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....in the meantime, STP was providing new, supposedly genuine Harley parts in STP boxes - but they were actually made in 3rd world locations, such as Pakistan, Afghanistan, Turkistan, Waggastan, Moorabbistan and Melburnistan.

What raised suspicion was the boxes were marked STP - but they were actually secondhand STP lubricant additive boxes, recycled from an Afghanistan rubbish tip, by a long-lost relation of Cappys, one Mustafa ShXX.

The Harley owners were outraged when they realised their parts were ersatz, and especially poor manufacture - as witnessed by the hand file marks on the new pistons.

They gathered together as a group and decided to confront Turbo at STP Headquarters - but Turbo heard they were coming (he couldn't not have heard them, you can hear any Harley from 16kms away), and he quickly made plans to.....

.... not only did it perform better than the original Drifter, it also came with full-face masks, that doubled as virus filters, as well as oxygen masks.

However, Turbo neglected to mention the masks were also needed against the horrendous level of fumes the turboencabulator-boosted engines produced.

When Cappy complained that he could barely see where he was going for engine fumes (let alone the lack of instruments), Turbo merely retorted, "I told you this thing would fly as good as a 1915 Sopwith Camel fighter!"

Of course, Turbo wasn't referring to the handling abilities of Sopwith Camels, he was referring to the fact that most Sopwith pilots barely made it home without being asphyxiated, due to the castor oil fumes.

"But there's no intruments, either!", wailed Cappy. "I told you already, it would be as good as a Sopwith Camel! How many instruments do you think they had? - and they won WW1 with them!!"

About then, a call from the office came through. The Chinese herbs with added Tiger Penis were ready to be picked up - but the office girl advised that Border Security had been sniffing around, and had heard about a potential shipment of illegal Tiger Penis-boosted Chinese herbs, that were on their way.

Turbo was worried. This wasn't what he......

.... a blackmarket financial scam involving Vietnamese Dong, MPC, and US Dollars. The Captain barely escaped from Saigon with his life, with a Vietnamese blackmarket gang hot on his heels, when they realised they'd been conned.

Regardless of his NDE, the Captain went on to greater heights in the financial markets, becoming a big trader in CFD's.

Once again, he just managed to squeak (rat ref) out, just before the GFC hit, and CFD's became as valueless as a Melbourne restaurant at the present moment.

With his ill-gotten gains safely banked, the Captain looked around for more lucrative returns, and it was about then that he stumbled across Turbine Enterprises, which he helped finance.

Meantimes, Turbine Enterprises was looking at money-making opportunities in the Virus Age.

Turbine, with the sharpness of a long-standing con-artist, quickly realised there were great openings in the new Virus Age, for lucrative gains in dodgy fitness equipment, and snake oil products that were guaranteed to cure COVID-19.

Accordingly, orders were placed with the Wun Beig Long Con company for their outstanding range of el-cheapo fitness equipment, and Chinese live-long herbs, with added Tiger Penis.

Cappy, with his huge range of Asian "contacts", was placed in charge of ordering and logistics - and then came the horrible news. Ships couldn't be loaded for fear of virus transmission, and it was going to be........

It's pretty obvious F.B. is following the Rush Limbaugh line of reasoning as regards the COVID-19 virus.

I guess we'll soon be hearing the line, that only the lazy and the poor get this virus, so no problem there.

Rush is saying, "It's just a cold, what's the panic and hysteria? The economy is more important than just a few lives!"

https://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/entry/rush-limbaugh-economy-coronavirus_n_5e845a88c5b6a1bb76504f78?ri18n=true

Comparing deaths from light aircraft crashes, to deaths from a highly contagious viral pandemic, shows your maths grades at school probably didn't get you past 4th grade.

America is behind the 8-ball with the COVID-19 virus, because they refused to use the virus test that the rest of the world was using. So they tried to make their own, it didn't work properly, and they lost at least 2 weeks trying to do this.

The Americans provide an excellent recipe for how to completely bXXXs-up the testing regime, by adopting the wrong approach after the virus was found in serious numbers inside the country - then by stuffing up the testing process.

https://www.businessinsider.com.au/us-coronavirus-testing-problems-timeline-2020-3?r=US&IR=T

Re the relieving oneself in the air - I have a friend in California who owns a Citabria. He's mid-50's and has a son, 19, at the time of the story (a few years ago)

He takes his son with him on a cross-country ride to a couple of States away, about a 4 hr trip.

He gets up to serious height, and the son starts saying, "Ooooh, Dad, I gotta go! I shouldn't have had that big greasy hamburger and shake, right before we left!"

Dad is bit short-tempered at the best of times, and starts berating him - "Why didn't ya go before we left? It's taken me 20 minutes to reach cruise level, now you tell me you gotta go, and now you want me to descend, find an airstrip, and then get back up again, losing a heap of time, and burning a heap of gas! You're just going have to go in a bag right there, and throw it out the window!"

