Australia - you're standing in it
Good to hear ^^
@ Guy Smiley, nothing wrong with foraging for a few mushies. My old man had a book on how to identify edible fungi, and if he wasn't quite sure he would try them on the cat first. If it was still alive in the morning, we had them for breaky.
Well now I have even everything. Someone doing whip ins on a JetSki at Honeysuckle Bombie. All of 2 foot, with a paddler in the water.
Classic old-dog ;)
blackers wrote:Well now I have even everything. Someone doing whip ins on a JetSki at Honeysuckle Bombie. All of 2 foot, with a paddler in the water.
Saw these fuckwits fly past as I was walking on merricks beach, the photo below is from the 2nd reef cam just now, they’ve come from either Balnarring Beach or Somers yacht club, where are @blackers?, I’m nolonger in the area
Nice day for it GS. I saw it on the cam as well. Was regretting not doing the long drive.
Nice waves around this side of the bay yesterday and today, classic weather, mild, sunny, oceanic pulses , Gannets, Cormorants, Oystercatchers, Singing Honeyeaters and a Rufous Bristle- bird in the car park and a Southern Right Whale out the back doing backflips. Life is so good. AW
Lovely stuff fellas.
Gas saga latest episode:
https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2024/09/special-report-five-ways-the-ga...
Sobering and needed presentation of the pressing issues of this country in these times.
velocityjohnno wrote:Gas saga latest episode:
https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2024/09/special-report-five-ways-the-ga...
And this one shows how our government is complicit.
https://michaelwest.com.au/government-hides-gas-cartels-dirty-secrets-in...
Hello soggy
The first article articulated the Problems a High Gas price causes to Australians very well .
It put all the blame on the " Gas Cartels " .
What bullshit , so the Cartel is so fn strong it can't get approval for any of its So Called Members to even build a project in Australia .
They can't get banks 2 lend them money , even if they could .
What a weak as piss Cartel .
There's Woodside, Origin and Santos as the main Australian players .
They are the Easy Targets , not a scary Cartel !
Many didn't want Gladstone built and now they want to take the gas that China and Japan have LT contracts 4 .
Those Contracts allowed overseas banks to fund its development .
Let's get our Export Tax's right and build some NEW gas projects and keep 100% , NOT 40% , of the gas at home !
Australia is NOT Peru FFS !
I’m not standing under Pop?
^^^
terrifying...
not least the ambiguous all catching language in the legislation
dude looks and sounds like a chubby michael west...
where's that self important tool on this?
It's outrageous Sypkan .
Australia is going down the Misinformation shoot faster than the USA .
Mr Potato Head Dutton should be Up in arms about this .
It's not a Right spot and he should say so .
Very slack imho !
Pop Down wrote:Australia is going down the Misinformation shoot faster than the USA .
Mr Potato Head Dutton should be Up in arms about this .
Totally. Means he can't sue people for defamation anymore.
There goes that revenue stream.
If you're in the market for a 2nd hand Prado, choose colours other than red or white...
velocityjohnno wrote:If you're in the market for a 2nd hand Prado, choose colours other than red or white...
Good advice. I'd also be checking under the floor mats. :)
A man walks into a parts shop and says to the salesman,
"Give me two wipers for a Prado."
And the salesman replies,
" O.K, fair swap."
Years back I had a Peruvian fella I met OS come and visit. First morning we were driving around and he saw a Pajero, which, being a Spanish speaker, he thought was the funniest thing ever.
Then he saw a Prado which was his surname and he didn't know how to take it. Aussie cars were wigging him out.
Yeah pretty funny that they named a car “ wanker “ .
haha true but I don't think it was intentional, it was originally named after the Pampas cat, Leopardus pajeros.
I guess the marketing team didn't really think that one through.
And here we are, coming full circle. A car, driven by a pajero, which, like a pampas cat, does like the water.
They didn't think it through, then doubled down with the 'Pajero Sport'. They surely knew what it meant in Spanish by then?
It's a pity as it's good value for money with reasonably reliable powerplant and excellent 4x4 system...
blackers wrote:velocityjohnno wrote:If you're in the market for a 2nd hand Prado, choose colours other than red or white...
Good advice. I'd also be checking under the floor mats. :)
Fella I knew once drove dual cab (forget make) into a stream a bit deep, there were multiple weekends with it's interior stripped, in the shed, with hot air heaters on drying it out, he never did get the water out of all the electrics we think, as it was still a bit idiosyncratic afterward. Sold it.
Another used bargain to watch out for is the young one's mate's Navara, they exploded the front diff and pulled the whole thing out while on track, drove home in 2wd making a din with the front driveshaft... mate then decided to rebuild it himself, it was never the same, for sale at a local classifieds near you...
Ah, idiosyncratic. A fine, or at least acceptable, trait in an elderly relative but less desirable in your vehicle. Caveat emptor.
While we are bagging the cars of mates, a neighbour has a Grand Cherokee. Costs him a grand every couple of months.
I am getting rid of the X5 and was looking at the Toyota Land Cruiser .
After reading above , a Pajero ... Sport , might be more Pops Style .
Sounds alright to me and look as they can float .
Agujero'
^^ an old Jane Kitson joke about car names with the punchline and what sort of deviant would buy a Ford Probe?
The "I can't believe it's not politics" thread.