I know that photo!! I've seen that one, that was so funny >.<

Nah, it's not that. I'm pretty sure i've been there before, but it definitely wasn't with my family.
And I've kind of never heard much about the Grampians.

Actually... Is there a speedway in Horsham?

HA~! That's why I know it! Dad used to race there occasionally. it's been a long time since I've been there. I liked the place.

Kind of both. He used to Race V8 dirt modifieds. His was rather recognizable, he had spongebob on the side of it. He rolled it over at avalon early last year, so he stopped running that and instead we've now got 4 go karts that we run on dirt tracks. I don't think they run them at Blue Ribbon though. It's a shame. Given how dad always described the track, it would be so much fun to race karts on.

He probably won't, it's been at least 2 years since we were there. he loved the track. it was one of the few that meant he could race on even terms with everyone else, even with the smaller engine.
It was a damn shame when it rolled. It rolled on the first night of a 2 night event as well. We got it back into the pits and had about 20 people working on getting it apart to see if it could keep going. We were all up until about 2am and we thought it was good, but then we looked at it again in the morning and it had busted a main part of the chassis, so dad wasn't willing to drive it.

Aww, that's a shame. In the two times it was there, it looked like it would be an amazing track for karts. particularly for me. It looks like the kind of track i'd just have too much fun on and forget to stop.
Hmmm. Hidden Valley. Sounds less familiar to me, but i've still heard of it.

Welcome to The Billabong Sleepy Anarchy: !

Good to see another mexican in here!

Two top enders, a cockroach (me), a (what do you call some one from SA?) south australian, and i think there was even some one here for a bit from WA and Tassie too! Did we have a Canberran here as well?

Anyways, quite the collection we now have!

Ive got a few mates here that do racing. A couple of them went down to Tassie for Targa recently. Day 2 of the racing they rolled their Evo twice and were out for the rest of the race sadly. Looked brutal as hell seeing pics of the wreckage too, bloody lucky to walk away!

Theres a couple of speedways here near me, but the one kind of racing i really do like is WRC. THATS some crazy CRAZY stuff! [wha]

Oh, and i remember why i remember Horsham now too! My GFs mother and her BF went down that way to the Grampians recently, and i think they were either staying there for a night, or doing something else there at some point. So yeah, thats why its familliar!

And then we have the kiwi who has been lurking for a while going "the- the slang- I - can't... whaaat?"

[poke]

*pokes Bearzy*

Whatchupokinmefor? [feesh]

Woo! Photos from the weekend are up now! Time to go and decide which ones I want.

The only one of those terms I've heard of before was top enders for people that live in the NT.

Now I feel somewhat un-Aussie.

I agree with Ling, I've never heard of any of those terms. I feel real un-Australian now :3 I need to update my words to be more Aussie.

Crow Eaters, never heard that one before.

And i think Tasmanians are called 'Two Heads' arent they?

Either way, i think we all need to brush up on our wordiology a little bit more so we're fluent in our own language lol! [lol]

Looks like ive got a parcel waiting to be picked up today too! Not sure what it is, though ive got a few things on the way so its a bit of a guessing game. GF is going to be here in about 3hrs to go to her grandparents place so im debating whether i want to get it now, or get it later on the way there...

Also, that reminds me of an awesome bit of luck i had recently too! See, i got this nice shirt from the USA. They shipped it over, i got it out of the box to try it on and one of the snap-on buttons broke! The bottom section broke into two and now the shirt was useless because the buttons are riveted together to hold them onto the shirt, so i couldnt even try to fix it myself!

So i thought id send a message to the company i bought it from and see if they could get me a couple of buttons to try and fix it myself! They told me it was an old cut and the manufacturer no longer produced it but they offered me a 25% refund on it, and would ask them about buttons. I figured this was the point that theyd blow me off and id just get a bit of a run around about the buttons til i gave up, so i let it go.

Then i figured i might as well try the manufacturer, what they heck, right? So i sent them an email, and they wanted to know some details about it and that was all fine and dandy. Then they said that i couldnt put the buttons on myself unless i had an industrial rivet machine! So they were going to send me an entirely new shirt instead! WOOHOO! I was cheering, because they didnt want the other shirt back either, which I'd thought they would!

Then, not long after that bit of good luck, the first company get back to me and tell me that my buttons are in the mail and i should have them soon!

So out of that, ive now got 2 shirts for the price of one, and replacement parts for the broken one, PLUS a 25% refund!

Im pretty damned happy about that, and customer service from the manufacturer was outstanding! [mrgreen]

Hey, I've never heard of any of them.

Except the two heads one. Because a Friend made a joke about that.

It should be the two-headed Tasmanian Devil!

Though I don't get why they're called two heads in the first place, then again many of those names don't make much sense.

Yeah, the basis for that is that theyre separate from mainland aussie, so its the same people breeding down there and by now theyve got two heads! :P

Cockroaches is because NSW has HEAPS of roaches
Cane Toads because QLD has HEAPS of those buggers too. And Canadians because theyre above NSW, which they think of as the USA, especially since they can call the Victorians Mexicans for being below them!
No idea why SA is full of Crow Eaters though?
Top Enders should be fairly obvious though, theyre at the top of australia in the harshest area pretty much i think?