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Muck over, Rye back kina, Saba lent car, Kova Chev vick, Naka sheen ahh.....

I hate cheap thongs, and only wear Slappas thongs during Summer. Cheap thongs nearly killed me once, I went sprawling over a rock embankment of the Ashburton River bridge, when I lost my footing as I started to climb down the rocks, taking a shortcut back to the caravan park. I was just lucky I landed on my side on a huge flat rock, not a big sharp-edged one, like all the rest were. I would have incurred very major injury, maybe even killed myself, if I'd landed anywhere else. I still did a lot of damage to my outer thigh muscle, I couldn't walk for a week afterwards, and I was in agony for most of that week. Dirt-cheap footwear is a mistake when you get older. Spend the money to get good foot support, it not only assists with balance, but you walk better in them. A lot of Chinese footwear puts you off-balance from the word go, because the soles are rubbishy design and they consist of crappy materials.

The definition of "duress" is being forced to commit a crime under a physical threat of some kind, that makes you feel you cannot avoid committing that crime without incurring physical injury, or by psychological pressure, which is the same as a threat of physical injury, but done with mind pressure. You can claim a defence to any crime committed, if you can show it was carried out under duress. But National Service is not duress, because no crime is being committed. You are obliged to carry out National Service as a obligation, as a citizen of your country, and where legislation authorising National Service has been enacted. If you had claimed conscientious objection to serving in the military, you could have avoided serving in Australia's military forces.

Day-dream bee-leaf-her!

Hey, Hey, we're the Monkees!

The worrying part is Trump has a visceral hatred of the EU and is intent on breaking it up. He sees the world as having only two main power blocs - America and China. All others that pose credible power blocs that might oppose his will, need to be dismantled, in his view. He doesn't even see Russia as a major power bloc, he's realised now that Putin is actually piss-weak.

This? .... from a bloke who is reputed to have Macca's burgers as his primary diet??

Going limp, and pretending to be dead, would work. 😄

Trump and the U.S. military NEED those NATO bases to be able to operate globally. Losing them would equate to a serious kick in the nuts for Trump, and the U.S. military.

Trump won't let Maduro go under any circumstances, for that to happen would be the greatest slap in the face he's ever endured. He'll appoint a "special prosecutor", a specific Trump loyalist, to carry out his bidding. This is a man who has no concern for legalities, conventions, or even Congress. He does what he likes. Next, it's going to be Greenland. But that will be a totally different kettle of fish that will come back to bite him, if he moves on the country. The Danish PM, Mette Fredrickson, has stated bluntly, (If Trump annexes Greenland) "that's the end of NATO". You can see what she means. It means all European bases owned and used by the U.S. military and air force will be reclaimed by their respective countries, and U.S. forces stationed at those bases, will be ejected from those countries. America could soon be running out of "friends". https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/05/trump-must-give-up-fantasies-about-annexation-says-greenland-pm

Barb-rah Eden. Adam and Eve must be American, they can't have any naughty bits uncovered. They should be stark naked if she's still handing him the apple to try.

Yes Siso, my apologies, S.A. was also formed as a free settler State.

Mega-billionaire and premium-grade Trump supporter, Paul Singer, has been identified as the primary beneficiary of the U.S. takeover of Venezuela. His investment company recently purchased all of the oil assets of Venezuela (oil refineries, terminals, and service stations) for$5.9B, in a "distressed sale", ordered by a Delaware court, after the State-owned Venezuelan oil company defaulted on loan repayments - all due to U.S. sanctions on Venezuelan oil. The Master of the Delaware court who ordered the sale of the Venezuelan oil assets, is also a major Trump supporter. https://asiatimes.com/2026/01/billionaire-trump-megadonor-set-to-make-killing-on-venezuela-oil/

Ahem .... convicts were first sent to Australia in 1788, not 1868. Back to the history books for you, Jerry! W.A. can lay claim to be the only State founded by free settlers (1826 for Albany, and 1829 for Perth), and W.A. only had convicts sent here between 1850 and 1868 - therefore only a small percentage of West Aussies, can claim convict ancestry. My parents arrived as "Ten-Pound Poms", Dad from England in 1925, and Mum from Scotland in 1929. Mum was fond of the old comment, "We arrived as 'Assisted Immigrants', not 'Insisted Immigrants'". 😄

It must have been some wild ride inside that "Sea-Bug", in that heavy sea!! (watch the 2nd YouTube clip). I'll wager they went through a few sick bags!! https://www.jalopnik.com/i-finally-found-what-the-ocean-going-vw-beetle-that-ins-1846145700/