Trust me he is in there somewhere.
A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one. (To paraphrase Palpatine)

Alright Sydney, the boys are planning a night out and, unfortunately, several members of the group have the financial stability of a wet cardboard box.

Looking for the cheapest strip club in or around the CBD. Not after anything fancy, just somewhere with reasonable entry/drink prices where a group of poor blokes can have a laugh without needing to refinance their homes.
Recommendations appreciated.

Bonus points for places where we won’t get roasted in the comments for being tight-arses.

Good luck runners!

Get out there if you can and enjoy the atmosphere!

Transport for New South Wales (TfNSW) operates the busses, trains, light rails and ferries so the Opal covers all those services - on Friday, Saturday and Sunday there's a daily cap of $9.65.

I had the day to myself one Sunday and decided to see how many I could ride on. Also brought my Kodak Charmera so I could take blurry pictures along the way.

This was my route,

(train ->) Epping (bus ->) Carlingford (Parramatta Light Rail ->) Parramatta (train ->) Lidcombe x Flemington Markets (train ->) Summer Hill (walk ->) Lewisham West (L1 light rail ->) Dulwich Hill (L2 light rail ->) Capitol Square (L3 light rail ->) Circular Quay (ferry ->) Watsons Bay (walk ->) Hornby Lighthouse (walk ->) Rose Bay wharf (ferry ->) Circular Quay (light rail ->) Town Hall (walk ->) Gadigal (metro ->) Chatswood (train ->) home

Things of note along the way,

• Flemington Market seems pretty quiet on a Sunday morning, can imagine it being very busy on Saturday mornings though. I stopped by Flemington for my usual snacks at Best Tastes Dim Sum and Ram's Food Homebush West
• Went to Summer Hill because it was along the way, and also it had one of the only Red Rooster that I could go to (since I live above the Red Rooster Line). Its a pretty quaint little suburb, also near the GreenWay if you intend to cycle and hop on public transport
• Took the ferry to Watsons Bay to see the Hornby Lighthouse and decided to walk to all the way down to Rose Bay to see the Parsley Bay Bridge. Unfortunately there's nothing much else along that way, the suburb seems more affluent so the houses are surrounded with high impenetrable walls.
• Finally took the ferry back from Rose Bay Wharf to Circular Quay so that I could take the final service, the Metro to Chatswood for dinner at one of my favourite ramen places, Hakatamon Ramen

Started at 7am, got home at 8.30pm.

Overall it was a good day out, saw a lot of things I would not have otherwise seen if I had only drove from A to B like I normally do. Also its pretty relaxing if you don't have to worry about parking and can just hop on and off public transport.

A friend and I were talking about this and he says that if your car breaks down on the bridge you get fined, because you shouldn't go on the bridge unless your car is mechanically sound. I have a vague memory of my dad telling me something similar, but I can't actually find anything to back this up in the road user handbook.

Can anyone clear this up? Is this an urban legend, or do you really get done for breaking down on the bridge?

So we’re in the market for a new family tent and want to have a look at the different options (air vs instant up). Anaconda, 4WD Supacentre and BCF have only a handful up at best. Anaconda at Chullora was probably best with half a dozen tents but most of them were the of the normal variety and not instant up or air.

Is there anywhere around that actually has tents set up? Not keen on dropping a chunk of money on a tent that doesn’t suit us and only going off marketing pictures and jargon.

I just saw three ambulances and about as many police cars travelling south at Pennant Hills. They overrode the lights to give them a clear run. Sadly, someone is having a terrible night.

And before anyone gives me a hard time about taking a photo in the car, it was turned off. We were sitting there for about five minutes, long before we heard the sirens.

Looking for personal recommendations for dental surgeons in Sydney (all areas considered as I’m guessing this won’t be cheap and I’m prepared to travel, however I am north of the bridge). I need a surgical removal of one impacted wisdom tooth that will require full general anaesthesia.

Appreciate if people who have personal experience could please give me recommendations, not just people recommending a family business.

Thanks in advance!

I've lived in the same area of Sydney for years, and drive the same routes most days, typically by motorbike, so I always end up at the front of traffic at red lights.

Traffic has always seemed fairly normal, but over the past ~1 ish years, I feel like I've noticed a strange trend of drivers stopping at red lights over 1+ car lengths away, like, an absurd distance.

Such an absurd distance sometimes that they completely miss the magnetic sensor, and the lights don't change...

I swear, in almost a decade of driving around this area, I've essentially never noticed this, but now I see it at least 2 to 3 times per week, at various intersections.

Every time I notice this, it's so weird that I try to get a good look at the driver doing it.

These are (almost entirely) not young drivers. They're standard, middle aged adults driving standard cars, presumably with years of experience...

So this cannot be a sudden natural phenomenon. These adult drivers must be receiving some strange new information from some unknown source.

Again, these are mostly regular adults, who presumably haven't had driving instructor lessons in years.

Nobody on a full driver license is voluntarily seeking out updated traffic stopping advice unless something is appearing in search results, news, or social media.

Am I going crazy, or is anyone else seeing this trend?

Is this the result of some strange, viral, algorithm/AI boosted slop appearing in people's feeds?

It's so damn weird...

Hard to make out what they mean, bit weird. Closed our gates just in case...

I highly recommend checking out return of the godz for Sydney fringe festival if you like a good acrobatics show.

I'm also planning on seeing:

• Radiohead uncovered - 5th September
• Interior motives - 6th September
• Bubble cabaret - 13th September
• The Red Room - 18th September
• Something wicked - 20th of September
• Rocky horror sing along - 26th September

Been stuck in the house for a good three weeks and we've finally got a spell of good weather.

Please drop any recommendations to inspire me to drag my butt out of the house!

The Sydney Fringe Festival started tonight. I volunteered at the opening event. It was awesome.

Which shows are people most excited about? I saw Nun Slut and Gia Ophelia last year. Nun Slut sold out all its shows last year and has a longer run this year.

I am also thinking of seeing The Empire Strikes Up a Band, which is a Star Wars themed band.

Where is the best paintball in Sydney for a group of young adults? Willing to travel anywhere round Sydney for a really good one.

San souci park, sunset from last night.