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A dry grass straw that is; you'll have a lot of trouble trying to get a soft green one up there.

When you stick a grass straw up a March Fly's bum and let it go, they fly off in a straight line and can't turn.

The straight-through drag pipes seem to appearing everywhere these days. Not so bad with a quiet steady rider, but I think a lot of others like to crank that throttle on just to make a racket. A mate of mine is putting Verex drag pipes on his new Bonneville, about $1,400 for the pair I think it is. He was a bit concerned about getting pulled up with them, but he's an old bloke and rides steady so should be ok. The standard pipes on his Speedmaster sound like a sewing machine. He checked up on putting the drag pipes on it and seems to think the warranty will be ok.

lt's quite nice being here a lot of the time it's a lovely property, though as l say l have still been getting v down at night bc of the situation itself. The indecision, just plain stuck on it and so the limbo and so then the time wasting away because of it. Not getting any younger l can hardly be bothered now but if this goes on, restarting somewhere else especially if that involves building which it probably would, either here or on some new place, either way that'll just get harder. Keep telling myself logically, well what's a few mths out right now, don't worry about it hell even if it takes 6-12mths to make a decision not really any harm butttt , on the other hand, not as simple as that.

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The Pope and Trump are on stage in front of a huge crowd. The Pope leans toward Trump and said, "Do you know that with one little wave of my hand I can make every person in this crowd go wild with joy? This joy will not be a momentary display, like that of your followers, but go deep into their hearts and for the rest of their lives whenever they speak of this day, they will rejoice!" Trump says, "I seriously doubt that. With one little wave of your hand? Show me!" So the Pope slaps him.

Pretty good innings.

That means Adelaide only got back half the number of wheels it lost to Melbourne.

Just on another EV related topic. BYD recently announced that development of Sodium phosphate batteries has proved successful and that BYD is moving towards full production of this type of enegery storage. I think that the main advantages of sodium phosphate technology is a lower cost of raw materials and the elimination of the fire risks associated with lithium batteries. BYD knows about economies of scale. Sodium phosphate batteries can only become the universal standard if the majority of manufacturers are using them. To get this change started industry-wide, BYD has apparently not patented the process, but is freelky sharing the knowledge with everyone who makes batteries. We shall see what we shall see.

Not quite a conversion on the road to Damascus, but it looks like I'll be taking my first ride in an EV next week. My son has bought a BYD Shark 6 for himself and a BYD Sealion for the family car. My son has a business pimping up 4WDs. He worked out plans to do what he wants to his Shark and has had initial talks with the sellers of BYDs, interesting them in his idea. If his talks produce anything, his business will contract to do up these cars as special vehicles, which will add something special to retailer's offerings. From what he says, he thinks he will be starting limited production around Spring. As well as doing this stuff with BYDs, he will still be doing similar work on the usual suspects. It's good to see a young man (geez! He's 36!!) having a go. I can only wish him success. However, no matter how successful he becomes in business, he'll still be my dickhead of a son.

Phillip Island has lost the MotoGP to Adelaide.

GON, that's an excellent question and I congratulate you for posing it. I like to see such posts from members.

Whenever it arrives, then post-Trump era will be hard on everyone - Americans and the rest of the World. The USA will celebrate its 250th year this year. Probably the only way it could move ahead is to critcally examine its present Constitution in light of the development of Democracy in other coutries, and re-write the Constitution to bring it into alignment with current concepts of what a modern democracy is. I'm not saying that the current Constitution should be torn up and thrown away. What is required is that the bits that don't work should be fixed if possible, or ditched. A prime example of a bit that needs fixing is the 2nd Amendment. In the 21st Century, it is anachronistic. While it may have had a good reason behind it when it was introduced, that reason holds no water today. It could be replaced with something that maintains the Right of a person to own a firearm, but requires such a person to meet the Responsibilities of gun ownership. (wishy washy enough for you blokes)

Not to Mention some Priests who betrayed the greatest trust. Christ Mentioned Putting "Stumbling Blocks" in the way of Children. There's some "Really Bad $#!t in the Old testament". Science was Opposed all the way by the Church. There's Plenty to Be critcal of. Nev

