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  41. I was a Taxi Driver. I picked up a passenger from the Airport who had just flown in from California. As we were driving to the hotel, he was looking out the window and turned to me to say, "Gee, you guys sure have imported a lot of Eucalypts." Caught by surprise, I replied, "What do you mean?" He gestured expansively out the window at the bushland we were driving through, and explained to me as if I were a little slow, "All these trees are Eucalypts. They are from California, where I am from. You guys sure must have imported a lot to have so many!" I just about had a brain aneurysm trying to process this thought, and all I managed was "Um, they are native to Australia..." He just gave me a pitying look, shook his head sadly at my ignorance, and stated, quite authoritatively, "No, I think you will find they are from California!" I let the confusion clear from my face, smiled and said simply, "Oh, I guess we must have imported all the Koalas also." Again he shook his head pityingly and said, slowly, talking to the obvious simpleton I am, "No, those are native to Australia." "Oh," I said, confused again, "Given they eat only Eucalypt leaves, they must have been very relieved when we imported so many to save them from starvation..." He looked a little confused, and said "No, they eat Gum leaves." "Mate," II replied, "Gums ARE Eucalypts. They and Koalas are native, the seeds were taken from Ballarat and Bendigo to California during the '49 Gold Rush, and that is how you ended up with Eucalypts in the USA!" He absorbed this for a while, all sorts of emotions playing over his face as he reassessed his entire existence, then he turned to me and said "Was Australia already settled in 1849?" I gave up... 🤦‍♂️
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  81. Hungarian here, who lives in ireland but let me narrate this video with time stamps. First a bit about ambulances - They are usually Mercedes-Benz Sprinters, but are just normal vans without a big box on the back. There used to be a lot of VW T4 Transporters too and older early 2000s Toyota Hiace vans too for ambulances as well from my days anyway. Thing is, there are some narrow streets in Budapest, which this is based in. So some ambulances cannot be too big. Its not Italy type of tight streets but they do get narrow from time to time. All service vehicles have full permission to go on the tram tracks because they are filled in the middle so they can be driven on. Time stamps 1:28 As far as I know, only UK and Ireland drive on the left in Europe. (I stand corrected, they drive on the left in Malta and Cyprus as well) 1:34 The red bus is called a "Trolley Bus" They are fully electric and get power from built overhead lines. However, some new ones have batteries so they don't need to be hooked all the time. 2:26 This is one of the ring roads around budapest and its going towards the end of it. 3:05 He just turned off the ring road. To the left, you can see a roller coaster that is made fully from wood and it used to be this massive fun fair with a lot of cool rides but it got shut down because the zoo beside it needed more room for animals. Some of the rides are however protected contructions so they just operate as normal while being the part of a zoo. 3:20 Yes, its still the Pest side of the city still because there are two halves, split by the river Danube (or Duna for not english speakers lmao) so you have Buda and Pest but the big city itself is just called Budapest. Now the roads here are SO FUCKING BAD that if you are not careful and have low profile tyres, you easy could buckle the alloy or get a puncture 6:00 the close call was with an old Renault 5, which was the first car my dad had. It was an ex rally car apparantly. 6:15 They are now crossing over to the Buda side of the city, over the river Danube. 7:12 To the left, you are passing an old blue bus. Its an Ikarus 280 and it used to be made and manufactured in Hungary. The company I believe was established in 1895 by this one guy who had a blacksmith workshop. 7:57 This to the left is a more modern Volvo bus. Since Ikarus is not around anymore, most buses are from Volvo, MAN or Mercedes. Some of the cars that we've seen in this video are but not limited to - - Late 90s Suzuki Swift hatch and saloon and also the next generation from around 2006. Very popular, cheap and reliable cars, especially the older ones. -Opel Astra F hatch and estate and Astra G hatch and estae. Opel was very popular in Hungary because it wasa reliable, cheap and German. -Renault twingo from the late 90s -Suzuki Vitara from mid 2010s -Old Toyota Hiace Van from early 2000s or late 90s -SEAT Ibiza 6L very popular. Also came in Cupra trim which gave you either a PD 1.9tdi 160bhp diesel engine or a 1.8T 20V 180bhp petrol engine. I think it was nicknamed the hitman from Spain because it was an absolutely unreal litte hatch. -Basically most vans from Ford, Opel, Renault and Peugeot. -Renault Clio from early 2000s -Toyota RAV4 from around 2008 -Alfa Romeo 147 and 156 -Opel Corsa B -Multiple generation from Toyota Avensis -Multiple Generation of Skoda Superb and Octavia -Multiple Generation of VW Passat, Golf and Polo (usually older ones because well Hungarian people arent wealthy) -Renult 5 and Megane Estate from early 2000s -VW Lupo -Porsch Panamera -Audi A7 -BMW 3 series 1990 -Mercedes C-Calss 1994 -Renault Scenic RX4 -Skoda Fabia 6Y Now I just cherry picked cars I think are not seen in america much or evn ehard of but anyway, I hope you guys enjoyed :)
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  98. Let me try to explain at least some of the terms used: Brake warming - F1 cars use carbon brakes, which work effectively when they're hot (400-1000 degrees celcius), so on the out lap (the lap out of the pits, leading to a hot lap) driver must warm the brakes to this temperature window. Brake warming mode changes brake bias, pressure etc., so the brakes warm up faster. On hot lap you most definitely want to turn this off, otherwise the brakes would overheat and even catch fire in few corners Strat 2 = quali mode - the engine and the hybrid system (called ERS, Energy Recovery System) turn in the top performance mode. It drains the battery like hell, but gives 100% power avalaible. Needless to say, on quali lap drivers don't care about fuel or enegry consumption, the just want to do a lap as fastest as possible Brake migration - I'm watching F1 for 28 years, but I don't know what that means, it seems I need to do my research 😁 Brake Balance - that one is easy, it's brake power distribution between front and rear wheels. In heavy braking zones you want to set this bit more to the front, to get most stopping power, but in the medium or high speed corners it's better to set it more to the back, to avoid front wheels locking, or car instability while entering the corner Strat 1 = charge mode - opposite to Strat 2, sets the hybrid system to not use any power, but to recharge the battery DRS - Drag Reduction System - F1 cars have a moving part in rear wing, which "opens" the air flow through the wing, allowing to reach better straight line speed, but of course at cost of downforce. There are zones set on every track, where it is allowed to activate it - understandibly on long straights. In qualifying sessions drivers are allowed to use it in every zone without any limitations, during races you have to be less than a second behind driver in front, to use it. There'a a detection point before DRS zones, where the time difference is measured, and if you're close enough, you can use DRS to make the overtake easier
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  139. I'll try to write the language families of Europe as best as I can! I.Indo-European: 1.Romance: a.Western: -Italian -Neapolitan -Sicilian -Istriot -Friulian -Ladin -Piedmontese and Lombard (could be considered the same language) -Ligurian -Emilian and Romagnol (considered dialects of the same language) -French (with its many creoles around the world) -Franco-Proveçal -Ventian -Occitan -Sardinian -Romanch -Catalan and Valencian (considered the same language) -Spanish (with many variants in America) -Ladino -Aragonese -Asturleonese and Mirandese (could be considered the same language) -Galician -Portuguese (different variant in Brazil) b.Eastern: -Romanian and Moldovan (considered the same language) -Aromanian -Megleno-Romanian -Istro-Romanian c.Modern Latin (no native speakers but still for administrative use) 2.Celtic: a.Brittonic: -Welsh -Breton -Cornish b.Godeiric: -Irish -Manx -Scottish Gaelic 3.Germanic: a.North Germanic: -Danish -Swedish -Norwegian -Faroese -Icelandic b.West Germanic: -High German (this includes Standard German and Yiddish and can be divided into many distinct dialects, Upper ones such as Bavarian and Swabian, and Central ones such as Luxembourgish and Franconian) -Low German (many dialects such as Saxon) -Frisian -Dutch (related to Afrikaans in Africa) -English (and its many creoles and variants worldwide) -Scots 4.Slavic: a.West Slavic -Polish -Slovakian -Czech -Sorbian -Kashubian -Silesian (not to be confused with Silesian German, which is a High German dialect) b.East Slavic -Russian -Belarusian -Rusyn -Ukrainian c.South Slavic -Slovene -Serbo-Croatian (includes Bosnian and Montenegrin) -Bulgarian and Macedonian (sometimes considered dialects of the same language, very controversial) 5.Baltic: -Latvian and Latgalian (sometimes considered the same language) -Lithuanian and Samogitian (sometimes considered the same language) 6. Iranian (this is a very large family in Asia, however I will only write the languages present in Europe): -Ossetian -Tat (closely related to Persian) 7.Indo-Aryan (just like Iranian, extremely diverse in Asia, not so much in Europe): -Romani (many variants of it) 8.Albanian 9.Hellenic: a.Attic: -Greek -Italiot b.Doric: -Tsakonian 10.Armenian (this language is spoken fully within Asia, however it is strongly associated with European culture) II.Uralic: 1.Samoyedic (these could also be considered Asian): -Enets -Nenets -Nganasan -Selkup 2.Permic: -Komi (many variants of it) -Udmurt 3.Sami (many variants of it) 4.Mari 5.Mordvinic: -Erzya -Moksha 6.Ugric: -Mansi -Khanty -Hungarian 7.Finnic: -Finnish -Estonian -Ingrian -Livonian -Veps -Votic -Karelian -Ludic III.Turkic (very diverse family throughout Europe and Asia, I will focus on Europe): 1.Oghur: -Chuvash 2.Oghuz: -Turkish -Gagauz -Azerbaijani 3.Kipchak: -Bashkir -Kumyk -Karachay-Balkar -Urum -Krymchak -Karaim -Kazakh -Volga Tatar -Dobrujan Tatar -Crimean Tatar -Nogai Tatar IV.Kartvelian: 1.Svan 2.Georgian-Zan: -Georgian -Mingrelian -Qivruli -Laz V.Afro-Asiatic: 1.Semitic: -Maltese VI.Mongolic (Asian family): -Kalmyk VII.Caucassian: 1.Northwest: a.Abkhaz b.Circassian: -Adygey -Cherkess -Kabardin 2.Northeast: a.Dagestani: -Agul -Avar -Dargin -Lak -Lezgin -Rutul -Tabasaran -Tsakhur b.Veinakh: -Ingush -Chechen VIII. Basque (language isolate, possibly the oldest language in Europe) I hope there's nothing that I omitted or miscategorized, but these should be most of them.
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  229. Hey there, there are a bunch of interesting comments here explaining the tech already so here are a few things not mentioned yet: Basically it's purpose is extra downforce usable during low speed&decel, since it only works off-throttle. In 2010, Red Bull introduced the first blown diffuser into the sport and instantly proved how well the design worked. In 2011, the entire field was experimenting with this tech which is basically just cutting spark under decel so unburnt air/fuel mixture gets into the glowing exhaust pipe, just like a semiautomatic transmission in a rally car. In any conventional car, the exit direction of the exhaust is pretty much non-essential for aero but if you combine the exhaust with the diffuser which guides air from under the car out the back and dump a lot of unburnt fuel into the exhaust, the exhaust gas combined with the natural air flow creates a so called "Venturi effect", which describes how low/high pressure air interacts with air moving in a different direction. It's responsible for how a carburettor, sails on a boat or candles work. The sound is indeed incredible but I think it was viewed as something to gladly be patched out by next season regulation changes since it's advantage was not seen as in the spirit of the sport, which is a fishy way of the stewards saying "You've built something we didn't think of doing ourselves. You get to have your toy for 1 season but then it's gone for ever", which means race teams make hay while the sun shines and made for some of the most spic championship campaigns. Phew, that got longer than expected. Hope your week is going well!
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  377. I think the most amazing thing about the European Union is that, unlike the US, not that long ago all these things were totally unthinkable. Many younger people don't know what you had to do in the past to just cross a border into another country in Europe, even just to go there on a holiday. Nowadays you barely notice when you cross a border; no waiting for hours, no grumpy uniformed officers asking for your passport and looking into your car, and you no longer need to go to a border exchange office to get the right money which took you a few days to get used to. The constant math you had to do... Crossing a border always was a thing, even when just going on a holiday, and even to friendly nations. Not to mention the Iron Curtain which was straight accross the current Union. Who ever thought 35 years ago that you could just cross the border into these countries without even being checked, which back then you could get shot for? Many young people don't know what a hassle it was, and so they don't see the value of the current situation, especially for trade. I'm not saying everything about the EU is good, but I feel like this is often forgotten by people who don't realise what the situation was before. I have to say the current situation takes away the romance of travel a bit. In the past, when you crossed a border, you were in a different world, with a different language, different money, different shops, different laws. It is not as exciting anymore, but I realise that was just for some holiday fun. What we got in return is a lot of opportunities and prosperity that serve us in our every day lives, not just on a holiday.
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  513. As a fan of both sports maybe I can clarify some things. The pace of pesäpallo is a lot faster mostly because the pitcher can control the pace and pitcher can pitch the ball anytime he/she wants to. It's up to the batter to be ready for the pitch and one job of the pitcher is to confuse the batters by constantly changing the pace of the game. The out by foul at two strikes is kind of a rule that is needed because you basically can hit every pitch if you want to. It's a lot easier to track the ball in pesäpallo pitch than baseball.The option for the batter to choose to run or not makes the batting a little bit different. You can try some high risk low reward hits at first strike and if you are on your last strike it's usually wise to go for a low risk option and many times just get the ball caught. Home runs in pesäpallo come mostly by hits where the ball rolls out of the playing field. The ball is fair as long as it hits the ground first inside the playing field. It is okay to roll or bounce out of the field after that (also no infield fouls). It could be said that pesäpallo is more tactical sport than baseball and it is true in sense that it seems that tactical decisions can influence the game more. In baseball a shutout pitcher is usually enough for a win no matter what. I think both sports are fascinating. Baseball is like a meditative session and I really enjoy the aesthetics of it. It's good to have some things slow these days. On the other hand pesäpallo is a more hectic version with something happening all the time and it's more of an entertainment.
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  580. It is not that Europeans "don't smile" but there is a difference between friendly and fake friendly. I rather don't see you smile than see you fake smile. In fact, if I see that your smile to me is fake, I find that way more rude than not smiling at all. And Americans in public use fake smiles... I don't blame them as it is how they are told they should be but please, be yourself, don't act happy when you don't mean it. You can be polite and friendly without the fake smile. Loud talking: Don't know about how it is in America, but in Europe, yes... the Americans can be found by ear... they ARE louder than everyone else. It isn't even a stereotype. I worked in Hotels, Restaurants and at Festivals and the Americans can be spotted 95% of the time due to their volume. In the other 5% it is often their clothing. You don't notice that in the USA because it is your default. Left in America: There is no left in America, at least not according to what is considered left in Europe. Even Sanders or Cortez are considered center at best. You know why people from other countries are able to go to American specialists? because THEIR INSURANCE PAYS FOR IT Yes, you can get excellent care in the USA.... sadly the normal people in your country that are not rich will never know because they can't afford it. Öh sure, healthcare, the golden example"... That is the wrong response brother, you should be steaming mad that it is STILL the golden example while people in your country are DYING because they can't afford a simple pill or shot to save their frigging life. Work: correct....Work to live, don't live to work.
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  650. Thank you for reviewing my video :) Was very cool to see what you think about the EMS units over here. I tried to provide the best overview, showing all kinds of different EMS units from as many different parts of the country as possible. For those which are interested: I made similar compilations on German fire trucks, German police cars, and also shorter videos on European fire trucks / ambulances / police cars Some info on the clips: 1. concerning the ems units with car company and other logos on the side: large industries run their own industrial fire department which often run some ambulances, while some other industries also have their own industrial EMS provider 2. the ambulance at 5:00, that's the private EMS provider where I did my training. The Ambulance was designed by both the junior and senior boss of the company and is the only one in the entire country which has a crew cab 3. the one at 6:38 is an ambulance made for the volunteer units attending funfair and beer festivals in the Free State of Bavaria; The larger festivals have on-site stations and that's where the ambulance will be based at; They used to make a new color scheme each year. The Segways at 11:10 are used on the very same festivals 4. yes, the 1976 Dodge W200 at 7:30 is operated by a private EMS provider which got the ambulance from the US Army spare vehicle fleet back in 1991 5. the ambulance is like the large heavy duty van from Mercedes; One was in service at an EMS provider in northern Germany and then was kept as ambulance at a volunteer division down in the south 6. at 10:13 yes it's an X3, and yes it's on both the sidewalk and bike lane 7. at 13:23 that's a Ford Focus C-Max used at emergency doctor car of a water rescue division 8 at 13:31 these color schemes are designed by BMW's emergency vehicle division. They also made color schemes for various police division, fire departments etc
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  696. I actually work at a DAF dealership, so I might some insight / info I can share about these (and some of the regulations stuff you mentioned) 1st of all, there was indeed a new regulation that allows for slightly bigger trucks, as long as they see a certain minimal improvement in aerodynamics and fuel consumption (if there are no improvements, than the cab can`t get bigger). The new XF is of a similar size to the previous one, but the XG actually saw a decent increase in cab length, the cab itself is taller, and sits up higher (like you would have seen in the video), with a smaller engine hump. The powertrain options are exactly the same on both the XF, XG, and XG+, and they top out at 530hp, like the previous F7 trucks did (despite the new engines being entirely reworked), there is a decent increase in torque though. In terms of powertrains and the reputaion they may have, here`s the thing: DAF`s focus is on driver comfort and operation costs, so the engines top out at 530hp because DAF considers that that`s the most amount of power operators will realisticly really need for most use cases, without sacrificing on fuel consumption. Their Euro 6 engines haven`t been without their faults (primarily injection systems, turbos and VTG actuators, and SCR, just like every truck out there equipped with emission systems), but they are either largely preventable through maintenance and being careful about fuel and Adblue quality and letting the truck regen when it needs to, or there are service bulletins in place to help with costs in case of premature failures of the vtg actuator. The MX engines really are good engines, and will generally take care of you if you take care of them. From what I`ve read in a trucking magasine, it looks like the new XF / XG range are king of the hill in terms of fuel efficiency too (some of our customers have apparantly reported managing about 22L/100km while fully loaded). Also, DAF uses ZF gearboxes. The old AStronic units weren`t the fastest or smoothest shifting boxes, but they were vary reliable. The newer Traxon boxes that came with the MY17 facelift is more efficient, but reliability hasn`b been as good. Here`s hoping revisions have been made for the current version of traxons on these new trucks, so that they can ne as reliable as the AS tronic was. In terms of tech in these things, I think (and this is my opinion / view of things) that it`s down to both the safety standards that really require alot of advanced gadgets, the fact that drivers are hard to come by, so the promise of a new truck with alot of toys will entice many drivers, and also the fact that many companies will want modern design to show that they`re doing well and can afford modern vehicles. As for why euro trucks are so much more modern than american trucks: it`s true that eu truck design seems to have kept up fairly well with cars, while US has lagged behind a bit, but US trucks have cought up alot in the last few years with stuff like newer Peterbilts and Kenworths also using alot of the same tech. It`s also worth remembering that just like Kenworth and Peterbilt, DAF is also owned by PACCAR, and also uses the same PACCAR engines (so the eu equivalent to those brands) and one can safely assume that the tech on the new DAF range will also come state side, if it isn`t already there... As a small nugget of info regarding the XG, the interior livable space is 12 square meters, and the inside is over 2m tall (I wan`t to say 2.2m, but I might be misremembering)
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  789. German woman here... I actually find it extremely sad when our beautiful language is always put down like this and called aggressive everywhere! EVERY language is beautiful and interesting in itself and deserves to be appreciated or at least not devalued. And yes - I feel personally offended when I hear Americans, for example, shouting and screaming and screeching out the German language in a totally choppy way and with the wildest accent imaginable. Of course EVERY language sounds aggressive when misused in this way! What many people don't understand is that German is a very logical language, which is actually very easy to learn. Even our many compound words are logical and follow a simple principle: take 2 or more existing words, string them together and voilà, you have a fully functional word to describe something - but you don't have to "invent" a new word... So anyone can create new words whose meaning can be understood immediately. Absolutely simple... ^^ Btw: these mega long words that are often given as examples in such videos are not really used in everyday language! There is a separate word for this (of course 😆): "Beamtendeutsch" (words that are only used by civil servants in explanations, legal texts and the like). And as you can see, this is a great example of a compound word that EVERYONE intuitively understands: Beamten (civil servant) + Deutsch (German) = civil-servant-german. WE have ONE SINGLE word for this - in English it takes a whole sentence to describe this official gobbledygook... Which is easier to remember? And what is also annoying and sad about this stereotype: it is often not only said that the German LANGUAGE sounds aggressive, oh no - from an allegedly aggressive sounding language it is then also directly inferred to the general behavior of the normal German! Yes of course, we Germans are all aggressive... Grrr, how I hate that! I find it insulting. It would never occur to me personally to denigrate another language as "dirty" or "aggressive" just because it sounds different from my mother tongue! I have learned various languages (English, Italian, French, Croatian, Spanish, Dutch) and tried others, but unfortunately failed (Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Romanian, Greek). The main reason for my failure was that it was virtually impossible for me to form the sound sequences etc. - simply because they differ so much from my own language. Is that why I call these languages aggressive or hard or something else? No, I am not! They are simply different, nothing more... The bad thing is that most of these self-proclaimed language experts don't have the slightest idea what German REALLY sounds like! The Americans in particular only imitate the creepy pronunciation and intonation of Hitler (whose actual voice sounded completely different when he wasn't giving speeches... Besides, this way of speaking is a very old stage technique, which is still taught and used in theaters etc. today). Besides, Germans don't shout at each other all day long - such nonsense... I'm really tempted to make a video on the subject myself and show how aggressive OTHER languages sound when you "bark" them out in this way...
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  942. The speed restrictions were some kind of wrong described. You don't go from unlimited to 10 and right after you will have a speedcontrol. It's more like unlimited to 130, 120, 100, 80, 60 to slow the traffic down. Such things you have mostly in preparation for a construction site. Also you might have speedlimits in particular dangerous areas where you have a statistical higher risk of accidents and yes there are also sometimes speed limits without an obvious reason. But on Autobahn there are even more fun Blitzers. You might see like a Bridge across it with speed limits for each lane, then later again and again and on the last one there are not just the speed limits shown, that you already were reminded several times but integrated cameras for each lane. They will take a nice picture of you. ;) There is also a minimum distance between the sign and the speed control. Depending on the state between 75 and 200 meters (246 and 656 feet). Outside cities you will have 100 km/h and at sharp corners or intersections you will be slowed down to 80 or 60. Usually first 80 and then down to 60. Well and in cities, villages and so on the classical 50 km/h and if necessary 30 km/h. It could be even slower and then you would have the mostly ignored sign called Spielstraße (playing street) where you are only allowed to drive in walking speed (5 to 6 km/h) And beside this, you should never forget that espacially on the Autobahn you will have civil police cars that could be suddenly behind you and start recording. If I'm correct they need two records of at least 300 meters. Then they pull you out to the next possible spot and will talk about your driving behaviour. But Germany is in the case of speed control very nice compared to other countries. As example Netherlands, there you don't have a stationary speed control but a sector control. Your car will be registered at the entrance and then at the end. Then your avarage speed is calculated and if it's over the speed limit, well you have to pay for it. ;)
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  984. Just a few clarifications from a German and a voluntary fire fighter: - The entire concept is known as a "Rettungsgasse" (emergency lane). Once you are in a traffic jam, or at the very least when you hear a siren, you are supposed to form one. There is a handy metaphor called "Rechte-Hand-Regel" (Right-Hand-Rule) for this: If you're holding your right Hand in front of you and spread your finger, your thumb (as the leftmost finger) goes to the left and every other goes to the right. So if you are on the left lane, you move to the left. Everyone else moves right. Knowing this is a mandatory part for getting your drivers license. - Honestly, it sadly happens in way to many cases that people either don't form a Rettungsgasse or, even worse, drive through the free lane, because they think they are more important i guess - Our sirens can usually be heard clearer over long distances compared to the classical US siren. That would be for physics reasons, that other people are more capable of explaining than i am - not forming a Rettungsgasse (or even abusing it) is illegal, because you are hindering an emergency response and if you are identified (which isn't that difficult given that the people you hinder usually are right behind you) you can get fined a pretty good sum - The whole thing gets easier, since we have the "Rechtsfahrgebot" (rule of driving right), which means you are supposed to drive in the rightmost lane, that your speed allows, which forces trucks to drive in the rightmost lane, so they don't interfere with a Rettungsgasse
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  1010. The red roofs aren't particularly limited to some areas but are mostly dependent on the prevalent roofing material of the region. Over time the architectural style of a region adapted to supply and demand and that became the tradition for the region. So in some areas you see the red fired ceramic roof tiles, in other areas gray or even black slate roofs, as people tended to buy the most prevalent (thus more affordable) roofing material. But in almost all cases fairly slanted roofs are the most common as Germany gets quite a lot of rain, and in the past, quite some snowfall as well. You didn't want to allow snow to build up on roofs in case the weight causes the roofs to collapse, so roofs became more or less slanted. Flat-top roofs became a thing in the 60's and 70's but again fell out of use soon after people discovered their drawbacks. With slanted roofs standing pools of water are virtually impossible. In mountainous regions strangely enough roofs often tend to very shallow slants. This was due to a specific type of falling winds called Föhn which could reach very high speeds right out of the blue, as warm, humid air creeps over mountain tops, cools, and rapidly drops on the opposing mountain sides while loosing most of its humidity. These winds can reach very high top speeds, and may cause snow avalanches. As such, very shallow but extremely sturdy roofs were introduced in Bavaria and Baden-Würtemberg in the mountain side villages. In the north, the Hanse, the merchant clans, allowed for a long stretch of prosperity for nearly all North and Baltic Sea cities for nearly one hundred years. During those times buildings were constructed with copper roofs. Something only the very rich could afford. That's why you see so many of these green, patinaed copper roofs today. When they were laid for the first time the coppery-red shine of those roofs must have been something incredible to behold. When you have a thousand years or more to build something intricate and beautiful you tend to keep it maintained as well. But when you build with stone masonry buildings tend to last a looooong time. Yeah, it takes a lot longer to construct, it is a lot more expensive during construction. At least you normally can take out significant parts of a building without causing it to collapse. So even badly affected materials can be exchanged over time without having to tear down the whole building. When you consider the cost over time relationship, stone over the extremely long term (more than three hundred years or so) is a fairly inexpensive material due to its longevity. Now imagine those two stupid mustached idiots (Kaiser Wilhelm II and A.H.) hadn't put Germany through the wringer of two world wars, and THEN imagine what would have been available as historic buildings today. All the attrocities committed don't have to be mentioned, again; everybody knows about them. It really saddens me what we lost in beauty, art, architecture, culture, advancements due to those wars and attrocities. At 7:16 of your video you have a look at the Speicherstadt, the storage city, in Hamburg. It was lined with canals on one side, streets on the other side of the warehouses. The Elbe river allowed for relatively safe passge into the North Sea but still offer continental safety as it is roughly 70 km / 45 miles inland from the actual coast. These canals allowed for bulk shipment with small ships right up to the warehouses, unloading with cranes that slid out along the top of the warehouses, lifted to their respective levels, and stored inside. The same on the other side, to lower bulk wares onto carts and waggons on the street side. This allowed for complete unloading of a ship in a short time, storing potentially spoilable goods under roofs, until needed. The architectural genius of these buildings with air and water flow through the basements was such that the temperature inside the buildings never changed by more than a maximum of ten degrees C (roughly 18 degrees F), no matter the outside temperature, rain, snow, blizzards, sunshine, etc. All without any AC, just the incredibly varied airflow management inside. That's why the warehouse or storage city got the UNESCO world heritage trademark a few years ago. 9:37 That steam engine locomotive obviously isn't used as a standard mode of transportation, but as a curiosity and vintage excursion trip. Most trains (99.99%) in Germany are either electric or diesel, not steam. Some local tourist locations offer these vintage style trips with steam engines. There is just something, I don't know, viscerally powerful about a steam engine chugging along. 12:16 The warmest part is around Freiburg in Baden Würtemberg, close to the French and Swiss border, which incidentally is also the best red wine area of Germany (I wonder why 😃😉). Germany is very strongly influenced by the Gulf Stream carrying warm waters north through the English channel into the North Sea. But the North Sea is a large cauldron of churning waters mixing arctic flows along the eastern British Isles and the Norwegian coast with the warm Gulf Stream waters. As such, the climate is basically temperate all throughout Germany, even with the country stretching around 800 km north to south. The Gulf Stream carries warm air flows across all of France and the Benelux countries up several river valleys, and funnels them into Germany as a predominant south-westerly wind. This means that the south-west of Germany gets the warmest winds most of the time. Only during winter time when the air cools significantly above the Alps and frost and snow settles in does the north become paradoxically more mild than the south. The north constantly recieves the warm airflow rising from the warm jets of water funneled into the North Sea. This leads to a very settled, narrow temperature band in the North throughout the year. The North also has virtually no mountains (or at least nothing anyone would consider mountains) so that air flow is almost completely uninhibited here. Whereas the South has the Alps as a barrier to the Mediterranean climate, thus has to contend with some more drastic temperatures. The eastern part of Germany recieves the brunt of the low temperatures as most warmer air has cooled off over the mainland. It also recieves counter-winds from across Poland, the Baltic Sea, Czech and Slovakia carrying deeply cold winds along with them. In general Germany normally gets enough rain, but the last three to four years saw very little rain during the summers, resulting in some pretty severe droughts. Snow in the lowlands during the deep winter is relatively common for a day or two, often only lightly sprinkling the cities. For long lasting snows with full ground coverage in winter you need to head higher up into the mountains, and even those have seen a decline in snow covers over the last two decades. When it comes to permafrost... weeeell, climate change definitely has arrived in Germany. The Zugspitze, the highest German mountain, has finally lost its permafrost just this year (2022) during summer. This is critical as the rocky mountain top normally is covered in snow, helping the rocks stay in formation due to the ice 'gluing' them together. Now that the permafrost is broken during summer the mountain top may start to crumble. Nobody here denies climate change; the only discussion about it is how MUCH of it is human made; not if it happens at all. But everybody agrees that humanity is at least partly to blame for it.
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  1105. 1:27 Red light is used by Polish traffic law while in convoy, marking first and last vehicle in convoy 1:41 By Polish law any type of governmental agency has to organise tender order for any kind of order above 130k PLN (Polski Złoty). Also Tender can't favor any specific company or supplier. Agency can only specify broad definitions and raw values like for eg.: engine power, min size and max size of vehicle and addition and specialist equipment, but also not by name but by norms and specific values. The ammount of regualtions regarding this is very large and complicated so the above one is simplification. But long story short the law is the cause for the variety 2:39 KIA Venga 3:16 KIA CEED Kombi/Wagon 3:27 In Europe Ford Escape is known as Ford Kuga 3:49 Looks like unmarked Skoda Superb to me 4:09 Toyota Landcruiser (looks like J100 type from 1998-2007) of SPAP (Specjalny Pododział Antyterorystyczny Policji - Special Anti-Terrorist Unit of the Police) \SWAT Team but can also be from ABW (Agencja Bezpieczeństwa Wewnętrznego - Internal Security Agency ) like FBI or also SOP (Służba Ochrony Państwa - Government Protection Service) like US Secret Service. Discreetly armored vehicle. 4:42 Kombi aka. Wagons are very popular with the Polish police as they allow more cargo space for all additional equipment they have to carry 5:06 Yes this is an emergency vehicle. Fire Dept. (pol. Straż Pożarna) to be exact. Usually used by commanding officer of larger group like for eg. Firechief 5:40 "Złote Tarasy" - "Golden Terraces" shoping mall in the center of Warsaw, next to it is Warszawa Centralna - Warsaw Central train station 5:58 Toyota Land cruiser (J200 i think) 7:24 MAN from Warsaw PD Bomb Squad (edit) it's a TGM 18.320 4x4 with 320HP engine (235 kW). It has a special compartment for transporting explosives that can withstand blast and contain all shrapnel inside it. It is tested with 5 KG of TNT and/or 100 mm artillery shell. The price tag is 3 milion PLN per unit so 753,705.00 USD per unit as for end of 2023. The name of the vechile is "IRIS" and it is produced by Polish company "Jakusz". 7:55 Yup, Apteka is polish for Pharmacy 8:29 Yup it's a Skoda Superb from latest contract. 2 liter 280 HP engine, DSG automatic gearbox and 4x4 drive. In the same contract a lot of Skoda Scala were also purchased. The Scala was purchased with 1,5 liter engine with 150HP and also with DSG automatic gearboax but with FWD. 8:37 Yup this is the new variant for Polish police, they started purchasing cars in it from the start of 2023 8:50 MAN TGE 3.180 2.0 Liter 177HP engine and 8 speed automatic transmission 9:57 Video is from 11th of November so Polish Independence Day 10:29 Vans are popular in Polish Police used for transport of 7 man squad and with also separate isolated space for detainees in the back 11:02 Mercedes A class (i think 2nd gen) smallest Mercedes car excluding Smart..... (edit) I've checked it's in fact 1st gen not 2nd
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  1106. Hello, Ian Brewing in monasteries dates back to medieval times when monks brewed beer for their own consumption and for visitors, as water was often unsafe to drink. The Trappist beer tradition began with the Cistercian monks, a branch of the Benedictine order, founded in 1098. The stricter Trappist branch emerged in the 17th century. Monasteries brewed beer to sustain themselves financially, adhering to the Rule of St. Benedict, which emphasizes self-sufficiency. In the 19th century, Trappist brewing as we know it began, particularly with the re-establishment of monasteries in Belgium after the Napoleonic wars. Currently, there are 11 recognized Trappist breweries worldwide that have been certified by the International Trappist Association. They are: Achel (Belgium): Known for its strong ales, particularly the Blond and Bruin beers. Chimay (Belgium): One of the most famous, brewing beers like Chimay Blue, Red, and White. Orval (Belgium): Known for its unique Orval beer with a distinctive hop bitterness and Brettanomyces yeast. Rochefort (Belgium): Produces Rochefort 6, 8, and 10, strong ales with complex flavors. Westmalle (Belgium): The origin of the "Tripel" style, also brewing Dubbel. Westvleteren (Belgium): Famous for its limited availability and the highly regarded Westvleteren 12. Zundert (Netherlands): Produces Zundert 8 and Zundert 10, noted for their spicy flavors. La Trappe (Netherlands): Known for a wide range of beers including Quadrupel and Tripel. Tre Fontane (Italy): The only Trappist brewery in Italy, producing a eucalyptus-infused Tripel. Spencer (U.S.): The first American Trappist brewery, known for its Belgian-style ales. Mont des Cats (France): Though brewed at Chimay, it has its distinct flavor, not certified but often associated. Trappist beers generally fall into the following styles: Patersbier (Single): A lighter ale, often only available within the monastery. Usually low in alcohol and served to monks. Dubbel: A dark ale, usually ranging between 6-8% ABV. Noted for rich, malty sweetness with flavors of dried fruit, caramel, and spices. Tripel: A strong, pale ale with higher alcohol content (typically around 8-10% ABV). Characterized by a dry finish, fruity esters, and spicy phenols from yeast. Quadrupel: The strongest style, with ABV typically over 10%. Full-bodied, dark, and often with flavors of dark fruits, toffee, and spices. Blond Ale: A lighter, golden ale with fruity and spicy notes from the yeast. Specialty Beers: Some breweries produce unique beers that don't fit neatly into traditional styles. Examples include Orval, which uses Brettanomyces yeast, and Tre Fontane's eucalyptus-infused Tripel. Trappist beers have influenced many modern craft brewers. The strong ales, like Tripel and Quadrupel, have become widely imitated outside of monasteries.
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  1154. We have McDonalds (“Maccas” in our native tongue) and KFC and Subway and Pizza Hut and Dominos, those have been staples here for a while, but a lot of other chains have had trouble breaking in. Taco Bell has tried for a long time and they now have a couple of restaurants, but they few and far between, you usually have to go out of your way to find them. Same with Carls Jr. Some other places like In-N-Out are testing the waters too. But Australia is known for being one of the hardest markets in the world to break in to. I think one reason for this is because we are very particular about our food. We like our food to be food and not full of additives and hidden fats and sugars and flavourings, and we like to know things are locally sourced and fresh. A good example of this is with McDonalds where just over a decade ago they had to drastically change up their menu, because there were a lot of rumours going around, like that their chicken nuggets weren’t real chicken, and that their shakes were thickened with pig fat. To win back the public they now market themselves as working with local farmers and that everything is fresh, and that they use 100% Australian beef, and have added a lot more health conscious items on their menus, etc. Another reason for our tough market is because we like things that are “homegrown”. A good example there is with Starbucks. We Australians love coffee, but we are one of the few countries in the world where Starbucks actually failed. To us that’s not real coffee, their stuff is more like desserts, and we already had our own coffee chains like Gloria Jeans (formerly a Chicago brand that Aussies took over) that we liked, so Starbucks couldn’t compete. You can still find them around, but they closed something like 150 stores nationally just a few years in to trading here. And it’s the same with food. Where I live, Melbourne, American food is really trendy here, stuff like Texas style bbq and crab shacks and Nashville hot chicken and New Orleans cuisine, but largely it’s from independent restaurants run by Aussies, or Americans whom are living here, and we prefer those places to big corporate chains.
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  1210. The German beer was a wheat beer there of such a different character. Most beer is brewed from barley, but it is also possible to brew beer from wheat, rye, corn and rice. If you want to learn a little more about different beer types: Lager: Brewed from carefully dried malt and is under-fermented. They are usually divided into three groups. American and Asian lagers: Very light lager beers that contain more raw fruit and less hops than other lagers. They have a light and fresh character and are suitable as uncomplicated thirst quenchers. European lager: The Dane Emil Christian Hansen, researcher at Carlsberg, had a key role when the European lager was developed. European lagers have a milder aroma and flavor profile than the German and Czech pilsner lagers. Czech and German pilsner: The third group consists of the original Czech and German pilsner varieties that have a more distinct character. The beer has a greater fullness and a clearer bitterness compared to later lagers. Other types of lager beer: There are also other lager beers such as Viennese lager that has had to give way in favor of pilsner lager, but it lives on in the Czech Republic, southern Germany and Denmark. Dark lager is another bottom-fermented beer. Originally, all bottom-fermented lagers were dark and it was only around the time of the First World War that the light lager became more common than the dark. Baltic porter is historically associated with the original porter that British merchants brought to the Baltics in the 18th century. It has an intense taste with aromas of coffee, chocolate and licorice. Spontaneously fermented beer: Spontaneous fermentation means that free yeast particles in the air start the fermentation process, and not added yeast. Before the industrialization of beer, it was common for the beer to sour during storage due to the presence of multiple strains of yeast as well as lactic acid and bacteria. These bacteria were widespread and a scourge to brewers until they learned to pasteurize the beer and isolate the yeast strains. But there were also breweries that learned to use the spontaneous fermentation to enhance the taste and add balance and freshness to the beer. Today, sour beer is quite uncommon, but interest in this type of beer has increased in recent times. Lambic is an example of a spontaneously fermented beer type typical of Belgium. ferments and ages Belgian spontaneous beer often in oak barrels for up to three years before bottling, and the result is a completely unique beer. Ale: In everyday speech, ale usually means the vast majority of types of over-fermented beer. However, the differences between the different ale types are large. Blond ale: Light ale brewed according to the Belgian method. The beer is produced by fermentation, usually at a high alcohol content, with a Belgian type of yeast that adds very strong fruity notes to the beer. Pale ale (bitter): Light ale brewed according to the British method. Plenty of malt and large amounts of hops. Pale ale has more bitterness, less fruity aroma and, as a rule, lower alcohol content than the Belgian ale. Brown ale: Both England and Belgium still have strong traditions in dark ale brewing. British brown ale is usually a little weaker than the slightly sweeter Belgian counterpart, but in both varieties the dark malt sets the tone for the taste picture. Wheat beer: Wheat beer is brewed from wheat malt, barley malt and hops and comes from the Bavarian and Belgian beer tradition. In Bavaria, wheat beer is brewed exclusively on malt and hops in accordance with the Bavarian purity law Reinheitsgebot from the year 1516, while the Belgians add spices to the wheat beer and increase its acidity slightly with the help of lactic acid. Otherwise, both countries' wheat beers are over-fermented and have a fruity and spicy aroma. Stout and Porter: Porter was originally a British type of beer and the term stout was initially used only for the most alcoholic varieties. Today it is difficult to make a clear distinction between stout and porter. What they all have in common is that they have a well-developed body and a strong aroma that comes from the hard roasted malt.
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  1379. French here. Boulangeries (bakeries) are the best thing in the world in my eyes. It's a small place filled with heavenly products, and usually it's a very relaxing and happy place where I love to go, have a quick chat with the boss and leave with a fresh, crusty, delicious baguette. Somehow, at the boulangerie, everyone is very kind to each other. Also, you usually go to a special boulangerie not only for the awesome croissants, baguettes & pains au chocolat, but also because the boulanger (the baker in french, usually the owner) is somehow a nice person that you like to visit. It's part of the social tissue of the neighbourhood and a good boulangerie can light up a town or village. I would advise anybody to visit France just to try the boulangeries. No specific places, they're litteraly everywhere. It's the only thing I miss EVERY FREAKING TIME when I go abroad. I guess we're very lucky in that aspect. I heard Vienna has awesome bakeries too. But you go to anywhere else... they simply can't replicate a fraction of the deliciousness we got here. It's like sushi in Japan, there isn't a country that does it so well so consistantly, across the whole country. I remember when I was a student, we used to leave parties around 4, and we went (slightly drunk), knock on the back door of our local boulangerie. They would sell us super fresh croissants, still burning hot but after a night of partying it was just divine. I'm sorry I'm digressing, but I've come to realize that those bakeries are maybe what I love the most about my culture, and I'm pretty sure most of my co citizens would agree. It's really part of our identity and heritage in a way I can't even describe. And you're right about the price : they're expensive abroad, but affordable in France. It's not an upper class thing at all, everyone can afford it and everyone eats it. Anyways... if you have the chance to come here, feel free to reach out, we french would love to bring you across France eat our lovely patisseries. Peace bro, as always, you're genuinely interested about the world, I love your reactions. Keep up the great great work, and bless you and your family 😘 P.S. : By the way, running a traditionnal boulangerie is an actual NIGHTMARE 😂Getting up at 3 or 4 in the morning, working all day, then having to prepare all the doughs again for the next day, repeat. Boulangers also work on ALL the special days like Christmas, NYE, Easter etc etc, because that's when they sell the most. That's the thing : boulangers, by definition, are passionate about their jobs. They absolutely have to be, otherwise it's impossible. P.P.S. : You're also right about the craft. It's a long training and it takes hard work to become a decent boulanger. Nobody here knows how to make good bread outside of boulangers, because of the training but also the equipment : their ovens are super hot and you simply can't have this at home. You'll basically never replicate what they do unfortunately ^^ That's also part of the magic of those places. Like cooking, there's prestigious contests yearly to elect the best boulanger in France. A great boulanger / patissier (baker / pastry maker) is pretty much as renowned as a 4 or 5 star michelin cook. Some families are boulangers for generations and the craft is learned from the parents.
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  1475. Hey there, I sure seem to be leaving very elaborate comments under your videos. Hope you enjoyed this one and the background info helps appreciate it more! Here's some tidbits on the different stuff you had questions for: -The F1 race was Hamilton & Verstappen battling for the championship on the very last lap of the last race of the season. After a late caution, Hamilton stayed out on very old tires while Max had just pitted under the safety car ending up in P2 right behind Hamilton, poised to go for the win after a backmarker (believe it was Latifi) put his car in the wall triggering the caution. Hamilton was left hung out to dry by his Team strategy, which must have told him "it's over, you'll win under yellows", since he took track position over pace. Typical case of "one late caution turns everything on it's head" you already know and love from Nascar. In F1 there apparently is a rule on how many laps the safety car has to be out once it's called, I believe it's 3 laps at minimum but that would have ended the final championship deciding race under yellow flags which would have been even more controversial and imo damaging the prestige of the sport... So the footage you saw was indeed just after a shortened safety car period (no one had ever seen that before) and a very shakey-cam rendition of the last lap, last race deciding the championship and the few deciding moves that led up to it. Max knocked off the 7 time champion, who is also arguably top 5 of the best drivers ever, driving the unquestionably best car that season. It was an epic moment that had built up to this for years, the venerated old guard vs. the young gun out to prove himself and all came down to the last lap of the last race. In case you want to understand overtaking advantages better, may I recommend "Sergio Perez Minister of defense". It shows the reason why Verstappen even got close enough to mount his final attack against Hamilton, his team-mate did outstanding work that day, -The jump drift Initiation is absolutely legendary and I'm really happy it makes an impact on you! First of all: Japanese announcers are ALWAYS this... animated (lol). At first it's a bit of a love-hate relationship but eventually you'll learn to ignore them/see them as acoustic accompaniment to the action on track. I'm sure you know how drifting works and you can tell the jumped Initiation was actually sweet as F*** and whenever someone initiates a drift halfway in the air, it's mandatory to imitate the Japanese commentary from this video :) About that contest: we saw a qualifying run which decides your position in a bracket style k.o. tournament. Here's how the US version of this event works: there are a maximum of 64 drivers doing their qualifying, each gets 2 tries to get as close to certain points on track like the apex, entry and exit of a corner while also getting marks on fluidity/style and angle of the dangle. The resulting performance is measured in points between 0 and 100, which determines how easy your first bracket opponent is going to be. Tandem drifting competitions are a thing to behold, the car control on display is out of this world. First time you actually go against someone else is the round of 32, after that top 16 etc until you've found a winner. As many competitors have said over the years: "It's figure skating with cars". If you have a moment spare, may I introduce Chelsea Denofa into your life? A 2200ish pound black, purple and gold Mustang chassis with 75° of steering angle in both directions, sticky road legal tires (dot legal), a dog-box 4 speed, pretty good suspension and last but certainly not least: a 9k rpm Nascar V8 stroked close to 440 cui with a 200 shot of nitrous making 900hp off the bottle and somewhere over 1100 with it. I live in Europe and if there's an event on I regularly stay up past 3am to watch him specifically on the Formuladrift YT stream.. Phew, this got longer than anticipated.. -The LeMans clip is iconic, too. It's like watching the unstoppable force vs the immovable object. The Porsche was better under brakes and in the corners while the McLaren was no match on the straights. The cars in question are the N/A V12 McLaren F1 and the Porsche 911 based prototype called GT1, which is iconic in Germany. The McLaren had been designed by a former Formula1 car designer called Gordon Murray and he came up with a bunch of things that make that car much closer to a mechanical piece of art than a production run of a few hundred cars might have you expect. The slick body lines, the lack of a huge rear wing and the integration of an electric fan in the diffuser meant the McLaren had the measure of every car on the grid in terms of straight-line speed bc it didn't compromise any top speed for cornering ability. Brilliant car, probably the most iconic supercar for me. Gordon Murray has to be one of the best car designers EVER. N/A 6Liter V12 made by BMW, 3(!) seats with a central driving position(!!!!), practically no downforce so topspeed is somewhere around 240mph on the road going version, the intake is an oval tube right above the driver, made of kevlar composite that had been tuned&shaped to reverberate in the frequency on the intake valves so between 4k and 8k that thing makes a noise inside the cabin like you're in the intake yourself. It has gold foil in the engine bay to isolate heat coming from the titanium exhaust system so the engine bay doesn't melt the kevlar body panels. Quick aside: I'm sure you're familiar with the BMW M3 and their N/A inline-6 E36 and E46 in the mid-90s up to the mid 2000s? The E46 was on the box of Need for speed Most Wanted back in the day and made me fall in love with it. That engine is basically just one cylinder bank of the McLaren's V12, making their investment into this race engine pay off soooooooo ludicrously well, it's nuts. As a former Honda owner you're sure to be familiar with VTec. BMW came up with their own variable valve timing for the engine in the F1, which then paved the way for their 'Vtec' (called VANOS) making it's way over to the M3 S54 (I believe that's the engine code) and produces that iconic BMW raspiness M3s are (in)famous for. The Porsche GT1 is nuts but slightly more conventional that the McLaren. As you surely know, 911s have their engines behind the rear axle, giving them their very characteristic handling. The GT1 is basically a 911 with an extended wheelbase, an engine on the rear axle instead of behind it (might be wrong here) and a 550ish hp turbo boxer engine. It was a much more typical, oldschool approach to a racecar: road car has too much power? Build a chassis loosely based on the road car but let's go as far as the regs allow and maximize our advantages (chassis roll & flex, aero, cooling etc.). In that sense, the Porsche is conventional but modern for the times while the McLaren is old-school and brute-ish. I love them both to bits, this got very long and elaborate. Hope there were interesting things somewhere in there :)
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  1539. That video was full of errors. Apart from the weight restrictions that others have already corrected in other comments, the consolidation/ownership map of global manufacturers and their brands is really complex. From memory, it goes something like this- * Daimler (Mercedes) owns: Mercedes Benz Trucks (Europe, Asia, Australia), Mitsubishi Fuso Trucks (Global), Freightliner Trucks, Detroit Diesel Engines (North America), Mercedes Trucks and Busses (Brazil), EvoBus (which includes MB busses and Setra busses, Global), Thomas Busses (USA) and a smattering of other smaller manufacturers that I'm forgetting right now. Up until recent unfortunate evens they also owned Kamaz in Russia, but that's pretty much over now... * The Volvo group owns: Volvo Trucks, Renault Trucks (Europe, Asia, Australia), Volvo VNL (North America, formerly Volvo-White), Mack (USA), Volvo Busses (Global), Prevost Coaches (North America), NovaBus (North America) and probably a few smaller ones I'm forgetting. * Paccar owns: DAF (Europe, Asia, Australia), Kenworth and Peterbilt (North America), Irisbus (which includes DAF, Carosa, Renault and Iveco busses, Europe and Asia). * VW group owns VW Trucks (Brazil) and Navistar (North America), and also holds controlling stakes in MAN trucks and Busses and Scania Trucks and busses (Europe Asia and Australia), and up until recently they owned the Belorussian truck manufacturer MAZ. Fiat used to have a heavy truck division - Iveco, but they sold it off to a Dutch holding company called Exor N.V. (hence the DAF+Iveco bus connection). I do not think there is any engine sharing between Volvo and Scania, at least none that I'm aware of. If anything, MAN and Scania are the relatives, both being effectively owned by the Volkswagen group.
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  1596. About the paying bathroom : as it was said, it is to help people clean it but there are other reasons to that. It can also be to keep out people who do not want to use the bathroom but break stuff, graffiti, or simply just squat or trash the place down. A lot of the times cleaning people will be here at all times to clean when needed, but automatic bathrooms are more and more common, especially in western Europe. Also, those paying bathroom are mostly in public spaces like in parks, in the city etc... I've almost never seen them in spaces like shopping malls or stadiums for example since they have other sources of revenue to pay for clean bathrooms. About Blitzers : here in France, there are stationnary ones. When on the road, you might see a sign saying that the speed is checked on this section, that means there's a stationnary one. About cops checking your speed live, there are a lot of them sadly as it generates a lot of revenue, but we have an app where people say where they are and the app tells you, as you're driving, to watch out for them. And it knows the location of the stationnary ones too. About air conditioning : Our houses are built differently than american houses so we don't necessarily need AC, especially in old houses and buildings. Supermarkets, police stations, offices etc... all of them have AC, but individual homes do not, or rarely. Older houses were built with thick walls, meaning they retain cold easily. Add to that old towns and villages with all those houses with thick walls close together, creating small streets that stay in the shade during summer. I actually like to go to these old villages during summer as these streets have fresh wind running through them, making it a nice spot to sit down and rest. There was one time when I was in the mountains in summer, hiking to an abandonned village. It was incredibly hot outside and when I arrived in the village, I entered an abandonned home and it was so fresh inside, it was almost cold. The walls were 3 feet thick, filled with stones or bricks, meaning the cold stayed inside during the day. Compared to houses in America, when I see them being built, it's not wonder that americans need AC, there way less insulation compared to old european houses.
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  1614. Something about the flag even most austrians don't know: it's even older than the guy who made that facts video found in his reasearch. He said it's from the Babenberg dynasty, which is where the Habsburg dynasty inherited it from which the republik inherited it. But thing is, this flag was already used by the "Eppensteiner" family which died out in 1122. Their flag and land posessions were inherited by the Traungauer dynasty and when they died out in 1192, the Babenberger dynasty inherited it. So by the time the ones he mentioned got it, the first 2 families it beloged to on todays austrian ground hand already died out! (And when the Babenbergers died out the Habsburgs inherited it. So basically the Habsburgers were the ones having it for the longest time and the only ones who managed to not die out. ;-) The "thing" in the Middle is an eagle and just used on the flag when the flag is used by official government authorities, otherwise it's just the red white red. (only they are allowed to use it with the "coat of arms" which is absically the eagle) The eagle wears a "crown out of a city wall made out of bricks" (hard to translate) as a symbol for the burgoisi?, has a hammer in one hand for the workers and a sickle in the other to symbolize the people in agriculture and has broken chains to symbolize the end of the dictatorship during WW2. On it's heart it has the shield with the austrian flag itself. Fun thing, the coat of arms for one of the federal states of austria is in use since around 1172 in the same form for the same thing and thus one of the oldest coats of arms still in use today almost unchanged. The coat of arms of styria that is. And there is a inscription in latin somewhere that translates to "nobody should tease the styrian panther because there's fire comming out of his mouth and his ass! 😎 (but the thing is that originally there was fire out of all it's body openings. all of them... (ok this got way longer than i anticipated, sorry!)
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  1625. The coupe body is the Sierra RS Cosworth, the original. They were two wheel drive. They made an “ultimate” derivative called the RS 500 which was more used as a touring car and highly successful. Some road versions were made for homologation reasons. There was a 4x4 of the original but they are rare and were not coveted. The Cosworth then morphed into the Sierra Sapphire Cosworth and they did have 4 doors, were more of a saloon (sedan) and had both 2 wheel drive and 4 wheel drive. Many were tuned UP to original RS 500 spec but they never officially made a 500 as it primarily a road car that was then adapted for racing, not the other way around which was the original cars primary intention. Many covet the RS 500, they command very very high prices now for obvious reasons. The original cars still very much sought after now but the market for the Sapphire is is creeping up as they were really tuneable but original unmodified cars are getting rare. And yes, Ford Europe had a thing for large wings….this is the original RS Cosworth but also check the Escort Cosworth….that had a similarity mad rear wing. The Escort was also NOT really an Escort either. It LOOKS like a Cosworth, but it’s actually a Sierra Cosworth platform with a chunk cut out of the middle to make a shorter wheelbase and stiffen it up. They were homologation specials for the road and the numbers were made but you will have already seen them on older WRC videos you will have watched. Also quite successful but absolutely revered as a road car and prices have gone up a heck of a lot over the years. Iconic cars, all of them
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  1651. Here in Australia there are companies like Rare Spares that do nothing else but make modern retro spare parts, if you get my meaning, to keep classic cars like these running. It's a whole cottage industry these days. Engines may be of varying levels of originality; Dick Johnson's 1984 Falcon, for example, is a time capsule that has never been touched since the day it finished its last race - even the oil stains are authentic. For a lot of cars, though, they're only "the car" in the sense that it's the original bodyshell and they've been re-created to some specific era or race. Some might even be replicas. 3:57 Looks like the Ferrari Breadvan. 6:45 is an Arrows A10, an F1 car from 1987. Engine was the BMW turbo that famously produced so much power the dyno couldn't measure it, rebuilt for the team by Megatron. Unfortunatey by 1987 pop-off valves had arrived, so the engine's only real advantage was gone. 7:54 is a Tyrrell 012, another F1 car from 1983. Stuck with a Cosworth V8, just about the only non-turbo engine on the grid by that point, they tried to make the car super-light to compete. They got caught cheating in 1984, but that's a long and rather sordid story. 8:20 Looks like an Aussie S5000 car, a modern reboot of classic Formula 5000 from the 1970s, powered by a 5-litre Ford Coyote V8. Good cars, fun to watch, they usually pair up with TCR events here in Straya. Might be wrong though, it could be a Formula 2 car or something. 8:58 is an Embassy Hill, a mid-1970s F1 car from the great Graham Hill's own team. It does sound awesome, Cosworth DFVs always do! 10:44 Looks like a Maserati 4CLT, the F1 ride of choice for the amateur enthusiast in the early 1950s. 11:05 Is some sort of Indy roadster, early 1960s. 11:38 Is an Alfa Romeo 155 touring car from what looks like the 1995 BTCC. 12:55 Is another BTCC car, a Renault Laguna from the late 90's. 13:04 Is a Rover SD1 from around 1984. 14:20 Is a Lotus 77, I think, from 1976 - just before the team brought in ground effects and changed the game forever. 14:44 Ah yes, the famous Tyrrell P34 from 1976 and '77. The idea was to remove the drag of big front wheels rotating in the airflow, then make up for the lost front-end grip by having more wheels. It worked to a degree, as the lost drag was calculated to be worth an extra 40hp from their DFV engine, and they won a race (the '76 Swedish GP at Anderstorp, if memory serves). But performance fell off as Goodyear stopped bothering to develop the special front tyres, and eventually they just gave up and went back to a normal layout. 15:14 Lotus 49 from 1968. The first F1 car to carry commercial sponsorship. Jim Clark died early in the year so Graham Hill carried the team, ultimately winning the championship at the final round (I told you a DFV always sounds amazing!).
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  1774. Glad you like German beer so much! The first one was "Kölsch", a kind of beer exclusively from cologne. "Kölsch" translates to cologne'ish. You are supposed to drink it from 0.2l glasses, Früh is one Kölsch brand, it means early. Many Germans living outside of cologne make fun of Kölsch, because its drank from small glasses and tastes very light. The German purity law actually is the oldest still existing food law in the world. We manage to do a lot with these 4 ingredients, aren't we? :D Radler isn't "woman's beer". Radler roughly translates to bicyclist. Its beer mixed with soda, like we also sometimes mix Pils with Sprite, you'll get roughly the same taste. Its nice when you go for a hike during warm summer, or if you plan to do sports. There is a German saying: "Radler ist kein Alkohol" - Radler is no alcohol. Krombacher is the biggest privat brewery in Germany. Its from a little town called Krombach, and actually I'm from there :D. The tower on the logo exists and is a restaurant. I really enjoy to see something from my little region being drank all over the world. However, it tastes much better if its fresh from the tab. The brewery has many varieties of beer, and there is also international tourism happening to it. People come from all over the world, you pay like 20 bucks, you get to see the brewery and then you have 2 hours of free drinking with excellent service and food served aside. Brilliant experience! In the 2010ers (maybe earlier) the German brewery's created more Radler-like beers (Radler is the German OG-Beer mix, but there was a less popular cola and beer mix around, too). The Schöfferhofer Grapefruit is a wheat beer, which are sweeter in nature, with some grapefruit soda stuff. The beer mix-stuff btw. isn't allowed to be called beer in Germany due to the purity-law. So we call the "Biermischgetränk" - Beer mix drink. The Franziskaner is a very solid German wide sold Weißbier (White Beer), which is also an unfiltered wheat beer, the Bavarian call it white beer instead of wheat beer. I also like to drink it outside on warm summer days, when you call it a day. Wolters is from the more northern parts of germany. Like the northern and western parts from Germany tend to drink more Pilsener, the south is more a wheat beer region. Like Warsteiner, Krombacher and Wolters both come from the western part of Germany. DAB is a more international brewery, i think they concentrate more on export, but i could be wrong here, dont know to much about them. DAB is the "Dortmunder Aktien-Brauerei" - Dortmunds Incorporated Brewery. Soooo, there are 1492 brewerys in germany with 8135 different beers.. Which ones come next? :D
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  1837. Love your videos mate that infographic show get a lot of stuff wrong at times now I know the video was dated brief overview over Australia has and will get in the future -ARMY- the army currently has 59 M1 A1 Abrams main Battle Tank and the US state department as approved the possible sale of 75 M1A2 SEPv3 Abrams main battle tanks to to replace the M1 A1 Abrams plus 29 M1150 Assault Breacher Vehicles, 18 Joint Assault Bridges, six M88A2 Hercules Combat Recovery Vehicles which Australia already has 13 of which would increase the total strength 19 and 122 AGT1500 gas turbine engines. Australia is currently in the process replacing the 257 ageing ASLAV with the more capable boxer CRV 211 in total 25 in built in Germany and the remaining to be built in Australia Australia is also in the process of picking replacement for the (431) m113 Armored Personnel carrier until land 400 phase 3 to procure around 450 vehicles the two finalists are the South Korean Redback ifv and the German lynx ifv Australia also has 1052 Bushmaster is the protective mobility vehicle and sea service with multiple countries 1,100 Hawkei Protected Mobility which are currently in production 2,268 G-Wagons to fulfill a multi -purpose roll 2,536 Rmmv-hx Tactical military truck 31 hmt extenda High mobility transporter for special forces 54 m777 155mm howitzers and the procurement of 30 AS 9 Huntsman self propelled howitzer and 15 as10 armoured resupply vehicle 30 rsb 70 short range anti air man-portable launches to be replaced by 9 unknown quantity of a nasams medium range launchers 15 larc-v amphibious cargo vehicle 12 lcm8 riverboat and mechanized Landing Also there are Talks Of acquiring some sort of mrls most likely hmrls 14 ch47 Chinook 22 arh tiger armed reconnaissance helicopters which will be replaced by 29 ah 64-e Apaches 20 Blackhawks remain in service for special forces soon to be slated to be replaced by an unknown aircraft 15 Eurocopter ec135 trainer shared with navy 40 Mrh-90 taipan The army also operate various drones and other equipment late combat excavators dozers and equipment and various small arms but I'll be here for a move I have to list all of them and numbers for them are really hard to get -Navy- 2 Canberra class lhds which are amphibious assault ships which not technically aircraft carriers but with some modifications can operate f-35bs although a small flight 6 Collins class diesel electric submarines to be one day to be replaced by at least 8 regionally superior nuclear powered submarine most likely Virginia or astute classes 3 Hobart class Destroyers 8 Anzac class frigates to be replaced by 9 Hunter hunter class frigate based on the type 26 frigate 4 Huon Class minehunter 2 supply class aor replenishment ships 1 modified Bay class landing ship dock 12 Admiral class patrol boats to be replaced by 12 Arafura class offshore Patrol boats 2 Cape Class patrol boat 6 evolved Cape Class patrol boats two act as a intermediate replacement for the admiral class 2 Paluma Class survey ship coasta l 2 Leeuwin Class survey ship Mv Sycamorerole Aviation Training Vessel MV Stoker and MV Besant submarine salvage and rescue And various landing craft ribs and other small craft 6 mrh-90 taipan 24 MH-60R Seahawk 15 Eurocopter ec135 trainer shared with army Navy operate various drones as well -Airforce- 33 out of 72 f-35a multi-role stealth fighter 24 fa 18 Super Hornet multi-role fighter 11 EA growler electronic Warfare 12 if they replace the one that crashed ?-72 A/B classic Hornets multi-role fighter being retired as more F-35 come into service exact number of classic Hornets in service is unknown 7 kc 30a tanker 8 c17 globemaster heavy lift 12 c-130j Hercules medium lift 10 c27j Spartan tactical airlift 2 AP3c Orion maritime Patrol and surveillance 14 p8a Poseidon maritime Patrol and surveillance 6 e7a aew&c airborne early warning and control  3 super king air ISTAR intelligence surveillance, target acquisition and reconnaissance 4 on order g550 SIGINT/ELINT 2 Boeing 737 VIP Transport 3 Falcon 7X VIP Transport 8 super king air utility and light transport 33 Hawk 127 lead in Fighter trainer 49 Pilatus pc-22 primary trainer 6 of which are used by the Royal Australian Air Force Roulettes which is almost like the Blue Angels but without the Jets 4 super king air multi engine trainer 6 on order Mq 4c Triton maritime Patrol drone 12 on order Mq-9b Guardian unmanned surveillance combat drone 1 prototype 6 on order Australia's very own loyal Wingman artificial intelligence stealth multi-role unmanned aerial vehicle There's a lot more in the Australian Defence Force this is a brief overview ps this took like over an hour to type on my phone
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  1919. (Google said it better than I could) The orange color that’s present throughout much of Dutch culture is a nod to the royal family, which is made up of members of the House of Orange. The dynasty dates back to 1544 when William of Orange inherited the estate and title at the age of 11. In the years after WIlliam of Orange ascended the throne and the Netherlands gained independence from Spanish rule, the national flag was originally blue, white and orange. However, over the course of the last nearly five centuries, the country traded out the orange for red. The reason is not entirely known. Some subscribe to the lore that red was simply easier to spot on the open water -- an important fact for a sea-faring country. Others believe the change was part of a 1654 treaty with the English agreeing to adopt the colors of a Bavarian Coat of Arms. Still others suggest that the orange dye used for the flags turned red over time until the Netherlands just made the change official. Despite the lack of orange in the country’s flag, the color is ubiquitous throughout many Dutch sporting events and celebrations of the royal family. (I add myself: Willem van Oranje, William of Orange, was the leader of the Dutch revolt against Spanish rule in our country. It became known as the 80 years war. He was from the house of Nassau (in Germany) and became prince of Orange (in southern France.) Carrots, yes we all know them, those orange vegetables.. were made orange in honor of our king hundreds of years ago. Exported all over the world it became known as the color that carrots naturally are.)
