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pmccarthy

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  1. The Donbass is the richest part. I can see Trump doing a deal with the NATO allies in which they do the training and fighting, host US bases, while he spends dollars in the USA making shells, bombs and advanced weapons to send over in support. In return for mineral and technology deals with Ukraine.
  2. Me too...we have an island bench, quite long, which I circumnavigate while the kettle boils. If I don't do it, it means I'm having a bad day.
  3. Hmmm... they just had a democratic election with a clear outcome. So how is democracy dead?
  4. I rely on the BBC for my news when I get contradictory stories in Australia.
  5. pmccarthy

    Brain Teaser

    Dragging a dead weight.
  6. The more important question is where are they going?
  7. All of that. Frames from local materials, and walls from rolls of plastic carried in by chopper. You could certainly hear the bloke in the next room snoring.
  8. What colliery owners? The collieries had been nationalised into the National Coal Board.
  9. Hands up, or I'll fill you full of bronze.
  10. Dongas of the other extreme in PNG.
  11. Griselda also wrote a book - Dune is a four letter word.
  12. Competent? We have not had such a poorly-led bunch of despicable since the 1970s.
  13. Do paper aeroplanes have stationery engines?
  14. pmccarthy

    Brain Teaser

    Button your lip
  15. On the steps on the steppes.
  16. pmccarthy

    Brain Teaser

    Gold digger
  17. Ballaarat was still the official name a few years ago. Balla arat (pronounced as two words), is a Wathaurong name signifying a camping or resting place, balla meaning elbow, or reclining on the elbow.
  18. I was living in Ballarat when NV stopped making engines and shut down the factory. They had earlier absorbed another large Ballarat company, Ronaldson and Tippett. John Tippett told me he had travelled to England during the war to arrange manufacture of a portable generator for the military, which was quite successful.
  19. I want back the five push buttons on my AM radio. Much less distracting than a touch screen. And there are never more than five stations worth listening to.
  20. Back on topic...The insurance assessor asks "how high could you lift the arm before?" and Spacey's arm shoots straight up.
  21. You might get dementia on one side only.
  22. Are you suggesting we had big climate events before global warming destroyed our environment? Straight to the naughty corner.
  23. There is a really good six-part series on SBS on demand at present called So Long, Marianne about the early life of Leonard Cohen. He was the lover of Charmian Clift when they lived on Hydra. Charmian's (illegitimate) daughter Suzanne was my teacher at Wagga Wagga high school and Suzanne's daughter Gina Chick was the winner of Alone Australia Season 1, after surviving 67 days alone, making her only the second female and oldest contestant in the history of the Alone worldwide to win.
  24. The vertical pipes are much harder to transport.
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