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Alan Green, the founder of the Quiksilver surfing clothing and equipment brand, has passed away at age 77 after a brief battle with cancer. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-16/surf-brand-quiksilver-alan-green-dies/104824096

Party animals?

I think it's Jerry keystrokes that are the stroke problem.

I'm quite surprised at how cancer is claiming so many of the recent deceased, well-known people. I always wonder if it's their lifestyle, diet or job that gives them cancer, or if they simply have genes that are receptive to acquiring cancer.

You could give yourself endless work, leading on FB scammers. The site is full of them.

I reckon she's probably had a lot of plastic surgery done to her facial areas, it's pretty common with celebrities. She was certainly a very attractive lass when she was in her prime.

Here's what's going to help Ukraine, and Trump can do F-all about it. https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidhambling/2025/01/10/coalition-sends-30000-kamikaze-drones-to-ukraine/

Trump is the BS-artist to beat all BS-artists. Anyone with more than one working brain cell would know he has no ability to stop the Ukraine War in one day. He's full of it, someone must have swapped his rear orifice for his mouth. He's too thick to even grasp the fact that plenty of European nations are happy to keep providing weaponry to the Ukraine, while they still stand a chance of hammering the Russians to a standstill.

I think the photo of Barbara Eden has been "modified". She doesn't look that bad, and she is 94 this year.

Nope, a donkey in Esperance lost $3M to Nigerian scammers and the State Govt had to step in to stop him from sending other peoples money to the scammers as well. To top it all, he's a devout Christian and understood the scammers were good Christians, too. Talk about dumb!! 🙄 It sounds like Octave has come across a bunch of JW's, who continually fail to understand what "No", or "Not interested", means! https://thewest.com.au/news/australia/man-who-lost-3m-says-he-didnt-see-the-scam-ng-ya-103305

According to the Chaser, Boeing has made a New Years resolution to stop using Clag paste in the construction of their aircraft. 😄 https://chaser.com.au/business/boeing-announces-new-years-resolution-to-stop-using-clag-paste-in-airplane-construction/

Just a correction from Red's post above - Healthscope is not Canadian, it is owned by a North American private equity group, Brookfield. The row is all about BUPA and AHSA refusing to pay an extra hospital fee that Healthscope is demanding. All the other health insurers have already agreed to pay the fee. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-22/healthscope-ahsa-bupa-private-insurance-contracts/104633886

The simple fact remains that Musk is concentrating on the Rotherham grooming gangs to simply further his own right-wing, anti-immigration agenda. He doesn't give a rats rectum about the girl victims, and he would care even less that many of the girls weren't white. The Rotherham grooming gangs were in operation between 1997 and 2013, how come Musk didn't start on exposing them, back then? There were plenty of news articles written about the problem in the early 2000's. Musk is a particularly nasty toxic piece of work, and I'm quite amazed that Steve Bannon, one of the biggest right-wing leaders around, it's stating outright, that Musk is toxic, and Bannon is going to ensure Musk has little input into Trump decision-making. What I find even more amazing is that Bannon has pointed out that Musk has no other interest besides insuring he becomes a trillionaire, and that all his companies receive favoured treatment and make vastly bigger and better profits. In Bannons exact words, "He is truly evil"! https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/12/the-right-is-trying-to-rewrite-history-with-its-toxic-rhetoric-on-britains-gangs https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/12/steve-bannon-calls-elon-musk-racist

The biggest red flags were the indications by the terrorists to the flight instructors, that they only wanted to learn how to take off, not to land the Boeings!! How dumb would you have to be to not pick up on that, straight up!! There were hundreds of red flags on the terrorists that were not picked up, and the Americans only have themselves to blame. https://govinfo.library.unt.edu/911/report/911Report_Ch7.htm

Incidentally, the "Hollywood" lettering on fire photo, is an AI-generated fake photo.

There's an interesting prediction about how the LA fires could contribute to a U.S. economic crisis, along the lines of the GFC in 2008, in the article linked to below. This holds true if the total size of the financial payout sends multiple insurers to the wall, and if property prices in highly-desirable areas crash back to low levels, sparking a mortgage crisis. The thing is, you can get insurance cover for nearly any event - but at what cost? When the premium becomes an unpayable level, there's not a lot of options left. Many people in the LA region will probably go without insurance if they rebuild. Stepdaughter lives in the Perth Hills, on a 5 acre (2Ha) bush block, where bushfire is an every-present major threat. She knows if a bushfire sweeps though her place, everything will probably go. We pay $1000 for home and contents insurance here in the city, she pays $9000 annual premium for her place, with a property value that is only a little more than our house in the city. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fires-california-palisades-fire-homeowners-insurance-state-farm-fair-losses/

The American system of fire protection is all about the "I'm right Jack" system. Notice the billionaire with his private firefighting force, raging on about the public firefighting force funding being cut back. But note also, the number of people pointing out that this same billionaire was always trying to avoid property taxes - which pay for the public firefighting force!! Then there's Trump spouting more BS and misinformation, stating that the water mains supplies were restricted by the California Govt allocating more water to protect endangered species, rather than sending all the water to fight fires. As always, Trump's ranting has no basis in fact, it's all about him gaining more political point scoring utilising a disaster for personal ego gain. He's just a BS artist of the highest order. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-10/water-supplies-ran-dry-los-angeles-when-needed-most/104803994

Sorry, I don't have any sympathy for the "stars" and "celebrities" that are losing, or have lost, their mega-million dollar homes. 1. They are all vastly overpaid for what they do. Let them find a real job that means they have to work 70hrs a week for $10 an hr - as so many working class Americans have to do. 2. They would likely have to be advised which ONE of their mansions burnt down - because most of them have mansions in multiple countries, and multiple mansions in a number of States. 3. They would ALL be fully insured, and are not going to suffer huge financial losses, and have to start all over again from scratch. The people I DO feel great sympathy for, are the poor buggers in Vanuatu, who have bugger all at the best of times, but who managed to scrounge enough building materials, to put a roof over their head - then, the last earthquake reduced that "mansion" they built to rubble - and they have NO insurance, NO Govt assistance, and NO financial reserves - so they have to start again from scratch, to put a just a basic roof over their head again. THESE are the people who deserve our sympathy and support, not overpaid actors and "stars" who have ALL their petty 1st world pathetic problems, taking up reams of print and webpages every day.

On the subject of scams, here's a classic piece of corporate scamming that is typical of the deviousness that has infiltrated every major financial operation in the world. I trust that the influencers win their case, but of course, any major payout will mean little to a global corporation that is so rich, it can afford to pay out on lawsuits won by aggrieved parties, without batting an eyelid. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-09/paypal-sued-by-youtubers-over-honey-extension/104791528

DIY electrical work is listed as a dying occupation!

My very first thought about that electrical box with the circuit breakers, is that it's in Nigeria, and fully approved by the local witchdoctor.

Trumps first Presidency was described as "chaotic" - there's no reason to think his second Presidency will be any different. But a lot of people with agendas have now figured out how easily Trump can be manipulated to suit their agendas. Putin is the leading expert on how to manipulate Trump with flattery, and massaging his ego.

That's interesting, it's the first time I've seen that Peter Yarrow had been suffering from bladder cancer for four years. Nasty disease, and often caused by smoking, surprisingly.

Well Spacey, the answer "can't be done" should've been qualified with the reasons why. The reasons may have been your proposal was electrically unsound, it didn't meet electrical regulations, or it didn't meet council regulations. Any electrical installation that produces more than 24V must be installed by a licenced electrical contractor, even if it's not connected to the grid.