The Random thought thread

[nomadpete]

11 minutes ago, facthunter said:

Google it mate. It's important you are clear on this..  Nev

My sincere apology, Nev. You are absolutely right. I was talking shyte.

 

 

 

[facthunter]

You get to be called "NUGGET" eventually.  Nev

[pmccarthy]

I am reading a book about the WW2 Burma campaign. The US 111 Brigade retreated from Blackpool to Indawgyi Lake and couldn’t take the badly wounded. They were all shot to save them from falling into Japanese hands.

[willedoo]

When I was in Burma in 1985, about the only reminder of the war was a lot of psp used for rural fencing once you got out of Rangooon into the countryside.

[pmccarthy]

I was there then too! I never got beyond Rangoon, stayed at the Inya Lake hotel for a couple of weeks on a mining job.

[rgmwa]

David Attenborough turned 100 today. 

[Marty_d]

Great man. He's done a lot for the world.

[willedoo]

2 hours ago, pmccarthy said:

I was there then too! I never got beyond Rangoon, stayed at the Inya Lake hotel for a couple of weeks on a mining job.

It was a crazy place back then, probably still is. It was fairly hard to find a safe place to eat in Rangoon from what I remember. We used to eat at the Strand for British food and the Karachi for Indian. Back then the Strand hotel was still like something from the days of British rule. The most far up north I got was Pagan, never made it as far as Mandalay. It surprised me how dry it was in that area, almost semi-arid with a lot of eucalypt plantations. The gum trees were a welcome smell having been away for a long time. My first impression of Burma was landing there on a Bangladesh Biman flight and getting a taxi into town. The taxi was a big yank tank from the late 50's, right hand drive and driving on the right side of the road. It's still like that, some left hand drive vehicles but predominantly right hand drive vehicles driving on the right.

[pmccarthy]

I have been back since and got to Pagan and Mandalay. But in 1985 Rangoon was crazy. There were slabs missing in the footpath and if you fell in you would be swept away in a giant storm drain. We thought the beer had no alcohol in it but instead had some hallucinogenic drug that made everyone weird.

[nomadpete]

Maybe this airline incident belongs in the Accidents and Incidents forum (Over the fence).

 

But it is rather random. 

 

BTW, if it isn't accompanied by a human assistance animal, is a two year old robot classified as an unaccompanied minor?

 

https://abc7news.com/post/humanoid-robot-named-bebop-causes-southwest-airlines-flight-delay-oakland-san-francisco-bay-airport/19016906/

 

[old man emu]

As long as it didn't walk into the cockpit and announce, "Good morning. This is your Captain speaking."

[old man emu]

11 hours ago, rgmwa said:

David Attenborough turned 100 today. 

This is beautiful. 

 

[facthunter]

My name is on a well wishing List. Very talented Person, as was his brother. Thanks OME. Nev

[onetrack]

It's lucky the BBC and King Charles didn't employ Lonesome George to deliver his birthday wishes! 😄 

 

Edited yesterday at 02:56 AM by onetrack

[facthunter]

Between us, I think it's made up. Nev

[willedoo]

8 hours ago, pmccarthy said:

I have been back since and got to Pagan and Mandalay. But in 1985 Rangoon was crazy. There were slabs missing in the footpath and if you fell in you would be swept away in a giant storm drain. We thought the beer had no alcohol in it but instead had some hallucinogenic drug that made everyone weird.

I tried the beer when I was up in the country, but it was hard to get, warm and tasted like the worst home brew you'd ever tried. Rotten egg gas smell when you opened them and no two bottles were the same. Apart from right hand drive cars driving on the right, another oddity was a couple of years later when Ne Win introduced new currency based on his lucky number 9. He also demonetized three existing notes which rendered 75% of the country's cash invalid. It wiped out most people's savings in a country that relied heavily on black market cash and hammered the economy.

 

The military government was a bit crazy. In the first place I stayed there was a window between floors in the stairwell. In the distance seen out of the window was a big red building, and on the wall a poster with a stern government warning not to look at the big red building. I imagine in the big red building there would have been a government agent with the job of looking through a telescope to see if any foreigners were looking at the big red building. I wouldn't have even noticed the big red building if I hadn't seen the warning sign, so of course the natural response on reading the sign is to look out the window at the big red building.

[onetrack]

Have you ever wondered about the weird and wonderful jobs that have to be done, and which never make any news articles, documentaries, or "this is your life" shows?

Yes, there are hundreds of them, and many are so basic to everyday needs, that they just don't even get discussed. Jobs such as chicken sexers, aeroplane repossession agents, ball divers (yes, I know you never even considered what happens to those golf balls lost in deep water), and... wait for it - barnyard masturbators. Yes, there is even a job involving getting animals horny for ease of insemination, which must take a special type of person.

 

 

 

[red750]

What a disaster of a weekend. My daughter's team Collingwood - beaten. My eldest son's team Essendon - beaten. What made it worse was the security at the MCG.

 

Last year, security let two people with guns through the gate, even though the detector beeped. Now they insist on everyone emptying their pockets. My daughter had already removed all metal objects from her pockets, but they insisted that she remove everything else, so she put the metal stuff on the table to remove hankies etc from her pocket, and didn't beep when scanned. Then she missed picking up her keys and didn't realise till she got back to Mitcham and couldn't get into her car. Andrew had to go to the station  and pick her up.

 

They are going to the Melbourne Storm NRL game this afternoon and will go early so they can go over to the MCG to pick up her keys.

[facthunter]

The KEY to an orderly Life is to keep your Keys where you can use them. It doesn't take a lot to ruin one's day. I avoid crowds whenever Possible, Bad things Happen there. Football crowds? I've seen People watching it on Tele go off their Brains.. I stopped swimming with Sharks too. Betting on Horses. talking to drunks. There's lots of ways to Improve your Life, AND save money at the same time. Nev

[red750]

I said to her, "Why would you want to go out on a freezing cold night to watch your team get beaten and lose your keys?" She relied, "you go out to the Shed more times than I go out. I'm not going out next weekend." Her teams are playing interstate.

[Marty_d]

2 hours ago, red750 said:

I said to her, "Why would you want to go out on a freezing cold night to watch your team get beaten and lose your keys?" She relied, "you go out to the Shed more times than I go out. I'm not going out next weekend." Her teams are playing interstate.

You're not making the mistake of thinking you're going to get the last word in a "discussion" with a woman, are you Peter?

[facthunter]

Good advice.  I also hope the People at the shed are superior to the Average  football crowd  behaviour. .  Nev

[willedoo]

She'll be happy with the Storm today, a good win 44-16 over Wests Tigers.