A Canberra derived mopo?

Madman from the Dominos thread “You don’t see posties chucking doughnuts on lunchbreak”
O RLY?

You’ll never pin it down, it also looks just like the underpass near my place in Banks, and certainlly Canberra is not the only place in oz that uses this style of overpass.

Good luck pin pointing which underpass this is. To me it looks like every underpass in Canberra. Unless you are willing to walk through every one theni doubt you will work it out.

Bear in mind that while we think the photo is local the caption could have been applied by a spotty teenager in Kentucky for all we know.

And without the original there is no valuable EXIF data.

Ahh, so you think that the poster author is anti burnout and pro skid?

p1 said :

By the way, is anyone here an expert on the etymology of the term “skid” as used in this mopo to describe what I would call a “burnout” or perhaps the action as “wheel-spin”?

You’ve misread the title;

BURNOUTS
Any time, any where.
F*cking do a skid bro…

The person commentating is inviting the rider, once he has done his burnout, to do a skid, as a supplementary feat of blatant dumbf*ckness.

As a frequent walker it looks like Belconnen and Florey to me, but could be anywhere in the area.

p1 said :

As a kid I attended various years of my K-12 schooling in NSW, ACT, VIC, and Tas (along with the UK and Canada). The riding of bicycles being a large part of my childhood, the term “skid” always applied to the locking of the brakes, resulting in a non-rotating wheel sliding along the surface (leaving a mark).

p1, your original understanding of the word is quite right in my opinion.

Nup, no room in the Caravan to ride a bike, and Gran Ma played the Banjo….

p1 said :

By the way, is anyone here an expert on the etymology of the term “skid” as used in this mopo to describe what I would call a “burnout” or perhaps the action as “wheel-spin”?

As a kid I attended various years of my K-12 schooling in NSW, ACT, VIC, and Tas (along with the UK and Canada). The riding of bicycles being a large part of my childhood, the term “skid” always applied to the locking of the brakes, resulting in a non-rotating wheel sliding along the surface (leaving a mark).

It appears that in some parts of Australia’s (worlds?) car culture, the term skid is applied to the spinning of the wheel while the car is stationary, which while also leaving rubber on the road, is a very different action. Now, it is a hard thing to spin the wheels for more then a second or two on a pushie (even on dirt),

which may explain the different use of terms between kids on bikes and “adults” with cars, but why?

All I can tell is the term skid seems much more of a VIC thing. It has also been suggested that skid is a more historically used term, and burnout is a influence of US TV, but I have not seen any specific evidence of this.

Was this while you were in a wooden caravan surrounded by vicious dogs listening to you grandmother play the violin?

Quick…someone lodge a complaint with Australia Post and wait for the lack of a response.

If I was FeNc3y (but I’m not) I’d be saying that I won’t be using Australia Post based on the poor management shown – if they react to this situation with such a carefree attitude I dont want to know what their attitude towards things like letter delivery are.

JB: have you got the EXIF data from the jpeg?

Your right old bean, it is. Ah well, back to the drawing board…

Pommy bastard said :

My money is on the one between Cook Oval and McQuarrie;

Nah, the shape of the cobblestone thingy is all wrong.

Might be, although I live less then 100m from there, and went through it on Monday and don’t remember seeing any black marks…

Although I guess I don’t know how old the photo is.

My money is on the one between Cook Oval and McQuarrie;

http://maps.google.com.au/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=-35.255627,149.06401&spn=0.001018,0.002736&t=h&z=19

By the way, is anyone here an expert on the etymology of the term “skid” as used in this mopo to describe what I would call a “burnout” or perhaps the action as “wheel-spin”?

As a kid I attended various years of my K-12 schooling in NSW, ACT, VIC, and Tas (along with the UK and Canada). The riding of bicycles being a large part of my childhood, the term “skid” always applied to the locking of the brakes, resulting in a non-rotating wheel sliding along the surface (leaving a mark).

It appears that in some parts of Australia’s (worlds?) car culture, the term skid is applied to the spinning of the wheel while the car is stationary, which while also leaving rubber on the road, is a very different action. Now, it is a hard thing to spin the wheels for more then a second or two on a pushie (even on dirt), which may explain the different use of terms between kids on bikes and “adults” with cars, but why?

All I can tell is the term skid seems much more of a VIC thing. It has also been suggested that skid is a more historically used term, and burnout is a influence of US TV, but I have not seen any specific evidence of this.

Needs a better slogan.

How about “Postmen – thank god for emails”?

Sure does look like a Canberra underpass. Not sue I could narrow it down without going out and checking the exact angle of slope of the hill and position of each tussock of grass.

Good cheap transport you can usually pick them up for $500 or less at auction.

Hmm shades of Dominos

Sure beats the hell out of car surfing at Pine Island!