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It's a heavily aged old mans face, reworked by AI. It is not the face of anyone famous.

Why is this poster always bringing up the threats to the West, from States associated with Russia? 🙄

Good God, it's Shirley MacLaine. She's decrepit, I reckon she hasn't got long to go, before she shuffles off. Maybe it was associating with Andrew Peacock that did her in.

It could've been worse, it could've been Sussan Ley, who can't even pronounce her own name properly - sort of like J D Vance, who doesn't even know what his real name is.

I'm talking about using the Presidential position to give Trump finances a constant leg up.

I personally think this new poster is a subtle misinformation troll, who should be booted from the forum. I expect he's backed by Russian interests. I have no idea where his information line is heading, but I suspect it's going to produce a lot of subtle lines about how weak Europe is, and how they shouldn't try to arm themselves up, because that would be very dangerous, because Vlad owns all the nukes in that neck of the woods.

Shouldn't it be, "More a Leg Up"?

I think I've mentioned this before, but I'm staggered at the number of blokes I worked with in the Vietnam War, who have passed on. This has only been reinforced recently, by entering a FB group for my Squadron, and meeting up with colleagues who contribute to the page - and by finding out from them, about a lot more of our blokes who have died. Quite a few died early, from car accidents, disease and suicide - but most have died between their late 60's and late 70's. Of those who have died, many died from cancer and other nasty diseases. It's quite disturbing. I'm sure ciggys and excessive boozing must have contributed to their relatively short lifespans.

We call the central item in any mens social gathering around a table, "The Table of Truth". 😄

Ouch! Hidden fencing wire takes down bulldozers, too. It gets caught in the tracks, then wraps around the final drive, and cut into the seals and destroys them. I spent a lot of time educating trainee dozer operators to stop, the instant they see wire in the tracks, and to get off and cut it, and pull it all out. We kept wire cutters on every machine.

The above sounds very much like a Russian war bloggers contribution - especially the last sentence. There's no indication anywhere that Wilson went to fight in Ukraine simply for the money - which was likely less than what he was paid in the Australian Army. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-01/australian-russell-wilson-was-remembered-as-corageous-soldier/106191082

Nev, my ancestors on my mothers side were the McLeans and the McKenzies. They came from Ballachulish ("Balla-hoolish") in the highlands, alongside Loch Leven, and not far from Glencoe. My Dad came from Portsmouth. Mum told us whenever her sisters would come home with a boy, her fathers interrogation would go like like this; "I see ye ha' a new man. What's his name?". And if the girl said a surname that wasn't Scottish, her old man would go (in disgust), "Ach!! A Sassenach!!" 😄 Unfortunately my mother married a Sassenach, so that didn't meet with his approval, either.

Now, all we have to do is preserve what little fish we have left, from the predations of the other nations fishing fleets. In W.A., a total ban on demersal fishing has just been imposed, because fish stocks are now lower than they have been since records started being kept. The problem is, many of our finest eating fish take many years to reach maturity, and the prized metre-long jewfish can be up to 80 yrs old. The State Govts decision has effectively bankrupted a large number of W.A. commercial fisherman, and the anger is palpable. There is a Govt buyback of fishing licences, but the amounts offered are minimal, and the Govt deal doesn't offer any other income alternatives for those fishing people. The decision was taken with no consultation with the fishermen, a move that really rankles.