@Nevorian said in Road Trips:

@Kruse Have been as far east as Mt Ararat in Turkey, most of the roads are pretty good in Turkey (oops that was 29 years ago) we were advised to turn around as Saddam Hussain had decided to invade Kuwait. If you are going up through the "stans" and into Mongolia I believe roads there also pretty good and no traffic!

Yeah - going through the "stans", but not Mongolia (at least - not on the way).
So far - UK, France, Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia&Herzegovina, Montenegro, Albania, Greece, Turkey
The route from here on in - Georgia, Azerbaijan, ferry across Caspian Sea, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, then down into China via Xinjian, Tibet, then up to Beijing.
After that - I'm seriously considering going on to Mongolia, to hire one of the little local 150cc bikes there for a few weeks. Help kill some time before heading to Japan to watch some rugby.

BTW y'all, just saying - a little pissed up... 9 days into the London-Beijing bike ride / road trip.
Sitting in Istanbul - the first time I've had a day off the bike (it's been constant fucking "go" - still have no idea what's happened in SuperRugby over the last two weekends)
... 11 countries, ~2,500 miles so far.
Been a mixture of boring-as-shit motorways, to just get out of Europe ASAP,
And some fucking awesome twisty roads... German Black Forest, Croatian coast, and Northern Greece - definite highlights... even on an "adventure bike" with fully loaded panniers and shit - much fun. Would highly recommend any of those roads on bike or car.

@antipodean said in GOT - there will be spoilers:

Only interested in seeing who gets the throne and the big battle scene. Doubt I'm the Lone Ranger here.

I'm kinda interested in seeing some tits-and-arse.
Gotta fill the wank-bank for the several months on-the-road.

@antipodean said in Road Trips:

@Kruse said in Road Trips:

Anyway - was avoiding mentioning it in this thread, as I wasn't quite sure if it was really on-topic... but, you've given me the segue... 1 week before I start my London-Beijing ride.
Fucking nervous. No wait - excited. No - definitely fucking terrified. It changes minute to minute.

That'll be awesome. Very jealous. Everything going to plan, I'll be at Khardung La in August.

Yeah - I've heard good things about that,
I believe I'm going over at least a couple of 5,000m+ passes in Tibet... the combination of altitude sickness, motorbike, possibly snow, and sheer drops - gives me a touch of The Fear.
I didn't get any altitude sickness in Nepal - but one of the guys did, and it certainly did a job on him.

@antipodean said in Road Trips:

Probably not what you envision, but I do want to do this road:

That looks awesome, although my stomach and balls crawled into a little tiny sickening group-hug when the camera would turn/lean over to the side... as the instinct is that the bike's going to follow shortly after.

Anyway - was avoiding mentioning it in this thread, as I wasn't quite sure if it was really on-topic... but, you've given me the segue... 1 week before I start my London-Beijing ride.
Fucking nervous. No wait - excited. No - definitely fucking terrified. It changes minute to minute.

@MN5 said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:

@Mokey said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:

@jegga People try and copyright words all the time. Usually they get shut down and told to piss off, but occasionally some get through.

I would be interested to see how 'Boomfa' beer sold. Personally I think it would be entirely reliant on taste/price, because the word is not nearly as cool as he clearly thinks it is.

Never underestimate a shit beer with a foolproof marketing campaign aimed at the lowest common denominator.

I thought you liked Leigh Hart?
The very first name which popped into my head when reading that was "Wakachangi" - and I had to double-check it was you that'd written it, as it seemed a laser-focused jab at that shit beer and shit ... "comedian"(?).

@Tim said in TSF Book Club:

I remember reading that, and just imagining Lee C sitting in a wheelchair, with a warm blankey, muttering about the kids outside on their magic phones crushing candy.
Also, didn't Jack Reacher show a reasonably competent level of tech savvy in checking his bank balance over the phone, maybe in Never Go Back?

@NTA said in Science!:

@Kruse Well its put up or shut up time.

"suck it up" or "shut it up"

@No-Quarter
I have a strong suspicion that Rolf's wife wants kids, and doesn't like blowies.

@mariner4life said in Blues vs Stormers:

I'm not sure it's as big as an issue as we are making it out to be. As i said, how many instances are we seeing of these? Does it appear to be a bigger issue because it's a dramatic looking thing on the field, and when it goes wrong someone gets carded and/or suspended?

Players have got, in the main, waaaay better at knowing if they can compete or not, or if they are in the right spot. The Blues winger royally fucked up, was late, and made a 2nd action that hurt his case.

But consider the 6 nations. There would have been approximately 47,000 high kicks put up. How many penalties? How many cards? In the main players are getting good at knowing what to do, which is exactly what World Rugby wanted.

I want rid of box kicks for more than this reason.

Yeah - fair enough.
It just seems like something that would be so easily sorted out.
If only to stop the fucking Stephen-Jones-esque outcry after the Fall-Barrett red card, etc.