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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.

Gee, did you see where the BOM spent $86 MILLION on that new website!! All to give us less information with less user-friendliness than the old site!! But the pretty moving maps are neat, though! 😄

This is actually my cup .... I got it from the Reject Shop.

The sad part is, Kamala Harris is still one of the front runners for the next Presidential election. If the Dems could actually find a decent leader and team, they could walk all over Trump and Vance. Trump is current President because all the Democrat offerings as regards leadership, just puts most voters off. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/democrats-poll-newsom-new-hampshire-primary-b2853915.html

I have a copy of the American World Almanac and Book of Facts, for 1975 (published 1974). It's full of interesting and majorly diverse subjects, and in amongst the mind-boggling array of information, one scientist makes the point that continuing to burn fossil fuels at an ever-increasing level will almost certainly lead to global warming. That's from a scientist from over 50 years ago. The problem that many fail to see is that fossil fuel production and use has continued to increase every year for over 125 years. When there was only a relatively small level of production and use, the effects weren't felt. Now that fossil fuels are consumed at huge and ever-increasing levels annually, at some point, we have to say, "Enough!". Besides, I don't like giving vast amounts of money to already-super-rich fossil fuel producers and retailers, and I don't like what the oil-rich countries do with my petro-dollars.

The list of CSIRO inventions is huge, and chief amongst those inventions was the Atomic Adsorption Spectrometer, an extremely valuable invention that was of huge use in the minerals industry, but which then went on to find many other uses, such as in criminal investigations. An AAS can find the concentrations of up to 70 different elements in a very small sample. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_absorption_spectroscopy

Well! - there goes all the house money in quick smart time!! 😀

The problem - and the BOM head honcho admitted as much - is that the new website was specifically designed for use in an app, and as a result, the users of desktops and laptops see no benefit in the redesign. It's a sad reflection on the state of our society today, that apps are supposed to be the answer to everything, and every single person is supposed to be glued to a mobile phone 24/7/365, and using the BOM app exclusively, to get pretty weather patterns and icons. But the bottom line is, the people who live in the rural and remote areas, rely on desktops and laptops rather than mobile phones and apps, and they're the ones that track the weather closely, because so much of rural and remote life and work, relies on knowing what the weather is going to do. Plus, they like the benefit of larger screens, due to the detail you can get on a larger screen, as compared to the relatively useless average mobile phone screen size.

If you think Trump approves of Albo now, just wait 5 mins for some Trump disapproval statement by Albo, and Albo will promptly become the lowest deadbeat scum on the face of the Earth.

Johnny Carson.

I always like Billy Connellys comment about toilets. "Once you reach 65, never, ever, go past any toilet".

I find the Farmonline Weather website more user-friendly, having a better layout, and with more usable features, than the new BOM website. I guess the BOM will get something right eventually, after multiple ham-fisted and poor attempts at producing what people actually want. https://www.farmonlineweather.com.au/place/wa/perth/6000/maps I especially like the options under "layers" when viewing the forecast map, to be able to select "hourly rainfall", rather than the default 10:00PM daily conditions. https://www.farmonlineweather.com.au/place/wa/perth/6000/maps/forecast

Yes Jerry, it pisses me off, too, the utter grubbiness of people using public toilets. The blokes who are too lazy to even lift the seat and who piss all over it. The blokes who don't even bother to clean the bowl, even though a toilet brush is provided. And the number of blokes who piss all over the floor is unbelievable. It makes you wonder what their home is like, and who always cleans up after them.

It's certainly an interesting name, and one does wonder where it originated. I've never heard it used anywhere, but I've certainly come across some weird christian names in recent years. Possibly the saddest part of Prunella Scales life was, she spent the last 12 years suffering from dementia. A truly dreadful disease, and one that is afflicting more and more older people. I was recently looking up old military workmates and associates, and I was saddened to find the bloke who had the bed in our hut, adjacent to mine, when we were in Vietnam, died last month - and it appears he'd had dementia for quite a number of years. He contracted hepatitis when we were in 'Nam, and it appears contracting hepatitis seriously increases your risk of developing dementia.

