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Kirsty Alley, who featured in "Look Who's Talking" and the TV series "Cheers", has passed away at the age of 71, shortly after being diagnosed with cancer.

Spacey, I don't know anyone who speaks Esparanto.

And why should I have to learn another language in my own country. English pronunciation and comprehension should be mandatory for immigrants. 

a. Would Koreans learn to speak English to accomodate you in their country?

b. How do these immigrants who haven't learnt the language understand signs, such as warning signs?

A wealthy old man was lying on his deathbed, when it occurred to him he had never made a will,
so he called his lawyer to help him make his will.
The following day his lawyer came, and the wealthy man said,
“I want 25% of my money to go to charity. After all, I’ve taken, I should give something back.”
“How generous of you,” the lawyer responded.
“I’ll make sure it happens right away.”
“I also want 25% of it to go to my son. He’s been counting the days till he could get my money,” the old man said.
“Okay, I’ll make sure he receives 25% of it,” the lawyer replied.
“I want the rest to go to my wife, on condition that she remarries after I die,” the old man said.
“Okay, I’ll ensure that that happens, but may I ask why you want her to remarry? It’s a quite obscure request,” the lawyer asked.
“I want to make sure at least one man regrets my death,” the old man said…

A professor travels to Africa to live with a primitive tribe:
He spends years with them, teaching them all about the wonders of science, mathematics, and formatting Reddit comments so they get the most upvotes.
One day, the Chief’s wife gives birth to a white child!
The word spreads, and the entire tribe is in shock.
The chief pulls the professor aside and says.
“Look, you’re the only white man we’ve ever seen around here, and this woman just gave birth to a white child. It doesn’t take a genius to figure out what happened!”
The professor replied.
“No, Chief. You’re mistaken. What you have here is a natural occurrence, what we in the civilized world call an albino! Look at that field over there. All of the sheep are white except for one black one. Nature does this on occasion.”
The chief was silent for a moment, then said.
“Tell you what. You don’t say anything more about that sheep and I won’t say anything more about that white child.”

The great orange one is now calling for the scrapping of the constitution so he can be returned to his "rightful" place in the White House. Nuthouse more like. You know - the constitution he swore to defend on Jan 6. People are now saying, scrap the constitution, you scrap the second amendment. Look out, the Republicans are coming for your guns!

1 hour ago, Old Koreelah said:

Here’s my latest: Abuse of private information in doctors’ waiting rooms.

Reminds me of this:  https://www.socialaustralia.com.au/topic/709-quickies-part-2/page/39/#comment-46558

Our teacher asked what my favorite animal was, and I said, “Fried chicken.”
She said I wasn’t funny, but she couldn’t have been right, because everyone else laughed.
My parents told me to always tell the truth. I did. Fried chicken is my favorite animal.
I told my dad what happened, and he said my teacher was probably a member of PETA.
He said they love animals very much.
I do, too. Especially chicken, pork and beef. Anyway, my teacher sent me to the principal’s office.
I told him what happened, and he laughed, too. Then he told me not to do it again.
The next day in class my teacher asked me what my favorite live animal was.
I told her it was chicken. She asked me why, so I told her it was because you could make them into fried chicken.
She sent me back to the principal’s office. He laughed, and told me not to do it again.
I don’t understand. My parents taught me to be honest, but my teacher doesn’t like it when I am.
Today, my teacher asked me to tell her what famous person I admired most. I told her, “Colonel Sanders.”
Guess where I am now.

As i have said on a couple of occasions, she passed away 7 weeks before our 50th anniversary. We were married for about 25 years, two people living in the same house for 25 years.

Women use passive-agressive methods and think they can get away with it. Such actions as turning a bright light in your face at 3.00 am, piling furniture in your bedroom doorway while you are in bed, throwing coffee over you, refusing to eat a meal you just spent an hour cooking, to name a few. No visible evidence, cannot be verified.

Documents show other Lehrmann allegations

A man accused of raping Brittany Higgins in Parliament House was the subject of multiple sexual assault and harassment allegations, with other women reporting their own complaints after the political staffer's claim.

The reports which were previously kept under wraps by a court were on Friday made public along with Bruce Lehrmann's attempts to prevent his criminal trial going ahead. 

Mr Lehrmann pleaded not guilty to sexual intercourse without consent with Ms Higgins and was facing a retrial in the ACT Supreme Court after juror misconduct derailed the first.

ACT Director of Public Prosecutions Shane Drumgold announced he would not go ahead with another trial due to serious concerns about the impact it would have on Ms Higgins' mental health. 

Following the prosecutor's announcement, Chief Justice Lucy McCallum lifted several court orders stopping information about the case from being published.

This included media reports about other women coming forward with similar allegations against Mr Lehrmann published after hearing Ms Higgins' complaints in 2021.

Ms Higgins alleged he raped her in March 2019 in the office of former Liberal defence industry minister Linda Reynolds, when they both worked there as staffers.

