Quote from Bean0 :

"Blokes don't ever grow up, they just grow old."

Ain't that the truth

There's a famous old quote, "The only difference between men and boys, is the price of their toys" not sure who said it ?

To be honest, i can't think of anything i do which could be called grown up

While we're on shopping trolleys: I took my 3-year-old nephew into a supermarket last weekend and he wanted to push the trolley, but we didn't need a trolley so I let him carry the basket. Half way around he gives the basket to some random woman and starts making off with her trolley!

Quote from Mazz4200 :

Ain't that the truth

There's a famous old quote, "The only difference between men and boys, is the price of their toys" not sure who said it ?

That is famous? and old? I've been saying it for years and never noticed

Quote from Rappa Z :

My swim eam required that everyone dish out another $50 to them to buy snorkels(along with about $300 worth of other crap). Every time we put them on now I find myself making car noises because it seems to work like an exhaust system. All i can sdo is wonder what the coaches think wen they hear me while i swim.

I laughed

Anyways. Drifting with shopping trolleys is bad! Evil!!

What I do is to is that I try to take the corners as fluently as possible although I must admit that those vehicles seem to to take wide slip angles very well too. From my experience keeping constant velocity is more important than good exit. Going wide can be a bit embarassing

Can't think of anything else...

I actually still really enjoy the Technic Legos, not that I have time to build anything.

Technic Lego is cool! I've built a clutch pedal from Technic Lego and it works great

Meccano FTW! After a mates son broke his little kit I felt compelled to re-design the dirt buggy into some sort of transport vehicle with a tilting rocket on the back last week. For some reason the kid was facinated by it Flexible axle mounts (i.e. suspension), front scoup, exhaust, 3 way tilt mount for the rocket, spent far too long fiddling with that.

Nice to know I'm not the only one who drifts trollys, when I used to work at Tesco, one day tidying the carpark up we had dozens roped together, took 3 people to drift them around the carpark Got some funny looks as cars gave way, can't think why.

Bah, Meccano, Lego Technics, all gay,

Stickle Bricks FTW !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHXQ_X56cF4

Quote from TiJay :

*TiJay is a part time trolley pusher at a supermarket*

I drift 8 of them at a time!

Wuss . I worked at a grocery store for 7 years. I held the store record for pushing 36 (IIRC) carts up around the 90 degree corner onto the "porch" for lack of a better word for where they store the carts.

Second to me was a high school bud, RJ, with 32 carts.

I remember recently just posting that above. Was it this forum? or another forum?

Check this guy out, here's a massive 2005 Mustang with working pneumatic v8 engine, transmission, proper suspension and so forth... Check out his other models, this guy is amazing. All out of Technic Lego!

There are even guys with automatic transmissions, which seems like voodoo - but they do it.

http://www.nicjasno.com/image/tid/13

Curious to hear your thoughts

Quote from Ball Bearing Turbo :

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LMAO, I just noticed your signature

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Wuss . I worked at a grocery store for 7 years...

Health and safety says 8 max when you're on your own but my record is 16 I think the store record for most trolleys in one go is a hundred and something with two guys and a lot of rope.

36 on your own is impressive.

Quote from TiJay :

Health and safety says 8 max when you're on your own but my record is 16 I think the store record for most trolleys in one go is a hundred and something with two guys and a lot of rope.

36 on your own is impressive.

It wasn't long after I left that they got the rope and limited it to 8 as well. There was no rope when I was there There was a few others standing to watch any time someone would line up 30+ to push though.

"Hey guys! John's got 37 lined up, he's gonna try to beat Mike!"

Crowd of grocery stock guys line up outside to watch one guy struggle trying (and failing ) to make the corner with 37

We did have a slight advantage to having a sloped lot up to the drive in front of the store. So you could get some speed going, but you had to lift the back of the line and swing at just the right moment to get it up the small ramp and turned into the portico, I guess you could call it.

Health and safety makes the workplace boring.

Jeff - nicely done, that lego car. Makes my robot-car-thing look rather feeble (1, 2, 3).

I can't fathom some of the things that guy guys with Lego!

And I have that set too Ben

That little computer is fun to mess around with

Almost every night for 2 years I've been playing one racing simulator over internet. Still haven't had guts to confess until now
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u should hear me at TS at CLC's server, would say enough about me

Quote from Bob Smith :

Health and safety makes the workplace boring.

So true (called OSHA here, Occupational Safety and Health Association, they love their acronyms...). The other day I needed to do some work really high up on one of my pieces of equipment. All of our normal platform lifts were being used, so I threw a pallet with a ladder on it on a forktruck, then lifted that forktruck with one of our bigger forktrucks and was going to climb up there to work. The supervisor seemed to like my idea so well, he let me take some time off of work. He said something in the range of, "Good thing OSHA isn't here to see that!" I think I got the vacation days off because I was able to then do the work needed before any of the safety people saw me.....

Don't you remember Klaus, the fork-lift driver?

Klaus was so awesome. Shame his job didn't last long enough for health benefits though

The Ultimate Shopping Story
Well my mom dragged me to the grocery store for the first time since I was 10 a few days ago. And all the memories flooded back. Making forts out of paper towel packages, wandering the isles picking up random things, and SHOPPING CART RACES!! I was driftingzz teh shopping cart around the produce isle, but my vtak never kicked in so it smashed into the lettuce, and broke teh neonz (cucumbers at the front of the cart) My mom came over and started screaming at me, I seriously forgot that I was 15. I looked at the cart laying on the ground, and the lettuce everywhere, and I just said to my mom "damn marshals never let me know there was lettuce ahead"
~Bryan~

A ladder on a palette on a forklift... on a forklift? You crazy man!

but the real art is to syncronize your car noises with your blow-off valve sound generator situated in the back
(This is stupid, but sometimes I do that (when no ladies are around, just to have a laugh in a drunk friendly company))

Quote from mrodgers :

All of our normal platform lifts were being used, so I threw a pallet with a ladder on it on a forktruck, then lifted that forktruck with one of our bigger forktrucks and was going to climb up there to work.

dont you have kids mate ? good god

I'm too a shopping trolley d0r1f7er0x...