i am pretty sure we should have signs on the side of the highways here in new zealand, stating..... this road is sponsored by dunlop or hankook or bfg or .....etc. as they are the ones making the money out of our shit roads!!...but bmw have a lot to answer for putting a 40 profile tire on there cars ! too !!

best i step down off my soap box. .... because it is what it is and nothing is going to change.

Sooo! petrol today is $3.13 per litre for 91 octane here in nz,,, listening on the radio this afternoon, they are saying there is a rumor that its going to go up significantly tonight. happy time ahead !!!!  NOT !

Holy crap bro!!!!! Looks like you may need to invest in a new pair of running shoes!

 

1 minute ago, Wrongway said:

Holy crap bro!!!!! Looks like you may need to invest in a new pair of running shoes!

 

hmmmm! or a still and start making some home brew fuel!!

 my knees are screwed mate, running!!! way in the past.... except for when i am in trouble with the boss!!!

AND the trouble with running away... i STILL have to walk back home!!

Well Ol 'buddy, the home brew we can do. Whether you drink it or drive on is your choice, just don't do both the same time. 

 

11 minutes ago, Wrongway said:

Well Ol 'buddy, the home brew we can do. Whether you drink it or drive on is your choice, just don't do both the same time. 

 

true or you will spill it !!! hahahaha

And here I am whining about the $2.12 I paid for 95 octane this arvo? I used to be able to fill my tank for $60 - now it's only just half full for the same money. Dust off your pushbikes people - I'm cleaning up my mountain bike this weekend. I always used to ride everywhere and I loved it. Time to get fit AND stick it to the Man.

I’ll be brief as I know most know the details of what I’ll say now! This whole gas shortage issue is BS contrived by the Elitist Left to force their contrived BS Climate Change Religion on the masses to control us, as was the “Wear Masks & We’ll still Shut U Down Policing” which destroyed the world economy = All to control the masses! 
People of Western Democracies need to wake up before our Freedoms are gone!

Sorry for the Rant but I’m Fed Up!

Not directing this solely at you, Tbone  but please let’s keep politics out of this all. I realize it is a very frustrating experience for all that we’re in but politics brings out a different side of people and I’d like to keep this community civil so we can stay a family around Pontiac 👍

Thanks!

8 hours ago, 64 kiwi boni said:

true or you will spill it !!! hahahaha

That would be considered alcohol abuse! 

Edited April 15, 20224 yr by JUSTA6

The most telling is the photos 99 years apart. If the ice caps and glaciers are melting where is the water going. According to my high school physics teacher water will seek its own level. You ain't going to find a lake with a slope to waterski on

Buddy you couldn’t be more correct, problem is this those people are so evil, so sick & so delusional they’ll never pull out of the spiritual!

Not sure what takes place in their psyche but it becomes like a total absorption religion in the “Let’s call it Global Warming, no that ain’t  working so let’s call it Climate Change, no that ain’t working, let’s call it Climate Consciousness, yea let’s try Guilt” Crowd!   Kinda like when u saw the Ari Krishna  Lunies at every airport all & high density city streets with their total loss of self awareness turning into the religious lemmings that something in their brains let them become! Same disease! Not sure it’s evil possession but definitely some kinda Mind / Body Snatcher possession! 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

I am not so sure about all this climate change stuff !

what i DO know is we live on a planet that is constantly changing and moving, and that's justA fact.

Here at the beach there is a pole buried in the sand dune since 2008 .

it was originally buried up to where the red meets the blue strips. its indicating that the dunes have eroded by the best part of 1 m in 14 odd years.

that to me is a living planet doing its natural thing.   

