Gentle people, start your engines.
Gentle people, start your engines.
Good morning everybody.
No weather report from Calliope. Well, I suppose I could report it as fine and cool.
I can give you a report about the traffic on the Dawson Highway, though: B-doubles all night, either grinding up the hill or screaming down it, or going south with empty cattle crates on the small side road beside us. Somebody’s (or maybe 150 of them) doing some mustering. Some BIG mustering. Noisy motorbikes and cars, mostly going west. I reckon a copper doing overtime would have a field-night.
Sleep? I wish.
Rule 303 said:
Gentle people, start your engines.
Started off at 4 degrees at 5:00AM. Currently 5.2 degrees. Warmer than previous May mornings.
Settle in and hope for a wet winter.
Murray cod are feasting on mice and conservation groups, farmers, and fishers all say unleashing bromadiolone on the pests could come at an extremely heavy cost.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2021-06-01/fears-napalm-like-mouse-bait-could-poison-native-fish-birds/100179620
Good morning Holidayers. Five degrees and the first light is just on the Eastern horizon. Our forecast for today is for a cloudy 15.
Friend from Hamilton will come for breakfast this morning. We are his “single bubble”. Mr buffy and friend will walk to the bakery to pick up the food. I have to cook the bacon for friend’s bacon and egg roll…when we ordered yesterday they told us the bacon delivery had not turned up. So they will make and egg (+cheese + chutney) roll and we’ll slip the bacon in here. Fortunately I’ve got some in the fridge.
Morning, cold and clear in the Styx.
Morning punters and correctors, might go and see what’s doing at the redoubt today.
First day of winter, and the day before my Birthday Eve (the Birthday itself being on Thursday, 3rd of June).
Breakfast: cup of tea + 2 x Tim Tam Dark.
Bubblecar said:
First day of winter, and the day before my Birthday Eve (the Birthday itself being on Thursday, 3rd of June).Breakfast: cup of tea + 2 x Tim Tam Dark.
Just in case I’m not around, should I get in early and wish you a happy Thursday, 3rd of June ?
roughbarked said:
Bubblecar said:
First day of winter, and the day before my Birthday Eve (the Birthday itself being on Thursday, 3rd of June).Breakfast: cup of tea + 2 x Tim Tam Dark.
Just in case I’m not around, should I get in early and wish you a happy Thursday, 3rd of June ?
You can if you like but it would be more traditional to reserve such wishes for the day itself.
Our “single bubble” friend needed a long visit today. He has been quite lonely. He’s just gone now. We’ve suggested he come for lunch on Thursday if he thinks he needs it.
From the Internet:
“Meet the first blind Asian climber to scale Mount Everest”
OK, it’s a challenge, but if I was blind and wanted a challenge, that’s about the last one I would choose.
And what does being Asian have to do with it?
Nomen nudum
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In taxonomy (especially in zoological and botanical nomenclature), a nomen nudum (“naked name”; plural nomina nuda) is a designation which looks exactly like a scientific name of an organism, and may have originally been intended to be a scientific name, but fails to be one because it has not (or has not yet) been published with an adequate description (or a reference to such a description). This makes it a “bare” or “naked” name, one which cannot be accepted as it stands. A largely equivalent but much less frequently used term is nomen tantum (“name only”).
The Rev Dodgson said:
From the Internet:“Meet the first blind Asian climber to scale Mount Everest”
OK, it’s a challenge, but if I was blind and wanted a challenge, that’s about the last one I would choose.
And what does being Asian have to do with it?
Presumably one or more blind people from other continents have already scaled Everest.
As for me, I see no appeal at all in scaling Everest, whether or not I’m blind at the time.
Bubblecar said:
Nomen nudumFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In taxonomy (especially in zoological and botanical nomenclature), a nomen nudum (“naked name”; plural nomina nuda) is a designation which looks exactly like a scientific name of an organism, and may have originally been intended to be a scientific name, but fails to be one because it has not (or has not yet) been published with an adequate description (or a reference to such a description). This makes it a “bare” or “naked” name, one which cannot be accepted as it stands. A largely equivalent but much less frequently used term is nomen tantum (“name only”).
Interesting
Bubblecar said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
From the Internet:“Meet the first blind Asian climber to scale Mount Everest”
OK, it’s a challenge, but if I was blind and wanted a challenge, that’s about the last one I would choose.
And what does being Asian have to do with it?
Presumably one or more blind people from other continents have already scaled Everest.
As for me, I see no appeal at all in scaling Everest, whether or not I’m blind at the time.
Someone needs to film some drone footage from basecamp to the summit for your viewing pleasure.
Bird Flight Compendium.
I just bought myself a wildlife track-cam, and the first time I used it … OK, the third time, but the first two times all I got was pictures of my hair and forehead. I arranged a shaft of light across the foreground, but did any of my birds wander across the shaft of light? No. I got 1,400 photos of silhouettes. But at least I did get good photos of birds in flight. “Good” being a relative term, of course.
I’m not copywriting these, so feel free to reuse on the front of sympathy cards, etc.
mollwollfumble said:
Bird Flight Compendium.I just bought myself a wildlife track-cam, and the first time I used it … OK, the third time, but the first two times all I got was pictures of my hair and forehead. I arranged a shaft of light across the foreground, but did any of my birds wander across the shaft of light? No. I got 1,400 photos of silhouettes. But at least I did get good photos of birds in flight. “Good” being a relative term, of course.
I’m not copywriting these, so feel free to reuse on the front of sympathy cards, etc.
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Higher resolution should be your next goal.
The Rev Dodgson said:
From the Internet:“Meet the first blind Asian climber to scale Mount Everest”
OK, it’s a challenge, but if I was blind and wanted a challenge, that’s about the last one I would choose.
And what does being Asian have to do with it?
How much could he have done himself, surely he’d need help all the way besides the ability to do the actual climbing part even can’t see footholds, hand holds, etc
Everest is still considered quite dangerous to climb so did he put others at risk
Pantaloons perversely sells none.
Cymek said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
From the Internet:“Meet the first blind Asian climber to scale Mount Everest”
OK, it’s a challenge, but if I was blind and wanted a challenge, that’s about the last one I would choose.
And what does being Asian have to do with it?
How much could he have done himself, surely he’d need help all the way besides the ability to do the actual climbing part even can’t see footholds, hand holds, etc
Everest is still considered quite dangerous to climb so did he put others at risk
Still it’s probably worth it just for the view … wait …
Bubblecar said:
mollwollfumble said:
Bird Flight Compendium.I just bought myself a wildlife track-cam, and the first time I used it … OK, the third time, but the first two times all I got was pictures of my hair and forehead. I arranged a shaft of light across the foreground, but did any of my birds wander across the shaft of light? No. I got 1,400 photos of silhouettes. But at least I did get good photos of birds in flight. “Good” being a relative term, of course.
I’m not copywriting these, so feel free to reuse on the front of sympathy cards, etc.
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Higher resolution should be your next goal.
That IS the highest resolution from trail cams.
“I’m not copywriting these”
Cool, I’ll auction the NFT for half a million dollars
Had second Covid-19 vaccination
Waiting 15 minutes before I go
Tianzhou-2 has docked with the Tianhe, which is the core of the Tiangong space station.
A further 9 launches are planned by the end of 2022, which will end the central construction phase.
Shenzhou 12 is expected to launch later this month. This will bring three crew to carry out some construction and supply tasks. This will be the first crewed CNSA mission since 2016.
Re trailcam resolution. The field of view is 120 degrees and minimu focus distance 1 metres. So a straight stick about 3 metres long will just fill the frame. Birds aren’t usually 3 metres long.
dv said:
“I’m not copywriting these”Cool, I’ll auction the NFT for half a million dollars
I actually think that with the captions they would all be useful. The “Goodbye” bird would be perfect for dumping a significant other in a text message for instance. “Raggedy Ann” for a comment on clothing during covid. “Transitioning to supersonic” to compliment someone’s explanation. The “We Lov U” image for trying to show a child they have parental support”. “Shake on it” for closing a deal. “I’m an Angel” for DA. etc.
dv said:
Tianzhou-2 has docked with the Tianhe, which is the core of the Tiangong space station.A further 9 launches are planned by the end of 2022, which will end the central construction phase.
Shenzhou 12 is expected to launch later this month. This will bring three crew to carry out some construction and supply tasks. This will be the first crewed CNSA mission since 2016.
So don’t feel bad about impulse buying cheap things from China, they are putting the money towards science.
dv said:
Tianzhou-2 has docked with the Tianhe, which is the core of the Tiangong space station.A further 9 launches are planned by the end of 2022, which will end the central construction phase.
Shenzhou 12 is expected to launch later this month. This will bring three crew to carry out some construction and supply tasks. This will be the first crewed CNSA mission since 2016.
China whilst designing its own rockets somewhat has a benefit over Russia and the USA (back in the days of the space race) as we know what does and doesn’t work and what is a good design and the benefit of modern technology with lots of spare money to do so.
Peak Warming Man said:
dv said:
Tianzhou-2 has docked with the Tianhe, which is the core of the Tiangong space station.A further 9 launches are planned by the end of 2022, which will end the central construction phase.
Shenzhou 12 is expected to launch later this month. This will bring three crew to carry out some construction and supply tasks. This will be the first crewed CNSA mission since 2016.
So don’t feel bad about impulse buying cheap things from China, they are putting the money towards science.
Your American dollar will help science of harvesting organs and tank simulations for running over dishonourable citizens
Lunch report: A slice of cold pizza from last night. Can’t be bothered thinking about it.
Only a small cache of rocks and broken glass this morning. But that bed is on its third dig over, I think.
Ian said:
And it adds no co2 to the atmosphere.
Peak Warming Man said:
Ian said:
And it adds no co2 to the atmosphere.
Well…the operator is, presumably, breathing…
Peak Warming Man said:
Ian said:
And it adds no co2 to the atmosphere.
WHAT!! That ribbon is soaked, absolutely soaked, in CARBON.
You people.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-01/covid-19-vaccines-fast-tracked-for-disability-aged-care-workers/100181410
So I guess if you want something done properly, you have to do it yourself. No good waiting for those who are supposed to be doing it.
Peak Warming Man said:
dv said:
Tianzhou-2 has docked with the Tianhe, which is the core of the Tiangong space station.A further 9 launches are planned by the end of 2022, which will end the central construction phase.
Shenzhou 12 is expected to launch later this month. This will bring three crew to carry out some construction and supply tasks. This will be the first crewed CNSA mission since 2016.
So don’t feel bad about impulse buying cheap things from China, they are putting the money towards science.
Specific impulse buying
Peak Warming Man said:
You people?
Well I am.
The others can speak for themselves.
Peak Warming Man said:
You people.
Yes, Mongo. We people! People like Mongo!
TIL Fifi is short for Josephine
dv said:
TIL Fifi is short for Josephine
O RLY?
… I always thought it was an affectionate form of Fiona.
dv said:
Peak Warming Man said:
dv said:
Tianzhou-2 has docked with the Tianhe, which is the core of the Tiangong space station.A further 9 launches are planned by the end of 2022, which will end the central construction phase.
Shenzhou 12 is expected to launch later this month. This will bring three crew to carry out some construction and supply tasks. This will be the first crewed CNSA mission since 2016.
So don’t feel bad about impulse buying cheap things from China, they are putting the money towards science.
Specific impulse buying
No.
party_pants said:
dv said:
TIL Fifi is short for Josephine
O RLY?
… I always thought it was an affectionate form of Fiona.
Me too
party_pants said:
dv said:
TIL Fifi is short for Josephine
O RLY?
… I always thought it was an affectionate form of Fiona.
For example, people refer to Fiona Stanley Hospital as “Fifi’s”.
NBN question.
Does anyone here have an NBN connection (ie. a box on the wall) but no NBN provider?
My Frankston place is supposed to have fibre to curb NBN access but has no box on the wall or modem inside.
So can I get installation of an NBN box on wall without paying an expensive monthly fee to a provider?
dv said:
party_pants said:
dv said:
TIL Fifi is short for Josephine
O RLY?
… I always thought it was an affectionate form of Fiona.
Me too
I know a Faye who is called Fifi. But possibly only by her husband. (They aren’t together any more, but he called her Fifi when they were)
This is why I have to walk up the mountain.
Peak Warming Man said:
This is why I have to walk up the mountain.
doesn’t look too bad
Peak Warming Man said:
This is why I have to walk up the mountain.
Did mr buffy get his tractor bogged there?
Peak Warming Man said:
This is why I have to walk up the mountain.
You need some concrete pipes.
mollwollfumble said:
NBN question.Does anyone here have an NBN connection (ie. a box on the wall) but no NBN provider?
My Frankston place is supposed to have fibre to curb NBN access but has no box on the wall or modem inside.
So can I get installation of an NBN box on wall without paying an expensive monthly fee to a provider?
Those boxes usually need upgrading for internet afaik.
Peak Warming Man said:
This is why I have to walk up the mountain.
Couldn’t you throw some rocks into it?
sibeen said:
Peak Warming Man said:
This is why I have to walk up the mountain.
Couldn’t you throw some rocks into it?
Maybe you could get one of them new four wheel drive vehicles I heard talk of
mollwollfumble said:
NBN question.Does anyone here have an NBN connection (ie. a box on the wall) but no NBN provider?
My Frankston place is supposed to have fibre to curb NBN access but has no box on the wall or modem inside.
So can I get installation of an NBN box on wall without paying an expensive monthly fee to a provider?
You can self install. There is a little video on this page from NBN.
https://www.nbnco.com.au/learn/network-technology/fibre-to-the-curb-explained-fttc
sibeen said:
Peak Warming Man said:
This is why I have to walk up the mountain.
Couldn’t you throw some rocks into it?
Yeah, some logs and big rocks. However I’ve got some young people coming up with several 4×4s shortly, they can do it. That’s why I took the photos to send them so they know what’s required.
It will only last until the next big rains though. I’ll get old Merv with his big mother gear to grade a different track in, a better all weather track.
there pinch’n too punch
is be nearin’t lunch
me, lady, larry, us all up
news FA not much
lookin’ in my coffee cup
just dregs’s sludge
yes see’t turns to muck
it’s miller-urey stuff
biogenesis we studyin’t
is new life a bunch
do emergin’ in that mug
mollwollfumble said:
NBN question.Does anyone here have an NBN connection (ie. a box on the wall) but no NBN provider?
My Frankston place is supposed to have fibre to curb NBN access but has no box on the wall or modem inside.
So can I get installation of an NBN box on wall without paying an expensive monthly fee to a provider?
Got it. If I want a home phone via NBN, the cost from the cheapest provider is at least $30/mth + phone calls,
or $40/mth incl. local phone calls.
mollwollfumble said:
mollwollfumble said:
NBN question.Does anyone here have an NBN connection (ie. a box on the wall) but no NBN provider?
My Frankston place is supposed to have fibre to curb NBN access but has no box on the wall or modem inside.
So can I get installation of an NBN box on wall without paying an expensive monthly fee to a provider?
Got it. If I want a home phone via NBN, the cost from the cheapest provider is at least $30/mth + phone calls,
or $40/mth incl. local phone calls.
You’d still use your home phone ?
Cymek said:
mollwollfumble said:
mollwollfumble said:
NBN question.Does anyone here have an NBN connection (ie. a box on the wall) but no NBN provider?
My Frankston place is supposed to have fibre to curb NBN access but has no box on the wall or modem inside.
So can I get installation of an NBN box on wall without paying an expensive monthly fee to a provider?
Got it. If I want a home phone via NBN, the cost from the cheapest provider is at least $30/mth + phone calls,
or $40/mth incl. local phone calls.
You’d still use your home phone ?
God yes. It’s enormously cheaper per call than mobile.
Cymek said:
mollwollfumble said:
mollwollfumble said:
NBN question.Does anyone here have an NBN connection (ie. a box on the wall) but no NBN provider?
My Frankston place is supposed to have fibre to curb NBN access but has no box on the wall or modem inside.
So can I get installation of an NBN box on wall without paying an expensive monthly fee to a provider?
Got it. If I want a home phone via NBN, the cost from the cheapest provider is at least $30/mth + phone calls,
or $40/mth incl. local phone calls.
You’d still use your home phone ?
Advantages of a home phone over a mobile phone.
I used to have a smartphone, but it was so much of a pain that I’ve gone back to a non-smart mobile,
which I keep permanently turned off.
mollwollfumble said:
Cymek said:
mollwollfumble said:Got it. If I want a home phone via NBN, the cost from the cheapest provider is at least $30/mth + phone calls,
or $40/mth incl. local phone calls.
You’d still use your home phone ?
Advantages of a home phone over a mobile phone.
- Much lower cost of calls
- It doesn’t break if I drop it on concrete
- I won’t drop it in a swimming pool
- I can’t lose it, or have it stolen
- It doesn’t disturb me while I’m driving, or in a business meeting, or attending a classical concert
- I don’t worry about forgetting to charge it
- I don’t need a password
- Using the answering machine screens out scam calls
- Can’t be hacked as easily
- Don’t have to scroll through multiple screens
- Easy to delete all unwanted messages
- Faster to get to when it rings, because I always know where it is
I used to have a smartphone, but it was so much of a pain that I’ve gone back to a non-smart mobile,
which I keep permanently turned off.
I have unlimited mobile phone calls for $15 a month.
PWM analysis #28
It’s a sad reflection on modern society that something as basic as an abattoir can not operate without the internet.
Other items covered in the News Letter, Hair Restoration, What Once Famous People Look Like Now plus much much more.
Bubblecar said:
mollwollfumble said:
Cymek said:You’d still use your home phone ?
Advantages of a home phone over a mobile phone.
- Much lower cost of calls
- It doesn’t break if I drop it on concrete
- I won’t drop it in a swimming pool
- I can’t lose it, or have it stolen
- It doesn’t disturb me while I’m driving, or in a business meeting, or attending a classical concert
- I don’t worry about forgetting to charge it
- I don’t need a password
- Using the answering machine screens out scam calls
- Can’t be hacked as easily
- Don’t have to scroll through multiple screens
- Easy to delete all unwanted messages
- Faster to get to when it rings, because I always know where it is
I used to have a smartphone, but it was so much of a pain that I’ve gone back to a non-smart mobile,
which I keep permanently turned off.
I have unlimited mobile phone calls for $15 a month.
And you don’t have to pay rent on your phone.
Peak Warming Man said:
Bubblecar said:
mollwollfumble said:Advantages of a home phone over a mobile phone.
- Much lower cost of calls
- It doesn’t break if I drop it on concrete
- I won’t drop it in a swimming pool
- I can’t lose it, or have it stolen
- It doesn’t disturb me while I’m driving, or in a business meeting, or attending a classical concert
- I don’t worry about forgetting to charge it
- I don’t need a password
- Using the answering machine screens out scam calls
- Can’t be hacked as easily
- Don’t have to scroll through multiple screens
- Easy to delete all unwanted messages
- Faster to get to when it rings, because I always know where it is
I used to have a smartphone, but it was so much of a pain that I’ve gone back to a non-smart mobile,
which I keep permanently turned off.
I have unlimited mobile phone calls for $15 a month.
And you don’t have to pay rent on your phone.
If you buy your own phone e.g. a Panasonic cordless with two handsets, and you return your ‘issued’ phone to Telstra (or whoever), then you don’t pay rent any more.
Peak Warming Man said:
Bubblecar said:
mollwollfumble said:Advantages of a home phone over a mobile phone.
- Much lower cost of calls
- It doesn’t break if I drop it on concrete
- I won’t drop it in a swimming pool
- I can’t lose it, or have it stolen
- It doesn’t disturb me while I’m driving, or in a business meeting, or attending a classical concert
- I don’t worry about forgetting to charge it
- I don’t need a password
- Using the answering machine screens out scam calls
- Can’t be hacked as easily
- Don’t have to scroll through multiple screens
- Easy to delete all unwanted messages
- Faster to get to when it rings, because I always know where it is
I used to have a smartphone, but it was so much of a pain that I’ve gone back to a non-smart mobile,
which I keep permanently turned off.
I have unlimited mobile phone calls for $15 a month.
And you don’t have to pay rent on your phone.
I do also have a home phone (netphone) but I pay nothing for that except the cost of local calls. And I very rarely use it these days anyway.
captain_spalding said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Bubblecar said:I have unlimited mobile phone calls for $15 a month.
And you don’t have to pay rent on your phone.
If you buy your own phone e.g. a Panasonic cordless with two handsets, and you return your ‘issued’ phone to Telstra (or whoever), then you don’t pay rent any more.
You people.
Peak Warming Man said:
captain_spalding said:
Peak Warming Man said:And you don’t have to pay rent on your phone.
If you buy your own phone e.g. a Panasonic cordless with two handsets, and you return your ‘issued’ phone to Telstra (or whoever), then you don’t pay rent any more.
You people.
‘…are fabulous’.
You were obviously interrupted mid-sentence.
Peak Warming Man said:
PWM analysis #28
It’s a sad reflection on modern society that something as basic as an abattoir can not operate without the internet.
Other items covered in the News Letter, Hair Restoration, What Once Famous People Look Like Now plus much much more.
Don’t have a cow man
mollwollfumble said:
I used to have a smartphone, but it was so much of a pain that I’ve gone back to a non-smart mobile,
which I keep permanently turned off.
I have a brick which serves the same purpose.
sibeen said:
mollwollfumble said:I used to have a smartphone, but it was so much of a pain that I’ve gone back to a non-smart mobile,
which I keep permanently turned off.
I have a brick which serves the same purpose.
I also have a brick, it’s very old but it has an aerial jack and when people come to the redoubt with their expensive smart phones they cant get any reception unless they use the satellite internet connection.
Modern phones don’t have an aerial jack to connect to the yagi antenna.
Peak Warming Man said:
sibeen said:
mollwollfumble said:I used to have a smartphone, but it was so much of a pain that I’ve gone back to a non-smart mobile,
which I keep permanently turned off.
I have a brick which serves the same purpose.
I also have a brick, it’s very old but it has an aerial jack and when people come to the redoubt with their expensive smart phones they cant get any reception unless they use the satellite internet connection.
Modern phones don’t have an aerial jack to connect to the yagi antenna.
Tried winding the antenna lead (bared) around them?
Peak Warming Man said:
sibeen said:
mollwollfumble said:I used to have a smartphone, but it was so much of a pain that I’ve gone back to a non-smart mobile,
which I keep permanently turned off.
I have a brick which serves the same purpose.
I also have a brick, it’s very old but it has an aerial jack and when people come to the redoubt with their expensive smart phones they cant get any reception unless they use the satellite internet connection.
Modern phones don’t have an aerial jack to connect to the yagi antenna.
It’s only 3G but it will be good for another couple of years, just bought a new battery for it.
captain_spalding said:
Peak Warming Man said:
sibeen said:I have a brick which serves the same purpose.
I also have a brick, it’s very old but it has an aerial jack and when people come to the redoubt with their expensive smart phones they cant get any reception unless they use the satellite internet connection.
Modern phones don’t have an aerial jack to connect to the yagi antenna.
Tried winding the antenna lead (bared) around them?
Nah they just get wifi from my satellite NBN and use that for their phones.
I can sit at home and watch all the bandwith they use on my account.
The judge in Christian Porter’s now-defunct defamation action against the ABC has questioned whether the two parties can agree to destroy documents contained in the broadcaster’s still-redacted defence, as a number of news organisations seek access to the confidential file.
The former attorney general on Monday dropped his high-stakes defamation case against the ABC, holding a press conference in which he sought to claim he had forced the broadcaster to back down, despite not securing an apology or retraction.
But at a federal court hearing on Tuesday, Justice Jayne Jagot questioned part of the out-of-court deal struck by the two parties.
The agreement states that the ABC’s defence – now subject to an interim suppression order – would be “permanently removed from the court file”, which would potentially prevent any challenge to its confidentiality.
But on Tuesday Jagot said she was not convinced that it was up to Porter and the ABC to make that decision.
“You’ve filed orders in a court, it doesn’t then become a matter for you about what is to be disclosed or not disclosed,” she said in court.
Calling it “a fundamental issue about the integrity of the court file”, Jagot said the parties would need to convince her “why a court would allow the removal of a document from a court file”.
“I want to keep the costs as low as possible but this is an unavoidable issue if you want to press ,” she said.
While lawyers for the ABC said they took a neutral position on the issue, Porter’s barrister, Barry Dean, said the former attorney general wanted the document to be removed from the file. “Our position is it is a consent order between the parties,” he said.
“That’s not the point,” Jagot responded.
Lawyers for both Nine and News Corp are seeking to intervene to make the document public. On Tuesday Jagot said a hearing to decide that matter would take place later this month or early in July.
In the meantime, it means the deal between Porter and the ABC has not been formally ended, raising the possibility hostilities could resume if the settlement were to fall apart.
The issue raised its head on Monday when the journalist who wrote the story at the centre of the case, Louise Milligan, tweeted that she and the ABC remained “absolutely committed” to the 27 redacted pages of its court defence “being in the public domain”.
That prompted an angry riposte from Porter’s lawyer, Rebekah Giles, who said it was “astonishing” the ABC and Milligan had “seen fit to publish statements inconsistent with the settlement that they themselves personally agreed to”.
Far from ending hostilities between the parties, the deal to drop the case has sparked a fierce war of words between Porter and the ABC and Milligan.
more..
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/jun/01/abc-hits-back-at-christian-porter-claim-it-regrets-four-corners-story-at-centre-of-defamation-court-case
sarahs mum said:
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/jun/01/abc-hits-back-at-christian-porter-claim-it-regrets-four-corners-story-at-centre-of-defamation-court-case
Gosh, it must be so hard to run a government they way you feel it should be run when people insist on upholding the principles which they were appointed to uphold.
sarahs mum said:
The judge in Christian Porter’s now-defunct defamation action against the ABC has questioned whether the two parties can agree to destroy documents contained in the broadcaster’s still-redacted defence, as a number of news organisations seek access to the confidential file.The former attorney general on Monday dropped his high-stakes defamation case against the ABC, holding a press conference in which he sought to claim he had forced the broadcaster to back down, despite not securing an apology or retraction.
But at a federal court hearing on Tuesday, Justice Jayne Jagot questioned part of the out-of-court deal struck by the two parties.
The agreement states that the ABC’s defence – now subject to an interim suppression order – would be “permanently removed from the court file”, which would potentially prevent any challenge to its confidentiality.
But on Tuesday Jagot said she was not convinced that it was up to Porter and the ABC to make that decision.
“You’ve filed orders in a court, it doesn’t then become a matter for you about what is to be disclosed or not disclosed,” she said in court.
Calling it “a fundamental issue about the integrity of the court file”, Jagot said the parties would need to convince her “why a court would allow the removal of a document from a court file”.
“I want to keep the costs as low as possible but this is an unavoidable issue if you want to press ,” she said.
While lawyers for the ABC said they took a neutral position on the issue, Porter’s barrister, Barry Dean, said the former attorney general wanted the document to be removed from the file. “Our position is it is a consent order between the parties,” he said.
“That’s not the point,” Jagot responded.
Lawyers for both Nine and News Corp are seeking to intervene to make the document public. On Tuesday Jagot said a hearing to decide that matter would take place later this month or early in July.
In the meantime, it means the deal between Porter and the ABC has not been formally ended, raising the possibility hostilities could resume if the settlement were to fall apart.
The issue raised its head on Monday when the journalist who wrote the story at the centre of the case, Louise Milligan, tweeted that she and the ABC remained “absolutely committed” to the 27 redacted pages of its court defence “being in the public domain”.
That prompted an angry riposte from Porter’s lawyer, Rebekah Giles, who said it was “astonishing” the ABC and Milligan had “seen fit to publish statements inconsistent with the settlement that they themselves personally agreed to”.
Far from ending hostilities between the parties, the deal to drop the case has sparked a fierce war of words between Porter and the ABC and Milligan.
more..
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/jun/01/abc-hits-back-at-christian-porter-claim-it-regrets-four-corners-story-at-centre-of-defamation-court-case
Oh dear.
dv said:
Oh dear.
They don’t have this trouble in China…
About to do the washing up and I’ve just issued two controversial decisions in relation to the kitchen:
a) That the pooter room heater be moved in there and turned on for the duration of kitchen activities.
b) That the door between the kitchen and linen room be shut.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/jun/01/sam-duluk-slapped-female-colleagues-bottom-while-drunk-at-adelaide-parliament-party-court-told
Bubblecar said:
About to do the washing up and I’ve just issued two controversial decisions in relation to the kitchen:a) That the pooter room heater be moved in there and turned on for the duration of kitchen activities.
b) That the door between the kitchen and linen room be shut.
What does Bubblecar think about these decisions?
The Rev Dodgson said:
Bubblecar said:
About to do the washing up and I’ve just issued two controversial decisions in relation to the kitchen:a) That the pooter room heater be moved in there and turned on for the duration of kitchen activities.
b) That the door between the kitchen and linen room be shut.
What does Bubblecar think about these decisions?
I’m just wondering why he’s bothering to shut the door between the kitchen and living room if he’s leaving the door between the kitchen and hallway open.
Bubblecar said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Bubblecar said:
About to do the washing up and I’ve just issued two controversial decisions in relation to the kitchen:a) That the pooter room heater be moved in there and turned on for the duration of kitchen activities.
b) That the door between the kitchen and linen room be shut.
What does Bubblecar think about these decisions?
I’m just wondering why he’s bothering to shut the door between the kitchen and living room if he’s leaving the door between the kitchen and hallway open.
…I mean kitchen and linen room.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/jun/01/protocol-creep-blamed-for-scott-morrisons-red-carpet-treatment-by-air-force
—
Protocol creep is a new term for me.
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
The Rev Dodgson said:What does Bubblecar think about these decisions?
I’m just wondering why he’s bothering to shut the door between the kitchen and living room if he’s leaving the door between the kitchen and hallway open.
…I mean kitchen and linen room.
Yes I assumed that’s what you meant but yes, it’s a sensible point. I’ll shut the hallway door too.
Possibly for the first time since I’ve moved here.
I don’t have a hallway, I just walk through doors to get from one room to another.
sarahs mum said:
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/jun/01/sam-duluk-slapped-female-colleagues-bottom-while-drunk-at-adelaide-parliament-party-court-told
I’ve probably done that a few times.
Peak Warming Man said:
sarahs mum said:
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/jun/01/sam-duluk-slapped-female-colleagues-bottom-while-drunk-at-adelaide-parliament-party-court-told
I’ve probably done that a few times.
And the rest?
I’ve noticed on the ABC radio news they sometimes pronounce reservoir as reservor. Is this a regional variant?
sarahs mum said:
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/jun/01/protocol-creep-blamed-for-scott-morrisons-red-carpet-treatment-by-air-force—
Protocol creep is a new term for me.
RAAF have always been dreadful suck-ups to politicians.
#OnThisDay 1 June 1973, Union of Australian Women protest outside the French consulate in George Street, Sydney.
— in Sydney, Australia.
sarahs mum said:
Peak Warming Man said:
sarahs mum said:
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/jun/01/sam-duluk-slapped-female-colleagues-bottom-while-drunk-at-adelaide-parliament-party-court-told
I’ve probably done that a few times.
And the rest?
I haven’t read the article.
Peak Warming Man said:
sarahs mum said:
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/jun/01/sam-duluk-slapped-female-colleagues-bottom-while-drunk-at-adelaide-parliament-party-court-told
I’ve probably done that a few times.
I get drunk and slap my own arse, get a thrill
Maybe ‘protocol creep’ is the job title of someone on Morrison’s staff.
Someone who’s always on the lookout for opportunities to make Morrison a bit more grandiose.
captain_spalding said:
sarahs mum said:
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/jun/01/protocol-creep-blamed-for-scott-morrisons-red-carpet-treatment-by-air-force—
Protocol creep is a new term for me.
RAAF have always been dreadful suck-ups to politicians.
Please sir we need funding for an officers club
captain_spalding said:
Maybe ‘protocol creep’ is the job title of someone on Morrison’s staff.Someone who’s always on the lookout for opportunities to make Morrison a bit more grandiose.
I suppose its a good judge of character that if you want it or insist on it you must be a right tosser
captain_spalding said:
sarahs mum said:
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/jun/01/protocol-creep-blamed-for-scott-morrisons-red-carpet-treatment-by-air-force—
Protocol creep is a new term for me.
RAAF have always been dreadful suck-ups to politicians.
ROFL
Peak Warming Man said:
sarahs mum said:
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/jun/01/sam-duluk-slapped-female-colleagues-bottom-while-drunk-at-adelaide-parliament-party-court-told
I’ve probably done that a few times.
causes a lot of troubles, the attraction to alcohol, drinking too much of it, intoxication, the mythology gives the impression it’s liberating, and it is maybe, not in an entirely different way to sniffing paint thinners probably is
Peak Warming Man said:
dv said:
Peak Warming Man said:So don’t feel bad about impulse buying cheap things from China, they are putting the money towards science.
Specific impulse buying
No.
that wasn’t quite the reaction ‘e was hoping for
transition said:
Peak Warming Man said:
sarahs mum said:
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/jun/01/sam-duluk-slapped-female-colleagues-bottom-while-drunk-at-adelaide-parliament-party-court-told
I’ve probably done that a few times.
causes a lot of troubles, the attraction to alcohol, drinking too much of it, intoxication, the mythology gives the impression it’s liberating, and it is maybe, not in an entirely different way to sniffing paint thinners probably is
It’s relaxing I find, drink it to get drunk not for the taste most of the time, makes you give less of a shit at least for a while
Why China why?
https://www.theage.com.au/world/asia/first-human-case-of-h10n3-bird-flu-in-china-20210601-p57×5o.html
Witty Rejoinder said:
Why China why?
fucking virology laboratories
H10N3 is a low pathogenic, or relatively less severe, strain of the virus in poultry and the risk of it spreading on a large scale was very low, the NHC added.
sarahs mum said:
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/jun/01/protocol-creep-blamed-for-scott-morrisons-red-carpet-treatment-by-air-force—
Protocol creep is a new term for me.
I think that’s what they are calling Morrison .
Cymek said:
transition said:
Peak Warming Man said:I’ve probably done that a few times.
causes a lot of troubles, the attraction to alcohol, drinking too much of it, intoxication, the mythology gives the impression it’s liberating, and it is maybe, not in an entirely different way to sniffing paint thinners probably is
It’s relaxing I find, drink it to get drunk not for the taste most of the time, makes you give less of a shit at least for a while
the ladies got liberated also, over the last sixty years, it’s been transformative, an egalitarian transformation, not discouraged by a smaller liver, or for some the possibility of being pregnant, a wonderful environment to gestate ideas about the social construction of reality
I’m going to go Chinese tonight which is quite rare for me, and make Cabbage Egg Drop soup (I was going to do cream of cauliflower but I’ll do that on my birthday, which incidentally is the day after tomorrow, viz. Thursday, 3rd of June).
Cabbage Egg Drop soup involves these ingredients: wombok (got a lovely big half yesterday), onion, garlic, ginger, white pepper, oil, chicken stock, eggs and the one ingredient I don’t have, sesame oil, which will have to be omitted.
sarahs mum said:
#OnThisDay 1 June 1973, Union of Australian Women protest outside the French consulate in George Street, Sydney.
— in Sydney, Australia.
Ah, on closer examination I see that they are not complaining about the dominance of European languages in the school curriculum.
sarahs mum said:
#OnThisDay 1 June 1973, Union of Australian Women protest outside the French consulate in George Street, Sydney.
— in Sydney, Australia.
Hear hear.
The Rev Dodgson said:
sarahs mum said:
#OnThisDay 1 June 1973, Union of Australian Women protest outside the French consulate in George Street, Sydney.
— in Sydney, Australia.
Ah, on closer examination I see that they are not complaining about the dominance of European languages in the school curriculum.
I think my Aunty Norah was one of those protestors although she is not in the pic.
L E S T W E F O R G E T 🌿🌺
⚓️ #OnThisDay 1 June 1942, the morning after Sydney Harbour was attacked, the partly submerged accommodation ship Kuttabul docked at Garden Island,
The night prior three Japanese midget submarines attacked Sydney Harbour. They were launched from a group of five larger submarines waiting off the Heads. All three midget submarines were lost, with two of them destroyed before they could fire their torpedoes. The third fired at but missed the USS Chicago, sinking HMAS Kuttabul, a coverted ferry, and killing 21 sleeping sailors aboard and wounding 10. Reactions by Sydney residents varied; a few made plans to flee the city, but many came to watch the recovery of the submarines.
sarahs mum said:
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L E S T W E F O R G E T 🌿🌺
⚓️ #OnThisDay 1 June 1942, the morning after Sydney Harbour was attacked, the partly submerged accommodation ship Kuttabul docked at Garden Island,The night prior three Japanese midget submarines attacked Sydney Harbour. They were launched from a group of five larger submarines waiting off the Heads. All three midget submarines were lost, with two of them destroyed before they could fire their torpedoes. The third fired at but missed the USS Chicago, sinking HMAS Kuttabul, a coverted ferry, and killing 21 sleeping sailors aboard and wounding 10. Reactions by Sydney residents varied; a few made plans to flee the city, but many came to watch the recovery of the submarines.
covert ferries.
sarahs mum said:
sarahs mum said:
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L E S T W E F O R G E T 🌿🌺
⚓️ #OnThisDay 1 June 1942, the morning after Sydney Harbour was attacked, the partly submerged accommodation ship Kuttabul docked at Garden Island,The night prior three Japanese midget submarines attacked Sydney Harbour. They were launched from a group of five larger submarines waiting off the Heads. All three midget submarines were lost, with two of them destroyed before they could fire their torpedoes. The third fired at but missed the USS Chicago, sinking HMAS Kuttabul, a coverted ferry, and killing 21 sleeping sailors aboard and wounding 10. Reactions by Sydney residents varied; a few made plans to flee the city, but many came to watch the recovery of the submarines.
covert ferries.
Converted ferry. Sad, it’s a pleasant looking vessel.
The mice are hoeing into the bait I laid earlier.
I reckon the shack is going to be mighty smelly next time I come up.
Peak Warming Man said:
The mice are hoeing into the bait I laid earlier.
I reckon the shack is going to be mighty smelly next time I come up.
Is it poison type bait?
If so they try to find water and so you might lay on some water in containers they can access and make it easier for you to dispose of.
Good evening from partly cloudy Biloela.
Bubblecar said:
I’m going to go Chinese tonight which is quite rare for me, and make Cabbage Egg Drop soup (I was going to do cream of cauliflower but I’ll do that on my birthday, which incidentally is the day after tomorrow, viz. Thursday, 3rd of June).Cabbage Egg Drop soup involves these ingredients: wombok (got a lovely big half yesterday), onion, garlic, ginger, white pepper, oil, chicken stock, eggs and the one ingredient I don’t have, sesame oil, which will have to be omitted.
I’m doing a chicken and veg stirfry featuring fresh picked green garlic, spring onions, carrots, snow peas and yellow capsicum. I’ll splash in some Chinese wine to deglaze the wok, and then pop in a smidge of sweet soy sauce for extra flavour.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-01/qld-court-timothy-england-not-guilty-cairns-brett-thomson-death/100182726
A death resulted but I wonder why it wasn’t considered self defense by the police
sarahs mum said:
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L E S T W E F O R G E T 🌿🌺
⚓️ #OnThisDay 1 June 1942, the morning after Sydney Harbour was attacked, the partly submerged accommodation ship Kuttabul docked at Garden Island,The night prior three Japanese midget submarines attacked Sydney Harbour. They were launched from a group of five larger submarines waiting off the Heads. All three midget submarines were lost, with two of them destroyed before they could fire their torpedoes. The third fired at but missed the USS Chicago, sinking HMAS Kuttabul, a coverted ferry, and killing 21 sleeping sailors aboard and wounding 10. Reactions by Sydney residents varied; a few made plans to flee the city, but many came to watch the recovery of the submarines.
My grandfather was working at Garden Island at the time. The Midget Subs were cut up and sold as souvenirs to raise money for the families of the dead sailors. I have a piece he bought for a shilling. A small length of copper tube.
Michael V said:
sarahs mum said:
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L E S T W E F O R G E T 🌿🌺
⚓️ #OnThisDay 1 June 1942, the morning after Sydney Harbour was attacked, the partly submerged accommodation ship Kuttabul docked at Garden Island,The night prior three Japanese midget submarines attacked Sydney Harbour. They were launched from a group of five larger submarines waiting off the Heads. All three midget submarines were lost, with two of them destroyed before they could fire their torpedoes. The third fired at but missed the USS Chicago, sinking HMAS Kuttabul, a coverted ferry, and killing 21 sleeping sailors aboard and wounding 10. Reactions by Sydney residents varied; a few made plans to flee the city, but many came to watch the recovery of the submarines.
My grandfather was working at Garden Island at the time. The Midget Subs were cut up and sold as souvenirs to raise money for the families of the dead sailors. I have a piece he bought for a shilling. A small length of copper tube.
I suppose my Dad was in Darwin or Katherine.
sarahs mum said:
Michael V said:
sarahs mum said:
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L E S T W E F O R G E T 🌿🌺
⚓️ #OnThisDay 1 June 1942, the morning after Sydney Harbour was attacked, the partly submerged accommodation ship Kuttabul docked at Garden Island,The night prior three Japanese midget submarines attacked Sydney Harbour. They were launched from a group of five larger submarines waiting off the Heads. All three midget submarines were lost, with two of them destroyed before they could fire their torpedoes. The third fired at but missed the USS Chicago, sinking HMAS Kuttabul, a coverted ferry, and killing 21 sleeping sailors aboard and wounding 10. Reactions by Sydney residents varied; a few made plans to flee the city, but many came to watch the recovery of the submarines.
My grandfather was working at Garden Island at the time. The Midget Subs were cut up and sold as souvenirs to raise money for the families of the dead sailors. I have a piece he bought for a shilling. A small length of copper tube.
I suppose my Dad was in Darwin or Katherine.
1942…my Mum would have been 12 and my Dad 10 years old.
Going to partake of the Robot of Sherwood episode of Dr Who tonight. It’s a Capaldi one. It’s lightweight and funny.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_of_Sherwood
Buffy, my left eye was substantially better this morning and just about normal by this evening. I’ll see my usual optometrist when I get back home.
Had it been worse or the same, I would’ve changed our itinerary and tried to see somebody in Gladstone or Rockhampton today.
Thanks for you advice.
Michael V said:
Buffy, my left eye was substantially better this morning and just about normal by this evening. I’ll see my usual optometrist when I get back home.Had it been worse or the same, I would’ve changed our itinerary and tried to see somebody in Gladstone or Rockhampton today.
Thanks for you advice.
OK. I can’t think of a reason for what happened.
Cymek said:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-01/qld-court-timothy-england-not-guilty-cairns-brett-thomson-death/100182726A death resulted but I wonder why it wasn’t considered self defense by the police
Because it wasn’t self defense. He was not being attacked, he just put an end to the “disagreement”.
So how long has the term SJW been so widely used that everyone except me knows what the letters stand for?
The Sons of Great Bear (German: Die Söhne der großen Bärin; literally, The Sons of the Great She-Bear) is a 1966 East German Western film, directed by the Czechoslovak filmmaker Josef Mach and starring the Yugoslav actor Gojko Mitić in the leading role of Tokei-ihto. The script was adapted from the eponymous series of novels by author Liselotte Welskopf-Henrich, and the music composed by Wilhelm Neef. The picture is a revisionist Western, pioneering the genre of the Ostern, and emphasises the positive portrayal of Native Americans, while presenting the Whites as antagonists.
The Rev Dodgson said:
So how long has the term SJW been so widely used that everyone except me knows what the letters stand for?
The phrase originated in the late 20th century as a neutral or positive term for people engaged in social justice activism. In 2011, when the term first appeared on Twitter, it changed from a primarily positive term to an overwhelmingly negative one. During the Gamergate controversy the term was adopted by what would become the alt-right, and the negative connotations gained increased usage which overshadowed its origins.
The Rev Dodgson said:
So how long has the term SJW been so widely used that everyone except me knows what the letters stand for?
I don’t know it. (But you wouldn’t expect me to really)
dv said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
So how long has the term SJW been so widely used that everyone except me knows what the letters stand for?The phrase originated in the late 20th century as a neutral or positive term for people engaged in social justice activism. In 2011, when the term first appeared on Twitter, it changed from a primarily positive term to an overwhelmingly negative one. During the Gamergate controversy the term was adopted by what would become the alt-right, and the negative connotations gained increased usage which overshadowed its origins.
Why, were they depressed, is St John’s Wort really that effective ¿
SCIENCE said:
dv said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
So how long has the term SJW been so widely used that everyone except me knows what the letters stand for?The phrase originated in the late 20th century as a neutral or positive term for people engaged in social justice activism. In 2011, when the term first appeared on Twitter, it changed from a primarily positive term to an overwhelmingly negative one. During the Gamergate controversy the term was adopted by what would become the alt-right, and the negative connotations gained increased usage which overshadowed its origins.
Why, were they depressed, is St John’s Wort really that effective ¿
I got hooked on St Johns wort too. The hypericum I used to grow was for the florist market.
Bubblecar said:
I’m going to go Chinese tonight which is quite rare for me, and make Cabbage Egg Drop soup (I was going to do cream of cauliflower but I’ll do that on my birthday, which incidentally is the day after tomorrow, viz. Thursday, 3rd of June).Cabbage Egg Drop soup involves these ingredients: wombok (got a lovely big half yesterday), onion, garlic, ginger, white pepper, oil, chicken stock, eggs and the one ingredient I don’t have, sesame oil, which will have to be omitted.
Verdict: very pleasant. Would have benefited from the toasted sesame oil. I’ll get some next shopping trip.
I kind of like watching DW reaction videos in the real WTF episodes. Paula Deming kicking off at Angels take Manhattan. “I hate stupid Steven Moffatt running this show, don’t fucking manipulate me.”
https://youtu.be/rQLI5NlL-OQ?t=860
dv said:
I kind of like watching DW reaction videos in the real WTF episodes. Paula Deming kicking off at Angels take Manhattan. “I hate stupid Steven Moffatt running this show, don’t fucking manipulate me.”
https://youtu.be/rQLI5NlL-OQ?t=860
I have absolutely no idea what you just said.
sibeen said:
dv said:I kind of like watching DW reaction videos in the real WTF episodes. Paula Deming kicking off at Angels take Manhattan. “I hate stupid Steven Moffatt running this show, don’t fucking manipulate me.”
https://youtu.be/rQLI5NlL-OQ?t=860
I have absolutely no idea what you just said.
shock
dv said:
sibeen said:
dv said:I kind of like watching DW reaction videos in the real WTF episodes. Paula Deming kicking off at Angels take Manhattan. “I hate stupid Steven Moffatt running this show, don’t fucking manipulate me.”
https://youtu.be/rQLI5NlL-OQ?t=860
I have absolutely no idea what you just said.
shock
I think you should explain it to sibeen in minute detail. that would be what a good mate would do anyway…
JudgeMental said:
dv said:
sibeen said:I have absolutely no idea what you just said.
shock
I think you should explain it to sibeen in minute detail. that would be what a good mate would do anyway…
Are sibeen and I mates?
dv said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
So how long has the term SJW been so widely used that everyone except me knows what the letters stand for?The phrase originated in the late 20th century as a neutral or positive term for people engaged in social justice activism. In 2011, when the term first appeared on Twitter, it changed from a primarily positive term to an overwhelmingly negative one. During the Gamergate controversy the term was adopted by what would become the alt-right, and the negative connotations gained increased usage which overshadowed its origins.
Thanks for that.
I guess it’s more common in the USA (or United States of America, as some would prefer to call it).
dv said:
JudgeMental said:
dv said:shock
I think you should explain it to sibeen in minute detail. that would be what a good mate would do anyway…
Are sibeen and I mates?
I would like to think so.
dv said:
JudgeMental said:
dv said:shock
I think you should explain it to sibeen in minute detail. that would be what a good mate would do anyway…
Are sibeen and I mates?
can you not pretend?
The Rev Dodgson said:
dv said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
So how long has the term SJW been so widely used that everyone except me knows what the letters stand for?The phrase originated in the late 20th century as a neutral or positive term for people engaged in social justice activism. In 2011, when the term first appeared on Twitter, it changed from a primarily positive term to an overwhelmingly negative one. During the Gamergate controversy the term was adopted by what would become the alt-right, and the negative connotations gained increased usage which overshadowed its origins.
Thanks for that.
I guess it’s more common in the USA (or United States of America, as some would prefer to call it).
Nowadays no one except unmitigated arseholes use the term
sibeen said:
dv said:
JudgeMental said:I think you should explain it to sibeen in minute detail. that would be what a good mate would do anyway…
Are sibeen and I mates?
I would like to think so.
Fair.
dv said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
dv said:The phrase originated in the late 20th century as a neutral or positive term for people engaged in social justice activism. In 2011, when the term first appeared on Twitter, it changed from a primarily positive term to an overwhelmingly negative one. During the Gamergate controversy the term was adopted by what would become the alt-right, and the negative connotations gained increased usage which overshadowed its origins.
Thanks for that.
I guess it’s more common in the USA (or United States of America, as some would prefer to call it).
Nowadays no one except unmitigated arseholes use the term
Plenty of those around, it seems.
SCIENCE said:
dv said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
So how long has the term SJW been so widely used that everyone except me knows what the letters stand for?The phrase originated in the late 20th century as a neutral or positive term for people engaged in social justice activism. In 2011, when the term first appeared on Twitter, it changed from a primarily positive term to an overwhelmingly negative one. During the Gamergate controversy the term was adopted by what would become the alt-right, and the negative connotations gained increased usage which overshadowed its origins.
Why, were they depressed, is St John’s Wort really that effective ¿
Apparently, yes…
“Twenty-seven studies met the study entry criteria. A total of 3,126 patients with depression were included. St John’s wort extract did not differ from SSRIs in clinical response, remission, and mean reduction in Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression score.”
I use the term to describe myself when explaining the sorts of things I do, on the internet, to friends at work. I use it in the way people use it to be derogatory as a sort of a back handed compliment.
poikilotherm said:
SCIENCE said:
dv said:The phrase originated in the late 20th century as a neutral or positive term for people engaged in social justice activism. In 2011, when the term first appeared on Twitter, it changed from a primarily positive term to an overwhelmingly negative one. During the Gamergate controversy the term was adopted by what would become the alt-right, and the negative connotations gained increased usage which overshadowed its origins.
Why, were they depressed, is St John’s Wort really that effective ¿
Apparently, yes…
“Twenty-seven studies met the study entry criteria. A total of 3,126 patients with depression were included. St John’s wort extract did not differ from SSRIs in clinical response, remission, and mean reduction in Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression score.”
I used hypericum cream on small wounds. found it effective.
sibeen said:
dv said:I kind of like watching DW reaction videos in the real WTF episodes. Paula Deming kicking off at Angels take Manhattan. “I hate stupid Steven Moffatt running this show, don’t fucking manipulate me.”
https://youtu.be/rQLI5NlL-OQ?t=860
I have absolutely no idea what you just said.
DW = Doctor Who.
I’m off in search of another comforting Norwegian train ride.
Bubblecar said:
I’m off in search of another comforting Norwegian train ride.
Just when I thought I had some overlap with Bubblecar’s Youtube habits I realised that nearly all of my rail video watching is about ultra-modern very high speed rail. None of this pleasant countryside stuff, the faster it zooms by the better.
party_pants said:
Bubblecar said:
I’m off in search of another comforting Norwegian train ride.
Just when I thought I had some overlap with Bubblecar’s Youtube habits I realised that nearly all of my rail video watching is about ultra-modern very high speed rail. None of this pleasant countryside stuff, the faster it zooms by the better.
Norway’s railways are pretty slick.
Bubblecar said:
sibeen said:
dv said:I kind of like watching DW reaction videos in the real WTF episodes. Paula Deming kicking off at Angels take Manhattan. “I hate stupid Steven Moffatt running this show, don’t fucking manipulate me.”
https://youtu.be/rQLI5NlL-OQ?t=860
I have absolutely no idea what you just said.
DW = Doctor Who.
not Deutsche Welle then
party_pants said:
Bubblecar said:
I’m off in search of another comforting Norwegian train ride.
Just when I thought I had some overlap with Bubblecar’s Youtube habits I realised that nearly all of my rail video watching is about ultra-modern very high speed rail. None of this pleasant countryside stuff, the faster it zooms by the better.
160kph tends to be the maximum on the Norwegian ones I’ve been watching recently, and that only on the most recently upgraded sections of rail (mostly through the more modern tunnels).
JudgeMental said:
I use the term to describe myself when explaining the sorts of things I do, on the internet, to friends at work. I use it in the way people use it to be derogatory as a sort of a back handed compliment.
That’s the way, reclaim it
draxx them sklounst
dv said:
draxx them sklounst
https://www.facebook.com/KeyAndPeele/videos/draxx-them-sklounst-get-froggy-on-the-season-premiere-httponcccom1j8klbr/834357706613164/
sibeen will love this one. you’ll be here until the heat death of the universe explaining it to him.
Enjoyed Robots of Sherwood again. Cheesy, camp and such good fun.
JudgeMental said:
dv said:
draxx them sklounst
https://www.facebook.com/KeyAndPeele/videos/draxx-them-sklounst-get-froggy-on-the-season-premiere-httponcccom1j8klbr/834357706613164/
sibeen will love this one. you’ll be here until the heat death of the universe explaining it to him.
Bubblecar said:
party_pants said:
Bubblecar said:
I’m off in search of another comforting Norwegian train ride.
Just when I thought I had some overlap with Bubblecar’s Youtube habits I realised that nearly all of my rail video watching is about ultra-modern very high speed rail. None of this pleasant countryside stuff, the faster it zooms by the better.
160kph tends to be the maximum on the Norwegian ones I’ve been watching recently, and that only on the most recently upgraded sections of rail (mostly through the more modern tunnels).
Have you done the Schwebebahn monorail in Wuppertal yet? Plenty of onboard vids of that one on Youtube.
Neophyte said:
Bubblecar said:
party_pants said:Just when I thought I had some overlap with Bubblecar’s Youtube habits I realised that nearly all of my rail video watching is about ultra-modern very high speed rail. None of this pleasant countryside stuff, the faster it zooms by the better.
160kph tends to be the maximum on the Norwegian ones I’ve been watching recently, and that only on the most recently upgraded sections of rail (mostly through the more modern tunnels).
Have you done the Schwebebahn monorail in Wuppertal yet? Plenty of onboard vids of that one on Youtube.
I have watched a few of those. Clever system by not really a goer for most places around the work IMHO.
I also love the Shanghai maglev.
I’ll move it to chat, p_p will be happy to know the rate of ancient DNA recovered and sequenced is outpacing the publication of the results by at least a factor of 10x. So plenty more to read about in time.
poikilotherm said:
I’ll move it to chat, p_p will be happy to know the rate of ancient DNA recovered and sequenced is outpacing the publication of the results by at least a factor of 10x. So plenty more to read about in time.
I watch a lot pf public lectures on the topic on YouTube. Usually given by the researchers themselves but dumbed down a bit for a generalist audience (like me).
Neophyte said:
Bubblecar said:
party_pants said:Just when I thought I had some overlap with Bubblecar’s Youtube habits I realised that nearly all of my rail video watching is about ultra-modern very high speed rail. None of this pleasant countryside stuff, the faster it zooms by the better.
160kph tends to be the maximum on the Norwegian ones I’ve been watching recently, and that only on the most recently upgraded sections of rail (mostly through the more modern tunnels).
Have you done the Schwebebahn monorail in Wuppertal yet? Plenty of onboard vids of that one on Youtube.
They are brilliant!
Neophyte said:
Bubblecar said:
party_pants said:Just when I thought I had some overlap with Bubblecar’s Youtube habits I realised that nearly all of my rail video watching is about ultra-modern very high speed rail. None of this pleasant countryside stuff, the faster it zooms by the better.
160kph tends to be the maximum on the Norwegian ones I’ve been watching recently, and that only on the most recently upgraded sections of rail (mostly through the more modern tunnels).
Have you done the Schwebebahn monorail in Wuppertal yet? Plenty of onboard vids of that one on Youtube.
They are brilliant!
Good Evening
monkey skipper said:
Good Evening
‘ning Ms Skipper. How goes it?
Rule 303 said:
monkey skipper said:
Good Evening
‘ning Ms Skipper. How goes it?
Yeah … not too bad.
how’s lockdown in Vic going?
monkey skipper said:
how’s lockdown in Vic going?
Badly. They hate it.
(I’m in FNQ for a week, so I’m guessing)
thunder monsters out there, no rain to speak of yet
how far is a 10 minute walk – for an average suburbanite?
A k, maybe 1200 to 1300 metres.
sibeen said:
A k, maybe 1200 to 1300 metres.
Nah, belay the 1200 or 1300. A k it is.
I run a kilometre in something just below 6 minutes. I’m not particularly fast, but it’s not that slow either.
party_pants said:
how far is a 10 minute walk – for an average suburbanite?
800-900 metres.
Bubblecar said:
party_pants said:
how far is a 10 minute walk – for an average suburbanite?
800-900 metres.
Sounds good.
I think for me 1 km is a bit more than 10 min because I can’t walk so fast.
party_pants said:
how far is a 10 minute walk – for an average suburbanite?
Age and fitness level strongly influence walk speed. 800m is probably the average for 85% of the population.
I’m trying to work out a good spacing for bus stops…
As a rough indicator, the standard ‘arduous pack test’ used to select top shelf operational members by many of the world’s government services agencies is 4.8km / carrying 20.4kg / 45 min. That’s about 1066m/10min.
party_pants said:
I’m trying to work out a good spacing for bus stops…
Someone has likely worked on that.
sibeen said:
party_pants said:
I’m trying to work out a good spacing for bus stops…
Someone has likely worked on that.
Probably not in my local area.
party_pants said:
I’m trying to work out a good spacing for bus stops…
I bet there’s an algorithm that includes lots of complicated stuff.
I don’t think they care. Bums on seats per hour.
sarahs mum said:
I don’t think they care. Bums on seats per hour.
bums on seats needs careful planning
sarahs mum said:
I don’t think they care. Bums on seats per hour.
I suspect the people who plan these things care quite a bit.
Mate Pete is an Elephant bloke who works in Vietnam and Thailand rescuing, de-training, caring, and advocating for Elephants who have been used in the tourist and agricultural industries. I wont bore you with the full stories, but these two have been kept in isolation as slaves since they were babies. And then he rescued them and this happened.
The female will be able to enter the male’s enclosure (which is the size of a footy oval) if she chooses.
party_pants said:
I’m trying to work out a good spacing for bus stops…
Send up a drone for a week over all the areas you want covered.
Analyse the movement of people to and from buses.
A passenger questionnaire.
Some companies work from 3 km triangulars ?
Got your nose!
Just kidding… Gimme some food.
Police Bust Suspected Cannabis Farm, Turns Out To Be Large Bitcoin Mining Operation
https://www.iflscience.com/technology/police-bust-suspected-cannabis-farm-turns-out-to-be-large-bitcoin-mining-operation/
sarahs mum said:
Police Bust Suspected Cannabis Farm, Turns Out To Be Large Bitcoin Mining Operationhttps://www.iflscience.com/technology/police-bust-suspected-cannabis-farm-turns-out-to-be-large-bitcoin-mining-operation/
LOL
It’s both.
:-)
sarahs mum said:
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L E S T W E F O R G E T 🌿🌺
⚓️ #OnThisDay 1 June 1942, the morning after Sydney Harbour was attacked, the partly submerged accommodation ship Kuttabul docked at Garden Island,The night prior three Japanese midget submarines attacked Sydney Harbour. They were launched from a group of five larger submarines waiting off the Heads. All three midget submarines were lost, with two of them destroyed before they could fire their torpedoes. The third fired at but missed the USS Chicago, sinking HMAS Kuttabul, a coverted ferry, and killing 21 sleeping sailors aboard and wounding 10. Reactions by Sydney residents varied; a few made plans to flee the city, but many came to watch the recovery of the submarines.
Kuttabul was just a ferry wasn’t it?
Or what was it converted into?
Rule 303 said:
sarahs mum said:
Police Bust Suspected Cannabis Farm, Turns Out To Be Large Bitcoin Mining Operationhttps://www.iflscience.com/technology/police-bust-suspected-cannabis-farm-turns-out-to-be-large-bitcoin-mining-operation/
LOL
It’s both.
:-)
Growing plants in your garage: “$1000 fine and good behavior bond”.
Stealing electricity to grow those plants: “$5000 fine and 3 months behind bars”.
Dark Orange said:
Rule 303 said:
sarahs mum said:
Police Bust Suspected Cannabis Farm, Turns Out To Be Large Bitcoin Mining Operationhttps://www.iflscience.com/technology/police-bust-suspected-cannabis-farm-turns-out-to-be-large-bitcoin-mining-operation/
LOL
It’s both.
:-)
Growing plants in your garage: “$1000 fine and good behavior bond”.
Stealing electricity to grow those plants: “$5000 fine and 3 months behind bars”.
“The secret of a great fortune made without apparent cause is soon forgotten, if the crime is committed in a respectable way.” is probably the best rendering of an often mis-quoted phrase from Balzac.
maybe 1mm of rain, didn’t have my glasses on when tried reading the gauge, snails are excited anyway, me not so much
see what else turns up tonight
yawn
transition said:
maybe 1mm of rain, didn’t have my glasses on when tried reading the gauge, snails are excited anyway, me not so muchsee what else turns up tonight
yawn
No rain here.
i just watched Tom Pemberton cut his first silage for the year.
sarahs mum said:
transition said:
maybe 1mm of rain, didn’t have my glasses on when tried reading the gauge, snails are excited anyway, me not so muchsee what else turns up tonight
yawn
No rain here.
i just watched Tom Pemberton cut his first silage for the year.
having gander on the tube some of that^
transition said:
sarahs mum said:
transition said:
maybe 1mm of rain, didn’t have my glasses on when tried reading the gauge, snails are excited anyway, me not so muchsee what else turns up tonight
yawn
No rain here.
i just watched Tom Pemberton cut his first silage for the year.
having gander on the tube some of that^
Next week he will be spreading muck again…
sarahs mum said:
transition said:
sarahs mum said:No rain here.
i just watched Tom Pemberton cut his first silage for the year.
having gander on the tube some of that^
Next week he will be spreading muck again…
ought chuck another stump on my fire and shuteyes, sm
been doing bookwork, thought I was near done, but saw have another three weeks of entries to type out yet
got way behind last three months
goodnight
transition said:
sarahs mum said:
transition said:having gander on the tube some of that^
Next week he will be spreading muck again…
ought chuck another stump on my fire and shuteyes, sm
been doing bookwork, thought I was near done, but saw have another three weeks of entries to type out yet
got way behind last three months
goodnight
dv said:
Well, they either have to be paid less or more. If they were paid more than that would actually be news.
mollwollfumble said:
dv said:
Well, they either have to be paid less or more. If they were paid more than that would actually be news.
supply and demand
sarahs mum said:
#OnThisDay 1 June 1973, Union of Australian Women protest outside the French consulate in George Street, Sydney.
— in Sydney, Australia.
They appear to be smaller women than the giant in the foeground.
Peak Warming Man said:
This is why I have to walk up the mountain.
It’ll buff out.
Good morning Holidayers. Five degrees and lightly overcast. Our forecast for today is for a partly cloudy 16. A couple of mm rain is forecast for tomorrow, so I probably should mow some grass today while it’s dry.
sibeen said:
sarahs mum said:
I don’t think they care. Bums on seats per hour.
I suspect the people who plan these things care quite a bit.
I’d go so far as to say that for people working in that area, it is the whole aim of their working life.
mollwollfumble said:
dv said:
Well, they either have to be paid less or more. If they were paid more than that would actually be news.
Bit off topic but her head looks big
dv said:
mollwollfumble said:
dv said:
Well, they either have to be paid less or more. If they were paid more than that would actually be news.
Bit off topic but her head looks big
It is squeezed by the tight white thing around her neck.
Hello
buffy said:
Enjoyed Robots of Sherwood again. Cheesy, camp and such good fun.
Yes it has its merits
Cymek said:
Hello
g’day
dv said:
mollwollfumble said:dv said:
Well, they either have to be paid less or more. If they were paid more than that would actually be news.
Bit off topic but her head looks big
shopped
roughbarked said:
dv said:
mollwollfumble said:Well, they either have to be paid less or more. If they were paid more than that would actually be news.
Bit off topic but her head looks big
It is squeezed by the tight white thing around her neck.
ah can’t breathe
Cymek said:
Hello
dv said:
mollwollfumble said:
dv said:
Well, they either have to be paid less or more. If they were paid more than that would actually be news.
Bit off topic but her head looks big
Assuming that the average age of the male priests is way higher than the female priests, it is not surprising that their average wage is higher.
If their average wage is higher on an age-adjusted basis, then that would be something worth commenting on (and it may well be the case of course).
The Rev Dodgson said:
dv said:
mollwollfumble said:Well, they either have to be paid less or more. If they were paid more than that would actually be news.
Bit off topic but her head looks big
Assuming that the average age of the male priests is way higher than the female priests, it is not surprising that their average wage is higher.
If their average wage is higher on an age-adjusted basis, then that would be something worth commenting on (and it may well be the case of course).
we stand by the supply demand claim then
The Rev Dodgson said:
dv said:
mollwollfumble said:Well, they either have to be paid less or more. If they were paid more than that would actually be news.
Bit off topic but her head looks big
Assuming that the average age of the male priests is way higher than the female priests, it is not surprising that their average wage is higher.
If their average wage is higher on an age-adjusted basis, then that would be something worth commenting on (and it may well be the case of course).
Perhaps the men get an altar boy allowance
https://www.abc.net.au/radio/perth/programs/mornings/canadian-homeless-cash-program/13368548
How an $8000 lump sum changed the lives of the recently homeless in a Canadian research project – and the lessons for WA
On Mornings with Nadia Mitsopoulos
Download What happens when you give a homeless person $8000?
Homelessness has been on the increase in WA, with tent cities filled with rough sleepers in the CBD and Fremantle, and a rental crisis in regional areas forcing many people into cars, backyards and friends’ spare bedrooms.
But could a radical idea out of Canada provide some inspiration, and serve as a possible circuit-breaker?
A charity in Vancouver called the New Leaf Project gave recently homeless people $8000 cash in a lump sum to spend however they want.
Listen as Claire Williams, co-founder and CEO of Foundations for Social Change – the group behind the Project – explains to Nadia the impact the money had.
JudgeMental said:
https://www.abc.net.au/radio/perth/programs/mornings/canadian-homeless-cash-program/13368548How an $8000 lump sum changed the lives of the recently homeless in a Canadian research project – and the lessons for WA
On Mornings with Nadia Mitsopoulos
Download What happens when you give a homeless person $8000?
Homelessness has been on the increase in WA, with tent cities filled with rough sleepers in the CBD and Fremantle, and a rental crisis in regional areas forcing many people into cars, backyards and friends’ spare bedrooms.
But could a radical idea out of Canada provide some inspiration, and serve as a possible circuit-breaker?
A charity in Vancouver called the New Leaf Project gave recently homeless people $8000 cash in a lump sum to spend however they want.
Listen as Claire Williams, co-founder and CEO of Foundations for Social Change – the group behind the Project – explains to Nadia the impact the money had.
¿ so ubi works ?
SCIENCE said:
JudgeMental said:
https://www.abc.net.au/radio/perth/programs/mornings/canadian-homeless-cash-program/13368548How an $8000 lump sum changed the lives of the recently homeless in a Canadian research project – and the lessons for WA
On Mornings with Nadia Mitsopoulos
Download What happens when you give a homeless person $8000?
Homelessness has been on the increase in WA, with tent cities filled with rough sleepers in the CBD and Fremantle, and a rental crisis in regional areas forcing many people into cars, backyards and friends’ spare bedrooms.
But could a radical idea out of Canada provide some inspiration, and serve as a possible circuit-breaker?
A charity in Vancouver called the New Leaf Project gave recently homeless people $8000 cash in a lump sum to spend however they want.
Listen as Claire Williams, co-founder and CEO of Foundations for Social Change – the group behind the Project – explains to Nadia the impact the money had.
¿ so ubi works ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ub_Iwerks
Clinton Engineer Works, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, 1944.
“Calutron Girls — Gladys Owens (foreground), one of the workers monitoring ‘Calutron’ mass spectrometers at the Y-12 uranium isotope separation and enrichment plant.
Like many of these women, she did not realize the significance of her work in the development of the first atomic bomb until long after the war had ended.”
Photo by Ed Westcott, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
dv said:
SCIENCE said:
JudgeMental said:
https://www.abc.net.au/radio/perth/programs/mornings/canadian-homeless-cash-program/13368548How an $8000 lump sum changed the lives of the recently homeless in a Canadian research project – and the lessons for WA
On Mornings with Nadia Mitsopoulos
Download What happens when you give a homeless person $8000?
Homelessness has been on the increase in WA, with tent cities filled with rough sleepers in the CBD and Fremantle, and a rental crisis in regional areas forcing many people into cars, backyards and friends’ spare bedrooms.
But could a radical idea out of Canada provide some inspiration, and serve as a possible circuit-breaker?
A charity in Vancouver called the New Leaf Project gave recently homeless people $8000 cash in a lump sum to spend however they want.
Listen as Claire Williams, co-founder and CEO of Foundations for Social Change – the group behind the Project – explains to Nadia the impact the money had.
¿ so ubi works ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ub_Iwerks
Is general prosperity leading to rising house prices and rents and an increase in homeless people a tragedy of the commons?
I wish we had some politicians with the will to do something about it, and the ability to get elected.
Report on Red Velvet Cake. Very, very sweet. OK, but won’t buy again. I’ll stick to my Devil’s Food Cake made here where I can reduce the sugar content of the cake.
Bubblecar said:
Clinton Engineer Works, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, 1944.“Calutron Girls — Gladys Owens (foreground), one of the workers monitoring ‘Calutron’ mass spectrometers at the Y-12 uranium isotope separation and enrichment plant.
Like many of these women, she did not realize the significance of her work in the development of the first atomic bomb until long after the war had ended.”
Photo by Ed Westcott, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
‘What did you do in the war, Mummy?’
‘Well, i was involved in research work which ultimately helped to vaporise thousands of people, and leave lots of others with terrible burns and radiation sickness.’
‘On the other hand, my work helped to obviate an invasion of the Japanese home islands which would have cost the lives of millions of Japanese civilians, including old people and children, and the cost of a million Allied casualties by conservative estimates.’
‘So, it was a bit thisway, a bit that way. Any other questions?’
‘No.’
And off I go to do some more mowing before the drizzle forecast for tomorrow gets here.
The Rev Dodgson said:
dv said:
SCIENCE said:¿ so ubi works ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ub_Iwerks
Is general prosperity leading to rising house prices and rents and an increase in homeless people a tragedy of the commons?
I wish we had some politicians with the will to do something about it, and the ability to get elected.
Yeah. But it is a question of what to do about it.
In general there are two options: market-based private rental, or ownership, usually through long term mortgage finance. There isn’t much in between these two options. There is some state-owned social housing but the deliberate policy has been to reduce this.
party_pants said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
dv said:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ub_Iwerks
Is general prosperity leading to rising house prices and rents and an increase in homeless people a tragedy of the commons?
I wish we had some politicians with the will to do something about it, and the ability to get elected.
Yeah. But it is a question of what to do about it.
In general there are two options: market-based private rental, or ownership, usually through long term mortgage finance. There isn’t much in between these two options. There is some state-owned social housing but the deliberate policy has been to reduce this.
aren’t interest rates tipped to go up as well, so here’s something we don’t get
Corruption Coalition allegedly manage economy better than Union Mobsters right
CC also claim that under CC interest rates will be lower than under UM
and then the economists tell us how we need to lower interest rates to stimulate faltering economies
and then wedungeddit
buffy said:
Report on Red Velvet Cake. Very, very sweet. OK, but won’t buy again. I’ll stick to my Devil’s Food Cake made here where I can reduce the sugar content of the cake.
Thanks. :)
SCIENCE said:
party_pants said:
The Rev Dodgson said:Is general prosperity leading to rising house prices and rents and an increase in homeless people a tragedy of the commons?
I wish we had some politicians with the will to do something about it, and the ability to get elected.
Yeah. But it is a question of what to do about it.
In general there are two options: market-based private rental, or ownership, usually through long term mortgage finance. There isn’t much in between these two options. There is some state-owned social housing but the deliberate policy has been to reduce this.
aren’t interest rates tipped to go up as well, so here’s something we don’t get
Corruption Coalition allegedly manage economy better than Union Mobsters right
CC also claim that under CC interest rates will be lower than under UM
and then the economists tell us how we need to lower interest rates to stimulate faltering economies
and then wedungeddit
Maybe you are being lied to?
captain_spalding said:
Bubblecar said:
Clinton Engineer Works, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, 1944.“Calutron Girls — Gladys Owens (foreground), one of the workers monitoring ‘Calutron’ mass spectrometers at the Y-12 uranium isotope separation and enrichment plant.
Like many of these women, she did not realize the significance of her work in the development of the first atomic bomb until long after the war had ended.”
Photo by Ed Westcott, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
‘What did you do in the war, Mummy?’
‘Well, i was involved in research work which ultimately helped to vaporise thousands of people, and leave lots of others with terrible burns and radiation sickness.’
‘On the other hand, my work helped to obviate an invasion of the Japanese home islands which would have cost the lives of millions of Japanese civilians, including old people and children, and the cost of a million Allied casualties by conservative estimates.’
‘So, it was a bit thisway, a bit that way. Any other questions?’
‘No.’
if only Iran had liberated its women, given them respectable work like this, then they wouldn’t have been Stuxed by the ‘net like they did
SCIENCE said:
captain_spalding said:
Bubblecar said:
Clinton Engineer Works, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, 1944.“Calutron Girls — Gladys Owens (foreground), one of the workers monitoring ‘Calutron’ mass spectrometers at the Y-12 uranium isotope separation and enrichment plant.
Like many of these women, she did not realize the significance of her work in the development of the first atomic bomb until long after the war had ended.”
Photo by Ed Westcott, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
‘What did you do in the war, Mummy?’
‘Well, i was involved in research work which ultimately helped to vaporise thousands of people, and leave lots of others with terrible burns and radiation sickness.’
‘On the other hand, my work helped to obviate an invasion of the Japanese home islands which would have cost the lives of millions of Japanese civilians, including old people and children, and the cost of a million Allied casualties by conservative estimates.’
‘So, it was a bit thisway, a bit that way. Any other questions?’
‘No.’
if only Iran had liberated its women, given them respectable work like this, then they wouldn’t have been Stuxed by the ‘net like they did
We could have called them PIDs.
sibeen said:
SCIENCE said:captain_spalding said:Bubblecar said:Clinton Engineer Works, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, 1944.“Calutron Girls — Gladys Owens (foreground), one of the workers monitoring ‘Calutron’ mass spectrometers at the Y-12 uranium isotope separation and enrichment plant.
Like many of these women, she did not realize the significance of her work in the development of the first atomic bomb until long after the war had ended.”
Photo by Ed Westcott, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
‘What did you do in the war, Mummy?’
‘Well, i was involved in research work which ultimately helped to vaporise thousands of people, and leave lots of others with terrible burns and radiation sickness.’
‘On the other hand, my work helped to obviate an invasion of the Japanese home islands which would have cost the lives of millions of Japanese civilians, including old people and children, and the cost of a million Allied casualties by conservative estimates.’
‘So, it was a bit thisway, a bit that way. Any other questions?’
‘No.’
if only Iran had liberated its women, given them respectable work like this, then they wouldn’t have been Stuxed by the ‘net like they did
We could have called them PIDs.
Chlamydia girls¿
SCIENCE said:
sibeen said:SCIENCE said:if only Iran had liberated its women, given them respectable work like this, then they wouldn’t have been Stuxed by the ‘net like they did
We could have called them PIDs.
Chlamydia girls¿
I wonder what the cost analysis for cyberwarfare vs warfare is
Cheaper by far I imagine, few hundred/thousands PC’s and hackers at the cost of one current generation fighter jet.
Deniability is easy as hard to prove anything vs you blowing something up for everyone to see.
Cymek said:
SCIENCE said:
sibeen said:We could have called them PIDs.
Chlamydia girls¿
I wonder what the cost analysis for cyberwarfare vs warfare is
Cheaper by far I imagine, few hundred/thousands PC’s and hackers at the cost of one current generation fighter jet.
Deniability is easy as hard to prove anything vs you blowing something up for everyone to see.
“cheaper“¿ damn, the hackers MAKE you money
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eee1A4Ix0wM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwpvEPsAP8o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7aF_IXhWz8
speaking of blowing something up
party_pants said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
dv said:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ub_Iwerks
Is general prosperity leading to rising house prices and rents and an increase in homeless people a tragedy of the commons?
I wish we had some politicians with the will to do something about it, and the ability to get elected.
Yeah. But it is a question of what to do about it.
In general there are two options: market-based private rental, or ownership, usually through long term mortgage finance. There isn’t much in between these two options. There is some state-owned social housing but the deliberate policy has been to reduce this.
So why do you say there are only two options, when the obvious option is to provide sufficient state provided social housing that everyone in need can get reasonable quality accommodation?
The Rev Dodgson said:
party_pants said:
The Rev Dodgson said:Is general prosperity leading to rising house prices and rents and an increase in homeless people a tragedy of the commons?
I wish we had some politicians with the will to do something about it, and the ability to get elected.
Yeah. But it is a question of what to do about it.
In general there are two options: market-based private rental, or ownership, usually through long term mortgage finance. There isn’t much in between these two options. There is some state-owned social housing but the deliberate policy has been to reduce this.
So why do you say there are only two options, when the obvious option is to provide sufficient state provided social housing that everyone in need can get reasonable quality accommodation?
¿ fuck they can’t even cobble together enough open-air detention camp rooms for 10000 returning citizens and you expect them to build safe, secure, sufficient, social housing at a reasonable quality for everyone who needs it ?
TIL Canadian cars with automatic transmission don’t have handbrakes
dv said:
TIL Canadian cars with automatic transmission don’t have handbrakes
I don’t think it’s a Canadian thing.
My Mazda doesn’t have a hand brake, and I’m pretty sure it wasn’t made in Canada.
The Rev Dodgson said:
dv said:
TIL Canadian cars with automatic transmission don’t have handbrakes
I don’t think it’s a Canadian thing.
My Mazda doesn’t have a hand brake, and I’m pretty sure it wasn’t made in Canada.
does it have a foot-operated parking brake
The Rev Dodgson said:
dv said:
TIL Canadian cars with automatic transmission don’t have handbrakes
I don’t think it’s a Canadian thing.
My Mazda doesn’t have a hand brake, and I’m pretty sure it wasn’t made in Canada.
They have a park brake. it is labelled P.
SCIENCE said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
dv said:
TIL Canadian cars with automatic transmission don’t have handbrakes
I don’t think it’s a Canadian thing.
My Mazda doesn’t have a hand brake, and I’m pretty sure it wasn’t made in Canada.
does it have a foot-operated parking brake
All automatics have a vault you through the windscreen foot brake don’t they?
roughbarked said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
dv said:
TIL Canadian cars with automatic transmission don’t have handbrakes
I don’t think it’s a Canadian thing.
My Mazda doesn’t have a hand brake, and I’m pretty sure it wasn’t made in Canada.
They have a park brake. it is labelled P.
uh isn’t that a gear position
SCIENCE said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
dv said:
TIL Canadian cars with automatic transmission don’t have handbrakes
I don’t think it’s a Canadian thing.
My Mazda doesn’t have a hand brake, and I’m pretty sure it wasn’t made in Canada.
does it have a foot-operated parking brake
No, you flick a switch for the parking brake.
roughbarked said:
SCIENCE said:The Rev Dodgson said:I don’t think it’s a Canadian thing.My Mazda doesn’t have a hand brake, and I’m pretty sure it wasn’t made in Canada.
does it have a foot-operated parking brake
All automatics have a vault you through the windscreen foot brake don’t they?
we believe modern passenger vehicular standards generally include seat belts
SCIENCE said:
roughbarked said:
The Rev Dodgson said:I don’t think it’s a Canadian thing.
My Mazda doesn’t have a hand brake, and I’m pretty sure it wasn’t made in Canada.
They have a park brake. it is labelled P.
uh isn’t that a gear position
It is a position on the gear shift, yes.
The Rev Dodgson said:
SCIENCE said:The Rev Dodgson said:I don’t think it’s a Canadian thing.My Mazda doesn’t have a hand brake, and I’m pretty sure it wasn’t made in Canada.
does it have a foot-operated parking brake
No, you flick a switch for the parking brake.
so the switch, if not foot or hand operated, what do you flick it with
SCIENCE said:
roughbarked said:SCIENCE said:does it have a foot-operated parking brake
All automatics have a vault you through the windscreen foot brake don’t they?
we believe modern passenger vehicular standards generally include seat belts
Thank the good lord for that.
SCIENCE said:
The Rev Dodgson said:SCIENCE said:does it have a foot-operated parking brake
No, you flick a switch for the parking brake.
so the switch, if not foot or hand operated, what do you flick it with
A finger.
anyway, Canada, Japan, same thing, they’re both countries with less islands than Finsland and manyer islands than Thaisland
SCIENCE said:
The Rev Dodgson said:SCIENCE said:does it have a foot-operated parking brake
No, you flick a switch for the parking brake.
so the switch, if not foot or hand operated, what do you flick it with
You flutter your eyelashes at it.
The Rev Dodgson said:
SCIENCE said:
The Rev Dodgson said:No, you flick a switch for the parking brake.
so the switch, if not foot or hand operated, what do you flick it with
A finger.
any digit will do.
SCIENCE said:
anyway, Canada, Japan, same thing, they’re both countries with less islands than Finsland and manyer islands than Thaisland
Shouldn’t that be thighsland?
The Rev Dodgson said:
SCIENCE said:
The Rev Dodgson said:No, you flick a switch for the parking brake.
so the switch, if not foot or hand operated, what do you flick it with
A finger.
well it isn’t the answer to everything but WINTATE does not seem to explicitly state that the Finger is part of the Hand so
The Rev Dodgson said:
party_pants said:
The Rev Dodgson said:Is general prosperity leading to rising house prices and rents and an increase in homeless people a tragedy of the commons?
I wish we had some politicians with the will to do something about it, and the ability to get elected.
Yeah. But it is a question of what to do about it.
In general there are two options: market-based private rental, or ownership, usually through long term mortgage finance. There isn’t much in between these two options. There is some state-owned social housing but the deliberate policy has been to reduce this.
So why do you say there are only two options, when the obvious option is to provide sufficient state provided social housing that everyone in need can get reasonable quality accommodation?
These are the two housing options left after the state governments have wound back state owned social housing. It is not completely eliminated but there is a long waiting list, and it is mostly for people on low incomes. It was scaled back deliberately because this style of housing on a mass scale leads to social problems. I can’t see how the problem can be fixed in the short term, if a policy shift was announced today it would be at least a couple of years before the first people get to move into any new social housing scheme.
party_pants said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
party_pants said:Yeah. But it is a question of what to do about it.
In general there are two options: market-based private rental, or ownership, usually through long term mortgage finance. There isn’t much in between these two options. There is some state-owned social housing but the deliberate policy has been to reduce this.
So why do you say there are only two options, when the obvious option is to provide sufficient state provided social housing that everyone in need can get reasonable quality accommodation?
These are the two housing options left after the state governments have wound back state owned social housing. It is not completely eliminated but there is a long waiting list, and it is mostly for people on low incomes. It was scaled back deliberately because this style of housing on a mass scale leads to social problems. I can’t see how the problem can be fixed in the short term, if a policy shift was announced today it would be at least a couple of years before the first people get to move into any new social housing scheme.
OK, but it’s not a short term problem looking for a quick fix.
I really don’t get why no-one seems to want to talk about it.
ABC News:
‘Dodo and iPrimus fined $2.5m for misleading consumers about NBN speeds’
There’s no mention in the story of whether or not they’ve been made to stop telling the fibs: perhaps the $2.5m has bought them a license to tell porkies.
party_pants said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
party_pants said:Yeah. But it is a question of what to do about it.
In general there are two options: market-based private rental, or ownership, usually through long term mortgage finance. There isn’t much in between these two options. There is some state-owned social housing but the deliberate policy has been to reduce this.
So why do you say there are only two options, when the obvious option is to provide sufficient state provided social housing that everyone in need can get reasonable quality accommodation?
These are the two housing options left after the state governments have wound back state owned social housing. It is not completely eliminated but there is a long waiting list, and it is mostly for people on low incomes. It was scaled back deliberately because this style of housing on a mass scale leads to social problems. I can’t see how the problem can be fixed in the short term, if a policy shift was announced today it would be at least a couple of years before the first people get to move into any new social housing scheme.
But are the social problems created because they decided to put the housing all in the same spot rather than spread t out through the general community?
The Rev Dodgson said:
party_pants said:
The Rev Dodgson said:So why do you say there are only two options, when the obvious option is to provide sufficient state provided social housing that everyone in need can get reasonable quality accommodation?
These are the two housing options left after the state governments have wound back state owned social housing. It is not completely eliminated but there is a long waiting list, and it is mostly for people on low incomes. It was scaled back deliberately because this style of housing on a mass scale leads to social problems. I can’t see how the problem can be fixed in the short term, if a policy shift was announced today it would be at least a couple of years before the first people get to move into any new social housing scheme.
OK, but it’s not a short term problem looking for a quick fix.
I really don’t get why no-one seems to want to talk about it.
I thought it was a problem looking for a quick fix.
My long term solution would be to separate out ownership of the land and the house. Come up with a range of standardised foundations or footings, with service connections in a known spot. Let designers and architects come up with a range of semi-permanent but transportable houses which could be dismantled and erected with the space of a week. State governments or local authorities could lease plots of land with foundation and service connections on medium term contracts. The tenants arrange to erect their own house on it.
I know it is not a popular thing right now to have a private house on government land, given all the troubles one of our own members has had with this. But I reckon it could be a viable in between renting or buying.
sibeen said:
party_pants said:
The Rev Dodgson said:So why do you say there are only two options, when the obvious option is to provide sufficient state provided social housing that everyone in need can get reasonable quality accommodation?
These are the two housing options left after the state governments have wound back state owned social housing. It is not completely eliminated but there is a long waiting list, and it is mostly for people on low incomes. It was scaled back deliberately because this style of housing on a mass scale leads to social problems. I can’t see how the problem can be fixed in the short term, if a policy shift was announced today it would be at least a couple of years before the first people get to move into any new social housing scheme.
But are the social problems created because they decided to put the housing all in the same spot rather than spread t out through the general community?
Yes. But spreading it all out reduces property values if there are Homeswest (or whatever they call it in other states) in nearby streets.
party_pants said:
sibeen said:
party_pants said:These are the two housing options left after the state governments have wound back state owned social housing. It is not completely eliminated but there is a long waiting list, and it is mostly for people on low incomes. It was scaled back deliberately because this style of housing on a mass scale leads to social problems. I can’t see how the problem can be fixed in the short term, if a policy shift was announced today it would be at least a couple of years before the first people get to move into any new social housing scheme.
But are the social problems created because they decided to put the housing all in the same spot rather than spread t out through the general community?
Yes. But spreading it all out reduces property values if there are Homeswest (or whatever they call it in other states) in nearby streets.
Poor people who act like trash do a disservice to all the hard working non trash poor people and get them all labelled that way
party_pants said:
Let designers and architects come up with a range of semi-permanent but transportable houses which could be dismantled and erected with the space of a week. State governments or local authorities could lease plots of land with foundation and service connections on medium term contracts. The tenants arrange to erect their own house on it.
They already do. It’s called Trailer Park Trash”.
Cymek said:
party_pants said:
sibeen said:But are the social problems created because they decided to put the housing all in the same spot rather than spread t out through the general community?
Yes. But spreading it all out reduces property values if there are Homeswest (or whatever they call it in other states) in nearby streets.
Poor people who act like trash do a disservice to all the hard working non trash poor people and get them all labelled that way
Yes. it is a problem. I do not know the solution. Some people are just arseholes and they make life more difficult for anyone that has to interact with them. But they have to live somewhere in a civilised society. Mix that with race and cultural issues and it becomes a problem nobody wants to touch. This is why state governments have slowly abandoned public housing.
It used to be a way of settling immigrants, they’d get public housing for a while until they had established themselves a bit and were able to afford to buy their own house – this is how my parents started in Australia.
Woodie said:
party_pants said:Let designers and architects come up with a range of semi-permanent but transportable houses which could be dismantled and erected with the space of a week. State governments or local authorities could lease plots of land with foundation and service connections on medium term contracts. The tenants arrange to erect their own house on it.They already do. It’s called Trailer Park Trash”.
There’s a lot of over-55 schemes like that over here.
Thing is though, you don’t need to make these houses cheap and shoddy. you could mandate a building code that makes this style of housing just as good as or better than a standard permanent house in terms of quality, energy efficiency, insulation, storm rating etc. If you made them this good they would also become the default option for people who want to own their own house and land, they could buy the land and then choose which house to put up.
When I say transportable, I mean once every 5-10 years. It would be a major undertaking to move and would need a professional crew. Not a house on wheels type arrangement.
For reasons I don’t understand, MrsRule is determined to return to Mello tomorrow. Gunna be locked down AF again…
Rule 303 said:
For reasons I don’t understand, MrsRule is determined to return to Mello tomorrow. Gunna be locked down AF again…
Best to head for the hills, wooden tit?
Rule 303 said:
For reasons I don’t understand, MrsRule is determined to return to Mello tomorrow. Gunna be locked down AF again…
Did you ask why?
90% chance 10-20mm monday, arctic breeze all day tuesday
so ends the compressed weather forecast, a brief version, as went through the i’m-just-out-of-bed-after-a-late-night morning decoder, the lady sounds like she’s been doing assertiveness training
we torture each other in our fragile moments with feigned assertiveness, turn it up to comic levels
and in other important news the lady just got a text, I think she has a boyfriend called google that has a friend called android, the kinky business all started with a package installer, we’ve talked about the affair but for the sake of the marriage I tolerate it
Woodie said:
Rule 303 said:
For reasons I don’t understand, MrsRule is determined to return to Mello tomorrow. Gunna be locked down AF again…
Best to head for the hills, wooden tit?
We’re currently in FNQ. Best to stay here, imo.
;-)
party_pants said:
Rule 303 said:
For reasons I don’t understand, MrsRule is determined to return to Mello tomorrow. Gunna be locked down AF again…
Did you ask why?
Yeah, some shit about everything in Cairns being booked out for the IronMan. ‘sif that’s a thing.
Rule 303 said:
Woodie said:
Rule 303 said:
For reasons I don’t understand, MrsRule is determined to return to Mello tomorrow. Gunna be locked down AF again…
Best to head for the hills, wooden tit?
We’re currently in FNQ. Best to stay here, imo.
;-)
You could always coose to overRule MrsRule?
roughbarked said:
Rule 303 said:
Woodie said:Best to head for the hills, wooden tit?
We’re currently in FNQ. Best to stay here, imo.
;-)
You could always coose to overRule MrsRule?
choose?
From trash to tree trolls: Danish artist Thomas Dambo bucks a trend, using recycled materials, often found near the verdant sites of his exhibitions, for his distinctive sculptures of giant trolls (pictured above, in Copenhagen). “I want people to know that trash has value,” Dambo tells Nat Geo. “And the trolls do that, and also help me tell stories, like the legends I grew up with.” His massive, nature-friendly trolls are worldwide, from Seoul to the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens. (Below, two trolls sprawl on the grass at De Schorre Park in Boom, Belgium.)
PermeateFree said:
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From trash to tree trolls: Danish artist Thomas Dambo bucks a trend, using recycled materials, often found near the verdant sites of his exhibitions, for his distinctive sculptures of giant trolls (pictured above, in Copenhagen). “I want people to know that trash has value,” Dambo tells Nat Geo. “And the trolls do that, and also help me tell stories, like the legends I grew up with.” His massive, nature-friendly trolls are worldwide, from Seoul to the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens. (Below, two trolls sprawl on the grass at De Schorre Park in Boom, Belgium.)
I like those.
And I’ve got a new Sci Am to read. Back later.
PermeateFree said:
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From trash to tree trolls: Danish artist Thomas Dambo bucks a trend, using recycled materials, often found near the verdant sites of his exhibitions, for his distinctive sculptures of giant trolls (pictured above, in Copenhagen). “I want people to know that trash has value,” Dambo tells Nat Geo. “And the trolls do that, and also help me tell stories, like the legends I grew up with.” His massive, nature-friendly trolls are worldwide, from Seoul to the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens. (Below, two trolls sprawl on the grass at De Schorre Park in Boom, Belgium.)
Coulda built a few houses with all that.
roughbarked said:
PermeateFree said:
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From trash to tree trolls: Danish artist Thomas Dambo bucks a trend, using recycled materials, often found near the verdant sites of his exhibitions, for his distinctive sculptures of giant trolls (pictured above, in Copenhagen). “I want people to know that trash has value,” Dambo tells Nat Geo. “And the trolls do that, and also help me tell stories, like the legends I grew up with.” His massive, nature-friendly trolls are worldwide, from Seoul to the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens. (Below, two trolls sprawl on the grass at De Schorre Park in Boom, Belgium.)
Coulda built a few houses with all that.
Are you stirring up trouble, trying to troll us
Cymek said:
roughbarked said:
PermeateFree said:
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From trash to tree trolls: Danish artist Thomas Dambo bucks a trend, using recycled materials, often found near the verdant sites of his exhibitions, for his distinctive sculptures of giant trolls (pictured above, in Copenhagen). “I want people to know that trash has value,” Dambo tells Nat Geo. “And the trolls do that, and also help me tell stories, like the legends I grew up with.” His massive, nature-friendly trolls are worldwide, from Seoul to the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens. (Below, two trolls sprawl on the grass at De Schorre Park in Boom, Belgium.)
Coulda built a few houses with all that.
Are you stirring up trouble, trying to troll us
Nay. Was just reading this https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-02/search-for-solution-to-timber-shortage-and-rising-costs/100183928
roughbarked said:
Cymek said:
roughbarked said:Coulda built a few houses with all that.
Are you stirring up trouble, trying to troll us
Nay. Was just reading this https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-02/search-for-solution-to-timber-shortage-and-rising-costs/100183928
Likely the artist has access to a very large stack of abandoned pallets.
PermeateFree said:
roughbarked said:
Cymek said:Are you stirring up trouble, trying to troll us
Nay. Was just reading this https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-02/search-for-solution-to-timber-shortage-and-rising-costs/100183928
Likely the artist has access to a very large stack of abandoned pallets.
He said it was waste product?
Some sinkhole.
80 metres dia., and expanding.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-02/huge-sinkhole-threatens-to-swallow-mexican-home/100184028
How good is The Shovel?
https://www.theshovel.com.au/2021/06/01/reveal-identity-of-minister-defamation-case/
Without disclosing information that might lead people to piece together the person in question’s identity, The Shovel can reveal today that a senior minister of the Morrison government is alleged to have thoroughly and utterly ballsed up a defamation case he (or she) brought against the ABC.
The MP is said to be a member of the Coalition, narrowing it down to one of only 180 Coalition MPs to have launched defamation proceedings this year.
The Coalition MP was educated at a private school, was in a debating team and is white. So no clues there.
But we can reveal that the man (or woman, it could be a woman) is believed to have held a senior ministry (ok, it’s probably not a woman), possibly one relating to the legal profession. I mean imagine being the nation’s chief legal officer and comprehensively fucking up your own legal action! Allegedly.
The MP has strenuously denied the alleged failure, saying the ABC was left humiliated after being told it would no longer need to defend an action it did not initiate.
roughbarked said:
PermeateFree said:
roughbarked said:Nay. Was just reading this https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-02/search-for-solution-to-timber-shortage-and-rising-costs/100183928
Likely the artist has access to a very large stack of abandoned pallets.
He said it was waste product?
https://thomasdambo.com
watch the video.
Bogsnorkler said:
roughbarked said:
PermeateFree said:Likely the artist has access to a very large stack of abandoned pallets.
He said it was waste product?
https://thomasdambo.com
watch the video.
No. I clicked on one of dv’s links yesterday and now my youtube if filled with suggestions to watch people watching doctor who. Fuck that.
sibeen said:
Bogsnorkler said:
roughbarked said:He said it was waste product?
https://thomasdambo.com
watch the video.
No. I clicked on one of dv’s links yesterday and now my youtube if filled with suggestions to watch people watching doctor who. Fuck that.
well, the video explains where he gets his resources from. It is just trash piles etc. In Copenhagen he knows all the good spots. The on he did in Puerto Rico he found a lot of old dumped pallets. He has a 1000 sq M workshop in Nordhavn.
Some good news.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-02/joe-biden-alaska-refuge-gas-leases-us-environment-/100185430
>>US President Joe Biden’s administration has suspended oil and gas leases in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, reversing a drilling program approved by the Donald Trump administration and reviving a political fight over a remote region that is home to polar bears and other wildlife — and a rich reserve of oil.<<
buffy said:
Some good news.https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-02/joe-biden-alaska-refuge-gas-leases-us-environment-/100185430
>>US President Joe Biden’s administration has suspended oil and gas leases in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, reversing a drilling program approved by the Donald Trump administration and reviving a political fight over a remote region that is home to polar bears and other wildlife — and a rich reserve of oil.<<
When is the new American government going to infiltrate our government then? We seemed to be stuck with old carbon love story.
Greetings from Eidsvold. Today we visited Mt Scoria, Cania Gorge, Cania dam and Monto. We intend to visit Cania Gorge again and take some of the walks over a few days. Hopefully we can stay in Monto, or nearer to Cania gorge when we revisit.
Tomorrow: a drive around Eidsvold and district to show Mrs V some of the places I have worked and visited. And show her some of the special Aboriginal places an elder here showed me 15-or-so years ago.
Michael V said:
And show her some of the special Aboriginal places an elder here showed me 15-or-so years ago.
Is that kosher?
Michael V said:
Greetings from Eidsvold. Today we visited Mt Scoria, Cania Gorge, Cania dam and Monto. We intend to visit Cania Gorge again and take some of the walks over a few days. Hopefully we can stay in Monto, or nearer to Cania gorge when we revisit.Tomorrow: a drive around Eidsvold and district to show Mrs V some of the places I have worked and visited. And show her some of the special Aboriginal places an elder here showed me 15-or-so years ago.
Goodo. Sounds an interesting holiday.
sarahs mum said:
Michael V said:And show her some of the special Aboriginal places an elder here showed me 15-or-so years ago.
Is that kosher?
He wouldn’t have been shown places that couldn’t be shown.
sarahs mum said:
Michael V said:And show her some of the special Aboriginal places an elder here showed me 15-or-so years ago.
Is that kosher?
Sure. I can’t tell the stories, because I wasn’t told them. He wanted me to understand that some places were special, and he trusted me to not interfere with them when I was working here. He showed me the places from a distance, and that’s what I will do too. There is no way I would ever go to any of them, because I don’t have permission.
If he is still alive and I can find him, I will introduce Mrs V and ask permission (and offer to take him along, too). He would likely be in his nineties by now, if he has made it this far.
Collecting Folk Songs in Ireland, 1973
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yqDe45pBuk
Michael V said:
sarahs mum said:
Michael V said:And show her some of the special Aboriginal places an elder here showed me 15-or-so years ago.
Is that kosher?
Sure. I can’t tell the stories, because I wasn’t told them. He wanted me to understand that some places were special, and he trusted me to not interfere with them when I was working here. He showed me the places from a distance, and that’s what I will do too. There is no way I would ever go to any of them, because I don’t have permission.
If he is still alive and I can find him, I will introduce Mrs V and ask permission (and offer to take him along, too). He would likely be in his nineties by now, if he has made it this far.
Goodo. :)
sarahs mum said:
Collecting Folk Songs in Ireland, 1973
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yqDe45pBuk
Fleadh Nua Music Festival, Ennis Co. Clare, Ireland 1981
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BbbbC6Y_lE
sarahs mum said:
sarahs mum said:
Collecting Folk Songs in Ireland, 1973
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yqDe45pBuk
Fleadh Nua Music Festival, Ennis Co. Clare, Ireland 1981
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BbbbC6Y_lE
Ta, bookmarked for when I’m in a musical mood.
Reheated cabbage egg drop soup, enriched with a bit of butter and an extra egg.
pretty sundown shortly ago, lot of puffy clouds and light did all sorts of magical things
transition said:
pretty sundown shortly ago, lot of puffy clouds and light did all sorts of magical things
Good to hear.
I haven’t been out at all today.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-02/grand-slam-bosses-respond-poorly-to-osaka-french-open-withdrawal/100185462
Tracey Holmes is not impressed with tennis officials.
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
sarahs mum said:
Collecting Folk Songs in Ireland, 1973
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yqDe45pBuk
Fleadh Nua Music Festival, Ennis Co. Clare, Ireland 1981
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BbbbC6Y_lE
Ta, bookmarked for when I’m in a musical mood.
:)
Last night late I cooked some mince and veg. So tonight’s dinner will be at a normal time and will have a healthy amount of healthy stuff on wholemeal but it won’t be all brown because it has veg including onion and sweet potato and carrot and potato and pumpkin and parsely. I’ll go heavy on the Worcestershire.
Mr buffy is cook tonight. He is barbecuing some cute little mid loin chops. I don’t know what else there is.
Bubblecar said:
transition said:
pretty sundown shortly ago, lot of puffy clouds and light did all sorts of magical things
Good to hear.
I haven’t been out at all today.
lady’s just dug out a block of chocolate, roast almond dark chocolate
in other news saw a group of striated pardalotes on the road reserve as was leaving to head out farm, maybe half dozen, possibly more, a loose group maybe better said, moving through the mallee
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:Fleadh Nua Music Festival, Ennis Co. Clare, Ireland 1981
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BbbbC6Y_lE
Ta, bookmarked for when I’m in a musical mood.
:)
Last night late I cooked some mince and veg. So tonight’s dinner will be at a normal time and will have a healthy amount of healthy stuff on wholemeal but it won’t be all brown because it has veg including onion and sweet potato and carrot and potato and pumpkin and parsely. I’ll go heavy on the Worcestershire.
Jolly good.
transition said:
Bubblecar said:
transition said:
pretty sundown shortly ago, lot of puffy clouds and light did all sorts of magical things
Good to hear.
I haven’t been out at all today.
lady’s just dug out a block of chocolate, roast almond dark chocolate
in other news saw a group of striated pardalotes on the road reserve as was leaving to head out farm, maybe half dozen, possibly more, a loose group maybe better said, moving through the mallee
These fellas.
Bubblecar said:
transition said:
Bubblecar said:Good to hear.
I haven’t been out at all today.
lady’s just dug out a block of chocolate, roast almond dark chocolate
in other news saw a group of striated pardalotes on the road reserve as was leaving to head out farm, maybe half dozen, possibly more, a loose group maybe better said, moving through the mallee
These fellas.
yeah some of them, and possibly spotted type moving with them as well, just looking at pictures now
https://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2021/june/1622469600/sarah-krasnostein/most-hated-man
On the sentencing of Richard Pusey for outraging public decency
buffy said:
Mr buffy is cook tonight. He is barbecuing some cute little mid loin chops. I don’t know what else there is.
It was raw carrot, mashed potato and steamed peas.
good evening!
transition said:
Bubblecar said:
transition said:lady’s just dug out a block of chocolate, roast almond dark chocolate
in other news saw a group of striated pardalotes on the road reserve as was leaving to head out farm, maybe half dozen, possibly more, a loose group maybe better said, moving through the mallee
These fellas.
yeah some of them, and possibly spotted type moving with them as well, just looking at pictures now
was a mixed group of both types
see what’s on the electric rectangle for a while, front the fire, latter gives me some cheer, far as rectangles go the dephlogisticater wins, an ancient comfort
Aussie team help unlock space mysteries
Australian scientists are set to help build one of the world’s most powerful ground-based telescopes, which will be able to peer back into the early universe.
more…
Tau.Neutrino said:
Aussie team help unlock space mysteriesAustralian scientists are set to help build one of the world’s most powerful ground-based telescopes, which will be able to peer back into the early universe.
more…
https://mavis-ao.org/mavis/
transition said:
transition said:
Bubblecar said:These fellas.
yeah some of them, and possibly spotted type moving with them as well, just looking at pictures now
was a mixed group of both types
see what’s on the electric rectangle for a while, front the fire, latter gives me some cheer, far as rectangles go the dephlogisticater wins, an ancient comfort
Adults and immature ones?
transition said:
transition said:
Bubblecar said:These fellas.
yeah some of them, and possibly spotted type moving with them as well, just looking at pictures now
was a mixed group of both types
see what’s on the electric rectangle for a while, front the fire, latter gives me some cheer, far as rectangles go the dephlogisticater wins, an ancient comfort
Thanks for that reminder. I meant to look up a bird that was serenading me while I was digging out rocks yesterday. My brain went “Thornbill” and I reckon it was a yellow rumped thornbill.
buffy said:
transition said:
transition said:yeah some of them, and possibly spotted type moving with them as well, just looking at pictures now
was a mixed group of both types
see what’s on the electric rectangle for a while, front the fire, latter gives me some cheer, far as rectangles go the dephlogisticater wins, an ancient comfort
Thanks for that reminder. I meant to look up a bird that was serenading me while I was digging out rocks yesterday. My brain went “Thornbill” and I reckon it was a yellow rumped thornbill.
Cheery winter birds are the thornbills. I am used to seeing yellow and chestnut tailed thornbills, variegated wrens and silvereyes working like a herd of vacuum cleaners doing over all my garden during winter. Assisted by the grey shrike-thrush. Though over the years, these small birds have been diminishing in numbers. :(
The Dyirbal language, formerly spoken in the Ingham area but now only known by a few elderly people, has interesting genders. https://oconnell.fas.harvard.edu/files/mpolinsky/files/Dyirbal.pdf?fbclid=IwAR3JODr7gBCS2Zu9IcN-eY_Vi4VRqf4qY5TwKA2ZYcyJvayc0caogr_STsk
Particularly class II which contains “Fighting things, dangerous things, fire, water, and women.”
A very young Lucile Ball
monkey skipper said:
A very young Lucile Ball
It’s a shame about the overdone make-up but the hair is triumphant.
This shot is pretty good.
monkey skipper said:
This shot is pretty good.
Lucy in 1938 before she became a fake redhead:
Lucy’s last public appearance, four weeks before her death in 1989.
Getting back to this train ride. Feeling a bit melancholy tonight so I’ll just drift away into the snow.
Bubblecar said:
Getting back to this train ride. Feeling a bit melancholy tonight so I’ll just drift away into the snow.
I’m still binging on Ragnarok.
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
Getting back to this train ride. Feeling a bit melancholy tonight so I’ll just drift away into the snow.
I’m still binging on Ragnarok.
It’s all happening on the Apple Isle tonight
I’m just downloading movies of the chinese variety from the abc.
dv said:
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
Getting back to this train ride. Feeling a bit melancholy tonight so I’ll just drift away into the snow.
I’m still binging on Ragnarok.
It’s all happening on the Apple Isle tonight
Some people have a life I am sure.
Tisn’t I.
Bogsnorkler said:
I’m just downloading movies of the chinese variety from the abc.
Bit of a waste. Half hour after you’ve finished watching one you’ll feel like another.
sibeen said:
Bogsnorkler said:
I’m just downloading movies of the chinese variety from the abc.
Bit of a waste. Half hour after you’ve finished watching one you’ll feel like another.
I finished that Korean scifi drama Eternal Monarch.
Surprisingly satisfying and interesting conclusion.
sibeen said:
Bogsnorkler said:
I’m just downloading movies of the chinese variety from the abc.
Bit of a waste. Half hour after you’ve finished watching one you’ll feel like another.
that’s why I download 5.
Bubblecar said:
Getting back to this train ride. Feeling a bit melancholy tonight so I’ll just drift away into the snow.
why is that then?
I got
Machete Kills, not chinese
Three Kingdoms
The Lost Bladesman
The Sorcerer and the White Snake
?
monkey skipper said:
Bubblecar said:
Getting back to this train ride. Feeling a bit melancholy tonight so I’ll just drift away into the snow.
why is that then?
Day after day I’m more confused
Yet I look for the light through the pouring rain
You know that’s a game that I hate to lose
And I’m feelin’ the strain
Ain’t it a shame
Oh, give me the beat boys and free my soul
I wanna get lost in your rock and roll and drift away
Oh, give me the beat boys and free my soul
I wanna get lost in your rock and roll and drift away
Beginning to think that I’m wastin’ time
I don’t understand the things I do
The world outside looks so unkind
And I’m countin’ on you
To carry me through
Oh, give me the beat boys and free my soul
I wanna get lost in your rock and roll and drift away
Yeah, give me the beat boys and free my soul
I wanna get lost in your rock and roll and drift away
And when my mind is free
You know a melody can move me
And when I’m feelin’ blue
The guitar’s comin’ through to soothe me
Thanks for the joy that you’ve given me
I want you to know I believe in your song
And rhythm and rhyme and harmony
You’ve helped me along
Makin’ me strong
Oh, give me the beat boys and free my soul
I wanna get lost in your rock and roll and drift away
Give me the beat boys and free my soul
I wanna get lost in your rock and roll and drift away
Oh, give me the beat boys and free my soul
I wanna get lost in your rock and roll and drift away
Hey, give me the beat boys and free my soul
I wanna get lost in your rock and roll and drift away
Na na na, won’t you, won’t you take me
Oh, take me
roughbarked said:
buffy said:
transition said:was a mixed group of both types
see what’s on the electric rectangle for a while, front the fire, latter gives me some cheer, far as rectangles go the dephlogisticater wins, an ancient comfort
Thanks for that reminder. I meant to look up a bird that was serenading me while I was digging out rocks yesterday. My brain went “Thornbill” and I reckon it was a yellow rumped thornbill.
Cheery winter birds are the thornbills. I am used to seeing yellow and chestnut tailed thornbills, variegated wrens and silvereyes working like a herd of vacuum cleaners doing over all my garden during winter. Assisted by the grey shrike-thrush. Though over the years, these small birds have been diminishing in numbers. :(
Got lots of chitterers here at the moment.
PermeateFree said:
transition said:
transition said:yeah some of them, and possibly spotted type moving with them as well, just looking at pictures now
was a mixed group of both types
see what’s on the electric rectangle for a while, front the fire, latter gives me some cheer, far as rectangles go the dephlogisticater wins, an ancient comfort
Adults and immature ones?
might get some pictures up in a while, on that-place-that-hosts-my-pictures
after done some security scans, and reboot maybe needed windows explorer is giving me a few troubles, possibly because the system is low on ram, or disc space
dv said:
I’d take a stab at Lisbon?
sibeen said:
dv said:
I’d take a stab at Lisbon?
D’oh, just noticed the writing on the tram.
sibeen said:
sibeen said:
dv said:
I’d take a stab at Lisbon?
D’oh, just noticed the writing on the tram.
puts on glasses
sibeen said:
sibeen said:
dv said:
I’d take a stab at Lisbon?
D’oh, just noticed the writing on the tram.
So I’ll go with Hong Kong. The English writing on the Thai take-away sign may be another clue.
dv said:
That is a very tall tram.
Dark Orange said:
dv said:
That is a very tall tram.
What do you mean, its nearly 15 storey high…
furious said:
Dark Orange said:
dv said:
That is a very tall tram.
What do you mean, its nearly 15 storey high…
Geez people. It’s just a fifteen decker building!
Good little report on Spinosaurus.
A swimming dinosaur: The tail of Spinosaurus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDhofM81RQE
Attempting to cross SCOTLAND in a completely straight line. (PART 1: ENTER THE FACTORY)
GeoWizard
906K subscribers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiyGdOHobsY
Birthday tomorrow. Thinking I’ll shout the Ross people to a multi-pizza dinner at Zeps.
sarahs mum said:
Attempting to cross SCOTLAND in a completely straight line. (PART 1: ENTER THE FACTORY)GeoWizard
906K subscribershttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiyGdOHobsY
Hmm, maybe not the best way to see the best of Scotland.
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
Attempting to cross SCOTLAND in a completely straight line. (PART 1: ENTER THE FACTORY)GeoWizard
906K subscribershttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiyGdOHobsY
Hmm, maybe not the best way to see the best of Scotland.
I’m about 16 minute in. The line is taking them through a timber processor. Some forest. Some hige stacks of timbers. some buildings. And some tall hurricane wire type fences with barbed on top.
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
Attempting to cross SCOTLAND in a completely straight line. (PART 1: ENTER THE FACTORY)GeoWizard
906K subscribershttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiyGdOHobsY
Hmm, maybe not the best way to see the best of Scotland.
I’m about 16 minute in. The line is taking them through a timber processor. Some forest. Some hige stacks of timbers. some buildings. And some tall hurricane wire type fences with barbed on top.
I might have a look tomorrow but the basic concept seems a bit too artificially wacky.
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:Hmm, maybe not the best way to see the best of Scotland.
I’m about 16 minute in. The line is taking them through a timber processor. Some forest. Some hige stacks of timbers. some buildings. And some tall hurricane wire type fences with barbed on top.
I might have a look tomorrow but the basic concept seems a bit too artificially wacky.
seems like a good way to beat yourself up from my viewpoint.
I just won 5 solitiarie games in a row. I don’t think that will happen again for the longest time.
time to switch to Hearts or Minesweeper or some similar
SCIENCE said:
time to switch to Hearts or Minesweeper or some similar
Tetris…
furious said:
SCIENCE said:
time to switch to Hearts or Minesweeper or some similar
Tetris…
I haven’t played that for a while. I’m good at shape sorting but not so much at the speed and dexterity.
Watched Predestination with the boss lady just now. It sticks pretty closely to the source work (Heinlein’s All You Zombies) but it’s certainly well done. Australian film but set in the US.
yeah we enjoyed it except 6 months ago
ABC News:
‘Benjamin Netanyahu’s opponents reach deal to oust Israeli Prime Minister
Opponents of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu say they have reached a deal to form a new governing coalition, paving the way to oust the longtime leader.’
So, the skids may be under Benny Yippeeyahoo.
Wonder what that means for Middle East relations?
ABC News again :
‘Aged Care Minister Richard Colbeck’s competence has again been under serious question this week as he’s struggled to explain what appears to be a baffling oversight in the vaccine roll-out: aged care staff’
and
‘A Fair Work Commission official who once faced heat over sexy figurines displayed in his office is under investigation over allegations he let off firecrackers after a work Christmas party. NSW Police were notified about the incident.
Labor senators took aim at Mr Boyce — who was appointed by the Coalition government in 2018 and earns more than $470,000 a year — for the second year in a row.’
Incompetent ministers and juvenile slimebucket appointees.
The Morrison government in a nutshell.
captain_spalding said:
ABC News:‘Benjamin Netanyahu’s opponents reach deal to oust Israeli Prime Minister
Opponents of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu say they have reached a deal to form a new governing coalition, paving the way to oust the longtime leader.’
So, the skids may be under Benny Yippeeyahoo.
Wonder what that means for Middle East relations?
There’s probably others like him ready to take his place?
Good morning Holidayers. Presently 6 degrees and lightly cloudy. Our forecast for today is for 15 with a shower developing. I thought I heard a light shower in the early hours.
buffy said:
Good morning Holidayers. Presently 6 degrees and lightly cloudy. Our forecast for today is for 15 with a shower developing. I thought I heard a light shower in the early hours.
We had one millimetre overnight. 11 degrees and calm. 0 wind.
Morning, cold and rainy in the Styx, many mm of rain 🌧 here I reckon.
poikilotherm said:
Morning, cold and rainy in the Styx, many mm of rain 🌧 here I reckon.
https://theconversation.com/how-sydneys-barangaroo-tower-paved-the-way-for-a-culture-of-closed-door-deals-161816
Not as popular as he’d like to think?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-03/donald-trump-dumps-blog-social-media-twitter-facebook-youtube/100186606
buffy said:
Not as popular as he’d like to think?https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-03/donald-trump-dumps-blog-social-media-twitter-facebook-youtube/100186606
slipping from view hopefully.
anyway we continue to apologise for all the negativity over the past more than a year, knowing that it will likely be followed by more, but instead for now offer some good news
NASA has announced plans to launch two new scientific missions to Venus between 2028 and 2030 — its first in decades — to study the atmosphere and geologic history of Earth’s closest planetary neighbour. “These two sister missions both aim to understand how Venus became an inferno-like world capable of melting lead at the surface,” said NASA administator, Bill Nelson. “They will offer the entire science community the chance to investigate a planet we haven’t been to in more than 30 years.”
https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-selects-2-missions-to-study-lost-habitable-world-of-venus/
SCIENCE said:
anyway we continue to apologise for all the negativity over the past more than a year, knowing that it will likely be followed by more, but instead for now offer some good newsNASA has announced plans to launch two new scientific missions to Venus between 2028 and 2030 — its first in decades — to study the atmosphere and geologic history of Earth’s closest planetary neighbour. “These two sister missions both aim to understand how Venus became an inferno-like world capable of melting lead at the surface,” said NASA administator, Bill Nelson. “They will offer the entire science community the chance to investigate a planet we haven’t been to in more than 30 years.”
https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-selects-2-missions-to-study-lost-habitable-world-of-venus/
Jolly good.
Hello
Cymek said:
Hello
Arr G’day.
It was the third of June, another sleepy, dusty Delta day
I was out choppin’ cotton, and my brother was balin’ hay
And at dinner time we stopped and walked back to the house to eat
And mama hollered out the back door, y’all, remember to wipe your feet
And hale morrow, ye draxxers of klounst
buffy said:
I’m filling in time while I wait for the washing machine to spin – it has a habit of going off balance with certain things in the wash.Check the level of the machine on the floor? Usually by the time they get to be spinning dry, the balance of the clothes in the tub has probably settled beforehand.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2021-06-03/australian-lobster-grey-trade-fires-up-in-china/100177938
Australian lobster fishermen shut out of mainland China appear to be selling millions of dollars’ worth of crayfish to the once-booming market via unofficial “grey channels”, trade experts say.
Commercial fishers across the country were left reeling in November when China appeared to impose an unofficial ban on Australian lobster exports that had been worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
The suspension effectively stopped the trade with China, which had been buying more than 90 per cent of lobsters exported from Australia.
But figures released by the body representing Australia’s biggest lobster fishery in WA show a sharp rise in export volumes thanks to the so-called grey trade.
The term refers to the distribution of goods through indirect channels.
Exports to Hong Kong soar
According to the Western Rock Lobster Council, crayfish exports from WA to Hong Kong rose from negligible levels last October to more than 300 tonnes in March.
There was also a significant jump in shipments to Taiwan, though it is understood much of that demand was driven by the lower prices for lobsters.
Dr Scott Waldron, a senior research fellow at the University of Queensland’s school of agriculture and food science, said it was “highly unlikely” that increased consumer demand in Hong Kong could account for the sharp rise in exports to the territory.
Heard someone mentioning recently that reservoir was pronounced reservor and I’ve been hearing Jervis bay being pronounced Jer-vis when most of my life it was Jar-vis?
dv said:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2021-06-03/australian-lobster-grey-trade-fires-up-in-china/100177938Australian lobster fishermen shut out of mainland China appear to be selling millions of dollars’ worth of crayfish to the once-booming market via unofficial “grey channels”, trade experts say.
Commercial fishers across the country were left reeling in November when China appeared to impose an unofficial ban on Australian lobster exports that had been worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
The suspension effectively stopped the trade with China, which had been buying more than 90 per cent of lobsters exported from Australia.
But figures released by the body representing Australia’s biggest lobster fishery in WA show a sharp rise in export volumes thanks to the so-called grey trade.
The term refers to the distribution of goods through indirect channels.
Exports to Hong Kong soar
According to the Western Rock Lobster Council, crayfish exports from WA to Hong Kong rose from negligible levels last October to more than 300 tonnes in March.
There was also a significant jump in shipments to Taiwan, though it is understood much of that demand was driven by the lower prices for lobsters.
Dr Scott Waldron, a senior research fellow at the University of Queensland’s school of agriculture and food science, said it was “highly unlikely” that increased consumer demand in Hong Kong could account for the sharp rise in exports to the territory.
Smuggling into China? Who’da dreamt it?
NASA’s next mission to Venus will be DAVINCI, Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble Gases, Chemistry and Imaging.
Apparently.
roughbarked said:
Heard someone mentioning recently that reservoir was pronounced reservor and I’ve been hearing Jervis bay being pronounced Jer-vis when most of my life it was Jar-vis?
Some say Jervis some say Mackay.
roughbarked said:
buffy said:
I’m filling in time while I wait for the washing machine to spin – it has a habit of going off balance with certain things in the wash.Check the level of the machine on the floor? Usually by the time they get to be spinning dry, the balance of the clothes in the tub has probably settled beforehand.
Mine does something similar repositioning the items help, the machine itself has little weight so gets thrown around easily
Peak Warming Man said:
roughbarked said:
Heard someone mentioning recently that reservoir was pronounced reservor and I’ve been hearing Jervis bay being pronounced Jer-vis when most of my life it was Jar-vis?Some say Jervis some say Mackay.
Mackai? :)
Cymek said:
roughbarked said:
buffy said:
I’m filling in time while I wait for the washing machine to spin – it has a habit of going off balance with certain things in the wash.Check the level of the machine on the floor? Usually by the time they get to be spinning dry, the balance of the clothes in the tub has probably settled beforehand.
Mine does something similar repositioning the items help, the machine itself has little weight so gets thrown around easily
I’m sure that repositioning was on buffy’s mind.
roughbarked said:
Peak Warming Man said:
roughbarked said:
Heard someone mentioning recently that reservoir was pronounced reservor and I’ve been hearing Jervis bay being pronounced Jer-vis when most of my life it was Jar-vis?Some say Jervis some say Mackay.
Mackai? :)
albany albany
derby derby
newcastle newcastle
tomato tomato
potato potato harley davidson
roughbarked said:
Cymek said:
roughbarked said:
buffy said:
I’m filling in time while I wait for the washing machine to spin – it has a habit of going off balance with certain things in the wash.Check the level of the machine on the floor? Usually by the time they get to be spinning dry, the balance of the clothes in the tub has probably settled beforehand.
Mine does something similar repositioning the items help, the machine itself has little weight so gets thrown around easily
I’m sure that repositioning was on buffy’s mind.
Yes
roughbarked said:
Heard someone mentioning recently that reservoir was pronounced reservor and I’ve been hearing Jervis bay being pronounced Jer-vis when most of my life it was Jar-vis?
Jer-vis vs Jar-vis is a long standing debate.
So much so that I can’t even remember which is the “correct” one.
Peak Warming Man said:
roughbarked said:
Heard someone mentioning recently that reservoir was pronounced reservor and I’ve been hearing Jervis bay being pronounced Jer-vis when most of my life it was Jar-vis?Some say Jervis some say Mackay.
I say tomato.
The Rev Dodgson said:
roughbarked said:
Heard someone mentioning recently that reservoir was pronounced reservor and I’ve been hearing Jervis bay being pronounced Jer-vis when most of my life it was Jar-vis?Jer-vis vs Jar-vis is a long standing debate.
So much so that I can’t even remember which is the “correct” one.
The abc news seems of late to have adopted Jer.
roughbarked said:
buffy said:
I’m filling in time while I wait for the washing machine to spin – it has a habit of going off balance with certain things in the wash.Check the level of the machine on the floor? Usually by the time they get to be spinning dry, the balance of the clothes in the tub has probably settled beforehand.
The kingsize flat sheet, and Mr buffy’s hoodies seem to bother it. Everything else is fine. They are obviously off balance when I stop it to fix it.
buffy said:
roughbarked said:
buffy said:
I’m filling in time while I wait for the washing machine to spin – it has a habit of going off balance with certain things in the wash.Check the level of the machine on the floor? Usually by the time they get to be spinning dry, the balance of the clothes in the tub has probably settled beforehand.
The kingsize flat sheet, and Mr buffy’s hoodies seem to bother it. Everything else is fine. They are obviously off balance when I stop it to fix it.
Yes. Big things tend to get chucked over one side. I usually balance them with something to balance the other side.
buffy said:
roughbarked said:
buffy said:
I’m filling in time while I wait for the washing machine to spin – it has a habit of going off balance with certain things in the wash.Check the level of the machine on the floor? Usually by the time they get to be spinning dry, the balance of the clothes in the tub has probably settled beforehand.
The kingsize flat sheet, and Mr buffy’s hoodies seem to bother it. Everything else is fine. They are obviously off balance when I stop it to fix it.
And of course, because I stayed inside for the sake of the washing machine…it’s done its cycle perfectly…without help from me. Now to hang the stuff out. And then go to the bakery so we have a good selection of pies to choose from to bring home for lunch.
buffy said:
roughbarked said:
buffy said:
I’m filling in time while I wait for the washing machine to spin – it has a habit of going off balance with certain things in the wash.Check the level of the machine on the floor? Usually by the time they get to be spinning dry, the balance of the clothes in the tub has probably settled beforehand.
The kingsize flat sheet, and Mr buffy’s hoodies seem to bother it. Everything else is fine. They are obviously off balance when I stop it to fix it.
Sheets don’t seem to like anything except other sheets in the machine ours does the same
The Rev Dodgson said:
roughbarked said:
Heard someone mentioning recently that reservoir was pronounced reservor and I’ve been hearing Jervis bay being pronounced Jer-vis when most of my life it was Jar-vis?Jer-vis vs Jar-vis is a long standing debate.
So much so that I can’t even remember which is the “correct” one.
The bay was names after Admiral Sir John Jervis, 1st Earl St. Vincent.
The Jervis family pronounce the name as JUR-vis, but sailors, who had some affection for him, referred to him as ‘Old JARvie’.
So, if you want to go with the name which was awarded to the place, it’s JUR-vis Bay.
captain_spalding said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
roughbarked said:
Heard someone mentioning recently that reservoir was pronounced reservor and I’ve been hearing Jervis bay being pronounced Jer-vis when most of my life it was Jar-vis?Jer-vis vs Jar-vis is a long standing debate.
So much so that I can’t even remember which is the “correct” one.
The bay was names after Admiral Sir John Jervis, 1st Earl St. Vincent.
The Jervis family pronounce the name as JUR-vis, but sailors, who had some affection for him, referred to him as ‘Old JARvie’.
So, if you want to go with the name which was awarded to the place, it’s JUR-vis Bay.
:) thanks.
Morning tea was a couple of finger lamingtons and a cuppa.
Peak Warming Man said:
Morning tea was a couple of finger lamingtons and a cuppa.
Two crumpets with butter + vegemite + cuppa.
sibeen said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Morning tea was a couple of finger lamingtons and a cuppa.
Two crumpets with butter + vegemite + cuppa.
And to think it wasn’t all that long a go you were dead and yet here you are alive and still enjoying crumpet.
Peak Warming Man said:
Morning tea was a couple of finger lamingtons and a cuppa.
Homemade rye and wholemeal withbutter and vegemite with my coffee.
Peak Warming Man said:
sibeen said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Morning tea was a couple of finger lamingtons and a cuppa.
Two crumpets with butter + vegemite + cuppa.
And to think it wasn’t all that long a go you were dead and yet here you are alive and still enjoying crumpet.
As long as you can get it.
Peak Warming Man said:
sibeen said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Morning tea was a couple of finger lamingtons and a cuppa.
Two crumpets with butter + vegemite + cuppa.
And to think it wasn’t all that long a go you were dead and yet here you are alive and still enjoying crumpet.
Nothing better than a nice bit of crumpet in the morning
here I am coffeed, did imbibe
yeah slow pre-death embalmin’
so meanwhile I might survive
in a blissful caffeinated heaven
Peak Warming Man said:
roughbarked said:
Heard someone mentioning recently that reservoir was pronounced reservor and I’ve been hearing Jervis bay being pronounced Jer-vis when most of my life it was Jar-vis?Some say Jervis some say Mackay.
That wasn’t someone, that was me!
Bogsnorkler said:
roughbarked said:
Peak Warming Man said:Some say Jervis some say Mackay.
Mackai? :)
albany albany
derby derby
newcastle newcastle
tomato tomato
potato potato harley davidson
Seems that over in WA the derby debate has been well and truly won by the durby side, whether you’re talking about the town or the sporting event.
dv, where was that tram photo you posted from?
dv said:
Bogsnorkler said:
roughbarked said:Mackai? :)
albany albany
derby derby
newcastle newcastle
tomato tomato
potato potato harley davidsonSeems that over in WA the derby debate has been well and truly won by the durby side, whether you’re talking about the town or the sporting event.
It’s Der Der-by Day..
No, that’s just not right.
sibeen said:
dv, where was that tram photo you posted from?
9gag
dv said:
Bogsnorkler said:
roughbarked said:Mackai? :)
albany albany
derby derby
newcastle newcastle
tomato tomato
potato potato harley davidsonSeems that over in WA the derby debate has been well and truly won by the durby side, whether you’re talking about the town or the sporting event.
It is quite simple: Durby is the town in northern WA, Darby is the city in the UK.
The sporting derby is the tricky one, but seems to fall into the first pronunciation because it is local.
Thunder Rolls
PermeateFree said:
Thunder Rolls
There’s a flaw in the photo. Up the top. It’s been scratched.
dv said:
sibeen said:
dv, where was that tram photo you posted from?
9gag
snigger
PermeateFree said:
Thunder Rolls
You’ll be thor in the morning.
A totally vegetarian lunch of cheese and onion sandwiches, except for the cheese.
Peak Warming Man said:
A totally vegetarian lunch of cheese and onion sandwiches, except for the cheese.
Well now some vegetarians are okay with dairy, right?
Or am I addled
dv said:
Peak Warming Man said:
A totally vegetarian lunch of cheese and onion sandwiches, except for the cheese.
Well now some vegetarians are okay with dairy, right?
Or am I addled
do you float in water?
An orangutang scaling a tree in Borneo, with water mirroring the sky
Bogsnorkler said:
dv said:
Peak Warming Man said:
A totally vegetarian lunch of cheese and onion sandwiches, except for the cheese.
Well now some vegetarians are okay with dairy, right?
Or am I addled
do you float in water?
Tell him what we do with warlocks, Boris.
My beef and mushroom pie was delicious. Got a little jam tart for dessert. Auntie Annie made a dark chocolate and walnut brownie slab yesterday and I’ve got half of it. So I’ve got afternoon tea as well.
:)
PermeateFree said:
Owls are good at looking goofy
PermeateFree said:
Perfect
Cymek said:
PermeateFree said:
Owls are good at looking goofy
They are the nerdiest looking apex predators
dv said:
Bogsnorkler said:
roughbarked said:Mackai? :)
albany albany
derby derby
newcastle newcastle
tomato tomato
potato potato harley davidsonSeems that over in WA the derby debate has been well and truly won by the durby side, whether you’re talking about the town or the sporting event.
My father went to Derby (pronounce durby) in the 1960s when he was doing cathodic protection on various wharves along the West coast. Port Hedland I remember. Not sure where else.
PermeateFree said:
That little fluffball will just drop down and the big black birdie will smash into the windows. It’s all part of the plan..
I remember, thirty something years ago, waking up hungover at some random place in Coorparoo and trying to phone for a taxi, telling them I was at the corner of Derby Street and Leicester Street, and the lady said there were no streets called either of those names in Coorparoo, and I was a bit unable to tolerate it so I just walked.
Peak Warming Man said:
PermeateFree said:
Thunder Rolls
You’ll be thor in the morning.
‘You’ll be thor-r-r-y…’
dv said:
I remember, thirty something years ago, waking up hungover at some random place in Coorparoo and trying to phone for a taxi, telling them I was at the corner of Derby Street and Leicester Street, and the lady said there were no streets called either of those names in Coorparoo, and I was a bit unable to tolerate it so I just walked.
Was this koorPAHroo or KORparoo?
Witty Rejoinder said:
dv said:
I remember, thirty something years ago, waking up hungover at some random place in Coorparoo and trying to phone for a taxi, telling them I was at the corner of Derby Street and Leicester Street, and the lady said there were no streets called either of those names in Coorparoo, and I was a bit unable to tolerate it so I just walked.
Was this koorPAHroo or KORparoo?
don’t you start
“The NFL has said it will stop settling concussion lawsuits using a race-based formula that assumes black players have lower cognitive function than whites.
America’s top-flight football league also pledged to review previous brain injury claims that have been settled via the practice known as race-norming.”
Peak Warming Man said:
“The NFL has said it will stop settling concussion lawsuits using a race-based formula that assumes black players have lower cognitive function than whites.
America’s top-flight football league also pledged to review previous brain injury claims that have been settled via the practice known as race-norming.”
Always mixed feelings when I see news like this. Like “well it’s good they’ve stopped” but also “holy shit, this was a thing?”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-57336282
Peak Warming Man said:
“The NFL has said it will stop settling concussion lawsuits using a race-based formula that assumes black players have lower cognitive function than whites.
America’s top-flight football league also pledged to review previous brain injury claims that have been settled via the practice known as race-norming.”
really… just wow.
I thought they had to be dragged in kicking and screaming just to acknowledge concussion related injuries in the first place after many years of denial. Seems like they’ve gone from one huge blunder to the next.
dv said:
Peak Warming Man said:
“The NFL has said it will stop settling concussion lawsuits using a race-based formula that assumes black players have lower cognitive function than whites.
America’s top-flight football league also pledged to review previous brain injury claims that have been settled via the practice known as race-norming.”Always mixed feelings when I see news like this. Like “well it’s good they’ve stopped” but also “holy shit, this was a thing?”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-57336282
+1
transition said:
here I am coffeed, did imbibe
yeah slow pre-death embalmin’
so meanwhile I might survive
in a blissful caffeinated heaven
roughbarked said:
transition said:
here I am coffeed, did imbibe
yeah slow pre-death embalmin’
so meanwhile I might survive
in a blissful caffeinated heaven
Hehe
roughbarked said:
kids with AK-47
That’s the thing about AKs.
They’re really easy to use. Simple construction and mechanism, you can teach someone how to use one in about 5 mins. You can teach them how to use AND maintain one in well under an hour..
Not that they need high maintenance, their tolerances are so loose that they’ll function under conditions that would choke e.g. an M-16.
But, they’re not terribly accurate – nobody is a marksman with an AK. Although the kid seems to have done well, if we can apply that term here, judging by the tree.
Question without notice.
Was the postman only coming three days a week before the dampanic or was it introduced because of it.
Over.
captain_spalding said:
roughbarked said:
kids with AK-47
That’s the thing about AKs.
They’re really easy to use. Simple construction and mechanism, you can teach someone how to use one in about 5 mins. You can teach them how to use AND maintain one in well under an hour..
Not that they need high maintenance, their tolerances are so loose that they’ll function under conditions that would choke e.g. an M-16.
But, they’re not terribly accurate – nobody is a marksman with an AK. Although the kid seems to have done well, if we can apply that term here, judging by the tree.
Worse than a bren gun at hitting a barn door.
Peak Warming Man said:
Question without notice.
Was the postman only coming three days a week before the dampanic or was it introduced because of it.
Over.
The postman used to come five days but everyone uses email these days.
roughbarked said:
captain_spalding said:
roughbarked said:
kids with AK-47
That’s the thing about AKs.
They’re really easy to use. Simple construction and mechanism, you can teach someone how to use one in about 5 mins. You can teach them how to use AND maintain one in well under an hour..
Not that they need high maintenance, their tolerances are so loose that they’ll function under conditions that would choke e.g. an M-16.
But, they’re not terribly accurate – nobody is a marksman with an AK. Although the kid seems to have done well, if we can apply that term here, judging by the tree.
Worse than a bren gun at hitting a barn door.
brens were very accurate.
dv said:
Peak Warming Man said:
“The NFL has said it will stop settling concussion lawsuits using a race-based formula that assumes black players have lower cognitive function than whites.
America’s top-flight football league also pledged to review previous brain injury claims that have been settled via the practice known as race-norming.”Always mixed feelings when I see news like this. Like “well it’s good they’ve stopped” but also “holy shit, this was a thing?”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-57336282
I’m surprised it’s not a bigger story.
Peak Warming Man said:
Question without notice.
Was the postman only coming three days a week before the dampanic or was it introduced because of it.
Over.
before i think but having an rmb we only ever got 3 anyway.
Bogsnorkler said:
roughbarked said:
captain_spalding said:That’s the thing about AKs.
They’re really easy to use. Simple construction and mechanism, you can teach someone how to use one in about 5 mins. You can teach them how to use AND maintain one in well under an hour..
Not that they need high maintenance, their tolerances are so loose that they’ll function under conditions that would choke e.g. an M-16.
But, they’re not terribly accurate – nobody is a marksman with an AK. Although the kid seems to have done well, if we can apply that term here, judging by the tree.
Worse than a bren gun at hitting a barn door.
brens were very accurate.
single shot. yes. Rapid fire? not really but at least they could hit within an average door frame.
roughbarked said:
captain_spalding said:
roughbarked said:
kids with AK-47
That’s the thing about AKs.
They’re really easy to use. Simple construction and mechanism, you can teach someone how to use one in about 5 mins. You can teach them how to use AND maintain one in well under an hour..
Not that they need high maintenance, their tolerances are so loose that they’ll function under conditions that would choke e.g. an M-16.
But, they’re not terribly accurate – nobody is a marksman with an AK. Although the kid seems to have done well, if we can apply that term here, judging by the tree.
Worse than a bren gun at hitting a barn door.
Tamb said:
roughbarked said:
captain_spalding said:That’s the thing about AKs.
They’re really easy to use. Simple construction and mechanism, you can teach someone how to use one in about 5 mins. You can teach them how to use AND maintain one in well under an hour..
Not that they need high maintenance, their tolerances are so loose that they’ll function under conditions that would choke e.g. an M-16.
But, they’re not terribly accurate – nobody is a marksman with an AK. Although the kid seems to have done well, if we can apply that term here, judging by the tree.
Worse than a bren gun at hitting a barn door.
The 38 I had would have trouble hitting the barn door even if you were inside the barn.
snub nose?
Bogsnorkler said:
roughbarked said:
captain_spalding said:That’s the thing about AKs.
They’re really easy to use. Simple construction and mechanism, you can teach someone how to use one in about 5 mins. You can teach them how to use AND maintain one in well under an hour..
Not that they need high maintenance, their tolerances are so loose that they’ll function under conditions that would choke e.g. an M-16.
But, they’re not terribly accurate – nobody is a marksman with an AK. Although the kid seems to have done well, if we can apply that term here, judging by the tree.
Worse than a bren gun at hitting a barn door.
brens were very accurate.
roughbarked said:
Bogsnorkler said:
roughbarked said:Worse than a bren gun at hitting a barn door.
brens were very accurate.
single shot. yes. Rapid fire? not really but at least they could hit within an average door frame.
why don’t you look it up on the internet about how accurate they were?
roughbarked said:
Tamb said:
roughbarked said:Worse than a bren gun at hitting a barn door.
The 38 I had would have trouble hitting the barn door even if you were inside the barn.snub nose?
Bogsnorkler said:
roughbarked said:
Bogsnorkler said:brens were very accurate.
single shot. yes. Rapid fire? not really but at least they could hit within an average door frame.
why don’t you look it up on the internet about how accurate they were?
Why would I need to?
Bogsnorkler said:
roughbarked said:
Bogsnorkler said:brens were very accurate.
single shot. yes. Rapid fire? not really but at least they could hit within an average door frame.
why don’t you look it up on the internet about how accurate they were?
https://www.historynet.com/the-bloody-accurate-bren.htm
roughbarked said:
Bogsnorkler said:
roughbarked said:Worse than a bren gun at hitting a barn door.
brens were very accurate.
single shot. yes. Rapid fire? not really but at least they could hit within an average door frame.
They had a bipod and were supposed to be fired by the operator laying on his side or stomach.
Held at the hip not so much, but they were not meant to be used that way.
Bogsnorkler said:
roughbarked said:
Bogsnorkler said:brens were very accurate.
single shot. yes. Rapid fire? not really but at least they could hit within an average door frame.
why don’t you look it up on the internet about how accurate they were?
I’ve fired one :)
roughbarked said:
Bogsnorkler said:
roughbarked said:single shot. yes. Rapid fire? not really but at least they could hit within an average door frame.
why don’t you look it up on the internet about how accurate they were?
Why would I need to?
so you become informed and thus no longer spout uninformed rubbish.
sibeen said:
Bogsnorkler said:
roughbarked said:single shot. yes. Rapid fire? not really but at least they could hit within an average door frame.
why don’t you look it up on the internet about how accurate they were?
I’ve fired one :)
lucky bastard. always like the bren, for some reason I haven’t a clue as to why.
Bogsnorkler said:
sibeen said:
Bogsnorkler said:why don’t you look it up on the internet about how accurate they were?
I’ve fired one :)
lucky bastard. always like the bren, for some reason I haven’t a clue as to why.
I liked them too and I have fired one. Stripped one down as well.
ah the boys comparing pistols afternoon again
roughbarked said:
Bogsnorkler said:
sibeen said:I’ve fired one :)
lucky bastard. always like the bren, for some reason I haven’t a clue as to why.
I liked them too and I have fired one. Stripped one down as well.
LOL. you must have been a crap shot then if you reckon they are inaccurate.
SCIENCE said:
ah the boys comparing pistols afternoon again
short arm inspection.
Bogsnorkler said:
roughbarked said:
Bogsnorkler said:lucky bastard. always like the bren, for some reason I haven’t a clue as to why.
I liked them too and I have fired one. Stripped one down as well.
LOL. you must have been a crap shot then if you reckon they are inaccurate.
Didn’t actually say they were inaccurate. You made that up.
roughbarked said:
Bogsnorkler said:
roughbarked said:I liked them too and I have fired one. Stripped one down as well.
LOL. you must have been a crap shot then if you reckon they are inaccurate.
Didn’t actually say they were inaccurate. You made that up.
“Worse than a bren gun at hitting a barn door.”
“single shot. yes. Rapid fire? not really but at least they could hit within an average door frame.”
dv said:
party_pants said:Peak Warming Man said:“The NFL has said it will stop settling concussion lawsuits using a race-based formula that assumes black players have lower cognitive function than whites.
America’s top-flight football league also pledged to review previous brain injury claims that have been settled via the practice known as race-norming.”really… just wow.
I thought they had to be dragged in kicking and screaming just to acknowledge concussion related injuries in the first place after many years of denial. Seems like they’ve gone from one huge blunder to the next.
Always mixed feelings when I see news like this. Like “well it’s good they’ve stopped” but also “holy shit, this was a thing?”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-57336282
Kind of like when someone tells you they’re no longer waterboarding their children to get the goss’ every day ¿
Bogsnorkler said:
roughbarked said:
Bogsnorkler said:LOL. you must have been a crap shot then if you reckon they are inaccurate.
Didn’t actually say they were inaccurate. You made that up.
“Worse than a bren gun at hitting a barn door.”
“single shot. yes. Rapid fire? not really but at least they could hit within an average door frame.”
None of that is inaccurate. There are other weapons I’d prefer for shattering a door frame.
roughbarked said:
Worse than a bren gun at hitting a barn door.
Like a lot of selective-fire rifles, you do ok when you select single-shot, but on auto, it’s just a bullet-hose. If you hit anything, it’s by chance.
The American M-14 was supposed to provide single- and auto- options to every US rifleman, but the auto- option was dropped, because with the 7.62mm rifle round, it was utterly uncontrollable on auto-. That was one factor in it being replaced by the M-16.
With the Soviet 7.62.mm round, AK-47s are no better on auto-.
roughbarked said:
Bogsnorkler said:
roughbarked said:Didn’t actually say they were inaccurate. You made that up.
“Worse than a bren gun at hitting a barn door.”
“single shot. yes. Rapid fire? not really but at least they could hit within an average door frame.”
None of that is inaccurate. There are other weapons I’d prefer for shattering a door frame.
LOL, usually bullshit. just give it up roughie. it makes you look like a plitician.
roughbarked said:
Bogsnorkler said:
roughbarked said:Didn’t actually say they were inaccurate. You made that up.
“Worse than a bren gun at hitting a barn door.”
“single shot. yes. Rapid fire? not really but at least they could hit within an average door frame.”
None of that is inaccurate. There are other weapons I’d prefer for shattering a door frame.
LOL, usually bullshit. just give it up roughie. it makes you look like a politician. (fixed)
Bogsnorkler said:
roughbarked said:
Bogsnorkler said:“Worse than a bren gun at hitting a barn door.”
“single shot. yes. Rapid fire? not really but at least they could hit within an average door frame.”
None of that is inaccurate. There are other weapons I’d prefer for shattering a door frame.
LOL, usually bullshit. just give it up roughie. it makes you look like a politician. (fixed)
Shit stirring seems to be your daily fun.
I got sent to Spectacle Island in Sydney Harbour to inspect and clean the small arms collection in the Repository there.
There’d been a call for anyone who knew anything about AK-47s, M3 ‘grease guns’, Mauser 98Ks, Bren guns, M-1 Garands, M-1 carbines and some others.
Ignoring the First and Prime Rule of Military Service (‘never volunteer for anything’), i put my hand up. It was the first time in about 10 years the weapons had been looked at.
It was a top duty. Had it all knocked over in a few days, and sent the rest of the time helping to catalogue stuff in the Repository. Although i ached to get the M3 out to the range…
PermeateFree said:
Thunder Rolls
impressive, the power
coffee and snacks time, maybe some lunch proper
called past my friend tawny way home from the farm, for a chat
I’ve started investing in stocks. I’ve got chicken, beef, and vegetable. I’m hoping to become a bouillonaire.
Peak Warming Man said:
Question without notice.
Was the postman only coming three days a week before the dampanic or was it introduced because of it.
Over.
Here you go:
https://auspost.com.au/service-updates/current-updates/temporary-changes-to-letter-delivery
btm said:
I’ve started investing in stocks. I’ve got chicken, beef, and vegetable. I’m hoping to become a bouillonaire.
I see
sibeen said:
Bogsnorkler said:
roughbarked said:single shot. yes. Rapid fire? not really but at least they could hit within an average door frame.
why don’t you look it up on the internet about how accurate they were?
I’ve fired one :)
ohh, ooh…I’ll keep reading…
I’m off outside again. I’ve cleared the old asparagus patch of the invading Dichondra (easy peasy to pull out in mats of green) but I only had about half a bag of sheep poo for top dressing. I put that on part of the bed and covered it with rotting peastraw. Tomorrow when the restrictions on going places are lifted I’ll trundle the ute out of town and get some more sheep poo from the roadside place. Now I should go and start on the new asparagus bed. It needs it’s ferny bits cut down, it needs weeding and then it also has to be topdressed and fed. But this time I’ll do some before photos for my letter to Mum next week.
US troops accidentally storm olive oil factory in Bulgaria
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/06/02/politics/us-troops-bulgaria-olive-oil-factory/index.html
lol
A coalition of Israeli political parties announced Wednesday night they had agreed to a deal to form a new government, paving the way for the exit of Israel’s longest serving prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.
Yair Lapid, leader of the centrist Yesh Atid party, notified Israeli President Reuven Rivlin that he had managed to cobble together a coalition just 38 minutes before the midnight deadline.
Though Lapid holds the mandate to form the government under the agreement, it is Naftali Bennett — leader of the small right-wing party Yamina and the kingmaker in coalition talks — who is set to become prime minister for the first two years of a four-year term. Lapid will serve as foreign minister until the two men swap roles halfway through the term.
—-
damn, two years is a long time to operate on trust
dv said:
A coalition of Israeli political parties announced Wednesday night they had agreed to a deal to form a new government, paving the way for the exit of Israel’s longest serving prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.Yair Lapid, leader of the centrist Yesh Atid party, notified Israeli President Reuven Rivlin that he had managed to cobble together a coalition just 38 minutes before the midnight deadline.
Though Lapid holds the mandate to form the government under the agreement, it is Naftali Bennett — leader of the small right-wing party Yamina and the kingmaker in coalition talks — who is set to become prime minister for the first two years of a four-year term. Lapid will serve as foreign minister until the two men swap roles halfway through the term.—-
damn, two years is a long time to operate on trust
Oh, it’ll never have to last that long.
They have an election about every six weeks in Israel.
captain_spalding said:
dv said:
A coalition of Israeli political parties announced Wednesday night they had agreed to a deal to form a new government, paving the way for the exit of Israel’s longest serving prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.Yair Lapid, leader of the centrist Yesh Atid party, notified Israeli President Reuven Rivlin that he had managed to cobble together a coalition just 38 minutes before the midnight deadline.
Though Lapid holds the mandate to form the government under the agreement, it is Naftali Bennett — leader of the small right-wing party Yamina and the kingmaker in coalition talks — who is set to become prime minister for the first two years of a four-year term. Lapid will serve as foreign minister until the two men swap roles halfway through the term.—-
damn, two years is a long time to operate on trust
Oh, it’ll never have to last that long.
They have an election about every six weeks in Israel.
We’re an anarcho-syndicalist commune! We’re taking turns to act as a sort of executive-officer-for-the-week …
Set the cat trap for Auntie Annie. She had a trap from the council, but the ranger came and took it back the other day. So I’ve dusted off the one from the shed here (I can’t remember why we had it, it’s huge) and we’ve set it with a dish of water (in case we catch something and it has to stay in there for a few hours) and an opened tin of tuna. There are at least two mature females and four small kittens ranging around her place. I put some of Annie’s split firewood on top of the trap. She’d been using a (washed) blanket, but I reckon that’s still a “person” smell. Split wood might be a better hide, particularly as the little ones are presently ensconced inside her woodheap. We shall see.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2019841/Meet-man-eyebrows-convictions-drunken-driving.html
Unusual looking fellow
dv said:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2019841/Meet-man-eyebrows-convictions-drunken-driving.html
Unusual looking fellow
Obituary.
https://www.simplycremationgb.com/obituaries/Cory-Smits/#!/Obituary
dv said:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2019841/Meet-man-eyebrows-convictions-drunken-driving.html
Unusual looking fellow
His Mum must be so proud.
Bubblecar said:
dv said:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2019841/Meet-man-eyebrows-convictions-drunken-driving.html
Unusual looking fellow
Obituary.
https://www.simplycremationgb.com/obituaries/Cory-Smits/#!/Obituary
‘…and for all who didn’t know him, hopefully it will make them think twice about judging a book by it’s cover. ‘
Yeah, well, i did that, didn’t i?
captain_spalding said:
Bubblecar said:
dv said:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2019841/Meet-man-eyebrows-convictions-drunken-driving.html
Unusual looking fellow
Obituary.
https://www.simplycremationgb.com/obituaries/Cory-Smits/#!/Obituary
‘…and for all who didn’t know him, hopefully it will make them think twice about judging a book by it’s cover. ‘
Yeah, well, i did that, didn’t i?
Aye.
Bubblecar said:
captain_spalding said:
Bubblecar said:Obituary.
https://www.simplycremationgb.com/obituaries/Cory-Smits/#!/Obituary
‘…and for all who didn’t know him, hopefully it will make them think twice about judging a book by it’s cover. ‘
Yeah, well, i did that, didn’t i?
Aye.
I’ll say a Hail Mary for him in recompense.
Although getting done five times for driving while shatteringly pissed is a blot on anyone’s reputation.
Strawberries cherries and an angel’s kiss……..well fresh granite belt strawberries and cream anyway.
captain_spalding said:
Bubblecar said:
dv said:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2019841/Meet-man-eyebrows-convictions-drunken-driving.html
Unusual looking fellow
Obituary.
https://www.simplycremationgb.com/obituaries/Cory-Smits/#!/Obituary
‘…and for all who didn’t know him, hopefully it will make them think twice about judging a book by it’s cover. ‘
Yeah, well, i did that, didn’t i?
And did you change your judgement after reading the obituary?
captain_spalding said:
dv said:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2019841/Meet-man-eyebrows-convictions-drunken-driving.html
Unusual looking fellow
His Mum must be so proud.
likely another story to all that, I didn’t get the advanced phrenology qualifications but i’ve seen a few heads
buffy said:
captain_spalding said:
Bubblecar said:Obituary.
https://www.simplycremationgb.com/obituaries/Cory-Smits/#!/Obituary
‘…and for all who didn’t know him, hopefully it will make them think twice about judging a book by it’s cover. ‘
Yeah, well, i did that, didn’t i?
And did you change your judgement after reading the obituary?
Yes and no.
And this visitor appreciates me pulling weeds and disturbing the insects in the soil. And he’s got his courting plumage on too. His lady was around, but even more flighty than he was, and also much less easy to see as she doesn’t dress up for the season.
…….
captain_spalding said:
buffy said:
captain_spalding said:‘…and for all who didn’t know him, hopefully it will make them think twice about judging a book by it’s cover. ‘
Yeah, well, i did that, didn’t i?
And did you change your judgement after reading the obituary?
Yes and no.
I didn’t. I’ve really got no time for drunk drivers.
buffy said:
And this visitor appreciates me pulling weeds and disturbing the insects in the soil. And he’s got his courting plumage on too. His lady was around, but even more flighty than he was, and also much less easy to see as she doesn’t dress up for the season.
…….
We have a pair of them apparently dwelling in a pencil pine in our back garden. That provides them with good cover and shelter, and the Barely-Domesticated Wolf doesnot tolerate cats in his garden.
buffy said:
And this visitor appreciates me pulling weeds and disturbing the insects in the soil. And he’s got his courting plumage on too. His lady was around, but even more flighty than he was, and also much less easy to see as she doesn’t dress up for the season.
…….
so beautiful, love wrens
buffy said:
captain_spalding said:
buffy said:And did you change your judgement after reading the obituary?
Yes and no.
I didn’t. I’ve really got no time for drunk drivers.
I could see that he was probably rather smarter than the average bear, and possibly an interesting fellow, but, as i say, DUI X 5 is indicative that he was quite a social hazard, too.
buffy said:
And this visitor appreciates me pulling weeds and disturbing the insects in the soil. And he’s got his courting plumage on too. His lady was around, but even more flighty than he was, and also much less easy to see as she doesn’t dress up for the season.
…….
Pleasing little dinosaur.
captain_spalding said:
buffy said:
captain_spalding said:Yes and no.
I didn’t. I’ve really got no time for drunk drivers.
I could see that he was probably rather smarter than the average bear, and possibly an interesting fellow, but, as i say, DUI X 5 is indicative that he was quite a social hazard, too.
True but dv’s report was from a decade ago, and he died last year, so hopefully he’d learnt his lesson in the interim.
Bubblecar said:
captain_spalding said:
buffy said:I didn’t. I’ve really got no time for drunk drivers.
I could see that he was probably rather smarter than the average bear, and possibly an interesting fellow, but, as i say, DUI X 5 is indicative that he was quite a social hazard, too.
True but dv’s report was from a decade ago, and he died last year, so hopefully he’d learnt his lesson in the interim.
I imagine that we all did one more things in our twenties that we recognised as stupendously dumb when we were in our thirties and later.
captain_spalding said:
Bubblecar said:
captain_spalding said:I could see that he was probably rather smarter than the average bear, and possibly an interesting fellow, but, as i say, DUI X 5 is indicative that he was quite a social hazard, too.
True but dv’s report was from a decade ago, and he died last year, so hopefully he’d learnt his lesson in the interim.
I imagine that we all did one more things in our twenties that we recognised as stupendously dumb when we were in our thirties and later.
one or more
captain_spalding said:
Bubblecar said:
captain_spalding said:I could see that he was probably rather smarter than the average bear, and possibly an interesting fellow, but, as i say, DUI X 5 is indicative that he was quite a social hazard, too.
True but dv’s report was from a decade ago, and he died last year, so hopefully he’d learnt his lesson in the interim.
I imagine that we all did one more things in our twenties that we recognised as stupendously dumb when we were in our thirties and later.
Too true for some of us. But maybe not all of us.
Good afternoon from lovely (if wet) Kilkivan. We toured around Eidsvold, visited Mundubbera and Gayndah, and did a tour around Kilkivan.
We visited Mudlo National Park (which protects remnant Hoop Pine vine forest, and later drove a rough dirt road to look at the copper smelter chimney, built in 1873. There are many nice historic houses with lovely gardens here.
Michael V said:
Good afternoon from lovely (if wet) Kilkivan. We toured around Eidsvold, visited Mundubbera and Gayndah, and did a tour around Kilkivan.We visited Mudlo National Park (which protects remnant Hoop Pine vine forest, and later drove a rough dirt road to look at the copper smelter chimney, built in 1873. There are many nice historic houses with lovely gardens here.
dv said:
Scram kids, it’s a scam.
Bubblecar said:
Michael V said:
Good afternoon from lovely (if wet) Kilkivan. We toured around Eidsvold, visited Mundubbera and Gayndah, and did a tour around Kilkivan.We visited Mudlo National Park (which protects remnant Hoop Pine vine forest, and later drove a rough dirt road to look at the copper smelter chimney, built in 1873. There are many nice historic houses with lovely gardens here.
:)
That’s the one, except today it was wet.
Michael V said:
Bubblecar said:
Michael V said:
Good afternoon from lovely (if wet) Kilkivan. We toured around Eidsvold, visited Mundubbera and Gayndah, and did a tour around Kilkivan.We visited Mudlo National Park (which protects remnant Hoop Pine vine forest, and later drove a rough dirt road to look at the copper smelter chimney, built in 1873. There are many nice historic houses with lovely gardens here.
:)
That’s the one, except today it was wet.
Any idea why there’s a “window” on the side there, near the top?
Michael V said:
Good afternoon from lovely (if wet) Kilkivan. We toured around Eidsvold, visited Mundubbera and Gayndah, and did a tour around Kilkivan.We visited Mudlo National Park (which protects remnant Hoop Pine vine forest, and later drove a rough dirt road to look at the copper smelter chimney, built in 1873. There are many nice historic houses with lovely gardens here.
Nice areas.
I don’t know about hoop pine vine?
Bubblecar said:
Michael V said:
Bubblecar said:
:)
That’s the one, except today it was wet.
Any idea why there’s a “window” on the side there, near the top?
No, sorry.
Was thinking of doing a hearty stew of cream of cauliflower, taters, roast turkey breast etc but the unfortunate circumstances have made that a less appealing prospect.
So I’ll probably do a much quicker and simpler dish with crab meat, anchovies, capers, onion & chilli in a tomato, lemon & blue cheese sauce, served with vermicelli.
Peak Warming Man said:
Michael V said:
Good afternoon from lovely (if wet) Kilkivan. We toured around Eidsvold, visited Mundubbera and Gayndah, and did a tour around Kilkivan.We visited Mudlo National Park (which protects remnant Hoop Pine vine forest, and later drove a rough dirt road to look at the copper smelter chimney, built in 1873. There are many nice historic houses with lovely gardens here.
Nice areas.
I don’t know about hoop pine vine?
It’s a very dark vine-rainforest supported by emergent Hoop Pines. It’s quite amazing.
Bubblecar said:
Was thinking of doing a hearty stew of cream of cauliflower, taters, roast turkey breast etc but the unfortunate circumstances have made that a less appealing prospect.So I’ll probably do a much quicker and simpler dish with crab meat, anchovies, capers, onion & chilli in a tomato, lemon & blue cheese sauce, served with vermicelli.
Approved!
Peak Warming Man said:
Michael V said:
Good afternoon from lovely (if wet) Kilkivan. We toured around Eidsvold, visited Mundubbera and Gayndah, and did a tour around Kilkivan.We visited Mudlo National Park (which protects remnant Hoop Pine vine forest, and later drove a rough dirt road to look at the copper smelter chimney, built in 1873. There are many nice historic houses with lovely gardens here.
Nice areas.
I don’t know about hoop pine vine?
https://hlw.org.au/download/re-12-8-13-complex-hoop-pine-vine-forest-on-dark-or-red-loamy-and-stony-soils/
I’m off home in a few minutes, hope everything turns out OK with your sister Bubblecar
Michael V said:
Good afternoon from lovely (if wet) Kilkivan. We toured around Eidsvold, visited Mundubbera and Gayndah, and did a tour around Kilkivan.We visited Mudlo National Park (which protects remnant Hoop Pine vine forest, and later drove a rough dirt road to look at the copper smelter chimney, built in 1873. There are many nice historic houses with lovely gardens here.
I know none of those place names.
So it appears the coalition is Israel will be made up of
Yesh Atid 17
Blue and White 8
Labor Party 7
Yisrael Beiteinu 7
New Hope 6
Meretz 6
Yamina 7 (but only 6 agreeing to the coalition)
Ra’am 4
This comes to precisely 61 seats, the minimum number required to form government in the 120 seat Knesset.
Under the reported deal, Bennett (Yamina leader) would serve as prime minister for the government’s first two years, with Lapid (Yesh Atid) replacing him for the final two years.
You could scarcely construct a broader coalition, really only united by opposition to Netanyahu. Labor and Ra’am (an Arab party) probably figure that this is their best shot of having some kind of voice, as if the coalition fails there will just be another election.
Bubblecar said:
Was thinking of doing a hearty stew of cream of cauliflower, taters, roast turkey breast etc but the unfortunate circumstances have made that a less appealing prospect.So I’ll probably do a much quicker and simpler dish with crab meat, anchovies, capers, onion & chilli in a tomato, lemon & blue cheese sauce, served with vermicelli.
I am making nachos. Still celebrating finally having a few tomatoes this season.
dv said:
….. there will just be another election.
Lock in B, Eddie.
dv said:
So it appears the coalition is Israel will be made up of
Yesh Atid 17
Blue and White 8 Labor Party 7
Yisrael Beiteinu 7
New Hope 6
Meretz 6 Yamina 7 (but only 6 agreeing to the coalition)
Ra’am 4This comes to precisely 61 seats, the minimum number required to form government in the 120 seat Knesset.
Under the reported deal, Bennett (Yamina leader) would serve as prime minister for the government’s first two years, with Lapid (Yesh Atid) replacing him for the final two years.
You could scarcely construct a broader coalition, really only united by opposition to Netanyahu. Labor and Ra’am (an Arab party) probably figure that this is their best shot of having some kind of voice, as if the coalition fails there will just be another election.
It will more than likely turn into a dumpster fire.
It’s quite big.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-03/crocodile-sighting-yeppoon/100188632
dv said:
Having the world’s highest minimum wage is something that this country can be justifiably proud of.
Michael V said:
Bubblecar said:
Was thinking of doing a hearty stew of cream of cauliflower, taters, roast turkey breast etc but the unfortunate circumstances have made that a less appealing prospect.So I’ll probably do a much quicker and simpler dish with crab meat, anchovies, capers, onion & chilli in a tomato, lemon & blue cheese sauce, served with vermicelli.
Approved!
Verdict: very tasty and very moreish. A successful salty-sweet-tart-creamy-peppery combination, thanks to the salty, tart, creamery & peppery ingredients + the sweetish crab and the slightly sweet but subtle tomato sauce – a local artisan product, recommended:
http://rockygardens.com.au/product/country-style-tomato-sauce/
dv said:
US$16.12 = AU$20.84, about $4.00 less than a similar Oz worker.
Average Construction Laborer Hourly Pay in Australia: AU$24.95
https://www.payscale.com/research/AU/Job=Construction_Laborer/Hourly_Rate
Which is still quite a lot.
Bubblecar said:
dv said:
US$16.12 = AU$20.84, about $4.00 less than a similar Oz worker.
Average Construction Laborer Hourly Pay in Australia: AU$24.95
https://www.payscale.com/research/AU/Job=Construction_Laborer/Hourly_Rate
Which is still quite a lot.
…quite a lot less.
sibeen said:
dv said:
Having the world’s highest minimum wage is something that this country can be justifiably proud of.
The Internet seems a bit behind the times on this, although $19.48 is only about US$15.
Also the Aus$ is still pretty over-valued, but even so, being in the top group is not too bad.
My ISP has sent me a Happy Birthday email. That’s thoughtful of their bots.
Better do my washing up. As even that grubby fellow Quentin Crisp advised, “always wash up after fish” by which I assume he specifically meant “soon”, not “at some stage”.
I see they have renamed Home and Away to just Home.
Peak Warming Man said:
I see they have renamed Home and Away to just Home.
Are you bored?
Peak Warming Man said:
I see they have renamed Home and Away to just Home.
People are allowed to away in NSW.
Anyway, I’m going to watch some TV for a bit. Well, some iView really. We are a couple of episodes behind with Dr Who on ABC plus at present. They’ve pushed it out to very, very late in the evening, so we are at iView with it.
For the revheads:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHa-kz6AC9g
A friend’s resignation email:
Dark Orange said:
A friend’s resignation email:
Go Rick.
Google has removed its head of diversity over a 2007 blog post that said Jewish people had “an insatiable appetite for war and killing”.
In a post about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that resurfaced this week, Kamau Bobb also claimed Jewish people had an “insensitivity” to suffering.
The post has now been deleted.
On Thursday, a spokesperson for Google told the BBC that Mr Bobb would “no longer be part of our diversity team going forward”.
Peak Warming Man said:
Google has removed its head of diversity over a 2007 blog post that said Jewish people had “an insatiable appetite for war and killing”.
In a post about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that resurfaced this week, Kamau Bobb also claimed Jewish people had an “insensitivity” to suffering.
The post has now been deleted.
On Thursday, a spokesperson for Google told the BBC that Mr Bobb would “no longer be part of our diversity team going forward”.
cancel culture!!!!
Peak Warming Man said:
Google has removed its head of diversity over a 2007 blog post that said Jewish people had “an insatiable appetite for war and killing”.
In a post about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that resurfaced this week, Kamau Bobb also claimed Jewish people had an “insensitivity” to suffering.
The post has now been deleted.
On Thursday, a spokesperson for Google told the BBC that Mr Bobb would “no longer be part of our diversity team going forward”.
Bloody hell
DeathEdit
In spring 324 BC Hephaestion left Susa, where he had been married, and accompanied Alexander and the rest of the army as they travelled towards Ecbatana. They arrived in the autumn and it was there, during games and festivals, that Hephaestion fell ill with a fever. Arrian says that after the fever had run for seven days, Alexander had to be summoned from the games to Hephaestion, who was seriously ill. He did not arrive in time; by the time he got there, Hephaestion was dead. Plutarch says that being a young man and a soldier, Hephaestion had ignored medical advice and as soon as his doctor, Glaucias, had gone off to the theatre, he ate a large breakfast consisting of a boiled fowl and a cooler of wine, and then fell sick and died.
Piecing the accounts together, it seems as if Hephaestion’s fever had run its course for seven days, after which time he was sufficiently recovered for his doctor, and Alexander himself, to feel it was safe to leave him, and for Hephaestion to feel hungry. His meal, however, seems to have caused a relapse that led to his rapid death. Precisely why this should have happened is not known. As Mary Renault says, “This sudden crisis in a young, convalescent man is hard to account for.” The explanation that fits most of the facts is that the fever was typhoid and that solid food perforated the ulcerated intestine that the typhoid would have caused. This would have led to internal bleeding, though it would be unusual in that case for death to follow quite as swiftly as it seems to have done here. For that reason, it is not possible altogether to discount other possible explanations, one of them being poison.
Following Hephaestion’s death his body was cremated and the ashes were taken to Babylon. The general Eumenes suggested that divine honors be given to Hephaestion, this was later done.
Hephaestion’s death is dealt with at greater length by the ancient sources than any of the events of his life, because of its profound effect upon Alexander. Plutarch says that “Alexander’s grief was uncontrollable” and adds that he ordered many signs of mourning, notably that the manes and tails of all horses should be shorn, the demolition of the battlements of the neighbouring cities and the banning of flutes and every other kind of music. Besides the account reported in a previous section about the immediate manifestations of despair by Alexander on his friend’s body, Arrian also relates that “until the third day after Hephaestion’s death, Alexander neither tasted food nor paid any attention to his personal appearance, but lay on the ground either bewailing or silently mourning,” and that he had the doctor, Glaucias, hanged for his lack of care. Arrian also mentions Alexander ordering the shrine of Asclepios in Ecbatana to be razed to the ground, and that he cut his hair short in mourning, this last a poignant reminder of Achilles’ last gift to Patroclus on his funeral pyre: “Thus o’er Patroclus while the hero prayed,/On his cold hand the sacred lock he laid./Once more afresh the Grecian sorrows flow:/And now the sun had set upon their woe.”
Another hint that Alexander looked to Achilles to help him to express his grief may be found in the campaign, shortly following these events, against a tribe called the Cossaeans. Plutarch says they were massacred as an offering to the spirit of Hephaestion and it is quite possible to imagine that to Alexander this might have followed in spirit Achilles’ killing of “twelve high-born youths” beside Patroclus’ funeral pyre.
Alexander ordered a period of mourning throughout the empire and “many of the Companions, out of respect for Alexander, dedicated themselves and their arms to the dead man”. The army, too, remembered him; Alexander did not appoint anyone to take Hephaestion’s place as commander of the Companion cavalry; he “wished Hephaestion’s name to be preserved always in connection with it, so Hephaestion’s Regiment it continued to be called, and Hephaestion’s image continued to be carried before it”.
Messengers were sent to the oracle at Siwa to ask if Amon would permit Hephaestion to be worshipped as a god. When the reply came saying he might be worshipped not as a god, but as a divine hero, Alexander was pleased and “from that day forward saw that his friend was honoured with a hero’s rites”. He saw to it that shrines were erected to Hephaestion’s memory, and evidence that the cult took hold can be found in a simple votary plaque now in Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki, inscribed, “To the Hero Hephaestion”.
FuneralEdit
Hephaestion was given a magnificent funeral. Its cost is variously given in the sources as 10,000 talents or 12,000 talents, about $200,000,000 or $ 240,000,000 in the early 21st century’s money. Alexander himself drove the funeral carriage part of the way back to Babylon with some of the driving entrusted to Hephaestion’s friend Perdiccas. At Babylon, funeral games were held in Hephaestion’s honour. The contests ranged from literature to athletics and 3,000 competitors took part, the festival eclipsing anything that had gone before both in cost and in numbers taking part. Plutarch says that Alexander planned to spend ten thousand talents on the funeral and the tomb. He employed Stasicrates, “as this artist was famous for his innovations, which combined an exceptional degree of magnificence, audacity and ostentation”, to design the pyre for Hephaestion.
The pyre was sixty metres high, square in shape and built in stepped levels. The first level was decorated with two hundred and forty ships with golden prows, each of these adorned with armed figures with red banners filling the spaces between. On the second level were torches with snakes at the base, golden wreaths in the middle and at the top, flames surmounted by eagles. The third level showed a hunting scene, and the fourth a battle of centaurs, all done in gold. On the fifth level, also in gold, were lions and bulls, and on the sixth the arms of Macedon and Persia. The seventh and final level bore sculptures of sirens, hollowed out to conceal a choir who would sing a lament. It is possible that the pyre was not burnt, but that it was actually intended as a tomb or lasting memorial; if so, it is likely that it was never completed, as there are references to expensive, uncompleted projects at the time of Alexander’s own death.
One final tribute remained, and it is compelling in its simplicity and in what it reveals about the high esteem in which Hephaestion was held by Alexander. On the day of the funeral, he gave orders that the sacred flame in the temple should be extinguished. Normally, this was only done on the death of the Great King himself.
Amphipolis TombEdit
Based on a monogram found in the Amphipolis Tomb, the lead archaeologist, Katerina Peristeri, claims that the whole tumulus was a funerary monument for Hephaestion, built between 325–300 BC.
dv said:
DeathEditIn spring 324 BC Hephaestion left Susa, where he had been married, and accompanied Alexander and the rest of the army as they travelled towards Ecbatana. They arrived in the autumn and it was there, during games and festivals, that Hephaestion fell ill with a fever. Arrian says that after the fever had run for seven days, Alexander had to be summoned from the games to Hephaestion, who was seriously ill. He did not arrive in time; by the time he got there, Hephaestion was dead. Plutarch says that being a young man and a soldier, Hephaestion had ignored medical advice and as soon as his doctor, Glaucias, had gone off to the theatre, he ate a large breakfast consisting of a boiled fowl and a cooler of wine, and then fell sick and died.
Piecing the accounts together, it seems as if Hephaestion’s fever had run its course for seven days, after which time he was sufficiently recovered for his doctor, and Alexander himself, to feel it was safe to leave him, and for Hephaestion to feel hungry. His meal, however, seems to have caused a relapse that led to his rapid death. Precisely why this should have happened is not known. As Mary Renault says, “This sudden crisis in a young, convalescent man is hard to account for.” The explanation that fits most of the facts is that the fever was typhoid and that solid food perforated the ulcerated intestine that the typhoid would have caused. This would have led to internal bleeding, though it would be unusual in that case for death to follow quite as swiftly as it seems to have done here. For that reason, it is not possible altogether to discount other possible explanations, one of them being poison.
Following Hephaestion’s death his body was cremated and the ashes were taken to Babylon. The general Eumenes suggested that divine honors be given to Hephaestion, this was later done.
Hephaestion’s death is dealt with at greater length by the ancient sources than any of the events of his life, because of its profound effect upon Alexander. Plutarch says that “Alexander’s grief was uncontrollable” and adds that he ordered many signs of mourning, notably that the manes and tails of all horses should be shorn, the demolition of the battlements of the neighbouring cities and the banning of flutes and every other kind of music. Besides the account reported in a previous section about the immediate manifestations of despair by Alexander on his friend’s body, Arrian also relates that “until the third day after Hephaestion’s death, Alexander neither tasted food nor paid any attention to his personal appearance, but lay on the ground either bewailing or silently mourning,” and that he had the doctor, Glaucias, hanged for his lack of care. Arrian also mentions Alexander ordering the shrine of Asclepios in Ecbatana to be razed to the ground, and that he cut his hair short in mourning, this last a poignant reminder of Achilles’ last gift to Patroclus on his funeral pyre: “Thus o’er Patroclus while the hero prayed,/On his cold hand the sacred lock he laid./Once more afresh the Grecian sorrows flow:/And now the sun had set upon their woe.”
Another hint that Alexander looked to Achilles to help him to express his grief may be found in the campaign, shortly following these events, against a tribe called the Cossaeans. Plutarch says they were massacred as an offering to the spirit of Hephaestion and it is quite possible to imagine that to Alexander this might have followed in spirit Achilles’ killing of “twelve high-born youths” beside Patroclus’ funeral pyre.
Alexander ordered a period of mourning throughout the empire and “many of the Companions, out of respect for Alexander, dedicated themselves and their arms to the dead man”. The army, too, remembered him; Alexander did not appoint anyone to take Hephaestion’s place as commander of the Companion cavalry; he “wished Hephaestion’s name to be preserved always in connection with it, so Hephaestion’s Regiment it continued to be called, and Hephaestion’s image continued to be carried before it”.
Messengers were sent to the oracle at Siwa to ask if Amon would permit Hephaestion to be worshipped as a god. When the reply came saying he might be worshipped not as a god, but as a divine hero, Alexander was pleased and “from that day forward saw that his friend was honoured with a hero’s rites”. He saw to it that shrines were erected to Hephaestion’s memory, and evidence that the cult took hold can be found in a simple votary plaque now in Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki, inscribed, “To the Hero Hephaestion”.
FuneralEdit
Hephaestion was given a magnificent funeral. Its cost is variously given in the sources as 10,000 talents or 12,000 talents, about $200,000,000 or $ 240,000,000 in the early 21st century’s money. Alexander himself drove the funeral carriage part of the way back to Babylon with some of the driving entrusted to Hephaestion’s friend Perdiccas. At Babylon, funeral games were held in Hephaestion’s honour. The contests ranged from literature to athletics and 3,000 competitors took part, the festival eclipsing anything that had gone before both in cost and in numbers taking part. Plutarch says that Alexander planned to spend ten thousand talents on the funeral and the tomb. He employed Stasicrates, “as this artist was famous for his innovations, which combined an exceptional degree of magnificence, audacity and ostentation”, to design the pyre for Hephaestion.
