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There has been a great number of these videos on YouTube. You can tell that they are created using AI. As I read Red's original post, I could hear that same AI-generated voice saying the commentary. Those videos are mass-produced simply as clickbait. Each click earns the creator a cent or two, and as they say, pennies make pounds. I suppose the saving grace of these videos is that they hold Australian troops in high esteem. As factual documentaries, I doubt that they are more good yarns than facts.

The Yanks sent a group of their soldiers to Jungle Training Centre, Canungra, so they could go through the Jungle warfare course that all Aussie soldiers had to pass, before being sent overseas to combat zones. None of them could complete it. They packed it in and went home. It was a bastard of a course, all designed to get Aussie soldiers used to real jungle warfare conditions. The worst part was slithering through deep mud on your back to get under a huge mat of barbed wired, with barely enough room to slide under it - all the while you were under live fire (just above your head, of course) and enduring constant but irregular detonations of explosives, just to simulate mines and artillery shells and grenades going off. Then you had to scramble up obstructions to reach the top of a 10 metre tower - then jump off the tower into a river that was about 50 metres wide - which you had to cross, of course. There was a rope dangling in the river which you could use to help yourself. Naturally, you also had to be carrying a fully-equipped backpack containing around 15 kgs, and your rifle - which you had to try and keep dry. After you made it to the other side, there was slippery, muddy, mountainous terrain to climb - and I mean it was that steep, you were on your hands and knees. Then there was the M60 machine gun that also had to be carried up that mountain. When one bloke peaked out with carrying the M60, someone else had to take it. After you made to the plateau at the top, you had to make camp for the night - wet or not. Of course, you had to post sentries al night, because this was the Jungle, and enemy were always probing your defences. So sleep was pretty patchy. Next day you had to walk a jungle trail with an F1 SMG - and shoot at targets that suddenly and unexpectedly popped up each side of the trail. These were enemy soldiers, taking potshots at you. You had to set up enemy ambushes, hide yourself completely - then endure many hours of waiting and waiting and waiting, for enemy to appear. In the hot sun, in the rain, in the cold. There was no respite, you dare not move. The enemy always appeared after a very long wait of course - and when you least expected them. If you messed up the ambush, you got to do it again. The obstacle courses were endless and made you exert yourself to the max. Climbing over huge walls, jumping through courses laid with tyres - all in mud of course. Scrambling up 10 metre ropes to cross other obstacles. I can only remember a few of them, possibly because my memory doesn't want to recall the rest. They were all designed to make you exert yourself to your limits. And you always carried your rifle with you, at all times. The course took 10 days out of your life, and at the end of it you were pretty buggered - but if you passed the course, you got your ticket to go to a real war zone, which was often far more different again to Canungra. American soldiers could never go anywhere in a group without making a lot of noise, giving off a lot of smells (cannabis and aftershave and scented soaps), and they were so trigger-happy, they were dangerous to be around. The SAS took especial pains to ensure they gave off no smell, never followed any kind of track or trail, were silent to an unbelievable level (hand signals were refined to the nth degree), and they often followed enemy and determined their likely path - then moved ahead of them, and waited silently and in hiding, for the enemy to pass. Then they'd step out behind the last of the enemy and dispatch them with as little sound as possible - then drag their body off the trail. The enemy would be totally unnerved at how their "tail end Charlies" could just vanish without a sound or a trace. It was psychological war at its finest.

There's plenty of videos on uTube in the same vein as that article, generally saying how the Australian SAS soldiers far outclassed the elite American troops in the jungle. I'm not sure how much is true and how much is hype. Here's a typical one.

They let so much garbage through it's unbelievable. Reports of famous people dying while they are still alive, ruthless takedowns of famous actors like Robert Redford, Cary Grant, Dick Van Dyke having sex with 99 men, others raping dozens of women, etc. I have complained many times through the feedback page but nothing is done. Lots of story links blocked by my antivirus. So don't expect Facebook (Meta) to check and correct things.

So crypto is not even worth the paper it’s written on then?

No one will come back. How about WE look after THIS PLACE? Nev

He's a dollar grabber, with no guilt. Nev

I have played at the course and I lived in Richmond for the first 20 years of my life here. I stay at my old local when in London (which I am in tonight). Although new to me, it is an oldie (literally) for the landlord/guvna, here.

Dear Leader has now got a gold plated statue. Will I live to see it torn down by gleeful rioters? "It’s known as “Don Colossus.” At 15 feet tall, the statue of President Trump, mounted on its 7,000-pound pedestal, is about the height of a two-story building — a giant effigy cast in bronze and finished with a thick layer of gold leaf. For more than a year, the golden statue has been at the center of one of the stranger moneymaking ventures of the Trump era. A group of cryptocurrency investors paid $300,000 to have a sculptor create it as a tribute to Mr. Trump, an outspoken crypto proponent. Then they used it to promote a memecoin called $PATRIOT." I thought he might use it to replace the ageing, ungilded and now irrelevent Statue of Liberty.

Yes, poor old Roy had a crappy life, I trust he's found peace now, and is reunited with his loved ones.

I went back and tried an episode of the Aussie version with Jim Jeffries. Here is the 25% question from that episode. (25% of the 1000 test group got it right.) The pass Jim refers to is when a contestant finds a question too difficult, they can use their $1000 stake to buy a pass so they can go on to further questions. They can only use the pass once, and the money goes into the prize pot. They get one chance to take their $1000 if they haven't bought a pass and leave the game. 1pc club 25pc q.mp4

My sister found this negative in a packet of old family photos and had it reversed on one of those online sites. I can only do 35mm with the attachment on my scanner whereas these old photos are are much bigger size negative. Among all the old photos there's a few like this one that have no corresponding prints. It would have been taken by my great uncle, but have no idea who the bloke on the horse is. It looks like the beach at Gaza in the background, which is one place they were in 1917.

Because I would have quoted your comment in my reply.

They are, but it wasn't a response to your comment, Nev.

I tried recording a couple of questions from an old episode on 7plus streaming, but only the audio recorded, not the vision, but I have done it before. No idea why it did not work. If you log on to 7plus streaming, click on the magnifying glass icon in the top right corner and type 1% Club, you will be able to select the UK or Aussie version and a series/episode to watch. You only need to watch a couple of questions to get a feel for the show. 7plus is free.

Things that seem too good to be true are just that, so often.. They trade on greed and the " I mustn't miss out" mentality. A fool and his money are soon Parted. Nev

Sometimes we forget how priviliged we are, these days.

HOW would I Know that? Nev

This popped up on Facebook today. Many of you probably already know these details, but some may not. Very sad, really.

Imagine the lack of genetic diversity if he's let loose on a captive population of Martian colonist women.