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There are doom and gloom merchants predicting global financial crashes on a constant basis. Fear sells better than cakes at a CWA stall. I can predict there certainly will be another major financial crash sometime in the (relatively) near-future - as has happened throughout world history. The world seems to muddle through somehow, and economic activity resumes at more restrained levels. A couple of things that concern me is the runaway pricing of property, housing and land in general here. It simply can't continue to rise at the rate it has done for the last 20 or so years, and a lot of people will get hurt when there's a "correction" in the market. I believe there's too much easy money available to a lot of people, I think lending needs to be restricted to lower the constant demand for property price increases, which feeds on itself. The second thing that concerns me is the price of gold, and the way many nations are buying gold like it's going out of fashion. It would seem to me that our currencies are worth a lot less than people think they are, if the asset prices such as gold and property values are accelerating at unparalleled rates.

What's that old saying? - If you don't like the weather in Melbourne, just wait a couple of hours? It'll be completely different, then. We've had the coldest and wettest Spring I can recall for a long time, it seemed Winter didn't want to start, then when it did, it wouldn't stop. The advantage is, the current W.A. cropping yields are looking like a silo-buster. There's talk of somewhere around 26M tonnes of grains in total for W.A., this would amount to a seasonal all-time record. Unfortunately, a big line of thunderstorms last Wednesday (05/11) took the shine off crop yields for some farmers, as a number of isolated, but severe thunderstorms wreaked a fair bit of damage throughout the W.A. Wheatbelt. However, the storms won't dent the total tonnage by a huge amount. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-06/wild-weather-wreaks-havoc-for-west-australian-farmers/105978410

One of the most ruthless, hard-nosed political "numbers man", we've ever seen in Australia. He was a consummate politician, with a low level of ethics and morals. I have no idea how he wangled an AO, he obviously plied "the numbers" to get that award, too. It makes a mockery of official awards.

You need those arse-height windows if you're going to s**t on those working-class losers below. Very little has changed in the Trump family outlook for the last hundred years.

Yeah, and lots and lots of Gyro Gearloose's inventions had major flaws, too - just like many of Elon Musks ideas.

This thread has just gone into the skip bin.

We can only hope.

Yeah, I'm definitely in the "elderly" class now, I can still remember Doris Day and David Niven.

Please don't eat the daisies.

Well, Pete, getting back to OME's start to the thread - we're all on a big roundabout in this world - and it's only when it all stops, that the problems begin!

No need to get negative about electric advancements.

Across the sea of time.

Bitter sweet symphony

I have no idea who he is - but his face does look somewhat familiar. Is he in the entertainment industry?

Back to Dick Cheney, a NYT journalist has produced this excellent article below, pointing out how Cheney was the initiator and enabler of the Trump style of Govt, and Cheneys lies and ruthlessness and lack of concern towards the rule of law has enabled the huge army of MAGA adherents. Cheney may have had a "Road to Damascus" moment when he turned his back on Trump, but Cheney takes the blame for the mess that is the political scene in America today. You may have to turn off your Javascript to read the article and get around the paywall. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/opinion/dick-cheney-vice-president-authority-trump.html

I've driven through Basingstoke and survived! Basingstoke isn't called "Doughnut City" for nothing!

No, Clinton is correct, it's MeidasTouch, a YouTube channel.

The hydraulic mining excavator is fudged just a little bit. There's no name on it, that's a good giveaway. The biggest hydraulic mining excavator is the Cat 6090 FS (Front Shovel), it weighs 1000 tonnes. https://www.petersoncat.com/products/new/hydraulic-mining-shovels/6090-fs

It's fake ....

In W.A., the red light camera is activated at the stop line at the lights at the start of the intersection. You only get booked for a red light infringement if your back wheels cross that line when the light is red. If the light is still amber when you pass over the intersection stop line, you have no fear of getting a red light infringement. If the light turns red 0.0001 second after your wheels pass over the line, you're safe. If you're turning right and sitting in the middle of the intersection waiting to make the turn, you cannot get booked for a red light infringement, even if the light turns red when you're parked there. Many a time you have to wait to see if the cars coming from the opposite direction are going to stop, so you have to wait until after the light turns red before you finish your right turn.

A controversial figure and hard-line right-winger for many decades, who eventually turned against the Republican Party and denounced Trump as a cowardly liar, and the worst thing to happen to America in many decades. He voted for Kamala Harris in the last election, such was his abhorrence of Trump and his policies. He suffered from heart problems all his life, and suffered from his first heart attack at 37. He went on to have 5 more, and eventually had a heart transplant in 2012. He was the main promoter of the "War on Terror", the ill-fated campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan that cost America dearly in lives and monetary cost, for not a lot of gain. The terrorist groups are still with us, and democracy has failed in both Iraq and Afghanistan, mainly because it was never able to get a foothold due to cultural and tribal hatreds that go back thousands of years. https://edition.cnn.com/2025/11/04/politics/dick-cheney-death-obit

They'll knock you out and cause some serious bodily injury, nothing surer. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-01/qld-thunderstorms-hit-south-east-saturday/105961034

And the missing words are, "if you are on a potential collision course with another vehicle". If you think our roundabout rules are confusing, try Greece! Not only do the Greek drivers disobey virtually all the road rules, their road rules state, that vehicles already on a roundabout, must give way to vehicles entering the roundabout! - the exact opposite of Australian road rules!