GRIPES

[facthunter]

I think you have to be on the Pension (old age) to get that so it's effectively Means tested. Makes it so you can't wait to Be near destitute doesn't it?  So you qualify for all these good things. Nev

[willedoo]

1 hour ago, Marty_d said:

You're right - I must have forgotten. $755.

Is the bike over 30 years old? I think that's a requirement for SI.

I thought people over 60 got a discount on rego too. Don't want to make any assumptions but I'm reasonably confident you're in that bucket...

 

 

Marty, I thought in Tasmania there's no pension discount but pensioners can have a second vehicle rego free. That was a few years ago I was told that and it might not be right. If it is, it would only be the registration component free, not the insurance and any other charges.

[willedoo]

I just looked it up. Tasmania does have a pension or eligible concession card holder discount for one vehicle only, $60 for a car or $55 for a bike and an insurance discount as well. I don't know whether they class an over 60 senior's card as eligible. In Queensland a senior's card is elegible, a 50% discount on the registration component which is about $140 p.a. saved.

https://www.concessions.tas.gov.au/concessions/vehicles

Edited March 17 by willedoo

[red750]

Not sure if I mentioned this, but I renew my car registration for 3 months at a time. The renewal reminder received in December said $116.34 for 3 months. The one received a week or so ago said $116.34 for 1 month. My daughter had the same occur.

 

She rang VicRoads today and they said they were aware of the error in their system, but had not issued amended reminders.

[willedoo]

Suckerbook really knows how to annoy people. Went to log in tonight and they now have a Google security thing going. First you have to check a box to tell a robot that you're not a robot. Then you have to do a series of those things where you click on all the squares with pedestrian crossings or cars or motorbikes. I had to do about four or five of them.

[red750]

Yes, and those images you have to check are so damned small on a laptop, it's almost impossible to see them.

[willedoo]

The verification is a bit hit and miss in my case. I'm logged in all the time on my phone so no problems there. With the laptop, I have a dynamic IP with my server so get a different IP every time I boot up and FB thinks it's a login from a different device. Also the IP geolocation can be 800klm away from where I actually am, so they think someone in Townsville is trying to log into my account. Usually they just ask to check notifications on the other device (phone) so I just pick it up, check notifications and click the verification that it's me. As soon as that's done the FB page on the laptop automatically loads. That method is nice and simple, but this clicking on pedestrian crossings bs really sucks. Even if you get it right the first time it's a much slower verification method.

[Jerry_Atrick]

7 hours ago, onetrack said:

Yes, you are covered for personal injury, loss of earnings, and death in a motorcycle crash with your rego, because there's an MAIB (Motor Accidents Insurance Board) insurance premium included in the rego cost.

Then that probably explains why it is more than a car.. Even a minor bingle on a bike is going to have a lot more chance of needing a payout/rehab than a car. 

 

I pay £26 for my son's road tax; His insurance though, is £1700/year. Not much damage a 125cc bike can do compared to cars to others.. Of course they can kill and write off another car, but the probability of that happening is much lower than a car doing it. But, he is covered and he is more likely to do majkor damage to himself than if he was in a car. 

 

My road tax is £121 (which is currently more than a heavy BEV. which is currently zero but going up to an average of about £200 - my motorcycle is still disproprtionately more than the BEV for the damage to the roads). However, the road tax here goes to consolidated revenue.. not ear marked for roads and other motoring facilities. My insurance was unbelievably only £450-ish... And I am more likely to do much more damage to others with my bike than my son. However, I guess at my age, I am a lot less likely to do too much damage to myself. I am a far more placid rider than I was 10 yeasrs ago. My filtering when in London is no where near as marginal as it was. 

[Litespeed]

That prices are rude,your son's is like $2800 a year just to register and 3rd party. 

 

 

[onetrack]

Young motorcyclists are greatly over-represented in the injury and deaths road toll, and the premiums reflect that cost. They love wrapping the throttle on away from the lights, with no thought to the consequences - because they're young, male, and invincible!

 

I can recall a young woman in court locally, sobbing her heart out, as she faced a manslaughter charge for killing a motorcyclist. The charge should never have been brought.

She pulled out of a sidestreet in her little car, onto a major arterial road. She stopped and looked both ways and saw a motorcyclist to her right, a substantial distance away - so she pulled out.

