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Hers another bit of praise for the BushMaster.

Look at the picture in Jerry's post. See how Katter is holding his hand? He has no idea of how to form a fighting fist. Could'nt fight his way out of a wet paper bag.

What is it with Queenslanders that they are so Right Wing in their politics? I was considering using "racist" in that sentence, but it doesn't convey the sense of exteremism I wanted. What makes their attitude so different to the rest of us? Is it the tropical heat and humidity?

Yeah, and if he dies by police bullet, guess who the Media will crucify.

For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. (1 Timothy 6:10)

But Jerry, the correct term is "neck of the woods". The phrase was creted by our Ameican cousins. The phrase originated in America in the late 18th or early 19th century, possibly from a native word for "corner" or from the literal "neck" (a narrow strip) of a forest settlement.

Havwe yoiu read 1984? It's sooo 2024.

Hopw can that be news? Isn't it standard operating procedure, according to Trump?

I find that travelling at 100 kph is convenient because it means 10 kms per 6 minutes, so you can easily work out when you will get to the next town indiated on a distance signpost. I also find that, for my car, 100 kph can be maintained at constant revs, producing the "best" fuel consumption. My car, a 6-cylinder 2.7 litre engine, does 100 kph @ 2500 rpm. I suspect, because I have never bothered to find out, that at 110 kph it wouold be doing 2750 rpm. That's a 10% increas in revs, so I imagine that the engine would be using 10% more fuel. What is the difference in time? It's only 6 minutes quicker to go at 110 kph over 100kms. Hardly noticeable, and that 6 minutes can be lost if one comes upon a mobile aluminium roadblock travelling at 90 kph.

They say that actions speak louder than words. When you see people in these numbers in action, surely or politicians must take heed. It was a terribly wet and windy day when this action took place. That the people still came in their thousands despite the miserable conditions, it says more to me that all the ballots cast in any referendum. And don't forget that the numbers could have been increased if like-minded people living in regional and Rural areas could have made it there. Not well managed? There were no reports of crowd related injuries, which I think, was the main concern of the Police when they sought to prevent the event happening. There were no arrests of agitators. I was speaking to a mate who did actually attend the event. He told me that walking close to him were many young people of the Hebrew persuasion who were supporting the theme of the action.

The only problem with trolley buses is the visual impact of the wires, as well as the infrastructure maintenance the wires need.

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.