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The Pope and Trump are on stage in front of a huge crowd. The Pope leans toward Trump and said, "Do you know that with one little wave of my hand I can make every person in this crowd go wild with joy? This joy will not be a momentary display, like that of your followers, but go deep into their hearts and for the rest of their lives whenever they speak of this day, they will rejoice!" Trump says, "I seriously doubt that. With one little wave of your hand? Show me!" So the Pope slaps him.

Not quite a conversion on the road to Damascus, but it looks like I'll be taking my first ride in an EV next week. My son has bought a BYD Shark 6 for himself and a BYD Sealion for the family car. My son has a business pimping up 4WDs. He worked out plans to do what he wants to his Shark and has had initial talks with the sellers of BYDs, interesting them in his idea. If his talks produce anything, his business will contract to do up these cars as special vehicles, which will add something special to retailer's offerings. From what he says, he thinks he will be starting limited production around Spring. As well as doing this stuff with BYDs, he will still be doing similar work on the usual suspects. It's good to see a young man (geez! He's 36!!) having a go. I can only wish him success. However, no matter how successful he becomes in business, he'll still be my dickhead of a son.

Apparently these buzzwords are used to express power in interpersonal relationships. If a person is on a lower rung in the ladder than the person using the buzzwords, then the one on the higher rung is exerting power over the other. These words are also used to exclude outsiders from inner circles. These words are the trade jargon of the administrative classes. The one I hate is "on my watch". I could see it being used by John F Kennedy and the elder George Bush who both served in the Navy in WWII, but its use by people with no navy service grates on my nerves.

Corporate buzzwords and phrases. It was things like "bringing them along for the journey".. The latest is aligned.. as in "lets all get aligned".. These things are repeat ad nauseum... I am not sure people even know what they mean. P155es me off.

Back on the road Peter! Let me know if you'd like to go for a ride sometime. One of my favourites is to Richmond via Grasstree Hill then back via Tea Tree and Brighton.

He's awake at night trying work out HOW to fake the Next Erection. Nev

Exhausted from flogging a dead organ. . Nev

Demonstrating the length of an erect penis meaured, acording to his observations and experience.

Generally you don't add as much value as the cost if you spend BIG as the result May be More to your taste than Prospective buyers. might want. Nev

Probably summing up the relationship he has with Putin.

Look at this! The president of Magastan has changed parties! He got elected by the RED states. He always used to wear a red tie. Now he has gone to the blue side! Not sure what he is describing with that hand signal, though.

On April 20, 1945, during an air battle over Germany, Eduard Schallmoser's Messerschmitt Me.262 collided with an American Martin B-26 Marauder medium bomber. Schallmoser managed to bail out and open his parachute. He landed in the back garden of his parents house, right in front of his amazed mother!

Here is a photo of, l to r, my father, his sister, and my mother's sister-in-law. The photo was taken 55 years ago. The original was black and white, but I used an online site to colourise it a couple of years ago. It took the algorithm about 2 minutes. Last week I found another site online which said they could convert old photos into video clips. I didn't specify a motion style, but this is how they converted it. The power of AI.

Unlikely. The deranged orange one has crapped on its trade 'partners'. The stink will linger long after the crap is gone. Art of the deal? There might be big money changing hands in the background, but joe public won't see any of it.

Loved your cars and bikes eh Nev , good for you. Brother loves bikes he's got bike business. Mum had a Peugeot way back, jesus that thing was nice car , wouldn't know the yr think it was around and 85 or something. l dunno , people don't seem to read much here but have said , plenty to do and have also had hobbies all my life to. Only got back here 3mths ago though as said to haven't had a chance to scratch my arse l'm not even established here. Have gotten a shipload done though at least. Anyway decided l'm doing the cabin up then selling the place if possible. l've started that now should be ready in a few wks and we'll see how she goes.

Forget the policies, she has consistently voted against her policies when her rich mates make a call. Eg. Penalty rates, voted to abolish them Health funding for nurses wages-voted against. Self interest is all she believes in.

