Sedalia Dave Posted February 14 Posted February 14 2 hours ago, Buckshot Bear said: True for most rural areas of the US as well. 4 1 Quote
Buckshot Bear Posted February 14 Author Posted February 14 3 hours ago, Sedalia Dave said: True for most rural areas of the US as well. If we pass a cop on the side of the road checking speed with radar, a lot of us also flash our lights to warn other drivers so that they slow down and don't get a ticket. Is that a thing over there as well? 2 Quote
Alpo Posted February 14 Posted February 14 5 hours ago, Buckshot Bear said: If we pass a cop on the side of the road checking speed with radar, a lot of us also flash our lights to warn other drivers so that they slow down and don't get a ticket. Is that a thing over there as well? It was when I was a kid. I think I would flash my lights when I saw a cop hidden in the bushes up till about the time I was 25. I don't remember whether it was because nobody else ever did it or because I quit seeing the cops but I stopped doing it. When you are being passed at night by someone with a long vehicle - a 18-wheeler truck, a pickup towing a 20 ft boat, a car pulling a caravan - do you, when they have cleared your front end enough that it's safe to pull over, flash your lights at them? Either blink your high beams at night or turn your lights on and off in the daytime? 3 Quote
Alpo Posted February 14 Posted February 14 Interesting video. I wonder how much of it is true. 2 1 Quote
Chickasaw Bill SASS #70001 Posted February 14 Posted February 14 folks do not know how to talk with lights anymore In town they use a different finger 🤣 1 2 Quote
Alpo Posted February 14 Posted February 14 7 minutes ago, Chickasaw Bill SASS #70001 said: folks do not know how to talk with lights anymore We were in Indiana one year. This other guy was driving. It was night and after he had been passed by three semis I said, "Don't they blink where you come from?" He had no idea what I was talking about. So I told him about blinking his high beams on and off when a semi got about 10 foot in front of him so the guy would know he had room to pull over. Next time one come along, when it got by he blinked his lights on and off, and as the semi driver pulled over he flashed the lights on his trailer on and off. "Oh wow. That is so cool!" 3 Quote
Texas Joker Posted February 14 Posted February 14 High beams blind if the driver has his mirrors adjusted correctly at night. Flick you light on and off at night instead. During the day highs work fine. 3 Quote
Cypress Sun Posted February 14 Posted February 14 10 hours ago, Buckshot Bear said: If we pass a cop on the side of the road checking speed with radar, a lot of us also flash our lights to warn other drivers so that they slow down and don't get a ticket. Is that a thing over there as well? 5 hours ago, Alpo said: It was when I was a kid. I think I would flash my lights when I saw a cop hidden in the bushes up till about the time I was 25. I don't remember whether it was because nobody else ever did it or because I quit seeing the cops but I stopped doing it. When you are being passed at night by someone with a long vehicle - a 18-wheeler truck, a pickup towing a 20 ft boat, a car pulling a caravan - do you, when they have cleared your front end enough that it's safe to pull over, flash your lights at them? Either blink your high beams at night or turn your lights on and off in the daytime? I still do all of the above although I don't do too much night driving anymore. 1 Quote
Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 Posted February 14 Posted February 14 ......... here in the great State of NSW it is illegal to flash headlights to warn of police activities. However the use of headlights to indicate to an overtaking truck that his rearend has cleared past your frontend is common; especially when there is another vehicle coming up behind .... 4 Quote
Buckshot Bear Posted February 15 Author Posted February 15 15 hours ago, Cypress Sun said: I still do all of the above although I don't do too much night driving anymore. Neither do I if I can avoid it. 1 Quote
Buckshot Bear Posted February 15 Author Posted February 15 Of COURSE Australia has to have the LOUDEST cicadas in the world. These things cause people to go nuts literally. On a bad year when they are in their millions upon millions.... there's just no escape from the ear piercing noise. 1 Quote
Buckshot Bear Posted February 16 Author Posted February 16 ‘PAMIR’ - Commercial Sailing Ship Master Mariners of Australia. Pamir was one of the last commercial sailing ships to transport cargo around Cape Horn. The Pamir, a famous German four-masted steel barque (1905–1957), was a renowned "Flying P-Liner" in the Australian grain trade. She had an overall length of 114.5 m (375 ft), a beam of about 14 m (46 ft) and a draught of 7.25 m (23.5 ft). Three masts stood 51.2 m (168 ft) above deck and the main yard was 28 m (92 ft) wide. She carried 3,800 m² (40,900 ft²) of sails and could reach a top speed of 16 knots (30 km/h). However, her regular cruise speed was around 8-9 knots. While mainly operating out of South Australia, the vessel is associated with Australian maritime history, including visits to Sydney and, via historical records/photo collections, Newcastle during the first half of the 20th century. Pamir, built in 1905, was famous for transporting goods such as wool and grain between Europe and South America. It was part of the German fleet known as the Flying P-Liners. On 21 September 1957, she was caught in Hurricane Carrie and sank off the Azores. A nine-day search for survivors was organized by the United States Coast Guard Cutter Absecon, but only four crewmen and two cadets were rescued alive, from two of the lifeboats. It was reported that many of the 86 men aboard had managed to reach the boats, but most died in the next three days. The sinking made headlines around the world; it was a national tragedy for Germany. 3 Quote
Buckshot Bear Posted February 16 Author Posted February 16 Outback Pub Counter lunch menu & prices from 1972! 2 Quote
Buckshot Bear Posted February 16 Author Posted February 16 Flying P-Line steel barque Pekin, a sister to the Pamir. 3 Quote
