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And now it'll cost you a heap of time, and producing the evidence, to argue you were legally parked. 😞

Sorry to tell you this, Nev - but the CBA was sold off to the private banks in 1997 by the traitorous Keating Govt, and the champagne glasses have been clinking in the boardrooms of the nations Big Four Banks, ever since they removed a Govt-owned bank from opposing their constant greed. King O'Malley is spinning in his grave.

She's holding a couple of butternut pumpkins, right?

I'm getting worried now, virtually all the stars of my younger years and my era are gone, or just about gone. To add to my gloom, I've been looking up all the veterans I served with in Vietnam, and I've found a large number of them have died. The bloke who slept in the bed next to mine in our hut in Nui Dat, just died late last month, I never saw him again after I left 'Nam, and it appears he got dementia and spent the last few years in an aged care home. He was just an ordinary, decent enough bloke, he didn't achieve great fame or fortune, he came from Canowindra, he went back to Canowindra after he did his National Service, and apparently just lived out his life there.

It's in the realm of the finest American conspiracy theories to say that the climate change agenda is run by big, vested interests. It's like saying the fossil fuel industry is controlled by the Arabs, it's not possible, because of the sheer number of players and nations involved in the energy industries - and in the climate change agenda. You can't buy off all the scientists. We get more propaganda from America today than we ever get from China and Russia, the people running America today are in the same mold as the McCarthy mob - which feral mob destroyed a lot of good people with their hunt for largely non-existent "reds" in America, who the McCarthyists decided were ruining America. What a disgusting mob they were - and the mob running America today are little different.

The air quality in Beijing has apparently improved out of sight since the city has started to discourage polluting IC engines, and encouraged transport to move over to EV's. It appears nearly all taxis in Beijing are electric. In addition, large investments in rail to move people around, have done their bit to cut transport emissions. So, there has to be some benefit in any attempt at reducing polluting emissions. The argument that our efforts to cut emissions will only be a drop in the ocean, because China is doing nothing about cutting emissions, is a fallacious one. https://sustainablemobility.iclei.org/air-pollution-beijing/

I thought this biting cartoon was pretty good.........

Jacinta should tell Gina or Clive there's gold under Melbourne, where the tunnels are planned to run, and give the mining rights to them for the ground, and the tunnels will be dug for free!

Whoa, let's not get too carried away. The Texas legislature (run by the Republican majority) has issued CIVIL arrest warrants for the missing Democrat representatives. The arrest warrants are unenforceable outside the State of Texas, and because they are CIVIL warrants, no other State will enforce them. The arrest warrants are largely symbolic. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/gop-issues-symbolic-arrest-warrants-for-texas-democrats.html

If you remove the letters that form the word WRONG, you end up with A KISS.

The football clubs names all start and end with the same letter.

That lying scumbag Musk has directly blamed the Left for Kirks death - even though he was shot by a Trump supporter who came from a fundamentalist MAGA family. Musk has created riots in London with his blatantly false claims. Musk and Trump are directly responsible for the upsurge in political murders and attempted assassinations in the U.S., as both have continually urged political revolt and violence, and targeted anyone who doesn't support MAGA as evil. https://www.watoday.com.au/world/europe/celebrating-murder-far-right-protest-turns-violent-as-musk-blames-the-left-for-charlie-kirk-s-death-20250914-p5muti.html

What goes up, must come down. Nev should know that, straight off! He's never had an aircraft stuck up there, for good! 😄

Bedspread.

Spacey - Folic acid and Thiamin are added to white flour to replace B group vitamins lost during the milling process. Ascorbic acid is also sometimes added to white flour to improve the dough quality. Ascorbic acid is quite safe to eat, it's found in citrus fruit. Calcium peroxide is another chemical often added to white flour, to reportedly strengthen dough and improve its texture, but I would have my doubts about that chemical, as it doesn't seem necessary to add it. Calcium peroxide is an industrial chemical and a known poison, but the manufacturers claim they manufacture a food-grade Calcium peroxide, which is purportedly safe to consume. Your great grandkids teeth are possibly in poor condition due to a number of factors; 1. Poor genetics, many people of Anglo-Saxon ancestry suffer from poor tooth structure. We can only blame our ancestors. A lot of tribal or African people have far better teeth than Angl0-Saxons, due to good tooth DNA. 2. Poor tooth hygiene. Parents are largely responsible for teaching children good oral health. Many young parents fail to do this. 3. Poor diet with lots of sugary, fizzy drinks. I largely destroyed my teeth with too much Coca-Cola when I was young.

It's a small world after all.

A Life of Ease.

Operation without pain = Pain-free operation.

These Christian Fundamentalists are worse than the Taliban, with their BS religious beliefs and biblical interpretations. They're not Christians, they worship Guns and Money over God. They're continually in the grip of the Gun Lobby, and they continually rave on about the "freedom" of the Second Amendment. Their BS line is the Second Amendment protects them from a "tyrannical" Govt. What a crock of sh**. Armed civilians have no hope of overthrowing a Govt that possesses all of the most sophisticated military equipment that they need to win wars against similarly-equipped enemy nations. It is propaganda on a level that would make Goebbels envious. They are fully prepared to keep worshipping the Gun God and sacrificing their children, friends, family members, and leaders, endlessly in mass shootings - because any crackhead can acquire a hundred firearms of their choice under their f*****-up Constitution, that they refuse to modify, because they insist it came from God on stone tablets. One can only wish that all the sensible people leave America to move to countries where common sense reigns, and Christian Fundamentalist BS has no sway. Moloch the Gun God - https://www.abc.net.au/religion/the-price-of-freedom-child-sacrifice-and-the-american-gun-cult/10095320

The heavy Indian accents are a curse to those of us that are hearing-challenged. I often hand the phone to SWMBO, who has perfect hearing, and let her sort it out - but even then, she often has problems understanding them.

May-onn-aise.

Head in the Sand.

And you have trouble moving around, too. Nothing like lead in your pants to slow you down.

This thread needs an update, with positive news. I have positive news to report, on my front. Out of the blue today, I got an SMS saying as a result of ACCC proceedings against the Good Guys, I now have $70 store credit with the Good Guys - and the credit doesn't expire for 12 mths. I was annoyed previously about the shonky way the Good Guys offered store credit (or "store cash") - which credit was offered immediately after you purchased something from them. It worked along the lines of, if you bought a washing machine, say, for $500, the GG's would immediately say you had a further "bonus" credit of, say, $20 or $30, to spend in-store. What the GG's failed to state clearly, was that the credit expired very quickly (usually about 7 to 10 days), or you had to sign up to marketing promotions to get the store credit. The ACCC obviously became aware of a lot of people being effectively scammed out of their store credit, so they took the GG's to court over it, and the GG's got fined $13.5M, and had to redress the customers who lost their store credit. I lost store credit previously, because it had expired when I went to use it. I initially thought the SMS might have been a scam, but it wasn't, and there was link in the SMS that went to the GG's website, which gave out the details. So, that's a nice small win for the little guys, over the shonky sales tactics of the Good Guys, and I'm looking forward to spending that $70 shortly, on something I need. https://www.accc.gov.au/media-release/the-good-guys-to-pay-135m-penalty-for-misleading-store-credit-promotions

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