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I hate cheap thongs, and only wear Slappas thongs during Summer. Cheap thongs nearly killed me once, I went sprawling over a rock embankment of the Ashburton River bridge, when I lost my footing as I started to climb down the rocks, taking a shortcut back to the caravan park. I was just lucky I landed on my side on a huge flat rock, not a big sharp-edged one, like all the rest were. I would have incurred very major injury, maybe even killed myself, if I'd landed anywhere else. I still did a lot of damage to my outer thigh muscle, I couldn't walk for a week afterwards, and I was in agony for most of that week. Dirt-cheap footwear is a mistake when you get older. Spend the money to get good foot support, it not only assists with balance, but you walk better in them. A lot of Chinese footwear puts you off-balance from the word go, because the soles are rubbishy design and they consist of crappy materials.

Nah. It doesn't bear thinking about.

I reread the article. It mentions morality, not mortality, three times. It should all be over, he has no morality.

I think there is a misspelling in that sentence. 'Own mortality' looks more like it.

Shoes MUST fit well. One time I borrowed a pair of decent shoes from one of my sons, which fitted so perfectly I just gave him the Money to get new ones for himself. Lookiing at them now. KEEN brand. STILL good. Great ankle support. Doesn't cramp toes.. Nev

Finally got it going last weekend. Took the carb bowl off and cleaned the oil out of it. I'd previously taken out the plug and cleaned it. It fired up with a lot of smoke and didn't have much power to start with, but as it kept running it got gradually better. After an hour or so of running it was pretty much back to normal. Thanks for the advice, all!

Try Vinnie's/ Salvos. Often you can pick up near new quality shoes for $5 or $10.

These days, everything is done by ones and zeros...

Back in my (working) day, I had great data security....

Muck over, Rye back kina, Saba lent car, Kova Chev vick, Naka sheen ahh.....

The definition of "duress" is being forced to commit a crime under a physical threat of some kind, that makes you feel you cannot avoid committing that crime without incurring physical injury, or by psychological pressure, which is the same as a threat of physical injury, but done with mind pressure. You can claim a defence to any crime committed, if you can show it was carried out under duress. But National Service is not duress, because no crime is being committed. You are obliged to carry out National Service as a obligation, as a citizen of your country, and where legislation authorising National Service has been enacted. If you had claimed conscientious objection to serving in the military, you could have avoided serving in Australia's military forces.

Besides, it's not a war if nobody is fighting back.

Funny you should say that, thanks for pointing that out. What it means is, the documents I had to sign when I was conscripted into the Army weren't valid either. I was under duress of a two year jail sentence. Had I used my noggin, I wouldn't have signed them.

OME, At that price buy 10 pairs of thongs for any sudden blowouts...the shoes are a ripp off.

Density altitude. Worse at Alice Springs where the runway is at 1100 ft asl. Nev

Should change the thread name to Crikey it's Hot. Top temp today 42.9°, 44° at Tulla. They had to unload some cargo from some planes, they were too heavy for the heat.

Stay SAFE. Easier said than done in this RAW Country. Top half Flooded. The rest burning.. Nev

I wonder what it would have come out like after it went through those voice recognition things. Nev

Stay safe.. hope it doesn't reach your property

Heat, visibility, gusts and lack of Oxygen are a problem for Aircraft. It's easy to overstress the Aircraft and have insufficient LIFT and power. Nev

It's halfway through summer and the pair of thongs I have ware standing up to daily use quite well. The sole is compressed a bit under my foot, and my son's dog chewed a bit of the sole off, but not enough to make the thongs unserviceable. However, years of experience have taught me that a good pair of thongs can suddenly have a strap broken or suffer some other catastrophic failure. So today I went into town to get a spare pair in case the inevitable happens, leaving me unshod without replacements. So I drove the 75 kms to town and hit Big W and K-Mart. I had no success at K-Mart because they had no stock, but Big W did. Would you beleive that the regular retail price for the pair of thongs I got was only $1.50? Nice! While I was in the shopping centre I had a look for a pair of casual shoes to backup the ones I have been wearing this summer. You could have knocked me down with a feather. A pair I saw was priced at $160.00, and I bet they were pumped out at some Chinese manufactory.

Heading our way.

That's easy for you to say.

I can’t believe choppers can fly in this wind.

The corruption of TOTAL POWER. You can Ignore the wishes of EVERYONE. That's HOW this GUY OPERATES.. Nev

Watching the Brisbane International Tennis on TV is like alphabet soup. Muchova, Rybakina, Sabalenka, Kovacevic, Nakashima to name a few.

The New York Times interviewed Trump on why he wants to own Greenland and why security agreements and cooperation are not good enough: The president’s insistence that Greenland must become part of the United States was a prime example of his worldview. It was not enough to exercise the U.S. right, under a 1951 treaty, to reopen long-closed military bases on the huge landmass, which is a strategically important crossroads for U.S., European, Chinese and Russian naval operations. The president’s insistence that Greenland must become part of the United States was a prime example of his worldview. “Ownership is very important,” Mr. Trump said as he discussed, with a real estate mogul’s eye, the landmass of Greenland — three times the size of Texas but with a population of less than 60,000. He seemed to dismiss the value of having Greenland under the control of a close NATO ally. When asked why he needed to possess the territory, he said: “Because that’s what I feel is psychologically needed for success. I think that ownership gives you a thing that you can’t do, whether you’re talking about a lease or a treaty. Ownership gives you things and elements that you can’t get from just signing a document.” In other words, it's not about national security concerns or not having access to rare earth minerals - it's all about feeling good about having a piece of paper that says he owns it.

The general Presumption is that No One is ABOVE the LAW. Then you have some ORDER. The Alternative is CHAOS. Nev

The law may be an ass.... But it's better than running the world on random bullying.

Muppets, by definition.

Trump announces US land strikes on drug cartels in Mexico and chillingly declares his 'own morality' is the only limit on his unchecked global power after Maduro capture Read the report here.

Dozens of houses lost in Harcourt and Sutton Grange, including my daughters. We are OK due to a wind change.

It's been so dry at my place since April that there is hardly anything in the paddocks to carry a fire. I'm even noticing that trees in the paddocks away from the creeks and gullies are starting to die.

A taste of HELL. Nev

Wish it was wet now. Choppers and fires around us. Blowing a gale.

You'd Be amazed HOW religious I was At 18. Nev