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Bridal shower.

Possibly because the (female) video taker knew exactly what was going to happen?? I reckon there's some painful injuries in that lot. A mate tied a ladder to a big set of bi-fold doors (4M high) to work on the door track. But he only tied the ladder and door against the prevailing breeze. Once he was up the top of the ladder, the wind turned 180° and gusted, making the door move, and throwing him off the ladder. He fell 4M onto concrete on his left side and shattered his elbow, and broke his left femur. The surgeon had to screw a plate in his elbow, and run a 10mm diameter stainless pin right through the length of his left femur. He spent 2 months in hospital and 3 months in a wheelchair, then another 2 months on crutches, before he could walk again. It was a hard-learnt lesson. Made worse by the fact he was 70 when he did it.

Unfortunately, despite all your anti-renewables bashing, the pace of solar, grid battery and wind turbine installation is only getting faster each day. And perhaps surprisingly for some, the big miners are in the forefront of installing renewables for power for their mining operations. The chances of installing NP in Australia recede daily, and first off, the NP promoters have to overcome the resistance of the majority of the population, who don't see it as viable or economic - and there are multiple State laws in place, against Uranium mining, that would need to be rescinded as well, is NP was to proceed. https://thewest.com.au/business/mining/andrew-forrests-fortescue-inks-green-energy-supply-deals-with-chinas-byd-longi-envision-and-xcmg-c-20146954 The biggest single renewable energy resource that is sneaking up on energy planners, is the amount of rooftop solar on homes, which is approaching double the energy generation that is planned for grid installation. The simple solution is to harness that massive level of solar energy being produced, that is often under-utilised during the day, when homeowners are at work. To that end, efforts to install grid-scale batteries and home batteries are to be applauded. Add in EV's, which are increasing in numbers steadily, and whose electrical storage can only add to the available energy sources, thereby meaning the energy sources available can only continue to increase.

A KFC salesman goes to see the Pope. "Your Holiness. I work for KFC, and we'll offer you $10M to change the reading of the Lord's Prayer from, 'Give us this day our daily bread', to 'Give us this day our daily chicken.'" The Pope is aghast! He tells the salesman, "I can't just go changing God's word for money!" The man comes back the next day: "How about $50M!? Now, think of all the good the Church could do with all that money, Your Holiness!" The Pope is unimpressed. "Look, I told you. I just can't do it. I'm sorry." The guy is back a week later. "Our final offer- $500M. Take it or leave it." The next day, the Pope calls in all the Church Cardinals. "Boys, I have good news, and I have bad news. The good news is, we've raised $500M for Catholic Charities." The room erupts! Everybody is so happy! The Pope waits for the room to settle down. Then, he says. "And now for the bad news. We've lost the Tip Top Bread account."

Thought for the Day ..... If you loiter in a Tibetan spiritual leaders sandwich shop every day, then... ... you dilly dally in the Dalai's deli daily.

BS on an industrial scale, typical of Trump. What is amazing, is that so few Americans seem to care whether he speaks the truth or not.

Halloween chuckle....... What's the major problem when you have twins, that are both Witches? You never know which Witch is which.

FB quizzes would be only trying to suck you in, to get eyes on their advertising, and clicks on their page, so they can then put up more crap!

Clive obviously needs $300B to survive on. Anything less, and he's off to the courts, to try and wring some more money out of someone/some Govt/some business, who has offended him in his quest to own everything.

I have put it behind me, there's no benefit in carrying grudges for life, or in going over already-raked ground. I don't consider those years "lost", I did gain some benefits from it. Military engineering training was comprehensive and instructive, and has stayed with me for life. The experiences of being forced to deal with Army dickheads was educational. Travelling to a new country and experiencing a new culture was eye-opening. Travelling around Australia (and overseas) at Army expense, and living in Army barracks was educational. We even got to live in some great locations in Australia - the barracks at South Head in Sydney, the School of Military Engineering at Casula, Canungra, and Karrakatta. There were some times that weren't good, but I don't dwell on them, SWMBO has taught me to keep a positive spin on life. I trust you can leave your bitterness behind.

Those pokies will get most people in. Thank goodness, the W.A. politicians have always refused point-blank to allow pokies into the State, on a wholesale basis. They're only allowed in the Burswood Casino.

Jerrys gambling road looks like a major new freeway! Are you saying he's going to run out of freeway soon, and end up in a potholed backroad, in a car with busted suspension?? 😲

Clive's on a bit of a losing wicket in recent times. He forked out $60M in the last Australian Federal election, to only garner 1.85% of the vote, and to end up with no seats as well.

I'd like to be, Under the sea, In an octopus's garden, In the shade.....

Good point. On the manufacturing output chart, Chinas 2024 industrial output was $4.16 trillion, the U.S.'s 2024 industrial output was $2.49 trillion. American manufacturing output is not recovering, China's is racing ahead. But the U.S. dollar is still the worlds leading financial instrument. For how much longer, is anyones guess. https://www.visualcapitalist.com/china-vs-americas-industrial-growth-2019-2024/

It took me a while to see it. The word "Go", that is. "Go up in smoke".

