@nitinkhanna It IS Thursday.
@larand 2012 was a bad year for cars for me, I wrote off two in 5 months. The first was a lowish-speed nose-to-tail chain reaction involving four cars, mine caused it by running up the back of another. This was a Suzuki Ignis Sport & the subframe around the engine was bent back into a U-shape, as was the radiator. Not that you could tell from the plastic panels at the front. That had airbags fitted, in Australia they're supplementary restraints: the seat-belt & their pretensioners do most of the work, airbags only deploy if the force is likely to be fatal.
The belt pretensioners certainly worked: I had a massive multi-coloured bruise (yellow, red, blue, black & purple) going from shoulder across to the bottom of my ribs on the opposite side. It took 11 weeks for the bruising to clear up.
// @phoneboy @streakmachine @kdfrawg
@larand Yes, those rear seats were quite smart. Incredible how low the seatbacks would fold. But it was at the expense of storage compartments & required a spacesaver spare wheel. For four months in 2012 I had a 2005 Honda Jazz (Fit to you folk) before I totalled it by dozing off at the wheel and almost driving under a massive truck.
By contrast it's replacement Toyota Yaris has a full spare wheel & 25 various storage compartments of many shapes and sizes.
// @thrrgilag @kdfrawg
@larand Toyota is recalling 5.8 million cars worldwide affected by the Takata airbag issue. In Australia's small market that's 179,710 cars manufactured between March 2007 & December 2011. The affected models are Yaris, Corolla & Avensis Versos. My 2006 Yaris had a similar defect rectified under one of three recalls in the past 12 months.
// @phoneboy @streakmachine @kdfrawg
My cat has been in an altercation with one of the neighbouring cats, she has some red scratches on one side of her nose which I am monitoring for possible infection. I found something a wee bit different tangled in the fur about 1 cm from her left eye: a sliver of a detached cat's claw. In profile it's complete from sharp tip to wide base but it's very thin width-wise.
