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<p>That is a loooooong drive. 1000ks? I wish we would do a bit more camping</p>
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<p>Got used to long drives when in Oz. 12 hours just to reach your start point was common. And if you go into the outback from the south and loop out in Queensland the options on getting back to Canberra are either an overnight stop just for the sake of it somewhere north of Sydney or spend that day lying on the beach at Byron Bay then cracking out early for a 12hr drive home. The second option was much more appealing.</p>
<p>Don't find long drives a hassle at all now. Just been down to Invers to watch the boy play rugby and go to the skifields and drove back from Wanaka to Picton in one hit easy.</p> -
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<p>Why the fuck would you need a boat?</p>
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<p>oh, i forgot, you live in NSW, water is an issue for you</p> -
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<p>That is a loooooong drive. 1000ks? I wish we would do a bit more camping</p>
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<p>When I was a lad at Uni it was an 850km drive from home, then my parents decided to move to QLD and made it 1250km. Used to knock it off in a day in my beat up Toyota Corona, leaving about 5AM and rocking in around 6PM. These days though I'm old and soft, and start getting tetchy after a couple of hours behind the wheel.</p>
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<p>1000km in Australia is a different prospect to 1000km in New Zealand - mostly when you're away from the coast, of course. Cruise control these days makes it even easier.</p> -
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<p>oh, i forgot, you live in NSW, water is an issue for you</p>
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<p>What the fuck is that even supposed to mean? That we don't get our shit washed away by floods every couple of years?</p>
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<p>And I don't get fishing - if I want to go drinking I'll just go drinking.</p> -
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<p>1000km in Australia is a different prospect to 1000km in New Zealand - mostly when you're away from the coast, of course. Cruise control these days makes it even easier.</p>
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<p>Cruise Control on the Pacific Highway is useless for most of it. No CC in our old GQ either. The best part was looking at the map and drawing a straight line to your destination then ignoring the tarseal if possible.</p> -
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<p>What the fuck is that even supposed to mean? That we don't get our shit washed away by floods every couple of years?</p>
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<p>And I don't get fishing - if I want to go drinking I'll just go drinking.</p>
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<p>You don't get Horse Racing, You don't get Fishing....</p>
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<p>.... what is your favourite colour skirt you like to wear out....</p>
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<p>Cruise Control on the Pacific Highway is useless for most of it. No CC in our old GQ either. The best part was looking at the map and drawing a straight line to your destination then ignoring the tarseal if possible.</p>
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<p>They've completed a fair bit of work on motorways - though some of it seems to drag on forever. But yeah you'd never get more than 100km without some sort of fuckup.</p>
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<p>I live in vain hope of ever getting my long-distance trip while work and mortgages and wife and kids get in the fucking way. No sense of adventure these people.</p> -
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<p>You don't get Horse Racing, You don't get Fishing....</p>
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<p>.... what is your favourite colour skirt you like to wear out....</p>
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<p>If you're interested in survival, then fish by all means. I am of the opinion that life is too short to waste time like that.</p>
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<p>As for horses - they're going to be useless in a zombie apocalypse.</p>
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<p>I have plenty of other ways to waste time: mostly at work or on the internet, and generally NOT doing what I really want to do because of the shitty, approaching-middle-age existence I am currently nailed to.</p> -
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<p>They've completed a fair bit of work on motorways - though some of it seems to drag on forever. But yeah you'd never get more than 100km without some sort of fuckup.</p>
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<p>I live in vain hope of ever getting my long-distance trip while work and mortgages and wife and kids get in the fucking way. No sense of adventure these people.</p>
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<p>Paid leave takes care of the mortgage and the wife and kids should do as the master of the house tells them, surely?</p> -
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<p>Paid leave takes care of the mortgage and the wife and kids should do as the master of the house tells them, surely?</p>
