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Sorry octave. Honestly, this just popped up on Facebook. I just had to share it...

And their video clips, like this one.

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1647223259030819

If I had ridden a bike to work before I retired, it would have been 21km each way, up hill and down dale. Quite a bit on top of an 8 hour day. And in Melbourne, it can be brilliant sunshine one minute, and pouring rain 10 minutes later. As they say, four seasons in one day.

P.S.: And I'm not even in the outer suburbs.

The other thing I like about Facebook is all the historical photos that get posted, like the one below of a shop in Wagga when it opened in 1913 and when it burned down in 1962.

Others show scenes around Adelaide, Melbourne and many country towns. There is a group called I Grew Up In Mortdale, which publishes photos from around Sydney. Many people, including myself, post current day photos of the same location for comparison. Very interesting.

CA.90 and Ant-20 both on Unique profiles, Curtis NC added to to-do list.

Nescafe  manages  to arrange a meeting with the Pope at the Vatican.

After receiving the Papal blessing, the Nescafe official whispers, "Your Holiness, we have an offer for you. Nescafe is prepared to donate $100 million to the church if you change the Lord's Prayer from 'Give us this day our daily bread' to 'Give us this day our daily coffee.'

The Pope responds, "That is impossible. The prayer is the word of the Lord. It must not be changed.”

"Well, says the Nescafe man, we anticipated your reluctance. For this reason we will increase our offer to $300 million."

"My son, it is impossible. For the prayer is the word of the Lord, and it must not be changed.

"The Nescafe guy says, "Your Holiness, we at Nescafe respect your adherence to the faith, but we do have one final offer. We will donate $500 million - that's half a billion dollars - to the great Catholic Church if you would only change the Lord's Prayer from 'Give us this day our daily bread' to 'Give us this day our daily coffee. Please consider it.” And he leaves.

The next day the Pope convenes the College of Cardinals."There is some good news," he announces, "and some bad news. The good news is that the Church will come into $500 million."

"And the bad news, your Holiness?" asks a Cardinal.

“We're losing the Tip Top Bread account!"

9 hours ago, Jerry_Atrick said:

Again, a bit of a furphy of an argument. Parliamentarians are elected to represent their electorate, not the race they are.

Sorry Jerry, I have to take exception. There is no-one to represent the Sudanese, no-one to represent the Vietnamese, and so on. Why should one race be the exception? Institutionalised racism. 

The banner headlines on the front page of the Herald-Sun say that senior aboriginal elders are joining the NO vote. As Warren Mundine said, "This is not my voice." A group of metropolitan pseudo-whites who will do little if anything for the problems in Darwin and Alice Springs. Window dressing.

I don't use Twitter, but many interesting short video clips from Twitter are shared on Facebook, including many aircraft clips. I've seen a few very short STOL videos, landing and taking off in thee plane's length. I occasionally use Google, particularly Google Maps, for the Streetview function. For other searches, particularly aircraft photos for the profiles, I use duckduckgo.

I use Facebook quite a bit. I keep in touch with geographically distant relatives on FB, and I am in a few FB groups, such as the Vintage Bonanzas group, and a group for former staff of the Commercial Bank of Australia Ltd. In fact, I took a screenprint of the old CBAL Data Centre building from Streetview and posted it on the CBAL group page 7 hours ago, and have had over 30 reactions and about 15 comments so far, from people I worked with years ago, and many I didn't know. It is very handy. I use Youtube sometimes, but not all that often.

I know this is thread drift, but here is one showing the size comparison with a PA-28, parked wingtip to wingtip. Wing shadows show they were not far apart.

There are three photos I took of Big Bird at Lilydale on the An-2 profile in Rec Flying. Here is another taken at the same time in May 2011.

What are the only two seasons a bogan can name?
Football and cricket.

Two politicians go out to lunch together. In the middle of lunch one jumps up and says: “Bugger. I forgot to lock the office safe before we left.”
The other politician replies: “No worries. We’re both here.”

It's hard to figure America out. On one hand you have the religious zealots who run everything by "the Book", then you have the TV shows about polygamy and polyandry - "Seeking Sister Wives" about the Brown family and his four wives, and "Brother Husbands" about a woman and her two husbands Chad and Jeremy, and all their offspring. What the ????

Amazing what pops up on your Facebook memories. This one from 5 years ago.

Pity someone doesn 't put a bomb under him.

Trump made a speech to the NRA that with him in the White House, no-one would lay a finger on their guns, and their rights to bear arms would not be impinged.

To the man who invented zero  -  thanks for nothing.

Haven't been there for 2 or  3 years. Now I have a car, I'm hoping to get out there again soon.

A former indigenous politician who received a prestigious award from Barack Obama has described Aboriginal 'welcome to country' ceremonies as 'bullshit'.

