That's another pet hate of mine, chicks on the beach in bikinis. It's a real danger on a bike when cycling along the sea front near St Kilda because there you are all distracted, then bang - you hit a lamppost.


And don't get me started about the topless ones, even more of a danger to a cyclist!

That's why there are shady trees with seating around the Lagoon. You can safely sit down and be distracted with no risk of colliding with anything. If you are with the missus that could result in a long sharp pain to the head.

Of course there are always the Japanese cyclists

WW

The trick is to always wear dark sunnies, and when walking with the misses always walk slightly ahead (about 1 metre) so she can't see where you are looking.

See, there you go with the positives again!

Some people just find it really really hard to be negative about anything

I noticed

ABC - your problem is that you have learned how to be happy. Most people, especially those younger, have not. They don't altogether believe it is even possible or even desirable. Only those who reach this happy state will understand.

Same goes for you Moneypen.

I too take pride in being labelled eccentric, odd, old, out of touch. And I love shoes.

Karma on it's way

I just take pride in watching girls with their breasts out around Cairns public pool,

(and the wife not noticing!)

JTL

Long way to go though, don't you have girls in Bayside?

Not the European backpacker type

The foreshore at Raby Bay just isnt the place when compared to the Lagoon

Did they ever demolish the building that was supposedly collapsing on the Raby Bay foreshore opposite Coles?

WW

and we've all wondered why wanderingwombat never comes to the cairns meet ups......obviously too preoccupied perving on the girls down at the lagoon

Tits are tits, what's the big deal

I used to work for a company in the UK whose bullet style was to put semi-colons at the end of each list item and the last list item had to have an 'and' after the semi-colon. It's an archaic form of doing it which is why you'll see it a lot in legal documents (here and in the UK). I've not seen it in common use here so it might be your particular company. I agree that it makes for crap reading. It also makes for crap writing as well (especially when trying to add bullets to an existing list).

As for the apostrophe, have a read of 'Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation' by Lynne Truss. You'll find that this sort of thing happens outside of Aus as well

I never realised how big a problem it was supposed to be to me before though


( I feel there should be a comma in there somewhere?)