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Where have you been? The 1% Club is a TV game show, with UK, Australian and US versions, and possibly other countries as well. An group of 100 contestants in the studio are each given an amount of $1000 in Aus, and £1000 in the UK. They face a series of quiz questions which have been checked against a test group of 1000 people, which identifies the difficulty of the question. If 90% of the 1000 get it right, it is called the 90% question, and is fairly simple. If a contestant gets it wrong, they are eliminated from the game, and their $1000 goes into a prize pot. If 80% of the 1000 get it right, it becomes the 80% question. The same goes for the 75%, 70%, 60% and so on till they reach a question only 1% of the 1000 test group can answer correctly. Contestants get 30 seconds to solve the question while the host rambles on with distracting chatter. Contestants are eliminated at each level and their stake is added to the prize pot. Anyone not eliminated when they reach the 1% question can take $10,000 or risk it to attempt the 1% question, where they could win (or share if more than 1 get that far) the total of the prize pot, which could have risen to $100,000. The hosts, or question masters, are Jim Jeffries in Australia, Lee Mack in the UK and Patton Oswalt in the US.

Just found out there is a US version of The 1% Club, but it is not showing in Australia. Not surprising that there's a US version. The host is Patton Oswalt.

The correct answer has 14 letters.

Correct. M (Em) is the 13th letter in the alphabet, B (Bea) is the second letter, so L (Elle) is the twelfth letter.

Amir’s birthday is the 24th of January. The date is the number of words at that point in the sentence, the twenty fourth word. In a road with exactly 26 houses, if Em lives at number 13 and Bea lives at number 2, logically what number house does Elle live at?

My wife and I moved into this house with our two young toddler sons just before Christmas 1978. The temps were very high that year, so we had a reverse cycle wall mounted unit installed in the lounge room. We rarely used the heater function, because the house had ducted gas heating. In hot weather my wife used to sleep in the lounge room. The unit is still working and was a boon for my daughter last week.

An American holidaying in Queensland has posted on Facebook he is thinking of moving here and has asked for tips on things like guns, weed, accents including pronunciation and Aussie slang etc. He was advised to be himself and pick it up as he goes along. Some replies clarified things like thongs vs flip-flops, and ass vs a**e. I was going to post a photo of each of the last pair, and did an image search for "ass". I was looking for a photo of a donkey. I couldn't get over it. Try it yourself.

Our little wheel around refrig unit created plenty of water for the pot plants on our recent 40¯ day.

https://greenisland.feji.io/blog/breaking-news-australia-just-gave-carney-a-parliament-stage-and-it-signals-a-realignment-the-us-cant-ignore-nn

Unfortunately I was unable to save a link as I was posting the story above about the Melania movie, but there was another report that Trump now wants an Order of Australia award for all the good work he has done.

https://northwavenews.com/posts/💥-trump-rages-as-australia-bursts-out-laughing-at-melanias-movie-international-mockery-explodes-humiliation-goes-global-first-ladys-flop-turns-into-total-scandal-inferno-hthao/

Listen to Trump's pronunciation of the countries on the Jimmy Fallon video below.

Never even been a passenger on a bike let alone ridden one.

With such a shortage of housing, the Victorian Government has decided to demolish seven public housing towers designed for the elderly, to be redeveloped. In the meantime, where are these residents meant to go, and what will that do to the waiting list for accommodation? https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-06/public-housing-demolition-residents-relocated-private-homes/105619934

Here's one for @onetrack. Here is a new housing estate on the left coast. Heaven help then if someone has an electric scooter that goes up in smoke. Apparently the walls are so thin you can hear the woman next door change her mind.

Who remembers George, the talking clock on the phone? "On the third stroke, it will be five pm and twenty seconds. Ping Ping Ping." You can still hear it online at 1194online.com

What IS logorrhoea? Truth about the worrying speech condition that medics claim Donald Trump is suffering from that's linked to psychiatric problems https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-15508607/logorrhea-medics-accuse-Donald-Trump-speech-mental-health-issues.html?ito=social-facebook&ito=social-facebook_Australia

If I had come out 5 minutes later I would have had to wait till he came out to get my door open. It was a large carpark, he could have found somewhere else. The yellow stripes means No Parking.

So many book jockeys on this forum.

Some people are so 'entitled'. I was at Woolies at Brentford Square Vermont at midday to get some bread and sliced meat for lunch. My car was parked in the disabled space next to the entry, (I have a disabled sticker due to all the surgeries and the pacemaker I have had.) This entitled idiot who would have been over 50, had parked his Vespa style motor scooter on the yellow hatched footpath right outside the door, next to my car. I had to walk around him to unlock my door and put my groceries on the back seat. I said, "You can't park there, it's a footpath." He said, "Yes I can, bikes can be parked on the footpath." I said, "When I open my door to get in the car and hit your scooter, it will be your responsibility." He moved the scooter 2 inches and locked it. So I took a photo on my phone as shown below, and after lunch I went to the police station and reported it. What pissed me off more was that the police said all they could do was phone him up and tell him not to do it again. It was a council matter. Scooters and pushbikes can be parked on the footpath, but not registered ones. The trolley boy cane along with 15 or so trolleys and couldn't swing them in the door because the scooter was in the way. You can see the trolleys on the right. I'm going to the council office on Monday.

Copy of my post in the Putin topic American crude oil is sweet (contains less than 1% sulphur), but their refineries set up years ago were designed for sour crude (>1% sulphur), which is why they need foreign crude. https://www.fuelstreamservices.com/why-the-u-s-cant-use-the-oil-it-produces/