The Random thought thread

[facthunter]

You do run a slight risk of a mild fire when the engine is still very hot from something incandescing in the motor or the muffler.   You can refresh with the engine cold anytime.  There's proper ways to prepare the engine  (inhibit) for longer periods of no use. Nev

Edited October 29 by facthunter
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[red750]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14016003/Taliban-bars-Afghan-women-hearing-womens-voices-brutal-crackdown.html?ito=social-facebook

[old man emu]

Political Correctness is increasing the content of Autocorrect.

 

In another post I used the word "manpower". For a laugh, I kept the word but struck through it to indicate that I was crossing it out. I then typed in "personpower", and Autocorrect accepted it.

 

I'm reading Orwell's 1984 and what happened with personpower made me wonder if we are not being led subtly into accepting Newspeak.

[Jerry_Atrick]

A very interesting admission: How the media is failing us - https://on.ft.com/3Cb61pv via @FT

[spacesailor]

Don't worry ! . language 

If all those different countries go back to their original languages.  Irish , Scot's & Welsh . ( girl, colleen, lasse ( I have no idea what a 'girl' is called in the welsh language )). It will be a great loss to international communications. 

 I can't see my grandies learning Aboriginal language. 

Just to acquire the extras that the ' whitei's .can't get .

spacesailor

 

 

[facthunter]

There's nearly 300 of them so they can learn the next tribe or learn English and be able to talk to most of the world. Aborigine lingo is not a written language as we know it. Nev 

[red750]

Where is everybody? Over on RecFly, the last post was 11 hours ago, abd the second last 17 hours ago. This forum has brrn unusually quiet lately, too.

[nomadpete]

Red, please!

That sounds like a gripe to me - not a random thought.

[spacesailor]

Here's hoping. 

They're all out ' flying ' .

spacesailor

[pmccarthy]

I couldn’t log in here for a few hours today. All good now.

[onetrack]

Sorry, I've been working my ar$e off, and travelling around the countryside, I've really been under the pump. And tomorrow is SWMBO's birthday, so that means I'll be tied up for multiple hours, got to find a good eatery for lunch, then in the afternoon, it's back to the grind.

I've been working on acquiring a shed frame so I can erect a shed on my block in the wheatbelt. I found a pile of really nice proper-structural-steel portal frames, then I had to go 200kms South to pick them up. Got caught up in a massive traffic jam last Friday, when a bloke rolled his truck on the Kwinana Freeway, and ended up on the train tracks - and he killed himself.

So the Police closed the Freeway for hours while they investigated, and every street for a dozen kms around, turned into a giant car park. What a nightmare, I've never seen anything like it. 

[pmccarthy]

I drove from Mallacoota to Castlemaine on Friday. The trip should take 7 hours but took eleven, with the entire Melbourne section bumper to bumper with accidents and everyone making a long weekend run for the country.

[spacesailor]

From Sydney to Brisbane used to take 81/2 hours .

Now it's 2 days .

I have done it just under that magic eight .

Shuuss , don't tell the revenuer's .

spacesailor

 

[facthunter]

I don't know how you'd achieve that. Nev

[Jerry_Atrick]

Here's how: https://images.app.goo.gl/FqQXpNgrdLAffe5m6

 

And a long range tank. No need to stop

Edited November 5 by Jerry_Atrick

[nomadpete]

In peak hour it'd take that long to get clear of the traffic jam at either end.

 

[facthunter]

I've done some fast runs at times in my youth, but from Sydney to Brisbane in 8 hours? It's 917 Kms. Nev

[Litespeed]

Castle Hill -Sydney to Philip island penguin sanctuary 8 hrs 3 minutes.

 

A brisk run

[facthunter]

Is your name Valentino OR Rossi?   Nev

[nomadpete]

16 minutes ago, facthunter said:

Is your name Valentino OR Rossi?   Nev

No. More likely 'Lucky'.

[Jerry_Atrick]

Lucy? 

 

Oh had to read that a second time

[spacesailor]

Big V8 go pretty fast on the straights , out of town .

Of course,  it wasn't city centre to city centre,

Gold Coast & Parramatta. 

May make a difference ! .

spacesailor

 

[Litespeed]

Yes,

 

Valentino Rossi was still yet to win a GP back then. It was to get to the Grand prix overnight as the suicidal Ducati had died mid corner and left me stranded.

 

So I returned to Sydney and took the Fairmont with V8. The GP ended as a washout that year, real happy to camp with a car on the end.

 

 

[onetrack]

Dec 1970, I did Bathurst to Uworra, NW of Ceduna, in a single day of driving in a HD Holden 179 sedan. 1175 miles or 1890kms. Sitting on 80-85mph (128-135kmh) most of the time, I left Bathurst around 0700hrs and stopped at a layby near Uworra at approximately 2230hrs. A 17 hour day with the time zones in my favour, I only stopped twice to catch quick bites and drinks.

 

I went Bathurst-Hay-Balranald-Mildura-Renmark-Berri-Barmera-Morgan-Spalding-Crystal Brook-Port Pirie-Port Augusta-Ceduna-Uworra. The sealed South Australian roads were the best back then.

 

I was young (21) and keen and silly, and eager to get home to a big-titted redhead, after 6 mths of no physical contact. No speed limits in those days, very few cops, and only low levels of traffic.

But the roads were pretty ordinary, too. I think it worked out to about 115kmh average speed for the hours behind the wheel. The HD was pretty new, and would do 95mph.

It still took me another day and a bit to get into Perth, approximately the same distance again, because the Eyre Hwy still had 300 miles of unsealed road, and that slowed me down a bit, thanks to dodging big potholes.

 

Edited November 5 by onetrack

[Jerry_Atrick]

The speed limit on motorways here is 70mph (c. 110kph). Except in busy times, it is ordinary to do 80mph and even the police won't do anything if you pass them. I usually set the cruise control to 79.  And it is not unusual that people will pass me by about 10mph. Anything over 80 and you are taking a chance; over 90 and they will nab you.

 

Although we have mobile speed cameras now. They are operated by civil (public) servants and there is no tolerance. I got done doing 33mph in a 20 zone at about midnight. Pure revenue raising. I elected to take a speed awareness course (no points on the licence and no need to tell the insurers you were done speeding), and almost everyone there was for a similar reason - minor infringements.