The pyre was sixty metres high, square in shape and built in stepped levels. The first level was decorated with two hundred and forty ships with golden prows, each of these adorned with armed figures with red banners filling the spaces between. On the second level were torches with snakes at the base, golden wreaths in the middle and at the top, flames surmounted by eagles. The third level showed a hunting scene, and the fourth a battle of centaurs, all done in gold. On the fifth level, also in gold, were lions and bulls, and on the sixth the arms of Macedon and Persia. The seventh and final level bore sculptures of sirens, hollowed out to conceal a choir who would sing a lament. It is possible that the pyre was not burnt, but that it was actually intended as a tomb or lasting memorial; if so, it is likely that it was never completed, as there are references to expensive, uncompleted projects at the time of Alexander’s own death.
One final tribute remained, and it is compelling in its simplicity and in what it reveals about the high esteem in which Hephaestion was held by Alexander. On the day of the funeral, he gave orders that the sacred flame in the temple should be extinguished. Normally, this was only done on the death of the Great King himself.
Amphipolis TombEdit
Based on a monogram found in the Amphipolis Tomb, the lead archaeologist, Katerina Peristeri, claims that the whole tumulus was a funerary monument for Hephaestion, built between 325–300 BC.
They’ll be no need to go to quite all that bother when I go.
dv said:
DeathEditIn spring 324 BC Hephaestion left Susa, where he had been married, and accompanied Alexander and the rest of the army as they travelled towards Ecbatana. They arrived in the autumn and it was there, during games and festivals, that Hephaestion fell ill with a fever. Arrian says that after the fever had run for seven days, Alexander had to be summoned from the games to Hephaestion, who was seriously ill. He did not arrive in time; by the time he got there, Hephaestion was dead. Plutarch says that being a young man and a soldier, Hephaestion had ignored medical advice and as soon as his doctor, Glaucias, had gone off to the theatre, he ate a large breakfast consisting of a boiled fowl and a cooler of wine, and then fell sick and died.
Piecing the accounts together, it seems as if Hephaestion’s fever had run its course for seven days, after which time he was sufficiently recovered for his doctor, and Alexander himself, to feel it was safe to leave him, and for Hephaestion to feel hungry. His meal, however, seems to have caused a relapse that led to his rapid death. Precisely why this should have happened is not known. As Mary Renault says, “This sudden crisis in a young, convalescent man is hard to account for.” The explanation that fits most of the facts is that the fever was typhoid and that solid food perforated the ulcerated intestine that the typhoid would have caused. This would have led to internal bleeding, though it would be unusual in that case for death to follow quite as swiftly as it seems to have done here. For that reason, it is not possible altogether to discount other possible explanations, one of them being poison.
Following Hephaestion’s death his body was cremated and the ashes were taken to Babylon. The general Eumenes suggested that divine honors be given to Hephaestion, this was later done.
Hephaestion’s death is dealt with at greater length by the ancient sources than any of the events of his life, because of its profound effect upon Alexander. Plutarch says that “Alexander’s grief was uncontrollable” and adds that he ordered many signs of mourning, notably that the manes and tails of all horses should be shorn, the demolition of the battlements of the neighbouring cities and the banning of flutes and every other kind of music. Besides the account reported in a previous section about the immediate manifestations of despair by Alexander on his friend’s body, Arrian also relates that “until the third day after Hephaestion’s death, Alexander neither tasted food nor paid any attention to his personal appearance, but lay on the ground either bewailing or silently mourning,” and that he had the doctor, Glaucias, hanged for his lack of care. Arrian also mentions Alexander ordering the shrine of Asclepios in Ecbatana to be razed to the ground, and that he cut his hair short in mourning, this last a poignant reminder of Achilles’ last gift to Patroclus on his funeral pyre: “Thus o’er Patroclus while the hero prayed,/On his cold hand the sacred lock he laid./Once more afresh the Grecian sorrows flow:/And now the sun had set upon their woe.”
Another hint that Alexander looked to Achilles to help him to express his grief may be found in the campaign, shortly following these events, against a tribe called the Cossaeans. Plutarch says they were massacred as an offering to the spirit of Hephaestion and it is quite possible to imagine that to Alexander this might have followed in spirit Achilles’ killing of “twelve high-born youths” beside Patroclus’ funeral pyre.
Alexander ordered a period of mourning throughout the empire and “many of the Companions, out of respect for Alexander, dedicated themselves and their arms to the dead man”. The army, too, remembered him; Alexander did not appoint anyone to take Hephaestion’s place as commander of the Companion cavalry; he “wished Hephaestion’s name to be preserved always in connection with it, so Hephaestion’s Regiment it continued to be called, and Hephaestion’s image continued to be carried before it”.
Messengers were sent to the oracle at Siwa to ask if Amon would permit Hephaestion to be worshipped as a god. When the reply came saying he might be worshipped not as a god, but as a divine hero, Alexander was pleased and “from that day forward saw that his friend was honoured with a hero’s rites”. He saw to it that shrines were erected to Hephaestion’s memory, and evidence that the cult took hold can be found in a simple votary plaque now in Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki, inscribed, “To the Hero Hephaestion”.
FuneralEdit
Hephaestion was given a magnificent funeral. Its cost is variously given in the sources as 10,000 talents or 12,000 talents, about $200,000,000 or $ 240,000,000 in the early 21st century’s money. Alexander himself drove the funeral carriage part of the way back to Babylon with some of the driving entrusted to Hephaestion’s friend Perdiccas. At Babylon, funeral games were held in Hephaestion’s honour. The contests ranged from literature to athletics and 3,000 competitors took part, the festival eclipsing anything that had gone before both in cost and in numbers taking part. Plutarch says that Alexander planned to spend ten thousand talents on the funeral and the tomb. He employed Stasicrates, “as this artist was famous for his innovations, which combined an exceptional degree of magnificence, audacity and ostentation”, to design the pyre for Hephaestion.
The pyre was sixty metres high, square in shape and built in stepped levels. The first level was decorated with two hundred and forty ships with golden prows, each of these adorned with armed figures with red banners filling the spaces between. On the second level were torches with snakes at the base, golden wreaths in the middle and at the top, flames surmounted by eagles. The third level showed a hunting scene, and the fourth a battle of centaurs, all done in gold. On the fifth level, also in gold, were lions and bulls, and on the sixth the arms of Macedon and Persia. The seventh and final level bore sculptures of sirens, hollowed out to conceal a choir who would sing a lament. It is possible that the pyre was not burnt, but that it was actually intended as a tomb or lasting memorial; if so, it is likely that it was never completed, as there are references to expensive, uncompleted projects at the time of Alexander’s own death.
One final tribute remained, and it is compelling in its simplicity and in what it reveals about the high esteem in which Hephaestion was held by Alexander. On the day of the funeral, he gave orders that the sacred flame in the temple should be extinguished. Normally, this was only done on the death of the Great King himself.
Amphipolis TombEdit
Based on a monogram found in the Amphipolis Tomb, the lead archaeologist, Katerina Peristeri, claims that the whole tumulus was a funerary monument for Hephaestion, built between 325–300 BC.
Gay.
sibeen said:
dv said:
DeathEditIn spring 324 BC Hephaestion left Susa, where he had been married, and accompanied Alexander and the rest of the army as they travelled towards Ecbatana. They arrived in the autumn and it was there, during games and festivals, that Hephaestion fell ill with a fever. Arrian says that after the fever had run for seven days, Alexander had to be summoned from the games to Hephaestion, who was seriously ill. He did not arrive in time; by the time he got there, Hephaestion was dead. Plutarch says that being a young man and a soldier, Hephaestion had ignored medical advice and as soon as his doctor, Glaucias, had gone off to the theatre, he ate a large breakfast consisting of a boiled fowl and a cooler of wine, and then fell sick and died.
Piecing the accounts together, it seems as if Hephaestion’s fever had run its course for seven days, after which time he was sufficiently recovered for his doctor, and Alexander himself, to feel it was safe to leave him, and for Hephaestion to feel hungry. His meal, however, seems to have caused a relapse that led to his rapid death. Precisely why this should have happened is not known. As Mary Renault says, “This sudden crisis in a young, convalescent man is hard to account for.” The explanation that fits most of the facts is that the fever was typhoid and that solid food perforated the ulcerated intestine that the typhoid would have caused. This would have led to internal bleeding, though it would be unusual in that case for death to follow quite as swiftly as it seems to have done here. For that reason, it is not possible altogether to discount other possible explanations, one of them being poison.
Following Hephaestion’s death his body was cremated and the ashes were taken to Babylon. The general Eumenes suggested that divine honors be given to Hephaestion, this was later done.
Hephaestion’s death is dealt with at greater length by the ancient sources than any of the events of his life, because of its profound effect upon Alexander. Plutarch says that “Alexander’s grief was uncontrollable” and adds that he ordered many signs of mourning, notably that the manes and tails of all horses should be shorn, the demolition of the battlements of the neighbouring cities and the banning of flutes and every other kind of music. Besides the account reported in a previous section about the immediate manifestations of despair by Alexander on his friend’s body, Arrian also relates that “until the third day after Hephaestion’s death, Alexander neither tasted food nor paid any attention to his personal appearance, but lay on the ground either bewailing or silently mourning,” and that he had the doctor, Glaucias, hanged for his lack of care. Arrian also mentions Alexander ordering the shrine of Asclepios in Ecbatana to be razed to the ground, and that he cut his hair short in mourning, this last a poignant reminder of Achilles’ last gift to Patroclus on his funeral pyre: “Thus o’er Patroclus while the hero prayed,/On his cold hand the sacred lock he laid./Once more afresh the Grecian sorrows flow:/And now the sun had set upon their woe.”
Another hint that Alexander looked to Achilles to help him to express his grief may be found in the campaign, shortly following these events, against a tribe called the Cossaeans. Plutarch says they were massacred as an offering to the spirit of Hephaestion and it is quite possible to imagine that to Alexander this might have followed in spirit Achilles’ killing of “twelve high-born youths” beside Patroclus’ funeral pyre.
Alexander ordered a period of mourning throughout the empire and “many of the Companions, out of respect for Alexander, dedicated themselves and their arms to the dead man”. The army, too, remembered him; Alexander did not appoint anyone to take Hephaestion’s place as commander of the Companion cavalry; he “wished Hephaestion’s name to be preserved always in connection with it, so Hephaestion’s Regiment it continued to be called, and Hephaestion’s image continued to be carried before it”.
Messengers were sent to the oracle at Siwa to ask if Amon would permit Hephaestion to be worshipped as a god. When the reply came saying he might be worshipped not as a god, but as a divine hero, Alexander was pleased and “from that day forward saw that his friend was honoured with a hero’s rites”. He saw to it that shrines were erected to Hephaestion’s memory, and evidence that the cult took hold can be found in a simple votary plaque now in Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki, inscribed, “To the Hero Hephaestion”.
FuneralEdit
Hephaestion was given a magnificent funeral. Its cost is variously given in the sources as 10,000 talents or 12,000 talents, about $200,000,000 or $ 240,000,000 in the early 21st century’s money. Alexander himself drove the funeral carriage part of the way back to Babylon with some of the driving entrusted to Hephaestion’s friend Perdiccas. At Babylon, funeral games were held in Hephaestion’s honour. The contests ranged from literature to athletics and 3,000 competitors took part, the festival eclipsing anything that had gone before both in cost and in numbers taking part. Plutarch says that Alexander planned to spend ten thousand talents on the funeral and the tomb. He employed Stasicrates, “as this artist was famous for his innovations, which combined an exceptional degree of magnificence, audacity and ostentation”, to design the pyre for Hephaestion.
The pyre was sixty metres high, square in shape and built in stepped levels. The first level was decorated with two hundred and forty ships with golden prows, each of these adorned with armed figures with red banners filling the spaces between. On the second level were torches with snakes at the base, golden wreaths in the middle and at the top, flames surmounted by eagles. The third level showed a hunting scene, and the fourth a battle of centaurs, all done in gold. On the fifth level, also in gold, were lions and bulls, and on the sixth the arms of Macedon and Persia. The seventh and final level bore sculptures of sirens, hollowed out to conceal a choir who would sing a lament. It is possible that the pyre was not burnt, but that it was actually intended as a tomb or lasting memorial; if so, it is likely that it was never completed, as there are references to expensive, uncompleted projects at the time of Alexander’s own death.
One final tribute remained, and it is compelling in its simplicity and in what it reveals about the high esteem in which Hephaestion was held by Alexander. On the day of the funeral, he gave orders that the sacred flame in the temple should be extinguished. Normally, this was only done on the death of the Great King himself.
Amphipolis TombEdit
Based on a monogram found in the Amphipolis Tomb, the lead archaeologist, Katerina Peristeri, claims that the whole tumulus was a funerary monument for Hephaestion, built between 325–300 BC.
They’ll be no need to go to quite all that bother when I go.
we won’t.
Bogsnorkler said:
sibeen said:
dv said:
DeathEditIn spring 324 BC Hephaestion left Susa, where he had been married, and accompanied Alexander and the rest of the army as they travelled towards Ecbatana. They arrived in the autumn and it was there, during games and festivals, that Hephaestion fell ill with a fever. Arrian says that after the fever had run for seven days, Alexander had to be summoned from the games to Hephaestion, who was seriously ill. He did not arrive in time; by the time he got there, Hephaestion was dead. Plutarch says that being a young man and a soldier, Hephaestion had ignored medical advice and as soon as his doctor, Glaucias, had gone off to the theatre, he ate a large breakfast consisting of a boiled fowl and a cooler of wine, and then fell sick and died.
Piecing the accounts together, it seems as if Hephaestion’s fever had run its course for seven days, after which time he was sufficiently recovered for his doctor, and Alexander himself, to feel it was safe to leave him, and for Hephaestion to feel hungry. His meal, however, seems to have caused a relapse that led to his rapid death. Precisely why this should have happened is not known. As Mary Renault says, “This sudden crisis in a young, convalescent man is hard to account for.” The explanation that fits most of the facts is that the fever was typhoid and that solid food perforated the ulcerated intestine that the typhoid would have caused. This would have led to internal bleeding, though it would be unusual in that case for death to follow quite as swiftly as it seems to have done here. For that reason, it is not possible altogether to discount other possible explanations, one of them being poison.
Following Hephaestion’s death his body was cremated and the ashes were taken to Babylon. The general Eumenes suggested that divine honors be given to Hephaestion, this was later done.
Hephaestion’s death is dealt with at greater length by the ancient sources than any of the events of his life, because of its profound effect upon Alexander. Plutarch says that “Alexander’s grief was uncontrollable” and adds that he ordered many signs of mourning, notably that the manes and tails of all horses should be shorn, the demolition of the battlements of the neighbouring cities and the banning of flutes and every other kind of music. Besides the account reported in a previous section about the immediate manifestations of despair by Alexander on his friend’s body, Arrian also relates that “until the third day after Hephaestion’s death, Alexander neither tasted food nor paid any attention to his personal appearance, but lay on the ground either bewailing or silently mourning,” and that he had the doctor, Glaucias, hanged for his lack of care. Arrian also mentions Alexander ordering the shrine of Asclepios in Ecbatana to be razed to the ground, and that he cut his hair short in mourning, this last a poignant reminder of Achilles’ last gift to Patroclus on his funeral pyre: “Thus o’er Patroclus while the hero prayed,/On his cold hand the sacred lock he laid./Once more afresh the Grecian sorrows flow:/And now the sun had set upon their woe.”
Another hint that Alexander looked to Achilles to help him to express his grief may be found in the campaign, shortly following these events, against a tribe called the Cossaeans. Plutarch says they were massacred as an offering to the spirit of Hephaestion and it is quite possible to imagine that to Alexander this might have followed in spirit Achilles’ killing of “twelve high-born youths” beside Patroclus’ funeral pyre.
Alexander ordered a period of mourning throughout the empire and “many of the Companions, out of respect for Alexander, dedicated themselves and their arms to the dead man”. The army, too, remembered him; Alexander did not appoint anyone to take Hephaestion’s place as commander of the Companion cavalry; he “wished Hephaestion’s name to be preserved always in connection with it, so Hephaestion’s Regiment it continued to be called, and Hephaestion’s image continued to be carried before it”.
Messengers were sent to the oracle at Siwa to ask if Amon would permit Hephaestion to be worshipped as a god. When the reply came saying he might be worshipped not as a god, but as a divine hero, Alexander was pleased and “from that day forward saw that his friend was honoured with a hero’s rites”. He saw to it that shrines were erected to Hephaestion’s memory, and evidence that the cult took hold can be found in a simple votary plaque now in Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki, inscribed, “To the Hero Hephaestion”.
FuneralEdit
Hephaestion was given a magnificent funeral. Its cost is variously given in the sources as 10,000 talents or 12,000 talents, about $200,000,000 or $ 240,000,000 in the early 21st century’s money. Alexander himself drove the funeral carriage part of the way back to Babylon with some of the driving entrusted to Hephaestion’s friend Perdiccas. At Babylon, funeral games were held in Hephaestion’s honour. The contests ranged from literature to athletics and 3,000 competitors took part, the festival eclipsing anything that had gone before both in cost and in numbers taking part. Plutarch says that Alexander planned to spend ten thousand talents on the funeral and the tomb. He employed Stasicrates, “as this artist was famous for his innovations, which combined an exceptional degree of magnificence, audacity and ostentation”, to design the pyre for Hephaestion.
The pyre was sixty metres high, square in shape and built in stepped levels. The first level was decorated with two hundred and forty ships with golden prows, each of these adorned with armed figures with red banners filling the spaces between. On the second level were torches with snakes at the base, golden wreaths in the middle and at the top, flames surmounted by eagles. The third level showed a hunting scene, and the fourth a battle of centaurs, all done in gold. On the fifth level, also in gold, were lions and bulls, and on the sixth the arms of Macedon and Persia. The seventh and final level bore sculptures of sirens, hollowed out to conceal a choir who would sing a lament. It is possible that the pyre was not burnt, but that it was actually intended as a tomb or lasting memorial; if so, it is likely that it was never completed, as there are references to expensive, uncompleted projects at the time of Alexander’s own death.
One final tribute remained, and it is compelling in its simplicity and in what it reveals about the high esteem in which Hephaestion was held by Alexander. On the day of the funeral, he gave orders that the sacred flame in the temple should be extinguished. Normally, this was only done on the death of the Great King himself.
Amphipolis TombEdit
Based on a monogram found in the Amphipolis Tomb, the lead archaeologist, Katerina Peristeri, claims that the whole tumulus was a funerary monument for Hephaestion, built between 325–300 BC.
They’ll be no need to go to quite all that bother when I go.
we won’t.
I knew I could count upon you.
sibeen said:
dv said:
DeathEditIn spring 324 BC Hephaestion left Susa, where he had been married, and accompanied Alexander and the rest of the army as they travelled towards Ecbatana. They arrived in the autumn and it was there, during games and festivals, that Hephaestion fell ill with a fever. Arrian says that after the fever had run for seven days, Alexander had to be summoned from the games to Hephaestion, who was seriously ill. He did not arrive in time; by the time he got there, Hephaestion was dead. Plutarch says that being a young man and a soldier, Hephaestion had ignored medical advice and as soon as his doctor, Glaucias, had gone off to the theatre, he ate a large breakfast consisting of a boiled fowl and a cooler of wine, and then fell sick and died.
Piecing the accounts together, it seems as if Hephaestion’s fever had run its course for seven days, after which time he was sufficiently recovered for his doctor, and Alexander himself, to feel it was safe to leave him, and for Hephaestion to feel hungry. His meal, however, seems to have caused a relapse that led to his rapid death. Precisely why this should have happened is not known. As Mary Renault says, “This sudden crisis in a young, convalescent man is hard to account for.” The explanation that fits most of the facts is that the fever was typhoid and that solid food perforated the ulcerated intestine that the typhoid would have caused. This would have led to internal bleeding, though it would be unusual in that case for death to follow quite as swiftly as it seems to have done here. For that reason, it is not possible altogether to discount other possible explanations, one of them being poison.
Following Hephaestion’s death his body was cremated and the ashes were taken to Babylon. The general Eumenes suggested that divine honors be given to Hephaestion, this was later done.
Hephaestion’s death is dealt with at greater length by the ancient sources than any of the events of his life, because of its profound effect upon Alexander. Plutarch says that “Alexander’s grief was uncontrollable” and adds that he ordered many signs of mourning, notably that the manes and tails of all horses should be shorn, the demolition of the battlements of the neighbouring cities and the banning of flutes and every other kind of music. Besides the account reported in a previous section about the immediate manifestations of despair by Alexander on his friend’s body, Arrian also relates that “until the third day after Hephaestion’s death, Alexander neither tasted food nor paid any attention to his personal appearance, but lay on the ground either bewailing or silently mourning,” and that he had the doctor, Glaucias, hanged for his lack of care. Arrian also mentions Alexander ordering the shrine of Asclepios in Ecbatana to be razed to the ground, and that he cut his hair short in mourning, this last a poignant reminder of Achilles’ last gift to Patroclus on his funeral pyre: “Thus o’er Patroclus while the hero prayed,/On his cold hand the sacred lock he laid./Once more afresh the Grecian sorrows flow:/And now the sun had set upon their woe.”
Another hint that Alexander looked to Achilles to help him to express his grief may be found in the campaign, shortly following these events, against a tribe called the Cossaeans. Plutarch says they were massacred as an offering to the spirit of Hephaestion and it is quite possible to imagine that to Alexander this might have followed in spirit Achilles’ killing of “twelve high-born youths” beside Patroclus’ funeral pyre.
Alexander ordered a period of mourning throughout the empire and “many of the Companions, out of respect for Alexander, dedicated themselves and their arms to the dead man”. The army, too, remembered him; Alexander did not appoint anyone to take Hephaestion’s place as commander of the Companion cavalry; he “wished Hephaestion’s name to be preserved always in connection with it, so Hephaestion’s Regiment it continued to be called, and Hephaestion’s image continued to be carried before it”.
Messengers were sent to the oracle at Siwa to ask if Amon would permit Hephaestion to be worshipped as a god. When the reply came saying he might be worshipped not as a god, but as a divine hero, Alexander was pleased and “from that day forward saw that his friend was honoured with a hero’s rites”. He saw to it that shrines were erected to Hephaestion’s memory, and evidence that the cult took hold can be found in a simple votary plaque now in Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki, inscribed, “To the Hero Hephaestion”.
FuneralEdit
Hephaestion was given a magnificent funeral. Its cost is variously given in the sources as 10,000 talents or 12,000 talents, about $200,000,000 or $ 240,000,000 in the early 21st century’s money. Alexander himself drove the funeral carriage part of the way back to Babylon with some of the driving entrusted to Hephaestion’s friend Perdiccas. At Babylon, funeral games were held in Hephaestion’s honour. The contests ranged from literature to athletics and 3,000 competitors took part, the festival eclipsing anything that had gone before both in cost and in numbers taking part. Plutarch says that Alexander planned to spend ten thousand talents on the funeral and the tomb. He employed Stasicrates, “as this artist was famous for his innovations, which combined an exceptional degree of magnificence, audacity and ostentation”, to design the pyre for Hephaestion.
The pyre was sixty metres high, square in shape and built in stepped levels. The first level was decorated with two hundred and forty ships with golden prows, each of these adorned with armed figures with red banners filling the spaces between. On the second level were torches with snakes at the base, golden wreaths in the middle and at the top, flames surmounted by eagles. The third level showed a hunting scene, and the fourth a battle of centaurs, all done in gold. On the fifth level, also in gold, were lions and bulls, and on the sixth the arms of Macedon and Persia. The seventh and final level bore sculptures of sirens, hollowed out to conceal a choir who would sing a lament. It is possible that the pyre was not burnt, but that it was actually intended as a tomb or lasting memorial; if so, it is likely that it was never completed, as there are references to expensive, uncompleted projects at the time of Alexander’s own death.
One final tribute remained, and it is compelling in its simplicity and in what it reveals about the high esteem in which Hephaestion was held by Alexander. On the day of the funeral, he gave orders that the sacred flame in the temple should be extinguished. Normally, this was only done on the death of the Great King himself.
Amphipolis TombEdit
Based on a monogram found in the Amphipolis Tomb, the lead archaeologist, Katerina Peristeri, claims that the whole tumulus was a funerary monument for Hephaestion, built between 325–300 BC.
They’ll be no need to go to quite all that bother when I go.
I mean I’ve already started building the pyre
dv said:
sibeen said:
dv said:
DeathEditIn spring 324 BC Hephaestion left Susa, where he had been married, and accompanied Alexander and the rest of the army as they travelled towards Ecbatana. They arrived in the autumn and it was there, during games and festivals, that Hephaestion fell ill with a fever. Arrian says that after the fever had run for seven days, Alexander had to be summoned from the games to Hephaestion, who was seriously ill. He did not arrive in time; by the time he got there, Hephaestion was dead. Plutarch says that being a young man and a soldier, Hephaestion had ignored medical advice and as soon as his doctor, Glaucias, had gone off to the theatre, he ate a large breakfast consisting of a boiled fowl and a cooler of wine, and then fell sick and died.
Piecing the accounts together, it seems as if Hephaestion’s fever had run its course for seven days, after which time he was sufficiently recovered for his doctor, and Alexander himself, to feel it was safe to leave him, and for Hephaestion to feel hungry. His meal, however, seems to have caused a relapse that led to his rapid death. Precisely why this should have happened is not known. As Mary Renault says, “This sudden crisis in a young, convalescent man is hard to account for.” The explanation that fits most of the facts is that the fever was typhoid and that solid food perforated the ulcerated intestine that the typhoid would have caused. This would have led to internal bleeding, though it would be unusual in that case for death to follow quite as swiftly as it seems to have done here. For that reason, it is not possible altogether to discount other possible explanations, one of them being poison.
Following Hephaestion’s death his body was cremated and the ashes were taken to Babylon. The general Eumenes suggested that divine honors be given to Hephaestion, this was later done.
Hephaestion’s death is dealt with at greater length by the ancient sources than any of the events of his life, because of its profound effect upon Alexander. Plutarch says that “Alexander’s grief was uncontrollable” and adds that he ordered many signs of mourning, notably that the manes and tails of all horses should be shorn, the demolition of the battlements of the neighbouring cities and the banning of flutes and every other kind of music. Besides the account reported in a previous section about the immediate manifestations of despair by Alexander on his friend’s body, Arrian also relates that “until the third day after Hephaestion’s death, Alexander neither tasted food nor paid any attention to his personal appearance, but lay on the ground either bewailing or silently mourning,” and that he had the doctor, Glaucias, hanged for his lack of care. Arrian also mentions Alexander ordering the shrine of Asclepios in Ecbatana to be razed to the ground, and that he cut his hair short in mourning, this last a poignant reminder of Achilles’ last gift to Patroclus on his funeral pyre: “Thus o’er Patroclus while the hero prayed,/On his cold hand the sacred lock he laid./Once more afresh the Grecian sorrows flow:/And now the sun had set upon their woe.”
Another hint that Alexander looked to Achilles to help him to express his grief may be found in the campaign, shortly following these events, against a tribe called the Cossaeans. Plutarch says they were massacred as an offering to the spirit of Hephaestion and it is quite possible to imagine that to Alexander this might have followed in spirit Achilles’ killing of “twelve high-born youths” beside Patroclus’ funeral pyre.
Alexander ordered a period of mourning throughout the empire and “many of the Companions, out of respect for Alexander, dedicated themselves and their arms to the dead man”. The army, too, remembered him; Alexander did not appoint anyone to take Hephaestion’s place as commander of the Companion cavalry; he “wished Hephaestion’s name to be preserved always in connection with it, so Hephaestion’s Regiment it continued to be called, and Hephaestion’s image continued to be carried before it”.
Messengers were sent to the oracle at Siwa to ask if Amon would permit Hephaestion to be worshipped as a god. When the reply came saying he might be worshipped not as a god, but as a divine hero, Alexander was pleased and “from that day forward saw that his friend was honoured with a hero’s rites”. He saw to it that shrines were erected to Hephaestion’s memory, and evidence that the cult took hold can be found in a simple votary plaque now in Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki, inscribed, “To the Hero Hephaestion”.
FuneralEdit
Hephaestion was given a magnificent funeral. Its cost is variously given in the sources as 10,000 talents or 12,000 talents, about $200,000,000 or $ 240,000,000 in the early 21st century’s money. Alexander himself drove the funeral carriage part of the way back to Babylon with some of the driving entrusted to Hephaestion’s friend Perdiccas. At Babylon, funeral games were held in Hephaestion’s honour. The contests ranged from literature to athletics and 3,000 competitors took part, the festival eclipsing anything that had gone before both in cost and in numbers taking part. Plutarch says that Alexander planned to spend ten thousand talents on the funeral and the tomb. He employed Stasicrates, “as this artist was famous for his innovations, which combined an exceptional degree of magnificence, audacity and ostentation”, to design the pyre for Hephaestion.
The pyre was sixty metres high, square in shape and built in stepped levels. The first level was decorated with two hundred and forty ships with golden prows, each of these adorned with armed figures with red banners filling the spaces between. On the second level were torches with snakes at the base, golden wreaths in the middle and at the top, flames surmounted by eagles. The third level showed a hunting scene, and the fourth a battle of centaurs, all done in gold. On the fifth level, also in gold, were lions and bulls, and on the sixth the arms of Macedon and Persia. The seventh and final level bore sculptures of sirens, hollowed out to conceal a choir who would sing a lament. It is possible that the pyre was not burnt, but that it was actually intended as a tomb or lasting memorial; if so, it is likely that it was never completed, as there are references to expensive, uncompleted projects at the time of Alexander’s own death.
One final tribute remained, and it is compelling in its simplicity and in what it reveals about the high esteem in which Hephaestion was held by Alexander. On the day of the funeral, he gave orders that the sacred flame in the temple should be extinguished. Normally, this was only done on the death of the Great King himself.
Amphipolis TombEdit
Based on a monogram found in the Amphipolis Tomb, the lead archaeologist, Katerina Peristeri, claims that the whole tumulus was a funerary monument for Hephaestion, built between 325–300 BC.
They’ll be no need to go to quite all that bother when I go.
I mean I’ve already started building the pyre
I hope you haven’t used the good wood?
Our Ash is out of the French Open.
Broken hip or some such.
Feeling cheerier now, enjoying a French Mule (brandy with lime juice, ginger beer, bitters, sugar) and some creamy blue cheese while watching space puppets (Fireball XL5 episode 27 – Dangerous Cargo).
Feeling more like a birthday now.
The immediately younger sister and Ross sister will be flying to SA next week to visit the mainland sister. Hopefully we’ll all be able to meet up some time soon.
Bubblecar said:
Feeling cheerier now, enjoying a French Mule (brandy with lime juice, ginger beer, bitters, sugar) and some creamy blue cheese while watching space puppets (Fireball XL5 episode 27 – Dangerous Cargo).Feeling more like a birthday now.
The immediately younger sister and Ross sister will be flying to SA next week to visit the mainland sister. Hopefully we’ll all be able to meet up some time soon.
I’m having some creamy blue and some hard cheddar. I wouldn’t touch the Mule.
sibeen said:
Bubblecar said:
Feeling cheerier now, enjoying a French Mule (brandy with lime juice, ginger beer, bitters, sugar) and some creamy blue cheese while watching space puppets (Fireball XL5 episode 27 – Dangerous Cargo).Feeling more like a birthday now.
The immediately younger sister and Ross sister will be flying to SA next week to visit the mainland sister. Hopefully we’ll all be able to meet up some time soon.
I’m having some creamy blue and some hard cheddar. I wouldn’t touch the Mule.
sibeen said:
Bubblecar said:
Feeling cheerier now, enjoying a French Mule (brandy with lime juice, ginger beer, bitters, sugar) and some creamy blue cheese while watching space puppets (Fireball XL5 episode 27 – Dangerous Cargo).Feeling more like a birthday now.
The immediately younger sister and Ross sister will be flying to SA next week to visit the mainland sister. Hopefully we’ll all be able to meet up some time soon.
I’m having some creamy blue and some hard cheddar. I wouldn’t touch the Mule.
It’s a refreshing kick but also genuinely tasty.
But not the sort of tipple to quaff all night :)
warm ya paws on that, few demons in there I see
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warm ya paws on that, few demons in there I see
Looks inviting. I’ll order a load of wood next week.
Bubblecar said:
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warm ya paws on that, few demons in there I see
Looks inviting. I’ll order a load of wood next week.
dv’s using the good stuff.
sibeen said:
Bubblecar said:
transition said:
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warm ya paws on that, few demons in there I see
Looks inviting. I’ll order a load of wood next week.
dv’s using the good stuff.
zinc?
Bubblecar said:
sibeen said:
Bubblecar said:Looks inviting. I’ll order a load of wood next week.
dv’s using the good stuff.
zinc?
No, no. Apparently he put in an order for all teh good wood.
sibeen said:
Bubblecar said:
sibeen said:dv’s using the good stuff.
zinc?
No, no. Apparently he put in an order for all teh good wood.
Which would be Jarrah in his part of the world. Bastard.
Rule 303 said:
sibeen said:
Bubblecar said:zinc?
No, no. Apparently he put in an order for all teh good wood.
Which would be Jarrah in his part of the world. Bastard.
I’m certain it can only be for a good cause.
Bubblecar said:
Sounds safe.
(FTR, there is actually ‘chimney sweep’ logs that claim to break down and blow off the Creosote in the chimney as they burn)
This stuff will be from the Ross man who supplies the Ross sister.
$160 for a shedload of good quality firewood.
sibeen said:
Rule 303 said:
sibeen said:No, no. Apparently he put in an order for all teh good wood.
Which would be Jarrah in his part of the world. Bastard.
I’m certain it can only be for a good cause.
Seems right. Terribly environmentally conscious, the Westralians. They’re know around the world for it.
Bubblecar said:
This stuff will be from the Ross man who supplies the Ross sister.$160 for a shedload of good quality firewood.
For bush timber (mixed eucalypts)? That’s a bargain if it’s cut, split, delivered and stacked.
Bubblecar said:
This stuff will be from the Ross man who supplies the Ross sister.$160 for a shedload of good quality firewood.
Good price for a lot of comfort and joy.
Rule 303 said:
Bubblecar said:
This stuff will be from the Ross man who supplies the Ross sister.$160 for a shedload of good quality firewood.
For bush timber (mixed eucalypts)? That’s a bargain if it’s cut, split, delivered and stacked.
It’ll be delivered. Not sure how much extra splitting will be required, but I have the necessary tools. I imagine I’ll have to stack it myself but I think I recall my sister saying the fellow helped my bro-in-law stack their last batch.
Rule 303 said:
Bubblecar said:
This stuff will be from the Ross man who supplies the Ross sister.$160 for a shedload of good quality firewood.
For bush timber (mixed eucalypts)? That’s a bargain if it’s cut, split, delivered and stacked.
It’s the midlands. Twill probably be white gum or peppermint.
sarahs mum said:
Rule 303 said:
Bubblecar said:
This stuff will be from the Ross man who supplies the Ross sister.$160 for a shedload of good quality firewood.
For bush timber (mixed eucalypts)? That’s a bargain if it’s cut, split, delivered and stacked.
It’s the midlands. Twill probably be white gum or peppermint.
Sister says it’s dry and woodheater-friendly. I’ll ask the chappy if I can’t identify the species myself.
Bubblecar said:
Rule 303 said:
Bubblecar said:
This stuff will be from the Ross man who supplies the Ross sister.$160 for a shedload of good quality firewood.
For bush timber (mixed eucalypts)? That’s a bargain if it’s cut, split, delivered and stacked.
It’ll be delivered. Not sure how much extra splitting will be required, but I have the necessary tools. I imagine I’ll have to stack it myself but I think I recall my sister saying the fellow helped my bro-in-law stack their last batch.
From the lot I had delivered there is a pile left that needs to be hit again with a blocksplitter. It was broken down but not enough for my heater.
I don’t mind stacking wood. Even though I don’t get it done quickly.
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
Rule 303 said:For bush timber (mixed eucalypts)? That’s a bargain if it’s cut, split, delivered and stacked.
It’ll be delivered. Not sure how much extra splitting will be required, but I have the necessary tools. I imagine I’ll have to stack it myself but I think I recall my sister saying the fellow helped my bro-in-law stack their last batch.
From the lot I had delivered there is a pile left that needs to be hit again with a blocksplitter. It was broken down but not enough for my heater.
I don’t mind stacking wood. Even though I don’t get it done quickly.
I’ve had umpteen years experience of it at the old South Mole Creek place. Not just stacking and splitting but also occasional chainsawing and trailer-loading etc.
I finished Ragnarok. I am distressed about Loki’s giant tapeworm.
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
Rule 303 said:For bush timber (mixed eucalypts)? That’s a bargain if it’s cut, split, delivered and stacked.
It’ll be delivered. Not sure how much extra splitting will be required, but I have the necessary tools. I imagine I’ll have to stack it myself but I think I recall my sister saying the fellow helped my bro-in-law stack their last batch.
From the lot I had delivered there is a pile left that needs to be hit again with a blocksplitter. It was broken down but not enough for my heater.
I don’t mind stacking wood. Even though I don’t get it done quickly.
Likewise. I good stack is a thing of beauty.
I made the ‘Nat’s What I Reckon’ Butternut Pumpkin soup tonight, but used a couple of chunks of the mild Golden Curry* instead of Nutmeg. It’s very good.
*Mostly because it’s too mild for anything curry-related.
sarahs mum said:
I finished Ragnarok. I am distressed about Loki’s giant tapeworm.
sarahs mum said:
I finished Ragnarok. I am distressed about Loki’s giant tapeworm.
This might help:
Ragnarok Season 2 Ending, Explained
https://thecinemaholic.com/ragnarok-season-2-ending-explained/
And today on the Tipping Point they asked about what creature was it that Loki bore. And their answer was horse.
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
I finished Ragnarok. I am distressed about Loki’s giant tapeworm.
This might help:
Ragnarok Season 2 Ending, Explained
https://thecinemaholic.com/ragnarok-season-2-ending-explained/
I will have to tune into series 3 where the tapeworm turns into the Midguard serpent.
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
I finished Ragnarok. I am distressed about Loki’s giant tapeworm.
This might help:
Ragnarok Season 2 Ending, Explained
https://thecinemaholic.com/ragnarok-season-2-ending-explained/
I will have to tune into series 3 where the tapeworm turns into the Midguard serpent.
Jormungandr…
https://www.instagram.com/p/CPbakP9LwRL/
Icelandic man who received double arm transplant demonstrates that he can now flex a bicep a bit
dv said:
https://www.instagram.com/p/CPbakP9LwRL/Icelandic man who received double arm transplant demonstrates that he can now flex a bicep a bit
Thanks for that. I will add it to my store of knowledge.
Rule 303 said:
Bubblecar said:
Sounds safe.
(FTR, there is actually ‘chimney sweep’ logs that claim to break down and blow off the Creosote in the chimney as they burn)
Killsoot.
roughbarked said:
Rule 303 said:
Bubblecar said:
Sounds safe.
(FTR, there is actually ‘chimney sweep’ logs that claim to break down and blow off the Creosote in the chimney as they burn)
Killsoot.
From the Merriwa Ringer;
Now with winter fast approaching it may be time to take a look at your wood fire. If you have a fireplace of any kind, clean the flue before you put it into use this season. We have some flue brushes in stock at the moment which are ideal for the job. For slow combustion heaters, maintain the cleanliness of the flue by using Kilsoot or Soot-Loose. Just throw a sachet of either of these into the fire while it is burning nicely every couple of weeks.
Another option is by using Smart Burn. By using Smart Burn, you will find that your wood will burn hotter for longer, your flue will remain clean and the glass on your fire door will also remain clean. You will also notice a reduction in the amount of smoke coming out of your chimney. Anyway, pop in and check out the dvd we have playing.
Drastically out of time. That’s it for this week.
Ray McConnell of Merriwa Hardware.
coffee landed, and shower rain just started, might need go wind the windows up in the ute
transition said:
coffee landed, and shower rain just started, might need go wind the windows up in the ute
That’d be a good idea. Why you hadn’t done it with the mice plague raging, is possibly another tale?
transition said:
coffee landed, and shower rain just started, might need go wind the windows up in the ute
nah, all good, done, it stopped, saved me getting wet
you’re up early, rb, didn’t poo the bed or something
roughbarked said:
Rule 303 said:
Bubblecar said:
Sounds safe.
(FTR, there is actually ‘chimney sweep’ logs that claim to break down and blow off the Creosote in the chimney as they burn)
Killsoot.
I have one of them in the woodburner.
Haven’t used the fire yet this year, but last year, it did seem to help with reducing soot build-up on the door glass.
No creosote probs here, as judged by inspection of the chimney pipe a little while back.
roughbarked said:
Cripes!
I wouldn’t be burning that, unless you actually want silicosis.
transition said:
transition said:
coffee landed, and shower rain just started, might need go wind the windows up in the utenah, all good, done, it stopped, saved me getting wet
you’re up early, rb, didn’t poo the bed or something
I’m always up early. :)
No poop in the bed. ;)
Here’s something regrettably short but can be watched for a few re-runs to examine it in all its beauty of design and construction.
Designed by Thomas Mudge, an animation of the Mudge remontoir by the late John Redfern
Arguably the historically most important watch in the world https://vimeo.com/96676572
captain_spalding said:
roughbarked said:
Rule 303 said:Sounds safe.
(FTR, there is actually ‘chimney sweep’ logs that claim to break down and blow off the Creosote in the chimney as they burn)
Killsoot.
I have one of them in the woodburner.
Haven’t used the fire yet this year, but last year, it did seem to help with reducing soot build-up on the door glass.
No creosote probs here, as judged by inspection of the chimney pipe a little while back.
Choose only good dry heartwood and use practical stove sense and it will never be a problem.
Michael V said:
roughbarked said:
Cripes!
I wouldn’t be burning that, unless you actually want silicosis.
Yeah.
am going to need wind the ute window up, and i’m all dry, only to get damp
Morning, cold and overcast in the Styx .
Toxicology results have confirmed a growing number of birds in western New South Wales are dying from mouse baits.
and pets.
roughbarked said:
Toxicology results have confirmed a growing number of birds in western New South Wales are dying from mouse baits.and pets.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-04/bird-victims-of-suspected-mice-baiting/100187904
Good morning Holidayers. Six degrees and the sun is out at the moment, but there has been minor precipitation overnight. Probably about 1-2mm. Our forecast is for 13, possible morning shower.
I will go to Hamilton this morning to get cash from the bank and do the grocery shopping.
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:
Toxicology results have confirmed a growing number of birds in western New South Wales are dying from mouse baits.and pets.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-04/bird-victims-of-suspected-mice-baiting/100187904
so it’s working
five degrees, still dark, I’m going to work soon.
It’s my first day presenting as a coordinator, so I’m a little bit nervous… but also feeling prepared.. last night I dreamed that the shed I built fell down around me.. I’m no dream analysis expert, but I think that’s a good sign
SCIENCE said:
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:
Toxicology results have confirmed a growing number of birds in western New South Wales are dying from mouse baits.and pets.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-04/bird-victims-of-suspected-mice-baiting/100187904
so it’s working
It being kill the whole environment? then yeah.
Arts said:
five degrees, still dark, I’m going to work soon.It’s my first day presenting as a coordinator, so I’m a little bit nervous… but also feeling prepared.. last night I dreamed that the shed I built fell down around me.. I’m no dream analysis expert, but I think that’s a good sign
:) Optimism helps.
Bubblecar said:
Rule 303 said:
Bubblecar said:
This stuff will be from the Ross man who supplies the Ross sister.$160 for a shedload of good quality firewood.
For bush timber (mixed eucalypts)? That’s a bargain if it’s cut, split, delivered and stacked.
It’ll be delivered. Not sure how much extra splitting will be required, but I have the necessary tools. I imagine I’ll have to stack it myself but I think I recall my sister saying the fellow helped my bro-in-law stack their last batch.
$670 a ton. delivered. Jarrah.
roughbarked said:
SCIENCE said:
roughbarked said:https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-04/bird-victims-of-suspected-mice-baiting/100187904
so it’s working
It being kill the whole environment? then yeah.
What’s the alternative, are mice good for the environment ¿
SCIENCE said:
roughbarked said:
SCIENCE said:so it’s working
It being kill the whole environment? then yeah.
What’s the alternative, are mice good for the environment ¿
There are alternatives. The first being bring the population up to speed on the education.
roughbarked said:
SCIENCE said:
roughbarked said:It being kill the whole environment? then yeah.
What’s the alternative, are mice good for the environment ¿
There are alternatives. The first being bring the population up to speed on the education.
does educating people stop mice
SCIENCE said:
roughbarked said:
SCIENCE said:What’s the alternative, are mice good for the environment ¿
There are alternatives. The first being bring the population up to speed on the education.
does educating people stop mice
Might stop them from chucking poisoned wheat out for the birds to eat?
There are ways to kill mice without offering it to the birds.
(CNN)About 10 to 14% of the world’s giant sequoia trees were destroyed by a single wildfire that swept through California’s Sequoia National Forest last summer, a new draft report from the National Park Service indicates.
The report, which has not yet been made publicly available, used satellite images to show the shocking impact the Castle Fire had on the giant trees, in what experts call an unprecedented mortality event caused by a combination of climate change-driven drought and fire suppression efforts.
“The loss of 7,500 to 10,600 large giant sequoias, many of which are likely thousands of years old, is devastating,” the study’s lead author, Dr. Christy Brigham, chief of Resources Management and Science at Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, told CNN. “These trees are irreplaceable in our lifetimes.”
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/06/03/us/sequoias-lost-california-wildfire/index.html
dv said:
(CNN)About 10 to 14% of the world’s giant sequoia trees were destroyed by a single wildfire that swept through California’s Sequoia National Forest last summer, a new draft report from the National Park Service indicates.The report, which has not yet been made publicly available, used satellite images to show the shocking impact the Castle Fire had on the giant trees, in what experts call an unprecedented mortality event caused by a combination of climate change-driven drought and fire suppression efforts.
“The loss of 7,500 to 10,600 large giant sequoias, many of which are likely thousands of years old, is devastating,” the study’s lead author, Dr. Christy Brigham, chief of Resources Management and Science at Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, told CNN. “These trees are irreplaceable in our lifetimes.”
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/06/03/us/sequoias-lost-california-wildfire/index.html
So much that is irreplaceable within ours and our childrens childrens childrens lifetimes is lost. As Greta keeps reminding us.
dv said:
(CNN)About 10 to 14% of the world’s giant sequoia trees were destroyed by a single wildfire that swept through California’s Sequoia National Forest last summer, a new draft report from the National Park Service indicates.The report, which has not yet been made publicly available, used satellite images to show the shocking impact the Castle Fire had on the giant trees, in what experts call an unprecedented mortality event caused by a combination of climate change-driven drought and fire suppression efforts.
“The loss of 7,500 to 10,600 large giant sequoias, many of which are likely thousands of years old, is devastating,” the study’s lead author, Dr. Christy Brigham, chief of Resources Management and Science at Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, told CNN. “These trees are irreplaceable in our lifetimes.”
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/06/03/us/sequoias-lost-california-wildfire/index.html
shrug they were going to die anyway, they died with the fire and not because of the fire, and it’s all fake news regardless because the case fatality rate is more like 0.0010 to 0.0014% of the trees shrug
Hello
Cymek said:
Hello
How is it in hangin’ WA?
Morning pilgrims, magnificent day in the Pearl, perfect day for an argument.
Peak Warming Man said:
Morning pilgrims, magnificent day in the Pearl, perfect day for an argument.
Join in. Please do.
roughbarked said:
Cymek said:
Hello
How is it in hangin’ WA?
Good
Cymek said:
Hello
No it’s not.
Cymek said:
Hello
Peak Warming Man said:
Cymek said:
Hello
No it’s not.
heaven and hell
trips the light fantastic.Tamb said:
Cymek said:
Hello
G’day mate.
owaryagoin’
Peak Warming Man said:
Cymek said:
Hello
No it’s not.
Ooh yes it is.
Tamb said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Cymek said:
Hello
No it’s not.
Ooh yes it is.
Bullshit.
Breakfast: 1 x tin Zarte Heringsfilets Tomaten-Creme + cup of tea.
roughbarked said:
SCIENCE said:
roughbarked said:It being kill the whole environment? then yeah.
What’s the alternative, are mice good for the environment ¿
There are alternatives. The first being bring the population up to speed on the education.
Have mice predators increased with all these extra mice to eat
Peak Warming Man said:
Tamb said:
Peak Warming Man said:No it’s not.
Ooh yes it is.
Bullshit.
Can’t be. This argument is in a cowyard.
Bubblecar said:
Breakfast: 1 x tin Zarte Heringsfilets Tomaten-Creme + cup of tea.
How are you Mr Bubblecar, any update on your sister
Cymek said:
roughbarked said:
SCIENCE said:What’s the alternative, are mice good for the environment ¿
There are alternatives. The first being bring the population up to speed on the education.
Have mice predators increased with all these extra mice to eat
They aren’t fond of poisoned rodents.
roughbarked said:
Cymek said:
roughbarked said:There are alternatives. The first being bring the population up to speed on the education.
Have mice predators increased with all these extra mice to eat
They aren’t fond of poisoned rodents.
No I was thinking before they are poisoned did animals that eat them increase in numbers
Cymek said:
Bubblecar said:
Breakfast: 1 x tin Zarte Heringsfilets Tomaten-Creme + cup of tea.
How are you Mr Bubblecar, any update on your sister
No news yet today. My older sister will call me some time before midday, when she returns from having her own Covid shot.
Cymek said:
roughbarked said:
Cymek said:Have mice predators increased with all these extra mice to eat
They aren’t fond of poisoned rodents.
No I was thinking before they are poisoned did animals that eat them increase in numbers
It is more about the huge decrease in predators in the desperate surge to clear more land to produce more food to throw on the tip.
Bubblecar said:
Cymek said:
Bubblecar said:
Breakfast: 1 x tin Zarte Heringsfilets Tomaten-Creme + cup of tea.
How are you Mr Bubblecar, any update on your sister
No news yet today. My older sister will call me some time before midday, when she returns from having her own Covid shot.
As is often said, no news is good news.
roughbarked said:
Cymek said:
roughbarked said:They aren’t fond of poisoned rodents.
No I was thinking before they are poisoned did animals that eat them increase in numbers
It is more about the huge decrease in predators in the desperate surge to clear more land to produce more food to throw on the tip.
‘cos you can always hold your hand out when Hanrahan steps in.
roughbarked said:
Cymek said:
roughbarked said:They aren’t fond of poisoned rodents.
No I was thinking before they are poisoned did animals that eat them increase in numbers
It is more about the huge decrease in predators in the desperate surge to clear more land to produce more food to throw on the tip.
Yes I can imagine otherwise they’d be there in droves to eat all the mice, nature balancing itself
It’s a two fold problem all this food for the mice to eat far above what they’d find in nature and nothing to eat them to keep the numbers in balance.
Need to put an ad out to feral cats to come and eat them and then catch the feral cats when the mice are gone
roughbarked said:
Bubblecar said:
Cymek said:How are you Mr Bubblecar, any update on your sister
No news yet today. My older sister will call me some time before midday, when she returns from having her own Covid shot.
As is often said, no news is good news.
In the hands of the hospital and her bodies ability to heal
Peak Warming Man said:
Morning pilgrims, magnificent day in the Pearl, perfect day for an argument.
No it’s not!!!
Cymek said:
roughbarked said:
Cymek said:No I was thinking before they are poisoned did animals that eat them increase in numbers
It is more about the huge decrease in predators in the desperate surge to clear more land to produce more food to throw on the tip.
Yes I can imagine otherwise they’d be there in droves to eat all the mice, nature balancing itself
It’s a two fold problem all this food for the mice to eat far above what they’d find in nature and nothing to eat them to keep the numbers in balance.
Need to put an ad out to feral cats to come and eat them and then catch the feral cats when the mice are gone
This mouse plaguey thingy hasn’t been around long enough for predators to seasonally breed multiple generations to up the numbers? Wooden tit be the case?
Witty Rejoinder said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Morning pilgrims, magnificent day in the Pearl, perfect day for an argument.
No it’s not!!!
This forum is abuse. Arguments? You want room 12A, next door.
Cymek said:
roughbarked said:
Cymek said:Have mice predators increased with all these extra mice to eat
They aren’t fond of poisoned rodents.
No I was thinking before they are poisoned did animals that eat them increase in numbers
The problem is that the mice are here now. It takes time raise new generations/bigger numbers of predator such as hawks and kites.
Severely plain post office.
Severely plain barbershop.
ABC News:
‘‘Reliable, lovable and respectable’: How Xi Jinping wants to change the way China is seen by the world
By China correspondent Bill Birtles
After several years of a noticeably more assertive shift in China’s diplomatic and media tone, Xi Jinping has dropped the first hint that the country’s confrontational style needs adjustment, writes Bill Birtles.’
Alt version:
‘Penny drops in Beijing.
The Chinese leadership have had an epiphany, and concluded that behaving like a bullying, aggressive, nouveau-riche pack of constantly-infuriated arseholes is possibly not the best way to win friends and influence people.’
captain_spalding said:
Cymek said:
roughbarked said:They aren’t fond of poisoned rodents.
No I was thinking before they are poisoned did animals that eat them increase in numbers
The problem is that the mice are here now. It takes time raise new generations/bigger numbers of predator such as hawks and kites.
Yes I was thinking they’d put the word out and they would turn up
Cymek said:
captain_spalding said:
Cymek said:No I was thinking before they are poisoned did animals that eat them increase in numbers
The problem is that the mice are here now. It takes time raise new generations/bigger numbers of predator such as hawks and kites.
Yes I was thinking they’d put the word out and they would turn up
Hawk texting relatives:
‘Ay bros, git ur arses here ASAP. More mice than u can shake ur talons at.’
captain_spalding said:
ABC News:‘‘Reliable, lovable and respectable’: How Xi Jinping wants to change the way China is seen by the world
By China correspondent Bill Birtles
After several years of a noticeably more assertive shift in China’s diplomatic and media tone, Xi Jinping has dropped the first hint that the country’s confrontational style needs adjustment, writes Bill Birtles.’Alt version:
‘Penny drops in Beijing.
The Chinese leadership have had an epiphany, and concluded that behaving like a bullying, aggressive, nouveau-riche pack of constantly-infuriated arseholes is possibly not the best way to win friends and influence people.’
GLWT.
GLWT?
captain_spalding said:
Cymek said:
captain_spalding said:The problem is that the mice are here now. It takes time raise new generations/bigger numbers of predator such as hawks and kites.
Yes I was thinking they’d put the word out and they would turn up
Hawk texting relatives:
‘Ay bros, git ur arses here ASAP. More mice than u can shake ur talons at.’
You forgot the “nom nom noms”.
Oh, just worked it out.
captain_spalding said:
GLWT?
good luck with that.
The comment was direct at Chairman Xi, not you :)
captain_spalding said:
ABC News:‘‘Reliable, lovable and respectable’: How Xi Jinping wants to change the way China is seen by the world
By China correspondent Bill Birtles
After several years of a noticeably more assertive shift in China’s diplomatic and media tone, Xi Jinping has dropped the first hint that the country’s confrontational style needs adjustment, writes Bill Birtles.’Alt version:
‘Penny drops in Beijing.
The Chinese leadership have had an epiphany, and concluded that behaving like a bullying, aggressive, nouveau-riche pack of constantly-infuriated arseholes is possibly not the best way to win friends and influence people.’
Chinese propaganda department press release “We have hired honourable Winnie the Pooh to star in new adventuretime comedy series about Chinese government”
On the phone to my ISP re excessive data use.
“You are currently caller number 14 in the queue”
Witty Rejoinder said:
Cymek said:
party_pants said:I would love to do that. Especially if we could use some of our abundant renewable energy to power the process. We could export metals like steel and aluminium with low GHG footprint. Brave new world and sunlit uplands, but it risks being labelled as an “ideas person”.
It makes sense doesn’t it, this is the 21st century not the early 20th century
It still has to make economic sense. Governments should ideally not try pick winners at the expense of other economically efficient domestic industries.
We should probably move this out of the Covid thread.
Governments should direct economic activity down the path of lower emissions. If lower GHG footprint metals like steel and aluminium had some sort of tax/tariff benefit over high emissions products it would drive investment down this path. Picking the exact technology is not necessary, just the desired outcome.
The other big issue is cement for concrete. We need to find some lower emissions substitute for that too.
party_pants said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Cymek said:It makes sense doesn’t it, this is the 21st century not the early 20th century
It still has to make economic sense. Governments should ideally not try pick winners at the expense of other economically efficient domestic industries.
We should probably move this out of the Covid thread.
Governments should direct economic activity down the path of lower emissions. If lower GHG footprint metals like steel and aluminium had some sort of tax/tariff benefit over high emissions products it would drive investment down this path. Picking the exact technology is not necessary, just the desired outcome.
The other big issue is cement for concrete. We need to find some lower emissions substitute for that too.
They don’t need to be found, they have already been found.
Woodie said:
On the phone to my ISP re excessive data use.“You are currently caller number 14 in the queue”
“You are currently caller number 10. Thank you for your patience”
does sums
That’s 4 in 10 mins.
The Rev Dodgson said:
party_pants said:
Witty Rejoinder said:It still has to make economic sense. Governments should ideally not try pick winners at the expense of other economically efficient domestic industries.
We should probably move this out of the Covid thread.
Governments should direct economic activity down the path of lower emissions. If lower GHG footprint metals like steel and aluminium had some sort of tax/tariff benefit over high emissions products it would drive investment down this path. Picking the exact technology is not necessary, just the desired outcome.
The other big issue is cement for concrete. We need to find some lower emissions substitute for that too.
They don’t need to be found, they have already been found.
Sounds good. Now we just need to give them some sort of regulatory advantage.
Woodie said:
Woodie said:
On the phone to my ISP re excessive data use.“You are currently caller number 14 in the queue”
“You are currently caller number 10. Thank you for your patience”
does sums
That’s 4 in 10 mins.
With any luck callers 6,7,8 and 9 might give in and hang up.
Woodie said:
Woodie said:
On the phone to my ISP re excessive data use.“You are currently caller number 14 in the queue”
“You are currently caller number 10. Thank you for your patience”
does sums
That’s 4 in 10 mins.
That’s not too bad
party_pants said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
party_pants said:We should probably move this out of the Covid thread.
Governments should direct economic activity down the path of lower emissions. If lower GHG footprint metals like steel and aluminium had some sort of tax/tariff benefit over high emissions products it would drive investment down this path. Picking the exact technology is not necessary, just the desired outcome.
The other big issue is cement for concrete. We need to find some lower emissions substitute for that too.
They don’t need to be found, they have already been found.
Sounds good. Now we just need to give them some sort of regulatory advantage.
We just need to put a price on CO2 emissions so it will pay people to use alternatives where they are the best way of doing it.
Bubblecar said:
Woodie said:
Woodie said:
On the phone to my ISP re excessive data use.“You are currently caller number 14 in the queue”
“You are currently caller number 10. Thank you for your patience”
does sums
That’s 4 in 10 mins.
With any luck callers 6,7,8 and 9 might give in and hang up.
Considering I spent more than 9 hours on the phone to Telstra this week to get call forwarding sorted on my mobile phone, this is a doddle.
The Rev Dodgson said:
We just need to put a price on CO2 emissions so it will pay people to use alternatives where they are the best way of doing it.
If there’s one thing that both sides of the House have learnt in recent years, it’s that attempting to put a price on CO2 in this country is a good way to get you back to the Opposition benches.
captain_spalding said:
The Rev Dodgson said:We just need to put a price on CO2 emissions so it will pay people to use alternatives where they are the best way of doing it.
If there’s one thing that both sides of the House have learnt in recent years, it’s that attempting to put a price on CO2 in this country is a good way to get you back to the Opposition benches.
We need to wait for a few other countries, like the EU, Japan to get the ball rolling. Once the USA and China jump on board then we will have no hope of holding out on our own. We’ll flip faster than a fast flipping thing.
WOO HOO!
“You are now caller number 6”
does sums again
That’s 8 in 25 mins.
Woodie said:
WOO HOO!“You are now caller number 6”
does sums again
That’s 8 in 25 mins.
Not far away now from talking to an actual human, no guarantee that you will be able to understand them mind.
captain_spalding said:
The Rev Dodgson said:We just need to put a price on CO2 emissions so it will pay people to use alternatives where they are the best way of doing it.
If there’s one thing that both sides of the House have learnt in recent years, it’s that attempting to put a price on CO2 in this country is a good way to get you back to the Opposition benches.
That’s because they didn’t do it right.
They basically just gave into the lies told by Murdoch and friends, and the non-Murdoch media did bugger all to help.
Peak Warming Man said:
Woodie said:
WOO HOO!“You are now caller number 6”
does sums again
That’s 8 in 25 mins.
Not far away now from talking to an actual human, no guarantee that you will be able to understand them mind.
WE TRIED, WE FAILED, WE QUIT
Woodie said:
Cymek said:
roughbarked said:It is more about the huge decrease in predators in the desperate surge to clear more land to produce more food to throw on the tip.
Yes I can imagine otherwise they’d be there in droves to eat all the mice, nature balancing itself
It’s a two fold problem all this food for the mice to eat far above what they’d find in nature and nothing to eat them to keep the numbers in balance.
Need to put an ad out to feral cats to come and eat them and then catch the feral cats when the mice are goneThis mouse plaguey thingy hasn’t been around long enough for predators to seasonally breed multiple generations to up the numbers? Wooden tit be the case?
No.
The Rev Dodgson said:
captain_spalding said:
The Rev Dodgson said:We just need to put a price on CO2 emissions so it will pay people to use alternatives where they are the best way of doing it.
If there’s one thing that both sides of the House have learnt in recent years, it’s that attempting to put a price on CO2 in this country is a good way to get you back to the Opposition benches.
That’s because they didn’t do it right.
They basically just gave into the lies told by Murdoch and friends, and the non-Murdoch media did bugger all to help.
People say they want to put a price on carbon emissions, but don’t actually want to pay that price.
party_pants said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Cymek said:It makes sense doesn’t it, this is the 21st century not the early 20th century
It still has to make economic sense. Governments should ideally not try pick winners at the expense of other economically efficient domestic industries.
We should probably move this out of the Covid thread.
Governments should direct economic activity down the path of lower emissions. If lower GHG footprint metals like steel and aluminium had some sort of tax/tariff benefit over high emissions products it would drive investment down this path. Picking the exact technology is not necessary, just the desired outcome.
The other big issue is cement for concrete. We need to find some lower emissions substitute for that too.
Mud bricks ?
Bubblecar said:
WE TRIED, WE FAILED, WE QUIT
With all that stuff in the window, looks like they’ll be going out of business for quite a while.
Woodie said:
Bubblecar said:
WE TRIED, WE FAILED, WE QUIT
With all that stuff in the window, looks like they’ll be going out of business for quite a while.
LOL
Bubblecar said:
WE TRIED, WE FAILED, WE QUIT
Like that’s a serious statement.. Silly hats walk monty?
Even bigger WOO HOO!
You are currently caller number 3.
45 mins so far.
Woodie said:
Even bigger WOO HOO!You are currently caller number 3.
45 mins so far.
Can you still remember what you phoned for?
Dark Orange said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
captain_spalding said:If there’s one thing that both sides of the House have learnt in recent years, it’s that attempting to put a price on CO2 in this country is a good way to get you back to the Opposition benches.
That’s because they didn’t do it right.
They basically just gave into the lies told by Murdoch and friends, and the non-Murdoch media did bugger all to help.
People say they want to put a price on carbon emissions, but don’t actually want to pay that price.
¿ref
buffy said:
Woodie said:
Even bigger WOO HOO!You are currently caller number 3.
45 mins so far.
Can you still remember what you phoned for?
He just called to say I love you.
In the ABC covid blog, there is a piece about childhood infections put up about 5 hours ago (I’m behind. I’ve been out). In it it says:
“The joint study by the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute and the state health department shows one in four kids are admitted to hospital for an infection at least once in their childhood.”
I find that very hard to believe. I know very few kids who have been admitted to hospital for infection. Yes, that’s anecdotal. But I must move in very healthy, clean circles or something.
birdlife went mad this morn, feathered dinosaurs are everywhere, frankly I can’t remember the last time I saw so many birds
transition said:
birdlife went mad this morn, feathered dinosaurs are everywhere, frankly I can’t remember the last time I saw so many birds
That’s good news, as long as they don’t turn bad.
>Birch beer is made from boiled birch sap or the roots and twigs of the birch tree.
Birch flavoring is often used in making root beer and the two beverages have a similar taste. True birch beer, unlike root beer, contains no other roots for flavoring.
Old time birch beer still.
transition said:
birdlife went mad this morn, feathered dinosaurs are everywhere, frankly I can’t remember the last time I saw so many birds
I was thinking something similar in our backyard yesterday. There were many birds of many varieties.
Here is an example of a pointless text message.
From Optus.
“The upgrade to your Optus Network in your area from the 19/05/21 to the 02/06/21wont be going ahead as planned.
We apologise for any inconvenience”
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-04/portland-loch-ness-mystery-sculpture-art/100190506
1 hr 35 mins and 22 sec.
Got nowhere.
Woodie said:
1 hr 35 mins and 22 sec.Got nowhere.
What happened in the end?
buffy said:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-04/portland-loch-ness-mystery-sculpture-art/100190506
Heh.
Woodie said:
1 hr 35 mins and 22 sec.Got nowhere.
ROFL
transition said:
birdlife went mad this morn, feathered dinosaurs are everywhere, frankly I can’t remember the last time I saw so many birds
I just returned from walking the dog. There was a very large flock of Sulphur Crested Cockatoos flying in circles making a deafening din. There was a Brown Goshawk trying to hunt, and they were all trying to drive it away from their nesting trees.
Woodie said:
1 hr 35 mins and 22 sec.Got nowhere.
The thing chewed 737 MB in an hour when I turned the desktop on this morning. Tis not chewin’ it now, so they can’t tell me what it was.
Mr Support Man tells me that was 95% download.
And it’s not Windows Update. That is paused.
Does this sorta thing every time I turn it, or anything else on.
Nothing turned on whatsoever, just the wireless router, and it chews about 28 MB an hour. That’s 670MB over 24 hours, that’s 20GB a month of my 45GB quota. Just to have the wireless router turned on and nothing else. Close on 1/2 the quota just to leave it turned on.
Woodie said:
Woodie said:
1 hr 35 mins and 22 sec.Got nowhere.
The thing chewed 737 MB in an hour when I turned the desktop on this morning. Tis not chewin’ it now, so they can’t tell me what it was.
Mr Support Man tells me that was 95% download.
And it’s not Windows Update. That is paused.
Does this sorta thing every time I turn it, or anything else on.
Nothing turned on whatsoever, just the wireless router, and it chews about 28 MB an hour. That’s 670MB over 24 hours, that’s 20GB a month of my 45GB quota. Just to have the wireless router turned on and nothing else. Close on 1/2 the quota just to leave it turned on.
You need to shut it down and start a new one.
buffy said:
transition said:
birdlife went mad this morn, feathered dinosaurs are everywhere, frankly I can’t remember the last time I saw so many birdsI was thinking something similar in our backyard yesterday. There were many birds of many varieties.
same, mild lead in to cold months I guess
Peak Warming Man said:
Here is an example of a pointless text message.From Optus.
“The upgrade to your Optus Network in your area from the 19/05/21 to the 02/06/21wont be going ahead as planned.
We apologise for any inconvenience”
LOL. I got one today from Optus saying that network upgrades in the next suburb have been completed.
transition said:
buffy said:
transition said:
birdlife went mad this morn, feathered dinosaurs are everywhere, frankly I can’t remember the last time I saw so many birdsI was thinking something similar in our backyard yesterday. There were many birds of many varieties.
same, mild lead in to cold months I guess
Preciptation does that to birds.
Woodie said:
Woodie said:
1 hr 35 mins and 22 sec.Got nowhere.
The thing chewed 737 MB in an hour when I turned the desktop on this morning. Tis not chewin’ it now, so they can’t tell me what it was.
Mr Support Man tells me that was 95% download.
And it’s not Windows Update. That is paused.
Does this sorta thing every time I turn it, or anything else on.
Nothing turned on whatsoever, just the wireless router, and it chews about 28 MB an hour. That’s 670MB over 24 hours, that’s 20GB a month of my 45GB quota. Just to have the wireless router turned on and nothing else. Close on 1/2 the quota just to leave it turned on.
Is someone else logging in and stealing your connection?
Anyway, gotta go “do a Buffy”.
Put the maaar blade housing back on.
$485 yesterday, with the Mr Fix It Place in town to get it sorta un-bent, and cracked bits re-welded back on it.
Woodie said:
Woodie said:
1 hr 35 mins and 22 sec.Got nowhere.
The thing chewed 737 MB in an hour when I turned the desktop on this morning. Tis not chewin’ it now, so they can’t tell me what it was.
Mr Support Man tells me that was 95% download.
And it’s not Windows Update. That is paused.
Does this sorta thing every time I turn it, or anything else on.
Nothing turned on whatsoever, just the wireless router, and it chews about 28 MB an hour. That’s 670MB over 24 hours, that’s 20GB a month of my 45GB quota. Just to have the wireless router turned on and nothing else. Close on 1/2 the quota just to leave it turned on.
Do you have your e-mail account syncing with a cloud “drive”? That could easily account for 600MB+ per day, or much more, if you have a lot of old stuff in your main folder.
Woodie said:
Woodie said:
1 hr 35 mins and 22 sec.Got nowhere.
The thing chewed 737 MB in an hour when I turned the desktop on this morning. Tis not chewin’ it now, so they can’t tell me what it was.
Mr Support Man tells me that was 95% download.
And it’s not Windows Update. That is paused.
Does this sorta thing every time I turn it, or anything else on.
Nothing turned on whatsoever, just the wireless router, and it chews about 28 MB an hour. That’s 670MB over 24 hours, that’s 20GB a month of my 45GB quota. Just to have the wireless router turned on and nothing else. Close on 1/2 the quota just to leave it turned on.
Sounds like something’s very wrong.
party_pants said:
Woodie said:
Woodie said:
1 hr 35 mins and 22 sec.Got nowhere.
The thing chewed 737 MB in an hour when I turned the desktop on this morning. Tis not chewin’ it now, so they can’t tell me what it was.
Mr Support Man tells me that was 95% download.
And it’s not Windows Update. That is paused.
Does this sorta thing every time I turn it, or anything else on.
Nothing turned on whatsoever, just the wireless router, and it chews about 28 MB an hour. That’s 670MB over 24 hours, that’s 20GB a month of my 45GB quota. Just to have the wireless router turned on and nothing else. Close on 1/2 the quota just to leave it turned on.
Is someone else logging in and stealing your connection?
It sorta looks a bit obvious?
The Rev Dodgson said:
Woodie said:
Woodie said:
1 hr 35 mins and 22 sec.Got nowhere.
The thing chewed 737 MB in an hour when I turned the desktop on this morning. Tis not chewin’ it now, so they can’t tell me what it was.
Mr Support Man tells me that was 95% download.
And it’s not Windows Update. That is paused.
Does this sorta thing every time I turn it, or anything else on.
Nothing turned on whatsoever, just the wireless router, and it chews about 28 MB an hour. That’s 670MB over 24 hours, that’s 20GB a month of my 45GB quota. Just to have the wireless router turned on and nothing else. Close on 1/2 the quota just to leave it turned on.
Do you have your e-mail account syncing with a cloud “drive”? That could easily account for 600MB+ per day, or much more, if you have a lot of old stuff in your main folder.
Seems to make sense cents.
party_pants said:
Woodie said:
Woodie said:
1 hr 35 mins and 22 sec.Got nowhere.
The thing chewed 737 MB in an hour when I turned the desktop on this morning. Tis not chewin’ it now, so they can’t tell me what it was.
Mr Support Man tells me that was 95% download.
And it’s not Windows Update. That is paused.
Does this sorta thing every time I turn it, or anything else on.
Nothing turned on whatsoever, just the wireless router, and it chews about 28 MB an hour. That’s 670MB over 24 hours, that’s 20GB a month of my 45GB quota. Just to have the wireless router turned on and nothing else. Close on 1/2 the quota just to leave it turned on.
Is someone else logging in and stealing your connection?
Nope. Coz I can look at the DHCP list in the router.
party_pants said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Here is an example of a pointless text message.From Optus.
“The upgrade to your Optus Network in your area from the 19/05/21 to the 02/06/21wont be going ahead as planned.
We apologise for any inconvenience”
LOL. I got one today from Optus saying that network upgrades in the next suburb have been completed.
you do know you can turn this shit off?
The Rev Dodgson said:
Woodie said:
Woodie said:
1 hr 35 mins and 22 sec.Got nowhere.
The thing chewed 737 MB in an hour when I turned the desktop on this morning. Tis not chewin’ it now, so they can’t tell me what it was.
Mr Support Man tells me that was 95% download.
And it’s not Windows Update. That is paused.
Does this sorta thing every time I turn it, or anything else on.
Nothing turned on whatsoever, just the wireless router, and it chews about 28 MB an hour. That’s 670MB over 24 hours, that’s 20GB a month of my 45GB quota. Just to have the wireless router turned on and nothing else. Close on 1/2 the quota just to leave it turned on.
Do you have your e-mail account syncing with a cloud “drive”? That could easily account for 600MB+ per day, or much more, if you have a lot of old stuff in your main folder.
Nope. All emails are browser based.
Woodie said:
1 hr 35 mins and 22 sec.Got nowhere.
https://www.quora.com/How-do-I-check-if-something-is-downloading-in-the-background-of-Windows-10
Woodie said:
party_pants said:
Woodie said:The thing chewed 737 MB in an hour when I turned the desktop on this morning. Tis not chewin’ it now, so they can’t tell me what it was.
Mr Support Man tells me that was 95% download.
And it’s not Windows Update. That is paused.
Does this sorta thing every time I turn it, or anything else on.
Nothing turned on whatsoever, just the wireless router, and it chews about 28 MB an hour. That’s 670MB over 24 hours, that’s 20GB a month of my 45GB quota. Just to have the wireless router turned on and nothing else. Close on 1/2 the quota just to leave it turned on.
Is someone else logging in and stealing your connection?
Nope. Coz I can look at the DHCP list in the router.
There still appears to be somewhat of a leak?
roughbarked said:
party_pants said:
Woodie said:The thing chewed 737 MB in an hour when I turned the desktop on this morning. Tis not chewin’ it now, so they can’t tell me what it was.
Mr Support Man tells me that was 95% download.
And it’s not Windows Update. That is paused.
Does this sorta thing every time I turn it, or anything else on.
Nothing turned on whatsoever, just the wireless router, and it chews about 28 MB an hour. That’s 670MB over 24 hours, that’s 20GB a month of my 45GB quota. Just to have the wireless router turned on and nothing else. Close on 1/2 the quota just to leave it turned on.
Is someone else logging in and stealing your connection?
It sorta looks a bit obvious?
Anyway, remember I live up the bush. No one in cooee of my wireless router.
roughbarked said:
party_pants said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Here is an example of a pointless text message.From Optus.
“The upgrade to your Optus Network in your area from the 19/05/21 to the 02/06/21wont be going ahead as planned.
We apologise for any inconvenience”
LOL. I got one today from Optus saying that network upgrades in the next suburb have been completed.
you do know you can turn this shit off?
It does not bother me. They sent me a message earlier last week saying this might cause temporary service delays, which I think is fitting and proper.
Woodie said:
roughbarked said:
party_pants said:Is someone else logging in and stealing your connection?
It sorta looks a bit obvious?
Anyway, remember I live up the bush. No one in cooee of my wireless router.
Yeah. but we still have unexplicable leakage?
party_pants said:
roughbarked said:
party_pants said:LOL. I got one today from Optus saying that network upgrades in the next suburb have been completed.
you do know you can turn this shit off?
It does not bother me. They sent me a message earlier last week saying this might cause temporary service delays, which I think is fitting and proper.
Yeah. It all falls off the end of the conveyor belt.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-04/friday-news-quiz-abc-naomi-osaka-who-covid-state-of-origin/100186726
7/10 Three were guesses. And they were wrong.
Bogsnorkler said:
Woodie said:
1 hr 35 mins and 22 sec.Got nowhere.
https://www.quora.com/How-do-I-check-if-something-is-downloading-in-the-background-of-Windows-10
Buried myself in Task Manger while waiting on the phone. Can tell what’s using what, but will need to catch it when it goes berserk to find out what it is.
buffy said:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-04/friday-news-quiz-abc-naomi-osaka-who-covid-state-of-origin/1001867267/10 Three were guesses. And they were wrong.
I haven’t read much past the headlines this week.
Woodie said:
Bogsnorkler said:
Woodie said:
1 hr 35 mins and 22 sec.Got nowhere.
https://www.quora.com/How-do-I-check-if-something-is-downloading-in-the-background-of-Windows-10
Buried myself in Task Manger while waiting on the phone. Can tell what’s using what, but will need to catch it when it goes berserk to find out what it is.
are you with Telstra?
roughbarked said:
Woodie said:
party_pants said:Is someone else logging in and stealing your connection?
Nope. Coz I can look at the DHCP list in the router.
There still appears to be somewhat of a leak?
While on the phone to Mr Support Man he was able to tell me exactly what/where/where all weberchoobs traffic was going to/from. But it wasn’t going berserk at the time.
Woodie said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Woodie said:The thing chewed 737 MB in an hour when I turned the desktop on this morning. Tis not chewin’ it now, so they can’t tell me what it was.
Mr Support Man tells me that was 95% download.
And it’s not Windows Update. That is paused.
Does this sorta thing every time I turn it, or anything else on.
Nothing turned on whatsoever, just the wireless router, and it chews about 28 MB an hour. That’s 670MB over 24 hours, that’s 20GB a month of my 45GB quota. Just to have the wireless router turned on and nothing else. Close on 1/2 the quota just to leave it turned on.
Do you have your e-mail account syncing with a cloud “drive”? That could easily account for 600MB+ per day, or much more, if you have a lot of old stuff in your main folder.
Nope. All emails are browser based.
Anything else syncing to Onedrive or Google Drive or similar then?
I know MS Office tries to save everything to Onedrive these days, whether you want to or not.
roughbarked said:
Woodie said:
roughbarked said:It sorta looks a bit obvious?
Anyway, remember I live up the bush. No one in cooee of my wireless router.
Yeah. but we still have unexplicable leakage?
Nup. Haven’t had my COVID jab yet, so it can’t be leakage to them 5G nanobot tracking things that get put in ya.
roughbarked said:
Woodie said:
Bogsnorkler said:https://www.quora.com/How-do-I-check-if-something-is-downloading-in-the-background-of-Windows-10
Buried myself in Task Manger while waiting on the phone. Can tell what’s using what, but will need to catch it when it goes berserk to find out what it is.
are you with Telstra?
Nope. Telstra don’t do Skymuster satellite weberchoobs connections.
Woodie said:
roughbarked said:
Woodie said:Anyway, remember I live up the bush. No one in cooee of my wireless router.
Yeah. but we still have unexplicable leakage?
Nup. Haven’t had my COVID jab yet, so it can’t be leakage to them 5G nanobot tracking things that get put in ya.
chuckles
The Rev Dodgson said:
Woodie said:
The Rev Dodgson said:Do you have your e-mail account syncing with a cloud “drive”? That could easily account for 600MB+ per day, or much more, if you have a lot of old stuff in your main folder.
Nope. All emails are browser based.
Anything else syncing to Onedrive or Google Drive or similar then?
I know MS Office tries to save everything to Onedrive these days, whether you want to or not.
Onedrive and Google drive content amounts to about 70 MB. Cuppla pics and a cuppla folders. Checked if syncing that was a prob. I’ve turned both off now as well. Still does it.
roughbarked said:
Woodie said:
roughbarked said:Yeah. but we still have unexplicable leakage?
Nup. Haven’t had my COVID jab yet, so it can’t be leakage to them 5G nanobot tracking things that get put in ya.
chuckles
……… and beside, my continence is quite good for my age. No unexplicable leakages there either.
Think I just found todays “berserk” event.
Woodie said:
Think I just found todays “berserk” event.
Mr buffy’s computer was very sluggish to start up this morning. We usually attribute that to something Windows is updating.
buffy said:
Woodie said:
Think I just found todays “berserk” event.
Mr buffy’s computer was very sluggish to start up this morning. We usually attribute that to something Windows is updating.
My old darling here seems to resist updates for longer but does eventually give in. I suppose I could check the settings. But this computer is only used for forum and searching news and scientific papers. I don’t have speakers, so if I want to watch something with noise I have to use Mr buffy’s.
buffy said:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-04/friday-news-quiz-abc-naomi-osaka-who-covid-state-of-origin/1001867267/10 Three were guesses. And they were wrong.
8
Anyway, I’m going to lie down and read. I’m sad this afternoon. I found out this morning that my receptionist/secretary is in intensive care in Geelong after coming out of remission (acute myeloid leukemia) and then getting an infection (Staph) in her port. I really, really, really don’t like the sound of that. I had to go and sit in the car in the Woollies carpark and weep a bit before I could go and do the supermarket shopping.
Woodie said:
Think I just found todays “berserk” event.
I’d set my internet connection as a metered connection to try and avoid windows doing auto updates. It seemed to work most of the time but occasionally windows would do a ‘fuck you’ and do an update and install anyway.
sibeen said:
buffy said:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-04/friday-news-quiz-abc-naomi-osaka-who-covid-state-of-origin/1001867267/10 Three were guesses. And they were wrong.
8
7. I was doing well at one point and hoping for a 9, then bombed the last 2.
August 1942. “New York. Window of a Jewish religious shop on Broome Street.” Photo by Marjory Collins for the Office of War Information.
buffy said:
Anyway, I’m going to lie down and read. I’m sad this afternoon. I found out this morning that my receptionist/secretary is in intensive care in Geelong after coming out of remission (acute myeloid leukemia) and then getting an infection (Staph) in her port. I really, really, really don’t like the sound of that. I had to go and sit in the car in the Woollies carpark and weep a bit before I could go and do the supermarket shopping.
:(
My sympathies.
sibeen said:
Woodie said:
Think I just found todays “berserk” event.
I’d set my internet connection as a metered connection to try and avoid windows doing auto updates. It seemed to work most of the time but occasionally windows would do a ‘fuck you’ and do an update and install anyway.
I just let mine do whatever. Never a frown. with golden brown.
sibeen said:
buffy said:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-04/friday-news-quiz-abc-naomi-osaka-who-covid-state-of-origin/1001867267/10 Three were guesses. And they were wrong.
8
7
buffy said:
Anyway, I’m going to lie down and read. I’m sad this afternoon. I found out this morning that my receptionist/secretary is in intensive care in Geelong after coming out of remission (acute myeloid leukemia) and then getting an infection (Staph) in her port. I really, really, really don’t like the sound of that. I had to go and sit in the car in the Woollies carpark and weep a bit before I could go and do the supermarket shopping.
Oh dear. That’s no good. Hoping she gets well soon.
buffy said:
Anyway, I’m going to lie down and read. I’m sad this afternoon. I found out this morning that my receptionist/secretary is in intensive care in Geelong after coming out of remission (acute myeloid leukemia) and then getting an infection (Staph) in her port. I really, really, really don’t like the sound of that. I had to go and sit in the car in the Woollies carpark and weep a bit before I could go and do the supermarket shopping.
That’s a bit sad, how long had she been in remission?
Woodie said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Woodie said:Nope. All emails are browser based.
Anything else syncing to Onedrive or Google Drive or similar then?
I know MS Office tries to save everything to Onedrive these days, whether you want to or not.
Onedrive and Google drive content amounts to about 70 MB. Cuppla pics and a cuppla folders. Checked if syncing that was a prob. I’ve turned both off now as well. Still does it.
In that case I’m outa ideas.
Cheese shop sketch snap. Posted this one before, but it’s worth another peep.
Bubblecar said:
Cheese shopsketchsnap. Posted this one before, but it’s worth another peep.
Do they have any Red Leicester?
Peak Warming Man said:
Bubblecar said:
Cheese shopsketchsnap. Posted this one before, but it’s worth another peep.
Do they have any Red Leicester?
No.
Bubblecar said:
Cheese shopsketchsnap. Posted this one before, but it’s worth another peep.
Ah, I see you have some fine Canadian Fromage, I’ll have half a pound s’il vous plait, stout yeoman.
Yum-Yum emporium, not even Chinese.
Bubblecar said:
Yum-Yum emporium, not even Chinese.
salt water taffy is just wrong.
buffy said:
Anyway, I’m going to lie down and read. I’m sad this afternoon. I found out this morning that my receptionist/secretary is in intensive care in Geelong after coming out of remission (acute myeloid leukemia) and then getting an infection (Staph) in her port. I really, really, really don’t like the sound of that. I had to go and sit in the car in the Woollies carpark and weep a bit before I could go and do the supermarket shopping.
Bugger.
:(
June 7, 1944. “Maser Music showroom, Mission and Washburn streets, San Francisco.”
On display on D-Day Plus One, a selection of Wurlitzer jukeboxes and two Mills Panoram “Soundies” machines, a sort of early video jukebox that played 16mm film loops of musical acts for a dime.
Bubblecar said:
Cheese shopsketchsnap. Posted this one before, but it’s worth another peep.
So N America + Europe = All Over The World does it?
Peak Warming Man said:
Bubblecar said:
Cheese shopsketchsnap. Posted this one before, but it’s worth another peep.
Do they have any Red Leicester?
Just had some Red Leicester for lunch.
transition said:
buffy said:
transition said:
birdlife went mad this morn, feathered dinosaurs are everywhere, frankly I can’t remember the last time I saw so many birdsI was thinking something similar in our backyard yesterday. There were many birds of many varieties.
same, mild lead in to cold months I guess
Most bird territories are not defended at this time of year, permitting young birds to move out to find mates and a territory for themselves.
Bubblecar said:
June 7, 1944. “Maser Music showroom, Mission and Washburn streets, San Francisco.”On display on D-Day Plus One, a selection of Wurlitzer jukeboxes and two Mills Panoram “Soundies” machines, a sort of early video jukebox that played 16mm film loops of musical acts for a dime.
Close-up of one of the Wurlitzers.
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
June 7, 1944. “Maser Music showroom, Mission and Washburn streets, San Francisco.”On display on D-Day Plus One, a selection of Wurlitzer jukeboxes and two Mills Panoram “Soundies” machines, a sort of early video jukebox that played 16mm film loops of musical acts for a dime.
Close-up of one of the Wurlitzers.
Something is awry with that mockup of a jukebox.
I went with Janina to Snug. I stopped in at the butcher and picked up some freezer stocks.The butcher cross examined me on what I knew about Brett and what I knew about Sue. But butchers are like that. They want to know everyone’s business.
Then I went to the IGA and bumped into Linley. She was the one that 8 years ago rang me and told me/screamed at me to stop my fn husband from spending all his time chasing her around, giving her inapproriate presents and trying to crack on to her. This effectively broke my marriage in that when I said to Brett ‘what am I supposed to do with this?’ he did not answer and refused to discuss it.
Ends up that he now employs her as a cleaner.
She said to me that he had said to her that he would like to see me again and he would appreciate it if I said I was sorry. I asked her what I was supposed to be grovelling about and she said he has been a bit deluded since becoming a paraplegic.
I didnt mention that that deluded shit had been going on before.
I’m going to do my best to try and forget about today.
In other news I put myself on the list for a local jab at the end of the month when they happen at the local medical centre.
Michael V said:
buffy said:
Anyway, I’m going to lie down and read. I’m sad this afternoon. I found out this morning that my receptionist/secretary is in intensive care in Geelong after coming out of remission (acute myeloid leukemia) and then getting an infection (Staph) in her port. I really, really, really don’t like the sound of that. I had to go and sit in the car in the Woollies carpark and weep a bit before I could go and do the supermarket shopping.Bugger.
:(
^
that’s crap.
What would be interesting is full grown squid operating in a micro gravity environment, I wonder if they act differently
Cigarette machine, 1965.
Witty Rejoinder said:
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
June 7, 1944. “Maser Music showroom, Mission and Washburn streets, San Francisco.”On display on D-Day Plus One, a selection of Wurlitzer jukeboxes and two Mills Panoram “Soundies” machines, a sort of early video jukebox that played 16mm film loops of musical acts for a dime.
Close-up of one of the Wurlitzers.
Something is awry with that mockup of a jukebox.
It’s just perspective distortion caused by the camera angle.
sarahs mum said:
I went with Janina to Snug. I stopped in at the butcher and picked up some freezer stocks.The butcher cross examined me on what I knew about Brett and what I knew about Sue. But butchers are like that. They want to know everyone’s business.Then I went to the IGA and bumped into Linley. She was the one that 8 years ago rang me and told me/screamed at me to stop my fn husband from spending all his time chasing her around, giving her inapproriate presents and trying to crack on to her. This effectively broke my marriage in that when I said to Brett ‘what am I supposed to do with this?’ he did not answer and refused to discuss it.
Ends up that he now employs her as a cleaner.
She said to me that he had said to her that he would like to see me again and he would appreciate it if I said I was sorry. I asked her what I was supposed to be grovelling about and she said he has been a bit deluded since becoming a paraplegic.
I didnt mention that that deluded shit had been going on before.
I’m going to do my best to try and forget about today.
In other news I put myself on the list for a local jab at the end of the month when they happen at the local medical centre.
That’s a lot to take in in one day :(
I must ask though, who is Sue?
Bummer.
Speedy said:
sarahs mum said:
I went with Janina to Snug. I stopped in at the butcher and picked up some freezer stocks.The butcher cross examined me on what I knew about Brett and what I knew about Sue. But butchers are like that. They want to know everyone’s business.Then I went to the IGA and bumped into Linley. She was the one that 8 years ago rang me and told me/screamed at me to stop my fn husband from spending all his time chasing her around, giving her inapproriate presents and trying to crack on to her. This effectively broke my marriage in that when I said to Brett ‘what am I supposed to do with this?’ he did not answer and refused to discuss it.
Ends up that he now employs her as a cleaner.
She said to me that he had said to her that he would like to see me again and he would appreciate it if I said I was sorry. I asked her what I was supposed to be grovelling about and she said he has been a bit deluded since becoming a paraplegic.
I didnt mention that that deluded shit had been going on before.
I’m going to do my best to try and forget about today.
In other news I put myself on the list for a local jab at the end of the month when they happen at the local medical centre.
That’s a lot to take in in one day :(
I must ask though, who is Sue?
brett’s ex wife who is in prison for the murder of her partner Bob. I still don’t think she did it. I think she has been in for 12 years and there is another appeal in the works.
sarahs mum said:
I went with Janina to Snug. I stopped in at the butcher and picked up some freezer stocks.The butcher cross examined me on what I knew about Brett and what I knew about Sue. But butchers are like that. They want to know everyone’s business.Then I went to the IGA and bumped into Linley. She was the one that 8 years ago rang me and told me/screamed at me to stop my fn husband from spending all his time chasing her around, giving her inapproriate presents and trying to crack on to her. This effectively broke my marriage in that when I said to Brett ‘what am I supposed to do with this?’ he did not answer and refused to discuss it.
Ends up that he now employs her as a cleaner.
She said to me that he had said to her that he would like to see me again and he would appreciate it if I said I was sorry. I asked her what I was supposed to be grovelling about and she said he has been a bit deluded since becoming a paraplegic.
I didnt mention that that deluded shit had been going on before.
I’m going to do my best to try and forget about today.
In other news I put myself on the list for a local jab at the end of the month when they happen at the local medical centre.
Very strange :/
sarahs mum said:
Speedy said:
sarahs mum said:
I went with Janina to Snug. I stopped in at the butcher and picked up some freezer stocks.The butcher cross examined me on what I knew about Brett and what I knew about Sue. But butchers are like that. They want to know everyone’s business.Then I went to the IGA and bumped into Linley. She was the one that 8 years ago rang me and told me/screamed at me to stop my fn husband from spending all his time chasing her around, giving her inapproriate presents and trying to crack on to her. This effectively broke my marriage in that when I said to Brett ‘what am I supposed to do with this?’ he did not answer and refused to discuss it.
Ends up that he now employs her as a cleaner.
She said to me that he had said to her that he would like to see me again and he would appreciate it if I said I was sorry. I asked her what I was supposed to be grovelling about and she said he has been a bit deluded since becoming a paraplegic.
I didnt mention that that deluded shit had been going on before.
I’m going to do my best to try and forget about today.
In other news I put myself on the list for a local jab at the end of the month when they happen at the local medical centre.
That’s a lot to take in in one day :(
I must ask though, who is Sue?
brett’s ex wife who is in prison for the murder of her partner Bob. I still don’t think she did it. I think she has been in for 12 years and there is another appeal in the works.
Ah OK. I know you have been following this case closely, but I didn’t know that there was any connection there. Did he marry Sue after you separated?
Speedy said:
sarahs mum said:
Speedy said:That’s a lot to take in in one day :(
I must ask though, who is Sue?
brett’s ex wife who is in prison for the murder of her partner Bob. I still don’t think she did it. I think she has been in for 12 years and there is another appeal in the works.
Ah OK. I know you have been following this case closely, but I didn’t know that there was any connection there. Did he marry Sue after you separated?
Other way around. He was married to Sue before being married to sarahs mum.
PermeateFree said:
Bummer.
A lot to bear
Speedy said:
sarahs mum said:
Speedy said:That’s a lot to take in in one day :(
I must ask though, who is Sue?
brett’s ex wife who is in prison for the murder of her partner Bob. I still don’t think she did it. I think she has been in for 12 years and there is another appeal in the works.
Ah OK. I know you have been following this case closely, but I didn’t know that there was any connection there. Did he marry Sue after you separated?
I think brett and I had been together for a year or so when Sue and Bob started going out with one another.
I liked Bob well enough. We were the smokers in the family and spent a good deal of time at family events outside together.
Bubblecar said:
Speedy said:
sarahs mum said:brett’s ex wife who is in prison for the murder of her partner Bob. I still don’t think she did it. I think she has been in for 12 years and there is another appeal in the works.
Ah OK. I know you have been following this case closely, but I didn’t know that there was any connection there. Did he marry Sue after you separated?
Other way around. He was married to Sue before being married to sarahs mum.
Ah. Yes, They were married before my marriage. Two girls around my Sarah’s age including Brett’s Sarah..
Bubblecar said:
Speedy said:
sarahs mum said:brett’s ex wife who is in prison for the murder of her partner Bob. I still don’t think she did it. I think she has been in for 12 years and there is another appeal in the works.
Ah OK. I know you have been following this case closely, but I didn’t know that there was any connection there. Did he marry Sue after you separated?
Other way around. He was married to Sue before being married to sarahs mum.
Thanks Mr Car. It had to be one or the other :)
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
Speedy said:Ah OK. I know you have been following this case closely, but I didn’t know that there was any connection there. Did he marry Sue after you separated?
Other way around. He was married to Sue before being married to sarahs mum.
Ah. Yes, They were married before my marriage. Two girls around my Sarah’s age including Brett’s Sarah..
Brett has two Sarahs? I think I now have many more questions, but you said you were going to try to forget today. I will ask them another time :)
What are we drinking for FNDC?
Peak Warming Man said:
buffy said:
Anyway, I’m going to lie down and read. I’m sad this afternoon. I found out this morning that my receptionist/secretary is in intensive care in Geelong after coming out of remission (acute myeloid leukemia) and then getting an infection (Staph) in her port. I really, really, really don’t like the sound of that. I had to go and sit in the car in the Woollies carpark and weep a bit before I could go and do the supermarket shopping.That’s a bit sad, how long had she been in remission?
About 6 months. She was on a drug trial.
ABC News:
‘Missed the PM’s latest press conference? Catch up on the key moments’
“That’s a State responsibility.”
“He/she is on sick leave or something.”
“Has anyone seen my hi-vis jacket?’
“Everything is going wonderfully.”
“I’m perfectly happy with that, whatever it is, as long as Rupert’s happy.”
“Yes, i’ll be at the football.”
Rule 303 said:
What are we drinking for FNDC?
Carlton Mid. Cans.
… although I might pour into a glass and pretend to be more sophisticated than I actually am.
Bubblecar said:
Yum-Yum emporium, not even Chinese.
And they reckon people eat rubbish food today!
(I’m back.)
Rule 303 said:
What are we drinking for FNDC?
I’m about to smarten myself up and go and get some nice white wine to go in and with tonight’s turkey and vegetable stew.
Rule 303 said:
What are we drinking for FNDC?
captain_spalding said:
ABC News:‘Missed the PM’s latest press conference? Catch up on the key moments’
“That’s a State responsibility.”
“He/she is on sick leave or something.”
“Has anyone seen my hi-vis jacket?’
“Everything is going wonderfully.”
“I’m perfectly happy with that, whatever it is, as long as Rupert’s happy.”
“Yes, i’ll be at the football.”
“Is there a truck I can be photographed in?”
ABC News:
‘The economic report relied on for a cable car proposal in Hobart is five years out of date, relies on tourism heavily impacted by COVID-19 and has key figures redacted — but the people behind it say they are “confident” of their numbers.’
Those would be the serial numbers on the $50 and $100 notes in the brown paper bags.
party_pants said:
Rule 303 said:
What are we drinking for FNDC?
Carlton Mid. Cans.
… although I might pour into a glass and pretend to be more sophisticated than I actually am.
Had a Carlton Dry from the tap last week that was fantastic. Might see if I can find it in stubbies.
Bubblecar said:
Rule 303 said:
What are we drinking for FNDC?
I’m about to smarten myself up and go and get some nice white wine to go in and with tonight’s turkey and vegetable stew.
We are going to the pub for tea. It’s time I et a steak again.
And sibeen reminded me the other day about 1970s “chow mien” so I bought a 1/4 cabbage while at the supermarket and I’m thawing some mince. I’ll put the stew together and then long cook it for a couple of days to really meld the flavours. I expect the woodheater will be in action for the next couple of days as we are forecast some minor “rain”. (Saturday 1-4mm and Sunday 1-2mm and woohoo, Monday 8-10mm…and wait for it! Tuesday 6-15mm. Actually, looks like a little bit every day for the next week. That’s a Good Thing)
Rule 303 said:
What are we drinking for FNDC?
Jaeger and gingerbeer with lime and maybe redbull
party_pants said:
Rule 303 said:
What are we drinking for FNDC?
Carlton Mid. Cans.
… although I might pour into a glass and pretend to be more sophisticated than I actually am.
Might have a couple of Beck’s and then a lay down.
Bogsnorkler said:
party_pants said:
Rule 303 said:
What are we drinking for FNDC?
Carlton Mid. Cans.
… although I might pour into a glass and pretend to be more sophisticated than I actually am.
Might have a couple of Beck’s and then a lay down.
ISWYDT
Carlton Dry in stubbies procured. Might need ten minutes in the freezer.
sarahs mum said:
That’s well timed!
I caught this one in Ballarat last year:
The former WA Aboriginal affairs minister Ben Wyatt has been appointed to Rio Tinto’s board as a non-executive director as the mining giant moves to recover from the fallout over the Juukan Gorge disaster.
As minister, Ben Wyatt slammed the company after it blasted the 46,000-year-old sacred rock shelters in Western Australia’s Pilbara region in May last year.
At the time, Mr Wyatt said Rio Tinto was “fearful” of engaging with communities in the region and suggested the company had little understanding of the necessary relationships it needed to forge with locals.
In a statement released by Rio Tinto today, Mr Wyatt said he was confident the company was taking steps in the right direction.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-04/ben-wyatt-joins-rio-tinto-board-after-juukan-gorge-caves-fallout/100189994
Rule 303 said:
Bogsnorkler said:
party_pants said:Carlton Mid. Cans.
… although I might pour into a glass and pretend to be more sophisticated than I actually am.
Might have a couple of Beck’s and then a lay down.
ISWYDT
Carlton Dry in stubbies procured. Might need ten minutes in the freezer.
Did you come home Rule?
buffy said:
Rule 303 said:
Bogsnorkler said:Might have a couple of Beck’s and then a lay down.
ISWYDT
Carlton Dry in stubbies procured. Might need ten minutes in the freezer.
Did you come home Rule?
I was just about to ask myself…
European finance ministers say deal to stop global tax abuse is ‘within reach’
France, Germany, Italy and Spain increase pressure for an end to loopholes that enable multinationals to pay minimal tax
Richard Partington Economics correspondent
@RJPartington
Fri 4 Jun 2021 15.00 AEST
The EU’s four biggest economies have raised the pressure for a landmark agreement to curb tax abuse by multinational companies to be reached at G7 meetings in London on Friday.
Sending a united message in a letter in the Guardian, the finance ministers of France, Germany, Italy and Spain said a critical moment had been reached to strike a blow against tax avoidance as governments around the world attempt to rebuild from the Covid-19 pandemic
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/04/european-finance-ministers-say-deal-to-stop-global-tax-abuse-is-within-reach?CMP=soc_567
Dark Orange said:
buffy said:
Rule 303 said:ISWYDT
Carlton Dry in stubbies procured. Might need ten minutes in the freezer.
Did you come home Rule?
I was just about to ask myself…
wouldn’t it be better to ask Rule?
buffy said:
Rule 303 said:
Bogsnorkler said:Might have a couple of Beck’s and then a lay down.
ISWYDT
Carlton Dry in stubbies procured. Might need ten minutes in the freezer.
Did you come home Rule?
Yep. Yesterday arvo. Could have stayed longer but didn’t want to push our luck any further.
dv said:
The former WA Aboriginal affairs minister Ben Wyatt has been appointed to Rio Tinto’s board as a non-executive director as the mining giant moves to recover from the fallout over the Juukan Gorge disaster.
As minister, Ben Wyatt slammed the company after it blasted the 46,000-year-old sacred rock shelters in Western Australia’s Pilbara region in May last year.At the time, Mr Wyatt said Rio Tinto was “fearful” of engaging with communities in the region and suggested the company had little understanding of the necessary relationships it needed to forge with locals.
In a statement released by Rio Tinto today, Mr Wyatt said he was confident the company was taking steps in the right direction.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-04/ben-wyatt-joins-rio-tinto-board-after-juukan-gorge-caves-fallout/100189994
nice work.
dv said:
European finance ministers say deal to stop global tax abuse is ‘within reach’France, Germany, Italy and Spain increase pressure for an end to loopholes that enable multinationals to pay minimal tax
Richard Partington Economics correspondent
@RJPartington
Fri 4 Jun 2021 15.00 AEST
The EU’s four biggest economies have raised the pressure for a landmark agreement to curb tax abuse by multinational companies to be reached at G7 meetings in London on Friday.
Sending a united message in a letter in the Guardian, the finance ministers of France, Germany, Italy and Spain said a critical moment had been reached to strike a blow against tax avoidance as governments around the world attempt to rebuild from the Covid-19 pandemic
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/04/european-finance-ministers-say-deal-to-stop-global-tax-abuse-is-within-reach?CMP=soc_567
it sounds promising. Joe Biden is making noises about minimum corporate tax rates and clamping down on tax havens too.
I’m sure BoJo and his Tories who will be hosting this G7 will be aghast if “their” G7 becomes famous for some sort of agreement on tax and tax evasion, given that the whole (?) of the London based finance district is based on avoiding tax.
Dark Orange said:
buffy said:
Rule 303 said:ISWYDT
Carlton Dry in stubbies procured. Might need ten minutes in the freezer.
Did you come home Rule?
I was just about to ask myself…
(whispers to DO)
How f’n good is happy hour at The Pier?! $6 pints, colder and better beers than the Rissole. Wouldn’t want to do that too often…
party_pants said:
dv said:
European finance ministers say deal to stop global tax abuse is ‘within reach’France, Germany, Italy and Spain increase pressure for an end to loopholes that enable multinationals to pay minimal tax
Richard Partington Economics correspondent
@RJPartington
Fri 4 Jun 2021 15.00 AEST
The EU’s four biggest economies have raised the pressure for a landmark agreement to curb tax abuse by multinational companies to be reached at G7 meetings in London on Friday.
Sending a united message in a letter in the Guardian, the finance ministers of France, Germany, Italy and Spain said a critical moment had been reached to strike a blow against tax avoidance as governments around the world attempt to rebuild from the Covid-19 pandemic
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/04/european-finance-ministers-say-deal-to-stop-global-tax-abuse-is-within-reach?CMP=soc_567
it sounds promising. Joe Biden is making noises about minimum corporate tax rates and clamping down on tax havens too.
I’m sure BoJo and his Tories who will be hosting this G7 will be aghast if “their” G7 becomes famous for some sort of agreement on tax and tax evasion, given that the whole (?) of the London based finance district is based on avoiding tax.
I don’t think that London is any worse than New York or Hong Kong in that regard.
Rule 303 said:
Dark Orange said:
buffy said:Did you come home Rule?
I was just about to ask myself…
(whispers to DO)
How f’n good is happy hour at The Pier?! $6 pints, colder and better beers than the Rissole. Wouldn’t want to do that too often…
Happy Hour. I remember those from my early 20s, they got banned years ago. Any pub in Perth with happy hour from 5-6pm on a Friday night was a great place to stop on the way from the office to the train station.
Witty Rejoinder said:
party_pants said:
dv said:
European finance ministers say deal to stop global tax abuse is ‘within reach’France, Germany, Italy and Spain increase pressure for an end to loopholes that enable multinationals to pay minimal tax
Richard Partington Economics correspondent
@RJPartington
Fri 4 Jun 2021 15.00 AEST
The EU’s four biggest economies have raised the pressure for a landmark agreement to curb tax abuse by multinational companies to be reached at G7 meetings in London on Friday.
Sending a united message in a letter in the Guardian, the finance ministers of France, Germany, Italy and Spain said a critical moment had been reached to strike a blow against tax avoidance as governments around the world attempt to rebuild from the Covid-19 pandemic
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/04/european-finance-ministers-say-deal-to-stop-global-tax-abuse-is-within-reach?CMP=soc_567
it sounds promising. Joe Biden is making noises about minimum corporate tax rates and clamping down on tax havens too.
I’m sure BoJo and his Tories who will be hosting this G7 will be aghast if “their” G7 becomes famous for some sort of agreement on tax and tax evasion, given that the whole (?) of the London based finance district is based on avoiding tax.
I don’t think that London is any worse than New York or Hong Kong in that regard.
Says Canberra quietly.
I don’t think I saw this in our news reports:
https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/australia-spain-sweden-announce-covid-19-vaccine-donations-to-covax-101622639414910.html
party_pants said:
dv said:
European finance ministers say deal to stop global tax abuse is ‘within reach’France, Germany, Italy and Spain increase pressure for an end to loopholes that enable multinationals to pay minimal tax
Richard Partington Economics correspondent
@RJPartington
Fri 4 Jun 2021 15.00 AEST
The EU’s four biggest economies have raised the pressure for a landmark agreement to curb tax abuse by multinational companies to be reached at G7 meetings in London on Friday.
Sending a united message in a letter in the Guardian, the finance ministers of France, Germany, Italy and Spain said a critical moment had been reached to strike a blow against tax avoidance as governments around the world attempt to rebuild from the Covid-19 pandemic
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/04/european-finance-ministers-say-deal-to-stop-global-tax-abuse-is-within-reach?CMP=soc_567
it sounds promising. Joe Biden is making noises about minimum corporate tax rates and clamping down on tax havens too.
I’m sure BoJo and his Tories who will be hosting this G7 will be aghast if “their” G7 becomes famous for some sort of agreement on tax and tax evasion, given that the whole (?) of the London based finance district is based on avoiding tax.
I mean for a lot of his donors this is what Brexit was about
party_pants said:
Rule 303 said:
Dark Orange said:I was just about to ask myself…
(whispers to DO)
How f’n good is happy hour at The Pier?! $6 pints, colder and better beers than the Rissole. Wouldn’t want to do that too often…
Happy Hour. I remember those from my early 20s, they got banned years ago. Any pub in Perth with happy hour from 5-6pm on a Friday night was a great place to stop on the way from the office to the train station.
Same. Can’t think of the last time I would have stumbled into a Happy Hour.
Witty Rejoinder said:
party_pants said:
dv said:
European finance ministers say deal to stop global tax abuse is ‘within reach’France, Germany, Italy and Spain increase pressure for an end to loopholes that enable multinationals to pay minimal tax
Richard Partington Economics correspondent
@RJPartington
Fri 4 Jun 2021 15.00 AEST
The EU’s four biggest economies have raised the pressure for a landmark agreement to curb tax abuse by multinational companies to be reached at G7 meetings in London on Friday.
Sending a united message in a letter in the Guardian, the finance ministers of France, Germany, Italy and Spain said a critical moment had been reached to strike a blow against tax avoidance as governments around the world attempt to rebuild from the Covid-19 pandemic
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/04/european-finance-ministers-say-deal-to-stop-global-tax-abuse-is-within-reach?CMP=soc_567
it sounds promising. Joe Biden is making noises about minimum corporate tax rates and clamping down on tax havens too.
I’m sure BoJo and his Tories who will be hosting this G7 will be aghast if “their” G7 becomes famous for some sort of agreement on tax and tax evasion, given that the whole (?) of the London based finance district is based on avoiding tax.
I don’t think that London is any worse than New York or Hong Kong in that regard.
Honkers and Singapore – but they aren’t in the G7. Hong Kong and Macau do a lot of business in helping mainland Chinese convert their wealth into international currency, and the casinos run on this business model too. China has a limit of USD 10K per person er year.
New York will do as they are told. The US economy is much larger and broader than just Wall Street. London has become the go-to place for wealthy Arabs and Russian oligarchs to park their money, there is a connection between London and crown dependencies like Cayman Island and the Channel Islands. The City of London itself has some obscure charter that favours tax avoidance too.
Witty Rejoinder said:
party_pants said:
dv said:
European finance ministers say deal to stop global tax abuse is ‘within reach’France, Germany, Italy and Spain increase pressure for an end to loopholes that enable multinationals to pay minimal tax
Richard Partington Economics correspondent
@RJPartington
Fri 4 Jun 2021 15.00 AEST
The EU’s four biggest economies have raised the pressure for a landmark agreement to curb tax abuse by multinational companies to be reached at G7 meetings in London on Friday.
Sending a united message in a letter in the Guardian, the finance ministers of France, Germany, Italy and Spain said a critical moment had been reached to strike a blow against tax avoidance as governments around the world attempt to rebuild from the Covid-19 pandemic
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/04/european-finance-ministers-say-deal-to-stop-global-tax-abuse-is-within-reach?CMP=soc_567
it sounds promising. Joe Biden is making noises about minimum corporate tax rates and clamping down on tax havens too.
I’m sure BoJo and his Tories who will be hosting this G7 will be aghast if “their” G7 becomes famous for some sort of agreement on tax and tax evasion, given that the whole (?) of the London based finance district is based on avoiding tax.
I don’t think that London is any worse than New York or Hong Kong in that regard.
And Switzerland practically revolves around it.
Rule 303 said:
party_pants said:
Rule 303 said:(whispers to DO)
How f’n good is happy hour at The Pier?! $6 pints, colder and better beers than the Rissole. Wouldn’t want to do that too often…
Happy Hour. I remember those from my early 20s, they got banned years ago. Any pub in Perth with happy hour from 5-6pm on a Friday night was a great place to stop on the way from the office to the train station.
Same. Can’t think of the last time I would have stumbled into a Happy Hour.
Have certainly stumbled out of a few.
dv said:
party_pants said:
dv said:
European finance ministers say deal to stop global tax abuse is ‘within reach’France, Germany, Italy and Spain increase pressure for an end to loopholes that enable multinationals to pay minimal tax
Richard Partington Economics correspondent
@RJPartington
Fri 4 Jun 2021 15.00 AEST
The EU’s four biggest economies have raised the pressure for a landmark agreement to curb tax abuse by multinational companies to be reached at G7 meetings in London on Friday.
Sending a united message in a letter in the Guardian, the finance ministers of France, Germany, Italy and Spain said a critical moment had been reached to strike a blow against tax avoidance as governments around the world attempt to rebuild from the Covid-19 pandemic
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/04/european-finance-ministers-say-deal-to-stop-global-tax-abuse-is-within-reach?CMP=soc_567
it sounds promising. Joe Biden is making noises about minimum corporate tax rates and clamping down on tax havens too.
I’m sure BoJo and his Tories who will be hosting this G7 will be aghast if “their” G7 becomes famous for some sort of agreement on tax and tax evasion, given that the whole (?) of the London based finance district is based on avoiding tax.
I mean for a lot of his donors this is what Brexit was about
Yeah. Ironically the UK being in the EU had been able to water down or veto any progress in this area for years. Now without a seat at the table it looks like gathering momentum and being implemented. They risk becoming a bit of a pariah state and on the grey list if they don’t follow the EU and US on this.
Dark Orange said:
Rule 303 said:
party_pants said:Happy Hour. I remember those from my early 20s, they got banned years ago. Any pub in Perth with happy hour from 5-6pm on a Friday night was a great place to stop on the way from the office to the train station.
Same. Can’t think of the last time I would have stumbled into a Happy Hour.
Have certainly stumbled out of a few.
quite :)
buffy said:
I don’t think I saw this in our news reports:https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/australia-spain-sweden-announce-covid-19-vaccine-donations-to-covax-101622639414910.html
Just reading the classifieds in that.
Wanted call centre operators, must have some English.
party_pants said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
party_pants said:it sounds promising. Joe Biden is making noises about minimum corporate tax rates and clamping down on tax havens too.
I’m sure BoJo and his Tories who will be hosting this G7 will be aghast if “their” G7 becomes famous for some sort of agreement on tax and tax evasion, given that the whole (?) of the London based finance district is based on avoiding tax.
I don’t think that London is any worse than New York or Hong Kong in that regard.
Honkers and Singapore – but they aren’t in the G7. Hong Kong and Macau do a lot of business in helping mainland Chinese convert their wealth into international currency, and the casinos run on this business model too. China has a limit of USD 10K per person er year.
New York will do as they are told. The US economy is much larger and broader than just Wall Street. London has become the go-to place for wealthy Arabs and Russian oligarchs to park their money, there is a connection between London and crown dependencies like Cayman Island and the Channel Islands. The City of London itself has some obscure charter that favours tax avoidance too.
The chaps in the City have rules, unwritten rules.
If the chaps suspect one of the chaps is not doing the right thing they don’t muck around, they’ll him straight out to lunch.
party_pants said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
party_pants said:it sounds promising. Joe Biden is making noises about minimum corporate tax rates and clamping down on tax havens too.
I’m sure BoJo and his Tories who will be hosting this G7 will be aghast if “their” G7 becomes famous for some sort of agreement on tax and tax evasion, given that the whole (?) of the London based finance district is based on avoiding tax.
I don’t think that London is any worse than New York or Hong Kong in that regard.
Honkers and Singapore – but they aren’t in the G7. Hong Kong and Macau do a lot of business in helping mainland Chinese convert their wealth into international currency, and the casinos run on this business model too. China has a limit of USD 10K per person er year.
New York will do as they are told. The US economy is much larger and broader than just Wall Street. London has become the go-to place for wealthy Arabs and Russian oligarchs to park their money, there is a connection between London and crown dependencies like Cayman Island and the Channel Islands. The City of London itself has some obscure charter that favours tax avoidance too.
Certainly London does cater for nefarious dealings by foreigners looking to legitimise their wealth but I think my point still stands that London has hardly got a monopoly on such business. I don’t think a global minimum corporate tax rate will hurt London in the slightest. The same cannot be said for the many tax havens around the world.
Witty Rejoinder said:
party_pants said:
Witty Rejoinder said:I don’t think that London is any worse than New York or Hong Kong in that regard.
Honkers and Singapore – but they aren’t in the G7. Hong Kong and Macau do a lot of business in helping mainland Chinese convert their wealth into international currency, and the casinos run on this business model too. China has a limit of USD 10K per person er year.
New York will do as they are told. The US economy is much larger and broader than just Wall Street. London has become the go-to place for wealthy Arabs and Russian oligarchs to park their money, there is a connection between London and crown dependencies like Cayman Island and the Channel Islands. The City of London itself has some obscure charter that favours tax avoidance too.
Certainly London does cater for nefarious dealings by foreigners looking to legitimise their wealth but I think my point still stands that London has hardly got a monopoly on such business. I don’t think a global minimum corporate tax rate will hurt London in the slightest. The same cannot be said for the many tax havens around the world.
This article for example doesn’t mention London at all:
…
Paradise lost
Twilight of the tax haven
A global corporate-tax pact would ruin a lucrative business model
Finance & economics
Jun 5th 2021 edition
As is often the case in multilateral matters, America held the key. When Janet Yellen, its treasury secretary, announced earlier this year that it was time to end the “race to the bottom” on corporate tax, her remarks supercharged sputtering talks over a global deal to overhaul how much tax multinational companies pay, and where.
Talks are focused on two main changes: reallocating taxing rights towards countries where economic activity takes place, rather than where firms choose to book profits; and setting a minimum global tax rate, likely to be in the region of 15%. Finance ministers from the g7 group of rich countries are set to signal their approval at a meeting on June 4th-5th. The broader g20 could agree terms as soon as July, spurring the other 120 or so countries and territories involved in the talks to fall into line. On May 26th Germany’s finance minister predicted a “revolution” in global tax rules “in just a few weeks”.
All revolutions have winners and losers. In this case the clearest victors would be large economies where multinationals make lots of sales but book relatively little taxable profit, thanks to tax-planning that siphons income to low-tax jurisdictions. This mismatch has grown along with the rise of digital giants like Apple and Google, the assets of which are largely intangible. Poor countries where global companies have factories and other operations stand to benefit, too, though not by as much as they think they should. The most obvious losers will be the havens that, starting more than half a century ago, took increasing advantage as globalisation made capital more footloose—offering what they saw as much-needed tax competition, and what many others saw as beggar-thy-neighbour economics.
A study in 2018 concluded that around 40% of multinationals’ overseas profits are artificially shifted to low-tax countries. One official closely involved in the current talks thinks the deal taking shape could “all but kill the havens”. However, havens come in various shapes and sizes, from taxless Caribbean paradises to merely tax-light hubs in Europe and Asia. Some have more to fear than others.
Paradise lost
Things look bleak for the palm-fringed, zero-tax territories, such as Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands (bvi) and the Cayman Islands. Though they make nothing in corporate-tax revenue, they have, to differing degrees, come to rely on fees from subsidiaries of large companies and a cottage industry of accountants, lawyers and other corporate-service providers that sprouted up locally to serve them. Their revenue is mere crumbs compared to the taxes saved by those firms, but a lot for such small economies. Corporate and financial services accounted for over 60% of the bvi’s government revenue in 2018.
The type of deal that the Biden administration is pushing—which would apply the global minimum rate on a country-by-country basis, rather than in aggregate—would blow up these havens’ business model. They are livid, but there is nothing they can do. A diplomat says they are in the process of being “neutralised”, and are “irrelevant” to the talks. “No one wants to hear from them.” Some at least have other revenue streams: Cayman is a big domicile for hedge funds, Bermuda for insurers.
Better-connected economies that have traditionally been friendly to corporate-tax-planners are less easy to dismiss. Several European Union countries, such as Ireland and Cyprus, have lured investment with a low corporate-income-tax rate (both levy 12.5%), or, as Luxembourg and the Netherlands have done, with rules that make them attractive conduits in tax structures, helping companies avoid tax in other countries. An imf study in 2019 found that such “phantom” investment had pushed Luxembourg’s stock of foreign-direct investment to $4trn, an improbable one-tenth of the global total. Hong Kong and Singapore have also benefited as corporate-tax entrepots.
Some of the more egregious loopholes fuelling these flows have been closed in recent years, following an oecd-brokered deal in 2015. Among them is the Double Irish, which funnels profits to subsidiaries registered in Ireland but tax-domiciled in Bermuda or the Cayman Islands, and which may have saved Google alone tens of billions of dollars over a decade.
There is still plenty to lose, though. Ireland is particularly nervous, having come to rely on its 12.5% rate to attract foreign investment, much of it involving real people, offices and factories. Corporate tax now accounts for a record 20% of the country’s total tax take. The Irish have been lobbying America, the source of much of their investment, against a radical reallocation of taxing rights and a minimum tax above 12.5%. Ireland’s finance minister, Paschal Donohoe, has argued that smaller countries should be allowed to use tax policy to make up for the advantages of scale, location and resources that big ones enjoy.
Even a minimum rate of 12.5%, or only just above it, could cost Ireland, though, when you factor in tax breaks. Many big companies using it pay an effective rate in the single digits. The country’s “patent box”, a scheme for profits from innovation, charges just 6.25%. A firm paying that might quickly tire of Irish charms if faced with a six-percentage-point top-up. The government has pencilled in an annual tax-revenue loss from the putative global deal of €2bn ($2.5bn)—around 2.4% of public revenue, and the equivalent on a gdp basis to America losing nearly $140bn.
Ireland has some friends in the eu. Hungary, with a rate of 9%, is a noisy champion of tax competition. Cyprus and Malta are sympathetic, too, though “happy to sit in Ireland’s shadow”, says another official. Outside the eu, Singapore and Switzerland have signalled that they consider 15% too high. The Asian hub would be happier with 10%.
Luxembourg and the Netherlands, however, have undergone Damascene conversions. The Grand Duchy, lambasted after a leak in 2014 exposed sweetheart tax deals with dozens of multinationals, has passed reforms that narrow tax-arbitrage opportunities and increase tax-ruling transparency. It says it could live with any deal that levels the playing field. The Dutch government, stung by public criticism of its tolerance of tax tricks, has also been trying to close loopholes. “We won’t be the ones who obstruct the deal,” says Hans Vijlbrief, the Dutch state secretary for finance. “My goal is to not be mentioned any more in the list of tax paradises.”
That leaves Ireland and other eu malcontents in a bind. They could in theory wield vetoes, since the bloc’s tax decisions require unanimity. But that looks highly unlikely given the support for change from the union’s big members and America—not to mention the awful politics of blocking a deal seen by the public as necessary to force big business to pay its fair share.
Moreover, America and others could impose minimum taxes on their own companies even without a global deal; indeed, America already has a version for intangible income, albeit set at just 10.5%. The revolution is coming, barring an unexpected breakdown in talks. And with it, a golden era for the world’s tax havens may be drawing to a close.
https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2021/06/03/twilight-of-the-tax-haven?
Back later…going to the pub for tea
Aviation firsts
A disturbing read.
https://www.msn.com/en-au/lifestyle/other/the-forgotten-kennedy-the-story-of-jfk-s-sister-rosemary-who-was-hidden-from-the-world/ar-AAKGGlB?ocid=winp1taskbar
buffy said:
Back later…going to the pub for tea
Don’t go overboard on the OJ and come back here obsessing about aerosol dispersion from toilet bowls.
Peak Warming Man said:
A disturbing read.https://www.msn.com/en-au/lifestyle/other/the-forgotten-kennedy-the-story-of-jfk-s-sister-rosemary-who-was-hidden-from-the-world/ar-AAKGGlB?ocid=winp1taskbar
Yeah
Peak Warming Man said:
A disturbing read.https://www.msn.com/en-au/lifestyle/other/the-forgotten-kennedy-the-story-of-jfk-s-sister-rosemary-who-was-hidden-from-the-world/ar-AAKGGlB?ocid=winp1taskbar
not going there.
Epic turkey & veg stew now underway with a turkey breast in the oven, and the cauldron on the stovetop ready to receive chopped onion, garlic & a little chilli in olive oil, then most of a large cauliflower, couple of diced parsnips, ditto potatoes (plus some baby pinkeyes), load of mushrooms, capers, nutmeg, a little paprika, cumin & oregano, white pepper, white wine, chicken stock, cream, fresh parsley etc.
Turkey breast will be diced and added to the mix.
Some of this for dinner but much will be frozen.
Bubblecar said:
Epic turkey & veg stew now underway with a turkey breast in the oven, and the cauldron on the stovetop ready to receive chopped onion, garlic & a little chilli in olive oil, then most of a large cauliflower, couple of diced parsnips, ditto potatoes (plus some baby pinkeyes), load of mushrooms, capers, nutmeg, a little paprika, cumin & oregano, white pepper, white wine, chicken stock, cream, fresh parsley etc.Turkey breast will be diced and added to the mix.
Some of this for dinner but much will be frozen.
That should see you through winter.
Bubblecar said:
Epic turkey & veg stew now underway with a turkey breast in the oven, and the cauldron on the stovetop ready to receive chopped onion, garlic & a little chilli in olive oil, then most of a large cauliflower, couple of diced parsnips, ditto potatoes (plus some baby pinkeyes), load of mushrooms, capers, nutmeg, a little paprika, cumin & oregano, white pepper, white wine, chicken stock, cream, fresh parsley etc.Turkey breast will be diced and added to the mix.
Some of this for dinner but much will be frozen.
I ate some sausage rolls.
Maybe later I will eat something that isn’t brown.
WASO do 170 shows a year.
WASO do 170 shows a year.
Witty Rejoinder said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
party_pants said:Honkers and Singapore – but they aren’t in the G7. Hong Kong and Macau do a lot of business in helping mainland Chinese convert their wealth into international currency, and the casinos run on this business model too. China has a limit of USD 10K per person er year.
New York will do as they are told. The US economy is much larger and broader than just Wall Street. London has become the go-to place for wealthy Arabs and Russian oligarchs to park their money, there is a connection between London and crown dependencies like Cayman Island and the Channel Islands. The City of London itself has some obscure charter that favours tax avoidance too.
Certainly London does cater for nefarious dealings by foreigners looking to legitimise their wealth but I think my point still stands that London has hardly got a monopoly on such business. I don’t think a global minimum corporate tax rate will hurt London in the slightest. The same cannot be said for the many tax havens around the world.
This article for example doesn’t mention London at all:
…
Paradise lost
Twilight of the tax haven
A global corporate-tax pact would ruin a lucrative business model
Finance & economics
Jun 5th 2021 editionAs is often the case in multilateral matters, America held the key. When Janet Yellen, its treasury secretary, announced earlier this year that it was time to end the “race to the bottom” on corporate tax, her remarks supercharged sputtering talks over a global deal to overhaul how much tax multinational companies pay, and where.
Talks are focused on two main changes: reallocating taxing rights towards countries where economic activity takes place, rather than where firms choose to book profits; and setting a minimum global tax rate, likely to be in the region of 15%. Finance ministers from the g7 group of rich countries are set to signal their approval at a meeting on June 4th-5th. The broader g20 could agree terms as soon as July, spurring the other 120 or so countries and territories involved in the talks to fall into line. On May 26th Germany’s finance minister predicted a “revolution” in global tax rules “in just a few weeks”.
All revolutions have winners and losers. In this case the clearest victors would be large economies where multinationals make lots of sales but book relatively little taxable profit, thanks to tax-planning that siphons income to low-tax jurisdictions. This mismatch has grown along with the rise of digital giants like Apple and Google, the assets of which are largely intangible. Poor countries where global companies have factories and other operations stand to benefit, too, though not by as much as they think they should. The most obvious losers will be the havens that, starting more than half a century ago, took increasing advantage as globalisation made capital more footloose—offering what they saw as much-needed tax competition, and what many others saw as beggar-thy-neighbour economics.
A study in 2018 concluded that around 40% of multinationals’ overseas profits are artificially shifted to low-tax countries. One official closely involved in the current talks thinks the deal taking shape could “all but kill the havens”. However, havens come in various shapes and sizes, from taxless Caribbean paradises to merely tax-light hubs in Europe and Asia. Some have more to fear than others.
Paradise lost
Things look bleak for the palm-fringed, zero-tax territories, such as Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands (bvi) and the Cayman Islands. Though they make nothing in corporate-tax revenue, they have, to differing degrees, come to rely on fees from subsidiaries of large companies and a cottage industry of accountants, lawyers and other corporate-service providers that sprouted up locally to serve them. Their revenue is mere crumbs compared to the taxes saved by those firms, but a lot for such small economies. Corporate and financial services accounted for over 60% of the bvi’s government revenue in 2018.The type of deal that the Biden administration is pushing—which would apply the global minimum rate on a country-by-country basis, rather than in aggregate—would blow up these havens’ business model. They are livid, but there is nothing they can do. A diplomat says they are in the process of being “neutralised”, and are “irrelevant” to the talks. “No one wants to hear from them.” Some at least have other revenue streams: Cayman is a big domicile for hedge funds, Bermuda for insurers.
Better-connected economies that have traditionally been friendly to corporate-tax-planners are less easy to dismiss. Several European Union countries, such as Ireland and Cyprus, have lured investment with a low corporate-income-tax rate (both levy 12.5%), or, as Luxembourg and the Netherlands have done, with rules that make them attractive conduits in tax structures, helping companies avoid tax in other countries. An imf study in 2019 found that such “phantom” investment had pushed Luxembourg’s stock of foreign-direct investment to $4trn, an improbable one-tenth of the global total. Hong Kong and Singapore have also benefited as corporate-tax entrepots.
Some of the more egregious loopholes fuelling these flows have been closed in recent years, following an oecd-brokered deal in 2015. Among them is the Double Irish, which funnels profits to subsidiaries registered in Ireland but tax-domiciled in Bermuda or the Cayman Islands, and which may have saved Google alone tens of billions of dollars over a decade.
There is still plenty to lose, though. Ireland is particularly nervous, having come to rely on its 12.5% rate to attract foreign investment, much of it involving real people, offices and factories. Corporate tax now accounts for a record 20% of the country’s total tax take. The Irish have been lobbying America, the source of much of their investment, against a radical reallocation of taxing rights and a minimum tax above 12.5%. Ireland’s finance minister, Paschal Donohoe, has argued that smaller countries should be allowed to use tax policy to make up for the advantages of scale, location and resources that big ones enjoy.
Even a minimum rate of 12.5%, or only just above it, could cost Ireland, though, when you factor in tax breaks. Many big companies using it pay an effective rate in the single digits. The country’s “patent box”, a scheme for profits from innovation, charges just 6.25%. A firm paying that might quickly tire of Irish charms if faced with a six-percentage-point top-up. The government has pencilled in an annual tax-revenue loss from the putative global deal of €2bn ($2.5bn)—around 2.4% of public revenue, and the equivalent on a gdp basis to America losing nearly $140bn.
Ireland has some friends in the eu. Hungary, with a rate of 9%, is a noisy champion of tax competition. Cyprus and Malta are sympathetic, too, though “happy to sit in Ireland’s shadow”, says another official. Outside the eu, Singapore and Switzerland have signalled that they consider 15% too high. The Asian hub would be happier with 10%.
Luxembourg and the Netherlands, however, have undergone Damascene conversions. The Grand Duchy, lambasted after a leak in 2014 exposed sweetheart tax deals with dozens of multinationals, has passed reforms that narrow tax-arbitrage opportunities and increase tax-ruling transparency. It says it could live with any deal that levels the playing field. The Dutch government, stung by public criticism of its tolerance of tax tricks, has also been trying to close loopholes. “We won’t be the ones who obstruct the deal,” says Hans Vijlbrief, the Dutch state secretary for finance. “My goal is to not be mentioned any more in the list of tax paradises.”
That leaves Ireland and other eu malcontents in a bind. They could in theory wield vetoes, since the bloc’s tax decisions require unanimity. But that looks highly unlikely given the support for change from the union’s big members and America—not to mention the awful politics of blocking a deal seen by the public as necessary to force big business to pay its fair share.
Moreover, America and others could impose minimum taxes on their own companies even without a global deal; indeed, America already has a version for intangible income, albeit set at just 10.5%. The revolution is coming, barring an unexpected breakdown in talks. And with it, a golden era for the world’s tax havens may be drawing to a close.
https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2021/06/03/twilight-of-the-tax-haven?
Just because one article doesn’t mention it does not mean the problem does not exist. Since Brexit there has been a lot of talk about London becoming a Singapore-Upon-Thames when/if the UK government start to diverge standards from the EU. There was talk of drawing in businesses from all over Europe seeking a more business friendly regulatory environment.
So far the opposite is happening though, businesses are moving out of London and setting up offices in the EU so they can continue to do business in the EU. A race to the bottom will see London become the new world centre for dirty money, or grey money.
dv said:
WASO do 170 shows a year.
So you’re saying they only work 680 hours a year?
dv said:
WASO do 170 shows a year.
I have not been to 1.
a few weeks ago I asked about supply problems in the US economy.
Lots of answers here…
Why There are Now So Many Shortages (It’s Not COVID)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1JlYZQG3lI
Witty Rejoinder said:
dv said:
WASO do 170 shows a year.
So you’re saying they only work 680 hours a year?
I mean they do a lot of different shows. They must be worked to death with rehearsals.
Hey Buffy, did you have anything to do with Ray Ban? I’m trying to buy some glasses and finding their retail stores and websites pretty hopeless.
Life And Death In Herculaneum
Friday, 4 Jun
7:30 PM – 8:40 PM
pg
Just 10 miles from Pompeii, along the ancient shoreline, 12 arched vaults are telling a whole new story about life was like before the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. They contain the skeletons of no less than 340 people, that’s 10% of the local population, killed by the volcano. Amongst them are the first new skeletons to be found in the area for 30 years: they’re now the subject of a ground-breaking scientific investigation.
Bubblecar said:
Epic turkey & veg stew now underway with a turkey breast in the oven, and the cauldron on the stovetop ready to receive chopped onion, garlic & a little chilli in olive oil, then most of a large cauliflower, couple of diced parsnips, ditto potatoes (plus some baby pinkeyes), load of mushrooms, capers, nutmeg, a little paprika, cumin & oregano, white pepper, white wine, chicken stock, cream, fresh parsley etc.Turkey breast will be diced and added to the mix.
Some of this for dinner but much will be frozen.
1kg of pure diced dinosaur flesh now added to the mix along with its roasting juices, the mushrooms and a little brown sugar.
Also added thyme and some peas, earlier.
Just started reading Dune for the first time.
TATE tells me there will be a new film based on it released in October this year.
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
Epic turkey & veg stew now underway with a turkey breast in the oven, and the cauldron on the stovetop ready to receive chopped onion, garlic & a little chilli in olive oil, then most of a large cauliflower, couple of diced parsnips, ditto potatoes (plus some baby pinkeyes), load of mushrooms, capers, nutmeg, a little paprika, cumin & oregano, white pepper, white wine, chicken stock, cream, fresh parsley etc.Turkey breast will be diced and added to the mix.
Some of this for dinner but much will be frozen.
1kg of pure diced dinosaur flesh now added to the mix along with its roasting juices, the mushrooms and a little brown sugar.
Also added thyme and some peas, earlier.
Don’t scoff it all!
The Rev Dodgson said:
Just started reading Dune for the first time.TATE tells me there will be a new film based on it released in October this year.
Possibly my favourite SF novel. The movie trailers look good too.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Just started reading Dune for the first time.
get some sun tan oil.
Ben took a photo.
RoadsTas
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sarahs mum said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Just started reading Dune for the first time.get some sun tan oil.
:)
I do my reading early morning in bed these days.
Probably take me a year or so to get through Dune.
Witty Rejoinder said:
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
Epic turkey & veg stew now underway with a turkey breast in the oven, and the cauldron on the stovetop ready to receive chopped onion, garlic & a little chilli in olive oil, then most of a large cauliflower, couple of diced parsnips, ditto potatoes (plus some baby pinkeyes), load of mushrooms, capers, nutmeg, a little paprika, cumin & oregano, white pepper, white wine, chicken stock, cream, fresh parsley etc.Turkey breast will be diced and added to the mix.
Some of this for dinner but much will be frozen.
1kg of pure diced dinosaur flesh now added to the mix along with its roasting juices, the mushrooms and a little brown sugar.
Also added thyme and some peas, earlier.
Don’t scoff it all!
Scoffing it all in one go would see me in my grave, pronto.
sarahs mum said:
Ben took a photo.
RoadsTas
1 hr ·
Our specialist work crews continued work today to bring down overhanging rocks on the Tasman Highway at Paradise Gorge. More rock removal works will take place over the weekend.
If you plan to use Wielangta Road as a detour, please remember that we have started grading the road today and work will continue tomorrow, Saturday 5 June. Please plan ahead for delays of up to 10 minutes. Please drive with extra caution and obey traffic controllers and signs.
Lake Leake Road remains the safest detour and the public is encouraged to use this route until the highway reopens.
Thank you for your patience and understanding as this important safety work proceeds. We will continue to keep the public updated on progress of the work.
Nice effort.
sarahs mum said:
Ben took a photo.
RoadsTas
1 hr ·
Our specialist work crews continued work today to bring down overhanging rocks on the Tasman Highway at Paradise Gorge. More rock removal works will take place over the weekend.
If you plan to use Wielangta Road as a detour, please remember that we have started grading the road today and work will continue tomorrow, Saturday 5 June. Please plan ahead for delays of up to 10 minutes. Please drive with extra caution and obey traffic controllers and signs.
Lake Leake Road remains the safest detour and the public is encouraged to use this route until the highway reopens.
Thank you for your patience and understanding as this important safety work proceeds. We will continue to keep the public updated on progress of the work.
That’s a big flying cube.
Trouble is, some of their DETOUR signs don’t make much sense. There’s one pointing left down the Midland Highway at the junction of thereof with Lake Leake Rd. I can’t make any sense of it. Many people coming from the east coast will presumably think they can’t get into this village centre or something.
Must be tough for buskers these days. I used to give some coins to a good busker but now I’m pretty much always cashless.
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
Ben took a photo.
RoadsTas
1 hr ·
Our specialist work crews continued work today to bring down overhanging rocks on the Tasman Highway at Paradise Gorge. More rock removal works will take place over the weekend.
If you plan to use Wielangta Road as a detour, please remember that we have started grading the road today and work will continue tomorrow, Saturday 5 June. Please plan ahead for delays of up to 10 minutes. Please drive with extra caution and obey traffic controllers and signs.
Lake Leake Road remains the safest detour and the public is encouraged to use this route until the highway reopens.
Thank you for your patience and understanding as this important safety work proceeds. We will continue to keep the public updated on progress of the work.
That’s a big flying cube.
Trouble is, some of their DETOUR signs don’t make much sense. There’s one pointing left down the Midland Highway at the junction of thereof with Lake Leake Rd. I can’t make any sense of it. Many people coming from the east coast will presumably think they can’t get into this village centre or something.
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
Ben took a photo.
RoadsTas
1 hr ·
Our specialist work crews continued work today to bring down overhanging rocks on the Tasman Highway at Paradise Gorge. More rock removal works will take place over the weekend.
If you plan to use Wielangta Road as a detour, please remember that we have started grading the road today and work will continue tomorrow, Saturday 5 June. Please plan ahead for delays of up to 10 minutes. Please drive with extra caution and obey traffic controllers and signs.
Lake Leake Road remains the safest detour and the public is encouraged to use this route until the highway reopens.
Thank you for your patience and understanding as this important safety work proceeds. We will continue to keep the public updated on progress of the work.
That’s a big flying cube.
Trouble is, some of their DETOUR signs don’t make much sense. There’s one pointing left down the Midland Highway at the junction of thereof with Lake Leake Rd. I can’t make any sense of it. Many people coming from the east coast will presumably think they can’t get into this village centre or something.
Perhaps they have already used the signage funding.
Just seems to be facing the wrong way.
dv said:
Must be tough for buskers these days. I used to give some coins to a good busker but now I’m pretty much always cashless.
most of them have efpos via mobile phone.
dv said:
Must be tough for buskers these days. I used to give some coins to a good busker but now I’m pretty much always cashless.
I haven’t seen a busker for many years.
dv said:
Must be tough for buskers these days. I used to give some coins to a good busker but now I’m pretty much always cashless.
Yeah, sometimes you throw a fiver at a guitar case and it ends up in the next parish.
Bogsnorkler said:
dv said:
Must be tough for buskers these days. I used to give some coins to a good busker but now I’m pretty much always cashless.
most of them have efpos via mobile phone.
Yeah, just send them a bit coin or two.
Verdict: a fine and noble stew that will benefit from ageing.
Much will be frozen but some will be fridged for days ahead.
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:That’s a big flying cube.
Trouble is, some of their DETOUR signs don’t make much sense. There’s one pointing left down the Midland Highway at the junction of thereof with Lake Leake Rd. I can’t make any sense of it. Many people coming from the east coast will presumably think they can’t get into this village centre or something.
Perhaps they have already used the signage funding.
Just seems to be facing the wrong way.
dyslexia?
16 year old shenanigans?
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:Perhaps they have already used the signage funding.
Just seems to be facing the wrong way.
dyslexia?
16 year old shenanigans?
Don’t know. At first I thought it was a practical joke.
Well it’s going to be space puppets again tonight. I can’t face anything heavier what with all the recent stressful goings-on.
Space puppets and a few modest glasses of wine. Maybe a small slice of chocolate cake for supper.
Then bed with some soothing white noise on the bedroom speakers, and adequate quiltage (heading for -2).
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:Just seems to be facing the wrong way.
dyslexia?
16 year old shenanigans?
Don’t know. At first I thought it was a practical joke.
Possibly an idiot.
Bubblecar said:
Well it’s going to be space puppets again tonight. I can’t face anything heavier what with all the recent stressful goings-on.Space puppets and a few modest glasses of wine. Maybe a small slice of chocolate cake for supper.
Then bed with some soothing white noise on the bedroom speakers, and adequate quiltage (heading for -2).
My brain hurts from today.
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:dyslexia?
16 year old shenanigans?
Don’t know. At first I thought it was a practical joke.
Possibly an idiot.
How sweet.
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:dyslexia?
16 year old shenanigans?
Don’t know. At first I thought it was a practical joke.
Possibly an idiot.
Well I hope they’ve got the road with the rocks falling on top of it properly blocked off.
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
Well it’s going to be space puppets again tonight. I can’t face anything heavier what with all the recent stressful goings-on.Space puppets and a few modest glasses of wine. Maybe a small slice of chocolate cake for supper.
Then bed with some soothing white noise on the bedroom speakers, and adequate quiltage (heading for -2).
My brain hurts from today.
That’s understandable.
Bubblecar said:
dv said:
Must be tough for buskers these days. I used to give some coins to a good busker but now I’m pretty much always cashless.
I haven’t seen a busker for many years.
you have to go out to see buskers :)
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:dyslexia?
16 year old shenanigans?
Don’t know. At first I thought it was a practical joke.
Possibly an idiot.
When two heads are not enough.
Ahh dear. This is a photo of a cop enforcing the Chief Health Officer’s regulations – Wearing a mask that breaks them.
sibeen said:
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:Don’t know. At first I thought it was a practical joke.
Possibly an idiot.
How sweet.
Had no idea you were in with the Innes crowd.
Neophyte said:
sibeen said:
sarahs mum said:Possibly an idiot.
How sweet.
Had no idea you were in with the Innes crowd.
I’m aware of the song :)
Rule 303 said:
Ahh dear. This is a photo of a cop enforcing the Chief Health Officer’s regulations – Wearing a mask that breaks them.
What’s the issue with that mask?
furious said:
Rule 303 said:
Ahh dear. This is a photo of a cop enforcing the Chief Health Officer’s regulations – Wearing a mask that breaks them.
What’s the issue with that mask?
Valve on the front opens when he exhales. Doesn’t filter the air at all. Specifically prohibited.
furious said:
Rule 303 said:
Ahh dear. This is a photo of a cop enforcing the Chief Health Officer’s regulations – Wearing a mask that breaks them.
What’s the issue with that mask?
it’s got a vent
Rule 303 said:
furious said:
Rule 303 said:
Ahh dear. This is a photo of a cop enforcing the Chief Health Officer’s regulations – Wearing a mask that breaks them.
What’s the issue with that mask?
Valve on the front opens when he exhales. Doesn’t filter the air at all. Specifically prohibited.
Cop: breathes threateningly
Electricity is not our friend when it escapes the wire.
Rule 303 said:
furious said:
Rule 303 said:
Ahh dear. This is a photo of a cop enforcing the Chief Health Officer’s regulations – Wearing a mask that breaks them.
What’s the issue with that mask?
Valve on the front opens when he exhales. Doesn’t filter the air at all. Specifically prohibited.
Ok, fair enough…
Rule 303 said:
Electricity is not our friend when it escapes the wire.
The magic pixies have escaped!
Hello Folks
This is my unit that is finally after many months of stress and all sorts of hiccups that is now up for sale..
https://www.realestate.com.au/property-unit-qld-edge+hill-136458462
First open house is tomorrow, 12-1pm, I’m thinking of sitting in my neighbours carport using her outdoor setting and watering her garden (she is in Vic visiting her daughter, in lockdown) and generally pretending that I am at home.. When people walk past and maybe want to ask questions about the place, I may just have to answer their questions :)
Dark Orange said:
Rule 303 said:
Electricity is not our friend when it escapes the wire.
The magic pixies have escaped!
Looks like a Lichtenberg pattern.
Spider Lily said:
Hello FolksThis is my unit that is finally after many months of stress and all sorts of hiccups that is now up for sale..
https://www.realestate.com.au/property-unit-qld-edge+hill-136458462
First open house is tomorrow, 12-1pm, I’m thinking of sitting in my neighbours carport using her outdoor setting and watering her garden (she is in Vic visiting her daughter, in lockdown) and generally pretending that I am at home.. When people walk past and maybe want to ask questions about the place, I may just have to answer their questions :)
Or, they could think you are a nosy neighbour and get put off by that…
Bubblecar said:
Verdict: a fine and noble stew that will benefit from ageing.Much will be frozen but some will be fridged for days ahead.
What’s the deal with ageing anyway? The e is needless.
Spider Lily said:
Hello FolksThis is my unit that is finally after many months of stress and all sorts of hiccups that is now up for sale..
https://www.realestate.com.au/property-unit-qld-edge+hill-136458462
First open house is tomorrow, 12-1pm, I’m thinking of sitting in my neighbours carport using her outdoor setting and watering her garden (she is in Vic visiting her daughter, in lockdown) and generally pretending that I am at home.. When people walk past and maybe want to ask questions about the place, I may just have to answer their questions :)
Looks in pristinely presentable condition Spider Lily, well done.
furious said:
Or, they could think you are a nosy neighbour and get put off by that…
I doubt it, it is a complex of only 4 units. I have been minding my own business when the last unit was up for sale and was approached for information.. I answered accordingly and it was appreciated :)
dv said:
Bubblecar said:
Verdict: a fine and noble stew that will benefit from ageing.Much will be frozen but some will be fridged for days ahead.
What’s the deal with ageing anyway? The e is needless.
Ageing is UK etc usage.
Just looks better to me. “Aging” looks somehow wrong.
Bubblecar said:
dv said:
Bubblecar said:
Verdict: a fine and noble stew that will benefit from ageing.Much will be frozen but some will be fridged for days ahead.
What’s the deal with ageing anyway? The e is needless.
Ageing is UK etc usage.
Just looks better to me. “Aging” looks somehow wrong.
I agree with Bubbles.
sibeen said:
Bubblecar said:
dv said:What’s the deal with ageing anyway? The e is needless.
Ageing is UK etc usage.
Just looks better to me. “Aging” looks somehow wrong.
I agree with Bubbles.
so there, DV!!!
Spider Lily said:
Hello FolksThis is my unit that is finally after many months of stress and all sorts of hiccups that is now up for sale..
https://www.realestate.com.au/property-unit-qld-edge+hill-136458462
First open house is tomorrow, 12-1pm, I’m thinking of sitting in my neighbours carport using her outdoor setting and watering her garden (she is in Vic visiting her daughter, in lockdown) and generally pretending that I am at home.. When people walk past and maybe want to ask questions about the place, I may just have to answer their questions :)
Wishes you well. :)
Has anyone ever fallen out of the dining room?
sarahs mum said:
Spider Lily said:
Hello FolksThis is my unit that is finally after many months of stress and all sorts of hiccups that is now up for sale..
https://www.realestate.com.au/property-unit-qld-edge+hill-136458462
First open house is tomorrow, 12-1pm, I’m thinking of sitting in my neighbours carport using her outdoor setting and watering her garden (she is in Vic visiting her daughter, in lockdown) and generally pretending that I am at home.. When people walk past and maybe want to ask questions about the place, I may just have to answer their questions :)
Wishes you well. :)
Has anyone ever fallen out of the dining room?
Does look a bit hazardous for the unwary.
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
Spider Lily said:
Hello FolksThis is my unit that is finally after many months of stress and all sorts of hiccups that is now up for sale..
https://www.realestate.com.au/property-unit-qld-edge+hill-136458462
First open house is tomorrow, 12-1pm, I’m thinking of sitting in my neighbours carport using her outdoor setting and watering her garden (she is in Vic visiting her daughter, in lockdown) and generally pretending that I am at home.. When people walk past and maybe want to ask questions about the place, I may just have to answer their questions :)
Wishes you well. :)
Has anyone ever fallen out of the dining room?
Does look a bit hazardous for the unwary.
or the inebriated.
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:Wishes you well. :)
Has anyone ever fallen out of the dining room?
Does look a bit hazardous for the unwary.
or the inebriated.
Oi!
I wasn’t as thunk as some drinkle pink I were!
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
Spider Lily said:
Hello FolksThis is my unit that is finally after many months of stress and all sorts of hiccups that is now up for sale..
https://www.realestate.com.au/property-unit-qld-edge+hill-136458462
First open house is tomorrow, 12-1pm, I’m thinking of sitting in my neighbours carport using her outdoor setting and watering her garden (she is in Vic visiting her daughter, in lockdown) and generally pretending that I am at home.. When people walk past and maybe want to ask questions about the place, I may just have to answer their questions :)
Wishes you well. :)
Has anyone ever fallen out of the dining room?
Does look a bit hazardous for the unwary.
“Looks in pristinely presentable condition Spider Lily, well done.”
Thank you Mr Car, I did pay for a stylist and I do feel a little like a Princess sitting amongst all the prettiness..
I have owned this unit since ’07 and have live in it on and off since.. If anyone was going to come a gutser on the steps it would have been me.. It has never happened.. There are only 4 units in the complex and at nearly 60 years of age I am the youngster of the group. None have tripped/fallen etc in their units.. :)
apparently voluntary assisted dying is coming to WA in July 1st.. so that’s nice
Spider Lily said:
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:Wishes you well. :)
Has anyone ever fallen out of the dining room?
Does look a bit hazardous for the unwary.
“Looks in pristinely presentable condition Spider Lily, well done.”
Thank you Mr Car, I did pay for a stylist and I do feel a little like a Princess sitting amongst all the prettiness..
I have owned this unit since ’07 and have live in it on and off since.. If anyone was going to come a gutser on the steps it would have been me.. It has never happened.. There are only 4 units in the complex and at nearly 60 years of age I am the youngster of the group. None have tripped/fallen etc in their units.. :)
Able people. I’m sure I could have got it together. :)
Arts said:
apparently voluntary assisted dying is coming to WA in July 1st.. so that’s nice
Just remember. The voluntary is from the person dying, not the person assisting…
Rule 303 said:
Hey Buffy, did you have anything to do with Ray Ban? I’m trying to buy some glasses and finding their retail stores and websites pretty hopeless.
Sorry, I’ve only just found this post. No, never stocked sunglasses. I decided early on not to bother, plenty available around town elsewhere.
Checking their store locator, seems OPSM Frankston and OPSM Mornington are certified stores. Also 20/20 SIGHT ‘N’ STYLE OPTOMETRISTS 161 MAIN STREET
3931 — MORNINGTON. Are they the ones you have tried?
furious said:
Arts said:
apparently voluntary assisted dying is coming to WA in July 1st.. so that’s nice
Just remember. The voluntary is from the person dying, not the person assisting…
we’ll see.
this is the guy who performed his own appendectomy in the Antarctic because he was the only doctor… he might be great at self surgery but his mask wearing skills suck…
Arts said:
this is the guy who performed his own appendectomy in the Antarctic because he was the only doctor… he might be great at self surgery but his mask wearing skills suck…
Pfft…they are all his own germs!
buffy said:
Arts said:
this is the guy who performed his own appendectomy in the Antarctic because he was the only doctor… he might be great at self surgery but his mask wearing skills suck…
Pfft…they are all his own germs!
so why wear a mask at all?
Arts said:
buffy said:
Arts said:
this is the guy who performed his own appendectomy in the Antarctic because he was the only doctor… he might be great at self surgery but his mask wearing skills suck…
Pfft…they are all his own germs!
so why wear a mask at all?
To muffle the screams?
Keeping an eye on the footy, old crone?
sibeen said:
Keeping an eye on the footy, old crone?
Shit.. I forgot.. heh, the only week that I actually felt confident.. scheesh.
There is still time :)
Spider Lily said:
sibeen said:
Keeping an eye on the footy, old crone?
Shit.. I forgot.. heh, the only week that I actually felt confident.. scheesh.
There is still time :)
Are you lot on a delayed telecast?
Spider Lily said:
sibeen said:
Keeping an eye on the footy, old crone?
Shit.. I forgot.. heh, the only week that I actually felt confident.. scheesh.
There is still time :)
Oh, hang on… it might happen yet… GOAL!!!
sibeen said:
Keeping an eye on the footy, old crone?
A few non old crones keeping an eye on it too.
party_pants said:
sibeen said:
Keeping an eye on the footy, old crone?
A few non old crones keeping an eye on it too.
Naaa we’ve got it :D
I never knew YouTube videos of trams, trolleys and buses in Eastern Europe was such a big thing. I kinda got to watching one of them in a roundabout way and now YouTube is giving me heaps of them as suggested viewing.
Not sure it is a rabbit hole I want to explore.
Spider Lily said:
party_pants said:
sibeen said:
Keeping an eye on the footy, old crone?
A few non old crones keeping an eye on it too.
Naaa we’ve got it :D
Better stamina and discipline in the end.
party_pants said:
Spider Lily said:
party_pants said:A few non old crones keeping an eye on it too.
Naaa we’ve got it :D
Better stamina and discipline in the end.
I’ve called it.
party_pants said:
I never knew YouTube videos of trams, trolleys and buses in Eastern Europe was such a big thing. I kinda got to watching one of them in a roundabout way and now YouTube is giving me heaps of them as suggested viewing.Not sure it is a rabbit hole I want to explore.
Sometimes it is nice to catch a tram in Leith.
Add cab/cabin view to your search.
Woodie said:
party_pants said:
Spider Lily said:Naaa we’ve got it :D
Better stamina and discipline in the end.
I’ve called it.
Yep! :D
Spider Lily said:
Woodie said:
party_pants said:Better stamina and discipline in the end.
I’ve called it.
Yep! :D
I suspect the odds for the GF have just shortened.
sarahs mum said:
party_pants said:
I never knew YouTube videos of trams, trolleys and buses in Eastern Europe was such a big thing. I kinda got to watching one of them in a roundabout way and now YouTube is giving me heaps of them as suggested viewing.Not sure it is a rabbit hole I want to explore.
Sometimes it is nice to catch a tram in Leith.
Add cab/cabin view to your search.
TOOT!
Then there’s this one. (live) Thousands click in every day, just to see the Amtrak arrive and leave. Matter of fact, there’s a freight going past right now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAQUGsUzWbE
Just slide the time slider back a minute or two.
It’s a grand old flag….
:D
sarahs mum said:
party_pants said:
I never knew YouTube videos of trams, trolleys and buses in Eastern Europe was such a big thing. I kinda got to watching one of them in a roundabout way and now YouTube is giving me heaps of them as suggested viewing.Not sure it is a rabbit hole I want to explore.
Sometimes it is nice to catch a tram in Leith.
Add cab/cabin view to your search.
I was getting more into the system design and engineering side of it. Trams, buses, electric buses, trolley buses etc. I got into a few comparisons and pros and cons type videos. I didn’t really understand what a trolley bus was, so I looked for videos about them.
Well that’s me nunfa in me footy tips.
September… here we come.. woohooo
Woodie said:
sarahs mum said:
party_pants said:
I never knew YouTube videos of trams, trolleys and buses in Eastern Europe was such a big thing. I kinda got to watching one of them in a roundabout way and now YouTube is giving me heaps of them as suggested viewing.Not sure it is a rabbit hole I want to explore.
Sometimes it is nice to catch a tram in Leith.
Add cab/cabin view to your search.
TOOT!
Then there’s this one. (live) Thousands click in every day, just to see the Amtrak arrive and leave. Matter of fact, there’s a freight going past right now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAQUGsUzWbE
Just slide the time slider back a minute or two.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Csa3jiebPF0
Woodie said:
Well that’s me nunfa in me footy tips.
Not me, I ignored the bookies and went the dees. In the small comp I’m in I’m the leader and I suspect this pick may have put me further in front.
Woodie said:
TOOT!
Then there’s this one. (live) Thousands click in every day, just to see the Amtrak arrive and leave. Matter of fact, there’s a freight going past right now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAQUGsUzWbE
Just slide the time slider back a minute or two.
There’s another one going past again now. About 5 – 8 an hour go past.
Kingy said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Csa3jiebPF0
fuxking bizarre, but I’ll pay that.
my day is near done, listening Albert Cummings do working man blues for a moment, and few other tunes
totally over today, might go watch TV for a while, get me a free lobotomy
Woodie said:
Woodie said:TOOT!
Then there’s this one. (live) Thousands click in every day, just to see the Amtrak arrive and leave. Matter of fact, there’s a freight going past right now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAQUGsUzWbE
Just slide the time slider back a minute or two.
There’s another one going past again now. About 5 – 8 an hour go past.
TOOT! And another one. 😎
party_pants said:
Kingy said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Csa3jiebPF0
fuxking bizarre, but I’ll pay that.
Lots of internet references in there.
Little Big have a few “interesting” music vids.
party_pants said:
Kingy said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Csa3jiebPF0
fuxking bizarre, but I’ll pay that.
No.
sibeen said:
party_pants said:
Kingy said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Csa3jiebPF0
fuxking bizarre, but I’ll pay that.
No.
Russian usually do weird stuff. quite like it.
party_pants said:
Kingy said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Csa3jiebPF0
fuxking bizarre, but I’ll pay that.
Thems woz in Eurovision last year.
Woodie said:
Woodie said:
Woodie said:TOOT!
Then there’s this one. (live) Thousands click in every day, just to see the Amtrak arrive and leave. Matter of fact, there’s a freight going past right now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAQUGsUzWbE
Just slide the time slider back a minute or two.
There’s another one going past again now. About 5 – 8 an hour go past.
TOOT! And another one. 😎
………. and an uthereee.
Et vous le televish le bicyclettes le Criterium du Daphne du Maurier?
Woodie said:
Et vous le televish le bicyclettes le Criterium du Daphne du Maurier?
sans Vincenzo Neeeeeeeeeeeeebalee. 🙁
Me, I’m still tooting in Norway, now half an hour into a 5.5 hour journey from Trondheim to Mosjøen. Very different railway environment here in central Norway compared to the southerly Bergen line. All seems more modern, smoother and faster. And so far, flatter with far fewer tunnels.
Drivers Eye View: Trondheim-Mosjøen in a winter wonderland. (Di4)
Frozen Moustache Railroading
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXN1CQdxakU
Nibbles: Puopolo Hungarian smoked salami + Sandhurst sliced jalapenos. Really wakes your mouth up, and your head in general.
Place one slice of jalapeno on one slice of smoked salami, eat and enjoy, then repeat. Rich flavours and much perspiration.
Bubblecar said:
Nibbles: Puopolo Hungarian smoked salami + Sandhurst sliced jalapenos. Really wakes your mouth up, and your head in general.Place one slice of jalapeno on one slice of smoked salami, eat and enjoy, then repeat. Rich flavours and much perspiration.
ROFL
My little plate has the jalapenos + aged cheddar + hot English mustard.
sibeen said:
Bubblecar said:
Nibbles: Puopolo Hungarian smoked salami + Sandhurst sliced jalapenos. Really wakes your mouth up, and your head in general.Place one slice of jalapeno on one slice of smoked salami, eat and enjoy, then repeat. Rich flavours and much perspiration.
ROFL
My little plate has the jalapenos + aged cheddar + hot English mustard.
That’ll clear the sinuses.
Bubblecar said:
sibeen said:
Bubblecar said:
Nibbles: Puopolo Hungarian smoked salami + Sandhurst sliced jalapenos. Really wakes your mouth up, and your head in general.Place one slice of jalapeno on one slice of smoked salami, eat and enjoy, then repeat. Rich flavours and much perspiration.
ROFL
My little plate has the jalapenos + aged cheddar + hot English mustard.
That’ll clear the sinuses.
I quite often add some pepperoni or such so that I have the three heats, the the chili, mustard + pepper on one delicious biscuit.
Bubblecar said:
Nibbles: Puopolo Hungarian smoked salami + Sandhurst sliced jalapenos. Really wakes your mouth up, and your head in general.Place one slice of jalapeno on one slice of smoked salami, eat and enjoy, then repeat. Rich flavours and much perspiration.
Wah….. No bickies?
Woodie said:
Bubblecar said:
Nibbles: Puopolo Hungarian smoked salami + Sandhurst sliced jalapenos. Really wakes your mouth up, and your head in general.Place one slice of jalapeno on one slice of smoked salami, eat and enjoy, then repeat. Rich flavours and much perspiration.
Wah….. No bickies?
I have plenty of bickies in stock but this very tasty salami + jalapeno combination seems to deserve a simple duet.
Next time I’ll try them on a cracked pepper cracker.
sibeen said:
My little plate has the jalapenos + aged cheddar + hot English mustard.
Sounds like my type of nibbles.. maybe a ham off the bone or a strong salami :)
Back to this train ride.
Think I’ll steer clear of debating stuff in this place from now on, it’s too surreal.
Example: me mildly suggesting that the concept of “gender” is debatable has apparently led to DA abandoning this forum forever.
Bubblecar said:
Back to this train ride.Think I’ll steer clear of debating stuff in this place from now on, it’s too surreal.
Example: me mildly suggesting that the concept of “gender” is debatable has apparently led to DA abandoning this forum forever.
I do find that disturbing. Not your stance, I happen to agree with it; but that someone would decide to leave the forum because they don’t agree with another’s take on an issue.
Hopefully this is not the case with DA, but if it is, c’est la vie.
sibeen said:
Bubblecar said:
Back to this train ride.Think I’ll steer clear of debating stuff in this place from now on, it’s too surreal.
Example: me mildly suggesting that the concept of “gender” is debatable has apparently led to DA abandoning this forum forever.
I do find that disturbing. Not your stance, I happen to agree with it; but that someone would decide to leave the forum because they don’t agree with another’s take on an issue.
Hopefully this is not the case with DA, but if it is, c’est la vie.
I miss DA.
sibeen said:
Bubblecar said:
Back to this train ride.Think I’ll steer clear of debating stuff in this place from now on, it’s too surreal.
Example: me mildly suggesting that the concept of “gender” is debatable has apparently led to DA abandoning this forum forever.
I do find that disturbing. Not your stance, I happen to agree with it; but that someone would decide to leave the forum because they don’t agree with another’s take on an issue.
Hopefully this is not the case with DA, but if it is, c’est la vie.
I shouldn’t have to point out, but I will just in case; if I disagreed with your stance I’d still feel exactly the same way.
sarahs mum said:
sibeen said:
Bubblecar said:
Back to this train ride.Think I’ll steer clear of debating stuff in this place from now on, it’s too surreal.
Example: me mildly suggesting that the concept of “gender” is debatable has apparently led to DA abandoning this forum forever.
I do find that disturbing. Not your stance, I happen to agree with it; but that someone would decide to leave the forum because they don’t agree with another’s take on an issue.
Hopefully this is not the case with DA, but if it is, c’est la vie.
I miss DA.
Me too, but I have nothing to apologise for. I presented my views rationally and politely.
Maybe she’d been meaning to dump us for some time.
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
sibeen said:I do find that disturbing. Not your stance, I happen to agree with it; but that someone would decide to leave the forum because they don’t agree with another’s take on an issue.
Hopefully this is not the case with DA, but if it is, c’est la vie.
I miss DA.
Me too, but I have nothing to apologise for. I presented my views rationally and politely.
Maybe she’d been meaning to dump us for some time.
And another one bites the dust.
ah more fundamental attribution errors
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/kate-shemirani-covid-nurse-struck-off-b1859159.html
Bubblecar said:
Back to this train ride.Think I’ll steer clear of debating stuff in this place from now on, it’s too surreal.
Example: me mildly suggesting that the concept of “gender” is debatable has apparently led to DA abandoning this forum forever.
Was there an announcement made?
The Rev Dodgson said:
Bubblecar said:
Cheese shopsketchsnap. Posted this one before, but it’s worth another peep.
So N America + Europe = All Over The World does it?
They are Americans. It is a problem they’ve always had.
roughbarked said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Bubblecar said:
Cheese shopsketchsnap. Posted this one before, but it’s worth another peep.
So N America + Europe = All Over The World does it?
They are Americans. It is a problem they’ve always had.
A situation like this, you have to ask yourself…
…what would cheeses do?
roughbarked said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Bubblecar said:
Cheese shopsketchsnap. Posted this one before, but it’s worth another peep.
So N America + Europe = All Over The World does it?
They are Americans. It is a problem they’ve always had.
Oh dear, just because they aren’t advertised on the front window doesn’t mean they don’t stock them.
Good morning Holidayers. Presently 3 degrees, overcast and there is a bit of breeze. There were coals remaining in the woodheater, so “relighting” was easy this morning. Our forecast is for 14 degrees with a shower or two.
I need to put some clothes other than sleeping clothes on and go down to the bakery to get a good selection of bread. They sell stuff pretty quickly and I’d like a choice.
Morning, cold and foggy in the Styx. Working for half the day.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Just started reading Dune for the first time.
How many times do you plan to read it?
roughbarked said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Just started reading Dune for the first time.How many times do you plan to read it?
See how we go :)
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
sibeen said:I do find that disturbing. Not your stance, I happen to agree with it; but that someone would decide to leave the forum because they don’t agree with another’s take on an issue.
Hopefully this is not the case with DA, but if it is, c’est la vie.
I miss DA.
Me too, but I have nothing to apologise for. I presented my views rationally and politely.
Maybe she’d been meaning to dump us for some time.
Or maybe there is more to life sometime than being here. We really don’t know why she is not looking in lately.
buffy said:
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:I miss DA.
Me too, but I have nothing to apologise for. I presented my views rationally and politely.
Maybe she’d been meaning to dump us for some time.
Or maybe there is more to life sometime than being here. We really don’t know why she is not looking in lately.
yep, haven’t seen her much on FB recently either.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-05/morrison-government-covid-response-out-of-control/100190216
Laura Tingle wraps up the week in Fed parliament.
Morning punters, morning correctors.
“…..take these drinks to table 10………”
wipes a tear, seems just like it was yesterday.
buffy said:
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:I miss DA.
Me too, but I have nothing to apologise for. I presented my views rationally and politely.
Maybe she’d been meaning to dump us for some time.
Or maybe there is more to life sometime than being here. We really don’t know why she is not looking in lately.
True enough.
Wet & windy expected here today, maximum of 12, minimum of nought.
DA and I aren’t on each other’s Christmas Card lists, but her posts add a pleasant flavour to the place.
I should feed the chooks. Then Mr buffy and I will trundle out the road in the ute to see if the kids have put out any bags of sheep poo for sale. It’s about 6 or 7km out of town.
buffy said:
I should feed the chooks. Then Mr buffy and I will trundle out the road in the ute to see if the kids have put out any bags of sheep poo for sale. It’s about 6 or 7km out of town.
7k from home
Peak Warming Man said:
buffy said:
I should feed the chooks. Then Mr buffy and I will trundle out the road in the ute to see if the kids have put out any bags of sheep poo for sale. It’s about 6 or 7km out of town.
7k from home
‘Five miles out
Just hold your heading true
Got to get your finest out
You’re Number 1, anticipating you’
Peak Warming Man said:
buffy said:
I should feed the chooks. Then Mr buffy and I will trundle out the road in the ute to see if the kids have put out any bags of sheep poo for sale. It’s about 6 or 7km out of town.
7k from home
Too far to go with the wheelbarrow. I go round the corner for chook feed with the wheelbarrow.
Good morning everybody.
We are back in Rainbow Beach now, and it’s a chilly 14.7°C and 72% RH. It’s a cloudless, bright sunny day with light to moderate gusty breezes. BoM predicts a top of 21° and no chance of rain.
The wind precludes me continuing to chop back the weeping fig today, but I’m sure I’ll find something to do after a week of touring around the wider region. It’ll be a great day for drying the accumulated washing, that’s for sure.
Morning Saturdays. :)
19.2C & 48% indoors
17.9C & 57% outdoors
1020 hPa and rising.
It’s a nein day today. Nein cloud, nein wind, nein moolies.
Headed for 19C
Woodie said:
Morning Saturdays. :)19.2C & 48% indoors
17.9C & 57% outdoors1020 hPa and rising.
It’s a nein day today. Nein cloud, nein wind, nein moolies.
Headed for 19C
Revolution Nein?
Are you on holidaze now?
Ize iz on ollie deez. :)
Mr V, YHM.
Peak Warming Man said:
Morning punters, morning correctors.“…..take these drinks to table 10………”
wipes a tear, seems just like it was yesterday.
Ah……. yesterday. All my troubles seemed so far away.
Bubblecar said:
buffy said:
Bubblecar said:Me too, but I have nothing to apologise for. I presented my views rationally and politely.
Maybe she’d been meaning to dump us for some time.
Or maybe there is more to life sometime than being here. We really don’t know why she is not looking in lately.
True enough.
OK. Fess up. What did I miss?
Woodie said:
Ize iz on ollie deez. :)Mr V, YHM.
Ta. I’ll check with Mrs V and get back to you. As far as I know, all is on track.
Woodie said:
Bubblecar said:
buffy said:Or maybe there is more to life sometime than being here. We really don’t know why she is not looking in lately.
True enough.
OK. Fess up. What did I miss?
DA hasn’t posted for a couple of weeks (?). I’m terrible at timelines. As far as I know, no reason has been given. But she did get married. Perhaps married ladies don’t have time for forumming.
:)
There was no sheep poo to purchase. But we did pick up a family bag of Koroit potatoes from our local little supermarket. Now, I’m going outside to weed Auntie Annie’s veggie patch and probably dig up some potatoes for her. Back later.
buffy said:
Woodie said:
Bubblecar said:True enough.
OK. Fess up. What did I miss?
DA hasn’t posted for a couple of weeks (?). I’m terrible at timelines. As far as I know, no reason has been given. But she did get married. Perhaps married ladies don’t have time for forumming.
:)
ah a redeeming of the fundamental attribution error
Woodie said:
Bubblecar said:
buffy said:Or maybe there is more to life sometime than being here. We really don’t know why she is not looking in lately.
True enough.
OK. Fess up. What did I miss?
DA has commented that some discussion here is transphobic so there is a chance that is why she has taken a break from the forum.
buffy said:
Woodie said:
Bubblecar said:True enough.
OK. Fess up. What did I miss?
DA hasn’t posted for a couple of weeks (?). I’m terrible at timelines. As far as I know, no reason has been given. But she did get married. Perhaps married ladies don’t have time for forumming.
:)
Look, there’s a lot of rumours going around and the last thing we need is a new one but…………….so……………….well you know………some people are saying that she’s been taking the free bread from school and selling it to homeless people at the bus shelter and donating the money to Qanon..
That’s all I know.
Bubblecar said:
Back to this train ride.Think I’ll steer clear of debating stuff in this place from now on, it’s too surreal.
Example: me mildly suggesting that the concept of “gender” is debatable has apparently led to DA abandoning this forum forever.
i’d expect to put a construction on a perceived absence or reduced participation, to abnormalize an absence is probably a territorial act of subjecting the entity to a social construction (the habits of and orientations of the work of mind/s, including presumed or hoped for shared dimension), which is part of the hook of the internet, and while that latter is often seen as friendly it may not be entirely, seen another way
Bogsnorkler said:
Please explain.
Michael V said:
Bogsnorkler said:
Please explain.
Orchidometer. For measuring the size of testicles.
buffy said:
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:I miss DA.
Me too, but I have nothing to apologise for. I presented my views rationally and politely.
Maybe she’d been meaning to dump us for some time.
Or maybe there is more to life sometime than being here. We really don’t know why she is not looking in lately.
This.
roughbarked said:
buffy said:
Bubblecar said:Me too, but I have nothing to apologise for. I presented my views rationally and politely.
Maybe she’d been meaning to dump us for some time.
Or maybe there is more to life sometime than being here. We really don’t know why she is not looking in lately.
This.
buffy said:
Woodie said:
Bubblecar said:True enough.
OK. Fess up. What did I miss?
DA hasn’t posted for a couple of weeks (?). I’m terrible at timelines. As far as I know, no reason has been given. But she did get married. Perhaps married ladies don’t have time for forumming.
:)
This too apart from the fact that little changed other than the pomp and ceremony.
Peak Warming Man said:
buffy said:
Woodie said:OK. Fess up. What did I miss?
DA hasn’t posted for a couple of weeks (?). I’m terrible at timelines. As far as I know, no reason has been given. But she did get married. Perhaps married ladies don’t have time for forumming.
:)
Look, there’s a lot of rumours going around and the last thing we need is a new one but…………….so……………….well you know………some people are saying that she’s been taking the free bread from school and selling it to homeless people at the bus shelter and donating the money to Qanon..
That’s all I know.
:)
Bogsnorkler said:
Michael V said:
Bogsnorkler said:
Please explain.
Orchidometer. For measuring the size of testicles.
Well, that’s useful.
Michael V said:
Bogsnorkler said:
Michael V said:Please explain.
Orchidometer. For measuring the size of testicles.
Ta.Well, that’s useful.
I think having a set on a shelf in your home would be a conversation starter.
Bogsnorkler said:
Michael V said:
Bogsnorkler said:Orchidometer. For measuring the size of testicles.
Ta.Well, that’s useful.
I think having a set on a shelf in your home would be a conversation starter.
Increasing testicular volume—a useful index of puberty in the male—is measured with an orchidometer, a graded series of ovoid beads on a string.1 This instrument is reliable, but at £28.50 ($43.00) it is prohibitively expensive, and it is usually unobtainable when needed.2
Deeply concerned by the national shortage of orchidometers, two of us (PB and GW) made a serendipitous discovery that led to this study. Briefly, Teasers and Truffle, two chocolates in the Celebrations assortment (Mars UK, Slough), are uncannily similar in size and shape to the 8 ml orchidometer bead (figure). This observation presented a timely opportunity to cut clinic waiting times and costs, two problems that continue to dog the NHS. We therefore compared the conventional orchidometer with its chocolate surrogates, focusing on the key properties of reliability, durability, and palatability.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC61053/
Bogsnorkler said:
Michael V said:
Bogsnorkler said:Orchidometer. For measuring the size of testicles.
Ta.Well, that’s useful.
I think having a set on a shelf in your home would be a conversation starter.
No doubt.
Bogsnorkler said:
Bogsnorkler said:
Michael V said:Ta.
Well, that’s useful.
I think having a set on a shelf in your home would be a conversation starter.
Increasing testicular volume—a useful index of puberty in the male—is measured with an orchidometer, a graded series of ovoid beads on a string.1 This instrument is reliable, but at £28.50 ($43.00) it is prohibitively expensive, and it is usually unobtainable when needed.2
Deeply concerned by the national shortage of orchidometers, two of us (PB and GW) made a serendipitous discovery that led to this study. Briefly, Teasers and Truffle, two chocolates in the Celebrations assortment (Mars UK, Slough), are uncannily similar in size and shape to the 8 ml orchidometer bead (figure). This observation presented a timely opportunity to cut clinic waiting times and costs, two problems that continue to dog the NHS. We therefore compared the conventional orchidometer with its chocolate surrogates, focusing on the key properties of reliability, durability, and palatability.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC61053/
you need to read the paper.
:-)
Bogsnorkler said:
Bogsnorkler said:
Bogsnorkler said:I think having a set on a shelf in your home would be a conversation starter.
Increasing testicular volume—a useful index of puberty in the male—is measured with an orchidometer, a graded series of ovoid beads on a string.1 This instrument is reliable, but at £28.50 ($43.00) it is prohibitively expensive, and it is usually unobtainable when needed.2
Deeply concerned by the national shortage of orchidometers, two of us (PB and GW) made a serendipitous discovery that led to this study. Briefly, Teasers and Truffle, two chocolates in the Celebrations assortment (Mars UK, Slough), are uncannily similar in size and shape to the 8 ml orchidometer bead (figure). This observation presented a timely opportunity to cut clinic waiting times and costs, two problems that continue to dog the NHS. We therefore compared the conventional orchidometer with its chocolate surrogates, focusing on the key properties of reliability, durability, and palatability.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC61053/
you need to read the paper.