Well, l believe all that stuffs good for us especially as we age,you gotta have stuff to do or you just get old that's not the problem for me.But as l've said, l've had big properties and l'm sick of them but also a helluva lot of driving living here and l'm sick of driving too. Some aren't some still love the work. Met a farmer 87 still worked his 400ac farm and cattle,yaknow, it was backed right off but he still had some cattle. Still hand hoed a 2ac veggie plot, still rode his motor bike all over the farm daily and brought cattle in with it. Said to him one day especially the veggie plot but how come you don't just use the tractor. He said l love doing it , been doing it 60yrs, keeps me in shape, great thinking time too, took him about 3 wks to get through it. He was always picking up sticks and leaves of the ground, sprung down to them like a 10yr old said how come your always picking up leaves kev , says if l didn't do that my back ed b fkd. Gotta laugh. Met another farmer still running his whole 1000ac property 85, stronger than many 40yr olds. Said when are you gonna hang up the tractor mate ha ha, reckons he still loved his farm - soooo, take your pick on that one. Sooo, end of the day l don't reckon hurts you at all you can even see studies longer people work healthier they stay it's fact but that's not it for me. l just wouldn't feel like it bc as l say, bit sick of properties especially bigger ones. But yeppa , did that list few wks back too, mainly just to look at it in black and white for awhile. Pros were like 4 things, big things though, like l own it no bills could pay for a small build and still have some savings- cons , were around 18 though. All the driving , the isolation, the tiny town, some of the biggies.

To add some credibility to the news of military activity, it has been reported that the two pizza shops near MacDill airforce base reported major sales spike in pizza orders last night. Historically, such reports have previously coincided with major U.S. military planning and activity events. (Sorry, but I cannot find the 'sarcasm' emoticon)

There's one around here that rides a Harley with drag pipes and I must admit, he's not too bright. If he has an audience he will crank the throttle extra hard for maximum racket. I guess he thinks everyone is thinking "Wow!", whereas in reality they're all thinking "Dickhead!".

They DON'T have to be and Islam is not the Only threat. Lack of TRUTH in the Media is a threat to Democracy and while we have a free Vote there is a chance of keeping the thing on the rails. Nev

Better IF he could ZAP him. Nev

You can't revoke the citizenship of an Australian if it would leave them stateless. This is not something Labor or even the LNP can do if they were in government. There is no doubt these women made a monumentally stupid decision (although some were pressured into it by family, and were only girls themselves). And some may remain a security risk. The government will need to eventually let them back, it has no choice. What it can do is charge them with whatever crimes they've committed and lock them up here. The question it's facing now is, does it leave them and their children (who are innocent) in a terrible place where their kids are likely to be radicalised themselves while it dithers with the political pressure, or does it act quickly and provide those children the support services they need?

Just on another EV related topic. BYD recently announced that development of Sodium phosphate batteries has proved successful and that BYD is moving towards full production of this type of enegery storage. I think that the main advantages of sodium phosphate technology is a lower cost of raw materials and the elimination of the fire risks associated with lithium batteries. BYD knows about economies of scale. Sodium phosphate batteries can only become the universal standard if the majority of manufacturers are using them. To get this change started industry-wide, BYD has apparently not patented the process, but is freelky sharing the knowledge with everyone who makes batteries. We shall see what we shall see.

