willedoo

I know a bloke who's well balanced - he's got a chip on both shoulders. I think he was born that way.

The original Flying Flea:

Remember that lightweight Royal Enfield called the Flying Flea made for airborne troops, Royal Enfield is putting out a light electric bike named the same.

It's been a long time between posts. My main shed renovations are at the stage of a much needed clean out, so I'm getting to the point of sorting some stored flight gear and moving on superflous multiples and unwanted items. I've decided to gift these helmets to a couple of collectors I'm associated with, one in France and the other in Greece. They're extra to my requirements and are better off where they're appreciated instead of a life in storage. I got them from a lady in Vinnytsia about twelve years ago, and realising how rare they were, I bought all of them, hence the extras. At first glance, they look much like the garden variety Soviet leather flight helmet, but these are different externally and internally and were only made in small numbers. In the years since I obtained these helmets I've only ever seen one for sale. They're rare but not valuable as in worth heaps of money. They were manufactured at Rostikinsky in NW Moscow where all the standard leather helmets were made, but the big difference is the use of the same noise cancelling headsets that the cloth ground crew helmets use. These use the glycerine filled earpads and the larger Ukrainian made speakers. The speakers are only different from standard in physical size; they still have the same 1500 ohm resistance. There's no literature or documentation on them, so I can only assume they were designed to try for noise reduction in certain helicopters, possibly the larger Mi-6 and Mi-26. Having said that, I reckon they'd go ok in the screaming Il-76 transport. The low bypass Soloviev D-30 turbofans on them are deafening. I have two of each of these helmet types spare, so will be sending what you see here to each of the collectors overseas (minus the foam heads).

Apologies for being off topic as it relates to E-bikes and scooters and not cars. With the new legislation coming into effect on July 1st., I'm noticing quite a few showing up on FB marketplace. In this region you don't normally see many for sale, but that's changing with the new restrictions. An example is this E-scooter on marketplace for $300. It has a 48v battery, 500w motor with a 20-30 klm range and a top speed of 35kph. I don't think I'd like to be standing on it at 35kph..

Good on you octave for being able to make a life long career doing something you have a passion for.

I don't know about that correlation between brain hemispheres and politicl leaning though. Look at people like Matt Canavan who has gone full circle from Marxist to leader of the National Party.

In that example I gave of plant operating, the right hemisphere is handling the blade work (or a bucket in the case of a digger) and the left side is dealing with the constantly changing numbers on the GPS.

Yes, particularly for people who read music, use sheet music and all the mathematical side of music.

The two sides of the brain work together, it's just that different skills and functions are controlled by one side or another. While a particular task in hand might draw on right brain function for the bulk of it's operation, the left hemisphere is still in the background performing it's tasks.

The Van Gogh example backs up the idea that nobody is born favouring one side of the brain or the other. Depending on what people do, they use one side more than the other. Plant operating, eg: driving machines is one field where it makes a difference.

It's a known fact that a lot of people tend toward toward either a predominately left brain or right brain way of thinking. I say predominately because everyone uses both hemispheres, but most people favour one side or the other. Left brain thinking is the more practical side and the right side is the artistic side. You do your tax return using mainly the left hemisphere and the right side for painting a picture, playing a musical instrument and all that stuff. When you daydream, you are using the right side of your brain. There's a good book on how to draw by Betty Edwards titled 'Drawing on the right side of the brain'. In it, there's some good examples of progress. She included a drawing by Vincent van Gogh when he was first learning to draw (at quite a mature age). It was a real shocker, and typical of someone who is totally hopeless at drawing. Then she gave an example of his work 18 months later and the transformation was massive. In that time, he'd learnt to see things with right brain perception.

Probably just the one he had in mind Marty, I don't think he claims to be an expert on the subject. Good on him for starting a thread; it's the content creators that keep forums going and gives the reactors something to react to.

I didn't attend any services this year as I've got my vehicle half pulled apart so no transport, and possibly a good thing as it was pouring rain. I watched the televised dawn service held on the beach at Elephant Rock at Currumbin on the Gold Coast, and I think it was the first time the Currumbin service has been televised. With Gallipoli being a beach landing, the dawn services held on beaches seem to have a bit of extra effect. It was a good service to watch, with a bit of everything from letting homing pidgeons go to John Williamson finishing the service performing his song True Blue. Every Anzac Day I can't help thinking how sad it must have been for some families with multiple losses. You see it quite a bit on small town cenotaphs where there will be three or four of the same surname listed, especially on the WW1 section. Most are usually siblings and/or cousins. Our extended family has only ever lost two members, my great uncle killed in France in 1916, and my nephew in active service with the Navy in 2011. My other great uncle returned home safe from service with the Lighthorse in the Middle East and my father and maternal grandfather both returned home safe from the islands in WW2. My Dad's sister was also in the Army as a nurse in the AANS, but she served in Australia only.