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  1941. The public bathroom situation was one of the biggest shocks for me when I visited America. One of the bathrooms I went to had such big gaps between the doors that I could see pretty much everything outside the stall and had to get a friend to stand in front of the cracks to feel comfortable going. Here in Norway it is pretty much unheard of to have so thin and flimsy bathroom doors with multiple centimeter gaps. Over here it is very common especially in newer or renovated public bathrooms to have thick floor to ceiling tiled walls with proper doors like the walls and doors you’ll find in private homes. I e always wondered why this is the case for American bathrooms and my only guess would be to cut down the cost of public bathrooms, but I’m not really sure. Another surprise for me personally was how little Americans know about the world outside the us. When telling people that I’m Norwegian I got a lot of questions on where in the world Norway is which is not something I’ve never experienced in any other country I’ve traveled to. Americans also seem to believe a little too much in stereotypes, a guy I met at a museum I visited asked me and the rest of my group where we were from and when we told him we were from Norway he didn’t believe us because he assumed all Scandinavians have blonde hair and blue eyes which is simply not the case. Almost every American we spoke to were also very surprised at how good we were at speaking English which surprised us. To us it’s completely normal to be good or even fluent at English since we start learning English as soon as we start elementary school and many people even start learning simple English words as early as daycare.
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  2090. In Germany, we have tons of road signs. So many, in fact, that we often say it's a "Schilderwald" - a forest of signs - out there. It can get confusing as heck... What Hayley was explaining is that there are general rules for speed limits that are not specifically made clear to you by signs. In towns or cities, you are expected to go 50 km/h. Out of towns or cities, you can go up to 100 km/h, and on the Autobahn we have the notorious "no speed limit" rule, but a recommended max of 130 km/h. All of these can and will be supplemented by signs, though. So if you get into a town and go 50, but then see a sign that says 30, you have to go 30. Sometimes in big cities you may even be allowed to go faster than 50 km/h, like 60 or 70 - sometimes there's even highways within the city limits, like in Berlin for example. Out of town you may often encounter a speed limit of 80 or 70, since those back roads are not always super wide, in great condition, or they're very winding and not super easy to drive fast on. On the Autobahn, a lot of parts are max 120 km/h. I'd even say more parts of the Autobahn have speed limits than don't. But that's just my personal experience. Also, on the topic of safety vests, those are mandatory to have. Some countries in Europe mandate them only for the driver, some for every person you could potentially have in your car (so if you have 5 seats you need 5 vests, even if you mostly drive your car alone). You'll also need an "up to date" first aid kit. Usually you need to replace that every few years because the sterile parts in it (bandages, bandaids, etc.) won't be sterile anymore. And that reflective triangle Hayley mentioned at the start is also a must. If you ever get into a traffic control, they might not only ask for your paperwork, but also these three things. Getting my license cost around 3,000 euros and took about three months. We take a theory exam and then we do a practical one where we are accompanied by our driving teacher and the person evaluating us as they give us instructions on where to drive and what to do (so we can show that we know what to do in any given situation). Our license doesn't expire, though sometimes there's discussion on whether it should, because people don't always adhere to the rules anymore after having their license for a while, or senior citizens might not be as well-equipped to handle cars anymore as they used to be when they got their license. On the topic of having multiple cars per person, I simply wouldn't be able to afford it. The insurance, fuel, and maintenance cost would far exceed my disposable income. I also wouldn't have any space to put them, and I don't have any need for special-purpose vehicles like trucks or pick-ups or whatever else there may be. As for the gas stations, we have the ones with a shop and clerk attached, and those without (self-service). For the ones with clerk you pay after pumping, for the self-service ones you put your card in upfront and set a maximum amount that they can deduct from your account - I think this is what you described as well. Anyway, I wrote a novel. To anyone who read all of this: Have a cookie. 🍪
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  2209. Hello everyone. Pedro & Dani's Flauta Recipe: The recipe is below: Makes about 15 to 20 FLAUTAS* depending on how much filling you put in them. 1. 2 and a then half a chicken breasts. Boil in water til cooked and tender then shred. 2. Chop about 2 small onions and use 3-4 big tomatoes. Any tomatoes will do, the juicier the better for this recipe. * if no tomatoes, no worries, you can use canned tomato sauce as well. 3. A small can of Chipotle peppers. You'll only need to use 3 or 4 and blend in the blender with some water or chicken broth enough to cover your Chipotle chilies in the blender. 4. You can use salt & pepper to taste and a pinch of cumin and a sprinkle of garlic salt. Cooking: 5. Add oil to liking and combine onions and tomatoes and Sautee them til tender and add spices. 6. Add the Chipotle sauce you made in the blender and then let all the flavors cook for about 3 to 4 min. 7. Add shredded chicken 8. Get corn tortillas and microwave about 10 of them for about 50 sec to 1 min or until soft. You can do another set of 10 so they cook evenly in microwave. 9. Get corn tortilla and add chicken filling 10. Optional* to close the rolled tortillas you can use a toothpick but be SAFE and remove them. OR just face tortilla roll aka Flauta*** face down where the roll ends on the oil. 11. Optional * you can cook in oil or air frier for about 10 min putting 5 at a time. You can eyeball it and use your own alternatives. 12. If you're vegan you can shred carrots (or cooked jackfruit/shredded) and add more onions and tomatoes and same spices instead of chicken. 13. Enjoy and let us know if you tried this. 14. Be happy 15. and SMILE 😃
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  2260. Hey there Ian, thanks so much for delving deep into this one and I assure you haven't seen all of it's wonders yet :) I thought your end credits thoughts on liking foreign things were really nice and I share your fascination for all things fast, cool looking and interesting. I live in Germany but have been following US car culture closely just because it was so very different from what I was used to in my upbringing. Particularly the 60s&70s muscle car era's styling became soooo cool to me around age 15-16, it made me fall in love with Mopar (426 HEMIs in particular) and learn all about the available stock engine configurations which led me to learn about early Cali hot rodding and Bonneville salt flat racing which still fascinates me a lot even though I never was a great fan of the Steve McQueen movies... The cars were always the coolest thing about those movies, same with Burt Reynolds :) But there was one other movie which made me fall in love with 55' Chevys: Two lane blacktop (it's gloriously cheesy). I never thought the 55' body style was all that 'aggressive' compared to 'Cudas or even Dodge Charger/Challenger styling but once I saw that car in that movie, I started looking at the 'American design language' differently.. I suppose it was a hold out of me being used to European design language from the period where a car that looked menacing or aggressive was somehow considered crude, which I adopted without previously thinking too much about why that is. When I first saw a 68' Charger I thought I'd just seen automotive Arnold Schwarzenegger. I remember thinking "How on god's green earth is the grill just soooo perfectly simple and also ultra cool at the same time???" From there on, I started following a couple of YT channels but there's one surviving all these years I can whole heartedly recommend to every gear head who reads this: When you've got a bit of spare time spend an hour watching 1320video's coverage of any drag and drive event. Jeez, I started watching when Cleeter McFarland hadn't even been on camera yet and anything that wasn't a Promod north of 1000hp was the fastest car in their respective state. I value the German system of "no TÜV certificate, no driving" since I believe it's over all beneficial for society and people involved in accidents BUT the thought of building a 3-5mpg +500cui twin turbo, power glide/turbo400 transmission STREET CAR on a 67' Ford Fairlane/Dodge Dart which you drive and race from track to track is just... my personal heaven. That's ABSOLUTELY NOT possible in Germany. YouTube made me fall in love with Americana, the reason I know anything and almost everything about the highlights and lowlights of US car culture comes from Finnegan&Freiburger's Roadkill show on MotorTrend (before you had to pay), 1320video, early Hoonigan, Chris Harris on Cars and Matt Farah on Drive. I think it's wonderful you are so interested in learning new things, the treasure of knowledge you already have doesn't make you scoff at things that are different and foreign and I think that's such a wonderful thing. I'm still amazed you like Skodas as much as you do, to me they're like modern rebadged Buicks or something lol :) I'm happy you didn't let the fact you can't use Jay Leno's content without them copyright striking you into oblivion deter you from being curious. Cheers Ian, I hope you and yours are doing well.
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  2275. You called it "def" a couple of times. It is actually DAF, a PACCAR brand originally from The Netherlands. #1: Freightliner Argosy 6x4 B-Double. (Freightliner have since discontinued the Argosy line) #2: Mainfreight Kenworth K200 6x4 B-Double. Mainfreight have a reputation for very shiny, very clean trucks. Lots of bling. They stand out. #3: International 9780 8x4 Truck and Dog. What we refer to as a "mud carter". #4: Kenworth K200 6x4 with an extended quad trailer. New World is a NZ supermarket chain, with this guy therefore likely a subcontractor on store deliveries. #5: Volvo FM 8x4 Quad Dog. Got Milk? This guy here would be doing pickups from dairy farms. #6: Kenworth K200 8x4 with the same extended quad New World trailer... Almost certainly the same operator as #4. #7: Iveco ACCO 8x4 Quad Dog with petrol (Hazchem code 1203) on board. #8: Freightliner Argosy 8x4 with 5 axle trailer. #9: Kenworth T610 8x4 with quad trailer carrying dry cement powder. #10: International 9800i Eagle cabover 8x4. (Not a model we have here in Australia so my knowledge is very limited) #11: Scania R series 6x4 B-Double with petrol on board. Nuff said. #12: Freightliner Argosy 8x4. #13: Mercedes Benz Actros 6x4. #14: Same truck as #13 (same number plate), but sequence error in video editing has it arriving after it was leaving... (*opinion*- They are of course very comfortable to drive, like any other new truck, but i've had issues with the gearbox on previous models as well as the cab feeling wider than others for some reason. Wouldn't complain if told to drive one by an employer, but wouldn't buy one of my own.) #15: Older model Freightliner Argosy 6x4. #16: Another older truck. A Kenworth K108 8x4 Quad Dog logging truck. #17: Volvo FM 6x4 B-Double fuel delivery. Again, 1203 specifies petrol. #17a: A linfox Volvo FM 6x4 with petrol on board sneaking the other way. #18: Mercedes Benz Actros 6x4 with quad trailer. #19: Mack Trident 6x4 Super Dog mud carter. #20: Kenworth K108 8x4 quad dog. #21: Volvo FM 8x4 super dog. (Yes Ian. That second steer axle does indeed turn, as do all of the previous 8x4 configurations. They are referred to as "twin steer".) #22: NZDF MHOV 6x6. All wheel drive off road general purpose medium size truck for the NZDF. (New Zealand Defence Force Medium-heavy operational vehicle. Supplied by MAN) #23: Isuzu Giga 6x4 tipper and dog mud carter. #23a: Freightliner Argosy 8x4 quad dog logging truck. #24: an old model Isuzu. Not sure which exact model though. Sorry. #25: Hino 500 6x4 drain clearance truck. #26: Another NZDF MHOV 6x6. Both this and #22 are active NZDF vehicles, rather than former. #27: Another Isuzu Giga 6x4 truck and dog. #28: Volvo FM 8x4 with petrol on board. #29: Mack Trident 6x4 Truck and dog logging truck. I am a professional truck driver from Melbourne and I would be happy to answer any trucking questions you might have.
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  2290. I think this comes from the fact America is a nation of immigrants, and that a lot of their states / cities / regions are still largely populated by descendents of immigrants from specific places. It is functionally useful sometimes for Americans to say to other Americans "I am an Irish American" or whatever, because it says something culturally about their cultural experience. That gets shortened to "I am Irish" pre-internet, because the "American" part is obvious to everyone you're talking to. Fast forward to a much more integrated planet and people are still saying "Irish" instead of "Irish American" and have also now - erroneously - come to the conclusion that "Irish" in America is the same as "Irish" in Ireland. Which is obviously absurd to a European, but to an American who has grown up in a bubble of people identifying their cultural experiences by describing themselves using a national identity that they don't really have... it's confusing to Americans when we turn around and say "No you're not". Even if it's true. I think ultimately Americans maybe just need to acknolwedge that the suffix "American" is the important part of their national identity and that being "X-American" is wildly different from being X. It's also becoming less and less useful as a cultural marker in the US, as the states are very much settled into their own cultural identities now, which may owe something to the ancestral roots of the settlers, but are very much their own things at this point. I find most Europeans are generally quite good at changing their word choice dependent on the people they're speaking to, and Americans are completely incapable of doing it.
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  2300. My dad is a retired firefighter in Norway, out firetrucks are a lot smaller, but our buildings are also shorter, so the uses are different... which is why our firestation has a Unimog ready for forest fires, to go out in the terrain to fight fires. But a lot of other tasks are done by the firefighters, like.. there is a truck for salvaging things after a fire, there's smaller pick-up trucks for errands and such, like one I got to join my dad at as a kid was basically security, checking the perimeter of the local garbage dump, both for fires as gases are formed by trash, but also to make sure there aren't people with guns trying to shoot seagulls, as they're drawn to the trash as well, so I've gotten to drive smaller fire "trucks" like VW Transporter T3, Mitsubishi L200, Mitsubishi Pajero, and oddly enough a Ford Explorer, which all were used by the local fire department, actually they had two of the T3 Transporter pick-ups, both of them diesel, one NA and one Turbo, the NA one was so slow it barely got up hills... They also have duties like putting up all the city's flags for holidays and celebrations, and they have to be guards at events in case of fires, like there is a local award show for Norwegian movies and actors/actresses, dad often had overtime standing guard at those shows. Also... demolition, you could hire the fire department to tear down wood houses... as in they'd use it for training and burn it down in a controlled manner, training up putting out fires, and also to be more efficient in "smoke diving" where they basically went in blind and then had to draw a map of how they think the house layout was afterwards, there was one guy in my dad's team who basically had photographic memory and almost could draw up blueprints with measurements after going blind in a smoke filled house. They also train car mechanics, as part of the car mechanics 101 classes, it's mandatory to learn how to put out car fires, as a teenager I crashed my first car, my dad took it to work, and a friend of mine who was taking that education ended up in my dad's class, and it got a bit surreal for him as he got my dad telling him how to set my car on fire, to then put it back out. :P Sorry that got long kinda randomly... ADHD things.
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  2436. My friend and I have a running gag / saying whenever we catch a game live and one of the goalkeepers makes a mistake that leads to a goal, it's "Neuer hätte den gehabt" which literally translates to "Neuer would've gotten that one", so yeah I would say, especially because he's also the national goalkeeper and saved Germany's ass quite a few times, that he's very respected in Germany, but also in the whole world because he shows his prowess internationally as well. This is what the German wikipedia page has to say about him (which I translated): "Neuer is considered one of the best goalkeepers of all time. In particular, his offensive, playful interpretation of the goalkeeping position is regarded as revolutionary. Neuer was named World Goalkeeper of the Decade 2011-2020 by the IFFHS, as well as World Goalkeeper of the Year in 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2020, making him the record holder along with Gianluigi Buffon (Italy) and Iker Casillas (Spain). He was also named FIFA World Goalkeeper of the Year in 2020 and has been voted Germany's Footballer of the Year twice so far. Neuer is one of the 10 German players with the most appearances for the national team." It is pretty rare for a goalkeeper to be named the FOOTBALLER of the year because, as you said, the spotlight usually belongs to playmakers and scorers. This compilation also didn't really do him justice. I would recommend checking out FC Bayern München's official Best of videos ("Manuel Neuer - His Best Saves! | FC Bayern " from 6 years ago and "Manuel Neuer: 11 seasons, 11 incredible saves" from 2 years ago) - these are both way better because I would bet they blow your mind from an offensive and defensive perspective and make you question even more why you slept on soccer for so long 😂
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  2437. This is in NSW. There are two fire services there. (Australian fire services are mostly a state, not a local government thing) Fire and Rescue NSW provide coverage for cities and country towns (from about 1000 population upwards). They do fire, hazardous material response and rescue work, and are mainly equipped with pumpers ('engines' in USA), aerial appliances and specialised units. Their units on the clip are mainly pumpers. They are career firefighters (cities) and paid on call firefighters (country towns). At bush fires they would do mainly defensive (property protection from roads), although they also have some tankers ('brush truck's in the USA). They have over 600 vehicles, about 3500 career firefighters, 3500 paid on call firefighters, and several thousand members of the public in 'community fire units' helping protect streets in urban fringe areas. They cover about 90% of the population in the state. The other service is the NSW Rural Fire Service (worlds largest with 70,000+ firefighters in about 2000 brigades, with a fleet of about 4000 vehicles, 30 fireboats and multiple aircraft) which cover rural areas, villages up to about 1000 people, and urban fringe areas. They are unpaid volunteer firefighters with a paid staff of about 900 providing admin, command and support services. They cover about 90% of the land area of the state. They do mainly small structural firefighting, grass and bush firefighting, and fire protection at road accidents. They use mainly tankers (brush trucks). Most you see shown on the clip are Cat 1 tankers with about 1000 USG tanks. Their pumps have lower GPM than the urban units, but usually carry more water. Also shown are some Cat 9s (Land Cruiser based) with small tanks. The white RFS vehicles are for more senior officers (mostly senior volunteers) for field command and control. The two services have different philosophies of vehicle design. F&R NSW are purpose built, high capability, mostly 2WD specialised vehicles, with extensive equipment and bespoke plumbing. Their pumps are usually PTO driven. NSW RFS vehicles are based on commercial off-the shelf equipment on commercial 4WD diesel trucks, hardened against fire damage to their vital systems, and fitted with protective cabin spray systems. Their equipment is good, but more modest and easier to maintain. Their pumps are usually powered by a separate rear mounted small diesel engine and the plumbing uses off the shelf piping and valves, often available from local country hardware stores. Most units will cruise at 65 mph easily. A F&R pumper would be about three times more expensive than a large RFS tanker because of these differences
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  2512. It's been great seeing you discover about Snooker for the first time. As a Brit, I grew up loving it. You were right to start by watching Ronnie's 147 as this is one of the most iconic moments in the sport's history. The other would be the final frame of the 1985 world championship, which is probably the most famous frame in the whole history of Snooker and something people still talk about. In the final were Steve Davis, who ruled the 80s and had already won a few World Championships by this point, and Dennis Taylor (the one with the funny glasses), the underdog who had never been world champion before. The final takes place over 2 days, first person to get 18 frames wins. It got off to a predictable start, with Davis winning the first 7 frames in a row. At 7-0 down, it would be very hard for Dennis to get back in the match. Yet something switched, and Dennis put in one of the best comebacks ever, and an epically long match which culminated in a 17-17 final frame decider, in the early hours of the morning. 18.5 million people in the UK stayed up to watch it. The final frame then went down to the very last black ball. There's never been a final quite like it since. Search this for the clip: The Black Ball Final | 1985 World Championship | Dennis Taylor vs Steve Davis Ronnie's 147 showed the flashy, fast, exhillerating, genius side of snooker. This 1985 clip shows a completely different side... tension, nerves, exhaustion, and dogged perseverence under unbelievable pressure. Enjoy :) WST 375K subscribers Subscribe
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  2851. Weizen is pretty much completely different from pils or lager, it uses a different kind of yeast and a different type of grain (Weizen or wheat instead of Gerste or barley) - or at least as different as the German Reinheitsgebot/purity law allows. There are a lot of different yeasts, but there are two major categories. One rises (obergärig — roughly translated: top-fermenting), one drops down to the bottom (untergärig, bottom-fermenting). Traditional beers - like Weizen or "White-Beer", as it's also called, often used obergärige Hefe (top-fermenting yeast) in the somewhat distant past, because it likes somewhat higher temperatures and didn't need to be cooled (as much). Which was a bit harder in the past, having no electrical refrigeration. For bottom fermenting beers, you had to have cool cellars. And winter, preferably. This is why "Weizen" is both a top-fermenting beer and a traditional summer drink — because you could also brew and enjoy it when it was warmer. There are some other traditional beers that were bottom fermenting, but those often had to be brewed during the winter, because it would go bad otherwise. Märzen (from März, as in the month march) had to be brewed in (or rather before) März (march), hence its name. It's the traditional Octoberfest-beer. Compared to the "Helles" (pale lager, Bavarian edition; which is also bottom-fermenting) it's a little more thicc, more malty, a little more potent. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A4rzen Another traditional "obergäriges Bier" or top-fermenting beer is Kölsch btw. And it also tastes a lot different as pilseners/lagers do. Of course, that all doesn't apply anymore, and you can get either type of beers whenever you like today. And of course there are regional differences. Bavaria — right in the south — being kind of the capital of "Weizen" (and Märzen, but so are some surrounding countries like Austria/Czech Republic, maybe more so today) while the north has more pilseners and stuff — but that also might be because of temperature and traditions. Btw. Can you smell banana when sniffing a Weizen? I almost always do - which seems weird. But you can actually drink your Weizen with Bananas, it's somewhat common in Germany. And it does taste pretty good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5lYwaYkhOE The different yeasts also "eat" or convert different sugars and stuff, so a different yeast can make your beer taste quite different. It might affect the sourness, but I suspect some of the Paulaners "citrusy" comes from the type of hops they used. There are some kinds that taste a bit like citrus (other ones are bitter or tardy, some fresh, some flowery - there are lots of different types/strains). A somewhat known US strain is actually named for that: https://www.hopslist.com/hops/dual-purpose-hops/citra/ (though German brewers tend to call it "jack-of-all-trades, master of none")' Prost!
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  2860. OHHH NOOOO! I'm from Brisbane and I've been making lamingtons for over 5 decades. Don't feel bad about not getting the lamingtons right the first time. From what I saw I think I can help you to get it right the next time. Firstly, powdered sugar is not the same as castor sugar. Powdered surgar is what we call icing sugar. You can use just regular sugar next time. And Self Raising Flour is basically All Purpose Flour with baking powder. Just add 1 teaspoon of baking powder to each 1 cup All purpose flour. I also noticed you didn't beat the sugar and butter together first. Once it is creamy then add your eggs one by one, beating after each addition then add a teaspoon of vanilla essence. Then you can gently fold in the flour. Make sure you have added the baking powder to each cup of All purpose flour. Or you could just make a plain sponge as you would usually make over there and use the lamington pan. I'm sure you can find a fluffy sponge cake recipe that uses ingredients you are familiar with. Or maybe someone can send you a Lamington cake mix which is definitely fool proof. The box has the cake mix and the chocolate icing mix included. The chocolate icing you got perfect which was great. And if you want an authentic lamington don't use any jam. That's a modern addition to our good old fashioned lamington. Good luck with your next attempt. I'd love to know how it turns out. Oh I noticed you didn't use butter at all. Try beating 125gr butter (roughly 4.5ozs) together with the sugar until its really creamy (takes about 5 mins or so) before adding eggs.
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  2908. This video was shot in Western Australia. Great stuff. You and I are kindred spirits as I also love the desert scenery. Believe me, Ian, you can be really isolated in these regions. I worked as a geophysicist in mining and exploration (which I left for ethical reasons) many years ago and got to travel to places most people never see - even most Australians would never get the chance to visit these areas. Ian, you have to understand that places in Western Australia, especially up north and in the desert regions in the interior are so remote that you could drive literally for days and not come across another soul, except on occasion you might come across a group of indigenous men out hunting game. Going out on a geophysical survey, and camping out in the edge of the desert in the North West, knowing that the nearest civilisation was 500 km (300 mi) away, was the attraction for me. You wouldn't believe how bright the stars are at night, and the amount of wildlife. There is also plenty of water far inland, too - you just have to know how to find it. We had a water bore at our camp but once our submersible pump got stuck when we were lowering it down. Fortunately we got it out and successfully lowered it to the bottom on the second attempt. We certainly would have been in a right pickle if we hadn't 😜On one particular trip to the Pilbara I actually got lost whilst driving out to an old survey line. As I was making my way back to camp with my trusty map and compass, I stood high up on a rocky outcrop and when I looked out I could hear the calls of people beckoning me. Perhaps it was the heat of the midday sun but I swear it was real. Later on I found out that the year before we arrived two teenage boys, who had been working on a station (Aussie term for ranch) not far away from where we were, got lost when they passed through the desert further inland, and sadly perished. It wasn't too far from where I got lost actually. The memory of that experience still haunts me today. The outback can be dangerous but it is absolutely beautiful. On our trips we drove Toyota Hilux 4WDs. These vehicles are especially rugged, reliable and almost unbreakable. If you ever have to travel on the dusty tracks out back, you have to hit them at full speed to minimise the amount to vibration from corrugations caused by other vehicles. Otherwise your kidneys will suffer for it after hours of driving. You also need to hit sand dunes at full speed in order to get over them as they can be humungous. The North West is the hottest region of Australia in summer, which is the season when the Dutch first arrived on Australia's shores in the early 1600s. Suffice to say they didn't stay long. If they had come during winter, they probably would have stayed and explored the country.
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  2923. I'm from Italy and I love your videos! Great job ❤ I don't know about the other countries, but here in Italy things get even more crazy than that In Italy we have very different dialects that are almost languages themselves. For example, I'm from Florence and I can't understand at all people from Naples when they speak neapolitan. Every region has its own, often containing so many words that are different from italian that when we move somewhere for study or for job we always end up having fun teaching each other our dialect. Some old and less educated people, as my grandma's sisters in Naples who were farmers, almost don't even speak Italian. So much so that I need my cousins to translate 😂😂 All younger people know Italian, but sometimes we find ourselves to fall back to some dialect words and see the panic in the eyes of somebody who has no idea what we are talking about. One example from Florence is the word "lavello" (kitchen sink) that in Italian would be "lavandino". I think that's because of the differences in our history and the continuous changes of institutions and borders that we experienced over the centuries which shaped so many different sub-cultures. I don't know if there is any video comparison about this, and I don't think that it would really be a good one for the channel because almost nobody would understand anything, but I think that you would like to hear how different they sound because you seem a courious person. I'm sorry if my english isn't really good, if anyone does not understand something about the comment just ask! ✅
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  3237. Hello. I have a Dacia Logan since January 2008. I don't really use it anymore, I have another car that I use every day, I drive the Logan only occasionally but it served me faithfully for years. No major expenses other than those for consumables and fuel. I also use it when going to work and on holidays. I've been with it in Greece, in Poland, on mountain roads or on highways and it has never put me to shame in front of other more expensive and better rated cars. When I bought it, I paid almost 11,000 euros because it was top of the range in terms of equipment at that time. It has air conditioning, on-board computer, front and rear electric windows, electrically adjustable and heated side mirrors, central locking with remote control, CD audio system with 4 speakers from Blaupunkt, power steering, ABS, EBD. The new models are much better equipped, including a start-stop system, keyless operation, cruise control, lane assist, hill assist, etc. The engine in my car is 1.5 dCi, i.e. 1.5 liter turbodiesel, common rail injection. The version on my car has 90 hp. The same engine in various power versions is also found on other cars from the Dacia range, but also on Renault and Nissan models, including one of the Mercedes class A variants. As for performance, 0-100 km/h in about 11 seconds and as the maximum speed, I went with it at 174 km/h on the GPS. this is because I have a 5-speed manual gearbox. Newer models with the same engine but 6-speed gearbox reach 190 - 200 km/h. It has the best consumption if you go on a long road constantly somewhere between 110 and 130 km/h. The consumption is somewhere around 4.3 liters per hundred km without air conditioning and about 4.8 liters per hundred km with the air conditioning on. In the city it consumes between 5 and 7 liters per 100 km depending on the traffic. All in all I am very pleased with it. It is a constitutive car. It doesn't offer you I don't know what, but it doesn't claim to either, and it does surprisingly well what it says it offers. The next car in its place will almost certainly be a Logan, obviously the new generation.
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  3281. 1:33 - The water you see here is the Tagus River estuary, not very far from its mouth. The open area is called Commerce Square. Before the 1755 earthquake it was the place where spices, tea, slaves and all sorts of products coming from far away places were traded. After the reconstruction of the city it was modernised and all those yellow buildings surrounding it housed some of the government's ministeries. Nowadays they have trendy, touristy shops. 2:05 - This ambulance belongs to the National Institute of Medical Emergency (INEM in Portuguese), a branch of the Health Ministry dedicated to emergency transportation of sick or injured people. They're usually the first responders in emergency scenarios. 2:28 - The red ambulances belong to the Fire Departments, in this case the Ajuda FD (Ajuda is one of Lisbon's neighbourhoods). 6:13 -That's a Yamaha XJ 900. 🙂 6:48 - The INEM station wagon following the ambulance is called Resuscitation and Emercency Medical Vehicle (VMER in Portuguese) and its purpose is to quickly carry a medical team to the location where the patient is, for 1st aid, CPR or to stabilise the patient before the ambulance arrives. 7:10 - That's a tow truck from the Municipal Police, not the normal tow truck used for vehicle recovery (which are flat bed trucks here in Portugal). 😉 There's another channel called rescue911.eu that has compilations of videos with lots of different emergency vehicles filmed in the Porto area. They're around 5 mins long, so no need to skip around. 🙂
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  3381. I live in the UK. Not a major city, just a small town. I travel everywhere, every day by bus. To and rom work, between work sites when I have to work at more than one location, I go by bus for shopping and leisure trips an, if I need a care, I hire one - maybe two or three times a year. I didn't believe it for the longest time (I used to be a real petrol-legs) but it is surprisingly easy and convenient to use public transport as your main mode of travel. Fun fact. about ten years ago I went to visit some people at an event in Arse-End-Of-Nowhere, Indiana. I found a bus that would take me most of the way and a second local bus that would take me to the nearest town to the event. Then I got a cab to the actual event. When I turned up and told the folks how I got there, they couldn't have been more surprised if I told them I had teleported or dug a tunnel the whole distance. One local man told me that there weren't any bus services in the area and he found it incomprehensible that there were buses. Going home, he gave me a lift in his truck to the bus stop (three or four miles from his house) just so he could see me get on the bus he never knew existed. FYI, the local bus was a small minibus that doubled as a school bus at those specific times of day and was very comfortable. The Indianapolis bus was like a brick on wheels with what appeared to be NO suspension and zero seat padding. It was barely one step up from being transported as freight - the single worst bus I have ever travelled on and I have been on 100 year old, historic buses in a transport museum!
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  3392. In Europe, a different speed limit is valid for trucks than for regular traffic. Trucks are capped at 80 or 90 km/h on the highway depending on the country where you are. In Germany and Czechia, it's 80 km/h, France 90 km/h (and Romania has a 100 km/h speed limit for trucks in the game, but that's unique). The regular traffic is usually allowed to go between 100 and 130 km/h on the highways in Europe, depending on the road situation and country. While in Germany there are some parts without speed limit for regular traffic, I believe in-game, no car goes faster than 130 km/h. Depending on the type of contract you take, your truck will actually be capped at 90 km/h, or sometimes the game let's you go faster, but then you're speeding. In cities, all traffic is usually capped at 50 km/h, or in some areas 30 km/h. And about the traffic lights, placing them on the opposite side may work well for your typical four-way intersection, but in Europe, there are often intersections that are not just two orthogonal roads crossing each other. Especially in the old parts of the ETS2 map the city layouts are very much simplified and don't really resemble their real life counter-parts that well (the architecture resembles the real city, but not so much the layout), which is why you see a lot of orthogonal intersections here, but in the newer parts of the map (or in the reworked areas, like Austria) you will often find intersections where placing the traffic lights on the opposite sides would lead to great confusion. That's why traffic lights in Europe are always placed in front of the intersection.
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  3511. I'll never forget the first time I heard F1 cars live: I was really lucky to have been at Spa in 1991 which was the last year of V12 engines (*Edit: I spaced out, I meant last year that a V12 car won the championship and was fighting for top positions. As Arik2103 pointed out it wasn't the last year V12s participated), and also the last year with manual cars on the grid! Plus, that was the debut race for Michael Schumacher. Also, Senna won the race, and they had the Jaguar XJR-15 support race including Tiff Needell among others (XJR-15s also have V12s)! Oh, and get this, this is the list of which V12 engines were in the race: Honda RA121E V12, Yamaha OX99 V12, Porsche 3512 V12, Ferrari 037 V12, Lamborghini 3512 V12!!! We were walking down towards Eau Rouge on the opposite side of the track to the pits and with buildings between us and the track. We had already heard them echo from miles away earlier when parking the car, but then they were silent until this moment. Despite having several tall and long buildings between us and the track it was pure shock to hear the F1 cars go down the straightaway towards Eau Rouge! I jumped instinctively every time a car screamed past! Even there the sound went though your body and made your chest reverberate! We had passes to walk around freely all over the track area and at one point we went to an underpass where you could walk up the embankment right up to the edge of the track with only a low wall separating you and the cars, and the cars were going really fast going right to the edge of the track right next to you to take the incredibly fast sweeping left turn. You could now not only feel the sound of the engines, but also the massive burst of air which the cars moved as they went by!
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  3612. Most famous British car brands are now co-owned by other car companies BMW owns Rolls-Royce and Mini. RR used BMW's engines and uses iDrive infotainment system VAG Group owns Bentley. Continental GT is built on the same platform as Porsche Panamera Tata Motors owns Jaguar and Land Rover Geely owns Lotus. Lotus' new EV SUV Eletre and EV sedan Emeya share nothing with Lotus but name. All Lotus ICE cars are/were produced in UK, but these EV's are produced in China Stellantis owns Vauxhall Mini doesn't only have Cooper. There are also Countryman and Clubman. They're built on BMW FWD platform as some entry level BMW's (1 series, 2 series. X1, X2). Basically all Mini's are rebodied FWD BMW's Morgan are built brand new but look old Noble M400 (not in the picture) was sold as Rossion Q1 in US after Rossion acquired rights to the Noble M400 chassis. Noble M600 (in picture) uses Volvo V8 form XC90 TVR had lots of cars in last century and 2000s. The car in picture in Griffith. It was first showed in 2017, but prouction still hasn't started Lister are now mostly aftermarket tuner company, but in 20th century they produced race cars Ultima that you know (from the logo) is GTR or Evolution. Ultima in the picture is RS, basically 2nd gen of GTR. They use mostly LS V8's Caterham's are direct evolution of Lotus Seven Vauxhall's after 1980 are just rebadged Opel's. Nothing spectacular. But before 1980 are very different cars. GM bought Vauxhall in 1925 Those modern MG's are chinese made and most of them are only sold in China. MG before 2006 were made in Britain.
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  3729. There is a reason for it. Its not just "ryanair is bad" there is a legitimate reason for the landing to be that hard (or firm as it called in the business) Ryanair operate 737 exclusively. 800 and max 8 to be specific. The 737 is a very old aircraft and it was designed in the day everything should be accessed from the ground. The result of that is that the landing gears are really short and stubby (But also very very strong). All other airliners on the market have long seek landing gears and sit very tall over the runway. There is something called ground effect. Its a effect that increase lift when the plane get close to the ground. This is excellent for planes like the A320 that have tall landing gears, because when it comes in to landing the ground effect dampens the impact. For 737 due to the gears being so short, the ground effect dampens the landing before the gears hit the ground. So the pilot have to force the aircraft throw the ground effect and pretty much put it down by force. This is true for all 737, and if you watch videos of other 737 landings, they are all pretty hard. (or firm) But there are some reason why Ryanair landings are even harder. * You have to pay for every kg of luggage, making it so passenger traveler with very little or hardly any luggage. * The seats are known to be absolute minimum size. This typically make this airline more popular with people that effectively are smaller. Also popular with student due to the low price, and families with 2-12 year old children * Ryanair flights are usually quite short and in very dense European setting. They need very little spare fuel, and bring very little spare fuel. So the aircraft are incredibly light on landing * Ryanair uses specially the 737-max8 that have the same wing as the max 10, but is much lighter (more ground effect, less weight). So the pilot really need to force it down. One more factor. Nobody want to work for RyanAir, specially not the pilots. So with out the 1500 hour rule of USA, RyanAir can lock pilots into a 5 year contact in exchange for part of the pilot training cost. Then they work for 5 years for pretty much slave wages (well for pilots). Of cause, when the pilot finished those year, they can fly with any other European company and get a hefty lift in pay. But the long and short of it, is that Ryan pilots are pretty much always fresh of fight school.. Despite that is worth saying that Ryan got a excellent safety record and they are one of the, if not the largest operator of 737.
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  3781. There are so many ways German police can use to enforce speed limits. - The old school stationary Blitzer you saw in the video, also called "Starenkasten" (starling nest box). They work with radar or sensors in the ground. Sometimes they have smaller version that come in groups, each one covering one lane. - The new version, a metal column style Blitzer equipped with lasers that can cover multiple lanes. - Overhead Blitzer that are integrated into the overhead signs on the Autobahn. - Semi-stationary Blitzers that are on a little trailer, left in one place for weeks at a time. - Mobile radar Blitzers at the side of the road that are connected to an unmarked police car. - Mobile Blitzer in the back of a car. - Mobile Blitzer at the side of a road that is inside a grey box and looks like a trash can from far away. - Mobile photoelectric sensors that are at the side of the road near the ground connected to a car. - Laser guns mounted on a tripod operated by a police officer. - ProVida video systems that are installed in unmarked fast police cars that drive behind you in traffic filming you and registering your speed. When they have collected enough evidence on video they pull you over and show you the video so you can see what you have done wrong. Section control like they have in Italy is still being tested in Germany, but might be installed, if approved by the government. (This is where they take a picture of your license plate at the beginning of a section of Autobahn and at the end of that section and your average speed is calculated by that time that has passed between you entering and leaving that section). In addition there are red light Blitzers at some intersections that come in various shapes and there are police units that drive an RV with one officer sitting in the back filming through the window. Those are after truck drivers that might use a cell phone or computer, or play drums on the steering wheel, have their feet up on the dashboard, or other activities that are incompatible with safe driving of a 40-ton-vehicle. Those are just the methods that I know of. There might be even more.
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  3835. The A9X was basically Holden's reaction to Ford's domination of the championship in 1977. That humiliation finally got Holden off the couch and throwing resources at the Torana to turn it into the car it really should've been all along. The engine was actually the same Holden 308 that had powered the SL/R 5000 before it; it was the other stuff that made the real difference. Rear disc brakes were overdue, as were proper axles and a diff strong enough to take full throttle from a 5.0-litre V8. Brocky gave it an unexpected victory on debut at the Sandown 500 in '77, but it was a false dawn, as Moffat took his Ford Dealers Team to a devastating 1-2 at Bathurst. The A9Xs mostly broke down. So, Holden pulled out the stops: from somewhere they found a budget to run the works team, put someone who knew how to run things slick in charge of it, and lured Brocky back to his home team with a huge salary. He was worth the money, though; in 1978 he became the first driver to win the triple crown of the ATCC, Sandown and Bathurst in the same year. In 1979 he wasn't able to repeat the feat, losing the ATCC to Bob Morris in another A9X. He managed to abscond with Sandown again (he was actually in the middle of a phenomenal winning streak at his home track, winning 9 Sandowns overall including 7 in a row!), then utterly destroyed the opposition at Bathurst. The team's engine shop had coughed up an absolute weapon of an engine, good for 390hp and the mechanical reliability of a rock. To avoid putting miles on it, they only did the bare minimum of laps in practice to qualify both drivers for the race, meaning they only did 27 laps in it before Sunday - including practice and qualifying! Indeed, in Hardie's Heroes, Brocky took pole with a time of 2:20.5 - not only a new lap record, but a massive 1.966 seconds faster than the poor bastard in 2nd, his ATCC rival Bob Morris. Point made. Then on race day, the green flag waved, Brocky stomped on the accelerator and drove off. By the end of the first lap he was 3.4 seconds ahead of his nearest rival, and from there he just drove off into the distance. When he came in for his first pit stop, they spent roughly two minutes refuelling and re-tyring the car (pit stops were not swift affairs in those days - refuelling was done with big milk churns!), but even so he rejoined without losing the lead. By the end of the day, he was six laps - 23 miles - ahead of second place, a winning margin we will never see again. And as you saw, he deliberately reset the lap record on his last time around, just to rub it in. Years later - like New Millennium later - the Bowdens who now owned his priceless racecar asked him to do a demonstration run against a current V8 Supercar and one of the latest HSVs. They forgot to swap out the short diff for the extra-tall one used at Bathurst, however, meaning he was chronically short on top speed down Conrod. Even so, Peter had the presence of mind to lift and hold the revs, for which the Bowdens were very grateful - blowing the priceless '79 engine would not have been a good look! And of course, not a lot later Peter crashed in WA and died. So it was a nice consolation that his final lap of Bathurst came in his favourite car, the Holden Dealer Team's '79 LX Torana A9X.
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  3858. Fun fact: The following advertisement appeared as full-page ads in many magazines some years ago. Mid 90s? An Apology Dear Motorists, Subaru Australia would like to apologise for the article titled 'The Handling Debate' published in a recent issue of AUTOCAR (UK). The contest unfairly pitted the two-wheel drive Porsche 911, BMW M3, Lotus Elise and Peugeot 306 GTi-6 against the All-Wheel Drive Subaru Impreza WRX. It was not so much the result that has embarrassed us, but the way in which one of the most respected and authoritative motor magazines went about damaging the reputation of the world's most prestigious car companies. It must have been heartbreaking for them to read that Autocar named the All-Wheel Drive Subaru 'The Ultimate Driver's Car' and called it 'one of the outstanding car designs of the decade.' Obviously Autocar were amazed by the acceleration off the line of the Subaru during the Traction Test. But did they really have to go on and on about it? 'Six and a half thousand revs, dump the clutch and away she goes. And there was nothing even the 911 could do to touch it.' Our hearts go out to all those rear-wheel drive Porsche owners who paid 5 times the price of the Subaru, only to come a distant second. As if they didn't have enough insecurities already! And it's hard not to feel for the poor BMW driver whose M3 clocked up an impressive 46/52mph in the Speed Corner Test, only to read '... that was nothing compared with the beautifully balanced Impreza through the bend. Result? A crushing 52mph in the wet, 58mph in the dry and the widest smile from our drivers all day.' Really, how could a two-wheel drive be expected to compete with that? But it wasn't until Autocar said '... so well balanced was the Subaru's basic handling and so well apportioned was the grip between the four driven wheels that... in the dry the Subaru was untouchable,' that the rumours and innuendo began to surface. For the record, we would like to state that every new Impreza, Forester, Outback and Liberty we sell does in fact contain the unfair advantage of Subaru All-Wheel Drive plus our unique flat-four boxer engine and summetrical drive line. Admittedly, it does make contests like this a little one-sided. So much so that All-Wheel drive vehicles have been banned from the world's major motor sport competitions like Formula One. Only the World Rally Championship allows us to demonstrate the full advantages of AWD. A championship, by the way, we've won for the past 3 years. Even Autocar admits 'a properly sorted All-Wheel drive car like the Impreza will blitz any two-wheel drive rival in virtually any objective handling contest. That's a truly astonishing result given the quality of the rest of the field.' You see, there was nothing they could do. In the end, the only thing we couldn't handle was all the attention. 'There was one very clear winner in this contet. The Impreza was more composed, generally faster and markedly grippier than most of the competition in most of the tests.' Again, Subaru would like to apologise for any harm or distress this has caused any makers or owners of two-wheel-drive vehicles and outrageously expensive sports cars. The fact that our All-Wheel Drive vehicles start from $21,990 (and $39,990 for the Impreza WRX) must simply rub salt into the wound. For those looking for compensation, please visit your nearst Subaru Dealer. By experiencing All-Wheel Drive yourself, it should go some way to making the whole situation easier to handle. If you would like a full copy of the Autocar article in question, call Subaru on 1 800 642 454, or visit our website www.subaru.com.au. And remember, we don't write the articles, we just make the cars. Yours sincerly, Trevor Amery Managing Director Subaru Australia
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  3947. I reckon most Aussies would say couch rather than lounge (although you might refer to the whole set of couches and matching chairs as a lounge suite). I think Manchester is a pretty old fashioned word for bedding and would not be used commonly in Australia (makes me think of the olden days when there were lift [elevator] operators who would list the merchandise on each floor: "1st floor: haberdashery, millinery, Manchester. mind the step". To me a quilt is just a covering that goes on top of a blanket, whilst a doona is filled with fluffy stuff to make it warm. The term flat is used pretty frequently in Australia. I would think of a unit more as a small, usually single storey house that is part of a group of attached or detached houses that share common land. To me, a flat or apartment is a dwelling inside a multi-storey building. If the building is not too tall and especially if the accommodation is not particularly fancy, I would call that a flat, but otherwise an apartment. Some other differences between Aussie and UK houses: there are separate hot and cold taps in the UK. In Australia, mixer taps are common and even if you have separate knobs, the water comes out of a single faucet (except in the laundry, where you might have separate taps for the to and cold pipes for the washing machine in an older home. The hot water systems in the UK are not (or at were not, when I lived there in 2000) pressurised and they have a thing called power showers that used electricity to pressurise the water. In addition to the difference in layout, with more open plan in Australia, the rooms in UK houses tend to be quite narrow.
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  3953. Your take on Delta was pretty much what the drivers have said about it. There's a two part video of Markku Alén driving and talking about Delta, couple years later after that prototype testing. First part: "Markku Alén & Lancia Delta S4 – Part 1 (Teknavi 2017)". Alén and Kankkunen talks about Group B cars: "Juha Kankkunen ja Markku Alén muistelevat hurjia rallin B-ryhmän aikoja (Teknavi 2019)". Henri Toivonen's brother Harri talks about his brother and Delta: "WRC Rally Heroes - Harri Toivonen pays tribute to his brother Henri". An onboard video of Harri driving Delta: "Lancia Delta S4 Harju EK Harri Toivonen". Their father Pauli was also a rally driver: "FLAT OUT (The History of Rally) - Episode 3 - The Forging of Identity". There's cool things on every decade. You got to love the 70s sunglasses and the atmosphere. From Finnish perspective there was also E.g. Jarno Saarinen and Leo Kinnunen. Saarinen is the first and only Finnish driver to have won the motorcycle road racing world championship. He was also the first European rider to win the Daytona 200. Some clips starting with about Jarno's museum kept by his brothers: "Petri Hyrsky Jarno Saarinen", "Jarno Saarinen wins the 1972 250cc Belgium Grand Prix" and "Jarno Saarinen at Daytona 73". Kinnunen won the Interserie between 1971–1973, and helped Porsche to take the World Sportscar Championship for manufacturers in 1970. Mr. Cool himself, Steve McQueen, asked Kinnunen to drive in the film Le Mans, which he couldn't. Kinnunen also went down in history for being the last driver to compete in F1 using an open-face helmet: "INTERSERIE HOCKENHEIM 1971", "Interserie at Keimola (1972)" and "Le Mans (1971) ORIGINAL TRAILER [HD 1080p]".
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  3989. Whilst travel in the US, we were swimming at a hotel indoor pool in Minnesota, a family had heard our Aussie accents and came over and said oh that’s a funny British accent. Our reply was oh we don’t have an accent but you guys do. They missed the joke obviously. The mother and and the grandmother and I continued chatting and I had mentioned that I was travelling for the next 2 months and had already been gone a month already. The mother had said oh that’s hard you must miss home to which i replied not really it’s apparently been really cold there right now for Sydney weather and how lucky I am I won’t have to experience a winter for 18 months. To which she was shocked that it was winter in Australia right now in June. I thought she was joking with me for a second until she mentioned but doesn’t my family want me home for Christmas and how do I feel about missing that holiday. I answered oh I won’t miss Christmas I will be back home in august. Their response was but you just said you are in winter there right now so you will miss Christmas then I said no I won’t miss it to which she quickly said then when do you celebrate it to which I replied December 25th but it’s in our summer time. She had to call her husband over to confirm if was right or not. And to my shock he agreed with her. I said ok there are about 22 Aussies and New Zealanders right here at the hotel right now (on a tour holiday) ask them when we celebrate it. I watched her walk over to many of my tour buddies and Obviously she didn’t get the answer she wanted and I never saw her again. Still one f the funniest encounters I had in the USA traveling holiday
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  4018. Mate. You and the family really need to try to get down here sometime to really have the experience. You're pretty much an honorary aussie now after all the stuff you've done on your channel. Meat Pies are a staple down here, you can get them packaged at any supermarket or fresh from bakeries, cafe's, corner stores or even a lot of servo's. I know of several places in Australia that specialise in meat pies and one at least where you can get them via a drive through. Even over in Britain you can't get the same thing as we have down here as a lot of those are more of a size for families as opposed to the size you have there. Variations are many and varied. Everything from plain beef mince and gravy to pepper steak, steak and kidney, Lamb, Chicken, Steak and Onion, Cheese, Shepards Pie (potato) and they just go on and on up to and including the abomination that is a vegetarian mince pie (yes they do exist). They are that ingrained in Australia that there is actually a national competition for which is the greatest pie in Australia. Pretty much the same with Sausage rolls. Not so much the variation in flavours but the competitions. Many Aussie kids grew up having a sausage roll or pie out at school or a sporting event, though food at those has become a lot more varied. Best way (IMO) to eat them is steaming hot right out of the oven (or pie warmer) to the point that you have to eat them gingerly so as not to burn the roof of your mouth. If it's a plain mince you jam the nozzle of the tomato sauce bottle in through the top pastry and squeeze until the top bulges back out a bit and eat them with your hands and a beer. Sausage rolls are once again eaten hot with your hands but you run a line of sauce down the center of the top, kinda like a hot dog, and the sauce can help with the dryness of the pastry as it crumbles. Dammit. Now I'm hungry...
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  4369. A few points here in random order .I did not realise that Australia was the only country in a different time zone to the rest of the world. I have done the 14 hour flight MLB to LAX and it is a breeze had a bit of a snooze on the way ,I used to drive from Darwin to Melbourne a 3 day trip stopping at night ,the first leg Darwin to Alice Springs is 1500 klm and when we had open speed limits took 12 to 13 hours and sleeping while you are driving usually ends badly .We feel isolated ? No we love it ! Sorry Ian but the dodge ram ,or ford 250 or the silverado is a poor comparison as you are talking base model where as the units that are sold in oz are top of the range and have to be converted to RHD ,a very expensive job in its self but it must also comply with very stringent engineering and safety requirements that add even more expense . As for few American migrants the reasons are controversial and complex and I wont go into that but Australia has a very large and diverse population of migrants Melbourne having the second largest Greek population after Athens . Dangerous wild animals is a myth .crocodiles are certainly killers but we know where they live ,they dont wander around populated areas or destroy cabins like bears in north America . Worst drivers ? show me a car in Paris that is older than 3 weeks that does not have a dent .Yes housing is expensive in the larger cities but the majority of the population have a roof over their heads ,homelessness compared to the US is almost non-existent ,I could not believe or understand the thousands of homeless people in cities like Los Angles or Portland and other large cities .
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  4395. The HSP or Hallal snack pack is a relatively new Aussie food or has only become very popular in the last ten or so years. I only allow myself one per year as you can feel your arteries hardening as you eat it. But omg they are amazing. You could just get a standard Kebab if you want to go healthier as Kabab shops are the places that make the HSP Meat pies are a really common lunch food. Most bakeries sell them and bakeries are also really common which I didn’t find to be the case when I visited the US . They are delicious and cheap usually about $5 ( 3.50 usd ). They come in classic meat, beef and mushroom, steak and pepper, steak and onion, chicken and vegetable, chicken and leek and a million other flavours. But the best thing about Australian food is the diversity. I live in Melbourne and you can pretty much find food from every country in the world here, and usually it’s not dumbed down for the Anglo Australian palette like much of the American international food. I have tried a number of different foods in the USA and especially the Asian food seemed to be changed or dulled down for the American taste. This isn’t usually the case here as we have so much immigration and people who want their tradition food from their homeland. It means you can basically eat anything you want for any meal. With 3 miles of my place the is Japanese ( ramen only, bento, sushi etc ) Vietnamese, Thai, Chinese ( including different varieties based on regions ) Greek, Italian, Lebanese, Turkish, Mexican, French, Mongolian, Indian, Ethiopian, Bangladeshi, Spanish tapas, pizza ( Italian and American style ) Nepalese and I’ve probably missed quite a few. Not just one of these places either there would be 30+ Vietnamese places with 3 miles and heaps of Asian options. plus all your fast food outlets, burger, kebab and fish and chips shops too. I could go in but you get the picture. Even small country town usually have at least one Chinese, fish and chip shop and sushi place.
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  4482. Former employee of a towing service that worked mainly for VW and Audi here! 🤗 Well, this video is credible. These engines run crazy smooth. Back when I worked for that company the W12s both from VW and Audi were still new and I was drooling when I first got the chance to drive one of them. Yes, somewhere in the far north of the car, somewhere ahead of you, there is that thing that makes motion and somewhere under you there is the road and somewhere behind that thick glass, there is that outside world. You remember that fact, but you feel detached. These cars do feel as heavy as they are, which is some 2.2 tons for the W12, a weight no horse powers under the bonnet can make feel nimble and agile. They feel like luxurious trucks, and in all that luxury driving becomes a tedious task that prevents you from having the nap you feel like. I guess you see where this is going. Long story short, of all the cars Audi made around the early noughties, I liked the bog-standard A3 most. It feels alive, it keeps you entertained, it keeps you awake. It is incomprehensible to me how they do the trick at Audi, building super powerful cars that feel like they can't make a fish slip off a plate if you hit the throttle. Add to that the partly nasty quality issues both VW and Audi had when the engines were new. and yes, it is "Engines". Each company made their completely own designs, just to show off. Big baws show 'n all that. Autobahn speed, hot weather and the switching from full power in the left lane (=generating lots of heat) and traffic jams (=not getting rid off heat) was a big factor in killing the engines, but the number of bent cylinder heads and even, as aluminium can vary its internal tensions in the material, bent blocks were very unpleasant for the owners. I got to drive all As and Ss, S3, S4, S8, Audi TT Quattro with s turbocharger beefed up by ProSport from Düren, Germany to 360hp, and one of the bottom range was my favourite. Me, I love driving. I like to feel the car, I like to feel I move, I like to be in touch with my environment. The Nick I use for Youtube actually is the nickname my current car got in the early days of me owning it. My Zweispurmopped is a Renault Mégane Convertible with a 1.6 litre engine of 107hp, made in 2000. The only thing I dislike about it is that it has climate conditioning, which only adds to the weight and fuel consumption and makes work more difficult with some repairs. When it's warm the roof goes down anyway! In all other respects it is one of the loveliest cars I ever owned or even drove (Which included some really interesting cars from all eras as I worked for a vintage&sports car dealer in the nineties.). Being as much in touch with the surroundings like when you sit on your bicycle is something I got addicted to and this car basically makes every other drive an unforgettable experience. It adds quality to the time you spend in it. Do A8 W12s? I don't think so.
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  4577. Little bit about Opel. Opel uses alphabet to categorize their cars generations (Corsa A-F, Astra F-L, Vectra A and B, Insignia A and B,...) Opel's under GM rule were probably most badge engineered cars in the world From 1929 til 2017 Opel was owned by General Motors Opel was bought by PSA Group (Citroen, Peugeot, GM and Chrysler Europe) in 2017 From 2021 Opel is owned by Stellantis. Stellantis was created by merging FCA (Fiat Chrysler Automobiles) and PSA Group 5:40 1st gen Holden Commodore is based on Opel Record an Senator A at 6:17 6:12 they only share the name, nothing else 6:25 in UK it was called Vauxhall Nova 6:28 famous Lotus Carlton ((also called Vauxhall Lotus Carlton, Lotus Omega and Opel Lotus Omega) was based on Omega A 6:38 Holden Commodore VN is related to Senator B 7:35 Vectra A in UK was called Vauxhall Cavalier and Holden Vectra in AUS 7:53 Frontera was badge engineered Isuzu MU 8:57 Corsa B was called as Opel/Vauxhall Corsa in Europe/UK and as Holden Barina in Oceania. Fun fact about Barina. Every single Barina generation was rebadged from different car manufacturer. 1st and 2nd gen are Suzuki Cultus (1st and 2nd gen), 3rd gen is Corsa B, 4the gen is Corsa C, 5th and 6th gen are Chevrolet Aveo 9:10 Combo B and C used Corsa B and C's front ends. Combo A was called Kadett Combo and used Kadett E's front end 9:16 Omega is sucessor to Senator 9:56 Astra G was sold as Astra Classic after Astra H was introduced as cheaper model. Astra F also had Classic version when G was introduced 10:27 Catera is indeed rebadged and slightly different styled Omega B. Catera were also assembled in Germany in Opel plant Omega B is also rebadged as Commodore VT 11:38 Speedster was a rebadged Lotus Elise Series 1. It was even produced at Lotus plant in Hethel, Norfolk, UK. It used Opel Ecotec engines. In UK it was called Vauxhall VX220 11:39 12:37 Saturn Sky was rebadged Opel GT 12:06 Vivaro A and B were rebadged 2nd and 3rd gen Renault Trafic. 14:21 Vivaro C is rebadged Citroen Jumpy (happened after PSA bought Opel) 12:13 Saturn Astra is indeed rebadged Astra H Coupe 12:28 OPC was performance division of Opel (1997-2022). Before 1997 performance Opel used GSi name. Insignia B (2017 onwards) again used GSi 13:21 fun fact about Insignia B. In Europe it was sold as both a saloon and liftback/fastback. You could only know the difference when you opened the trunk, because they looked the same from the back 15:38 Insignia B was also sold as Holden Commodore ZB in Australia. One think I wish Insignia B had was V6 engine from Regal. In Europe we only had turbo I4's 18:04 1st gen of Mokka was sold as 1st gen Chevrolet Trax in US There's a lot of cars the video you watched missed. Zafira A, B and C which were compact MPV, and D which is called Zafira Life is Citroen Jumpy Astra J GTC Agila was rebadged Suzuki Wagon R and Suzuki Splash Adam and Karl (named after company's founder and his eldest son)
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  4655. 1:30 Suzuki Swace (rebadged Toyota Corrola estate) 3:14 2nd gen Kia Ceed SW (statio wagon) 3:25 in Europe it's called Ford Kuga. That one is second gen facelift. 3rd gen Kuga is 4the gen Escape in US 3:44 it's 3rd gen Superb 4:10 it looks like J100 Land Cruiser US version imported to Europe 4:25 3rd gen Hyundai Tucson 4:40 Suzuki Swace again 4:47 Chyrsler Voyager or it could be rebranded as Lancia Voyager (Lancia is owned by Stelantis who owns Chyrsler) 4:55 VW T5 Transporter Caravelle or Multivan (quite common police van in all of Europe) 5:03 probably fire department due the red stripe on the side 5:18 Kia Ceed SW, but this one is 3rd gen 5:28 The Złote Tarasy, also known by its anglicized name Golden Terraces, is a commercial, office, and entertainment complex in the city centre of Warsaw, Poland. 5:49 Warszawa Centralna railway station. Primary train station in Warsaw 5:53 Toyota Land Cruiser Prado J150 second facelift (2018-2019). This version is only sold in Europe, Australia, Japan and China 6:14 3x Mercedes Sprinter and 3rd gen Peugeot Boxer which is sister van to Fiat Duplo and Citroen Jumper. In US it's called Ram ProMaster 7:47 pharmacy for medicine 8:11 BMW G20 3 series (pre-facelift) Baseline or Sport trim level 8:28 it is Superb gen 3 8:46 MAN TGE van 9:00 Opel Astra J Sport Tourer 10:25 van are used for criminals transport (the ones without any windows in the back) and the ones with windows are used for transporting police officers. I don't know how it is in Poland, but in Croatia they are used as mobile investigation van when there is car accident
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  4746. Here are things that Gianluca Basile said in an interview after losing in Euroleague's final against Maccabi Tel-Aviv about their fans: "We had a good feeling before the game. We felt that the pressure was on Maccabi, that we were coming in as underdogs and would play more freely. We were in an excellent mental state and ready one hundred percent, but the moment we stepped onto the court everything changed. It was like entering the crater of a volcano. To be honest, on the stairs, Patricio Prato told me we'd never make it out alive, but I told him it always feels that way and after a few minutes, it passes. When the players were introduced and they presented us, there was a sort of chorus of boo. I had never heard anything like it. Our legs were literally shaking. It was an unbelievable situation. I never thought a crowd could have such an impact, but the game was over before it even began. There, I began to think maybe what Prato told me was right. When the game started, everything exploded in our faces, and if I thought we could ignore the crowd and the atmosphere, Maccabi proved us wrong, ending the game within five minutes. In the first timeout, Rafa already said we didn't come here to be Maccabi's doormat, but even he understood. It was a strange timeout, as if we all understood that we wouldn't win here, so at least we'd fight for our dignity. By halftime, we already wanted to be on the plane. To fly away as fast as possible. We felt like Maccabi's playthings and their audience."
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  4912. Point by point from an Australian who was born and lived in Western Australia all their life: 10. It does get hot. Really hot. And cold. Really cold... and every temperature in between. Just like the wide variety of climates in the US. Australia is not just one big desert, we have tropical rainforests, and an active skiing season that is crammed with tourists every year as it is opposite the skiing season in the northern hemisphere. As for Perth being 'perfect' year round, we have just had a record breaking run of high temps including the highest recorded temp on Christmas Day for 53 years. So.... depending on your point of view.... not perfect. The reason most of the population lives on the coast is water, not heat. The interior of the country is exceedingly water poor and the cost to pipe water out there is exceedingly high given the distances between habitations. I don't know where he is getting his skin cancer stats from but according to the Cancer Council there was 16,878 new cases of skin cancer recorded in Australia last year... and less than 100k living with it.... that is hardly one in four people in a population of over 26 million. Bushfires ARE a thing. Dont be an ass, don't flick your cigarette butt out of the window and make sure all camp fires are OUT before leaving them. There is a reason for area and total fire bans during the summer. Something to consider though, is that some Australian native flora cannot germinate unless the seeds have been burnt, so the fires were here a lot longer than we have been! 9. Isolation. We were. With technology our friends and family overseas are only as far away as our phones or keyboards now, wherever you are in the world. I don't think I've spoken to ONE person who feels trapped or isolated by just simply living here. Perth to Bali, or anywhere in south eastern Asia is only a couple of hours. Just over 3 hours to Bali. Flights to the rest of the world ARE expensive, not just because of the distance, but our lower population means the demand for services is lower, and the costs remain higher because of it. Distances between cities is a hard concept to grasp unless you put it in terms of driving etc. 8. Time zones? Every country has to deal with them. He just sounds like the stereotypical American who demands that everything be set up for their convenience. shrug 7. The internet USED to suck very badly. The NBN network is being rolled out nationally and speeds are great! I get 55gb down and over 20 gb up.... on a Friday night at 7.30pm .... supposedly peak time. He may be talking about mobile internet which is dependent on wireless signal strength,.... or complaining about isolated towns that the NBN has not yet arrived to. Oh, and I pay $75 per month with UNLIMITED downloads. Unlimited. I don't think too many isp's will throttle the speed anymore, but excess data charges are common....for people still using Telstra..... 6. No. Everything wants to kill him. JS. 5. I don't think Aussies are any better or worse drivers than anywhere else. Maybe we upload more vids because A) we like to poke fun at our fellow Aussies.... and B) We are just done with the shit. 4. You get what you pay for. If Australia is expensive .... it's because WE are worth it! As for car rego's I would be curious to know how long those prices you mentioned last for? $700 for us is car rego for the entire year and includes 3rd party insurance. 3. Woolworths is open from 8 am til 8pm weekdays, probably closing at 6pm on weekends for the bulk of supermarkets. We have several 24 hour supermarkets here in Perth. Restaurants are usually open til 10 pm, later on the weekends depending on the suburb, petrol stations are mostly 24 hours, and a lot of fast food places are 24 hours as well. 2. TERRIBLE sources for Mental Heath education. I worked for 11 years with a Consultant Psychiatrist who lectures around the world. Mental health spending by governments is low around the world, but I'm not sure that "Aussies don't talk about their problems" is in any way true. I call bullshit on good therapy not being easy to find. Our psychology education is recognised world wide. If I trained as a psychologist I could practice in almost any country. 1. I'm glad the citizenship requirements are tough. I think he has inflated his examples though.
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  4934. You're doing great! I as a Czech can understand spoken Polis a bit, because of how similar our words are, but reading it is a a brain task because you have to figure out the consonant combos :D An interesting fact for you: Czech used to look very much like Polis long time ago – we used to gave a lot of multigraphs (that's when 2 or more letters combine to a new sound). However Jan Hus (a priest who tried to reform the church (+- same ideas as Martin Luther had later on) and was burned for it) came up with diacritics (today's ´ and ˇ in Czech). Because of that we have out special "decorated" letters instead of using more consonants – cz -> č, sz -> š etc. Our teacher always told us at school "If it weren't for Mr. Hus, we'd write like the Polish do!" and all the kids would do the "scared omg" face. Otherwise, Czech has the same thing as Polish – each letter has it's one sound and that's it. I think Czech might be easier for you to learn how to read at first, because our letters will give you more hint as to how to read it. And yes, it's very confusing when you're starting to learn English (I did at the age of 9, but nowadays kids start at the age of 6 or even sooner) and for a lot of people it's hard to tell how to read some words because of how many sounds can each letter make. And then you have words like "sewing" – like are you guys kidding me? XD This video sort of sums it up nicely (warning: it's not for kids, there's a lot of swearing in it) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6soT3dCLFc
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  4973. Here is the history of the panel van i hope you find it interesting happy reading :) The first Holden panel van produced in Australia was the FJ Holden, which was released in December 1953, although many manufacturers offered panel vans in their range prior to this.Like many Australian panel vans, it was based on a corresponding ute and station wagon models. In May 1961, Ford Australia released a panel van version of the XK Falcon, marketed as the "sedan delivery" body style.[39] The first panel van by Chrysler Valiant was part of the CL Valiant model range and was introduced in April 1977. Panel vans' combination of cargo space and customisable interior in a relatively compact vehicle made them attractive to painters, electricians, general labourers and film crews.[41] Australian police forces also used panel vans (nicknamed "divvy vans" or "paddywagons") Early Australian panel vans used swing-down and -up tailgates and a standard roof height, indicative of their ute and station wagon/sedan delivery origins. In the mid 60s first Holden, then Ford introduced unique rooflines to their panelvan models. These were higher than the previous stagion wagon based roof, giving greater cargo space and functionality. In the early 70s, Ford introduced horizontally opening rear doors (nicknamed "barn doors") By the early 1970s, when panel vans were in decline in America, they had become cultural icons in Australia.[43] The most popular model was the Holden Sandman, which was marketed to surfing lifestyle.[44][45] The first Sandman was built in small quantities in 1974 in the HQ model range, but the model's popularity greatly increased in the subsequent HJ generation, which was released in October 1974. In the 1979 movie Mad Max, a modified 1975 HJ Sandman model was one of the vehicles driven by the lead character (played by Mel Gibson). Ford's competitor to the Sandman was the Surferoo, which was introduced into the XB Falcon model range in 1973.In 1977, the Surferoo was replaced by the more popular Sundowner, in the XC Falcon range.[46][44] The traditional tailgate style doors were also reintroduced as an option with the XC range. In 1976, Chrysler released a similar model called the Drifter, which was part of the Chrysler CL Valiant product range. The Drifter ceased production in 1978. Younger drivers were especially attracted to panel vans, not least because of the ease with which a mattress could be installed within the cargo bay. Consequently, panel vans also attracted nicknames such as "sin bins," and "shaggin' wagons".[51][52] During the 1970s many Australian panel van owners took to applying airbrush mural art to the sides of their vans, paralleling a similar trend in America.[53] Along with Volkswagen Kombi micro-busses, panel vans were popular with surfers, who could sleep in the cargo bay while carrying surfboards on the roof. By the end of 1979, the Sandman had largely lost its place in the contemporary Australian youth culture – order figures were down and many of the vehicles were now being sold with the stripes and tailgate logos deleted. The final Sandman was in the Holden HZ series and featured V8 engines only, along with a four-headlight grille and under bumper front spoiler. In 1979, a basic HZ Holden panel van was priced at A$6,076, with the Sandman option package an additional A$1,700. If a buyer selected every Sandman extra, which would cost in excess of 50% more than a basic HZ panel van, Holden would include a velvet mattress with the Holden logo embroidered. The Sandman ute and panel van were phased out in October 1979, with the end of the HZ series. Panel vans generally declined in popularity through the 1980s. Holden's last panel van, the WB, ceased production in 1984. Ford was the last manufacturer of Australian panel vans, until production of the XH Falcon, ceased in 1999. In 2000, Holden unveiled a retro-styled Sandman show car based on the Holden VU Ute. While this Sandman was never released, an canopy or "camper shell" featuring the same styling was made available as an A$6,150 accessory for Holden utes from 2003 through 2006. Installation was complicated, however, and the rear window and cab wall of the ute were retained, preventing movement between the cargo bay and the passenger cab as was possible in purpose-built panel vans.
