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Minge repellant. It's either a send up, or someone did it on purpose. And when did "repellant" become "repellent". More Americanisms sneaking into the Queens English??

Malcolm told us, life wasn't meant to be easy. 😄

And we're full of vast amounts of knowledge and unbelievable cunning, too! All gained via a lifelong education from the University of Hard Knocks! 😄

Yes, I often wonder who that wrinkled old bloke is, looking back at me from mirrors and photos! 🫣

They're unrecognisable now!! Try not to gasp!!! 😄

The 60's were the best decade for rock/n/roll. Sept 1963, we heard the first Beatles song on the old AM radio - "From Me to You" (she loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah) - and before that, we were listening to Del Shannon, the Beach Boys, Col Joye and the Joye Boys, Cliff Richards and the Shadows, Johnny Tillotson - and a lot of even earlier 1950's American rock/n/roll-C&W (Sam Cooke, Chuck Berry, the Four Tops, Buddy Holly, Patsy Cline - and Elvis, of course!) Once the Beatles started hitting the airwaves, by early 1964, their songs were on the radio every day, and their new songs just kept on coming. They came to Australia in June 1964 and the teenage hysteria, especially amongst the girls, was something that stunned the older folk and brought great disapproval from them. But there was no looking back, and the rock/n/roll bands and individual singers just kept on coming, with some of the greatest rock/n/roll songs ever. The Rolling Stones appeared at the same time as the Beatles, and it was a rock/n/roll feast! I turned 17 in May 1966, and nothing brings fonder memories than roaring around in my '64 EH Holden ute, with the "big" 179 cu in engine, and playing all those great rock/n/roll songs on the radio, while we tried out our best pickup lines on girls!

We went to a Post Modern Jukebox stage show at the Astor Theatre in Perth about 18 mths ago. They put on quite a show, but I prefer the original golden oldies. SWMBO loved them, she was the one who saw the show, and booked the tickets.

The Bahai's are hated by all the Islamic sects and they get a hard time everywhere they go. My first girlfriend, when I was in the Army, turned to the Bahai faith after I broke up with her in early '72. It was strange, because she came from South Africa (she was a white and a redhead, and of British ancestry), and her family were very religious Christians. She came back and paid us a visit about 5 years afterwards, and I can recall my father being appalled at her turn to a "weirdo, airy-fairy religion", and he tried his best to convert her back. But she was besotted with the mob, and was convinced they were the finest, most religious people on Earth - and she'd apparently found a new boyfriend in the group as well. So she left, and I've never heard from her in the intervening 50 years. I have no idea where she went, and I can't even trace her. I would have liked to know how she ended up, whether she still worships them, or whether she "saw the light", and joined some other religious mob. Some people are alwayd looking for the religion that answers all their desires.

Is anybody counting down the "FOUR WEEKS" end time for this great war?? Like everything that comes out of the Tangerine Toddlers mouth - unadulterated, pure BS. America will still be bogged down in this war in 6 months time, and the hardline Iranians, and Hezbollah and Hamas supporters, will ensure it goes on for as long as it can. Neither Trump nor Hegseth has a co-ordinated plan to ensure this war ends swiftly and results in a regime change for the better. As fast as they kill new Iranian leaders, the hardliners will produce new ones. I note Sen. Chris Murphy, a Democrat from Connecticut, said recently, "There is no experience that shows an air campaign alone will result in positive regime change." Trump will soon find himself arse-deep in crocodiles, while he thought he was simply wading in to drain the swamp. He'll soon find out that running a successful war is a whole lot different to cheating at golf, and those crocodiles have got a vicious bite.

A bit galling to see him wearing an Ampol-branded shirt!!?

I got this advice (below) from Fuelwatch W.A. "Tomorrow (Tuesday, 10 March 2026), most branded metro sites are again hiking their diesel price: Ampol up to 251.9 cents per litre (cpl); EG Ampol up to 244.9 cpl; Caltex up to 243.9 cpl; BP up to 239.9 cpl; Reddy Express up to 235.9 cpl; Vibe up to 233.7 cpl; and United up to 231.9 cpl. This follows diesel hikes the last five days by most of the major brands. Tomorrow's average metro diesel price will be 226.2 cpl, however there will be over 20 Perth sites selling below 209 cpl." I paid $1.60 to fill up my diesel Hilux last Tuesday (3rd March).

