Shuff's General Chat Thread ... #73 - Talk about anything and everything...  

Outside Bristol Zoo there is a carpark for 150 cars and 8 buses. For 25 years, it’s parking fees were managed by a very pleasant attendant.

The fees were £1.40 for cars and £7 for buses.

Then, one day, after 25 solid years of never missing a day of work, he just didn’t show up; so the Zoo Management called the City Council and asked it to send them another parking agent.

The Council did some research and replied that the carpark was the Zoo’s own responsibility.

The Zoo advised the Council that the attendant was a City employee.

The City Council responded that the carpark attendant had never been on the City payroll.

Meanwhile, sitting in his villa somewhere on the coast of Spain or France or Italy … is a man who’d apparently had a ticket machine installed completely on his own and then had simply begun to show up every day, commencing to collect and keep the parking fees, estimated at about £560 per day — for 25 years.

Assuming 7 days a week, this amounts to just over 5 million pounds … and no one even knows his name.

Haha.. brilliant!!

Just saw pics on fb of a meet that happened at the spit not long ago. Brings back good memories

Just saw pics on fb of a meet that happened at the spit not long ago. Brings back good memories

Schapelle Corby’s family awarded almost $1 million in defamation case.

The damages were awarded after a book written by Sydney Morning Herald journalist Eamonn Duff claimed Schapelle’s father Mick Corby ran a drug syndicate. And claimed that Mercedes Corby, son Michael Corby and wife Rosleigh Rose had been a part of it.

Book publisher Allen & Unwin also paid almost to $400,000 in legal costs. The book was titled ‘Sins of the Father.’

Where do i start haha. I usually have a camera with a 64gb card that fills up pretty quick with people doing dumb shit.

Oh the headaches have already started,my insurer is more than happy to pay for $1000 worth of gear which leaves me with $1750 remaining that nobody wants to acknowledge,his CTP is being quite difficult and palming me off. Any suggestions?

We've got Slater & Gordon helping us at the moment,i think i'll pass on all the item details and let them handle it and recoup the compensation for the gear.

i just google 'vapid'

i'm not sure that i know wtf is going on here, 'cept Shuff's, i've found one for you

TOKYO MOTOR SHOW: Mazda RX-9 rendered
Two weeks ago Mazda announced it would stage the world debut of something special at this month’s Tokyo motor show on October 28, releasing a single teaser image highlighting the roofline of the mysterious "sports car concept".

Speculation about the car’s identity focused on two possibilities: a hard-top variant of the new MX-5 roadster, which has now been ruled out until later next year, or a concept previewing Mazda's hotly-anticipated new-generation rotary-powered sports coupe widely expected to be called the RX-9 – just as we predicted it would last month.

We now have it on good authority that Mazda will in fact unveil its long-awaited replacement for the RX-7 and RX-8 rotary coupes, following a 'steer' pointing to another car on Mazda's Tokyo stand by a source close to the Hiroshima car-maker.

“Look to the Cosmo Sport,” was the cryptic reply to questions about the concept's significance.

Debuting in 1967 and also known as the 110S, the radical Cosmo Sport was the world's first mass-production rotary coupe — even if Mazda only made 1519 of them — and has been confirmed to sit right alongside the unnamed concept at the show.

“The Cosmo has no earthly reason for being there unless...,” nodded our insider, before stopping mid-sentence. Unless, of course, a born-again rotary coupe is also revealed.

"The design of the sports car concept to be unveiled in Tokyo is modern but maintains a sense of lineage and authenticity, appearing almost to condense Mazda’s entire history of sports car development into a single model," said Mazda on September 30.

Mazda executives suggested earlier this year that they would like to celebrate the Cosmo's 50th anniversary in 2017 with an all-new rotary model, and have always insisted rotary engine development was ongoing.

Employing peculiar Ferrari-like lines, the rendering you see here takes the teaser image published by Mazda and adds a front-end inspired by the company’s latest Kodo design language.

Mazda’s last rotary car, the 1.3-litre RX-8 four-door 'coupe', went out of production in 2012. The RX-8 was a blast to drive and revved to 9000rpm, but lacked mid-range torque and consumed too much petrol and oil.

To address those issues, our sources say Mazda is currently testing a new hybrid turbo rotary powerplant previously referred to as the ‘16X’ and boasting a twin 800cc rotor set-up expected to generate upwards of 335kW.

It's expected to do so with the assistance of a capacitor-powered electric turbocharger, but it's unclear whether Mazda will also apply the range-extending technology trialled in the previous-generation Mazda2/Demio EV concept, which would make it a plug-in hybrid.

As we reported earlier this year, Mazda engineers are working on a two-stage turbo system that incorporates an “electric turbo assist” function that engages at low rpm and a standard exhaust-driven turbo that cuts in at higher revs.