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  5210. Fangio vs the crash helmet is one of my favourite stories. They were made mandatory in 1952, and at first the drivers grumbled because they made you look like a coward (even though they were more suited to a game of polo than a motor race). Anyway, one Sunday Fangio was due to compete in the non-championship Autodromo Grand Prix at Monza, just north of Milan in Italy: the problem was that on the Saturday he was also competing in the Ulster Trophy at Dundrod Aerodrome, Northern Ireland. He'd arranged for Prince Bira of Siam (yes, really; he did motor racing as a hobby) to give him a ride down to Italy in his private plane, but the prince had crashed out early and left without him. Instead Fangio caught a flight to to London, and found there were no connecting flights to Milan; he linked up with Louis Rosier and carried on to Paris, only to find all flights had been grounded due to inclement weather, and all the sleeper trains had already departed. By now it was midnight, so Rosier offered to drive Fangio down as far as his home in Lyons in his personal Renault: when they got to Lyons airport dawn was breaking, but the rain meant there was still nothing flying, so Rosier told Fangio to borrow the Renault and drive to Monza himself. If he took the Mont Cénis pass through the Alps he should barely make it, and Rosier himself could get a taxi home. So began one of Fangio's greatest-ever drives. He'd been awake for over 24 hours by now, and the breakfast of coffee and a croissant at Lyons had been his only meal in 48 but he dashed from hairpin to hairpin, sliding through the corners like he was back in his Maserati, slapping his face hard to stay awake. When he finally arrived at Monza the tyres were worn down to the canvas, but it was 2:00pm, which gave him just enough time to have a quick shower and change into his racing gear to take the start at 2:30pm. Unsurprisingly, by 3:30pm, he was at Milan’s Hospital Maggiore, in intensive care. Starting last because he hadn't qualified, he'd had the bright idea to take Monza's Lesmo twins - normally third-gear corners - in fourth instead to make up time. He slid wide and, his reflexes dampened by fatigue, he couldn't catch it before he'd left the track and hit a hay bale, which had been sitting in the sun so long it had set hard as a rock. He was diagnosed with multiple injuries, not the least of which were severe concussion and a broken neck, but his life had been saved by, you guessed it, his regulation crash helmet, which had prevented his head being opened up like a hard-boiled egg. He was in hospital for three months (contributing to his rival Ascari's record of winning nine Grands Prix in a row), and he was never able to turn his neck properly after: if he wanted to turn to look at something, he had to turn his whole upper body. And then he went on to win the World Championship four more times. There's a reason he's called the Grand Old Master.
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  5318. One thing very few videos ever mention: Never underestimate how much Aussies swear. Of course, not all Aussies swear, and how much swearing you'll hear largely depends upon where you are and what social pocket of people you're interacting with. We tend to be far more polite when we're in places where more respectful behaviour is expected (being at a nice restaurant, in business, talking with tourists, etc) and when being filmed and online - because we're very aware that there are times and places where it's not appropriate and the internet is one of those places. In the reality of our own territory in a casual setting however, it's not unusual for Aussies to drop F and C bombs into casual conversation, not just as an expression of anger or frustration or for the sake of getting a reaction like they're used in most other English-speaking countries, but as a normal part of our vernacular. Some areas are more sweary than others, but generally speaking, most people coming from elsewhere in the world, including the USA, are often quite shocked and many get quite offended at first, at hearing how often Aussies will very casually drop F and C bombs like they're completely normal non-offensive words. As for cost of living, Kinda Australian did a video dropped today comparing current basic grocery prices in the USA to Australia with as much fair unbias as possible, giving the prices in both US and AU $ with compatible items from compatible stores, with some surprising results: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pw_9H4jHq3A
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  5339. Hi friend. Greetings from Czechia, it would be lovely if you could visit but my recommendation is to spend at least half of your time outside of Prague. I know it's an amazing city but it's just one facet of the whole country. I know it's hard to compare because of the size difference but people can't really visit USA by visiting just LA or just New Orleans. The advantage is that in Czechia you can travel from one interesting place to another and another with maybe an hour or two spent in car or train between amazingly different stops. It's less than an hour from Prague to Mladá Boleslav (for all those Škodas), then you can be in Kutná Hora ossuary in maybe 40 minutes or another hour. If you are still not full of sights you can then be in Litomyšl in an hour and half. There you can have a rest in some pension, spend maybe an hour and 20 minutes to Olomouc from which it's just an hour to Kopřivnice to see Tatras. I'm not even kidding. I'm driving all across Czechia a lot due to my work so I'm probably rather correct with my estimation with some additional margin for local traffic jams in larger cities. There are like 900 castles here so even a huge fan of history and fortifications like me have visited less than a third in all my life. And even if 700 of them are ruins, those another 200 are probably more than most visitors could ever see in person. And if someone is a fan of hikes? Just look at all those bloody mountain ranges and river vallies. It doesn't matter if you follow along Vltava, Dyje, Nisa, Jizera or most of others. There are always some terrific hikes to be had. Maybe avoid Labe (Elbe) downstream from Jaromeř town unless you really enjoy walking a flat land among huge fields. And even then there are many interesting trips to have. They are just very flat trips. 😀
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  5438. Bond-eye. Like the James Bond movie Golden Eye. It's a nice if stupidly expensive spot. Bit on the nose with the rest of Australia right now with Bondi residents flouting covid restrictions leading to NSW's 1500 odd covid cases today. Ermm... lets not start that little fight. Lets just say Noosa better than Bondi and move on. Wineglass Bay is one of the most beautiful beaches anywhere. Period. Not developed and destroyed. Interestingly it isn't just the shape that recalls the bowl shape of the bottom of a wineglass, but the sea there also used to run red with blood as this is where whalers used to bring their catch in the old days - whale migration coming straight past this point up the east coast of Australia, and the gentle slope and sandy bottom made it really easy for sailors to bring their catch in and not damage their boats landing them. That whole area, Coles Bay, Bicheno, Swansea... all just beautiful. If you're ever in Tassie that area is a must see. Gold Coast. Yeah, if we're doing a Miami Vice Australian style it's set there. It already has all the drugs and crime it needs. Pity really, because the Gold Coast hinterland is beautiful. Check out O'Reilly's and Springbrook Falls. Beautiful places without some bikie trying to deal you some meth or some crackhead in a TapOut t shirt trying to coward punch ya. If you love offroading along the beach, you need to check out Fraser Island. It's like god designed it for that reason. Stockton Beach is pretty awesome too. South West Tasmania is awesome for that stuff too. As to how these are the best 20, I really don't know. I'm looking at Altona and Elwood and thinking people just rushed it, much as I used to love a winter fire and a bottle of Stones Green ginger Wine on the beach at Black Rock. How the hell is Fraser Island or Stockton Beach not on this list? Port Willunga? Low Head? Mount Martha? Rottnest Island? So many beaches to see.
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  5491. In the late 1970's I was holidaying in Surfers Paradise and one day decided to take a drive to Noosa. in the half light of dawn a giant rock suddenly appeared in front of me. Wow, I've got to check this out. I drove until I found a turnoff then proceeded to the lookout. The beauty with the fog in the valleys below and the surrounding peaks jutting up mesmerised me. I couldn't look away for minutes until an accented voice behind me told me he felt the same way every morning. I turned around to see a deeply tanned skinny little man dressed only in KingGee stubbies (shorts). He told me he lived on the mountain and the circumstances that led to his choosing the odd place of abode. He said he was a German merchant seaman who became very ill en route to the next port of call, Rio Janeiro. The ship's doctor had no clue as to what made him so sick so he decided to make his first quest a visit to a Brazilian doctor. He received bad news - the doctor said he had terminal cancer and the next port would be his last. Brisbane...he gathered his belongings, left the ship and started walking inland. He said he would walk until he found a good place to die. He found his spot - The Glasshouse Mountains. As he ascended he felt at peace with himself. He got to the top, built himself a little lean-to with what was available around him, and prepared to meet his maker. I remarked about how well he looked and thought I could lose a couple of pounds myself. I asked him how long ago it was that he landed in Brisbane and embarked on his final journey. "Thirty years." On the way back from Noosa I returned to that spot to check how the mountains looked in the clear of the afternoon sun. He again appeared from somewhere and said, "I knew you would be back."
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  5779. Hello from Czech Republic. Tatra 815 Truck - jeah that colouring is deffinitely from 90' crazy times. T700 was one of the last cars Tatra ever made (after that only trucks) and it was just marketing name for more radical facelift of T613. Which already had 4 other previous facelists. T700 itself had one more later facelift with diferent engine cover and glass obove it. T613 here is third model (second facelift) that was first with plastic parts (bumpers and things like that) Previous two wersions had a lot of chrom parts. T603 here is first model (of two later facelifts or three depending on what you still takes as facelift). Second wersion had more chrom with 4 front lights extremely close to easch other. Another facelifts and all versions after had 4 lights again, but less chrome and wider look. (under rear window inside car above engine is nice place for kid to sleep there. :) ) T87 - was one of the best aerodynamic cars ever. It was Nazzi killer. During WWII German nazzi officers loved thhose cars. They were more comfortable than any german car of that era. But they were so comfortable, that they couldn't feel the speed and drived them too fast with a lot of tragical accidents from irresponcibylity driving. (also there were no safety featuresin those cars or basicly in any car of that era). Those cars probably killed more Nazzi officers then war itself (until the point where Hittler forbids his officers to use them). Also you should look at engines of those cars. They are beauties. Especially T603. Tatra cars of almost any era was luxurious cars created mostly for Czechoslovakian government (and Czech government later on). But in 90's when kommunist party went down and other companies came to our market, Tatras were too expensive and too outdated of their technologies and safety measures, that they went bancrupt. Only truck division was barely surviving for more then two decades and constantly changing its owners (even american Terex owned them but mostly looted them) until new owners of the Czech arms industry bought them and restarted them from basicly nothingness.
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  6264. I visited Australia last year and super happy I seen Tasmania as well for a few days, it was the place with the most character. I loved it. Surely a lot of things are missing as it's a small place but it's very beautiful! I loved it the most. edit: I'm from Hungary and the charm of Australia always was as a kid it never even crossed our mind that we could actually ever see it, for obvious financial reasons. It was almost like this mythical place that kind of exists but not really. How Australia compared in my midn to the rest of the world is how Tasmania compares to the mainland Australia. So when I had the opportunity it was obvious I wanted to see it. I'm also not super social and don't really like crowds, I mean I enjoyed Sydney, awesome city, enjoyed Brisbane even more (hated Canberra), but I always thought big cities are kind of somewhat alike everywhere and am always curious of the more native, local stuff and if you want originality you need to go a bit off the beaten path. Now sure I have just seen some of the most popular things in these places, I didn't exactly take a backpack and go out in the wilderness, but the lack of foreign tourists was so obvious in Tasmania, I mean just Sydney airport vs Hobart, was funny. There was less of a crowd everywhere, I mean I seen the Sydney opera house, who would miss it right, but there is such a huge contrast, probably 99% of the huge crowd around that area was foreign, while in Tasmania the proportions were reversed, even as we've been in touristy places probably we were the exceptions as Europeans and most were from mainland. My best memories from Australia are the nature, and just some of the small things that are different compared to here, not the most touristy spots or big cities, and I spent a more or less same amount of time in different spots but Tasmania was by far the richest experience where I seen the most stuff that was differemt, or special in some way, so interesting. I must confess have my koala photo from Brisbane, but ther Bonorong wildlife sanctuary was, even if smaller, a lot more genuine and different, with the individual stories of the animals and the more chilled atmosphere. Blue mountains were great, where we stumbled upon a lot of tourists all the time, but I enjoyed a lot more the remarkable cavern, devils kitchen and surroundings with the awesome rocky coastline, or walking the forests at mt Field for hours (not just the 300m stretch the bus tours take their passengers). Mt Wellington was really awesome, port Arthur looked a little underwhelming initially but it got a lot better with the stories I learnt there. I thought Bruny island would be one of those places where I would have a house if i was rich. Maybe a little too quite to live forever but very cool :) first time ever I had oysters was from get Shucked, figured if I ever taste it anywhere in the world that looks like a genuine place. It was actually at the Salamanca market which was also a lot more interesting to waklk through than I originally thought. Apparently people are super proud of Mona so we seen it on a rainy day, and while it was nice, I found it pales in comparison to the rest of the stuff I seen. I just wish I could go back and spend like 3 or 6 months low tech hiking and camping with a local that knows the places, and how to save me when im bitten by something deadly :D I spent hours looking at google maps of Tasmania and there's surely tons of awesome space in the less populated areas. I don't mind seeing some towns once in a while of course. :) But if I ever go back next I still need to take an RV or some 4x4 and wander around the desert of mainland too because it would be unfair to miss that. Maybe drop by Perth, but surely check out Darwin, Alice Springs and some smaller settlements :D If I ever win the lottery I'll be able to do both. There's not a lot of people around me that are actually planning to go to Australia but I always tell everyone to make sure to include Tasmania. It's super expensive to go to the other end of the world, and it's hard to choose what to go and see in the limited timeframe, but even for a few days it's worth it to experience a bit of its magic. It was also a super great idea to make my own itinerary, instead of going with some organized tour, judging by where I seen the buses and what those people were doing. Jeez, i would have been so upset all the time spending time in a small radius around parking lots. :)
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  6288. These notes are absolutely fantastic to use. Certainly much longer wearing than old paper, and appearance lasts. The latest ones are especially appealing look. Highly unlikely to be forged, and while the previous ones had a few attempts, all caught very quickly. One feature is also good they remain cleaner, and are easily wiped/washed if a dirty one comes your way. US notes, especially seem to have issues, for me at international security checks. As it seems, not too exagerated, most carry drug residues on them, that can put you through additional security scrutiny at border/customs checks. I had two deeper checks in Spain, and in Germany and Japan, on several business trips, by residues on back pocket, where my wallet had a few US currency notes. Each time a deeper check quickly clarified the currency at fault, I do NOT do drugs or associate with that scene, all else was clean. Though admittedly baggage can also cause headaches of that kind, by traces picked up in hotel rooms, hotel porter handling, taxi or airline baggage handling. The plastic/polymer notes have no more issue if accidentally getting wet, swimming or falling in while fishing, or caught in heavy rain or notes left in a pocket going through laundry. No lost money by becoming paper mashette due to water. They are definitely not mixed up in poor lighting, mere size, colour and lastly the sensory pips even in pitch darkness. The rapid adoption worldwide by other countries speaks for itself. Low cost and long endurance compared to the costly special paper, metal threads, cotton blend whatever is used in other secured currencies is far more costly, with exception of places using almost standard writting paper to print their cheap notes, but have no security features and endurance in months not years.
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  6294. So in relation to the sun, much like the States it depends where you live. I’m in Queensland which is really close to the equator so therefore the sun burns easily. Petrol stations don’t want you paying at the pump because when you go inside you are highly likely to spend money on drunks, snacks etc. plus it keeps people employed. We do have patrol stations where you can pay at the pump depending on which card you use. Fuel is expensive here as we have taxes on it at federal level and state level but it is what it is. We earn a lot more than people in the US. Average annual wage is $85k. Minimum wage is around $45k/pa. We don’t have the American culture of drinking soft drinks just because they’re free. Overheads for business are very high here so no one is giving away anything! He’s dreaming about the wifi! That is totally untrue. We could do better but our speeds are very good these days. The speed camera thing is a sore point for many people! We have a lot of them and it keeps people safe. The helmet issue came from kids dying from head injuries when riding bikes. Came in when I was in my early 20s. We do live in a nanny state but I don’t see an issue with it. This guy is young so less likely to understand he’s not immortal! And yes we proudly tax cigarettes very highly. It’s a rarity here to see people smoking. I actually don’t understand how anyone here can afford to smoke! It’s around $40-$50 a packet. Cigarette advertising is banned in sport and over a 20 year period it totally changed the public perception of smoking. When my son was a teenager the subject came up and he couldn’t understand why anyone would! He may have used the word “idiot”. Smoking is banned inside pretty much everywhere and some places outside. If you stand near a building to smoke you have to be 4-5 metres away from the entrance. I agree about the flies!
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  6420. You need to have a look at the Holden VL series in general, in particular the Commodore Turbo (SL & Berlina variants) and especially the Calais Turbo. These hold an incredible cult following and can be argued that they brought Holden out of big financial trouble at a time where they were struggling against competitors in the consumer space. What's so special about these cars is they sourced the motor from Nissan, and used an RB30 in N/A and Turbocharged variations, with the turbo going down as one of the great straight 6's. "The greatest engine Holden NEVER built" was a saying that adapted brilliantly. Since the late 80's, the RB30et has become a hero in Australia, especially in the drag racing scene and the VL Turbo is a much loved icon, morphing from an expensive but formidable vehicle to purchase new, to a stereotypical "hoon mobile" as they depreciated and became the burnout/drag racer of choice for street racers. A 5.0 V8 was also used but this really didn't stand a chance against the RB30ET. The turbo developed a reputation in the late 90's to mid-2000's as being the 'hoon's' vehicle of choice and carried a negative connotation amongst the snobby, but lately, prices of these vehicles have soared and they've become incredibly desirable and much adored by all lovers of cars in Australia. An original Calais Turbo these days will fetch upwards of $70,000, crossing well over $100,000 for well modified, big HP or low mileage unmodified examples, especially in special editions like the LE. I kick myself every day for selling my S/L Turbo in 2009 for $10,000. No talk about the VL can be complete without mentioning the famous BT-1 Interceptor. This is a model designation based on the base model S/L Commodore which was adopted by the Australian Police, specifically the Highway Patrol unit. These cars were white in most states, but Victoria had the very special Absinth Yellow (more commonly but incorrectly referred to as Canary Yellow). When you're talking about cult heros, the BT1 probably stands next to some of the goats in terms of street-cred status even though it doesn't have a racing pedigree per-se, that was left up to the Walkies and Group A editions which had to have the V8 per Group-A rules. No other car can "snap necks" like a neat VL Turbo dropping a fat dose as it cruises past you and no mention of one in a group of car enthusiasts will escape at least one person mimicking the well known sssssutututu that the RB VL became known for.
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  6459. The history of drifting was born from Tazio Nuvolari, the modern discipline made by the Japanese, but if I have not misunderstood the Formula Drift regulations, Nicola Tesini thought of them (I have his school 20 km from home, the first in Europe to bring this discipline). The discipline consists of a course consisting of curves and counter-curves of various radii to be carried out with the vehicle in extreme oversteer, obviously without generating a spin or ending off the road and/or hitting, respecting these rules: Never let the rear wheels regain grip, otherwise the vote will be reset. Even in the transition from a right to a left curve or vice versa or in the straight sections between one curve and another, the rear axle must never regain grip. Skid must be maintained in straights and created by load transfers through direction changes. Never realign the front wheels with the longitudinal axis of the vehicle or even generate understeer, otherwise the vote will be zeroed. Anticipate as much as possible (after having acquired adequate speed) the entrance to the first corner: the more meters you drift, the more points you take. Maintain the greatest possible skid angle in every single corner along the entire track. The closer the car is to a 90 degree angle to the roadway the more points you take. Also maintain as much counter-steering angle as possible. Follow the ideal trajectory from speed, calculating however that the car occupies a larger portion of the road and that therefore the individual curves of the curves will sometimes be anticipated compared to when they are made while maintaining full grip. Go as close as possible with the front or rear to the Clipping Points, which are precise points placed on the outside or inside of the curve. Sometimes they are simple pins, sometimes they are solid obstacles present in the racetrack, such as walls or guardrails. Clipping Points cannot be touched. Carry out everything with the greatest possible fluidity and speed, respecting all the previous single rules. You will not get a good score by making the route faster than another but maintaining a negligible skid angle, which allows more traction but less difficulty. By fluidity, on the other hand, we intend to carry out everything while maintaining a driving as clean as possible without too many corrections and movements of the steering and the car. This therefore requires enormous control of the vehicle by the driver. Keep as close as possible to the competitor in front (in one-on-one matches) without touching him, door to door. All these parameters will be evaluated by the jury and will determine the final grade
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  6462. SOME OF OUR AUSSIE SLANG FOR MATE... A Cold One = Beer Arvo = Afternoon Aussie Salute = Wave to scare the flies Avo = Avocado Bail = To cancel plans Barbie = Barbecue Bathers = Swimsuit Beauty = Great! Billabong = A pond in a dry riverbed Billy = Teapot (in the outback on the fire) Bloody oath = Yes! Or “That’s very true” Bludger = Someone who’s lazy Bogan = Someone who’s not very sophisticated Booze Bus = Police vehicle used to catch or test for drunk drivers Bottle-O = Liquor shop: a place to buy alcohol Brekky = Breakfast Brolly = Umbrella Budgie Smugglers = Speedos Bush = “Out in the bush” or away from civilisation Choc A Bloc = Full Biccy = Biscuit Chook = Chicken Chrissie = Christmas Cobber = Very good friend Coldie = Beer Cop = Police Officer Crikey = an expression of surprise Crook = Being ill (I’m crook); a criminal (he’s a crook) Dag = Someone who’s a bit of a nerd or geek Daks = Trousers Deadset = That’s true, or true! Defo = Definitely Devo = Devastated Drongo a Fool, ‘Don’t be a drongo mate’ Dunny = Toilet Durry = Cigarette Esky = An insulated container that keeps things cold Facey = Facebook Fair Dinkum = Honestly? Or, Yes honestly! Flannie / Flanno = flannelette shirt Flat out = Really busy Footy = Football (AFL / Aussie Rules) G’day = Hello Galah = Not being bright, also a stupid person Gnarly = Awesome Going off = Busy, lots of people Good On Ya = Good work Goon = Wine in a box Hard yakka = Hard work Heaps = Loads, lots, many Hoon = Hooligan or a very bad driver Iffy = Bit risky or unreasonable Knickers = Female underwear Lappy = Laptop Larrikin = Someone who’s always up for a laugh Lollies = Sweets Maccas = McDonalds Manchester = Sheets / Linen etc Mate = Friend Mozzie = Mosquito No Drama = No problem / it’s ok No Worries = No problem / it’s ok No Wucka’s = A truly Aussie way to say ‘no worries’ Outback = The interior of Australia. Even more remote than “the bush” Pash = To kiss Pissed Off = An offensive/vulgar way of saying you are very annoyed Piss Up = A party, a get together and in Australia Pissed = Intoxicated, Drunk Piss Off = An offensive way to tell someone to go away or get lost. Rack Off = The less offensive way to tell someone to go away or get lost. Reckon = For sure Rellie / Rello = Relatives Ripper = 'You little ripper’ = That’s fantastic! Rooted = Tired or Broken Runners = Trainers or Sneakers Sanger = Sandwich Servo = Service Station / Gas Station Sheila = A woman Sick = Awesome; ‘that’s really sick mate’ / Great Sickie = A sick day off work Slab = A carton of beers Snag = Sausage Stoked = Happy, Pleased Straya = Australia Stubby = A bottle of beer Stuffed = Tired Sunnies = Sunglasses Swag = Single bed you can roll up, a bit like a sleeping bag Tea = Dinner Tinny = Can of beer or small boat Thongs = Flip Flops True Blue = Genuinely Australian Tucker = Food Two Up = A gambling game played on Anzac day U-IE = To take a U-Turn when driving Up yourself = Stuck up Woop Woop = The middle of nowhere “he lives out woop woop” Ya = You Yous = Plural of you
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  6487. Tottenham Hotspur Stadium is the first and only stadium to be designed specially for NFL games outside of North America and is officially the home of the NFL in the UK. The NFL International Series is a series of American football games during the National Football League (NFL) regular season that are played outside the United States. Since 2024, the series has three sub-series: the NFL London Games in the United Kingdom, which have been in place since 2007; the NFL Germany Games in multiple cities and the NFL Brazil game. 2:02 a lot of famous UK football clubs are from London. Arsenal, Chelsea, Tottenham, West Ham United and many other smaller FC's 3:40 Olympiastadion was built for (in)famous 1936 Summer Olympic Games. During the Olympics, the record attendance was thought to be over 100,000 Fun fact: Red Bull Arena in Leipzeig was built within the confines of an old Zentralstadion (similar to Soldier Field in Chicago) that was built in 1956 from 1.5 million cubic metres of debris from the World War II bombing of Leipzig and could hold 120,000 spectators. It was made by the same architect as the Berlin Olympiastadion The Great Strahov Stadium is a stadium in the Strahov district of Prague, Czech Republic. It was built for displays of synchronized gymnastics on a massive scale, with a field three times as long and three times as wide as the standard association football pitch. Its capacity of 250,000 spectators (56,000 seated) made it larger than any current or former sports stadium, and the second largest sports venue ever, first one beeing Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
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  6588. One thing I've noticed from watching USA reactors is how many things they seem to find "scary". I once started to make a personal list of all the things reactors had labelled "scary". I stopped doing it as the vision of the world that gives IS dangerous. But the weirdest, funniest one of all is...bare feet!! You win, mate! I hate wearing shoes. It makes me feel sorta trapped and restrained! As a kid one of the schools I went to would punish you if you wore school-shoes to and from school on rainy days! The idea was that our parents worked hard to put food on the table and to provide us with school uniforms: so wearing shoes in the wet or mud would ruin our shoes!! Yeah, the soles of your feet become like asbestos...they have to, so we can walk on the foot-paths in summer. Our feet are always on display so they are part of being 'beach-ready'. I've noticed that many, many people outside of Oz and other tropical countries have terrible feet! I guess this is because they're one part of the body which is never on display so they just ignore them: horrid yellow, gnarly, long toe-nails, covered in bumps and bunions, bluey-white skin with blue veins...and smelly! Ugh!! So as much as I tried (and I really did) to imagine what was 'scary' about brown, bare feet with nicely painted and manicured nails; I couldn't. In fact, recalling some of the feet I've seen since leaving tropical climes, those are - if not scary - then at the very least unsavoury. With the worst part being that when people wrap their feet in nylon socks and insert them into rubber/plastic shoes tied up tightly to keep all the air out, they become sweaty & stinky.(This is an observed fact - not one directed personally at anyone.) So hey, remember if you ever do get to go to Oz, you should start exposing your feet to the elements a couple of weeks before: they're going to be on display either at beaches or when you wear slops.😂😂 (Oh yeah - re shop closing times: it varies - many large supermarkets stay open 24/7 - at least on the East coast.)
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  6613. Pausing after the question: 1) anywhere ending with 'land' - England, Scotland, Ireland, Iceland 2) in Europe - Bern, Oslo, Kyiv, Rome 3) depends on whether its recognised or not but strictly speaking it'd be Africa thanks to South Sudan - in Europe it'd be Kosovo 4) London, Edinburgh, Cardiff - bonus is Belfast 5) Antarctica - don't get much rainfall there 6) again, it depends on what you're recognising as a country but with Spain and the Americas, probably 19 7) Bolivia and Paraguay 8) Tunis and Algiers - bonus is Tripoli 9) Greek, Macedonian, Bulgarian 10) participating continents - hate it when the Americas are amalgamated though 11) depends on if you count if its existence has been interrupted or not but overall I'd say Africa thanks to Egypt 12) District of Columbia - where the for-some-reason-not-a-state motto is 'taxation without representation' 13) Netherlands - official is Amsterdam but seat of government is The Hague 13.5) Cape Town and Pretoria - think the former is official while the latter is government but not sure 14) Australia, New Zealand, Fiji - bonus would be Samoa POST-answers: think I did pretty well thanks to pub quizzes, Trivial Pursuit and a degree in History and International Relations but its vexing how many were conditional - like the Spanish-speaking and oldest capital ones. (I knew that San Marino was the oldest continuous state in the world but I assumed he meant oldest in general - especially irritated to have that count as wrong as a result.) I'd say it'd have been more reasonable to have stuck to Europe but ho hum.
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  6684. Since you mention Border Security, i've got a story to tell you that happened to my friend on his honeymoon. A bit of background, my friend and i are of Turkish heritage but we were born and grew up in Australia, our parents have been here since the 70 but we can and do speak Turkish due to our parents teaching us when we were younger. So my friend married his long time GF who is of Laos descent and they decided to go for their honeymoon in the US, they were planning on spending a week in LA and a week in Vegas, when their flight landed at LAX as they were going through Border Security the his wife goes through just find but the TSA agent pulls my friend aside and looks at his passport seeing his name and proceeds to question him; TSA: Your passport says your an Australian Citizen but your name doesn't look Australian. Where are you coming from? F: Im coming from Sydney Australia TSA: No i mean what's your nationality F: Im an Australian Citizen TSA: Again what is your nationality, what is your heritage? F: Oh, i mean my background is Turkish, my parents were born there and immigrated to Australia TSA: Oh your Turkish then, so do you speak Arabic? F: No i can speak English and Turkish TSA: Ok, how about Farsi, can you Speak Farsi? F: No just English and Turkish TSA: How about Iranian, can you speak that? F: Sir i already explained, i can only speak English and Turkish TSA: So what is the purpose of your visit to America? F: Well you see i just got married and my wife and i are coming here for our honeymoon TSA: Your wife hey, who here is your wife? Friend proceeds to motion over to his wife who comes over, TSA looks confused seeing a Middle Eastern looking guy together with an Asian looking woman, checks her passport and sees they both have the same last name TSA: Ma'am is this man your husband? FW: Yes he is, is there some sort of problem? TSA: (Even more confused) Ok You are both cleared to enter, but we will be keeping and eye on you both! And with that they went off and enjoyed the rest of their honeymoon, but ended up coming back with a funny story to tell everyone for many years to come.
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  6708. Glad to see you react to Tristan. I loved watching his video when he was in Aus. Kind of miss him actually. He got most things right and was very balanced. He did a couple things that he took a risk on like things he hated about Australia, and he got slammed for it. But he manned up, took on the chin, and came our roses. He was very cool. Aussies love people that can take the heat. Anyway a couple of back stories for you that he may not have known. The first is why we saying something is "sweet as" or "hot as" or "cool as" It is a very Australian reason. We have a whole bunch of bush sayings that are comparisons, you have them in the US, too. For example we will say "I'm as flat out as a lizard drinking," which just means "busy" but rather than say the whole thing we would just say "flat out as...," so rather than do the whole comparison thing we just figure everyone knows what the comparison is, so we would say "ugly as", instead of "as ugly as the southern end of north bound camel train." The story of the ute is a cool one. It was in the 20's, 30's, or 40's (not sure which probably the latter) last century when a farmers' wife wrote to the Ford car company in Australia asking why there was not a car that she could drive to church on Sunday and her husband could use to work on the farm through out the week. They went to work and designed a "utility vehicle" by simply cutting out the bask section of a family car and adding in a tray. Utility vehicle of course get shortened to ute.
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  6728. 3:11 Rába is a Hungarian brand. Rába was really famous in the past, one of the most famous product is the Rába-Steiger, half American, half Hungarian tractor, and have some truck and the worldwide famous Ikarus bus engines (not for every single Ikarus) ...this bus also used in America in the past. Unfortunately, under communism, everything was dictated by the Russian leadership. Every member country that was part of communism had a work process, unfortunately in Hungary it was not possible to make cars but in return a lot of work machines and buses were made. These became popular not only worldwide, but even in the Soviet Union. That's why a lot of Skoda from Czech Republic, Trabant, Wartburg etc. East-Germany and the most famous of all is the Lada from the Soviet Union, which was copied under licence from the best car of 1969, the FIAT 124 (gen1), with many other individual innovations such as a more modern engine, higher ground clearance, more robust suspension...this was Zhiguli (2101), later Lada 1200S (21011)/1300S (21013), of course, other models were later produced, even in "luxury" versions, but the Zhiguli/Lada 1200S remains the most legendary because of its Italian styling and durability. Later, the communist countries also produced racing and rally cars, this was the Lada VFTS (These cars are still made in central Europe around Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia and of course Russia, and there are many different rally classes, from classic historic to modernised. In the latter case, the cars are allowed to have electronic systems, electric throttle etc., these cars can reach up to 230 hp and 230 nm of torque from a 1.8L engine. Classic rally events really love these!), the older F1 driver Kimi Räikkönen also drove a Lada in Finnland. 6:51 Lada 2106 7:28 Lada 1200S Combi 21013 8:19 Lada Niva Lada Police cars
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  6733. Hey Ian, it's long comment guy again. I spent my summer holiday 5 miles away from 14:35 at a small lake doing bike tours. I cycled past the castle on that small bit of road at the bottom right corner of the screen. The whole holiday was pure heaven. Apparently, the latest G7 meeting in june this year was held at the castle and surrounding villages. I stayed at a 2 room inn by a lake and later found out I was where Boris Johnson had stayed a month earlier. I can't convey to you how peaceful and majestic the scenery is and how positively isolated from civilization you feel. It's wonderful how much you enjoy the german landscape and monuments, I feel I need to give you a contextual crash course for Germany: For historic, cultural and ethnic reasons Germany is quite 'big' but also smaller than you'd think. Imagine a population of 85 million in a country the size of Montana. Montana has 1.1 million inhabitants, which is the population of Cologne. Even though Germany is relatively densely populated, forests, agriculture and infrastructure are pretty evenly distributed considering for how long this space has been lived in. Also, building height within cities is heavily regulated so it's basically impossible to build a 6 story house in Munich, but 5 stories is no problem, which is how these literal "city images" are regulated. Frankfurt is the only German city with a sky scraper district due to it being the financial hub of Germany, one of the biggest in Europe (especially after brexit) and has many bank HQ buildings. From an infrastructure perspective, Germany is quite different from most other European countries; most of them are challenged by the gap in living standards between their formerly imperial capitals and the 'poorer' or simply: other areas of the country. This applies to Spain, France, Britain, Italy to some extent, some Scandinavian countries (due to winter), certainly Russia and many former soviet states, but not Germany. The reason for that is historically complex: Most of these european countries above have culturally formented borders such as rivers which may have moved comparably by inches over time but have mainly stood firm over 1000 years. Imagine the cultural effect of certain US states' borders standing for a millennium, separating culturally different but commonly influenced people and how differently culture forms around this obstacle in the long run. Germany's history is different to it's European neighbours in one way: the holy roman empire, which lasted from 800-1806, the period most of the buildings you saw were constructed in. Germany has always been a conglomerate of multiethnic states which have been federated with or against each other for centuries, but mostly kept their own sovereignty intact. The invention of the printing press, Martin Luther translating the bible in the castle at 12:35 and the freedom of thought necessary for many controversial artists and thinkers of the time could only have existed in this melting pot without a singular religiously inspired military society "establishing order", since all these states had different laws regarding freedom of speech etc. Now imagine between 900-1800 states roughly 200-10 miles in diameter with their very own capital city, currency, army, legal system, religious affiliation etc. This whole system of dukes and lords was organized under the leadership of the holy roman emperor, who was considered to be the first prince of christendom, who protected other religious beliefs than his own (unheard of at the time). I'd argue there are noticeable cultural views and social affinities like being pro or anti military/worker's rights/environment etc; regionally dying in the german cultural and political wool in a clearly traceable way, even into today's politics. The holy roman emperor was crowned in Frankfurt in the sandstone church you saw at 7:45 which is where I'm from, btw :) Napoleon's invasions in the beginning of the 19th century were the end of the holy roman empire, which was succeeded by the age of Bismarck who was foreign minister of Prussia and later chancellor of unified democratic monarchy Germany, but this only lasted for 3 generations of royals until the monarchy was removed at the end of WW1. Phew, this was long. Please feel free to point our any mistakes I made if you feel you have to. Cheers!
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  6742. Good vid. Ok, this whole "barefoot is common in Australia" thing.... It's actually NOT lol. Yeah at the beach and in parks people take shoes off. And maybe if they duck into a fish and chip shop on or just accross from the beach. Kids are more likely to do this. But I can't recall seeing any adult, in any suburbs/states I've lived in, in suburban shopping centres or supermarkets with no shoes. Also it'd be kind of silly, as the roads and footpaths get roasting hot here in summer!🔥. What you will see are a LOT of thongs, especially in summer. Tourists that comment that it's expensive here are usually staying in the big tourist areas in the city or Bondi or the Gold Coast etc. And eating out at tourist trap restaurants , shopping at convenience stores or city IGAs. Unless you're going to a very cheap country in south east Asia for example, then yeah travelling to any Western country can add up in costs. I found this to be the case while travelling through Europe. But I chose to stay in hotels around the cities as I was travelling solo for 2/3 of the trip. There are plenty of cheap/affordable dining out and take away food options in Australia. Do a little looking or ask us locals 🙂. Local pubs have good meal deals, lots of cheap Asian cuisine available too. Stay in cheaper small business hotels or air b&b a little bit away from the touristy areas. You can get some good priced 4 star accomodation if you look around and book ahead. Or hire a caravan (RV) and spend some of the time on the road. There's also a lot of free and cheap activities to do and places to see. Public transport is pretty reasonably price. And on weekends around Sydney for example or to the blue mountains or down the south coast, It's capped at $8 AUD, $4 kids ( age 3 & under free) - unlimited travel on all trains, buses, ferry's, trams. We're outdoorsy, you'll find people walk more here too (or ride). Not jump in the car all of the time. Our price tag includes tax for everything. When eating out, there's no tipping, higher wages. I remember someone did a comparison to their overall cost of living in Australia Vs the US about a year or 2 ago (after moving here) and it ended up being about 13% higher than in the US. But with their income here being almost 40% higher, they still ended up better off. Kaitlyn from Kinda Australian just did a video comparing US and Aussie grocery shopping. Renting here and buying a home IS pretty pricey especially in the Sydney and Melbourne areas. Other areas and other states can fair better in that regard. Buying a new car will cost more (as we sadly no longer manufacturer here👎).
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  6775. Hey there, couple of tidbits on Audi's race programs and the engineering of these iconic cars. The "turbofan" rims are infamously cool and have had somewhat of a resurgence over the last decade. The reason they exist is bc wheel wells are aerodynamically notorious since they often struggle to evacuate brake cooling air and tend to trap the fast moving air underneath the car on top of that. When cooling brakes, the evacuation of the cooling air is almost as important as the brake ducts getting it there in the first place. This is the reason modern LeMans prototypes and aero focused race cars like the Viper ACR / GT3RS have vents (or straight up a hole) over the front wheels which is intended to remedy that very issue. The solution Audi chose was brilliant but a copy; Porsche had 'invented' the trick for it's 935 race car which also competed in Trans-Am to cover the rims with a flat surface on the outside for less drag and mounting blades in the 1-2 inch space between the rim and the cover which are bent in direction of the wheel turning so basically it's an air compressor which forces the high pressure cooling air out of the rim and by extension the wheel well. Two birds with one stone! The other worthy mention is the AWD system Audi had developed which uses a really neat trick: Imagine how in a traditional AWD car with a longitudinal engine there's usually a transfer box connected to the gearbox by a very short drive shaft which then sends power to the front and back diffs through 2 additional drive shafts. The front axle drove shaft therefore needs to be routed around the exhaust headers, steering assembly etc which makes most AWD cars have a very high hood. Audi had patented a gearbox combined with a transfer box at the end of the output shaft (read this twice) which sent power back through the output shaft of the transmission to the front wheels. I repeat: the gearbox output shaft is hollow and houses the drive shaft for the front wheels while spinning in the opposite direction from the output shaft with the rear wheels powered like a traditional RWD car. The front drive shaft ends just a few inches behind the bell housing, is split and comes out on either side of the gearbox. This is a truly ingenious design which was responsible for Audi insisting their AWD was so very capable and made them invest loads of money to advertise it through motorsport. The drawback of this design is the entire engine block has to be placed in front of the front axle or rather the gearbox needs to be in line with the front axle which makes equal weight distribution really difficult so Audi moved the radiators and oil coolers to the rear of most of their race cars. Still, a packaging masterclass that quattro system. It's important to note how motorsport was not only seen as a simple advertising exercise by Audi since they were first to try and sell people on the inherent value of AWD cars, be that on tarmac or loose surfaces, the good old "Race on Sunday; sell on Monday" philosophy. At the tragic end of Group B in 1986, they made the decision to to join the Trans-Am series in '88 and could carry over most of the drivetrain from their rally car. The engine in the Trans-Am Audi was the same as the latest version of their rally car: a 500-550hp 2.1L turbo I5 with SOHC running on 2.8Bar (40psi) of boost, basically their tried and true rally setup which was quite reliable for the time. They weren't the first team to chose a small displacement turbo engine as Porsche and Nissan had both done it in previous seasons. At the time, the US competition did not have an answer to this kind of car. It's ultimately self explanatory why they won the championship that season: All other cars on track were RWD coupes with basically the entire field running NA V8s which of course struggle for traction on corner exit while the Audi more or less could just floor it at the apex. The top 4 competing brands of the '88 season being Chevy, Oldsmobile and Mercury (Ford I guess?), all of them bested by the new kid, Audi. At the end of the '88 season AWD cars and foreign produced engines were banned from Trans-Am which made Audi quit the competition but they already had a prototype in the works for another competition. They joined IMSA and turned another racing series on it's head, but this time there were waaaay less regulations to follow compared to Trans-Am. The IMSA Audi 90 may look like a widened version of the Trans-Am car but was in fact a completely different chassis and a completely different engine block. In Trans-Am, the regulations stipulate the roof of the car to be made from steel, it could only be as long as the original road car and I believe they had to use the original floor pan of the production car while the IMSA 90 was just a steel roof with a tube chassis underneath from front to back with removable fiberglass body panels. The engine of the IMSA 90 was an all aluminum 2.2L turbo I5 DOHC with adjustable wastegate running 2.3-3.6 bar boost (35-52psi) producing an eye watering 720hp. In 1989... Still impresses me. If you ever get to see the engine, it becomes quite clear they went all out with this one. The titanium head studs which are normally bolted to the engine block instead run the entire height of the engine and end at the dry sump oil pan, almost as if you're using a ratchet strap all the way around your motor to keep the cylinder head from lifting off the block redneck style :) The Audi V8 quattro DTM was raced in the German touring car championship (DTM means just that) from 1990 onwards and was subject to a lot more regulations than Trans-Am and IMSA. In DTM, the original dashboard and doors had to be used and turbos had been banned in '90. The production V8 was relatively small at 3.6L but in race trim it revved up to 9.500rpm and apparently was shifted regularly at 10k. When introduced, it produced a cool 420hp but in the '91 season it produced over 460hp. Yes, it sounds absolutely gorgeous. The gold BBS rims are iconic, too. It's worth mentioning how 90's DTM was dominated by NA I4 engine coupes while this was Audi's full size sedan with its biggest production engine, which is pretty cool but also meant the Audi was a lot heavier than his competitors. Merc and BMW were supposedly some 320kg (700lbs) lighter but could not compete on high speed tracks since their NA I4 engines 'only' produced up to 350-380hp at full song. Since older Audi seem to be to your liking, I've got a suggestion I can highly recommend: 3 years ago, 3 of the Hoonigan guys visited Ingolstadt and since at least 2 of them are German car fanatics (the other one is a rally fan so he's just as into it), they were shown around their "secret stash" of priceless race cars and prototypes which are not open to the public. It's almost 30 minutes of old Audi race cars ranging from 1919 to today and I watch it about once a month just because I truly wish I could enjoy seeing such an extensive collection or even owning any of such great cars myself once in my life. I can't overhype it, it's absolutely brilliant, sadly no engine noises :( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ya9ARzWpsc&t=1376s Cheers Ian, I hope you and yours are doing well. I knew this would be a long one but then I had to add this and that.. So yeah, I love old Audis, too :) Have good one!
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  6818. My dad worked at the airport (he's retired now) and as it is a small airport here in austria it means that the same guys who do the luggage, follow me driving, outside start procedure, restocking with food, snow cleaning of the runway, taxi ways and parking spaces, as well as driving the passenger busses also are the firemen. (usually 12 of them per shift). So he drove it in training, on a drivers skill training, and in a few minor incidents. (luckily no big incidents here for a long time). They have a 8x8 one that carries 14 000 liters of water. The speed you already looked up, but the cornering and the acelleration is what he said is so impressive. I have been in one, but have not driven or ridden passenger in one. This one also was called to help in a fire incident in a plastic recylcling company a few years back. The heat of the fire was so intense that the normal firetrucks weren't able to get close enough to reach the source of the fire with their waterthrowers. But the Panther of the airport did. They immediately linked up all the other firetrucks to make them pumps for the Panther and so they got the fire under control. One of the main reason for the capabilities of this machine is the 3 minute rule of ICAO: (International civil aviation organization) Every international airport in the world has to staff and outfit it's firefighters so they can reach any point of the airport in under 3 minutes and start firefighting. (that includes them getting to the vehicles, moving out...) as for powerplants: depending on the version and age, they have used MAN engines, CAT engines, but now mainly Volvo engines >700 hp. I think the current 8x8 version has two 725 hp Volvo engines. (In the earlier versions i know that they had a distinct driving engine, and a seperate one for all the auxillary stuff and the water pumps)
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  6820. Something further to note: In Europe, the tests and requirements to obtain a drivers license are far greater than in the US, and it's offered to older youth as well. So all in all, the baseline skill of a driver in Europe is going to be higher, and the practice they'll be required to have before entering public roads is more extensive, thus it doesn't really matter if you start out in a manual or an automatic. In fact, here you're not allowed to get a license in an automatic, and then be allowed to drive manual. It only works the other way around. In contrast, in the US drivers are on average younger when they get their license, and they have to go through far fewer safety and practice sessions, and the tests are less demanding. All in all meaning the drivers enter public roads with less driving skill and experience, thus the automatic is ideal because it demands less of the driver to get accustomed with the vehicle and how to operate it at an entry level. This in turn means people grow up accustomed to automatics, and any time an alternative choice would be offered, that choice would demand a level of driving skill nobody has bothered teaching them before, so it's far less enticing, and as a result the majority of 1st, 2nd, and 3rd car sales are going to be automatic. Only late in life, or due to very specific subcultural factors, may people out of own interest seek out a manual car for the experience of a manual, rather than that car simply being a default offer available to compete with any default automatic offer.
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  6911. Cadbury is kinda like our base level, grocery store chocolate. It’s not bad, by any stretch, but it’s certainly not what most Aussies would call high quality. Lindt is also sold here in our supermarkets, and it’s generally regarded as a step above Cadbury, but also not the best you could get. Darrel Lea does pretty decent chocolate (about the same level as Lindt), and their Rocky Road is amazing. They’re known for that, and their licorice (both red and black). But if you really want high quality, you go for the smaller brands like Haighs. Which is probably impossible to get in the US, which is unfortunate. Haighs is definitely more expensive (though worth it!), and they only ship within Australia during the winter, for obvious reasons. They have storefronts in n both Melbourne and Adelaide. And anytime my parents go to Melbourne, they go with a list of the Haighs choccies that I want them to bring back. But I think the difference in taste you’re noticing is that our chocolate is creamier, and it doesn’t have an overload of sugar. It’s sweet, but not so sweet it overpowers the chocolate itself. Unfortunately, American chocolate adds a lot of sweetness to cover up the one big flavour that all non Americans absolutely HATE about American chocolate. When Hershey was trying to industrialise the making of chocolate, he discovered that pre-souring the milk made the chocolate last longer. But that makes it taste like vomit, so you have to add a heap more sugar (or corn syrup these days) to try to cover the taste. Non American chocolate doesn’t use that manufacturing method, so we don’t have that flavour in our chocolate at all. We also have a 30% minimum amount of cocoa solids that must be in it in order to be called chocolate. And all the good quality dark chocolate is 70% cocoa solids. Non Americans notice the vomit taste, and that’s why we don’t like American chocolate. Americans tend to be used to it and don’t notice it. But because the milk is soured, because there’s so much more sugar, and because there’s a lot less cocoa solids, it means that American chocolate just isn’t as smooth and creamy as other chocolate. As you can tell, I’m a bit of a chocolate connoisseur. And a history nerd.
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  7083. These 2CV concentrate many other interesting features you could also find amazing: as these were built with an very simple idea (that in fact needed a very clever design): they were made to transport a couple of French farmers, a 50 kg bag of potatoes, and a bucket of eggs, and go safely to the nearby market with the less fuel necessary and with all unbroken eggs even if you had to cross a field. So they were basically made with a simple chassis, light and easy to maintain body and motor. Another challenge was also no special tools were needed (contraty to other Citroën models), so they remained easy and economical to maintain. Do you know there is still a challenge in France, where trained staffs of four litterally dismantle, transport parts trough a narrow door, and reassemble the total car in less than 2 hours! Motors are a pleasure to access and repair, and so light you don't need tools to remove from car and can do it alone on the farm table. Another essential fact is to have access to spares: here, you still have access to all and every parts of any of these 2CV series, specially since a Club of 2CV owners has acquired the remaining industrial tools and moulds to press any part. Even a broken chassis is not a problem: you can still have one brand new and it's cheap! You can buy all motor parts, upholstery, electrical parts... The resulting is if you want to acquire one of these 2CVs, you should act soon as prices are soaring. First explanation is they're now appreciated by a new generation, and the same Club also prepares an electric conversion kit for the next 2CV lovers: with local prices ranging from 500$ for a nearly destroyed model to more than 15 000$ (or much more with rare models like the 4x4 bimotor Sahara). Every mechanic TV show have once in a while figured a 2CV! Another interesting fact: Citroën has also made a special derivative model called Mehari, with same chassis and motor, but with a complete plastic body (way much lighter), ideal for those living by the sea.
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  7102. Full list, in order: VW Crafter, Kia Ceed, Toyota Land Cruiser, VW Transporter, Toyota Corolla x2, Peugeot Jumpy (I think), Kia Venga; long line of police vans includes VW Crafters, Mercedes Sprinters and MAN TGE; Kia Ceed, Skoda Superb, Kia Ceed, Peugeot Jumpy; grey Toyota sedan is an Avensis (built in the UK); Toyota Land Cruiser, Hyundai Tucson, Toyota Auris, Kia Sportage, VW Transporter x2, Kia Ceed, Toyota Land Cruiser, Mercedes Sprinter, Peugeot Jumpy, Mercedes Sprinter x2, unmarked Opel Astra, Fiat Ducato, Mercedes Sprinter x3, Kia Ceed, MAN TGX, Hyundai i30, Opel Vivaro, Kia Ceed, Opel Astra, Kia Ceed, Suzuki Vitara, VW Transporter, Peugeot Bipper, VW Transporter, Peugeot Rifter, BMW 3 Series, Mercedes Sprinter, BMW 3 Series, Skoda Superb, Toyota Corolla, BMW 3 Series, MAN TGE; black Opel wagon is an Astra; MAN TGE, Mercedes Sprinter, Peugeot Jumpy x2, Toyota Land Cruiser. Other notes: the two cars holding open the junction in several clips are Kia Ceeds. The red Ford Escape is a second-generation Ford Kuga in Europe. The MAN van is the TGE; it's a rebadged VW Crafter, the badges are literally all that's different between the two. The dorky Mercedes is a first-gen A-Class. A genius exercise in vehicle packaging and pioneered stability control – after it failed the moose test. Terrible handling and pretty nasty interior quality but, you know, genius exercise in packaging. Lastly, your first-gen Saturn Vue is based on the GM Theta platform, which wasn't used by Opel in that form. The platform was later updated by GM Daewoo in Korea, primarily for the Chevrolet Captiva. Opel then put its own body on the Captiva platform, that being the Antara. The Antara was then rebadged as the second-gen Saturn Vue for sale in the US.
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  7270. Heinrich Lanz AG in Mannheim was a German manufacturer of agricultural machinery. The majority of shares in the company, which was founded in 1859, were taken over by the US agricultural machinery manufacturer John Deere in 1956. The sales name "Bulldog" for the agricultural tractors manufactured by Lanz between 1921 and 1960 became a synonymous generic name for tractors from all manufacturers. Since 1967, John Deere has no longer used the "Lanz" brand for products from its German subsidiary, and in the same year the suffix was also removed from its company name. In 1956, after 200,000 Bulldogs had been built, Süddeutsche Bank, a predecessor of Deutsche Bank, sold its 51% majority shareholding in Heinrich Lanz AG for 115% or a total of 21.114 million DM (German marks) to the US company John Deere & Company, which expanded the Mannheim site to become its European headquarters. The last Bulldog design was presented in 1957, the D4016 with 40 hp (29 kW). In 1958, Lanz's corporate livery changed from blue and red to John Deere's green and yellow, and the first modern multi-cylinder diesel tractor was developed. In 1960, Heinrich Lanz AG Mannheim was renamed John Deere-Lanz AG. Bulldog production in Mannheim ended in 1960 with the introduction of the John Deere-LANZ 300 and 500 tractors with four-cylinder diesel engines. Bulldogs were still produced at Lanz Iberica in Getafe, Spain, until 1962. The John Deere (Lanz) tractors gradually replaced the entire Bulldog series; large models were initially still imported from the USA. Machines from the Mannheim and Zweibrücken factories still bore the lettering "John Deere-LANZ" for several years. The use of the brand name "Lanz" ended with the payout of the last Lanz shareholders in 1967, when the company name "John Deere-Lanz AG" was changed to "John Deere Werke Mannheim, Zweigniederlassung der Deere & Company". From then on, John Deere-Lanz Verwaltungs-AG limited itself to renting and leasing the Mannheim plant to John Deere & Co. At the Annual General Meeting on August 22, 2011, a resolution was finally passed to force the remaining shareholders of John Deere-Lanz Verwaltungs-Aktiengesellschaft to relinquish their shares in return for a payment of EUR 638.24 per share.
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  7361. Paulaner has been available from Aldi here in Australia a couple of times each year. For around the 'October Fest' time they had both bottles and these 500mL cans of HefeWeizen, but a bit earlier in the year had also ' Kristal Weizen' with 0% alcohol. Kristal = Crystal is for a filtered clear version of the Wheat beer. I find it is best as a cool drink, refreshment for those really hit summer days 30°C to 40°C, so up to over 100°F. At 0% also quantity to drink is safe, as no ways do you get drunk, can consume it on hot days and still be safe driving. At other times thecakcoholic versions go well with afternoon barbeques. Presuming no driving later, as with 5% and up alcohol it is not too big volume to put you in trouble for DUI. especially as 0.5L or even 1L are typical glass volumes. Both the Hefe (Yeast) version and the Kristal(Crystal) clear types are good, but as pure refreshment I like the clear over the cloudy versions. To me wheat beer is my preffered type for pure refreshment, other times I prefer "Pils" beers, but I steer clear of the like of 'Becks', of course you have little choice, needing to get what limited types you can get in US retail. I currently have 4 bottles and 8 cans of the Paulaner HefeWeizen and also 6 bottles 0% Kristal Weizen for our summer, sadly so far we have few days into high 30°C range, so not had much yet, just keeping some cold and ready. In Germany about any village has own brewery, so there are hundreds of brands, and each part of Germany will have own major brands. Depending where you are will determine what major brands are most common. There are also many styles of beer, including some rather great special beers, including some like BOCK and DOUBLE BOCK, the latter being a stronger alcohol version of BOCK, with from memory well over 20% alcohol. BOCK is a thicker dark Meade like beer. Originally invented by monks for "Lent" fasting, where eating is forbidden but drinking allowed. On the rich BOCK beer they typically gained weight during the Lent fasting. Beer flavours do vary. The one feature throughout Germany, only the basic 4 ingredients are allowed, a about 400 year old fixed rule. NO FUNNY ADDITIVES, bittering agents colour, stabilisers, preservatives, no chemical additives period. Nothing but pure water, hops, yeast, and relevant grain
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  7656. It is against the rules to make head high contact in Aussie rules. Happens quite a bit, but a lot more stringent for about the last 10 years. Any head contact and a player leaves the field and a concussion test is performed. They must pass the test or are no longer aloud to participate in the game. Rules are pretty simple, no pushing in the back, must tackle between the shoulders and knees, must bounce the ball every 10 m when running with it ( up to the umpire to judge that) . A catch is called a mark. When a player first goes for a catch and makes contact, a figurative mark is made on the ground below the person. That’s why it is called a mark. They must complete the mark though to receive a kick by holding the catch for a least 3 secs or show they have control of the ball. The opposition player then stands on the mark where the player taken the catch, first made contact. Hence, this is why Aussie call a catch, a mark. The opposition player must stay on the Mark and not move until the player who took the mark (catch) has kick it or plays on. Another couple of rules are, you can not chop a players arm when taking a mark, u must punch the ball, no tripping, if a player’s head is over the ball and is reaching for it or has it in their hands hands, the opposition player can not kick at it. This called kicking in danger. The 4 posts at each end are the goal post. Kick between the 2 on either side is called a point or behind, this is worth 1 point. Kick it between the middle post is called a goal and worth six points. Hit either of the 2 middle posts, it is a behind. Hit either of the 2 outside post, it is out of bounds if it bounces before the ball hits the post. If it the hits it on the full when someone kicks, it, a free kick to the opponent is given from the boundary line. At any time if the ball bounces or is knock over the line, the umpire will throw the ball in and the 2 ruck players will contest for it. It can not be deliberately knock over, this is a free kick to the opposition. Hope that helps and makes sense. But if you ever watch a game u will c it is very hard to umpire because of the fast pace and the umpires miss things or decisions are quite contentious. Cheers enjoy the footy 🙂
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  7691. Cyclone Tracey is something you definitely need to check out. Christmas 1974. Lots of good YouTube docos about it. There was even a song written about it called 'Santa never made it to Darwin'. These are the lyrics. On Christmas Eve of seventy-four The warning sounded out For all the broadcast stations A great storm was near about The girls and boys asleep in bed Tomorrow was the day Their mums and dads all prayed The mighty storm would turn away Santa never made it into Darwin Disaster struck at dawn on Christmas Day Santa never made it into Darwin A big wind came and blew the town away Christmas morning was a nightmare As Cyclone Tracy struck It ripped apart the buildings Like an atom bomb had struck It twisted iron girders And it flattened all the trees The might of such a cyclone Must be seen to be believed Santa never made it into Darwin Disaster struck at dawn on Christmas Day Santa never made it into Darwin A big wind came and blew the town away Many boats put out to sea Very few returned Most were foundered on the rocks Or in deep seas overturned Australia was shocked and saddened As the news came through The devastated city Must be built anew That suffering and heartbreak Could happen in this way A natural disaster Could come on on Christmas Day Santa never made it into Darwin Disaster struck at dawn on Christmas Day Santa never made it into Darwin A big wind came and blew the town away Santa never made it into Darwin Disaster struck at dawn on Christmas Day Santa never made it into Darwin A big wind came and blew the town away A big wind came and blew the town away
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  7768. F1 is clearly on the up in the States since Drive to Survive aired on Netflix. They recently signed a new TV Deal going up from 5 million a year to between 75 and 90 million a year and hit crazy ratings at bad times of day. The race in Miami was okay as is the track, the attendance proves them right in going into areas like that. Drive to Survive unfortunately bloated up or just made up rivalries which is great TV but makes fans support drivers instead the sport or teams. F1 twitter is hell after every race :D For someone like me, coming from Europe and watching F1 for 20 years plus, it has lost a lot of it's glamour in Europe. There arent as many stars seen at Monaco, no fashion shows etc. So they go into new markets, 3 races in the US this year. Old school fans mostly don't like that part. There is no race in Germany for example, even with Mercedes dominating for close to a decade. Visiting F1 at the track isn't as great as visiting a smaller series. You dont get close to cars, drives, pits etc. You are just sitting and watching the cars go by for a crazy amount of money. F1 is best on TV, as hard as this sounds. And the money part: Merc spent 400 Million plus a year so the costcap had to come to give smaller teams a chance. Marketing is crazy in F1, its one of the biggest sports in te world. Red Bull has two teams for exposure since 2006, so they must see a result out of that. The car is the most important part in the whole thing, a great driver can't win in a bad car. Alonso is one of the best ever and hasn't won a F1 race since 2013 and even left to do the Indy500 and win Le Mans because of not having a chance in F1.
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  7983. Yeah, I grew up around Brisbane. We get about 5 days cold a year. That's why we don't bother with heating. We just put up with the cold miserably for those few days. Our older traditional houses (Queenslanders) are built to keep the cool air circulating: off the ground so that air can circulate under them, varandahs to sit on to catch the breeze in the shade, long through-going halls, doors onto varandahs that provide through ways for air and enticing air and the breeze into the house, and high ceilings and rooves with reflective tin to reflect the heat. The very old traditional houses had varandahs all around the whole house, so that there was always shade on one side regardless of the time of day. They weren't built with cold in mind at all. Of course, today's houses are generally rather stupidly built hot boxes, not built with half the common sense of yesteryear. As for the blue skies, skies in the southern hemisphere don't have the pollution of the northern hemisphere, so yeah, our skies are actually generally bluer (and the air healthier!). I live in a more polluted northern hemisphere country now, and the difference is REALLY palpable: the sky is barely blue at all most days - more usually a kind of pale greyish colour with a tiny bluish tinge (which could actually just be my imagination really because I expect a sky to actually be blue!), and I have pollution stuff on my windows to keep the yellow dust out (yellow dust that coats your car over night if it's not parked under cover, and pollution warnings that come with the weather reports, which I'd never seen anything like in Australia (we don't need pollution warnings in Australia).
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  8211. The Valiant Charger was definitely a popular performance car in Australia. The model was also used by police especially the highway patrol in NSW. There they got a boosted performance engine, special 300 Kg lead weight in the boot to improve highspeed handling and improve traction under leadfoot power takeoff, for better pursuit. I in those days had a Suzuki LJ50 Jimny 4WD, a tiny 3 Cyl 540cc two stroke engine with around 33 hp, that sadly needed a repair needing parts from Japan, caused by the dealer workshop after some defective service repair work. I had to over two weeks drive my bosses wife's Ex-police pursuit model, Valiant Charger, all orange paint job, borrowed to keep me mobile while without my little Suzi. After driving this for two weeks, with ample ' kick in the pants' go power I picked up my now ready Suzuki. Letting the boss's wife drive off in her car, as mine was returned to me. On engaging 1st gear, and driving off, my first reaction was having missed being in gear. Engine reved up to say 7000 rpm, no sensation of acceleration, as the Suzi barely rolled away. After driving with heaps of tyre squealing power available for over two weeks, going to beyond 50 kph, before even bothering to up shift gears that free wheeling high performance 6 Cyl Hemi easily pushed power to high revs without any effort. By comparison the tiny 540cc Two Stroke low power, but with matching high ratio 1st gear, only accelerated you to a bit over 3 kph and high revs, before needing to up gear range, till top gear, 4th, allowed 80 kph at some 7500rpm and speedo red line indication. In reality you could push that three cylinder, glorified motor bike engine over 10,000 rpm and have speedo at end stop, with road speed at around 100 kph. No need to say in 1st gear, it was as if you had no gear engaged, compared to the punch of Charger takeoff. Case of big difference of performance car vs NO Performance 4WD. Just in 4WD the Suzuki would do far more than the Charger, which was impossible driving on even rough dirt roads, a number of police pursuits failed as the persued drivers took off into rougher unsealed side roads. Just poor ground clearance and suspension travel limits.
