Grumpy Old Nasho

King Charles seems to be the only winner in the UK. He's like a pensioner, gets an allowance, and can sit back and watch the circus perform everyday. Pity he couldn't do a lone-wolf "Trump", sack all the progressive politicians, and slash all the wasteful spending.

1,000 years of experience, and it's broke?

"2PP" - Does this help at all in an election? Even after looking it up on the AEC website, I still don't understand what practical use it's for.

We stopped giving foreign aid to China 12 years ago. I don't think they needed it before then, and they certainly didn't need it after that. The BBC can get aid from Starmer's socialist govt now, surely? The UK is not broke yet, is it?

I doubt it, President Trump is only taking one dollar in pay. What's Albo take?

Why haven't you been following the good work that Donald and Elon have been doing? https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/2011150/bbc-lashes-out-us-withdraws-funding

USAID was giving million$ to the BBC in the UK. Who knew that before? Rightfully, it's being stopped.

Spring rolls have gone to the pack along with pies. Anyone remember the Golden Dragon restaurant in Sydney? (Goulburn street I think, not sure). Their spring rolls were a scrumptious meal, with almost king sized prawns and cabbage cooked just right, etc ingredients. That was in the late 50s I was there with my Dad, but never could get a spring roll like it since, just mass produced now, nothing in them and smaller than a those insulting Chiko rolls.

Pies these days are yuck. They were ok in the 60s and 70s, but have gone backwards since then, with their prices going forward - Greed!

Get Sybil, Basil's wife on to it.

That's more successful that this one.

Why are we so dependent on supermarkets (selling eggs)? Let's get some chooks and keep them in our back yards. Eggs are always available and free then.

That's right, it provides you with a maximum tyre grip on the road while you are panic pressing the brake pedal. It eliminates the "panic" of uneducated drivers. I did the advanced driving course with Peter Wherret as the instructor, before ABS came in, and we did braking maneuvers (simulating what an ABS system does today) ... "Keep pressing the brake pedal down ever more gently to ensure the wheels remain rotating, rather than hitting the pedal hard in one go and locking up the wheels." This taught us how to use the brakes properly before ABS was standard, I used it to good effect on a lot of occasions. If there was one course I did that was 100% beneficial, it was that one.

"from a few dollars"? How were they selling for just a few dollars? There's something not right about your post. PS, I have to stop posting for a while, I have some urgent jobs to do, slash some tall grass, get vehicles serviced and inspected for rego, go to town to get some tucker before I starve, etc.

That's the same as what I said, only my explanation was shorter. Yes but when we talk about brake application, it goes hand in hand with the amount of grip the tyres have on the road. In any case, the manufacturers will be obliged to fit an anti-crash system and I reckon it's a good idea, and I don't see it as being all that expensive for the manufacturer. All the technology is available, I don't see a problem. However, I do agree it dumbs down drivers skills, as onetrack said.

You don't know? They are policies that go way beyond the grain of normal unbiased thinking, and it's followers are prone to assassinate anyone who opposes such thinking. Not only are the policies extreme, but the people behind them are extreme (unwittingly radical, thinking they're normal).

Lol, that's funny but totally incorrect. I wouldn't have bothered about it, I've better things to do, but the left's extremes in the US were/are causing confusion and discontent. As Trump said: "The Nation needs healing", from the international trend of international socialism. And that's what the US was moving towards.

"The coefficient of friction between a tyre and a road surface is not consistent." You may have a valid point, but I guess there's numerous sensors feeding info into the computer. ABS was designed to provide maximum tyre grip throughout the braking procedure, and I think it was meant for water only plus excessive speed, and it will only work efficiently if the tyres are still reasonably soft ... they harden after about 5 years, and while their wear rate is exponentially slower after that, the hardness could affect ABS and anything else that's meant to act as an anti-skid device. Oil is a different kettle of fish, it depends, I suppose, on how much is on the road. Not much will save you if you apply the brakes in a patch of oil if it can't be avoided. It's best to keep the front wheels straight, and roll through it, rather than drive through it.

It's obviously all in the name of safety. It could work, and not be that expensive. Automatic brake application works for cruise control via computer signals, we already have it. Anti-crash would have to work via a radar device situated in the front of the vehicle. The computer would then calculate the amount of braking needed to avoid collision with the vehicle in front. The brake's ABS system takes care of any tendency to skid on wet roads.

No it doesn't ... try to understand it more carefully from the point of view that it was suggested that I was an extreme righty. Sometimes a helping hand is needed to help one extreme, to fight an opposite extreme. That's what I'm about. When Trump has finished his term, by that time, the Democrats will be wiser and refrain from delivering international wokism and other international politically correct bs. Nearly all leftwing policies derive from international institutions these days, and they are detrimental to the United States.

I'll be upgrading to something larger and more expensive as soon as I repair the kangaroo damage on the driver's side rear door of the Cerato. Before buying my next car, I'll research steering ratios, I don't care much for Formula 1 direct steering. I want and need comfort when driving in my old age.

Gotta fight the far left somehow, until equilibrium is achieved. After Trump, there will be a period of more moderate politics because the Democrats will have learned their lesson, and the Republicans will keep them in check, warning them not to go so far to the far left again. There needs to be a fine tuned balance between Left and Right in the United States, and elsewhere in the World. In the meantime, Trump is an extreme on the right, countering the extremes of the left. But neither the left or right can remain extreme, they have to moderate for the sake of peaceful co-operation, without the seismic meltdown eruptions we've witnessed lately.

Lol Albo is a little mouse compared to Trump. Trump shakes the World, Albo shakes his ...

Can't go to Perth. My model Cerato was designed with steering that is high geared. At 60k/h and above, 2mm movement of thee steering wheel, and you're off the road into the scrub before you know it. It's also "tight" at that speed, I asked the mechanic at the Ford dealer where I bought the car, and he said: "It's tight like that, to keep the car in a straight line", and I was expected to swallow that. The Cerato still had two years warrantee. Turns out that the standard tyres are too wide for the rack & pinion steering ratio at 60k/h and above, the centrifugal force of the wheels overwhelms the electric power steering - this is what I've worked out. My previous ride was a much older Corolla, it had no power steering at all, and it was 10 times better than the unsafe fraudulent Cerato. I've become very wary of ultra modern cars later than 2000. What would I get if I bought an all electric car, a car without bad faults?, probably not.

Dutton is a "Labor progressive" copycat, with a tinge of "Trump would-be if he could be". Why would anyone vote for either Albanese, or Dutton? ... It's really a good time for Hanson right now, she could kick out all the Middle East trouble makers and get Australia back on track.