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Never assume that all Aussie 4x4s are not rustbuckets, we do waaay more beach driving than you guys so buy from at least 500 clicks inland, dusty not rusty.
Now yes we get a good deal on 4x4s is=n as much as we have a good selection but prices are not exactly cheap here and if you look t American stuff it's almost all parallel import so for an F250 you are looking at US$150,000 for a base model.
Want a late 80s early 90s IROC Camero? that will be US$20,000 please for a half way decent one and not that much less for a shitter.
Harley guy? Well, we do have dealers (my local is the oldest non-CONUS Harley dealer in the world) but prices start at around US$27,000 for a base big twin and about 15k for a sporty.
Pajero here not Pahero, they wondered why local-based Sth Americans wouldn't buy them 🤣🤣🤣 (if you get it you get it).
You won't see a lot of Crewmans, they are rare(ish) even here. Even better, the Adventura, a 4x4 V8 Holden wagon.
Up until four years ago there were no AU market 'stangs, they were all imports. Note the insane (for US) pricetag.
The Rover IS a Prelude, not a look-alike.
About mileage, we tend to do a lot more miles than you guys, it's a big, empty country and especially the first ones from Alice, there are plenty of cattle properties out there where the front gate is 80 miles from the house and it's 300 miles to town, no joke.
Next time go to www.carsales.com.au, much better range of vehicles.
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OK lets get some Aussie stuff laid out. }
Target and K-Mart are separate companies to their US compadres but share common ownership and direction, both have been here forever and do very well indeed. On the other hand, Aussie Wendys has NOTHING to do with the US company. In Australia, Wendys is a "middle of the mall" franchise that sells coffee, shakes, hot dogs and doughnuts. It is not at all connected to the American burger chain.
We have no Walmart (thank God for that!), around a dozen and a half Costcos (which we love), no Tractor Supply, or Home Depot. Our Lowes is a working man's clothing chain and our True Value Hardware (a purchasing collective of individual-owned stores) has no connection to the US juggernaut.
Burger King here is licensed to an Aussie company called Hungry Jacks, there are two remaining actual Burger Kings in Sydney. (the conflict between them is a story in itself). IMHO Hungry Jacks beats the hell outa Maccas and I wish they had the capital when they needed it to compete because, as the advertising says, "the burgers are (honestly) better at Hungry Jacks."
Likewise, 711 is wholly Aussie owned, they license the name as do several petrol/gas companies and many in the food game. Just because the name is the same doesn't mean it's the US company.
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Ian, Maaaate! Never place any credence in any channel that uses an AI voiceover. If you can't voice ya own channel there's a problem.
Cricket: LA has some 30 cricket teams some of which are really, really good and would stand up in a "warehouse" league here (that;'s the top of the amateur leagues). When we can beat y'all in baseball, then I'll be impressed!
Lamb: Yeah lamb tastes nice, very nice but the fact is, you are killing something that's had maybe 10 weeks of life, and to me that doesn't seem fair. Same reason I don't eat a lot of veal. That's beside the point tho, who cares who eats more of what?
Liveability: how do you quantify that? Yup, a lot of Americans from big cities would think Melbourne was a very nice p[ace indeed, they may even like it over and above their home town but folk from small-town USA would, like me, think it a craphole. It all depends on what you think is ideal living. To me, it's a great place to go shopping but I'll stick to my little Queensland town of some 800 people for living.
Snakes, that subject (everything here is out to kill you) is an entire rant on its own so I'm not even beginning now.
Peace out.
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Never mind his speech, that "comedian's" shtick was pure hate speech. Even with a Trump audience, no one laughed; it was pure cringe. Asd a first responder I am also sick to the back teeth of his trashing of FEMA, they are doing their job and doing it well.
I am not American, I don't live there (I'm Australian) but I am centre-right and I find Trump abhorrent. You may say it's not my concern but it is because American policy has a huge impact on the rest of the world and he scares me.
Good God, your country (like mine) is built upon recent migration, a large number of Americans are second or third-generation Americans and yet the hatred is palpable. If what they advocate had been policy just 50 years ago a large number of them would not have had the opportunities offered by being Americans and yet they trash new migrantss, why? Are their memories that short?
Elon: I believe what he does is vital to the entire world and I just wish he'd STFU and concentrate on what he does best, building cars and rockets. The world needs Elon and people like him but he's on a path to ruin if he keeps letting his Autisiem (a trait I share) speak for him. Get a bloody filter mate, we need you and you are going to doom the good you do by being an ass. His tech and space causes are way to important to be stuffed by his outbursts.
Vote Harris, don't allow this shit to ruin what was once a great country and can be again. Please, not just you but the rest of the world is depending on it.
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My God, where do you even begin with this clusterfuck?
Firstly I need to preference this by saying my engineering experience is not in bridge design but any competent engineer who read the official report (let alone those of the litergant's engineers and those of the court) would recoil in horror and disgust.
Firstly, the entire design is questionable, a single truss (even more so in concrete) looked spectacular but as said has s single point of failure so is bad design by an engineer (great by an architect but that is why engineers exist, to reign them in).
