pmccarthy

Lots of choughs around our place in central Vic.

The new ones were black, no lubricant supplied.nor mentioned in the Haynes manual.

Welcome to the perpetual maintenance club. Yesterday's effort on the Triumph suspension proved that red is not always better.

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( she is a lot more attractive than I am)

In Victoria, most EVs are charged over night so they run on brown coal. As the power stations are phased out we will have a crisis of blackouts.

Never in my life.

I visit family graves but not plaques for cremated remains.

Were you ordering a Foxbat?

They are next to the cotter pins and wrenches. Near the Duck tape.🙂

Way too obscure for me!

I believe in apprenticeships and cadet ships. I won a Cadetship and got an engineering degree after six years of part-time study in evening classes. The people who did it that way did better in their subsequent careers than the full time students. They graduated with six years of hands on experience in the workplace.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horatio_Bottomley
 

I think he is a reincarnation of Horatio Bottomley, who was tipped to be Prime Minister of England. Each time he was prosecuted he claimed it was a conspiracy.

In a Trump-like exercise of vanity, Keith Ryall named the castle after himself.

Our community association had a lovely Australia Day ceremony at the Common, under gum trees. We all sang the National Anthem then sat around and chatted over a picnic lunch for two hours. Numbers probably up on previous years. Average age 70+. Not one young person there.

I meant mining dump trucks but I see that the Scania G series is used in mining so I was wrong about that. Now owned 100% by VW.

Probably both answers true. The one I was looking for is that Caterpillar is the only one still making trucks.

The warfare is well recorded in the records of William Buckley.

I just found out that Goin Up The Country was first recorded in 1922, with the same whistle chorus.

Safety is paramount until it is woke.

Terra Nullius was never used or quoted at the time.,\ It is a modern retrospective interpretation.

Woke Woke Woke Woke Woke

This is more of a general knowledge question. Which is the odd one out in the following list.

Wabco

Euclid

Caterpillar

Terex

Scania

LeTorneau

When does a spanner become a wrench? When it goes to the USA?