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You were handed a gun once.

You know, and luckily for us, well it would be if our Gov had the brains to do it anyway. Thing is, they don't even need a brain - which s just as well, all they have to do is study what's working for other countries and what they're doing here to this degree, hasn't worked for any of them. Would you believe, even Musk is warning about Australia direction, saw it just the other day. Wtf has he got to do with anything but that just shows you how bad it is.

I've been advised I'd be banned if I carried on about conscription. But in terms of the Feast & Famine Variable, Australia was in famine while we had it, and we went into feast when it was stopped. All the protests stopped, and the young men all went back into civvy employment one way or another. It wasn't easy, but we rejoined the workforce becoming productive again. We moved out of "famine" and into "feast" Mass immigration is causing a similar "famine" effect. Only a reduced and more controlled outcome will place us in "feast" again regarding immigration. "Feast" meaning settling everyones' minds to a calmer state.

Dunno if this was to my rant but every tradie l see is a younger guy. At any rate, and what about all the things it's ruining? Don't you care about your country and people, our young peoples future. l don;t even know any privileged rich kids and l wouldn;t be worried about em if l did. Thing is, we've now had 2mil in the last few yrs and they're bringing more. Down to 35% Australian by 2035, what, you feel nothing. For one thing, if they brought the right ones, we'd have 2mil more of all those jobs. But no, only 7% of that 2mil, were people we need, 7%. This s about them hiding the real economy and numbers, not new workers. Asians and Indians you mention, l've got nothing against them l agree , there are others though that just shouldn't be here, call that whatever you want but even the cops have said it. And note l said only for 5 yrs or so, maybe longer but who knows. During that there'd still be some natural migration bc of the families but what these morons are doing is not that. Your not seeing the big picture. And on jobs even, Aussies use to do all those jobs and they would again but they'd also start training and doing apprenticeships again well, if the Gov fixed the real economy so that their people could afford to do those jobs again, they can't atm they'd be living in tents on rice. Anywayyyyy, l'm talking about a huge picture and a country, not just a few things. There are much smarter people that me explaining exactly all l'm touching on and warning about it all, go listen to them- or you can do what l suggested other post, just look at what it';s all doing to other countries. Then , look aat tthe countries that are doing exactly what l'm talking about and the improvements and reversals there.

I know a bloke who's well balanced - he's got a chip on both shoulders. I think he was born that way.

The original Flying Flea:

Remember that lightweight Royal Enfield called the Flying Flea made for airborne troops, Royal Enfield is putting out a light electric bike named the same.

It's been a long time between posts. My main shed renovations are at the stage of a much needed clean out, so I'm getting to the point of sorting some stored flight gear and moving on superflous multiples and unwanted items. I've decided to gift these helmets to a couple of collectors I'm associated with, one in France and the other in Greece. They're extra to my requirements and are better off where they're appreciated instead of a life in storage. I got them from a lady in Vinnytsia about twelve years ago, and realising how rare they were, I bought all of them, hence the extras. At first glance, they look much like the garden variety Soviet leather flight helmet, but these are different externally and internally and were only made in small numbers. In the years since I obtained these helmets I've only ever seen one for sale. They're rare but not valuable as in worth heaps of money. They were manufactured at Rostikinsky in NW Moscow where all the standard leather helmets were made, but the big difference is the use of the same noise cancelling headsets that the cloth ground crew helmets use. These use the glycerine filled earpads and the larger Ukrainian made speakers. The speakers are only different from standard in physical size; they still have the same 1500 ohm resistance. There's no literature or documentation on them, so I can only assume they were designed to try for noise reduction in certain helicopters, possibly the larger Mi-6 and Mi-26. Having said that, I reckon they'd go ok in the screaming Il-76 transport. The low bypass Soloviev D-30 turbofans on them are deafening. I have two of each of these helmet types spare, so will be sending what you see here to each of the collectors overseas (minus the foam heads).

