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Another Bangladeshi IT worker put out of work!

Over here, driving into potholes is classed as one of the joys of motoring.

Gilgandra doesn't have a Rugby team, but for some reason Gulargambone, up the road does have a lub and theGil boys play there. I agree that it is the Boarders who are the main players, but the local boys still do well. What is interesting is that the Aboriginal boys are not made welcome. That's why they play League.

In most of Australia people drive on the left. In Victoria they drive on what's left.

The naming difference between the two forms of football came from what might be classed as social class sources. The Rugby Football Union was established in London in 1871, uniting 21 clubs and officially standardizing the laws of the sport. So it was a joining together of a group of clubs, no doubt to enable a competition to be run. In 1895, the sport split into two separate codes—rugby union and rugby league—over a dispute regarding "broken-time payments" (compensating working-class players for missing work to play). There's your social class factor. Very much a similar thing happened with cricket, with the non-paid players called The Gentlemen, and the professionals.

I must say that I don't find Bush Barbie's style of comedy comes anywhere near the standard our earlier comics (non-gender term used deliberately). From the videos I've seen of her, she uses her physical appearance to attract ateention, which it sure does. However, having grown up enjoying the witty use of language and irony, both in the English and Australian styles, I think she just doesn't come up to standard.

Get ready for an interesting fortnight for Trump. His best mate in the Middle East could be out on his ear. We'll know prety well by Wednesday. Serbians also look like ditching their authoriterian leader. We'll know if the Ynaks have come to their senses by 4th November.

New Zealand beat France 92-0. There have been some incredibly high scores. England beat Wales 70-6 and Samoa beat Wales, too, for 76-0. It looks like the three top teams are Australia, New Zealand and Fiji. Jerry, the clue is in the name of the competition: Women's Rugby League World Cup

Help!!!! I'm drenched. Clouds passed over and deposited 8mm of water on me.

It must be a bit hard for a reported to get the opportunity to ask a Prime Minister a question during one of these opportunities. Why waste the chance by asking something so inane that experience would tell you that the politician is not going to answer. In the current situation of confrontations with politicians, I would have thought the reporter should have been more concerned with what acrtions ar being taken to protect politicians (of all sides) from them. First and foremost, these attacks are being made upon people being present to carry out a job that the community has given them to do. It also seem that our male law makers are prone to mysogeny based on what our female politicians are saying.

The Australian Jillaroos defeated England 78–0 in their Women's Rugby League World Cup Pool A match at HBF Park in Perth on October 24, 2026. Did the Lionesess take to the field? A team wouldn't cross the try line that often during training.

I wtch a lot of English renovation videos and it strikes me that these houses suffer badly from moisture. Mould seems to be rampant. I don't think that their drainage systems work too well. It seems also that when their woodwork gets wet, the wood worm moves in to eat it out. Just as bad as out termites, in those areas where we have them. I suppose that using the same wood that the worms evolve with doesn't prevent attack. The other thing that astounds me is the plumbing. There's plumbing for getting water to washing bathrooms, kitchens and laundries, but also for providing heating using fluid radiators. These places seem to have nearly as much pipework as an oil refinery. Then there is the way they handle waste water and sewage. It all seems so primitive to me. I will say, however, they they have some really interesting tools and materials. I can't get over the fact that they will install plasterboard and then apply coats of plaswter render. And why would you render over brick work? All that does is prevent the brickwork from breathing. And I hate pebble dash. Jerry, the sooner you can get back here to a nice brick veneer four-bedroom single storey place, with reverse cycle heating/cooling, plasterboard-lined internal stud walls and tiled roof, the better.

I was talking about our Middle Eastern organisations. You don;'t hear much about teh Cosa Nostra these days. At 6:00 am the sky was clear. By 7:00 am it was 9/9 overcast and windy. By 9:00am it was broken low level cloud and still windy. I decided to risk doing my weekluy laundry, since I figured that the wind would speed drying. The wind seemed to die down mid-morning and the cloud broke up. Now at midday it's 9/9 overcast and the wind is picking up. At this stage I still don't think that the clouds look like producing any rain. The forecast is for thunderstorms across the centre of the State, but I don't hold out much hope. I'll update this evening.

I wonder if it was because it did not pass the vehicle standards that have to be met by all vehicles. I think the vehicle was banned in the UK for such failures. Anyway, our crime bosses prefer Italian sports cars.

No. All I am saying is that Society has to come up with rules to deal with new situations where safety is concerned. Remember back in the 60s when the wearing of seatblets was not mandatory? When it was realised that wearing one improved survivabilty in crashes, the Regulation to require wearing them was introduced. My neighbours down the local road from my place have two ways to leave the area by road. Both roads have creeks which can flood and block them. There aren't enough Police locally to guard those seldom used crossings.