Comments by "Ian Montgomery" (@ianmontgomery7534) on "IWrocker" channel.

  1. Please send some of the 36C down to Melbourne as we are still a bit cool.
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  2. I refuse to use the self checkout at the supermarket and I always call the person on the register by their name and if it is a name I don't know how to pronounce it I ask and ask what their heritage is (most are born here in Australia but have parents who migrated here). I get a lot of very nice smiles as a result. I encourage people to ask about the person they are dealing with. I had a small skin cancer cut out last week and the plastic surgeon was young woman (late 20's maybe early thirties ) but she was very tall - around 190cm and Asian. She was built very much like my nephew's wife who is Chinese so I asked her about her heritage and it turns out she is Vietnamese. I don't remember seeing a Vietnamese that tall before and gee I had the bandages removed today and she did an absolutely fabulous job and it cost me nothing.
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  3. These appear to be the next generation to the DAF trucks we assemble in Australia which are XF.
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  4.  @dsego84  depends where you are. In Australia out car LPG is not the same as the LPG that is used for BBQ cylinders.
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  5. The Falcon ute is nice. Ford didn't make a GT ute but a couple of dealers optioned them up and did a paint job on them. That dash looks terrific.
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  6. the main impetus for the end of our car industry was the Ford family itself, not the company, the family. They wanted to bring as much manufacturing back to the USA and once Ford decided to stop it became uneconomic for the sub-contractors to continue with only Toyota and Holden as its customers. Holden didn't really fail GM just followed Fords lead. Toyota never wanted to leave as they were exporting Camrys by the boat load from Melbourne.
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  7. I would like to see you do a video where a country is named and you guess the highest selling vehicle in that country - it might throw up some surprises.
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  8.  @Xiroi87  well didn't McDonnell Douglas management technique replace Boeing's when Boeing took over MD. Things are not always as they first seem.
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  9. It makes sense - when you are five a year is a fifth of your life but when you are 50 a year is only a 50th so of course it feels like it has gone quicker.
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  10. My 1999 Ford Falcon (Australian) has amber bulbs with a clear lens.
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  11. You are right. the place I felt safest in was China.
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  12.  @brianbrotherston5940  Not sure aboput -25C but -22.3C on 8 January in Altnaharra.
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  13. @ it did get to -22.3C though -22.3C on 8 January in Altnaharra Scottland.
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  14. I can remember seeing a very darl blue coloured panel van that had a formula 1 as the mural and the vans wheels were the F1's wheels. In the dark it just looked like an f1 was going across in front of you - it was amazing.
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  15.  @epimetheaus1214  the girl did though. Australia became a country on 01 January 1901. When it was discovered is a matter of conjecture.
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  16. the problem both governments have is there are two houses of parliament so making a law involves compromises.
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  17. gee I love the cars from Greece - what a collection!
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  18.  @jimb9063  I used to fly from Australia to China and as that is basically north/south I had no jet lag problems.
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  19. A mate of mine called his a "Virgin Conversion Unit". His girlfriends father told him that he had well and truly missed the boat!
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  20. the stat i find interesting is that if you go from Melbourne to Cairns then Brisbane is a little over half way.
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  21. the State flags pre-date the Australian one as the States were colonies of England so they incorporated the Union Flag of England. In Victoria i think the crown was changed from the Imperial crown to the St Edwards crown in 1901 when Australia was enacted as an entity.
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  22. I suppose some don't expect South Africa to be in Africa either!!!
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  23. the magenta lights are used for the various authorities that control heavy vehicles. They have the same status as red and blue on emergency vehicles. Amber lights are warning only so tow trucks and escort vehicles have them.
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  24. Vodafone is fine in the city but less so as you get outside of the metro areas or large regional cities.
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  25. My Mum worked for John Logie Baird before WW2.
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  26.  @larrylongprong5219  Not sure - it years since I spoke to him. If he once cooked for Princess Di then it is him.
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  27. I would think that the guy doing the one armed handstand may have been an Army fitness instructor seeing it was during WW2 or maybe just a soldier on leave.
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  28. the problem is that LEDs direct light straight towards you rather than be reflected like thy are with bulbs. I hate them as headlights and seldom drive at night because of them.
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  29.  @Sydneysider1310  yeah that became Buckley and Nunn after the department store
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  30. Tomato sauce and ketchup have different spices in them - they are similar but not the same. I prefer ketchup on a hot dog but tomato sauce on a pie.
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  31. the crazy thing with the Tassie devil is that a football team in Tasmania had to get permission from Warner Bros to call their side the Tassie devils!
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  32. and JB died recently (the man not the store!)
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  33. there are seven cities in Italy with canals but I think you are right that this one is Venice.
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  34.  @MattyMutilation  yep any sausage can be called a snag except cocktail sausages or the hotdogs. I have even heard Kransky and Bratwurst called snags.
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  35. I have a friend who lives in Karratha and when she hangs the washing out sh stands in two buckets of water so she doesn't get swamped in ants.
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  36.  @Real_Claudy_Focan  the visible bit is 1/3 of the total.
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  37. @ I think you will find it is basically sandstone with arkose content .the iron content of the arkose gives it the rust colour from the iron oxide coating of feldspar in arkose.
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  38. You can get your style switches here. The switches in China were the same as Australia as is the power sockets.
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  39. When I lived in Southern China one of the doctors at the local hospital told me that Japanese Encephalitis is one of the worse ways of dying that he had seen. I didn't ask him for details.
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  40.  @bruizey7319  There are a couple about.
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  41. The ute was completely standard, aside from an extra little bit of negative camber on the front wheels, though Holden says it was still within production tolerances.
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  42. It stops you swallowing flies!
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  43. for anyone interested and who live in Victoria there is an all Holden day being held on Apr3 at Dandenong Show Grounds Greaves Parade Dandenong.
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  44. They make seat belt buckles out of recycled slides perhaps.
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  45. the first dedicated racing track was in Australia - it was Aspendale Park which is about 10K from my place
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  46. It is ging to get even crazier with new EV brands being released. It is hard to keep up with who the parent company is.
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  47.  @eclecticapoetica  yeah 180 for two is not a whole lot different to 80 for one. I too buy free range eggs ($7 per dozen for 700g). I am not a big red meat eater which might make a difference as chicken and pork tends to be a lot cheaper than beef or lamb, which I do occasionally buy. As I have got older I do eat a lot less than when I was in my twenties!
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  48.  @Digger-tw6hq  Don't know where you get that idea from. For the ;last ten years the medical and first aid community (especially the RFDS) have been advising against tourniquets and towards compression bandages. 1. Apply a pressure bandage Wrap a bandage from below, upwards and over the bite site. Extend it as high as possible (e.g. all the way to the groin). Keep the limb still (e.g. don't remove trousers). Use the same tightness as for a sprained ankle. Use a T shirt or other clothing if you have no bandages. Mark the area of the bite on the bandage.
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  49. Here in Melbourne Lindsay Fox has three gullwings in his collection as well as some rare Porsche and Ferrari's. There is also a guy in melbourne who has rhd one (I think he did the conversion himself) -it is a lovely car owned by a great man and he even lets children sit in it at car shows.
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  50. dm is decimetre and dam is dekametre (10metres)
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