The totally off-topic thread

[Denali]

After all this time, Twilight Zone is still great TV!

 

[Solid]

Xmas tax in action.

Hire car booked for this weekend in Brisbane, hire time one day and two hours - $60.

Same location, company and car booked for Christmas Day for 9 hours - $170 quoted.

Decided uber was the better option.

 

[JohnK]

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

I wouldn't call their drivers racy and classy.

 

[Pushka]

I wouldn't call their drivers racy and classy.

I was maybe 15 when my bro bought his celica in maybe 1970 making you - ? younger than 10. So not sure you can proffer that opinion.

 

[JohnK]

I was maybe 15 when my bro bought his celica in maybe 1970 making you - ? younger than 10. So not sure you can proffer that opinion.

Yes I can. Celicas were still around in the 80's.

 

[love_the_life]

I remember my brother bought one of the very early minis - in the early 60s. The ignition key would start other minis as well and one night he got halfway home to his place and put on the interior light for some reason......it was not his car!
Mini drivers used to wave to each other if they passed on the road.

 

[TheRealTMA]

?..
Mini drivers used to wave to each other if they passed on the road.

Peugeot drivers used to do that as well!

 

[drron]

Even more scary I had a Saab 900.I then bought a Hyundai Sonata.The Hyundai key would start the Saab but not the other way around.

 

[drron]

Peugeot drivers used to do that as well!

When I had a Peugeot 604 the other drivers would wave at me as I sat by the roadside waiting for service.

 

[Pushka]

Yes I can. Celicas were still around in the 80's.

I’m talking first uptake. Once a car is 10 years old then the users change.

 

[blackcat20]

Just stepped outside to find my backyard buzzing with tens of blow flies. They weren't there an hour ago, and I can't find any reason why they would be hanging around. Miss Daisy was far too interested in trying to catch them all

 

[JessicaTam]

I’m talking first uptake. Once a car is 10 years old then the users change.

Celicas were fully sick, mate.

 

[drron]

The Datsun 1600 was a great car.Didn't need a 4WD when going through the scrub.

 

[JohnK]

Peugeot drivers used to do that as well!

Hey Charger!

 

[Milboo]

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

Surprised to see the Judge do this - especially given he's a sitting Family Court judge too. He took over the bench from one of the judges I came up under as a junior lawyer.

 

[Denali]

Who remembers their front porch light being swarmed by christmas beetles as a kid?

 

[Denali]

My mum use to to have a Datsun, great car! I saw a beige Torana the other day, all done up.

This is my nephews car, he may have been conceived in it. He rescued it from his parents backyard many, many years ago. He has been stopped by the police, to check the log book and to ask how fast it will go. Its been on a few magazine covers & shows.

 

[Major]

My first car was a 1959 Simca which I bought in 1963 for about £100. Traded it in for a BRG Mini Cooper S a couple of years later

 

[Pushka]

My first car was a 1959 Simca which I bought in 1963 for about £100. Traded it in for a BRG Mini Cooper S a couple of years later

Brother had a Mini Cooper S too. British green from memory. He loved his cars before he got married. Now his wife has co-opted all the cars since.

 

[cgichard]

I don't drive but I have very happy memories of being a passenger in a turquoise Karmann Ghia convertible, driving through France and Spain to Portugal in the early 1970s.