The totally off-topic thread

[mrs.dr.ron]

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I envision our future car inclusions will include a mirror built in dash cam where you only put the memory card in. What else can they put in cars these days? We've got eyesight, auto park, auto drive, voice control, sat nav ect. I remember when power steering and a CD player was a optional extra! ]

Ha! my first car had one of those smart new cassette players

 

[blackcat20]

Ha! my first car had one of those smart new cassette players

My first car only had a radio....

 

[drron]

My first car didn't even have a radio.

 

[cove]

We could roll start Mrscove's 1962 VW beetle down our driveway. $275 bought it and it ran for years. Sold it for $275 too. Yes it had a radio.
The Toyota Celica after that was a beauty.

 

[Bindibuys]

My first car didn't even have a radio.

Mine too, 1976 Leyland Mini. Soon changed that by buying Pioneer Sound system duty free (and lugged it all around UK) 4 speakers in the mini....

 

[drron]

Mine was an early 60's VW notchback.Cost $175.Written off for $400.
It had a habit of dropping oil.So it was nick named Malaena.

 

[tgh]

Mine was an early 60's VW notchback.Cost $175.Written off for $400.
It had a habit of dropping oil.So it was nick named Malaena.

My first car was a 1926 essex that was a family discard rotting in the paddock.
I got it running and drove it down the back road and back before it expired.
First registered car was an Austin A40 ute; I made a good one out of two bombs and earned some brownie points from my father for perseverance and determination to succeed when I had no idea at all what I was doing ( a trait that continued…….).
I don't think it had a radio, but the FJ Holden that followed definitely did...

 

[VPS]

Australia's most (and least) popular birthdays revealed Interesting

 

[Denali]

I have a friend who has "half birthday" for her kid because it falls in the middle of school holidays. So instead of having a party in January, they have it in June.

Seems messed up to me.

 

[JohnK]

My first car had a stereo.

 

[Denali]

Disgraceful.

Police will review a judge’s decision to let off a man who assaulted his wife

NZ South Island judge to discharge a man without conviction after he violently assaulted his wife.....
....., the man assaulted the friend and a struggle ensued. When his daughter tried to separate the pair, the man grabbed her by the throat, pushed her down and held her there. Then his wife intervened and he kicked her in the ribs, causing her to fall backwards.

“Really, this is a situation that does your wife no credit and does the [male] no credit,” Judge Brandts-Giesen told the man. “There would be many people who would have done exactly what you did

 

[serfty]

Mine was an early 60's VW notchback.Cost $175.Written off for $400.
It had a habit of dropping oil.So it was nick named Malaena.

ick!

 

[love_the_life]

I have a friend who has "half birthday" for her kid because it falls in the middle of school holidays. So instead of having a party in January, they have it in June.

Seems messed up to me.

I knew a woman who moved her daughter's 5th birthday by 3 weeks once. It was not mentioned/celebrated at all on the right date but about 3 weeks later. The reason? The daughter knew she would be going to school after her birthday so it was easier to move the birthday closer to the start of school term rather than early January. Something a bit odd about that IMO

 

[JohnK]

Ah you've gotta love an optimist. Australia only scraped through to the World Cup and there's already talk of qualifying for last 16 because we drew an easy group.

 

[Hvr]

Mine was an early 60's VW notchback.Cost $175.Written off for $400.
It had a habit of dropping oil.So it was nick named Malaena.

I googled that name. Seems quite appropriate.

 

[Pushka]

We could roll start Mrscove's 1962 VW beetle down our driveway. $275 bought it and it ran for years. Sold it for $275 too. Yes it had a radio.
The Toyota Celica after that was a beauty.

The first Celica models were fabulous. My brothers first car. Yellow.

 

[TheRealTMA]

My first car didn't even have a radio.

My first car was red and had pedals and was also pulled by a horse!

Second one was a Peugeot 403 circa '60 (bought in '65).

First family car was a Morris Oxford where I as a youngster had to sit in the boot and hit the electric fuel pump every 5 minutes on the way back from Caloundra.

 

[JohnK]

The first Celica models were fabulous. My brothers first car. Yellow.

Oh forgot about Celicas. Their drivers didn't have a good reputation or was that a myth?

 

[Pushka]

Oh forgot about Celicas. Their drivers didn't have a good reputation or was that a myth?

I don’t remember that but they were kind of racy and classy. Future models just didn’t cut it.

 

[drron]

Oh forgot about Celicas. Their drivers didn't have a good reputation or was that a myth?

Only if they drove red ones.