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Reasonably wet, but definitely cold! Only 11 deg at the moment here in Melbourne (3:45pm). Freeze the pricks off a barbed wire fence.

Waiting for a charging station...

Once again, simply posting what someone sent me, without comment. Far more intellectual minds here to disect it.

To all you great thinkers.

Ponder this:

Imagine Brisbane with a hurricane coming toward the coast.

The premier orders an evacuation. All cars head South. They all need to be charged in Newcastle.

How does that work? Has anyone thought about this?

If all cars were electric, and were caught up in a three-hour traffic jam with dead batteries, then what?

Not to mention that there is virtually no heating or air conditioning in an electric vehicle because of high battery consumption.

If you get stuck on the road all night, no battery, no heating, no windshield wipers, no radio, no GPS (all these drain the batteries), all you can  do is try calling 000 to take women and children to safety.

But they cannot come to help you because all roads are blocked, and they will probably require all Emergency Vehicles and Police cars to be electric also.

Later when the roads become unblocked still no one can move! Their batteries are dead. How do you charge the backlog of cars in the traffic jam? Same problems during summer holiday departures with possible heavy traffic jams. There would be virtually no air conditioning in an electric vehicle. It would  drain the batteries too quickly.

Where is this electricity going to come from? Today's grid barely handles users' needs now. Can't use nuclear. There’s only 50 years worth of Helium left in the atmosphere and we need that. Hydrogen is still too expensive  and hard to handle, Oil and coal fired is out of the question, then where?

What will be done with billions of dead batteries, can’t bury them in the soil, can’t go to landfills. Can’t get them wet, lithium explodes into raging fires. So don’t call the Fire  Services if you have an accident. The cart is way ahead of the horse.

There has been very little thought whatsoever to handle any of the problems that batteries can cause.

The monarchy/Commonwealth is like a BRS. Not much to carry, has minimal impact on normal operations, but handy to have if required.

Answer to the quick question above   -   PAVLOVA.

PA   prika

V    egemite

LO   bster

VA   nilla

If you got the final question on The 1% Club Show on Ch 7 the other night, that question was worth $99,000.

Looks like that drone attack on the Kremlin may have been done as an excuse to start the new offensive.

https://www.facebook.com/reel/947551653079055

Well, Maurie's been dead a few years.

Here's a quick question.

2 parts Paprika

1 part  Vegemite

2 parts Lobster

2 parts Vanilla

What Aussie dessert does that make?

I have a correction to make. The BlowUp TV program is coming to Seven, not Nine. Just as bad.

Great Aussie Joke.

https://fb.watch/kj52uNZfDx/

I enjoy watching both the English and Australian versions of the Chase, and often shake my head at some of the contestants answers, but when it comes to movies, books, TV, Shakespeare, Greek mythology or some sports questions, I say "Who the hell cares." Questions like "Who was the 1982 darts champion?" It's like all the posts on Facebook, about what happened in this movie, or what was wrong with these TV shows. But you have to sort the wheat from the chaff. There is also good stuff there.

I was watching a 60 Minutes tribute to Barry Humphries tonight, and missed most of the new 1% club, which tests not what you know, but how you think. I also like Celebrity Wheel of Fortune, trying to solve the puzzle as the letters are spun up by the contestants.

16 minutes ago, old man emu said:

I'll accept quiz shows like Chaser.

No offence O.M.E., but you should go on The Chase - as a chaser. You seem to have an answer for everything.

In our municipality (City of Whitehorse), We have 3 bins. A small one with red lid for general landfill waste, but there is less and less that you are allowed to put in it. It is collected weekly. A larger one with green lid, for lawn clippings, hedge prunings, etc., and one with a yellow lid for recyclable - plastic, glass, paper etc. These two are collected on alternate weeks. We are shortly to get another larger bin with a purple lid. Then we will have to separate glass from  the yellow lid bin and put it in the new bin. Even kitchen scraps such as vege peelings, egg shells etc., now go in the green lid garden waste bin.

At our transfer station, you can take old appliances - toasters, kettles, irons, etc., free of charge. Old computer parts go in a separate area for collection to reclaim valuable metals. There are companies whole will collect white goods and other metal (mowers, BBQ's) and may even pay you. Charities will accept good unwanted clothes, but worn out stuff is a problem. Anything you take to the transfer station (trucked to landfill) and all vehicles must go over a weighbridge to get in, and pay the council. Dan's proposed tax for charities would be on top of that. Rate payers useed to get 3 free passes per year for a car/trailer load, but that was scrapped a few years ago.  You get two hard waste collections per year, maximum 3 cu mt each. Good for old couches, tables, chairs, etc.

I did almost all the cooking for the past 10 years, and some of it before that. I still do a bit, but my daughter has taken over much of it for the last 6 - 8 months. She has to do something to justify her Carers pension. I can't remember when my wife last cooked a meal, over 10 years before she passed away.

Have it your own way. His farts smell like roses.

Not according to the Charities representative I saw interviewed. Garbage being treated as an asset and taxed.

Sorry to divert from the above serious subject for something a little less, but I am getting fed up with Channel 9. Morning, afternoon or evening, virtually every day, when I tune in, all I get is Lego Masters. Really? Something you might expect from some obscure channel on Foxtel, but Channel 9?

If that's not enough, there is another intellectually stimulating program starting soon, featuing things made out of balloons, called BlowUp. Also on 9 I think.

My daughter and son live with me (I with them, my house?).