Back at the beach for a long weekend. Nice & quiet down here aside from some bloke blowing a bugle earlier.
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The Shell is right about about streaming TV, you spend (waste) too much time watching crap.
Lady at the gym randomly came up to me talking to me and couldn't hear, so pulled off the headphones. "Seeing as we are always here at the same time, may as well introduce myself" and shook my hand.
Should I read anything into this lol.
Should I read anything into this lol.
Could just be a friendly gesture, might lead somewhere 
But don't leave her hanging, introduce yourself in return. If she's still there waiting for a reply, then she's very patient
LukeParkerno1
Post-Human
Seem like someone to at worse have a drink/coffee/juice with. Things happen for a reason!
On This Day….. May 2nd
1536 Anne Boleyn, second wife of Henry VIII, is arrested & taken to the Tower of London, then beheaded after a four-day show trial. Fortunately this was the last time a woman was abused by her partner.
1750 Carlo Goldoni's comedy "La Botega di Caffè" (The Coffee Shop) premieres in Mantua. Early inspiration for ‘Friends’.
1776 France and Spain agreed to supply weapons to American rebels
1780 William Herschel discovers 1st binary star, Xi Ursae Majoris.
1829 After anchoring nearby, Captain Charles Fremantle of HMS Challenger, declares the Swan River Colony in Australia. AFL promptly awards a free kick to the opposition.
1833 Russian Tsar Nicolas I bans the public sale of serfs. Private slavery was still ok apparently.
1869 The Folies Trévise (later cabaret hall Folies Bergère) opens as an opera house in Paris, France.
1885 Congo Free State formed by King Leopold II of Belgium
1887 Hannibal Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film (used in Thomas Edison's Kinetoscope). A landmark development.
1926 US military intervenes in Nicaragua, a rare moment of meddling in the affairs of other countries.
1927 Pulitzer prize for a Novel awarded to Louis Bromfield for "Early Autumn"
1927 U.S. Supreme Court's "Buck v. Bell", permits forced sterilizations of various "unfits" by states' authorities where such surgeries are practiced for eugenic reasons
1936 Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie and family flee Abyssinia
1936 Sergei Prokofiev's musical "Peter and the Wolf" premieres in Moscow
1945 World War II: Battle of Berlin ends as Soviet army takes Berlin
1946 "The Postman Always Rings Twice" film based on the novel by James M. Cain, directed by Tay Garnett, starring Lana Turner and John Garfield is released. Now screened as a comedy in Australia Post training procedures.
1946 The "Battle of Alcatraz" takes place, killing two guards and three inmates
1955 India proposal to discrimination against Dalits or "Untouchables" punishable
1957 Hammer Film Productions releases its 1st colour horror title - "The Curse of Frankenstein" starring Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee
1962 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island. And that’s how America declared war on Christmas.
1975 Apple records closes down
1980 Pink Floyd's "Another Brick in Wall (Part II)" is banned in South Africa
1980 Pope John Paul II begins his African tour (without a merchandising deal - rookie mistake).
1982 Falklands War: Argentine cruiser General Belgrano sunk by British submarine Conqueror, killing more than 350 men
1984 New York Yankees Don Mattingly's single breaks up Chicago White Sox pitcher Lamarr Hoyt's perfect game bid, at Comiskey Park. This was the last time he shaved his sideburns.
1990 South Africa & African National Congress open talks to end apartheid
1994 American pathologist and euthanasia advocate Jack Kervokian found innocent on assisting suicides
1994 Michael Bolton found to have plagiarised Isley Bros "Love is Wonderful Thing"
1997 "Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery", starring Mike Myers and Elizabeth Hurley, is released
1998 Battle of Hogwarts: fictional battle that ended the Second Wizarding War with the death of Lord Voldemort at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
1999 Panamanian election, 1999: Mireya Moscoso becomes the first woman to be elected President of Panama
2011 Osama bin Laden, the suspected mastermind behind the September 11 attacks and the FBI's most wanted man is killed by US special forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan
2012 A pastel version of "The Scream", by Norwegian painter Edvard Munch sells at auction for $119,922,500
2013 60 miners are killed after a gold mine collapses in Jebel Amir, North Darfur, Sudan
2016 World Snooker Championship, Crucible Theatre, Sheffield: Mark Selby of England beats China's Ding Junhui, 18-14 for his second world crown. Lucky break.
