kevinlms

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?

Exactly my point - she was looking for something not there! 😇

No, he's put a down payment on a used car! It even looks like he is travelling on a railway platform - except missing those poor vision strips, along the edge.

No, that was the easy part, it took her longer to download, all your login details and banking passwords! 😱

Can't be much fun for anyone to have squatters take over!

I don't know much about it, but 100% it's nothing to do with AC electrics as the trains run off 1500 volts DC.

I find it very awkward to change transport modes. Should be easy, but it isn't.

Someone has asked as to the function of this, I suspect it is a sensor to detect a train. Any clues as to it's proper function?

No, it could be sold in Australia as a memorial to it's tour here!

That's BS. I find the containers OK, but can't find a lid to suit. Of course if I throw the container out, the lid pops out from hiding, leaving me with a lid, with nothing to put it on!

Strictly speaking, any building isn't to 'N Gauge', because that term defines the track. Buildings are to 2mm scale, surely?

Not good enough!!!!!