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Re: Off-Topic thread for the Off-Topic forum

Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2009 1:16 pm
by Nafenn
munchkin1981 wrote:not fun to drive from gosnells to clarkson with only able to see car in front of you
about the same in jandakot

Re: Off-Topic thread for the Off-Topic forum

Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2009 1:54 pm
by yorky
Nafenn wrote:
munchkin1981 wrote:not fun to drive from gosnells to clarkson with only able to see car in front of you
about the same in jandakot
...stick your head out the window and put the landing lights on yeah?

:lol:

Re: Off-Topic thread for the Off-Topic forum

Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2009 1:55 pm
by Nafenn
yorky wrote:...stick your head out the window and put the landing lights on yeah?

:lol:
that actually makes it worse :p

Re: Off-Topic thread for the Off-Topic forum

Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2009 2:21 pm
by Zebedee
Nafenn wrote:that actually makes it worse :p
What, the sticking your head out the window bit?

Worried it'll ruin your hairstyle? ;)

Re: Off-Topic thread for the Off-Topic forum

Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2009 4:01 pm
by Nafenn
Zebedee wrote:
Nafenn wrote:that actually makes it worse :p
What, the sticking your head out the window bit?

Worried it'll ruin your hairstyle? ;)
yes... you see instructors come back with sick students (all over the windsheild), and my god their hair is all over the place ;)

Re: Off-Topic thread for the Off-Topic forum

Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2009 4:18 pm
by Zebedee
Ah yes... When did the old "carrots and corn" look in the hair become fashionable again? ;)

Re: Off-Topic thread for the Off-Topic forum

Posted: Sun Jun 07, 2009 1:16 pm
by dlcat1
Nafenn wrote:
Zebedee wrote:
Nafenn wrote:that actually makes it worse :p
What, the sticking your head out the window bit?

Worried it'll ruin your hairstyle? ;)
yes... you see instructors come back with sick students (all over the windsheild), and my god their hair is all over the place ;)

???? They surely don't use it as a mop ?

Re: Off-Topic thread for the Off-Topic forum

Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2009 8:21 am
by written_ficton
Wet weather, possible thunderstorms?

Now I know why I've been called into work 5hrs early

Re: Off-Topic thread for the Off-Topic forum

Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2009 9:37 am
by robbage
Ever wonder what happens when you drop 23 kilograms of silly putty from a roof?
http://www.news14.com/Default.aspx?ArID=610914

Back on the subject of LEDs, researchers create the first LED that naturally emits white light, or as they like to put it "we have successfully synthesized and characterised, for the first time, a white-light-emitting single molecule dyad, consisting of two noninteracting chromophores showing excited-state intramolecular proton transfer"
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17912_3-10268 ... inesArea.0

Re: Off-Topic thread for the Off-Topic forum

Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 4:35 pm
by robbage
A330-200 wing hit by lightning destroying the winglet (with picture)

http://avherald.com/h?article=41b76b3b

Re: Off-Topic thread for the Off-Topic forum

Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 5:12 pm
by Nafenn
robbage wrote:A330-200 wing hit by lightning destroying the winglet (with picture)

http://avherald.com/h?article=41b76b3b
is it just me... or is the media giving A330's a really hard time?

Re: Off-Topic thread for the Off-Topic forum

Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 7:55 pm
by robbage
It's a lightning strike... could have happened to anything that was there at the time. But probably yes :)

Re: Off-Topic thread for the Off-Topic forum

Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2009 10:09 am
by Zebedee
Nafenn wrote:
robbage wrote:A330-200 wing hit by lightning destroying the winglet (with picture)

http://avherald.com/h?article=41b76b3b
is it just me... or is the media giving A330's a really hard time?
No, it's not just you ... Look when there was the "daily Qantas horror story", now we're getting the "daily A330 story"...

Re: Off-Topic thread for the Off-Topic forum

Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2009 4:33 pm
by Nafenn
Zebedee wrote:No, it's not just you ... Look when there was the "daily Qantas horror story", now we're getting the "daily A330 story"...
oh yes, and linking problems to things that have NOTHING TO DO WITH ANYTHING ELSE.... but they still link it because they are the media, and anyone will beleive them

(no offence Rick)

Re: Off-Topic thread for the Off-Topic forum

Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2009 10:52 pm
by auntys_eyes
Nafenn wrote:(no offence Rick)
None taken :wink: . I don't agree with a lot published/broadcast by the media :roll: