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A farmer was denied permission to build a shade for his horses. He didn't need s permit for a table and chairs.

Remember the old rhyme -

Here I sit, broken hearted,

Paid my penny and only farted.

I remember an underground toilet on Elizabeth St Melbourne years ago, outside the G.P.O. Nothing for a leak, but coin in the slot to take a seat.

3 hours ago, old man emu said:

one shouldn't need an app to have a pee.

Why not? These days you need one for just about everything else.

I thhink Jerry types on an iPhone keyboard with his toes. Even his edited posts have typo's. 

O.M.G!

The top Russian military leader who is believed to have known in advance about the weekend’s mutiny has been arrested — and security services have him “by the balls,” according to a local report.

The Kremlin on Thursday again refused to discuss the whereabouts of Gen. Sergei Surovikin, 56, who has not been seen since the weekend revolt by his close ally, Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin.

However, two sources close to Russia’s Defense Ministry confirmed to the Moscow Times that the one-time military leader of the Ukraine war has been arrested, with one saying his situation is “not OK.”

“Apparently, he [Surovikin] chose Prigozhin’s side during the uprising, and they’ve gotten him by the balls,” one of the sources said.

The interrogation of the general — who remained a deputy commander of Russian forces in Ukraine — is so sensitive that defense department officials “are not even commenting on this information through our internal channels,” one of the sources told the Moscow paper.

I was flipping channels during a commercial break, and happened on the Discovery Channel, and a show called The Explorers Club. This episode related to a 1960 dive in a submersible to the depth of 7 miles in the Challenger Deep, the deepest point of the Mariana Trench in Micronesia. Two divers took the submersible to the bottom, risking death like the crew of Titan. They heard a bang on the way down, but continued the dive. An expert said that if you hear a bang, that's good, because if you don't hear it, you are already dead.

Can you count to 10 in German?

Nein.

Does anyone think those mysterious creatures supposedly captured on CCTV's etc., look like Dobby from the Harry Potter movies?

For anyone who has not seen one, this is a hard disk stack, a form of removable storage medium from 1960s computers. This one holds 200 mb of data. A 16 Gb SD card holds the equivalent of 80 of these packs.

When not installed in the disk drive, they are held in containers like this, which look like cake containers.

Why? What did Tim do?

I know, spacey, but they don't place those around shopping centres for us oldies. Lucky to have anything to sit on.

That's probably why bank staff ceased being armed (other than escort guards) many years ago. No, I was never threatened, therefore never had to respond.

While CASA and BHP are acronyms, they substitute as names, and probably don't require either "a" or "an". We don't say a Robert, or  an Robert.

Back in the day - mid 1960's - I was an agency officer with the old Commercial Bank of Australia Ltd. Another officer and I would take cash and documents from the main branch to a small agency in a nearby suburb too small for a full branch, where we provided over the counter banking services for two or three hours per day, before returning to the main branch. In those days, bank staff were armed, and we took a couple of Browning automatics to protect the cash.

This must have taken ages to set up.

Watch this.

43 minutes ago, onetrack said:

I don't support the death penalty,

I feel that if someone commits a heinous crime such as bashing an elderly person to death, and there is irrefutable proof (DNA etc.) of a persons guilt, they have surrender the right to live. Why should the taxpayer spend hundreds of thousands, if not millions, keeping these peices of shyte alive? 

My late wife had a gun pointed at her when she wa a relief teller in the bank. Affected her for the rest of her life.

Working with doctor and dietician, and exercisig. It's the exercising puffing me out, which is why I take regular breathers.