Thread: Trivia and other useless but interesting items

Originally Posted by Saitch

After a chat with my insurer re: actual vehicle usage and mentioning that we have multiple vehicle policies with them, they lowered the annual premium for my tilly by $80.
They have a 6,000 km per year ceiling for low usage vehicles, which I am well under.

Hi,
I wish policies could be purchased by the km not the year.
Cheers

Diver and hitch hiking "cocaine with a street value in the tens of millions of dollars." I mean

Ships Divers like me in the Navy did hull searches for explosives. The drug smugglers have gone green by shipping rather than bring their own boats, planes or other means of transport!

The silly sod who died with re-breather kit on is interesting. It was in the Special forces Clearance Divers kit. Saw it often and helped service it but never used it myself below water.

It scrubs or filters exhaled carbon dioxide and adds a bit of oxygen all in the equipment, unlike suba gear, re-breather kit expels no bubble to the surface. It is at least 4 to 5 time more dangerous than Scuba.

Trivia will be are the drug criminal diving experts or hacks with not a clue? How long have they been doing it for might be another bit of trivia? Do they claim carbon credits for hitch hiking??? I am being silly with the last bit


Drug smugglers strapping contraband to ships''' hulls in bid to outsmart Australian port officials - ABC News


Note Police use almost the same kit now I used is another cool bit of trivia. I wonder if they train at my old digs at HMAS Penguin

Hi,
Fire service use similar for ship fires needing a longer air supply time than normal B.A..
Known as snotgobblers, they are not pleasant to use apparently.
Cheers

Similar to cave diving gear for exploration. If you get it wrong it aint pretty.

When it's a Landcruiser!

https://www.news.com.au/technology/m...534221b13ae881

Originally Posted by austastar

Hi,
I wish policies could be purchased by the km not the year.
Cheers

KOBA's pay-by-kilometre car insurance now available | Insurance Business Australia (insurancebusinessmag.com)

Even if one is left handed one has to play Polo right handed for safety reasons.

I know there is a twitter thread. I think its trivial "Musk Says His Twitter Takeover Is ‘On Hold,’ Then Says He’s ‘Still Committed’

Mr. Musk said he wanted to confirm Twitter’s findings that spam and fake accounts make up less than 5 percent of its users.

"

Mr Flip flop as usual