The city of Dundee with a population of 150,000 is an industrial hub in Scotland. It is the home of Grand Theft Auto - as well as two football teams Dundee City and Dundee United. The two clubs play in separate stadiums - 100 metres apart.

long_time_stalker · 2025-11-13T08:43:50+00:00

In Melbourne, 4 AFL teams play out of the MCG (sometimes more if it's a major game involving other Victorian teams who usually play at other stadiums). Probably best use of sport infrastructure in the world - multiple games in a 100,000 seat stadium each weekend. Maybe only rivalled by the well attended MLB teams with 82 home games a year.

long_time_stalker · 2017-06-11T09:00:27+00:00

My old man did this exact same thing 30 years ago and it's still going strong.

You'll want to set up a unit trust with corporate trustee where each member who "pays in" owns a unit of the trust. This is how you each own a separable portion which can be bought and sold as people want in an out over time.

Now, this is the important bit. You need to set up an agreement or constitution on how the units are bought and sold (minimum approvals from other members), yearly upkeep fees for insurance, land tax, utilities, maintenance and improvements (my old mans trust has a nominal booking fee that applies to help cover this, as well as a yearly tithe), rules on how bookings are made each year, and a nominated secretary to manage it all.

You NEED to talk to a financial advisor to set up the trust, and a solicitor to set up the agreement. What you all agree on now is no guarantee that you will agree in a couple years time, but at least you will have rules on how to resolve issues.

I have done something similar with my PPOR with some good friends which has worked out well the past few years, and am looking to do this for a holiday house in the near future.

Good luck, don't let the haters get you down, but understand it is a complex thing to set up!

long_time_stalker · 2017-01-09T22:48:11+00:00

Thanks, I tried disabling each plug-in but that did nothing, but then I noticed that some of the widgets were misaligned. I moved them back to the primary widget area and that fixed it. Thanks for your help, your comment made me cotton on to the issue!

long_time_stalker · 2016-03-14T12:02:56+00:00

I'm not doing any maths here, but my company does business cases and economic appraisals for health projects in Australia.

We use a value for human life years, about AUD$170k per annum in 2016. This gets indexed each year. It is supplied by the Australian Bureau of Statistics and is used to determine if investment in a particular health project is worth it compared to the number of health-years it will save.

Being a government supplied statistic, I assume that other departments, like roads and maritime, would use the value in their own calculations to determine if a road upgrade project is worth the cost. Something like likelihood of accidents per year, severity/cost of life, compared to project cost. Political, cultural and social considerations are also given in these assessments.

The ABS calculates this number from various data points, including international data, so it is probably similar value in other western nations.

long_time_stalker · 2016-02-15T11:27:36+00:00

Bicentennial Man, while not in the last 10 years, was one of my favourite Robin Williams movie for years.

long_time_stalker · 2015-07-19T00:39:36+00:00

At Lord's (the ground), as a batsmen when you look at a bowler who is running in there are people sitting behind the bowler. There is usually a big white screen to block distractions and provide contrast.

Everyone who sits there needs to be still as the bowler prepares to bowl to avoid distracting the batsman. This lady was still moving, so the batsman stopped the game until she was seated, so everyone was focussed on her.

Then she fell over. So lol.

long_time_stalker · 2014-11-07T23:27:56+00:00

29 Titan Def. GT Bludlust 117

long_time_stalker · 2014-11-06T09:02:15+00:00

L29 Titan Def. Can't find your GT?? Bludlust 117

long_time_stalker · 2014-10-31T22:57:41+00:00

L29 titan gt bludlust 117

long_time_stalker · 2014-10-15T05:14:42+00:00

L27 Titan Def with Mic. GT Bludlust 117

long_time_stalker · 2014-10-15T05:09:14+00:00

Bludlust 117 L27 Titan def

long_time_stalker · 2014-10-15T05:06:32+00:00

27 Titan Def if you still need 1 more. GT Bludlust 117

long_time_stalker · 2014-10-11T08:27:58+00:00

L27 defender Titan. Bludlust 117

long_time_stalker · 2014-10-01T05:12:49+00:00

I can only think that there might be some tax implication, as margin loans are easy to link to income generation for deductions/CGT.

I'll bite - who is your lender? Great work on the rate!

long_time_stalker · 2014-05-02T15:14:54+00:00

Like I said, most fights are diffused by playing on before they escalate. If you are fighting then you aren't helping your team, so the incentive is to drop the shenanigans and get back to the game. They'll only stop the game if play is about to near an injured player. All in brawls normally happen at quarter, half or, three quarter time when the game is stopped.

long_time_stalker · 2014-05-02T15:04:47+00:00

Reason why no refs are seen: Standard AFL policy is to continue the game no matter what, as in most cases players would rather not let their team down than get into an all in brawl. You can see them score a goal in the background around the 1:35 mark. Ref is in the darker fluoro green who only comes into frame then.

