-Boz-

On the basis of principle I refuse to attend any Oktoberfest held in October. Freaking anglophones getting it wrong, it's meant to be held in September! The ABSOLUTE latest it can go is the 7th of October. It it the 16 days leading up to the first Sunday in October.

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I tend to drink bock, stouts, porters and dark ales....

I'd be furious if I was the guys down south. They are actively trying to engage the media to put a positive spin on things and instead we have Keith sandbagging the media entirely. You need to control the story, not have the story written about you! This is PR/Marketing 101.

It reads more as sour grapes. I have the feeling that Keith Littler is a little pissed he didn't secure a seat and Ricky Muir did. Keith gained a larger percentage of the primary vote in Qld than Ricky did in Vic but the Palmer United Vote up here sucked too much out of the minor parties so the preference cascade didn't work as well here. Then the Vic Party executive start trying to engage the media and putting forward ideas and policy without talking to Keith. He then picks up his ball and goes home to sulk. The guys down south were trying to be proactive with the media and actually start to get things moving. This took 'power' away from Keith (despite the fact that Ricky, as Senator Elect actually has the power, not the National Secretary) so he has had a hissy fit. God damn am I happy we decided to stay away from this circus.

Quick Michael! Get the Sky Defenders onto it!

AMEP has gone to shit with infighting tearing them up. What a shock *sarcasm*

Tony and I actually had a chat about this WAY back when they were first starting to organise (before the AMEP were formed) and we basically came to the conclusion that you had damn well better make sure that everything was 100% stowed away and ready before you start making waves and taking the fight back to the big boys or else the blowback will destroy you. A wise person once said you don't pick fights with people who buy ink by the barrel, looks like that's still true today. Death by media and motoring enthusiasts cop a massive body blow as a result.

http://www.afr.com/p/national/senate_win_stalls_motoring_enthusiast_HBJDtDDnzeMTns1IR0GgxL http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/motoring-enthusiasts-in-chaos-as-queenslanders-sack-victorian-arm-20131007-2v427.html Because no one saw that coming...

QR charges per person, not per car.

Check the events section of the forums and have a look We do regular dinners, Happy Lap events, cruises etc. Next year we are looking at doing 4 sprint days, 2 drag days, some motokhana stuff and so on as well

If the club selects my proposal, and if we decide on small stickers, I will probably ask Rush to do me a large one anyways

Yeah, easily

define quarter panel sticker?

I love... lamp

And just in case the other states like it enough...

Does the front bar require a GT-R bonnet or does the GT-T one work with it?

And to give you an idea of what it could look like on a car as a sticker...

Uses a few design elements that are integral to the skyline community Firstly, the Red is the same red used in the R on GT-R badges. The S is a stylised version of the Skyline 'S' badge used on all of our cars. The 'kyli' section represents the position of the engine in the car as well as the six cylinder layout of all of our cars with the tops of the letters being stylised piston heads and the tails running off in an exhaust manifold. The design is instantly recognisable and carries over design cues from the previous design and the logos of all the other states while at the same time presenting a cleaner, more modern approach.

Waivers don't hold a lot of water in court all that often unfortunately Basically there needs to be some form of bargaining equality and sufficient consideration for a waiver to be upheld in circumstances like this, otherwise the courts have a long history of dismissing the waiver. This is particularly true where it can be argued that the waiver is an attempt to remove liability in the case of negligence. The argument would be structured that it was negligent of QR to allow people with no safety equipment, no vehicle scrutineering and no proper driver briefing out on track to go hell for leather.

Not snobbery, just my opinion. The larger is (to me) an ordinary, run of the mill Larger and the pacific ale is just a mild APA. I'm finding my taste in beer and wine getting bigger and bigger, these just don't do it for me any more.

Average beer is average. I'd be happy if I had more than 2 choices of black beer at First Choice.

R rated games is less of an issue than you think. Before R rated games were a thing there were less than a dozen games that were refused classification and of those most had some minor tweak to get it past the censors (e.g. changing the name of one item in Fallout 3/NV so it doesn't reference morphine, stopping you from beating hookers to death after hiring them in GTA3 etc) The main reason the R rating was pushed by industry groups was to stop little timmy buying it, not to allow for more graphic content. As for the studies, well they are actually inconclusive. For every well designed study finding no correlation between violent games and aggressive behaviour there is another that does find a link. Playing a violent game may not make you a killer, but it may exacerbate underlying issues. This isn't unique to games however, it applies to all forms of media consumption. Why do you think they put helpline numbers on every news article about suicide? Because reading the news article may tip a severely depressed person over the edge.

Surprised that no one in the media is up in arms over that. Being able to kill a hooker in GTA3 got the gamed banned in Australia until they released an altered version. Maybe the bleeding hearts are still too torn up about the election to notice.