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So cold in Sydney..........

Need a warm heater stat!

Bah!

I rode to work in sub zero temperatures today!

The individual front temperature controls, combined with the sub-1 minute warmup of the SLK, suits me just fine.

Must be cold all round :

Adelaide City:

Min 7C
Max 14C

I have just been out to get lunch and it is freeeeezing, wet and miserable And this is also the outlook for the whole week.

Bloody cold down here as well, lucky no work for me today so yeh i get to stay inside with the reverse cycle going.
Least it is not raining that we should be getting and i dont mind as long as not to wet on weekend, big shoot this weekend.

Geez, I wonder what could be causing all of this?

Oh yeah, that's right, it is the MIDDLE OF WINTER

As a New Zealander I grew up going to school in sub zero temperatures... part of the reason I shifted to Aussie was to be in a warmer climate... Me thinks I should have moved further north... Cairns maybe...

Walking back from the beach I snapped a great little pic of a dog frozen to a parking meter.

Boom, boom,

Antsl wrote:As a New Zealander I grew up going to school in sub zero temperatures... part of the reason I shifted to Aussie was to be in a warmer climate... Me thinks I should have moved further north... Cairns maybe...

Antsl, I have lived in Melbourne all my life and love it, but I have never before heard of anyone moving to Melbourne to be in a warmer climate!!

Freeeeeezing? You gotta be kidding me! Freezing it's when -30 and below!

Hlop, bloody big girls blouses all of you. I've been in France and felt the Siberian Winds. All I can say is I'm glad I wasn't actually in Siberia!

Sounds like a good time for a vacation to the good old US of A. My quick conversions would make these temps about 18-29C. Pretty mild here in California so far, but I'm sure that won't last much longer.

Sheetshooter wrote:Walking back from the beach I snapped a great little pic of a dog frozen to a parking meter.

Boom, boom,

Bwahahahahahhahaha!!

Ok I'm more warmed up now...but my poor ears are still frozen.

What a gloomy day to take photos aye?

I've been sick all weekend.
*sniff*
I was sick on Saturday and had to miss work (dam... what a shame)... and now I'm sick today and I'm at work.

The people here think I look jaundiced.

All I know is that it's cold outside and I can barely taste, hear, and smell anything.

SoCal Steve wrote:Sounds like a good time for a vacation to the good old US of A. My quick conversions would make these temps about 18-29C. Pretty mild here in California so far, but I'm sure that won't last much longer.

Steve,

Be sure to ask Leigh about or trip back from LA to Modesto following Christmas at Laguna Hills in 1994, a month or so prior to our moving to Dallas.

'74 Alfa Spider, top down, all the way north from OC through The Grapevine up to Bakersfield, with lots of residual snow by the roadside. The only way to travel.

It was 11° in Brisbane overnight, and it got up to 20° this morning. Winter up here is great.

gstark wrote:The individual front temperature controls, combined with the sub-1 minute warmup of the SLK, suits me just fine.

My mate just took delivery of his SL55 AMG yesterday; complete with heat scarf and heated seats!
And, it's a brute!

cricketfan wrote:

gstark wrote:The individual front temperature controls, combined with the sub-1 minute warmup of the SLK, suits me just fine.

My mate just took delivery of his SL55 AMG yesterday; complete with heat scarf and heated seats!
And, it's a brute!

I'll bet it is!

I'm actually very surprised - and very pleasantly so - at just what I have got under my right foot in the SLK. I expected good traction at the backend - and it has all of that and more - but it's so quick and smooth from take-off. Almost un-Mercedes-like!

Tsk tsk...please...no Mercedes lust in this thread. I've got too many things to lust for as it is...(oh D2X I dream of you everyday)

Andoru wrote:Tsk tsk...please...no Mercedes lust in this thread. I've got too many things to lust for as it is...(oh D2X I dream of you everyday)

Who's lusting?

Let me tell you about cold: I was in the Brindabella Ranges in the ACT over the weekend. Arrived at 1am Saturday and attempted to set up a tent in the dark. It was raining heavily and the 'clearing' we were in consisted of a muddy downhill slope. My fingers were numb, the snot in my nose had formed icicles, and the maximum temp the following day was like 6 degrees celcius.

Also, our tent went missing after the first night. Compounded to this, the soft-top 4WD we were in had leaks, so all our bags, clothing, sleeping bag, etc got wet. It's so much fun camping in the middle of winter.

Next month I am off to NZ to carry on some work I am doing on an assignment there... the small farming settlement I am going to gets up to 40 degrees in summer and down to -26 in winter... I am organising my thermals now!

gstark wrote:

Andoru wrote:Tsk tsk...please...no Mercedes lust in this thread. I've got too many things to lust for as it is...(oh D2X I dream of you everyday)

Who's lusting?

Yep, no lust here. Although my C240 looks like a family hack in comparison to Gary's SLK, let alone an SL55 AMG

It's 8 degrees here atm. Thank god I drive to work in a heated car and not in the ancient trains they put on my line.

