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I can still carry my iPhone as a camera, it just won't have a sim card to make calls. I've looked at one of those phone repair centres which sells secondhand phones. The cheapest they had was an iPhone 11 for $350. For serious photography I have my Panasonic Lumix SLR.

I was thinking about joining a dating site for people my age. It's called Carbon Dating.

Many of the streets in our area have divided speed humps as shown below. If you are travelling at or below the speed limit, you can line up so that your wheels pass either side of the hump with no bump, or very little, like running over the cats eyes lane markers. These allow the buses and emergency vehicles to straddle them.

I'm a Woolies Everyday Rewards member. They have a Black Friday special of a Samsung Galaxy A17 at $100 off - $249, plus 1000 reward points. I think I'll go with that. Never used an Android before.

In a post last Saturday, I `said I was having a problem with my health insurance fund. For background, I also mentioned in the Random Thoughts thread on 22 Oct, that I had ordered two new pair if glasses because the fund was offering a 100% refund, no out of pocket expenses. I took a copy of the email to Specsavers when I went for the test. Firstly, when I went to pick up the glasses, they had made two pairs of long distance lenses, not one with reading lenses. So I had to wait another two weeks for them. The claim went to the fund, and I was knocked back $200 for "cosmetic coating. The item number on the bill was not a Medicare approved number, so they refused to cover it. Forward to today. I had an appointment for fitting the reading glasses. I spoke to the store manager and complained that I was out of pocket $200 because of the item number, when I thought the price advertised, $299 per pair, was all-inclusive. I was not told there would be extra for the coatings. I also said I did not ask for special coatings. The store manager said the coatings were applied to allow them to use thinner, lighter lenses so they wouldn't be heavy on my nose. I said that if I had been told that at the time of ordering, I would have passed, because I couldn't spare the $200. I was doing OK with my $25 chemist reading glasses. Of course, she went into how the reading glasses have equal prescriptions both sides, but your eyes are different so need individual prescriptions. However, she offered to refund me the $200, but would have to take back the coated lenses and replace them with the thicker standard lenses. What a stuff-up. Now they are stuck with four lenses to my prescription and I have to wait another 2 - 3 weeks for the new glasses. At least the $200 is being refunded to my credit card. I felt like going to Fair Trading about it. Poor promotion, poor communication between Specsavers an. CBHS health fund, and insufficient explaining when I ordered. I need that $200 because I have to buy a new phone. I have an old iPhone 6 which has done me perfectly well till now. But due to changes in the telecom networks coming into effect on December 1, old phones like the iPhone 6 and 7 will no longer be able to make emergency 000 calls, a bit like when they removed 3G services. About the cheapest you can get is around $350. (Samsung Galaxy A17 5G)

Apparently they were tested in streets around Curtin University.

It would cost a fortune in our area - speed humps every 100 mt or so on main and minor roads. It doesn't stop the hoons though. Burnouts between humps.

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Maybe @onetrack can confirm this,. A US expat living in Perth since the beginning of the year has posted on Facebook that she was surprised by the unusual negative speed humps in Perth. Instead of the standard speed "hump", these ones are activated by radar, and if a car is exceeding the speed limit, a plate on the exit side drops down, and the car drops a few centimetres into it. If the car is at or below the limit, it remains flat. I haven't heard of this anywhere else.

A woman from Sydney who was a tree hugging, vegetarian and anti-hunter purchased a piece of native bushland in northern NSW . There was a large gum tree on one of the highest points in her property. She wanted a good view of the natural splendor of her land so she started to climb the big gum. As she neared the top she encountered a koala that attacked her. In her haste to escape, the woman slid down the tree to the ground and got many splinters in her crotch. In considerable pain, she hurried to a local ER to see a doctor. She told him she was an environmentalist, vegetarian, and an anti-hunter and how she came to get all the splinters. The doctor listened to her story with great patience and then told her to go wait in the examining room and he would see if he could help her. She sat and waited three hours before the doctor re-appeared.The angry woman demanded, "What took you so long?" He smiled and then told her, "Well, I had to get permits from the Environmental Protection Agency, Native Vegetation, Parks and Wildlife service, and the Bureau of Land Management before I could remove old-growth timber from a 'recreational area' so close to a Waste Treatment Facility. "And I'm sorry, they turned you down."

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I let this one run for 8 days. Eye of the tiger.

