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Cake day: August 2nd, 2023

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  • That’s not true. You can get a gun licence pretty easily in Australia. Anyone that passes a police background check can get one. Yeah it takes 6 months but that’s probably a good thing as well. You can’t just make an irrational emotional decision and get a gun.

    Also the storage requirements are quite strict. You have to have a proper gun safe to own a gun.

    Then it’s only single shot rifles and some pistols. We also have no public carriage. You can only move guns around from point to point, not just casually carry them.

    It makes access to guns very hard for the average person. Yeah it doesn’t stop organised criminals having more dangerous weapons, but organised criminals aren’t going into schools and massacring people.

    Strict gun control has been a really positive decision in Australia. Those who want to go hunting, still can, but kids, teenagers and crazy bastards have a very hard time getting them.







  • I bought my wife a 'fake ’ diamond ring for the engagement ring.

    She couldn’t tell her snooty friends that though, so she went and bought herself a very expensive ring with real diamonds.

    She had the ring I bought her melted into my wedding band. I hate jewellery though so had no intention of wearing it. I agreed to wear it for a week after we got married. I’ve never worn it again. I haven’t even seen it since that first week. Over a decade. I wonder if it’s just lost, or she has it somewhere still.

    I don’t care enough to ask.



  • It’s a short sighted argument to say baddies don’t follow the rules so your only restricting honest people.

    In Australia assault rifles and automatics are just outright banned. You need a licence to own any type of gun, which takes 6 months waiting for background checks to be done. Guns must be kept in Safes etc.

    So whilst a baddie might want to get an assault rifle and go on a kill rampage he can’t. There just aren’t any around. You can’t break in to a house and steal one.

    Can organised crime get them? Sure. But that’s not what this is trying to stop. It’s preventing the impulsive bat shit crazy person going on a rampage.

    It absolutely helps, as proven by Australias lack of mass shootings.

    People who want to go hunting still can.



  • I think your probably right. The only example I can think of that might benefit is the roof lining in a car. I think the daily heat cycle probably is the cause of roof lining dropping. Not that big of an issue with a glass roof.

    My Amarok has spent the vast majority of its life under cover. It still looks brand new inside.

    My last car spent most of its life in the sun and definitely looked old by the time it was 10 years old. Had to replace the roof lining once.


  • Yeah that makes sense.

    I’ve actually managed to let it sit unused for a few more days with sentry mode off. 48% now.

    So this is better to see.

    Actually has me wondering about a 4 day trip I did earlier in the year. Got home with air 10% left. Sentry mode was on the whole time. I probably could of gotten home with 40% if I’d left sentry mode off. It’s a power hog.