WIllie - If they made it into a fold-up job, it would be ideal for throwing into an aircraft, for a bit of speedy transport at your destination! But you're right, it needs a seat. I've noticed a lot of the footpath scooter riders slowing down, there must be some education or law enforcement or confiscation of scooters going on. Here on the Left Coast, it seems the police are giving short shrift to juveniles riding illegal souped-up scooters on the road - they just confiscate them, and crush them. There was a gang of juveniles on these things, terrorising both pedestrians and motorists, in the Northern suburbs a few weeks ago. Seems like the police sorted them out, caught the ringleaders and crushed the scooters.

Ho-hum, just another casual shooting incident, and another day in America. But I wonder what would have eventuated if a large number of deaths had occurred? Lots more guns being handed out, no doubt, just to make sure EVERYONE was armed to the teeth!

Shooting at White House Correspondents’ Dinner https://7news.com.au/news/donald-trump-evacuated-after-incident-at-white-house-correspondents-dinner-c-22194210

Apologies for being off topic as it relates to E-bikes and scooters and not cars. With the new legislation coming into effect on July 1st., I'm noticing quite a few showing up on FB marketplace. In this region you don't normally see many for sale, but that's changing with the new restrictions. An example is this E-scooter on marketplace for $300. It has a 48v battery, 500w motor with a 20-30 klm range and a top speed of 35kph. I don't think I'd like to be standing on it at 35kph..

No, I'm pretty balanced. My feast and famine sides cancel each other out.

If you really had this "balance" sorted out in your mind, you wouldn't be carrying a lifelong, enduring and bitter grudge, against those who demanded that you be conscripted into the military.

I think you must have been studying some kind of pyschological quackery, to produce this "feast and famine" talk, involving thought processes and political leanings. I've never heard of such a thing, and I've heard and read about a lot of exotic ideas, around the workings of the mind.

Well you need to be taught too, how to balance things out in your mind. Otherwise, you are dominated by only one side of your brain.

I though you might not understand you own psyche Onetrack. While ever you are like you are, you are only contributing the famine side of the human thought process. In order to have a healthy mind, there must be an equal amount of feast *and* famine in the thought process.

GON - I'm no left-leaning Labour supporter and I consider myself pretty non-political. I've voted Liberal, NP and Labor, according to the issues of the individual election on the day. Also, I do vote, meaning I still have trust in our institutions. That doesn't appear to be the case in your situation, you claim all political parties are unrepresentative of the voters. But I do object to the constant right-wing whines about how all immigrants hate Australia and how the "White Australian culture" is purposely being subsumed by foreign immigrants from cultures the right-wingers love to project hate at. By doing so, they only place themselves in the same boat as the small number of Islamics who DO hate Australian values and our way of life. I don't need to denigrate Pauline Hanson, she can simply bring scorn on herself with her erratic and illogical outbursts, and her obvious hatred of anyone who isn't White European, and who comes from a different culture. But above all, she proposes things with no firm plans or vision, she just loves to agitate and see agitated people.

GON, I'm using both sides my brain to follow your arguments and logic, but not having a lot of luck so far.

Onetrack appears to be a left leaning Labor supporter, and reviles against white Australians with regard to the issue of immigration of all sorts of ethnic people, judging by what he wrote in his long post. Had he been aware of how his brain works, that two hemispheres are supposed to work together, and had he used them, I doubt he would have come across as being so angry at white Aussies and One Nation. It was like he was denying other people the right to think and live according to their beliefs. You've heard me talk about the Feast & Famine Variable on occasions. I can plot it, and to plot it I need to become totally impartial, to everything. I can switch into that mode for the time it takes to do the plotting. There is lots of rightwing stuff, lots of leftwing stuff, lots of emotional stuff .. just about everything you can think of to assess and arrive at for a day's plot line. What I'm getting at here is that I can clearly see things from all sides of the spectrum without getting angry or emotional, not that we shouldn't at times, but we need to keep them well under control, and above all, know how it affects others. Onetrack's long post has more famine than feast in it, simply because of his intent to denigrate and ridicule and becoming emotional unnecessarily.

Snowy hydro now $42 billion! Nothing mor needs saying.

Good on you octave for being able to make a life long career doing something you have a passion for.