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Holy thread resurrection! I see it was started and up until today finished a day before I joined the forums! You fellas are into your 10th year suffering my rants and raves - more rants.. England has that effect on one.. Am I now a whinging pom?

Reading about historical events on old TVs really brings back vivid memories. I remember watching Kennedy’s assassination news on a black-and-white screen in ‘63, and later, the moon landing in ‘69 while everyone else slept. Even flying a Rans S6 and dealing with a mid-air engine issue feels unforgettable. Stories like these remind me how intense and unpredictable life can be—almost as thrilling as a night trying my luck at Lucky Mate casino.

Thank you for raising these important points. You’re absolutely right — while thoughts and prayers are meaningful, practical support is what really helps. Donating clothing can be well-intentioned but often ends up being hard to store or distribute, and other essentials like nappies, hygiene products, and incontinence supplies are often more urgently needed. Contributing financially to reputable organisations, or through official government channels like the National Emergency Management Agency, ensures aid reaches those affected efficiently and safely. It’s also wise to avoid responding to random donation requests online and instead donate through trusted institutions or in person at a bank. Every small, considered action helps those rebuilding their lives after disasters.

I could see this coming years ago, as Defence started on its major shopping list. I notice that the massive chunk of SAS land on the W.A. coast at Swanbourne (Campbell Barracks) isn't mentioned. There's 236Ha of pristine, mega-mega dollar, ocean-front land there, that at current values would bring in mega-billions if sold off. I see where our local nefarious resident land developer, and Politician suck-hole, is licking his lips over the sale of Campbell Barracks, saying it "could bring in $1.3B for the Govt" if sold. Pigs bum it's worth $1.3B, more like $13B - but I'll wager he'll exert pressure on the Govt to sell it to him for $1.3B. This is the value of that land in that region. A 1925 house on 1181 sq m of land in the area, sold last Oct for $12.8M. In the aerial view of the house and golf course, you can see the Campbell Barracks land in the distance. https://www.domain.com.au/property-profile/11-pearse-street-cottesloe-wa-6011

You can tell the image isn't real, because the road warning sign doesn't show a kangaroo, emu or camel. In fact, it looks like a pterodactyl warning sign.

No ......... there are no potholes in the road.

It's so well done you can't tell.

Nope.

Derr! Too easy. The centrelines are not white.

How can you tell this image is not real?

The largest military property sell-off in Australian history is underway, after the Albanese government agreed to put 64 ‘vacant, decaying’ Defence sites – estimated to be worth as much as $3 billion – on the market.. Some of Australia’s most valuable and historically significant military landholdings are now up for grabs, including Victoria Barracks in Sydney’s exclusive Paddington and its Melbourne counterpart, as well as the birthplace of the RAAF, Williams Base at Point Cook. Theis is an operating airfield and home of the RAAF Museum

Sweetness

Took me a while to work it out but I got there despite my relative youth.

Maybe, but they'd have to be pretty young.... and still wet behind the ears.

This bike build project will have to progress in tandem to the shed renovation project. Until the 6x6 metre workshop space is properly sorted not much mechanical work can go on. There's a fair bit of structural alterations needed in there. A few more steel diagonal braces will have their brackets relocated so shelving and benches will sit against the wall better. One set of braces will be removed and the timber frame wall between the steel upright shed poles will be upgraded to a bracing wall to compensate for the loss of the diagonal braces. That section already has a timber wall frame attached to the poles, which also serves as a wall for an attached 3x3 metre room, so it's just a matter of fitting some more tie down and adding bracing ply. If I put bracing ply on both sides of the wall, the kN of bracing should exceed the original diagonals. In the short term, I've been clearing out the attached 3x3 metre room to put some shelving in to hold components for the bike project. As per the attached photo, the inside wall is unlined, so I'll insulate that and cover it with bracing ply, paint the wall, then put the shelves in. Before the shelving goes in, the adjoining wall at right angles to it (the one mentioned above) will have the corrugated iron cladding removed and be replaced with bracing ply (it's the rear side of the wall where the steel diagonals will be removed). In a fit of madness years ago, I fastened that corrugated iron internal cladding with roofing nails instead of roofing screws, so that's added a lot of extra work to removing it.

Not only do you admit, but you show it with what you think is fake news from the ABC. If renewables are the reason for price rises, why is NSW, SA, and SE QLD getting free electricity because of solar? The reason for electricity price rises globally is the massive increase in gas price increases due to peak in demand of electricity post pandemic, severe supply chain issues, and the Russian invasion. I still don't know why, but that drove up coal prices, and guess what? John Howrards criminally short sighted policies of selling gas to the Chinese at even then knock-down prices and hold them for god knows how long at that price without indexation (must have been a very big brown paper bag involved somewhere) and successive governments allowing coal being liberalised to be traded on the open global market wthout reserving necessary supply domestically at cost of extraction plus decent profit margin (admittedly, when the price of coal is down, that would work against the consumer - but at least there would be certainty of what you have to pay), and - voilla! There you have your increasing electricity prices.. As with any new technology, there is a short term capital investment recovery built into the price, but in a fully competitive or well regulated market where structural impediments of entry and exit exist (take your pick), once that is recovered, the prices tend to stabilise near the cost of production + a margin for ongoing returns. We are starting to see it in solar. Renewables are cheaper longer term than any other form of generation. Remeber the price of colour TVs when they came out. More expesnive in absolute terms than you can buy them now. Imagine the real cost difference? Yeah, ABC don't get it right all the time and they do sometimes show bias, especially on one issue - in my opinion. But I have found when you dig into the facts, more often than not, they are far closer to objectivity than the others, willing to admit they make mistakes better than the others, and even on the area I think they are biased, they are no more so than most of the others (whether it fits my agenda or doesn't).

Of course. Nev

Might be some who still haven't GOT it. Nev

Gee, that joke is older than Methuselah, Nev!

It was on the Internet, it must be true!

Once again I've been hoodwinked. The image came up labelled with another name. I Googled that person, and there was this photo. When you named Myrna Loy, I Googled her and found the same photo. I wasn't the only one hoodwinked. Further research produced this: https://www.sydney-yaeko.com/artsandculture/this-is-not-estelle-getty The Google search for Estelle brought up this compound image, from an article on The Golden Girls.

Correct.

I don't think I'd like have that horse on the right with the big white blaze. It would be a perfect target; Jacko would see it miles away.

That colourised photo definitely shows water in the background. It would either be the coast near Gaza or possibly the Sea of Galilee where they stationed after the fighting to rest and reorganise. This photo is one of the ones at the Sea of Galilee, also called Lake Tiberias. The horses look like they could do with a rest to fatten those ribs up a bit.

The ABC have to give equal time etc and get scrutinised More than anybody else. "Insiders" is a waste of time. ABC Covers emergencies way better than anyone Else. The."Others" are against the ABC constantly, of course. Nev