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Telegraph pole
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I just read an ABC news item which referred to someone crashing a stolen vehicle into a telegraph pole. When did power poles stop being telegraph poles?
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I am selling my van - Rego.
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My van is due for rego next month, now I am willing to register it for 12 months, but that would be pensioner rego, so it doesn't cost me anything, but a new owner would have to pay the fee if they are not pensioners. Should I just pay the fee myself, instead of doing it the other way, or should I just make it tha...
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South Australia trial facial recognition for quarantine
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Better than the Chinese? https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/sep/04/south-australia-facial-recognition-trial-covid-app-blasted-by-fox-and-breitbart-criticised-over-lack-of-safeguards
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The many roads of life
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SUCCESS: At age 4 success is . . . . Not piddling in your pants. At age 12 success is . . . Having friends. At age 17 success is . . . Having a driver's license. At age 35 success is . . . Having money. At age 50 success is . . . Having...
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Hard lessons from India behind high vaccination rate in some Sydney suburbs
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08-18/india-lessons-drive-rush-for-covid-19-jabs-in-parts-of-sydney/100387468Almost 70 per cent of eligible residents in Edmonson Park are...
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JUST ASKING
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MMM, SCAM OR NOT
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Morning all, I have my mobile phone and a mobile wifi device on a monthly contract/plan with Telstra. I received an email yesterday from Telstra? Saying they will be increasing my 200gb data on my wifi device to 400gb and an extra $10 month charge. I don't have a major problem with that however, The emai...
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SMILE ON THE DIAL
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I came across this the other day and put a smile on my dial in these Covid times.
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Practicing for the Northern migration
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The attached video shows, I think, mexicans practicing for the annual caravan migration up the Bruce Highway into sunny Qld .. covid permitting. If only they had fitted WDH's... LOL -- Edited by Cupie on Friday 3rd of September 2021 02:23:30 PM
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Reversing is easy
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The attached video demonstrates just how easy it is to reverse a rig. Perhaps you could practice reversing your van using a modified version
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Border lockdown King cancels elective surgary
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https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fab.co%2F2Y8l6UJ%3Ff...
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COVID-19 exposure sites in NSW
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https://www.nsw.gov.au/covid-19/nsw-covid-19-case-locations/case-locations
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Yellowstone National Park.
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We touched on the subject of Yellowstone in another thread a few days ago, Just happened on this interesting video highlighting the dangers in the park, a bit ghoulish but interesting nonetheless.
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Powerful past
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New U.K. Police cars
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New coloured police cars to help fight hate crime.
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ChinaVirus and sick leave/workers comp
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An interesting thought - I get ChinaVirus at work - do I have to take my sick leave or is the Company responsible thru Workers Comp insurance? What if I die - will there be a Coroners Inquiry - compensation for family, prosecution of the Company re unsafe workplace and so-on. Haven't heard much about t...
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Donation camps
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For a few days now I've been camped on a Donation camp. Flushing loos, solar showers both built by the local community. Also 5 or 6 picnic tables and a few fire pits. I looked in the Donation box when I arrived and could plainly see an envelope with a name and note on it. Checked again this morning, no donati...
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Solar System Ball Drop. Daily dose of science.
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Something I'd never thought about, well worth a look. Explanation: Does a ball drop faster on Earth, Jupiter, or Uranus? The featured animation shows a ball dropping from one kilometer high toward the surfaces of famous solar system bodies, assuming no air resistance. The force of gravity depends...
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Police powers to hack and disrupt dark web pass Parliament.
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Another brick in the wall. "Federal police and organised crime investigators will be able to take over the online dark web accounts of criminals and terrorists and hack into their networks under new powers that passed Parliament on Wednesday." https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/polic...
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Covid forever
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Good to hear Dr. Norman Swan on the ABC Q+A program finally admit that covid will be around forever in one form or another. We will have to have a yearly flu/covid vaccine. Not so hard I suppose, as long as we can get back to some kind of normal. Collo.
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