Weird stuff you see when travelling!

[pete roper]

This was on a curtain in a cafe that Jude and I visited in Walhalla in Victoria last week. The curtain was made of old potato sacks.



Isn't it wonderful? Because nothing says 'Spuds' more clearly than a naked female bodybuilder sitting on, presumably, a bag of spuds with the image of a naked female bodybuilder sitting on a sack of......... and so on ad infinitum like some sort of ghastly 'Hall of Mirrors'!

Pete

[Guzzistajohn]

I'm hungry for hash browns now

[Markcarovilli]

Well they are Medium/Large......

Mark

[lucian]

Nice find!

While once at the super market I came across two elderly woman  admiring the large Maine grown spuds. One woman held up two of the larger ones and told the other that they reminded her of her late husbands testes. The woman replied "so big"? And the one with the potato's said, "no, so dirty" 

[Moto]

Reminds me of Mark Twain's discovery that buildings in Carson City, Nevada, were divided into rooms by partitions made of old flour sacks. Plain ones for the common herd and printed ones for the aristocrats!

Austria is a bit like our Old West, isn't it?

He saw a lot of weird stuff while traveling too.

[ken farr]

Well thanks Pete, now I gotta go down under and bring back a potato sack......


kjf

[rodekyll]

RE: weird stuff -- I was riding through range contry in the SW -- maybe New Mexico -- and saw a herd of what appeared to be wild or feral horses (no shoes) led by a camel with a burro bringing up the rear.

[ITSec]

So, time for a quick check before booking a flight... after all, that's some 'Class 1' stuff (so the label says  ).

Alas, though Thorpdale does have a nice website to promote their annual celebration of all things tuberous, the 'Attractions' page of their online material makes no mention (let alone depiction) of such tourist draws as are shown on the packing materials. And even though those in the Commonwealth follow the tradition of adding unnecessary letters in words, the Aussies apparently haven't taken to the Qualye spelling of 'potatoe'....

Chippy the mascot doesn't quite do it for me - and why does a potato festival have a demonstration of working dogs and sheep-shearing? I'm starting to think that no celebration in Australia can take place without sweaty men handling sheep... 

http://www.thorpdalepotatofestival.com.au/

[Kiwi_Roy]

So, time for a quick check before booking a flight... after all, that's some 'Class 1' stuff (so the label says  ).

Alas, though Thorpdale does have a nice website to promote their annual celebration of all things tuberous, the 'Attractions' page of their online material makes no mention (let alone depiction) of such tourist draws as are shown on the packing materials. And even though those in the Commonwealth follow the tradition of adding unnecessary letters in words, the Aussies apparently haven't taken to the Qualye spelling of 'potatoe'....

Chippy the mascot doesn't quite do it for me - and why does a potato festival have a demonstration of working dogs and sheep-shearing? I'm starting to think that no celebration in Australia can take place without sweaty men handling sheep... 

http://www.thorpdalepotatofestival.com.au/

NO EFT-POS AT THE GATE.

How can that be?

[pete roper]

They are a community who seem to think pictures of naked body builders are the shitz if you want to sell spuds. It's Victoria, a tiny little police state that sits like a carbuncle on the butt cheek of the arsehole of the earth. Why would they have discovered eftpos?

Pete

[RANDM]

Hey wait a minute - we've got Myki card public transport and
a really expensive water de-Salination facility that we don't
even use ................. Oh wait.

Maurie.

[Kiwi_Roy]

They are a community who seem to think pictures of naked body builders are the shitz if you want to sell spuds. It's Victoria, a tiny little police state that sits like a carbuncle on the butt cheek of the arsehole of the earth. Why would they have discovered eftpos?

Pete

You may have some explaining to do when the rest of NA wakes up. eftpos is a weird name.

[normzone]

RE: weird stuff -- I was riding through range contry in the SW -- maybe New Mexico -- and saw a herd of what appeared to be wild or feral horses (no shoes) led by a camel with a burro bringing up the rear.

Off topic - On San Diego Zoo ambassador Joan Embery's ranch there is an assortment of weird critters, including a she-camel that grew up there in a pen next to a bay horse.

So this camel thinks she is a horse.

When I rode my bay running quarter over there on the ranch she fell in love with him. She would crane her neck and make moon eyes at him, and it just creeped him out. I couldn't get him in a straight line on the rail by her pen, he'd always swing wide in that part of the arena to put more room between himself and her.

[Muzz]

It's Victoria, a tiny little police state that sits like a carbuncle on the butt cheek of the arsehole of the earth.
Pete

Just what are you trying to tell us Pete, that Vicoria is as much fun as a bucketful of haemorrhoids?

[Muzz]

You may have some explaining to do when the rest of NA wakes up. eftpos is a weird name.

Electronic Funds Transfer at Point Of Sale.

[kirby1923]

Off topic - On San Diego Zoo ambassador Joan Embery's ranch there is an assortment of weird critters, including a she-camel that grew up there in a pen next to a bay horse.

So this camel thinks she is a horse.

When I rode my bay running quarter over there on the ranch she fell in love with him. She would crane her neck and make moon eyes at him, and it just creeped him out. I couldn't get him in a straight line on the rail by her pen, he'd always swing wide in that part of the arena to put more room between himself and her.

Man that's funny!
Where I grew up on the ranch in W.TX we had 2 camels, one of which got real confused and did the same thing!
Amazing to watch!!!

:-)

[oldbike54]

 Hey , even camels need some lovin' 

 Dusty

[pete roper]

Over here the only kind of Lovin' they need is from a piece of hot lead flying supersonic! Hit one of those bastards, car or bike, and you'll know about it!

