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Superthread LVIII - Honouring the mighty Chiko

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Frederick

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Just did 45 push ups. That's an all time BunniesMan record. I remember the days I couldn't do 20. Example #3848487 of what drinking much less alcohol does for your body.

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You couldn't be more wrong if you tried.

Sydneys major road network looks like a genius threw paint randomly against the wall and used that pattern as a blueprint to build the road system.

It is a million times easier to get around Melbourne. You've probably never been to Melbourne but just look at it on google maps. The roads are actually designed intelligently and logically. In Melbourne you get on a major road and it's a straight line to the CBD. In Sydney roads go in all sorts of random directions because it was built with absolutely no long term thinking in mind.

You are wrong. Again.
I lived in Melbourne for 6 years. The roads are rubbish. The drivers are halfwits.
The PT is terrible for the vast majority of people.

You are wrong. Again.
 

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... and the war against masculinity continues.

Yes, cause in a fight (and in the army), brawn is clearly not as important as brains. Sorry, when was the last war won without blood, sweat and tears? I'm not suggesting intelligence is irrelevant; simply that the overemphasis of one over the other is devastating.
Obviously strength and overall fitness is important in the army. But those requirements were just the very minimum of the ENTRY test. That isn't the level of fitness longterm soldiers would be at.

In an era where couch potatoes vastly outnumber athletes they have to relax the requirements. Once they get them in they would obviously train them up. It's the getting them in there in the first place that's the tricky bit.
THANK YOU! It feels nice to be appreciated. Not sure improving my fitness a bit is worthy of a trophy but I am humbled and thankful for the honour.
 

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Obviously strength and overall fitness is important in the army. But those requirements were just the very minimum of the ENTRY test. That isn't the level of fitness longterm soldiers would be at.

In an era where couch potatoes vastly outnumber athletes they have to relax the requirements. Once they get them in they would obviously train them up. It's the getting them in there in the first place that's the tricky bit.

THANK YOU! It feels nice to be appreciated. Not sure improving my fitness a bit is worthy of a trophy but I am humbled and thankful for the honour.

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You are wrong. Again.
I lived in Melbourne for 6 years. The roads are rubbish. The drivers are halfwits.
The PT is terrible for the vast majority of people.

You are wrong. Again.
A) Sydney also has idiots on the road.
B) The roads and PT as bad as they are still shit on Sydneys roads and PT from a great height.

They don't have to be good or even average to beat Sydney. Sydneys major road system is a poorly designed joke. Melbournes, for all its faults, is designed the right way for a major city.

The Sydney CBD should never have been where it is. When Sydney started growing in the early 1800s the CBD should have been at Parramatta. It would have allowed for a much better and much more logical major road system.
 

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A) Sydney also has idiots on the road.
B) The roads and PT as bad as they are still shit on Sydneys roads and PT from a great height.

They don't have to be good or even average to beat Sydney. Sydneys major road system is a poorly designed joke. Melbournes, for all its faults, is designed the right way for a major city.

The Sydney CBD should never have been where it is. When Sydney started growing in the early 1800s the CBD should have been at Parramatta. It would have allowed for a much better and much more logical major road system.

A) You have never been to Sydney so therefore there are no idiots on the road.

B) You have never been to Sydney. How would you know?
 

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What? Gen Y are the fattest, laziest and least mobile young generation in history. And the Army still needs to recruit at least at replacement rate.

Put 2 and 2 together and you know you have to relax ENTRY standards. Again, once you get them in the army and you have a much bigger control on their lifestyle it is easy to train them up. But expecting high standards on entry is not realistic in the 21st century.

The Army knows that because they didn't lower the standards because they wanted to, they lowered the standards because they had to.
 

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B) You have never been to Sydney. How would you know?
I lived in Sydney until I was 9 and have been back countless times. I read newspapers. I watch news. And most importantly I have the ability to look at a map and see the problem with the geniused positioning of the Sydney CBD. Melbournes centre is located at the ideal position in relation to the coastline.

