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Given the right (or wrong) conditions, that is.

The most prone to swaying is the middle trailer on a conventional triple. They can get a sway up with the front and rear trailers fighting against it, not unlike a dutch roll in an aircraft.

ome, by short roadtrain, I'm assuming you're referring to B-doubles.

It's interesting seeing how preferences pan out. The Victorian Liberals retained the seat of Nepean in yesterday's by-election. They had a primary vote of 38.5% and a swing of 9.6% away from them (most likely to One Nation). After preferences were allocated they ended up with 63.5% which translated to a +6.8% swing. One Nation was in second place with 24.7% primary vote which could account for a fair bit of the Liberal preference gain. Third place was the Independent on 21.3 primary and in fourth place the Greens on 9.3 primary. That's the two candidate preferred final percentage figures estimated on the Independent polling in the top two. It might change slightly due to One Nation ending up in place.

How's this one for an example Nev. I'm only about 77kg but can't shake the belly fat no matter what I do. While not huge, it's not ideal either. I don't drink alcohol, the only animal protein I eat is seafood, don't have dairy products, gluten, sugar or any sugary foods or drinks. I eat almost no processed, packaged food and never eat junk food. Diet consists mainly of grains, fruit and vegetables. I get quite a bit of exercise for someone my age, partly targeted, the rest from physical work. Every day I do heaps of gut related exercise, sit ups etc., yet still maintain belly fat. There hardly any fat on my body, just around the midriff. There's nothing left to cut out of my diet, zero saturated fat and zero sugar, only the natural sugar found in fruit. There's a lot of people around like that who have the same issue. Also too many who eat all that stuff you listed.

I heard on the radio a couple of days ago the median house rent in Brisbane is $780 p/w and $650 for units. It makes you wonder about the top end content in those median prices and how many affordable places are still out there. It would be interesting to see numbers of houses in various price ranges that result in those averages.

A lot of physiotherapists live in a dream world. Standing on two feet with your eyes closed is a pretty good effort for anyone in their eighties, one foot is unneccessary risk taking in my opinion. Most people aim to do it on one foot with eyes open.The only physio I've ever been to that knew what she was doing was a young lady who migrated here from Mumbai. All her assessments and advice were practical, common sense and effective. And it was all verbal with some written take home instructions, very old school. Most of them these days are all about box ticking. They take your money and send you home with an exercise programme where you have to log in every day to their site and tick boxes saying you've done the exercises. Not worth two bob. There's heaps of physio mobs jumping on the bandwagon to hoover up medicare dollars via care plans using BS like that. It's a license to print money.

It's fairly basic. onetrack, you're lucky enough to have a fast, fat burning metabolism like my dad had. You couldn't fatten him. A lot of people aren't as lucky and have slow metabolisms and a tendency to accumulate fat around the midrif. There are people who are vegetarians, don't drink or eat any fattening food and do heaps of exercise and can't shake the belly roll. And to diet it away doesnt work either as it's the last to go; the rest of the body will wither right away before the belly does.

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.