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Well. The aforementioned frontal band of rain arrived; pissed down rain for a few minutes, and pissed off. Not even a puddle in an ant lion's hole. The temperature dropped, but it felt very humid. The could is moving to teh northeast, so I suppose the NSW Nortehrn Rivers area will cop thunderstorms tonight.

As I sit here at 4:30pm, my desktop weather meter says it's 40.5C and 17% RH. Wind is gusting to about 35 kts. The radar shows a frontal band of rain approaching, but I bet it will slip away to the southeast before a drop falls on me. This weather, especially the constant days of strong winds, is not normal. At this time of year the winds should be calm and the temperature in the low 30Cs.

Ah! The billygoat farting song! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumer_is_icumen_in

This sidetrack into electricity generation and distribution is taking us away from the original theme of this thread. Perhaps there should be a specific thread for electricity generation and distribution to allow a return to climate change.

This is soooo nausiating. Watch the video from the 3:00 mark.

There was a comedy series on ABC called "Utopia". One episode in 2014, "We can Build It", used the idea of a football stadium in Tasmania. The crux of the story was that the politicians wanted the stadium, but the advisors actually put up sensible reasons why it would be a White Elephant. The episode was so prophetic that iit should have been screened in the Tasmanian parliament before the vote was taken.

This is an interesting video.

Any "rock from space" is unconsolidated material from the formation of our solar system. It has to be 4.06 billion year old. Such a rock simply cannot be only 2 million years old. Did the video have the commonly heard narrator? Just another bit of AI-created clickbait it is did.

Consider yourself lucky that you do have rain. The paddocks around my place are bare because there has been no useful rain. Downpours from storm cells don't cut it. I'm lucky that I have a bore for a regular water supply, and a small rainwater storage for drinking water. A neighbour has just had to truck in water for domestic use.

Trumps social media postings. It has been reported that in a five hour period one recent evening, Trump made 160 posts on social media. There are 300 minutes in 5 hours. That means he created and posted something just aboug every two minutes. How long does it take you to create a short post and upload it here? And the grammer, spelling and syntax of his posts are free of errors in those areas. This makwes me think that either Trump has a team of writers, or is using AI to generate the content.

If your doctor requests that you have some sort of test done, say a blood test to check cholesterol, do you have the test, but not ask the doctor for the results? You still want to hear that, don't you, even if the doctor tells you that things are OK? Trump keeps saying that he doesn't know the results of his MRI. That in itself is not normal. Also, Trump's apparent ignoring of his physical condition runs counter to a normal person's consideration of one's mortality. Does Trump think that he will never die?

A very small cohort of members are not sick of it.

Liar Leavett provided reporters with the doctor's summary of Trump's MRI examination. The summary said that the MRI showed that Trump's heart and ciculatory system was just fine, as were his abdominal organs. Can you believe that teh MRI only examined his torso? Given his many physical symptoms associated with muscle control, surely the MRI must have examined the contents of his cranium. But it probably only showed the cranial space filled with sheep shit.

It's raining! It's raining! But it will stop within a couple of hours. Better a little than none at all.

If you travel overseas and take along the habit of looking at a person approaching you and saying "g-day", then you eliminate the risk of being asked if you are English.

During our conversations earlier this year we questioned what the annual sales figures of EVs would be if we looked for those figures in December. I'm curious to see what those figures are (for Australia).

My Mum, who is 100 years old, is cared for in an aged persons' residence by people from the Phillipines. They are lovely, caring people. However, although they are fluent in the King's English, sometimes they do not understand the Australian terms for things in a domestic situation. When you think of the age difference between them and Mum, there can be three generations' difference between them. Mum uses terms that she learned as a child, in the 1930s, when there really was a unique Australian vocabulary. A lot of these terms have fallen out of common usage, so her carers have never encountered them. However, Mum has managed to teach them "hoo-roo" as a parting call.

I wanted to make the distiction between his being king of the United Kingdom, and being king of Australia. The United Kingdom and Australia are two separate things. If Australians ever decided to become a republic, it would be the King of the Commonwealth of Australia who would be replaced with another sort of Head of State. To say that Australia's Head of State is the king of England, inferring that Australia is the subject of a foreign king, is incorrect. King Charles III wears two crowns, and the rights given by those two crowns are independent of each other. In our modern world, does it really matter where the Head of State's place of abode is located?

When will people stop saying that? King Charles III is the King of the United Kingdom and at teh same time he is, separately, king of Australia. This is the wording of the Proclamation of King Charles III: Whereas because of the death of our blessed and glorious Queen Elizabeth the Second, the Crown has solely and rightfully come to Prince Charles Philip Arthur George: We, therefore, General the Honourable David Hurley AC DSC (Retd), Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, and members of the Federal Executive Council, do now proclaim Prince Charles Philip Arthur George to be King Charles the Third, By the Grace of God King of Australia. So we are the subjects of King Charles III of the Commonwealth of Australia.

Language evolves. It's evolution depends on the source and viability of the mutations that cause the evolution. Take a look at the words I used in my post above. A lot of them have mutated.

When was the last time an Australian or British movie was promoted in picture shows? (I refuse to use "cinema".) I haven't been to the fleas and itches for years. If I pass by a picture theatre, all I seem to see are posters for American flicks whose stories revolve around a dystopian America.

But it is not the Law according to trump, so it's OK. (He said with a soupcon of irony.)

Dear Newcomer, Members of this forum have personalities that others recognise after having been on the forum for several years. In my case, I often post items about the etymology of words that pop up in posts. Those items could be classed as trivia, but exposure to them increases the general knowledge of members, thereby diminishing cluelessness. Also, since the proliferation of AI generated stuff being posted on forums like ours, we have become pretty adept at spotting it. I am happy to say that your posts show all the indicators of posts generated by a human. That's why you have been welcomed. Just sit back for a while and observe the personalities of other members before making comments about a member's post that could be taken as not nice.

Whoops! I forgot to say that the meanig of "guy" as the effigy of Guy Fawkes, dates from 1806 and in 1836 had the meaning "grotesquely or poorly dressed person", which could descibe an effigy made of old clothes.

He's just declared the airspace of Venezuela closed. Since when did the USA control the World's airspace?