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Cool use of a old Goldwing.

Interesting use of a WW2 Type G-1 low pressure oxygen tank as a fuel tank. The photo looks AI generated but it's not; I enhanced it as the original was fairly low quality.

Stopped in Huonville after an excellent ride around the Channel - Margate through to Cygnet. Barely any traffic and a gorgeous afternoon. Coming over a rise after Gordon, there's nothing but water in front with a fishing boat coming in and the Hartz mountains in the background - absolutely stunning.

Inyourfacebook. I use it on a daily basis with just the one account. Mainly for Marketplace and accessing special interest groups; one of which I'm the founder and co-administrator of. The other main use is FB Messenger for keeping in contact with people. I'm in almost daily contact on Messenger with a best mate I've known since we were kids playing in the mud with our toy soldiers. Messenger gets an extra workout during football season. We were both captain and co-captain of the school football team, and usually are both watching the same games on TV every week so there's a lot of running commentary going back and forth on messenger during games. Nothing beats a good old fashioned phone call for keeping in touch, but Messenger is good for more regular low key contact. There's plenty of special interest stuff on Facebook. A couple of Indonesians I follow, one in Java and the other in Borneo, are classic and vintage motorcycle enthusiasts and it's interesting seeing the photos and videos they post on an almost daily basis. They're mainly old British bikes, Ariel, AJS, Matchless, Velocette and BSA with the odd German bike as well. I think most of the old Harleys that were in Indonesia have been hoovered up by the Americans over the years. They were on to them back when I was there in the 1980's.

What is the Word of a Proven Liar worth? Nev

The geran 4 drone is powered by a Chinese model aeroplane motor. Can you imagine a model aeroplane with these specs? How would RAAus cope with me flying in one of these? Discard the explosive payload and fit a windscreen & seat! "Militarnyi had already published 850 km range, a 350–500 km/h speed band and 450 kg weight on 3 May 2026;

I confess. My remark about US chips in Geran drones was cherry picking. A quich web search told me that Russian drones contain materials from many countries, including USA.

The USofA has been abrogating its responsibility for a long time. The trump administration has just taken it out of the shadows.

Trump is a Traitor who cannot be trusted by anybody. Putin Helped him get elected. Enemy Interference in USA Presidential Elections but that's OK somehow?.Nev

A report I saw said that Musk came up with the idea and suggested it to Trump who thought it was a great idea, so someone pressed the off switch. Apparently the system still hasn’t been fully restored.

It's been reported that the Starlink speed decrease was ordered by the White house. So that, along with the purchase of diesel from Russia in contravention of their own sanctions, means that Trump is an active accessory in the illegal invasion of Ukraine by Russia. I'd love to see the kompromat that Putin holds on Trump. Given that Trump visited Moscow with the Miss Universe or some similar competition, it's not hard to guess, especially as Russia are known to install cameras and bugs in hotel rooms.

I have had two Facebook accounts. The first used my first and last names, and was used to keep in touch with family, friends and former colleagues. Meta closed it down, possibly because I made too many derogatory comments about Trump. I opened another account using my middle name as surname, but that was also eventually closed down by Meta. However, when my wife died, her account was not closed, so I use it. I have not linked anyone to it and have not made any posts. Her former colleagues are still linked and they would question how she could be posting to it. I use it to get things like the picto-grams and geometry puzzles I have posted in the Brain Teaser thread, jokes I post in Quickies Pt II and silly photos posted on this site. When I left school 62 years ago, I had failed Leaving Certificate, now known as HSC, so knew nothing about new maths. I had never learnt about BODMAS or PEMDAS, and didn't know about factorials, denoted by an exclamation mark (5 x 3!). I only learnt about these through Facebook. Many people rely on Youtube for all sorts of information. I visit it occasionally for videos of specific things, but keep up to date with Facebook, particularly what lots of Americans think about Trump. There are also lots of comedy reels, such as Whose Line Is It Anyway, and other comedy clips. You don't have to post on FB, but you have to have an account to see much of the stuff on there. You don't even need to use your name. I had one friend who called himself Russ T Nails, another colleague who used their initials, Kay Elle Ess.

Not sure it's what trumpy did, or Elon, or Kegbreath. But in Ukraine, starlink recently suddenly stopped working for any receiver travelling faster than 100mph. It is used for anti missile/drone intercepts. The Ukranians sent a Starlink device travelling at speed from Ukraine, into Europe and back. The starlink worked perfectly once it crossed out of Ukraine. It stopped as soon as it came back. Military Starlink is controlled by USA. So USA is actively preventing Ukraine from defending its own territory. Also, investigating a fallen Russian Geran drone has found US semiconductors in its computer pcb. USA is now working for Putin.

I don't DO farcebook either..Nev

Is THAT moving UP in the World??. MOST of the People on TV are Paid Propagandists. Nev

Typo correction: However, she's moved up in the world and is now on TV...

Credit where credit is due. Karoline was very good doing the job she was hired to do. She was quick witted and alwys seemed to be up to the minute with the messages she delivered. You could often pick some little white lies, such as when she said she had spoken to Trump earlier in the day. Since he has a reputation for not getting going early, her statement was most likely a porky. Howeve, she's move up in the world and is not on TV and likely to get her own show!

Oh, I thought that if she wasn't dimwitted, the only alternative would be dim ethically. As Nev pointed out, donold primarily selects minions based on blind loyalty. And maybe lip size. Is that a metaphor for blind lip service?

You obviously don't have a Facebook account.

I never click on these links.

Yes, I know it's not an old car, it's an old bulldozer. A machinery mob in Oakey have this Vickers Vikon Dozer on marketplace, not selling it, just looking for information. Until now I didn't know Vickers made dozers. According to the owners there were only twenty one Vikons made and only two running examples left in the world, this one and one in New Zealand. It's powered by a supercharged four cylinder Rolls Royce diesel engine and is built on the track system of a Tetrarch light tank, which were built by Vickers Armstrongs Limited in the 1930’s and used in WW2. The Vikon was build in the 1950's. The video is of the New Zealand example at Wanaka. Not the prettiest bulldozer I've seen.

Another scam by the man.

It's useless anyway. Musk himself said the rocket version would be illegal on public roads. And if it's a normal EV weight (plus the weight of the rocket system) then one of the 5 second stunts it did probably drains the rocket fuel.

Karoline Leavitt was no dummy. She was confident and articulate and a very good press secretary for the Trump administration if you only judge her performance on those terms. It’s a pity she was batting for the wrong side and mostly spreading fact free propaganda, but she did it well.

And not their intellect - at least not that of his preferred (mostly blond) choices. That leads some to believe that blonds are not intellectually gifted. Obviously not always true but convenient to the christofashist view that females are lesser than males.