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

[Itsme]

Originally Posted by DFB FGXR6

Why is it that I pay $160 a month for Foxtel, then get spammed with ads before the start of a streamed movie or tv series. And yet, the $14.99 per month subscription to Youtube Premium yields absolutely no ads whatsoever.

The ads on Foxtel were palatable when there was simply no other opposition, but not when the market is flooded with streaming services. Thin ice Foxtel.

This is the reason I gave up subscription tv years ago, paying for ads wtf!
VPN, cinema app with downloader and you are in business for add free movies documentaries etc.

cheers

[DFB FGXR6]

Why is it, that someone who has bought a high end or enthusiast-minded car, lets pick a number here and say $100,000+, that they then baulk at paying $30 for a bottle of car wash soap or tyre dressing.

A strange mentality that I don't understand. You've paid the premium for the performance model of a car aimed at car enthusiasts, but you see paying a fraction of that cars price on something to maintain your investment as a needless extravagance? Equally strange when said person asks what's "best" to use on their car?

I don't get it.

[Syndrome]

Originally Posted by DFB FGXR6

Why is it, that someone who has bought a high end or enthusiast-minded car, lets pick a number here and say $100,000+, that they then baulk at paying $30 for a bottle of car wash soap or tyre dressing.

A strange mentality that I don't understand. You've paid the premium for the performance model of a car aimed at car enthusiasts, but you see paying a fraction of that cars price on something to maintain your investment as a needless extravagance? Equally strange when said person asks what's "best" to use on their car?

I don't get it.

They didn't get rich spending their own money.

[Interceptor]

Originally Posted by DFB FGXR6

Why is it, that someone who has bought a high end or enthusiast-minded car, lets pick a number here and say $100,000+, that they then baulk at paying $30 for a bottle of car wash soap or tyre dressing.

A strange mentality that I don't understand. You've paid the premium for the performance model of a car aimed at car enthusiasts, but you see paying a fraction of that cars price on something to maintain your investment as a needless extravagance? Equally strange when said person asks what's "best" to use on their car?

I don't get it.

You mean like all the people who buy a $160k+ 300 series landcruiser then fit kings spotlights?

Originally Posted by prktkljokr

Why is it I can buy parts from Latvia for 1/4 of the price and have it delivered faster than I can get parts from Sydney.

Need a wheel bearing for My Smart Fortwo, cant even get 1 local, no one stocks them, can buy 1 from Sydney $220 + post no tracking and wont see it for 3 weeks, found a place in Latvia, Same brand, $45, $30 postage with full tracking, it was posted Friday morning and was already on the plane and on its way Yesterday, I should see it before the end of the week.

Just the postage times makes you wonder why stuff in our own country takes so long but something from overseas can come in a week?

Re: Availability

because a Smart FourTwo is relatively uncommon in Australia wheres they're built and reasonably common in Europe.

Its like Ford Falcons here.... I cant even walk out my front door without walking past multiple front hubs & rear wheel bearing kits.... (I wish I was joking....)

[Trendseeker]

We got rid of our 2 Foxtel boxes a couple of years ago. The monthly fee just wasn’t worth the extras compared to streaming services.

[prktkljokr]

Its amazing how many people buy $100,000+ cars and don't look after them at all, had some really smelly 200 and 300 series Landcruiser's with crap strewn all through them come through in the last few weeks.

[DFB FGXR6]

Originally Posted by prktkljokr

Its amazing how many people buy $100,000+ cars and don't look after them at all, had some really smelly 200 and 300 series Landcruiser's with crap strewn all through them come through in the last few weeks.

Range Rover SDV8 Autobiography, circa $280,000+ on the road new............................













Paint trashed and full of swirls and covered in iron deposits, oily leather, baked on brake dust.................I saved it though! Didn't bother polishing it though, dust made it so shiny the owner didn't even know the difference.







But yes, for most who buy that sort of vehicle, its an appliance.

[Citroënbender]

…Why are travel and transport means of payment are so incompatible/inflexible across Australia?

I can’t tap my e-tag on a Myki reader. Or tap an Opal card on an Myki reader, either.
I can’t download a Waze-type app that automatically handles my tolls with nothing more than a few cents surcharge. Or just a standalone app using NFC technology as a surrogate e-tag.
I can’t nominate the period I wish to renew rego for online, it’s in set blocks of 3/6/12 months.

[Syndrome]

Why is it I was the only person naked at the gender reveal party?

[FTE217]

Because you have balls ?


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[prktkljokr]

Why is it I can buy parts from Latvia for 1/4 of the price and have it delivered faster than I can get parts from Sydney.