A married couple were asleep when the phone rang at 2 in the morning. The wife (undoubtedly blonde), picked up the phone, listened a moment and said 'How should I know, that's 200 miles from here!' and hung up. The husband said, 'Who was that?' The wife said, 'I don't know, some woman wanting to know if the coast is clear.'

Meghan Markle’s mother has stunned Britain with a fiery demand for inheritance — and HERE is King Charles’ explosive response In a seismic clash that has sent shockwaves from Windsor to Montecito, Doria Ragland, 69, the fiercely protective grandmother of Prince Archie, Princess Lilibet, and the newly announced third Sussex child, unleashed a 1,200-word open letter in The California Sun this morning, demanding unbreakable succession rights, lifelong HRH styles, and sovereign-grant security for her grandchildren “in perpetuity.” “My daughter gave the Royal Family three children,” Ragland wrote in scorching prose that now dominates every headline. “You may strip the mother of her title, but you will NEVER take away the rights of future princes and princesses. Their blood is Windsor. Their birthright is non-negotiable.” The letter, addressed directly to King Charles III and copied to Parliament, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Racism, accuses the Crown of “institutional erasure” and cites the 1701 Act of Settlement, the 1917 Letters Patent, and the 2013 Succession to the Crown Act to argue that “no monarch, no courtier, no colonial relic can sever children born in lawful wedlock from the sacred line.” The most incendiary passage reads: “You stripped my daughter of protection when she begged for it. You allowed the press to hunt her like prey. Now you dare murmur that her children—YOUR blood—might be ‘demoted’ to commoners? Touch one curl on their heads, and you will answer to history, to God, and to every Black grandmother who ever fought for her babies’ names to be spoken with dignity.” Within minutes, #DoriaSpeaks exploded globally. In Montecito, Meghan was photographed clutching the letter outside a prenatal clinic, eyes red. In London, constitutional lawyers were summoned to emergency briefings. Then, at 11:07 a.m. GMT, Buckingham Palace shattered centuries of protocol. A single sheet of heavy cream stationery—bearing the King’s cypher—was delivered by liveried footman to every major newsroom. The response, handwritten in Charles’s unmistakable fountain-pen script, was read live on air by a visibly shaken Nicholas Witchell. It was not a concession. It was a rejection. “Dear Mrs. Ragland, Your letter has reached me not as a plea, but as a demand upon the Crown I am sworn to protect. Let me be unequivocal: the laws of this realm are not subject to negotiation by open letter, nor to the court of public opinion. Archie, Lilibet, and the child yet to be born occupy positions seventh, eighth, and ninth in the line of succession by statute alone. That statute is clear: succession follows blood, not residence, not sentiment, not the volume of one’s voice. Their place is secure until Parliament decrees otherwise—and Parliament has spoken on the matter of titles. The 1917 Letters Patent, issued by my great-grandfather King George V, grants the sovereign sole discretion over the style of HRH for grandchildren beyond the heir’s line. That discretion has been exercised consistently for over a century. It will be exercised again in the 2026 Royal Styles and Titles Review. The children’s courtesy titles of Prince and Princess were granted as a personal gesture by Her late Majesty in 2021. That gesture expires upon the formal withdrawal of their mother’s dukedom, as announced. No trust, no fund, no sovereign-grant lifeline will be extended to children who reside permanently abroad and whose parents have explicitly rejected the duties that accompany privilege. Security is a matter for the Home Office and the Metropolitan Police, not the Crown. The Sovereign Grant is not a private ATM for estranged branches. Your grandchildren will receive the same protection afforded any British citizen abroad—nothing more. Mrs. Ragland, you speak of grandmothers. I speak as a King who buried his own mother under the weight of duty. Duty is not optional. Legacy is not inherited—it is earned. The door to reconciliation remains open, but it swings both ways. Return, serve, and the children’s future will be discussed. Remain in exile, and the 1917 Patent stands. Charles R.

Allan Moffat, the four-time Australian Touring Car Champion and four-time Bathurst 1000 winner, has died at the age of 86. He passed away peacefully on Saturday, November 22, 2025, at 11:05 a.m., surrounded by his family, after a long and courageous battle with Alzheimer’s disease.

While we are procrastinating over the net zero question, the US House of Representatives has just passed a law that bans future presidents from banning hydraulic fracturing in order to guarantee America's energy supply. DRILL BABY, DRILL! https://defdeal.com/banned-republican-controlled-u-s-house-of-representatives-passes-bill/

Hold that thought. I am having a disagreement with my fund at the moment. I will withhold comment until it is resolved.