That is the irony of Charity. All Vinnies, LifeLine, Red Cross and Op Shops suffer from the generosity of people. I'm battling the same problem in the OP Shop I work at. Too much stuff donated; not enough staff to sort it, and not enough demand for what is put out for sale. I'm bagging up good clothing to be sent to Africa. Doing that is better than sending it to landfill. Also, our tip operator (local council) does not charge to tip. The Metropolitan charities lose bucket of money paying tip fees. It's bad when you live in a town with an aged population. Boomers are dropping off the perch and their kids are cleaning out theie houses and dropping off what they don't want to charity shops. Just think of the wedding gifts you received at you first wedding. Nowadays, no one has dinner parties so there is no need for fancy dinner sets or glassware. Then over the years people collect stuff like Tupperware and cookware. You can't sell that sort of stuff, but people keep donating it. We can't sell electrical items because we don't have anyone to Test 'n' Tag each item, but we continue to get it donated. You'd be surprised at how many items of clothing still have the original retailer's tags on them. I spent today packing up Mum's stuff to remove it from her room where she lived for the past ten years. I packed away CDs, DVDs and casette tapes, as well as their players. Who would want her out-of-date clothing. I have just poured opened jars full of jam down the sink. And there are all her creams, ointments and soaps that can't be given away. And her shoes and underwear. The only thing we can do is to wait until the end of the bushfire season and have a big burn up.

You Mean it's ALL Bull? Cheeses Crust. Is Nothing sacred? Next you'll tell me there's no Dog, and I'm adopted. Nev

They're only selling it because we're buying it. I'd say the fault lies with us.

They tilt their tails and Have wing slats and they are Ornithopters. No Plane will ever be as good. Nev

in this space.. on the same page... circle back... low-hanging fruit... bring to the table... brain dump... get buy-in... game changer... take it off-line... reinvent the wheel... onboarding... in my wheelhouse... top down... putting out fires... There are heaps of them and they're all irritating.

They made a documentary about that... It's called "Terminator"

Our deep south sounds positively balmy compared to your riding environment. Last year I folded to sensible behaviour and sold my bike. No sensible 70 year old would be so silly as to have a motorbike! I finally gave in to my pining for a ride. Collected a little 250, (a lighter thing to pick up if it falls over). A pleasant enough 8 degree day. It's heated grips worked all the way home. Of course as soon as I hit the highway the clouds closed in and the previously nice winding roads had me nervous because I was still getting used to handling this light responsive bike, on wet roads. Home in one piece. Nice hot shower, hot cuppa and happy. For future adventures, I will include a weather forecast in my flight plan.

Debates are Combative by nature and a winner is decided which has Litle to do with the subject chosen. Even the Insurance companies Militaries and Oil companies don't dispute the reality of anthropomorphic Climate change. Farmers who keep records know it too. Sea level rises Ocean temps and acidity. More EXTREME Climate event . Ice Melting at the 3rd Pole. ( the Himalaya's) that threatens the future food security of Millions. CO2 records show what is happening. The climate change deniers are Running out of ideas as more evidence emerges We CAN easily Make this Place Uninhabitable. We cannot burn much More of the Oil Gas and Coal available and not make things rapidly worse. Energy from other sources must and can be used. Nev

In2006, my late wife got to carry the Queen's Baton in the relay before the Commonwealth Games. This is a photo I took. I uploaded this photo to the website I mentioned above, It asked how I wanted the photo converted. I entered "Running with baton." Here is the result. Irene baton run.mp4

Crook, bad connections and rat eaten wiring causes fires also. Nev

So far, I guess it is simply the act of a deranged narcissist. Grandiose drum beating. I hope he finds a new way to get attention and this action is forgotten tomorrow.

Yes, exactly. Why do you think that every time you call a 'help desk' the first words you hear are "We will not accept and sounds of anger from you." Then they put you on hold and are somehow surprised to find that after waiting half an hour or more, you are getting irritated and disenfranchised.

