GRIPES

[cscotthendry]

... I am 5 mins from the airfield.

Yes, it's official, I hate you!

 

I have to drive 2 hours to get to my plane, and that's after a half hour ferry trip to the mainland. Living on this Island is getting very old now. Usually to get some flying in the summer, I have to overnight at Watts. It's a pain, but the flying makes it worthwhile.

 

 

[Guest Howard Hughes]

Yes, it's official, I hate you!

 

I have to drive 2 hours to get to my plane, and that's after a half hour ferry trip to the mainland. Living on this Island is getting very old now. Usually to get some flying in the summer, I have to overnight at Watts. It's a pain, but the flying makes it worthwhile.

Yes it's official, I hate you! You have a plane!

 

 

[Kyle Communications]

Dont worry I spent 6 months solid trying to find a hangar here at Ycab and basically stumbled on mine just by asking the right question from the right person at the right time ...I was so lucky my other options were Kilcoy or Gympie and both are at least an hours drive Watts was considered as well but an hour and a half from here as well so I count my blessings with my hangar I can tell you

 

 

[dazza 38]

I dislike banks because the tight ar*eholes wont pass on the full interest cuts when the reserve bank cuts rates.

 

 

[Guest Howard Hughes]

Come the revolution, bankers will be first up against the wall!

 

Just so there is no confusion, local branch tellers exempted!

 

 

[Methusala]

It's so hot down here in Canberra that we are going to Bundaberg for some relief!

 

 

[facthunter]

Not so hot in Canberra in the winter. It gets the worst of both ends. Qld is lovely in winter, but Cairms rains so hard at times, you wonder how the plane can fly in it. Everything goes mouldy. Love the gecko's on the roof, just like PNG.. Darwin has the most steady temperature and the best lightning and thunder at the beginning of the wet. Why do Queenslanders blame the southerners? They bring all their cash up there and spend it developing the place and mucking it up. You guys are the ones who do the planning, ( or should be doing the planning) instead of going into the coal mining game. The average Victorian hasn't got enough spare cash to go north. Anyhow MOST I know have returned . Might be the hospitals.

 

Anyhow don't the states have funny names? QUEEN'S land. Wow! NEW South Wales. WESTERN Australia. That's better it IS a bit like a WESTERN ( without the indians) South Australia. Well amazing description. How inspiring!. Victoria. Well SHE has been dead so long most wouldn't know who she was.. Surely we could come up with better. Nev

 

 

[Chird65]

Come the revolution, bankers will be first up against the wall!

Nothing against Howard at all.My gripe, people who think the Banks are responsible for how much they pay for their home loan and that the official cash rate is how banks fund home loans.

 

The reserve bank sets the official cash rate. ie the rate the central banks charge the comercial banks for maintaining their cash reserves over night BTW, the cash reserves are a government mandated %. Sure it has an effect but not compared to what the Central reserve gets. Remember 1988 when we were paying 16%, the reserve was charging 12% and the banks were adding 4% margin.

 

Wish I was a real economics wiz that could explain this well.

 

BTW, I gripe about anyone that charges me for stuff... including the Bank. :-) Oh and I am not a banker, even though my back is against the wall.

 

 

[Guernsey]

My Gripe is that this world is FULL of diets to help people loose weight but I have never found one that will help me put on weight.

 

70 kg Alan.

 

 

[Kyle Communications]

Well the banks royally screw us over. Most of their borrowings come from overseas...they even say so.."the cost of borrowing money" they say is so high. Well look at the interest rates in the USA half a percent isnt it...same as the rest of the world...what are they charging us?...some pretty simple maths can tell you. We are just getting screwed totally by them thats why they make billions of dollars every 6 months

 

 

[Guest Howard Hughes]

Chird, when I said 'Bankers', I wasn't so much thinking mortgage rates, I was thinking fund managers, institutions and all those who shuffle money via derivatives, options, warrants, futures, etc... They are the cause of the Worlds financial woes, not Gail Kelly et al, Ms Kelly and her cohorts are merely cashing in while they can!

 

As far as interest rates go, we won't see any relief for the AUD until the official rate is within 2% of the rest of the World, so we still have some way to go! On the upside, enjoy an overseas holiday and pay down that debt while you can!

 

 

[Gnarly Gnu]

My Gripe is that this world is FULL of diets to help people loose weight but I have never found one that will help me put on weight. 70 kg Alan.

Try a cork!

 

(at the far end I mean)

 

 

[kaz3g]

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my gripe: winge threads, they make us look like grumpy old men

 

Pardon?

 

 

[turboplanner]

Grumpy old persons FT.

 

 

[Phil Perry]

Gor Blimey Mates. . . . .

 

Hey Slarti,. . . . . Love it ! I can feel a "Someone Else's problem field" forming around everything I'm going to say. . . . I used to correspond ( that means "WRITE TO" and receive notes from. . . for all you bloody colonials. . . ) with Dougie Adams, and he said that I was definitely mentally challenged due to some of the weird concepts I suggested for his next Hitch Hiker's guide book. . . . I also used to corres. . . . . well, you know the rest. . . .with the science fiction writer Isaac Asimov, ( Isaac,. . .bless you wherever you may be . . .) He reckoned that I was certifiable, but we DID have some really good conversations on scientific semantics of a scientifically fictional nature, I told him that I was most distressed when they disproved the Deane Drive for interstellar travel . . . but, that's another tale.

