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  1. On Channel 7's streaming app, 7plus, you can fast forward or step through the program, but not the commercials.
  2. View the video in the link in my post to see the features.
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    Funny videos

    https://www.facebook.com/reel/850171073750001
  4. We've been well educated by a couple of contributors. I had problems on my laptop when the keys started acting up,doubling or missing. I ended up buying a plug-in keyboard to help get around the problem. Meanwhile, back to the subject.
  5. From wikipedia: The process of tanning was also used for boats and fishing vessels: ropes, nets, and sails were tanned using tree bark. Formerly, tanning was considered a noxious or "odoriferous trade" and relegated to the outskirts of town, among the poor. Tanning by ancient methods is so foul-smelling that tanneries are still isolated from those towns today where the old methods are used. Skins typically arrived at the tannery dried stiff and dirty with soil and gore. First, the ancient tanners would soak the skins in water to clean and soften them. Then they would pound and scour the skin to remove any remaining flesh and fat. Hair was removed by soaking the skin in urine, painting it with an alkaline lime mixture, or simply allowing the skin to putrefy for several months then dipping it in a salt solution. After the hair was loosened, the tanners scraped it off with a knife. Once the hair was removed, the tanners would "bate" (soften) the material by pounding dung into the skin, or soaking the skin in a solution of animal brains. Bating was a fermentative process that relied on enzymes produced by bacteria found in the dung. Among the kinds of dung commonly used were those of dogs or pigeons.
  6. Some people write Mickey Mouse on the ballot paper. Then there's the guty who legally changed his name to Anybody Else and nominated on the ballot.
  7. Why the name Clint is rarely used in comics...
  8. Urine can do magic for tanning leather. Indeed, the ancients used pee to remove hair and flesh from animal hides and to soften them.
  9. The car behind me last night.
  10. red750

    Brain Teaser

    Correct. Move the blank spaces. 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 Out of questions and the show is on hiatus for the stupid "The Voice" singing contest. We will have to wait till the show is back on.
  11. red750

    Brain Teaser

    Correct.
  12. red750

    Brain Teaser

    Geez, you're chewing through them.
  13. Mike Cannon-Brookes' Sun Cable approved for huge solar farm Australia's biggest solar farm has been approved and is set to be built despite significant doubts over the viability of the $30 billion project that will export much of its power to Singapore. Read article here.
  14. red750

    Brain Teaser

    You answer 'em quicker than I can find them.
  15. red750

    Brain Teaser

    You're good Marty. Each digit has one less match.
  16. The last few days have been quite nice, a bit of cloud cover and a lot of sun. Went to get a haircut today. It was overcast, but looked OK. When I came out of the shopping centre, clouds looked ominous, but not spitting. About one and a half kilometres from home it started to spit. As I got out of the car, there was a loud clap of thunder and down it came - like Niagara Falls. I got wet to the skin walking from the car to the house.
  17. My gripe today is those magazines which offer part of something on the cover, but you have to keep buying is to complete the object. There is one out at the moment on the Lancaster Bomber. Issue 1 $4.99. Issue 2 $12.99 Issue 3 onwards $21.99 each. Total 130 issues. Details and video here.
  18. red750

    Brain Teaser

    Correct.
  19. Check rego
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    Brain Teaser

  21. red750

    Quickies part 2

    A guy rings his boss. "I'm sorry, I have to take some time off." The boss says "Why, what's the problem?" The guy says "My wife died suddenly last night." The boss says "Oh! I'm so sorry to hear that. Take as long as you need. How long do you think that might be?" The guy says "About eight and a half years with good behaviour."
  22. Big disparity. I was at Forest Hill Chase shopping centre this afternoon and noticed a Mazda ICE SUV in a charging bay. When I came home I looked up the fine for this offence. ACT $3,200 NSW $2.200 Qld $2,875 Vic $ 369 or 2 penalty points WA $ 100 SA $ 75 (EV's parked but not charging $111.)
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