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  8361. As an Aussie that's been to the USA 7 times, travelled to 32 different States, however it's been 20 years since my last trip ..things have changed a lot. Disneyworld was Great, that whole Orlando Theme Park thing is quite an experience. In my travels, I found Texans were my favourite people. So friendly & welcoming. I no longer even want to go to LA or New York Anymore. I loved Vegas... but it's the Middle America that is the best. The country folk are the nicest people on Earth. The real Americana "love of Country, love of God" (Probably all Conservatives). Those old style towns, people would give you the shirt off their back. The Cities are not that appealing anymore, crime, homeless, drugs etc. Love Yosemite, the drive thru the Rockies, Steamboat Springs, Aspen..the variety of scenery is spectacular. Such diverse places. Like most places on Earth, most people are Nice People...it's easy to watch TV and think there's a lot of horrible people, but they are the minority. The variety of food a different hours of the day is incredible. Love American Diner breakfast, used to Love Denny's 20 years ago. USA is blessed with Variety & Choices of both food & places to visit, it's incredible. I used to find many Americans seem to think they are the Centre of the Universe, and knew nothing of other Countries. So many weren't very cultured. Education level seems pretty poor in the USA. Sometimes Americans carry on about being "the greatest country on Earth" but that's not true. Healthcare system is ridiculously expensive. Rampant homelessness is Terrible for "the richest country on Earth". I just think it's really bad that a country shows what it's like, by how it's most vulnerable people are treated..and Access to Healthcare only if you can afford the Enormous prices is terrible, so many homeless is terrible. Power outages seem like common thing...all those things, in the richest country on Earth, the greatest country on Earth, is not cool. Clearly money is Drained out of the Many citizens, and given to the few (Corrupt & Greedy politicians and corporations), instead of having reliable power and infrastructure, and take care of the vulnerable. Some cities have turned into dirty sh#t holes since my first trip in the mid 70's until Now. Overall though, most of the USA is great, and most of the people are really nice. From an outsider's view, it seemed like DJT was turning USA back into a Patriotic place to be proud of again, yet the Democrats seem to want crime & to destroy USA..it's like they hate everything that made America Great. USA starts to many wars, and the Business of War seems like the USA establishment is a bit of a Bully, get involved in other countries business, and takes their resources. The USA military Industrial Complex seems to love going to other countries & getting in their business, but if anyone did that to the USA, they'd be real upset. The Government before Trump seemed to thrive on having wars, forcing smaller countries to do what USA wants, get USA corporations onto those places...like hostile takeovers under the banner of. "bringing democracy & freedom" to other places...many of which were perfectly lovely places before, but then have bombs dropped in them. So American people & the Countryside... fantastic. The Government, absolutely Awful!
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  8415. Hi, a mediterranean climate is not mild at all. It is mild winters but scorching summers. It is quite common to have 40+ summers in southern spain [Seville, Cordoba, and so on] , 104 F. So it is a quite common sight. Wildfires have been common due to climate change for the last 25+ years, although the forest mass in Spain has been growing and there is some serious forest management installed. The record for a continuous temperature at shadow was Murcia with 47 C [117 F], with some spikes of 53 at sun. The most problem, though, are humid cities. 39.2 in Barcelona, with usually 95% humidity, is really deadly. Please then, enter european countries stereotypes :-) [now is the moment when spaniards, italians, serbians, croatians, greeks, portuguese, et all laugh at northern european countries when they start moaning about how hot it is and how impossible it is to work. How they feel so tired all the time -which is the reason why you have a nap after lunch-]. My family [around Spain] has been experiencing this and the feeling of heat for the last 25 years in various areas: Cantabric coast [north], central plateau, Eastern mediterranean part [Barcelona], Southern part [mediterranean andalusia]. We don´t have AC as we tend to use passive cooling [cross breezing, and most importantly, cooling the house at night and closing it shut during the day. Plus, houses made of massive materials -brick, stone, concrete blocks-]. The reason why a massive house works well in summertime is that it retains lowish temperatures at daytime, and releases the accumulated heat at night. Another trick: have the houses painted white [as you can see in the mediterranean spain].
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  8716. Sorry to say, but that film is not historically accurate at all. The setting is ridiculous and the reactions of the people are just nonsensical. We're talking about the age post industrial revolution. But here's a few fun historical tidbits about this trip. Bertha and her sons didn't actually know the way to Pforzheim and just went to places they knew that were kinda on the way and the just asked for the right way. Bertha also invented the first brake pads during the trip, when the rudimentary brakes (wooden blocks) were worn out and weren't capable of slowing the car during downhill sections and she asked a shoe maker to put leather strips on the brakes, which performed better and she could easily change them once they were worn out. The car broke down a few times from things like a clogged fuel or a worn out ignition wire, which Bertha fixed herself, with things she had on her. The car only had 2 gears, which weren't enough for getting uphill, so her sons had to push it. One of the first improvements Carl made to the car was to add another gear, so it could go uphill. Bertha basically stole the car, because Carl didn't really believe it would be a success, so she set out to prove to him that it would be. Word spread and half way through her trip, people and press were waiting to see her driving the car. Not only did she prove to Carl that the car would be a success, she got the attention of the people and the media. I guess the rest is history. Bertha was an inventor, mechanic, PR genius and probably the world's first real test driver
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  8872. 6:56 That's a Telstra public phone and it's free to use. From last year, 2021, local and national calls to standard fixed line numbers and calls to standard Australian mobiles on Telstra’s public payphones are free. What this means is that any person can now use all of the 15,000 payphones on street corners and in the tiny towns, truck stops and airports in every corner of the country to make calls for free. The Telstra CEO explained it this way... "I've seen queues of people waiting in line, coins at the ready, to use a payphone to call home and tell their family and friends they’re safe after a bushfire, a cyclone or some other natural disaster has taken the mobile network down. I know payphones are also a lifeline for thousands of vulnerable Australians; the homeless, the isolated, those escaping domestic violence, and often provide their only link to critical support services and those that care about them. Last year alone Australians made 11 million calls on payphones, including more than 230,000 calls to vital services like Triple Zero, so there’s no doubt payphones are already often the lifeline that’s there when it’s needed most. Telstra’s purpose is to build a connected future so everyone can thrive. To deliver on this ambition we want to contribute to a better, more caring and more inclusive Australia, an Australia where people can reach out for help if and when they need to, or just connect if they feel like it. The payphone network that we’ve been maintaining since the 1880s is a key part of that, and I’m delighted it’s now free for everyone to make calls anywhere in Australia."
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  9028. I'm SO glad to see you play this game! I absolutely love it and I think there are a few things that might make playing the game more enjoyable for you in the future: 1) Until you have your own truck, I'd suggest switching to realistic automatic. These trucks usually have 12 gears - changing them is just tedious. Once you have your own truck, you can install a kind of "cheat transmission" which gives you 6 gears and artificially increases the torque. That works great for a conventional H-shifter. 2) That beeping you heard was indeed an alarm indicating low pressure in pneumatic brakes system. Every time you depress and press the brakes, the pressure goes lower and will have to be built up by the engine. So avoid "abusing" the brakes. Look at your settings - you can use engine braking or the retarder to lower the frequency of brake usage. If the pressure gets too low, the brakes lock and you can't drive. If you don't want to deal with that, turn off realistic pneumatic brakes in the game settings. 3) While red light rules differ between countries (eg. IRL in Poland you can turn right on red if there is a green arrow indicator), the game will always fine you for turning right on red (unless you turn offenses off in the settings) 4) When you take your jobs, it's a good idea to do little detours. Try to investigate the question marks on the map. Some of those are dealerships, which will allow you to buy your own truck. 5) Don't be surprised that your truck won't go faster than 90 km/h (around 50mph, I believe). That's the maximum legal speed for trucks in Europe and trucks have speed limiters installed in them. if you feel like having a bit of fun, you can turn the speed limiter off in the settings. 6) The roads in the stock part of the game are... not very realistic. There are some weird road design choices going on and in general the roads in countries like the UK, France, Germany, western Poland etc. don't really look like they do in real life (sometimes even the lines on the road are completely wrong). The DLC parts of the map received much more love and the road actually look pretty good there. Anyway, watch out for outside lanes that for some reason suddenly turn into off-ramps without much warning, which doesn't really happen in real life. That's everything that comes to my mind. Have lots of fun and happy trucking!
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  9114. I would go with an airaid cold air intake. it frees up restrictions in the intake. a bigger throttle body would help. I would recommend a procharger kit for your truck. a stock hemi can handle the 6 pounds of boost. which when you tune the ECM can give you approximately 125hp and about 105fb of torque. I would use either the diablo Trinity tuner or an hp tuner for your truck. both companies have dealership that you can either go to or help you customize your ECM tune. and then kooker long tube headers if u can get the ceramic coated headers. they will help keep engine bay heat down. open to a full 3" exhaust with a dual in dual out muffler. I have a flowmaster super 44 dual in/out 2.5 on my 5.7 and the sound is amazing!! this allows you to keep enough back pressure to keep the engine running properly while eliminating the need for any style of crossover pipes like the "H" pipe the "X" pipe. it also allows better flow through out the whole exhaust. then to get the best of your cold air intake find a hood with a functioning scope and if possible heat extraction vents. all of this is the "simple bolt on" stuff anyone can do to get more power and economy from there vehicles. then if u want you can go into the more expensive stuff like cnc heads comp cam intake manifold (your procharger will come with new injectors) and so on. you can also get a yank torque converter that should help give you a better response off road and on. find new drive shafts stock is big and not as strong as others. these are what I am doing to my mega cab 2500 as well. hope this helps :)
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  9133. From a Door manufacturer/Importer in New Jersey, USA Design Differences : Regarding design, European doors are well-known for their sleek and modern look. Manufacturers craft these doors with high-quality materials like wood, glass, and metal. They also have minimalistic designs. This design technique helps create a simple and elegant look without extra detailing. In contrast, American doors are available in various styles, from classic to modern designs. They often have additional design details like glass inserts, raised panels, and sidelights. These doors come in various materials, including fiberglass, wood, and steel. Energy Efficiency : Another difference between European and American doors is their energy efficiency. European doors have fantastic insulation, can reduce noise, and prevent heat loss and drafts. This is because the doors have multichambered construction that helps reduce heat and cold transfer. Although American doors may look good, they don't have as much energy efficiency. While some brands may offer some insulation, they're less effective than their European counterparts. Durability : European doors can withstand the test of time because of their high-quality materials. Their solid construction offers increased resistance to weather, wear and tear, and fading. American doors heavily rely on aesthetic design and often use inexpensive materials in their construction. They’re more prone to rot and warping and may not withstand the indoor or outdoor environment of your client’s property
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  9450. I'm in Western Australia in a big coal mining town and to get to our town, its a continual drive up hills for a good 9km!! We regularly have major mining equipment and vehicles (like massive dump trucks) travelling on trucks to any 3 of our mines. They also advertise the days and approx times that heavy loads will be on the roads so you can plan you day around them if you can so you don't get stuck behind them. Just like in the video, when you see a pilot vehicle/s or the heavy transport vehicles driving basically up the middle of the road on the white line or into your lane, you KNOW something big is coming and to get right off the road. If it is massively wide load, the pilot vehicle drivers will usually wave for you to pull over as well. Some of our loads can take up 3 lanes wide and its a 2 lane highway built with plenty of overtaking lanes, and double lanes from the bottom of the hill to the top because it use to be that you would get caught at the bottom of the hill with a truck struggling to do 20km/hr, it was a long slow trip for yourself it you couldn't get the speed up from being stuck behind a truck!! Thankfully they fixed this issues and have double lanes with the left for trucks to make it easier to travel up the hill. Also our heavy transport don't have purple lights here in WA. I haven't seen one for a couple of years but they have the same flashing lights of Police and they're usually a large 4wd like a toyota landcruiser with transport painted up the sides of the vehicles but look very similar to a police vehicle.
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  9509. I like this comparison, even if it is just water. As always fun to watch. Here in Germany we have eighter out of plastic or glas bottles - last one in my opinion is better for taste (goes for almost everything like Coke or beer as well), but also more for at home. I do run the entire drink section (non alcohol, alcohol and strong alcohol) area of our supermarket since 2010. Regarding water: We do have sparkling and non sparkling of course, but also "Medium" which is exactly in the middle, with sparkle, but not that much. All of them are very popular throughout the year. And you were surprised in the beginning about the 1.5L (0.40 gallon), which is very common in plastic bottles. Also in common is a lot in 1L (0.26). The classic one remain the 0.7 or 0.75L (0.18 or 0.2 gallon). You usually get them in boxes like 12 bottles or 6 bottles. We, like you also have a lot of the small bottles, the 0.5L (0.13 gallon) which is the most common when you're not at home and on the road. I prefer sparkling water. We, I can only speak for my area here in Germany, do have very good groundwater. So we use things like the Sodastream a lot and produce our own water at home, because it's not only cheaper but also more comfortable. But also the water products you buy are usually very regional due to costs, environment, transports etc. to keep the products as cheap as possible. That's why you don't get all the water products at every area, but others which are known throughout the entire country (I guess same goes for other european countries and markets) like perhaps Gerolsteiner. Best example regarding costs, transports etc.: We also do have things like Italian water like San Pellegrino or best example for Americans is Fiji, but they are more expensive here, as they are exported. A small 0.5L (0.13 gallon) bottle of Fiji Water currently costs around 1.89€ /$2.03, which is nuts, but people still buy them.
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  9718. Loved your reaction! Here are some informations to clear things out. 1:22 fun fact about the St. Vitus cathedral in Prague´s castle. It took over 585 years to built. Not because it was hard, but because over the years they sloooowly added more and more parts. 2:21 He said "Na zdraví" (For health) which means "Cheers!" 2:44 There are 4 of these trails here (at least that´s what I found) and there are made so you can enjoy the view over the tree tops. (the list: Stezka korunami stromů Krkonoše, Stezka korunami stromů Lipno, Stezka v oblacích na Dolní Moravě, Stezka Valašska - Pustevny) 3:36 cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul. Very pretty building indeed :) 5:36 We are located in temperate zone so mild climate. We experience all 4 seasons. We have similar climate to upper USA/lower Canada. 6:35 Fun fact: both gardens (Květná zahrada (Libosad) and Podzámecká zahrada) are both on Unesco list! 7:22 Moravia is known for it´s big wine culture. Bohemia also has some wine culture, but it´s more known for beer. Meanwhile in Moravia you can find private wineries in almost every village (usually in southern Moravia). Beer is also a big thing in Moravia, but they are know for their wine. Overall, entire country likes both wine and beer. 8:42 Czech republic is mostly hilly. We have high mountains along our boarders and few lowlands (one big one in northern/central part of Bohemia, 3 smaller ones in south Moravia and one small one around Ostrava. Other than that we are pretty hilly country.
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  9982. I LOVE ETS2!!! I'm the type of madman that plays with keyboard and mouse. Answers to some of your questions: - The brands and company names on the trailers are fictional for obvious reasons. There are mods to add real brands though. - This game is played by many actual truckers and most of them really like the realism, especially when it comes to the trucks' handling - You were indeed doing really well for a first parking job, a lot better than my first time lol When you start getting used to the game, you can immediately ruin all you learned, by taking jobs to the UK, where you obviously have to drive on the left side of the road and max allowed speeds are expressed in miles, rather than the kilometers you see on your dashboard and GPS screen. You saw the Euro map with some grey-coloured countries that don't have cities marked in them, you can get those by buying the DLC's. The countries in black on the map do not (yet) have DLC content available. I waited with buying those until they were on sale on steam, but truth be told, I never had to wait long for these to come on sale and I haven't regretted spending any of those €€€!!! One tip I wanted to give you is probably not necessary, but when you are saving up for your first owned truck, avoid the IVECO trucks. They're cheap, but for obvious reasons. Even after fully upgrading the engine, drive train and gearbox, it still didn't measure up. My second truck was a Volvo, which I'm still rocking now, and that one does really well, even for the heaviest loads in mountainous areas. I hired a second driver and had them mostly do shorter jobs around the Dutch flatlands, where my primary garage is.
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  10066. I haven't watched full video yet. But I guess It depends on your definition of safe. I read in several articles that statistically the leading cause of death now in the USA for youth is by gun shot. Staggering. I would be terrified to send children to school over there to be honest. We've never had a school shooting in Australia. And we don't have active shooter drills, only fire drills. And I was watching a video recently by Kaitlyn and Ashleigh Fay who moved to Australia about 6 months ago. They both said as women they feel safer in Australia. Not that bad things can't and don't happen here. They just mean overall. They mentioned Uber and taxi drivers. That they usually feel uneasy and unsafe in America. That over there you wouldn't make conversation with them because then they will think you are interested. And that you never sit in the front. That the drivers are often creepy. Where as over here when drivers make casual chit chat they said they feel fine with it and it's not a creepy or uneasy feeling. They also mentioned that they would dress down, no make up etc, if going out walking on your own even at daytime because if you look too nice or too revealing you could be attacked. I think no matter where you live it's always good to be aware of your surroundings especially when walking alone. But I think I am lucky to live in a country where I have never felt regularly uneasy. Edited to say - I don't think America is the most dangerous place in the world or that you wouldn't be safe travelling there. You probably would🙂. My comments are more about "feeling" safe.
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  10090. Prague has really some special features which other cities don't have and most of Czechs don't realize that before they start traveling. Czech national sport is complaining, so you always here (from Czechs) how bad it is here and how terrible everything looks like and how nothing works, but in reality, when you visit some other countries and bigger cities in Europe, you mostly realize that life in Prague is really much better. Only thing which is problem in last years is fastly growing price of housing, it's starting to be really expensive with a Czech salary, but still, difference between Prague and other cities or even villages in prices is still not that big compared to how it is in some other countries, so even when you are from some village and you wife which also has salary (or some friend or whatever you live with) you can just move to Prague and you can hadle it, that's not possible in some other countries where rent of flat in capital city can be several times more expensive than in some other cities. But main advantages of Prague are: 1. Public transportation, really, people from Prague always complain, but they don't realize how superior it is to have year pass for few bucks and just travel without any barriers, it's so easy, simple and realxed compared to other cities where you have to constantly opening somes tupid gates and everything is complicated and everything is bothering you, you really don't need a car in Prague and many Praguers I know don't even have driver license 2. Many green places, parks, fields, forests and meadows even in center of Prague or when you want to visit actual forest, you just jump to metro and you are there in 15 minutes. And green places in Prague look more natural, which I like, it's not like all those fancy articifal parks which are surrounded by fences and locked at night, in Prague, you can find a lot of real wild nature which I like. 3. There is alwayas something happening - concerts, festivals, dozens of theaters and cinemas, street events, farmer markets, unlimited amount of pubs, bars, caffés, restaurants, when you don't like one place, you walk 50m and you find some other places, when you don't like prices in one supermarket, you just go to other one, it's so simple. And thank to big market competition, you can shopping in Prague for much better prices than in small cities or villages. I live in 3000 people city now, so I really know something about that, you can't even find bread here when you go to shops after like 3 PM, that will never happen to you in Prague. 4. Super easy traveling over Europe, especially to Germany, Austria or Poland, you just jump on train and you are in Dresden in 2 hours or in Berlin or Vienna in like 5 hours, you can sit in dinning car, having a lunch and beer and then you jump out of train in Berlin, it's so amazing. 5. Historical center can be pretty expensive, but good thing is that you don't have to go there at all, most of Praguers live in some other parts of Prague or in older commblocks, which are all renovated now and surrounded by greenery, you have everything there, so you really don't need to travel to "Disney land" in center if you don't want to. 6. Even when some small criminality can happen, like pickpocketing, Prague is generally very safe city, you will barely see some violent criminalty, there are a lot of pickpockets and cheaters, but that's in all bigger cities, if you are careful, nothing bad will happen to you, nobody will shoot you for few coins or something. 7. Things are getting better pretty fast, that change in last 15 years is massive. When I was kid, Prague looked dirty, everything was grey, buildings were dark from smog...now it looks better than many western cities and something interesting is always happening, new tram lines are in construction, new metro line in under construction, many cool things are planned. There is definitely much more, but these things are probably the most important. I live in a small citiy for 10 years and I really want to return to Prague for any price. My main reason are people, people in Prague just don't ask you where you got money for a new phone or something like in small city, I totaly hate that small city culture where everyone envy you everything and everyone is talking about you when you are not typical male who cares only about football, cars and fish hunting. In Prague, you can walk naked at street and nobody cares, which I like and you will find some interesting people everywhere, while here in a small city, everyone is behind their walls and when they leave, they are hidden in their cars, while people in Prague are walking a lot, going to pubs, visit museums and many other places and events, I just miss culture, people here in a small city are terrible rednecks, they consider everything a wasting money, you will not force them to go somewhere with no reason just to check what's there, they just don't do that, that's why I want back to Prague.
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  10230. DAF is pronounced like a single word, whereas MAN is individual letters. Iveco is pronounced like aye-veco and Scania is scah-nee-uh I'm not sure of the usage of those dark green MAN's but they do originate from the military. They're still made by Rheinmetall called the MAN HX Mercedes are definitely known for being innovative in the European truck market, American folks might not like so electronical vehicles but they are very respected within Europe. At 9:13, the second axle does steer. Not all but most single-wheeled additional lead and tag axles (axles with not dual wheels) especially on european trucks do steer and are also often liftable At 10:25, that truck is a Hino Edit: As for good sounding trucks, and as someone else already mentioned, as far as V8's are concerned, definitely check out the Iveco Turbostar, Scania V8, Mercedes Actros V8 and the MAN TGX V8. Renault Magnum's have also had Mack E9 V8's installed in them which sound pretty good. There are also some good I6's, notably DAF and Volvo sound quite good. I've linked below some examples for all. All modern Euro trucks except Scania no longer have a V8 which is a shame but we always have the past to look at Turbostar: https://youtu.be/fwQ9q5XQpQA?t=16 - https://youtu.be/dAYUxRG9Ds4?list=PLtyeQY4OWTBGtxH0u6O7QttrGBAjElVTB&t=15 Scania: Plenty of vids, you can easily find many 😅 Actros: https://youtu.be/8kWIdQZX4es?t=338 - https://youtu.be/k7dB4ZeSOuA?t=25 MAN: https://youtu.be/CGVyYWt80JI?t=268 - https://youtu.be/CGVyYWt80JI?t=226 (same video) - MAN also had a cool V10 worth checking out: https://youtu.be/7LGh8PAG4BI?t=93 - https://youtu.be/C65jsiYNFbs?t=8 Renault: https://youtu.be/bZqtNaIfT7o?t=97 DAF: https://youtu.be/np_BFdxJ_dY?t=5 Volvo: https://youtu.be/Pj9iBuwhm5U?t=23
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  10258. Hey hey IWrocker, I just recently start watching your channel, because a friend told me it is good. So i started checking it out, so scrolled out some videos from way back and such. (I'm from the netherlands tho) But i've seen most videos comparing USA with different Europe countries, including the dutch and stuff. I'm shocked to see that most US education not evolve the rest of the world, as most of Europe are teached fro young age in multi-languages we have to learn (like here, we learn Dutch (ofc) English, French, German as basic) and the schools i went to, i had to learn italian, spanish, and even greek. This is only the language package. On history, or world knowledge, we have to learn about the europe factor ofcourse. Like you need the learn the US factors. But we get the US factors in classes aswell, even all the way to china, and the world figures, what they all did and stand for till the current day!! So i dont get it why are the US so involved with theirselfs? And know nothing or so less about the world! I travelled alot, been in the US alot aswell, but they seem to know nothing... about the rest of the world... well most of them... The first time i met a dear friend of mine (she is born and raised in the US) she was mind blown by the thing we do, and know... Like me being dutch and speak english (maybe not the " perfect" english) but she can clearly understand me.... So hell ya, i wanted to coment on you're older videos, like recently, but i thought you wouldn't read it, because the videos go way back. That is why i just posted it now and here... Very nice regards, and really love your channel! <3 Keep it up :)
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  10361. @IWrocker, many years ago, when i was a young teen, my Aunt took a friend, my friend's mother, my mother and I to Warrnambool Victoria for a holiday staying in a caravan park. While there we went to Tower Hill (an inactive volcano) for a picnic lunch. There were wooden tables and benches to sit and eat. We placed our sandwichs and drinks in the middle of the table and started eating. While we were eating about a dozen or so Emus sauntered up to our table and surrounded us. My friends Mum was sitting next to me. She had a sandwich in her hand, cut diagonally from corner to corner, and one of the Emus snatched it from her hand (much like the cassowary in the video) and swallowed it. We put all remaining foor back in the basket and ran back to my aunts car (a Holden Kingswood de-commissioned police car) as fast as we could. Those Emus chased after us. When we were in the car, the emus surrounded the car, pecking/knocking on the windows with their beaks. My aunt inched the car forward til the emus standing in front moved away, then she floored the accelerator and drove away, and those Emus ran after us. My aunt accelerated and sped off, dust from the gravel drive visible through the back window. It was hilarious!!! A little side note. Went to Melbourne Zoo as a child with my class for a school excursion, and a Cassowary poked me in the face with it's beak. I guess it thought I was playing the staring game, which i wasnt, it was in the middle of the enclosure and it ran across to me and BONK!!!! it got me in the tender spot between the upper lip and the nose. 🤣😂
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  10385. Hey, I am a German and I love the stuff you are doing! I just discovered you a few weeks ago and your videos are amazing. Imo you are the best reactor on yt because you really want to learn stuff (example 2CV / Tatra). I have 2 Video suggestions for you. 1. 2013 Sebastian Vettel Indian GP Pole Lap: Was an amazing circuit and the lap was so good he got pole by 0.7s 2. This is going to be a sentimental one. I would like you to check out the Bergprüfung Presberg. This was a yearly hillclimb event on my local road. Until 2012, every year, our small village of Presberg would become a paddock, the cars entered were displayed on the soccer field, and sunday they raced. The drivers slept in the houses of inhabitants. The village is on top of the hill, and cars would drive down into the valley and then climb the hill on a timed run. What car you drove didn`t matter, but you could see litterally everything. From Lufthansa‘s BMW Isetta to one of Walter Röhrl‘s Rally cars, everything was there. My neighbor even entered in an ancient lower formula car (F3000 or so) that he called the wasp. He later crashed it. I remember checking out the cars the evening prior to the last race and for the first time seeing a Ferrari Testarossa (There is a YT Video ofthe same car doing the climb). Eventhough the event was shut down after 2012 for safety reasons, the road still exists (It is the L3272). It has been used mostly by bikers. Driving up there is tremendous fun. I don‘t have a license yet as I am not old enough, but one time my dad drove my grandma‘s Ford Fiesta 1.25 with 82hp up there on its pure limit. It was truly amazing and as a passenger I got so much adrenaline. I love your vids and I would love you to check this beauty of a road out! Best, Jonas from Germany
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  10593. Gypsy Jokers is a motorcycle 'club' - read into that as you will.... I haven't driven semi's, but do have a truck licence for heavy rigid and have done a lot of truck driving around the country. I don't think long-haul is too bad. Adelaide to Melbourne isn't too bad, it's a (long) day trip, the worst is that rotten hill out of Adelaide 😆. The longest I've done is Ipswich (QLD) to Melbourne, that took just over 2 days. In some respects, the long-haul is better, as there's not as much traffic and you can relax a little (like she said, crank the music and just keep truckin'), the concentration not as intense, just an occasional glance in the mirror. Driving a truck in the city though, you need to keep your wits about you. I've seen some very stupid things from regular vehicles, and almost rammed a few idiots... They really need to teach truck appreciation for standard licences. Interesting the orig video was 2018.... The industry has cleaned up quite well in the recent past, and with all the laws and regulations regarding log books, and driving hours, it's pretty regulated. It takes a certain personality type to drive long-haul, you've kind of gotta be an introvert, or at least very comfortable being alone. Another aspect is the licencing, you've got to in Vic, in addition to all the theory and study: - Heavy Rigid; held a (full) licence for 2 years, recommended to complete a multi-day accredited course which is generally around $1000 (but you can go straight to assessment which is about $200 odd) - Heavy Combination (single trailer); held a Medium or Heavy Rigid for 12 months, complete a course around the $1300 mark, up to $2000 for non-synchro - Multi Combination (multiple trailers); hold a HC licence, complete another course around the $1300 mark. So to start driving the big rigs, you're talking 3-4 years of full licence, and around $4-5000 investment. So easy to see why the average age is so high.
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  10641. Two things i know are fact as ive studied mythical creatures. 1.... the hawksberry river monster has been seen by living people and many old timers who have since passed. These can be attributed to two things factual a), whales do enter the Hawksbury river and b)there is a little known large breed of eel that grows to a max of 50cm diameter and about 10meters long. these have been seen both in the river there and in a dam/lake in the hunter valley named lake glenbawn. 2....Its a fairy tale with a purpose for the fig tree monster, Fig trees are very dangerous and many kids have been killed playing under them or climbing them. They have a mechanism that suddenly drops large branches that are seeminly healthy branches and strong, but yet they shed these branches on occasion. Mothers and aboriginal folk lore instilled this myth into kids as they would often play in or around these the trees even after being warned to stay away....but with a monster story, more kids are likely to be scared away from the trees more than telling kids branches suddenly fall from the trees. and the branches are well and truely big enough to crush a car...they are truly dangerous trees. all the rest are based on aboriginal stories except for the drop bear which originated in the late 1800's from white settlers. Big cats are real, and ferral cats can more than double in size after only a couple of dozen generation in the wild. Its simple genetics, the larger ferral cats get breeding rights and thus naturally breed larger cats who then continue this cycle. there are photos of cats in the early 50's from hunters who have shot and killed them claiming they weigh two to three times standard house cat. this isnt really a myth, its documented and factual. Min min lights (not mentioned in the vid) are fascinating as there are huge amount of sightings each year and while investigating them in the outback, i was shocked as after 2 weeks of local sightings, I saw something unexplainable. lights did appear in the desert not far from our camp, and in the morning we drove over to where we saw the lights, no footprints, no tire tracks, nothing. but the lights did appear close to our camp as we saw the bushes illuminate from the lights and thus a distance could be attained. but no tracks were near. baffleing!
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  10778. I was 16 in 1966 when dad bought a Chrysler Valiant so naturally I was a fan of the Valiants. Our Valiant had the 225 Slant 6 but I think some of the Valiants in the race were the 318 V8 model. This was my favourite period for Bathurst. There were several classes, there was no chicane on conrod straight, tyres were cross ply, brakes were not disks, you could actually buy the cars that were competing and drive them on the road etc etc One of the teams (from Wheels Magazine I think) borrowed a Valiant from Chrysler, drove it to Bathurst from Sydney, removed the registration plates and went racing. The vehicle had a V8 and an automatic gearbox - the mighty Torqueflyte. They would come down Conrod Straight with the foot flat to the floor then at the breaking marker, pull the transmission into 2nd gear - the tacho would go off the end and they would brake like mad. They did this for the full 500 miles of the race. At the end, they refitted the number plates and drove back to Chrysler in Sydney where they left the car and a thank-you note. I decided to test dad's Valiant's brakes. I took it up to 60 mph on a nice straight quiet road and hit the brakes. It slowed to about 40mph and the brakes then disappeared and we just ploughed on. The following day I took our Renault 10 which had four wheel non powered disks and radial tyres. I did the same test from 60mph. The Renault simply stopped. Quickly. I was very careful in the Valiant from then on. I also got dad to put Michelin radials on the Valiant. He loved them - they seemed to last forever. Those were the days.
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  10852. Every single state in Australia has something truly awe inspiring. I’m from Queensland, so I’m biased. But the most beautiful sight I’ve ever seen was driving between Quilpie and Eromanga in far south west Queensland, in the desert. The soil there is this incredible rich red, that has to be seen to be believed, and the land is flatter than a pancake. Also, Eromanga has a fantastic dinosaur museum, as it was on the shore of what was a massive inland sea, that attracted dinosaurs from all over. They have the highest concentration of dinosaur bones in the world. But I was driving through one day, and there’d been a good soaking rain a few days before, and the flowers came out. Just this magnificent blanket of desert wildflowers, all colours of the rainbow, as far as the eye could see on this flat, deep red land. I don’t think I’ll ever see anything as beautiful again. And I’ve been to plenty of places. Far North Queensland is gorgeous, with this incredible lush rainforest (you have to check out The Daintree), there’s the Reef of course, the views off the Great Dividing Range are spectacular. And of course, the beaches along the entire coast are some of the best in the world- Whitehaven Beach, which you’ve seen a couple of pics of, has won best beach in the world a few times. But even with all that, and the amazing things I’ve seen in the other states (you need to check out Kakadu as well), nothing beats the desert wildflowers. I don’t think anything ever will.
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  10855. Re: the ice cream machine, Cracked already covered this a few years ago. Usually it's not that it's broken as such, it's just out of commission because they're running the cleaning function. As you can imagine, a huge machine that deals exclusively in dairy products and sugar is a bacterial nightmare, so it needs cleaning fairly often. In the process of trying to Google up that old Cracked article, though, I found someone's made an app that tracks which stores are currently "broken", so things are looking up. But yes, it's a meme here as well. The McDonalds where I used to live in Tumut was especially notorious, but that's also because that particular store was an absolute shitshow. Worst eatery in town by a mile. A group of vague 14-year-olds being loosely corralled by an exhausted 17-year-old shift manager and absolutely no adult supervision. The stores in these regional towns are so small that Tumut, Gundagai and Yass were all managed by a single overworked guy in his mid-20s, who was a regular customer of mine when I worked at the servo in Gundagai. Fun anecdote: He once came in even tireder than usual, and told me he'd had a long day dealing with a gas leak at the Yass store. I burst out laughing straight away, and when he asked why, I reminded him of that old meme with the Maccas "M" logo next to the town name "Yass" so it read "MYass: open 24 hours". When he realised it was a case of "MYAss: closed due to gas leak", he saw the funny side too. Anyway, I guess the main thing to remember is: Don't feel bad, America. We're fatter than you now.
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  11012. I've recently passed my driving test and gotten my P plates so I can explain how the system works. There are variations between states on how many hours you've gotta rack up and how long each stage takes etc, but generally the stages are consistent. When you turn 16 you can get your L plates after doing a driving rules/theory test, then you have to do lessons with someone who's had their full license for at least 4 years and has to be sober etc. (most people do lessons mostly with their parents, there are also professional instructors) and log a certain amount of hours before you can progress to the practical test. In WA you have to log 50 hours of learning, other states have more, some maybe less, and also have to pass an online simulated hazard perception test. Then I think you have to be at least 17 to go for your Practical Driving Assessment with a professional assessor, and it's super hard to pass on the first go. Once you pass, you get your provisional license (Ps), and you can drive by yourself for the first time. Red P plates are first so you're a new new driver, and we have to have 0.00 BAC level and can't drive between midnight and 5am, and we have less demerit points on our license so it's easier to lose your license. After 6 months you transition to green Ps, which is still 0.00 BAC and low demerit points but no curfew. That's 18 months, then after being on Ps for a total of 2 years you get rid of the plates and you're just a normal driver, allowed up to 0.05 BAC and 12 demerit points I got my Ls at the same time as everyone but then life and study got in the way and I procrastinated lessons and then straight after high school moved away from my hometown to go to uni, so I never had the family car around, and also had a couple traumatising lessons with a friend which made me avoid driving for years and years. So finally at 24 I'd saved up enough money to do professional lessons and get my license, and I've spent probably close to $3500 this year getting my full 50 hours, and finally got my Ps at age 25!
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  11037. Cup drivers Bonnett and Allison were well-known, as were Bathurst heroes like Johnson and Grice. But most of the drivers in the field that day came from the Winston West series, and so far I haven't been able to Google up a good answer for what the Winston West series actually was. Maybe you can fill us in? Anyway, the highest-placed Aussie in that race wasn't one of the superstars, but did in fact go on to become our first Australian NASCAR champion: Robin Best of Tasmania. His car was the ex-Junior Johnson Monte Carlo that had been built especially for Darrell Waltrip to race in the inaugural All-Star race at Charlotte, aka "Mort". Because Mort was built on the very edge of legality NASCAR management had quietly warned the team not to try racing it Stateside again. So when Best came visiting Riverside shopping for a car for Bob Jane's new Thunderdome, Mort was available. Apparently, when DW saw Mort being loaded onto a trailer he threw a fit because he’d wanted to buy it himself, but the deal was done: DW's racing #11 became Best's #11. The Budweiser livery was replaced by an all-over white with Hoare Bros Earth Moving signage, and Best went on to have a solid debut season that netted him the inugural Australian NASCAR title (having a car that had been built especially for the track the Thunderdome had been based on couldn’t have hurt his pace much). As a result, Mort - one of the most historically significant cars in NASCAR history - is still in a museum in Tasmania to this day.
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  11173. I can tell you about some of the old houses in Australia, many of which are still standing and relatively normal, especially in outback and regional areas. I grew up in what is now a 120+ year old cottage that was originally built to be an Anglican Rectory (clergy house), and weirdly I've gone full circle in life after living elsewhere for many years and now own my own 90 year old cottage of exactly the same design but for one extremely rare feature: my house has a cellar, which is extremely rare. The only reason why it has a cellar is because it was originally built to be a little clergy house (denomination unknown) and the church wine was or would have been kept in the cellar. The only other houses I've personally known of to have cellars or basements in Australia were either originally a pub that was converted into a house, belonged to a very wealthy person with an extensive wine collection or some such thing, or were built on a very steep hill that allowed for a basement-like room to be built under the raised area of the house. My house cellar was never water-proofed or properly lined, it's simply a large hole dug into the ground under one of the rooms, with old Cornish style stone and lime-mortar walls, a dirt floor, and accessed via a trap door in the floor and a free-standing ladder leaning on the cellar wall. How it doesn't fill up with water every time it rains is a bit of a mystery, fortunately I'm in a desert so it doesn't rain too often and I guess that helps. My point is, cellars and basements are rare in Australia, and the older they are, the more likely they are to resemble an old farmhouse root cellar rather than an actual basement if they've actually been dug into the ground below the house. A typical thing about a lot of old cottages like mine - and I live in a town full of them - is that internal doors are often missing. The original doors are significantly smaller than a modern standard door, so replacing them is expensive because you have to either get a custom-made door, get a builder in to make your doorway larger to fit a new door, or you have to find and purchase an antique door that happens to be the right size. So, a lot of people don't bother replacing the internal doors on their old cottage homes and just hang a blanket or curtain or the like across the doorway if one of their old original doors ends up so old it starts to fall apart and break (which is common for a century old door unless it was really well made and looked after). Old homes like mine originally didn't have a bathroom attached to the house. Instead there'd be a detached or external room (had to go outside to get into the room) that would function as a laundry and bathroom, with a separate toilet further down the yard in its own little room, aka the "outback dunny", so called because it was a dunny that was out the back. Over time most such homes were renovated - usually by extending the house, or making the bathroom/laundry accessible from inside the house, and thus the bathroom moved inside the house, often with the toilet going inside as well, but not in the same room. It's very common in Australian homes for the toilet to have its own room even in much more modern homes, though it's becoming common practise to put toilets in the bathroom to save on building costs so it's becoming more "fashionable" now to have the toilet in the bathroom. Then the external/detached laundry/bathroom when it wasn't absorbed or knocked down when putting the bathroom inside the house, usually resulted in being used as just a laundry. Thus a lot of older houses have a large laundry room detached from but close to the house in the back yard rather than inside. Ensuite bathrooms aren't really much of a thing in Australia, with the exception of some very modern homes when people are willing to pay more for them to be built that way. If you come across a house in Australia where the bedrooms, or even just the master bedroom, has an ensuite bathroom, you're living in luxury. Some old cottages once had a veranda not just at the front and back but also down the side of the house (which side was usually determined by position of the house in relation to the sun), which was common at one point to enclose and turn into what we call a "sleepout" - basically a spare bedroom, either used as a guestroom or the eldest child's bedroom when a house with more kids than bedrooms no longer wanted to share a room when they reached their teenage years. Another major difference with older cottage homes is the kitchen. Unless renovated to change the layout of the house, the kitchen and dining room are one and the same, thus the kitchens are large, no island benches or anything like that, just a large space in the middle of the room for the dining table and chairs, with the kitchen sink, stove, cupboards, etc usually being relatively narrow compared with modern kitchens, lining all the walls. Lastly, colourbond steel is very commonly used for roofing on Australian houses. In fact older homes out in the hot desert area often have their external walls lined with colourbond steel, because although it heats up quickly during the day, it also cools down very fast in the evening, and can be cooled down in moments by simply spraying it with a garden hose. Unlike brick and stone which takes longer to heat up but once it's hot can take days to cool down and can turn a house into a perpetual oven after a couple of hot days, the steel-lined houses in the desert are not only cheaper to build, but easier to tolerate being inside of on a hot summer night than a brick or stone house. Just make sure you have a way to not only keep cool during the day but also stay warm in winter because a fully steel-lined house isn't going to keep you warm once the temperature gets cold outside. Ceilings are high, hallways are wide, same heat related reasons as with the homes you showed in the hotter areas of the USA.
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  11325. So glad you did this, thanks heaps! Most YouTubers loose my interest when they ask you to like, comment and subscribe, but then ignore you when you do as they've asked. I mentioned this Greg Murphy Lap of the Gods a couple of videos ago and everyone wanted to see the NASCAR legend ride along and rightfully so, it's a great video. However, you managed to please all by doing both! Top job! My comments for this video are firstly, do you remember when Ambrose almost had a fight on the side of the track after his big crash (you say wreck)? That was with this New Zealand born Bathurst legend Greg Murphy, it was Ambrose versus Murphy. Murphy's lap of 2:06.8594 was groundbreaking and sorry (Google needed) I don't know exactly but I am sure it held for over ten years. Lap times are around 5+ seconds faster these days. I did put Murphy on pole position for the race which he won the next day (his 3rd Bathurst 1000 win). Greg also won the next year (his 4 and last win at Bathurst) You seemed interested in the car, I can tell you that not many know some of these details. The car has a chassis number, HRT 043 The car despite displaying number 51 was affectionately known as "Dancer 43" and already had great history as it was originally a Holden Racing Team (HRT) Commodore with Craig Lowndes as the pilot. It was an old series Commodore VT that was updated to become a VX Commodore in 2003 when it was over 3 to 5 years old. So Murphy did the Lap of the Gods (missed a gear remember) in an old car that was second hand while most had new cars. Then going on to win again not only the next day, but again the next year. HRT 043 became KRT 043 (KMart Racing Team) to some but I believe the chassis number was unchanged. Despite what everyone thinks that car was not the winning car displaying the same paint work the next day, for some reason they used its sister car HRT 044 for Greg Murphy and co-driver Rick Kelly to go on and win the race in. I can't find out much more without spending time Googling other than HRT 043 went back to Holden Racing Team as a spare car and was up for sale in 2006 but the sale fell through. It was reported to be restored to the "51 KMart" livery in 2018. Also restored to the same "51 KMart" livery was the 2003 & 2004 Bathurst winning car HRT 044 which was up for sale in 2019 for an undisclosed amount. Cars like these are extremely rare and priceless and often sold for over a million dollars. Despite this sometimes they're in retro races and driven as hard as ever. It's not impossible for retro or classic races to have a $15M dollar value for just the top 10 entrants. Add about 30% for USD. I enjoyed this and despite being a ford fan, I can still get goosebumps watching Murph (as we call him) in his Holden Commodore doing what I still call the best lap ever. Thanks for reading, comment if you did.
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  11482. I think the NZ flag being include was a deliberate joke lol. The Aboriginal Flag is top tier for me 🖤💛❤️. The other Indigenous flag at the end was the Torres Strait Islander flag. They are the Islands off the top end of Queensland. Many Torres Strait Islander People live and work in Australia, particularly far north Queensland. Bit of info about that flag ~ `The green panels at the top and bottom of the flag represent the land and the central blue panel represents the sea. The black lines dividing the panels represent the Torres Strait Islander people. The centre of the flag shows a white dhari (dancer’s headdress) which represents Torres Strait Islander culture. Underneath the dhari is a white five-pointed star. The star is an important symbol for navigating the sea. The points of the star represent the five island groups in the Torres Strait and the white symbolises peace.` What I love about the Indigenous flags aside from colours, is they represent the earth and sea, showing that connection first nations people have to the land and nature. They belong to the land. Where as the other flags tend to be branded with union jacks, like a stamp of ownership. Bit of information you may not know, all 3 flags (official Australian, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) fly at parliament House. And the Prime minister and his government have them displayed behind them whenever they address the press and public. I agree the state flags are kinda boring and repetitive in design. I like the Norfolk Island flag and Cocos and Keeling islands too. Love the green and gold colours.
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  11700.  @IWrocker  👍we Aussies love you guys and happy to call you "mate"... We appreciate your videos and your positive reacts...(and the fact that you don't criticize Vegemite or act like you're eating poison when you've tried it, is a big ✔️ from me hahaha) We would be proud to have you visit, one day... And there would be Aussies in every state that would be happy to meet and show you around, without any expectation of wanting something in return. That's what we're like, as you have probably guessed. Without being wierd, we feel like we know you all. You will have the time of your lives here, one day. And I do not doubt that you will have lots of laughs...as we embrace you. All we ever want from people is for them to be their genuine selves. Nothing more. Nothing less. We do have a finely tuned BS radar, so no need to pretend to be someone you're not. That's the key rule here. So you will be fine lol, because we can already see, you ARE genuine people. The flight may appear long but once you have a couple of meals, a sleep and watch a few movies you're here. Or is that because being so far away, we Aussies are used to the long haul??? Anyway, I couldn't help myself, I sent Bundaberg beer this link as well, to thank them, on our behalf....and yes, I nearly fell over when I saw the box from them! That's true "Aussie values" right there...I'm not sure if this makes sense, but It doesn't matter how big or small you are, you are accessible to all. And they proved it by watching the link. So personally, I will support this brand even more so, in future. Take care 😃
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  12089. Hi Ian, love the vids mate. Breaking down the "pelican" in the Woolies truck... Firstly, what he did is not technically against our road rules... But, it is not ideal and from memory, it does violate safe operation rules as the trailer moved back without the operator being able to guarantee safety to anything behind it. It wasn't a controlled zone and there was no traffic control, ergo, the trailer should NEVER move backward for any reason. It would be a 48ft trailer. In Australia, we have strict axle weight limits, hence the tri-axle group under the trailer. In the US, trucks can run 53ft trailers with a GCM (Gross Combination Mass) of more than 48t. In Australia, a typical semi with a tri-axle 45ft trailer has a GCM of 42.5t. We can slightly increase this with "Mass Management" which is a regulated system the owner must undertake and operate that will ensure regular servicing, loading records, conformance reports, quarterly and annual audits etc... The standard axle load limits are; Tri Axle group (dual wheel - 12 wheels in the group) - 20.00t Drive Axle group (dual wheel - 8 wheels in the group) - 16.50t Steer Axle (single wheels - 2 wheels on the axle) - 6.00t We also have length limits for the following: Length overall - From the absolute front of the vehicle (this includes a bullbar) to the absolute rear of the trailer cannot exceed 19m (62.3ft) This is why cab-over trucks are so popular in Australia. The truck is shorter so the trailer can be longer. A typical "big bonnet" Kenworth in Australia (T909 with a 55" sleeper) will generally be limited to a 43-45ft trailer, depending on whether or not it has a bullbar fitted to the truck. There is also an "S Dimension" limit which states the center of a trailer's axle group (so the middle axle on a tri-axle trailer, or between the axles of a twin axle trailer.) cannot be more than 9.5m (31ft). This is why we Australian truckies get jealous of our brothers in the US. You guys have massive, luxurious 80+ inch sleepers with no penalty to trailer/vehicle overall length... In Australia, the bigger your sleeper, the shorter your trailer, ergo, the less you can earn. I say all this as many of my friends in the US see an Australian truck with a tri-axle trailer and assume it must be bigger than most semi trucks in the US, as the most common combination there is a twin axle group on the trailer. Tri-axle trailers in Australia are generally shorter than your typical US semi. Here is a link to the NHVR (National Heavy Vehicle Regulator) that breaks down mass and length limits in Australia. https://www.nhvr.gov.au/road-access/mass-dimension-and-loading/general-mass-and-dimension-limits#:~:text=for%20a%20combination%20other%20than,a%20car%20carrier%20%E2%80%9425%20metres
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  12971. @iwrocker This was an older vehicle. The vehicle can be assigned to the Bavarian state police on the basis of the national emblem, the police star. The green and white patrol cars built until 2000 have been replaced by silver and green vehicles since 2000 and now by blue and silver vehicles in all federal states. The current vehicle livery of the 17 police forces is traffic blue (RAL 5017) in combination with silver or white. In Bavaria and Saarland, the green/silver paintwork was retained until mid-September 2016 for traditional reasons. Since 2013, the vehicles of some state police forces have also had neon yellow contrasting decals, particularly the freeway police. The crew of a patrol car usually consists of two officers, sometimes even three. There are no partitions for prisoners, only protective grilles for loads in the trunk (load securing). In extreme cases, special vehicles have to be requested to transport prisoners if they are unable to behave. As a rule, people are handcuffed and secured to their seats with the normal seat belt. The vehicle carries equipment for a wide variety of scenarios. For use in traffic accidents, this includes fire extinguishers, emergency hammers, first aid materials, warning lights, traffic cones, angle trowels, cameras, measuring tapes and grease crayons. In addition to a submachine gun, various other command and operational equipment is also on board for use in ad hoc situations with a threat situation, e.g. extended body protection equipment and an emergency shield, depending on the federal state. Some newer highway police patrol cars also have a video camera in the windshield, sometimes also in the rear window. Video cameras have long been standard in special civilian measuring vehicles, particularly with regard to recording traffic violations.
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  13305. "Nał" pronounces as english "Now", the whole name comes from the city, but in the recent marketing approach they detach "Nał" using that english word play to appeal to younger people I guess. It is actually the water I drink a lot and my parents slam me for that, because "it tastes like water" :P The same way my french family slammed me for liking Evian :P The most popular water, which also generally started a bottled water resurgence in Poland is called Muszynianka, it has a slightly salty taste which I hate :P In the communism we had Buskowianka in 0.33L glass bottles which was a bit bitter and tasted of blood (high iron content), but because it was cheap it was the bane of polish kids as we could often only afford it during a hot summer days (the "Oranżada" soda wasn't expensive, but kids weren't given money). It was legit hard to finish a 0.33L bottle with just 3 kids, and the store lady would often use the left overs to water her flowers (we would have to pay deposit for the glass bottle if we wanted to take it with us). Generally speaking the real spring mineral water is often really nasty tasting due all the elements content (and some look the part, can be dark brown even), so the things sold in shops rarely have anything to do with springs people would travel to for health reasons - traveling to spa towns to drink specific spring waters for health reasons was very big in Poland. Cisowianka is the brand I go for when Nałęczowianka is not available, I don't do sparkling, but if I somehow end with sparkling it is Cisowianka for some reason :P I will get a glass bottle one you have to check what is all the fizz about ;) It seems like a high fizz variant which I haven't tried. Perlage I believe is their brand which they used to try and tackle a more premium water market, the one where you would find french Perrier (you want to try this one as it is possibly the most known sparkling water in Europe, and a bit posh even). Which is probably why they went with a french name, glass bottles, and some stars based advertising, including an ad with Monica Bellucci at the time James Bond "Spectre" (where she starred) premiered.
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  13427. DR2.0 is a really cool yet hard game. That is pretty nice that you chose to dive into simracing. I haven't tried out EA WRC yet, but feedbacks are that this game is a lil bit more "arcadish". However it is pretty similar as it was supposed to be DR3.0 w/o the official licence (Codemasters made both). Multiplayer should be more populated but there's still a huge community of DR2.0 lovers. Multiplayer lives with the community may be an idea as well (w/e the game). $10 for DR2.0 might be amongst the best deals ever. Maybe just try to stick to asphalt stages first to get used to the car before diving in slidish conditions. Germany rally is such a banger in this game <3. About the hardware, you have so many options it just depends on which budget you're willing to allow. - Entry level ($300) : T300 RS (Thrustmaster) - Mid level ($600) : > those Fanatec CSL DD bundles (Fanatec is quite expensive but is a complete ecosystem in itself and has many different swapable wheels available). > CSL DD base + Fanatec wheel + TLCM pedals (Thrustmaster) > Moza R5 + Moza Wheel + TLCM Pedals - Mid+ ($1000-1200) > Asetek La Prima bundle > Moza R12 + Moza Wheel + TLCM Pedals (or Clubsport V3 Pedals (Fanatec)) > Fanatec CSL Clubsport base + Fanatec Wheel + Pedals (same choice as previous) > T818 base (Thrustmaster) + wheel + TLCM Pedals If you're willing to spend more, Simagic / Simucube / Heusinkveld are also well-recognized brands to look at ! You can find many good second hand setups on marketplaces and get started instantly. Sim racers tend to take care of their stuff and those brands are high quality. Almost all these options (except T300RS) are direct drive wheels (most recent and most accurate feeling-wise technology) and provide much more torque than previous wheels. You might also look at a wheel stand or a foldable cockpit to set it safely. Last thing, if you have any opportunity to try a VR headset with DR2.0 you're gonna have a mind blowing experience. Hope that'll help Cheers from France
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  13450. Additional mentions to what you found in that article : Bulgaria doesn't allow custom plates but you'll still see custom registrations on expensive cars, like the mafia bosses' Maybachs. France doesn't allow custom plates neither, but you register the car online and registration numbers are sequentials (so you see the number available and know what's available next), some owners wait for months and years to register with a cool number (like an AC Cobra 289 with AC-289-**, true story) Luxemburg had different formats that you can still get (on a waitlist) or inherit. They are usually formed of just 5 or 4 numbers and convey you're a true Luxemburger. Romania allows for custom plates but they have to keep the County code and follow the standard format (digits and letters). Many countries have marks for authenticity (3D stickers like in poland or pressed in metal like in Belgium), some countries have technical inspection stickers on plates (like Germany or Romania) and some have different looks depending of the region (like Slovenia I believe, as well as Austria, where the coat of arms on the plate is that of the Lander). The right blue band on some of the registrations bears additional information and fun fact is that in France it's up to the owner what he wants to display there. France switched more than 10 years ago from a different format where Counties had a 2 or 3 digits code to identify where the car is registered and when the new system was announced it became national instead of local, loosing the County identifier. People were outraged and they hastely added that additional blue strip with the old identifier as well as the logo of the Region where the county is located. Since then, it's up to the owner to chose what County he wants to display. But the drama started again when regions where reshaped and some counties were integrated in regions they didn't want to be associated with. The irony now is that owners can chose what to display, but the ones changing the region logo to the former region or using different symbols can be fined.
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  13667. European regulations: The daily drive time allowed can be maximum 9 hours. You may extend it to 10 hours twice per calender week. The maximum drive time per week is 56 hourus. For two consecutive weeks the drive time may not be longer than 90 hours. After a driving session for 4 hours and 30 minutes you must take a break for at least 45 minutes, or a split break for 15 and 30 minutes. When you start driving again after a legal break a new driving session is started. A normal day rest should be at least 11 consecutive hours. it must occur within the same 24 hours period as the working shift started. You may divide the daily rest into two periods if the first resting period is atleast 3 hours and can be taken anytime during the shift. The second resting period should be at least 9 hours and must be taken directly after the working shift is completed. The sum of a split resting session must be atleast 12 hours. You may also choost to recude your daily rest from 11 to 9 hours at most 3 times within a two week resting session. The weekly resting session must be atleast 45 consecutive hours, while a reduces one can not be below 24 consecutive hours. For two consective weeks you must have two normal or one normal and one reduced weekly resting session. A reduced weekly resting session must be compensated by taking longer daily rests for atleast 9 hours. The compensation must be done before the end of the 3rd week after the week the reduced weekly rest was taken. During a international transport of goods you may take two reduced weekly rests consecutive weeks if the two weekly rests are started in different contries. But, during a 4 week period you must have atleast two consecutive weeks of normal weekly rest. That means you need to have two weeks of normal rest before and after the two weeks of reduced rest. To compensate for doing two weeks in a row with reduced weekly rest you must compensate the rest during the same daily resting period immediatly ahead of your normal weekly rest. You may not do your normal or other weekly rest, including compensation, more than 45 hours with in your cab. Such rest must be taken in a suitable establishment with available gender specific quarters such as bathrooms and shower units. Any cost for this resting period must be payed for in full by the drivers employer or company. Every transport company must organise their work so that all drivers have the ability to return to the companys place of buisness or ther own home every 4 weeks, with the purpose of having a weekly resting period, normal or compensated. If the driver have used two consecutive reduced weekly resting periods tthe driver must be invited to return to his or her home or the companys place of buisness for their next weekly rest.
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  13670. A few stories about big cats: 1. I have read a book called "Australian Big Cats". It has a lot of fascinating information, namely details of multiple circus trains having accidents and loosing big cats, Pumas, Panthers etc into the wild never to be seen again. 2. I remember a story of a bloke in a country town called Woodside in South Gippsland (Vic) whos cattle had very large scratches on their backs like a Lion or similar tried to get them. This bloke was loosing dozens of cattle / calves a year. It was on one of our current affairs shows years ago. 3. My father in law was a born & raised country bloke and was from Hamilton in the Western part of Victoria. He used to say that back in WW2 (when he was a kid) there were American soldiers based there and they had multiple mascots of Puma, Panthers etc. They used to walk them about the town on leads. Not sure how many they had but I understand there were a fair few. At the end of the war they were told to take they out bush and shoot them. Apparently they never shot them and let them go out at Dunkeld, about 20 mins from Hamilton. I asked if he thought they were there and he said bloody oath. I never asked how he knew but I got the impression he'd seen them. 4. A mate's dad was stalked by one as he rode home from afternoon shift on his motorbike very late one night in the Strzelecki Ranges. It was running along side him at the top of a cutting. Funny enough this was North of Woodside (No#2). 5. When I was a kid I was playing in the bush with a couple of mates. I think we were building a cubby house. I reckon I was between 10 and 12, so this would be 1982-84. We had finished for the night (it was after school) so we decided to leave. We got about 30-40 metres away and I had forgotten my jumper. I ran back to get it while the others kept on walking. As I got to my jumper I heard a very deep, very loud growl. It wasn't a roar, but a growl. It was on the other side of a thick bush, and I couldn't see anything. Mate I didn't hang around long anyway as it scared the absolute shit out of me. I took of running as fast as I could. This was in Mt.Martha, on the Mornington Peninsula about an hour south of Melbourne. There was a rumor at the time that something was killing sheep in Red Hill, which is only 10-15 mins drive away. It reminded me of a Lions growl on T.V. 6. There was a sighting back in the 1980's or 90's of a Lion sitting on the side of a highway I think it was in NSW somewhere eating a sheep in the middle of the day. The Police shot it. Nobody knew where it'd come from. Might have even been in the early 2000's. This encounter might have been in the book I read (No#1). Yowies: Likely. The rest: Bollocks.
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  13792. At last you return to the path of righteousness... ;) The XC Falcon Cobra was built because Ford Australia had a new model in the pipeline and needed to clear shelves. Two-door Hardtop sales had never been very strong and by 1978 were down to as little as 120 units a year - bad news when there were still 400 shells in the inventory. One idea was to paint them black, add a Playboy bunny and market them as Playboy specials, but that was rightly shot down as being inappropriate for a family car manufacturer. So Edsel Ford II put his hand up. He was in Australia to help round out his education, filling the role of assistant marketing director, and he had an idea: Cobra stripes. That was it, just give 'em Cobra stripes and a new badge. It was an established Ford brand, and it would only cost as much as an extra run through the paint shop, so Ford went for it and created a legend. The effect was done by painting the whole car Bold Blue, then taping out the stripes and spraying the Sno White over the top (with Olympic Blue edging to hide the seams) - one way to spot fakes is to run a finger over the edges, or just check the stone chips. Mechanically, though, there was nothing on a Cobra you couldn't get on an ordinary optioned-up Falcon - same 302 or 351ci Cleveland V8 (200 of each), same 3-speed auto or 4-speed manual gearbox, same four-wheel disc brakes (ask me about that, the way those were introduced was a laugh in itself...!), and although the Globe alloys, dual exhausts and reversed bonnet scoop were all very tough-looking, you could get those on pretty much any Falcon if you ticked the right option boxes. So it was a bit of a con, but it did the job. Australians went absolutely nuts for them, all 400 sold out before they even hit the dealers, and for a while anything with a Ford badge had to have imitation Cobra stripes as well. After all, there were no more Hardtop shells coming down the line, so they really were "limited edition". And, it was the brainchild of the great-grandson of Henry Ford himself. All that comes with one proviso though - if the car above is original. The fakes are many because, as I said, it's really just a paint job. The originals were all 302's or 351's, but there may be some mad lad out there who's taken an old Falcon Hardtop and given it a 7.0-litre Cobra Jet engine. I don't know of any, but I hope one's out there. On that topic, a '69 Torino Talladega is one of my bucket list cars. Edit: "What's that?" That is a VB Commodore, with Group C fender flares and whatnot.
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  13797. Great reaction and original video. I think she did a pretty good job all round. When we lived in the States my wife worked as a waitress and there were some days she made next to nothing and some days she made great money. However, I think that one of the better things about this system is that when you get your bill that is all you are paying. No calculating the tip, no added tax - you just pay the bill. You can also be confident that the servers are making good money and the owner of the restaurant isn't getting rich off the neglect of employees. On the ozone hole, it is something of an urban myth. The truth is that the ozone layer is thinner over the whole of Australia then it is in other parts of the world but it is not exclusively Australia. There is a greater thinning seasonally over the Arctic and Antarctic. In the 1970's it was discovered that certain substances like hydrofluorocarbons were damaging the ozone layer over the whole earth and it was severer in some parts, mid-latitudes, then others. To get the message across, or perhaps simply as a result of the way things develop, this idea of an ozone hole started forming. From the mid '90's the use of ozone depleting chemicals has been highly regulated or banned. The amount in the atmosphere is declining and ozone levels have been predicted to be restored to pre 80's level by 2050 in mid-latitudes and 2065 over the polar regions - so great job humans for responding to at least one crisis effectively. Having said that skin cancer rates are high in Australia. It is a rare combination of predominately fair skinned people living relatively close to the equator - but I imagine Florida has exactly the same issues. Skin cancer rates are higher in the northern regions of Australia then the southern so calling Sydney the skin cancer capital is probably a bit off but then who wants that title anyway. But having said all of that I go back to my original comment I think she did a really good job at identifying the differences - light switches are an interestingly difficult difference to get use to. Lived in Texas for 7 years and never got fully use to it, but enough so I had a problem when we moved back to Australia.
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  13908. I lived in Wellington (where she is) for 30 years before I went to live in Moscow in 2015. I came back to NZ in March 2020 because of you know what. She's right there are few to no bugs in Wellington, but once you get north of about Tokoroa you have bugs in summer. And yeah, 25 C / 77 F is about the hottest you get in Wellington city in summer, but if you drive 45 minutes to the Kapiti coast or across the mountains to Wairarapa then you can enjoy 30-35 C (86 - 95 F) in the afternoon but then return home to Wellington for cool sleeping. Wellington in winter averages about 10 C / 50 F in winter in the day time. Nights are about 5 C / 9 F lower any time of year, and a bad weather day is 5 C cooler than average and a hot day is 5 C hotter than average. Now I'm living fairly far north, about 100 miles north of Auckland. Average in winter is 15 C, a good day can be near 20, and a bad day 10. And again, nights 5 C cooler in winter, 10 C in summer.The 3 bedroom house I've been renting since January has only a wood fire in the living area for heating, and no cooling. Most of the summer it works well to open all the windows (with fly screens at night) and close everything tight during the day. There were about 10 days in February with 30 C or so when this wasn't enough and I went out and bought a 4 kW portable air conditioner (like a big dehumidifier but with one hose sending hot air out a window) which was pretty much enough to keep things ~23 C inside. In the winter I've mostly used the portable air conditioner for the heating. It's been enough to keep the house 22 C if it's at least 10 C outside. I've only started the wood stove about 15 times the whole winter (mostly just evenings, but a couple of days). The fire is a bit cheaper to run (and more powerful) but it's a PITA that it's out in the morning, takes an hour to put out real heat, and needs wood added every hour or so (which has to be obtained, dried, cut, carried...) Electricity is very expensive here in the far north, at about 40c/kWh. That's 22c US at the moment, but for five years until a couple of months ago it would have been 26-28c US. My electric bills have been Feb $206, Mar $149, Apr $182, May $$294, Jun $331, Jul $297, Aug $290, Sep $271. October looks like being $200, but it's dropping every day. Nov&Dec will probably be $150. Btw, this house I'm renting has half a dozen banana trees in the garden, with very nice bananas. Also fig, guava, persimmon, apple, mandarin, lemon.
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  14112. There was another time that the federal government backflipped on a deal with the NT. It used to be that a very large section of the Stuart Hwy through the NT had no speed restriction, similar to the Autobahn in Germany. Because of this in 1994 a legal "cannonball run" was held between Darwin and Alice Springs and back, around 4,000km. During the race a Japanese driver lost control of his Ferrari F40 while entering a checkpoint at high speed. The crash tragically killed 2 competitors and 2 officials. The incident received a lot of bad media coverage internationally and as a result the federal government put pressure on the NT govt to introduce speed restrictions on its roads. The NT rejected the request because the unlimited roads attracted car/bike enthusiasts who wanted to test their machines and provided a lot of much needed tourist dollars. To force the deal the federal government said they would pay 100% of the maintenance costs of all main highways in the NT. The NT finally agreed and introduced speed restrictions to it's roads. Over the next 10 years the federal government continually reneged on the agreement. In the end the NT started removing the restrictions on a trial basis. If there was no significant increase in accidents they would remove more restrictions. I'm not sure of the current situation but when I last went through the Stuart Hwy between Alice Springs and Tennant Creek was unrestricted and many other limits had been raised to 140kph. The rev heads had also returned. NT 1 Feds 0
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  14127. This list is really weird when it comes to German beers. The breweries are world famous and export a lot, but: 1. Only wheat beers / wheat beers are listed. In Germany, however, more lager and above all Pilsener is drunk (Pilsener especially outside of Bavaria). The beers are all from Munich, but at the Oktoberfest (in the 1 liter beer mugs) lager is drunk, not wheat beer. Germany also has many good Pilsener and lager beers e.g. König Pilsener, Warsteiner Pilsener, Krombacher Pilsener and as a lager the famous Augustiner Hell (and Export). I also mention large breweries here because they are easiest to find abroad. There are even better beers from smaller local breweries, but they are hardly known abroad and usually do not export. 2. The bottles are predominate 0.33 liters. Wheat beer is usually drunk in 0.5 liter glasses. There are hardly any 0.33 liter glasses. For wheat beer you should drink from the right wheat beer glass, and it simply tastes better from the larger 0.5 liter glass than from a 0.33 liter glass. 3. The beers mentioned are from large breweries and the quality is actually not top, good but not top. Against this background, I find it surprising that the relatively large Schneider brewery from Kehlheim is not on the list. I recommend the following breweries for wheat beer: Hofmühl, Gutmann, Schneider Weisse and (by far my favorite) wheat beer from the family brewery Jacob from Bodenwöhr in the Bavarian Forest. 4. Anyone who likes wheat beer will love Weizenbock. However, it is a seasonal beer (Lent), but tastes good from practically every brewery. Simply put, it's a stronger wheat beer. You usually don't really taste the higher alcohol content, but the taste is much fuller and more extensive than normal wheat beer. In both cases, don't forget to get the yeast from the bottom of the bottle into the glass. It carries a lot of taste. (If the yeast remains in the bottle, you can flush it out with a sip of water.) Not only because of this, but also because of the head of foam, pouring wheat beer is not particularly easy for beginners. If you pour too quickly, too much foam forms because wheat beer contains a lot of carbonic acid. If you pour too slowly or if the beer glass is very cold (and damp) or dirty, then too little foam will form or none at all. But better too much foam than too little. Frothing up a flat beer is not so nice. You can stir it, but I don't recommend that. but there is a trick: throw in 3-6 grains of dry rice. The drinking temperature is always important when it comes to beer. Pilsener can/should be drunk fairly cool, British and Belgian beers moderately cool and wheat beer even less cool.