So he finds a plastic shopping bag in the 'plane, and son fills it up with a huge No. 2. He duly hurls it out the window - whereupon, it promptly gets caught around the tailplane!!

Dad is downright livid by now - he reckoned the stench in the 'plane was unbelievable - and then he had to chuck a pile of aerobatics, trying to dislodge this huge bag of poo! It eventually dislodged, to his great relief.

I laughed and laughed when I read his email, he tells the story much better than I could. But one thing's for sure - son goes to the toilet before they take off, every time now!!

The number of COVID-19 cases detected in W.A. has been falling for 3 days now. Over 30% of the COVID-19 cases in W.A. have come from cruise ships, or people returning from overseas by air.

There doesn't appear to be any serious spread in the general population of W.A., obviously due to the shutting of establishments where people congregated, the distancing rules, and the quarantining of people who have returned from overseas.

.....the turboencabulator on the nearby Super Drifter, thus increasing the power output by another 15%. "I've never seen anything like that snaitizer before!", exclaimed Turbo.

"That stuff is amazing! I must find out the formula and see if it's patented! There could be a very large and productive opening here for Turbine Enterprises!".

"You ain't seen nuthin' yet!", said Cappy, doing his best Hollywood imitation drawl (as he always had dreams of becoming a Hollywood Star. As it was, the closest he'd ever got to stardom was when he was fronted in the street by a Channel 9 camera crew, asking if he'd seen the criminals running from the scene).

"That snaitizer lotion can be used to cure COVID-19 cases, 100%! I haven't let the CMO of Australia know yet, as I need to finish the testing, and see if it also......

That'd send you cuckoo.....

F.B. said ...

I noted the source of the Breitbart article. I noted the wording of the Breitbart article. The article reads the same over many news services.

And you still fail to understand, that many overseas news media simply repost the exact same untruthful articles - word for word - as appear in Australian media - without fact checking.

This is the "source" of your story about "Australian Vigilantes Slashing Tyres of Fleeing COVID-19 Refugees" - note the excellent work in using a "file photo" of a flat tyre - not even a slashed tyre, and not even an actual "COVID-19 refugees" tyre!!

https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/queensland/outback-tyres-slashed-as-queensland-nomads-flee-virus-20200327-p54eod.html

I have actually written to The Rt Hon David Littleproud to ask where he got his "facts" from, as regards "COVID-19 refugees" having their tyres slashed in rural and Outback Queensland. I doubt whether he will even reply.

It's a toss-up as to whether you or Littleproud produces more BS.

..... yup, you guessed it, with no masks on.

It's O.K., they use Namaste to greet the people they're checking on.

Here you go, FB - plenty of reading material for you, and even dedicated websites on the 'net, to boost your "research" into the Chinese conspiracy to take advantage of the weakened West ....

https://www.google.com/search?q=China+conspiracy+sites&oq=China+conspiracy+sites

Now, about those aliens in the Tunnels at the South Pole - did you read where they're planning a world takeover soon, too?

F.B. - I guess you fail to understand the word, "syndicated", when it comes to news articles??

That is, one paper runs a beat-up news item in one country, and the syndicated newspapers/websites all around the world run with the same story, often word for word??

I'm still waiting to see news articles or Police or Court reports about these "coronavirus vigilantes" actually being rounded up and charged?? After all, vigilantes are pounced on rapidly by the Police, normally, are they not?

Also - perhaps AFP could run a "fact check", on whether vigilantes are actually slashing tyres of tourists caravans in Outback Australia??

https://factcheck.afp.com/

F.B. - SplitS just provided you with a classic Breitbart beat-up, and "fake news", re tyre slashing in Australia. Little wonder Trump recognises fake news, a lot comes from his camp.

KGW - Please accept my sympathy as regards the loss of your sister, cancer is a bastard of a disease, it seems few families are untouched by it.

My workshop landlord has cancer now, my Dad died of Melanoma that went in, from in front of his ear, 7 mths of increasing agony and desperation, despite a morphine injector strapped to stomach for the last couple of months.

Brendan Nelson was head of the AWM and just retired at the end of 2019.

https://www.awm.gov.au/media/press-releases/Dr-Nelson-Retirement

Breitbart News is an extreme right-wing organisation who backs American Prepper beliefs and they regularly post untrue articles.

The vandalism in Dalby appears to have not appeared in Police news, because it involved juveniles. But the following article appears behind a paywall in the "Chronicle" -

"DALBY police have two juvenile offenders in custody after a string of vandalism offences. It is alleged the juveniles slashed nine vehicle tires between 8 and 9pm last night. In one instance the juveniles slashed three vehicle's tires at the Johnson's Dalby Motor Group car yard, opposite the Dalby Police Station."

Here is the media beat-up and BS statement by David Littleproud, with no facts to back it up. Why would anyone slash the tyres of tourists to get rid of them? That only ensures they stay where they are.

https://7news.com.au/lifestyle/health-wellbeing/coronavirus-fuelled-tension-hits-regional-queensland-as-tyres-of-outsider-vehicles-slashed-c-765999

Virtually all tyre-slashing events are purely criminal damage with dumb motives such as vandalism, parking anger, and domestic violence towards partners vehicles.