Crazy like a Fool

Eye of the Tiger.

The next thing to cause worry is not just fuel, but fertiliser and chemicals. As many farmers head into seeding by mid-to-late April, a lack of fuel is just the start of the seeding programme problems, and the unavailability of fertiliser and weedicides (which are nearly all shipped in from overseas, and a lot via the Straits of Hormuz) is going to cause some agricultural users, some stress. Urea is a major fertiliser in big demand, and nearly all of it comes from the petrochemical refineries of the Middle East, such as Qatar, UAE and Saudi Arabia.

Tie a Yellow Ribbon around the Old Oak Tree.

Not to be outdone, Mataranka Homestead has also gone under water, after the Waterhouse River burst its banks. I reckon a gumboot stall would be a winner, anywhere in the Territory, right about now! 😄 https://www.google.com/maps/@-14.9220046,133.1324012,461m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDMwNC4xIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

We need more chuckles, the news is all too much gloom and worry today ....

At least he'll never be short of a pin. But I think he might be short of a few 'roos in the top paddock.

Could've been worse - like the bloke in Perth last year, who bought tickets for the 3rd day of the big international cricket match between the Aussies and the Poms, and it was all over, Red Rover, on Day Two!

Willie - The best penetrant is some stuff called Cyclo Breakaway. Made in Murrica, so you know it's good! 😄 https://www.sparesbox.com.au/products/cyclo-cyclo-breakaway-penetrating-oil-lubricant-475ml-c10?srsltid=AfmBOoqnIE2KmSBy_Top4bH_Wyd1uNgWy5LMVv4KrSOOY9ANKEIhi67g1vE

She was brought up alongside him, and knows him better than a lot of people - and she holds a PhD in clinical psychology, so she knows well, what drives people.

There's a pile of videos all claiming to show the "Real Iran". The one I saw was a young husband and wife travelling around Tehran. They were off to see the Great Bazaar, apparently with a female friend. I must say I was surprised when one of the women was going around completely devoid of head covering, and she jumped in the front seat of the taxi with the driver. If the Iran religious police had seen it, I reckon she would've copped a beating. But a surprising number of women were not wearing any hijab. The video was taken in May 2025 and appears to accurately represent everyday life in Tehran. It's a big bustling city. Of course, they're not likely to show the ugly side of the place - the police beatings, the hauling away of protesters, and the straight-out shooting of protesters.

They're nearly all just ordinary people, trying to survive like the rest of us, doing their allotted jobs and generally not causing any trouble. I was surprised to see the number of women getting around Tehran with no head covering. The religious police will roll up and beat them, if they decide the women are "offending morals". It's stone-age brutality, and I don't know how or why the people continue to put up with it. Of course, fear of even worse type of "security authorities" appearing, who will drag them off to jail for bugger all reason, is behind all their submissiveness. They didn't take long to jail the Australian woman, Dr. Kylie Moore-Gilbert, right after she attended a conference there, claiming she was a "Zionist spy". She spent 804 days in an Iranian jail and they beat her, tortured her, and abused her endlessly. This is the level of rock-ape behaviour that exists amongst the paranoiac Islamic religious nutters.

This is Lindsay street in Katherine from 19 hrs ago. The Katherine K-Mart K-hub and the BP servo and adjoining shops are under water, to about waist-deep, by the look of it. The Katherine River peaked at 19.21M on Saturday night and has dropped back to 18.9M at 10:30AM this (Sunday) morning. Google Street View will give you an idea of what it looks like normally! https://www.google.com/maps/place/Lindsay+St,+Katherine+NT+0850/@-14.4635718,132.2654121,1052

The Americans have slowly woken up to the massive cost to their economy, of their ever-more-expensive weaponry. https://theconversation.com/the-us-is-using-repurposed-iranian-drone-technology-to-attack-iran-a-military-expert-explains-why-277397