This news makes my day. Clive Palmer has lost his bid to extract $300B (yes, you read it right) out of the Australian Govt, over the purported losses associated with his Balmoral South mining lease in W.A., whereby the W.A. Govt stopped Palmer from selling the lease to the Chinese in 2012. Palmer has been running lawsuit after lawsuit, complaining about his future multi-billion-dollar earnings losses by this horrible W.A. Govt. The W.A. Govt even enacted a law to ensure Palmer couldn't make claims against the State of W.A. over the canned project. He sued the W.A. Govt for $30B and lost. The High Court decided the W.A. legislation was legal and proper. So Clive transferred ownership of his main company, Mineralogy, to a Singaporean-based company, Zeph investments in 2019. Naturally, Clive owns 100% of Zeph Investments - but now, he claims he's officially a "foreign investor" in Australia - and this restructuring allows Palmer to claim foreign investor status under the Singapore-Australia Free Trade Agreement (SAFTA), and thereby allows him to sue the Commonwealth of Australia through international tribunals. But unfortunately for Clive, the Swiss Tribunal has seen through Clives sham company actions, told him he hasn't got a legal leg to stand on - and has ordered him to pay the Commonwealth of Australia's tribunal costs - AU$13.6M. Of course, for a bloke worth North of AU$20B, AU$13.6M is only pocket change. I think, like many others do, that Clive should be declared a vexatious litigant for his constant lawsuits, all based on the flimsiest of reasons, and all simply trying to unjustly enrich himself, constantly. I suppose he does share his wealth around, he must keep a lot of lawyers in new Beemers and Mercedes. Clives loses his "Foreign Investor" lawsuit - https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-27/clive-palmer-foreign-investor-claim-dismissed/105823966 The background - https://www.hfw.com/insights/clive-palmer-v-the-commonwealth-of-australia/

I reckon, sooner, rather than later, Poo-Tin will get assassinated - and quite possibly by one of his inner circle, not by Ukrainian commandos.

Yeah, right on! Let's lay some "trumped-up" charges against Trump, and send him to the electric chair! I bet he might have a different opinion on the death penalty, then! The lawyers will be celebrating this! - appeal after appeal, after appeal! - some previous death-row inmates died of natural causes, before the death penalty was carried out.

GON - How many fuel tanks were in the one you checked out? The Qantas Cats doing the Perth-Ceylon "Double Sunrise" runs, carried 1800 Imp. Gallons of fuel (8,182 litres). The standard factory MTOW of the Cats was 27,000lbs and Qantas raised this limit to 35,150lbs for the Double Sunrise route. It's reported these Cats regularly exceeded this Qantas limit by several hundred lbs on takeoff. Payload was only 1000lbs, and after taking off from Melville Water at Crawley on the Swan River, the Qantas Cats were only just able to clear the top of the road and rail bridges on the Swan, at Fremantle, after being airborne for approximately 7 miles. It generally took them an hour to reach 1000 feet in altitude after leaving Perth. I have a copy of the book titled "Qantas Empire Airways - Indian Ocean Service" by Barry Pattison and Geoff Goodall, it's rare to be able to find a copy today, and it's a worthy read. One small fact that fascinated me, was the information that if the Qantas Double Sunrise Cats needed an engine overhaul, the crews had to remove the U/S engine at their Crawley base, and then send it to the RAAF base in Kalgoorlie for reconditioning!! What a wartime shambles!

Four Cannibals apply for a job in a big corporation… "Well", says the CEO, "This is a long shot, but if I hire you guys, you have to promise to not eat any of our staff." The Cannibals promise that they will not eat anyone, so they get hired. Everything is going well for a while, and one day the CEO calls them into his office. “You’re working well and all, but we’re missing an office cleaner. Do you blokes have something to do with that?” The Cannibals swear that they are innocent. The boss believes them, they all leave the CEO's office, and once out of earshot, the Cannibals leader turns to the other Cannibals. "You idiots!", he screams. "Who ate the cleaner?" One of the Cannibals sheepishly raises his hand. "You fool!", shouts the leader. "For weeks we've been feasting on Directors, Team Leaders, Supervisors, and Human Resources Managers - and then you go and eat someone they'll actually miss!"

The Martians have landed on Earth, and in meeting the world leaders, they have an audience with the Pope. The Pope looks at them and asks, "Do you know Jesus?" The Martian replies, "Oh, Jesus? Yeah! - What a great bloke! He comes and visits our planet, twice every year!" The Pope is astonished! "It's been close to 2000 years since he was here, and we're still waiting on his Second Coming." The Martian thinks for a moment and says, "Maybe he doesn't like your chocolate." The Pope looks at him and says, "Chocolate?" "Sure! Every year, we gather up all the chocolate from the best manufacturers, and give it to him as a gift, because he's such a great guy! What did you do to him when he first showed up?"

It must be time for some more funnies, the forum is descending into excessive levels of global gloom. And besides, it's Spring, and the days are beautiful. Ghengis Khan ran a huge Empire, and he was an outstanding Emperor King Louis the XIV ran a huge Kingdom, and he was an outstanding King Donald Trump runs a huge Country, and he's an outstanding..........

Jerry, the video has been blocked for viewing by us, as it's apparently owned by NBC, and they are refusing to show it in anything other than a few selected countries - and we're not one of those selected countries.

So, now Trump is planning a big bailout for farmers. The last time he screwed up U.S. farm markets, he paid out $23B to U.S. farmers to make up for their losses. I don't know how he thinks he can keep bailing out farmers, when he's supposed to a premium-grade, free-enterprise capitalist. Plus, the bailouts go dead against all his other Govt cost-cutting moves. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/business/trump-farmer-bailout.html But at the end of the day, the farmers themselves say they don't want constant bailouts for constant losses, they only want stable markets, and a market share that isn't screwed up by politicians. Trumps management of the U.S. farm economy is wrecking any kind of global competitiveness that the U.S. farmers ever achieved. https://fortune.com/2025/09/25/the-frustration-is-overwhelming-soybean-farmers-feel-betrayed-as-argentina-blows-a-hole-in-rural-americas-47-billion-soybean-bonanza/