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Secondly, any move of 100 metres and a 90-degree spin of a truss (or in fact, anything) that had a limit of 2 degrees was bound to fail unless on correctly installed and leveled rails. The fact they kept to 5.3 deg (IIRC) is a miracle in itself given the system used and the surface it was used on* and no better with the equipment they had to work with could or should have been expected.
Thirdly, the degree of cracking is way more than anyone would consider acceptable, even a layman could see that, post-tensioning cables do not make up for major fails in the structure, they are there to prevent it and they did not (nor would I expect them to in this case). Any concrete structure let alone one that has undergone a transition like this one did that exhibits cracking like that should be immediately condemned until tests show it is either safe or otherwise.
In addition why have faux suspension elements? If you go to the trouble why not make them real and increase the safety/redundancy ratio from 1 (frankly, eew!) to around 3 or higher? A real, live middle pier and a few cables would have prevented this disaster even with all the errors had they been in place in time.
Lastly but most succinctly the point is all that was needed here was a structure consisting of three linear steel H beams between the three towers with steel I beams at suitable intervals as cross beams supporting decking of any number of substances, steel, concrete, wood, whatever. That however would not have looked near as fancy nor been an advertisement for the university, would it? A bridge dropped and people died because a uni wanted to show off . . .
The takeaway? There is no excuse for a substandard piece of fancy-looking engineering when a tried and true (if not as pretty) alternative exists. This happened because a series of people and corporations wanted to look good.
*SpaceX allows 2.5 deg of flex/lean for the Starship transporter for example
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mate, love ya but, destroyed?
Yes, brave partisans staged an attack but I see no evidence of destruction or even damage. I gather you have never completed a recon photo-analysis course? I hope they have hurt it but claiming outright that they have done so only hurts the cause if it turns out they have not. I follow you because you have been fair in your analytics, please don't start to push the envelope and take wild guesses. It is vital to the cause that voices that speak with Ukraine do not make claims that may later be proven incorrect.
Yes, it is now time (IMHO) to let the orcs have Bakhmut, all the damage that can be done without unfavourable losses has been done. Ya gotta know when to fold 'em. Bakhmut is only valuable as an Orc meat grinder, it's not as hill worth dying on any longer.
Long-range Drones. LRDs are like the mouse that roared, they don't have to do major damage just as long as they hit their target and produce visible evidence of that. psychologically, this will have a huge impact on the Russian people as if it's obvious damage that far from the front word will spread, Putler and his goons can't prevent it.
Yeah, some will dismiss it as rumours and BS but the majority will see photos taken by everyday citizens of an airbase or a power station, oil depot or whatever in flames 500km form the front lines and think twice before offering either their sons or their support to Putler. If they can strike multiple military targets (and anything but would be a mistake) on the outskirts of Moscow repeatedly over two or three nights in a row the effect would be catastrophic to Putler's regime. If they can pound targets visible to the people of the capital it's over, Putin is screwed.
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And when the armourers pulled it down afterwards all parts were within spec. Obviously, it had gone thru a lot of barrels but the rest was hardly worn at all. BTW. it was 5 million rounds:
Obsolete or not, there was strong attachment to the Vickers. Many felt, why get rid of something so good? As if to prove a point (and also to use up the Mk VII ammunition still in the inventory, which was no longer approved for Service use), the most exhaustive trial probably ever fired from a Vickers took place in 1963 at Strensall Barracks in Yorkshire, England. Five million rounds were fired from a single Vickers which was kept in constant use for seven days and seven nights.
British Army Sergeant T.R. Ashley was one of nine armourers involved. At the time he was in an 18-day Vickers course at Strensall Barracks. As related by Sgt Ashley to Warren Wheatfield of Sudbury, Ontario.
.. First day, gauging limits and setting the gun up. (We spent two days hand filing feathers [the square projection] on cross pins to close tolerances so guns and tripods could be assembled without play!) at the end of the day, the instructor told us to draw out one of the guns that we had been working on, [and] one of the lads pulled a gun out of the rack. We were told that this gun was to be fired for the remainder of the course, day and night.
The gun, stores spares, etc, were put onto an Austin Champ and driven onto the range. We mounted the gun onto a tripod in a gun pit. A 4-ton Bedford had been unloaded with ammo. There were stacks of ammo, after cans and barrels. (We had to pack all the rear groove with asbestos oiled string!) The 2 man crew was relieved every thirty minutes. A third body shovelled empty cases from under the gun with a malt shovel and threw the empty belts clear of the pit. We never heard the gun not firing in anything but the shortest time while the barrel was replaced (every hour). The gun fired 250-round belts without stopping: not in 20, 50 or whatever bursts, but straight through: we could hear it rattling away from the lecture room/workshop, and went to see it between work.
At the end the gunpit was surrounded by mountains of boxes, belts, cases, debris; a large cleft had appeared in the stop butts where the bullets had destroyed the butts. We took the gun off it's tripod and back to the workshop. We inspected and gauged. No measurable difference anywhere. It had eaten barrels, they were changed every hour to 1½ hours, but mechanically [the gun] was unchanged. It had consumed just under five million rounds of .303", non-stop (my notes were for Mk VII, not Mk VIIIz, so I presume zones etc were for Mk VII).
