Things you might not know.
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Topic: Things you might not know.
Posted By: Fiddlesticks
Subject: Things you might not know.
Date Posted: 01 Jan 2024 at 12:29pm
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Is Iceland Expensive? Yes, Iceland is very expensive. It's one of the most expensive countries of the 80+ I've visited, up there with Sweden and Australia, though I think Norway and Switzerland are a TINY BIT more expensive than Iceland. I didn't know this.
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Posted By: Fiddlesticks
Date Posted: 01 Jan 2024 at 12:36pm
| It's the one Nordic country I regret not seeing. Maybe I can still get there someday before nature taps me on the shoulder. |
Posted By: jujuno
Date Posted: 01 Jan 2024 at 2:34pm
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maybe isolation has something to do with how expensive things are... ------------- Desert War, Rain Lover, Latin Knight, Hay List, Mustard...my turf heroes... |
Posted By: Fiddlesticks
Date Posted: 01 Jan 2024 at 2:39pm
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Although, on very warm and sunny summer days, the peak temperature could reach around 20-25 °C (68-77 °F). The highest ever recorded temperature recorded in Iceland was 30.5°C (86.9°F) in the year 1939. One one will love that stat.
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Posted By: Fiddlesticks
Date Posted: 01 Jan 2024 at 2:41pm
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Iceland's natural resources include an abundance of geothermal energy and hydropower, of which only 10 to 15 percent is currently being utilized. These are clean, renewable sources of energy.
What are the primary resources of Iceland? http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%5C" rel="nofollow - http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\ " viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\">Currently geothermal power heats 89% of the houses in Iceland, and over 54% of the primary energy used in Iceland comes from geothermal sources. Geothermal power is used for many things in Iceland. |
Posted By: Fiddlesticks
Date Posted: 01 Jan 2024 at 2:50pm
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Iceland has vast amounts of geothermal and hydroelectric power due to its location. The country generates almost all its energy from clean sources, making it the world’s largest renewable energy user. About 90% of homeowners use geothermal power to heat their homes. The government has constructed geothermal plants throughout the country, including Krafla and Nesjavellir. Although Iceland is surrounded by the saline Atlantic Ocean, it has plenty of pure water. It is one of the major exporters of bottled water, with its water becoming more popular globally. Water remains an essential natural resource in Iceland because of its industrial and home use. Up to 70% of the country’s electricity is hydropower, while other industries also rely on water for production. https://postimg.cc/njQR0vX0" rel="nofollow"> Absolutely beautiful country. |
Posted By: oneonesit
Date Posted: 01 Jan 2024 at 3:05pm
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Maybe Tim should have gone over there first ------------- And The Boys Light Up.... ! |
Posted By: Fiddlesticks
Date Posted: 01 Jan 2024 at 3:18pm
| Places like Iceland really are lucky countries, very low crime rates, everyone has work, everyone homed, clean energy, beautiful scenery and fresh fish and water, minimal migration, traditions kept in place. |
Posted By: jujuno
Date Posted: 01 Jan 2024 at 4:03pm
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only have volcanoes to worry about. ------------- Desert War, Rain Lover, Latin Knight, Hay List, Mustard...my turf heroes... |
Posted By: Baghdad Bob
Date Posted: 01 Jan 2024 at 4:16pm
That could be the answer here in Australia.
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Fiddlesticks wrote:Posted By: Second Chance
Date Posted: 01 Jan 2024 at 4:29pm
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Targeted migration holds the answer. Minimal migration certainly wouldn't in any way help the critical shortage of workers in the health sector that's existed ever since successive Coalition governments allowed a phalanx of totally unskilled migrants into Australia*.
* almost not to mention the flood of criminals the Coalition admitted and which the current Government was obliged to release following the recent High Court decision. |
Posted By: Plastic letters
Date Posted: 01 Jan 2024 at 4:49pm
Weren’t some of them illegal boat people?