The problem was - that young male motorcyclist had just wrapped the throttle on, in a 60kmh zone, until he was doing over 120kmh. She didn't have the driving experience to judge that he was coming at double the normal, expected speed. 

The young motorcyclist couldn't stop, and he buried his bike in her car, right behind her seat and B-pillar, spinning her car around, as he did so.

He died almost immediately, and the relatively uninjured young woman faced the trauma of seeing the carnage inside her car. It would stay with her for life, and no-one deserves to see that.

On the manslaugher charge, she was found not guilty, and rightfully so. The judge was pretty scathing of aggressive motorcyclists who don't believe road rules apply to them.

[Jerry_Atrick]

1 hour ago, Litespeed said:

That prices are rude,your son's is like $2800 a year just to register and 3rd party. 

 

 

He is fully comp insured.. but third party is privatised. 

 

And yes, the prices are astromimical.

[facthunter]

Astro Mimical??? I don't copy that. Nev

[Marty_d]

What a start to Easter... Had to clean a 30kg fatberg out of our grease trap this morning.

Probs should clear it more often... 😄

[facthunter]

Don't grease traps PONG?  Nev

[nomadpete]

40 minutes ago, Marty_d said:

What a start to Easter... Had to clean a 30kg fatberg out of our grease trap this morning.

Probs should clear it more often... 😄

That's your punishment for swanning around the mainland watching plane porn.

[facthunter]

There is NO Dog.. Fatbergs Happens. T. a Bot.  Nev

[facthunter]

  T abott....HE said "$#!t Happens" in Afghanistan when he was talking to the troops, there.  I guess that Helped them get through the day.  K.Rudd called it a "God forsaken Place' which would no Doubt go down really well with the Locals . Nev

Edited April 3 by facthunter

[old man emu]

A lot of you blokes have griped about the amount of rain you have been getting over the past few months. My gripe is waking up every morning to blue, cloudless skies for months on end.

 

It's not as though I live in a desert, but it would be nice to see a few inches of rain falling over a week or so. We got a downfall a few weeks ago from a passing frontal system. That sprouted plants in the paddock, but since then it has been dry, warmish (low 30s) and wind. The green tinge is truning grey, and there does not appear to be any chance of rain in the offing.

 

I live where once the usual farm raised sheep and grew wheat. OK, new cops like Canola and beans have come in, but that doesn't change the basic fact that it is a crop growing area. I wonder how many farmers will be taking the punt and dry sowing. I expect that teh financial risk is too high when combined with the high fuel prices.

 

Well, I'm not worrying about cropping, but I sure am missing the rain.

[nomadpete]

3 minutes ago, old man emu said:

I sure am missing the rain.

But it brings such a lovely mouldy patina to my boots.

And I haven't needed to water anything since xmas. 

 

Oh, sorry. Gripes thread, eh?

 

 

 

 

 

Damn! My tanks are STILL overflowing!

[facthunter]

There's a reason why you Miss out on rain from many directions where you live. It's where it is. Nev

[old man emu]

I can't prove it meterologically, but I think that I live on the boundary of the northern and southern climate regions. That being said, it does rain here enough for agriculture to be profitable. It just hasn't rained sufficuantly for nearly are year. Prior to that rain we had a stinking hot summer and another one since.

[facthunter]

Regions are Just lines on a Map.  air Mass analysis and the topography around you affect what weather you get. You get consistent Low humidity and therefore Higher evaporation rates and Less cloud formation.. Best source of Moisture Is Tropic Oceanic air Mass. At Least you don't have to Mow the high Grass Like I do.  Grow Cacti. Nev

[old man emu]

1 hour ago, facthunter said:

Less cloud formation

I've seen clouds forming throughout the day, and then watch them drift away in the late afternoon. After sunset I see lightning downwind where the clouds have gone.

 

1 hour ago, facthunter said:

Regions are Just lines on a Map.

Yep. We can draw lines on a map for our information, but the information they give is that there is some sort of boundary between two climate types.

 

1 hour ago, facthunter said:

Best source of Moisture Is Tropic Oceanic air Mass.

That's definitely true, but when you have the Great Dividing Range between you and the ocean, not much moist air gets over those ranges. Even the eatward moving remnants of the tropical air masses coming from the Indian Ocean sweem to pass to the north along the Queensland border.