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Look at this! The president of Magastan has changed parties! He got elected by the RED states. He always used to wear a red tie. Now he has gone to the blue side! Not sure what he is describing with that hand signal, though.

Sorry.. was a long time ago.. Camira was on my mind in the above post

The website I used is https://www.vidnoz.com/image-to-video-ai.html . However, there half a dozen or so. Just search "Convert photo to video"

In2006, my late wife got to carry the Queen's Baton in the relay before the Commonwealth Games. This is a photo I took. I uploaded this photo to the website I mentioned above, It asked how I wanted the photo converted. I entered "Running with baton." Here is the result. Irene baton run.mp4

On April 20, 1945, during an air battle over Germany, Eduard Schallmoser's Messerschmitt Me.262 collided with an American Martin B-26 Marauder medium bomber. Schallmoser managed to bail out and open his parachute. He landed in the back garden of his parents house, right in front of his amazed mother!

Yes, I was missing something. Tolls now apply to trucks (not cars) on the Westgate Bridge and on parts of the Westgate Freeway. The news is so poor at presenting facts and data prefering outrage. Whether expensive infrastructure should be paid for only by the users or spread out across all taxpayers, or a little of both, is something I dont have a strong opinion on.

Your Mum's SIL wants to know why you put such huge bags under her eyes! 😄

Come and live in W.A.! - we don't have toll roads of any kind! - and no W.A. Govt of any persuasion will ever allow a toll road to be built, anywhere in W.A.

I think Jerry might be getting confused with the Holden Camira or the Holden Captiva. The Camira was bad enough, but the Captiva was worse! (if that's possible!). A mates sister bought a new Camira and on the first week of ownership, the entire dash fell out, into her lap! The Captiva was built by Daewoo, and promptly got nicknamed the Craptiva. But the Holden Nova was simply a rebadged Toyota Corolla, and those little Corollas were one of the best cars ever built. I've seen many of them with 300,000kms on the clock, untouched, and never a stoppage of any kind.

Sometimes you come across a comedy sketch that is not necessarily laugh-out-loud, but does trigger a smirk of recognition. We fly to Adelaide 4 times a year to visit my mother in aged care. This means 8 trips through airport security, plus a few more for other trips. It has been frustrating (a lot better lately, though) that there has never seemed to be a standard procedure, and the staff are often under pressure and grumpy (again, I note a recent improvement). In the past, we have had the conversation that goes "Is it Melbourne or Adelaide where you have to take out your laptop?" Last week, one situation in this video actually occurred. My wife and I found this quite amusing - Trayyyyy

Heard it on Radio National yesterday - Fran Kelly was talking about it. She had a political science academic saying it was unlikely we would sign up, as the government is putting lots of time into the UN - and this brainfart of Trump's is supposed to be a replacement for the UN - but we had not made any statements about it either way.

I think this proposed car might be a logical development grown out of the well known Trabant

I genuinely don't understand this. Perhaps I am missing something. The news stories seem to assert that the completion of the tunnel has increased truck traffic through these suburbs. Weren't these trucks driving through these suburbs before the completion of the tunnel? Surely the worst-case scenario is that it has not improved the truck situation. Again, perhaps I am missing something, but the tunnel surely has not increased the traffic to a level greater than before the completion of the tunnel. Happy to be corrected.

What a Knocker. Trucks don't use the Tunnel near Hornsby for the same reason. Toll cost. They got it Built didn't they with unanticipated difficulties? Nev

Can you tell me where you found that, Marty? Nev

That car was a rebadged Toyota Corolla and by all reports an excellent vehicle. Are you confusing it with the Opel product or the Vauxhall Victa? Nev

Actually, looking at it... it does remind me of a Holden.. The Holden Nova What a pile of crap that thing was!!!

Even the Liberals wouldn't sign Australia up to that transparently corrupt outfit.

Now to another piece of marvellous Labor infrastructure. The glorious Westgate Tunnel. Designed to ease traffic on the Westgate Bridge and reduce suburban traffic through the western suburbs. Now trucks are refusing to use it because the tolls are too high, and they are causing more traffic, semi's and B-Doubles through the streets 24/7, risking pedestrians.

Apparently we're still thinking about it. Hope like hell we say no.

Here is a photo of, l to r, my father, his sister, and my mother's sister-in-law. The photo was taken 55 years ago. The original was black and white, but I used an online site to colourise it a couple of years ago. It took the algorithm about 2 minutes. Last week I found another site online which said they could convert old photos into video clips. I didn't specify a motion style, but this is how they converted it. The power of AI.

They are Moslem but Not ARABS. Nev

It's 3 doors also. Only ONE on the LH drivers side. Pretty $#!t really and hardly worthy of comment, Eh?. Nev