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    Newspaper Today, P Platers.

    in South Australia

    Posted

    They have this in all other states, so they were bound to bring it here.

    I'd like to thank The Advertiser for their stereotypical 'hoon' view they've pushed across in every article they can fit the word into. I'd also like to thank this lovely lady, Lainie Anderson, for her lovely 'Wankers on Wheels' story about hills driving the other day in the paper *Read it here: http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0...5012955,00.html

    What I would like to see is these people who come up with these P plate laws, attempt to live a normal life while owning a imported Japanese car, and to modify it in a correct way and attempt to drive through a few RBT's in town with P plates up.

    1. P platers, do too, have lives and friends. But now they can kiss goodbye getting more than 1 of their friends into the car to go see a movie. Hello, Mr. Public Transport!

    2. P platers, do too, have friends who go out to town... drink... and require a ride home at 3am. But nope, Hello, Mr. Taxi!

    3. How about Turbo Diesel 4WD's? Are they counted as high performance cars since they have a turbo?!

    Pathetic.

    This all comes about due to endless 'hoon' media coverage not to mention the large amount of rubbish comments I see on www.news.com.au on any news article that has the word import in it (Eg. Ben from Pooraka says: Ban the driver for LIFE! Imports MUST be FORBIDDEN).

    But yes, I can see why they've brought this in. It's the small minority of dickheads out there who think piling 9 people into a VN Commodore and then ripping up the handbrake on a wet road would be awesome, that ruin it for the sensible P plate drivers.

    It was bound to happen. That's my rant for the evening. Goodnight.

    Edit: Ah! That news article link isn't working... try this one: News Article

    VN Commodore - thats a bit stereotypical there lol

    Its always the case, people look for blame, when they find something the media jumps on it to sell more papers and get higher ratings, then politicians jump on the wagon for better PR.

    Public sheep mentality.

    Maybe if they introduced "safe driving awareness" in schools they could teach kids prior to getting P's, whats safe and not. They have home economics, and you learn not to burn yourself - crap analogy I know

    But since driving is pretty much an every day part of life, you would think that more attention would be introduced into learning road rules and safety on the road.

    Newspaper Today, P Platers.

    in South Australia

    Posted

    If you have the car now, they can not force you to sell it, stop worrying and enjoy your car

    I dont know if that would be the case. What happened in other states, did they have to sell there rides??

    Imagine though if they past these "laws" and you drove around with P plates on your "performance" vehicle, the police would be on your ass for sure. Even if you owned the car prior to the changes.

    I wonder how they decide, what is performance or not... an aftermarket exhaust??

    Show Us Ya Tattoos!

    in South Australia

    Posted

    Ouch, I've had a few cover ups done for similar mistakes. As for the laser I had laser treatment on veins in both my legs.

    The veins were from groin to knee.. the only way to describe it is a small sun about the size of a grape gets placed in the groin area,

    then they turn the heat up to a tennis ball sized sun and drag it slowly from groin to knee. Not to mention the 30+ injections that followed. Good thing i'm a sadomasochist.

    LOL! sorry mate it probably hert like hell but the ball analogy cracked me up:)

    Skyline Fever

    in Newbie Introductions

    Posted

    pleased to meet you michael and welcome to the forums.

    hope you find that perfect skyline mate. all i can say is dont rush into buying one, u've got all the time in the world to get one, so make it a winner!!!

    Hey thanks mate

    Sound advice. There seems to be a really good market at the moment so thats promising. Only thing is that most of the good sales are interstate.

    I'll get there

    Cheers

    Another Crash Due To Other Drivers Lack Of Due Care

    in South Australia

    Posted

    The news agencies guess at best. I love the way they instantly hooked on to "High Performance". Every Skyline driver should be able to sue for discrimination ha ha

    "Believe nothing. No matter where you read it, or who said it, even if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense."

    ~ Buddha

    Obviously this doesn't apply to everything, but you get the idea

    Hope the kids are OK anyways.

    Basic Photography Tips

    in Photography

    Posted

    If blowing highlights is unavoidable, say there is a lot of glare from lots of cloud, meter of the ground, then point and shoot. Id rather have a blown sky than a pitch black point of interest.

    Try out HDR, you shoot 3 frames at different exposures (normal, under and over exposed), then combine them in post. Really nice results for stationary objects or land/city scapes. Some photogs use more than 3 frames or try to fake HDR by adjusting one images exposer in post. Just use 3 frames = best result

    Here's some info on HDR:

    http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/hdr.shtml

    http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials...namic-range.htm

    Check out Photomatrix - they have a free trial on there:

    http://www.hdrsoft.com/index.html

    Cheers

    Skyline Fever

    in Newbie Introductions

    Posted

    Hi guys,

    Ive been lurking about the forums for just over a week now and thought I should introduce.

    I'm Michael and currently drive a POS Magna he he.

    I'm trying to find a Skyline at the moment and come across SAU, already got a wealth of info from all your post; cheers:) Fingers crossed I get something soon cause I got the itch.

    A couple of hobbys (because I'm s**t at writing intro's) Photography, Guitar, Cars, computers, SIMS (racing).

    Anyway I'll see you around

    -Michael

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