old man emu

No. But she did it about three days into a two month stay. She was in a real pickle for the whole time.

Must say that my wife got good service from a local GP and the local and district hospitals when she broke her arm as the result of a fall when we were in England for Christmas/New year 2012/13. Might have been an advantage that she holds a British passport. Perhaps also it could have been because we were not in a metropolitan area (Worcestershire).

OME

I copied and pasted this to another international forum I follow. I thought it was good ammo to fire back at the Yanks.

I'm starting to form the opinion that the government of the USA is a greater danger to Freedom than the Fascists, Communists, Zionists and Islamics ever were. Which is a shame because the average American is battling to keep his head above water like the rest of us.

Old Man Emu

Or the CAC-15 which could chew the tail feathers off a Mustang

OME

That's all very nice if you want to be attached to the Net 24/7, but what happens to those who have a life. I know Microsoft has stopped supporting it, but I have software that operates quite happily on XP Professional SP3. And I haven't got any quicker with my typing since I used a wordprocessor with MS-DOS way back when.

I'm not a Luddite, but these new OSs are not essential for everybody.

Old Man Emu

If it hadn't been for Triumph Meridan building motorbikes & aircraft components during the Second World War, we would all be pulling RICKSHAWS now & eating RICE .

DH Mosquito - built in Australia

Beaufighter - built in Australia

Curtiss Kittyhawk - built in the USA

Brewster Buffalo - built in the USA

CAC 13 Boomerang - built in Australia

CAC Wirraway - built in Australia

B25 Mitchell - built in the USA

PBY Catalina - built in the USA

Short Sunderland - built in England

DH Dragon, Rapide, Auster - commandeered from pre-war owners

DH Tiger Moth - built in Australia

Supermarine Spitfire - built in England.

I think we have to thank the Lend Lease policy more than the British aviation industry for our military aviation capability and fast food diet.

Old Man Emu

Dream job? Taking a busload to recreational pilots from O'hare, Chicago to Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Stay there for a week around the end of July beginning of August, then continue on the Wichita, Kansas, then to Reno Nevada. Follow that up to Seattle Washington, and finally do Chino and Van Neys in California. All the time stopping wherever we see an air show advertised.

OME

What does the chauffeur use on the Roller/ Bentley ? Nev

A Footman.

I'm so excited! My commercial licence arrived in the mail today. Oh what a life changing thing it is to have one.

Local sorties from A to B, helping people get on with business, holidays, education, sport. Maybe some interstate trips with those overnight stays that the old timers talk about. International jaunts are out of the question. After all, a Bus can't float.

I'll have to practise my singing - "the wheels on the bus go roung and round ...."

What? No. its not an ATPL, it's Department of Transport Authority to Drive a bus. I've always said I can't fly. I'm an emu, after all.

OME

Hope you are having a field day with the harvest out there at Henty. You're taking in canola, aren't you? How many tonne to the acre are you getting?

I can sympathize with you. It was 39 at Camden this afternoon when I went out for my ride.

OME

Went for a ride on my bike this afternoon. I paid $1.37 per litre for 91 octane 100% petrol. Then I rode 25 kms towards Sydney as passed a servo of the same company. They didn't have 91 pure, only 91 E10 at $1.47 per litre.

I wonder why less petrol, further from the fuel dump costs 10 cents per litre more.

OME

Powerin ... I didn't mean to accuse you of tax fraud as though I am without sin myself. If you do use fuel for private use, but add it into your farm's fuel bill, good on you. That's a bit that the Man don't get. No doubt over a tax year your wife delivers more in GST to the government coffers through her shopping for your family than my wife does simply because prices for things which attract GST are lower in Sydney than Henty because of the transport cost involved in getting stuff from the coast to Henty.

I suppose the Bogey Man in all this is the bloke who sets the price for Singapore fuel.

OME

But really, you guys should be taking advantage of price cycles. On Monday the Terminal Gate Price (the wholesale price the service stations buy it at) in Sydney for ULP was about 128c/lt. So if the pump price is down around this level then they are selling at a loss. It won't go lower than the TGP, so keep an eye on that and you know when the bottom of the cycle is coming..... http://www.aip.com.au/pricing/tgp.htm

 

The price of canola dropped by nearly $20/tonne the other day. So a semi load of my canola is suddenly worth $500 less than it was. Have a little think about that next time you lose a few bucks when the price of fuel goes up

With respect ...

If a woman's cycle was as unpredictable as the petrol price cycle, she'd be hospitalized for stringent gynecological treatment.

How is it that the TGP for ULP in Sydney for the weekend 14-17/11/14 was $1.28, with no price quoted for Saturday and Sunday, yet around midday on Saturday the price suddenly jumped to high point of $1.49? There were no deliveries to the servos on the weekend. (Figures from the site you linked to).

You must also remember that the price you pay at the farm gate for fuel is basically a business expense that can be applied to your taxable income computations. I'd bet London to a brick that you claim the majority of your fuels coming onto the farm as being a business related expense, even if some of the diesel is used to go into town in the Toyota for shopping. (Good luck to you f you can). However, we city dwellers cannot write off any of our fuel purchases against taxable income, even if we were claiming that the fuel was used in a vehicle that only went to and from our place of employment. Also, the virtual absence of public transport in most residential areas of Sydney (and other metropolitan areas) necessitates the use of privately-owned vehicles.

