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I marveled at the amount of stuff that they had warehoused. The war wasn't won so much on the battle field as in the factories. We never think about the thousands of non-combantants whose efforts supported the front line forces.

Here's another interesting one. Notice how many women are involved in heavy work.

An interesting little bit of enfotainment produced in WWII about the way aircraft were delivered from factory or maintenance depot to active units. The dialogue is pukka British, but the visulas are worth watching.

Father Chris Riley passed away on 31 July 2025. Riley was the founder and CEO of Youth Off The Streets and worked with disadvantaged youth for more than 35 years in a variety of roles including teacher, youth worker, probation officer, residential carer and principal. He officially founded Youth Off The Streets in 1991, with a food van delivering meals to homeless youth in the Kings Cross area in Sydney.

I woke up to clear skies and sunshine. A southerly breeze of about 15 kts came up. Perfect for drying the washing. It got to about 20C inside just fom the sunshine. A real rejuvenator after a couple of very cold days and a little bit of rain.

It's a good thing that trucks carrying either of those loads are going in the same direction. Imagine the explosion if they collided head on.

Poor woman. I bet she suffered all through her school years. The surname McEntafer is likely of Irish or Scottish origin, possibly an Anglicized form of the Gaelic name "Mac anTairbh," meaning "son of the bull". The prefix Mac means son of, and an t-Saoir translates to "the carpenter". So it is name related to a trade or skill.

I'm getting heartily sick of AI generated crap on YouTube. I watched one recently about a man who disappeared from his family in 1952. Allegedly, thirty years later they discovered a cassette tape made by the man in which he explained why he had disappeared. Just think about that. A cassette tape in 1952? Small personal reel-to-reel tape recorders were not a common thing then. I was the first to post a comment, calling the video BS and questioning the idea of a cassette tape. Went back a few days later and my comment had been deleted.

This should be in the Funny Video forum, but it is motor vehiocle related. Just another example of AI generated clickbait. As the title suggest, I won't believe it.

Maybe we Non-Indigenous should take a page from the Indigenous playbook and start making Citizen Title claims so that these foreign corporations have to start paying the Non-Indigenous of this country royalties and compensation for the corporations' digging up and carting away the very ground we stand upon.

They would have to be very niche markets that are not directly involved with the generl population. Can you see our supermarket conglomerates absorbing cost increases? They won't even pass on cost decreases.

Watching the Trump saga is like standing on a hill overlooking a single track railway line and see two express trains racing towards each other. You know there's going to be one heck of a pile up, but you can't do anything from where you stand to prevent it.

Have you ever seen any business absorb an increase in cost? And then there has to be that little bit added to cover "administrative costs". It is always the end consumer who pays.

Grandma pie, or pizza, is a distinct thin, rectangular style of pizza attributed to Long Island, New York. Typically topped with cheese and tomato sauce, it is reminiscent of pizzas baked at home by Italian housewives who lacked a pizza oven. Despite having existed for generations, the term "grandma pizza" was little known outside of Long Island, New York. On the other hand, gramma pie is a regional Aussie delicacy. An article in the Sydney Mail in 1922 describes the pie as “a special Northern Rivers dish”. The Australian Town and Country Journal in Sydney, 1885, featured a recipe for gramma pie, proving its place in Australian culinary history long before mass-produced desserts took over. Gramma pumpkins (Cucurbita moschata) are vigorous, long-vining plants that thrive in warm climates and well-drained, fertile soil. More commonly grown in New South Wales and Queensland, gramma pumpkins are well-suited to Australia’s warmer, humid regions.

When you were a child, were your grandmother's cooking lessons an introduction to nanna-technology?

Except that it's your gang that pays it, not the bloke being muscled.

This is frightening for the possibility that teh republicans will be tossed out. Just watch the first two and one half minutes.

Spacey, if you are a pensioner you don't need a fishing licence. You just have to be able to produce your Centrelink pension card to a fisheries inspector.

The Opposition is crying out for Albo to go to the USA to meet with Trump. I say that Albo should not go. Trump believes that he is the most important person in the World. He assumes the title of Leader of the Free World and that the title demands every country pays homage to him. That payment of homage to Trump, not to the USA, reeks of the appeasement tried on with Hitler, and we know how effective that was. Hitler sought to make the Germans the Master Race through military means. Trump is trying it on by economic means. Trump has been proven to be the most vile of persons. I doubt if even Putin could be said to be in the same class of vileness. So why should we demand that Albo go kowtowing to Trump? There is a high chance that Trump would deliver the same humiliating performance that he has done so with allies and friends alike. Nothing positive can come from such a meeting. Have you ever noticed that in joint press conferences, the guest is ignored by the Press so that Trump can waffle on? The guest is never a party to the press's questions. Australia doesn't need its political leader to be treated in such a way. Like the Scottish people, Australia should stand up to Trump and let him know full well that he, himself, is unacceptable to our people. That is not to say that we should sever our relationships with the USA, but it is probably worth looking into how much we put into that relationship. And don't forget that billions of Australian superannuation savings are invested in the USA. If Trump destroys the US economy and causes a depression, it's good-bye to thousands of Austalians' comfortable retirement.

Trump cheating at golf caught on camera. This happened in Scotland over teh weekend. Trump's hit ball landed in the rough. His caddy drops a new ball on an open piece of ground..

The Minns Labor Government has today announced more than $930,000 of funding to improve and promote recreational fishing across the North Coast region ensuring money from the Recreational Fishing Trusts is spent on the ground supporting local anglers. https://www.nsw.gov.au/ministerial-releases/north-coast-communities-to-benefit-from-930000-recreational-fishing-grants

Unfortunately, those promises have caused great distress within the USA and throughout the rest of the world. His method of international diplomacy can best be described as gunboat diplomacy. He thrteatens military or economic intervention if other countries don't obey him.

Everytime a cull of noxious animals is called for, there is an equally strong call to prohibit the cull from "animal rights" advocates. Those advocates always seem to reside in inner city areas where the damage caused by introduced species cannot be experienced. Which has a greater right to exist - and introduced species or a unique nartive one?

On a happier note, Trump has shot himself in the foot over the Murdoch defamation case. If it goes ahead, a judge could order Trump himself to give the evidence that is relied upon to show that what was published was false, leading to the defamation case. He'd eityher perjure himself or incriminate himself.

I seem to have fallen foul of fake news.