Trivia and other useless but interesting items

What is a Donkey's Breakfast?

Many, many years ago a sailor's straw stuffed mattress was known as a "Donkey's Breakfast".

Firearms are tools in my view. Not for this type of malarkey

"A 65-year-old American man who rigged his home with a booby trap to keep out intruders has been killed by the device."

Booby traps: Man in Maine killed by own device - BBC News

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Out to Lilydale dropping 4 excited kid for an overnight bike ride. The cabin/camp in Warburton. School would not let me ride [bawl]

Coming back on Maroondah highway on a nice hill, 3 lanes and a great 80kph left hand sweeping bend. Sharp braking a few cars in front hinted at an issue! Horns blaring in front came in to view with a small car broken down with hazard light on. Observed the chaos while waiting for middle lane to clear. Stationary cars and utes trying to pull out in front of trucks doing 80KPH YIKES. Pulled up in front and asked the driver if they would like a towed to be clear of the danger. She declined the tow as she was just out of petrol- I took her to a petrol station then back. I gathered she must not have declined the tow offer thinking of "Wolf Creek" I thought as she took the lift to the servo.


I pulled up before the blind corner with my hazard lights on about 50 metres before her car as I saw twice more, the complete chaos while waiting to turn to that sided of the highway. Not mentioning the age of the driver but lets say she has not topped up a car before and took about 20 minutes before I hopped on my crutches up the hill to help. 😊 The splash flap in the petrol pipe is not that obvious I guess.


In the 20 minutes the lights down the hill changed about 5 times. Each time despite a reasonably big stationary Disco with hazard lights making it clear a party was happening; Again and again cars piled up behind stopping and then from stopped cars and utes trying to pull out in front of trucks doing 80KPH. Horns, air horns and even a few choice words directed at me for hindering the traffic. 😊


I wonder what those who honked an raged before they found the car broken down around the corner thought when the saw the person/car with no petrol they just may have run in to had I not been back where I was clearly visible? It was easy to change lanes behind me. It was very dangerous behind the car out of petrol.

It really doesn’t mater what they felt or think before or after. It’s very clear some people rage before they find out why a car is stopped an obstructing the left lane. Happily most did not behave like the few who did each time

Note to self- show my kids how to............. [biggrin]

Your help must have been greatly appreciated & was a good thing to do BUT,
Why didn't the young lady put fuel in her car?
Would have saved everybody a heap of agro!
Jonesfam

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Out to Lilydale dropping 4 excited kid for an overnight bike ride. The cabin/camp in Warburton. School would not let me ride [bawl]

Coming back on Maroondah highway on a nice hill, 3 lanes and a great 80kph left hand sweeping bend. Sharp braking a few cars in front hinted at an issue! Horns blaring in front came in to view with a small car broken down with hazard light on. Observed the chaos while waiting for middle lane to clear. Stationary cars and utes trying to pull out in front of trucks doing 80KPH YIKES. Pulled up in front and asked the driver if they would like a towed to be clear of the danger. She declined the tow as she was just out of petrol- I took her to a petrol station then back. I gathered she must not have declined the tow offer thinking of "Wolf Creek" I thought as she took the lift to the servo.


I pulled up before the blind corner with my hazard lights on about 50 metres before her car as I saw twice more, the complete chaos while waiting to turn to that sided of the highway. Not mentioning the age of the driver but lets say she has not topped up a car before and took about 20 minutes before I hopped on my crutches up the hill to help. [emoji4] The splash flap in the petrol pipe is not that obvious I guess.


In the 20 minutes the lights down the hill changed about 5 times. Each time despite a reasonably big stationary Disco with hazard lights making it clear a party was happening; Again and again cars piled up behind stopping and then from stopped cars and utes trying to pull out in front of trucks doing 80KPH. Horns, air horns and even a few choice words directed at me for hindering the traffic. [emoji4]


I wonder what those who honked an raged before they found the car broken down around the corner thought when the saw the person/car with no petrol they just may have run in to had I not been back were clearly visible? It was easy to change lanes behind me. It was very dangerous behind the car out of petrol.

It really doesn’t mater what they felt or think before or after. It’s very clear some people rage before they find out why a car is stopped an obstructing the left lane. Happily most did not behave like the few who did each time

Note to self- show my kids how to............. [biggrin]

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Well done. The behaviour of some drivers is absurd.

And there was you Diver, thinking your life was going to be boring while on crutches awaiting your return to fitness.[biggrin][biggrin][biggrin]

So, a trivia question: what is this called?

You probably know what it does, but I recently discovered it has an actual name. What is it? https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...dd7774c4f9.jpg

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So, a trivia question: what is this called?

You probably know what it does, but I recently discovered it has an actual name. What is it?

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I call mine a knock box.

tappy thing

Bloody hell, Mick, if you don't know what it is you really shouldn't be rooting around with it. I can see it has cost you a finger already. [bigsad] [biggrin][biggrin]