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And I bet when you are out on the highway that little van isn't a moveable aluminium traffic barrier.

Now let's go back. Way, Waaaaay back. Before Pee Wee Wilson's voice broke!

My job was to fill the glass fuel bottle of the Fyreside heater and light it, being careful not to have the heater element off centre or the place would smell like a jet engine workshop.

Ya know why an erection is called a "woody"? Because it exists in the lumbar region.

I "C" "D" outward extension.

He's all grown up now and his favourite tipple is meth and Kiwi.

That "no one" consists of people with a lifetime experiencing emerging technology at the consumer level, including the practical and economic consequences of employing new technologies. It is the no ones who have that tincture of wisdom to adhere to caveat emptor and even festina lente, but who are not Luddites, always rejecting new technologies. The "someones" seem to be the inexperienced and, in many countries, those infused with corporate-to-consumer, and political power grabbing, cynicism. I bet the workers at Tesla's Texas plant who have just been laid off because the no ones aren't buying their product, are staunch advocates for universal, electrically-powered ground transport vehicles. Personally, I'm jack of the chanting of the "you must go electric" mantra.

Be interesting to see what is in that questionnaire to get an idea of what the Law in the USA considers the roles and responsibilities of a juror are.

Here's something from the Sixties that will lighten your spirits. It's long, but but it'll give you a positive vibe.

True story. Instead of reading a book before going to sleep, I play a couple of games of Scrabble on my iPad. Once I managed to form the word "scrabble" from the top right corner down the side and in doing so I used all my letters. So I scored a triple score from the top right hand red square, double points for the "a" on the blue square, then another triple score for the centre red. Without doubles, the score for "scrabble" is 14. The double "a" would increase it to 15. So triple 15 is 45, for the top triple. Then triple the 45 for the centre red, which made it 135. Then add 50 for using all my tiles. So I scored 185.

It may be a long shot, but the hush money trial might not happen simply because it looks like it is hard to get a jury of people who are not biased one way or the other. That the people called up for jury duty could come to the courtroom carrying a bias is not an unreasonable idea given the noise surrounding Trump. That's not meant to condemn the poor buggers who have had to front up for jury duty. You only have to look at the way we here think of the Orange One. Even with my experience in law enforcement and what it has taught me to ignore the person and only concentrate on the facts, I would find it hard to tell a judge that I was without bias against the Defendant in this case.

When I watch some "how dumb are they?' videos, I have to stop and remember that a lot of the people they are asking are not out of their twenties. In other words, the 20th Century is in fact the distant past. Their history is not the current affairs that a lot of us lived through. Just look at the photos in "Who is it?". Most of us don't see in them the young person whose face we learned. Why would any young person know about Holt's disappearance, or the Dismissal. Even some of us confuse what Keating or Hawke did. Let's face it. we are getting old.

Willey, stop posting using Red's name!!!!!!

If you stand back and look at the history of the society of the USA, you will soon come to the conclusion that slavery has never been eliminated there. It has modified its name a little to "wage slavery", but a carrion flower by any other name would smell as sour. In 1763, the French journalist Simon Linguet published an influential description of wage slavery: It is the impossibility of living by any other means that compels our farm labourers to till the soil whose fruits they will not eat and our masons to construct buildings in which they will not live ... It is want that compels them to go down on their knees to the rich man in order to get from him permission to enrich him ... What effective gain [has] the suppression of slavery brought [him ?] He is free, you say. Ah! That is his misfortune ... These men ... [have] the most terrible, the most imperious of masters, that is, Need. ... They must therefore find someone to hire them, or die of hunger. Is that to be free? Certainly doesn't describe the mythical "Land of the Free".

Did you know that we have this thing called the NBN which is used to connect quickly to the World Wide Web? It means that a person does not have to live in the ancient centre of cities. People even choose to live in rural villages and are able to communicate as quickly as if they were in the centre of a city's CBD.

My concern is that the USA is maintaining its military support of Israel. Perhaps the World might be lucky if Trump gets elected and tells Israel to pay up or shut up, then the military strength in the Middle East might level up and there can be a fairer fight to the death. Yes, Hamas operatives did kill 1200 Israelis and increasing as the conflict continues. Yes the Israelis killed 30,000 and increasing as the conflict continues. It is wrong to support either side. The Israeli wants the power to control the whole of that place. It refuses to take the diplomatic approach of civilised Nations, but engage in tribalism. A well-know Chinese man once said, Every Communist must grasp the truth, "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun." Both sides are acting upon that truth. Apart from the obvious effects on the occupants of that place, the approach of the Israeli Government is bringing all followers of both Judaism and Islam into disrepute.

Is that what we call gyprock sheeting, and the Yanks call drywall? I always makes me wonder when I watch the English DIY Rescue shows with Nick Knowles that they sheet walls then come in with plaster. Here, gyprock simply needs a primer coat then you put on your desired sealant (paint. tile, wallpaper). Are we likely to see your place as a choice in Escape to the Country?

Locks only keep honest people out.

Zionism is a nationalist[fn 1] movement that emerged in Europe in the 19th century to enable the establishment of a homeland for the Jewish people in Palestine, a region roughly corresponding to the Land of Israel in Jewish tradition. Following the establishment of the modern state of Israel, Zionism became an ideology that supports the development and protection of the State of Israel as a Jewish state. Advocates of Zionism view it as a national liberation movement for the repatriation of an indigenous people (which were subject to persecution and share a national identity through national consciousness), to the homeland of their ancestors as noted in ancient history.

It's a sin to modify another person's joke, but mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa here goes. Sex with one person is alonesome.

The ire I have for the actions of the Israeli government - and I specifically restrict myself to the government - is that it is applying the very same techniques that the Western World labelled as crimes against humanity when they were carried out by the Hitler's mob. Remember that Netanyahu is not a Holocaust survivor. His parents were not Holocaust survivors. His mother was born in Jerusalem and his father migrated to Mandatory Palestine, a geopolitical entity that existed between 1920 and 1948 in the region of Palestine under the terms of the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine, before the holocaust.

In our inner city suburbs which were created in the 19th Century, you will often find a laneway running parallel between the rear property boundaries. The dunny was located against the back boundary fence and the laneway was used by the dunny men to access the rear of the dunny. "Dunny": A shortened form of English slang dunnakin (“outhouse”) + -y. Dunnakin, is of uncertain etymology, but probably from some form of English slang danna (“dung”) + ken, slang for "house”. Interestingly, "dunny" does not seem to appear in published works until the 1920s, although it must have been part of the common language long before then. Perhaps "dunny" offended Victorian era prudery. I grew up with the dunny well into the mid 1960s in the Sutherland Shire on the southern edge of Botany Bay. Out house was a typical late 1940s fibro house with the dunny out the back. We had to make sure that the gate the to back yard was unlocked the evening before the dunny man called. You had to train your dog to accept the dunny man as an approved person to enter the backyard. If you were having a big gathering, you had to contact the Council to ask for an extra pan to be delivered before the event. The dunny man drove a 24-door saloon And it was obligatory to leave a few bottles of beer out on the pick up day before Christmas. Remember that there used to be regular beer droughts around Christmas? I bet the dunny men made a fortune selling off their excess beer. Because of the design of our house, when we finally got connected to the sewer, we had to keep the dunny because there was no space inside the house for a "toilet".

I don't lay claim to it. It's an oldie, but a goodie.

I forgot that those Services are offshoots of the Navy.

The sad thing about all these pictures is that you are making us name old people based on our knowledge of them as young people, like we were.