Who opted for fabric seats?

[Tazzieman]

I suggest this is to be expected when one’s economy is based on extractive industries..

It used to be sheep. We would extract the wool.
How do we feel about extracting cow skin for Grenadier seats
Life is full of awkward questions that have several answers!

 

[pt888]

It pays the bills and buys the Grenadiers

And gives the world the copper, lithium, gas and iron ore to build replacements for coal fired power

 

[DaveB]

And gives the world the copper, lithium, gas and iron ore to build replacements for coal fired power

Not to mention our great invention such as

• the electric drill for use with the 10mm sockets and others
• Variable Rack & Pinion steering
• wine casks
• Black box flight recorder
• escape slides for planes
• Baby safety capsules for cars
• Bionic ear Cochlear implant
• Pacemaker
• Plastic spectacle lenses
• Pacemaker
• the ute/pickup
• Refrigerator
• rotary clothes line
• Rotary mower
• Power board
• Polymer bank notes
• Note pads
• Google maps
• stump jump plow
• Self erecting tower cranes

 

[stickshifter]

Not to mention our great invention such as

• the electric drill for use with the 10mm sockets and others
• Variable Rack & Pinion steering
• wine casks
• Black box flight recorder
• escape slides for planes
• Baby safety capsules for cars
• Bionic ear Cochlear implant
• Pacemaker
• Plastic spectacle lenses
• Pacemaker
• the ute/pickup
• Refrigerator
• rotary clothes line
• Rotary mower
• Power board
• Polymer bank notes
• Note pads
• Google maps
• stump jump plow
• Self erecting tower cranes

Are you just having a laugh, or is my memory worse than I thought? I think google maps was invented by a couple of Danish software engineers, who started in C++, and then it was bought by Google. I think the pickup truck was invented by Gottlieb Daimler - right? And then Henry Ford came up with the name "pickup" truck (or is that just American revisionism?) I don't know about the other stuff, but I think you've had a few too many Fosters

 

[DaveB]

Are you just having a laugh, or is my memory worse than I thought? I think google maps was invented by a couple of Danish software engineers, who started in C++, and then it was bought by Google. I think the pickup truck was invented by Gottlieb Daimler - right? And then Henry Ford came up with the name "pickup" truck (or is that just American revisionism?) I don't know about the other stuff, but I think you've had a few too many Fosters

You have the nationality right but they lived in Sydney In 2003 Lars and Jens Rasmussen through their Sydney company, Where 2 Technologies developed software that was acquired by Google to become Google Maps.
Ute: The ubiquitous ute was designed in 1934 by Lewis Bandt at Ford in Geelong, the ideal vehicle for the farmer or tradesman.
All 100% accurate and there are a buttload more.

Timeline of Australian inventions - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[pt888]

And Fosters is definitely not our proudest moment.

 

[Krabby]

And Fosters is definitely not our proudest moment.

It’s Australian for beer, right?

 

[globalgregors]

It pays the bills and buys the Grenadiers

I’m not saying we shouldn’t do it, it is clearly essential. I have worked in the industry and celebrate Australian innovation in it.
It simply holds less space for individual expression than the industries that turn those raw materials into complex products, where ideas are made manifest into ‘objects’ not ‘volumes’.
So when it comes to synchronising profession and identity, like an artisan or a product manufacturer might, it’s pretty tough.
Australians find their own equilibrium with a concept of ‘work/life balance’ and ‘working for the weekend’, as stated above.
Just some thoughts on how/why that might differ from Northern European conceptions of work, having lived and worked in both.

 

[DaveB]

I’m not saying we shouldn’t do it, it is clearly essential. I have worked in the industry and celebrate Australian innovation in it.
It simply holds less space for individual expression than the industries that turn those raw materials into complex products.
So when it comes to synchronising profession and identity, like an artisan or a product manufacturer might, it’s pretty tough.
Australians find their own equilibrium with a concept of ‘work/life balance’ and ‘working for the weekend’, as stated above.
Just some thoughts on how/why that might differ from Northern European conceptions of work, having lived and worked in both.

we certainly learned a lot during COVID that we need to become a lot more self sufficient and manufacture more here.
Also create more value add employment.
We now have a thriving manufacturing industry making medicines and vaccines which were mostly imported.
Shipping dirt overseas has a finite life to it and doesn't employ higher skill levels
Most of our inventions were sold or given to overseas companies.

 

[DaveB]

It’s Australian for beer, right?

After it has been through the kidneys

 

[Tazzieman]

And Fosters is definitely not our proudest moment.

No., most certainly not
The proudest moment was when a Tasmanian worked out how to split the beer atom and thus put the bubbles into beer.

 

[Krabby]

A quality Yahoo Serious reference!

 

[stickshifter]

You have the nationality right but they lived in Sydney In 2003 Lars and Jens Rasmussen through their Sydney company, Where 2 Technologies developed software that was acquired by Google to become Google Maps.
Ute: The ubiquitous ute was designed in 1934 by Lewis Bandt at Ford in Geelong, the ideal vehicle for the farmer or tradesman.
All 100% accurate and there are a buttload more.

Timeline of Australian inventions - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

1922 Ford Model T Pickup Truck:

But apparently, Gottlieb Daimler developed a pickup truck in 1896: https://mercedesblog.com/gottlieb-daimler-built-the-worlds-first-truck-in-1896-how-did-it-look/

Maybe that Wikipedia entry on Australian inventions was written by an Australian All in good fun!

 

[stickshifter]

And Fosters is definitely not our proudest moment.

Just having a laugh - not trying to be snarky! There is both good and bad beer in every country!

 

[Tazzieman]

Just having a laugh - not trying to be snarky! There is both good and bad beer in every country!

Fosters is however an abomination, the Oz equivalent of Budweiser

 

[Krabby]

It’s that bad?!

 

[Tazzieman]

It's something we inflict upon foreigners.
Now , back to the fabric seats for a moment.
1. Do they repel beer?
2. I presume the cupholders accept the company glasses

 

[stickshifter]

It's something we inflict upon foreigners.
Now , back to the fabric seats for a moment.
1. Do they repel beer?
2. I presume the cupholders accept the company glasses
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They repel Fosters, which is - apparently - not actually beer. They will also repel Budweiser, Bud Lite, Coors, Coors Lite, Red White and Blue, and Pabst. They will not repel microbrew, which is real beer, and capable of permeating any and all seat fabric.

 

[Tazzieman]

They repel Fosters, which is - apparently - not actually beer. They will also repel Budweiser, Bud Lite, Coors, Coors Lite, Red White and Blue, and Pabst. They will not repel microbrew, which is real beer, and capable of permeating any and all seat fabric.

Excellent news! I love a car with a beery taint! Far better than some synthetic gene altering scented thingy attached to the rearview mirror.

 

[Tazzieman]

My wife's just bought a pair of utilitarian sheepskin items that can be used on the seats and on camp chairs , for when it gets chilly (even in the desert)
They seem well made and are padded.
We do not want something permanent , and why pay to have the whole seat covered when it's only your back and arse that matter?

sheep fur