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pmccarthy

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  1. I have cars and bikes that do very few Km. I change the tyres every 10-15 years just to be safe.
  2. I was once saved from an uncertain fate by a Seagull outboard that was used as a standby engine. It was a slow trip home from the reef.
  3. Sometimes having the appropriate tool can lead to a lifetime of regret.
  4. That man fly is pretty serious. Particularly the zipper variety. Don’t get caught again.
  5. We had 13 mm today and have the heater on.
  6. Forty years ago I lived in Ballarat where they made small motors at Norton Villers, Mars bars, Rivers clothing and shoes, big trailers at Freighter Industries, and a whole lot more I can no longer remember. Despite all that we had one of the highest unemployment rates in Australia.
  7. pmccarthy

    Brain Teaser

    Forty
  8. So if I say I dried the bed, am I being an optometrist?
  9. Henry the Eighth was a similar character.
  10. Europe just announced tariffs on 28 billion of US imports.
  11. If you only follow your own selected left wing sources, then you are living in an echo chamber and getting only half the information. I can read the Australian and the Age without my head exploding.
  12. pmccarthy

    Brain Teaser

    I must be a genius. I am the font of all knowledge.
  13. Near Castlemaine, but it is all over now.
  14. It’s raining! Just a few points so far, but it sounds great.
  15. I would rather have Trump than Albo, but it is not an easy choice.
  16. Every time you breathe a Chinaman dies said my mum.
  17. The CPAP machine is great. Air from the bedside, filtered.
  18. pmccarthy

    Brain Teaser

    three seconds too.
  19. A family member had one and it was rubbish.
  20. I wonder if the organisers will be able to pull it off.
  21. I resent that. peter
  22. I deliberately watched more than ten video news items on Trump today, looking for a balanced report. Didn’t find any. They were all one way or the other, like they were reporting quite different events and meetings. No wonder society is polarised.
  23. OME's map shows mineral deposits, which just means concentrations of minerals. Until they satisfy the categories listed by Onetrack they have little commercial value. And if they date from USSR times, they may not even exist. The usual lead time for deposits like these is five years to drill out then ten years or more to establish a mine. And the success rate for new mines from grass roots projects is something like one in 100.
  24. Let me say again... there are no rare earth reserves in Ukraine. Reporting of mineral reserves is internationally governed by the Committee for Mineral Reserves International Reporting Standards. See The International Reporting Template - Crirsco . I have lectured about this in Moscow a couple of decades ago. The Russians in Ukraine had speculative estimates of what might be there but nothing upon which a commercial contact could be arranged. The whole minerals thing is a Trump smoke screen for political agreements that will not stand public scrutiny.
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