It's amazing what you can find on the AWM site if you have a good scratch around. A couple of years ago I was doing some research on my Dad's service in WW2 and was looking at 2/9th. Battalion photos in the AWM collection and spotted him in one. He wasn't named, but it was definitely him. Unfortunately the photo title didn't give much information but I got the impression it was a PR photo showing the battalion command along with some randomly picked ordinary ranks, as I couldn't recognise any others from my Dad's section or platoon in the photo.

We've got a local town a bit like that but it's not immigrants, just hoards of ice addicts. I don't feel at ease there during the day and would never go there at night, not that I have any reason to. Last week I was there and got talking in the street to a bloke I used to work with. He told me he was in town at night recently and a couple of them with a knife came up to him and demanded money or they said they'd kill him. He threw the bloke with the knife off the footbridge into the creek which is a long drop, and the other bloke wouldn't give up so he was forced to batter him a bit until he ran away.

I've saved heaps of fuel the last few days being stranded with the vehicle up on blocks. Got the rear leaf springs out at moment, so no dawn service tomorrow unless I start walking now.

I've given up thinking about the extra $1.50 above normal price for diesel after getting the list of vehicle repairs needed from the local mechanic. Apart from a couple of tyres, I'm up for a full set of shocks, spring shackle bushes, front disc rotors and pads, control arm bushes, steering arm rods and ball joints, cv drive shafts, and that's just the urgent stuff. Makes fuel look cheap.

You don't have to be a rocket scientist to see how the post appears when each quote is precededed by 'willedoo said'. That's the problem with the way quotes work. You would have been better off just cut and pasting the relevant section, that way the quote would not attribute the words to me. I'd be happy if the mods kept the post up but removed the sections attributing the quotes to me. As said, it's in context to anyone who has read and understood my preceding post, but some people don't do that, and to them the post appears to be attributing those words to me which is not acceptable.

I'll know to just post a link next time. Or stay off the politics thread so there's no next time. What a fukwit thing to do Jerry.

Jerry, your posts have the appearance of quoting me as saying those things and I find that a bit offensive and would ask the mods to remove your post. For everybodys information, those are not my words and the appearance of the post is a misrepresention. Marty asked GON if he knew what One Nation's policies were and I quoted their immigration policy from the One Nation website to help clarify the debate. As a neutral observer of the ongoing sparring with GON, I must add. Jesus Jerry, that's a shitful way to misrepresent someone. I know you didn't intend it that way, but just look at how that looks to anyone who didn't read the background of my post. If you can't delete, I'll see if the mods can do it.

According to their website, this is what they have as immigration policy: Deport 75,000 illegal migrants because Australia’s immigration laws must be enforced, not ignored. Visa overstayers, illegal workers, and unlawful non-residents undermine national security, drive down wages, and take advantage of public services meant for Australians. Cut immigration by over 570,000 people from current Labor levels by capping visas at 130,000 per year to ease pressure on housing, wages, and infrastructure. Stop the skilled visa rorting that allows cheap foreign labour to undercut Australian workers. End the student visa loopholes that turn study into a backdoor to permanent residency or low-wage labour. Stop the Administrative Review Tribunal being abused with endless, weaponised appeals that clog the system and delay rightful deportations. Immigration enforcement must not be held hostage by legal loopholes. Reintroduce Temporary Protection Visas a proven, effective policy that prevents permanent residency through the back door and deters illegal arrivals. Deport any visa holder who breaks the law. Weak law enforcement policies have put Australians in danger for too long. If you commit a crime, you lose your visa and the right to stay. Introduce an eight-year waiting period for citizenship and welfare, ensuring new arrivals contribute before they take. Refuse entry to migrants from nations known to foster extremist ideologies that are incompatible with Australian values and way of life. Withdraw from the UN Refugee Convention because Australia will not be dictated to by foreign organisations when deciding who we accept into our nation on humanitarian grounds Marty, I think you could look it up yourself but sparring with GON wouldn't be the same if you did.

I've worked wth a lot of traditional owners over the years. They vary a lot depending on the location of the traditional land. In areas where their ancestors were relocated, generally very few if any were living on traditional lands. All were mixed race and a lot born and bred in the cities. They used to come out to their traditional land to work with us as cultural heritage monitors. Very few had any experience or knowledge of it but they were put through training induction courses to teach them what was what. At times I sensed a bit of embarrassment on their part, particularly the city people who had to learn some of the most basic things like how to boil a billy. They were all generally good people but that sense of disconnect to their traditional land weighed heavy on them. On the other side of the coin, we sometimes worked with traditional full blood people who had never left their land. Some could barely speak English, but those that you could converse with were very knowledgeable about their country and the ways of their part of the world. I must admit, when I first worked with full blood traditional people in the early 80's, I got a bit of a surprise to see young men with big thick tribal cicatrices on their bodies. I thought at that stage in history it might have been a dying practice and only found on the older men, but not so. Tribal customs are still solid in some of those areas.

The stone axes are usually very easy to identify. They used to put a lot of time into smoothing them down to a sharp edge. Left fairly rough around the back end but the blade sides are usually very smooth and visually very obviously worked.

Sorry Jerry, I never thought to take any at the time. He's sold a couple but said it works out to about $1 per hour for the work that goes into it.