Duel naps, special guest announcement, weather, working/commuting, train rides, property ownership, ye olde days o’ podcasting, Internet celebrity cyberstalking, web promotion, Jen’s job update, TV show reviews, tech support challenges, political blah, UK complaints, more.
Links:
- DarkCompass
- “Erk Pod Round Table 9″
- Haiku of Frustration
- “Californication” (download the show)
- “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles” (download the show)
- “Top Gear”
- “Life On Mars” (download the show)
- “Black Books” (download the show)
- “The IT Crowd” (download the show)
- “Top Pommie whinges”
- Made In The UK
- Music heard in this episode: Little Name (download the album) (buy the CD
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Awesome show! Back to Back Trans-Atlantic Podcasts!
We’re having typical Spring weather here, but any Australian weather beats UK weather, hands down!
Property prices are insane down here. Sydney still has the highest median house price in Australia at $542,000 ($348,799USD/$260,456EUR/204,793GBP). The Australian weighted median house price is $459,216 ($295,525USD/$220,606EUR/173,460GBP).
I love haiku of frustration. Even though I get it right 98% of the time, it can be very frustrating writing in haiku of your frustration! LOL!
Jen, if you get the job, look at it this way. It’s a foot in the door. You may feel over/under qualified, but it is much easier to move onwards and upwards once you’re in a place. Best of luck of with your quest!
Californication never really appealled to me. Just couldn’t get used to seeing an all grown up Madeline Zima (Gracie from The Nanny).
I enjoy Top Gear. It’s a huge rating show down here. We now have Australian Top Gear screening. My wife does like Richard “The Hamster” Hammond. “He’s just so cute!” she says. Clarkson is just opinionated. He’s very educated and intelligent though. He’s a straight shooter and tells it how he sees it. Personally I like The Stig! Watching him throw the Koenigsegg around the track was awesome! Mind you driving a nitro powered Jag on an aircraft carrier deck was interesting! http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=_eiJkQzpzRc
Terminator - Sarah Connor Chronicles didn’t really take off down here. Frankly I thought it was boring as bat shit. The buggered everything up with the movie T3 anyway.
Both my wife and I work with and have asian friends. They all have English names as well their original names. My dad is the same. He has a Dutch name and English name. Granted it’s a basic translation of the Dutch name.
My grandparents when they immigrated from The Netherlands to Australia, they changed their surname from Pruijn to Pruyn. There is no Y in the Dutch alphabet. 
In our recent local govt elections, I heard one man in the line at the polling booth state “I’ll always vote Labor, no matter how shit they’re doing in Govt!”
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) strongly supports the theory that pommy originated as a contraction of “pomegranate”. The OED also suggests that the reason for this is that pomegranate is extinct Australian rhyming slang for immigrant; it cites an article from 14 November 1912, in a once-prominent Australian weekly magazine The Bulletin: “The other day a Pummy Grant (assisted immigrant) was handed a bridle and told to catch a horse.” A popular alternative explanation for the theory that pommy is a contraction of “pomegranate”, relates to the purported frequency of sunburn among British people in Australia, turning their fair skin the colour of pomegranates. But basically no-one truly knows the origin of the word.
Fiona Philips is a broadcaster/presenter on GMTV.
We paying here in Sydney $1.58 per litre, which equates to $3.90USD per gallon or 60p per litre. Like the UK we have a stupid amount of tax on our fuel, so it’s not just the world oil prices fault for our petrol prices.
From http://www.chavworld.co.uk - ‘chav’ (slang) - a young person, often without a high level of education, who follows a particular fashion; Chavs usually wear designer labels including the chav favourite ‘Burberry’, and if they’re girls, very short skirts, large hoop earrings and stilettos.
Chavs see branded baseball caps as a status symbol and wear them at every opportunity. Normally found hanging around shopping centres.
Also known as Townies, Kevs, Hood Rats, Charvers, Steeks, Stigs, Bazzas, Yarcos, Ratboys, Chorer, Skangers, Scutters, Janners, Kappa Slappers, Scallies, and Spides. Also known as Neds in Scotland, knackers & skangers in Ireland, and Guidos in the USA.
A chavette is a female chav - Normally seen wearing sportswear, fake designer gear and large hoop earrings.
Hey guys!
Really enjoyed this episode! I enjoyed hearing more Rowley than I usually hear on Dark Compass and I will be checking out the metal show, too.
