What oils your gears?

[ala*]

Originally Posted by buckies

Lack of girlfriends and options means they have to take what they can get and lock it down. Quite sad on the one hand, especially once the inevitable realisation of the mistake dawns on them, but, on the other hand, it's one less ugly chick on the prowl to worry about.

lol. *high five*

Originally Posted by flic

Buckies is single - I can just tell

on one hand he shows his dislike for commitment

on the other, women obviously see how much charm he has....and keep away

ahahah did he hit a nerve there?

[crocos]

Originally Posted by A Corpse

Copy and laste the link.

http://j883376.mirror.waffleimages.c...6d0ce1a435.jpg

Got Roadtrain?

[Foggerty]

No, I gots me a 403

[Redneck]

Drap and drop the link into your address bar

[StN]

Originally Posted by Juju

That isn't a French truckie strike - it's one truck.

You are joking - right. You can clearly see where they have unhitched the rigs and parked them up next to the trailers...

[flic]

Originally Posted by ala*

lol. *high five*



ahahah did he hit a nerve there?

Well, I guess he got that reaction because it was such a nasty thing to say to someone who has just got engaged and is happy

Kiwi's have a habit of putting people down as a matter of course and it pisses me off.

[Juju]

Originally Posted by StN

You are joking - right. You can clearly see where they have unhitched the rigs and parked them up next to the trailers...

No idea what you're talking about - I can only see 1, maybe 2 other trucks in the picture aside the train.


Ps. Photo was meant to be in pic of the day thread - oops.

[StN]

So you're willing to concede that it isn't one truck?

[Wibble]

Originally Posted by buckies

Lack of girlfriends and options means they have to take what they can get and lock it down. Quite sad on the one hand, especially once the inevitable realisation of the mistake dawns on them, but, on the other hand, it's one less ugly chick on the prowl to worry about.

Stop being such a dick.

[xor]

I'm sure he'll still be saying that when he's a single 45 year old alcoholic.

[p01s0n]

wootabella, forza 3 collectors edition pre ordered. cant wait to bust out my forza 3 2gig USB drive. "heh. yeah, you might say i play racing games "

[Juju]

Originally Posted by StN

So you're willing to concede that it isn't one truck?

No I'm not, because it is one truck. It's for a world record attempt.

Wikipedia posted:
World's longest road trains

In the early 1990s, a few transport operators at Bourke, New South Wales got 30 trailers together for something to do on a quiet weekend. That was the first record to be set. It was towed by a Mack SuperLiner.

In 1999 the town of Merredin, Western Australia officially made it into the Guinness Book of Records, when Marleys Transport made a successful attempt on the record for the world's longest road train. The record was created when 45 trailers, driven by Greg Marley, weighing 603 t (1,330,000 lb) and measuring 610 m (2,000 ft) were pulled by a Kenworth 8x10 K100G for 8 km.

On October 19, 2000, Doug Gould set the first of his records[10] at Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, when a roadtrain made up of 79 trailers, measuring 1,018.2 m (3,341 ft) and weighing 1,072.3 t (2,364,000 lb), was pulled by a Kenworth C501T driven by Steven Matthews a distance of 8 km.

On March 29, 2003, the record was surpassed near Mungindi, New South Wales, by a road train consisting of 87 trailers and a single prime mover (measuring 1,235.3 m (4,053 ft) in length).

The record returned to Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, on October 17, 2004, when Doug Gould assembled 100 trailers for a total length of 1,442 m (4,731 ft). The record nearly didn't fall, as the first prime mover's main driveshaft broke when taking off. A second truck was quickly made available, and pulled the train a distance of 1 mi (1,600 m).

In 2006, a truck with 112 semi-trailers (at a length of 1,479.3 m (4,853 ft)) claimed a new record at Clifton, Queensland, pulled by a tri-drive Mack Titan.

Here are some others:

[StN]

Yeah - Ok. I always thought of a road train as a functional unit - my sister's boyfriend drove them across Oz. The normal sized ones that can go for hundreds on kms and have immunity from running over Aborigines that sleep on the warm tarmac.

Those record pulls can only go for a few kms can't they? How do they get around tight corners?

[crocos]

Originally Posted by StN

How do they get around tight corners?

Slowly & carefully, the same as any roadtrain. You should be asking how they get up hills

[A Corpse]

Originally Posted by crocos

Slowly & carefully, the same as any roadtrain. You should be asking how they get up hills

Are there even hills in the outback?

But I guess if there are, when the front is going up one hill the tail is still gaining inertia from coming down one.

[tilde]

Originally Posted by crocos

I'm going to disappoint you - it's nothing particularly juicy.

There was a group policy applied that updated all workstations with a godawful solid not-quite-magenta desktop wallpaper. Our workstations are also locked down so that we can't CHANGE this eyesore of a wallpaper... Unless you know how to change your wallpaper from a web-browser (which MANY people don't)

OMG upper management have finally conceded defeat after 'some of us' feedback that pink was hard on the eyes... yeah right more like probably 1/2 the staff hehe. be interesting to see what the new background colour will be.

