"I digress ..."

rockylizard · rockylizard

rockylizard · rockylizard

rockylizard · rockylizard

Gday... And on tonight's news there was a story about a young hoon, who ran over a pedestrian, continued on at speed and then T-Boned a vehicle which killed the mother and father just coming from their daughter's marriage, their two friends in the car were critically injured, and another in the vehicl...

rockylizard · rockylizard

rockylizard · rockylizard

Gday... 1939 - 71 people die in Victoria in bushfires on 'Black Friday'. 2004 - The Spirit of Tasmania III makes the first Sydney to Tasmania voyage. 1942 - Car-maker Henry Ford patents the plastic automobile body. Cheers -John

dorian · dorian

The subject is a question that strikes me whenever I walk around my neighbourhood. It occurred to me that there may be a way to quantify the rate of human evolution. The human genome consists of 3 billion base pairs. A base pair is the fundamental element of our DNA. For a long time the conventional scien...

_wombat_ · _wombat_

milo eat your heart out.

Vic41 · Vic41

A bit too big and heavy for the RV, but what performance ! http://www.wimp.com/australianchainsaw/

Gerty Dancer · Gerty Dancer

Big Gorilla · Big Gorilla

One day a man decided to retire... He booked himself on a Caribbean cruise and proceeded to have the time of his life, that is, until the ship sank. He soon found himself on an island with no other people, no supplies, nothing, only bananas and coconuts. After about four months, he is lying on the...

rockylizard · rockylizard

Gday... 1876 - Jack London, author of "Call of the Wild", is born. 1899 - Paul Hermann Muller, the man who discovered that DDT was a potent insecticide, is born. 2005 - Nine die in a devastating bushfire on the Eyre Peninsula in South Australia. 2011 - Tugboat skippers Doug H...

Vic41 · Vic41

This is just amazing, I hate to think of the work that must have gone on to set it up and coordinate it all, see; https://www.youtube.com/embed/ACkmg3Y64_s?rel=0

Sheba · Sheba

Just read in yesterdays' local paper, that a farmer has been fined $400.00 for skinning and butchering dead Roo's he had dragged off the road, to feed to his dogs. Stock squad officers saw the meat in his ute, [parked outside the Great Western Hotel] and pounced. So be aware, that free dog-food could co...

Vic41 · Vic41

These pictures are of a man who works for the US Forest Service in Alaska , and his trophy bear. He was deer hunting last week when the large grizzly charged him from about 50 yards away. The guy emptied his 7mm Magnum semi-automatic rifle into the bear and it dropped a few feet from him. The big bear was sti...

Cloak · Cloak

http://www.australiaday.org.au/ Here's a link to the official Webpage of this wonderful day..... Me, I love it here and actively defend it from stupidity every day... Cheers.

rockylizard · rockylizard

Gday... 1874 - Colonel Peter Warburton completes his gruelling nine-month crossing of the Great Sandy Desert. 1896 - Bourke, New South Wales, sees the end of thirteen days of extreme temperatures which kill 47. 1986 - The Gateway Bridge in Brisbane, Australia, is officially commissi...

Vic41 · Vic41

Saw this recently, top movie and great Oscar winning performance by Colin Firth IMHO. Nicole was ok too but hers was only a support role so could not be compared. The Japanese actor was good too. See; http://www.abc.net.au/atthemovies/txt/s3903336.htm PS: Could be upsetting for some who...

rockylizard · rockylizard

rockylizard · rockylizard

Gday... 1852 - South Australia's first lighthouse begins operation. 1928 - Aviators Hood and Moncrieff disappear on their attempt to make the first trans-Tasman flight from Australia to New Zealand. 1901 - Oil is discovered in Texas for the first time. 1946 - The United Nations Gene...

Vic41 · Vic41

After going to see Judy Dench in a film called Philomena about the treatment of children in a Church establishment and her search for her son taken from her in Ireland, today I watched a movie I had recorded recently called "We Were Children" about the abuse in a church establishment in Ca...

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