Frame is a TV channel that is commercial free and shows great scenery. The scenery images and videos are from all over the world. An example is a drone over Venice, outstanding visuals. Very satisfying channel to watch. However, as December arrives, the channel puts on a bloody unending fireplace. They play this fireplace continously for 7 straight weeks.

I know the holiday season goes to some peoples heads, but lets take a deep breath and get real. Who the hell wants to look at the same fireplace 24/7 for 7 weeks?

A fast-growing tumbleweed called “hairy panic” is clogging up homes in a small Australian town.

Extremely dry conditions mean the weeds pile up each day outside a row of homes at Wangaratta, in Victoria’s northeast.

Frustrated residents are forced to clear out the weeds for several hours every day, with piles of hairy panic at times reaching roof height.

A nearby farmer is being blamed for failing to tend to his paddock.

“It’s physically draining and mentally more draining,” resident Pam Twitchett told Prime7 News Albury.

• Also known by its Latin name Panicum effusum, it is a grass that is found in every Australian state
• It’s called “hairy” because while there are a number of other Panicum species, none have long hairs along the edges of their leaves
• It grows rapidly and can form tumbleweeds which are dead grass with seeds inside designed to disperse them for reproduction
• It can cause a potentially fatal condition called “yellow big head” in sheep if eaten in large quantities

Wangaratta veterinary surgeon Richard Evans told the BBC the weed would lose its toxicity once it dried up.

“The important thing is it’s not going to kill people’s dogs and cats, it just makes a hell of a mess,” he said.

Authorities are unable to help with the clean-up because the tumbleweeds do not pose a fire threat, reports say.

As if those poor saps in Aussieland don’t already have enough headaches.  With all the super-venomous snakes, sharks and man-eating giant salty crocodiles, to name a few of the deadly critters in that country, they also have toxic tumbleweed.

Make square Eggs?

Hair permer 1930.

Massive hair blow-dryer!

Mouse scaring machine, makes cat noise.

Chin bell for drivers. Nod off and chin hits bell. Good idea.

Portable sauna.

1961 Buick Flamingo with rotating passenger seat. Make eyes with the guy in the car behind you?

Check out the Baby Suspender, the parents are ice skating.

Legalization of cannabis in Canada next July. Bloody Manitoba government won’t let us grow our own. Greedy politicians.

Online used car retailer Carvana, which has revolutionized how people buy cars, is back with another innovation — the world’s first coin operated car vending machine that can dispense cars in a fully automated process. The five-story glass tower, which can house as many as 20 used cars at a time, stands on Interstate 65 in the US city of Nashville, in Tennessee. Carvana said the move was to simplify the car delivery process, and at the same time make picking up the car an experience for the buyer.

Carvana, a technology start-up based in Phoenix, has been selling used cars online since 2013. Typical of online shopping sites, Carvana allows customers to browse its selection of used cars online with high-resolution photos and 360-degree virtual tours. Once a vehicle is selected, customers can get financing, trade in a vehicle, and sign contracts — everything done online. The car is then delivered to the door or picked up from the company’s store. Buyers get a 7-days test-drive period after which they can return the car if they aren’t satisfied.

The online model has allowed Carvana to cut down on staff and overhead, and according to its own estimates, save customers around US$2,000 in the process. Now with the new vending machine, even the pickup is unmanned.

Customers buy the car online, like before, and then proceed to the vending machine as soon as their car is ready to pickup. Upon entry into the lobby, the customer receives an oversized coin that they place into a slot. The coin triggers an automated process where a machine spins and grabs the vehicle, bringing it to a track that delivers the car to one of three bays. The entire process is accompanied by a grand light and sound show.

Those customers who live outside Nashville but want to pick up from the vending machine, Carvana will subsidize $200 in airfare and arrange transportation from the airport to the Nashville facility.