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Nothing wrong with a Big One.
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A large caravan and truck parked somewhere in a street in Brisbane - 1956. The caravan is thirty feet long and was built by the owner, Mr J. J. Holmes, of Warnambool in Victoria. The caravan has three rooms which include a bed-sitting room, a shower recess and toilet and a kitchen-dining room, which h...
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Wayne Carey
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Why was this moron ever allowed back on the media? 1. Had sex with a teamates wife in his teamates home. 2. Glassed a female in a New York nightclub. 3. Sexually assulting a female by gropping her breasts. 4. Bag of white powder..."Oh it's legal"...more like cocaine. Hope he is gone for good. Collo.
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they talk the talk but do they walk the walk??
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Listened to NT country hour yesterday a "spokesman" for Good Water Energy talk the talk about green hydrogen/base load power/desalination/closed loop water/making water bottles from plant material etc etc. I was interested in whether they were a listed company?? and if so share price?? but my ve...
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Crack code of 50 cent coin code - answer
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Can you crack it: Limited-edition 50 cent coin released by Australia's secret intelligence agency contains a hidden code My answer to the code: The Mint is owning up to the most irritating & pointless coin format Australia has ever produced.
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Is that your ant?
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One of the compensations of aging is that we care less how others perceive us and, in my case, at the point I hardly care at all :) I need, at this juncture, to point out that about ten days past my 4WD was chosen as a new home for a large colony of ants; big ants! Not the biting kind fortunately but neverthele...
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Mike Harding
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AI bots are already writing the blogs that some of us read
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/08/robot-wrote-this-article-gpt-3
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A nice little BBC Oz/UK story
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How a young UK woman backpacker has turned into a cattle station cook: BBC link
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In Days now Gone
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From another page When the shearing sheds are silent, and the stock camps fallen quiet When the gidgee coals no longer glow across the outback night And the bush is forced to hang a sign, 'gone broke and won't be back And spirits fear to find a way beyond the beaten track When harvesters stand derelict u...
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Un-sold gas simply been burnt
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The gas Russia does not sell to Europe is being simply burnt off. Calculations from satellite heat data show million of cubic metres of gas burnt every day.
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can anyone remember this from days gone past
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https://www.msn.com/en-au/lifestyle/smart-living/shoppers-shocked-by-vintage-kmart-advertisement-selling-50-shotguns/ar-AA11if7w?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=041e78c7a4fd49b399029493e28a8fe4
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Lost 45's
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The few out a couple of hundred that had Flash Covers
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A little bit of South Australia has arrived in Nth Qld
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South Australians would be familiar with the big black and yellow Drakes Supermarkets, Woolworth have sold their Supermarket in Proserpine to Drakes. 2 weeks ago the change over occurred, it would be an understatement to say that there has been massive changes to the store, starting with customer...
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Qantas CEO
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The rumour mill is running hot that CEO Alan Joyce may be taking his last flight soon. How big will the golden handshake be? and does this mean that the outstanding citizen who pushed a custard pie into his face will soon be back flying with Qantas...
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A little bit of South Australia has arrived in Nth Qld
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South Australians would be familiar with the big black and yellow Drakes Supermarkets, Woolworth have sold their Supermarket in Proserpine to Drakes. 2 weeks ago the change over occurred, it would be an understatement to say that there has been massive changes to the store, starting with customer...
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Now let’s all Analyse the Cause
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Just so we all know, there were no serious injuries.
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For God's sake it's only $14M
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Told you so on this forum very clearly at the time. I'd have written it for $7M? BBC: Covid contracting app What annoys me is that to those of us who understand this stuff it was blindingly bloody obvious it would not work - what is it with governments and politicians that they *always* take the approach "...
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Stonehenge Qld
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Great article on the ABC news website this morning about the pub in Stonehenge Qld - have a look
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Snowy Henge
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-08-07/spacex-to-visit-australia-where-space-junk-was-found/101299866?utm_campaign=abc_news_web&utm_content=link&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_source=abc_news_web
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Wokery gone mad.
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Yesterday I read in a UK paper about a museum in York that has an attraction called The Dick Turpin ride. Turpin was an early 1700s highwayman who rode from London to York in what was believed to be a record time. He was hanged at York for horse stealing among his many other crimes. Now the Woke brigade want...
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Genetics - what inherited traits have you observed
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It just occurred to me that this is the perfect forum on which to ask this question because the only people who can give a really valid answer are old people - that's you and me friends :( Now we all know that children inherit some characteristics from their parents (and grandparents et al) eg. eye colour...
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