That episode was to show nine armourers the ability of the hallowed Vickers. Only after an excellent course result did my Staff Sergeant boss let me work on our battalion guns, which had smooth waterjackets..
Quoted verbatim from the first edition of "The Grand Old Lady of No Man's Land" by Dolph L. Goldsmith (Part III, Chapter Seven, pp 188
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I've copped shit on this video that I'm not going to let pass.
I'm an old Africa hand, I flew ass and trash for what some would call a mercenary group for some 20-odd years*. I've been shot at and worshipped (undeservedly) in equal quantities for that time. I know Africa to the extent that I considered Gaddifai a personal friend (if you want to debate that case, it's a different story) If anyone here can pass judgment on what is said here it is me and the few locals in the conversation.
Namibia is a paradise next door to a hell hole, it is a wonderful country with some of the most beautiful people I have ever had the pleasure of meeting. The issue here is that they are being screwed over by Shell and, ultimately, De-Beers who are evil beyond what most of you who have never seen true evil can comprehend. I urge you to do a google search on both of them with the word "Africa" added and read what comes up.
Yes, I'm white and I made a lot of money out of the pain of Africa but the company I worked for had ethics. We were mercenaries but we battled for the little guy. Those who know, know. Namibia is a world of wonder, the Skeleton Coast is one of the most amazing places on earth. When you have seen a herd of lions, a herd of elephants and a herd of wildebeests all drinking alongside each other out of a rare freshwater spring in peace maybe then you will understand that even those thrust against each other in the very throes of survival can cooperate when required. The best, most faithful dog I ever had was a wild Nanbian dog because he knew the best thing he could do for him was to be my friend and because like any dog the love of someone who loved him was unrequited. He passed before I could bring him home or I would have spent whatever was needed. Even the dogs are superior in Namibia and those of you belittling the place are unworthy of their company.
*If you know, you will know what Last Plane Out was.
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Same here in Australia, we use "green bags" made of nonwoven recycled plastic cloth now (costs a dollar, and when it finally dies you take it back and they give you a new one, free). We have also banned the use of single-use plastic dinnerware such as plates, bowls, knives, forks, cups etc, and recently, drinking straws went the same way. The world didn't end, no one died.
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Oke, Logan needs to lay off the Peyote.
However, some of that is sound theory; unproven theory but sound.
Infinite is a concept but doesn't exist - infinite is an excepted concept but the universe may not be), sorry Logan
Sphere/circle = God shape - Eh?
Time is generally excepted as infinite (in theory).
Apple in a box - This is a philosophical, quasi-scientific argument that is roughly this: If an apple were to be left in a box for billions of years that its fundamental particles would theoretically go through every possible state that they could and, eventually, the apple would return to its original state. It's an argument that people far smarter than you or I (and certainly far smarter than Logan) like to discuss over drinks on a Friday night after a hard week in the lab.
Cyclic universe theory is sound and an accepted possibility. It basically says the universe expands to a limit and then contracts to a singularity and the big bang happens, again and again.
Yes, black holes are indeed everywhere, most of the matter in the universe is dark matter.
The conclusion is, once again, philosophical not scientific and a matter of personal belief so I'll leave it alone.
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My conclusion? Halucengenics are a hell of a drug and Logan should go easy on them whilst reading shit he has no understanding of.
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Regardless of your politics, this was bad, not unexpected but bad.
"Not unexpected?" I hear you say? Well yes, these are pretty dangerous dudes he's exposed, some of whom make the mafia look like sunshine and rainbows so this was to be expected and people have been telling him so for some time, advice he ignored. And by ignored I don't mean "don't do this" I mean the "take precautions not risks" advice (some of which came from people who know how this crap works) which Jordan ignored completely.
TBH I find Jordan to be a bit of a dick, he pushes the limits in ways that do not add anything to the end result but only serves to further infuriate his (quite legitimate) targets and I can only assume it's for shits, giggles and views. he makes a very valuable contribution to truth in politics in Australia and has made pu8blic some very inconvenient truths but he needs to get a little more serious if he wants the general population to take him as a serious journalist.
Right now apart from his viewers, the only folk who take him seriously are journalists, politicians and criminals. The first lot, acting on the orders of the other two are out to shut him down, the second wants him silenced and the third are quite prepared to do the silencing, permanently if necessary. Being a clown to the extent he does is not helping his cause but it will get him killed and that would be a considerable loss not just to him and his friends/family but to the nation as a whole.
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Wow, so many folk who are either wishful thinkers or don't know more than one definition of "straight". Straight ya boofheads is the opposite of comedic, ever heard of "the straight man" in a comedy duo? He's the guy who sets up the joke for the comedian by "playing it straight".
People like Bing Crosby, straight man for Bob Hope, Dean Martin, straight man for Jerry Lewis, Abbot, straight man for Costello, Teller, straight man for Penn, got it now? Sheesh . . . .
