Oh, they like to make you work for it and give nothing away.
Some car insurance companies operate the same way.
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Jeez sounds like those city insurance mobs are rip off merchants. Not the case here different companies and a good safety net, helped me out when 80kha burned anywayâŚ
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That was a big fire. Donât think it matters whatâs certified when you slam into a coast guard plane. They all made it incl a dozen Aussies. 
Tenerife remains the worst civil aviation disaster in the worldâŚ
2 full Boeing 747âs collided during take off in thick fogâŚ
Once again, ground impact⌠one taking off, one still on the runwayâŚ
583 fatalitiesâŚ
They were very lucky, in JapanâŚ
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Oh crap apparently 5 died on the Japan one. Pilot was one. Not so lucky hmm bugger
Is that in 1977? Iâll have to check that out. Havenât heard of that one before.
Scared the crap out of me as my grandkids are travelling to Japan for a skiing holiday. Fortunately hadnât left yet
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Yeah, 1977âŚ
Overbearing, domineering dutch KLM captain, ignored his F/Oâs concerns about the position of the other aircraft, and took off anywayâŚ
Here is the wiki pageâŚ
The aussie road toll kills about 4 people a day, but it never makes the newsâŚ
Aviation is always much more newsworthyâŚ
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All because of horrendous fog and a pilot who wouldnât listen to the towerâŚ
I looked up a docco on Tenerife.
Jeez talk about snowball effect from terrorists bombing the airport, to a pilot taking on 55t of fuel when he didnât have to and not getting clearance to take off.
Good to hear
SApower use helicopters to check the powerlines out my way. Have a person sit out the side with a telescope with camera and inspect the poles and insulators, fly pretty low. Maybe a 100ft, just above my 60-80ft tall pines trees around my house.
Always good if Iâm home and they come by. Iâm on a swer line so the power stops at me. Helicopter comes down the line and does a u turn back up the line to a intersection.
They used contractors. A while back they were using Hughes MD500(aka Littlebird) I was home one day and man they pulled a sharp turn hotdog over my house I thought the inspector hope his harness was all good as I was looking straight up and he was sideways waving to me. I was impressed. I got notice they crashed barely a week later pilot died and inspector seriously injured but alive.
Brought in restrictions to curb such behaviour and donât hire MDâs anymore but Bell 206âs and such a lot slower and use their rudder to u turn not a bank and yank or whatever you call it.
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When youâve got the complete boxed set and you grew up with the shit, sometimes you watch it just⌠because⌠
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WELL IT FINALLY HAPPENED I GOT A 30 DAY BANN ON FACE BOOK.
I MADE A COMMENT ON THIS POST
ALL I SAID WAS
âI CASE OF BEER WOULD DO ITâ
the amount of stuff I have said about minorities,guns,woman,gays, the government and Zuckerberg himself.
And that comment gets me banned
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" You are allowed to have a voice and an opinionâŚ
As long as it conforms with our belief system.
Dissenters will be punishedâŚ"
âWokeismâ , is just another form, of enforced narrow-mindednessâŚ
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Youâve got to be kidding me⌠
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Itâs just political correctness. 
Itâs been a thing for decades, itâs nothing new at all. Once you get off the internet, it doesnât matter. Just gotta be courteous to people around you and youâll get by fine, same as people have for centuries. Worst thing that might happen to you is some crazy person might yell at you at a store, and itâs not like people here are such delicate snowflakes that such a thing is a world ending experience.
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I think people donât like it because itâs made media in general less creative and more focused on certain topics and not in a way that challenges certain views and opinions to make consumers make their own opinions itâs more of a can we shove this unrelated idea into our product to make more money or make the company look like it has some sort or moral compass.
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I agree with you, there.
IRL, being patient, kind, and respectful goes very farâŚwith about 90% of the population.
Occasionally, when dealing with â some difficult peopleâ, you need to bring some very different skills, to the tableâŚ
Funny you mention stores.
A couple of years back, when i was still speaking to my sister, we went into a woolies together, for some supplies.
A (unknown) mum, was having words, with her (about 8 yo child)âŚ
My sister, in a typical entitled state of self righteousness, proceeded to lecture the Mum, how she was wrong, and shouldnât speak to her child like thatâŚshe should be doing THIS insteadâŚ
I grabbed my sis, said âbutt out, none of your buisnessâ, but she doubled down, spoke louder, and tried to â overpowerâ the mother, and convince her, she was wrongâŚI dont think she would have tried that, with a DadâŚ
Narcissists are always rightâŚjust ask them⌠no wonder i dont talk to her, anymoreâŚ
At the end of the day, it wasnât about the mother/childâŚit was about my sisters sense of sensibilities, being offendedâŚand thats ultimately all she really cared aboutâŚ
Wokeness/ P.C seems to be a lot like thisâŚâentitled peopleâ trying to enforce their beliefs onto othersâŚbecause THEY are offendedâŚ
Thatâs one of the worst sinsâŚtrying to force any beliefs onto othersâŚ
Which is why i dont have any time for PC crapâŚconsiderate and respectful usually wins outâŚ
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Interesting conversation today about bees.
Duxton bees rang wanting to put hives here again later this year. I said no thanks been swamped with 100âs of swarms getting in to my house sheds and machinery stick it up your arse.
Anyway because of the Varoarmite out break in the eastern states, Queensland, NSW and Victoria itâs been a shit show. The gov did itâs usual thing last year and threw itâs hands up in the air saying they canât contain it. So in 5 years all bees in Australia are fucked now.
I noticed the unusually strange influx of bee swarms to my residence since October. Bee keepers canât control them anymore and are splitting their hives and loosing many and much dollars in lost production.
Apparently they are migrating through the riverland, positive tested for varoamite in SA because of our wet summer chasing the water and abundant feed for them. Gone rogue and uncontrollable and when it getâs hot with no water they will die along with the disease.
Thanks eastern staes, what a bang up job you havenât done again. SA was free of it now itâs fucked. Good luck buying an almond in 10 years.
That is todayâŚ
Thatâs terrible to witness, and I could launch into another long Doc Bob rant about my experiences with this subject, but I think that you have already done a good job calling out the shitshow behind this issue.
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