I enjoy hearing the trains as usual. Speaking of trains and Top Gear, they did a segment on the force of a train V car crash at a level crossing under controlled conditions at 70mph/112kph which is pretty close to the maximum track speed I am allowed to drive at. They left a car on a level crossing and ran an engine into it. While it is part pisstake, it is an important message.
Video at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekpD06P7kiI
I’m glad you could get some use out of the list of things people in the UK whinge about and you can hear what we said about it on Erk Pod 146.
I was listening to the episode at home and then on a 30 minute drive to work and then on the train for a while which is pretty typical for me.
I had to have a laugh when Shawno asked “Who is Gordon Brown?”. I know that Shawno and Jen are American and I know that American media doesn’t often cover things that happen outside “the lower 48″ so it isn’t Shawno’s fault. I wasn’t laughing because Shawno didn’t know but just his delivery. I am sure the passengers behind me could hear me laughing loudly. (Unlike some drivers, I’m not on a loco so if I am loud enough, the passengers can here me). In fact, my eyes were watering I was laughing that hard.
As for disabled permits here in NSW, Australia (and probably typical across Australia), you can get “Disabled Permits” for temporary or permanent conditions. They aren’t only for people using wheelchairs (despite what the signs tend to show) and it goes on your doctor’s opinion based on how much of a problem walking and your mobility is. The permits are placed inside the car and are issued by the Roads and Traffic Authority (think the DMV in the US, MoT in the UK?) and are double sided. One side has general details and the other side (which is not face up) has a photo. The permit can be used for either the disabled person to drive themselves or for someone else to drive them. But the permit applies to the person, not the car.
Depending on the time on the sign, you either get an extension in time or unlimited parking and you don’t have to pay for parking if you have a permit. Some people of course take advantage of this and use them wrongly.
Interestingly at my local Westiefield, they have 3 hours free parking and boom gates and tickets. A sign says that if you use a disabled permit, you can get free unlimited parking if you produce your permit at the customer service desk (which is inside the centre). Problem is, your parking permit should be on display on your dashboard at all times while parked so how can you produce it? And in addition, none of the exit gates are manned.
That will do for now, more later as I think of them!
I think that footage speaks for itself. And it was only the loco and no carriages. No one would’ve survived that hit! And the blue metal all been thrown up as the loco slowed down.
Here’s the video of what Rowley was talking about in the show. Oh and yes the Robin is a 3 wheeled car.
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=_b4WzWFKQ20
On the video link I posted, at 1.18 min there is a CCTV image of a train V car collision caught on CCTV. Is that the 3 wheeled car that Rowley was talking about?
Yes, the very same!
“Well you have her for a bloody week then!” was one of the funniest anecdotes i’ve ever heard, thanks for sharing that one Rowley. Also enjoyed the rest of the show, even though i already knew about most of the “typical British” stuff.
Not all call centers are in India, i called 3Com a few times from Amsterdam and they patched me through to Canadia. One guy did speak with an Indian accent though, guess that’s what immigrants from India do, they either make rice curry or work at call centers.
Orange Tim: There is a Y in the Dutch alphabet, Pruyn is actually a much older way of spelling Pruijn, kinda like Stuyvesant.
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I’m unsure if this comment from “Jeff Fisher” is spam or some kind of weird satire. Either way, it’s kinda amusing.
Got the same comment on one of pics on Flickr. Not all, just one. Don’t think it’s spam, just someone that has no life. And “How do you kill that which has no life?”
I bet he clicked through to your Flickr profile from here, Dave. Meh… whatever.
We have a Do Not Call Register as well for mobiles and landlines that are not business phones. There are exemptions for charities, government and politicians (potential and actual), surveys, religious groups.
I get some telemarketing on the landline, the occasional one on my mobile and none yet (touch wood!) on my Skype In number.
When I got this landline number, we were told it was a new number so we were looking forward to no calls. But soon we got heaps of calls for an old woman called Mrs O’Neil so obviously the number wasn’t new. Even after having this number for some time, I still get calls for her. One bloke even said that Mrs O’Neil gave him our number the previous day. If only I had Mrs O’Neil’s new number so I could crank call her and tell her to stop giving people my number!
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It seems that recently this show should be called ‘Hyper Nonsense plus 1′. Loving all the guests and thanks again for giving me my turn last week.
I see you’re keeping up the great British tradition of making small talk about the weather. It’s such a part of our national culture. God Save The Queen!
