Will he ever meet his maker? He's unquestionably guilty of breaking at least eight of the ten commandments - nine if his inept response to the global pandemic was wilful rather than straight incompetence. Reckless behaviour resulting in loss of life is mu...  moreWill he ever meet his maker? He's unquestionably guilty of breaking at least eight of the ten commandments - nine if his inept response to the global pandemic was wilful rather than straight incompetence. Reckless behaviour resulting in loss of life is murder in the third degree.Likewise all seven deadly sins.  

I'm beginning to fear that Hos Royal Orangeness may well be the Beast of the Apocalypse, so normal rules may not apply. His indolent lifestyle and shocking diet should have resulted in a fatal thrombosis years ago.

Can't get the shot. Heck, my daughter can't and she works in disability care, ergo Priority 1.

How long has it been?

A tennis racquet is cheap. Evonne Goolagong couldn't have become a champion otherwise, like most native Australians, her family was dirt poor. She was fortunate on two counts: to have escaped state-sponsored kidnapping (the so-called "Stolen Generation"),...  moreA tennis racquet is cheap. Evonne Goolagong couldn't have become a champion otherwise, like most native Australians, her family was dirt poor. She was fortunate on two counts: to have escaped state-sponsored kidnapping (the so-called "Stolen Generation"), and to have her obvious natural talent recognised and nurtured from a young age.She also believes in giving back to the sport that gave her so much - she's been a mentor to a generation of starry-eyed kids, including current women's #1 Ashleigh Barty.  

calibur caliber (American) calibre (English)

Can't get it. The Morrison government screwed up the roll-out royally. Failed to secure supply, and also fails to accept responsibility for the balls-up.Scummo and Trump have that in common. When most people make a mistake, they apologise and try to find ...  moreCan't get it. The Morrison government screwed up the roll-out royally. Failed to secure supply, and also fails to accept responsibility for the balls-up.Scummo and Trump have that in common. When most people make a mistake, they apologise and try to find a solution. Those two look for somebody else to blame.  

It's a bomb. My life is better summed up in a song

Mushrooms are pretty boring if you encounter them socially. That gi isn't much fun at all.

Brown onions.

Meeting my cousins from Vancouver gave me a pretty good idea, years before the World Wide Web even existed.

Cheating, betrayal, heartbreak.

I honestly don't think that a spotlight on police brutality has had much of an effect on crime. COVID had a lot more to do with it - people losing their jobs made them despondent, depressed and in some cases desperate to provide for themselves and their f...  moreI honestly don't think that a spotlight on police brutality has had much of an effect on crime. COVID had a lot more to do with it - people losing their jobs made them despondent, depressed and in some cases desperate to provide for themselves and their families. Every major economic downturn sees an increase in crime as a knock-on effect.  

Biden doesn't need carers any more than His Royal Orangeness did. He's considerably more lucid.

Are you unable to see the difference between a falsehood and a fairy tale? Please don't deprive your own kids like that (if you have any).

I think I was seven. I was snooping, and found where the presents were stashed. I kept mum for the sake of my younger siblings.

Cricket. I love the game, but I was lousy at it (and then my back fell apart, so I could no longer bend over a bat). I AM a professional umpire. I was a decent amateur boxer, but never had any intention of turning pro. Professional boxers get punchy.

Dry rice. Quick, cheap heat pack. Microwave for 60 seconds, then apply to cramped muscle.

Five. Front door, back door, side door, shed, car.A sixth if I'm wearing military green - my khaki.

Surfing. Lack of practice, Adelaide doesn't have any waves to speak of.

Pardon my scepticism, but I'm having a little difficulty believing you're more than 160 years old ...

This one was particularly awful, I still can't understand how it became a hit.

