Aussie off topic chat thread - Page 789

outback jack · 02-11-2013, 02:52 AM

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Originally Posted by tarletan

As a side note I would like a dollar for everytime we went onsite with the words still ringing, Ye mate ya can dig there nothin important in the way next thing ya know there is pretty coloured wires hanging off the tynes or gas pipe, oh shit run

.

Do you blokes have that "Dial before you dig" hotline, i cut the main data feed to the main roads office once $2000 repair.

ECKS-Man · 02-11-2013, 03:07 AM

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Originally Posted by outback jack

Do you blokes have that "Dial before you dig" hotline, i cut the main data feed to the main roads office once $2000 repair.

Yep, got charged for cutting a local line once, $1250. Reported Telstra to the Department of Lands, as their line had removed a survey mark - $20,000 fine, for each mark! Hope they liked that!

Best not to mess with optic fibre though, that stuff costs, and they charge by the hour to repair it!

Sleepy John · 02-11-2013, 03:41 AM

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Originally Posted by ECKS-Man

Yep, got charged for cutting a local line once, $1250. Reported Telstra to the Department of Lands, as their line had removed a survey mark - $20,000 fine, for each mark! Hope they liked that!

Best not to mess with optic fibre though, that stuff costs, and they charge by the hour to repair it!

Get the DBYD app on your phone. Makes it easy to get the services plans in the shortest possible time.

outback jack · 02-11-2013, 03:47 AM

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Originally Posted by Sleepy John

Get the DBYD app on your phone. Makes it easy to get the services plans in the shortest possible time.

There a bit hit and miss out this way, once i stood on a telstra pit on the footpath and lined up the next one down the street. Marked a nice painted line where it should lay and managed to dig it up 6 foot away.

marlboroughlad · 02-11-2013, 04:10 AM

Enjoyed the rant Ecks man! Took me back.

Was in construction in my early 20's and set out my own jobs off the consultants plans. The amount of shit that you found that wasn't there or couldn't find even tho the plans said they were there was phenomenal.

I had a grader driver once who after I set out a few pegs for him to build some road to, would promptly bowl them all on his first pass after smoko (after I'd gone) and just go and build it by eye. The result was usually better than anything the designer planned or I could set out.

I won a tender once because one of the council blokes fucked up deluxe the amount of spoil that had to be removed from a slip. A 10 min site visit made that clear to me. By deliberately over pricing the per m3 rate on that and the backfill, and under pricing a couple of other items to balance it out, he cost his client a fucking huge amount of money.

Good times.

TouringDave · 02-11-2013, 03:07 PM

Outfit packed and serviced, camper trailer packed, leave forms signed (both work AND home

)...

Rego renewal arrives in the mail... FAAAAARK! $596.00!!

Really must get my old Kwaka GT750 back on the road and on club plates.

sturleyau · 02-11-2013, 05:20 PM

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Originally Posted by TouringDave

Outfit packed and serviced, camper trailer packed, leave forms signed (both work AND home

)...

Rego renewal arrives in the mail... FAAAAARK! $596.00!!

Really must get my old Kwaka GT750 back on the road and on club plates.

Hi David,
Is that including the TAC ripoff?
Oh hang on, it's a Safety Levy (not so disguised GET RID OF MOTORCYCLES TAX) isn't it.

Regards
Glenn

Doctor · 02-11-2013, 06:29 PM

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Originally Posted by McCardigan

Oh really?

Just taken a bet with my friendly bookie in Munbai.

(all proceeds go to a charity)
gauntlet thrown

Love you long time
what i get for 10 dollar more

....

Chris

looking forward to catching up ol'fella

....

philth · 02-11-2013, 09:52 PM

i always thought that men wipe from the front and women from the back
but apparently this is not always the case
any male back wipers out there?

lentil · 02-11-2013, 09:55 PM

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Originally Posted by philth

i always thought that men wipe from the front and women from the back
but apparently this is not always the case
any male back wipers out there?

Its a pondering thought!

GSnovice · 02-11-2013, 10:25 PM

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Originally Posted by philth

i always thought that men wipe from the front and women from the back
but apparently this is not always the case
any male back wipers out there?

Women wipe from the front, so shit doesn't get in the wrong place! Slow day in the dairy, Phil?

philth · 02-11-2013, 10:27 PM

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Originally Posted by GSnovice

Women wipe from the front, so shit doesn't get in the wrong place! Slow day in the dairy, Phil?

so how come men don't wipe from the back?
it would save you getting poo on the back of your nut sack

GSnovice · 02-11-2013, 10:33 PM

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Originally Posted by philth

so how come men don't wipe from the back?
it would save you getting poo on the back of your nut sack

Useless without pics!

Doctor · 02-11-2013, 10:42 PM

lentil · 02-11-2013, 10:44 PM

Who says they don't

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Originally Posted by philth

so how come men don't wipe from the back?
it would save you getting poo on the back of your nut sack

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02-11-2013, 04:10 AM	#11825
marlboroughlad loves pies Joined: Mar 2011 Location: vic, aussie Oddometer: 463	Enjoyed the rant Ecks man! Took me back. Was in construction in my early 20's and set out my own jobs off the consultants plans. The amount of shit that you found that wasn't there or couldn't find even tho the plans said they were there was phenomenal. I had a grader driver once who after I set out a few pegs for him to build some road to, would promptly bowl them all on his first pass after smoko (after I'd gone) and just go and build it by eye. The result was usually better than anything the designer planned or I could set out. I won a tender once because one of the council blokes fucked up deluxe the amount of spoil that had to be removed from a slip. A 10 min site visit made that clear to me. By deliberately over pricing the per m3 rate on that and the backfill, and under pricing a couple of other items to balance it out, he cost his client a fucking huge amount of money. Good times.