I did start watching Sarah Connor Chronicles, but it never really grabbed me. I was never a huge Terminator geek, and as soon as the Summer Glau Terminator said ‘come with me if you want to live’ I just checked out. However I do have a variation of the Summer Glau Terminator as my wallpaper at the moment. (Mmmmmmm……. Summer Glau)
Life On Mars rules! It’s seriously one of the best TV programs that’s been made in the UK for about a decade. I usually hate it when UK programs get ‘translated’ for America, because they ALWAYS miss the point of what made the original program so good. However the involvement of Harvey Keitel in this show makes me very excited to see it.
The truly scary thing about Sarah Palin is that she’s already in high office. This woman is already in charge of one of the 50 US states. Granted it’s only Alaska, but still. What the fuck is going on up there that they thought it was a good idea to have this woman in charge.
Another issue about the ‘land-owner’ voting rules is I would lay money that the majority of people who have lost their homes are non-white. Yet again the system disenfranchises whole sectors of the populace.
I’ve been ‘whinging’ on my show for about two months now…
We signed up for caller preference until we realised that for some reason the place my dad works was also getting blocked. Hence we have on average about 5 cold-calls a day. Bastards… (My dad works for a Nursing Home company so there’s no reason why it should be blocked.)
Apparently the reason for ‘blank’ cold calls is that the computerised systems have a bank of numbers to call and they just keep on phoning them even if they don’t have a human operator to actually make the call. In the call centre when one call is hung up the next one is made and in the meantime there might have been 10-20 missed calls that the computer made.
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Who the fuck is ‘Jeff Fisher’? He’s obviously trying to get more google hits for his paranoid rantings. The internet is both a blessing and a curse…
After all these years of Oma & Opa telling me there wasn’t a letter Y in the Dutch language, there is! LOL! Gotta love family! Oma is my only surviving grandparent and she’s pushing 90 yrs old, so she can be excused. LOL!
As an aside to all of these crazy languages that lack letters, I’m pretty sure there’s no Klingon word for “surrender.”
There is a French word for surrender, Shawno!
(another chance to use a stereotype!)
I’d bet there are many French words for “surrender.”
Tim, in a way your opa en oma are right. There is a Y but it’s not used in modern Dutch anymore. Over the years the Y got replaced by IJ, and Pruyn today would be spelled Pruin. Not sure what it means though.
No-one is sure what Pruyn/Pruijn/Pruin means, Dave. Oma’s maiden name was den Biesen, and I have no idea what that means either!
Speaking of “ij”, has the spelling of Nijmegen always been the same?
Anyways, best not continue to fill the comments page with the quirkiness of the Dutch language!
The Klingons do have a word for surrender.
jeghbe` - surrender
jeghbe` thlInganpu` - Klingons don’t surrender
bljeghbe’chug vaj blHegh - Surrender or die
OK, I’ll shut up now. LOL!
Nijmegen is over 2000 years old - at least that’s what they claim - so no. Noviomagus, Numaga, Nimweghen, Nimeguen, Nijmegen. One of the fun things about living in Europe is that there’s a lot stuff that’s really old. Most of it is covered up by Coca-Cola and McDonalds signs now, but it’s there.
In relation to Tim’s earlier comment about median home prices, here in the U.S. the median price for a home is around $217,000 USD (I’m not converting to any of your crazy foreign monies) - a deal compared to Australia’s median price. However, here in SLO, the median price for a house is $613,000 USD. I was surprised to see it’s still so high. But, Sydney is cheaper than SLO! That’ll give you an idea of just how insane property prices are where we live.
And Daves Calderbank needs to make another comment so he can get to 100, plz.
Thank you Shawno, thank you Jen…comment #100! Here we go, drumroll please. Today…(ay)… I consider myself the luckiest ma…aw, fuck it.
I’ve been following this whole podcasting thing from the very beginning, and most of ‘em ended up being very predictable, commercial and boring. Not this (that?) one. I guess all i have to say is that i really enjoy listening to this show and i hope you guys keep it up for as long as you enjoy making it. And maybe…someday.. i’ll do a voice comment.
Congrats Dave on reaching 100. I’ll be there soon enough…
Now to what I was going to say. If Rowley’s doing NaPodPoMo so am I. (I guess that makes it IntPodPoMo.)
Yeah, the “national” part of NaPodPoMo was never really accurate.
I’ve already done my version of NaPodPoMo with Erk Pod Mini!
With the weekly episodes and the Round Table episodes, there is already a massive amount of Erkness out there!
And good on you Dave for post #100!
I’ve found out who Fiona Phillips is, and she is annoying. He’s a morning TV presenter. I want the news at that time in the morning not some bleach haired tart that cannot read off an autocue!
This podcast is getting way too international for us frightened white people.
Why does Hyper Nonsense hate America?