2018 Date for first humans or hominins in the Philippines pushed back ten-fold after report of site on Luzon with butchered rhinoceros 709,000 years ago
2019 A clean-up on Mt Everest has removed three metric tons (6,613 pounds) of rubbish and four bodies in just two weeks
2020 Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson, the Icelandic actor who played Ser Gregor "The Mountain" Clegane in Game of Thrones, sets a world deadlifting record by lifting 501kg (1,104lb)
2023 40-year-old US weight loss company Jenny Craig announces it will close after failing to secure further financial backing. For a company built on losses, it had a good run.
1536 Anne Boleyn, second wife of Henry VIII, is arrested & taken to the Tower of London, then beheaded after a four-day show trial. Fortunately this was the last time a woman was abused by her partner.
1750 Carlo Goldoni's comedy "La Botega di Caffè" (The Coffee Shop) premieres in Mantua. Early inspiration for ‘Friends’.
1776 France and Spain agreed to supply weapons to American rebels
1780 William Herschel discovers 1st binary star, Xi Ursae Majoris.
1829 After anchoring nearby, Captain Charles Fremantle of HMS Challenger, declares the Swan River Colony in Australia. AFL promptly awards a free kick to the opposition.
1833 Russian Tsar Nicolas I bans the public sale of serfs. Private slavery was still ok apparently.
1869 The Folies Trévise (later cabaret hall Folies Bergère) opens as an opera house in Paris, France.
1885 Congo Free State formed by King Leopold II of Belgium
1887 Hannibal Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film (used in Thomas Edison's Kinetoscope). A landmark development.
1926 US military intervenes in Nicaragua, a rare moment of meddling in the affairs of other countries.
1927 Pulitzer prize for a Novel awarded to Louis Bromfield for "Early Autumn"
1927 U.S. Supreme Court's "Buck v. Bell", permits forced sterilizations of various "unfits" by states' authorities where such surgeries are practiced for eugenic reasons
1936 Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie and family flee Abyssinia
1936 Sergei Prokofiev's musical "Peter and the Wolf" premieres in Moscow
1945 World War II: Battle of Berlin ends as Soviet army takes Berlin
1946 "The Postman Always Rings Twice" film based on the novel by James M. Cain, directed by Tay Garnett, starring Lana Turner and John Garfield is released. Now screened as a comedy in Australia Post training procedures.
1946 The "Battle of Alcatraz" takes place, killing two guards and three inmates
1955 India proposal to discrimination against Dalits or "Untouchables" punishable
1957 Hammer Film Productions releases its 1st colour horror title - "The Curse of Frankenstein" starring Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee
1962 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island. And that’s how America declared war on Christmas.
1975 Apple records closes down
1980 Pink Floyd's "Another Brick in Wall (Part II)" is banned in South Africa
1980 Pope John Paul II begins his African tour (without a merchandising deal - rookie mistake).
1982 Falklands War: Argentine cruiser General Belgrano sunk by British submarine Conqueror, killing more than 350 men
1984 New York Yankees Don Mattingly's single breaks up Chicago White Sox pitcher Lamarr Hoyt's perfect game bid, at Comiskey Park. This was the last time he shaved his sideburns.
1990 South Africa & African National Congress open talks to end apartheid
1994 American pathologist and euthanasia advocate Jack Kervokian found innocent on assisting suicides
1994 Michael Bolton found to have plagiarised Isley Bros "Love is Wonderful Thing"
1997 "Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery", starring Mike Myers and Elizabeth Hurley, is released
1998 Battle of Hogwarts: fictional battle that ended the Second Wizarding War with the death of Lord Voldemort at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
1999 Panamanian election, 1999: Mireya Moscoso becomes the first woman to be elected President of Panama
2011 Osama bin Laden, the suspected mastermind behind the September 11 attacks and the FBI's most wanted man is killed by US special forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan
2012 A pastel version of "The Scream", by Norwegian painter Edvard Munch sells at auction for $119,922,500
2013 60 miners are killed after a gold mine collapses in Jebel Amir, North Darfur, Sudan
2016 World Snooker Championship, Crucible Theatre, Sheffield: Mark Selby of England beats China's Ding Junhui, 18-14 for his second world crown. Lucky break.
