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Yeah, I'm definitely in the "elderly" class now, I can still remember Doris Day and David Niven.

Please don't eat the daisies.

Well, Pete, getting back to OME's start to the thread - we're all on a big roundabout in this world - and it's only when it all stops, that the problems begin!

No need to get negative about electric advancements.

Across the sea of time.

Bitter sweet symphony

I have no idea who he is - but his face does look somewhat familiar. Is he in the entertainment industry?

Back to Dick Cheney, a NYT journalist has produced this excellent article below, pointing out how Cheney was the initiator and enabler of the Trump style of Govt, and Cheneys lies and ruthlessness and lack of concern towards the rule of law has enabled the huge army of MAGA adherents. Cheney may have had a "Road to Damascus" moment when he turned his back on Trump, but Cheney takes the blame for the mess that is the political scene in America today. You may have to turn off your Javascript to read the article and get around the paywall. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/opinion/dick-cheney-vice-president-authority-trump.html

I've driven through Basingstoke and survived! Basingstoke isn't called "Doughnut City" for nothing!

No, Clinton is correct, it's MeidasTouch, a YouTube channel.

The hydraulic mining excavator is fudged just a little bit. There's no name on it, that's a good giveaway. The biggest hydraulic mining excavator is the Cat 6090 FS (Front Shovel), it weighs 1000 tonnes. https://www.petersoncat.com/products/new/hydraulic-mining-shovels/6090-fs

It's fake ....

In W.A., the red light camera is activated at the stop line at the lights at the start of the intersection. You only get booked for a red light infringement if your back wheels cross that line when the light is red. If the light is still amber when you pass over the intersection stop line, you have no fear of getting a red light infringement. If the light turns red 0.0001 second after your wheels pass over the line, you're safe. If you're turning right and sitting in the middle of the intersection waiting to make the turn, you cannot get booked for a red light infringement, even if the light turns red when you're parked there. Many a time you have to wait to see if the cars coming from the opposite direction are going to stop, so you have to wait until after the light turns red before you finish your right turn.

A controversial figure and hard-line right-winger for many decades, who eventually turned against the Republican Party and denounced Trump as a cowardly liar, and the worst thing to happen to America in many decades. He voted for Kamala Harris in the last election, such was his abhorrence of Trump and his policies. He suffered from heart problems all his life, and suffered from his first heart attack at 37. He went on to have 5 more, and eventually had a heart transplant in 2012. He was the main promoter of the "War on Terror", the ill-fated campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan that cost America dearly in lives and monetary cost, for not a lot of gain. The terrorist groups are still with us, and democracy has failed in both Iraq and Afghanistan, mainly because it was never able to get a foothold due to cultural and tribal hatreds that go back thousands of years. https://edition.cnn.com/2025/11/04/politics/dick-cheney-death-obit

They'll knock you out and cause some serious bodily injury, nothing surer. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-01/qld-thunderstorms-hit-south-east-saturday/105961034

And the missing words are, "if you are on a potential collision course with another vehicle". If you think our roundabout rules are confusing, try Greece! Not only do the Greek drivers disobey virtually all the road rules, their road rules state, that vehicles already on a roundabout, must give way to vehicles entering the roundabout! - the exact opposite of Australian road rules!

Nah, they've always been with us - it's just that as soon as we've almost forgotten about their major ferocity, because we haven't seen one for a long time, we get hammered with a ripper, or sometimes a string of them over a relatively short period. Go back into Trove and check out the past major disastrous weather events - there were plenty, even back to the early days of the colony. Anytime you get hot air being drawn down from the North to meet cold moist air from the South, you're going to get some real violent thunderstorm fireworks. I've never encountered thunderstorms as fierce as the ones in the North of W.A. Truly frightening, especially after a few 44 or 45 deg days. The weather photos on the latest BOM calendar are quite impressive. Number 12 is an aerial view of thunderheads in W.A. that would make you turn around and go home in a light aircraft! https://www.perthnow.com.au/wa/weather/bureau-of-meteorology-calendar-features-amazing-photo-of-wa-thunderstorms-c-20552542

Spacey, you're missing the roundabout laws understanding, same as about 50% of the drivers out there. The law states that vehicles entering a roundabout must give way to vehicles already ON the roundabout - and that "give way" is only if a collision is likely to occur, if you don't give way. You do not have to stop turning left in a roundabout, if any vehicle is entering a roundabout from your left, because there's no likelihood of a collision, due to vehicle paths that are not conflicting. The important part of roundabouts is to merge when you judge a suitable gap. Many people think they have to stop and look both ways at roundabouts and wait for someone on their right to stop, this is a lack of understanding as to how roundabouts work. Roundabouts are to keep traffic moving, you enter a roundabout anytime you judge you can fit into the traffic flow, without making someone on your right, brake.

Nev's obviously not a Steve Miller Band fan! 🙂

While you're whinging and raging at wind turbines, W.A. has had them supplying a sizeable percentage of our power for a couple of decades, and we'll continue to install them, because they work and they're a tried and proven system. Perhaps in 20 or 30 years, someone will produce a better idea, but they are the system we've got, that we can use now. https://www.wa.gov.au/organisation/energy-policy-wa/wind-farms-wa-frequently-asked-questions The Collgar Wind Farm has been in operation very successfully since 2011, and produces good returns for the investors in the company, and produces a lot of power for W.A. homes and businesses. https://www.collgar.com.au/collgar-wind-farm

Look up "Ridgeblade wind turbines" for an "environmentally attractive" and very viable rooftop wind turbine for ridgelines. The Ridgeblade wind turbine utilises the Aeolian wind focus effect, whereby the ridgeline of a building concentrates wind speeds, and this point can produce up to three times the wind energy of a flat surface.

It amuses me that in the 21st century, a vocal percentage of the population rages on about the "visual pollution" attributable to wind turbines - but no-one ever raged on about the "visual pollution" of windmills, which have existed since the 9th century. No-one complained because the windmills were highly beneficial, bringing much-needed water to the surface for use, or ground grains for food. Wind turbines bring us cheap power, a very necessary requirement today. You have to expect periods of light winds or even no wind, it doesn't stay that way for long. Funny how people make a big noise about wind turbines not turning, the same thing happens with windmills, and no-one says anything!

The magpies were attacking the goanna, because that's what magpies do, they defend their "territory".

This was my source .... https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/oct/31/cost-of-boms-website-revamp-revealed-after-deluge-of-public-criticism

I still tea about 99% of the time. It must be my Anglo-Saxon ancestry. I find coffee makes me "edgy", I have a low tolerance to the chemicals in coffee. Caffeine is supposed to be high in tea as well as in coffee, but I find the caffeine in coffee is not good good for me, I'm very sensitive to it.