Random Thoughts II - Page 646

Pepsi · 8th October 2010, 22:34

My other half is having difficulty setting up a wooden train track using a picture as a guide. He's sweating like he's on the krypton factor or some shit..

chiQ · 8th October 2010, 22:42

Hah! Wasn't a slot car fan as a kid, huh? I think I can build any track from a picture, having had so much practice.

Ooh, that reminds me, those of you with young cats, get a slot car set. Best. Cat. Toy. Ever.

Oliver was a huge fan of motor racing, and I'm pretty sure it stemmed from his misspent youth chasing my slot cars. I've considered getting another slot car set so I can try it out on the rabbits.

mpx · 8th October 2010, 22:43

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pepsi

My other half is having difficulty setting up a wooden train track using a picture as a guide. He's sweating like he's on the krypton factor or some shit..

It's not, by chance, a big circle and a little circle that just don't seem to want to go in properly?

MadMax · 8th October 2010, 22:46

i can remember a wooden toy train set that i had as a kid. it had a handdrawn diagram of a mint layout with loops/sidings and an overbridge. one day i found it easier to build the damn track myself rather than nagging dad to set it up for me.

hmm, wonder what excuse i can give to the wife for buying our 4.5 month old a train set now

ChaosWulf · 8th October 2010, 22:49

They need to bring Krypton Factor back.

MadMax · 8th October 2010, 22:49

who'd be the host

ChaosWulf · 8th October 2010, 22:53

Gotta keep Dougal Stevenson, surely he's still around?

Pepsi · 8th October 2010, 22:54

It was very frustrating to watch, but he finally finished!

One of our girls is turning 2 tomorrow so this is one of her presents to wake up to. I imagine the kids will be fighting over it tomorrow also

Pepsi · 8th October 2010, 23:17

Thought I'd also share my decorating failure.. It's supposed to be The Wiggles, but instead they look like creepy overweight paraplegic dudes with comb overs. It was just easier to make them sitting down instead of standing up but I didn't realise it would look so weird...

chiQ · 8th October 2010, 23:20

Quote:

Originally Posted by ChaosWulf

Gotta keep Dougal Stevenson, surely he's still around?

He does sandwich and breakfast drink commercials. He's exactly has he has always been, only slightly more monochrome and wrinkly

StN · 8th October 2010, 23:51

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pepsi

It was very frustrating to watch, but he finally finished!

I came home and found some paper on the bench - the kids had made some "licenses" to put in their wallets.

There was a cooking license for making dinner.
A driving license for the car.
Some random ID for proving age.
A bar license, because that's what he lady at the pub has...

and a longer ray license.

Longer ray.

WTF is longer ray, and why do you need a license.

They stay home for two weeks and suddenly they think ladies should dress up like Thunderbirds and serve drinks.

Awesome. Imma gonna stop asking questions soon...

Pepsi · 9th October 2010, 00:23

Hehe.. kids are weird..

So you're not even curious to know what a "Longer ray" is? I can think of at least one potential use for such an item if it did exist..

chiQ · 9th October 2010, 00:39

Would that be Lay Dee's Longer Ray Fornor Teeness?

My guess is they have been reading NZG, in particular Simon's erudite posts...

fidgit · 9th October 2010, 02:31

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pepsi

It was very frustrating to watch, but he finally finished!

One of our girls is turning 2 tomorrow so this is one of her presents to wake up to. I imagine the kids will be fighting over it tomorrow also

Oh man that looks like some Thomas branded trains you got there, that must have set you back - that stuff is so rediculously overpriced. (no kids myself, but I have to talk my partner out of spending $50 on a train for her Thomas-mad nephew every birthday...)

That said, I had an electric thomas set when I was a kid, that was mint.

[WanG] Wandarah · 9th October 2010, 08:11

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pepsi

It was very frustrating to watch, but he finally finished!

One of our girls is turning 2 tomorrow so this is one of her presents to wake up to. I imagine the kids will be fighting over it tomorrow also

Looks choice!

StN · 9th October 2010, 09:57

Quote:

Originally Posted by chiQ

Would that be Lay Dee's Longer Ray Fornor Teeness?

My guess is they have been reading NZG, in particular Simon's erudite posts...

In hindsight, I think they were looking to set up their own casino, with the high rollers room upstairs having cocktail waitresses dressed as you mentioned. Too much 2 1/2 Men methinks.

xor · 9th October 2010, 10:06

Whatever happened to being entertained by some rope and a flat tennis ball?

