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Why are you all so critical of Chump. He may publicly be all about fossil fuels and stuff the environment and renewables, but secretly, he is an ardent environmentalist and has shown the lengths he is prepared to go to save the planet by staring a war with Iran. It is about oil, but to stop using it: https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/iran-war-fuel-crisis-gives-electric-cars-long-term-boost-2026-03-24/ We all should be thankful for Chump's extraordinary leadership. (pls take it with the sarcasm it was meant).

A French, a German and an Italian spy are captured one day. The captors grab the French spy, take him to the next room and tie his hands behind a chair.They then proceed to torture him for 2 hours before he finally cracks, answers all questions and gives up all of his secrets. The captors then grab the German spy. They tie his hands behind the chair in the next room too and torture him for 4 hours before he finally cracks and tells them what they want to know. They then grabbed the Italian spy. Once again, they tie his hands behind the chair and begin torturing.4 hours go by and the spy isn’t talking. Then 8 hours, then 16 and after 24 hours they give up and throw him back into the cell. The German and French spy are impressed and ask him how he managed to not talk. The Italian spy says, ” I wanted to, but I couldn’t move my hands.”

Most them have aged pretty well, considering they were nearly all into excessive amounts of drugs, sex and rock-n-roll - and many weird working hours.

You first need to get rid of the tens of millions of idiots who support him, and who post on FB pages that Trump has done nothing wrong, and he's the greatest leader America has ever had! Americans deserve all the shitty living conditions they're going to get, simply because they voted this moron in.

Trump knows what he's doing, just ask Nettinyahoo. Trumps scheme is to utterly bamboozle the Iranians by changing the direction of the war every day. He's simply stopping at present because someone told him at the rate they were burning up armaments and military equipment, they'd have to stop fighting next week. The 10 U.S. radar setups scattered around the U.S.-friendly Middle Eastern nations, destroyed by the Iranians in the last couple of weeks, have a total replacement value of nearly US$3B. And those radars were crucial to determine the what and where of the incoming Iranian missiles, rockets and drones. If you think it's been a costly couple of weeks for the Iranians, I can tell you it's been just as costly for the Americans. And those radar setups can't be replaced overnight - unlike Iranian Shahed drones. Another massive equipment loss was the KC-135 tanker, about US$80M, plus about 120,000 litres of jet fuel. In addition, several other KC-135's have been damaged by shrapnel and drone attacks, taking more aerial refuelling ability out of the equation. These U.S. losses are the reason the Yanks requested our Wedgetail AEW&C surveillance aircraft. Let's hope we don't lose it to some dumbf**k, trigger-happy Americans, or their Kuwaiti allies.

There's an actress that I haven't heard of in a long time. She was a stunner when she was young - when she got older, age and disease obviously weren't kind to her.

E-bikes and e-scooters are out of control, Australia-wide. Half the problem is the unlimited accessibility and ease of purchase of these things, the other half is no age restrictions and no training. And it's not just juveniles, either. The number of young males in their 20's riding these things at high speed with no registration, onto footpaths, then onto roads, then cutting through traffic, then back onto footpaths, is large. SWMBO and I were in Albany on the weekend. We filled up at an unattended (card only) servo, on the main road, Albany Hwy. We climbed back into the car and went to drive out the exit onto the highway - and a young bloke about 20 on an e-scooter, doing about 60kmh along the footpath, screamed past the front of the car, missing us by less than a metre. I was only going slow and looking back up the highway to my right for approaching traffic (there was none), and I didn't even see this bloke on my right, he was going so fast, he had no hi-vis or lighting - and the last thing I expected was a vehicle doing 60kmh on the footpath. Plus, there was signage, posts and other obstructions in front of the servo, that helped conceal the e-scooter rider. It's time laws were brought in restricting the sale of these things, a requirement for training and licencing (both bike and rider), and rigid enforcement of the rules. We've had idiots here just kill themselves, simply by falling off them at speed.

Superman actress Valerie Perrine dies at 82 after a long battle with Parkinsons Disease.

Do they provide armed security for the winner, to his car?

I think that is what I meant by I trust London drivers more than Melbourne ones (can't really speak for other capital cities in Aus). In London (and on motorways that are backed up), drivers will shift their cars away from riders to give more space. I have never had one move towards the marker to close the gap. Sometimes, because they are trying to get a view, they are already close to the side of the lane and sometimes they don't move when in that position.. but honestly, they are very courteous to motorcyclists over here. Actually come to think of it, on a backed up motorway, a truck driver I was scooting up on a lane closure and did plonk his semi in my way, but there was so much space at the time, I just went around him. I don't know if he did it out of spite or positioning for a lane merge as a result of a lane closure and didn't see me.

