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Message 2069229 - Posted: 24 Feb 2021, 22:43:49 UTC

Well it looks like the 2032 Olympic Games will be held down under in Brisbane.

Brisbane all but certain to host 2032 Olympics after IOC announcement.

But with at least 87% of the required venues already in place and no other bidders contending for it it looks like a shoe in for Queensland.

The biggest bit now required is the Olympic Village and a few temporary venues to be built.

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Message 2069244 - Posted: 25 Feb 2021, 5:54:43 UTC

If you've got a kid that doesn't want to get their hair cut, you could always try and convince them that this is what will happen to them if they don't get it cut.
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Message 2069245 - Posted: 25 Feb 2021, 6:02:11 UTC

How many more would be children will be missing a parent upon birth?
Too bad there's no Darwin Awards category for them since they already have procreated.

Expectant Father, 28, Killed By Exploding Gender Reveal Device
(He) was building the device to reveal his child’s gender in the Catskills town of Liberty when it blew up. The blast killed (him) and injured his brother, age 27, who was treated for his injuries (damage to both knees amongst other things), according to USA Today.

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Message 2069337 - Posted: 26 Feb 2021, 4:45:40 UTC

RDH (Royal Darwin Hospital) or DPH (Darwin Private Hospital)- it's a tossup between them as to where this machine is.


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Message 2069370 - Posted: 26 Feb 2021, 16:06:24 UTC

You just can't trust surgeons anymore.
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Message 2069376 - Posted: 26 Feb 2021, 16:57:09 UTC
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Or sturgeons either...

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Message 2069462 - Posted: 27 Feb 2021, 19:00:51 UTC

Florida City Fines Woman Over $100K for Parking Incorrectly on Her Own Driveway
... The worst part: city officials apparently issued daily fines and never sent anyone out on a daily basis to even ensure she was even in violation of city codes. They simply assumed she was breaking local parking and property ordinances, and let the fines accrue from there.

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Message 2069473 - Posted: 27 Feb 2021, 21:08:53 UTC

Divorce Court Rules Husband Must Pay Wife for Housework She Did Over Course of Marriage

According to a report this week from the BBC, a man in China has been ordered by a court to pay his now-former wife 50,000 yuan, or roughly $7,700, for the housework she did during their five-year marriage.

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Message 2069743 - Posted: 2 Mar 2021, 21:56:46 UTC

While Texans thought that they had a bad winter.

Inside the eerie abandoned ghost towns frozen in time.

Incredible snaps reveal eerie abandoned Russian ghost towns frozen in time after residents fled hellish -50C temperatures.

The eerie images were taken 18km from the coalmining town of Vorkuta in the Sementnozavodsky region.

Vorkuta is one of the coldest towns in Europe and was once home to a Stalin-established Gulag prison camp.

But it has been a long time since these properties have seen the hustle and bustle of residents, with snow blasting its way into forgotten homes and icicles covering staircases and sticking out of window frames.
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Message 2069953 - Posted: 4 Mar 2021, 22:45:38 UTC

How stupid can people get when trying to look good?

A Russian MMA fighter, Kirill Tereshin, rapidly regretting a surgical procedure to give him huge biceps has been hurt by the pandemic just like everyone else.

A Russian MMA fighter dubbed “Popeye” because of his massive biceps is lamenting his “stupidity” for injecting petroleum jelly into his arms — and the coronavirus pandemic has delayed surgery to fully remove the dangerous implants, according to a report.

“I’m only 24, and my immune system is so far coping with this inflammation, but I really do not know what will happen next,” former soldier Kirill Tereshin told East2West News about his 60cm guns.

Tereshin went under the knife in 2019, but his new girth didn’t matter much in the cage, as he lost to an opponent 20 years his senior — in just three minutes.

Shortly thereafter, he started to complain about problems caused by the implants.

“That is why I started the surgeries to get rid of this nightmare. I bulked up my arms when I was 20 due to my own stupidity. I did not think about the consequences,” he added.


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Message 2069976 - Posted: 5 Mar 2021, 6:13:26 UTC


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Message 2070009 - Posted: 5 Mar 2021, 15:23:37 UTC
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BBC video - Covid: The goat for Zoom hire named after Jackie Weaver
A farm in Lancashire has earned £50,000 by hiring out goats for Zoom meetings during lockdown.


and, for something completely different.

From BBC - 'Hovering ship' photographed off Cornish coast by walker
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Message 2070012 - Posted: 5 Mar 2021, 15:36:20 UTC - in response to Message 2070009.  

... From BBC - 'Hovering ship' photographed off Cornish coast by walker

Yes, that really is for real.

Fantastic!

Reminds me of when first using "index matching oil" for an 'apparatus' I was putting together and... Seeing was disbelieving as a highly polished lens appeared to completely disappear. Spooky! (It very much was still there as seen by a laser, it was just oh so spooky that you couldn't see any trace of anything there with your own eyes. Magic!)


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Message 2070160 - Posted: 8 Mar 2021, 0:31:46 UTC
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Is common sense returning?

Return of muddy spuds!
The logic behind selling potatoes with soil is it helps to block out light and slow down decay and could extend usability dates from five days to 11.
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Message 2070167 - Posted: 8 Mar 2021, 3:37:12 UTC

Oh Shit! Woman Walks Into an Alaskan Outhouse, Doesn't Notice Massive Beast Lurking Below Until It Attacks

“Something bit my butt right as I sat down,” she said in an interview with The Associated Press.

“I jumped up and I screamed when it happened.”

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Message 2070183 - Posted: 8 Mar 2021, 10:42:31 UTC

Once bitten twice shy. Hope the bear got a mouth or face full of the stinky stuff. Lol.

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Message 2070233 - Posted: 9 Mar 2021, 3:18:33 UTC - in response to Message 2070160.  
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Is common sense returning?

Return of muddy spuds!
The logic behind selling potatoes with soil is it helps to block out light and slow down decay and could extend usability dates from five days to 11.

You also get some natural healthy bacteria with the soil that feed on, and kill off, the various lifeforms that attack the potatoes that would otherwise cause them to rot.

The next step is to reduce the polluting fertilizers and pesticides that are badly overused...


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Message 2070358 - Posted: 10 Mar 2021, 19:22:30 UTC

How many SETIZENS can relate to this?
I have been there and done that with several friends and family over the years...
I haven't bought new pants for years, why do I have to keep buying new PCs?
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