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Posted By: Baghdad Bob
Date Posted: 01 Jan 2024 at 5:06pm
| SC, they were not "admitted", as you imply, they were illegal immigrants put in detention by the coalition government awaiting deportation. |
Posted By: mc41
Date Posted: 01 Jan 2024 at 11:12pm
Immigration is what’s stopping a recession
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Posted By: mc41
Date Posted: 01 Jan 2024 at 11:15pm
Whilst the LNP where “ stopping the boats 10 times the amount where flying in. 😳 well done
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Posted By: oneonesit
Date Posted: 02 Jan 2024 at 7:53am
No down side to this approach I presume  ------------- And The Boys Light Up.... ! |
Posted By: oneonesit
Date Posted: 02 Jan 2024 at 7:54am
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Do they get a discount if they bring a tent with them ? ------------- And The Boys Light Up.... ! |
Posted By: oneonesit
Date Posted: 02 Jan 2024 at 7:56am
You do realise children from migrant families make up the biggest unemployed demographic throughout the country  ------------- And The Boys Light Up.... ! |
Posted By: Passing Through
Date Posted: 02 Jan 2024 at 8:05am
Why risk a leaky boat when Morrison and Dutton just let you overstay a vise? |
Posted By: oneonesit
Date Posted: 02 Jan 2024 at 8:09am
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Yes - its funny how all of a sudden we seem to have run out of coal face workers around the country. Seemed to happen about the same time Albo got the top job Better options around than working maybe ? ------------- And The Boys Light Up.... ! |
Posted By: Plastic letters
Date Posted: 02 Jan 2024 at 8:10am
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Any definition as to what “overstayed” relates to? One day? A month a year?
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Posted By: oneonesit
Date Posted: 02 Jan 2024 at 8:11am
Not quite that easy when your documents get dropped in the ocean. ------------- And The Boys Light Up.... ! |
Posted By: Passing Through
Date Posted: 02 Jan 2024 at 8:18am
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So they aren't illegal immigrants? They will all be deported when caught and never allowed to return.
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Posted By: Passing Through
Date Posted: 02 Jan 2024 at 8:20am
| It's different when Libs do it eh? |
Posted By: rusty nails
Date Posted: 02 Jan 2024 at 8:21am
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Posted By: Passing Through
Date Posted: 02 Jan 2024 at 8:27am
| Murdoch has a lot to answer for. |
Posted By: Plastic letters
Date Posted: 02 Jan 2024 at 8:32am
Nice deflection once again 
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Posted By: Passing Through
Date Posted: 02 Jan 2024 at 8:36am
| Actually right on the money. |
Posted By: Passing Through
Date Posted: 02 Jan 2024 at 8:38am
| It is not illegal to seek asylum, it is illegal to enter under false pretenses and by deliberately overstaying a visa. One is a criminal, the other not so much. |
Posted By: Plastic letters
Date Posted: 02 Jan 2024 at 8:39am
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What’s right on the money is you 2 don’t like the answer and revert to your usual pathetic response tactics when that happens So predictable
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Posted By: Passing Through
Date Posted: 02 Jan 2024 at 8:41am
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Some basic facts: Seeking asylum in Australia is not illegal. Even if you arrive by boat. The number of people who ask Australia for refugee protection is very small. https://humanrights.gov.au/our-work/education/seeking-protection-refugees-and-asylum-seekers#:~:text=Some%20basic%20facts%3A,refugee%20protection%20is%20very%20small." rel="nofollow - |
Posted By: rusty nails
Date Posted: 02 Jan 2024 at 8:43am
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Nah, what’s predictable is that you post something that clearly wrong. When you are corrected, you double down, and revert to ad hominem attacks.
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Posted By: Plastic letters
Date Posted: 02 Jan 2024 at 8:44am
| Irrelevant to what I asked but continue to hide behind from the answer |
Posted By: Afros
Date Posted: 02 Jan 2024 at 8:53am
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I'm not sure how many of you are aware but the scheme that allows farms to bring in workers from the Pacific has seen thousands of workers do a runner while here, mostly absorbed into the Pacific Islander communities around the country, some have managed to find a way to live here for years and continue to do so. Presumably they either work for cash in hand, or work under an assumed identity or the identity of another who is here legally, not sure how they get by if they need medical help or what not but I guess they find a way. ------------- The worlds oldest fossil was discovered in Australia, they named it Rupert Murdoch. |
Posted By: rusty nails
Date Posted: 02 Jan 2024 at 9:11am
Yeah you’re right. What was relevant, is that when commenting on a graph showing 50k of illegal immigrants. You focus on a cohort that is the 1 or 2% of the total. Which can only mean you don’t understand maths, or you are poisoned by racism.
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Posted By: Plastic letters
Date Posted: 02 Jan 2024 at 9:15am
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I asked a question and you react like you do. God your a hero
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Posted By: Passing Through
Date Posted: 02 Jan 2024 at 9:15am
| *you're |
Posted By: Plastic letters
Date Posted: 02 Jan 2024 at 9:18am
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I knew it would be you to come in with that….so predictable, it’s a great sport 45 points to me
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Posted By: Passing Through
Date Posted: 02 Jan 2024 at 9:20am
| When does school go back? |
Posted By: Plastic letters
Date Posted: 02 Jan 2024 at 9:22am
| Dunno |
Posted By: mc41
Date Posted: 02 Jan 2024 at 9:28am
So you would prefer a recession ?
