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Like Navalny - the story from the Kremlin is he died of "sudden death syndrome". Generally brought on by a couple of rounds to the back of the neck.

When I was younger I bought a painting of Lilith. I didn't know who it was or the whole feminist thing around it, I just liked the nude redhead with the snake.

Sorry guys, you can have that. I start overheating if it gets above 25. Despite being cooler than you big island states, we've been getting a bit of fire activity down our way - on Saturday I saw a couple of AT-802 Air Tractors doing low turns over Bonnet Hill, close to Kingston, and a couple of choppers too. Found out later there were 6 aircraft doing water bombing on a bushfire. Then today the same Air Tractors went overhead and we could hear them operating in the area. FlightRadar24 showed them doing tight orbits over Pelverata for quite some time. Again there was at least 1 chopper attending (Bell 214, very distinctive sound). Good that they're jumping on them so quick.

I remember the New Years Eve party, counting down to midnight and wondering if the lights would go out because someone somewhere didn't fix the Y2K bug in the electricity system. Of course, nothing happened!

The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.

Probably the wrong thread, but this has got me thinking of electric aircraft. Surely the problems with IC auto conversions - the time spent at higher load etc - don't apply to electric? Obviously the battery weight (and shape) of EV's is all wrong for aircraft. But if energy density improves and the batteries can be reconfigured, then all the benefits of electric - low vibration, maintenance, less complexity - also apply to aircraft, right?

It's not an app, just a webpage, so I can't think of why it wouldn't load. Tried from your phone or another device?

Bruce Springsteen?

Upper Castra? Never heard of it. Up near Ulverstone somewhere by the looks of it.

Pensions are indexed, allowances are not

Yet a third of the planet happily give their data to FarceBook.

"To Russia, with love" ?

Australia is the richest country in the world for wind and solar. These are FREE sources of energy. Yet the fossil fuel industries will twist and turn and try anything they possibly can to throw red herrings in the way of a full and timely transition. It just shows that their bottom line and lining the already full pockets of their shareholders is far more important to them than the future of the planet. It's basically criminal behaviour but the laws haven't caught up (and won't, because they buy politicians).

Seriously, though, biology suggests we're not evolved to be monogamous. Listening to a scientist the other day. When you look at the lifestyles of various types of apes, and the equipment the males carry, you can work out why it's so. The examples she gave were gorillas vs chimps & bonobo's. The male gorilla has his little harem, and while some of the females may do a sneaky with another young gorilla, by and large he's the only one humping them. So he doesn't have much competition for his little swimmers, and consequently his balls are miniscule. Chimps and bonobos are party animals. It's like the 1960's for them with free love everywhere. Anything with a pulse, pretty much, several times a day. So for them there's a lot of competition for the male, so he needs a lot more swimmers to try to flush the last bloke out, and consequently they almost need a wheelbarrow to carry their balls. Humans are the Goldilocks of the bollock size, being far bigger than the gorilla but smaller than the chimps and bonobos. So that suggests that biologically there's a lot more swapping and hanky-panky in our history than the gorillas get up to.

Wow, sounds like he's living the dream.

Never heard them called that before!

She does have lovely eyes. I think.

I failed.

Similar here, but the version I heard was "he wouldn't have enough to blow his nose."

You can't live in tulips, and the population is not going downwards. There's not much reason for the bubble to burst. To anyone who says negative gearing and capital gains discounts don't affect you, well yes they do. It's an uneven playing field where one type of investment is getting tax breaks that other types don't, and it's not an investment that DOES anything for the economy - it's not a business employing people or a start-up or research that'll improve life. It's just an existing residence and its value is being inflated by speculative investors rather than just being a home for someone. I don't know what the answers are but if you ever want your kids and grandkids to have a home of their own, then something needs to change.

Yes, hope they're ok. There's been a couple of jets heading south in the past month or 2, one was heading to Chile and the other Johannesburg.

Allows for continental drift...

You can't talk about women that weigh...

The "battered sav" was made more famous by Roy and HG when they called the Gymnastics at one of the Olympics. Defined when a gymnasts crotch made contact with the floor or beam.

My car doesn't have a handbrake, it's an extra pedal footbrake. So yes theoretically I could do a "handbrake" turn but not sure how quick I could get it off again, so I don't think I'll be trying it any time soon.