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It rained here today. I suppose there'll be mozzies by the weekend.

There's lies. Damned lies, and there are statistics. Those figures look like misinterpretation of statistics. For example, 135 firearms were seized. If they were unregistered firearms (most likely), then possession leads to action being taken on the status of the fireams licence. So that woul abccount for many of the 44 licences. Similarly, improper storage could also result in cancellation/suspension. There is no reported data on the number of "unfit person" cancellation/suspension matters. I recently assisted in transporting five registered fireaarms to a gunsmith. I don't have a firearms licence, so, technically I committed an offence buy physically carrying the firearms to and from the car they were carried in. Since I was helping my older sister to carry the firearms to and fro, I suppose I could have used the "reasonable in the circumstances" defence. An aside: As my sister and I were driving from the gunsmith's with the firearms in the boot of the car, we were stopped for RBT. My sister was driving, and her licence was in her bag on the back seat. In a moment of confusion she told the constable , "My licence is in the boot." I yelled out, "Don't look in the boot!", which had the constable laughing. It would have been OK as my sister has a firearms licence and she had all the registration documents in the car with her. Also, each firearm was secured with a trigger guard lock.

Police stationed adjacent to the borders of our States and Territories are usually sworn in as Special Constables in the other jurisdiction. So that in a pursuit, they can effect an arrest in the other jurisdiction, but have to hand the arrested person over to the local police. For example, NSW Police attached to Queanbeyan, NSW, could easily be involved in a pursuit over the border into the ACT.

What's the bloody use of those minute insects that hide by day and come out at night to swirl around the lights in your house? They don't seem to be a food source for any larger insects. The warm weather brings them out to flit around every illuminated light. If you are working at your computer, they dive-bomb you screen after circling around your head and making forced landings on it. Flyscreens on windows and doors don't keep them out because they are smaller than the holes in the flyscreen mesh. Then you turn the lights out to go to bed, and they seem to just drop dead. You come out in the morning and have to sweep their carcases from the floor and flat surfaces.

She does use a product called Oral 7 which is a gel. Doesn't use it all the time. She didn't tell me why she wanted chewing gum. Maybe she heard the song , "I'm forever blowing bubbles ..."

When was the last time you stepped on chewing gum on a footpath? My Mum asked me to get her some chewing gum for her as she suffers from "dry mouth" and chewing gum keeps her mouth moist with saliva. I tries to find some at the supermarket, but could hardly find any. I think I only saw a multi-pack of Juicy Fruit. There was no spearmint gum that would have suited her better. There were many varieties of hard or chewy mints. Have the younger generation abandoned the habit of chewing gum that we Boomers picked up from the influence US troops had on our parents during WWII? For mine, I'm glad if they have. There's nothing worse than chewy stuck the to bottom of you thongs as you walk along a hot footpath.

Absulutly poured down! I counted at least 10 raindrops on my car's windscreen this morning. I had to throw a bucket of water over the screen to join up the drops so I could use my wipers.

I wish you Southerners and East Costers would share a bit of that wet weather into my neck of the woods. It's been dry here for a lonhg time. Tonight's weatehr radar suggests a bit of light rain (<5mm) might arrive, but there doesn't seem to be indications of greater falls. Perhaps Central NSW is heading for a drought.

It is ironic, isn't it, that the Allies won WWII largely because of themass production abilities of the USA, and now China is winning WWIII by the same means.

Remember back in the 50s and 60s we accused Japan of that very same thing?

The joke reads better if one uses the American term they use for sqrt - "root".

That's only part of the equation. {b4 i (sqrt U)} RU/18

Just found out that the latest edition of allowable words for the game of Srabble has included the word "CHUNGUS', which means 'a large or overweight person'. Possibly a replacement word for POTUS??

That could be turned into a good cryptic crossward clue: What is 3.14 + 9.81?

Will someone rescue Albo from this thread drift?

This is the story from 1917 to 1948, with some comments about pre-WWI events.

I think that a problem we have at present in forming opinions about the situation impacting Israel at present is that we only seem to be aware of what has happened over rthe past few years. This thing has been going on since 1946. Fro decades in Australia we knew very little of what was happening because what was happeniung didn't impact us. So, to bettwen inform our current opinions, we must look back into history to see what was going on in those years and how it was affecting the people involved. The attached video was made by the United Nations in 1978, focusing on how those events involved created the conditions which exist into the Present. The video focusses on the Palestinians. I think it is pretty even-handed - lacking great bias. I think it is well worth the watching as an aid to the creation of your opinion. You can be sympathetic or not to the story, as long as watching it helps you wirth your opinion.

сделаем Россию снова великой - sdelayem Rossiyu snova velikoy (Make Russia Great Again)

Wasn't Peta Credlin blasting Albo for not having had a face-to-face meeting with Trump? Meetings with Trump are at Trump's request (command???). He's the one who allocates time at the 19th for important meetings with staunch allies.

There is a lot of pole replacement going on in my area, which means day-long power outages. At least the power supplier gives plenty of advance warning. The next such outage is on 20 October.

Cash is still used by small retailers. I work at an Op Shop and the majority of our transactions are in cash since most purchases are under $10. We do have EFPOS facilities. We have one bank in town. It is part of that Bendigo Bank system. All the other major banks are 60 kms away in Dubbo. Because my banking is through a credit union in Sydney, I can't exchange my own small change for notes at either the bank or the post office in my town. The banks going over to all digital is a move for which they have not considered the unintentional consequences, especially as they affect rural communities.

Hasn't this topic drifted off the theme a bit? No knocking the power generation topic, but we should be getting back to Albo.

Trump addressed the General Assembly of the UN. I've only seen snippets of his speech, but the overall impression I got was that he was very successful in bolstering the impression held by the rest of the World's leaders that he is an absolute buffoon and has succeded in making the USA a laughing stock.

Put the nut onto the bolt before you cut the bolt to length. Then unscrew the nut and you'll deburr the thread as te nut comes off.

Never trust a phone number a bird gives you. I did once and got through to the City Morgue.