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Well, I have a great piece of positive news. My Hilux is suffering from noisy rear wheel bearings, so I thought I'd get a couple of new ones. I started looking around, and you have to buy a kit with seals and collar, as well as the bearing. The best price I could find was around $104 each. Now, I'm a bit fussy with bearings, and I much prefer to buy German, American, Japanese or even Taiwanese bearings, as I consider them superior bearings to Chinese, and even Thai-made bearings. As my Hilux was built in Thailand, I suspect it has Thai, or even Chinese bearings. I think that's the reason they haven't performed as well as I'd expected (the Hilux has done 190,000kms and has done a lot of heavy hauling). So I kept looking around, and I was amazed to find a website throwing out Timken bearing kits to fit my Hilux - on "clearance" - at - wait for it - $4.89 each!! The company is in Doncaster in Vic, so I ordered them last night - and blow me down, they were delivered this afternoon!! The two bearing kits cost me a grand total of $25.79 including delivery!! The company is Precision International, and I reckon they must have packaged them at first light, and run them out to the airport to catch the early morning flight to Perth!! What is even better - I opened one of the packets and the bearings are actually Made in Japan!! Bonus! So this little exercise has made my day!! Thank you muchly, Precision International!

We have been blown inside out here on the left coast for the last 4 days. It seems a very large and very intense high pressure system in the Bight is responsible for it. I can't recall such vicious and constant SE/E winds for so many days, in a long time. But this afternoon, the wind died away to virtually nothing, and it is a total relief to be able to do something outside without getting turned inside out.

Yeah, but could you have matched the mental rambling??

Red, your link is a Faecesbook scam site, designed to suck in anyone who believes everything they read. There is no $5M contribution to a homeless centre by Barnaby Joyce and Pauline Hanson, it's all TOTALLY FAKE NEWS. Just like the FB stories and photos of Pauline Hanson collapsing in Parliament, 100% lying, total BS.

Yeah, I bet it's a Big and Beautiful Gold Present. A golden bomb in the shape of Donald, specially delivered to him in person, by an Iranian courier! They know just how much he loves getting personal, gold-plated presents!

They are defunct as a political party, just as they have done to themselves in W.A. They've simply lost touch with the voters, the current makeup of the Nation, and the everyday persons desires. And by far the biggest problem all parties will have to address soon, is the unaffordability of housing, the thing that is uppermost in the everyday voters mind. Too much overseas investment money allowed into our housing market, the Chinese must own over a quarter of Australian housing at present. There's a house just around the corner from me, it is brand new, it is ten years old, and has never been lived in. It is owned by Chinese investors. They need to be taxed out of the market.

Trump is BS Central. There wouldn't be two consectutive words come out of his mouth with an element of truth in them. To Little Donny, the big surprise is the Iranians didn't come begging for him to stop as soon as his bombing campaign started - but they have turned into the best guerrilla fighters the Middle East has seen in decades. Something the Americans can never understand, nor can they adopt any strategy, that works to defeat a guerilla campaign. There is no "big present" to the U.S., it's all Trump BS, trying to make himself look like a winner in the third week of fighting, when we all know war is a protracted and costly business. Just ask his best mate, Putin.

GON - In nearly 30 years, they've never even looked like achieving any effective status, let alone "major party" status.

Get rid of these EV tax breaks that only favour the rich and well paid. Introduce a road user charge according to kms travelled, and it will all be a much fairer system.

But are all these items that inflation is hitting, and the shortages, providing all that excitement you were looking forward to?

When GST was introduced, the Govt made a huge windfall tax gain from finished goods already in stock, used machinery and parts, used vehicles, and a myriad of other items, that were previously untaxed, when these items were purchased by people who couldn't claim the GST back. That was every consumer. Businesses paid nothing, because they got the GST back, but everyday consumers got shafted again.

It is - https://7news.com.au/sunrise/pauline-hanson-up-for-100k-pay-boost-after-barnaby-joyce-move-pushes-one-nation-into-minor-party-status-c-22042872

OME, I normally look for, and give way to pedestrians and pushbikes on footpaths. Here in W.A., it is legal to ride a pushbike, or an e-scooter on a footpath or shared walkway - provided speed limits are adhered to. Those speed limits are 10kmh on footpaths and 15kmh on shared walkways. If I had sighted a pedestrian or a cyclist on the footpath, I would've stopped. As I said, I was proceeding slowly and cautiously out of the servo. I could've easily stopped and given way to anyone on the footpath abiding by the rules and regulations. As it was, this bloke was certainly guilty of "riding furiously". He wasn't just riding furiously, he was indulging in dangerous or reckless riding, on a par with using a motor vehicle in that manner. He was not "driving defensively", which is where you drive to the conditions and allow room to stop if another driver does something wrong. He was in the wrong - although I know today, that each driver or rider is allocated a share of responsibilty, in the event of a crash. https://www.transport.wa.gov.au/active-transport/riding-walking-wheeling/safety-guidelines-faqs/rules

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.