In a smart car you are a lot safer than yu are in one of those ridiculous US SUV things.

here it is taking a monster mercedes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3bFhVvdlaI

The TATA NANO is a terrible idea.

India and China should be be leap frogging not tail coating

Just because it is glass doen't mean you have to live in a green house.

If it reflects heat away as well as absorbing/converting it to power then cover your roof in it too, it'll still do it's regardless.

Interesting idea though, and especially for Oz, where they invented hot.

level 16... stuck

Stephen Fry, undisputed national treasure of England.

And greatly prized by the peoles of the neighbouring nations... with the possible exception of france.

And most useful of all is that all of the stuff you store is right out where anyone can come and steal it.

But then what sort of thief would steal all that wet and warped lumber?

Storing what appears to be dressed timber ... outside?

As a farmer mate of mine once said, "people round here would steal the steam off your p*ss"

This was being drive on Fifth Gear in the UK about a month back, it gets gallons to the mile style fuel economy and you need planning permission,building permits and to notify merchant shipping in the area before you move the bugger

Nothing, not even this thorough going insight into the Platypius really prepares you for seeing the little buggers up close.

Saw them in the aquarium terrarium at Healseville Sanctuary out side of Melbourne.

Smashing wee guys.

You can use a torch to look at them underwater as they keep their eyes shut underwater.

Sumo wrestlers are in fact both mountains of muscle and bit fatties. It is the latter OVER the former.

It's the training and the diet that result in this dichotomy.

Fashions come and go in Sumo. Once it was the simply enormous who were preferred and then the very cut looking wrestlers found preference.

The Typhoon was a really big guy but not a fat guy. In fact it was his trouncing of both the Dump Truck and the Sea Slug that showed the weakness of the simply vast sumo, once they were moving they couldn't stop themselves.

tortoises surely?

NAme and shame people for all these things and more.

Vandalism drunk driving domestic violence and so on.

Shame is a very powerful tool.

I left money with a former house mate to settle debts, money which he pocketed and moved out. So I had to pay all the bills again.

I had no way of getting the money back from him but I had one thing, I had his father's phone number.

His dad is an ex royal marine and a seriously disciplined guy.

I emailed the house mate telling him I would grass him up to his old man.

Money in my hand within 48 hours.

Fabulous, I love penguins.

But... I saw a thing on I think the BBC yesterday about puffins on the island of Skelmor (?).

Imagine penguins, all great underwater with their wings and catching the fish and all.

Then they break the surface and FLY!

And have the gayest beaks in all of ornithology.

The penguin is dead, all hail King Puffin.

"bicycle license"

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banjo, as in Australia's national poet Banjo Patterson

Who wrote Clancy of The Overflow

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clancy_of_the_Overflow

and of course

Waltzing Matilda.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waltzing_Matilda#Lyrics

The names of the other 2 dinosaurs.

God I love Australia.

I had seen em on TV, and such like but it is quite a different matter when you come barrelling round a NSW unsealed road and find one of the big bastards standing like furry boulder in the road.

The big guy held his ground against several tons of early 70 Aussie station wagon, gave me a look of total disdain and shambled of into the bush.

Oh and they like to have a shit on raised things, so if you see a log, check it for wombat crap before sitting down.