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On the other hand, let us, for the sake of clarity, assume stupid. 30 calibre, ie: .3 of an inch, ie: .303, .308/7.62mm. Also 7mm Mauser, 30 M1, 300 Winchester, 300 Wetherby Magnum, 300 H&H Magnum, 30-30 Winchester, 30-06, and a crapload of others. Which part of ".30" do you not get?
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The problem with housing is way too many folk appear to think that landlords have no right to make a reasonable profit. No, they shouldn't;'t beripping people off but this "hand the landlord, eat the rich" BS is not helping.
The vast majority of landlords are folk who started out as working-class people, either tradies or small business owners who didn't buy 100k 4x4s or wakeboard boats but bought houses instead. Some still have one or two houses, some have built that into a dozen or so properties and can now semi retire as landlords.
To me, most of the people who scream and yell at these folk are simply jealous of the position these folk are in thru hard work and smart investment. Why is being successful so looked down upon in this country? Landlords in particular get the short shift but if it wasn't for them a heckin' lot of people would be in tents or worse.
If I have 800k tied up in a place (and I should say I don't own investment properties) that tenants continually fuck up (as they do) costing me 10s of 1000s in repairs why the hell should I not be entitled to a decent return on my investment? If the market average says my place is worth 600 a week I should get 600 a week. OK, if I'm asking 800 a week "because I can" then I'm a cunt but it's still my right to do so, like it or not.
Most of the people in that position spent their time on the factory floor (so to speak) but were smart with what they did with their money and it shits me that they get treated so badly for investing in real estate and not expensive recreational toys. e need more of them not less, the more people investing in rental properties the more there will be and the less they will cost. Supply and demand say that prices right now are fecking high, that's a free market. If you don't like that then move to China or another communist country. If that's your thing go for it, just don't bring it on here.
/rant
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23:50 Happy they didn't shoot the dog. Not only didn't they shoot it he made sure it wasn't snagged on that board and tried to move the board. Apart from liking dogs trust me, almost everywhere in the world, NOTHING short of shooting locals will put you offside with the locals faster than shooting their dogs.
21:45 Asbestos dude, you don't want combat to kill you 20 years later and that stuff will do exactly that
24:56, stables and animal stalls suck, you have multiple small spaces that you need to clear vision and by then you're in the line of fire. Given the level of destruction here (things are fucked up already) to me, this is when you do the "come out or we shoot" shoutout (in the local dialect of course), then put in a couple of rounds and yell "come out, NOW!, I'm throwing a grenade in 5 seconds!" and then check.
Having said all that, these guys are beyond good, these guys are, (to quote Hawkeye Pierce), finest kind. Utterly superb methodology focused on both keeping everyone alive and producing results and that is how you get the best outcome for everyone.
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Mate, never stop telling it as it is. The "everything is going to plan and the war will be over by Christmas" mob are doing untold harm by raising expectations both in Ukraine and around the world to unreasonable levels. It is important that the lows get reported along with the highs for a few reasons.
Firstly, people need to remember, this is a war and the sons of Ukraine are dying every day and sometimes for little gain, not everything goes right every time. Secondly, it is important people have a reasonable expectation of results or when the war is not "over by Christmas" they get very disillusioned. Thirdly, painting to bright a picture diminishes the gravity of the situation. If all they hear is success stories people eventually think the whole thing is much to do about nothing, "the Ukrainians have it won so why should I be concerned and why is my government still giving them stuff?" People both inside and outside of Ukraine need to know this is not a sure thing, the fat lady is still quite a way off her final solo, it's a bitter, nasty battle of attrition for every metre forward.
Vloggers who keep painting too bright a picture are making it harder for Ukraine to win "hearts and minds" the world over and to fight the information war as people lose interest.
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You do realise you can buy a firearm without a background check from a private person, yes?
I'm all for gun ownership but at the same time, checks and balances need to be put in place. Banning guns? wrong and pointless, the entire country is awash in firearms and the bad guys are not going to hand theirs in, are they?
Yes, the US is overweight on average and yes your portion sizes are huge and yes, in the EU the typical slice of US white bread would be classified as cake.
Prescription drug adverts, why on earth are they a thing? It's your doctor's job to decide what medication you need, not yours. In a lot of countries, Australia included doctors can't even advertise let alone drug companies. At least they stopped the gravy train of gifts, holidays and outright bribes drug companies were until recently giving to doctors who prescribed their products in the US.
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Please, please tell me you didn't just call Oxygen "flammable"? It is not flammable, IT CAN'T BE SET ON FIRE! What fire you got was steel burning in the presence of heat and pure oxygen.
IT'S NOT! Oxygen is an oxidizer (well, duh!) not a fuel, nitrous is just a form of the same, the active ingredient in nitrous is, wait for it, oxygen. FFS, why do you not know that, did they not teach you this in Veterinary? Oxygen doesn't burn, it is an oxidizer so it assists combustion by being another side of the fire triangle but it won't burn!
Man, you know this shit or at least I hope you do because you graduated so why speak utter BS? Love ya man but keep it real.
