Gambling ads for horse racing have really stepped up a level, with seeing nicely dressed and groomed attractive men at a racecourse cheering on their favourite horse, well the one they hope will win.
However, I am fed up with seeing the ads on YouTube and after a quick search, I found I can get rid of them.
This works for YouTube if you are using Google and logged in. Go here, https://myadcenter.google.com/customize and click the 'Sensitive' tab.
This is a first class Flashdance. I had no intention of watching more than a minute, but I sat transfixed. The video was filmed in Paris.
Patricia Routledge has died at the age of 96. One can't grieve too much over a peaceful death at that age. What a trooper she was, from theatre including musicals, to film and tv.
Most of us will remember her from Keeping up Appearances, where she played Hyacinth Bucket. Gay men straight away picked up on the humour, and used lines like, 'Don't brush against my walls', "Would you like your coffee in a hand painted periwinkle cup?" "Best you have a beaker". "How much Sheriden? Talk to your father." "Mind the pedestrian, Richard", as someone opened their front door.
Of course I need a Hyacinth clip to add to this post.
There are a number of YouTube clips showing Trump voting Americans in great distress as his policies come into force. Once clip I saw showed a Trump voting woman in tears and praying, and asking for prayers, because the father of children and his mother were being deported to Venezuela by ICE.
Another farmer of a large agricultural property said her farming staff had all disappeared and were not coming to work in fear of ICE, and deportation. She thinks her farm will go into bankruptcy, yet she voted for Trump.
There are clips of an almost empty Las Vegas. Canadians are not visiting Florida, and are selling their properties there, getting rid of US timeshares, as one blogmate has done.
There are clips about Canada withholding super phosphate from the US, that is its farmers. While I disapprove of Canada PM's backing down over payments for digital technology, apparently Canada has been working hard to diversify its economy, reaching out and into the rest of the world. What ever the **** rare earth magnets are, they are essential in this modern world and China, being the major supplier, has stopped exporting them to the US.
Some of these clips show a sense of glee about how the US is seemingly collapsing.
Very reputable news sites, including conservative organisations, are calling out #47's ridiculous claims of how well the US economy is travelling.
Whatever the truth, I too feel glee about Trump supporters suffering, and those who may have voted Democrat, if they got off their arses and actually voted.
But for all of you who voted Democrat, and as is said after school gun shootings, you are in my thoughts and prayers.
Seriously, you decent US citizens have my empathy and sympathy, and I'm not judging you by what #47 and his henchfolk are doing.
Not smugly, no not at all, I was too young to really know The Beatles. I did buy Paul McCartney's Wings album, but that was my only love of The Beatles. Of course everyone knows some Beatles music. My Beatle ignorance was reflected my zero score in this week's YP's quiz. A couple of quizzes before, I scored 7/10 in his Famous Women quiz.
Last week I bragged to my Dead in Bed Neighbour when I messaged her, that for the first time I scored 10/10 for The Age newspaper Victorian topical quiz. There are four options in the drop down boxes. The answer to the question about Bright was a plausible guess.
Still with The Age, each week since the quiz' inception I have participated in its weekly opinion poll. There is some kind of prize, valued at around $100 as I remember, but I've never won it.
The poll is not general opinion, because readers of The Age are more educated than the general populace, more socially progressive, wealthier, and have a general care about society. They are less religious, but that's from a fairly low base anyway. They are older and feel the threat of street crime. Mostly there is no question to ask myself when answering, but at times there a 'but?'.
I voted with the majority in every question in these polls, but I wanted to qualify my answer about YouTube being available to kids, because parents or carers can already restrict children to only watching YouTube for Kids. Had that been mentioned, I would have changed my answer.
I had forgotten about these balloon photos. I don't like to boast but they aren't too bad at all. The balloonists that morning had a great show.
It was a long time ago when I posted about the local Sunshine train crash back in 1908. I was reminded of it when I recently came across this memorial plaque at Sunshine Station.
You can read about the detail on Wikipedia, and here is a snip.
The Sunshine rail disaster occurred on 20 April 1908 at the junction at Sunshine railway station (in Sunshine, Victoria, Australia) when a Melbourne-bound train from Bendigo collided with the rear of a train from Ballarat. 44 people were killed and over 400 injured, almost all of them from the Ballarat train, as the Bendigo train was cushioned by its two locomotives.[2]
It is the second worst train disaster in Australia after the much later 1977 Granville train crash with 83 killed. Nowadays, train crashes are so rare here, and deaths even rarer.
Have you noticed comments on your blog written by AI? Or have you recognised AI writing?
