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How unbelievably dangerous is that bloke standing on the handrail of the scissorlift! Look at all the cardboard boxes he could've stood on, instead!!

Happy Birthday, Peter, you're now officially a GOF, a Grumpy Old Fart.

She's an angry, nasty piece of work, and operates on the same principles as Trump, sowing division and hatreds. But she's happy enough to take as much of our white money as she can get.

The pre-pay bowsers have a dollar amount that you select, this dollar amount is taken as a "holding charge" against your credit card, but when the tank is filled, the dollar amount actually taken is recorded, and the holding charge on your CC disappears after a day, to be replaced by the exact amount of fuel purchased. Costco operate on this basis all over Australia, they do not handle any cash.

And combustion also produces a considerable amount of acids, which do serious damage to engine internals. Oil contains additives such as detergents that deal with acids from combustion by neutralising them.

So, what you're implying, is ..... the head count often failed to come up correct, when flying out of Tassie?? 😄

They worship Guns, Money, and God in that order. They claim to trust God, but their real trust is shown to be in guns. They even take guns to their churches, showing their lip service to their God. They put God on every single note of their currency, but once again, it's lip service, and the real God is money, worshipped by the vast majority of Americans. It's interesting that in the Biblical records, God became angry with the Israelites for turning to worshipping Baal, symbolised by the Golden calf. Baal represented wealth, prosperity, and the acquisition of gold. It's no coincidence that Wall Street has a massive statue of a bull as its centrepiece, and it's no coincidence that Trump worships gold like no other American does.

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I never buy anything but Roma tomatoes if I can. They're "meatier" with more flesh, than the other varieties.

Bruce, salt in the air from ocean spray rarely carries any further than about 20 to 40 kms inland. Nev is correct, the salt is still leaching out of our soils, because we have the youngest continent of all the continents. In planetary ageing terms, it only popped up from under the sea yesterday.

Yeah, but ... you gotta remember, "some people just need killin'!". You have to shake your head at the Americans response to their "family protection" problem. They can never see the elephant in the room. Get a read of "Mauro Martinez's" attitude towards "justifiable homicide" and the Australian Michael Hewitts reply, in the Quora discussion below. https://www.quora.com/What-are-Stand-Your-Ground-laws-Do-any-Australian-States-have-laws-like-this-If-so-how-does-our-system-differ-from-theirs-and-why#:~:text="Stand Your Ground" laws allow,case by case%2C emphasizing proportionality.

Who does it better?? .... Australia or NZ? ..... https://www.facebook.com/reel/497516849649674/?s=single_unit&__cft__[0]=AZXJI_tvX3PjR5bTsBO2xWObYpWCGEHXFB5NG3aAkSbXSwR3UYEPjwNQS7-NIWD-yEn4zBnx5WZW-7d7yeWImTbekSU8kuauMlzqs010iCVBl2ap6AafZqe-eNHcD7mTII-VAUHmoBsGfobPFj35uPRWYkmX_zOEr6MTeND9w8pt7v3mha7SwTPFVDOQt-BGBvk&__tn__=H-R

This stunt of NK troops turning up to fight against Ukraine must be ringing alarm bells in every Western military strategists office. It's ramping up the war to a whole new level. This should mean Ukraine can strike NK or any of its ships at any time, as the two countries are now at war. Little Fat Wun obviously sees this as a precursor to taking on SK and the U.S., and their Western Allies.

I was always taught to leave little engines on compression, to prevent valves sticking, when leaving them for any length of time. Yes, the Hondas are bad for valves sticking open when left in moist or humid conditions.

Lemon-scented gums and Marri (Redgum) are the two worst trees for SBD that I know of. I never walk under any Lemon-scented gum without looking up, and I knew a number of fellers who would never sit in the shade of a Marri any time. Just recently, a big Lemon-scented gum dropped a limb in our local Kings Park that overlooks Perth, and it seriously injured several people. The main route into Kings Park, May Drive, is lined with huge Lemon-scented gums, and I trust none of them. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-01-26/wa-several-injured-as-tree-falls-in-kings-park/103395646 I see where a young bloke was killed by a big Whitegum that fell on him and his swag in Victoria. They'd had recent rain and strong wind, no doubt they were factors in weakening the tree. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-19/victoria-kevington-tree-collapse-man-dies/104493314 I also knew a couple of old farmers in the wheatbelt, they were bachelor brothers in their 70's. They had a big tree by the front gate of their farm, that they'd driven under, for probably over 60 years. In an incredible turn of events, they were returning to the farm from town one day, the brother driving stopped at the gate, and the other brother got out to open the gate - and as the bloke opened the gate, the big tree by the gate fell on him, killing him instantly! Talk about, "come in number 99, your times up!" 😞

Falling trees and logging have to be about the most dangerous occupations you could ever get involved in. I never cease to be amazed how many older, professional loggers are killed by trees and logs. Those trees and logs are out to get you every minute of the day, and you only need a few seconds inattention, or make a mistake, and they've nailed you.

Nev, what happens to the Honda after 15 mins at full power? Does it overheat?

Proper loggers use steel wire rope and D-shackles for logging, and they always have a braking method for the log. Dragging one end on the ground isn't such a silly or power-wasting idea, it does stop the log from getting away from you. Even a small slope can become dangerous if you have no way to brake a trailered log. Loggers spend all their time thinking about, and ensuring log stability. A log can roll on you right after it's released from restraints. Think one step ahead, and work out all the potential danger scenarios.

Because it's the only font that all Americans can read?

No, it's a bastard child of a highly illegal Korean-German mating attempt.

A. The first letter of each word is in alphabetical order.

Gee, that's a lot older than me, when I first left school and lived in a rented farmhouse in the wheatbelt with the brother, we had a party line phone with a local manned switchboard, where you had to ask the operator for a specific person - but that phone was this style of handset. We had a couple of miles of heavy gauge iron wire suspended on poles, running through farmland to the highway, that we had to maintain. It wasn't unusual for a big Salmon Gum to drop a branch over the wire, and put your phone out - whereby we had to go an do our own "fault tracing"! The girls on the switchboard would regularly listen in to your calls, so you kept the discourse to a minimum.

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Oh, you mean Francesca Marlene de Czanyi von Gerber? She came from Hungarian parentage. I'd forgotten all about her, she kept a pretty low profile in later years. I wonder why she never had children, despite being married to the one bloke (who was also her manager) for 52 years?

You get what you pay for. I've heard some stories about rings made out of chewing gum, and no doubt the QC is pretty hit and miss. If you want reliability and long life, you can't go past the genuine article, it's hard to kill a Honda. However, having said that, I bought a firefighter off eBay, powered by a no-name Chinese Honda copy. I only wanted it to transfer a bit of water around from collection points to tanks. It cost me a whole $186 delivered! However, when I went to fill it with fuel, the petrol poured out on the ground, as fast as it was going into the tank!! 😲 A little investigation showed the fuel hose from tank to carburettor had never been connected! It took me about 20 minutes to fix, I had to R&R the tank to fit the hose, and go find a hose clamp! Despite that, it fired up no problem, and has never missed a beat in a few hours work since. But I'm not so sure I'd want to rely on saving my house and my skin, on a cheap Chonda-powered firefighter!