Someone said it the other day but I paid it no mind at the time. Having thought about it I believe this is the greatest idea in the history of motoring.
Toll road prices should be increased by 100% and new rules applied. These new rules are as follows.
1. No speed cameras or police of any nature. These roads should be deemed private and not subject to the laws of the nation or state.
2. Along these lines all speed limits should be abolished. If you want to pay to drive on these roads you pay for the right to drive as fast as you want. If you think that would make it to unsafe to drive on these roads than stay the hell off them!
3. Trucks are banned. Having battled with a few truck drivers of late my courtesy has been taken advantage and I have decided that all truck drivers should be stuck in the left lane following each other around on public roads rather than blocking me.
4. If you drive on these roads and do not stay in the left lane unless overtaking, other drivers will have the right to shoot at you and your car. I mean bullets yes. You don’t follow the rules and you will pay with your life.
5. Scooters are banned. You enter one of my toll roads on a scooter and heaven help you boy!
Mark Webber can’t win a grand prix to save himself but he is 100% correct in his assessment of Australia as a nanny state.
”It’s a great country, but we’ve got to be responsible for our actions and it’s certainly a bloody nanny state when it comes to what we can do,”
Here here Mark. And if you want to drive on my toll roads the responsibility is all yours!
Here is something I find amusing as I drive around these days.
In all seriousness what is the go here?
Is it economic hardships
Environment concerns
Parking consideration
Or have blokes that ride scooters completely taken the GAY gas and turned pillow biter. How is your manhood travelling if you are forced to ride around on one of these poncey pieces of crap! I will tell you how your manhood is going! It is caught somewhere between your wifes purse and the chain of your scooter.
Time to man up, steal the wifes Rav 4 and drive across someones yard. Do something!!
Those of you who like a good title fight are in for a treat on Sunday when the UFC serves up a championship double header. As always thanks to out good friends at sportingbet.com.au preliminary prices are as follows. My selections are in bold.
Welterweight Championship bout: Georges St. Pierre 1.13 (c) vs. Dan Hardy 5.75
I think Pierre will win be total wrestling domination/rape but at 5.75 Dan Hardy has a punchers chance.
Interim Heavyweight Championship bout: Frank Mir 1.70 vs. Shane Carwin 2.12
Frank Mir has spent most of the lead up to this fight talking about Brock Lesnar. I think Shane Carwin will continue his run of victories and put Frank Mir into noddy land where dreams about a fight with Brock will only occur.
Welterweight bout: Ben Saunders 1.66 vs. Jake Ellenberger 2.20
Welterweight bout: Jon Fitch 2.10 vs. Thiago Alves 1.72
Lightweight bout: Jim Miller 1.24 vs. Mark Bocek 3.95
I have not tried it yet as I have not had the need, but I do have an opinion on some aspects of the new tunnel.
1. What is with all the dead beat losers who stayed up late to try the tunnel for the first time? Seriously how is your life travelling if you think it important to take time out with your wife and kids to drive on a, lets face it, boring piece of infrastructure after 12:00 AM on a school night. I will tell you how your life is travelling, not to good!
2. Anyone who ran through the tunnel before it was opened = Moron!
Unless you normally run for fun and this event was somewhere near, where and when you normally run. If you run for fun I question your intelligence anyway but will let it slide here.
3. The toll seems quite high and wish we were not exposed to tolls for improvements to the city/state/country but this is the way it has been accepted by the voters. Unfortunately any profits will go elsewhere. You are free to purchase shares in the partial owners of the tunnel if you wish Rivercity Motorway Group (RCY.AX) but they are carrying the debt of construction at the moment. There is always the risk the tunnel will fail or customers won’t use it. But if you think it’s a good thing in the long run take a look at it, but take a serious look.
4. After the tunnel opened there was much complaint by government officials that drivers were slowing down to a crawl in the tunnel. Hmmm well, government official morons, if you hadn’t installed 8 FREAKIN SPEED CAMERAS in the tunnel perhaps your customer morons wouldn’t slow down to 20 km/h to avoid your speed taxes!
That said, I hope the tunnel helps with the congestion issue.
I don’t normally take notice of commercials advertising womens personal hygiene products. Not that there is anything in particular wrong with them as I try not to take notice of all ads. But If I were a woman (some of you think I am anyways) and I had a requirement for this particular product I would purchase the ‘Libra Invisibles’ based on there most awesome advertisement alone.
Here it is
I like the bit where he jumps up from behind the couch to deflect bullets and the other bit where he deflects a bullet while eating a banana best.
I really really want a suit like that!
So am I the only one who find this ad very funny??
I usually watch each formula one race and while they lack pretty much any passing on the track at all, the strategy of refuelling at pit stops at least made the races a little bit interesting.
Now in their infinite wisdom the people that run formula one have removed the refuelling element from the race. Where previously a team that felt their car was very fast on light tanks could stop for fuel 3 times while another team that thought they could be quicker with only 2 stops would battle it out for the victory. Now they do not have the option.
They now have a mandatory tyre change but this is pretty much the same for everyone so I am unsure how the teams can now strategise their races. They all have to carry around full tanks at the start of the race and they will all have light tanks at the end. Thus Sunday’s Bahrain GP was as boring as bat shit.
Even Australia’s own Mark ‘walks under ladders’ Webber has come out stating his concern that this season could be one of the most boring on record. Having followed formula one for the better part of 2 decades I can confirm this would be tough to achieve and I can only hope the first race was a one off parade and it pisses down 3 or 4 times during the upcoming Melbourne GP on the 28th.
Curragh Mine is operated by Wesfarmers Curragh Pty Ltd and covers an area of approximately 12,600 hectares in the coal-rich Bowen Basin of Central Queensland, 14 kilometres north-west of Blackwater and approximately 200 kilometres west of Rockhampton.
Curragh Mine predominantly produces three products – low ash hard coking coal, pulverised coal injection (PCI) coal and high ash steaming coal and crane parts. Curragh has been supplying worldwide markets with coking coal since 1984. The excellent coking characteristics and numerous other desirable coal qualities make Curragh coking coal highly sought after by steel makers in Japan, South-East Asia, Europe and South America.
It seems they had some difficulty with a drag line they were setting up recently. It appears that the cameraman has had this footage from November 2008 and has only just decided to post it on you tube. Maybe he doesn’t work there any more. Not sure if anyone was injured, sure hope not, but it’s an interesting little show.
