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@antipodean Currently in Laos riding the HoChiMinh trail... lots of stuff well outside my comfort zone, but mostly enjoying it.
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@antipodean said in Happiness Scale:
Just spent a weekend in the high country with mates riding some fantastic roads. About 700km trip. For those that know the area, Alpine Way to Khancoban, back up to Cabramurra to Tumbarumba, Tumut to Jugiong via Brungle Rd.
Great weather, fantastic riding, mates and beer. Good way to spend a few days.
you just made those place names up
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@Kruse very jealous. Stay on the trail mind.
Laos is the most heavily bombed country per capita in the world, with an estimated 80 million UXO still scattered nationwide. Of the bombs dropped by the U.S. military, 30% remain undetonated, leading to casualties every year.
According to the Japanese Foreign Ministry, more than 2 million tons of bombs were dropped on Laos during intense air raids during the war. The explosives included some 270 million small cluster bombs.
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Laos struggles with unexploded bombs 50 years after Paris Accords
Hidden dangers from another era hinder economic development
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@voodoo said in Happiness Scale:
@antipodean said in Happiness Scale:
Just spent a weekend in the high country with mates riding some fantastic roads. About 700km trip. For those that know the area, Alpine Way to Khancoban, back up to Cabramurra to Tumbarumba, Tumut to Jugiong via Brungle Rd.
Great weather, fantastic riding, mates and beer. Good way to spend a few days.
you just made those place names up
You've never been to Dunedoo?
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@dogmeat yeah, plenty of evidence of the bombing around the place. Big bomb shells being used as fences, decorations, structural supports, canoes... Fucking absurd amount of bombing... In a "covert operation".
And the MAGS and Halo chaps around the place dealing with the XPO... a 500lb bomb had been discovered in the middle of the town we stayed at three days ago... guys at the hotel were figuring out what to do with it. It's messed up stuff.
Did some pretty out there track a couple of days ago, where I definitely wasn't going to stray even 30cm off the track to take a piss... -
Plans for Saturday.
Leave here shite and briny in the a.m. Head towards the big smoke.
Leave Mrs Boo to guard the cats and sit the house.
Stop in Sunny Coast to collect female offspring.
Proceed to gold class cinema on North side of Brisbane for late morning screening of Dune 2.
Order lunch to have with movie while reclining.
Watch Dune 2 with female offspring, with whom I had watched first instalment (Mrs Boo not fussed).
Proceed to accommodation on South Bank of River mid afternoon.
Have quiet or two with offspring.
Proceed by foot to Suncorp, approx 15mins, late afternoon, early evening for very civilised 6:30 kick off (thanks to Queensland's refusal to join the civilised world in enjoying daylight "savings" (as Qlders know it)).
Watch Chiefs play as well as they did last week (work with me here jinx gods), with likely uninterested offspring who only came because I am old and I'm going to die soon and she should spend more time with me (actual phrasing). Seats somewhere between 10m and 22, broadcasting side of the field*.
Breakfast Sunday somewhere on South Bank.
Return home, dropping offspring on way.
Added bonus of not watching Blackcaps v Aus.
What are you poor people doing?
- bonus points if anyone is old enough to recall who used to use that phrase in commentary ...
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@booboo said in Happiness Scale:
What are you poor people doing?
Babysitting a three-year-old and a one-year-old in rural Wellsford overnight. Apparently, this means we have to be at Wellsford at 1:00 pm Saturday to get instructions. Really? How hard can it be? Food in this end. Shit out the other. Don't confuse the two...
We also have to have breakfast with the returning parents on Sunday, so whole weekend fucked.
Wanna swap?
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@dogmeat said in Happiness Scale:
@booboo said in Happiness Scale:
What are you poor people doing?
Babysitting a three-year-old and a one-year-old in rural Wellsford overnight. Apparently, this means we have to be at Wellsford at 1:00 pm Saturday to get instructions. Really? How hard can it be? Food in this end. Shit out the other. Don't confuse the two...
We also have to have breakfast with the returning parents on Sunday, so whole weekend fucked.
Wanna swap?
Erm why did you agree to it … ?
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I'm off to a golf weekend at Bonville in Coffs Harbour with 15 other blokes. Genuine highlight of the year, been collecting brownie points so I can cash them in at once. Thankfully in-laws coming to stay to help wife with the kids so the guilt is slightly less.
Of course the key to this is to never ever sell it as a good time. It's fine. There might even be a few brief moments of enjoyment, but really I'd much prefer to be at home...
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@barbarian said in Happiness Scale:
Of course the key to this is to never ever sell it as a good time. It's fine. There might even be a few brief moments of enjoyment, but really I'd much prefer to be at home...
does she buy that?
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@taniwharugby said in Happiness Scale:
@barbarian said in Happiness Scale:
Of course the key to this is to never ever sell it as a good time. It's fine. There might even be a few brief moments of enjoyment, but really I'd much prefer to be at home...
does she buy that?
Oh of course not. Hiding the hangover is also part of it. And the overall cost of the thing.
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@voodoo said in Happiness Scale:
@booboo said in Happiness Scale:
What are you poor people doing?
Saturday night I will be taking 10 x 15yr olds to bowling and dinner and ice cream for offsprings birthday party.
Ear plugs. Incredibly loud.
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@nzzp said in Happiness Scale:
@voodoo said in Happiness Scale:
@booboo said in Happiness Scale:
What are you poor people doing?
Saturday night I will be taking 10 x 15yr olds to bowling and dinner and ice cream for offsprings birthday party.
Ear plugs. Incredibly loud.
This place has a bar at the front so I can leave them alone to bowl in the noise. Unfortunately I also have to drop half the fuckers home after dinner so I can't even get on the beers
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@voodoo said in Happiness Scale:
@booboo said in Happiness Scale:
What are you poor people doing?
Saturday night I will be taking 10 x 15yr olds to bowling and dinner and ice cream for offsprings birthday party.
@voodoo said in Happiness Scale:
@nzzp said in Happiness Scale:
@voodoo said in Happiness Scale:
@booboo said in Happiness Scale:
What are you poor people doing?
Saturday night I will be taking 10 x 15yr olds to bowling and dinner and ice cream for offsprings birthday party.
Ear plugs. Incredibly loud.
This place has a bar at the front so I can leave them alone to bowl in the noise. Unfortunately I also have to drop half the fuckers home after dinner so I can't even get on the beers
Do I win?
What do you reckon?
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@booboo said in Happiness Scale:
@voodoo said in Happiness Scale:
@booboo said in Happiness Scale:
What are you poor people doing?
Saturday night I will be taking 10 x 15yr olds to bowling and dinner and ice cream for offsprings birthday party.
@voodoo said in Happiness Scale:
@nzzp said in Happiness Scale:
@voodoo said in Happiness Scale:
@booboo said in Happiness Scale:
What are you poor people doing?
Saturday night I will be taking 10 x 15yr olds to bowling and dinner and ice cream for offsprings birthday party.
Ear plugs. Incredibly loud.
This place has a bar at the front so I can leave them alone to bowl in the noise. Unfortunately I also have to drop half the fuckers home after dinner so I can't even get on the beers
Do I win?
What do you reckon?
play stupid games, win stupid prizes
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