"Within that same initial period, allegations were published to the effect that the man who had sexually assaulted the complainant was also accused of having sexually assaulted or harassed a number of other women," the court documents said. 

But Justice McCallum was not satisfied the reports would impact the ability of a jury to be impartial. 

She said they were published before Mr Lehrmann was named in media reports or charged by police and there were not many reports about the additional allegations. 

She also noted the relevant articles had been taken down by the companies. 

The chief justice dismissed the application from the defence because she was satisfied she could mitigate the effects of the reports by "appropriate directions" to the jury.  

In October, the jury in the first trial was dismissed after it was discovered a juror had done their own research on the case and brought an academic paper about sexual assault into the deliberation room.

The chief justice had given multiple instructions to jurors throughout the first trial to ignore anything they heard or read outside court related to the case. 

Russia has issued the West with one request before it would agree to consider meeting to discuss about ending the Ukraine war.

United States President Joe Biden flagged on Thursday (US time) he was willing to sit down with Russian leader Vladimir Putin but only if it was about a ceasefire.

President Biden and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron held talks in Washington and reaffirmed their commitment to stop the war.

"I'm prepared to speak with Mr Putin if in fact there is an interest in him deciding he's looking for a way to end the war. He hasn't done that yet," the US leader said.

"If that's the case, in consultation with my French and my NATO friends, I'll be happy to sit down with Putin to see what he has in mind. He hasn't done that yet."

But hours after his remarks, President Putin's chief of staff Dmitry Peskov issued an ultimatum to the leader of the free world and the West.

He declared discussions would only be considered when the four annexed Ukrainian regions are recognised as Russian territory.

Four regions in the war-torn nation - Donetsk and Luhansk in the east and Kherson and Zaporizhzhia in the south - were illegally declared by Moscow in September as its territory after claiming ballots showed residents were in favour of being separated.

Ukraine accused the referenda of being a "sham" and argued they were "staged" for the outcome to only go one way, with the United Nations also condemning the move.

Mr Peskov said President Biden's refusal to recognise the territories as Russian "significantly complicates the search for mutual ground for discussions".

"What did President Biden say in fact? He said that negotiations are possible only after Putin leaves Ukraine," he said but added that was "certainly" not accepted.

"The special military operation is continuing."

This sort of behaviour is becoming more widespread.

Fedex driver dumps packages beside road.

14 hours ago, nomadpete said:

I thank God that the earth is flat so I push them off the edge

I'll keep my eye out for you if I get near the edge.

We ought to go to their house and throw their treasured possessions around like that. Maybe they were trained by Ausfailure Post.

The Prince and Princess of Wales took a commercial flight to a climate conference, while the Sussexes flew by private jet.

Smart Alec.

The Ordinary Phrase:Smart Aleck.

Smart Alecks are too clever for their own good without being that clever to begin with. The insult is dismissively applied to those who think they know everything. The real Alec probably wished he was a little bit smarter.

The Unordinary Life: 

Alec Hoag was a prominent criminal in 19th century New York. Hoag’s wife, Melinda, disguised herself as a prostitute. While the johns were obviously distracted, Alec pilfered through their pockets. Because Melinda could be easily identified, to keep the business flowing, the police received a portion of the profits from the stolen goods.Hoag improved upon his scheme with a move called “the panel game.” In the middle of a tryst, Alec again took the valuables out of the discarded clothes of the unsuspecting mark. He then barged in the room accusing the man of sleeping with his wife. The adulterer would pick up their clothes and escape without thinking of their missing items.Eventually, Hoag made enough that he thought he no longer need law enforcement’s help. They disagreed. Alec and Melinda were quickly arrested. Mocking him, the police ironically referred to him as “smart Alec.” The phrase entered the lexicon shortly after.

Here I go again, devil's advocate if you will. This graph from my friend Wikipedia compares the CO2 pollution by country. It has been said before, but compared to the US which is approximately the same area as Australia, our output is miniscule. Reducing our output by 50% would have negligible impact on the world situation. Like baling out the Titanic with a soup spoon.

A man goes to a female dentist to have a tooth extracted. She pulls out a large syringe to give him an anaesthesia shot.
“No way, no needles! I hate needles!” the man exclaims
So she starts to hook up the nitrous oxide tank, and the man says, “I can’t do the gas thing either. Just the thought of having a mask on my face suffocates me!”
The dentist then asks the patient if he had any objections to taking a pill.
“No,” he says, “I’m fine with pills.” So the lady dentist gives him two little blue pills and he swallows them. “What are those?” he asks.
“Viagra,” she calmly replies.
“I’ll be damned,” said the man, “I didn’t know Viagra works as a pain killer.”
“It doesn’t,” says the wise lady,
“But it’ll give you something to hold on to when I pull your tooth.”

War with Japan

According to a newly leaked email from a whistleblower with Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB), months before Vladimir Putin began his disastrous invasion of Ukraine he was planning to attack Japan.