Jerry_Atrick

Here is why Aussies should be whinging louder:

And the rail network is not that bad.. It isn't a European system, though. My point is there's enough public transport, even at the outer to allow a hybrid approach. Car to the nearest decent publoc transport connection and then from there, to where you need to go. One problem - more for those of us who are older is there is no dunny on the metropolitan trains with longer routes.. Don't forget, around the state, v/Line max fares are $10.50 each way.. Although buses hsave to be used on some routes.

London has a population of c. 9.5m; Melbourne has a population of c 5.56m. Yes, there is an urban sprawl as, including the morningiton peninsula now considered part of Melbourne, it is around 5 times bigger than London - according to Google. However, the suburban sprawl doe snot mean we should be solely reliable on the car. Rail loops are one thing. A decent hydrogen bus service is another. Trams also can be built (The line to Bundoora is Loooong, as is one to Burwood). Coming off ICE cars would have put Australians in a much better position -if only the government had foresight - oh, it did, it just chose to be beholden to the fossil fuel lobby groups. At least the government is trying something to reduce the cost. Hopefully, it will return to keeping the IEA's agreement of 90 days reserve. Maybe we shoudl tap our reserve in Dallas.. Oh wait, it was smokescreen thanks to Angus Taylor - the now leader of the oppo. Dog help us

Peopel are whinging because the government - some of whom the people elect and pay for, the others whom the people have no visibilit or accountabilioty of, but the people still pay for (i.e. the public servants) don't seem to be doing what they say on the tin - serving the public - at least properly. We have, since the days of Howerd, run down our emergency fuel reserve and then outsourced it to Texas. We give away our gas to foreign companies and nations (Japan, it is alleged, made USD$1.1bn of reselling our gas!!!), yet we don;t properly charge those entities for ou r resources nor properly tax them, you know, such as places like Norway, Qatar, Saudi and the like. Quite frankly, the way our government and public servants rip is off, the whingeing and whining is very tempered.

The problem is the tolls aren't a tax, but a charge from private companies that, admittedly paid for the infrastrucutre - or some of it - and were awarded significant monopolies that provided a very handsome return - much more than if the government borrowed and paid it back Themn aas per the Mt Alexander Road "calming", the government spent tax dollars to fund roadworks to make alternatives to the toll unpallatable. On another note, on the BBC radio this morning, Albo will be halving fuel duty to help. More and more people want out of the UK and when they hear this, they want it even more.

I use Farcebook for the marketplace, but often eBay and Gumtee are also good. with fewer scams. At a bit of a loose end last night, I decided to scroll through posts. My dog, what a load of toxic bull shite! Seriously, if MSM had posted most of this stuff defined as facts and news, even our tootless regulators would find the teeth to bite. Made Sky/Fox news seem like totally objective and fact ridden.

Great news for you, GON; the Libs have lost a blue-ribbon seat that they have held for 46 years to.. <drumroll please...> Labor.. At least that is what the ABC are predicting: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-29/sa-labor-wins-morphett/106508638

I have decided it is time to get back into flying. Trundling off to Dunkeswell to do my SEP renewal. Although this post should probably go onto the mother site, it was a random thought that popped up inot my head. Will try and book it for Thursday this week; if not, it will be Tuesday following week.

I am about 6 months since my last haircut. I am starting to look like I did in Covid lockdown. I can't pay the same as someone with a full head of hair that takes at least twice the time to cut as mine. So, I wait at least doublew the time I should so there's almost enough hair that I get my money's worth. Haircuts around here are expensive at £10. I normally pay around £7.50

Sounds like the many inappropriate applications of technology to me. I understand the system but it still doesn't answer why it's needed... and poorly designed

The spot Brent Crude price is still less that the peak post Covid and presumably from the Ukraine war. As I understand, the issue is not the capacity to supply as much as the delivery because most of the ME oil comes out of the Persian gulf through Hormuz. So, it isn't even a case of turn around the ships and go another way. I am guessing there are no alternative ports/terminals they can use for transporting non-Iranian ME oil. According to Google. Iran is the 4th largest behind Saudi, UAE and Ira. These three could boost production and send the oil overland to ports/terminals in Saudi if there are any, and ship through the Red Sea., but the Houthis, who are Iranian backed, basically patrol the waters. The obvious conseuences of this energy crisis is a switch to renewabls and electrification. It may also put pressure on Ukraine as the west may well (as Chump has hinted) start taking on Russian oil - ooh.. wouldn't that bre great for his war chest. Recession is likely, and as the western governments have largely exhiaseted their reserves and debt ceilings, creating the soft landing as per the Covid/pre-Covd times is unlikely to be sustainable, but it may well hold off a full blown recession. Chump, though his alienation of his allies, and the growing resentment to the war at home maibkly because oif the inflationary and recessionary impact it will ahve, will put pressure on him to end it soon. He won't want to concede, so he will either find some "pallatble" story, or he will send the ground trrops in, which there are already reports. I can only see it ramping up at his stage.. Chump will want to end it ASAP and won't back down. And one conseuence is it will hit a critical point where allies of both sides will need to get involved.

Why on earth do you need to buy a docket to get a haircut? What happened to just paying for it?

There's no credible evidence for the above post. The NYT websie itself doesn't appeat to report such damage and destruction (there is a report of the Saudi base being attacked with 13 deaths and 300 injuries to US personnel. But the only references I coud find toi the NYT report in the above were some YT and facebook posts, so I am not treating them as terribly credible at the moment. Of course, there could be some truth to it as the US DoW may want to hide the scale of destrcution, but you can bet your bottom dollar - with the scale of destruction - if there were such reports in the NYT, other outlets would be referencing it in their stories - and there are none. Sorry - but both sides of politics can lie... if Occupy Democrats is anything other than a group of people commentating on politics, anyway. It even may be someone purporting to be them.

Since when? Sounds like a British import

I could have done better typos than that