Circumcision a few days after birth. Herniated umbilicus reduced shortly thereafter. Tonsillectomy, 1979.Vasectomy, 1994.Wisdom teeth removed, 1997.Discectomy and Lumbar fusion, 2010.Thrombosed haemorrhoids removed, 2016.Partially detached thumb (injured ...  moreCircumcision a few days after birth. Herniated umbilicus reduced shortly thereafter. Tonsillectomy, 1979.Vasectomy, 1994.Wisdom teeth removed, 1997.Discectomy and Lumbar fusion, 2010.Thrombosed haemorrhoids removed, 2016.Partially detached thumb (injured in explosion) reattached, 2020.  

Queen Elizabeth II (that should also be Kittigate's answer, Canada isn't a republic either).John Gorton was Prime Minister in 1969, having succeeded to the leadership the previous year after the disappearance and presumed death by drowning of Harold Holt.

Doesn't work, in Genesis 1 he created both of them by decree on the sixth day. Genesis 2 has Eve happening later - this is what happens when 3 or 4 different groups contribute to the same work independently of one another. Moses didn't write any of the To...  moreDoesn't work, in Genesis 1 he created both of them by decree on the sixth day. Genesis 2 has Eve happening later - this is what happens when 3 or 4 different groups contribute to the same work independently of one another. Moses didn't write any of the Torah, none of it (with the possible exception of the Song of Miriam) is that old by several centuries. It was set in its current and final (canonical) form during the Babylonian exile, with the Levite priests fighting syncretism and desperate to keep Judaism alive rather than see it buried by the Babylonian pantheon - they actually did crib bits from the Epic of Gilgamesh, as well as assembling lore from at least three oral traditions. The terms used are a dead giveaway - YHWH (the LORD in translation) for the priests and Yahwist sources, L (God) for the Elohist. Try reading it in Hebrew, it doesn't say what the King James scholars thought it did. The Qumran mss (which are even now being slowly reassembled) are proving that even the Masoretic texts had undergone ...    less

La Niña over the South Pacific (pushes the clouds to the western side, so we get it and Chile and Peru don't) and the absence of an Indian Ocean dipole. Conversely, the previous summer coincided with the after effects of El Nino (neutral phase) and...  moreLa Niña over the South Pacific (pushes the clouds to the western side, so we get it and Chile and Peru don't) and the absence of an Indian Ocean dipole. Conversely, the previous summer coincided with the after effects of El Nino (neutral phase) and a STRONG dipole, so we had drought across the entire continent and catastrophic fires.  

Didn't stop George Harrison being sued for My Sweet Lord, despite Phil Spector producing that and the Chiffons' He's So Fine. Hell, Spector CREATED the Chiffons (and a lot of other girl groups), if anybody should have noted the similarity it was him.I sti...  moreDidn't stop George Harrison being sued for My Sweet Lord, despite Phil Spector producing that and the Chiffons' He's So Fine. Hell, Spector CREATED the Chiffons (and a lot of other girl groups), if anybody should have noted the similarity it was him.I still think that Harrison genuinely believed it to be his own work. The Beatles were recording Revolver in the same studio when the Chiffons did theirs, the tune probably stuck in his subconscious and was regurgitated later.  

We didn't get a summer - or at least no prolonged periods of hot weather. The better half didn't mind being several miles from an air conditioner that was hardly used.

My paternal grandfather was an anti aircraft gunner stationed in Darwin when the Japanese bombed the city. He never spoke of it, except to complain that his crew's two "kills" were never confirmed.

I wanted to fly, but the only way I could afford that was via the military. The eyes weren't up to it, and the RAAF doesn't permit pilots to wear eyeglasses.

Have you tried turning it off and back on again?

Those show up on the home page but not on the questions page.

A congenital degenerative condition of the spine. My L5/S1 disc was always going to rupture, the question was not if but when.

He already has, it's completely illegal to fire somebody on the basis of sexual orientation.

Fine Young Cannibals should have been sued to smithereens for She Drives Me Crazy, the vid was a rip off of this.

