up and down the rows of sunflowers picking out tthe rougue ones. The rows were 1.2 km long !
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I'll change my Avitar for a can of Cricky Lager if someone designs it for me. Because I'm generally crap with computers, otherwise I'd do it myself.
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Yer give us a blue Stevo.
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Not much of a rooster.More of a chicken.
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Yes kama is a strange thing, 60 years ago hordes of Japanese were moving south do impose their unwanted culture upon us!
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How much spare time have you got? Luved it !! :Quote:It took me a while to make them
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You guys are cruel. Do you really think this helps?
Awesome pics, how about adding a location to the shots.
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Yer CongratulationsTB. Is this the first.?
Don't worry about names yet. You've still got 6 months to go.
6 names / day...... 30 days / month..... 6 months...argh You'll think of decide on something.
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'Smash and grab' we call it. ( ceasearean)
Yes it's certainly not a bad 'back up plan' these days for when things don't go the we they should.
My wife is a fitness freak. After our first baby, the natural way, she did a small triathlon 20 days later, and came second !
With our second child, by ceasearean, she could just manage a walk down the street after 2 weeks.
After the excitment of the first birth. The second was a bit of a none event really.
Not sure what value my cmments are worth as I'm not a women, and maaaan there's no way I'd wont to be one either....
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Spud, Try to focus on the positives mate, and not so much on the Mc Donalds munching masses . Your pissing in the ocean. There's not much you can do about it. Societies have always been facinated with the frivolous. It's nothing new. Goes back 1000s years.
There has been a massive inudation of donations to some of the funds I mentioned earlier and I could only guess that the Irwins have sold their stories for big bucks which I'm sure they will put to good use. ( I'm not as cynical as Dr dickhead Jonkel) Ireally believe this. You guys living outside of Australia probably don't hear that much about that part of it all.
These are good things
Oops sorry, I said i'd finished with this thread.
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Must admit Ocean, the non-drinking bit has me concerned too. Doesn't quite fit does it?
Just imagine the commercial success he could've had with
CRICKY LAGER !
Spud I'm over this thread too. Nothing more to add.
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Dr Charles Jonkel. What a wanker !
An educated man like our Dr, Charles should know better to make statements without doing his research ( if a goon like me can find this on the internet in 15 mins.). To throw Steve Irwin into the same basket as Tim Treadwell is going to give his reputation a caning.
mmmm. Lets see. Timbo was an aspiring actor with a drug and alcohol problem as well as being insecure with his sexuality. A loner.
Stevo. A non-drinker or smoker, committed family man, donated the vast majority of his wealth to various causes, some of which are listed below;
Funds and projects created and funded by the Irwins
Australian Wildlife Hospital… Rescue and rehabilitation of sick and injured animals. Incorporates training for student vetinarians
Australian Wildlife Conservation……A team of Wildlife Warriors Worldwide animal experts, including researchers and veterinarians, have provided advice and services to respond to situations that are placing wildlife in jeopardy.
Tiger conservation unit……India, Sumatra, Bhutan
Keeping the Tiger Conservation and Protection Units (TCPU) in operation. The TCPU consists of mobile teams of four trained personnel that conduct forest patrols and investigate reports of poaching and other environmental crimes. Working with local communities. We offer practical solutions to mitigate conflict between local villagers and wildlife, and educate local villagers on environmental protection. Each TCPU (Tiger Conservation and Protection Unit) costs approximately $87,000 and includes: Education ?Training?Vehicles?Communication equipment?Surveillance equipment?Camping/general equipment?Community education
Tsunami Relief….. In late January 2005, representatives from Australia Zoo and Wildlife Warriors Worldwide visited tsunami-devastated areas of Aceh. The purpose of the trip was twofold: to deliver urgently required veterinary supplies for elephants working to recover bodies from the disaster area, and to provide humanitarian aid to forest guards affected by the disaster.
Cheeta conservation…. Wildlife Warriors are working in partnership with De Wildt Cheetah and Wildlife Centre in South Africa to track and relocate problem cheetahs away from local villages.
Crocodile Conservation….. Wildlife Warriors Worldwide is working on important research programs in Queensland (Australia) with the Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service and the University of Queensland to better understand the movements and habits of crocodiles, in an effort to facilitate the planning of community developments and potential animal relocation. The results from this research are already re-writing text books and will help to protect both crocodilian and human populations.
Elephant conservation….. Working in partnership with Fauna and Flora International in Cambodia, we are investing in a range of strategies to prevent the destruction of habitat and helping local villages to co-exist with the elephant. Securing the income of farmers affected by the local elephant populations is a main priority in mitigating human-elephant conflict (often referred to as HEC).
Included in these strategies is the planting of chilli around crops (elephants hate chilli), helping to recover property loss as a result of elephant activity, the implementation of educational campaigns, elephant tracking, anti-poaching patrols and prevention of illegal logging. The work is extensive and intense, and is helping to build a future in which the protection of this amazing gentle giant is assured.
The Irwin Foundation…. Since 1995, funding from The Irwin Foundation has provided scholarships and assisted other programs to support veterinary education, including:
Scholarships
0. James and Claire Irwin Scholarship Fund at Michigan State University
0. The Tracy Hammer Endowed Fellowship
0. The Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital at Cornell University
0. The Veterinary Technician Scholarship Fund at Michigan State University
0. The Veterinary Technician Scholarship Fund at Purdue University
0. Marine Corps Scholarship Fund
University of Pennsylvania Opportunity Scholarship
Add to this countless hour of tourism promotion boosting Northern Australia’s tourism industry immeasurably all done for free.
Yes Dr. Charles. It’s clear to see how wildlife on this planet will be much better of now without Steve Irwin around.
F**KWIT
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Yer . I really feel for all those animals "exploited" by Irwin. At the very least they should have offered them some small financial remuneration. Where was there agent?
I bet there trailer didn't even have a Jacuzzi and they had to put up with second-rate make up artists.
I can't believe so called educated people come out with such dribble. I mean how much of there comment is driven by professional jealousy. Here is a man with minimal intelligence and no academic qualifications hogging their perceived share of the limelight and word wide acclaim.
Mate, that must irk them something shocking. No wonder they are glad to see him gone.
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Sorry, hijacking the thread again.
Funny story When i was in Munich slugging down stiens in 1989. I lost a bet with a kiwi guy i was travelling with. If he couldn't skull a full stien I would do a nudy run around the beer hall. Thought I was safe as houses given he already had about 6 stiens in his gut already. Man. Never under estimate the drinking prowess of a half moari Kiwi !
I got a standing ovation from the crowd so I did a second lap.
How Aussie is that ???
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Sounds like heavenQuote:ps - in the extensive drinking areas of the German city that I live in you see loads of cute, fun loving, multilingual, educated and optimistic German girls on the side of the road having a laugh whilst all swigging from 500ml bottles of real pure beer that cost a dollar a pop
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Local right on a good day last month. Surfed this solo but for a few dolphins.
Local left on a good day. Surfed this with only big bro and 1 mate.