Quote from former indigenous NT minister Bess Price (mother of Jacinta Price).

 'All the "Welcome to Country", all the "Smoking Ceremonies" and all the made up bullshit rituals about "pay our respects to elders past and present" is just one big lie.

The 'welcome to country' was adopted into Australia's parliamentary protocols in 2008, after the then prime minister Kevin Rudd delivered his apology to the ‘stolen generation’ (who were in fact mostly half-cast children taken into protective and educational care).

However, two years after that decision, Aboriginal entertainer Ernie Dingo claimed that he invented the concept in 1976 when visiting Pacific Island dancers demanded they receive a traditional welcome. The Aborigines have supposedly been here for at least 50,000 years, exterminating their predecessors the Mungo Man of light boned Chinese origin and the Kow Swamp Man of heavy boned Java Man origin (some say more like

60,000 years, but they came in waves when sea levels fell).

The fact is, as uncomfortable and as unfashionable as it is, aboriginal Australia had not produced anything resembling a Shakespeare, nothing much in the way of technology, never discovered the wheel, could not boil water, kept no written history, had no conception of the size or location of this continent, and no philosophy to speak of in the 50,000 years available to it. The English brought the rule of law, the Westminster system, a work ethic, the notion of progress and all the benefits of the science, technology and ingenuity of the modern European world.

On 26 January 1788 when the First Fleet ships unloaded their ~ 750 convicts, 245 Royal Marines and 15 officials, not a shot was fired. As they looked around what's now Circular Quay, they saw nothing other than bush. Not a single building, planted field, domesticated plant or animal - nothing at all. Very few natives were seen along the coast and it was considered there would be even fewer living inland. It was seen as "terra nullius" - a vacant land owned by noone.

There was no indigenous army to defeat, no Aboriginal flag to lower, no national leaders to consult. There was nothing to claim as the spoils of victory. There was just wild bush. There was no "invasion". The few Aborigines who came out to have a look at these strange people were

completely illiterate and innumerate and those on the south side of the harbour spoke a language completely unintelligible to those on the north

side of the harbour, and they'd been constantly at war with each other for as long as anyone can remember. Australian Aboriginal languages consist of around 290- 363 dialects belonging to an estimated 28 language families and isolates. 

Since the arrival of the English, only about 250 years ago, Australia has prospered and developed into a modern first world country, along with

all other Western democracies. Today, Aborigines enjoy many of these modern day benefits in preference to a harsh traditional Aboriginal life-style.

Yet for at least 50,000 years (prior to the arrival of the British) the Aboriginals seemed to have not progressed one step.

To put this into perspective, Aboriginals had inhabited our great land for at least 47,000 years prior to the ancient Egyptian empire. The Greek empire was at its peak in the period 500 BC to 300 BC and the Roman empire was at its peak around 117 BC.

Each of those empires were highly advanced and contributed enormously to the advancement of the modern world.

It therefore beats me why the stagnant Aboriginal culture is now so revered? In 1967, under the Holt Liberal government, 90.77 per cent of Australians voted to remove race from the Constitution, putting ‘indigenous’ Australian people on the same legal footing as all other Australians and allowing them to be counted in the Commonwealth Census. It was a momentous shift towards equality, removing the 1901 Commonwealth ban, which had been designed to prevent political exploitation of the aborigines, whose ignorance and malleability made them easy vote getters.

Half a decade later, the Albanese Labor government wants to insert RACE back into the Constitution!

To enshrine a special place in the Constitution, based purely on racial grounds, is racism pure and simple. Length of ancestry on this continent, whether it be 50,000 years, 250 years or 10 years, shouldn’t be the determinant for any special consideration to any population cohort in the Constitution. Furthermore, most 'Aborigines' today are of mixed ancestry and they live a non-traditional lifestyle in urban areas. 

JUST A LITTLE SOMETHING TO CONTEMPLATE BEFORE SIGNING UP TO A RACE-BASED "INDIGENOUS VOICE” BEING INSERTED INTO IN OUR CONSTITUTION. TAKE CARE - WE ALREADY HAVE A PARLIAMENT THAT REPRESENTS “ALL” AUSTRALIANS!

Our Federal parliament already has 11 Aboriginal members, which is proportionately higher than the rest of us. In addition, EACH of our State governments, plus our Federal government, have Ministers for Aboriginal Affairs who oversee Departments that provide for the particular needs of Aborigines.

I had a mate who offered to take me up. but then we lost contact. I'm not sure if he gave up flying. Last I heard, about 4 years ago, he was working in avionics. Many of you may know of him, he was a member on here. Went by the name of Robbo. He was the one who sugggested to Ian that I would be a good person to do the Aircraft profiles.