Puffwagon Puff Gold Donating Members 16,012 Member For: 9y 11m 3d Gender: Male Location: South Australia Posted 03/10/23 01:24 AM Share Posted 03/10/23 01:24 AM Yay Tuesday Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
k31th less WHY; more WOT Site Developer 29,086 Member For: 16y 8m 23d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne Posted 03/10/23 08:45 PM Share Posted 03/10/23 08:45 PM Happy Wednesday to everyone. It's still Tuesday here, of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Puffwagon Puff Gold Donating Members 16,012 Member For: 9y 11m 3d Gender: Male Location: South Australia Posted 04/10/23 01:18 AM Share Posted 04/10/23 01:18 AM Yay Wednesday Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Puffwagon Puff Gold Donating Members 16,012 Member For: 9y 11m 3d Gender: Male Location: South Australia Posted 05/10/23 02:48 AM Share Posted 05/10/23 02:48 AM Yay Thursday Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
k31th less WHY; more WOT Site Developer 29,086 Member For: 16y 8m 23d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne Posted 05/10/23 11:10 PM Share Posted 05/10/23 11:10 PM Happy Friday all my Southern Hemisphere brethren. Obviously it's still Thursday here and I'm enjoying myself up here in Detroit now enjoying some live music in an Irish-American pub of all things to randomly experience here haha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
biddie_fiddler [IMPULSIV3] Donating Members 1,374 Member For: 5y 9m 4d Gender: Male Location: Perth, WA Posted 05/10/23 11:50 PM Share Posted 05/10/23 11:50 PM How was the flight over? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
k31th less WHY; more WOT Site Developer 29,086 Member For: 16y 8m 23d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne Posted 05/10/23 11:55 PM Share Posted 05/10/23 11:55 PM If you mean the one from Dallas to Detroit, we did stop at Baltimore on the way. Seriously beautiful city from the plane. Detroit much more city-like but the lake/harbour it sits on is seriously huge and beautiful from the plane. The flight was full of turbulence as we flew through a big storm headed for Dallas, but otherwise it was smooth. The flight from Melbourne to Sydney to Los Angeles to Dallas was smooth and cramped and extremely time consuming but not a big deal other than a stiff lower back I got which hindered my gym workouts for a couple of days after we landed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
biddie_fiddler [IMPULSIV3] Donating Members 1,374 Member For: 5y 9m 4d Gender: Male Location: Perth, WA Posted 06/10/23 12:05 AM Share Posted 06/10/23 12:05 AM Initial thoughts on the land of the free? How is it compared to Aus? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
k31th less WHY; more WOT Site Developer 29,086 Member For: 16y 8m 23d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne Posted 06/10/23 12:27 AM Share Posted 06/10/23 12:27 AM It's interesting that nobody seems to do the speed limit, just either 5-15mph over or 5-10mph under. 4 way stops are some of the stupidest traffic management decisions you could find on the planet... Roundabouts are 10x better. The amount of decision making based on violence or the threat of it is a bit odd. Probably more a Texas thing as compared to a US thing. Obviously the religiosity is rampant and common. It's all over billboards advertising church groups etc and churches are on every 3rd or 4th corner. Being an Atheist in Australia is relatively normal but it's a talking point here in the US. The strangest thing is almost all restaurants just keep filling your soda/soft-drink... Hardly ever get bottomless drinks in Aus. The cup sizes for regular drinks is a funny thing, too, insofar as they're always huge. Order a "coke" at a restaurant in Aus and it's a small glass and you pay for every one. Here it's huge and bottomless... Weird. Buffet sort of restaurants is really common here and pretty rarely survive in Australia for a reason I don't know. Plenty of muscle cars around like C6/C7 corvettes and dodge challenger, ford mustang GT etc, as they're so cheap here and only in LHD (not all models of course). The large land layouts of shopping centres and their carparks is on another level here, just massive open spaces that don't seem to even be ever partially filled. Generic layouts of these is only seemingly allowed with specific logos for the relevant businesses on the generic buildings. Big ford/dodge/gm/etc trucks (big utes in Australian language) are extremely common as the workhorse vehicles of "tradies" (known as "contractors" here) and country people here and then some (with regard to the size and hauling capacity of the relevant vehicles) There's probably more but that's a reasonable list haha. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
biddie_fiddler [IMPULSIV3] Donating Members 1,374 Member For: 5y 9m 4d Gender: Male Location: Perth, WA Posted 06/10/23 12:32 AM Share Posted 06/10/23 12:32 AM Sounds like a pretty accurate breakdown lol. Have you noticed the drug and/or homelessness issues on the streets much over there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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