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This is the age of modernist glaring white cabinets and tiles for every modern home. Imagine my surprise to stay at a recently renovated caravan park that is furnished in rustic federation shearer's quarters decor! Our mate OME has started a trend!

Why are we surprised? Trump admires dictators and despots. He has stripped the top level of administration of anyone with knowledge and brains, and replaced them with yes-men. The only required attribute is loyalty (and tribute). He has openly said that the American public won't have to vote again, and is actively dismantling democracy. He has used his position to gain him and his equally disgusting family billions - the most corrupt public figure, let alone president, ever. He supports and enables the worst white supremacists in the country, allows and encourages political violence when it's against his adversaries, and is racist himself. And we're surprised when something like this happens?

It's a bit cool here in Nyngan. We are camped by the river, enjoying a glass of red whilst dinner simmers on our little fire pot. Life's good.

So when my son and partner picked us up from the airport they were planning to go to their sea shanty at the pub club. They asked if we would like to come? We had a brilliant time drinking beer and singing shanties. Many obscure shanties. They also make up the verses for the crowd to join in at the chorus. They have written shanties about public transport and current political issues. The crowd varies in age from 10 to very old. Most people seem to be in their 20s or 30s They sang this shanty bellow in honour token Australian. We had an absolute ball and intend to find a club like this near us.

Great development if it works.

The first thing they'd do is start sending friendly emails to random blokes......

The Trump administration has just instructed the FBI not to investigate any incidents involving ICE anymore, saying that ICE will do that themselves. That’s not going to work out well. ICE is becoming Trump’s racist paramilitary wing like Hitler’s brownshirts.

All things considered, I find gravity somewhat attractive.. It creates an atmosphere all of it's own. Nev

Some guys formed a band they called 999 megabytes. Still haven't got a gig.

The Republicans wish he'd stop going on about the 2020 election because it's not helping their chances, but at the same time he's doing everything he can to rig the November election beforehand and scheming to disrupt the results if the Democrats look like winning. He's trying every trick in the book to assert his control over the States' ability to run their elections, but fortunately a large number of State governors, both Democrat and Republican are determined to keep him out of it and ensure their elections are run fairly. It's amazing how in Trump's world, elections are only free and fair when he and the Republicans win but rigged beyond recovery when they lose.

That's my excuse too. I'm really much younger than I look.

Well, here is a potential development that can bring nuclear into a viable alternative: A Canadian lab just ran a chemical process on real spent nuclear fuel and pulled out 90% of the long-lived danger in 24 hours, the part that forces a burial site to last 100,000 years, with the leftovers meant to fuel a reactor https://share.google/bEVunnl6sp8t3mOVg

No point posting them here then, Nev.

They feel that a man of your keen intellect would not be easily scammed, so why bother.

I took an instructional flight from Moorabbin today. To be honest, there's a lot I could write in the gripes thread, particularly around a) the commerical properties that have gone up, and b) the introduction of landing fees. The urban sprawl is there - the training area has less and less open country. But, that is progress. But, the flight was quite a good one. Just practiced stalls and forced landings.. Didn't die, to that is a positive (for some, I guess not ;-)) The young instructor was very professional and a natural instructor.. sad that an airline or other jet career beckons.. The flight was in an Archer with full EFIS.. Took a bit of getting used to - to be honest would need a bit more time to get comfy with it (and a manual and some prep time). Weather played ball as well.

He's our resident cunning linguist.

Not sure if this is good, bad, or ugly, but preparing a pack to return to the motherland with: Just need cheezels

The use of WHOM is dying out, and who being considered acceptable more often. Your time is yet to come. "To WHOM it may concern" may hang on a while . Easy to look up. Nev

So the painting of my son's house continues. Unfortunately I am out due to walking out of a door at night to what I thought was a scaffold platform.. .. but wasn't

It's their modus operandi. Make the place sound bad and offer the snake oil elixir to fix it. Same for Chump and Farage

The way she's running down Auastralia while in England, she should stay there.

When I was a kid my Dad raised a few pigs as a side hustle. He used to buy 44 gallon drums of chocolates from Cadbury's - deformed, had fallen on the floor, etc. Pigs loved them. Us kids did too 😄 Not sure how much they cost but he was a tight arse so it would have been cheap.

He doesn't respect a free and fair vote anywhere IF a Socialist Government is elected. They supported Pinochet (mass murderer of his own People) in Chile even well before Trumps time. I don't think USA has Antitrust Laws any more. Making MONEY is ALL that Counts. No matter how many have to die. Winners are Grinners. Their Pentecostal (charismatic religion is designed for the greedy and ruthless. DOG wants you to be rich. (Like Hell, he/she/it does.) Nev

When Cadburys was sold to Mondelez the quality & taste went through the floor and they introduced horrible American flavours. I know in NZ people complained & stopped buying Cadburys which prompted an eventual reversal & return of original flavours though the chocolate quality is still not as good as it was & most likely has more sugar in it. Mondelez also closed the NZ factory & the only site left in Oceania is in Tassie. Hopefully they won't close that & get stuff made in China like everyone else.

