Trailers in the Simpson and Channel 7

G'day Wim

Have you managed to get all the sand out of the LC yet?....:o)

Cheers

Willem.

Be kind. I was actaully surprised at the small amount given my efforts to fill the LC.
Soft sand, a windy day and my right foot, not a good combination with the windows down.

Now I do understand that there were extenuating circumstances but I did come away with a record of my own from the trip. ??????????

All the best with the next trip. Do you now have extra spare nuts ;-))

regards

Darian

Probably me, although this was mainly in the Northern Territory and it was not an east west crossing. We were using some shot lines to reach our objective.

With the southerlies blowing up a gale in the desert in recent times, tracks can be obliterated within 24 hours

OK i'm sorry but, i don't know about anyone else, but that reply has gone right over my head, did anyone think that made sence, of cause it doesn't help when i don't know who Grant or GD is.

Baz.

Doug, we reckon it was rigged as well. I reckon Kostya was far more entertaining. And not the precocious little brat that Denyer is :-)

Commercial TV is getting worse by the day, but CH7 is the pits. Does anyone else want to puke when the Koch and Doyle show comes on in the morning?

The show was decided on sms votes. Now please tell me who, of the viewing public are going to pick up thier phones and actually sms in a vote? More often than not it's the young-youngish females who think Grant Denier is a charming, funny, good looking, nice guy (or so I was told as my other half frantically sms'd her vote in for Grant). Not hard to see who's going to win!

On the Simpson thing - yes I had a laugh at the telly this morning at how apparently ill prepared they were but also (having never travelled into the remote outback) immensley enjoyed the pictures they showed! :-)

Cheers
Scoey!

Rigged? NO WAY. Just because a channel 7 personality won every series.
In the UK, the show is on channel 4 (I think) and YEP you guessed it. A channel 4 personality won every time. The same in Poland on TVN, Holland, USA and Spain. Every series was won by a person from the channel the show is on.
Well, that's what I've been told on ABC radio (as I don't watch the show).

R.

Becuse you're likely to see a heap of Ch 9 & Ch 10 personalities on a Ch 7 show! Definately rigged! ;-) and 6 out of ten competitors are Ch 7 celebs or have sponsiorhips with Ch 7, so there was always a good chance that a Ch 7 personality was going to be up there!

They needed celebs for the show - of course they would pick ones that provide promotionaly value for thier own business! :-S

Scoey.

Everyone that has won that dancing with the stars has been a Ch 7 staff member.

I say no more.

having said that, with the mass outcry about the rigged show, that the next one WONT be a ch7 staff member!

What happened to saying no more! hehe! Sorry mate, just busting your chops! :-))

Of course everyone that's won has been a Ch7 staffer - it doesn't mean it's rigged. Having said that, I'm not an idiot, and can see the point you are all making, I just disagree - something can look and sound like a duck but still not necassarily be a duck. Just my 2c but!

Ok, so maybe it's not a duck
But if it looks like poo
smells like poo
and feels like poo, you wouldn't taste it to prove it's not poo :)

hehe! Good point! The thing that blows me away with this whole thing but, is how many people from this forum were avid watchers of dancing with the stars! haha! I'm guilty as charged!

I'd rather be pack raped by the harlem globetrotters than watch that ghey crap..

Well you have fun with your globetrotters Truckster! Me? I'll sit on my nice comfy couch and have a good ol' perve at Jenifer Hawkins with next to nothing on, not to mention the other deadset stunners they have getting tossed around by the bloke celebs!

As they say, each to thier own! :-))

Cheers
Scoey!

I'd rather watch some of the leso pornos that I download from Limewire daily. No need to watch blokes at all :P

Well your reply had nothing to do with the original post, what has dancing and Kostya Tszyu got to do with trailers in the Simpson.

Unless there was something i missed.

Baz.

Help poor ol me to will ya, cause you got me bleep ed as what the original post has to do with Kostya Tszyu????????????????

OK my G*tz ache has passed
Kostya Tszyu was a competiter in Dancing with the stars on Ch 7 and so was that bloke Grant Denya from Ch 7 weather , So he was in the Simpson Desert , because there was a work connection with the 2 of of them I was comparing the 2 and reackon that Kostya Tszyu Is a better person , If you took the time and read all the posts and answers and watched a bit of stupid reallity TV then you might just know what everyone is on about . Ohhh my G*tz ache is comin back again and now I know what's causin it,,....LOL

Riiiight, time for a lie down i think Doug

-If you took the time and read all the posts and answers and watched a bit of stupid reallity TV then you might just know what everyone is on about . Ohhh my G*tz ache is comin back again and now I know what's causin it-

Doug,

Maybe thats whats causing your G*tz Ache, you are watching too much stupid reallity TV!!

I agree Laura! ;-) Some will say, tho, that he shouldn't have been out there if he had such a limited knowledge, but I reckon that the exec's would've sent him and if there was any trouble they would've sent a chopper out after him with the budget they must have!! haha!

Scoey!

Onya V8.....agree with your comments re that Koch-head on ch 7 and his sidekock. I have 2 blokes who work where I do, both with the same surname and they pronounce it "Koff"....go figure.

Rat Patrol .now you are really showing your age !! LOL

Love them old cheapy desert movies!

That was the first thing i checked, being a sand desert, means sand, which means sand dunes, you can never be too prepared, also speaking to the locals is always a wise thing to do as well.

Have a good trip you'll love it, it's an amazing place.

Baz.

Good point Shaker,

for me the main reason for visiting new places (and sometimes old ones) is that I will find and experince something new. Thats what makes travelling so exciting.

Yes it does help to do some reasearch prior to going, but the surprises is what makes the best memories IMHO.

.....now back to getting the magna ready for the gunbarrel highway.........

We thought the world was flat too ... until we took the trouble to look!

So, the important thing is, he has crossed the desert & learnt something, isn't that why we all travel???

Ahhh yes Craig

It was a comment high-lighting what one is not supposed to do as per the Parks and Wildlife criteria.

I am afraid that I am guilty by incriminating pic of straddling a sand blow in an attempt to move along the desired path. And yes, I do travel offtrack and have done so recently.

I suppose we can argue about this till the cows come home without a result but I do try to have a minimal impact when doing cross country stuff. I have noted in another thread on this page that 40 years later the graded cleared lines through the desert have all but disappeared. We also found that tracks we had made the day before had been covered by sand the following morning as a stiff breeze had sprung up just after sunrise.

Of course, we(4wders and EO forumites) are into recreation. Lets not forget the Miners, Anthropologists, Archaeologists, Social Workers, Pastoralists and others who frequently drive through unchartered terrain leaving their marks as well.

Cheers

What's the old saying about "throwing the first stone" ?

I don't particularly care, Shaker

I'm with you Willem on the minimal impact when going cross country & while only small numbers of people are doing it, the tracks left will often be covered in less than a day. The problem of course is when it gets too popular & large convoys take the same routes any damage is compounded & leads to areas being closed.
I for one are impressed by your photo getting the trailer over the dune (damm close) but there maybe others more politcaly correct than I who would use it as ammunition against us.
Cheers Craig.........

True but willem was the first to jump down Ch7 for doing the very same thing. That is the point being made.