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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?).

That wonderful, kind, generous, benevolent Victorian Premier, Mr. Dan Andrews, is planning to tax charities on the donated goods which are unusable and have to go to landfill. Anything is OK to reign in the monterous budget deficit.

You've been spying. On Monday, my daughter made a large pot of lamb shank soup. Enough for 6 meals for the three of us, plus 3 for my other son to take home when he visits tomorrow. One meal Monday, 5 in the freezer. Do the same once or twice every year.

1 hour ago, Old Koreelah said:

grow plurry tall and spindly.

Like those creepy cratures seen in CCTV and dashcam footage.

Recent doco's on TV have shown that Diana was 'chosen' by the firm to produce an heir, and was most unhappy. Shots of Charles smiling at her and she is staring at the floor. Very lovey dovey. Once she had produced the heir and the 'spare', she wanted out. Then Charles could marry his 'true love'.

2 hours ago, Old Koreelah said:

every little kid should learn to clean their own room, their classroom, etc

I have seen where, in Japan, schools have no cleaners. Every child is required to keep the school clean and tidy.

49 minutes ago, facthunter said:

The advertising Industry is unceasingly trying to make you buy things you maybe don't really need

Absolutely Nev. The amount of garbage advertised on TV, the internet, everywhere, is incredible. And the people pushing it ae held up as examples, or influencers. I have learned, of necessity, to live frugally. My son and daughter insist on buying a take-away lunch every Friday. A 90c cup of instant noodles does me. Sure, a HJ's Whopper or Carolina Chicken would be nice, but too damned expensive. Maybe for my birthday perhaps.

When I got retrenched, I never got the dole as it was called then. I got any job I could. Door to door selling (books, roof sealing, accounting software), telemarketing, sweeping schoolyards, part time drink waiter, you name it. Was registered with three Temp agencies. Worked one job which was 6 pm till 6 am,monitoring alarms. Was there for 18 months.

The whole idea is to get them to apply for one of the millions of jobs going begging.

Canadian singer songwriter Gordon Lightfoot, who wrote "If you could read my mind" and many other songs recorded by people Bob dylan and Elvis Pressley, has died at the age of  84.

OK. So work for the dole is still in place. Must be a bl**dy small number.

Why, when every industry is crying out for staff, businesses going to the wall because they don't can't get staff, are we hearing about the cost of the increasing number of jobseekers? What sort of work are these people, crying that the dole is insufficient to live on, looking for? Banana straighteners on salaries equivalent to Alan Joyce?

They are about to make a TV show about living on Mars, and the location is Coober Pedy.

The commander of the expedition is Capt. Kirk himself, William Shatner. Rumours have it that other stars will be Charlie Sheen, Keanu Reeves and a few others I can't recall. The Herald-Sun only gives  a small para, the rest behind the paywall.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/president-biden-earned-580000-in-2022-paid-24-in-federal-income-taxes-returns-show/ar-AA1a1ze6

If it's an iPhone, the up or down volume buttons on the side act as shutter releases. I don't know anything about Android phones.

Dick Van Dyke will make his soap opera debut on Days Of Our Lives.

The 97-year-old is set to appear as a guest star on a forthcoming episode of the long-running series.