Need a wheel bearing for My Smart Fortwo, cant even get 1 local, no one stocks them, can buy 1 from Sydney $220 + post no tracking and wont see it for 3 weeks, found a place in Latvia, Same brand, $45, $30 postage with full tracking, it was posted Friday morning and was already on the plane and on its way Yesterday, I should see it before the end of the week.

Just the postage times makes you wonder why stuff in our own country takes so long but something from overseas can come in a week?

[Citroënbender]

Cars245 or Trodo?

[prktkljokr]

Originally Posted by Citroënbender

Cars245 or Trodo?

Cars245, Trodo was not competitive enough

[Citroënbender]

Why have many “guided decision making paths” gone from flowcharts to matrices?

And when did this start happening? I only remember them in vector algebra.

[George V]

Originally Posted by Citroënbender

Why have many “guided decision making paths” gone from flowcharts to matrices?

And when did this start happening? I only remember them in vector algebra.

... and in simultaneous equations. It probably happened just before people started "circle back' with solutions .

Regards,
George V

[roKWiz]

Its a long way to Tipperary. It's long way to go.

[kevino]

Originally Posted by prktkljokr

Why is it I can buy parts from Latvia for 1/4 of the price and have it delivered faster than I can get parts from Sydney.

Need a wheel bearing for My Smart Fortwo, cant even get 1 local, no one stocks them, can buy 1 from Sydney $220 + post no tracking and wont see it for 3 weeks, found a place in Latvia, Same brand, $45, $30 postage with full tracking, it was posted Friday morning and was already on the plane and on its way Yesterday, I should see it before the end of the week.

Just the postage times makes you wonder why stuff in our own country takes so long but something from overseas can come in a week?

A smart for two driver decided to turn right across ( I was two back in the adjacent lane). This is in Nerang GC.
two lanes of traffic to his left today. There was a gap in the first lane so he turned right didnt check the next lane was clear and drove into the side of a proceeding traffic control hilux.

The smart for two literally fell to bits from windscreen forward.
A rather irritated looking traffic controller got out of the hilux as I turned round the carnage.

[prktkljokr]

Originally Posted by kevino

A smart for two driver decided to turn right across ( I was two back in the adjacent lane). This is in Nerang GC.
two lanes of traffic to his left today. There was a gap in the first lane so he turned right didnt check the next lane was clear and drove into the side of a proceeding traffic control hilux.

The smart for two literally fell to bits from windscreen forward.
A rather irritated looking traffic controller got out of the hilux as I turned round the carnage.

Most peoples misconception with these smart cars is that you will get killed if you are in a shopping centre car park crash, if you watch the 100mph vid of one hitting a barrier that 5th gear did, you will see that they can take a decent knock, majority of cars at that speed will cause the occupant injury though.

To disinegrate from the windscreen forward is what they are designed to do, the front from the windscreen forwards is all plastic, if you saw one with the front off, you can see where the actual strength is.

We see all sorts of cars come through work that look like they have disintegrated, but that's the way they are designed now, you can see the manufacturers have figured out the more that breaks the better the parts bill is, not uncommon to have parts bills in the $30,000+ mark these days.

I had a i30 hit my 2nd fortwo in the rh door pillar, he needed towing I drove home, I think you would find that if any new car drove into the side of a moving vehicle there would be plastic flying everywhere.

Im up to my 6 th Smart ForTwo, great little cars, I always get asked if im worried about being hit by a truck, im no more afraid of being hit by a truck in it any more than i would being hit by a truck in the wifes Mercedes or any car for that matter.

Vid of the one being destroyed on fith gear
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnI-LiKCtuE

[kevino]

Yeah that’s what I thought designed to break away but protect the occupants.
Thanks for the feedback

[marty351]

Why is it?

I go to Bunnings. Carpark mostly empty. Park at least one space away from the car next to me. Nothing beside me or behind me.
Come back, one car parked between me and next car, and, a car reversed in behind me! FFS!

[roKWiz]

Originally Posted by marty351

Why is it? I go to Bunnings.

Fixed that for you.

[Syndrome]

Originally Posted by marty351

Why is it?

I go to Bunnings. Carpark mostly empty. Park at least one space away from the car next to me. Nothing beside me or behind me.
Come back, one car parked between me and next car, and, a car reversed in behind me! FFS!

I HATE that!!!!!!!!!!!!!

One a person who had many spots available to them decided to park to the left of my car close so that they had to open their door carefully so as to not hit my car (they didn't hit my car as I checked). If they left an empty spot between our cars they could have entered and exited their vehicle comfortably and without needing to take care. WTF is the thought process of these people?

[.:4:.]

It annoys me greatly when you park dead straight and centre in a spot and the person who parks in the free space beside you parks on an angle or too close to the line and has the audacity to fold in my mirror to get their fat body in between the 2 cars.

