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As in the highlands of Scotland?? That's where my ancestors came from - I couldn't live there, and I can't imagine what it must have been like living there, especially in the Middle Ages.

I only got 33 out of 50 right, in the Kellogg Uni fake images quiz. That's not very reassuring.

If I had a dollar, every time some feted clairvoyant, religious nutter, or other predictor of doom and gloom, made a worldwide announcement, that a huge cataclysmic event was going to happen on a certain day (usually the end of the world), then I'd have enough money for a decent holiday!

I can't remember the last time I paid for any news, it was at least a decade ago. Oh yes, I remember - I paid for a "subsidised" short subscription to one of the local Murdoch newspapers - about 3 mths, I think. Then, when I decided that paying for loads of useless crap disguised as "news" was a dead loss, I decided to cancel my subscription. Holy Mother of God, what a devious and convoluted performance, that immediately turned into!! Every single obstruction that one could think up, was placed in my way, to avoid cancelling my subscription. They even called me, to try and pressure me, to NOT cancel!! It was unbelievable, they were operating like a multi-level marketing scheme, trying to ensure you never left their snare, and you provided a permanent source of income for them! The exercise has made me very wary of devious corporate behaviour when it comes to subscriptions, and the lengths these scumbags will go to, to ensnare you. I see where Amazon has had to refund customers that they deviously trapped into paying for Prime subscriptions, when they never intended to subscribe. Unfortunately, it was only Amazon customers who signed up to the Amazon U.S. site, Australian Amazon customers get nothing.

That bloke is SCRATCHING all the new paint on that Dexta, by driving it straight through the scrub, like a bulldozer!! Hasn't anyone told him, that's what bulldozers are for? 😢

He's got a real thing about being a King. He can't wangle being named King of America, so he'll find other "Kingly" names for himself. His mindset is that of a 5 yr old.

Perhaps the "swamps of the Indian Ocean" are the Sundarbans of Bangladesh, or the mangrove swamps in the Bight of Sofala, in Mozambique.

Some thoughts .... 1. Nothing in that video looks like fun. Freezing cold, and even more freezing cold on top of that. I hate to think what it's like anywhere near those big fans. However, there are many people who seem to love Canada and its dreadful (to me) conditions. A best mate had two of his three sons move from Perth to Canada. They're not coming back, they've been there for a decade or more. They love the place. One lives in Vancouver, the other lives in Toronto. Their lifestyle is nothing like the lifestyle they had in Perth. 2. The wear on that skirt must be horrendous. I wonder what kind of material can withstand that constant abrasion, over every type of surface imaginable? 3. Hovercraft seem to have very little by way of lateral controls. I wonder why that is? I would design in rotatable thrusters to give me some substantial degree of lateral control. 4. No-one seems to bother with any kind of immersion suit or even lifejackets. I wouldn't like to think what your survival chances would be, if that chopper went down into that icy water. I'd at least be wearing a full-length wetsuit to give me a fighting chance, in case of immersion.

Knowing Americans, I must say I'm surprised they didn't just cut down the tree, complete with the aircraft and pilot still in it, to recover him!

Ha ha! That's classic! I don't recall anything about it, possibly because I was working in some remote location, and didn't have access to newspapers or TV. What I find even funnier, is the clairvoyant religious nutter has the same name as my brother! 😄

We can't believe you, unless you produce photographic proof of this astounding event. 😄

Pilot John Gregory crashed into the tree near McCall, Idaho, in April 2019, when he was attempting a forced landing in a nearby field. He was uninjured, and was rescued by a volunteer firefighter who also owns a tree removal business. That'd be some rescue! https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/northwest/pilot-rescued-after-plane-crashes-atop-tree/#:~:text=Pilot John Gregory was not hurt in,department in the resort town of McCall.

Let me see - $1B for each member country to join the Board of Peace, and the Trump organisation charges a $750M fee to each country, for setting it all up. Sounds like a deal to me!