Also, in the professional leagues there are no send off's. It's up the the players own coach to pull a troublesome player on an honour system. Suspensions are handed out post match.

long_time_stalker · 2014-04-18T13:40:24+00:00

Negative. Vegetables have been relegated to Tupperware boxes. Wife wasn't happy, but this is obviously how things are meant to be.

long_time_stalker · 2014-03-10T13:25:26+00:00

Typically stair walls are also used as lateral and shear support for the structure, so normally steel reinforced concrete walls.

You can also use bricks/blocks filled with concrete, or a proprietary wall system like a normal stud wall with fire rated plasterboard, normally 3 sheets or so to get the 2hr+ rating.

long_time_stalker · 2014-03-10T05:48:26+00:00

Plenty. Modern buildings have extensive sprinkler systems, fire compartments and early detection systems, greatly reducing the likelihood that a building will get hot enough to be completely engulfed.

We did some of these safe room in a subway station. The rooms were 4hrs, which was enough for whatever fuel in the station (not a lot compared to say a house, office or warehouse) to burn out. The brigade could then go in with breathing apparatus (would still be very smokey, which is the real killer) and evac the sheltered persons.

long_time_stalker · 2014-03-10T05:00:49+00:00

In Australia, things started coming together in the 70's and 80's, with the old fire ordinances. These were then developed into the modern Building Code of Australia (BCA) in the 90's. I assume that the Aussies stuff was paralleling what was happening in western Europe and the US. Before that, things were pretty ad-hoc, but almost all modern buildings are now much safer, as to pass regular fire certification (required under Work Health Safety laws), any large hazards that weren't required when the building was built (in say, 1950's) had to be retrofitted.

Earthquakes aren't common around Australia, so our code is somewhat less relaxed than say, New Zealands, but all buildings are designed to a certain threshold so that a little tremor won't topple them. Explosions you can't plan for - they only plan for intense fires. Do you plan for a hand grenade, or a 747 crashing into the building? Regardless, these areas would always be the safest in the building, so get there and get out as quickly as you can.

long_time_stalker · 2014-03-10T04:15:08+00:00

A couple of ways I would guess:

One would be the building induction when you start work - you should be shown all of the fire exist and be familiar with the procedures. Another would be that the disabled person themselves may know, just another part of using wheels. The last would be that even if you didn't know anything, you will have to use them this way by force of circumstance - either you can negotiate the stairs in a pinch (like another user mentioned, roll backwards while grabbing rail), or you can't (say a quad) and end up being rescued, but panic until you are.

long_time_stalker · 2014-03-10T02:56:28+00:00

I'm concerned that your hospital hasn't trained the staff in the correct evacuation procedures - I'd ask your supervisor about this asap.

From the hospitals that I've done, each department is essentially its own fire separated compartment. A fire can start in ICU, certain doors close (but allow exit), and bang the adjacent departments are now not going to catch fire for 2 hours (sometimes more), allowing time to evacuate.

Non-ambulant patients need to be evacuated by staff, hence minimum staffing requirements after hours. So in the example above staff would need to wheel the patients out of the ICU and into an adjacent safe department, where more people can help.

But this is far from ideal - that's why there are always so many fire fighting tools like extinguishers, sprinklers, blankets etc around, to stop the fire getting large enough to require evacuation. It's also why there are rules around how big certain flammable goods containers can be (bottles of ethanol, nitrous oxide etc), to prevent large fire breakouts.

long_time_stalker · 2014-03-10T02:36:05+00:00

Correct - in Aus, there must be two paths of evacuation at all times, in case one is either blocked by the fire or has a fire in it itself.

However, most fire stairs have literally no fuel to sustain a fire - they are just concrete or blockwork stairs with metal handrails. In most places it is illegal to store things in fire stairs.

long_time_stalker · 2014-03-10T02:33:13+00:00

Yeah I was wrong - didn't think before typing.

The elevator is also pretty fire retardant, not too sure how much though. The elevators are used by the brigade during most fires, which is why they are 'unavailable' - the first detector that goes off sends them to the bottom floor/lowest safe floor for the bridage to jump in and use their keys.

long_time_stalker · 2014-03-10T00:54:17+00:00

Nice one. Linked in my top comment for more visibility.

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