PS for safety: Mate, way too close to those tanks. May I humbly suggest you try shooting the valve off a size D (ie: that size) gas bottle at say, 8oo yards (yes, that is a minimum safe range) and watch the spectacular results. I promise you that never again will you fire at one from so close.
@Mere, please ma'am, collar your guy before he kills himself, he's a good man but he's now playing with stuff he doesn't fully understand.
PPS: "Pure oxygen burns big time" NO IT DOES NOT AND FFS YOU KNOW THAT SO WHY SAY IT?!
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This footage is several days old and has been covered extensively already.
Now, firstly, if in a trench system one needs to stay in control of the entire system, dropping back from the front can be fatal because as soon as they are in your trenches it gets way, way worse. Never give the enemy the chance to invade your lines. They are fortunate that the Orcs are not smart enough to be aiming the RPG rounds at the trunks of trees above their heads which results in what is in effect an airburst over at least a 180deg radius (obviously behind the tree is safe but one chooses the tree).
Next, who the hell sited that .50? It's far too high on its mount, at least 12 and possibly up to 18 inches too high. That thing needs to be scraping the ground to keep you and it as low as possible. Here the opposing forces look to be below them so yeah, 12 inches is probably it as they may need some level of depression (not that they appear to fire downwards) but it is still emplaced way too high.
On a positive note, kudos to whoever dug the defences, that's some fine trench lines right there. The grenade launcher is an M203 style with an aftermarket IWS-type stock that Ukraine bought an amount of a couple of years back.
It is intense yes but it's also pretty average for close-quarters combat in woodland environments. I'm not knocking them by all accounts they all lived thru this so they didn't lose the fight by any means but it wasn't the tidiest defence I've ever seen even if effective in the long run (assuming they held the position and didn't lose the HMG, reports just state no troop losses).
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Jamie first up please tell me you haven't been breathing marble dust, please.
Secondly, I'm in awe, my home is 850 sq feet, my shop is 1400 sq feet and I'm still limited so I don't know how you do it. All the same, you do need more space mate, I know you are a city family but have you ever considered moving to somewhere you have space for family and your shop on the same property?
There are so many places not too far from San Fran where you would have the space to spread out to your heart's content, spaces where you could have 10,000 sq feet of shop for less than that 400 costs you now.
Having said that, we are roughly the same age (I'm 56) and you have been a source of inspiration for as long as I can remember. Your enthusiasm and pure joy for what you do are infectious, please don't ever stop being you, it keeps so many of us going when times get tough. I doubt you realise just how important you are to a whole crapload of people who you have never met (and probably never will).
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Well, let's see if you lose any subs, we are 716k now. I'm centre right, if I was American I'd be a GOP voter but not while this clown is in power, I'm going nowhere.
A small clarification, alcohol in Quebec is (mostly, some beer is sold in supermarkets) only sold thru the government-owned corporation (like in Finland for example). That corporation is the largest buyer of alcohol in the world. Because they're so big they don't pay for a lot of product until it sells, they get it on spec. Therefore, most of that US alcohol is going back, unpaid for. It is being returned to bonded warehouses on the border and the US distributors and being told to "come and get your shit".
I hope that Europe spends the 800 billion with non-US arms suppliers. Apart from Europe, there are many countries such as Korea and even Australia who make everything from AFVs to shells. Australia is cranking out 100s of 1000s of 155mm shells for Ukraine already and are soon going to be making SP artillery and already make AFVs and UAVs.
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I can not allow this tyo go up without posting the poem in full so we all get to suffer.
The Tay Bridge Disaster
Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silv’ry Tay!
Alas! I am very sorry to say
That ninety lives have been taken away
On the last Sabbath day of 1879,
Which will be remember’d for a very long time.
’Twas about seven o’clock at night,
And the wind it blew with all its might,
And the rain came pouring down,
And the dark clouds seem’d to frown,
And the Demon of the air seem’d to say-
“I’ll blow down the Bridge of Tay.”
When the train left Edinburgh
The passengers’ hearts were light and felt no sorrow,
But Boreas blew a terrific gale,
Which made their hearts for to quail,
And many of the passengers with fear did say-
“I hope God will send us safe across the Bridge of Tay.”
But when the train came near to Wormit Bay,
Boreas he did loud and angry bray,
And shook the central girders of the Bridge of Tay
On the last Sabbath day of 1879,
Which will be remember’d for a very long time.
So the train sped on with all its might,
And Bonnie Dundee soon hove in sight,
And the passengers’ hearts felt light,
Thinking they would enjoy themselves on the New Year,
With their friends at home they lov’d most dear,
And wish them all a happy New Year.
So the train mov’d slowly along the Bridge of Tay,
Until it was about midway,
Then the central girders with a crash gave way,
And down went the train and passengers into the Tay!
The Storm Fiend did loudly bray,
Because ninety lives had been taken away,
On the last Sabbath day of 1879,
Which will be remember’d for a very long time.
