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OK, I am going to show my workings now, because I obviously, got one of my sums wrong in the penultimate question. Assumption: Despite appearances, this is not an equilateral triangle and despite the absence of the degree symbol, the 3x's and 4x denotes degrees of the inner angles of the triangle. As the inner angles of any triangle always add up to 180 degrees (I am sure there is some theorem that disproves this), then 3x + 4x + 3x = 180; therefore 10x equals 180. Therefore, x equals 18. The angle of y is the difference between 180 (straight line) and 3x, or 3 x 18 or 54. 180 degrees take away 54 degrees = 136 degrees.. Oh wait.. that is where i went wrong in the last one.. it is 124 degrees.. Darn it.. I have been working with computers for too long! Think about this.. if I got this wrong, and I am involved in implementing market risk systems, which are quite mathematical, what hope has the global economy got?

That would be correctly named "Swamp"

At least it wasn't Lake Trump.

140 is correct.

He's been eyeing off the Atlantic or the Pacific as well. After all, why stop at a gulf and a lake? His Justice Department lawyers have also been arguing in court that without his name on the Kennedy Centre they won't be able to raise enough funds to renovate it, and it might have to be knocked down and replaced with an amphitheatre.

140.

Not only is he a dickhead, he's also unimaginative. He already tried to change the Gulf of Mexico to "Gulf of America". Can't he think of any other names?

pfft! This is the money pit. I have stopped counting how much I am putting into it as it will just depress me (and it has eaten into reserves already). Latest is on my return from Aus, I went straight to work .. partner calls in a panic - power put... Sparky called.. Whole basement had to be rewired... All work stopped for a week as power required for a lot of what was going on.. Thought it was going to be £7K, but "Happy" mates rates brought it down to £4k. Current builder spent 7 hours in last two weeks as he had a roofing issue at his own house. A decorator started today. This is the longest finals to landing I have ever been on.

In my prime.... Zero debt. Low body fat percentage. Fluid balance perfect. Nutrition excellent. Cholestorol low. Mental health balanced. Zero alcohol, excellent hydration. This was my peak. I was eight years old.

Unlike our politics , The function of a motorcycle is a simple action/reaction eqyation. An honest tangible benefitial response to every twist of the RH grip.

Even when I was on L plates, I believed that. And that was so 'last century'. And YES! As long as you come home to Australia.

And yet, the accuracy of the art captured the whole racing motorcycle and rider.

I think its 150, but could be 170. Geometry and trigonometry were never my strong points (pardon the pun).

Function over form is a BMW. On account of your bikes first policy...you may be considered.

Normally, I go for function over form 😉 Normally.. Can't say I have had that much function on the current bike. 😞 I would mandate everyone has to learn to ride a proper motorcycle before they can touch a car. Can I have your vote now?

Noooo.. Jerry has poor taste in motorcycles

Thanks Grumpy, I was wondering what they were. Didn't look close enough.

Correct.

60. Nev

Jerry for Pres! Jerry for Pres! Oh, wait, don't we already have some Jerryatric's in government?

He can name his end of it. But it still doesn't win his tariff tantrum with the Canuks

I actually don't disagree with some of the sentiment above. But picking on immigrants is not going to solve the problem. In fact, foreign corporations welfare - so to be clear - lining the pockets of foreign shareholders - using things like tax breaks, grants, subsidies, and funds transfer (legal avoidance of tax). That is a lot to research, so I thought I would use some water and get AI to do it. Here is the summary - and its confidence in each number (a nice trick - I wished people would use this when quoting facts - maybe AI has some advantages): For transparency, I included my response and its initial response. And here is a link to its hole answer https://chatgpt.com/share/6a907746-4178-83eb-a04f-be64bfef4444 We have to take the second line of the summary above out of the equation because that includes pensioners and longer term immigrants, and to properly account for that, we would have to measure the input into the economy and deduct that from the $30 - $40bn per year. For the sake of argument though, let's assume that it is the same as recently arrived immigrants, at around $3bn a year. So, the total in welfare attributable to immigrants is say $6bn a year. The confidence in that figure is low. So lets more than triple it to $10bn a year. That should be more than what it is, but since some here have expressed a dissatisfaction with lefties cooking the books, lets err on the side of caution. Lets only take the bottom line (pardon the pun) as all of government assistance to foreign firms and assume the second from the bottom like is for some reason singling out the commonwealth portion. It is a reasonable range guess. On the low side, it is below the adjustment for error in the immigration cost, and on the high side, it exceeds it. I would guess there are far fewer foreign corporations, so the amount paid per "head" will be a lot higher. Of course, if we assume the numbers provided are near accurate, which in their own words are of low confidence, corporate welfare is costing between 4 and 7 times immigrant welfare - every year. That adds up. Of course, you could argue that corporate welfare provides jobs. Yes it does, but why give it to foreign corporations? Why not give it to Aussie owned corporations and use it to build up Aussie industry and Aussie assets? Also, welfare to immigrants is spent locally. There is none sent back as profits to foreign peoiple (yes, some immigrants do send money to their families from their homeland - but they will by far mostly be those working and not given "handouts"). Thinking about it.. I do agree with the meme. Get the immigrant corporations out and get Aussie ones in their place.

The rear tyre is made of worn out piston rings - very clever.

Trump renames Lake Ontario Lake America. https://www.facebook.com/share/r/19XA3YFS3W/