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    Quote Originally Posted by NavyDiver View Post
    Perhaps 'Mother Nature' is going through menopause?
    'sit bonum tempora volvunt'


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    Quote Originally Posted by Saitch View Post
    Perhaps 'Mother Nature' is going through menopause?
    Or pause of men.
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    Quote Originally Posted by 3toes View Post
    Closer to home a few years ago was on a farm and the owner asked me to look at some explosives that had been in the shed for many years.

    There were 4 boxes of black power stacked in the corner with detonators piled on top. Seems that many years ago he had a Polish farm manager who had brought them with him when arrived on the farm and had not taken them with him when left. Reason for asking me to have a look as had noticed that the detonators had developed what he called a green slime coating and had expanded. When looked was close to producing an exploded diagram of the shed and all that was in it. Carefully removed detonators and burnt them in the creek bed

    Was given the black powder and loaded car for trip home. Was in trouble if stopped as did not have the Explosives signs on all four sides of the car. That said the semi that was tailgating me on the way home really did not understand that this was the one car on the road that could bite harder than him if it went wrong. Loved those signs you got total respect from everyone on the road
    A few years ago I was offered a few packs of powergel, dets and cord from on old cocky in Gippsland, all mixed together in a big plastic tub. $500 the lot, threw in a big sack of prills. couldn't get out of there quick enough. Stuff that

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    If it wasn't for electricity, we'd be watching TV by candlelight.
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    42 km crazy? Try 22 years for a few cents!

    Its all relative of course. 1990 till now for 20 rupee overcharge is a marathon I might not do
    " An Indian man has won a case related to an overpriced railway ticket after almost 22 years.


    Tungnath Chaturvedi, a lawyer, was charged 20 rupees ($0.25; £0.21) extra for two tickets he had bought in 1999.


    The incident occurred at Mathura cantonment railway station in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.


    A consumer court last week ruled in Mr Chaturvedi's favour and asked the railways to refund the amount with interest.


    "I have attended more than 100 hearings in connection with this case," Mr Chaturvedi, 66, told the BBC. "But you can't put a price on the energy and time I've lost fighting this case."


    Consumer courts in India specifically deal with grievances related with services. But they are known to be overburdened by cases and sometimes it can take years for even simple cases to be solved.



    Mr Chaturvedi, who lives in Uttar Pradesh, was travelling from Mathura to Moradabad when a ticket-booking clerk overcharged him for the two tickets he had bought.


    The tickets cost 35 rupees each, but when he gave 100 rupees, the clerk returned 10 rupees, charging 90 rupees for the tickets instead of 70.


    He told the clerk he had overcharged him, but Mr Chaturvedi didn't get any refund at the time.


    So, he decided to file a case against North East Railway (Gorakhpur) - a section of the Indian Railways - and the booking clerk in a consumer court in Mathura.


    He said it took him years because of the slow pace at which judiciary works in India.



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    Small boats and big fish!

    Ok a whale is not a fish. Had a few whales do this to me mostly in Shark Bay Wa. The OMG moments of life



    Photographer captures '''oh wow''' moment as whale breaches close to boat off Coffs Harbour - ABC News

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    Many years ago I had a submarine do something like that to me when I was sailing up the coast just south of Sydney! (not as spectacular as that)

    I've wondered ever since whether they knew we were there, as being under sail there would have been little noise they could pick up.
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    Quote Originally Posted by JDNSW View Post
    Many years ago I had a submarine do something like that to me when I was sailing up the coast just south of Sydney! (not as spectacular as that)

    I've wondered ever since whether they knew we were there, as being under sail there would have been little noise they could pick up.
    Perhaps the "Yo-Ho-Ho" was a give away, JD?
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    Exercise Chong Ju

    Exercise Chong Ju is an annual Army exercise named after
    a battle in North Korea in 1950
    when the 3rd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, supported by tanks and artillery, attacked and captured a large North Korean defensive line during their northward advance to the Yalu River.

    Next year now apparently. Bravo Zulu 3rd Battalion.

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    Forty-five years ago today we lost the King. Most people would remember exactly where they were when they heard the sad news.



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