Edited April 16, 20224 yr by 64 kiwi boni

Absolutely correct 64 kiwi bono! Mother Earth does her thing. Been doing it for more years than they can measure. Science is beginning to admit there may have been sophisticated cultures 100’s of thousands of years ago, maybe millions. Ocean level changes have been going on for millions of years & the changes you speak of that we se in our life span are like  single breath when measured along side how long the earth has existed with living things on land & in the oceans. The dramatic proportion events archeologists uncover that result from seldom dramatic natural events that spur them occasionally with Mother Earth returning a normal cyclic repeating beat again  for thousands of years until the next dramatic event more times than we can imagin with her return to a normal cycle again & again! Archeologists know there were times when humans & animals could walk on dry land for thousands of miles from what we perceive as continent to content today! Other times the deep took it back! We are such finite beings who try to predict & measure the unpredictable & immeasurable! 30 years ago the common belief was no sophisticated human civilization existed more than 6.000 to 10,000 years ago! Now their discovering artifacts & seemingly modern tools that shouldn’t be there in petrified stone hundreds of thousands of years old. 
  I live on a barrier island, we have a sea wall that goes into the ocean & runs down the center of a rock jetty. It’s duplicated every 400 ft. For the length of our city. I’ve lived here for 32 yrs. & as a high school kid visited the shore here for 4 more years. The level of the tides & ocean are easily seen to be with minimal to no change in that almost 55 years! The giant rocks, more than several tons each have endured in the same place as has the sea wall that intersects & runs vertically from the boardwalk all the way thru the sea wall into the ocean for 100 plus years. The end off the summer season thru Winters sees the sand disappears on the south side of the sea wall letting the water come very close to the beach by 100’s of feet & the sea wall is visible on the south side above the sand almost 7 feet while on the north side the sand almost covers the top of the same wall with the beach grows on that side pushing the ocean several hundred feet further out to sea.  While it sounds dramatic & the 1st few years seemed so to me. After seeing the phenomena 55 time almost exactly the same every year, Not so phenomenal any more. The changes are almost exactly the same every year barring a hurricane or big nor’easter & the beach returns to exactly where it was by the beginning of the new season. Funny to remember as a youth & young adult listening to climate change zealots telling us parts of New York would be under water & our city for sure by 2013, we are still here as is New York! Mother Earth just keeps chugging at verually the same sequential pace! I’ve paced the distance from my front door at high tide & low tide @ full moons as a reference @ the Summer equinox & guess what. To the same spot on the south side of that sea wall & nature shows me virtually the same depth on the hi mark on my stick measured from the top of the same spot on one of the 4000 lb rocks set in place on that jetty 100 plus years ago. My house is 6’ above sea level, I’d notice! Sure, things could change drastically in 1000 to 20,000 years as Mother Earth has done countless times over millennia 🤔😵‍💫! Hope I didn’t bore anyone 😂

Edited April 16, 20224 yr by TboneWS6
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Majorly pi-t off tonight ! got home to find water running out of the kitchen !!! from under the fridge. we have a Rat !

and the f--ker has chewed through the water feed to the fridge AND got into the wall and chewed the wires to the twin wall ovens!

so i have spent the last 2 hours with my sparky fixing the destruction !!! and i still dont know where the Rat is!!! i have my traps set but he is not touching them.... cunning f--ker ....

 

SOS guys what else can i do ???

i do not want to use poison bate, that will make him chew more water pipes he can get too!

currently i have wire traps set with peanut butter and tomato.... he has been eating our tomatoes on the bench top !!!

 

i am going to go old school and add cheese to the wire traps!!😡😡

U r write about the poison. Until u get the vermin I’d shut the water off to any other plastic lines until u get him! This stuff is on Amazon & works fast & unless u have multiple problem will get rid of him in a day or 2. Normally something instinctive makes them go outside looking for water. But if he’s figured out the plastic waterline thing might take a bit longer & maybe more chewed lines. I had either big mice or little rats, multiples. I have the same plastic feed line for ice to refrig. But they never did bother it even after poison! Took about 3 or 4 days & they cleared out. None died inside as i know the smell 👃 of a dead one in the wall! Old bait from many years ago just let them curl up & die instead of looking for water outside. I keep this new bait out in just a couple spots JIC replacing every  month to keep it fresh. No evidence of droppings or no nibbles on bait for several years. I take the stale bait & throw it down the ground hog holes. Keeps them under control too! I don’t have pets or kids around though!

