Little Things You Hate

Oddjob said:
Sydney Harbour should be renamed Bull Shark Harbour. Doesn't seem to stop anyone swimming in it.

Seriously, just stay out of the water at dawn and dusk and you should be fine.

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the sharks are always there, but now as the temp has ramped up, so has their metabolisim....I live on Lake Mac, it still amazes me how many people are shocked and surprised when there is a shark sighting!.....should we cull - No, only if the fuckers get into the carpark and start eating people, then we have a problem!
 
fatboyonabike said:
the sharks are always there, but now as the temp has ramped up, so has their metabolisim....I live on Lake Mac, it still amazes me how many people are shocked and surprised when there is a shark sighting!.....should we cull - No, only if the fuckers get into the carpark and start eating people, then we have a problem!
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I'm amazed by people's shock and surprise also.









Surely they've seen the documentary The Meg
 
Oddjob said:
Sydney Harbour should be renamed Bull Shark Harbour. Doesn't seem to stop anyone swimming in it.

Seriously, just stay out of the water at dawn and dusk and you should be fine.
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The article read 'he's a long way from home' and they have never seen one so far South in fresh water before

It's my decision to swim wherever but as a parent, you select safe places for the skidz.

That sighting will put the heebie-jeebies up a few who thought it was too far South for a Bull Shark.
 
ozzybmx said:
The article read 'he's a long way from home' and they have never seen one so far South in fresh water before

It's my decision to swim wherever but as a parent, you select safe places for the skidz.

That sighting will put the heebie-jeebies up a few who thought it was too far South for a Bull Shark.
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Lots of sharks out and about currently. Dad from school whose kids do Little Nippers had beach only training last weekend as shark sighted at Seacliff beach here in SA.
 
People just don't get how many sharks are out there. Luckily most of them are just swimming about doing shark stuff which mostly doesn't involve eating people. I've seen a couple of BIG bronzies in Port Phillip Bay, one of them only 200m out at Williamstown. Unless you go looking for them or swim around with a cloud of fish gut and scales you aren't going to see them.
I get more fish stolen of my float by seals than by sharks.
 
Freediver said:
People just don't get how many sharks are out there. Luckily most of them are just swimming about doing shark stuff which mostly doesn't involve eating people. I've seen a couple of BIG bronzies in Port Phillip Bay, one of them only 200m out at Williamstown. Unless you go looking for them or swim around with a cloud of fish gut and scales you aren't going to see them.
I get more fish stolen of my float by seals than by sharks.
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Oh I get it. I remember reading the report they did on shark numbers for the Sydney Olympics. The Harbour has gotten cleaner, healthier and more attractive since then. We often get juvenile humpbacks coming in now, and you know the sharks won't be too far behind.

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shiny said:
Lots of sharks out and about currently. Dad from school whose kids do Little Nippers had beach only training last weekend as shark sighted at Seacliff beach here in SA.
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yeah, but you guys get GW's and Tigers down there, they will just eat you....Bullies will bite your hands and feet off, just to watch you struggle as you swim to shore..much like when a cat mangles up a mouse, and then tries to keep it moving so it can pounce on it again
 
The Enshittification continues.

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Haakon said:
Never regretted ditching strava... Trailforks free webpage is a useful map, I just treat it like a normal map - maybe because I'm old I dont need the blue dot telling me where I am.
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Strava has a long history of mine documented there so I still use the free app daily. DC Rainmaker talked about this a few weeks ago but nobody has complied a list of every app that will be affected.
Basically the gist of it is - Strava doesn't allow anyone to use their data anymore, not for training purposes or those third party apps that store your historical data that others may see.

 
fatboyonabike said:
should we cull - No, only if the fuckers get into the carpark and start eating people, then we have a problem!
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2010 my mum and dad were on a visit from NI. It was my dads 65 birthday so I took the family to Port Lincoln/Coffin Bay for a few days and took my dad on the Shark Dive at the Neptune Islands 60km South of PL. Both of us with waterproof cameras, we took 500 pictures underwater in 45 minutes, 4 x Great Whites around the cage. My only regret is, one was thrashing against the cage for about 10 seconds and even know the bitey end was already past me, my brain wouldn't let my hand reach out and touch it 50cm away 🤣 My dad still talks about it.
Amazing creatures and the speed of those animals under water when they want to move is scary. Big respect for them in their kingdom.

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ozzybmx said:
It's a crap thing to go through but looks like you have it under control. If the biopsy goes pos, they'll then send you for a PSMA Pet scan... Which looks to see if it has spread to anywhere else. Waiting on those results was a pretty shitty 3 weeks.
Good luck with the biopsy.
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So turns out the biopsy was positive, had the Petscan 4 days ago. 3 days of stressing about every niggle I felt in my body thinking it had spread.

Back to the Doctor yesterday and luckily the cancer hasn't spread. Massive relief, Doctor's talking about the operation and I'm sitting there smiling like an idiot, brain always assumes the worst I guess.

Prostate coming out in the end of January now.
 
David2406 said:
Prostate coming out in the end of January now.
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It's shit news but it's happened and you have found it early, so just go through the process.

That was a quick turn around PET scan. Mine showed a glowing spot in my L3 vertebrae, which dragged the whole process out to 3 weeks with an additional MRI needed. Ended up a Meningioma, described by the Urologist as similar to a strawberry birthmark.

Robotic removal ? More precise for the chance of a full recovery and a quick healing time. I rode my bike 20 days after the op. The doc said at my 6 week appointment, other good news is you could probably think about riding your bike now :)
 
Haakon said:
Never regretted ditching strava... Trailforks free webpage is a useful map, I just treat it like a normal map - maybe because I'm old I dont need the blue dot telling me where I am.
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I haven't bothered with Strava at all yet. Trailfotks is good resource but not totally necessary.

It is refreshing to avoid these sorts of apps that just end up harvesting your details to do things with them that doesn't benefit you.
 
ozzybmx said:
It's shit news but it's happened and you have found it early, so just go through the process.

That was a quick turn around PET scan. Mine showed a glowing spot in my L3 vertebrae, which dragged the whole process out to 3 weeks with an additional MRI needed. Ended up a Meningioma, described by the Urologist as similar to a strawberry birthmark.

Robotic removal ? More precise for the chance of a full recovery and a quick healing time. I rode my bike 20 days after the op. The doc said at my 6 week appointment, other good news is you could probably think about riding your bike now :)
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Yes robotic removal thankfully, doctor is fairly positive about less damage to the nerves.

Was going to ask about time off the bike :), has been a few weeks off now after the biopsy and with bad weather. I imagine fitness will be pretty bad, is going to hurt when I eventually get back on. Should get a few rides in over the Christmas break. Thanks for the info though about the Petscans, wasn't shocked when Doctor said I needed one.
 
David2406 said:
Yes robotic removal thankfully, doctor is fairly positive about less damage to the nerves.
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Nice one ! The robotic was great for me but the foley catheter was terrible, I couldn't even sit down for 16 days and I tired 3 different meds for bladder spasms.
The 2 main downsides, depending on how early its caught. I had both nerve bundles spared and zero incontinence from day 1 but the nerves take a little bit of time to come good after being disturbed ;)
I'm at 2 years in Feb coming, reckon it was 6 months till I had any decent life in the old fella, now back to around about 100%, maybe 90%, maybe thats just getting older and I'm analysing it now... but a dose of the meds that they throw at you from every direction easily gets me back to 100%+ pre op.
PSA has been undetectable since op and after February, I'll be back out to getting tested once a year like all sensible blokes do.

Good luck @David2406 :cool:
 
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