 

MY GRIPE TODAY,

 

Is that I really had no idea that the world was going to end tomorrow, since the MAYAN CALENDAR runs out of time. ( or was it yesterday,. . . I'm not really sure. . . . ) Anyway, if it TRULY IS the case that an extraterrestrial body is going to pass close to Earth and "Suck Off" all the air,. . . . that's going to make our bloody Christmas party a boring place to be on Saturday evening, I mean. . . . there'll be bugger all atmosphere. And W O R S E . . . . . . how are we supposed to go FLYING ??????????????????.

 

These prophets of doom don't really address the sort of distress that such an event is going to cause to the average joe Biggles do they ( Barstards )

 

Phil.

 

Sorry about the altered avatar, this was a delivery flight, and as I slipped my svelte and slender body out of the cockpit, after a legendary flight in a five knot headwind,. . . I stepped a little too close to the end of the mild steel footpeg, and it snapped off, the next picture would have been hilarious, as I kissed the grass, and my legs went up vertically. Shame nobody videod it really, would have been a compteition winner ( unlike the landing. . . . ). [ Aircraft is a RANS S10 by the way, with a Rotax 532 long stroke single ignition )

 

 

[Phil Perry]

And incidentally,. . . the only thing I EVER whinged about when I emigrated to OZ in 1970, was that everything in the bloody corner shop was called something different,. . . . . "Can I have a bottle of POP please . . ? " Eh ? " oh, you mean a Mineral. "Can I have a Chock ice please ? - Eh, . . . Oh you mean a bloody eskimo pie. . . . "Can I have a Wafer please ? - Eh ? - Oh you mean a cream between. . . . . .Geeeeez. . . . .it was good that the pub recognised "Can I have a B E E R please ? and didn't argue. Oh, they did say, after a request to buy or get something, . . . you're supposed to suffix the request with the word "THANKS" ? I said "EH ? " He said, yes mate, it's " A BEER THANKS ". . . . . . . . . . NO,. . . . . SURELY,. . . . PLEASE ??? . . . POR FAVOR ? . . . LUTFEN ?. . . . BITTE ?. . . PUISHE AVEY ?

 

Bloody peasants. . . . MIND YOU. . . they tell me that Perth ( that's somewhere on the coastish in W.A. ) there's so many POMS, that they've almost completely taken over, so maybe they spikkada propa inglish ?

 

Merry end of the world.

 

Phil

 

 

[facthunter]

In response to what'll it be? or what'll ya have? A beer thanks, sounds reasonable to me. Usually the guy behind the bar or waiter asks what you want. I guess if you go and ASK for something, you would say, "please". It is really quite civil.

 

The french word "demander" Spelling? sounds pushy. S' il vous plait seems excessively qualifying..Nev

 

 

[Bandit12]

My gripe - the sun is shining and it is beautiful outside today. While I am inside staring at a computer.....

 

 

[alf jessup]

My gripe - the sun is shining and it is beautiful outside today. While I am inside staring at a computer.....

Bandit,

 

You didn't miss much in the flying stakes today, rough as bags under 3500 nice above it though and windshear and anything else you can think of on final at WSL between 11 and 1:30, hopefully a bit nicer this evening, I will let you know

 

Alf

 

 

[Methusala]

it's " A BEER THANKS ".

 

In Deutsch the response to, 'danke schon' is 'bitte schon'! (danke=thanks, bitte=please) Language is always idiosyncratic.

 

 

[Guernsey]

When you ask for something you say PLEASE and when you have received it you say THANK YOU.

 

I suppose it's ok to say thanks in anticipation that you will receive it but that may not always happen.

 

e.g. I would like ten minutes of sex dear THANKS.

 

Alan.

 

 

[alf jessup]

Bandit,

You didn't miss much in the flying stakes today, rough as bags under 3500 nice above it though and windshear and anything else you can think of on final at WSL between 11 and 1:30, hopefully a bit nicer this evening, I will let you know

 

Alf

Well Bandit,

 

Yep you can gripe it was awesome this evening smooth as silk for my 1.1 hr sortie around the Latrobe Valley.

 

Alf

 

 

[Bryon]

e.g. I would like ten minutes of sex dear THANKS. Alan.

You want to have sex 3 times.....

 

or is the first seven minutes spent begging:beg:

 

 

[Guernsey]

You want to have sex 3 times.....:roflmao:or is the first seven minutes spent begging:beg:

You are closer than you may think, it is three minutes having sex then seven minutes getting her to stop.

 

Alan.

 

 

[Phil Perry]

In response to what'll it be? or what'll ya have? A beer thanks, sounds reasonable to me. Usually the guy behind the bar or waiter asks what you want. I guess if you go and ASK for something, you would say, "please". It is really quite civil.The french word "demander" Spelling? sounds pushy. S' il vous plait seems excessively qualifying..Nev

 

You're quite right of course Nev, although " Je Demander la piste S'il vous plait. . . " in the urgent mode, would probably only be used if you'd had a donkey failure and wanted to turn back !! as it is a "Requirement" and a bit of pushiness would be in order I guess. . . (.depending on the descent rate of your aerial appliance) . . . rather than a request, never had a power outage near a French airfield yet though. . . . They used to have a "French Only" day ( Wednesdays ) on the radio in the English Channel ports, this sometimes caused some hilarious R/T exchanges, as the French seem quite good at mastering basic English, but us English are really lazy about learning other languages, and most tourists think that if you speak loudly and slowly in English, then everyone else will understand !!!

 

As for sex, . . . . I forget.

 

Since the world has not yet ended . . . A Merry Christmas to all forummers.

 

Phil