The thread of learning something new every day
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@taniwharugby season 1 was good, I haven't really got into season 2 yet.
It's more about the other characters really and quite funny to see them all.
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@taniwharugby said in The thread of learning something new every day:
@Bones said in The thread of learning something new every day:
One of the reasons why young rock is good
is a show I have looked at, seen trailers and thought coudl be good, seems to have decent ratings, but is that just the Americans love of all things related to him at present?
It's just a fun easy watch and each episode has a bit of wrestling history, and not just The Rocks era as he seemed to grow up around all the 80s WWF dudes us old farts all watched.
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@Nepia said in The thread of learning something new every day:
@taniwharugby said in The thread of learning something new every day:
@Bones said in The thread of learning something new every day:
One of the reasons why young rock is good
is a show I have looked at, seen trailers and thought coudl be good, seems to have decent ratings, but is that just the Americans love of all things related to him at present?
It's just a fun easy watch and each episode has a bit of wrestling history, and not just The Rocks era as he seemed to grow up around all the 80s WWF dudes us old farts all watched.
That's what I should have said. You doing season 2? Watched the first episode or two and it just seemed a bit meh.
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@Bones said in The thread of learning something new every day:
@Nepia said in The thread of learning something new every day:
@taniwharugby said in The thread of learning something new every day:
@Bones said in The thread of learning something new every day:
One of the reasons why young rock is good
is a show I have looked at, seen trailers and thought coudl be good, seems to have decent ratings, but is that just the Americans love of all things related to him at present?
It's just a fun easy watch and each episode has a bit of wrestling history, and not just The Rocks era as he seemed to grow up around all the 80s WWF dudes us old farts all watched.
That's what I should have said. You doing season 2? Watched the first episode or two and it just seemed a bit meh.
I've found S2 to be fine, the same as S1. Actually, I think I'm on to S3 already.
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@Bones said in The thread of learning something new every day:
I remember how black my snot got the first time I visited London and rode the tube for a few days. Not a huge leap to think some of it can get in further
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@canefan said in The thread of learning something new every day:
@Bones said in The thread of learning something new every day:
I remember how black my snot got the first time I visited London and rode the tube for a few days. Not a huge leap to think some of it can get in further
My wife and family are in the air right now to the UK, I reminded them of the black snot from the last time in London, after the kids complained about Auckland's air pollution
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@Machpants said in The thread of learning something new every day:
@canefan said in The thread of learning something new every day:
@Bones said in The thread of learning something new every day:
I remember how black my snot got the first time I visited London and rode the tube for a few days. Not a huge leap to think some of it can get in further
My wife and family are in the air right now to the UK, I reminded them of the black snot from the last time in London, after the kids complained about Auckland's air pollution
Black snot = black lung = black blood?
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Took the wife and daughter in law about a year to get over London cough. Then along came Covid and we can’t tell what causes what.
In some stations (especially the deeper ones) the air is decidedly scary looking. It is coloured.
I rode my bike to commute for a while and had to wear a particulate filter mask and glasses because of the diesel muck.
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@canefan said in The thread of learning something new every day:
@Machpants said in The thread of learning something new every day:
@canefan said in The thread of learning something new every day:
@Bones said in The thread of learning something new every day:
I remember how black my snot got the first time I visited London and rode the tube for a few days. Not a huge leap to think some of it can get in further
My wife and family are in the air right now to the UK, I reminded them of the black snot from the last time in London, after the kids complained about Auckland's air pollution
Black snot = black lung = black blood?
Black lung was/is due to coal dust. But I assume it's a similar process breathing in all sorts of toxic particulates
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@Crucial said in The thread of learning something new every day:
@Bones said in The thread of learning something new every day:
I have never experienced anything you lot are talking about. Do you mean if you ride the tube everyday?
Yeah. The pony and caravan won’t have the same effect on you.
You don't know that though eh
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Could go in the extreme weather thread too...was wondering when I saw them keep referring to Cyclone Hale as ex-Tropical cyclone Hale....
Once a storm stops being a "Tropical Cyclone" the centre becomes less important (up in the tropics the centre is where the most severe weather is, but in the NZ area once they are ExtraTropical the severe weather spreads further out).
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@taniwharugby said in The thread of learning something new every day:
Could go in the extreme weather thread too...was wondering when I saw them keep referring to Cyclone Hale as ex-Tropical cyclone Hale....
Once a storm stops being a "Tropical Cyclone" the centre becomes less important (up in the tropics the centre is where the most severe weather is, but in the NZ area once they are ExtraTropical the severe weather spreads further out).
What an awful summer we've had - at least the tanks are full. In fact they're overflowing most weeks
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@taniwharugby said in The thread of learning something new every day:
Could go in the extreme weather thread too...was wondering when I saw them keep referring to Cyclone Hale as ex-Tropical cyclone Hale....
Once a storm stops being a "Tropical Cyclone" the centre becomes less important (up in the tropics the centre is where the most severe weather is, but in the NZ area once they are ExtraTropical the severe weather spreads further out).
Went on a pre-planned road trip up to Ruakaka and back down the coast to Omaha. Foiled by road closures due to slips and flooding despite the rain not appearing to be that hard. The roads north of the Brynderwyns leave a lot to be desired
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@taniwharugby said in The thread of learning something new every day:
Could go in the extreme weather thread too...was wondering when I saw them keep referring to Cyclone Hale as ex-Tropical cyclone Hale....
Once a storm stops being a "Tropical Cyclone" the centre becomes less important (up in the tropics the centre is where the most severe weather is, but in the NZ area once they are ExtraTropical the severe weather spreads further out).
Yeah, I read or heard there's a shift in weather patterns somewhere in the transition into the temperate zone that shears the pressure and they stop being cyclones before they reach NZ. And I think the sea gets cooler so they lose power.
Although we still refer to them as cyclones rather than Ex-TCs, like Bola.
Not to say they can't pack a wallop. Australia Day floods 10 years ago was result of Ex-TC Oswald, which only ever got to Cat1.
And Ex-TC Ellie just drowned the Kimberley in northern WA.
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@canefan ha road's are shite up here, have been for so long, and the Brynderwyns is a constant money pit for road repairs, a bridge from the top heading south would.be costly but ultimately safer and less closures.
Tbf the rain yesterday wasn't that bad, problem is the rain we had for 5 days last week, and the rains we had before Xmas, the ground is waterlogged, so almost no water being absorbed.
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@taniwharugby said in The thread of learning something new every day:
Brynderwyns is a constant money pit for road repairs, a bridge from the top heading south would.be costly but ultimately safer and less closures.
Thankfully they are putting that new two-lane road into Whangarei which will bypass this
Oh no, not in the Auckland region so the northern bit has been canned