Gary
Tell me you drive around with the top down and the heater on?

If a car was a camera a Mercedes would be the Canon and a BMW would be the Nikon..........

smac wrote:If a car was a camera a Mercedes would be the Canon and a BMW would be the Nikon..........

Depends on where your allegiances lie. Lol.

SLK SL55 AMG

It's all tlhIngan to me. A car is just something to get you from A to B (well sort of - it has to look moderately nice to justify the expense)

Edit:
Hey - a new word censor word. I like

tlhIngan g i b b e r i s h tlhIngan

Thanks Stubbsy... Now that you mention the word censor...

Did anyone activated a word censor replacing something with "chimp"...

I noticed a few messages last week that included chimp or chimping that I didn't quite understand... Were they weird posts, or have a failed to notice a step-change in the evolution of the English language???

I just checked... and no.

No chimps in there.

Well, not yet, at least.

If Dad gets a hold of this thread, there very well could be some chimp related messages popping around.

Perhaps you've been listening to Barenaked Ladies recently Leek?

OK... I'll give you a few examples...

http://www.d70users.com/viewtopic.php?t ... ight=chimp

http://www.d70users.com/viewtopic.php?t ... ight=chimp

http://www.d70users.com/viewtopic.php?t ... ight=chimp

I'm confused...

You've got me.

I think "chimp" was done on purpose on all of those posts... the edit function that being a mod gives me lets me see the original text and... voila... it's "chimp" in each case.

That said, there's no use of the word "chimp" in any of the word censors (there are a few running, it appears)...

Beats me.

Maybe a different usage of the word "chimp"?

OK... I just thought I was missing something and that I really should know what chimp meant... I would hate to think that I was falling behind the times

Next thing I know - I won't understand my daughter!!!

Matt. K wrote:Gary
Tell me you drive around with the top down and the heater on?

Matt,

Yes, frequently. Are there other ways to drive around?

smac wrote:If a car was a camera a Mercedes would be the Canon and a BMW would be the Nikon..........

Not quite.

Canon would be a Lexus, Nikon would be an Alfa, and Leica would be the BMW, and Mercedes would be the 'Blad.

stubbsy wrote:SLK SL55 AMG

It's all tlhIngan to me. A car is just something to get you from A to B (well sort of - it has to look moderately nice to justify the expense)

Edit:
Hey - a new word censor word. I like

tlhIngan g i b b e r i s h tlhIngan

Peter,

do we now have to edjakate ya on the finer points or motoring? That a car is not simply a means of travelling from point A to point B?

Do we need to get you out a racecourse??? Advanced driving course ???

leek wrote:Next thing I know - I won't understand my daughter!!!

That's the easy part, John. When you can understand your wife/partner, then you're in deep doo doo.

I'm puzzled too by the examples you've given; I can't recall setting chimp as a word censor, and as Leigh confirms, there's none active with that word.

I guess it's just as well that we're not chimping at the bit waiting for a definitive answer.

Sorry boys and girls...Nikon would be a Volvo! Solid, dependable, stylish and last for years. All the things an ALFA is not.

back of my car on sunday morning, 8am

couple below zero i believe ... (york, an hour out of perth.)

Matt. K wrote:Sorry boys and girls...Nikon would be a Volvo! Solid, dependable, stylish and last for years. All the things an ALFA is not.

Do you want to tell that to my beautiful, reliable, stylish, 33 years old 2000 GTV?

FWIW, the Bertone (Giugario) body style, to this day, remains one of the prettiest cars of the 20th century.

English is an amazing language - the use of the word pretty in association with ugly to produce ”pretty ugly”

sirhc55 wrote:English is an amazing language - the use of the word pretty in association with ugly to produce ”pretty ugly”

As in Volvo ?

cold - pah - you guys are in the middle of winter - over here we typically call the temperatures you are experiencing summer

though we are currently basking in a heatwave - ah! the dizzying heights of the late 20's degrees........wont last though- i know 'cos i'm off to Wales for the week next week.....

chris1968 wrote:cold - pah - you guys are in the middle of winter - over here we typically call the temperatures you are experiencing summer

though we are currently basking in a heatwave - ah! the dizzying heights of the late 20's degrees........wont last though- i know 'cos i'm off to Wales for the week next week.....

Get some great pics and have a great time

Darb

last Sunday morning at my place on the Great Divide:



Not bad, really - it gets a lot worse than this was:

sirhc55 wrote:

chris1968 wrote:cold - pah - you guys are in the middle of winter - over here we typically call the temperatures you are experiencing summer

though we are currently basking in a heatwave - ah! the dizzying heights of the late 20's degrees........wont last though- i know 'cos i'm off to Wales for the week next week.....

Get some great pics and have a great time

cheers sirhc55 - i'll try - off to Abersoch, the beach is great, hoping the weather will stay with us and i can get up early enough to get some decent sunrises / stay sober enough later on to get some great sunsets !
shots like that seem to be two a penny down under! got to work for them up here! if all else fails we just found Wales' only Michelin starred eaterie.....