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Trumps middle of the night rant attacking and threatening Bruce Springsteen for speaking up against him is a good reason for another song remake by the Boss. "Not born in the USA", it could be about Trumps wives.

My Gripe of the day.... Our Social Australia Forum does NOT have a "Groan" emoticon. There are times.....

It's ONLY a "Fill In" Job till a better one comes along. Nev

Apparently only 250 tickets have been sold in the whole of Australia. Quote of the day comes from Justin Smith on Sunrise this morning - I'd rather French kiss a cheese grater than watch that movie.

Copy of my post in the Putin topic American crude oil is sweet (contains less than 1% sulphur), but their refineries set up years ago were designed for sour crude (>1% sulphur), which is why they need foreign crude. https://www.fuelstreamservices.com/why-the-u-s-cant-use-the-oil-it-produces/

Maybe we've Groan out of it? Nev

American crude oil is sweet (contains less than 1% sulphur), but their refineries set up years ago were designed for sour crude (>1% sulphur), which is why they need foreign crude. https://www.fuelstreamservices.com/why-the-u-s-cant-use-the-oil-it-produces/

I've discovered the economic growth area of Russia. It's.... Media ! "Kremlin spent 1.9 billion USD on propaganda last year, the budget exceeded by a quarter" Since any allegation is false unless there is a cite... https://www.debunk.org/kremlin-spent-1-9-billion-usd-on-propaganda-last-year-the-budget-exceeded-by-a-quarter

There was a lot of union activity in (about) 1980. I recall some unpleasant police interventions in the news then, and later. The details have dropped through my memory cracks

Sounds good, a Aero themed bike sounds cool. A Ejector seat is a great gag, when racing a sidecar it certainly felt like you would be ejected if not hanging on for life as the monkey. A good anvil is valuable, the cheap Chinese cast ones suck and crack easily.

I have finally finished my book with the title Hidden Rivers of Gold which covers the origins of Deep Lead Mining, the technology and challenges, and the final years of mining in the Carisbrook-Moolort area of Victoria which led to huge financial losses and very little gold. Characters involved included the State Premier and a future president of the USA. This was all around the turn of the 20th Century. The book can be purchased through online booksellers including Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Fishpond, Booktopia and Angus and Robertson. Prices vary a lot, and some are in US$ so check carefully. The book is published by Echo Books.

The Rat Bike style is merely another manifestation of the owner's self expression in the same way that choppers or cafe racers were. They are an art form, and it is up to the viewer to like or dislike them, in just the same way the viewer likes or dislikes other other styles of artistic expression. Being an art form, one can dismiss the idea of riding them safely because they are not meant for that function.

I meant Troy or avoirdupois. I couldn't see which scale of units was used. I never ate my carats.

From the dark recesses of my dark and twisted mind. Therefore, in the current climate of teh information highway, it must be true. If the oil in USA fields is good for everything, what is produced from Venezualean oil?

Logically, No one could be Blamed for what their ancestors did as you had No say in it. Things can be recalled and recorded out of the Context in which the event Happened also. The Bible does have the concept of "ORIGINAL SIN" which I find completely Unacceptable. I mention it in passing as I am Atheist. Fear of the unknown or People who are different is often fostered to stir things up or get votes. There's nothing new in that. JAW JAW is Better than WAR WAR. WAR is MADNESS. The first WAR started over something that today would be settled by discussion. IF the People that DECIDE to go to WAR did the actual fighting there would BE NO WARS.. Life is CHEAP where Money and LAND are Involved. Nev

That's in Bad taste and small things amuse small Minds. USE of FORCE is Part of His Modus Operandi. He's about as Subtle as a falling Brick Chimney. Nev

If you go into the reply box, click on the emoticon button in the toolbar and type Groan in the search box, you will get this -

HE HAS to Be the BEST and HAVE the BEST. That's CRASS Not CLASS. Nev

Sadly, it's probably one of his classier moves, when compared with everything else he's done.

See? Needed again!

Doesn't Trump like taking other people's trophies?