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Posted By: Passing Through
Date Posted: 02 Jan 2024 at 9:36am
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The political discussion on 9 this morning summed up the Tory strategy. Story about uni enrolments down, quality and supply of quality educators, then straight into an anti immigration rant. They had Bridget(sports rorts) McKenzie and a right wing radio talk show host so no pushback.
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Posted By: stayer
Date Posted: 02 Jan 2024 at 9:50am
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Laundry basket time?
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Posted By: Fiddlesticks
Date Posted: 19 Jan 2024 at 1:30am
Never heard of this before ? me either  |
Posted By: Passing Through
Date Posted: 19 Jan 2024 at 7:40am
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Looks more like football volley ball. |
Posted By: Fiddlesticks
Date Posted: 31 Jan 2024 at 2:55pm
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damn..!! |
Posted By: Fiddlesticks
Date Posted: 17 Feb 2024 at 2:27pm
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This one blows me away, I had no idea !!?? Men's Test series played by New Zealand against South Africa. It's the second-longest any team has had to wait for a series win against an opposition. New Zealand hold the unwanted record, too, having taken 21 series to end the drought https://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/stats/index.html?class=1;filter=advanced;opposition=1;orderby=start;team=5;template=results;tournament_type=2;type=team;view=series" rel="nofollow - against England . |
Posted By: Fiddlesticks
Date Posted: 17 Feb 2024 at 4:17pm
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Moth's/insects etc the reason they flight around artificial lights is because they are constantly trying to find where up and down is, during the day the sun on their backs keeps them in the right upright position and they can fly and land etc, but at night it sends their sense's crazy and they constantly try to calibrate where up and down is, you will see then bump into lights with their backs and back of their heads, they don't even know they are doing it. so there you go.
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Posted By: Fiddlesticks
Date Posted: 17 Mar 2024 at 4:37pm
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Damn.. |
Posted By: acacia alba
Date Posted: 18 Mar 2024 at 1:34pm
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Saw that on TV other night. See those bad tornadoes over there too ? ------------- animals before people. |
Posted By: Freefall
Date Posted: 18 Mar 2024 at 8:18pm
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OK, change of tack. Thread is titled "Things You May Not Know"? No Googling!!!
Imagine you take a piece of string and fit it tightly around the earth - assume no mountains or valleys - it's a perfect sphere, about 40,000 kms circumference. How much more string do you need to add to the 40,000 kms, then even out the string all the way around, to make the string 15cm above the earth? When you've got that one... Take a golf ball. Do the same thing. How much more string do you have to add to lift the string 15cm above the golf ball? |
Posted By: Fiddlesticks
Date Posted: 19 Mar 2024 at 7:47am
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Yet another way we the people are being stung for literally no reason.. ..and when we do become a cashless society, these surcharges will become unavoidable.
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Posted By: acacia alba
Date Posted: 19 Mar 2024 at 12:26pm
Yeah . Ticks me off. Went to the local last week, to buy tickets at a show they were having. Oh no, cant buy them here, you have to get them on line. I ask you ! For heavens sake. Cant buy a ticket over the bar for a show at a local pub ! Go on line and buy them, and there is a $2.50 booking fee ! I know its not much, but I reckon its bloody rude .------------- animals before people. |
Posted By: Fiddlesticks
Date Posted: 19 Mar 2024 at 1:25pm
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booking fee = robbery and again I will keep saying it, when we go fully cashless, we will never be able to avoid these charges and they will become more and more insidious. It's not like you can get around them or even question them. There is millions of dollars daily, being swept from our accounts due to these little robberies.
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Posted By: Tlazolteotl
Date Posted: 19 Mar 2024 at 1:57pm
60% of aged care residents are on antidepressant medication. ------------- Manners are of more importance than laws Edmund Burke |
Posted By: ExceedAndExcel
Date Posted: 19 Mar 2024 at 2:00pm
Transaction costs should simply be included in the advertised price but as they aren’t just be aware that the RBA has regulated card payment surcharges and merchants are not allowed to charge more than the cost imposed on them. IE they can’t profit from this fee. Since interchange fees are now capped at 0.8%, that should give you a rough idea of the maximum surcharge that you should be accepting. Kick up a stink if someone tries on an excessive fee.