As soon as the catastrophe came to be known
The alarm from mouth to mouth was blown,
And the cry rang out all o’er the town,
Good Heavens! the Tay Bridge is blown down,
And a passenger train from Edinburgh,
Which fill’d all the peoples hearts with sorrow,
And made them for to turn pale,
Because none of the passengers were sav’d to tell the tale
How the disaster happen’d on the last Sabbath day of 1879,
Which will be remember’d for a very long time.
It must have been an awful sight,
To witness in the dusky moonlight,
While the Storm Fiend did laugh, and angry did bray,
Along the Railway Bridge of the Silv’ry Tay,
Oh! ill-fated Bridge of the Silv’ry Tay,
I must now conclude my lay
By telling the world fearlessly without the least dismay,
That your central girders would not have given way,
At least many sensible men do say,
Had they been supported on each side with buttresses,
At least many sensible men confesses,
For the stronger we our houses do build,
The less chance we have of being killed.
William McGonagall
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OKE, this is good but, maaaaate, it shows some serious holes in the collection.
I'm happy to see a Mini14 and some M14s along with an AR10 (the granddaddy of Armlites) but where is the Luger, the Broomhandle Mauser, the KA98, Cacano, M1A, BAR, Lee Enfield, Webley et al? So many historical holes (and cool guns) missing in the collection mate and that's before we begin on the newer stuff that's not there. No FAL? No WA2000? Also, you need a Maxim in one of its many forms.
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Oke a true asshat "holier than thou" 711 staffer would be fun to play with but none of the staff around here are deserving of flack, honest folk doing an honest job but asshat ones are so much fun as there are good reasons to unleash on them. Dude, it's six bucks something on the shelf, that's the price. Thankfully those clerks don't actually exist or are by far the minority because most 711 staff are fecking saints given the crap they put up with.
It's called 711, if you dicks think a store called Seven-Eleven is going to be open any longer than from 7am to 11pm you have issues, folks. Are they? Fuck yeah, but that's just a bonus. Any later than that and all you should need is the kabab stand outside the local pub. Need more? Fine, take the drive to the nearest servo with a Coles Express.
Sigh, it's 711 you dumbasses, WTF do you expect? Y'all should be happy that someone is there to feed you at 1AM not abusing them for the effort they make. As for the staff? I don't give a flying F what you think of their attitude, they deal with asshats like you each and every day, 100 times a day and many times worse, they get physically assaulted as in hit and beaten, they deserve an award, not your condemnation. Walk a mile in their shoes one day, I doubt you could.
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"If you don't have aircon you will suffer" LOL, he's at Bald Hills on the northern outskirts of Brisbane. It gets warm but the average hot day is probably 32 to 34, the top is 38. That's a lot better than way up north where it's 41 and 90% humidity for weeks on end.
If it's something where sauce is mandatory such as a hotdog or a burger you won't get charged for sauce, the little packets are for things like pies, sausage rolls or chips (fries) where not everyone has sauce and those that do apply their own.
If you want a coffee after 4 (which is when most dedicated coffee shops close, yes) go to Maccas, the McCafe stuff is actually quite good. In industrial areas, the snack bars (usually called lunch bars or carveries in those areas) will open at 6am (or before) and close at 2pm. This is due to the fact that a lot of workers buy lunch every day and most Aussie businesses (even big ones) don't have in-house cafeterias for staff food. Thus, the main trade is breakfast, smoko and lunch in those areas. A carvery will serve roast meat rolls and sandwiches as well as the usual fast food and burgers, a roast pork and cheese sanga at lunch is always well received especially with a choccy milk or iced coffee to go with it.
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Sigh . . .
Warn, Warn, Warn . . . sigh . . . yet another once-great American company that appears to be trading on the strength of a reputation earned in the past that is no longer valid. Their recent attitude to warranty claims is something that prospective purchasers need to look at before buying apart from the fact the price is, well, high for what you get.
The tow industry and the military know best, if you want a truly reliable winch you buy either a hydraulic or PTO winch as neither of those will let you down because they are built to commercial standards not a retail product for weekend warriors.
If I were to buy an electric winch these days I'd buy a Badlands not because they're the best (tho they are damned close) but because even if it does bugger up you will;l get a new one 100% of the time with no questions asked and it will outperform the twice the price WARN anyway.
On the vehicle where I use the winch a lot I have a hydraulic winch, on my car trailer I have a $100 5000lb eBay special which is now 4 years old and still going strong. Sadly, American companies we could once trust to bring us the best quality gear can no longer be trusted to provide much more than overpriced made-in-China crap.
If you can buy American-made, do so but don't forget in this day and age American-owned no longer means American-made. Support with all your heart companies such as Yankum Ropes that make product here but don't blindly buy, check where they make their stuff before buying. If it's made in China, the chances are that equal or better is available for half the price or less. It is not worth your hard-earned to support an American company that is making products in China and charging you double for the privilege. Companies need to learn that to be worth your support it has to be made here to help American families by supporting American jobs making quality products not just lining the pockets of the company owners.
/rant
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You think Dot was freaky? Did you watch The Wizard of OZ as a kid? That movie scarred so many kids and imagine showing it to 8-year-olds these days?
