Why is it.................?

[.:4:.]

Originally Posted by Pedro

Unfortunately this is an Australia wide empty-head phenomenon. I used to do 60,000 kms to 80,000 kms per year for over 15 years and saw this nearly every day especially on interstate highways. I always had CB's in my cars and could hear the truckies screaming obscenities at these brainless dickheads.

I'm not saying I'm a perfect driver, but if everyone used (if they have it) cruise control on the open highways then these annoying traits would be reduced. I religiously use cruise on the freeway for 2 reasons. I don't have to monitor my speed as much, and I won't get done for speeding because unless it coasts, I'm doing the speed limit. Nothing annoys me more then when I overtake a car when I'm sitting on 110 only for them to overtake me 2 kays up the road only for me to overtake them 2 kays up the road etc when my speed has not changed yet they vary between 100 and 120.

[Seasoned One]

why is it..............? every time we try and leave Qld Race Way after an event, it takes almost two hours to leave the carpark, no one has figured out how to move traffic... any ideas?

[cat007]

Originally Posted by Seasoned One

why is it..............? every time we try and leave Qld Race Way after an event, it takes almost two hours to leave the carpark, no one has figured out how to move traffic... any ideas?

Yeah took me almost 3 to leave the champion road. Some brainless idiot in a SSV commonwhore decided to abuse the **** out of me because I was trying to join the queue by going in front of him. Swearing and carrying on about how he's going to 'knock my f'ing head off' all while his wife and 3 kids were in the car. Good one buddy. Way to set an example. Needless to say he didn't let me in (or anyone else that I saw) but I did as did the guy behind me as well and each time waves and thank yous were exchanged and all was well. Not for this plonker. I doubt he joined the rear of the queue so someone would have let him in as well! Ugh what a moron. I was going to say 'why are you so angry? Are you worried your Holden will overheat?' but I didn't think of it until after haha. Damm.

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[.:4:.]

Why is it (now not all young people) some young people can't get their heads around the process and practice of driving a manual transmission. To be fair, my parents only ever owned autos and for personal cars it's auto for me, work cars, my boss is a cheapskate so they have always been manuals. Yes every clutch is different but it's not that hard to work it out. There are a few young guys at work who cannot get their head around the purpose of the third pedal. I cop stupid questions about why the car turns off when stopped and why it lurches forwards when trying to be restarted. Common sense denotes a car needs a certain minimum amount of revs to idle so push the damn clutch in and its not going to be a problem. It's basic life skills. I had one guy tell he just left my old van in second to drive around at 50 when doing my running around. That's pretty much red lining the crappy van. When asked did the thing scream like a banshee, the response was 'sounded fine'. Banned. No more drive my work car. I've been given an upgrade, still a manual, and the ban has not been lifted. Said apprenti (now fresh and terrible tradesman) has now had his job threatened due to his inability to drive what is a seemingly easy manual.

[marty351]

Originally Posted by .:4:.

Why is it (now not all young people) some young people can't get their heads around the process and practice of driving a manual transmission. To be fair, my parents only ever owned autos and for personal cars it's auto for me, work cars, my boss is a cheapskate so they have always been manuals. Yes every clutch is different but it's not that hard to work it out. There are a few young guys at work who cannot get their head around the purpose of the third pedal. I cop stupid questions about why the car turns off when stopped and why it lurches forwards when trying to be restarted. Common sense denotes a car needs a certain minimum amount of revs to idle so push the damn clutch in and its not going to be a problem. It's basic life skills. I had one guy tell he just left my old van in second to drive around at 50 when doing my running around. That's pretty much red lining the crappy van. When asked did the thing scream like a banshee, the response was 'sounded fine'. Banned. No more drive my work car. I've been given an upgrade, still a manual, and the ban has not been lifted. Said apprenti (now fresh and terrible tradesman) has now had his job threatened due to his inability to drive what is a seemingly easy manual.

Ask them if gunshots are loud. I wouldn't be surprised by their answer.

[.:4:.]

Originally Posted by marty351

Ask them if gunshots are loud. I wouldn't be surprised by their answer.