[lektronimo]

I just did something in Illustrator which I don't even use, and it turned out to look how I wanted. Orsum.

[Jodi]

Just released my first open source project!

Oiled!

Converts videos with show, season and episode info in the filename title into mpeg4 for the iPhone / iPod Touch, filling in the show, episode and show description so that iTunes files it correctly.

Awesome!

[p-b]

It being my fortnightly payday tomorrow oils my gears.

[jsr]

Young kid came into the shop where I was just to tell me that my bike parked outside was "very cool".

Fully oiled.

[crocos]

So: Post piktarz of said sick 'cycle!

[jsr]

Originally Posted by crocos

So: Post piktarz of said sick 'cycle!

It's a '96 RF900R.

[flic]

getting $40 from the Rabo fortune fairy

free money for giving away free money !

Oh and accidentally stumbling across the Robin Sparkles episode of How I Met Your Mother on Sky tonight

Let's go to THE MALL


today

[crocos]

Nice plate, and is that an Arrow I see attached there? Yes, I too approve of this bike.

[MadMax]

3G broadband @ what works out to around 30cents/30 mins -> N95 sitting on the hotel windowsill -> bluetooth -> laptop in bed with aircon

[leadinjector]

went to see an R16 movie (inglorious basterds) and they id checked my gf

not sure why but for some reason that makes me feel good

[Thomas Meatball]

Pics or it didn't happen.

[fidgit]

Originally Posted by leadinjector

went to see an R16 movie (inglorious basterds) and they id checked my gf

not sure why but for some reason that makes me feel good

Found it interesting that was only R16 - I guess we've gone the way of the US where it's ok to have gratuitous violence (I didn't actually expect to see Eli's baseball bat hit the Germans head. Then he kept going......), so long as there is no sex.

[Cyberbob]

Ordering 6 pairs of contact lenses from a new source for the same price as 3 from my old supplier, and the same price as 1 from my optometrist.

[crocos]

Originally Posted by Cyberbob

a new source

THE CYAN! IT BURNS!

[Thomas Meatball]

WTF? There's barely any cyan in there at all you pussy.

[A Corpse]

Originally Posted by Cyberbob

Ordering 6 pairs of contact lenses from a new source for the same price as 3 from my old supplier, and the same price as 1 from my optometrist.

So the physical OPSM store charges 6x as much as their online store? How the fuck do they justify that? A "you're not online" tax?

[crocos]

Less staff required.

[xor]

Originally Posted by A Corpse

So the physical OPSM store charges 6x as much as their online store? How the fuck do they justify that? A "you're not online" tax?

genious

[StN]

New higher-res Google Earth imagery of Christchurch - looks like a Wednesday last summer - New recycling bins are out, the leaves are on the trees, and the pool is uncovered.

Yes - you can almost make out the makes of cars up driveways.

[Jonas Undrawing]

I go to cancel my Audible subscription, they say "dont leave, please accept this US$20 coupon" ... sahweet

[Jonas Undrawing]

which, made me go browsing and find Rapid German, which is this kind of new age electronica with 2 people pseudo-riffing in english and german. Gave me an idea to remix my other german language audio books with proper music underneath.

[QWERTY?]

spending the afternoon watching the airshow

F18's, F16's, spitfires, mustangs and the mac daddy of them all the F22

my god the F22 was awesome, it can be crusing a long and could almost instantly turn on itself, also can sit almost stationary in the air, totally awesome stuff.

[Luse]

We've been interviewing for someone to do some graveyard shifts recently and sent the 'thanks but sorry' email to the unsuccessful applicants this afternoon:

Hi there,

Thanks for your application for the role of Customer Support Specialist.
We have had a large number of quality applicants, and the selection process has been a difficult one.

Unfortunately we will not be progressing any further with your application.

Thank you for your time, and all the best for the future.

One of the applicants decided he'd reply to that with a last ditch effort to win us over.. or something.

From: "Marc"
Your loss

Ashamed that we had hurt his feelings, this email was immediately put together and delivered with haste:

Hi Marc,

I have to disagree.

Given that your CV listed the 'Position Applying For' as 'Technical Consultant', rather than Customer Support Specialist (which was the role advertised), and also taking into account that you are the type of person who replies with snippy comments to a generic 'no' e-mail, I think I am quite justified in believing that we haven't lost a thing by declining your application.

Thanks all the same, and best of luck with your future endeavours.

Thus the last restraints holding Marc back from capital letters and txt speak were removed and he owned us:

From: "Marc"
M8... DON'T NEED YOUR SNOTTY REMARKS... KEEP THEM FOR YOURSELF... GOOD LUCK WITH YOUR BUSINESS... AND DON'T SPAM ME AGAIN

Gears oiled with tears of laughter.

[buckies]

Originally Posted by leadinjector

went to see an R16 movie (inglorious basterds) and they id checked my gf

not sure why but for some reason that makes me feel good

I likes it.