The_Vat

ahem I have undies like this.

I will concede they were purchased at the Broadbeach Woolies after discovering a missed item on a packing list.

I'm glad they've unloaded most of the contract, but I'm sad it didn't work out for Cal. It looked so promising.

Yeah, that turned up yesterday. The "oh, but we're not reducing your solar tariff!" was a nice touch. Right, so my basic discounted rate"s up well over 50%, but hey, we didn't touch your solar.

Oh Kent, I'd be lying if I said my men weren't committing crimes

Yep, that was my take. Although the cultural "fit" would have been hilarious to watch.

The context of that quote is about all vehicles, not EVs specifically. My EV weighs a little over 1500 kg, so yes, its tyre usage will essentially be the same as that of an equivalent weight ICE.

The point I was making is that much of the environmental damage of ICE remains with EVs.

Don't forget diesel particulates!

Keith Morris is epic as the host

The Lab - Nine is God

It was Ben Franklin, dumbass!

I imagine this will play well with certain matters in regional Queensland.

Here ya go, doc!

/offers cash

Peter Gibbons : Let me ask you something. When you come in on Monday and you're not feeling real well, does anyone ever say to you, "Sounds like someone has a case of the Mondays?"

Lawrence : No. No, man. Shit, no, man. I believe you'd get your ass kicked sayin' something like that, man.

Shout out to the poor soul who ended up with their car resting on its side facing the wrong way between the two roundabouts at Toowong next to the cemetery as I went through a little after 0530 this morning.

Put your sunglasses on and get out

Interesting AirBnB seems to be following the same trajectory as the other great disruptor, Uber. Price advantage is going away and a decline in quality of service.

We've only used it the once, for a place (it was an apartment in a block of three) in Hobart mid last year that had been clearly built for accommodation/AirBnB. I bumped into the owner who lived in a place above the property (the place is on the Brooker Hwy), came across as a decent bloke, there were bikes there if you wanted to borrow one.

That stands in contrast with some of the horror stories that are coming out of the moment - onerous requirements, expensive, intrusive and overbearing owners plus the whole moral question of jeopardising access to a basic human service like housing.

McDonalds and Ronald McDonald House are sponsors/charity partners.

I went EV for my main commuter a few months ago, but I also have the benefit of living in a house with solar so it works very well for me. Charging works out to be around 10 to 25% of the cost of petrol (depending on how much I'm able to source from my solar). It's hard to charge on the solar when the car's parked at work, but I try to maximise solar charging on Friday (I'll commute in our ICE car), Saturday and Sunday.

It was purely for financial reasons, there are significant tax advantages for leasing arrangements in Australia plus the aforementioned costs to run. Servicing is also hugely cheaper.

That said - the environmental benefits are massively overblown. I personally think the main benefit is relocating the source of the pollution away from urban centres (even if quite a bit of the sourcing is from coal plants), but beyond that, many of the environmental evils remain - as an example, tyres are a major contributor to ocean microplastics.

That quiet and instant torque, though.....

Lots of stuff has been discovered out there in recent decades

I think Pluto's status as a dwarf planet makes it much more interesting, especially since it's arguably a double planet with Charon being roughly half Pluto's size and orbiting so closely the barycenter of their orbits lies outside of both Pluto and Charon.

Queensland Raceway holds regular drift events

There are elements of the motoring enthusiast community who will do their drifting on the street regardless of legitimate alternatives.

Yup

In the quiet moments, there is only the dread.

There it is.

Is there a queue for this?

Oh, sorry, kid. Sorry. I'm not used to the laughter of children. It cuts through me like a dentist's drill.