The Lincoln-Kennedy similarities are not all true. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln–Kennedy_coincidences_urban_legend

My father told me a story many years ago, about he got caught in open station country, in a huge thunderstorm, about 1931, on Doolgunna Station, N of Meekatharra. Doolgunna Station was owned by G. J. ("Jimmy") Howard and my father worked for him during the Great Depression. Dad was doing boundary riding on a horse when the storm blew up. He was fortunate that there was a rare stand of fairly big trees not far away, and he galloped for it as the hail came down. As he made it to the trees, he said the hail turned into jagged chunks of ice, some of them around 4" (102mm) long. He said his horse went crazy and he struggled to keep hold of it. He said the hail stripped all the bark off the trees on the windward side, and shredded all the leaves on the stand of trees. He said it was the most frightening weather event he had ever endured, and he'd never seen a hailstorm like it again. Here in Perth, we endured a monstrous hailstorm in 2010 that damaged thousands of cars, with many of them being write-offs, it damaged hundreds of buildings, caravans, signs, awnings and patios, and caused multiple millions in storm damage. I was at a mates workshop and saw the storm coming, and we struggled to get the roller door shut, and keep it shut, the hail was piling up outside the door, about 200mm high.

OME, you're obviously not going to Church enough. We'll send you some sackcloth and ashes, so you can do proper penance for your sins, and make it rain again for you. 😄

Many years ago, in the W.A. wheatbelt, in the days of party-line phones, there was a local farming family with the surname of Klug. Mrs Klug regularly took great pains to insist that their name was pronounced "Kloog". One night on the local telephone exchange, one of the girls was taking a call from Mrs Klug and after Mrs Klug asked for the other partys number, the exchange girl said, "O.K. Mrs Klug, I'll just connect you now". Mrs Klug snapped back, "It's Mrs KLOOG, thank you!". The girl, quick as flash, came back with, "O.K., I'll just PLOOG you in then, now!" 😄 And then there was the local hardware shop owner, one Mr Handcock, who always insisted his name was pronounced "Hand-Co". 😄

This is stupidity at the highest level of Govt. It's putting all your eggs in the one basket. When the power goes out (as it surely does on regular occasions), you have no cooking ability, no refrigeration, and no hot water. I have gas and electric and solar, a proper balance against all your eggs in one basket. And I have a backup genset and a portable gas BBQ. In addition, what happens if you decide to disobey the Allan Govt mandate and install gas as well as electric? Do you go to jail? Who keeps checking on whether your home is still all-electric? The Energy Nazi stormtroopers?? The Vic Govt mentality is astounding. If imbecilic political leaders had stopped Australian Gas being sold for a pittance to other countries (who then use that cheap energy to compete unfairly with our industries), and had ensured that proper levels of cheap gas were reserved for local consumption, then you wouldn't have this fiasco you have now. Previous W.A. politicians at least had some working brain cells, they ensured 15% of W.A.'s gas reserves were kept available for W.A. industry and consumer consumption.

It's called "entrapment", plain and simple. About 30 years ago, I was walking up the Southern side of the Hay St Mall in Perth, heading East. It was about 7:00PM, and SWMBO was with me. I was a bit switched off, concentrating on something else, and didn't take a lot of notice of a crowd of people gathered in a bunch on the North side of the Mall, about 30M ahead of me. SWMBO must have been 110% alert though, because as we walked on, she moved out into the centre of the Mall - unbeknowns to me. She was a little behind, so I didn't notice. I was busy ogling the crowd at this point, trying to figure out why they'd gathered there, and they all seemed to be looking in my direction. I kept walking, totally oblivious. Suddenly, from behind the wall of a shop with a recessed facade, a bloke dressed in a ghoulish silvery outfit, standing on stilts about 600mm high (hidden by his long dark coat), jumped out at me!! To say there was a startle factor would be an understatement. The crowd roared with laughter as I jumped back in shock - leaving me feeling a little more than embarrassed. Of course, it was all street theatre, on a par with the video above, trying to trap unsuspecting victims. I played the unsuspecting victim part beautifully - but there was no way of knowing the ghoul was hiding behind the wall. I guess SWMBO suspected something was up, but she said nothing to me, possibly because she was still trying to figure out what the setup was. These people run the risk of frightening people with a weak ticker, and ending up with a completely unexpected result. I'd like to see someone pretend to drop dead in front of these street theatre jokers, and have the last laugh on them!!

Well, I'm definitely not a fuzzy icon type of person. Rather than trying to figure out what these dubious "international understanding" icons mean, at least they've given us the option of a "text only table" (on the RHS), which style of forecast, makes a lot more sense to me. https://www.bom.gov.au/location/australia/western-australia/lower-west/bwa_pt053-perth

GON, you've got a truly evil sense of humour! Just look at the fear on those faces!!

The MSLP charts are still located on the old website apparently, they can't be found on the new website. I don't know if they're planning to incorporate them into the new website. https://www.bom.gov.au/australia/charts/synoptic_col.shtml