Thread: Trivia and other useless but interesting items

Originally Posted by 4bee

Maybe you are correct then?

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Originally Posted by gromit

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That was four years ago,i wonder how the new toy went?

Originally Posted by gromit

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Should've stuck to the Bush Tucker, the City Tucker is not doing him any favours.

Things that make you go Hmmmmmmmm

“The Lord of the Rings” was also a sacred text. “I don’t consider ‘The Lord of the Rings’ fantasy,” she said.

"Hobbits and the Hard Right: How Fantasy Inspires Italy’s Potential New Leader
Giorgia Meloni, the nationalist politician who is the front-runner to become prime minister, sees “The Lord of the Rings” as not just a series of novels, but also a sacred text." Link pay walled possibly sorry

Frodo would be confused I think J.R.R. Tolkin did spin a good yarn of course. The expanded yarn to the fruity loopy types is via "Elémire Zolla, a philosopher who was a point of reference on the hard right and who argued that Tolkien was “talking about everything we confront every day.”"

Elémire died in 1926.

I wonder if Tom Cruise odd space cadets might swap notes? He is Scientology
That is of course by L. Ron Hubbard a science fiction yarn man who died 1986.

during the S111 >Perentie phase out/in program , DOD purchased a number of LWB canvas top troopies. To do the job that the S111's were doing required extra spring leaves front and rear, which turned the Landcruiser into an absolute dog of a thing.

Many drivers rejoiced at the "power" available and there was a subsequent increase in mil vehicle accidents. I believe Les was given one and he hated it. I had one as company vehicle (army company) for a while and it was a dog on a loose dirt road and if you had the obligitary ten diggers in the back they would very quickly let you know how unstable they rode.

I don't recall if Les handed his back and resecured an old land rover , but there was something there. I don't know if he got a perentie.....it took a long time and all the pogos seemed to get them first.

Those Cruisers were offloaded to the reserves.

Originally Posted by V8Ian

Those Cruisers were offloaded to the reserves.

I never saw those in my time with RA Sigs & current vehicles then were 109 S2As as FFRs.

Sounds like I was very lucky.

The geographical centre of Aus is at Lambert on Lilla Creek Station, NT The Royal Geographical Society of Queensland - Lambert Centre (rgsq.org.au) however the population centre is near Ivanhoe in NSW. 3218.0 - Regional Population Growth, Australia, 2015-16 (abs.gov.au)