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Very, very, very old. It has been attributed to a German POW camp Kommondant and I have also heard it attributed to a Japanese POW camp Commondant.

There was a TV show set in Melbourne with the actors satarised their being Greek. The show was called Acropolis Now. One of the characters was Effie, played by Mary Coustas. The character "Effie", was a stereotypical second-generation Greek Australian prone to malapropisms. A common one of hers was " how embarassment". https://www.facebook.com/nickg1/videos/the-first-time-that-now-iconic-phrase-howembarrassment-was-heard-on-aussie-tv-on/2132406587584055/

I remember when the wife and I went to England, leaving my son at home to fend for himself. Typical smartarsed teenager, he had put a ringtone on my wife's phone that was the sound of police sirens. We were sitting in a cafe in the village in Yorkshire where they filmed the TV show Heartbeat when he phoned us. The place was filled with the sound of sirens and everyone was looking about for the emergency vehicle. Of course, it was the son. It was mid-morning in England, but getting on for dinner time in Sydney. The stupid bugger rang to ask his Mum how to cook some dish he wanted for dinner.

I can see the electrical and mechanical parts of t eelctricty generator wearing out, and maybe the blades degrading due to sunlight and moisture, but I reckon the towers would be OK. You'd just need to replace the generator bits, or perhaps replace parts on a service life basis.

AI often makes mistakes when it ignores punctuation, like this:

Like everything these days. Publish a story about a horror renter and it puts the wind up a landlord. Vetting of potential tenants is a pretty terrifying process for a tenant needing a home.

A person I know has a house or two in town that are unoccupied. Why? Because of the costs of repairing the damage that tenants cause. That is probably one of the reasons for the numbers of vacant houses.

I was going to argue the toss with Nev, but then I realised that I have often said that language is an evolving thing and with it speech. Therefore I must concede that nowadays the noun is mispronunciations, but hold that the verb is mispronounce.

A couple of things I notice with AI-generated voice-overs. The voice-over very often trips over "lead". The mistake is in the use of the long or short 'e' vowel sound. It will give 'leed' when the correct sound should be 'led'. Another sure sign of AI generation is when the voice-over falters of there is a full stop or comma in what needs to be said. It often happens with 'U.S.A." or when saying a number in the thousands where there is a comma such as $60,000. As soon as I hear one of these mispronounciations I click out.

We often get these 'random thought' posts. I do it myself a lot. Best to simply read the post, chuckle, and move back to the original topic.

Sorry, Red, but you have it wrong. The mean is the mathematical average of all numbers in a data set. The median is the exact middle value of a data set when the numbers are sorted in order. Here is an illustration where the an original set of scores has two more included. In the illustration, the numbers 75.5, 83, and 41 &90 are obtained from the original data. The numbers 73.1, 82 and 42 are what one gets after inculding the two extra scores. We give a stvff because a lot of us here have decided that accuracy in posts is important. That is why we like to see where the support for a comment comes from. In my post here, the diagram comes from a Google search for the difference between 'mean and median', as well as the fact that back in the day I did a course in statistics at Uni, and the topic is usually included in high school Maths.

It's nice to know someone has a knowledge of the various terms used in Statistics.

Apparently YouTube is messing with its algorithm so that popular channels from the USA which present material that is anti-Trump are not coming up on peoples' feeds. I look at two or three of these channels and this past weekend several of the creators have posted videos telling the stroy as it applies to their own channels. It is pretty clear that YouTube is engaging in a practice that limits adverse comments relating to teh Trump Administration. Goebbels would be in Seventh Heaven if he were alive today to see this.

Overnight on Sunday we got about 3mm, but then the rains started during the day and kept up into the evening. I don't have a guage, so I can't say how much we got, but whenyou look at data from around about, it would seem that 30 - 45 mm was common. There wasn't enough rain to create running flows, but at least the topsoil is wet. It is too late around here to plant Canola and teh sub-soil moisture might not be enough for cereal crops. With the price of diesel and fertilizer, it is going to be a gamble if anyone does crop this year. One thing you have to remember is that, while you might get a good healthy growth of wheat plants, it takes a lot of water for those plants to fill seeds, which is how you get the tonnages you want from a crop.

One day there will be no Trump. What will we do with this thread then?