You wouldn't be the first to call me yellow... 😉

Whenever we buy most things, we pay tax - GST.. Maybe we should all get PAYE/PAYG tax decreases? Or at least get the same breaks as companies - Other costs such as transport, more formal clothing (regardless of whether it has a logo on it or not), should be able to be deducted? We should be able to contract ourselves out to a no-tax jurisdiction, and charge ourselves a massive amount for our labour out of the tax haven more than we get in our salary to build up the losses, claim that against our salary as a tax deduction and not pay tax at all... Then we are levelling up the playing field.

By that logic, the CEO's of Coles, Woollies, the banks, Qantas, et al, should pay less tax because their staff pay tax? The tax is in what THEY earn, not their staff.

I quoted net profits after tax and all outgoings.

Jerry, it already has got way out of hand where I live. It's not just 10 or 20 kids hooning around town, there's dozens of them all over town causing problems in the afternoon after school. It's bad in the whole district, but my local town gets singled out in the press as being the most troublesome standout area. I think it's to do with the geopraphy and layout of the town and where the school is sited. It makes it easy for the kids to roar around and not get caught. What's brought it to a head lately is the number of deaths and injuries to riders and pedestrians. The police don't have the resources to be chasing them all over town every afternoon, it's only a small local station.

Where you have untrained, unlicensed, and uninsured people able to operate vehicles that, for the most part, have the same capability as those which come under the road regulations, what should be done? Yes, motorcycles are capable of well over 100kpoh, but we are talking urban use where speed limits are between 30kph and 50kph for the norm. sometimes 60 and 80.. and on the freeways 100mph. Force = Mass x Velocity.. Even an electric scooter and 16 year old hitting you at 60kph is going to hurt and as we have seen, can kill.. I am one that is against spoiling it for the rest because of an errant few, but this has the potential to get out of hand. You should see the issues in cities in the UK. If a notty 15 year old bangs into the side of your car causing $1,000's of damage despite not injuring anyone, I hope you;re happy to pick up the bill.. More and more kids are getting these, and more and more are modding them, the laws of maths tells me this cannot be good without some form of restrictions. And in some cases, banning seems the most appropriate - much easiuer to enforce than checking each bike to see if it has been modded.

It's a yellow jerry can (not you Jerry) so the caption should say "diesel".

You still have to watch out for the occasional bike-hater who moves towards the line when you're filtering. Thankfully they're rare. I've found the fairly loud engine rumble from my bike is usually an advantage when doing this, as the cars know you're there and the nice ones pull over a bit to give you more space.

When things are going his way, it's always his idea. When they are going wrong, he'll blame the first person to come along.

Tell me about it. I was going to lay on a TACO trade, but decided even this was too big for Chump to go flippantly into TACO mode. How wrong was I?

Motorbikes are designed to travel at 100kph (or a lot more). Every component is a lot more heavy duty than something the size of a bicycle. Then consider controllability with tiny handlebars, ineffective brakes and suspension. I think banning something where you can't see the difference between a legal version and an illegal one would be very difficult to enforce.

High or low sulphur?

U.S President Donald Trump suggested Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was the first to advocate military intervention against Iran, telling a Tennessee roundtable: “Pete, I think you were the first one to speak up, and you said, ’Let’s do it because you can’t let them have a nuclear weapon.’” The Iran war enters its fourth week with conflicting administration accounts about decision-making. Some officials claim Israel was preparing to strike regardless, while others cite Iran’s nuclear threat. Trump said Iran’s retaliatory strikes were unexpected, contradicting reports that internal warnings were issued but ignored. The conflict has killed 13 American service members and caused a regional crisis. Trump extended his Monday deadline for Iran by five days, with uncertainty about how the war began and who ultimately decided to start it. The war began with US strikes in late February and expanded across the region, with over 1,500 killed in Iran, 1,000 in Lebanon, 15 in Israel, and 13 US personnel.

A lot of people these days (and I am sure in days gone by) have substituted real happiness with material happiness.

Despite the CBF1000A haviong a notorious reputation for buffet with its standard screen, my short posterior stature must hit the sweet spot, as I don't get any at high speed. Of course, when I am passing a boxy vehicle like a van or a truck, the wholle bike likes to do a minor boogie dance in their turbulence, but I had that on my VFR750 and ER6F as well.. Yes, debris can be a real pain at these speeds.. I have had the odd stone thrown up and hit me, but the protective gear makes it noticeable but not hurt. However, it is rare. The motorways here are really well looked after and there is little of it. In fact, I can't think of any debris that has hit me on the motorways.. it has been on A roads - usually the A303. It is about risk assessment and the Motorways here are brilliant for higher speeds.. Or at least the ones I travel on mostly, which is the M3, M4, M5 and occasionally the M40. When I last rode, I also used the M1, which was also excellent. I must admit, it is one thing I am really going to miss about the UK when I return to Australia. I heard a rumour that some Australian states banned filtering in heavy and slow moving traffic, but a check of Google tells me that it is legal in all states/mainland territories. Phew!Although, I have to admit, I trust London divers far more than at least Melbourne drivers when it comes to filtering.