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I often complain about closed captions, and they have screwed up again, partly because of the English language. I just watched the end of the Essendon - Gold Coast Suns match, in which my son's team, Essendon, won their first match of the season at home, by 3 poiints. In the afermatch interview, every time they used the word "how", the captions showed the name "Howe". If my son had any hair, he has shaved his head for years, he would have none left now. They were 28 points up at one stage, but the lead swapped 4 times in the last 10 minutes. That's an exciting game, not like this 1-0 bullshit after 100 minutes.

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

They just keep comming. Aussie actor Terry Donovan, and father of Jason, has passed away.

Where/what is Melnoiurne?

Sir Garfield Sobers, widely regarded as the greatest all-rounder in cricket history, passed away on July 17, 2026, at the age of 89. He Played for Barbados.

‘She’s the future’: Pauline Hanson names daughter Lee as potential successor to One Nation leadership. https://www.news.com.au/national/shes-the-future-pauline-hanson-names-daughter-lee-as-potential-successor-to-one-nation-leadership/news-story/7893a677a8b11b03b1561f575cfb7200?utm_source=News.com.au&utm_medium=Facebook&utm_campaign=EditorialSB&utm_content=SocialBakers

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

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Can you guess (or do you know) who this person is?

This is funny...

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She's losing favor as fast as she gained it - a real flash in the pan.

Close enough Nev, the thumbs up is "Good", so it's Good things come to those who wait.

Both correct.

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P, Rhett, Tea As(s), A, Picture Pretty as a picture

Just pointing out something many may not have known.

He was actually born in Omagh, Northern Ireland, but was raised in New Zealand.

Actor Sam Neill has passed away shortly after saying he was cancer free.

In a post near the beginning of this thread I mentioned that I became interested in photography when a workmate of my father gave me a 35mm camera. Neoca 35mm - my first camera I later purchased a twin lens reflex camera which took a 2+1//4" film negative. I never got into film processing, taking my negatives and transparency films to a chemist or camera shop for processing. Twin lens reflex Then I went digital so I could do post processing on the computer. I bought a Panasonic Lumix FZ20 camera which had a 12x zoom lens, great for airport photos. Unfortunately I lost it at an Avalon Air Show. It was a particularly hot day, and at the end of the show I was heading to the exit, suffering from a bit of heat exhaustion. A staff person on a golf buggy offered me a lift to the first aid room. I placed all my goods, chair, esky, camera, etc. on the back seat. When we got to the first aid room the camera was missing. I was pretty devistated. I assumed it had fallen off when we bumped over a gutter. My wife found a secondhand Lumix FZ40 which had a 24x zoom lens in the Trading Post for much less than I paid for the FZ20. It had belonged to the late father of the advertiser. That is the camera I use today in addition to my phone cameras. Lumix FZ40 I have an old iPhone 6 whichhas been decommossioned as a phone, it has no sim card. However it takes good photos, is small and light and fits in a tee shirt pocket, and is very easy to transfer images to the computer. My actual phone, a Samsung Galaxy, takes probably slightly better photos than the iPhone, but is large, heavy, like a brick to carry, and is a nightmare to transfer photos.

A mate sends me a bulletin called Pearls and Irritations every week. Often, I don't read it, a bit over my head many times. But he drew my attention to this article, and it has a bearing on the subject of this thread. https://pearlsandirritations.com/post/2026/07/gen-z-is-not-ageing-into-the-old-australia/?utm_source=pi_news&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=weekly-2026-07-12

The other thing that is becoming a pain is having to do everything on your phone. So many aps drain the battery quickly, and if you are stuck with a flat battery, or the network fails as has haapened with Telstra and Optus, you are stuffed.

Yes, it's a bloody pain. Also the sites that require you to enter the security code they send to your phone. I don't always have my phone close handy. I've had two FB accounts closed for some spurious reason. I was using my late wifes account, just to receive info, jokes and trivia, but I had to delete browser history and cookies to get Google Maps to work and lost the login.