I was a legend at handball, true story

Pepsi · 9th October 2010, 10:29

Quote:

Originally Posted by fidgit

Oh man that looks like some Thomas branded trains you got there, that must have set you back - that stuff is so rediculously overpriced. (no kids myself, but I have to talk my partner out of spending $50 on a train for her Thomas-mad nephew every birthday...)

That said, I had an electric thomas set when I was a kid, that was mint.

Nah, it's a "Thomas compatible" train table set.. we just had a couple of Thomas trains already which we chucked on there..

Fucked if I'd spend close to $1k on a proper Thomas one...

mpx · 9th October 2010, 10:33

That is the exact same one my sister and father were pulling their hair out trying to figure out how to get it working. I came over and totally did it within 10 minutes, hell yeah.

chiQ · 9th October 2010, 10:55

I have discovered a cure for my Quasimodo issue of pulling a back muscle on one side. Sleep in such a way that a muscle on the other side goes into spasm, so you're messed up on both sides.

Those expensive, licenced toys are so pointless. Thomas the Thankless Engine kit is probably made in the same factory as the much cheaper knock-offs.

StN · 9th October 2010, 11:55

My old man is into trains big time, and has been all his life. At one stage he had a model shop just off Linwood Ave - I'd help out on Saturdays, and there were some interesting types that came in...

Anyway, he now produces parts for jokers who like to make scratch built stuff out of brass and whitemetal etc and does the occasional build for chaps overseas that CBF'd making the kits themselves. Trains have come a long way - all digital controlled now, and you can have two trains on the same track going different speeds in different directions, and switching light colours when reversing - mostly done with fibre optics.

Anyway - back to Thomas - he has one of those battery powered sets where it perfroms a perptual loop of shuffling loads of little balls. Very cool to watch, and the grandkids think it is much cooler than an exact replica of the last steam engine that ran on the main trunk line.

Hmm - now that I think about it, there is only one motorised chassis that swaps the tops automatically.

Ab · 9th October 2010, 14:42

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pepsi

Nah, it's a "Thomas compatible" train table set.. we just had a couple of Thomas trains already which we chucked on there..

Fucked if I'd spend close to $1k on a proper Thomas one...

MHG went through a major Thomas phase from about 2 to about 4. This was him just after his third birthday, jesus that seems a long time ago. He looks little.

Anyway. Yeah, the branded wooden Thomas toys are crazy expensive. We got an "Imaginarium" brand table with track and roundhouse and shit, and then a pile of no-name track pieces from Ikea, all the same gauge so it all plugged in together. The Imaginarium table was FTW because it has storage drawers built in, and the Ikea track pieces saved us a ton.

Are there Ikea stores in NZ?

lektronimo · 9th October 2010, 15:05

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ab

Are there Ikea stores in NZ?

No. Best we can get here on cheap is the fucking Warehouse.

Lightspeed · 9th October 2010, 15:07

My little bro digs it, who's about MHG's age in that pic. I however hate Thomas with a passion as I always have.

fidgit · 9th October 2010, 15:18

I don't see what kids now see in Thomas, Ringo doesn't even do the voiceovers any more - what's the point?

Ab · 9th October 2010, 16:02

Fuck the new CG-animated Thomas shit, but the old real-toy-steam-engine TV episodes with Ringo as narrator are gold, even some of the older Michael Angelis episodes. The new stuff is bullshit, it's like some marketing gimp has tried to turn Thomas the Tank Engine into a mixture of Pokemon for toy marketing and Bob the Builder because he's So Hot Right Now. "GOTTA COLLECT THEM ALL! AND HERE'S AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE ON SHARING AND INCLUSIVENESS STARRING A DIGGER AND A LORRY!"

Fuck off you cocks, here's the original series and Percy getting emotionally brutalised by Gordon and here's Henry getting bricked up in a tunnel and abandoned for refusing to follow orders. There's your fuckin' social message.

GM · 9th October 2010, 16:06

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ab

Henry getting bricked up in a tunnel and abandoned for refusing to follow orders.

Because he didn't want to ruin his paint, good god man, fat controller was a total bastard in this instance.

GM · 9th October 2010, 16:10

Nevertheless, perhaps it was because Henry was a racist!