:-)
OK.
Managed a Norman Gunston moment yesterday.
While shaving, badly sliced my lower lip………….. with a safety razor. :(
Lunch report: nuked fresh dug Nicola potato (diced) then dressed with sour cream and sweet chilli sauce.
Bogsnorkler said:
Bogsnorkler said:
Michael V said:Ta.
Well, that’s useful.
I think having a set on a shelf in your home would be a conversation starter.
Increasing testicular volume—a useful index of puberty in the male—is measured with an orchidometer, a graded series of ovoid beads on a string.1 This instrument is reliable, but at £28.50 ($43.00) it is prohibitively expensive, and it is usually unobtainable when needed.2
Deeply concerned by the national shortage of orchidometers, two of us (PB and GW) made a serendipitous discovery that led to this study. Briefly, Teasers and Truffle, two chocolates in the Celebrations assortment (Mars UK, Slough), are uncannily similar in size and shape to the 8 ml orchidometer bead (figure). This observation presented a timely opportunity to cut clinic waiting times and costs, two problems that continue to dog the NHS. We therefore compared the conventional orchidometer with its chocolate surrogates, focusing on the key properties of reliability, durability, and palatability.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC61053/
Well I did check, but that just had to be BMJ Christmas issue. And it was.
:)
Bogsnorkler said:
Bogsnorkler said:
Michael V said:Ta.
Well, that’s useful.
I think having a set on a shelf in your home would be a conversation starter.
Increasing testicular volume—a useful index of puberty in the male—is measured with an orchidometer, a graded series of ovoid beads on a string.1 This instrument is reliable, but at £28.50 ($43.00) it is prohibitively expensive, and it is usually unobtainable when needed.2
Deeply concerned by the national shortage of orchidometers, two of us (PB and GW) made a serendipitous discovery that led to this study. Briefly, Teasers and Truffle, two chocolates in the Celebrations assortment (Mars UK, Slough), are uncannily similar in size and shape to the 8 ml orchidometer bead (figure). This observation presented a timely opportunity to cut clinic waiting times and costs, two problems that continue to dog the NHS. We therefore compared the conventional orchidometer with its chocolate surrogates, focusing on the key properties of reliability, durability, and palatability.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC61053/
LOL
Tamb said:
Managed a Norman Gunston moment yesterday.
While shaving, badly sliced my lower lip………….. with a safety razor. :(
I hope you got some Tally-Ho papers on that straight away.
Peak Warming Man said:
Tamb said:
Managed a Norman Gunston moment yesterday.
While shaving, badly sliced my lower lip………….. with a safety razor. :(
I hope you got some Tally-Ho papers on that straight away.
Bogsnorkler said:
Bogsnorkler said:
Bogsnorkler said:I think having a set on a shelf in your home would be a conversation starter.
Increasing testicular volume—a useful index of puberty in the male—is measured with an orchidometer, a graded series of ovoid beads on a string.1 This instrument is reliable, but at £28.50 ($43.00) it is prohibitively expensive, and it is usually unobtainable when needed.2
Deeply concerned by the national shortage of orchidometers, two of us (PB and GW) made a serendipitous discovery that led to this study. Briefly, Teasers and Truffle, two chocolates in the Celebrations assortment (Mars UK, Slough), are uncannily similar in size and shape to the 8 ml orchidometer bead (figure). This observation presented a timely opportunity to cut clinic waiting times and costs, two problems that continue to dog the NHS. We therefore compared the conventional orchidometer with its chocolate surrogates, focusing on the key properties of reliability, durability, and palatability.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC61053/
you need to read the paper.
:-)
It read like a paper I wrote at the end of 2nd Year Paleontology; I had made a mould from a trilobite, and cast a chocolate trilobite for all in the class and the Professor. Each was accompanied by the tongue-in-cheek paper I wrote. I was supposed to be studying for the exam…
Tamb said:
Managed a Norman Gunston moment yesterday.
While shaving, badly sliced my lower lip………….. with a safety razor. :(
You little bleeder!
Michael V said:
Tamb said:
Managed a Norman Gunston moment yesterday.
While shaving, badly sliced my lower lip………….. with a safety razor. :(
You little bleeder!
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-05/historic-indigenous-fashion-showcase/100191990
I would like fashion models to at least look like they are happy in their job. I know this lot can be happy, because the “behind the scenes” photo proves they know how to smile. I really don’t “get” the looking sullen thing for fashion parades.
buffy said:
Lunch report: nuked fresh dug Nicola potato (diced) then dressed with sour cream and sweet chilli sauce.
Little bowl of giant green olives and a few slices of gouda, glass of sauv blanc.
buffy said:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-05/historic-indigenous-fashion-showcase/100191990I would like fashion models to at least look like they are happy in their job. I know this lot can be happy, because the “behind the scenes” photo proves they know how to smile. I really don’t “get” the looking sullen thing for fashion parades.
Michael V said:
Bogsnorkler said:
Bogsnorkler said:Increasing testicular volume—a useful index of puberty in the male—is measured with an orchidometer, a graded series of ovoid beads on a string.1 This instrument is reliable, but at £28.50 ($43.00) it is prohibitively expensive, and it is usually unobtainable when needed.2
Deeply concerned by the national shortage of orchidometers, two of us (PB and GW) made a serendipitous discovery that led to this study. Briefly, Teasers and Truffle, two chocolates in the Celebrations assortment (Mars UK, Slough), are uncannily similar in size and shape to the 8 ml orchidometer bead (figure). This observation presented a timely opportunity to cut clinic waiting times and costs, two problems that continue to dog the NHS. We therefore compared the conventional orchidometer with its chocolate surrogates, focusing on the key properties of reliability, durability, and palatability.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC61053/
you need to read the paper.
:-)
It read like a paper I wrote at the end of 2nd Year Paleontology; I had made a mould from a trilobite, and cast a chocolate trilobite for all in the class and the Professor. Each was accompanied by the tongue-in-cheek paper I wrote. I was supposed to be studying for the exam…
Well, that’s where you went wrong.. just one chocolate trilobite for whole class.
Tamb said:
buffy said:https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-05/historic-indigenous-fashion-showcase/100191990I would like fashion models to at least look like they are happy in their job. I know this lot can be happy, because the “behind the scenes” photo proves they know how to smile. I really don’t “get” the looking sullen thing for fashion parades.
It’s supposed to make them look slightly threatening & dangerous. Things men are supposed to like.
imagine if it were true and the tables turned on domestic violence
ABC News:
‘Craig Kelly’s former staffer Frank Zumbo charged with sexual offences
An advisor to former Federal Liberal MP Craig Kelly will appear at Parramatta local court charged with sexually touching and indecently assaulting three women and a teenage girl on multiple occasions.’
Here’s another chap whose name could be adopted to describe people of his unsavoury type as in ‘Jeeze, what a zumbo that bloke is!’.
Ian said:
Michael V said:
Bogsnorkler said:you need to read the paper.
:-)
It read like a paper I wrote at the end of 2nd Year Paleontology; I had made a mould from a trilobite, and cast a chocolate trilobite for all in the class and the Professor. Each was accompanied by the tongue-in-cheek paper I wrote. I was supposed to be studying for the exam…
Well, that’s where you went wrong.. just one chocolate trilobite for whole class.
Ah. Yes. My bad explanation. My bad.
Small class and one professor. One (very large!) chocolate trilobite for each of them.
SCIENCE said:
Tamb said:buffy said:https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-05/historic-indigenous-fashion-showcase/100191990I would like fashion models to at least look like they are happy in their job. I know this lot can be happy, because the “behind the scenes” photo proves they know how to smile. I really don’t “get” the looking sullen thing for fashion parades.
It’s supposed to make them look slightly threatening & dangerous. Things men are supposed to like.imagine if it were true and the tables turned on domestic violence
What it makes them look like is surly and quite avoidable. Especially when allied with the petulant slouching/slumping gait they adopt on the catwalk. All says ‘i hate this i don’t want to be here’.
captain_spalding said:
SCIENCE said:
Tamb said:
It’s supposed to make them look slightly threatening & dangerous. Things men are supposed to like.imagine if it were true and the tables turned on domestic violence
What it makes them look like is surly and quite avoidable. Especially when allied with the petulant slouching/slumping gait they adopt on the catwalk. All says ‘i hate this i don’t want to be here’.
buffy said:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-05/historic-indigenous-fashion-showcase/100191990I would like fashion models to at least look like they are happy in their job. I know this lot can be happy, because the “behind the scenes” photo proves they know how to smile. I really don’t “get” the looking sullen thing for fashion parades.
It is about the clothes not the models.
Bogsnorkler said:
buffy said:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-05/historic-indigenous-fashion-showcase/100191990I would like fashion models to at least look like they are happy in their job. I know this lot can be happy, because the “behind the scenes” photo proves they know how to smile. I really don’t “get” the looking sullen thing for fashion parades.
It is about the clothes not the models.
So, just have some dressmaker’s dummies on a conveyor belt.
Bogsnorkler said:
buffy said:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-05/historic-indigenous-fashion-showcase/100191990I would like fashion models to at least look like they are happy in their job. I know this lot can be happy, because the “behind the scenes” photo proves they know how to smile. I really don’t “get” the looking sullen thing for fashion parades.
It is about the clothes not the models.
Well that’s the excuse that they come up with.
Nonsense of course.
“They would look so pretty if they just smiled”.
captain_spalding said:
Bogsnorkler said:
buffy said:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-05/historic-indigenous-fashion-showcase/100191990I would like fashion models to at least look like they are happy in their job. I know this lot can be happy, because the “behind the scenes” photo proves they know how to smile. I really don’t “get” the looking sullen thing for fashion parades.
It is about the clothes not the models.
So, just have some dressmaker’s dummies on a conveyor belt.
Now that would make sense.
captain_spalding said:
Bogsnorkler said:
buffy said:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-05/historic-indigenous-fashion-showcase/100191990I would like fashion models to at least look like they are happy in their job. I know this lot can be happy, because the “behind the scenes” photo proves they know how to smile. I really don’t “get” the looking sullen thing for fashion parades.
It is about the clothes not the models.
So, just have some dressmaker’s dummies on a conveyor belt.
That is what they are. But at least they are in a job and getting an income. Is that a bad thing?
Michael V said:
Ian said:
Michael V said:It read like a paper I wrote at the end of 2nd Year Paleontology; I had made a mould from a trilobite, and cast a chocolate trilobite for all in the class and the Professor. Each was accompanied by the tongue-in-cheek paper I wrote. I was supposed to be studying for the exam…
Well, that’s where you went wrong.. just one chocolate trilobite for whole class.
Ah. Yes. My bad explanation. My bad.
Small class and one professor. One (very large!) chocolate trilobite for each of them.
One way to sweeten up the prof :)
Finding it hard to stay awake on this grey old day.
Vintage Popeye water pistol.
Bogsnorkler said:
buffy said:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-05/historic-indigenous-fashion-showcase/100191990I would like fashion models to at least look like they are happy in their job. I know this lot can be happy, because the “behind the scenes” photo proves they know how to smile. I really don’t “get” the looking sullen thing for fashion parades.
It is about the clothes not the models.
I get that. Sort of. But if the models looked like they enjoyed wearing the clothes, it should be a much better sell. Who wants to wear clothes that obviously make you feel grumpy?
Bogsnorkler said:
captain_spalding said:
Bogsnorkler said:It is about the clothes not the models.
So, just have some dressmaker’s dummies on a conveyor belt.
That is what they are. But at least they are in a job and getting an income. Is that a bad thing?
Of course not.
But the ‘clothes, not the models’ thing is obvious nonsense touted by the industry.
Going to watch last night’s Planet America now.
buffy said:
Bogsnorkler said:
buffy said:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-05/historic-indigenous-fashion-showcase/100191990I would like fashion models to at least look like they are happy in their job. I know this lot can be happy, because the “behind the scenes” photo proves they know how to smile. I really don’t “get” the looking sullen thing for fashion parades.
It is about the clothes not the models.
I get that. Sort of. But if the models looked like they enjoyed wearing the clothes, it should be a much better sell. Who wants to wear clothes that obviously make you feel grumpy?
generalisation usually denote a lack of critical thinking.
buffy said:
Bogsnorkler said:
buffy said:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-05/historic-indigenous-fashion-showcase/100191990I would like fashion models to at least look like they are happy in their job. I know this lot can be happy, because the “behind the scenes” photo proves they know how to smile. I really don’t “get” the looking sullen thing for fashion parades.
It is about the clothes not the models.
I get that. Sort of. But if the models looked like they enjoyed wearing the clothes, it should be a much better sell. Who wants to wear clothes that obviously make you feel grumpy?
captain_spalding said:
Bogsnorkler said:
captain_spalding said:So, just have some dressmaker’s dummies on a conveyor belt.
That is what they are. But at least they are in a job and getting an income. Is that a bad thing?
Of course not.
But the ‘clothes, not the models’ thing is obvious nonsense touted by the industry.
so have either you or the rev anything to counter that beside your opinion?
Tamb said:
buffy said:
Bogsnorkler said:It is about the clothes not the models.
I get that. Sort of. But if the models looked like they enjoyed wearing the clothes, it should be a much better sell. Who wants to wear clothes that obviously make you feel grumpy?
They’re pretty bitchy behind the scenes too.
Just like here then.
Bogsnorkler said:
generalisation usually denote a lack of critical thinking.
The sort of generalisation that says appearing surly and apathetic makes young women look attractive.
captain_spalding said:
Bogsnorkler said:generalisation usually denote a lack of critical thinking.
The sort of generalisation that says appearing surly and apathetic makes young women look attractive.
I rest my case.
Bogsnorkler said:
Tamb said:
buffy said:I get that. Sort of. But if the models looked like they enjoyed wearing the clothes, it should be a much better sell. Who wants to wear clothes that obviously make you feel grumpy?
They’re pretty bitchy behind the scenes too.Just like here then.
Tamb said:
They’re pretty bitchy behind the scenes too.
Oh, i know!
I was ‘backstage’ at a couple of fashion shows many years ago, and the cat-fighting that went on! They seemed to only just hold short of tearing each other’s hair out.
Tamb said:
Bogsnorkler said:
Tamb said:They’re pretty bitchy behind the scenes too.
Just like here then.
Much worse.
At least we’re not starving.
and what concern is it of yours what they do to make a wage?
ABC News:
‘Adelaide Crows fined $50,000 for breaching AFL coronavirus protocols
The Adelaide Crows have been fined $50,000 for breaching the AFL’s COVID-19 protocols by not wearing face masks properly on a commercial flight from Sydney to Adelaide last weekend.’
Alt version:
‘Adelaide Crows compelled to open petty-cash tin.’
Bubblecar said:
Finding it hard to stay awake on this grey old day.Vintage Popeye water pistol.
Directions: Fill up arsehole; pull penis trigger
Ian said:
Bubblecar said:
Finding it hard to stay awake on this grey old day.Vintage Popeye water pistol.
Directions: Fill up arsehole; pull penis trigger
It works for some.
So, Iain, you ask me why models look so miserable? I shall tell you. They look miserable because they are sick of being disparaged by people – the media, their bosses, clueless politicians – in the name of looking woke, while simultaneously being obliged to keep their body mass index under 19 so that people don’t think they are stuck in the Littlewoods catalogue these days. Because that is how screwed up the fashion industry and the social expectations reflected by the industry now are. That would nark you off a bit, too, wouldn’t it?
Bogsnorkler said:
So, Iain, you ask me why models look so miserable? I shall tell you. They look miserable because they are sick of being disparaged by people – the media, their bosses, clueless politicians – in the name of looking woke, while simultaneously being obliged to keep their body mass index under 19 so that people don’t think they are stuck in the Littlewoods catalogue these days. Because that is how screwed up the fashion industry and the social expectations reflected by the industry now are. That would nark you off a bit, too, wouldn’t it?
Well, they shouldn’t have signed on if they can’t take a joke.
ABC News:
‘Woman arrested, police searching for man after unrelated taxi thefts in North Adelaide
A woman has been arrested and officers are searching for a man in the wake of two taxis being stolen within an hour of each other in the same suburb, in what police say are unrelated incidents.’
We’ve all taken a taxi once in a while, but, really..
These were popular over a long period of time. Donkey’s arse cigarette dispensers.
Bogsnorkler said:
captain_spalding said:
Bogsnorkler said:It is about the clothes not the models.
So, just have some dressmaker’s dummies on a conveyor belt.
That is what they are. But at least they are in a job and getting an income. Is that a bad thing?
Brisbane next door neighbours’ daughter took up modelling. Earnt up to $55k US per day. Paid off an upmarket New York apartment in a year.
Parents (both professors of medicine) were quite unhappy with her choice initially…
Bubblecar said:
These were popular over a long period of time. Donkey’s arse cigarette dispensers.
Rather like Camel cigarettes.
Picture of the factory of the cigarettes’ contents on the pack.
Ian said:
Michael V said:
Ian said:Well, that’s where you went wrong.. just one chocolate trilobite for whole class.
Ah. Yes. My bad explanation. My bad.
Small class and one professor. One (very large!) chocolate trilobite for each of them.
One way to sweeten up the prof :)
I heard through the grapevine that he was confused by the gesture. I sent a message back through the same grapevine that it was all just a bit of fun, to distract me from exam nerves.
Bubblecar said:
Finding it hard to stay awake on this grey old day.Vintage Popeye water pistol.
Popeye…
eyes pop
Michael V said:
Ian said:
Michael V said:Ah. Yes. My bad explanation. My bad.
Small class and one professor. One (very large!) chocolate trilobite for each of them.
One way to sweeten up the prof :)
I heard through the grapevine that he was confused by the gesture. I sent a message back through the same grapevine that it was all just a bit of fun, to distract me from exam nerves.
‘Trilobites? I thought you said ‘trailerbikes’.
Michael V said:
Bubblecar said:
Finding it hard to stay awake on this grey old day.Vintage Popeye water pistol.
Popeye…
eyes pop
A long time ago at school,we could sing the Popeye theme song in Latin.
captain_spalding said:
Michael V said:
Bubblecar said:
Finding it hard to stay awake on this grey old day.Vintage Popeye water pistol.
Popeye…
eyes pop
A long time ago at school,we could sing the Popeye theme song in Latin.
Ha!
We learnt to sing “Yellow Submarine” in Latin.
In second year, I translated the same song into German.
Main screen turn on
OCDC said:
Main screen turn on
shields up.
G’d arvo OCDC.
What’s been happening?
OCDC said:
Main screen turn on
It’s you!
Hello people. Yes it’s me! Work has been happening, unfortunately. I was hoping to get a few weeks off due to visiting an exposure site but so far I haven’t been to right places.
Mr Car, I saw the news about your sister in the vaccine thread. Is there an update?
OCDC said:
Hello people. Yes it’s me! Work has been happening, unfortunately. I was hoping to get a few weeks off due to visiting an exposure site but so far I haven’t been to right places.
Hey
OCDC said:
Mr Car, I saw the news about your sister in the vaccine thread. Is there an update?
Hi Alex. No update today so far.
Yesterday she said she thinks she’s improving but breathing is still very compromised (it was already bad before the lung clot due to her emphysema).
She’s having blood thinners. Also on antibiotics for various infections, which we don’t know much about.
We’re assuming she’ll be in hospital for some time.
OCDC said:
Hello people. Yes it’s me! Work has been happening, unfortunately. I was hoping to get a few weeks off due to visiting an exposure site but so far I haven’t been to right places.
try Footscray
OCDC said:
Hello people. Yes it’s me! Work has been happening, unfortunately. I was hoping to get a few weeks off due to visiting an exposure site but so far I haven’t been to right places.
Bubblecar said:
OCDC said:Thinking of you and the fam.Mr Car, I saw the news about your sister in the vaccine thread. Is there an update?Hi Alex. No update today so far.
Yesterday she said she thinks she’s improving but breathing is still very compromised (it was already bad before the lung clot due to her emphysema).
She’s having blood thinners. Also on antibiotics for various infections, which we don’t know much about.
We’re assuming she’ll be in hospital for some time.
SCIENCE said:
OCDC said:Stuck in Casey sadly.Hello people. Yes it’s me! Work has been happening, unfortunately. I was hoping to get a few weeks off due to visiting an exposure site but so far I haven’t been to right places.try Footscray
OCDC said:
Hello people. Yes it’s me! Work has been happening, unfortunately. I was hoping to get a few weeks off due to visiting an exposure site but so far I haven’t been to right places.
You’re probably a carrier of the omega variant.
Peak Warming Man said:
OCDC said:I hope so.Hello people. Yes it’s me! Work has been happening, unfortunately. I was hoping to get a few weeks off due to visiting an exposure site but so far I haven’t been to right places.You’re probably a carrier of the omega variant.
OCDC said:
Bubblecar said:OCDC said:Thinking of you and the fam.Mr Car, I saw the news about your sister in the vaccine thread. Is there an update?Hi Alex. No update today so far.
Yesterday she said she thinks she’s improving but breathing is still very compromised (it was already bad before the lung clot due to her emphysema).
She’s having blood thinners. Also on antibiotics for various infections, which we don’t know much about.
We’re assuming she’ll be in hospital for some time.
Ta. The immediately younger sister and the Ross sister will be flying to SA to visit her on Wednesday and will spend a week there.
Her latest partner (none of us have yet met) seems a very helpful and capable sort of chap.
OCDC said:
Peak Warming Man said:OCDC said:I hope so.Hello people. Yes it’s me! Work has been happening, unfortunately. I was hoping to get a few weeks off due to visiting an exposure site but so far I haven’t been to right places.You’re probably a carrier of the omega variant.
dv said:
OCDC said:At work I still have to wear a surgical mask and face shield on top.Peak Warming Man said:You’re probably a carrier of the omega variant.I hope so.
OCDC said:
dv said:OCDC said:At work I still have to wear a surgical mask and face shield on top.I hope so.
Is that because of the virus or just something they make you alone do?
(J/K!!!)
OCDC said:
SCIENCE said:OCDC said:Stuck in Casey sadly.Hello people. Yes it’s me! Work has been happening, unfortunately. I was hoping to get a few weeks off due to visiting an exposure site but so far I haven’t been to right places.try Footscray
ah the first wave southwest centre
lol @ Bill
Afternoon Folks
Well the open home is done and dusted and 2 offers made, both in the right price bracket.. REA will ring them later and work her magic.. I’m not getting excited until the contract is signed and unconditional. All pending the usual finance, building and pest inspections.
How is the day panning out for everyone else? It’s a lovely winters day here in FNQ, clear blue skies, 26 and 57% humidity..
Spider Lily said:
Afternoon FolksWell the open home is done and dusted and 2 offers made, both in the right price bracket.. REA will ring them later and work her magic.. I’m not getting excited until the contract is signed and unconditional. All pending the usual finance, building and pest inspections.
How is the day panning out for everyone else? It’s a lovely winters day here in FNQ, clear blue skies, 26 and 57% humidity..
Sounds promising.
Grey and windy here, rain expected. I’m having a lazy day just waiting by the phone for any news, will do some housework later.
Peak Warming Man said:
OCDC said:
Hello people. Yes it’s me! Work has been happening, unfortunately. I was hoping to get a few weeks off due to visiting an exposure site but so far I haven’t been to right places.
You’re probably a carrier of the omega variant.
Do you mean she skipped a few, or she had all the intermediate ones along the way?
Bubblecar said:
Spider Lily said:
Afternoon FolksWell the open home is done and dusted and 2 offers made, both in the right price bracket.. REA will ring them later and work her magic.. I’m not getting excited until the contract is signed and unconditional. All pending the usual finance, building and pest inspections.
How is the day panning out for everyone else? It’s a lovely winters day here in FNQ, clear blue skies, 26 and 57% humidity..
Sounds promising.
Grey and windy here, rain expected. I’m having a lazy day just waiting by the phone for any news, will do some housework later.
Grey and windy here too. But as the rain does not seem to be eventuating I’ve just put the towels into the washing machine. That should hurry it up. If not, they will dry quickly in the wind.
Spider Lily said:
Afternoon FolksWell the open home is done and dusted and 2 offers made, both in the right price bracket.. REA will ring them later and work her magic.. I’m not getting excited until the contract is signed and unconditional. All pending the usual finance, building and pest inspections.
How is the day panning out for everyone else? It’s a lovely winters day here in FNQ, clear blue skies, 26 and 57% humidity..
Real estate happens so quickly these days.
buffy said:
Peak Warming Man said:By then I will have had the entire alphabeta.OCDC said:Do you mean she skipped a few, or she had all the intermediate ones along the way?You’re probably a carrier of the omega variant.
Hello people. Yes it’s me! Work has been happening, unfortunately. I was hoping to get a few weeks off due to visiting an exposure site but so far I haven’t been to right places.
OCDC said:
buffy said:Peak Warming Man said:By then I will have had the entire alphabeta.You’re probably a carrier of the omega variant.Do you mean she skipped a few, or she had all the intermediate ones along the way?
Eka dvi tri
Catur panca panca sat
OCDC said:
buffy said:Peak Warming Man said:By then I will have had the entire alphabeta.You’re probably a carrier of the omega variant.Do you mean she skipped a few, or she had all the intermediate ones along the way?
Is that your evil plan?!
buffy said:
OCDC said:One thereof.buffy said:Is that your evil plan?!Do you mean she skipped a few, or she had all the intermediate ones along the way?By then I will have had the entire alphabeta.
buffy said:
Bubblecar said:
Spider Lily said:
Afternoon FolksWell the open home is done and dusted and 2 offers made, both in the right price bracket.. REA will ring them later and work her magic.. I’m not getting excited until the contract is signed and unconditional. All pending the usual finance, building and pest inspections.
How is the day panning out for everyone else? It’s a lovely winters day here in FNQ, clear blue skies, 26 and 57% humidity..
Sounds promising.
Grey and windy here, rain expected. I’m having a lazy day just waiting by the phone for any news, will do some housework later.
Grey and windy here too. But as the rain does not seem to be eventuating I’ve just put the towels into the washing machine. That should hurry it up. If not, they will dry quickly in the wind.
That was efficacious. The rain is starting…
buffy said:
buffy said:
Bubblecar said:Sounds promising.
Grey and windy here, rain expected. I’m having a lazy day just waiting by the phone for any news, will do some housework later.
Grey and windy here too. But as the rain does not seem to be eventuating I’ve just put the towels into the washing machine. That should hurry it up. If not, they will dry quickly in the wind.
That was efficacious. The rain is starting…
Although there isn’t much of it by the look of the radar.
http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDR142.loop.shtml#skip
I hate hook turns, shakes fist at whoever came up with it, ban them.
Mumbles off into distance. “Lack of tunnels and overpasses when you want them.”
“Stupid trams, always in the way, make trams useful and get them out of the way.”
….
Tau.Neutrino said:
I hate hook turns, shakes fist at whoever came up with it, ban them.Mumbles off into distance. “Lack of tunnels and overpasses when you want them.”
“Stupid trams, always in the way, make trams useful and get them out of the way.”
….
City streets should be divided into two sorts – pedestrians/cyclists/buses/trams only; and other motor vehicles only.
party_pants said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
I hate hook turns, shakes fist at whoever came up with it, ban them.Mumbles off into distance. “Lack of tunnels and overpasses when you want them.”
“Stupid trams, always in the way, make trams useful and get them out of the way.”
….City streets should be divided into two sorts – pedestrians/cyclists/buses/trams only; and other motor vehicles only.
Something like that.
party_pants said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
I hate hook turns, shakes fist at whoever came up with it, ban them.Mumbles off into distance. “Lack of tunnels and overpasses when you want them.”
“Stupid trams, always in the way, make trams useful and get them out of the way.”
….City streets should be divided into two sorts – pedestrians/cyclists/buses/trams only; and other motor vehicles only.
trams are the best form of transport in Melbourne. Loved using them when I lived there. Rail system comes a close second.
Hook turns work very well.
buffy said:
Hook turns work very well.
yep, only way to keep some traffic moving when you have trams.
Washing up done, time for a cup of coffee with a splash of brandy and cream in it.
Dinner tonight will be reheated turkey stew.
The second jar of sauerkraut is now two weeks old so I’ll have some of that tomorrow with pork chops, baby taters etc.
Bubblecar said:
Washing up done, time for a cup of coffee with a splash of brandy and cream in it.Dinner tonight will be reheated turkey stew.
The second jar of sauerkraut is now two weeks old so I’ll have some of that tomorrow with pork chops, baby taters etc.
We have got lamb and rosemary pies from the bakery for tea. I’ll do steamed sprouts and carrots to have with them.
Bogsnorkler said:
party_pants said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
I hate hook turns, shakes fist at whoever came up with it, ban them.Mumbles off into distance. “Lack of tunnels and overpasses when you want them.”
“Stupid trams, always in the way, make trams useful and get them out of the way.”
….City streets should be divided into two sorts – pedestrians/cyclists/buses/trams only; and other motor vehicles only.
trams are the best form of transport in Melbourne. Loved using them when I lived there. Rail system comes a close second.
Should be tunnels and hyperloops only.
Ian said:
Bogsnorkler said:
party_pants said:City streets should be divided into two sorts – pedestrians/cyclists/buses/trams only; and other motor vehicles only.
trams are the best form of transport in Melbourne. Loved using them when I lived there. Rail system comes a close second.
Should be tunnels and hyperloops only.
so you like staring at your fellow passengers because there is nowt out the windows, if they have/need, them to look at?
Tranquil foot trails like this (pictured above) are main routes connecting rural villages on the Mentawai islands in Indonesia, says photographer John Barton. “Who knows, during peak hours, you might even cross paths with someone,” says Barton. About 70 islands and islets make up the Mentawai chain, off the west coast of Sumatra.
Ian said:
Bogsnorkler said:
party_pants said:City streets should be divided into two sorts – pedestrians/cyclists/buses/trams only; and other motor vehicles only.
trams are the best form of transport in Melbourne. Loved using them when I lived there. Rail system comes a close second.
Should be tunnels and hyperloops only.
Shut up, Elon.
Bogsnorkler said:
Ian said:
Bogsnorkler said:trams are the best form of transport in Melbourne. Loved using them when I lived there. Rail system comes a close second.
Should be tunnels and hyperloops only.
so you like staring at your fellow passengers because there is nowt out the windows, if they have/need, them to look at?
People were grotty in those days. Note the Dad smoking in the supermarket and dropping fag ash on his baby’s head.
Bogsnorkler said:
Ian said:
Bogsnorkler said:trams are the best form of transport in Melbourne. Loved using them when I lived there. Rail system comes a close second.
Should be tunnels and hyperloops only.
so you like staring at your fellow passengers because there is nowt out the windows, if they have/need, them to look at?
You’d just have time to sit down at .9c…
Bubblecar said:
People were grotty in those days. Note the Dad smoking in the supermarket and dropping fag ash on his baby’s head.
Ian said:
Bogsnorkler said:
party_pants said:City streets should be divided into two sorts – pedestrians/cyclists/buses/trams only; and other motor vehicles only.
trams are the best form of transport in Melbourne. Loved using them when I lived there. Rail system comes a close second.
Should be tunnels and hyperloops only.
It would make things faster.
someone needs ax stumps, swing the ax, nuance the kinetic energy, steer the ax head, split the stumps into suitable sizes, suitable shapes, so they might go into the dephlogisticater without arguments
occasionally there’s a contrarian one, fights back, but some kung fu or whatever kick it in, there take that
Bubblecar said:
…and dropping fag ash on his baby’s head.
“It’s actually good for them.”
Bogsnorkler said:
Ian said:
Bogsnorkler said:trams are the best form of transport in Melbourne. Loved using them when I lived there. Rail system comes a close second.
Should be tunnels and hyperloops only.
so you like staring at your fellow passengers because there is nowt out the windows, if they have/need, them to look at?
Leave ground level free for casual boulevardiers like yourself and mr been.
transition said:
someone needs ax stumps, swing the ax, nuance the kinetic energy, steer the ax head, split the stumps into suitable sizes, suitable shapes, so they might go into the dephlogisticater without argumentsoccasionally there’s a contrarian one, fights back, but some kung fu or whatever kick it in, there take that
My remaining wood is of the kind that would likely deliver a fierce rebound to even the most concerted blockbuster blow.
So I’ll just leave those lumps to form the bedrock of a new stack of better stuff.
Anyone here tried using piranha solution to clean burnt saucepans? The saucepans are stainless steel, but the stuff burnt onto the bottom of the pots are well and truly baked on. Piranha solution is the only acid I know of that will dissolve elemental carbon, and I’ve got the component materials to hand.
transition said:
someone needs ax stumps, swing the ax, nuance the kinetic energy, steer the ax head, split the stumps into suitable sizes, suitable shapes, so they might go into the dephlogisticater without argumentsoccasionally there’s a contrarian one, fights back, but some kung fu or whatever kick it in, there take that
Detonating cord.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AOpZgYt8Fc
btm said:
Anyone here tried using piranha solution to clean burnt saucepans? The saucepans are stainless steel, but the stuff burnt onto the bottom of the pots are well and truly baked on. Piranha solution is the only acid I know of that will dissolve elemental carbon, and I’ve got the component materials to hand.
You need…
KITCHEN GUN!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-7NDP8V-6A
btm said:
Anyone here tried using piranha solution to clean burnt saucepans? The saucepans are stainless steel, but the stuff burnt onto the bottom of the pots are well and truly baked on. Piranha solution is the only acid I know of that will dissolve elemental carbon, and I’ve got the component materials to hand.
wire brush but without the dettol. if you have the components then i would say you are in the best position as I seriously doubt anyone here would have used it. that is going on knowing the posters here for ages.
Bogsnorkler said:
btm said:
Anyone here tried using piranha solution to clean burnt saucepans? The saucepans are stainless steel, but the stuff burnt onto the bottom of the pots are well and truly baked on. Piranha solution is the only acid I know of that will dissolve elemental carbon, and I’ve got the component materials to hand.
wire brush but without the dettol. if you have the components then i would say you are in the best position as I seriously doubt anyone here would have used it. that is going on knowing the posters here for ages.
or a needle scraper gun thingo.
captain_spalding said:
btm said:
Anyone here tried using piranha solution to clean burnt saucepans? The saucepans are stainless steel, but the stuff burnt onto the bottom of the pots are well and truly baked on. Piranha solution is the only acid I know of that will dissolve elemental carbon, and I’ve got the component materials to hand.
You need…
KITCHEN GUN!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-7NDP8V-6A
Sounds great! Where can I get one?
Bogsnorkler said:
btm said:
Anyone here tried using piranha solution to clean burnt saucepans? The saucepans are stainless steel, but the stuff burnt onto the bottom of the pots are well and truly baked on. Piranha solution is the only acid I know of that will dissolve elemental carbon, and I’ve got the component materials to hand.
wire brush but without the dettol. if you have the components then i would say you are in the best position as I seriously doubt anyone here would have used it. that is going on knowing the posters here for ages.
captain_spalding said:
transition said:
someone needs ax stumps, swing the ax, nuance the kinetic energy, steer the ax head, split the stumps into suitable sizes, suitable shapes, so they might go into the dephlogisticater without argumentsoccasionally there’s a contrarian one, fights back, but some kung fu or whatever kick it in, there take that
Detonating cord.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AOpZgYt8Fc
chuckle
looks noisy, larry be shitting himself
enough danger out there when do the few leftovers with the log splitter dad got me, stumps explode if it don’t gentle the machine
Bogsnorkler said:
Bogsnorkler said:
btm said:
Anyone here tried using piranha solution to clean burnt saucepans? The saucepans are stainless steel, but the stuff burnt onto the bottom of the pots are well and truly baked on. Piranha solution is the only acid I know of that will dissolve elemental carbon, and I’ve got the component materials to hand.
wire brush but without the dettol. if you have the components then i would say you are in the best position as I seriously doubt anyone here would have used it. that is going on knowing the posters here for ages.
or a needle scraper gun thingo.
I’ll give the wire brush a shot before the piranha solution (which is an extremely dangerous compound.) Thanks Boris.
Tamb said:
Bogsnorkler said:
btm said:
Anyone here tried using piranha solution to clean burnt saucepans? The saucepans are stainless steel, but the stuff burnt onto the bottom of the pots are well and truly baked on. Piranha solution is the only acid I know of that will dissolve elemental carbon, and I’ve got the component materials to hand.
wire brush but without the dettol. if you have the components then i would say you are in the best position as I seriously doubt anyone here would have used it. that is going on knowing the posters here for ages.
Haven’t heard of it before. I have used ants though. Put the pot on an ants nest for a few days. Seems to work.
hermit crabs do the same so i have heard.
btm said:
Anyone here tried using piranha solution to clean burnt saucepans? The saucepans are stainless steel, but the stuff burnt onto the bottom of the pots are well and truly baked on. Piranha solution is the only acid I know of that will dissolve elemental carbon, and I’ve got the component materials to hand.
I wouldn’t.
Bogsnorkler said:
Tamb said:
Bogsnorkler said:wire brush but without the dettol. if you have the components then i would say you are in the best position as I seriously doubt anyone here would have used it. that is going on knowing the posters here for ages.
Haven’t heard of it before. I have used ants though. Put the pot on an ants nest for a few days. Seems to work.hermit crabs do the same so i have heard.
I started optifast the other day because I’m sick of being fat, and I can stick to super strict diets like when I did the elimination diet, but just trying to lose weight while eating normal food has only resulted in a single kilo disappearing in six months.
Anyway, just did a BGL – 3.2. Reasonably happy with that.
captain_spalding said:
Bubblecar said:
…and dropping fag ash on his baby’s head.
“It’s actually good for them.”
Or at least, “it doesn’t do you any harm”.
As our teacher “One Lung” used to tell us, as he puffed away.
btm said:
Anyone here tried using piranha solution to clean burnt saucepans? The saucepans are stainless steel, but the stuff burnt onto the bottom of the pots are well and truly baked on. Piranha solution is the only acid I know of that will dissolve elemental carbon, and I’ve got the component materials to hand.
I’d use a soda-blasting gun. In fact I used one yesterday to clean a couple of pans for Spocky.
OCDC said:
I started optifast the other day because I’m sick of being fat, and I can stick to super strict diets like when I did the elimination diet, but just trying to lose weight while eating normal food has only resulted in a single kilo disappearing in six months.Anyway, just did a BGL – 3.2. Reasonably happy with that.
Just as well you managed to read the thing before you dropped on the floor, isn’t it. Or did it just make you angry?
OCDC said:
I started optifast the other day because I’m sick of being fat, and I can stick to super strict diets like when I did the elimination diet, but just trying to lose weight while eating normal food has only resulted in a single kilo disappearing in six months.Anyway, just did a BGL – 3.2. Reasonably happy with that.
Any lower and you’d need to eat some carbs :p.
Spiny Norman said:
btm said:
Anyone here tried using piranha solution to clean burnt saucepans? The saucepans are stainless steel, but the stuff burnt onto the bottom of the pots are well and truly baked on. Piranha solution is the only acid I know of that will dissolve elemental carbon, and I’ve got the component materials to hand.
I’d use a soda-blasting gun. In fact I used one yesterday to clean a couple of pans for Spocky.
I did the burnt saucepan thing a few weeks ago and discussed it here. Do you think I can remember what I did? I reckon I boiled it with a detergent solution and then scraped with a paint scraper. It’s scratched, but completely reuseable again. I think Rule was the go to person for this problem.
I’ve ordered a whole genome test kit, should provide hours of fun using BLAST et al once I get the results back.
YAYAYAYAYAY for Swannies. :)
Woodie said:
YAYAYAYAYAY for Swannies. :)
The Saints gave you a scare.
buffy said:
OCDC said:I actually feel fine except hungry.I started optifast the other day because I’m sick of being fat, and I can stick to super strict diets like when I did the elimination diet, but just trying to lose weight while eating normal food has only resulted in a single kilo disappearing in six months.Just as well you managed to read the thing before you dropped on the floor, isn’t it. Or did it just make you angry?Anyway, just did a BGL – 3.2. Reasonably happy with that.
Spiny Norman said:
btm said:
Anyone here tried using piranha solution to clean burnt saucepans? The saucepans are stainless steel, but the stuff burnt onto the bottom of the pots are well and truly baked on. Piranha solution is the only acid I know of that will dissolve elemental carbon, and I’ve got the component materials to hand.
I’d use a soda-blasting gun. In fact I used one yesterday to clean a couple of pans for Spocky.
Thanks Bill. I hadn’t heard of soda blasting before.
sibeen said:
Woodie said:
YAYAYAYAYAY for Swannies. :)
The Saints gave you a scare.
I had to take a double dose of my anti-faint pills.
poikilotherm said:
I’ve ordered a whole genome test kit, should provide hours of fun using BLAST et al once I get the results back.Ooh that’ll be fun.
Meanwhile for my fun Emgality is now PBS so think of all the extra book money I have!
btm said:
Spiny Norman said:
btm said:
Anyone here tried using piranha solution to clean burnt saucepans? The saucepans are stainless steel, but the stuff burnt onto the bottom of the pots are well and truly baked on. Piranha solution is the only acid I know of that will dissolve elemental carbon, and I’ve got the component materials to hand.
I’d use a soda-blasting gun. In fact I used one yesterday to clean a couple of pans for Spocky.
Thanks Bill. I hadn’t heard of soda blasting before.
The guns are pretty cheap on ebay, the soda I got in a 23 kg bag via Gumtree, the compressor is a bit expensive if you don’t have one though.
OCDC said:
poikilotherm said:I’ve ordered a whole genome test kit, should provide hours of fun using BLAST et al once I get the results back.Ooh that’ll be fun.
Meanwhile for my fun Emgality is now PBS so think of all the extra book money I have!
I’m impressed an accurate full genome read is now less than $1000.
I saw, I’ve done quite a few Rx for it lately. You’ll be able to buy all the books.
OCDC said:
buffy said:OCDC said:I actually feel fine except hungry.I started optifast the other day because I’m sick of being fat, and I can stick to super strict diets like when I did the elimination diet, but just trying to lose weight while eating normal food has only resulted in a single kilo disappearing in six months.Just as well you managed to read the thing before you dropped on the floor, isn’t it. Or did it just make you angry?Anyway, just did a BGL – 3.2. Reasonably happy with that.
I’d never heard of this Optifast. There are a few side effects/adverse events you could try (being you). And there was a pretty high dropout rate in the Nestle research into it.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6587830/
“Effectiveness of a Total Meal Replacement Program (OPTIFAST Program) on Weight Loss: Results from the OPTIWIN Study”
buffy said:
OCDC said:
buffy said:Just as well you managed to read the thing before you dropped on the floor, isn’t it. Or did it just make you angry?I actually feel fine except hungry.
I’d never heard of this Optifast. There are a few side effects/adverse events you could try (being you). And there was a pretty high dropout rate in the Nestle research into it.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6587830/
“Effectiveness of a Total Meal Replacement Program (OPTIFAST Program) on Weight Loss: Results from the OPTIWIN Study”
heh, it’s the original vlcd weight loss shake.
buffy said:
OCDC said:Apart from Very Hungry and some digestive distress when I forgot my Lacteeze, I’ve been completely fine. Today’s a 14 hour shift and I’m fine. I don’t plan to do it forever. Like all good internetters, I did my research… And the soups and bars don’t taste offensive. Shakes OTOH taste like someone has mixed ground up chalk with flavoured milk.buffy said:I’d never heard of this Optifast. There are a few side effects/adverse events you could try (being you). And there was a pretty high dropout rate in the Nestle research into it.Just as well you managed to read the thing before you dropped on the floor, isn’t it. Or did it just make you angry?I actually feel fine except hungry.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6587830/
“Effectiveness of a Total Meal Replacement Program (OPTIFAST Program) on Weight Loss: Results from the OPTIWIN Study”
They* say the first few days are worst, as your body switches to ketosis (although it contains significant carbs still). But I felt no worse than usual.
I’ve since discovered how bombarded with food my facebook is…
poikilotherm said:
buffy said:
OCDC said:
I actually feel fine except hungry.
I’d never heard of this Optifast. There are a few side effects/adverse events you could try (being you). And there was a pretty high dropout rate in the Nestle research into it.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6587830/
“Effectiveness of a Total Meal Replacement Program (OPTIFAST Program) on Weight Loss: Results from the OPTIWIN Study”
heh, it’s the original vlcd weight loss shake.
What do you mean the original? I seem to recall my sister in law doing a shake based meal replacement thing in the 1980s (?). Are they just recycling all that again?
buffy said:
poikilotherm said:That probably would’ve been optifast. I think it’s been around since the 70s.buffy said:What do you mean the original? I seem to recall my sister in law doing a shake based meal replacement thing in the 1980s (?). Are they just recycling all that again?I’d never heard of this Optifast. There are a few side effects/adverse events you could try (being you). And there was a pretty high dropout rate in the Nestle research into it.heh, it’s the original vlcd weight loss shake.https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6587830/
“Effectiveness of a Total Meal Replacement Program (OPTIFAST Program) on Weight Loss: Results from the OPTIWIN Study”
buffy said:
poikilotherm said:
buffy said:I’d never heard of this Optifast. There are a few side effects/adverse events you could try (being you). And there was a pretty high dropout rate in the Nestle research into it.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6587830/
“Effectiveness of a Total Meal Replacement Program (OPTIFAST Program) on Weight Loss: Results from the OPTIWIN Study”
heh, it’s the original vlcd weight loss shake.
What do you mean the original? I seem to recall my sister in law doing a shake based meal replacement thing in the 1980s (?). Are they just recycling all that again?
Oh, OK, I see in the introduction it mentions the 1970s. Was it Nestle back then too?
poikilotherm said:
I’ve ordered a whole genome test kit, should provide hours of fun using BLAST et al once I get the results back.
What if you find out you’re one-quarter arsehole?
:-)
Bogsnorkler said:
Bogsnorkler said:
btm said:
Anyone here tried using piranha solution to clean burnt saucepans? The saucepans are stainless steel, but the stuff burnt onto the bottom of the pots are well and truly baked on. Piranha solution is the only acid I know of that will dissolve elemental carbon, and I’ve got the component materials to hand.
wire brush but without the dettol. if you have the components then i would say you are in the best position as I seriously doubt anyone here would have used it. that is going on knowing the posters here for ages.
or a needle scraper gun thingo.
If you put it down the back yard in a sunny spot it will come off after a few weeks of strong sun.
Spiny Norman said:
If you ever wanted to give up smoking ……
Not to mention not spending $1,000 – $1,200 per month ($12,000 – $14,000 p.a.) on that 1 pack per day.
btm said:
Spiny Norman said:
btm said:
Anyone here tried using piranha solution to clean burnt saucepans? The saucepans are stainless steel, but the stuff burnt onto the bottom of the pots are well and truly baked on. Piranha solution is the only acid I know of that will dissolve elemental carbon, and I’ve got the component materials to hand.
I’d use a soda-blasting gun. In fact I used one yesterday to clean a couple of pans for Spocky.
Thanks Bill. I hadn’t heard of soda blasting before.
KITCHEN GUN!!!
I see people buying cigs at the supermarket, often by the carton and i think, f*** me, how can anyone afford that?
Knock of smoking and save yourself and easy $8,000 – $10,000 per year.
Two years of banking the money your used to spend on things that you set fire to and then threw away, and you can have yourself one shit-hot overseas holiday (when travel resumes).
Oh, poop, didn’t switch the italics off.
Witty Rejoinder said:
poikilotherm said:
I’ve ordered a whole genome test kit, should provide hours of fun using BLAST et al once I get the results back.
What if you find out you’re one-quarter arsehole?
:-)
I’d say it’s much higher than that.
poikilotherm said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
poikilotherm said:
I’ve ordered a whole genome test kit, should provide hours of fun using BLAST et al once I get the results back.
What if you find out you’re one-quarter arsehole?
:-)
I’d say it’s much higher than that.
Yeah, i’d be pleasantly surprised to find that i’m only 25% arsehole.
https://theshot.net.au/general-news/why-has-victoria-had-to-endure-so-much-psychopathic-commentary-during-the-pandemic/
“‘shitting on Victorians while they again cop coronavirus’ misery is an electorally popular sentiment among Scott Morrison’s base – most specifically Australia’s population of empathy devoid psychopaths”
Dark Orange said:
https://theshot.net.au/general-news/why-has-victoria-had-to-endure-so-much-psychopathic-commentary-during-the-pandemic/
“‘shitting on Victorians while they again cop coronavirus’ misery is an electorally popular sentiment among Scott Morrison’s base – most specifically Australia’s population of empathy devoid psychopaths”
On the other hand…
…the are Victorians.
I’ll have to speak to my wine merchant.
This batch of sherry is playing havoc with my typing.
OCDC said:
buffy said:OCDC said:Apart from Very Hungry and some digestive distress when I forgot my Lacteeze, I’ve been completely fine. Today’s a 14 hour shift and I’m fine. I don’t plan to do it forever. Like all good internetters, I did my research… And the soups and bars don’t taste offensive. Shakes OTOH taste like someone has mixed ground up chalk with flavoured milk.I actually feel fine except hungry.I’d never heard of this Optifast. There are a few side effects/adverse events you could try (being you). And there was a pretty high dropout rate in the Nestle research into it.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6587830/
“Effectiveness of a Total Meal Replacement Program (OPTIFAST Program) on Weight Loss: Results from the OPTIWIN Study”
Mrs V’s lost significant weight using the 5:2 diet, where two days a week energy intake is restricted to 3300kJ.
I’ve had a lot of fun designing and cooking meals that are low kJ, tasty and very filling.
One meal that I skite about is Bacon cooked in Butter with spices and vegetables.
Dark Orange said:
https://theshot.net.au/general-news/why-has-victoria-had-to-endure-so-much-psychopathic-commentary-during-the-pandemic/
“‘shitting on Victorians while they again cop coronavirus’ misery is an electorally popular sentiment among Scott Morrison’s base – most specifically Australia’s population of empathy devoid psychopaths”
This from a 2020 article by the same journalist about a hospital administration video fame:
‘Staff need to be micromanaged excessively. They may all have medical degrees but that doesn’t inoculate them from being morons incapable of finding a doorknob. Doctors also have a habit of taking leave concurrently during emergencies. You’ll only notice they’re gone when patients start dying in your hallways…’
I’ll have to get that game. I think it has more realism than Mr. Milner realises.
Dark Orange said:
https://theshot.net.au/general-news/why-has-victoria-had-to-endure-so-much-psychopathic-commentary-during-the-pandemic/
“‘shitting on Victorians while they again cop coronavirus’ misery is an electorally popular sentiment among Scott Morrison’s base – most specifically Australia’s population of empathy devoid psychopaths”
With Credlin you can never be sure whether it is Rupert behind it..or the IPA…or both.
captain_spalding said:
I’ll have to speak to my wine merchant.This batch of sherry is playing havoc with my typing.
Have him straight out to lunch, no mucking around.
good evening
Michael V said:
I’ve had a lot of fun designing and cooking meals that are low kJ, tasty and very filling.One meal that I skite about is Bacon cooked in Butter with spices and vegetables.
I am very interested in this diet and wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
Kingy said:
Michael V said:
I’ve had a lot of fun designing and cooking meals that are low kJ, tasty and very filling.One meal that I skite about is Bacon cooked in Butter with spices and vegetables.
I am very interested in this diet and wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
I’m losing weight very slowly, but that’s because my energy comes from drinking alcohol. I can put recipes in the recipe thread, if you like.
Michael V said:
OCDC said:I tried that but a) overate during the 5 and b) also overate during the 2. But my brother lost >20kg doing it.buffy said:Mrs V’s lost significant weight using the 5:2 diet, where two days a week energy intake is restricted to 3300kJ.I’d never heard of this Optifast. There are a few side effects/adverse events you could try (being you). And there was a pretty high dropout rate in the Nestle research into it.Apart from Very Hungry and some digestive distress when I forgot my Lacteeze, I’ve been completely fine. Today’s a 14 hour shift and I’m fine. I don’t plan to do it forever. Like all good internetters, I did my research… And the soups and bars don’t taste offensive. Shakes OTOH taste like someone has mixed ground up chalk with flavoured milk.https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6587830/
“Effectiveness of a Total Meal Replacement Program (OPTIFAST Program) on Weight Loss: Results from the OPTIWIN Study”
I’ve had a lot of fun designing and cooking meals that are low kJ, tasty and very filling.
One meal that I skite about is Bacon cooked in Butter with spices and vegetables.
monkey skipper said:
good evening
Hello ms. What’s been happening?
We’ve been on a bit of a tour around the greater region for a few days. Enjoyed ourselves. There was no plan, other than to show Mrs V some places I’d worked and go see sights and attractions that I knew about but couldn’t see, because work intervened. And to see other places, too.
OCDC said:
Michael V said:OCDC said:I tried that but a) overate during the 5 and b) also overate during the 2. But my brother lost >20kg doing it.Apart from Very Hungry and some digestive distress when I forgot my Lacteeze, I’ve been completely fine. Today’s a 14 hour shift and I’m fine. I don’t plan to do it forever. Like all good internetters, I did my research… And the soups and bars don’t taste offensive. Shakes OTOH taste like someone has mixed ground up chalk with flavoured milk.Mrs V’s lost significant weight using the 5:2 diet, where two days a week energy intake is restricted to 3300kJ.
I’ve had a lot of fun designing and cooking meals that are low kJ, tasty and very filling.
One meal that I skite about is Bacon cooked in Butter with spices and vegetables.
Overeating during the 5 seems not to affect the diet. Strict adherence in the 2 (we have non-consecutive days) is essential. I have a spreadsheet with all the ingredients we use within it, so we can check the energy in the meals.
OCDC said:
Michael V said:OCDC said:I tried that but a) overate during the 5 and b) also overate during the 2. But my brother lost >20kg doing it.Apart from Very Hungry and some digestive distress when I forgot my Lacteeze, I’ve been completely fine. Today’s a 14 hour shift and I’m fine. I don’t plan to do it forever. Like all good internetters, I did my research… And the soups and bars don’t taste offensive. Shakes OTOH taste like someone has mixed ground up chalk with flavoured milk.Mrs V’s lost significant weight using the 5:2 diet, where two days a week energy intake is restricted to 3300kJ.
I’ve had a lot of fun designing and cooking meals that are low kJ, tasty and very filling.
One meal that I skite about is Bacon cooked in Butter with spices and vegetables.
how much is 3300kJ in old fashioned calories?
sarahs mum said:
OCDC said:
Michael V said:Mrs V’s lost significant weight using the 5:2 diet, where two days a week energy intake is restricted to 3300kJ.I tried that but a) overate during the 5 and b) also overate during the 2. But my brother lost >20kg doing it.I’ve had a lot of fun designing and cooking meals that are low kJ, tasty and very filling.
One meal that I skite about is Bacon cooked in Butter with spices and vegetables.
how much is 3300kJ in old fashioned calories?
800 kCal (or food-Cal).
Rapper Lil Loaded has died at age 20.
Never heard of them.
Life expectancy of rappers seems to be coming down.
Peak Warming Man said:
Rapper Lil Loaded has died at age 20.
Never heard of them.
Life expectancy of rappers seems to be coming down.
https://www.bmj.com/content/343/bmj.d7799
Is 27 really a dangerous age for famous musicians? Retrospective cohort study
Michael V said:
sarahs mum said:
OCDC said:
I tried that but a) overate during the 5 and b) also overate during the 2. But my brother lost >20kg doing it.
how much is 3300kJ in old fashioned calories?
800 kCal (or food-Cal).
hmm. ta.
Michael V said:
monkey skipper said:
good evening
Hello ms. What’s been happening?
We’ve been on a bit of a tour around the greater region for a few days. Enjoyed ourselves. There was no plan, other than to show Mrs V some places I’d worked and go see sights and attractions that I knew about but couldn’t see, because work intervened. And to see other places, too.
trying to get the baby sleep currently … she gets issues with wind
monkey skipper said:
… gets issues with wind
tell me about it!!
Bogsnorkler said:
monkey skipper said:
… gets issues with wind
tell me about it!!
i did think her burps are audible all the way across the nation to wa. i’d be impressed if they were though.
monkey skipper said:
Bogsnorkler said:
monkey skipper said:
… gets issues with wind
tell me about it!!
i did think her burps are audible all the way across the nation to wa. i’d be impressed if they were though.
i don’t is what i meant to type
Michael V said:
sarahs mum said:
OCDC said:
I tried that but a) overate during the 5 and b) also overate during the 2. But my brother lost >20kg doing it.
how much is 3300kJ in old fashioned calories?
800 kCal (or food-Cal).
How many cans of baked beans is that?
she’s asleep…she whispers
PermeateFree said:
Michael V said:
sarahs mum said:how much is 3300kJ in old fashioned calories?
800 kCal (or food-Cal).
How many cans of baked beans is that?
No idea.
PermeateFree said:
Michael V said:
sarahs mum said:how much is 3300kJ in old fashioned calories?
800 kCal (or food-Cal).
How many cans of baked beans is that?
There are 86 calories, equivalent to 363 kilojoules, per 100 grams of Baked beans.
Kingy said:
PermeateFree said:
Michael V said:800 kCal (or food-Cal).
How many cans of baked beans is that?
There are 86 calories, equivalent to 363 kilojoules, per 100 grams of Baked beans.
Sounds like you could blow up a storm with that diet.
I think I’ll have a hot chocolate drink made with milo and milk.
Over.
No googling. What do you think this is?
Kingy said:
No googling. What do you think this is?
Barry metric chambers?
Kingy said:
No googling. What do you think this is?
2 x confined space chambers.
Kingy said:
No googling. What do you think this is?
High pressure chambers with multiple viewpoints.
Wandering Foxbat – Wynyard to Queenstown via the snowy Highlands
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slTIfUIqpmA
Kingy said:
No googling. What do you think this is?
Iron lung for a Dalek.
Kingy said:
No googling. What do you think this is?
Times up!
These are where Milo is made. Inside these things.
1) Malt goes in.
2) Magic happens.
3) Milo comes out.
4) Profit.
party_pants said:
Kingy said:
No googling. What do you think this is?
Iron lung for a Dalek.
That’s a close second.
Bubblecar said:
Wandering Foxbat – Wynyard to Queenstown via the snowy Highlandshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slTIfUIqpmA
Since watching across Scotland in a straight line I have been thinking about how awful it would be to do various crossings of Tasmania. Foxbat is the way to go.
Kingy said:
party_pants said:
Kingy said:
No googling. What do you think this is?
Iron lung for a Dalek.
That’s a close second.
yeah.. i was impressed by this as well.
Bubblecar said:
Wandering Foxbat – Wynyard to Queenstown via the snowy Highlandshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slTIfUIqpmA
…first town on this one, a few minutes in, is Somerset, where Spider Lily will be living.
Forgot link…
Kingy said:
Kingy said:
No googling. What do you think this is?
Times up!
These are where Milo is made. Inside these things.
1) Malt goes in.
2) Magic happens.
3) Milo comes out.
4) Profit.
If they ever buy new ones, they could sell this pair to the Japanese as 16-bed mini-hotels.
The modern factory is soooo much smaller than the old one.
Kingy said:
Kingy said:
No googling. What do you think this is?
Times up!
These are where Milo is made. Inside these things.
1) Malt goes in.
2) Magic happens.
3) Milo comes out.
4) Profit.
Do they get to scrape the crunchy bits off the top first?
goodnight you lot
England are in a spot of bother against the kiwis.
Peak Warming Man said:
England are in a spot of bother against the kiwis.
Yeah, it’s good in’t it?
Sadly most of yesterday was lost dur to rain, so a result looks unlikely.
On a Taylors Reserve Parcel cab sauv 2018 tonight, very nice.
I’m saving the rest of that Foxbat flight for when I’m in a more aerial mood. Doing some more of the Winter Wonderland central Norway diesel ride for now.
A paper published in Nature on 9 November 2019, A SARS-like cluster of circulating bat coronaviruses shows potential for human emergence by the Wuhan Institute of Virology reports research into SARS-like virus, SHC014-CoV, “currently circulating in Chinese horseshoe bat populations.”
From the abstract:
Baric, et al said:
Using the SARS-CoV reverse genetics system, we generated and characterized a chimeric virus expressing the spike of bat coronavirus SHC014 in a mouse-adapted SARS-CoV backbone. The results indicate that group 2b viruses encoding the SHC014 spike in a wild-type backbone can efficiently use multiple orthologs of the SARS receptor human angiotensin converting enzyme II (ACE2), replicate efficiently in primary human airway cells and achieve in vitro titers equivalent to epidemic strains of SARS-CoV. Additionally, in vivo experiments demonstrate replication of the chimeric virus in mouse lung with notable pathogenesis. Evaluation of available SARS-based immune-therapeutic and prophylactic modalities revealed poor efficacy; both monoclonal antibody and vaccine approaches failed to neutralize and protect from infection with CoVs using the novel spike protein. On the basis of these findings, we synthetically re-derived an infectious full-length SHC014 recombinant virus and demonstrate robust viral replication both in vitro and in vivo. Our work suggests a potential risk of SARS-CoV re-emergence from viruses currently circulating in bat populations.
The URL quoted indicated that the article is being used by conspiracy theorists to “prove” that the virus was human-made, but the article appears to me (especially given the last line of the quote) to be a warning of the potential risk of a pandemic from the virus.
party_pants said:
Peak Warming Man said:
England are in a spot of bother against the kiwis.
Yeah, it’s good in’t it?
Sadly most of yesterday was lost dur to rain, so a result looks unlikely.
It’s a warmup for NZ before the play India in the final of the test cup thingy.
Has anyone seen Lord Lucan and PWM in the same room at the same time???
Bubblecar said:
On a Taylors Reserve Parcel cab sauv 2018 tonight, very nice.I’m saving the rest of that Foxbat flight for when I’m in a more aerial mood. Doing some more of the Winter Wonderland central Norway diesel ride for now.
About to open a 2006 Kay Brothers basket pressed shiraz.
sibeen said:
Bubblecar said:
On a Taylors Reserve Parcel cab sauv 2018 tonight, very nice.I’m saving the rest of that Foxbat flight for when I’m in a more aerial mood. Doing some more of the Winter Wonderland central Norway diesel ride for now.
About to open a 2006 Kay Brothers basket pressed shiraz.
Are you waiting for a bit?
sibeen said:
Bubblecar said:
On a Taylors Reserve Parcel cab sauv 2018 tonight, very nice.I’m saving the rest of that Foxbat flight for when I’m in a more aerial mood. Doing some more of the Winter Wonderland central Norway diesel ride for now.
About to open a 2006 Kay Brothers basket pressed shiraz.
Drinkable, but nothing to write home about.
sibeen said:
sibeen said:
Bubblecar said:
On a Taylors Reserve Parcel cab sauv 2018 tonight, very nice.I’m saving the rest of that Foxbat flight for when I’m in a more aerial mood. Doing some more of the Winter Wonderland central Norway diesel ride for now.
About to open a 2006 Kay Brothers basket pressed shiraz.
Drinkable, but nothing to write home about.
Possibly past its prime.
Kingy said:
No googling. What do you think this is?
Leftover TARDIS wall panels. (I’ve just watched an episode of Dr Who)
Bubblecar said:
sibeen said:
sibeen said:About to open a 2006 Kay Brothers basket pressed shiraz.
Drinkable, but nothing to write home about.
Possibly past its prime.
Could be. I cannot remember buying it or having it given to me. I was just looking for something to drink in my wine fridge and it came to hand.
Anyway I’m getting back to the train and the snow.
Have a little spot of supper in an hour or so.
I’m a British citizen, born in England and spent my early childhood there, and retain affection for various aspects of the place.
But certainly not the lords and ladies, kings and queens, Etons & Harrows etc.
Bubblecar said:
I’m a British citizen, born in England and spent my early childhood there, and retain affection for various aspects of the place.But certainly not the lords and ladies, kings and queens, Etons & Harrows etc.
This seems to be a common trait for long term residents of British origin.
Bubblecar said:
I’m a British citizen, born in England and spent my early childhood there, and retain affection for various aspects of the place.But certainly not the lords and ladies, kings and queens, Etons & Harrows etc.
That’s okay. You don’t like Australia much either.
Damn… do I stick with the footy or switch to F1 quali…. ?
party_pants said:
Damn… do I stick with the footy or switch to F1 quali…. ?
Is it FTA?
Witty Rejoinder said:
Bubblecar said:
I’m a British citizen, born in England and spent my early childhood there, and retain affection for various aspects of the place.But certainly not the lords and ladies, kings and queens, Etons & Harrows etc.
That’s okay. You don’t like Australia much either.
whereas I do like this place. excluding some aspects of course. no place is perfect. looking forward to my retirement so i can become a grey nomad.
party_pants said:
Damn… do I stick with the footy or switch to F1 quali…. ?
raises eyebrows
What just happened?
Kingy said:
party_pants said:
Damn… do I stick with the footy or switch to F1 quali…. ?
Is it FTA?
Nah.
Kayo- streaming,
Witty Rejoinder said:
Bubblecar said:
I’m a British citizen, born in England and spent my early childhood there, and retain affection for various aspects of the place.But certainly not the lords and ladies, kings and queens, Etons & Harrows etc.
That’s okay. You don’t like Australia much either.
Australia is a beaut and bonza place. Apart from all the nasty conservative shits and anti-social bogans etc.
sibeen said:
party_pants said:
Damn… do I stick with the footy or switch to F1 quali…. ?
raises eyebrows
What just happened?
A digit was extracted
Bubblecar said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Bubblecar said:
I’m a British citizen, born in England and spent my early childhood there, and retain affection for various aspects of the place.But certainly not the lords and ladies, kings and queens, Etons & Harrows etc.
That’s okay. You don’t like Australia much either.
Australia is a beaut and bonza place. Apart from all the nasty conservative shits and anti-social bogans etc.
…should really have said hoons rather than bogans. Plenty of bogans are friendly enough.
party_pants said:
sibeen said:
party_pants said:
Damn… do I stick with the footy or switch to F1 quali…. ?
raises eyebrows
What just happened?
A digit was extracted
stand down
party_pants said:
party_pants said:
sibeen said:raises eyebrows
What just happened?
A digit was extracted
stand down
Yep :)
sibeen said:
party_pants said:
party_pants said:A digit was extracted
stand down
Yep :)
Rather extraordinary 15 minutes of footy.
party_pants said:
sibeen said:
party_pants said:stand down
Yep :)
Rather extraordinary 15 minutes of footy.
I read that as foofteen minutes of fitty.
I know S’mum pays attention to the friendly jordy – it seems Barilaro has listed Google as a respondent:
https://www.comcourts.gov.au/pas/file/Federal/P/NSD484/2021/actions
albany hill climb
Is it too late in the night , to sneak into the kitchen for some chocolate and enjoy with a cuppa?
monkey skipper said:
Is it too late in the night , to sneak into the kitchen for some chocolate and enjoy with a cuppa?
Of course not.
Bogsnorkler said:
albany hill climb
where’s the fluffy dice?
Bogsnorkler said:
albany hill climb
Hey Charger.
It’s taken me a while…since this time yesterday …but if the the Asian producers are being held up by the US not returning containers…(stockpiling on West coast and not getting a back freight) then as things get worse we i Aus are evetully going to feel the brunt of it.
sarahs mum said:
It’s taken me a while…since this time yesterday …but if the the Asian producers are being held up by the US not returning containers…(stockpiling on West coast and not getting a back freight) then as things get worse we in Aus are eventually going to feel the brunt of it.
sarahs mum said:
sarahs mum said:
It’s taken me a while…since this time yesterday …but if the the Asian producers are being held up by the US not returning containers…(stockpiling on West coast and not getting a back freight) then as things get worse we in Aus are eventually going to feel the brunt of it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1JlYZQG3lI&t=911s
sarahs mum said:
sarahs mum said:
sarahs mum said:
It’s taken me a while…since this time yesterday …but if the the Asian producers are being held up by the US not returning containers…(stockpiling on West coast and not getting a back freight) then as things get worse we in Aus are eventually going to feel the brunt of it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1JlYZQG3lI&t=911s
Can you provide a precis of that video?
Witty Rejoinder said:
sarahs mum said:
sarahs mum said:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1JlYZQG3lI&t=911s
Can you provide a precis of that video?
I’m half way through. It is very interesting.
Witty Rejoinder said:
sarahs mum said:
sarahs mum said:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1JlYZQG3lI&t=911s
Can you provide a precis of that video?
It’s about various supply systems that aren’t working in the US. Like how if you can get a rent a car in Alaska it will probably be $800 a day. But the likelihood is that you won’t. Cause they sold the cars. And now the US is on backorder. And the us car manufacturers rely on getting stuff to the factory just in time. And now that system isn’t working. something about the toyota system that works on just in time but also allows for fuckups. So apanese cars are stilling come off the line. Silicon chips are running late.
Witty Rejoinder said:
sarahs mum said:
sarahs mum said:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1JlYZQG3lI&t=911s
Can you provide a precis of that video?
The container shortage situation:
Because of Covid people’s shopping habits in the US changed.
People can’t travel or go ut much, they use their disposable income to buy “stuff”
“stuff is imported” usually by ship in containers
US has two main ports on their west coast, which handle the bulk of the container traffic
Port workers self isolating and taking time off getting sick with the Covid
backlog of ships at theses port waiting to unload
ships unload and bugger off without reloading with empties for the outbound journey
empties piling up at these same 2 ports
Witty Rejoinder said:
sarahs mum said:
sarahs mum said:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1JlYZQG3lI&t=911s
Can you provide a precis of that video?
The ‘just in time’ manufacturing process works very well…until the chain breaks. Then it doesn’t.
party_pants said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
sarahs mum said:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1JlYZQG3lI&t=911s
Can you provide a precis of that video?
The container shortage situation:
Because of Covid people’s shopping habits in the US changed.
People can’t travel or go ut much, they use their disposable income to buy “stuff”
“stuff is imported” usually by ship in containers
US has two main ports on their west coast, which handle the bulk of the container traffic
Port workers self isolating and taking time off getting sick with the Covid
backlog of ships at theses port waiting to unload
ships unload and bugger off without reloading with empties for the outbound journey
empties piling up at these same 2 ports
yes. that was the bit that started to worry me 24 hours later.
sarahs mum said:
party_pants said:
Witty Rejoinder said:Can you provide a precis of that video?
The container shortage situation:
Because of Covid people’s shopping habits in the US changed.
People can’t travel or go ut much, they use their disposable income to buy “stuff”
“stuff is imported” usually by ship in containers
US has two main ports on their west coast, which handle the bulk of the container traffic
Port workers self isolating and taking time off getting sick with the Covid
backlog of ships at theses port waiting to unload
ships unload and bugger off without reloading with empties for the outbound journey
empties piling up at these same 2 portsyes. that was the bit that started to worry me 24 hours later.
China are buying lots of iron ore, to turn into steel. China make most of the world’s supply of shipping containers. Maybe they might be able to ramp up productions of newies to keep pace.
sarahs mum said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
sarahs mum said:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1JlYZQG3lI&t=911s
Can you provide a precis of that video?
It’s about various supply systems that aren’t working in the US. Like how if you can get a rent a car in Alaska it will probably be $800 a day. But the likelihood is that you won’t. Cause they sold the cars. And now the US is on backorder. And the us car manufacturers rely on getting stuff to the factory just in time. And now that system isn’t working. something about the toyota system that works on just in time but also allows for fuckups. So apanese cars are stilling come off the line. Silicon chips are running late.
Thanks.
With thousands of people dying of covid daily in some of the poorest countries in the world I can’t help but think that a lack of micro-chips is a bit of a first world problem.
dv said:
I can grok that. I actually recognise a Dr Who.
I must be very hip.
Witty Rejoinder said:
With thousands of people dying of covid daily in some of the poorest countries in the world I can’t help but think that a lack of micro-chips is a bit of a first world problem.
Not meaning to sound cynical, but the shortage of microchips is likely to be a bigger problem for first world countries than lots of people dying of Covid in the poorest countries.
sibeen said:
dv said:
I can grok that. I actually recognise a Dr Who.
I must be very hip.
You’re a groovy and happening dude, you’ve probably got tapes of Z-cars off you CV-2000.
Fuckity.
A frozen beer and a look away; next my desk is flooded with spilt stout.
I don’t wish to sully dv’s name, but surely some blame could be apportioned as he posted seconds after I opened, and then placed down, the offending stubby.
Yes, I’ll go with that
sarahs mum said:
It’s about various supply systems that aren’t working in the US. Like how if you can get a rent a car in Alaska it will probably be $800 a day. But the likelihood is that you won’t. Cause they sold the cars. And now the US is on backorder. And the us car manufacturers rely on getting stuff to the factory just in time. And now that system isn’t working. something about the toyota system that works on just in time but also allows for fuckups. So apanese cars are stilling come off the line. Silicon chips are running late.
The real problem is that a lot of manufacturers who adopt the JIT system don’t adopt the whole scheme.
They just pick out the bits that appeal to them, like ‘eliminating inventory’.
Woo-hoo! No more storage space, stores staff, internal distribution costs, they think. Slightly bigger dividends for shareholder, much bigger bonus for me.
They don’t adopt things like reviewing the process, tuning it to meet changes in supplier circumstances, dealing with suppliers as important partners rather than subservient slaves to the manufacturer’s needs, or looking ahead to try to anticipate possible disruptions to the scheme.
They just put it in place in whatever ‘version’ they’ve concocted, and expect it to run like clockwork forever more.
captain_spalding said:
sarahs mum said:It’s about various supply systems that aren’t working in the US. Like how if you can get a rent a car in Alaska it will probably be $800 a day. But the likelihood is that you won’t. Cause they sold the cars. And now the US is on backorder. And the us car manufacturers rely on getting stuff to the factory just in time. And now that system isn’t working. something about the toyota system that works on just in time but also allows for fuckups. So apanese cars are stilling come off the line. Silicon chips are running late.
The real problem is that a lot of manufacturers who adopt the JIT system don’t adopt the whole scheme.
They just pick out the bits that appeal to them, like ‘eliminating inventory’.
Woo-hoo! No more storage space, stores staff, internal distribution costs, they think. Slightly bigger dividends for shareholder, much bigger bonus for me.
They don’t adopt things like reviewing the process, tuning it to meet changes in supplier circumstances, dealing with suppliers as important partners rather than subservient slaves to the manufacturer’s needs, or looking ahead to try to anticipate possible disruptions to the scheme.
They just put it in place in whatever ‘version’ they’ve concocted, and expect it to run like clockwork forever more.
Morning all.
I was production controller for a company who discovered the wonders of JIT scheduling. It was a constant battle with management for me to use not just JIT but JIT plus eventuality capability. Had to end up running two systems. One for them and one which worked.
Morning all.
Not so fosty and froggy as yesterday morn. Positively sweltering at 7.2 degrees.
Might go for a walk in the hills today.
Good morning Holidayers. Nine degrees and showery. Our forecast for today is for 16 with a shower or two. We are forecast up to 10mm for each of the next three days, then up to 6mm. That’s a nice run.
buffy said:
Good morning Holidayers. Nine degrees and showery. Our forecast for today is for 16 with a shower or two. We are forecast up to 10mm for each of the next three days, then up to 6mm. That’s a nice run.
Looking a bit more moist here for the next few days as well. If we reach the top of the forecast numbers each day, that could well end up as 24mm over the period.
Tamb said:
Had to end up running two systems. One for them and one which worked.
That’s what i mean.
‘The people upstairs’ are attracted to certain facets of the method, ignore others, and dictate that the bits they like should be adopted.
People like you, Tamb, soon realise that those dictated elements won’t function without other considerations also operating.
If the people who have to make the method work are smart enough and/or brave enough, they find a way to make it work, while keeping the higher-ups happy by hiding the need for the extra bits from them.
Makes life more difficult and stressful for those at the coalface, and unnecessarily so.
captain_spalding said:
Tamb said:Had to end up running two systems. One for them and one which worked.
That’s what i mean.
‘The people upstairs’ are attracted to certain facets of the method, ignore others, and dictate that the bits they like should be adopted.
People like you, Tamb, soon realise that those dictated elements won’t function without other considerations also operating.
If the people who have to make the method work are smart enough and/or brave enough, they find a way to make it work, while keeping the higher-ups happy by hiding the need for the extra bits from them.
Makes life more difficult and stressful for those at the coalface, and unnecessarily so.
Tamb said:
It ended up as a bit of a plus for me.
I resigned leaving their system in place. About 2 months later they asked me to come back. We haggled for a while & finally I accepted with about double the $$ & a free hand.
Worked there for a further 2 years & left with a nice bonus.
Sometimes it’s good to be OCD.
That’s an alternative: say ‘ok, we’ll do it your way’ and work with the method as prescribed, and let if fall flat on its face.
‘Upstairs’ can then do one of two things:
admit that the prescribed version has shortcomings, and take measures to fill in the gaps and tune it up
or
blame the failure on staff who weren’t committed to it and who somehow sabotaged management’s vision.
In your case, in the face of unarguable evidence, they went for the first one.
Many, indeed probably most, would go for the second.
captain_spalding said:
Tamb said:It ended up as a bit of a plus for me.
I resigned leaving their system in place. About 2 months later they asked me to come back. We haggled for a while & finally I accepted with about double the $$ & a free hand.
Worked there for a further 2 years & left with a nice bonus.
Sometimes it’s good to be OCD.That’s an alternative: say ‘ok, we’ll do it your way’ and work with the method as prescribed, and let if fall flat on its face.
‘Upstairs’ can then do one of two things:
admit that the prescribed version has shortcomings, and take measures to fill in the gaps and tune it up
or
blame the failure on staff who weren’t committed to it and who somehow sabotaged management’s vision.
In your case, in the face of unarguable evidence, they went for the first one.
Many, indeed probably most, would go for the second.
Tamb said:
captain_spalding said:
sarahs mum said:It’s about various supply systems that aren’t working in the US. Like how if you can get a rent a car in Alaska it will probably be $800 a day. But the likelihood is that you won’t. Cause they sold the cars. And now the US is on backorder. And the us car manufacturers rely on getting stuff to the factory just in time. And now that system isn’t working. something about the toyota system that works on just in time but also allows for fuckups. So apanese cars are stilling come off the line. Silicon chips are running late.
The real problem is that a lot of manufacturers who adopt the JIT system don’t adopt the whole scheme.
They just pick out the bits that appeal to them, like ‘eliminating inventory’.
Woo-hoo! No more storage space, stores staff, internal distribution costs, they think. Slightly bigger dividends for shareholder, much bigger bonus for me.
They don’t adopt things like reviewing the process, tuning it to meet changes in supplier circumstances, dealing with suppliers as important partners rather than subservient slaves to the manufacturer’s needs, or looking ahead to try to anticipate possible disruptions to the scheme.
They just put it in place in whatever ‘version’ they’ve concocted, and expect it to run like clockwork forever more.
Morning all.
I was production controller for a company who discovered the wonders of JIT scheduling. It was a constant battle with management for me to use not just JIT but JIT plus eventuality capability. Had to end up running two systems. One for them and one which worked.
:)
party_pants said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
With thousands of people dying of covid daily in some of the poorest countries in the world I can’t help but think that a lack of micro-chips is a bit of a first world problem.
Not meaning to sound cynical, but the shortage of microchips is likely to be a bigger problem for first world countries than lots of people dying of Covid in the poorest countries.
Trickle It Down Comrades, Advancing The Rich Countries Will Help Elevate The Poor Ones ¡
Good morning everybody.
11.6°C, 76% RH partly cloudy and light breezes. BoM predicts no rain and a top of 22°C.
Mrs V has developed a cough. I started sneezing last night. COVID tests are in order. Maryborough is closed on Sundays. Gympie is 8am – midday but a booking has to be made beforehand. So, back to Gympie it is likely to be.
Interesting analysis of the current global shortage of “stuff”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1JlYZQG3lI&ab_channel=WendoverProductions
And the block in Box Hill North where my parents built their house in 1956 is now completely cleared. I’ve checked the City of Whitehorse website and it appears that a two storey house is to be built there.
Richie Porte might finally win something:
Australia’s Richie Porte claims Critérium du Dauphiné lead ahead of final stage
Bubblecar said:
Richie Porte might finally win something:Australia’s Richie Porte claims Critérium du Dauphiné lead ahead of final stage
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-06/cycling-richie-porte-claims-criterium-du-dauphine-lead/100193732
buffy said:
And the block in Box Hill North where my parents built their house in 1956 is now completely cleared. I’ve checked the City of Whitehorse website and it appears that a two storey house is to be built there.
A bit sad they didn’t want the old one.
Going to try some of that two-week old sauerkraut for breakfast with a cheese kransky.
But it’s so cold in the kitchen I’m surprised the very air hasn’t frozen solid. So I’ll take the pooter room heater in there.
Bubblecar said:
buffy said:
And the block in Box Hill North where my parents built their house in 1956 is now completely cleared. I’ve checked the City of Whitehorse website and it appears that a two storey house is to be built there.
A bit sad they didn’t want the old one.
Yes.
It seems to be an Australian thing. Destroy the old dwelling and build a bigger one.
Bubblecar said:
Going to try some of that two-week old sauerkraut for breakfast with a cheese kransky.But it’s so cold in the kitchen I’m surprised the very air hasn’t frozen solid. So I’ll take the pooter room heater in there.
Just tried some and it’s lovely, quite a lot sourer than the first batch.
I’ll heat some up to accompany the sausage.
OK. We are now booked in for the COVID test in Gympie at or before 11:30 am.
Breakfast first though. Sausage and kimchi in a few minutes time.
Michael V said:
OK. We are now booked in for the COVID test in Gympie at or before 11:30 am.Breakfast first though. Sausage and kimchi in a few minutes time.
Test or jab?
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
Going to try some of that two-week old sauerkraut for breakfast with a cheese kransky.But it’s so cold in the kitchen I’m surprised the very air hasn’t frozen solid. So I’ll take the pooter room heater in there.
Just tried some and it’s lovely, quite a lot sourer than the first batch.
I’ll heat some up to accompany the sausage.
Verdict: smashing breakfast, just right for a winter morning.
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
Going to try some of that two-week old sauerkraut for breakfast with a cheese kransky.But it’s so cold in the kitchen I’m surprised the very air hasn’t frozen solid. So I’ll take the pooter room heater in there.
Just tried some and it’s lovely, quite a lot sourer than the first batch.
I’ll heat some up to accompany the sausage.
Verdict: smashing breakfast, just right for a winter morning.
I et reheated cold pizza from a few days ago.
dv said:
sibeen said:
dv said:
I can grok that. I actually recognise a Dr Who.
I must be very hip.
You’re a groovy and happening dude, you’ve probably got tapes of Z-cars off you CV-2000.
I think Z Cars were before both of your times.
Bogsnorkler said:
dv said:
sibeen said:I can grok that. I actually recognise a Dr Who.
I must be very hip.
You’re a groovy and happening dude, you’ve probably got tapes of Z-cars off you CV-2000.
I think Z Cars were before both of your times.
Ah, Z Cars, I remember it well.
Was it a big thing in Australia?
Michael V said:
Bubblecar said:
buffy said:
And the block in Box Hill North where my parents built their house in 1956 is now completely cleared. I’ve checked the City of Whitehorse website and it appears that a two storey house is to be built there.
A bit sad they didn’t want the old one.
Yes.
It seems to be an Australian thing. Destroy the old dwelling and build a bigger one.
I think that has been going on worldwide and for a long time. After all we don’t live in caves or grass huts anymore.
Bogsnorkler said:
Michael V said:
Bubblecar said:A bit sad they didn’t want the old one.
Yes.
It seems to be an Australian thing. Destroy the old dwelling and build a bigger one.
I think that has been going on worldwide and for a long time. After all we don’t live in caves or grass huts anymore.
Yeah. I’ve upgraded to a cardboard box.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Bogsnorkler said:
dv said:You’re a groovy and happening dude, you’ve probably got tapes of Z-cars off you CV-2000.
I think Z Cars were before both of your times.
Ah, Z Cars, I remember it well.
Was it a big thing in Australia?
no idea. watched it in england. in glorious B&W
Witty Rejoinder said:
Bogsnorkler said:
Michael V said:Yes.
It seems to be an Australian thing. Destroy the old dwelling and build a bigger one.
I think that has been going on worldwide and for a long time. After all we don’t live in caves or grass huts anymore.
Yeah. I’ve upgraded to a cardboard box.
insert usually MP line here.
Bogsnorkler said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Bogsnorkler said:I think Z Cars were before both of your times.
Ah, Z Cars, I remember it well.
Was it a big thing in Australia?
no idea. watched it in england. in glorious B&W
Me too.
I forgot you were another Pommie Bastard.
Bogsnorkler said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Bogsnorkler said:I think Z Cars were before both of your times.
Ah, Z Cars, I remember it well.
Was it a big thing in Australia?
no idea. watched it in england. in glorious B&W
Yep it was big here, on the ABC in b & w, the Z was for the ford Zephyrs that they used to drive around in.
The siren was like a weak push bike bell on a loop.
Peak Warming Man said:
Bogsnorkler said:
The Rev Dodgson said:Ah, Z Cars, I remember it well.
Was it a big thing in Australia?
no idea. watched it in england. in glorious B&W
Yep it was big here, on the ABC in b & w, the Z was for the ford Zephyrs that they used to drive around in.
The siren was like a weak push bike bell on a loop.
and they were black. well they may have actually been some other dark colour but, you know…
Anyone got advice for avoiding cramps?
I have to drill dozens of holes at ground level, and last time I sat on the ground I had three leg cramps.
mollwollfumble said:
Anyone got advice for avoiding cramps?I have to drill dozens of holes at ground level, and last time I sat on the ground I had three leg cramps.
Aspro.
Cautious or craven? The saga of Four Corners program on Morrison and QAnon has laid bare fractures within the ABC
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jun/05/cautious-or-craven-the-saga-of-four-corners-program-on-morrison-and-qanon-has-laid-bare-fractures-within-the-abc
Peak Warming Man said:
mollwollfumble said:
Anyone got advice for avoiding cramps?I have to drill dozens of holes at ground level, and last time I sat on the ground I had three leg cramps.
Aspro.
Good idea! I’ve had too already in preparation for the pain of getting up and down.
Dark Orange said:
Interesting analysis of the current global shortage of “stuff”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1JlYZQG3lI&ab_channel=WendoverProductions
sm already posted it and there has been a bit of a discussion around it.
‘We were deceived’: hundreds protest in Venice at return of giant cruise ships
Ban on huge vessels passing St Mark’s Square proves to be temporary after liner docks in city for first time in 17 months
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/05/angry-protests-in-venice-at-shock-return-of-cruise-ships
Mass extinctions
Some 19m years ago the world’s sharks almost disappeared
And no one knows why
Science & technology
Jun 4th 2021
SHARKS MAY not be the best-loved creatures on Earth, but they are an important part of ocean ecosystems and many of the larger species are in serious decline. That threat, though, may be nothing compared with what happened to them 19m years ago, during the Miocene epoch—for then, it seems, the whole group came perilously close to extinction.
The fossil record is a patchy reflection of the past. Vagaries of rock formation, preservation and accessibility mean that coastal habitats are far better represented in palaeontological collections than either terrestrial ones or those of the open ocean. Rocks from the latter, in particular, only rarely end up on dry land, and thus accessible to the palaeontologist’s hammer.
Recent decades have, however, seen a number of drilling expeditions which have collected samples from the ooze that accumulates on the ocean floor. And a few years ago Elizabeth Sibert, a palaeoecologist now at Yale University, came up with a clever way to use these to gain information about life in the seas of the past. This was to look at microscopic, mineral-rich objects shed by sharks (mainly bits of their skins, known as denticles, pictured) and bony fish (mainly teeth). Counting and classifying these so-called ichthyoliths gives a good sense of both the abundance and the diversity of the animals in question.
Her latest investigation of the matter has yielded a shock. She and Leah Rubin, of the State University of New York, have been perusing two sediment cores collected thousands of kilometres apart in the north and the south of the Pacific Ocean. And, as they write in Science, they have discovered that, in a period at most 100,000 years long, the ratio of shark denticles to bony-fish teeth suddenly changed. Up until then, both cores yielded about one denticle for every five teeth—a ratio that had been stable for 40m years. Afterwards, that ratio dropped to one to 100.
The nature of the denticles changed, too. Modern shark species often have only one or two types of denticle, and these can be characteristic of the species or family in question, so it is reasonable to assume that something similar pertained during the Miocene. Dr Sibert and Ms Rubin saw a 70% reduction in the number of types of denticle after the ratio changed, indicating a huge loss of entire species of shark as well as a reduction in their numbers.
What happened is obscure. For sharks as a group, this was a mass extinction twice as bad as the one at the end of the Cretaceous period, when Earth was hit by an asteroid and the dinosaurs and many other types of animals vanished. In this case, though, as far as it is possible to tell from the rocks, only sharks were affected. And that really is a mystery.
https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2021/06/04/some-19m-years-ago-the-worlds-sharks-almost-disappeared?
Michael V said:
Bubblecar said:
buffy said:
And the block in Box Hill North where my parents built their house in 1956 is now completely cleared. I’ve checked the City of Whitehorse website and it appears that a two storey house is to be built there.
A bit sad they didn’t want the old one.
Yes.
It seems to be an Australian thing. Destroy the old dwelling and build a bigger one.
I see nothing wrong with this in principle. Nothing lasts forever. Houses aren’t built to last forever, A more modern house is probably better for living in, which is the whole point of houses – somewhere to live. I thing buildings should be steadily torn down and replaced, a living city has to have a certain rate of churn.
party_pants said:
Michael V said:
Bubblecar said:A bit sad they didn’t want the old one.
Yes.
It seems to be an Australian thing. Destroy the old dwelling and build a bigger one.
I see nothing wrong with this in principle. Nothing lasts forever. Houses aren’t built to last forever, A more modern house is probably better for living in, which is the whole point of houses – somewhere to live. I thing buildings should be steadily torn down and replaced, a living city has to have a certain rate of churn.
A modern house is also far more efficient for heating and cooling than older houses.
sibeen said:
party_pants said:
Michael V said:Yes.
It seems to be an Australian thing. Destroy the old dwelling and build a bigger one.
I see nothing wrong with this in principle. Nothing lasts forever. Houses aren’t built to last forever, A more modern house is probably better for living in, which is the whole point of houses – somewhere to live. I thing buildings should be steadily torn down and replaced, a living city has to have a certain rate of churn.
A modern house is also far more efficient for heating and cooling than older houses.
well, if by modern you mean it has been designed with up-to-date specs for good efficiency. some modern houses are crap in that regard.
Bogsnorkler said:
sibeen said:
party_pants said:I see nothing wrong with this in principle. Nothing lasts forever. Houses aren’t built to last forever, A more modern house is probably better for living in, which is the whole point of houses – somewhere to live. I thing buildings should be steadily torn down and replaced, a living city has to have a certain rate of churn.
A modern house is also far more efficient for heating and cooling than older houses.
well, if by modern you mean it has been designed with up-to-date specs for good efficiency. some modern houses are crap in that regard.
speaking of which, how is you new place progressing?
Bogsnorkler said:
Bogsnorkler said:
sibeen said:A modern house is also far more efficient for heating and cooling than older houses.
well, if by modern you mean it has been designed with up-to-date specs for good efficiency. some modern houses are crap in that regard.
speaking of which, how is you new place progressing?
Hopefully getting the keys in two weeks.
sibeen said:
party_pants said:
Michael V said:Yes.
It seems to be an Australian thing. Destroy the old dwelling and build a bigger one.
I see nothing wrong with this in principle. Nothing lasts forever. Houses aren’t built to last forever, A more modern house is probably better for living in, which is the whole point of houses – somewhere to live. I thing buildings should be steadily torn down and replaced, a living city has to have a certain rate of churn.
A modern house is also far more efficient for heating and cooling than older houses.
I can vouch for that, having lived in a range from a 1930s timber and fibro to a 2017 new build. The older buildings are terrible in winter, requiring ute loads of firewood to keep warm because electric heating wasn’t enough. This new house I have one small electric fan heater, which is enough.
sibeen said:
Bogsnorkler said:
Bogsnorkler said:well, if by modern you mean it has been designed with up-to-date specs for good efficiency. some modern houses are crap in that regard.
speaking of which, how is you new place progressing?
Hopefully getting the keys in two weeks.
I might buy some nice stout so I can celebrate the occasion with you (remotely of course).
sibeen said:
Bogsnorkler said:
Bogsnorkler said:well, if by modern you mean it has been designed with up-to-date specs for good efficiency. some modern houses are crap in that regard.
speaking of which, how is you new place progressing?
Hopefully getting the keys in two weeks.
ooOOOooo, excited?
party_pants said:
sibeen said:
Bogsnorkler said:speaking of which, how is you new place progressing?
Hopefully getting the keys in two weeks.
I might buy some nice stout so I can celebrate the occasion with you (remotely of course).
It’s still a few weeks after that until we move as we have to get the flooring and carpeting done first. You can get a certificate of occupancy without those so we are doing them ourselves, or at least paying a company to do it, as it is far cheaper to do it this way than have the builder add on their exorbitant margins.
sibeen said:
Bogsnorkler said:
Bogsnorkler said:well, if by modern you mean it has been designed with up-to-date specs for good efficiency. some modern houses are crap in that regard.
speaking of which, how is you new place progressing?
Hopefully getting the keys in two weeks.
that went fast
mollwollfumble said:
Anyone got advice for avoiding cramps?I have to drill dozens of holes at ground level, and last time I sat on the ground I had three leg cramps.
Unless you need them to be very high accuracy, use a drill extension rod.
This is an interesting examination of the Tulsa Massacre. The article features some background graphics and the need for scrolling that some dislike but it’s worth the effort:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/05/24/us/tulsa-race-massacre.html
Witty Rejoinder said:
This is an interesting examination of the Tulsa Massacre. The article features some background graphics and the need for scrolling that some dislike but it’s worth the effort:https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/05/24/us/tulsa-race-massacre.html
Oh wait I forgot the paywall.
Witty Rejoinder said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
This is an interesting examination of the Tulsa Massacre. The article features some background graphics and the need for scrolling that some dislike but it’s worth the effort:https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/05/24/us/tulsa-race-massacre.html
Oh wait I forgot the paywall.
dammit
sibeen said:
Hopefully getting the keys in two weeks.
That’s exciting :) I have just officially received the 2 offers from the open home yesterday. 1 is significantly higher than the other and also has a settlement date of 1/08, that suits me perfectly. The REA is going to call both of them and mention that there has been multiple offers and see what happens. I’m wondering if we should have another open home and see what that brings (it only went on the market Thursday evening) but that’s just being greedy :D
Arts said:
sibeen said:
Bogsnorkler said:speaking of which, how is you new place progressing?
Hopefully getting the keys in two weeks.
that went fast
Not fast enough.
Spider Lily said:
sibeen said:Hopefully getting the keys in two weeks.
That’s exciting :) I have just officially received the 2 offers from the open home yesterday. 1 is significantly higher than the other and also has a settlement date of 1/08, that suits me perfectly. The REA is going to call both of them and mention that there has been multiple offers and see what happens. I’m wondering if we should have another open home and see what that brings (it only went on the market Thursday evening) but that’s just being greedy :D
Yay!
Spider Lily said:
sibeen said:Hopefully getting the keys in two weeks.
That’s exciting :) I have just officially received the 2 offers from the open home yesterday. 1 is significantly higher than the other and also has a settlement date of 1/08, that suits me perfectly. The REA is going to call both of them and mention that there has been multiple offers and see what happens. I’m wondering if we should have another open home and see what that brings (it only went on the market Thursday evening) but that’s just being greedy :D
will you be homeless then?
sibeen said:
party_pants said:
sibeen said:Hopefully getting the keys in two weeks.
I might buy some nice stout so I can celebrate the occasion with you (remotely of course).
It’s still a few weeks after that until we move as we have to get the flooring and carpeting done first. You can get a certificate of occupancy without those so we are doing them ourselves, or at least paying a company to do it, as it is far cheaper to do it this way than have the builder add on their exorbitant margins.
OK. I can wait a few weeks.
Witty Rejoinder said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
This is an interesting examination of the Tulsa Massacre. The article features some background graphics and the need for scrolling that some dislike but it’s worth the effort:https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/05/24/us/tulsa-race-massacre.html
Oh wait I forgot the paywall.
email will do.
Bogsnorkler said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
This is an interesting examination of the Tulsa Massacre. The article features some background graphics and the need for scrolling that some dislike but it’s worth the effort:https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/05/24/us/tulsa-race-massacre.html
Oh wait I forgot the paywall.
email will do.
also , unpopular opinion, but I like the scrolling articles.
Arts said:
Bogsnorkler said:
Witty Rejoinder said:Oh wait I forgot the paywall.
email will do.
also , unpopular opinion, but I like the scrolling articles.
wierdo
I’ll tell you what I hate though…. I hate We texted your phone +XX XXXXXXXX88. Please enter the code to sign in. because it takes forever to get the fucking code and I just want to get on with my work dammit!!
Arts said:
Bogsnorkler said:
Witty Rejoinder said:Oh wait I forgot the paywall.
email will do.
also , unpopular opinion, but I like the scrolling articles.
It’s the moving pictures/video behind the writing that is annoying. The scrolling is not in itself a problem.
buffy said:
Arts said:
Bogsnorkler said:email will do.
also , unpopular opinion, but I like the scrolling articles.
It’s the moving pictures/video behind the writing that is annoying. The scrolling is not in itself a problem.
I don’t mind it
Arts said:
buffy said:
Arts said:also , unpopular opinion, but I like the scrolling articles.
It’s the moving pictures/video behind the writing that is annoying. The scrolling is not in itself a problem.
I don’t mind it
I find it annoying because I am old and grumpy.
party_pants said:
Arts said:
buffy said:It’s the moving pictures/video behind the writing that is annoying. The scrolling is not in itself a problem.
I don’t mind it
I find it annoying because I am old and grumpy.
They never think of the old people. They change the money willy-nilly, the dollar coin is the same size as the 2c coin and it makes you catch the wrong train.
Lunch report: buttered sesame wheat biscuits, a bowl of just picked snow peas, steamed, with a smidge of butter and a big glass of cold Milo.
Arts said:
will you be homeless then?
Only for a short time :) But will be cashed up so the penthouse at one of our nicer hotels will do for a fortnight ;)
My leaving date is around the 16th Aug :)
Spider Lily said:
Arts said:will you be homeless then?
Only for a short time :) But will be cashed up so the penthouse at one of our nicer hotels will do for a fortnight ;)
My leaving date is around the 16th Aug :)
Not Acacia Court!
:-)
Spider Lily said:
Arts said:will you be homeless then?
Only for a short time :) But will be cashed up so the penthouse at one of our nicer hotels will do for a fortnight ;)
My leaving date is around the 16th Aug :)
There’s a good view of Somerset from the air in this video Spider Lily, a few minutes in.
Wandering Foxbat – Wynyard to Queenstown via the snowy Highlands
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slTIfUIqpmA
buffy said:
Lunch report: buttered sesame wheat biscuits, a bowl of just picked snow peas, steamed, with a smidge of butter and a big glass of cold Milo.
Bacon butty + cup of tea.
sibeen said:
buffy said:
Lunch report: buttered sesame wheat biscuits, a bowl of just picked snow peas, steamed, with a smidge of butter and a big glass of cold Milo.Bacon butty + cup of tea.
Nothing.
sibeen said:
buffy said:
Lunch report: buttered sesame wheat biscuits, a bowl of just picked snow peas, steamed, with a smidge of butter and a big glass of cold Milo.Bacon butty + cup of tea.
Ooh, I just remembered. There is still a bit of Auntie Annie’s chocolate and walnut brownie in the fridge. I might have a piece of that with a splosh of cream. For dessert.
Bubblecar said:
sibeen said:
buffy said:
Lunch report: buttered sesame wheat biscuits, a bowl of just picked snow peas, steamed, with a smidge of butter and a big glass of cold Milo.Bacon butty + cup of tea.
Nothing.
+ 1 x mandarin.
Arabic script looks kind of metal
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
sibeen said:Bacon butty + cup of tea.
Nothing.
+ 1 x mandarin.
Nine mandarins seems a tad excessive.
dv said:
Arabic script looks kind of metal
Wrought iron.
Spider Lily said:
Arts said:will you be homeless then?
Only for a short time :) But will be cashed up so the penthouse at one of our nicer hotels will do for a fortnight ;)
My leaving date is around the 16th Aug :)
to Tas?
sibeen said:
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:Nothing.
+ 1 x mandarin.
Nine mandarins seems a tad excessive.
Don’t know where you’re getting nine from.
Bubblecar said:
sibeen said:
Bubblecar said:+ 1 x mandarin.
Nine mandarins seems a tad excessive.
Don’t know where you’re getting nine from.
His smelling is offal.
Well I invited the Ross people to dinner at Zeps tonight, my shout, but they’re not feeling up to it what with all the recent doings and preparations for visiting the mainland etc.
Bubblecar said:
Well I invited the Ross people to dinner at Zeps tonight, my shout, but they’re not feeling up to it what with all the recent doings and preparations for visiting the mainland etc.
You could go on your own if you don’t mind walking there in the wind & rain. And worse, walking back again in the wind & rain with a full stomach.
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
Well I invited the Ross people to dinner at Zeps tonight, my shout, but they’re not feeling up to it what with all the recent doings and preparations for visiting the mainland etc.
You could go on your own if you don’t mind walking there in the wind & rain. And worse, walking back again in the wind & rain with a full stomach.
No thanks.
Bubblecar said:
sibeen said:
Bubblecar said:+ 1 x mandarin.
Nine mandarins seems a tad excessive.
Don’t know where you’re getting nine from.
I’m guessing he is taking 1X to be IX but it doesn’t work well because the one is clearly not an I
Why does Musk keep sending cars into space for?
Its putting junk into space, its inefficient and unproductive, the cars do nothing, its not environmentally friendly, a communication satellite would weight about the same and would be far more useful. You cant drive Teslas in space.
https://www.industryweek.com/technology-and-iiot/article/22025093/musk-sends-a-tesla-into-space-atop-worlds-most-powerful-rocket
Falcon Heavy cleared the launch pad without blowing up — a feat Musk had said would be enough to deem the mission a win — and continued on to deliver Musk’s cherry red Tesla Roadster with a space-suit wearing mannequin at the wheel toward an Earth-Mars elliptical orbit around the sun.
dv said:
Bubblecar said:
sibeen said:Nine mandarins seems a tad excessive.
Don’t know where you’re getting nine from.
I’m guessing he is taking 1X to be IX but it doesn’t work well because the one is clearly not an I
But since the I represents the number 1, surely it still works if you replace IX with 1X.
Arvo all.
Back from Nescafe City (Gympie) with an uncomfortable nose after having our COVID tests. Self-isolating now.
Michael V said:
Arvo all.Back from Nescafe City (Gympie) with an uncomfortable nose after having our COVID tests. Self-isolating now.
Why did you need tests? Have symptoms?
Michael V said:
Arvo all.Back from Nescafe City (Gympie) with an uncomfortable nose after having our COVID tests. Self-isolating now.
Nearest case to you Darling Downs, yeah?
The Rev Dodgson said:
Bogsnorkler said:
dv said:You’re a groovy and happening dude, you’ve probably got tapes of Z-cars off you CV-2000.
I think Z Cars were before both of your times.
Ah, Z Cars, I remember it well.
Was it a big thing in Australia?
It was on our TV.
Witty Rejoinder said:
Michael V said:
Arvo all.Back from Nescafe City (Gympie) with an uncomfortable nose after having our COVID tests. Self-isolating now.
Why did you need tests? Have symptoms?
Cold-flu symptoms. Been touring around.
Ian said:
Michael V said:
Arvo all.Back from Nescafe City (Gympie) with an uncomfortable nose after having our COVID tests. Self-isolating now.
Nearest case to you Darling Downs, yeah?
I didn’t know that. Do you have a reference?
BACK from the BWS, through light rain. But I had an umbrella and a rainbow to keep me company.
There were various army vehicles charging south down the Midland Highway, Hobart might be under attack.
Bubblecar said:
BACK from the BWS, through light rain. But I had an umbrella and a rainbow to keep me company.There were various army vehicles charging south down the Midland Highway, Hobart might be under attack.
Probably just a futile counter-offensive by the remnants of 6th SS Panzer Division.
Gumballs. Kid for scale.
Is there a formula for calculating this?
Rule 303 said:
Gumballs. Kid for scale.
Is there a formula for calculating this?
Yes, but within limits. There is close-packing, random tight packing, loose packing etc.
You want random tight packing.
Or count number of spheres in vertical and horizontal directions on the surface and multiply by the ratio of area to circumference of a circle.
Thanks for advice on avoiding cramp. No cramp today :-) despite a lot of wriggling on the ground.
mollwollfumble said:
Thanks for advice on avoiding cramp. No cramp today :-) despite a lot of wriggling on the ground.
I get a lot of foot cramps.
I stretch and wiggle the foot around if a cramp is coming on.
They go away quickly then. If you fight them the wrong way they will hang around more.
mollwollfumble said:
Rule 303 said:
Gumballs. Kid for scale.
Is there a formula for calculating this?
Yes, but within limits. There is close-packing, random tight packing, loose packing etc.
You want random tight packing.
Or count number of spheres in vertical and horizontal directions on the surface and multiply by the ratio of area to circumference of a circle.
Cheers Moll.
Michael V said:
Ian said:
Michael V said:
Arvo all.Back from Nescafe City (Gympie) with an uncomfortable nose after having our COVID tests. Self-isolating now.
Nearest case to you Darling Downs, yeah?
I didn’t know that. Do you have a reference?
https://www.qld.gov.au/health/conditions/health-alerts/coronavirus-covid-19/current-status/statistics?gclid=Cj0KCQjwweyFBhDvARIsAA67M71LeoLBwE0IFo4KLfaY9xTb6m3tUAm_5aXdxVLoPoNEAw4VK13L9gcaAjSaEALw_wcB#casesummary
..but I was misreading it
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
BACK from the BWS, through light rain. But I had an umbrella and a rainbow to keep me company.There were various army vehicles charging south down the Midland Highway, Hobart might be under attack.
Probably just a futile counter-offensive by the remnants of 6th SS Panzer Division.
North Pole Underground SS Nazi Bunker 907.
“Any word from the führer yet Hans?”
“No, not yet Dietrich, should be soon though, its been a while.”
Baked potatoes for dinner. Started them* in the microwave a couple of hours ago, now resting in the fridge, waiting to be rubbed with olive oil and salt and cooked in the air fryer to 100° internal. Best baked potatoes ever!
*prick with fork, 4min, turn, 4min.
Rule 303 said:
Baked potatoes for dinner. Started them* in the microwave a couple of hours ago, now resting in the fridge, waiting to be rubbed with olive oil and salt and cooked in the air fryer to 100° internal. Best baked potatoes ever!
*prick with fork, 4min, turn, 4min.
I’m boiling a couple taters at this moment, to join a dinner that will basically be a repeat of breakfast (home-made sauerkraut with cheese kranskies, mustard. And butter for the taters).
Staffelführer Adolf Galland on a hunting trip, 1940. Photograph by Adolf Hahn.
Not sure about bloke on the left.. Adolf something, I spose
Ian said:
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Staffelführer Adolf Galland on a hunting trip, 1940. Photograph by Adolf Hahn.
Not sure about bloke on the left.. Adolf something, I spose
https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2021/jun/05/the-second-world-war-through-the-lens-of-german-soldiers-in-pictures
Ian said:
Michael V said:
Ian said:Nearest case to you Darling Downs, yeah?
I didn’t know that. Do you have a reference?
https://www.qld.gov.au/health/conditions/health-alerts/coronavirus-covid-19/current-status/statistics?gclid=Cj0KCQjwweyFBhDvARIsAA67M71LeoLBwE0IFo4KLfaY9xTb6m3tUAm_5aXdxVLoPoNEAw4VK13L9gcaAjSaEALw_wcB#casesummary
..but I was misreading it
Ta.
Arts said:
Spider Lily said:
Arts said:will you be homeless then?
Only for a short time :) But will be cashed up so the penthouse at one of our nicer hotels will do for a fortnight ;)
My leaving date is around the 16th Aug :)
to Tas?
Yes, driving down over a week, should hit Tas around the 21st, give or take a day. I don’t start work until mid Sept so have a bit of time up my sleeve.
Bubblecar said:
Rule 303 said:
Baked potatoes for dinner. Started them* in the microwave a couple of hours ago, now resting in the fridge, waiting to be rubbed with olive oil and salt and cooked in the air fryer to 100° internal. Best baked potatoes ever!
*prick with fork, 4min, turn, 4min.
I’m boiling a couple taters at this moment, to join a dinner that will basically be a repeat of breakfast (home-made sauerkraut with cheese kranskies, mustard. And butter for the taters).
Mr buffy is cook tonight. He has defrosted some beef sausages. I have made a neapolitan sauce. I’ve suggested he chop up the sausages, use up the rest of the onion he took a couple of slices from at lunchtime, chop up some mushrooms and see what other veggies are in the fridge. Stirfry and dress with the neapolitan sauce.
Spider Lily said:
Arts said:
Spider Lily said:Only for a short time :) But will be cashed up so the penthouse at one of our nicer hotels will do for a fortnight ;)
My leaving date is around the 16th Aug :)
to Tas?
go around Victoria
Yes, driving down over a week, should hit Tas around the 21st, give or take a day. I don’t start work until mid Sept so have a bit of time up my sleeve.
Arts said:
Spider Lily said:
Arts said:to Tas?
Yes, driving down over a week, should hit Tas around the 21st, give or take a day. I don’t start work until mid Sept so have a bit of time up my sleeve.
go around Victoria
Arts said:
Arts said:
Spider Lily said:Yes, driving down over a week, should hit Tas around the 21st, give or take a day. I don’t start work until mid Sept so have a bit of time up my sleeve.
go around Victoria
See the sights?
Arts said:
Arts said:
Spider Lily said:Yes, driving down over a week, should hit Tas around the 21st, give or take a day. I don’t start work until mid Sept so have a bit of time up my sleeve.
go around Victoria
See if you can get out again :)
Ian said:
Arts said:
Arts said:go around Victoria
See if you can get out again :)
Difficult to put your car on the ferry from Adelaide, I would have thought.
Sisters have had to get permits to travel from Tas to SA, and extra permits to enter Melbourne Airport.
Good evening.
monkey skipper said:
Good evening.
Did you have a pleasant weekend, monkey?
Bubblecar said:
monkey skipper said:
Good evening.
Did you have a pleasant weekend, monkey?
Mostly, I think. You?
monkey skipper said:
Bubblecar said:
monkey skipper said:
Good evening.
Did you have a pleasant weekend, monkey?
Mostly, I think. You?
As pleasant as could be expected, with a lot of waiting for news of the mainland sister.
I like this urban mural
Bubblecar said:
monkey skipper said:
Bubblecar said:Did you have a pleasant weekend, monkey?
Mostly, I think. You?
As pleasant as could be expected, with a lot of waiting for news of the mainland sister.
did i miss something there?
monkey skipper said:
Bubblecar said:
monkey skipper said:Mostly, I think. You?
As pleasant as could be expected, with a lot of waiting for news of the mainland sister.
did i miss something there?
She’s in hospital with blood clots after having the Covid vaccine.
Likely to be there for a long time.
Arts said:
go around Victoria
:)
If I have to :) I have family in the car carrier business so if I have to leave the car and fly it won’t be an issue.
Last time I flew to Tas and checked the Ts and Cs I could transit through straight to the ferry terminal. We check it all out as the time gets closer..
Spider Lily said:
Arts said:go around Victoria
:)
If I have to :) I have family in the car carrier business so if I have to leave the car and fly it won’t be an issue.
Last time I flew to Tas and checked the Ts and Cs I could transit through straight to the ferry terminal. We check it all out as the time gets closer..
Anything could happen in between. It might be NSW you have to skirt. Something could happen in QLD that makes Tas shut their borders. Who knows…
Bubblecar said:
monkey skipper said:
Bubblecar said:As pleasant as could be expected, with a lot of waiting for news of the mainland sister.
did i miss something there?
She’s in hospital with blood clots after having the Covid vaccine.
Likely to be there for a long time.
oh crap bubblecar.
monkey skipper said:
Bubblecar said:
monkey skipper said:did i miss something there?
She’s in hospital with blood clots after having the Covid vaccine.
Likely to be there for a long time.
oh crap bubblecar.
She she detect the symptoms or a family member?
monkey skipper said:
monkey skipper said:
Bubblecar said:She’s in hospital with blood clots after having the Covid vaccine.
Likely to be there for a long time.
oh crap bubblecar.
She she
Did she* detect the symptoms or a family member?
buffy said:
Anything could happen in between. It might be NSW you have to skirt. Something could happen in QLD that makes Tas shut their borders. Who knows…
Very true. This is also why we are going down inland. Not going anywhere near a city until the end and that will be in transit.
Again, decisions will be made as we go, I have plenty of time :)
monkey skipper said:
She she detect the symptoms or a family member?
She was admitted to hospital with extreme breathing difficulties and was there for a couple days before they detected a blood clot in a lung and another in her heart.
Bubblecar said:
monkey skipper said:
She she detect the symptoms or a family member?
She was admitted to hospital with extreme breathing difficulties and was there for a couple days before they detected a blood clot in a lung and another in her heart.
Blood clots are supposed to be so rare that they shouldn’t happen at all with our small group/friends/level of seperation.
Bubblecar said:
monkey skipper said:
She she detect the symptoms or a family member?
She was admitted to hospital with extreme breathing difficulties and was there for a couple days before they detected a blood clot in a lung and another in her heart.
I am waiting for the October vaccine ,because I was taken off a common medication in my 20’s for blood clot risks plus other risk factors I have with vaccines previously, otherwise … I would have the currently available vaccine for my age group.
Hi.
We’re back from the bane of Bris.
Spider Lily said:
buffy said:Anything could happen in between. It might be NSW you have to skirt. Something could happen in QLD that makes Tas shut their borders. Who knows…
Very true. This is also why we are going down inland. Not going anywhere near a city until the end and that will be in transit.
Again, decisions will be made as we go, I have plenty of time :)
Final whistle stop this time or probably move again in the future?
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
monkey skipper said:
She she detect the symptoms or a family member?
She was admitted to hospital with extreme breathing difficulties and was there for a couple days before they detected a blood clot in a lung and another in her heart.
Blood clots are supposed to be so rare that they shouldn’t happen at all with our small group/friends/level of seperation.
Actually pulmonary embolism comes third after coronary artery disease and stroke for the common cardiovascular diseases. That’s for the general population, not referring specifically to vaccine related ones.
If you want a big, dense, difficult to read overview, there is one here:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3718593/
“Pulmonary embolism, part I: Epidemiology, risk factors and risk stratification, pathophysiology, clinical presentation, diagnosis and nonthrombotic pulmonary embolism”
But it’s a big read and I only read the bit about incidence because that was what we were discussing.
buffy said:
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:She was admitted to hospital with extreme breathing difficulties and was there for a couple days before they detected a blood clot in a lung and another in her heart.
Blood clots are supposed to be so rare that they shouldn’t happen at all with our small group/friends/level of seperation.
Actually pulmonary embolism comes third after coronary artery disease and stroke for the common cardiovascular diseases. That’s for the general population, not referring specifically to vaccine related ones.
If you want a big, dense, difficult to read overview, there is one here:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3718593/
“Pulmonary embolism, part I: Epidemiology, risk factors and risk stratification, pathophysiology, clinical presentation, diagnosis and nonthrombotic pulmonary embolism”
But it’s a big read and I only read the bit about incidence because that was what we were discussing.
Without having read the article and based only on what i’ve learnt from years of hanging around hospitals and getting paid for it:
blood clots and pulmonary embolisms are always threats and concerns, especially with patients in their senior years.
monkey skipper said:
Final whistle stop this time or probably move again in the future?
Who knows MS waves.. I have for many years thought the Sunny Coast would be a good place to retire. I’m fairly confident I’m in Tassie for the term of my Dad’s life.. He is 86 this year and we have a history of the men lasting well into their 90s..
Who knows :)
captain_spalding said:
buffy said:
sarahs mum said:Blood clots are supposed to be so rare that they shouldn’t happen at all with our small group/friends/level of seperation.
Actually pulmonary embolism comes third after coronary artery disease and stroke for the common cardiovascular diseases. That’s for the general population, not referring specifically to vaccine related ones.
If you want a big, dense, difficult to read overview, there is one here:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3718593/
“Pulmonary embolism, part I: Epidemiology, risk factors and risk stratification, pathophysiology, clinical presentation, diagnosis and nonthrombotic pulmonary embolism”
But it’s a big read and I only read the bit about incidence because that was what we were discussing.
Without having read the article and based only on what i’ve learnt from years of hanging around hospitals and getting paid for it:
blood clots and pulmonary embolisms are always threats and concerns, especially with patients in their senior years.
In whom the diagnosis is more difficult, particularly with people with other things wrong with them. It seems deep vein thrombosis is a real devil here.
Spider Lily said:
monkey skipper said:Final whistle stop this time or probably move again in the future?
Who knows MS waves.. I have for many years thought the Sunny Coast would be a good place to retire. I’m fairly confident I’m in Tassie for the term of my Dad’s life.. He is 86 this year and we have a history of the men lasting well into their 90s..
Who knows :)
Nice.
I’m off to settle into my armchair to watch Spicks and Specks.
captain_spalding said:
buffy said:
sarahs mum said:Blood clots are supposed to be so rare that they shouldn’t happen at all with our small group/friends/level of seperation.
Actually pulmonary embolism comes third after coronary artery disease and stroke for the common cardiovascular diseases. That’s for the general population, not referring specifically to vaccine related ones.
If you want a big, dense, difficult to read overview, there is one here:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3718593/
“Pulmonary embolism, part I: Epidemiology, risk factors and risk stratification, pathophysiology, clinical presentation, diagnosis and nonthrombotic pulmonary embolism”
But it’s a big read and I only read the bit about incidence because that was what we were discussing.
Without having read the article and based only on what i’ve learnt from years of hanging around hospitals and getting paid for it:
blood clots and pulmonary embolisms are always threats and concerns, especially with patients in their senior years.
She’s 57. Apparently the clots formed the exact time after the vaccine that they normally do, so the assumption is that they’re related.
dv said:
Nice shot.
sibeen said:
dv said:
Nice shot.
cheers … was just strolling down the street and thought “that looks nice”
Nurburgring 24hr race has been red flagged for over 12 hours – just about to restart for 3 hours of racing. This will be good:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXlRJ0-ETyI
If they can find a way to gamify all aspects of work then they’ll really be on to something.
Dark Orange said:
Nurburgring 24hr race has been red flagged for over 12 hours – just about to restart for 3 hours of racing. This will be good:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXlRJ0-ETyI
Ta, a bit foggy, was that why it was stopped?
dv said:
If they can find a way to gamify all aspects of work then they’ll really be on to something.
Those blood donors are just in it for the tea and bikkies.
Peak Warming Man said:
Dark Orange said:
Nurburgring 24hr race has been red flagged for over 12 hours – just about to restart for 3 hours of racing. This will be good:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXlRJ0-ETyI
Ta, a bit foggy, was that why it was stopped?
Yup. The big issue was lack of visibility for the medical chopper if they needed it. It’s midday over there, BTW. Seeing headlights coming out of the fog at 200k/h is pretty amazing.
Dark Orange said:
Seeing headlights coming out of the fog at 200k/h is pretty amazing.
Not seeing them could be even more startling.
Salt mine in Iran.
Bubblecar said:
Salt mine in Iran.
Salt mine in Romania.
Just watched spicks and specks.
Anyone get the name of the guy playing the kora?
The Rev Dodgson said:
Just watched spicks and specks.Anyone get the name of the guy playing the kora?
I didn’t see it but this is a famous kora player, Ballaké Sissoko.
Bubblecar said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Just watched spicks and specks.Anyone get the name of the guy playing the kora?
I didn’t see it but this is a famous kora player, Ballaké Sissoko.
Ballaké Sissoko – au Centquatre
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diA2MlFJggo
Dark Orange said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Dark Orange said:
Nurburgring 24hr race has been red flagged for over 12 hours – just about to restart for 3 hours of racing. This will be good:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXlRJ0-ETyI
Ta, a bit foggy, was that why it was stopped?
Yup. The big issue was lack of visibility for the medical chopper if they needed it. It’s midday over there, BTW. Seeing headlights coming out of the fog at 200k/h is pretty amazing.
I watched the Formula 2 race this afternoon. For fans of Dick Tantrum it was another classic today. Tried a crazy move, got penalised, spent the rest of the race swearing over his radio at the team. That had to bleep out half his words.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNuQNmY37lQ
Mehditation – Home handyman
party_pants said:
Dark Orange said:
Peak Warming Man said:Ta, a bit foggy, was that why it was stopped?
Yup. The big issue was lack of visibility for the medical chopper if they needed it. It’s midday over there, BTW. Seeing headlights coming out of the fog at 200k/h is pretty amazing.
I watched the Formula 2 race this afternoon. For fans of Dick Tantrum it was another classic today. Tried a crazy move, got penalised, spent the rest of the race swearing over his radio at the team. That had to bleep out half his words.
Grant Denyer also says quite a few choice words when he gets penalised :)
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Just watched spicks and specks.Anyone get the name of the guy playing the kora?
I didn’t see it but this is a famous kora player, Ballaké Sissoko.
Ballaké Sissoko – au Centquatre
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diA2MlFJggo
It was a much younger guy on S&S, very good though.
But thanks for the link :)
Bubblecar said:
That was for Chat, not that we’re handing out fines for these little errors.
I wonder what Kylie from the Lab is doing these days.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:I didn’t see it but this is a famous kora player, Ballaké Sissoko.
Ballaké Sissoko – au Centquatre
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diA2MlFJggo
It was a much younger guy on S&S, very good though.
But thanks for the link :)
Here he is:
https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/lifematters/800-years-of-music-in-one-busker/10616520
Took a bit of finding.
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
That was for Chat, not that we’re handing out fines for these little errors.
I wonder what Kylie from the Lab is doing these days.
I retired and live on the edge of a hill. Thank you for asking.
buffy said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Bubblecar said:Ballaké Sissoko – au Centquatre
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diA2MlFJggo
It was a much younger guy on S&S, very good though.
But thanks for the link :)
Here he is:
https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/lifematters/800-years-of-music-in-one-busker/10616520
Took a bit of finding.
Thanks buffy, ABC really should have given him a mention in the program guide.
Amadou Suso
The Rev Dodgson said:
buffy said:
The Rev Dodgson said:It was a much younger guy on S&S, very good though.
But thanks for the link :)
Here he is:
https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/lifematters/800-years-of-music-in-one-busker/10616520
Took a bit of finding.
Thanks buffy, ABC really should have given him a mention in the program guide.
Amadou Suso
He’s pretty good.
dv said:
So it appears the coalition is Israel will be made up of
Yesh Atid 17
Blue and White 8 Labor Party 7
Yisrael Beiteinu 7
New Hope 6
Meretz 6 Yamina 7 (but only 6 agreeing to the coalition)
Ra’am 4This comes to precisely 61 seats, the minimum number required to form government in the 120 seat Knesset.
Under the reported deal, Bennett (Yamina leader) would serve as prime minister for the government’s first two years, with Lapid (Yesh Atid) replacing him for the final two years.
You could scarcely construct a broader coalition, really only united by opposition to Netanyahu. Labor and Ra’am (an Arab party) probably figure that this is their best shot of having some kind of voice, as if the coalition fails there will just be another election.
Speaking of unlikely coalitions:
In Hungary a coalition has been formed of every significant party other than Victor Orban’s Fidesz–KDNP. Their unifying motivation is opposition to Orban’s extravagant corruption and anti-EU stance.
United Opposition includes the Socialists, various Green and Centre-Left parties, but also Jobbik, which were formerly quite far right but have moderated to be a kind of typical nationalist but not-anti-EU party. Hungary has a unicameral assembly that is made up of 106 first-past-the-post seats and 93 proportional allocation seats: forming this alliance will certainly give them a better chance of removing Orban from office. Their PM candidate will be selected by a set of primary elections, and their platform is still being hammered out.
Ooh – quite rare indeed for the Guardian. A gender-critical feminist actually allowed to mildly criticise the transgender lobby group Stonewall.
Stonewall risks all it has fought for in accusing those who disagree with it of hate speech
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jun/06/stonewall-risks-all-it-has-fought-for-in-accusing-those-who-disagree-with-it-of-hate-speech
Bubblecar said:
Ooh – quite rare indeed for the Guardian. A gender-critical feminist actually allowed to mildly criticise the transgender lobby group Stonewall.Stonewall risks all it has fought for in accusing those who disagree with it of hate speech
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jun/06/stonewall-risks-all-it-has-fought-for-in-accusing-those-who-disagree-with-it-of-hate-speech
It is certainly right to criticise Stonewall for not fully representing the range of views in the movement it represents, and also for misrepresenting a complex legal reality, perhaps thinking “can’t spell allies without lies!”
dv said:
Bubblecar said:
Ooh – quite rare indeed for the Guardian. A gender-critical feminist actually allowed to mildly criticise the transgender lobby group Stonewall.Stonewall risks all it has fought for in accusing those who disagree with it of hate speech
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jun/06/stonewall-risks-all-it-has-fought-for-in-accusing-those-who-disagree-with-it-of-hate-speech
It is certainly right to criticise Stonewall for not fully representing the range of views in the movement it represents, and also for misrepresenting a complex legal reality, perhaps thinking “can’t spell allies without lies!”
You’ll find that many UK gays and especially lesbians regard themselves as opponents of Stonewall.
Bubblecar said:
dv said:
Bubblecar said:
Ooh – quite rare indeed for the Guardian. A gender-critical feminist actually allowed to mildly criticise the transgender lobby group Stonewall.Stonewall risks all it has fought for in accusing those who disagree with it of hate speech
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jun/06/stonewall-risks-all-it-has-fought-for-in-accusing-those-who-disagree-with-it-of-hate-speech
It is certainly right to criticise Stonewall for not fully representing the range of views in the movement it represents, and also for misrepresenting a complex legal reality, perhaps thinking “can’t spell allies without lies!”
You’ll find that many UK gays and especially lesbians regard themselves as opponents of Stonewall.
Yes I’m aware. LGBA is hoovering up a lot of Stonewall’s support.
Remains of nine Neanderthals discovered near Rome
https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/national/remains-of-nine-neanderthals-discovered-near-rome/video/a7e5c6d4bb35765eae048a469580f73c
NASA-Funded CIBER-2 Sounding Rocket Identifies the Complete Count of Stars, Expected to Increase
https://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/31550/20210605/nasa-funded-ciber-2-sounding-rocket-identifies-complete-count-stars.htm
Morning punters and correctors, zero degrees, no wind and sunny at the redoubt.
Peak Warming Man said:
Morning punters and correctors, zero degrees, no wind and sunny at the redoubt.
Morning all.
16° & drizzle here.
Tamb said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Morning punters and correctors, zero degrees, no wind and sunny at the redoubt.
Morning all.
16° & drizzle here.
Just plain old another one of our 300+ sunny days.
Good morning Holidayers. Presently 9 degrees and bloody windy. Gusting 50-60 by my estimation. Our forecast for today is for showers developing, windy.
Good morning everybody.
It’s 12.5°C, 74% RH, and clear with light breezes. BoM predicts a top of 23°C and virtually no chance of rain. The satellite image bears that prediction out.
What I do today will mostly be guided by how Mrs V’s lurgi goes.
But I must make the oil temper for the hot lime pickles, seeing as I bought the ingredients on Friday.
Morning, -1.6 in the Styx, clear and sunny.
When I woke this morning, I could hear my heartbeat quite strongly in my left ear. This has continued, but is not as loud now.
Michael V said:
When I woke this morning, I could hear my heartbeat quite strongly in my left ear. This has continued, but is not as loud now.
The good news is that your heart is obviously still working. Well, at least it was.
Dark Orange said:
Michael V said:
When I woke this morning, I could hear my heartbeat quite strongly in my left ear. This has continued, but is not as loud now.
The good news is that your heart is obviously still working. Well, at least it was.
LOLOL
:)
BP this morning: 118/80. Yep – working just fine.
:)
Michael V said:
Dark Orange said:
Michael V said:
When I woke this morning, I could hear my heartbeat quite strongly in my left ear. This has continued, but is not as loud now.
The good news is that your heart is obviously still working. Well, at least it was.
LOLOL
:)
BP this morning: 118/80. Yep – working just fine.
:)
Mrs V is congested, therefore is also a chance that you may also be congested. This is a likely cause of the symptom of loud heartbeat in one ear.
El Salvador President announces plan to make Bitcoin legal tender
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele says the plan will generate jobs and provide financial inclusion to a country where 70 per cent of people do not have a bank account.
Michael V said:
Good morning everybody.It’s 12.5°C, 74% RH, and clear with light breezes. BoM predicts a top of 23°C and virtually no chance of rain. The satellite image bears that prediction out.
What I do today will mostly be guided by how Mrs V’s lurgi goes.
But I must make the oil temper for the hot lime pickles, seeing as I bought the ingredients on Friday.
Is that my recipe? well not exactly “mine”, but the one I use.
roughbarked said:
El Salvador President announces plan to make Bitcoin legal tender
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele says the plan will generate jobs and provide financial inclusion to a country where 70 per cent of people do not have a bank account.
Interesting.
So how do the 70% pay to buy a bitcoin, or access the money if they sell one?
I don’t know how bitcoin works for small amounts either.
If you pay for a coffee with a bitcoin, do you get $60,000 in loose change, or what?
The Rev Dodgson said:
roughbarked said:
El Salvador President announces plan to make Bitcoin legal tender
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele says the plan will generate jobs and provide financial inclusion to a country where 70 per cent of people do not have a bank account.
Interesting.
So how do the 70% pay to buy a bitcoin, or access the money if they sell one?
I don’t know how bitcoin works for small amounts either.
If you pay for a coffee with a bitcoin, do you get $60,000 in loose change, or what?
you use a card and it just transfers a portion of the bitcoin. you can sell someone you bitcoins for real money, just like shares.
Bogsnorkler said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
roughbarked said:
El Salvador President announces plan to make Bitcoin legal tender
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele says the plan will generate jobs and provide financial inclusion to a country where 70 per cent of people do not have a bank account.
Interesting.
So how do the 70% pay to buy a bitcoin, or access the money if they sell one?
I don’t know how bitcoin works for small amounts either.
If you pay for a coffee with a bitcoin, do you get $60,000 in loose change, or what?
you use a card and it just transfers a portion of the bitcoin. you can sell someone you bitcoins for real money, just like shares.
your. i seem to make that mistake quite often..
The Rev Dodgson said:
roughbarked said:
El Salvador President announces plan to make Bitcoin legal tender
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele says the plan will generate jobs and provide financial inclusion to a country where 70 per cent of people do not have a bank account.
Interesting.
So how do the 70% pay to buy a bitcoin, or access the money if they sell one?
I don’t know how bitcoin works for small amounts either.
If you pay for a coffee with a bitcoin, do you get $60,000 in loose change, or what?
Yes. It does arouse one’s interest in mathematics.
Bogsnorkler said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
roughbarked said:
El Salvador President announces plan to make Bitcoin legal tender
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele says the plan will generate jobs and provide financial inclusion to a country where 70 per cent of people do not have a bank account.
Interesting.
So how do the 70% pay to buy a bitcoin, or access the money if they sell one?
I don’t know how bitcoin works for small amounts either.
If you pay for a coffee with a bitcoin, do you get $60,000 in loose change, or what?
you use a card and it just transfers a portion of the bitcoin. you can sell someone you bitcoins for real money, just like shares.
OK, but how do you do that without a bank account?
And if you have a card keeping track of your little portion of a bitcoin, how does that differ from a bank cash card?
Bogsnorkler said:
Bogsnorkler said:
The Rev Dodgson said:Interesting.
So how do the 70% pay to buy a bitcoin, or access the money if they sell one?
I don’t know how bitcoin works for small amounts either.
If you pay for a coffee with a bitcoin, do you get $60,000 in loose change, or what?
you use a card and it just transfers a portion of the bitcoin. you can sell someone you bitcoins for real money, just like shares.
your. i seem to make that mistake quite often..
Tremor in one fiinger? I seem to double up on i’s and o’s.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Bogsnorkler said:
The Rev Dodgson said:Interesting.
So how do the 70% pay to buy a bitcoin, or access the money if they sell one?
I don’t know how bitcoin works for small amounts either.
If you pay for a coffee with a bitcoin, do you get $60,000 in loose change, or what?
you use a card and it just transfers a portion of the bitcoin. you can sell someone you bitcoins for real money, just like shares.
OK, but how do you do that without a bank account?
And if you have a card keeping track of your little portion of a bitcoin, how does that differ from a bank cash card?
if you don’t have a bank account then you go to your bitcoin account via some electronic means and transfer the amount to the account of the person you wish to pay.
Wet & windy. Good job I don’t need to venture out of the house today.
Bogsnorkler said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Bogsnorkler said:you use a card and it just transfers a portion of the bitcoin. you can sell someone you bitcoins for real money, just like shares.
OK, but how do you do that without a bank account?
And if you have a card keeping track of your little portion of a bitcoin, how does that differ from a bank cash card?
if you don’t have a bank account then you go to your bitcoin account via some electronic means and transfer the amount to the account of the person you wish to pay.
What are these “electronic means” that don’t involve the transfer of money from a bank account somewhere along the line?
The Rev Dodgson said:
Bogsnorkler said:
The Rev Dodgson said:Interesting.
So how do the 70% pay to buy a bitcoin, or access the money if they sell one?
I don’t know how bitcoin works for small amounts either.
If you pay for a coffee with a bitcoin, do you get $60,000 in loose change, or what?
you use a card and it just transfers a portion of the bitcoin. you can sell someone you bitcoins for real money, just like shares.
OK, but how do you do that without a bank account?
And if you have a card keeping track of your little portion of a bitcoin, how does that differ from a bank cash card?
the second question, it doesn’t but then that isn’t really what we are talking about. plus you just said what if you don’t have a bank account.
Bogsnorkler said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Bogsnorkler said:you use a card and it just transfers a portion of the bitcoin. you can sell someone you bitcoins for real money, just like shares.
OK, but how do you do that without a bank account?
And if you have a card keeping track of your little portion of a bitcoin, how does that differ from a bank cash card?
if you don’t have a bank account then you go to your bitcoin account via some electronic means and transfer the amount to the account of the person you wish to pay.
If you don’t have a bank account, is it likely that you’ll have an internet account?
The Rev Dodgson said:
Bogsnorkler said:
The Rev Dodgson said:OK, but how do you do that without a bank account?
And if you have a card keeping track of your little portion of a bitcoin, how does that differ from a bank cash card?
if you don’t have a bank account then you go to your bitcoin account via some electronic means and transfer the amount to the account of the person you wish to pay.
What are these “electronic means” that don’t involve the transfer of money from a bank account somewhere along the line?
no need for a bank account. if both parties have a bitcoin account then just transfer between them. and you’re asking about “electronic means”, really?
roughbarked said:
Bogsnorkler said:
The Rev Dodgson said:OK, but how do you do that without a bank account?
And if you have a card keeping track of your little portion of a bitcoin, how does that differ from a bank cash card?
if you don’t have a bank account then you go to your bitcoin account via some electronic means and transfer the amount to the account of the person you wish to pay.
If you don’t have a bank account, is it likely that you’ll have an internet account?
yes, your bitcoins aren’t in a bank account. they are in your bitcoin wallet, and online system.
https://bitcoin.org/en/choose-your-wallet
Bogsnorkler said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Bogsnorkler said:if you don’t have a bank account then you go to your bitcoin account via some electronic means and transfer the amount to the account of the person you wish to pay.
What are these “electronic means” that don’t involve the transfer of money from a bank account somewhere along the line?
no need for a bank account. if both parties have a bitcoin account then just transfer between them. and you’re asking about “electronic means”, really?
How do you pay for your first bitcoin (or part of) without some way of transferring cash electronically?
The Rev Dodgson said:
Bogsnorkler said:
The Rev Dodgson said:What are these “electronic means” that don’t involve the transfer of money from a bank account somewhere along the line?
no need for a bank account. if both parties have a bitcoin account then just transfer between them. and you’re asking about “electronic means”, really?
How do you pay for your first bitcoin (or part of) without some way of transferring cash electronically?
give someone a bundle of notes.
Bogsnorkler said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Bogsnorkler said:no need for a bank account. if both parties have a bitcoin account then just transfer between them. and you’re asking about “electronic means”, really?
How do you pay for your first bitcoin (or part of) without some way of transferring cash electronically?
give someone a bundle of notes.
So you are saying you give someone some cash, and in return get an electronic record of the transaction, but this is somehow different to a bank account?
The Rev Dodgson said:
Bogsnorkler said:
The Rev Dodgson said:How do you pay for your first bitcoin (or part of) without some way of transferring cash electronically?
give someone a bundle of notes.
So you are saying you give someone some cash, and in return get an electronic record of the transaction, but this is somehow different to a bank account?
never said it was different to a bank account.
The US dollar is El Salvador’s official currency.
About one-quarter of El Salvador’s citizens live in the United States and last year, despite the pandemic, they sent home more than $US6 billion ($7.75 billion) in remittances.
Mr Bukele, in subsequent messages on Twitter, noted that Bitcoin could be “the fastest growing way to transfer 6 billion dollars a year in remittances.”
He said that a big chunk of those money transfers were currently lost to intermediaries and with Bitcoin, more than a million low-income families could benefit.
Bogsnorkler said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Bogsnorkler said:give someone a bundle of notes.
So you are saying you give someone some cash, and in return get an electronic record of the transaction, but this is somehow different to a bank account?
never said it was different to a bank account.
Sorry, I thought you were telling me how these things work without a bank account. I must have misunderstood.
roughbarked said:
The US dollar is El Salvador’s official currency.About one-quarter of El Salvador’s citizens live in the United States and last year, despite the pandemic, they sent home more than $US6 billion ($7.75 billion) in remittances.
Mr Bukele, in subsequent messages on Twitter, noted that Bitcoin could be “the fastest growing way to transfer 6 billion dollars a year in remittances.”
He said that a big chunk of those money transfers were currently lost to intermediaries and with Bitcoin, more than a million low-income families could benefit.
That would be really funny if it wasn’t so sad.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Bogsnorkler said:
The Rev Dodgson said:So you are saying you give someone some cash, and in return get an electronic record of the transaction, but this is somehow different to a bank account?
never said it was different to a bank account.
Sorry, I thought you were telling me how these things work without a bank account. I must have misunderstood.
I was. a bank account isn’t a requirement. it is handy to have though.
Bogsnorkler said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Bogsnorkler said:never said it was different to a bank account.
Sorry, I thought you were telling me how these things work without a bank account. I must have misunderstood.
I was. a bank account isn’t a requirement. it is handy to have though.
I don’t have a clue what you are on about then.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Bogsnorkler said:
The Rev Dodgson said:Sorry, I thought you were telling me how these things work without a bank account. I must have misunderstood.
I was. a bank account isn’t a requirement. it is handy to have though.
I don’t have a clue what you are on about then.
that isn’t a fault of mine.
Bogsnorkler said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Bogsnorkler said:I was. a bank account isn’t a requirement. it is handy to have though.
I don’t have a clue what you are on about then.
that isn’t a fault of mine.
It must be roughbarked’s fault then, because it isn’t mine.
Bogsnorkler said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Bogsnorkler said:I was. a bank account isn’t a requirement. it is handy to have though.
I don’t have a clue what you are on about then.
that isn’t a fault of mine.
Well, he may still have no clue if you hadn’t been on about it?
The Rev Dodgson said:
Bogsnorkler said:
The Rev Dodgson said:I don’t have a clue what you are on about then.
that isn’t a fault of mine.
It must be roughbarked’s fault then, because it isn’t mine.
it is yours. you are stuck in the old ways of needing a bank account and can’t see past that.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Bogsnorkler said:
The Rev Dodgson said:I don’t have a clue what you are on about then.
that isn’t a fault of mine.
It must be roughbarked’s fault then, because it isn’t mine.
It’s my fault, I apologise.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Bogsnorkler said:
The Rev Dodgson said:I don’t have a clue what you are on about then.
that isn’t a fault of mine.
It must be roughbarked’s fault then, because it isn’t mine.
go on.. kick the can. ;)
Bubblecar said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Bogsnorkler said:that isn’t a fault of mine.
It must be roughbarked’s fault then, because it isn’t mine.
It’s my fault, I apologise.
wot’d udo?
Bogsnorkler said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Bogsnorkler said:that isn’t a fault of mine.
It must be roughbarked’s fault then, because it isn’t mine.
it is yours. you are stuck in the old ways of needing a bank account and can’t see past that.
Yes dear.
(Or if you would like it in plain English, you don’t have a fucking clue what I think).
The second Test starts Thursday at Edgbaston and England will be missing Robinson for that match.
Bogsnorkler said:
Michael V said:
Good morning everybody.It’s 12.5°C, 74% RH, and clear with light breezes. BoM predicts a top of 23°C and virtually no chance of rain. The satellite image bears that prediction out.
What I do today will mostly be guided by how Mrs V’s lurgi goes.
But I must make the oil temper for the hot lime pickles, seeing as I bought the ingredients on Friday.
Is that my recipe? well not exactly “mine”, but the one I use.
Yes. It’s been slowly fermenting on the bench since 2 May. The original bitterness and extreme fieriness has now disappeared into the background.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Bogsnorkler said:
The Rev Dodgson said:It must be roughbarked’s fault then, because it isn’t mine.
it is yours. you are stuck in the old ways of needing a bank account and can’t see past that.
Yes dear.
(Or if you would like it in plain English, you don’t have a fucking clue what I think).
None of us do and same goes the other way.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Bogsnorkler said:
The Rev Dodgson said:It must be roughbarked’s fault then, because it isn’t mine.
it is yours. you are stuck in the old ways of needing a bank account and can’t see past that.
Yes dear.
(Or if you would like it in plain English, you don’t have a fucking clue what I think).
LOL, I have taught you well.
roughbarked said:
The second Test starts Thursday at Edgbaston and England will be missing Robinson for that match.
at least it isn’t a towel.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Bogsnorkler said:
The Rev Dodgson said:OK, but how do you do that without a bank account?
And if you have a card keeping track of your little portion of a bitcoin, how does that differ from a bank cash card?
if you don’t have a bank account then you go to your bitcoin account via some electronic means and transfer the amount to the account of the person you wish to pay.
What are these “electronic means” that don’t involve the transfer of money from a bank account somewhere along the line?
Mobile phone.
Bogsnorkler said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Bogsnorkler said:it is yours. you are stuck in the old ways of needing a bank account and can’t see past that.
Yes dear.
(Or if you would like it in plain English, you don’t have a fucking clue what I think).
LOL, I have taught you well.
Bogsnorkler said:
roughbarked said:
The second Test starts Thursday at Edgbaston and England will be missing Robinson for that match.
at least it isn’t a towel.
I couldn’t use that word, as you can see. ;)
Michael V said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Bogsnorkler said:if you don’t have a bank account then you go to your bitcoin account via some electronic means and transfer the amount to the account of the person you wish to pay.
What are these “electronic means” that don’t involve the transfer of money from a bank account somewhere along the line?
Mobile phone.
yep, tablet, ipad, desktop, notebook, laptop, etc.
Michael V said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Bogsnorkler said:if you don’t have a bank account then you go to your bitcoin account via some electronic means and transfer the amount to the account of the person you wish to pay.
What are these “electronic means” that don’t involve the transfer of money from a bank account somewhere along the line?
Mobile phone.
If the 70% of the population have a mobile phone in their informal economy.
roughbarked said:
Michael V said:
The Rev Dodgson said:What are these “electronic means” that don’t involve the transfer of money from a bank account somewhere along the line?
Mobile phone.
If the 70% of the population have a mobile phone in their informal economy.
https://www.rocketremit.com/2020/06/08/how-mobile-money-in-africa-is-changing-peoples-lives/
Bogsnorkler said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Bogsnorkler said:that isn’t a fault of mine.
It must be roughbarked’s fault then, because it isn’t mine.
it is yours. you are stuck in the old ways of needing a bank account and can’t see past that.
Most people in East Africa don’t have bank accounts. They have mobile phones. The mobile phone companies are the surrogate banks. People can transfer their phone credit to another person to pay when they purchase something.
Michael V said:
Bogsnorkler said:
The Rev Dodgson said:It must be roughbarked’s fault then, because it isn’t mine.
it is yours. you are stuck in the old ways of needing a bank account and can’t see past that.
Most people in East Africa don’t have bank accounts. They have mobile phones. The mobile phone companies are the surrogate banks. People can transfer their phone credit to another person to pay when they purchase something.
snap.
:-)
Bogsnorkler said:
Michael V said:
Bogsnorkler said:it is yours. you are stuck in the old ways of needing a bank account and can’t see past that.
Most people in East Africa don’t have bank accounts. They have mobile phones. The mobile phone companies are the surrogate banks. People can transfer their phone credit to another person to pay when they purchase something.
snap.
:-)
Yeah.
:)
I was amazed when I saw it happening. Nine years ago, too.
Michael V said:
Bogsnorkler said:
The Rev Dodgson said:It must be roughbarked’s fault then, because it isn’t mine.
it is yours. you are stuck in the old ways of needing a bank account and can’t see past that.
Most people in East Africa don’t have bank accounts. They have mobile phones. The mobile phone companies are the surrogate banks. People can transfer their phone credit to another person to pay when they purchase something.
They are not surrogate banks.
They are banks.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Michael V said:
Bogsnorkler said:it is yours. you are stuck in the old ways of needing a bank account and can’t see past that.
Most people in East Africa don’t have bank accounts. They have mobile phones. The mobile phone companies are the surrogate banks. People can transfer their phone credit to another person to pay when they purchase something.
They are not surrogate banks.
They are banks.
straw….grasp.
Bogsnorkler said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Michael V said:Most people in East Africa don’t have bank accounts. They have mobile phones. The mobile phone companies are the surrogate banks. People can transfer their phone credit to another person to pay when they purchase something.
They are not surrogate banks.
They are banks.
straw….grasp.
Have a nice day.
Michael V said:
Bogsnorkler said:
Michael V said:Most people in East Africa don’t have bank accounts. They have mobile phones. The mobile phone companies are the surrogate banks. People can transfer their phone credit to another person to pay when they purchase something.
snap.
:-)
Yeah.
:)
I was amazed when I saw it happening. Nine years ago, too.
necessity is the mothers of invention.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Bogsnorkler said:
The Rev Dodgson said:They are not surrogate banks.
They are banks.
straw….grasp.
Have a nice day.
LOL, you always say that when you don’t have an argument.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Bogsnorkler said:
The Rev Dodgson said:Interesting.
So how do the 70% pay to buy a bitcoin, or access the money if they sell one?
I don’t know how bitcoin works for small amounts either.
If you pay for a coffee with a bitcoin, do you get $60,000 in loose change, or what?
you use a card and it just transfers a portion of the bitcoin. you can sell someone you bitcoins for real money, just like shares.
OK, but how do you do that without a bank account?
And if you have a card keeping track of your little portion of a bitcoin, how does that differ from a bank cash card?
You do it with a bitcoin wallet. But that needs a smart device or computer.
Oops… a long way behind chat here.
Dark Orange said:
Oops… a long way behind chat here.
Happens.
Sometimes better to read it backwards.
roughbarked said:
Dark Orange said:
Oops… a long way behind chat here.
Happens.
Sometimes better to read it backwards.
like a hot metal compositor
roughbarked said:
Dark Orange said:
Oops… a long way behind chat here.
Happens.
Sometimes better to read it backwards.
I thought I was. A refresh cured me of that delusion.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Michael V said:
Bogsnorkler said:it is yours. you are stuck in the old ways of needing a bank account and can’t see past that.
Most people in East Africa don’t have bank accounts. They have mobile phones. The mobile phone companies are the surrogate banks. People can transfer their phone credit to another person to pay when they purchase something.
They are not surrogate banks.
They are banks.
By the literal definition of “bank”, yes they are. But not the legal definition. They have the power of the banks but without the responsibilities or restrictions.
Dark Orange said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Michael V said:Most people in East Africa don’t have bank accounts. They have mobile phones. The mobile phone companies are the surrogate banks. People can transfer their phone credit to another person to pay when they purchase something.
They are not surrogate banks.
They are banks.
By the literal definition of “bank”, yes they are. But not the legal definition. They have the power of the banks but without the responsibilities or restrictions.
yes, and I think we were talking about the normal definition of a bank. before the goalposts got moved.
roughbarked said:
Michael V said:
The Rev Dodgson said:What are these “electronic means” that don’t involve the transfer of money from a bank account somewhere along the line?
Mobile phone.
If the 70% of the population have a mobile phone in their informal economy.
Ah yes. Is that the level for herd immunity of bank accounts. I understand now.
roughbarked said:
Dark Orange said:
Oops… a long way behind chat here.
Happens.
Sometimes better to read it backwards.
ereh tahc dniheb yaw gnol a …. spoO.
Nup. That doesn’t work.
Woodie said:
roughbarked said:
Dark Orange said:
Oops… a long way behind chat here.
Happens.
Sometimes better to read it backwards.
ereh tahc dniheb yaw gnol a …. spoO.
Nup. That doesn’t work.
:)
Morning ollie deez Monday. :)
16.7C & 53% indoors
16.5C & 65% outdoors
1025 hPa and steady
It’s a same as day today. Same as yesterday.
Headed for 21C
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/06/netanyahu-says-israeli-coalition-is-result-of-election-fraud
LOL.
Dark Orange said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Michael V said:Most people in East Africa don’t have bank accounts. They have mobile phones. The mobile phone companies are the surrogate banks. People can transfer their phone credit to another person to pay when they purchase something.
They are not surrogate banks.
They are banks.
By the literal definition of “bank”, yes they are. But not the legal definition. They have the power of the banks but without the responsibilities or restrictions.
That sound entirely reasonable.
Bogsnorkler said:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/06/netanyahu-says-israeli-coalition-is-result-of-election-fraudLOL.
Yeah, Benny, that’s a good strategy. Look how well it worked out for Trump.
captain_spalding said:
Bogsnorkler said:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/06/netanyahu-says-israeli-coalition-is-result-of-election-fraudLOL.
Yeah, Benny, that’s a good strategy. Look how well it worked out for Trump.
What do they have to replace racoons in Israel?
If a report finds that in 40 years another 1.7 million dwelling places may be required to house the estimated increased population, is it reasonable to consider the headline:
“NSW needs 1.7 million new homes”
a bit misleading?
Christopher talken’”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7Cbzrp6I5I
Bogsnorkler said:
Dark Orange said:
The Rev Dodgson said:They are not surrogate banks.
They are banks.
By the literal definition of “bank”, yes they are. But not the legal definition. They have the power of the banks but without the responsibilities or restrictions.
yes, and I think we were talking about the normal definition of a bank. before the goalposts got moved.
Goalposts. They get moved a lot here…
Michael V said:
Bogsnorkler said:
Dark Orange said:By the literal definition of “bank”, yes they are. But not the legal definition. They have the power of the banks but without the responsibilities or restrictions.
yes, and I think we were talking about the normal definition of a bank. before the goalposts got moved.
Goalposts. They get moved a lot here…
though if you are a shit kick it can be helpful. maybe. if the go the right way at the right time.
The Rev Dodgson said:
If a report finds that in 40 years another 1.7 million dwelling places may be required to house the estimated increased population, is it reasonable to consider the headline:
“NSW needs 1.7 million new homes”
a bit misleading?
Yes
captain_spalding said:
Bogsnorkler said:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/06/netanyahu-says-israeli-coalition-is-result-of-election-fraudLOL.
Yeah, Benny, that’s a good strategy. Look how well it worked out for Trump.
Hey, Bibi’s the fraud expert.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Bogsnorkler said:
The Rev Dodgson said:It must be roughbarked’s fault then, because it isn’t mine.
it is yours. you are stuck in the old ways of needing a bank account and can’t see past that.
Yes dear.
(Or if you would like it in plain English, you don’t have a fucking clue what I think).
Just so as some haven’t been following and thus think I’m being aggressive or somesuch. just a bit of humour. and pointing out hypocrisy, maybe.
Bogsnorkler said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Bogsnorkler said:it is yours. you are stuck in the old ways of needing a bank account and can’t see past that.
Yes dear.
(Or if you would like it in plain English, you don’t have a fucking clue what I think).
Just so as some haven’t been following and thus think I’m being aggressive or somesuch. just a bit of humour. and pointing out hypocrisy, maybe.
Let’s not fight. You BOTH suck.
dv said:
Bogsnorkler said:
The Rev Dodgson said:Yes dear.
(Or if you would like it in plain English, you don’t have a fucking clue what I think).
Just so as some haven’t been following and thus think I’m being aggressive or somesuch. just a bit of humour. and pointing out hypocrisy, maybe.
Let’s not fight. You BOTH suck.
IWDV.
dv said:
Bogsnorkler said:
The Rev Dodgson said:Yes dear.
(Or if you would like it in plain English, you don’t have a fucking clue what I think).
Just so as some haven’t been following and thus think I’m being aggressive or somesuch. just a bit of humour. and pointing out hypocrisy, maybe.
Let’s not fight. You BOTH suck.
I prefer to think of it more a difference in air pressure than “suction”.
Just a pile of old rocks.
But it is home, where I live and take her for walks.
dv said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
If a report finds that in 40 years another 1.7 million dwelling places may be required to house the estimated increased population, is it reasonable to consider the headline:
“NSW needs 1.7 million new homes”
a bit misleading?
Yes
Get your misleading headlines here:
https://www.afr.com/politics/nsw-needs-to-build-1-7-million-extra-homes-20210606-p57yij
Bogsnorkler said:
dv said:
Bogsnorkler said:Just so as some haven’t been following and thus think I’m being aggressive or somesuch. just a bit of humour. and pointing out hypocrisy, maybe.
Let’s not fight. You BOTH suck.
I prefer to think of it more a difference in air pressure than “suction”.
air is pushed into both of you due to a positive contrast between the ambient pressure and your internal pressure
Bogsnorkler said:
dv said:
Bogsnorkler said:Just so as some haven’t been following and thus think I’m being aggressive or somesuch. just a bit of humour. and pointing out hypocrisy, maybe.
Let’s not fight. You BOTH suck.
I prefer to think of it more a difference in air pressure than “suction”.
I thought that was the definition of how a politician works?
The Rev Dodgson said:
dv said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
If a report finds that in 40 years another 1.7 million dwelling places may be required to house the estimated increased population, is it reasonable to consider the headline:
“NSW needs 1.7 million new homes”
a bit misleading?
Yes
Get your misleading headlines here:
https://www.afr.com/politics/nsw-needs-to-build-1-7-million-extra-homes-20210606-p57yij
Unless all of these new people are kind of introverted and REALLY need their own space
dv said:
Bogsnorkler said:
dv said:Let’s not fight. You BOTH suck.
I prefer to think of it more a difference in air pressure than “suction”.
air is pushed into both of you due to a positive contrast between the ambient pressure and your internal pressure
I’m not sure this compliment is really warranted, but thanks anyway.
dv said:
Bogsnorkler said:
dv said:Let’s not fight. You BOTH suck.
I prefer to think of it more a difference in air pressure than “suction”.
air is pushed into both of you due to a positive contrast between the ambient pressure and your internal pressure
I also have high pressure areas that I get a gas transfer from internal locations to the outside.
The Rev Dodgson said:
dv said:
Bogsnorkler said:I prefer to think of it more a difference in air pressure than “suction”.
air is pushed into both of you due to a positive contrast between the ambient pressure and your internal pressure
I’m not sure this compliment is really warranted, but thanks anyway.
Breathe in, breathe out, be here now , when out.
Bogsnorkler said:
dv said:
Bogsnorkler said:I prefer to think of it more a difference in air pressure than “suction”.
air is pushed into both of you due to a positive contrast between the ambient pressure and your internal pressure
I also have high pressure areas that I get a gas transfer from internal locations to the outside.
Let us please hear less froom your sphincter.
Bogsnorkler said:
I also have high pressure areas that I get a gas transfer from internal locations to the outside.
As of now, i do not ‘fart’.
It’s ‘pressure equalisation’.
The Rev Dodgson said:
dv said:
Bogsnorkler said:I prefer to think of it more a difference in air pressure than “suction”.
air is pushed into both of you due to a positive contrast between the ambient pressure and your internal pressure
I’m not sure this compliment is really warranted, but thanks anyway.
Also I think it should be said, I only suck about half the time.
The Rev Dodgson said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
dv said:air is pushed into both of you due to a positive contrast between the ambient pressure and your internal pressure
I’m not sure this compliment is really warranted, but thanks anyway.
Also I think it should be said, I only suck about half the time.
and blow the other?
Bogsnorkler said:
dv said:
Bogsnorkler said:I prefer to think of it more a difference in air pressure than “suction”.
air is pushed into both of you due to a positive contrast between the ambient pressure and your internal pressure
I also have high pressure areas that I get a gas transfer from internal locations to the outside.
And so the circle of life continues
roughbarked said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
The Rev Dodgson said:I’m not sure this compliment is really warranted, but thanks anyway.
Also I think it should be said, I only suck about half the time.
and blow the other?
Exhale mindfully, if you don’t mind.
ABC News:
‘NAB, Crown, SkyCity face AUSTRAC money laundering investigations
By business reporters Michael Janda and Rhiana Whitson
National Australia Bank and Crown Perth are both facing the possibility of multi-million-dollar penalties for potential breaches of anti-money laundering laws.’
‘…the possibility…’?
If it hadn’t been for the money-laundering opportunities, they wouldn’t have gone to the bother of setting up the casinos.
Bogsnorkler said:
dv said:
Bogsnorkler said:I prefer to think of it more a difference in air pressure than “suction”.
air is pushed into both of you due to a positive contrast between the ambient pressure and your internal pressure
I also have high pressure areas that I get a gas transfer from internal locations to the outside.
We know. You both suck and blow.
dv said:
Bogsnorkler said:
dv said:air is pushed into both of you due to a positive contrast between the ambient pressure and your internal pressure
I also have high pressure areas that I get a gas transfer from internal locations to the outside.
And so the circle of life continues
Humans have a lifespan of two minutes. Breathing resets the timer.
The Rev Dodgson said:
roughbarked said:
The Rev Dodgson said:Also I think it should be said, I only suck about half the time.
and blow the other?
Exhale mindfully, if you don’t mind.
in other words you also inhale mindfully?
Bogsnorkler said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Bogsnorkler said:it is yours. you are stuck in the old ways of needing a bank account and can’t see past that.
Yes dear.
(Or if you would like it in plain English, you don’t have a fucking clue what I think).
Just so as some haven’t been following and thus think I’m being aggressive or somesuch. just a bit of humour. and pointing out hypocrisy, maybe.
S’ok. We know you’re the biggest shit stirrer here.
Ian said:
Bogsnorkler said:
The Rev Dodgson said:Yes dear.
(Or if you would like it in plain English, you don’t have a fucking clue what I think).
Just so as some haven’t been following and thus think I’m being aggressive or somesuch. just a bit of humour. and pointing out hypocrisy, maybe.
S’ok. We know you’re the biggest shit stirrer here.
..well, at least top 10
Ian said:
Bogsnorkler said:
The Rev Dodgson said:Yes dear.
(Or if you would like it in plain English, you don’t have a fucking clue what I think).
Just so as some haven’t been following and thus think I’m being aggressive or somesuch. just a bit of humour. and pointing out hypocrisy, maybe.
S’ok. We know you’re the biggest shit stirrer here.
someone has to don the mantle and be the target for the slings and arrows
Wonder what made them decide this image was an effective way to advertise chocolate biscuits.
Ian said:
Bogsnorkler said:
The Rev Dodgson said:Yes dear.
(Or if you would like it in plain English, you don’t have a fucking clue what I think).
Just so as some haven’t been following and thus think I’m being aggressive or somesuch. just a bit of humour. and pointing out hypocrisy, maybe.
S’ok. We know you’re the biggest shit stirrer here.
He likes to lead us to think he’s that flash of brightness in the dark.
Bubblecar said:
Wonder what made them decide this image was an effective way to advertise chocolate biscuits.
“take the biscuit”?
Bubblecar said:
Wonder what made them decide this image was an effective way to advertise chocolate biscuits.
Takes you back to the overwhelming piss-stench of Paris.
Christian Porter defamation case has cost ABC about $780,000 so far, managing director says
By political reporter Jane Norman
David Anderson tells a tells Senate Estimates hearing that the total cost of defending and settling the case brought by the former attorney-general has so far cost the ABC about $780,000.
Posted 6 minutes ago
roughbarked said:
Christian Porter defamation case has cost ABC about $780,000 so far, managing director saysBy political reporter Jane Norman
David Anderson tells a tells Senate Estimates hearing that the total cost of defending and settling the case brought by the former attorney-general has so far cost the ABC about $780,000.
Posted 6 minutes ago
Both parties offered differing accounts as to why the matter had been finalised, with Mr Porter characterising the settlement as a victory for him and a “humiliating backdown” for the ABC.
Under questioning today, Mr Anderson had a different interpretation, telling senators the ABC stood by the story, which was still online.
“The ABC has not issued an apology, the ABC stands by its journalism, the article in question remains online, it remains unchanged and available for everyone to see it,” he said.
Bubblecar said:
Wonder what made them decide this image was an effective way to advertise chocolate biscuits.
Biscuit La Touraine: C’est aussi français que la miction publique!
dv said:
Bubblecar said:
Wonder what made them decide this image was an effective way to advertise chocolate biscuits.
Biscuit La Touraine: C’est aussi français que la miction publique!
Ah, merci. Tout est expliqué.
44 climbers claim to have summited the world’s highest 14 peaks.
This is mostly BS according to Damien Gildea.
Invites the question: What sport has the most very big liars?
Ian said:
44 climbers claim to have summited the world’s highest 14 peaks.
This is mostly BS according to Damien Gildea.Invites the question: What sport has the most very big liars?
Fishing
Ian said:
44 climbers claim to have summited the world’s highest 14 peaks.
This is mostly BS according to Damien Gildea.Invites the question: What sport has the most very big liars?
dv said:
Ian said:
44 climbers claim to have summited the world’s highest 14 peaks.
This is mostly BS according to Damien Gildea.Invites the question: What sport has the most very big liars?
Fishing
or is that the longest arms?
dv said:
Ian said:
44 climbers claim to have summited the world’s highest 14 peaks.
This is mostly BS according to Damien Gildea.Invites the question: What sport has the most very big liars?
Fishing
In general, I’d agree. Although competition fishing has it’s weigh-ins.
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:
Christian Porter defamation case has cost ABC about $780,000 so far, managing director saysBy political reporter Jane Norman
David Anderson tells a tells Senate Estimates hearing that the total cost of defending and settling the case brought by the former attorney-general has so far cost the ABC about $780,000.
Posted 6 minutes ago
Both parties offered differing accounts as to why the matter had been finalised, with Mr Porter characterising the settlement as a victory for him and a “humiliating backdown” for the ABC.
Under questioning today, Mr Anderson had a different interpretation, telling senators the ABC stood by the story, which was still online.
“The ABC has not issued an apology, the ABC stands by its journalism, the article in question remains online, it remains unchanged and available for everyone to see it,” he said.
This is another example of the Donald Trump i-won-i-really-did outlook.
Bibi Netanyahu, and now Paid Leave Porter.
You squawk loudly that you won, it was a great victory, although you can provide no evidence to show that this is so, and the outcome is that everything is just as it was before.
Golf as played by T**** occured to me.
Cricket maybe.
Ian said:
In general, I’d agree. Although competition fishing has it’s weigh-ins.
It’s not getting the lead sinkers into the fish that’s the hard part.
It’s stopping them falling out when it gets hung tail upmost on the scales.
captain_spalding said:
Ian said:In general, I’d agree. Although competition fishing has it’s weigh-ins.
It’s not getting the lead sinkers into the fish that’s the hard part.
It’s stopping them falling out when it gets hung tail upmost on the scales.
:)
The London Sky Pool
You’d want to make sure that the engineering chaps/chapettes really had the calculations very correct and with a rather substantial margin of safety.
Spiny Norman said:
The London Sky Pool
You’d want to make sure that the engineering chaps/chapettes really had the calculations very correct and with a rather substantial margin of safety.
Scary.
Spiny Norman said:
The London Sky Pool
You’d want to make sure that the engineering chaps/chapettes really had the calculations very correct and with a rather substantial margin of safety.
abso-fucking-lutely!
Spiny Norman said:
The London Sky Pool
You’d want to make sure that the engineering chaps/chapettes really had the calculations very correct and with a rather substantial margin of safety.
Apparently, it’s ‘very exclusive’, so if it collapses and the swimmers plummet to a an admittedly interesting death which combines gravity, water, and shards of glass, they’re not likely to be the kind of people who will be missed.
Haven’t seen women wearing curlers for many years.
Bubblecar said:
Haven’t seen women wearing curlers for many years.
Yes, despite all that we’ve seen in recent decades, society has advanced in some ways.
Spiny Norman said:
The London Sky Pool
You’d want to make sure that the engineering chaps/chapettes really had the calculations very correct and with a rather substantial margin of safety.
I’d want a harness.
Bubblecar said:
Haven’t seen women wearing curlers for many years.
They look well pleased with them, too.
I’m wondering if this won’t have unintended consequences.
You know, the old thing about the water jug focussing the sun’s rays onto something flammable, and whoosh!, conflagration time.
That green building’s days could be numbered…
captain_spalding said:
I’m wondering if this won’t have unintended consequences.
You know, the old thing about the water jug focussing the sun’s rays onto something flammable, and whoosh!, conflagration time.
That green building’s days could be numbered…
captain_spalding said:
I’m wondering if this won’t have unintended consequences.
You know, the old thing about the water jug focussing the sun’s rays onto something flammable, and whoosh!, conflagration time.
That green building’s days could be numbered…
Some tall buildings in earthquake regions have a massive tank of water on the top to dampen the sway during an earthquake.
Peak Warming Man said:
captain_spalding said:
I’m wondering if this won’t have unintended consequences.
You know, the old thing about the water jug focussing the sun’s rays onto something flammable, and whoosh!, conflagration time.
That green building’s days could be numbered…
Some tall buildings in earthquake regions have a massive tank of water on the top to dampen the sway during an earthquake.
Actually, those tanks are supposed to burst when the building collapses under them, drowning any trapped survivors.
Means that you can move straight to the clean-up phase, without all that costly and tedious search-and-rescue stuff.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsargrad
Modern China Cafe, somewhere in Australia, 1949.
I do get some funny memes from 9gag and also some interesting “please consider” pictures and factoids.
But it’s become a hotbed of hardcore racism.
One popular theme there is that Sweden is now a crime ridden dystopian hell hole because of immigration. It’s just … barmy. Across the board the US has violent crime rates per capita that are 5 to 10 those in Sweden. One angry white dude in Nevada in ten minutes effected as many murders as occur in Sweden in a whole year.
dv said:
I do get some funny memes from 9gag and also some interesting “please consider” pictures and factoids.But it’s become a hotbed of hardcore racism.
One popular theme there is that Sweden is now a crime ridden dystopian hell hole because of immigration. It’s just … barmy. Across the board the US has violent crime rates per capita that are 5 to 10 those in Sweden. One angry white dude in Nevada in ten minutes effected as many murders as occur in Sweden in a whole year.
The far right are spreading a bunch of fabricated bullshit as propaganda? FMD…
dv said:
I do get some funny memes from 9gag and also some interesting “please consider” pictures and factoids.But it’s become a hotbed of hardcore racism.
One popular theme there is that Sweden is now a crime ridden dystopian hell hole because of immigration. It’s just … barmy. Across the board the US has violent crime rates per capita that are 5 to 10 those in Sweden. One angry white dude in Nevada in ten minutes effected as many murders as occur in Sweden in a whole year.
Bubblecar said:
Spiny Norman said:
The London Sky Pool
You’d want to make sure that the engineering chaps/chapettes really had the calculations very correct and with a rather substantial margin of safety.
Scary.
Very much so.
Bubblecar said:
Spiny Norman said:
The London Sky Pool
You’d want to make sure that the engineering chaps/chapettes really had the calculations very correct and with a rather substantial margin of safety.
Scary.
Is there a sign limiting the number of swimmers?
roughbarked said:
Bubblecar said:
Spiny Norman said:
The London Sky Pool
You’d want to make sure that the engineering chaps/chapettes really had the calculations very correct and with a rather substantial margin of safety.
Scary.
Is there a sign limiting the number of swimmers?
captain_spalding said:
Peak Warming Man said:
captain_spalding said:
I’m wondering if this won’t have unintended consequences.
You know, the old thing about the water jug focussing the sun’s rays onto something flammable, and whoosh!, conflagration time.
That green building’s days could be numbered…
Some tall buildings in earthquake regions have a massive tank of water on the top to dampen the sway during an earthquake.
Actually, those tanks are supposed to burst when the building collapses under them, drowning any trapped survivors.
Means that you can move straight to the clean-up phase, without all that costly and tedious search-and-rescue stuff.
we hear the codes in Gaza are to include a cache of fireworks in the basement for that purpose
or was that Beirut, wait
dv said:
I do get some funny memes from 9gag and also some interesting “please consider” pictures and factoids.But it’s become a hotbed of hardcore racism.
One popular theme there is that Sweden is now a crime ridden dystopian hell hole because of immigration. It’s just … barmy. Across the board the US has violent crime rates per capita that are 5 to 10 those in Sweden. One angry white dude in Nevada in ten minutes effected as many murders as occur in Sweden in a whole year.
Sweden is lovely.
They got the Covid response wrong, but apart from that they are doing alright. No country is ever perfect, but there’s a lot we can learn from Scandewegia and northern Europe generally.
party_pants said:
Sweden is lovely.
Wi not trei a holiday in Sweeden this yer ?
See the loveli lakes
The wonderful telephone system
And mani interesting furry animals
Including the majestic moose
A moose once bit my sister…
Woodie said:
party_pants said:Sweden is lovely.
Wi not trei a holiday in Sweeden this yer ?
See the loveli lakes
The wonderful telephone system
And mani interesting furry animals
Including the majestic moose
A moose once bit my sister…
but I forgive
How much cocaine would be needed for someone to OD?
Woodie said:
party_pants said:Sweden is lovely.
Wi not trei a holiday in Sweeden this yer ?
See the loveli lakes
The wonderful telephone system
And mani interesting furry animals
Including the majestic moose
A moose once bit my sister…
If that’s a moose I would hate to see what one of your cats looks like.
dv said:
How much cocaine would be needed for someone to OD?
4 tonnes.
Possibly less, depending on the individual.
dv said:
How much cocaine would be needed for someone to OD?
I’ve never tried cocaine. I don’t think I know people who can afford cocaine. I would assume though that the amount to OD would grow as the user became inured.
I do know that heroin addicts sometime OD when they return to the drug after a hiatus. They think they can go back to the amount of the drug they used at cessation.
we thought cocaïne was cheaper than tobacco
I wonder if there is a Chinese word for schadenfreude?
…
Almost two dozen Chinese cities forced to ration electricity after Australian coal ban
https://amp.news.com.au/technology/environment/almost-two-dozen-chinese-cities-forced-to-ration-electricity-after-australian-coal-ban/news-story/af4c8fa8205b111ba7427b5953800b59
Witty Rejoinder said:
I wonder if there is a Chinese word for schadenfreude?…
Almost two dozen Chinese cities forced to ration electricity after Australian coal ban
https://amp.news.com.au/technology/environment/almost-two-dozen-chinese-cities-forced-to-ration-electricity-after-australian-coal-ban/news-story/af4c8fa8205b111ba7427b5953800b59
Aww…ain’t that just too bad?
Witty Rejoinder said:
I wonder if there is a Chinese word for schadenfreude?…
Almost two dozen Chinese cities forced to ration electricity after Australian coal ban
https://amp.news.com.au/technology/environment/almost-two-dozen-chinese-cities-forced-to-ration-electricity-after-australian-coal-ban/news-story/af4c8fa8205b111ba7427b5953800b59
Exports of goods in April 2021 increased from the revised March 2021 estimate by $13m (0%) to $35,952m.
In April 2021:
• coal increased $287m (8%)
• petroleum increased $256m (31%)
• medicinal and pharmaceutical products increased $135m (55%)
• metalliferous ores increased $96m (1%)
The increase in coal was driven by thermal coal, up $203m (16%), with exports to India up $116m (167%). Australian coal exports to India have been steadily rising since mid-2020, following a substantial reduction in Chinese demand for Australian coal.
The increase in petroleum was driven by crude oil, up $245m (40%), driven by both quantity and price as oil prices increased during April.
The increase in medicinal and pharmaceutical products was driven by antisera and other blood fractions, up $117m (576%).
Metalliferous ores reached a record high ($16,468m) for the second month in a row. Several commodities drove the increase, most notably precious metal ores and concentrates, up $68m (67%).
That’s from the ABS.
I’m surprised we’re still exporting crude oil.
Peak Warming Man said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
I wonder if there is a Chinese word for schadenfreude?…
Almost two dozen Chinese cities forced to ration electricity after Australian coal ban
https://amp.news.com.au/technology/environment/almost-two-dozen-chinese-cities-forced-to-ration-electricity-after-australian-coal-ban/news-story/af4c8fa8205b111ba7427b5953800b59
Exports of goods in April 2021 increased from the revised March 2021 estimate by $13m (0%) to $35,952m.
In April 2021:
• coal increased $287m (8%)
• petroleum increased $256m (31%)
• medicinal and pharmaceutical products increased $135m (55%)
• metalliferous ores increased $96m (1%)The increase in coal was driven by thermal coal, up $203m (16%), with exports to India up $116m (167%). Australian coal exports to India have been steadily rising since mid-2020, following a substantial reduction in Chinese demand for Australian coal.
The increase in petroleum was driven by crude oil, up $245m (40%), driven by both quantity and price as oil prices increased during April.
The increase in medicinal and pharmaceutical products was driven by antisera and other blood fractions, up $117m (576%).
Metalliferous ores reached a record high ($16,468m) for the second month in a row. Several commodities drove the increase, most notably precious metal ores and concentrates, up $68m (67%).
That’s from the ABS.
I’m surprised we’re still exporting crude oil.
Mind you our crude oil is the schissle, you get more petrol out of it, the middle east stuff is heavy in bottoms and sulphur.
“Aus marks Battle of Long Khanh anniversary”
Cant say I’ve heard of that one.
Peak Warming Man said:
“Aus marks Battle of Long Khanh anniversary”Cant say I’ve heard of that one.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Long_Khánh
Boom’s flagship model, Overture is designed to be the world’s fastest civilian aircraft, with a capacity of up to 88 passengers and the ability to hit speeds of Mach 1.7 (1,300 mph or 2,100 km/h). This could mean trips between Los Angeles and Sydney in 8 hours 30 minutes, or Tokyo to Seattle in 4 hours and 30 minutes.
The company has built a one-third-scale demonstrator version of the Overture called the XB-1, which is designed to break the sound barrier and expected to fly sometime next year. The Overture plane itself won’t be rolled out until 2025 at the earliest, but the small glimpses offered so far seem to be enough for United Airlines to want to hop on board.
