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    Researchers suggest cigarette-style warning labels on meat to reduce consumption

    The energy required to create lab grown "meat" is vastly greater than that of a grazing animal. And that energy is coming from coal fired power stations. One of the elite - I think it was Gorbachev - admitted that the global warming "crusade" is more about governance (read control) than about...
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    Trafficators

    We had a 1953 Holden. Only vacuum operated windscreen wipers. This meant that when you had your foot hard on the accelerator, the wipers went slower, as in ascending Bulli Pass in a downpour - such as the soggy South Coast can deliver. Going up the pass, the wipers almost stopped and visibility...
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    What is something your mum used to say to you when you were a kid?

    Not my mum, but a high school PT/sportsmaster surnamed Nicholson in the 1950s. To him, every student was a "wretched child" He walked around all day holding a cane in his hand - one end wound with string for a hand grip. But the kids loved him. An example of a conversation: in summer I went...
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    What is something your mum used to say to you when you were a kid?

    If you don't stop crying, I'll give you something to cry for. When I got hurt and cried: Be a brave soldier. (My father was overseas in the Australian army.) So, when my wonderful wife of 55 years died, I never cried.
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