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gareth lacey

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  1. John Nettles and didnt get the email, i just remember actors of my vintage (old that is ) lol
  2. 1984 on a new Yamaha twin 1000 going across the Nullabour, outside Eucla saw ahead some motorcycles on side of road , 3 bykes all Harleys , 2 were broken down stopped and asked if they needed help ,told me to Fxxk off and words to the effect Jap crap, i got to perth,broome, Darwim and back to Perth and 12 months later back to Sydney, bike still purring , i wonder how far the Harleys Got? LOL
  3. No not on facebook , watched a movie with him in recently about a retired sherlock holmes
  4. My November refund was $308 , dec,jan,feb are the lowest refund months , usually about $150, but prices have risen so exspecting less
  5. My wife loves Ford Mustangs , a very good friend had a perfect 1968 model, i borrowed the car for a wedding anniversary (35th) and we went to a restaraunt about 25ks away , what a bag of Sxxt to drive no power steering, no aircon, guzzled fuel, heavy car to steer , brakes were minimal, steering wheel was huge ,give me a modern car anytime to drive
  6. In 2019 toured Eire for 4 weeks," when in Rome do as the romans do: drank Guinness, only it does make for Black sxxt but so different to Aus Guinness
  7. I have no problem that she has the right to her opinion, but the inference of her aborignal ancestery has no bearing ,the media beat up, and she has no grievance with the monarchy the Queen didnt do anything to her, and no i am not a monarchist ,she was a mother nanna and died ,lets give her respect
  8. she has about as much aboriginal in her as i do
  9. A few years ago I was the workshop manager that fabricated wind turbine towers (only the tower) they cost millions each and the company still lost money on each project, the company that we manufactured them for ,as part of the contract they had a resident engineer from o/s paid for and accomdation by us,also the documentation process was over the top, we had more staff on that side than in the workshop, at any one time I had 20 to 25 tradespeople in the shop, but 30 peeps in the office non producing , the costs were going up all the time , I feel that value for money in building these wind farms will over time get higher they do not have a long service history, and the wind does not blow all the time , great ideas for clean power(forgetting the HUGE enviromental costs to build them) nuclear is the only way forward
  10. Million dollar man Lee majors
  11. Must have been a good bloke, his son was an axxhole
  12. AS a ex squaddie in the brit forces i have used firearms as req of the type available at the time (early sixties) ,i believe that NO one other than trained personnel should have firearms, when i was a lad the local bobby was respected, he would give us young uns a clip on the ear and send us packing now it seems that the police are there to enforce more and more outlandish rules(covid as example), guns are made to KILL .in wartime yes soldiers and forces should have guns , but today do we need so many exotic types of guns that anyone seems to be able to get, there are more guns in Aus than when Howard had the national gun buy back, for me , the local beat police should not have a gun if he carries tazer,pepper spray, batton, on;ly specialized police with the right training should have access to guns , as you say we seem to be following the us , criminals will always get guns so yes the deterrent of being shot dead by armed police may work, as for DV more people should speak up about that, my rant over
  13. I am welsh by birth, lived there till i was 15, my son who loves all things welsh wants to learn welsh, i said its only good if you live in certain parts of Wales, useless outside of Wales
  14. In the Uk in the sixties i lived in a village called Gornal, in upper Gornal they spoke a different dialect, only 5 miles away and lower Gornal was the same
  15. My heritage can be traced to the 13th century french,irish, english,welsh, what a 57 varieties are our family, but do the younger gen rally care, my son(of my second marriage ) is really into his Welsh background ,but my daughter (they are twins) has no interest, my son of previous marriage has no ties whatsoever he was born in Aus, go figure.
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