But let’s hear from the father of modern libertarianism
PermeateFree said:
This could mean trips between Los Angeles and Sydney in 8 hours 30 minutes
Sure, if they carried no payload at all and filled the plane with fuel only. SST’s are thirsty.
rain’s here, be around on and off til lunch tomorrow and later i’d reckon, worst of wind’s over for the moment, maybe gusted ~50km/h+ not sure, kicks up again tail-end this rain tomorrow nearing 45km/h maybe, along with cold, a cold day
lady’s just lit the fire, now making coffee, made coffee, and handed me a digestive, sort of a granita with chocolate on one side to aid digestion, ot does that made encouraging you to eat them, and there’s the inevitability that once it lands in the tummy’ acid bath digestion-proper starts, so it is a digestive that way
I guess they were made to digest, qualify as food, possibly marginally better than cardboard, but of course digestion of cardboard is possible also, though not eaten any of that since a kid
wait lady’s educating me…she’s googling it
the digestive was first developed in 1839, by two scottish doctors, to aid digestion…antacid properties by using sodium bicarbonate..
there ya go
PermeateFree said:
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Boom’s flagship model, Overture is designed to be the world’s fastest civilian aircraft, with a capacity of up to 88 passengers and the ability to hit speeds of Mach 1.7 (1,300 mph or 2,100 km/h). This could mean trips between Los Angeles and Sydney in 8 hours 30 minutes, or Tokyo to Seattle in 4 hours and 30 minutes.
The company has built a one-third-scale demonstrator version of the Overture called the XB-1, which is designed to break the sound barrier and expected to fly sometime next year. The Overture plane itself won’t be rolled out until 2025 at the earliest, but the small glimpses offered so far seem to be enough for United Airlines to want to hop on board.
All the Americans who squawked so loudly about ‘the environment, the environment!’ and ‘the noise, have you heard the goddamn noise?!’ when the Anglo-French Concorde arrived in the 70s must be dead now.
Or is this made-in-the-USA product going to somehow more acceptable?
Spiny Norman said:
PermeateFree said:
This could mean trips between Los Angeles and Sydney in 8 hours 30 minutes
Sure, if they carried no payload at all and filled the plane with fuel only. SST’s are thirsty.
I wonder if they’ll charge passengers per kilo…
dv said:
I wonder if they’ll charge passengers per kilo…
You won’t fit many fat Americans inside that fuselage.
captain_spalding said:
PermeateFree said:
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Boom’s flagship model, Overture is designed to be the world’s fastest civilian aircraft, with a capacity of up to 88 passengers and the ability to hit speeds of Mach 1.7 (1,300 mph or 2,100 km/h). This could mean trips between Los Angeles and Sydney in 8 hours 30 minutes, or Tokyo to Seattle in 4 hours and 30 minutes.
The company has built a one-third-scale demonstrator version of the Overture called the XB-1, which is designed to break the sound barrier and expected to fly sometime next year. The Overture plane itself won’t be rolled out until 2025 at the earliest, but the small glimpses offered so far seem to be enough for United Airlines to want to hop on board.
All the Americans who squawked so loudly about ‘the environment, the environment!’ and ‘the noise, have you heard the goddamn noise?!’ when the Anglo-French Concorde arrived in the 70s must be dead now.
Or is this made-in-the-USA product going to somehow more acceptable?
or maybe in 50 years the engine tech has improved.
captain_spalding said:
PermeateFree said:
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Boom’s flagship model, Overture is designed to be the world’s fastest civilian aircraft, with a capacity of up to 88 passengers and the ability to hit speeds of Mach 1.7 (1,300 mph or 2,100 km/h). This could mean trips between Los Angeles and Sydney in 8 hours 30 minutes, or Tokyo to Seattle in 4 hours and 30 minutes.
The company has built a one-third-scale demonstrator version of the Overture called the XB-1, which is designed to break the sound barrier and expected to fly sometime next year. The Overture plane itself won’t be rolled out until 2025 at the earliest, but the small glimpses offered so far seem to be enough for United Airlines to want to hop on board.
All the Americans who squawked so loudly about ‘the environment, the environment!’ and ‘the noise, have you heard the goddamn noise?!’ when the Anglo-French Concorde arrived in the 70s must be dead now.
Or is this made-in-the-USA product going to somehow more acceptable?
Also … they list the range as 8000 km so they won’t be flying direct from LA to Sydney. I wonder whether that 8 hours includes refueling.
captain_spalding said:
PermeateFree said:
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Boom’s flagship model, Overture is designed to be the world’s fastest civilian aircraft, with a capacity of up to 88 passengers and the ability to hit speeds of Mach 1.7 (1,300 mph or 2,100 km/h). This could mean trips between Los Angeles and Sydney in 8 hours 30 minutes, or Tokyo to Seattle in 4 hours and 30 minutes.
The company has built a one-third-scale demonstrator version of the Overture called the XB-1, which is designed to break the sound barrier and expected to fly sometime next year. The Overture plane itself won’t be rolled out until 2025 at the earliest, but the small glimpses offered so far seem to be enough for United Airlines to want to hop on board.
All the Americans who squawked so loudly about ‘the environment, the environment!’ and ‘the noise, have you heard the goddamn noise?!’ when the Anglo-French Concorde arrived in the 70s must be dead now.
Or is this made-in-the-USA product going to somehow more acceptable?
I’ve heard the noise of sonic booms. They are very noisy.
Bogsnorkler said:
captain_spalding said:
PermeateFree said:
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Boom’s flagship model, Overture is designed to be the world’s fastest civilian aircraft, with a capacity of up to 88 passengers and the ability to hit speeds of Mach 1.7 (1,300 mph or 2,100 km/h). This could mean trips between Los Angeles and Sydney in 8 hours 30 minutes, or Tokyo to Seattle in 4 hours and 30 minutes.
The company has built a one-third-scale demonstrator version of the Overture called the XB-1, which is designed to break the sound barrier and expected to fly sometime next year. The Overture plane itself won’t be rolled out until 2025 at the earliest, but the small glimpses offered so far seem to be enough for United Airlines to want to hop on board.
All the Americans who squawked so loudly about ‘the environment, the environment!’ and ‘the noise, have you heard the goddamn noise?!’ when the Anglo-French Concorde arrived in the 70s must be dead now.
Or is this made-in-the-USA product going to somehow more acceptable?
or maybe in 50 years the engine tech has improved.
Can a sonic-boom be mitigated technologically?
Bogsnorkler said:
captain_spalding said:
PermeateFree said:
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Boom’s flagship model, Overture is designed to be the world’s fastest civilian aircraft, with a capacity of up to 88 passengers and the ability to hit speeds of Mach 1.7 (1,300 mph or 2,100 km/h). This could mean trips between Los Angeles and Sydney in 8 hours 30 minutes, or Tokyo to Seattle in 4 hours and 30 minutes.
The company has built a one-third-scale demonstrator version of the Overture called the XB-1, which is designed to break the sound barrier and expected to fly sometime next year. The Overture plane itself won’t be rolled out until 2025 at the earliest, but the small glimpses offered so far seem to be enough for United Airlines to want to hop on board.
All the Americans who squawked so loudly about ‘the environment, the environment!’ and ‘the noise, have you heard the goddamn noise?!’ when the Anglo-French Concorde arrived in the 70s must be dead now.
Or is this made-in-the-USA product going to somehow more acceptable?
or maybe in 50 years the engine tech has improved.
transition said:
rain’s here, be around on and off til lunch tomorrow and later i’d reckon, worst of wind’s over for the moment, maybe gusted ~50km/h+ not sure, kicks up again tail-end this rain tomorrow nearing 45km/h maybe, along with cold, a cold daylady’s just lit the fire, now making coffee, made coffee, and handed me a digestive, sort of a granita with chocolate on one side to aid digestion, ot does that made encouraging you to eat them, and there’s the inevitability that once it lands in the tummy’ acid bath digestion-proper starts, so it is a digestive that way
I guess they were made to digest, qualify as food, possibly marginally better than cardboard, but of course digestion of cardboard is possible also, though not eaten any of that since a kid
wait lady’s educating me…she’s googling it
the digestive was first developed in 1839, by two scottish doctors, to aid digestion…antacid properties by using sodium bicarbonate..
there ya go
let me tidy that up, because I care
“sort of a granita with chocolate on one side to aid digestion, ot does that made encouraging you to eat them”
should maybe read, if I can decode it, jeeez, dog’s breakfast…it does that by encouraging you to eat them
I wouldn’t bank too much on United’s enthusiasm.
Aviation history is well populated with developments of promising aircraft, which companies pursued on the basis of an airline expressing interest in ordering 30 or 40 of them, only for the airline to decide a year or two later that the planes really weren’t what they were looking for.
captain_spalding said:
I wouldn’t bank too much on United’s enthusiasm.Aviation history is well populated with developments of promising aircraft, which companies pursued on the basis of an airline expressing interest in ordering 30 or 40 of them, only for the airline to decide a year or two later that the planes really weren’t what they were looking for.
I would imagine that high quality video conferencing has reduced the demand for supersonic business travel anyway.
Witty Rejoinder said:
Bogsnorkler said:
captain_spalding said:All the Americans who squawked so loudly about ‘the environment, the environment!’ and ‘the noise, have you heard the goddamn noise?!’ when the Anglo-French Concorde arrived in the 70s must be dead now.
Or is this made-in-the-USA product going to somehow more acceptable?
or maybe in 50 years the engine tech has improved.
Can a sonic-boom be mitigated technologically?
https://www.zmescience.com/research/supersonic-biplane-design-cancels-sonic-boom-20032012/
or get up to speed away from populated areas.
dv said:
captain_spalding said:
I wouldn’t bank too much on United’s enthusiasm.Aviation history is well populated with developments of promising aircraft, which companies pursued on the basis of an airline expressing interest in ordering 30 or 40 of them, only for the airline to decide a year or two later that the planes really weren’t what they were looking for.
I would imagine that high quality video conferencing has reduced the demand for supersonic business travel anyway.
dv said:
Bogsnorkler said:
captain_spalding said:All the Americans who squawked so loudly about ‘the environment, the environment!’ and ‘the noise, have you heard the goddamn noise?!’ when the Anglo-French Concorde arrived in the 70s must be dead now.
Or is this made-in-the-USA product going to somehow more acceptable?
or maybe in 50 years the engine tech has improved.
IKR UFB
Michael V said:
I’ve heard the noise of sonic booms. They are very noisy.
I was on the flag deck (where the flag signals are made from) on a destroyer off the northern NSW coast during an exercise.
I saw this blur out of the side of my vision, and just had time to begin to wonder what it was when a sonic boom hit us that just about knocked me off my feet.
It had been an F-111 at supersonic speed crossing just ahead of us, and if he was more than 30 metres/100 feet above us, i’ll eat a Mexican’s hat.
Bogsnorkler said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Bogsnorkler said:or maybe in 50 years the engine tech has improved.
Can a sonic-boom be mitigated technologically?
https://www.zmescience.com/research/supersonic-biplane-design-cancels-sonic-boom-20032012/
or get up to speed away from populated areas.
captain_spalding said:
Michael V said:I’ve heard the noise of sonic booms. They are very noisy.
I was on the flag deck (where the flag signals are made from) on a destroyer off the northern NSW coast during an exercise.
I saw this blur out of the side of my vision, and just had time to begin to wonder what it was when a sonic boom hit us that just about knocked me off my feet.
It had been an F-111 at supersonic speed crossing just ahead of us, and if he was more than 30 metres/100 feet above us, i’ll eat a Mexican’s hat.
captain_spalding said:
Michael V said:I’ve heard the noise of sonic booms. They are very noisy.
I was on the flag deck (where the flag signals are made from) on a destroyer off the northern NSW coast during an exercise.
I saw this blur out of the side of my vision, and just had time to begin to wonder what it was when a sonic boom hit us that just about knocked me off my feet.
It had been an F-111 at supersonic speed crossing just ahead of us, and if he was more than 30 metres/100 feet above us, i’ll eat a Mexican’s hat.
I doubt it was supersonic, but no doubt very close to being. You’d probably be knocked unconscious if it was supersonic and that close.
captain_spalding said:
Michael V said:I’ve heard the noise of sonic booms. They are very noisy.
I was on the flag deck (where the flag signals are made from) on a destroyer off the northern NSW coast during an exercise.
I saw this blur out of the side of my vision, and just had time to begin to wonder what it was when a sonic boom hit us that just about knocked me off my feet.
It had been an F-111 at supersonic speed crossing just ahead of us, and if he was more than 30 metres/100 feet above us, i’ll eat a Mexican’s hat.
FWIW another Navy friend of mine, serving on a warship somewhere in the Atlantic (I guess) was on-deck when over the loudspeaker came the warning that two English Electric Lightnings were going to pass the stern at very high speed & low.
I can’t remember how quickly he said they went from horizon to horizon, but it worked out to something like 900 kts on the deck.
Scorchingly fast.
Tamb said:
Mz Tamb & I were sonic boomed on the Norfolk coast in the UK. We didn’t know the thing was there until the very loud boom hit us.
Supersonic at/near sea level means about 1,200 feet/340 metres per second, so if you see anything of the aircraft, it’s sheer chance. It’s travelling at about the same speed as a .22 bullet, or a 40mm anti-aircraft shell.
The sobering thought in my instance was that, had it been a war, the anti-ship missile would probably have arrived before either the F-111 or its sonic boom.
Spiny Norman said:
I doubt it was supersonic, but no doubt very close to being. You’d probably be knocked unconscious if it was supersonic and that close.
Wasn’t rendered unconscious, but certainly incapable of coherent thought for a minute or two.
captain_spalding said:
Tamb said:Mz Tamb & I were sonic boomed on the Norfolk coast in the UK. We didn’t know the thing was there until the very loud boom hit us.
Supersonic at/near sea level means about 1,200 feet/340 metres per second, so if you see anything of the aircraft, it’s sheer chance. It’s travelling at about the same speed as a .22 bullet, or a 40mm anti-aircraft shell.
The sobering thought in my instance was that, had it been a war, the anti-ship missile would probably have arrived before either the F-111 or its sonic boom.
captain_spalding said:
Spiny Norman said:I doubt it was supersonic, but no doubt very close to being. You’d probably be knocked unconscious if it was supersonic and that close.
Wasn’t rendered unconscious, but certainly incapable of coherent thought for a minute or two.
Close enough then. :)
I have wondered if the mooted hypersonic missiles that use scramjets or the like, could simply fly over a target at very low level and let the shock waves do a lot of damage. Then time & fuel permitting, do it a few more times.
Got some weather on the way for most of Vic on Wednesday.
Sibeen – We’re already sending cans of guys to East Gippy.
Spiny Norman said:
captain_spalding said:
Michael V said:I’ve heard the noise of sonic booms. They are very noisy.
I was on the flag deck (where the flag signals are made from) on a destroyer off the northern NSW coast during an exercise.
I saw this blur out of the side of my vision, and just had time to begin to wonder what it was when a sonic boom hit us that just about knocked me off my feet.
It had been an F-111 at supersonic speed crossing just ahead of us, and if he was more than 30 metres/100 feet above us, i’ll eat a Mexican’s hat.
FWIW another Navy friend of mine, serving on a warship somewhere in the Atlantic (I guess) was on-deck when over the loudspeaker came the warning that two English Electric Lightnings were going to pass the stern at very high speed & low.
I can’t remember how quickly he said they went from horizon to horizon, but it worked out to something like 900 kts on the deck.
Scorchingly fast.
I remember seeing one at the avalon airshow near melb. came over the crowd stood on its tail and lit the reheat. very impressive.
Spiny Norman said:
captain_spalding said:
Spiny Norman said:I doubt it was supersonic, but no doubt very close to being. You’d probably be knocked unconscious if it was supersonic and that close.
Wasn’t rendered unconscious, but certainly incapable of coherent thought for a minute or two.
Close enough then. :)
I have wondered if the mooted hypersonic missiles that use scramjets or the like, could simply fly over a target at very low level and let the shock waves do a lot of damage. Then time & fuel permitting, do it a few more times.
I watched another episode of the two guys trying to cross Scotland in a straight line. Even though Scotland has laws that allow rambling across private property and so the trespass thing isn’t as bad as it would be in other places… they are still breaking a lot of laws.
captain_spalding said:
I wouldn’t bank too much on United’s enthusiasm.Aviation history is well populated with developments of promising aircraft, which companies pursued on the basis of an airline expressing interest in ordering 30 or 40 of them, only for the airline to decide a year or two later that the planes really weren’t what they were looking for.
Not to mention national airlines being forced to buy aeroplanes from a nationally subsidised development program, only to find that the plane they got isn’t really the best on the market for their needs.
sarahs mum said:
I watched another episode of the two guys trying to cross Scotland in a straight line. Even though Scotland has laws that allow rambling across private property and so the trespass thing isn’t as bad as it would be in other places… they are still breaking a lot of laws.
Including some physical laws I should think.
dv said:
sarahs mum said:
I watched another episode of the two guys trying to cross Scotland in a straight line. Even though Scotland has laws that allow rambling across private property and so the trespass thing isn’t as bad as it would be in other places… they are still breaking a lot of laws.
Including some physical laws I should think.
Scotty from engineering would disagree.
dv said:
sarahs mum said:
I watched another episode of the two guys trying to cross Scotland in a straight line. Even though Scotland has laws that allow rambling across private property and so the trespass thing isn’t as bad as it would be in other places… they are still breaking a lot of laws.
Including some physical laws I should think.
They were pedestrians on the motorway. But I have done that.They called me a stupid Australian.
Bogsnorkler said:
dv said:
sarahs mum said:
I watched another episode of the two guys trying to cross Scotland in a straight line. Even though Scotland has laws that allow rambling across private property and so the trespass thing isn’t as bad as it would be in other places… they are still breaking a lot of laws.
Including some physical laws I should think.
Scotty from engineering would disagree.
I mean you could do it in your Boom XB-1 no worries.
Bogsnorkler said:
captain_spalding said:
PermeateFree said:
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Boom’s flagship model, Overture is designed to be the world’s fastest civilian aircraft, with a capacity of up to 88 passengers and the ability to hit speeds of Mach 1.7 (1,300 mph or 2,100 km/h). This could mean trips between Los Angeles and Sydney in 8 hours 30 minutes, or Tokyo to Seattle in 4 hours and 30 minutes.
The company has built a one-third-scale demonstrator version of the Overture called the XB-1, which is designed to break the sound barrier and expected to fly sometime next year. The Overture plane itself won’t be rolled out until 2025 at the earliest, but the small glimpses offered so far seem to be enough for United Airlines to want to hop on board.
All the Americans who squawked so loudly about ‘the environment, the environment!’ and ‘the noise, have you heard the goddamn noise?!’ when the Anglo-French Concorde arrived in the 70s must be dead now.
Or is this made-in-the-USA product going to somehow more acceptable?
or maybe in 50 years the engine tech has improved.
NASA have a program dedicated to reducing sonic boom through better design of the wing and fuselage shapes. There’s a few start-ups trying to design a “quiet” supersonic airliner. They wont be as fast as Concorde’s Mach 2, the ones I have read about are aiming for about Mach 1.2 over land with acceptable noise levels and going to 1.5 -1.8 over open water or desert.
Bogsnorkler said:
dv said:
sarahs mum said:
I watched another episode of the two guys trying to cross Scotland in a straight line. Even though Scotland has laws that allow rambling across private property and so the trespass thing isn’t as bad as it would be in other places… they are still breaking a lot of laws.
Including some physical laws I should think.
Scotty from engineering would disagree.
They haven’t walked on water. They used a blow up kayak.
In the US, National Scrapple Day is November 9th whereas National Scrabble Day is April 13th.
Scrapple is a kind of mushy meatloaf made of pork scraps, cornmeal, flour etc.
Bubblecar said:
In the US, National Scrapple Day is November 9th whereas National Scrabble Day is April 13th.Scrapple is a kind of mushy meatloaf made of pork scraps, cornmeal, flour etc.
Sarah’s Dad liked scrapple. He made it with ground pork and oats.
sarahs mum said:
Bogsnorkler said:
dv said:Including some physical laws I should think.
Scotty from engineering would disagree.
They haven’t walked on water. They used a blow up kayak.
Not encountered any escarpments etc that prevented progress?
dv said:
sarahs mum said:
Bogsnorkler said:Scotty from engineering would disagree.
They haven’t walked on water. They used a blow up kayak.
Not encountered any escarpments etc that prevented progress?
They are going across the lowlands. Lots of undrained bog. Some nice plough ground and woods. 3 motorways. One high speed railway line. One large factory making plyboard. Their line went straight through the security gates but they just kept walking. They have crossed some pretty evil fences.
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
In the US, National Scrapple Day is November 9th whereas National Scrabble Day is April 13th.Scrapple is a kind of mushy meatloaf made of pork scraps, cornmeal, flour etc.
Sarah’s Dad liked scrapple. He made it with ground pork and oats.
Is it good?
captain_spalding said:
Spiny Norman said:I doubt it was supersonic, but no doubt very close to being. You’d probably be knocked unconscious if it was supersonic and that close.
Wasn’t rendered unconscious, but certainly incapable of coherent thought for a minute or two.
trying to think of natural terrestrial sonic booms, thunder would qualify, and meteorites entering atmosphere, what else?
dv said:
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
In the US, National Scrapple Day is November 9th whereas National Scrabble Day is April 13th.Scrapple is a kind of mushy meatloaf made of pork scraps, cornmeal, flour etc.
Sarah’s Dad liked scrapple. He made it with ground pork and oats.
Is it good?
It’s a bit like fried devon/fritz.
We are back. The big tractor has gone for a roadtrip today to its new home.
While the guy was loading it I wandered around with my camera. Back soon(ish) with some pretty fungi. Here is a preview:
sarahs mum said:
dv said:
sarahs mum said:Sarah’s Dad liked scrapple. He made it with ground pork and oats.
Is it good?
It’s a bit like fried devon/fritz.
So “okay”
dv said:
But let’s hear from the father of modern libertarianism
I hope this person is widely regarded as the moron he obviously is.
transition said:
captain_spalding said:
Spiny Norman said:I doubt it was supersonic, but no doubt very close to being. You’d probably be knocked unconscious if it was supersonic and that close.
Wasn’t rendered unconscious, but certainly incapable of coherent thought for a minute or two.
trying to think of natural terrestrial sonic booms, thunder would qualify, and meteorites entering atmosphere, what else?
Whip cracks.
dv said:
sarahs mum said:
dv said:Is it good?
It’s a bit like fried devon/fritz.
So “okay”
Seems like decades ago now. I remember Scott taking it out of the fridge, slicing off pieces, and making breakfast for dinner.
One side of Scott’s family were butchers from Ohio.
Rule 303 said:
transition said:
captain_spalding said:Wasn’t rendered unconscious, but certainly incapable of coherent thought for a minute or two.
trying to think of natural terrestrial sonic booms, thunder would qualify, and meteorites entering atmosphere, what else?
Whip cracks.
oh yeah good one, that too
sarahs mum said:
dv said:
sarahs mum said:It’s a bit like fried devon/fritz.
So “okay”
Seems like decades ago now. I remember Scott taking it out of the fridge, slicing off pieces, and making breakfast for dinner.
One side of Scott’s family were butchers from Ohio.
I’d say that I have the family recipe but Sarah took the book.
The Rev Dodgson said:
dv said:
But let’s hear from the father of modern libertarianism
I hope this person is widely regarded as the moron he obviously is.
Adored by millions, particularly people who think that anything the government does is fascism/communism, and people who often have to say “technically it’s ephebophilia.”
https://mises.org/library/political-importance-murray-rothbard
It would be difficult to exaggerate Professor Murray N. Rothbard’s influence on the movement for freedom and free markets. He is the living giant of Austrian economics, and he has led the now-formidable movement ever since the death of his great teacher, Ludwig von Mises, in 1971. We are all indebted to him for the living link he has provided to Mises, upon whose work he has built and expanded. But many are less aware of Rothbard’s political influence. Some would say that while he is undoubtedly an excellent economist, his political efforts have been less than successful. I would deny this.Rothbard is the founder of the modern libertarian movement, and of the Libertarian Party which is its political incarnation, and he thus has built the necessary foundation for liberty by inspiring the most important third-party movement ever. And in my own political work, I have been profoundly influenced by the lucid and brilliant works of Rothbard. In his first correspondence with me after I was elected to office, Rothbard expressed surprise and delight to find a real Congressman who wrote that “taxation is theft,” and approvingly quoted his article, “Gold vs. Fluctuating Exchange Rates.” I, of course, was thrilled to hear from someone whose works I had studied and admired for so many years.
News from the mainland sister in hospital today is that she was sitting up in bed and playing cards with her partner, and winning.
So it’s looking more positive.
Bubblecar said:
News from the mainland sister in hospital today is that she was sitting up in bed and playing cards with her partner, and winning.So it’s looking more positive.
noice
Bubblecar said:
News from the mainland sister in hospital today is that she was sitting up in bed and playing cards with her partner, and winning.So it’s looking more positive.
*says yes and punches air.
Bubblecar said:
News from the mainland sister in hospital today is that she was sitting up in bed and playing cards with her partner, and winning.So it’s looking more positive.
Excellent.
:)
The Rev Dodgson said:
dv said:
But let’s hear from the father of modern libertarianism
I hope this person is widely regarded as the moron he obviously is.
bit adam smith on magic mushrooms
Rule 303 said:
transition said:
captain_spalding said:Wasn’t rendered unconscious, but certainly incapable of coherent thought for a minute or two.
trying to think of natural terrestrial sonic booms, thunder would qualify, and meteorites entering atmosphere, what else?
Whip cracks.
Bullets.
Trust me on that.
Ian said:
Trump’s trousers: Internet divided over whether Donald Trump was wearing his pants backwards at rally
He has a bit of a front bum going on
dv said:
Ian said:
Trump’s trousers: Internet divided over whether Donald Trump was wearing his pants backwards at rally
He has a bit of a front bum going on
He’s fitter than most 23 year olds.
buffy said:
We are back. The big tractor has gone for a roadtrip today to its new home.
While the guy was loading it I wandered around with my camera. Back soon(ish) with some pretty fungi. Here is a preview:
The new owner looks to have got a good deal.
Come on surely someone here knows about cocaine.
I tried a few things in the 90s but I guess I never knew any rockstars and real estate agents so never got around to cocaine.
Spiny Norman said:
I have wondered if the mooted hypersonic missiles that use scramjets or the like, could simply fly over a target at very low level and let the shock waves do a lot of damage. Then time & fuel permitting, do it a few more times.
There was Project Pluto in the 1960s, a Supersonic Low-Altitude Missile.
Propelled by nuclear-powered ramjets, it would have flown at very low levels at about Mach 3.
This would have produced a pressure wave sufficient to destroy most buildings over which it flew. It would also at least deafen anyone on the ground.
It was to carry up to 16 hydrogen bombs. As it could fly indefinitely, it could whizz around for maybe weeks, wreaking destruction, here, there, and then over there.
As well as this, its unshielded nuclear exhaust would have been laid over broad swathes of territory.
It was cancelled in 1964, in a fit of sanity.
dv said:
Ian said:
Trump’s trousers: Internet divided over whether Donald Trump was wearing his pants backwards at rally
He has a bit of a front bum going on
He’s all bum.
captain_spalding said:
Rule 303“Trying to think of natural terrestrial sonic booms, thunder would qualify, and meteorites entering atmosphere, what else?”
Whip cracks.
[/quote said:Bullets.
Trust me on that.
Neither bullets nor whip cracks are natural.
sibeen said:
dv said:
Ian said:
Trump’s trousers: Internet divided over whether Donald Trump was wearing his pants backwards at rally
He has a bit of a front bum going on
He’s fitter than most 23 year olds.
Ah, no.
dv said:
sibeen said:
dv said:He has a bit of a front bum going on
He’s fitter than most 23 year olds.
Ah, no.
A once and future president of the USA says that he is.
sibeen said:
dv said:
Ian said:
Trump’s trousers: Internet divided over whether Donald Trump was wearing his pants backwards at rally
He has a bit of a front bum going on
He’s fitter than most 23 year olds.
good grief, are you mad?!!
PermeateFree said:
buffy said:
We are back. The big tractor has gone for a roadtrip today to its new home.
While the guy was loading it I wandered around with my camera. Back soon(ish) with some pretty fungi. Here is a preview:
The new owner looks to have got a good deal.
Yes, I believe so. He is a friend and we are helping him to a degree. Got some more pictures of the fungi ready. I’ll do a separate post. Who would have thought a Middle Sized Brown Fungus would be as baffling as an LBM?!
The Rev Dodgson said:
dv said:
sibeen said:He’s fitter than most 23 year olds.
Ah, no.
A once and future president of the USA says that he is.
He’s more fit for a lot of things than most 23 year olds.
Compost, for one thing.
I’m fairly sure of this one being Dermocybe splendida.
And yes, that colour is true.
buffy said:
PermeateFree said:
buffy said:
We are back. The big tractor has gone for a roadtrip today to its new home.
While the guy was loading it I wandered around with my camera. Back soon(ish) with some pretty fungi. Here is a preview:
The new owner looks to have got a good deal.
Yes, I believe so. He is a friend and we are helping him to a degree. Got some more pictures of the fungi ready. I’ll do a separate post. Who would have thought a Middle Sized Brown Fungus would be as baffling as an LBM?!
I wondered about the fungus as dye stuff.
buffy said:
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I’m fairly sure of this one being Dermocybe splendida.
And yes, that colour is true.
I love the colour.
Here is the brown one which I’ve also decided must be some sort of Dermocybe.
I reckon this is a Cortinarius.
This could be Cortinarius austroalbidus perhaps.
And I’m going with Amanita ochrophylla for this one.
sarahs mum said:
buffy said:
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I’m fairly sure of this one being Dermocybe splendida.
And yes, that colour is true.
I love the colour.
It was quite stunning.
dv said:
Come on surely someone here knows about cocaine.I tried a few things in the 90s but I guess I never knew any rockstars and real estate agents so never got around to cocaine.
I can’t assist, sorry.
buffy said:
Here is the brown one which I’ve also decided must be some sort of Dermocybe.
I reckon this is a Cortinarius.
This could be Cortinarius austroalbidus perhaps.
And I’m going with Amanita ochrophylla for this one.
None of them edible, i assume?
captain_spalding said:
buffy said:
Here is the brown one which I’ve also decided must be some sort of Dermocybe.
I reckon this is a Cortinarius.
This could be Cortinarius austroalbidus perhaps.
And I’m going with Amanita ochrophylla for this one.
None of them edible, i assume?
Not to me. I’m not game. I only eat the tasteless mushrooms from the supermarket.
captain_spalding said:
buffy said:
Here is the brown one which I’ve also decided must be some sort of Dermocybe.
I reckon this is a Cortinarius.
This could be Cortinarius austroalbidus perhaps.
And I’m going with Amanita ochrophylla for this one.
None of them edible, i assume?
all are edible, even if just once.
Because sibeen prompted my memory the other day, we will dine tonight on the mince/onion/cabbage/packet of chicken noodle soup concoction which isn’t really chow mien. The stew bit has now had 3 boils and some time on the woodheater slow simmering. I’ll throw the chopped cabbage in when I boil it shortly for eating.
dv said:
Come on surely someone here knows about cocaine.I tried a few things in the 90s but I guess I never knew any rockstars and real estate agents so never got around to cocaine.
You know I smoked a lot of grass and I popped a lot of pills..
But not cocaine.
buffy said:
captain_spalding said:
buffy said:
Here is the brown one which I’ve also decided must be some sort of Dermocybe.
I reckon this is a Cortinarius.
This could be Cortinarius austroalbidus perhaps.
And I’m going with Amanita ochrophylla for this one.
None of them edible, i assume?
Not to me. I’m not game. I only eat the tasteless mushrooms from the supermarket.
Same here. The odds seem to be stacked against you in hunting wild mushrooms, and the stakes are high.
Bogsnorkler said:
all are edible, even if just once.
Vérité.
Mayweather had an exhibition boxing match versus Logan Paul for some reason.
dv said:
Mayweather had an exhibition boxing match versus Logan Paul for some reason.
captain_spalding said:
buffy said:
captain_spalding said:None of them edible, i assume?
Not to me. I’m not game. I only eat the tasteless mushrooms from the supermarket.
Same here. The odds seem to be stacked against you in hunting wild mushrooms, and the stakes are high.
CSIRO have recently published “Wild Mushrooming, a Guide for Foragers.”
dv said:
Mayweather had an exhibition boxing match versus Logan Paul for some reason.
Forgot about that.
Just saw a brief news video.
give the kid credit: he took a hit from Floyd in that short video that would have put me on Planet Koozebane for couple of weeks, and stayed upright.
Michael V said:
captain_spalding said:
buffy said:Not to me. I’m not game. I only eat the tasteless mushrooms from the supermarket.
Same here. The odds seem to be stacked against you in hunting wild mushrooms, and the stakes are high.
CSIRO have recently published “Wild Mushrooming, a Guide for Foragers.”
Sounds like an attempt to improve the gene pool.
ABC News:
‘The body that oversees the Australian War Memorial gives a controversial $500 million plan to redevelop the museum approval for early works, despite an influx of public submissions against the project.’
If people want to be consulted as to their views on extensive and expensive works at public expense on public institutions of cultural significance, and have those views accorded proper attention and serious regard, and for those views to have an effect on the decision-making process, then i suggest that they move to some place where that sort of nonsense is tolerated.
captain_spalding said:
ABC News:‘The body that oversees the Australian War Memorial gives a controversial $500 million plan to redevelop the museum approval for early works, despite an influx of public submissions against the project.’
If people want to be consulted as to their views on extensive and expensive works at public expense on public institutions of cultural significance, and have those views accorded proper attention and serious regard, and for those views to have an effect on the decision-making process, then i suggest that they move to some place where that sort of nonsense is tolerated.
I fear that may be impractical.
Or is there such a place within this galaxy?
dv said:
Come on surely someone here knows about cocaine.I tried a few things in the 90s but I guess I never knew any rockstars and real estate agents so never got around to cocaine.
One metric Teddy Bear of Schneef.
The Rev Dodgson said:
captain_spalding said:
ABC News:‘The body that oversees the Australian War Memorial gives a controversial $500 million plan to redevelop the museum approval for early works, despite an influx of public submissions against the project.’
If people want to be consulted as to their views on extensive and expensive works at public expense on public institutions of cultural significance, and have those views accorded proper attention and serious regard, and for those views to have an effect on the decision-making process, then i suggest that they move to some place where that sort of nonsense is tolerated.
I fear that may be impractical.
Or is there such a place within this galaxy?
Just around the corner.
Out to Barnard’s Star, make a left and then straight on for 14,000 light years.
Can’t miss it.
Mystery shopper, 1931.
ABC News:
‘Murder accused ‘covered in blood’ after disappearance of Jay Brogden
A court has heard a man accused of murdering Jay Brogden near Airlie Beach in 2007 was seen “covered in blood”.’
‘A simple coincidence, m’lud..’
Somehow I has missed the news that Nicholas Clegg, former British deputy prime minister, is now Facebook’s vice-president for global affairs.
captain_spalding said:
ABC News:‘Murder accused ‘covered in blood’ after disappearance of Jay Brogden
A court has heard a man accused of murdering Jay Brogden near Airlie Beach in 2007 was seen “covered in blood”.’
‘A simple coincidence, m’lud..’
Sounds really windy outside.
Checks BoM observations around the district. Yep, gusting to and a bit over 70kph, 40-60 in between. It’s windy.
buffy said:
Sounds really windy outside.Checks BoM observations around the district. Yep, gusting to and a bit over 70kph, 40-60 in between. It’s windy.
Been noisy all day here but yours would have been worse.
dv said:
Somehow I has missed the news that Nicholas Clegg, former British deputy prime minister, is now Facebook’s vice-president for global affairs.
You’re just an awful. awful person.
Bubblecar said:
buffy said:
Sounds really windy outside.Checks BoM observations around the district. Yep, gusting to and a bit over 70kph, 40-60 in between. It’s windy.
Been noisy all day here but yours would have been worse.
At least the bloke driving the tractor to its new home wouldn’t have the problems caravanners would have had today. That tractor is heavy.
I’ve just harvested 195 g of small, misshapen King Oyster mushrooms for breakfast. My first mushroom harvest. I’ll photograph them in the morning before cooking them.
Excited.
dv said:
captain_spalding said:
ABC News:‘Murder accused ‘covered in blood’ after disappearance of Jay Brogden
A court has heard a man accused of murdering Jay Brogden near Airlie Beach in 2007 was seen “covered in blood”.’
‘A simple coincidence, m’lud..’
LOLOLOLOL
watched a few of this korean woman’s videos. she like beer and eating and camping. slurps her noodles and goes Ahhh after every sip of beer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_VEx2z3acQ
Ooh…thunder!
http://www.farmonlineweather.com.au/satellite/vic
Michael V said:
I’ve just harvested 195 g of small, misshapen King Oyster mushrooms for breakfast. My first mushroom harvest. I’ll photograph them in the morning before cooking them.Excited.
Good
I’d not be surprised if we lose power tonight. TV just lost signal. Came back. Thunder really rolling now. Lights dipped and came back. I may not be around here much tonight.
buffy said:
sarahs mum said:
buffy said:
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I’m fairly sure of this one being Dermocybe splendida.
And yes, that colour is true.
I love the colour.
It was quite stunning.
From an old Scribbly member:
http://australianfungi.blogspot.com/2007/05/11-dermocybe-splendida.html
PermeateFree said:
buffy said:
sarahs mum said:I love the colour.
It was quite stunning.
From an old Scribbly member:
http://australianfungi.blogspot.com/2007/05/11-dermocybe-splendida.html
Yeah, ta. I’ve got Gaye’s blog in the bookmarks. It looks like she hasn’t been active in the past 10 years.
I intend to put my photos up on iNaturalist tomorrow, but I’ll have to sort out the GPS numbers first. Fungimap is using iNaturalist now.
buffy said:
PermeateFree said:
buffy said:It was quite stunning.
From an old Scribbly member:
http://australianfungi.blogspot.com/2007/05/11-dermocybe-splendida.html
Yeah, ta. I’ve got Gaye’s blog in the bookmarks. It looks like she hasn’t been active in the past 10 years.
I intend to put my photos up on iNaturalist tomorrow, but I’ll have to sort out the GPS numbers first. Fungimap is using iNaturalist now.
I’ve also got Bill Leithhead’s page marked. I don’t know if he is still active.
buffy said:
buffy said:
PermeateFree said:From an old Scribbly member:
http://australianfungi.blogspot.com/2007/05/11-dermocybe-splendida.html
Yeah, ta. I’ve got Gaye’s blog in the bookmarks. It looks like she hasn’t been active in the past 10 years.
I intend to put my photos up on iNaturalist tomorrow, but I’ll have to sort out the GPS numbers first. Fungimap is using iNaturalist now.
I’ve also got Bill Leithhead’s page marked. I don’t know if he is still active.
Last FB was jan 2019.
So really what we need is a 7 dimensional tensor fully representing sex and gender, some of these may be strongly correlated but not perfectly.
1. Chromosomal. Popular options include XX, XY, XXX, XXXX, XXXXX, XYY, XXYY, XXY.
2. Original physical configuration. Tempting to simplify matters by just listing three options: male-typical, female-typical and intersex, but in reality that last one contains a myriad of different conditions.
3. Sex as assigned at birth. ie what’s written on your original birth certificate.
4. Gender identity, ie whether you refer to yourself as a man or a woman or fa’afafine etc.
5. Traditional presentation. This is the one that is really fraught. It’s culture dependent, it’s subjective. It’s right on the brink of being anti-feminist, since women and men can dress and present any way they want and always have. But people do use the terms male-presenting, female-presenting, so it should probably be included.
6. Current physical configuration. Again, tempting to simplify it to three options but again, heaps of possibilities.
7. Legal sex. This could vary just with legislative changes.
Shouldn’t be more than 100000 or so options altogether. I’ll leave it as an exercise for SCIENCE to reduce this to an easy set of symbols.
dv said:
So really what we need is a 7 dimensional tensor fully representing sex and gender, some of these may be strongly correlated but not perfectly.
1. Chromosomal. Popular options include XX, XY, XXX, XXXX, XXXXX, XYY, XXYY, XXY.
2. Original physical configuration. Tempting to simplify matters by just listing three options: male-typical, female-typical and intersex, but in reality that last one contains a myriad of different conditions.
3. Sex as assigned at birth. ie what’s written on your original birth certificate.
4. Gender identity, ie whether you refer to yourself as a man or a woman or fa’afafine etc.
5. Traditional presentation. This is the one that is really fraught. It’s culture dependent, it’s subjective. It’s right on the brink of being anti-feminist, since women and men can dress and present any way they want and always have. But people do use the terms male-presenting, female-presenting, so it should probably be included.
6. Current physical configuration. Again, tempting to simplify it to three options but again, heaps of possibilities.
7. Legal sex. This could vary just with legislative changes.
Shouldn’t be more than 100000 or so options altogether. I’ll leave it as an exercise for SCIENCE to reduce this to an easy set of symbols.
dv said:
So really what we need is a 7 dimensional tensor fully representing sex and gender, some of these may be strongly correlated but not perfectly.
1. Chromosomal. Popular options include XX, XY, XXX, XXXX, XXXXX, XYY, XXYY, XXY.
2. Original physical configuration. Tempting to simplify matters by just listing three options: male-typical, female-typical and intersex, but in reality that last one contains a myriad of different conditions.
3. Sex as assigned at birth. ie what’s written on your original birth certificate.
4. Gender identity, ie whether you refer to yourself as a man or a woman or fa’afafine etc.
5. Traditional presentation. This is the one that is really fraught. It’s culture dependent, it’s subjective. It’s right on the brink of being anti-feminist, since women and men can dress and present any way they want and always have. But people do use the terms male-presenting, female-presenting, so it should probably be included.
6. Current physical configuration. Again, tempting to simplify it to three options but again, heaps of possibilities.
7. Legal sex. This could vary just with legislative changes.
Shouldn’t be more than 100000 or so options altogether. I’ll leave it as an exercise for SCIENCE to reduce this to an easy set of symbols.
Then there’s the “Who cares” option, where gender is irrelevent in any official form. (As in why should the sex of the bank account holder be noted?) For medical issues, yes – “male” bodies are built different to “Female” bodies, but how the owner of that body presents themselves has no importance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T39QHprz-x8
The Story of Al Baydha: A Regenerative Agriculture in the Saudi Desert.
Bogsnorkler said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T39QHprz-x8The Story of Al Baydha: A Regenerative Agriculture in the Saudi Desert.
Very impressive, but so labour intensive. I can see a considerable amount of the initial infrastructure being done with a little mechanical assistance which no doubt would become available if it was decided to expand into those larger coastal areas. Plenty of room for further experimentation based on the basic concept of water preservation. He deserves a medal if not more.
Oi Sibeen, did you see my warning earlier about Easy Gippy getting drowned?
Rule 303 said:
Oi Sibeen, did you see my warning earlier about Easy Gippy getting drowned?
NYET, but Mallacoota surely deserves another kicking.
sibeen said:
Rule 303 said:
Oi Sibeen, did you see my warning earlier about Easy Gippy getting drowned?
NYET, but Mallacoota surely deserves another kicking.
We don’t have a Peruvian politics thread
dv said:
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We don’t have a Peruvian politics thread
Or a human rights disaster type thread.
10mm rain, expect more yet up til lunch tomorrow, starting to feel like winter
should slow down the onset of silicosis from the dust
hearing thunder distant, though the long-range thunder detector has been showing indications for a few hours, panting, salivation, and trembling, though not full-scale boggle eyed, converted about a four out of ten in the Larryscale as seen on the dial of the thundermeter
The British Newspaper Archive
9 mins ·
The Sphere, 10 January 1914, reports on ‘one of the most fascinating of sea sports’ – ‘surf-board riding’ – picturing the scene at Muizenberg, South Africa, where surfers are equipped with ‘a raft or surf-board’
sarahs mum said:
dv said:
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We don’t have a Peruvian politics thread
Or a human rights disaster type thread.
only communists violate human rights
Good morning Holidayers. Four degrees and still dark. The wind has dropped though. We probably got about 10mm rain. I haven’t looked at the gauge yet.
Beautiful…
“If there’s no dome, how do you explain the irregularities the board discovered in the zoning permits issued in that area!?”
https://xkcd.com/2472/
Michael V said:
dv said:
Come on surely someone here knows about cocaine.I tried a few things in the 90s but I guess I never knew any rockstars and real estate agents so never got around to cocaine.
I can’t assist, sorry.
Me neither.
dv said:
Bubblecar said:
News from the mainland sister in hospital today is that she was sitting up in bed and playing cards with her partner, and winning.So it’s looking more positive.
noice
+1
roughbarked said:
dv said:
Bubblecar said:
News from the mainland sister in hospital today is that she was sitting up in bed and playing cards with her partner, and winning.So it’s looking more positive.
noice
+1
Tamb said:
roughbarked said:
dv said:noice
+1
Tamb said:
Tamb said:
roughbarked said:+1
Oops. Hit reply not quote. :(
Is this the blood clot sister?
It is.
roughbarked said:
Tamb said:
Tamb said:
Oops. Hit reply not quote. :(
Is this the blood clot sister?It is.
Tamb said:
roughbarked said:
Tamb said:Oops. Hit reply not quote. :(
Is this the blood clot sister?It is.
That’s really good news. Not long back the outlook looked quite grim.
Unfortunately the two Tasmanian sisters who were going to visit her have had their Wednesday flight cancelled by the airline, and now have to go on Saturday.
But at least it’s a direct flight this time, no thumb-twiddling in Tullamarine.
Breakfast: an egg mess of 2 x scumbled eggs, butter, chopped onion, peas, pepperoni. Nuked.
Have to call the hospital today to see if I can have my chest X-rays at a convenient time on Thursday, when the Ross people will be taking their cat to the vet in Launceston.
Bubblecar said:
Breakfast: an egg mess of 2 x scumbled eggs, butter, chopped onion, peas, pepperoni. Nuked.Have to call the hospital today to see if I can have my chest X-rays at a convenient time on Thursday, when the Ross people will be taking their cat to the vet in Launceston.
What’s being looked for in chest X-rays?
some big shit goin’ down
Bubblecar said:
Breakfast: an egg mess of 2 x scumbled eggs, butter, chopped onion, peas, pepperoni. Nuked.Have to call the hospital today to see if I can have my chest X-rays at a convenient time on Thursday, when the Ross people will be taking their cat to the vet in Launceston.
roughbarked said:
Bubblecar said:
Breakfast: an egg mess of 2 x scumbled eggs, butter, chopped onion, peas, pepperoni. Nuked.Have to call the hospital today to see if I can have my chest X-rays at a convenient time on Thursday, when the Ross people will be taking their cat to the vet in Launceston.
What’s being looked for in chest X-rays?
Heart anomalies.
roughbarked said:
Bubblecar said:
Breakfast: an egg mess of 2 x scumbled eggs, butter, chopped onion, peas, pepperoni. Nuked.Have to call the hospital today to see if I can have my chest X-rays at a convenient time on Thursday, when the Ross people will be taking their cat to the vet in Launceston.
What’s being looked for in chest X-rays?
white stuff
Tamb said:
Bubblecar said:
Breakfast: an egg mess of 2 x scumbled eggs, butter, chopped onion, peas, pepperoni. Nuked.Have to call the hospital today to see if I can have my chest X-rays at a convenient time on Thursday, when the Ross people will be taking their cat to the vet in Launceston.
Do not get the two appointments confused.
I’ll make a note of it.
Bubblecar said:
roughbarked said:
Bubblecar said:
Breakfast: an egg mess of 2 x scumbled eggs, butter, chopped onion, peas, pepperoni. Nuked.Have to call the hospital today to see if I can have my chest X-rays at a convenient time on Thursday, when the Ross people will be taking their cat to the vet in Launceston.
What’s being looked for in chest X-rays?
Heart anomalies.
ah.
https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/orthographic=-226.24,-30.69,526
Looking interesting the more you zoom in on Southern Australia.
Morning, not much to report, its 7° and going to be 9° and its raining.
Looks like some jails are going to have a lot more inmates shortly.
>The app, known as AN0M, was used by organised crime gangs around the world to plan executions
They mean “murders”. Executions are legally sanctioned killings.
Hello
Cymek said:
Hello
Got a date for an operation yet Cymek?
Bubblecar said:
>The app, known as AN0M, was used by organised crime gangs around the world to plan executionsThey mean “murders”. Executions are legally sanctioned killings.
Carefully planned and executed murders apparently.
Cymek said:
Hello
Tamb said:
Cymek said:
Hello
G’day mate.
bongiorno.
Bubblecar said:
>The app, known as AN0M, was used by organised crime gangs around the world to plan executionsThey mean “murders”. Executions are legally sanctioned killings.
Since the word can also mean, something carried out in a planned way, the use in this instance is acceptable,
Arts said:
Bubblecar said:
>The app, known as AN0M, was used by organised crime gangs around the world to plan executionsThey mean “murders”. Executions are legally sanctioned killings.
Since the word can also mean, something carried out in a planned way, the use in this instance is acceptable,
Well executed indeed.
Bubblecar said:
Cymek said:
Hello
Got a date for an operation yet Cymek?
Not yet, see the cardiologist Monday next week, when I spoke to him on the phone he pretty much said that’s the plan.
I was looking at the waiting list for surgery in WA and it could be anything from a few months to a year wait.
It depends on how they assess you and this time frame is the normal time frame and it said due to such a long waiting list (30,000) this are trying to extend the waiting longer except for the urgent (as in you could die if it doesn’t happen in a few weeks)
roughbarked said:
Arts said:
Bubblecar said:
>The app, known as AN0M, was used by organised crime gangs around the world to plan executionsThey mean “murders”. Executions are legally sanctioned killings.
Since the word can also mean, something carried out in a planned way, the use in this instance is acceptable,
Well executed indeed.
Contract killings as well aren’t they.
roughbarked said:
Arts said:
Bubblecar said:
>The app, known as AN0M, was used by organised crime gangs around the world to plan executionsThey mean “murders”. Executions are legally sanctioned killings.
Since the word can also mean, something carried out in a planned way, the use in this instance is acceptable,
Well executed indeed.
There was a clear increase in carefully executed drug busts over the past couple of weeks. Anyone watching could easily have thought that the cops were getting precise information of who to bust when and where. Apparently this was causing the criminals to start going behind each others backs and make even more mistakes.
I really doubt that Scotty from marketing actually did any of the work, though he seems intent on taking the credit as far as he can squeeze it.
Cymek said:
Bubblecar said:
Cymek said:
Hello
Got a date for an operation yet Cymek?
Not yet, see the cardiologist Monday next week, when I spoke to him on the phone he pretty much said that’s the plan.
I was looking at the waiting list for surgery in WA and it could be anything from a few months to a year wait.
It depends on how they assess you and this time frame is the normal time frame and it said due to such a long waiting list (30,000) this are trying to extend the waiting longer except for the urgent (as in you could die if it doesn’t happen in a few weeks)
You mustn’t be urgent or they’d have operated already.
Cymek said:
roughbarked said:
Arts said:Since the word can also mean, something carried out in a planned way, the use in this instance is acceptable,
Well executed indeed.
Contract killings as well aren’t they.
Yes.
Cymek said:
Bubblecar said:
Cymek said:
Hello
Got a date for an operation yet Cymek?
Not yet, see the cardiologist Monday next week, when I spoke to him on the phone he pretty much said that’s the plan.
I was looking at the waiting list for surgery in WA and it could be anything from a few months to a year wait.
It depends on how they assess you and this time frame is the normal time frame and it said due to such a long waiting list (30,000) this are trying to extend the waiting longer except for the urgent (as in you could die if it doesn’t happen in a few weeks)
Well good luck with it. By the sound of things you would be classed as quite urgent.
roughbarked said:
Cymek said:
Bubblecar said:Got a date for an operation yet Cymek?
Not yet, see the cardiologist Monday next week, when I spoke to him on the phone he pretty much said that’s the plan.
I was looking at the waiting list for surgery in WA and it could be anything from a few months to a year wait.
It depends on how they assess you and this time frame is the normal time frame and it said due to such a long waiting list (30,000) this are trying to extend the waiting longer except for the urgent (as in you could die if it doesn’t happen in a few weeks)
You mustn’t be urgent or they’d have operated already.
I was overlooked and the referral to the cardiologist never sent, they trialed me on medicine first which hasn’t helped at all
I feel worse or are more aware of it or both maybe.
I left feedback on the hospital website about seemingly being forgotten and they got back to me the same day
I also went to my GP who sent off the paperwork for the referral
Cymek said:
roughbarked said:
Cymek said:Not yet, see the cardiologist Monday next week, when I spoke to him on the phone he pretty much said that’s the plan.
I was looking at the waiting list for surgery in WA and it could be anything from a few months to a year wait.
It depends on how they assess you and this time frame is the normal time frame and it said due to such a long waiting list (30,000) this are trying to extend the waiting longer except for the urgent (as in you could die if it doesn’t happen in a few weeks)
You mustn’t be urgent or they’d have operated already.
I was overlooked and the referral to the cardiologist never sent, they trialed me on medicine first which hasn’t helped at all
I feel worse or are more aware of it or both maybe.I left feedback on the hospital website about seemingly being forgotten and they got back to me the same day
I also went to my GP who sent off the paperwork for the referral
In the case of needing surgery urgently, they’ll push you up the list.
Morning ollie dee Tuesdays. :)
15.7C & 65% indoors
18.1C & 71% outdoors
1019 hPa and falling.
It’s an odd day today. The odd bitta cloud, the odd bit of light breeze and rather oddly, no moolies. Moolies are for tomorrow apparently.
Headed for 22C
Woodie said:
Morning ollie dee Tuesdays. :)15.7C & 65% indoors
18.1C & 71% outdoors1019 hPa and falling.
It’s an odd day today. The odd bitta cloud, the odd bit of light breeze and rather oddly, no moolies. Moolies are for tomorrow apparently.
Headed for 22C
Morning Woodie. We’re headed for 13 with 95% chance of rain, but it’s not at the moment.
roughbarked said:
Cymek said:
roughbarked said:You mustn’t be urgent or they’d have operated already.
I was overlooked and the referral to the cardiologist never sent, they trialed me on medicine first which hasn’t helped at all
I feel worse or are more aware of it or both maybe.I left feedback on the hospital website about seemingly being forgotten and they got back to me the same day
I also went to my GP who sent off the paperwork for the referral
In the case of needing surgery urgently, they’ll push you up the list.
Hopefully
I assume heart surgery is a high priority
When it happens I’ll likely be out of action for a while, I was hinting to family to buy me an expensive Star Wars lego set to do whist I heal.
It’s nearly 5000 pieces to will get me occupied for a while
How is your sister Bubblecar ?
Bubblecar said:
Woodie said:
Morning ollie dee Tuesdays. :)15.7C & 65% indoors
18.1C & 71% outdoors1019 hPa and falling.
It’s an odd day today. The odd bitta cloud, the odd bit of light breeze and rather oddly, no moolies. Moolies are for tomorrow apparently.
Headed for 22C
Morning Woodie. We’re headed for 13 with 95% chance of rain, but it’s not at the moment.
Cymek said:
roughbarked said:
Cymek said:I was overlooked and the referral to the cardiologist never sent, they trialed me on medicine first which hasn’t helped at all
I feel worse or are more aware of it or both maybe.I left feedback on the hospital website about seemingly being forgotten and they got back to me the same day
I also went to my GP who sent off the paperwork for the referral
In the case of needing surgery urgently, they’ll push you up the list.
Hopefully
I assume heart surgery is a high priority
When it happens I’ll likely be out of action for a while, I was hinting to family to buy me an expensive Star Wars lego set to do whist I heal.
It’s nearly 5000 pieces to will get me occupied for a while
The Millennium Falcon or the Star Destroyer?
Cymek said:
How is your sister Bubblecar ?
She seemed perkier yesterday. She was able to sit up in bed and play cards with her visiting partner.
Witty Rejoinder said:
Cymek said:
roughbarked said:In the case of needing surgery urgently, they’ll push you up the list.
Hopefully
I assume heart surgery is a high priority
When it happens I’ll likely be out of action for a while, I was hinting to family to buy me an expensive Star Wars lego set to do whist I heal.
It’s nearly 5000 pieces to will get me occupied for a whileThe Millennium Falcon or the Star Destroyer?
Star Destroyer
Bubblecar said:
Cymek said:
How is your sister Bubblecar ?
She seemed perkier yesterday. She was able to sit up in bed and play cards with her visiting partner.
That is good
Cymek said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Cymek said:Hopefully
I assume heart surgery is a high priority
When it happens I’ll likely be out of action for a while, I was hinting to family to buy me an expensive Star Wars lego set to do whist I heal.
It’s nearly 5000 pieces to will get me occupied for a whileThe Millennium Falcon or the Star Destroyer?
Star Destroyer
Cool.
Witty Rejoinder said:
Cymek said:
Witty Rejoinder said:The Millennium Falcon or the Star Destroyer?
Star Destroyer
Cool.
It’s wishful thinking, they are fun to build but then kind of sit there and do nothing, you could zoom them around but are grownups allowed to do that
Cymek said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Cymek said:Star Destroyer
Cool.
It’s wishful thinking, they are fun to build but then kind of sit there and do nothing, you could zoom them around but are grownups allowed to do that
Heh. It would look great in the man-cave suspended on fishing line.
Witty Rejoinder said:
Cymek said:
Witty Rejoinder said:Cool.
It’s wishful thinking, they are fun to build but then kind of sit there and do nothing, you could zoom them around but are grownups allowed to do that
Heh. It would look great in the man-cave suspended on fishing line.
I think so, the Star Destroyer is huge, three feet long and two feet wide almost
Cymek said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Cymek said:It’s wishful thinking, they are fun to build but then kind of sit there and do nothing, you could zoom them around but are grownups allowed to do that
Heh. It would look great in the man-cave suspended on fishing line.
I think so, the Star Destroyer is huge, three feet long and two feet wide almost
Shit that’s huge. Had no idea it was that big. I bought the MF for my grandson.
Cymek said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Cymek said:Star Destroyer
Cool.
It’s wishful thinking, they are fun to build but then kind of sit there and do nothing, you could zoom them around but are grownups allowed to do that
The thing about being a grown-up is that, once they’re built, you can buy rockets and little jet motors on e-bay, and attach them to the models, and whoosh!
Cymek said:
roughbarked said:
Arts said:Since the word can also mean, something carried out in a planned way, the use in this instance is acceptable,
Well executed indeed.
Contract killings as well aren’t they.
I wouldn’t confuse contract killings with mob planned executions. Although there is likely some overlap. The Contact killing is generally planned but also some money changes hands and the person hired has no connection to the victim nor prior relationship.
The mob executions (while can be done by a contract killer) are more often done by another mob member (or the one who has the original problem with the victim) and is often done out of ‘honour’ due to a disrespect that the victim has been seen to have perpetrated,
captain_spalding said:
Cymek said:
Witty Rejoinder said:Cool.
It’s wishful thinking, they are fun to build but then kind of sit there and do nothing, you could zoom them around but are grownups allowed to do that
The thing about being a grown-up is that, once they’re built, you can buy rockets and little jet motors on e-bay, and attach them to the models, and whoosh!
captain_spalding said:
Cymek said:
Witty Rejoinder said:Cool.
It’s wishful thinking, they are fun to build but then kind of sit there and do nothing, you could zoom them around but are grownups allowed to do that
The thing about being a grown-up is that, once they’re built, you can buy rockets and little jet motors on e-bay, and attach them to the models, and whoosh!
Pity we can’t still get firecrackers. I used to build them with inbuilt explosives for dramatic ‘splosions.
Witty Rejoinder said:
Cymek said:
Witty Rejoinder said:Heh. It would look great in the man-cave suspended on fishing line.
I think so, the Star Destroyer is huge, three feet long and two feet wide almost
Shit that’s huge. Had no idea it was that big. I bought the MF for my grandson.
I hope you didn’t call it the motherfucker in front of him.
roughbarked said:
captain_spalding said:
Cymek said:It’s wishful thinking, they are fun to build but then kind of sit there and do nothing, you could zoom them around but are grownups allowed to do that
The thing about being a grown-up is that, once they’re built, you can buy rockets and little jet motors on e-bay, and attach them to the models, and whoosh!
Pity we can’t still get firecrackers. I used to build them with inbuilt explosives for dramatic ‘splosions.
Make your own gunpowder.
Arts said:
Cymek said:
roughbarked said:Well executed indeed.
Contract killings as well aren’t they.
I wouldn’t confuse contract killings with mob planned executions. Although there is likely some overlap. The Contact killing is generally planned but also some money changes hands and the person hired has no connection to the victim nor prior relationship.
The mob executions (while can be done by a contract killer) are more often done by another mob member (or the one who has the original problem with the victim) and is often done out of ‘honour’ due to a disrespect that the victim has been seen to have perpetrated,
Yes. Killing family members is something learned quite young within Mafia.
roughbarked said:
captain_spalding said:
Cymek said:It’s wishful thinking, they are fun to build but then kind of sit there and do nothing, you could zoom them around but are grownups allowed to do that
The thing about being a grown-up is that, once they’re built, you can buy rockets and little jet motors on e-bay, and attach them to the models, and whoosh!
Pity we can’t still get firecrackers. I used to build them with inbuilt explosives for dramatic ‘splosions.
I’m not saying anything about stuff that goes ka-boom. Don’t want the responsibility.
Tamb said:
roughbarked said:
captain_spalding said:The thing about being a grown-up is that, once they’re built, you can buy rockets and little jet motors on e-bay, and attach them to the models, and whoosh!
Pity we can’t still get firecrackers. I used to build them with inbuilt explosives for dramatic ‘splosions.
Make your own gunpowder.
:)
roughbarked said:
Arts said:
Cymek said:Contract killings as well aren’t they.
I wouldn’t confuse contract killings with mob planned executions. Although there is likely some overlap. The Contact killing is generally planned but also some money changes hands and the person hired has no connection to the victim nor prior relationship.
The mob executions (while can be done by a contract killer) are more often done by another mob member (or the one who has the original problem with the victim) and is often done out of ‘honour’ due to a disrespect that the victim has been seen to have perpetrated,
Yes. Killing family members is something learned quite young within Mafia.
roughbarked said:
Tamb said:
roughbarked said:Pity we can’t still get firecrackers. I used to build them with inbuilt explosives for dramatic ‘splosions.
Make your own gunpowder.
:)
That’s harder than you might think.
You can follow the ‘recipe’ precisely, and you’re still quite likely to come up with something that just fizzles. Or does nothing. Or blows your fingers off.
It’s a more exact thing than e.g. baking a cake.
Witty Rejoinder said:
Cymek said:
Witty Rejoinder said:Heh. It would look great in the man-cave suspended on fishing line.
I think so, the Star Destroyer is huge, three feet long and two feet wide almost
Shit that’s huge. Had no idea it was that big. I bought the MF for my grandson.
The MF has two versions now
roughbarked said:
Tamb said:
roughbarked said:Pity we can’t still get firecrackers. I used to build them with inbuilt explosives for dramatic ‘splosions.
Make your own gunpowder.
:)
captain_spalding said:
roughbarked said:
captain_spalding said:The thing about being a grown-up is that, once they’re built, you can buy rockets and little jet motors on e-bay, and attach them to the models, and whoosh!
Pity we can’t still get firecrackers. I used to build them with inbuilt explosives for dramatic ‘splosions.
I’m not saying anything about stuff that goes ka-boom. Don’t want the responsibility.
:) That’s OK, I’ve done the shot firer’s course.
Arts said:
Cymek said:
roughbarked said:Well executed indeed.
Contract killings as well aren’t they.
I wouldn’t confuse contract killings with mob planned executions. Although there is likely some overlap. The Contact killing is generally planned but also some money changes hands and the person hired has no connection to the victim nor prior relationship.
The mob executions (while can be done by a contract killer) are more often done by another mob member (or the one who has the original problem with the victim) and is often done out of ‘honour’ due to a disrespect that the victim has been seen to have perpetrated,
It’s still just murder and should be identified as such.
Tamb said:
roughbarked said:
Tamb said:Make your own gunpowder.
:)
I used to do that for my cracker gun but later graduated to nitroglycerine. It’s amazing I’m still alive.
Yes. That is for sure.
and I can say the same for myself, including the errors that can be made while attempting to make such substances.
Bubblecar said:
Arts said:
Cymek said:Contract killings as well aren’t they.
I wouldn’t confuse contract killings with mob planned executions. Although there is likely some overlap. The Contact killing is generally planned but also some money changes hands and the person hired has no connection to the victim nor prior relationship.
The mob executions (while can be done by a contract killer) are more often done by another mob member (or the one who has the original problem with the victim) and is often done out of ‘honour’ due to a disrespect that the victim has been seen to have perpetrated,
It’s still just murder and should be identified as such.
roughbarked said:
Tamb said:
roughbarked said::)
I used to do that for my cracker gun but later graduated to nitroglycerine. It’s amazing I’m still alive.Yes. That is for sure.
and I can say the same for myself, including the errors that can be made while attempting to make such substances.
Tamb said:
Bubblecar said:
Arts said:I wouldn’t confuse contract killings with mob planned executions. Although there is likely some overlap. The Contact killing is generally planned but also some money changes hands and the person hired has no connection to the victim nor prior relationship.
The mob executions (while can be done by a contract killer) are more often done by another mob member (or the one who has the original problem with the victim) and is often done out of ‘honour’ due to a disrespect that the victim has been seen to have perpetrated,
It’s still just murder and should be identified as such.
Chopper Reid called it pest removal. He said he’d never shot anyone who didn’t deserve it.
I’m sure many murderers like to think they have some twisted rationale.
Bubblecar said:
Tamb said:
Bubblecar said:It’s still just murder and should be identified as such.
Chopper Reid called it pest removal. He said he’d never shot anyone who didn’t deserve it.
I’m sure many murderers like to think they have some twisted rationale.
Organised crime is a form of terror should deal with them the way they do with terrorists
Cymek said:
Bubblecar said:
Tamb said:Chopper Reid called it pest removal. He said he’d never shot anyone who didn’t deserve it.
I’m sure many murderers like to think they have some twisted rationale.
Organised crime is a form of terror should deal with them the way they do with terrorists
Agree, its a localised form of terror.
Tau.Neutrino said:
Cymek said:
Bubblecar said:I’m sure many murderers like to think they have some twisted rationale.
Organised crime is a form of terror should deal with them the way they do with terrorists
Agree, its a localised form of terror.
It has all sorts of nastiness attached to it, but it’s about power and money instead of some political/religious ideology.
Cymek said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Cymek said:Organised crime is a form of terror should deal with them the way they do with terrorists
Agree, its a localised form of terror.
It has all sorts of nastiness attached to it, but it’s about power and money instead of some political/religious ideology.
Yes.
Cymek said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Cymek said:Organised crime is a form of terror should deal with them the way they do with terrorists
Agree, its a localised form of terror.
It has all sorts of nastiness attached to it, but it’s about power and money instead of some political/religious ideology.
Tamb said:
Cymek said:
Tau.Neutrino said:Agree, its a localised form of terror.
It has all sorts of nastiness attached to it, but it’s about power and money instead of some political/religious ideology.
IMO it’s slightly better than terrorism. Innocent, uninvolved people are unlikely to be affected .
You still end up with dead victims, and/or injured victims.
Tau.Neutrino said:
Tamb said:
Cymek said:It has all sorts of nastiness attached to it, but it’s about power and money instead of some political/religious ideology.
IMO it’s slightly better than terrorism. Innocent, uninvolved people are unlikely to be affected .You still end up with dead victims, and/or injured victims.
Having hijacked the meme thread, I’d better go and do something useful.
It’s not often a dart lands in the snow section of the south east Queensland board.
OK, it’s not very tropical here today. It is presently 6 degrees outside. And raining. No wind, which is good. I just tipped out 16mm from the raingauge. (I didn’t get out there earlier)
buffy said:
OK, it’s not very tropical here today. It is presently 6 degrees outside. And raining. No wind, which is good. I just tipped out 16mm from the raingauge. (I didn’t get out there earlier)
About the same temp here.
I need a usb mug to keep my coffee hot.
Tamb said:
Cymek said:
Tau.Neutrino said:Agree, its a localised form of terror.
It has all sorts of nastiness attached to it, but it’s about power and money instead of some political/religious ideology.
IMO it’s slightly better than terrorism. Innocent, uninvolved people are unlikely to be affected .
Perhaps, some of them run sex slaves trafficking which is about one of the worst things you can be involved in
Bubblecar said:
Arts said:
Cymek said:Contract killings as well aren’t they.
I wouldn’t confuse contract killings with mob planned executions. Although there is likely some overlap. The Contact killing is generally planned but also some money changes hands and the person hired has no connection to the victim nor prior relationship.
The mob executions (while can be done by a contract killer) are more often done by another mob member (or the one who has the original problem with the victim) and is often done out of ‘honour’ due to a disrespect that the victim has been seen to have perpetrated,
It’s still just murder and should be identified as such.
even the charge of ‘murder’ has levels…
Cymek said:
Bubblecar said:
Tamb said:Chopper Reid called it pest removal. He said he’d never shot anyone who didn’t deserve it.
I’m sure many murderers like to think they have some twisted rationale.
Organised crime is a form of terror should deal with them the way they do with terrorists
organised criminal groups are generally not for political gain or agenda pushing.. they re about control and money
Australian Federal Police and FBI nab criminal underworld figures in worldwide sting using encrypted app
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-08/fbi-afp-underworld-crime-bust-an0m-cash-drugs-murder/100197246
Authorities say they were able to read up to 25 million messages in real-time.
There’s an app for that.
:)
buffy said:
OK, it’s not very tropical here today. It is presently 6 degrees outside. And raining. No wind, which is good. I just tipped out 16mm from the raingauge. (I didn’t get out there earlier)
11.6°C here but is sure feels closer to 7. A slightly wet footpath so far.
“US approves first new Alzheimer’s drug in 20 years”
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-57383763
Chest X-Ray at the radiology clinic in Jimmy’s Complex next to Coles, Charles St, Thursday 2:30pm. Write it on your hand.
Arts said:
Bubblecar said:
Arts said:I wouldn’t confuse contract killings with mob planned executions. Although there is likely some overlap. The Contact killing is generally planned but also some money changes hands and the person hired has no connection to the victim nor prior relationship.
The mob executions (while can be done by a contract killer) are more often done by another mob member (or the one who has the original problem with the victim) and is often done out of ‘honour’ due to a disrespect that the victim has been seen to have perpetrated,
It’s still just murder and should be identified as such.
even the charge of ‘murder’ has levels…
Not in Australia.
Lunch: turkey stew from the freezer, thawed and heated.
Peak Warming Man said:
“US approves first new Alzheimer’s drug in 20 years”
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-57383763
>Aducanumab targets the underlying cause of Alzheimer’s, the most common form of dementia, rather than its symptoms.
I assume remembering the name of the drug was one of the test questions for volunteers.
captain_spalding said:
Arts said:
Bubblecar said:It’s still just murder and should be identified as such.
even the charge of ‘murder’ has levels…
Not in Australia.
well yes it does, because it’s a state legislation.. and while we have different terminology, there are still levels for what is essentially the unlawful death of someone.
Bubblecar said:
Peak Warming Man said:
“US approves first new Alzheimer’s drug in 20 years”
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-57383763
>Aducanumab targets the underlying cause of Alzheimer’s, the most common form of dementia, rather than its symptoms.
I assume remembering the name of the drug was one of the test questions for volunteers.
Anyway I’ll start a thread.
Here are some arty looking sheds
Impressive finalists revealed for 2021 Shed of the Year competition
Then there was the ABC forum member who did 12 months in Her Majesty’s Hotel for engaging the services of a specialist to make the problem of his partner’s ex “go away”.
Pro tip: The dude in the pub “who knows people” to do such wet work is not the person you want to confide in.
Tau.Neutrino said:
Galactic glamor shots abound in annual Milky Way photo competition
https://capturetheatlas.com/milky-way-photographer-of-the-year/
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-08/qld-biloela-girl-tharnicaa-medical-evacuation-christmas-island/100197236
Dark Orange said:
Then there was the ABC forum member who did 12 months in Her Majesty’s Hotel for engaging the services of a specialist to make the problem of his partner’s ex “go away”.
Pro tip: The dude in the pub “who knows people” to do such wet work is not the person you want to confide in.
my favourite story on this topic is about Dalia Dippolito, who put out a hit on her husband, but, unfortunately for her, used undercover cops. The cops created a whole show for her, set up a fake crime scene, had her come to it, watched her ‘acting’ and then had hubby walk in on the interview room… it was priceless.. you can watch the whole thing on YouTube.. a classic of the genre.
Arts said:
Dark Orange said:Then there was the ABC forum member who did 12 months in Her Majesty’s Hotel for engaging the services of a specialist to make the problem of his partner’s ex “go away”.
Pro tip: The dude in the pub “who knows people” to do such wet work is not the person you want to confide in.
my favourite story on this topic is about Dalia Dippolito, who put out a hit on her husband, but, unfortunately for her, used undercover cops. The cops created a whole show for her, set up a fake crime scene, had her come to it, watched her ‘acting’ and then had hubby walk in on the interview room… it was priceless.. you can watch the whole thing on YouTube.. a classic of the genre.
Will have to chase that up.
In the case I mentiioned, the “bloke in the pub who knows people” knew more cops, and the forum member and his girlfriend both did time for trying to organise.
Dark Orange said:
Arts said:
Dark Orange said:Then there was the ABC forum member who did 12 months in Her Majesty’s Hotel for engaging the services of a specialist to make the problem of his partner’s ex “go away”.
Pro tip: The dude in the pub “who knows people” to do such wet work is not the person you want to confide in.
my favourite story on this topic is about Dalia Dippolito, who put out a hit on her husband, but, unfortunately for her, used undercover cops. The cops created a whole show for her, set up a fake crime scene, had her come to it, watched her ‘acting’ and then had hubby walk in on the interview room… it was priceless.. you can watch the whole thing on YouTube.. a classic of the genre.
Will have to chase that up.
In the case I mentiioned, the “bloke in the pub who knows people” knew more cops, and the forum member and his girlfriend both did time for trying to organise.
statistically the forum absolutely should have more than one antisocial type… so this does not surprise me
Dark Orange said:
Arts said:
Dark Orange said:Then there was the ABC forum member who did 12 months in Her Majesty’s Hotel for engaging the services of a specialist to make the problem of his partner’s ex “go away”.
Pro tip: The dude in the pub “who knows people” to do such wet work is not the person you want to confide in.
my favourite story on this topic is about Dalia Dippolito, who put out a hit on her husband, but, unfortunately for her, used undercover cops. The cops created a whole show for her, set up a fake crime scene, had her come to it, watched her ‘acting’ and then had hubby walk in on the interview room… it was priceless.. you can watch the whole thing on YouTube.. a classic of the genre.
Will have to chase that up.
In the case I mentiioned, the “bloke in the pub who knows people” knew more cops, and the forum member and his girlfriend both did time for trying to organise.
Which ABC forum was this?
Lunch report: White bread roll with poppy seeds, buttered with peanut butter. Filled with lettuce, tomato, slices of gouda and ham off the bone. Yum.
Arts said:
Dark Orange said:
Arts said:my favourite story on this topic is about Dalia Dippolito, who put out a hit on her husband, but, unfortunately for her, used undercover cops. The cops created a whole show for her, set up a fake crime scene, had her come to it, watched her ‘acting’ and then had hubby walk in on the interview room… it was priceless.. you can watch the whole thing on YouTube.. a classic of the genre.
Will have to chase that up.
In the case I mentiioned, the “bloke in the pub who knows people” knew more cops, and the forum member and his girlfriend both did time for trying to organise.statistically the forum absolutely should have more than one antisocial type… so this does not surprise me
You cant prove anything.
Breakfast: Homegrown, tiny, misshapen King Oyster mushrooms cooked in butter with homemade sourdough bread, toasted. My first ever mushroom harvest.
Verdict: the mushrooms were somewhat bitter, but otherwise tasted like mild King Oyster mushrooms. They had the meaty texture of King Oysters, too.
Michael V said:
Breakfast: Homegrown, tiny, misshapen King Oyster mushrooms cooked in butter with homemade sourdough bread, toasted. My first ever mushroom harvest.Verdict: the mushrooms were somewhat bitter, but otherwise tasted like mild King Oyster mushrooms. They had the meaty texture of King Oysters, too.
Mushrooms from Planet X.
;)
Arts said:
Dark Orange said:
Arts said:my favourite story on this topic is about Dalia Dippolito, who put out a hit on her husband, but, unfortunately for her, used undercover cops. The cops created a whole show for her, set up a fake crime scene, had her come to it, watched her ‘acting’ and then had hubby walk in on the interview room… it was priceless.. you can watch the whole thing on YouTube.. a classic of the genre.
Will have to chase that up.
In the case I mentiioned, the “bloke in the pub who knows people” knew more cops, and the forum member and his girlfriend both did time for trying to organise.statistically the forum absolutely should have more than one antisocial type… so this does not surprise me
In his defence, the ex was a nastier piece of work and his attempted removal was an act of self preservation. But in the end, the ex ended up doing a lot longer time for unrelated offences so it was all for nothing.
Witty Rejoinder said:
Dark Orange said:
Arts said:my favourite story on this topic is about Dalia Dippolito, who put out a hit on her husband, but, unfortunately for her, used undercover cops. The cops created a whole show for her, set up a fake crime scene, had her come to it, watched her ‘acting’ and then had hubby walk in on the interview room… it was priceless.. you can watch the whole thing on YouTube.. a classic of the genre.
Will have to chase that up.
In the case I mentiioned, the “bloke in the pub who knows people” knew more cops, and the forum member and his girlfriend both did time for trying to organise.Which ABC forum was this?
Scribbly and Tech, from memory.
Michael V said:
Breakfast: Homegrown, tiny, misshapen King Oyster mushrooms cooked in butter with homemade sourdough bread, toasted. My first ever mushroom harvest.Verdict: the mushrooms were somewhat bitter, but otherwise tasted like mild King Oyster mushrooms. They had the meaty texture of King Oysters, too.
Tried non-radioactive compost?
Bogsnorkler said:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-08/qld-biloela-girl-tharnicaa-medical-evacuation-christmas-island/100197236
We are scum.
Michael V said:
Breakfast: Homegrown, tiny, misshapen King Oyster mushrooms cooked in butter with homemade sourdough bread, toasted. My first ever mushroom harvest.Verdict: the mushrooms were somewhat bitter, but otherwise tasted like mild King Oyster mushrooms. They had the meaty texture of King Oysters, too.
WTF are you growing them in, some sort of isotopic soil.
Dark Orange said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Dark Orange said:Will have to chase that up.
In the case I mentiioned, the “bloke in the pub who knows people” knew more cops, and the forum member and his girlfriend both did time for trying to organise.Which ABC forum was this?
Scribbly and Tech, from memory.
they were always a hive of scum and villainy.
sarahs mum said:
Bogsnorkler said:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-08/qld-biloela-girl-tharnicaa-medical-evacuation-christmas-island/100197236
We are scum.
The government’s shame.
Bogsnorkler said:
Dark Orange said:
Witty Rejoinder said:Which ABC forum was this?
Scribbly and Tech, from memory.
they were always a hive of scum and villainy.
What year was this? Must have been early on?
Dark Orange said:
Arts said:
Dark Orange said:Will have to chase that up.
In the case I mentiioned, the “bloke in the pub who knows people” knew more cops, and the forum member and his girlfriend both did time for trying to organise.statistically the forum absolutely should have more than one antisocial type… so this does not surprise me
In his defence, the ex was a nastier piece of work and his attempted removal was an act of self preservation. But in the end, the ex ended up doing a lot longer time for unrelated offences so it was all for nothing.
I don’t like this defence.
roughbarked said:
sarahs mum said:
Bogsnorkler said:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-08/qld-biloela-girl-tharnicaa-medical-evacuation-christmas-island/100197236
We are scum.
The government’s shame.
Someone is voting for them,
sarahs mum said:
roughbarked said:
sarahs mum said:We are scum.
The government’s shame.
Someone is voting for them,
Not Me. I don’t vote for Liberal scum!.
Tau.Neutrino said:
Here are some arty looking shedsImpressive finalists revealed for 2021 Shed of the Year competition
!https://assets.newatlas.com/dims4/default/0ce5166/2147483647/strip/true/crop/4920×3280+4+0/resize/1200×800
I love this.
sarahs mum said:
roughbarked said:
sarahs mum said:We are scum.
The government’s shame.
Someone is voting for them,
Too many are.
roughbarked said:
Bogsnorkler said:
Dark Orange said:Scribbly and Tech, from memory.
they were always a hive of scum and villainy.
What year was this? Must have been early on?
Nah, long term (but low key) member. Had a beer with him in Brissy after he got out. Can’t remember his name though.
Arts said:
Dark Orange said:
Arts said:statistically the forum absolutely should have more than one antisocial type… so this does not surprise me
In his defence, the ex was a nastier piece of work and his attempted removal was an act of self preservation. But in the end, the ex ended up doing a lot longer time for unrelated offences so it was all for nothing.
I don’t like this defence.
Just presenting mitigating circumstances, your ‘onna.
Dark Orange said:
roughbarked said:
Bogsnorkler said:they were always a hive of scum and villainy.
What year was this? Must have been early on?
Nah, long term (but low key) member. Had a beer with him in Brissy after he got out. Can’t remember his name though.
So he never came back to the forum?
Bogsnorkler said:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-08/qld-biloela-girl-tharnicaa-medical-evacuation-christmas-island/100197236
I saw that go up last night. If she has septicaemia, it’s not good.
(I should read the updated story)
sarahs mum said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Here are some arty looking shedsImpressive finalists revealed for 2021 Shed of the Year competition
!https://assets.newatlas.com/dims4/default/0ce5166/2147483647/strip/true/crop/4920×3280+4+0/resize/1200×800
I love this.
It is very pleasing.
buffy said:
Bogsnorkler said:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-08/qld-biloela-girl-tharnicaa-medical-evacuation-christmas-island/100197236
I saw that go up last night. If she has septicaemia, it’s not good.
(I should read the updated story)
+ lung infection that’s caused Pneumonia, if the reports are correct.
Quick question for the geeks – 5kHz – 15kHz RF band as used by metal detectors – anybody know what signal strength the general public is allowed to use when transmitting in this band?
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Here are some arty looking shedsImpressive finalists revealed for 2021 Shed of the Year competition
!https://assets.newatlas.com/dims4/default/0ce5166/2147483647/strip/true/crop/4920×3280+4+0/resize/1200×800
I love this.
It is very pleasing.
Nice place to have a coffee and meditate.
roughbarked said:
Dark Orange said:
roughbarked said:What year was this? Must have been early on?
Nah, long term (but low key) member. Had a beer with him in Brissy after he got out. Can’t remember his name though.
So he never came back to the forum?
He did – and was open about his escapades.
Tau.Neutrino said:
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:!https://assets.newatlas.com/dims4/default/0ce5166/2147483647/strip/true/crop/4920×3280+4+0/resize/1200×800
I love this.
It is very pleasing.
Nice place to have a coffee and meditate.
I’m not sure I’d call that a shed. That is more a Summer House.
Dark Orange said:
roughbarked said:
Dark Orange said:Nah, long term (but low key) member. Had a beer with him in Brissy after he got out. Can’t remember his name though.
So he never came back to the forum?
He did – and was open about his escapades.
hmm. I must have missed it all.
buffy said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Bubblecar said:It is very pleasing.
Nice place to have a coffee and meditate.
I’m not sure I’d call that a shed. That is more a Summer House.
Oh, I see. There are different categories. It is a Summer House.
buffy said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Bubblecar said:It is very pleasing.
Nice place to have a coffee and meditate.
I’m not sure I’d call that a shed. That is more a Summer House.
A modern folly?
Luxuriously appointed gazebo?
roughbarked said:
Dark Orange said:
roughbarked said:So he never came back to the forum?
He did – and was open about his escapades.
hmm. I must have missed it all.
I missed it too. Apparently. Or I haven’t bothered to remember it.
buffy said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Bubblecar said:It is very pleasing.
Nice place to have a coffee and meditate.
I’m not sure I’d call that a shed. That is more a Summer House.
I was thinking summer house but then I thought it would be lovely in there in winter with the fire going.
buffy said:
buffy said:
Tau.Neutrino said:Nice place to have a coffee and meditate.
I’m not sure I’d call that a shed. That is more a Summer House.
Oh, I see. There are different categories. It is a Summer House.
Complete with wood heater. Must be cool summers.
buffy said:
roughbarked said:
Dark Orange said:He did – and was open about his escapades.
hmm. I must have missed it all.
I missed it too. Apparently. Or I haven’t bothered to remember it.
Could be that we glossed it over amongst all the other chat?
I’m not into storing violence in my memory banks but even then I often at least recall the headlines rather than the complete detail.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=ENCJCYkCoEA
Consider this video of the blooming of Epiphyllum oxypetalum, which only blooms at night. The flowers wither after a few hours.
dv said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=ENCJCYkCoEAConsider this video of the blooming of Epiphyllum oxypetalum, which only blooms at night. The flowers wither after a few hours.
After due consideration I’m left with only a question.
What pollinates night flowering plants?
Two men rushed to hospital after whale lands on boat near Narooma
https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-08/breaching-whale-lands-on-boat-on-nsw-far-south-coast/100197626
Peak Warming Man said:
dv said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=ENCJCYkCoEAConsider this video of the blooming of Epiphyllum oxypetalum, which only blooms at night. The flowers wither after a few hours.
After due consideration I’m left with only a question.
What pollinates night flowering plants?
moffs.
Peak Warming Man said:
dv said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=ENCJCYkCoEAConsider this video of the blooming of Epiphyllum oxypetalum, which only blooms at night. The flowers wither after a few hours.
After due consideration I’m left with only a question.
What pollinates night flowering plants?
Mainly bats.
sarahs mum said:
Peak Warming Man said:
dv said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=ENCJCYkCoEAConsider this video of the blooming of Epiphyllum oxypetalum, which only blooms at night. The flowers wither after a few hours.
After due consideration I’m left with only a question.
What pollinates night flowering plants?
moffs.
and them too.
dv said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=ENCJCYkCoEAConsider this video of the blooming of Epiphyllum oxypetalum, which only blooms at night. The flowers wither after a few hours.
Lubly.
Dark Orange said:
Quick question for the geeks – 5kHz – 15kHz RF band as used by metal detectors – anybody know what signal strength the general public is allowed to use when transmitting in this band?
No idea,
What strength do most transmit at?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_detector
https://www.google.com/search?q=metal+detector+laws+australia
https://diggingaustralia.com/2020/12/19/metal-detecting-laws-nsw/
https://www.detectorsdownunder.com/page/metal-detecting-knowledge-base/getting-started/#GS3
https://hobbydetectors.com.au/blogs/news/do-you-need-a-license-to-go-metal-detecting
Peak Warming Man said:
dv said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=ENCJCYkCoEAConsider this video of the blooming of Epiphyllum oxypetalum, which only blooms at night. The flowers wither after a few hours.
After due consideration I’m left with only a question.
What pollinates night flowering plants?
Idk… fireflies? I ain’t David Attenborough.
What an amazing photo.
I was reading this story:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-08/breaching-whale-lands-on-boat-on-nsw-far-south-coast/100197626
sarahs mum said:
Peak Warming Man said:
dv said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=ENCJCYkCoEAConsider this video of the blooming of Epiphyllum oxypetalum, which only blooms at night. The flowers wither after a few hours.
After due consideration I’m left with only a question.
What pollinates night flowering plants?
moffs.
I see sm beat me to it.
buffy said:
I see sm beat me to it.
Hawk moths would be one but also bats of all shapes and sizes too?
Why biodiversity is shrinking.
Is maxing out at 12.3°C.
dv said:
sarahs mum said:
Peak Warming Man said:After due consideration I’m left with only a question.
What pollinates night flowering plants?
moffs.
He’s grand
Cymek said:
dv said:
sarahs mum said:moffs.
He’s grand
What you tarkin about
roughbarked said:
Why biodiversity is shrinking.
Yes I remember them doing insect catching around cultivated and non cultivated land
Cultivated capture one or two different insects, non cultivated numerous different types.
Cymek said:
roughbarked said:
Why biodiversity is shrinking.
Yes I remember them doing insect catching around cultivated and non cultivated land
Cultivated capture one or two different insects, non cultivated numerous different types.
In recent times, thousands of hectares of almonds have been planted and many more thousands are in the process of being planted. Between almonds and cotton, using way more water than rice growing did.
sarahs mum said:
Two men rushed to hospital after whale lands on boat near Naroomahttps://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-08/breaching-whale-lands-on-boat-on-nsw-far-south-coast/100197626
I have been stuck in a tinnie with whales breaching all around us. Was a nervous 20 minutes or so before we were able to end up elsewhere. But we got the definite impression that they knew we were there and steered clear of us.
roughbarked said:
buffy said:
I see sm beat me to it.Hawk moths would be one but also bats of all shapes and sizes too?
The whale incident.
Tau.Neutrino said:
Dark Orange said:Quick question for the geeks – 5kHz – 15kHz RF band as used by metal detectors – anybody know what signal strength the general public is allowed to use when transmitting in this band?
No idea,
What strength do most transmit at?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_detector
https://www.google.com/search?q=metal+detector+laws+australia
https://diggingaustralia.com/2020/12/19/metal-detecting-laws-nsw/
https://www.detectorsdownunder.com/page/metal-detecting-knowledge-base/getting-started/#GS3
https://hobbydetectors.com.au/blogs/news/do-you-need-a-license-to-go-metal-detecting
Asked a radio mate – and the answer is “0”. Those manufacturers have permission to transmit at those frequencies, random members of the public doesn’t. Pretty obvious, really.
buffy said:
I see sm beat me to it.
But you did notice. So thats good.
I have been meaning to pick your brain. One of my friends, Sarah’s age, and partner have been talking for months about getting a dog. They love Cobbett and Paisley.They love Dusty a gun shy springer cross adopted by some other friends. But they went to the dog’s home and came away with a 10 year old staffy cross.
They visited on Sunday and would not let the dog out of the car. Because they had just visited a neighbour and the dog had snapped at the resident 14 year old doggo who is covered with large lumps and not long for the world imo.
‘They are afraid’ of what the dog might do. While at home the dog is all cuddly and lovey dovey. Outside the home they are not so sure.
What is the history I ask? The dog appears to have had multiple litters. Twas surrendered in QLD. It was then adopted and surrendered a couple of months later in Tassie.
I said that they have to be confident. She will pick up on their nervousness. And I also said that they should be prepared to surrender her again and to know it wasn’t their fault.For beginner dog owners it is a handful.
What do you reckon? Any good advice?
dv said:
sarahs mum said:
Peak Warming Man said:After due consideration I’m left with only a question.
What pollinates night flowering plants?
moffs.
That is a grand moff!
roughbarked said:
Why biodiversity is shrinking.
Is it an almond dairy?
sarahs mum said:
buffy said:
I see sm beat me to it.But you did notice. So thats good.
I have been meaning to pick your brain. One of my friends, Sarah’s age, and partner have been talking for months about getting a dog. They love Cobbett and Paisley.They love Dusty a gun shy springer cross adopted by some other friends. But they went to the dog’s home and came away with a 10 year old staffy cross.
They visited on Sunday and would not let the dog out of the car. Because they had just visited a neighbour and the dog had snapped at the resident 14 year old doggo who is covered with large lumps and not long for the world imo.
‘They are afraid’ of what the dog might do. While at home the dog is all cuddly and lovey dovey. Outside the home they are not so sure.
What is the history I ask? The dog appears to have had multiple litters. Twas surrendered in QLD. It was then adopted and surrendered a couple of months later in Tassie.
I said that they have to be confident. She will pick up on their nervousness. And I also said that they should be prepared to surrender her again and to know it wasn’t their fault.For beginner dog owners it is a handful.
What do you reckon? Any good advice?
Armchair expert:
Regular field trips with a “Gentle leader”. Allows for better control, gives them confidence and gets the doggo used to new environments.
roughbarked said:
Why biodiversity is shrinking.
what sort of trees are those?
You wouldn’t want to be this man, shitting bricks I bet
The app was unwittingly distributed by fugitive Australian drug trafficker Hakan Ayik, after he was given the device by undercover agents.
Ayik, 42, recommended the app to criminal associates who would purchase the device pre-loaded with AN0M on the black market, allowing them to send messages, distort messages and take videos.
Police said in some cases it took months to establish whom a specific device was being used by.
AFP Commissioner Reece Kershaw said that Ayik was a marked man and should turn himself into Australian authorities.
“Given the threat he faces, he’s best off handing himself into us as soon as he can.
“He was one of the coordinators of this particular device, so he’s essentially set up his own colleagues.”
sarahs mum said:
buffy said:
I see sm beat me to it.But you did notice. So thats good.
I have been meaning to pick your brain. One of my friends, Sarah’s age, and partner have been talking for months about getting a dog. They love Cobbett and Paisley.They love Dusty a gun shy springer cross adopted by some other friends. But they went to the dog’s home and came away with a 10 year old staffy cross.
They visited on Sunday and would not let the dog out of the car. Because they had just visited a neighbour and the dog had snapped at the resident 14 year old doggo who is covered with large lumps and not long for the world imo.
‘They are afraid’ of what the dog might do. While at home the dog is all cuddly and lovey dovey. Outside the home they are not so sure.
What is the history I ask? The dog appears to have had multiple litters. Twas surrendered in QLD. It was then adopted and surrendered a couple of months later in Tassie.
I said that they have to be confident. She will pick up on their nervousness. And I also said that they should be prepared to surrender her again and to know it wasn’t their fault.For beginner dog owners it is a handful.
What do you reckon? Any good advice?
Oh goodness. They really have taken something on, haven’t they. I agree with what you have said. I suspect at that age training would be difficult. We have a friend with an adopted dog which is not at all dog friendly. She is taking the route that she accepts that, as her dog was previously abused and is unlikely to be trained out of her fear. So she warns anyone walking a dog when she is out walking hers not to let theirs approach. Does a quick explanation. Dog is always on leash if off property (but I recommend that to anyone. Unless you are prepared to watch your dog go under a car/truck – keep it safely on leash)
What did the dogs home people say? It should have been temperament tested if it was up for adoption. So returning it should be an option that was discussed with them.
I guess they can only try. If they are prepared to accept they don’t have a dog friendly dog and live with that and give it a good home for it’s few years (they’d do 12-15? I guess?) well and good. Unfortunately sometimes they are too damaged.
party_pants said:
roughbarked said:
Why biodiversity is shrinking.
what sort of trees are those?
Almonds.
roughbarked said:
party_pants said:
roughbarked said:
Why biodiversity is shrinking.
what sort of trees are those?
Almonds.
Hmmmn. Not very good timber.
Cymek said:
You wouldn’t want to be this man, shitting bricks I betThe app was unwittingly distributed by fugitive Australian drug trafficker Hakan Ayik, after he was given the device by undercover agents.
Ayik, 42, recommended the app to criminal associates who would purchase the device pre-loaded with AN0M on the black market, allowing them to send messages, distort messages and take videos.
Police said in some cases it took months to establish whom a specific device was being used by.
AFP Commissioner Reece Kershaw said that Ayik was a marked man and should turn himself into Australian authorities.
“Given the threat he faces, he’s best off handing himself into us as soon as he can.
“He was one of the coordinators of this particular device, so he’s essentially set up his own colleagues.”
Police reckon he’d be smart if he sought refuge for himself and his family by handniig himself in.
party_pants said:
roughbarked said:
party_pants said:what sort of trees are those?
Almonds.
Hmmmn. Not very good timber.
party_pants said:
roughbarked said:
party_pants said:what sort of trees are those?
Almonds.
Hmmmn. Not very good timber.
Let it get old enough and it is.
Dark Orange said:
sarahs mum said:
buffy said:
I see sm beat me to it.But you did notice. So thats good.
I have been meaning to pick your brain. One of my friends, Sarah’s age, and partner have been talking for months about getting a dog. They love Cobbett and Paisley.They love Dusty a gun shy springer cross adopted by some other friends. But they went to the dog’s home and came away with a 10 year old staffy cross.
They visited on Sunday and would not let the dog out of the car. Because they had just visited a neighbour and the dog had snapped at the resident 14 year old doggo who is covered with large lumps and not long for the world imo.
‘They are afraid’ of what the dog might do. While at home the dog is all cuddly and lovey dovey. Outside the home they are not so sure.
What is the history I ask? The dog appears to have had multiple litters. Twas surrendered in QLD. It was then adopted and surrendered a couple of months later in Tassie.
I said that they have to be confident. She will pick up on their nervousness. And I also said that they should be prepared to surrender her again and to know it wasn’t their fault.For beginner dog owners it is a handful.
What do you reckon? Any good advice?
Armchair expert:
Regular field trips with a “Gentle leader”. Allows for better control, gives them confidence and gets the doggo used to new environments.
They might be running that already. Twill check on that.
Temperature is dropping here. It’s now down to 4 degrees outside.
buffy said:
sarahs mum said:
buffy said:
I see sm beat me to it.But you did notice. So thats good.
I have been meaning to pick your brain. One of my friends, Sarah’s age, and partner have been talking for months about getting a dog. They love Cobbett and Paisley.They love Dusty a gun shy springer cross adopted by some other friends. But they went to the dog’s home and came away with a 10 year old staffy cross.
They visited on Sunday and would not let the dog out of the car. Because they had just visited a neighbour and the dog had snapped at the resident 14 year old doggo who is covered with large lumps and not long for the world imo.
‘They are afraid’ of what the dog might do. While at home the dog is all cuddly and lovey dovey. Outside the home they are not so sure.
What is the history I ask? The dog appears to have had multiple litters. Twas surrendered in QLD. It was then adopted and surrendered a couple of months later in Tassie.
I said that they have to be confident. She will pick up on their nervousness. And I also said that they should be prepared to surrender her again and to know it wasn’t their fault.For beginner dog owners it is a handful.
What do you reckon? Any good advice?
Oh goodness. They really have taken something on, haven’t they. I agree with what you have said. I suspect at that age training would be difficult. We have a friend with an adopted dog which is not at all dog friendly. She is taking the route that she accepts that, as her dog was previously abused and is unlikely to be trained out of her fear. So she warns anyone walking a dog when she is out walking hers not to let theirs approach. Does a quick explanation. Dog is always on leash if off property (but I recommend that to anyone. Unless you are prepared to watch your dog go under a car/truck – keep it safely on leash)
What did the dogs home people say? It should have been temperament tested if it was up for adoption. So returning it should be an option that was discussed with them.
I guess they can only try. If they are prepared to accept they don’t have a dog friendly dog and live with that and give it a good home for it’s few years (they’d do 12-15? I guess?) well and good. Unfortunately sometimes they are too damaged.
Sigh. Yeah. No magic answers. We just have to hang around and see what happens next I suppose. I’m sure that what they wanted wasn’t a dog you had to leave in the car. I’m also pretty sure Paisley could really annoy an old bitch. Paisley is at the zoomy bouncy 5 month old puppy stage.
roughbarked said:
party_pants said:
roughbarked said:Almonds.
Hmmmn. Not very good timber.
Let it get old enough and it is.
Actually, my Dad used to make “rustic” childrens furniture out of sticks and branches. He used the prunings off our almond tree for it because the bark didn’t peel off, and could be varnished over the top of. My syster still has the set he made for my nieces.
roughbarked said:
party_pants said:
roughbarked said:
Why biodiversity is shrinking.
what sort of trees are those?
Almonds.
In the California oregon high desert. Fish killers.
roughbarked said:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-08/canberra-anu-scientists-laser-sail-interstellar-space-discovery/100198228
I’m no expert in that field,
but I suspect that story is hyped up beyond belief.
The Rev Dodgson said:
roughbarked said:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-08/canberra-anu-scientists-laser-sail-interstellar-space-discovery/100198228
I’m no expert in that field,
but I suspect that story is hyped up beyond belief.
May well be. Time will tell.
sarahs mum said:
buffy said:
sarahs mum said:But you did notice. So thats good.
I have been meaning to pick your brain. One of my friends, Sarah’s age, and partner have been talking for months about getting a dog. They love Cobbett and Paisley.They love Dusty a gun shy springer cross adopted by some other friends. But they went to the dog’s home and came away with a 10 year old staffy cross.
They visited on Sunday and would not let the dog out of the car. Because they had just visited a neighbour and the dog had snapped at the resident 14 year old doggo who is covered with large lumps and not long for the world imo.
‘They are afraid’ of what the dog might do. While at home the dog is all cuddly and lovey dovey. Outside the home they are not so sure.
What is the history I ask? The dog appears to have had multiple litters. Twas surrendered in QLD. It was then adopted and surrendered a couple of months later in Tassie.
I said that they have to be confident. She will pick up on their nervousness. And I also said that they should be prepared to surrender her again and to know it wasn’t their fault.For beginner dog owners it is a handful.
What do you reckon? Any good advice?
Oh goodness. They really have taken something on, haven’t they. I agree with what you have said. I suspect at that age training would be difficult. We have a friend with an adopted dog which is not at all dog friendly. She is taking the route that she accepts that, as her dog was previously abused and is unlikely to be trained out of her fear. So she warns anyone walking a dog when she is out walking hers not to let theirs approach. Does a quick explanation. Dog is always on leash if off property (but I recommend that to anyone. Unless you are prepared to watch your dog go under a car/truck – keep it safely on leash)
What did the dogs home people say? It should have been temperament tested if it was up for adoption. So returning it should be an option that was discussed with them.
I guess they can only try. If they are prepared to accept they don’t have a dog friendly dog and live with that and give it a good home for it’s few years (they’d do 12-15? I guess?) well and good. Unfortunately sometimes they are too damaged.
Sigh. Yeah. No magic answers. We just have to hang around and see what happens next I suppose. I’m sure that what they wanted wasn’t a dog you had to leave in the car. I’m also pretty sure Paisley could really annoy an old bitch. Paisley is at the zoomy bouncy 5 month old puppy stage.
If the bitch has had several litters, she’s likely to be grumpy with a puppy, I think. She will want to put Paisley in her place.
We plan to go with a rescue greyhound for our next dog. Cannot be done until the Pug leaves us. You can’t have small dogs around greyhounds – they are trained to chase!
buffy said:
Temperature is dropping here. It’s now down to 4 degrees outside.
Fire, you need fire.
And bone marrow.
Dark Orange said:
Michael V said:
Breakfast: Homegrown, tiny, misshapen King Oyster mushrooms cooked in butter with homemade sourdough bread, toasted. My first ever mushroom harvest.Verdict: the mushrooms were somewhat bitter, but otherwise tasted like mild King Oyster mushrooms. They had the meaty texture of King Oysters, too.
Tried non-radioactive compost?
Grown on paper kitty litter with a bit of guinea pig food thrown in for good measure.
sarahs mum said:
Bogsnorkler said:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-08/qld-biloela-girl-tharnicaa-medical-evacuation-christmas-island/100197236
We are scum.
Not all of us. Just some pollies and a few others.
roughbarked said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
roughbarked said:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-08/canberra-anu-scientists-laser-sail-interstellar-space-discovery/100198228
I’m no expert in that field,
but I suspect that story is hyped up beyond belief.
May well be. Time will tell.
You’d want to be reasonably sure there was something worthwhile at the end of the journey.
You get there, fine, but if it’s just a star, with no place for you take up residence, then you’re pretty much stuffed.
You can’t just say ‘bugger it, let’s go home’.
Peak Warming Man said:
buffy said:
Temperature is dropping here. It’s now down to 4 degrees outside.Fire, you need fire.
And bone marrow.
Got fire. I cleaned the glass on the woodheater at 6.30 this morning and lit the fire. There is a surfeit of dogs around the fire…
Michael V said:
sarahs mum said:
Bogsnorkler said:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-08/qld-biloela-girl-tharnicaa-medical-evacuation-christmas-island/100197236
We are scum.
Not all of us. Just some pollies and a few others.
they think they can fix it with more flags.
buffy said:
sarahs mum said:
buffy said:Oh goodness. They really have taken something on, haven’t they. I agree with what you have said. I suspect at that age training would be difficult. We have a friend with an adopted dog which is not at all dog friendly. She is taking the route that she accepts that, as her dog was previously abused and is unlikely to be trained out of her fear. So she warns anyone walking a dog when she is out walking hers not to let theirs approach. Does a quick explanation. Dog is always on leash if off property (but I recommend that to anyone. Unless you are prepared to watch your dog go under a car/truck – keep it safely on leash)
What did the dogs home people say? It should have been temperament tested if it was up for adoption. So returning it should be an option that was discussed with them.
I guess they can only try. If they are prepared to accept they don’t have a dog friendly dog and live with that and give it a good home for it’s few years (they’d do 12-15? I guess?) well and good. Unfortunately sometimes they are too damaged.
Sigh. Yeah. No magic answers. We just have to hang around and see what happens next I suppose. I’m sure that what they wanted wasn’t a dog you had to leave in the car. I’m also pretty sure Paisley could really annoy an old bitch. Paisley is at the zoomy bouncy 5 month old puppy stage.
If the bitch has had several litters, she’s likely to be grumpy with a puppy, I think. She will want to put Paisley in her place.
We plan to go with a rescue greyhound for our next dog. Cannot be done until the Pug leaves us. You can’t have small dogs around greyhounds – they are trained to chase!
If the dog’s 10 year old there’s not much point in trying to teach it anything new.
Peak Warming Man said:
dv said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=ENCJCYkCoEAConsider this video of the blooming of Epiphyllum oxypetalum, which only blooms at night. The flowers wither after a few hours.
After due consideration I’m left with only a question.
What pollinates night flowering plants?
Moths, usually.
Boris Johnston:
So, the next time we see BJ on TV with his hair looking like he spent last night under a hedge – understand that he has it that way on purpose.
buffy said:
Peak Warming Man said:
buffy said:
Temperature is dropping here. It’s now down to 4 degrees outside.Fire, you need fire.
And bone marrow.
Got fire. I cleaned the glass on the woodheater at 6.30 this morning and lit the fire. There is a surfeit of dogs around the fire…
Paisley has been oming in from outside and sitting in front of the fire with her head tilted upward. And then she moves away and curls up into a ball and goes to sleep. Shes starting to get the idea.
captain_spalding said:
Boris Johnston:
So, the next time we see BJ on TV with his hair looking like he spent last night under a hedge – understand that he has it that way on purpose.
FMD.
captain_spalding said:
Boris Johnston:
So, the next time we see BJ on TV with his hair looking like he spent last night under a hedge – understand that he has it that way on purpose.
He has a cunning plan.
Rule 303 said:
captain_spalding said:
Boris Johnston:
So, the next time we see BJ on TV with his hair looking like he spent last night under a hedge – understand that he has it that way on purpose.
FMD.
Then she gets a balloon, rubs it on her nylon dress, and waves it past his head.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-08/qld-woman-dies-in-dog-attack-on-fraser-coast/100198220
:(
sarahs mum said:
buffy said:
Peak Warming Man said:Fire, you need fire.
And bone marrow.
Got fire. I cleaned the glass on the woodheater at 6.30 this morning and lit the fire. There is a surfeit of dogs around the fire…
Paisley has been oming in from outside and sitting in front of the fire with her head tilted upward. And then she moves away and curls up into a ball and goes to sleep. Shes starting to get the idea.
Does she warm her chest and the curl up on the warm fur?
The Rev Dodgson said:
roughbarked said:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-08/canberra-anu-scientists-laser-sail-interstellar-space-discovery/100198228
I’m no expert in that field,
but I suspect that story is hyped up beyond belief.
What’s all this scrambling and unscrambling of lasers about?
Bubblecar said:
dv said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=ENCJCYkCoEAConsider this video of the blooming of Epiphyllum oxypetalum, which only blooms at night. The flowers wither after a few hours.
Lubly.
Our epiphyllum (lasts for 3 or 4 days) looks like this one:
buffy said:
sarahs mum said:
buffy said:Got fire. I cleaned the glass on the woodheater at 6.30 this morning and lit the fire. There is a surfeit of dogs around the fire…
Paisley has been oming in from outside and sitting in front of the fire with her head tilted upward. And then she moves away and curls up into a ball and goes to sleep. Shes starting to get the idea.
Does she warm her chest and the curl up on the warm fur?
Yep.
captain_spalding said:
Boris Johnston:
So, the next time we see BJ on TV with his hair looking like he spent last night under a hedge – understand that he has it that way on purpose.
Everything is about presenting a false image with this man.
This is the man who went on holiday to Scotland last year, and stayed in a rented cottage. Nothing wrong with that per se, but then he or his PR team decided it should be a camping holiday so they set up a tent and campfire in a nearby field and published some photos, and were quickly exposed by the locals. What is the point of staging such a lie when it serves no purpose? What is wrong with a hired cottage for holiday stay? For mine I think the holiday cottage is far more civilised than camping.
sarahs mum said:
buffy said:
sarahs mum said:Paisley has been oming in from outside and sitting in front of the fire with her head tilted upward. And then she moves away and curls up into a ball and goes to sleep. Shes starting to get the idea.
Does she warm her chest and the curl up on the warm fur?
Yep.
Mostly she is mostly short haired atm. She is growing hairy ears, a bit of a mane, her tail is unravelling and she is growing hair on the back of her legs. She is feeling the cold. Much more than Cobbett with his heavy coats.
All tanks are now overflowing. I’m going to have a shower. Plenty of water. Although the temperature out in the laundry where my shower is is presently 11 degrees, so coming out again wet might be a bit bracing. I’ll set up my clothes in the warm kitchen and skidaddle straight in there when I get out of the shower.
Dramatic turnaround with the mainland sister. Apparently she’s feeling much better and is expecting to go home tomorrow.
We can’t really evaluate her optimism because she hasn’t given much in the way of medical details. But she was taken off the oxygen this morning and seems to be doing OK without it.
sarahs mum said:
sarahs mum said:
buffy said:Does she warm her chest and the curl up on the warm fur?
Yep.
Mostly she is mostly short haired atm. She is growing hairy ears, a bit of a mane, her tail is unravelling and she is growing hair on the back of her legs. She is feeling the cold. Much more than Cobbett with his heavy coats.
I put the fleecy jumpers on the dogs this morning when they went out into their yard while we went to breakfast at the bakery. They snuggled up together with chest to chest, the Pug under Bruna’s head. Now they are inside I’ve taken Bruna’s coat off her, but Long likes to leave his one on. He’s such a dag.
Whacky doodle… 13.1°C., am almost coming out in a sweat.
Bubblecar said:
Dramatic turnaround with the mainland sister. Apparently she’s feeling much better and is expecting to go home tomorrow.We can’t really evaluate her optimism because she hasn’t given much in the way of medical details. But she was taken off the oxygen this morning and seems to be doing OK without it.
that sounds very promising :)
Bubblecar said:
Dramatic turnaround with the mainland sister. Apparently she’s feeling much better and is expecting to go home tomorrow.We can’t really evaluate her optimism because she hasn’t given much in the way of medical details. But she was taken off the oxygen this morning and seems to be doing OK without it.
thumbs up emoticon.
roughbarked said:
Cymek said:
You wouldn’t want to be this man, shitting bricks I betThe app was unwittingly distributed by fugitive Australian drug trafficker Hakan Ayik, after he was given the device by undercover agents.
Ayik, 42, recommended the app to criminal associates who would purchase the device pre-loaded with AN0M on the black market, allowing them to send messages, distort messages and take videos.
Police said in some cases it took months to establish whom a specific device was being used by.
AFP Commissioner Reece Kershaw said that Ayik was a marked man and should turn himself into Australian authorities.
“Given the threat he faces, he’s best off handing himself into us as soon as he can.
“He was one of the coordinators of this particular device, so he’s essentially set up his own colleagues.”
Police reckon he’d be smart if he sought refuge for himself and his family by handniig himself in.
On tonight’s episode of “Police say the darndest things…”
party_pants said:
Bubblecar said:
Dramatic turnaround with the mainland sister. Apparently she’s feeling much better and is expecting to go home tomorrow.We can’t really evaluate her optimism because she hasn’t given much in the way of medical details. But she was taken off the oxygen this morning and seems to be doing OK without it.
that sounds very promising :)
It certainly does.
If she does go home my Get Well card will be well out of date by the time the two visiting sisters give it to her on Sunday.
captain_spalding said:
Boris Johnston:
So, the next time we see BJ on TV with his hair looking like he spent last night under a hedge – understand that he has it that way on purpose.
And, where is he actually looking?
Bubblecar said:
party_pants said:
Bubblecar said:
Dramatic turnaround with the mainland sister. Apparently she’s feeling much better and is expecting to go home tomorrow.We can’t really evaluate her optimism because she hasn’t given much in the way of medical details. But she was taken off the oxygen this morning and seems to be doing OK without it.
that sounds very promising :)
It certainly does.
If she does go home my Get Well card will be well out of date by the time the two visiting sisters give it to her on Sunday.
She’ll still be getting well, hopefully. So it won’t really be outdated. ;)
Michael V said:
captain_spalding said:
Boris Johnston:
So, the next time we see BJ on TV with his hair looking like he spent last night under a hedge – understand that he has it that way on purpose.
And, where is he actually looking?
At the movement of nipples against the dress, by the looks of it.
buffy said:
sarahs mum said:
sarahs mum said:Yep.
Mostly she is mostly short haired atm. She is growing hairy ears, a bit of a mane, her tail is unravelling and she is growing hair on the back of her legs. She is feeling the cold. Much more than Cobbett with his heavy coats.
I put the fleecy jumpers on the dogs this morning when they went out into their yard while we went to breakfast at the bakery. They snuggled up together with chest to chest, the Pug under Bruna’s head. Now they are inside I’ve taken Bruna’s coat off her, but Long likes to leave his one on. He’s such a dag.
I’ll think about a fleecy for her.
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
Dramatic turnaround with the mainland sister. Apparently she’s feeling much better and is expecting to go home tomorrow.We can’t really evaluate her optimism because she hasn’t given much in the way of medical details. But she was taken off the oxygen this morning and seems to be doing OK without it.
thumbs up emoticon.
It’s all a bit surreal given that we were picturing her at death’s door just last week.
captain_spalding said:
Boris Johnston:
So, the next time we see BJ on TV with his hair looking like he spent last night under a hedge – understand that he has it that way on purpose.
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
Dramatic turnaround with the mainland sister. Apparently she’s feeling much better and is expecting to go home tomorrow.We can’t really evaluate her optimism because she hasn’t given much in the way of medical details. But she was taken off the oxygen this morning and seems to be doing OK without it.
thumbs up emoticon.
It’s all a bit surreal given that we were picturing her at death’s door just last week.
She was very near, I’d suspect.
Bubblecar said:
Dramatic turnaround with the mainland sister. Apparently she’s feeling much better and is expecting to go home tomorrow.We can’t really evaluate her optimism because she hasn’t given much in the way of medical details. But she was taken off the oxygen this morning and seems to be doing OK without it.
:)
Nice.
roughbarked said:
Whacky doodle… 13.1°C., am almost coming out in a sweat.
27°C here.
party_pants said:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-08/qld-woman-dies-in-dog-attack-on-fraser-coast/100198220:(
I skimmed the url first and when I saw Fraser I went uh oh.
Be interesting to see the upshot, she was a youngish woman so they must have been largish dogs.
Unfortunately the media are not good at following up a story these days.
We’re just all hoping that she’s finally able to ditch the cigarettes. But we’ve been hoping that for a looong time :/
She’s made many attempts but even with level 4 emphysema and only 25% lung capacity, she wasn’t able to give up smoking.
Dark Orange said:
roughbarked said:
Whacky doodle… 13.1°C., am almost coming out in a sweat.
27°C here.
The locals have probably all got jumpers on.
The US DOJ has recovered millions of dollars in cryptocurrency paid in ransom for the Colonial pipeline.
dv said:
The US DOJ has recovered millions of dollars in cryptocurrency paid in ransom for the Colonial pipeline.
Good work US justice,
dv said:
The US DOJ has recovered millions of dollars in cryptocurrency paid in ransom for the Colonial pipeline.
LOL
I thought the whole point of these batcoin things was that transactions couldn’t be traced by outside parties.
party_pants said:
dv said:
The US DOJ has recovered millions of dollars in cryptocurrency paid in ransom for the Colonial pipeline.
Good work US justice,
dv said:
The US DOJ has recovered millions of dollars in cryptocurrency paid in ransom for the Colonial pipeline.
I will assume the bitcoin was refunded voluntarily by those who obtained it with only a minor threat by the DOJ.
The Rev Dodgson said:
dv said:
The US DOJ has recovered millions of dollars in cryptocurrency paid in ransom for the Colonial pipeline.
LOL
I thought the whole point of these batcoin things was that transactions couldn’t be traced by outside parties.
It is anonymous, not untraceable. If you know who did it, and know the “account” where the money got paid into, then it is easy to ask them to return it.
The Rev Dodgson said:
dv said:
The US DOJ has recovered millions of dollars in cryptocurrency paid in ransom for the Colonial pipeline.
LOL
I thought the whole point of these batcoin things was that transactions couldn’t be traced by outside parties.
I thought the opposite. I thought the whole point of bitcoin was the built-in level of security where each “coin” has its own unique serial number and the system keeps track of who owns which coins – in order to prevent fraud. The way bitcoin was explained to me was like keeping a database of say $100 notes and recording the serial numbers of each note for each transaction; so that even a good copy of a $100 note would not be accepted if there was no valid chain of transactions to say that you are the legitimate owner of that particular note. It is possible I misunderstand it.
Well, that was OK. Showering was OK. But I realized that not needing much to any cold water meant the heat pump HWS was not going. And it didn’t come on when I got out of the shower, so it wasn’t at the end of a cycle. Bugger. Means it got triggered by the quick power glitch last night during the thunderstorm. So out I go in the rain, up the ladder, onto the tank stand, prise off the lid, hit the restart, whack the lid back on, come back down the ladder. Ever since we’ve had the thing (over 20 years, and a previous one about 15 years before that) I’ve not understood who designed that thing with the restart switch up at the top. It would be soooo easy to have wired it down to a little hatch in the side that was reachable by normal sized people.
(I’m pretty sure I’ve complained about this before. Probably every time I’ve had to go up there. A really hot day will trip it. Small brownouts/full blackouts will trip it.)
party_pants said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
dv said:
The US DOJ has recovered millions of dollars in cryptocurrency paid in ransom for the Colonial pipeline.
LOL
I thought the whole point of these batcoin things was that transactions couldn’t be traced by outside parties.
I thought the opposite. I thought the whole point of bitcoin was the built-in level of security where each “coin” has its own unique serial number and the system keeps track of who owns which coins – in order to prevent fraud. The way bitcoin was explained to me was like keeping a database of say $100 notes and recording the serial numbers of each note for each transaction; so that even a good copy of a $100 note would not be accepted if there was no valid chain of transactions to say that you are the legitimate owner of that particular note. It is possible I misunderstand it.
I’d be interested if some Bitcoins have been generated by illegal use of computer system (not outright hacking, botnets, installed 3rd party software as I know they use this) but say some high level administrator uses a companies system and/or supercomputers to do so.
Two loaves of sourdough bread out of the oven, smelling and sounding good. One, plain and the other, beetroot and chilli.
:)
party_pants said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
dv said:
The US DOJ has recovered millions of dollars in cryptocurrency paid in ransom for the Colonial pipeline.
LOL
I thought the whole point of these batcoin things was that transactions couldn’t be traced by outside parties.
I thought the opposite. I thought the whole point of bitcoin was the built-in level of security where each “coin” has its own unique serial number and the system keeps track of who owns which coins – in order to prevent fraud. The way bitcoin was explained to me was like keeping a database of say $100 notes and recording the serial numbers of each note for each transaction; so that even a good copy of a $100 note would not be accepted if there was no valid chain of transactions to say that you are the legitimate owner of that particular note. It is possible I misunderstand it.
It is (I suppose) possible that I do as well.
But if traceability is so easy, why the popularity with money launderers?
The Rev Dodgson said:
party_pants said:
The Rev Dodgson said:LOL
I thought the whole point of these batcoin things was that transactions couldn’t be traced by outside parties.
I thought the opposite. I thought the whole point of bitcoin was the built-in level of security where each “coin” has its own unique serial number and the system keeps track of who owns which coins – in order to prevent fraud. The way bitcoin was explained to me was like keeping a database of say $100 notes and recording the serial numbers of each note for each transaction; so that even a good copy of a $100 note would not be accepted if there was no valid chain of transactions to say that you are the legitimate owner of that particular note. It is possible I misunderstand it.
It is (I suppose) possible that I do as well.
But if traceability is so easy, why the popularity with money launderers?
Anyway, it’s down 10% today :)
buffy said:
Well, that was OK. Showering was OK. But I realized that not needing much to any cold water meant the heat pump HWS was not going. And it didn’t come on when I got out of the shower, so it wasn’t at the end of a cycle. Bugger. Means it got triggered by the quick power glitch last night during the thunderstorm. So out I go in the rain, up the ladder, onto the tank stand, prise off the lid, hit the restart, whack the lid back on, come back down the ladder. Ever since we’ve had the thing (over 20 years, and a previous one about 15 years before that) I’ve not understood who designed that thing with the restart switch up at the top. It would be soooo easy to have wired it down to a little hatch in the side that was reachable by normal sized people.(I’m pretty sure I’ve complained about this before. Probably every time I’ve had to go up there. A really hot day will trip it. Small brownouts/full blackouts will trip it.)
Can’t it be re-jigged to be more accessible?
The Rev Dodgson said:
party_pants said:
The Rev Dodgson said:LOL
I thought the whole point of these batcoin things was that transactions couldn’t be traced by outside parties.
I thought the opposite. I thought the whole point of bitcoin was the built-in level of security where each “coin” has its own unique serial number and the system keeps track of who owns which coins – in order to prevent fraud. The way bitcoin was explained to me was like keeping a database of say $100 notes and recording the serial numbers of each note for each transaction; so that even a good copy of a $100 note would not be accepted if there was no valid chain of transactions to say that you are the legitimate owner of that particular note. It is possible I misunderstand it.
It is (I suppose) possible that I do as well.
But if traceability is so easy, why the popularity with money launderers?
I don’t know, I can only guess. My best guess is that since no governments are directly involved in the processing they can’t be involved in it or get access to the traceable data. I guess this depends on how much the people involved in Bitcoin want to cooperate.
The Rev Dodgson said:
party_pants said:
The Rev Dodgson said:LOL
I thought the whole point of these batcoin things was that transactions couldn’t be traced by outside parties.
I thought the opposite. I thought the whole point of bitcoin was the built-in level of security where each “coin” has its own unique serial number and the system keeps track of who owns which coins – in order to prevent fraud. The way bitcoin was explained to me was like keeping a database of say $100 notes and recording the serial numbers of each note for each transaction; so that even a good copy of a $100 note would not be accepted if there was no valid chain of transactions to say that you are the legitimate owner of that particular note. It is possible I misunderstand it.
It is (I suppose) possible that I do as well.
But if traceability is so easy, why the popularity with money launderers?
Because there is no easy way to associate a specific bitcoin wallet/account with an individual.
Dark Orange said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
party_pants said:I thought the opposite. I thought the whole point of bitcoin was the built-in level of security where each “coin” has its own unique serial number and the system keeps track of who owns which coins – in order to prevent fraud. The way bitcoin was explained to me was like keeping a database of say $100 notes and recording the serial numbers of each note for each transaction; so that even a good copy of a $100 note would not be accepted if there was no valid chain of transactions to say that you are the legitimate owner of that particular note. It is possible I misunderstand it.
It is (I suppose) possible that I do as well.
But if traceability is so easy, why the popularity with money launderers?
Because there is no easy way to associate a specific bitcoin wallet/account with an individual.
Digital currency lends itself to illegal means to generate it, if you steal electricity and processing power your profit is much higher
Dark Orange said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
party_pants said:I thought the opposite. I thought the whole point of bitcoin was the built-in level of security where each “coin” has its own unique serial number and the system keeps track of who owns which coins – in order to prevent fraud. The way bitcoin was explained to me was like keeping a database of say $100 notes and recording the serial numbers of each note for each transaction; so that even a good copy of a $100 note would not be accepted if there was no valid chain of transactions to say that you are the legitimate owner of that particular note. It is possible I misunderstand it.
It is (I suppose) possible that I do as well.
But if traceability is so easy, why the popularity with money launderers?
Because there is no easy way to associate a specific bitcoin wallet/account with an individual.
The Swiss bank account model? Just a number only, no name attached.
Bubblecar said:
buffy said:
Well, that was OK. Showering was OK. But I realized that not needing much to any cold water meant the heat pump HWS was not going. And it didn’t come on when I got out of the shower, so it wasn’t at the end of a cycle. Bugger. Means it got triggered by the quick power glitch last night during the thunderstorm. So out I go in the rain, up the ladder, onto the tank stand, prise off the lid, hit the restart, whack the lid back on, come back down the ladder. Ever since we’ve had the thing (over 20 years, and a previous one about 15 years before that) I’ve not understood who designed that thing with the restart switch up at the top. It would be soooo easy to have wired it down to a little hatch in the side that was reachable by normal sized people.(I’m pretty sure I’ve complained about this before. Probably every time I’ve had to go up there. A really hot day will trip it. Small brownouts/full blackouts will trip it.)
Can’t it be re-jigged to be more accessible?
Probably. But it’s now over 20 years old. I just did some searching. I might think semi seriously about spending about $5,000 of the money I got for the house in Casterton to replace the thing with a more recent innovation. The Rheem Ambiheat looks appropriate. Heat pump. Works down to -5 degrees. Which is what this Dux one was touted at originally when it was the bees knees and the latest tech.
party_pants said:
Dark Orange said:
The Rev Dodgson said:It is (I suppose) possible that I do as well.
But if traceability is so easy, why the popularity with money launderers?
Because there is no easy way to associate a specific bitcoin wallet/account with an individual.
The Swiss bank account model? Just a number only, no name attached.
Even better – The Swiss bank account model only has public facing anonymity, Bitcoin has total anonymity.
Dark Orange said:
party_pants said:
Dark Orange said:Because there is no easy way to associate a specific bitcoin wallet/account with an individual.
The Swiss bank account model? Just a number only, no name attached.
Even better – The Swiss bank account model only has public facing anonymity, Bitcoin has total anonymity.
So how did they recover the blackmail money?
Yay!
Booked in (finally) for the first AZ vaccine: Thursday week.
:)
The Rev Dodgson said:
Dark Orange said:
party_pants said:The Swiss bank account model? Just a number only, no name attached.
Even better – The Swiss bank account model only has public facing anonymity, Bitcoin has total anonymity.
So how did they recover the blackmail money?
It mostly stays as bitcoin and moves around the system in smaller and smaller amounts (it is a currency, afterall). If you want to convert it to cash, there is a system which is the virtual version of a bucket of money – your “dirty” account throws a chunk of bitcoin in to the bucket, and your “clean” account pulls the money out.
Michael V said:
Yay!Booked in (finally) for the first AZ vaccine: Thursday week.
:)
I’m on a list. I called again to see if there was any way I could get to see me doctor at the same time. I was told I might not get to see my doctor again. She has cancelled three months of appointments. She asked if I wanted to see Dr ‘X.’ I said I would be happy to never see him again.
So that is where we stand this arvo. No vaccine as yet. And now no doctor.
Dark Orange said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Dark Orange said:Even better – The Swiss bank account model only has public facing anonymity, Bitcoin has total anonymity.
So how did they recover the blackmail money?
It mostly stays as bitcoin and moves around the system in smaller and smaller amounts (it is a currency, afterall). If you want to convert it to cash, there is a system which is the virtual version of a bucket of money – your “dirty” account throws a chunk of bitcoin in to the bucket, and your “clean” account pulls the money out.
I mean how did the US government recover the blackmail money from the blackmailers, in the case we were discussing?
The Rev Dodgson said:
Dark Orange said:
The Rev Dodgson said:So how did they recover the blackmail money?
It mostly stays as bitcoin and moves around the system in smaller and smaller amounts (it is a currency, afterall). If you want to convert it to cash, there is a system which is the virtual version of a bucket of money – your “dirty” account throws a chunk of bitcoin in to the bucket, and your “clean” account pulls the money out.
I mean how did the US government recover the blackmail money from the blackmailers, in the case we were discussing?
Idk…
Dark Orange said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
party_pants said:I thought the opposite. I thought the whole point of bitcoin was the built-in level of security where each “coin” has its own unique serial number and the system keeps track of who owns which coins – in order to prevent fraud. The way bitcoin was explained to me was like keeping a database of say $100 notes and recording the serial numbers of each note for each transaction; so that even a good copy of a $100 note would not be accepted if there was no valid chain of transactions to say that you are the legitimate owner of that particular note. It is possible I misunderstand it.
It is (I suppose) possible that I do as well.
But if traceability is so easy, why the popularity with money launderers?
Because there is no easy way to associate a specific bitcoin wallet/account with an individual.
Fantastic if your into crime.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Dark Orange said:
The Rev Dodgson said:So how did they recover the blackmail money?
It mostly stays as bitcoin and moves around the system in smaller and smaller amounts (it is a currency, afterall). If you want to convert it to cash, there is a system which is the virtual version of a bucket of money – your “dirty” account throws a chunk of bitcoin in to the bucket, and your “clean” account pulls the money out.
I mean how did the US government recover the blackmail money from the blackmailers, in the case we were discussing?
Oh, I have no idea but that is a very good question. I suspect the DOJ was able to use some legal pressure on the online wallet hosts (The bitcoin version of safety deposit boxes) to get access to a specific wallet, which is actually a pretty scary thought.
sarahs mum said:
Michael V said:
Yay!Booked in (finally) for the first AZ vaccine: Thursday week.
:)
I’m on a list. I called again to see if there was any way I could get to see me doctor at the same time. I was told I might not get to see my doctor again. She has cancelled three months of appointments. She asked if I wanted to see Dr ‘X.’ I said I would be happy to never see him again.
So that is where we stand this arvo. No vaccine as yet. And now no doctor.
Bad luck.
Michael V said:
sarahs mum said:
Michael V said:
Yay!Booked in (finally) for the first AZ vaccine: Thursday week.
:)
I’m on a list. I called again to see if there was any way I could get to see me doctor at the same time. I was told I might not get to see my doctor again. She has cancelled three months of appointments. She asked if I wanted to see Dr ‘X.’ I said I would be happy to never see him again.
So that is where we stand this arvo. No vaccine as yet. And now no doctor.
Bad luck.
I understand the govt think that any doctor will do. But for PTSD nutters having to tell the stories again and again is not helpful.
Michael V said:
Yay!Booked in (finally) for the first AZ vaccine: Thursday week.
:)
There are no supplies of vaccine here. I suspect I’ll be waiting a while. Hamilton got 50 doses last week.
Dinner: Last of the sauerkraut, to be had with buttered parsnips, taters and the last two kranskies.
Dark Orange said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Dark Orange said:It mostly stays as bitcoin and moves around the system in smaller and smaller amounts (it is a currency, afterall). If you want to convert it to cash, there is a system which is the virtual version of a bucket of money – your “dirty” account throws a chunk of bitcoin in to the bucket, and your “clean” account pulls the money out.
I mean how did the US government recover the blackmail money from the blackmailers, in the case we were discussing?
Oh, I have no idea but that is a very good question. I suspect the DOJ was able to use some legal pressure on the online wallet hosts (The bitcoin version of safety deposit boxes) to get access to a specific wallet, which is actually a pretty scary thought.
Shrug.
Just another risk for those who choose to bet on buttcoin, and a pretty minor one too.
In this case though maybe it had nothing to do with how the money was transferred. Maybe they had an inside informant, or some other way of locating and pressuring the blackmailers.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/jun/08/resettlement-options-for-biloela-tamil-family-are-being-investigated-minister-says
Dark Orange said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Dark Orange said:It mostly stays as bitcoin and moves around the system in smaller and smaller amounts (it is a currency, afterall). If you want to convert it to cash, there is a system which is the virtual version of a bucket of money – your “dirty” account throws a chunk of bitcoin in to the bucket, and your “clean” account pulls the money out.
I mean how did the US government recover the blackmail money from the blackmailers, in the case we were discussing?
Oh, I have no idea but that is a very good question. I suspect the DOJ was able to use some legal pressure on the online wallet hosts (The bitcoin version of safety deposit boxes) to get access to a specific wallet, which is actually a pretty scary thought.
Not really scary I reckon. Pretty much inevitable that any government would take a dim view of any new “global currency” that it had no control over, or it would seek ways to exert such control. I think the whole business model of having an untraceable currency completely outside of any government control is bound to end up in failure. Having a currency is a matter of sovereignty for most countries, giving up a currency is not taken lightly.
UK electoral officials announce biggest shake-up of boundaries in decades
Labour leader among those affected by changes, which will increase the number of English constituencies at the expense of Scotland and Wales
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/jun/08/uk-electoral-officials-announce-biggest-shake-up-of-boundaries-in-decades
party_pants said:
Dark Orange said:
The Rev Dodgson said:I mean how did the US government recover the blackmail money from the blackmailers, in the case we were discussing?
Oh, I have no idea but that is a very good question. I suspect the DOJ was able to use some legal pressure on the online wallet hosts (The bitcoin version of safety deposit boxes) to get access to a specific wallet, which is actually a pretty scary thought.
Not really scary I reckon. Pretty much inevitable that any government would take a dim view of any new “global currency” that it had no control over, or it would seek ways to exert such control. I think the whole business model of having an untraceable currency completely outside of any government control is bound to end up in failure. Having a currency is a matter of sovereignty for most countries, giving up a currency is not taken lightly.
Whilst it’s misused it’s also good in that you can hopefully circumvent any government that exerts to much police state power over its population
The Rev Dodgson said:
Dark Orange said:
The Rev Dodgson said:I mean how did the US government recover the blackmail money from the blackmailers, in the case we were discussing?
Oh, I have no idea but that is a very good question. I suspect the DOJ was able to use some legal pressure on the online wallet hosts (The bitcoin version of safety deposit boxes) to get access to a specific wallet, which is actually a pretty scary thought.
Shrug.
Just another risk for those who choose to bet on buttcoin, and a pretty minor one too.
In this case though maybe it had nothing to do with how the money was transferred. Maybe they had an inside informant, or some other way of locating and pressuring the blackmailers.
The victims are directed to a web page with the details of the wallet to pay the ransom – it was not secret.
party_pants said:
Dark Orange said:
The Rev Dodgson said:I mean how did the US government recover the blackmail money from the blackmailers, in the case we were discussing?
Oh, I have no idea but that is a very good question. I suspect the DOJ was able to use some legal pressure on the online wallet hosts (The bitcoin version of safety deposit boxes) to get access to a specific wallet, which is actually a pretty scary thought.
Not really scary I reckon. Pretty much inevitable that any government would take a dim view of any new “global currency” that it had no control over, or it would seek ways to exert such control. I think the whole business model of having an untraceable currency completely outside of any government control is bound to end up in failure. Having a currency is a matter of sovereignty for most countries, giving up a currency is not taken lightly.
Scary that the US Government can just empty private wallets of international citizens.
Dark Orange said:
party_pants said:
Dark Orange said:Oh, I have no idea but that is a very good question. I suspect the DOJ was able to use some legal pressure on the online wallet hosts (The bitcoin version of safety deposit boxes) to get access to a specific wallet, which is actually a pretty scary thought.
Not really scary I reckon. Pretty much inevitable that any government would take a dim view of any new “global currency” that it had no control over, or it would seek ways to exert such control. I think the whole business model of having an untraceable currency completely outside of any government control is bound to end up in failure. Having a currency is a matter of sovereignty for most countries, giving up a currency is not taken lightly.
Scary that the US Government can just empty private wallets of international citizens.
I think it is just the commercial risk that Bitcoin users take in using the service. Like I said, I think the fundamental business model is flawed.
Cymek said:
party_pants said:
Dark Orange said:Oh, I have no idea but that is a very good question. I suspect the DOJ was able to use some legal pressure on the online wallet hosts (The bitcoin version of safety deposit boxes) to get access to a specific wallet, which is actually a pretty scary thought.
Not really scary I reckon. Pretty much inevitable that any government would take a dim view of any new “global currency” that it had no control over, or it would seek ways to exert such control. I think the whole business model of having an untraceable currency completely outside of any government control is bound to end up in failure. Having a currency is a matter of sovereignty for most countries, giving up a currency is not taken lightly.
Whilst it’s misused it’s also good in that you can hopefully circumvent any government that exerts to much police state power over its population
It can also circumvent the need for banks.
I tried to buy a piece of art from an artist in Prague a couple of years back via a simple bank transfer and my bank refused to do it because I could potentially be laundering money.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/08/underwater-avalanche-africa-sent-mud-1000km-nigeria-south-africa
https://www.facebook.com/culturetrip/videos/4257338727622465
Dark Orange said:
Cymek said:
party_pants said:Not really scary I reckon. Pretty much inevitable that any government would take a dim view of any new “global currency” that it had no control over, or it would seek ways to exert such control. I think the whole business model of having an untraceable currency completely outside of any government control is bound to end up in failure. Having a currency is a matter of sovereignty for most countries, giving up a currency is not taken lightly.
Whilst it’s misused it’s also good in that you can hopefully circumvent any government that exerts to much police state power over its population
It can also circumvent the need for banks.
I tried to buy a piece of art from an artist in Prague a couple of years back via a simple bank transfer and my bank refused to do it because I could potentially be laundering money.
Wouldn’t you just use a Crown casino for money laundering
hey get a look at this remember how power distribution infrastructure couldn’t handle renewable producers
well now some genius is going to plug renewable production straight into power distribution infrastructure and it’s going to work
imagine
party_pants said:
Dark Orange said:
party_pants said:Not really scary I reckon. Pretty much inevitable that any government would take a dim view of any new “global currency” that it had no control over, or it would seek ways to exert such control. I think the whole business model of having an untraceable currency completely outside of any government control is bound to end up in failure. Having a currency is a matter of sovereignty for most countries, giving up a currency is not taken lightly.
Scary that the US Government can just empty private wallets of international citizens.
I think it is just the commercial risk that Bitcoin users take in using the service. Like I said, I think the fundamental business model is flawed.
These people committed a crime in hijacking the pipeline. But more than just a crime against the pipeline company, this sort of activity poses a threat the US national security. Using Bitcoin as a means to facilitate this action is naturally going to bring a lot of attention upon Bitcoin.
You can’t expect to threaten the national security of a major world power and expect to escape Scot-free based upon some philosophical notions of freedom and liberty. The world doesn’t work that way. If Bitcoin becomes a tool used to facilitate crime as a major practical use, then governments will use the full might of the their intelligence assets to undermine it.
Sunset, just now:
Michael V said:
Sunset, just now:
Noice
Going to the sports bar for tea so I don’t know what it will be.
Probably an eye fillet steak with chips and salad washed down with a glass of overpriced popular cola.
Don’t put that in my file because it might be something else and you’ll only have to fix it up later.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-08/victorian-government-mps-demand-apology-from-opposition/100199110
The front fence saga continues.
I received the last shipment of aluminium slats for the front fence today.
Wrong colour. Previous slats were bronze, as this was supposed to be. This batch is gold, and is nowhere even remotely close to a match. I payed them $425 for them to get the colour right, too.
So now I’m stuck with the choice of trying to hide the 1/4 of slats that are the wrong colour, or try to do something artistic with mix and match.
In other fence news, the bronze paint on the fence posts has adhered so badly that it peels off with fingernail, sticky tape, masking tape. And it doesn’t go with the bronze on the pailings, either. So I’m stuck with peeling all the paint on the posts back to the powder coating and trying again.
Michael V said:
Sunset, just now:
Lovely.
Peak Warming Man said:
Going to the sports bar for tea so I don’t know what it will be.
Probably an eye fillet steak with chips and salad washed down with a glass of overpriced popular cola.
Don’t put that in my file because it might be something else and you’ll only have to fix it up later.
Pasta and neapolitan sauce here. Et pies for breakfast, don’t need meat for tea today.
mollwollfumble said:
The front fence saga continues.I received the last shipment of aluminium slats for the front fence today.
Wrong colour. Previous slats were bronze, as this was supposed to be. This batch is gold, and is nowhere even remotely close to a match. I payed them $425 for them to get the colour right, too.
So now I’m stuck with the choice of trying to hide the 1/4 of slats that are the wrong colour, or try to do something artistic with mix and match.
In other fence news, the bronze paint on the fence posts has adhered so badly that it peels off with fingernail, sticky tape, masking tape. And it doesn’t go with the bronze on the pailings, either. So I’m stuck with peeling all the paint on the posts back to the powder coating and trying again.
If you get the amount of rain and cold we’ve had all day the paint will all just wash off for you.
party_pants said:
becomes a tool used to facilitate crime as a major practical use
LOL “becomes”
mollwollfumble said:
The front fence saga continues.I received the last shipment of aluminium slats for the front fence today.
Wrong colour. Previous slats were bronze, as this was supposed to be. This batch is gold, and is nowhere even remotely close to a match. I payed them $425 for them to get the colour right, too.
So now I’m stuck with the choice of trying to hide the 1/4 of slats that are the wrong colour, or try to do something artistic with mix and match.
In other fence news, the bronze paint on the fence posts has adhered so badly that it peels off with fingernail, sticky tape, masking tape. And it doesn’t go with the bronze on the pailings, either. So I’m stuck with peeling all the paint on the posts back to the powder coating and trying again.
Bummer.
Cymek said:
Dark Orange said:
Cymek said:Whilst it’s misused it’s also good in that you can hopefully circumvent any government that exerts to much police state power over its population
It can also circumvent the need for banks.
I tried to buy a piece of art from an artist in Prague a couple of years back via a simple bank transfer and my bank refused to do it because I could potentially be laundering money.
Wouldn’t you just use a Crown casino for money laundering
I don’t own Crown Casino.
SCIENCE said:
hey get a look at this remember how power distribution infrastructure couldn’t handle renewable producerswell now some genius is going to plug renewable production straight into power distribution infrastructure and it’s going to work
imagine
Unsure of your point.
https://www.coindesk.com/crypto-wallet-recovery-technician
This article is about a team that uses bruteforce password algorithms to get into bitcoin wallets.
Which surprises me because elsewhere I’ve read you only get a limited number of tries.
dv said:
https://www.coindesk.com/crypto-wallet-recovery-technicianThis article is about a team that uses bruteforce password algorithms to get into bitcoin wallets.
Which surprises me because elsewhere I’ve read you only get a limited number of tries.
Yes those people who have millions in locked wallets or perhaps they are password protected folders or something else
dv said:
https://www.coindesk.com/crypto-wallet-recovery-technicianThis article is about a team that uses bruteforce password algorithms to get into bitcoin wallets.
Which surprises me because elsewhere I’ve read you only get a limited number of tries.
they might disable cookies so the site thinks each try is the first time.
Dark Orange said:
SCIENCE said:hey get a look at this remember how power distribution infrastructure couldn’t handle renewable producerswell now some genius is going to plug renewable production straight into power distribution infrastructure and it’s going to work
imagine
Unsure of your point.
the point is that electrical distribution infrastructure will distribute electricity
Fun fact:
All three of Kevin Spacey’s accusers that were attached to criminal charges died in 2019
https://www.mamamia.com.au/kevin-spacey-accusers/
Ari Behn, a former Norwegian royal who accused actor Kevin Spacey of sexual assault in 2017, has died by suicide aged 47, just hours after Spacey shared a bizarre video on social media.
In 2017, Behn accused Spacey, 60, of groping him under the table at a Nobel Peace Prize concert in Oslo a decade earlier. He is the third Spacey accuser to die in 2019.
Behn, who was born in Denmark, was married to Martha Louise, the oldest daughter of Norway’s King Harald V and Queen Sonja, for 14 years. The couple divorced in 2017 and have three daughters: Maud Angelica, 16, Leah Isadora, 14, and Emma Tallulah, 11.
John Doe.
Another of Spacey’s accusers, an anonymous massage therapist, died in September just one month before his lawsuit against the actor was set to go to trial.
The alleged victim, known only ‘John Doe’, filed the lawsuit against Spacey in Los Angeles Superior Court in September 2018.
The Hollywood Reporter has said Doe claimed he was hired to give Spacey a massage at his home in Malibu in October 2016.
After being greeted by the actor, Doe alleged he was led to an upstairs bedroom where Spacey locked the door behind them.
The actor allegedly told the masseur he was having some discomfort in his groin and laid down on the table facing up. The complainant alleged Spacey forced his hand to his testicles.
Doe claimed he jumped back in shock and the actor then complimented his eyes, tried to kiss him and offered him oral sex. He said he asked Spacey to let him leave multiple times before the actor stopped blocking his way.
In September, just a month after the sides agreed to proceedings, which would likely have meant a seven to 11-day trial, the masseur’s attorney informed Spacey that his client “recently passed”. As the trial relied on testimony, the charges were dropped.
Linda Culkin.
Linda Culkin died after being struck by a car in Quincy, Massachusetts. No charges were filed against the driver, who remained at the scene.
Culkin, a former nursing assistant who was 59 when she died, was the first to accuse Spacey of misconduct against young men. She began cyberstalking the actor in 2009 after one of her patients accused Spacey of attacking him.
In 2014 she was sentenced to more than four years in prison for sending him and his associates death and bomb threats.
However he may still be on the hook for civil litigation as a law change extended the statute of limitations. Anthony Rapp is among others pursuing this avenue.
SCIENCE said:
Dark Orange said:SCIENCE said:hey get a look at this remember how power distribution infrastructure couldn’t handle renewable producerswell now some genius is going to plug renewable production straight into power distribution infrastructure and it’s going to work
imagine
Unsure of your point.
the point is that electrical distribution infrastructure will distribute electricity
And unreliable generation sources (such as most renewable domestic systems) is bad for it. Make your renewable generation more reliable, and all’s good.
gives DO a nasty look
Who wore it best?
dv said:
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Who wore it best?
Looking at the Hitler shorts,
only having one ball would be a definite advantage.
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/06/07/politics/rudy-giuliani-ukraine-call-investigate-biden/index.html
The Rev Dodgson said:
dv said:
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Who wore it best?
Looking at the Hitler shorts,
only having one ball would be a definite advantage.
the rolls of his belly don’t lieb much raum
dv said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
dv said:
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Who wore it best?
Looking at the Hitler shorts,
only having one ball would be a definite advantage.
the rolls of his belly don’t lieb much raum
Guys, one shouldn’t speak ill of the dead.
The mother of a seriously ill three-year-old who was transferred from immigration detention on Christmas Island to a Perth hospital for urgent medical care has made an emotional plea for help to return to their Queensland home.
Three-year-old Tharnicaa Murugappan was flown to Perth Children’s Hospital last night after experiencing vomiting, diarrhoea and dizziness for several days.
Family friend Angela Fredericks said she had been diagnosed with sepsis and pneumonia.
Her mother, Priya, released a short video of herself in hospital holding Tharnicaa in her arms as she reads from a statement.
“I want to thank everybody for their love and good wishes,” Ms Murugappan said.
“I hope that Tharnicaa can get the help she needs now. Please, help us to get her out of detention and home to Biloela.”
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-08/biloela-mother-in-plea-from-perth-hospital/100199624
sibeen said:
gives DO a nasty look
F’kn engineers.
buffy said:
mollwollfumble said:
The front fence saga continues.I received the last shipment of aluminium slats for the front fence today.
Wrong colour. Previous slats were bronze, as this was supposed to be. This batch is gold, and is nowhere even remotely close to a match. I payed them $425 for them to get the colour right, too.
So now I’m stuck with the choice of trying to hide the 1/4 of slats that are the wrong colour, or try to do something artistic with mix and match.
In other fence news, the bronze paint on the fence posts has adhered so badly that it peels off with fingernail, sticky tape, masking tape. And it doesn’t go with the bronze on the pailings, either. So I’m stuck with peeling all the paint on the posts back to the powder coating and trying again.
If you get the amount of rain and cold we’ve had all day the paint will all just wash off for you.
Yeah, was tempted to go out in it with a steel wool pad. But too cold.
dv said:
The mother of a seriously ill three-year-old who was transferred from immigration detention on Christmas Island to a Perth hospital for urgent medical care has made an emotional plea for help to return to their Queensland home.Three-year-old Tharnicaa Murugappan was flown to Perth Children’s Hospital last night after experiencing vomiting, diarrhoea and dizziness for several days.
Family friend Angela Fredericks said she had been diagnosed with sepsis and pneumonia.
Her mother, Priya, released a short video of herself in hospital holding Tharnicaa in her arms as she reads from a statement.
“I want to thank everybody for their love and good wishes,” Ms Murugappan said.
“I hope that Tharnicaa can get the help she needs now. Please, help us to get her out of detention and home to Biloela.”
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-08/biloela-mother-in-plea-from-perth-hospital/100199624
How long does it take for pneumonia to turn into a blood infection?
sarahs mum said:
dv said:
The mother of a seriously ill three-year-old who was transferred from immigration detention on Christmas Island to a Perth hospital for urgent medical care has made an emotional plea for help to return to their Queensland home.Three-year-old Tharnicaa Murugappan was flown to Perth Children’s Hospital last night after experiencing vomiting, diarrhoea and dizziness for several days.
Family friend Angela Fredericks said she had been diagnosed with sepsis and pneumonia.
Her mother, Priya, released a short video of herself in hospital holding Tharnicaa in her arms as she reads from a statement.
“I want to thank everybody for their love and good wishes,” Ms Murugappan said.
“I hope that Tharnicaa can get the help she needs now. Please, help us to get her out of detention and home to Biloela.”
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-08/biloela-mother-in-plea-from-perth-hospital/100199624
How long does it take for pneumonia to turn into a blood infection?
I wonder if the pneumonia is the secondary.
sarahs mum said:
sarahs mum said:
dv said:
The mother of a seriously ill three-year-old who was transferred from immigration detention on Christmas Island to a Perth hospital for urgent medical care has made an emotional plea for help to return to their Queensland home.Three-year-old Tharnicaa Murugappan was flown to Perth Children’s Hospital last night after experiencing vomiting, diarrhoea and dizziness for several days.
Family friend Angela Fredericks said she had been diagnosed with sepsis and pneumonia.
Her mother, Priya, released a short video of herself in hospital holding Tharnicaa in her arms as she reads from a statement.
“I want to thank everybody for their love and good wishes,” Ms Murugappan said.
“I hope that Tharnicaa can get the help she needs now. Please, help us to get her out of detention and home to Biloela.”
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-08/biloela-mother-in-plea-from-perth-hospital/100199624
How long does it take for pneumonia to turn into a blood infection?
I wonder if the pneumonia is the secondary.
The easiest way to get pneumonia is to visit a hospital.
The easiest way to get sepsis is to visit a hospital.
Some hospitals these days offer two for the price of one.
Dark Orange said:
sibeen said:
gives DO a nasty look
F’kn engineers.
F’kn sparkies. They are not my favourite trade at the moment.
We’re supposed to take the keys of the house in 13 days and had a rushed walk-through with the project manager last Thursday. I took some photos and had a look around the house but it was all a last minute inspection that was forced due to HIA changing some covid requirements. We didn’t have access to the internal parts of the site during the build so it was our first look through for a while. About 2 months ago I was cleaning up outside and noticed that they’d put in a single phase supply down to where the aircon is located. The aircon is a 3 phase unit so I told the project manager and they finally got around to installing additional cable this week, ripping up walls etc.
Yesterday was looking at the photos I took of the switchboard. Hmm, a 40 amp RCBO single phase running the induction cooker. I checked the induction cooker specs and it was 48 amps single phase or 16 amp three phase. So I send off a message to the PM and he rings me back this morning. Tries to tell me that they cannot put in higher then 40 amp circuit, but it’s all good because as long as you don’t try to use the induction cooktop at its maximum power the circuit breaker will not trip. This may have caused me to lose it a bit and colourful language may have been used. He mentioned something about the main switch during the conversation and I quickly checked my photos to confirm that it’s a 63 amp circuit.
This then got me thinking, what have they used in the metering box? So this afternoon I went down to check – yep, a 40 amp main switch. So not only will we have to be careful using the induction cooktop we’ll have to make sure that we turn the three phase aircon off and probably the lights, and make sure that no-one plugs an iron or a hair-dryer into that particular phase.
Yes, not my favourite trade at the moment.
sibeen said:
Dark Orange said:
sibeen said:
gives DO a nasty look
F’kn engineers.
F’kn sparkies. They are not my favourite trade at the moment.
We’re supposed to take the keys of the house in 13 days and had a rushed walk-through with the project manager last Thursday. I took some photos and had a look around the house but it was all a last minute inspection that was forced due to HIA changing some covid requirements. We didn’t have access to the internal parts of the site during the build so it was our first look through for a while. About 2 months ago I was cleaning up outside and noticed that they’d put in a single phase supply down to where the aircon is located. The aircon is a 3 phase unit so I told the project manager and they finally got around to installing additional cable this week, ripping up walls etc.
Yesterday was looking at the photos I took of the switchboard. Hmm, a 40 amp RCBO single phase running the induction cooker. I checked the induction cooker specs and it was 48 amps single phase or 16 amp three phase. So I send off a message to the PM and he rings me back this morning. Tries to tell me that they cannot put in higher then 40 amp circuit, but it’s all good because as long as you don’t try to use the induction cooktop at its maximum power the circuit breaker will not trip. This may have caused me to lose it a bit and colourful language may have been used. He mentioned something about the main switch during the conversation and I quickly checked my photos to confirm that it’s a 63 amp circuit.
This then got me thinking, what have they used in the metering box? So this afternoon I went down to check – yep, a 40 amp main switch. So not only will we have to be careful using the induction cooktop we’ll have to make sure that we turn the three phase aircon off and probably the lights, and make sure that no-one plugs an iron or a hair-dryer into that particular phase.
Yes, not my favourite trade at the moment.
So who was supposed to do maximum demand calcs?
sibeen said:
Dark Orange said:
sibeen said:
gives DO a nasty look
F’kn engineers.
F’kn sparkies. They are not my favourite trade at the moment.
We’re supposed to take the keys of the house in 13 days and had a rushed walk-through with the project manager last Thursday. I took some photos and had a look around the house but it was all a last minute inspection that was forced due to HIA changing some covid requirements. We didn’t have access to the internal parts of the site during the build so it was our first look through for a while. About 2 months ago I was cleaning up outside and noticed that they’d put in a single phase supply down to where the aircon is located. The aircon is a 3 phase unit so I told the project manager and they finally got around to installing additional cable this week, ripping up walls etc.
Yesterday was looking at the photos I took of the switchboard. Hmm, a 40 amp RCBO single phase running the induction cooker. I checked the induction cooker specs and it was 48 amps single phase or 16 amp three phase. So I send off a message to the PM and he rings me back this morning. Tries to tell me that they cannot put in higher then 40 amp circuit, but it’s all good because as long as you don’t try to use the induction cooktop at its maximum power the circuit breaker will not trip. This may have caused me to lose it a bit and colourful language may have been used. He mentioned something about the main switch during the conversation and I quickly checked my photos to confirm that it’s a 63 amp circuit.
This then got me thinking, what have they used in the metering box? So this afternoon I went down to check – yep, a 40 amp main switch. So not only will we have to be careful using the induction cooktop we’ll have to make sure that we turn the three phase aircon off and probably the lights, and make sure that no-one plugs an iron or a hair-dryer into that particular phase.
Yes, not my favourite trade at the moment.
is that 40A for the whole house, single phase???
Dark Orange said:
sibeen said:
Dark Orange said:F’kn engineers.
F’kn sparkies. They are not my favourite trade at the moment.
We’re supposed to take the keys of the house in 13 days and had a rushed walk-through with the project manager last Thursday. I took some photos and had a look around the house but it was all a last minute inspection that was forced due to HIA changing some covid requirements. We didn’t have access to the internal parts of the site during the build so it was our first look through for a while. About 2 months ago I was cleaning up outside and noticed that they’d put in a single phase supply down to where the aircon is located. The aircon is a 3 phase unit so I told the project manager and they finally got around to installing additional cable this week, ripping up walls etc.
Yesterday was looking at the photos I took of the switchboard. Hmm, a 40 amp RCBO single phase running the induction cooker. I checked the induction cooker specs and it was 48 amps single phase or 16 amp three phase. So I send off a message to the PM and he rings me back this morning. Tries to tell me that they cannot put in higher then 40 amp circuit, but it’s all good because as long as you don’t try to use the induction cooktop at its maximum power the circuit breaker will not trip. This may have caused me to lose it a bit and colourful language may have been used. He mentioned something about the main switch during the conversation and I quickly checked my photos to confirm that it’s a 63 amp circuit.
This then got me thinking, what have they used in the metering box? So this afternoon I went down to check – yep, a 40 amp main switch. So not only will we have to be careful using the induction cooktop we’ll have to make sure that we turn the three phase aircon off and probably the lights, and make sure that no-one plugs an iron or a hair-dryer into that particular phase.
Yes, not my favourite trade at the moment.
So who was supposed to do maximum demand calcs?
The sparkies.
Bogsnorkler said:
sibeen said:
Dark Orange said:F’kn engineers.
F’kn sparkies. They are not my favourite trade at the moment.
We’re supposed to take the keys of the house in 13 days and had a rushed walk-through with the project manager last Thursday. I took some photos and had a look around the house but it was all a last minute inspection that was forced due to HIA changing some covid requirements. We didn’t have access to the internal parts of the site during the build so it was our first look through for a while. About 2 months ago I was cleaning up outside and noticed that they’d put in a single phase supply down to where the aircon is located. The aircon is a 3 phase unit so I told the project manager and they finally got around to installing additional cable this week, ripping up walls etc.
Yesterday was looking at the photos I took of the switchboard. Hmm, a 40 amp RCBO single phase running the induction cooker. I checked the induction cooker specs and it was 48 amps single phase or 16 amp three phase. So I send off a message to the PM and he rings me back this morning. Tries to tell me that they cannot put in higher then 40 amp circuit, but it’s all good because as long as you don’t try to use the induction cooktop at its maximum power the circuit breaker will not trip. This may have caused me to lose it a bit and colourful language may have been used. He mentioned something about the main switch during the conversation and I quickly checked my photos to confirm that it’s a 63 amp circuit.
This then got me thinking, what have they used in the metering box? So this afternoon I went down to check – yep, a 40 amp main switch. So not only will we have to be careful using the induction cooktop we’ll have to make sure that we turn the three phase aircon off and probably the lights, and make sure that no-one plugs an iron or a hair-dryer into that particular phase.
Yes, not my favourite trade at the moment.
is that 40A for the whole house, single phase???
Three phase.
sibeen said:
… it’s all good because as long as you don’t try to use the induction cooktop at its maximum power
I assume multiple hobs? How often do you expect to use all of them?
Dark Orange said:
sibeen said:… it’s all good because as long as you don’t try to use the induction cooktop at its maximum power
I assume multiple hobs? How often do you expect to use all of them?
Fuck knows, but I’d like to opportunity to try it at least once :”)
sibeen said:
Dark Orange said:
sibeen said:F’kn sparkies. They are not my favourite trade at the moment.
We’re supposed to take the keys of the house in 13 days and had a rushed walk-through with the project manager last Thursday. I took some photos and had a look around the house but it was all a last minute inspection that was forced due to HIA changing some covid requirements. We didn’t have access to the internal parts of the site during the build so it was our first look through for a while. About 2 months ago I was cleaning up outside and noticed that they’d put in a single phase supply down to where the aircon is located. The aircon is a 3 phase unit so I told the project manager and they finally got around to installing additional cable this week, ripping up walls etc.
Yesterday was looking at the photos I took of the switchboard. Hmm, a 40 amp RCBO single phase running the induction cooker. I checked the induction cooker specs and it was 48 amps single phase or 16 amp three phase. So I send off a message to the PM and he rings me back this morning. Tries to tell me that they cannot put in higher then 40 amp circuit, but it’s all good because as long as you don’t try to use the induction cooktop at its maximum power the circuit breaker will not trip. This may have caused me to lose it a bit and colourful language may have been used. He mentioned something about the main switch during the conversation and I quickly checked my photos to confirm that it’s a 63 amp circuit.
This then got me thinking, what have they used in the metering box? So this afternoon I went down to check – yep, a 40 amp main switch. So not only will we have to be careful using the induction cooktop we’ll have to make sure that we turn the three phase aircon off and probably the lights, and make sure that no-one plugs an iron or a hair-dryer into that particular phase.
Yes, not my favourite trade at the moment.
So who was supposed to do maximum demand calcs?
The sparkies.
F’kn sparkies. I guess you’ll just have to run 3 phase to the stovetop.
sibeen said:
Bogsnorkler said:
sibeen said:F’kn sparkies. They are not my favourite trade at the moment.
We’re supposed to take the keys of the house in 13 days and had a rushed walk-through with the project manager last Thursday. I took some photos and had a look around the house but it was all a last minute inspection that was forced due to HIA changing some covid requirements. We didn’t have access to the internal parts of the site during the build so it was our first look through for a while. About 2 months ago I was cleaning up outside and noticed that they’d put in a single phase supply down to where the aircon is located. The aircon is a 3 phase unit so I told the project manager and they finally got around to installing additional cable this week, ripping up walls etc.
Yesterday was looking at the photos I took of the switchboard. Hmm, a 40 amp RCBO single phase running the induction cooker. I checked the induction cooker specs and it was 48 amps single phase or 16 amp three phase. So I send off a message to the PM and he rings me back this morning. Tries to tell me that they cannot put in higher then 40 amp circuit, but it’s all good because as long as you don’t try to use the induction cooktop at its maximum power the circuit breaker will not trip. This may have caused me to lose it a bit and colourful language may have been used. He mentioned something about the main switch during the conversation and I quickly checked my photos to confirm that it’s a 63 amp circuit.
This then got me thinking, what have they used in the metering box? So this afternoon I went down to check – yep, a 40 amp main switch. So not only will we have to be careful using the induction cooktop we’ll have to make sure that we turn the three phase aircon off and probably the lights, and make sure that no-one plugs an iron or a hair-dryer into that particular phase.
Yes, not my favourite trade at the moment.
is that 40A for the whole house, single phase???
Three phase.
oh well, that’s more than enough. when I moved in here it had a 5A meter. worked ok.
sibeen said:
So I send off a message to the PM and he rings me back this morning.
Bloody useless shitstain Morrison.
I went back to gas when we got the new place. I just prefer it over the induction jobbies.
Dark Orange said:
sibeen said:
Dark Orange said:So who was supposed to do maximum demand calcs?
The sparkies.
F’kn sparkies. I guess you’ll just have to run 3 phase to the stovetop.
I’ll be suggesting that on the morrow. They’ve also put in quite a small board so there’s no room left. Looks like they’ll have to get rid of a RCD or two and change out some circuit breakers for RCBOs to free up some room for a three phase RCBO and three phase contactor.
dv said:
I went back to gas when we got the new place. I just prefer it over the induction jobbies.
gas is the go. real heat that you can see.
sibeen said:
Dark Orange said:
sibeen said:The sparkies.
F’kn sparkies. I guess you’ll just have to run 3 phase to the stovetop.
I’ll be suggesting that on the morrow. They’ve also put in quite a small board so there’s no room left. Looks like they’ll have to get rid of a RCD or two and change out some circuit breakers for RCBOs to free up some room for a three phase RCBO and three phase contactor.
get em to run a 10kV line in just to be sure.
dv said:
I went back to gas when we got the new place. I just prefer it over the induction jobbies.
I’ve never used an induction but numerous friends swear by there’s so I thought I’d give it a go. I did get a gas line run into the wall just in case I ever changed my mind.
sarahs mum said:
dv said:
The mother of a seriously ill three-year-old who was transferred from immigration detention on Christmas Island to a Perth hospital for urgent medical care has made an emotional plea for help to return to their Queensland home.Three-year-old Tharnicaa Murugappan was flown to Perth Children’s Hospital last night after experiencing vomiting, diarrhoea and dizziness for several days.
Family friend Angela Fredericks said she had been diagnosed with sepsis and pneumonia.
Her mother, Priya, released a short video of herself in hospital holding Tharnicaa in her arms as she reads from a statement.
“I want to thank everybody for their love and good wishes,” Ms Murugappan said.
“I hope that Tharnicaa can get the help she needs now. Please, help us to get her out of detention and home to Biloela.”
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-08/biloela-mother-in-plea-from-perth-hospital/100199624
How long does it take for pneumonia to turn into a blood infection?
Pnuemonia describes the filling of the alveoli with fluid and failure of the surfactant. It’s not an infection in its own right, but a symptom of something else going wrong.
sibeen said:
dv said:
I went back to gas when we got the new place. I just prefer it over the induction jobbies.
I’ve never used an induction but numerous friends swear by
there’sso I thought I’d give it a go. I did get a gas line run into the wall just in case I ever changed my mind.
theirs
Everyone needs a little electroswing in their lives:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7JOa3dISg0
Rule 303 said:
I was wondering what started it. We might never now. It shouldn’t be our business. But it is.
sarahs mum said:
dv said:
The mother of a seriously ill three-year-old who was transferred from immigration detention on Christmas Island to a Perth hospital for urgent medical care has made an emotional plea for help to return to their Queensland home.Three-year-old Tharnicaa Murugappan was flown to Perth Children’s Hospital last night after experiencing vomiting, diarrhoea and dizziness for several days.
Family friend Angela Fredericks said she had been diagnosed with sepsis and pneumonia.
Her mother, Priya, released a short video of herself in hospital holding Tharnicaa in her arms as she reads from a statement.
“I want to thank everybody for their love and good wishes,” Ms Murugappan said.
“I hope that Tharnicaa can get the help she needs now. Please, help us to get her out of detention and home to Biloela.”
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-08/biloela-mother-in-plea-from-perth-hospital/100199624
How long does it take for pneumonia to turn into a blood infection?
Pnuemonia describes the filling of the alveoli with fluid and failure of the surfactant. It’s not an infection in its own right, but a symptom of something else going wrong.
sarahs mum said:
Rule 303 said:I was wondering what started it. We might never now. It shouldn’t be our business. But it is.
sarahs mum said:How long does it take for pneumonia to turn into a blood infection?
Pnuemonia describes the filling of the alveoli with fluid and failure of the surfactant. It’s not an infection in its own right, but a symptom of something else going wrong.
It’s so weird, kids normally thrive in jail.
sarahs mum said:
Rule 303 said:I was wondering what started it. We might never now. It shouldn’t be our business. But it is.
sarahs mum said:How long does it take for pneumonia to turn into a blood infection?
Pnuemonia describes the filling of the alveoli with fluid and failure of the surfactant. It’s not an infection in its own right, but a symptom of something else going wrong.
Probably whatever started the sepsis, which is a complex and cascading series of events, as I understand it. A very young kid will probably bounce back and not suffer any long term damage, but it would be an awful (and probably fatal) combination in an older person.
Rule 303 said:
Pnuemonia describes the filling of the alveoli with fluid and failure of the surfactant. It’s not an infection in its own right, but a symptom of something else going wrong.
Interesting. Is it ever caused by something other than an infection??
sarahs mum said:
Rule 303 said:I was wondering what started it. We might never now. It shouldn’t be our business. But it is.
sarahs mum said:How long does it take for pneumonia to turn into a blood infection?
Pnuemonia describes the filling of the alveoli with fluid and failure of the surfactant. It’s not an infection in its own right, but a symptom of something else going wrong.
She is under our care. The “system” looking after her is our responsibility. The system needs to be held responsible and should not be able to hide behind “Patient confidentiality”.
dv said:
Rule 303 said:Pnuemonia describes the filling of the alveoli with fluid and failure of the surfactant. It’s not an infection in its own right, but a symptom of something else going wrong.
Interesting. Is it ever caused by something other than an infection??
Are viruses considered “Infection”?
dv said:
Rule 303 said:Pnuemonia describes the filling of the alveoli with fluid and failure of the surfactant. It’s not an infection in its own right, but a symptom of something else going wrong.
Interesting. Is it ever caused by something other than an infection??
I think it can happen by inhaling a bunch of vomit. But I may be wrong.
dv said:
Rule 303 said:Pnuemonia describes the filling of the alveoli with fluid and failure of the surfactant. It’s not an infection in its own right, but a symptom of something else going wrong.
Interesting. Is it ever caused by something other than an infection??
Sure. Physical causes like damage or trauma to the lung, or… hmmmm, spinal cord injury? The sepsis process can be so complex the Pneumonia could be the result of viral or bacterial infection of the nerves.
Time for some good news:
AGL mostly fails in trademark court case agaisnt Greenpeace for using logo in campaign
Dark Orange said:
dv said:
Rule 303 said:Pnuemonia describes the filling of the alveoli with fluid and failure of the surfactant. It’s not an infection in its own right, but a symptom of something else going wrong.
Interesting. Is it ever caused by something other than an infection??
Are viruses considered “Infection”?
Yeah: Virus, bacteria, prion, mold, parasite…. Pretty much everything but cancer/poison/venom.
sarahs mum said:
dv said:
Rule 303 said:Pnuemonia describes the filling of the alveoli with fluid and failure of the surfactant. It’s not an infection in its own right, but a symptom of something else going wrong.
Interesting. Is it ever caused by something other than an infection??
I think it can happen by inhaling a bunch of vomit. But I may be wrong.
When you inhale a substance, coughing is a normal reaction of the body to clear the throat and windpipe. The cough is helpful and may clear up the problem. Inhaling a substance into your lungs can cause a lung inflammation and infection (aspiration pneumonia).
It is called aspiration pn. I thought that and then I though nah. Nobody would aspire to that.
Dark Orange said:
dv said:
Rule 303 said:Pnuemonia describes the filling of the alveoli with fluid and failure of the surfactant. It’s not an infection in its own right, but a symptom of something else going wrong.
Interesting. Is it ever caused by something other than an infection??
Are viruses considered “Infection”?
Viruses can cause infections.
Dark Orange said:
dv said:
Rule 303 said:Pnuemonia describes the filling of the alveoli with fluid and failure of the surfactant. It’s not an infection in its own right, but a symptom of something else going wrong.
Interesting. Is it ever caused by something other than an infection??
Are viruses considered “Infection”?
Yes.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-08/orford-road-to-remain-closed-till-mid-july/100199128
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East coast grinds to halt.
Does this link work for you lot?
https://www.theatlantic.com
>Police said dozens of members of the Comanchero and Lone Wolf outlaw motorcycle gangs had been arrested.
Lone Wolf seems a laughable name for a gang.
Witty Rejoinder said:
Does this link work for you lot?https://www.theatlantic.com
Yes. Boris’ ugly visage is the main photo.
Witty Rejoinder said:
Does this link work for you lot?https://www.theatlantic.com
Guru Mediation
sarahs mum said:
Rule 303 said:sarahs mum said:I was wondering what started it. We might never now. It shouldn’t be our business. But it is.sarahs mum said:dv said:The mother of a seriously ill three-year-old who was transferred from immigration detention on Christmas Island to a Perth hospital for urgent medical care has made an emotional plea for help to return to their Queensland home.Three-year-old Tharnicaa Murugappan was flown to Perth Children’s Hospital last night after experiencing vomiting, diarrhoea and dizziness for several days.
Family friend Angela Fredericks said she had been diagnosed with sepsis and pneumonia.
Her mother, Priya, released a short video of herself in hospital holding Tharnicaa in her arms as she reads from a statement.
“I want to thank everybody for their love and good wishes,” Ms Murugappan said.
“I hope that Tharnicaa can get the help she needs now. Please, help us to get her out of detention and home to Biloela.”
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-08/biloela-mother-in-plea-from-perth-hospital/100199624
How long does it take for pneumonia to turn into a blood infection?
I wonder if the pneumonia is the secondary.
Pnuemonia describes the filling of the alveoli with fluid and failure of the surfactant. It’s not an infection in its own right, but a symptom of something else going wrong.
don’t worry
The government is considering resettling the family in New Zealand or the United States
we remember Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun
Witty Rejoinder said:
Does this link work for you lot?https://www.theatlantic.com
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Guru Mediation:
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Varnish cache server
Rule 303 said:
Dark Orange said:
dv said:Interesting. Is it ever caused by something other than an infection??
Are viruses considered “Infection”?
Yeah: Virus, bacteria, prion, mold, parasite…. Pretty much everything but cancer/poison/venom.
Cancer can be a viral infection
Bubblecar said:
>Police said dozens of members of the Comanchero and Lone Wolf outlaw motorcycle gangs had been arrested.Lone Wolf seems a laughable name for a gang.
Better than being a Mobshitter.
Hey Shebs, have decided to replace our lead acid batteries (1000AH) with 500AH of Lithium 21700 batteries. Thinking of using pelican cases to make it modular so we can borrow a few AH or storage for field use as required. Can you see any issues? 500Ah of Lithium actually ends up about 2/3 of the price of 1000Ah of lead acid.
sibeen said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Does this link work for you lot?https://www.theatlantic.com
Yes. Boris’ ugly visage is the main photo.
But it doesn’t let me go any further than the front page.
Witty Rejoinder said:
Does this link work for you lot?https://www.theatlantic.com
yeah it links to successfully
but when did Witty Rejoinder become gloworm
Bubblecar said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Does this link work for you lot?https://www.theatlantic.com
Error 503 Service Unavailable
Service UnavailableGuru Mediation:
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That’s what I got.
poikilotherm said:
Rule 303 said:
Dark Orange said:Are viruses considered “Infection”?
Yeah: Virus, bacteria, prion, mold, parasite…. Pretty much everything but cancer/poison/venom.
Cancer can be a viral infection
or a parasitic worm infection
Dark Orange said:
Hey Shebs, have decided to replace our lead acid batteries (1000AH) with 500AH of Lithium 21700 batteries. Thinking of using pelican cases to make it modular so we can borrow a few AH or storage for field use as required. Can you see any issues? 500Ah of Lithium actually ends up about 2/3 of the price of 1000Ah of lead acid.
I’ve not really had any experience with Lithium batteries at all.
Witty Rejoinder said:
Bubblecar said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Does this link work for you lot?https://www.theatlantic.com
Error 503 Service Unavailable
Service UnavailableGuru Mediation:
Details: cache-lax10621-LGB 1623148400 36268522Varnish cache server
That’s what I got.
oh are we in the internet breaking phase of russian haxx0r or is this just another side effect of Operation Ironside please tell
sibeen said:
Dark Orange said:Hey Shebs, have decided to replace our lead acid batteries (1000AH) with 500AH of Lithium 21700 batteries. Thinking of using pelican cases to make it modular so we can borrow a few AH or storage for field use as required. Can you see any issues? 500Ah of Lithium actually ends up about 2/3 of the price of 1000Ah of lead acid.
I’ve not really had any experience with Lithium batteries at all.
OK, I’ll let you know how I go. :)
Anyone want to have a go at snake ID?
My nephew saw it today hiking at Cathedral Gorge in the Bungle Bungles, Kimberley region WA. Said it was quite aggressive.
Dark Orange said:
sibeen said:
Dark Orange said:Hey Shebs, have decided to replace our lead acid batteries (1000AH) with 500AH of Lithium 21700 batteries. Thinking of using pelican cases to make it modular so we can borrow a few AH or storage for field use as required. Can you see any issues? 500Ah of Lithium actually ends up about 2/3 of the price of 1000Ah of lead acid.
I’ve not really had any experience with Lithium batteries at all.
OK, I’ll let you know how I go. :)
I did the couple of jobs a few years ago now with Tesla spits where we used 600 kWh of batteries on each site, but I just treated them as a ‘black box’ and didn’t pay them much heed; until Tesla completed bricked one set – and then I laughed like a drain :)
SCIENCE said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Does this link work for you lot?https://www.theatlantic.com
yeah it links to
successfully
but when did Witty Rejoinder become gloworm
The ants have chewed through the internet cable.
party_pants said:
Anyone want to have a go at snake ID?
My nephew saw it today hiking at Cathedral Gorge in the Bungle Bungles, Kimberley region WA. Said it was quite aggressive.
ringed brown snake
party_pants said:
Anyone want to have a go at snake ID?
My nephew saw it today hiking at Cathedral Gorge in the Bungle Bungles, Kimberley region WA. Said it was quite aggressive.
Angry rock head divided snek. Is dangerous, can take a leg off.
Witty,
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-08/websites-smh-nytimes-gov-amazon-affected-internet-outage/100200062
poikilotherm said:
party_pants said:
Anyone want to have a go at snake ID?
My nephew saw it today hiking at Cathedral Gorge in the Bungle Bungles, Kimberley region WA. Said it was quite aggressive.
ringed brown snake
Yeah, that seems a good match.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/jun/08/nonsense-victorian-government-demands-apology-after-liberals-question-dan-andrews-injury
“It’s months since this happened and yet nobody’s got footage of the stairs,” she said. “Nobody’s got really any idea where it happened and this is a very visual world these days, where we seem to have everything out there on the media but not this.”
