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Do American troops stationed in Australia have Entry Visas?

We should stop comparing Trump to Hitler. Hitler might have been all sorts of a nasty bastard, but at least he had wrote his own manifesto before he gained power. Trump probably thinks that a manifesto is a big booze up for blokes only.

From draftnews? More like daft news.

Has the cold weather stopped you from peeing on your citrus trees?

Who decreed that the pilot sat on the left-hand side? At least helicopter designers got it correct.

Bloody Trump and Musk are infiltrating every thread on this forum.

I correct my typos, only because I know you lot would come down on me like a ton of bricks for conduct unbecoming of a member of the Grammar police.

Mine? No, that's all my own work.

I'm noticing that AI-generated posts are appearing here now. I become suspicious when a new member posts in several different threads in a very short time, and the original posts that are responded to are old, meaning that they don't reference other people's current posts in a thread. The other giveaway is the style of the posts. If you read the posts of our regulars, you form the opinion that you are listening to blokes speaking face-to-face. The style of the AI-generated posts is more formal. I know that I use a lot of words that would not be commonly heard around a barbecue gathering, but by now you all recognise it as my style. I recognise your various styles. But these questionable posts don't 'pass the pub test'.

All I can add to this current chat is caveat emptor

This morning I posted that I was likely to get some rain this afternoon. I checked the radar about 4:00 pm and there was a nice patch moving directly towards me. About 6:30 pm there was some rain that barely got the gutters going. I checked the radar and the patch had drifted a few kilometres to the north and there is not sign of any more rain coming over my place. Luckily I have bore water and only use rainwater for drinking. I've probably got about 380 litres of 400 in my tanks.

My sister and I took Mum (99 years old) to see a skin specialist today to have a growth on her neck checked out. The specialist identified it as something readily operable under a 'local'. What impressed me most was his admission that, considering Mum's age, he was trying to find a medical reason not to operate. That sort of caring behaviour really makes you confident of the specialist. She's booked in for day surgery next Monday week.

But he's going to tell the Mint to stop making 'pennies'. That'll be a big cost saver for the Government.

The same sort of crap he writes here.

FFS GON, if you are going to continue your membership here, wake up to the fact that many times people here post statements the likes of Marty's which are to be taken as satirical. The rest of us know what Marty intended, and had a chuckle. Of course we don't condone assassination as a solution to problems. So man, chill.

Just looked at the radar and it appears that I'll be getting some light rain later this morning. There is a 999 millibar Low just north of the NSW/Qld border.

Good things come to those who wait.

Not if you bend over too far in a tight pair of pants.

There is honour amongst the Mafia. That sets it above the GOP.

Bit of a problem for Prince Rogers Nelson (June 7, 1958 – April 21, 2016) the Artist Formerly Known As Prince w changed his name to an unpronounceable symbol, on his 35th birthday.

The weather events we are experiencing currently are definitely outside our prior experience, but as has been pointed out, accurate records really only exist for about 400 years at best, and those early ones are often anecdotal and localised. It is more likely that consistent worldwide records only began to be taken from roughly 1925. That's possibly a result of the development of civil and military aviation which depends for safety on good weather observations. For maritime operations, I suspect that sailors would just think that the weather is what it is. Probably the only way to determine if it is climate or weather that is changing is to keep analysing sediment such as glacial ice and sediments in waterbodies.

Can you imagine the complexity of the cash register software in the USA, where the price at the shelf is not the ultimate price. They add sales tax at the register, and the level of tax can vary from State to State, even city to city within a State.Say what you will about the negatives of GST, but at least it is easy to calculate, and include in the shelf price. American tourists often comment that they are surprised when they find that the register price is the same as the shelf price. Some even need to avail themselves of the free health care provided in civilised countries.

A change in the overall "climate" indicated by a change in the type of "weather" events. It's all the fault of the semantics.

Reasonably true, but a little bit of data is better than no data at all. The conclusions drawn from a small sample may not be conclusive, but they do proved one with an initial hypothesis.

I agree with your supporting comments, but I think that the things that you listed in the above post are elements of "weather". Identifying cycles over long periods of time is what I would call "climate".