Marty_d

He's been to Beaver Lick.

All in Kentucky... no wonder it's "finger licking good!"

I was talking about house light bulbs where you're paying to run 100w instead of like 11w, rather than cars.

Do we? 99.9% of people never drive in the outback. I've been up and down the east coast by car and motorbike, and over to Adelaide, but the only time I've been to Perth is a brief stop at the airport while going from Johannesburg to Melbourne. The whole thing is - you can still have your ICE car, getting an EV is not compulsory. Fuel will be available at service stations (maybe less stations) for the rest of your life. But the change is coming, because it makes sense. It's like an argument I had with someone on here a few years back who didn't like LED lights and wanted to keep his old 60w / 100w incandescents. If you want to spend more to run them, go for it, but don't think progress is going to stop because you don't like it.

I can't find that on Google Maps. However Kentucky does have "Lick Fork" which is, depending on your sexual preference, far better. Close to Lick Fork is the Twin Knobs campground, which makes you wonder what the locals get up to around there.

I'll be an animal and say Pox...

25%

Exactly! This way he's just getting some back.

Speedo in my Santa Fe goes to 240, which is the epitome of unfounded optimism.

Given the target was Nigel Farage, a more appropriate weapon would be a steaming bucket of bullshit.

In reality? Probably not. At the end of the day it's milk. It's not going to hurt you, it'll wash out. Actually should be allowed as a valid form if political protest. Pollies always want to milk the moment...

You may get more accurate figures from current actuarial tables than a 1800 year old piece of fiction, OME.

The gap always narrows on election day. Very few changes of government are "landslide", at least in this country.

Well said Jerry.

The only thing stopping me from jumping on the EV bandwagon is price. I'd be filling the shed roof with more panels and leave it plugged in all day. Lack of charging infrastructure doesn't worry me when you can do that. If prices come down much below 40k for a reasonable sized SUV type, I'd be very tempted to buy one through salary sacrifice. At the moment there's total fringe benefit tax exemption on EV's plus no GST if under approx. 70k. Plus the tax saved by leasing it thru pre-tax salary and it becomes quite attractive.

Lock Him Up

I was just reading one of those political thriller novels. It was obviously written a bit more than 2 years ago, when Putin was starting to build up forces against Ukraine. One quote in it (and I'm paraphrasing here, can't remember the exact words) was: "Russia can't compete with the rest of the world, so they want to drag everyone down to their level. You can't negotiate with them or appease them - you just have to contain them."

M for Millenium

Quite possibly, hence my caveat.

The beggars down here tend to sit quietly with a handwritten sign asking for money. Maybe they realize that's the most effective method of not being moved on by Mr Plod and garner more sympathy than bothering people.

What, you're used to seeing cuffs on the bed head? No wonder your lot breed like rabbits Spacey!

They usually try to match the type of community service to the criminal's skills. So.............. Nah I got nothing. Picking up rubbish it is.

A vow of silence and solitude would be the biggest community service he could do.

Ball GAG not ballbag... the thing hanging from the bedstead is a handcuff, hence the ball gag joke.

Work colleague just returned from a holiday in Canada. Telling us about the rubbish bins in this Canadian town. Massive steel bins to withstand bears and raccoons. To put in your rubbish, you have to reach into a small opening and release the latch which holds down the lid. The idea is, the opening is too small for a bear's paws and too high off the ground for a raccoon to reach. Now this is unverified - it may be true, or it may be a tall tale spun by a local to impress the tourists - but the story goes, locals have seen bears and raccoons working together to open the bins - the bear picks up the raccoon and holds him up to the opening, raccoon releases the catch, bear lifts the lid and they share the spoils!