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StMarks
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by StMarks » 16 Jun 2019, 15:40
/awaits Kwacky's post, telling us that he's "got some of those, and that they're aggressive little buggers that keep escaping".
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by D6 » 20 Jun 2019, 13:29
kiwikrasher wrote: In Tasmania this spider was found eating a baby possum
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Wow.
That's not something you want to have to clear up. Not sure it would go up my hoover.
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by Kwacky » 20 Jun 2019, 13:40
StMarks wrote:
/awaits Kwacky's post, telling us that he's "got some of those, and that they're aggressive little buggers that keep escaping".
Nope. I've only got one true spider. It's tiny and it's not very happy being out in the open.
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by kiwikrasher » 07 Jul 2019, 06:55
Warning: NSFW due to explicit language.
A bit long but hilarious!
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https://youtu.be/ON5hGzydnsY [/video]
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by StMarks » 07 Jul 2019, 13:34
Cracking clip that Kiwi, well worth watching imo mate.
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by D41 » 07 Jul 2019, 21:06
That guy's funny as fcuk!!
.....And doing absolutely zero to change the male Aussie stereotype. Good on him.
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by D41 » 08 Jul 2019, 22:22
Hawkesbury, NSW.
Personnel at RAAF Richmond are reporting that a C-130 Hercules aircraft has gone missing. Apparently this happened immediately after the aircraft received a new coat of camouflage paint. Staff are currently unavailable for comment.
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by StMarks » 08 Jul 2019, 22:33
D41 wrote: Hawkesbury, NSW.
Personnel at RAAF Richmond are reporting that a C-130 Hercules aircraft has gone missing. Apparently this happened immediately after the aircraft received a new coat of camouflage paint. Staff are currently unavailable for comment.
Obviously very effective camouflage paintwork they gave it.
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by D41 » 08 Jul 2019, 22:39
Nah....some urban legend BS I came across on the web. Be great if it were true, as the location definitely makes it plausible/probable.
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by kiwikrasher » 09 Jul 2019, 15:04
D41 wrote: Hawkesbury, NSW.
Personnel at RAAF Richmond are reporting that a C-130 Hercules aircraft has gone missing. Apparently this happened immediately after the aircraft received a new coat of camouflage paint. Staff are currently unavailable for comment.
Be a bit hard since they don’t operate from there anymore, and the only ones in service in the RAAF are J models which are grey.
In fact the H models that were based there (but were put out of service approx 5 years ago) haven’t been camo paint scheme for over 18 years. I know that for a fact because when I moved to Australia 18 years ago I worked on the H model C130’s at RAAF Base Richmond.
It’s literally ‘down the
road ’
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by D41 » 09 Jul 2019, 16:01
I'd love to do a parachute jump from the ramp of a Hercules. That has got to be the Holy Grail of parachute jumps.
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by Kwacky » 23 Jul 2019, 11:33
had he sampled some of the product?
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by Jack » 23 Jul 2019, 11:54
Kwacky wrote: had he sampled some of the product?
273kg does seem an odd amount - like it's 2kg short ...
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by D41 » 23 Jul 2019, 12:37
That's right at 600lbs. Which kinda makes me wonder why in the US, the drug trade went metric & nobody else did??
Must be because of the tiny amounts involved...??
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by Kwacky » 23 Jul 2019, 12:49
Because it's so much easier to work out in metric. Plus it's usually shipped in metric amounts.
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by Cav » 23 Jul 2019, 13:11
Because Americans can't get their head around change even when the change makes everyone's lives easier!!!
"If I just take 5/8ths from 11/16ths" I'll be left with another random number which doesn't make sense.
Or... you can take 16mm from 17.5mm and you have yourself a number even an American can understand.
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by D41 » 23 Jul 2019, 14:50
Just out of idle curiosity Cav, when did you yourself make the switch from imperial to metric...or did you grow up just with metric?
You still use miles as a base scale when it comes to speed & distance, correct??
1/16.
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by Monty » 23 Jul 2019, 15:06
We still use feet for altitude, but if you're an engineer metric makes so much more sense.
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