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The Americans could never possibly accept the idea, that some other country - especially an Eastern European one - designed and built better military weapons, than they do.

Michelangelo's David returns to Italy after 3 years touring the U.S. ......

Hey, Babe - take a walk on the wild side!

Yes, the insidious American culture takeover is everywhere, even the Europeans and the Asian nations get annoyed about how pervasive it is. Fortunately, I think we still have enough Australians in the general public and Australia politicians who are prepared to say No to any more increased level of American influence. Luckily for us, Trump is doing his best to ensure that American culture is shown up for what it is - violent, self-absorbed, a xenophobic hatred of minorities or anyone who isn't Anglo-Saxon in ancestry, gun-fondlers, and bitterly divisive, politically. Welcome to the forum randomx, I'm sure you'll be able to express your opinion here without the rancor, divisiveness, and hatred that comes with American culture. I'm personally of the opinion a lot of Americans still bear deep bitterness and hatred against blacks, because they believe they still should be just slaves, and second-class citizens. P.S. - You get 15 mins to edit your posts here, so proof read, or correct them quickly. After that time, they're set in stone. The idea is to keep threads readable, because if people go back after hours and days and many further replies, and then edit their original post, the thread becomes unreadable and disjointed.

Keep on rockin' me baby!

Can you hear me now?

Frozen food will keep for 48 hrs in a full freezer with no power, if the freezer isn't opened. It will keep for 24 hrs in a partly-full freezer with no power. Frozen food kept at 5°C for more than 4 hours should be discarded or cooked immediately. The power company should compensate you for food losses due to power outages.

It looks like a new sprocket is coming up? Getting gearing right for highway cruising is important. When I ran a lot of Holden utes, we would change the rear axle ratio to a higher ratio, to improve fuel economy, reduce engine and increase engine longevity. We would go from a 3.55:1 rear axle to a 3:36:1 for the 6 cyl engines. Just enough difference to stop the engines from screaming their guts out at highways speeds. Too often, the factory gearing is too low. The earlier Landcruiser traytops and troop carriers with the 4.5L V8 diesel are notorious for too low gearing. The 4.5L V8 diesel was doing 2600RPM at 110km/h, that's revving too high for such a big donk. Toyota fixed the Landcruiser gearing in 2017 and raised the 5th gear ratio by 15%. Interestingly, aftermarket suppliers can supply a modified gearbox mainshaft with a 5th gear that is 20% higher. My 2013 2WD diesel (N70 series) Hilux was too low geared for highway work. About 2 years ago, I took off the 15" wheels (fitted with 205/70R15 tyres) and fitted a set of 16 wheels from the later N80 series 2WD Hilux. These 16" wheels are fitted with 215/65R16 tyres - slighter lower profile than the 15" I took off, but still larger diameter overall (by about 4%). The improvement the 16" wheels made was just amazing. Fuel economy improved, engine revs and noise went down, and I didn't notice a great deal of difference in pulling power on hills. I'm alert to engine lugging by coming down too low in 5th gear at lower speeds, and change down to 4th at any sign of engine lugging.

Facthunter - Arsenic is not used in gold mining, perhaps you were thinking of cyanide. Arsenic can be a by-product of gold extraction. Cyanide is safe enough when used correctly, the important thing is to keep alkalinity of the aqueous gold/cyanide solution high, at least a pH of 10 or more, by using lime thoroughly blended with the ore or tailings. I personally used a lot of cyanide for gold mining in the 1980's, our family mining and mining contracting business carried out a lot of vat leaching for gold recovery - and the interesting part is, we re-treated huge tonnages of tailings, that had all been treated with cyanide, from the 1890's up to the 1980's. We had no problems with any cyanide residues or handling, and the mining and leaching operations were all subject to environmental regulations.

Not a song, I believe - but Fatty Arbuckle, the 1920's actor/comedian.

