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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #17550 on: August 19, 2017, 04:09:55 AM »
Quote from: JoB on August 18, 2017, 08:59:35 AM
ONLY eight hits so far?!? Cologne's "Idiots' Bridge" is at 100+ and counting ...

Only eight they have pictures of! It gets hit numerous times a year and every time they add more warning signs and flashing lights, but it never helps :)

Quote from: Iceea on August 18, 2017, 10:32:37 AM
There's a number of bridges like that in the US. Storrow drive here in Boston was designed only for cars so anytime a truck or bus tries it, crunch! There was one batch of pictures on You Tube of an underpass some where. Short videos actually. And what I thought was really great were the big campers that would shear off all the AC units and other stuff on the roof but leave the roof proper untouched, and just keep on driving, not stopping.

How many of those campers were hire vehicles I wonder?

Quote from: Róisín on August 18, 2017, 11:57:00 AM
Funniest thing of that kind I've seen was at the Aldgate railway bridge in the Adelaide Hills. Big shiny tourist bus, full of tourists, drove under it and stuck, jammed between the bridge and the road. Panic ensued. People were running around trying to organise a crane, permissions to partly dismantle the bridge (which were not forthcoming both because it is an heritage bridge and because the main Adelaide-Melbourne train line runs across it). Finally some genius had the idea of letting down the tyres of the bus, and it was able to creep out from under the bridge.

We've got another underpass on the other side of the city but it's a bit higher so trucks can (usually) get under it without problems. This didn't apply however to the fellow maybe 20 years back who got really drunk one night and decided to steal the London double decker bus owned by a local tourist company. He peeled the roof off like a sardine can and they had to convert it to an open top afterwards :))
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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #17551 on: August 19, 2017, 11:30:10 AM »
Learning about the attack in Turku, I can't refrain from thinking that we were there one week and a few days ago :/ This world is mad.
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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #17552 on: August 19, 2017, 09:49:19 PM »
Completly unrelated, but right now I am in the galapagos islands, and last week I was at machu pichu. The wifi here is touch and go, mostly cafes and such, but if I haven't posted pictures by the end of next weekend, someone please hunt me down and yell at me :P

I have been having lots of crazy adventures, and I also have a few airport horror stories for anyone who's interested. Spoiler alert: they lost my luggage for 4 days.
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« Reply #17553 on: August 20, 2017, 12:42:37 AM »
You were lucky that they found it again at all. Hope nothing was broken. Worst an airline ever did to me was to put the tine of a forklift*through* my harp, in its case and all.
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« Reply #17554 on: August 20, 2017, 03:21:48 AM »
Haaa, Machu Pichu, I might be just a little jealous :)
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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #17555 on: August 20, 2017, 12:44:08 PM »
That sounds like an awesome trip, Viola! Well, except for the lost baggage part - I do hope you had enough in your carry-on to survive those four days relatively comfortably.

That reminds me of what happened to my mom on the way to New Brunswick, the entire baggage system was shut down in Calgary so it didn't even end up on the plane with us before we departed. It did make it's way back to us the next day though, they sorted it out surprisingly fast.
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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #17556 on: August 20, 2017, 03:34:31 PM »
Quote from: Róisín on August 20, 2017, 12:42:37 AM
You were lucky that they found it again at all. Hope nothing was broken. Worst an airline ever did to me was to put the tine of a forklift*through* my harp, in its case and all.

That is the worst! Nothing was broken, I just had clothes and sunblock in it. I am just happy to have clean clothes again. Clean clothes are amazing.

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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #17557 on: August 20, 2017, 04:27:52 PM »
Quote from: Róisín on August 20, 2017, 12:42:37 AM
You were lucky that they found it again at all. Hope nothing was broken. Worst an airline ever did to me was to put the tine of a forklift*through* my harp, in its case and all.

Ah WHAT noooo

Notwithstanding, lovely adventures, Vi.
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« Reply #17558 on: August 22, 2017, 06:44:56 AM »
Finland did a thing. A very, very gay thing.

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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #17559 on: August 24, 2017, 07:27:32 AM »
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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #17560 on: August 24, 2017, 10:31:02 AM »


Yeiii and I were planing a trip to Iceland, until we realized that the only way we could afford to stay there was to take shelter on a horse stable XD
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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #17561 on: August 24, 2017, 11:06:24 AM »
Quote from: Antillanka on August 24, 2017, 10:31:02 AM


Yeiii and I were planing a trip to Iceland, until we realized that the only way we could afford to stay there was to take shelter on a horse stable XD
Camping ? One of my brother just spent two weeks there with his girlfriend like that.
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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #17562 on: August 24, 2017, 09:59:24 PM »
Quote from: Mélusine on August 24, 2017, 11:06:24 AM
Camping ? One of my brother just spent two weeks there with his girlfriend like that.

Hmmm, that opens some interesting prospects!!!
I've hear it's kinda windy, though

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« Reply #17563 on: August 25, 2017, 05:00:43 AM »
Quote from: Antillanka on August 24, 2017, 09:59:24 PM
Hmmm, that opens some interesting prospects!!!
I've hear it's kinda windy, though

I don't know but can ask him how it was/where they went if you're interested later. (Not sure to have a lot of answers but I can try.)
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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #17564 on: August 25, 2017, 09:38:21 AM »
...okay, so apparently this is a thing? Was this Minna's doing or one of us?
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