With a RAT BIKE the Only thing clean is the Oil Now and again. Polishing the bike is a NO NO. It HAS to LOOK Unloved. SOME Choppers are a real work of Art. THEY GET Polished, engraved and everything. Nev

Riding a Motorbike safely requires you to be VERY situationally AWARE. Your Speed, Other traffic and the Road surface. You are More aware without a Fairing. Some Bikes can Tank SLAP. I would not OWN one. Don't be too Proud to run a good steering Damper. Bikes are Better bang for your Bucks than Aeroplanes with all the crap that Comes with aeroplanes. Starting LATE with Motorbikes doesn't help. IF you are NOT comfortable riding DON'T Keep doing it. Nev

Yeah Newscorpse. Where truth is accidental.. Protect Your SANITY. DON'T read it OR you become Brain DEAD and NOT worth Talking to. Nev

People Turn to GOLD in times of great Uncertainty. Nev

Melania is a "Trophy Wife". Nev

Russian Oil - https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/9/how-india-plans-to-continue-buying-russian-oil-despite-sanctions Gold (dated, last year):- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-21/russian-precious-metals-sales-to-china-hit-1-billion

Pennsylvanian oil was considered the Best for Lubrication. . Where did you get THAT info from OME? I've Never heard THAT before. The Large Venezuelan reserves are not considered top Quality. Refining these days is not just a fractionating tower. They use Catalytic Cracking and all kinds of things to make what is Most in demand. Most synthetic OILS are Made from LNG. Nev

Further Russian economy trends... I read that Russia sold 25 tons of gold to china. And also have been selling bargain oil to India for $22 per barrel. I'll go back and find the sources of this, in case it is propaganda

It must be time to start up a "pothole repair" business, as a highly profitable side-hustle, Jerry. "Mr Pothole" here on the Left Coast charges like a wounded bull, and makes substantial profits. https://www.mrpothole.com.au/

The problem for the USA is that the oil on their own lands is not suitable for modern vehicles.

Wouldn't you like to still be in the game with gold at $5000/oz? What sort of ounce is that?

If you are "mindfull" it's best to stop riding. It's a dangerous condition. I also think "mindempty" is dangerous.

There's the problem. You need faster potholes.

I don't remember the ruling in Joh's day, but the authority to order three or more people to move on came in with the Police Powers and Responsibilities Act in the year 1997 under the Borbage National-Liberal Coalition government if my memory is correct. The act had a follow up version in the year 2000 under Peter Beattie, so it might have been in that later version, I'd have to check. Original post edited.

Thanks Litespeed, that's good info. Luckily the advantage of rat bike builds in the context of guards and panels is that the more imperfect it is, the better it is. Rust, oxidisation and generally worn patina is the order of the day. The main thing I don't have is a proper fair dinkum, original old anvil. It's hard to get a good second hand one under $1,500 to $2,000 these days, crazy prices. I've just got the usual stand-ins for smaller anvil work, eg: railway track and a piece of UB for flat work. One thing I do have is a lot of old aeroplane parts, so I might be able to find a few handy bits and pieces there. For the sidecar seat, there's the option of an old cast steel plow seat like the bike will have, or a Martin Baker, or an Antonov 2 seat. The issue with the aircraft seats is that they might be too wide for the copper boiler ; I'll have to measure them up.

