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They still have them. Stay & work here for next to nothing or get deported.

You are probably still in shock after getting robbed at the servo.

Wait up! Didn't you say it is a 170 mile commute? Now you tell us it was "under an hour"? How fast were you riding?

Amazing the rising tide of condemnation and calls for removal of the entire Trump administration. I was going to post a particularly vitriolic post but when I went back to copy it, the page refreshed and I lost it.

The World needs a regime change in the USA. Nev

Now he's turning his attention to regime change in Cuba. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/17/donald-trump-can-take-cuba-oil

Zelensky has just signed a deal with Britain for the manufacture of Ukrainian designed drones. One thing that we are ignorant of is how smart in the area of industrial design the Ukranians are. I think we have the impression that they are just farmers and miners, but they are industrially powerful.

Firstly, THANK YOU everyone for your concern. I’m ok — just a bit shaken up, but I’ll be fine. For those who don’t know what happened, I was robbed this morning filling my car up at the petrol station, ready for an early start. After it happened my hands were shaking, I felt dizzy and I was probably in shock. My money was gone, so I called the police. They were fantastic and even called an ambulance because my blood pressure was through the roof. The officer asked if I knew who did it… I said: “Yes… it was pump number 4.”

How big are the massive batterys in WA

Getting back to the US batteries in Iran..... I'd say Zelensky is chuckling about Donolds rejection of his offer to help combat Iranian drones. Donold would rather use Patriot missiles. Where is Dept of Govt Efficiency when you need it? A single Patriot (PAC-3 MSE) interceptor missile costs approximately $4 million. A full Patriot battery—including launchers, radar, and control station—costs over $1 billion, with individual missiles for export sometimes costing between $6 million and $10 million." $4,000,000.00 to zap a $35,000 drone. Gives a whole new meaning to "war of attrition". Presently USA is bleeding $1 billion a day on their "excursion" to Iran.

It is still in common parlance today

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He is fully comp insured.. but third party is privatised. And yes, the prices are astromimical.

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.

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

Not the best vid on earth, but if you have a couple of hours to spare (or skip a bit of it), here is a typical commute from the pub I stay at in Richmond to the parking at work, and then leaving quite late that evening... to stop and pay the bill in Richmond and onto the motorway. It was the first day I wore my heated gloves and they took some getting used to being a but bulkier than the previous ones, but they did the job. Complete with a dodgy filter, a little speeding (20mph for everything except the A4), and leaving the indicator on - outside Scotland Yard!! It is under an hour taking the long way, which is still 10 minutes uicker thasn I have ever done it from taking the train on the platform to the same location.

While the battery technology will still evolve quickly, early days is hardly how I would characterise it. In the UK, we are finding traction is really taking off.. There are battery charging only service stations: https://www.bp.com/en_gb/united-kingdom/home/news/press-releases/bp-launches-first-dedicated-ev-charging-and-convenience-hub.html I was mightily p155ed off when I had a very low running petrol tank on my bike and thought that servo was my salvation. The reality is today, battery technology is very reliable; the degradation is not anywhere as near as the dooimsdayers have predicted, range anxiety is a thing of the ignorant. They are more expensive to buy (but the gao is closing) but their reeduction in operating and fuel costs puts you ahead oif similar ICE cars in about 2 - 3 years instead of the old 5 years. Battery technology will continue to improve through a steep curve for a whilem but the context of what we normally mean to be early days has well and truly passed. I am holding off buying a used BEV because hopefully in a couple of months this house will goup for sale and sell, and it will be Aussie bound. But for reference, 3 year old cars on average have less than 5% degradation - most I have been looking at are in the 2 - 3 % range. With the normal distance range starting at 300km, and 500+ becoming common, I am not too worried about a 50% degradation over around 50 years (that is calcualted straight line, and I have a feeling the gradient will curve away as time rolls by.

Going around in circles.

Giving dad a beer keg. Jeez you could make a dozen answers.

But in Texas they probably still think slaves are great.

Ha, exactly what l've been saying for yrs. At any rate, on EV's l'd love to have one reckon they'd be very cool but no hurry really still very very early days in where all that's going ha, they can spend a few more yrs getting all the bugs out and fine tuning things for me ha ha. They'll get far far better. Actually Musks got an aluminium battery on the go atm . No nasties at all in it or needed and says it'll last twice as long to boot but even that'll be old school in another 10yrs. EV's will prob run and charge themselves down the track or God knows what none of it has even scratched the surface yet. Shame, doubt l'll ever be able to get one now though. l;m completely off grid. Whole country should be they don't even need infrastructure any building can run itself, schools office blocks shops plazas even high rise and most def every house in the country whole cities especially smaller towns . Only leaves a few things like heavy industry and such but even that Musk and the many others, China, all working on all that. Wouldn;t piss on Netflix Nev and only pay my Mob and internet, 40bucks a mth. Tank water no other bills except rates. Car stuff ofc.

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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.

Victoria's broke. Fossil fuels are estimated I think by the Austrlaian institute to be subsidised by $30,000 a minute: https://australiainstitute.org.au/post/ffs-fossil-fuel-subsidies-cost-australia-30000-a-minute/ Imagine if clean electricity generation, and the research to exploit it were subsisdised to the same tune. Your taxes are paying for you to have high energy costs, with associated high costs assocaited with the environmental damage and health complications it causes. That $40K per minute directed at the renewable industry would clean it up in a few short years.. And you would have less energy costs to boot. And if the government didn't change taxes, there would be more to spend as other costs would be reduced. And the economy is susceptible to global shocks per messrs Chump and Net. et al. Wake up, Australia!

I think Lang had an Auster. I have seen it.