Quote:

Originally Posted by Wikipedia

Racism allegation

Henry was the central character of what might be the most controversial story in the history of the Railway Series. In the story 'Henry's Sneeze', the character blasts some troublemaking schoolboys with soot. The story was attacked in 1972 due to the fact that it described the boys in question to have been rendered "as black as niggers."[1]
The story was considered so controversial that it was actually reported in the national press. Awdry himself claimed that it was a case of oversensitivity on the part of the race relations board; a complaint that was misinterpreted by some members of the public as meaning that he was a racist. To solve the problem, he changed the offending sentence to "as black as soot", which has been used in subsequent editions of the book

Henry the tank engine racist? lol relevant.

Ab · 9th October 2010, 16:15

owned

Lightspeed · 9th October 2010, 16:23

Ahahaha! That's awesome. And probably why I didn't like the show when I was a child.

GM · 9th October 2010, 16:50

Installing securistay latches around the house on aluminium joinery, you have one chance to get it right. I was fucking sweating beads trying to get the suckers straight. If there's an easier way to do it please let me know.

tarzan007 · 9th October 2010, 17:09

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runnin...to_bruce_m.php

almost as fucked up as Dear Zachary....

fixed_truth · 9th October 2010, 17:09

Quote:

Originally Posted by GM

Henry the tank engine racist? lol relevant.

ah haha Henry

A Corpse · 9th October 2010, 17:32

Quote:

Originally Posted by GM

Installing securistay latches around the house on aluminium joinery, you have one chance to get it right. I was fucking sweating beads trying to get the suckers straight. If there's an easier way to do it please let me know.

Get the hidden ones and get an installer to do it. Cheap as chips and look much better on the windows.

aR Que · 9th October 2010, 20:28

Quote:

Originally Posted by StN

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Had a similar thing as a kid. Same thing but called the 'Big Loader' had front end loaders and dump trucks instead of faggoty talking trains. Bad ass.

Delphinus · 9th October 2010, 20:37

Was driving home today and this young person of a uni-student age was standing beside his car, stark naked, actively waving his penis at passing traffic.

I thought, thats one for NZG Random Thoughts.

Lightspeed · 9th October 2010, 20:50

Hahaha, fair enough too.

Pimp-X · 9th October 2010, 22:41

Quote:

Originally Posted by StN

Longer ray.

Still awaiting explanation about Longer ray.

Pepsi · 9th October 2010, 22:49

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ab

That's really cool. I reckon MOTAT needs a full sized Thomas train too..

fidgit · 9th October 2010, 23:52

Quote:

Originally Posted by tarzan007

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runnin...to_bruce_m.php

almost as fucked up as Dear Zachary....

Might not be any sign of him on wikipedia any more (just 'there was something but we deleted it' crumbs), but that story is now the 4th result if you google David Bruce McMahan. So, he's not off the interwebs yet.

edit
and "D Bruce McMahan" goes straight to the Daddy's Girl and Daddy's Dog articles.

8th October 2010, 22:46	#25804
MadMax Stuff	i can remember a wooden toy train set that i had as a kid. it had a handdrawn diagram of a mint layout with loops/sidings and an overbridge. one day i found it easier to build the damn track myself rather than nagging dad to set it up for me. hmm, wonder what excuse i can give to the wife for buying our 4.5 month old a train set now __________________ My degree of sarcasm depends on your degree of stupidity. Last edited by MadMax : 8th October 2010 at 22:47.

8th October 2010, 22:49	#25806
MadMax Stuff	who'd be the host __________________ My degree of sarcasm depends on your degree of stupidity.

9th October 2010, 15:18	#25825
fidgit Always itchy	I don't see what kids now see in Thomas, Ringo doesn't even do the voiceovers any more - what's the point? __________________ 4 7 2 3 9 8 5...1 4 2 9 7 8...14 16 22...36°

8th October 2010, 22:34	#25801
Pepsi Konnichiwa, bitches	My other half is having difficulty setting up a wooden train track using a picture as a guide. He's sweating like he's on the krypton factor or some shit..

8th October 2010, 22:42	#25802
chiQ Frag-muff	Hah! Wasn't a slot car fan as a kid, huh? I think I can build any track from a picture, having had so much practice. Ooh, that reminds me, those of you with young cats, get a slot car set. Best. Cat. Toy. Ever. Oliver was a huge fan of motor racing, and I'm pretty sure it stemmed from his misspent youth chasing my slot cars. I've considered getting another slot car set so I can try it out on the rabbits.

8th October 2010, 22:49	#25805
ChaosWulf Don't worry, be harpy	They need to bring Krypton Factor back.

8th October 2010, 22:53	#25807
ChaosWulf Don't worry, be harpy	Gotta keep Dougal Stevenson, surely he's still around?

