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Cruise control is great on the OPEN HIGHWAY. It is worthless around town. It has taken me 10 years to break SWMBO of the habit of using CC in town in stop and go traffic and use the Speed Limiter instead. I'm so used to (appropriate use of) CC and SL now that when I was sharing driving on a road tro...

Suranis wrote: ↑Fri May 17, 2024 9:03 pm

Anyway, I couldn't get the Tictok video to work. It might be region locked or something.

Got it. Thanks

I'm reading a book by an Australian author (Joel Shepherd), and he writes "armoured" but also "unarmored," without the "U". Is that really a thing? Do un-American (non-American) English speakers write "coloured" but "uncolored"? Discolored? Is ice c...

zekeb wrote: ↑Wed May 15, 2024 11:47 am Does she have unattractive features or something, Dave?

Wrong question.

Does she have any attractive features even before Namatjira has portrayed her complete lack of redeeming qualities?

Police chief among arrested in Horry County prostitution sting WMBF News 25 Apr 2024 Atlantic Beach Police Chief Quentin Robinson and nine others after a prostitution sting on Tuesday. news clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QouGLLSG70U Truth in advertising? Not sure what you are querying here. T...

People who have hair on their chests and back are not fully evolved, sad to say. :biggrin: Ol' Wifehorn says I suffer from chest hair deficiency disorder. But it just means I'm the pinnacle of evolution. William Jennings Bryan, eat yer heart out. I can swim faster than those semi-simians, too also....

As I type, there is a small passenger plane (business jet maybe) circling Newcastle New South Wales (for two hours already) losing fuel load and giving emergency services time to set up.

Its landing gear has failed.

Pissed off. SWMBO hadda cold and didn't wanna drive 3 kilometers to the beach to see the show (too much light and too many trees near us in our immediate neighborhood) and its overcast isn't it? (No)

Apparently it was a good show here in Melbourne.

Also, though, jewelry grade diamonds are not so plentiful, and not sought after by miners. Industrial diamonds are where the REAL market is, and they are EASY to mine with explosives. The Argyl mines in Australia almost consider jewelry grade diamonds a nuisance. They can't pass them up of course, b...

I had a toll tag when I lived in Dallas. Hated the thing. They would always glitch out my autopay information (I would have it put $X on it ever month, or if I hit 0, it would pull that amount), which lead to me owing money. Rarely got notified I owed money until it was way overdue and they started...

This is the election case "appeal". Story from last week. Kari Lake’s lawyer apparently doesn’t know how appeals work Appellate judges listening to arguments Thursday in Kari Lake’s challenge to her 2022 election loss had to keep reminding her lawyer how appeals courts work. “I’m sure you’...

Dave from down under wrote: ↑Sat May 11, 2024 4:05 am

Its a genuine ersatz legend!

Even Dr. Wikipedia says so.

In the latest episode of Star Trek Discovery, the Romulan President of the Federation briefly considers using an invented outbreak of Tribbles to delay a party of Breen Imperial Warriors from boarding a Starbase to take possession of a prisoner but chooses to claim that there are extradition formali...

This seems like a reasonable place to dump this

FYI

https://www.private-eye.co.uk/Private Eye Magazine Home Page

I was going to mention RFKjr coulda gotten it from swimming in a river, but the subject has already been covered. Carry on. Yeahbut he coulda also got it by peeing in the Amazon. There's things in that river that'll swim up the urine stream and burrow into the penis. And we all know that the penis ...

Years ago, when this story first came out, I had read something about Stormy looking to transition into stand-up comedy now that she was aging out of the adult film industry. I'd buy that ticket. Annie Sprinkle did that, at least for a time. She did a show at The Melbourne International Comedy Fest...

Wow! A chocolate "microphone" with a gold covered "wind cover".

Heh.

When Trae suggested Noem's staff is trying to find a happy ending I pictured (NO, wrong word) thought 'she' might suggest taking the Bobert Beetlejuice gambit to its 'conclusion'.

Question. Do some National Guard units receive specialist training for unusual threats? Like say protecting nuclear power plants or dealing with the aftermath of a disaster occuring at one?

Why would rocket launch sites and testing facilities not require similar specialist training?

That is exactly what happened to me. I booked a flight. On the night before I got a message saying it had been cancelled and they would 'try' to get us on another flight. Never got another message, but checking on frequent flyer page showed me on an earlier flight. So OK We get to the airport, and t...

Get 'em whil you can! Tick-Tuck in Auslandia

Qantas to pay $120m for allegedly selling tickets to flights that had already been cancelled Qantas will fork out $100m as a civil penalty and pay $20m to customers in compensation, after striking a deal with the consumer watchdog over landmark legal action for allegedly selling tens of thousands o...