[prktkljokr]

Why is it you can be driving along with a heap of cars in the left lane at the speed limit with cars in front of you with a not quite car length gap, but there is a gap of 10 cars or more behind you to the next car along, then some retaded dumb loser will speed up the right lane to beside you and want to be let in so they can use the turning lane coming up?

Plenty of room to slot in behind, but no they want to gain 1 car length and **** you off by pushing in then turning, the mind boggles at the way some people think.

I just maintained my speed and he had to slot in behind where there was still 10 car lengths to the next car, he then honks his horn and gives me the finger?

[Tassie f100]

Originally Posted by prktkljokr

Why is it you can be driving along with a heap of cars in the left lane at the speed limit with cars in front of you with a not quite car length gap, but there is a gap of 10 cars or more behind you to the next car along, then some retaded dumb loser will speed up the right lane to beside you and want to be let in so they can use the turning lane coming up?

Plenty of room to slot in behind, but no they want to gain 1 car length and **** you off by pushing in then turning, the mind boggles at the way some people think.

I just maintained my speed and he had to slot in behind where there was still 10 car lengths to the next car, he then honks his horn and gives me the finger?

Had similar few months back,coming up to roadworks, signs saying left lane closed.ahead D*** came hooting up on the left and passed about 20 of us.Guess what,not one person would let him in.He was still sitting (probably getting crankier) when I went past him.Dunno how many others kept him out,but he didn’t beat me or any of the others in front of me.

[randel]

Originally Posted by prktkljokr

Why is it you can be driving along with a heap of cars in the left lane at the speed limit with cars in front of you with a not quite car length gap, but there is a gap of 10 cars or more behind you to the next car along, then some retaded dumb loser will speed up the right lane to beside you and want to be let in so they can use the turning lane coming up?

Plenty of room to slot in behind, but no they want to gain 1 car length and **** you off by pushing in then turning, the mind boggles at the way some people think.

I just maintained my speed and he had to slot in behind where there was still 10 car lengths to the next car, he then honks his horn and gives me the finger?

Happens all the time on the Kwinana Freeway - does my bloody head in.... And the amount of people that chop and change lanes in peak hour..... Just pick a lane and stay in it FFS.

[ford71V8]

Annoying isnt it.

And he thinks you did the wrong thing.

[Interceptor]

Why the **** is it that so often when someone has a problem or is just asking advice on a particular subject, there is ALWAYS at least one person who chimes in with information thats as incorrect as saying that Kaitlin Jenner is a biological woman?

[DFB FGXR6]

Originally Posted by Interceptor

Why the **** is it that so often when someone has a problem or is just asking advice on a particular subject, there is ALWAYS at least one person who chimes in with information thats as incorrect as saying that Kaitlin Jenner is a biological woman?

I should have known better to reply, but I just couldn't help myself. A Facebook post popped up on my feed, one made by a VERY patriotic Aussie claiming that the SOHC 3V 5.4 V8 used in the BA and BF Falcon was FULLY made in Australia because Ford called it a Barra, as in Barra 220 and Barra 230.

I went to the trouble to say that it was actually a crate engine from Canada, but did have Australian input on the inlet and exhaust manifold designs to suit the Falcon application. But no, he swore black and blue that the engines were made in Geelong because of the Barra name.

I gave up in the end. But I had to wonder, why on earth would someone go to the trouble being sooo wrong, that somehow you couldn't spend maybe 2 minutes searching for clarification before continuing to dig yourself into a deeper hole. For some reason it's easier to continue to be wrong than gracefully accept you had made the wrong call.

[Top_Ghia]

Originally Posted by DFB FGXR6

I should have known better to reply, but I just couldn't help myself. A Facebook post popped up on my feed, one made by a VERY patriotic Aussie claiming that the SOHC 3V 5.4 V8 used in the BA and BF Falcon was FULLY made in Australia because Ford called it a Barra, as in Barra 220 and Barra 230.

I went to the trouble to say that it was actually a crate engine from Canada, but did have Australian input on the inlet and exhaust manifold designs to suit the Falcon application. But no, he swore black and blue that the engines were made in Geelong because of the Barra name.

I gave up in the end. But I had to wonder, why on earth would someone go to the trouble being sooo wrong, that somehow you couldn't spend maybe 2 minutes searching for clarification before continuing to dig yourself into a deeper hole. For some reason it's easier to continue to be wrong than gracefully accept you had made the wrong call.

That sums up society today.
There are no truths. There is only Your Reality. Your reality may be different to other person’s reality. It’s the decline of civilization if you ask me.
A coupe can now be a five door hatchback. Thanks Mercedes.
Woman of the year has a c o c k.
2+2=4 is racist because you’re failing to account for other peoples reality.
I could go on all night.
Right or wrong doesn’t matter as the most aggressive or loudest group will win.