I'd take a punt and say they weren't heard because the current range of noise cancelling headphones do a really good job

[Seasoned One]

I want to know, why is it, or, more importantly , HOW is it my personal email is being constantly bombarded with scam emails? I'm old school, no face book, don't own a credit card (no,never) don't buy stuff online, don't sign in to anything 'Google' have all my privacy settings to the point I am constantly asked to turn on location services, or similar, in fact this forum is as outgoing as I get, and I receive 'origin energy' bills, 'beach solutions' bill, 'Permian landscapes and masonry' bills to name a few, all whom I obviously don't deal with or even know..... WHY IS THAT! I even use different emails for this reason..... buggers me

[GO FURTHER]

Originally Posted by Seasoned One

I want to know, why is it, or, more importantly , HOW is it my personal email is being constantly bombarded with scam emails? I'm old school, no face book, don't own a credit card (no,never) don't buy stuff online, don't sign in to anything 'Google' have all my privacy settings to the point I am constantly asked to turn on location services, or similar, in fact this forum is as outgoing as I get, and I receive 'origin energy' bills, 'beach solutions' bill, 'Permian landscapes and masonry' bills to name a few, all whom I obviously don't deal with or even know..... WHY IS THAT! I even use different emails for this reason..... buggers me

The scammers and mass online marketers use randomly generated email lists with email name combinations to send out 100's of thousands of emails everyday. It's a hit and miss shotgun method.
They work on the hope that just a very small percentage respond.
Once you respond, then you go onto their "live woodduck" list forever.

Some companies also sell their email customer lists to other marketing firms unfortunately.

It is best to use a "throw away" email addy when you go on line and sign up or join anything thesedays, like hotmail or a Gmail one.... Never give or use your main email address for these things.

Originally Posted by Seasoned One

I want to know, why is it, or, more importantly , HOW is it my personal email is being constantly bombarded with scam emails?

Lots of reasons but more likely to be one of your own service providers selling you out after you signed up for something innocent, like a competition from a company that you're a customer of.

I have a monthly account with one a parking company and they always offer their customers the chance to win a phone/bbq/tv/whatever for FREE! Just enter here by supplying your email address and we'll contact you if you're the winner!
Why do you think they do that? Why would ANY company part with goods for free? To collect your email address and sell it. Take a read of the terms and conditions, it's usually listed there if it's an Australian-run one.

All it takes is for you to end up on one list and the person who bought your email can then sell it someone else who also wishes to spam you.

Sucks eh?

[marty351]

Look at the modern TV advertisements. 9/10 men look like complete goofs, while it's always the woman/mum made out to be heroes and saviours. Blatant sexism, but it's only men, so who cares?

[Syndrome]

Originally Posted by marty351

Look at the modern TV advertisements. 9/10 men look like complete goofs, while it's always the woman/mum made out to be heroes and saviours. Blatant sexism, but it's only men, so who cares?

This is where the libtards would like life to be one day:

[Syndrome]

Why is it vegans refuse to eat animals because they say 'it is wrong to kill living things', yet these same people are all pro-abortion?

[DFB FGXR6]

Why is it that a local council would pour so much time and resources, not to mention hundreds of millions of dollars, into a new "cultural hub" to draw in tourism at the expense of the people that actually live in said town.

This is a town with many drawcards already including a multimillion dollar sporting precinct, a world class (privately funded) motor museum not to mention a wide range of events that draw visitors from around the nation. And yet the pet project of select number of councillors and residents will consume money that could be used to make the town better for the people who live in the area and leave a better impression on the visitors drawn to the town by said events.

[solarite_guy]

Yes, it does sound like nonsense.

[scoupedy]

Why is it that women pushing strollers or shopping trolleys think they have right of way?

[XB GS 351 Coupe]

Why is it that the English language especially written is falling apart??

Why don't supposedly educated people know the difference between simple words like

there, their, they're

bought, brought

here, hear

have, of ..... (this one especially has me stuffed, people using 'of' instead of 'have' seems to be the norm these days. as in 'I could of gone to the beach' instead of the correct 'I could have gone to the beach.)

lose, loose

no, know

whole, hole

etc etc etc

It annoys me that kids are learning Japanese and various other languages at school, yet struggle with basic English and Mathematics.

[Giant Cranium]

Originally Posted by XB GS 351 Coupe

Why is it that the English language especially written is falling apart??

Why don't supposedly educated people know the difference between simple words like

there, their, they're

bought, brought

here, hear

have, of ..... (this one especially has me stuffed, people using 'of' instead of 'have' seems to be the norm these days. As in 'I could of gone to the beach' instead of the correct 'I could have gone to the beach.)

lose, loose

no, know

whole, hole

etc etc etc

It annoys me that kids are learning Japanese and various other languages at school, yet struggle with basic English and Mathematics.

Fixed a mistake for you

[Lunch]

Originally Posted by Giant Cranium

Fixed a mistake for you

You'll probably find that the full stop should've been a comma, leaving the 'as' correct and the punctuation as the error

[Giant Cranium]

Originally Posted by Lunch

You'll probably find that the full stop should've been a comma, leaving the 'as' correct and the punctuation as the error

Awkward!

[Work Horse]

Originally Posted by Lunch

You'll probably find that the full stop should've been a comma, leaving the 'as' correct and the punctuation as the error

If so the comma should have been placed after 'in' just before the quotations.

There is also a full stop missing from your sentence.