You should count yourself lucky that the price you pay for fuel is an "average" of the TGP over a season. At least you can put realistic figures into your long-term business budget so that you can defend yourself against rising fuel costs.

The reason I created the title "Highway Bloody Robbery" is that I know that no other factor than the whim of fuel retailers was responsible for the jump in the price of petrol the other Saturday morning.

Old Man Emu

While you're at it, get your missus to bring her knitting needles and wool. I need a revolutionary new scarf 'c cause it gets cold on the parapets.

OME

Thread drift?

Maybe yes, maybe no. But definitely a free place to have a bit of a rant.

What this country needs is a revolution to install a nationalistic dictator who is prepared to say "Enough is enough! " and pull the exploiters into line.

If it hadn't been for Hitler's anti-semitism and expansionism, Germany would be in a better position today that it is, and it would not have had to cop a military flogging in the process. The only problem with dictatorships is that the term "benevolent dictatorship" is an oxymoron. I suppose that to create a Utopian society it is essential to expel Greed and Mis-use of power. Like that's gunna happen.

OME

Here is what the President of the NRMA had to say concerning this topic in the Nov/Dec 2014 issue of The Open Road

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Old Man Emu

we've got hundreds of years supply of LPG at a cost of around 1c/litre

No we haven't. The oil companies sold it to China for 9/10ths of three parts of bugger-all per megalitre.

OME

So, OME, are you still walking? Surely you don't expect government of the people, by da rabbit, for the people?

I can still run the pants off a kangaroo ... just.

Yes. This collusion did go on under the Labor Government. I suppose that my gripe is that Parliament sets up bodies like the ACCC, pours the sheckles in, and then realises that they've made a rod its own back and ignores the body's reports.

It all reeks of "Taxation without Representation" to me. What if we nationalised the oil industry?

Old Man Emu

I'm sick and tired of being robbed by the gang of highway robbers lead by Oily Company and his flock of squawking Pollies. And I reckon the local sherrif, A Tripplesea is in cahoots with them.

I went out on Saturday morning get a few ingredients to make a Christmas pudding and noticed that E10 was $1.29 per litre (before fuel docket). I returned home about 11.00 am with the bits and pieces that I bought and found that I needed some other things. I grabbed a petrol docket and went to refuel my car while I was out again. Lo and behold! The price had jumped to $1.47 per litre - 18 cents for why?

All the servos along my local gasoline alley upped the price at the same time, but none of them had received a delivery of fresh fuel. Did I miss something at the G20 conference that caused a world war to erupt? No. The news said the G20 dignitaries were at a bar-b-que.

So what was it that added $10.80 to a 60 litre tank of fuel? Collusion between the oil companies, pure and simple. That's illegal, isn't it?

Should I complain to the Federal Government? Pretty useless. The price hike scored them 1.8 cents per litre, or $1.08 per tank, in GST revenue.

Should I complain to the ACCC? Damned useless. They have carried out a number of rigorous inquiries into collusion between oil companies and found that the suggestion of such collusion is ridiculous and unfounded.

I suppose I should just man up and express my thanks to all of those politically astute Australian voters who put that budgie-smuggling, mouse-that-roared into the Lodge.

But bugger you lot! I didn't fill up!

Old Man Emu

And just to hijack the topic:

OME

Yeah. He was talking about the glass. He told me that the rest of the stuff within the case was the province of a real electronics expert.

OME

Spoke to my son about the $120 replacement cost -v- your $15 part.

He agreed that your price is pretty fair for the part, but what you are forgetting is that the rest of the cost of the repair pays for business overhead, labour, specialist tools etc, etc.

The biggest thing you are paying for is the skill of the repairer. He estimates that about 99.9999% of the population (including electronics DIYers) don't have the skills to be efficient in replacing the part. I've seen him battle away for hours replacing one screen, and he has studied the technique.

That having been said, he said that your quoted price for the part is a reasonable retail price.

Old Man Emu

It's one thing to be buying the latest mobile phone just to be a dedicated follower of fashion (good line for a song, that), but my son is a senior IT manager who has a need to keep abreast of the State of the Art. Consequetly, there are more mobiles phones than Ma Bell abandoned around the house. Fortunately, most have been supplied through his employers, so costs are minimal.

I must agree that replacing screen is a massive cost and difficult job.

Does the Clear Prop DIY suit an iPhone 6?

Also, don't you need a very specific heating tool to remove and replace the

Looks like he's got the balls for the job!

OME

. I mostly do 2D but the 3d looks pretty cool , I see some of the guys here are doing some pretty nice 3d modelling .I'm open to suggestions, as I said I mostly need it for 2d , and I need it to be reasonably priced, as I'm not a drafting business ,I just do my own stuff in house,

 

Matty

Matty asked for price to be a consideration in any suggestion made. While programs like Rhino, Spaceclaim and SolidWorks are great professional programs, they are pricey. If he hasn't a lot of 3D experience, then he should kick off with one of the suggested Freeware programs until he has got his mind converted from working in 2D to 3D.

OME