According to our sources, driving the e-turbo will be a capacitor (a unit that stores power and discharges it on demand) to beef up the rotary’s ‘instability’ at low rpm, while a conventional exhaust gas-driven turbocharger will engage to keep the flow of power coming as boost rises at higher revs.

To improve fuel economy and emissions, Mazda will incorporate homogeneous charge compression ignition (HCCI), which as we've reported will be the centerpiece of the second-generation SKYACTIV powertrain suite that will power the company's seventh-generation model range also due to appear around 2017.

Mimicking the diesel combustion process in a petrol engine, HCCI retains spark ignition at low revs but employs compression to ignite the fuel/air mix at higher revs, increasing combustion efficiency and emitting lower levels of Nitrogen Oxide (NOx).

Unlike many car-makers that have tried but failed to implement HCCI technology in production cars, Mazda is confident it can overcome the pre-ignition or 'knocking' problems associated with HCCI technology.

So it appears everything is fitting into place for Mazda, which will also stage the domestic debut of the KOERU concept that previews next year's all-new coupe-crossover to be called the CX-4 or CX-6.

The bad news is the KOERU and 'RX-9' have pushed to the backburner the rebirth of Mazda's MPS performance brand, which is now unlikely to reappear until next decade.

So we wait with baited breath to see whether the concept car at Tokyo in two weeks points to a production version to mark the Mazda rotary's 50th anniversary in 2017, or whether we'll have to wait for Mazda's centenary in 2020 for a born-again RX-7.

That is so crap to hear about the whole situation, but be very careful with the scum of Slater & Gordon, Shine etc, just another blight on Australia, first and foremost they will suck the case dry and give you whats left, they lure most people in with the no win no fee etc, but generally bleed everyone dry to their own benefit.

I hope you are well though, a shame to have such a nice trip ruined by mindless stick insect fktard

Marc Marquez seals pole at Australian MotoGP

Marc Marquez secured pole position for the Australian MotoGP at Phillip Island, while championship leader Valentino Rossi could only manage seventh place.

Reigning world champion Marquez was fastest through qualifying as he claimed his eight pole of the season with a time of one minute, 28.364 seconds today.

The Honda rider was fastest in the fourth practice session and he backed that up in qualifying, finishing three tenths ahead of Italian Andrea Iannone.

"Looks like this weekend everything is going really good," said Marquez.

"Tomorrow will be a difficult race because there are many laps. It is important to manage the tyres well."

Iannone clocked a 1:28:860, exactly the same time as Jorge Lorenzo, but the former's second-fastest lap was better so he will start ahead of the two-time MotoGP world champion tomorrow.

Lorenzo is 18 points adrift in the championship race led by Movistar Yamaha team-mate Rossi, who will start from the third row after posting a time of 1:29:014.

Australian rider Jack Miller will start from P15 after finishing 5th in Q1 with a 1:30:104.

Top 10

1. Marc Marquez (Repsol Honda) 1:28:364
2. Andrea Iannone (Ducati) 1:28:680
3. Jorge Lorenzo (Movistar Yahama) 1:28:680
4. Dani Pedrosa (Repsol Honda) 1:28:712
5. Cal Crutchlow (LCR Honda) 1:28:912
6. Maverick Vinales (Suzuki) 1:28:932
7. Valentino Rossi (Movistar Yamaha) 1:29:014
8. Aleix Espargaro (Suzuki) 1:29:015
9. Pol Espargaro (Monster Yamaha Tech 3) 1:29:222
10. Andrea Dovizioso (Ducati) 1:29:267

Fortunately the lady that is looking after us hasn't mentioned the no win/no fee and is confident that it can be resolved in a month or two.

We're getting there today,more so helping Jo do normal day to day requirements.

UPDATE 6.05PM: Two people have died following a truck and car head-on collision on the Pacific Hwy near Broadwater this afternoon.
Lismore Police inspector Nicole Bruce said a RAV4 collided with a truck, which then hit a tree and caught fire.
"A RAV4 was travelling south, and for unknown reasons at this stage has crossed onto the wrong side of the road, impacted heavily head-on with the truck," Insp Bruce said.
"The initial car burst into flames, the truck was then hit off the road, also it burst into flames."
The drivers' identities are unknown at this stage.

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Same straight stretch of road yesterday at Rileys Hill,Dai.This time,a double fatality,plus a resulting fire.

Two killed when car and truck collide on Pacific Highway


Police are on scene redirecting traffic through Rileys Hill Rd after a two vehicle collision on the Pacific Highway near Broadwater.

http://www.northernstar.com.au/news/two-ve...dwater/2810294/