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1 hour ago, green genie said:

At least the pavements won’t be icy when overloaded with EV chargers and electric boilers 

Bleddy lunacy route we’re being taken down

We’re now manufacturing electric boilers.

Its da future.

 

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16 hours ago, bolty58 said:

Aye mate. Complicated is English. Leythers and commies should probably not apply ;)

I worked with an Aussie girl in Newquay nearly 50 years ago and said she was so confused with the so many different UK accents and said everyone in Australia speaks the same.

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3 hours ago, leigh white said:

I worked with an Aussie girl in Newquay nearly 50 years ago and said she was so confused with the so many different UK accents and said everyone in Australia speaks the same.

She's still got your wallet!

Was that when, skint, you tried to hitch a lift home from the official coach carrying the Icelandic Women's volleyball team, they tossed you off near Tavistock and you woke up next morning on Dartmoor next to the Hound of the Baskervilles?

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1 hour ago, SatanGreavsie said:

She's still got your wallet!

Was that when, skint, you tried to hitch a lift home from the official coach carrying the Icelandic Women's volleyball team, they tossed you off near Tavistock and you woke up next morning on Dartmoor next to the Hound of the Baskervilles?

Ha ha, no it was two years previous, you're thinking of the incident when I got bladdered in the Trossachs and waking up on a bed of Heather with her giving me a sherman to bring me round.

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13 minutes ago, leigh white said:

Ha ha, no it was two years previous, you're thinking of the incident when I got bladdered in the Trossachs and waking up on a bed of Heather with her giving me a sherman to bring me round.

This is Heather tossing that caber (weirdly, her name actually is Heather ( see 'More women should toss the caber', say female Heavies - BBC News )

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43 minutes ago, SatanGreavsie said:

This is Heather tossing that caber (weirdly, her name actually is Heather ( see 'More women should toss the caber', say female Heavies - BBC News )

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Brilliant, you wouldn't mess about with her, saying my porridge oats are a bit cold at breakfast.

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15 hours ago, green genie said:

Crazy money, know engineers who are being offered commuting the month on month to the south sea island sites off from Blighty 

FIFO workers here (fitters, machinists, sparkies etc.) are earning up to AUD$250,000 p.a. for two weeks on, two weeks off turns (FIFO = fly in, fly out; the two weeks on, two weeks off varies massively between companies. I know one lad who is on a 5 days on, 9 days off swing!).

It's all turned around here. the office wallahs and pen pushers might be sat in aircon but it is the qualified tradesmen knocking out the big money. As a massive supporter/appreciater/advocate of skilled tradesmen, I am very happy to see this.

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11 hours ago, green genie said:

Mixing hydrogen into gas supplies is the real future as it is for vehicles. boltys mob already doing it for their Tonka toys  in the outback

Aye, Twiggy Forrest, the brains and money behind 3rd largest Australian iron ore producer FMG is heavily into hydrogen power and has invested heavily in hydrogen production in Queensland. His WA mines and ports are utilising hydrogen power wherever possible and the use of it is growing every day.

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9 hours ago, leigh white said:

I worked with an Aussie girl in Newquay nearly 50 years ago and said she was so confused with the so many different UK accents and said everyone in Australia speaks the same.

Not absolutely true matey. Queenslanders for example (and rural types) talk a LOT slower. Accent yes but they don't speak the same.

Anyway, other than Boby Brno (who I just know will have picked it), I wonder how many had a scooby about the thinking behind thread title?

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20 minutes ago, bolty58 said:

Not absolutely true matey. Queenslanders for example (and rural types) talk a LOT slower. Accent yes but they don't speak the same.

Anyway, other than Boby Brno (who I just know will have picked it), I wonder how many had a scooby about the thinking behind thread title?

Of course P.😊

Just watching this thread unfold as I have my own thoughts. Youngest is in Sydney and I’ve spent a lot of time with him and it’s the best thing he’s ever done. Had a chat with him the other night and thanked him for the experiences that we have enjoyed since he came here. We came out in Dec. and back home in March. In NZ at the moment for the cricket, something that we wouldn’t have done without him being down under.

Anyway.

 

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20 hours ago, BobyBrno said:

Of course P.😊

Just watching this thread unfold as I have my own thoughts. Youngest is in Sydney and I’ve spent a lot of time with him and it’s the best thing he’s ever done. Had a chat with him the other night and thanked him for the experiences that we have enjoyed since he came here. We came out in Dec. and back home in March. In NZ at the moment for the cricket, something that we wouldn’t have done without him being down under.

Anyway.

 

Cheers mate and yes, I knew you would get it as would the erudite Zulu!

Sounds like you are having a ball mate! Continue to enjoy.

I wish some of this lot realised the opportunity they are missing. Ah well, you can lead a horse to water and all that.

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