He wasn't born with a silver spoon in his Mouth. He was selected by the Party and took them to one of the Most significant wins for ages. He has Plenty of well qualified and People to select for Ministerial Positions. .He's not a One Man Band. News all over the world acknowledge we are doing a Good job here but you won't get that Impression from and Newscorpse Monopoly or SKY. They want to be Pauline's Puppet-master because SHE will do their Bidding. She's for SALE. Nev

Yes. Solid 7/10 from me.

My friend Tony told me not to say his name backwards. I said, "Y not?"

I feel that Melbourne has a cultural feel about it, as opposed to Sydney's commercialism. One goes to Melbourne for the theatre and music. Sydney does not seem to have that vibe, despite having the architectural beauty of the Opera House. But it's just a building. As for multiculturalism, I think that the meeja consistently misreports on it. I was in a shopping centre in Dubbo yesterday. I saw people from India, Asia, Africa, Indigenous and European all carrying on with their shopping with no sign of conflict. I had the choice for my lunch of several differnt food types of food styles.

At least the hack was discovered. A rogue AI agent is bad enough but the bigger worry would be if it went undiscovered.

It was a Chinese build. Tipper back. Single cyl, shaft drive to a short conventional diff. The frame was 2"box downtubes. Really tough. But also very dead.

That's a wild looking bit of gear. Looks like it's long retired. The tray on it reminds me of the old LJ-80 Suzuki that I deeply regret scrapping. They make a great little farm runabout. Mine was a rust bucket with a dead motor but I had two x spare chassis and a complete spare drive train with it. The good thing about them is the gearbox and transfer case are two separate entities which gives a lot of options to upgrade the engine and gearbox. Back in the day a lot of people put Corolla motors and the Toyota five speed box in the LJ-80's and retained the stand-alone Suzuki transfer box, all it needed was a drive shaft length adjustment. A mate had one of those little Daihatsu 4x4's for a farm runabout. He stripped it down and put scrub bars on it and the floor was converted to mesh, the sets were those old plastic chairs you used to see in pub beer gardens. With the mesh floor and plastic seats, it didn't matter if it was left out in the rain. Their light weight is what makes them handy, they go a lot of places with wide tyres.

if i was a family member of the deceased US soldiers being returned i would have been disgusted to have 2 non serving tossers who caused the deaths stand there and salute. It is a disgrace to anyone who has served for their country.

She was obviously taking the piss.

Just to put the supply and demand influence on pricing, we should include data centres. These things require grid reinforcement and generation increases far above population requirements. They now affect wholesale prices. A single hyperscale data center can consume over 100 megawatts — comparable to the usage of tens of thousands of homes. Australia already hosts 154 data centers across 77 cities, operated by 58 distinct operators. And plan for many more. https://www.datacenters.world/countries/australia

The surveys are saying she is likely to lose Bendigo to Andrew Lethlean. I met him on Saturday, he is an impressive alternative.

The email came into my personal email account. As I said, if anyone on this forum would be sending me an email, it would be through the forum's messaging system. That's why I deleted the email without opening it. I knew that I could contact Jerry either through this thread or by using the forum's system. I am astounded by how elderly people could let themselves be conned into giving money to strangers who contact them online. Surely we don't have to put up billboards with messages warning that teh internet is rife with scammers in order to give protection to people.

Blimey! You are right.. The Mars here taste a lot worse than the UK, and the recipe in Aus was swapped from the UK to the USA recipe some years ago. I made the mistake of tarring Cadbury's with the same brush. I will get one tomorrow and check it out.. If better, I will defo take some back.

I did report a post from some "female" on my profile - but I didn't send a site email and a personal email would be from an account that does not have jerry_atrick as the sender. 9:45am seems a bit late, too. On that basis, I wouldn't click the llink - without hovering over it to check it is legit.

What a dreadful Place the USA has become under Trump. More and more resembling of Hitler's Germany in the Mid to late 30's. Rubio wants to dismantle the International Criminal Court brick by brick.. That would take care of the COURTHOUSE, but the Court itself is PEOPLE. A Legally Constituted Body.. Trump respects NO Rules. HE makes them up as he goes. Nev

Glad I didn't say that. Us older folks are inclined to be Pee don'ts. Nev

I wouldn’t say survivor’s guilt but it certainly gets your attention when you start to remember more and more people for who they were rather than who they are.

Believe it or not, I haven't had an alcoholic drink! New laptop I bought at Geelong Officeworks - new Keyboard and small screen - that is what I am blaming 😉

It's easy to upset someone in a Pub if you aren't a regular, or read the BAD DRUNK signs quickly enough. . It only takes ONE. nev

He also played for South Australia in the early 60s and he helped them with the Sheffield Shield.

Trumps address to the nation is the latest example of his desperation. He now says there is evidence China stole the data of 220 million voters and that they meddled in the 2020 election he lost but really won despite multiple investigations and lawsuits all finding him 100% wrong. The problem is that a lot of his MAGA nutters believe him and this is the first step towards declaring a national emergency to prevent the mid term elections from being held. https://www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/361007861/trump-lays-groundwork-emergency-declaration-ahead-midterms

It's called makeup

She MAY get there Physically (God Forbid) but she will NEVER be a leader. Being Bossy doesn't make you a Leader. Nev

Hey, I object. I don't mind getting critical about USofA or Olde England or other 'shitole' countries..... But leave our Great Country out of it! (Nev, I'm being sarcastic)