What do over 40's like to do in and around Canberra

voytek3 said :

The same as your average under 40 Canberran: rot in some shitty office, procreate and live a petty life of ignorance whilst sitting in the right lane every time you drive all the while thinking you are really great.

What a depressing attitude you have. People I know who don’t like Canberra get off their bums and move elsewhere, rather than whinge about it.

BimboGeek said :

Sorry Pitchka I can’t afford a camera. You’ll have to buy me one.

Get a zoom, you two…

The same as your average under 40 Canberran: rot in some shitty office, procreate and live a petty life of ignorance whilst sitting in the right lane every time you drive all the while thinking you are really great.

Sorry Pitchka I can’t afford a camera. You’ll have to buy me one.

spinact said :

Pitchka said :

BimboGeek said :

@Pitchka bahahahahahaha!! Only you truly understand me! The size of the connection between us is only as beautiful as your answer to this question… How big is your bank account?

Post your dimensions please, and send me a pic. Then lets discuss.. 😛

Get a room

Why would we need a room? We are still negotiating…

She is going to have to provide evidence is she wants a peice of this hunka chunka burning love.

Pitchka said :

BimboGeek said :

@Pitchka bahahahahahaha!! Only you truly understand me! The size of the connection between us is only as beautiful as your answer to this question… How big is your bank account?

Post your dimensions please, and send me a pic. Then lets discuss.. 😛

Get a room

astrojax said :

TSI said :

Is that double decker party bus still around? What was it called?

the private bin?

That was a nasty place, but lots of fun. Remember when they used to do the comedy club on Wednesday nights?

BimboGeek said :

@Pitchka bahahahahahaha!! Only you truly understand me! The size of the connection between us is only as beautiful as your answer to this question… How big is your bank account?

Post your dimensions please, and send me a pic. Then lets discuss.. 😛

TSI said :

Is that double decker party bus still around? What was it called?

the private bin?

Is that double decker party bus still around? What was it called?

Postalgeek said :

KB1971 said :

Postalgeek said :

Mountain biking.

Thats what I said!!!!!

You didn’t say it. You linked it. Big huge massive difference.

Pedant?

@Pitchka bahahahahahaha!! Only you truly understand me! The size of the connection between us is only as beautiful as your answer to this question… How big is your bank account?

KB1971 said :

Postalgeek said :

Mountain biking.

Thats what I said!!!!!

You didn’t say it. You linked it. Big huge massive difference.

qbninthecity said :

Genie said :

My mother has joined an over 50’s group on MeetUp!

Every week she’s doing something new with them. Dinners, lunches, picnics plus going to events etc.

Her social life is better than mine 🙁

+1 for meetup. If you go to the website http://australia.meetup.com you will find over 100 different groups for the Canberra area. There has got to be something you would be interested in. Have fun 🙂

Also + 1. Great groups – lots of fun.

Well over 40s like to ride their motorbikes; go eating in clean restaurants where the noise (oops sorry music) level is down low so we can talk to our guests and each other; go walking in Tidbinbilla (can’t walk at Stomolo) away from mountain bikers (oops I forgot they’ve taken that over too).

BimboGeek said :

There is a lively divorced (and soon to be divorced ) crowd around Kingston and Manuka every weekend. Plenty of younger people go out in the area too but the scene is just as lively while a lot less rowdy than Civic so it appeals to 20 year olds of all ages.

Ah…Kingston…brings back memories of my first ever night in Canberra and a memorable evening with a lively barmaid from the Boot & Flogger (not the last). Even though the barmaid was a little kinky, the name Boot & Flogger actually refers to an old English method of corking bottles. (The bar used to be about where the Durham Castle is now). It also shows my age…maybe it is time to head back to Green Square with my walking frame.

Drink beer. Play slots. At the risk of blowing my own trumpet, I’m getting pretty good at both now. Not top-notch, mind – it’s pretty competitive out there.

Postalgeek said :

Mountain biking.

Thats what I said!!!!!

Genie said :

My mother has joined an over 50’s group on MeetUp!

Every week she’s doing something new with them. Dinners, lunches, picnics plus going to events etc.

Her social life is better than mine 🙁

+1 for meetup. If you go to the website http://australia.meetup.com you will find over 100 different groups for the Canberra area. There has got to be something you would be interested in. Have fun 🙂

DrKoresh said :

BimboGeek said :

There is a lively divorced (and soon to be divorced ) crowd around Kingston and Manuka every weekend. Plenty of younger people go out in the area too but the scene is just as lively while a lot less rowdy than Civic so it appeals to 20 year olds of all ages.

Surely you mean 40 year olds of all ages?

No, she is a bimbo, in her 20’s, looking for someone in their 40’s… (most likely with a sizable pe……. bank account)…

BimboGeek said :

There is a lively divorced (and soon to be divorced ) crowd around Kingston and Manuka every weekend. Plenty of younger people go out in the area too but the scene is just as lively while a lot less rowdy than Civic so it appeals to 20 year olds of all ages.

Surely you mean 40 year olds of all ages?

There is a lively divorced (and soon to be divorced ) crowd around Kingston and Manuka every weekend. Plenty of younger people go out in the area too but the scene is just as lively while a lot less rowdy than Civic so it appeals to 20 year olds of all ages.

They edit poetry books until they are suddenly eighty.

And post on the RiotACT.

there are many bowls clubs in the act. a few golf clubs too. and a croquet club next to the hyatt, but i think that’s over sixty.

the libraries are bonza meeting places, too. oldies still like ‘books’ and not those new fangled things kids today gad about with. doctors surgery waiting rooms are ace for meeting the elderly, too. and floriade, though i think they moved that to another town that needed a spruce up. catch a bus – whee! or spend the kid’s inheritance at sage (having picked up at the surgery of course)…

Mountain biking.

thebrownstreak69 said :

Masquara said :

Great question. Johnboy is of course well placed to answer … ; )

I’d guess that Johnboy turns 40 next year.

And the year after … and the year after that!

This:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLWJzySdIjs

http://the-riotact.com/any-swingers-in-the-house/119158

Masquara said :

Great question. Johnboy is of course well placed to answer … ; )

I’d guess that Johnboy turns 40 next year.

Great question. Johnboy is of course well placed to answer … ; )

Don’t go over 40 in the town centres, it get’s too exciting.

There’s a great rock and roll band playing at the Lake George pub in Bungendore on Friday night.

My mother has joined an over 50’s group on MeetUp!

Every week she’s doing something new with them. Dinners, lunches, picnics plus going to events etc.

Her social life is better than mine 🙁

If you weren’t already aware, we put up a guide to what’s happening in Canberra over the weekend ever Thursday.

Here they are.

You may find some ideas there.

They curl up into little balls in their suburban homes and slowly die … or is that just me 🙂