Staley denied she was peddling conspiracy theories.
Christos, how clueless do you have to be?
Kingy said:
SCIENCE said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Does this link work for you lot?https://www.theatlantic.com
yeah it links to
successfully
but when did Witty Rejoinder become gloworm
The ants have chewed through the internet cable.
I eventually got the article I was after by googling the author.
sibeen said:
Witty,https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-08/websites-smh-nytimes-gov-amazon-affected-internet-outage/100200062
Ta.
sibeen said:
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/jun/08/nonsense-victorian-government-demands-apology-after-liberals-question-dan-andrews-injury“It’s months since this happened and yet nobody’s got footage of the stairs,” she said. “Nobody’s got really any idea where it happened and this is a very visual world these days, where we seem to have everything out there on the media but not this.”
Staley denied she was peddling conspiracy theories.
Christos, how clueless do you have to be?
party_pants said:
Anyone want to have a go at snake ID?
My nephew saw it today hiking at Cathedral Gorge in the Bungle Bungles, Kimberley region WA. Said it was quite aggressive.
> Ringed brown snake.
Interesting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringed_brown_snake
“The ringed brown snake (Pseudonaja modesta) is a species of venomous elapid snake native to a broad swathe of inland Australia, from western New South Wales and Queensland to Western Australia.
“Albert Günther described it as Cacophis modesta in 1872, from specimens collected in northwestern Australia. The specific name modesta is the Latin adjective “unassuming”, “orderly”, or “well-behaved”, regarded as apt by toxicologist Struan Sutherland, as the snake generally does not bite people.”
Witty Rejoinder said:
sibeen said:
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/jun/08/nonsense-victorian-government-demands-apology-after-liberals-question-dan-andrews-injury“It’s months since this happened and yet nobody’s got footage of the stairs,” she said. “Nobody’s got really any idea where it happened and this is a very visual world these days, where we seem to have everything out there on the media but not this.”
Staley denied she was peddling conspiracy theories.
Christos, how clueless do you have to be?
Some random person told another random person that an unsubstantiated rumour is true? Well, I’m convinced.
Dark Orange said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
sibeen said:
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/jun/08/nonsense-victorian-government-demands-apology-after-liberals-question-dan-andrews-injury“It’s months since this happened and yet nobody’s got footage of the stairs,” she said. “Nobody’s got really any idea where it happened and this is a very visual world these days, where we seem to have everything out there on the media but not this.”
Staley denied she was peddling conspiracy theories.
Christos, how clueless do you have to be?
Some random person told another random person that an unsubstantiated rumour is true? Well, I’m convinced.
I imagine there was some liberal use of photoshop behind this supposed photographic evidence.
mollwollfumble said:
party_pants said:
Anyone want to have a go at snake ID?
My nephew saw it today hiking at Cathedral Gorge in the Bungle Bungles, Kimberley region WA. Said it was quite aggressive.
> Ringed brown snake.
Interesting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringed_brown_snake
“The ringed brown snake (Pseudonaja modesta) is a species of venomous elapid snake native to a broad swathe of inland Australia, from western New South Wales and Queensland to Western Australia.
“Albert Günther described it as Cacophis modesta in 1872, from specimens collected in northwestern Australia. The specific name modesta is the Latin adjective “unassuming”, “orderly”, or “well-behaved”, regarded as apt by toxicologist Struan Sutherland, as the snake generally does not bite people.”
He said that he went of the track a little bit to check out some interesting looking rocks a little closer. When he turned around to head back to the path he spotted it, and it was blocking his way. It was all riled up and ready to strike. So he had to carefully pick out an alternate route.
Sea snot off Turkey: Timelapse:
https://twitter.com/canokar/status/1401927572082937860?
Witty Rejoinder said:
Dark Orange said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Some random person told another random person that an unsubstantiated rumour is true? Well, I’m convinced.
I imagine there was some liberal use of photoshop behind this supposed photographic evidence.
Meanwhile…
https://twitter.com/CathLAndrews/status/1281866509413830656
Witty Rejoinder said:
Sea snot off Turkey: Timelapse:https://twitter.com/canokar/status/1401927572082937860?
Too many nutrients in the water.
Witty Rejoinder said:
I imagine there was some Liberal use of photoshop behind this supposed photographic evidence.
makes sense
Dark Orange said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Dark Orange said:Some random person told another random person that an unsubstantiated rumour is true? Well, I’m convinced.
I imagine there was some liberal use of photoshop behind this supposed photographic evidence.
Meanwhile…
https://twitter.com/CathLAndrews/status/1281866509413830656
shopped
sibeen said:
Dark Orange said:
Witty Rejoinder said:I imagine there was some liberal use of photoshop behind this supposed photographic evidence.
Meanwhile…
https://twitter.com/CathLAndrews/status/1281866509413830656shopped
Actually, it is a year old.
sibeen said:
sibeen said:
Dark Orange said:Meanwhile…
https://twitter.com/CathLAndrews/status/1281866509413830656shopped
Actually, it is a year old.
Shit, you’re right.
Dark Orange said:
sibeen said:
sibeen said:shopped
Actually, it is a year old.
Shit, you’re right.
Sparkies keep saying that to me today.
sibeen said:
Dark Orange said:
sibeen said:Actually, it is a year old.
Shit, you’re right.
Sparkies keep saying that to me today.
You should hear what they are not saying to you.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-08/websites-smh-nytimes-gov-amazon-affected-internet-outage/100200062
Delightful evening in the Styx.
Witty Rejoinder said:
Sea snot off Turkey: Timelapse:https://twitter.com/canokar/status/1401927572082937860?
Turkey’s leader vows to cure Marmara of ‘sea snot’ flare-ups
ByThe Associated Press
6 June 2021, 03:35
Turkey’s president has promised to rescue the Marmara Sea from an outbreak of “sea snot” that is alarming marine biologists and environmentalists
ISTANBUL — Turkey’s president promised Saturday to rescue the Marmara Sea from an outbreak of “sea snot” that is alarming marine biologists and environmentalists.
A huge mass of marine mucilage, a thick, slimy substance made up of compounds released by marine organisms, has bloomed in Turkey’s Marmara, as well as in the adjoining Black and Aegean Seas.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said untreated waste dumped into the Marmara Sea and climate change had caused the sea snot bloom. Istanbul, Turkey’s largest city with some 16 million residents, and five other provinces, factories and industrial hubs border the sea.
Marine mucilage has reached unprecedented levels this year in Turkey. It is visible above the water as a slimy gray sheet along the shores of Istanbul and neighboring provinces. Underwater videos showed suffocated coral covered with sea snot.
Erdogan said he instructed the Ministry of Environment and Urbanization to coordinate with relevant institutions, municipalities and universities. Teams are inspecting waste water and solid waste facilities, along with other potential sources of pollution, he said.
“We will save our seas from this mucilage calamity, leading with the Marmara Sea,” Erdogan said. “We must take this step without delay.”
Marine experts say that human waste and industrial pollution is choking Turkey’s seas. They say the rise in water temperatures from climate change is contributing to the problem.
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/turkish-president-vows-save-sea-sea-snot-outbreak-78103819
poikilotherm said:
Delightful evening in the Styx.
Yeah, only 4 degrees at the back door here at the moment too. But the rain and wind seem to be taking a break at the moment.
Dark Orange said:
sibeen said:
Dark Orange said:Shit, you’re right.
Sparkies keep saying that to me today.
You should hear what they are not saying to you.
Hehehehehe
party_pants said:
Anyone want to have a go at snake ID?
My nephew saw it today hiking at Cathedral Gorge in the Bungle Bungles, Kimberley region WA. Said it was quite aggressive.
cute little fella
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tThYxp5kmk
Arts said:
party_pants said:
Anyone want to have a go at snake ID?
My nephew saw it today hiking at Cathedral Gorge in the Bungle Bungles, Kimberley region WA. Said it was quite aggressive.
cute little fella
My nephew? He’s nearly 200 cm tall now.
Oooh, tax time soon.
>rubs hands together<
Sweet!
Just opened up a 98 Shiraz from Connor Park winery that was loitering in my wine fridge. It is fucking yummy.
In other exciting news I gave my cheese knife a decent sharpen today. It is a joy to use once more.
coffee and noodles shortly
was watching my favorite TV channel, torture in a word
they torture normal, deny the extent it is, and how it’s got and maintained, of numerous subjects, plant a thought virus that way, constantly reinforce it, I have no hesitation in calling it brainwashing
sibeen said:
In other exciting news I gave my cheese knife a decent sharpen today. It is a joy to use once more.
Also, I think knives are a good idea. Big, f***-off shiny ones. Ones that look like they could skin a crocodile. Knives are good, because they don’t make any noise, and the less noise they make, the more likely we are to use them. Sh!t ‘em right up. Makes it look like we’re serious. Guns for show, knives for a pro…
Has anyone watched ‘The 100’?
It’s pretty violent and I think it is working on my anxiety and distress levels. But it does have a plot.
sarahs mum said:
Has anyone watched ‘The 100’?It’s pretty violent and I think it is working on my anxiety and distress levels. But it does have a plot.
Not I. I think senior sprog suggested I watch it a few years ago but I never got around to it.
sarahs mum said:
Has anyone watched ‘The 100’?It’s pretty violent and I think it is working on my anxiety and distress levels. But it does have a plot.
As a coincidence, so does the 300.
sibeen said:
sarahs mum said:
Has anyone watched ‘The 100’?It’s pretty violent and I think it is working on my anxiety and distress levels. But it does have a plot.
Not I. I think senior sprog suggested I watch it a few years ago but I never got around to it.
There is a series two available but I am watching series one atm.
sarahs mum said:
sibeen said:
sarahs mum said:
Has anyone watched ‘The 100’?It’s pretty violent and I think it is working on my anxiety and distress levels. But it does have a plot.
Not I. I think senior sprog suggested I watch it a few years ago but I never got around to it.
There is a series two available but I am watching series one atm.
There appears to be seven series…
furious said:
sarahs mum said:
sibeen said:Not I. I think senior sprog suggested I watch it a few years ago but I never got around to it.
There is a series two available but I am watching series one atm.
There appears to be seven series…
Seasons, even…
furious said:
sarahs mum said:
sibeen said:Not I. I think senior sprog suggested I watch it a few years ago but I never got around to it.
There is a series two available but I am watching series one atm.
There appears to be seven series…
Oh gee, I don’t think I can do that. I am already feeling rattled.
22.6mm rain, winter-proper turned up, been chilly today
transition said:
22.6mm rain, winter-proper turned up, been chilly today
2.4mm all day.
coolish though.
Morning, cold and wet with the occasional snow flurry in the Styx.
Rule 303 said:
Oooh, tax time soon.>rubs hands together<
Sweet!
Ugh. I dislike tax time.
poikilotherm said:
Morning, cold and wet with the occasional snow flurry in the Styx.
Morning all.
14° 8/8 cloud, river mist, no rain.
Good morning Holidayers. Warmer this morning, 6 degrees, overcast and the wind is working itself up into a tizz again. I reckon our gusts are 70ish. Mount William in Gariwerd (the Grampians) might make the news again. Up there it’s been gusting over 100 since 11.00pm last night, biggest number 120km/hr just before 4.00am this morning. I’m surprised there are still readings happening. It’s not unusual for the weather station to throw up its hands in horror and refuse to work when the wind gets really fast.
Our forecast is for 11 degrees, showers and windy. Perfect for a drive into Hamilton for my vaccination.
buffy said:
Good morning Holidayers. Warmer this morning, 6 degrees, overcast and the wind is working itself up into a tizz again. I reckon our gusts are 70ish. Mount William in Gariwerd (the Grampians) might make the news again. Up there it’s been gusting over 100 since 11.00pm last night, biggest number 120km/hr just before 4.00am this morning. I’m surprised there are still readings happening. It’s not unusual for the weather station to throw up its hands in horror and refuse to work when the wind gets really fast.Our forecast is for 11 degrees, showers and windy. Perfect for a drive into Hamilton for my vaccination.
This be your first dose?
We are currently 5 degrees heading for a max of 8 degrees. 1mm overnight.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/akgkwj/operation-trojan-shield-anom-fbi-secret-phone-network
roughbarked said:
buffy said:
Good morning Holidayers. Warmer this morning, 6 degrees, overcast and the wind is working itself up into a tizz again. I reckon our gusts are 70ish. Mount William in Gariwerd (the Grampians) might make the news again. Up there it’s been gusting over 100 since 11.00pm last night, biggest number 120km/hr just before 4.00am this morning. I’m surprised there are still readings happening. It’s not unusual for the weather station to throw up its hands in horror and refuse to work when the wind gets really fast.Our forecast is for 11 degrees, showers and windy. Perfect for a drive into Hamilton for my vaccination.
This be your first dose?
We are currently 5 degrees heading for a max of 8 degrees. 1mm overnight.
Yes, first dose. I only became eligible a couple of weeks ago and there has been a shortage out here. I’m in on a cancellation.
The yellowtailed blacks are in the backyard this morning yelling and crying to each other. The tops of the trees are swaying wildly, and some daredevils are thoroughly enjoying the ride out on the tips.
Meanwhile the more sober ones are sitting in next door’s dead blackwood.
dv said:
(I’m back in Last Night’s Chat).
That is really funny. These days there would be a stampede.
poikilotherm said:
Rule 303 said:
Oooh, tax time soon.>rubs hands together<
Sweet!
Ugh. I dislike tax time.
I have to check with my accountant, but I think I will not need to file a return this year. But we might need to tell them that I don’t need to file one. I haven’t heard any more about the auditing of me and the company since I dropped all the paperwork in to the accountant about a month ago.
Morning Pilgrims, cold and rainy in the Perl.
That’s terrific news about the rotifers.
Forecast for the rest of Wednesday
Summary Max 8 A few showers. Chance of any rain: 100%
poikilotherm said:
Rule 303 said:
Oooh, tax time soon.>rubs hands together<
Sweet!
Ugh. I dislike tax time.
Hire a bookkeeper, Poik. Best investment a small business can make.
https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/orthographic=-247.99,-32.37,1524
http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDR701.loop.shtml#skip
buffy said:
poikilotherm said:
Rule 303 said:
Oooh, tax time soon.>rubs hands together<
Sweet!
Ugh. I dislike tax time.
I have to check with my accountant, but I think I will not need to file a return this year. But we might need to tell them that I don’t need to file one. I haven’t heard any more about the auditing of me and the company since I dropped all the paperwork in to the accountant about a month ago.
I’ve just had a reminder from my workers’ comp insurance company that I haven’t sent my “declaration of actual wages” for the year from 31Jan20 to 31Jan21, or (allegedly) for two previous years.
I wonder how many millions of hours of computing time are wasted every year by people having to calculate these numbers, rather than just reporting for the closest tax year.
roughbarked said:
https://www.vice.com/en/article/akgkwj/operation-trojan-shield-anom-fbi-secret-phone-network
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/06/08/fbi-app-arrests-australia-crime/?
…
It’s amazing that there was no corrupt coppers who tipped off their criminal pals about this deception. Well done law enforcement!
Just read on the Internet:
“Most Nobel winners accepted the idea of design. Are Atheists wiser than the likes of Newton, Bacon, Pascal, Pasteur, Tesla, Heisenberg, Oppenheimer, etc?”
It would be nice to think this was intended as satire, but I suspect it wasn’t.
Late last year a salt mining company near the town of St Kilda reinstated a pump against the terms of its tenancy and filled dried out gypsum ponds with hypersaline water.
Some 10 hectares of nearby mangroves are now considered completely dead, along with 35ha of salt marsh, and lead researchers believe the evidence of stressed, dying or dead vegetation can be seen in a 193ha area.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-09/st-kilda-dead-mangroves-salinity-meeting-mining-department/100196452
Bogsnorkler said:
https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/orthographic=-247.99,-32.37,1524http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDR701.loop.shtml#skip
ooh, swirly thing alert. Has anyone checked if we’ve got the right colour light bulb to change?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-09/national-security-laws-tested-in-witness-j-case-inquiry/100199450
buffy said:
Bogsnorkler said:
https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/orthographic=-247.99,-32.37,1524http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDR701.loop.shtml#skip
ooh, swirly thing alert. Has anyone checked if we’ve got the right colour light bulb to change?
https://retro.yr.no/kart/#lat=-32.83104&lon=150.05433&zoom=6&laga=nedb%C3%B8r&proj=900913
buffy said:
Bogsnorkler said:
https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/orthographic=-247.99,-32.37,1524http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDR701.loop.shtml#skip
ooh, swirly thing alert. Has anyone checked if we’ve got the right colour light bulb to change?
buffy said:
Bogsnorkler said:
https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/orthographic=-247.99,-32.37,1524http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDR701.loop.shtml#skip
ooh, swirly thing alert. Has anyone checked if we’ve got the right colour light bulb to change?
Light bulb?
I don’t get it.
roughbarked said:
buffy said:
Bogsnorkler said:
https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/orthographic=-247.99,-32.37,1524http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDR701.loop.shtml#skip
ooh, swirly thing alert. Has anyone checked if we’ve got the right colour light bulb to change?
Not your swirly rain…Bogs’ swirly wind!
Michael V said:
buffy said:
Bogsnorkler said:
https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/orthographic=-247.99,-32.37,1524http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDR701.loop.shtml#skip
ooh, swirly thing alert. Has anyone checked if we’ve got the right colour light bulb to change?
Light bulb?
I don’t get it.
Weather warning?
buffy said:
roughbarked said:
buffy said:ooh, swirly thing alert. Has anyone checked if we’ve got the right colour light bulb to change?
Not your swirly rain…Bogs’ swirly wind!
Yes I saw it.
Michael V said:
buffy said:
Bogsnorkler said:
https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/orthographic=-247.99,-32.37,1524http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDR701.loop.shtml#skip
ooh, swirly thing alert. Has anyone checked if we’ve got the right colour light bulb to change?
Light bulb?
I don’t get it.
It’s a Red Dwarf reference. When things start to get bad you have to change the amber bulb for the red one. Never mind. Way back when Red Dwarf started we used to make sure we were inside at Saturday lunchtime to watch it. We never imagined it would become as big as it did.
buffy said:
Michael V said:
buffy said:ooh, swirly thing alert. Has anyone checked if we’ve got the right colour light bulb to change?
Light bulb?
I don’t get it.
It’s a Red Dwarf reference. When things start to get bad you have to change the amber bulb for the red one. Never mind. Way back when Red Dwarf started we used to make sure we were inside at Saturday lunchtime to watch it. We never imagined it would become as big as it did.
I had kids at the time so Red Dwarf was big in our house as well.
Back from getting the wood fire ready to light.
It’s 16° but 100% humidity so it feels cold af.
roughbarked said:
buffy said:
Michael V said:Light bulb?
I don’t get it.
It’s a Red Dwarf reference. When things start to get bad you have to change the amber bulb for the red one. Never mind. Way back when Red Dwarf started we used to make sure we were inside at Saturday lunchtime to watch it. We never imagined it would become as big as it did.
I had kids at the time so Red Dwarf was big in our house as well.
The Rev Dodgson said:
buffy said:
poikilotherm said:Ugh. I dislike tax time.
I have to check with my accountant, but I think I will not need to file a return this year. But we might need to tell them that I don’t need to file one. I haven’t heard any more about the auditing of me and the company since I dropped all the paperwork in to the accountant about a month ago.
I’ve just had a reminder from my workers’ comp insurance company that I haven’t sent my “declaration of actual wages” for the year from 31Jan20 to 31Jan21, or (allegedly) for two previous years.
I wonder how many millions of hours of computing time are wasted every year by people having to calculate these numbers, rather than just reporting for the closest tax year.
Just tell them you couldn’t do it because you were in gaol.
Peak Warming Man said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
buffy said:I have to check with my accountant, but I think I will not need to file a return this year. But we might need to tell them that I don’t need to file one. I haven’t heard any more about the auditing of me and the company since I dropped all the paperwork in to the accountant about a month ago.
I’ve just had a reminder from my workers’ comp insurance company that I haven’t sent my “declaration of actual wages” for the year from 31Jan20 to 31Jan21, or (allegedly) for two previous years.
I wonder how many millions of hours of computing time are wasted every year by people having to calculate these numbers, rather than just reporting for the closest tax year.
Just tell them you couldn’t do it because you were in gaol.
But how could I then explain my $200 earnings?
buffy said:
Michael V said:
buffy said:ooh, swirly thing alert. Has anyone checked if we’ve got the right colour light bulb to change?
Light bulb?
I don’t get it.
It’s a Red Dwarf reference. When things start to get bad you have to change the amber bulb for the red one. Never mind. Way back when Red Dwarf started we used to make sure we were inside at Saturday lunchtime to watch it. We never imagined it would become as big as it did.
Ah, ta.
:)
The Rev Dodgson said:
Peak Warming Man said:
The Rev Dodgson said:I’ve just had a reminder from my workers’ comp insurance company that I haven’t sent my “declaration of actual wages” for the year from 31Jan20 to 31Jan21, or (allegedly) for two previous years.
I wonder how many millions of hours of computing time are wasted every year by people having to calculate these numbers, rather than just reporting for the closest tax year.
Just tell them you couldn’t do it because you were in gaol.
But how could I then explain my $200 earnings?
The Rev Dodgson said:
Peak Warming Man said:
The Rev Dodgson said:I’ve just had a reminder from my workers’ comp insurance company that I haven’t sent my “declaration of actual wages” for the year from 31Jan20 to 31Jan21, or (allegedly) for two previous years.
I wonder how many millions of hours of computing time are wasted every year by people having to calculate these numbers, rather than just reporting for the closest tax year.
Just tell them you couldn’t do it because you were in gaol.
But how could I then explain my $200 earnings?
Don’t they give you a small amount of money on leaving Her Majesty’s accommodation?
The Rev Dodgson said:
Peak Warming Man said:
The Rev Dodgson said:I’ve just had a reminder from my workers’ comp insurance company that I haven’t sent my “declaration of actual wages” for the year from 31Jan20 to 31Jan21, or (allegedly) for two previous years.
I wonder how many millions of hours of computing time are wasted every year by people having to calculate these numbers, rather than just reporting for the closest tax year.
Just tell them you couldn’t do it because you were in gaol.
But how could I then explain my $200 earnings?
Bugger.
Hello
Cymek said:
Hello
Still with us then?
Tamb said:
roughbarked said:
buffy said:It’s a Red Dwarf reference. When things start to get bad you have to change the amber bulb for the red one. Never mind. Way back when Red Dwarf started we used to make sure we were inside at Saturday lunchtime to watch it. We never imagined it would become as big as it did.
I had kids at the time so Red Dwarf was big in our house as well.
Coolest cat in the universe.
Absolutely no doubt. And can that man dance!
Peak Warming Man said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Peak Warming Man said:Just tell them you couldn’t do it because you were in gaol.
But how could I then explain my $200 earnings?
Bugger.
That could be one reason, jail favours, usually pay in smokes or cans of coke though
roughbarked said:
Cymek said:
Hello
Still with us then?
Yes
buffy said:
Tamb said:
roughbarked said:I had kids at the time so Red Dwarf was big in our house as well.
Coolest cat in the universe.Absolutely no doubt. And can that man dance!
……of course he can dance, of course he can dance………
Peak Warming Man said:
buffy said:
Tamb said:Coolest cat in the universe.
Absolutely no doubt. And can that man dance!
……of course he can dance, of course he can dance………
Goodness, another reference I get!! Lovely Leo.
buffy said:
Michael V said:
buffy said:ooh, swirly thing alert. Has anyone checked if we’ve got the right colour light bulb to change?
Light bulb?
I don’t get it.
It’s a Red Dwarf reference. When things start to get bad you have to change the amber bulb for the red one. Never mind. Way back when Red Dwarf started we used to make sure we were inside at Saturday lunchtime to watch it. We never imagined it would become as big as it did.
:)
I got it.
Cymek said:
Peak Warming Man said:
The Rev Dodgson said:But how could I then explain my $200 earnings?
Bugger.
That could be one reason, jail favours, usually pay in smokes or cans of coke though
SMOKES?
Jaysus, how long is it since you’ve been in gaol?
See ya later Nathan Buckley. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.
sibeen said:
Cymek said:
Peak Warming Man said:Bugger.
That could be one reason, jail favours, usually pay in smokes or cans of coke though
SMOKES?
Jaysus, how long is it since you’ve been in gaol?
Are all gaols now completely smoke free?
It would be at least three years for Victoria. I only remember because they got me to come train all the screws, in anticipation of an elevated need for fire/evac/injury response.
And they were right about that!
8-/
Now here’s a thing, a herd of elephants have left Burma and is on an odyssey through China.
They have been having a great time so far causing a million dollars of damage over the two year working holiday.
However the ABC have found an expert Asian elephant behavioural psychologist.
Now this expert chap reckons that one of the reasons for this unusual behaviour is they mat have been having food resource problems in their normal habitat. He’s good alright, probably one of the few Asian elephant behavioural psychologists never out of work.
Peak Warming Man said:
Now here’s a thing, a herd of elephants have left Burma and is on an odyssey through China.
They have been having a great time so far causing a million dollars of damage over the two year working holiday.
However the ABC have found an expert Asian elephant behavioural psychologist.
Now this expert chap reckons that one of the reasons for this unusual behaviour is they mat have been having food resource problems in their normal habitat. He’s good alright, probably one of the few Asian elephant behavioural psychologists never out of work.
Heh.
They’d be a difficult thing to pull up, once they got a rumble on.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/jun/09/fossil-fever-driving-and-digging-in-a-long-lost-sea-on-australias-dinosaur-trail
Rule 303 said:
sibeen said:
Cymek said:That could be one reason, jail favours, usually pay in smokes or cans of coke though
SMOKES?
Jaysus, how long is it since you’ve been in gaol?
Are all gaols now completely smoke free?
It would be at least three years for Victoria. I only remember because they got me to come train all the screws, in anticipation of an elevated need for fire/evac/injury response.
And they were right about that!
8-/
They were smoke free back in 2015 when I was doing some work at Barwon.
sibeen said:
Rule 303 said:
sibeen said:SMOKES?
Jaysus, how long is it since you’ve been in gaol?
Are all gaols now completely smoke free?
It would be at least three years for Victoria. I only remember because they got me to come train all the screws, in anticipation of an elevated need for fire/evac/injury response.
And they were right about that!
8-/
They were smoke free back in 2015 when I was doing some work at Barwon.
I see.
sibeen said:
Rule 303 said:
sibeen said:SMOKES?
Jaysus, how long is it since you’ve been in gaol?
Are all gaols now completely smoke free?
It would be at least three years for Victoria. I only remember because they got me to come train all the screws, in anticipation of an elevated need for fire/evac/injury response.
And they were right about that!
8-/
They were smoke free back in 2015 when I was doing some work at Barwon.
OK Cans of coke and points of meth instead
Southerly winds are a bit boisterous today, doubtless worse down sarahs mum’s way.
My programme for the rest of the day:
a) Washing up.
b) Iron a shirt for tomorrow.
c) Write a shopping list for tomorrow (shopping in Coles for a change, since I’ll be in Launceston for the X-rays).
d) Put the bins out at some stage, if I’m reasonably confident they won’t be blown over, scattering their contents everywhere.
e) Clean the bathroom & lavatory.
f) Music practice, etc.
sibeen said:
Rule 303 said:
sibeen said:SMOKES?
Jaysus, how long is it since you’ve been in gaol?
Are all gaols now completely smoke free?
It would be at least three years for Victoria. I only remember because they got me to come train all the screws, in anticipation of an elevated need for fire/evac/injury response.
And they were right about that!
8-/
They were smoke free back in 2015 when I was doing some work at Barwon.
Work?
“Time” is what it is usually called. .
‘scuse me if I park in yer orchard?
Mr Deadman said Australian miners are “on the front foot of putting electric vehicles underground,” relative to US counterparts.
“I think we’re going to be at the forefront of light electric vehicles in the world,” he said.“It’s pretty well going to be forced upon people to run electric vehicles because the vent flow in the mine is paramount.
“If you’re counting light vehicles in the vent flow — five diesels and you have to take one truck out so all of a sudden it becomes a big cost issue.”
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-09/underground-electric-vehicles-australian-manufacturing/100198802
roughbarked said:
‘scuse me if I park in yer orchard?
I must have nodded off.
roughbarked said:
Mr Deadman said Australian miners are “on the front foot of putting electric vehicles underground,” relative to US counterparts. “I think we’re going to be at the forefront of light electric vehicles in the world,” he said.“It’s pretty well going to be forced upon people to run electric vehicles because the vent flow in the mine is paramount.
“If you’re counting light vehicles in the vent flow — five diesels and you have to take one truck out so all of a sudden it becomes a big cost issue.”
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-09/underground-electric-vehicles-australian-manufacturing/100198802
If my name was Deadman I’m pretty sure I’d change it.
Bubblecar said:
roughbarked said:
Mr Deadman said Australian miners are “on the front foot of putting electric vehicles underground,” relative to US counterparts. “I think we’re going to be at the forefront of light electric vehicles in the world,” he said.“It’s pretty well going to be forced upon people to run electric vehicles because the vent flow in the mine is paramount.
“If you’re counting light vehicles in the vent flow — five diesels and you have to take one truck out so all of a sudden it becomes a big cost issue.”
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-09/underground-electric-vehicles-australian-manufacturing/100198802
If my name was Deadman I’m pretty sure I’d change it.
‘specially in underground mining game. ;)
Woodie said:
roughbarked said:
‘scuse me if I park in yer orchard?
I must have nodded off.
or had too many at the pub after work.
sibeen said:
Rule 303 said:
sibeen said:SMOKES?
Jaysus, how long is it since you’ve been in gaol?
Are all gaols now completely smoke free?
It would be at least three years for Victoria. I only remember because they got me to come train all the screws, in anticipation of an elevated need for fire/evac/injury response.
And they were right about that!
8-/
They were smoke free back in 2015 when I was doing some work at Barwon.
Yeah wow – Six years.
Dark side of Ganymede.
So what shirt should I wear to Launceston tomorrow:
a) Large floral pattern
b) Medium floral pattern
c) Small floral pattern
d) Dark blue paisley
e) Light blue paisley
f) Plain white
g) Plain cream
h) Plain blue
i) Plain pink
j) Plain red
Bubblecar said:
So what shirt should I wear to Launceston tomorrow:a) Large floral pattern
b) Medium floral pattern
c) Small floral pattern
d) Dark blue paisley
e) Light blue paisley
f) Plain white
g) Plain cream
h) Plain blue
i) Plain pink
j) Plain red
I’d go with the medium floral. Navy blue waistcoat, navy trousers, royal blue jacket. Shiny black shoes, light blue handkerchief.
Bubblecar said:
So what shirt should I wear to Launceston tomorrow:a) Large floral pattern
b) Medium floral pattern
c) Small floral pattern
d) Dark blue paisley
e) Light blue paisley
f) Plain white
g) Plain cream
h) Plain blue
i) Plain pink
j) Plain red
That’s a lot of dress-shirts.
Bubblecar said:
So what shirt should I wear to Launceston tomorrow:a) Large floral pattern
b) Medium floral pattern
c) Small floral pattern
d) Dark blue paisley
e) Light blue paisley
f) Plain white
g) Plain cream
h) Plain blue
i) Plain pink
j) Plain red
Whichever one you decide on.
waves to Mr V. :)
How’s the lurgies?
They told me that Latest weather observations since 9AM were 2.2mm.
However when I checked my gauge, there were 16.5mm in it.
Bubblecar said:
So what shirt should I wear to Launceston tomorrow:a) Large floral pattern
b) Medium floral pattern
c) Small floral pattern
d) Dark blue paisley
e) Light blue paisley
f) Plain white
g) Plain cream
h) Plain blue
i) Plain pink
j) Plain red
Pirate/puffy shirt
roughbarked said:
Dark side of Ganymede.
the only moon in our solar system bigger than the planet Mercury
I did not know that.
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
So what shirt should I wear to Launceston tomorrow:a) Large floral pattern
b) Medium floral pattern
c) Small floral pattern
d) Dark blue paisley
e) Light blue paisley
f) Plain white
g) Plain cream
h) Plain blue
i) Plain pink
j) Plain red
I’d go with the medium floral. Navy blue waistcoat, navy trousers, royal blue jacket. Shiny black shoes, light blue handkerchief.
…… and a wooly spencer. It’s chilly out there, ya know.
sibeen said:
roughbarked said:
Dark side of Ganymede.
the only moon in our solar system bigger than the planet Mercury
I did not know that.
But, it’s not true. Titan (which is 2% smaller than Ganymede) is also larger than Mercury.
Woodie said:
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
So what shirt should I wear to Launceston tomorrow:a) Large floral pattern
b) Medium floral pattern
c) Small floral pattern
d) Dark blue paisley
e) Light blue paisley
f) Plain white
g) Plain cream
h) Plain blue
i) Plain pink
j) Plain red
I’d go with the medium floral. Navy blue waistcoat, navy trousers, royal blue jacket. Shiny black shoes, light blue handkerchief.
…… and a wooly spencer. It’s chilly out there, ya know.
Instead of a waistcoat, I’ll probably wear a navy blue woollen sleeveless pullover which will be warm enough under the jacket.
And I’ll only wear the jacket in Coles. Won’t be necessary in the car or the radiology centre, which will doubtless be overheated like most medical places.
Woodie said:
waves to Mr V. :)How’s the lurgies?
I’m fine. Mrs V is still somewhat dodgy.
Bubblecar said:
sibeen said:
roughbarked said:
Dark side of Ganymede.
the only moon in our solar system bigger than the planet Mercury
I did not know that.
But, it’s not true. Titan (which is 2% smaller than Ganymede) is also larger than Mercury.
While Callisto is a tiny weeny bit smaller than Mercury (59km smaller in diameter).
Bubblecar said:
sibeen said:
roughbarked said:
Dark side of Ganymede.
the only moon in our solar system bigger than the planet Mercury
I did not know that.
But, it’s not true. Titan (which is 2% smaller than Ganymede) is also larger than Mercury.
The lying fucker.
sibeen said:
Bubblecar said:
sibeen said:the only moon in our solar system bigger than the planet Mercury
I did not know that.
But, it’s not true. Titan (which is 2% smaller than Ganymede) is also larger than Mercury.
The lying fucker.
Who’s that then?
Bubblecar said:
sibeen said:
Bubblecar said:But, it’s not true. Titan (which is 2% smaller than Ganymede) is also larger than Mercury.
The lying fucker.
Who’s that then?
“This is the closest any spacecraft has come to this mammoth moon in a generation,” said Juno’s lead scientist, Scott Bolton, of the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio.
“We are going to take our time before we draw any scientific conclusions, but until then we can simply marvel at this celestial wonder – the only moon in our solar system bigger than the planet Mercury.”
Preliminary reports that the remains of 215 children were discovered at the site of a former residential school in British Columbia jolted Clayton Peters, whose seven years of torment there have been mostly encased in silence around fears of soap and strappings, a cold dark room and dreams of running away.
—-
Children who spoke their own language were disciplined, Peters said.
“They would stick bars of soap in their mouth and make them eat it.’‘
Children were also forced to scrub themselves with soap containing lye, which burned their skin, “so they could take the brown off of them,’‘ he said.
“They beat me up so many times for not using it, but I wouldn’t use it,’‘ he said. “I quit showering because they just wanted to hurt you, that’s all.’‘
Children were not given medicine when they were sick but confined to a dark room alone, Peters said of the place that was also used as a form of punishment.
“I was in there so many times in that dark room, for sometimes doing nothing, just for looking at them,’‘ he said of staff. “You’re supposed to look down as soon as they look at you. Your eyes have to hit the floor.’‘
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/survivor-breaking-silence-1.6050010
And I’m back.
Bubblecar said:
Southerly winds are a bit boisterous today, doubtless worse down sarahs mum’s way.
Yes, having just driven to Hamilton and back across the plains. The gusts would be easily into the 60s or 70s, possibly higher.
sibeen said:
Bubblecar said:
sibeen said:The lying fucker.
Who’s that then?
“This is the closest any spacecraft has come to this mammoth moon in a generation,” said Juno’s lead scientist, Scott Bolton, of the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio.
“We are going to take our time before we draw any scientific conclusions, but until then we can simply marvel at this celestial wonder – the only moon in our solar system bigger than the planet Mercury.”
I bet he’s blushing now.
buffy said:
Bubblecar said:
Southerly winds are a bit boisterous today, doubtless worse down sarahs mum’s way.
Yes, having just driven to Hamilton and back across the plains. The gusts would be easily into the 60s or 70s, possibly higher.
One of my neighbours has already put his bins out for tomorrow’s collection.
I’m willing to bet big cents that at least one them gets blown over.
Lunch report. We et potato cakes, sweet potato cakes and fried scallops (Mr buffy only) while sitting in the car looking at Lake Hamilton and watching a couple of lady wood ducks sitting on the grass in front of us.
buffy said:
Lunch report. We et potato cakes, sweet potato cakes and fried scallops (Mr buffy only) while sitting in the car looking at Lake Hamilton and watching a couple of lady wood ducks sitting on the grass in front of us.
I had raw crunchy wombok with a shake of salt, no ducks.
Got a question. You guys who’ve already had your first dose of vaccine, did you have pulse and BP taken when you went for the jab? Do they do that stuff at the big hub vax centres when they are putting hundreds through a day?
captain_spalding said:
You suck at this interneting.
buffy said:
Got a question. You guys who’ve already had your first dose of vaccine, did you have pulse and BP taken when you went for the jab? Do they do that stuff at the big hub vax centres when they are putting hundreds through a day?
Yes, but I went to my local GP where they always do that.
buffy said:
Got a question. You guys who’ve already had your first dose of vaccine, did you have pulse and BP taken when you went for the jab? Do they do that stuff at the big hub vax centres when they are putting hundreds through a day?
No and No.
Witty Rejoinder said:
captain_spalding said:
You suck at this interneting.
Presumably the gif is a small image of a black object against a black background.
buffy said:
Got a question. You guys who’ve already had your first dose of vaccine, did you have pulse and BP taken when you went for the jab? Do they do that stuff at the big hub vax centres when they are putting hundreds through a day?
They saw you coming.
From Getup:
While Education Minister Alan Tudge takes to Sky News to complain about “woke rubbish”, his government is quietly gutting funding to public higher education. Unis got cut by 10% and TAFE by 24% in the most recent Budget. It’s flown under the radar, but together the GetUp movement can expose it. Can you sign the petition demanding no cuts to uni and TAFE?
How could something like that fly under the radar?
Surely the non-Murdoch press should have been full of it.
Not to mention the ABC.
buffy said:
Got a question. You guys who’ve already had your first dose of vaccine, did you have pulse and BP taken when you went for the jab? Do they do that stuff at the big hub vax centres when they are putting hundreds through a day?
No answered a few questions, had the jab and waited 15 minutes and then left, I had my second dose
Witty Rejoinder said:
buffy said:
Got a question. You guys who’ve already had your first dose of vaccine, did you have pulse and BP taken when you went for the jab? Do they do that stuff at the big hub vax centres when they are putting hundreds through a day?They saw you coming.
P (the practice nurse) had to phone the doctor to get the OK for me to go ahead. Because, of course…you know I went fight or flight, as usual. He did pulse first, and I said “what is it?”, knowing it was racing because, well, I can tell when it bumps up. 88. (Which they keep insisting is “normal” and I keep insisting is not my normal. I’m a good 20 under that when I’m relaxed) “Ah, so now you’ve put the cuff on me, at 88, my BP is going to be about 190/90 or so” “No, it won’t be, because P isn’t going to hurt you, and you know P isn’t going to hurt you” (I like P. But it doesn’t stop the response my body makes to going to the practice) Takes BP – as predicted. “Just sit there for a bit” Does it again. I’m still pumping adrenaline. So he spoke to the GP and it’s actually not a contra-indication. I suspect any decent needle phobe would spike their BP for vaccination anyway. I’m not needlephobic, I’m GP phobic.
(About half an hour later, after I’d done my 15 minutes wait, gone down to Lincraft to get a zipper and some embroidery thread and was sitting in the car waiting for Mr buffy to get our lunch and bring it back, my pulse had dropped back to about 74)
Not another photographer
The Rev Dodgson said:
From Getup:While Education Minister Alan Tudge takes to Sky News to complain about “woke rubbish”, his government is quietly gutting funding to public higher education. Unis got cut by 10% and TAFE by 24% in the most recent Budget. It’s flown under the radar, but together the GetUp movement can expose it. Can you sign the petition demanding no cuts to uni and TAFE?
How could something like that fly under the radar?
Surely the non-Murdoch press should have been full of it.
Not to mention the ABC.
Also it is a series of cuts. Each year they have raided tertiary ed and the ABC.
sarahs mum said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
From Getup:While Education Minister Alan Tudge takes to Sky News to complain about “woke rubbish”, his government is quietly gutting funding to public higher education. Unis got cut by 10% and TAFE by 24% in the most recent Budget. It’s flown under the radar, but together the GetUp movement can expose it. Can you sign the petition demanding no cuts to uni and TAFE?
How could something like that fly under the radar?
Surely the non-Murdoch press should have been full of it.
Not to mention the ABC.
Also it is a series of cuts. Each year they have raided tertiary ed and the ABC.
Also the unis are down foreign students and lecturers, tutors and cleaners and all got no jobkeeper payments.
PermeateFree said:
In soviet Russia we can only afford to light up one apartment
PermeateFree said:
Mesas capped by Navajo Sandstone?
sarahs mum said:
Ah jesus. Who thought that was a good idea?
Cymek said:
PermeateFree said:
In soviet Russia we can only afford to light up one apartment
There is something really odd with those perspectives.
Rule 303 said:
sarahs mum said:
Ah jesus. Who thought that was a good idea?
No-one gave it any real thought. That’s how the trouble started.
captain_spalding said:
Rule 303 said:
sarahs mum said:
Ah jesus. Who thought that was a good idea?
No-one gave it any real thought. That’s how the trouble started.
And who would stand and fight for two years about it?!
Just choose another name and get on with it….
Rule 303 said:
captain_spalding said:
Rule 303 said:Ah jesus. Who thought that was a good idea?
No-one gave it any real thought. That’s how the trouble started.
And who would stand and fight for two years about it?!
Just choose another name and get on with it….
So you guys think its reasonable for a large US based clothing chain to be able to prevent a small indigenous Australian group from using the word “gap” in a way that clearly does not imply they are part of the Gap group?
Rule 303 said:
captain_spalding said:
Rule 303 said:Ah jesus. Who thought that was a good idea?
No-one gave it any real thought. That’s how the trouble started.
And who would stand and fight for two years about it?!
Just choose another name and get on with it….
I suspect that there may have been an element of “you can’t tell us what to do – we’re culturally-correct” involved.
Unfortunately, large American businesses are not renowned for acknowledging socio-cultural precedences as coming before commercial interests.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Rule 303 said:
captain_spalding said:No-one gave it any real thought. That’s how the trouble started.
And who would stand and fight for two years about it?!
Just choose another name and get on with it….
So you guys think its reasonable for a large US based clothing chain to be able to prevent a small indigenous Australian group from using the word “gap” in a way that clearly does not imply they are part of the Gap group?
I didn’t say that i thought the Yanks were right.
But, it was always going to be a tough battle to win.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Rule 303 said:
captain_spalding said:No-one gave it any real thought. That’s how the trouble started.
And who would stand and fight for two years about it?!
Just choose another name and get on with it….
So you guys think its reasonable for a large US based clothing chain to be able to prevent a small indigenous Australian group from using the word “gap” in a way that clearly makes them sound like they are part of the Gap group?
Yes.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Rule 303 said:
captain_spalding said:No-one gave it any real thought. That’s how the trouble started.
And who would stand and fight for two years about it?!
Just choose another name and get on with it….
So you guys think its reasonable for a large US based clothing chain to be able to prevent a small indigenous Australian group from using the word “gap” in a way that clearly does not imply they are part of the Gap group?
No one said that, or implied it. As far as I can see people just could see it wasn’t going to end well for the auss company.
Bogsnorkler said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Rule 303 said:And who would stand and fight for two years about it?!
Just choose another name and get on with it….
So you guys think its reasonable for a large US based clothing chain to be able to prevent a small indigenous Australian group from using the word “gap” in a way that clearly does not imply they are part of the Gap group?
No one said that, or implied it. As far as I can see people just could see it wasn’t going to end well for the auss company.
OK, so one person does.
;-)
The Rev Dodgson said:
Rule 303 said:
captain_spalding said:No-one gave it any real thought. That’s how the trouble started.
And who would stand and fight for two years about it?!
Just choose another name and get on with it….
So you guys think its reasonable for a large US based clothing chain to be able to prevent a small indigenous Australian group from using the word “gap” in a way that clearly does not imply they are part of the Gap group?
Yes. Trademarks and intellectual property. Under the terms of the Aus / US free trade deal of the early Naughties both countries respect each others patents, trademarks and intellectual property. Gap and Closing the Gap is a little bit too close for trademark purposes. It is a question of who claimed it first.
Getting an early dinner underway. I’m doing the roast-hen-thighs-on-vermicelli-in-a-pie-dish thing again, but a smaller amount this time.
Bogsnorkler said:
Bogsnorkler said:
The Rev Dodgson said:So you guys think its reasonable for a large US based clothing chain to be able to prevent a small indigenous Australian group from using the word “gap” in a way that clearly does not imply they are part of the Gap group?
No one said that, or implied it. As far as I can see people just could see it wasn’t going to end well for the auss company.
OK, so one person does.
;-)
Make that two people.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Rule 303 said:
captain_spalding said:No-one gave it any real thought. That’s how the trouble started.
And who would stand and fight for two years about it?!
Just choose another name and get on with it….
So you guys think its reasonable for a large US based clothing chain to be able to prevent a small indigenous Australian group from using the word “gap” in a way that clearly does not imply they are part of the Gap group?
Not really but big brands/names act likes pricks when it comes to protecting their copyrights and have the money to back it up, that’s business
Bogsnorkler said:
Bogsnorkler said:
Bogsnorkler said:No one said that, or implied it. As far as I can see people just could see it wasn’t going to end well for the auss company.
OK, so one person does.
;-)
Make that two people.
2.5 ??
In the 90s when I was marketing some hand-cast plastic items, I was thinking of giving my tiny company the ostentatious name GLOBAL AMALGAMATED PLASTICS (GAP) but decided it was too misleading.
Bubblecar said:
In the 90s when I was marketing some hand-cast plastic items, I was thinking of giving my tiny company the ostentatious name GLOBAL AMALGAMATED PLASTICS (GAP) but decided it was too misleading.
It often seems to be to make a point of whose in charge not actual profit lose.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Rule 303 said:
captain_spalding said:No-one gave it any real thought. That’s how the trouble started.
And who would stand and fight for two years about it?!
Just choose another name and get on with it….
So you guys think its reasonable for a large US based clothing chain to be able to prevent a small indigenous Australian group from using the word “gap” in a way that clearly does not imply they are part of the Gap group?
No. But would you name a car company ‘Closing Toyota’ or ‘Menacing Mazda’ or ‘Fisting Ford’?
Other options considered were GLOBAL AMALGAMATED SYNTHETICS (GAS) or the less pretentious Lucky Duck Novelty Co, which I should have chosen.
‘Cancel culture’ uproar after Queen’s portrait removed from Oxford college
London: A decision by graduate students at Magdalen College at the University of Oxford, England, to remove a picture of Queen Elizabeth II from a common room as an unwelcome symbol of recent colonial history has opened a new front in the British culture wars.
Read more:
https://www.theage.com.au/world/europe/cancel-culture-uproar-after-queen-s-portrait-removed-from-oxford-college-20210609-p57zjw.html
Bubblecar said:
Other options considered were GLOBAL AMALGAMATED SYNTHETICS (GAS) or the less pretentious Lucky Duck Novelty Co, which I should have chosen.
You’re too late for this one:
Dark Orange said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Rule 303 said:And who would stand and fight for two years about it?!
Just choose another name and get on with it….
So you guys think its reasonable for a large US based clothing chain to be able to prevent a small indigenous Australian group from using the word “gap” in a way that clearly makes them sound like they are part of the Gap group?
Yes.
It doesn’t make them sound like they are part of the Gap group at all.
It makes them sound like they are referring to the phrase “closing the gap”.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Dark Orange said:
The Rev Dodgson said:So you guys think its reasonable for a large US based clothing chain to be able to prevent a small indigenous Australian group from using the word “gap” in a way that clearly makes them sound like they are part of the Gap group?
Yes.
It doesn’t make them sound like they are part of the Gap group at all.
It makes them sound like they are referring to the phrase “closing the gap”.
^
The Rev Dodgson said:
Dark Orange said:
The Rev Dodgson said:So you guys think its reasonable for a large US based clothing chain to be able to prevent a small indigenous Australian group from using the word “gap” in a way that clearly makes them sound like they are part of the Gap group?
Yes.
It doesn’t make them sound like they are part of the Gap group at all.
It makes them sound like they are referring to the phrase “closing the gap”.
OK, but based on that idea, would you, as a tiny social enterprise start-up in Australia, enter into a two-year legal battle with The Gap US?
captain_spalding said:
Rule 303 said:
sarahs mum said:
Ah jesus. Who thought that was a good idea?
No-one gave it any real thought. That’s how the trouble started.
They should just change it to Indigenous Textiles – Inditex for short…
Rule 303 said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Dark Orange said:Yes.
It doesn’t make them sound like they are part of the Gap group at all.
It makes them sound like they are referring to the phrase “closing the gap”.
OK, but based on that idea, would you, as a tiny social enterprise start-up in Australia, enter into a two-year legal battle with The Gap US?
That’s up to them.
At least they’ll get some publicity out of it.
Daft.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-09/tourism-tas-loan-johns-campaign-rethink-covid-concerns/100199746
sarahs mum said:
Daft.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-09/tourism-tas-loan-johns-campaign-rethink-covid-concerns/100199746
Aye, Anna mentioned that on the phone today, a really silly idea. Wonder how much money they wasted on it.
Mainland sister was cleared to go home today, and has done so.
We’re hoping the doctors know what they’re doing.
Cymek said:
Bubblecar said:
In the 90s when I was marketing some hand-cast plastic items, I was thinking of giving my tiny company the ostentatious name GLOBAL AMALGAMATED PLASTICS (GAP) but decided it was too misleading.
It often seems to be to make a point of whose in charge not actual profit lose.
How did you go about hand-casting plastics?
Michael V said:
Cymek said:
Bubblecar said:
In the 90s when I was marketing some hand-cast plastic items, I was thinking of giving my tiny company the ostentatious name GLOBAL AMALGAMATED PLASTICS (GAP) but decided it was too misleading.
It often seems to be to make a point of whose in charge not actual profit lose.
How did you go about hand-casting plastics?
Mainly polyurethane resin in silicone moulds.
Bubblecar said:
Michael V said:
Cymek said:It often seems to be to make a point of whose in charge not actual profit lose.
How did you go about hand-casting plastics?
Mainly polyurethane resin in silicone moulds.
Ah, I see. Thanks.
Bubblecar said:
Getting an early dinner underway. I’m doing the roast-hen-thighs-on-vermicelli-in-a-pie-dish thing again, but a smaller amount this time.
About to go in the oven. Ingredients this time include loads of garlic, onion, parsley, sliced olives, Cajun seasoning, marinated goat cheese.
sarahs mum said:
Daft.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-09/tourism-tas-loan-johns-campaign-rethink-covid-concerns/100199746
“Lend” underwear? Jesus – is there no copy editor at the ABC any more?
Dark Orange said:
sarahs mum said:
Daft.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-09/tourism-tas-loan-johns-campaign-rethink-covid-concerns/100199746
“Lend” underwear? Jesus – is there no copy editor at the ABC any more?
?
The idea is stupid, but the grammar is correct.
Dark Orange said:
sarahs mum said:
Daft.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-09/tourism-tas-loan-johns-campaign-rethink-covid-concerns/100199746
“Lend” underwear? Jesus – is there no copy editor at the ABC any more?
Originally it was g strings but they thought that a bit gross
Bubblecar said:
Dark Orange said:
sarahs mum said:
Daft.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-09/tourism-tas-loan-johns-campaign-rethink-covid-concerns/100199746
“Lend” underwear? Jesus – is there no copy editor at the ABC any more?
?
The idea is stupid, but the grammar is correct.
yep.
Cymek said:
Dark Orange said:
sarahs mum said:
Daft.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-09/tourism-tas-loan-johns-campaign-rethink-covid-concerns/100199746
“Lend” underwear? Jesus – is there no copy editor at the ABC any more?
Originally it was g strings but they thought that a bit gross
though the laundry bill was a lot less.
Niece’s hubby’s work vehicle
So this happened today 🤬
I was minding my own business heading to do a float shift when a 4×4 came around the bend to fast in the wet on the wrong side of the road. He was driving a friends car that is uninsured, so now I have to put this through my insurance which will push my premiums up not to mention I’m without a truck for however long which is now going to cost me thousands in floats shifts and loss of work. My biggest fear is if they write this truck off I will never find a truck in this condition for what it’s insured for, so I either cut my losses or or put in $30k of my own money to buy a new truck!!! To say I’m pissed off is a fucking understatement
Bogsnorkler said:
Niece’s hubby’s work vehicle
So this happened today 🤬
I was minding my own business heading to do a float shift when a 4×4 came around the bend to fast in the wet on the wrong side of the road. He was driving a friends car that is uninsured, so now I have to put this through my insurance which will push my premiums up not to mention I’m without a truck for however long which is now going to cost me thousands in floats shifts and loss of work. My biggest fear is if they write this truck off I will never find a truck in this condition for what it’s insured for, so I either cut my losses or or put in $30k of my own money to buy a new truck!!! To say I’m pissed off is a fucking understatement
Bugger!
Bogsnorkler said:
Niece’s hubby’s work vehicle
So this happened today 🤬
I was minding my own business heading to do a float shift when a 4×4 came around the bend to fast in the wet on the wrong side of the road. He was driving a friends car that is uninsured, so now I have to put this through my insurance which will push my premiums up not to mention I’m without a truck for however long which is now going to cost me thousands in floats shifts and loss of work. My biggest fear is if they write this truck off I will never find a truck in this condition for what it’s insured for, so I either cut my losses or or put in $30k of my own money to buy a new truck!!! To say I’m pissed off is a fucking understatement
Very unfair.
Bubblecar said:
Dark Orange said:
sarahs mum said:
Daft.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-09/tourism-tas-loan-johns-campaign-rethink-covid-concerns/100199746
“Lend” underwear? Jesus – is there no copy editor at the ABC any more?
?
The idea is stupid, but the grammar is correct.
We were taught that “Lend” and “Borrow” were interchangeable, but “Lend and “Loan” weren’t and got the ruler across the knuckles if we used them otherwise.
See, Mrs Casey, I was right all along!
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
Getting an early dinner underway. I’m doing the roast-hen-thighs-on-vermicelli-in-a-pie-dish thing again, but a smaller amount this time.
About to go in the oven. Ingredients this time include loads of garlic, onion, parsley, sliced olives, Cajun seasoning, marinated goat cheese.
Verdict: very toothsome.
Enough silliness. Food report. We are eating the mince/cabbage/chicken noodle soup mush again tonight. And I bought a couple of individual apricot pies from the bakery this morning so we’ve got yum dessert.
No actual discussions have taken place between Australia and two countries flagged as resettlement options for a Tamil asylum seeker family being held indefinitely at Christmas Island detention centre, the ABC has been told.
The government yesterday publicly raised the prospect of the Biloela family, including their Australian-born children, being resettled in New Zealand or the United States.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-09/biloela-family-resettlement-not-discussed-with-us-nz-abc-told/100197544
“These girls were born in Australia in a Queensland town that wants them back.”
—
In Canada there is a scheme where groups of people can apply to support refugees in their community. Seems like that sort of thing would work in cases like this.
I think I’ve found molfwolfumble
sarahs mum said:
No actual discussions have taken place between Australia and two countries flagged as resettlement options for a Tamil asylum seeker family being held indefinitely at Christmas Island detention centre, the ABC has been told.The government yesterday publicly raised the prospect of the Biloela family, including their Australian-born children, being resettled in New Zealand or the United States.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-09/biloela-family-resettlement-not-discussed-with-us-nz-abc-told/100197544
“These girls were born in Australia in a Queensland town that wants them back.”
—
In Canada there is a scheme where groups of people can apply to support refugees in their community. Seems like that sort of thing would work in cases like this.
Like what was already happening in Biloela?
Dark Orange said:
sarahs mum said:
No actual discussions have taken place between Australia and two countries flagged as resettlement options for a Tamil asylum seeker family being held indefinitely at Christmas Island detention centre, the ABC has been told.The government yesterday publicly raised the prospect of the Biloela family, including their Australian-born children, being resettled in New Zealand or the United States.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-09/biloela-family-resettlement-not-discussed-with-us-nz-abc-told/100197544
“These girls were born in Australia in a Queensland town that wants them back.”
—
In Canada there is a scheme where groups of people can apply to support refugees in their community. Seems like that sort of thing would work in cases like this.
Like what was already happening in Biloela?
I suppose. But the govt is decided that there will be no settlement.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-09/deadliest-alleged-war-crime-by-special-forces-in-afghanistan/13362000
:(
sarahs mum said:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-09/deadliest-alleged-war-crime-by-special-forces-in-afghanistan/13362000:(
I read that, gee talk about the wrong move
Cymek said:
sarahs mum said:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-09/deadliest-alleged-war-crime-by-special-forces-in-afghanistan/13362000:(
I read that, gee talk about the wrong move
Also it’s a wonder any investigation took place and if you’d released information illegally you’d be the one in the wrong not those that committed the act and/or covered it up
Cymek said:
if you’d released information illegally you’d be the one in the wrong not those that committed the act and/or covered it up
And end up imprisoned after a secret trial.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Rule 303 said:
The Rev Dodgson said:It doesn’t make them sound like they are part of the Gap group at all.
It makes them sound like they are referring to the phrase “closing the gap”.
OK, but based on that idea, would you, as a tiny social enterprise start-up in Australia, enter into a two-year legal battle with The Gap US?
That’s up to them.
At least they’ll get some publicity out of it.
Clearly hasn’t had to pay a lawyer before …
poikilotherm said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Rule 303 said:OK, but based on that idea, would you, as a tiny social enterprise start-up in Australia, enter into a two-year legal battle with The Gap US?
That’s up to them.
At least they’ll get some publicity out of it.
Clearly hasn’t had to pay a lawyer before …
I imagine their legal team was largely donating their time for a non-profit such as this.
Witty Rejoinder said:
poikilotherm said:
The Rev Dodgson said:That’s up to them.
At least they’ll get some publicity out of it.
Clearly hasn’t had to pay a lawyer before …
I imagine their legal team was largely donating their time for a non-profit such as this.
Sure, it’s costing the lawyers money they weren’t willing to forgo for that period of time.
Interesting. I hadn’t considered all this stuff before.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-05-23/jobs-why-one-hour-enough-work/100155676
Poik, did you see my picture of the bowl full of tiny King Oyster mushrooms?
Got a letter in the mail today addressed to the house. It was a hand written note espousing the glory of the lord jesus christ. I feel blessed.
poikilotherm said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
poikilotherm said:Clearly hasn’t had to pay a lawyer before …
I imagine their legal team was largely donating their time for a non-profit such as this.
Sure, it’s costing the lawyers money they weren’t willing to forgo for that period of time.
Sorry I’ve had a long day; I can’t parse that sentence. You mean their sacrificing paid working hours for a charity job?
sibeen said:
Got a letter in the mail today addressed to the house. It was a hand written note espousing the glory of the lord jesus christ. I feel blessed.
Thank the gods you’re moving.
sibeen said:
Got a letter in the mail today addressed to the house. It was a hand written note espousing the glory of the lord jesus christ. I feel blessed.
No worries.
Bogsnorkler said:
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/jun/09/fossil-fever-driving-and-digging-in-a-long-lost-sea-on-australias-dinosaur-trail
Bump. written by a scribbly member. Helix.
A green curry for dinner. Senior sprog declared that she didn’t want any which had the other three householders celebrating. Three of us love it hot and spicy and senior sprog complains if a chili has been wafted in the general direction of the food.
Bogsnorkler said:
Bogsnorkler said:
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/jun/09/fossil-fever-driving-and-digging-in-a-long-lost-sea-on-australias-dinosaur-trail
Bump. written by a scribbly member. Helix.
I read that earlier today. Helix used to be on sssf as wel
sibeen said:
Bogsnorkler said:
Bogsnorkler said:
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/jun/09/fossil-fever-driving-and-digging-in-a-long-lost-sea-on-australias-dinosaur-trail
Bump. written by a scribbly member. Helix.
I read that earlier today. Helix used to be on sssf as wel
l.
sibeen said:
A green curry for dinner. Senior sprog declared that she didn’t want any which had the other three householders celebrating. Three of us love it hot and spicy and senior sprog complains if a chili has been wafted in the general direction of the food.
must be a foundling.
Bogsnorkler said:
Bogsnorkler said:
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/jun/09/fossil-fever-driving-and-digging-in-a-long-lost-sea-on-australias-dinosaur-trail
Bump. written by a scribbly member. Helix.
ta.
Beanie on, some Canadian Club to warm the cockles, assorted nibbles and about to light the fire and warm up the wireless.
I’m thinking the Blues 32 to 12 tonight, on paper they are good all over the park.
Bogsnorkler said:
sibeen said:
A green curry for dinner. Senior sprog declared that she didn’t want any which had the other three householders celebrating. Three of us love it hot and spicy and senior sprog complains if a chili has been wafted in the general direction of the food.
must be a foundling.
Or mixed up in the hospital.
Bogsnorkler said:
Bogsnorkler said:
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/jun/09/fossil-fever-driving-and-digging-in-a-long-lost-sea-on-australias-dinosaur-trail
Bump. written by a scribbly member. Helix.
Thank you.
sibeen said:
Got a letter in the mail today addressed to the house. It was a hand written note espousing the glory of the lord jesus christ. I feel blessed.
It is your house that should feel blessed. It wasn’t addressed to you.
Peak Warming Man said:
Bogsnorkler said:
sibeen said:
A green curry for dinner. Senior sprog declared that she didn’t want any which had the other three householders celebrating. Three of us love it hot and spicy and senior sprog complains if a chili has been wafted in the general direction of the food.
must be a foundling.
Or mixed up in the hospital.
yeah, just think she might have been born into a good family and enjoyed a wonderful life…
sibeen said:
Bogsnorkler said:
Bogsnorkler said:
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/jun/09/fossil-fever-driving-and-digging-in-a-long-lost-sea-on-australias-dinosaur-trail
Bump. written by a scribbly member. Helix.
I read that earlier today. Helix used to be on sssf as wel
Written quite a lot of stuff has Helix.
Bogsnorkler said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Bogsnorkler said:must be a foundling.
Or mixed up in the hospital.
yeah, just think she might have been born into a good family and enjoyed a wonderful life…
I was mixed up at the hospital. My aunt noticed said that baby looks like an Italian. Sure enough I could have grown up as a Sergi. Though one of my mates said, “Nah they’d have noticed”. I asked how and he said “as soon as you grew taller than five feet”.
Bogsnorkler said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Bogsnorkler said:must be a foundling.
Or mixed up in the hospital.
yeah, just think she might have been born into a good family and enjoyed a wonderful life…
Ahh, well, not to be I’m afraid. They were probably rich as well.
buffy said:
Enough silliness. Food report. We are eating the mince/cabbage/chicken noodle soup mush again tonight. And I bought a couple of individual apricot pies from the bakery this morning so we’ve got yum dessert.
Veg and rice enchiladas (+salsa & chorizo) with refried beans, Greek yogurt & salad here.
sibeen said:
Bogsnorkler said:
Peak Warming Man said:Or mixed up in the hospital.
yeah, just think she might have been born into a good family and enjoyed a wonderful life…
Ahh, well, not to be I’m afraid. They were probably rich as well.
Mmmmm and probably didn’t like hot spicy food.
Peak Warming Man said:
Bogsnorkler said:
sibeen said:
A green curry for dinner. Senior sprog declared that she didn’t want any which had the other three householders celebrating. Three of us love it hot and spicy and senior sprog complains if a chili has been wafted in the general direction of the food.
must be a foundling.
Or mixed up in the hospital.
I’ll put my money on a random beneficial genetic mutation.
I don’t remember coming to the end of a series with Hard Quiz. Tonight seems to be a repeat.
buffy said:
I don’t remember coming to the end of a series with Hard Quiz. Tonight seems to be a repeat.
They’ve been repeats for a while.
roughbarked said:
buffy said:
I don’t remember coming to the end of a series with Hard Quiz. Tonight seems to be a repeat.They’ve been repeats for a while.
Last week was not a repeat. Next week is not listed as a repeat. On the ABC TV guide.
buffy said:
roughbarked said:
buffy said:
I don’t remember coming to the end of a series with Hard Quiz. Tonight seems to be a repeat.They’ve been repeats for a while.
Last week was not a repeat. Next week is not listed as a repeat. On the ABC TV guide.
two things… Melbourne is in lockdown so maybe difficult to film..
2. the state of origin is on.. so possible they decided that audience might not care to watch…
Arts said:
buffy said:
roughbarked said:They’ve been repeats for a while.
Last week was not a repeat. Next week is not listed as a repeat. On the ABC TV guide.
two things… Melbourne is in lockdown so maybe difficult to film..
2. the state of origin is on.. so possible they decided that audience might not care to watch…
I don’t think they are just in time filming. But your second suggestion seems reasonable.
BULLETS SPINNING ON THE ICE !!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wHSkWTqzVY
38 seconds.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-09/operation-ironside-nabs-western-australias-worst-criminals/100202074
WTF are three wallopers doing with rifles in this shot? Were they expecting journalists to be overcome by greed?
Witty Rejoinder said:
BULLETS SPINNING ON THE ICE !!!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wHSkWTqzVY
38 seconds.
sure bullets spin.. ice is friction low..
sibeen said:
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-09/operation-ironside-nabs-western-australias-worst-criminals/100202074
WTF are three wallopers doing with rifles in this shot? Were they expecting journalists to be overcome by greed?
Probably the only time they get to play with one.
sibeen said:
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-09/operation-ironside-nabs-western-australias-worst-criminals/100202074
WTF are three wallopers doing with rifles in this shot? Were they expecting journalists to be overcome by greed?
journos probably said. “Hold your rifles up like you are holding back a small army, that’ll make a good shot”
sibeen said:
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-09/operation-ironside-nabs-western-australias-worst-criminals/100202074
WTF are three wallopers doing with rifles in this shot? Were they expecting journalists to be overcome by greed?
I wonder what is happening under the tablecloths…
sad.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-08/hives-doused-in-fuel-bees-killed-malicious-attack/100194938
sibeen said:
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-09/operation-ironside-nabs-western-australias-worst-criminals/100202074
WTF are three wallopers doing with rifles in this shot? Were they expecting journalists to be overcome by greed?
They’re not even real wallopers. Bloke on the left is an unemployed meatworker, first lady is a stay-at-home Mum, second lady manages a BWS, fellow at right is an Anglican school chaplain.
Bubblecar said:
sibeen said:
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-09/operation-ironside-nabs-western-australias-worst-criminals/100202074
WTF are three wallopers doing with rifles in this shot? Were they expecting journalists to be overcome by greed?
They’re not even real wallopers. Bloke on the left is an unemployed meatworker, first lady is a stay-at-home Mum, second lady manages a BWS, fellow at right is an Anglican school chaplain.
You’re lying.
sibeen said:
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-09/operation-ironside-nabs-western-australias-worst-criminals/100202074
WTF are three wallopers doing with rifles in this shot? Were they expecting journalists to be overcome by greed?
Look! Shiny thing! (Don’t look over there at the Bilioela child) Shiny thing!
Bubblecar said:
sibeen said:
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-09/operation-ironside-nabs-western-australias-worst-criminals/100202074
WTF are three wallopers doing with rifles in this shot? Were they expecting journalists to be overcome by greed?
They’re not even real wallopers. Bloke on the left is an unemployed meatworker, first lady is a stay-at-home Mum, second lady manages a BWS, fellow at right is an Anglican school chaplain.
So I suppose all the stuff on the table is just the ingredients for the local high school home economics class?
sibeen said:
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-09/operation-ironside-nabs-western-australias-worst-criminals/100202074
WTF are three wallopers doing with rifles in this shot? Were they expecting journalists to be overcome by greed?
I guess they would say they’re protecting the integrity of the chain of evidence, of summink.
Rule 303 said:
sibeen said:
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-09/operation-ironside-nabs-western-australias-worst-criminals/100202074
WTF are three wallopers doing with rifles in this shot? Were they expecting journalists to be overcome by greed?
I guess they would say they’re protecting the integrity of the chain of evidence, of summink.
It would have been a bit embarassing if people just started walking off with it all.
buffy said:
sibeen said:
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-09/operation-ironside-nabs-western-australias-worst-criminals/100202074
WTF are three wallopers doing with rifles in this shot? Were they expecting journalists to be overcome by greed?
Look! Shiny thing! (Don’t look over there at the Bilioela child) Shiny thing!
To be fair, the Anom sting is a pretty big deal, as cops-and-robbers stories go.
Rule 303 said:
buffy said:
sibeen said:
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-09/operation-ironside-nabs-western-australias-worst-criminals/100202074
WTF are three wallopers doing with rifles in this shot? Were they expecting journalists to be overcome by greed?
Look! Shiny thing! (Don’t look over there at the Bilioela child) Shiny thing!
To be fair, the Anom sting is a pretty big deal, as cops-and-robbers stories go.
Yeah. I find myself wondering why it was made public and not strung along for as long as possible. Maybe the crooks finally figured out it was compromised.
Rule 303 said:
buffy said:
sibeen said:
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-09/operation-ironside-nabs-western-australias-worst-criminals/100202074
WTF are three wallopers doing with rifles in this shot? Were they expecting journalists to be overcome by greed?
Look! Shiny thing! (Don’t look over there at the Bilioela child) Shiny thing!
To be fair, the Anom sting is a pretty big deal, as cops-and-robbers stories go.
It is indeed. But it is also quite convenient to publicize it right now.
party_pants said:
Rule 303 said:
buffy said:Look! Shiny thing! (Don’t look over there at the Bilioela child) Shiny thing!
To be fair, the Anom sting is a pretty big deal, as cops-and-robbers stories go.
Yeah. I find myself wondering why it was made public and not strung along for as long as possible. Maybe the crooks finally figured out it was compromised.
Sooner or later they’d need to be making wholesale arrests on the basis of information gathered. Hard to keep it a secret when thousands of police are arresting hundreds of Anon users.
party_pants said:
Rule 303 said:
buffy said:Look! Shiny thing! (Don’t look over there at the Bilioela child) Shiny thing!
To be fair, the Anom sting is a pretty big deal, as cops-and-robbers stories go.
Yeah. I find myself wondering why it was made public and not strung along for as long as possible. Maybe the crooks finally figured out it was compromised.
I suspect that when 250 of your closest mates get arrested on the same day even the dimmest criminal may think that something in not kosher.
party_pants said:
Rule 303 said:
buffy said:Look! Shiny thing! (Don’t look over there at the Bilioela child) Shiny thing!
To be fair, the Anom sting is a pretty big deal, as cops-and-robbers stories go.
Yeah. I find myself wondering why it was made public and not strung along for as long as possible. Maybe the crooks finally figured out it was compromised.
I am sure i have heard about the encrypted phones being a plant a while ago.
Bubblecar said:
party_pants said:
Rule 303 said:To be fair, the Anom sting is a pretty big deal, as cops-and-robbers stories go.
Yeah. I find myself wondering why it was made public and not strung along for as long as possible. Maybe the crooks finally figured out it was compromised.
Sooner or later they’d need to be making wholesale arrests on the basis of information gathered. Hard to keep it a secret when thousands of police are arresting hundreds of Anon users.
I guess so. Maybe it forms part of the evidence in certain court cases. Once it is made public the game is up.
Bogsnorkler said:
party_pants said:
Rule 303 said:To be fair, the Anom sting is a pretty big deal, as cops-and-robbers stories go.
Yeah. I find myself wondering why it was made public and not strung along for as long as possible. Maybe the crooks finally figured out it was compromised.
I am sure i have heard about the encrypted phones being a plant a while ago.
That was an earlier large-scale case, involving encryption via normal phones. This one is different in various ways (the app only works in phones that have ordinary calls and emails disabled) and it was designed by the police themselves.
party_pants said:
Rule 303 said:
buffy said:Look! Shiny thing! (Don’t look over there at the Bilioela child) Shiny thing!
To be fair, the Anom sting is a pretty big deal, as cops-and-robbers stories go.
Yeah. I find myself wondering why it was made public and not strung along for as long as possible. Maybe the crooks finally figured out it was compromised.
they had to wait until everyone had a shift and got their cut
party_pants said:
Bubblecar said:
party_pants said:Yeah. I find myself wondering why it was made public and not strung along for as long as possible. Maybe the crooks finally figured out it was compromised.
Sooner or later they’d need to be making wholesale arrests on the basis of information gathered. Hard to keep it a secret when thousands of police are arresting hundreds of Anon users.
I guess so. Maybe it forms part of the evidence in certain court cases. Once it is made public the game is up.
Yes, police were advised that going public about Anon would be a legal requirement.
sibeen said:
party_pants said:
Rule 303 said:To be fair, the Anom sting is a pretty big deal, as cops-and-robbers stories go.
Yeah. I find myself wondering why it was made public and not strung along for as long as possible. Maybe the crooks finally figured out it was compromised.
I suspect that when 250 of your closest mates get arrested on the same day even the dimmest criminal may think that something in not kosher.
They were probably messaging each other on the Anom app trying to work out what’s going on.
London (CNN Business)El Salvador has become the first country to adopt bitcoin as legal tender.
A majority of lawmakers have approved a proposal from Salvadorian President Nayib Bukele that will allow bitcoin to be used as legal tender in the country alongside the US dollar.
The law states that “all economic agents shall accept bitcoin as a form of payment when it is offered by the purchaser of a good or service.” It also says that tax payments can now be made in bitcoin.
Bukele, 39, is a right-wing populist who rose to power in 2019. He previously said that El Salvador would partner with digital finance company Strike to establish the infrastructure required to support the use of bitcoin as an official currency.
dv said:
London (CNN Business)El Salvador has become the first country to adopt bitcoin as legal tender.A majority of lawmakers have approved a proposal from Salvadorian President Nayib Bukele that will allow bitcoin to be used as legal tender in the country alongside the US dollar.
The law states that “all economic agents shall accept bitcoin as a form of payment when it is offered by the purchaser of a good or service.” It also says that tax payments can now be made in bitcoin.
Bukele, 39, is a right-wing populist who rose to power in 2019. He previously said that El Salvador would partner with digital finance company Strike to establish the infrastructure required to support the use of bitcoin as an official currency.
The backing of a tiny gang-infested Central American backwater should lend much-needed credibility to this dodgy money stuff.
dv said:
London (CNN Business)El Salvador has become the first country to adopt bitcoin as legal tender.A majority of lawmakers have approved a proposal from Salvadorian President Nayib Bukele that will allow bitcoin to be used as legal tender in the country alongside the US dollar.
The law states that “all economic agents shall accept bitcoin as a form of payment when it is offered by the purchaser of a good or service.” It also says that tax payments can now be made in bitcoin.
Bukele, 39, is a right-wing populist who rose to power in 2019. He previously said that El Salvador would partner with digital finance company Strike to establish the infrastructure required to support the use of bitcoin as an official currency.
How many bitcoin does he have?
dv said:
London (CNN Business)El Salvador has become the first country to adopt bitcoin as legal tender.A majority of lawmakers have approved a proposal from Salvadorian President Nayib Bukele that will allow bitcoin to be used as legal tender in the country alongside the US dollar.
The law states that “all economic agents shall accept bitcoin as a form of payment when it is offered by the purchaser of a good or service.” It also says that tax payments can now be made in bitcoin.
Bukele, 39, is a right-wing populist who rose to power in 2019. He previously said that El Salvador would partner with digital finance company Strike to establish the infrastructure required to support the use of bitcoin as an official currency.
Ah well. It is the beginning of the end times I guess.
On a related note, I wonder why advanced countries with powerful central banks don’t create some sort of secure digital currency system to be used alongside the normal currency. I can see some bwnfits if the whole electronic transaction system (BPay EFTPOS, internet commerce payments etc) was all done through the Reserve Bank rather than the domestic banks.
Bubblecar said:
dv said:
London (CNN Business)El Salvador has become the first country to adopt bitcoin as legal tender.A majority of lawmakers have approved a proposal from Salvadorian President Nayib Bukele that will allow bitcoin to be used as legal tender in the country alongside the US dollar.
The law states that “all economic agents shall accept bitcoin as a form of payment when it is offered by the purchaser of a good or service.” It also says that tax payments can now be made in bitcoin.
Bukele, 39, is a right-wing populist who rose to power in 2019. He previously said that El Salvador would partner with digital finance company Strike to establish the infrastructure required to support the use of bitcoin as an official currency.
The backing of a tiny gang-infested Central American backwater should lend much-needed credibility to this dodgy money stuff.
:)
Well the price is up a good bit today.
That Nathan Cleary is not the prettiest, is he.
Woodie said:
That Nathan Cleary is not the prettiest, is he.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9668049/State-Origin-star-Nathan-Cleary-cruelly-trolled-horrible-skin.html
Bubblecar said:
dv said:
London (CNN Business)El Salvador has become the first country to adopt bitcoin as legal tender.A majority of lawmakers have approved a proposal from Salvadorian President Nayib Bukele that will allow bitcoin to be used as legal tender in the country alongside the US dollar.
The law states that “all economic agents shall accept bitcoin as a form of payment when it is offered by the purchaser of a good or service.” It also says that tax payments can now be made in bitcoin.
Bukele, 39, is a right-wing populist who rose to power in 2019. He previously said that El Salvador would partner with digital finance company Strike to establish the infrastructure required to support the use of bitcoin as an official currency.
The backing of a tiny gang-infested Central American backwater should lend much-needed credibility to this dodgy money stuff.
Quite
Woodie said:
That Nathan Cleary is not the prettiest, is he.
Careful, he’ll hit you with his chin.
sarahs mum said:
Woodie said:
That Nathan Cleary is not the prettiest, is he.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9668049/State-Origin-star-Nathan-Cleary-cruelly-trolled-horrible-skin.html
Jesus fucking christ
Shebs, you around?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdWd355xfls
Doctor Who Appreciation Society founder and president Jan Vincent-Rudski’s 1976 review of The Deadly Assassin
(typos are his)
“Few Who stories go very much against what has been done before, but recently this has changed. First, there was “Genesis of The Daleks,” then “Revenge,” “Morbius,” and now “Deadly Assassin,” or rather “Deadly Continuity.” But first let us look at the programme as someone who hardly ever watches. The costumes and sets are quite effectvie, but a little too Flash Gordon. It has a good cast and was well acted. The story was fair but did not hold together too well.Now let’s look at the story as Doctor Who viewers. The following is not only my view, but that of many people (including people who aren’t avid fans). First, congratulations to Dudley Simpson for using Organ Music for the Time Lords, but thumbs down for not using his excellent Master theme. Then there’s the more than usually daft title. Have you ever heard of an assassin that isn’t deadly?
On to the ‘story’. Before we even started we heard the same boring cliche: ‘the Time Lords face their most dangerous crisis’. I suppose Omega was a minor nuisance! The next blunder was the guards. Why were there any? The Time Lords were supposed to be very powerful, so much so that anyone strong enough to invade would swat the guards with ease, and Time Lord technology should be able to deal with minor intrusions. Then came the TARDIS. Before, it was MK 1 and the Master’s and Monk’s were very different marks of type 40 TT capsule, but why only one missing? As for such and advanced race being unable to find someone in 52 (sometimes 53) storey building. Ridiculous! I’ve always thought Time Lords names were secret and unpronounceable, so why do we suddenly know their names? ‘C.I.A’ was certainly not for humour and this wasn’t it. Particularly Runcible whose demise I was certainly not sad about. the story really showed up the infatuation for Earth people in Doctor Who. It could have been set on Earth and no one would have known the difference. Doesnt R. Holmes realise that Time Lords are alienss and do not need to conform to human motivations whatsoever? This fact was well brought out in ‘War Games’, but ignored here.
Elgin said that premonition does not exist. Yet the Doctor had them in ‘Time Monster’, ‘Frontier In Space’, ‘Evil of The Daleks’ and ‘War Machines’. I was surprised by the Doctor saying that Time Lord machinery was ‘prehistoric’. Mr Holmes seems to have forgotten that the whole Time Lord way of life is to ‘observe and gather knowledge’. So apart from the fact that they are supposed to be one of the most advanced civilisations (brought out so well in ‘War Games’ and ‘Genesis’) they could have easily copied more advanced races. For instance in ‘The Three Doctors’ the Time Lords were amazed that there was a force more powerful than themselves. They were pretty powerful pre- ‘Deadly Assassin’.
In ‘Deadly Assassin’ the Time Lords seem to have forgotten the Doctor yet we’ve always been led to believe it’s very rare for a Time Lord to leave Gallifrey. So he should be rememembered, particularly as in ‘Three Doctors’ he saved Gallifrey ( and the universe of course!) from destruction, and Borusa said they needed heroes. The trial of the Doctor was another R. Holmes farce. The ‘War Games’ trial was so excellent, but of course this had to be in Earth norms, and was pathetic. Then later the Doctor and co. go to look at the public register system to see that really happened at the ceremony. Now we were, I believe, dealing with Time Lords, so why couldn’t they and look at a time scanner and see the truth? Also, why need the brain machine to predict the future? Another fact forgotten is that Time Lords are immortal. In ‘War Games’ the Doctor said they could ‘live forever barring accidents’. This had never been changed until ‘ Morbius’ where we learnt that the Time Lords used the Elixir if they had trouble regenerating. So why didn’t the Master use the Elixir? We also saw in ‘Morbius’ eleven incarnations of the Doctor (‘though in ‘Three Doctors’ Hartnell was rightly the first) so now we’re left with one more Doctor, according to ‘Deadly Assassin’.
Then there wasn’t Part 3 which must be the biggest waste of time ever in ‘Doctor Who’. A ten-minute trip into the matrix would have sufficed, but 25!
One minute Eligin was saying there’s no way to tap the machine, the next he was taking the Doctor down the othe ‘old part of the city’ which looked just like all the other parts. When Goth was discovered we heard the daft reason for him helping the Master, for an exchange of knowledge. Again ignorance of the Time Lord way of life is shown by R. Holmes. Goth should have been quite able to go to the extensive library and sit at a Time Scanner for a few decadeds or so, and find out everything himself. He could even have folowed the Master’s travels on the scanners! Borusa recognised the Doctor, but since the Doctor and the Master were at school together wouldn’t Borusa remember the Master? Also what’s this rubbish about the Doctor being expelled? We know he has a Time Lord degree in ‘Cosmic Science’ (and that was revealed in R. Holmes story!)
I was stunned to discover that the Doctor doesn’t know his own people’s history! The Time Lords would have their own history completely documented. After all, they can look back at time, so what’s all this nosense about myths? And surely somebody would have wondered what that lump and two holes in the Panopticon floor were.
Of course, part 4 saw the return of the same old story. It couldn’t just be Gallifrey in danger, it had to be a hundred other planets in danger.
You’d have thought that not much else could be wrong with the story, but there was more to come. Time Lord power sources are well knownto be novae etc., as Omega produced, not some silly black box with tubes. I would also like to know how the Doctor managed to climb up a 100’ shaft with smooth side and with plastic ricks falling on him. Aslo, even if the Master was protected by the sash when everything was to be swallowed up, what point would there be to floating around in space – not much! Things get even more ridiculous when the Master falls down the deep hole (his yell lasted a long time) and he’s back very soon, regenerating (due to absorbing energy). If all he needed was energy why didn’t he use his TARDIS, like anybody else, to regenerate?
For some of these blunders you could argue that the story was set far into the futur eat a time when the Time Lord race is degenerating. but it can’t be as the Doctor was recognised. No, the new rule for Doctor Who seems to be the reason, which is ‘anything pre-Holmes needn’t exist’, which can’t be good for a script editor.
What must have happened was that at the end of ‘Hand of Fear’ the Doctor was knocked out when the TARDIS took off, and had a crazy mixed-up nightmare about Gallifrey. As a Doctor Who story, ‘Deadly Assassin’ is just not worth considering . I’ve spoken to many people, meany of whom were not members, and they all said how this story shatered their illlusions of the Time Lords, and lowered them to ordinary people.
Once, Time Lords were all-powerful, awe-inspiring beings, capable of imprisoning planets forever in force fields, defenders of truth and good (when called in). Now, they are petty, squabbling, feeble-minded, doddering old fools.
WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO THE MAGIC OF DOCTOR WHO?
Yikes! We’ve just tipped the Anemometer into ‘Destructive’ wind warnings for Kyneton, Daylesford & Seymour areas.
There’s a thing you don’t see every day….
8-/
Dark Orange said:
Shebs, you around?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdWd355xfls
If he is, I hope he’s keeping his head down.
Dark Orange said:
Shebs, you around?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdWd355xfls
If only it weren’t true.
australia and empty containers…
ABC News (Australia)
1.37M subscribers
Why you could soon be paying more for food, toys and electronics. Surging demand for products and materials, and a shortage of containers has sent freight costs skyrocketing around the world.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qguce3vVaKI
Rule 303 said:
Yikes! We’ve just tipped the Anemometer into ‘Destructive’ wind warnings for Kyneton, Daylesford & Seymour areas.There’s a thing you don’t see every day….
8-/
I’ll huff…………. and I’ll puff…………… And I’l bloooooooooooooow your house down!
Rule 303 said:
Yikes! We’ve just tipped the Anemometer into ‘Destructive’ wind warnings for Kyneton, Daylesford & Seymour areas.There’s a thing you don’t see every day….
8-/
Have you got a night shift crew ready to go?
sibeen said:
Dark Orange said:Shebs, you around?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdWd355xfls
If only it weren’t true.
So accurate it hertz.
Kingy said:
Rule 303 said:
Yikes! We’ve just tipped the Anemometer into ‘Destructive’ wind warnings for Kyneton, Daylesford & Seymour areas.There’s a thing you don’t see every day….
8-/
Have you got a night shift crew ready to go?
They’ve been out for hours already mate. I predict the day shift tomorrow will be busy when we send people to go help other Units.
Kyneton make pretty nice flavoured sparkling water sugars
Arts said:
Kyneton make pretty nice flavoured sparkling water sugars
jaw drops open in surprise
Never knew there so many many many videos on Youtube about sharpening chisels. I got fooled into watching one or two, now the algorithm is recommending me dozens more.
dv said:
Bubblecar said:
dv said:
London (CNN Business)El Salvador has become the first country to adopt bitcoin as legal tender.A majority of lawmakers have approved a proposal from Salvadorian President Nayib Bukele that will allow bitcoin to be used as legal tender in the country alongside the US dollar.
The law states that “all economic agents shall accept bitcoin as a form of payment when it is offered by the purchaser of a good or service.” It also says that tax payments can now be made in bitcoin.
Bukele, 39, is a right-wing populist who rose to power in 2019. He previously said that El Salvador would partner with digital finance company Strike to establish the infrastructure required to support the use of bitcoin as an official currency.
The backing of a tiny gang-infested Central American backwater should lend much-needed credibility to this dodgy money stuff.
Quite
they said the same about the USD but wait
party_pants said:
Never knew there so many many many videos on Youtube about sharpening chisels. I got fooled into watching one or two, now the algorithm is recommending me dozens more.
Oh yeah, it’s quite the thing…
FWIW, I use a Multitool Chisel Sharpening Jig on a Belt & Disc Linishing Attachment that’s fitted up to a 6” pedestal grinder – With a buffer on the other side, which I use for the final polish of the cutting edge. The combination of cold hollow first grind and razor-sharp bevel is amazing to use.
Rule 303 said:
Kingy said:
Rule 303 said:
Yikes! We’ve just tipped the Anemometer into ‘Destructive’ wind warnings for Kyneton, Daylesford & Seymour areas.There’s a thing you don’t see every day….
8-/
Have you got a night shift crew ready to go?
They’ve been out for hours already mate. I predict the day shift tomorrow will be busy when we send people to go help other Units.
I’ve just checked the wind recordings around your area, and they gusting to 95kmh, same as here.
I’m just glad that it isn’t summer.
Kingy said:
Rule 303 said:
Kingy said:Have you got a night shift crew ready to go?
They’ve been out for hours already mate. I predict the day shift tomorrow will be busy when we send people to go help other Units.
I’ve just checked the wind recordings around your area, and they gusting to 95kmh, same as here.
I’m just glad that it isn’t summer.
95 k is quite common on my hill. 125k is not that uncommon.
sarahs mum said:
Kingy said:
Rule 303 said:They’ve been out for hours already mate. I predict the day shift tomorrow will be busy when we send people to go help other Units.
I’ve just checked the wind recordings around your area, and they gusting to 95kmh, same as here.
I’m just glad that it isn’t summer.
95 k is quite common on my hill. 125k is not that uncommon.
And we gust from there.
Kingy said:
Rule 303 said:
Kingy said:Have you got a night shift crew ready to go?
They’ve been out for hours already mate. I predict the day shift tomorrow will be busy when we send people to go help other Units.
I’ve just checked the wind recordings around your area, and they gusting to 95kmh, same as here.
I’m just glad that it isn’t summer.
Yeah, it’s no big deal around me here. 10-15 jobs over 6 hours. We probably get a hit-out like this three times a year. We’re well inside our capacity. (for comparison, a one-in-five-year storm incident will deliver 250-300 tree/building damage jobs, and take a couple of dozen people 48 hours to mop up)
That said, the prevailing winds down here are N / W, so S / E gusts always hurt us.
Rule 303 said:
party_pants said:
Never knew there so many many many videos on Youtube about sharpening chisels. I got fooled into watching one or two, now the algorithm is recommending me dozens more.
Oh yeah, it’s quite the thing…
FWIW, I use a Multitool Chisel Sharpening Jig on a Belt & Disc Linishing Attachment that’s fitted up to a 6” pedestal grinder – With a buffer on the other side, which I use for the final polish of the cutting edge. The combination of cold hollow first grind and razor-sharp bevel is amazing to use.
i use the belt sander for my hacking chisels.
For my good chisels I use a water stone with a simple honing guide. Followed up with very fine wet and dry using window cleaner, still in the same honing jig.
party_pants said:
Rule 303 said:
party_pants said:
Never knew there so many many many videos on Youtube about sharpening chisels. I got fooled into watching one or two, now the algorithm is recommending me dozens more.
Oh yeah, it’s quite the thing…
FWIW, I use a Multitool Chisel Sharpening Jig on a Belt & Disc Linishing Attachment that’s fitted up to a 6” pedestal grinder – With a buffer on the other side, which I use for the final polish of the cutting edge. The combination of cold hollow first grind and razor-sharp bevel is amazing to use.
i use the belt sander for my hacking chisels.
For my good chisels I use a water stone with a simple honing guide. Followed up with very fine wet and dry using window cleaner, still in the same honing jig.
I recommend a buff wheel or strop to get them really sharp.
Rule 303 said:
party_pants said:
Rule 303 said:Oh yeah, it’s quite the thing…
FWIW, I use a Multitool Chisel Sharpening Jig on a Belt & Disc Linishing Attachment that’s fitted up to a 6” pedestal grinder – With a buffer on the other side, which I use for the final polish of the cutting edge. The combination of cold hollow first grind and razor-sharp bevel is amazing to use.
i use the belt sander for my hacking chisels.
For my good chisels I use a water stone with a simple honing guide. Followed up with very fine wet and dry using window cleaner, still in the same honing jig.
I recommend a buff wheel or strop to get them really sharp.
I strop on the MDF bench top.
I just reported a Pauline Hanson ad that turned up on my facebook feed. Yes Virginia. There will be an election.Anyway she was talking about how nice she was and so I reported the ad as being misleading.
Kingy, this firetruck was on its way to a road crash job (as rescue) when it pranged into a tree tonight.
Bugger!
sarahs mum said:
I just reported a Pauline Hanson ad that turned up on my facebook feed. Yes Virginia. There will be an election.Anyway she was talking about how nice she was and so I reported the ad as being misleading.
Well done :)
Rule 303 said:
Kingy, this firetruck was on its way to a road crash job (as rescue) when it pranged into a tree tonight.
Bugger!
That would have entertained the crew. Hopefully no eye injuries.
party_pants said:
sibeen said:
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-09/operation-ironside-nabs-western-australias-worst-criminals/100202074
WTF are three wallopers doing with rifles in this shot? Were they expecting journalists to be overcome by greed?
Probably the only time they get to play with one.
Any opportunity for marketing.
Bubblecar said:
party_pants said:
Bubblecar said:Sooner or later they’d need to be making wholesale arrests on the basis of information gathered. Hard to keep it a secret when thousands of police are arresting hundreds of Anon users.
I guess so. Maybe it forms part of the evidence in certain court cases. Once it is made public the game is up.
Yes, police were advised that going public about Anon would be a legal requirement.
They only had the law on their side until the 7th of June. Sting was finished.
Had to start making arrests.
Kingpins untouchable.
Kingy said:
Rule 303 said:
Kingy, this firetruck was on its way to a road crash job (as rescue) when it pranged into a tree tonight.
Bugger!
That would have entertained the crew. Hopefully no eye injuries.
All OK, apparently.
Rule 303 said:
Kingy said:
Rule 303 said:
Kingy, this firetruck was on its way to a road crash job (as rescue) when it pranged into a tree tonight.
Bugger!
That would have entertained the crew. Hopefully no eye injuries.
All OK, apparently.
Cool. We had a close call a few years ago at a fire I was at when a branch hit a fire truck. The guys on the back jumped off just in time, but the two in the front had glass from the back window blown into the back of their necks. All ok in the end.
28th August 1936: An attendant at the lost property office at Waterloo Station, London, weighed down by a selection of hats and toys left behind by seaside travellers. (Photo by A. J. O’Brien)
Kingy said:
Rule 303 said:
Kingy said:That would have entertained the crew. Hopefully no eye injuries.
All OK, apparently.
Cool. We had a close call a few years ago at a fire I was at when a branch hit a fire truck. The guys on the back jumped off just in time, but the two in the front had glass from the back window blown into the back of their necks. All ok in the end.
Nasty!
We’ve had firefighters killed by falling trees. Our Forest Fire Management G-wagons and Unimogs have huge cabin protection racks on them now.
sarahs mum said:
28th August 1936: An attendant at the lost property office at Waterloo Station, London, weighed down by a selection of hats and toys left behind by seaside travellers. (Photo by A. J. O’Brien)
That’s an odd one, ta.
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
28th August 1936: An attendant at the lost property office at Waterloo Station, London, weighed down by a selection of hats and toys left behind by seaside travellers. (Photo by A. J. O’Brien)
That’s an odd one, ta.
It’s a group called ‘Old London Photographs’ I suppose I should join.
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
28th August 1936: An attendant at the lost property office at Waterloo Station, London, weighed down by a selection of hats and toys left behind by seaside travellers. (Photo by A. J. O’Brien)
That’s an odd one, ta.
It’s a group called ‘Old London Photographs’ I suppose I should join.
I think it will be good for odds.
coffee and snack time, might have an apple, and check my fire in a moment make sure it ignited
sarahs mum said:
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:That’s an odd one, ta.
It’s a group called ‘Old London Photographs’ I suppose I should join.
I think it will be good for odds.
THat’s certainly a strange sign.
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
sarahs mum said:It’s a group called ‘Old London Photographs’ I suppose I should join.
I think it will be good for odds.
THat’s certainly a strange sign.
I’d fork out 12p for a booklet.
So they are naming people. Domenico Catanzariti who got away without going time in the slammer for a $10 milliion cannabis crop at Barossa Valley in 2016. The Americans will probably take him to the USA for questioning.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-11-28/man-avoids-jail-over-10m-drug-bust-near-the-barossa/8064666
https://www.news.com.au/national/crime/operation-ironside-australians-indicted-by-the-fbi-after-secret-app-shut-down/news-story/feb7dbe682f272f01a94c8da2b6289ec
if something is 128dBs… what does the compare to in terms of something people would know the sound of.. a vacuum cleaner or a Sydney harbour?
Arts said:
if something is 128dBs… what does the compare to in terms of something people would know the sound of.. a vacuum cleaner or a Sydney harbour?
never mind. goggle answered me
Arts said:
if something is 128dBs… what does the compare to in terms of something people would know the sound of.. a vacuum cleaner or a Sydney harbour?
Custom car stereo bdoom bdoom.
https://www.gcaudio.com/tips-tricks/decibel-loudness-comparison-chart
The Beatles, in years to come, would remark that the music and roars of the crowd at the Shea Stadium show were so loud that they could barely hear themselves. “I could not hear anything. I’d be watching John’s arse, Paul’s arse, his foot tapping his head nodding, to see where we were in the song,” says Ringo Starr in Eight Days a Week.
Just how loud was the concert? Research conducted by James Dyble from Global Sound Group, which provides audio mixing and mastering services, and shared with Newsweek finds that at 131.35 decibels, the sound within the stadium would have been 28 decibels louder than a jumbo jet flying at 100 feet and 11 decibels louder than a crash of thunder.
Dyble, who reviewed footage of the Shea concert, said: “It is difficult to calculate an exact sound level of the crowd; however, I can calculate an approximate decibel level. After viewing video footage of the concert and using official dimensions of an American baseball field, I have calculated that decibel level would have been around 131.35dB. Compare that to the current average rock concert sound level of 115dB and you can see how loud it would have been.”
https://www.newsweek.com/louder-beatles-fab-four-made-more-noise-jumbo-jet-data-reveals-498285
sarahs mum said:
The Beatles, in years to come, would remark that the music and roars of the crowd at the Shea Stadium show were so loud that they could barely hear themselves. “I could not hear anything. I’d be watching John’s arse, Paul’s arse, his foot tapping his head nodding, to see where we were in the song,” says Ringo Starr in Eight Days a Week.Just how loud was the concert? Research conducted by James Dyble from Global Sound Group, which provides audio mixing and mastering services, and shared with Newsweek finds that at 131.35 decibels, the sound within the stadium would have been 28 decibels louder than a jumbo jet flying at 100 feet and 11 decibels louder than a crash of thunder.
Dyble, who reviewed footage of the Shea concert, said: “It is difficult to calculate an exact sound level of the crowd; however, I can calculate an approximate decibel level. After viewing video footage of the concert and using official dimensions of an American baseball field, I have calculated that decibel level would have been around 131.35dB. Compare that to the current average rock concert sound level of 115dB and you can see how loud it would have been.”
https://www.newsweek.com/louder-beatles-fab-four-made-more-noise-jumbo-jet-data-reveals-498285
I remember saying at the time, the Beatles looked like they were miming the songs because nobody within cooee could hear what they were playing.
sarahs mum said:
The Beatles, in years to come, would remark that the music and roars of the crowd at the Shea Stadium show were so loud that they could barely hear themselves. “I could not hear anything. I’d be watching John’s arse, Paul’s arse, his foot tapping his head nodding, to see where we were in the song,” says Ringo Starr in Eight Days a Week.Just how loud was the concert? Research conducted by James Dyble from Global Sound Group, which provides audio mixing and mastering services, and shared with Newsweek finds that at 131.35 decibels, the sound within the stadium would have been 28 decibels louder than a jumbo jet flying at 100 feet and 11 decibels louder than a crash of thunder.
Dyble, who reviewed footage of the Shea concert, said: “It is difficult to calculate an exact sound level of the crowd; however, I can calculate an approximate decibel level. After viewing video footage of the concert and using official dimensions of an American baseball field, I have calculated that decibel level would have been around 131.35dB. Compare that to the current average rock concert sound level of 115dB and you can see how loud it would have been.”
https://www.newsweek.com/louder-beatles-fab-four-made-more-noise-jumbo-jet-data-reveals-498285
Many Bothans died to bring us this information.
sarahs mum said:
The Beatles, in years to come, would remark that the music and roars of the crowd at the Shea Stadium show were so loud that they could barely hear themselves. “I could not hear anything. I’d be watching John’s arse, Paul’s arse, his foot tapping his head nodding, to see where we were in the song,” says Ringo Starr in Eight Days a Week.Just how loud was the concert? Research conducted by James Dyble from Global Sound Group, which provides audio mixing and mastering services, and shared with Newsweek finds that at 131.35 decibels, the sound within the stadium would have been 28 decibels louder than a jumbo jet flying at 100 feet and 11 decibels louder than a crash of thunder.
Dyble, who reviewed footage of the Shea concert, said: “It is difficult to calculate an exact sound level of the crowd; however, I can calculate an approximate decibel level. After viewing video footage of the concert and using official dimensions of an American baseball field, I have calculated that decibel level would have been around 131.35dB. Compare that to the current average rock concert sound level of 115dB and you can see how loud it would have been.”
https://www.newsweek.com/louder-beatles-fab-four-made-more-noise-jumbo-jet-data-reveals-498285
At that pressure level, the permissible time for exposure would be zero. Hearing damage would start immediately.
Rule 303 said:
sarahs mum said:
The Beatles, in years to come, would remark that the music and roars of the crowd at the Shea Stadium show were so loud that they could barely hear themselves. “I could not hear anything. I’d be watching John’s arse, Paul’s arse, his foot tapping his head nodding, to see where we were in the song,” says Ringo Starr in Eight Days a Week.Just how loud was the concert? Research conducted by James Dyble from Global Sound Group, which provides audio mixing and mastering services, and shared with Newsweek finds that at 131.35 decibels, the sound within the stadium would have been 28 decibels louder than a jumbo jet flying at 100 feet and 11 decibels louder than a crash of thunder.
Dyble, who reviewed footage of the Shea concert, said: “It is difficult to calculate an exact sound level of the crowd; however, I can calculate an approximate decibel level. After viewing video footage of the concert and using official dimensions of an American baseball field, I have calculated that decibel level would have been around 131.35dB. Compare that to the current average rock concert sound level of 115dB and you can see how loud it would have been.”
https://www.newsweek.com/louder-beatles-fab-four-made-more-noise-jumbo-jet-data-reveals-498285
At that pressure level, the permissible time for exposure would be zero. Hearing damage would start immediately.
Even with good quality (-20db) ear muffs on, the safe exposure would be less than one minute.
Rule 303 said:
Rule 303 said:
sarahs mum said:
The Beatles, in years to come, would remark that the music and roars of the crowd at the Shea Stadium show were so loud that they could barely hear themselves. “I could not hear anything. I’d be watching John’s arse, Paul’s arse, his foot tapping his head nodding, to see where we were in the song,” says Ringo Starr in Eight Days a Week.Just how loud was the concert? Research conducted by James Dyble from Global Sound Group, which provides audio mixing and mastering services, and shared with Newsweek finds that at 131.35 decibels, the sound within the stadium would have been 28 decibels louder than a jumbo jet flying at 100 feet and 11 decibels louder than a crash of thunder.
Dyble, who reviewed footage of the Shea concert, said: “It is difficult to calculate an exact sound level of the crowd; however, I can calculate an approximate decibel level. After viewing video footage of the concert and using official dimensions of an American baseball field, I have calculated that decibel level would have been around 131.35dB. Compare that to the current average rock concert sound level of 115dB and you can see how loud it would have been.”
https://www.newsweek.com/louder-beatles-fab-four-made-more-noise-jumbo-jet-data-reveals-498285
At that pressure level, the permissible time for exposure would be zero. Hearing damage would start immediately.
Even with good quality (-20db) ear muffs on, the safe exposure would be less than one minute.
Since 1965, with advancements in music amplification, there have been a great many claims to the title of “world’s loudest band.” British rock band The Who made the Guinness Book of World Records in 1976 with a recorded noise level of 126 decibels at The Valley stadium in London.
The New York-based heavy metal band Manowar claimed to have hit 129.5 decibels at a gig in Hanover, Germany, in 1994, although Guinness World Records had stopped recording the loudest concerts by this time. The band reportedly broke that record in 2008 during a soundcheck for their performance at Magic Circle Festival in Bad Arolsen, Germany, hitting 139 decibels.
More recently, veteran band Kiss achieved 136 decibels at a concert in Ottawa, Canada, in 2009. Gene Simmons and company were allegedly forced to turn the noise down due to noise complaints.
If any bands today are hoping to top that, they may want to take heed of research released by the World Health Organization in 2015. The WHO said that listening to more than 28 seconds of a loud rock concert, which has an average sound level of 115 decibels, could increase chances of hearing damage
https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2021/jun/09/sea-snot-plagues-the-turkish-coast-in-pictures
sarahs mum said:
The Beatles, in years to come, would remark that the music and roars of the crowd at the Shea Stadium show were so loud that they could barely hear themselves. “I could not hear anything. I’d be watching John’s arse, Paul’s arse, his foot tapping his head nodding, to see where we were in the song,” says Ringo Starr in Eight Days a Week.Just how loud was the concert? Research conducted by James Dyble from Global Sound Group, which provides audio mixing and mastering services, and shared with Newsweek finds that at 131.35 decibels, the sound within the stadium would have been 28 decibels louder than a jumbo jet flying at 100 feet and 11 decibels louder than a crash of thunder.
Dyble, who reviewed footage of the Shea concert, said: “It is difficult to calculate an exact sound level of the crowd; however, I can calculate an approximate decibel level. After viewing video footage of the concert and using official dimensions of an American baseball field, I have calculated that decibel level would have been around 131.35dB. Compare that to the current average rock concert sound level of 115dB and you can see how loud it would have been.”
https://www.newsweek.com/louder-beatles-fab-four-made-more-noise-jumbo-jet-data-reveals-498285
noise generated from a crowd is more distributed over a wide area, a broader source, but in a stadium and with more people pointed forward there would be considerable direction given it, also ears and associated processing have higher sensitivity say ~1K to ~4K
that’s back in the day perhaps before really big sound systems, I mean compared to today, and speakers have improved also, or arrays
so these days you can have a more preferable frequency response (listenable, less likely to cause hearing fatigue, and perhaps hearing damage) + huge amounts of power with compression (limiting)
these days i’d expect it not too much to have 6KW+ of amplifiers for the stage so the musicians can hear themselves, add some optimized compression and tailored frequency response, it’d be difficult for any crowd to drown it out, and bass levels a passing low-flying concorde wouldn’t drown out, well maybe that’s a slight exaggeration
anyway might point is if you have huge amounts of power, good speakers that also give very good lower frequency response, and can drop the midrange around human peak hearing sensitivity (or compensate and keep it flattish), along with optimized compression, very high sound pressure levels can be had that don’t make your ears bleed
you’re not limited to getting your sound pressure levels around human peak hearing sensitivity
and you feel sound under a certain frequency, maybe it’s about 200HZ, not sure, maybe’s a bit lower, but some of the warmth of music is got from that range you can physically feel with your body
Good morning everybody.
It’s cold. Still, that means it should be sunny for driving away to NSW.
Morning, snowing in the Styx.
Gym car park
party_pants said:
Rule 303 said:
party_pants said:
Never knew there so many many many videos on Youtube about sharpening chisels. I got fooled into watching one or two, now the algorithm is recommending me dozens more.
Oh yeah, it’s quite the thing…
FWIW, I use a Multitool Chisel Sharpening Jig on a Belt & Disc Linishing Attachment that’s fitted up to a 6” pedestal grinder – With a buffer on the other side, which I use for the final polish of the cutting edge. The combination of cold hollow first grind and razor-sharp bevel is amazing to use.
i use the belt sander for my hacking chisels.
For my good chisels I use a water stone with a simple honing guide. Followed up with very fine wet and dry using window cleaner, still in the same honing jig.
Diamond hones and my eye.
Rotated.
Looks like a genuine snow-fall.
Yea – the backyard agrees.
poikilotherm said:
Yea – the backyard agrees.
Good one!
poikilotherm said:
Morning, snowing in the Styx.
LOL, it’s 1 degree at the redoubt, clear and sunny.
poikilotherm said:
Gym car park
Did you go for a run?
Peak Warming Man said:
poikilotherm said:
Gym car park
Did you go for a run?
Nah, I picked heavy things up and put them down again.
poikilotherm said:
Peak Warming Man said:
poikilotherm said:
Gym car park
Did you go for a run?
Nah, I picked heavy things up and put them down again.
I’ve seen the video.
poikilotherm said:
Yea – the backyard agrees.
What, no Christmas tinsel?
Good morning Holidayers. Presently 8 degrees and the wind has dropped. We sent some over to Melbourne and the eastern part of the state, I see.
buffy said:
Good morning Holidayers. Presently 8 degrees and the wind has dropped. We sent some over to Melbourne and the eastern part of the state, I see.
6 degrees here. The one thing that has been constant apart from the drizzle has been the wind. Hasn’t really got worse than 22kmh the whole time of this weather event.
buffy said:
Good morning Holidayers. Presently 8 degrees and the wind has dropped. We sent some over to Melbourne and the eastern part of the state, I see.
Sibeen’s probably got no power.
Peak Warming Man said:
buffy said:
Good morning Holidayers. Presently 8 degrees and the wind has dropped. We sent some over to Melbourne and the eastern part of the state, I see.Sibeen’s probably got no power.
good.
roughbarked said:
buffy said:
Good morning Holidayers. Presently 8 degrees and the wind has dropped. We sent some over to Melbourne and the eastern part of the state, I see.6 degrees here. The one thing that has been constant apart from the drizzle has been the wind. Hasn’t really got worse than 22kmh the whole time of this weather event.
Do you get snow there?
roughbarked said:
buffy said:
Good morning Holidayers. Presently 8 degrees and the wind has dropped. We sent some over to Melbourne and the eastern part of the state, I see.6 degrees here. The one thing that has been constant apart from the drizzle has been the wind. Hasn’t really got worse than 22kmh the whole time of this weather event.
BoM recorded 2.5°C minimum here. It is currently 9.5°C in the house.
well, the rotating thing off the coast didn’t do much. bit of rain but hardly any wind where I am.
Michael V said:
roughbarked said:
buffy said:
Good morning Holidayers. Presently 8 degrees and the wind has dropped. We sent some over to Melbourne and the eastern part of the state, I see.6 degrees here. The one thing that has been constant apart from the drizzle has been the wind. Hasn’t really got worse than 22kmh the whole time of this weather event.
BoM recorded 2.5°C minimum here. It is currently 9.5°C in the house.
Toowoomba 2.8 deg at 7:30 am. Up from 2.1 deg at 6am.
colder now than at 4:30 am (3.1 deg)
Professor Bennett said if it turned out the couple had no exemption to travel, it raised concerns for contact tracing and public health messaging.
“Crossing the interstate borders twice, to get through NSW to Queensland, really just isn’t worth the risk,” she said.
“It would just be terrible if at this late stage, we now got another complication in another state that was completely avoidable.”
Peak Warming Man said:
roughbarked said:
buffy said:
Good morning Holidayers. Presently 8 degrees and the wind has dropped. We sent some over to Melbourne and the eastern part of the state, I see.6 degrees here. The one thing that has been constant apart from the drizzle has been the wind. Hasn’t really got worse than 22kmh the whole time of this weather event.
Do you get snow there?
Not here. I’ve seen it in the air and watched it land on my hand as a wet drop but snow has been recorded on Mt Bingar. A light dusting of 1 to 3mm anout once every 3 or 4 decades.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/jun/09/what-is-gladys-watching-bizarre-photo-of-nsw-premier-sparks-ridicule-and-many-memes
captain_spalding said:
Michael V said:
roughbarked said:6 degrees here. The one thing that has been constant apart from the drizzle has been the wind. Hasn’t really got worse than 22kmh the whole time of this weather event.
BoM recorded 2.5°C minimum here. It is currently 9.5°C in the house.
Toowoomba 2.8 deg at 7:30 am. Up from 2.1 deg at 6am.
colder now than at 4:30 am (3.1 deg)
Colder now than it was at midnight.
Bogsnorkler said:
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/jun/09/what-is-gladys-watching-bizarre-photo-of-nsw-premier-sparks-ridicule-and-many-memes
Not many can claim to be newsworthy without a face.
roughbarked said:
buffy said:
Good morning Holidayers. Presently 8 degrees and the wind has dropped. We sent some over to Melbourne and the eastern part of the state, I see.6 degrees here. The one thing that has been constant apart from the drizzle has been the wind. Hasn’t really got worse than 22kmh the whole time of this weather event.
12° -> 24,1/8 cloud, no wind.
Toowoomba temp has soared to 3.3 deg.
‘apparent temp’ (for what it’s worth): minus 1.6 deg.
Vax report. I could not get my feet warm last night. This is not generally a problem for me even on cold nights. If I go to bed with socks on, I have to take them off after an hour or so. Last night I resorted to wrapping my feet in a blanket as well as the socks. By the time I woke up this morning, I’d warmed up and I woke in a sweat. Heart rate is faster than usual. And I don’t in general have headaches, but there is an ache behind my eyes. Not drastic. Just there. More aware of my arm where the injection went in this morning too. I think I’ll do Old Lady things today like crochet and reading and napping. Because I can.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/grogonomics/2021/jun/10/you-cant-hide-from-the-numbers-australian-women-earn-less-than-men-in-any-job
Woodie said:
dv said:
London (CNN Business)El Salvador has become the first country to adopt bitcoin as legal tender.A majority of lawmakers have approved a proposal from Salvadorian President Nayib Bukele that will allow bitcoin to be used as legal tender in the country alongside the US dollar.
The law states that “all economic agents shall accept bitcoin as a form of payment when it is offered by the purchaser of a good or service.” It also says that tax payments can now be made in bitcoin.
Bukele, 39, is a right-wing populist who rose to power in 2019. He previously said that El Salvador would partner with digital finance company Strike to establish the infrastructure required to support the use of bitcoin as an official currency.
How many bitcoin does he have?
I don’t know.
How many bitcoin fit in a brown paper bag?
The Rev Dodgson said:
Woodie said:
dv said:
London (CNN Business)El Salvador has become the first country to adopt bitcoin as legal tender.A majority of lawmakers have approved a proposal from Salvadorian President Nayib Bukele that will allow bitcoin to be used as legal tender in the country alongside the US dollar.
The law states that “all economic agents shall accept bitcoin as a form of payment when it is offered by the purchaser of a good or service.” It also says that tax payments can now be made in bitcoin.
Bukele, 39, is a right-wing populist who rose to power in 2019. He previously said that El Salvador would partner with digital finance company Strike to establish the infrastructure required to support the use of bitcoin as an official currency.
How many bitcoin does he have?
I don’t know.
How many bitcoin fit in a brown paper bag?
all of them. probably just one line on a piece of paper would be enough. if they were all in one wallet.
Bogsnorkler said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Woodie said:How many bitcoin does he have?
I don’t know.
How many bitcoin fit in a brown paper bag?
all of them. probably just one line on a piece of paper would be enough. if they were all in one wallet.
Hmm. I doubt that even the Salvadorian drug lords can afford quite that much as a bribe.
poikilotherm said:
Peak Warming Man said:
poikilotherm said:
Gym car park
Did you go for a run?
Nah, I picked heavy things up and put them down again.
Can’t be much of a gym if it only has one strength.
The Rev Dodgson said:
How many bitcoin fit in a brown paper bag?
What size paper bag?
https://www.qispackaging.com.au/page/brown-paper-bags-wholesale
Bogsnorkler said:
https://www.theguardian.com/business/grogonomics/2021/jun/10/you-cant-hide-from-the-numbers-australian-women-earn-less-than-men-in-any-job
Looking at the graph for:
Median total income of occupations where one gender earns more than $200,000
1) What the hell is going on with pathology?
2) MPs have equal median pay? Oh, that just means the low proportion of women in the cabinet extends through the lower levels as well
3) Almost every occupation on the graph is some form of medical work. I guess the financial people are just better at hiding their true income.
One thing the graphs don’t address is the age distribution, which would account for some of the difference.
What is sibeen doing here? I though Melbourne had been washed out and blown away.
buffy said:
What is sibeen doing here? I though Melbourne had been washed out and blown away.
Apparently only parts of it are gone.
buffy said:
What is sibeen doing here? I though Melbourne had been washed out and blown away.
Only parts.
sibeen said:
buffy said:
What is sibeen doing here? I though Melbourne had been washed out and blown away.Only parts.
it’ll buff right out
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-10/protesters-not-cleared-for-trump-photo-opportunity/100203482
If this be the case, and the park was cleared for the contractors, Trump should not have been allowed to enter either.
buffy said:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-10/protesters-not-cleared-for-trump-photo-opportunity/100203482If this be the case, and the park was cleared for the contractors, Trump should not have been allowed to enter either.
I’d agree but it appears that he used the oppoortunity before the said contractor arrived.
The Rev Dodgson said:
3) Almost every occupation on the graph is some form of medical work. I guess the financial people are just better at hiding their true income.
so you reckon it’s because their mean
SCIENCE said:
The Rev Dodgson said:3) Almost every occupation on the graph is some form of medical work. I guess the financial people are just better at hiding their true income.so you reckon it’s because their mean
Oh. Their mean income.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Bogsnorkler said:
https://www.theguardian.com/business/grogonomics/2021/jun/10/you-cant-hide-from-the-numbers-australian-women-earn-less-than-men-in-any-job
Looking at the graph for:
Median total income of occupations where one gender earns more than $200,0001) What the hell is going on with pathology?
2) MPs have equal median pay? Oh, that just means the low proportion of women in the cabinet extends through the lower levels as well
3) Almost every occupation on the graph is some form of medical work. I guess the financial people are just better at hiding their true income.One thing the graphs don’t address is the age distribution, which would account for some of the difference.
The graphs also fail to mention that workers who don’t interrupt their career advancement by putting it on hold (or dropping out entirely) to reproduce tend to advance more.
Hello
Cymek said:
Hello
G’day mate.
sarahs mum said:
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2021/jun/09/sea-snot-plagues-the-turkish-coast-in-pictures
Marine mucilage, yuck.
poikilotherm said:
Yea – the backyard agrees.
Lucky duck.
Wet & windy again this end, same tomorrow.
Luckily I’ll be able to do bulk shopping in Coles today, transported there and back by motor car.
Bubblecar said:
Wet & windy again this end, same tomorrow.Luckily I’ll be able to do bulk shopping in Coles today, transported there and back by motor car.
It’s that kind of morning: Marine mucilage, US Congressional scum, shitty British ink.
Time for a shower.
Looks outside, raining, windy, 10° feels like 1°.
Might stay inside today.
the odometer has clocked just 1,059 kilometres.
The purple 2019 Lamborghini Huracan will head to sale next week, after police applied to have it forfeited.
roughbarked said:
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the odometer has clocked just 1,059 kilometres.
The purple 2019 Lamborghini Huracan will head to sale next week, after police applied to have it forfeited.
It should go to someone who wont abuse it like its previous owner did.
Tau.Neutrino said:
roughbarked said:
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the odometer has clocked just 1,059 kilometres.
The purple 2019 Lamborghini Huracan will head to sale next week, after police applied to have it forfeited.
It should go to someone who wont abuse it like its previous owner did.
Looks like he didn’t even take 20,000 k’s off the tyres so he couldn’t have been hooning much with it.
One burnout can ruin a set of tyres.
Then again maybe I won’t make that app
I probably don’t want a war with the ATO
dv said:
Then again maybe I won’t make that appI probably don’t want a war with the ATO
Anyone want to code a dark web app?
Distribute it to crimmos who think its secure when its got a few back doors and side doors.
May have to cancel today’s outing for X-rays and shopping :(
Had a nose bleed for the past hour and it just doesn’t want to stop.
dv said:
Then again maybe I won’t make that appI probably don’t want a war with the ATO
there is one already?
Tamb said:
SCIENCE said:
The Rev Dodgson said:3) Almost every occupation on the graph is some form of medical work. I guess the financial people are just better at hiding their true income.so you reckon it’s because their mean
Oh. Their mean income.
yeah as in maybe the vast majority of financial people are just better at losing money to a few who roll in it big hence
Lunch report: white bread salad and ham sammich. There will be a large glass of cold Milo too.
Many People Have a Vivid ‘Mind’s Eye,’ While Others Have None at All
Scientists are finding new ways to probe two not-so-rare conditions to better understand the links between vision, perception and memory.
Carl Zimmer
June 8, 2021
Dr. Adam Zeman didn’t give much thought to the mind’s eye until he met someone who didn’t have one. In 2005, the British neurologist saw a patient who said that a minor surgical procedure had taken away his ability to conjure images.
Over the 16 years since that first patient, Dr. Zeman and his colleagues have heard from more than 12,000 people who say they don’t have any such mental camera. The scientists estimate that tens of millions of people share the condition, which they’ve named aphantasia, and millions more experience extraordinarily strong mental imagery, called hyperphantasia.
In their latest research, Dr. Zeman and his colleagues are gathering clues about how these two conditions arise through changes in the wiring of the brain that join the visual centers to other regions. And they’re beginning to explore how some of that circuitry may conjure other senses, such as sound, in the mind. Eventually, that research might even make it possible to strengthen the mind’s eye — or ear — with magnetic pulses.
“This is not a disorder as far as I can see,” said Dr. Zeman, a cognitive scientist at the University of Exeter in Britain. “It’s an intriguing variation in human experience.”
The patient who first made Dr. Zeman aware of aphantasia was a retired building surveyor who lost his mind’s eye after minor heart surgery. To protect the patient’s privacy, Dr. Zeman refers to him as M.X.
When M.X. thought of people or objects, he did not see them. And yet his visual memories were intact. M.X. could answer factual questions such as whether former Prime Minister Tony Blair has light-colored eyes. (He does.) M.X. could even solve problems that required mentally rotating shapes, even though he could not see them.
I came across M.X.’s case study in 2010 and wrote a column about it for Discover magazine. Afterward, I got emails from readers who had the same experience but who differed from M.X. in a remarkable way: They had never had a mind’s eye to begin with.
I forwarded the messages to Dr. Zeman, who surveyed 21 of my readers. In a 2015 report on those findings, he and his colleagues proposed that those readers all shared the same condition, which the researchers called aphantasia. I reported on this second study for The New York Times, as did other journalists at their own publications. The growing attention turned Dr. Zeman’s trickle of emails into a torrent.
To better understand aphantasia, Dr. Zeman and his colleagues invited their correspondents to fill out questionnaires. One described the condition as feeling the shape of an apple in the dark. Another said it was “thinking only in radio.”
The vast majority of people who reported a lack of a mind’s eye had no memory of ever having had one, suggesting that they had been born without it. Yet, like M.X., they had little trouble recalling things they had seen. When asked whether grass or pine tree needles are a darker shade of green, for example, they correctly answered that the needles are.
On the other hand, people with aphantasia don’t do as well as others at remembering details of their own lives. It’s possible that recalling our own experiences — known as episodic memory — depends more on the mind’s eye than does remembering facts about the world.
To their surprise, Dr. Zeman and his colleagues were also contacted by people who seemed to be the opposite of M.X.: They had intensely strong visions, a condition the scientists named hyperphantasia.
Joel Pearson, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of New South Wales who has studied mental imagery since 2005, said hyperphantasia could go far beyond just having an active imagination. “It’s like having a very vivid dream and not being sure if it was real or not,” he said. “People watch a movie, and then they can watch it again in their mind, and it’s indistinguishable.”
Based on their surveys, Dr. Zeman and his colleagues estimate that 2.6 percent of people have hyperphantasia and that 0.7 percent have aphantasia.
Now Dr. Zeman and Dr. Pearson are studying an even larger swath of people who experience extremes of mental imagery. One of the original 21 people with aphantasia who were studied by Dr. Zeman, Thomas Ebeyer of Kitchener, Ontario, created a website called the Aphantasia Network that has grown into a hub for people with the condition and for researchers studying them. Visitors to the site can take an online psychological survey, read about the condition and join discussion forums on topics ranging from dreams to relationships. So far, more than 150,000 people have taken the surveys, and over 20,000 had scores suggesting aphantasia.
“This really is a global human phenomenon,” Mr. Ebeyer said. “I’ve heard from people from Madagascar to South Korea to California.”
His survey has revealed how aphantasia can spread beyond vision to other senses. “If I asked you to imagine your favorite song, most people can hear the music in their mind, whereas I can’t do that.” Mr. Ebeyer said. But some people who have come to Mr. Ebeyer’s site say that they can do just that. And some can’t hear imagined sounds, but their mind’s eye works well.
While such surveys can be informative, Dr. Pearson said that they could offer only a rough, subjective look at people’s minds because they depended on volunteers’ giving themselves scores. “Your three and my four might be the same,” he said.
Dr. Pearson has developed ways to study aphantasia and hyperphantasia without relying solely on surveys. In one experiment, he took advantage of the fact that our pupils automatically constrict when we look at bright objects. When Dr. Pearson and his colleagues asked most people to picture a white triangle, their pupils also shrank.
But most people with aphantasia whom they studied didn’t have that response. Their pupils stayed open, no matter how hard they tried to imagine the white triangle.
In another experiment, Dr. Pearson took advantage of the fact that people’s skin becomes more conductive when they see frightening scenes. He and his colleagues monitored the skin of volunteers as they read scary stories that were projected on a screen in front of them. When most people read about frightening experiences such as being attacked by a shark, they experienced a spike in skin conductance. But people with aphantasia did not.
The study suggests that the mind’s eye acts as an emotional amplifier, strengthening both the positive and negative feelings produced by our experiences. People with aphantasia can have those same feelings from their experiences, but they don’t amplify them later through mental imagery.
Researchers are also starting to use brain scans to find the circuitry that gives rise to aphantasia and hyperphantasia. So far, that work suggests that mental imagery emerges from a network of brain regions that talk to each other.
Decision-making regions at the front of the brain send signals to regions at the back, which normally make sense of information from the eyes. Those top-down signals can cause the visual regions to produce images that aren’t there.
In a study published in May, Dr. Zeman and his colleagues scanned the brains of 24 people with aphantasia, 25 people with hyperphantasia and 20 people with neither condition.
The scientists had the volunteers lie in the scanner and let their minds wander. The people with hyperphantasia had stronger activity in regions linking the front and back of the brain. They may be able to send more potent signals from decision-making regions of the front of the brain to the visual centers at the back.
The strength of the mind’s eye may exert a subtle influence over the course of people’s lives. Dr. Zeman’s questionnaires revealed that people with aphantasia were more likely than average to have a job that involved science or math. The genome pioneer Craig Venter even asserted that aphantasia had helped him as a scientist by eliminating distractions.
But that’s far from a hard and fast rule. Charles Darwin left behind writings hinting at hyperphantasia: When he was once asked to recall the objects that had been on his breakfast table that morning, he said they were “as distinct as if I had photos before me.”
Likewise, people with vivid mental pictures don’t have a monopoly on creative work. Ed Catmull, the former president of Pixar, announced he had aphantasia in 2019.
For those used to seeing things with their mind’s eye, aphantasia might seem like a debilitating condition. But Dr. Zeman’s research doesn’t suggest that to be the case. In fact, aphantasia may even have some advantages over hyperphantasia.
Hyperphantasia creates images that seem so real that it may open the way to false memories. Similarly, people with no mind’s eye may escape some of the burdens caused by reliving traumatic experiences, because they don’t have to visually replay them.
“Anecdotally, they’re really good at moving on,” Dr. Zeman said. “One wonders whether that’s because they’re less troubled by the kinds of images which, for many of us, come to mind and give rise to regret and longing.”
Dr. Pearson said that someday it might become possible to give people with aphantasia a mind’s eye they never had. He has found that giving noninvasive magnetic pulses to visual centers in average people’s brains makes their mental imagery more vivid. He suspects that the pulses quiet the activity of the visual centers, making them more receptive to requests from the front of the brain.
In theory, magnetic pulses combined with cognitive training might enable people without a mind’s eye to strengthen the circuits required for mental pictures. But Dr. Pearson isn’t sure it would be right to carry out such a procedure. If a person regretted such a boost in intrusive imagery, the scientist might not be able to shut the mind’s eye back down. “There’s a dark side to that,” he said.
For his own part, Mr. Ebeyer said he would only consider Dr. Pearson’s hypothetical therapy if his mind’s eye lasted for just a few days. He’s not interested in being plagued by unwanted visions.
“If it was an experience where you take this pill and you can visualize forever, I probably wouldn’t risk it,” he said.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/08/science/minds-eye-mental-pictures-psychology.html?
Witty Rejoinder said:
Many People Have a Vivid ‘Mind’s Eye,’ While Others Have None at All
Scientists are finding new ways to probe two not-so-rare conditions to better understand the links between vision, perception and memory.Carl Zimmer
June 8, 2021
Dr. Adam Zeman didn’t give much thought to the mind’s eye until he met someone who didn’t have one. In 2005, the British neurologist saw a patient who said that a minor surgical procedure had taken away his ability to conjure images.Over the 16 years since that first patient, Dr. Zeman and his colleagues have heard from more than 12,000 people who say they don’t have any such mental camera. The scientists estimate that tens of millions of people share the condition, which they’ve named aphantasia, and millions more experience extraordinarily strong mental imagery, called hyperphantasia.
In their latest research, Dr. Zeman and his colleagues are gathering clues about how these two conditions arise through changes in the wiring of the brain that join the visual centers to other regions. And they’re beginning to explore how some of that circuitry may conjure other senses, such as sound, in the mind. Eventually, that research might even make it possible to strengthen the mind’s eye — or ear — with magnetic pulses.
“This is not a disorder as far as I can see,” said Dr. Zeman, a cognitive scientist at the University of Exeter in Britain. “It’s an intriguing variation in human experience.”
The patient who first made Dr. Zeman aware of aphantasia was a retired building surveyor who lost his mind’s eye after minor heart surgery. To protect the patient’s privacy, Dr. Zeman refers to him as M.X.
When M.X. thought of people or objects, he did not see them. And yet his visual memories were intact. M.X. could answer factual questions such as whether former Prime Minister Tony Blair has light-colored eyes. (He does.) M.X. could even solve problems that required mentally rotating shapes, even though he could not see them.
I came across M.X.’s case study in 2010 and wrote a column about it for Discover magazine. Afterward, I got emails from readers who had the same experience but who differed from M.X. in a remarkable way: They had never had a mind’s eye to begin with.
I forwarded the messages to Dr. Zeman, who surveyed 21 of my readers. In a 2015 report on those findings, he and his colleagues proposed that those readers all shared the same condition, which the researchers called aphantasia. I reported on this second study for The New York Times, as did other journalists at their own publications. The growing attention turned Dr. Zeman’s trickle of emails into a torrent.
To better understand aphantasia, Dr. Zeman and his colleagues invited their correspondents to fill out questionnaires. One described the condition as feeling the shape of an apple in the dark. Another said it was “thinking only in radio.”
The vast majority of people who reported a lack of a mind’s eye had no memory of ever having had one, suggesting that they had been born without it. Yet, like M.X., they had little trouble recalling things they had seen. When asked whether grass or pine tree needles are a darker shade of green, for example, they correctly answered that the needles are.
On the other hand, people with aphantasia don’t do as well as others at remembering details of their own lives. It’s possible that recalling our own experiences — known as episodic memory — depends more on the mind’s eye than does remembering facts about the world.
To their surprise, Dr. Zeman and his colleagues were also contacted by people who seemed to be the opposite of M.X.: They had intensely strong visions, a condition the scientists named hyperphantasia.
Joel Pearson, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of New South Wales who has studied mental imagery since 2005, said hyperphantasia could go far beyond just having an active imagination. “It’s like having a very vivid dream and not being sure if it was real or not,” he said. “People watch a movie, and then they can watch it again in their mind, and it’s indistinguishable.”
Based on their surveys, Dr. Zeman and his colleagues estimate that 2.6 percent of people have hyperphantasia and that 0.7 percent have aphantasia.
Now Dr. Zeman and Dr. Pearson are studying an even larger swath of people who experience extremes of mental imagery. One of the original 21 people with aphantasia who were studied by Dr. Zeman, Thomas Ebeyer of Kitchener, Ontario, created a website called the Aphantasia Network that has grown into a hub for people with the condition and for researchers studying them. Visitors to the site can take an online psychological survey, read about the condition and join discussion forums on topics ranging from dreams to relationships. So far, more than 150,000 people have taken the surveys, and over 20,000 had scores suggesting aphantasia.
“This really is a global human phenomenon,” Mr. Ebeyer said. “I’ve heard from people from Madagascar to South Korea to California.”
His survey has revealed how aphantasia can spread beyond vision to other senses. “If I asked you to imagine your favorite song, most people can hear the music in their mind, whereas I can’t do that.” Mr. Ebeyer said. But some people who have come to Mr. Ebeyer’s site say that they can do just that. And some can’t hear imagined sounds, but their mind’s eye works well.
While such surveys can be informative, Dr. Pearson said that they could offer only a rough, subjective look at people’s minds because they depended on volunteers’ giving themselves scores. “Your three and my four might be the same,” he said.
Dr. Pearson has developed ways to study aphantasia and hyperphantasia without relying solely on surveys. In one experiment, he took advantage of the fact that our pupils automatically constrict when we look at bright objects. When Dr. Pearson and his colleagues asked most people to picture a white triangle, their pupils also shrank.
But most people with aphantasia whom they studied didn’t have that response. Their pupils stayed open, no matter how hard they tried to imagine the white triangle.
In another experiment, Dr. Pearson took advantage of the fact that people’s skin becomes more conductive when they see frightening scenes. He and his colleagues monitored the skin of volunteers as they read scary stories that were projected on a screen in front of them. When most people read about frightening experiences such as being attacked by a shark, they experienced a spike in skin conductance. But people with aphantasia did not.
The study suggests that the mind’s eye acts as an emotional amplifier, strengthening both the positive and negative feelings produced by our experiences. People with aphantasia can have those same feelings from their experiences, but they don’t amplify them later through mental imagery.
Researchers are also starting to use brain scans to find the circuitry that gives rise to aphantasia and hyperphantasia. So far, that work suggests that mental imagery emerges from a network of brain regions that talk to each other.
Decision-making regions at the front of the brain send signals to regions at the back, which normally make sense of information from the eyes. Those top-down signals can cause the visual regions to produce images that aren’t there.
In a study published in May, Dr. Zeman and his colleagues scanned the brains of 24 people with aphantasia, 25 people with hyperphantasia and 20 people with neither condition.
The scientists had the volunteers lie in the scanner and let their minds wander. The people with hyperphantasia had stronger activity in regions linking the front and back of the brain. They may be able to send more potent signals from decision-making regions of the front of the brain to the visual centers at the back.
The strength of the mind’s eye may exert a subtle influence over the course of people’s lives. Dr. Zeman’s questionnaires revealed that people with aphantasia were more likely than average to have a job that involved science or math. The genome pioneer Craig Venter even asserted that aphantasia had helped him as a scientist by eliminating distractions.
But that’s far from a hard and fast rule. Charles Darwin left behind writings hinting at hyperphantasia: When he was once asked to recall the objects that had been on his breakfast table that morning, he said they were “as distinct as if I had photos before me.”
Likewise, people with vivid mental pictures don’t have a monopoly on creative work. Ed Catmull, the former president of Pixar, announced he had aphantasia in 2019.
For those used to seeing things with their mind’s eye, aphantasia might seem like a debilitating condition. But Dr. Zeman’s research doesn’t suggest that to be the case. In fact, aphantasia may even have some advantages over hyperphantasia.
Hyperphantasia creates images that seem so real that it may open the way to false memories. Similarly, people with no mind’s eye may escape some of the burdens caused by reliving traumatic experiences, because they don’t have to visually replay them.
“Anecdotally, they’re really good at moving on,” Dr. Zeman said. “One wonders whether that’s because they’re less troubled by the kinds of images which, for many of us, come to mind and give rise to regret and longing.”
Dr. Pearson said that someday it might become possible to give people with aphantasia a mind’s eye they never had. He has found that giving noninvasive magnetic pulses to visual centers in average people’s brains makes their mental imagery more vivid. He suspects that the pulses quiet the activity of the visual centers, making them more receptive to requests from the front of the brain.
In theory, magnetic pulses combined with cognitive training might enable people without a mind’s eye to strengthen the circuits required for mental pictures. But Dr. Pearson isn’t sure it would be right to carry out such a procedure. If a person regretted such a boost in intrusive imagery, the scientist might not be able to shut the mind’s eye back down. “There’s a dark side to that,” he said.
For his own part, Mr. Ebeyer said he would only consider Dr. Pearson’s hypothetical therapy if his mind’s eye lasted for just a few days. He’s not interested in being plagued by unwanted visions.
“If it was an experience where you take this pill and you can visualize forever, I probably wouldn’t risk it,” he said.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/08/science/minds-eye-mental-pictures-psychology.html?
Very interesting, does this mean that they cant fantasise?
Peak Warming Man said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Many People Have a Vivid ‘Mind’s Eye,’ While Others Have None at All
Scientists are finding new ways to probe two not-so-rare conditions to better understand the links between vision, perception and memory.Carl Zimmer
June 8, 2021
Dr. Adam Zeman didn’t give much thought to the mind’s eye until he met someone who didn’t have one. In 2005, the British neurologist saw a patient who said that a minor surgical procedure had taken away his ability to conjure images.Over the 16 years since that first patient, Dr. Zeman and his colleagues have heard from more than 12,000 people who say they don’t have any such mental camera. The scientists estimate that tens of millions of people share the condition, which they’ve named aphantasia, and millions more experience extraordinarily strong mental imagery, called hyperphantasia.
In their latest research, Dr. Zeman and his colleagues are gathering clues about how these two conditions arise through changes in the wiring of the brain that join the visual centers to other regions. And they’re beginning to explore how some of that circuitry may conjure other senses, such as sound, in the mind. Eventually, that research might even make it possible to strengthen the mind’s eye — or ear — with magnetic pulses.
“This is not a disorder as far as I can see,” said Dr. Zeman, a cognitive scientist at the University of Exeter in Britain. “It’s an intriguing variation in human experience.”
The patient who first made Dr. Zeman aware of aphantasia was a retired building surveyor who lost his mind’s eye after minor heart surgery. To protect the patient’s privacy, Dr. Zeman refers to him as M.X.
When M.X. thought of people or objects, he did not see them. And yet his visual memories were intact. M.X. could answer factual questions such as whether former Prime Minister Tony Blair has light-colored eyes. (He does.) M.X. could even solve problems that required mentally rotating shapes, even though he could not see them.
I came across M.X.’s case study in 2010 and wrote a column about it for Discover magazine. Afterward, I got emails from readers who had the same experience but who differed from M.X. in a remarkable way: They had never had a mind’s eye to begin with.
I forwarded the messages to Dr. Zeman, who surveyed 21 of my readers. In a 2015 report on those findings, he and his colleagues proposed that those readers all shared the same condition, which the researchers called aphantasia. I reported on this second study for The New York Times, as did other journalists at their own publications. The growing attention turned Dr. Zeman’s trickle of emails into a torrent.
To better understand aphantasia, Dr. Zeman and his colleagues invited their correspondents to fill out questionnaires. One described the condition as feeling the shape of an apple in the dark. Another said it was “thinking only in radio.”
The vast majority of people who reported a lack of a mind’s eye had no memory of ever having had one, suggesting that they had been born without it. Yet, like M.X., they had little trouble recalling things they had seen. When asked whether grass or pine tree needles are a darker shade of green, for example, they correctly answered that the needles are.
On the other hand, people with aphantasia don’t do as well as others at remembering details of their own lives. It’s possible that recalling our own experiences — known as episodic memory — depends more on the mind’s eye than does remembering facts about the world.
To their surprise, Dr. Zeman and his colleagues were also contacted by people who seemed to be the opposite of M.X.: They had intensely strong visions, a condition the scientists named hyperphantasia.
Joel Pearson, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of New South Wales who has studied mental imagery since 2005, said hyperphantasia could go far beyond just having an active imagination. “It’s like having a very vivid dream and not being sure if it was real or not,” he said. “People watch a movie, and then they can watch it again in their mind, and it’s indistinguishable.”
Based on their surveys, Dr. Zeman and his colleagues estimate that 2.6 percent of people have hyperphantasia and that 0.7 percent have aphantasia.
Now Dr. Zeman and Dr. Pearson are studying an even larger swath of people who experience extremes of mental imagery. One of the original 21 people with aphantasia who were studied by Dr. Zeman, Thomas Ebeyer of Kitchener, Ontario, created a website called the Aphantasia Network that has grown into a hub for people with the condition and for researchers studying them. Visitors to the site can take an online psychological survey, read about the condition and join discussion forums on topics ranging from dreams to relationships. So far, more than 150,000 people have taken the surveys, and over 20,000 had scores suggesting aphantasia.
“This really is a global human phenomenon,” Mr. Ebeyer said. “I’ve heard from people from Madagascar to South Korea to California.”
His survey has revealed how aphantasia can spread beyond vision to other senses. “If I asked you to imagine your favorite song, most people can hear the music in their mind, whereas I can’t do that.” Mr. Ebeyer said. But some people who have come to Mr. Ebeyer’s site say that they can do just that. And some can’t hear imagined sounds, but their mind’s eye works well.
While such surveys can be informative, Dr. Pearson said that they could offer only a rough, subjective look at people’s minds because they depended on volunteers’ giving themselves scores. “Your three and my four might be the same,” he said.
Dr. Pearson has developed ways to study aphantasia and hyperphantasia without relying solely on surveys. In one experiment, he took advantage of the fact that our pupils automatically constrict when we look at bright objects. When Dr. Pearson and his colleagues asked most people to picture a white triangle, their pupils also shrank.
But most people with aphantasia whom they studied didn’t have that response. Their pupils stayed open, no matter how hard they tried to imagine the white triangle.
In another experiment, Dr. Pearson took advantage of the fact that people’s skin becomes more conductive when they see frightening scenes. He and his colleagues monitored the skin of volunteers as they read scary stories that were projected on a screen in front of them. When most people read about frightening experiences such as being attacked by a shark, they experienced a spike in skin conductance. But people with aphantasia did not.
The study suggests that the mind’s eye acts as an emotional amplifier, strengthening both the positive and negative feelings produced by our experiences. People with aphantasia can have those same feelings from their experiences, but they don’t amplify them later through mental imagery.
Researchers are also starting to use brain scans to find the circuitry that gives rise to aphantasia and hyperphantasia. So far, that work suggests that mental imagery emerges from a network of brain regions that talk to each other.
Decision-making regions at the front of the brain send signals to regions at the back, which normally make sense of information from the eyes. Those top-down signals can cause the visual regions to produce images that aren’t there.
In a study published in May, Dr. Zeman and his colleagues scanned the brains of 24 people with aphantasia, 25 people with hyperphantasia and 20 people with neither condition.
The scientists had the volunteers lie in the scanner and let their minds wander. The people with hyperphantasia had stronger activity in regions linking the front and back of the brain. They may be able to send more potent signals from decision-making regions of the front of the brain to the visual centers at the back.
The strength of the mind’s eye may exert a subtle influence over the course of people’s lives. Dr. Zeman’s questionnaires revealed that people with aphantasia were more likely than average to have a job that involved science or math. The genome pioneer Craig Venter even asserted that aphantasia had helped him as a scientist by eliminating distractions.
But that’s far from a hard and fast rule. Charles Darwin left behind writings hinting at hyperphantasia: When he was once asked to recall the objects that had been on his breakfast table that morning, he said they were “as distinct as if I had photos before me.”
Likewise, people with vivid mental pictures don’t have a monopoly on creative work. Ed Catmull, the former president of Pixar, announced he had aphantasia in 2019.
For those used to seeing things with their mind’s eye, aphantasia might seem like a debilitating condition. But Dr. Zeman’s research doesn’t suggest that to be the case. In fact, aphantasia may even have some advantages over hyperphantasia.
Hyperphantasia creates images that seem so real that it may open the way to false memories. Similarly, people with no mind’s eye may escape some of the burdens caused by reliving traumatic experiences, because they don’t have to visually replay them.
“Anecdotally, they’re really good at moving on,” Dr. Zeman said. “One wonders whether that’s because they’re less troubled by the kinds of images which, for many of us, come to mind and give rise to regret and longing.”
Dr. Pearson said that someday it might become possible to give people with aphantasia a mind’s eye they never had. He has found that giving noninvasive magnetic pulses to visual centers in average people’s brains makes their mental imagery more vivid. He suspects that the pulses quiet the activity of the visual centers, making them more receptive to requests from the front of the brain.
In theory, magnetic pulses combined with cognitive training might enable people without a mind’s eye to strengthen the circuits required for mental pictures. But Dr. Pearson isn’t sure it would be right to carry out such a procedure. If a person regretted such a boost in intrusive imagery, the scientist might not be able to shut the mind’s eye back down. “There’s a dark side to that,” he said.
For his own part, Mr. Ebeyer said he would only consider Dr. Pearson’s hypothetical therapy if his mind’s eye lasted for just a few days. He’s not interested in being plagued by unwanted visions.
“If it was an experience where you take this pill and you can visualize forever, I probably wouldn’t risk it,” he said.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/08/science/minds-eye-mental-pictures-psychology.html?
Very interesting, does this mean that they cant fantasise?
They need a Limited Slip Differential.
We have a new hole.
The hole — the size of half a tennis court — appeared suddenly along the coastline of the popular tourist town of Robe.
People are being urged to avoid the hole as it is still collapsing and waves are scouring the cliffs underneath.
District Council of Robe chief executive James Holyman says the hole, which is near the area’s existing blowhole, is the result of coastal erosion.
“We live on a rough coastline,” he said.
“It’s no different to the 12 Apostles on the Great Ocean Road or London Bridge.”>Well it is.. it is a hole.
roughbarked said:
We have a new hole.
![]()
The hole — the size of half a tennis court — appeared suddenly along the coastline of the popular tourist town of Robe.
People are being urged to avoid the hole as it is still collapsing and waves are scouring the cliffs underneath.
District Council of Robe chief executive James Holyman says the hole, which is near the area’s existing blowhole, is the result of coastal erosion.
“We live on a rough coastline,” he said.
“It’s no different to the 12 Apostles on the Great Ocean Road or London Bridge.”>Well it is.. it is a hole.
It is probably a Chinese plot to sneak bits of Australia offshore and build an island.
roughbarked said:
We have a new hole.
![]()
The hole — the size of half a tennis court — appeared suddenly along the coastline of the popular tourist town of Robe.
People are being urged to avoid the hole as it is still collapsing and waves are scouring the cliffs underneath.
District Council of Robe chief executive James Holyman says the hole, which is near the area’s existing blowhole, is the result of coastal erosion.
“We live on a rough coastline,” he said.
“It’s no different to the 12 Apostles on the Great Ocean Road or London Bridge.”>Well it is.. it is a hole.
good opportunity to have a look see if it goes under the road, see if the road needs moving
it happens, parts of roads disappear into holes
roughbarked said:
We have a new hole.
![]()
The hole — the size of half a tennis court — appeared suddenly along the coastline of the popular tourist town of Robe.
People are being urged to avoid the hole as it is still collapsing and waves are scouring the cliffs underneath.
District Council of Robe chief executive James Holyman says the hole, which is near the area’s existing blowhole, is the result of coastal erosion.
“We live on a rough coastline,” he said.
“It’s no different to the 12 Apostles on the Great Ocean Road or London Bridge.”>Well it is.. it is a hole.
Fill it up with rocks
Fixed
transition said:
roughbarked said:
We have a new hole.
![]()
The hole — the size of half a tennis court — appeared suddenly along the coastline of the popular tourist town of Robe.
People are being urged to avoid the hole as it is still collapsing and waves are scouring the cliffs underneath.
District Council of Robe chief executive James Holyman says the hole, which is near the area’s existing blowhole, is the result of coastal erosion.
“We live on a rough coastline,” he said.
“It’s no different to the 12 Apostles on the Great Ocean Road or London Bridge.”>Well it is.. it is a hole.
good opportunity to have a look see if it goes under the road, see if the road needs moving
it happens, parts of roads disappear into holes
They do.
https://youtu.be/0MqzOkDvipg
One of the oldest surviving home video recordings. 1968 Royal variety performance.
Some good jokes:
“They’ve all got these in Liverpool: a pound down and a change of address.”
Bubblecar said:
May have to cancel today’s outing for X-rays and shopping :(Had a nose bleed for the past hour and it just doesn’t want to stop.
Seems to have stopped. But we’ll have to visit the chemist on the way so I can buy some damp wipes and see if they have a little personal compact mirror.
I used to have one but it’s vanished.
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
May have to cancel today’s outing for X-rays and shopping :(Had a nose bleed for the past hour and it just doesn’t want to stop.
Seems to have stopped. But we’ll have to visit the chemist on the way so I can buy some damp wipes and see if they have a little personal compact mirror.
I used to have one but it’s vanished.
…and seconds later, I’ve found it.
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
May have to cancel today’s outing for X-rays and shopping :(Had a nose bleed for the past hour and it just doesn’t want to stop.
Seems to have stopped. But we’ll have to visit the chemist on the way so I can buy some damp wipes and see if they have a little personal compact mirror.
I used to have one but it’s vanished.
…and seconds later, I’ve found it.
did it come back at you?
Peak Warming Man said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Many People Have a Vivid ‘Mind’s Eye,’ While Others Have None at All
Scientists are finding new ways to probe two not-so-rare conditions to better understand the links between vision, perception and memory.Carl Zimmer
June 8, 2021
Dr. Adam Zeman didn’t give much thought to the mind’s eye until he met someone who didn’t have one. In 2005, the British neurologist saw a patient who said that a minor surgical procedure had taken away his ability to conjure images.Over the 16 years since that first patient, Dr. Zeman and his colleagues have heard from more than 12,000 people who say they don’t have any such mental camera. The scientists estimate that tens of millions of people share the condition, which they’ve named aphantasia, and millions more experience extraordinarily strong mental imagery, called hyperphantasia.
In their latest research, Dr. Zeman and his colleagues are gathering clues about how these two conditions arise through changes in the wiring of the brain that join the visual centers to other regions. And they’re beginning to explore how some of that circuitry may conjure other senses, such as sound, in the mind. Eventually, that research might even make it possible to strengthen the mind’s eye — or ear — with magnetic pulses.
“This is not a disorder as far as I can see,” said Dr. Zeman, a cognitive scientist at the University of Exeter in Britain. “It’s an intriguing variation in human experience.”
The patient who first made Dr. Zeman aware of aphantasia was a retired building surveyor who lost his mind’s eye after minor heart surgery. To protect the patient’s privacy, Dr. Zeman refers to him as M.X.
When M.X. thought of people or objects, he did not see them. And yet his visual memories were intact. M.X. could answer factual questions such as whether former Prime Minister Tony Blair has light-colored eyes. (He does.) M.X. could even solve problems that required mentally rotating shapes, even though he could not see them.
I came across M.X.’s case study in 2010 and wrote a column about it for Discover magazine. Afterward, I got emails from readers who had the same experience but who differed from M.X. in a remarkable way: They had never had a mind’s eye to begin with.
I forwarded the messages to Dr. Zeman, who surveyed 21 of my readers. In a 2015 report on those findings, he and his colleagues proposed that those readers all shared the same condition, which the researchers called aphantasia. I reported on this second study for The New York Times, as did other journalists at their own publications. The growing attention turned Dr. Zeman’s trickle of emails into a torrent.
To better understand aphantasia, Dr. Zeman and his colleagues invited their correspondents to fill out questionnaires. One described the condition as feeling the shape of an apple in the dark. Another said it was “thinking only in radio.”
The vast majority of people who reported a lack of a mind’s eye had no memory of ever having had one, suggesting that they had been born without it. Yet, like M.X., they had little trouble recalling things they had seen. When asked whether grass or pine tree needles are a darker shade of green, for example, they correctly answered that the needles are.
On the other hand, people with aphantasia don’t do as well as others at remembering details of their own lives. It’s possible that recalling our own experiences — known as episodic memory — depends more on the mind’s eye than does remembering facts about the world.
To their surprise, Dr. Zeman and his colleagues were also contacted by people who seemed to be the opposite of M.X.: They had intensely strong visions, a condition the scientists named hyperphantasia.
Joel Pearson, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of New South Wales who has studied mental imagery since 2005, said hyperphantasia could go far beyond just having an active imagination. “It’s like having a very vivid dream and not being sure if it was real or not,” he said. “People watch a movie, and then they can watch it again in their mind, and it’s indistinguishable.”
Based on their surveys, Dr. Zeman and his colleagues estimate that 2.6 percent of people have hyperphantasia and that 0.7 percent have aphantasia.
Now Dr. Zeman and Dr. Pearson are studying an even larger swath of people who experience extremes of mental imagery. One of the original 21 people with aphantasia who were studied by Dr. Zeman, Thomas Ebeyer of Kitchener, Ontario, created a website called the Aphantasia Network that has grown into a hub for people with the condition and for researchers studying them. Visitors to the site can take an online psychological survey, read about the condition and join discussion forums on topics ranging from dreams to relationships. So far, more than 150,000 people have taken the surveys, and over 20,000 had scores suggesting aphantasia.
“This really is a global human phenomenon,” Mr. Ebeyer said. “I’ve heard from people from Madagascar to South Korea to California.”
His survey has revealed how aphantasia can spread beyond vision to other senses. “If I asked you to imagine your favorite song, most people can hear the music in their mind, whereas I can’t do that.” Mr. Ebeyer said. But some people who have come to Mr. Ebeyer’s site say that they can do just that. And some can’t hear imagined sounds, but their mind’s eye works well.
While such surveys can be informative, Dr. Pearson said that they could offer only a rough, subjective look at people’s minds because they depended on volunteers’ giving themselves scores. “Your three and my four might be the same,” he said.
Dr. Pearson has developed ways to study aphantasia and hyperphantasia without relying solely on surveys. In one experiment, he took advantage of the fact that our pupils automatically constrict when we look at bright objects. When Dr. Pearson and his colleagues asked most people to picture a white triangle, their pupils also shrank.
But most people with aphantasia whom they studied didn’t have that response. Their pupils stayed open, no matter how hard they tried to imagine the white triangle.
In another experiment, Dr. Pearson took advantage of the fact that people’s skin becomes more conductive when they see frightening scenes. He and his colleagues monitored the skin of volunteers as they read scary stories that were projected on a screen in front of them. When most people read about frightening experiences such as being attacked by a shark, they experienced a spike in skin conductance. But people with aphantasia did not.
The study suggests that the mind’s eye acts as an emotional amplifier, strengthening both the positive and negative feelings produced by our experiences. People with aphantasia can have those same feelings from their experiences, but they don’t amplify them later through mental imagery.
Researchers are also starting to use brain scans to find the circuitry that gives rise to aphantasia and hyperphantasia. So far, that work suggests that mental imagery emerges from a network of brain regions that talk to each other.
Decision-making regions at the front of the brain send signals to regions at the back, which normally make sense of information from the eyes. Those top-down signals can cause the visual regions to produce images that aren’t there.
In a study published in May, Dr. Zeman and his colleagues scanned the brains of 24 people with aphantasia, 25 people with hyperphantasia and 20 people with neither condition.
The scientists had the volunteers lie in the scanner and let their minds wander. The people with hyperphantasia had stronger activity in regions linking the front and back of the brain. They may be able to send more potent signals from decision-making regions of the front of the brain to the visual centers at the back.
The strength of the mind’s eye may exert a subtle influence over the course of people’s lives. Dr. Zeman’s questionnaires revealed that people with aphantasia were more likely than average to have a job that involved science or math. The genome pioneer Craig Venter even asserted that aphantasia had helped him as a scientist by eliminating distractions.
But that’s far from a hard and fast rule. Charles Darwin left behind writings hinting at hyperphantasia: When he was once asked to recall the objects that had been on his breakfast table that morning, he said they were “as distinct as if I had photos before me.”
Likewise, people with vivid mental pictures don’t have a monopoly on creative work. Ed Catmull, the former president of Pixar, announced he had aphantasia in 2019.
For those used to seeing things with their mind’s eye, aphantasia might seem like a debilitating condition. But Dr. Zeman’s research doesn’t suggest that to be the case. In fact, aphantasia may even have some advantages over hyperphantasia.
Hyperphantasia creates images that seem so real that it may open the way to false memories. Similarly, people with no mind’s eye may escape some of the burdens caused by reliving traumatic experiences, because they don’t have to visually replay them.
“Anecdotally, they’re really good at moving on,” Dr. Zeman said. “One wonders whether that’s because they’re less troubled by the kinds of images which, for many of us, come to mind and give rise to regret and longing.”
Dr. Pearson said that someday it might become possible to give people with aphantasia a mind’s eye they never had. He has found that giving noninvasive magnetic pulses to visual centers in average people’s brains makes their mental imagery more vivid. He suspects that the pulses quiet the activity of the visual centers, making them more receptive to requests from the front of the brain.
In theory, magnetic pulses combined with cognitive training might enable people without a mind’s eye to strengthen the circuits required for mental pictures. But Dr. Pearson isn’t sure it would be right to carry out such a procedure. If a person regretted such a boost in intrusive imagery, the scientist might not be able to shut the mind’s eye back down. “There’s a dark side to that,” he said.
For his own part, Mr. Ebeyer said he would only consider Dr. Pearson’s hypothetical therapy if his mind’s eye lasted for just a few days. He’s not interested in being plagued by unwanted visions.
“If it was an experience where you take this pill and you can visualize forever, I probably wouldn’t risk it,” he said.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/08/science/minds-eye-mental-pictures-psychology.html?
Very interesting, does this mean that they cant fantasise?
Might I suggest that rather than been divided into three distinct groups, people are in fact on a continuum of mind-sightedness, with large numbers of people over a very wide range.
We have discussed this before here, from which I deduce that my mind vision is probably at the low end of the scale.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Many People Have a Vivid ‘Mind’s Eye,’ While Others Have None at All
Scientists are finding new ways to probe two not-so-rare conditions to better understand the links between vision, perception and memory.Carl Zimmer
June 8, 2021
Dr. Adam Zeman didn’t give much thought to the mind’s eye until he met someone who didn’t have one. In 2005, the British neurologist saw a patient who said that a minor surgical procedure had taken away his ability to conjure images.Over the 16 years since that first patient, Dr. Zeman and his colleagues have heard from more than 12,000 people who say they don’t have any such mental camera. The scientists estimate that tens of millions of people share the condition, which they’ve named aphantasia, and millions more experience extraordinarily strong mental imagery, called hyperphantasia.
In their latest research, Dr. Zeman and his colleagues are gathering clues about how these two conditions arise through changes in the wiring of the brain that join the visual centers to other regions. And they’re beginning to explore how some of that circuitry may conjure other senses, such as sound, in the mind. Eventually, that research might even make it possible to strengthen the mind’s eye — or ear — with magnetic pulses.
“This is not a disorder as far as I can see,” said Dr. Zeman, a cognitive scientist at the University of Exeter in Britain. “It’s an intriguing variation in human experience.”
The patient who first made Dr. Zeman aware of aphantasia was a retired building surveyor who lost his mind’s eye after minor heart surgery. To protect the patient’s privacy, Dr. Zeman refers to him as M.X.
When M.X. thought of people or objects, he did not see them. And yet his visual memories were intact. M.X. could answer factual questions such as whether former Prime Minister Tony Blair has light-colored eyes. (He does.) M.X. could even solve problems that required mentally rotating shapes, even though he could not see them.
I came across M.X.’s case study in 2010 and wrote a column about it for Discover magazine. Afterward, I got emails from readers who had the same experience but who differed from M.X. in a remarkable way: They had never had a mind’s eye to begin with.
I forwarded the messages to Dr. Zeman, who surveyed 21 of my readers. In a 2015 report on those findings, he and his colleagues proposed that those readers all shared the same condition, which the researchers called aphantasia. I reported on this second study for The New York Times, as did other journalists at their own publications. The growing attention turned Dr. Zeman’s trickle of emails into a torrent.
To better understand aphantasia, Dr. Zeman and his colleagues invited their correspondents to fill out questionnaires. One described the condition as feeling the shape of an apple in the dark. Another said it was “thinking only in radio.”
The vast majority of people who reported a lack of a mind’s eye had no memory of ever having had one, suggesting that they had been born without it. Yet, like M.X., they had little trouble recalling things they had seen. When asked whether grass or pine tree needles are a darker shade of green, for example, they correctly answered that the needles are.
On the other hand, people with aphantasia don’t do as well as others at remembering details of their own lives. It’s possible that recalling our own experiences — known as episodic memory — depends more on the mind’s eye than does remembering facts about the world.
To their surprise, Dr. Zeman and his colleagues were also contacted by people who seemed to be the opposite of M.X.: They had intensely strong visions, a condition the scientists named hyperphantasia.
Joel Pearson, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of New South Wales who has studied mental imagery since 2005, said hyperphantasia could go far beyond just having an active imagination. “It’s like having a very vivid dream and not being sure if it was real or not,” he said. “People watch a movie, and then they can watch it again in their mind, and it’s indistinguishable.”
Based on their surveys, Dr. Zeman and his colleagues estimate that 2.6 percent of people have hyperphantasia and that 0.7 percent have aphantasia.
Now Dr. Zeman and Dr. Pearson are studying an even larger swath of people who experience extremes of mental imagery. One of the original 21 people with aphantasia who were studied by Dr. Zeman, Thomas Ebeyer of Kitchener, Ontario, created a website called the Aphantasia Network that has grown into a hub for people with the condition and for researchers studying them. Visitors to the site can take an online psychological survey, read about the condition and join discussion forums on topics ranging from dreams to relationships. So far, more than 150,000 people have taken the surveys, and over 20,000 had scores suggesting aphantasia.
“This really is a global human phenomenon,” Mr. Ebeyer said. “I’ve heard from people from Madagascar to South Korea to California.”
His survey has revealed how aphantasia can spread beyond vision to other senses. “If I asked you to imagine your favorite song, most people can hear the music in their mind, whereas I can’t do that.” Mr. Ebeyer said. But some people who have come to Mr. Ebeyer’s site say that they can do just that. And some can’t hear imagined sounds, but their mind’s eye works well.
While such surveys can be informative, Dr. Pearson said that they could offer only a rough, subjective look at people’s minds because they depended on volunteers’ giving themselves scores. “Your three and my four might be the same,” he said.
Dr. Pearson has developed ways to study aphantasia and hyperphantasia without relying solely on surveys. In one experiment, he took advantage of the fact that our pupils automatically constrict when we look at bright objects. When Dr. Pearson and his colleagues asked most people to picture a white triangle, their pupils also shrank.
But most people with aphantasia whom they studied didn’t have that response. Their pupils stayed open, no matter how hard they tried to imagine the white triangle.
In another experiment, Dr. Pearson took advantage of the fact that people’s skin becomes more conductive when they see frightening scenes. He and his colleagues monitored the skin of volunteers as they read scary stories that were projected on a screen in front of them. When most people read about frightening experiences such as being attacked by a shark, they experienced a spike in skin conductance. But people with aphantasia did not.
The study suggests that the mind’s eye acts as an emotional amplifier, strengthening both the positive and negative feelings produced by our experiences. People with aphantasia can have those same feelings from their experiences, but they don’t amplify them later through mental imagery.
Researchers are also starting to use brain scans to find the circuitry that gives rise to aphantasia and hyperphantasia. So far, that work suggests that mental imagery emerges from a network of brain regions that talk to each other.
Decision-making regions at the front of the brain send signals to regions at the back, which normally make sense of information from the eyes. Those top-down signals can cause the visual regions to produce images that aren’t there.
In a study published in May, Dr. Zeman and his colleagues scanned the brains of 24 people with aphantasia, 25 people with hyperphantasia and 20 people with neither condition.
The scientists had the volunteers lie in the scanner and let their minds wander. The people with hyperphantasia had stronger activity in regions linking the front and back of the brain. They may be able to send more potent signals from decision-making regions of the front of the brain to the visual centers at the back.
The strength of the mind’s eye may exert a subtle influence over the course of people’s lives. Dr. Zeman’s questionnaires revealed that people with aphantasia were more likely than average to have a job that involved science or math. The genome pioneer Craig Venter even asserted that aphantasia had helped him as a scientist by eliminating distractions.
But that’s far from a hard and fast rule. Charles Darwin left behind writings hinting at hyperphantasia: When he was once asked to recall the objects that had been on his breakfast table that morning, he said they were “as distinct as if I had photos before me.”
Likewise, people with vivid mental pictures don’t have a monopoly on creative work. Ed Catmull, the former president of Pixar, announced he had aphantasia in 2019.
For those used to seeing things with their mind’s eye, aphantasia might seem like a debilitating condition. But Dr. Zeman’s research doesn’t suggest that to be the case. In fact, aphantasia may even have some advantages over hyperphantasia.
Hyperphantasia creates images that seem so real that it may open the way to false memories. Similarly, people with no mind’s eye may escape some of the burdens caused by reliving traumatic experiences, because they don’t have to visually replay them.
“Anecdotally, they’re really good at moving on,” Dr. Zeman said. “One wonders whether that’s because they’re less troubled by the kinds of images which, for many of us, come to mind and give rise to regret and longing.”
Dr. Pearson said that someday it might become possible to give people with aphantasia a mind’s eye they never had. He has found that giving noninvasive magnetic pulses to visual centers in average people’s brains makes their mental imagery more vivid. He suspects that the pulses quiet the activity of the visual centers, making them more receptive to requests from the front of the brain.
In theory, magnetic pulses combined with cognitive training might enable people without a mind’s eye to strengthen the circuits required for mental pictures. But Dr. Pearson isn’t sure it would be right to carry out such a procedure. If a person regretted such a boost in intrusive imagery, the scientist might not be able to shut the mind’s eye back down. “There’s a dark side to that,” he said.
For his own part, Mr. Ebeyer said he would only consider Dr. Pearson’s hypothetical therapy if his mind’s eye lasted for just a few days. He’s not interested in being plagued by unwanted visions.
“If it was an experience where you take this pill and you can visualize forever, I probably wouldn’t risk it,” he said.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/08/science/minds-eye-mental-pictures-psychology.html?
Very interesting, does this mean that they cant fantasise?
Might I suggest that rather than been divided into three distinct groups, people are in fact on a continuum of mind-sightedness, with large numbers of people over a very wide range.
We have discussed this before here, from which I deduce that my mind vision is probably at the low end of the scale.
Too practical. You need to orient the drawing, the right way up and with north facing north to visualise the bigger picture?
roughbarked said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Peak Warming Man said:Very interesting, does this mean that they cant fantasise?
Might I suggest that rather than been divided into three distinct groups, people are in fact on a continuum of mind-sightedness, with large numbers of people over a very wide range.
We have discussed this before here, from which I deduce that my mind vision is probably at the low end of the scale.
Too practical. You need to orient the drawing, the right way up and with north facing north to visualise the bigger picture?
would you need to do that if north wasn’t indicated and thus hadn’t given you a visual prompt?
Bogsnorkler said:
roughbarked said:
The Rev Dodgson said:Might I suggest that rather than been divided into three distinct groups, people are in fact on a continuum of mind-sightedness, with large numbers of people over a very wide range.
We have discussed this before here, from which I deduce that my mind vision is probably at the low end of the scale.
Too practical. You need to orient the drawing, the right way up and with north facing north to visualise the bigger picture?
would you need to do that if north wasn’t indicated and thus hadn’t given you a visual prompt?
No. but that’s me.
Bogsnorkler said:
roughbarked said:
The Rev Dodgson said:Might I suggest that rather than been divided into three distinct groups, people are in fact on a continuum of mind-sightedness, with large numbers of people over a very wide range.
We have discussed this before here, from which I deduce that my mind vision is probably at the low end of the scale.
Too practical. You need to orient the drawing, the right way up and with north facing north to visualise the bigger picture?
would you need to do that if north wasn’t indicated and thus hadn’t given you a visual prompt?
I thought that you had to hold it up over your head so that the compass points made sense?
roughbarked said:
Bogsnorkler said:
roughbarked said:Too practical. You need to orient the drawing, the right way up and with north facing north to visualise the bigger picture?
would you need to do that if north wasn’t indicated and thus hadn’t given you a visual prompt?
No. but that’s me.
I’ve watched it happen. I’ve had people tell me that I’ve got the map the wrong way up.
captain_spalding said:
Bogsnorkler said:
roughbarked said:Too practical. You need to orient the drawing, the right way up and with north facing north to visualise the bigger picture?
would you need to do that if north wasn’t indicated and thus hadn’t given you a visual prompt?
I thought that you had to hold it up over your head so that the compass points made sense?
:)
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:
Bogsnorkler said:would you need to do that if north wasn’t indicated and thus hadn’t given you a visual prompt?
No. but that’s me.
I’ve watched it happen. I’ve had people tell me that I’ve got the map the wrong way up.
I’ve replied but I’m not the one who is lost, right?
captain_spalding said:
Bogsnorkler said:
roughbarked said:Too practical. You need to orient the drawing, the right way up and with north facing north to visualise the bigger picture?
would you need to do that if north wasn’t indicated and thus hadn’t given you a visual prompt?
I thought that you had to hold it up over your head so that the compass points made sense?
I’d say that compass orientation differences were mostly a different thing to mind’s eye differences (although some overlap probably).
The Rev Dodgson said:
captain_spalding said:
Bogsnorkler said:would you need to do that if north wasn’t indicated and thus hadn’t given you a visual prompt?
I thought that you had to hold it up over your head so that the compass points made sense?
I’d say that compass orientation differences were mostly a different thing to mind’s eye differences (although some overlap probably).
If you could have added an explantion of that?
roughbarked said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
captain_spalding said:I thought that you had to hold it up over your head so that the compass points made sense?
I’d say that compass orientation differences were mostly a different thing to mind’s eye differences (although some overlap probably).
If you could have added an explantion of that?
What would have happened?
The Rev Dodgson said:
roughbarked said:
The Rev Dodgson said:I’d say that compass orientation differences were mostly a different thing to mind’s eye differences (although some overlap probably).
If you could have added an explantion of that?
What would have happened?
You may have understood that the compass had nothing to do with it. I didn’t mention one.
roughbarked said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
roughbarked said:If you could have added an explantion of that?
What would have happened?
You may have understood that the compass had nothing to do with it. I didn’t mention one.
We are talking about mind’s eye. Not a welding jig.
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:
The Rev Dodgson said:What would have happened?
You may have understood that the compass had nothing to do with it. I didn’t mention one.
We are talking about mind’s eye. Not a welding jig.
I’m out there in the bush with a bloke who is a naturally talented engineer. Despite the fact that he actually attended tech courses in watchmaking.
Which my master neglected to supply me with. Though we had the same master.
He had a compass in his head or must have had. Because everytime I threw a map on the bonnet, he’d try to make me put the arrow pointing north.
and as I said, yeah but I’m not the one who is lost.
roughbarked said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
roughbarked said:If you could have added an explantion of that?
What would have happened?
You may have understood that the compass had nothing to do with it. I didn’t mention one.
OK, substitute “North” for “compass”. The point remains unchanged.
Woman give birth to 10 babies: Guateng Gosiame Thamara Sithole born 10 babies
9 June 2021, 15:00 WAT
New Informate 9 June 2021, 16:00 WAT
“Woman gives birth to 10 babies”: born ’10 babies-decuplets in South Africa’
Wia dis foto come from, African News Agency (ANA)
Wetin we call dis foto,
Dis na Gosiame Thamara Sithole, one month ago, doctors say she dey in good health
Di woman wey give birth to 10 babies at once inside South Africa fit be di new world record.
Gosiame Thamara Sithole wey be 37, don first give birth to twins before, and di twins na six years old now.
Her husband, Teboho Tsotetsi say dem dey surprise by di 10 pikin afta scans only show eight pikin for di womb.
“Na seven boys and three girls. I dey happy. I dey emotional. I no fit tok much,” Tsotetsi tell Pretoria News afta di birth on Monday night.
African woman give birth to 10 babies – Wetin dey cause multiple pregnancy?Doctor say madam Sithole dey for good health afta she deliver through caesarean section 29 weeks into her pregnancy for Pretoria on Monday evening.
One South African official don confam di birth of di decuplets to BBC.
Guinness World Records tell BBC say dem dey investigate Madam Sithole case.
One woman wey get eight babies for US for 2009 currently hold di Guinness World Record for di most children wey one woman don deliver at once and wey survive.
Last month, 25-year-old Halima Cissé from Mali give birth to nine babies, wey report say dey well for one clinic inside Morocco.
Most pregnancies wey involve large numbers of babies dey end prematurely, according to BBC Africa health reporter Rhoda Odhiambo.
Multiple births wey involve more than three babies dey rare and often na di result of fertility treatments – but for dis case di couple say dem conceive di belle naturally.
Prayers and sleepless nights
“Woman gives birth to 10 babies”: born ’10 babies-decuplets in South Africa’
Wia dis foto come from, Getty Images
Wetin we call dis foto,
Most pregnancies wey involve large numbers of babies dey end up prematurely
Madam Sithole tell Pretoria News one month ago, say her pregnancy dey “tough for di beginning”
And she bin pray for healthy birth, with many sleepless night wey she go dey worry about wetin go happun.
“How all of dem go fit dey inside di womb? Dem go survive?” she ask hersef all dis question, but doctors come reassure her say her womb dey expand.
Wen dem first think say na eight pikin dey her belle, Madam Sithole dey suffer from leg pains and doctors find out say two of di eight “dey for di wrong tube”.
“We sort dat one out and I don dey okay since then. I no fit wait for my children,” she tell di newspaper during dat time.
Her husband also tok say e dey happy well-well and feel like “one of God chosen children. Dis na miracle wey I appreciate”.
Only two sets of nonuplets na im dem don record before – but none of di babies survive more than few days.
https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/tori-57417781
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:
The Rev Dodgson said:What would have happened?
You may have understood that the compass had nothing to do with it. I didn’t mention one.
We are talking about mind’s eye. Not a welding jig.
No-one has mentioned a welding jig, or said anything that remotely implies one.
Some very nasty cold wet and windy weather in Vic and highlands NSW.. but not the actual apocalypse
Swirly Thing Alert to beige
The Rev Dodgson said:
roughbarked said:
The Rev Dodgson said:What would have happened?
You may have understood that the compass had nothing to do with it. I didn’t mention one.
OK, substitute “North” for “compass”. The point remains unchanged.
Read if you can make it work, my last post before this.
Nuclear power
A firm founded by Bill Gates bets on a novel nuclear reactor
The hope is that it will work well with renewable-dominated power grids
Science & technology
Jun 9th 2021
SINCE HANDING over the reins as Microsoft’s chief executive in 2000, Bill Gates has been best-known for his philanthropy. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, one of the world’s largest charities, has given billions of dollars to vaccination drives, family-planning clinics, research into drug treatments for malaria and more.
But Mr Gates has not abandoned the business world entirely. On June 2nd TerraPower, a company he founded in 2008, announced that it would build a demonstration of an exotic, high-tech nuclear-power station in Wyoming. The firm’s Natrium reactor is one of a gaggle of new designs that have emerged in recent years, as engineers try to come up with cheaper, simpler nuclear power plants that can provide low-carbon electricity with fewer of the cost and safety worries that have plagued the industry in the past.
The Natrium reactor makes two big changes to the standard nuclear-power-plant design. It replaces the liquid water that normally courses through the core with hot, liquid sodium (natrium, in Latin). And instead of using the heat generated by the reactor to make electricity directly, it first employs it to heat a tank of molten salt that acts as a giant battery. The upshot, the firm hopes, will be a cheaper reactor that is better suited to power grids that will increasingly be dominated by intermittent sources of energy such as wind turbines and solar panels.
Start with the reactor itself. Most nuclear power plants are light-water reactors (LWRs), a technology developed in America in the 1950s. They use ordinary water both to cool the reactor core and to increase the intensity of the chain-reaction by moderating the speed of the neutrons that are emitted when uranium atoms split. Thus slowed, these neutrons are more likely to go on to split more atoms in turn.