Have you counted the number of open pit mines opened up, just to get gold? A pretty yellow metal that has a small level of industrial use - but which mostly gets uselessly socked away from sight for decades, after being mined! Alluvial gold mining is one of the most destructive methods around.

Static Ice advises JB Hi Fi are also selling that phone at $249. They also list Officeworks selling it at $247. https://www.staticice.com.au/cgi-bin/search.cgi?q=Galaxy+A17&spos=3

Richard Bransons wife, Joan (nee Templeman), has passed away at age 80. The couple were set to mark their 50th wedding anniversary next year. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/nov/26/joan-templeman-wife-richard-branson-dies-aged-80

The video is a bit deceiving because there's no size reference or statistics. I'll wager that drone tank only holds 40 or 50 litres, water is bloody heavy! How long is 40 or 50 litres going to last, pressure-washing? I use elevated IBC's (1000 litre) for washing machines down, and you can easily use 500 litres of water just in a machine washdown.

In the latest vehicle crash tests, some Chinese EV's actually scored very highly. https://www.drive.com.au/news/new-chinese-ev-earn-top-marks-in-ancap-testing/

Red, the only "negative speed bump" FB news article that I can find, is from 2018 - and the news article says they were "being trialled". I have never seen these things in Perth, so I guess the trial was possibly an expensive flop. https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=10155643410529072

The Chinese have moved into Brazil with their EV's, in a big way. No doubt, this move ties in nicely with their huge purchases of Brazilian soybeans - all at the expense of America, and its manufacturers and farmers. So much for "Making America Great Again". America is starting to look like the worlds biggest loser, making all the wrong decisions, thanks to the utter economic incompetence of its BS-artist leader. https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/11/22/cop-brazil-electric-vehicles-donald-trump-china-00665693

No-one gets any benefit from bottom-of-the-harbour schemes today, because the ATO nailed it for what it was - simple criminal activity designed to defeat tax collection. But plenty of people who are supposed to be "looked up to" today as "great entrepreneurs", only got their initial wealth via BoTH scheming. One well-known (now deceased) mining entrepeneur here in W.A. started a huge collection of "collectable" cars, and a car Museum in York (W.A.) thanks to his BoTH scheming and "unjust enrichment". He did serve a small jail term for his criminal scheming as regards tax avoidance, but he still won handsomely, monetarily. It goes without saying he was a close associate of W.A's greatest corporate scammer, who did go to jail for 5 years over his corporate crookedness. But surprise, surprise, he sprang back from his "bankruptcy" and 5 yr jail term with a very substantial level of assets, reputed to be nearly $300M, that he'd socked away in untouchable jurisdictions. Of course, his initials were AB, but I guess you all know that.

I think we should start a list of Trumps BS, hollow promises - but I fear it may take up too much room on the forum!

"Bottom of the Harbour" schemes worked brilliantly for a large number of mining scumbags in the 1970's, 1980's, and 1990's, until the ATO put a stop to it.

Ghislaines father Robert, the media baron, was crooked to the core, a liar and thief, and he died in highly suspicious circumstances, just like Epstein. They all made a good crooked bunch together. Maxwell and Trump behave identically, both abusive thugs, belittling people, liars to the core, and thieves to boot. Always trying to impress others with their "superiority" and levels of power. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/22/the-murky-life-and-death-of-robert-maxwell-and-how-it-shaped-his-daughter-ghislaine

At least the good news is - Marjorie Taylor Greene is resigning her seat. Good riddance to the horse-faced, rabid Christian Fundamentalist, conspiracy-peddling ratbag, who supported Trump all the way - until she fell out of favour with him, and is now on the receiving end of his vicious, abusive and belittling vengeance. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-22/marjorie-taylor-greene-resigns-after-trump-fallout/106040468

More Farcebook BS and Fake News. Totally fabricated rubbish.

Ah-HA! So the Flat Earthers are in the majority amongst the boaties?! Yeah, I'd hate to fall off the edge of the Earth, so I keep well back from it.

I trust the gun is a dud, too.