2018 Date for first humans or hominins in the Philippines pushed back ten-fold after report of site on Luzon with butchered rhinoceros 709,000 years ago
2019 A clean-up on Mt Everest has removed three metric tons (6,613 pounds) of rubbish and four bodies in just two weeks
2020 Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson, the Icelandic actor who played Ser Gregor "The Mountain" Clegane in Game of Thrones, sets a world deadlifting record by lifting 501kg (1,104lb)
2023 40-year-old US weight loss company Jenny Craig announces it will close after failing to secure further financial backing. For a company built on losses, it had a good run.
Birthdays….1892 Manfred von Richtofen (The Red Baron) German World War I fighter ace, born in Wrocław, Poland (d.1918)
1944 Tony Lane, American art director (Rolling Stone magazine), and Grammy Award-winning album cover art designer (Carly Simon - Boys in the Trees; Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water; Michael Jackson - Bad), born in New York City (d. 2016)
1946 David Suchet, British actor (Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Way We Live Now), born in Paddington, London, England
1952 Christine Baranski, American Tony and Emmy Award-winning stage and screen (Rumors; The Good Wife; Cybill - "Maryann"; The Birdcage), born in Buffalo, New York
1955 Donatella Versace, Italian fashion designer, born in Reggio di Calabria, Italy
1969 Brian Lara, West Indian cricket batsman and captain, born in Trinidad and Tobago
1972 Dwayne Johnson, American pro wrestler, actor and producer (Baywatch, Jumanji), born in Hayward, California
1974 Garðar Thór Cortes, Icelandic tenor, born in Reykjavík, Iceland
1975 David Beckham, English soccer midfielder (England, Man Utd, Real Madrid, AC Milan, Paris SG, LA Galaxy) and owner (Inter Miami CF, Salford City), born in London, England
1980 (Elizabeth) "Ellie" Kemper, American actress (The Office -"Erin"; Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt), born in Kansas City, Missouri
Deaths…..
1519 Leonardo da Vinci, Italian painter, sculptor, scientist and visionary, dies at 67
1934 Sergey Lebedev, Russian chemist, inventor of first commercially viable, mass-produced polybutadiene synthetic rubber for tires, and synthetic motor oil for aircraft engines, dies at 59
1947 William Moulton Marston, American psychologist (inventor of an early prototype of the lie detector) and writer (co-creator, Wonder Woman), dies at 53
1972 J. Edgar Hoover American 1st Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (1924-72), dies at 77
1999 Oliver Reed, English actor (Big Sleep), dies of a heart attack at 61 during a break from filming the movie "Gladiator" in Malta
2004 John MacKenzie, Scottish-Canadian bagpiper and pipe-major, dies at 83
2011 Osama bin Laden, Islamic militant and founder of al-Qaeda, shot and killed in Abbottabad, Pakistan during Operation Neptune Spear at 54
1519 Leonardo da Vinci, Italian painter, sculptor, scientist and visionary, dies at 67
1934 Sergey Lebedev, Russian chemist, inventor of first commercially viable, mass-produced polybutadiene synthetic rubber for tires, and synthetic motor oil for aircraft engines, dies at 59
1947 William Moulton Marston, American psychologist (inventor of an early prototype of the lie detector) and writer (co-creator, Wonder Woman), dies at 53
1972 J. Edgar Hoover American 1st Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (1924-72), dies at 77
1999 Oliver Reed, English actor (Big Sleep), dies of a heart attack at 61 during a break from filming the movie "Gladiator" in Malta
2004 John MacKenzie, Scottish-Canadian bagpiper and pipe-major, dies at 83
2011 Osama bin Laden, Islamic militant and founder of al-Qaeda, shot and killed in Abbottabad, Pakistan during Operation Neptune Spear at 54
Weddings2009 Actress Maggie Gyllenhaal (32) weds film and stage actor Peter Sarsgaard (38) in a small chapel in Brindisi, Italy
2015 Actress and singer Amy Adams (40) weds American artist Darren Le Gallo (40) at a ranch near Santa Barbara, California
Divorces1997 Donald Trump and Marla Maples announce they are separating.
Shell how ****ed up is this.
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‘They are not a punching bag for your anger’: Court finds man who punched woman 40 times did not contribute to her death
A West Australian man has been jailed over a brutal attack on his partner in Perth’s CBD. However, he was not charged over her subsequent death.