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<p>Yeah like fuck. Wife and I earn about the same, working full time. Need to sort out 12 weeks of school holidays between us (and the mother in law) so taking a holiday together is rare of late. I'm often fencing with the thought that buying this new house was a waste of good money.</p>
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<p>But ultimately the wife hates long drives, because she gets bored. She generally doesn't like being behind the wheel for any period, and refuses to use cruise control in any case, so tires herself out.</p>
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<p>Further: she considers "camping" to mean "anywhere there is green grass, hot showers, and reasonable access to a hospital". She considers a caravan park acceptable... provided we use an ensuite site, not the common showers...</p>
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<p>In fact I don't think I've ever been able to convince her to go camping further than 1km from a sealed road. </p> -
So to summarise you can't do the shit you want because you're married and the closet you get to physical intimacy is when your hand brushes against hers when you both reach for the remote at the same time?<br><br>
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<p>Nick, i thought i was the only one...</p>
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<p>Fishing is awesome. I am a shit fisherman, but, i get to sit, on a boat, on a river somewhere, with no noise, throwing a lure at a bank, having quiet tins, and not speaking to the guy next to me. it's peaceful as fuck. In my life, peace like that is a rarity. </p>
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<p>And not much tastes better than a fish that was swimming around in a river an hour ago. If the crab pots do their work, then on a fishing trip you can eat like a king. </p> -
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<p>So to summarise you can't do the shit you want because you're married and the closet you get to physical intimacy is when your hand brushes against hers when you both reach for the remote at the same time?</p>
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<p>Yeah nah. My biggest mistake was installing a TV in the bedroom and hooking a TiVo up to it. Nothing but fucking ordinary female TV like "Offspring" and other associated shit, of which every plot point can be summarised as:</p>
<ul><li>Strong female lead character - usually a doctor or lawyer or some shit</li>
<li>Despite obvious intelligence, makes endless fucking stupid decisions</li>
<li>Can't have her dream man due to ridiculously unreal complications</li>
<li>If she DOES get hold of a real man, chances are that fucker is going to end up deader than a red shirt in Star Trek</li>
<li>Is actually a glib, vapid, trull with an inner monologue or witty repartee that is about as sharp as my arse.</li>
</ul><p>She says its "escapism". When I point out that logically no-one in their right mind could even conceive of such stupidity she waves me off with a "its just a TV show leave it alone!"</p>
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<p>Its her hobby, unfortunately.</p>
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<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="mariner4life" data-cid="441591" data-time="1406080464">
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<p>Fishing is awesome. I am a shit fisherman, but, i get to sit, on a boat, on a river somewhere, with no noise, throwing a lure at a bank, having quiet tins, and not speaking to the guy next to me. it's peaceful as fuck. In my life, peace like that is a rarity. </p>
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<p>I save the cost of a boat and go hiking or camping whenever I can. Now that the boy is 10 its time to get him out and about. But I see your point.</p>
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<p>Plus, the boat would probably go on the roof of the vehicle, right?</p>
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<p>Hooroo - its "counselling". I'm not saying you don't have a point.</p>
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<p>Back to the interesting shit on the internet thread: yes TR, I would spot that dirty bitch, and I would shout and groan and moan right along with her.</p> -
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<blockquote class='ipsBlockquote' data-author="Crucial" data-cid="441556" data-time="1406074378"><p>Cruise Control on the Pacific Highway is useless for most of it. No CC in our old GQ either.</p></blockquote>
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Pacific Highway is greatly improved on what it used to be with greater bypasses. Driving from Brisbane to Byron Bay is basically unrecognisable from a decade ago. <br />
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You do get used to the tyranny of distance. I would pack the car on a Friday afternoon after work and drive from Brisbane to Sydney via the New England highway. -
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<blockquote class='ipsBlockquote' data-author="Crucial" data-cid="441556" data-time="1406074378"><p>Cruise Control on the Pacific Highway is useless for most of it. No CC in our old GQ either.</p></blockquote>
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Pacific Highway is greatly improved on what it used to be with greater bypasses. Driving from Brisbane to Byron Bay is basically unrecognisable from a decade ago. <br />
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You do get used to the tyranny of distance. I would pack the car on a Friday afternoon after work and drive from Brisbane to Sydney via the New England highway.
