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    NSW...new regs on Eeeebbs

    That's not an e-bike, it's an electric motorbike.
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    Little Things You Hate

    Pick up an "egg & bacon" pie from the local bakery. Fuck me, the egg & bacon combined comprise no more than 50% of the filling, the rest is fucking onion! I hate that shit!! 🤮
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    Hang Onto Your Hats! A general extreme weather thread.

    A squizz at today's charts indicates that the centre of the ECL is moving offshore, so the effects on the coast are past their worst. It's still a pretty ugly system, but over the next few days it'll be NZ's problem! :p
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    Formula One world championship

    Yes, because he was always "inoue"! In a bit of fairness, the term "mobile chicane" has, quite rightly, been levelled at many back-end drivers over the years, but Inoue is just such a hilariously appropriate name!
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    Formula One world championship

    Sato wasn't bad, and Satoru Nakajima back in the 80s was somewhat passable too. At the bottom extreme was Taki Inoue (pronounced in-o-way, quite appropriate really) who was so much in the way of everybody that he even got run over by the medical car!
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    Hang Onto Your Hats! A general extreme weather thread.

    Shit's looking particularly ugly between Ulladulla and Wollongong on that plot!
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    Hang Onto Your Hats! A general extreme weather thread.

    We've noticed....
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    Hang Onto Your Hats! A general extreme weather thread.

    You can break that down further to a pressure drop of 1 hPa/hour; Some indications I've seen have suggested up to 1.8 hPa/hr drop at this system's most intense. That is nasty! Hence the technical description as Explosive Cyclogenesis - or in short, a Bomb!
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    Hang Onto Your Hats! A general extreme weather thread.

    Jokes aside, have a squizz at this set of forecast maps leading into the next few days. The Bomb is going to drop off the coast around Port Mac tomorrow (Tuesdee) morn, and explode from there. The isobaric gradient indicates that the SW quadrant of the system will be the most intense, and will...
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    Hang Onto Your Hats! A general extreme weather thread.

    Depending on your intended departure time, you might get wet but with a ripping tailwind home, or leave early to miss the rain but get blown onto a detour via Oodnadatta instead....
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    Hang Onto Your Hats! A general extreme weather thread.

    And swing it around to land it in NZ!
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    Hang Onto Your Hats! A general extreme weather thread.

    It's going to be a Beastly East'ly for a few days!
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    beautiful bikes - post them here

    Looks like it was drawn by a cross-eyed kid who forgot to wear their glasses.....
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    Hang Onto Your Hats! A general extreme weather thread.

    I mean really blow like stink.
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    Hang Onto Your Hats! A general extreme weather thread.

    And it's going to blow like stink from whichever direction one might be heading.
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