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"It" isn't a pronoun, and personally I'd find it massively insulting. They is a common pronoun, but old people seem to have issues with its use for an individual, on grammatical grounds? But the audience seems to agree, so I guess I'll have to crawl under my rock. But one final word. Imagine...

Sex vs Gender vs sexuality. I'd also imagine the individual prefers "they" over "it" but way to show your hand. Not sure how this is political?

More chance someone hearing/seeing something while that's occurring though. As Chrisp said, every little helps. But if they want it, they'll get it.

Wow, you've got me scared to take mine there now. Time to buy a steering lock maybe, I though modern systems had made them redundant. I think I used to see (or more accurately hear) your car sometimes. Nice note. What a shitter.

Needs more power outlets though :p

Definitely. And perhaps learning some lessons about market vs agreed value, and claiming on own or others insurances should the worst happen to your car

I bet given the widespread media coverage, insurance companies are trying it on (more than usual) to get those margins up. To be honest, the gouging here is less than the UK. I'd change company every year due to massive increases. I've insured with the same two companies for both cars here for...

Went to a meet at Morris Moor the other weekend. Grabbed some cool shots of the car once it had emptied out a little.

I use Enthusiast, they do good discounts for limited kms. Not claimed though, but they always come up recommended on the HSV FB group. They also didn't mind when I had an at fault low speed fender bender in my other car and claimed on that policy. RACQ and NRMA are also good apparently, but...

Same, they need zero breaking in. Super comfy from first use.

Apparently insurances have bene hit in the new tax year by "something". I was seeing it in commentary about inflation re. RBA interest rates. Power and insurances were namechecked as being incremented.

I believe this thread has been here before.

Flowing which way :p

MEL-SYD used to be second busiest air route, and is still 6th, so there is a good case for a high speed rail link. Depends if Australia wants to continue to grow its population and try to decentralise a bit. I lived 220km from London, and could leave my house at 0630 and be in London meetings...

This, mine recently degraded in starting. New battery (super easy with VF keys, thanks Holden!) fixed it immediately.

Wow that certainly looks like a properly researched and scientific document.... I got half a page down and saw the first error and then selective choice of statistics. Even the search in the web address title "reducing the instance of tailgating" i.e. up the speed so people who want to break...

What pros were there again? Apart from caving to impatience.

I thought you'd switched out the rotofab? I know the answer already ;)

50% sheep

As immortality said, you just have to demonstrate 120 hrs spent driving a car. You can be being taught by a well meaning, but terrible driving parent. Or spend it driving on nothing but 50kph grids and Coles carparks. Straight line speed =/= good driving.

I can't comment on the level of training vs other countries, but experience is also a big issue. A lot of drivers here seem to only have experience of city driving. They can't comprehend going round country road corners at 100kph, or performing an overtake without a dedicated lane.

True although Australian population is small and relatively spread out. Re. the OPs question, I think the chance of an increased speed limits is small to none. Benefit is minor, downsides many (not least pollution), so political suicide. Maybe when all cars are autonomous, the robot overlords...

The true master difficulty car spotting game https://www.richardherring.com/cnps

Lots of spiel, zero references. Meanwhile, when shown actual references of similar overspends (to show that its not the "Labor problem" you're making it to be) you continually deflect. Key question is still, do you disagree with the decision to cancel them? Or just excited that a decision was...

Because you simply blame Dan when there are examples from all over of similar stories. Keep your head in the sand (echo chamber?) that it's all Dan's fault. Meanwhile the other 70% can enjoy ourselves. Or at least moan about real issues instead of what Rupert's wants you to moan about.

I can't believe I didn't use the best recent example of cancelled items costing us money (2.4B+ preinflation $), for literally nothing. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/sep/17/australia-considered-buying-nuclear-submarines-from-france-before-ditching-deal-peter-dutton-says Did...

Since my original response was to Reapers $40M per day, which I'm sure isn't just for cancelled projects, I'm sure why I need to post images of u the cancelled ones, surely built ones are fine too. As always you are conflating overrun, overbudget projects to be an ALP (or even a just a public...

All those damning IBAC findings, unlike those fine upstanding representatives up in Wagga https://theshovel.com.au/2023/07/18/gladys-berejiklian-calls-for-commonwealth-games-to-be-held-in-wagga/ Age is subs only, so you'll have to copy the "journalism" here for us. This unpaywalled story...

Again, on hold due to a Fed review is my understanding. So not in the states control? One of the "nothing" things you mentioned earlier. I could list them all, but you, I and everyone else would likely get bored. If we took your comments at face value, you'd think Dan had just been building...

Looks very cool

Everyone had their chance to do that last year. Landslide result is a big word, but.... Even just first preference was 37% Lab to 29% Lib Angry Victorians next time out maybe? https://www.vec.vic.gov.au/results/state-election-results/2022-state-election-results

Or as its also known, public services. A concept foreign to the LNP I know. 3AW was it?

Mercedes don't have mercedes quality any more either. My old C350e had so many squeaks and rattles, and the electrics were a joke. Wife's Beemer was much more solid, and Audi's are tough as

I'm sorry what? I'd misread that the first time. I apologise for not knowing your job, didn't realise it was towing 747s. That's 41 l/100km. 6.8 MPG in proper units. I mean why optimise your setup if you can get the client to pay right.... Just a little thought experiment. At that...

SRL East is (currently) $30-34B. https://bigbuild.vic.gov.au/projects/suburban-rail-loop/about/faqs#:~:text=SRL%20East%20is%20expected%20to,the%20main%20stage%20of%20works. I was chatting to a colleague from level crossings. Lots of civil projects are being phased now due to labour. Companies...

They are still building all the sports facilities that were part of the "bid" (I didn't realise that Vic only stepped in last year after the bidding process failed). So surely the government has done well, they have recognised that a rushed process led to inaccurate costs and have killed it...

Costco is 1.68 for diesel currently. And you're doing 4000km a week? Sounds like a tradie quote with some margin built in. :p

That's why I said "still" need to fix them. Although I think that the current ability to invent a true AI is not there. The human brain is very complex, and while computers are faster, they cannot (currently) think beyond their programming. Honestly, I'm not sure they'll ever get to that stage...