Alpo Posted February 17 Posted February 17 4 hours ago, Buckshot Bear said: Outback Pub Counter lunch menu & prices from 1972! Mince - that's British for chopped meat, right? So that mince, for 35¢, would be hamburger, right? Not a hamburger sandwich, but just a hamburger patty on a plate with a fork? Wait, I just noticed the ditto marks. So that would be mince on toast. Now I have no clue what it is. Aaaand, wiki to the rescue once again. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mince_on_toast And what the heck would a "cold collation" be? Found this in wiki. >In British English today, a collation is likewise a light meal, offered to guests when there is insufficient time for fuller entertainment. It is often rendered cold collation in reference to the usual lack of hot or cooked food. < Barbecue chicken cost twice as much as porterhouse steak? Wow. 1 Quote
Sedalia Dave Posted February 17 Posted February 17 46 minutes ago, Alpo said: Mince - that's British for chopped meat, right? So that mince, for 35¢, would be hamburger, right? Not a hamburger sandwich, but just a hamburger patty on a plate with a fork? Wait, I just noticed the ditto marks. So that would be mince on toast. Now I have no clue what it is. Aaaand, wiki to the rescue once again. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mince_on_toast And what the heck would a "cold collation" be? Found this in wiki. >In British English today, a collation is likewise a light meal, offered to guests when there is insufficient time for fuller entertainment. It is often rendered cold collation in reference to the usual lack of hot or cooked food. < Barbecue chicken cost twice as much as porterhouse steak? Wow. Most likely that price was for a whole chicken. 1 Quote
Buckshot Bear Posted February 17 Author Posted February 17 2 hours ago, Alpo said: Mince - that's British for chopped meat, right? So that mince, for 35¢, would be hamburger, right? Not a hamburger sandwich, but just a hamburger patty on a plate with a fork? Wait, I just noticed the ditto marks. So that would be mince on toast. Now I have no clue what it is. Aaaand, wiki to the rescue once again. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mince_on_toast And what the heck would a "cold collation" be? Found this in wiki. >In British English today, a collation is likewise a light meal, offered to guests when there is insufficient time for fuller entertainment. It is often rendered cold collation in reference to the usual lack of hot or cooked food. < Barbecue chicken cost twice as much as porterhouse steak? Wow. You've never had mince meat on toast????????????????????????????????? 1 2 Quote
Buckshot Bear Posted February 17 Author Posted February 17 1 hour ago, Sedalia Dave said: Most likely that price was for a whole chicken. Yes that would have been a whole BBQ chicken. In the '60's chicken was expensive compared to beef and lamb which was plentiful and oversupplied, most chicken meals came from the backyard chook run. Took a while for Oz to get into intensive chicken farming. 2 Quote
Alpo Posted February 17 Posted February 17 16 minutes ago, Buckshot Bear said: You've never had mince meat on toast????????????????????????????????? Looks sort of like what Roseanne Barr used to call a loose meat sandwich. Except that hers had bread on the top and the bottom. But no, I've never had mince on toast. Never had baked beans on toast or scrambled eggs on toast either. Pretty much the only thing that goes on toast is butter or jelly, or both. Is jelly in Oz jello, like it is in England. Cuz what we call jelly the Brits called jam. I don't know what y'all would call it. A poached egg goes real good on toast. Never have done scrambled or fried, though. Quote
Alpo Posted February 17 Posted February 17 Back to the menu. Pie. Is that a meat pie? Like a pork pie or a beef pie? (In the Howard Pyle Robin Hood book, when we first meet him Friar Tuck was eating a venison pie.) Or is that what WE would consider pie - cooked fruit in the crust. Apple pie, blueberry pie, strawberry pie etc etc? I'm partial to peach pie myself. Quote
Buckshot Bear Posted February 17 Author Posted February 17 33 minutes ago, Alpo said: Looks sort of like what Roseanne Barr used to call a loose meat sandwich. Except that hers had bread on the top and the bottom. But no, I've never had mince on toast. Never had baked beans on toast or scrambled eggs on toast either. Pretty much the only thing that goes on toast is butter or jelly, or both. Is jelly in Oz jello, like it is in England. Cuz what we call jelly the Brits called jam. I don't know what y'all would call it. A poached egg goes real good on toast. Never have done scrambled or fried, though. Fried eggs, scrambled eggs, poached eggs on toast.....YUM!!! Preferably thick cut sourdough with butter. I'm not big on baked beans but I do like mexican hot beans on toast! Now if the mince meat was between two slices of bread that would turn it into the iconic Australian sealed toasted sandwich called a Jaffle. Which can either be square or round (with the protruding crusts cut off that are sticking out of the jaffle maker). 2 1 Quote
Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 Posted February 17 Posted February 17 1 hour ago, Alpo said: But no, I've never had mince on toast. Never had baked beans on toast or scrambled eggs on toast either. Pretty much the only thing that goes on toast is butter or jelly, or both. Is jelly in Oz jello, like it is in England. Cuz what we call jelly the Brits called jam. I don't know what y'all would call it. A poached egg goes real good on toast. Never have done scrambled or fried, though. OMG!!! .......... how in the Wide, Wide World of Sports did you manage to survive your childhood ? 1 1 Quote
Alpo Posted February 17 Posted February 17 8 hours ago, Buckshot Bear said: I wonder who stole the idea? 1972 Chevy commercial. 3 Quote
Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 Posted February 17 Posted February 17 (edited) 4 hours ago, Eyesa Horg said: The womans look better in Australia! ......... c'mon over/under and see for yourself ........ Edited February 17 by Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 speeling erer 3 Quote
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