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Posted By: oneonesit
Date Posted: 19 Mar 2024 at 2:13pm
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Absolute rort. In all the Pubs / Clubs around me here is Sydney you get charged either $3 or $2.75 per cash withdrawl out of an ATM - $50, $100, $200 or more - all the same. And guess what you can only use on poker machines - that's right - cash. Now the latest add on is TAB withdrawals from your Account can only be done via the same ATM's - so you get the privilege of paying the same charge to get access to your own money in cash. It used to cost you nothing for same at the TAB counter. And I know people will say plan ahead blah, blah - but really - its daylight bloody robbery ------------- And The Boys Light Up.... ! |
Posted By: oneonesit
Date Posted: 19 Mar 2024 at 2:33pm
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And it targets the degenerates ------------- And The Boys Light Up.... ! |
Posted By: oneonesit
Date Posted: 19 Mar 2024 at 2:35pm
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All part of the Responsible Gambling process In that you get the money before it even gets to the machine ------------- And The Boys Light Up.... ! |
Posted By: oneonesit
Date Posted: 19 Mar 2024 at 2:38pm
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Which reminds me - I wonder if poker machine turnover has dropped since Minnsy got the new posters up ? Any news on all those Cashless Gaming trials ? ------------- And The Boys Light Up.... ! |
Posted By: oneonesit
Date Posted: 19 Mar 2024 at 2:40pm
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I think its lucky that Rusty & myself are not naturally cynical types ! ------------- And The Boys Light Up.... ! |
Posted By: mc41
Date Posted: 19 Mar 2024 at 2:48pm
| Businesses also charge customers for the privilege |
Posted By: oneonesit
Date Posted: 19 Mar 2024 at 2:52pm
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What do you think a Pub is ? How much of every $3 transaction fee to withdraw cash do you think the Publican gets ? Before the rest of it goes into the poker machines ------------- And The Boys Light Up.... ! |
Posted By: oneonesit
Date Posted: 19 Mar 2024 at 3:00pm
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Actually the more I think of those Pub / Club / Casino ATM's strategically positioned without any other non-fee cash options you would have to conclude they are PREDATORY Are they the same on race-courses as well these days ? I don't know ------------- And The Boys Light Up.... ! |
Posted By: Tlazolteotl
Date Posted: 19 Mar 2024 at 3:02pm
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Why don't they get their cash out of an ATM or at Woolies? Both free for me. In fact I don't think I've ever paid a transaction fee. However you could say that my many PayPal payments are effectively a fee that I pay. Because it costs the seller and they must pass on the cost to the buyer in some way or other. ------------- Manners are of more importance than laws Edmund Burke |
Posted By: oneonesit
Date Posted: 19 Mar 2024 at 3:12pm
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Fair point Tlazz - however degenerate punters don't think that far ahead. Some probably have never walked into a supermarket And even if they have - they never plan on losing all their pay in one hit before they get there. its also unlikely they will be open at 1 am in the morning which is PRIME pokie turnover time ------------- And The Boys Light Up.... ! |
Posted By: oneonesit
Date Posted: 19 Mar 2024 at 3:13pm
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Your not a punter are you ? ------------- And The Boys Light Up.... ! |
Posted By: jujuno
Date Posted: 19 Mar 2024 at 3:25pm
Who would blame them? Staring death in the face is enough to depress anyone.  ------------- Desert War, Rain Lover, Latin Knight, Hay List, Mustard...my turf heroes... |
Posted By: Tlazolteotl
Date Posted: 19 Mar 2024 at 5:27pm
Not anymore.  ------------- Manners are of more importance than laws Edmund Burke |
Posted By: Second Chance
Date Posted: 19 Mar 2024 at 5:36pm
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Have you blokes seen Batman's signature on here? A beauty. "Gambling has brought our family closer together. We had to move to a smaller house".