Cant get that stuff in California, the politicians watching out for their relatives!! 

😂

Kind of related & u’ll proby get a laugh from it. 64 kiwi boni reminded me of it with the little f_cker chewing the water line! One summer I noticed a 2-3” hole chewed in my soffit. Started watching it & saw a grey squirrel going in and out bringing paper & weeds into it. I was gonna poison him but my wife got on me cause she thinks their cute, I think their rats with bushy tails & just another verity of vermin! So I set up a have a hart trap! I ended up clearing the Neighborhood as I caught 15 & took them 15 miles away & let’um go. What a PIA! So I went ahead & fixed the soffit. Wouldn’t u know the next day there’s a hole on the same place 😡😡😡! The one little f_icier I was trying to b kind & not kill survived the trap 😬! Yep u know what I did, left the hole for another week & delivered a gift of the same rat bait Tomcat Bait. Fixed the hole again in a week or so & no more holes 😂!

2 hours ago, TboneWS6 said:

U r write about the poison. Until u get the vermin I’d shut the water off to any other plastic lines until u get him! This stuff is on Amazon & works fast & unless u have multiple problem will get rid of him in a day or 2. Normally something instinctive makes them go outside looking for water. But if he’s figured out the plastic waterline thing might take a bit longer & maybe more chewed lines. I had either big mice or little rats, multiples. I have the same plastic feed line for ice to refrig. But they never did bother it even after poison! Took about 3 or 4 days & they cleared out. None died inside as i know the smell 👃 of a dead one in the wall! Old bait from many years ago just let them curl up & die instead of looking for water outside. I keep this new bait out in just a couple spots JIC replacing every  month to keep it fresh. No evidence of droppings or no nibbles on bait for several years. I take the stale bait & throw it down the ground hog holes. Keeps them under control too! I don’t have pets or kids around though!

great info Tony!!! 

my issue is all my water pipes in the ceiling are plastic!! and i have been there done that before!!! when one chewed the pipe above the bathroom!! one heck of a mess !!! wall paper , pictures, 1 door, just sooo costly to fix !!

this rat ( and i am sure i only have one) gets on the kitchen bench and eats the tomatoes, we moved the tomatoes and i think i will set some traps with more tomato on them leaving one on the counter top !

i may even consider getting a cat !!!

my issue is  i cant stop them getting in with one whole end of the house open with the renovations!!! i cant put up the cladding till i have my new windows and they are still being made!! 

but as soon as the cladding is on we are safe again !!!

Understood, as u said the Poison that makes them look for water might cause more probs til he’s dead ! I am lucky as I have mostly copper & only a few plastic lines that r easy to shut-off go to appliances. If u get a cat (not a bad idea) to b a good hunter u gotta keep them on the hungry side! Sounds a bit cruel but I’ve known friends that turned them into Fat Lovey cats & if they catch any they play with them & get bored & let’em go. I’d leave the cat out in the day & bring him in at night when the vermin r active. Outside cats r better @ hunters & killing! Inside in early evening with u & Fam keeps them friendly. All the shots @ the vet r important! Obviously especially a female get spayed so no kittens! Don’t declaw them. Knowing what their job is just happens being outside in the day, although if u keep even an inside cat a bit hungry & lean they’ll hunt kill & eat! Best of luck!

I speak from personal experience - bait your trap with a silicone HT lead!

Turns out that the furry POS feasting on my engine leads was not a rat but something else. I covered them with aluminium insect mesh (messes with their teeth and they don't like it) and simply remove it when it's time for a drive. Whatever it is, it won't go near that mesh. Apparently steel wool works the same way.

Victory !!!!!!

human 1

rat 0

😜

 

This rodent, cost me a flood, electrical bill, and 3 doors that have been chewed that now need repair and repaint !! 

oh what a lovely day!!!!! 

Edited May 31, 20224 yr by 64 kiwi boni