I was part owner of the Fairplay Gold Mine at Higginsville, W.A. from 1972 to 1990, when the mine was sold to a large gold mining company. The brother, his wife and I mined and produced around 600 ozs of gold in that period, utilising the Norseman State Battery (a 10 head stamp mill, owned by the W.A. Govt). Gold was ignored and only worth around $35 oz when we purchased the mine from two old Slav prospectors. But U.S. President Richard Nixon had taken America off the Gold Standard in August 1971, in a staggering display of non-consultative, "executive" Presidential power. It was called the "Nixon shock", and it rattled the worlds financial markets - and led to a rapid rise in the price of gold, now the gold price was no longer controlled by the U.S. We knew this would happen, and purchased the gold mine accordingly. By 1975 the gold price was $160 oz and by 1980, it was over $800 oz, and there was another gold rush on. At that point, our strategy of utilising an under-utilised and cheap source of ore crushing went to hell in a handbasket, as scores of prospectors turned up at the State Battery to crush parcels of ore. A queueing system for crushing was initiated - but even worse - the Govt imposed a very sharp increase in crushing costs to reduce the State Batteries ever-increasing losses (the State Batteries were always subsidised to encourage local employment, bring in gold revenue, and to assist in prospecting work that might deliver new and profitable mines). At that point, we turned to the large (200,000 tonne) tailings dump on our mine, which still held an average of around 2 grams/tonne of tailings. We took on 3 business partners who had experience in heap leaching and cyanidation of tailings, and between all of us, we developed an improved design of tailings leach vats, which proved very effective and very profitable. The benefit of treating tailings was the ore was already crushed very fine, it just had to be set up with the correct pH levels, be able to contain a cyanide leach solution, and to have a simple circulatory pumping system. The addition of activated carbon in stainless steel tanks finished off the treatment process, and it was a very simple job to set up a small, single-cylinder Lister diesel pump to circulate the solution until the activated carbon was full of gold! Then the tanks would be taken into Kalgoorlie to be stripped of the gold, using a caustic solution, by professional carbon tank strippers. The final product, gold "dore" bars were taken into the Perth Mint, which refined the gold to the Internationally-accepted gold bar standard of 99.999 (%) fine gold. After we had re-treated all our gold tailings on the Fairplay lease, we re-treated many more tens of thousands of tonnes of tailings, from numerous other tailings dumps we had pegged. It was a very profitable period for us in the 1980's. Then, after we ran out of tailings dumps of our own to re-treat, we went on to build tailings vats on contract for other operators that needed to re-treat their tailings. We re-treated tailings and built leach vats for well over 2M tonnes of tailings in the 1980's, from as far East as Ejudina, 150kms E of Kalgoorlie, to Burtville, SE of Laverton, W.A. - right through the W.A. Goldfields, to even Marble Bar! It was a very interesting period, and one that was highly profitable, and not a period I'm likely to see again! The sheer pleasure of holding a large gold bar that you've produced and poured, is something that few people experience.

One of his Epstein victims has reported she bit him on the dick when she was forced to perform oral sex.

Trump Told Melania to Parade around More A Leggo near naked to make the Other BLOKES Jealous of WHAT HE HAD. Isn't THAT Classy? Nev

Oh, but that only happens in Roosia and chaynah! (& maybe Faux Newts) Surely NOT our patriotic merde media?

well, here is the vid of the road where the potholes are. There are a few of them: Nice to get on the bike again.

Melania's new blockbuster documentary: MELANIA (on the phone): "Hi Mr. President. Congratulations!" TRUMP: "Did you watch it?" MELANIA: "I did not. Ya, I will see it on the news" Funniest line ever and they actually put it in the official trailer for the film. So embarrassing any serious editor would have left it on the cutting room floor, but it tells you all you need to know about the pair of them. Actually, maybe it was editing genius.

Yeah - I did build a lot on the question.. I could have let it go to the keeper as it is an innocuous comment at the end of the day. But these "simple" questions often (and I am not saying in this case) belie or at least allude to a deeper agenda. But, the other problem is, society is becoming ever more polarised because of transgressions passed that have no bearing on the people of today (except we are bound to learn from them and improve society). As a result, we aree seeing an increase in civil violence. None of us were directly involved with the taking of Australia from Aboriginals, and I sympathise with the concept of Invasion day, but rather than using it as a weapon to integrate better, it is being used as a weapon to divide the populations and now you have attempted or hoax bombs being thrown into the demonstations. While there has always been a hard core of Nazis since WWII, sadly, even in Australia, they are managing to attract more and more who were not Nazi sympathisers or hard core, and they are probably no more than disenfranchised with the way things are going, and possibly being sick of labelled eveything from a mysoginist to racial vilifier or some such stuff. Over here, division of society is being sewn from the slave trade over a hundred years ago, ironically when there were no slaves in the UK. Yes, the UK participated in it and yes, they profited from it, but the apologists are now calling for all sorts of stuff and no one is saying it was actually the UK (or England) that ended African slavery!" So, nowm you are getting more people fed up being labelled something they are not because of previous generations' transgressions, and resentment as well as moving the support base to the dodgier part of town (e.g. the more white supremacist part of town). You try speaking to many younger white males these days. Many are feeling they are victimised because they are protrayed as representing many of them don't represent.