Why I hate you all....

[bdurrett]

Does anyone remember these things, poor Amphibious

Hey!

I remember these things! They were the ones that exploded like grenades after you had managed to do the "double-klack" a few hundred times, sending glass pieces all over he:ban and back and blinded nearly everyone in the vicinity! A real product liability case those things were.....

I had a set for a while when I was about 12 before they were all recalled..... My mom took mine, put them on a high shelf in the garage where they, when she opened the cabinet door one day, fell out onto the concrete and ....

shattered like a pair of glass grenades.....

Alison, you realize that you have dated us here.... :naughty

 

[Adrian]

Alison, you realize that you have dated us here.... :naughty

Fear Not! It's more a cultural thing, I'm older than you are and I never heard of them! However, now that I think of it, something is stirring waaaay back in my mind. :hmm

Amphibious, I spent some cold winters in Chicago, temperatures down to a steamy -26 C, but nothing like what you have there!

Now you're really going to hate me.
I went diving today, and after running around like a headless chicken at home for a while trying to find my 5mm suit, which must be in a friend's diving center, I ended up using my 3mm open cell with a 3mm vest. We spent around one and three fourths hours before starting to get cold.

So I really can't complain, the water was boiling hot at 15C/59F

Adrian

 

[Bill]

Amphibious, thanks for the picture. Would you believe that we spent five years in Winnipeg and it never got that cold. Once, in Churchill, a rumor circulated the in the bar that the mercury in the thermometer was'nt even starting up the tube, but most of us took the word of the weather man. Never got drunk enough to walk the distance to the little wx station. When the sun came up the next day it warmed up to -30 so we took off and headed south.
Aloha
Bill
P.S. 27 at the airport, 26 in the water and 5 knots from the SW.

 

[Oldsarge]

Well, it's cold and grey outside here, but after five years of drought, we've finally begun to catch up. Rain, glorious rain! We're 50% over an entire year's norm and still counting. Go, you sloshers! Put enough rain down into the water table and the oaks may fruit and the farmers sow barley. Let there be piggies! True, even the Neptunes won't go diving in this stuff but we can wait. Spring comes all too soon in California. We're enjoying our touch of winter.

 

[Freediver81]

I don't want to rub salt your wounds but its 20C here and Sunny! The sea is flat and emm the Bikinis are out!!! :wave

you are all welcomed to Join though,

Said

 

[Amphibious]

Send Plane tickets and I'm there!!!! :wave

 

[Longfins]

Amphibious, thanks for the picture. Would you believe that we spent five years in Winnipeg and it never got that cold. Once, in Churchill, a rumor circulated the in the bar that the mercury in the thermometer was'nt even starting up the tube, but most of us took the word of the weather man. Never got drunk enough to walk the distance to the little wx station. When the sun came up the next day it warmed up to -30 so we took off and headed south.
Aloha
Bill
P.S. 27 at the airport, 26 in the water and 5 knots from the SW.

Hey Bill!

Welcome back! How's the hip?

Peter S.

 

[Bill]

Aloha Peter
The operation had a little glitch and doubled my time on the table with a big blood loss. Instead of using the leg right away, I have to stay off it entirely for six to ten weeks. Every day I'm getting stronger and we'll just have to see how things go. Following doctor's orders.
Hope you're staying wet and planning to come to Kona in the future. Happy New Year
Bill
P.S. Tried to PM you but your mailbox is full.

 

[shaneshac]

Aren't those pelvic floor exerciser balls?????

Man that Kiwi cracks me up rofl

 

[Amphibious]

Nice balmy night tonight. much warmer then last night. only -39C !

Bill's Broken, Alison's all busted up, I'm a gimp. we should start a "Special Needs" Spearo team

 

[samdive]

wow - more pictures of canadian guys in the snow please!!

Sam

(actually Samantha for those of you who haven't caught on and are wondering!)

I like this thread, it's cheering me up no end with its extreme acts of randomness!!!

