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I think the more professional ones in the cities do. The buskers around my area seem to be still on coins. For context, they don't make a low enough denomination to match the talents of 80% of them, but the other 20% are good. Buskers seem to range from the great to the woeful.

And let's not forget that Goebbels had nobbels at all.

I have the opposite problem. When the covid lockdowns arrived, I went mostly cashless and now use plastic or online transactions. I used to always have coins that were mainly used to buy limes from a bloke down the road with an honesty box and unmanned stall at his gate.These days I'm always on the hunt for coins to pay for the limes. When I was mainly cash transacting pre covid, I always came back from town with coins in the pocket. The gold coins I would put in a piggy bank as a reserve for times of being broke. The $2 coins soon add up to a stash in the hundreds of dollars. Now that I'm mainly cashless I compensate for the empty piggy bank by trying to budget a bit better and not experience those short bursts of abject poverty.

Sounds a bit like a poker machine in reverse.

She could do a remake - ' Kiss Kiss Donald's arse '.

Here's some tips for repurposing old pallets.

It's definitely a cult. He gets his biggest audience response when he does that weird thing with his hands (the air accordion one) and utters some incoherent strange sounds. It's not what he says that gets them going, it's the weird antics. I'm sure the twits still think it's a game/reality show. When he does the weird hand thing in combination with the little round mouth, he looks like a cross between a canary and a seal. What a buffoon.

It will still come down to votes. Poll figures show more than 50% of republicans will still vote for him if convicted. I forget the exact figure, but I think it's around 16% won't and the rest not sure. Among republicans he's still got that large cult following element, but whether they are enough to carry him is another thing.

That's still fraudulently presenting yourself as a potential buyer if you haven't got the money or means to ever buy one. I'm with ome, I couldn't take advantage like that. If I went up to the salesman, told him I was flat broke and could never hope to buy one, then asked him if I could have a drive, that would be different. I wonder how many salspeople would say yes to a test drive if you told them the truth. Not many I would think.

My suggestion would be New York. That's New York, a town in eastern Ukraine not far from the front line. With all Donald's hot air they could use him as a barrage balloon.

Sounds like sticky keys. I wonder if they are getting worn or if there's some dust buildup in the keys.

Oil certainly is finite; the specific and rare set of circumstances that created our reserves happened millions of years ago. Possibly there might be some in the making now, but I doubt the human species will survive the timeline required for new oil to be made. The theory of peak oil turned out to be a fizzer, at least in the dates predicted. There's quite a lot still there but the problem is the low hanging fruit is running out and what's left undiscovered or is being discovered will be harder to extract and correspondingly more expensive. The ocean regions are very promising except for the logistical side of getting to it. It's not only depth for drilling and extraction, but distance that holds back a lot of deeper ocean development. At present it's not practical for platforms more than 200klm out due to the limitations on servicing by helicopter. With a big price rise in oil, companies would be more inclined to find a work-around to that problem. With land based reserves there's still promise in some parts of the world, but the day could come when demand outpaces supply. A lot of oil is being found in previously worked out areas or areas that showed low prospect in the past. This is due to the rapid increase in technology of seismic data processing. The pace of change is hard to keep up with at times and previously overlooked areas can be a much better bet only 12 or 18 months later due to better data processing. Most of our exploration data was (and probably still is) processed in Texas and at times it's been like keeping the motor running waiting for their next new trick. I guess that's the way advances in computing are affecting lots of industries around the world.

Fibrillation is the heart beating irregularly and often fast as well. If it's beating regularly but raised over 100 I think it's classed as tachycardia.

I was joking, Nev. The bit out Chad was true though. For context Chad's had a beer or thirty with a large percentage of the population, so it's nothing out of the ordinary.

My first thought was maybe Madonna but when I saw the country music hint I could recognise Dolly's eyes and mouth.

I was tipped off. Expanding the photo showed the file name - countrymusicsinger.jpg

It's Dolly.

I can top that. I've had a few beers with Chad Morgan.

I remember back in the 80's seeing the biggest wallaroo I've seen in my entire life. In fact he was the biggest hopper I've ever seen and I've seen a lot of big reds. He was built bigger than any NRL front row forward I've ever seen and his chest was massive. He was standing upright and in height would probably only just fit under an average house doorway. That was near Surat.

I thought you were supposed to rub the bottle. Then again, Barbara Eden comes to mind.

Good one. Accurate as well.

I was listening to the wireless one day recently and they had an ecologist type talking about the depletion of krill stocks due to the growing demand for krill harvesting. The shortage of krill in the southern ocean is starting to effect whale species and also penguins. I forget the species of whale, but over the last couple of years the percentage of whale pregnancies going full term has plummeted from average 80% to 20% due to malnutrition from depleted krill stocks. It's not only the booming industry of krill oil capsules as a complimentary medicine, but also the salmon fish farms feed it to the salmon to give them colour. No more farmed salmon or krill oil for me.

I've figured it out. This convalescing after an operation is a bit like being on R&R. Except that I'm not fit enough for the recreation part so I'm on R.

Thanks Litespeed, I'll never be able to unread that. That and the thought I had mushroom soup the other night. Project for the day - Google mushroom free recipes.