Today's Whiskey Tango Foxtrot

Forums › Off topic › Today's Whiskey Tango Foxtrot

1 | ... | 60 | 61 | 62 | 63 | 64 | 65 | 66 | 67 | 68 | 69 | 70 | ... | 301

18690 posts

Uber Geek
+1 received by user: 7828

Lifetime subscriber

#3013923 25-Dec-2022 19:51

Geektastic: I never knew beaches had a “capacity”.

Long Bay. The road/car park arrangement and access is nuts on a medium day. At full you will have people on the way in waiting an age to turn around and go home. It makes sense to direct traffic away from it compared to dealing with the consequences.

alasta

6891 posts

Uber Geek
+1 received by user: 3365

Trusted

Subscriber

#3013924 25-Dec-2022 19:55

geoffwnz:

I thought that was more or less self policing. When you can't get a park close enough ("close enough" varies from person to person), then you go somewhere else.

Except in Wellington where, if a legitimate car park is not available, people just abandon their car wherever they like regardless of the obstruction it might cause.

msukiwi

2443 posts

Uber Geek
+1 received by user: 2126

Lifetime subscriber

#3013926 25-Dec-2022 20:04

alasta:Except in Wellington where, if a legitimate car park is not available, people just abandon their car wherever they like regardless of the obstruction it might cause.

Here in Christchurch, if a legitimate car park is available, people just abandon their car wherever they like regardless of the obstruction it might cause.

kiwifidget

"Cookie"
3641 posts

Uber Geek
+1 received by user: 1969

Lifetime subscriber

#3013934 26-Dec-2022 07:22

No Boxing Day / St Stephen's Day badge? 🙃

Delete cookies?! Are you insane?!

Jase2985

13735 posts

Uber Geek
+1 received by user: 6217

ID Verified

Lifetime subscriber

#3013935 26-Dec-2022 08:19

kiwifidget:

No Boxing Day / St Stephen's Day badge? 🙃

hasnt been one on previous years.

networkn

Networkn
32873 posts

Uber Geek
+1 received by user: 15474

ID Verified

Trusted

Lifetime subscriber

#3013937 26-Dec-2022 08:50

Epic has been doing a free game every day of the holidays. Today is the best game of the lot (being xmas day in the US) and accidentally they gave away the wrong edition and then corrected it. People are going NUTS. Such over entitled nut cases.

It's still a great game they didn't have to pay for and all people are doing is throwing shade (like serious shade).

Some days I despair for humanity. I can't get over how ungrateful people are.

Lenovo

Shop now for Lenovo laptops and other devices (affiliate link).

msukiwi

2443 posts

Uber Geek
+1 received by user: 2126

Lifetime subscriber

#3013938 26-Dec-2022 09:23

networkn:Some days I despair for humanity. I can't get over how ungrateful people are.

+ A Zillion for this bit!!! (Well 1 Anyway)

Dratsab

3964 posts

Uber Geek
+1 received by user: 1728

Trusted

Lifetime subscriber

#3013989 26-Dec-2022 09:46

networkn: Some days I despair for humanity. I can't get over how ungrateful people are.

I get where you're coming from 100%.

A YouTuber I follow hadn't posted anything for a very long time. I figured he was ill as it was something he'd alluded to in one video before disappearing off the radar. About a month ago he reappeared, wearing a skull wrap, looking thinner than he used to be, and explaining what had been going on his life - which was an incurable condition. Then he brought up the subject of people sending him abusive messages for not putting out any content for a while etc. He pointed out that the [lack of] content they were complaining about is free and takes a considerable amount of time to produce etc. He ended up by flipping the bird and saying this is for all you who have done this. There's an unbelievable amount of entitlement out there.

sir1963

3428 posts

Uber Geek
+1 received by user: 3756

Subscriber

#3013990 26-Dec-2022 10:54

networkn:

Epic has been doing a free game every day of the holidays. Today is the best game of the lot (being xmas day in the US) and accidentally they gave away the wrong edition and then corrected it. People are going NUTS. Such over entitled nut cases.

It's still a great game they didn't have to pay for and all people are doing is throwing shade (like serious shade).

Some days I despair for humanity. I can't get over how ungrateful people are.

Thats the problem when you teach kids they have "rights", but forget to tell them they are balanced by "responsibilities"

All they need to understand their rights end where mine begin, and they do NOT and NEVER will have more rights than anyone else .

Geektastic

18010 posts

Uber Geek
+1 received by user: 8468

Trusted

Lifetime subscriber

#3014000 26-Dec-2022 12:53

neb:
geoffwnz:
I thought that was more or less self policing.

Nope. People will just keep piling in until something breaks, in its most dangerous form a crowd collapse or crush. This is why stadiums both limit attendance and have a pile of physical security measures in place to try and address this.

Not really the case with a beach though. It’s an open sandy place.

gzt

18690 posts

Uber Geek
+1 received by user: 7828

Lifetime subscriber

#3014001 26-Dec-2022 13:10

Imo the issue with Long Bay is mostly parking and emergency services access. My recollection is occasional fights and alcohol related disorder to sort out, older people having random heart attacks, all that sort of thing. More accurately it's Long Bay Regional Park.

Geekzone

Want to support Geekzone and browse the site without the ads? Subscribe to Geekzone now (monthly, annual and lifetime options).

RunningMan

9189 posts

Uber Geek
+1 received by user: 4842

#3014002 26-Dec-2022 13:31

@Geektastic that probably would have been better in the dumbest headlines thread

It looks like police said the regional park was closed due to capacity, not the beach. You haven't indicated where your quote is from, but presumably whatever media it was from changed it to beach instead of park. From what others have posted above it probably means the carpark was full, so no more traffic could get in.

Bung

6734 posts

Uber Geek
+1 received by user: 2928

Subscriber

#3014007 26-Dec-2022 14:11

Geektastic: Not really the case with a beach though. It’s an open sandy place.

Unless it's a completely packed stoney Brighton beach.

https://i2-prod.kentlive.news/incoming/article7341447.ece/ALTERNATES/s615b/0_IMG-20220716-WA0008.jpg

Geektastic

18010 posts

Uber Geek
+1 received by user: 8468

Trusted

Lifetime subscriber

#3014008 26-Dec-2022 14:22

RunningMan:
@Geektastic that probably would have been better in the dumbest headlines thread

It looks like police said the regional park was closed due to capacity, not the beach. You haven't indicated where your quote is from, but presumably whatever media it was from changed it to beach instead of park. From what others have posted above it probably means the carpark was full, so no more traffic could get in.

Herald

Jase2985

13735 posts

Uber Geek
+1 received by user: 6217

ID Verified

Lifetime subscriber

#3014010 26-Dec-2022 14:45

Geektastic:

Not really the case with a beach though. It’s an open sandy place.

been to long bay before? its an utter PITA to get in and out of when busy and can full up pretty easily, then people start parking where ever they feel like and it hampers access.

so while it is an open sandy place its the surrounding infrastructure that cant handle it.

just like if i were to invite 10,000 people to your property for a concert i bet it would get out of hand pretty fast.

1 | ... | 60 | 61 | 62 | 63 | 64 | 65 | 66 | 67 | 68 | 69 | 70 | ... | 301