[kirby1923]

I've put allot of hot lead on stuff.
But I always got on with the camels.
Gotta bow to love sometimes.

:-)

+2

[oldbike54]

 Yep , gotta respect lovin' , and the need for it  Camels are actually pretty smart and gentle beasts , if a bit stubborn . Hmm , kinda like some of us 

 Dusty

[kirby1923]

Amen!

[RANDM]

Just what are you trying to tell us Pete, that Vicoria is as much fun as a bucketful of haemorrhoids?

Maybe pete's had some "experiences" involving the upkeepers
of morals and attitudes who are actually a little thin on the
ground for us to be called a police state.
He's got the wrong impression - may be the wollapers know
trouble when they see it and follow him around keeping an
eye on him, which is a good thing, as long as they have a
Wooden duck to play with the rest of us can do what we want.

Yep , gotta respect lovin' , and the need for it  Camels are actually pretty smart and gentle beasts , if a bit stubborn . Hmm , kinda like some of us 

 Dusty

Males in Must don't seem very intelligent or gentle Dusty,
They can go nutso like an efalant!

Maurie.

[beetle]

Maybe pete's had some "experiences" involving the upkeepers
of morals and attitudes who are actually a little thin on the
ground for us to be called a police state.
He's got the wrong impression - may be the wollapers know
trouble when they see it and follow him around keeping an
eye on him, which is a good thing, as long as they have a
Wooden duck to play with the rest of us can do what we want.

Nah, Pete's right. 'Police' state is a nice way of saying it. It seems every time I go down there I get a speeding fine. Wallopers up here North of the border can't be arsed pulling you over for less than 10 over. In fact, not that long ago, four Griso's doing 130 on the Sturt Highway just got a flash of the headlights from Mr Highway Patrol. I waved. If that had been in Vic, we'd have all been hog-tied at gunpoint.

[Clancy]

I've put allot of hot lead on stuff.
But I always got on with the camels.

They're a certified pest out here.
Hundreds of thousands of them roaming the outback.
Occassionaly the government culls them by shooting them from helicopters.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_feral_camel

[RANDM]

Nah, Pete's right. 'Police' state is a nice way of saying it. It seems every time I go down there I get a speeding fine. Wallopers up here North of the border can't be arsed pulling you over for less than 10 over. In fact, not that long ago, four Griso's doing 130 on the Sturt Highway just got a flash of the headlights from Mr Highway Patrol. I waved. If that had been in Vic, we'd have all been hog-tied at gunpoint.

Have all the NSW Police turned into cuddly toys or something? I grew up on the Northern Beaches - left 25 yrs ago and my memories are of Bathurst ect.
We'd keep our bikes in perfect nick so we couldn't be defected - so the cops would break something and THEN defect you.
About twenty of us camped rough in the bush at Huskisson once - I woke up with a Pistol to my head, maybe they felt threatend, there were only four of them.
Oh well the wheel keeps turning and things change.
Maybe I'm lucky where I am too, lots of good to great roads within reach away from the Bay and out to the Divide with not many wallopers. Outside the Tourist
Season it's actually pretty good.

Maurie.

[pete roper]

Have all the NSW Police turned into cuddly toys or something?I grew up on the Northern Beaches - left 25 yrs ago and my memories are of Bathurst ect.
We'd keep our bikes in perfect nick so we couldn't be defected - so the cops would break something and THEN defect you.
About twenty of us camped rough in the bush at Huskisson once - I woke up with a Pistol to my head, maybe they felt threatend, there were only four of them.
Oh well the wheel keeps turning and things change.
Maybe I'm lucky where I am too, lots of good to great roads within reach away from the Bay and out to the Divide with not many wallopers. Outside the Tourist
Season it's actually pretty good.

Maurie.

Nah, as Mark says I think they are generally just too idle to stop downloading porn on their phones and get out of their cars! Since Qld got mucked out a while back NSW seems to be leading the pack in terms of corruption and grifting in the force but unless you upset them or you meet one who didn't get a root last night they tend to leave you alone unless you're really misbehaving.

The spirit of the Rum Corps still runs strong in the NSW force! 

Pete

[pete roper]

They're a certified pest out here.
Hundreds of thousands of them roaming the outback.
Occassionaly the government culls them by shooting them from helicopters.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_feral_camel

Whoops, I thought you were talking about the Highway Patrol!

[RANDM]

The spirit of the Rum Corps still runs strong in the NSW force! 

Pete

And in Cantberra.

Maurie.

[kirby1923]

Over here the only kind of Lovin' they need is from a piece of hot lead flying supersonic! Hit one of those bastards, car or bike, and you'll know about it!

Out west in the states we have cattle country. Open range!

Cows up to 2000 pounds can ruin your day in those areas.

I remember riding in OZ and they would tell me that riding at night was not a good idea 'cause of the roo's and wallaby's?(sp) Stopped and kicked one in the road once, like kicking a big rock!
I headed that advise.

:-)

[RANDM]

Ummm ................... You stopped and what? Why??
I'm guessing it was "immobile" - if you'd tried that on
an adult male you'd quite possibly be carrying your
intestines home in a bag.
Not a lot of fencing in the Bush either.
We like variety - you can take your pick from Roos,
Wallollabies, Cattle, Wild Pig, Wombats, Camels, Wild
Goats and Buffs up North. Dad hit a Boar once the size of
a young cow, after waiting a bit he thought he'd killed it and
got out to check. He'd only knocked it out and as he came
round the front of the car it grunted, got up and shook his head
and then, deciding it was properly pissed off it proceeded to
dismantle the car. Dad reckoned he'd hit it at about 35mph
or so, and that he barely made it back into the car.

Maurie