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Posted By: Fiddlesticks
Date Posted: 19 Mar 2024 at 5:52pm
| lol truth spoken.. |
Posted By: Freefall
Date Posted: 19 Mar 2024 at 6:42pm
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SC/Batman, I may have posted this elsewhere but my wife got home from work today and told me she is leaving me because of my addiction to horse racing. At the moment she is getting the kids packed, packing her own gear and now she is walking down the front path. They're at the gate. And THEY'RE OFF!! |
Posted By: Fiddlesticks
Date Posted: 26 May 2024 at 6:18pm
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Been seeing these in my feeds lately, excuse the pun, but what a great idea. |
Posted By: Tlazolteotl
Date Posted: 26 May 2024 at 7:56pm
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The Dutch once ate their prime minister. ------------- Manners are of more importance than laws Edmund Burke |
Posted By: Tlazolteotl
Date Posted: 29 May 2024 at 11:07am
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"In the case of a gallant and daring act being performed by a squadron,
ship's company or a detached body of men (such as marines) in which all
men are deemed equally brave and deserving of the Victoria Cross, a
ballot is drawn. The officers select one officer, the NCOs select one
individual, and the private soldiers or seamen select two individuals." That is unAustralian.  ------------- Manners are of more importance than laws Edmund Burke |
Posted By: Fiddlesticks
Date Posted: 10 Jun 2024 at 10:43pm
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Posted By: jujuno
Date Posted: 10 Jun 2024 at 11:48pm
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So, why does the rest of the world drive on the right? Perversity? ------------- Desert War, Rain Lover, Latin Knight, Hay List, Mustard...my turf heroes... |
Posted By: Afros
Date Posted: 11 Jun 2024 at 8:47am
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We have a Kawasaki Mule on the farm that is left hand drive, to be honest I don't even think of being in a different position in the vehicle when driving it I just get in and go, I'd imagine on the road it is similar except everything is in a different direction. It shouldn't take that much to swap from LHD to RHD. ------------- The worlds oldest fossil was discovered in Australia, they named it Rupert Murdoch. |
Posted By: Fiddlesticks
Date Posted: 12 Jun 2024 at 12:09pm
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I loved the curiosity show when I was a kid, they should do it again now revamped for modern times. |
Posted By: Fiddlesticks
Date Posted: 30 Jul 2024 at 4:09pm
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this is cool |
Posted By: Fiddlesticks
Date Posted: 09 Aug 2024 at 10:46pm
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What the actual fk ?? that's one way to get contraband over a border.
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Posted By: Fiddlesticks
Date Posted: 11 Aug 2024 at 1:00am
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Damn.. that really made me feel worthless..
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Posted By: oneonesit
Date Posted: 11 Aug 2024 at 3:13am
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Jesus Fiddler So bloody depressing Bad enough doing your money on the punt ------------- And The Boys Light Up.... ! |
Posted By: Fiddlesticks
Date Posted: 11 Aug 2024 at 1:00pm
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Plant poachers..that's right, people walking around the country ripping up plants to post overseas to China for money. A woman was caught at a post office with 60 boxes of succulents ready to post to China, when asked what was in the boxes by staff, the woman said shhhhh very valuable. This is also a huge problem in Australia with lizards and wildlife, plants, seeds and just about anything that can be sold over to SE Asia. Thousands of Succulents, millions of dollars. a real world theft of highly prized plants that are worth BIG money.
In northern California, a Game Warden uncovers an illicit network of succulent poachers after mysterious packages containing native plants are reported, and with the help of citizens, biologists, and authorities, he races against time to halt the destruction before permanent damage is inflicted on the land.
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Posted By: Fiddlesticks
Date Posted: 11 Aug 2024 at 1:09pm
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this makes me so mad.. https://postimg.cc/mPJpvqBk" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: Passing Through
Date Posted: 11 Aug 2024 at 1:15pm
| What is it? |
Posted By: Fiddlesticks
Date Posted: 11 Aug 2024 at 1:17pm
| native succulents.. |
Posted By: rusty nails
Date Posted: 11 Aug 2024 at 2:06pm
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Religion……. https://x.com/ThebestFigen/status/1822413140593725460" rel="nofollow - https://x.com/ThebestFigen/status/1822413140593725460
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Posted By: oneonesit
Date Posted: 11 Aug 2024 at 2:29pm
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Yes Rusty..... Makes you wonder about the priorities of the women's movements that fester in Western Countries Slightly out of kilter me thinks ! ------------- And The Boys Light Up.... ! |
Posted By: Passing Through
Date Posted: 11 Aug 2024 at 2:57pm
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With 50% being women and 40% of males being under 18, this is a very high percentage of people hated black people. The second Klan was a formal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraternal_and_service_organizations" rel="nofollow - fraternal organization , with a national and state structure. During the resurgence of the second Klan in the 1920s, its publicity was handled by the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Publicity_Association" rel="nofollow - Southern Publicity Association . Within the first six months of the Association's national recruitment campaign, Klan membership had increased by 85,000. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBlee1991-53" rel="nofollow - [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" rel="nofollow - At its peak in the mid-1920s, the organization's membership ranged from three to eight million members. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan#cite_note-54" rel="nofollow - Year | Population | Change | 1925 | 115,829,000 | 1,720,000 | 1924 | 114,109,000 | 2,162,000 | 1923 | 111,947,000 | 1,898,000 | 1922 | 110,049,000 | 1,511,000 | |