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  14171. I'm not a german I just live here so this is somewhat an outsider's perspective. I think Frankfurt is the most 'american' city in Germany, in terms of look & feel, some tall buildings there. The cities and highways are simplified a lot, but it's funny how 37:50 exit at Erlangen kinda looks like the real one (the slope and the left-right intersection.. altho I think it splits into 2 lanes at the bottom but it felt really familiar :) ). I take that exit on occasion since I live about 10km from there. I travel the A73 and A3 mostly, my town is off the A3. Small trivia, adidas and Puma headquarter is very very nearby there, also Siemens is from Erlangen, Suse Linux is from Nurnberg. :) I use a Logitech Driving Force GT which is like 10 years old tech at this point, I think it's the cheapest wheel / pedal set that is ok to use. It has a tiny, and very unrealistic feeling sequential shifter if you fancy that, hey, you can manual shift so it's ok for some cars, I don't like to use paddles in cars that are just manual originally. You may be able to get one really really cheap used. Next step-up would be the Logitech G29 (slightly better pedal set, you have a clutch, but no shifter). Good ones are super expensive - direct drive wheels and load cell brake pedals - but the above are ok for casual use. I play Assetto Corsa on occasion (I been to Nordschleife and plan to go more so it never hurts to practice the track a bit :D) and I played ETS 1 and 2 as well with this one and it works.
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  14235. Hey Ian... WAVES MADLY I have heard you considering out loud a trip to Australia next year and I am posting to say how I think that perhaps it is better to throw away that and maybe you should say Bathurst 2023! That gives you almost 2 years to put together a warchest for travelling and it gives the world time to get back normal. Airline tickets are exxy at the moment. I also think you should bring the wife and kids and maybe even the inlaws! We love you all. My next idea is to expand your concept and go for 'around the world' tickets. Wroking all over the the world! I bought such back in 2004. The idea is you keep on moving forward and cannot back track. I had four stops but I think you can negotiate more for not that much more money. Your trip might go like this...First stop Hawaii. The kid's would be ratty on a first flight so a couple of days in Hawaii could give you rest. Second stop Auckland NZ. Grab an easy rental and practice driving on the wrong side of the road to Wellington seeing some sights along the way. Hand in hire car. Catch ferry to the south island. Rent a different type of car. Do a touristy loop and exit via Christchurch to Stop 3 Hobart, Tasmania, Aus. Rent a car. Do a touristy loop. Catch a ferry overnight to the mainland. Can you time this to watch footy in Melbourne? I think so! Travel by tram in Melbourne and then grab another hire car and drive north to Canberra and then to Bathurst. From Bathurst to Sydney. Hand back the hire car and travel on buses and ferries. A ferry to Taronga Park zoo. Grab a different hire car and go up the Pacific Hwy to Queensland. Who knows how far north? Fly or drive to Uluru? Fly to Perth. Perth to London. London to home. Or to spend a couple of days in New York. When I got to London I caught a train to Edinburgh and rented a hire car and spent a week in Scotland...then catching the ferry to Ireland and then flying to Boston. When I did it I spent a week in New England/New York and a week in California and Oregon. You can't see much of a big country in a fortnight but I did see some of your country. My total trip was 35 days and I would suggest you take a little longer. You have to plan to have some days when you just stop and do the washing and eat a baked dinner at the pub. I hope you love this idea. I think there is plenty of content to be made from it. And now having said it I can go and think about something else. I know this costs more than some plans but it is a big dream. :) Oooh.I should add that I think you should look at the history of the Sydney to Hobart yacht race and on Boxing Day join us Aussies who follow it online. Perhaps also check out a vid of the start of race. It is a spectacle. Cheers.
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  14357. Both are great. It depends on what you're looking for. In terms of beautiful scenery and wonderful laid back people with a similar sense of humour and quality of life, population density etc they're both equal imo. In terms of landscape diversity, Australia wins for me. We have thousands of beaches, tropical islands, ancient rainforests, snow capped mountains in winter, Red deserts & the outback. And deep ever revealing or evolving history of the world's oldest continuing living culture. Some things get overlooked when saying "Australia is expensive" as a blanket statement. Australia has the highest minimum wage in the world at $21.38 an hour. (Currently $15 USD). Most wait staff/hospitality workers earn around 26-33 an hour for example. More on weekend or public holidays. Canada is 12th on the min. wage list and the USA is way down on the list. I've seen expat teachers coming over from the UK that say they are earning 40-50% more here. So even with some things costing a bit more they say they are still better off here.🤷‍♀️ If you're coming from the US and looking At prices, remember you're not paying tax on top of the prices in stores, it's already been added. You're not paying 20% in tips everytime you eat out, catch a taxi or Uber or get a hair cut, or basically do... anything. Your medications will be significantly cheaper here. For both prescription and OTC meds. And access to universal healthcare if you're a permanent resident. Rent and housing can be quite expensive in and around major cities here for sure. You can fair better by exploring other options away from these areas though. If I had to live somewhere else, I'd probably choose New Zealand. I personally kind of like being in the southern hemisphere and away from a lot of the choas. But if I had to pick somewhere in the Northern hemisphere, I'd pick Canada. 🙂
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  14440. What a weird situation in this video. Of all the European two-tone sirens, I actually like the French ones best. The French sirens are musically perfect: the police siren uses a perfect fourth note, the ambulances use a perfect fifth, and the fire trucks use a major second. Did you hear that? The American siren has more variations, and the tone sounds harsh and sharp, where the French tone sounds softer. It is loud, but the piercing tone of the American siren will be easier to hear. Lastly, with a two-tone siren you can easily hear from which direction it comes because of the doppler effect. If the pitch is higher than you expect, the car is coming towards you. The American cadence negates this effect, so you cannot hear where the car is coming from. Here in The Netherlands, you can buy the Ford Explorer, just like the Kia Sorento for instance. That is the biggest SUV you can get here via regular dealerships, not counting unofficial US import. Like you said, in the US it is just not a big car... The highway you refer to at 9:00 is the Boulevard Périférique, that is the big ring road around the city of Paris. Have a look at the map, it is the big inner circular road. It is one of the few roads in Paris that is this big and has this many lanes, other roads tend to have 2 lanes in each direction at maximum, except for the area around the Arc de Triomphe. And the weird traffic car at 10:54 is a Peugeot 5008. One of the more normal sized SUV in Europe, but really small for US standards...
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  14571. Here is a recipe for Pavlova. Trust me, this is a desert to die for. ❤ 13 Ingredients 3 Method Steps 6 (59g) eggs, separated 1 1/4 cups (270g) caster sugar 2 tsp Coles Cornflour 1 tsp white vinegar 1/2 tsp vanilla extract 300ml thickened cream 2 tbsp pure icing sugar, sifted juice of 2 limes Finely shredded rind of 2 limes 2 Lady finger bananas, thinly sliced diagonally 3 golden kiwifruit, peeled, thinly sliced 2 starfruit, thinly sliced Pulp of 2-3 passionfruit Step 1 Preheat oven to 120°C. Line an oven tray with foil. Brush with melted butter and dust with cornflour, shaking off excess. Mark a 24cm-diameter circle on foil. Step 2 Use an electric mixer to whisk egg whites in a clean dry bowl until soft peaks form. Gradually add sugar, 1 tablespoon at a time, beating well after each addition, until meringue is thick and glossy and sugar dissolved. Rub a little meringue between fingers. If still "gritty" with sugar, continue to whisk until sugar dissolves. Add cornflour, vinegar and vanilla and whisk until just combined. Spoon meringue onto the foil, using the marked circle as a guide. Smooth sides and top of pavlova. Use a small spatula to forms little peaks around edge of pavlova. Bake in oven for 1 1/2 hours or until pavlova is dry to the touch. Turn off oven. Leave pavlova in oven with the door ajar to cool completely. When completely cold, transfer to serving plate or store in an airtight container until required. Step 3 Use an electric mixer to whisk the cream and icing sugar in a medium bowl until firm peaks form. Spoon cream onto the top of pavlova. Pour lime juice into a ceramic or glass bowl. Add banana slices and toss to coat with juice. Drain. Decorate pavlova with banana, kiwifruit, starfruit, passionfruit and lime rind. This will blow your mind. Cheers. 🇦🇺🦘
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  14643. Those samdstone cliffs are what remains of very ancient sandstone layer that was over 20km thick layed down over 400 million years ago, as ancient mountains pre 1 billion years ago weathered away. That was capped by lava several km thick, forming sandstone. After the lava layer eroded, the sandstone began eroding. Leaving only upto 100m sandstone today. Facinating geology, natural wilderness across northern part of Australia. Another interesting aspect is the name Kimberley Ranges, that was given by explorers, due to similarity to South Africa Kimberlies. Now it is known from continental plate drift, that these two areas are in fact related, having been joined in the ancient GONDWANA LAND continent. Another aspect, South Africa Kimberlies are known by that name fot KIMBERLITE volcanic cores of ancient volcanoes, bearing DIAMONDS. For which SA is so well known. However similarly the Australian Kimberlies have its known Diamond deposit mined at Argyle mine. Note the earlier lava overlay, mentioned above, was from the significant volcanic activity that deposited the Kimberlite cores, containing these diamond deposits. A little research can produce lots of fascinating information, to add to the picture perfect, beautiful scenery. Other than huge distances from most populated centres of population it is absolutely a must see area, with numerous places to visit. Some other major regional places include Broome pearling hub, Bungle Bungles bee hive mounds, huge tide rise/fall, Ord river dam and Kunnunnurra irrigation farming, Barramundi fishing trips, and more.
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  14777. Ian, you may hear the term "cleanskin wine". Here is what Wikipedia has to say... "In Australia and New Zealand, cleanskin wine is a term for wine whose label does not indicate the winery or the winemaker's name. It is typically sold at a low price. Cleanskin labels usually only show the grape variety and the year of bottling, as well as other information required by Australian law - alcohol content, volume, additives and standard drink information. Cleanskin wines are typically sold cheaply in dozen lots for home consumption. They may be branded wines that were originally sold at a higher price and re-labelled as cleanskins, or they may be wines produced for the purpose of being sold as cleanskins. Consequently, the quality of various batches of cleanskin wine can vary significantly. Cleanskin wine was introduced to Australia in the early 2000s as a way for the wine industry to cope with a massive oversupply of wine, and a resulting drop in prices. As a result, wine consumption in Australia has greatly increased as of 2006. Also, the price of cleanskin wine has dropped to around or below the price of beer or even bottled water. The word "cleanskin" comes from the Australian term for unbranded cattle, and is also used to refer to undercover law enforcement agents". When I used to drink alcohol (haven't touched a drop in 10 years) I would often buy cleanskin wines as on the whole most of my purchases turned out to be pretty good. BTW, thanks for the information about the wineries in New Mexico. I did not know they predate wine industry in California. Cheers🍹
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  14787. Here in Australia 🇦🇺 5 % food 13% on electricity 15 % on fuel $130 to fill 75 litre tank diesel even more also premium petrol Interest rates 12 rises and possibilities of more all in last year My birth date was rare white 31 January Those handle bars are growing turning up nicely it's what we used to call them You might be interested their are competitions for those in UK as well not sure if doing here I think flat area is the age old and sandstone area and broken down It's like sa is alot of lime stone cliffs so poorest and water seeps into underground cavities and caves They are millions of years old dead reefs So find animals inside it from 🦕 dinosaur eara fossilised in the lime stone Alot never seen before and if you go around Mt Gambier Multiple caves to visit and water still running through the lime stone Like it has for millions of years naracoorte caves about 3 and half hrs from Adelaide it's between Victoria and south Australia 🇦🇺 in SA side same with Mt Gambier closer to Victoria but still on sa border and funny as they receive TV radio from Victoria If lucky you'll see glow worms all over the ceilings and some have bat's living in them Water is crystal clear and reflects like a mirror Water dripping off stalic night and tights until they for solid structure like the cave and area's We don't get to see the amazing ones as by people being in them damages them from your breath leaves black deposits on surfaces over time and these are easy accessible Cheers mate 🦘🇦🇺👍
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  14799. As a german, I´m pleased to hear you like the sights shown in the video. On the other hand, the stuff that is shown in the clips is a collection of tourist attractions and treasures of nature - but it is far from giving a real impression of Germany. To get an idea of what I´m talking about: Imagine a video of the nicest buildings in Beverly Hills and the most spectaular views from Monument Valley and the Grand Canyon and than consider if the title "This is America" would fit, despite not showing Detroit, the Bronx, huge chemical plants, run down suburbs... Long story short: The sights seen in the video are the most beautiful part of Germany, castles of kings and lords, but let´s be honest: we got rid of monarchy centuries ago, most people living in bigger cities use to live in modern apparments blocks and contraty to the impression given in the video, yes, we got trash and garbage as well. Don´t get me wrong: Germany is a really nice place to live, but it is not all candy canes and A grade historical monuments. My recommendation to anyone who comes to visit: Don´t imagine to see a theme park called "Europe" when visiting, as you will most likely be disappointed by the majority of things. However, if you come to Europe to see some gem stones of history embedded in a living, breathing culture of the modern, western world, you might be more satisfied in the end. And if you take your time to visit, do yourself a favour and visit more than one country and start looking for details. For example, I live about 50 miles from the border to the netherlands. And as a local, it is extremely significant how different even the houses are, even though you only spent an hour in the car: the houses in the netherlands are comparatively small, yet the windows are huge in comparison (and yes, there are historical reasons, if you are interesed in such things).
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  15038. Hi Ian, every now and then I try to include some Australiana in my replies to you. This one is a song by one of Australia's favourite legends John Williamson singing 'Home Among the Gum Trees'. Enjoy. Hope it brings a smile to your face. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf2GTDeN0Xk [Verse 1] I've been around the world A couple of times or maybe more I've seen the sights, I've had delights On every foreign shore But when my mates all ask me The place that I adore I tell them right away [Chorus] Give me a home among the gumtrees With lots of plum trees A sheep or two, a k-kangaroo A clothesline out the back Verandah out the front And an old rocking chair [Verse 2] You can see me in the kitchen Cooking up a roast Or Vegemite on toast Just you and me, a cup of tea And later on, we'll settle down And go out on the porch And watch the possums play [Chorus] Give me a home among the gumtrees With lots of plum trees A sheep or two, a k-kangaroo A clothesline out the back Verandah out the front And an old rocking chair [Verse 3] There's a Safeways up the corner And a Woolies down the street And a brand new place they've opened up Where they regulate the heat But I'd trade them all tomorrow For a little bush retreat Where the kookaburras call (kookookookookaakaakaa) [Chorus] Give me a home among the gumtrees With lots of plum trees A sheep or two, a k-kangaroo A clothesline out the back Verandah out the front And an old rocking chair [Verse 4] Some people like their houses With fences all around Others live in mansions And some beneath the ground But me I like the bush you know With rabbits running round And a pumpkin vine out the back [Chorus] x2 Give me a home among the gumtrees With lots of plum trees A sheep or two, a k-kangaroo A clothesline out the back Verandah out the front And an old rocking chair
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  15633. I went to FL (Orlando) in Dec 2011. Had an absolute blast, so many attractions. I think it's called City Walk, but went to Universal, NASCAR cafe, a proper Hard Rock, NBA cafe, Sea World, and Disney World.... loved Disney World, we did all 4 parks in one day, and it was Christmas time, so there was the night show which was really cool. I met so many welcoming people (especially Puerto Ricans!), had Christmas dinner 'American style' - turkey and all the trimmings, hams, pumpkin and pecan pies.... was truly a great experience. The one thing that struck me was the attitude to drink-driving (DUI); we have strict DUI laws, but at Christmas dinner, we ran out of grog, and the host was all 'no problem, we'll just go get more', I wouldn't dream of doing that in Aus, and most Aussies would turn around and say "you're not driving anywhere, you've had too many". Food portions was a culture shock for me.... we don't really have the 'doggy-bag' mentality here. Adelaidians (?) talking about accents.... LOL!!!! They have one of the most distinct accents in Aus. Also the nightclub culture was odd... You could enter a venue at 18, but 21 to drink, and had to show ID, then get a wristband to show you were 'entitled' to drink (purchase) alcohol..... like come on, as an Aussie, you know we just gonna buy for everyone! But all in all, great experience and great people, I would definitely go back.... I'm sure my experience would be very different if I went to a non-touristy place. And yes, Americans love a foreign accent.... though many get Aussies and Brits confused. Oh, and I love the penny puncher souvenir things you can get.... where else but 'merica is it legal to deface currency :)
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  15793. Oh man, now you're talking. This car is quite a story if you've got a moment to read it... Allan Moffat: originally fron Saskatoon, Saskechewan; educated in Johannesburg, South Africa; but fell in love with Australia as a teenager in the early 1960s (his father travelled a lot for work). Got into racing the hard way, just by pitching in until everyone in the team got used to having him - he was literally the water boy for Jim Clark at Indianapolis in 1965, the year Jimmy won the greatest race in the world. Drove in early Trans-Am, mostly in the 2.0-litre class in Ford Cortinas, although he was asked to help keep Mark Donohue out of the points late one year so he was handed the keys to a semi-works Mercury Cougar, which he painted a patriotic green and gold. Ran out of money shortly after, but by then had made enough friends at Ford that they were able to offer him a job as a test driver for Kar Kraft. A year of that and he got itchy feet, wanting return to racing and Australia, so he asked if he might be able to buy one of the 1968 Trans-Am Mustangs that were about to be obsolete, ready to take back to Australia. The Ford heavies considered his request, but ultimately shot it down. Instead, he was told to report to Bud Moore's workshop in Spartaville, Kentucky. There were three cars under construction when Allan got there - not the troublesome '68 Mustangs, but three brand-spanking-new, 1969-spec Boss 302 Mustangs. Bud scowled and told him, "The one in the middle's yours." There was no price tag attached; it was a gift from someone in Ford management. A spectacular gift. Allan crated it up and flew it back to Melbourne, where he would run it for the next four or so years. As the video description tells, it won 101 races in 151 starts, making it one of the most successful cars this country ever saw. Ironically, he never won the touring car championship with (Australia put up some pretty stern competition), but Allan's destiny always lay with the Falcon rather than the Mustang. Also ironically, despite the livery, he never got any real sponsorship from Coca-Cola; there was one local bottler who liked him and chipped in when he could, but when this bottler wrote to Atlanta to try to get a proper contract out of them, they never bothered to reply. Said bottler quit the company in disgust! Luckily, by then Allan had enough income to get along thanks to his race winnings, and a seat in the factory Ford team for Bathurst (the boss of the team was an American named Al Turner, who knew a lot of the people Moffat had reported to back in the Kar Kraft days. If they said he was the real deal, Turner reasoned, he was the real deal). The rest, as they say, is history. If it hadn't been for this car, Allan's career wouldn't have even got started. Possibly the best-looking racecar ever built.
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  15975. I do love the US, I’ve spent about seven years there going to high school and college even though I’m German. and I have enjoyed every single day! But I haven’t been to the US since 1984 and now when I think about going back I get sometimes a bit afraid if I look at the political, racial and other situations. last time I truly wanted to go to the US was for my 35 years high school reunion unfortunately I had some severe medical problems before so my wife wouldn’t let me fly (2 heart attacks). This brought me to think about some of the differences, now my experiences from the US are a bit dated but I think some of them still relevant today. I’m still amazed about the helpful friendly ways most American Street even people they don’t know when to see their needle help I love it how neighbors help each other or communities. But to be honest a lot of that help is done by the government in Europe if there’s major catastrophes, if you have personal problems the government will help you and your neighbors. I know that’s a fundamental difference but there’s times in life that you just cannot do it all on your own or with the help of friends I mean just look at the size of those homeless people camps in the US look at the slums look at Chicago or other towns like Portland for example I mean in Germany there’s shit too but you don’t see devastation on such a scale. No back to my personal situation my medical problems got the rules over the last five years if I would’ve been living in the US chances are pretty high that I would be dead by now or broke or both I need medication‘s for several thousand euros a month and I only pay like €50 a month for those medication I’ve been in hospitals for surgery I don’t even know how often I haven’t had to pay anything for that except a little fee of €10 a day the first 20 days in a year and after that it’s nothing absolutely nothing I have to pay for US I would’ve spent millions literally millions of dollars for the same type of healthcare since I would have been laid off after the first or second year of having sick leaves up to 180 days so chances would be very high there would be no health insurance anymore either and no income. Here I am very lucky to be on a job but I cannot be laid off at all but even in a regular job a company wouldn’t have been able to lay me off and the benefits of our health insurance are just insane. And it’s not for free I mean I pay for it but my employer has to pay the same amount so we share it which I think is very fair as is the same with unemployment insurance which guarantees at least a year of good income after getting fired And a rather low income but for an indefinite amount of time thereafter. Now 2022 there is another high school reunion I will not be attending because I am afraid of my medication. I have to take morphine strips to be able to move and walk. In Europe I only need a paper from my doctor to be able to move about but if I would go to the US I need a paper from the German foreign affairs ministry and I would need an approval of the US foreign secretaries office and to be honest I still could be arrested by some local police authorities and be deported as there’s no guarantee they except those papers. But I didn’t mean this would be an unlawful reputation but that wouldn’t help me I’d still be gone. 20 years ago I would’ve taken that risk easily but over the last decades the US have changed not to the better and I’m very sad about it because half my family lives over in the US and I almost would’ve stayed there to for the rest of my life. And I’m not only sad, I am concerned and I am angry in parts because you have such a great country and the way it looks from over here there’s forces within that try to ruin it ……
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  16069. Hi Ian and greetings from Europe! A fairly intriguing and interesting topic about the car and truck brands from Europe that americans aren't familiar with... and vice versa. Though us Europeans are mostly familiar with your brands since they are somehow present on our market as well. We are exempt from most of the model line, and so was in the past due to american cars being too big for our roads, parking lots and garages, also large fuel consumption and import costs. Yeah there are some american brands like Rivian, Fisker, Buick... from the defunct ones Oldsmobile, Pontiac (there were two or three models from Pontiac in European market as well...) beautiful cars. You can see them only on car collector events. As for European ones there is quite some major ones in car segment. You've mentioned Opel, Renault, Škoda, Dacia, Lada. There are also: - Lancia - Citroén - Peugeot - Seat - Cupra From old defunct ones Rover, Saab (not so interesting since they were available in US as well) and also some eastern european ones like Wartburg or FSO. Russians also have Zil, Volga or newer Aurus. There are a lot more of them defunct or present. But these I guess are/were the major ones. On bus and truck market there is much more of unknown stuff. There are a lot of Turkish brands present nowadays, like: - Otokar - Temsa and -Anadolu Isuzu - Mercedes Benz (Truck and bus) - Volvo (Truck and bus) - Solaris (Bus) - Neoplan (Bus/German) - Setra (Bus/German) - Scania (Bus and truck) - Iveco (Truck and bus - very popular) - Daf (Truck) - VDL (Bus) - Van Hool (Bus) - Heuliez Bus (Bus) - MAN (Truck and Bus) There are also Ford and Renault trucks present in Europe. In the past there was a lot of Magirus Deutz which is now incorporated into other brands. Hope you find some of these data interesting and useful for maybe another video. Kind regards and good luck with new videos.
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  16135. Hey Charger! I was wondering when you'd discover this one; wall of text incoming, but I'm sure you won't mind... The origins of this car really lie with the Hemi 265 engine, which started out as Chrysler's "D" engine in the States. Small-block V8s had eroded the big six's market Stateside, so Chrysler sent it to their Australian division (based at Tonsley Park, Adelaide) to see what they could make of it. At the time, stepping up to a V8 was a bridge too far for many Aussies - it was a big call, and just a bit too "look at me" - so the 4.0-litre straight-six was right at home here. Chrysler put it through a $33 million development programme and finished it off with local parts, meaning - when it launched with the stopgap VG Valiant range in 1970 - Chrysler became the first Aussie manufacturer to hit the 95% local content milestone. Since that triggered tax breaks from the Federal Government in Canberra, that was a very welcome development! They called it the Hemi 245 to piggyback off the Hemi legend in the U.S., but it was a badge only - the valves were inclined at only 7 degrees. "A Hemi truth..." has been the standard joke ever since. Meanwhile, behind the scenes they were putting together the car the engine was really meant for - the VH Valiant, due to arrive in early 1971. And the Australians at Tonsley Park were watching this unfold with mounting horror - it was a trainwreck in slow motion. Australian buyers were in a weird place: we liked American styling cues, but we didn't like them to be as big and brash as the Americans did. Compare an XA Falcon Hardtop with the Torino that came off the drawing board next to it and you'll get the idea. Unfortunately, the Americans designing Chrysler Australia's new car in Highland Park didn't seem to register the "but more toned down" part of the design brief, and whenever there was a disagreement between the Aussies and Americans, the Americans always got their way. Holden went through a similar thing with GM a few years earlier, which ended with them getting their own design office in Melbourne after the American-designed HD got tumbleweeds. But Chrysler didn't have the generous cash reserves of Holden, and the VH Valiant could only dream of getting tumbleweeds; mostly it just heard the people at the back being quietly sick. The VH was the all-time ugliest car Australia ever built, until the AU Falcon came along and relieved it of that title; sales cratered and never recovered. Fortunately, the crew in Adelaide had been working on an after-hours project as well. They saw the VH range as designed had nothing to appeal to youth, and nothing to race at Bathurst - both crucial gaps in the range. A two-door coupé would fill both niches quite nicely, so they designed one, with testing done by shortening a VG ute to give it the same wheelbase, so anyone watching it turning laps at Mallala would think it was just a local hoon having a bit of fun. Only after it had been finished and proven viable was it presented to Head Office in the U.S., and since there was absolutely no spare budget for it, some remarkable things were done to tool up for it, especially given every body panel from the A-pillar back was unique! Chrysler Australia had a remarkable gift for improvising around the lack of money. Amazing to think Australia's ugliest car and its most beautiful were conjoined twins! It deservedly won Wheels magazine's Car of the Year award for 1971. Anyway, the engine ended up being the same 245 Hemi six or the optional 265, with the Bathurst cars (option E38) coming with that beautiful six pack of Weber carbs. A whole car was flown to Italy for the Weber factory to sort it out, and after 4,000 miles of testing around the Italian countryside, when it came back it made 280hp and 320 lb-ft of torque. Yet it would idle smoothly at the traffic lights, and to this day nobody seems to know how they did it - fans trying to build a replica end up tearing their hair out after a decade of trying to get it to idle without stalling! Anyway, if you were going to race it at Bathurst you also needed the A84 Track Pack, which gave you stronger ROH alloy wheels, finned rear drums, better rear leaves, a Sure-Grip LSD... and, oh yeah, completely filled up the boot with a 34-gallon fuel tank, which would allow you to finish Bathurst on just two stops. And all for just $3,750 off the showroom floor ($41,500 today - convert to U.S. dollars from there). Almost a third of all VH sales were Chargers, which says as much about the brilliance of the Charger as it does about how unpopular the base Valiant was! As far as racing went, The weakness of the Charger was its gearbox, which was only a Borg Warner 3-speed - at the time Australia didn't have a locally-made 4-speeder, and Chrysler didn't sell enough cars to get away with importing like Ford and Holden. So in effect, it had no first gear - getting off the line was a matter of choosing whether you preferred bogging down and losing the revs or lighting 'em up and going nowhere for a moment. The E49 was the homologation update for 1972, with a bit more grunt (300hp, more than anyone would see from a six-cylinder until the Porsche 911 Turbo in 1975), and at long last, a Mopar 4-speed gearbox. With that fitted, this thing would cover the quarter-mile faster than anything else out in Austrlaia at the time, even the Phase III Falcon, although that did mean it was a bit short of legs on Conrod. There were rumours at the time that Chrysler were going to give it a 340ci V8, but the Supercar Scare came along and killed Series Production racing before that could happen. V8 Chargers WERE built soon after - my uncle has a VK 360 from 1976, and it's awesome - but the era of the Bathurst Special had ended before Chrysler could claim the trophy. The company circled the drain for the rest of the 1970s and was eventually swallowed up by Mitsubishi in the early 1980s. Australia lost the third of the Big Three and became the land of Ford vs Holden. Fords are still better, though.
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  16178. Here in Slovakia, if you buy a brand new car from the Delear, you get your papers about the car (technical inspection + emission inspection) and your first inspection is after 4 years. After 4 years and your first inspection every upcoming inspection is done every 2 years. If the "inspection company" gives you a date when to come in, you show up. You give them your papers ( technical and Emission papers). If you fail one or both, you dont get the new papers (of course). You get a list of found problems on your car and you get a temporary permit (so you can still drive it) with a set period of time, in which you have to fix up the car, I dont know for how many days it is set up here in Slovakia. After your car is fixed up, you have to go for the inspection again. If you pass, you will get 2 papers. One for the technical and the other for the emission inspection. Regarding the emission inspection, there are different rules for different cars of course. You cant meet the newest emission quota with your 17 year old car. We have the EURO emission quotas where its written what emission quotas your car has to meet. From EURO 1 to EURO 6 ( soon Euro 7 ). So if you have a 17 year old car, means it was manufactured in 2007+month, so they look up which EURO Quota norms where used in that period, and you have to meet, lets say a EURO 4 quota. So your car has to meet the EURO 4 emission quota to pass the emission inspection. Regarding the tires sticking out and how much the front wheels must be covered, how high can you lift it, exhaust loudness, I have no idea about these things since I never had a off-roader like that, or souped-up one :D Tread Depth limits: Summer tires -> minimum by law 1,6 mm (recommended 3,0 mm ) Winter tires -> cars up to 3,5 tonnes -> minimum by law 3,0 mm (recommended 4,0 mm) -> cars over 3,5 tonnes -> minimum by law 6,0 mm
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  16408. German here. I was introduced to Vegemite last summer. Can't get off the stuff anymore, it's on my sandwiches, in my lunch, I am addicted now. 😱 "Built like a real brick dunnie" is an expression I have adapted from Aussie Youtuber Dave Jones. Love it! 🤗 And it's story-time: My dad was an English teacher. I had the best source for learning at home, thus. Dad died way too early, but I got the motivation for learning the language and the kick-starter from him, so when there was an extra English course in school I took it instantly. Like in the regular lessons, I had an A there (Well, an "Eins" or 1, in Germany the notes in school are numbers, the lower the number, the better.) When advanced courses became available I took them and just shone! I was good at English! I was nineteen when a couple of friends of mine and I decided to do a 5 day trip to London. Bus rides from the Cologne train station were slow but cheap, so we took the bus, crossed the channel on a ferry at night, then on to Victoria Station. Started at 4pm on a Sunday, arrived at something like 5:30am the next day. (I have to add that I simply don't have the skill to sleep in cars, buses or trains. I thus hadn't slept over 20 hours when we got to Victoria Station..) At the ticket counter, there sat an old Londoner. Huge sideburns, some old schooly hat on and glasses that were so thick they magnified his eyes. I scratched up all English words I still had available in my sleepy head (yet approached him in good self confidence as, after all, I was really good at English!) and said: "A one-week ticket for central London, please!" The old chap replied something like "Foodlewoodlethoodle!". I heard noises that sounded remotely like the English I knew, but I couldn't recognize the words. I must have looked like my face was about to fall apart. He sighed and took a slip of paper, wrote the price down (I think it was £6 back then), held it against the window of his counter and repeated slowly and loudly what it said, so that even that thick Kraut might possibly understand it. Well, I did after all. I paid, got into our hostel room hours later. By that time my face probably really was falling apart. So much for self confidence with language you learnt in school. 🤣 That was a week to remember, I bet we left some impression with several people there. 🥳 Like, made our mark. Like when you walk through wet concrete. That kind of mark.😁 Well, we didn't lose any of our lot there, which was a lucky escape for us nutter den. I am not a big city-person, but I did fall in love with London a bit that week. But yes, I learnt that understanding the dialects of English is a key to survival for non-native speakers there and then.
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  16792. I’m not even a fan of baseball but I love Ohtani. There’s something fascinating about watching people do something well or special. For football, I’d recommend Barcelona’s Champions League Semi-Final against Liverpool. The comeback was surreal (& I went to the final in Madrid). You can watch the greatest comebacks of all time. You could watch videos on Steven Gerrard, Luis Suarez, Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, Maradona, Ronaldinho, Van Basten, Paolo Maldini, Kaka (his goal against Manchester United at Old Trafford in the Champions League in 2007 was phenomenal. They went on to beat my team Liverpool in the Champions League Final that year), David Villa (one of the best strikers of all time in my opinion - people talk about Barcelona with Suarez & Neymar but Barcelona were something else when Villa & Henry played with Messi), Kenny Dalglish, George Best, John Barnes (his goal against Brazil), Ronaldo (the original), Roy Keane & his monumental performance against Juventus. There is so much you have yet to see & I am so jealous. With that being said, football continues to create spectacular moments. Darwin Nunez, for me personally, has been responsible for many this season. You’ve also got Jude Bellingham, a player I wanted for Liverpool, scoring screamers & winners against Barcelona for Real Madrid. You could check funny football chants, videos on passionate fans, every major tournament final as far back as you can go. You could also watch World Cup highlights (Germany silencing Brazil in Brazil is a game I’ll remember. I remember where I was & what I was doing). Sorry for the essay. I adore football (& not the superficiality of it but the skill & tactics of it). I like to play it too. That’s pretty much what you do here when you grow up - whether it be on a pitch or in the streets.
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  17153. Hey there, it turned into a long comment again :) To your question: that was indeed a remote starter which is left off of the car for weight reasons but more to the point: If all goes well, you'll never need it. This reason is why it's always been absolutely critical to not stall your race car at the race start, pit exit or when you've beached it in a gravel trap. The clutches on these were tiny with the more modern ones measuring 110mm in diameter, that's only 4.3 inches!! This period of F1 was still heralded as "when men were men" kinda spirit, which is mostly created by the immense physical strain of keeping these cars on track without any assistances such as TC or ABS, three pedals and an engine that was as high revving and as peaky as possible. Ohhh, the engines... There are a few iconic ones but none more than the famous DFV V8 built by Cosworth in the UK, which dominated the sport from the late 60s up to the 80s, when it was made redundant by smaller displacement turbo engines, look up BMW's +1000bhp qualifying mode. Completely nuts. In the 60s, F1's layout and design philosophy changed from front engined to mid engined race cars, which brought with it a regulation change of downsizing the engines to 1.5L so the cars produced between 150 and 225 hp but weighed only 1100-1300lbs. This is the period of Sterling Moss and many other brilliant drivers who are now quite old if still alive but you'd be surprised how incredible these drivers were at anticipating and controlling a car that's essentially out of control with useless tires and brakes. These drivers needed unreal cornering abilities just to see the checkered flag. THE DFV V8 The Cosworth DFV was incredible and is the most iconic engine in all of F1 since it dominated the sport from the 60s up to the 80s. It was first developed for the Detroit motor show in 65 but wasn't ready to race until 67, where it put a Lotus on pole position by over a second and had the driver lead the race for 10 laps until the gears driving a cam shaft broke. At first, this engine was only used by a single team of Ford, Cosworth and Lotus but from August of 67, the engine was sold to all other teams that wanted one. The engine was revolutionary since durable, high powered, small displacement naturally aspirated engines are the kryptonite of most race teams and cost a fortune to develop, but from August onwards, any team could buy this engine for 9,500 pounds a piece in 1967 (roughly 90k pounds in 2005 money), replacing the hilariously named "coventry climax" engine which was used the most widely before. From the 69' to 73' season, every championship winning car used this engine, taking 155 wins in 262 races between '67 and '85! In the late 70s/early 80s, this 3 Liter engine was revised to produce 480hp! In combination with a British aero-focussed chassis, the previously favourited Alfa and Ferrari had to concede the championship to British teams in '78, '80 and '81; even when the turbo age had taken it's first steps in the early 80s, this engine remained competitive even if it produces a lot less power due to it's comparatively high durability and torque at low revs. In the mid-late 70s, the period of this video, the ground effect technology found it's way into F1 and gave this old engine a new lease on life. Ferrari and Alfa Romeo had developed flat 12 engines to take advantage of the DFV's drawbacks, which had lower centres of gravity than the taller DFV V8, which in theory would lead to better cornering. The upside of the engine being very low led to an unforeseeable drawback: If the engine isn't tall, it's gonna be very wide so a low mounted engine with wide cylinder heads would take up all the space needed for the underfloor venturi tunnels and diffusor to evacuate the air out the back of the car, which is ultimately how the 70s aero-age of F1 took over from the previous power/weight ratio-age. As a NASCAR fan, I'm sure you know about the witchcraft of high compression, piston speed in small vs. big bore engines, aggressive cam timings leading to pops and bangs on the overrun (British for letting off throttle) and it would be hard to overstate how critical this period was for all natural aspirated engine configurations that came after it. Speaking of important tech, the 1.5 Turbo engines that became popular in the 80s are really worth checking out if you like weird engine layouts. The boost these things took make most drag car engines disintegrate but here's the funny part: the engine block is made from cast iron and was taken from BMW's 60s 1.6L family car, so the most insane 80s F1 turbo tech relied on "ancient" rusty engine blocks found in junkyards at the time. These 80s f1 cars were just ludicrous: Fuel technology was nowhere near to today and the teams apparently experimented with a lot of additives in those days, the brakes and tires and aero and engine management and driver safety would be considered insane from today's perspective but they had a better power/weight ratio than F1 cars today. They just had to manually shift a 1400hp turbo 4 cylinder in a car that weighed 1500lbs. I hope I managed to convey how crazy these periods of F1 were, now all you've got to do is have a look at videos from each period :) Here's a link to the wiki page for BMW's F1 stuff: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_M12#Formula_One I hope you have a great day! As always, happy to be corrected if I made mistakes <3
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  17223. Great mail time as always, just a bit on the Mr. Squiggle coins, so Mr. Squiggle was a kids show which started on 1st of July 1959 and ran until 9th of July1999 it was created by and started by artist Norman "Heth" Hetherington it stared Mr. Squiggle, a puppet with a working pencil for a nose children would send him their squiggles and Mr. Squiggle would make something out of them all though they would always be upside down for the practical reason that Norman Hetherington would be operating Mr. Squiggle and other puppet characters created by Norman from above the set apparently very close to the hot studio lights. Mr. Squiggle would have a human assistant on the show the first being Gina Curits who Mr. Squiggle would refer to as Miss Gina calling the assistant Miss carried on until the Miss Jane after that the last two assistants were called by their first name the last assistant being Norman's daughter Rebecca who I remember. Some of the other puppets included Blackboard who was always grumpy and was known to say "Hurry up, hurry up!", Gus the snail, Bill the steam shovel and more all designed, built, operated and voiced by Norman. The coins were made to celebrate the show unfortunately Norman passed in 2010 and didn't get to see the coins. The coins were released in 2019. I have a link here to a episode from Rebecca's time on the show which you may which to show Emma and Andrew you and Daniela may which to watch as well to get a idea of the show. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLrG_X-sImc
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  17271. Hey Ian, this is truly a great collection with above average density of quirky stuff and one-offs and I love it :) Couple of cars worth diving into: -I don't know too much about Tatra but I'd watch you learning about their weird air cooled rear engined cars. Really cool company. -The Dymaxion Replica you had a look at reminded me of a brilliant automotive artist called Randy Grubb (founder of company 'Blastolene') who used to regularly be on Jay Leno's YouTube channel to present his insane creations. This guy does all the work so he for instance ball peen hammers his own aluminum bodies (crazy, but very cool) on most of his slightly retro, steampunky builds such as:  -The Tank car featured in Gran Turismo 5 with a M47 Patton Tank engine which is insane. -The Decopods which are very cool -The Decoliner which is very, very cool. You're able to steer either from the roof or the regular driver's seat. -The 'Piss'd off Pete' V12 Detroit Diesel Hot Rod, the king of any classic car meet -The Rocket II Trike, powered by a blown 426 Hemi (completely over the top) Any of his work is well worth checking out, I truly hope you have a look at some of his stuff bc I think you'll love it. HOT ROD Network did a shop tour of his 6 years ago and every vehicle I listed is on Jay's channel. -The car built by the airplane company out of Denver, CO just looks insane.. I guess back then there was a whole culture of invention which drove designers to implement air craft grade design (low weight, low drag) in regular consumer cars which allowed use of the cheapest & most reliable engines available. -The minivans at 8:17 and 8:38 are part of a bit of a revolution in the late 90s/early 00s. Renault had built a car called the "Espace" which introduced the MPV class of vehicles into the European market (Mazda ended up naming their model 'MPV') and they sold like hot cakes in Europe. They were so brilliantly designed: The engine would submarine under the car in a crash instead of going through the fire wall and unaliving the passengers. It had 7 seats (5 of them usually folded down so you've got a pretty big trunk with up to 5 passengers or basically a delivery vehicle if you folded down all but the driver seat) but the footprint of a sedan and was built on a space frame which meant it was lighter than most sedans. By the year 2000, almost all manufacturers had their own model to compete in this market, from Chrysler's Voyager to the Vauxhall/Opel Zafira. Sadly, we all know about the infamous 'soccer-mom' image which became associated with these and made them very unpopular to be seen in. You could even argue the SUV trend is a direct consequence of MPVs falling out of favour, even though these 15-20 year old cars are like 20-50% more fuel efficient than an average modern SUV which usually weighs much more and has a much worse drag coefficient. I don't like SUVs much, but this isn't he place for that :) -At 10:10 you're coming up to the most innovative car ever, it's truly a marvel of engineering and French pride. The name is actually a bit of a pun, since 'DS' is a double entendre with the word for 'déesse' which means 'goddess'. The Citroen DS you were looking at is just so incredible, I don't know where to start and I know I can't do it justice here. Dang, I could talk about just the suspension for hours. As a reasonably patriotic American, I'm sure you know all about how softly sprung Cadillacs are and how they feel like you're sitting on a sofa on a boat as you're going down the road. But if you're going down a slightly rougher road, you'd still notice you're on a slightly rough road, but in a DS from the 50s that was set up properly, you wouldn't notice *anything*. There are so many details I could nerd out over but I'd much rather watch someone knowledgable introduce this to you and us viewers, just like you did with the 2CV which was perfect BTW. OK, I can't help myself from listing just a few tidbits about this car: -On the day it was presented in 1955, it sold 12.000 units. -There is no brake pedal, instead the speedo tells you how long your braking distance will be depending on your speed. You brake by pressing a knob on the floor between the pedals. -It had a button on the dashboard to pneumatically raise and lower the suspension for better aero on the highway/ground clearance for parking etc. You can even change tires without a jack. -President of France, Charles de Gaulle, survived numerous assassination attempts on 22nd of August 1962, in his presidential limousine, an armoured version of the DS. Although the assassins had shot all four tires on the car, the suspension design allowed it to escape numerous attempts on his life without ANY tires on the rims. -The headlights were revolutionary: The later models had dual headlights with the inner bulb moving up to 90° with your front wheels to illuminate corners, along with a system invented by the company Panhard (Panhard bars anyone?) which auto levelled the headlights during braking, acceleration and bumps. As I've said, I could go on but I won't, this has already been long enough. French design has something really refreshing about it, it's unconventional and weird for sure but it's never useless or poorly envisioned. There are features implemented within this 20 year long production cycle which make most car brands/designers on this earth blush with shame at how both brilliantly and bravely Citroen navigated around the challenges they were presented with. Last but not least, there's a rally version of the DS, it's hilarious :) Cheers Ian, I hope you and yours are doing well. Keep the excitement going!
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  17324. The UNIMOG has often been well represented in Dakar Rallies. Both competing and even more so as support team and spares transport.. Concerning arid looking Southern France it is in many section much like Spain. An area that has become well known for "Spagetti Western" movies to film the many "westerns" emulating Mexico and southern USA. You have become captivated by Unimog as I was on my first work visit in Stuttgart area in 1979. Seeing many on farms, city and highway maintence, even one on tram rails, and a fire brigade at my work company site, shared as local village fire brigade, a service offered free by my employer to the community. I had been so close to buying one second hand, that work was disposing of, that could have been mine for mere DM10,000, which at that time was under 6 months of my wages. At that time sadly it would have been an expensive mistake. Then there was NO RIGHT HAND VERSION, never designed or manufactured until much later , late 1980s from memory, when Australian Army bought some. At the time any Left Hand Drive vehicles could only get short term permit to be used in Australia, before either needing to be converted to Right Hand, or exported out or scrapped. This applied to many test cars I drove for my job that were left hand drive. Yes I have spent thousands of kilomters in various countries driving various vehicles with steering arranged opposite to normal traffic, a situation that you can get used to, but causes many drivers BIG problems. As no parts existed at all for right hand conversion it would have been a VERY expensive custom conversion with many costly engineering verification and certification of conversion costs to be able to register for legal street use. A little less for only private property use, say on a large farm or outback cattle/sheep station which might even have been possible without conversion though thatvwas a requirement even to import a vehicle into Australia.
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  17417. I am a very very extremely proud German Australian born citizen and I absolutely loved German foods because my only biological father is definitely born in Germany 🇩🇪 himself and his older sister and there mum and dad migrated to Australia 🇦🇺 here and my dad way way before he became my dad he married a Australian born woman in the 70's and in 1985 I was born and I only became a only biological child towards my married mum and dad no brother or sister I grew up around my only biological oma and opa and sometimes they cook a little bit of German food for us not too often because my dad and my mum decided to move 2 and half hours outside of Melbourne Victoria Australia 🇦🇺 here because my only biological father was a panel beater and he decided to look at a business in 1982 and he did found one of them altogether and he started setting up his own panel beaters business and 3 years later on I was born I absolutely loved sour crout and red cabbage made by my opa and I always always inhaled those eating in that type of way when I was a little boy and I absolutely loved German sausages and I always always wanted too go to Germany 🇩🇪 way before October fest because I absolutely loved German beers in the stines I missed all those things like that towards myself altogether here now on I also absolutely loved German Christmas when my oma and opa was alive and well my opa handed me down his only smoke man when I was a little bit older he teach me how to work the German smoke man every Christmas eve and my parents still have gotten my opa smoke man at there house if I ever ever had kids once they are little bit older I will teach them the traditional way of a German Christmas
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  17591. Every time I see the announcement of Warnie's passing I have to process again. Rod Marsh was a hero and did more for Australian cricket than can ever be known and it was a day of genuine sadness. Shane Warne is one of those great larger than life characters that come once in a life-time and it was a privilege to watch his whole career. Gone at 52, the world has been robbed. He has one of the most recognised names in cricket but he is well known far beyond that. It didn't hurt that he was engaged to Liz Hurley for a long time. So now some comments on your reaction: Awesome job Ian. For this being first time you watched anything you nailed every comment. They are batsmen in cricket not batters( although increasingly the name "batter" is being used), it is a bowler not a pitcher, and a wicket keeper (Rod Marsh) not a catcher. And one more cricketers get "runs" not "hits". While a baseball player will get hits with the hope the build toward a run if they are responsible for two in a game they are ahead. In cricket it matters very little how many times you hit the ball, you have to get a run for it to count, and you probably need 50 or more for anyone to take notice of your performance. If you do start watching cricket just be warned you will want to compare it to baseball and you will get a thousand cricket fans screaming at you not to do it. However, just so you know - there are enough similarities (baseball being further along the bat ball sport evolutionary trail) for it to make sense for you. BTW the way you talked about Shane Warnes deliver was spot on, what he bowled when you made the comment was a "wrongun." And yes he bowled it out of the back of the hand and it did the opposite of what you would expect it to do. One last thing: it is possible for an American to watch, understand and love cricket. There is a Youtube channel called "Cricket for Americans." Two guys down in Les Vegas that stumbled onto cricket about two years ago. As baseball fans they decided to learn the game - they knew about as much as you do. Today they know more than most and are incredibly fun to watch. Shout out to Nick and Gabe.
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  17675. Hi. Italy here. I see you have a very deep interest in veicles around the world. Not to mention differents cultures, in fact i heard you questioning even about european "hyppie" like van culture. If i may i have a suggestion in that regard. There's an underground culture very wide spread around all Europe. It mashed up together all the counter-culture around during the 90s and took off since present day growing larger and larger. Hip hop, punk, hyppie and acid techno ravers had a sort of maridge and what's born is one of the wikest underground movement in the history. It's quite near burning man vibes but without any sort of capitalistic attitude, no organizations and totally unregulated. Many states established specific laws to deal with the movement. It started in England, then a big process forced the tribes (how we call our groups) from London to move away and the travel begun. Some time later France had an anti-rave law. And last year as the far right government rised here in Italy it was the first law they passed. A "little" big deal. I'm quite sure you would be amazed by the self camperized vans and trucks we use/used to live in, travel around and carry a lot of mad stuff for music/video production and decorations. If you wish some Key words to look for "free party movement" "23" "teknival" Big festivals are called teknival and the biggest was the "chzektek" near Prague. "Dragon festival" in Portugal was very big too. "Pinerolo Teknival" near Turin here in Italy was huge. Also "Bordel23" it's a big recurring party. And the one where all started "Castlemorton common festival" (1992)
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  17696. Last visited Adelaide (from Sydney) early 2021. It is very clean and quite friendly. Although I noticed prices becoming exorbitant compared to the larger cities such as Sydney and Melbourne. Eating out for example felt to be at least 20% extra. But it’s still quaint. Ben Folds (from Ben Folds Five) lived there for a while and loved it enough to write a song about it. Adelaide is Australia’s only city that has a true Mediterranean climate. Mild to cool winters that have moderate rainfall and warm to hot and dry summers. Actually Adelaide is the driest of the capital cities and is also unique in that it has very hard water (most Australian cities have soft water). It is clean although generally Australian cities are clean having travelled throughout Europe and the US. One of the few countries I travel to that I would consider to be cleaner would be Japan. A running joke with this is that a mate of mine often travelled between Australia, US and Japan. We both arrived in Sydney simultaneously on one of these trips. I came from Sand Francisco and he came from the worlds largest mega city, Tokyo. I said to him “finally back to a city that is cleaner, more organised and safer” He said “I’ve just come from a city that is cleaner, more organised and safer” Yes, Tokyo is an oxymoron in how it is the largest metro area of any city (38 million) yet easily one of the cheapest and safest…. And their train systems (many of them) are larger than New York, London and Paris combined (with a population that is almost as big as those 3 combined)
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  18117. Indeed many of our cars are actual Japanese imports. I have an 03 Subaru Legacy which spent the first 3 years of its life in Japan. I believe that this is because the Japanese don't tend to keep things for very long (houses are often demolished and rebuilt so that they can be sold as new builds ect). Thus once the honeymoon period of a new car wares off, they just ship them here and sell them for good money to us kiwis! I never used to think anything of it, until I got older and started realising the limited choice that many other countries actually have. New Zealand is the perfect test market (small population with a very diverse group of people, varying socioeconomic backgrounds, some living in cities, while others live in the country. Mountains to traverse, windy roads, roads of gravel/bitumen/dirt/nothing!), so many brands test their waters here. Last thing to note, we do have larger (american style) motorways, but they are only really around the big cities. Auckland has some that have more than two lanes per direction (oh come on if I don't mention the small bit of motorway just outside Wellington people will get upset! (it has 3 lanes each way)). For the most part, our population can't sustain nationwide dual carridgeways. Even if we could, the terrain is rather hostile to large infastructure projects like motorways, making them difficult to implement. Oh before I keep rambling on, the motorways here have a maximum speed limit of 100km/h (60m/h), and that is a pretty hard limit. I have heard that in the US, you often exceed the limit by 10 even 20m/h, that would not fly here. Overtaking is the only time you could get away with that, by the skin of your teeth! During Christmas time, there are often strict zero tolerance speeding restrictions put in place (although I haven't seen signs about it since Covid, guess it's the bloody tourists! We'll have to see this year I suppose) Good day my friend, and happy driving in our speed camera filled nation!
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  18181. This kind of transport is a work of art. Not only for those responsible for actually moving the load, but also for those planning these transports. They have to work out everything related to size, turning radius, used equipment and weight. These transformers can be easily 150 ton loads, and weight has to be spread out enough over all the axles and length of the rig to be sure that the roads and bridges in the route can handle this. The dollies used are officially known as modular platform trailers, they consist of sections having 2,3 or 5 axle lines and can be hooked together to form a platform of the desired capacity. All wheels are hydraulically steerable controlled by a computer to give each set of wheels the right angle and ride height for each set of wheels is also controlled by hydraulics so that height automatically adjusts when one axle line has to much load, like in riding up curbs. The steering can be controlled by the angle of the towbar, the operator in the back can override this system and steer manually, he can crab the whole thing (all wheels point in the same direction so that the rig moves sideways) and he can adjust the ride height to get over obstacles like the curbs or lower to fit under bridges. The tech in these trailers is amazing, however this type of trailer is not yet very common in the US, there you see more conventional following or mechanically steered trailers. It's mainly European companies who build these, like Scheuerle, Goldhofer, Nicolas, Broshuis and Cometto to name a few well known of them. The 'railcar' thing is a locomotive built by EMD/Progress Rail in Canada.
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  18205. That was a nice video👍. Adelaide is a nice little city😊. Australian cities in general are known for being clean compared to a lot of other places. Same with our public transport. A lot of overseas tourists comment on the cleanliness. All of the cities have those types of markets. We love our markets here, all kinds of markets! lol. I'd recommend visiting Australia mid to late spring to early summer. Or early to mid autumn. Especially if you plan on visiting some of our beaches and going swimming. You want it to be pleasant, not cold. A lot of people wrongly assume the whole country is hot year round and dry. Nope and nope lol. (With the exception of FNQ or the NT). Even in summer most places along the coast aren't super high temperatures all the time. Most coastal places in Qld for example almost never get crazy high 40+ degree temperatures. Melbourne does get quite a few 40+ in summer though. The humidity in some places, you will feel in summer. Especially in parts of Qld and NSW. But when you're traveling around you will only be in any place for a few days at the most, it's not the same as living there. So a couple of hot days wouldn't be a problem. I say this because Rob and Charlie from the UK (Rob Reacts channel) recently completed their first trip to Australia in early spring. And they spent much of the trip quite cold and it rained in all the cities they visited (Melb Sydney and Adelaide) at points in their trip. They had brought over dresses, shorts and t shirts. But early spring here still can be cold in places. They found the blue mountains very chilly. And they're from England! It's still snowing in some places in September. The weather can bounce around a lot this time of year. One day you're in short sleeves or a dress and the next day it's raining and cool and you've got long pants and a jumper on lol. Rob and Charlie actually uploaded a great video of them visiting Cleland wildlife park in South Australia. It's a really good video, on their "rob and Charlie As we are" vlog channel. 😊
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  19333. 100 Australian Slang Words & Phrases Aussie slang word/phrase Meaning A Cold One - Beer Arvo - Afternoon Aussie Salute - Wave to scare the flies Avo - Avocado Bail - To cancel plans Barbie - Barbecue Bathers - Swimsuit Beauty - Great! Billabong - A pond in a dry riverbed Billy Teapot - (in the outback on the fire) Bloody - Very Bloody oath - Yes! Or “That’s very true” Bludger - Someone who’s lazy Bogan - Someone who’s not very sophisticated Booze Bus - Police vehicle used to catch drunk drivers Bottle-O - Liquor shop: a place to buy alcohol Brekky - Breakfast Brolly - Umbrella Budgie Smugglers - Speedos Bush - “Out in the bush” or away from civilisation Choc - A Bloc Full Biccy - Biscuit Chook - Chicken Chrissie - Christmas Cobber - Very good friend Coldie - Beer Coppers - Policemen Crikey - an expression of surprise Crook - Being ill (I’m crook); a criminal (he’s a crook) Dag - Someone who’s a bit of a nerd or geek Daks - Trousers Deadset - That’s true, or true! Defo - Definitely Devo - Devastated Drongo - a Fool, ‘Don’t be a drongo mate’ Dunny - Toilet Durry - Cigarette Esky - An insulated container that keeps things cold Facey - Facebook Fair Dinkum - Honestly? Or, Yes honestly! Flannie / Flanno - flannelette shirt Flat out - Really busy Footy Football - (AFL / Aussie Rules) NRL rugby league or rugby G’day - Hello Galah - Not being bright, also a stupid person Gnarly - Awesome Going off - Busy, lots of people Good On Ya - Good work Goon - Wine in a box Hard yakka - Hard work Heaps - Loads, lots, many Hoon - Hooligan or a very bad driver Iffy - Bit risky or unreasonable Knickers - Female underwear Lappy - Laptop Larrikin - Someone who’s always up for a laugh Lollies - Sweets Maccas - McDonalds Manchester - Sheets / Linen etc Mate - Friend Mozzie - Mosquito No Drama - No problem / it’s ok No Worries - No problem / it’s ok No Wucka’s - A truly Aussie way to say ‘no worries’ Outback - The interior of Australia. Even more remote than “the bush” Pash - To kiss Pissed Off - An offensive/vulgar way of saying you are very annoyed Piss Up - A party, a get together and in Australia Pissed - Intoxicated, Drunk Piss Off - An offensive way to tell someone to go away or get lost. Rack Off - The less offensive way to tell someone to go away or get lost. Reckon - For sure Rellie / Rello - Relatives Ripper ‘You little ripper’ - That’s fantastic! Rooted - Tired or Broken Runners or Trainers - Sneakers Sanger - Sandwich Servo - Service Station / Garage Sheila - A woman Sick - Awesome; ‘that’s really sick mate’ Sickie - A sick day off work Slab - A carton of beers Snag - Sausage Stoked - Happy, Pleased Straya - Australia Stubby - A bottle of beer Stuffed - Tired Sunnies - Sunglasses Swag - Single bed you can roll up, a bit like a sleeping bag Tea Dinner Tinny - Can of beer or small boat Thongs - Flip Flops True Blue - Genuinely Australian Tucker - Food Two Up - A gambling game played on Anzac day U-IE - To take a U-Turn when driving Up yourself - Stuck up Woop Woop - Middle of nowhere “he lives out woop woop” Ya - You Yous - Plural of you
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  19870. Hey Ian, just to set somethings straight: GM used to have Opel as a make for the entire European mainland and later on they converted the Korean make Deawoo in to Korean Chevrolet made for Europe, which was not a success and so Korean Chevrolet was only briefly available. Vauxhall"s basically are the wrong side drive Opel's. All research and development of these converted Opel's in to Vauxhall's was done in Germany. The British were allowed to assemble their own wrong side drive re-badged Opel cars in the UK for their own local market. This also goes for the German European Ford cars. Ford Europe did their research and development in Köln Germany and the British were allowed to assemble the German developed cars in the wrong side drive version for their own market. It really is Germany which is the leading hand in the European Automotive Industry, and not the UK. The UK really were allowed by the Germans to build German cars for their own local UK market. Ford USA however decided suddenly not that long ago that they were an American manufacturer and so no more European Ford's (Ford Ka, Ford Fiesta, Ford Escort/Focus, Ford Sierra/Mondeo, Ford Scorpio) should be made and everybody across the entire globe if they wanted to drive Ford, they should purchase American made and produced Fords; models like the Ford Bronco, of which the Americans share an history with ... but the convincing majority of Europeans have never heard of a Ford Bronco: What on earth is a Ford Bronco..??? And Ford USA, do you really think you can sell all American vehicles to Europeans? Don't you think there is a very legit reason why Ford Germany has been so success full with their All European Fords..? Cadillac has tried to concur Europe (so that contains the European British Islands as well) several times but they never succeeded since there was no demand in Europe for Cadillac's. Now I am curious to know how much of an success Ford USA is going to be, knowing what Cadillac already knows...: There is no or hardly any demand for American cars in Europe! About those trucks in that magazine; These trucks are mostly UK trucks and they are not the standard in Europe. British made cars and British made trucks were sold in the UK and that's it. So you will hardly find any of these cars or trucks on the continental mainland of Europe. The UK really is nothing more and nothing less than just another little European country located on some European Islands in the North Sea. The UK Islands used to be connected by land to the continental mainland of Europe a long time ago and that connecting land now is the bottom of the North Sea.
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  19911. Ok part 1 were the fries, here's part 2 of the receipe for the belgian beef stew, "stoofvlees", there are variations that every family passes down but this is mine : You'll need : - 2 large onions - lumps of butter - 1 kg beef (nerve, cut into equal pieces) - pepper from the mill - pinches of salt - 2 bottles of brown beer, e.g. Sint Bernardus abt 12 or Westmalle double, ....- 2 bay leaves - 2 sprigs of thyme - 1 clove - 2 tablespoons (apple or pear) Liège syrup ( this will be a tricky ingredient to find, but in case you cant find it can ship you a jar ) - 1 slice of brown bread, wholeweath i guess - 2 tablespoons (sharp) mustard - dashes of natural vinegar - Now , lets get started: Peel the onions and chop them into not too fine pieces. Heat a large stewpot ( cast iron if you have one) and melt a knob of butter in it. Stew ( i hope thats the right word?) the onions in it over a medium heat. Do not let the onions brown. Heat a frying pan over a medium heat and melt a knob of butter in it. Sear the pieces of meat in the frying pan until they are golden brown. Season the meat with some ground pepper and a pinch of salt while baking Place the pieces of meat in the stew with onions. Keep the frying pan full of browned bits and pour the beer into it. Stir loose any bits of meat while the beer is brought to the boil (deglazing). Once the beer boils, pour it into the stew. Tie a few bay leaves and a few sprigs of fresh thyme together with a piece of kitchen twine. Let the herb bouquet simmer in the pot. Add the cloves and the Loon (or Liège) apple-pear syrup. Spread the brown bread generously with (sharp) mustard. Place the sandwich in the pot, buttered side down. Let the stew simmer over a low heat for one and a half to three hours. The lid does not have to be on the pot. The cooking time depends on the quality of the meat. Stir the pot occasionally and check in between whether the meat is sufficiently cooked. Only once the stew sauce has reached the desired thickness should you place the lid on the stew. Finish the stew with a small dash of natural vinegar and stir everything. Taste and add some freshly ground pepper and a pinch of salt to taste. Not easy to get right, but heavenly meal when you do. This is the pinacle of belgian grandma's powerfood, served with fries and beer it is widely regarded as our national dish.
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  19974. The turboprop planes all were DeHavilland Dash 8. Sadly basically the only turboprops left in Europe with rare exceptions of ATR72 and nowadays very rar Grumman Metro and Fokker F50. And you'd be amazed! From that very storm, I saw an on-board video of a crew landing their plane. They were smiles all over! Finally some fun on the job, an interesting ride, not just the bog-standard dreadfully boring fully automatized ILS-Approach on autopilot, actual flying! 🤗 …while the passengers in the rear ruminated on the in-flight meal. I wonder if they noticed a change in taste. With the sideslip angle it doesn't matter what size the plane is, by the way. This is just a matter of the plane's speed and the speed of the crosswind. As all airliners touch down around 100 to 110 kts, they all have similar sideslip angles, be it a 737 or an A-380 (As you rightly spotted). The Dash 8 touches down at much slower speed, thus the greater angle with these planes. With the gust sensitivity size isn't really that much of a factor, actually. The area load, the weight each square foot or square meter carries is the key. A plane of little area load will feel gusts and turbulence more than a one of high area load. That was the main reason why the MRCA Tornado got its variable sweep wing: For high speed low level flight, the wings get swept back all the way. This hides a good chunk of the wing in the fuselage and makes the plane swoosh through ground turbulence with only minor bumps. As the plane was intended to zoom through under radar detection, a low disturbance and fast ride in this turbulent air is key to be able to do the plane's work. As far as I know, there still is no other fighter that can maintain the Tornado's speed at its bee's knees altitude.
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  20307. I spent 5 years as child growing up in Coober Pedy which is a opal mining town in South Australia. Also part of the Mad Max landscape, I think the last of the Mel Gibson films was partially filmed there. Fascinating place, when I was there you would really never seen grass, it was all red dirt "bulldust". Now thats changed a wee bit, but our school oval was dirt and the golf course was actually black due to a layer of oil; no grass :) Over 1 million holes dot the landscape where pilot holes are put down looking for opal and sadly a few tourists have gone down them. Its not something you survive and lots of signs everywhere saying DONT WALK BACKWARDS. As for the Aboriginal population, its my understanding theres over 250 "nations" throughout Australia, many still at war with each other. This is part of the massive hurdle we face in attempting to have a united aboriginal people like the Maori manage in New Zealand. The Maori heritage is massively promoted in NZ but that doesnt happen much in South Australia. There are pockets of it for sure, but it could be much better. Our animals are amazing but its a bit like any native animal. When I go to the US I spend hours watching squirrels and deer, because we don't have them here. However Ill barely even slow down as I drive past the field of Kangaroos on the way to the shops. And for those that think Kangaroo's hop down most streets...well...not entirely correct :) But those suburbs on the fringes of parks or nature corridors etc can often see them. Youre more likely to see them dead on the side of the road than live and hopping about.