The other factor appearing regularly, in some previous contributor statements, is that they are constantly comparing the COVID-19 virus to the 'flu.

COVID-19 is not comparable to the regular 'flu varieties. The COVID-19 virus is still poorly understood, it has no vaccine, and it causes a major over-reaction in the immune system, which means the immune system starts to attack healthy cells.

This virus is also carried and spread by thousands, who show no virus symptoms. Once you have had a severe infection of the COVID-19 virus, you also end up with permanently damaged lung sacs.

SplitS said -

in Australia "out of towner's " are getting their tyres slashed

Total and utter BS. Please provide the factual Police reports about these so-called "tyre slashing events" directly related to the COVID-19 virus hysteria. All Police areas have reports on what criminal activity has happened in their area.

There have only been two Police reports of tyre slashing in QLD in the last week -

One is related to domestic violence/relationship disputes, when a woman found the tyres on her car slashed in Hinkler Central Shopping Centre in Bundaberg.

The other is a tyre slashing event in Dalby, where two juveniles were arrested on vandalism charges, 4 days ago, after a "drunken spree" involving the slashing of 9 vehicle tyres between 8:00 and 9:00PM on Wed night.

There are no official reports of tourists caravan tyres being slashed because of COVID-19 virus - it's a classic "news beat-up" - the media reports of the events, even use a "file photo" of a flat tyre!!

Typical major news media, "fake news", designed to sell their papers and get people to click on their sites - which are always behind a paywall.

I refuse to pay news media for their rubbishy journalism, and hyperventilation over made-up "news articles".

Part of this beat-up was also from an untrue statement from (QLD) Federal Minister David Littleproud, who repeated the "fake news", in another media interview.

.....bring a new-found level of heat to the passion of the orgy, by introducing chilli-coated condoms. This action by Cappy led to a general revolt, much disgust, and a rapid end to the orgy.

"But I like everything HOT!! - including my wimmen!", said Cappy, as Mavis threw him off her, wailing that she felt like she was on fire!

"Fire?? Fire?? Did I hear someone call FIRE!!??", said Turbo, rushing in with his Victorian firefighters uniform and brass hat on (No, not the State - the ERA!)

"WTF???", cried out Roxette as she hastily dressed and surveyed Turbo in all his Victorian firefighter suit glory. "Where did this bloke come from, and what's he doing here? This is an orgy, not a house burning down!",

"I heard someone call out FIRE!", said Turbo - so, as I love wearing my Victorian Firefighters uniform and pretending to be a real firefighter ('cos I always wanted to be one, but my Mum wouldn't even let me ride on the fire truck), I had to answer the distress call!".

"You absolute twerp!" said Bryon, "You and Cappy have just ruined a perfectly fine orgy with your..........

We'll wait a little while before we order the statues. You forgot to read the last paragraph.

"However, the Centers for Disease Control, and the World Health Organization, said there is no evidence that Vitamin C prevents, or can cure the virus."

I'm happy enough to understand and believe that high doses of Vitamin C is a pretty good way to hammer flu viruses.

It's an excellent anti-oxidant - and I get plenty of it, by eating nice sweet local oranges, and drinking a fair bit of fresh orange juice daily. It's my favorite tipple.

But one has to produce peer-reviewed studies over an extended period of time, for ones disease-killing product, if one wants to receive general acceptance by the medical fraternity.

The problem with extremely high doses of manufactured Vitamin C, is that all it does, is give you expensive yellow wee. The body can only absorb modest doses of it, it simply rejects overloads of Vitamin C.

https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/VitaminC-HealthProfessional/

SplitS - Dearie Me! Your favourite Womens Health Mag needs to make up its mind, as to which style of food intake it's going to support!

https://www.womenshealthmag.com/food/a19945165/risks-of-eating-meat/

Recreational aviation will spring back with low fuel prices, that are set to be around for 2 years or more.

Sorry F.B. - Your pooh-poohing of vegan diets doesn't stack up against the facts. The Seventh Day Adventists, fairly strict vegans, live much longer than any other Americans, and are healthier in their old age!

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-7731947/Seventh-Day-Adventists-longer-life-expectancy-lower-cancer-risk-study-finds.html

This old S.D.A. Doc was still working in his 90's, still driving himself about, and doing all his house maintenance at 100 - and he only died at age 104!

https://news.adventist.org/en/all-news/news/go/2018-12-20/in-memoriam-ellsworth-wareham-104-was-blue-zone-pioneer-and-cardiologist/

Vegan diets are not for me, I love my red meat- but I'm not about to pooh-pooh someone who chooses a different style of diet.

I do keep right away from smoked meats and most pork, I believe they are not good for you, long term. I do eat a bit of bacon, but I always ensure I have a balanced diet, with even amounts of carbs, protein, and vegies/salads.