[nuthin' fancy]

Originally Posted by XB GS 351 Coupe

Why is it that the English language especially written is falling apart??

Why don't supposedly educated people know the difference between simple words like

there, their, they're

bought, brought

here, hear

have, of ..... (this one especially has me stuffed, people using 'of' instead of 'have' seems to be the norm these days. as in 'I could of gone to the beach' instead of the correct 'I should have stayed home, this sun burn hurts and I can't get the sand out of my ****'.)

lose, loose

no, know

whole, hole

etc etc etc

It annoys me that kids are learning Japanese and various other languages at school, yet struggle with basic English and Mathematics.

Fixed

[Dauphin]

You'd be horrified about how kids communicate in text speak!

[Tassie f100]

The education system seems to be based around the use of computers so there s no incentive to teach the basics.Link this with pre emptive wording on computers and phones and the result quite often is nothing like the intended wording

[.:4:.]

Enough on how to speak English properly. My mum was a teacher and her dad was a principle who wrote a book on all that kind of gear so I'd get nailed as a kid saying me and him or whatever. It was always he and myself. Back on track. Why is it the guys I work with in their early to mid 20's have no man sense? I'm only 30 but seriously. I'm not going to get into the first 3 rounds of the captain obvious mistakes 2 of the guys (1 no longer works where I work anymore..) made. In ground bucket lights. Pretty simple. Dig a hole. Sit the bucket in. Mix up.some concrete and concrete it in. Chuck the dirt back in around it and put the light in. Sounds simple and its common sense. I had to fix a stuff up today. The bucket was upside down. So an offsider and myself started digging expecting to hit concrete then to break that up. We only came across a soft patch of powdered quick set. The bag of concrete was poured around the upside down bucket dry. Even my kid knows you put water in to make concrete yet 2 grown men just poured in the powder. Man sense is a slowly dying pre requirement for anything.

[Lunch]

Originally Posted by .:4:.

Man sense is a slowly dying pre requirement for anything.

It's surprising just how uncommon, common sense is.

[.:4:.]

Originally Posted by Lunch

It's surprising just how uncommon, common sense is.

They dropped the common sense course at TAFE years ago.

[XB GS 351 Coupe]

Originally Posted by .:4:.

Enough on how to speak English properly. My mum was a teacher and her dad was a principle who wrote a book on all that kind of gear so I'd get nailed as a kid saying me and him or whatever. It was always he and myself. Back on track. Why is it the guys I work with in their early to mid 20's have no man sense? I'm only 30 but seriously. I'm not going to get into the first 3 rounds of the captain obvious mistakes 2 of the guys (1 no longer works where I work anymore..) made. In ground bucket lights. Pretty simple. Dig a hole. Sit the bucket in. Mix up.some concrete and concrete it in. Chuck the dirt back in around it and put the light in. Sounds simple and its common sense. I had to fix a stuff up today. The bucket was upside down. So an offsider and myself started digging expecting to hit concrete then to break that up. We only came across a soft patch of powdered quick set. The bag of concrete was poured around the upside down bucket dry. Even my kid knows you put water in to make concrete yet 2 grown men just poured in the powder. Man sense is a slowly dying pre requirement for anything.

Haha this sort of stuff does my head in.

Only yesterday sold a fishing rod on Facebook Buy Swap and Sell, the add read:

6 Foot Fishing rod and matching reel...also included photos and detailed description

First question was 'How long is the fishing rod?

[marty351]

We only came across a soft patch of powdered quick set. The bag of concrete was poured around the upside down bucket dry. Even my kid knows you put water in to make concrete yet 2 grown men just poured in the powder. Man sense is a slowly dying pre requirement for anything.[/QUOTE]


Mafia dropouts.

[.:4:.]

Originally Posted by marty351

We only came across a soft patch of powdered quick set. The bag of concrete was poured around the upside down bucket dry. Even my kid knows you put water in to make concrete yet 2 grown men just poured in the powder. Man sense is a slowly dying pre requirement for anything.

Mafia dropouts.[/QUOTE]
The mafia would have them in concrete boots if they tried putting someone in their version without the water. ..

Originally Posted by .:4:.

Why is it the guys I work with in their early to mid 20's have no man sense? I'm only 30 but seriously. I'm not going to get into the first 3 rounds of the captain obvious mistakes 2 of the guys (1 no longer works where I work anymore..) made. The bag of concrete was poured around the upside down bucket dry. Even my kid knows you put water in to make concrete yet 2 grown men just poured in the powder. Man sense is a slowly dying pre requirement for anything.

Hopefully that proves to you that 'common' sense isn't automatically handed out to everyone with a sausage, and by extension, is sometimes given to those without a sausage.

When men get it wrong it's because they ****ed up. When women get it wrong it's because they're a woman! Be good to the women in your life!