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Don't worry Nev, this is meant to be a joke. https://teachmelife.net/an-airline-pilot-with-poor-eyesight-w/

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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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