To clear things up, only the first line in my post: Was in response to the bit I quoted. It was intended to convey the irony of the the Pauline pot calling kettle black type comment. In other words she is mimicking the martydom thing attributed to the subject of her attacks, albeit at a very differrent level (i.e. Pauline is not willing to die for it), Everything else was in a generic sense of the general discourse aroud Islamophobia and not in reference to your post. Anbd it was basically to say, there seems to be an argument that defends the bad ideological bit on the basis that others doi it and have done it. My point is that is toxic and divisive, too, as it is pitting one against the other, and if one ideological group has done a little bit less worse than the other, than that is OK, apparently.. None of it is OK, so let's stop saying well, some dickhead from Australia killed 57 Muslims, so the Islamic ideologues who do this are excused, not bad, blah blah blah. They all are bad (ideologists of any type willing to comit atrocities, I am speaking about, not all Muslims... just to be clear). And none should be tolerated nor should there be a "Oh, some whitey did it.. so there" type attitude That was my point. FWIW, Pauline is a poor man's Nigel Farage.. Rotten to the core and contributes to rather than solves the problem; the difference being Pauline can't really present herself as anything other than that - Farage sadly, is a bit more adept at the PR. Also sadly, it appears, at least until it comes to putting pencil to paper at an election, an increasing number of Australians are following suit. p.s. I am trying to think of a metaphorical nickname for Pauline.. Maybe I will callher Handson.. as in Hands on it.. as she is a bit of a w@nker.

The kero lanterns are like a lot of gear in that you can see the reducing quality of manufacturing over the yeas. These days a lot of them manufacture to a price for mximum profit. Most older lanterns have very thick glass globes with embossed lettering and good thickness of metal. As time went by, the metal got thinner, the glass got thinner and the embossed lettering gave way to etching. Twenty five years ago, the lanterns you could buy in camping stores were generally made in Hong Kong or China, and the quality was reasonable. These days, the Chinese made lanterns are really low quality. I've got one which is a large lantern, a copy of the Dietz No.80 design, and it amazes me how they can make glass that thin and make anything out of metal so thin. It's also got a design fault in the burner which makes the flame flare a bit with any vibration like opening or closing a door. These two lanterns I have are Dietz lanterns. Dietz is a very old American brand of lantern. I think it was in the 1950's they moved manufacturing to Hong Kong but they maintained a standard of quality. These two were bought in the mid 90's and are good quality lanterns. The one on the left is a No.80 (80 hours burn time at a low setting) and the one on the right is a Dietz Junior No.20. Even though the hot blast lanterns were an earlier design than these cold blast lanterns, some manufacturers like Dietz still offered both types for quite a long time; I know Dietz still made hot blast lanterns in the 1970's. There was probably still a good market for them. Some people (like me) prefer them for the softer, more yellowish or amber type of light they give off due to their combustion design.

What's the aerodynamics behind it?

The MIND doesn't easily rest with a Non Decision because genetically it reduces the chance of survival in the wild, but that's not appropriate to your situation. You don't HAVE to move, and you are not threatened. Is it a Mid life crisis? IF you are looking for the Meaning of Life or a Meaningful Life, Join the Queue. I reckon we are here, Because we are here ..Nev

Maybe the ornithopter is bitter and twisted and we can't have it turning left can we? I think it's biased actually. LH circuits are preferred, Nev

Bunya nut season is almost over and so far I've survived with all fingers intact. Just a small head wound to show for it (forgot the hard hat), but it's all healed now. A very bad cockatoo high up in a tree dislodged a branch and I wore part of it. At least you can survive a pine branch fall; a bunya nut pod on the head is guaranteed to be terminal from that height. It's been the biggest season in many years, bunya nuts everywhere, millions of them.

Actor Robert Duvall has passed away aged 95. He died peacefully at home surrounded by family.

Crikey it's HOT 34° Tomorrow, 40° next Sunday.

On the grain season side in W.A., the farming community has just produced the biggest-ever grain crop to come out of W.A. It was truly a bumper season - 27.35M tonnes of grains in total, surpassing the former record-breaking 25M tonnes in 2022. That's 4 out of the last 5 years that have been bumper grain seasons for W.A. farmers. The taxman will be rubbing his hands! Surprisingly to me, barley was the biggest crop winner this season just gone. A far bigger area cropped to barley than normal, and high yields for the 2025/26 season, made barley the standout for this years grains. https://www.giwa.org.au/wa-crop-reports/2025-season/giwa-crop-report-february-2026/