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Hook jumper lead a to terminal n and jumper lead b to terminal p. proceed to attach the remaining ends to your testicals.

Car should remain charged for the rest of your life ;)

Are you trying to say i have powerful balls?

generally, the cheap ones are an outright charger only.

the expensive ones have the trickle charge function.

or, take for good drive.

then, disconnect battery.

stops anything draining.

if you want to stop it completely, will have to find whats draining power.

Well say i didn't use the trickle function, would simply hooking up the battery for a while be a bad thing?

If im not mistaken, do you use the trickle function whilst the car is still hooked up to just top it up over a long period of time?

Do 34s have inbuilt security? As I know on falcons this is what drains them over long periods

Don't believe so, but i do have an alarm system so i'm sure that helps chew through a bit.

Morning all. Shitty day 2day.

I paid more in tax last year than my wife made, I want a dole bludger as my butler for that shit.

At least you both have two incomes. And for you to earn more than ur wife she either got paid peanuts or as they say youre 'high income earner'. Which side of the fence do you want to be??? Edited by Ants

Morning all. Shitty day 2day.

At least you both have two incomes. And for you to earn more than ur wife she either got paid peanuts or as the say youre 'high income earner'. Which side of the fence do you want to be???

Well she was working until she got sick. I am what you would call a "high income earner" I guess. Doesn't really feel like it at the moment though medical bills really break the bank.

Some day's I would rather be on the poor side of the fence, Life was simpler and more care free before I discovered that being a responsible adult is important.

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I know plenty of low/mid income earners that are much happier than high income earner. My old man earns a ridiculous amount of money but he has no time to himself or his family...

Does being financially successful outweigh the need for a social life/family obligations in modern society?

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Well she was working until she got sick. I am what you would call a "high income earner" I guess. Doesn't really feel like it at the moment though medical bills really break the bank.

I feel ya. Cost of living is insane and medical / health system here is pethetic. Went to private hospital because the wife had complications and we paid on the $300 something for that evening (stayed 3hrs only), then several weeks later we were gettin all these bills from the drs we saw. I was like WTF? What the hell did we pay on that nite for????? Was more upset with their poor administration and that we could not claim it back via Medicare. What farkin joke!!!!

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I know plenty of low/mid income earners that are much happier than high income earner. My old man earns a ridiculous amount of money but he has no time to himself or his family...

Does being financially successful outweigh the need for a social life/family obligations in modern society?

Nick you will find that out out soon enough (maybe when ur a bit older). The key to success is being happy with yourself in life. But even that is not solid state and changes all the time!

The hardest thing for any Parent I would say (and it took me a long time to get this) Is the Sacrifice of quality time with the Kids now so they can have every advantage and the best of everything later.

I burn some serious hours at work and have not had a holiday where work wasn't involved some how (even my honeymoon) But it is all worth it when I get to sit down with my daughter and watch her play violin or any Sunday where I get to watch my son play Football.

Is being successful Important to me...Not really I would be happy being poor, Is it Important to me to set a good example for my kids and give them the best possible start to life....It's worth every single second of overtime and customer complaint.

Nick you will find that out out soon enough (maybe when ur a bit older). The key to success is being happy with yourself in life. But even that is not solid state and changes all the time!

That's the point I'm trying to make, I grew up in quite a strict but very well off household. Old man is an electrical engineer although has been climbing through management positions within a well known national company for the last 10 years or so.

So as you can imagine, he was around very little as I was growing up. Now that he is approaching 50, he's slowly realising that for all the financial gain he has achieved and physical assets he owns the events he has missed within his families life and the mates he's lost contact with comes no where near close to counterbalancing it in his mind.

And this is something he is finding very hard to come to terms with atm as its impossible to go back and make up all the times he missed...

The hardest thing for any Parent I would say (and it took me a long time to get this) Is the Sacrifice of quality time with the Kids now so they can have every advantage and the best of everything later.

I burn some serious hours at work and have not had a holiday where work wasn't involved some how (even my honeymoon) But it is all worth it when I get to sit down with my daughter and watch her play violin or any Sunday where I get to watch my son play Football.

Is being successful Important to me...Not really I would be happy being poor, Is it Important to me to set a good example for my kids and give them the best possible start to life....It's worth every single second of overtime and customer complaint.

and this ^ is the right mentality to adopt in today's world IMO.

Holidays you say...... well aside from general public holidays I haven't had one of those for 4 years now!

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and this ^ is the right mentality to adopt in today's world IMO.

Holidays you say...... well aside from general public holidays I have one of those for 4 years now!

Sounds like you and I could compare war stories.

Our country needs massive reforms especially around Healthcare and Childcare.

I agree with Nick about money - I took a massive pay cut when I left my management position to become a delivery driver but I'm a lot happier now and I get paid more per hour than I did before.

My wife loves it when I do housework now too :)

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