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wat about last saturday nite i tried gettin the brissy ppl to come for a drive but no they were too snobby or sumthin to come with us there was 9 skylines parked up at broady one couple had to go home early and i respect that but the brisbane ppl that came down to 'meet' us looked at me blankly wen i sed we (myself gor33 and slide) are going for a cruise if you wanna come then thats fine just tag along. its bullshit u try and do sumthin cool and everyone ignores ya personally i think smaller groups get along better anyway cos it always ends up in groups

cause we had good spots and bwcp was gettin busy too, we ended up cruisin to all hours of the morning

yea we would have come but you guys where going to go for a lap of the esplanade..?? Last time i did that it took almost 40mins and it would have been a pain in the ass with jamies car (whos car i was in) coz its too loud and the clutch is a joke....

u coulda atleast said sumthing noone even said a thing everyone stared at me blankly as if to say did he just get out of a commodore and try and be in with us

didnt mean anything by it, sorry if you got offended

Can you actually make this thread worth it's while and stop all the bullshit? I've cleaned it out once and I dont want to do it again. All this shit talk is what the wasteland is for.

Us "snobby" Brisbane people were down there, if you had of opened your eyes, you may have seen us.

This isn't going to work either. Same way the Thursday night events "Every" week didn't work. People got sick of just standing around a carpark and not driving or having anywhere planned to go so they lost interest. Theres only so many places you can cruise to.

I have no problem standing around watching everyone else be dickheads in front of sklines its very funny. And whats wrong with driving through surfers brisbane people are i dont know afraid to drive through there as soon as anyone mentions it its ohh no we wont go thanks.

Cause its boring as hell doing an average of 5k/hour in stop start traffic?

I prefer going the back roads to the various meeting spots. Wide backroads with plenty of traffic lights spaced about 1k apart. With lots of visibility, often 3 or 4 lanes wide and with basically no traffic on the road. Woot.

Theres only so many places you can cruise to.

might as well get people together and go to them then because there is sweet stuff all else to do most of the time....I agree that all the bullshit in this thread is a joke but i dont see a problem with having the thread sayin ppl meet second row of broadwater (south side) for a talk and a crusie after....theres nothing wrong with that!

I didn't say there was a problem with that. That's why I left all those posts so people knew where others met on saturday nights.

The other crap I deleted because someone coming into this thread who's interested in meeting up with you gold coast people, doesn't need to read all the bullshit that has been posted. I have left the most relevant posts so people can easily see what you are trying to do and where and when you meet.

That was us that went home early sorry man 6am starts are hard enough without a late night

I think that trying to organise our gatherings better is a great idea. I do agree that we need a wider variet of "events" so why not post ideas instead of just harrasing each other. I feel that maps should be provided for any meet points and destinations. some of us dont live on yatla pie diets and have never been there doesnt mean we always get lost and need dumbass directions btw you need a street name for whereis.com so dont go there...

So my input is one mutually agreeable sunday lets go and get fudge.

there is a map in my gallery on the mountain drive with lots of twistys halfway stop for handmade fudge meet point hinze dam destination BWCP or other

how bout it guys are we a club or a bunch of bazza/shazza commonwhore VB gargleing louts

ok enough of this bullshit.

For a start, not only am I the current club president, I am also a gold coaster. I have been on these forums for quite a while, I have organised cruises and lead cruises I didnt even organise.

On friday night I made the cruise to bwcp from brisbane and drove back to brisbane. I also have driven more klms on cruises to destinations so far away your refidex doesnt even cover them.

Your free to organise non official cruises whenever or however you want, but it does not need a perpetual thread. It never has before and it wont in the future.

Be warned if you intend to organise anything remotly illegal including difficult drives or encourage dangerous behaviour in your cruise information thread, it will be locked and its content removed, depending on the severity your access to these forums could also be jepordised so be warned.

It is my experience that you will find whilst some skyline owners are keen for the odd meet and greet doing it every week, the same thing at the same time is boring, repetitive and fast looses its novelty.

In reference to the above post regarding yatala pies, it so happens that YATALA PIES, YATALA BP SERVICE CENTER AND COOMERA BP SERVICE CENTER are well known points on the m1, if you cant find them, what are you doing on the m1 cause you must be blind. Provide maps for a "sausage roll cruise"? i have a better idea, grab a refidex, usually round 30 dollars or less and look up an address thats given. No one is gonna hold your hand on a cruise, you either wanna attend and find out where your going or you dont, simple.

Hate to break it to you slide, but filling a row at the bwcp has been done before, twice infact. MSC 1 and MSC 2 were both SAU-QLD events and were well organised, there was a cruise to the carpark and a cruise afterwards for those who want to attend.

So grab a tissue, grow up, attend the cruise thats organised this thursday night or dont. But most of all, stop cluttering the forum with crap, you wanna spurt crap? take it to the whoretown thread and go for gold son.

You wanna organise a cruise? be decisive and ORGANISE IT dont post a thread and wait for someone else to organise it or give you ideas.

this thread is finished someone lock its ass

James

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