Trivia and other useless but interesting items

Got a bit today. The other half's Model 3 Tesla has smaller tire valves. Tried to measure it when she said she had some issue trying to top up at a Servo- Not them telling her to remove the EV [biggrin]

I grabbed my trusty D3 deflation tool and found it did not fit. Oddly as I ride bikes the valve stems on them are thin sods as well. My bike pump which has topped up my D3 post a sand drive in WA - that was a bit of hot air. Fits her car. Check the borrowed MG and it is the little skinny ones as well. I wonder if that is the new standard or just EVs? Trivial once known as a spacer to take up the different size hole for modern smaller valve stems was just ordered online as lock down here keeps me from the tire place for a chat about the little issue.

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Originally Posted by NavyDiver

Get some beef in your fridge gents. [biggrin] ""I expect there's going to be a genuine shortage of lean beef globally for the next 12 to 24 months," he said." Argentina is one of the biggest beef exporters globally just banned exports for a month[bigwhistle] That's going to hurt 那會很疼 [biggrin]

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I wonder if the JBS (global meat processors) hacking attack will affect supply too? Although they seem to be back online, here and in the USA.

every now and again I think that's OLD. Footing in Amsterdam designed for horses now supporting several tonne garbage trucks for example. Nature as usual makes any thing we do look short term.
Hamelin pool in Shark Bay WA has some very cool stromatolites which are very very old.

Now Siberia permafrost thaw has made a freaky one. Microscopic animals which were frozen when woolly mammoths walked the earth are back. Bet they might be a little hungry after not eating for 24,000 Years [biggrin]

https://vp.nyt.com/video/2021/06/07/...d_wg_1080p.mp4

"A trip to the Hunter Valley to celebrate a relative's 90th birthday has proven to be an expensive night away for a Newcastle family, after a rat stowed away in their luxury four-wheel-drive Land Rover."

Yikes plus. Parking in deep puddles or a creek my be required

Belong to any one on here. NSW Its from the ABC 'Ravenous rodent destroys interior of Land Rover after overnight visit to Hunter Valley'



https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn...862&height=575

^^ Crikey, it really took out the interior! Bloody big mouse! [bigwhistle]

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Originally Posted by p38arover

^^ Crikey, it really took out the interior! Bloody big mouse! [bigwhistle]

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Hunter Valley you said? The Rat was probably ****ed.

The Toymota Rat was possibly bored out of it's brain having to spend all night in a "New style" LR. Could have been worse I guess, it could have been a Beaver or even a Pterodactyl.


At least someone will be happy, even if it is the LR Stealer.


Then again, maybe the owner had lost his/her diary with all of next week's extra marital assignations in it. GOTTA FIND IT...GOTTA FIND IT GOTTA FIND IT"[bigrolf]

On rats did any one see the retirement of a bomb hunter . It is just possibly the retirement party for Magawa gone off the rails in the Landrover? [thumbsupbig]

‘Hero rat’ Magawa retires from Cambodian bomb sniffing career

The award-winning seven-year-old rodent has detected 71 landmines and 38 items of unexploded ordnance, according to his employers.

Take a bow Magawa. top job mate

https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content...size=770%2C513

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Originally Posted by NavyDiver

On rats did any one see the retirement of a bomb hunter . It is just possibly the retirement party for Magawa gone off the rails in the Landrover? [thumbsupbig]

‘Hero rat’ Magawa retires from Cambodian bomb sniffing career

The award-winning seven-year-old rodent has detected 71 landmines and 38 items of unexploded ordnance, according to his employers.

Take a bow Magawa. top job mate

https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content...size=770%2C513

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[bigrolf]
Aw, Rats to that. How come his arse end is missing , did he notseethe one that got him?

Cute little fellow - well done and a well deserved retirement.

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Originally Posted by NavyDiver

"A trip to the Hunter Valley to celebrate a relative's 90th birthday has proven to be an expensive night away for a Newcastle family, after a rat stowed away in their luxury four-wheel-drive Land Rover."

Yikes plus. Parking in deep puddles or a creek my be required

Belong to any one on here. NSW Its from the ABC 'Ravenous rodent destroys interior of Land Rover after overnight visit to Hunter Valley'



https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn...862&height=575

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That'll teach the owners not to leave empty pizza trays under the seats.