Old school

We two will always be here Al :-)

Yeah... bring back Friday funnies ;))))

I'm still.after about 14 stickers.

Agree Social Media has drawn lots of attention, special topic groups etc..
D&M use to promote more on the forum, and have competitions etc. everynow and then too - but I can empathise with them.

Agree with you nick boad...bring back the Friday Funnies. Too many wowsers, snowflakes and "I,m offended" tossers ruined a section that gave anyone a laugh. Cannot remember it being compulsory readin...you have self censorship!!! Site will always change and move on. No different to anything else in life. I,m 71 and get a bit sick of people saying.."it,s not like the good old days"!...of course not but then againg our memeories often only remember the good and tend to forget the not so good. Every trip I do now I count as a blessing and treat it as a great moment in my life. The good ol days were good...but so are the presnt days.

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Hi Bigfish, Friday Funnies was not closed because of "wowsers etc." It was closed because Google objected to some unacceptable expressions being made.
At the time, David & Michelle said…...

"It's a bit complicated, but our site earns revenue from Google adwords right? Well they have "policies" and they have no humans so when the "algorithms" detects a policy violation you have to fix it or you get no money. Friday funnies keeps triggering their "censorship" and its just impossible to manage."

p.s. I'm one of the newer members….. I only joined in 2009.

Hi Alan re ..Google objects to some unacceptable expressions being made ...
Well that's pretty much a
wowzer snowflake . Haha ;)))

that's pretty lame of goooogle in the scheme of things ,
but I do remember David and Michelle explaining why at the time..

I just noticed Motherhen was in the Thanks ticker. Glad you're still around keeping an eye on things.

Regards

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Motherhen is not just ticking the Thanks box. She is in full flight in another Thread here.

Hahaha thanks Al. That's not a thread that would get my attention.

Regards

another that's MIA - the Sunday history because of the snowflake rules and regulations of borrowing other articles.

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Well the "other articles" were copyright and that's legally naughty rather than just "snowflake".

Although I do wonder what happened to "Where is This?" threads.

Gday Allan - Yes, you're right but can't we still try and accept that the intention was to be educational and interesting and nothing else ?
regards - b

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That would be nice but the law deals with actions, rather than "intentions".
The proprietors of this site can bear some responsibility for what is posted here.
It is what it is.

b1b posted:

"another that's MIA - the Sunday history because of the snowflake rules and regulations of borrowing other articles."

"Gday Allan - Yes, you're right but can't we still try and accept that the intention was to be educational and interesting and nothing else ?
regards - b"

All the person in question had to do was reference sources as opposed to copying and pasting and giving everyone the impression the photos/words were their own creation when they were effectively "stolen". It's illegal in the real word ..and here.

Cheers
Greg

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I just re-read what I posted above and realised that it could be wrongly interpreted.

I said….. "The proprietors of this site can bear some responsibility for what is posted here."

I did not mean that they supported any particular posting. I meant that they could be accused of permitting a breach of copyright when in fact they were entirely guilt-free.

I think my first post was back in 2004 - more people interacted back then without all the knockers so much.

Still technology moves quickly - I used to read aus.rec.travel in user groups prior to EO.

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Garn Duncan, get with the times. Grammar correction is old hat. It's battery & electrical these days.:)

Allan,

Electrical has always created tension.

There were a number of contributors in the past that understood those things that were driven out.

A pity as they gave good advice, as you do, to the poor electrical illiterates such as me.

Thank you.

I’m guessing that people who complain about the grammar checkers are the types who reckon school kids shouldn’t have to do exams.

If I’m wrong, I appreciate being educated.

Ups and Downs,
"Electrical has always created tension."…. LOL…. both low and high.

Ha ha, I see what you did there.

Macca.

I have resisted getting into discussions regarding electricity. Don't have the capacity for it and find it rather draining.

Cheers
Greg

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Greg, Watt are you are trying to say? Do you have some impedance for its potential?

Thanks for your concern

My doctor said I have an unidentified parasitic discharge so I am a little embarrassed to talk about it. He said there was a danger I will become disconnected but still need to take charge.

Cheers
Greg

Greg, I'm shocked at your divulgence and becoming exhausted with this current thread so with reluctance I'm switching off.

No worries - Agree, don't want to sound negative but the current conversation was alternating too much for my liking and the jokes were getting a bit revolting, Plus, think I just had a brownout, time to move on. Bye

Cheers
Greg

Listen up Dunc, I think you need a comma after 'then' and another after 'post'... Just saying... :-). Cheers.

Willem , always comes to mind when' Old school Adventures'are mentioned, what a character he was!


Axle.

G'day Axle
Yes indeed, Willem, Judith Kempen, genuinely nice people who travelled widely yet still found time to simply just sit back and have a yarn, I spent an hour or so with them ~ and their snarly black dog!

Mick Olsen is another decent bloke who spent a huge amount of time wandering the Western Deserts, he even spent considerable time documenting his desert adventures in Mick O video form.

This is going to come across as 'Big Noting' ~ but honestly I am not a big noter at all, because it is absolute fact, I spent time with the late Mike Leyland and his wife, way back in the early 1990's when they were travelling and filming their adventures through the East Pilbara, I've also spent time with Toni Collette during the filming of the movie 'The Japanese Story' in which various locations such as Kalgan Pool ~ Mount Robinson ~ Newman Airport and even the Mount Whaleback Mine was used as 'film sets'.

I am rather Chuffed to remember the nice moments along with the nice people too, also rather chuffed that at 75 years ~ I can still clearly remember yesterday, not sure if tomorrow will be important enough to remember though.

Safe travels : Joe Fury

When he last dropped in to see me, they had sold up in Broken Hill and were going to live in a Retirement Village in the Northern suburbs of Adelaide.

He sold his Toyota and camper but that’s all I know unfortunately.

Thanks, yes, I knew they went to Adelaide but that was some time ago.

Nice couple. I hope all is well with them.

Gday
I stayed with Dave and Nora on the way to the Trilby gathering, but not had contact since

Hi Greg,
You joined on the 23rd Sept 2004.
Incidentally, the first thread in the Archives was Thread No 2 on the 29th Sept 2000.

Thanks - was trying to find joining date but it alluded me - seen it before somewhere.

Cheers
Greg

Greg, if you go to "My Profile" at the bottom of your post then to "About Me" you will see your joining date.