The Aussie Humour Thread

[sassnetguy50]

[Buckshot Bear]

Melbourne Postmen riding their Penny Farthings with training wheels on, Circa 1880

(with training wheels ???)

 

[Alpo]

I don't believe those are penny farthings.

 

A penny farthing is a bicycle. The front wheel is huge and the back wheel is tiny.

A farthing was a fourth of a penny, so a farthing was much smaller than a penny. Having a big wheel and a little wheel, penny farthing made sense.

 

Those things are either unicycles with four training wheels or quintacycles. But they don't have a single little bitty wheel in the back, so I don't believe they would be penny farthings.

[Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474]

[sassnetguy50]

2 hours ago, Buckshot Bear said:

Melbourne Postmen riding their Penny Farthings with training wheels on, Circa 1880

(with training wheels ???)

 

Those are pentacycles, designed  for rural postmen in Sussex.  They could be ordered with front and/or rear baskets to carry the mail.  They were reported to be difficult to ride as the steering system was designed for ease of manufacturing rather than ease of use on rough rural roads.

[Eyesa Horg]

Imagine the PIA of having to keep climbing on and off the damn thing.

[Cactus Jack Calder]

14 hours ago, Alpo said:

I don't believe those are penny farthings.

 

A penny farthing is a bicycle. The front wheel is huge and the back wheel is tiny.

A farthing was a fourth of a penny, so a farthing was much smaller than hya penny. Having a big wheel and a little wheel, penny farthing made sense.

 

Those things are either unicycles with four training wheels or quintacycles. But they don't have a single little bitty wheel in the back, so I don't believe they would be penny farthings.

Good call, Alpo.

Quintacycles is a good descriptive word for those vehicles. Notice the steering is carried out by the two small wheels in the front, not the large drive wheel. Also, there is no single small wheel in the back to be in the Farthing position. The two small wheels in the rear are the support wheels not just balance wheels.
Training wheels are set to allow the cycle to rock from side to side a small amount. Allowing the cyclist to learn to maintain the vehicle off of the training wheels support.

 

CJ

Edited July 26, 2023 by Cactus Jack Calder
Ratsin, Fratsin OTTO

[Buckshot Bear]

[Alpo]

Oh yes, the fire ant. Came to the port of Mobile Alabama, from Brazil, in a cargo of bananas. Spread over the entire South.

 

"Considered quite able to kill people"? They've done it.

[Alpo]

[Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474]

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[Major Crimes]

On 7/24/2023 at 11:22 AM, Brazos John said:

That could also be in Louisiana or Texas. He has his union card, right?

Found these other photos, it looks alligatorish in some of them.

 

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[Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474]

[Buckshot Bear]

How to weigh a koala

 

Edited July 28, 2023 by Buckshot Bear

[Chickasaw Bill SASS #70001]

given the expression , it has figured our , what the leaves were used for 

 

   

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[Alpo]

[Buckshot Bear]

2 hours ago, Alpo said:

 

 

LOL......could you imagine the hate you'd get from PETA types wearing them !!!!!

Edited July 31, 2023 by Buckshot Bear

[Major Crimes]

4 hours ago, Buckshot Bear said:

 

 

LOL......could you imagine the hate you'd get from PETA types wearing them !!!!!

 

This is his spare pair

 

[Buckshot Bear]

9 minutes ago, Major Crimes said:

 

This is his spare pair

 

 

Hahahaha 

[Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474]

[Injun Ryder, SASS #36201L]

9 hours ago, Major Crimes said:

 

This is his spare pair

 

 

I thought Australia was trying to minimize anything to do with China.

 

So how about these?

[Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062]

4 hours ago, Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474 said:

 

 ....... correct !  

[Major Crimes]

4 hours ago, Injun Ryder, SASS #36201L said:

 

I thought Australia was trying to minimize anything to do with China.

 

 

 

 

Its complicated.

 

 

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[Sedalia Dave]

On 7/26/2023 at 6:31 PM, Buckshot Bear said:

 

Good luck with the eradication. Gulf Coast states have failed miserably at eradicating Fire Ants.

 

Now we also have the Tawny Crazy ants. Multiply 10 times faster than fire ants and love to attack electrical equipment. Especially love to chow down on the wire insulation.

[John Kloehr]

31 minutes ago, Sedalia Dave said:

Now we also have the Tawny Crazy ants. Multiply 10 times faster than fire ants and love to attack electrical equipment. Especially love to chow down on the wire insulation.

Got those (or related) ants in east Tennessee. had to replace a relay in an AC unit with a sealed unit, they were attracted to the electricity and got crushed and fried in the contacts. Did not have problems with them eating the insulation, but they would not leave the contacts alone.

 

The taste for insulation may be related to insulation based on vegetable oil, rats love that insulation too. Lots of cars used it for several years.

[Buckshot Bear]

2 hours ago, Buckshot Bear said:

 

 

@Brazos John Down here an aluminium boat (runabout size) is ubiquitously known as a 'tinny' and those are croc tracks leading down to it  

[Buckshot Bear]

52 minutes ago, Sedalia Dave said:

 

Good luck with the eradication. Gulf Coast states have failed miserably at eradicating Fire Ants.

 

Now we also have the Tawny Crazy ants. Multiply 10 times faster than fire ants and love to attack electrical equipment. Especially love to chow down on the wire insulation.

 

Yes Dave....I think its hopeless mate.

 

https://www.fireants.org.au/home/about-us/about-the-program

[Smuteye John SASS#24774]

Personally,  I suspect that there is only 1 fire ant colony in the Southeast.

 

It's just so big that the mounds we see are merely exits they dig wherever the urge takes them.

[Buckshot Bear]