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[petesbrew]

Just make sure you are fit to keep up with the grandkids warra............

I saw a horrid situation today where a grandmother and grandson (3yo) were at the same park as me and my daughter today (Sydney Park in Tempe for those who know the one) and she lost sight of him for a second and he was gone. Now this is a 40ha parkland, surrounded by VERY busy roads, has large water sections and mostly is off leash for dogs........She didn't alert anyone to the fact she had lost him until he had a 15min headstart so the little bugger could have been anywhere.

Luckily there were some cops on pushbikes in the area who radioed back and got a van full of cops to come help look, he was found in a section of bush, perfectly fine and unharmed, but the potential for that to have ended in tragedy was massive. The look on the grandmother's face got worse by the minute. I did the most responsible thing I think of and went and stood in the carpark with my daughter keeping an eye out as at least he would have to pass us to wander onto the Prince's Highway.

Good to hear the kid was found safe. The gran would've surely got an earful from the mum when she heard about it.

 

[pk.sax]

CUB's Oktoberfest ?!?!?

omgosh



lol, Don't get your hopes up.... this is vintage, found this can displayed in the Lion's Den Pub's little museum otw to Cooktown.

 

[pk.sax]

Finally solved the question:

Can you wash a jeep's radio?

Yes you can. forgot it outside uncovered, topless and it rained. Woke up at half past 3 in the night, ran out and got it undercover. This morning, shameo, wet/dry vac, towels and now the aircon running at idle and it's almost ready to go. As a bonus, the rain washed a lot of the dirt from the inside

MYTH: CONFIRMED

 

[Shed101]

Finally solved the question:

Can you wash a jeep's radio?

Yes you can. forgot it outside uncovered, topless and it rained. Woke up at half past 3 in the night, ran out and got it undercover. This morning, shameo, wet/dry vac, towels and now the aircon running at idle and it's almost ready to go. As a bonus, the rain washed a lot of the dirt from the inside

MYTH: CONFIRMED

For piece of mind you could always pull the radio out and put it in a plastic bag with plenty of uncooked rice. That will draw out any excess moisture.

 

[pk.sax]

For piece of mind you could always pull the radio out and put it in a plastic bag with plenty of uncooked rice. That will draw out any excess moisture.

hahahaha... never!! Next step is to intentionally wash it all out on a bright sunny day (with min 2 more days of sunshine lined up). I'll watch the radio tho, maybe clingwrap it and not aim for it.

PS: Rice is a good idea, but the radio kinda missed the rain, the windshield kept it off it due to the angle it made and won't need to do anything this time. I was thinking of taking a can of compressed air and also putting some dessicant into the general area sometime as it is generally pretty humid up here.

 

[pk.sax]

Was at Dan's the other day.. tryin to pick out 10... just 10 beers!

This chick was standing in front of all the beers, chewing her lip off, I could see she was absolutely bamboozled by the variety. Helped her out, pointed to the Kriek - Cherry and raspeberry ones on the shelf, explained that they are kinda low in alcohol lol... she was just glad to be given ANY recommendation haha... Then I stepped back, since I'd managed to shorten her to choose list so I could browse the section she was blocking (ulterior motives.. hehehe).

Next beer she picks by herself is a Grolsch.... hmnn... well, there is hope yet for the trying to buy good beer crowd up here.
Heh, it was even fun, I usually leave he helpless alone when I see them gazing at the rows of craft beer in the fridges, I might do this more often.

 

[Dave70]

A first for me yesterday.
Managed to do a simple little 25L batch of soon to be kristallweizen (wheat - pale - hallertau), harvest the 3333 from the Franziskaner (ish) clone, then by plonking the cube into our 100,000L water tank that sits at around 14 deg, I was cool enough to pitch in under two hours.
A quick look in the garage this morning witnessed a healthy 17 deg and a furiously blooping air lock.
Good way to kick off the week I say.

 

[petesbrew]

A first for me yesterday.
Managed to do a simple little 25L batch of soon to be kristallweizen (wheat - pale - hallertau), harvest the 3333 from the Franziskaner (ish) clone, then by plonking the cube into our 100,000L water tank that sits at around 14 deg, I was cool enough to pitch in under two hours.
A quick look in the garage this morning witnessed a healthy 17 deg and a furiously blooping air lock.
Good way to kick off the week I say.

Awesome.

Had a taste of my 1/2 batch dunkeweizen last night, quite pleased. The summerish temps this week were well timed for this baby.
The other half in the fridge is still bubbling away on the lager yeast, but it's a bit of a hassle getting a taste... I'll leave it go for a few more nights.

 

[Clutch]

Bottled 35l yesterday and have 3 x 23l batches going and another 23l racked and crash chilling as I type.
I'll be very popular in summer I reckon.

Would've been a good day except for some deadbeat customer threatening to "hunt me down".
Who am I kidding, that actually got a laugh out of me.

 

[pk.sax]

d: ɥɐןq ɥɐןq

Oh, n qldkev is really smart

 

[Dave70]

Would've been a good day except for some deadbeat customer threatening to "hunt me down".

Well, tell him to make sure he bring's his permit. Hunting without a license can get a bloke in a lot of trouble.
I remember the fisheries inspector becoming very cross indeed when neither my mate nor I were able to produce our fishing licenses on one occasion.
Actually - that may have had more to do with the empty's clinking around on the floor of the tinny..

 

[Clutch]

Well, tell him to make sure he bring's his permit. Hunting without a license can get a bloke in a lot of trouble.
I remember the fisheries inspector becoming very cross indeed when neither my mate nor I were able to produce our fishing licenses on one occasion.
Actually - that may have had more to do with the empty's clinking around on the floor of the tinny..

You mean people actually fish sober? **** me.
I told old mate that I was sitting in front of a screen with all of his personal details on it, and that if he was looking for me he's gonna need a headstart.

 

[Synthetase]

I have never actually owned a hydrometer.











There. I just wanted to say that.

 

[drew9242]

Borrow someones?
Own a Refractometer?
Or just love to Wing it?

 

[Synthetase]

Borrow someones?
Own a Refractometer?
Or just love to Wing it?

Refractometer

Although I did used to wing it making extract brews. It was really easy to just calculate the gravity from theory. Generally turned out fine.

 

[petesbrew]

Just got my haircut, and the hairdresser was saying how her fiance is a homebrewer, grows his own hops and is about to get into mashing.
Top stuff.

 

[peas_and_corn]

Got my hair cut a few weeks back and the woman said "see you in 6 weeks!" lol. I'm amazed I've gotten my hair cut as many as two times so far this year.

 

[goomboogo]

How much does a hairdresser charge for a man's haircut?

 

[petesbrew]

How much does a hairdresser charge for a man's haircut?

Too much (this one's up to $30 now), but getting your hair washed by the apprentice is pretty awesome.
Anyway everytime I go to the barbers they manage to f##k it up in some way.

 

[Pennywise]

Paid for my first haircut in years the other day, usually shave my head but decided to grow the mo-hawk back and I doubt my cock eyedness could have done it straight. Spewin' I cut it a few years ago now, was pretty bloody long, now it's only a few inch's & will be a couple of years before I get it to the way it was