Steepish, the road ran along the top of a ridge and dropped away on both sides. The house was split level due to the slope, and the back yard had a shallow slope for the top dozen yards, then a much steeper slope further down. Mowing the lawn was hell. So...  moreSteepish, the road ran along the top of a ridge and dropped away on both sides. The house was split level due to the slope, and the back yard had a shallow slope for the top dozen yards, then a much steeper slope further down. Mowing the lawn was hell. Soapbox races were fun but dangerous, at the bottom of the yard the speed could be terrifying.  

Both - and given Adelaide's "Mediterranean" climate, they grow well here.

Everybody knows it as "I like big butts" but that's the lyric, not the title.

Olives. Didn't like them as a kid, now I'm gluttonous about them.

Champagne. People have actually been killed by flying corks.

I almost never holiday in summer, umpiring cricket prohibits me from being out of town on weekends, and my wife dislikes being too far from the air con (last summer being the exception, we actually didn't get one).We holiday in Spring, and go away for a f...  moreI almost never holiday in summer, umpiring cricket prohibits me from being out of town on weekends, and my wife dislikes being too far from the air con (last summer being the exception, we actually didn't get one).We holiday in Spring, and go away for a few days in winter to celebrate our wedding anniversary (32 years a fortnight ago).  

Returning home to Adelaide from visiting family in Sydney, the train broke down. Twice. The dynamo responsible for generating all electrical power for the train crapped out at Tarana, 26 miles from Bathurst, at around 4pm. It is neither safe nor legal to ...  moreReturning home to Adelaide from visiting family in Sydney, the train broke down. Twice. The dynamo responsible for generating all electrical power for the train crapped out at Tarana, 26 miles from Bathurst, at around 4pm. It is neither safe nor legal to move a "black train" on Australian railways at night, owing to a preponderance of level crossings that lack signals on country roads. GSR did the right thing by the passengers and found hotel accommodation in Bathurst overnight while a replacement power car was brought in from Sydney. Bathurst was glad of it, there are a lot of hotels in that town that are full during motor racing meets and empty the rest of the year. Some genius decided that the reserve power car for the Southern Aurora (Sydney to Melbourne train) would suffice for the Indian Pacific (Sydney to Perth via Adelaide), despite the fact that the Aurora is half the size. Blind Freddy could have predicted the outcome, it gave up the ghost at Lake Menindee, just short of Broken Hill.It was decided that...    less

If you believe in a deity/deities, either a personal one like the Judaeo-Christian God or the Hindu pantheon, or an immanent impersonal "Prime Cause" of the kind favoured by Aristotle and David Hume, then that being must necessarily exist outside the spac...  moreIf you believe in a deity/deities, either a personal one like the Judaeo-Christian God or the Hindu pantheon, or an immanent impersonal "Prime Cause" of the kind favoured by Aristotle and David Hume, then that being must necessarily exist outside the spacetime with which we are familiar.  

Repudiate Vegemite? NOT happening.

That's what happens when odalisques and sammich-making slaves "volunteers" escape.

Lynching is murder, by definition. Doing it as a mob doesn't make it any less a crime that doing it as an individual.

The Bible is full of contradictions, right from the get go. Genesis 1: 26-27 is flatly contradicted by Genesis 2: 18-22.Matthew and Luke couldn't even agree on the identity of Joseph's father - compare Matt 1: 1-16 with Luke 3: 23-38.

Kids in Australia don't get ink until fourth grade - it's pencils until then (HB, anything softer smudges horribly, harder tears the paper). I remember how proud I was when I got my "pen licence", my penmanship was abysmal and still is. My fifth grade tea...  moreKids in Australia don't get ink until fourth grade - it's pencils until then (HB, anything softer smudges horribly, harder tears the paper). I remember how proud I was when I got my "pen licence", my penmanship was abysmal and still is. My fifth grade teacher, who had an aversion to my intestinal make-up (ie she hated my guts), opined that I didn't deserve it.  

Australia is close to dead last - because the government failed abysmally to anticipate global demand and didn't order enough.

I blew my hand up and couldn't manage a razor for a few months. My wife decided she liked the beard, after I hadn't worn one in a decade. She's the one who has to wake up next to this face, so I groom it to suit her.