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Knobby22 said:
I love pineapple on burgers and pizza, I love Vegemite, anchovies, pate, you name it. Tim Tams are OK too. But a bit overrated.

But Tim Tams and Vegemite together is an offence to humanity and nature.
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Anchovies are essential, as are Kalamata olives. They just go with everything...

... 'cept pineapple ;)
 
The Tasmanian Premier, Peter Gutwein is retiring at the top of his game, and he does look exhausted. The COVID crisis has worn him down.

I can't say a bad word about him. A Liberal Premier not born with a silver spoon in his mouth working for everyone and who has improved the economy. Wish he was PM.
 
Surprise surprise, it isn't just an Australian thing.

Becker faces deportation after prison sentence​

Boris Becker is likely to be deported from the UK after he is released from prison, Home Office sources have confirmed.
 
sptrawler said:
Surprise surprise, it isn't just an Australian thing.

Becker faces deportation after prison sentence​

Boris Becker is likely to be deported from the UK after he is released from prison, Home Office sources have confirmed.
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So why hasn't that Skaf @#$%^& been deported after he got let out ?

All very very for Dutton to kick up a fuss about a few Kiwis , but the serious ratbags seem to be able to stay here and no one says a thing about it.
 
SirRumpole said:
So why hasn't that Skaf @#$%^& been deported after he got let out ?

All very very for Dutton to kick up a fuss about a few Kiwis , but the serious ratbags seem to be able to stay here and no one says a thing about it.
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I just googled him, apparently he isn't due for parole until 2033, I hadn't heard about him sounds like a nasty piece of work.
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Bilal Skaf - Wikipedia

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sptrawler said:
I just googled him, apparently he isn't due for parole until 2033, I hadn't heard about him sounds like a nasty piece of work.
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Bilal Skaf - Wikipedia

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There were 2 brothers involved, this one is on parole.

www.abc.net.au

Sydney schoolgirl rapist granted parole after three knockbacks

Mohammed Skaf — who was involved in the gang rapes of several schoolgirls — has been granted strict parole after being knocked back three times. He is expected to be released next month.
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UAE President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed has died, state news agency reports

United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nayhan died at the age of 73, the state news agency WAM reported on Friday. The Ministry of Presidential Affairs announced a 40-day period of mourning. According to the constitution, Vice-President and Premier Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, ruler of Dubai, will act as president until the federal council elects a new president within 30 days, per Reuters.[/URL]
 

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West Coast Eagles great Peter Matera suffers heart attack

Matera, who played 253 games for the Eagles, has been living in Victoria for the past four years. His brother Phil, who also played for West Coast, is set to fly east from Perth to be by his side.
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West Coast Eagles premiership player Peter Matera has suffered a heart attack in Victoria.

The 53-year-old is recovering in a hospital in Bendigo after the incident on Sunday when he started to have chest pains while chopping wood on his property in Moama near the Victoria-NSW border.
 
And now for something different.
What do the strongman contestants have to do ? How big are they actually. (Hint they don't walk through a door like normal people..)

300lb of muscle in a a XXXXL T-shirt: how the World’s Strongest Man contest reinvented itself​

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Martins Licis at this year’s bus pull during the World’s Strongest Man competition. Photograph: Joe Martinez/World's Strongest Man
Once it was a sideshow – but this year, Ukranian soldiers competed with LGBTQ+ pioneers in a sport that’s being taken seriously

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Oleksii Novikov doesn’t walk into the room. He turns sideways, and shuffles through the doorway like someone navigating a particularly busy bar.

At 6ft 1in and 300lb of solid muscle, Novikov’s shoulders are three and a half feet wide. His hands, permanently curled from years of lifting really heavy stuff, are like bear paws, his wrists as thick as some people’s biceps. He’s wearing an XXXXL T-shirt.

“My problem, it’s just my size. I am so small for a strongman,” Novikov says.

We meet in Sacramento, California, before the 2022 World’s Strongest Man competition. Novikov took the title in 2020 – but this time, he is competing after an unimaginably hard few months.

www.theguardian.com

300lb of muscle in a XXXXL T-shirt: how the World’s Strongest Man contest reinvented itself

Once it was a sideshow – but this year, Ukrainian soldiers competed with LGBTQ+ pioneers in a sport that’s being taken seriously
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
 
Soon, Canada may have a new ally in mixing its measurements: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is reportedly planning to announce the revival of the imperial system for the Queen's Jubilee. The move will allow stores to sell products in pounds and ounces, as well as grams — further distancing the U.K. from Europe, which uses the metric system.

Mix up and confusion in the UK came when PM Margaret Thatcher hand bagged the EU and they caved in allowing the mile. Of course the mile is made up of inches, feet, yards and furlongs and not metres. On occasions vehicles struck the underside of bridges as foreign drivers saw the height at 9' - 6 3/4" for a particular bridge which sounds quite high but only 2.91465 metres.
 
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Soon, Canada may have a new ally in mixing its measurements: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is reportedly planning to announce the revival of the imperial system for the Queen's Jubilee. The move will allow stores to sell products in pounds and ounces, as well as grams — further distancing the U.K. from Europe, which uses the metric system.

Mix up and confusion in the UK came when PM Margaret Thatcher hand bagged the EU and they caved in allowing the mile. Of course the mile is made up of inches, feet, yards and furlongs and not metres. On occasions vehicles struck the underside of bridges as foreign drivers saw the height at 9' - 6 3/4" for a particular bridge which sounds quite high but only 2.91465 metres.
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Having grown up with both systems, I for one hope we stick with the metric system.
 
sptrawler said:
This is a story worth reading, for those who travel, probably a good example of why exams are still important.

https://www.traveller.com.au/pakist...ots-accused-of-obtaining-fake-licenses-h1p1k2
From the article:
Pakistan is grounding 262 airline pilots suspected of dodging their exams following inquiries into their qualifications, the aviation minister said on Friday in a move that has caused global concern.
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and then there is the new 'phenom'

Preliminary evidence suggests the crash of a China Eastern Airlines jet in March might be the latest such tragedy [of murder-suicide], a person familiar with the investigation said. If confirmed, that would make it the fourth since 2013, bringing deaths in those crashes to 554.

.... as aircraft become more reliable and pilots grow less susceptible to errors, fatalities caused by murder-suicides are becoming an increasingly large share of the total. Although intentional acts traditionally were not included in air crash statistics, they would be the second-largest category of deaths worldwide if they were, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. By comparison, 1745 people died as a result of pilot error, mechanical failures or other causes on Western-built jets from 2012 through to last year.

... in addition to the Malaysian MA370 plane lost with 239 people aboard, a Lam-Mozambique Airlines jet with 33 people went down in Namibia in 2013 after the captain locked the co-pilot out of the cockpit. In 2015, a Germanwings co-pilot also locked out the captain before slamming into the side of a mountain in France with 150 aboard.
 
I do think there is a subtle difference between a suicidal pilot and a pilot who hasnt a clue and had to cheat to get the job, but both have a downside, forgive the pun.
 
sptrawler said:
I do think there is a subtle difference between a suicidal pilot and a pilot who hasn't a clue and had to cheat to get the job, but both have a downside, forgive the pun.
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Yeah, good point. I looked for a general Aviation thread, as I always like a bit of context. Not wanting to blow the trumpet too much, but professionalism and pride are handy attributes to look for, as a consumer/ passenger.
 

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