Natrium employs hot, liquid sodium as a coolant, and dispenses with the moderator entirely. This is another idea that dates back to the 1950s, but one which has never been widely deployed. Yet sodium offers several advantages as a coolant, says Chris Levesque, TerraPower’s boss. The liquid sodium’s high temperature—around 500°C—makes the reactor more efficient. At the same time, liquid sodium is much less corrosive to pipes than hot water. And though the water in LWRs is pumped through at high pressure, Natrium is designed to operate at close to atmospheric pressure. That means pipes, containment buildings and the like can be less beefy without affecting safety. TerraPower reckons its reactor needs only 20% of the concrete required by an LWR of equivalent power, which helps keep down costs.
The firm’s second big idea is its molten-salt energy-storage system. Inspiration for this came from the solar-power industry, says Mr Levesque. Solar-thermal systems (in contradistinction to the more familiar photovoltaic ones that generate electricity directly) have, for several years, used similar tanks to store excess solar energy harvested during the day. In Natrium’s case, the sodium coolant transfers heat from the reactor into the molten-salt tanks. A separate set of pipes then removes heat from the tanks and uses it to produce electricity.
TerraPower hopes this arrangement will let the new reactor ramp its power output up and down, depending on the price of electricity. This is something that LWRs struggle to do. The firm’s demonstration plant will usually produce 345 megawatts (MW) of electrical power. But by releasing the energy stored in the molten-salt tanks, it will be able to boost that to 500MW for over five-and-a-half hours. This should be a useful trick as power grids fill up with wind and solar farms that are likely to cause power prices to fluctuate more than they do at present. Combined with lower construction costs, TerraPower hopes such agility will make its plant more economically attractive than older designs.
It all looks good on paper. But then, nuclear power always does. The industry has been plagued by delays and cost over-runs for decades. Existing sodium-cooled reactors, most of which are experimental, have a spotty record. A plant in Japan suffered a serious fire in 1995 and was shut down for over a decade. The Superphénix reactor in France, built in 1974, proved extremely unreliable, and was offline for years at a time. It closed for good in 1998. (Other reactors, such as the Fast Flux Test Facility in Washington state, have better records.)
The Union of Concerned Scientists, an American not-for-profit organisation, argues in a report published in March that sodium’s advantages as a coolant are counterbalanced by drawbacks. One is that a reactor which ran too hot might see its power output rise as a consequence. Unlike water, the loss of which shuts a reactor down for lack of moderation, sodium slightly damps the chain-reaction. If bubbles of sodium vapour formed in the coolant, that damping effect would diminish, risking a dangerous feedback loop of rising temperatures and growing power output.
The physics of such judgments are tricky. Few countries have as much nuclear experience as France, which generates around 70% of its electricity that way. Yet in 2015 French regulators said they could not determine whether sodium-cooled reactors are significantly safer than modern LWRs. TerraPower, moreover, insists that its Natrium plant is designed in a way that makes runaway reactions impossible.
America’s government, for its part, thinks the technology has merit. It is chipping in $80m to help TerraPower build the demonstration plant, which the firm says should be ready by 2028. In the meantime, says Mr Levesque, TerraPower has been fielding enquiries from electricity firms interested in its technology. Whether Mr Gates’s bet on a nuclear-power revival will pay off remains to be seen.
https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2021/06/09/a-firm-founded-by-bill-gates-bets-on-a-novel-nuclear-reactor?
The Rev Dodgson said:
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:You may have understood that the compass had nothing to do with it. I didn’t mention one.
We are talking about mind’s eye. Not a welding jig.
No-one has mentioned a welding jig, or said anything that remotely implies one.
But on a map, north is a fixed measurement.
I thought you orientated a map to suit the way you are facing?
In the late 1940’s, a circus Elephant attraction got advertising attention in Maroubra Junction, NSW.
roughbarked said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
roughbarked said:You may have understood that the compass had nothing to do with it. I didn’t mention one.
OK, substitute “North” for “compass”. The point remains unchanged.
Read if you can make it work, my last post before this.
That point has nothing to do with what I said, that appears to have prompted it.
Bogsnorkler said:
I thought you orientated a map to suit the way you are facing?
does that have to be aligned with a compass for you to read it though?
Do you not already know where north is without needing to be told?
The Rev Dodgson said:
roughbarked said:
The Rev Dodgson said:OK, substitute “North” for “compass”. The point remains unchanged.
Read if you can make it work, my last post before this.
That point has nothing to do with what I said, that appears to have prompted it.
OK.
must have been a bad example then.
roughbarked said:
Bogsnorkler said:
I thought you orientated a map to suit the way you are facing?
does that have to be aligned with a compass for you to read it though?
Do you not already know where north is without needing to be told?
Does the map not take you there in your mind?
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:
Bogsnorkler said:
I thought you orientated a map to suit the way you are facing?
does that have to be aligned with a compass for you to read it though?
Do you not already know where north is without needing to be told?
Does the map not take you there in your mind?
Cos I dunno why they’d bother making them if they didn’t.
roughbarked said:
Bogsnorkler said:
I thought you orientated a map to suit the way you are facing?
does that have to be aligned with a compass for you to read it though?
Do you not already know where north is without needing to be told?
as long as there are landmarks, no. and if you align it with landmarks then north will be automatic.
According to the boffins, the current cold snap/polar vortex is very likey a symptom of climate change.. as happened in North America in recent years.
Ian said:
According to the boffins, the current cold snap/polar vortex is very likey a symptom of climate change.. as happened in North America in recent years.
It has been known to be a symptom of climate change beforehand so I’d expect they know what they are talking about.
I don’t use maps to find my way purely to see what features are around that may be interesting to visit. never used a map when doing bush walk, no tracks, and always found the car again. still dunno how that worked.
Bogsnorkler said:
roughbarked said:
Bogsnorkler said:
I thought you orientated a map to suit the way you are facing?
does that have to be aligned with a compass for you to read it though?
Do you not already know where north is without needing to be told?
as long as there are landmarks, no. and if you align it with landmarks then north will be automatic.
So this
can be visualised in your mind’s eye as this?
Booked for my first Astroboynica jab next week
Ian said:
According to the boffins, the current cold snap/polar vortex is very likey a symptom of climate change.. as happened in North America in recent years.
also, it’s winter.
Bogsnorkler said:
I don’t use maps to find my way purely to see what features are around that may be interesting to visit. never used a map when doing bush walk, no tracks, and always found the car again. still dunno how that worked.
Inbuilt compass memory.
You know where you left the car.
roughbarked said:
Bogsnorkler said:
roughbarked said:does that have to be aligned with a compass for you to read it though?
Do you not already know where north is without needing to be told?
as long as there are landmarks, no. and if you align it with landmarks then north will be automatic.
So this
can be visualised in your mind’s eye as this?
I don’t rotate it.
Bogsnorkler said:
I don’t use maps to find my way purely to see what features are around that may be interesting to visit. never used a map when doing bush walk, no tracks, and always found the car again. still dunno how that worked.
you swallowed a bunch of magnets and let them pull you to the car
Arts said:
Ian said:
According to the boffins, the current cold snap/polar vortex is very likey a symptom of climate change.. as happened in North America in recent years.also, it’s winter.
There is that.
Arts said:
Ian said:
According to the boffins, the current cold snap/polar vortex is very likey a symptom of climate change.. as happened in North America in recent years.also, it’s winter.
I see poindexter has blessed us with her presence.
;-)
Bogsnorkler said:
roughbarked said:
Bogsnorkler said:as long as there are landmarks, no. and if you align it with landmarks then north will be automatic.
So this
can be visualised in your mind’s eye as this?
I don’t rotate it.
Neither do I.
Bogsnorkler said:
Arts said:
Ian said:
According to the boffins, the current cold snap/polar vortex is very likey a symptom of climate change.. as happened in North America in recent years.also, it’s winter.
I see poindexter has blessed us with her presence.
;-)
I’m doing a lot of deep dives into to dark and depraved places.. I have to come here to take a break in the shallow end sometimes…
Arts said:
Ian said:
According to the boffins, the current cold snap/polar vortex is very likey a symptom of climate change.. as happened in North America in recent years.also, it’s winter.
Well spotted.
Arts said:
Bogsnorkler said:
Arts said:also, it’s winter.
I see poindexter has blessed us with her presence.
;-)
I’m doing a lot of deep dives into to dark and depraved places.. I have to come here to take a break in the shallow end sometimes…
It is good that you see us as light entertainment.
Arts said:
Bogsnorkler said:
Arts said:also, it’s winter.
I see poindexter has blessed us with her presence.
;-)
I’m doing a lot of deep dives into to dark and depraved places.. I have to come here to take a break in the shallow end sometimes…
Better watch out for the skin deep
Arts said:
Ian said:
According to the boffins, the current cold snap/polar vortex is very likey a symptom of climate change.. as happened in North America in recent years.also, it’s winter.
Winter seems to be happening a lot more these days. When I were a kid, winters were years apart and these days they happen one after another.
Witty Rejoinder said:
Nuclear power
A firm founded by Bill Gates bets on a novel nuclear reactor
The hope is that it will work well with renewable-dominated power gridsScience & technology
Jun 9th 2021https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2021/06/09/a-firm-founded-by-bill-gates-bets-on-a-novel-nuclear-reactor?
That sub heading is quite strange.
sibeen said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Nuclear power
A firm founded by Bill Gates bets on a novel nuclear reactor
The hope is that it will work well with renewable-dominated power gridsScience & technology
Jun 9th 2021https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2021/06/09/a-firm-founded-by-bill-gates-bets-on-a-novel-nuclear-reactor?
That sub heading is quite strange.
Still trying to get my head around it.
sibeen said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Nuclear power
A firm founded by Bill Gates bets on a novel nuclear reactor
The hope is that it will work well with renewable-dominated power gridsScience & technology
Jun 9th 2021https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2021/06/09/a-firm-founded-by-bill-gates-bets-on-a-novel-nuclear-reactor?
That sub heading is quite strange.
Now you two place nice
I reckon these medicare changes have been done because the LNP don’t think the public will fall for another mediscare campaign.
Bogsnorkler said:
I reckon these medicare changes have been done because the LNP don’t think the public will fall for another mediscare campaign.
I mean it retroactively validates the ALP’s previous warnings. Bit of a mindscrew move by the LNP if true. “ALP say that we’ll make Medicare cuts if you elect us, but we’ve already gone and done it, so might as well not worry about it.”
sibeen said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Nuclear power
A firm founded by Bill Gates bets on a novel nuclear reactor
The hope is that it will work well with renewable-dominated power gridsScience & technology
Jun 9th 2021https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2021/06/09/a-firm-founded-by-bill-gates-bets-on-a-novel-nuclear-reactor?
That sub heading is quite strange.
If natrium was good enough for egyptian mummies then it is good enough for me.
Sodium can be a bit nasty. I hope they know what they are doing.
chicken kebabs for late lunch shortly, mashed spud, boiled vegetables, gravy, and landed
larry wants some too, smell food
Rescue chopper doing lappies of the city, looks like the coppers have commandeered it for stolen car duty again.
transition said:
chicken kebabs for late lunch shortly, mashed spud, boiled vegetables, gravy, and landedlarry wants some too, smell food
Sit, sit first, good boy.
Dark Orange said:
Arts said:
Ian said:
According to the boffins, the current cold snap/polar vortex is very likey a symptom of climate change.. as happened in North America in recent years.also, it’s winter.
Winter seems to be happening a lot more these days. When I were a kid, winters were years apart and these days they happen one after another.
Tamb said:
Dark Orange said:
Arts said:also, it’s winter.
Winter seems to be happening a lot more these days. When I were a kid, winters were years apart and these days they happen one after another.
Not here they don’t. Been years since we had a real winter. Haven’t lit the wood heater yet this year.
When you coming down to the big smoke next?
Dark Orange said:
Tamb said:
Dark Orange said:Winter seems to be happening a lot more these days. When I were a kid, winters were years apart and these days they happen one after another.
Not here they don’t. Been years since we had a real winter. Haven’t lit the wood heater yet this year.When you coming down to the big smoke next?
Ian said:
According to the boffins, the current cold snap/polar vortex is very likey a symptom of climate change.. as happened in North America in recent years.
Very hot in the US midwest atm.
Tamb said:
Dark Orange said:
Tamb said:Not here they don’t. Been years since we had a real winter. Haven’t lit the wood heater yet this year.
When you coming down to the big smoke next?
Blood test permitting the 17th of this month.
I’ll probably be out of town – good luck with it.
Dark Orange said:
Tamb said:
Dark Orange said:When you coming down to the big smoke next?
Blood test permitting the 17th of this month.I’ll probably be out of town – good luck with it.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-low-can-americas-birth-rate-go-before-its-a-problem/
How Low Can America’s Birth Rate Go Before It’s A Problem?
The U.S. fertility rate hit a record low in 2020 — just as it did in 2019, and 2018. Although the COVID-19 pandemic seems to have accelerated this decline, the drop has been underway for years. The total fertility rate — the average number of children a woman is expected to have over her lifetime — now sits at 1.64 children per woman in the U.S. Not only is this the lowest rate recorded since the government began tracking these stats in the 1930s, but it’s well below the so-called “replacement-level fertility” of about 2.1.
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Since no country has had low fertility rates long enough to experience its full effects, the debate over all this remains theoretical. “It takes a while to work its way through the population,” said Murray. Even countries like Japan, where the population is already shrinking, still benefit from a growing global labor force from which to draw workers and a growing global marketplace in which to sell their wares. And countries like the U.S., Canada and Australia rely on net immigration as well — and could probably continue doing so for decades if they choose to embrace it. But birth rates are falling practically everywhere, and the global fertility rate is expected to fall below replacement level sometime between 2050 and 2100. The consequences of low fertility will be different when the whole world is experiencing it.
My baby boy is doing online exam prep using the materials provided by the school. A couple of pages made me raise a brow.
A HASS page said:
“There are two more fossil fuels: oil and natural gas. These both form when dead animals are covered by mud over millions of years.”
Hmmm…
Animals sensu very fucking lato. And also a lot of things that are definitely not animals.
Then in maths, there was a little quiz that had
Find √64
with possible answers being
a) 6 or -6
b) 10 or -10
c) 8 or -8
d) 4 or -4
When I went to school, the square root was very specifically the positive root.
dv said:
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-low-can-americas-birth-rate-go-before-its-a-problem/How Low Can America’s Birth Rate Go Before It’s A Problem?
The U.S. fertility rate hit a record low in 2020 — just as it did in 2019, and 2018. Although the COVID-19 pandemic seems to have accelerated this decline, the drop has been underway for years. The total fertility rate — the average number of children a woman is expected to have over her lifetime — now sits at 1.64 children per woman in the U.S. Not only is this the lowest rate recorded since the government began tracking these stats in the 1930s, but it’s well below the so-called “replacement-level fertility” of about 2.1.
—-
Since no country has had low fertility rates long enough to experience its full effects, the debate over all this remains theoretical. “It takes a while to work its way through the population,” said Murray. Even countries like Japan, where the population is already shrinking, still benefit from a growing global labor force from which to draw workers and a growing global marketplace in which to sell their wares. And countries like the U.S., Canada and Australia rely on net immigration as well — and could probably continue doing so for decades if they choose to embrace it. But birth rates are falling practically everywhere, and the global fertility rate is expected to fall below replacement level sometime between 2050 and 2100. The consequences of low fertility will be different when the whole world is experiencing it.
Whatever the effects of low birth rates, they are nothing to the long-term effect of continually high birth rates.
Also, the idea that populations must always grow for people to be prosperous, which still seems to be common, is so ridiculous I don’t know how it ever came to be accepted.
dv said:
My baby boy is doing online exam prep using the materials provided by the school. A couple of pages made me raise a brow.A HASS page said:
“There are two more fossil fuels: oil and natural gas. These both form when dead animals are covered by mud over millions of years.”Hmmm…
Animals sensu very fucking lato. And also a lot of things that are definitely not animals.Then in maths, there was a little quiz that had
Find √64
with possible answers being
a) 6 or -6
b) 10 or -10
c) 8 or -8
d) 4 or -4When I went to school, the square root was very specifically the positive root.
Well the Internet says:
A square root of a number is a value that, when multiplied by itself, gives the number. Example: 4 × 4 = 16, so a square root of 16 is 4. Note that (−4) × (−4) = 16 too, so −4 is also a square root of 16.which is what I thought.
The Internet and I may well be wrong of course.
Perhaps we should ask TATE.
The Rev Dodgson said:
dv said:
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-low-can-americas-birth-rate-go-before-its-a-problem/How Low Can America’s Birth Rate Go Before It’s A Problem?
The U.S. fertility rate hit a record low in 2020 — just as it did in 2019, and 2018. Although the COVID-19 pandemic seems to have accelerated this decline, the drop has been underway for years. The total fertility rate — the average number of children a woman is expected to have over her lifetime — now sits at 1.64 children per woman in the U.S. Not only is this the lowest rate recorded since the government began tracking these stats in the 1930s, but it’s well below the so-called “replacement-level fertility” of about 2.1.
—-
Since no country has had low fertility rates long enough to experience its full effects, the debate over all this remains theoretical. “It takes a while to work its way through the population,” said Murray. Even countries like Japan, where the population is already shrinking, still benefit from a growing global labor force from which to draw workers and a growing global marketplace in which to sell their wares. And countries like the U.S., Canada and Australia rely on net immigration as well — and could probably continue doing so for decades if they choose to embrace it. But birth rates are falling practically everywhere, and the global fertility rate is expected to fall below replacement level sometime between 2050 and 2100. The consequences of low fertility will be different when the whole world is experiencing it.
Whatever the effects of low birth rates, they are nothing to the long-term effect of continually high birth rates.
Also, the idea that populations must always grow for people to be prosperous, which still seems to be common, is so ridiculous I don’t know how it ever came to be accepted.
Yes.
It appears to stem from a common problem which is that people look at the effects of change only locally. I’m using locally in the mathematical sense: people only consider “what happens if, from our current state, there is a small change in a particular direction”. So in our current arrangement, the way the property market and workforce and mortgages etc are set up, a change to having a bigger % of older people would create political strain.
But if we’re talking about a change that will occur over several decades then the change can be managed.
The Rev Dodgson said:
dv said:
My baby boy is doing online exam prep using the materials provided by the school. A couple of pages made me raise a brow.A HASS page said:
“There are two more fossil fuels: oil and natural gas. These both form when dead animals are covered by mud over millions of years.”Hmmm…
Animals sensu very fucking lato. And also a lot of things that are definitely not animals.Then in maths, there was a little quiz that had
Find √64
with possible answers being
a) 6 or -6
b) 10 or -10
c) 8 or -8
d) 4 or -4When I went to school, the square root was very specifically the positive root.
Well the Internet says:
A square root of a number is a value that, when multiplied by itself, gives the number. Example: 4 × 4 = 16, so a square root of 16 is 4. Note that (−4) × (−4) = 16 too, so −4 is also a square root of 16.which is what I thought.
The Internet and I may well be wrong of course.
Perhaps we should ask TATE.
OK, so TATE says square roots can be + or -, but the squigally sign indicates the positive square root.
The Rev Dodgson said:
dv said:
My baby boy is doing online exam prep using the materials provided by the school. A couple of pages made me raise a brow.A HASS page said:
“There are two more fossil fuels: oil and natural gas. These both form when dead animals are covered by mud over millions of years.”Hmmm…
Animals sensu very fucking lato. And also a lot of things that are definitely not animals.Then in maths, there was a little quiz that had
Find √64
with possible answers being
a) 6 or -6
b) 10 or -10
c) 8 or -8
d) 4 or -4When I went to school, the square root was very specifically the positive root.
Well the Internet says:
A square root of a number is a value that, when multiplied by itself, gives the number. Example: 4 × 4 = 16, so a square root of 16 is 4. Note that (−4) × (−4) = 16 too, so −4 is also a square root of 16.which is what I thought.
The Internet and I may well be wrong of course.
Perhaps we should ask TATE.
Seems the Internet agrees with me that √64 is definitely 8, but that “the square root of 64” could be positive or negative.
Every nonnegative real number x has a unique nonnegative square root, called the principal square root, which is denoted by √x where the symbol √ is called the radical sign or radix. For example, the principal square root of 9 is 3, which is denoted by √9 because 3^2^ = 3 ⋅ 3 = 9 and 3 is nonnegative.
damn, so not one of the top 16 seeds made it to the semifinal in the women’s singles at Roland Garros eh?
dv said:
damn, so not one of the top 16 seeds made it to the semifinal in the women’s singles at Roland Garros eh?
if anyone in Victoria lives near Timboon, please buy me ten hundred of these…
Arts said:
if anyone in Victoria lives near Timboon, please buy me ten hundred of these…
The Rev Dodgson said:
dv said:
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-low-can-americas-birth-rate-go-before-its-a-problem/How Low Can America’s Birth Rate Go Before It’s A Problem?
The U.S. fertility rate hit a record low in 2020 — just as it did in 2019, and 2018. Although the COVID-19 pandemic seems to have accelerated this decline, the drop has been underway for years. The total fertility rate — the average number of children a woman is expected to have over her lifetime — now sits at 1.64 children per woman in the U.S. Not only is this the lowest rate recorded since the government began tracking these stats in the 1930s, but it’s well below the so-called “replacement-level fertility” of about 2.1.
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Since no country has had low fertility rates long enough to experience its full effects, the debate over all this remains theoretical. “It takes a while to work its way through the population,” said Murray. Even countries like Japan, where the population is already shrinking, still benefit from a growing global labor force from which to draw workers and a growing global marketplace in which to sell their wares. And countries like the U.S., Canada and Australia rely on net immigration as well — and could probably continue doing so for decades if they choose to embrace it. But birth rates are falling practically everywhere, and the global fertility rate is expected to fall below replacement level sometime between 2050 and 2100. The consequences of low fertility will be different when the whole world is experiencing it.
Whatever the effects of low birth rates, they are nothing to the long-term effect of continually high birth rates.
Also, the idea that populations must always grow for people to be prosperous, which still seems to be common, is so ridiculous I don’t know how it ever came to be accepted.
Replacement people to work for those too old and to generate income to look after them as well I thought
Arts said:
if anyone in Victoria lives near Timboon, please buy me ten hundred of these…
oooh, I will have a hundred too, can you order online?
The Great Jaguar: This 154-foot pyramid, nearly 1,400 years old, rises from the jungle in Guatemala. The Maya temple is known as the Great Jaguar, and photographer Babak Tafreshi says you can hear the big cat if you stick around Tikal National Park at night. That’s when Tafreshi, who made this brief how-to on night photography, took this image of the constellation Taurus and the Pleiades star cluster rising. Some Maya pyramids were built to reflect astronomical events, keeping time for rituals and agriculture. The observations, including those of the Pleiades, were the backbone of the Maya calendar.
dv said:
Been going like that recently.
damn, so not one of the top 16 seeds made it to the semifinal in the women’s singles at Roland Garros eh?
Who’s your pick out of Barbora Krejčíková, Maria Sakkari, Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and Tamara Zidanšek?
Ian said:
dv said:Been going like that recently.
damn, so not one of the top 16 seeds made it to the semifinal in the women’s singles at Roland Garros eh?
Who’s your pick out of Barbora Krejčíková, Maria Sakkari, Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and Tamara Zidanšek?
PermeateFree said:
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The Great Jaguar: This 154-foot pyramid, nearly 1,400 years old, rises from the jungle in Guatemala. The Maya temple is known as the Great Jaguar, and photographer Babak Tafreshi says you can hear the big cat if you stick around Tikal National Park at night. That’s when Tafreshi, who made this brief how-to on night photography, took this image of the constellation Taurus and the Pleiades star cluster rising. Some Maya pyramids were built to reflect astronomical events, keeping time for rituals and agriculture. The observations, including those of the Pleiades, were the backbone of the Maya calendar.
Miss out on a lot of objects in the night sky living in suburbia
dv said:
Ian said:
dv said:Been going like that recently.
damn, so not one of the top 16 seeds made it to the semifinal in the women’s singles at Roland Garros eh?
Who’s your pick out of Barbora Krejčíková, Maria Sakkari, Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and Tamara Zidanšek?
nfi
Well can you give me some pronunciation help?
Dark side of solar system’s ‘mammoth’ moon revealed in detailed pictures
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One shows the moon’s far side, opposite the sun.
The final image will stitch together red-and-blue filtered images to show more detail on the actual colour of the moon.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-09/nasa-pictures-jupiter-moon-ganymede/100200922
I wonder what the fuck they are talking about. It doesn’t have a face that is permanently “far”, nor “dark”.
dv said:
Dark side of solar system’s ‘mammoth’ moon revealed in detailed pictures—-
One shows the moon’s far side, opposite the sun.The final image will stitch together red-and-blue filtered images to show more detail on the actual colour of the moon.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-09/nasa-pictures-jupiter-moon-ganymede/100200922
I wonder what the fuck they are talking about. It doesn’t have a face that is permanently “far”, nor “dark”.
Is it tidally locked to Jupiter ?
I should look it up
Cymek said:
dv said:
Dark side of solar system’s ‘mammoth’ moon revealed in detailed pictures—-
One shows the moon’s far side, opposite the sun.The final image will stitch together red-and-blue filtered images to show more detail on the actual colour of the moon.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-09/nasa-pictures-jupiter-moon-ganymede/100200922
I wonder what the fuck they are talking about. It doesn’t have a face that is permanently “far”, nor “dark”.
Is it tidally locked to Jupiter ?
I should look it up
It is so perhaps they mean the side not facing Jupiter
dv said:
Dark side of solar system’s ‘mammoth’ moon revealed in detailed pictures—-
One shows the moon’s far side, opposite the sun.The final image will stitch together red-and-blue filtered images to show more detail on the actual colour of the moon.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-09/nasa-pictures-jupiter-moon-ganymede/100200922
I wonder what the fuck they are talking about. It doesn’t have a face that is permanently “far”, nor “dark”.
It’s all dark, isn’t it?
BACK from Launceston, with a tasty stir-fry from Dave’s Noodles for dinner, which will need a quick re-heating.
But first, put all my shopping away.
Bogsnorkler said:
I don’t use maps to find my way purely to see what features are around that may be interesting to visit. never used a map when doing bush walk, no tracks, and always found the car again. still dunno how that worked.
I envy you that. I am geographically challenged. It was known in my Mum’s family that if you took Nanna into the back paddock (of 40 acres, cleared), turned her around twice and told her to find the house, she would be lost. I think I got those genes. Out on our bush block I do recognize some of the trees and have a general idea where I am, but if I go off along a roo track I could very easily be walking for a long time to find my way out. When it was burnt out and I could see to the edges, I got a much better idea of the actual layout.
Cymek said:
Cymek said:
dv said:
Dark side of solar system’s ‘mammoth’ moon revealed in detailed pictures—-
One shows the moon’s far side, opposite the sun.The final image will stitch together red-and-blue filtered images to show more detail on the actual colour of the moon.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-09/nasa-pictures-jupiter-moon-ganymede/100200922
I wonder what the fuck they are talking about. It doesn’t have a face that is permanently “far”, nor “dark”.
Is it tidally locked to Jupiter ?
I should look it up
It is so perhaps they mean the side not facing Jupiter
Probably, but there’s nothing rare about pictures of the trans side of Ganymede
Bubblecar said:
BACK from Launceston, with a tasty stir-fry from Dave’s Noodles for dinner, which will need a quick re-heating.But first, put all my shopping away.
A nice day?
Arts said:
if anyone in Victoria lives near Timboon, please buy me ten hundred of these…
Timboon is not all that far from here. They make good cheeses too.
https://schulzorganicdairy.com.au/news/2018/1/31/timboon-cheesery-home-of-schulz-much-more
I’m back. Because it was dull and uninviting outside I went back to bed for the day and spent my time at Mansfield Park. With a couple of naps. It would be a very long time since I spent a day in bed.
Bubblecar said:
BACK from Launceston, with a tasty stir-fry from Dave’s Noodles for dinner, which will need a quick re-heating.But first, put all my shopping away.
…and next, relax with a small glass of dry Palomino Fino sherry from Spain.
“I’ve completely lost one shed. I don’t even know where it is, it’s just disappeared. It’s gone, it’s just gone.”
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-10/thousands-clean-up-after-wild-storm-in-victoria/100204228
I’d advise her to work out which way the wind was blowing and check the paddocks in the downwind direction. That is where we found our garden shed years ago when it went for a flying holiday.
Mr buffy is cook tonight. He has just given me a bowl of steamed potato with sour cream and sweet chili sauce for entree. I know there are pork chops and snow peas still on the way. And I’ve already eaten half a raw carrot.
He picked up individual little cheesecakes this morning from the bakery. But I think I may only need half of one.
dv said:
Bubblecar said:
BACK from Launceston, with a tasty stir-fry from Dave’s Noodles for dinner, which will need a quick re-heating.But first, put all my shopping away.
A nice day?
Pleasant enough. Even though we left without my X-ray referral which I only noticed about 15 minutes into the drive, so we had to come back for it.
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
BACK from Launceston, with a tasty stir-fry from Dave’s Noodles for dinner, which will need a quick re-heating.But first, put all my shopping away.
…and next, relax with a small glass of dry Palomino Fino sherry from Spain.
Maybe Car knows…
Hey y’all remember a movie, probably made for TV, about Edward Elgar’s late life? From the 1980ish … young dude had the job of transcribing Elgar’s late works based on his vocalisations.
dv said:
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
BACK from Launceston, with a tasty stir-fry from Dave’s Noodles for dinner, which will need a quick re-heating.But first, put all my shopping away.
…and next, relax with a small glass of dry Palomino Fino sherry from Spain.
Maybe Car knows…
Hey y’all remember a movie, probably made for TV, about Edward Elgar’s late life? From the 1980ish … young dude had the job of transcribing Elgar’s late works based on his vocalisations.
It’s not ringing bells, sorry.
Bubblecar said:
dv said:
Bubblecar said:…and next, relax with a small glass of dry Palomino Fino sherry from Spain.
Maybe Car knows…
Hey y’all remember a movie, probably made for TV, about Edward Elgar’s late life? From the 1980ish … young dude had the job of transcribing Elgar’s late works based on his vocalisations.
It’s not ringing bells, sorry.
Hmmm.
I can’t find it online …
Makes me think maybe it wasn’t even Elgar.
dv said:
Bubblecar said:
dv said:Maybe Car knows…
Hey y’all remember a movie, probably made for TV, about Edward Elgar’s late life? From the 1980ish … young dude had the job of transcribing Elgar’s late works based on his vocalisations.
It’s not ringing bells, sorry.
Hmmm.
I can’t find it online …
Makes me think maybe it wasn’t even Elgar.
Passion (1999 film)??
Passion, known in some releases as Passion: The Story of Percy Grainger, is a 1999 Australian drama film about some episodes in the life of the pianist and composer Percy Grainger. It stars Richard Roxburgh as Grainger.??
sarahs mum said:
dv said:
Bubblecar said:It’s not ringing bells, sorry.
Hmmm.
I can’t find it online …
Makes me think maybe it wasn’t even Elgar.
Passion (1999 film)??
Passion, known in some releases as Passion: The Story of Percy Grainger, is a 1999 Australian drama film about some episodes in the life of the pianist and composer Percy Grainger. It stars Richard Roxburgh as Grainger.??
It is set mainly in London in 1914, when Grainger’s mother Rose was ill (she would later jump to her death in New York, upset by ill-founded rumours of incest with her son).
sarahs mum said:
sarahs mum said:
dv said:Hmmm.
I can’t find it online …
Makes me think maybe it wasn’t even Elgar.
Passion (1999 film)??
Passion, known in some releases as Passion: The Story of Percy Grainger, is a 1999 Australian drama film about some episodes in the life of the pianist and composer Percy Grainger. It stars Richard Roxburgh as Grainger.??
It is set mainly in London in 1914, when Grainger’s mother Rose was ill (she would later jump to her death in New York, upset by ill-founded rumours of incest with her son).
Eh in the movie I’m thinking of, the composer is very elderly through the entire thing, mostly bedridden.
Ah no matter , thanks for trying to help.
dv said:
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-low-can-americas-birth-rate-go-before-its-a-problem/How Low Can America’s Birth Rate Go Before It’s A Problem?
The U.S. fertility rate hit a record low in 2020 — just as it did in 2019, and 2018. Although the COVID-19 pandemic seems to have accelerated this decline, the drop has been underway for years. The total fertility rate — the average number of children a woman is expected to have over her lifetime — now sits at 1.64 children per woman in the U.S. Not only is this the lowest rate recorded since the government began tracking these stats in the 1930s, but it’s well below the so-called “replacement-level fertility” of about 2.1.
—-
Since no country has had low fertility rates long enough to experience its full effects, the debate over all this remains theoretical. “It takes a while to work its way through the population,” said Murray. Even countries like Japan, where the population is already shrinking, still benefit from a growing global labor force from which to draw workers and a growing global marketplace in which to sell their wares. And countries like the U.S., Canada and Australia rely on net immigration as well — and could probably continue doing so for decades if they choose to embrace it. But birth rates are falling practically everywhere, and the global fertility rate is expected to fall below replacement level sometime between 2050 and 2100. The consequences of low fertility will be different when the whole world is experiencing it.
Maybe those countries worried about declining birth rates could introduce some legal form of polygamy. If you can’t change the birth rate, change the sex ratio. The extra women would need to be immigrants.
There’s a particular scene I remember, the composer is in bed and he’s just named an instrument and he is belting out the melody for the lad to transcribe, but his voice is so deteriorated that there’s basically no tonality, so he’s just saying “da! da! di da! da”
dv said:
sarahs mum said:
sarahs mum said:Passion (1999 film)??
Passion, known in some releases as Passion: The Story of Percy Grainger, is a 1999 Australian drama film about some episodes in the life of the pianist and composer Percy Grainger. It stars Richard Roxburgh as Grainger.??
It is set mainly in London in 1914, when Grainger’s mother Rose was ill (she would later jump to her death in New York, upset by ill-founded rumours of incest with her son).
Eh in the movie I’m thinking of, the composer is very elderly through the entire thing, mostly bedridden.
Handel’s Last Chance?
sarahs mum said:
sarahs mum said:
dv said:Hmmm.
I can’t find it online …
Makes me think maybe it wasn’t even Elgar.
Passion (1999 film)??
Passion, known in some releases as Passion: The Story of Percy Grainger, is a 1999 Australian drama film about some episodes in the life of the pianist and composer Percy Grainger. It stars Richard Roxburgh as Grainger.??
It is set mainly in London in 1914, when Grainger’s mother Rose was ill (she would later jump to her death in New York, upset by ill-founded rumours of incest with her son).
That’s sad.
sarahs mum said:
dv said:
sarahs mum said:It is set mainly in London in 1914, when Grainger’s mother Rose was ill (she would later jump to her death in New York, upset by ill-founded rumours of incest with her son).
Eh in the movie I’m thinking of, the composer is very elderly through the entire thing, mostly bedridden.
Handel’s Last Chance?
Mmm, set in the early to mid 20th century.
dv said:
There’s a particular scene I remember, the composer is in bed and he’s just named an instrument and he is belting out the melody for the lad to transcribe, but his voice is so deteriorated that there’s basically no tonality, so he’s just saying “da! da! di da! da”
Song of Summer, directed by Ken Russell
Neophyte said:
dv said:
There’s a particular scene I remember, the composer is in bed and he’s just named an instrument and he is belting out the melody for the lad to transcribe, but his voice is so deteriorated that there’s basically no tonality, so he’s just saying “da! da! di da! da”
Song of Summer, directed by Ken Russell
Eric Fenby’s account of acting as a bedridden Delius’s ammanuensis.
Neophyte said:
Neophyte said:
dv said:
There’s a particular scene I remember, the composer is in bed and he’s just named an instrument and he is belting out the melody for the lad to transcribe, but his voice is so deteriorated that there’s basically no tonality, so he’s just saying “da! da! di da! da”
Song of Summer, directed by Ken Russell
Eric Fenby’s account of acting as a bedridden Delius’s ammanuensis.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2e0CrIfY6c
Neophyte said:
dv said:
There’s a particular scene I remember, the composer is in bed and he’s just named an instrument and he is belting out the melody for the lad to transcribe, but his voice is so deteriorated that there’s basically no tonality, so he’s just saying “da! da! di da! da”
Song of Summer, directed by Ken Russell
:)
Neophyte said:
dv said:
There’s a particular scene I remember, the composer is in bed and he’s just named an instrument and he is belting out the melody for the lad to transcribe, but his voice is so deteriorated that there’s basically no tonality, so he’s just saying “da! da! di da! da”
Song of Summer, directed by Ken Russell
Nice one!
Damn, 1968 … I was way off.
That’s it.
Flippin’ Delius. Still, he was English and it was the right era.
dv said:
Neophyte said:
dv said:
There’s a particular scene I remember, the composer is in bed and he’s just named an instrument and he is belting out the melody for the lad to transcribe, but his voice is so deteriorated that there’s basically no tonality, so he’s just saying “da! da! di da! da”
Song of Summer, directed by Ken Russell
Nice one!
Damn, 1968 … I was way off.That’s it.
Flippin’ Delius. Still, he was English and it was the right era.
:)
Posted before but worth another look.
Manchester, 1971: “The Shambles” (16th century Old Wellington Inn and Sinclairs Oyster Bar) being raised on a concrete raft and 30ft pilings, to bring it in line with the new shopping centres being built.
Bubblecar said:
Posted before but worth another look.Manchester, 1971: “The Shambles” (16th century Old Wellington Inn and Sinclairs Oyster Bar) being raised on a concrete raft and 30ft pilings, to bring it in line with the new shopping centres being built.
It is well done. I would have thought they would have put a lot more bracing on it before they started.
Bubblecar said:
Posted before but worth another look.Manchester, 1971: “The Shambles” (16th century Old Wellington Inn and Sinclairs Oyster Bar) being raised on a concrete raft and 30ft pilings, to bring it in line with the new shopping centres being built.
Wow, look at the size of the new cellar.
Robert De Niro and Henry Goodman went back in time and had a love child called Maurice Ravel.
What a nice place this is
>It’s May 1949 and British Rail was showing off its latest idea to please the public – a travelling pub.
Not a buffet car or restaurant, but a “tavern car” – a full on pub on wheels, in a mock-tudor appearance, with fake brick walls on the outside, and even a pub sign on the door.
Eight sets of two carriages were planned and each was given a traditional pub name — The White Horse, The Salutation, The Jolly Tar, The Dolphin, The Bull, The Green Man, The Crown, and Three Plovers.
Mock tudor isn’t cheap, with the eight trains costing £64,000 out of British Rail’s total restaurant car budget for the year of £281,000.
The decoration inside was based on a traditional pub, so they had rough white washed walls and dark oak beams, and high backed dark wood seats (settles). Even the windows in the train carriage were rather small olde style leaded panes, and the floor was designed to look like country pub floor tiles.
Ahhh Melbourne. Come for the coffee: stay for the covid.
https://www.timeout.com/melbourne/news/smith-street-has-been-named-the-coolest-street-in-the-world-060921?
dv said:
What a nice place this is
Sorry I was unable to help earlier.
I don’t keep up with every low budget art-house film you know….
party_pants said:
dv said:
What a nice place this is
Sorry I was unable to help earlier.
I don’t keep up with every low budget art-house film you know….
That DV remembers from watching in the eighties.
Bubblecar said:
>It’s May 1949 and British Rail was showing off its latest idea to please the public – a travelling pub.Not a buffet car or restaurant, but a “tavern car” – a full on pub on wheels, in a mock-tudor appearance, with fake brick walls on the outside, and even a pub sign on the door.
Eight sets of two carriages were planned and each was given a traditional pub name — The White Horse, The Salutation, The Jolly Tar, The Dolphin, The Bull, The Green Man, The Crown, and Three Plovers.
Mock tudor isn’t cheap, with the eight trains costing £64,000 out of British Rail’s total restaurant car budget for the year of £281,000.
The decoration inside was based on a traditional pub, so they had rough white washed walls and dark oak beams, and high backed dark wood seats (settles). Even the windows in the train carriage were rather small olde style leaded panes, and the floor was designed to look like country pub floor tiles.
seemed like a good idea at the time I guess.
Witty Rejoinder said:
party_pants said:
dv said:
What a nice place this is
Sorry I was unable to help earlier.
I don’t keep up with every low budget art-house film you know….
That DV remembers from watching in the eighties.
which was actually 1968 … and was about a different composer than I thought …
so I’m pretty impressed.
party_pants said:
dv said:
What a nice place this is
Sorry I was unable to help earlier.
I don’t keep up with every low budget art-house film you know….
Low budget? Art house?
It were BBC, lad!
Bubblecar said:
>It’s May 1949 and British Rail was showing off its latest idea to please the public – a travelling pub.Not a buffet car or restaurant, but a “tavern car” – a full on pub on wheels, in a mock-tudor appearance, with fake brick walls on the outside, and even a pub sign on the door.
Eight sets of two carriages were planned and each was given a traditional pub name — The White Horse, The Salutation, The Jolly Tar, The Dolphin, The Bull, The Green Man, The Crown, and Three Plovers.
Mock tudor isn’t cheap, with the eight trains costing £64,000 out of British Rail’s total restaurant car budget for the year of £281,000.
The decoration inside was based on a traditional pub, so they had rough white washed walls and dark oak beams, and high backed dark wood seats (settles). Even the windows in the train carriage were rather small olde style leaded panes, and the floor was designed to look like country pub floor tiles.
overnight train north then.
party_pants said:
Bubblecar said:
>It’s May 1949 and British Rail was showing off its latest idea to please the public – a travelling pub.Not a buffet car or restaurant, but a “tavern car” – a full on pub on wheels, in a mock-tudor appearance, with fake brick walls on the outside, and even a pub sign on the door.
Eight sets of two carriages were planned and each was given a traditional pub name — The White Horse, The Salutation, The Jolly Tar, The Dolphin, The Bull, The Green Man, The Crown, and Three Plovers.
Mock tudor isn’t cheap, with the eight trains costing £64,000 out of British Rail’s total restaurant car budget for the year of £281,000.
The decoration inside was based on a traditional pub, so they had rough white washed walls and dark oak beams, and high backed dark wood seats (settles). Even the windows in the train carriage were rather small olde style leaded panes, and the floor was designed to look like country pub floor tiles.
seemed like a good idea at the time I guess.
It seems that reception was rather mixed.
The week after they were shown off, a letter to the Times criticizing their faux heritage appearance was signed by a host of critics and designers.
In June, during a Parliamentary debate, Tom Driberg MP declared “Words fail me to express the full horror which I felt when the announcement was made by B.R. of the cars which they described as being ‘mock Tudor style’. Another politician, Skeffington Lodge MP described the idea as “bogus sentimentality”.
However, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport, and future Prime Minister, Jim Callaghan defended the mobile pubs, saying that “the use to which these tavern cars has been put has exceeded the wildest expectations in revenue that the Railway Executive ever hoped to get.”
He curtly chided armchair critics noting that “nobody likes them except the public and the public have flocked to them”, adding that “There has been a lot of heat and exaggerated language used by people who have not been within half a mile of them.”
They seemed to be popular for serving drinks, but less so for drinking the drinks.
The beams were complained of as being too low, the small windows made the carriages seem claustrophobic, and there was a lack of ventilation which made them uncomfortable in the summer.
https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2020/04/14/british-rails-short-experiment-with-travelling-pubs/
Neophyte said:
party_pants said:
dv said:
What a nice place this is
Sorry I was unable to help earlier.
I don’t keep up with every low budget art-house film you know….
Low budget? Art house?
It were BBC, lad!
Around that time, they were spending about 3000 pound per episode on Doctor Who.
dv said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
party_pants said:Sorry I was unable to help earlier.
I don’t keep up with every low budget art-house film you know….
That DV remembers from watching in the eighties.
which was actually 1968 … and was about a different composer than I thought …
so I’m pretty impressed.
Russell did a much-acclaimed fillum about Elgar, so it’s understandable you may have confuzzled the two.
Neophyte said:
dv said:
Witty Rejoinder said:That DV remembers from watching in the eighties.
which was actually 1968 … and was about a different composer than I thought …
so I’m pretty impressed.
Russell did a much-acclaimed fillum about Elgar, so it’s understandable you may have confuzzled the two.
Yes, young Ros mentioned that one before.
dv said:
Neophyte said:
dv said:which was actually 1968 … and was about a different composer than I thought …
so I’m pretty impressed.
Russell did a much-acclaimed fillum about Elgar, so it’s understandable you may have confuzzled the two.
Yes, young Ros mentioned that one before.
Jon Gros.
sarahs mum said:
dv said:
Neophyte said:Russell did a much-acclaimed fillum about Elgar, so it’s understandable you may have confuzzled the two.
Yes, young Ros mentioned that one before.
Jon Gros.
Juan Groz.
Where’s DA?
Tau.Neutrino said:
Where’s DA?
Taking a break from the forum hopefully to return in the very near future.
Tau.Neutrino said:
Where’s DA?
What am I, Google Maps?
I’m putting bubble wrap on some of my windows, The bathroom window has 2 layers of bubble wrap, its been 2 weeks since, 2 layers make a heap of difference.
Witty Rejoinder said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Where’s DA?Taking a break from the forum hopefully to return in the very near future.
ok,
Tau.Neutrino said:
I’m putting bubble wrap on some of my windows, The bathroom window has 2 layers of bubble wrap, its been 2 weeks since, 2 layers make a heap of difference.
I’ll be sure to pop over
dv said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Where’s DA?What am I, Google Maps?
Imagine Googles quantum computer gaining intelligence and starts texting to people without google knowing about it.
dv said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
I’m putting bubble wrap on some of my windows, The bathroom window has 2 layers of bubble wrap, its been 2 weeks since, 2 layers make a heap of difference.I’ll be sure to pop over
Its all the little pockets of trapped air.
noticeable insulation properties.
Tau.Neutrino said:
dv said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
I’m putting bubble wrap on some of my windows, The bathroom window has 2 layers of bubble wrap, its been 2 weeks since, 2 layers make a heap of difference.I’ll be sure to pop over
Its all the little pockets of trapped air.
noticeable insulation properties.
Would a window with thousands of little pockets of trapped air be better than say a double glazed window?
Tau.Neutrino said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
dv said:I’ll be sure to pop over
Its all the little pockets of trapped air.
noticeable insulation properties.
Would a window with thousands of little pockets of trapped air be better than say a double glazed window?
Windows tend to be see-through. It’s sort of their thing.
Tau.Neutrino said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
dv said:I’ll be sure to pop over
Its all the little pockets of trapped air.
noticeable insulation properties.
Would a window with thousands of little pockets of trapped air be better than say a double glazed window?
Probably not, otherwise it would already be the commercially dominant form of window insulation ahead of double glazing.
party_pants said:
dv said:
What a nice place this is
Sorry I was unable to help earlier.
I don’t keep up with every low budget art-house film you know….
ROFL
1945, Margate, Kent.
Kiwi POWs, newly liberated from a Stalag and repatriated to UK, enjoying some pints and music in a busy pub.
Witty Rejoinder said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Tau.Neutrino said:Its all the little pockets of trapped air.
noticeable insulation properties.
Would a window with thousands of little pockets of trapped air be better than say a double glazed window?
Windows tend to be see-through. It’s sort of their thing.
the zen of window.
It’s usefulness comes from what is not there.
1944, Brighton.
Mrs Pitt, wife of the landlord, pours a beer for a naval officer in the saloon bar of ‘The Cricketers’ pub which was built in 1545.
Windows originally had no glass at all and let the wind in. Hence the term, windows.
Glass used to be a precious commodity
Lorikeets in the snow, Mount Victoria Smiling face with heart-shaped eyes
This pic from @abcsydney
/ Gary P Hayes photograph
kettle’s on the flame, near boiled
was watching the rectangle but the spin coming from it is unbearable
now, make that coffee, and lady cup of tea
sarahs mum said:
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Lorikeets in the snow, Mount Victoria Smiling face with heart-shaped eyes
This pic from @abcsydney / Gary P Hayes photograph
Lubly.
Bubblecar said:
Windows originally had no glass at all and let the wind in. Hence the term, windows.
I like the look of early glass. Earthy. Some have green tinges, others have bubbles and other imperfections.
dv said:
Glass used to be a precious commodity
As precious as Alon today. One day future people might laugh at us for a fragile glass.
Tau.Neutrino said:
Bubblecar said:
Windows originally had no glass at all and let the wind in. Hence the term, windows.
I like the look of early glass. Earthy. Some have green tinges, others have bubbles and other imperfections.
My older sister’s 1830s house still has original glass in the windows. The view out of same panes is a bit wavy and distorted.
sarahs mum said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Tau.Neutrino said:Would a window with thousands of little pockets of trapped air be better than say a double glazed window?
Windows tend to be see-through. It’s sort of their thing.
the zen of window.
It’s usefulness comes from what is not there.
:-)
Bubblecar said:
Windows originally had no glass at all and let the wind in. Hence the term, windows.
for your entertainment, master car :)
https://youtu.be/O9HyAa1RyCQ?t=94
Bubblecar said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Bubblecar said:
Windows originally had no glass at all and let the wind in. Hence the term, windows.
I like the look of early glass. Earthy. Some have green tinges, others have bubbles and other imperfections.
My older sister’s 1830s house still has original glass in the windows. The view out of same panes is a bit wavy and distorted.
I have a pair of reclaimed king billy panes from a house demolished in sandy bay. I don’t know how old but really old. I was tolkd I couldnt’ have them in the new house because of Aus design standards. HOw long would they last? We just don’t know.
Neophyte said:
Neophyte said:
dv said:
There’s a particular scene I remember, the composer is in bed and he’s just named an instrument and he is belting out the melody for the lad to transcribe, but his voice is so deteriorated that there’s basically no tonality, so he’s just saying “da! da! di da! da”
Song of Summer, directed by Ken Russell
Eric Fenby’s account of acting as a bedridden Delius’s ammanuensis.
I seem to have a vague recollection of that. Very vague
I didn’t know these were a thing. I want one.
Curved escalator.
dv said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
party_pants said:Sorry I was unable to help earlier.
I don’t keep up with every low budget art-house film you know….
That DV remembers from watching in the eighties.
which was actually 1968 … and was about a different composer than I thought …
so I’m pretty impressed.
But you may well have watched it in the 1980s.
Tau.Neutrino said:
I’m putting bubble wrap on some of my windows, The bathroom window has 2 layers of bubble wrap, its been 2 weeks since, 2 layers make a heap of difference.
OK…why?
(It will probably grow mould)
mollwollfumble said:
I didn’t know these were a thing. I want one.Curved escalator.
Do they all come with man-beast statues in the foyer?
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
Tau.Neutrino said:I like the look of early glass. Earthy. Some have green tinges, others have bubbles and other imperfections.
My older sister’s 1830s house still has original glass in the windows. The view out of same panes is a bit wavy and distorted.
I have a pair of reclaimed king billy panes from a house demolished in sandy bay. I don’t know how old but really old. I was tolkd I couldnt’ have them in the new house because of Aus design standards. HOw long would they last? We just don’t know.
My house at Casterton had a couple of windows in the front rooms that had their original wavy glass in them. The house was built around 1900ish.
>A view of empty bottle holders behind the bar at the Wynnstay Arms, Ruabon. This lack of spirits, such as whisky and gin was a common sight in wartime. Also visible is a price list for beers. The original caption states that the “scrawled out, altered price list shows budget increases in drink prices”. A poster invites locals to donate their ‘rural pennies’ to the Red Cross Agriculture Fund.
transition said:
Bubblecar said:
Windows originally had no glass at all and let the wind in. Hence the term, windows.
for your entertainment, master car :)
https://youtu.be/O9HyAa1RyCQ?t=94
Heh.
Except Sesame St shouldn’t be telling kids that cavepeople rode to work on dinosaurs.
buffy said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
I’m putting bubble wrap on some of my windows, The bathroom window has 2 layers of bubble wrap, its been 2 weeks since, 2 layers make a heap of difference.OK…why?
(It will probably grow mould)
For insulation, there is a little bit of air getting between the first plastic bubble sheet and the window for that purpose, so it should not grow mould, if it does Ill take it down, I don’t want any mould around.
I turn the ceiling exhaust fan on while having a shower to keep the moisture down, if I notice dampness on the walls I can turn the wall heater on.
mollwollfumble said:
I didn’t know these were a thing. I want one.Curved escalator.
Rubik’s Cube for blind people.
buffy said:
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:My older sister’s 1830s house still has original glass in the windows. The view out of same panes is a bit wavy and distorted.
I have a pair of reclaimed king billy panes from a house demolished in sandy bay. I don’t know how old but really old. I was tolkd I couldnt’ have them in the new house because of Aus design standards. HOw long would they last? We just don’t know.
My house at Casterton had a couple of windows in the front rooms that had their original wavy glass in them. The house was built around 1900ish.
I like early wavy glass.
Bubblecar said:
>A view of empty bottle holders behind the bar at the Wynnstay Arms, Ruabon. This lack of spirits, such as whisky and gin was a common sight in wartime. Also visible is a price list for beers. The original caption states that the “scrawled out, altered price list shows budget increases in drink prices”. A poster invites locals to donate their ‘rural pennies’ to the Red Cross Agriculture Fund.
https://sofii.org/case-study/british-red-cross-the-7.7-billion-appeal-that-changed-british-fundraising-forever
Bubblecar said:
>A view of empty bottle holders behind the bar at the Wynnstay Arms, Ruabon. This lack of spirits, such as whisky and gin was a common sight in wartime. Also visible is a price list for beers. The original caption states that the “scrawled out, altered price list shows budget increases in drink prices”. A poster invites locals to donate their ‘rural pennies’ to the Red Cross Agriculture Fund.
Is Ruabon a place in the UK? Coz there is a locality near me in WA called Ruabon. It was one of the earliest places named, and most of the other areas around here are named after the local aboriginal dialect names.
In the local noongar language, a name ending in “up” means “place of”. A name ending in “in” means a water source.
Drinking the Dublin-brewed Guinness Draught out of a tin. Not bad, mild, creamy, a bit smoky.
Kingy said:
Bubblecar said:
>A view of empty bottle holders behind the bar at the Wynnstay Arms, Ruabon. This lack of spirits, such as whisky and gin was a common sight in wartime. Also visible is a price list for beers. The original caption states that the “scrawled out, altered price list shows budget increases in drink prices”. A poster invites locals to donate their ‘rural pennies’ to the Red Cross Agriculture Fund.
Is Ruabon a place in the UK? Coz there is a locality near me in WA called Ruabon. It was one of the earliest places named, and most of the other areas around here are named after the local aboriginal dialect names.
In the local noongar language, a name ending in “up” means “place of”. A name ending in “in” means a water source.
It is in Wales. That pub is still there. Ruabon Rd, Toorak was the first street we lived in when we arrived in Australia.
Kingy said:
Bubblecar said:
>A view of empty bottle holders behind the bar at the Wynnstay Arms, Ruabon. This lack of spirits, such as whisky and gin was a common sight in wartime. Also visible is a price list for beers. The original caption states that the “scrawled out, altered price list shows budget increases in drink prices”. A poster invites locals to donate their ‘rural pennies’ to the Red Cross Agriculture Fund.
Is Ruabon a place in the UK? Coz there is a locality near me in WA called Ruabon. It was one of the earliest places named, and most of the other areas around here are named after the local aboriginal dialect names.
In the local noongar language, a name ending in “up” means “place of”. A name ending in “in” means a water source.
This Ruabon is a village in Wrexham, Wales. These pub scenes I’ve been posting are wartime snaps from the Imperial War Museum.
Seems an obscure little place to be naming places in WA after, but similar naming practices occurred in Tasmania.
Bogsnorkler said:
It is in Wales. That pub is still there. Ruabon Rd, Toorak was the first street we lived in when we arrived in Australia.
Classy.
Bubblecar said:
Drinking the Dublin-brewed Guinness Draught out of a tin. Not bad, mild, creamy, a bit smoky.
>out of a tin
…but poured into a glass, as the tin itself advises.
Witty Rejoinder said:
Bogsnorkler said:It is in Wales. That pub is still there. Ruabon Rd, Toorak was the first street we lived in when we arrived in Australia.
Classy.
Nah, wrong side of the railway tracks. Malvern Rd side.
A cheery scene from the same Welsh pub, 1944.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_brick
Insulation
Glass brick has an r value between 1.75 and 1.96, close to that of thermopane windows. There are newer glass blocks injected with argon gas and having a layer of low-emissivity glass between the halves, which increases the insulative (U) value to 1.5 W/m²·K, which is between triple glazed windows (1.8 W/m²·K) and specialty double glazed windows with advanced frame and coatings(1.2 W/m²·K).
Having two layers of bubblewrap, it could sit somewhere around 1.5 (guessing).
Tau.Neutrino said:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_brick
Insulation
Glass brick has an r value between 1.75 and 1.96, close to that of thermopane windows. There are newer glass blocks injected with argon gas and having a layer of low-emissivity glass between the halves, which increases the insulative (U) value to 1.5 W/m²·K, which is between triple glazed windows (1.8 W/m²·K) and specialty double glazed windows with advanced frame and coatings(1.2 W/m²·K).
Having two layers of bubblewrap, it could sit somewhere around 1.5 (guessing).
The trick is to leave a gap for air movement when putting the first bubble wrap layer on, (to dry out any moisture), then it doesn’t matter so much when the next bubble wrap layer goes on over the first. I will be keeping an eye on it.
Tau.Neutrino said:
Tau.Neutrino said:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_brick
Insulation
Glass brick has an r value between 1.75 and 1.96, close to that of thermopane windows. There are newer glass blocks injected with argon gas and having a layer of low-emissivity glass between the halves, which increases the insulative (U) value to 1.5 W/m²·K, which is between triple glazed windows (1.8 W/m²·K) and specialty double glazed windows with advanced frame and coatings(1.2 W/m²·K).
Having two layers of bubblewrap, it could sit somewhere around 1.5 (guessing).
The trick is to leave a gap for air movement when putting the first bubble wrap layer on, (to dry out any moisture), then it doesn’t matter so much when the next bubble wrap layer goes on over the first. I will be keeping an eye on it.
why is insulting the bathroom window a high priority? Does it drop the house temp?
Visiting a British Pub with BG
In 1943, the American OWI helped create a film that they showed to all those who were to be stationed in Great Britain. This is an excerpt from the US Military Training film “How to Behave in Britain.”
Burgess Meredith, of later fame as the Penguin in the Batman series (he did a great deal of other stuff as well and much of it quite good), takes the American GI through the ins and outs of the British pub as it existed in wartime Britain.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GCcoaSq3×4
sarahs mum said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Tau.Neutrino said:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_brick
Insulation
Glass brick has an r value between 1.75 and 1.96, close to that of thermopane windows. There are newer glass blocks injected with argon gas and having a layer of low-emissivity glass between the halves, which increases the insulative (U) value to 1.5 W/m²·K, which is between triple glazed windows (1.8 W/m²·K) and specialty double glazed windows with advanced frame and coatings(1.2 W/m²·K).
Having two layers of bubblewrap, it could sit somewhere around 1.5 (guessing).
The trick is to leave a gap for air movement when putting the first bubble wrap layer on, (to dry out any moisture), then it doesn’t matter so much when the next bubble wrap layer goes on over the first. I will be keeping an eye on it.
why is insulting the bathroom window a high priority? Does it drop the house temp?
Its a cold room, I reckon I have gained around 2-3 degrees, I have also put a door seal roller on the bottom of the bathroom door.
The Kimberley coast is in the top 4% of least impacted coastlines on the planet. Its coral reefs, seagrass meadows and sponge gardens are home to an incredible array of fish, turtles, sea snakes and crustaceans. The surrounding ocean is part of a marine superhighway for pregnant Humpbacks, Snubfin Dolphins and Dugong, if any part of the coast needs protection, this is it.
Please sign the submission to protect the Buccaneer Archipelago: https://www.environskimberley.org.au/buccaneer?utm_campaign=buccaneer_marine_park&utm_medium=email&utm_source=environskimberley
‘Silica Beach’, Buccaneer Archipelago Photo: Martin Pritchard
The Dambimangari, Mayala and Bardi Jawi people have been working for several years on a plan that protects high conservation value and culturally important areas and balances them with opportunities for recreational fishing and tourism.
Humpback Whales, Buccaneer Archipelago photo: Matt Moreton-Deakin
This is one of the best marine park plans we’ve seen for the Kimberley coast. Credit is also due to the McGowan government’s co-design process that for the first time has taken into consideration Traditional Owner views and importantly incorporated them into the plan from the beginning.
Irvine Island – under threat from iron ore mining photo: Martin Pritchard
As well as protecting the coast, the park will provide jobs for Aboriginal Rangers and will be jointly managed with the Traditional Owners. Marine parks also increase tourism income and provide welcome job opportunities in this remote part of the Kimberley.
Please sign the submission today as it closes tomorrow Friday the 11th of June.
For the Kimberley coast!
Martin Pritchard
Director
Environs Kimberley
From Paul Trevor’s brilliant ‘Once upon a time in Brick Lane’ book
A competitor in the annual London to Brighton relay race being offered an ice cream at Croydon_C1948
Sarah’s Mum – if’n you’re a fan of all things Brick Lane, have you ever checked out the Spitalfields Life blog? It overflows with photos and accounts of all thing East Endian. Recommended for Anglophiles with a penchant for parts of London.
Bogsnorkler said:
Kingy said:
Bubblecar said:
>A view of empty bottle holders behind the bar at the Wynnstay Arms, Ruabon. This lack of spirits, such as whisky and gin was a common sight in wartime. Also visible is a price list for beers. The original caption states that the “scrawled out, altered price list shows budget increases in drink prices”. A poster invites locals to donate their ‘rural pennies’ to the Red Cross Agriculture Fund.
Is Ruabon a place in the UK? Coz there is a locality near me in WA called Ruabon. It was one of the earliest places named, and most of the other areas around here are named after the local aboriginal dialect names.
In the local noongar language, a name ending in “up” means “place of”. A name ending in “in” means a water source.
It is in Wales. That pub is still there. Ruabon Rd, Toorak was the first street we lived in when we arrived in Australia.
Toorak! Bloody toff.
Neophyte said:
Sarah’s Mum – if’n you’re a fan of all things Brick Lane, have you ever checked out the Spitalfields Life blog? It overflows with photos and accounts of all thing East Endian. Recommended for Anglophiles with a penchant for parts of London.
I do like the ‘old xxxxx’ facebook groups. I do like old photography. I try to post a bit across here for the the car’s viewing pleasure.
I fell into the old London photography pages the other day. I prefer the old Edinburgh. And Old sydney. Old Marrickville isn’t bad Somehow I ended up also in Old Townsville. (posted some of my Dad’s old pics there.)
sibeen said:
Bogsnorkler said:
Kingy said:Is Ruabon a place in the UK? Coz there is a locality near me in WA called Ruabon. It was one of the earliest places named, and most of the other areas around here are named after the local aboriginal dialect names.
In the local noongar language, a name ending in “up” means “place of”. A name ending in “in” means a water source.
It is in Wales. That pub is still there. Ruabon Rd, Toorak was the first street we lived in when we arrived in Australia.
Toorak! Bloody toff.
we did have to keep up appearances after we moved from our house in the old country, Knights Hill Cottage, Canons Green lane.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/10/acropolis-now-greeks-outraged-at-concreting-of-ancient-site
sarahs mum said:
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/10/acropolis-now-greeks-outraged-at-concreting-of-ancient-site
Give it a few centuries, some pommy toff will come and dig it up and drag bits of it back to a museum.
sarahs mum said:
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/10/acropolis-now-greeks-outraged-at-concreting-of-ancient-site
new gift shop and cafe going up ?
sarahs mum said:
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/10/acropolis-now-greeks-outraged-at-concreting-of-ancient-site
went there on our first day in athens. snowed. greece, santorini and crete were the best places on my euro holiday.
Enjoying my annual watch of Invasion (1966), an atmospheric British sci-fi based on a Robert Holmes story.
During one hot night in a provincial British hospital, staff and locals get caught up in a strange alien criminal pursuit case.
Here’s the original trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipnvYGsQT70
Bubblecar said:
transition said:
Bubblecar said:
Windows originally had no glass at all and let the wind in. Hence the term, windows.
for your entertainment, master car :)
https://youtu.be/O9HyAa1RyCQ?t=94
Heh.
Except Sesame St shouldn’t be telling kids that cavepeople rode to work on dinosaurs.
the wild excesses of creative license, they may also be suggesting Ernie and Bert were descended from troglodytes
transition said:
Bubblecar said:
transition said:for your entertainment, master car :)
https://youtu.be/O9HyAa1RyCQ?t=94
Heh.
Except Sesame St shouldn’t be telling kids that cavepeople rode to work on dinosaurs.
the wild excesses of creative license, they may also be suggesting Ernie and Bert were descended from troglodytes
Troglodyte socks.
Bubblecar said:
Enjoying my annual watch of Invasion (1966), an atmospheric British sci-fi based on a Robert Holmes story.During one hot night in a provincial British hospital, staff and locals get caught up in a strange alien criminal pursuit case.
Here’s the original trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipnvYGsQT70
That’s the one where the aliens are played by a couple of Japanese women, right?
hello
monkey skipper said:
hello
good evening, ms
how’s your day been
transition said:
monkey skipper said:
hello
good evening, ms
how’s your day been
everyday is a good day
Neophyte said:
Bubblecar said:
Enjoying my annual watch of Invasion (1966), an atmospheric British sci-fi based on a Robert Holmes story.During one hot night in a provincial British hospital, staff and locals get caught up in a strange alien criminal pursuit case.
Here’s the original trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipnvYGsQT70
That’s the one where the aliens are played by a couple of Japanese women, right?
Multi-East-Asian. Japanese female alien, Malaysian male alien, Chinese nurse :)
monkey skipper said:
hello
*waves
Bubblecar said:
Neophyte said:
Bubblecar said:
Enjoying my annual watch of Invasion (1966), an atmospheric British sci-fi based on a Robert Holmes story.During one hot night in a provincial British hospital, staff and locals get caught up in a strange alien criminal pursuit case.
Here’s the original trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipnvYGsQT70
That’s the one where the aliens are played by a couple of Japanese women, right?
Multi-East-Asian. Japanese female alien, Malaysian male alien, Chinese nurse :)
SPOILER: also involves the Japanese female alien impersonating the Chinese nurse.
Checked my phone and there’s a message from a courier saying he left a parcel on my front porch while I was out.
And sure enough there’s a box out there, now retrieved. Probably containing 10 x good quality tea towels.
Bubblecar said:
Could be cut up to make 60 decent hankies in an emergency.
Checked my phone and there’s a message from a courier saying he left a parcel on my front porch while I was out.And sure enough there’s a box out there, now retrieved. Probably containing 10 x good quality tea towels.
sibeen said:
Bubblecar said:Could be cut up to make 60 decent hankies in an emergency.
Checked my phone and there’s a message from a courier saying he left a parcel on my front porch while I was out.And sure enough there’s a box out there, now retrieved. Probably containing 10 x good quality tea towels.
If the hankynapping crime rate hasn’t diminished…
Sure enough, 10 x Vogue Wonderdry Tea Towels Red. Packed in a hefty cardboard box with shitloads of polycell cushioning, rather over-engineered as shipping fancies go.
Mr V says……. hic………. Ummmm…… I fink…….. um….. hic
And I say……. hic……….yeah
Fink we should go to bed.
hic.
Woodie said:
Mr V says……. hic………. Ummmm…… I fink…….. um….. hicAnd I say……. hic……….yeah
Fink we should go to bed.
hic.
Pissheads.
I find that abhorring.
sibeen said:
Woodie said:
Mr V says……. hic………. Ummmm…… I fink…….. um….. hicAnd I say……. hic……….yeah
Fink we should go to bed.
hic.
Pissheads.
I find that abhorring.
I tells ya fAFOOLIN ucxkin what Mr BVeeny boy…… We fugijn sorted the whole ker nerkingf world. Yoooooove got nuttin to worry bout ever agin, We toild the whole lkotta ‘em to get fucked.
Woodie said:
sibeen said:
Woodie said:
Mr V says……. hic………. Ummmm…… I fink…….. um….. hicAnd I say……. hic……….yeah
Fink we should go to bed.
hic.
Pissheads.
I find that abhorring.
I tells ya fAFOOLIN ucxkin what Mr BVeeny boy…… We fugijn sorted the whole ker nerkingf world. Yoooooove got nuttin to worry bout ever agin, We toild the whole lkotta ‘em to get fucked.
Mfrs V doen a fabby dinner of pork steaks with mash ans vegies and my bottle of Fairfield Durif 1994 and yeah well yeah,…….hic.l
I mean our gorgfeaous wonderfull parpyone get pissed ‘l berries everyon kernuckin’ night…….. I DOOOOOS it on specia; ocassions….
I ;luvs yas all.I want to have your babiues.
oooops….. I said nuttuin……. hic
Mr and Mrs V are visiting………. K case ya didm ‘t know.
You all gone tya bed ya fucnin’ pickers….
Woosey borfing farts.
Woodie said:
Mr and Mrs V are visiting………. K case ya didm ‘t know.
I did suspect as much, especially as mv told everyone that he was going to visit you.
sibeen said:
Woodie said:
Mr and Mrs V are visiting………. K case ya didm ‘t know.
I did suspect as much, especially as mv told everyone that he was going to visit you.
Fucxk me doodle. Mr beeny boy. what ya ddoin’ up at this ungodly hourl It is rqather ungodly.
**we all bop to Madona……. anyfoingMacdonna……
Bop bop bop bop…….
Britain Detains ‘Noah’s Ark,’ Doubting It Can Handle the Sea
The British maritime authorities want to see paperwork proving that the ark, a floating museum of Bible exhibits, is seaworthy before it can be towed from Ipswich, England, back to the Netherlands.
By Claire Fahy
June 10, 2021, 8:58 a.m. ET
When God flooded the Earth as punishment for man’s sins, the story goes, a devoted follower named Noah built an ark, preserving mankind by saving his family and the world’s animals from the water.
A modern version of the ark is facing a different challenge: British bureaucracy.
A Dutch television and theater producer named Aad Peters is facing a British government demand that he prove that his 21,528-square-foot ark is fit to travel at sea.
The ark, a floating museum of Bible-themed exhibits, has no engine. It was built on a steel barge and needs to be towed wherever it goes. According to its website, it made stops in Denmark, Germany and Norway before arriving in Ipswich, in eastern England, in October 2019. It welcomed visitors aboard until March 2020, when the coronavirus pandemic hit.
Mr. Peters declined to comment. In a statement, the museum said Britain’s Maritime and Coastguard Agency impounded the ark in November 2019, even as it remained open to the public, because it lacked two certifications, a load line certificate and an antifouling certificate. The first verifies a vessel’s seaworthiness, and the second affirms that it does not have “a coating, paint, surface treatment, surface or device” that can leach into the water and kill barnacles and other sea life, according to the International Maritime Organization, a United Nations agency.
The museum said that because the ark is a “noncertified floating object,” there is no “requirement for the vessel to comply with international regulation.”
The British maritime authorities disagree, and the resulting stalemate, as reported by The Ipswich Star, is costing Mr. Peters and his museum real money.
The port of Ipswich, which has asked that the ark be moved to free up space at the waterfront, had fined the museum more than 12,000 pounds, or nearly $17,000, as of January, and it has assessed a daily fine of £500, or about $700, since April 1, The Star reported. The port “has indicated that they will substantially increase” the daily fines if the ark doesn’t leave, the museum said.
The museum insists it is ready to go, saying that arrangements have been made to have the ark towed back to the Netherlands once those plans are approved by the British authorities.
According to the museum, Mr. Peters was not required to register the ark in the Netherlands because it is not a boat. But because he did not register it, the museum said, British maritime officials cannot request an exemption from the Dutch government to allow the ark to travel home
“We are aware of the situation and are in discussions with relevant agencies in the U.K. and the Netherlands,” the Department for Transport said in a statement. “Safety remains the top priority.’’
The Maritime and Coastguard Agency did not respond to requests for comment.
The Telegraph reported that the British agencies were working with the Human Environment and Transport Inspectorate and the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management in the Netherlands to find a solution.
Mr. Peters bought the ark in 2010 for $3 million. It is one of two reconstructions that a Dutch carpenter, Johan Huibers, built over seven years, based on biblical descriptions.
Mr. Peters told Vice that he used to carry live animals on board, but they “caused too many problems.” Now the museum uses wooden figurines to illustrate its Bible stories.
The dispute with the British authorities is not the first time that the ark has made international headlines for the wrong reasons. In 2016, as it was being towed in the Port of Oslo, the ark crashed into a Norwegian Coast Guard patrol boat, leaving a large hole in the ark and giving rise to Twitter jokes. No one was hurt.
In the interview with Vice — conducted after the ark was towed to Bergen, Norway, in 2015 — Mr. Peters said the ark can’t handle waves taller than about six feet.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/10/world/europe/noahs-ark-unseaworthy-ipswich.html
HEllo mRF Sciene…..I uvs ya and weant ta have your babies.
Woodie said:
HEllo mRF Sciene…..I uvs ya and weant ta have your babies.
Want a tim tam? I’ve got a family pack. Just the one now. Don’t be greedy.
Woodie said:
Woodie said:
HEllo mRF Sciene…..I uvs ya and weant ta have your babies.
Want a tim tam? I’ve got a family pack. Just the one now. Don’t be greedy.
Fuck. I never got offered a tim tam.
sibeen said:
Woodie said:
Woodie said:
HEllo mRF Sciene…..I uvs ya and weant ta have your babies.
Want a tim tam? I’ve got a family pack. Just the one now. Don’t be greedy.
Fuck. I never got offered a tim tam.
Family don’t need to be offered
Woodie said:
Woodie said:
HEllo mRF Sciene…..I uvs ya and weant ta have your babies.
Want a tim tam? I’ve got a family pack. Just the one now. Don’t be greedy.
I bought some white chocolate tim tams. they are wrong.
sibeen said:
Woodie said:
Woodie said:
HEllo mRF Sciene…..I uvs ya and weant ta have your babies.
Want a tim tam? I’ve got a family pack. Just the one now. Don’t be greedy.
Fuck. I never got offered a tim tam.
I suppse a dance out opf the question then.
Who wants ao ciiggie?
Big path of annularity in northern Ontario but alas probably a bit rainy
dv said:
Big path of annularity in northern Ontario but alas probably a bit rainy
Fmd…..THemsi big words.
OH ddear…….. 8thy timtam on that family pack.
dv said:
Big path of annularity in northern Ontario but alas probably a bit rainy
Do you like tim tams Mr DV?
lunch time
Mount Recyclemore, the giant sculpture of the G7 leaders, sits on a clifftop near Carbis Bay in Cornwall.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/10/mount-recyclemore-g7-leaders-depicted-electronic-waste-sculpture-cornwall
crap.
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2021/jun/10/the-greatest-ever-songs-of-the-summer-ranked
coffee landed
listen music for a while
Just checking how world population is going.
Total fertility rate is number of children per woman. Below about 2.1 is considered below sustainability level, in the long term it leads to population decline (in the absense of immigration).
I had noticed earlier (about 15 years ago) that a lot of advanced countries have total fertility rates below 2. In addition to all of Europe that included the US, Canada, China and Russia. Spain had the lowest in the world at one stage with 1.3. I’d also noticed before that India, Pakistan and Nigeria had high but declining ferillity rates.
From the figure below, the total fertility rate for the world is now down to just a whisker above 2.5 :-)
India is even below world average now !
Everything seems on track for world population to flatten out within the next hundred years.
Children per woman, 2020
Compare that with Children per woman, 1950. Take that, Malthus, population isn’t expanding exponentially after all.
sarahs mum said:
crap.https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2021/jun/10/the-greatest-ever-songs-of-the-summer-ranked
Don Henley and the Beach Boys, OK.
The rest: e-e-e-e-w-w-w.
captain_spalding said:
sarahs mum said:
crap.https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2021/jun/10/the-greatest-ever-songs-of-the-summer-ranked
Don Henley and the Beach Boys, OK.
The rest: e-e-e-e-w-w-w.
Something from the summer of love might have been good.
And I don’t like Mungo Jerry’s In the Summertime but it would have made sense.
——
Meanwhile in HObart.
>>>Extinction Rebellion Australia was live.
11 mins ·
HAPPENING NOW: The National Fuel Blockade continues in Tasmania early this morning. Rebels are braving the cold and wet at 6am while locked on at the entrance of major fuel distribution in Hobart. Inbound and outbound traffic is banked up in both directions.
Tasmania joins groups who blockaded fuel depots in WA, South Australia and New South Wales yesterday, as part of a national rebellion against fossil fuel corruption, and climate and ecological breakdown.
captain_spalding said:
sarahs mum said:
crap.https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2021/jun/10/the-greatest-ever-songs-of-the-summer-ranked
Don Henley and the Beach Boys, OK.
The rest: e-e-e-e-w-w-w.
Don McLean sang of the day music died as being when … geez see, I remember the Crickets but the name of the singer… alzheimers .. ;)
yeah.. Others may say it is when cRap came about.
The point I’m making is that we should think we are lucky that some of the older music is still considered in the top ten.
Because we are not among the current people who buy music and rate the top ten by adding our vote.
If for example we bought more Buddy Holly and Bobby Vee, then maybe the Beach Boys would drop back and soome of the older cRap musicians would fall off the list?
sarahs mum said:
captain_spalding said:
sarahs mum said:
crap.https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2021/jun/10/the-greatest-ever-songs-of-the-summer-ranked
Don Henley and the Beach Boys, OK.
The rest: e-e-e-e-w-w-w.
Something from the summer of love might have been good.
And I don’t like Mungo Jerry’s In the Summertime but it would have made sense.
——
Meanwhile in HObart.
>>>Extinction Rebellion Australia was live.
11 mins ·
HAPPENING NOW: The National Fuel Blockade continues in Tasmania early this morning. Rebels are braving the cold and wet at 6am while locked on at the entrance of major fuel distribution in Hobart. Inbound and outbound traffic is banked up in both directions.
Tasmania joins groups who blockaded fuel depots in WA, South Australia and New South Wales yesterday, as part of a national rebellion against fossil fuel corruption, and climate and ecological breakdown.
I only drive my car once a week at the moment and if I lived in a unit in town, I’d sell the car but for the fact that I still like to get out in the bush.
Back to the summer of love and all that, there are so many contenders.
BoB Dylans Turn Turn Turn was made famous by many others including one band which was up there with the beach boys, The Byrds.
We had protest songs though. I’m not so sure the protest songs are there in today’s music.
roughbarked said:
sarahs mum said:
captain_spalding said:Don Henley and the Beach Boys, OK.
The rest: e-e-e-e-w-w-w.
Something from the summer of love might have been good.
And I don’t like Mungo Jerry’s In the Summertime but it would have made sense.
——
Meanwhile in HObart.
>>>Extinction Rebellion Australia was live.
11 mins ·
HAPPENING NOW: The National Fuel Blockade continues in Tasmania early this morning. Rebels are braving the cold and wet at 6am while locked on at the entrance of major fuel distribution in Hobart. Inbound and outbound traffic is banked up in both directions.
Tasmania joins groups who blockaded fuel depots in WA, South Australia and New South Wales yesterday, as part of a national rebellion against fossil fuel corruption, and climate and ecological breakdown.I only drive my car once a week at the moment and if I lived in a unit in town, I’d sell the car but for the fact that I still like to get out in the bush.
Back to the summer of love and all that, there are so many contenders.
BoB Dylans Turn Turn Turn was made famous by many others including one band which was up there with the beach boys, The Byrds.
We had protest songs though. I’m not so sure the protest songs are there in today’s music.
Turn turn turn was actually written by Pete Seeger. :blush:
The Byrds”:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfZVu0alU0I
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:
sarahs mum said:Something from the summer of love might have been good.
And I don’t like Mungo Jerry’s In the Summertime but it would have made sense.
——
Meanwhile in HObart.
>>>Extinction Rebellion Australia was live.
11 mins ·
HAPPENING NOW: The National Fuel Blockade continues in Tasmania early this morning. Rebels are braving the cold and wet at 6am while locked on at the entrance of major fuel distribution in Hobart. Inbound and outbound traffic is banked up in both directions.
Tasmania joins groups who blockaded fuel depots in WA, South Australia and New South Wales yesterday, as part of a national rebellion against fossil fuel corruption, and climate and ecological breakdown.I only drive my car once a week at the moment and if I lived in a unit in town, I’d sell the car but for the fact that I still like to get out in the bush.
Back to the summer of love and all that, there are so many contenders.
BoB Dylans Turn Turn Turn was made famous by many others including one band which was up there with the beach boys, The Byrds.
We had protest songs though. I’m not so sure the protest songs are there in today’s music.Turn turn turn was actually written by Pete Seeger. :blush:
The Byrds”:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfZVu0alU0I
I was probably thinking of Mr Tambourine man, which was written by Bob Dylan.
“Nings!
People who are familiar with the Vic Emerg site / App will find this graphic amusing.
Rule 303 said:
“Nings!People who are familiar with the Vic Emerg site / App will find this graphic amusing.
They even have the trees fallen in (almost) the right direction.
Good morning Holidayers. Six degrees, clear overhead, some cloud around the horizon. The sun is fighting it’s way out of it’s cloud doona over there on the Eastern horizon. We are forecast a mostly sunny 14 today.
Another rainy day forecast this end, but quite warm with a max of 15, min 8.
So I’m going to do a summery dinner tonight of prawn salad.
buffy said:
Good morning Holidayers. Six degrees, clear overhead, some cloud around the horizon. The sun is fighting it’s way out of it’s cloud doona over there on the Eastern horizon. We are forecast a mostly sunny 14 today.
G’day buffy. Feeling better after your lay in?
5.5°C here very thick fog so I can’t really tell if it is sunny yet but we are heading for a mostly sunny 14.
Bubblecar said:
Another rainy day forecast this end, but quite warm with a max of 15, min 8.So I’m going to do a summery dinner tonight of prawn salad.
That’s warm for you. My min. will be at best 1 degree.
ukey
PRONUNCIATION:
(SOO-kee)
MEANING:
noun: A tea-kettle.
ETYMOLOGY:
After Suki, a girl in the nursery rhyme “Polly Put the Kettle On”. Earliest documented use: 1803.
NOTES:
In the nursery rhyme “Polly Put the Kettle On”, a tea party is going on:
Polly put the kettle on,
Polly put the kettle on,
Polly put the kettle on,
We’ll all have tea.
Suki take it off again,
Suki take it off again,
Suki take it off again,
They’ve all gone away.
The two characters are girls and/or dolls named Polly (a pet form of the name Mary) and Suki (pet form of the names Susan/Susanna). Over time the the name Suki became an eponym for a tea-kettle.
USAGE:
“I’ll just get the sukey going, and then we’ll have a nice cup of tea.”
Marghanita Laski; The Village; Cresset Press; 1952.
Bogsnorkler said:
ukeyPRONUNCIATION:
(SOO-kee)MEANING:
noun: A tea-kettle.ETYMOLOGY:
After Suki, a girl in the nursery rhyme “Polly Put the Kettle On”. Earliest documented use: 1803.NOTES:
In the nursery rhyme “Polly Put the Kettle On”, a tea party is going on:
Polly put the kettle on,
Polly put the kettle on,
Polly put the kettle on,
We’ll all have tea.Suki take it off again,
Suki take it off again,
Suki take it off again,
They’ve all gone away.The two characters are girls and/or dolls named Polly (a pet form of the name Mary) and Suki (pet form of the names Susan/Susanna). Over time the the name Suki became an eponym for a tea-kettle.
USAGE:
“I’ll just get the sukey going, and then we’ll have a nice cup of tea.”
Marghanita Laski; The Village; Cresset Press; 1952.
Pop culture has a lot to do with how words come into the Lexicography.
Here’s one for you: scrumpy.
roughbarked said:
buffy said:
Good morning Holidayers. Six degrees, clear overhead, some cloud around the horizon. The sun is fighting it’s way out of it’s cloud doona over there on the Eastern horizon. We are forecast a mostly sunny 14 today.G’day buffy. Feeling better after your lay in?
5.5°C here very thick fog so I can’t really tell if it is sunny yet but we are heading for a mostly sunny 14.
Yes. It was like the batteries went flat. Today my usual morning lower back tightness is refusing to let go as quickly as usual. Did my stretches. Just been for about a km walk with the dogs. Still tight. (I didn’t help it by cutting bracken with hedge cutters on Monday) I’ll irritate it a bit more by doing some weeding later. But I think I won’t dig stones. Arm still tender at the injection site but no lump (had a lump with the fluvax)
Bogsnorkler said:
ukeyPRONUNCIATION:
(SOO-kee)MEANING:
noun: A tea-kettle.ETYMOLOGY:
After Suki, a girl in the nursery rhyme “Polly Put the Kettle On”. Earliest documented use: 1803.NOTES:
In the nursery rhyme “Polly Put the Kettle On”, a tea party is going on:
Polly put the kettle on,
Polly put the kettle on,
Polly put the kettle on,
We’ll all have tea.Suki take it off again,
Suki take it off again,
Suki take it off again,
They’ve all gone away.The two characters are girls and/or dolls named Polly (a pet form of the name Mary) and Suki (pet form of the names Susan/Susanna). Over time the the name Suki became an eponym for a tea-kettle.
USAGE:
“I’ll just get the sukey going, and then we’ll have a nice cup of tea.”
Marghanita Laski; The Village; Cresset Press; 1952.
1. I’ve never heard a tea-kettle called Suki
2. I’ve never known a Susan to be called Suki
3. Nor a Mary called Polly. I’ve known Mary to be called Molly (one of my great aunts)
buffy said:
roughbarked said:
buffy said:
Good morning Holidayers. Six degrees, clear overhead, some cloud around the horizon. The sun is fighting it’s way out of it’s cloud doona over there on the Eastern horizon. We are forecast a mostly sunny 14 today.G’day buffy. Feeling better after your lay in?
5.5°C here very thick fog so I can’t really tell if it is sunny yet but we are heading for a mostly sunny 14.
Yes. It was like the batteries went flat. Today my usual morning lower back tightness is refusing to let go as quickly as usual. Did my stretches. Just been for about a km walk with the dogs. Still tight. (I didn’t help it by cutting bracken with hedge cutters on Monday) I’ll irritate it a bit more by doing some weeding later. But I think I won’t dig stones. Arm still tender at the injection site but no lump (had a lump with the fluvax)
Light weeding. :)
buffy said:
Bogsnorkler said:
ukeyPRONUNCIATION:
(SOO-kee)MEANING:
noun: A tea-kettle.ETYMOLOGY:
After Suki, a girl in the nursery rhyme “Polly Put the Kettle On”. Earliest documented use: 1803.NOTES:
In the nursery rhyme “Polly Put the Kettle On”, a tea party is going on:
Polly put the kettle on,
Polly put the kettle on,
Polly put the kettle on,
We’ll all have tea.Suki take it off again,
Suki take it off again,
Suki take it off again,
They’ve all gone away.The two characters are girls and/or dolls named Polly (a pet form of the name Mary) and Suki (pet form of the names Susan/Susanna). Over time the the name Suki became an eponym for a tea-kettle.
USAGE:
“I’ll just get the sukey going, and then we’ll have a nice cup of tea.”
Marghanita Laski; The Village; Cresset Press; 1952.
1. I’ve never heard a tea-kettle called Suki
2. I’ve never known a Susan to be called Suki
3. Nor a Mary called Polly. I’ve known Mary to be called Molly (one of my great aunts)
Mary-ann and Polly-ann were common back in their day
Bogsnorkler said:
Kingy said:
Bubblecar said:
>A view of empty bottle holders behind the bar at the Wynnstay Arms, Ruabon. This lack of spirits, such as whisky and gin was a common sight in wartime. Also visible is a price list for beers. The original caption states that the “scrawled out, altered price list shows budget increases in drink prices”. A poster invites locals to donate their ‘rural pennies’ to the Red Cross Agriculture Fund.
Is Ruabon a place in the UK? Coz there is a locality near me in WA called Ruabon. It was one of the earliest places named, and most of the other areas around here are named after the local aboriginal dialect names.
In the local noongar language, a name ending in “up” means “place of”. A name ending in “in” means a water source.
It is in Wales. That pub is still there. Ruabon Rd, Toorak was the first street we lived in when we arrived in Australia.
Ah, backing onto the railway line. We used to look into all those backyards from the train.
(I had to look it up. I wasn’t familiar with the road name)
buffy said:
Yes. It was like the batteries went flat. Today my usual morning lower back tightness is refusing to let go as quickly as usual. Did my stretches. Just been for about a km walk with the dogs. Still tight. (I didn’t help it by cutting bracken with hedge cutters on Monday) I’ll irritate it a bit more by doing some weeding later. But I think I won’t dig stones. Arm still tender at the injection site but no lump (had a lump with the fluvax)
MrsRule was waking with lower back tightness and pain until she noticed it was not happening when she slept on a firm mattress.
One firm mattress purchase later – No more low back pain.
So in a sample size of one….
buffy said:
Bogsnorkler said:
Kingy said:Is Ruabon a place in the UK? Coz there is a locality near me in WA called Ruabon. It was one of the earliest places named, and most of the other areas around here are named after the local aboriginal dialect names.
In the local noongar language, a name ending in “up” means “place of”. A name ending in “in” means a water source.
It is in Wales. That pub is still there. Ruabon Rd, Toorak was the first street we lived in when we arrived in Australia.
Ah, backing onto the railway line. We used to look into all those backyards from the train.
(I had to look it up. I wasn’t familiar with the road name)
That was always a high point of the train trip to the city. Looking into all the yards.
Rule 303 said:
buffy said:
Yes. It was like the batteries went flat. Today my usual morning lower back tightness is refusing to let go as quickly as usual. Did my stretches. Just been for about a km walk with the dogs. Still tight. (I didn’t help it by cutting bracken with hedge cutters on Monday) I’ll irritate it a bit more by doing some weeding later. But I think I won’t dig stones. Arm still tender at the injection site but no lump (had a lump with the fluvax)MrsRule was waking with lower back tightness and pain until she noticed it was not happening when she slept on a firm mattress.
One firm mattress purchase later – No more low back pain.
So in a sample size of one….
That’s what made me chuck the water bed all those decades ago.
Bubblecar said:
Sure enough, 10 x Vogue Wonderdry Tea Towels Red. Packed in a hefty cardboard box with shitloads of polycell cushioning, rather over-engineered as shipping fancies go.
Ah. Looked them up. I’ll stick to my towelling ones, thanks.
Rule 303 said:
buffy said:
Yes. It was like the batteries went flat. Today my usual morning lower back tightness is refusing to let go as quickly as usual. Did my stretches. Just been for about a km walk with the dogs. Still tight. (I didn’t help it by cutting bracken with hedge cutters on Monday) I’ll irritate it a bit more by doing some weeding later. But I think I won’t dig stones. Arm still tender at the injection site but no lump (had a lump with the fluvax)MrsRule was waking with lower back tightness and pain until she noticed it was not happening when she slept on a firm mattress.
One firm mattress purchase later – No more low back pain.
So in a sample size of one….
This happens whether I sleep on our old normal mattress or down the back on the futon couch bed (which is fairly hard). It’s a bit weather dependent too. I think.
I’m going for my daily mocha at the bakery. I might have a jam tart with it. Back later.
Some good sentiment in this https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-11/8yo-grave-fundraiser-headstone-donated-oliver-tiainen/100206410
Fig sap and sunlight leads to Bunbury man’s second-degree burns, baffling doctors
> I’m not so sure the doctors were baffled.
It is well known that fig sap can cause skin reactions in sunlight. In this case it looks like he was possibly already sunburned and burning when the fig sap went on and that rather than washing it off he’d stayed in the sun, possibly affected also by alcohol or other substances so he wasn’t paying attention. Of course it is also likely that he hadn’t known or wasn’t made aware of the sting that fig pruning or even picking of the fruit can cause.
mollwollfumble said:
Just checking how world population is going.Total fertility rate is number of children per woman. Below about 2.1 is considered below sustainability level, in the long term it leads to population decline (in the absense of immigration).
I had noticed earlier (about 15 years ago) that a lot of advanced countries have total fertility rates below 2. In addition to all of Europe that included the US, Canada, China and Russia. Spain had the lowest in the world at one stage with 1.3. I’d also noticed before that India, Pakistan and Nigeria had high but declining ferillity rates.
From the figure below, the total fertility rate for the world is now down to just a whisker above 2.5 :-)
India is even below world average now !
Everything seems on track for world population to flatten out within the next hundred years.
Children per woman, 2020
Compare that with Children per woman, 1950. Take that, Malthus, population isn’t expanding exponentially after all.
Why does the graph stop at 2015?
Looks OK so far but the battle is far from over.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-11/news-quiz-friday-state-of-origin-covid-detection-dog-police/100206810
8.5
It’s not just the ABC:
Form the BBC News website:
‘Mosquito hack cuts dengue fever by 77%
Infecting the mosquitoes with a different bug slams the breaks on dengue fever, a trial finds.’
gimme a brake…
captain_spalding said:
It’s not just the ABC:Form the BBC News website:
‘Mosquito hack cuts dengue fever by 77%
Infecting the mosquitoes with a different bug slams the breaks on dengue fever, a trial finds.’
gimme a brake…
Don’t ever read The Grauniad.
Hello
sibeen said:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-11/news-quiz-friday-state-of-origin-covid-detection-dog-police/1002068108.5
7
sibeen said:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-11/news-quiz-friday-state-of-origin-covid-detection-dog-police/1002068108.5
6.5
Danish wallpaper advertisement, 1962.
One of those wallpapers that remind you you’re in a dining area by featuring condiments, cutlery etc.
Tom Piper braised steak and onions in a proper tin on toast for lunch.
Over
Bubblecar said:
Danish wallpaper advertisement, 1962.One of those wallpapers that remind you you’re in a dining area by featuring condiments, cutlery etc.
What was wrong with the O?
Peak Warming Man said:
Tom Piper braised steak and onions in a proper tin on toast for lunch.
Over
As befits today’s seafood theme, I’ll be having baked fish & chips.
Pink ling fillets with home-made oven chips.
Peak Warming Man said:
Bubblecar said:
Danish wallpaper advertisement, 1962.One of those wallpapers that remind you you’re in a dining area by featuring condiments, cutlery etc.
What was wrong with the O?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%98
Listen to a Danish speaker reciting the Danish alphabet:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/57/Danish_alphabet.ogg
Lunch report. Ham off the bone with green tomato relish in a white bread roll. Large glass of cold Milo.
(I et a butterfly cupcake at the bakery earlier. That was my lunch dessert.)
sibeen said:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-11/news-quiz-friday-state-of-origin-covid-detection-dog-police/1002068108.5
6/10. Too much sport. And I had no idea the dinosaur had been nicknamed.
buffy said:
sibeen said:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-11/news-quiz-friday-state-of-origin-covid-detection-dog-police/1002068108.5
6/10. Too much sport. And I had no idea the dinosaur had been nicknamed.
That was the one I got wrong.
This New Kia Seats 11 People So, Go Ahead And Bring The Entire Family For A Ride
https://totallythebomb.com/new-kia-seats-11?trkid=soc-toh-facebook
Ref: my sister’s offspring on Facebook. Not their work. It’s from “Urban Street Art”
buffy said:
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Ref: my sister’s offspring on Facebook. Not their work. It’s from “Urban Street Art”
far canal, that’s amazing.
party_pants said:
buffy said:
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Ref: my sister’s offspring on Facebook. Not their work. It’s from “Urban Street Art”
far canal, that’s amazing.
3D street art certainly is.
roughbarked said:
party_pants said:
buffy said:
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Ref: my sister’s offspring on Facebook. Not their work. It’s from “Urban Street Art”
far canal, that’s amazing.
3D street art certainly is.
Doesn’t look very urban to me :)
The Rev Dodgson said:
roughbarked said:
party_pants said:far canal, that’s amazing.
3D street art certainly is.
Doesn’t look very urban to me :)
Well it gained popularity on urban streets before going abroad?
buffy said:
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Ref: my sister’s offspring on Facebook. Not their work. It’s from “Urban Street Art”
like.
sarahs mum said:
You went to find this meme for a particular reason? or did it just fall in your lap like?
roughbarked said:
sarahs mum said:
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You went to find this meme for a particular reason? or did it just fall in your lap like?
I do follow on Facebook.
sarahs mum said:
roughbarked said:
sarahs mum said:
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You went to find this meme for a particular reason? or did it just fall in your lap like?
I do follow on Facebook.
Ah.
The time finally comes to stop keeping up with one of the world’s most famous families. …..
Thank the good lord for that.
Robodebt condemned as a ‘shameful chapter’ in withering assessment by federal court judge.
Sitting in Melbourne this morning, Justice Bernard Murphy approved a settlement worth at least $1.8 billion – a figure which could grow — for people wrongly pursued by the federal government’s Robodebt scheme.
He also ordered the Commonwealth to pay costs of $8.4 million to Gordon Legal, which brought the class action against the Commonwealth on a no-win, no-fee basis.
“This has resulted in a huge waste of public money,” he said.
Justice Murphy’s judgement gave legal effect to a settlement reached between the Commonwealth and people wrongly pursued for debts last year.
I will probably be having fun and Com-pu-pu-pu-pu-pu-pu-pu-pu-pu-pu-puter-puter, puter games in the next week or so. I have ordered a new HDD as the current one, whilst still good, is getting old. I don’t want it to fail and loose everything.
Soooo have to copy all the data from the old to the new. Jig around with drive labels so as to be able to boot up the machine. I have a pretty good idea of what to do.
What could possibly go wrong?
Bogsnorkler said:
I will probably be having fun and Com-pu-pu-pu-pu-pu-pu-pu-pu-pu-pu-puter-puter, puter games in the next week or so. I have ordered a new HDD as the current one, whilst still good, is getting old. I don’t want it to fail and loose everything.Soooo have to copy all the data from the old to the new. Jig around with drive labels so as to be able to boot up the machine. I have a pretty good idea of what to do.
What could possibly go wrong?
You could always forget a step?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rD-dLHvgkUQ
8-Year-Old Drops Monster 800m Kick
Pretty impressive run.
I will be off forum for ten days so SCIENCE will have to cover for me again
dv said:
I will be off forum for ten days so SCIENCE will have to cover for me again
Sex change operation or head swap for an Alsatian dog
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-11/victoria-wild-weather-floods-gippsland/100207276
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A woman’s body has been found in floodwaters in Glenfyne, south-west Victoria, becoming the state’s second fatality as authorities continue to issue flood warnings ahead of further rain and wind expected overnight.
Police said the woman’s body was found in a vehicle by Search and Rescue officers off Maddens Bridge Road at 10:40am.
While yet to be formally identified, police believe the body is a woman who went missing from Simpson on Wednesday.
“The exact circumstances surrounding the woman’s death are yet to be determined but police are not treating it as suspicious,” Victoria Police said.
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I didn’t think we had actually got to flooding down this way. The creeks are up, but not a lot.
buffy said:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-11/victoria-wild-weather-floods-gippsland/100207276———————————————————————————————————
A woman’s body has been found in floodwaters in Glenfyne, south-west Victoria, becoming the state’s second fatality as authorities continue to issue flood warnings ahead of further rain and wind expected overnight.
Police said the woman’s body was found in a vehicle by Search and Rescue officers off Maddens Bridge Road at 10:40am.
While yet to be formally identified, police believe the body is a woman who went missing from Simpson on Wednesday.
“The exact circumstances surrounding the woman’s death are yet to be determined but police are not treating it as suspicious,” Victoria Police said.
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I didn’t think we had actually got to flooding down this way. The creeks are up, but not a lot.
Frogs were the benificiaries here.
roughbarked said:
buffy said:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-11/victoria-wild-weather-floods-gippsland/100207276———————————————————————————————————
A woman’s body has been found in floodwaters in Glenfyne, south-west Victoria, becoming the state’s second fatality as authorities continue to issue flood warnings ahead of further rain and wind expected overnight.
Police said the woman’s body was found in a vehicle by Search and Rescue officers off Maddens Bridge Road at 10:40am.
While yet to be formally identified, police believe the body is a woman who went missing from Simpson on Wednesday.
“The exact circumstances surrounding the woman’s death are yet to be determined but police are not treating it as suspicious,” Victoria Police said.
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I didn’t think we had actually got to flooding down this way. The creeks are up, but not a lot.
Frogs were the benificiaries here.
I don’t think she was in the water long enough.
Bogsnorkler said:
roughbarked said:
buffy said:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-11/victoria-wild-weather-floods-gippsland/100207276———————————————————————————————————
A woman’s body has been found in floodwaters in Glenfyne, south-west Victoria, becoming the state’s second fatality as authorities continue to issue flood warnings ahead of further rain and wind expected overnight.
Police said the woman’s body was found in a vehicle by Search and Rescue officers off Maddens Bridge Road at 10:40am.
While yet to be formally identified, police believe the body is a woman who went missing from Simpson on Wednesday.
“The exact circumstances surrounding the woman’s death are yet to be determined but police are not treating it as suspicious,” Victoria Police said.
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I didn’t think we had actually got to flooding down this way. The creeks are up, but not a lot.
Frogs were the benificiaries here.
I don’t think she was in the water long enough.
Sorry. I was referring to the level of flooding here. She would not have drowned here.
buffy said:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-11/victoria-wild-weather-floods-gippsland/100207276———————————————————————————————————
A woman’s body has been found in floodwaters in Glenfyne, south-west Victoria, becoming the state’s second fatality as authorities continue to issue flood warnings ahead of further rain and wind expected overnight.
Police said the woman’s body was found in a vehicle by Search and Rescue officers off Maddens Bridge Road at 10:40am.
While yet to be formally identified, police believe the body is a woman who went missing from Simpson on Wednesday.
“The exact circumstances surrounding the woman’s death are yet to be determined but police are not treating it as suspicious,” Victoria Police said.
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I didn’t think we had actually got to flooding down this way. The creeks are up, but not a lot.
That’s very sad.
(they tell me it only takes 15cm of water to float a small car)
roughbarked said:
Bogsnorkler said:
roughbarked said:Frogs were the benificiaries here.
I don’t think she was in the water long enough.
Sorry. I was referring to the level of flooding here. She would not have drowned here.
Yeah, I was just pretending to read it wrong for humorous effect.
What are we drinking for FNDC this week?
I had Carlton Dry from stubbies last week, which was alright, but not as good as barrel.
In other news I have recently eaten a McDonald’s Cheeseburger. I won’t be making that mistake again.
FNDC is now open, if it’s not too early for Woodie & Michael.
Rule 303 said:
What are we drinking for FNDC this week?I had Carlton Dry from stubbies last week, which was alright, but not as good as barrel.
In other news I have recently eaten a McDonald’s Cheeseburger. I won’t be making that mistake again.
I bought some of this this afternoon to try. I also have my Abbotsford and I’ll be finishing off a Connor Park Shiraz. I also have a 6 pack of 1881 porter if things get a bit messy.
Bogsnorkler said:
roughbarked said:
Bogsnorkler said:I don’t think she was in the water long enough.
Sorry. I was referring to the level of flooding here. She would not have drowned here.
Yeah, I was just pretending to read it wrong for humorous effect.
Wasn’t your best joke,
Rule 303 said:
What are we drinking for FNDC this week?I had Carlton Dry from stubbies last week, which was alright, but not as good as barrel.
In other news I have recently eaten a McDonald’s Cheeseburger. I won’t be making that mistake again.
I’m drinking Burge bubbly. There’s a Kiwi sauv blanc to accompany tonight’s prawn & avocado salad.
Also in stock is Spanish sherry and a nice-looking SA shiraz called Train to Nowhere.
Rule 303 said:
What are we drinking for FNDC this week?I had Carlton Dry from stubbies last week, which was alright, but not as good as barrel.
In other news I have recently eaten a McDonald’s Cheeseburger. I won’t be making that mistake again.
I’m reading that it’s a Furphy tha it is a refteshing ale/
roughbarked said:
Bogsnorkler said:
roughbarked said:Sorry. I was referring to the level of flooding here. She would not have drowned here.
Yeah, I was just pretending to read it wrong for humorous effect.
Wasn’t your best joke,
I use them on another forum. no point casting pearls before swine.
I’ll be having a Becks. and sausages.
Bogsnorkler said:
roughbarked said:
Bogsnorkler said:Yeah, I was just pretending to read it wrong for humorous effect.
Wasn’t your best joke,
I use them on another forum. no point casting pearls before swine.
Dp the same myself.
sibeen said:
Rule 303 said:
What are we drinking for FNDC this week?I had Carlton Dry from stubbies last week, which was alright, but not as good as barrel.
In other news I have recently eaten a McDonald’s Cheeseburger. I won’t be making that mistake again.
I bought some of this this afternoon to try. I also have my Abbotsford and I’ll be finishing off a Connor Park Shiraz. I also have a 6 pack of 1881 porter if things get a bit messy.
Heh. I was drinking that last week, too. Not a bad drop.
Bubblecar said:
Rule 303 said:
What are we drinking for FNDC this week?I had Carlton Dry from stubbies last week, which was alright, but not as good as barrel.
In other news I have recently eaten a McDonald’s Cheeseburger. I won’t be making that mistake again.
I’m drinking Burge bubbly. There’s a Kiwi sauv blanc to accompany tonight’s prawn & avocado salad.
Also in stock is Spanish sherry and a nice-looking SA shiraz called Train to Nowhere.
That’s quite a selection. I haven’t tried the Burge whites, but their reds are drinkable.
roughbarked said:
Rule 303 said:
What are we drinking for FNDC this week?I had Carlton Dry from stubbies last week, which was alright, but not as good as barrel.
In other news I have recently eaten a McDonald’s Cheeseburger. I won’t be making that mistake again.
I’m reading that it’s a Furphy tha it is a refteshing ale/
Have you tried their Crisp Larger? I found the Refreshing Ale was another one that lost all its floral notes in the bottle, but the Lager seems to travel better.
Rule 303 said:
roughbarked said:
Rule 303 said:
What are we drinking for FNDC this week?I had Carlton Dry from stubbies last week, which was alright, but not as good as barrel.
In other news I have recently eaten a McDonald’s Cheeseburger. I won’t be making that mistake again.
I’m reading that it’s a Furphy tha it is a refteshing ale/
Have you tried their Crisp Larger? I found the Refreshing Ale was another one that lost all its floral notes in the bottle, but the Lager seems to travel better.
I have yet to test it but on your recommendation, it could be a change worth mentioning.
dv said:
I will be off forum for ten days so SCIENCE will have to cover for me again
Where ya goin’?
dv said:
I will be off forum for ten days so SCIENCE will have to cover for me again
Off forum, where is this strange, magical place?
Witty Rejoinder said:
dv said:
I will be off forum for ten days so SCIENCE will have to cover for me again
Where ya goin’?
Apparently off forumforaging somewhere else?
sibeen said:
dv said:
I will be off forum for ten days so SCIENCE will have to cover for me again
Off forum, where is this strange, magical place?
Usually find it when I need a pee.
Network system in this house all nice and tidied up now. It’s such a joy (and so worth the money) to just pay someone who knows what they are doing.
Rule 303 said:
buffy said:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-11/victoria-wild-weather-floods-gippsland/100207276———————————————————————————————————
A woman’s body has been found in floodwaters in Glenfyne, south-west Victoria, becoming the state’s second fatality as authorities continue to issue flood warnings ahead of further rain and wind expected overnight.
Police said the woman’s body was found in a vehicle by Search and Rescue officers off Maddens Bridge Road at 10:40am.
While yet to be formally identified, police believe the body is a woman who went missing from Simpson on Wednesday.
“The exact circumstances surrounding the woman’s death are yet to be determined but police are not treating it as suspicious,” Victoria Police said.
—————————————————————————————
I didn’t think we had actually got to flooding down this way. The creeks are up, but not a lot.
That’s very sad.
(they tell me it only takes 15cm of water to float a small car)
I checked a map, and it’s a backroad. Presumably a table drain or something.
buffy said:
Network system in this house all nice and tidied up now. It’s such a joy (and so worth the money) to just pay someone who knows what they are doing.
You pay the spiders?
Rule 303 said:
What are we drinking for FNDC this week?I had Carlton Dry from stubbies last week, which was alright, but not as good as barrel.
In other news I have recently eaten a McDonald’s Cheeseburger. I won’t be making that mistake again.
Orange juice around the corner at the pub.
buffy said:
Rule 303 said:
buffy said:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-11/victoria-wild-weather-floods-gippsland/100207276———————————————————————————————————
A woman’s body has been found in floodwaters in Glenfyne, south-west Victoria, becoming the state’s second fatality as authorities continue to issue flood warnings ahead of further rain and wind expected overnight.
Police said the woman’s body was found in a vehicle by Search and Rescue officers off Maddens Bridge Road at 10:40am.
While yet to be formally identified, police believe the body is a woman who went missing from Simpson on Wednesday.
“The exact circumstances surrounding the woman’s death are yet to be determined but police are not treating it as suspicious,” Victoria Police said.
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I didn’t think we had actually got to flooding down this way. The creeks are up, but not a lot.
That’s very sad.
(they tell me it only takes 15cm of water to float a small car)
I checked a map, and it’s a backroad. Presumably a table drain or something.
So easy to get caught if unaware in such places. Recall another watchmaker i worked with who used to drive a mini to White Cliffs on a weekend and back to work on Monday, if he could get back.
He pulled up for a kip in a table drain on the Mossgeil to Hillston bit.
He was awakened by water lapping the back seat.
Hey Rule. One of the lucky ones.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-11/quick-thinking-teenager-saves-man-in-cardiac-arrest/100208420
OK peeling large black tiger prawns, let’s go. Also in this salad will be sliced avocados, tomatoes, spring onions, baby cos, fresh basil, lemon vinaigrette dressing.
dv said:
I will be off forum for ten days so SCIENCE will have to cover for me again
I thought you would have gotten more than that.
Bubblecar said:
OK peeling large black tiger prawns, let’s go. Also in this salad will be sliced avocados, tomatoes, spring onions, baby cos, fresh basil, lemon vinaigrette dressing.
Salad, salad, in this weather, ya nuts.
Peak Warming Man said:
Bubblecar said:
OK peeling large black tiger prawns, let’s go. Also in this salad will be sliced avocados, tomatoes, spring onions, baby cos, fresh basil, lemon vinaigrette dressing.
Salad, salad, in this weather, ya nuts.
Quite warm here, heading for a minimum of 8.
Peak Warming Man said:
dv said:
I will be off forum for ten days so SCIENCE will have to cover for me again
I thought you would have gotten more than that.
I refused to give evidence.
Peak Warming Man said:
Bubblecar said:
OK peeling large black tiger prawns, let’s go. Also in this salad will be sliced avocados, tomatoes, spring onions, baby cos, fresh basil, lemon vinaigrette dressing.
Salad, salad, in this weather, ya nuts.
buffy said:
Hey Rule. One of the lucky ones.https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-11/quick-thinking-teenager-saves-man-in-cardiac-arrest/100208420
Yeah wow. Great stuff.
Bubblecar said:
OK peeling large black tiger prawns, let’s go. Also in this salad will be sliced avocados, tomatoes, spring onions, baby cos, fresh basil, lemon vinaigrette dressing.
+ a little fresh dill.
Verdict: smashing salad. Rest will be consumed over the course of the night.
roughbarked said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Bubblecar said:
OK peeling large black tiger prawns, let’s go. Also in this salad will be sliced avocados, tomatoes, spring onions, baby cos, fresh basil, lemon vinaigrette dressing.
Salad, salad, in this weather, ya nuts.
Nuts will make it waldorflike.
Crumbled walnuts would work well in this but I don’t have any.
Bubblecar said:
roughbarked said:
Peak Warming Man said:Salad, salad, in this weather, ya nuts.
Nuts will make it waldorflike.
Crumbled walnuts would work well in this but I don’t have any.
…or cashews.
This.
I’ve still got some of last week’s Carlton Mids to finish off.
Rule 303 said:
This.
Is it spicy?
Bubblecar said:
Rule 303 said:
This.
Is it spicy?
Yep. Quite smooth but with a chili finish.
I think this bloke suing the media for defamation is toast.
I mean when you come out in court saying that the 21 other soldiers testifying against him are doing it because they are jealous because he’s got a VC is low IQ school boy stuff.
Peak Warming Man said:
I think this bloke suing the media for defamation is toast.
I mean when you come out in court saying that the 21 other soldiers testifying against him are doing it because they are jealous because he’s got a VC is low IQ school boy stuff.
Yeah. I’m getting the impression he’s not a very nice person. But nice guys don’t win VC’s for single-handedly storming Taliban positions and shooting them all dead.
party_pants said:
Peak Warming Man said:
I think this bloke suing the media for defamation is toast.
I mean when you come out in court saying that the 21 other soldiers testifying against him are doing it because they are jealous because he’s got a VC is low IQ school boy stuff.
Yeah. I’m getting the impression he’s not a very nice person. But nice guys don’t win VC’s for single-handedly storming Taliban positions and shooting them all dead.
He might be brave but a murderer to boot.
Witty Rejoinder said:
party_pants said:
Peak Warming Man said:
I think this bloke suing the media for defamation is toast.
I mean when you come out in court saying that the 21 other soldiers testifying against him are doing it because they are jealous because he’s got a VC is low IQ school boy stuff.
Yeah. I’m getting the impression he’s not a very nice person. But nice guys don’t win VC’s for single-handedly storming Taliban positions and shooting them all dead.
He might be brave but a murderer to boot.
That seems to be one of the main accusations against him. Also that he beat up his wife/girlfriend.
I think this is what he is suing over. Once again it is a case of not being directly named in the published media stories but it somehow being too obvious that the story was referring to him specifically and not just to any other member of the unit.
on the other hand it’s also believable that there are people who can actually be nice in day to day peacetime activity yet take on the soldier face entirely during a campaign
speaking of thermally hardened bread slices, eat that, taxpayers
—
Mr Porter has settled with the ABC over his claim he was defamed in a story about an unnamed cabinet minister accused of an historical alleged rape.
He strenuously denies the allegation.
In court action that saw Mr Porter’s barrister removed from the case over a conflict of interest, his lawyers argued they should only have to pay 70 per cent of costs because of a late affidavit from the other side.
But the Federal Court has ruled it was not late and he will have to pay the full costs.
More to come.
>>Over the last month, a wide range of experts, conservation groups, and thousands of community members warned Minister Sanderson and the WA Government against further approvals for Woodside and BHP’s Scarborough gas development.
Despite our warnings, Minister Sanderson has now approved conditions that would see over 50 million tonnes of carbon pollution released every year as a result of the Scarborough project. That amounts to over 1.5 billion tonnes of carbon that would be released over its lifetime. This is a staggering amount of pollution, equivalent to over 14 coal-fired power stations running every year until 2055.
These conditions also do not make the project acceptable. They do not address the impacts on Aboriginal Heritage and they undermine global efforts on climate change.
Processing gas from the Scarborough development on the Burrup would permanently damage the Murujuga Rock Art proposed for World Heritage Listing. It’s like the destruction of Juukan Gorge in slow motion as these incredible rock carvings are being affected by acid gas emissions from gas processing
Yesterday, the Conservation Council and former Western Australian Premier, Carmen Lawrence called for a moratorium on any new development on the Burrup Peninsula as gas expansion threatens further permanent damage to priceless Aboriginal Heritage. It comes after revelations in The Australian that no monitoring of the Murujuga Rock Art had occurred since 2016 and a contract to undertake monitoring had been cancelled by the WA Government.
It seems the WA Government is addicted to supporting gas expansion at the expense of the climate and Aboriginal Heritage, in the face of mounting international evidence, growing public opposition, and a weakening gas market.
As Woodside and BHP seek a final investment decision on Scarborough within months, we can expect to see much more attention on this both locally and internationally. I know we can count on your support to keep up the pressure. <<
Last year when BHP were spending large amounts (and are still doing) on promoting themselves as the great Australian. I mentioned at the time they had something pending where public support would be required, well here it is. Get ready to get suckered again.
SCIENCE said:
speaking of thermally hardened bread slices, eat that, taxpayers—
Mr Porter has settled with the ABC over his claim he was defamed in a story about an unnamed cabinet minister accused of an historical alleged rape.
He strenuously denies the allegation.
In court action that saw Mr Porter’s barrister removed from the case over a conflict of interest, his lawyers argued they should only have to pay 70 per cent of costs because of a late affidavit from the other side.
But the Federal Court has ruled it was not late and he will have to pay the full costs.
More to come.
I think his defence was privately funded.
Bogsnorkler said:
SCIENCE said:defence was privately funded.
Sounds like the USSA,
but yeah a little bit TIC
we did like the “Mr Porter has settled with the ABC over his claim he was defamed in a story about an unnamed cabinet minister” bit of course
Rule 303 said:
This.
Any good?
The Long Gully Bridge, also known as Northbridge, Suspension Bridge, and Cammeray Bridge, is a concrete arch road bridge that carries Strathallen Avenue across Flat Rock Creek and Tunks Park, and connects the suburbs of Cammeray, in the North Sydney Council local government area to its south, with Northbridge in the City of Willoughby local government area to its north, in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Privately-built to promote residential development in the suburb of Northbridge and beyond, the bridge opened in January 1892 as a steel suspension bridge finished in Sydney sandstone with crenellated turreted towers. The bridge was transferred to the Department of Main Roads in 1935 and, in 1939, was rebuilt as a reinforced concrete two rib arch bridge, with the sandstone towers kept.
wiki
This is how I remember it
My brother used to play football there.
sarahs mum said:
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The Long Gully Bridge, also known as Northbridge, Suspension Bridge, and Cammeray Bridge, is a concrete arch road bridge that carries Strathallen Avenue across Flat Rock Creek and Tunks Park, and connects the suburbs of Cammeray, in the North Sydney Council local government area to its south, with Northbridge in the City of Willoughby local government area to its north, in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Privately-built to promote residential development in the suburb of Northbridge and beyond, the bridge opened in January 1892 as a steel suspension bridge finished in Sydney sandstone with crenellated turreted towers. The bridge was transferred to the Department of Main Roads in 1935 and, in 1939, was rebuilt as a reinforced concrete two rib arch bridge, with the sandstone towers kept.
wiki
This is how I remember it
My brother used to play football there.
A very appealing bridge.
I’m off for a brief lay-me-down before enjoying a night train ride.
mv may have to cover his ears as woodie screams at the tele.
Long Gully Bridge on Strathallan Avenue in 1937. This photo was taken during its conversion from a suspension bridge to an concrete arch bridge.
Royal Australian Historical Society.
sibeen said:
Rule 303 said:
This.
Any good?
It’s worth a spin, for sure. Fully malt and chocolate with a bite to the finish.
Hey Shebs, have been looking around for a few days for solar back-up battery options and have just rediscovered that an idea I had a number or years ago to re-use EV battery cells has become more mainstream. Pretty good value for money, and cheaper than lead acid options :)
sarahs mum said:
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Long Gully Bridge on Strathallan Avenue in 1937. This photo was taken during its conversion from a suspension bridge to an concrete arch bridge.
Royal Australian Historical Society.
Had to look that up, but I’ve driven over it many times of course.
Rule 303 said:
sibeen said:
Rule 303 said:
This.
Any good?
It’s worth a spin, for sure. Fully malt and chocolate with a bite to the finish.
I bought four a couple of months ago. Still have one left.
The Rev Dodgson said:
sarahs mum said:
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Long Gully Bridge on Strathallan Avenue in 1937. This photo was taken during its conversion from a suspension bridge to an concrete arch bridge.
Royal Australian Historical Society.
Had to look that up, but I’ve driven over it many times of course.
Even though I grew up in West Pymble I didnt go over the bridge very often. Even when I was living in Castlecrag I didn’t. Cause I was working in Artarmon. It just wasn’t where I was going.
sarahs mum said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
sarahs mum said:
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Long Gully Bridge on Strathallan Avenue in 1937. This photo was taken during its conversion from a suspension bridge to an concrete arch bridge.
Royal Australian Historical Society.
Had to look that up, but I’ve driven over it many times of course.
Even though I grew up in West Pymble I didnt go over the bridge very often. Even when I was living in Castlecrag I didn’t. Cause I was working in Artarmon. It just wasn’t where I was going.
I hadn’t seen the suspension bridge photo before.
I wonder if the decision to replace it was connected with the Tacoma Narrows in the USA.
Dark Orange said:
Rule 303 said:
sibeen said:Any good?
It’s worth a spin, for sure. Fully malt and chocolate with a bite to the finish.
I bought four a couple of months ago. Still have one left.
Don’t like it?
If someone had blindfolded me and handed me a glass a Stout would be close to my last guess. It’s OKish – but only just. Won’t be buying again. It’s a bit like a brown IPA.
The Rev Dodgson said:
sarahs mum said:
The Rev Dodgson said:Had to look that up, but I’ve driven over it many times of course.
Even though I grew up in West Pymble I didnt go over the bridge very often. Even when I was living in Castlecrag I didn’t. Cause I was working in Artarmon. It just wasn’t where I was going.
I hadn’t seen the suspension bridge photo before.
I wonder if the decision to replace it was connected with the Tacoma Narrows in the USA.
From the RAHS site:
https://www.rahs.org.au/womens-history-month/
sibeen said:
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If someone had blindfolded me and handed me a glass a Stout would be close to my last guess. It’s OKish – but only just. Won’t be buying again. It’s a bit like a brown IPA.
>nods<
Concur.
Rule 303 said:
Dark Orange said:
Rule 303 said:It’s worth a spin, for sure. Fully malt and chocolate with a bite to the finish.
I bought four a couple of months ago. Still have one left.
Don’t like it?
Not bad, just doesn’t live up to expectations.
Dark Orange said:
Rule 303 said:
Dark Orange said:I bought four a couple of months ago. Still have one left.
Don’t like it?
Not bad, just doesn’t live up to expectations.
Although I had a local oatmeal stout at the Little Mountain brewery in Townsville earlier in the week that was up there as one of the better non barrel-aged stouts I have had.
Oh dear. mv’s ears will be bleeding. Hopefully Mrs mv was able to leave the room early and misses most of the colourful language.
sibeen said:
Oh dear. mv’s ears will be bleeding. Hopefully Mrs mv was able to leave the room early and misses most of the colourful language.
umpires have been a bit shit.
party_pants said:
sibeen said:
Oh dear. mv’s ears will be bleeding. Hopefully Mrs mv was able to leave the room early and misses most of the colourful language.
umpires have been a bit shit.
Do you really think that is going to make it any easier on poor mv. I would suggest that the opposite is going to be the case.
Not one person in my footy tipping comp picked the Hawks.
sibeen said:
Not one person in my footy tipping comp picked the Hawks.
No. They’ve been shit this year. This might be their one good game for the year. Watch everyone pick them next game only for them to fail miserably :)
party_pants said:
sibeen said:
Not one person in my footy tipping comp picked the Hawks.
No. They’ve been shit this year. This might be their one good game for the year. Watch everyone pick them next game only for them to fail miserably :)
Ha. I’ve just checked. We also have an eliminator comp where you have to pick one winning team per week, but you can only pick that team the once. There was only two left in it – they both picked Sydney :)
might be time for a bit of Poms v Kiwis in the cricket.
sibeen said:
Oh dear. mv’s ears will be bleeding. Hopefully Mrs mv was able to leave the room early and misses most of the colourful language.
Mrs V used some of the colourful language.
What’s been really good with all these press conferences given by deaf people is that they have taken the time to have someone there to speak the words for people who don’t sign.
And I have to say that some of those people who have given their time have been pretty high up.
Michael V said:
sibeen said:
Oh dear. mv’s ears will be bleeding. Hopefully Mrs mv was able to leave the room early and misses most of the colourful language.
Mrs V used some of the colourful language.
ROFL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QAnon
my reading^, before the next 4Corners, if it gets to air
yawn another coffee I reckon
Peak Warming Man said:
What’s been really good with all these press conferences given by deaf people is that they have taken the time to have someone there to speak the words for people who don’t sign.
And I have to say that some of those people who have given their time have been pretty high up.
polite golf clap
Michael V said:
sibeen said:
Oh dear. mv’s ears will be bleeding. Hopefully Mrs mv was able to leave the room early and misses most of the colourful language.
Mrs V used some of the colourful language.
A very %$^*($#@ing poor performance.
transition said:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QAnonmy reading^, before the next 4Corners, if it gets to air
yawn another coffee I reckon
So that’s what it’s about?
I just joined to hit on old boilers.
Peak Warming Man said:
What’s been really good with all these press conferences given by deaf people is that they have taken the time to have someone there to speak the words for people who don’t sign.
And I have to say that some of those people who have given their time have been pretty high up.
LYW, Mr Man. :)
Peak Warming Man said:
What’s been really good with all these press conferences given by deaf people is that they have taken the time to have someone there to speak the words for people who don’t sign.
And I have to say that some of those people who have given their time have been pretty high up.
they do it for the blind people.
I’m sorry to say I’m fading fast, after barely half a beer*.
*In dog beers
Peak Warming Man said:
transition said:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QAnonmy reading^, before the next 4Corners, if it gets to air
yawn another coffee I reckon
So that’s what it’s about?
I just joined to hit on old boilers.
contemplating conspiratorial thinking, the attraction, for some people
have a few ideas, but not much better than that, possibly ideas worse than none at all
Peak Warming Man said:
What’s been really good with all these press conferences given by deaf people is that they have taken the time to have someone there to speak the words for people who don’t sign.
And I have to say that some of those people who have given their time have been pretty high up.
The Deputy Premier even does it, down here in Vic, although for the last couple of days it’s been some emergency guy interpreting.
Rule 303 said:
Peak Warming Man said:
What’s been really good with all these press conferences given by deaf people is that they have taken the time to have someone there to speak the words for people who don’t sign.
And I have to say that some of those people who have given their time have been pretty high up.
The Deputy Premier even does it, down here in Vic, although for the last couple of days it’s been some emergency guy interpreting.
When he’s in this role I think we call him the acting Premier.
sibeen said:
Rule 303 said:
Peak Warming Man said:
What’s been really good with all these press conferences given by deaf people is that they have taken the time to have someone there to speak the words for people who don’t sign.
And I have to say that some of those people who have given their time have been pretty high up.
The Deputy Premier even does it, down here in Vic, although for the last couple of days it’s been some emergency guy interpreting.
When he’s in this role I think we call him the acting Premier.
Are all Auslan-English interpreters called acting Premier?
“Feeling strange, Mr. Bond? That’s because I’ve laced your martini with a measles vaccine. The autism should be setting in any second now.”
“The joke’s on you! I already disassembled your doomsday device and rearranged all the parts in order of size.”
Rule 303 said:
sibeen said:
Rule 303 said:The Deputy Premier even does it, down here in Vic, although for the last couple of days it’s been some emergency guy interpreting.
When he’s in this role I think we call him the acting Premier.
Are all Auslan-English interpreters called acting Premier?
Only those with previous theatrical experience.
sibeen said:
Rule 303 said:
sibeen said:When he’s in this role I think we call him the acting Premier.
Are all Auslan-English interpreters called acting Premier?
Only those with previous theatrical experience.
Is that how Gladly Berryljiggling got the job?
Rule 303 said:
sibeen said:
Rule 303 said:Are all Auslan-English interpreters called acting Premier?
Only those with previous theatrical experience.
Is that how Gladly Berryljiggling got the job?
Well renowned thespian.
btm said:
“Feeling strange, Mr. Bond? That’s because I’ve laced your martini with a measles vaccine. The autism should be setting in any second now.”“The joke’s on you! I already disassembled your doomsday device and rearranged all the parts in order of size.”
Very tidy.
dv said:
I will be off forum for ten days so SCIENCE will have to cover for me again
Detoxing your spleen?
Tonight I’m trying Beograd Dunav – Resnik — Evening ride through Belgrade Railway Junction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2I1Ppv4NUk&t=126s
I’ve just watched a 50 minute video about siege ladders.
Peak Warming Man said:
transition said:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QAnonmy reading^, before the next 4Corners, if it gets to air
yawn another coffee I reckon
So that’s what it’s about?
I just joined to hit on old boilers.
The way I hear it, it’s more than the chooks that are cooked.
sibeen said:
I’ve just watched a 50 minute video about siege ladders.
Lindy?
Neophyte said:
Peak Warming Man said:
transition said:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QAnonmy reading^, before the next 4Corners, if it gets to air
yawn another coffee I reckon
So that’s what it’s about?
I just joined to hit on old boilers.
The way I hear it, it’s more than the chooks that are cooked.
bird brained.
party_pants said:
sibeen said:
I’ve just watched a 50 minute video about siege ladders.
Lindy?
Yep :)
sibeen said:
I’ve just watched a 50 minute video about siege ladders.
Was there Trebuchets? I like Trebuchets.
And the good thing to come out of the evening was to have a mug of Woodie’s world-famous slow-cooked pea and ham soup.
Verdict: delicious, filling and very warming.
Michael V said:
And the good thing to come out of the evening was to have a mug of Woodie’s world-famous slow-cooked pea and ham soup.Verdict: delicious, filling and very warming.
Sounds a treat :)
Michael V said:
And the good thing to come out of the evening was to have a mug of Woodie’s world-famous slow-cooked pea and ham soup.Verdict: delicious, filling and very warming.
With crusty bread I hope.
sibeen said:
party_pants said:
sibeen said:
I’ve just watched a 50 minute video about siege ladders.
Lindy?
Yep :)
I think I started on that one but never made it till the end.
Michael V said:
And the good thing to come out of the evening was to have a mug of Woodie’s world-famous slow-cooked pea and ham soup.Verdict: delicious, filling and very warming.
Nom noms. You could have had a double helping, you know. :)
Michael V said:
And the good thing to come out of the evening was to have a mug of Woodie’s world-famous slow-cooked pea and ham soup.Verdict: delicious, filling and very warming.
I’m actually extremely jealous. Due to extreme mistreatment by her maternal grandmother, SWMBO cannot stand P&H soup. Apparently a stay with her MG resulted in a fortnight’s feed of canned P&H soup. I’m not allowed to even bring a tin of it into the house.
party_pants said:
sibeen said:
party_pants said:Lindy?
Yep :)
I think I started on that one but never made it till the end.
I found the second half to be better than the first, but did enjoy it all. He has a way with telling a story.
sibeen said:
Michael V said:
And the good thing to come out of the evening was to have a mug of Woodie’s world-famous slow-cooked pea and ham soup.Verdict: delicious, filling and very warming.
I’m actually extremely jealous. Due to extreme mistreatment by her maternal grandmother, SWMBO cannot stand P&H soup. Apparently a stay with her MG resulted in a fortnight’s feed of canned P&H soup. I’m not allowed to even bring a tin of it into the house.
Tinned pea & ham is a very pale shadow of the real thing.
Bubblecar said:
sibeen said:
Michael V said:
And the good thing to come out of the evening was to have a mug of Woodie’s world-famous slow-cooked pea and ham soup.Verdict: delicious, filling and very warming.
I’m actually extremely jealous. Due to extreme mistreatment by her maternal grandmother, SWMBO cannot stand P&H soup. Apparently a stay with her MG resulted in a fortnight’s feed of canned P&H soup. I’m not allowed to even bring a tin of it into the house.
Tinned pea & ham is a very pale shadow of the real thing.
Twenty years ago I made a lovely homemade version. She nearly threw up.
Bubblecar said:
Tonight I’m trying Beograd Dunav – Resnik — Evening ride through Belgrade Railway Junctionhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2I1Ppv4NUk&t=126s
Unfortunately can’t run it at 1080p60 without a lot of stalling, because Australians keep voting for Tories who don’t want this country to have decent broadband.
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
Tonight I’m trying Beograd Dunav – Resnik — Evening ride through Belgrade Railway Junctionhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2I1Ppv4NUk&t=126s
Unfortunately can’t run it at 1080p60 without a lot of stalling, because Australians keep voting for Tories who don’t want this country to have decent broadband.
Rock and roll. No Morningtown.
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
Tonight I’m trying Beograd Dunav – Resnik — Evening ride through Belgrade Railway Junctionhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2I1Ppv4NUk&t=126s
Unfortunately can’t run it at 1080p60 without a lot of stalling, because Australians keep voting for Tories who don’t want this country to have decent broadband.
Rock and roll. No Morningtown.
This is presumably a summer ride as there are loads of fireflies darting around the trackside vegetation. Makes a change from Norway.
This Serbian railway seems pretty neglected. Overgrown with various abandoned sidings with rotting stock.
Woodie said:
Michael V said:
And the good thing to come out of the evening was to have a mug of Woodie’s world-famous slow-cooked pea and ham soup.Verdict: delicious, filling and very warming.
Nom noms. You could have had a double helping, you know. :)
Unfortunately no. I’ve already had an elephant’s sufficiency.
sibeen said:
Michael V said:
And the good thing to come out of the evening was to have a mug of Woodie’s world-famous slow-cooked pea and ham soup.Verdict: delicious, filling and very warming.
I’m actually extremely jealous. Due to extreme mistreatment by her maternal grandmother, SWMBO cannot stand P&H soup. Apparently a stay with her MG resulted in a fortnight’s feed of canned P&H soup. I’m not allowed to even bring a tin of it into the house.
Bugger.
My mother used to cook bacon bone soup in the pressure cooker for hours. It had the taste and consistency of crushed and watered-down chalkboard chalk. I hated it. Having a good pea and ham soup is quite special.
Bubblecar said:
This Serbian railway seems pretty neglected. Overgrown with various abandoned sidings with rotting stock.
Now that I’ve bothered to read the introduction, this section of the railway is now closed:
>Some parts of this locomotive ride take place at the central parts of Belgrade. A particularly interesting part is non-electrified railway line through the pedestrian, coastal zones of the city, along the river Danube and around the Kalemegdan fortress. The years of non-maintenance of railway causes maximum allow speed of 10km/h at some parts of this railway line. The large parts of train tracks are grown into grass, weeds and a lot of bushes. An interesting part of this drive is passing through very dense vegetation of bushes and tunnels of bushes.
The recording was done using a diesel locomotive, which was tracted 12 oil fuel tank wagons from Pancevo to Pozega.
This is EMD G16 diesel locomotive built by General Motors in the USA, at Serbian Railways series 661 known under the nickname Kennedy.
Unfortunately, this is the last time that this railway line and central city train tracks was recorded in this part of Belgrade. Today, the Belgrade Main railway station and non-electrified railway line around Kalemegdan fortress is closed and this city railway line and remaining train tracks will be demolished soon.
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:Unfortunately can’t run it at 1080p60 without a lot of stalling, because Australians keep voting for Tories who don’t want this country to have decent broadband.
Rock and roll. No Morningtown.
This is presumably a summer ride as there are loads of fireflies darting around the trackside vegetation. Makes a change from Norway.
Don’t think they’re really fireflies, just insects (moths?) illuminated by the loco lights.
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
This Serbian railway seems pretty neglected. Overgrown with various abandoned sidings with rotting stock.
Now that I’ve bothered to read the introduction, this section of the railway is now closed:
>Some parts of this locomotive ride take place at the central parts of Belgrade. A particularly interesting part is non-electrified railway line through the pedestrian, coastal zones of the city, along the river Danube and around the Kalemegdan fortress. The years of non-maintenance of railway causes maximum allow speed of 10km/h at some parts of this railway line. The large parts of train tracks are grown into grass, weeds and a lot of bushes. An interesting part of this drive is passing through very dense vegetation of bushes and tunnels of bushes.
The recording was done using a diesel locomotive, which was tracted 12 oil fuel tank wagons from Pancevo to Pozega.
This is EMD G16 diesel locomotive built by General Motors in the USA, at Serbian Railways series 661 known under the nickname Kennedy.Unfortunately, this is the last time that this railway line and central city train tracks was recorded in this part of Belgrade. Today, the Belgrade Main railway station and non-electrified railway line around Kalemegdan fortress is closed and this city railway line and remaining train tracks will be demolished soon.
I understand China’s Belt and Road program will be paying for the upgrades soon.
party_pants said:
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
This Serbian railway seems pretty neglected. Overgrown with various abandoned sidings with rotting stock.
Now that I’ve bothered to read the introduction, this section of the railway is now closed:
>Some parts of this locomotive ride take place at the central parts of Belgrade. A particularly interesting part is non-electrified railway line through the pedestrian, coastal zones of the city, along the river Danube and around the Kalemegdan fortress. The years of non-maintenance of railway causes maximum allow speed of 10km/h at some parts of this railway line. The large parts of train tracks are grown into grass, weeds and a lot of bushes. An interesting part of this drive is passing through very dense vegetation of bushes and tunnels of bushes.
The recording was done using a diesel locomotive, which was tracted 12 oil fuel tank wagons from Pancevo to Pozega.
This is EMD G16 diesel locomotive built by General Motors in the USA, at Serbian Railways series 661 known under the nickname Kennedy.Unfortunately, this is the last time that this railway line and central city train tracks was recorded in this part of Belgrade. Today, the Belgrade Main railway station and non-electrified railway line around Kalemegdan fortress is closed and this city railway line and remaining train tracks will be demolished soon.
I understand China’s Belt and Road program will be paying for the upgrades soon.
Once they’ve cleared out all the Uighurs and other undesirables.
Anyway, I found Happiness Today
Turns out that Australia had the laxest privacy laws.
“We have relatively weak in comparison civil liberties and relatively strong national security legislation, such as the encryption legislation that allows law enforcement agencies to do things they couldn’t do elsewhere.”
“I think we’ve become the virtual wild west in those terms.”
Mr Barns also said the methodology raised the issue of entrapment.
“As we understand it, some of these people were effectively entrapped, which means police agents inducing people to commit crimes,” he said.
“Entrapment is allowed in Australia — the High Court has said it’s allowed — but it’s not allowed in the United States. It’s frowned upon.”
“That may be another reason why Australia was a favoured jurisdiction.”
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-08/how-afp-fbi-used-an0m-organised-crime-gangs-operation-ironside/100199278
11 Jun 2021, 16:21 (9 hours ago)
to me
Yes. The nine people arrested in Norway through this operation are claiming the information was obtained illegally according to Norwegian law. Guessing rest of EU will try the same argument.
There is a significant difference between giving you a tool that can be used for many purposes and how you use it.
roughbarked said:
“As we understand it, some of these people were effectively entrapped, which means police agents inducing people to commit crimes,” he said.“Entrapment is allowed in Australia — the High Court has said it’s allowed — but it’s not allowed in the United States. It’s frowned upon.”
but planting drugs on disadvantaged people, now that’s a different story
As this slow journey proceeds, I’ve been strumming my steel-string and singing one of my old songs, Night Train to Port Sorrow.
Taking the night train, to Port Sorrow
I should be there, by tomorrow
And as the lonely sights unfold,
Watch them glow, let them go
All the memories that are aching
All the hearts, are still breaking
Let them all drift, far away
So far away, far away
Etc etc
SCIENCE said:
roughbarked said:“As we understand it, some of these people were effectively entrapped, which means police agents inducing people to commit crimes,” he said.“Entrapment is allowed in Australia — the High Court has said it’s allowed — but it’s not allowed in the United States. It’s frowned upon.”
but planting drugs on disadvantaged people, now that’s a different story
Sssh.
Potato head is looking for ideas.
The famous scientist Lord Kelvin speaking at Prescot in Lancashire in 1893, declared: “There is nothing in the whole of mechanism that I take more interest in than a watch; it is the attainment of the height of perfection in human mechanism.” At Prescot, he was addressing an audience steeped in the traditions of watchmaking, for whether it be true or not that the first English watchmaker lived nearby, as one tradition states there were certainly watchmakers in the area very shortly after 1600. The fact that metal-working trades were already established on a considerable scale, with numerous smiths producing suitable tools. provided favourable conditions for the growth of the industry.
roughbarked said:
SCIENCE said:
roughbarked said:“As we understand it, some of these people were effectively entrapped, which means police agents inducing people to commit crimes,” he said.“Entrapment is allowed in Australia — the High Court has said it’s allowed — but it’s not allowed in the United States. It’s frowned upon.”
but planting drugs on disadvantaged people, now that’s a different story
Sssh.
Potato head is looking for ideas.
make vodka
SCIENCE said:
roughbarked said:
SCIENCE said:but planting drugs on disadvantaged people, now that’s a different story
Sssh.
Potato head is looking for ideas.
make vodka
:) what a grand solution.
An Aria A Day – Silvia Colloca
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_R-nLIeQTo&ab_channel=OperaQueenslandTVOperaQueenslandTV
Richard Roxburgh sure picked a good wife who not only looks good but cooks exceptionally well and can even sing opera very well too. Well worth a listen.
ningus
A chilly 2, fine.
Nads go down in Paris
Ian said:
ningusA chilly 2, fine.
Nads go down in Paris
I was watching that.
Decided Nadal was going down so nodded off for a bit.
Ian said:
ningusA chilly 2, fine.
Nads go down in Paris
yeah I was yelling go nads at the telly. to no avail.
roughbarked said:
Ian said:
ningusA chilly 2, fine.
Nads go down in Paris
I was watching that.
Decided Nadal was going down so nodded off for a bit.
Ya.. effecfively the final.
I watched both semis with noddings in comfy chair, bed, couch :)
Ian said:
roughbarked said:
Ian said:
ningusA chilly 2, fine.
Nads go down in Paris
I was watching that.
Decided Nadal was going down so nodded off for a bit.Ya.. effecfively the final.
I watched both semis with noddings in comfy chair, bed, couch :)
same.
China’s Anti-Foreign Sanctions Law, which was signed off by President Xi Jinping this week, is a wide-ranging legal framework to retaliate against sanctions imposed by foreign governments.
Mr Xi last November called for legal methods to defend the country’s sovereignty, security and interests, after the US and the EU increased sanctions against Chinese officials due to Beijing’s alleged human rights abuses in Xinjiang and Hong Kong.
“It can be viewed as a manifestation of the new Cold War, which is nothing more than a confrontation between the two sides through various aspects, other than military means,” said Deng Yuwen, a researcher at the China Strategic Analysis Centre think tank, which is based in the US.
Mr Deng, formerly the deputy editor of the Central Communist Party School’s official newspaper, told the ABC the law was China’s latest “tit-for-tat countermeasure” to “legitimise” its retaliation against foreign entities.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-12/china-law-counter-foreign-sanctions-new-cold-war-xinjiang/100209928
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/how-pm-s-pal-put-satanic-paedophile-conspiracy-in-the-public-eye-20210611-p580bx.html
Bogsnorkler said:
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/how-pm-s-pal-put-satanic-paedophile-conspiracy-in-the-public-eye-20210611-p580bx.html
What I don’t get is why these deviants waht to make contact with sexual abuse victims?
roughbarked said:
China’s Anti-Foreign Sanctions Law, which was signed off by President Xi Jinping this week, is a wide-ranging legal framework to retaliate against sanctions imposed by foreign governments.Mr Xi last November called for legal methods to defend the country’s sovereignty, security and interests, after the US and the EU increased sanctions against Chinese officials due to Beijing’s alleged human rights abuses in Xinjiang and Hong Kong.
“It can be viewed as a manifestation of the new Cold War, which is nothing more than a confrontation between the two sides through various aspects, other than military means,” said Deng Yuwen, a researcher at the China Strategic Analysis Centre think tank, which is based in the US.
Mr Deng, formerly the deputy editor of the Central Communist Party School’s official newspaper, told the ABC the law was China’s latest “tit-for-tat countermeasure” to “legitimise” its retaliation against foreign entities.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-12/china-law-counter-foreign-sanctions-new-cold-war-xinjiang/100209928
China is well on the way to teaching the rest of the world how to do without China. Like we did before the early 80s.
PermeateFree said:
An Aria A Day – Silvia Collocahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_R-nLIeQTo&ab_channel=OperaQueenslandTVOperaQueenslandTV
Richard Roxburgh sure picked a good wife who not only looks good but cooks exceptionally well and can even sing opera very well too. Well worth a listen.
Yeah, but can she change the belt set on my Rodeo ute?
btm said:
“Feeling strange, Mr. Bond? That’s because I’ve laced your martini with a measles vaccine. The autism should be setting in any second now.”“The joke’s on you! I already disassembled your doomsday device and rearranged all the parts in order of size.”
I find this highly amusing.
(I need highly amusing right at the moment)
Morning. It was 3 degrees and moderately foggy when I got up about 7.30am. I got the woodfire going and then Mr buffy and I went to the bakery for party pies for breakfast and my mocha for the day. Bought a pipe loaf, a coffee scroll (for me) and an apple turnover (for Mr buffy) to bring home for later. It’s going to be a comfort food day for me.
Bogsnorkler said:
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/how-pm-s-pal-put-satanic-paedophile-conspiracy-in-the-public-eye-20210611-p580bx.html
When I lived in Canberra (85-93) it was often alleged that it was standard practice for the local building contractors to go bankrupt every few years (after transferring all assets to other family members), then start up under a new name.
Looks like nothing has changed.
Today’s question of burning importance:
Was Maddie Groves named after the old English folk song of (almost) the same name?
Don’t know the reason but the currawongs & kookaburras are having a shouting war.
Neither is using their alarm call but the currawongs are using lots of different calls.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Today’s question of burning importance:Was Maddie Groves named after the old English folk song of (almost) the same name?
You are telling the story. Do go on.
Tamb said:
Don’t know the reason but the currawongs & kookaburras are having a shouting war.
Neither is using their alarm call but the currawongs are using lots of different calls.
There’s probably a territorial dispute?
Tamb said:
Don’t know the reason but the currawongs & kookaburras are having a shouting war.
Neither is using their alarm call but the currawongs are using lots of different calls.
Our pieds have been rather noisy this morning too, with varied calls. One in particular was most insistent early on. The yellow tailed black cockies were not in this morning. And no kookaburras calling – although I know they must be there somewhere.
Tamb said:
Don’t know the reason but the currawongs & kookaburras are having a shouting war.
Neither is using their alarm call but the currawongs are using lots of different calls.
Well it all started when a currawong said “you kookaburras haven’t got a clue how to sing” and the kookaburra replied “ha-ha-ha, you must be joking mate, we’re the best singers in the entire bird kingdom”, and it just escalated from there.
roughbarked said:
Tamb said:
Don’t know the reason but the currawongs & kookaburras are having a shouting war.
Neither is using their alarm call but the currawongs are using lots of different calls.
There’s probably a territorial dispute?
roughbarked said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Today’s question of burning importance:Was Maddie Groves named after the old English folk song of (almost) the same name?
You are telling the story. Do go on.
I think I’ve finished.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Tamb said:
Don’t know the reason but the currawongs & kookaburras are having a shouting war.
Neither is using their alarm call but the currawongs are using lots of different calls.
Well it all started when a currawong said “you kookaburras haven’t got a clue how to sing” and the kookaburra replied “ha-ha-ha, you must be joking mate, we’re the best singers in the entire bird kingdom”, and it just escalated from there.
and just then the butcherbird piped in perfect pitch, “you’se blokes are conceited”.
Tamb said:
roughbarked said:
Tamb said:
Don’t know the reason but the currawongs & kookaburras are having a shouting war.
Neither is using their alarm call but the currawongs are using lots of different calls.
There’s probably a territorial dispute?
Could be.
Some bird has babies atm. The usual incessant peep, peep, peep.
Both these birds are capable of eating each other’s chicks.
The Rev Dodgson said:
roughbarked said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Today’s question of burning importance:Was Maddie Groves named after the old English folk song of (almost) the same name?
You are telling the story. Do go on.
I think I’ve finished.
You’re like a new Samuel Beckett.
roughbarked said:
Tamb said:
roughbarked said:There’s probably a territorial dispute?
Could be.
Some bird has babies atm. The usual incessant peep, peep, peep.Both these birds are capable of eating each other’s chicks.
The Rev Dodgson said:
roughbarked said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Today’s question of burning importance:Was Maddie Groves named after the old English folk song of (almost) the same name?
You are telling the story. Do go on.
I think I’ve finished.
Probably for the best.
Tamb said:
roughbarked said:
Tamb said:Could be.
Some bird has babies atm. The usual incessant peep, peep, peep.Both these birds are capable of eating each other’s chicks.
That thought occurred to me.
Sounds like a gang of kookas out there.
Nest site shortages often cause fierce battles over property.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-12/pulitzer-board-honours-teen-who-filmed-george-floyd-murder/100210478
I approve
Witty Rejoinder said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
roughbarked said:You are telling the story. Do go on.
I think I’ve finished.
You’re like a new Samuel Beckett.
Well thankyou kind sir.
Matty Groves comes to mind, whenever I see a news report of Ms Groves.
roughbarked said:
Tamb said:
roughbarked said:Both these birds are capable of eating each other’s chicks.
That thought occurred to me.
Sounds like a gang of kookas out there.Nest site shortages often cause fierce battles over property.
For breakfast I’m thinking: 1 x Cumberland sausage, 1 x egg, 2 x multigrain toast, Lurpak.
Geoffrey Edelsten has died.
Bubblecar said:
For breakfast I’m thinking: 1 x Cumberland sausage, 1 x egg, 2 x multigrain toast, Lurpak.
Fry up some mushrooms and tomatoes while you’re at it.
Witty Rejoinder said:
Geoffrey Edelsten has died.
Saw that on last night’s news. Then got distracted later in the evening.
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
For breakfast I’m thinking: 1 x Cumberland sausage, 1 x egg, 2 x multigrain toast, Lurpak.
Fry up some mushrooms and tomatoes while you’re at it.
Actually I think I’ll do it in the oven.
2 x Cumberland sausages, sliced tomato, mushrooms, then break an egg over the lot when nearly done.
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
For breakfast I’m thinking: 1 x Cumberland sausage, 1 x egg, 2 x multigrain toast, Lurpak.
Fry up some mushrooms and tomatoes while you’re at it.
Actually I think I’ll do it in the oven.
2 x Cumberland sausages, sliced tomato, mushrooms, then break an egg over the lot when nearly done.
This breakfast is turning in to a big song and dance.
buffy said:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-12/pulitzer-board-honours-teen-who-filmed-george-floyd-murder/100210478I approve
me too.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
The Rev Dodgson said:I think I’ve finished.
You’re like a new Samuel Beckett.
Well thankyou kind sir.
Matty Groves comes to mind, whenever I see a news report of Ms Groves.
We gathered that.
Tamb said:
roughbarked said:
Tamb said:That thought occurred to me.
Sounds like a gang of kookas out there.Nest site shortages often cause fierce battles over property.
True, but it seems a bit late in the year for nesting.
No. It is the early nesting season.
Witty Rejoinder said:
Geoffrey Edelsten has died.
I’d forgotten about his existence.
roughbarked said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Witty Rejoinder said:You’re like a new Samuel Beckett.
Well thankyou kind sir.
Matty Groves comes to mind, whenever I see a news report of Ms Groves.
We gathered that.
Oh well.
First time I’ve listened to it the whole way through in ages.
roughbarked said:
Tamb said:
roughbarked said:Nest site shortages often cause fierce battles over property.
True, but it seems a bit late in the year for nesting.No. It is the early nesting season.
The Rev Dodgson said:
roughbarked said:
The Rev Dodgson said:Well thankyou kind sir.
Matty Groves comes to mind, whenever I see a news report of Ms Groves.
We gathered that.
Oh well.
First time I’ve listened to it the whole way through in ages.
Maddy Prior also sang it well.
Morning pilgrims, something something and fine.
Tamb said:
roughbarked said:
Tamb said:True, but it seems a bit late in the year for nesting.
No. It is the early nesting season.
Thanks rb. I thought frosts would be bad for the chicks.
They are getting nest sites together. They then start laying eggs. Some have babies out of the nest before spring. If the water and food are there, why not?
roughbarked said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
roughbarked said:We gathered that.
Oh well.
First time I’ve listened to it the whole way through in ages.
Maddy Prior also sang it well.
Got a link? Can’t find MP or SS recording of Matty Groves.
Or are you thinking of Tam Lin?
The Rev Dodgson said:
roughbarked said:
The Rev Dodgson said:Oh well.
First time I’ve listened to it the whole way through in ages.
Maddy Prior also sang it well.
Got a link? Can’t find MP or SS recording of Matty Groves.
Or are you thinking of Tam Lin?
I’m sorta sure they did it in their act in Perth in ’72. But that was a long time ago.
OK, 2 x Cumberland sausages now in the oven with a pat of Lurpak, a sliced tomato, a couple cherry toms, a load of button mushrooms, salt & pepper.
When nearly ready I’ll drop some fresh basil leaves over the tomato and break 2 x eggs over the lot, continue to cook until the eggs are done.
Witty Rejoinder said:
This breakfast is turning in to a big song and dance.
Well you know what they say about breakfasts, the day, meals and relative importance.
Bubblecar said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
This breakfast is turning in to a big song and dance.
Well you know what they say about breakfasts, the day, meals and relative importance.
Yes but they’re wrong. You can skip breakfast altogether with no ill effects.
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
This breakfast is turning in to a big song and dance.
Well you know what they say about breakfasts, the day, meals and relative importance.
Yes but they’re wrong. You can skip breakfast altogether with no ill effects.
You can, I can’t.
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:Well you know what they say about breakfasts, the day, meals and relative importance.
Yes but they’re wrong. You can skip breakfast altogether with no ill effects.
You can, I can’t.
So when were you last rushed to hospital due to lack of breakfast?
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:Yes but they’re wrong. You can skip breakfast altogether with no ill effects.
You can, I can’t.
So when were you last rushed to hospital due to lack of breakfast?
Shut up and put the toast on.
roughbarked said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
roughbarked said:Maddy Prior also sang it well.
Got a link? Can’t find MP or SS recording of Matty Groves.
Or are you thinking of Tam Lin?
I’m sorta sure they did it in their act in Perth in ’72. But that was a long time ago.
I don’t think I ever saw them live, which considering I was living in London in the early 70’s is just ridiculous.
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:Well you know what they say about breakfasts, the day, meals and relative importance.
Yes but they’re wrong. You can skip breakfast altogether with no ill effects.
You can, I can’t.
Me neither. Can skip lunch though.
I’m only 3kg underweight now which is a big improvement on the 14kg under when I was sick.
The Rev Dodgson said:
roughbarked said:
The Rev Dodgson said:Got a link? Can’t find MP or SS recording of Matty Groves.
Or are you thinking of Tam Lin?
I’m sorta sure they did it in their act in Perth in ’72. But that was a long time ago.
I don’t think I ever saw them live, which considering I was living in London in the early 70’s is just ridiculous.
I saw Steeleye Span in Adelaide, 1977 I think.
Tamb said:
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:Yes but they’re wrong. You can skip breakfast altogether with no ill effects.
You can, I can’t.
Me neither. Can skip lunch though.
I’m only 3kg underweight now which is a big improvement on the 14kg under when I was sick.
Well done!
I’m only about 50kg overweight.
Bubblecar said:
Tamb said:
Bubblecar said:You can, I can’t.
Me neither. Can skip lunch though.
I’m only 3kg underweight now which is a big improvement on the 14kg under when I was sick.
Well done!
I’m only about 50kg overweight.
Tamb said:
Bubblecar said:
Tamb said:Me neither. Can skip lunch though.
I’m only 3kg underweight now which is a big improvement on the 14kg under when I was sick.
Well done!
I’m only about 50kg overweight.
That seems just a tad too much. However I don’t recommend my cancer based weight reduction method.
Sensible.
Still you seem to have had it effectively managed for some time now.
This article broadly addresses my own criticisms of ‘Dark Emu’:
https://www.theage.com.au/national/debunking-dark-emu-did-the-publishing-phenomenon-get-it-wrong-20210507-p57pyl.html
roughbarked said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Geoffrey Edelsten has died.
I’d forgotten about his existence.
We talked about him here last week or the week before.
buffy said:
roughbarked said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Geoffrey Edelsten has died.
I’d forgotten about his existence.
We talked about him here last week or the week before.
Not a very nice man, if I recall correctly. He used to keep a dwarf.
Bubblecar said:
Tamb said:
Bubblecar said:Well done!
I’m only about 50kg overweight.
That seems just a tad too much. However I don’t recommend my cancer based weight reduction method.
Sensible.
Still you seem to have had it effectively managed for some time now.
Bubblecar said:
OK, 2 x Cumberland sausages now in the oven with a pat of Lurpak, a sliced tomato, a couple cherry toms, a load of button mushrooms, salt & pepper.When nearly ready I’ll drop some fresh basil leaves over the tomato and break 2 x eggs over the lot, continue to cook until the eggs are done.
Verdict: smashing meal.
buffy said:
roughbarked said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Geoffrey Edelsten has died.
I’d forgotten about his existence.
We talked about him here last week or the week before.
Must have missed that conversation.
Bubblecar said:
buffy said:
roughbarked said:I’d forgotten about his existence.
We talked about him here last week or the week before.
Not a very nice man, if I recall correctly. He used to keep a dwarf.
He had some nasty habits.
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
OK, 2 x Cumberland sausages now in the oven with a pat of Lurpak, a sliced tomato, a couple cherry toms, a load of button mushrooms, salt & pepper.When nearly ready I’ll drop some fresh basil leaves over the tomato and break 2 x eggs over the lot, continue to cook until the eggs are done.
Verdict: smashing meal.
I take it you are smashed then?
Tamb said:
Bubblecar said:
Tamb said:That seems just a tad too much. However I don’t recommend my cancer based weight reduction method.
Sensible.
Still you seem to have had it effectively managed for some time now.
How are your medical problems going?
Had a chest X-ray on Thursday but I won’t get to see the GP about the results until the 22nd.
No word yet on a rescheduling of the hernia op.
Pulled a muscle in the left calf yet again, yesterday :/ It seems permanently vulnerable now, same muscle damaged four or five times over the last couple months.
Bubblecar said:
Tamb said:
Bubblecar said:Sensible.
Still you seem to have had it effectively managed for some time now.
How are your medical problems going?
Had a chest X-ray on Thursday but I won’t get to see the GP about the results until the 22nd.
No word yet on a rescheduling of the hernia op.
Pulled a muscle in the left calf yet again, yesterday :/ It seems permanently vulnerable now, same muscle damaged four or five times over the last couple months.
Witty Rejoinder said:
This article broadly addresses my own criticisms of ‘Dark Emu’:https://www.theage.com.au/national/debunking-dark-emu-did-the-publishing-phenomenon-get-it-wrong-20210507-p57pyl.html
It’s a hard to read article.
I don’t mind a bit of preamble and scene setting but I grow weary of it if the article hasn’t cut to the chase by mid way.
The conservative media have been jumping up and down about the willingness, the oh so willingness of ABC types to believe everything Pasco says and writes for ages.
I might go and do a spot of mowing with the sun on my back and the wind in my hai………….the wind on my face.
Peak Warming Man said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
This article broadly addresses my own criticisms of ‘Dark Emu’:https://www.theage.com.au/national/debunking-dark-emu-did-the-publishing-phenomenon-get-it-wrong-20210507-p57pyl.html
It’s a hard to read article.
I don’t mind a bit of preamble and scene setting but I grow weary of it if the article hasn’t cut to the chase by mid way.
The conservative media have been jumping up and down about the willingness, the oh so willingness of ABC types to believe everything Pasco says and writes for ages.
It’s important to remain objective but the conservative media are usually maintaining the same conceit as Pascoe that ‘settled agriculture’ is culturaly superior to a hunter-gatherer existance.
Peak Warming Man said:
I might go and do a spot of mowing with the sun on my back and the wind in my hai………….the wind on my face.
Still a misty moisty morning here. fog persists.
Witty Rejoinder said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
This article broadly addresses my own criticisms of ‘Dark Emu’:https://www.theage.com.au/national/debunking-dark-emu-did-the-publishing-phenomenon-get-it-wrong-20210507-p57pyl.html
It’s a hard to read article.
I don’t mind a bit of preamble and scene setting but I grow weary of it if the article hasn’t cut to the chase by mid way.
The conservative media have been jumping up and down about the willingness, the oh so willingness of ABC types to believe everything Pasco says and writes for ages.
It’s important to remain objective but the conservative media are usually maintaining the same conceit as Pascoe that ‘settled agriculture’ is culturaly superior to a hunter-gatherer existance.
I’m interested in the author’s use of the Old People term. In this district, the Old People are the ones who were here earlier, during the last Ice Age, not the ones who were here when the Europeans came (Djab wurrung and Jardwadjali). The post ice age language is estimated to be around 5,000 years old. I don’t know if this dichotomy exists in other areas of Australia. If so, this would make a difference to knowing what happened in aeons past, if you were only taking evidence from the inhabitants around in the late 1700/early 1800s.
We have a maximum of 9.6°C the highest for a few days.
ABC News:
‘CryptoPunk non-fungible token sells for $15.3 million at auction house Sotheby’s’
This NFT thing has got to be the best swindle of all time.
Essentially, they’re buying nothing other than a pattern of a few pixels on a screen.
A pattern which can easily be reproduced, and circulated in the millions, if not billions of copies very quickly. And all they could do is plaintively squeak ‘but i own that!’.
$15 million for nothing.
The emperor’s new clothes.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-11/christian-porter-loses-bid-to-reduce-costs/100210114
He’s apparently still having some difficulties with the system.
buffy said:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-11/christian-porter-loses-bid-to-reduce-costs/100210114He’s apparently still having some difficulties with the system.
“Don’t you know who I am?”
buffy said:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-11/christian-porter-loses-bid-to-reduce-costs/100210114He’s apparently still having some difficulties with the system.
He’ll be taking the legal system into the workshop soon.
‘There seem to be something wrong with the steering. It won’t go the way i’d like it to.’
Bogsnorkler said:
buffy said:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-11/christian-porter-loses-bid-to-reduce-costs/100210114He’s apparently still having some difficulties with the system.
“Don’t you know who I am?”
Billy Connolly told of an argument in shipyard between a worker and an executive.
The executive said ‘Do you know whi i am?!’
The worker turned to his mates and said ‘this bloke’s so pissed he does’nae know who he is!”.
captain_spalding said:
buffy said:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-11/christian-porter-loses-bid-to-reduce-costs/100210114He’s apparently still having some difficulties with the system.
He’ll be taking the legal system into the workshop soon.
‘There seem to be something wrong with the steering. It won’t go the way i’d like it to.’
STACK THE SUPREME COURT
A Burp or a Blast? Seismic Signals Reveal the Volcanic Eruption to Come
Scientists have begun to decipher the subtle signs that reveal how explosive a volcanic eruption is going to be.
June 1, 2021
Last December, a gloopy ooze of lava began extruding out of the summit of La Soufrière, a volcano on the Caribbean island of St. Vincent. The effusion was slow at first; no one was threatened. Then in late March and early April, the volcano began to emit seismic waves associated with swiftly rising magma. Noxious fumes vigorously vented from the peak.
Fearing a magmatic bomb was imminent, scientists sounded the alarm, and the government ordered a full evacuation of the island’s north on April 8. The next day, the volcano began catastrophically exploding. The evacuation had come just in time: At the time of writing, no lives have been lost.
Read more:
https://www.quantamagazine.org/seismic-data-helps-scientists-forecast-volcanic-explosions-20210601/
Queensland 1958. Furnishing and appliances display, Nambour Showgrounds.
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Not in WA.
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I’ll bump it for Buffy.
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I’ll bump it for Buffy.
she probably already has a stake in them.
Brisbane school children enjoying free milk, 1950s.
In my childhood in UK & SA we were provided with straws. Only the tough kids drank straight from the bottle.
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she probably already has a stake in them.
A worldwide plot by the Big Eye industry to create more patients for themselves??
I backed over the mower in the ute, I’ll have to get my big hammer out(not that one) and take to the mower rim violently because the blades are hitting the sides now.
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Got one of those here. Delightfully dangerous.
Bunnings website down for anyone else?
1950s interior with built-in television, very much a status symbol.
party_pants said:
Bunnings website down for anyone else?
sausage!
Peak Warming Man said:
I backed over the mower in the ute, I’ll have to get my big hammer out(not that one) and take to the mower rim violently because the blades are hitting the sides now.
You and your Russell Coight like antics.
Peak Warming Man said:
I backed over the mower in the ute, I’ll have to get my big hammer out(not that one) and take to the mower rim violently because the blades are hitting the sides now.
You and that ute are becoming a hazard.
party_pants said:
Bunnings website down for anyone else?
Yeah it’s rogered.
party_pants said:
Bunnings website down for anyone else?
Down here too.
Witty Rejoinder said:
party_pants said:
Bunnings website down for anyone else?
Down here too.
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Witty Rejoinder said:
party_pants said:
Bunnings website down for anyone else?
Down here too.
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It’s working for me right now.
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Witty Rejoinder said:
party_pants said:
Bunnings website down for anyone else?
Down here too.
Working now.
Witty Rejoinder said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
party_pants said:
Bunnings website down for anyone else?
Down here too.
Working now.
Ooops. What Car said.
they may have taken it down to make the necessary changes to how their search function works.
Hahahahahahahahahahahaha
what a relief!
Ah it’s broken now for me.
It’s “bunnings crook” as Geoff D would have said.
I like this kitchen.
Bubblecar said:
I like this kitchen.
Something is awry with that model’s torso and neck.
Bubblecar said:
I like this kitchen.
That’s what happens when you’re exposed to Formica for long periods.
Witty Rejoinder said:
Bubblecar said:
I like this kitchen.
Something is awry with that model’s torso and neck.
That’s what happens when you’re exposed to Formica for long periods.
Bubblecar said:
I like this kitchen.
I don’t. I’d go manufactured stone if I had dollars.
My Dad was a lover of Formica. He developed a skill set with the product. I do have a little cupboard on wheels that I keep some art supplies in. It has a maple woodgrain formica on top and the cupboard itself is made from marine ply he brought home from a construction job that had previously used as formwork.
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
I like this kitchen.
I don’t. I’d go manufactured stone if I had dollars.
My Dad was a lover of Formica. He developed a skill set with the product. I do have a little cupboard on wheels that I keep some art supplies in. It has a maple woodgrain formica on top and the cupboard itself is made from marine ply he brought home from a construction job that had previously used as formwork.
Don’t get me wrong, Formica, Laminex etc was/is a fairly rubbishy product. Looks OK as long as it’s kept in brand new condition but in most cases soon accumulates scratches and scuffs which don’t improve it at all.
The ads claimed it’s highly durable, but don’t point out that it doesn’t age gracefully at all, unlike wood and stone etc.
I just like the look of that particular kitchen. Not what I’d choose for myself but it has its own cosiness.
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
I like this kitchen.
I don’t. I’d go manufactured stone if I had dollars.
My Dad was a lover of Formica. He developed a skill set with the product. I do have a little cupboard on wheels that I keep some art supplies in. It has a maple woodgrain formica on top and the cupboard itself is made from marine ply he brought home from a construction job that had previously used as formwork.
Don’t get me wrong, Formica, Laminex etc was/is a fairly rubbishy product. Looks OK as long as it’s kept in brand new condition but in most cases soon accumulates scratches and scuffs which don’t improve it at all.
The ads claimed it’s highly durable, but don’t point out that it doesn’t age gracefully at all, unlike wood and stone etc.
I just like the look of that particular kitchen. Not what I’d choose for myself but it has its own cosiness.
Something in soft green and creamy white with marble tops and an aga.
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:I don’t. I’d go manufactured stone if I had dollars.
My Dad was a lover of Formica. He developed a skill set with the product. I do have a little cupboard on wheels that I keep some art supplies in. It has a maple woodgrain formica on top and the cupboard itself is made from marine ply he brought home from a construction job that had previously used as formwork.
Don’t get me wrong, Formica, Laminex etc was/is a fairly rubbishy product. Looks OK as long as it’s kept in brand new condition but in most cases soon accumulates scratches and scuffs which don’t improve it at all.
The ads claimed it’s highly durable, but don’t point out that it doesn’t age gracefully at all, unlike wood and stone etc.
I just like the look of that particular kitchen. Not what I’d choose for myself but it has its own cosiness.
Something in soft green and creamy white with marble tops and an aga.
Anna has marble tops. I’m more a traditional farmhouse kitchen type, if I can choose. But I’m at the mercy of rentals. My current kitchen isn’t too bad.
Bogsnorkler said:
Peak Warming Man said:
sarahs mum said:
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party_pants said:
sarahs mum said:
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Bubblecar said:
Brisbane school children enjoying free milk, 1950s.In my childhood in UK & SA we were provided with straws. Only the tough kids drank straight from the bottle.
We didn’t have bottles in the mid 60s in Victoria. We had tetrapaks. Like the Sunnyboy packs.
Looks OK as long as it’s kept in brand new condition but in most cases soon accumulates scratches and scuffs which don’t improve it at all.
—-
I must say the more modern product is better. I have it in a midnight blue mottle in my kitchen and now it is 16 or 17 years old and is still looking newish. I do always use a chopping board. Brett didn’t. I caught him lots using a sharp knife on it.
The cupboard doors are a very slightly metallic grey. And it seems now that I am on trend after all these years.
Witty Rejoinder said:
Peak Warming Man said:
I backed over the mower in the ute, I’ll have to get my big hammer out(not that one) and take to the mower rim violently because the blades are hitting the sides now.
You and your Russell Coight like antics.
I think your mower now needs to be fitted with one of those high rise flags like kids used to put on their bikes. So drivers could see where they were.
buffy said:
Bubblecar said:
Brisbane school children enjoying free milk, 1950s.In my childhood in UK & SA we were provided with straws. Only the tough kids drank straight from the bottle.
We didn’t have bottles in the mid 60s in Victoria. We had tetrapaks. Like the Sunnyboy packs.
We had bottles in the late 60s.
buffy said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Peak Warming Man said:
I backed over the mower in the ute, I’ll have to get my big hammer out(not that one) and take to the mower rim violently because the blades are hitting the sides now.
You and your Russell Coight like antics.
I think your mower now needs to be fitted with one of those high rise flags like kids used to put on their bikes. So drivers could see where they were.
Yes.
sarahs mum said:
Looks OK as long as it’s kept in brand new condition but in most cases soon accumulates scratches and scuffs which don’t improve it at all.
—-
I must say the more modern product is better. I have it in a midnight blue mottle in my kitchen and now it is 16 or 17 years old and is still looking newish. I do always use a chopping board. Brett didn’t. I caught him lots using a sharp knife on it.The cupboard doors are a very slightly metallic grey. And it seems now that I am on trend after all these years.
:)
roughbarked said:
party_pants said:
sarahs mum said:
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Careful, you’ll have someone’s eye out with that!
Dipped in polonium.
or use a whole polonium
sibeen said:
buffy said:
Bubblecar said:
Brisbane school children enjoying free milk, 1950s.In my childhood in UK & SA we were provided with straws. Only the tough kids drank straight from the bottle.
We didn’t have bottles in the mid 60s in Victoria. We had tetrapaks. Like the Sunnyboy packs.
We had bottles in the late 60s.
probably beer at you school.
sibeen said:
buffy said:
Bubblecar said:
Brisbane school children enjoying free milk, 1950s.In my childhood in UK & SA we were provided with straws. Only the tough kids drank straight from the bottle.
We didn’t have bottles in the mid 60s in Victoria. We had tetrapaks. Like the Sunnyboy packs.
We had bottles in the late 60s.
So did we.
buffy said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Peak Warming Man said:
I backed over the mower in the ute, I’ll have to get my big hammer out(not that one) and take to the mower rim violently because the blades are hitting the sides now.
You and your Russell Coight like antics.
I think your mower now needs to be fitted with one of those high rise flags like kids used to put on their bikes. So drivers could see where they were.
or a white cane for PWM.
Bogsnorkler said:
sibeen said:
buffy said:We didn’t have bottles in the mid 60s in Victoria. We had tetrapaks. Like the Sunnyboy packs.
We had bottles in the late 60s.
probably beer at you school.
my rs keeps going missing.
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
I like this kitchen.
I don’t. I’d go manufactured stone if I had dollars.
My Dad was a lover of Formica. He developed a skill set with the product. I do have a little cupboard on wheels that I keep some art supplies in. It has a maple woodgrain formica on top and the cupboard itself is made from marine ply he brought home from a construction job that had previously used as formwork.
I like my laminex that looks like marble. It’s reasonable facsimile and it doesn’t soak up fats like my marble slab does. Simple enough to remember to put down a wooden chopping board or a trivet if you have got a hot pot to put on the bench.
I’d better have a shower then go and get a drop more booze for tonight, if my legs with their pulled muscles, spine with its stenosis, heart with its murmur etc are still capable of locomotion.
Then from tomorrow it’s a good long stretch of wagon.
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
I like this kitchen.
I don’t. I’d go manufactured stone if I had dollars.
My Dad was a lover of Formica. He developed a skill set with the product. I do have a little cupboard on wheels that I keep some art supplies in. It has a maple woodgrain formica on top and the cupboard itself is made from marine ply he brought home from a construction job that had previously used as formwork.
Don’t get me wrong, Formica, Laminex etc was/is a fairly rubbishy product. Looks OK as long as it’s kept in brand new condition but in most cases soon accumulates scratches and scuffs which don’t improve it at all.
The ads claimed it’s highly durable, but don’t point out that it doesn’t age gracefully at all, unlike wood and stone etc.
I just like the look of that particular kitchen. Not what I’d choose for myself but it has its own cosiness.
I dispute the rubbishy adjective. My benches are over 20 years old now. As long as you don’t put hot pots on them and you don’t chop stuff on them (neither of which they are designed to withstand) they maintain a good surface.
sibeen said:
buffy said:
Bubblecar said:
Brisbane school children enjoying free milk, 1950s.In my childhood in UK & SA we were provided with straws. Only the tough kids drank straight from the bottle.
We didn’t have bottles in the mid 60s in Victoria. We had tetrapaks. Like the Sunnyboy packs.
We had bottles in the late 60s.
Where were you? I was at Box Hill North Primary School. 1965-71.
buffy said:
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
I like this kitchen.
I don’t. I’d go manufactured stone if I had dollars.
My Dad was a lover of Formica. He developed a skill set with the product. I do have a little cupboard on wheels that I keep some art supplies in. It has a maple woodgrain formica on top and the cupboard itself is made from marine ply he brought home from a construction job that had previously used as formwork.
I like my laminex that looks like marble. It’s reasonable facsimile and it doesn’t soak up fats like my marble slab does. Simple enough to remember to put down a wooden chopping board or a trivet if you have got a hot pot to put on the bench.
when I was young I put the kettle on to boil and then my music teacher rang and asked where I was and I dropped everything and went to my lesson.
I did set burn a goodly hole in the laminex.
Bogsnorkler said:
buffy said:
Witty Rejoinder said:You and your Russell Coight like antics.
I think your mower now needs to be fitted with one of those high rise flags like kids used to put on their bikes. So drivers could see where they were.
or a white cane for PWM.
Or even a rear vision mirror?
buffy said:
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:I don’t. I’d go manufactured stone if I had dollars.
My Dad was a lover of Formica. He developed a skill set with the product. I do have a little cupboard on wheels that I keep some art supplies in. It has a maple woodgrain formica on top and the cupboard itself is made from marine ply he brought home from a construction job that had previously used as formwork.
Don’t get me wrong, Formica, Laminex etc was/is a fairly rubbishy product. Looks OK as long as it’s kept in brand new condition but in most cases soon accumulates scratches and scuffs which don’t improve it at all.
The ads claimed it’s highly durable, but don’t point out that it doesn’t age gracefully at all, unlike wood and stone etc.
I just like the look of that particular kitchen. Not what I’d choose for myself but it has its own cosiness.
I dispute the rubbishy adjective. My benches are over 20 years old now. As long as you don’t put hot pots on them and you don’t chop stuff on them (neither of which they are designed to withstand) they maintain a good surface.
Yes “rubbishy” was an exaggeration. But it’s true that they only look good if they’re kept looking close to “as new”, whereas solid wood ages gracefully even with years of slapdash treatment.
16th century refectory table, still a good kitchen work bench. On sale for only $16500.
buffy said:
sibeen said:
buffy said:We didn’t have bottles in the mid 60s in Victoria. We had tetrapaks. Like the Sunnyboy packs.
We had bottles in the late 60s.
Where were you? I was at Box Hill North Primary School. 1965-71.
St Monica’s Primary, Moonee Ponds.
Showed them who’s boss.
