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Hervey Bay

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  1. My old Peugeot 504. Simple, almost agricultural, but sophisticated mechanically. Body designed by Pininfarina.

    They had the first outboard rear disc brakes of any car. Jaguar beat them but theirs were inboard...near the diff...and never worked well. Won the South Africa car rally 5 times against Mercedes who had helicopter backup.

    You still see them in North Africa a lot.

    Slow-revving pushrod engine, but fantastic suspension.

     

    I went everywhere in it. You could sleep in the early ones and I had some of the most comfortable sleeps of my life in it.

     

     

    Pug 50.jpg

  2. It took me a while after living in Thailand to notice the way Thai people, especially mothers, use mock anger instead of actually getting angry the way Western people do, and I think it is actually a psychologically very sophisticated way of dealing with emotions and unwanted behaviour. But I am sure some Westerners living in Thailand have not even noticed it.

     

    The mother raises her voice in a falsetto and pretends to hit the child, but never does so. Thereafter all that is needed is to raise the voice in that falsetto and the child knows they have overstepped the mark, and to rein in their behaviour.  I have tried it on adults here in the West and it works, but only if you make it over-exaggerated and obvious that you are play acting. In fact we do it already, but in quite a different way.

     

    Does anyone have thoughts or observations on this phenomenon ?

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  3. 16 hours ago, CanadaSam said:

     

    And, I'm still waiting to "learn" how to identify it, as it probably won't glow purple or blue when threatened, if it's dead?

    I caught one of these once, and apart from the fact that they are very small, I recall that even when you cannot see the blue rings, there are a number of brownish circular patterns on them. The overall size of the octopus is a giveaway. It is apparent that they are not a juvenile but a tiny adult.

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  4. On second thought, here are the first of many, many reports . They are hardly random.  And these are not even the first page of Google results. Would you like me to post all the links from pages 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 ???

     

    https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/09/health/teen-vaping-death.html

     

    https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/aug/03/victorian-student-found-unconscious-after-vaping-and-taken-to-hospital

     

    https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/health-problems/teen-nearly-dies-from-vaping-left-with-permanently-damaged-lungs/news-story/a557d95fe2c62837883b242ef6147c93

     

    https://au.news.yahoo.com/boy-12-dies-and-two-teen-girls-hospital-after-vaping-session-052607594.html

     

    https://www.foxnews.com/us/north-carolina-woman-warns-vaping-dangers-teen-stepsons-sudden-death-we-had-no-clue

     

    https://7news.com.au/lifestyle/health-wellbeing/russian-boy-dies-teen-sister-in-hospital-and-friend-in-coma-after-sleepover-vaping-session-c-5293943

     

    https://7news.com.au/sunrise/on-the-show/sydney-teenager-dakota-stephenson-treated-in-icu-for-evali-a-lung-conditon-linked-to-vaping-c-4232124

     

    https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/boy-dies-teen-sister-two-25927962

     

    https://www.insideedition.com/north-carolina-mom-warns-about-potential-dangers-of-vaping-after-15-year-old-stepson-dies-82403

     

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12352437/Solomon-Wynn-North-Carolina-football-star-dead-vaping-saw-develop-heart-condition.html

     

    https://www.insider.com/15-year-old-died-vaping-youngest-vaping-death-2020-1

     

     

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