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  20320. 5:08 Judging by the model of the car (Renault Laguna) and the policeman's attire, I would say it was not an undercover officer's car but rather a close security officer's, here in France, close security of the president and officials is not Secret Service's jurisdiction but Police Nationale's (not to be mistaken with Police Municipale, which is more like the local cops, they are often regarded as bonified mall cops, as some of them may have guns but in most cases they won't and most of their job is giving parking fines). Edit : 8:01 these are indeed more "undercover" cars, those are cars the anti-crime brigade, known as "BAC" here, would use. These were a Peugeot 207 (the black one) and a Renault Megane, both of them exist with 200 HPish engines, have great chassis and are easily modified because they're used in racing series notably rallye and there are a ton of them on the roads (most of them without the biggest engine available and even more without mods, as driving a modded cars here on the road is very very risky regarding your driving license and potential seizing of your car; if you mod it, it's track only ;)) which make them very good cars for those kind of endeavours. About hints giving them out, if they're parked and you can get up close there might be some cluey details, like the CB radio, blue removable gyro and Police sun blocks you can get, but in traffic you would only notice them when it's too late ^^ These were shot at Versailles, it's about 15 miles away from Paris, there's a 'small' château there, nice gardens :P
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  20377. Inspiration for you: Andechser Doppelbock Dunkel Andechser Weissbier Hell Büble Pils Weihenstephaner Hefeweissbier Paulaner Hefe-Weißbier Ayinger Celebrator Doppelbock Schneider Weisse Original Augustiner Helles Erdinger Weissbier Hofbräu Original Franziskaner Weissbier Tegernseer Helles Rothaus Pils Krombacher Pils Warsteiner Premium Verum Bitburger Premium Pils Radeberger Pilsner Jever Pilsener Veltins Pilsener Flensburger Pilsener Köstritzer Schwarzbier Weihenstephaner Vitus Gaffel Kölsch Reissdorf Kölsch König Pilsener Schöfferhofer Weizen Maisel's Weisse Original Schlenkerla Rauchbier Märzen Hacker-Pschorr Weisse Hofbräu Dunkel Andechser Vollbier Hell Augustiner Dunkel Löwenbräu Original Hacker-Pschorr Münchner Gold Schlenkerla Rauchbier Weizen Weltenburger Kloster Asam Bock Flensburger Dunkel Veltins Grevensteiner Früh Kölsch Stiegl Goldbräu Krombacher Weizen Erdinger Dunkel Rothaus Tannenzäpfle Bitburger Drive (Alkoholfrei) Tegernseer Hell Schneider Weisse Tap 6 Aventinus Ayinger Bräuweisse Augustiner Edelstoff Weihenstephaner Kristallweißbier König Ludwig Weissbier Schöfferhofer Grapefruit Weihenstephaner Korbinian Licher Weizen Köstritzer Kellerbier Warsteiner Premium Dunkel Jever Fun (Alkoholfrei) Radeberger Zwickelbier Flensburger Gold Maisel's Weisse Dunkel Hofbräu Oktoberfestbier Andechser Bergbock Hell Paulaner Oktoberfest Bier Schneider Weisse Tap 7 Mein Original Hacker-Pschorr Oktoberfest Märzen Franziskaner Hefe-Weissbier Leicht Erdinger Pikantus Rothaus Märzen Export Bitburger Festbier Tegernseer Spezial Krombacher Radler (Zitrone) Weihenstephaner Oktoberfestbier Gaffel Sonnenhopfen Reissdorf Wiessbier König Pilsener Kellerbier Schöfferhofer Grapefruit Alkoholfrei Veltins Radler (Zitrone) Früh Radler Stiegl Radler (Zitrone) Krombacher Radler (Grapefruit) Erdinger Pikantus (Alkoholfrei) Rothaus Radler (Zitrone) Bitburger Radler (Zitrone) Tegernseer Radler (Zitrone) Schneider Weisse Tap 5 Meine Hopfenweisse Ayinger Jahrhundert Bier Augustiner Pils Weihenstephaner Hefeweissbier Dunkel König Ludwig Dunkel Schöfferhofer Kristallweizen Gaffel Kölsch Naturtrüb Reissdorf Kölsch (Alkoholfrei) König Pilsener Alkoholfrei Schlenkerla Rauchbier Urbock Weltenburger Kloster Barock Dunkel Flensburger Kellerbier Veltins Grevensteiner Landbier Früh Kölsch (Alkoholfrei) Stiegl Weisse Krombacher Weizen (Alkoholfrei) Erdinger Weißbier (Alkoholfrei)
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  20546. I have a repply for an old video (a week old because I forgot to post back then) The thing with the service intervals/oil change intervals depends a lot on the homologation that the car has... But cars that require ACEA or specific standards from the manufacturer and are approved for 15k kms must use fully synthetic oils that do not have more than 20% mineral additives -No minerals (5000km or 3000m) -No semi-synthetic, usually 30/70 or 40/60 mix, with the highest percentage being the mineral base, (7000-8000km or 5000m) -No Syntetic Blend, usually 50/50 mix between mineral base and synthetic additives) (8000-10000km or 7000m) -American synthetic oils are normally a similar percentage to semi-synthetic, but the other way around, that is, between 60 and 70% synthetic base (10000km or 8000ml) -A European synthetic oil, in order to achieve approval and can be labeled as synthetic, must be at least 80% synthetic based, with a maximum of 20% mineral additives, most of which are around 85% synthetic base (15000km or 10000m and above) or higher For example, both Mobil and Shell have 2 types of synthetic oils, the normal synthetic that meets the GM Dexross standard (sorry if I misspelled it) and the synthetic "European Formula". Which complies with VW, MB, BMW, PSA, Ford and a very long etc of standards which also includes GM Standard and off course it's more expensive, in Shell its the one with the Ferrari approval logo And those Syntetic oils must last 15k kms, otherwise they would not be approved even for being labeled as Syntetic oils in Europe 👍 What the filter says is something else, and that is why the manufacturer is the one who gives you the maintenance interval, and that's why in European cars if you go for an aftermarket oil filter you should go for at least one than was homologated for your car service interval And the manufacturer its the one who gives you that info Not the corner/community workshop Not the uncle/cousin Not the dealer Not the agency
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  20732. I am a Dutch driver who visited the US (Nevada and California) once, so everything I say is based on MY experience. 9:37 We pay taxes for that. In Dutch we call it "Wegenbelasting", roughly trandslated to "road tax" and the amount is depending on the weight of the vehicle and the province. For me it is around € 66,- per month for a 1403 kg (~3,093 pound) vehicle (Opel/Vauxhall Zafira in province Overijssel). For reference, our Peugeot 206 - which weighs 925kg (~2,039 pounds) - costs us around € 27,- per month. So the weight is playing a big role here. 10:05 I think it's been proven that this system works better, but I actually prefer the "keep your lane" principle. I think it works on longer highways. 12:42 I've driven the autobahn as well and it's a hoot! People know what they can expect. You can drive 130mph and still be taken over by another vehicle, so they take that into account. I've driven around 215kmh (~ 133mph) and I got taken over by a simple, small Vauxhall/Opel Corsa B (small hatchback and even the most sportive version can't get that speed). It's ridiculous, but the Germans know that! And that's why it works. 13:35 I don't know about other countries, but distraction wile driving is getting worse nowadays. The percentage might be small compared to other countries, but it is a big deal here. We have specialized camera's for this (holding your phone wile driving). 16:22 That is a Seat Ibiza. They share alot of parts with Volkswagen. 16:30 I don't know about the regulations in the US, but here you can see it's licenseplate. It differs from the licenseplate of the vehicle, because it has four wheels. That means it has a higher load capacity and therefore it needs a own licenseplate. Drivers with a "regular" drivers' license are not allowed to carry this trailer.
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  21160. I actually own the same version pinzgauer you highlighted. I have to say after owning several hard off road vehicles the Pinz is by far the most enjoyable. Mine is a Swiss 710k built in 1976. Granted it doesn't have all the modern amenities of today's vehicles but for me that's a big part of the attraction. The capabilities of the Pinz is absolutely amazing! Especially considering its age. It's is so well balance & with the majority of the weight low in the drive train it's extremely stable off road. As you shown & I can attest the off road speed is impressive! As for comfort, it's by far one of the most comfortable off road vehicles I've ever driven. The suspension system & extreme ground clearance takes you smoothly over obstacles. I took it on a 1000 mile on & off road trek last August. Although the ride was smooth this vehicle was made for off road. It is understandably loud inside at highway speeds. Mainly from the drive train. Mine is completely stock with the exception of the SSI system installed for improved ignition performance. The Unimog has its place & I respect it's performance & history but for me the Pinz fits & exceeds my needs for overall enjoyment. It's truly a piece of history! I didn't expect how much attention it draws. There aren't many of them in the states & it definately turns heads everywhere I take it. I'm currently planning an overland conversion with the goal to keep it as original as possible. Great content highlighting this amazing vehicle! Best & keep.em coming!
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  21551. The Northern and Southern Hemispheres have opposite seasons, if that’s not in school curriculums then it should be. Australian weather is very diverse from winter snow in the south eastern mountains to tropical in the north. It can be difficult to pick a time of year to visit, if you want to see Uluru or other inland desert places it’s best to come in winter (June through August) rather than summer (December through February)as daytime temperatures get very high during summer. Summer time also corresponds to the wet season on the north coastal areas, and I mean wet like torrential rain. A large part of Kakadu will literally be underwater at that time of year, and it is also tropical cyclone season (hurricane season to Americans). The southern part of Australia is probably best visited in summer or autumn, I live in Melbourne and I believe March is the best time to visit here. If you want to see AFL then April to October is the time to be here. The story about four seasons in one day in Melbourne is an exaggeration but when the frontal systems move through the wind direction can swing very quickly and temperatures can also drop quite quickly. As has been said it is no longer permitted to climb Uluru. Uluru is the remains of an ancient river delta thats had its sand compacted into sandstone and then tilted by geological forces over many millions of years. If you like geological formations then Uluru is not the only thing to see in central Australia the McDonnell ranges(Alice springs is nestled in them) is the ancient eroded remains of a mountain range once as tall as the European alps, one should not expect it to be all flat desert. Remember Australia is a whole continent there is huge diversity.
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  21870. I the "SUV" is a SMUR = service mobile d'urgence et de réanimation => French for mobile emergency and resuscitation service. Because in french they're is a squad of mobile doctorswho provides first medical care directly on the road. Here a deepl traduction of the wiki article : The mobile emergency and resuscitation service, now called mobile emergency and resuscitation structure, often abbreviated to SMUR, is a hospital service consisting of one or more vehicles (called, depending on the country and the category, a mobile hospital unit, a radio-medical vehicle, etc.) intended to provide emergency medical assistance outside the hospital, often in conjunction with an ambulance. As well as when a patient requires medical care or monitoring. Indeed, certain patients and/or certain pathologies require emergency care at their bedside, and this, before any other mobilization. In this case, by calling 112 (formerly 100), the regulator will decide (depending on the pathology) to move an SMUR to the area, in order to provide extra-hospital care essential to the patient's survival. We can therefore affirm that the SMUR is an extension of the hospital structure to which it is attached. If the patient cannot come to the hospital, the hospital (the SMUR in this case) will go to the patient. These vehicles are equipped in different ways depending on the country, but often contain at least a doctor, a nurse and a specialized ambulance driver. The SMUR is not to be confused with the SAMU when it exists in some countries. The United States and Canada do not have SMURs, but use MICUs (mobile intensive care units) for private and military transport. Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)
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  21908. I really enjoyed this video. And I agree with quite a few of the things he mentioned. I'm an Aussie born and bred in Queensland and speed cameras frustrate the heck out of me (I've had more than a few speeding fines as a result of the 'flash for cash' cameras lol). The traffic lights issue really isn't a problem as most lights have a special 'turn left' lane so there is no need to wait to turn left even on a red signal. He's right about the sun, although I managed to get sunburned in Las Vegas and walking around Disneyland so I don't really think there's that much of a difference. It's the humidity that can get to many visitors. It can be brutal in summer. I laughed when he mentioned the flies. It's true!!! Even I hate the flies here. It's because of them that we have the 'great Aussie salute' and we actually do wear hats with corks hanging from the brim in an attempt to keep them off the face. And the dang March flies and Horse flies will give you a nasty painful bite. I have visited my friends in the States many times and I've loved every minute of my time over there. I've been on many road trips with my friends and seen so may wonderful places and there is very little I didn't like. The people I've met on my travels have always been truly warm and welcoming which is wonderful. I think the only two things I could say I don't like or that frustrate me about the US is 1. Tipping and 2. Sales Tax. We don't have tipping anywhere in Australia (unless you want to) but I think that's because our wages pretty much make up for it. You can tip if you want to, but nobody is going to be upset or offended if you don't. And when out shopping here, the price on the tag is what you will pay at the checkout. I just couldn't get used to adding the sales tax on when paying for something. I love your videos and have really enjoyed getting to know you and your family through them. I really hope you do get to come visit us one day and if you do PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE come to Brisbane and make your way up the coast to Cairns and Port Douglas. You will be welcomed with open arms.....I promise!!
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  22248. cool video reaction. That video shows the strengh of EU trucks. Making the most out of small space. It is very comfy to drive an automatic truck and its a lot easier when the truck knows "I can do the next hill in 10th gear" However not learning how to move a manual truck, you miss alot from the job. I own a 32year old Mercedes SK with a manual split-gearbox (please do a reaction to that kind of truck) and an Actros MP 4. The old one is way more fun and people always look stunned and happy to see such an old truck. I went to a few truck festivals since summer with the SK and i always got the same kind of questions / comments. Compared to modern trucks, the SK is tiny. So "young truckers" always are like this ""Wow its older thn me! But...where do you sleep?"" Me: "Uhm.... in te bed?!" Them ""Bed? That thing has a bed? WHERE??" Me:"Uhm like yours, behind the seat?" They cant understand that and have to look for themself.... i love that. The comments on the other hand are from veteran drivers. They are like this "Can you fire it up? I wanna here a propper truck once more" or "All of these kids here, they call themselfs ""tucker"" because their boss spends money on chrome or plastics, but 90% of the driver here couldnt move a Mercedes double H split ...they simply couldnt (the reason i put trucker in "" "" in germany a quote on qoute trucker is a bad thing. The correct translation is Lorry driver or long distance truck driver. if a german says trucker ... well its a kid with more Horsepower thn brain ;) )
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  22799. Australian houses tend to be different in layout from UK and the US. I've noticed the UK and US more commonly have the dining room with attached kitchen towards the front of the house as well as the lounge and or living room. In Australia the kitchen, dining and living rooms are almost always at the back of the house...this makes it easier to integrate a landscaped backyard with entertainment areas accessed by large sliding or bifolding doors to join the inside and outside...Australia also tends to have a formal lounge room at the front of the house. Older houses (1890's - 1930's) tend to have lounge rooms and bedrooms in the front...then a formal lounge room that sometimes has a separate front door with plenty stained glass. The kitchen is always at the back along with a lean too laundry and toilet. These old houses tend to be quite ornate with leaded and/or stained glass in the front windows...solid, double brick or stone construction with ten to twelve foot high ceilings that usually have ornate plasterwork...these houses look fantastic when the rear half is demolished (kitchen, laundry and toilet) and a good quality proper extension is built with modern kitchen and living area, bathroom and luandry. Older houses in the majority of times will have a bathroom (bath and shower) and a standalone toilet room...no one wants poo water droplets floating around the bathroom where your toothbrush is kept. This design also allows access to both a bath or shower to one person and the toilet for another at the same time...whereas a combined bathroom is only available for one person. Newer houses in Australia have the best (in my opinion) bathrooms I've seen...today we tend to have a mirrored sink and vanity area with plenty storage and electrical outlets as an alcove off either the main or secondary hallways...off this alcove there will be two doors, one for the dedicated toilet and one for a dedicated bathing/showering room. This makes the whole bathroom accessible to three or four people at a time...one can use the loo, one in the bath or shower and one or two using the vanity to brush teeth, hair, shave or make-up without getting in eachothers way...this makes having so many bathrooms in a house less necessary...although we still usually have multiple.
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  22985. Little fun fact for the first car: showing the plate can cost you money in germany. because it is considered private information ( pretty stupid, but laws) - also it having a plate means it's road legal! Coming back to the first point: MZ means that the car is registered in the City of Mainz, the two letters after as well as the numbers are 'random' and the H at the end means 'Historical'. This denotes a car that is at least 25 Years old - and keept in the condition it had with original parts. So yes, this is a 40+ years old car. The Corolla is registered in 'Neuwied am Rhein' (NR). The BMW with the red plate has a 'Überführungskennzeichen' - A plate that allows the streetworthiness while the car is not officalliy listed. KUS is Kusel, a town in Rhineland-Pfalz. The 'renault' is actually a Peugeot, as for teh make, i think it is a 206. I dont know how belgian numberplates are differnciated :') (still means that thing is road legal in EU) The Porsche is registered in Ostholstein (OH), also the numberplate is only valid through the months of May (05) to October (10). -they do not pay taxes for the other months. The white Porsche is from Wesel (WES). The Audi is registered in the Netherlands, thier numberplate system has me confused many times already. teh second Audi is registered in the Hometown of Audi - Ingolstadt (IN), the following Suzuki is from Weilheim-Schongau (WM), the night time Mini is from Olpe (OE), the following Renault is from France... we don't talk about thier numbering system, but still all cars up to this point are road legal in the EU. The Czech one has a real nice launch. The brit that follwos has to wank this Ford like a madman at the curve. Funfact for british numberplates: they stay with the car. If you sell it, the car keeps the plate. Thats wierd to me, because as soon as I 'unregister' my car to sell it (or scrap it...) the number plate can be transfered to my new car. After the brit we have a very beautiful car, registered in the even so beautiful City of Cologne (K), again a Ford from the Netherlands. The two audis also from the Netherlands. The Peugeot with those wings on top looks ridiculous, put it gets the job done. It's registered in teh City of Remagen (RE). The Opel Ascona is registered in Ludwigsburg (LB) and also a Historical Car (with the H on the end of the number plate). The Citroën DS was a car that was rallied and pushed to its limitets. As far as I know a black number plate means historical in France. The BMW after that is from Daun (DAU). The Nissan is from the Kanton of Zürrich (ZH) in Switzerland. ... Now way to many brits. Anyways. Great reaction :-)
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  23176. It's good to see you followed the suggestion to try out Cue Club 2. I would like to offer a few remarks about the game itself: 1. Your remark about the computer being not too good at snooker is true. Even on the highest difficulty level it tends to make highly questionable shots quite often. Exception: if the computer is snookered, that is they don't have a direct shot towards a ball on, their cue ball seems to have sat nav, even on the lowest difficulty. The computer's significantly better at playing pool though. 2. In the game settings, there's an option to show the value of the ball you're pointing at with the aiming circle. To explain the situation when you accidentally hit the green instead of the yellow: normally that would've been a "foul and a miss", for not hitting the yellow first and the ref judging that you didn't make a good enough effort to hit the yellow. This means that the opposing player has 3 options instead of 2: play from where the balls are, make you play again from where the balls are, and make you play again from where the balls were (the extra option). In this case, a "free ball" was awarded as well. This means that the opposing player can nominate a different colour to pot, and it gets the points value of the ball on for this shot. The "free ball" was awarded because it was not possible to direct hit both edges of the ball on from the position of the balls on the table. Also, two small bits of final advice: 1. Learn to play around with spin on the cue ball, especially back spin, it helps a lot. Once you have more of a feeling for that, you'll be able to run up half centuries (break of 50) and centuries (break of 100). 2. Chalk your cue tip at least every 3 shots. It affects cue ball behaviour in the game.
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  23200. Nope, this is not a joke. It may be silly, it's not visually appealing to me, but the only things I see changing are minor. They will hopefully if not probably offer a center console version. I can see specs changing slightly with reality. They will have to still incorporate things like cameras and panels which this prototype did not have. I think the angular design besides being a personal desire of Elons stems from his developed philosophy of the easier to manufacture, the better. The panels are stainless steel, but much more resilient than a DeLorean. Talking to the guy who manages the DeLorean shop in Houston, they have to do a lot of work to get a good looking exterior on those things. Motor Trend came out with an article stating how instead of paint, if you wanted a different color you could just wrap the thing. I think it will be more popular than my first impression would have given it credit for, but will always be polarizing. It will not be an F-150 killer, for one due to the look, but for 2 Ford will be coming out with an all electric version of that vehicle as well. Ford's Mustang Mach-E was an impressive first step. They are not as efficient as Tesla, and the depreciation will be far worse with the Fords and any others save Rivian due to inferior battery technology. Rivian will have similar if not better battery tech, but their price point is too high. All of this said, I do think that if Tesla came out with a more conventional looking design, more in line visually with the Semi or other Tesla family members, they would make a killing in the market place. Even if they did, though, they'd have a hard time ramping up production to meet the demand the big boys see for at least another decade. My $0.02.
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  23484. Good vid, got a nice chuckle from the cake...my lady rolled her eyes hahahaha. I think I posted on one of your first videos asking if it was lifted or leveled. Your videos kept popping up, and I recently subscribed. After about 10 years of eyeballing Power Wagon's, and a couple years of getting serious, I'm happy to report that I have a '17 on order in gun metal grey. Can't wait. As far as switches, a little fwi for the other readers...the Upfitter aux switches get power from the fuse box, but have their own place to plug in wires and pigtails into near the brake booster. Unfortunately, it isn't available with the Power Wagon for whatever reason, and is a complete PITA to add later as they are computer controlled and part of the can-bus architecture. If someone finds out different let me know. After doing some brainstorming I have a solution....somewhat. For people with the overhead console and homelink buttons. I'm planning to get 3 seperate, or a 4 channel 315mhz receiver(s) with relays and using those to control lights. Depending on draw I may have to have those relays trip another larger relay. A little bit of a project, but will look nice and clean. With three buttons I'll have enough for front lights, rear lights, and onboard air. Fwiw I plan on going to 4.56's even with 35's when the duratrac's wear out. I know I'll be fine without them on the road, but before the engine changed to the 6.4 that's what it came with, and I feel like that's what it should of came with. The mpg may change my tune though after a year of driving it hahahahah.
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  23502. Brake Bias is the ratio between the braking pressure across the front and rear axles when you stomp on the pedal. 58.5 means 58.5% of the pressure goes to the front wheels and the rest to the rear. When they start braking for a corner, drivers almost always go 100% on the brakes since they have a lot of downforce pushing the car down, so the wheels can't lock. More rear brake bias will allow the car to turn easier, while more front bias will allow a more stable, but might be slightly slower braking (that's why most cars with high downforce almost never go above 60.0 BB). As they slow down the downforce decreases and they start to ease off on the braking pedal and start turning in. Now brake migration comes into play. It's what happens in that phase of braking and turning in while easing off the pedal. When they initially hit the brakes a lot of the car's weight shifts forward, thus more front brakes pressure. But then when easing off this weight "migrates" to the rear. You might want 58.5% BB for the initial braking, but now that you are easing off and starting to turn in, you might want 54.0, then 0.05 secs later you release the brakes a bit more and want 48.7 then another 0.1sec later even 30.5 to make the car turn in even more. The brake migration system makes it possible by automatically and constantly adjusting the balance based on the force you press the brakes with, the steering angle and the wheel speed. Then once you release the brake pedal completely it automatically goes back to the selected Brake Bias by the driver.
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  23570. There are plenty of highlight packages which should give you an idea of the game more generally. Here is a recent game from Australia to start, and a great reaction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbH7y__jkDY A cricket ball is leather over a cork centre. It is slightly larger and slightly heavier than a baseball. Most bowls in cricket are bouncing, and it is generally considered bad to deliver a full toss. Also a full toss that would continue over the height of the stumps is a no ball, essentially a foul. For a no ball ( which can also occur if a bowler steps over the crease while bowling, or throws the ball), the ball is replayed, and the batting team gets a run added to their total. Any runs scored off the no ball also count, and a batsman cannot get out on a no ball. That last set of balls from Lyon - Nathan Lyon is an off-spin bowler. He doesn't bowl as fast, but he turns the ball off the pitch. Much like Shane Warne, only Warne was a leg-spinner. The main difference is the direction the ball spins. Here, the deliveries from the machine were going left to right, Warne typically spun it right to left. In regards to the scoring - the score shows two parts: runs and wickets. I most parts of the world, the score is shown as runs scored by the batting team, followed by wickets taking for the bowling team. So a score of 100/2 is 100 runs, 2 wickets lost. For some reason, in Australia this is reversed, so wickets are shown first (so the score above would be 2/100). These guys were scoring themselves based on how well they hit it and how many runs they might be expected to get, compared to times they would have got out. You can hear them say things like they've nicked it (hit with the edge of the bat) to the wicketkeeper, or hit it to a fielder, or been stumped.
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  23646. could need a test of my vocabulary from time to time... video ALF Aerosol - Fire Truck (Löschfahrzeig "Extinguishing (pain to type...) Vehicle") The Aerosol Fire Truck - short ALF but exhaust/smoke or turbo extinguisher is a fire truck that disperses water and with high pressure / over long distances up to 120 m blows it into a source of fire to extinguish a fire or bind(?) out of the air for that can in the exhaust of the 2 movable streamturbines water or extinguishing foam be added bot turbines are on a 180° rotation platform - can be moved 45° up and 10° down the tasks are i.e.fast and intensive fire fighting at giant fires, fire fighting at chemical plants, binding(?) of toxic gases and fumes, cooling of objects in danger of catching fire, airing/cooling of tunnels the turbo extinguisher of the factory/plant fire brigade of Evonik industries in Rheinfelden Baden is on a chassis from man - the installations from dicosy (?) part of the equipment - 2 steel turbines with 6000 PS each, pump 8000 L / minute, extinguishing foam "add-er" with 2000 L foam on board mainly the water supply through "A type hoses" and than through 4 hollow jet pipes in the exhaust stream injected controlled form the control center int he car or through remote control depending on the wind the water aerol can be carried acros long distances ear protection is mandatory cause "the deployment turns into an airport" the turbines cant only be powered by kerosene but with other fuels like petroleum too the tank suffices for 1 hour runtime but can be fueled from the outside and run this way continuously without break our mascot for the deployments is like the alien of the same name ALF video Einsatzfahrzeuge emergency vehicles (rough translations/commentary added if no english counterpart (normed DIN 14507,14530) Kommandowagen (KdoW 10) "command car" for the mobile leadership of the deployment (small tasks) Einsatzleitzwagen (ELW 11) "command car for bigger tasks Werkstattwagen (17) - repair-shop car Mannschaftstransportwagen (MTW 19) - personal transporter Hilfeleistungsfahrzeug (HLF 44) - car with technical equipment like jackhammer, generators, ladders, respiratory protection surveillance equipment, chemical hazard suits, etc.......... depending on type/job Universallöschfahrzeug (ULF 29/1) - "universally extinguisher" Universallöschfahrzeug (ULF 29/2) - "universally extinguisher" Wechselladerfahrzeig (WLF 65/1) - transporter for specialized container for situations with toxix substances etc... Abrollbehälter Gefahrgut (AB-GG) customizable container with equipment for dealing with hazardous substances Wechselladerfahrzeig (WLF 65/2) - transporter for specialized container for situations with toxix substances etc... Abrollbehälter Trockenlöschmittel (AB-Tro) "fire entinguishing powder" Aerosollöschfahrzeig (ALF 70) - see previous video GW Logigistik (GW L1/74) - gw logistics Rettungswagen (RTW 83) - ambulance E-SMART Werkschutz - plant/factory security last video evonik Zikun Turbolöscher (turbo extinguisher from zikun) not much to translate - maybe the specs at the end but mostly numbers/self explaining ************************** not as bad as I expected but yeah my vocabulary needs some more refreshing (and I much for time for it...) mfg Olli
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  23787. I live in Queensland but I was born in Sydney, NSW. We bleed blue. I would correct the way you say maroons but I like it pronounced wrong. The Blues won this year and they will win again next year. My youngest son has been here since he was married, in Cairns. On State of Origin nights all of the lights in and on his house are blue. Both of our Countries have British heritage. You used to spell words the same as we did in the British way and we still do. When my first 3 kids were small they went to a testing school where anything new was tested on them before going into all public schools. Which was mostly great and amazing but sometimes weird. Like for 12 weeks I went every morning and my job was to swing kids around by their feet. Roll them down a hill in plastic coloured barrels and other interesting stuff but we never hurt them, they laughed all through it. These children were from the slow learning class and they decided that balance and coordination had a lot to do with learning. They were right and in 12 weeks we had no slow learning class, they all caught up. We loved that school. They also decided when my son was learning to spell it didn’t matter how they spelled a word as long as it sounded like the word. He has 3 grown sons and I still try to correct his spelling. That program was a fail. Most programs were not. Every 2 classrooms from age 5 had a full kitchen inside on the right and a pottery room on the left at the front of their classrooms. The average classroom had 12 students. The Library always played the same music softly in the background because it made kids want to read. I once went to my eldest sons room to pick him up. The kids were all up against the back wall with the furniture and it looked like the teacher was being beaten up by one of the boys. They were rolling around the floor until she heard me ask if I should get help. No, they did that every Friday afternoon. The boys Mother took him to a bus stop when he was 4 and she never came back to get him. He lived with his elderly grandmother and he would get so mad at women he would beat his grandmother up. Since the teacher had started this as part of his therapy he never hurt his grandmother again. After I found out he also had a lot more parents. I love that you shared some of your Country with us. Do the Oregon Mountains actually go through Oregon? Many of us have been there more than once, not where you showed us. I haven’t been there but we are so isolated that we love to travel to other Countries. We also have mostly American and Canadian TV. The Australian content is way higher now since I grew up. We have many of your movies being made in QLD because of the Pandemic. Our first cases of the virus was brought here by Tom Hanks and his wife, plus some crew. Tom has made many movies here and he is so normal. They just started a new movie with Julia Roberts and George Clooney. I think they like not being mobbed here. QLD is still Covid free but our borders will open on Dec 17th. We have a release date and I get to see my children for the first time since it started. I have seen my son in QLD.
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  23849. Geez the us is #1 at railing its workforce in every way. $7.25/hr as minimum wage i would not get out of bed for. I had no idea that companies only allowed workers to do enough hours to NOT qualify for any benefits and i certainly wasnt aware of the US not paying holidays/ sick leave etc. I had recently applied for a job as a greenkeeper in the US, but its safe to say i wont be taking it if its offered to me. Back here in Australia i get 4 weeks annual leave (holidays) & 2 weeks worth of sick leave every year which we can bank if we dont use it (annual leave anyway, the sick leave resets at each anniversary). I guess the difference is our work unions fought to get this kind of agreement with the government to protect industries from strikes ( here you still get paid for striking if youre a member of said union). Sorry Ian but the US sucks when it comes to employment (or should i say exploitation). One of our prime ministers (John Howard to be exact) attempted to bring in exploitation laws for the company that meant you couldnt earn extra money for working more than your normal contracted hours. Most workplaces and unions did not agree that this was fair and therefore didnt apply it, although some places still do. My employer for example doesnt pay overtime on saturdays (where generally you get paid your hourly rate + another half), they make the people rostered on for the saturday finish work 45 minutes earlier each day for the week theyre rostered on so they only work 38 hours that week. My boss is on a salary so none of us are permitted to work on sundays or public holidays except my boss so they dont pay penalty rates on anyones wages). Its a shit go but far better than what goes on in the US. As the saying goes... "Work to live, dont live to work".
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  23885. Can’t remember if I told you about this on one of your football videos, so pardon me if I’m repeating it. The story of the Australian “drop bears” is hilarious. Us Aussies are notorious for taking the piss out of foreigners, and the drop bear legend is one of our favourite ways. We like to con people that it is a true story. Many years ago some advertising guru created an advertisement for Bundaberg Rum, (Bundaberg is a town in Queensland.) The ad featured a group of young guys camping, and a bunch of young girls camping nearby. The guys tried to convince the girls to come over to their camp, but the girls weren’t having any of it. One of the boys said you better be careful over there because of “drop bears.” The girls laughed it off but, (pause for some info. Every advertisement for Bundaberg Rum featured a big white polar bear as a mascot.) The polar bear snuck around through the bushes behind the girls and climbed a tree. He then jumped out of the tree into the bushes behind the girls. The girls screamed their heads off, and ran to the protection of the boys. This brilliant advertisement captured the imagination of every Australian, and the drop bears are now a big part of Australian folklore. 🤣😹 You should also google, “Scottish reporter pranked by Aussies.” This is hilarious. The poor girl is at a rural property where they introduce her to a “Drop Bear.” They dress her up in protective gear befitting a member of a SWAT team. Then they hand her a koala. She is petrified until an aussie dressed only in a singlet retrieves the koala from her. That’s when she wakes up and says, “You fooking Aussies, I should have known better.” It’s a scream. 🤣😹. NOTE. Koalas are very smart. Even in the wild, they know the difference between aggressive behaviour, and an act of kindness, such as offering them a drink of water etc. They won’t hurt you if you’re nice to them, however if you do act in a threatening or aggressive way, they are more than capable of ripping you to pieces.
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  23892. There is a story i think you should hear (as an Auzzie i might have this a little wrong but it's still amazing!). You see the British never fully conquered the Maori people of New Zealand; against the impressive English guns.. the Maori fought them to a draw! The English military conquered the world... EXCEPT NZ. As one story goes as the Brits where unloading on a beach, Maori warriors taunted the English from the high ground above them with the Haka. The English officers offended by this sent squads into the trees to quell the locals, they never came back. The Haka harassment started again. The officers send more troops, double the amount, which never came back. ..more Haka. Furious at the disrespect of the Queen's soldiery by the "barbarians", the English opened up with their feared cannons. After a vast amount of shot was fired, a forrest leveled and the smoke had cleared, English soldiers were sent in to take the ground. ...they never came back, AND THE HAKA STARTED AGAIN! This time silhouetted clearly on the hill, the tall and proud army of fully painted & adorned Maori warriors covered in English blood could be seen by the British... doing the intimidating Haka dance. Not willing to waste more troops the English rained fire on the hill for hours, turning it into pockmarked hellscape. More troops were sent in, the Maori appeared out of nowhere, more English troops died, more Haka! By this stage it had got late and the English had decided to camp for the night. The next morning the whole English army slowly creeped up the hill together as one gun toting mass at great difficulty and expense ready to kill anything that moved. When they got to the top they found that the Maoris had snuck off during the night, only the corpses of the previous English forays remained. ...and from the next hill the Haka could be clearly heard taunting the British YET AGAIN. What was happening was between each of the English attacks the Maori were digging and hiding where they had dug. The cannon shots rained in, the Maoris sheltered in their holes. Soldiery were sent, Maoris popped out of their holes, killed them, taunted the English officers and went back to digging. By the time the English had taken the hill, the hilltop had been laced with connecting dugouts that protected the Maori very well from cannon fire. And THAT is how the English learnt trench warfare (and brought it to WW1) and why they chose diplomacy with the native New Zealanders instead of domination. The Haka is pride.
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  24345. To make it my feelings for the US and Americans better lined out I’m gonna write about the first time I met Americans. This was in the 1960s in a little town in the south of Germany and I was pre-kindergarten level always and large convoys military convoys, most of the time they were American Would drive by our town and all the kids even the ones that were in school would run away from home or school to go and meet those convoys because the soldiers on the armored vehicles and the tanks did adore us little kids and would give us treats and sweetes and just every body would be happy and have a good time. Sometimes they had to stay outside our little town for like hours and we had a lotta fun playing games of soccer and other things. But one time I will never forget because I was late as my grandmother wouldn’t let me out of the house I don’t remember what the reason was for that anymore so I was late at the convoy and I remember this giant black American soldier who was unhappy because he didn’t have anything to give to me anymore so he took me by the hand and walk me down the entire convoy and every vehicle he asked if anybody still had any sweets or something to give to me. So the only thing they were able to turn up was a gallon sized can of applesauce which they opened, supplied me with a spoon and sent me back home carrying this enormous burden 😋and trying to eat as much as possible on the way home. By the time I got home I was covered in applesauce have eaten so much I couldn’t even talk anymore and my grandmother just looked in disbelief at me. Since that day I do like applesauce and I do like Americans and this hasn’t changed since then so this is why the situation in the US right now bothers me almost every day. Jesus after having been gone for 40 years I still have an American newspaper subscribed Which I do read almost every day
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  24350. Love this game, and ATS! If you want to play it more, I recommend getting a steering wheel and pedals. A controller isn't as much of a chore as playing with a mouse and keyboard is, but the most fun is having a wheel. You can use the mouse to look around while driving and use the keyboard for all the hotkeys, which makes it feel more like you're actually driving. If you play on PC of course. The DLC is great, but wait for it to be on sale. I got 6 of them for the price of 2 essentially. This game can get quite expensive otherwise. Same for other add-ons like Heavy Cargo pack. ATS is great as well, although the graphics aren't as great as ETS2 (as it is older), it is really fun as well. My preferred skill distribution is, in order: -1 or 2 Long Distance. -1 High Value -1 Fragile -2 Just-in-Time/Urgent (to unlock both) -3rd or 4th level, maybe max, Long Distance -Max out ADR -Max out the rest. This opens up the most jobs quickest and has you drive long distance, which adds up the XP quickly. ADR is high price per distance, so you can opt to max that out earlier, but be aware every next level requires more XP to unlock, so it slows down as you go up in rank. This means that maxing ADR slows down opening up the other skills, which means those jobs won't be unlocked. Any cargo can be high value, fragile or JIT/urgent, so you get XP for doing jobs like that as well, on top of giving you more choice of jobs. A good budget option for a wheel is the Thrustmaster TMX Pro. Be aware the throttle doesn't go to full throttle for some reason, so you need to use a button as the secondary to be able to go full throttle. Haven't found an option to calibrate the pedals unfortunately.
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  24540. As a Canadian (Québecois) well travelled and lived in the "land down under" for a couple of years. My two main points of interest reside on the leisure aspect and food. As beautiful as Australia was, the sweltering heat was a total turn off for me and the food was in many ways as abysmal as the USA. As I am not good at digesting foods that have been exposed to hormones and weird additions to foods as in the USA but banned in Canada and the EU (maybe because I was never exposed until my late 30's when I started going to these destinations). I had realized within my first summer in Australia (Darwin/North End) that I was going to have to reside inside for the entire duration of summer (and then some) but gave it a second try (my 2nd year there); thinking that I just needed to get used to it but that was not the case. I have come to the realisation that winters of minus 30 with a wind breaker on and enjoying the outdoors was just more pleasant than dripping sweat at over 25 degrees and being cooped up in a room in the shade with an ac and a fan on. As cost of living, I can easily say that Canada is much cheaper than Australia and goods are far more cheaper than Australia. Just a basic 2X4X10ft treated pine Canada is 8.75 and in Australia is a crazy 15.25 per. (a 5$ difference in wage doesn't justify such a discrepancy in prices). And anyways I still prefer paying 18$ for 3L of maple syrup instead of 15$ for 250ml. Next place I'd try would be Tasmania as it has a more temperate weather and supposedly they also have their own variety of sweet sap there. For your viewing pleasure of Canada landscape and towns/cities https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFFZMcU6V5s
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  24787. So, Lagonda i think is a sub brand of Aston Martin, as back in the day they made a model called the AM Lagonda. could be wrong on that. Noble are an awesome car company. very small. only made a handful of models. the Noble M600 is one of the fastest cars in the world even today, and it uses a tuned up Volvo XC90 (an SUV) V8 engine. Awesome cars Ascari is a great car brand but i havent seen anything new from them in a long while. they made some really quick track focused supercars around the late 2000's TVR is an odd one. very british. had many owners over the years. made the insane Cerbera Speed 12. theres a new TVR griffith in the works, but im not sure if it will ever come to fruition as its been 8 years now and i dont think the car has actually come out lol. Ginetta is a very interesting brand. they dont really make road cars though. they do, but nobody buys them. what they mostly sell though, is their race cars. they have cute little race cars that you saw in the video and theyre intended for use in a one make series called ginetta juniors. basically entry level gt racing. usually teenagers drive them. theyre one of the support series for the british touring cars. they also make a gt4 spec ginetta and a gt3 spec one too which im sure you can drive in Assetto Corsa Competizione. Not sure why is says lister is still going. dont really think thats true. the car they use as an example of a lister in the video seems to be a Jaguar as you said. maybe a Lister special edition? either way, Lister used to make a race car called the Lister Storm. an old GT2 race car, i think. look it up. you will absolutely love it. its not the prettiest car, but it sounds insane. never heard of Zenos either lol And yeah, you were spot on with AC. AC are a cool brand. made some interesting cars. the Shelby Cobra definitely puts a shadow over the brand though as many people who see and actual AC Cobra always assume its a Shelby lol BAC is a new brand. they only make the Mono, which is a single seat race car for the road. insanely light. very cool looking machine. meant as a rival to other british cars like the Ariel Atom and Caterham 7. and imo, the BAC Mono is so much cooler than those. My university had an Ultima GTR that students worked on. theyre basically kit cars. very, very cool cars. insanely fast too. MG got bought by chinese investors and was relaunched. they make very mid cars these days. none of them have any soul. as i mentioned earlier. Ariel make some great cars. basically two models. the Atom, that you say pictured, and the Nomad which is an off road buggy thing. cool cars David Brown? imagine calling your car company your own name lol. who deas that? Keating is a company ive never heard of Prodrive is IMMESELY important. they basically co-create the Subaru rally cars, from what i remember. the car pictured is the prodrive P2 Radical is indeed British. and their cars are used all over the world as entry level race cars. very good race cars that im sure many driving schools use. my university also had and ran one of these in events. You NEED to learn about Bowler. maybe check out the Top Gear segments on Bowler. there was a challenge that involved a bowler wildcat. i think it was hammond vs a guy walking across a river. yes, walking, because the tide was out, so it was basically mud lol. it was odd. i think he used the wildcat but could be wrong.
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  24806. 1:51 Yes, a twincharged car is one that uses both a supercharger and a turbocharger. The former provides boost mainly at lower RPMs and the latter at higher. Nowadays, you can mostly get get the same kind of smooth boost curve from just using turbos, but back in the day, that's how you'd get extra poneys "all the time". 4:30 Yes, the Abarth they're talking about is the same you're thinking of. It started out as a more or less independent company that mostly worked with Fiat; they were Fiat's race-car preparer, much like Alpine was forRenault or AMG for Mercedes. All thos race-car preparers were later abosrbed by their respective main-client brands, but still more or less do racing for them or some sportier versions of their base models. Funny piece of Trivia: If I'm not mistaken, Lancia only went into racing after they were bought by Fiat. Fiat was then in rally with their own Abarth-modified cars; Lancias before that were highly innovative luxury cars. Then Fiat had Abarth work with Lancia, and Fiat withdrew from rally. Good video on the history of Lancia: "LANCIA: The Power of Fun (Documentary)". Link: https://youtu.be/zLU5rUaqTmY And I'd love to have an Integralle too. Those were the cars I grew up watching! But pretty much all versions of them have Classic status and won't be cheap. The Evo 1 will be the most expensive (the version that won the 1992 WRC). The Evo 2 are more powerful, but were never raced, thus usually cheaper. Versions earlier than the Evo 1 are attainable though, but check its condition!
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  24861. I have been in LA airport 6 times and never went outside. Same with Seattle but I always wanted to see Seattle, Boston and oddly anywhere in Ohio. We did leave the airport in Spokane and went shopping there going each way, so six times. I don’t think Washington State gets much sunshine, it gets depressing after 2 days, we never stayed longer. I love Canada and we were just passing through to Canada.m We met a couple in LA Airport that were so excited that we had just arrived from Melbourne. They were even more excited that they were on their way to Melbourne to see the Australian Open Tennis. They were from Tennessee and I asked if they had tickets for everyday, they said yes and that is really unusual that they could get them. So I asked which Court. They didn’t have tickets to the games they had tickets to the park next door with the big screen but they were so excited. I hope they had fun. Those were big airfares to watch a big TV. Our youngest is our traveler, she goes for 4 months at a time. She loves America but not LA or Vegas. She loves New York but she was always on stage acting and singing here. It is expensive to stay there except for her. Her first trip she was asked to apartment sit in Manhattan For 2 weeks over Christmas and New Year. She didn’t mind at all. She loved having a doorman. She loved SanFrancisco but she couldn’t believe how many homeless came out at night. She found 2 charity shops and bought all of their blankets to give to them. She does the same thing in Melbourne, she pays for two hot meals and one always goes on the wall for any one in need. One of her best friends is from Chicago so she stays there and loves it and she has made many trips to Vancouver and a few other places in Canada. She loved Ireland, Scotland, Rome and Athens a lot. She told me they can keep London but she loves going to the Reading 4 day music festivals in England. Most of her travel has something to do with music. You do know you don’t swim at the beach in Adelaide in Summer. It is the main breeding grounds for the Great White Shark unless you are okay with being a snack. I do love the City because it is the easiest one to drive around. That older lady he talked to the most was from New Zealand. The school kids were funny but they aren’t really a fair representation of Australians. In the last few years many of your movies have been made in Queensland. Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg have been making movies here for years because they cost less and it is a pretty place to make them. We have big movie studios here as well.
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  24994. I lived in California for ten years and other than the MM/DD/YYYY date driving me insane the US imperial system caused no end of frustration. I did both imperial and metric at school but here in Oz we learnt the British imperial system. My my daughter came home from school one afternoon and asked me how big is a quart. Wow I had to think for a while, then remembered it's two pints or 40 ounces. Big fail Dad, in the US a pint is 16 ounces............ Same for 3.8 litre gallons instead of the British 4.5 litre gallon. Weight in lbs got me all the time, I could never really visualise it. Then there is US spelling, lucky my daughter's school were fantastic and never marked her Australian spelling wrong. You hear a lot of bad things about US schools but I can tell you that St Johns in San Lorenzo CA were brilliant and my daughter got straight A's during her time there. Tipping and servers, got used to that, but one time I took the family to dinner and the server got two dishes of our order wrong. OK had to wait a bit longer, we were fine with that but the server kept bugging us every five minutes and that became annoying so I left him a 40 cent tip. He was mighty pissed off and asked why, so I told him I was OK with two wrong dishes on a three dish order but his constant interruptions during our meal annoyed us. We never went back to that place again and gave me a good excuse to go to Olive garden and Chevys instead. A good tipping story. Three out of four Saturdays my daughter an I would go to our local iHOP in Union City CA for breakfast. As we became regulars we had a server who always took care of us and we got in even when the line was out into the parking lot. She really looked after us and my daughter always got extra strawberries on the side with her strawberry pancakes, I always got never ending pancakes even when they were not on the menu and she even made my coffee the way I liked it. The bill was never over 10 -12 dollars so I made sure I tipped her very well typically $5 or $6 in cash so the boss could not get a cut. It was totally worth it not to have to wait in a queue, always get a good table, always get what we liked, the way we liked and have a very personable server. This was back in the early 2000s so a 50% or better tip meant something.
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  25008. Hi there ! There are several things you need to know to understand the scenes in these videos. First, the difference between vehicles in the US and in Europe stems from a significant difference in first aid doctrines. In the US, first aid is provided by private paramedic companies, and the goal of first aid is to transport the patient to the hospital as quickly as possible, providing first aid during transport if necessary. The vehicles are heavy vans, with extensive medical equipment. In France, first aid is provided either by firefighters (all the bright red vehicles in the video) or by the SAMU, a specialized hospital service. So, they are all either civil servants or military personnel. The goal of first aid is to provide first aid at the scene of the accident, and then to transport the patient once they are stabilized. The transport vehicles are therefore much simpler and lighter, and resemble passenger vehicles. In France, ambulance companies are more like specialized taxi companies, and their role is to transport patients, either lying down (they then use modified station wagons), or sitting (with classic passenger vehicles). The paramedics who work for ambulance companies in France have a lower level of training than paramedics in the United States. They are typically trained to provide basic first aid and transport patients to the hospital. Fire trucks and SAMU vehicles have two-tone sirens and are prioritized. Ambulances have three-tone sirens and are not prioritized, although everyone lets them pass when they hear the siren.
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  25408. Super100mph is an awesome channel, source of half the videos I put on my blog. A real mix of machinery in this race: XE Falcons with 351 Cleveland V8s, both the old VH and the new VK Commodores with 308 Holden V8s; BMW 635 CSi's with unique four-valve 3.5-litre inline-sixes; Mazda RX-7s with 13B Wankel rotaries; the Nissan Bluebird with its 1.8-litre turbo four, the car that not only took pole but set a lap record that would never be beaten; even a Jaguar XJ-R with howling a 5.3-litre V12, entered basically as a favour for an old racing driver on his way out. (Edit: Oh, and Z28 Camaros with roaring NASCAR-tuned 350 small-blocks, a package that had taken pole only a couple of years earlier, but was now firmly outdated). Balancing all these competing vehicles made for a highly volative era, but one that is very fondly remembered. The cars to watch though were always going to be the two Marlboro VK Commodores of the Holden Dealer Team. Built by workshop manager Larry Perkins, who'd driven in Formula 1 in the 70's and would later start a Bathurst-winning team of his own. The wisdom of building two new cars in August when Group C would finish in November - just four races away - was questioned by some, but Holden probably figured there was no guarantee the Commodore would be competitive in the upcoming Group A era. If they wanted the VK to win Bathurst, it might be now or never. So, Holden walked two new bodyshells down the line at Elizabeth in SA, giving them extra spot-welding to make them strong. They were delivered to HDT's workshop in Bertie Street in the Port of Melbourne, where Larry and his crew loaded them up with roll cages, fire extinguishers, all the mechanicals they needed and nothing they didn't. The fibreglass front spoiler was a new one-piece item, and came with matching ducktail rear spoiler and wheel arches to shroud the fat racing tyres, 11.25 inches wide at the front and steamroller 13's at the rear. The engine was the trusty Holden 308 running through a 4-speed H-pattern gearbox, good for 400hp at 6,800rpm - although with the full 385 lb-ft of torque was available at 4,800, so there was never any reason to rev it that high. Top speed on Conrod: about 180ph. That glowing red livery was inspired by the McLaren F1 cars Peter and Larry had seen in Europe that year (they'd run a Porsche 956 together at Le Mans), with the Marlboro logo applied simply by projecting it through an overhead projector and then painting it on by hand. Larry was like that, no bullshit, just build it simple and strong. Simple and strong they were, the 05 for Brock and Perkins, with the 25 for Peter's loyal lieutenant John "Slug" Harvey and Tasmanian dairy farmer David "Skippy" Parsons. And with Brock and Perkins at the helm, 05 had a nigh-perfect career: they went to the traditional Bathurst warm-up, the Castrol 500 at Sandown, and won it at a canter, finishing a lap ahead of arch-rival Allan Moffat in the Mazda RX-7. Then they went to Bathurst and not only won the James Hardie, they finally scotched the memory of Ford's crushing 1-2 finish in 1977 with a 1-2 of their own; victory was never sweeter. Then they went to the Motorcraft 300 at Surfers Paradise International Raceway (a now-vanished permanent circuit located just inland from where the IndyCar race was later held), and won again, making it three-from-three. The only glitch in 05's career was that it failed to take the non-championship Australian Grand Prix support race at Calder Park; that went to George Fury in the Nissan Bluebird Turbo. Today the car is where it belongs, in the National Motor Racing Museum in Bathurst, only a couple of hundred metres from the finish line where it lined up alongside its sister for the chequered flag. And yes, despite what Peter Champion will tell you, it almost certainly IS the real one. Champion bringing the 25 home from Britain was a service to the nation: painting it up with Brocky's 05 on its doors was not, he's not fooling anyone!
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  25671. Love the vids...keep them coming....The last shot you ended on was looking South from Glenelg beach....the next continent South is Antarctica 3311 miles away!. Our weather goes from cold 50F during the day and 35F at night in Winter, currently Spring but we're having an unusually wet cool Spring (California is having a very bad drought)....when we have drought California will have more rain...on a side note there is a weather system that goes from the Americas and moves to Oceania and back which can take years to swap over...look it up some time (La Nina and El Nino)..Summer is usually around 104-113F for a few weeks straight with minimums of 90F at night we have a very dry heat but 95F to 98F day and 78F at night either side of the scorching heat. Adelaide has a so called Mediterranean Climate, so great for wine....Barossa and Clare Valley to the North of Adelaide, which are the main big named producers of the standard range of wines and McLaren Vale to the South which has a lot of boutique wineries, there is a even wine product called Sable...it's a luxurious chocolate flavoured Tawny liqueur and it's soooo good.... The top Shiraz wine is called Grange (people will pay $500 to $9k per bottle and shelve it for a few years as an investment) is grown, harvested and bottled in the outer suburbs of Adelaide....Adelaide is boarded by the sea to the West and by hills to the East (only 14 miles wide at it's thinnest, so we are spread out North and South...about an hour and a half drive from one end to the other (at one stage we had a freeway that changed direction at midday - only one in the world changing directions at the time - but they finally built the extra lanes to make it two way). People here are very laid back and chilled compared to Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne. We're a city with a country town feel...Great White sharks in our waters, brown snakes, red bellied black snakes and red back spiders in our land but you're very safe...We mine gold, opals at Coober Pedy (pronounced Koo-ba Peedee) and uranium in the middle of the state, which is mainly desert to the North East...Flinders Ranges (a mountain range that spans 249 miles into the outback) is great to go camping and sight seeing/4WDing...with Perth 1670 miles to the West and Melbourne only 406 miles to the East. As the first free settled state we have a more English sounding accent to the other states, we were the second place to give women the right to vote in the world (New Zealand beat us) but we also gave women the right to stand for election to government which New Zealand did not. Shamefully as a nation, we only gave Native Aboriginals the right to vote in 1962 (the Aboriginal flag was born during a protest in Adelaide in 1971). Besides Cuba and North Korea, we are the only place in the world where coke is NOT the top selling drink...for us South Australians it's Farmers Union Iced Coffee (FUIC).
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  25672. The chevy SS was sold the same years as the Australian Commodore, between 2014-2017, so roughly 4 years. The difference though, in Australia, the commodore comes in many models, with a Ute and Station Wagon version of each too. From cheapest to best you have: -Evoke (3.0L SIDI V6 Engine 180kW) - cheapest model, cheapest trim, brand new these were about $32,000 AUD -SV6 (3.6L SIDI V6 Engine - 210kW) - This is the sports version with same trim as a standartd SS with a V6 engine. $35-40kAUD -SV6 Storm - Special Edition version of the SV6 with some different trim options etc. But mostly the same -SS - (6.0L V8 280kW (2013-2015) or 6.2L V8 304kW (2016-2017)) The most basic SS that holden sold, with most the same as the SV6 -SS-V (As above) A Nicer Trim version with some extra bells as whistles -SS-V Redline - (Engines as above) This was the highest regular model trim of the SS, it came with Brembo Brakes, better suspension, and HUD this model is very much what the export model was based on -SS-V Redline Motorsport - Limited Edition, basically the Australian version of the Export Model, with the MagRide, heated and vented seats etc. -Calais (3.6L or 6.0L/6.2L V8) This was the luxury trim of the Commodore and the only version that doesn't have a Ute counterpart (there is still a stationwagon counterpart). You can get this in the V8, and they sound the same as the SS Models, but they have softer suspension Nicer Insides -Calais-V Basically the extra bells and whistles version of the Calais
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  25880. In the Southwest "Kartoffelpuffer" or "Reibekuchen" (different names for potato pancakes) were not well--known before the 1950s, but the Swiss variety named "Rösti" (which are made without eggs and are often thicker and wider). Spätzle from the supermarket are not spaetzle imho (and most Swabians as well as many Badenians will agree with me). To make them yourself you need about one big or two small eggs per person, flour (best is mixture of wheat or spelt middlings and spelt or wheat flour, which you can buy as "Spätzlemehl") and up to one egg shell of water per egg, spiced with a bit of salt and nutmeg. The amount of flour depends on the chosen method of dropping the spaetzle dough in boiling water - scraping from a cutting board, using a Spaetzle plane or a Spaetzle press. The word Leber in Leberkäse has nothing to do with liver, but with the word "Laib" - loaf. There were some sound shifts, and now most states except of Bavaria state by law that it has to be called "Fleischkäse" (meat cheese or meat loaf) if no liver is in it - but that is only a big misunderstanding. It is baked from a finely minced and seasoned sausage dough in a loaf pan. A LKW (short for "Lastkraftwagen" = truck or "Leberkäswecken" = bread roll with a warm slice of meat loaf) is still a popular lunch to go at least in the southern states of Germany. Maultaschen are one of the Swabian and Badenian pasta specialities. The most famous traditional variety has a greenish filling of spinach and minced meat mixed with egg, mostly from northern Swabia (while in Catholic southern Swabia there is less spinach and more garlic, onions and spices). It can be served in broth, but the more popular variety nowadays is "geschmälzt" - in molten butter with fried onion rings. Potato salad is made very different in North and South Germany. In the North it is mostly the maynonnaise dressing variety, in the south the variety with vinegar and broth (this variety should be eaten lukewarm, not cold!), but there is also a variety with a vinegar-and-oil based dressing. Wiener sausages are also called Saiten in the south. "Saite" refers to the sheep or goat casing (made from their intestines) and can also mean the string (or chord ) of guitar or violin (which are "Saiteninstrumente" in German), which were in former times made from the exact same material.
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  26114. Only America! There are a number of points here on this ancient footage: 1) In UK the Caravan and Camping Club advises that the towed trailer should be no more that 85% of the weight of the towing vehicle, in this case ~ 700kg (1500lbs) max. That is a very small trailer when you consider that it can be loaded with the normal camping equipment and the car loaded with 4 occupants. My guess would be that it would be very easy to overload the whole unit. Some vehicles, usually the bigger focussed 4x4s, can tow large weights up to 3.5T and in the case of the Range Rover Classic and its siblings that can be increased to 4T with coupled brakes 2) Fifth wheel towing is not normal in Europe, usually requiring a pick-up, with the fifth wheel coupling sterilising the bed in normal use and when towing. The coupling in the Beetle shown looks decidedly suspect and although the load on the roof rails probably doesn't overload it, the dynamic forces when driving would be way beyond the capability of the roof or the connection. Note that the beetle body is separate from the chassis and any towing loads should be directed straight to the chassis. 3) Towing normally with a Beetle requires a tow bar to be connected to the torsion bar tubes ahead of the rear wheel and then to take vertical load by using the bumper irons (on the body) that is questionable as the body itself is only connected to the chassis at those torsion par points. I have a 1303 Beetle and I know how weak the rear body is from a shunt. 4) In the case shown I cannot see any electrical connection between car and trailer and with the potential that the car can rotate under the coupling that electrical connection could very soon be twisted up! 5) In Europe towing trailer and caravans is popular and all vehicles sold here are designed to have tow bars fitted but those tow bars now have to be to the car manufacturer's approved design, gone are the days when you could fabricate one to your own design. All vehicles will be given a maximum towing weight for an overrun braked trailer or an unbraked trailer that is usually no more than 750kgs (3/4t) and often less. Surely the video of the fifth wheel trailer on the beetle was a gimmick?
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  26378. Clearly best to avoid such situation, may be better to reverse back out, since clearly the driver was capable of precise reversing. Had similar circumstance once just not so right angle shaped faces, more like 60° slope down and near 75° slope up. Problem was having just driven down a steep rocky track came round a slight right bend to find about 100m length of track had slipped off the mountain side in a big rock and dirt slide. No way forward, and a tough and rocky steps and boulders, steep climb back where we, two Suzuki LD50 had just descended. Reversing would have been extremely testing. Turn around was however also more than seemed possible. However we both chose to try a U turn, not 3 point but more like 15 point turn. My Suzuki had a winch but first took to trying to climb the up embankment and short reverses to tyres just on drop off similar to this video. At one stage my vehicle was at tip over at a slant, had to step out, had open top with rooftop and doors removed, so door opening clear to around ankle level. Standing out on the gravel track I held up the Suzuki by the passenger seat, waiting for a person from the other Suzuki to come and do sideways rollover support. Continued in small increments to finally face the otherway, forward up slope. The other Suzuki was then going through same exercise but somehow had a slightly better patch of up slope, had no near rollover. We both battled up the rocky slope to a larger track up top. The whole exercise would have been impossible in any larger 4W as where we turned around the track was not much wider than the Suzuki was long. The super low 1st gear and diff ratio giving 56:1 reduction made the entire manoeuvre using the up embankment to assist possible. The climb back up the rocky part would have been hell in reverse though probably would also have succeeded. Any larger 4WD would have not made it impossible to turn around and the low 1st/reverse gearing of most 4WD could have made reversing also impossible due to bouncing on boulders and rock ledges. A perfect case, in hard places explore ahead first on foot, you could save your vehicle and yourself from such getting permanently stuck. Larger typical US vehicles would not even have fitted on that narrow track, best suited to hiker's and trail bikes, probably not even for vehicle access. One time I actually went up a couple of miles of a walking track, finally noting only one worn path, and regular sharp turns over protruding tree roots or rocks. The Suzuki was such fun to drive and agile that pushing through tight disused trails was always tempting.
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  26524. I liked him and he is right. You can become very wealthy just learning a trade. Australia is running out of Tradies and so are many other places. You don’t need a college education or to be a Doctor. I know Doctor’s that earn less then a plumber. They are not respecting themselves if they live off the Government and learn nothing. What they think is easier is not later and they are all good enough to do what they want. I have an Autistic Nephew, he is a computer genius and has been since he found one at 4 years old. From age 5 he was the only computer Tech at his school. Right through until he graduated from high school. No one would give him a chance because he is polite, quiet and his Social skills are not what they are looking for. Even though he is the top candidate for every job he applies for. So he took a job putting up and taking down bouncy castles for schools and birthday parties. He just wanted to work and he did that until Covid shut the company down. He took $2,000.00 he had saved and ordered computer parts. He built a computer with 3 large screens and I couldn’t run out of memory in my life time. It does things I have never seen a computer do. Where he bought his parts wanted to see what he had made so he took it in. They offered him $16,000.00 for it. He now stays up all night teaching Americans advanced computer skills. Some just want to improve their gaming scores, he puts their names in the top 3 in the world and they pay him to learn these things. He still has to fight for every day job he applies for because the Government stamped his file as Autistic. Aspergers is no longer on the Spectrum but they won’t remove it. He has never given up and he is wonderful.
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  26607. Nice that you're playing this game, it's a lot of fun. I also love how American Truck Sim allows me to get a feel for America without having to go there, so I hope Euro Truck Sim 2 will do the same for you! I'd advise you to turn off the realistic air brake system. Yes, it might add an additional bit of realism, but the air pressure runs out very quickly and then you have to wait for an annoyingly long time for it to refill. It's just not great in a game, I feel like. And no, right turn on red is not a thing in Europe, or only at certain specific traffic lights. Some have a green arrow pointing to the right (not sure if that is represented in the game, though), and then you can turn right on red, but usually you can't. And I don't know how that feels to you, but for me a sequential shift is not great playing on keyboard or controller. I'd love to have it with a steering wheel and pedals, but the controls on keyboard feel weird to me (might just be me, though, so certainly try what fits best for you!). And the of the gray areas, only the ones with dots (cities) in them are currently available. The others come as paid extra content (DLCs). If you're having fun with the game, I can advise buying some specific areas that you may want to visit in the future, they're often quite good. Especially the central European parts are all slowly getting updates and remakes on the map, as they're the oldest parts of the map in-game and the developers have improved a lot over the years. These parts of the map are often not really up to date at the moment. Austria for example just got a rework, and they're currently reworking Switzerland and parts of Germany. So they're slowly reworking all these old base game areas (for free) to bring them up to date with current standards in the games, as some of the newer expansions are much more detailed. Also, they're currently developing another map expansion for the Western Balkans (that black area you pointed out). Have fun with the game!
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  26630. As noted, Aussies can be quite loose in language, especially commenting on idiots. One aspect is that our dashcam videos are mainly of traffic events, bad driving, silly things, rather than crash recordings. The US and especially Russian videos seem more concentrated on crashes. While all videos can add education aspects, crashes do not teach good driving, while showing idiot drivers doing th ed wrong thing can teach better driving and above all the kinds of things a driver may have to cope with in daily driving. Possibly raising the absolute need for very defensive driving practice, keeping aware of all action on the road and constant attention, no lapse of attention, or you may suffer badly. Of course bad drivers also may learn worse driving from the idiots shown, but such drivers should not be allowed to keep their licence. As far as adjusting to driving opposite to home land standard, it is actually only the first few hours that very special attention is required. A good driver adjusts quickly, especially on automatic cars, manual is harder, as shifting is very awkward using unfamiliar arm and hand to do shifts. Essential is keep attention, do not drive in tired state, and certainly not drunk. Within days it is relatively normal. Yes intersections and on ramp entrances to freeways can be issues, especially choosing the wrong entry to a freeway, ending up going opposite direction than intended, more so than going wrong direction on the ramp, that also can occur, fortunately there are bold signs stating wrong way. Harder by far than driving the corresponding opposite side in the suited vehicle, is driving your normal left or right hand vehicle on roads with opposite traffic, so left hand car on left side traffic, ie UK, India, Australia, NZ, Japan. Or Right hand vehicle on right side traffic, as in most remaining world. I have as part of my fuel injection application work had all combinations , including driving in four days, each day in the same vehicle on opposite sides on sequential days, Australian Right driven, first in Germany, next day in UK, next day France, next day UK, and then back to Germany. That takes care as every day you wnd up adjusting to opposite the previous day , the easiest for me then was UK as it was the normal for me but changing in the same car does NOT help. Otherwise had many cases of same car model but mix of left and right hand versions driven on the same day. Switching driving sides every few hours, at least all on same road side. In one instance a car company engineer driving an Australian right hand car, late in the day having driven over 400km, on a narrow country road, suddenly was confronted by a tractor with hay trailer on his side of the road approaching just after a bend. In somewhat tired mental state was instantly totally confused. Was he on the wrong side? Or was the tractor on the wrong side? Well he jammed the brakes on in panic, stopped and thought it through. The tractor was wrong, about to turn across the road into a farm gate right where we stopped. We backed up a bit let the tractor tow its trailer into the farm track and then proceeded at slower speeds. As easily visible in these Australian dashcam videos, it is essential to practice very defensive driving to keep safe, no good if the other driver is at fault a crash will cause much cost in time and inconvenience even if cash is not the issue. But as most insurance carries some cost, significant for young or newly licensed driver, contribution that is often not recoverable to guilty party. Best remains not becoming entangled in accidents (sic) in the first place. I hope to continue my luck, as other than being rear ended at intersections/stopped at pedestrian crossings and one test car being rear ended while travelling at 80 to 100kph, run off the road by a Toyota Landcruiser, driven by a over tired young school teacher with a dog in her lap and 5 Aborigines crammed in having driven over 600km on desert dirt tracks near Alice Springs, I have a 52 years of over 1 million km of driving no accidents. Not to say I have not had numerous incidents that could have even been fatal, but for skill and defensive driving to handle dangerous circumstances. Even had a 4WD up on 2 wheels around a 90 turn at an intersection, or doing 720 degree spin on muddy dirt road, recovering direction just before hitting a deep water pool on the track, that would certainly have flipped the vehicle. Not even to speak of hair raising 4WD adventures. Remain alter and aware of all traffic around, do not drive over tired, micro naps can be fatal, and definitely zero alcohol or drugs and driving. Maintain your vehicle in safe condition.