Me and the hedge trimmer have been busy, literally getting the camellias and similar shrubs in the front garden into shape.
Green waste bin is full now.
captain_spalding said:
Showed them who’s boss.Me and the hedge trimmer have been busy, literally getting the camellias and similar shrubs in the front garden into shape.
Green waste bin is full now.
Sounds productive.
I should wander off to the shed for the afternoon and make some sawdust.
party_pants said:
captain_spalding said:
Showed them who’s boss.Me and the hedge trimmer have been busy, literally getting the camellias and similar shrubs in the front garden into shape.
Green waste bin is full now.
Sounds productive.
I should wander off to the shed for the afternoon and make some sawdust.
I did that this morning.
Have to do a vac around the joint, the the Wolf wants to go on a patrol.
Further sawdust may have to wait until tomorrow.
coffee and snacks shortly, lunch maybe
lady peering in cupboard, contemplative look
do you want some soup? she asks…or little mini pizza things….
looks like will be latter, done under the grill
Kim Jong-Un has probably just started Pilates or something.
transition said:
coffee and snacks shortly, lunch maybelady peering in cupboard, contemplative look
do you want some soup? she asks…or little mini pizza things….
looks like will be latter, done under the grill
Just as well.
Soup doesn’t work well under the grill.
captain_spalding said:
transition said:
coffee and snacks shortly, lunch maybelady peering in cupboard, contemplative look
do you want some soup? she asks…or little mini pizza things….
looks like will be latter, done under the grill
Just as well.
Soup doesn’t work well under the grill.
chuckle, reckon not, though not tried it, done the science, leave that to someone else
Looks like Scomo’s ties to Q-Anon will air on ’4 Corners’ this Monday.
captain_spalding said:
Showed them who’s boss.Me and the hedge trimmer have been busy, literally getting the camellias and similar shrubs in the front garden into shape.
Green waste bin is full now.
Um…camellias here are in bud…you would usually prune after flowering…
captain_spalding said:
transition said:
coffee and snacks shortly, lunch maybelady peering in cupboard, contemplative look
do you want some soup? she asks…or little mini pizza things….
looks like will be latter, done under the grill
Just as well.
Soup doesn’t work well under the grill.
That’s a good tip, it was taking hours.
buffy said:
captain_spalding said:
Showed them who’s boss.Me and the hedge trimmer have been busy, literally getting the camellias and similar shrubs in the front garden into shape.
Green waste bin is full now.
Um…camellias here are in bud…you would usually prune after flowering…
We had heaps of flowers in the previous several weeks.
There were very few actual flowers left. Trimming the shrubs has exposed a whole lot of buds that were buried back in the foliage, and i expect that we’ll have a whole new lot of blooms quite soon.
transition said:
coffee and snacks shortly, lunch maybelady peering in cupboard, contemplative look
do you want some soup? she asks…or little mini pizza things….
looks like will be latter, done under the grill
Tamb said:
transition said:
coffee and snacks shortly, lunch maybelady peering in cupboard, contemplative look
do you want some soup? she asks…or little mini pizza things….
looks like will be latter, done under the grill
Oh gawd. Sorry Transition’s Lady. I first read lady peeing in cupboard.
Should’ve bought that house with the second loo…
BACK and what a pleasant walk it was. Just wish I’d taken my camera as the river is in spate and moving very fast. Caravan park is flooded as are paddocks on the other side which have now become a giant duck pond, much to the joy of the local ducks.
Bubblecar said:
BACK and what a pleasant walk it was. Just wish I’d taken my camera as the river is in spate and moving very fast. Caravan park is flooded as are paddocks on the other side which have now become a giant duck pond, much to the joy of the local ducks.
I wish you had taken the camera too.
Bubblecar said:
BACK and what a pleasant walk it was. Just wish I’d taken my camera as the river is in spate and moving very fast. Caravan park is flooded as are paddocks on the other side which have now become a giant duck pond, much to the joy of the local ducks.
Ever seen a wood duck, I’ve seen some in Oxfordshire, they are a seriously big duck.
captain_spalding said:
buffy said:
captain_spalding said:
Showed them who’s boss.Me and the hedge trimmer have been busy, literally getting the camellias and similar shrubs in the front garden into shape.
Green waste bin is full now.
Um…camellias here are in bud…you would usually prune after flowering…
We had heaps of flowers in the previous several weeks.
There were very few actual flowers left. Trimming the shrubs has exposed a whole lot of buds that were buried back in the foliage, and i expect that we’ll have a whole new lot of blooms quite soon.
You must be a bit ahead of us.
Peak Warming Man said:
Bubblecar said:
BACK and what a pleasant walk it was. Just wish I’d taken my camera as the river is in spate and moving very fast. Caravan park is flooded as are paddocks on the other side which have now become a giant duck pond, much to the joy of the local ducks.
Ever seen a wood duck, I’ve seen some in Oxfordshire, they are a seriously big duck.
Possibly, I couldn’t swear to it.
Peak Warming Man said:
Bubblecar said:
BACK and what a pleasant walk it was. Just wish I’d taken my camera as the river is in spate and moving very fast. Caravan park is flooded as are paddocks on the other side which have now become a giant duck pond, much to the joy of the local ducks.
Ever seen a wood duck, I’ve seen some in Oxfordshire, they are a seriously big duck.
Quite a lot of Australian wood ducks around here. You would have them at the redoubt, wouldn’t you?
https://birdlife.org.au/bird-profile/australian-wood-duck
Fish & chips again tonight since there’s one more large fillet that has to be used.
In fact I’ll put them in the oven shortly since I skipped lunch due to that bumper breakfast.
buffy said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Bubblecar said:
BACK and what a pleasant walk it was. Just wish I’d taken my camera as the river is in spate and moving very fast. Caravan park is flooded as are paddocks on the other side which have now become a giant duck pond, much to the joy of the local ducks.
Ever seen a wood duck, I’ve seen some in Oxfordshire, they are a seriously big duck.
Quite a lot of Australian wood ducks around here. You would have them at the redoubt, wouldn’t you?
https://birdlife.org.au/bird-profile/australian-wood-duck
Hmmm, might be a naming thing but they are not the ones I saw in Oxford.
I’ll have a google arounf later on.
Bubblecar said:
Fish & chips again tonight since there’s one more large fillet that has to be used.In fact I’ll put them in the oven shortly since I skipped lunch due to that bumper breakfast.
You went from singular to plural in the space of a space.
Peak Warming Man said:
Bubblecar said:
Fish & chips again tonight since there’s one more large fillet that has to be used.In fact I’ll put them in the oven shortly since I skipped lunch due to that bumper breakfast.
You went from singular to plural in the space of a space.
Plural = 1 x fish fillet + multiple chips.
Bubblecar said:
buffy said:
Bubblecar said:Don’t get me wrong, Formica, Laminex etc was/is a fairly rubbishy product. Looks OK as long as it’s kept in brand new condition but in most cases soon accumulates scratches and scuffs which don’t improve it at all.
The ads claimed it’s highly durable, but don’t point out that it doesn’t age gracefully at all, unlike wood and stone etc.
I just like the look of that particular kitchen. Not what I’d choose for myself but it has its own cosiness.
I dispute the rubbishy adjective. My benches are over 20 years old now. As long as you don’t put hot pots on them and you don’t chop stuff on them (neither of which they are designed to withstand) they maintain a good surface.
Yes “rubbishy” was an exaggeration. But it’s true that they only look good if they’re kept looking close to “as new”, whereas solid wood ages gracefully even with years of slapdash treatment.
16th century refectory table, still a good kitchen work bench. On sale for only $16500.
Looks ok.. be a bummer to get the lumpy bit.
Bubblecar said:
Both new and novel.
The phone just rang. Scared the shit out of me. They just wanted to scam Mrs Mekker. Something about solar panels. I told her I wasn’t playing today and hung up.
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
Both new and novel.
The phone just rang. Scared the shit out of me. They just wanted to scam Mrs Mekker. Something about solar panels. I told her I wasn’t playing today and hung up.
I wonder why they keep interpreting Meeker as Mekker.
Bubblecar said:
Fish & chips again tonight since there’s one more large fillet that has to be used.In fact I’ll put them in the oven shortly since I skipped lunch due to that bumper breakfast.
Bubblecar, you did a variation on the roast your chicken on a spaghetti bed the other day…I can’t remember what you did. I’ve just made a mix of chopped chicken thigh fillet and various veggies (including onion, carrot, celery, mushroom) and popped it on top of some cooked angelhair spaghetti. And covered the dish with strips of bacon, because the chicken hasn’t really got skin and juices done this way. Is that like what you did?
Glancing in my fridge, there’s only one product in there made in the USA. See if you can guess what it is.
Bubblecar said:
Glancing in my fridge, there’s only one product in there made in the USA. See if you can guess what it is.
The fridge.
Bubblecar said:
Glancing in my fridge, there’s only one product in there made in the USA. See if you can guess what it is.
I was going to say “the maple syrup”. But my maple syrup is Canadian. So no idea. I don’t think I’ve got any American products here.
Bubblecar said:
Glancing in my fridge, there’s only one product in there made in the USA. See if you can guess what it is.
Some variety of cheese.
Witty Rejoinder said:
Bubblecar said:
Glancing in my fridge, there’s only one product in there made in the USA. See if you can guess what it is.
Some variety of cheese.
Oh dear…not a tube of cheese!
Bubblecar said:
Glancing in my fridge, there’s only one product in there made in the USA. See if you can guess what it is.
Some liquid refreshment containing excessive amounts of sugar perhaps?
buffy said:
Bubblecar said:
Fish & chips again tonight since there’s one more large fillet that has to be used.In fact I’ll put them in the oven shortly since I skipped lunch due to that bumper breakfast.
Bubblecar, you did a variation on the roast your chicken on a spaghetti bed the other day…I can’t remember what you did. I’ve just made a mix of chopped chicken thigh fillet and various veggies (including onion, carrot, celery, mushroom) and popped it on top of some cooked angelhair spaghetti. And covered the dish with strips of bacon, because the chicken hasn’t really got skin and juices done this way. Is that like what you did?
Mine was a slightly spicy one, involving some jalapeno and Cajun seasoning. Two thigh fillets divided into four pieces. Onion, garlic, jalapeno, mushrooms, capsicum, tomato and some of that locally made tomato sauce. No bacon but I did use quite a lot of olive oil. Might have been other ingredients I’ve forgotten :)
No to all your answers. Clue: it’s in a cute little bottle.
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
Both new and novel.
The phone just rang. Scared the shit out of me. They just wanted to scam Mrs Mekker. Something about solar panels. I told her I wasn’t playing today and hung up.
I just ask them ‘are they going to give it to me for free?’. To which the answer is, of course, ‘well…no’.
‘Then i can’t afford it’, i say, ‘thanks for the call, but…goodbye’.
buffy said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Bubblecar said:
Glancing in my fridge, there’s only one product in there made in the USA. See if you can guess what it is.
Some variety of cheese.
Oh dear…not a tube of cheese!
A pressure spray-can of ‘cheese’?
captain_spalding said:
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
Both new and novel.
The phone just rang. Scared the shit out of me. They just wanted to scam Mrs Mekker. Something about solar panels. I told her I wasn’t playing today and hung up.
I just ask them ‘are they going to give it to me for free?’. To which the answer is, of course, ‘well…no’.
‘Then i can’t afford it’, i say, ‘thanks for the call, but…goodbye’.
I could do that.
tabasco.
Bubblecar said:
No to all your answers. Clue: it’s in a cute little bottle.
tabasco
sarahs mum said:
tabasco.
Sarahs mum is tonight’s winner.
sarahs mum said:
captain_spalding said:‘Then i can’t afford it’, i say, ‘thanks for the call, but…goodbye’.
I could do that.
It’s saying ‘no’ without saying ‘no’.
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
tabasco.
Sarahs mum is tonight’s winner.
Made in Lousy Anna.
Bubblecar said:
No to all your answers. Clue: it’s in a cute little bottle.
Basky of the basco sauce.
captain_spalding said:
sarahs mum said:
captain_spalding said:‘Then i can’t afford it’, i say, ‘thanks for the call, but…goodbye’.
I could do that.
It’s saying ‘no’ without saying ‘no’.
My strategy:
1. Answer phone
2. Say “Hello?”
3. Wait for response.
If response is a long delay of strange noises as the autodialer hands me over to a real person, I hang up.
If the response is “Hello?”, I say “Hello?” in return. If they again say “Hello?”, I hang up. (this is surprisingly common)
If the the response is an introduction and an attempt at being personable, such as “Hello, my name is David, how are you this evening?”, I hang up.
If the response is a sales pitch that gives you no chance to interject, I sometimes put the phone down without hanging up and continue on with what I was doing, but I usually just hang up.
I have far more important things to do than engaging.
Dark Orange said:
captain_spalding said:
sarahs mum said:I could do that.
It’s saying ‘no’ without saying ‘no’.
My strategy:
1. Answer phone
2. Say “Hello?”
3. Wait for response.If response is a long delay of strange noises as the autodialer hands me over to a real person, I hang up.
If the response is “Hello?”, I say “Hello?” in return. If they again say “Hello?”, I hang up. (this is surprisingly common)
If the the response is an introduction and an attempt at being personable, such as “Hello, my name is David, how are you this evening?”, I hang up.
If the response is a sales pitch that gives you no chance to interject, I sometimes put the phone down without hanging up and continue on with what I was doing, but I usually just hang up.I have far more important things to do than engaging.
similar. if I don’t recognise the number, don’t pick up. if i pick up because I am expecting a call from a number that isn’t on my phone or I don’t recognise and there is a long pause, hang up.
hello peoples.
captain_spalding said:
buffy said:
Witty Rejoinder said:Some variety of cheese.
Oh dear…not a tube of cheese!
A pressure spray-can of ‘cheese’?
You get me my Cheese Wiz, boy?
I have a response which sort of combines DO’s and Bogsnorkler’s methods.
Unfamiliar number: maybe pick up, but say nothing. Frequently, after a few seconds, the auto-dialler registers ‘no response’ and hangs up.
After that, much the same as DO’s.
Unless i’m in the mood to play, in which case i hope that they have access to a good therapist afterwards.
Rule 303 said:
captain_spalding said:
buffy said:Oh dear…not a tube of cheese!
A pressure spray-can of ‘cheese’?
You get me my Cheese Wiz, boy?
:)
Bogsnorkler said:
Dark Orange said:
captain_spalding said:It’s saying ‘no’ without saying ‘no’.
My strategy:
1. Answer phone
2. Say “Hello?”
3. Wait for response.If response is a long delay of strange noises as the autodialer hands me over to a real person, I hang up.
If the response is “Hello?”, I say “Hello?” in return. If they again say “Hello?”, I hang up. (this is surprisingly common)
If the the response is an introduction and an attempt at being personable, such as “Hello, my name is David, how are you this evening?”, I hang up.
If the response is a sales pitch that gives you no chance to interject, I sometimes put the phone down without hanging up and continue on with what I was doing, but I usually just hang up.I have far more important things to do than engaging.
similar. if I don’t recognise the number, don’t pick up. if i pick up because I am expecting a call from a number that isn’t on my phone or I don’t recognise and there is a long pause, hang up.
My mobile tells me the country of origin of most spam calls which is useful.
I do have some sympathy for ‘cold callers’.
I’ve done it, when i was desperate for employment, and i hated, detested, despised, and loathed every second of it.
I was good at it, and that did nothing at all for my self-esteem.
So, i try to not be too rough on the poor sods, unless they get snotty with me.
In which case, it’s like this:
monkey skipper said:
hello peoples.
hangs up. :)
A lot of scams target older people who are less familiar with technology. YouTuber Scammer Payback decided to turn the tables on a scammer and deleted the scammer’s files while posing as an old lady.
https://digg.com/video/guy-pretends-to-be-old-lady-messes-with-scammers
How effective would this really be? The guy could have backed up..
Ian said:
A lot of scams target older people who are less familiar with technology. YouTuber Scammer Payback decided to turn the tables on a scammer and deleted the scammer’s files while posing as an old lady.https://digg.com/video/guy-pretends-to-be-old-lady-messes-with-scammers
How effective would this really be? The guy could have backed up..
The shock to the scammer would have made it worth the effort.
Making the point that the internet is a two-way street, and the predator can easily become the victim.
Witty Rejoinder said:
Bogsnorkler said:Dark Orange said:My strategy:
1. Answer phone
2. Say “Hello?”
3. Wait for response.If response is a long delay of strange noises as the autodialer hands me over to a real person, I hang up.
If the response is “Hello?”, I say “Hello?” in return. If they again say “Hello?”, I hang up. (this is surprisingly common)
If the the response is an introduction and an attempt at being personable, such as “Hello, my name is David, how are you this evening?”, I hang up.
If the response is a sales pitch that gives you no chance to interject, I sometimes put the phone down without hanging up and continue on with what I was doing, but I usually just hang up.I have far more important things to do than engaging.
similar. if I don’t recognise the number, don’t pick up. if i pick up because I am expecting a call from a number that isn’t on my phone or I don’t recognise and there is a long pause, hang up.
My mobile tells me the country of origin of most spam calls which is useful.
seems we have convergent evolution too
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
tabasco.
Sarahs mum is tonight’s winner.
Why is it in the fridge? My antique bottle of Tabasco, covered in dust, is in the pantry. And I know it’s been there at least 20 years because I brought it when we moved from Hawkesdale. Obviously it doesn’t get a lot of use…
Witty Rejoinder said:
Bogsnorkler said:
Dark Orange said:My strategy:
1. Answer phone
2. Say “Hello?”
3. Wait for response.If response is a long delay of strange noises as the autodialer hands me over to a real person, I hang up.
If the response is “Hello?”, I say “Hello?” in return. If they again say “Hello?”, I hang up. (this is surprisingly common)
If the the response is an introduction and an attempt at being personable, such as “Hello, my name is David, how are you this evening?”, I hang up.
If the response is a sales pitch that gives you no chance to interject, I sometimes put the phone down without hanging up and continue on with what I was doing, but I usually just hang up.I have far more important things to do than engaging.
similar. if I don’t recognise the number, don’t pick up. if i pick up because I am expecting a call from a number that isn’t on my phone or I don’t recognise and there is a long pause, hang up.
My mobile tells me the country of origin of most spam calls which is useful.
though a lot use the internet to connect to an exchange in Aus.
Woodie said:
Bubblecar said:
No to all your answers. Clue: it’s in a cute little bottle.
Basky of the basco sauce.
McIlhenny Co.
Woodie said:
monkey skipper said:
hello peoples.
hangs up. :)
hey there woodie!
monkey skipper said:
Woodie said:
monkey skipper said:
hello peoples.
hangs up. :)
hey there woodie!
waves to Mupper of Skimpeys. :)
buffy said:
Woodie said:
Bubblecar said:
No to all your answers. Clue: it’s in a cute little bottle.
Basky of the basco sauce.
McIlhenny Co.
Walter Stauffer McIlhenny 1910-1985. The kind of American we can admire.
Fought on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, WW2. 1st Battalion, 5th Marines, 1st Marine Division. Also New Britain, and Peleliu (!) Navy Cross, Silver Star, Purple Heart X 2.
Navy Cross citation
For extraordinary heroism and courage as Executive Officer of Company B, 1st Battalion, 5th Marines, 1st Marine Division, during a frontal assault upon a strongly fortified enemy Japanese position along the coast of Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, August 27, 1942. After organizing a volunteer party to advance and evacuate the wounded from the hazardous position well forward of the company, First Lieutenant Mcllhenny, armed only with a rifle, and while under heavy enemy mortar and machine gun fire, covered the advance and withdrawal of the rescue party, gallantly drawing enemy fire and silencing a Japanese machine gun nest. Although ill at the time and suffering shock from concussion of an enemy mortar shell, he returned to a vantage point close to enemy lines and, in the face of fierce sniper fire, acted as an observer, relaying accurate information necessary for fire control until ordered by his superior officer to leave his post. His great personal valor, above and beyond the call of duty, not only made possible the rescue of nine wounded men but also contributed to the success of Marine mortar fire.Silver Star citation
For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action while in command of Company B, 1st Battalion, 5th Marines, 1st Marine Division, in combat against enemy Japanese forces on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, on November 2, 1942. After a previous attempt to secure information had failed, Captain McIlhenny led a patrol of approximately twenty men to reconnoiter the enemy’s right flank and, moving through dense jungle, cleared the zone of hostile snipers and finally reached his objective. Completing his mission, he started to lead his patrol back to their own lines when they were spotted by the enemy who immediately opened fire, pinning them down. When almost all of his men were wounded, including two runners who had been dispatched to the battalion, Captain McIlhenny, despite his own injury, determined to carry the message himself and finally succeeded in reaching our lines. His great courage and unswerving devotion to duty enabled his company to attack the enemy’s flank and capture their position. His superb leadership and indomitable fighting spirit were in keeping with the highest traditions of the United States Naval Service.A bon vivant and gourmet, McIlhenny was closely acquainted with many luminaries of the food world, such as James Beard and Paul Prudhomme.
McIlhenny was an avid hunter, participated in many big game hunts in the U.S. and Canada, and went on several African safaris and Indian shikars. A lifetime member of the National Rifle Association, he also served on the committee that oversaw the U.S. Olympic rifle and pistol team.
McIlhenny died June 22, 1985, in Lafayette, Louisiana, and was interred in a family cemetery at Avery Island, Louisiana. Unmarried, he left much of his estate to the Marine Military Academy.
McIlhenny was also the recipient of the following marksmanship awards:
Hilton Trophy Roumanian Trophy x 2 Rattlesnake Trophy Bronze medal in the National Individual Rifle Match, which entitled him to the Distinguished Marksman Badge.Woodie said:
monkey skipper said:
Woodie said:hangs up. :)
hey there woodie!
waves to Mupper of Skimpeys. :)
ugg boot weather hey?
how is bubblecar’s sister?
monkey skipper said:
how is bubblecar’s sister?
Yes. Update, please, if possible.
McIlhenny would draw on his experience with the mid-century ‘C-Ration’ to produce the “Charlie Ration Cookbook or No Food Is Too Good for the Man Up Front”- bundled with a 2-ounce bottle of Tabasco sauce within a waterproof container, the humorous cookbook offered recipes for the production of diverse meals from standard C-Rations, combined with Tabasco sauce and other ingredients.
In the early 1980s the US Army began to issue Meals Ready to Eat, commonly called “MREs”. Each MRE includes a miniature bottle of McIlhenny Tobasco sauce.
Bogsnorkler said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Bogsnorkler said:similar. if I don’t recognise the number, don’t pick up. if i pick up because I am expecting a call from a number that isn’t on my phone or I don’t recognise and there is a long pause, hang up.
My mobile tells me the country of origin of most spam calls which is useful.
though a lot use the internet to connect to an exchange in Aus.
Yeah I have noticed that.
captain_spalding said:
monkey skipper said:
how is bubblecar’s sister?
Yes. Update, please, if possible.
Most of the danger has passed and she is recuperating at home so it’s been a tentatively happy outcome.
Witty Rejoinder said:
captain_spalding said:
monkey skipper said:
how is bubblecar’s sister?
Yes. Update, please, if possible.
Most of the danger has passed and she is recuperating at home so it’s been a tentatively happy outcome.
Thank’ee, sir.
(sigh of relief)
Witty Rejoinder said:
captain_spalding said:
monkey skipper said:
how is bubblecar’s sister?
Yes. Update, please, if possible.
Most of the danger has passed and she is recuperating at home so it’s been a tentatively happy outcome.
Progress is good news.
roast spuds pumpkin lamb chops. steamed peas. ice cream and preserved fruit.
Bogsnorkler said:
roast spuds pumpkin lamb chops. steamed peas. ice cream and preserved fruit.
and lashings of mint sauce.
Bogsnorkler said:
Bogsnorkler said:
roast spuds pumpkin lamb chops. steamed peas. ice cream and preserved fruit.
and lashings of mint sauce.
we et a chicken pot pie tonight. we might do a Sunday lunch roast tomorrow.
monkey skipper said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
captain_spalding said:Yes. Update, please, if possible.
Most of the danger has passed and she is recuperating at home so it’s been a tentatively happy outcome.
Progress is good news.
Two of my Tas-based sisters flew to SA today to spend a week with her. So I’ll have a more detailed picture of how she’s doing soon.
Bubblecar said:
monkey skipper said:
Witty Rejoinder said:Most of the danger has passed and she is recuperating at home so it’s been a tentatively happy outcome.
Progress is good news.
Two of my Tas-based sisters flew to SA today to spend a week with her. So I’ll have a more detailed picture of how she’s doing soon.
If the prayers of an atheist are worth anything…she’s got mine.
captain_spalding said:
Bubblecar said:
monkey skipper said:Progress is good news.
Two of my Tas-based sisters flew to SA today to spend a week with her. So I’ll have a more detailed picture of how she’s doing soon.
If the prayers of an atheist are worth anything…she’s got mine.
Ta.
Snug falls this arvo.
sarahs mum said:
Snug falls this arvo.
waterfalls of Tasmania group
sarahs mum said:
Snug falls this arvo.
It’s looking well fed.
sarahs mum said:
Snug falls this arvo.
badchap said:
sarahs mum said:
Snug falls this arvo.
Pretty nice
I should get Heidi to send me a photo from the bottom bridge. The river has to be over the weir.
Chris Suchan Meteorologist
10 hrs ·
Awesome structure on this “mothership” supercell in Montana couple days ago! If you were to see this storm in-person, you’d see it rotating like a UFO in the movies.
Interesting result in the footy. Both teans deserved to lose but there almost had to be a winner.
sarahs mum said:
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Chris Suchan Meteorologist
10 hrs ·
Awesome structure on this “mothership” supercell in Montana couple days ago! If you were to see this storm in-person, you’d see it rotating like a UFO in the movies.
Big mother storm above the badlands.
Which reminds me of kii, who was thinking of moving to Montana when Mr kii was still going.
Is she coming home or staying in USA?
party_pants said:
Interesting result in the footy. Both teans deserved to lose but there almost had to be a winner.
Did you ever play footy much yourself?
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
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Chris Suchan Meteorologist
10 hrs ·
Awesome structure on this “mothership” supercell in Montana couple days ago! If you were to see this storm in-person, you’d see it rotating like a UFO in the movies.
Big mother storm above the badlands.
Which reminds me of kii, who was thinking of moving to Montana when Mr kii was still going.
Is she coming home or staying in USA?
Mr kii passed?
furious said:
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
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Chris Suchan Meteorologist
10 hrs ·
Awesome structure on this “mothership” supercell in Montana couple days ago! If you were to see this storm in-person, you’d see it rotating like a UFO in the movies.
Big mother storm above the badlands.
Which reminds me of kii, who was thinking of moving to Montana when Mr kii was still going.
Is she coming home or staying in USA?
Mr kii passed?
Aye.
Bubblecar said:
furious said:
Bubblecar said:Big mother storm above the badlands.
Which reminds me of kii, who was thinking of moving to Montana when Mr kii was still going.
Is she coming home or staying in USA?
Mr kii passed?
Aye.
I missed that news, that’s a shame. He seemed like a rock…
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
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Chris Suchan Meteorologist
10 hrs ·
Awesome structure on this “mothership” supercell in Montana couple days ago! If you were to see this storm in-person, you’d see it rotating like a UFO in the movies.
Big mother storm above the badlands.
Which reminds me of kii, who was thinking of moving to Montana when Mr kii was still going.
Is she coming home or staying in USA?
She’s going to end up coming home. Possibly to WA. But she has plenty of green card left so she is taking her time sorting through that life before she starts the next one.
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
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Chris Suchan Meteorologist
10 hrs ·
Awesome structure on this “mothership” supercell in Montana couple days ago! If you were to see this storm in-person, you’d see it rotating like a UFO in the movies.
Big mother storm above the badlands.
Which reminds me of kii, who was thinking of moving to Montana when Mr kii was still going.
Is she coming home or staying in USA?
She’s going to end up coming home. Possibly to WA. But she has plenty of green card left so she is taking her time sorting through that life before she starts the next one.
she has two sons here. Just up the road from me.
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
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Chris Suchan Meteorologist
10 hrs ·
Awesome structure on this “mothership” supercell in Montana couple days ago! If you were to see this storm in-person, you’d see it rotating like a UFO in the movies.
Big mother storm above the badlands.
Which reminds me of kii, who was thinking of moving to Montana when Mr kii was still going.
Is she coming home or staying in USA?
She’s going to end up coming home. Possibly to WA. But she has plenty of green card left so she is taking her time sorting through that life before she starts the next one.
Bit hard getting back to Australia at the moment too…
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
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Chris Suchan Meteorologist
10 hrs ·
Awesome structure on this “mothership” supercell in Montana couple days ago! If you were to see this storm in-person, you’d see it rotating like a UFO in the movies.
Big mother storm above the badlands.
Which reminds me of kii, who was thinking of moving to Montana when Mr kii was still going.
Is she coming home or staying in USA?
She’s going to end up coming home. Possibly to WA. But she has plenty of green card left so she is taking her time sorting through that life before she starts the next one.
Fair enough.
She’ll be very relieved the orange shitgibbon has gone.
Bubblecar said:
party_pants said:
Interesting result in the footy. Both teans deserved to lose but there almost had to be a winner.
Did you ever play footy much yourself?
Nah. Apart from school footy. I was was never allowed to play local footy because it was always on a Sunday morning and clashed with church.
party_pants said:
Bubblecar said:
party_pants said:
Interesting result in the footy. Both teans deserved to lose but there almost had to be a winner.
Did you ever play footy much yourself?
Nah. Apart from school footy. I was was never allowed to play local footy because it was always on a Sunday morning and clashed with church.
Damn.
Bubblecar said:
party_pants said:
Bubblecar said:Did you ever play footy much yourself?
Nah. Apart from school footy. I was was never allowed to play local footy because it was always on a Sunday morning and clashed with church.
Damn.
I played under 6s, I think it was, then something like u15, then I was done…
Bubblecar said:
party_pants said:
Bubblecar said:Did you ever play footy much yourself?
Nah. Apart from school footy. I was was never allowed to play local footy because it was always on a Sunday morning and clashed with church.
Damn.
It is what it is. I was never going to be a Wayne Carey or Glenn McGrath, I am not physically gifted in my genes. So missing out on local club sports is no big deal. I still enjoy watching it on TV. I could have done adult sports on weekends, but that was usually on a Saturday, and I always had other things on then too.
party_pants said:
Bubblecar said:
party_pants said:Nah. Apart from school footy. I was was never allowed to play local footy because it was always on a Sunday morning and clashed with church.
Damn.
It is what it is. I was never going to be a Wayne Carey or Glenn McGrath, I am not physically gifted in my genes. So missing out on local club sports is no big deal. I still enjoy watching it on TV. I could have done adult sports on weekends, but that was usually on a Saturday, and I always had other things on then too.
There’s always bowls to look forward to…
furious said:
Bubblecar said:
party_pants said:Nah. Apart from school footy. I was was never allowed to play local footy because it was always on a Sunday morning and clashed with church.
Damn.
I played under 6s, I think it was, then something like u15, then I was done…
I was quite a nifty dribbler of the round ball. Played a little in junior high school and scored one particularly heroic goal.
I always been tragic at all sports. The worst sports are where things move quickly. I did play softball for a couple of years but when I connected with the ball it was a fluke.
sarahs mum said:
I always been tragic at all sports. The worst sports are where things move quickly. I did play softball for a couple of years but when I connected with the ball it was a fluke.
I wasn’t too bad at tennis and it was a game I enjoyed.
Bubblecar said:
furious said:
Bubblecar said:Damn.
I played under 6s, I think it was, then something like u15, then I was done…
I was quite a nifty dribbler of the round ball. Played a little in junior high school and scored one particularly heroic goal.
There wasn’t much opportunity to play soccer around where I spent my child hood…
Bubblecar said:
furious said:
Bubblecar said:Damn.
I played under 6s, I think it was, then something like u15, then I was done…
I was quite a nifty dribbler of the round ball. Played a little in junior high school and scored one particularly heroic goal.
I managed to hit a few memorable sixes in school cricket. One of them landed on the roof of the pipe box just one the endge of the oval. Once worked that out to around 70m-ish.
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
I always been tragic at all sports. The worst sports are where things move quickly. I did play softball for a couple of years but when I connected with the ball it was a fluke.
I wasn’t too bad at tennis and it was a game I enjoyed.
Squash was worse. I would come home covered in bruises from running into the wall or getting hit by the ball.
party_pants said:
Bubblecar said:
furious said:I played under 6s, I think it was, then something like u15, then I was done…
I was quite a nifty dribbler of the round ball. Played a little in junior high school and scored one particularly heroic goal.
I managed to hit a few memorable sixes in school cricket. One of them landed on the roof of the pipe box just one the endge of the oval. Once worked that out to around 70m-ish.
Well done.
party_pants said:
Bubblecar said:
furious said:I played under 6s, I think it was, then something like u15, then I was done…
I was quite a nifty dribbler of the round ball. Played a little in junior high school and scored one particularly heroic goal.
I managed to hit a few memorable sixes in school cricket. One of them landed on the roof of the pipe box just one the endge of the oval. Once worked that out to around 70m-ish.
Had a quick look at my old school on Google Earth. Assuming the pitch and the oval are still on the same place, their measuring tool gives it closer to 75m.
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
I always been tragic at all sports. The worst sports are where things move quickly. I did play softball for a couple of years but when I connected with the ball it was a fluke.
I wasn’t too bad at tennis and it was a game I enjoyed.
I played tennis for a while. Tragic.Squash was worse. I would come home covered in bruises from running into the wall or getting hit by the ball.
I didn’t like squash. Or any other indoor sport except the bowling alleys, which could be a relaxing evening with a few gay friends circa early 1980s.
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:I wasn’t too bad at tennis and it was a game I enjoyed.
I played tennis for a while. Tragic.Squash was worse. I would come home covered in bruises from running into the wall or getting hit by the ball.
I didn’t like squash. Or any other indoor sport except the bowling alleys, which could be a relaxing evening with a few gay friends circa early 1980s.
Snooker could also be a pleasant hour or two. Occasionally played with Dad and the bro-in-law in a little local parlour.
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:I played tennis for a while. Tragic.
Squash was worse. I would come home covered in bruises from running into the wall or getting hit by the ball.
I didn’t like squash. Or any other indoor sport except the bowling alleys, which could be a relaxing evening with a few gay friends circa early 1980s.
Snooker could also be a pleasant hour or two. Occasionally played with Dad and the bro-in-law in a little local parlour.
I like snooker.
And 8 ball.
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:I didn’t like squash. Or any other indoor sport except the bowling alleys, which could be a relaxing evening with a few gay friends circa early 1980s.
Snooker could also be a pleasant hour or two. Occasionally played with Dad and the bro-in-law in a little local parlour.
I like snooker.
And 8 ball.
Haven’t played for years. In fact not since the previous century.
We’ll have to organise a game somewhere at some stage :)
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:Snooker could also be a pleasant hour or two. Occasionally played with Dad and the bro-in-law in a little local parlour.
I like snooker.
And 8 ball.
Haven’t played for years. In fact not since the previous century.
We’ll have to organise a game somewhere at some stage :)
Pool is good, its all about the angles…
furious said:
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:I like snooker.
And 8 ball.
Haven’t played for years. In fact not since the previous century.
We’ll have to organise a game somewhere at some stage :)
Pool is good, its all about the angles…
One of my housemates bought a pool table. I got rather good at it for a while.
furious said:
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:I like snooker.
And 8 ball.
Haven’t played for years. In fact not since the previous century.
We’ll have to organise a game somewhere at some stage :)
Pool is good, its all about the angles…
I played a lot of snooker before i ever played pool. There was a time when I could stay on the table for a long time. What are you drinking then they would say. A seven of coke with no ice I would say. And they would say…really?
I even had my own cue.
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:I wasn’t too bad at tennis and it was a game I enjoyed.
I played tennis for a while. Tragic.Squash was worse. I would come home covered in bruises from running into the wall or getting hit by the ball.
I didn’t like squash. Or any other indoor sport except the bowling alleys, which could be a relaxing evening with a few gay friends circa early 1980s.
Norwood, Woodville or City Bowl?
sarahs mum said:
I even had my own cue.
5 piece in a lttle leather case.
sarahs mum said:
sarahs mum said:
I even had my own cue.5 piece in a lttle leather case.
That is something…
I met Eddie Charlton once. But I was little then.
sarahs mum said:
I met Eddie Charlton once. But I was little then.
eddie charlton 110 break vs john spencer pot black
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXcSBtrTlNE
sarahs mum said:
I met Eddie Charlton once. But I was little then.
Competition pool, like Competition darts, makes no sense. Those persons are exceptionally good. Its basically, whoever makes a mistake loses. Alternatively, with no mistakes, whoever goes first wins…
Neophyte said:
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:I played tennis for a while. Tragic.
Squash was worse. I would come home covered in bruises from running into the wall or getting hit by the ball.
I didn’t like squash. Or any other indoor sport except the bowling alleys, which could be a relaxing evening with a few gay friends circa early 1980s.
Norwood, Woodville or City Bowl?
City Bowl rings a bell but there were various places. Usually equipped with café etc.
Bear in mind I was driven everywhere by the friends and was always nicely relaxed with a few drinks and occasional funny cigarettes.
And plenty of other indoor sports in those days, including Pulteney 431 which is apparently still going strong :)
https://pulteney431.com.au/
When ya want ya footy tips done, just ask me.
Woodie said:
When ya want ya footy tips done, just ask me.
And then do the opposite?
furious said:
Woodie said:
When ya want ya footy tips done, just ask me.
And then do the opposite?
:)
In other news, some enterprising batting from the kiwi tail has seen them take an 85 run lead on the first innings against the poms.
Midway through day 3, so looking good for a result in this match.
party_pants said:
In other news, some enterprising batting from the kiwi tail has seen them take an 85 run lead on the first innings against the poms.
Midway through day 3, so looking good for a result in this match.
and England opener out for a duck. 1/0 in the aussie notation.
party_pants said:
party_pants said:
In other news, some enterprising batting from the kiwi tail has seen them take an 85 run lead on the first innings against the poms.
Midway through day 3, so looking good for a result in this match.
and England opener out for a duck. 1/0 in the aussie notation.
ah, summer and cricket oh how I yearn for sunburn .
roughbarked said:
party_pants said:
party_pants said:
In other news, some enterprising batting from the kiwi tail has seen them take an 85 run lead on the first innings against the poms.
Midway through day 3, so looking good for a result in this match.
and England opener out for a duck. 1/0 in the aussie notation.
ah, summer and cricket oh how I yearn for sunburn .
I don’t yearn for sunburn. I did a skin test this week, got told I had sun spots all over the back of my hands and forearms. From cycling so much I think. Anyway, I’ve got to use a special cream for the new 4 weeks. $55 for tube of cream half the size of a tube of toothpaste :(
party_pants said:
roughbarked said:
party_pants said:and England opener out for a duck. 1/0 in the aussie notation.
ah, summer and cricket oh how I yearn for sunburn .
I don’t yearn for sunburn. I did a skin test this week, got told I had sun spots all over the back of my hands and forearms. From cycling so much I think. Anyway, I’ve got to use a special cream for the new 4 weeks. $55 for tube of cream half the size of a tube of toothpaste :(
I know it was a bad joke.
Just catching up and noticed the news about kii’s husband. When did that happen?
sibeen said:
Just catching up and noticed the news about kii’s husband. When did that happen?
about 3 or 4 months ago now I think.
party_pants said:
sibeen said:
Just catching up and noticed the news about kii’s husband. When did that happen?
about 3 or 4 months ago now I think.
I never saw it mentioned here. For those who have contact with her please pass on my commiserations and regards.
sibeen said:
party_pants said:
sibeen said:
Just catching up and noticed the news about kii’s husband. When did that happen?
about 3 or 4 months ago now I think.
I never saw it mentioned here. For those who have contact with her please pass on my commiserations and regards.
Same…
sibeen said:
party_pants said:
sibeen said:
Just catching up and noticed the news about kii’s husband. When did that happen?
about 3 or 4 months ago now I think.
I never saw it mentioned here. For those who have contact with her please pass on my commiserations and regards.
I don’t have contact with her. It was mentioned here in chat, but only in passing. Otherwise I would never have known. But if you were not in chat that particular time and day you would have missed it.
party_pants said:
sibeen said:
party_pants said:about 3 or 4 months ago now I think.
I never saw it mentioned here. For those who have contact with her please pass on my commiserations and regards.
I don’t have contact with her. It was mentioned here in chat, but only in passing. Otherwise I would never have known. But if you were not in chat that particular time and day you would have missed it.
I asked her permission to pass the news on here and she said yes and I did.
sarahs mum said:
party_pants said:
sibeen said:I never saw it mentioned here. For those who have contact with her please pass on my commiserations and regards.
I don’t have contact with her. It was mentioned here in chat, but only in passing. Otherwise I would never have known. But if you were not in chat that particular time and day you would have missed it.
I asked her permission to pass the news on here and she said yes and I did.
Thanks.
I am sure I would not have known if it was not for people posting it here
party_pants said:
sarahs mum said:
party_pants said:I don’t have contact with her. It was mentioned here in chat, but only in passing. Otherwise I would never have known. But if you were not in chat that particular time and day you would have missed it.
I asked her permission to pass the news on here and she said yes and I did.
Thanks.
I am sure I would not have known if it was not for people posting it here
She’s on my list of people to contct again as soon as I am not maudlin.
Eng 4/58 and still trail by 27
5/58.
loving this :)
party_pants said:
5/58.loving this :)
It makes me feel terribly, terribly sad.
Terribly sad.
Broken up.
party_pants said:
sibeen said:
Just catching up and noticed the news about kii’s husband. When did that happen?
about 3 or 4 months ago now I think.
We all would have known at the time if she was still showing up here.
Sad it is. I enjoyed kii and her tales of her husband.
Deary, deary, deary, England have lost another wicket. I can only blame brexit.
sibeen said:
Deary, deary, deary, England have lost another wicket. I can only blame brexit.
I’m giving Covid the credit. Poor fellows haven’t played for months.
sibeen said:
Deary, deary, deary, England have lost another wicket. I can only blame brexit.
Prices are down down down.
party_pants said:
sibeen said:
Deary, deary, deary, England have lost another wicket. I can only blame brexit.
I’m giving Covid the credit. Poor fellows haven’t played for months.
to be fair like?
7/76, still trail by 9.
party_pants said:
7/76, still trail by 9.
Rooted :)
sibeen said:
party_pants said:
7/76, still trail by 9.
Rooted :)
on the spot?
roughbarked said:
sibeen said:
party_pants said:
7/76, still trail by 9.
Rooted :)
on the spot?
A certain Mr Root is the capitan of England and Wales. He was the 7th wicket to fall, and the last of the recognised batters.
party_pants said:
roughbarked said:
sibeen said:Rooted :)
on the spot?
A certain Mr Root is the capitan of England and Wales. He was the 7th wicket to fall, and the last of the recognised batters.
That is making a large amount of rooted, becoming of greater radiculity.
9/122 at stumps. Eng lead by 37.
I’m calling stumps too.
Morning from G-hole, cloudy and mild here, some roos in the distance.
Good morning Holidayers. Presently 5 degrees and very foggy. This is probably the thickest fog we’ve had for a while. Around 50m visibility. Our forecast for today is for a mostly cloudy 15 degrees.
Here is the view out the back door:
And here it is with the flash on!
And from the front door:
Rather boring view from the flats here
poikilotherm said:
Rather boring view from the flats here
Where are you? Did you run away from the snow?
A few hours north where mrs poik is living at the moment. I’d have loved to stay with the snow, although, most of it was just slush when I left yesterday.
One of the rock wallabies on Magnetic Island:
poikilotherm said:
A few hours north where mrs poik is living at the moment. I’d have loved to stay with the snow, although, most of it was just slush when I left yesterday.
My goodness, that brings it back. When we first moved to the district Mr buffy was stationed in Casterton and I worked in Warrnambool. A couple of hours apart. I worked three day weeks. Monday, Tuesday in Warrnambool, Wednesday in Hamilton, “home” to the ambulance house in Casterton on Wednesday evening. Sunday afternoon, pack myself back into the car and drive back to the flat in Warrnambool to start over. We only had one car at the time, so things had to be carefully organized. Oh, and we couldn’t really afford a phone in the flat, so I had to save coins and walk out to the public phone box about a km away to talk to him. We only did it for 6 months
sarahs mum said:
party_pants said:
sibeen said:I never saw it mentioned here. For those who have contact with her please pass on my commiserations and regards.
I don’t have contact with her. It was mentioned here in chat, but only in passing. Otherwise I would never have known. But if you were not in chat that particular time and day you would have missed it.
I asked her permission to pass the news on here and she said yes and I did.
I wrote to her after sm mentioned it. I received an email reply. I would not have known without sm’s information.
I need to put some clothes on. Light pyjamas are not really cutting it, even with a jumper on top. And Bruna would like to go for a walk in the fog. I’ll see who else wants to go…
buffy said:
poikilotherm said:
A few hours north where mrs poik is living at the moment. I’d have loved to stay with the snow, although, most of it was just slush when I left yesterday.
My goodness, that brings it back. When we first moved to the district Mr buffy was stationed in Casterton and I worked in Warrnambool. A couple of hours apart. I worked three day weeks. Monday, Tuesday in Warrnambool, Wednesday in Hamilton, “home” to the ambulance house in Casterton on Wednesday evening. Sunday afternoon, pack myself back into the car and drive back to the flat in Warrnambool to start over. We only had one car at the time, so things had to be carefully organized. Oh, and we couldn’t really afford a phone in the flat, so I had to save coins and walk out to the public phone box about a km away to talk to him. We only did it for 6 months
Wow, sounds like quite the organisational effort.
We are at the 6 month mark but do have the benefits of video calls and two cars.
party_pants said:
sibeen said:
party_pants said:about 3 or 4 months ago now I think.
I never saw it mentioned here. For those who have contact with her please pass on my commiserations and regards.
I don’t have contact with her. It was mentioned here in chat, but only in passing. Otherwise I would never have known. But if you were not in chat that particular time and day you would have missed it.
I also don’t have contact with her.
poikilotherm said:
Morning from G-hole, cloudy and mild here, some roos in the distance.
don’t remember where I found out, probably FB. kii is on my friends list so it may have been her posting.
Bogsnorkler said:
don’t remember where I found out, probably FB. kii is on my friends list so it may have been her posting.
Tamb said:
Bogsnorkler said:
don’t remember where I found out, probably FB. kii is on my friends list so it may have been her posting.
What has happened please?
kii’s hubby died a few months ago and some here have only just heard.
Bogsnorkler said:
Tamb said:
Bogsnorkler said:
don’t remember where I found out, probably FB. kii is on my friends list so it may have been her posting.
What has happened please?kii’s hubby died a few months ago and some here have only just heard.
buffy said:
sarahs mum said:
party_pants said:I don’t have contact with her. It was mentioned here in chat, but only in passing. Otherwise I would never have known. But if you were not in chat that particular time and day you would have missed it.
I asked her permission to pass the news on here and she said yes and I did.
I wrote to her after sm mentioned it. I received an email reply. I would not have known without sm’s information.
Tell her we miss her, if the chance arises.
party_pants said:
9/122 at stumps. Eng lead by 37.I’m calling stumps too.
Maybe I’m missing something, but leading by 37 with 1 wicket in hand doesn’t seem that humiliating.
Who are they playing anyway?
The Rev Dodgson said:
party_pants said:
9/122 at stumps. Eng lead by 37.I’m calling stumps too.
Maybe I’m missing something, but leading by 37 with 1 wicket in hand doesn’t seem that humiliating.
Who are they playing anyway?
The Rev Dodgson said:
party_pants said:
9/122 at stumps. Eng lead by 37.I’m calling stumps too.
Maybe I’m missing something, but leading by 37 with 1 wicket in hand doesn’t seem that humiliating.
Who are they playing anyway?
Ah, I see I was missing something. NZ having an innings in hand does put a bit of a different picture on it.
But aren’t Australians supposed to support Australia and whoever is playing NZ?
The Rev Dodgson said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
party_pants said:
9/122 at stumps. Eng lead by 37.I’m calling stumps too.
Maybe I’m missing something, but leading by 37 with 1 wicket in hand doesn’t seem that humiliating.
Who are they playing anyway?
Ah, I see I was missing something. NZ having an innings in hand does put a bit of a different picture on it.
But aren’t Australians supposed to support Australia and whoever is playing NZ?
Close call but when playing the Poms…
today, Haodong Mo does not hold back.
“If you’re going to mislead people about the metaphysics of the universe, how can we trust you about anything else?” says the 20-year-old.
Haodong is attending a Friday night “atheist meet-up” at Sydney’s Humanist House, a venue that’s long hosted events celebrating the secular.
For obvious reasons, there’s no such thing as an atheist place of worship, but this building is as close as it gets.
—
dirty communists
SCIENCE said:
today, Haodong Mo does not hold back.“If you’re going to mislead people about the metaphysics of the universe, how can we trust you about anything else?” says the 20-year-old.
Haodong is attending a Friday night “atheist meet-up” at Sydney’s Humanist House, a venue that’s long hosted events celebrating the secular.
For obvious reasons, there’s no such thing as an atheist place of worship, but this building is as close as it gets.
—
dirty communists
Who is this 20 year old Haodong Mo person?
The Rev Dodgson said:
SCIENCE said:
today, Haodong Mo does not hold back.“If you’re going to mislead people about the metaphysics of the universe, how can we trust you about anything else?” says the 20-year-old.
Haodong is attending a Friday night “atheist meet-up” at Sydney’s Humanist House, a venue that’s long hosted events celebrating the secular.
For obvious reasons, there’s no such thing as an atheist place of worship, but this building is as close as it gets.
—
dirty communists
Who is this 20 year old Haodong Mo person?
I don’t know but he sounds like some activist influencer secular humanist who wants to take away one of these basic freedoms, freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear.
We need to stay vigilant to stay free.
Peak Warming Man said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
SCIENCE said:
today, Haodong Mo does not hold back.“If you’re going to mislead people about the metaphysics of the universe, how can we trust you about anything else?” says the 20-year-old.
Haodong is attending a Friday night “atheist meet-up” at Sydney’s Humanist House, a venue that’s long hosted events celebrating the secular.
For obvious reasons, there’s no such thing as an atheist place of worship, but this building is as close as it gets.
—
dirty communists
Who is this 20 year old Haodong Mo person?
I don’t know but he sounds like some activist influencer secular humanist who wants to take away one of these basic freedoms, freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear.
We need to stay vigilant to stay free.
Which one do you think he wants to take away?
I 3D printed a 50% scale V8 engine block. I’m designing it in CAD, hopefully I’ll get to build the real thing some time.
I just wanted to see how the real thing would feel, hence printing a scale model.
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/do-australians-trust-religious-leaders/ar-AAKZ0c3
Spiny Norman said:
I 3D printed a 50% scale V8 engine block. I’m designing it in CAD, hopefully I’ll get to build the real thing some time.
I just wanted to see how the real thing would feel, hence printing a scale model.
Excellent bit of work there Bill.
Bogsnorkler said:
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/do-australians-trust-religious-leaders/ar-AAKZ0c3
““The term to describe most young Australians would be ‘apatheists’ — the combination of apathy and atheism. They’re just not interested in religion,” he says.”
I’ll stick to the more general term thanks.
roughbarked said:
That’s a rock.
(Isn’t it wonderful to be educated?)
roughbarked said:
Been there, done that.
weddings of naval officers, a sword is often used to cut the cake.
At the wedding of a petty officer, a cutlass was used, as non-commissioned officers don’t carry swords.
We had to borrow one from the armory (with permission), as cutlasses are as rare as hen’s teeth these days.
captain_spalding said:
roughbarked said:
That’s a rock.
(Isn’t it wonderful to be educated?)
I concur. I just dug up a couple of sharper ones in the chook run. And tossed them onto the pile.
captain_spalding said:
roughbarked said:
That’s a rock.
(Isn’t it wonderful to be educated?)
It was crafted by human hands from a rock yes. In the order of many thousands of years ago and it still contains kangaroo fat and blood.
roughbarked said:
Mighty fine rock you have there.
The first waterproof watch
Complete with added patriotism.
roughbarked said:
captain_spalding said:
roughbarked said:
That’s a rock.
(Isn’t it wonderful to be educated?)
It was crafted by human hands from a rock yes. In the order of many thousands of years ago and it still contains kangaroo fat and blood.
I did suspect that it was a stone tool.
Witty Rejoinder said:
roughbarked said:
Mighty fine rock you have there.
A tool that saw many years of work. The owners never came back for it.
captain_spalding said:
roughbarked said:
captain_spalding said:That’s a rock.
(Isn’t it wonderful to be educated?)
It was crafted by human hands from a rock yes. In the order of many thousands of years ago and it still contains kangaroo fat and blood.
I did suspect that it was a stone tool.
:) not hard to miss.
Lunch report: bowl of chickpea salad. Includes lots of stuff – chickpeas, avocado, celery, Greek style feta, chopped brown berry tomatoes, cucumber, lemon juice, olive oil. It’s not bad.
buffy said:
sarahs mum said:
party_pants said:I don’t have contact with her. It was mentioned here in chat, but only in passing. Otherwise I would never have known. But if you were not in chat that particular time and day you would have missed it.
I asked her permission to pass the news on here and she said yes and I did.
I wrote to her after sm mentioned it. I received an email reply. I would not have known without sm’s information.
thank you.
xxx
buffy said:
Lunch report: bowl of chickpea salad. Includes lots of stuff – chickpeas, avocado, celery, Greek style feta, chopped brown berry tomatoes, cucumber, lemon juice, olive oil. It’s not bad.
Sounds delicious.
Baked potatoes with Pinto beans (in golden curry sauce), tomatoes, mushrooms, carrot, corn kernels & Greek yogurt.
Bubblecar said:
Yeah but he was mad.
Peak Warming Man said:
Bubblecar said:
Yeah but he was mad.
More theatrically “weird” than mad.
1940s. Junior boys’ art class, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne.
Peak Warming Man said:
Bubblecar said:
Yeah but he was mad.
Stepped into a time warp.
Edward Hopper, Gas, 1940.
Bubblecar said:
Edward Hopper, Gas, 1940.
all cars must have had the fuel cap on the same side in those days.
party_pants said:
Bubblecar said:
Edward Hopper, Gas, 1940.
all cars must have had the fuel cap on the same side in those days.
you’d just drive in the other way if it wasn’t, shirley?
“Next to the seasoned steak on the marble kitchen table stood a bowl filled with the chimichurri she had prepared earlier that morning: a blend of finely chopped parsley, oregano, ground chilli and minced garlic mixed with vinegar and vegetable oil. The bright green sauce looked like Italian pesto but was something else entirely. And later that day, I would learn to spread it on the roasted meat like a priest anointing something with holy oil.”
Some of these food writers go a bit OTT at times, has anyone here tried it?
Peak Warming Man said:
“Next to the seasoned steak on the marble kitchen table stood a bowl filled with the chimichurri she had prepared earlier that morning: a blend of finely chopped parsley, oregano, ground chilli and minced garlic mixed with vinegar and vegetable oil. The bright green sauce looked like Italian pesto but was something else entirely. And later that day, I would learn to spread it on the roasted meat like a priest anointing something with holy oil.”Some of these food writers go a bit OTT at times, has anyone here tried it?
I thought it were a song from Mary Poppins?
Two(2) jars of Hot Lime Pickles made.
Peak Warming Man said:
“Next to the seasoned steak on the marble kitchen table stood a bowl filled with the chimichurri she had prepared earlier that morning: a blend of finely chopped parsley, oregano, ground chilli and minced garlic mixed with vinegar and vegetable oil. The bright green sauce looked like Italian pesto but was something else entirely. And later that day, I would learn to spread it on the roasted meat like a priest anointing something with holy oil.”Some of these food writers go a bit OTT at times, has anyone here tried it?
Do you mean has anyone here tried marinating meat?
Rule 303 said:
Peak Warming Man said:
“Next to the seasoned steak on the marble kitchen table stood a bowl filled with the chimichurri she had prepared earlier that morning: a blend of finely chopped parsley, oregano, ground chilli and minced garlic mixed with vinegar and vegetable oil. The bright green sauce looked like Italian pesto but was something else entirely. And later that day, I would learn to spread it on the roasted meat like a priest anointing something with holy oil.”Some of these food writers go a bit OTT at times, has anyone here tried it?
Do you mean has anyone here tried marinating meat?
Chimichurri
Chimichurri (Spanish: ) is an uncooked sauce of Argentine origin, used both as an ingredient in cooking and as a table condiment for grilled meat. Found in Argentinian, Paraguayan and Uruguayan cuisines, the sauce comes in a green (chimichurri verde) and red (chimichurri rojo) version. It is made of finely chopped parsley, minced garlic, olive oil, oregano and red wine vinegar.
Wikipedia
Type: Condiment
Place of origin: Argentina
Main ingredients: finely chopped parsley, minced garlic, olive oil, oregano, red pepper flakes and red wine vinegar
captain_spalding said:
roughbarked said:
Been there, done that.
weddings of naval officers, a sword is often used to cut the cake.
At the wedding of a petty officer, a cutlass was used, as non-commissioned officers don’t carry swords.
We had to borrow one from the armory (with permission), as cutlasses are as rare as hen’s teeth these days.
Is she holding it the right way up?
The Scottish Crannog Centre, which is also a museum of life in ancient Scotland, burned down on Friday night.
It was engulfed in flames shortly before midnight, with firefighters called out to extinguish the blaze. There were no reports of any injuries.
The tourist attraction stood on stilts on the loch shore in Perthshire.
https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/19368731.scottish-crannog-centre-fire-tributes-paid-devastating-blaze-loch-tay/
Bubblecar said:
1940s. Junior boys’ art class, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne.
Was it called a “University of Technology” back then?
The Rev Dodgson said:
captain_spalding said:
roughbarked said:
Been there, done that.
weddings of naval officers, a sword is often used to cut the cake.
At the wedding of a petty officer, a cutlass was used, as non-commissioned officers don’t carry swords.
We had to borrow one from the armory (with permission), as cutlasses are as rare as hen’s teeth these days.
Is she holding it the right way up?
no. but maybe the icing is tough, bit like the Queen, and hard to pierce if the sword was t’other way. once the crust has been broken she may have turned the blade over and sliced it, snicker snackerly.
Bogsnorkler said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
captain_spalding said:Been there, done that.
weddings of naval officers, a sword is often used to cut the cake.
At the wedding of a petty officer, a cutlass was used, as non-commissioned officers don’t carry swords.
We had to borrow one from the armory (with permission), as cutlasses are as rare as hen’s teeth these days.
Is she holding it the right way up?
no. but maybe the icing is tough, bit like the Queen, and hard to pierce if the sword was t’other way. once the crust has been broken she may have turned the blade over and sliced it, snicker snackerly.
Perhaps it is like wedding cake… where the bride and groom cut the cake, but never to the bottom of the cake coz that’s bad luck, and then the cake is promptly cut up by other people.
sarahs mum said:
Bogsnorkler said:
The Rev Dodgson said:Is she holding it the right way up?
no. but maybe the icing is tough, bit like the Queen, and hard to pierce if the sword was t’other way. once the crust has been broken she may have turned the blade over and sliced it, snicker snackerly.
Perhaps it is like wedding cake… where the bride and groom cut the cake, but never to the bottom of the cake coz that’s bad luck, and then the cake is promptly cut up by other people.
It’s bad luck?
I don’t think I knew that.
We seem to be doing OK so far though.
The Rev Dodgson said:
sarahs mum said:
Bogsnorkler said:no. but maybe the icing is tough, bit like the Queen, and hard to pierce if the sword was t’other way. once the crust has been broken she may have turned the blade over and sliced it, snicker snackerly.
Perhaps it is like wedding cake… where the bride and groom cut the cake, but never to the bottom of the cake coz that’s bad luck, and then the cake is promptly cut up by other people.
It’s bad luck?
I don’t think I knew that.
We seem to be doing OK so far though.
I never meant to be alone this far down the line.
Just sprained my wrist trying to break off a square of Cadbury Old Gold :(
Bubblecar said:
Just sprained my wrist trying to break off a square of Cadbury Old Gold :(
Only kidding, but they don’t make it easy.
Bubblecar said:
Just sprained my wrist trying to break off a square of Cadbury Old Gold :(
I’m tempted to say that’s a real 1st World problem, but it might be taken the wrong way so I’ll say nothing.
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
Just sprained my wrist trying to break off a square of Cadbury Old Gold :(
Only kidding, but they don’t make it easy.
Damn, I should have said something.
1992 ad for a Tony Barber album. He’s still alive, aged 81.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugbd83YIUnQ
Sydney Then and Now
1 hr ·
Blast from the STAN past – North Head from South Head in 1859 and 2004.
sarahs mum said:
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Sydney Then and Now
1 hr ·
Blast from the STAN past – North Head from South Head in 1859 and 2004.
Quite a few bites missing in the later snap.
Bogsnorkler said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
captain_spalding said:Been there, done that.
weddings of naval officers, a sword is often used to cut the cake.
At the wedding of a petty officer, a cutlass was used, as non-commissioned officers don’t carry swords.
We had to borrow one from the armory (with permission), as cutlasses are as rare as hen’s teeth these days.
Is she holding it the right way up?
no. but maybe the icing is tough, bit like the Queen, and hard to pierce if the sword was t’other way. once the crust has been broken she may have turned the blade over and sliced it, snicker snackerly.
Swords are usually not sharpened in the military, for safety’s sake. What she has there is a sabre, which is more of an Army sword.
Until a few decades back, standing orders for mobilising military forces included the instruction ‘officers are to sharpen swords’.
captain_spalding said:
Bogsnorkler said:
The Rev Dodgson said:Is she holding it the right way up?
no. but maybe the icing is tough, bit like the Queen, and hard to pierce if the sword was t’other way. once the crust has been broken she may have turned the blade over and sliced it, snicker snackerly.
Swords are usually not sharpened in the military, for safety’s sake. What she has there is a sabre, which is more of an Army sword.
Until a few decades back, standing orders for mobilising military forces included the instruction ‘officers are to sharpen swords’.
if we can’t trust The Queen with a sharp sword who can we trust?
I thought sword had an alternative meaning like in there were swords of them but apparently I’m unright.
Peak Warming Man said:
I thought sword had an alternative meaning like in there were swords of them but apparently I’m unright.
Probably thinking of ‘swarms’.
Peak Warming Man said:
I thought sword had an alternative meaning like in there were swords of them but apparently I’m unright.
You’re thinking of hordes.
Bubblecar said:
Peak Warming Man said:
I thought sword had an alternative meaning like in there were swords of them but apparently I’m unright.
You’re thinking of hordes.
‘Swarms of hordes’?
‘Swardes?’
captain_spalding said:
Bubblecar said:
Peak Warming Man said:
I thought sword had an alternative meaning like in there were swords of them but apparently I’m unright.
You’re thinking of hordes.
‘Swarms of hordes’?
‘Swardes?’
Swarms of hordes of worms with swords.
Peak Warming Man said:
I thought sword had an alternative meaning like in there were swords of them but apparently I’m unright.
swards. those that live by the mower die by the sward.
Bogsnorkler said:
Peak Warming Man said:
I thought sword had an alternative meaning like in there were swords of them but apparently I’m unright.
swards. those that live by the mower die by the sward.
Yes, as soon as i’d typed my last item, i remembered that there is the word ‘sward’.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Bubblecar said:
1940s. Junior boys’ art class, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne.
Was it called a “University of Technology” back then?
I wondered that. But I went out to prune roses instead of finding out.
buffy said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Bubblecar said:
1940s. Junior boys’ art class, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne.
Was it called a “University of Technology” back then?
I wondered that. But I went out to prune roses instead of finding out.
Swinburne University of Technology has its origins in the Eastern Suburbs Technical College, which was established in 1908 in the Melbourne suburb of Hawthorn by George Swinburne. In 1913, the institution changed its name from Hawthorn College to Swinburne Technical College.
It attained university status on 1 July 1992 with the passage of the Swinburne University of Technology Act.
Swinburne Technical College (1940s)
As a consequence of the Dawkins reforms to Australian higher education in the early 1990s, the university began teaching in the suburb of Prahran through a merger in 1992 with Victoria College (previously the Prahran Institute of TAFE), which stood on the site of Victoria’s first training institute, the Prahran Mechanics’ Institute.
Bogsnorkler said:
buffy said:
The Rev Dodgson said:Was it called a “University of Technology” back then?
I wondered that. But I went out to prune roses instead of finding out.
Swinburne University of Technology has its origins in the Eastern Suburbs Technical College, which was established in 1908 in the Melbourne suburb of Hawthorn by George Swinburne. In 1913, the institution changed its name from Hawthorn College to Swinburne Technical College.
It attained university status on 1 July 1992 with the passage of the Swinburne University of Technology Act.
Swinburne Technical College (1940s)
As a consequence of the Dawkins reforms to Australian higher education in the early 1990s, the university began teaching in the suburb of Prahran through a merger in 1992 with Victoria College (previously the Prahran Institute of TAFE), which stood on the site of Victoria’s first training institute, the Prahran Mechanics’ Institute.
I went to Prahran Tech which was the Mech Institute.
buffy said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Bubblecar said:
1940s. Junior boys’ art class, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne.
Was it called a “University of Technology” back then?
I wondered that. But I went out to prune roses instead of finding out.
Wise decision :)
A flower seller sitting sitting at her stall surrounded by workman using pneumatic drills. Piccadilly Circus . 1930 (J A Hampton/Getty)
sarahs mum said:
A flower seller sitting sitting at her stall surrounded by workman using pneumatic drills. Piccadilly Circus . 1930 (J A Hampton/Getty)
that guys is betting his mate he can turn her into a lady in 30 days…
sarahs mum said:
A flower seller sitting sitting at her stall surrounded by workman using pneumatic drills. Piccadilly Circus . 1930 (J A Hampton/Getty)
LOL
Bubblecar said:
1940s. Junior boys’ art class, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne.
In Term 1 we learn to sketch a bucket; Term 2… a spade; Term 3… a bucket and spade
Arts said:
sarahs mum said:
A flower seller sitting sitting at her stall surrounded by workman using pneumatic drills. Piccadilly Circus . 1930 (J A Hampton/Getty)
that guys is betting his mate he can turn her into a lady in 30 days…
sarahs mum said:
A flower seller sitting sitting at her stall surrounded by workman using pneumatic drills. Piccadilly Circus . 1930 (J A Hampton/Getty)
holding, not using. They are not connected to compressed air.
Arts said:
sarahs mum said:
A flower seller sitting sitting at her stall surrounded by workman using pneumatic drills. Piccadilly Circus . 1930 (J A Hampton/Getty)
that guys is betting his mate he can turn her into a lady in 30 days…
Wouldn’t that be lovely.
Peak Warming Man said:
Arts said:
sarahs mum said:
A flower seller sitting sitting at her stall surrounded by workman using pneumatic drills. Piccadilly Circus . 1930 (J A Hampton/Getty)
that guys is betting his mate he can turn her into a lady in 30 days…
Wouldn’t that be lovely.
LOL
Pork steak with broccolini, taters, etc.
Bubblecar said:
Pork steak with broccolini, taters, etc.
Mr buffy is cooking lamb midloin chops and assorted veggies. I’ve made a lemon and lime cake and some baked rice. The baked rice is mine. Mr buffy doesn’t eat it.
Inosculation is a natural phenomenon in which trunks, branches or roots of two trees grow together. It is biologically similar to grafting and such trees are referred to in forestry as gemels, from the Latin word meaning “a pair”.
Ian said:
Inosculation is a natural phenomenon in which trunks, branches or roots of two trees grow together. It is biologically similar to grafting and such trees are referred to in forestry as gemels, from the Latin word meaning “a pair”.
Wonder how that happened.
Bubblecar said:
Ian said:
Inosculation is a natural phenomenon in which trunks, branches or roots of two trees grow together. It is biologically similar to grafting and such trees are referred to in forestry as gemels, from the Latin word meaning “a pair”.
Wonder how that happened.
this one blew a hole in our understanding of graph theory
acyclictree
Michael V said:
sarahs mum said:
A flower seller sitting sitting at her stall surrounded by workman using pneumatic drills. Piccadilly Circus . 1930 (J A Hampton/Getty)
holding, not using. They are not connected to compressed air.
might be using a wifi connection.
Ian said:
Inosculation is a natural phenomenon in which trunks, branches or roots of two trees grow together. It is biologically similar to grafting and such trees are referred to in forestry as gemels, from the Latin word meaning “a pair”.
Ta.
I didn’t know those words, and probably will forget them. I haves seen the phenomenon several times, and even have bits of aged forest litter timber displaying the phenomenon.
Bubblecar said:
Ian said:
Inosculation is a natural phenomenon in which trunks, branches or roots of two trees grow together. It is biologically similar to grafting and such trees are referred to in forestry as gemels, from the Latin word meaning “a pair”.
Wonder how that happened.
I have seen similar with smooth barked eucalypts. Either a branch of one is damaged and comes to rest against the trunk of another tree. The tree gradually envelops the branch and both keep growing. It can also happen when a branch from a neighbouring tree or even from the same tree rub against each other until one grows over the other.
buffy said:
Bubblecar said:
Pork steak with broccolini, taters, etc.
Mr buffy is cooking lamb midloin chops and assorted veggies. I’ve made a lemon and lime cake and some baked rice. The baked rice is mine. Mr buffy doesn’t eat it.
Steak sammiches here.
sarahs mum said:
You could probably ID the bird from that.
PermeateFree said:
sarahs mum said:
You could probably ID the bird from that.
It is described as an owl print. But not what type of owl.
sarahs mum said:
A flower seller sitting sitting at her stall surrounded by workman using pneumatic drills. Piccadilly Circus . 1930 (J A Hampton/Getty)
But is it odd?
sarahs mum said:
PermeateFree said:
sarahs mum said:
You could probably ID the bird from that.
It is described as an owl print. But not what type of owl.
Snowy Owl.
sarahs mum said:
I hope he caught it
Arts said:
sarahs mum said:
I hope he caught it
Not sure if the hole denotes gender.
Sausage and vegetable stew, theres corn and potato and onion and carrot and peas mixed in with prime spicy sausage pieces.
Straight out of the tin with lashings of buttered bread and a cuppa.
Over.
Seems to be floods happening in southern China. One city got 98 mm in one hour. Quite a downpour in any book. They are calling it a “once in a hundred years” storm.
party_pants said:
Seems to be floods happening in southern China. One city got 98 mm in one hour. Quite a downpour in any book. They are calling it a “once in a hundred years” storm.
I watched a ‘my Wyoming life’ last night. They are in the worst drought since the 1880s. they didn’t cut hay last year and there isn’t anything to cut this year. There really isn’t much summer pasture either. Talking about a 40% cull.
sarahs mum said:
party_pants said:
Seems to be floods happening in southern China. One city got 98 mm in one hour. Quite a downpour in any book. They are calling it a “once in a hundred years” storm.
I watched a ‘my Wyoming life’ last night. They are in the worst drought since the 1880s. they didn’t cut hay last year and there isn’t anything to cut this year. There really isn’t much summer pasture either. Talking about a 40% cull.
They’ll get something for them but they probably not in good condition.
oops…
In other news, I had a successful day of hacking.
I managed to dust off my 30yo C programming skills and fail completely at programming an Arduino board. So I got a mate to write the code I wanted, and I made some changes. (I got the LED to blink when it did what it was supposed to)
Will take it into the field next week and see if it does what we hope it does.
The Lark Ascending was #3 in this years top 100 classics.
Peak Warming Man said:
sarahs mum said:
party_pants said:
Seems to be floods happening in southern China. One city got 98 mm in one hour. Quite a downpour in any book. They are calling it a “once in a hundred years” storm.
I watched a ‘my Wyoming life’ last night. They are in the worst drought since the 1880s. they didn’t cut hay last year and there isn’t anything to cut this year. There really isn’t much summer pasture either. Talking about a 40% cull.
They’ll get something for them but they probably not in good condition.
He’s been feeding out hay and cake and licks. But the calves aren’t weaned yet so weaning early might be on. There is water in the aquifer so there is water for them…but he worries about aquifer levels as everyone needs it.
Hay has gone up 50% in recent weeks and he is coming to the end of his last purchase.
He hasn’t decide what he is going to do yet. He has decided he is going to something.
I think I would go for some of the oldest cows with male calves at foot and sell a bunch of them.
He is lucky there is a youtube income. (they do have a farmshop and a mail order jerky business as well as selling calves to the feedlot.)
Dark Orange said:
oops…
In other news, I had a successful day of hacking.
I managed to dust off my 30yo C programming skills and fail completely at programming an Arduino board. So I got a mate to write the code I wanted, and I made some changes. (I got the LED to blink when it did what it was supposed to)
Will take it into the field next week and see if it does what we hope it does.
Maybe if you coded in the correct Arduino, you might have more success.
Queensland swimmer Kaylee McKeown has broken the world record in the women’s 100 metres backstroke at the Australian Olympic swimming trials.
McKeown swam a time of 57.45 seconds to beat the previous world record mark of 57.57, set by the United States’ Regan Smith in 2019, by more than one 10th of a second.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-13/kaylee-mckeown-breaks-100m-backstroke-world-record/100212532
Kingy said:
Dark Orange said:oops…
In other news, I had a successful day of hacking.
I managed to dust off my 30yo C programming skills and fail completely at programming an Arduino board. So I got a mate to write the code I wanted, and I made some changes. (I got the LED to blink when it did what it was supposed to)
Will take it into the field next week and see if it does what we hope it does.
Maybe if you coded in the correct Arduino, you might have more success.
The blinkenlights work, so the code is running. I am just hoping than the arduino + code doeswhat I hope it does. (I’m running things way out of spec) ;)
Dark Orange said:
oops…
In other news, I had a successful day of hacking.
I managed to dust off my 30yo C programming skills and fail completely at programming an Arduino board. So I got a mate to write the code I wanted, and I made some changes. (I got the LED to blink when it did what it was supposed to)
Will take it into the field next week and see if it does what we hope it does.
You’ve made an alchemy device?
sarahs mum said:
Peak Warming Man said:
sarahs mum said:I watched a ‘my Wyoming life’ last night. They are in the worst drought since the 1880s. they didn’t cut hay last year and there isn’t anything to cut this year. There really isn’t much summer pasture either. Talking about a 40% cull.
They’ll get something for them but they probably not in good condition.
He’s been feeding out hay and cake and licks. But the calves aren’t weaned yet so weaning early might be on. There is water in the aquifer so there is water for them…but he worries about aquifer levels as everyone needs it.
Hay has gone up 50% in recent weeks and he is coming to the end of his last purchase.
He hasn’t decide what he is going to do yet. He has decided he is going to something.
I think I would go for some of the oldest cows with male calves at foot and sell a bunch of them.
He is lucky there is a youtube income. (they do have a farmshop and a mail order jerky business as well as selling calves to the feedlot.)
I just watched a few of those ‘our Wyoming lif’, they are very good and the prices much match ours allowing for the dollar difference, well not exactly, they get a bit more for their cattle.
Peak Warming Man said:
sarahs mum said:
Peak Warming Man said:They’ll get something for them but they probably not in good condition.
He’s been feeding out hay and cake and licks. But the calves aren’t weaned yet so weaning early might be on. There is water in the aquifer so there is water for them…but he worries about aquifer levels as everyone needs it.
Hay has gone up 50% in recent weeks and he is coming to the end of his last purchase.
He hasn’t decide what he is going to do yet. He has decided he is going to something.
I think I would go for some of the oldest cows with male calves at foot and sell a bunch of them.
He is lucky there is a youtube income. (they do have a farmshop and a mail order jerky business as well as selling calves to the feedlot.)
I just watched a few of those ‘our Wyoming lif’, they are very good and the prices much match ours allowing for the dollar difference, well not exactly, they get a bit more for their cattle.
I’ve watched calving the last couple of years. Cows being cows they all calf in blizzards. They do a 24 hour live broadcast at the height of calving.And he trucks around the farm all night making sure the calves don’t get stuck.
It’s the calving that sucks me in.
Kaylee McKeown has broken the world record for the 100m backstroke at the Aus swimming titles.
And by a fair way, 0.12 seconds, that’s quite a bit in these days of millie second timing.
Peak Warming Man said:
Kaylee McKeown has broken the world record for the 100m backstroke at the Aus swimming titles.
And by a fair way, 0.12 seconds, that’s quite a bit in these days of millie second timing.
I said that.
sarahs mum said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Kaylee McKeown has broken the world record for the 100m backstroke at the Aus swimming titles.
And by a fair way, 0.12 seconds, that’s quite a bit in these days of millie second timing.
I said that.
Ah, missed it.
Dark Orange said:
oops…
In other news, I had a successful day of hacking.
I managed to dust off my 30yo C programming skills and fail completely at programming an Arduino board. So I got a mate to write the code I wanted, and I made some changes. (I got the LED to blink when it did what it was supposed to)
Will take it into the field next week and see if it does what we hope it does.
Hehehehe
Because of a project I’m currently involved in I’ve had to get back into some ladder programming. It has been a while :)
sibeen said:
Dark Orange said:oops…
In other news, I had a successful day of hacking.
I managed to dust off my 30yo C programming skills and fail completely at programming an Arduino board. So I got a mate to write the code I wanted, and I made some changes. (I got the LED to blink when it did what it was supposed to)
Will take it into the field next week and see if it does what we hope it does.
Hehehehe
Because of a project I’m currently involved in I’ve had to get back into some ladder programming. It has been a while :)
I was pretty happy I was able to get the blinkenlights doing what I wanted. But like allprogrammers, I just copy/pasted online code. ;)
Dark Orange said:
sibeen said:
Dark Orange said:oops…
In other news, I had a successful day of hacking.
I managed to dust off my 30yo C programming skills and fail completely at programming an Arduino board. So I got a mate to write the code I wanted, and I made some changes. (I got the LED to blink when it did what it was supposed to)
Will take it into the field next week and see if it does what we hope it does.
Hehehehe
Because of a project I’m currently involved in I’ve had to get back into some ladder programming. It has been a while :)
I was pretty happy I was able to get the blinkenlights doing what I wanted. But like allprogrammers, I just copy/pasted online code. ;)
That hardly seems like cheating at all.
;-)
buffy said:
Dark Orange said:oops…
In other news, I had a successful day of hacking.
I managed to dust off my 30yo C programming skills and fail completely at programming an Arduino board. So I got a mate to write the code I wanted, and I made some changes. (I got the LED to blink when it did what it was supposed to)
Will take it into the field next week and see if it does what we hope it does.
You’ve made an alchemy device?
Kinda sorta not really.
We have neighbours who’s friends don’t always pay attention to boundaries when. So I made a tiny pseudo-radio transmiter that is electrically noisy in the frequencies that detectors work at. With any luck, it will create enough “noise” to make detecting in the prime areas of our lease a very frustrating waste of time.
Rule 303 said:
Dark Orange said:
sibeen said:Hehehehe
Because of a project I’m currently involved in I’ve had to get back into some ladder programming. It has been a while :)
I was pretty happy I was able to get the blinkenlights doing what I wanted. But like allprogrammers, I just copy/pasted online code. ;)
That hardly seems like cheating at all.
;-)
It’s how the world works. ;)
Putting in a telephone box, somewhere in London, 1930s.
was it here that I read about why telephone boxes were coloured red?
sarahs mum said:
Putting in a telephone box, somewhere in London, 1930s.
Looks like a very clever mechanism.
Arts said:
was it here that I read about why telephone boxes were coloured red?
I did not read that.
Arts said:
was it here that I read about why telephone boxes were coloured red?
I can’t recall ever hearing the explanation.
Nor have I ever wondered why.
Arts said:
was it here that I read about why telephone boxes were coloured red?
YES
sibeen said:
Arts said:
was it here that I read about why telephone boxes were coloured red?
YES
No!
But you might have read how to tell the difference between a Raven and a Crow.
sibeen said:
Arts said:
was it here that I read about why telephone boxes were coloured red?
YES
Do tell, for those of us that missed it first time.
sibeen said:
Arts said:
was it here that I read about why telephone boxes were coloured red?
YES
The colour red was chosen to make them easy to spot. Apparently…
Jus breeyant at me footy tips.
Rule 303 said:
sibeen said:
Arts said:
was it here that I read about why telephone boxes were coloured red?
YES
No!
But you might have read how to tell the difference between a Raven and a Crow.
I did not read that here
Woodie said:
Jus breeyant at me footy tips.
Lol. Classic. Do you need to pick a draw to get a point in that comp?
Arts said:
Rule 303 said:
sibeen said:YES
No!
But you might have read how to tell the difference between a Raven and a Crow.
I did not read that here
Special feather at the front of the wing, IIRC. Pinion feather.
Rule 303 said:
Arts said:
Rule 303 said:No!
But you might have read how to tell the difference between a Raven and a Crow.
I did not read that here
Special feather at the front of the wing, IIRC. Pinion feather.
I already knew the difference.. I have had many conversations with people about it
Arts said:
Rule 303 said:
sibeen said:YES
No!
But you might have read how to tell the difference between a Raven and a Crow.
I did not read that here
No one cares.
party_pants said:
Woodie said:
Jus breeyant at me footy tips.
Lol. Classic. Do you need to pick a draw to get a point in that comp?
That’s the standard AFL footy tips app. Any one can join, and you can set up your own “group” of friends etc etc.
Arts said:
Rule 303 said:
Arts said:I did not read that here
Special feather at the front of the wing, IIRC. Pinion feather.
I already knew the difference.. I have had many conversations with people about it
I didn’t realise you were so enthusiastic about it.
There’s an interesting thing: Mouse for hand in neutral position.
sibeen said:
Arts said:
Rule 303 said:No!
But you might have read how to tell the difference between a Raven and a Crow.
I did not read that here
No one cares.
stop reading my posts
Arts said:
sibeen said:
Arts said:I did not read that here
No one cares.
stop reading my posts
I don’t read any of them.
Cam Someone tell Shebs that I also don’t read his posts.
Arts said:
Cam Someone tell Shebs that I also don’t read his posts.
I would but no one reads mine either…
Why is a raven like a writing desk?
btm said:
Why is a raven like a writing desk?
They’re both impractical to have in a modern home?
btm said:
Why is a raven like a writing desk?
feigns interest
PLEASE TELL ME
btm said:
Why is a raven like a writing desk?
panto mode
I don’t know, why is a raven like a writing desk
If this turns out to be a Poe joke…
party_pants said:
btm said:
Why is a raven like a writing desk?
panto mode
I don’t know, why is a raven like a writing desk
I have no idea. It’s a riddle The Rev Dodgson posed in one of his books, and never answered. A commentary after he died suggests that an answer could be “Because Poe wrote on both.” I was just wondering whether anyone here might have a better idea.
btm said:
party_pants said:
btm said:
Why is a raven like a writing desk?
panto mode
I don’t know, why is a raven like a writing desk
I have no idea. It’s a riddle The Rev Dodgson posed in one of his books, and never answered. A commentary after he died suggests that an answer could be “Because Poe wrote on both.” I was just wondering whether anyone here might have a better idea.
disappointment
party_pants said:
btm said:
party_pants said:panto mode
I don’t know, why is a raven like a writing desk
I have no idea. It’s a riddle The Rev Dodgson posed in one of his books, and never answered. A commentary after he died suggests that an answer could be “Because Poe wrote on both.” I was just wondering whether anyone here might have a better idea.
disappointment
but then it’s not too different to the gallus crossing the via right
Today’s facebook memory.
8 years ago.
sarahs mum said:
Today’s facebook memory.
8 years ago.
Highland fish?
furious said:
sarahs mum said:
Today’s facebook memory.
8 years ago.
Highland fish?
Salmon. The root/route metaphor for the Scottish Diaspora.
sarahs mum said:
furious said:
sarahs mum said:
Today’s facebook memory.
8 years ago.
Highland fish?
Salmon. The root/route metaphor for the Scottish Diaspora.
they return to the source.
sarahs mum said:
I don’t get it.
sibeen said:
sarahs mum said:
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I don’t get it.
Yeah, its pretty fishy…
furious said:
sibeen said:
sarahs mum said:
![]()
I don’t get it.
Yeah, its pretty fishy…
Fucked if I could tuna in.
sibeen said:
furious said:
sibeen said:I don’t get it.
Yeah, its pretty fishy…
Fucked if I could tuna in.
So I was walking down the corridor one day and one of the research forum fellows pulls me aside and said he had seen my work in the gallery and he was sure one of the salmon was a trout. I said I thought they were all salmon and laughed it off. He said it was serious. I got the stern look.
So I wandered into my supervisor’s office and told her the story. And she said it was serious. And I waved my arms around and said..‘There are people dancig around on the salmon and salmon with flippers and outboard motors and salmon smoking pipes. none of it fucking serious.’
And I seemed to have got away with it.
I still don’t know what salmon is actully a trout in disguise.
But that’s academic life as an artist.
sarahs mum said:
sibeen said:
furious said:Yeah, its pretty fishy…
Fucked if I could tuna in.
So I was walking down the corridor one day and one of the research forum fellows pulls me aside and said he had seen my work in the gallery and he was sure one of the salmon was a trout. I said I thought they were all salmon and laughed it off. He said it was serious. I got the stern look.
So I wandered into my supervisor’s office and told her the story. And she said it was serious. And I waved my arms around and said..‘There are people dancig around on the salmon and salmon with flippers and outboard motors and salmon smoking pipes. none of it fucking serious.’
And I seemed to have got away with it.
I still don’t know what salmon is actully a trout in disguise.
But that’s academic life as an artist.
falls off chair
Djoker over Tsitsipas in 5
Good morning Holidayers. Six degrees and high cloud. Our forecast for today is for a partly cloudy 15 degrees. I intend to spend time outside.
breakfast was a pepper pie, coffee now then walk, see if the kookaburras are around, but reckon i’d hear them if they were
transition said:
breakfast was a pepper pie, coffee now then walk, see if the kookaburras are around, but reckon i’d hear them if they were
They don’t always see the joke.
roughbarked said:
transition said:
breakfast was a pepper pie, coffee now then walk, see if the kookaburras are around, but reckon i’d hear them if they were
They don’t always see the joke.
chuckle
bit cool down here lastnight, down the city, should’ve said yes when someone mentioned a heater
transition said:
roughbarked said:
transition said:
breakfast was a pepper pie, coffee now then walk, see if the kookaburras are around, but reckon i’d hear them if they were
They don’t always see the joke.
chuckle
bit cool down here lastnight, down the city, should’ve said yes when someone mentioned a heater
4.8°C here at present.
roughbarked said:
transition said:
breakfast was a pepper pie, coffee now then walk, see if the kookaburras are around, but reckon i’d hear them if they were
They don’t always see the joke.
roughbarked said:
transition said:
roughbarked said:They don’t always see the joke.
chuckle
bit cool down here lastnight, down the city, should’ve said yes when someone mentioned a heater
4.8°C here at present.
Was 19° at 0730. I have lots of firewood cut but it hasn’t fallen to heater cold yet.
sarahs mum said:
sibeen said:
furious said:Yeah, its pretty fishy…
Fucked if I could tuna in.
So I was walking down the corridor one day and one of the research forum fellows pulls me aside and said he had seen my work in the gallery and he was sure one of the salmon was a trout. I said I thought they were all salmon and laughed it off. He said it was serious. I got the stern look.
So I wandered into my supervisor’s office and told her the story. And she said it was serious. And I waved my arms around and said..‘There are people dancig around on the salmon and salmon with flippers and outboard motors and salmon smoking pipes. none of it fucking serious.’
And I seemed to have got away with it.
I still don’t know what salmon is actully a trout in disguise.
But that’s academic life as an artist.
Look up the scientific names of Salmon and Trout.
:-)
Bogsnorkler said:
sarahs mum said:
sibeen said:Fucked if I could tuna in.
So I was walking down the corridor one day and one of the research forum fellows pulls me aside and said he had seen my work in the gallery and he was sure one of the salmon was a trout. I said I thought they were all salmon and laughed it off. He said it was serious. I got the stern look.
So I wandered into my supervisor’s office and told her the story. And she said it was serious. And I waved my arms around and said..‘There are people dancig around on the salmon and salmon with flippers and outboard motors and salmon smoking pipes. none of it fucking serious.’
And I seemed to have got away with it.
I still don’t know what salmon is actully a trout in disguise.
But that’s academic life as an artist.
Look up the scientific names of Salmon and Trout.
:-)
Just to confuse matters: salmon trout
NOUN
NORTH AMERICAN a lake trout. BRITISH a sea trout. AUSTRALIAN an Australian salmon.“A skull that sat in a university desk for a “very long time” has been officially identified as belonging to an enormous species of crocodile never before known to have prowled Australian waterways.”
You know, sometimes the person writing the precis for JustIn should probably read the piece they are describing…the thing was in a museum drawer according to the article.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-14/giant-prehistoric-crocodile-species-identified-in-australia/100207292
roughbarked said:
transition said:
breakfast was a pepper pie, coffee now then walk, see if the kookaburras are around, but reckon i’d hear them if they were
They don’t always see the joke.
They shouldn’t have signed on if they can’t take a joke.
sibeen said:
Arts said:
Rule 303 said:No!
But you might have read how to tell the difference between a Raven and a Crow.
I did not read that here
No one cares.
Well, it doesn’t matter to you anyway, all your crows are ravens in Melbourne. No crows this far south.
Tamb said:
roughbarked said:
transition said:
breakfast was a pepper pie, coffee now then walk, see if the kookaburras are around, but reckon i’d hear them if they were
They don’t always see the joke.
Kookas, Currawongs & Crows here. Plus heaps of Spinebills & Honeyeaters. Also a Rufous fantail like this one
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jeeez that’s beautiful, they’re
buffy said:
sibeen said:
Arts said:I did not read that here
No one cares.
Well, it doesn’t matter to you anyway, all your crows are ravens in Melbourne. No crows this far south.
Have heard a few Melbournians crowing. ;)
transition said:
Tamb said:
roughbarked said:They don’t always see the joke.
Kookas, Currawongs & Crows here. Plus heaps of Spinebills & Honeyeaters. Also a Rufous fantail like this one
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jeeez that’s beautiful, they’re
transition said:
Tamb said:
roughbarked said:They don’t always see the joke.
Kookas, Currawongs & Crows here. Plus heaps of Spinebills & Honeyeaters. Also a Rufous fantail like this one
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jeeez that’s beautiful, they’re
They are a stunning bird sadly I don’t heve them here. They are more coastal.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-14/patient-zero-polio-re-emerged-children-across-western-pacific/100162048
Bogsnorkler said:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-14/patient-zero-polio-re-emerged-children-across-western-pacific/100162048
I was reading that. Luckily they have a better OPV coming online.
buffy said:
“A skull that sat in a university desk for a “very long time” has been officially identified as belonging to an enormous species of crocodile never before known to have prowled Australian waterways.”You know, sometimes the person writing the precis for JustIn should probably read the piece they are describing…the thing was in a museum drawer according to the article.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-14/giant-prehistoric-crocodile-species-identified-in-australia/100207292
I agree that the article is vague, but technically, university’s also have museums.. we have a vet museum and a human anatomy museum.
Arts said:
buffy said:
“A skull that sat in a university desk for a “very long time” has been officially identified as belonging to an enormous species of crocodile never before known to have prowled Australian waterways.”You know, sometimes the person writing the precis for JustIn should probably read the piece they are describing…the thing was in a museum drawer according to the article.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-14/giant-prehistoric-crocodile-species-identified-in-australia/100207292
I agree that the article is vague, but technically, university’s also have museums.. we have a vet museum and a human anatomy museum.
It just sounded like it had been shoved in someone’s desk drawer, when really, it was in the “acquisitions no-one has got around to assessing” drawer.
Hello
Cymek said:
Hello
Tamb said:
Cymek said:
Hello
G’day mate.
Waves.
http://www.sidewaysstep.com
Tim Stewart
Bogsnorkler said:
http://www.sidewaysstep.comTim Stewart
Ta looks interesting.
Got lawn mushrooms out there at the moment. Bolbitius titubans. (I wish they wouldn’t keep changing the names, I had previous pictures labelled as Bolbitius vetellinus)
The group
A slimy young one:
The most mature one, upright and underneath:
………
roughbarked said:
Bogsnorkler said:
http://www.sidewaysstep.comTim Stewart
Ta looks interesting.
Shouldn’t that be: looks “interesting”?
buffy said:
Got lawn mushrooms out there at the moment. Bolbitius titubans. (I wish they wouldn’t keep changing the names, I had previous pictures labelled as Bolbitius vetellinus)The group
A slimy young one:
The most mature one, upright and underneath:
………
Good photos.
roughbarked said:
Bogsnorkler said:
http://www.sidewaysstep.comTim Stewart
Ta looks interesting.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-14/qanon-follower-old-friend-scott-morrison-stewart-family-speaks/100125156
The Rev Dodgson said:
roughbarked said:
Bogsnorkler said:
http://www.sidewaysstep.comTim Stewart
Ta looks interesting.
Shouldn’t that be: looks “interesting”?
:)
Bogsnorkler said:
roughbarked said:
Bogsnorkler said:
http://www.sidewaysstep.comTim Stewart
Ta looks interesting.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-14/qanon-follower-old-friend-scott-morrison-stewart-family-speaks/100125156
These people are so concerned that we are all on the wrong path.
Morning pilgrims, nothing much happening.
roughbarked said:
Bogsnorkler said:
roughbarked said:Ta looks interesting.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-14/qanon-follower-old-friend-scott-morrison-stewart-family-speaks/100125156
These people are so concerned that we are all on the wrong path.
They should consider their own words. “Consider for a moment that our reality is created by our intentions and the things we say.”
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:
Bogsnorkler said:https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-14/qanon-follower-old-friend-scott-morrison-stewart-family-speaks/100125156
These people are so concerned that we are all on the wrong path.
They should consider their own words. “Consider for a moment that our reality is created by our intentions and the things we say.”
and we should be concerned that Scotty is marketing this by not distancing himself.
The Russian President says he is open to handing over cybercriminals, but only if the US is too.(
Reuters: Sputnik/Mikhail Klimentyev/Kremlin) https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-14/putin-biden-geneva-summit-g7-cyber-crime-jbs/100212880
Bogsnorkler said:
http://www.sidewaysstep.comTim Stewart
In the context of his mateship with our dear leader, I thought this bit was “quite interesting”:
“We embody the authority of Christ. “The authority of Christ is the authority to create”. We create with our words. It is
not to manipulate or control creation, but to declare what is. All our declarations create reality.”
The Rev Dodgson said:
Bogsnorkler said:
http://www.sidewaysstep.comTim Stewart
In the context of his mateship with our dear leader, I thought this bit was “quite interesting”:
“We embody the authority of Christ. “The authority of Christ is the authority to create”. We create with our words. It is
not to manipulate or control creation, but to declare what is. All our declarations create reality.”
Flipped the twist.
Polio is back in several impoverished countries, unfortunately vaccine-derived:
Polio was eliminated in the Asia-Pacific. Then it suddenly came back
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-14/patient-zero-polio-re-emerged-children-across-western-pacific/100162048
Jesus…
(One for Sarah’s mum)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXtq4a8829g&ab_channel=friendlyjordies
Brunch: Heinz BIG ‘N CHUNKY Peppered Steak soup, toasted multigrain.
Dark Orange said:
Jesus…
(One for Sarah’s mum)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXtq4a8829g&ab_channel=friendlyjordies
I was wondering what Jesus had to do with it. but
Christ!
roughbarked said:
Dark Orange said:Jesus…
(One for Sarah’s mum)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXtq4a8829g&ab_channel=friendlyjordies
I was wondering what Jesus had to do with it. but
Christ!
Some background on Barilo vs friendlyjordies:
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/friendlyjordies-producer-charged-with-stalking-john-barilaro/ar-AAL0mVP?ocid=uxbndlbing
The Rev Dodgson said:
roughbarked said:
Dark Orange said:Jesus…
(One for Sarah’s mum)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXtq4a8829g&ab_channel=friendlyjordies
I was wondering what Jesus had to do with it. but
Christ!
Some background on Barilo vs friendlyjordies:
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/friendlyjordies-producer-charged-with-stalking-john-barilaro/ar-AAL0mVP?ocid=uxbndlbing
So nothing that the Chaser hasn’t done already.
https://theconversation.com/do-aliens-exist-we-asked-five-experts-161811
Dark Orange said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
roughbarked said:I was wondering what Jesus had to do with it. but
Christ!
Some background on Barilo vs friendlyjordies:
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/friendlyjordies-producer-charged-with-stalking-john-barilaro/ar-AAL0mVP?ocid=uxbndlbing
So nothing that the Chaser hasn’t done already.
Embarrassing for the police. Some of these units seem to get next to no training these days.
Bogsnorkler said:
https://theconversation.com/do-aliens-exist-we-asked-five-experts-161811
Reading the responses, it seems they all said essentially the same thing, but in response to 5 different interpretations of the question.
https://theconversation.com/do-vegan-diets-make-kids-shorter-and-weaker-162420
Bogsnorkler said:
https://theconversation.com/do-vegan-diets-make-kids-shorter-and-weaker-162420
Bubblecar said:
Dark Orange said:
The Rev Dodgson said:Some background on Barilo vs friendlyjordies:
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/friendlyjordies-producer-charged-with-stalking-john-barilaro/ar-AAL0mVP?ocid=uxbndlbing
So nothing that the Chaser hasn’t done already.
Embarrassing for the police. Some of these units seem to get next to no training these days.
Good old “Terry Toughcunt” from the anti-terrorism squad was definitely the wrong person to be in charge. Trained to go in hard against legitimate threats, he was awkwardly out of his depth in this situation.
Bubblecar said:
Polio is back in several impoverished countries, unfortunately vaccine-derived:Polio was eliminated in the Asia-Pacific. Then it suddenly came back
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-14/patient-zero-polio-re-emerged-children-across-western-pacific/100162048
If polio reappears in Australia, it might change the minds of some anti-vaxxers.
Nothing like seeing your kid confined to an iron lung to make you wonder if maybe there isn’t a better way.
The Rev Dodgson said:
roughbarked said:
Dark Orange said:Jesus…
(One for Sarah’s mum)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXtq4a8829g&ab_channel=friendlyjordies
I was wondering what Jesus had to do with it. but
Christ!
Some background on Barilo vs friendlyjordies:
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/friendlyjordies-producer-charged-with-stalking-john-barilaro/ar-AAL0mVP?ocid=uxbndlbing
Far out.
https://www.betootaadvocate.com/headlines/pm-speaks-with-g7-leaders-so-what-we-do-is-torture-them-in-offshore-jails-yeah-kids-too/
The Umbrella is having a birthday today.
Bogsnorkler said:
The Umbrella is having a birthday today.
Bogsnorkler said:
The Umbrella is having a birthday today.
Many Happy Returns to The Umbrella.
Bogsnorkler said:
The Umbrella is having a birthday today.
Happy birthday to the ‘umble brolly.
Sill we’ll never know when the first pre-brolly was born, probably way back in the ancient mists of time a primate would have fashioned a bunch of leaves on a tick to keep the rain off it’s head that never inverted in high winds.
out there just now, two of there are
captain_spalding said:
Bubblecar said:
Polio is back in several impoverished countries, unfortunately vaccine-derived:Polio was eliminated in the Asia-Pacific. Then it suddenly came back
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-14/patient-zero-polio-re-emerged-children-across-western-pacific/100162048
If polio reappears in Australia, it might change the minds of some anti-vaxxers.
Nothing like seeing your kid confined to an iron lung to make you wonder if maybe there isn’t a better way.
It looks like the low immunisation rate and poor sanitation etc in PNG have been behind this mainly.
transition said:
out there just now, two of there are
Looks like it’s recently washed its plumage with Softly.
transition said:
out there just now, two of there are
Nice bit of Australiana
Got some South Melbourne dim sims steaming to have for lunch shortly.
buffy said:
Got some South Melbourne dim sims steaming to have for lunch shortly.
Tamb said:
buffy said:
Got some South Melbourne dim sims steaming to have for lunch shortly.
Aren’t they the Sydney Swans dim sims now?
I don’t think I’d try telling the Chinese family that has been making them for 60 years that.
https://www.southmelbournemarketdimsims.com.au/
buffy said:
Tamb said:
buffy said:
Got some South Melbourne dim sims steaming to have for lunch shortly.
Aren’t they the Sydney Swans dim sims now?I don’t think I’d try telling the Chinese family that has been making them for 60 years that.
https://www.southmelbournemarketdimsims.com.au/
Do you buy them on your Melbourne trips and freeze them?
At the hospital waiting to see the cardiologist
Morning tv is on, help me
They just had a segment on teeth whitening
Cymek said:
At the hospital waiting to see the cardiologist
Morning tv is on, help me
They just had a segment on teeth whitening
Now it’s a massage tool
Cymek said:
At the hospital waiting to see the cardiologist
Morning tv is on, help me
They just had a segment on teeth whitening
Sorry mate, there’s nothing we can do for you.
party_pants said:
Cymek said:
At the hospital waiting to see the cardiologist
Morning tv is on, help me
They just had a segment on teeth whitening
Sorry mate, there’s nothing we can do for you.
I know
Cymek said:
Cymek said:
At the hospital waiting to see the cardiologist
Morning tv is on, help me
They just had a segment on teeth whitening
Now it’s a massage tool
A way to avoid submitting to hypnosis or other attempts to alter your mental state is pain.
Get something sharp e.g. a drawing pin and whenever your feel your eyes starting to glaze over, squeeze it in your hand until it hurts a lot.
captain_spalding said:
Cymek said:
Cymek said:
At the hospital waiting to see the cardiologist
Morning tv is on, help me
They just had a segment on teeth whitening
Now it’s a massage tool
A way to avoid submitting to hypnosis or other attempts to alter your mental state is pain.
Get something sharp e.g. a drawing pin and whenever your feel your eyes starting to glaze over, squeeze it in your hand until it hurts a lot.
The other open is to reschedule your hospital visits to the summer months, whereby you would be more likely to get cricket or tennis on the waiting room TV than the regular morning shows.
captain_spalding said:
Cymek said:
Cymek said:
At the hospital waiting to see the cardiologist
Morning tv is on, help me
They just had a segment on teeth whitening
Now it’s a massage tool
A way to avoid submitting to hypnosis or other attempts to alter your mental state is pain.
Get something sharp e.g. a drawing pin and whenever your feel your eyes starting to glaze over, squeeze it in your hand until it hurts a lot.
Hypervigilance and disbelief has worked for me.
sarahs mum said:
captain_spalding said:
Cymek said:Now it’s a massage tool
A way to avoid submitting to hypnosis or other attempts to alter your mental state is pain.
Get something sharp e.g. a drawing pin and whenever your feel your eyes starting to glaze over, squeeze it in your hand until it hurts a lot.
Hypervigilance and disbelief has worked for me.
Methods of inducing altered mental states are often accompanied by drugs which make the patient more receptive.
If Cymek has been dosed with something at the hospital, he may need an external stimulus to keep up his resistance.
Cymek said:
Cymek said:
At the hospital waiting to see the cardiologist
Morning tv is on, help me
They just had a segment on teeth whitening
Now it’s a massage tool
You’ll just have to sit there and learn to enjoy it.
I did not know about deviated wells.
—-
The Bulletin
52 mins ·
COAL SEAM GAS COMPANY DRILLS WELLS UNDER PRIVATE PROPERTY WITHOUT NOTIFYING FARMERS
By the National Regional Reporting Team’s Nathan Morris-ABC
On Queensland’s Darling Downs, home to some of the most sought-after farmland in Australia, a coal seam gas company has drilled under farmland without notifying landholders, potentially leaving them uninsured and their land devalued.
West of Brisbane, Dalby farmer Luke Skerman has just been told by gas company Arrow Energy that he now has “deviated” gas wells under his land.
“They’ve got six deviated wells, three of which come underneath the back of my farm,” he said.
He is one of a number of landholders in the region only now learning about so-called ‘deviated’ gas wells, which have been drilled at angles under their properties.
Arrow Energy is owned by Shell and Petrochina, and is in phase one of its $10 billion Surat Gas Project, which will see more than 2,000 gas wells drilled across an area over three times the size of the ACT.
To limit the impact on farmland, gas wells will be grouped on the edge of paddocks and drilled at angles into the coal seams.
But Dalby-based lawyer Peter Shannon, who represents the landholders, said there was no excuse for not notifying them before drilling under their farms, which he said was required under the Minerals and Energy Recourses (Common Provisions) Act 2014.
“There’s just a straight breach of the law not to give a notice of entry,” he said.
“The law’s very clear. It doesn’t matter what type of activity you’re doing, if it’s an authorised activity, regardless of whether it’s advanced or preliminary or whatever, you have to give a landholder notice.”
In a statement, Arrow Energy said it was committed to engaging transparently and openly:
“At the time our existing deviated wells were drilled, we genuinely did not believe Entry Notices were required under the legislation,” an Arrow Energy spokesperson said.
“As soon as it became clear that Entry Notices were indeed required, we proactively notified all impacted landholders in our Surat Basin development areas and provided detailed maps showing the location, depth and trajectory of all deviated wells that traverse into their properties.”
But Mr Shannon questioned Arrow Energy’s commitment to transparency.
“On some occasions, Arrow actually approached people to seek permission to exceed noise limits, and other nuisance-type or environmental impacts for activity on this neighbouring property, without telling people that noise and dust and light et cetera was going to be to drill under their land,” he said.
Confusingly though, despite Arrow Energy admitting its oversight, Queensland’s Department of Resources said a Notice of Entry was not required for ‘directional drilling’ because it was classified as a ‘preliminary activity’, not an ‘advanced activity’, and had a ‘minor impact’.
“Directional drilling under a person’s property where there is no infrastructure or activity occurring on the surface will be considered a preliminary activity for the land access framework if there is no, or only minor, impact on a landholder’s business or land use activities,” a spokesperson said.
But the Department’s own template even uses ‘directional drilling’ as an example of an activity requiring a Notice of Entry.
The ABC understands that each landholder’s
To extract CSG, wells are drilled into the coal seams, and the water that traps the gas is extracted, allowing the gas to flow.
Removing both water and gas from the ground can cause subsidence, which is what farmers on the flat, Condamine flood plain are most concerned about. If the land subsides, water may not drain properly from paddocks, and farmers are worried there is no reliable baseline data to accurately assess ground levels.
“There is significant concern that the issue of land subsidence will affect market perceptions alone,” Mr Shannon said.
Dial-before-you-dig.
Zena and Gary Ronnfeldt have a farm that is surrounded by Arrow Energy gas wells, one of which finishes under a 1,200-megalitre water storage.
“If we get a hairline crack in a ring tank bank like this it’s going to be disastrous,” Mr Ronnefelt said.
The Ronnfeldts have also been considering drilling a new water bore on their property, which could potentially intersect with an underground gas well.
“I actually did a ‘dial-before-you-dig’ and found that there were no wells registered under our property,” Mrs Ronnfeldt said.
But this month Mrs Ronnfeldt has since learned that she does have deviated gas wells under her farm.
“As farmers and landholders we have to follow the rules,” she said.
“It’s just not acceptable if gas companies are not having to follow the rules, it’s not a free for all.”
Arrow Energy said it continued to improve ground level monitoring, and that “CSG-induced subsidence was unlikely to be perceptible at property scale and small compared to natural variability .”
Arrow Energy said it had a record of working constructively with landholders.
“We have proven across our many, many relationships with landholders that we can work around their farming requirements on their land without unduly disrupting their business while adding valuable drought-free income to support their businesses,” a spokesperson said.
Under Queensland laws, a gas company is entitled to access private land to access a resource.
Mr Skerman has just been through the negotiation process with Arrow Energy, signing a CCA to allow a pipeline to be built across his farm. But he said he felt like he had no other option.
“They just gave us an ultimatum, it was arm behind the back or sign the contract so we’re taking you to the Land Court,” Mr Skerman said.
“It’s intimidation, they’ve got their crew sitting two farms away ready to come through.
“They’ve got the backing of the government, both federal and state to get the gas out – they’ve got the resources just to steamroll farmers really.”
Arrow Energy said it had never pressured people to sign contracts.
Queensland’s Department of Environment and Science (DES) said it was aware of a number of concerns raised in relation to Arrow Energy’s Surat Gas project, including directional drilling of gas wells and subsidence.
A spokesperson said DES was working with other state government departments to investigate these matters, and that enforcement measures it could take in response to any non-compliance ranged from warnings through to prosecution.
ABC
ABC News:
‘Hoover the kelpie sells for $35k, smashing previous price record
ABC Rural
/ By Angus Verley
David and Sarah Lee sold their kelpie Hoover for $35,200 at the Casterton Kelpie Association’s Annual Working Dog Auction yesterday.’
Damn, they breed ‘em expensive down Buffy’s way.
sarahs mum said:
I did not know about deviated wells.
—-
The Bulletin
52 mins ·
COAL SEAM GAS COMPANY DRILLS WELLS UNDER PRIVATE PROPERTY WITHOUT NOTIFYING FARMERS
By the National Regional Reporting Team’s Nathan Morris-ABC
On Queensland’s Darling Downs, home to some of the most sought-after farmland in Australia, a coal seam gas company has drilled under farmland without notifying landholders, potentially leaving them uninsured and their land devalued.
But..but…you can’t criticise this. Our economic recovery depends on gas mining.
The government told me so.
Witty Rejoinder said:
buffy said:
Tamb said:Aren’t they the Sydney Swans dim sims now?
I don’t think I’d try telling the Chinese family that has been making them for 60 years that.
https://www.southmelbournemarketdimsims.com.au/
Do you buy them on your Melbourne trips and freeze them?
Nah, available frozen in the supermarket.
captain_spalding said:
ABC News:‘Hoover the kelpie sells for $35k, smashing previous price record
ABC Rural
/ By Angus Verley
David and Sarah Lee sold their kelpie Hoover for $35,200 at the Casterton Kelpie Association’s Annual Working Dog Auction yesterday.’Damn, they breed ‘em expensive down Buffy’s way.
I didn’t realize they were still having the auction. The Kelpie Muster used to be a street parade, street stalls, competitions for kelpies and pseudo-kelpies, etc. I think they made it a ticket entry thing this year. It was called off last year.
I used to go over and do my gardening on this long weekend and listen to the auction. It was just over in the next street, and quite loud enough to follow easily.
buffy said:
captain_spalding said:
ABC News:‘Hoover the kelpie sells for $35k, smashing previous price record
ABC Rural
/ By Angus Verley
David and Sarah Lee sold their kelpie Hoover for $35,200 at the Casterton Kelpie Association’s Annual Working Dog Auction yesterday.’Damn, they breed ‘em expensive down Buffy’s way.
I didn’t realize they were still having the auction. The Kelpie Muster used to be a street parade, street stalls, competitions for kelpies and pseudo-kelpies, etc. I think they made it a ticket entry thing this year. It was called off last year.
I used to go over and do my gardening on this long weekend and listen to the auction. It was just over in the next street, and quite loud enough to follow easily.
Oh, I see even though they had it organized for ticketed entry they cancelled it anyway. Except kept the auction going.
https://www.facebook.com/AustralianWorkingDogMuster/
Cymek said:
Cymek said:
At the hospital waiting to see the cardiologist
Morning tv is on, help me
They just had a segment on teeth whitening
Now it’s a massage tool
Hey, that’s good. I’ve never known how teeth whitening really works.
Or how to get a woman to submit to massage?
Is anyone out there getting ads for Tasmania? I am getting lots of ads for NZ and the NT.
buffy said:
captain_spalding said:
ABC News:‘Hoover the kelpie sells for $35k, smashing previous price record
ABC Rural
/ By Angus Verley
David and Sarah Lee sold their kelpie Hoover for $35,200 at the Casterton Kelpie Association’s Annual Working Dog Auction yesterday.’Damn, they breed ‘em expensive down Buffy’s way.
I didn’t realize they were still having the auction. The Kelpie Muster used to be a street parade, street stalls, competitions for kelpies and pseudo-kelpies, etc. I think they made it a ticket entry thing this year. It was called off last year.
I used to go over and do my gardening on this long weekend and listen to the auction. It was just over in the next street, and quite loud enough to follow easily.
Ooh, he’s a good boy, too. Here is his video from the ABC news story:
https://youtu.be/G0BQ80Z-Bsg
sarahs mum said:
Is anyone out there getting ads for Tasmania? I am getting lots of ads for NZ and the NT.
I’m getting quite a lot of Kiwi tourism ads on Choob.
I just learned that the 19th century “scientist” Rankine was:
1. Scottish
2. Actually a civil engineer.
sarahs mum said:
Is anyone out there getting ads for Tasmania? I am getting lots of ads for NZ and the NT.
I get no ads about anything. Adblocker Ultimate. Free. It blocks a lot of internet traffic. So I’m not paying to be inundated with advertisements.
The Rev Dodgson said:
I just learned that the 19th century “scientist” Rankine was:1. Scottish
2. Actually a civil engineer.
The Scots invented the Modern World.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_the_Scots_Invented_the_Modern_World
sarahs mum said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
I just learned that the 19th century “scientist” Rankine was:1. Scottish
2. Actually a civil engineer.The Scots invented the Modern World.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_the_Scots_Invented_the_Modern_World
:)
I’ll definitely give that a look.
The Rev Dodgson said:
sarahs mum said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
I just learned that the 19th century “scientist” Rankine was:1. Scottish
2. Actually a civil engineer.The Scots invented the Modern World.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_the_Scots_Invented_the_Modern_World
:)
I’ll definitely give that a look.
The book is a bit far fetched but it is a good read. But yeah..the Scottish Enlightenment. Literacy and also that doing something useful with your life stuff.
sarahs mum said:
I did not know about deviated wells.
Vertical, angled and horizontal drilling techniques are all common methods used in coal seam (known as unconventional) gas extraction.
diddly-squat said:
sarahs mum said:
I did not know about deviated wells.
Vertical, angled and horizontal drilling techniques are all common methods used in coal seam (known as unconventional) gas extraction.
But I didn’t know.
:)
sarahs mum said:
diddly-squat said:
sarahs mum said:
I did not know about deviated wells.
Vertical, angled and horizontal drilling techniques are all common methods used in coal seam (known as unconventional) gas extraction.
But I didn’t know.
:)
And now you do :)
waves to DS
Dark Orange said:
sarahs mum said:
diddly-squat said:Vertical, angled and horizontal drilling techniques are all common methods used in coal seam (known as unconventional) gas extraction.
But I didn’t know.
:)
And now you do :)
waves to DS
sup Mr Orange?
https://twitter.com/xenophondavis/status/1404286717478068224?s=20
#BREAKING
NSW State MP Helen Dalton has called on the state’s police watchdog to investigate the arrest of @friendlyjordies producer Kristo Langker.
“A special unit established to tackle extremists should not be arresting a YouTube comedians”
@helendalton22 #nswpol
diddly-squat said:
Dark Orange said:
sarahs mum said:But I didn’t know.
:)
And now you do :)
waves to DS
sup Mr Orange?
Digging holes on my own lease these days.
Will hopefully see results in a month.
offspring’s new pencil set, she’s happy
Dark Orange said:
https://twitter.com/xenophondavis/status/1404286717478068224?s=20#BREAKING
NSW State MP Helen Dalton has called on the state’s police watchdog to investigate the arrest of @friendlyjordies producer Kristo Langker.
“A special unit established to tackle extremists should not be arresting a YouTube comedians”
@helendalton22 #nswpol
What?
Not even if they indulge in the evil of satire directed against the Liberal government?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-11-09/blue-dot-network-explainer-us-china-belt-and-road/11682454
NHOI
Dark Orange said:
https://twitter.com/xenophondavis/status/1404286717478068224?s=20#BREAKING
NSW State MP Helen Dalton has called on the state’s police watchdog to investigate the arrest of @friendlyjordies producer Kristo Langker.
“A special unit established to tackle extremists should not be arresting a YouTube comedians”
@helendalton22 #nswpol
I wonder what Kristo is studying at the Con.
Bogsnorkler said:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-11-09/blue-dot-network-explainer-us-china-belt-and-road/11682454NHOI
Only just announced this past few days. Stupid name though.
transition said:
offspring’s new pencil set, she’s happy
the smell of new pencils…
transition said:
offspring’s new pencil set, she’s happy
That’s a shedload of colours.
Are they watercolour pencils or normal ones?
Dark Orange said:
diddly-squat said:
Dark Orange said:And now you do :)
waves to DS
sup Mr Orange?
Digging holes on my own lease these days.
Will hopefully see results in a month.
awesome.. what are you digging for?
diddly-squat said:
Dark Orange said:
diddly-squat said:sup Mr Orange?
Digging holes on my own lease these days.
Will hopefully see results in a month.
awesome.. what are you digging for?
The yellow stuff up in the Palmer.
Mate has the lease with a lot of tailings – we have a rough idea of volume and grade, and it’s just a matter of extracting it. Pulled a 12g nugget out of it the other week, so it looks like the people who processed it 30 years ago weren’t very good at it :)
So saw (that word looks wrong, ever get that when a normal word seems made up or spelt wrong but isn’t) the cardiologist, he’s sending off a referral / communique for me to see a cardiothoracic surgeon at Fiona Stanley Hospital to go through the surgery with me. Also get a lung function test. All should be done in the two to three months
Just posting this so I can link to it from elsewhere, talk amongst yourselves ….
Spiny Norman said:
Just posting this so I can link to it from elsewhere, talk amongst yourselves ….
Music, gaming fits in there as well or pets, people less so
Spiny Norman said:
Just posting this so I can link to it from elsewhere, talk amongst yourselves ….
But only books. It doesn’t work with movies.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. -Harriet Beecher Stowe, abolitionist and novelist (14 Jun 1811-1896)
diddly-squat said:
Dark Orange said:
diddly-squat said:sup Mr Orange?
Digging holes on my own lease these days.
Will hopefully see results in a month.
awesome.. what are you digging for?
Light orange substances.
Spiny Norman said:
Just posting this so I can link to it from elsewhere, talk amongst yourselves ….
Yellow dude’s label is wrong.
Should say ‘ALCOHOL’.
sibeen said:
Spiny Norman said:
Just posting this so I can link to it from elsewhere, talk amongst yourselves ….
But only books. It doesn’t work with movies.
Books are like that you can loose yourself in them and almost grieve when they come to an end.
The Rev Dodgson said:
diddly-squat said:
Dark Orange said:Digging holes on my own lease these days.
Will hopefully see results in a month.
awesome.. what are you digging for?
Light orange substances.
Carrots.
captain_spalding said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
diddly-squat said:awesome.. what are you digging for?
Light orange substances.
Carrots.
yeah, 24 of ‘em.
Bogsnorkler said:
captain_spalding said:
The Rev Dodgson said:Light orange substances.
Carrots.
yeah, 24 of ‘em.
(I just feed ‘im the straight lines, folks)
Spiny Norman said:
Just posting this so I can link to it from elsewhere, talk amongst yourselves ….
I’m gonna ban you from this forum… you, your children and your childrens children….. for 24 hours.
Bubblecar said:
transition said:
offspring’s new pencil set, she’s happy
That’s a shedload of colours.
Are they watercolour pencils or normal ones?
wax, expensive ones
transition said:
Bubblecar said:
transition said:
offspring’s new pencil set, she’s happy
That’s a shedload of colours.
Are they watercolour pencils or normal ones?
wax, expensive ones
‘Chinagraphs’.
They used them for marking tactical plots in warships. Maybe they still do.
captain_spalding said:
transition said:
Bubblecar said:That’s a shedload of colours.
Are they watercolour pencils or normal ones?
wax, expensive ones
‘Chinagraphs’.
They used them for marking tactical plots in warships. Maybe they still do.
yeah was just reading about that sort of thing, history of etc
transition said:
captain_spalding said:
transition said:wax, expensive ones
‘Chinagraphs’.
They used them for marking tactical plots in warships. Maybe they still do.
yeah was just reading about that sort of thing, history of etc
Best i ever saw was a Chief Radar Plotter.
They were short-handed, and he had two headsets on, a different one feeding into each ear, and pencil in both hands.
As reports came in, he was updating the perspex board from the back’ side, writing with both hands at the same time in mirror-writing so it could be read from the ‘front’.
He was quite good at the job.
Arts said:
Spiny Norman said:
Just posting this so I can link to it from elsewhere, talk amongst yourselves ….
I’m gonna ban you from this forum… you, your children and your childrens children….. for 24 hours.
Again?
You’re no fun. :(
captain_spalding said:
transition said:
Bubblecar said:That’s a shedload of colours.
Are they watercolour pencils or normal ones?
wax, expensive ones
‘Chinagraphs’.
They used them for marking tactical plots in warships. Maybe they still do.
I’ve got a couple of Chinagraphs. I use them to write the date of lay on my chooks’ eggs. They work well for that. I seem to recall they were for writing on glass. I have no idea why I’ve got a couple of them. They are probably from a drawer at Mum and Dad’s and most likely date from the 1960s or something.
Spiny Norman said:
Arts said:
Spiny Norman said:
Just posting this so I can link to it from elsewhere, talk amongst yourselves ….
I’m gonna ban you from this forum… you, your children and your childrens children….. for 24 hours.
Again?
You’re no fun. :(
Old habits die hard.
buffy said:
captain_spalding said:
transition said:wax, expensive ones
‘Chinagraphs’.
They used them for marking tactical plots in warships. Maybe they still do.
I’ve got a couple of Chinagraphs. I use them to write the date of lay on my chooks’ eggs. They work well for that. I seem to recall they were for writing on glass. I have no idea why I’ve got a couple of them. They are probably from a drawer at Mum and Dad’s and most likely date from the 1960s or something.
Just had a quick look. I seem to have some random Colleen pencils (which I’m pretty sure are from my primary school days in the 1960s) and a few Crayola pencils which I have no idea of the provenance of. I also have a box of 72 Derwent Studio pencils…because I always wanted to have Derwents, so I bought them simply because I could as an adult. (Couldn’t afford them as a child). And I have a box of 36 Derwent Artists pencils which I used for demonstrating colour mixups in colourblind children. I found it was a good way to show the parents which colours the child could not differentiate. It is not a “standard” test, but it worked in the real world.
buffy said:
buffy said:
captain_spalding said:‘Chinagraphs’.
They used them for marking tactical plots in warships. Maybe they still do.
I’ve got a couple of Chinagraphs. I use them to write the date of lay on my chooks’ eggs. They work well for that. I seem to recall they were for writing on glass. I have no idea why I’ve got a couple of them. They are probably from a drawer at Mum and Dad’s and most likely date from the 1960s or something.
Just had a quick look. I seem to have some random Colleen pencils (which I’m pretty sure are from my primary school days in the 1960s) and a few Crayola pencils which I have no idea of the provenance of. I also have a box of 72 Derwent Studio pencils…because I always wanted to have Derwents, so I bought them simply because I could as an adult. (Couldn’t afford them as a child). And I have a box of 36 Derwent Artists pencils which I used for demonstrating colour mixups in colourblind children. I found it was a good way to show the parents which colours the child could not differentiate. It is not a “standard” test, but it worked in the real world.
I remember pleading for some for a birthday and was given Staedlers.
I just watched Part 3 of walking across Scotland in a straight line. A cross farmer (who was an Irishman) rang the police on them and the police said to go home or get done with being away from their homes in a lockdown.
They did get halfway. Maximum deviation from the line 14 metres.
Food report. Onion/ham/garlic/tomato mess simmering in the wok. Cooked macaroni will be added and tossed through. Mess will go into flat bowls and have some 4 cheese mix tipped on top of it. Done.
buffy said:
Food report. Onion/ham/garlic/tomato mess simmering in the wok. Cooked macaroni will be added and tossed through. Mess will go into flat bowls and have some 4 cheese mix tipped on top of it. Done.
I just had a near-repeat of last night but with the last two cumberland sausages instead of a pork steak, + a bunch of broccolini & chips, followed by an apple.
it was a toss up between mash potato or roast potato. I think I’ll do the mash potato.
sarahs mum said:
buffy said:
buffy said:I’ve got a couple of Chinagraphs. I use them to write the date of lay on my chooks’ eggs. They work well for that. I seem to recall they were for writing on glass. I have no idea why I’ve got a couple of them. They are probably from a drawer at Mum and Dad’s and most likely date from the 1960s or something.
Just had a quick look. I seem to have some random Colleen pencils (which I’m pretty sure are from my primary school days in the 1960s) and a few Crayola pencils which I have no idea of the provenance of. I also have a box of 72 Derwent Studio pencils…because I always wanted to have Derwents, so I bought them simply because I could as an adult. (Couldn’t afford them as a child). And I have a box of 36 Derwent Artists pencils which I used for demonstrating colour mixups in colourblind children. I found it was a good way to show the parents which colours the child could not differentiate. It is not a “standard” test, but it worked in the real world.
I remember pleading for some for a birthday and was given Staedlers.
I have two sets of Staedtler Karat watercolour pencils which I haven’t used for ages, plus a set of 48 Conté pastel pencils and various cheaper pastel pencils.
Keith DavisField Naturalists of Tasmania
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sarahs mum said:
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Keith DavisField Naturalists of Tasmania
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Nicely drawn.
Bogsnorkler said:
it was a toss up between mash potato or roast potato. I think I’ll do the mash potato.
and if you wish to dance along with me…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtY-pQjvYWs
Bogsnorkler said:
Bogsnorkler said:
it was a toss up between mash potato or roast potato. I think I’ll do the mash potato.
and if you wish to dance along with me…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtY-pQjvYWs
there was a song that went..Mash potato yeah. yeah. yeah. yeah. yeah.
Ahh dear. The Dandenongs are not feling the love.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-14/victoria-wild-weather-storm-floods-kaloroma/100212890
;-/
sarahs mum said:
Bogsnorkler said:
Bogsnorkler said:
it was a toss up between mash potato or roast potato. I think I’ll do the mash potato.
and if you wish to dance along with me…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtY-pQjvYWs
there was a song that went..Mash potato yeah. yeah. yeah. yeah. yeah.
That’s the song on the video linked :)
Rule 303 said:
Ahh dear. The Dandenongs are not feling the love.https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-14/victoria-wild-weather-storm-floods-kaloroma/100212890
;-/
I’d rather have the emergency services people helping that politicians gawping.
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
Bogsnorkler said:and if you wish to dance along with me…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtY-pQjvYWs
there was a song that went..Mash potato yeah. yeah. yeah. yeah. yeah.
That’s the song on the video linked :)
no. this one.
Billy Thorpe & the Aztecs – Mashed potato
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tncT7WbvRls
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:there was a song that went..Mash potato yeah. yeah. yeah. yeah. yeah.
That’s the song on the video linked :)
no. this one.
Billy Thorpe & the Aztecs – Mashed potato
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tncT7WbvRls
Maybe a bit too minimalist. They should have added a few peas.
buffy said:
Rule 303 said:
Ahh dear. The Dandenongs are not feeling the love.https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-14/victoria-wild-weather-storm-floods-kaloroma/100212890
;-/
I’d rather have the emergency services people helping that politicians gawping.
Ignoring the thinly-veiled political subtext for a moment, I agree that there’s a lot more we could be doing, but the organisations most responsible are exhausted – And we’ve still got floods to worry about. We probably should have been bringing in people from NSW and SA three days ago.
Dark Orange said:
I was once on a flight from Kal to Perth. We landed at Perth and the pilot came on the speakers as we taxied to the terminal saying “Welcome to Adelaide”.
party_pants said:
Dark Orange said:
I was once on a flight from Kal to Perth. We landed at Perth and the pilot came on the speakers as we taxied to the terminal saying “Welcome to Adelaide”.
Might have been a New Australian.
Bubblecar said:
party_pants said:
Dark Orange said:
I was once on a flight from Kal to Perth. We landed at Perth and the pilot came on the speakers as we taxied to the terminal saying “Welcome to Adelaide”.
Might have been a New Australian.
He seemed to have an Aussie accent like a native speaker IIRC. Anyway, we all had a bit of a laugh at his mistake.
I guess if he had actually flown us to Adelaide by mistake it would have been no laughing matter.
party_pants said:
Bubblecar said:
party_pants said:I was once on a flight from Kal to Perth. We landed at Perth and the pilot came on the speakers as we taxied to the terminal saying “Welcome to Adelaide”.
Might have been a New Australian.
He seemed to have an Aussie accent like a native speaker IIRC. Anyway, we all had a bit of a laugh at his mistake.
I guess if he had actually flown us to Adelaide by mistake it would have been no laughing matter.
Probably force of habit, doing the Adelaide run for a long time.
Bubblecar said:
party_pants said:
Bubblecar said:Might have been a New Australian.
He seemed to have an Aussie accent like a native speaker IIRC. Anyway, we all had a bit of a laugh at his mistake.
I guess if he had actually flown us to Adelaide by mistake it would have been no laughing matter.
Probably force of habit, doing the Adelaide run for a long time.
More probably..his idea of a joke.
Bubblecar said:
party_pants said:
Bubblecar said:Might have been a New Australian.
He seemed to have an Aussie accent like a native speaker IIRC. Anyway, we all had a bit of a laugh at his mistake.
I guess if he had actually flown us to Adelaide by mistake it would have been no laughing matter.
Probably force of habit, doing the Adelaide run for a long time.
Could be.
Maybe all airports look the same to a pilot after while. Like the rock singer on tour who needs to write the name of the city on the back of his hand, because all concert halls look the same after a while.
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
party_pants said:He seemed to have an Aussie accent like a native speaker IIRC. Anyway, we all had a bit of a laugh at his mistake.
I guess if he had actually flown us to Adelaide by mistake it would have been no laughing matter.
Probably force of habit, doing the Adelaide run for a long time.
More probably..his idea of a joke.
Oh no. He did the whole spiel, and then came back on a few seconds later to correct it.
Rule 303 said:
Ahh dear. The Dandenongs are not feling the love.https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-14/victoria-wild-weather-storm-floods-kaloroma/100212890
;-/
A bowsaw will clean that up in no time.
PermeateFree said:
Rule 303 said:
Ahh dear. The Dandenongs are not feling the love.https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-14/victoria-wild-weather-storm-floods-kaloroma/100212890
;-/
A bowsaw will clean that up in no time.
I’ve seen some very big trees on the news footage. But I suppose mountain ash does get big.
I think I will break with habit tonight and actually watch Four Corners.
buffy said:
PermeateFree said:
Rule 303 said:
Ahh dear. The Dandenongs are not feling the love.https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-14/victoria-wild-weather-storm-floods-kaloroma/100212890
;-/
A bowsaw will clean that up in no time.
I’ve seen some very big trees on the news footage. But I suppose mountain ash does get big.
I’ve been on some sub-alpine tracks in early spring only to come around a bend to find fallen trees like those across the track. I carried a farm boss chainsaw, but I just turned around without even getting out of the 4WD.
PermeateFree said:
Rule 303 said:
Ahh dear. The Dandenongs are not feling the love.https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-14/victoria-wild-weather-storm-floods-kaloroma/100212890
;-/
A bowsaw will clean that up in no time.
buffy said:
I think I will break with habit tonight and actually watch Four Corners.
me too.
make some space
beef roast about to be served
Dinner report: Crumbed Barra with Greek salad (supermarket kit +mushrooms +lge Rigatoni +Olive oil).
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-14/biloela-tamil-family-asylum-seekers-settlement-decision/100214484
“The federal government is understood to be on the verge of announcing a solution that would allow a Tamil asylum seeker family detained for several years on Christmas Island to live freely in Australia.”
—————————
Is the LNP finally realising that Aussies think that their treatment of this family has been unconscionable? And that this could have electoral consequences?
/cynical mode
Michael V said:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-14/biloela-tamil-family-asylum-seekers-settlement-decision/100214484“The federal government is understood to be on the verge of announcing a solution that would allow a Tamil asylum seeker family detained for several years on Christmas Island to live freely in Australia.”
—————————
Is the LNP finally realising that Aussies think that their treatment of this family has been unconscionable? And that this could have electoral consequences?
/cynical mode
I am loathe to say it but I think for a majority of australians this wouldn’t make a difference in their voting preferences.
Michael V said:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-14/biloela-tamil-family-asylum-seekers-settlement-decision/100214484“The federal government is understood to be on the verge of announcing a solution that would allow a Tamil asylum seeker family detained for several years on Christmas Island to live freely in Australia.”
—————————
Is the LNP finally realising that Aussies think that their treatment of this family has been unconscionable? And that this could have electoral consequences?
/cynical mode
You’ve been able to smell election in the air for some weeks now. It’s particularly strong tonight.
Bogsnorkler said:
Michael V said:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-14/biloela-tamil-family-asylum-seekers-settlement-decision/100214484“The federal government is understood to be on the verge of announcing a solution that would allow a Tamil asylum seeker family detained for several years on Christmas Island to live freely in Australia.”
—————————
Is the LNP finally realising that Aussies think that their treatment of this family has been unconscionable? And that this could have electoral consequences?
/cynical mode
I am loathe to say it but I think for a majority of australians this wouldn’t make a difference in their voting preferences.
give them $500 off their tax bill and I think that would win them over. as long as they didn’t read the fine print.
Michael V said:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-14/biloela-tamil-family-asylum-seekers-settlement-decision/100214484“The federal government is understood to be on the verge of announcing a solution that would allow a Tamil asylum seeker family detained for several years on Christmas Island to live freely in Australia.”
—————————
Is the LNP finally realising that Aussies think that their treatment of this family has been unconscionable? And that this could have electoral consequences?
/cynical mode
Backbenchers are restless…upcoming election and marginals are feeling marginalised.
Barnaby Joyce who would like his job back and is having a side bet here.
The doctors in WA are being stern.
.
The polls show it basically as close to a dead heat and in the Preferred Prime Minister stakes Morrison is miles ahead.
sibeen said:
The polls show it basically as close to a dead heat and in the Preferred Prime Minister stakes Morrison is miles ahead.
one thing we noted after a little while in australia was that the general population had no culture.
Bogsnorkler said:
sibeen said:
The polls show it basically as close to a dead heat and in the Preferred Prime Minister stakes Morrison is miles ahead.
one thing we noted after a little while in australia was that the general population had no culture.
and only when aunty jack aired did we think you had a sense of humour.
sibeen said:
The polls show it basically as close to a dead heat and in the Preferred Prime Minister stakes Morrison is miles ahead.
The LOTO almost always lags behind the sitting PM (or Premier) on the PPM polls, because it is an unknown versus a known. Still never stops the opposition party winning the election. After which the new PM gets a bit of a honeymoon period with high approval ratings.
Bogsnorkler said:
sibeen said:
The polls show it basically as close to a dead heat and in the Preferred Prime Minister stakes Morrison is miles ahead.
one thing we noted after a little while in australia was that the general population had no culture.
Of course the English are much more cultured and enlightened, what with BoJo, Brexit, the Daily Mail etc.
Every society by definition has a culture.
Australia has dropped a large part of British culture over the years, because a lot of it doesn’t fit the geography and climate that pertains here. Densely populated countries tend to have more complex social structures than those with wide open spaces.
Bubblecar said:
Bogsnorkler said:
sibeen said:
The polls show it basically as close to a dead heat and in the Preferred Prime Minister stakes Morrison is miles ahead.
one thing we noted after a little while in australia was that the general population had no culture.
Of course the English are much more cultured and enlightened, what with BoJo, Brexit, the Daily Mail etc.
BJ was only 4 at the time. brexit didn’t exist. i was too young for the DM.
Bogsnorkler said:
Bogsnorkler said:
sibeen said:
The polls show it basically as close to a dead heat and in the Preferred Prime Minister stakes Morrison is miles ahead.
one thing we noted after a little while in australia was that the general population had no culture.
and only when aunty jack aired did we think you had a sense of humour.
though i think that was only me as the folks didn’t get it.
still must have had something going for you as we are still here after 53 years.
Bogsnorkler said:
Bubblecar said:
Bogsnorkler said:one thing we noted after a little while in australia was that the general population had no culture.
Of course the English are much more cultured and enlightened, what with BoJo, Brexit, the Daily Mail etc.
BJ was only 4 at the time. brexit didn’t exist. i was too young for the DM.
And high culture like The Black & White Minstrel Show was still on the telly.
Oh Mammy that was bad.
Bubblecar said:
Bogsnorkler said:
Bubblecar said:Of course the English are much more cultured and enlightened, what with BoJo, Brexit, the Daily Mail etc.
BJ was only 4 at the time. brexit didn’t exist. i was too young for the DM.
And high culture like The Black & White Minstrel Show was still on the telly.
went with our collection of golliwogs from Robertson’s Jams.
Meanwhile in the Animal Kingdom!! I mean it would be tough out there being a spider or something … 🤣🤪!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FC_EuXtINfU
Bubblecar said:
Oh Mammy that was bad.
Even without the offensive element that stuff was just dodgy. Nightmarish, even…
sarahs mum said:
Meanwhile in the Animal Kingdom!! I mean it would be tough out there being a spider or something … 🤣🤪!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FC_EuXtINfU
So DA still missing in action then.
Bogsnorkler said:
Michael V said:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-14/biloela-tamil-family-asylum-seekers-settlement-decision/100214484“The federal government is understood to be on the verge of announcing a solution that would allow a Tamil asylum seeker family detained for several years on Christmas Island to live freely in Australia.”
—————————
Is the LNP finally realising that Aussies think that their treatment of this family has been unconscionable? And that this could have electoral consequences?
/cynical mode
I am loathe to say it but I think for a majority of australians this wouldn’t make a difference in their voting preferences.
It doesn’t need a majority. It needs 3% or so.
of course culture was a lot more than just TV shows.
Bogsnorkler said:
of course culture was a lot more than just TV shows.
Yes. There was Hawaiian night at the Epping Pipe Band Society.
Bubblecar said:
Bogsnorkler said:
sibeen said:
The polls show it basically as close to a dead heat and in the Preferred Prime Minister stakes Morrison is miles ahead.
one thing we noted after a little while in australia was that the general population had no culture.
Of course the English are much more cultured and enlightened, what with BoJo, Brexit, the Daily Mail etc.
LOL
Of course…
sarahs mum said:
Bogsnorkler said:
of course culture was a lot more than just TV shows.
Yes. There was Hawaiian night at the Epping Pipe Band Society.
And some people were experimenting with pineapple, and wrapping tinned asparagus in ham. Heady stuff.
Bogsnorkler said:
of course culture was a lot more than just TV shows.
furious said:
Bogsnorkler said:
of course culture was a lot more than just TV shows.
*Needs mirrors.
Kothos posted in Facebook
sarahs mum said:
furious said:
Bogsnorkler said:
of course culture was a lot more than just TV shows.
*Needs mirrors.
Well, that’s odd. At least that chap has a helmet.
Only one helmet seen in the first photo.
sarahs mum said:
Kothos posted in Facebook
:)
Nice one.
We need more nice ones.
:)
I watched 4 corners. Very careful wording. So much was not “on the record”. Which sort of implies Scomo or his office said stuff but said it “off the record”. Which is not a good look.
Michael V said:
sarahs mum said:
Kothos posted in Facebook
:)
Nice one.
We need more nice ones.
:)
there are quite a few good ones in the 3D print fraternity. they do hands for amputees as well. all open source.
buffy said:
I watched 4 corners. Very careful wording. So much was not “on the record”. Which sort of implies Scomo or his office said stuff but said it “off the record”. Which is not a good look.
I forgot to swtch over. So I have it ready to go in one of the browsers.
Bogsnorkler said:
Michael V said:sarahs mum said:Kothos posted in Facebook
:)
Nice one.
We need more nice ones.
:)
there are quite a few good ones in the 3D print fraternity. they do hands for amputees as well. all open source.
¿ref
sarahs mum said:
buffy said:
I watched 4 corners. Very careful wording. So much was not “on the record”. Which sort of implies Scomo or his office said stuff but said it “off the record”. Which is not a good look.I forgot to swtch over. So I have it ready to go in one of the browsers.
And on the following Media Watch we were treated to the strange sound of John Laws having a go at Clive Palmer for deliberately deceptive use of statistics on Covid19 vaccines.
Strange times indeed.
SCIENCE said:
Bogsnorkler said:Michael V said::)
Nice one.
We need more nice ones.
:)
there are quite a few good ones in the 3D print fraternity. they do hands for amputees as well. all open source.
¿ref
https://bfy.tw/R6b4
SCIENCE said:
Bogsnorkler said:Michael V said::)
Nice one.
We need more nice ones.
:)
there are quite a few good ones in the 3D print fraternity. they do hands for amputees as well. all open source.
¿ref
e-Nable
http://enablingthefuture.org
Dark Orange said:
SCIENCE said:Bogsnorkler said:there are quite a few good ones in the 3D print fraternity. they do hands for amputees as well. all open source.
¿ref
https://bfy.tw/R6b4
so we’re making fun of amputees who don’t have the hands to do phishing now are we or is there more to it than that
Bogsnorkler said:
SCIENCE said:Bogsnorkler said:there are quite a few good ones in the 3D print fraternity. they do hands for amputees as well. all open source.
¿ref
e-Nable
thanks
The Rev Dodgson said:
sarahs mum said:
buffy said:
I watched 4 corners. Very careful wording. So much was not “on the record”. Which sort of implies Scomo or his office said stuff but said it “off the record”. Which is not a good look.I forgot to swtch over. So I have it ready to go in one of the browsers.
And on the following Media Watch we were treated to the strange sound of John Laws having a go at Clive Palmer for deliberately deceptive use of statistics on Covid19 vaccines.
Strange times indeed.
Election mode.
sarahs mum said:
Bogsnorkler said:
of course culture was a lot more than just TV shows.
Yes. There was Hawaiian night at the Epping Pipe Band Society.
I’m not sure I should get into these cultural wars things,
but I will just comment,
Of course there are large differences between Australian and British cultures,
but there are also huge shared aspects to their cultures,
not to mention a ton of shared history for many Australians,
and a ton of unshared history for many other Australians.
I sometimes start these little controversial posts just to get a conversation going.
A nice story…
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-14/how-brian-and-louise-are-bouncing-back/100202436
Michael V said:
A nice story…https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-14/how-brian-and-louise-are-bouncing-back/100202436
This was posted earlier, and deserves posting again – Working dogs doing what working dogs do well.
https://youtu.be/G0BQ80Z-Bsg
Do any tyres have diamond in them?
Tau.Neutrino said:
Do any tyres have diamond in them?
Correction
Are any car tyres made with diamond in them like some kind of rubber diamond composite ?
I know rubber can be mixed with other composites but I was wondering about diamond dust or form other form of diamond?
Tau.Neutrino said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Do any tyres have diamond in them?Correction
Are any car tyres made with diamond in them like some kind of rubber diamond composite ?
I know rubber can be mixed with other composites but I was wondering about diamond dust or form other form of diamond?
sheeez
or some other form of diamond?
Would such a tyre last longer?
Would it give the driver a new tyre experience all the time?
Tau.Neutrino said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Do any tyres have diamond in them?Correction
Are any car tyres made with diamond in them like some kind of rubber diamond composite ?
I know rubber can be mixed with other composites but I was wondering about diamond dust or form other form of diamond?
What properties would diamond dust give? Is carbon close enough to diamond for you?
Tau.Neutrino said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Do any tyres have diamond in them?Correction
Are any car tyres made with diamond in them like some kind of rubber diamond composite ?
I know rubber can be mixed with other composites but I was wondering about diamond dust or form other form of diamond?
sheeez
or some other form of diamond?
Would such a tyre last longer?
Would it give the driver a new tyre experience all the time?
All I know is of the girl who had diamonds in the soles of her shoes.
Dark Orange said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Do any tyres have diamond in them?Correction
Are any car tyres made with diamond in them like some kind of rubber diamond composite ?
I know rubber can be mixed with other composites but I was wondering about diamond dust or form other form of diamond?
What properties would diamond dust give? Is carbon close enough to diamond for you?
A certain form of carbon is extremely close to diamond.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Tau.Neutrino said:Correction
Are any car tyres made with diamond in them like some kind of rubber diamond composite ?
I know rubber can be mixed with other composites but I was wondering about diamond dust or form other form of diamond?
sheeez
or some other form of diamond?
Would such a tyre last longer?
Would it give the driver a new tyre experience all the time?
All I know is of the girl who had diamonds in the soles of her shoes.
And everyone knows what you are talking about.
Do tyres last longer on electric vehicles that run that charging the battery by braking stuff?
sarahs mum said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Tau.Neutrino said:sheeez
or some other form of diamond?
Would such a tyre last longer?
Would it give the driver a new tyre experience all the time?
All I know is of the girl who had diamonds in the soles of her shoes.
And everyone knows what you are talking about.
Do tyres last longer on electric vehicles that run that charging the battery by braking stuff?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-I_T3XvzPaM&t=3s
(Even some of the comments were worth reading!)
The Rev Dodgson said:
sarahs mum said:
The Rev Dodgson said:All I know is of the girl who had diamonds in the soles of her shoes.
And everyone knows what you are talking about.
Do tyres last longer on electric vehicles that run that charging the battery by braking stuff?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-I_T3XvzPaM&t=3s
(Even some of the comments were worth reading!)
sarah as a toddler would whoop and dance along with Graceland. In high school she did a negotiated study on Simon the lyricist and called it ‘Angels in the architecture.’
Coal Miners Driving Teslas – Episode 25 – Kirsten
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtK5Pz7gXHM
The Rev Dodgson said:
sarahs mum said:
The Rev Dodgson said:All I know is of the girl who had diamonds in the soles of her shoes.
And everyone knows what you are talking about.
Do tyres last longer on electric vehicles that run that charging the battery by braking stuff?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-I_T3XvzPaM&t=3s
(Even some of the comments were worth reading!)
I don’t think I’ve ever seen that film clip. I’ve had the Graceland album ever since it was released.
sibeen said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
sarahs mum said:And everyone knows what you are talking about.
Do tyres last longer on electric vehicles that run that charging the battery by braking stuff?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-I_T3XvzPaM&t=3s
(Even some of the comments were worth reading!)
I don’t think I’ve ever seen that film clip. I’ve had the Graceland album ever since it was released.
I’ve seen it. But it has been a long time.
Tau.Neutrino said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Do any tyres have diamond in them?Correction
Are any car tyres made with diamond in them like some kind of rubber diamond composite ?
I know rubber can be mixed with other composites but I was wondering about diamond dust or form other form of diamond?
No.
I would like my tyres to stay like new for a few years
A self alignment system for the tyres would be good too.
Tau.Neutrino said:
I would like my tyres to stay like new for a few yearsA self alignment system for the tyres would be good too.
Leave your car in the garage.
Tau.Neutrino said:
I would like my tyres to stay like new for a few yearsA self alignment system for the tyres would be good too.
Walk.
Not what I meant, but someone did this on a tyre as an artwork.
https://newatlas.com/z-tyre-diamond-gold-leaf-most-expensive-tires-world/43890/
PermeateFree said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
I would like my tyres to stay like new for a few yearsA self alignment system for the tyres would be good too.
Leave your car in the garage.
And that’s great news for the environment.
points over to the kitchen there’s chocolate cake over there
should be a food vault for things like that, a night vault, or vault with night lockout
This popped up in my youchoob feed. this morning – nailed it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKEqVWmzX0Y&ab_channel=thejuicemedia
Honest Government Ad | President Trump
Good morning Holidayers. Currently 7 degrees and a little light is on the horizon. Sunup is not for a while yet.
buffy said:
Good morning Holidayers. Currently 7 degrees and a little light is on the horizon. Sunup is not for a while yet.
Morning.
9.0°C here. Enough light to walk around out.
Bubblecar said:
transition said:
out there just now, two of there are
Looks like it’s recently washed its plumage with Softly.
Sure does.
Dark Orange said:
https://twitter.com/xenophondavis/status/1404286717478068224?s=20#BREAKING
NSW State MP Helen Dalton has called on the state’s police watchdog to investigate the arrest of @friendlyjordies producer Kristo Langker.
“A special unit established to tackle extremists should not be arresting a YouTube comedians”
@helendalton22 #nswpol
Know Helen Dalton.
She’s a hard head.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vs1n-pCycA8
Deconstructing Propaganda with Kevin Rudd
just watched that^, 1hr
transition said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vs1n-pCycA8
Deconstructing Propaganda with Kevin Rudd
just watched that^, 1hr
From the expert of bullshit too!
took the dog for a walk this morning and it wasn’t cold, but I wish I had got more sleep.. sun still isn’t up here…
Arts said:
took the dog for a walk this morning and it wasn’t cold, but I wish I had got more sleep.. sun still isn’t up here…
and now it’s starting to get light… the earth is healing
Arts said:
took the dog for a walk this morning and it wasn’t cold, but I wish I had got more sleep.. sun still isn’t up here…
shell shocks me if don’t get proper sleep, mental discomfort until do catch up
had the heater on lastnight, that helped, I like to be hot, makes me relax quick and go into a deep sleep, especially so if got a bit of cold or something
Good morning everybody.
It’s raining lightly at Woodie’s place. I’ll wait until that’s stopped before I pack the car. We are travelling home today, via various specialty (Korean, Chinese, Italian) food stockists in Brisbane. No rush.
:)
Morning punters and correctors, it’s sprinkling with rain in the Perl, heard some thunder as well.
Peak Warming Man said:
Morning punters and correctors, it’s sprinkling with rain in the Perl, heard some thunder as well.
Morning all.
Back from my blood test.
22°. No sign of winter yet.
Hello
Cymek said:
Hello
Dark Orange said:
transition said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vs1n-pCycA8
Deconstructing Propaganda with Kevin Rudd
just watched that^, 1hrFrom the expert of bullshit too!
There’s no-one better than a burglar to point out how thieves can break in to your place.
!!
‘Other owner not like new moon roof.’
(Pic from npr.org website)
captain_spalding said:
!!
‘Other owner not like new moon roof.’
(Pic from npr.org website)
Tamb said:
captain_spalding said:
!!
‘Other owner not like new moon roof.’
(Pic from npr.org website)
It means that the car is rubbish but it has a like new moon roof.
Is new moon roof crescent-shaped?
captain_spalding said:
Tamb said:
captain_spalding said:
!!
‘Other owner not like new moon roof.’
(Pic from npr.org website)
It means that the car is rubbish but it has a like new moon roof.Is new moon roof crescent-shaped?
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announces that it is banning dog imports from 113 countries for one year, stating that hundreds of dogs from these countries had falsified rabies certificates
I assume its about cost to actually test them anything for a extra buck hey
>A family of Tamil asylum seekers detained on Christmas Island since 2019 will be allowed to live in Perth temporarily, but their long-term future in Australia remains unclear.
If I were them after all they’ve been through, Australia would be the last place I’d want to live. I’d be heading for New Zealand at the earliest opportunity.
>“By joining these grassroots men’s groups, you catch up with other people, you have a routine, you’re getting out of the house and you’re meeting people socially.”
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-15/mens-health-week-brings-social-connections-into-focus/100213940
Sod that for a game of soldiers.
Early lunch today. Almost brunch, really. Leftover salad with tuna & onion multigrain bread sammich.
Bubblecar said:
>A family of Tamil asylum seekers detained on Christmas Island since 2019 will be allowed to live in Perth temporarily, but their long-term future in Australia remains unclear.If I were them after all they’ve been through, Australia would be the last place I’d want to live. I’d be heading for New Zealand at the earliest opportunity.
Their home and social network is in Biloela though.
Rule 303 said:
Early lunch today. Almost brunch, really. Leftover salad with tuna & onion multigrain bread sammich.
I’ve got some proper traditional kalamatas (the very salty kind) which I’ll have with some feta, lettuce and baby toms, but not until I come back from the chemist.
And that won’t be until after I’ve left for the chemist, which won’t be until I’ve had a beard trim, shave, shower, dried my hair and donned some village clothes.
Dark Orange said:
Bubblecar said:
>A family of Tamil asylum seekers detained on Christmas Island since 2019 will be allowed to live in Perth temporarily, but their long-term future in Australia remains unclear.If I were them after all they’ve been through, Australia would be the last place I’d want to live. I’d be heading for New Zealand at the earliest opportunity.
Their home and social network is in Biloela though.
And I imagine that having the support of the Biloela community means something to them as well.
Bubblecar said:
>A family of Tamil asylum seekers detained on Christmas Island since 2019 will be allowed to live in Perth temporarily, but their long-term future in Australia remains unclear.If I were them after all they’ve been through, Australia would be the last place I’d want to live. I’d be heading for New Zealand at the earliest opportunity.
They deserve an apology at the very least
Hmm…
Why no-one in America was arrested as part of Operation Ironside
…A document filed in the US District Court showed the FBI — with help from Australia and an unnamed third country — was spying on millions of messages in over 90 countries as part of the operation.
However, FBI agents were not allowed to download or read any messages sent from AN0M accounts in the United States because of privacy laws.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-15/no-one-in-america-arrested-in-operation-ironside/100213036
Bubblecar said:
Hmm…Why no-one in America was arrested as part of Operation Ironside
…A document filed in the US District Court showed the FBI — with help from Australia and an unnamed third country — was spying on millions of messages in over 90 countries as part of the operation.
However, FBI agents were not allowed to download or read any messages sent from AN0M accounts in the United States because of privacy laws.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-15/no-one-in-america-arrested-in-operation-ironside/100213036
““All liberal democracies apart from Australia have protections in place that would probably prevent that from occurring,” she said.”
I wonder if that is true.
Seems pretty unlikely to me.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Bubblecar said:
Hmm…Why no-one in America was arrested as part of Operation Ironside
…A document filed in the US District Court showed the FBI — with help from Australia and an unnamed third country — was spying on millions of messages in over 90 countries as part of the operation.
However, FBI agents were not allowed to download or read any messages sent from AN0M accounts in the United States because of privacy laws.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-15/no-one-in-america-arrested-in-operation-ironside/100213036
““All liberal democracies apart from Australia have protections in place that would probably prevent that from occurring,” she said.”
I wonder if that is true.
Seems pretty unlikely to me.
It seems fair game to me to set up an app aimed at crims so you can secretly read their messages.
party_pants said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Bubblecar said:
Hmm…Why no-one in America was arrested as part of Operation Ironside
…A document filed in the US District Court showed the FBI — with help from Australia and an unnamed third country — was spying on millions of messages in over 90 countries as part of the operation.
However, FBI agents were not allowed to download or read any messages sent from AN0M accounts in the United States because of privacy laws.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-15/no-one-in-america-arrested-in-operation-ironside/100213036
““All liberal democracies apart from Australia have protections in place that would probably prevent that from occurring,” she said.”
I wonder if that is true.
Seems pretty unlikely to me.
It seems fair game to me to set up an app aimed at crims so you can secretly read their messages.
What about aimed at the lower socio-economic demographic to catch welfare cheats?
party_pants said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Bubblecar said:
Hmm…Why no-one in America was arrested as part of Operation Ironside
…A document filed in the US District Court showed the FBI — with help from Australia and an unnamed third country — was spying on millions of messages in over 90 countries as part of the operation.
However, FBI agents were not allowed to download or read any messages sent from AN0M accounts in the United States because of privacy laws.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-15/no-one-in-america-arrested-in-operation-ironside/100213036
““All liberal democracies apart from Australia have protections in place that would probably prevent that from occurring,” she said.”
I wonder if that is true.
Seems pretty unlikely to me.
It seems fair game to me to set up an app aimed at crims so you can secretly read their messages.
Authorisation to do this should be easy with an appropriate court order I reckon.
party_pants said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Bubblecar said:
Hmm…Why no-one in America was arrested as part of Operation Ironside
…A document filed in the US District Court showed the FBI — with help from Australia and an unnamed third country — was spying on millions of messages in over 90 countries as part of the operation.
However, FBI agents were not allowed to download or read any messages sent from AN0M accounts in the United States because of privacy laws.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-15/no-one-in-america-arrested-in-operation-ironside/100213036
““All liberal democracies apart from Australia have protections in place that would probably prevent that from occurring,” she said.”
I wonder if that is true.
Seems pretty unlikely to me.
It seems fair game to me to set up an app aimed at crims so you can secretly read their messages.
Hindsight does kind of tell them this is too good to be true
Dark Orange said:
party_pants said:
The Rev Dodgson said:““All liberal democracies apart from Australia have protections in place that would probably prevent that from occurring,” she said.”
I wonder if that is true.
Seems pretty unlikely to me.
It seems fair game to me to set up an app aimed at crims so you can secretly read their messages.
What about aimed at the lower socio-economic demographic to catch welfare cheats?
How would that even work?? People don’t need to coordinate with anyone else via secret comms to commit welfare fraud, it tends to be a personal thing. I think you need a better analogy.
party_pants said:
Dark Orange said:
party_pants said:It seems fair game to me to set up an app aimed at crims so you can secretly read their messages.
What about aimed at the lower socio-economic demographic to catch welfare cheats?
How would that even work?? People don’t need to coordinate with anyone else via secret comms to commit welfare fraud, it tends to be a personal thing. I think you need a better analogy.
Police pose as underage children online to catch sex offenders, not sure if they respond to the communications rather than instigate them though as perhaps starting it could be considered entrapment (still decent people would take a step back once age was known)
party_pants said:
Dark Orange said:
party_pants said:It seems fair game to me to set up an app aimed at crims so you can secretly read their messages.
What about aimed at the lower socio-economic demographic to catch welfare cheats?
How would that even work?? People don’t need to coordinate with anyone else via secret comms to commit welfare fraud, it tends to be a personal thing. I think you need a better analogy.
Well, they use the phone system to organise to work when they are on the dole, so not a dissimilar analogy.
That ANON thing – did the users have to sign a stat dec stating they were criminals before they could use it? How many non-criminals were using it? Does the government have the right to listen in on electronic conversations that are assumed to be private and use the information gleaned from such conversations in a court of law, or to their advantage in international negotiations?
Bubblecar said:
And that won’t be until after I’ve left for the chemist, which won’t be until I’ve had a beard trim, shave, shower, dried my hair and donned some village clothes.
While you’re up the shops, get some fooking Drano or summat.
Bathroom drainage is going sluggish again.
Dark Orange said:
party_pants said:
Dark Orange said:What about aimed at the lower socio-economic demographic to catch welfare cheats?
How would that even work?? People don’t need to coordinate with anyone else via secret comms to commit welfare fraud, it tends to be a personal thing. I think you need a better analogy.
Well, they use the phone system to organise to work when they are on the dole, so not a dissimilar analogy.
That ANON thing – did the users have to sign a stat dec stating they were criminals before they could use it? How many non-criminals were using it? Does the government have the right to listen in on electronic conversations that are assumed to be private and use the information gleaned from such conversations in a court of law, or to their advantage in international negotiations?
I think it was always touted as a secret app. There are no terms of service etc. It was always assumed to be dodgy and outside of normal social media. Getting the app was a matter pf knowing the right person, you couldn’t just download it from the Play Store.
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
And that won’t be until after I’ve left for the chemist, which won’t be until I’ve had a beard trim, shave, shower, dried my hair and donned some village clothes.
While you’re up the shops, get some fooking Drano or summat.
Bathroom drainage is going sluggish again.
…and some superglue gel for the rebec frets which keep shifting.
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
And that won’t be until after I’ve left for the chemist, which won’t be until I’ve had a beard trim, shave, shower, dried my hair and donned some village clothes.
While you’re up the shops, get some fooking Drano or summat.
Bathroom drainage is going sluggish again.
…and some superglue gel for the rebec frets which keep shifting.
Oh yeah, fooking superglue gel, very authentic Renaissance is that.
party_pants said:
Dark Orange said:
party_pants said:How would that even work?? People don’t need to coordinate with anyone else via secret comms to commit welfare fraud, it tends to be a personal thing. I think you need a better analogy.
Well, they use the phone system to organise to work when they are on the dole, so not a dissimilar analogy.
That ANON thing – did the users have to sign a stat dec stating they were criminals before they could use it? How many non-criminals were using it? Does the government have the right to listen in on electronic conversations that are assumed to be private and use the information gleaned from such conversations in a court of law, or to their advantage in international negotiations?
I think it was always touted as a secret app. There are no terms of service etc. It was always assumed to be dodgy and outside of normal social media. Getting the app was a matter pf knowing the right person, you couldn’t just download it from the Play Store.
“Criminals use it” should not be a loophole in privacy laws. Criminals also use cash, and look at what’s happening in the US with the cash forfeiture laws. (Any sizeable quantity of cash found on you is assumed to be from the proceeds of crime and is confiscated).
In this specific case, I agree that it is criminals who are mostly suffering, but it is the top of a very slippery slope.
Bubblecar said:
Oh yeah, fooking superglue gel, very authentic Renaissance is that.
It doesn’t have to be authentic, it just has to work.
I’m sure Jordi Savall is happy to use superglue gel on his viol frets.
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
Oh yeah, fooking superglue gel, very authentic Renaissance is that.
It doesn’t have to be authentic, it just has to work.
I’m sure Jordi Savall is happy to use superglue gel on his viol frets.
He probably uses boiled badger glue or summat.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Bubblecar said:
Hmm…Why no-one in America was arrested as part of Operation Ironside
…A document filed in the US District Court showed the FBI — with help from Australia and an unnamed third country — was spying on millions of messages in over 90 countries as part of the operation.
However, FBI agents were not allowed to download or read any messages sent from AN0M accounts in the United States because of privacy laws.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-15/no-one-in-america-arrested-in-operation-ironside/100213036
““All liberal democracies apart from Australia have protections in place that would probably prevent that from occurring,” she said.”
I wonder if that is true.
Seems pretty unlikely to me.
Didn’t Peter Dutton change the law in Au. on order to catch terrorists and criminals?
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
Oh yeah, fooking superglue gel, very authentic Renaissance is that.
It doesn’t have to be authentic, it just has to work.
I’m sure Jordi Savall is happy to use superglue gel on his viol frets.
He probably uses boiled badger glue or summat.
Boiled badger….mmmmm.
Peregrine School is at Talune/cygnet.
8 June at 11:53 · Cygnet, TAS ·
A $10 school raffle ticket for your chance to win a hand-crafted wooden boat, made by master boatbuilder Ned Trewartha, with all money raised going to Peregrine School? Yes please. And delivered to the lucky winner, anywhere in Australia, truly? Better make that six tickets, I reckon…
Get your tickets here, before 30th June: https://www.peregrine.tas.edu.au/wooden-boat-raffle/
The 2021 prize is this gorgeous ‘clinker’ wooden boat, freshly hand-made in Woodbridge Tasmania from reclaimed King Billy and Huon Pine. Her name is ‘Maya’, and what a prize she will be, for some lucky raffle ticket buyer…
Plus, ‘Maya’ comes with oars, sail, two life jackets and a trailer. Did we mention she will be delivered to you, anywhere in Australia? Wow. And all to support our little school.
Thank you for your help, our little school appreciates it. And may the odds (and the wind) be ever in your favor.
LOL. Story about Police successful prosecution includes photos of police committing offenses against OH&S Regulations.
Rule 303 said:
LOL. Story about Police successful prosecution includes photos of police committing offenses against OH&S Regulations.
That’s the local plumbers…
Rule 303 said:
LOL. Story about Police successful prosecution includes photos of police committing offenses against OH&S Regulations.
Don’t see any reindeer or santa suits?
sarahs mum said:
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Peregrine School is at Talune/cygnet.
8 June at 11:53 · Cygnet, TAS ·
A $10 school raffle ticket for your chance to win a hand-crafted wooden boat, made by master boatbuilder Ned Trewartha, with all money raised going to Peregrine School? Yes please. And delivered to the lucky winner, anywhere in Australia, truly? Better make that six tickets, I reckon…
Get your tickets here, before 30th June: https://www.peregrine.tas.edu.au/wooden-boat-raffle/
The 2021 prize is this gorgeous ‘clinker’ wooden boat, freshly hand-made in Woodbridge Tasmania from reclaimed King Billy and Huon Pine. Her name is ‘Maya’, and what a prize she will be, for some lucky raffle ticket buyer…
Plus, ‘Maya’ comes with oars, sail, two life jackets and a trailer. Did we mention she will be delivered to you, anywhere in Australia? Wow. And all to support our little school.
Thank you for your help, our little school appreciates it. And may the odds (and the wind) be ever in your favor.
Ah, timber boats.
No better material for a boat.
No material that requires so much work (and money, and worry) to maintain.
Not such a problem with one this size, but for its size, i reckon that it weighs a lot more than most people would imagine.
You aren’t putting that little beauty on your roof-rack.
https://privacy.org.au/resources/privacy-law/plawsclth/
roughbarked said:
Rule 303 said:
LOL. Story about Police successful prosecution includes photos of police committing offenses against OH&S Regulations.
Don’t see any reindeer or santa suits?
The Stork Squad.
buffy said:
Rule 303 said:
LOL. Story about Police successful prosecution includes photos of police committing offenses against OH&S Regulations.
That’s the local plumbers…
Well I haven’t been arrested for terrorism yet, so you might be right.
captain_spalding said:
sarahs mum said:
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Peregrine School is at Talune/cygnet.
8 June at 11:53 · Cygnet, TAS ·
A $10 school raffle ticket for your chance to win a hand-crafted wooden boat, made by master boatbuilder Ned Trewartha, with all money raised going to Peregrine School? Yes please. And delivered to the lucky winner, anywhere in Australia, truly? Better make that six tickets, I reckon…
Get your tickets here, before 30th June: https://www.peregrine.tas.edu.au/wooden-boat-raffle/
The 2021 prize is this gorgeous ‘clinker’ wooden boat, freshly hand-made in Woodbridge Tasmania from reclaimed King Billy and Huon Pine. Her name is ‘Maya’, and what a prize she will be, for some lucky raffle ticket buyer…
Plus, ‘Maya’ comes with oars, sail, two life jackets and a trailer. Did we mention she will be delivered to you, anywhere in Australia? Wow. And all to support our little school.
Thank you for your help, our little school appreciates it. And may the odds (and the wind) be ever in your favor.
Ah, timber boats.
No better material for a boat.
No material that requires so much work (and money, and worry) to maintain.
Not such a problem with one this size, but for its size, i reckon that it weighs a lot more than most people would imagine.
You aren’t putting that little beauty on your roof-rack.
It would weigh more than a tinny. But it is pine.
Rule 303 said:
LOL. Story about Police successful prosecution includes photos of police committing offenses against OH&S Regulations.
are they arresting Santa?
Rule 303 said:
Well I haven’t been arrested for terrorism yet…
Just give Johnny Barilaro a call.
He can fix that for you, tout suite.
captain_spalding said:
sarahs mum said:
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Peregrine School is at Talune/cygnet.
8 June at 11:53 · Cygnet, TAS ·
A $10 school raffle ticket for your chance to win a hand-crafted wooden boat, made by master boatbuilder Ned Trewartha, with all money raised going to Peregrine School? Yes please. And delivered to the lucky winner, anywhere in Australia, truly? Better make that six tickets, I reckon…
Get your tickets here, before 30th June: https://www.peregrine.tas.edu.au/wooden-boat-raffle/
The 2021 prize is this gorgeous ‘clinker’ wooden boat, freshly hand-made in Woodbridge Tasmania from reclaimed King Billy and Huon Pine. Her name is ‘Maya’, and what a prize she will be, for some lucky raffle ticket buyer…
Plus, ‘Maya’ comes with oars, sail, two life jackets and a trailer. Did we mention she will be delivered to you, anywhere in Australia? Wow. And all to support our little school.
Thank you for your help, our little school appreciates it. And may the odds (and the wind) be ever in your favor.
Ah, timber boats.
No better material for a boat.
No material that requires so much work (and money, and worry) to maintain.
Not such a problem with one this size, but for its size, i reckon that it weighs a lot more than most people would imagine.
You aren’t putting that little beauty on your roof-rack.
what about marine ply?
captain_spalding said:
Rule 303 said:Well I haven’t been arrested for terrorism yet…
Just give Johnny Barilaro a call.
He can fix that for you, tout suite.
No need to speak to the man, just mention his name on social media. He’ll find you. He’s secretly the Phantom and he’s in charge of the Jungle Patrol as the unknown Commander.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-15/us-justice-department-politicians-data-trump-administration/100215418
This made me look up subpoenas. According to Wikipedia, in America they are issued by a court, or a standing committee of one of the houses of parliament. So I don’t understand how a department could issue them. There must have been court cases in process underway?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subpoena
sarahs mum said:
It would weigh more than a tinny. But it is pine.
I hope that i comes with advice about chocking and cradling so that it maintains its shape.
And warning about how much upkeep all that varnish will need.
I love timber boats, but, like i say, they’re -intensive (as in work, expense, materials, worry) proposition.
roughbarked said:
https://privacy.org.au/resources/privacy-law/plawsclth/
There is no absolute right to privacy in Australian law and there is no clearly recognised tort of invasion of privacy or similar remedy available to people who feel their privacy has been violated. Privacy is, however, affected and protected in limited ways by common law in Australia and a range of federal, state and territorial laws, as well as administrative arrangements. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy_in_Australian_law
OK, outside now to pull out the penultimate run of tomato plants.
roughbarked said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Bubblecar said:
Hmm…Why no-one in America was arrested as part of Operation Ironside
…A document filed in the US District Court showed the FBI — with help from Australia and an unnamed third country — was spying on millions of messages in over 90 countries as part of the operation.
However, FBI agents were not allowed to download or read any messages sent from AN0M accounts in the United States because of privacy laws.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-15/no-one-in-america-arrested-in-operation-ironside/100213036
““All liberal democracies apart from Australia have protections in place that would probably prevent that from occurring,” she said.”
I wonder if that is true.
Seems pretty unlikely to me.
Didn’t Peter Dutton change the law in Au. on order to catch terrorists and criminals?
I was wondering about the all lib dem countries other than Australia bit.
The Rev Dodgson said:
roughbarked said:
The Rev Dodgson said:““All liberal democracies apart from Australia have protections in place that would probably prevent that from occurring,” she said.”
I wonder if that is true.
Seems pretty unlikely to me.
Didn’t Peter Dutton change the law in Au. on order to catch terrorists and criminals?
I was wondering about the all lib dem countries other than Australia bit.
My son told me that; Yes. The nine people arrested in Norway through this operation are claiming the information was obtained illegally according to Norwegian law. Guessing rest of EU will try the same argument.
There is a significant difference between giving you a tool that can be used for many purposes and how you use it
party_pants said:
Rule 303 said:
LOL. Story about Police successful prosecution includes photos of police committing offenses against OH&S Regulations.
are they arresting Santa?
They’ve cornered Oliver Twist.
roughbarked said:
The nine people arrested in Norway through this operation are claiming the information was obtained illegally according to Norwegian law.
Well they would say that, wouldn’t they?
Also there are plenty of democratic countries outside the EU.
Here’s a new page about the Antikythera. https://www.openculture.com/2021/06/watch-an-accurate-reconstruction-of-the-worlds-oldest-computer-the-2200-year-old-antikythera-mechanism-from-start-to-finish.html
In addition to Clickspring
“Immigration Minister Alex Hawke says he believes allowing a family of Tamil asylum seekers to resettle in Australia permanently would lead to more people trying to illegally get to the mainland by boat.”
but would it though? Who wants to try going through what this family have suffered in order to gain entry to Australia?Rule 303 said:
buffy said:
Rule 303 said:
LOL. Story about Police successful prosecution includes photos of police committing offenses against OH&S Regulations.
That’s the local plumbers…
Well I haven’t been arrested for terrorism yet, so you might be right.
Wait, I can hear helicopters…..
Afternoon, cool and cloudy in the Styx.
Just can’t quite find what I want explained for Excel using the googles today
Rule 303 said:
LOL. Story about Police successful prosecution includes photos of police committing offenses against OH&S Regulations.
you’re right, they should all have gloves on
roughbarked said:
“Immigration Minister Alex Hawke says he believes allowing a family of Tamil asylum seekers to resettle in Australia permanently would lead to more people trying to illegally get to the mainland by boat.” but would it though? Who wants to try going through what this family have suffered in order to gain entry to Australia?
I think they have done it. Canada is where people want to go now. They are even turning off bona fide migrants now.
I just sat through a meeting with marketing… spare me your petty grievances…
roughbarked said:
“Immigration Minister Alex Hawke says he believes allowing a family of Tamil asylum seekers to resettle in Australia permanently would lead to more people trying to illegally get to the mainland by boat.” but would it though? Who wants to try going through what this family have suffered in order to gain entry to Australia?
And if they did, why would sending them to get citizenship in NZ or USA make the option any less attractive?
Arts said:
I just sat through a meeting with marketing… spare me your petty grievances…
About as productive as my failed excelling.
poikilotherm said:
Arts said:
I just sat through a meeting with marketing… spare me your petty grievances…
About as productive as my failed excelling.
TRD can help you with excel.. no one can help the marketing department
poikilotherm said:
Afternoon, cool and cloudy in the Styx.Just can’t quite find what I want explained for Excel using the googles today
What’s the problem?
Arts said:
I just sat through a meeting with marketing… spare me your petty grievances…
Nurse! Brandy for Arts! Stat!
Rule 303 said:
poikilotherm said:
Afternoon, cool and cloudy in the Styx.Just can’t quite find what I want explained for Excel using the googles today
What’s the problem?
Our wholesalers are terrible at telling us when products are going out of stock at the warehouse. On the plus, we can search and create excel files of said products and current SOH from the wholesalers website.
My plan is to track the SOH of a set number of products. Problem is I can’t work out the best way to do this as I’ll be downloading new excel files every few days, which will have the same products but a different SOH number, I’d like to be able to see which stock lines have increased or decreased since the last file was downloaded. This way I can track stock lines that aren’t being replenished and bulk order before the warehouse is OOS for a few weeks/months.
one of my supervisors just sent me this very helpful journal article…
BACK with everything except the drain stuff which I forgot.
Think I’ll save the kalamatas and feta for supper and have a henburger for lunch. Crumbed hen patty in a Cripps knot roll with lettuce, tomato, onion and Dijon.
Bubblecar said:
BACK with everything except the drain stuff which I forgot.Think I’ll save the kalamatas and feta for supper and have a henburger for lunch. Crumbed hen patty in a Cripps knot roll with lettuce, tomato, onion and Dijon.
Skip back through my posts and check out the little clinker.
poikilotherm said:
Rule 303 said:
poikilotherm said:
Afternoon, cool and cloudy in the Styx.Just can’t quite find what I want explained for Excel using the googles today
What’s the problem?
Our wholesalers are terrible at telling us when products are going out of stock at the warehouse. On the plus, we can search and create excel files of said products and current SOH from the wholesalers website.
My plan is to track the SOH of a set number of products. Problem is I can’t work out the best way to do this as I’ll be downloading new excel files every few days, which will have the same products but a different SOH number, I’d like to be able to see which stock lines have increased or decreased since the last file was downloaded. This way I can track stock lines that aren’t being replenished and bulk order before the warehouse is OOS for a few weeks/months.
Products in rows, dates in columns? Create a Macro that reads the new file into a new sheet, then pulls the data from the sheet into the column for the date.
Arts said:
one of my supervisors just sent me this very helpful journal article…
Reminds me of Boris Peon’s paper entitled :
Is Hinchliffe’s Rule True? …
Here is the full paper:
Hinchliffe has asserted that whenever the title of a paper is a question with a yes/no answer, the answer is always no. This paper demonstrates that Hinchliffe’s assertion is false, but only if it is true.
ABC News:
‘Deal to allow more foreign workers on Australian farms struck, Nationals say
By national rural reporter Kath Sullivan
The deputy leader of the Nationals says the party has struck a deal to allow more foreign workers into Australia to work on farms, hinting that an agriculture-specific visa could soon be announced.’
Well, the decision is made.
That there’s no point in trying to keep COVID variants out of Australia indefinitely, that we might as well get used to the idea that it’s here to stay, and the sooner we get the cheap labour back in, the sooner we’ll accept that.
After all, someone has to pick the goddamn fruit, and farmers aren’t going to pay for Australians to do it.
Rule 303 said:
poikilotherm said:
Rule 303 said:What’s the problem?
Our wholesalers are terrible at telling us when products are going out of stock at the warehouse. On the plus, we can search and create excel files of said products and current SOH from the wholesalers website.