8th October 2010, 22:54	#25808
Pepsi Konnichiwa, bitches	It was very frustrating to watch, but he finally finished! One of our girls is turning 2 tomorrow so this is one of her presents to wake up to. I imagine the kids will be fighting over it tomorrow also

8th October 2010, 23:17	#25809
Pepsi Konnichiwa, bitches	Thought I'd also share my decorating failure.. It's supposed to be The Wiggles, but instead they look like creepy overweight paraplegic dudes with comb overs. It was just easier to make them sitting down instead of standing up but I didn't realise it would look so weird...

9th October 2010, 00:23	#25812
Pepsi Konnichiwa, bitches	Hehe.. kids are weird.. So you're not even curious to know what a "Longer ray" is? I can think of at least one potential use for such an item if it did exist..

9th October 2010, 00:39	#25813
chiQ Frag-muff	Would that be Lay Dee's Longer Ray Fornor Teeness? My guess is they have been reading NZG, in particular Simon's erudite posts...

9th October 2010, 10:06	#25817
xor	Whatever happened to being entertained by some rope and a flat tennis ball? I was a legend at handball, true story

9th October 2010, 10:33	#25819
mpx .	That is the exact same one my sister and father were pulling their hair out trying to figure out how to get it working. I came over and totally did it within 10 minutes, hell yeah.

9th October 2010, 10:55	#25820
chiQ Frag-muff	I have discovered a cure for my Quasimodo issue of pulling a back muscle on one side. Sleep in such a way that a muscle on the other side goes into spasm, so you're messed up on both sides. Those expensive, licenced toys are so pointless. Thomas the Thankless Engine kit is probably made in the same factory as the much cheaper knock-offs.

9th October 2010, 11:55	#25821
StN I have detailed files	My old man is into trains big time, and has been all his life. At one stage he had a model shop just off Linwood Ave - I'd help out on Saturdays, and there were some interesting types that came in... Anyway, he now produces parts for jokers who like to make scratch built stuff out of brass and whitemetal etc and does the occasional build for chaps overseas that CBF'd making the kits themselves. Trains have come a long way - all digital controlled now, and you can have two trains on the same track going different speeds in different directions, and switching light colours when reversing - mostly done with fibre optics. Anyway - back to Thomas - he has one of those battery powered sets where it perfroms a perptual loop of shuffling loads of little balls. Very cool to watch, and the grandkids think it is much cooler than an exact replica of the last steam engine that ran on the main trunk line. Hmm - now that I think about it, there is only one motorised chassis that swaps the tops automatically.

9th October 2010, 15:07	#25824
Lightspeed	My little bro digs it, who's about MHG's age in that pic. I however hate Thomas with a passion as I always have. __________________ Stay shook. No sook.

9th October 2010, 16:02	#25826
Ab A mariachi ogre snorkel	Fuck the new CG-animated Thomas shit, but the old real-toy-steam-engine TV episodes with Ringo as narrator are gold, even some of the older Michael Angelis episodes. The new stuff is bullshit, it's like some marketing gimp has tried to turn Thomas the Tank Engine into a mixture of Pokemon for toy marketing and Bob the Builder because he's So Hot Right Now. "GOTTA COLLECT THEM ALL! AND HERE'S AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE ON SHARING AND INCLUSIVENESS STARRING A DIGGER AND A LORRY!" Fuck off you cocks, here's the original series and Percy getting emotionally brutalised by Gordon and here's Henry getting bricked up in a tunnel and abandoned for refusing to follow orders. There's your fuckin' social message.

9th October 2010, 16:15	#25829
Ab A mariachi ogre snorkel	owned

9th October 2010, 16:23	#25830
Lightspeed	Ahahaha! That's awesome. And probably why I didn't like the show when I was a child. __________________ Stay shook. No sook.

9th October 2010, 16:50	#25831
GM	Installing securistay latches around the house on aluminium joinery, you have one chance to get it right. I was fucking sweating beads trying to get the suckers straight. If there's an easier way to do it please let me know.

9th October 2010, 17:09	#25832
tarzan007	http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runnin...to_bruce_m.php almost as fucked up as Dear Zachary....

9th October 2010, 20:37	#25836
Delphinus	Was driving home today and this young person of a uni-student age was standing beside his car, stark naked, actively waving his penis at passing traffic. I thought, thats one for NZG Random Thoughts.

9th October 2010, 20:50	#25837
Lightspeed	Hahaha, fair enough too. __________________ Stay shook. No sook.