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  26793. It is always a big event that starts with a street parade through the City. Bathurst is up in the Blue Mountains so there is a chance it might not get too hot. My son’s school own all of the land on Conrod Straight. They used to love watching it for free. The Council has been trying to buy it back for as long as I can remember. The Catholic Church owns the best land everywhere. They don’t sell it. Everyone who lives on Mt Panorama rents their homes out for 2 weeks for this. For thousands of dollars each. This is held in New South Wales. That State is being hammered by COVID-19 Delta strain. That is why Bathurst is so late this year and they must be hoping it will be safe by then. Victoria is the other bad State and it came from NSW. They sent it to us in Queensland but they don’t get past our border Police and go straight to quarantine. We don’t have any COVID that hasn’t been brought in by our Government. We take the sick that can’t fit in the hospitals in New Guinea and we take them off ships in trouble. Our State Premier has the place so locked down they don’t get near us. We can go anywhere inside our State but it is still like being a prisoner inside a State. It is keeping us safe until the vaccinations are enough. We are grateful for that but I haven’t seen my kids for 19 months. Most are in Victoria, 6 days drive away. One is in my State, 3 days drive in the other direction. People don’t really understand how big our Country is. The UK fits inside the State of WA 31.5 times. We are the same size as America if you don’t include Alaska and we are only 6 States and 2 Territory’s. I hope Bathurst goes ahead. You should be able to free stream it from Channel 7. It is a free to air channel. Good luck.
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  26830. This is quite wordy and that's not always great in this day and age but it has positives in it and oh well. One thing, Ian that resonates very well with Australian's and apart from the amount of content and effort you have put into your youtube channel, the thing which I think has most keenly influenced the success of iwrocker is the humble sincerity, genuine warmth, respect and openness that you bring to the table about Australia. I realise that your Channel is not or was not just about Australia although, I suspect as it grew, it, along with your love of all things Australian has developed into a honey pot for Australians. It's not something we see very often outside of Australia and it's actually, becoming rarer to see from Australians. Some of it may be edited, some of it scripted but most of it has that genuine, honest fair dinkum character behind it. In other words, for us who absorb this content, you appear to put yourself out there and present a spirit of character which Identifies with the Australian inside all of us. You're not Australian but you have an Australian characteristic way about you and frankly, in my opinion there are those who are Australian who don't. This music based on Peter Allen's song of the same name and same lyrics was, with the help of choir and orchestral sounds used in advertising campaign from QANTAS and is intended to resonate with the Australian bred identity and stir that emotional pot for Australians who travel. It does that, quite well. There's a lot of Australians who spend time overseas. Like many Countries, Australia has colours, sounds, smells which are unique and it's only after being away for long periods of time that we begin to realise just how much those things are intertwined with our identity and we miss them. Whether it's flying over the landscape, the Australian accented person who greets us after we land, the familiar scenery, the subtle sounds of nature, or the climate, it's a sense of well being and security of home that for Australians, is uniquely Australian and touches us on an emotional level. I don't know why it causes moisture in my eyes but in my head, just like I believe real blokes don't cry because we're too tough for that, I'm believing that I'm psychologically over compensating finding myself writing this with an extra deep Australian accent. Ok so,, truth be known, I have been known to get a tad weepy about a few things. To your Reaction here: I don't know why you were emotionally affected by this song. It's fantastic that you were and I reckon it comes down to your character and the composition of the song/video. For me, I can relate to the imagery and being away from Australia and coming home, the specific Australian imagery of the song and video footage and that's what works me over emotionally but you can't and that's no fault of yours. I suspect for you, having a character of such a genuinely loving human being, that the connection to the relatable aspects of our cultures, loved ones and families missing one another and joyous interaction when they see each other again after a long absence, the strong paternal instincts when witnessing little kids combined with, what appears to be a genuine love of the visual appeal of our landscape and indigenous nations influence on our culture is what brings on the emotional high for you. Regardless, I reckon Australian Global Tourism Ambassadors need to become aware of this channel. Some other suggestions of Australian themed anthems. The Seekers, "I am Australian" is another Anthem that might be worth looking at. John William's "True Blue" Speaks of the iconic Australian as an endangered species. He's probably right too, lack of political correctness and simplicity used to be at the forefront of our identity at least through my nostalgic rose coloured eyes. I lament the simplicity of a simpler time. a couple of tunes which relate to Australian's specific war experience. Eric Bogle's " and the Band played Waltzing Matilda" Eric bogle, hasn't lost his Scottish accent. RedGum's " I was only 19" And while there are quite a few poems out there which speak of Australia, i'm somewhat fond of Dorothea Mackellar's My Country https://www.dorotheamackellar.com.au/my-country/ Love Ya work mate!!
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  26974. That used to be my backyard, now I live on the top of the country in Darwin. But I've offroaded, hunted, hiked and mountain biked that land. Used to be wide spread goldfields with hundreds, if not a few thousand, small towns scattered about. Walhalla is one of those that remains complete with one of the most successful mines and a railway. There was active mining and mineral exploration licences within the last ten years there, as modern machines and techniques plus the price of gold are bringing some of these areas back into the realm of profitable. A winch, snorkel, a LSD or diff locker in the rear and 33's are what I consider to be minimum requirements for quality off-roading. I'm not aware of any 4wd that comes from "factory" with a snorkel, rather there is a list of "factory options" of accessories like bullbar (scrub bars), snorkels Etc that you can order with new vehicles and your dealer will receive the stock vehicle and the optional accessories, install them for you and then deliver you your new vehicle with everything covered by warranty. One aspect that wasn't shown are the switchbacks. Very tight (some require the use of a three point turn to navigate) 180 degree turns on the side of a mountain as you climb or descend it. Best accessory I installed was cheap LED "spotlights" with a wide dispersion of light on the sides of my vehicle, just forward of the front wheels. They light up the sides very well and combined with the main headlights and spotlights give me around 250 degrees of light surrounding the front of my car.
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  27217. Germany has some amazing artists in the music industry, and a huge chunk don't even get mainstream famous. We have incredible metal, goth, pagan, etc artists: Blind Guardian, Lord Of The Lost, Helloween (those are known in the metal scene), also Electric Callboy, FAUN (songs like 'Sonnenreigen' or 'Federkleid' are just so lovely, they are a melodic pagan fantasy group). And then you have more 'internet famous' people in german communities. Anica Russo with 'Once Upon A Dream' - her participation to qualify for the Eurovision Song Contest 2023, she has a unique enchanting voice. Julien Bam has some great songs, he is more of a film maker and his series has long outdone any Netflix quality and they always feature several german youtuber, streamer, etc AND at least one song. He has this son 'Opus Dens - Die Zahnfee' (a spin off about the tooth fairy, one of the key figures in his stories, played him) and the song feature is Georgia Cavallo, also an incredible german vocalist. His latest song about the Sandmann (another key figure in his stories, played by him, no MV release yet, only in the full video) named 'Fieberflow' features a female gaming streamer called 'Maluna' who is screaming 'i'm a singer' but she never got any training and only occationally sings in her live streams for fun. Among gaming live streamers there are Lara Loft (Lara Trautmann) who is a professional voice actress, a twitch gaming streamer and a very talented vocalist, which she showcases in her voice acting roles and her live streams. And lastly we have SukiDingels, a german Vtuber who also mainly plays games, but sometimes sings and her voice is incredibly lovely but her voice fries and growls (metal style) are totally on point.
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  27220. Danfoss head quarters and orginal fabrication facilitys . Are like 4 km from where i live in nordborg Denmark on the Island called Als. And its the biggest workplaces ik My area . and as the family Who started the company and still own it now have their family farm here . That has grown from that small farmhouse into a worldwide company . The farm still here but its a museum now . As the company has gotten so big they have a hand in alot that goes on from supportere the lokal kids football teams to running a small Ferry to the main land to make it easy for thier workers comming in from mainland. Jylland . But the Ferry is open for everybody like me too i use it all the time . And yeah they really are one of the big companys keeping the region going right now they are working together with the state and other investors to open a big vacation ressort in the area good for tourism and thus our home here . Man i could tell so much about danfoss we are proud of Them just like lego another great danish company .danfoss Even has Thier own themepark ajecent to the factory its called danfoss universe where kids and older can go have fun and learn through science its pretty cool im sure there are videos on youtube about it .. bonus info... if I would get relly Hurt and need an ambulance . That ambulance would not have to Come from our nearest big town like normal But No it would roll straight out of danfoss factory grounds they are so big that they have gotten the ambulance services covering My area . Wich i think is pretty cool . Danfoss is great . Pretty much everone has at some point worked there or atleast knows someone that do in the aera . My local area would be screwed without that company they do sooo Much. Making the aera pretty Nice to live in .
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  27288. Cool to see this car taken by Michael to the US, I understand that Michael moved from Slovakia where this car was bought by his parents. They took care very well as it looks like it is less than 10 years old, but it's 33 now. Also I love how you liked it, although being a bit tight for you to fit in. The feel of an 1980s car is much more connected as in a modern car, all links being mechanical and road feel and sounds not being dampened so much. That's why I like my old Mazda MX-5. It's not that surprising if people would take it for a VW Rabbit, this model was developed in cooperation with VW and somewhat based on the Rabbit as Skoda already started working with VW before being bought by them. But it's still the last 'real' Skoda so to say. Next car you have to find and drive is a Skoda 120/125/130/136 or the Rapid version of these, the Rapid being the coupé version. Those were the last model which were entirely a Skoda development and quite cool with the rear engine/RWD layout. The Rapid 130 RS Rally car was sometimes described as a East Block Porsche because of this layout and spicy performance and handling, it had 142hp! This version is hard to find nowadays and worth over $20,000-$30,000 in any condition, but even the normal road versions in good condition go well over $8000 these days. I'm the owner of a 2010 Yeti which serves me as a daily driver very well, it's a car that would surprise a lot of Americans too I think, being really spacious despite being only a small SUV.
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  27594. The "PAULANER Hefe-Weizen" is a beer that Aldi in Australia have several times each year, however the 0%alcohol type. The 'Weizen' beer is available in two forms the clear type and the 'Hefe' variety that is cloudy in form due the the yeast residue that it contains. Both are terrific refreshing in hot summer times. One important feature of the ckear type is it is highly gassed, and pouring is an art. Too fast, and particularly in not perfectly clean glass, it foams as poured to the point that you lose a lot spilling over as you pour. MUST slowly pour gently running down one side of the glass, tilting to vertical as the glass fills. Do NOT drop hard vertically to massively foam over. Note all German beer is EXPECTED to have a big foam cap. In fact if you get served a glass of beer without cap, it is taken as stale beer and expected to be replaced not consumed. Do not worry, the correct beer measure is assured as the serving glasses have top space for that foam cap. In many places, including Australia and USA, as well as others countries, a foam cap is NOT accepted as it is assumed you are being under servdd on beer volume. German beer inside Germany must conform to only the specified 4 pure ingredients, a 400 year old rule, that forbids all those additives used around the world, bittering agents, preservatives, foam stabilisers/inhibitors, even colouring. As such without any false additives, German beer must be very fresh brew, and fully natural flavours from brewing art. No preservatives means it must be new, fresh beer, as long term storage (and world shipping time) makes it necessary recently brewed. Thus even German export beer can be less than full national standard and quality, as for export the beer must be age stable, for shipping, warehousing and distribution to stores, so may deviate from home (German) quality and flavour. Also the export beer may have foam stabiliser, bittering agent, as it is expected by the foreign consumers. I suggest caution rating German beers if "export" grade, though far from certain that you could not get authentic quality German export product too. There is really only one good way, have the beer in Germany or at most have some brought direct by a traveller to be consumed within few weeks of German purchase. Of the many beers, my favourites are Pils, Bock, Double Bock, Clear Weizen, Cloudy 'Hefe-' Weizen beer, but certainly there are many beer types beyond these. I have on travel for work had many different beers in various places and in various containers, from carboard cup at hot dog stand to glass 1L boot, all very satifying. Virtually each city, town or significant vollage will have one or more resident breweries. Only one type beer made in Berlin, claimed popular there, that I got from a boyfriend of my girl cousin, to me was terrible, beyond drinkable, plain disgusting. It by my statement may as well have been 'Cow Piss'. Had a horrid clover like aftertaste, and created a strong burp to follow.
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  27624. Ian... My Man!.. I'm impressed. Now you just gotta do a reaction to a song called "I am Australian" by a group called The Seekers. Here's the lyrics just to help you along... There's a few versions of this on YT so pick one with good imagery... it adds that extra something. I came from the dream-time From the dusty red-soil plains I am the ancient heart The keeper of the flame I stood upon the rocky shores I watched the tall ships come For forty thousand years I've been The first Australian I came upon the prison ship Bowed down by iron chains I bought the land, endured the lash And waited for the rains I'm a settler, I'm a farmer's wife On a dry and barren run A convict, then a free man I became Australian I'm the daughter of a digger Who sought the mother lode The girl became a woman On the long and dusty road I'm a child of the Depression I saw the good times come I'm a bushie, I'm a battler I am Australian We are one, but we are many And from all the lands on earth we come We'll share a dream and sing with one voice "I am, you are, we are Australian" I'm a teller of stories I'm a singer of songs I am Albert Namatjira And I paint the ghostly gums I'm Clancy on his horse I'm Ned Kelly on the run I'm the one who waltzed Matilda I am Australian I'm the hot wind from the desert I'm the black soil of the plains I'm the mountains and the valleys I'm the drought and flooding rains I am the rock, I am the sky The rivers when they run The spirit of this great land I am Australian We are one, but we are many And from all the lands on earth we come We'll share a dream and sing with one voice "I am, you are, we are Australian" We are one, but we are many And from all the lands on earth we come We'll share a dream and sing with one voice "I am, you are, we are Australian" "I am, you are, we are Australian"
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  27797. Historical trivia of thongs (the kind on your feet and the swimwear kind). Thousands of years ago, ancient Egyptian footwear called thongs (as they themselves called them) were made from thongs (a.k.a. strips) of leather. They became popular throughout the world, including Asia and eventually Japan in particular (where they called them sandals). During WW1 (and years before America finally entered the war), Australian soldiers brought back thongs from Egypt. They were hugely popular in Australia, especially in early surf culture. G-strings (also originally made from leather strips) were already popular with strippers (worldwide) for a long time. 25 years after the Australians introduced the footwear known as thongs, and well over 2 years before America finally entered WW2, the 1939 World's Fair in New York introduced a new garment to Americans they called the thong, once again made from strips of leather (although considerably wider than a g-string). Another 35 years past before the modern (cloth) version of the garment/bikini thongs were introduced in California in 1974. At the end of WW2, Americans brought back the Japanese sandals, and again, they were hugely popular in surf culture. Australians still called them thongs and New Zealanders called them jandals (Japanese sandals), whilst Americans called them flip flops, (because of the sound they made when walking in them) as by then, the name "thongs" had already been taken. So that's why, in Australia, "thongs" mean 2 very different things.
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  28087. So love the video as always...But a perspective is needed. 1. Yes our food shopping in the UK is cheaper and again all prices include TAX. 2. Average Power and Water bill in the U.K right now is $8500+ per year based on a 1 adults and a child "more in some areas of the U.K" 3.The average wage is actually lower around $26,000 a year in the U.K compared to $36k to $41k a year in the U.S. 4. Clothes and other items are more expensive again all prices include taxes but still more in the U.K. 5. Eating out is more expensive and a U.K main meal is half of what you guys are served, in a U.S Dinner / basic local cafe meal would feed two U.K adults. Yes you need to Tip in the U.S "You should in the U.K" also to be clear on that, but your bill is still cheaper especially with unlimited coffee or soda refills that are uncommon here in the U.K you get charged per drink. 6, GAS / PETROL it's $10+ per gallon in the U.K and we still burn loads due to slower traffic and the like. 7. Prices I quoted are approximate as our Prime minister has literally 💩 on the value of the £ but add 10% to 15% to all pre £ being 💩 on prices in raw currency conversion. 8. YES health is free as in the NHS but that's is paid for via a tax called NATIONAL INSURANCE, That in addition to base rate 20% income tax done through the PAYE system, Google that for clarification! However in total the initial wages I quoted you have to take off a minimum of 26.2% in combined PAYE direct taxes and NI or National insurance. The first £12,500 or $13.200 is not taxed but NI is still paid. Still that's a lot of taxes. Hope this helps.
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  28103. Ian, this is going to be a long one 😂, please disregard this list. It's a bestsellers list, not best quality. My General rule of thumb i think most europeans can agree with is : for an all night party or a quick refreshing drink on a summers day you drink pils from germany or czech republic, for a cozy pub night or long winterevening a Belgian abbey beer. We ( 🇧🇪) dont really export our best stuff 😂, people who want that have to make a special effort to travell or pay a fortune in shipmentcosts. ( i wanted to send you some , but the shipment costs 3 times as much as the beers themselves, so i'll have to postphone it a few months and make it your christmas present 😊) Any legit list would have to include: Westvleteren , Orval and Chimay trappist beers. Leffe is "ok" but quite generic in Belgium, same for Stella, it is just "OK", not our best pilsner, Jupiler is much better. But if you do get a Stella you have to look at the fine print on the label to see if it is really brewed in belgium. I visited the US last year and found both real imported , aswell as Stella brewed in the US ( Los Angeles, Newark en Jacksonville ) . Soon you will not find the 11.2 ounce imports anymore, only 12ounce US brewed. I'm telling you coz the taste is different,import is more outspoken ->better, less watery. I even did a blind test and could easily tell the difference. You can not change the watersource without changing the taste, even in this day and age. A few years back They (Inbev/Anehauser) tried to move Hoegaerden brewery 40miles and had to move back to the original location coz customers werent satisfied. It really matters. Paulaner on a hot summersday is nice. But When in Germany, i say as a Belgian😂, drink the local pils, skip big brands. every area/town has its own , and they know their craft. Newcastle brown ale used to have a different package, and is also know as " a bottle of Dog", i dont really like it. Pilsner Urquell is a nice Pils. Czech know how to make a good pils. Heineken...just forget about it, that is not even considered beer here. Heineken is a Marketing company, not a brewing company. Like McDonnalds is in fact a real estate company, not a restaurant. Let me help my dutch friends out and immediately say they do have a few better beers, inlcuding one Trappist ( La Trappe) My 2 cents 😊🤘❤️
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  28863. From the road signs, the location is North-Western Austria, just West of Linz. The second place he went into wasn't really that difficult. There was quite a lot of room. The first place was certainly tight, but I think that was the wrong place. He could probably have got in if he'd spent a bit more time and got out to look down the right-hand side of the truck. In these situations, there's no substitute for GOAL - Get Out And Look. I don't know what Scania have nowadays, but the newer Mercedes trucks have a very sophisticated cruise control system that has maps of most roads - at least in the UK. It knows the speed limits, the junctions, even the gradients. It's not infallible, but the idea is that for a lot of cases, you don't need to touch the brake or accelerator. On the approach to a roundabout, junction or even just a bend in the road, it will automatically stop accelerating and use engine braking as appropriate to slow the truck down to the correct speed, and then accelerate away after the junction/bend. Coming up to the brow of a hill, it will stop accelerating before the top, because it knows that it's going to start going down again, so it can make use of gravity on the other side. It's a bit disconcerting to have the truck suddenly start to slow down without obvious reason, only for you to come round a bend and then see (for example) a 30 mph limit sign. In theory, it reduces fuel consumption because it is able to come off the accelerator earlier and coast down to the required speed rather than using brakes. I'm not 100% convinced by it - it probably reduces fuel consumption, but it's not reliable enough for me to trust properly - sometimes it just doesn't "know" about particular roads, so there's a risk that the driver will assume that the truck will slow itself and it actually doesn't.
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  28954. I will say every list you‘ll find is very strong depending on your own preferences and taste… Best way ti find out is come to Europe and try to taste as much as possible….😊 For example I never would set Amstel and Heineken on that list… For my opinion they ok but not part of the best biers, I would set Kilkenny Irish Red Ale onto the list, and Tiesky and Zywiece from Poland, (Original Czech) Budweiser, or Svyturis Extra from Lithuania, missing some Russian beer, and if italian beer is belonging to best ?? — a country with a doubtless great wine tradition but with great tradition in brewing beer? ..not sure… From my point of view this list is not the best… I‘m living relatively in the center of triangle Cologne Düsseldorf and Aachen…and it’s nearly a kind religious dispute what kind of beer you prefer in the region I live….at cologne you have „Kölsch“ (It‘s a own kind of beer like pilsner, ale, stout etc….but very special for cologne), in Düsseldorf you have Alt-Bier (another special kind of beer from Düsseldorf that is dark like Guinness) and in Aachen its more typical to drink beer brewed in Pilsner style…..and we have also a lot of People they prefer Weizenbier….(I can speak only about my region) it’s a very diverse situation of tast of the people….what I will say finally is: it is not easy to make a fix list of the best type and sort of beer! I love our German beer BUT sometimes I like to drink Miller Beer, (US) Budweiser, Corona Beer from Mexico, or try some kind of beer from anywhere of the world….
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  28992. Sorry for the timestamp and rambling stuff but man... 2:30 Yep, Ian. We had/have the 300/Cs and the Chargers. Had a drag racing acquaintance in a city I lived in who owned a tweaked 300C with the 5.7 litre. It was all Black and in Chrysler 300C terms, it was a sleeper. For context, he owned and ran a Top Fuel drag racing team with a full workshop. The car got the treatment. His car made me want a big 300C. I still want one 16-odd years later. 2:47 I'm commenting as I go, so there may be more further on, but that Pink Dodge reminds me of a '58(?) Plymouth Hardtop that someone offered to sell me for 700 bucks in 1977 when I was a young car nut of fourteen. It was a 318 with a push-button auto on the dash. Not inlet manifold and it had been sitting with no bonnet/hood for many years. Anyway, I raced home on my pushbike/dragster the five kilometres/3 miles home and proceeded to beg and plead with my dad to loan me the money. I raved and raved about the thing and he said no. I was gutted. 3:20 I had a Fawn '74, 245 Charger for a few months in 1983 before I near killed myself in it. That's way too long a tale to tell here...lolz 3:33 I bought one of these, a VG, for 300 bucks in 1993 from a bloke. I drove it home and started to work on it from front to back. I stripped out the flooring and it was pristine. In fact, from the front to the back of the rear quarter panels was pristine...the rear quarter panels had been stuffed with chicken wire and bog. The entire rear bottom 18 inches of the car was bog, wire and prayers under a so so paint job. He used to back it into the river with his boat trailer... 9:03 I love the Australian Ford coupes (XA/B/C) from that era but I too feel the Chargers had their own style that just said 'Muscle Car'. 9:23 I think that's a 'Chrysler by Chrysler', the luxury model that Chrysler/Valiant released over here in the 70s. I had one of these in 2004 that just needed paint and a new electric fuel pump before it was ready to roll. Worked 360, 727 Torqueflyte(?), LSD. Then someone decided to put a wallaby carcass in the back seat (we lived in the bush) to keep it from the dogs overnight and then forgot to tell anyone. I found it four weeks later...I sold the drivetrain for 1500 bucks on the condition that they took the entire vehicle away on purchase. I've had a few more Valiant/Chryslers but this comment may not even make it. It is a bit long.
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  29046. Hey there, just a quick crash course on doritos: Post WW2, there were piston engines, turbines and this quirky thing called "wankel", named after it's german inventor. The layout is so counterintuitive to how an engine works conventionally since it doean't have any valves but huge, moving seals that made it require a pre-mix comparable to scooters who need a small % of oil in the fuel of their 2 stroke engines. If you want to make it "really simple": it's a rounded triangle with a hole in the middle that rotates around an eccentric crank shaft within an oval combustion chamber. The missile knows where it is at all times. Mazda bought the patent for the wankel engine from the german company NSU, which built motorcycles with it in the 50s. Mazda spent almost a decade to get the "demon scratches", the rotor&casing expanding at different rates of temperature, leaving drag marks on the casing. In the end, they used fragile sheets of graphite infamous for breaking on the points of the triangular rotor assemblies, making it ready for production. In the 60s, Mazda built the Cosmo 115, with a twin rotor engine reving up to 8k rpm producing just over 100hp. The size of the individual rotor hasn't changed much since it's invention, the first coming in at 0.45 Liters and the most recent at 0.6 Liters in the RX-8 from the 2000s. The 4 rotor engine (0.6×4=2.4 Liter) in Mad Mike's RX-7 was never produced in any model I'm aware of, but since rotaries are (at least in theory) stackable by alternating between seal, rotor, seal, rotor etc until your crank shaft can no longer keep up, this engine was theoretically possible and no one else but Mazda themselves used it in their 1991 win at Le Mans in the legendary 878B, where that engine configuration made 750hp at 8500rpm, but it was capable of 900+ if there hadn't been concerns about engine durability over 9k rpm. It's a 24h race after all... -Rotary engines are funny, great little beasts and seem like the magic bullet but the drawbacks sadly are hard to ignore: •They burn oil by design, just like pre-mix in a scooter. •The seal of the combustion chamber is the edge of the rotor and a huge flat piece of metal, which is just not ideal. •Not exactly a "torquey" engine, needs revs. The advantages for tuning are great, though: •If you port the intake&exhaust, you can get more air into it, making it much more powerful & happy at top end. Obviously, the idle becomes more choppy, but I guess some girls like it that way lol :) •There's so many fewer moving parts that can break than a conventional piston engine, no valves etc to worry about. •Relatively good at producing lots of exhaust gasses, making it a natural fit for turbochargers. Also responds well to boost.
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  29504. Those images were taken from a test on the private Fiat La Mandria track (I drove there in 2003 as a tester for some vehicles) before getting the first victory in the 1985 Rac Rally. You can see Claudio Lombardi (project manager), Giorgio Pianta chief test driver and technical consultant of the Lancia Martini Racing Team (only 5 years later he became Team Principal of Alfa Romeo Corse in the Dtm Championship) some mechanics of Lancia Martini (all of them were considered magician in their job) and the legend of rally Marku Alen. Some of the main technical and peculiar characteristics of the S4 (S=Supercharged, 4= for 4-wheel drive): - engine of only 1750 cc (1.7 liters) equipped with 2 air supply compressors (Abarth volumetric compressor that works from 0 to approximately 2000 rpm and a KKK turbocharger from 2000 to max rpm). - Chassis and passenger compartment made with a Ni-Cr tubular structure - Special and advanced transmission gearbox (called in italian "innesti frontali" I can't translate it in english sorry) which allowed the gear shift without using the clutch, reducing time wasted during gear changes, 2 adjustable self-locking differentials (basic traction distribution was 45% front and 55% rear). With an engine that developed a maximum power of 550 HP and a total weight of 950 Kg, you can imagine the performance the car can do (the race version had incredible performances like an acceleration from 0 to 100Km/h in 1,9 - 2,2 seconds). Safety problems emerged in the first serious crash in which Toivonen and Cresto died when the car exploded following a rollover. Explosion caused by the proximity (they were all like this...) of the incandescent turbo to the fuel system and tank and poor resistance of the chassis to high speed impacts.
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  29662. Thanks, nice video! Just some fact checking here for what the guy from the vid says: - Pharmaceutical adds --> are all over TV and the internet here too. Not for prescription medicine, because the doctors prescribe those, not a tv commercial... Here by law they always have to state "Regarding risks and sideeffects get counsel from your doctor or pharmacist!" in the end. There are not many (I don't know of any...) adds for single lawyers, because the TV station service larger areas here than some in the US, and there would be many other lawyers way closer for most people, so it's not really cost efficient to do TV commercials in this case. But there are loads of commercials for legal insurance companies. They can be just as funny. --> Maybe this thing is bigger in the US than in some other places, but "Don't exist Outside the USA" ..? --> No, Wrong! Exists in many other places... - Spray cheese..? Yeah, please keep that stuff... TRUE! --> Yes, the USA are the worlds largest consumer of cheese, but then again, it is a big country. The largest cheese consumer per capita is France (who would have guessed...). Then come Germany, Luxemburg, Iceland, Greece, Finnland,...... Still, the cheese capital of the world is known to be Plymouth, Massachusetts. - Garbage disposals --> They do exist outside the US, but all in all mainly in the US. As explained in the video it can be problematic with the waste water treatment. Recently some countries are encouraging the installation of garbage disposal units, because in recent years the waste water facilities have switched to using the organic waste to produce biogas. So what had been problematic has suddenly become environmentally beneficial. - College sports aren't a big thing in many other places because most countries don't have their sports teams based in the schools and colleges like in the US. There are mostly separate local clubs for all sorts of profficiency levels, not attached to a school or something... How popular are club sports in the US..? --> I would say TRUE, but then again, there is the same thing out there, just as popular, just not necessarily in colleges... - The teeth thing is just plainly wrong! All over the world people take as much care of their teeth as possible. Here in Germany for example dental care, braces, all that stuff is included in the general health care. All that bleeching and whitening stuff is all over too, and YES, it can matter when dating and getting a job. Why would it be otherwise? - Black Friday --> also not true. It originated in the USA (other places don't celebrate thanksgiving...) but has been common all over the world for quite some time. There used to be something similar around the same time a year called "Winterschlussverkauf" here in Germany, but has been replaced by black friday and cyber monday. Black friday has been THE biggest shopping event in Germany for several years now, and I know in countries like Spain, France, Italy, Austria,... it's the same. It can also get just as crazy with people camping in front of the store to be the first ones in, and bloody battles for the best bargain. - The cup thing is also BS. We got the same cups here for partys and events, and I've known them since I can remember. I just opened my kitchen cupboard and there they are... Our water dispensers at work and some of the coffee machines there use them. I've seen them everywhere all over europe, as well as asia. --> Simply not true. - The free refill thing is true as far as I know. We have a few places like some few fast food restaurants that offer free refills, where you can fill your cup back up at a machine (IKEA also does that...), but that's it. Don't know it from traveling anywhere else either to be a common thing. - Flying your countries flag is also very common all over the world. Yes, the US sometimes take this to the extreme, but Great Britain, Thailand, France or Sweden might very well rival them on this, just to name a few. In Germany we don't go over the top waving our flag around, because some people here are still afraid other countries my fear we are preparing an invasion or something. It gets more common, but most people here just don't project their pride and achievements onto a flag. --> Still... "flying your countries flag much" doesn't qualify at all for "doesn't exist outside the USA". Sorry, having lived in the US, Germany and other places I just had to look into all of those. Didn't meen to make it all bad or something...
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  29875. From my daughters point of view and I would call her an expert on coffee. Her first after school job was at Gloria Jeans and they were well established here because they adapted. My daughter goes to Rome just to drink coffee. Yes, she is an addict. In Melbourne towards the end Starbucks did adapt to coffee how we love it but it was too little too late. Victoria only kept 6 stores and none near us. My daughter loved Starbucks so much she went 3 times on it’s last day open but they were making coffee her way by then. Before they adapted she would go in and tell them how to make what she wanted to drink and they did and did it well. She doesn’t love Gloria Jeans since she worked there. We were clobbered with Starbucks everywhere. Way too many at once. Australians are not going to give up what they love just because America thinks they should. Which is why I wondered why my daughter did. You have no idea how fussy she is about her coffee. She has been to America a few times. She always comes home with what she calls coffee poisoning and she tells me that your Starbucks were never like the ones we had. You can’t pay her to drink coffee from Starbucks there. It is the same with Macca’s. Our menu is nothing like yours and I have experienced this. Last time I was in America I asked my daughter to go in and get me a fruit and yoghurt smoothie for breakfast because I felt sick. America had never heard of it so I asked for a plain vanilla thick shake, nope. They made her the closest thing that she described. My thick shake was yellow, not white. I tasted it and my mouth was coated in a thick layer of fat. I gave it to her to taste and she told me. Lord Mama they want you dead. It did make my stomach feel better, after one taste each I dropped it in the garbage and then I threw up in the bin. I went into Macca’s and there was no diet choices, no healthy choices. If they hadn’t adapted they wouldn’t still be here. I am diabetic but I know if I go to Macca’s here I can get a sugar free wrap with grilled chicken and salad plus something I can drink. Macca’s adapted very well but I still don’t go more than once a year because I have so much choice everywhere. You just have to sell what everyone wants. My daughters and I often went to a place called Boyz for Brekkie to have brunch. Everyone who worked there was Gay including the owners. The food and coffee were heaven. So was the attention and service and you were family after the second visit. It is in Mornington and you would be surprised how many American Celebrities eat there. They know that no one will bother them. With places like these Starbucks didn’t have a chance without adapting from the start.
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  30029. I have experience in all of the mods you mentioned in my 2012 Ram 2500 longhorn 5.7l. As far as engine, I started with an S&B CAI. As far as power, it didnt do much, if anything at all as far as my butt dyno could tell, but it made everything sound better, so I was happy with it. Next I did an 87mm throttle body, 15% ATI underdrive pulley, and a custom tune from couple of different online guys using my diablo motorsport tuner. I also deleted the clutch fan and put in a 180 degree thermostat and had both my tunes set up to kick the AC fan on sooner to replace the clutch fan cooling. Improvements in torque and horsepower were minor but noticeable, but probably all came from the custom tune. The throttle body i didnt expect anything from and was just in prep to a future planned upgrade. Next was exhaust - other than muffler i also put in a set of ARH 1 3/4" longtube headers w/CAT delete. You mentioned headers and cat delete in your video.... if you delete the cats you will for sure require a custom tune to suppress the O2 sensor warning. Exhaust mods were great...everything sounds way better and i made noticeable power in the midrange and up high for certain ( custom tune to match ). All these changes made a bit of a difference, but really nothing too drastic. Right now since last Thursday my truck is in the garage in pieces - currently i am in the middle of a cam swap using a custom comp cams grind, mildly ported set of new cylinder heads, a procharger going in at 7lbs of boost and a new torque converter stalling around 3000. I expect some serious gains from this as soon as Im done. Hope that helps you out in some way.... contact Matt at Moe's Performance in Texas; he's a super knowledgeable guy and will get you what you're looking for however far into your truck you want to go. Other functional mods Ive made to the truck are mag hytec high capacity diff covers and trans pan, fox 2.5 shocks, carli 3" system including new rear springs, torsion sway bar new control arms and progressive front springs, 4.56 gears (which you already have) 35" tire on 18s.... electric cutout for the exhaust....and I think thats about it....
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  30099. This started up higher in Queensland. I live near Bundaberg and they have what is called a 1 in 100 year flood zone. They were flooded in 2010 and 2013. Half of that City has PTSD from those floods. They already have so many homeless because of Covid. Bundy is on big tidal River. The 3 bridges are 9 metre’s above the water and they all went under in those floods. We are watching to see if it goes up again. All we hear is thunder and rain, it keeps on coming. Some towns had more than their yearly rain in less than a day. The floods are over 14 metre’s in some places and thousands have lot their homes, some their lives. New South Wales is in trouble as well. The town of Lismore went under 5 days ago and no help could get to them. One elderly couple floated up to the man hole in the ceiling and they were trapped by the tin roof. People around them could hear them screaming but they were all on their roof tops. They finally sent the Army in but it is too late for many. Tonight they estimated over 10,000 cattle and 2,000 horses have drowned. Help has already started but this will take a year when it stops. We got excited yesterday because fresh milk got through for the first time in 4 days. If supermarkets aren’t underwater they are not getting deliveries. I was in our last big fires, for a month we had one fire storm after the other and the ocean was our only way out. It is horrible when everyday looks like night with a red glow. I would choose floods, we have been flooded enough times to know but not where we live now. We have lost everything we thought mattered like wedding albums and baby albums. The only thing that really matters are lives and pets. I have a sister and a niece stuck in floods just now. They matter. My niece manages a supermarket, she has been flooded in for days and it is okay because so has her supermarket and it had no fresh food left anyway. Getting people out and getting food to them is what counts now. A farmer on the news tonight made me laugh. He and his wife are not young and they thought their dairy herd had drowned. The cows came swimming up to his house, walked through the little garden gate and moved under his verandah. All 62 of them. The back of his house and garden are a mess but they are so happy the girls are okay. There are a lot of good stories that come out of the bad. That is our way. I am praying for the Ukraine, they are in way more trouble than we are.
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  30100. Welcome to the biggest state of Western Australia, my home state. There is much to see. What has been shown here involves a lot of travel.......so much variation from the south to the north (this video has places to see in the Wheatbelt (Wave Rock and Hyden etc out East of the State) and then travelled up North. There are a lot of beautiful sites in the South as well). The pink and grey bird shown in your video at around 4 minutes was a Pink and Grey Galah. We had one as a pet . Normally I think birds belong in the wild but he was from a previous home and we looked after him until he ventured out into the big world (his door was left ajar hehe). He loved to eat fresh food and especially loved native plants including bottle brush. The plant immediately after the Galah was a Banksia. They come in a lot of colours. We have a wild flower season in WA and it is a thing for people just to head out in search of the wild flowers. Absolutely beautiful to behold. So I have been to many of the places shown, including Wave Rock, Hyden, Kalbarri, and Lake Argyle which is near Kununnura. Kununarra have farms that grow fresh fruit including watermelon, rock melons and papaya. Did you know that Lake Argyle is close to Argyle Diamond mine. They have pink Diamonds, which are spectacular. In 2000 we did a tour from Kununarra. I was with my husband and child of 1 year. We took a bus to get to Lake Argyle, then caught a sea plane which took off from and landed back on Lake Argyle, and then did a boat cruise as well on the water too. It really is a full day trip. The plane was not allowed to go over the diamond mine for security, but you could see it in the distance... Lake Argyle is an inland sea, and the second biggest in Australia I believe. Broome (where the camels were) is a favourite destination for a lot of tourists, They also have dinosaur footprints too. My memories of Derby, where they showed the Boab Prison Tree, include the best feed of Barramundi (fish) that I have ever tasted. My goodness it was yummy. The Boab tree use to have links where they would chain the prisoners on the inside of the tree. If you really want to get a feel for the Kimberly Region, consider watching the Australian movie called Red Dog. It depicts a town near Karratha, WA in the 1970s. Brilliant movie. Another animal not mentioned in the video known to Western Australia is the Quokka. They live on an island called Rottnest a short ferry ride from Fremantle just south of our capital in Perth. We also have Bilbys which are a type of Arid Bandicoots. PS - if you are heading on a long distant journey and going outback you can get an "Epirb". It is an emergency position indicating radio beacon which you can activate if you have any issues. That being said, if you had a breakdown along the coast, although it can be a long time between seeing cars, you would generally be closer to help. Travelling in desert country through definitely requires plenty of water and supplies in case of trouble. If you grow up with having to travel, you really just adjust. Thanks for your reaction Ian.
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  30339. We call McDonald’s Maccas and there’s even restaurants that put Maccas on their signs instead of the full name lol A Taco Bell recently opened up like 5 or 10 minutes away from where I live in Melbourne lol but we don’t have any of the other ones you listed. We have a version of Dunkin Donunts called Doughnut King and there’s a couple Krispy Kreme shops but only two or three I’ve seen or anywhere close to me. We have dominoes and Pizza Hut, and also KFC. I might have seen one Wendy’s somewhere haha and I think it was mainly hotdogs and shakes. We have subway too. T.J. Maxx here is called T.K. Maxx 😂 we have 7/11 too. Lemonade here is carbonated and it’s usually clear lemon flavoured soda. We call soda soft drink and Lemonade is not the same thing as lemon flavoured soft drink lol if it’s lemon soft drink it’s yellow and stronger in lemon flavour and sourness, whereas lemonade has a subtler lemon taste. We have cordial which is like kool aid I guess but it’s concentrated liquid that you pour into a glass like a bit less than an inch (or more for bigger cups or bottles or for jugs to store in the fridge) or however much you prefer personally and add water to make it flavoured, like 1 part cordial to 9 parts water for example. I’m 22 and I’ve never seen the snow, yet I have experienced mild hypothermia once, that’s how weird Australian weather is depending on where you are haha is a redhead so I’ve been burned a shameful amount of times and terribly like blistered by the sun it’s no joke rip My dad passed in March this year 💔 but he was once knocked completely over by a rogue Kangaroo whilst walking down the street 😂 and recently my mum witnessed a Jack russel terrier barking and chasing a kangaroo down the street with it’s owner trailing far behind them running as fast as he could 🤣 There’s a spider that lives above my head most of the time that’s been there for months, since before my dad passed and it’s September now. I think it should start paying rent lol Our largest land predator is a dingo which is basically a wild doggo lol and I’ve actually been lucky enough to pet a couple before (NOT one in the wild, a couple of rescued dingoes who had been raised around and lived with humans) and some people have mixed breed dingo dogs as pets. I can’t really think of other fast food or store comparisons right now but if anyone wants to give me some names of American stores I might recognise some or know the Aussie counterpart! Hope someone finds this interesting or helpful if they wanted to know a couple more things x
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  30351. Indeed, if you know what you are looking at, then you know the architectural style and hence the era. The commented-on video starts with the "concentric canals" (semi-circles). Note that Amsterdam started inside the canal called "Singel" (means "girth" or "belt") that ran around its perimeter. (Farm)lands outside this belt were rather wet and peaty and not suited for building on. To fix this, the soil got improved and raised using sand from the innermost dunes along the coast, West of Haarlem (to Amsterdam's West). Canals served the transportation of that sand and trains of small barges got pulled through these canals. The canals, throughout the Netherlands, served several purposes and the first of these was as main logistics highway for heavy and bulky loads (time tables existed). Second was to manage the water table in the soil as a way to prevent getting wet cellars or wet feet. The names of these canals. Note that the Netherlands only became a kingdom under its own king in the House of Orange in the 1800s. When Amsterdam started its expansion, the spirit was mercantilist. The first extension semi-circle was "Herengracht" (gracht=canal and the word gracht derives from the verb graven "to dig"; "Heren" means "gentlemen's") and this was meant for top tier mercantilists. Part of this canal is nicknamed "de Gouden Bocht" (the Golden Bend). With some nobleman far, far away making claims on Dutch money, there may have been an emperor with a claim to influence in the Netherlands and, being considered less important then the merchants of the Herengracht, the next semi-circle canal was called "Keizersgracht" ("keizers" means "emperor's"). This canal has slightly less imposing buildings along it. And then the third expansion was added - each time improving soil and raising ground levels - which was called "Prinsengracht" ("prinsen" means "prins's") putting an Orange guy at the time in their place. Lesser houses than along the other two canals. Part of the top-tier canal house region around the Gouden Bocht towards the Amstel river had its own dialect called "Hoog Herengrachts" (hoog=high). As these houses may have had a business function too, this did not mean they had a ground floor shop facade. If they processed or manufactured something then this went via back alleys and the work would be done in sheds in the backyards. Houses might get extended with an addition to their rear, often in a less posh style and these would be connected to the house in front. Such extensions often served to give a place to live in, to the heir, the next generation. This is the kind of extension we find in Anne Frank's diary "The Back House". It could be reached through the front door. Also note that the outer houses along Herengracht, to their back faced the inner houses along Keizersgracht. A back alley separating the gardens and allowing working class servants to access their work location without polluting the pleasant view of the front. Extensions did not end with Prinsengracht, but this is the main story. If you want to see this from the canals in a canal boat tour, note that there are a lot of trees along these canals and a tour in summer when the deciduous trees are full of green leaves means you see little of the facades. After fall, when the trees are barren, everything looks sad, depressed and barren. So I would only book a canal tour on a sunshiny day. Leaves may start to fall in September, but it may take well into November for everything to have fallen down. The best tome to do the tour is in early spring when green buds are on the twigs in the trees, maybe some already starting to turn into tiny leaves. But still giving full visual impressions of the facades.
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  30400. 5:11 welcome to classic racing, getting 7-8k rpm out of an engine designed to pull 5k is expensive as hell and they tend to blow up a lot for obvious reasons. You think this is rough, I have race cars from the 30s and 40s sitting in my workshop, one of which is relatively famous for it's time, won the AGP in Bathurst in '48 and '49, held a bunch of records for hill climbs, and it's a 4 banger 1500 cc NA engine from 1936... We were invited to run in one of the demo races with other vintage AGP cars back in '90 when the AGP was in Adelaide, had to tow it from Sydney on a single axle trailer with no suspension and registered as a box trailer behind a clapped out VK Holden station wagon whose rear suspension was dodgey out of the factory, for 1375km or 855ish miles each way... the floaty rear end of the VK and the unsprung trailer gave us the death wobbles at anything over 80km/h or about 50mph, made for a loooong trip. Took two days just to get there. I had to fly home because I had to work so I missed the joy of towing it home again. Still, having a Paddock Pass for an F1 GP was pretty awesome. There was a footbridge on the main straight we could use to cross the track from the inside paddock area to the spectator areas and we were allowed to cross it during the F1 practice but it was closed for qualifying and the race for safety reasons. Standing on that bridge when an F1 car screams underneath you at 300km/h and the whole bridge shakes was a hell of an experience. Also they're fucking loud, that V10 14k rev scream was something else man, even with ear plugs in. Best time of my life.
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  30677. 2:15 You are totally right. My beloved home city has been declared the most livable city in the world by many international institutions multiple times. "Vienna was ranked top in the 2019 Quality of Living Ranking by the international Mercer Consulting Group for the tenth consecutive year. In the 2015 liveability report by the Economist Intelligence Unit as well as in the Quality of Life Survey 2015 of London-based Monocle magazine Vienna was equally ranked second most livable city worldwide. The United Nations Human Settlements Programme UN-Habitat has ranked Vienna the most prosperous city in the world in its flagship report State of the World Cities 2012/2013. According to the 2014 City RepTrack ranking by the Reputation Institute, Vienna has the best reputation in comparison with 100 major global cities. The Innovation Cities Global Index 2014 by the Australian innovation agency 2thinknow ranks Vienna sixth behind San Francisco-San Jose, New York City, London, Boston and Paris.[126] In 2019 PeoplePerHour put Vienna at the top of their Startup Cities Ranking. US climate strategist Boyd Cohen placed Vienna first in his first global smart cities ranking of 2012. In the 2014 ranking, Vienna reached third place among European cities behind Copenhagen and Amsterdam. The Mori Memorial Institute for Urban Strategies ranked Vienna in the top ten of their Global Power City Index 2016." (source: wikipedia) And... it's so true!😁 Best regards from Vienna! P.S.: Yes, I might be Austrian and I'm over 40 years old, but I've attended only three ski trips in my entire life (shame on me!). 😂😂😂
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  30707. Well, algroithm knows where to bring me. Ukrainian here, glad you've enjoyed the drinks. Kvass is more of a warm-hot season drink, thought it's sold all year round, very refreshing, especially when cooled. Very few things are better than a mug of kvass with ice on a hot summer day, though sometimes it's used in recipes, you've been pretty spot on with that. There's a few companies who make it here in Ukraine, every single brand has it's own taste. The black can you had imported from Germany is "Black Kvass" from the Kvas Taras brand, made in south-eastern Ukraine, in Lviv, they also make White Kvass. As for consumption, to be honest, I prefer it to a lot of sodas, I would probably drink it more but they begun selling kvass in cans only like a couple of years ago or so. Before that they where sold only in 1 and 2 litre bottles. It was also kinda of a street food, if you can call it that? Street drink maybe? Dunno, but. Back then, 16-25 years ago when I was a wee lad there was a Kvass sold on streets, dispensed from giant metal barrels on wheels. It was very cheep, you would pay for a plastic cup with the size of your choosing and they would fill it to the brim. Some people brought bottles and paid for them to get filled instead. I dunno who made that kvass, it was dark kvass with no branding, but damn was it tasty and refreshing. Especially in summer heat, you would find a shadow and slowly empty the big cup, it would feel like heaven. I believe it was sold back in the USSR times, besides the Kvass they also had public dispensers with sparkling water, sort of a soviet vending machine but, unlike kvass with sellers, automated sparkling water dispensers got rotated out of use because the machine was easy to trick and people got themselves free sparkling water. Well, that video brought memories I didn't expect to remember today. Also sometimes people homebrew kvass, when they want something more refreshing instead of a strong alcohol that moonshine usually is. Unproperly made kvass can get quite alcoholic too, sometimes on purpose. But some homebrew recipes are straight bad. Poor quality kvas, even if it tastes great, can give you horrible diarrhea, so if you ever decide to make one yourself be sure to follow a recipe and be ready for consequences. Overall, it's a very old and a damn good slavic drink with a lot of history to it. Hope you'll enjoy Kvass some more. Cheers!
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  31021. Both Guinness and Murphy's on the list - Ok, so it's just Beamish missing then. Btw - Murphy's is brewed down in Cork by Heineken. The Newcastle Brown Ale is quite good, so you should definitely try a Newkie if you get to a Pub that has that Badge on the pump. Heineken or Amstel? If I had the choice I would much rather have the Amstel, no question about it! Peroni is said to be a "clean" beer, no strange chemicals in it so your hang-over won't be so bad if you accidentally drink a lot of it. Moretti is the same. If you visit Ireland you will find a lot of beer from smaller breweries that are not exported outside the country, like Five Lamps, Galway Hooker, O'Hara's etc. If Germany is on the itinerary then you should make sure you don't miss going to Stuttgart, and spend several days there. There is two reasons for that - 1. Beer - Dinkelacker is a local brewery in Stuttgart that doesn't travel very far outside the City, so you have to go there to get the beer. My personal favourites is Sanwald Hefe Weizen, it's top-fermented and unfiltered so it's cloudy in the glass when you get it. My second favourite is "Das Schwarze", a Jet-Black "Schwaben Bräu" beer that comes in a swing-top bottle. 2. Cars - For you having a great interest in cars this City should not be missed because it has not just one but two car museums, the Mercedez-Benz Museum and also the Porsche Museum. I was in Stuttgart with my work back in 2018. The last day was free with our flight home leaving in the evening, but when I asked my travel companions if we should go to Mercedez-Benz or Porsche they said "Naa, we are hungry so lets go to McDonald's instead". Bummer!!! 🤬 Cheers / B.
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  31312. Technical stuff? Well, they started out basically as Group A cars, with most of the first generation of AUSCAR machinery (1988-'89-ish) often being outdated VK and VL Commodore touring cars (by this stage the game had moved on so the '86 VK and '87 VL were no longer competitive). As such they were really just road car shells with a roll cage welded in, a race-tuned Holden 308 (or a 351 Cleveland for the few Falcons entered - which was considered fair since the XF Falcon was a much wider car than the compact Commodore, so it had more drag). Bodykits were usually the same fibreglass as the VK "Blue Meanie" or VL Group A cars (although again, the XF Falcons initially got something much more elaborate). By 1990 or so the wide-body VN Commodore was available as a secondhand buy, and it was about the same size as the rival EA Falcon, so that allowed Bob Jane to adjust the rulebook so the Falcon runners could de-spec to a Windsor 302 to match (and the people who would soon be starting V8 Supercars watched closely and took notes...). That said, there were never many Falcons at all, because why pay through the nose for an imported V8 from America when Commodores grew on trees? So AUSCAR started out very off-the-shelf, almost backyard engineering, but as the 1990s wore on it got more and more specialised and so more expensive. Mal Rose was featured in the most recent edition of AMC and he mentions "aluminium radiators and oil coolers" becoming necessary, and I happen to know they scored gubbins like asymmetrical suspension, control brake packages, semi-slick control tyres, stuff like that. AUSCAR never became full-blown racecars like NASCAR, retaining the production bodyshell right up to the end, but by the turn of the millennium all the specialist kit needed to be competitive had got too expensive and, because V8 Supercars was getting huge and was busy hoovering up all the fans and sponsors, that sort of money was no longer available. Mal Rose drove me around the Thunderdome in 2013 and blew me away, and they told that in the late 90's there'd be 40,000 people there on a Saturday night. Must've been good times. These days, if you break in to go and explore, your biggest worry is watching out for snakes. If you want to do us a favour, react to the Goodyear NASCAR 500, the race that opened the Thunderdome. That was a true NASCAR race and although a few Aussies were entered, most of the drivers were American, so it would be interesting to hear who they were and what their stories are. If you want to do yourself a favour, react to Brad Jones driving Simon O'Donnell around the Thunderdome, it's a hoot.
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  31349. So I don't actually wheel my Ram Rebel, the diet zero-calorie zero-sugar powerwagon aesthetics 1500 they make - but I too had some tire-slippage in the rain with mine. My factory Toyo AT2s were pretty bad in the rain. Spinning all 4 tires in 4WD? No thanks. I did a shit ton of reading on eevery review, web board I could find. I'm not an actual expert, I'm a guy that's read some stuff! Take it with a box of salt. My take - Apparently mud terrains in general are not the best in the rain, the way they channel water. They can paddle mud fantastically, they look great, but once it gets wet, slip and slide. Look at the traction surfaces on regular tires - the water has places to go. Once that road tire gets offroad, poof, gone. Plugged. Bowling shoe. It's a trade off. Tall vehicle, wind, tires with so-so traction, wet out - those are basically the conditions needed to make it slip, from what I can tell. All terrains are generally a good compromise between the two. I've had Dueler Revo2s, General Grabbers - on an FJ. But the KO2 is my favorite thusfar. (By your tastes, those Revos would basically be a racing tire). The BF Goodrich KO2 is supposed to be Mud, snow, and snowflake rated (heavy snow). The KO2s have had great traction in everything. Snow, the dirt it has seen, rain, you name it. - They did need to be roadforce balanced! - I had some rear end shake when the tires were new and the sidewalls were stiff. Suuuperstiff. For 2,000miles. Now they're sponge-y. They need a little more air than the stock PSI, going by feel anyway. Guys on 3/4ton truck forums commented on how sponge-y they felt. But for traction, I've had a lot of tires, I think those are a good "Every day, but maybe I don't feel like changing tires to do some mudding" compromise. They're also fun to look at! They just look right on a truck.
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  31533. In Poland we use it different system :D example : plate SR 12345 - first letter is a "state" like region - 2nd is a city -- S like Silesia region R for bigger cities SR is Rybnik .... smaller cities like in Germany have 2 letters -- fe. SRB - S = Silesia RB city Raciborz .... unlike Germany we don't have just 1 letter for front of the plate (in Germany just B is Berlin, just S is Stuttgart just M is Munich). Army and Police have their unique first letters white background and black letters is the standard white background and red letters -- short time plates for test drive or export, etc (usually for 1 month) white background and green letters - for dealerships green background and black letters -- same as standard numbers but for electric cars only (no hybrids) yellow background and black letters + an icon of and old car = plates for antique vehicles (usually over 30 years old and require a lot of special documents to get them) Blue background and white letters - diplomatic plates before our plates were black background and white letters for almost 100 years We also have smaller format for bikes, mopeds and 4 wheel light cars without license- only rear plates -- in same combinations but shorter 1 symbol fe. SR 1234, with different background colors and letter colours as well We also have short plates for US/Japan market cars with no space for euro format standard plate (52 cm wide) it lacks symbol of city and it contains just 4 symbols instead of 7 or 8 like on a standard plate . It can have a form of: S 123 and you can buy a custom plate for about 220 euro it has a format of Sn xxxxx -- where you can choose n = 0 or 1 to 9 and x= letter or number (3-4-5 symbols) for example you can buy a plate S1 ICE or S4 AUDI or W1 CKED or P0 RSCHE or G0 HOME :D or F0 RD302 only for standard or green background plates. The other types you cannot customize. Paid plate stays for a car, if you sell you car you can not keep the plate :/ But the new owner now can keep them (before he had to pay 2nd time) For b) and c) in Croatia you can buy any symbols (how many ?) or you have a city symbols in front ?
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  32124. Avo is avocado, so you weren't far off with arvo. Pissed, sloshed, maggotted, legless, smashed, we have a few words for the state of alcoholic inebriation - from tipsy to drunk as a skunk to full as a boot, to making a call to Europe on the porcelain phone (throwing up in the toilet). As for "flat" versus "apartment". Apartment wasn't really used here until the late 90s. There is no hard and fast difference, but generally an apartment will be a more modern and taller building, larger floor space and rooms, buildings usually larger than a block of flats, and with the main door into a shared hallway or enclosed space rather than to the outside and perhaps a shared walkway to an open air set of stairs. But some large blocks of what would be called apartments under that rule are considered "flats" and some which would be flats are considered "apartments". The rule is rough, but far from covering all cases. Plus, the younger someone is the less likely they are to ever use "flat" for a dwelling. Spelling: jetty, missus (not misses) Only bogans say "haitch". Most people, even us uneducated drongos, don't. Its something bogans share with the chav brethren in the UK. Days of the week are another that vary a lot. Sundy, Mundy, Choozdy, Wensdy, Thursdy, Fridy, Satudy (not really a u, that halfway between e and u grunt vowel), Sundy or closer to proper for those with a more refined education. I went to school in the bush; lazy, broad, uninteligible accent for me. No wuckins, the same as no wukka, no wucking furries. Entrée first, presumably coming from French for entrance. Its sort of the entrance to the meal. "Cactus fuctus", often just "cactus" as in the viedo, is a bit of pig latin. Like on old Road Runner cartoons, or the "biggus dickus" scene in Monty Python's Life of Brian. "Cacked" also meaning tired or broken, along with "fuct" under a different spelling. As for "mate". Its all about context. It can be any random, it can be friend, it can be very good friend, "thanks mate" to the bartender, the waiter, the bus driver. Or it can be almost threatening. A bit like "pal", "watch youself, pal" isn't exactly the friendliest thing on the planet.
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  32151. Some differences and how I see it… Americans often introduce themselves with their first and last name (Aussies never give their last name unless needed), then sometimes where they’re from in America and what they do as a job (this may be less so these days but yeh a strange difference I’ve noted over the years, which sounds like someone is looking for a job interview lol). Australians not so much unless the ice is broken for some time. Just a theory but I think this is because America has less of a safety-net welfare social government, it makes for a more entrepreneurial industrious culture. This results in the people having to both strive and sell themselves as successful, busy, or viable potential contacts, employees or partners. The other reason may be because Americans seem to be extremely friendly and positive and sharing yourself and achievements is celebrated, whereas standing out as different is more frowned upon in Oz, as the tall poppy syndrome is a thing. The loud talking is definitely a win for the Americans. Aussies talk very quietly I would say, unless on the drink. I think the volume is to do with how Americans talk in the back of their throat which creates more base which travels further. Aussies talk more through the nose which is more soft. The other reason I think ties in with the first point of projecting oneself with confidence. Americans speak with an air of didactic instruction, resulting in a bit of a yelling match it would seem when there are so many people who are seemingly experts wishing to talk over each other. Cause we grew up with US entertainment there is an understanding and appreciation of America and Americans I think which goes back a long time. It’s cool with the internet there is more curiosity coming back our way.
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  32253. On the topic of Baseball, we have a small 8-team national competition where each team plays a total of 36 games. We get a lot of farm players from the US and pros from Korea, Japan, and so on. Didi Gregorius, who made a name for himself with the Yankees, played with the Canberra Cavalry for at least one season before he made it into the big leagues, and local hero and former Milwaulkee Brewers catcher and the first Aussie to make an All-Star game, Dave Nilsson, has been the Brisbane Bandits' manager for much of the resurrected competition's existence. Many other former Australian MLB players have also played with the Bandits. A few years back , the Sydney Blue Sox signed former Cleveland/Boston/Tampa Bay slugger Manny Ramirez, but he never ended up playing a game for them. As far as paying for sauce, keep in mind shops here have very high overheads - rent, utilities, and most notably above what the cost would be in the US, wages. The Australian minimum wage is A$21.38, which is approximately ~US$14.47 - a rate which going by one site I looked at is eclipsed only by four states, and is double the Federally-mandated US$7.25 an hour. Add to that the crazy inflation we've had worldwide (nearly 8% in Australia) and those little things need to be covered. Those little sauce packets have cost money at most places for as long as I can remember, going back to the 1980s. There are some places that will use a bottle or a pump to splash sauce on your pie or sausage roll free of charge, but most people prefer the convenience of the little blister packs so they can control how much sauce they put on.
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  32914. As a 25+ year simracer, welcome to the rabbit hole. One of the most important things in simracing is having the correct field of view. The bigger the screen and the closer you have the screen to your face the easier it is to get there, with a setup like yours you'll have to make some compromises, but try to get as close to the correct number as you can and still keep some overview. You'll find FOV calculators online (or in the sim like iracing). The reason for a correct field of view is that you either stretch or squish the game world on your screen, the problem with a wrong FOV is that it's harder to be precise in your steering. A constant radius turn in real life would ask for a constant input from your wheel, if your FOV is too high that constant radius turn will look on the screen as if the corner is tightening, while an FOV setting that is too low will make the corner look as if it's widening. So you don't want your brain having to do that conversion between what it sees and what the input will be. That out of the way, brake stiffness. You have a load cell brake pedal. This is far better than a potentiometer for muscle memory. You want consistent braking, so this makes it easier. Think of it as pressing your finger against something immovable, it's easier to remember how much pressure you use than it would be remembering how far you push something. My brake you can only moves a couple of millimeters... I can't see if you're using a desk chair, but having some wheel locks on a desk chair is a good compromise for not having a cockpit. Getting the pedals in against a wall (maybe with a block of wood behind it for the correct position) is good you want as little flex as possible. That's also the main reason for a cockpit, you can use your body to press against the back of the fixed chair to improve braking. So the future upgrade path for you as I see it in order of importance. A bigger screen (widescreen, triple monitor or VR), VR is a game changer for a lot of people as it's not a gimmick in the simracing world, but probably a bit harder for people who like to make videos. Then probably a rig. This is a good setup, when it comes to gear, direct drive is currently the standard if you buy a wheel, the more buttons on the wheel, the better if you're ever thinking about VR. Most people agree that a good pedal set will get you more speed than anything else. So for people in the market with a limited budget, spend more on your pedals than on your wheel. So now for the games: Assetto Corsa is a great sim if you want to drive a lot of cars on your own. Assetto Corsa Competizione is the best sim when it comes to GT3 cars, but has some issues with online play and you probably want to join a league for consistent good racing. And then there's the juggernaut that is iRacing. When it comes to competition, there's no equal, no matter what you want to race you'll find races. But it is expensive... You pay a monthly subscription fee, and on top of that you have to buy the tracks and the cars you want to race. But know that the level of racing is so high that you don't want to drive multiple cars at the same time. If you start out you should stick to about 1 car every six months, because you really need to learn what your car can and can't do, it's like real life in that way, jumping from car to car is possible, but not if you want to be competitive. If you're into oval racing iracing is the only player in town. And since you're driving one track per car per week it's a completely different experience. You have a iRacing Nascar Series that follows the real life schedule, and as a virtual Daytona 500 and Coke 600 winner I can say that it feels more real than you can admit to people who aren't into simracing. iRacing is also fun when you race against real drivers, I've had the pleasure to drive in the back of Rubens Barrichello and wreck him in the Skip Barber, but also have raced with Fernando Alonso, Tony Kanaan, Max Verstappen, Lando Norris, Dale Jr, and Kyle Busch. Unfortunately, since the covid boom that has become a bit rarer than it was before, but Fernando Alonso and TK you'll encounter more often than you might think. If you want to do rallycross in iracing or the more dedicated rally titles, you'll need a handbrake though. The problem with simracing is that since it's so lifelike certain cars you want to drive are not easy. Like to be fast in an F1 car in iracing is HARD, and that results not that many people racing those, the lower tier open wheel cars are far more popular than F1 as they're easier. Same goes for rally, be careful what you wish for, this isn't just a game and it can be frustratingly difficult to try.
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  33029. Green (inters) have a very wide usage range and can be used in heavy rain if there isnt too much standing water, right the way up until the track is pretty much bone dry. Because theres less rubber on the Blue (wets) they struggle, and overheat, when theres only a little water on track - you'll often see cars move over to the 'wrong' side of the track to cool them in the areas where cars havent made a dry line after a number of laps. I don't think the video mentioned that in dry race conditions each driver must use at least 2 different compounds of tyres between the soft, med and hard (this doesn't apply if they need to be on the wets/inters). So they may start on the hard and do a long first stint because they dont need to pit to refuel, tyres and damage (and penalties) are the only reasons to pit, and then come in and put the soft or medium tyres on to finish the race. Most races now tend to be strategically quicker to make fewer stops, but occasionally there are ones that if your using the tyres well, you could make an additional stop and claw back the time loss. In qualifying youll generally find the front teams waiting until absolutely necesary to use the softer tyres to save as many as possible for the race, otheriwse they'll be having to run used (scrubbed) tyres in the race, especially at tracks where theres a high probability of a safety car. You lose less time in the pits under a safety car and so if one comes out in the dying parts of the race and you can get in an put an unused (or less used) set of softer tyres on, you might just catch the guy in front before the end of the race. The top teams can usually get through the first part of qualy on a harder tyre than the back-markers.