Telegrams, there was a time when someone on the block getting a telegram was a big deal. I was born in '64 and I can remember clearly the neighbourhood telegraph going into overdrive when that happened and everyone hoping that all was OK because telegrams only arrived for the best of events (births, marriages etc) or the worst (usually a death).
Phonebooks: Phonebooks were far superior to looking it up on the web when it came the the Yellow Pages, it was way easier to find a suitable business flicking thru p[ages than taking at face value whatever the Yellow Pages (digi version) algorithm throws at you.
Pocket TVs were for the rich and if you had one as a kid, man, your dad was loaded! It was the 80s.
If Hungry jacks had Ren and Stimpy Burger King would have had the same. Same parent company of course so same major promotions.
Yes, Lube Mobile (pronounced "mo-beal" in OZ BTW) still exists, there are lots of mobile (mobile on its own is pronounced "mo-bile"m same as you do, don't ask . . .) mechanics in OZ, is it not a thing in the US? I was involved in the very start of the business, we helped them set up their dispatch and parts ordering systems. There is one local to me who even has a car lift built into a trailer that can do exhausts, he has the pipe on his roof rack and a bender mounted on his 4 ton truck. There are guys who do tyre service the same way, order your tyres online and he turns up and changes them in your driveway.
Rosella Savory Rice, A staple of the 80s. Look for the Paul Hogan sketch about it.
Yup Cheerios, Savoloys or Little Boys, depending on your state. An Aussie kids party staple and still a comfort food for me.
Oh god yes, my last tube TV was the largest Trinitron set Sony ever made and it weighed some 80 kilos plus. It was so massive it had recessed hand holds in the sides so it could be moved. Incredible picture quality tho and I wish it hadn't died because it was the prime way of playing old video games.
Glucojel are the best jelly beans ever but they have a much more important role. They give a measured dose of glucose to assist with diabetics. I forget the amount per bean but two of these every ten minutes until recovery in the dose if they are having an episode. They are only sold at pharmacies and are beloved by Aussies, especially the black ones (you can even buy packs of just black ones).
Yeah, Kerrigans were woking class, not poor. Nowadays they'd be lower middle. Times have changed and not for the better. The world needs more Michael Kerrigans. It's a very good point.
Those slides weren't even chrome here, we just used them enough that they stayed polished. No shredded rubber at the base either, you landed on dirt at best, and concrete at worst. Kids these days are soft and it will come back to bite them.
Orange was the colour of the 70s. the benchtop Laminex (I think Forminaca was the most popular US brand name) was orange, the carpet was orange and so was the tint in the glass. The only decision was burn, or bright.
Yup, the cardboard ring, the horrible styrofoam box and now the cardboard box. I still think the ring and a wrapper was the best and the most "green".
Milk crates, the most "appropriated" (read stolen) item in history. They learned eventually, the new ones are nowhere near as strong but they still hold PLs perfectly.
I still have a copy of XP just like that CD.
Yes, that's Big Brother. Our version would never have been allowed on US TV and the "after dark" (late nigh spicy clips) would have been a scandal. Even here, the full-frontal nudity and barely concealed sex pushed the limits.
Ah, the mighty Sunbeam electric frypan, a wonderfully useful device, almost every home had one and a lot still do.
Yeah, lollies were 2.3 or 4 a cent and the corner store had a whole counter full of boxes of them. An iceblock (ice cream on a stick) was 10 cents, a soft drink (soda) bottle was 10 cents and the "pinnie" (pinball machine) was 20 cents for five balls.
Steak sangas, a thin steak with whatever sealed and cheese you wanted was a staple of the local snack bar (milk bar to you guys). Both are sadly a dying breed now, much like the traditional corner store.
A half kilo of chocky peanuts for under three bucks? LOL, now that's like 12 bucks minimum.
great video mate, so many good memories there.
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I live just outside of Maleny (google it) and while I know that we have some great businesses in this town we wouldn't have if it weren't for tourists when it's 10 am on a Saturday and literally 3/4s of those in town are either tourists or day trippers and I can't find a park at the IGA (forget the main street, that's a lost cause) to shop because it's full of out of towners or I can't have breakfast at a cafe because it's full of the same I do get peeved off. Even on weekdays, 50% of those in town are tourists, just fewer day-trippers.
When this happens you do look fi=ondly back on the days when we were a little dairy village only appreciated by the locals and a few hippies from the Frog Hollow Comune. Where the line at Naggy's (the local snack bar/cafe) was at most two deep and you could park right out front. Tourists are a blessing for some but a curse for the rest of us.
Left (ie: slow) lane overtaking is as frowned upon here as anywhere. While it isn't illegal hogging the right lane on roads with a speed limit above 80kph is.
Vegemite and cheese scrolls are to die for!
Schoolies is no worse than Spring Break. Toolies are older kids (19 to say, 24-year-olds) who gatecrash schoolies usually males with evil intentions on female schoolies. Mind you, I'm sure cougars decent on Surfers during schoolies with the intent of deflowering male schoolies as well as those of other sexual persuasions also intent on trying their luck on the legal but tender masses.