 

[island_sands]

Poor Sara, how dare you pick on her like that! rofl she's my mate and I'll stick up for her (no pun intended ) If she wants to have a snorkel during her lunch hour that should be up to her!
Seriously though, it cant be much fun stuck on a tiny island with sod all on it, brilliant for your 2 weeks holidays but different if youve been there for 2 years and the place is upside down because of a tsunami with the everlasting threat of another. Perhaps a bit of sympathy is due. For that matter with Amphibious too! 41 below? Jeez! he must be clanking when he walks around rofl

HAHAHAHAHAH just got in.. catching up on the latest.... btw i slipped in a snorkel this morning... rofl rofl
jsut going through the pictures now to see if there are any worth posting...


Amphibious!!! I bet your clackers are nowhere to be seen when you're outside in -41c in nothing but yer jocks!!!!

rofl rofl

 

[samdive]

By the way for those of you in the chilly zones - I got a fantastic fake wolfskin rug for Christmas - highly recommended to anyone who is cold!! almost impossible to get out of bed these days....

 

[island_sands]

By the way for those of you in the chilly zones - I got a fantastic fake wolfskin rug for Christmas - highly recommended to anyone who is cold!! almost impossible to get out of bed these days....

ooh sounds good... i always fancied a log cabin somewhere really cold with a bearskin rug, log fire, good wine... you can imagine the rest!

think of the bright side Sam... at least you have all those luxuries... and you can patter downstairs, make yourself a nice hot chocolate, curl up on the couch with your wolfskin rug and watch all your old favourite movies.. mosey down the shops and torture yourself looking at everything you can't afford, then finish off with some mulled wine down the pub... mmmmmmm

i am not a cold weather person at all.. but right now i would settle for anything. They turned the power off for two hours this morning (on our day off, thanks) and so had a bottled water shower after snorkelling, filled up the loo with bottled water as well so I don't disgust myself. :yack
Walk to the office and the sun is BEATING down upon me and all the lifting pits are STEAMING (too many people on this island for the sewerage treatment plant to cope with) and all i can think about is returning back to the housereef to spend more time with this little fellow. (see attached)

and there is the boss, as usual, pushing up his glasses up his nose and looking at me if i was something that he had rubbed off his shoe...

Can't wait for Thursday!! four days holiday in Dubai and something else to eat other than chicken curry

 

[samdive]

ha ha - yeah a spot of retail therapy will cheer you up! sounds rough out there but keep going! and visit Nemo whenever you can, funny how little things like that make you smile. They always seem to nip me tho... maybe I tease them too much

s

 

[Ben Gowland]

Alison - Those balls - like Shane, I thought they were an 'exotic' item at first but nay, they are clackers - I had some. Mine were plastic and I decided that it was more fun to pretend they were a ninja weapon and throw them at trees, posts, washing line, dog etc.....

I think mine shattered too....



Ah memories....

 

[bdurrett]

Yup! By the look of the piccy above, thats what happened! just like grenades!

Dated you (shock) Im a happily married 44 year old! How dare you

Must have been in a previous life then

:t

I am a happily married 41 year old so we at least have SOMETHING in common rofl

 

[bdurrett]

and all i can think about is returning back to the housereef to spend more time with this little fellow. (see attached)

Hey, I recognize him! I think that he is a relative of this one taken near Madivaro Beru



As you can see in the photo on the left, he is a cheeky little bugger!

 

[island_sands]

Hey, I recognize him! I think that he is a relative of this one taken near Madivaro Beru

hey!madivaru beru.. mmmmm sitting in the sand there at about 25m watching the white tips! i know it's a poor man's shark but hey!

can't see your images...

Amphibious, are you awake? are you freezing your clackers off?

 

[bdurrett]

hey!madivaru beru.. mmmmm sitting in the sand there at about 25m watching the white tips! i know it's a poor man's shark but hey!

can't see your images...

Amphibious, are you awake? are you freezing your clackers off?

You were just too quick and I hand't figured out the new insertion mechanism :mute yet.... rofl