That is the irony of Charity. All Vinnies, LifeLine, Red Cross and Op Shops suffer from the generosity of people. I'm battling the same problem in the OP Shop I work at. Too much stuff donated; not enough staff to sort it, and not enough demand for what is put out for sale. I'm bagging up good clothing to be sent to Africa. Doing that is better than sending it to landfill. Also, our tip operator (local council) does not charge to tip. The Metropolitan charities lose bucket of money paying tip fees. It's bad when you live in a town with an aged population. Boomers are dropping off the perch and their kids are cleaning out theie houses and dropping off what they don't want to charity shops. Just think of the wedding gifts you received at you first wedding. Nowadays, no one has dinner parties so there is no need for fancy dinner sets or glassware. Then over the years people collect stuff like Tupperware and cookware. You can't sell that sort of stuff, but people keep donating it. We can't sell electrical items because we don't have anyone to Test 'n' Tag each item, but we continue to get it donated. You'd be surprised at how many items of clothing still have the original retailer's tags on them. I spent today packing up Mum's stuff to remove it from her room where she lived for the past ten years. I packed away CDs, DVDs and casette tapes, as well as their players. Who would want her out-of-date clothing. I have just poured opened jars full of jam down the sink. And there are all her creams, ointments and soaps that can't be given away. And her shoes and underwear. The only thing we can do is to wait until the end of the bushfire season and have a big burn up.

You Mean it's ALL Bull? Cheeses Crust. Is Nothing sacred? Next you'll tell me there's no Dog, and I'm adopted. Nev

It's hard to find Much else. There's still SUTTONS drills and adjustable reamers. The ONLY adjustable reamers worth buying. Nev

Um.. you guys do know it's not real, right? AI slop.

The same goes for christianity. Most followers and preachers are harmless. But if you read the bible - and I did, until I turned 20 and got a clue - there is some downright nasty stuff in there that it tells you should be done to people who don't follow the strictest literal interpretation. Slavery, stoning, and murder is fine for people not of your tribe or not heterosexual. Sound familiar? I wouldn't read anything Pauline said because she's a broken record, and she's dead wrong far more often than she's right. Yes we've just had a couple of rabid Muslims murder 15 people. Don't forget a rabid caucasian white supremacist went to NZ and murdered 51 Muslims. Any philosophy is dangerous if you take it to extremes.

There's at Least 3 types of Muslims. Shia, Sunni and Ibadi and at times they don't get on that well with each other. They believe that Christ is a prophet but Mohammad is Better. Nev

Till you slide sideways down a wet patch when your rail track slips. Nev

Yeah, but bulldozers don't have legs. They have their own "rail track" each side, and each track is simply twisted by stopping power going to that track, and by applying a brake on the track for a tight turn.

She's a polarising shit-stirrer in the extreme, with inflammatory statements, and to say outright, "there's no good Muslims", is unacceptable to most Australians. However, it's probably a good thing she opens her mouth like this regularly, because it brings about discourse on how we should treat immigrants from vastly different cultures to the original Anglo-Saxon European culture. When I was a kid, it was untrustworthy, "Dings", "Dagos", "Slavs", "Gyppos", "Wogs", "Slant-eyes", "Japs", and other cultures that were foreign to us that brought about a lot of friction. In Kalgoorlie in 1934, there was a major 3 day race riot, that took major numbers of police reinforcements from Perth to quell. 3 people were killed. Migrants homes and tents and even Hotels were burnt, and many migrants left the Goldfields for good after the riot. The riot was caused by festering cultural hatred of Southern and Eastern Europeans, and the belief that these migrants were securing local mining jobs by working for less money or by paying bribes to managers. A lot of that was true. However, the W.A. Goldfields settled down after better enforcement of job conditions and a requirement for naturalisation before taking up jobs. There was still simmering resentment for years afterwards, until the migrants children grew to adulthood and considered themselves Australian. The problem with the Islamic religion is that there are many conflicts in their Imams teachings. And the primary conflict in their teaching that goes against our Anglo-Saxon culture is that only Allah can make laws for Man. All man-made laws are therefore regarded as being able to be broken without punishment, as Muslims are not beholden to them. In addition, the Imam is regarded as having the ultimate position on decision-making as regards rights or wrongs. This places Imams as a defacto power broker, wielding greater power than any politician, policeman, magistrate, or judge. Until the day comes when the Imams abandon those teachings, we will continue to have problems with Muslims.

Bulldozers turn without shuffling sideways. Maybe have the Bull fully Articulated?. Like to see how it would get Up when it fell over. Nev

You say "This will draw the IRE of EVERYONE Here and then go ahead? Pauline wouldn't give a stuff. She Knows certain People will side with her somewhat extreme views and vote for her. She wouldn't care that there's 350,000 Moslems in Indonesia Just North of here, we don't wish to upset unnecessarily, that we get on well with, and that's a good thing. MOST of US would agree. Nev