Melody Jacob is one such person but I can't get my head around her purpose. While her blog has advertising, it does seem like a personal blog. I am sure the comments she sprinkles around on blogs are AI written, and perhaps her posts are too.
Those of you who are quite literate can probably pick AI writing...at the moment. It will get better, until we won't know the difference between what the human brain writes and what AI writes, and it won't take very long for this to happen.
Evan Edinger is a very accomplished YouTuber. I am not so keen on his rapid fire delivery but it is clear he puts a lot of work into his clips. He's from New Joisy (😉@Boud) Jersey but has lived in England for many years.
I would not normally watch a fifteen minute clip about something like AI, but this was well worth my while, and it may be for you too to get a better understanding of AI writing.
Cadbury gorilla in the air tonight. NOT AI but still fake.
Yellow Pages Not happy Jan (This phrase, Not Happy Jan, really slipped into Australian lingo)
Louie the fly. Nowadays, this tv ad might make the kiddies cry. Poor Louie!
League of Gentlemen was a British tv show. Rather than make you laugh, it was very good at making you feeling uncomfortable.
This is not the worst. I wasn't sure if to post the original or this one by the US guy made while watching it. I thought the guy watching it was worthwhile.
Someone, somewhere mention the English comedian Harry Enfield, who is unknown to me, and down the rabbit hole I went. Close to two hours later, this clip grabbed my attention. The woman's brain made me laugh heartily. Lol at the first mention of BBC (try Urban Dictionary, if you don't know), and towards the end, I was surprised he didn't know the name of the most famous media broadcaster in the world, BBC.
What can I find on information super highway to amuse you. Sorry about the brief watermarks. I need to find a better downloader.
I came across this US YouTuber Adam Mockler and I sat mesmerised for an hour. While in some ways I think he is a bit too clever for his own good, he does nail it, in clip after clip. I love that in such a short time, chickens are coming home to roost for #47 voters.
And speaking of the US, I was not alone when I thought bad thoughts about the murder of Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthCare. He led a truly evil company, and according to polls, some 41% of young people under the age of 30 thought the murder was 'acceptable'.
Viva la Economic Black Out Day.
I was given a card, a single red rose and a letter opener (long story) this morning by my tenants.
I dedicate this to Phyllis and Kosov. Young love is wonderful to observe.
Not my strange accent but the Australian wog accent. Yes, wog and I use the word in a respectful manner as this post would be lacking without the word. You could call it an Australian Mediterranean accent. Think Greece and Italy. It is delightful and I find it rather stimulating, if you get my drift. It comes with promise of exciting times.
The accent is dying out and not heard so often now. Nowadays the newborn of immigrants speak with an Australian accent by the time they become adults. It wasn't so with the Mediterraneans. The first Australian generation developed their own accent. If you memory is first class, I did mention about hearing a school student from a lower socio economic area on a tram saying, 'And he arsed me to give him the answer'.
This clip is just a bit amusing but the performer gives a great example of the Aussie wog accent.
Australia can become very hot, less so in southern Australia where I live, but I have experienced a day of 44 degrees in I think 2009. The hot northerly wind comes in, blowing very hot air from central Australia to the south, even to our island state, Tasmania, in the extreme south. Generally the very high temperatures don't come with humidity. It is a hot dry wind.
The melting thongs in this clip are a slight exaggeration, but I've certainly walked on asphalt that had become sticky in the heat. I've experienced all the rest.
Lots of photos and I hope you enjoy the memories.
A new museum opened in Hawthorn, a local area known as Glenferrie. There used to be one at the old Richmond Post Office.
It took me about half an hour of searching to find who owns this. It is still not clear to me who owns the site.
We operate museums in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane, which maintain heritage telecommunications of national significance. We provide programs and educational tours for schools as well as the general public in the area of telecommunications.
It is called the National Communication Museum and is appropriately located in an old telephone exchange (putting you through now caller).
I certainly remember these public phones. Earlier phones had you rolling a coin into a slot. Press button A to load your coin to speak. Press button B to retrieve your coin if your call did not connect. I recall button B made a kind of buzz noise as it returned your non existent coin. Is below a typewriter with circular typing keys?
The entry fee wasn't cheap, at something like $25 but an annual pass was a bargain and I rather wish I'd bought to revisit.
I filmed some short videos. The first is surveillance cameras, with Big Brother watching you.
The second is, would you believe, is a talking clock machine. "At the third stroke, it will be 5.02 am and ten seconds."
The third is a creepy robot lady I was a little scared of. She did not seem aware of people as obstacles, so people stepped out of the way. Had they not, maybe she would have diverted around them.
Go east, young men, so they did along with me to the town of Marysville. I'd forgotten about this nice art work at the entrance to the M...