Post by: nzenigma on January 06, 2017, 00:31:55
About three weeks before Christmas I was driving down a major rural road near my home. I noticed a group of people sweltering in the sun beside a Barina :spitty: bearing Tasmanian number plates.
Surprisingly, the Barina :spitty: (aka Opel Corsa) had made it up to Queensland; no doubt before the head cracked. All windows were rolled down, indicating that the air conditioning had, as expected, stopped working in Melbourne.
The owners did nothing more than remove their number plates before a saintly Queenslander drove them into town.
The next day the car had a large ‘police are aware’ notice stuck to the rear window. Obviously, a concerned Queenslander had reported the abandoned car, unaware that nobody steals Barinas.
If the car had been abandoned in Victoria, the wheels would have disappeared on the first night, if in NSW, the car would have been torched instantly; but here in perfect Queensland, the car has remained untouched for weeks with the windows still down.
Two days ago, it started to rain, so a true blue Queenslander stopped and wound the windows up.
Post by: Phil №❶ on January 06, 2017, 02:25:11
Post by: Dazzler on January 06, 2017, 05:25:46
Sadly that would have been the case 10 years ago in Tassie but now all the yobo's who couldn't make it on the Gold Coast are down here ransacking and torching our abandoned/stranded cars.... :whistler:
Post by: Surferdude on January 06, 2017, 06:50:16
:rofl: Very good Gary...Probably true, Dazz. But most of those ex Gold Coasters would have been southern transplants in the first place. :happydance:
Sadly that would have been the case 10 years ago in Tassie but now all the yobo's who couldn't make it on the Gold Coast are down here ransacking and torching our abandoned/stranded cars.... :whistler:
Post by: nzenigma on January 06, 2017, 08:53:51
Post by: The Gonz on January 06, 2017, 09:09:21
Post by: Dazzler on January 06, 2017, 09:55:25
I guess it's true then, New Zealanders really are nice people. :whistler:
Touche' :snigger:
Post by: Doggie 1 on January 06, 2017, 10:23:08
Post by: The Gonz on January 06, 2017, 11:18:02
Post by: Just Rick on January 06, 2017, 16:48:20
Would you bother :confused: winding the windows up :question: It's only a Barina and a dead one at that,over here the second day all the windows would be smashed,third day all the panels would be damaged(if it was a decent car they would have been stripped)then the fifth day it would be torched and finally Day seven an asian or indian scrappy would come and take it,Aussie scrappies are two lazy to actually pick em up,they just work out of wrecking yards and chage them fifty bucks to take a body away.
Post by: Lakes on January 06, 2017, 20:29:56
you kids did no grow up pre air-conditioning , Australia was just as hot then too and most cars in old days 1950's were gloss black.
i used to go out the bush a lot & most lived in corrugated iron houses no air conditioning, they tell me we only got air conditioning as the new arrivals could not handle the heat.
Also as a boy in Sydney no one locked cars no one locked houses. then we started taking in people from other country's & we had to start locking everything, we also had to start listening to winging & cry baby's :rofl:
but we love them all!!!! i was at the club other night and one mate who is Italian heritage the other Greek heritage both now proud Aussies.
Post by: nzenigma on January 06, 2017, 22:03:56
:rofl:
. then we started taking in people from other country's & we had to start locking everything, we also had to start listening to winging & cry baby's :rofl:
:) That was the Poms, same in NZ,... bloody Poms. :whistler:
A plane load of them would arrive and the whining still carried on even after they shut the motors down.
:D :D
Post by: Doggie 1 on January 07, 2017, 03:14:11
We colonised this hell hole and made it what it was until a decade ago. :D
Post by: neptune on January 07, 2017, 03:17:03
Oi.
We colonised this hell hole and made it what it was until a decade ago. :D
Are you saying you want your 10 pounds back now?....
Post by: Doggie 1 on January 07, 2017, 03:18:45
Oi.
We colonised this hell hole and made it what it was until a decade ago. :D
Are you saying you want your 10 pounds back now?....
No.
I was free because I was a child. :mrgreen:
Post by: neptune on January 07, 2017, 03:22:17
Oi.
We colonised this hell hole and made it what it was until a decade ago. :D
Are you saying you want your 10 pounds back now?....
No.
I was free because I was a child. :mrgreen:
Oh!....so you are free to go back to the Mother Land without your shackles on...... :whistler:
Post by: Doggie 1 on January 07, 2017, 03:25:42
Post by: nzenigma on January 07, 2017, 04:02:23
:twisted: must do this more often
Post by: CraigB on January 07, 2017, 06:53:20
Post by: neptune on January 07, 2017, 08:06:46
We're Australian, we take the piss out of everyone :D
Except Taswegians...they sook if you do...... :snigger:
Post by: Doggie 1 on January 07, 2017, 08:17:25
We're Australian, we take the piss out of everyone :D
Except Taswegians...they sook if you do...... :snigger:
And they are sort of, er, a bit, er, detached from Australia. :whistler: :D
Post by: Dazzler on January 07, 2017, 09:23:03
We're Australian, we take the piss out of everyone :D
Except Taswegians...they sook if you do...... :snigger:
As bloody if! :whistler: :evil:
Post by: The Gonz on January 07, 2017, 09:36:15
Post by: nzenigma on January 07, 2017, 10:00:36
Good one Gonz; 'cept the Tazzies wont get it!
Post by: Doggie 1 on January 07, 2017, 10:40:16
"Oi, you awake?"
What's the Tasmanian's definition of foreplay?
"Oi, you awake mum?"
Post by: Phil №❶ on January 07, 2017, 11:08:51
Post by: Dazzler on January 07, 2017, 14:58:28
They go running to their sisters, cousins, parents and kids - all two of them. :whistler:About 30 years ago I first found out I had a cousin and an Auntie in Hobart. It was unusual because they were two separate people! True Story!
Post by: neptune on January 07, 2017, 15:21:18
They go running to their sisters, cousins, parents and kids - all two of them. :whistler:About 30 years ago I first found out I had a cousin and an Auntie in Hobart. It was unusual because they were two separate people! True Story!
*cough*.....story teller.....
Post by: Dazzler on January 07, 2017, 15:39:46
It's True! Unfortunately my Auntie Rita died last year aged 81, but her Son Stephen who is in his 50's still lives there. My Dad's brother Bob ( Bob's your uncle!) died 20 odd yearss ago.. :Pout:They go running to their sisters, cousins, parents and kids - all two of them. :whistler:About 30 years ago I first found out I had a cousin and an Auntie in Hobart. It was unusual because they were two separate people! True Story!
*cough*.....story teller.....
Post by: nzenigma on January 07, 2017, 20:44:15
Post by: AlanHo on January 07, 2017, 21:03:09
Post by: Dazzler on January 07, 2017, 21:11:21
In NZ, I grew up with two younger 'cousins' ; who were actually my uncles. (my Grandfather's sons) True too!That just confirms what people have told me.. New Zealand is very much like Tasmania...
Post by: Dazzler on January 07, 2017, 21:12:11
Queenslanders are outstanding in their field because.....they are looking for attractive sheep. (I changed that from another Country)That seems to work
Post by: nzenigma on January 07, 2017, 21:24:44
A Tasmanian tourist, in NZ, surprised a farmer shagging his favourite ewe.
Tazzie said, “Jezz mate , back home we just shear them”.
Kiwi Replied, “Well you can piss off …. Im not sharing her with anyone.”
Post by: Dazzler on January 07, 2017, 23:51:59
Post by: Doggie 1 on January 07, 2017, 23:52:56
He was fleeced.