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  33036. You didn't miss out on much. Australia was a bit like a box of warm flat beer in some respects. Even pizza hadn't taken off yet. It was hard to get a fresh loaf of bread too - almost all of it was a day old. True that! Takeaway food was ridiculously salty anglicized Chinese or a hamburger with the lot in a disgusting dry bun which had a distinctive taste of cardboard. You could get fish and chips and a cask of wine I suppose. Middle class Australia then would be defined as impoverished now. Alcoholism was normal and pubs were nothing and I mean nothing like they are today. Pubs were for hardened drinkers. Despite what all the rose coloured glasses brigade say, Melbourne is about 100,000x better now than it was when I was growing up. It's a vibrant modern city with coffee culture and foodie scene. Lots of live music too. (all pre Covid of course). BTW those Aussie Charger ads are still US based Mopar ads. The music at least is identical to earlier Mopar US ads. I saw one for a Plymouth Fury IIRC and was shocked for 2 seconds then realized we just adapted it from the Chrysler US advertising department in all likelihood and probably a bit of vice versa. Those Charger ads were very successful here though. Everybody used to do the hand gesture. As a kid I remember seeing truck loads of Chargers going downs Kings Way South Melbourne on a cloudy Sunday evening pre their release - even before the ads started on TV. I knew the TV ads were coming that week because the cars weren't on sale yet. That was 1971. VH Charger first model. A lot of them were very poorly specced. 3 on the tree and a 215 inline 6. 245 inline 6 with a shitty BW35 tranny. A 265 inline 6 could be had with a BW 4sp as well as the 245, but most were BW35 autos. Some 265s and 245s were specially drilled to accept a 727 as part of a tow option. The 340s are now worth $150K. Quite a few were 318s and a few were 360s. 318 Chargers were not uncommon. In fact the 318 and 904 was a very successful engine and tranny here. They only had factory Carter (Ball & Ball) 2bbl carbs though, however the 318s here had 9.2:1 comp and a better camshaft and were called 318 Fireball. In a Charger they went well. 230hp @ 46 or 4800rpm I can't be bothered looking up the RPM. With a 2.92:1 rear end they'd do 90mph in 2nd gear. A 4sp 265 with 2.92s would do about 100mph in 3rd. I destroyed a VH Charger with a 265 4sp just after the West Gate Bridge at Easter. I was speeding with bald front tyres in a downpour and aquaplaned on the road, spun out of control, went up an embankment and rolled it 2 or 3 times. I was very lucky to survive. The roof was almost level with the top of the doors. I had no injury except for bad palm scratching from clawing at a glass covered wet road to get out of an upside down car. Passers by helped pull me out. I smelt fuel. The gear lever was in the middle of the freeway, that's how hard I hit the embankment. How it got there (apart from stupidity) I do not know.
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  33589. 20-30 years ago cars in New Zealand were getting old, with high milage and a lot of them were definitely past there us-by-date. Unfortunately this meant that large numbers were bad for the environment ie pollution and lacking in modern safety technology. But new car prices were very expensive in relation to most peoples income. The government of the time decided that the easiest way to modernise cars in New Zealand was to allow used car imports (mostly from Japan). The cars had to be modern with all the current anti-pollution equipment and had to undergo inspection when they arrived in the country to make sure they were up to a certain standard and complied with New Zealand laws ie seat belts had to comply with New Zealand standards. Thus, in a very short time, the New Zealand population had access to low milage, late model cars for considerably less money than buying new. However a lot of Japanese cars have different names in Japan than they do in overseas markets, hence all the strange names ie in Japan a Suzuki Vitara was a Suzuki Escudo. So suddenly in New Zealand both were available, but were the same vehicle apart from some options and trim levels. This also meant that people could go to an importer and say that they wanted a particular type of car (often performance cars), and the importer would source that vehicle for them. Because of this a number of cars were bought in to New Zealand that had only been built for the Japanese domestic market. Interestingly a large number of used cars imported from Japan were European ie BMW, VW, Audi etc. If these cars were bought in used from Europe, they had to be converted to right hand drive to comply with New Zealand laws. But Japan drives on the same side of the road as New Zealand, so European cars bought used from Japan were already right hand drive.
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  33818. 12:43 they are still very common here, new ones also still are being produced and well liked , newer ones got slightly less flexible frames than the old ones tho they are used for agrarcultural transportation with dump bed and dual trailers, for use as auxiliary hydraulic unit for search and rescue, as recovery vehicle, for communal snow plowing and even more commonly for snow blowing, farmers also often got them as crane carriers and i have seen some in backhoe configuration- the other big appeal with them is that you can limit the gearing to 60km per hour and have it street legal registered way cheaper as a tractor real competitors are rare , one is the JCB Fasttrac in agrarcultural settings, in military settings its the MAN 18-12 8X8 configuration, in construction the biggest competitors are the very capable wheeled excavators with trailers - mainly from Volvo and Liebherr, snowblowing is a specialty it is still pretty well unbeaten - especially if you have to remove the remains of entire avalanche layer by layer or work really fast on runways between takeoffs and landings MAN and normal Mercedes Trucks have largely replaced them for highway plowing and road plowing under normal conditions - simply cause they can carry more roadsalt and have sufficient grip with their higher weight. i dont think there is any single maschine that can replace it just like the Toyota HILUX - the ISUZU D-max and the Ford Ranger are good competition , still the HILUX is unbeaten in reliability and longevity the other Fords and the Dodge rams are to cumbersome and heavy , overmotorized with to little grip breaking parts left and right while the VW and Mercedes pickups rust through while you arent even done with the purchase saw one Ford where the paint fresh after a crash was flakeing off - there were lines of rust underneath the paint - no proper etching and degreasing took place else that would have been impossible
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  34336. The LDV is a cheap Chinese make, likewise GWM; short for Great Wall Motors. Runs Toyota running gear built under licence. The SsangYong is a Korean built make. If you want to find the ugliest car in the world, the SsangYong is one of the top ten. A few Australian influences you might not know about: Chevy Camaro: When it was returned in the early 2000s, Holden did the entire R&D to develop it. Chevy's input consisted of "we want it to look, sound, drive and feel like this........" GMC Denali: It began its development in a Holden design studio Ford Ranger: Ford Australia did most of the engineering work on the Ranger, and it shows internationally. Ford USA must have thought "Wee need to make a vehicle that can actually handle being offroad, yet still be efficient." Mitsubishi Diamante: It was exported to America as a rebadged Mitsubishi Verada, which was the top of the line passenger car for Mitsubishi in the 90s Opel, Isuzu and Holden had a car called the Frontera in the 90s. Designed by Opel in Germany, built by Isuzu in Japan, and powered by an engine built by Holden. They looked like a short wheelbase SUV version of the Isuzu/Holden Rodeo. In 1971, Holden borrowed the wheel design for the Pontiac GTO to put on the HQ-HZ series Monaro. Many decades later, Pontiac borrows two models to rebadge as their own, the GTO and G8 aka Holden Monaro and VE Commodore If you want to see how the current Corvette hybrid system was developed, look up "Project Super Ute." It spawned two vehicles. One was a two seat roadster that used the electric system from a Chevy Volt, but it was AWD, and capable of 0-100 in 3.5 seconds. A VE Commodore ute featuring a Corvette cabin was used to develop to mid engine hybrid drive for the Corvette. Open the bonnet, anf there's nothing there but batteries and possibly a fuel tank. Open the ute lid, and that's where you find the engine and drive system. It was affectionately known as Black Jack, and allowed GM to do R&D on that drive system relatively unnoticed
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  34386. Actually, the weight is only 840kg/1852lbs. When a 1.4L engine was used for racing - it probably was a stock 1.3L bored out. A common technique on cars that age. The interiour seems to be the "de luxe"-variant. The rear seats already split 1/3 - 2/3 - as in modern cars. My trusty 1991 Golf mk2 GT Special still had "all or nothing" in the rear. Being one size bigger from a "better" brand like VW (back then, they were known for being expensive - but with very good quality - the complete opposite of today) that says something. Until 1993, they were carburated. From then on, a single-point injection (Bosch Mono-Jetronic) was used. It reduced the consumption even further. The LPG/Autogas-system was installed to cut fuel cost - incomes in Czechoslovakia were quite low shortly after the iron curtain fell in 1991. LPG is 60/40 butane/propane in summer and 40/60 in winter. Butane holds more energy but is hard to evaporate (liquid gas, remember) in the cold. In the US - it's always called propane - and chemically, both are very close relatives. Autogas is very common all over Europe - if you want to you can go from Portugal to deepest Siberia on Autogas only. Here in Germany, Autogas has fallen out of favor since it's no longer subsidised. Plus, modern direct-injection engines are harder (more expensive) to convert. It still makes sense on many older MPI-engined cars with high consumption. I will most definitely convert my 2006 Ford Focus ST with the trusty but thirsty 2.5L 225hp 5-cyl. Volvo engine. It saves 1/3 fuel cost - and it's the cleanest, highest octane (100+) fuel widely available. Way better than super-expensive Ultimate/V-Power - costing almost twice. In the US - I would take the system out as fuel is cheap (in comparison to Europe), the tank in the rear is quite heavy and the venturi nozzle in the intake cuts engine power by ~10%.
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  34404. 0:35 Dude, you gotta go. You have to hear a screaming V10 in person because you’ll never hear what they’re really like on video. Some combo of the mic and speakers can never capture and reproduce the whole sound. I have vivid memories of going to the British GP and hearing them and there’s just nothing else at that level. Maybe at best, you hear 50% of the sound on TV. There’s a whole lot of other noise especially at lower frequencies which you feel through your body as much as hear them. They’re either not captured or completely drowned out by the sheer volume of the high frequency notes. Also if it’s a Ferrari meet, you might hear both V10 and V12 in the same place which is RARE because with the exception of Ferrari few other teams ran a V12 and not for long. I was at the British GP in the last year of V8’s, V10’s and V12’s together and there’s a significant difference. V8 engine note is lower and I think quieter, they don’t rev quite as high. The Ferrari V12 note is the highest pitch with a beautifully smooth and piercing sound. V10’s seemed to have a slightly coarse and angry edge to them. Plus of course the sheer volume is crazy. I could hear them from miles away with a hill between the track and myself when stuck in the traditional Silverstone approach traffic jam (before a new road was constructed). At the track, you can be at the start-finish straight and a single car can be heard very clearly going around the entire track, progress from corner to corner tracked by the engine note and gear changes. At one point I was on the opposite side of the track from the pits watching a support race, and an F1 engine started up for a minute. Perfectly audible over the noise of the race cars right in front of me, must have been close to a mile away as the crow flies. I definitely preferred the V10 sound. The V12 sound is like being pierced with a sharp sword. A V10 with its slightly harsh edge is more like being cut through with a circular saw blade. Then there’s the small grenade bangs that go off when braking and downshifting that pound you in the chest. Earplugs are recommended just to give your ears a rest. Talking to someone involves cupping your hands around their ear and they still won’t hear you if a car is in front. There just isn’t going to be any 17k+ rpm racing engines like this again. Probably those which do run may be held to a lower rev limit for preservation. I get why the engines had to change to the lawnmower hybrids of today but spectators are really missing out compared to the V10 monsters.
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  34477. Nicely done man. I understand your confusion in the w. As you may be aware, the issue with U and V being written the same caused this. So in english, it is double U while in Czech it is double V. There are also other letters not mentioned in this alphabet. The letters with ˇ originally come from "Hlaholice" which was the first written alphabet in the Czech lands. At least according to most of the current mainstream sources. From this alphabet, the Cyrilic was born and the eastern savic countries still use this alphabet to this very day (Russia, Belarus, Ukraine and possibly others that I can't currently think of from the top of my head). The original alphabet had what would be called Nabodeníčka (I think "small stabbings" is what the meaning would translate to) which evolved into "háčky" = "tiny hooks" = ˇ and "čárky"= "commas" but used above the letters to prolong the pronounciation. Let's take A for example. A in Czech is sounds like u in Elon Musks surname. But Á is like a in "far". and so on. We also have two types of "long u" one is ú and other is ů. Ú is mostly used as the first letter of the word, but there are some words where that does not apply, generally when the root of the word used it and then was given a preposition. Ů is never used as the first letter of the word. So unless you hit the specific exemptions for the usage of ú, you have to use ů. "Ahoj" can be interpreted either as an informal greeting (also Čau is used) or as a casual (and general) greeting of boatsmen or generally people who spend most of their free time in a boat on a river. Dobrý den is the polite way of greeting anybody. "Děkuji" is formal, " Děkuju" is informal...well in this case it is more nuanced I would say. In a highly formal event, you try to use as much of a formal language as possible, but if you were at a high end event and was speaking to your genuine friends, you would most likely use the informal "Děkuju". For learning Czech, well maybe practising it and getting used to it, I would reccomend the channel Honest Guide and the sister channel Kluci z Prahy. They are basically the same channel, but Honest is in English and Kluci is in Czech. Futhermore, if you want to learn, there is a lot and I don't want to sugarcoat it. Czech is not easy for foreigners, but I know that there are more difficult languages to learn. If you want tro learn Czech, I can give you a few pointers to help you. I am no teacher or expert, but since I was teaching people the basic level of English, I think I could bring some insight to help people understand the inner workings of the language.
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  35038. The law leaves the publican with the option but it is funny as drunks are their main business. It is good to know the law in case a police person is standing there. It should be the bartenders decision but sometimes the person at the door makes the call. And sometimes the guy at the door is a dick. Actually the guy that did this to me got fired, ironically for drinking on the job. A few times the security has has me watch the door for them. Like the Seinfeld episode but in a pub. One time this guy from my work was trying to get in and I was messing with him. He was like why are you in charge? Then the bouncer came back from the toilet and I had to explain that I was just messing around. He thought that my workmate was dangerous or something. True story, this one bouncer went to the toilet without asking me or anyone to cover and three masked bandits came in and robbed the place. They had a hostage at knife point. I was the hostage. I'm ok, they didn't even get my wallet. Police informed me when the offenders were caught and who they were. Turned out they were kids. Very large kids however. Imagine 16 year olds but, front rowers or offensive linemen 16 year olds. I got free beers for about a year. Nothing official, after about a year the guy (night manager) went "I'm going to have to start charging you for beer again". I must mention that I had been given some free beers before the robbery. But that was fair as I did help out. One time this bouncer, different guy asked me to bring him a pizza. I worked in a pizza shop. After that I brought one for the staff as they were confused why he got one. I used to watch the show 'cheers' growing up. Norm Peterson was my hero.
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  35375. The XX Progam is part of Ferrari Corse Clienti program is a series of annual events that allow customers of the brand to test their track only cars (this includes privately owned F1 cars and GT race cars) , meet factory engineers and professional test drivers, and even participate in various technical test sessions. As part of the Corse Clienti Ferrari has to invite you to be a member of the XX Program, just three cars are available – the FXX, 599XX, and FXX-K. Ferrari takes care of everything planning, logistics, schedule, maintenance of the car, engineering and support teams, everything. If you buy an XX car from a private owner you still only can be part of the XX program by invitation only. Ferrari has to invite you, which involves (rumored to be) owning a dozen of other Ferraris and a member of the Corse Clienti. If you happen to own a LaFerrari FXX K, for example, the company will ask you to pay somewhere between $10,000 and $15,000 for each day on the track with your car. A FXX-K recently sold for $4.3 million in Dubai. XX is a laboratory for Ferrari, where clients have an input and work directly with Ferrari test drivers and engineers. The XX programme builds a car that is track orientated and has the latest technology available, and also so that the technology can transfer back into the road cars. Ferrari allows it's most important customers to pay for the opportunity to be involved in the development process of new tech that will filter to road cars in the future.
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  35491. 5:00- Hi Ian, portuguese here. Just so you have an idea, here are the highest temperatures recorded between July 8th and 17th, the duration of this heatwave: July 8th: 110.3ºF (43.5ºC) July 9th: 111ºF (44ºC) July 10th: 109.6ºF (43.1ºC) July 11th: 109.2ºF (42.9ºC) July 12th: 112.3ºF (44.6ºC) July 13th: 115.3ºF (46.3ºC) July 14th: 116.6ºF (47ºC) July 15th: 113.7ºF (45.4ºC) July 16th: 111.6ºF (44.2ºC) July 17th: 111.6ºF (44.2ºC) Mind you, these were not limited to a specific region or one single weather station, they happened all over the country. In the last two days the heatwave started to fade out a bit on the coastal areas and the highs were limited more to the interior regions. Here's the list of how many stations out of the 134 recorded temperatures above 104ºF (40ºC) in each day: July 8th: 24 July 9th: 36 July 10th: 24 July 11th: 21 July 12th: 58 July 13th: 71 July 14th: 58 July 15th: 25 July 16th: 20 July 17th: 20 The highest temperature ever recorded here is 117.1ºF (47.3ºC) on August 1st 2003, the second highest are now 116.6ºF (47ºC), one on the same day as the previous one and the other on July 14th 2022, and the 3rd highest was 116.2ºF (46.8ºC), in Central Portugal near where I live, in August 2018. One curious fact: the previous record of the station that registered the highest temperature on this heatwave (Pinhão, Douro River valley) was 114.8ºF (46ºC), registered on July 31st 1944! There are more temperatures above 104ºF (40ºC) recorded in the 20th century, which goes to show that these high temperatures are not exclusive of the last 15 years, the difference being that they spanned over a period of 70 years and they're not as many as the ones we've had in this century mostly in 3 years: 2003, 2018 and 2022.
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  35730. Your moustache looks more and more Hungarian. ;) Mazdas cheap? that mazda 3 is 19 years old, at 8k it's anything but cheap. They don't tend to be expensive cars, but also not cheap, at least here in Europe but this one sounds like it's quite expensive. It's funny to me that manual transmission, or diesel engine are seen as 'cool'. To me manual only means I don't risk a bad auto transmission (some are really weird... react slow, or react in a weird way and hard to predict how they shift, don't shift when they want them to etc). Also manual is usually a LOT more sturdy and cheaper to repair of broken - an auto transmission can easily be 3,4,5 thousand euro to recondition, maybe more if you need to buy a new one. Not something you want on a 10+ years old car, but that's the usual age they can start having problems. Manufacturers and dealers will say auto transmissions come with "lifetime" oil and you never have to change it, they won't even do it if you ask sometimes, but lifetime only means first 10 or so years, so if you're poor and buy it older you can be really wrecked by a repair bill as high as the car's value. Diesel cars just sound like tractors or trucks, if I was traveling hundreds of kms every day on the highway it would be a logical choice, but 99% of people do a lot of short distances where they don't make as much sense, at least afaik diesel engines don't like the many cold starts and short distances as much. The trucks kinda look cool but as European I don't know, they are for those few people that actually do the kind of work that needs them (maybe 1% of population, small business owners that need to move stuff in relatively small quantities every day). You could not even park in a parking garage or a normal parking spot, it would be such a pain, not to mention they are slow and eat a LOT of fuel. Imagine traveling 1000km on highway on your holidays, visit a big city like Rome or Paris, or go to the mountains where the fun roads and curves will be so narrow something like this can't fit easily.
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  35736. Hey there, it's the guy who doesn't just leave a comment but instead several pages in the comment section lol :) The rules you were asking about: -Most famous/most used cars for drifting has to be Nissan's S and Z Chassis but more recently some Camaros, Mustangs and Vettes have become ever more popular, especially in the US. Other cars you'll regularly see: BMW coupes including E36, E46, E92 and even some newer ones; Nissan 350/370z and last but not least a few Toyota Chasers in Japan, but they're ludicrously rare outside Japan, though. -Get as close as possible to the walls, clipping points and lead car without "crashing" into any of them. The term they use is "shadow the lead driver" Arguably, nudging is encouraged. If the front car changes direction of drift, i.e. "transitions", it's the chase driver's responsibility to get their front bumper out of the way of the swinging rear end of the lead car, which is why the chase driver lets up in these clips just before the lead car swings 'round (except Chelsea Denofa lol). There are zones on track where the chasing car is liable for hitting the front car and there are zones where if the lead car goes off throttle and causes a crash, the mistake will default to the lead car. These are basically just insurances so the rear driver keeps his distance where both cars need to decelerate as well as the front driver produces something that is "chaseable". -The power, oh the power... In the days of Sam Hubinette and Tanner Foust, a good competition car would run btwn 550 and 800hp, that was about 10 yrs ago. Since then, the LS and 2JZ platform have dominated the competition since these platforms are as reliable and easy to maintain as they are. Half the field runs an LS platform, round about half of those are running a 427. Then we get to the power adders.. Turbo&Nitrous are the name of the game by now. Superchargers have the downside of being crank driven, which makes them less suitable in an application where you're constantly on and off throttle. You're chucking a blower belt on almost every run.. Turbo has to spool up and weighs a little more but has become the most trusted, cheap method for reliable power. Then there's the Mustangs from Vaughn Gittin Jr. and Chelsea Denofa, his teammate.. They run a Roush Yates 455 with a 200 shot of nitrous to rev up more quickly. They got the famous NASCAR cylinder heads, I believe they're called "FR9", which are happy as a pig in mud at 8500 rpm on wide open throttle. That setup revs to 9k rpm and it's by far my favorite engine set up out of the competition. Of course, the more ppl use a tried&true setup, there are those that chose to do something completely different. That Corolla you saw has a 2.7 Liter 4 banger with nitrous and a turbo making 1000hp. There apparently is a Corolla hatch version with AWD, meaning it's not super revolutionary to convert it to rwd, even though the engine is still in a transverse layout, meaning the crank is 90° shifted from the direction of the drive shaft.. Weird, but they made it work in 2020 and 2021 so who am I to judge! -Tires have to be road legal!! Sticky, yes, but still DOT legal on your road car! There used to be a limit on tire width in connection to car weight, so a 2800 lbs Viper used to run 305 rear (possibly even wider), now it might be 295 but not super sure about it. Cheers, hope you enjoy this sport!
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  35803. I first went to see this event with my parents in the 60s, in the SE of England. In the United Kingdom, kidney-shaped circuits were sometimes used to include a right hand bend, and undulating hillsides were also used to increase the challenge for riders.[1] The events traditionally occurred after haymaking and before harvesting season on newly-cut fields.[1] Postwar grasstrack circuits included "permanent" venues such as Brands Hatch, which have staged F1 races in the past, after the track was made into a tarmac surface, and Mallory Park which were not simple oval shapes, although solo motorcycle races were run in an anti-clockwise direction. Later, these were converted into tarmac circuits with races using the more common clockwise direction associated with modern road racing. In the modern era, it is generally similar to Speedway with races usually taking place over 4 laps from a standing start. Unlike Speedway, which has 4 riders per race, Grasstrack racing can have many riders in each heat and the circuit is normally longer allowing higher speeds. Grasstrack has three solo classes, 250 cc, 350 cc and 500 cc together with three sidecar classes; left-handed 500 cc and 1000 cc (turning left) and right-handed 1000 cc (turning right). The British Grasstrack season usually starts in early spring around the Easter holidays and runs through the summer/autumn months. More spectacular racing takes place at larger roped tracks including the Poacher and ASTRA Champion of Champions and Grand Slam meetings in Kent and in particular the most exciting meeting of all at the famous Rhodes Minnis circuit. Wikipedia.
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  35936. This McDonalds wages issue is interesting when you consider that a number of US people have criticised Australian McDonalds for not having the value deals like $1 burger. Though here you can get the deal of $2 Mac. Given the wages here are legally minimum a bit over $18 /hr full time. I do not know actual salary but that would be minimum. That is full time and would have holidays and other benefits too. However McDonalds has very many young teens and younger generation employed part time. That I presume applies in US too. And likewise both countries there are no or less benefits. Of whatvI believe from this presentation and others in US there is nothing extra on casual pay. Yet in Australia there is a legal requirement where no benefits apply like casual positions thevsalary must be loaded by 25% of the equal full time pay. Sorry to say that is all too frequently cheated on, as casuals will be offered a rate of pay claimed to be loaded to compensate, and then unknowingly the casual employee agrees to work for that rate, where in fact other full timers are on equal or in extreme more pay, and under orders to not discuss their wages with the casuals if they want to retain their pay rate. Of course if caught the business involved will be severely fined and even forced to backpay the employed people even former employees many years in arrears. Recent years many cases of "mistaken" under pay by large organisations have been hitting the news. Companies like banks, restaurants, delivery firms, manufacturers. Ok some might self report that for last 10 years they have failed to fully pay overtime, work on weekends and public holidays, night shift on call jobs (pay penalty rates up to 50% and 100% apply) . I am convinced that US can offer these super special $1 deals because their labour cost is minimal, while here the same super low pricing is not possible due to wages level. So absence of such can not be validly criticised. Base cost is just limiting, but if wage levels compare then our special deal is generally far better, as for minimum payed persons they can still better afford our higher prices than the minimum payed US worker.
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  35974. I'm not too sure on the US race disciplines but in F1 a 2.7s stop would be quite disappointing. The fastest ones are usually around 1.8, averaging about 2.3s ish. A big factor for the F1 pitstops is that because it's all so precise and crowded around the car, the driver has to stop EXACTLY on his marks where the wheel gun will meet the nut on the wheel. If he over or under shoots his marks, the whole crew has to adjust which will lose you loads of time! The fact as well that the F1 crews can do this so fast and still "double-stack" a pit stop servicing both cars right after one another is incredible. You might notice in the WEC classes where they have a driver change, the driver jumping out assists the driver getting in with safety harness and drinks bottle etc. They have the tear off windscreen covers and the guy wiping down the windscreen and headlights because of all the bugs you get around the track as the race transitions from day to night and back to day. The WEC classes also have a maximum amount of crew who can be working on the car at any one time. Also for any more significant damage as you might get in the result of a crash, they can wheel the car straight in to the garage and replace near enough anything. WRC are also amazing for being able to turn a completely wrecked car into something that can win again in about 30 mins! You should check out this video comparing very early F1 pitstops to now, where they were literally smashing the wheel off with a hammer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRy_73ivcms You might also be interested in the legend, Guy Martin training to be a member of an F1 pit crew for a race: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wyUmoY54BQ
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  36055. In mid 1970s the NSW police used Chargers as highway patrol vehicles. Possibly other states too. The NSW ones and I presume others were booosted performance engines and 300kg lead plates in the boot (truck). The normal road common sales models were too light and prone to loosing driving traction on hard accel pedal to the floor. My boss had one , second hand ex highway patrol, bright orange replacing the police patrol colour, used normally by his wife. I then had a Suzuki LJ50 540 cc two stroke 4WD, that had to be repaired by dealer as they damaged my transfercase oil plug hole by stripping the thread. Unfortunately as they needed to get a spare part from Japan I was left minus my Suzuki for 2 weeks. My boss let me use this high power Charger for that time. No problem I handled it without issue. But when receving my Suzuki, on first drive away, I first thought I hsd missed engaging a gear, as the engine reved screaming and no go power. Not so, the low power and extremly low 1 st gear ratior, reaching a bit over 5kph at 7000rpm, gave the no go impression, compared with the powerful engine of that Charger, and fast speed accelerating in its 1st gear. A number of months later the boss sold it to one of his plumbing apprentices, who was arrested one afternoon, as the orange charger had hit an elderley man late one night, and a hit and run was reported. Soon the apprentice was however released as evidence was raised that a mate at a pub had borrowed the Charger to gp home for his wallet that had been left home. That mate had done the deed and said nothing. Got a stiff fine and 2 months jail, disqualified licence for 2 years. But also the apprentice got regular speeding fines. Certainly the Charger was very successful, and competed very well in market to V8 Holden and Ford, the real success for Chrysler Australia, that went downhill in later years into 1980s, when Mitsubishi took over the Adelaide factory.
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  36060. We don’t have basements but I could use more storage. Except there is a beach in front of my house, not much lower than us. I think my basement would be full of the ocean. Nothing on that list was right. Except maybe the Funnel web spider but we have the stuff to save you now. They can bite through leather boots and your big toe nail at the same time. Red Back spider is not as deadly. Blue ringed octopus is and stingers. If you are up the top end you will find crocodiles at the beach. In the water, don’t swim there. Or in a river or water hole up there. My Dad taught me how to swim out of a rip when I was three. Just stay out of the rips. Everywhere has rips in any ocean. Snakes! My husband and I worked in the desert for 2 years. Going through my induction I had to learn the snakes in the area. They had 10 of the worlds most deadliest snakes and they are protected. The induction wasn’t to save my life, it was to save theirs. I did run over a Copperhead snake and it flipped up under my Land Rover and came home with me. I was stuck in my car for 2 more hours until my husband got home. I usually was anyway because 2 Emu arrived at my house every morning. They decided they owned my front garden until sundown. They used to let my daughter or husband into the house but not me. I saw one snake and one scorpion in the desert in 2 years. Where live now, next door has 2 wild giant Pythons in their garden. Every year they lay their eggs where we can find them. Then they winter in our garage. I have photo’s and they are huge. In 5 years I have never seen inside our garage and I never will. We even got here in time for Cyclone Debbie. She totally missed the front row of houses and got the ones behind us. I did ask my neighbours why the house’s were so cheap on the ocean with great views. They told me there were no views. They had big sand hills with big trees on top until a cyclone took them and a small island just before we came. In 5 years we have only had Debbie. Who knew a cyclone ate islands.
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  36362. Just to pass on some information for you, incase you was wondering. Firstly i am an emergency service worker in the UK. Your video appeared on my feed. The reason for the variety of different models of vehicle is due to which county in which they are based (similar to your states) and their role. Each county is provided a budget each and so their is often a variety of vehicle models, (where i am based we use alot of Vauxhalls and Peugots for 999 response) specific roles also will have specific vehicles for example; BMW are usually Traffic Police due to the need for more performance if they need to conduct a car chase. BMW 4x4 which you often see are Armed Response, in Northern Ireland you also have Armored Landrovers with Police Livery. There is no real rule to specifify what vehicle must be used, unless its for a specific role. In relation to the lights and sirens, yes we use full blues, they are much brighter and noticeable especially at night time, and the livery is also extremely bright, sirens are very very loud which is why they are used in specific scenarios, for example coming to junctions, heavy traffic, country roads, etc, and are mostly turned off when they are not needed and when the road is much safer whilst leaving the lights on, the sirens are triggerd by horn press, and by pressing the horn you can also change the soundwaves of the sirens as generally people will not pay much attention if its the same sound so they will alternate them, sirens are turned off by double pressing the horn. (you have buttons to do the same but its more practical with horn) Red strobe are also used on Emergency vehicles to the rear when conducting traffic stops for safety. The Scottish Police vehicles you asked about at the start of the video, has English and Gaelic Language on them hence to the differences as some people in Scotland speak Gaelic, if you look at the Welsh Police they will have Heddlu which is Welsh, for the same reason above. I know their was a white ambulance but generally they are also mostly yellow, and the fast response car's green and yellow. The cars are for rapid response or specilist as it is much easier to get a car to somewhere than an ambulance, they are also used to get to an emergency first to access whether an ambulance is required or not if unsure. I hope this answers some things for you.
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  36446. Really fun watching your reaction to your first game of snooker, and I love that you pronounce "snooker" correctly! Kudos! The next thing you should look at is how to apply spin to the cue ball during shots to affect where it lands after the shot. This can make a huge difference to break building by keeping position on a colour after a red and vice versa. It also unlocks a new dimension of the sport in addition to angles and power. Stephen Hendry (2nd best player in history behind Ronnie) has a really good YouTube channel where he goes into detail on all sort of snooker techniques so look out for that. It'll be really interesting to see how you react to your first 12 foot real-life snooker table experience because it is much much harder in real life than in a game/simulation. I play on 12 foot tables maybe 5 or 6 times a year and used to have an 8 foot table when I was a teenager, and I find computer games pretty easy because I know the rules, strategy and techniques. But when you try to apply these in real life you find that tables are not quite level, your cue isn't entirely straight, your eyesight isn't perfect and there are a number of other variables which affect the outcomes fundamentally (eg. how many beers have you consumed! 😂). Speaking of Ronnie, have you seen the TV series where Ronnie came to the USA with a friend of his and they went round various pool halls and tried their hand at hustling etc? Here's the IMDB link: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6356668/ It's really fun to watch. :)
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  37121. I knew Peter from his involvement in Rallying whilst he was better known to most for his race car driving he was also a highly competent Rally driver as was his often teammate Colin Bond whom I also knew when I was involved with the Ford Escort RS 1800's. Unlike at the races when even when you knew Peter he was always so heavily focused on the race as was Bondy when out in the Bush competing in rally events be they State or Australian championship events or the Repco Round Australia events both drivers were highly approachable during the event to any young fan. It was obvious they both immensely enjoyed the atmosphere and camaraderie of rallying. If all you have ever seen is Circuit racing then take my advice and go and see some rallying especially the World Championship events be they the Coffs Harbour event or take a trip over the pond to see the alternate years rally of New Zealand you will become a fan in short order. The Holden 308 later to become a 304 Cu In in the Commodores for homologation reasons when fitted to the A9X was fitted ex factory with a Bosch Twin Point distributor the rear end was a Salisbury axle and as with the earlier XU1 Torana's they differed in Suspension pickup points, A Arms, Brakes and a special extra spot welds to stiffen up the bodyshell. I worked for a few people in the scene back then hence why I know about the cars. Bathurst back then was special because they raced what you could buy unlike the poor cousin to Nascar that is the V8 Supercars of today, They have lost too much with that change of format and the fact that UN Laws adopted by the Keating Government allowed Foreign Big Money to take control of an Australian Sporting Championship, Definitely not right and a retrograde change for the Punters when all said and done something special has been lost with that change.
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  37750. Nice of you to try our lovely beers and cool video! Just some friendly comments from a Belgian Beerlover (and employee in a small brewery): Zundert is indeed a trappist, but it's from The Netherlands (ours are better ;) ), we don't say 'proost', we say 'Santé!' Belgians are quite keen on drinking the beers in the fitting glasses, we have one for each! In a beer tasting, we would use one that fits the selection most, Westmalle or Orval glasses are a good option for that. There are a few rules for a beer to be called a trappist, most importantly, it has to be brewed in an abbey, exclusively by monks, coördinated by an Abt (leader of monks), they often make a fitting cheese with the beer, also the cheeses are amazing!  If you like the brown Westmalle, try the blond triple (9,5% alc.) its even better in my opinion! I'm not the biggest fan of Zundert myself, but the La Trappe from The Netherlands is amazing, they even have a quadrupple (one step higher than a triple beer). Sint-Bernardus is indeed not really a trappist, because of the strict rules. The beer is not exclusively brewed by monks, but they have the trappist recipe, I personally love the Sint-Bernardus Abt 12 the most, it resembles our most famous, but most rare beer of them all, called Westvleteren (they actually bought the recipe from the monks). Westvleteren is a special one and I'm not sure if you can even find it in your country.. You can only buy it in the abbey itself, and you're only allowed to take one crate every year + you have to show up with the exact same empty crate for a refill the next year. The monks write down the numberplate of your car to keep accounts. Or you can simply buy it in a bar for the price of 15 to 20 euros per glass (which is waaay too much for us Belgians, we pay 4 to 6euros for these beers in a bar). But surely, Westvleteren is the most traditional of them all, its dark brown and very strong, because the monks brew it like in the old days, there's not so much production every year, hence the restrictions of buying a lot of them. Another thing which is done frequently with both Orval and Westvleteren, is to store them in our basements for long periods of time in order to ripe them. The duration of this storage is really depending on individual taste, I personally like a two year old Orval the most. Keep in mind the alcohol percentage rises when you store and ripe them ;) The fruity Lindemans beers are a poor choice for Belgians, the fruity beers from Brewery Boon are so much better. If you're interested in trying more Belgian Trappists, here's my ideal selection: Orval (amber, also very traditional and not a big production), Westvleteren (extremely difficult to find), Westmalle Triple, Chimay Blue (quadrupple, dark), Chimay White (Triple, blond), Rochefort 12 (quadrupple, dark). Good abbey beers: Sint-Bernardus (Abt 12, quadrupple dark), Halmont-Achel (used to be a trappist, but lost their title because of the rules), Averbode (normal blond, fresh taste like the Zundert). Normal breweries with very good beers: Omer, Triple Karmeliet, Boon, Roman (Adriaan Brouwer Oaked of this brewery is amazing), Gulden Draak. And there are so much more kinds, depending on your taste, for me as a Belgian, it's literally almost impossible to try all of them in a lifetime. We ave bars which serve more than 400 beers.. Enjoy them!
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  37776. At primary school I actually participated in teaching geology and wildlife. I got rock samples and talked and wildlife I did topics like Dinosaurs with diagrams on the blackboard and did the class talk while teacher marked homework at the back. I caught various animal specimens including bats, spider, scorpions, crayfish, beetles, lizards, and my pets, bringing to class for many class sessions even skipped other classes while going out of school range to catch things for upcoming class. Also did talks on Krakatoa volcano both at primary and secondary level. Funny event at 2nd year Secondary school a young female teacher jumped in horror as she took the yard long blackboard ruler and had a LARGE huntsman spider , leg span like her hand width, on it. She screamed and dropped the ruler. The spider ran up the wall as girls in the class also were shocked. I casually went and with my handkerchief took the spider in hand and proceeded to the classroom window. Sadly it riggled free and dropped to the floor and ran up the row of girls desks. You can probably imagine the girls screamed and scattered. I simply went along trapped the spider again lifted it to the window swung it open and dropped it outside. Order soon restored in class. Other boys were laughing at the girls. Teacher was most concerned that I was not bitten, my reaction "why would it want to do that all I did was help it get outside" . No issue I have handled many. Another was in my first month in school here in Australia after the family migrated here. At morning break I sat on a benchseat in the yard, eating an apple. I did notice a few bees buzzing around, but was not worried. Suddendly a teacher ran up agitated, gesturing to me. I understood mo english at that time, but he grabbed my hand causing the apple to fall. Direct under where I sat down was a large swarm of bees hanging as a mass. Guess I was very lucky, or judged by the bees as not a threat. No stings. Yet I have been stung by many bees while rescuing them from water they fell into, unthankful little critters... Had numerous early adventures in my first six months in Australia, with attacking Magpies, large Preying Mantis, 3 inches long, landed and clamped to back of my neck. Finding lizards and even three times seeing snakes. I at that time did not catch them, that was tried as of years later
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  38053. I’ve watched both the Unimog and Pinzgauer video and really like the basic and unprejudiced approach you take. Funny enough I actually own 2 Pinzgauers (4x4 Petrol and 6x6 Diesel) and also owned a Unimog 92’ U1200, so I might be able to do some comparison. I personally think they are indeed very different, but let me explain: Fair enough both cars were similar on the outside and had mostly the same purpose when they were developed. There even was a legendary offroad test between both trucks arranged from the Swiss military before they bought the Pinzgauers in large numbers. The Legend goes that Mercedes-Benz had very good connections to the military staff, and they made sure that the offroad-test-track would fit the Unimogs capabilities perfectly to improve its chances. But it simply happened that the Pinz performed superior in every task and so Steyr-Puch won the contract. But there are quite some differences between the two. While the Pinzgauer was designed explicit for military purposes and tried to also serve the civilian market, it was mostly the other way round with the Unimog. Also, the Pinzauer mostly stayed the same during all its production timespan, while the Unimog was developed heavily. And so over time they got further and further apart from each other. The Unimog got much bigger over Time and competed with the bigger trucks while the Pinzgauer stayed rather small in its almost Car-Like dimensions (at least the 4x4 version). Also, from a technical standpoint they are not as close as it seems. Of course, both have Portal Axles and are Body on Frame, but that’s where similarities pretty much end. While the Unimog has a ladder frame and traditional rigid axles, the Pinzgauer (as its predecessor the Haflinger) takes a totally different approach with its characteristic center tube frame and fully independent swing axle suspension. This also means that every driveshaft runs inside this rigid tube frame and the differential casings are also an integrated part of the frame. Basically, the frame of a 4x4 Pinzgauer from front to back consists of: Front-end piece with hitch, differential case, large middle section with inner driveshaft, group gearbox piece with power inlet, another differential case, and the rear-end piece with tow hitch and integrated handbrake. Want a 6x6? Simply add another differential case and a smaller middle section. So theoretically you could make an endless long Pinzgauer with as many axles as you want by simply bolting these frame pieces together. But the cleverest trick of this construction is, that the swing axles are directly carried in the differential casings. There are no open axle bushings or anything like that. This whole construction is massively overbuilt, and Steyr-Puch was always keen on using only the best materials available. Subsequently you end up with an extremely stiff and capable, yet very light vehicle frame. Naturally this genius and rather unique solution of building a truck comes at a very high price and that’s the reason the Pinzgauer was never successful in the civilian market. Besides military purposes it was only bought by a few firefighting and rescue units in mountainous areas as well as some power grid companies that really had to go everywhere. But this construction is also another Reason that the Pinzgauer always stayed the same, as you’d need to reconstruct literally everything if you want a slightly different vehicle (except in length of course). So, which one’s better? Honestly, I have no Idea. Personally, I like both vehicles very much and in reality it depends on what you want to do with them. The Pinzgauer is lighter and a little more capable in off-roading. In Europe the spare parts situation is better on the Unimog, but only because you get everything at the Mercedes dealer around the corner while Puch parts must be ordered online. Although Steyr-Puch as a Company sadly isn’t around anymore for quite some time there are still suppliers for (most) original Parts, at least for now.
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  38089. This guy had the right of it - however a shift in thinking and strategy is required for the younger generations. Yes i've read some complaints and "yes buts" in the comments. Every generation has had it tough. The big difference between each is that the issues 'at hand' are/were different. Yes it's hard to afford rent etc on a crappy wage - even harder for those who rely on tips - but guess what? If our grandparents were as solitary as the yong of today, then they would have found rent hard too (not that they didn't). They stayed at home till they had enough to start out with some level of modest living. I know of previous generations here in Australia who married and one spouse moved into the in-law's place till they could afford a home deposit (sometimes they had one or two kids before that happened). I know of people who grew up with three generations in the one house. People are so "me, me, me" and judgemental of the previous generations (and each other) that families are so fragmented now. Many kids don't have grandparents around - let alone cousins, uncles and aunts. Families stuck together during hard times - heck whole communities used to pitch in together when things got real bad (think Great Depression). Since when does it take a natural disaster like cyclones, bushfies and floods before humans will make an attempt to look out for one another? And even then it's only during the acute phase. Yes life is hard work, but like all forms of life, if there is a will, then there is a way. Life was never meant to be easy. Yes i'd like to 'go back to the old days', but not because i think it easy, but because i think it was a kinder time, where humans actually cared more for each other, rather than themselves and their objects.
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  38284. Your guide to the twists and turns of the Mountain, with a touch of history thrown in (trigger warning for mild gore: if you're squeamish don't read Turn 18): Turn 1: Hell Corner, so-named because a tree stump had formerly lain at its apex waiting for an over-eager motorcyclist to cut the corner and whack his head (which, since he’d be killed in an act of folly, would send him straight to Hell). Mountain Straight: It goes up the Mountain. 'Nuff said. Turn 2: Griffin's Bend, named after Mayor Martin Griffin whose idea it was to build a “scenic drive” (because he knew the NSW Government would never fund a racetrack) to create some work during the Great Depression. Turn 3+4: The Cutting, because it's literally a cutting in the rock. Turn 5: Griffin's Mount, see above. Turn 6, 7 & 8: Reid Park, named after Hughie Reid, the Bathurst city council engineer who actually designed the "scenic drive". Turn 9: Sulman Park, don't know. Turn 10: McPhillamy Park, named for Walter J. McPhillamy, another former mayor who owned* most of the land at the top of the Mountain and donated 15 acres to use as a park. Turn 11: Brock's Skyline, named of course after Peter Brock; before 2006 it was just Skyline, which had nothing to do with the car above and everything to do with what you can see as you approach at full throttle. Turns 12-17: The Esses, self-explanatory. Turn 14: The Dipper (NOT the Corkscrew, thankyou DW...). It's a sudden, stomach-lurching dip. And before the track was re-designed slightly in 1987, it was a lot worse. Back when it was a production car race, there were stories of cars flexing so much their windscreens popped out in the Dipper. Turn 18: Forrest's Elbow, named after the unfortunate Jack Forrest, a motorcycle racer who scraped his elbow down to the bone after laying his bike down there. Yuck. Conrod Straight: renamed such after a conrod failure ended Frank Kleinig’s race at the 1939 Easter Meeting. Turns 20, 21 & 22: The Chase. The most recent section of the track, built ahead of the 1987 race because it was due to be a round of the first (and only) World Touring Car Championship, and the FIA wouldn't let them have a straight that long. Conrod use to head straight down all the way, so if you missed your braking point you'd be halfway back to the main street of Bathurst before you came to a halt. Now you negotiate a right-hander taken absolutely flat out and then do all your heavy braking amidst acres of kitty litter instead. Only at Bathurst could the addition of a 300km/h corner be called a safety upgrade... And finally, Turn 23: Murray's Corner, which was called Pit Corner until Bill Murray crashed his Hudson there in 1946. There you go, that's one lap; only 160 more to go... You absolutely can drive this track almost any time if you're in the country, it's a public road most of the time, albeit with a strict 60km/h speed limit and frequent police patrols (you have been warned!). If you really want to see the GT-R driven properly, though, check out Mark Skaife's Shootout lap from 1991. He wasn't showing it much mercy. Edit: The car ahead is a Ford Sierra. That by itself shows that the GT-R driver is taking it easy - back in the day the Sierra was a 550hp, tyre-melting monster, and Godzilla would waltz past it virtually on a whim. *We'll sidestep the issue of First Nations people actually owning it, and just point out they weren't called the "Bathurst Wars" for nothing.
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  38756. Oooh boooooy... I left a comment some months ago under one of your videos about MPVs, wagons and the soccer mom image attached to them. There are a bunch of factors which have made the SUV so popular recently but I think none is as big as the impression of safety in your vehicle. Upgraded side impact standards have made the windows smaller, which has inspired the design of some mid 2000s sports cars, turning them into something between a stealth bomber and a armored vehicle.. Compare the green house of any car from the 90s and earlier to the ones built today and you'll immediately notice how the bottom of the windows have risen and the pillars have become fatter, which has negatively affected visibility but improved crash test results. So if you'd like to buy a car with a view comparable to 20-30 years ago, you'd have no choice but to buy an SUV/Truck. I believe this has led to some kind of vicious circle in customer behavior: "I need an SUV 'cause when I'm surrounded by trucks I can hardly see and they can hardly see me so I fear what might happen to my kids in the back seat when some truck driver is on the phone instead of looking for traffic and runs into me" Understandable you don't want your loved ones to get hurt in an accident but by buying an SUV (that's hardly off-road capable), that person is now reinforcing the problem by making other regular car drivers feel less safe because now everyone else on the road is a ton heavier and a meter taller than you. US roads and highway lanes are quite a bit wider than in Europe so a G63 SUV is CONSTANTLY on both white lines in my country but that car is doing just fine in LA suburban streets. The SUV isn't substituting what used to be the wagon market: It has taken over the MPV market and is now also taking over the wagon market. In the late 90s, there was a car by Renault called the "Espace" which could seat 8 people, have two rows of three people sit side by side in relative comfort, weighed 1.5tons and had the footprint and gas mileage of a sedan. That segment of cars was killed by the "soccer mom" image imo, which is truly a shame. Those were the real "checks every box" cars due to the increase in interior space: good aerodynamics for something this boxy so you get like 40mpg on the highway, can literally fit half of your kid's soccer team on the rear seats, you can put bikes or whatever on the roof or transport a fridge by flipping the seats down and transform it into a delivery vehicle that could also fit a mattress on the 6 rear seats for a place to sleep. In the 2000s, that was seen as the car segment of the future and all major manufacturers spent millions to get their version of it out ASAP. Mazda made the MPV (creative naming lol), Chrysler made the Voyager with the sliding doors (very cool), Opel designed the Zafira (very cheap, comparable to a hatchback) and they all sold very well from 1998-2012ish, then the SUV market exploded in Europe too. The only reason Porsche still exists is their Cayenne SUV which comes with 19 inch wheels as standard to clear the brakes and wheel arches that can't fit off road tires smh. That's ultimately my gripe with SUVs: they're all facade built with the guise of being tough and capable when they really aren't. The Lexus SUV is arguably the most capable in it's segment bc it's built on a Land Cruiser chassis but the people who buy them don't need that. They'd buy a crew cab truck if they go off road. Why is the SUV so attractive to people in urban environments? Maybe it's the comparative lawlessness and reckless behaviour of some drivers, maybe people who drive their raised trucks downtown are potentially part of the "tacti-cool" movement of people who like to own military grade equipment for ego reasons.. Don't really know why, fewer than 5% of SUV owners use their vehicle off road. Also, since SUVs built in the US are built on truck frames which just feels like the US has found another reason to not abandon it's archaic body-on-frame construction philosophy. Don't get me wrong, it's great for utility vehicles but incomparable to a vehicle built on a space frame. The SUV has added roughly 50% extra on top of the global CO2 emissions by cars when there is no particular other reason to own one except "I sit higher". I haven't even mentioned how the raised seating height and the raised center of gravity makes most SUVs very top heavy and roll over prone, on top of the fact the roll over protections have to be reinforced due to the excessive weight of the vehicle. I think I could go on forever but I won't. As a suggestion, could you imagine looking at diesel engine builds or maybe diesel drag/tractor pull events? I'd love to hear you tell me which part of the engine just exploded :) I wish you and your family a happy new year Ian and I hope you're all doing well. Cheers from Frankfurt, Germany
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  38861. As far as standardization goes. It has been constantly evolving, but with outright dominance being at the forefront of the Holden vs Ford debate, Supercars, around the year 2000 brought in parity measures called "Project Blueprint" to level out the playing field. This made the chassis pick-up points, wheelbase, track, and driving position became standardized across both manufacturers. The VY & VZ Commodore gained double wishbones in the front, which was standard on the BA Falcon at the time. But other than what is mentioned, the teams had fair game to make the cars their own, within the confines of the regulations of course. Next came "New Generation" which was aimed at cost-cutting and bringing new teams to the table, provided they had a 4 door saloon in production. From this we saw the likes of Volvo, Mercedes and Nissan join for the 2013 season. But sadly after all of this, other brands pulled out, and we went back to our Holden vs Ford roots. The Gold Coast 500 marks the end of an era this year, It will be Holdens last race as a Supercars brand. It will still be run in the Super2 category for a while, but after that they're gone. With all of this comes the the caveat of Gen III, hybrid systems, further measures to increase parity, with very little wiggle room (As an example, there will be only 6 different shock setups that all teams can use) The Camaro, which modern Australians wouldn't have much of an attachment to will race along side its brother from another mother, the Mustang. We may have to turn left and right, but we may aswell watch Nascar now
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  39027. You got Holdens but with Pontiac or Chevy badging. How the mighty had fallen having to import muscle from Oz. Square Toranas [LH LX UC] are EH Holden size, 105" wheelbase and 55" track. Good cars in their day. BUT not much lighter than the full size car. Generally under engineered, gearbox was good for a healthy 6 as was the diff.. Just ok with the 253 but the 308 no. All the Torana street guys then want to fit 10" wide wheels on the back [8s on the front] but without a deal of surgery they do NOT fit. I have this problem regularly with guys spoiling their cars doing so. I sell several period style wheels in 6 7 8 &10 widths. GpC cars had to run full interior sans carpets. That car is a mock up as the original is in a collectors hands. I raced against it regularly in the 90s. Interestingly it was probably the last Torana racing on 14" wheels and the smaller brakes as it raced at Bathurst. Many of those cars morphed into Sports Sedans,, car with big flares and max 6 litre engines. I raced against several and drove one on occasion. One is back on the road still with the race engine!! Others are being 'restored' from parts of the original car and some just ended their lives as out and out Sports Sedans. This is genuine GpC cars. Quite a few GpC Commondores also raced as Sports Sedans. IF you want to see a restored Bathurst winner,, 30 years ago! look at the ' Perkins Engineering' You Tube channel. Larrys 93 Bathurst winner has been restored by son Jack. A big job. I was involved with that car in 95-96 as it was updated to VR then VS and even the rollcage was replaced. It was track tested a couple of weeks ago.
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  39222. I've only been an Aussie for 65 years and probably only agree with about 70% what the person said but this is probably more to do with where he spent his time and/or age group as sayings vary state by state and age groups tend to use different slang. Slang tends to be more rural than larger cities I have found that when I travel around Oz (Slang for Australia) like in Queensland they seem to add "eh which sounds like ay" to almost every sentence, but Never heard it used in Melbourne, slang seems to be more outback than the main capital cities which are more influenced by American television and movies so in more modern times we tend to follow whatever is used in American Media more than older Australia terms It amused me that he didn't seem to mention the toilet much as there would have to be more slang terms for going to the toilet than anything else, especially when a male wants to have a piss, there would probably be over 100 ways of saying that alone The more social media takes to hold the more that the world takes over for example OMG was never an Australian expression but it has been adopted, probably mostly from Facebook, it's like we are very aware of American terms and slang as we see it so much on TV and the movies but most likely not the reverse Most of Australian slang would even be lost on younger Australians as a lot of it is fading away Although there are some words that might not ever convert like how you call jam jelly, even though we hear it in American TV and movies, therefore, know it we still use the Aussie words which we inherited from the UK Then there are words that confuse us within Australia as we don't have National terms for a lot of things like in Victoria we call potato scallops - potato cakes but in Queensland, they call them scallops which is seafood in Victoria so this sort of thing causes confusion when travelling
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  39436. That's a 1969 valiant VF it's running Australia designed chrysler inline 6 It's a 265 cbi engine with cam and triple 45 mm Webber's on the engine which was standard in RT charger He has put in earlier valiant pacer this should be running a slant six engine Tilly has spent hundreds of thousands on developing the engine from memory it revs at 6000 rims But it's become unreliable as he developing more horse power oil starving was it main cause of engine failure he's had to design and get lots of parts made If you notice he didn't have the speed in the straight due to limited gear ratio for them as all street products other then what he had made But you see how quick in corners was it strength and out of them The stock factory had cam and the triple 45mm Webber's on them they used to be fastest factory manufacturer car around 11,5 seconds in quarter mile straight from show room If you bought one The valiant and early torana xu1 was inline 6 triple support carburettors and cam they relied on their small light weight but under steered badly why you'll hear them screeching front wheels and under steer off the track This is where Brock skill cam it to adjust to under steer and would run bigger cars down late in race as they used up brakes and tyres Tilly in last interview was going to put a v8 in the car It was the best racing as relied as much on driver as the car because they all had their weaknesses H patern shifting as well drivers where professionals and rarely took a chance taking someone out Clean but fare races always tight at the end Like the dealers used to say win on Sunday selling cars on Monday sales would go up for who ever one the week end
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  39658. Oh I would love to put some 37+- on my 2017 Wagon. Problem with going with bigger tires for most, is like myself I get the 100,000 7 year "bumber to Bumper" Max care extended warranty with 6 of those expensive synthetic oil changes. And I negotiate and get them for about $900 to $1200 max. I have purchased many warranties some factory some Louisiana dealership warranty "LDS" and have done the research to find out exactly what the dealership pays for them and offer the pay between $200-$300 over their cost. Takes a little arm twisting but you can get a warranty for way less than they offer it to you. I do this for 2500 RAM's have PROBLEMS with the a/c System, pinion seals, and a few other expensive service problems. I have had the same problems with just about all the 2500 I have owned. Starting with 2002-2017 8 trucks in total. The warranty has always paid for it self with the first a/c System problem that seams to always shows up between 40k-70k. And in all the warranties if you use any tires larger than the max the factory uses you warranty is void. They will not even cover stuff that has nothing to do with tires. Not sure if this is an issue with the standard 36k or 60k power train. Just something to consider if you have warranty on your truck. And surprisingly only tires are a point blank "void'. Other modifiecations are in the fine print, but there some dealership/warranty case by case discression for every other modifiecation but tires. I had a 2008 that I had 315/75 17. I had not had them on long and had a system fail on the truck so made an appointment to have the issue fixed. My dealership was nice enough to say " believe you have a tire problem, try fixing that first, and if it is still no working bring it back " WINK WINK, and pointed it out to me before they accepted the truck for the repair. So I had to put the 265 back on it before bringing it in for repair. Just something for your viewer's to consider in making their choice on tires. Never hurts to have all the up and downs of a disision. And I agree with you on the not making it up that hill, for by far was driver error. He made several errors from. Starting with NOT paying attention on approach to start with, and the errors just piled up after that. Enjoy the videos keep it up.
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  39852. Great to hear the interest in more than just American music. One of my favorite bands from Germany is Münchener Freiheit. They mainly sing in German but they did have an English hit in the 80ies I believe. Being from Belgium I recommand listening to Stromae (in French, very popular even in the States), Angèle (she sang Nightcall with Phoenix & Kavinsky at the closing ceremony at the Olympics in Paris, but she sings mainly in French), Loïc Nottet (phenominal voice, his last album was in French but his previous albums were in English - listen to his live cover of Chandelier from Sia - https://youtu.be/BZdlxb5WSEQ - or Million eyes - https://youtu.be/68EnJITH-5Q). For the Dutch speaking part of Belgium I recommend Bazart, Camille, Pommelien Thijs, Metejoor, Gorki (all of these sing in Dutch), Hooverphonic, Oscar and the Wolf, The Starlings, Lost Frequencies. But I would really recommend you have a look at the yearly returning Eurovision Song Contest. It's a song contest that started in 1956 and is still going on to this day. It started really very minimalistic with just 7 European countries participating with a very static podium with singers singing in their own language and an orchestra. Today it is more of a hugh spectacle with all kinds of effects, dancing, singing and the songs can be in any language. The songs can be serious but also hilarious and funky, it is now taking place over 3 days (2 semi-finals and a final) and around 40 countries take part (since 10 years Australia is participating as they were/are huge fans of Eurovision). The only thing that is still the same as in 1956 is that the songs have to be original. To have a taste of what it is, have look and comment to the following funny explanations: https://youtu.be/S4RXY_2RnbE or https://youtu.be/QgzBwwvn6eY.
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  40391. Hey Ian. I came across your channel a couple of nights ago and am totally hooked. I'm so stoked your enjoying learning about our car culture down here. I grew up watching Bathurst every year with my father from the couch in New Zealand, always rooting for Ford. By the time I started work I had completed 3 years of high school in Australia. I landed an mechanical apprenticeship in the biggest Ford dealership in QLD. I was a second year apprentice when the BA came out and the XR6 Turbo was an absolute game changer. At the time Holden had been smashing Ford with their LS powered Commodores for a number of years. The Falcon could now compete! Ford released an XR8 at the same time powered by an Aussie assembled 5.4L truck V8 with 4.6L mustang heads. While that seemed like a good idea at the time, the engine was never competitive. The long stroke of the 5.4L block just didn't suit the flow characteristics DOHC heads from the high revving 4.6L. They had nothing down low, would come on song at about 5000rpm then it was over by 5500rpm. The XR6 T by contrast had torque almost everywhere and would rev and pull cleanly all the way to the redline. The later Barra turbos with the ZF 6 speed autos drop 3 cylinders between upshifts and sound insane! Kind of like a VW equipped with a DSG box but in big capacity I6 turbo form. Absolutely heavenly. I hope you can get down here after this covid mess is sorted out to sample some of our Aussie delights in person. Maybe for the Bathurst 1000 or #Summernats. PS. Search for the Barra powered XD Falcon drift car from Townsville for something different!
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  40629. 6:00 no they didn't turn around the boats were on the return from the Harwood Bridge in This video it was the 108km water ski race from Grafton nsw to the Harwood Bridge and back and is held on Sunday of the October long weekend each year. but in 2019 it was changed The new course consist of two 50km laps from Grafton to Brushgrove. The top end of the course will remain the same as previous years, with boats heading upstream from the Crown Hotel in Grafton, to the tip of Susan Island before heading down the back of the island and under the Grafton Bridges and heading down river. This year, competitors will turn around just near the Brushgrove Bridge, before heading back up river to complete the first lap. Crews will complete two laps of this course, before crossing the finish line at the Crown Hotel in Grafton, to complete a total course distance of 100km. 2019 race was divided into two Heats. Heat 1 – Will start at 9am and run until 11am and include the following classes: Superclass, Unlimited Inboard, Unlimited Outboard, Unlimited Naturally Aspirated, Sportsman’s Class and Under 18 Years. Heat 2 will run from 11am to 1.30pm and will be for the following classes: 1up, MOC, F2, Women’s, Under 16 Years, 70MPH/Weekend Warrior, Under 14 Years, 60MPH and Under 12 Years. So it was two separate races that year, with the faster boats racing in the first heat at 9am. 2020 didn't happend 2021 Bridge to Bridge was also cancelled but Planning is under way for the 2022 event to be held in November 2022 sorry I don't know anything about the boats or the murrumbidgee river race Also I googled the Bridge to Bridge and this 1989 video popped up you could do a reaction and cut out the stuff you don't need or just watch the whole thing in private. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtvisHGsA28 sorry for the old video it was all that there was
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  40687. I think the variety of trucks also depends on the terrain , the size of the roads , and how tight the turns are . Also the maximum length of vehicle and trailers in different countries and states. In Australia we have a bit of everything . In city’s like Melbourne and Sydney trucks with two trailers are fairly common , and B doubles , two trailer rigs with cab overs or flat nose are easier for getting around the city’s and wharves. Out in the country and outback road trains with two or three trailers, or even more in some scenarios. As for European trucks vs American trucks , I think a lot of it comes back to drive lines and coomanality of parts and ease of repair. For ease of repair I think the American trucks had win in that area, for a start American trucks can have engines from different company’s , Detroit , caterpillar, Cummins, Mack , and usually a buyer can pick and choose his own driveline and power unit. And detroit engines for example came in many different configurations, to many to mention , and often parts where interchangeable from a v6 to a v8 , and at times engines could even be joined together. Volvos and Scanias, etc ……. Not so much. The American engines where imo easier and cheaper to repair in a lot of cases . As an ex trucky myself , we used to joke about engine repairs on euro trucks vs American engined trucks . 3000 dollars for a rebuild kit on 8 Detroit and 500 bucks for a rebuilt injector pump vs 3000 dollars on a Volvo engine and 20000 bucks for a new injector pump, but that was a couple of decades ago when I was driving. Buyers all have different criteria why they buy a certain brand. I used to like kenworths and Mack’s and western stars , I also drove the odd euro model and did come to like a lot about them too , I had a bit of fetish for the big luxury freightliner cab overs , like driving a lounge room 😀.
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  40770. The V12, V10, V8 Engines in the Formula 1 cars from 1990 to 2013 was some of the best sounding engines, that's my opinion, but the Turbo V6s from 1981 to 1989 sounded really nice as well. V12s were “officially” banned in 2000, to “keep costs down” (and to screw Toyota) by supposedly preventing teams from experimenting with new engine layouts; however, it should be noted that literally nobody was using V12s anyway, and in fact, nobody had used V12s for about 5 years before the rule came into effect. The main issue was that the V12 was just far too fuel-thirsty, and it was slowing the car down via either forcing the driver to lift-and-coast to save fuel, or make an extra pit stop to refuel. Hence, after 1996, everyone went down either V8 or V10 routes due to comparable power output without the extreme fuel consumption of a thirsty, unreliable V12. V10s (especially those of the 3.0L variety) had been the de facto engine of Formula 1 since 1998 (literally nobody ran anything other than a V10 from 1998, and from 1996 to 97, the only teams to run anything other than a V10 were the hopeless backmarkers with cheaper V8s), until their abolition in 2006 (with a special exception made, but we’ll get onto that). V10s are notable for being not only powerful, but also making a very, very distinctive sound; one that is sorely missed by current fans. The problem was that the cars were becoming alarmingly fast, and the road relevancy of V10s was, shall we say, not exactly there. As a result, the FIA decided to slow the cars down by limiting the power of the engines, and they accomplished this by lowering the maximum displacement of the engines from 3.0L to 2.4L, as well as mandating a smaller V8 arrangement, which was deemed more road relevant than a V10. (Fun fact: the FIA had a special clause which allowed them to grant special exemptions to some teams, and this exemption was indeed granted to Minardi. Team owner Paul Stoddart more-or-less begged the FIA for permission to continue using V10s due to the cash-starved Minardi being unable to afford changing engines, and the FIA responded by creating this exemption, at the cost of a rev limiter and a restrictor plate to keep the V10s performance roughly on par with the V8s. When the team was sold to Red Bull to become Toro Rosso, teams protested until the STR01 proved, in no uncertain terms, that it was still not up to par; it scored a grand total of just 1, yes, ONE point in the whole season) V8s were mandated from 2006 until 2013, when they were superseded by the dawn of the current 1.6L V6 turbo-hybrid era. This was done due to a desire to make engines “more road relevant” again (which has failed catastrophically). The engines were made smaller, and, for the first time since the 1980s, turbochargers were allowed again. In addition, the new engines have all sorts of electrical harvesting capabilities to power an electric motor (KERS from 2009 was renamed the MGU-K, and a new component in the form of the MGU-H) which provides bursts of power during a lap. The issue is, this chase for efficiency has left the engines sounding very dull (compare the scream of the V10s and V8s to the dull whine of the V6t’s), and the components are so difficult and intricate that they will never see use in any normal car; hell, other than in something bonkers like the Mercedes-AMG One, the MGU-H will never see use in anything for the road. Where the rules will take us in 2026 is anybody’s guess.
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  40953. Indigenous people didn't "own" the land as we know "ownership". They considered themselves as part of the land. they looked after the land, the land looked after them, they shared the land with other animals, eating what they needed but always making sure to leave enough for other animals and for the plants to survive so there would be food again next year. "ownership" was an alien concept. White man came along and said they own it all, ripped all the trees out (except the mountains where it's too steep) for grazing sheep and cattle and growing wheat. Approaching 200 years on, white man conceded the indigenous people were actually people and really did have some valid claim to the land, having been here 65,000 years or so, so they started giving them back the Nothing bits that nobody wants. Everybody learned in school about how the British discovered Australia (not much about the Dutch who arrived earlier), and then brought convicts to start occupying the continent. Many of us didn't learn much about the dark side of Australian History, the way they treated the indigenous people. The battle for recognition is still going on. I descend from an indigenous woman used for the sexual pleasure of a white farm hand. The state flags were designed back in the days when Australia was just a bunch of British Colonies, hence the very British looking flags. Northern Territory was part of South Australia so didn't have its own flag. That came in much more recent times with far less British influence hence the more modern flag.
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