Sydneys CBD being halfway along one side of a harbour is completely stupid. If it was at Parramatta it would be much easier to get to from all sides of the greater area and it would have allowed for a more logical and less duplicated arterial road system.

A CBD located at the apex of the harbour is better in every way. It is obviously way too late now and has resulted in countless problems resulting from its positioning. It needed to be fixed a century ago.
 

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A) Sydney also has idiots on the road.
B) The roads and PT as bad as they are still shit on Sydneys roads and PT from a great height.

They don't have to be good or even average to beat Sydney. Sydneys major road system is a poorly designed joke. Melbournes, for all its faults, is designed the right way for a major city.

The Sydney CBD should never have been where it is. When Sydney started growing in the early 1800s the CBD should have been at Parramatta. It would have allowed for a much better and much more logical major road system.

Seriously since you don't live in Sydney and would hardly have driven here, how would you know about the state of the roads here.

As for the CBD being in Parramatta, for a person who is supposed to be good in history, you don't know that Parramatta was classified as seperate from Sydney? In the early 1800s they weren't even joined together.
 

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I lived in Sydney until I was 9 and have been back countless times. I read newspapers. I watch news. And most importantly I have the ability to look at a map and see the problem with the geniused positioning of the Sydney CBD. Melbournes centre is located at the ideal position in relation to the coastline.

Sydneys CBD being halfway along one side of a harbour is completely stupid. If it was at Parramatta it would be much easier to get to from all sides of the greater area and it would have allowed for a more logical and less duplicated arterial road system.

A CBD located at the apex of the harbour is better in every way. It is obviously way too late now and has resulted in countless problems resulting from its positioning. It needed to be fixed a century ago.


You... you were driving at 9 years of age? It's scary you could get a licence now, let alone then. Good luck to you. And to everyone on the road around you. I'm out.
 

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Seriously since you don't live in Sydney and would hardly have driven here, how would you know about the state of the roads here.

As for the CBD being in Parramatta, for a person who is supposed to be good in history, you don't know that Parramatta was classified as seperate from Sydney? In the early 1800s they weren't even joined together.
Of course there are reasons for why things worked out the way they did. None of them are even close to good enough to justify a lack of vision that resulted in a century of problems.

Generations of politicians, left wing and right wing, have managed to f**k up almost every major long term infrastructure decision. Don't get me started on the hopeless positioning of the airport.

To provide examples of what I'm talking about map out the best way to get from Campbelltown to Sydney and from Richmond to Sydney. It's all over the place.

Then map out a route from Gisborne to Melbourne CBD and from Werribee to the CBD.

Basically anywhere in Melbourne you have a major road within spitting distance that gets you to the CBD in a more or less straight line.

If Parra was the Sydney CBD you'd basically put Sydney in the same position.

Going back to the original point that started all this, Melbourne is the ideal modern planned major city. Sydney is hopeless. That's why I intend to live the vast majority of my life in Melbourne.
 

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Of course there are reasons for why things worked out the way they did. None of them are even close to good enough to justify a lack of vision that resulted in a century of problems.

Generations of politicians, left wing and right wing, have managed to f**k up almost every major long term infrastructure decision. Don't get me started on the hopeless positioning of the airport.

To provide examples of what I'm talking about map out the best way to get from Campbelltown to Sydney and from Richmond to Sydney. It's all over the place.

Then map out a route from Gisborne to Melbourne CBD and from Werribee to the CBD.

Basically anywhere in Melbourne you have a major road within spitting distance that gets you to the CBD in a more or less straight line.

If Parra was the Sydney CBD you'd basically put Sydney in the same position.

Going back to the original point that started all this, Melbourne is the ideal modern planned major city. Sydney is hopeless. That's why I intend to live the vast majority of my life in Melbourne.
That post is full of stupidity. Go to Victoria already, I want to see the IQ of my state rise. Better still, since you say weather-wise the colder the better, go to the Nth Pole.
 
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