The Ukraine is full of people who support Russia, they are descendants of the Russians forcibly moved into the Donbas region by Stalin between 1930 and 1952. Zelinskyy has just carried out several corruption purges in the military, in the Ukraine energy sector, and in the Govt. Corrupt Ukrainian bureaucrats were getting huge kickbacks in the energy industry, he's charged former PM Yulia Tymoshenko with vote buying, and Ukrainian Security services have uncovered numerous Ukrainian traitors keeping tabs on Ukrainian troop movements and handing the information to the Russians.

Developers always want to make millions from every scrap of "available" land and are intent on ignoring flood plain water height records - and they always manage to capture shire councillors to support them. They either bribe the councillors or dazzle them with the level of extra income the council will get from the development. Nearly every country in the world is the same. Americans keep building in the floodplain of the mighty Mississippi - and every Mississippi flood is bigger and higher than the last one, because all the developments slow up the downstream movement of floodwaters, so the flooding upstream becomes worse.

It can certainly be very difficult to prove sex trafficking and sexual abuse allegations. Witness the length of time it took to nail Rolf Harris. Bill Clinton is refusing to be subpoenaed in the Epstein investigations, because of two angles - one, he almost certainly had sex with underage girls with Epstein (knowing Bills ethics and morality from the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal) - and two, he's likely to be suspicious (and rightly so) that the current investigation is only about finding and blaming Democrats and their supporters who associated with Epstein. Don't forget there's a wild undercurrent of outrageous and unbelievable claims about the "Deep State", running a global paedophile ring, aided by leading Democrats. This conspiracy theory was started by the Q-Anon movement, and died down for a while, but those same conspiracy activists are always looking to revive this "evil underground Democrat conspiracy" line. Rabid Trump supporters are always looking for a good conspiracy story, America runs on conspiracies. I can recall conspiracy theorists advancing wild conspiracies way back to the 1960's, it's a disease in America, paranoia is rampant there - someone in hidden power, is always out to get ya! https://link.motherjones.com/public/40655751

This media outlet rightly points out, that despite Sascha Rileys claims going viral, nothing that he claims can be verified - anywhere. So, take it as simply unsubstantiated allegations, and remember that Riley is also reputed to be an Army Veteran who suffered a head injury in combat. His claims have actually been around for much, much longer than the last few days, and the propagation of his claims just recently, appears highly likely to be the work of bots. https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/who-is-sasha-riley-and-why-is-alleged-epstein-survivors-testimony-audio-going-viral/ar-AA1U8Yxy

The full, true story is somewhat different. Battel was actually under orders from his superior, Max Liedtke. Their aim was to keep Jews alive for the Nazi war machine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Battel

I don't believe any of Sascha Rileys stories. I think the bloke is suffering from mental illness and hallucinations. I do believe Trump almost certainly had sexual interactions with underage girls, but it's highly unlikely anything he has done will ever come to light. He has too many supporters that can ensure nothing survives in records relating to his "Epstein" behaviour.

Yes, reputedly the 3rd windiest city in the world. I don't mind the winds - at least the air comes from the huge, largely unpolluted ocean areas, of the Southern and Indian Oceans. But I do find any strong constant winds in the wheatbelt, annoying and intrusive.

I can handle her, and she knows me well enough when to stop pushing buttons. But if she spots injustice happening, God help those carrying out the injustice.

If you lived in the poverty of London in the 1800's, you'd probably get depressed, too.

Here on the Left Coast, we've been getting a lot of very strong and constant winds, the last month to six weeks. You get periods of strong winds, then you get periods of relative calm. There was a long calm period in late Spring. The strong winds are caused by very deep depressions coming up against very strong high pressure systems.

I do my banking with Bendigo Bank, because I'm a shareholder in the local branch. But Bendigo are going the same way as the Big Banks, too - shutting branches and pulling out ATM's. I simply keep more cash on hand at home now. I also deal a lot with the Credit Unions or banks that have been formed out of Credit Unions. These mobs are generally good to deal with, but they lack branches simply because of their size and limited funding. So I just keep my main monetary dealings with them, online. I like the fact the profits from CU's and the small banks go to the customers, who are the shareholders.

That's a very youthful Roy Orbison.