Banter TRTT Part 14: 2022 Goodbye (To 2023)

[Crocodile Dumbdee]

Reverse parking is the most useless driving skill to learn and does not make you a good driver

Agree. If you have to squeeze your vehicle in such a small space and that's the only way, park somewhere else.

 

[backtozero]

It was also a sad day for mankind when almost everybody lost the knowledge of how to drive a horse drawn buggy

I'm sad that horses lost the ability to draw somewhere along the line.

 

[NoddyHolder]

I'm sad that horses lost the ability to draw somewhere along the line.

They never lost the ability. They no longer choose to indulge us

 

[Schulzenfest]

The ability to drive a manual car will be lost soon. When our projected Electric car overlords take over, they will barely exist.

 

[edgie]

Pfft what kind of cars don't come with pretend manual/sports mode anyway?

 

[simba_]

reversing in is some BDE and not everyone has BDE

 

[edgie]

The ability to drive a manual car will be lost soon. When our projected Electric car overlords take over, they will barely exist.

As long as people are getting paid six figures to drive the cheapest deal a worksite could get on a fleet, they will exist.

 

[JimmyBC]

It'll only make classic cars more desirable

 

[edgie]

It'll only make classic cars more desirable

Probably not.

Once kids can not have to drive and just spend more time on their phones, no one will be interested in having to do something, when you can just do whatever you want for longer. Like saying streaming a film will make DVDs with special features more desirable.

 

[edgie]

Except to criminals.

Every new car can be tracked by police, every single one.

 

[JimmyBC]

Probably not.

Once kids can not have to drive and just spend more time on their phones, no one will be interested in having to do something, when you can just do whatever you want for longer. Like saying streaming a film will make DVDs with special features more desirable.

I dunno, there will always be some BDE attached to the way old cars look, sound and feel.

 

[chiwigi]

Pfft what kind of cars don't come with pretend manual/sports mode anyway?

I have flappy paddles on my forester ffs .

 

[chiwigi]

Probably not.

Once kids can not have to drive and just spend more time on their phones, no one will be interested in having to do something, when you can just do whatever you want for longer. Like saying streaming a film will make DVDs with special features more desirable.

It has with motorbikes.
So much so that new ones are designed to look like old ones engine and all.

 

[edgie]

I'm not current and not with it, what the heck is BDE

 

[JimmyBC]

I'm not current and not with it, what the heck is BDE

Big Dick Energy

 

[TeeKray]

Qantas posts record half year profit in a $2.7bn turnaround — The Australian

Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce has assured customers they will reap the benefits of the airline’s resounding return to profitability after three years of losses.

apple.news

How foreseeable was this.


The pollies who greenlit that payout should be lined up against a wall and shot.



Despicable organisation that is happy to hide behind “market forces set our prices not us” but want taxpayers to give them billions of dollars any time the market is s**t.

It's obviously a lot more complicated than you're making it out to be. For starters it wasn't just normal market forces that led to the handout, it was the government(s) essentially outlawing their business indefinitely.

As for the price gouging, the only way these prices come down is if people stop paying for them. I would never pay these absurd prices you see people paying - not because I couldn't afford to, just out of principle. And yes some people have no choice but most do.

 

[philthy05]

It's obviously a lot more complicated than you're making it out to be. For starters it wasn't just normal market forces that led to the handout, it was the government(s) essentially outlawing their business indefinitely.

As for the price gouging, the only way these prices come down is if people stop paying for them. I would never pay these absurd prices you see people paying - not because I couldn't afford to, just out of principle. And yes some people have no choice but most do.

I should have stuck by my principles and not flown back to Adelaide to see my mother before the surgery doctors said there was a very real chance she might not wake up from.

 

[backtozero]

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The irony being that Clarkson would care about this more than probably anyone.

 

[TeeKray]

I should have stuck by my principles and not flown back to Adelaide to see my mother before the surgery doctors said there was a very real chance she might not wake up from.

Dude, I literally said 'some people have no choice but most do'.

 

[edgie]

Big Dick Energy

huh

 

[edgie]

The irony being that Clarkson would care about this more than probably anyone.

Lol **** what a pick up.

Clarkson loved the manual gearbox on a Commodore

 

[edgie]

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As for the price gouging, the only way these prices come down is if people stop paying for them. I would never pay these absurd prices you see people paying - not because I couldn't afford to, just out of principle. And yes some people have no choice but most do.

As for the price gouging, the only way these prices come down is if people stop paying for them.

As for the price gouging, the only way these prices come down is if people stop paying for them.

As for the price gouging, the only way these prices come down is if people stop paying for them.

For so many things, this is true.

 

[philthy05]

Dude, I literally said 'some people have no choice but most do'.

Flying isn’t and shouldn’t be considered a luxury. People simply have to travel for all sorts of reasons and to tell people just not to pay airline prices is naive and shows a lack of awareness.


Also, while you’re enjoying your principles qantas just reported a $3.7b dollar profit.

Your principles don’t mean shit to them. They’ll take your tax dollars, and their massive profits.

 

[edgie]

Oh ok.

Taking the most expensive, risky, fastest, technology advanced way of travel shouldn't be considered a luxury?

 

[philthy05]

Oh ok.

Taking the most expensive, risky, fastest, technology advanced way of travel shouldn't be considered a luxury?

No, travel is not a luxury.


I’m also baffled how those things you list would make it a luxury?


Might as well call housing a luxury cause it’s dearer than a dog kennel.