The Gold Coast and Florida are very much the same. Money, sex, drugs and rock and roll.
The Nullarbor is pretty unique anywhere outside of Africa; even the most desolate of American roads have jackshit on the distances on that run so yes, you wave. Of course, if you really want to experience the desolation you shun the blacktop and take the old road north from Port Agusta and hang a left on the Gunbarrel Highway instead. Jack Bedell's masterwork will show you the real Australia that few Aussies have even seen.
Maines is an expression I have never heard of, to me it would just be cruising (ie: like in American Graffiti). I grew up in small towns out west and it (doing blocks which is the more well-known name for that) was never a big thing because the cops get tired of it. We just grabbed the gang, went out of town and had a bonfire instead.
Propper lawn bowls enthusiasts love barefoot bowls because it brings people into the clubs (some of whom have trouble staying afloat) and introduces new blood to the sport.
The barefoot thing: This is overplayed on YT. We don't go barefoot that much really, we usually have at least thongs on and in fact, a pub will chuck you out for being barefoot (glass, ya know?). While few other places would chuck you about for it, it's not really common to be barefoot but thongs sure are. Hell, I even fly in Crocs fishing sandals (which I pretty much live in) and the airlines are happy as long as you at least have thongs on (like the pub, it's a safety thing). Aussies will often fly in a tank top, shorts and thongs, who cares? I'm dressed better than that because I fly for business but it's still only a polo, shorts and sandals on my feet. Why be uncomfortable?
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Firstly, great intro!
Now, there is nothing like 18,000 pounds of strain on that cable. Your truck weighs that yes but you ain't lifting it, are you? The amount of force depends on the coefficient of friction between the tires and the ground and at a guess, I'd say maybe 4 to 5 thousand pounds max and maybe much less. Come on man, y'all must have a basic understanding of this shit, y'all graduated as a vet so y'all ain't dumb. If in doubt ask Mere, it's what she majored in!
Most importantly, please mate, put a dampener on the cable!
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09:25 yes, everyone deserves a bit of R&R, that's a basic tenet of service. The RU commanders are cutting their own throats by not allowing it, you give troops a fair deal and they will fight. They may not want to, and they may not like it but treat them right and they will comply. On the other hand, treat them like crap and you won't get shit out of them.
Seriously, that's not rocket science it's common sense. It doesn't take much to get a soldier's loyalty; you treat him like crap in basic and when he gets to his unit he thinks it's heaven. You then treat him well by respecting him, feeding, clothing and sheltering him and anything you do above that like a bit of leave, a few luxuries, a move or a show and he's yours.
That works so much better than expecting blind obedience thru fear. I can tell you from experience that if you drop a carton of steaks, a bag of charcoal and a piece of mesh to grill on off at a front-line unit those guys will love you forever or at least long enough to get thru the next offensive because whether you do or not they think you care and they will perform for you. "Burgers and beers" gets you a lot more loyalty than whips and chains. It's basic psychology, how hard can it be?
For my guys I did actually care but that's optional as long as you do enough to make it look that way. The fact the Russian high command can't even be bothered to make it look like they care will be their downfall. This isn't Stalingrad, this is not a defence of the homeland and as soon as they arrive that is made abundantly clear to them when they realise the locals as a whole don't want them there. Hearts and minds, as a concept, needs to be applied to your own forces just as much as it does to the LIPs and the Ruskie higher are applying it to neither. The complete lack of compassion for either will cost them the war.
Me: 25 years on and off of working for contract forces in Africa and East European shitfights. I've contracted (via my employers) to NATO, and other western powers as well as many national and irregular forces in Africa. If it's one thing I do know it's how to keep people without a strong moral/national/ethical influence onside.
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The first comment, The Mother Club dates to post WW2, not the "Early 1900s". Get that right.
Secondly, and by the seventh minute, feck you to, have some respect, you have no idea of what you speak, give the facts and keep your opinion to yourself. That would be best.
EVERY club exists at the behest of the Mother Club, the Hell's Angels hold the rights to the patch and rockers and as well as the words "Motorcycle Club". Friend or foe, their identity is at the behest of the Mother Club. You have a lot to learn.
I also suggest you need to learn the use of the word "allegedly" or expect service.
Maybe you should keep to facts or stay the hell out of shit you don't understand. I'd hate to see you hurt by unscrupulous people.
I seriously expect better from someone of your standing.
Oh and BTW, the Carl Gustav of which you speak was not a rocket launcher, it is a recoilless rifle which is a different matter entirely.
You wanna knock "gang" tattoos? Take a look under the sleeves of any SWAT (or, whatever) team member . . .
BTW, no citizen (or even prisoner) should ever be inconvenienced let alone injured by any dispute between clubs, that is writ in stone in the old school rules.
Club business is dealt with between members, never at a member's work, home or in front of family or friends but in private.
The fact that some shit is settled that way is not endorsed by the old school members but too many lessor clubs are now full of what are referred to as "Nike bikies" a lot of whom don't even own bikes and have no respect for basic morals or code.
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