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Six roundabouts in one.

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Noah's ark in Queensland 2025. https://www.facebook.com/reel/1478776263145651

I think you will love this one about how New Zealanders speak. https://www.facebook.com/reel/283451852950426

They are Snipping Tool screen shots from a video. Everybody seems to be making AI fake videos these days.

Spacey, you must have been dawdling through the intersection. I'm happy to be corrected if I'm wrong, but I believe the amber light gives sufficient time to clear the intersection if you are still facing a green light when you enter it. The idea is to give you time if you are too close to the line to stop. My car is fitted with that device that changes every light to red as you approach, so I try to always be prepared to stop. I assume it will turn red, but continue in case it doesn't. When it turns amber I stop unless I am only a meter or two from the line. Cars in other lanes may overtake me, but that's the risk they take. There is always the exception. One night we had a call from a hospital where my wife had been having tests during the day, asking her to come back in straight away.. It was about 9:30 at night and the road was wet. There were no other cars about. As I approached, the lights turned amber. I would have had to brake hard to stop in the remaining distance, and I was afraid I might skid, so I took the risk. About halfway through the intersection the lights turned red and the camera flash went off. I got the fine in the mail saying I was 0.6 seconds in the red light. I appealed explaining the circumstances, but the appeal was dismissed. Them's the breaks, I had to take it on the chin.

Another massive excavator.

This would give kids nightmares

Our house is virtually falling apart. The kids want to pull it down and rebuild. I told them they'll have to wait till I'm gone. It would probably require rewiring. I don't have the money to fix it up and it would only be putting a bandaid on a shipwreck.

I hate copping a bill for $300 or more. Usually lands when other big bills arrive. I pay $40 or $50 fortnightly out of each pension. I can keep tabs on how much credit I have built up, and how much I'm likely to pay. I can increase or decrease my fortnightly payments as required. Then when the bill arrives, it is usually $0 or a very small amount. Helps budgeting.

And visiting a public toilet. https://www.facebook.com/reel/919947626869498

Here's another one, describing how and why Americans modified the English language. An oldie but a goody. https://www.facebook.com/reel/884607186859703

Silent letter language. Sound up. Michael McIntyre. https://www.facebook.com/reel/1996855887752696

If you are making a right hand turn from the centre lanes of a street with trams, you have to stop on the tramlines till traffic coming the other way clears. This holds up trams going in both directions. Pulling left as shown in the video lets trams travel through. Then, when the lights change, you complete the right turn.

Today (4/11/2025) Former US Vice President Dick Cheney has died from complications of pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease In a statement, his family said the 84-year-old was surrounded by his wife Lynne, daughters Liz and Mary, and other family members.

They are always on about how fit and healthy he is. It's his mental acuity that's the problem. He may be able to swing a golf club, (I don't see him walking the fairway), but he can barely string two coherent words together. And he can't understand or recall facts.

Maybe these videos will help. Roundabouts. Hook turns.

Spacey, the above illustration is a bit more complex that your average two road intersection. However, let us assume you are in the red car at the bottom and intend to follow the red line. You are most unlikely to collide with a vehicle in front of road 'e' and less likely with cars at b, c or d, so it's safe to enter the roundabout. Cars at f are the ones you need to concentrate on. A car entering from b could well exit at d, or f, so there is no likelyhood of a collision, and you don't have to wait for them to exit. If you want an intersection that confuses interstaters, come to Melbourne and try a hook turn, where you turn right from the left lane. These are designed to allow trams through progress without interruption. The turning car waits for the lights to change.

Golf ball sized hail was bad enough. I saw video on the news of tennis ball size hail. Hate to cop one of those on the head.

The thing I like about a smart meter is that the power co website can show on a daily basis how much you've used, what you bill to date is, and estimates what your next bill will be. You can make progress payments so that the actual bill is zero. No bill shock. I wish the gas co could do the same thing.

Marty is correct.

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Thing - the hand in the box from The Addams Family. I can't believe I ate the whole thing.

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