kevinlms

And that poor practice ought to have been negated, long before they sat for a learners permit - after they get behind a wheel is FAR too late!

Yes, so concentrate on the ones who break the laws, not those that MIGHT. A friend of mine sent her son on an advanced driving course. She said he was a good driver, when he remembered to drive properly. Which rather negated the point!

Sorry, I don't believe in that. Breath analysers are something that can be fitted to vehicles owned by those convicted of drink driving offences. Some suggest that ALL vehicles should be so fitted - you know for safety reasons, just in case. It's just an unnecessary expense for those who DO NOT and never have driven while drunk. About the time I got my licence there was a guy at my work place, who got completely blind drunk and wrapped his large V8 around a cast iron tram pole, killing all his passengers. Apparently, he pleaded with people who came to assist, to not call the police - *****. So no, I never have.

Maybe, but it costs you for those media outlets to make a profit from these matters. Don't think that only the fans pay for it, which is different to model railways, where there is virtually no public interest in them, except to make us mostly only 'boys still interested in trains'!

But the assumption is in such a case that ALL young males will do the same - something clearly not true. Some are downright dangerous, but not all. You could clearly say in that example the curfew combined with the black box, led to the outcome. Some young people don't have spare cash for a taxi. Driving safely home was a FAR better option, even if it meant a late arrival. That would be my choice. Not that we have curfews in Oz.

It's worse than you think! If you add up all the media outlets, with each one having social commentators, photographers, legal teams, researchers and other freeloaders checking up on it all, more money is probably spent than what the Royals themselves cost! Let's not even count what the American H&M cost in courts (yeah I know H isn't American, but he chooses to live there!).

The problem with that idea, is that they go unchallenged for years, from the very day they pass their test, then years later you want bad habits picked up and rectified, before they can continue driving? Simply not going to happen, the only way is to pick up bad habits BEFORE the licence is given to them. Virtually impossible given that a driving test takes less than an hour.

Strangely, here when roads get totally rebuilt or even duplicated, the speed limit gets REDUCED from what it was before!

Disagreeing with this principle, NOT what you have seen. How the **** would I know what you have seen? AFAIK all the spoofed spam calls I have seen use unissued numbers I've seen plenty of evidence of spoofed numbers, belonging to real people/businesses. I've been at my now late mothers' place, when she got a series of about 6 calls, all from people stating that they received a missed call from her number, all within half an hour. Just as quickly it stopped, never to be repeated, presumably because they changed the number to some other poor victims. And yes, I've worked in the phone industry for decades. I don't understand why so many people on RMweb take personal offence, when a statement is aimed generally.

An update - it appears that manual windows contributed to saving one of the bridge workers life. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-17/survival-tale-emerges-weeks-after-baltimore-bridge-collapse/103733798

The other thing to remember, is that if a particular road has it's speed limit reduced, it's likely that the standard of maintenance will be lower. Of course if people travel at the old speed limit, then it's their own fault, if tyres, wheels or suspension gets damaged, according to the relevant road authority.

There is uproar in Melbourne, because a private school has had parking restrictions (permit only trial for 6 months) in the surrounding streets, by the local council. Now people are complaining that it's dangerous to walk the kids to school from 2 streets away, due to crossing roads and vehicles coming out of driveways - the ones they normally block!

Not allowed in Australia, if you advise them to NOT so contact you. Some businesses have received heavy fines for ignoring your request or not allowing you to unsubscribe from emails. Well not just for ignoring you personally, but large numbers of their customers. https://www.donotcall.gov.au/industry/industry-overview/compliance-and-breaches/ Some penalties applied in Australia, including the largest bank, fined $3.5M. Perhaps petty cash, but I'm sure someone received a kick up the ... and no bonus. https://www.acma.gov.au/investigations-spam-and-telemarketing#outcomes-for-2024 Just wished it applied to overseas call centres, without representation in Australia!

Absolutely not, they can program their sending number to anything they wish. Sometimes an overseas number, other times another part of the country, a fictitious number, a number local to you or even your own! I even had one from +000000000, with 000 being our emergency number, equivalent to your 999.

Cost of postage is 7.95 pounds, sounds cheap. Spring needs pushing back in 3 locos? If it's that simple just do it, BEFORE listing! Although why all in 1 lot, beats me!

Plenty of posts on RMweb from people that spend a lot of time on the finest details of their models, others couldn't care less, as long as it rattles and roars along the track, without falling off TOO often! Others could move blocks of wood around, as long as they run to time! It's a very broad hobby.

Is it a modern loco or some vintage item that might use lots of current? Take a look at the Gaugemaster controllers, they have at least one designed for O Gauge.

It always worries me when the seller can't even take a photo, with the loco on the track. Is there a specific reason, such as it's been converted to EM or even P4? Unlikely, but how can anyone take a photo of the item and not notice that it's not even close to being on the track? Hopefully, they don't take the photos first thing in the morning, forgetting the mirror in the bedroom!

All good until the last paragraph, but how others choose to deal with such callers is up to them! Personally, I'm short and hanging up comes quickly, but increasingly these days, it's an automated service wanting you to press buttons. Why, because they don't want to deal with time wasters either, so they make the called party do the work, to get SCAMMED! Yet, increasingly people fall for it, because everywhere, the amount of cash scammed is increasing each year - sad to think. My wife has been scammed (we got the money back, thankfully), I thought she was smarter than that, but she is unwell. It was the classic ad by a 'very famous person' who offered a way to make obscene amounts of money, for virtually no effort - yeah sure mate! Even Andrew Twiggy Forrest (an Australian billionaire), is having trouble getting social media to stop ads, misusing his name. If he can't what hope the rest of us?

You mean not counting the 400 or so Peaks/Class 40s at or over 133 Tons each?

Surely the cat is in charge and you're just the servant?

An Australian judge got many good lines in this defamation case - an opportunity to have everything thrown at you if you aren't 100% squeaky clean. Bruce Lehrmann certainly wasn't. A classic being - "Having escaped the lion's den, Mr Lehrmann made the mistake of coming back for his hat," Justice Lee said. Like you would tell anyone this. ASIS is the Australian Secret Intelligence Service. Cats already out of the bag, before he starts! "Mr Lehrmann told her that he was in Senator Reynolds’ office and, at some point in the conversation, Mr Lehrmann spun the tall tale he was waiting on a clearance to come through so that he could go and work at ASIS. Ms Gain, politely, kept her well-founded incredulity to herself …" https://www.theguardian.com/law/2024/apr/15/bruce-lehrmann-defamation-verdict-judgment-judge-justice-michael-lee-best-lines-brittany-higgins-ntwnfb

Whenever my late mother was in the car with me, it always took less time than I anticipated to get to the destination. For some reason, the lights were always green for her and she never drove in her life, except for a couple of lessons, when she decided that driving wasn't for her. Probably just as well, because she thought if you turned at traffic lights and the lights were red for the road you turned into, that you'd run a red light! Which meant that my mother was always a nervous passenger!

Various reasons why that won't work - my wife is too unwell to do much going out in the car, for starters!

On the subject of settings on Google Maps, how do you change the frequency of direction advice on your route? To explain that further, I drive along a main highway for part of a regular journey, say 10km. GM used to be silent for most of the 10km and only give voice directions, when a change was coming up - at say a roundabout. Now for exactly the same journey, I get about 4 instructions to keep going straight, the only turns are for lightly used local roads. Is there any way of turning these unnecessary instructions off, and just have the important one, such as the roundabout?