My plan is to track the SOH of a set number of products. Problem is I can’t work out the best way to do this as I’ll be downloading new excel files every few days, which will have the same products but a different SOH number, I’d like to be able to see which stock lines have increased or decreased since the last file was downloaded. This way I can track stock lines that aren’t being replenished and bulk order before the warehouse is OOS for a few weeks/months.
Products in rows, dates in columns? Create a Macro that reads the new file into a new sheet, then pulls the data from the sheet into the column for the date.
I have to throw data cleanup in there to as a first step.
captain_spalding said:
ABC News:‘Deal to allow more foreign workers on Australian farms struck, Nationals say
By national rural reporter Kath Sullivan
The deputy leader of the Nationals says the party has struck a deal to allow more foreign workers into Australia to work on farms, hinting that an agriculture-specific visa could soon be announced.’Well, the decision is made.
That there’s no point in trying to keep COVID variants out of Australia indefinitely, that we might as well get used to the idea that it’s here to stay, and the sooner we get the cheap labour back in, the sooner we’ll accept that.
After all, someone has to pick the goddamn fruit, and farmers aren’t going to pay for Australians to do it.
Apparently we are signing an in-principal agreement with the UK today or tomorrow on a trade deal. It allows greater tariff free access of Australian beef and lamb into the UK market. In return we are going to allow in more UK back-packers on relaxed visa conditions.
sarahs mum said:
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Peregrine School is at Talune/cygnet.
8 June at 11:53 · Cygnet, TAS ·
A $10 school raffle ticket for your chance to win a hand-crafted wooden boat, made by master boatbuilder Ned Trewartha, with all money raised going to Peregrine School? Yes please. And delivered to the lucky winner, anywhere in Australia, truly? Better make that six tickets, I reckon…
Get your tickets here, before 30th June: https://www.peregrine.tas.edu.au/wooden-boat-raffle/
The 2021 prize is this gorgeous ‘clinker’ wooden boat, freshly hand-made in Woodbridge Tasmania from reclaimed King Billy and Huon Pine. Her name is ‘Maya’, and what a prize she will be, for some lucky raffle ticket buyer…
Plus, ‘Maya’ comes with oars, sail, two life jackets and a trailer. Did we mention she will be delivered to you, anywhere in Australia? Wow. And all to support our little school.
Thank you for your help, our little school appreciates it. And may the odds (and the wind) be ever in your favor.
It’s a cute little vessel. Be nice on calm inland waterways with a picnic basket on board.
party_pants said:
Apparently we are signing an in-principal agreement with the UK today or tomorrow on a trade deal. It allows greater tariff free access of Australian beef and lamb into the UK market. In return we are going to allow in more UK back-packers on relaxed visa conditions.
Well, anything that helps our exporters along the path to telling China to get f***ed can’t be all bad.
Rule 303 said:
Rule 303 said:
buffy said:That’s the local plumbers…
Well I haven’t been arrested for terrorism yet, so you might be right.
Wait, I can hear helicopters…..
Well keep them there. We don’t want to hear them here.
:)
Arts said:
poikilotherm said:
Arts said:
I just sat through a meeting with marketing… spare me your petty grievances…
About as productive as my failed excelling.
TRD can help you with excel.. no one can help the marketing department
You’ve got a marketing department?!
The Rev Dodgson said:
Arts said:
one of my supervisors just sent me this very helpful journal article…
Reminds me of Boris Peon’s paper entitled :
Is Hinchliffe’s Rule True? …Here is the full paper:
Hinchliffe has asserted that whenever the title of a paper is a question with a yes/no answer, the answer is always no. This paper demonstrates that Hinchliffe’s assertion is false, but only if it is true.
who knew researchers could be funny
buffy said:
Rule 303 said:
Rule 303 said:Well I haven’t been arrested for terrorism yet, so you might be right.
Wait, I can hear helicopters…..
Well keep them there. We don’t want to hear them here.
:)
Arts said:
one of my supervisors just sent me this very helpful journal article…
I love that!
Arts said:
one of my supervisors just sent me this very helpful journal article…
Actually, doing a quick search, I’m not sure he should be copying the full text of papers like that. It is available at very reasonable cost from Wiley:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1901/jaba.1974.7-497a
captain_spalding said:
party_pants said:Apparently we are signing an in-principal agreement with the UK today or tomorrow on a trade deal. It allows greater tariff free access of Australian beef and lamb into the UK market. In return we are going to allow in more UK back-packers on relaxed visa conditions.
Well, anything that helps our exporters along the path to telling China to get f***ed can’t be all bad.
Apparently being overrun by illegal immigrants who overstay their visas and do tax-free grey market cash-in-hand work doesn’t matter so long as they are white and speak English.
poikilotherm said:
Rule 303 said:
poikilotherm said:Our wholesalers are terrible at telling us when products are going out of stock at the warehouse. On the plus, we can search and create excel files of said products and current SOH from the wholesalers website.
My plan is to track the SOH of a set number of products. Problem is I can’t work out the best way to do this as I’ll be downloading new excel files every few days, which will have the same products but a different SOH number, I’d like to be able to see which stock lines have increased or decreased since the last file was downloaded. This way I can track stock lines that aren’t being replenished and bulk order before the warehouse is OOS for a few weeks/months.
Products in rows, dates in columns? Create a Macro that reads the new file into a new sheet, then pulls the data from the sheet into the column for the date.
I have to throw data cleanup in there to as a first step.
Yep.
Arts said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Arts said:
one of my supervisors just sent me this very helpful journal article…
Reminds me of Boris Peon’s paper entitled :
Is Hinchliffe’s Rule True? …Here is the full paper:
Hinchliffe has asserted that whenever the title of a paper is a question with a yes/no answer, the answer is always no. This paper demonstrates that Hinchliffe’s assertion is false, but only if it is true.
who knew researchers could be funny
BMJ.
party_pants said:
captain_spalding said:
party_pants said:Apparently we are signing an in-principal agreement with the UK today or tomorrow on a trade deal. It allows greater tariff free access of Australian beef and lamb into the UK market. In return we are going to allow in more UK back-packers on relaxed visa conditions.
Well, anything that helps our exporters along the path to telling China to get f***ed can’t be all bad.
Apparently being overrun by illegal immigrants who overstay their visas and do tax-free grey market cash-in-hand work doesn’t matter so long as they are white and speak English.
That’s just what the indigenous people said to each other back in 1788.
party_pants said:
captain_spalding said:
party_pants said:Apparently we are signing an in-principal agreement with the UK today or tomorrow on a trade deal. It allows greater tariff free access of Australian beef and lamb into the UK market. In return we are going to allow in more UK back-packers on relaxed visa conditions.
Well, anything that helps our exporters along the path to telling China to get f***ed can’t be all bad.
Apparently being overrun by illegal immigrants who overstay their visas and do tax-free grey market cash-in-hand work doesn’t matter so long as they are white and speak English.
And the work they do is nanny work.
buffy said:
party_pants said:
captain_spalding said:Well, anything that helps our exporters along the path to telling China to get f***ed can’t be all bad.
Apparently being overrun by illegal immigrants who overstay their visas and do tax-free grey market cash-in-hand work doesn’t matter so long as they are white and speak English.
And the work they do is nanny work.
No, that’s the French lassies.
ABC News:
‘Queensland’s books are expected to be back in black within the next four years, with Treasurer Cameron Dick predicting the state will return to a $153 million surplus by mid-2025.’
Translation:
Vote us back in, and soon we’ll have more money than we know what do with.
Presumably health and education and such will be fully funded in excess of their wildest dreams, and there just won’t be anything left to spend this money on.
Prizes for selling 20 x packets of garden seeds. Which would you choose?
The Rev Dodgson said:
Arts said:
one of my supervisors just sent me this very helpful journal article…
Actually, doing a quick search, I’m not sure he should be copying the full text of papers like that. It is available at very reasonable cost from Wiley:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1901/jaba.1974.7-497a
firstly.. she..
secondly.. we get institutional access..
thirdly… journals that charge like that suck… the researcher gets nothing
Bubblecar said:
Prizes for selling 20 x packets of garden seeds. Which would you choose?
Air rifle…telescope…
Telescope!
And because no-one should ever be without a tractor…
Delivered from Melbourne this morning.
Some of these will colour up and be edible. Might take a few days.
buffy said:
And because no-one should ever be without a tractor…
Delivered from Melbourne this morning.
Hang about I thought you were selling the tractor?
Arts said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Arts said:
one of my supervisors just sent me this very helpful journal article…
Actually, doing a quick search, I’m not sure he should be copying the full text of papers like that. It is available at very reasonable cost from Wiley:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1901/jaba.1974.7-497a
firstly.. she..
secondly.. we get institutional access..
thirdly… journals that charge like that suck… the researcher gets nothing
firstly: oops (the thought did occur to me after I’d posted)
secondly: lucky you :)
thirdly: exactly
Peak Warming Man said:
buffy said:
And because no-one should ever be without a tractor…
Delivered from Melbourne this morning.
Hang about I thought you were selling the tractor?
Selling one, buying another.
captain_spalding said:
Bubblecar said:
Prizes for selling 20 x packets of garden seeds. Which would you choose?
Air rifle…telescope…
Telescope!
Stretches out to 36”.
buffy said:
And because no-one should ever be without a tractor…
Delivered from Melbourne this morning.
That looks like way too much fun.
Bubblecar said:
captain_spalding said:
Bubblecar said:
Prizes for selling 20 x packets of garden seeds. Which would you choose?
Air rifle…telescope…
Telescope!
Stretches out to 36”.
This is my telescope. One of them, anyway.
Rule 303 said:
buffy said:
And because no-one should ever be without a tractor…
Delivered from Melbourne this morning.
That looks like way too much fun.
you’re not wrong BobCat mechanics in a tractor frame
captain_spalding said:
Bubblecar said:
captain_spalding said:Air rifle…telescope…
Telescope!
Stretches out to 36”.
This is my telescope. One of them, anyway.
captain_spalding said:
Bubblecar said:
captain_spalding said:Air rifle…telescope…
Telescope!
Stretches out to 36”.
This is my telescope. One of them, anyway.
very nice
buffy said:
And because no-one should ever be without a tractor…
Delivered from Melbourne this morning.
dons Akubra and chews a bitta stick
What are the horses?
captain_spalding said:
Bubblecar said:
captain_spalding said:Air rifle…telescope…
Telescope!
Stretches out to 36”.
This is my telescope. One of them, anyway.
How old’s that one?
Witty Rejoinder said:
captain_spalding said:
Bubblecar said:Stretches out to 36”.
This is my telescope. One of them, anyway.
You obviously didn’t subscribe to the right kiddy magazines.
Made in London, 1911. Has a broad arrow on it. Can’t recall the maker’s name right now
Came with the original leather end-caps (also in picture).
Good and clear lenses, works like new.
Bubblecar said:
I used Vaseline.
I used to sing ‘Annie laurie’ (Oh Annie is a cow and she’s bonnie) and ‘No Milk today’( the cows have gone astray.)
Woodie said:
buffy said:
And because no-one should ever be without a tractor…
Delivered from Melbourne this morning.
dons Akubra and chews a bitta stick
What are the horses?
35 horses bucket good for 2/3rds of a tonne
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
I used Vaseline.
I used to sing ‘Annie laurie’ (Oh Annie is a cow and she’s bonnie) and ‘No Milk today’( the cows have gone astray.)
I SHOULD SAY NOW JUST WHAT THIS MESSAGE MEANS
IT’S THE END OF THE MILK AND THE END OF ALL THE CREAM.
sarahs mum said:
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
I used Vaseline.
I used to sing ‘Annie laurie’ (Oh Annie is a cow and she’s bonnie) and ‘No Milk today’( the cows have gone astray.)
I SHOULD SAY NOW JUST WHAT THIS MESSAGE MEANS
IT’S THE END OF THE MILK AND THE END OF ALL THE CREAM.
:)
poikilotherm said:
Rule 303 said:
poikilotherm said:Our wholesalers are terrible at telling us when products are going out of stock at the warehouse. On the plus, we can search and create excel files of said products and current SOH from the wholesalers website.
My plan is to track the SOH of a set number of products. Problem is I can’t work out the best way to do this as I’ll be downloading new excel files every few days, which will have the same products but a different SOH number, I’d like to be able to see which stock lines have increased or decreased since the last file was downloaded. This way I can track stock lines that aren’t being replenished and bulk order before the warehouse is OOS for a few weeks/months.
Products in rows, dates in columns? Create a Macro that reads the new file into a new sheet, then pulls the data from the sheet into the column for the date.
I have to throw data cleanup in there to as a first step.
What sort of cleanup do you need?
If you just want to compare data from two dates, you could open both files, then use VLOOKUP from the new file on the data in the old file, then you can do a subtraction between the two columns to get the difference.
No caption. Probably American ladies, 1890s.
Sing Sing Prison, early 20th century. Prisoner playing accordion.
Maxam Jumbo Stainless Steel Flask, Extra Large Drinking Flask, Polished Silver, 1 Gallon Capacity
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0055FGAS6/ref=?tag=drsynth-20
‘Your friends and guests will be amazed by the size and capacity of the Maxam Enormous 1 Gallon Stainless Steel Flask ‘
Substitute ‘appalled’ for ‘amazed’, and you’ll be closer to the money, i should say.
The Rev Dodgson said:
poikilotherm said:
Rule 303 said:Products in rows, dates in columns? Create a Macro that reads the new file into a new sheet, then pulls the data from the sheet into the column for the date.
I have to throw data cleanup in there to as a first step.
What sort of cleanup do you need?
If you just want to compare data from two dates, you could open both files, then use VLOOKUP from the new file on the data in the old file, then you can do a subtraction between the two columns to get the difference.
Need to remove a few unnecessary columns and some rows that have no data – I’m limited to 50 products per file by their website, I need to monitor 160 products.
I’ve gotten the cleaned data ok but it needs to be updatable as it may take weeks for the SOH to reduce the required level for some products.Couple with jumbo harp-guitars, early 20th century.
Skewered skua 😊
Crap bird photography
Bubblecar said:
Couple with jumbo harp-guitars, early 20th century.
I can’t see any pics! I can’t see ‘em! Am i goin’ blind?! Tell me, doc, am i?!
sarahs mum said:
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Skewered skua 😊
Crap bird photography
Seagull
captain_spalding said:
Bubblecar said:
captain_spalding said:Air rifle…telescope…
Telescope!
Stretches out to 36”.
This is my telescope. One of them, anyway.
I’ll have the air rifle as I have a telescope
Bubblecar said:
Sing Sing Prison, early 20th century. Prisoner playing accordion.
and he has a captive audience, every accordion player’s dream.
captain_spalding said:
Bubblecar said:
Couple with jumbo harp-guitars, early 20th century.
I can’t see any pics! I can’t see ‘em! Am i goin’ blind?! Tell me, doc, am i?!
Pics not visible for other people?
Tamb said:
captain_spalding said:
Bubblecar said:Stretches out to 36”.
This is my telescope. One of them, anyway.
I’ll have the air rifle as I have a telescope
I got me one o’ them, too.
I just don’t need rifles any more.
Bogsnorkler said:
Bubblecar said:
Sing Sing Prison, early 20th century. Prisoner playing accordion.
and he has a captive audience, every accordion player’s dream.
probably getted mugged in the shower for it nowadays.
captain_spalding said:
Bubblecar said:
Couple with jumbo harp-guitars, early 20th century.
I can’t see any pics! I can’t see ‘em! Am i goin’ blind?! Tell me, doc, am i?!
You am.
Tamb said:
captain_spalding said:
Bubblecar said:
Couple with jumbo harp-guitars, early 20th century.
I can’t see any pics! I can’t see ‘em! Am i goin’ blind?! Tell me, doc, am i?!
You am.
Well, i suppose i can always get a job as a football referee…
The Rev Dodgson said:
poikilotherm said:
Rule 303 said:Products in rows, dates in columns? Create a Macro that reads the new file into a new sheet, then pulls the data from the sheet into the column for the date.
I have to throw data cleanup in there to as a first step.
What sort of cleanup do you need?
If you just want to compare data from two dates, you could open both files, then use VLOOKUP from the new file on the data in the old file, then you can do a subtraction between the two columns to get the difference.
Poik, Google ‘Scraping’. Should help.
captain_spalding said:
Tamb said:
captain_spalding said:This is my telescope. One of them, anyway.
I’ll have the air rifle as I have a telescope
I got me one o’ them, too.
I just don’t need rifles any more.
Staff of the Mechanics Institute Reference Library, Toronto, 1895.
Bubblecar said:
Staff of the Mechanics Institute Reference Library, Toronto, 1895.
That one i can see.
Bubblecar said:
Staff of the Mechanics Institute Reference Library, Toronto, 1895.
The one cut out is a guy. We don’t know how many men are on the left.
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
Staff of the Mechanics Institute Reference Library, Toronto, 1895.
The one cut out is a guy. We don’t know how many men are on the left.
Of course there are men there.
Couldn’t leave a lot of hysterical females alone and unsupervised.
Place would be a shambles in no time.
poikilotherm said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
poikilotherm said:I have to throw data cleanup in there to as a first step.
What sort of cleanup do you need?
If you just want to compare data from two dates, you could open both files, then use VLOOKUP from the new file on the data in the old file, then you can do a subtraction between the two columns to get the difference.
Need to remove a few unnecessary columns and some rows that have no data – I’m limited to 50 products per file by their website, I need to monitor 160 products.
I’ve gotten the cleaned data ok but it needs to be updatable as it may take weeks for the SOH to reduce the required level for some products.
So you have to download 4 .xls files for each update?
I’d suggest:
Set up a master file with a data sheet and a working sheet.
Copy and paste all the new data onto the working sheet
Sort to remove blank lines and delete columns you don’t want.
Copy to the data sheet.
You can then use VLookup (or other functions) to extract the data you want.
You may want to look at using pivot tables as well, if you are into that.
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
Staff of the Mechanics Institute Reference Library, Toronto, 1895.
The one cut out is a guy. We don’t know how many men are on the left.
Might be one half of a double panorama but if so, it’s the only half that survives.
captain_spalding said:
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
Staff of the Mechanics Institute Reference Library, Toronto, 1895.
The one cut out is a guy. We don’t know how many men are on the left.
Of course there are men there.
Couldn’t leave a lot of hysterical females alone and unsupervised.
Place would be a shambles in no time.
Bubblecar said:
No caption. Probably American ladies, 1890s.
19th Century Kransky Sisters
Tamb said:
captain_spalding said:
sarahs mum said:The one cut out is a guy. We don’t know how many men are on the left.
Of course there are men there.
Couldn’t leave a lot of hysterical females alone and unsupervised.
Place would be a shambles in no time.
As it is, the hussy on the right has her toecaps showing.
… and the right hand seated one looks dangerously close to smiling.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Tamb said:
captain_spalding said:Of course there are men there.
Couldn’t leave a lot of hysterical females alone and unsupervised.
Place would be a shambles in no time.
As it is, the hussy on the right has her toecaps showing.… and the right hand seated one looks dangerously close to smiling.
Per the National Park Service (NPS), the Timucua lived in northeast and north central Florida from as early as 3000 B.C.; at its height, the civilization boasted a population of between 200,000 and 300,000.
The Mocama—whose name roughly translates to “the sea” or “the ocean”—were seafaring people who settled at the mouth of the St. Johns River, notes the Archaeology Lab’s website. They fished, hunted and gathered to sustain themselves.
“The Spanish would have considered it a miserable experience, eating oysters, roots, insects, snakes,” John Worth, a Timucua scholar at the University of West Florida, told the Times-Union’s Soergel for a separate 2009 article. “But if you take in the cultural context, they had a diverse and very healthy diet, … they were not overworked and, as far as we could tell, they had a very thriving society that lived in a good balance with their resources.”
“May 1, 1562, the daily rhythm of Mocama life just halted then,” Ashley told the Times-Union’s Soergel last year. “The long-term impact of that was just going to be disastrous to the Mocama. They only had another 150 years left in northeast Florida. They just didn’t know it yet.”
As Tessa Solomon notes for ARTnews, the Mocama found themselves beset by warfare with settlers and other Indigenous tribes, infectious diseases, and other consequences of European colonization. Ultimately, the once-thriving group was divided between two major chiefdoms.
1962.
Bubblecar said:
1962.
Hohner harmonica ad, 1935.
“Please, please, play one more….on the Hohner!”
kryten said:
Rule 303 said:
buffy said:
And because no-one should ever be without a tractor…
Delivered from Melbourne this morning.
That looks like way too much fun.
you’re not wrong BobCat mechanics in a tractor frame
Oh man… It’s got a three-point linkage and PTO and everything!
>drools<
The Rev Dodgson said:
poikilotherm said:
The Rev Dodgson said:What sort of cleanup do you need?
If you just want to compare data from two dates, you could open both files, then use VLOOKUP from the new file on the data in the old file, then you can do a subtraction between the two columns to get the difference.
Need to remove a few unnecessary columns and some rows that have no data – I’m limited to 50 products per file by their website, I need to monitor 160 products.
I’ve gotten the cleaned data ok but it needs to be updatable as it may take weeks for the SOH to reduce the required level for some products.So you have to download 4 .xls files for each update?
I’d suggest:
Set up a master file with a data sheet and a working sheet.
Copy and paste all the new data onto the working sheet
Sort to remove blank lines and delete columns you don’t want.
Copy to the data sheet.
You can then use VLookup (or other functions) to extract the data you want.You may want to look at using pivot tables as well, if you are into that.
Cheers
sarahs mum said:
Yes, Ross was impressive too apparently.
Ours was somewhat lower than that by the time I ventured out, but still worthy of snaps which I couldn’t take ‘cos I didn’t have the camera.
Still a bit higher and faster than normal now.
Got a nice big T-bone for tea, I’ll have it with fried onions and tomatoes and some fried holumi and mushroom sauce and lashings of bread and butter washed down with a nice full bodied popular cola.
Over.
Rule 303 said:
kryten said:
Rule 303 said:That looks like way too much fun.
you’re not wrong BobCat mechanics in a tractor frame
Oh man… It’s got a three-point linkage and PTO and everything!
>drools<
few mods should be good…
https://youtu.be/2g8zzJPN1Yk?t=215
Ugly electric guitar, 1961.
Peak Warming Man said:
Got a nice big T-bone for tea, I’ll have it with fried onions and tomatoes and some fried holumi and mushroom sauce and lashings of bread and butter washed down with a nice full bodied popular cola.
Over.
I’ll be doing the last two pork sirloins today, on a bed of vermicelli in the oven with a sauce of mushrooms, onion, sliced green olives, cherry toms, dill, thyme, splash of chicken stock, lemon juice, sour cream.
Chilean pinot noir to accompany.
Peak Warming Man said:
Got a nice big T-bone for tea, I’ll have it with fried onions and tomatoes and some fried holumi and mushroom sauce and lashings of bread and butter washed down with a nice full bodied popular cola.
Over.
Mr buffy is chef tonight. He has defrosted some beef sausages.
Got my second covid shot today. So far, no myocarditis.
poikilotherm said:
Got my second covid shot today. So far, no myocarditis.
I’m a week on from the first one tomorrow. There has been a lump and a red area on my upper arm. And it’s a bit tender. But not as tender as the fluvax made my arm. I’ve been able to sleep on this one, couldn’t do that with the fluvax arm.
Oh, for goodness sake!!
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-15/atlanta-store-assistant-shot-dead-face-masks/100217594
Bubblecar said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Got a nice big T-bone for tea, I’ll have it with fried onions and tomatoes and some fried holumi and mushroom sauce and lashings of bread and butter washed down with a nice full bodied popular cola.
Over.
I’ll be doing the last two pork sirloins today, on a bed of vermicelli in the oven with a sauce of mushrooms, onion, sliced green olives, cherry toms, dill, thyme, splash of chicken stock, lemon juice, sour cream.
Chilean pinot noir to accompany.
+ couple cloves of garlic.
Can’t legally cook pasta without garlic.
Im doing a piss poor job of eating. I might do some more vegemite on toast.
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Got a nice big T-bone for tea, I’ll have it with fried onions and tomatoes and some fried holumi and mushroom sauce and lashings of bread and butter washed down with a nice full bodied popular cola.
Over.
I’ll be doing the last two pork sirloins today, on a bed of vermicelli in the oven with a sauce of mushrooms, onion, sliced green olives, cherry toms, dill, thyme, splash of chicken stock, lemon juice, sour cream.
Chilean pinot noir to accompany.
+ couple cloves of garlic.
Can’t legally cook pasta without garlic.
+ good shake of white pepper.
sarahs mum said:
:)
Rule 303 said:
kryten said:
Rule 303 said:That looks like way too much fun.
you’re not wrong BobCat mechanics in a tractor frame
Oh man… It’s got a three-point linkage and PTO and everything!
>drools<
A cashier has been shot dead in a US supermarket after a gunman pulled out a handgun following an argument about face masks, police say.
>as they say, only in America.
kryten said:
Rule 303 said:
kryten said:you’re not wrong BobCat mechanics in a tractor frame
Oh man… It’s got a three-point linkage and PTO and everything!
>drools<
quiet smirk to self
Does it have wifi?
roughbarked said:
A cashier has been shot dead in a US supermarket after a gunman pulled out a handgun following an argument about face masks, police say.>as they say, only in America.
Humans suck sometimes, there is always one that is going to ruin it for everyone else. Some people just can’t be trusted with face masks.
sarahs mum said:
Im doing a piss poor job of eating. I might do some more vegemite on toast.
It is a good standby.
sarahs mum said:
kryten said:
Rule 303 said:Oh man… It’s got a three-point linkage and PTO and everything!
>drools<
quiet smirk to selfDoes it have wifi?
Where it is sitting at the moment- quite possibly. We have free town wifi. Although I’ve never actually looked into whether it covers this house. We back onto the main street though.
kryten said:
Woodie said:
buffy said:
And because no-one should ever be without a tractor…
Delivered from Melbourne this morning.
dons Akubra and chews a bitta stick
What are the horses?
35 horses bucket good for 2/3rds of a tonne
I’ll bet it won’t stay white for long.
Bubblecar said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Got a nice big T-bone for tea, I’ll have it with fried onions and tomatoes and some fried holumi and mushroom sauce and lashings of bread and butter washed down with a nice full bodied popular cola.
Over.
I’ll be doing the last two pork sirloins today, on a bed of vermicelli in the oven with a sauce of mushrooms, onion, sliced green olives, cherry toms, dill, thyme, splash of chicken stock, lemon juice, sour cream.
Chilean pinot noir to accompany.
Steps 1, 2, 3.
1) Freshly cooked vermicelli dumped in a pie plate with a little olive oil.
2) Most of the sauce dumped over.
3) Topped with 2 x pork sirloin steaks, rest of sauce added. Now cooking in the oven for 40 minutes or so.
buffy said:
sarahs mum said:
kryten said:quiet smirk to self
Does it have wifi?
Where it is sitting at the moment- quite possibly. We have free town wifi. Although I’ve never actually looked into whether it covers this house. We back onto the main street though.
Free wifi, the whole town, how long has this been going on and why don’t you use it?
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Got a nice big T-bone for tea, I’ll have it with fried onions and tomatoes and some fried holumi and mushroom sauce and lashings of bread and butter washed down with a nice full bodied popular cola.
Over.
I’ll be doing the last two pork sirloins today, on a bed of vermicelli in the oven with a sauce of mushrooms, onion, sliced green olives, cherry toms, dill, thyme, splash of chicken stock, lemon juice, sour cream.
Chilean pinot noir to accompany.
Steps 1, 2, 3.
1) Freshly cooked vermicelli dumped in a pie plate with a little olive oil.
2) Most of the sauce dumped over.
3) Topped with 2 x pork sirloin steaks, rest of sauce added. Now cooking in the oven for 40 minutes or so.
Actually I forgot to add the olives. Never mind, I can chuck some on when it’s cooked, if I think it needs them.
It’s dark MOFOing again. Photos by Az Horsley.
Bubblecar said:
Actually I forgot to add the olives. Never mind, I can chuck some on when it’s cooked, if I think it needs them.
Just scattered some on now. I’ll give it another 5-10 minutes.
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
Actually I forgot to add the olives. Never mind, I can chuck some on when it’s cooked, if I think it needs them.
Just scattered some on now. I’ll give it another 5-10 minutes.
The steak? perfect
sarahs mum said:
It’s dark MOFOing again. Photos by Az Horsley.
I’ll have to do it one year. Not feasible in 2021.
—-
My tallest nephew is coming down from Syd this weekend with his new partner I have not met yet. there is a rumoured trip to Bruny and a drop in here for a cuppa.
I’m not very together atm but I can do tea and biscuits. I may get some dusting and sorting of studio mess done.
Ready to tuck in. It’s a dinner for two, so of course I’ll only have half.
Spectra.
That looks impressive.
Much more so to actually be there, I’d imagine.
sarahs mum said:
Spectra.
Impressive.
sarahs mum said:
Spectra.
Hey Earth Day – Screw you!
Also lots of people put red lamps in their front room and change the bulb to red in their porch light. My mother would not have liked that.
Dark Mofo + City of Hobart Winter Feast
The Winter Feast is traditionally enjoyed by thousands of people and this year’s event promises to be as popular as ever. The event brings together the best of Tasmanian food, beer, wine and spirits and is a great place to enjoy a fabulous meal, soak up the atmosphere and listen to live music performances. This year the Winter Feast will be held over five nights.
Winter Feast
Details:
Wednesday 16 June, 4–10 pm, $10
Thursday 17 June, 4–11 pm, $20
Friday 18 June, 4 pm–midnight, $20
Saturday 19 June, 4 pm–midnight, $20
Sunday 20 June, 4–11 pm, free
Free after 9 pm nightly, and for under 16s accompanied by a parent or guardian
Location: Princes Wharf 1
https://www.darkmofo.net.au/program
Getting a nuclear waste dump?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-15/nuclear-waste-facility-in-sa-potentially-a-step-closer/100218030
I think I fancy watching the first episode of “Lost in Austen” tonight. Probably 10 years since I watched it.
party_pants said:
roughbarked said:
A cashier has been shot dead in a US supermarket after a gunman pulled out a handgun following an argument about face masks, police say.>as they say, only in America.
Humans suck sometimes, there is always one that is going to ruin it for everyone else. Some people just can’t be trusted with face masks.
the facemarks thing might not actually be working.. How do we know what has not happened?
roughbarked said:
Getting a nuclear waste dump?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-15/nuclear-waste-facility-in-sa-potentially-a-step-closer/100218030
about time.
Bogsnorkler said:
roughbarked said:
Getting a nuclear waste dump?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-15/nuclear-waste-facility-in-sa-potentially-a-step-closer/100218030
about time.
It has been decades.
🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍌🍉🍇🥝🥥🍍🥭🍑🍒🍈🍓
vegemite on toast in reality.
sarahs mum said:
🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍌🍉🍇🥝🥥🍍🥭🍑🍒🍈🍓vegemite on toast in reality.
Doesn’t taste anything like them.
Good evening everybody.
Back at home. We watched (from the car) a spectacular lightning storm, internally lit by in-cloud lightning, all the way from Brisbane to Rainbow Beach. Presumably it passed close to RB, as there was lots of water on the road.
I thoroughly enjoyed that Lost in Austen episode. Will watch the second part another night.
Michael V said:
Good evening everybody.Back at home. We watched (from the car) a spectacular lightning storm, internally lit by in-cloud lightning, all the way from Brisbane to Rainbow Beach. Presumably it passed close to RB, as there was lots of water on the road.
What’s that you say? The jab? What jab? You saying I’ve had the COVID jab? When? You say it was this arvo? Was it?
I’d forgotten all about it until you reminded me.
Woodie said:
Michael V said:
Good evening everybody.Back at home. We watched (from the car) a spectacular lightning storm, internally lit by in-cloud lightning, all the way from Brisbane to Rainbow Beach. Presumably it passed close to RB, as there was lots of water on the road.
What’s that you say? The jab? What jab? You saying I’ve had the COVID jab? When? You say it was this arvo? Was it?
I’d forgotten all about it until you reminded me.
Huh?
Did you get a COVID jab this arvo? Ours are booked for some time in the future. (Next week maybe?)
Michael V said:
Woodie said:
Michael V said:
Good evening everybody.Back at home. We watched (from the car) a spectacular lightning storm, internally lit by in-cloud lightning, all the way from Brisbane to Rainbow Beach. Presumably it passed close to RB, as there was lots of water on the road.
What’s that you say? The jab? What jab? You saying I’ve had the COVID jab? When? You say it was this arvo? Was it?
I’d forgotten all about it until you reminded me.
Huh?
Did you get a COVID jab this arvo? Ours are booked for some time in the future. (Next week maybe?)
I did, apparently. So I now recall. Only remembered when I just now took the cotton ball and tape off my arm.
Not a nuttin’ of even knowing I’ve had it.
Woodie said:
Michael V said:
Woodie said:What’s that you say? The jab? What jab? You saying I’ve had the COVID jab? When? You say it was this arvo? Was it?
I’d forgotten all about it until you reminded me.
Huh?
Did you get a COVID jab this arvo? Ours are booked for some time in the future. (Next week maybe?)
I did, apparently. So I now recall. Only remembered when I just now took the cotton ball and tape off my arm.
Not a nuttin’ of even knowing I’ve had it.
G’donya…
The Mercury Newspaper
29 mins ·
It was a simple hernia that required simple day surgery to fix.
But when Lewisham man Ray Dodkins came to after the operation, he discovered he hadn’t been fixed at all.
In fact, the 78-year-old was about to embark upon a crippling nightmare that has continued to this day. HIS STORY 👇
Luckil for Mr Car the story is behind a firewall.
Michael V said:
Woodie said:
Michael V said:Huh?
Did you get a COVID jab this arvo? Ours are booked for some time in the future. (Next week maybe?)
I did, apparently. So I now recall. Only remembered when I just now took the cotton ball and tape off my arm.
Not a nuttin’ of even knowing I’ve had it.
G’donya…
Good to see you both got home okies, with and entertaining journey along the way. :)
Woodie said:
Michael V said:
Woodie said:I did, apparently. So I now recall. Only remembered when I just now took the cotton ball and tape off my arm.
Not a nuttin’ of even knowing I’ve had it.
G’donya…
Good to see you both got home okies, with and entertaining journey along the way. :)
People wandering around in the night.
This citizen science project from Zooniverse might interest sm:
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Drawing Knowledge
Are you interested in drawings and the arts?
The J. Paul Getty Museum is excited to announce the launch of their first crowdsourcing project Drawing Knowledge.
In this project, volunteers–– like you––will take the lead in describing and interpreting drawings from the Getty Museum’s extraordinary collection which includes works by artists such as Leonardo da Vinci and Vincent van Gogh. Participants will be presented with a random selection of drawings from over 1000 individual sheets and will be asked to share their knowledge and observations. Drawing Knowledge also seeks to foster an online community built around a shared appreciation of the drawings and hopes to spark lively discussions among participants and curators.
Your contributions will help us improve the experience of future visitors both in gallery and online. The collected data will inform the interpretation of drawing and improve the search functionality of the website by providing subject-tags, making the collection more accessible.
It’s time to “Getty” involved and give this project a try!
Learn more, and get involved at
https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/babkluna/drawing-knowledge.
Michael V said:
This citizen science project from Zooniverse might interest sm:——————————————————————————————————————————————————————-
Drawing Knowledge
Are you interested in drawings and the arts?
The J. Paul Getty Museum is excited to announce the launch of their first crowdsourcing project Drawing Knowledge.
In this project, volunteers–– like you––will take the lead in describing and interpreting drawings from the Getty Museum’s extraordinary collection which includes works by artists such as Leonardo da Vinci and Vincent van Gogh. Participants will be presented with a random selection of drawings from over 1000 individual sheets and will be asked to share their knowledge and observations. Drawing Knowledge also seeks to foster an online community built around a shared appreciation of the drawings and hopes to spark lively discussions among participants and curators.
Your contributions will help us improve the experience of future visitors both in gallery and online. The collected data will inform the interpretation of drawing and improve the search functionality of the website by providing subject-tags, making the collection more accessible.
It’s time to “Getty” involved and give this project a try!
Learn more, and get involved at
https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/babkluna/drawing-knowledge.
It’s like having a job.
Goldman Environment Prize recognises Liz Chicaje, who spearheaded the establishment of a 809,370-hectare national park in the Amazon rainforest wins a Goldman Environment Prize for her efforts.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-15/goldman-environment-prize-green-nobel-grassroots-activists/100218202
sarahs mum said:
The Mercury Newspaper
29 mins ·
It was a simple hernia that required simple day surgery to fix.
But when Lewisham man Ray Dodkins came to after the operation, he discovered he hadn’t been fixed at all.
In fact, the 78-year-old was about to embark upon a crippling nightmare that has continued to this day. HIS STORY 👇
Luckil for Mr Car the story is behind a firewall.
Could you post the whole story please?
I ought to know these things :)
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
The Mercury Newspaper
29 mins ·
It was a simple hernia that required simple day surgery to fix.
But when Lewisham man Ray Dodkins came to after the operation, he discovered he hadn’t been fixed at all.
In fact, the 78-year-old was about to embark upon a crippling nightmare that has continued to this day. HIS STORY 👇
Luckil for Mr Car the story is behind a firewall.
Could you post the whole story please?
I ought to know these things :)
I don’t have the means to give Murdoch money.
New US Government Technology Shoots Confetti At Drones To Neutralize Them
https://www.iflscience.com/technology/new-us-government-technology-shoots-confetti-at-drones-to-neutralize-them/
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
The Mercury Newspaper
29 mins ·
It was a simple hernia that required simple day surgery to fix.
But when Lewisham man Ray Dodkins came to after the operation, he discovered he hadn’t been fixed at all.
In fact, the 78-year-old was about to embark upon a crippling nightmare that has continued to this day. HIS STORY 👇
Luckil for Mr Car the story is behind a firewall.
Could you post the whole story please?
I ought to know these things :)
I don’t have the means to give Murdoch money.
Ah.
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:Could you post the whole story please?
I ought to know these things :)
I don’t have the means to give Murdoch money.
Ah.
Maybe someone here has. Or Anna?
Anyway I’ve been considering cancelling the operation for the time being, but I suspect the surgeon has also had such thoughts, if he’s been privy to the various GP reports.
I’m just too fat and unfit with too many associated problems.
I need to grasp the bull by the horns and finally make a concerted effort to get the eating and drinking under sensible control.
Bubblecar said:
I need to grasp the bull by the horns…
….and stop talking in clichés.
Bubblecar said:
Anyway I’ve been considering cancelling the operation for the time being, but I suspect the surgeon has also had such thoughts, if he’s been privy to the various GP reports.I’m just too fat and unfit with too many associated problems.
I need to grasp the bull by the horns and finally make a concerted effort to get the eating and drinking under sensible control.
Face it, another year like this and you’ll be needing a mobility scooter, if you’re still actually alive.
One of Australia’s most-photographed tourist destinations – the limestone stacks known as the Twelve Apostles off the coast of Victoria – is less than five kilometres from new areas announced on Tuesday for offshore oil and and gas exploration.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/jun/15/nothing-off-limits-offshore-gas-and-oil-exploration-area-5km-from-twelve-apostles
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
Anyway I’ve been considering cancelling the operation for the time being, but I suspect the surgeon has also had such thoughts, if he’s been privy to the various GP reports.I’m just too fat and unfit with too many associated problems.
I need to grasp the bull by the horns and finally make a concerted effort to get the eating and drinking under sensible control.
Face it, another year like this and you’ll be needing a mobility scooter, if you’re still actually alive.
I think going to Snug on a mobility scooter would be dangerous.
sarahs mum said:
One of Australia’s most-photographed tourist destinations – the limestone stacks known as the Twelve Apostles off the coast of Victoria – is less than five kilometres from new areas announced on Tuesday for offshore oil and and gas exploration.https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/jun/15/nothing-off-limits-offshore-gas-and-oil-exploration-area-5km-from-twelve-apostles
I wish these guys would stop this shit.
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
Anyway I’ve been considering cancelling the operation for the time being, but I suspect the surgeon has also had such thoughts, if he’s been privy to the various GP reports.I’m just too fat and unfit with too many associated problems.
I need to grasp the bull by the horns and finally make a concerted effort to get the eating and drinking under sensible control.
Face it, another year like this and you’ll be needing a mobility scooter, if you’re still actually alive.
I think going to Snug on a mobility scooter would be dangerous.
They benefit from the provision of proper footpaths, but so does walking.
sarahs mum said:
sarahs mum said:
One of Australia’s most-photographed tourist destinations – the limestone stacks known as the Twelve Apostles off the coast of Victoria – is less than five kilometres from new areas announced on Tuesday for offshore oil and and gas exploration.https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/jun/15/nothing-off-limits-offshore-gas-and-oil-exploration-area-5km-from-twelve-apostles
I wish these guys would stop this shit.
How good is fossil fuel? Pays for umpteen baristas in the tourist towns, so we’re told.
https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/scientists-are-sharing-scary-science-facts-that-the-public-knows-nothing-about/
sarahs mum said:
https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/scientists-are-sharing-scary-science-facts-that-the-public-knows-nothing-about/
Rather than dwell on all that, I’m going back to tonight’s Norwegian train ride from RailCowGirl. From a few years ago so not as crystal clear as her latest ones, but it’s an interesting night ride through the snow:
>Exceptionally windy this morning with snow piling up in the tracks. Not often we see snow coming over the front in the Local Service, but some times we get these mouth watering experiences. Topped with a triggered avalanche warning system makes this morning worth getting up at 4am!
TRAIN DRIVER’S VIEW: Windy winter Saturday Local Service in 4K Ultra HD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7I5MdEh0×0
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/scientists-are-sharing-scary-science-facts-that-the-public-knows-nothing-about/
Rather than dwell on all that, I’m going back to tonight’s Norwegian train ride from RailCowGirl. From a few years ago so not as crystal clear as her latest ones, but it’s an interesting night ride through the snow:
>Exceptionally windy this morning with snow piling up in the tracks. Not often we see snow coming over the front in the Local Service, but some times we get these mouth watering experiences. Topped with a triggered avalanche warning system makes this morning worth getting up at 4am!
TRAIN DRIVER’S VIEW: Windy winter Saturday Local Service in 4K Ultra HD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7I5MdEh0×0
Let me know how it was when you finish it ..
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
sarahs mum said:
One of Australia’s most-photographed tourist destinations – the limestone stacks known as the Twelve Apostles off the coast of Victoria – is less than five kilometres from new areas announced on Tuesday for offshore oil and and gas exploration.https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/jun/15/nothing-off-limits-offshore-gas-and-oil-exploration-area-5km-from-twelve-apostles
I wish these guys would stop this shit.
How good is fossil fuel? Pays for umpteen baristas in the tourist towns, so we’re told.
They do power this and every other country in the world, so yep, unless you want to live in a cave they are very nice. Doesn’t mean we cannot wean ourselves off them, but that’s not something that is going to happen quickly.
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/scientists-are-sharing-scary-science-facts-that-the-public-knows-nothing-about/
Rather than dwell on all that, I’m going back to tonight’s Norwegian train ride from RailCowGirl. From a few years ago so not as crystal clear as her latest ones, but it’s an interesting night ride through the snow:
>Exceptionally windy this morning with snow piling up in the tracks. Not often we see snow coming over the front in the Local Service, but some times we get these mouth watering experiences. Topped with a triggered avalanche warning system makes this morning worth getting up at 4am!
TRAIN DRIVER’S VIEW: Windy winter Saturday Local Service in 4K Ultra HD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7I5MdEh0×0
Let me know how it was when you finish it ..
I’m already thinking it’s a bit disappointingly grainy compared to her latest runs, but I’m hanging in there for the uppity snow and the avalanche warning.
sibeen said:
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:I wish these guys would stop this shit.
How good is fossil fuel? Pays for umpteen baristas in the tourist towns, so we’re told.
They do power this and every other country in the world, so yep, unless you want to live in a cave they are very nice. Doesn’t mean we cannot wean ourselves off them, but that’s not something that is going to happen quickly.
So we need to spend vast sums looking for new fossil sources and fucking up further environments in the process, instead of investing that time and money in alternatives?
Bubblecar said:
sibeen said:
Bubblecar said:How good is fossil fuel? Pays for umpteen baristas in the tourist towns, so we’re told.
They do power this and every other country in the world, so yep, unless you want to live in a cave they are very nice. Doesn’t mean we cannot wean ourselves off them, but that’s not something that is going to happen quickly.
So we need to spend vast sums looking for new fossil sources and fucking up further environments in the process, instead of investing that time and money in alternatives?
A bit from column A and a bit from column B. There are shades of grey in this that many refuse to acknowledge.
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:Rather than dwell on all that, I’m going back to tonight’s Norwegian train ride from RailCowGirl. From a few years ago so not as crystal clear as her latest ones, but it’s an interesting night ride through the snow:
>Exceptionally windy this morning with snow piling up in the tracks. Not often we see snow coming over the front in the Local Service, but some times we get these mouth watering experiences. Topped with a triggered avalanche warning system makes this morning worth getting up at 4am!
TRAIN DRIVER’S VIEW: Windy winter Saturday Local Service in 4K Ultra HD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7I5MdEh0×0
Let me know how it was when you finish it ..
I’m already thinking it’s a bit disappointingly grainy compared to her latest runs, but I’m hanging in there for the uppity snow and the avalanche warning.
15:04 – first snowball in the face.
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:Let me know how it was when you finish it ..
I’m already thinking it’s a bit disappointingly grainy compared to her latest runs, but I’m hanging in there for the uppity snow and the avalanche warning.
15:04 – first snowball in the face.
…shortly afterwards the avalanche detector is activated and she’s reduced to 10km/h.
sibeen said:
Bubblecar said:
sibeen said:They do power this and every other country in the world, so yep, unless you want to live in a cave they are very nice. Doesn’t mean we cannot wean ourselves off them, but that’s not something that is going to happen quickly.
So we need to spend vast sums looking for new fossil sources and fucking up further environments in the process, instead of investing that time and money in alternatives?
A bit from column A and a bit from column B. There are shades of grey in this that many refuse to acknowledge.
At this very minute 66% of Australia’s electicity, excluding WA + NT, is being generated by lovely, lovely coal. Gas is providing an additional 10%. So 76% is fossil fuel. Increasing the gas mix in this equation lowers our carbon emissions.
sibeen said:
sibeen said:
Bubblecar said:So we need to spend vast sums looking for new fossil sources and fucking up further environments in the process, instead of investing that time and money in alternatives?
A bit from column A and a bit from column B. There are shades of grey in this that many refuse to acknowledge.
At this very minute 66% of Australia’s electicity, excluding WA + NT, is being generated by lovely, lovely coal. Gas is providing an additional 10%. So 76% is fossil fuel. Increasing the gas mix in this equation lowers our carbon emissions.
But we export gas. This isn’t about our electricity really.
sarahs mum said:
sibeen said:
sibeen said:A bit from column A and a bit from column B. There are shades of grey in this that many refuse to acknowledge.
At this very minute 66% of Australia’s electicity, excluding WA + NT, is being generated by lovely, lovely coal. Gas is providing an additional 10%. So 76% is fossil fuel. Increasing the gas mix in this equation lowers our carbon emissions.
But we export gas. This isn’t about our electricity really.
The government proposed that a large gas power plant be built. The pushback has been severe. The Greens are basically calling it evil incarnate.
sibeen said:
sarahs mum said:
sibeen said:At this very minute 66% of Australia’s electicity, excluding WA + NT, is being generated by lovely, lovely coal. Gas is providing an additional 10%. So 76% is fossil fuel. Increasing the gas mix in this equation lowers our carbon emissions.
But we export gas. This isn’t about our electricity really.
The government proposed that a large gas power plant be built. The pushback has been severe. The Greens are basically calling it evil incarnate.
Oh, and what does our exported gas power? Perchance it stops a coal fired station being built.
sibeen said:
sibeen said:
sarahs mum said:But we export gas. This isn’t about our electricity really.
The government proposed that a large gas power plant be built. The pushback has been severe. The Greens are basically calling it evil incarnate.
Oh, and what does our exported gas power? Perchance it stops a coal fired station being built.
They are going to do that anyway aren’t they?
sarahs mum said:
sibeen said:
sibeen said:The government proposed that a large gas power plant be built. The pushback has been severe. The Greens are basically calling it evil incarnate.
Oh, and what does our exported gas power? Perchance it stops a coal fired station being built.
They are going to do that anyway aren’t they?
Sorry, I’m unsure what you mean.
sibeen said:
sarahs mum said:
sibeen said:Oh, and what does our exported gas power? Perchance it stops a coal fired station being built.
They are going to do that anyway aren’t they?
Sorry, I’m unsure what you mean.
Me neither. It’s probably the gas one I am thinking of.
sarahs mum said:
sibeen said:
sarahs mum said:They are going to do that anyway aren’t they?
Sorry, I’m unsure what you mean.
Me neither. It’s probably the gas one I am thinking of.
Oh, I hope they do build it. I suspect that it is going to be very much needed.
sibeen said:
sarahs mum said:
sibeen said:Sorry, I’m unsure what you mean.
Me neither. It’s probably the gas one I am thinking of.
Oh, I hope they do build it. I suspect that it is going to be very much needed.
Mark me down as thinking it almost evil incarnate. (We can’t all have hydro and windy wind.)
sarahs mum said:
sibeen said:
sarahs mum said:Me neither. It’s probably the gas one I am thinking of.
Oh, I hope they do build it. I suspect that it is going to be very much needed.
Mark me down as thinking it almost evil incarnate. (We can’t all have hydro and windy wind.)
Perfection is the enemy of progress. The Greens need to learn this. Oh, and get their heads out of their arse about nuclear power.
sibeen said:
Perfection is the enemy of progress. The Greens need to learn this. .
I will try to take this lesson on board. I will duly ignore what was bandied about in my family of master tradesmen.
sarahs mum said:
sibeen said:
Perfection is the enemy of progress. The Greens need to learn this. .
I will try to take this lesson on board. I will duly ignore what was bandied about in my family of master tradesmen.
shrug
Without the Greens wish for absolute purity and perfection we would have had a carbon trading scheme in this county over ten years ago.
2009: The CPRS was bad climate policy
We voted against the CPRS because it was bad policy that would have locked in failure to take action on climate change.
According to Treasury modelling, under the CPRS there would have been no reduction in emissions for 25 years. It gave billions in handouts to coal companies and big polluters, while it locked in emissions targets that failed the science.
It would not have led to any change in behaviour by big polluters, while any future attempt to strengthen the scheme would have resulted in billion dollar compensation payouts to big polluters.
It gave a false impression it was going to actually do something – in fact, Kevin Rudd’s own climate change advisor warned it could be better to go back to the drawing board.
2010: Greens-led climate action
Just months later, we worked with a more collaborative Gillard Labor government and Independent MPs to introduce world-leading climate legislation. We fought for – and achieved – a much better outcome.
This Greens-led package included a price on carbon that worked to reduce emissions, the establishment of the Clean Energy Finance Corporation and the Australian Renewable Energy Agency. It drove down pollution and has driven over $20 billion into over 600 energy projects around the country.
And what happened? Pollution went down when the carbon price was in force. This was one of the few precious times in our history where emissions actually reduced — and, in spite of conservative fear-mongering, the sky didn’t fall in.
It’s still regarded as an example of world-leading emissions reduction legislation, and remains the basis of Greens carbon reduction policy today.
2013: Tony Abbott tore it all down
It was Tony Abbott’s callous destruction of the carbon price, based upon a lie that it was a “carbon tax”, that created the current toxic debate on climate and energy policy.
The carbon price was working before Tony Abbott was elected in 2013 and tore it down.
https://greens.org.au/cprs
sarahs mum said:
2009: The CPRS was bad climate policyWe voted against the CPRS because it was bad policy that would have locked in failure to take action on climate change.
According to Treasury modelling, under the CPRS there would have been no reduction in emissions for 25 years. It gave billions in handouts to coal companies and big polluters, while it locked in emissions targets that failed the science.
It would not have led to any change in behaviour by big polluters, while any future attempt to strengthen the scheme would have resulted in billion dollar compensation payouts to big polluters.
It gave a false impression it was going to actually do something – in fact, Kevin Rudd’s own climate change advisor warned it could be better to go back to the drawing board.
2010: Greens-led climate action
Just months later, we worked with a more collaborative Gillard Labor government and Independent MPs to introduce world-leading climate legislation. We fought for – and achieved – a much better outcome.This Greens-led package included a price on carbon that worked to reduce emissions, the establishment of the Clean Energy Finance Corporation and the Australian Renewable Energy Agency. It drove down pollution and has driven over $20 billion into over 600 energy projects around the country.
And what happened? Pollution went down when the carbon price was in force. This was one of the few precious times in our history where emissions actually reduced — and, in spite of conservative fear-mongering, the sky didn’t fall in.
It’s still regarded as an example of world-leading emissions reduction legislation, and remains the basis of Greens carbon reduction policy today.
2013: Tony Abbott tore it all down
It was Tony Abbott’s callous destruction of the carbon price, based upon a lie that it was a “carbon tax”, that created the current toxic debate on climate and energy policy.
The carbon price was working before Tony Abbott was elected in 2013 and tore it down.https://greens.org.au/cprs
Oh look, the ALP don’t agree:
A decade after the defeat of the Rudd government’s carbon pollution reduction scheme, Labor has dramatically escalated attacks on the Greens, blaming the minor party for 218 million additional tonnes of carbon pollution since 2010.
Risking exposing Labor to attack over its current absence of a climate change policy, Opposition figures including leader Anthony Albanese, foreign affairs spokeswoman Penny Wong and assistant minister Pat Conroy have used Monday’s anniversary of the parliamentary defeat to argue Australia’s 2020 emissions would have been as much as 81 million tonnes lower than what is now projected, had the scheme been made law.
https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/ten-years-on-labor-blames-greens-for-failed-carbon-price-scheme-20191201-p53fpv
I’ll never support the Greens whilst their policy on nuclear power is in the dark ages, but they have many other sins.
sibeen said:
sarahs mum said:
2009: The CPRS was bad climate policyWe voted against the CPRS because it was bad policy that would have locked in failure to take action on climate change.
According to Treasury modelling, under the CPRS there would have been no reduction in emissions for 25 years. It gave billions in handouts to coal companies and big polluters, while it locked in emissions targets that failed the science.
It would not have led to any change in behaviour by big polluters, while any future attempt to strengthen the scheme would have resulted in billion dollar compensation payouts to big polluters.
It gave a false impression it was going to actually do something – in fact, Kevin Rudd’s own climate change advisor warned it could be better to go back to the drawing board.
2010: Greens-led climate action
Just months later, we worked with a more collaborative Gillard Labor government and Independent MPs to introduce world-leading climate legislation. We fought for – and achieved – a much better outcome.This Greens-led package included a price on carbon that worked to reduce emissions, the establishment of the Clean Energy Finance Corporation and the Australian Renewable Energy Agency. It drove down pollution and has driven over $20 billion into over 600 energy projects around the country.
And what happened? Pollution went down when the carbon price was in force. This was one of the few precious times in our history where emissions actually reduced — and, in spite of conservative fear-mongering, the sky didn’t fall in.
It’s still regarded as an example of world-leading emissions reduction legislation, and remains the basis of Greens carbon reduction policy today.
2013: Tony Abbott tore it all down
It was Tony Abbott’s callous destruction of the carbon price, based upon a lie that it was a “carbon tax”, that created the current toxic debate on climate and energy policy.
The carbon price was working before Tony Abbott was elected in 2013 and tore it down.https://greens.org.au/cprs
Oh look, the ALP don’t agree:
A decade after the defeat of the Rudd government’s carbon pollution reduction scheme, Labor has dramatically escalated attacks on the Greens, blaming the minor party for 218 million additional tonnes of carbon pollution since 2010.
Risking exposing Labor to attack over its current absence of a climate change policy, Opposition figures including leader Anthony Albanese, foreign affairs spokeswoman Penny Wong and assistant minister Pat Conroy have used Monday’s anniversary of the parliamentary defeat to argue Australia’s 2020 emissions would have been as much as 81 million tonnes lower than what is now projected, had the scheme been made law.
https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/ten-years-on-labor-blames-greens-for-failed-carbon-price-scheme-20191201-p53fpv
I’ll never support the Greens whilst their policy on nuclear power is in the dark ages, but they have many other sins.
Green bashing is done by both Libs and Labs.
sarahs mum said:
sibeen said:
sarahs mum said:
2009: The CPRS was bad climate policyWe voted against the CPRS because it was bad policy that would have locked in failure to take action on climate change.
According to Treasury modelling, under the CPRS there would have been no reduction in emissions for 25 years. It gave billions in handouts to coal companies and big polluters, while it locked in emissions targets that failed the science.
It would not have led to any change in behaviour by big polluters, while any future attempt to strengthen the scheme would have resulted in billion dollar compensation payouts to big polluters.
It gave a false impression it was going to actually do something – in fact, Kevin Rudd’s own climate change advisor warned it could be better to go back to the drawing board.
2010: Greens-led climate action
Just months later, we worked with a more collaborative Gillard Labor government and Independent MPs to introduce world-leading climate legislation. We fought for – and achieved – a much better outcome.This Greens-led package included a price on carbon that worked to reduce emissions, the establishment of the Clean Energy Finance Corporation and the Australian Renewable Energy Agency. It drove down pollution and has driven over $20 billion into over 600 energy projects around the country.
And what happened? Pollution went down when the carbon price was in force. This was one of the few precious times in our history where emissions actually reduced — and, in spite of conservative fear-mongering, the sky didn’t fall in.
It’s still regarded as an example of world-leading emissions reduction legislation, and remains the basis of Greens carbon reduction policy today.
2013: Tony Abbott tore it all down
It was Tony Abbott’s callous destruction of the carbon price, based upon a lie that it was a “carbon tax”, that created the current toxic debate on climate and energy policy.
The carbon price was working before Tony Abbott was elected in 2013 and tore it down.https://greens.org.au/cprs
Oh look, the ALP don’t agree:
A decade after the defeat of the Rudd government’s carbon pollution reduction scheme, Labor has dramatically escalated attacks on the Greens, blaming the minor party for 218 million additional tonnes of carbon pollution since 2010.
Risking exposing Labor to attack over its current absence of a climate change policy, Opposition figures including leader Anthony Albanese, foreign affairs spokeswoman Penny Wong and assistant minister Pat Conroy have used Monday’s anniversary of the parliamentary defeat to argue Australia’s 2020 emissions would have been as much as 81 million tonnes lower than what is now projected, had the scheme been made law.
https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/ten-years-on-labor-blames-greens-for-failed-carbon-price-scheme-20191201-p53fpv
I’ll never support the Greens whilst their policy on nuclear power is in the dark ages, but they have many other sins.
Green bashing is done by both Libs and Labs.
And me :)
sibeen said:
sarahs mum said:
sibeen said:Oh look, the ALP don’t agree:
A decade after the defeat of the Rudd government’s carbon pollution reduction scheme, Labor has dramatically escalated attacks on the Greens, blaming the minor party for 218 million additional tonnes of carbon pollution since 2010.
Risking exposing Labor to attack over its current absence of a climate change policy, Opposition figures including leader Anthony Albanese, foreign affairs spokeswoman Penny Wong and assistant minister Pat Conroy have used Monday’s anniversary of the parliamentary defeat to argue Australia’s 2020 emissions would have been as much as 81 million tonnes lower than what is now projected, had the scheme been made law.
https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/ten-years-on-labor-blames-greens-for-failed-carbon-price-scheme-20191201-p53fpv
I’ll never support the Greens whilst their policy on nuclear power is in the dark ages, but they have many other sins.
Green bashing is done by both Libs and Labs.
And me :)
Don’t I know it. So much of the time it comes across as direct attack.
sarahs mum said:
sibeen said:
sarahs mum said:Green bashing is done by both Libs and Labs.
And me :)
Don’t I know it. So much of the time it comes across as direct attack.
Not at you, no.
sibeen said:
sarahs mum said:
sibeen said:And me :)
Don’t I know it. So much of the time it comes across as direct attack.
Not at you, no.
That is how I have often read it.
sarahs mum said:
sibeen said:
sarahs mum said:Don’t I know it. So much of the time it comes across as direct attack.
Not at you, no.
That is how I have often read it.
I can disagree with your political stance without having a go at you personally.
sibeen said:
sibeen said:
sarahs mum said:But we export gas. This isn’t about our electricity really.
The government proposed that a large gas power plant be built. The pushback has been severe. The Greens are basically calling it evil incarnate.
Oh, and what does our exported gas power? Perchance it stops a coal fired station being built.
It will do no such thing, in fact it will increase our CO2 and methane emissions considerably:
>>……..The Burrup Hub alone, if it were to go ahead as planned, is estimated take up about half (49%) of the
state’s carbon budget for the entire energy and industry sector . Cumulative emissions of the Burrup
Hub until 2070 (expected end of lifetime) would take up around 80% of WA’s carbon budget.
The Barrup Hub alone would burn up around 7-10% of Australia’s Paris Agreement compatible budget
for the entire energy and industry sector to 2050; the WA LNG industry as a whole about 18-20%.
At a global level, the Burrup Hub alone would contribute about 1% of the total global energy and
industry carbon budget calculated on Paris Agreement consistent mitigation pathways. This is about
the same as the share of the entire carbon budget for Australia’s energy and industry emissions to
2050.
Cumulative total (Scope 1 and Scope 3) emissions for 2025 to 2070 for the Burrup Hub alone (until the
end of planned lifetime) of 6.1 Gt CO2e are equal to about 1% of the total global energy and industry
carbon budget calculated based on Paris Agreement consistent mitigation pathways and about the
same as the share of the global carbon budget estimated for Australia’s energy and industry emissions.
The Burrup Hub project as proposed would not be consistent with Australia achieving the necessary
reductions in the range of 44-61% by 2030 are needed for the level of action Australia needs to take in
global efforts to limit warming to 1.5°C and to meet the Paris Agreement’s long-term temperature goal.
These emission reductions are needed by 2030 to put the country on a cost-efficient pathway to
achieve zero net GHG emissions by around 2050. The Hub’s projected emissions by 2030 are likely to
be in the range of 4.6-6.5% of Australia’s 1.5°C compatible pathway and, if unabated, this would mean
other sectors would need to reduce by some 3% more (about 47-64% by 2030)11.
https://climateanalytics.org/media/climateanalytics-burruphubwacarbonbudget-report-feb2020.pdf
PermeateFree said:
sibeen said:
sibeen said:The government proposed that a large gas power plant be built. The pushback has been severe. The Greens are basically calling it evil incarnate.
Oh, and what does our exported gas power? Perchance it stops a coal fired station being built.
It will do no such thing, in fact it will increase our CO2 and methane emissions considerably:
>>……..The Burrup Hub alone, if it were to go ahead as planned, is estimated take up about half (49%) of the
state’s carbon budget for the entire energy and industry sector . Cumulative emissions of the Burrup
Hub until 2070 (expected end of lifetime) would take up around 80% of WA’s carbon budget.
The Barrup Hub alone would burn up around 7-10% of Australia’s Paris Agreement compatible budget
for the entire energy and industry sector to 2050; the WA LNG industry as a whole about 18-20%.
At a global level, the Burrup Hub alone would contribute about 1% of the total global energy and
industry carbon budget calculated on Paris Agreement consistent mitigation pathways. This is about
the same as the share of the entire carbon budget for Australia’s energy and industry emissions to
2050.Cumulative total (Scope 1 and Scope 3) emissions for 2025 to 2070 for the Burrup Hub alone (until the
end of planned lifetime) of 6.1 Gt CO2e are equal to about 1% of the total global energy and industry
carbon budget calculated based on Paris Agreement consistent mitigation pathways and about the
same as the share of the global carbon budget estimated for Australia’s energy and industry emissions.
The Burrup Hub project as proposed would not be consistent with Australia achieving the necessary
reductions in the range of 44-61% by 2030 are needed for the level of action Australia needs to take in
global efforts to limit warming to 1.5°C and to meet the Paris Agreement’s long-term temperature goal.
These emission reductions are needed by 2030 to put the country on a cost-efficient pathway to
achieve zero net GHG emissions by around 2050. The Hub’s projected emissions by 2030 are likely to
be in the range of 4.6-6.5% of Australia’s 1.5°C compatible pathway and, if unabated, this would mean
other sectors would need to reduce by some 3% more (about 47-64% by 2030)11.https://climateanalytics.org/media/climateanalytics-burruphubwacarbonbudget-report-feb2020.pdf
Over its proposed 50-year lifetime the Burrup Hub project would release over 6 billion tons
(gigatons) of carbon pollution, equivalent to 11x Australia’s annual emissions.
Each year the Burrup Hub project would result in 139 million tonnes of carbon pollution
(including scope 3 emissions), equivalent to:
• over 4x the emissions of the proposed Adani Carmichael coal mine4
• 35 of the largest, dirtiest coal-fired power stations5
• the entire national emissions of New Zealand, Ireland, Norway and Bolivia6
• over a quarter of Australia’s entire national emissions
Each year, the direct emissions (scope 1) from the Burrup Hub project generated here in WA
(16mtpa) would be equivalent to:
• almost 8x more than the annual emissions reduction delivered by Australia’s 2.1 million
solar rooftops
• 4 coal fired power stations the size and age of WA’s Muja power station
• half the emissions abatement already delivered under the Morrison government’s
$4.5 bn Emissions Reduction Fund (RET)
The reason for the very high emissions
from the Browse Basin development is
three-fold:
*1 Very high CO2 contained in the gas
field, which Woodside plans to vent into
the atmosphere*
2 The considerable amount of energy
required to extract the gas from the
low-pressure field and pump it 900km
to the onshore processing plant
3 Australia’s oldest and least efficient LNG
facility utilised to process the gas
https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/ccwa/pages/11680/attachments/original/1586154175/CCWA_Clean-State_Burrup-Hub_Report_WEB-READER.pdf?1586154175
sibeen said:
sarahs mum said:
sibeen said:Not at you, no.
That is how I have often read it.
I can disagree with your political stance without having a go at you personally.
Ah so you think. ;)
Wednesday
Partly cloudy. Very high chance of showers, most likely from late this morning. The chance of a thunderstorm. Winds N/NE 20 to 25 km/h turning W/NW 15 to 20 km/h in the afternoon. Daytime maximum temperatures between 15 and 18.
Was warm overnight didn’t go below 10.8. Currently 7.
roughbarked said:
Wednesday
Partly cloudy. Very high chance of showers, most likely from late this morning. The chance of a thunderstorm. Winds N/NE 20 to 25 km/h turning W/NW 15 to 20 km/h in the afternoon. Daytime maximum temperatures between 15 and 18.Was warm overnight didn’t go below 10.8. Currently 7.
Well actually, it got down to 7.8 at 7:30 pm last eve.
Morning, arm is rather sore today, also have all over body aches. Assuming the Covid vaccination and not my poor sleep due to life stresses.
Cold clear and frosty in the Styx.
Heard the minister arguing that we have to drink British wine and eat their penguins to enable us to exploit upong British Gap year backpackers so we can pay them $1 per hour.
C’mon, we could be smart and export something else other than food grown by ever expanding farms over marginal lands which waste our water on attempting to export food products.poikilotherm said:
Morning, arm is rather sore today, also have all over body aches. Assuming the Covid vaccination and not my poor sleep due to life stresses.Cold clear and frosty in the Styx.
I woke the same and it was from poor sleep.
Live: NSW Now: Some seasonal workers earning $1 an hour, report finds
MORNING BRIEFING: Widespread underpayment of seasonal workers, most of whom are on temporary visas to Australia, has been found in a new survey by Unions NSW and the Migrant Resource Centre in Victoria.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-16/wednesday-morning-briefing-seasonal-workers-underpaid/100217272
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-16/will-the-australia-uk-trade-deal-be-in-australias-interest/100215514
Good morning Holidayers. Eight degrees and we are in pre-dawn light. There was a little rain overnight. Our forecast for today is for showers and 12 degrees.
poikilotherm said:
Morning, arm is rather sore today, also have all over body aches. Assuming the Covid vaccination and not my poor sleep due to life stresses.Cold clear and frosty in the Styx.
I hope your vaccination side effects get no worse, and also get better quickly.
Good morning everybody.
Thick pea-soup maritime fog here. Cannot see 75 metres. I suppose that means it will be fine and sunny when it burns off or rises.
Currently it’s 13.5°C, 91% RH, calm and of course foggy. BoM tells me to expect a top of 23°C and that throughout the day, there’s a small chance of rain.
Agenda: shopping, wash and dry dirty clothes, and possibly clean dirty car. Check whether stereo amplifier etc inherited from Woodie works with our gear.
poikilotherm said:
Morning, arm is rather sore today, also have all over body aches. Assuming the Covid vaccination and not my poor sleep due to life stresses.Cold clear and frosty in the Styx.
I’m a week out today and there is very mild tenderness in my upper arm remaining. I have to rub quite hard to elicit the tenderness now. I didn’t have so much body aches as general fatigue on the day after the jab. But it was a wet and miserable day weatherwise anyway so I chose to spend it in bed reading. I would rate the COVID arm tenderness at about a 2, and the flu arm tenderness at about a 4 on a scale of 10, I think. Annoying, but not a really big deal.
Almost 12 degrees here.
First light is a little earlier than buffy’s.
buffy said:
poikilotherm said:
Morning, arm is rather sore today, also have all over body aches. Assuming the Covid vaccination and not my poor sleep due to life stresses.Cold clear and frosty in the Styx.
I’m a week out today and there is very mild tenderness in my upper arm remaining. I have to rub quite hard to elicit the tenderness now. I didn’t have so much body aches as general fatigue on the day after the jab. But it was a wet and miserable day weatherwise anyway so I chose to spend it in bed reading. I would rate the COVID arm tenderness at about a 2, and the flu arm tenderness at about a 4 on a scale of 10, I think. Annoying, but not a really big deal.
The jab soreness. Is it due to the person holding the needle?
The little bandaids fall off and I have to think where did that come from.. ah yes that’s right I had a person stick a needle in.
Back in the day I was afeared of needles because they used to hurt.
A couple of weeks and I’ll have had my second jab.
roughbarked said:
Almost 12 degrees here. First light is a little earlier than buffy’s.
Your sunrise is about half an hour before us.
buffy said:
roughbarked said:
Almost 12 degrees here. First light is a little earlier than buffy’s.
Your sunrise is about half an hour before us.
Yes but you are closer to South Australia than myself. I’m exactly 16 minutes later than EST.
roughbarked said:
buffy said:
poikilotherm said:
Morning, arm is rather sore today, also have all over body aches. Assuming the Covid vaccination and not my poor sleep due to life stresses.Cold clear and frosty in the Styx.
I’m a week out today and there is very mild tenderness in my upper arm remaining. I have to rub quite hard to elicit the tenderness now. I didn’t have so much body aches as general fatigue on the day after the jab. But it was a wet and miserable day weatherwise anyway so I chose to spend it in bed reading. I would rate the COVID arm tenderness at about a 2, and the flu arm tenderness at about a 4 on a scale of 10, I think. Annoying, but not a really big deal.
The jab soreness. Is it due to the person holding the needle? The little bandaids fall off and I have to think where did that come from.. ah yes that’s right I had a person stick a needle in.
Back in the day I was afeared of needles because they used to hurt.
A couple of weeks and I’ll have had my second jab.
Well, some of it will be because someone stuck a needle into your muscle. And deposited a little bolus of vaccine in there. I presume that is the lump. Mine took around 3 to 4 days to be absorbed by the feel of it. There was also a red patch of reasonable size on the skin around the area, which would be a standard inflammation of the tissues in response to assault.
I didn’t get a bandaid. I was offered a lollipop, which I refused because I don’t eat lollies in general. Dark chocolate, yes, lollies, no.
roughbarked said:
buffy said:
roughbarked said:
Almost 12 degrees here. First light is a little earlier than buffy’s.
Your sunrise is about half an hour before us.
Yes but you are closer to South Australia than myself. I’m exactly 16 minutes later than EST.
Our sunrise is pretty much exactly halfway between Melbourne and Adelaide’s times.
buffy said:
roughbarked said:
buffy said:I’m a week out today and there is very mild tenderness in my upper arm remaining. I have to rub quite hard to elicit the tenderness now. I didn’t have so much body aches as general fatigue on the day after the jab. But it was a wet and miserable day weatherwise anyway so I chose to spend it in bed reading. I would rate the COVID arm tenderness at about a 2, and the flu arm tenderness at about a 4 on a scale of 10, I think. Annoying, but not a really big deal.
The jab soreness. Is it due to the person holding the needle? The little bandaids fall off and I have to think where did that come from.. ah yes that’s right I had a person stick a needle in.
Back in the day I was afeared of needles because they used to hurt.
A couple of weeks and I’ll have had my second jab.
Well, some of it will be because someone stuck a needle into your muscle. And deposited a little bolus of vaccine in there. I presume that is the lump. Mine took around 3 to 4 days to be absorbed by the feel of it. There was also a red patch of reasonable size on the skin around the area, which would be a standard inflammation of the tissues in response to assault.
I didn’t get a bandaid. I was offered a lollipop, which I refused because I don’t eat lollies in general. Dark chocolate, yes, lollies, no.
They didn’t offer lollipops here.
buffy said:
roughbarked said:
buffy said:Your sunrise is about half an hour before us.
Yes but you are closer to South Australia than myself. I’m exactly 16 minutes later than EST.
Our sunrise is pretty much exactly halfway between Melbourne and Adelaide’s times.
Melbourne actual time should not be different from mine. If you draw a vertical line on the map we are almost on the same line.
Nil lump or redness, just sore here.
Was offered biscuits, lollipops, water , tea and coffee – but it was in a hospital so it would’ve tasted bad if I’d had any anyway…
poikilotherm said:
Was offered biscuits, lollipops, water , tea and coffee – but it was in a hospital so it would’ve tasted bad if I’d had any anyway…
Surely the water would have been passable?
poikilotherm said:
Nil lump or redness, just sore here.
The lump didn’t actually become obvious for a couple of days, nor the redness. I was surprised when it showed up.
roughbarked said:
buffy said:
roughbarked said:The jab soreness. Is it due to the person holding the needle? The little bandaids fall off and I have to think where did that come from.. ah yes that’s right I had a person stick a needle in.
Back in the day I was afeared of needles because they used to hurt.
A couple of weeks and I’ll have had my second jab.
Well, some of it will be because someone stuck a needle into your muscle. And deposited a little bolus of vaccine in there. I presume that is the lump. Mine took around 3 to 4 days to be absorbed by the feel of it. There was also a red patch of reasonable size on the skin around the area, which would be a standard inflammation of the tissues in response to assault.
I didn’t get a bandaid. I was offered a lollipop, which I refused because I don’t eat lollies in general. Dark chocolate, yes, lollies, no.
They didn’t offer lollipops here.
I was at the GP, in the nurse’s room.
The arm stuff would be pretty normal for vaccinations, I think. I have very vague recollections of the BCG for TB leaving you with a sore arm. Although now I look that up, that’s intra dermal, not intra muscular, so that would be the reason. I had that in the 1970s and the scar is still there. P put the COVID needle in just below the BCG scar. He asked me if it was a smallpox vax scar, but I’ve not had that one.
buffy said:
roughbarked said:
buffy said:Well, some of it will be because someone stuck a needle into your muscle. And deposited a little bolus of vaccine in there. I presume that is the lump. Mine took around 3 to 4 days to be absorbed by the feel of it. There was also a red patch of reasonable size on the skin around the area, which would be a standard inflammation of the tissues in response to assault.
I didn’t get a bandaid. I was offered a lollipop, which I refused because I don’t eat lollies in general. Dark chocolate, yes, lollies, no.
They didn’t offer lollipops here.
I was at the GP, in the nurse’s room.
Same here.
buffy said:
The arm stuff would be pretty normal for vaccinations, I think. I have very vague recollections of the BCG for TB leaving you with a sore arm. Although now I look that up, that’s intra dermal, not intra muscular, so that would be the reason. I had that in the 1970s and the scar is still there. P put the COVID needle in just below the BCG scar. He asked me if it was a smallpox vax scar, but I’ve not had that one.
Yea a lump and redness is normal.
buffy said:
The arm stuff would be pretty normal for vaccinations, I think. I have very vague recollections of the BCG for TB leaving you with a sore arm. Although now I look that up, that’s intra dermal, not intra muscular, so that would be the reason. I had that in the 1970s and the scar is still there. P put the COVID needle in just below the BCG scar. He asked me if it was a smallpox vax scar, but I’ve not had that one.
I not long ago had a tetanus booster and the nurse doing it was doing her apprenticeship as she had a sister supervising. No pain or lump.
Yes the TB one is just into the skin.
poikilotherm said:
buffy said:
The arm stuff would be pretty normal for vaccinations, I think. I have very vague recollections of the BCG for TB leaving you with a sore arm. Although now I look that up, that’s intra dermal, not intra muscular, so that would be the reason. I had that in the 1970s and the scar is still there. P put the COVID needle in just below the BCG scar. He asked me if it was a smallpox vax scar, but I’ve not had that one.Yea a lump and redness is normal.
Everyone always told me I was abnormal.
“These documents show that President Trump tried to corrupt our nation’s chief law enforcement agency in a brazen attempt to overturn an election that he lost,” committee chairwoman Carolyn Maloney said.
These actions were separate from the revelations that the Trump-era DOJ secretly sought the phone records of at least two Democratic politicians, a move that led Mr Biden’s Attorney-General, Merrick Garland, to vow to strengthen policies aiming to protect the department from political influence.
The saga continues.
roughbarked said:
“These documents show that President Trump tried to corrupt our nation’s chief law enforcement agency in a brazen attempt to overturn an election that he lost,” committee chairwoman Carolyn Maloney said.These actions were separate from the revelations that the Trump-era DOJ secretly sought the phone records of at least two Democratic politicians, a move that led Mr Biden’s Attorney-General, Merrick Garland, to vow to strengthen policies aiming to protect the department from political influence.
The saga continues.
but does it get better
SCIENCE said:
roughbarked said:
“These documents show that President Trump tried to corrupt our nation’s chief law enforcement agency in a brazen attempt to overturn an election that he lost,” committee chairwoman Carolyn Maloney said.These actions were separate from the revelations that the Trump-era DOJ secretly sought the phone records of at least two Democratic politicians, a move that led Mr Biden’s Attorney-General, Merrick Garland, to vow to strengthen policies aiming to protect the department from political influence.
The saga continues.
but does it get better
Oh I can see gaol time coming on.
Bubblecar said:
sibeen said:
Bubblecar said:How good is fossil fuel? Pays for umpteen baristas in the tourist towns, so we’re told.
They do power this and every other country in the world, so yep, unless you want to live in a cave they are very nice. Doesn’t mean we cannot wean ourselves off them, but that’s not something that is going to happen quickly.
So we need to spend vast sums looking for new fossil sources and fucking up further environments in the process, instead of investing that time and money in alternatives?
That’s not what he said.
sibeen said:
sarahs mum said:
2009: The CPRS was bad climate policyWe voted against the CPRS because it was bad policy that would have locked in failure to take action on climate change.
According to Treasury modelling, under the CPRS there would have been no reduction in emissions for 25 years. It gave billions in handouts to coal companies and big polluters, while it locked in emissions targets that failed the science.
It would not have led to any change in behaviour by big polluters, while any future attempt to strengthen the scheme would have resulted in billion dollar compensation payouts to big polluters.
It gave a false impression it was going to actually do something – in fact, Kevin Rudd’s own climate change advisor warned it could be better to go back to the drawing board.
2010: Greens-led climate action
Just months later, we worked with a more collaborative Gillard Labor government and Independent MPs to introduce world-leading climate legislation. We fought for – and achieved – a much better outcome.This Greens-led package included a price on carbon that worked to reduce emissions, the establishment of the Clean Energy Finance Corporation and the Australian Renewable Energy Agency. It drove down pollution and has driven over $20 billion into over 600 energy projects around the country.
And what happened? Pollution went down when the carbon price was in force. This was one of the few precious times in our history where emissions actually reduced — and, in spite of conservative fear-mongering, the sky didn’t fall in.
It’s still regarded as an example of world-leading emissions reduction legislation, and remains the basis of Greens carbon reduction policy today.
2013: Tony Abbott tore it all down
It was Tony Abbott’s callous destruction of the carbon price, based upon a lie that it was a “carbon tax”, that created the current toxic debate on climate and energy policy.
The carbon price was working before Tony Abbott was elected in 2013 and tore it down.https://greens.org.au/cprs
Oh look, the ALP don’t agree:
A decade after the defeat of the Rudd government’s carbon pollution reduction scheme, Labor has dramatically escalated attacks on the Greens, blaming the minor party for 218 million additional tonnes of carbon pollution since 2010.
Risking exposing Labor to attack over its current absence of a climate change policy, Opposition figures including leader Anthony Albanese, foreign affairs spokeswoman Penny Wong and assistant minister Pat Conroy have used Monday’s anniversary of the parliamentary defeat to argue Australia’s 2020 emissions would have been as much as 81 million tonnes lower than what is now projected, had the scheme been made law.
https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/ten-years-on-labor-blames-greens-for-failed-carbon-price-scheme-20191201-p53fpv
I’ll never support the Greens whilst their policy on nuclear power is in the dark ages, but they have many other sins.
Oh look, the ALP attack a party that they see as eating into their primary vote. What a surprise.
And as for nuclear power, the low probability but extreme adverse effect problems remain unaddressed, and I remain happy with policies to minimise it’s use.
poikilotherm said:
Morning, arm is rather sore today, also have all over body aches. Assuming the Covid vaccination and not my poor sleep due to life stresses.Cold clear and frosty in the Styx.
I had mine done yesterday too, Mr Poiky.
Not nuttin’. Not even a sore spot where they stuck the needle in.
Woodie said:
poikilotherm said:
Morning, arm is rather sore today, also have all over body aches. Assuming the Covid vaccination and not my poor sleep due to life stresses.Cold clear and frosty in the Styx.
I had mine done yesterday too, Mr Poiky.
Not nuttin’. Not even a sore spot where they stuck the needle in.
Woodie said:
poikilotherm said:
Morning, arm is rather sore today, also have all over body aches. Assuming the Covid vaccination and not my poor sleep due to life stresses.Cold clear and frosty in the Styx.
I had mine done yesterday too, Mr Poiky.
Not nuttin’. Not even a sore spot where they stuck the needle in.
“Not nuttin’. Not even a sore spot where they stuck the needle in.”
Hold that thought. I had that thought. Around 12-24 hours later I got really tired – or alternatively, I woke up the next morning, the weather was dull and yuck and I decided that because I could I would spend the day in bed reading. It’s many, many, many years since I’ve done that. And the tender spot on the arm wasn’t evident for a couple of days. None of it drastic.
buffy said:
Woodie said:
poikilotherm said:
Morning, arm is rather sore today, also have all over body aches. Assuming the Covid vaccination and not my poor sleep due to life stresses.Cold clear and frosty in the Styx.
I had mine done yesterday too, Mr Poiky.
Not nuttin’. Not even a sore spot where they stuck the needle in.
“Not nuttin’. Not even a sore spot where they stuck the needle in.”
Hold that thought. I had that thought. Around 12-24 hours later I got really tired – or alternatively, I woke up the next morning, the weather was dull and yuck and I decided that because I could I would spend the day in bed reading. It’s many, many, many years since I’ve done that. And the tender spot on the arm wasn’t evident for a couple of days. None of it drastic.
On the bright side; You got to do something that you hadn’t done for decades.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-16/donald-trump-emails-to-department-of-justice-over-election/100218526
It’s mind boggling.
buffy said:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-16/donald-trump-emails-to-department-of-justice-over-election/100218526It’s mind boggling.
He is a card.
He thought he was trumps.
This Kim Jong Un doesn’t seem to be too bad.
https://www.thejakartapost.com/life/2021/06/15/kim-jong-un-deems-k-pop-a-vicious-cancer.html
Morning pilgrims, got nothing.
Peak Warming Man said:
Morning pilgrims, got nothing.
Lying barsteward. You have way more than me.
Ceasefire broken as Israel carries out air strikes in Gaza after militants launch balloon firebombs
Israel says its aircraft struck Hamas military compounds in Gaza, after incendiary balloons launched from Gaza caused at least 10 fires in southern Israel.
Posted 25 minutes ago /
roughbarked said:
Ceasefire broken as Israel carries out air strikes in Gaza…
Dark Orange said:
roughbarked said:
Ceasefire broken as Israel carries out air strikes in Gaza…
Yeah.
Dark Orange said:
roughbarked said:
Ceasefire broken as Israel carries out air strikes in Gaza…
Apparently because the orthodox march was done again which started off the last lot.
roughbarked said:
Dark Orange said:
roughbarked said:
Ceasefire broken as Israel carries out air strikes in Gaza…
Yeah.
No bias there at all.
“Israel retaliates after militants break ceasefire”
Dark Orange said:
roughbarked said:
Dark Orange said:Yeah.
No bias there at all.
“Israel retaliates after militants break ceasefire”
Perhaps the full headline give a bit more information:
“Ceasefire broken as Israel carries out air strikes in Gaza after militants launch balloon firebombs following Jerusalem march”
buffy said:
Dark Orange said:
roughbarked said:
Ceasefire broken as Israel carries out air strikes in Gaza…
Apparently because the orthodox march was done again which started off the last lot.
They are nuts.
Dark Orange said:
roughbarked said:
Dark Orange said:Yeah.
No bias there at all.
“Israel retaliates after militants break ceasefire”
buffy said:
Dark Orange said:
roughbarked said:Yeah.
No bias there at all.
“Israel retaliates after militants break ceasefire”
Perhaps the full headline give a bit more information:
“Ceasefire broken as Israel carries out air strikes in Gaza after militants launch balloon firebombs following Jerusalem march”
Well I did say all of that because I copied it all verbatim.
roughbarked said:
buffy said:
Dark Orange said:No bias there at all.
“Israel retaliates after militants break ceasefire”
Perhaps the full headline give a bit more information:
“Ceasefire broken as Israel carries out air strikes in Gaza after militants launch balloon firebombs following Jerusalem march”
Well I did say all of that because I copied it all verbatim.
Hello
Cymek said:
Hello
Tamb said:
roughbarked said:
buffy said:Perhaps the full headline give a bit more information:
“Ceasefire broken as Israel carries out air strikes in Gaza after militants launch balloon firebombs following Jerusalem march”
Well I did say all of that because I copied it all verbatim.
It still reads as though Israel were the ones who broke the ceasefire.
They are occupying Palestine…
Tamb said:
roughbarked said:
buffy said:Perhaps the full headline give a bit more information:
“Ceasefire broken as Israel carries out air strikes in Gaza after militants launch balloon firebombs following Jerusalem march”
Well I did say all of that because I copied it all verbatim.
It still reads as though Israel were the ones who broke the ceasefire.
Protests usually seem to support the Palestinian’s making out they have done nothing wrong and are the only victims
Both sides do wrong but because Israel has the ability to take out missiles and have jets they are the bad guys.
Neither side deserve the West Bank, should kick them all out until the can reach an agreement
Just had a phone chat with my receptionist’s husband. He’s holding up OK at the moment. We have been particularly invited to attend the funeral, which is limited numbers. I asked him to prioritize her family, but a number of them can’t come (in Darwin, in NSW etc). So we have accepted. I also now understand just how it went in the last 10 days for her. (He’s an ex ambo, he’s good at telling it as it is)
buffy said:
Just had a phone chat with my receptionist’s husband. He’s holding up OK at the moment. We have been particularly invited to attend the funeral, which is limited numbers. I asked him to prioritize her family, but a number of them can’t come (in Darwin, in NSW etc). So we have accepted. I also now understand just how it went in the last 10 days for her. (He’s an ex ambo, he’s good at telling it as it is)
I seem to recall you did get a chance to see her quite recently.
Bubblecar said:
buffy said:
Just had a phone chat with my receptionist’s husband. He’s holding up OK at the moment. We have been particularly invited to attend the funeral, which is limited numbers. I asked him to prioritize her family, but a number of them can’t come (in Darwin, in NSW etc). So we have accepted. I also now understand just how it went in the last 10 days for her. (He’s an ex ambo, he’s good at telling it as it is)
I seem to recall you did get a chance to see her quite recently.
A few months ago. She was in remission at that stage. I had spoken on the phone to her some weeks ago too. She had to be very careful with a compromised immune system.
This may interest you Arts:
Getting away with murder
In America, killers are nearly as likely to go free as to be caught
Jun 11th 2021
TONI STEVENSON had just arrived at her home in St Louis when two masked men with assault rifles ran up, shot her and fled. Just 15 years old, she died at the scene. Four years have gone by, and her murderers have not yet been apprehended.
They are in good company. The year Ms Stevenson was killed, the homicide clearance rate in St Louis—generally the ratio of number of arrests for murder to the number of murders—was 53%. It has since fallen further. And St Louis is no exception: in cities such as Albuquerque, Baltimore and Tampa, two out of every three murders fade into history without an arrest.
Over the past half-century, the homicide clearance rate in America’s cities has fallen. For years, it dropped steeply: even as murders fell from their peak in the 1990s, a smaller and smaller proportion of them were being solved. Since 2000, the clearance rate has levelled off, and in the most populous cities it now hovers around an ignominious 60%. This puts America far below other rich-country peers when it comes to catching killers. In the Netherlands, Sweden and most of Britain, clearance rates are roughly 80%. In Japan, New Zealand and South Korea, they exceed 90%.
The situation may be even more dire than these statistics suggest, because some police departments’ clearance rates may be overstated. Cases can be considered cleared not only when an arrest is made, but also when suspects die, when witnesses are unavailable, or when police say they’ve identified a suspect but decline to arrest them. In some jurisdictions, these nuances can be used to exaggerate clearance figures.
Why do so many American killers escape justice? In gang- and drug-related murders, witnesses may be afraid to co-operate. Some departments say that failures to make headway in such cases, which account for a sizable share of killings in some American cities, are largely responsible for low clearance rates. Research has found that this is one of several factors outside the control of investigators that help to determine whether a case will be solved. Other elements are easier to change: response time, the rigour of follow-up interviews and the number of detectives assigned to a case all help to predict whether it will be solved. There is some evidence that interventions aimed at improving these factors can increase clearance rates. Other studies suggest that when policemen spend more time collecting fines and fees—and therefore less time investigating murders—clearance rates may suffer.
Homicide clearance rates are not just chronically low, but chronically unequal as well. In some cities, such as Boston, the murder of a white victim is twice as likely to be solved as the murder of a black victim. Researchers such as Jill Leovy, a sociologist who wrote a book on the topic, argue that this failure builds distrust of the police—and that this distrust will result in even more murders.
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2021/06/11/getting-away-with-murder?
Witty Rejoinder said:
This may interest you Arts:Getting away with murder
In America, killers are nearly as likely to go free as to be caughtJun 11th 2021
TONI STEVENSON had just arrived at her home in St Louis when two masked men with assault rifles ran up, shot her and fled. Just 15 years old, she died at the scene. Four years have gone by, and her murderers have not yet been apprehended.
They are in good company. The year Ms Stevenson was killed, the homicide clearance rate in St Louis—generally the ratio of number of arrests for murder to the number of murders—was 53%. It has since fallen further. And St Louis is no exception: in cities such as Albuquerque, Baltimore and Tampa, two out of every three murders fade into history without an arrest.
Over the past half-century, the homicide clearance rate in America’s cities has fallen. For years, it dropped steeply: even as murders fell from their peak in the 1990s, a smaller and smaller proportion of them were being solved. Since 2000, the clearance rate has levelled off, and in the most populous cities it now hovers around an ignominious 60%. This puts America far below other rich-country peers when it comes to catching killers. In the Netherlands, Sweden and most of Britain, clearance rates are roughly 80%. In Japan, New Zealand and South Korea, they exceed 90%.
The situation may be even more dire than these statistics suggest, because some police departments’ clearance rates may be overstated. Cases can be considered cleared not only when an arrest is made, but also when suspects die, when witnesses are unavailable, or when police say they’ve identified a suspect but decline to arrest them. In some jurisdictions, these nuances can be used to exaggerate clearance figures.
Why do so many American killers escape justice? In gang- and drug-related murders, witnesses may be afraid to co-operate. Some departments say that failures to make headway in such cases, which account for a sizable share of killings in some American cities, are largely responsible for low clearance rates. Research has found that this is one of several factors outside the control of investigators that help to determine whether a case will be solved. Other elements are easier to change: response time, the rigour of follow-up interviews and the number of detectives assigned to a case all help to predict whether it will be solved. There is some evidence that interventions aimed at improving these factors can increase clearance rates. Other studies suggest that when policemen spend more time collecting fines and fees—and therefore less time investigating murders—clearance rates may suffer.
Homicide clearance rates are not just chronically low, but chronically unequal as well. In some cities, such as Boston, the murder of a white victim is twice as likely to be solved as the murder of a black victim. Researchers such as Jill Leovy, a sociologist who wrote a book on the topic, argue that this failure builds distrust of the police—and that this distrust will result in even more murders.
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2021/06/11/getting-away-with-murder?
I wonder how the education level and training compares to those nations that solve more homicides.
One week training on solving murders three months on shooting guns
Witty Rejoinder said:
This may interest you Arts:Getting away with murder
In America, killers are nearly as likely to go free as to be caughtJun 11th 2021
TONI STEVENSON had just arrived at her home in St Louis when two masked men with assault rifles ran up, shot her and fled. Just 15 years old, she died at the scene. Four years have gone by, and her murderers have not yet been apprehended.
They are in good company. The year Ms Stevenson was killed, the homicide clearance rate in St Louis—generally the ratio of number of arrests for murder to the number of murders—was 53%. It has since fallen further. And St Louis is no exception: in cities such as Albuquerque, Baltimore and Tampa, two out of every three murders fade into history without an arrest.
Over the past half-century, the homicide clearance rate in America’s cities has fallen. For years, it dropped steeply: even as murders fell from their peak in the 1990s, a smaller and smaller proportion of them were being solved. Since 2000, the clearance rate has levelled off, and in the most populous cities it now hovers around an ignominious 60%. This puts America far below other rich-country peers when it comes to catching killers. In the Netherlands, Sweden and most of Britain, clearance rates are roughly 80%. In Japan, New Zealand and South Korea, they exceed 90%.
The situation may be even more dire than these statistics suggest, because some police departments’ clearance rates may be overstated. Cases can be considered cleared not only when an arrest is made, but also when suspects die, when witnesses are unavailable, or when police say they’ve identified a suspect but decline to arrest them. In some jurisdictions, these nuances can be used to exaggerate clearance figures.
Why do so many American killers escape justice? In gang- and drug-related murders, witnesses may be afraid to co-operate. Some departments say that failures to make headway in such cases, which account for a sizable share of killings in some American cities, are largely responsible for low clearance rates. Research has found that this is one of several factors outside the control of investigators that help to determine whether a case will be solved. Other elements are easier to change: response time, the rigour of follow-up interviews and the number of detectives assigned to a case all help to predict whether it will be solved. There is some evidence that interventions aimed at improving these factors can increase clearance rates. Other studies suggest that when policemen spend more time collecting fines and fees—and therefore less time investigating murders—clearance rates may suffer.
Homicide clearance rates are not just chronically low, but chronically unequal as well. In some cities, such as Boston, the murder of a white victim is twice as likely to be solved as the murder of a black victim. Researchers such as Jill Leovy, a sociologist who wrote a book on the topic, argue that this failure builds distrust of the police—and that this distrust will result in even more murders.
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2021/06/11/getting-away-with-murder?
thank you, I already knew this.. I work with the cold case review group here and we are aware of the current trends in investigations.. but also it’s a money thing… and a pressure from government representatives to clear cases (though that usually relates more to false conviction rates). there are several projects in the US that aim to address the back log of forensic testing waiting to be performed… usually around rape cases, but also with homicide investigations in mind.. they rely on public donations.. which is fucking insane when you think about it
also part of my current research is about the social/media response to victimology and offender categorisation.. it’s interesting and terrifying at the same time
I get to do something slightly more interesting today.
Going through old warrants to gather information regarding charges, reoffending, etc
The department is trying to close them off as they are 20 plus years old and if the original offences and reoffending isn’t serious that’s a good reason
Cymek said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
This may interest you Arts:Getting away with murder
In America, killers are nearly as likely to go free as to be caughtJun 11th 2021
TONI STEVENSON had just arrived at her home in St Louis when two masked men with assault rifles ran up, shot her and fled. Just 15 years old, she died at the scene. Four years have gone by, and her murderers have not yet been apprehended.
They are in good company. The year Ms Stevenson was killed, the homicide clearance rate in St Louis—generally the ratio of number of arrests for murder to the number of murders—was 53%. It has since fallen further. And St Louis is no exception: in cities such as Albuquerque, Baltimore and Tampa, two out of every three murders fade into history without an arrest.
Over the past half-century, the homicide clearance rate in America’s cities has fallen. For years, it dropped steeply: even as murders fell from their peak in the 1990s, a smaller and smaller proportion of them were being solved. Since 2000, the clearance rate has levelled off, and in the most populous cities it now hovers around an ignominious 60%. This puts America far below other rich-country peers when it comes to catching killers. In the Netherlands, Sweden and most of Britain, clearance rates are roughly 80%. In Japan, New Zealand and South Korea, they exceed 90%.
The situation may be even more dire than these statistics suggest, because some police departments’ clearance rates may be overstated. Cases can be considered cleared not only when an arrest is made, but also when suspects die, when witnesses are unavailable, or when police say they’ve identified a suspect but decline to arrest them. In some jurisdictions, these nuances can be used to exaggerate clearance figures.
Why do so many American killers escape justice? In gang- and drug-related murders, witnesses may be afraid to co-operate. Some departments say that failures to make headway in such cases, which account for a sizable share of killings in some American cities, are largely responsible for low clearance rates. Research has found that this is one of several factors outside the control of investigators that help to determine whether a case will be solved. Other elements are easier to change: response time, the rigour of follow-up interviews and the number of detectives assigned to a case all help to predict whether it will be solved. There is some evidence that interventions aimed at improving these factors can increase clearance rates. Other studies suggest that when policemen spend more time collecting fines and fees—and therefore less time investigating murders—clearance rates may suffer.
Homicide clearance rates are not just chronically low, but chronically unequal as well. In some cities, such as Boston, the murder of a white victim is twice as likely to be solved as the murder of a black victim. Researchers such as Jill Leovy, a sociologist who wrote a book on the topic, argue that this failure builds distrust of the police—and that this distrust will result in even more murders.
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2021/06/11/getting-away-with-murder?
I wonder how the education level and training compares to those nations that solve more homicides.
One week training on solving murders three months on shooting guns
there is also ‘vested interest’ training.. training in methodologies that aren’t necessarily robust but the creators have maintained a historical relationship with law enforcement… two that spring to mind are criminal profiling (again, don’t even get me started) and the Reid Technique for suspect questioning.. both flawed in many ways, but they outwardly look to get results thanks to clever marketing and reliance on one or two high profile cases where they actually worked… against all the other cases that are not discussed where their massive flaws are apparent.
A heads up to the Perthites, I shall be coming up at the end of July for a car service. It is also my Birthday on the 1st August so I thought that seeing that is a Sunday a Pud would be in order. Also be convenient to have you all there for the gift giving.
Bogsnorkler said:
A heads up to the Perthites, I shall be coming up at the end of July for a car service. It is also my Birthday on the 1st August so I thought that seeing that is a Sunday a Pud would be in order. Also be convenient to have you all there for the gift giving.
I am giving the gift of solitude.
Arts said:
Bogsnorkler said:
A heads up to the Perthites, I shall be coming up at the end of July for a car service. It is also my Birthday on the 1st August so I thought that seeing that is a Sunday a Pud would be in order. Also be convenient to have you all there for the gift giving.
I am giving the gift of solitude.
I’ll add that to my collection in the loneliness cabinet.
Bogsnorkler said:
A heads up to the Perthites, I shall be coming up at the end of July for a car service. It is also my Birthday on the 1st August so I thought that seeing that is a Sunday a Pud would be in order. Also be convenient to have you all there for the gift giving.
Get him something he really needs, rubber goods.
Bogsnorkler said:
Arts said:
Bogsnorkler said:
A heads up to the Perthites, I shall be coming up at the end of July for a car service. It is also my Birthday on the 1st August so I thought that seeing that is a Sunday a Pud would be in order. Also be convenient to have you all there for the gift giving.
I am giving the gift of solitude.
I’ll add that to my collection in the loneliness cabinet.
noted.
A Senate inquiry will investigate the labelling on non-animal protein products, as the description of “fake meat” comes under scrutiny.
A senate enquiry?
Witty Rejoinder said:
Look, there’s a camera. Let’s pose.
the WA police have used our contact tracing ap SAFEWA, to track a suspect in a bikie murder. They have breached confidence with the public and created a scenario where people will be less likely to use the app. creating an issue with community health.
On top of that, a smart defence lawyer will use the unconventional process as a breach of public confidence and have the whole case thrown out… therefore letting a potential murderer go free
roughbarked said:
A Senate inquiry will investigate the labelling on non-animal protein products, as the description of “fake meat” comes under scrutiny.A senate enquiry?
Of what aspect of this inquiry do you wish to enquire?
The Rev Dodgson said:
roughbarked said:
A Senate inquiry will investigate the labelling on non-animal protein products, as the description of “fake meat” comes under scrutiny.A senate enquiry?
Of what aspect of this inquiry do you wish to enquire?
I’m nt the one inquiring. ffs. I know they come from a sanitorium but there have been vegetarian sausages for many decades and they are only kicking up a stink now?
Arts said:
the WA police have used our contact tracing ap SAFEWA, to track a suspect in a bikie murder. They have breached confidence with the public and created a scenario where people will be less likely to use the app. creating an issue with community health.On top of that, a smart defence lawyer will use the unconventional process as a breach of public confidence and have the whole case thrown out… therefore letting a potential murderer go free
Doesn’t sound like a great move.
I’m also often surprised by the extent of public comment preceding and during active court cases. This must surely give defence lawyers ammunition allowing guilty people to go free.
roughbarked said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
roughbarked said:
A Senate inquiry will investigate the labelling on non-animal protein products, as the description of “fake meat” comes under scrutiny.A senate enquiry?
Of what aspect of this inquiry do you wish to enquire?
I’m nt the one inquiring. ffs. I know they come from a sanitorium but there have been vegetarian sausages for many decades and they are only kicking up a stink now?
I don’t have a problem with the question. I was just wondering about the spelling.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Arts said:
the WA police have used our contact tracing ap SAFEWA, to track a suspect in a bikie murder. They have breached confidence with the public and created a scenario where people will be less likely to use the app. creating an issue with community health.On top of that, a smart defence lawyer will use the unconventional process as a breach of public confidence and have the whole case thrown out… therefore letting a potential murderer go free
Doesn’t sound like a great move.
I’m also often surprised by the extent of public comment preceding and during active court cases. This must surely give defence lawyers ammunition allowing guilty people to go free.
a professional shouldn’t let popular opinion get in the way of the facts in a criminal case.. but we are talking about lawyers here.
roughbarked said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
roughbarked said:
A Senate inquiry will investigate the labelling on non-animal protein products, as the description of “fake meat” comes under scrutiny.A senate enquiry?
Of what aspect of this inquiry do you wish to enquire?
I’m nt the one inquiring. ffs. I know they come from a sanitorium but there have been vegetarian sausages for many decades and they are only kicking up a stink now?
Vested interest
The inquiry has been announced by Queensland Nationals senator and former butcher Susan McDonald.
“The industry invests hundreds of millions of dollars each year to develop and enhance the intellectual property and benefits of red meat in Australia, and it’s important that these investments are protected,” Senator McDonald said.
Reasonable request
Clare Collins, a professor of nutrition and dietetics at the University of Newcastle, said it was a food safety issue that needed to be addressed, with fake meats not always healthy alternatives.
“I think now is really the time for physicians and the scientific community to push back on this,” she said
Cymek said:
roughbarked said:
The Rev Dodgson said:Of what aspect of this inquiry do you wish to enquire?
I’m nt the one inquiring. ffs. I know they come from a sanitorium but there have been vegetarian sausages for many decades and they are only kicking up a stink now?
Vested interest
The inquiry has been announced by Queensland Nationals senator and former butcher Susan McDonald.
“The industry invests hundreds of millions of dollars each year to develop and enhance the intellectual property and benefits of red meat in Australia, and it’s important that these investments are protected,” Senator McDonald said.Reasonable request
Clare Collins, a professor of nutrition and dietetics at the University of Newcastle, said it was a food safety issue that needed to be addressed, with fake meats not always healthy alternatives.
“I think now is really the time for physicians and the scientific community to push back on this,” she said
Some proper fake news.
Peak Warming Man said:
Cymek said:
roughbarked said:I’m nt the one inquiring. ffs. I know they come from a sanitorium but there have been vegetarian sausages for many decades and they are only kicking up a stink now?
Vested interest
The inquiry has been announced by Queensland Nationals senator and former butcher Susan McDonald.
“The industry invests hundreds of millions of dollars each year to develop and enhance the intellectual property and benefits of red meat in Australia, and it’s important that these investments are protected,” Senator McDonald said.Reasonable request
Clare Collins, a professor of nutrition and dietetics at the University of Newcastle, said it was a food safety issue that needed to be addressed, with fake meats not always healthy alternatives.
“I think now is really the time for physicians and the scientific community to push back on this,” she saidSome proper fake news.
There is no such Senate inquiry then?
The Rev Dodgson said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Cymek said:Vested interest
The inquiry has been announced by Queensland Nationals senator and former butcher Susan McDonald.
“The industry invests hundreds of millions of dollars each year to develop and enhance the intellectual property and benefits of red meat in Australia, and it’s important that these investments are protected,” Senator McDonald said.Reasonable request
Clare Collins, a professor of nutrition and dietetics at the University of Newcastle, said it was a food safety issue that needed to be addressed, with fake meats not always healthy alternatives.
“I think now is really the time for physicians and the scientific community to push back on this,” she saidSome proper fake news.
There is no such Senate inquiry then?
Yes their is meant to be one, surely if would be a civil court matter if that, about word definitions.
Arts said:
the WA police have used our contact tracing ap SAFEWA, to track a suspect in a bikie murder. They have breached confidence with the public and created a scenario where people will be less likely to use the app. creating an issue with community health.On top of that, a smart defence lawyer will use the unconventional process as a breach of public confidence and have the whole case thrown out… therefore letting a potential murderer go free
they can’t resist, can they?
The Rev Dodgson said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Cymek said:Vested interest
The inquiry has been announced by Queensland Nationals senator and former butcher Susan McDonald.
“The industry invests hundreds of millions of dollars each year to develop and enhance the intellectual property and benefits of red meat in Australia, and it’s important that these investments are protected,” Senator McDonald said.Reasonable request
Clare Collins, a professor of nutrition and dietetics at the University of Newcastle, said it was a food safety issue that needed to be addressed, with fake meats not always healthy alternatives.
“I think now is really the time for physicians and the scientific community to push back on this,” she saidSome proper fake news.
There is no such Senate inquiry then?
Maybe I should have said some proper new about fake products.
Bogsnorkler said:
Arts said:
the WA police have used our contact tracing ap SAFEWA, to track a suspect in a bikie murder. They have breached confidence with the public and created a scenario where people will be less likely to use the app. creating an issue with community health.On top of that, a smart defence lawyer will use the unconventional process as a breach of public confidence and have the whole case thrown out… therefore letting a potential murderer go free
they can’t resist, can they?
They could have told a small lie that CCTV picked them up
Our cat ‘Billy the Kit’ played a practical joke on us two days ago.
Mrs m went out the back door and came in looking pale and saying “there’s a snake in the bushes”.
I went out and sure enough there was a snake in the bushes nearest to our back door.
Billy the Kit had stolen a rubber snake from next door’s yard and placed it in our bushes for us to find. Score one for Billy.
mollwollfumble said:
Our cat ‘Billy the Kit’ played a practical joke on us two days ago.Mrs m went out the back door and came in looking pale and saying “there’s a snake in the bushes”.
I went out and sure enough there was a snake in the bushes nearest to our back door.
Billy the Kit had stolen a rubber snake from next door’s yard and placed it in our bushes for us to find. Score one for Billy.
Did he then try to blame the dog?
Tamb said:
mollwollfumble said:
Our cat ‘Billy the Kit’ played a practical joke on us two days ago.Mrs m went out the back door and came in looking pale and saying “there’s a snake in the bushes”.
I went out and sure enough there was a snake in the bushes nearest to our back door.
Billy the Kit had stolen a rubber snake from next door’s yard and placed it in our bushes for us to find. Score one for Billy.
Did he then try to blame the dog?
To manage that, he’d have to give it to the dog to chew first so that forensics could later match the teeth marks before placing the snake in said position to be discovered.
mollwollfumble said:
Our cat ‘Billy the Kit’ played a practical joke on us two days ago.Mrs m went out the back door and came in looking pale and saying “there’s a snake in the bushes”.
I went out and sure enough there was a snake in the bushes nearest to our back door.
Billy the Kit had stolen a rubber snake from next door’s yard and placed it in our bushes for us to find. Score one for Billy.
You should get a baby goat and a squid, then you could have three pets called Billy.
Cymek said:
Bogsnorkler said:
Arts said:
the WA police have used our contact tracing ap SAFEWA, to track a suspect in a bikie murder. They have breached confidence with the public and created a scenario where people will be less likely to use the app. creating an issue with community health.On top of that, a smart defence lawyer will use the unconventional process as a breach of public confidence and have the whole case thrown out… therefore letting a potential murderer go free
they can’t resist, can they?
They could have told a small lie that CCTV picked them up
that’s a bit more difficult to justify.. “we happened to be looking at all the right CCTV cameras at the right time”.
The Rev Dodgson said:
mollwollfumble said:
Our cat ‘Billy the Kit’ played a practical joke on us two days ago.Mrs m went out the back door and came in looking pale and saying “there’s a snake in the bushes”.
I went out and sure enough there was a snake in the bushes nearest to our back door.
Billy the Kit had stolen a rubber snake from next door’s yard and placed it in our bushes for us to find. Score one for Billy.
You should get a baby goat and a squid, then you could have three pets called Billy.
Another billy:
The Rev Dodgson said:
I don’t have a problem with the question. I was just wondering about the spelling.
‘Inquiry’ and ‘enquiry’ tend to be used interchangeably, but ‘inquiry’ is the one that gets used when it’s an official look into something. It has the same origins as ‘inquest’ (like a coroner’s inquest).
Please note: this is not dogma which is laid down in black-and-white anywhere in the language, so if anyone wants to don the Hat of Pedantry about it, i won’t be engaging in debate.
Tamb said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
mollwollfumble said:
Our cat ‘Billy the Kit’ played a practical joke on us two days ago.Mrs m went out the back door and came in looking pale and saying “there’s a snake in the bushes”.
I went out and sure enough there was a snake in the bushes nearest to our back door.
Billy the Kit had stolen a rubber snake from next door’s yard and placed it in our bushes for us to find. Score one for Billy.
You should get a baby goat and a squid, then you could have three pets called Billy.
Another billy:
Now that’s a Billy you can take anywhere.
captain_spalding said:
The Rev Dodgson said:I don’t have a problem with the question. I was just wondering about the spelling.
‘Inquiry’ and ‘enquiry’ tend to be used interchangeably, but ‘inquiry’ is the one that gets used when it’s an official look into something. It has the same origins as ‘inquest’ (like a coroner’s inquest).
Please note: this is not dogma which is laid down in black-and-white anywhere in the language, so if anyone wants to don the Hat of Pedantry about it, i won’t be engaging in debate.
That’s why I avoided enjoining.
Canberra renters detail the additional clauses they have been asked to agree to in order to secure a lease — everything from taking care of a landlord’s chooks to agreeing not to have sex on the property.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-16/act-call-for-stricter-controls-for-act-landlords-lease-disputes/100217382
captain_spalding said:
The Rev Dodgson said:I don’t have a problem with the question. I was just wondering about the spelling.
‘Inquiry’ and ‘enquiry’ tend to be used interchangeably, but ‘inquiry’ is the one that gets used when it’s an official look into something. It has the same origins as ‘inquest’ (like a coroner’s inquest).
Please note: this is not dogma which is laid down in black-and-white anywhere in the language, so if anyone wants to don the Hat of Pedantry about it, i won’t be engaging in debate.
Anyway, an inquiry/enquiry into non-meat sausages will be a helpful little distraction from whatever massive f***-ups by the L/NP government currently has its foot in.
Tamb said:
captain_spalding said:
The Rev Dodgson said:I don’t have a problem with the question. I was just wondering about the spelling.
‘Inquiry’ and ‘enquiry’ tend to be used interchangeably, but ‘inquiry’ is the one that gets used when it’s an official look into something. It has the same origins as ‘inquest’ (like a coroner’s inquest).
Please note: this is not dogma which is laid down in black-and-white anywhere in the language, so if anyone wants to don the Hat of Pedantry about it, i won’t be engaging in debate.
No pedantry here. In speech you enquire about something. If your enquiries justify it then there may be an Inquiry.
Elegant.
Arts said:
Cymek said:
Bogsnorkler said:they can’t resist, can they?
They could have told a small lie that CCTV picked them up
that’s a bit more difficult to justify.. “we happened to be looking at all the right CCTV cameras at the right time”.
True, they gave the game away though, but that’s life
Cymek said:
Arts said:
Cymek said:They could have told a small lie that CCTV picked them up
that’s a bit more difficult to justify.. “we happened to be looking at all the right CCTV cameras at the right time”.
True, they gave the game away though, but that’s life
They’re WA coppers.
WA coppers are indoctrinated with the ‘i’m-a-police-officer-i-can-do-as-i-please’ mindset at least as much as, and possibly a little more than, any other police force in the country.
They just get used to getting away with it.
captain_spalding said:
Anyway, an inquiry/enquiry into non-meat sausages will be a helpful little distraction from whatever massive f***-ups by the L/NP government currently has its foot in.
roughbarked said:
Canberra renters detail the additional clauses they have been asked to agree to in order to secure a lease — everything from taking care of a landlord’s chooks to agreeing not to have sex on the property.https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-16/act-call-for-stricter-controls-for-act-landlords-lease-disputes/100217382
If a landlord wants to have the tenants look after the chooks, I don’t see a problem with that, as long as it was mentioned when the rent was agreed of course.
Banning sex on the property does seem to be going a little bit far though.
captain_spalding said:
Cymek said:
Arts said:that’s a bit more difficult to justify.. “we happened to be looking at all the right CCTV cameras at the right time”.
True, they gave the game away though, but that’s life
They’re WA coppers.
WA coppers are indoctrinated with the ‘i’m-a-police-officer-i-can-do-as-i-please’ mindset at least as much as, and possibly a little more than, any other police force in the country.
They just get used to getting away with it.
Tamb said:
captain_spalding said:
Cymek said:True, they gave the game away though, but that’s life
They’re WA coppers.
WA coppers are indoctrinated with the ‘i’m-a-police-officer-i-can-do-as-i-please’ mindset at least as much as, and possibly a little more than, any other police force in the country.
They just get used to getting away with it.
It was once said that the Qld police were the finest money could buy.
I think that NSW cops would have a legitimate (?) claim to that title these days.
captain_spalding said:
Cymek said:
Arts said:that’s a bit more difficult to justify.. “we happened to be looking at all the right CCTV cameras at the right time”.
True, they gave the game away though, but that’s life
They’re WA coppers.
WA coppers are indoctrinated with the ‘i’m-a-police-officer-i-can-do-as-i-please’ mindset at least as much as, and possibly a little more than, any other police force in the country.
They just get used to getting away with it.
I live here. I don’t see them in the news like the eastern state police. What they did with the wasafe app was legal. laws are now being changed.
captain_spalding said:
Anyway, an inquiry/enquiry into non-meat sausages will be a helpful little distraction from whatever massive f***-ups by the L/NP government currently has its foot in.
It could well work out thus for them.
The Rev Dodgson said:
roughbarked said:
Canberra renters detail the additional clauses they have been asked to agree to in order to secure a lease — everything from taking care of a landlord’s chooks to agreeing not to have sex on the property.https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-16/act-call-for-stricter-controls-for-act-landlords-lease-disputes/100217382
If a landlord wants to have the tenants look after the chooks, I don’t see a problem with that, as long as it was mentioned when the rent was agreed of course.
Banning sex on the property does seem to be going a little bit far though.
Sounds like they don’t want to rent it.
Bogsnorkler said:
What they did with the wasafe app was legal. laws are now being changed.
¿ref
captain_spalding said:
Anyway, an inquiry/enquiry into non-meat sausages will be a helpful little distraction from whatever massive f***-ups by the L/NP government currently has its foot in.
^
SCIENCE said:
Bogsnorkler said:What they did with the wasafe app was legal. laws are now being changed.
¿ref
Where should I be looking? Cortinarius?
Bogsnorkler said:
SCIENCE said:
Bogsnorkler said:What they did with the wasafe app was legal. laws are now being changed.
¿ref
Aha so this is all a set-up to increase confidence in the app, leave a loophole quietly so that it can make the news, then use it successfully, then let the public see how you move to protect their privacy even more, nice one ¡
buffy said:
Where should I be looking? Cortinarius?
Spore pint should be rust brown.
Michael V said:
buffy said:
Where should I be looking? Cortinarius?
Spore pint should be rust brown.
mmm. I suppose I’d better bring in the one I tipped over. Looks like brown spores though. Some more pictures:
The Rev Dodgson said:
roughbarked said:
Canberra renters detail the additional clauses they have been asked to agree to in order to secure a lease — everything from taking care of a landlord’s chooks to agreeing not to have sex on the property.https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-16/act-call-for-stricter-controls-for-act-landlords-lease-disputes/100217382
If a landlord wants to have the tenants look after the chooks, I don’t see a problem with that, as long as it was mentioned when the rent was agreed of course.
Banning sex on the property does seem to be going a little bit far though.
i’d expect some terms (conditions, whatever) are so absurd (including fluidity of terms) as to probably make possible a retrospective null and void, which puts the ‘agreement’ in more informal territory, which of course suits the party with more power
transition said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
roughbarked said:
Canberra renters detail the additional clauses they have been asked to agree to in order to secure a lease — everything from taking care of a landlord’s chooks to agreeing not to have sex on the property.https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-16/act-call-for-stricter-controls-for-act-landlords-lease-disputes/100217382
If a landlord wants to have the tenants look after the chooks, I don’t see a problem with that, as long as it was mentioned when the rent was agreed of course.
Banning sex on the property does seem to be going a little bit far though.
i’d expect some terms (conditions, whatever) are so absurd (including fluidity of terms) as to probably make possible a retrospective null and void, which puts the ‘agreement’ in more informal territory, which of course suits the party with more power
what if it’s non penetrative
SCIENCE said:
transition said:
The Rev Dodgson said:If a landlord wants to have the tenants look after the chooks, I don’t see a problem with that, as long as it was mentioned when the rent was agreed of course.
Banning sex on the property does seem to be going a little bit far though.
i’d expect some terms (conditions, whatever) are so absurd (including fluidity of terms) as to probably make possible a retrospective null and void, which puts the ‘agreement’ in more informal territory, which of course suits the party with more power
what if it’s non penetrative
you’re evil
From the 1936 Hohner harmonica catalogue.
Bubblecar said:
From the 1936 Hohner harmonica catalogue.
Friend sent me this
Do we think it’s woo woo?
Support Yourself & Your Family In Our Wireless World
smartDOT, an EMF protection device, which retunes the electromagnetic frequencies at its source, so the devices are more comfortable to use.
Tamb said:
Friend sent me this
Do we think it’s woo woo?Support Yourself & Your Family In Our Wireless World
smartDOT, an EMF protection device, which retunes the electromagnetic frequencies at its source, so the devices are more comfortable to use.
Are these devices being inserted somewhere, if so I recommend lube not smartDOT
Tamb said:
Friend sent me this
Do we think it’s woo woo?Support Yourself & Your Family In Our Wireless World
smartDOT, an EMF protection device, which retunes the electromagnetic frequencies at its source, so the devices are more comfortable to use.
SmartDot radiation-protection phone stickers ‘have no effect’
Stickers supposed to protect users against mobile-phone radiation have no effect, scientists have found.
Energydots says they “counteract the harmful energy emitted by wireless and electronic equipment” to aid sleep, cure headaches and give a clearer mind.
But University of Surrey tests for BBC News found no evidence of any effect.
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-55613452
Arts said:
the WA police have used our contact tracing ap SAFEWA, to track a suspect in a bikie murder. They have breached confidence with the public and created a scenario where people will be less likely to use the app. creating an issue with community health.On top of that, a smart defence lawyer will use the unconventional process as a breach of public confidence and have the whole case thrown out… therefore letting a potential murderer go free
fucking idiots
Cymek said:
Tamb said:
Friend sent me this
Do we think it’s woo woo?Support Yourself & Your Family In Our Wireless World
smartDOT, an EMF protection device, which retunes the electromagnetic frequencies at its source, so the devices are more comfortable to use.
Are these devices being inserted somewhere, if so I recommend lube not smartDOT
Interesting, and reasonable footage too.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-16/sea-lions-fishing-boat-chile-escaping-killer-whales/100218702
buffy said:
Interesting, and reasonable footage too.https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-16/sea-lions-fishing-boat-chile-escaping-killer-whales/100218702
Chaos.
Bubblecar said:
Tamb said:
Friend sent me this
Do we think it’s woo woo?Support Yourself & Your Family In Our Wireless World
smartDOT, an EMF protection device, which retunes the electromagnetic frequencies at its source, so the devices are more comfortable to use.
SmartDot radiation-protection phone stickers ‘have no effect’
Stickers supposed to protect users against mobile-phone radiation have no effect, scientists have found.
Energydots says they “counteract the harmful energy emitted by wireless and electronic equipment” to aid sleep, cure headaches and give a clearer mind.
But University of Surrey tests for BBC News found no evidence of any effect.
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-55613452
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
From the 1936 Hohner harmonica catalogue.
Marine Band is still being made, along with various other Hohner models.
Perhaps they should be re-named ‘Dumbdots’.
Useful for confidence tricksters, says ‘this bunny will fall for anything’.
Hohner Beatles harmonica in original blister pack, 1964.
Bubblecar said:
Hohner Beatles harmonica in original blister pack, 1964.
The got George’s and Paul’s pics and signatures mixed up.
captain_spalding said:
Bubblecar said:
Hohner Beatles harmonica in original blister pack, 1964.
The got George’s and Paul’s pics and signatures mixed up.
Well spotted.
Bubblecar said:
captain_spalding said:
Bubblecar said:
Hohner Beatles harmonica in original blister pack, 1964.
The got George’s and Paul’s pics and signatures mixed up.
Well spotted.
What a time, when there was still people in the world who couldn’t tell one Beatle from the other.
buffy said:
Where should I be looking? Cortinarius?
Leucopaxillus?
I’ve only had a brief look.
The Shovel:
Australia Accused Of Human Rights Abuses After Pledging To Send Jacob’s Creek To BritainAustralia will send thousands of bottles of $7.95 Jacob’s Creek Chardonnay Sparkling to Britain in what has been described as an unusual and unnecessarily cruel treatment of an ally.
captain_spalding said:
The Shovel: Australia Accused Of Human Rights Abuses After Pledging To Send Jacob’s Creek To BritainAustralia will send thousands of bottles of $7.95 Jacob’s Creek Chardonnay Sparkling to Britain in what has been described as an unusual and unnecessarily cruel treatment of an ally.
The bloody Shovel need to get their facts straight.
This cruelty has been going on for years.
While world leaders met at the G7 summit in the UK, our PM snuck off from the main event for a special video appearance at the Australian Petroleum Production Exploration Association conference.
It’s here that Scott Morrison announced the release of 80,000km2 of new ocean acreage for fossil fuel exploration to drive our “gas led recovery.” This new acreage release comprises 21 new areas across Western Australia, Victoria and Tasmania!
Remember that every environmental problem is actually a political problem. The Government’s timely invitation for the big oil and gas industry to raid our oceans is no coincidence. It’s a deliberate ploy to calm the polluters and keep the Government’s Coalition partners – the National Party – onside while the global community pressures Australia to act on climate change.
The Nationals didn’t mince their words this week when they warned Scott Morrison NOT to lock Australian into any binding 2050 emission reduction targets while he’s in the UK. Make no mistake: The Nationals have a gun to Scott Morrison’s head because he cannot govern without them.
So long as Scott Morrison’s Government is beholden to The Nationals, Australia will have no credibility on matters relating to reducing emissions. But we can stop them. Protests will continue to build. I don’t believe Victorians will let big oil and gas corporations conduct seismic blasting and drilling just 5km off the coast from the Twelve Apostles – this level of hypocrisy is out of control!
Scott Morrison is not only an embarrassment to this nation but is threatening our future by failing to take seriously the impacts of climate change. Soon you will get a chance to vote Scott Morrison and his clowns out of power. Probably very soon. And I hope to be putting up legislation soon to ban all new seismic testing and release of drilling acreage right around the nation.
poikilotherm said:
buffy said:
Where should I be looking? Cortinarius?
Leucopaxillus?
I’ve only had a brief look.
Ta. I suspect not, but I don’t know. I’ve dropped photos into the Fungimap group at iNaturalist with Cortinarius as a placeholder name.
captain_spalding said:
The Shovel: Australia Accused Of Human Rights Abuses After Pledging To Send Jacob’s Creek To BritainAustralia will send thousands of bottles of $7.95 Jacob’s Creek Chardonnay Sparkling to Britain in what has been described as an unusual and unnecessarily cruel treatment of an ally.
The Rev Dodgson said:
captain_spalding said:
The Shovel: Australia Accused Of Human Rights Abuses After Pledging To Send Jacob’s Creek To BritainAustralia will send thousands of bottles of $7.95 Jacob’s Creek Chardonnay Sparkling to Britain in what has been described as an unusual and unnecessarily cruel treatment of an ally.
The bloody Shovel need to get their facts straight.
This cruelty has been going on for years.
PermeateFree said:
While world leaders met at the G7 summit in the UK, our PM snuck off from the main event for a special video appearance at the Australian Petroleum Production Exploration Association conference.It’s here that Scott Morrison announced the release of 80,000km2 of new ocean acreage for fossil fuel exploration to drive our “gas led recovery.” This new acreage release comprises 21 new areas across Western Australia, Victoria and Tasmania!
Remember that every environmental problem is actually a political problem. The Government’s timely invitation for the big oil and gas industry to raid our oceans is no coincidence. It’s a deliberate ploy to calm the polluters and keep the Government’s Coalition partners – the National Party – onside while the global community pressures Australia to act on climate change.
The Nationals didn’t mince their words this week when they warned Scott Morrison NOT to lock Australian into any binding 2050 emission reduction targets while he’s in the UK. Make no mistake: The Nationals have a gun to Scott Morrison’s head because he cannot govern without them.
So long as Scott Morrison’s Government is beholden to The Nationals, Australia will have no credibility on matters relating to reducing emissions. But we can stop them. Protests will continue to build. I don’t believe Victorians will let big oil and gas corporations conduct seismic blasting and drilling just 5km off the coast from the Twelve Apostles – this level of hypocrisy is out of control!
Scott Morrison is not only an embarrassment to this nation but is threatening our future by failing to take seriously the impacts of climate change. Soon you will get a chance to vote Scott Morrison and his clowns out of power. Probably very soon. And I hope to be putting up legislation soon to ban all new seismic testing and release of drilling acreage right around the nation.
Got a link to the full article?
ABC News:
‘Man accused of lighting house fires in Brisbane suburb of Hamilton granted bail
A man who allegedly lit three house fires in the Brisbane suburb of Hamilton in a matter of weeks has been granted bail.
The neighbouring properties are located on Nudgee Road and were empty at the time of the fires.
The court heard the properties were heritage-listed and could not be developed.
“Sounds dodgy to me,” Magistrate Gummow told the court.’
There’s one torch who won’t be getting full payment from the property owner.
captain_spalding said:
ABC News:‘Man accused of lighting house fires in Brisbane suburb of Hamilton granted bail
A man who allegedly lit three house fires in the Brisbane suburb of Hamilton in a matter of weeks has been granted bail.
The neighbouring properties are located on Nudgee Road and were empty at the time of the fires.
The court heard the properties were heritage-listed and could not be developed.
“Sounds dodgy to me,” Magistrate Gummow told the court.’
There’s one torch who won’t be getting full payment from the property owner.
Oldest trick in the book to get around heritage restrictions. Been done many a time.
American hats, 1902.
Bubblecar said:
American hats, 1902.
Trebor hat.
That’s Robert spelled backwards.
“If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.” George Bernard Shaw
Had a nice visit from the tallest nephew and his new partner. Lovely. They are off to MOFO tonight.
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
American hats, 1902.
Trebor hat.
That’s Robert spelled backwards.
I think Trebor Mints are still going.
sarahs mum said:
“If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.” George Bernard ShawHad a nice visit from the tallest nephew and his new partner. Lovely. They are off to MOFO tonight.
:)
Choose Your Trebor – Confessions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDO4qQOUvOE
captain_spalding said:
ABC News:‘Man accused of lighting house fires in Brisbane suburb of Hamilton granted bail
A man who allegedly lit three house fires in the Brisbane suburb of Hamilton in a matter of weeks has been granted bail.
The neighbouring properties are located on Nudgee Road and were empty at the time of the fires.
The court heard the properties were heritage-listed and could not be developed.
“Sounds dodgy to me,” Magistrate Gummow told the court.’
There’s one torch who won’t be getting full payment from the property owner.
Magistrate Gummow could be on to something.
Rayon, 1937.
party_pants said:
PermeateFree said:
While world leaders met at the G7 summit in the UK, our PM snuck off from the main event for a special video appearance at the Australian Petroleum Production Exploration Association conference.It’s here that Scott Morrison announced the release of 80,000km2 of new ocean acreage for fossil fuel exploration to drive our “gas led recovery.” This new acreage release comprises 21 new areas across Western Australia, Victoria and Tasmania!
Got a link to the full article?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-04-19/covid-live-updates-coronavirus-scott-morrison-national-cabinet/100077396
down the page a bit.
Bogsnorkler said:
party_pants said:
PermeateFree said:
While world leaders met at the G7 summit in the UK, our PM snuck off from the main event for a special video appearance at the Australian Petroleum Production Exploration Association conference.It’s here that Scott Morrison announced the release of 80,000km2 of new ocean acreage for fossil fuel exploration to drive our “gas led recovery.” This new acreage release comprises 21 new areas across Western Australia, Victoria and Tasmania!
Got a link to the full article?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-04-19/covid-live-updates-coronavirus-scott-morrison-national-cabinet/100077396
down the page a bit.
Hmmmm wrong info. sorry.
Bogsnorkler said:
Bogsnorkler said:
party_pants said:Got a link to the full article?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-04-19/covid-live-updates-coronavirus-scott-morrison-national-cabinet/100077396
down the page a bit.
Hmmmm wrong info. sorry.
made me look, ya dirty chook!
https://www.crikey.com.au/2019/11/18/scott-morrison-qanon-apology-advice/
Hey Bill, what do you make of this article?
https://www.pajero.guru/how-to-read-check-engine-light-without-scanner-3-2-di-d/
They say that that the Pajero and probably the Triton wont accept ODB2 connectors for scanners, I got a feeling that aint right but I haven’t checked.
The rest of the article is interesting.
Peak Warming Man said:
Hey Bill, what do you make of this article?
https://www.pajero.guru/how-to-read-check-engine-light-without-scanner-3-2-di-d/They say that that the Pajero and probably the Triton wont accept ODB2 connectors for scanners, I got a feeling that aint right but I haven’t checked.
The rest of the article is interesting.
BU use a paperclip.
Bogsnorkler said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Hey Bill, what do you make of this article?
https://www.pajero.guru/how-to-read-check-engine-light-without-scanner-3-2-di-d/They say that that the Pajero and probably the Triton wont accept ODB2 connectors for scanners, I got a feeling that aint right but I haven’t checked.
The rest of the article is interesting.
BU use a paperclip.
I do sometimes but if I’ve got say more than 7 or 8 sheets of paper I use those black clips.
Peak Warming Man said:
Hey Bill, what do you make of this article?
https://www.pajero.guru/how-to-read-check-engine-light-without-scanner-3-2-di-d/They say that that the Pajero and probably the Triton wont accept ODB2 connectors for scanners, I got a feeling that aint right but I haven’t checked.
The rest of the article is interesting.
From that page – “no, the $20 ODB2 from eBay won’t do the work in that case”
And yet my $20 cheapie unit does in fact work on my Pajero just fine. I read the data from it with the Torque app on my phone.
Spiny Norman said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Hey Bill, what do you make of this article?
https://www.pajero.guru/how-to-read-check-engine-light-without-scanner-3-2-di-d/They say that that the Pajero and probably the Triton wont accept ODB2 connectors for scanners, I got a feeling that aint right but I haven’t checked.
The rest of the article is interesting.
From that page – “no, the $20 ODB2 from eBay won’t do the work in that case”
And yet my $20 cheapie unit does in fact work on my Pajero just fine. I read the data from it with the Torque app on my phone.
That’s what I thought.
Bogsnorkler said:
Bogsnorkler said:
party_pants said:Got a link to the full article?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-04-19/covid-live-updates-coronavirus-scott-morrison-national-cabinet/100077396
down the page a bit.
Hmmmm wrong info. sorry.
So where is the article?
Spiny Norman said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Hey Bill, what do you make of this article?
https://www.pajero.guru/how-to-read-check-engine-light-without-scanner-3-2-di-d/They say that that the Pajero and probably the Triton wont accept ODB2 connectors for scanners, I got a feeling that aint right but I haven’t checked.
The rest of the article is interesting.
From that page – “no, the $20 ODB2 from eBay won’t do the work in that case”
And yet my $20 cheapie unit does in fact work on my Pajero just fine. I read the data from it with the Torque app on my phone.
Does it tell you the fuel pressure?
Sky News bashing the QLD government for having no compassion because they are refusing some American dude entry to visit his dying father. Apparently Palaszczuk is doing it for political points.
Peak Warming Man said:
Spiny Norman said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Hey Bill, what do you make of this article?
https://www.pajero.guru/how-to-read-check-engine-light-without-scanner-3-2-di-d/They say that that the Pajero and probably the Triton wont accept ODB2 connectors for scanners, I got a feeling that aint right but I haven’t checked.
The rest of the article is interesting.
From that page – “no, the $20 ODB2 from eBay won’t do the work in that case”
And yet my $20 cheapie unit does in fact work on my Pajero just fine. I read the data from it with the Torque app on my phone.
Does it tell you the fuel pressure?
I can’t remember sorry. I’d have to add that reading as a custom gauge to the screen, if it has it.
Spiny Norman said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Spiny Norman said:From that page – “no, the $20 ODB2 from eBay won’t do the work in that case”
And yet my $20 cheapie unit does in fact work on my Pajero just fine. I read the data from it with the Torque app on my phone.
Does it tell you the fuel pressure?
I can’t remember sorry. I’d have to add that reading as a custom gauge to the screen, if it has it.
OK, Triton wont start.
Battery’s fine, starter motor cranks ok, glow plug comes on and goes of OK.
I removed the fuel filter and drained it, no water.
Cant tell if the fuel pump is working while in the cab and cranking it, might be fuel injectors but you’d have signs of that, missing, running rough etc Last time I started it (a couple of months ago) it was purring beautifully.
Peak Warming Man said:
Spiny Norman said:
Peak Warming Man said:Does it tell you the fuel pressure?
I can’t remember sorry. I’d have to add that reading as a custom gauge to the screen, if it has it.
OK, Triton wont start.
Battery’s fine, starter motor cranks ok, glow plug comes on and goes of OK.
I removed the fuel filter and drained it, no water.
Cant tell if the fuel pump is working while in the cab and cranking it, might be fuel injectors but you’d have signs of that, missing, running rough etc Last time I started it (a couple of months ago) it was purring beautifully.
Could it be the solenoid?
sarahs mum said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Spiny Norman said:I can’t remember sorry. I’d have to add that reading as a custom gauge to the screen, if it has it.
OK, Triton wont start.
Battery’s fine, starter motor cranks ok, glow plug comes on and goes of OK.
I removed the fuel filter and drained it, no water.
Cant tell if the fuel pump is working while in the cab and cranking it, might be fuel injectors but you’d have signs of that, missing, running rough etc Last time I started it (a couple of months ago) it was purring beautifully.
Could it be the solenoid?
No it’s cranking ok.
Peak Warming Man said:
sarahs mum said:
Peak Warming Man said:OK, Triton wont start.
Battery’s fine, starter motor cranks ok, glow plug comes on and goes of OK.
I removed the fuel filter and drained it, no water.
Cant tell if the fuel pump is working while in the cab and cranking it, might be fuel injectors but you’d have signs of that, missing, running rough etc Last time I started it (a couple of months ago) it was purring beautifully.
Could it be the solenoid?
No it’s cranking ok.
can’t loosen an injector feed pipe and crank, then go and see if any fuel has spilled around the injector site?
Peak Warming Man said:
sarahs mum said:
Peak Warming Man said:OK, Triton wont start.
Battery’s fine, starter motor cranks ok, glow plug comes on and goes of OK.
I removed the fuel filter and drained it, no water.
Cant tell if the fuel pump is working while in the cab and cranking it, might be fuel injectors but you’d have signs of that, missing, running rough etc Last time I started it (a couple of months ago) it was purring beautifully.
Could it be the solenoid?
No it’s cranking ok.
Two questions:
Is it a common-rail injection system?
Is the lift-pump mechanical or electric?
Bogsnorkler said:
Peak Warming Man said:
sarahs mum said:Could it be the solenoid?
No it’s cranking ok.
can’t loosen an injector feed pipe and crank, then go and see if any fuel has spilled around the injector site?
Might try that tomorrow but they are a bugger to get at.
Have you checked to see that no-one has stolen the motor?
Michael V said:
Peak Warming Man said:
sarahs mum said:Could it be the solenoid?
No it’s cranking ok.
Two questions:
Is it a common-rail injection system?
Is the lift-pump mechanical or electric?
Common rail, don’t know about the pump I’d imagine it’s electrical though.
I was just watching another Tesla vid. I like the dog mode. You set it on dog mode and a dog comes up on the screen with the current temperature in the car (that is still being airconditioned.)
Peak Warming Man said:
Michael V said:
Peak Warming Man said:No it’s cranking ok.
Two questions:
Is it a common-rail injection system?
Is the lift-pump mechanical or electric?
Common rail, don’t know about the pump I’d imagine it’s electrical though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-O1Dp52evM
getting to the injectors.
Peak Warming Man said:
Michael V said:
Peak Warming Man said:No it’s cranking ok.
Two questions:
Is it a common-rail injection system?
Is the lift-pump mechanical or electric?
Common rail, don’t know about the pump I’d imagine it’s electrical though.
Was finishing some mowing just on dark and a few drops fell. had a quick look at the sky and decided I’d better get inside. Had some wild weather for a bit. Hail wind and thunder and lightning and 13mm fell in about 10 minutes.
Peak Warming Man said:
Michael V said:
Peak Warming Man said:No it’s cranking ok.
Two questions:
Is it a common-rail injection system?
Is the lift-pump mechanical or electric?
Common rail, don’t know about the pump I’d imagine it’s electrical though.
If you have an electric fuel pump, you should be able to bleed the system right through to the end of the common rail, by simply turning the engine on without starting it, letting the lift-pump do the work for you. Your manual should show you how to do this.
Bogsnorkler said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Michael V said:Two questions:
Is it a common-rail injection system?
Is the lift-pump mechanical or electric?
Common rail, don’t know about the pump I’d imagine it’s electrical though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-O1Dp52evM
getting to the injectors.
Ta.
Michael V said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Michael V said:Two questions:
Is it a common-rail injection system?
Is the lift-pump mechanical or electric?
Common rail, don’t know about the pump I’d imagine it’s electrical though.
If you have an electric fuel pump, you should be able to bleed the system right through to the end of the common rail, by simply turning the engine on without starting it, letting the lift-pump do the work for you. Your manual should show you how to do this.
OK Ta, I’ll investigate tomorrow.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-16/taiwan-china-air-force-fighters-flyby-bombers-/100221170
Peak Warming Man said:
sarahs mum said:
Peak Warming Man said:OK, Triton wont start.
Battery’s fine, starter motor cranks ok, glow plug comes on and goes of OK.
I removed the fuel filter and drained it, no water.
Cant tell if the fuel pump is working while in the cab and cranking it, might be fuel injectors but you’d have signs of that, missing, running rough etc Last time I started it (a couple of months ago) it was purring beautifully.
Could it be the solenoid?
No it’s cranking ok.
Diesel?
Remove and clean the air flow sensor.
Dark Orange said:
Sky News bashing the QLD government for having no compassion because they are refusing some American dude entry to visit his dying father. Apparently Palaszczuk is doing it for political points.
It’s OK – they gave equal exposure to the Biloela family by reading out some facebook posts from racists.
Dark Orange said:
Peak Warming Man said:
sarahs mum said:Could it be the solenoid?
No it’s cranking ok.
Diesel?
Remove and clean the air flow sensor.
Good, another thing to do.
Bogsnorkler said:
Peak Warming Man said:
sarahs mum said:Could it be the solenoid?
No it’s cranking ok.
can’t loosen an injector feed pipe and crank, then go and see if any fuel has spilled around the injector site?
It’s very important that you DO NOT DO THAT on a modern common rail diesel engine. They run about 20,000 psi when running. The fasteners also can only be undone then tightened again a small handful of times.
Peak Warming Man said:
Dark Orange said:
Peak Warming Man said:No it’s cranking ok.
Diesel?
Remove and clean the air flow sensor.
Good, another thing to do.
I have the exact same symptoms on a work car, and it was the MAF sensor. Easily accessible, just a phillips head screwdriver usually.
Spiny Norman said:
Bogsnorkler said:
Peak Warming Man said:No it’s cranking ok.
can’t loosen an injector feed pipe and crank, then go and see if any fuel has spilled around the injector site?
It’s very important that you DO NOT DO THAT on a modern common rail diesel engine. They run about 20,000 psi when running. The fasteners also can only be undone then tightened again a small handful of times.
it won’t be running though.
what year is it?
Sweden has a slightly higher murder rate than Australia, Denmark slightly lower, Norway lower still.
Bogsnorkler said:
what year is it?
2021.
The first thing I’d do is pump the knob on top of the fuel filter, to see if there’s any pressure in the system. Keep pumping until you feel some resistance.
They don’t (the Pajero at least) have an electric pump in the tank.
Bubblecar said:
Sweden has a slightly higher murder rate than Australia, Denmark slightly lower, Norway lower still.
Spiny Norman said:
Bubblecar said:
Sweden has a slightly higher murder rate than Australia, Denmark slightly lower, Norway lower still.
Heh.
Do DOs first as that is the simplest.
Spiny Norman said:
Bubblecar said:
Sweden has a slightly higher murder rate than Australia, Denmark slightly lower, Norway lower still.
Herhehehe
Bogsnorkler said:
what year is it?
2009 3.2l
Spiny Norman said:
The first thing I’d do is pump the knob on top of the fuel filter, to see if there’s any pressure in the system. Keep pumping until you feel some resistance.
They don’t (the Pajero at least) have an electric pump in the tank.
Did that after I took out and drained the fuel filter.
sibeen said:
Have you checked to see that no-one has stolen the motor?
How would you tell in a Triton?
Peak Warming Man said:
Spiny Norman said:
The first thing I’d do is pump the knob on top of the fuel filter, to see if there’s any pressure in the system. Keep pumping until you feel some resistance.
They don’t (the Pajero at least) have an electric pump in the tank.Did that after I took out and drained the fuel filter.
Check all the fuses. They’re likely to be living in a black plastic box on the front-right corner(ish) as you open the bonnet. It’s a long story but we had a problem with our blowing the engine fuse (not the car’s fault), the first time it happened I looked at the engine fuse with my specs on and it looked okay, but a mate of mine was there, with his better eyes and spotted that it was indeed blown. It was quite difficult to spot, so check them with a multimeter to be sure.
sibeen said:
Spiny Norman said:
Bubblecar said:
Sweden has a slightly higher murder rate than Australia, Denmark slightly lower, Norway lower still.
Herhehehe
I love Nordic Noir. The Bridge, Trapped, and Occupied are standout TV.
poikilotherm said:
sibeen said:
Have you checked to see that no-one has stolen the motor?
How would you tell in a Triton?
It has even less power.
Dark Orange said:
sibeen said:
Spiny Norman said:Herhehehe
I love Nordic Noir. The Bridge, Trapped, and Occupied are standout TV.
I was more into 70s Swedish films :)
Peak Warming Man said:
Dark Orange said:
Peak Warming Man said:No it’s cranking ok.
Diesel?
Remove and clean the air flow sensor.
Good, another thing to do.
I’d ring the RACV and get them to fix it. But then I know nothing about cars and I pay to have them on call for me.
Dark Orange said:
sibeen said:
Spiny Norman said:Herhehehe
I love Nordic Noir. The Bridge, Trapped, and Occupied are standout TV.
I like the more gentle ones. The Eagle. Rejseholdet (Unit One) – some of Mads early work.
When we got home from archery about half an hour ago a bloke koala was being very loudly blokey in the trees in the backyard. The dogs couldn’t have been less interested. He was so loud. And the dogs completely ignored him. They were hungry as it was past their normal eating time.
Travelling through one of the more modern Norwegian railway tunnels at 160km/h on Choob, and it seems pretty damn fast.
Fastest I’ve ever travelled in real life would have been about 950 – 970km/h on a 727.
Bubblecar said:
Travelling through one of the more modern Norwegian railway tunnels at 160km/h on Choob, and it seems pretty damn fast.Fastest I’ve ever travelled in real life would have been about 950 – 970km/h on a 727.
Apart from all the crazy astronomical speeds I’m travelling at every moment without noticing, but that’s a bit acamademic.
Bubblecar said:
Fastest I’ve ever travelled in real life would have been about 950 – 970km/h on a 727.
I think that would be the story for most of us.
Although modern aircraft go slightly slower than that, say in the low 900s or high 800s.
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
Travelling through one of the more modern Norwegian railway tunnels at 160km/h on Choob, and it seems pretty damn fast.Fastest I’ve ever travelled in real life would have been about 950 – 970km/h on a 727.
Apart from all the crazy astronomical speeds I’m travelling at every moment without noticing, but that’s a bit acamademic.
Any koala noises?
party_pants said:
Bubblecar said:Fastest I’ve ever travelled in real life would have been about 950 – 970km/h on a 727.
I think that would be the story for most of us.
Although modern aircraft go slightly slower than that, say in the low 900s or high 800s.
Yep, mostly.
The larger planes such as the A380 & 747 typically cruise at about M 0.86, which is about 900 km/h. The 727 cruised at M 0.82.
If you get a decent tailwind the groundspeed can be a heck of a lot more though. For example – for a short while – I was travelling at about 1,300 km/h over the ground.
Peak Warming Man said:
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
Travelling through one of the more modern Norwegian railway tunnels at 160km/h on Choob, and it seems pretty damn fast.Fastest I’ve ever travelled in real life would have been about 950 – 970km/h on a 727.
Apart from all the crazy astronomical speeds I’m travelling at every moment without noticing, but that’s a bit acamademic.
Any koala noises?
Can’t recall hearing a koala emit a single sound, in real life.
But apparently the males do sound bloody awful when they’re in the mood:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fmvf3FOC4o
Bubblecar said:
Travelling through one of the more modern Norwegian railway tunnels at 160km/h on Choob, and it seems pretty damn fast.Fastest I’ve ever travelled in real life would have been about 950 – 970km/h on a 727.
i was on the back of bike doing a couple of hundred klicks on the wakehurst parkway once. It was scarier than being in a jet liner.
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
Travelling through one of the more modern Norwegian railway tunnels at 160km/h on Choob, and it seems pretty damn fast.Fastest I’ve ever travelled in real life would have been about 950 – 970km/h on a 727.
i was on the back of bike doing a couple of hundred klicks on the wakehurst parkway once. It was scarier than being in a jet liner.
Would have been very scary on two wheels, and not being in control.
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
Travelling through one of the more modern Norwegian railway tunnels at 160km/h on Choob, and it seems pretty damn fast.Fastest I’ve ever travelled in real life would have been about 950 – 970km/h on a 727.
i was on the back of bike doing a couple of hundred klicks on the wakehurst parkway once. It was scarier than being in a jet liner.
Would have been very scary on two wheels, and not being in control.
I didn’t have a visor. There was a little but of my fringe that was slapping my forehead painfully.
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
Travelling through one of the more modern Norwegian railway tunnels at 160km/h on Choob, and it seems pretty damn fast.Fastest I’ve ever travelled in real life would have been about 950 – 970km/h on a 727.
i was on the back of bike doing a couple of hundred klicks on the wakehurst parkway once. It was scarier than being in a jet liner.
Wakehurst Parkway and motorcycles. Mmmmmmm. Was fun.
:)
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:i was on the back of bike doing a couple of hundred klicks on the wakehurst parkway once. It was scarier than being in a jet liner.
Would have been very scary on two wheels, and not being in control.
I didn’t have a visor. There was a little but of my fringe that was slapping my forehead painfully.
Reminds me of when we were driving in the hills somewhere around Adelaide once, can’t remember where. Think we were in the old Wolseley 6/90 or suchlike, bro-in-law at the wheel.
On a very bendy bit we were passed by a motorbike at dangerous speed.
“He’s come off”, announced John, looking in the mirror. We drove back and luckily my older sister, who was a trained nurse, was able to do an emergency patch up of the young rider and passenger, who’d badly lacerated her hand on the barrier fencing.
Turned out the rider was very inexperienced and his girlfriend’s parents had forbidden her to ride with him, but she had sneaked off regardless.
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:Would have been very scary on two wheels, and not being in control.
I didn’t have a visor. There was a little but of my fringe that was slapping my forehead painfully.
Reminds me of when we were driving in the hills somewhere around Adelaide once, can’t remember where. Think we were in the old Wolseley 6/90 or suchlike, bro-in-law at the wheel.
On a very bendy bit we were passed by a motorbike at dangerous speed.
“He’s come off”, announced John, looking in the mirror. We drove back and luckily my older sister, who was a trained nurse, was able to do an emergency patch up of the young rider and passenger, who’d badly lacerated her hand on the barrier fencing.
Turned out the rider was very inexperienced and his girlfriend’s parents had forbidden her to ride with him, but she had sneaked off regardless.
Let’s not think about motorcycle accidents. :)
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:Would have been very scary on two wheels, and not being in control.
I didn’t have a visor. There was a little but of my fringe that was slapping my forehead painfully.
Reminds me of when we were driving in the hills somewhere around Adelaide once, can’t remember where. Think we were in the old Wolseley 6/90 or suchlike, bro-in-law at the wheel.
On a very bendy bit we were passed by a motorbike at dangerous speed.
“He’s come off”, announced John, looking in the mirror. We drove back and luckily my older sister, who was a trained nurse, was able to do an emergency patch up of the young rider and passenger, who’d badly lacerated her hand on the barrier fencing.
Turned out the rider was very inexperienced and his girlfriend’s parents had forbidden her to ride with him, but she had sneaked off regardless.
She fell for The Leader Of The Pack.
Mowing the lawn outside the Art Gallery of NSW c1930s horsepower > 2015 horsepower.
(1930s: State Library NSW, 2015: Photo by Curt Flood)
Special Thanks: Peter Sweedman, Amy Jozing, Derek, Mitchell and Anthony (Great lawn mowing skills Anthony) from the Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust, Alacoque Dash from Art Gallery of NS
Neophyte said:
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:I didn’t have a visor. There was a little but of my fringe that was slapping my forehead painfully.
Reminds me of when we were driving in the hills somewhere around Adelaide once, can’t remember where. Think we were in the old Wolseley 6/90 or suchlike, bro-in-law at the wheel.
On a very bendy bit we were passed by a motorbike at dangerous speed.
“He’s come off”, announced John, looking in the mirror. We drove back and luckily my older sister, who was a trained nurse, was able to do an emergency patch up of the young rider and passenger, who’d badly lacerated her hand on the barrier fencing.
Turned out the rider was very inexperienced and his girlfriend’s parents had forbidden her to ride with him, but she had sneaked off regardless.
She fell for The Leader Of The Pack.
More like one of the cubs.
Neophyte said:
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:I didn’t have a visor. There was a little but of my fringe that was slapping my forehead painfully.
Reminds me of when we were driving in the hills somewhere around Adelaide once, can’t remember where. Think we were in the old Wolseley 6/90 or suchlike, bro-in-law at the wheel.
On a very bendy bit we were passed by a motorbike at dangerous speed.
“He’s come off”, announced John, looking in the mirror. We drove back and luckily my older sister, who was a trained nurse, was able to do an emergency patch up of the young rider and passenger, who’d badly lacerated her hand on the barrier fencing.
Turned out the rider was very inexperienced and his girlfriend’s parents had forbidden her to ride with him, but she had sneaked off regardless.
She fell for The Leader Of The Pack.
Look out!
Bubblecar said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Bubblecar said:Apart from all the crazy astronomical speeds I’m travelling at every moment without noticing, but that’s a bit acamademic.
Any koala noises?
Can’t recall hearing a koala emit a single sound, in real life.
But apparently the males do sound bloody awful when they’re in the mood:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fmvf3FOC4o
I suspect they are part of the reason for bunyip myths.
sarahs mum said:
Mowing the lawn outside the Art Gallery of NSW c1930s horsepower > 2015 horsepower.
(1930s: State Library NSW, 2015: Photo by Curt Flood)
Special Thanks: Peter Sweedman, Amy Jozing, Derek, Mitchell and Anthony (Great lawn mowing skills Anthony) from the Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust, Alacoque Dash from Art Gallery of NS
Statue on the right looks noticeably eroded in the second snap.
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
Mowing the lawn outside the Art Gallery of NSW c1930s horsepower > 2015 horsepower.
(1930s: State Library NSW, 2015: Photo by Curt Flood)
Special Thanks: Peter Sweedman, Amy Jozing, Derek, Mitchell and Anthony (Great lawn mowing skills Anthony) from the Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust, Alacoque Dash from Art Gallery of NS
Statue on the right looks noticeably eroded in the second snap.
The one on the right is a bit earlier in the day. I was trying to work out how much was degradation and how much was just shadow.
https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/scientists-reveal-what-experiments-theyd-like-to-conduct-if-they-had-no-morals/
Evening, I feel a bit fkd after the second Covid shot now. Got all the fatigue and myalgia of a viral infection. Not overly autistic compared to usual though.
poikilotherm said:
Evening, I feel a bit fkd after the second Covid shot now. Got all the fatigue and myalgia of a viral infection. Not overly autistic compared to usual though.
Shouldn’t last long. Have a couple days off.
poikilotherm said:
Evening, I feel a bit fkd after the second Covid shot now. Got all the fatigue and myalgia of a viral infection. Not overly autistic compared to usual though.
It’s worked, Praise the Lord.
I’m booked in for the 26th. They are going to do Saturday Astrazenecas at the local medical centre.
Still haven’t got a a normal appointment with a doctor though.
poikilotherm said:
Evening, I feel a bit fkd after the second Covid shot now. Got all the fatigue and myalgia of a viral infection. Not overly autistic compared to usual though.
Bugger.
I bought some Pearl Oyster Mushrooms yesterday for eating. If I like them, I’ll make some stem-butt spawn and see how that works out.
Michael V said:
poikilotherm said:
Evening, I feel a bit fkd after the second Covid shot now. Got all the fatigue and myalgia of a viral infection. Not overly autistic compared to usual though.
Bugger.
I bought some Pearl Oyster Mushrooms yesterday for eating. If I like them, I’ll make some stem-butt spawn and see how that works out.
Cool, oysters are prolific growers and very fast compared to King oysters.
How are the kings going?
sarahs mum said:
I’m booked in for the 26th. They are going to do Saturday Astrazenecas at the local medical centre.Still haven’t got a a normal appointment with a doctor though.
I think we’re booked in a couple of day earlier than you for our first AZ shot.
poikilotherm said:
Michael V said:
poikilotherm said:
Evening, I feel a bit fkd after the second Covid shot now. Got all the fatigue and myalgia of a viral infection. Not overly autistic compared to usual though.
Bugger.
I bought some Pearl Oyster Mushrooms yesterday for eating. If I like them, I’ll make some stem-butt spawn and see how that works out.
Cool, oysters are prolific growers and very fast compared to King oysters.
How are the kings going?
I ate about two thirds of the miniature misshapen Kings because we were going away again. Tasted like mild kings, but quite a bit bitter. The remaining Kings are growing slowly.
Michael V said:
poikilotherm said:
Michael V said:Bugger.
I bought some Pearl Oyster Mushrooms yesterday for eating. If I like them, I’ll make some stem-butt spawn and see how that works out.
Cool, oysters are prolific growers and very fast compared to King oysters.
How are the kings going?
I ate about two thirds of the miniature misshapen Kings because we were going away again. Tasted like mild kings, but quite a bit bitter. The remaining Kings are growing slowly.
Ah, a bit small and too soon probably = bitter.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5vvQk7IKeo
5 Craziest Things I’ve Found In Dead Bodies
Institute of Human Anatomy
not gruesome.
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
Travelling through one of the more modern Norwegian railway tunnels at 160km/h on Choob, and it seems pretty damn fast.Fastest I’ve ever travelled in real life would have been about 950 – 970km/h on a 727.
Apart from all the crazy astronomical speeds I’m travelling at every moment without noticing, but that’s a bit acamademic.
Well if you look up into the sky, and choose a spot that is at the limit of what you can observe, your velocity relative to that point is the speed of light.
Or so it is said.
My new HDD is waiting for me at the PO. Might be a fun next couple of days transferring, cloning, my old one onto it.
I pointed out this auction a couple of weeks ago and made the suggestion that I’d like this item as a birthday present.
Thank you to whoever bought it for me, I am truly grateful. :)
https://nickhacko.blogspot.com/2021/06/a-super-rare-lens-just-sold-at-auction.html
poikilotherm said:
Michael V said:
poikilotherm said:Cool, oysters are prolific growers and very fast compared to King oysters.
How are the kings going?
I ate about two thirds of the miniature misshapen Kings because we were going away again. Tasted like mild kings, but quite a bit bitter. The remaining Kings are growing slowly.
Ah, a bit small and too soon probably = bitter.
I thought that might be a possibility. Thanks for the confirmation.
Plenty still growing. I’ll leave them alone for a (long) while and see what happens.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
Travelling through one of the more modern Norwegian railway tunnels at 160km/h on Choob, and it seems pretty damn fast.Fastest I’ve ever travelled in real life would have been about 950 – 970km/h on a 727.
Apart from all the crazy astronomical speeds I’m travelling at every moment without noticing, but that’s a bit acamademic.
Well if you look up into the sky, and choose a spot that is at the limit of what you can observe, your velocity relative to that point is the speed of light.
Or so it is said.
Andromeda?
Michael V said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Bubblecar said:Apart from all the crazy astronomical speeds I’m travelling at every moment without noticing, but that’s a bit acamademic.
Well if you look up into the sky, and choose a spot that is at the limit of what you can observe, your velocity relative to that point is the speed of light.
Or so it is said.
Andromeda?
Observable universe “edge”.
Dark Orange said:
I pointed out this auction a couple of weeks ago and made the suggestion that I’d like this item as a birthday present.
Thank you to whoever bought it for me, I am truly grateful. :)https://nickhacko.blogspot.com/2021/06/a-super-rare-lens-just-sold-at-auction.html
f0.7!
Bogsnorkler said:
Michael V said:
The Rev Dodgson said:Well if you look up into the sky, and choose a spot that is at the limit of what you can observe, your velocity relative to that point is the speed of light.
Or so it is said.
Andromeda?
Observable universe “edge”.
Ah. I hadn’t seen that.
I cooked some food. A burger. It was good. I should do it more often.
sarahs mum said:
I cooked some food. A burger. It was good. I should do it more often.
I like food.
I lacked confidence tonight, but managed to concoct something.
Michael V said:
sarahs mum said:
I cooked some food. A burger. It was good. I should do it more often.
I like food.
I lacked confidence tonight, but managed to concoct something.
I have not being hungry and lacking the will to make a mess and then clean it up again thing going as a symptom.
sarahs mum said:
Michael V said:
sarahs mum said:
I cooked some food. A burger. It was good. I should do it more often.
I like food.
I lacked confidence tonight, but managed to concoct something.
I have not being hungry and lacking the will to make a mess and then clean it up again thing going as a symptom.
Ssilver lining to cloud: you lose weight.
I love eating. Too much. That might be a symptom, too.
Sign, sign
Everywhere a sign
Blockin’ out the scenery
Breakin’ my mind
Do this, don’t do that
Can’t you read the sign?
Michael V said:
sarahs mum said:
Michael V said:I like food.
I lacked confidence tonight, but managed to concoct something.
I have not being hungry and lacking the will to make a mess and then clean it up again thing going as a symptom.
Ssilver lining to cloud: you lose weight.
I love eating. Too much. That might be a symptom, too.
Sign, sign
Everywhere a sign
Blockin’ out the scenery
Breakin’ my mind
Do this, don’t do that
Can’t you read the sign?
And the sign said
“Long-haired freaky people
Need not apply”
Michael V said:
sarahs mum said:
Michael V said:I like food.
I lacked confidence tonight, but managed to concoct something.
I have not being hungry and lacking the will to make a mess and then clean it up again thing going as a symptom.
Ssilver lining to cloud: you lose weight.
I love eating. Too much. That might be a symptom, too.
Sign, sign
Everywhere a sign
Blockin’ out the scenery
Breakin’ my mind
Do this, don’t do that
Can’t you read the sign?
To lose the weight I will have to lay off the bikkies.
sarahs mum said:
Michael V said:
sarahs mum said:I have not being hungry and lacking the will to make a mess and then clean it up again thing going as a symptom.
Ssilver lining to cloud: you lose weight.
I love eating. Too much. That might be a symptom, too.
Sign, sign
Everywhere a sign
Blockin’ out the scenery
Breakin’ my mind
Do this, don’t do that
Can’t you read the sign?
To lose the weight I will have to lay off the bikkies.
Yeah, well, this is that of course.
I rarely eat sweet biscuits. Actually, I rarely eat sweet thing. Savoury is where I’m at. Too much.
Michael V said:
sarahs mum said:
Michael V said:Ssilver lining to cloud: you lose weight.
I love eating. Too much. That might be a symptom, too.
Sign, sign
Everywhere a sign
Blockin’ out the scenery
Breakin’ my mind
Do this, don’t do that
Can’t you read the sign?
To lose the weight I will have to lay off the bikkies.
Yeah, well, this is that of course.
I rarely eat sweet biscuits. Actually, I rarely eat sweet thing. Savoury is where I’m at. Too much.
+brazillion
Just as I’m about to go and prepare a ‘wee’ little cheese platter, and perchance a glass of shiraz to help wash it down.
Spacewalk!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHMelB6KuJs&ab_channel=SpaceVideos
https://www.michaelwest.com.au/the-state-v-friendly-terror-suspect-google-facebook-2sm-dragged-in-to-barilaro-affair/
Good morning Holidayers. Presently 6 degrees outside the back door, over cast and thinking about getting light. Forecast for today is for showers and 14 degrees.
poikilotherm said:
Evening, I feel a bit fkd after the second Covid shot now. Got all the fatigue and myalgia of a viral infection. Not overly autistic compared to usual though.
That was from poik at 21:12 last night. Apparently this response is showing up quite consistently.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/health/2021-06-17/side-effect-astra-pfizer-vaccine-australia-safety-data/100202616
buffy said:
poikilotherm said:
Evening, I feel a bit fkd after the second Covid shot now. Got all the fatigue and myalgia of a viral infection. Not overly autistic compared to usual though.
That was from poik at 21:12 last night. Apparently this response is showing up quite consistently.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/health/2021-06-17/side-effect-astra-pfizer-vaccine-australia-safety-data/100202616
Yes we were told to expect that before injection.
buffy said:
poikilotherm said:
Evening, I feel a bit fkd after the second Covid shot now. Got all the fatigue and myalgia of a viral infection. Not overly autistic compared to usual though.
That was from poik at 21:12 last night. Apparently this response is showing up quite consistently.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/health/2021-06-17/side-effect-astra-pfizer-vaccine-australia-safety-data/100202616
Feeling much better today. We had a staff member off sick the other day after their second shot. So far 1/3 2nd shotters have had a sick day, the other 2 have just whinged a bit to whoever was nearby.
Morning, foggy and cold in the Styx.
buffy said:
poikilotherm said:
Evening, I feel a bit fkd after the second Covid shot now. Got all the fatigue and myalgia of a viral infection. Not overly autistic compared to usual though.
That was from poik at 21:12 last night. Apparently this response is showing up quite consistently.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/health/2021-06-17/side-effect-astra-pfizer-vaccine-australia-safety-data/100202616
The nanobots are doing their thing.
buffy said:
Good morning Holidayers. Presently 6 degrees outside the back door, over cast and thinking about getting light. Forecast for today is for showers and 14 degrees.
6.5°C here The dart throwers say high chance of showers later. Might get to 15 degrees.
Yesterday right at dusk when I decided time to stop mowing or I may cut a foot off, the sky looked like this.
Resulted in a wild hailstorming rainy windy event compete with lotsa lightning.
Morning, clear and sunny in Brissy.
I went looking for the koala this morning. Bruna was sure he was about. I could smell him. But we didn’t see him. Perhaps he just marked his territory. But I did find this:
It was very polite and missed my plants and only took a tiny piece out of the top of that lattice. There was no wind to speak of. It must have just been ready to drop. Nice dry redgum (E. camaldulensis). Not that we doubted what the tree is, but:
If it’s not raining later after Mr buffy has been to Hamilton to register the tractor, we will cut that up. It’s ready to burn.
buffy said:
Good morning Holidayers. Presently 6 degrees outside the back door, over cast and thinking about getting light. Forecast for today is for showers and 14 degrees.
Morning buffy et al.
16°, 4/8 cloud. Nothing to report.
Heading for 13, a few showers.
Breakfast will be 2 x henburger patties served with green beans + spinach.
buffy said:
I went looking for the koala this morning. Bruna was sure he was about. I could smell him. But we didn’t see him. Perhaps he just marked his territory. But I did find this:
It was very polite and missed my plants and only took a tiny piece out of the top of that lattice. There was no wind to speak of. It must have just been ready to drop. Nice dry redgum (E. camaldulensis). Not that we doubted what the tree is, but:
If it’s not raining later after Mr buffy has been to Hamilton to register the tractor, we will cut that up. It’s ready to burn.
Looks like it hasn’t even got rained on?
buffy said:
I went looking for the koala this morning. Bruna was sure he was about. I could smell him. But we didn’t see him. Perhaps he just marked his territory. But I did find this:
It was very polite and missed my plants and only took a tiny piece out of the top of that lattice. There was no wind to speak of. It must have just been ready to drop. Nice dry redgum (E. camaldulensis). Not that we doubted what the tree is, but:
If it’s not raining later after Mr buffy has been to Hamilton to register the tractor, we will cut that up. It’s ready to burn.
Very hot wood. Good for snowy nights.
roughbarked said:
buffy said:
I went looking for the koala this morning. Bruna was sure he was about. I could smell him. But we didn’t see him. Perhaps he just marked his territory. But I did find this:
It was very polite and missed my plants and only took a tiny piece out of the top of that lattice. There was no wind to speak of. It must have just been ready to drop. Nice dry redgum (E. camaldulensis). Not that we doubted what the tree is, but:
If it’s not raining later after Mr buffy has been to Hamilton to register the tractor, we will cut that up. It’s ready to burn.
Looks like it hasn’t even got rained on?
I tipped 0.5mm out of the gauge this morning. The ground is damp.
Ooh, I know Tracey.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2021-06-17/orphaned-lambs-in-baby-jumpers-easing-loneliness/100207874
buffy said:
Ooh, I know Tracey.https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2021-06-17/orphaned-lambs-in-baby-jumpers-easing-loneliness/100207874
Some of those lambs are pretty cute.
Peak Warming Man said:
buffy said:
Ooh, I know Tracey.https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2021-06-17/orphaned-lambs-in-baby-jumpers-easing-loneliness/100207874
Some of those lambs are pretty cute.
Didn’t know you hailed from NZ?
Peak Warming Man said:
buffy said:
Ooh, I know Tracey.https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2021-06-17/orphaned-lambs-in-baby-jumpers-easing-loneliness/100207874
Some of those lambs are pretty
cutedelicious.
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Arts said:
Peak Warming Man said:
buffy said:
Ooh, I know Tracey.https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2021-06-17/orphaned-lambs-in-baby-jumpers-easing-loneliness/100207874
Some of those lambs are pretty
cutedelicious.
fixed
:)
He seems to be a particulary nasty person. Wonder if we will ever find out who he is?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-17/former-crime-agency-official-sexual-assault-case/100013962
roughbarked said:
He seems to be a particulary nasty person. Wonder if we will ever find out who he is?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-17/former-crime-agency-official-sexual-assault-case/100013962
That’s fucked. :(
Practises typing; particularly.
The Rev Dodgson said:
And as for nuclear power, the low probability but extreme adverse effect problems remain unaddressed, and I remain happy with policies to minimise it’s use.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-17/china-says-fuel-rods-damaged-no-radioactive-leak/100221898
I am right behind Rosie’s dedication to fix this problem. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-17/rosie-ayliffe-welcomes-governments-change-to-visa-program/100221204
roughbarked said:
The Rev Dodgson said:And as for nuclear power, the low probability but extreme adverse effect problems remain unaddressed, and I remain happy with policies to minimise it’s use.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-17/china-says-fuel-rods-damaged-no-radioactive-leak/100221898
Keeping the dead safe?
Steptoe could open that, let alone Satan with his fire and brimstone.
roughbarked said:
Keeping the dead safe?
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Steptoe could open that, let alone Satan with his fire and brimstone.
Is that to keep things out, or in?
Yes, but is it art?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTE_D217AnY
(One for s’mum)
Dark Orange said:
roughbarked said:
Keeping the dead safe?
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Steptoe could open that, let alone Satan with his fire and brimstone.
Is that to keep things out, or in?
Most likely the latter. :)
roughbarked said:
Dark Orange said:
roughbarked said:
Keeping the dead safe?
![]()
Steptoe could open that, let alone Satan with his fire and brimstone.
Is that to keep things out, or in?
Most likely the latter. :)
we would need more context.. in Romania it might be to keep things in… in medieval England to keep grave robbers out…
Dark Orange said:
Yes, but is it art?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTE_D217AnY
(One for s’mum)
I enjoyed it too.
Arts said:
roughbarked said:
Dark Orange said:Is that to keep things out, or in?
Most likely the latter. :)
we would need more context.. in Romania it might be to keep things in… in medieval England to keep grave robbers out…
All of those people ended up in America..
Elmwood Cemetery,
Detroit’s first official cemetery,
Detroit, Michigan
In the US of A
roughbarked said:
Arts said:
roughbarked said:Most likely the latter. :)
we would need more context.. in Romania it might be to keep things in… in medieval England to keep grave robbers out…
All of those people ended up in America..
Elmwood Cemetery,
Detroit’s first official cemetery,
Detroit, Michigan In the US of A
An interesting read: Things for the surgeon
a history of the resurrection men.
roughbarked said:
Arts said:
roughbarked said:Most likely the latter. :)
we would need more context.. in Romania it might be to keep things in… in medieval England to keep grave robbers out…
All of those people ended up in America..
Elmwood Cemetery,
Detroit’s first official cemetery,
Detroit, Michigan In the US of A
so back in the day, a very profitable way to make money was to dig up new graves and all the body to medical schools for students to practice on.
Arts said:
roughbarked said:
Arts said:we would need more context.. in Romania it might be to keep things in… in medieval England to keep grave robbers out…
All of those people ended up in America..
Elmwood Cemetery,
Detroit’s first official cemetery,
Detroit, Michigan In the US of A
so back in the day, a very profitable way to make money was to dig up new graves and all the body to medical schools for students to practice on.
of course, the fresher the body, the better it was.. so they paid higher… this led to some people absolutely getting the fewest bodies possible by knowing exactly the time of death… which the head of the medical schools rarely questioned…
Arts said:
Arts said:
roughbarked said:All of those people ended up in America..
Elmwood Cemetery,
Detroit’s first official cemetery,
Detroit, Michigan In the US of A
so back in the day, a very profitable way to make money was to dig up new graves and all the body to medical schools for students to practice on.
of course, the fresher the body, the better it was.. so they paid higher… this led to some people absolutely getting the
fewestfreshest bodies possible by knowing exactly the time of death… which the head of the medical schools rarely questioned…
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Arts said:
Arts said:
Arts said:so back in the day, a very profitable way to make money was to dig up new graves and all the body to medical schools for students to practice on.
of course, the fresher the body, the better it was.. so they paid higher… this led to some people absolutely getting the
fewestfreshest bodies possible by knowing exactly the time of death… which the head of the medical schools rarely questioned…
fixed
:) Yes. This was common before someone deliberately left their body to science.
Hello
Income idea:
Cast solid gold dogecoins and sell them online – for dogecoin.
Dark Orange said:
Income idea:
Cast solid gold dogecoins and sell them online – for dogecoin.
Swapsies? OK how much is dogecoin currently valued at? and how heavy do you plan to make this hollow coin?
Cymek said:
Hello
Back from releasing last night’s Melomys. The tilt trap catches them unharmed.
I took it about 3km away on the other side of a creek so with luck it won’t come back to my place.
Tamb said:
Cymek said:
Hello
G’day mate.Back from releasing last night’s Melomys. The tilt trap catches them unharmed.
I took it about 3km away on the other side of a creek so with luck it won’t come back to my place.
Are they problematic? or are they simply also caught while attempting to control rodents?
roughbarked said:
Arts said:
Arts said:of course, the fresher the body, the better it was.. so they paid higher… this led to some people absolutely getting the
fewestfreshest bodies possible by knowing exactly the time of death… which the head of the medical schools rarely questioned…
fixed
:) Yes. This was common before someone deliberately left their body to science.
Not really. Before that there were the various Coroners Acts, which allowed students and doctors to practice their cutting up skills.
Michael V said:
roughbarked said:
Arts said:fixed
:) Yes. This was common before someone deliberately left their body to science.
Not really. Before that there were the various Coroners Acts, which allowed students and doctors to practice their cutting up skills.
I’ll have to look that up. See if I can learn something.
roughbarked said:
Tamb said:
Cymek said:
Hello
G’day mate.Back from releasing last night’s Melomys. The tilt trap catches them unharmed.
I took it about 3km away on the other side of a creek so with luck it won’t come back to my place.Are they problematic? or are they simply also caught while attempting to control rodents?
Melomys are rodents.
Michael V said:
roughbarked said:
Tamb said:G’day mate.
Back from releasing last night’s Melomys. The tilt trap catches them unharmed.
I took it about 3km away on the other side of a creek so with luck it won’t come back to my place.Are they problematic? or are they simply also caught while attempting to control rodents?
Melomys are rodents.
Yes but are they problematic, was my question.
roughbarked said:
Dark Orange said:Income idea:
Cast solid gold dogecoins and sell them online – for dogecoin.
Swapsies? OK how much is dogecoin currently valued at? and how heavy do you plan to make this hollow coin?
41c Australian
I think sovereign size(0.254 oz) would be a commercially viable size.
Michael V said:
roughbarked said:
Arts said:fixed
:) Yes. This was common before someone deliberately left their body to science.
Not really. Before that there were the various Coroners Acts, which allowed students and doctors to practice their cutting up skills.
It’s a way even today of getting a free funeral and make use of your body bar organ donation
I did look it up a while ago to see what happens and how it happens.
One finished they pay for basic funeral which is all you need really.
It does require though that family aren’t upset or against your body pretty much being grabbed almost immediately after you die
roughbarked said:
Tamb said:
Cymek said:
Hello
G’day mate.Back from releasing last night’s Melomys. The tilt trap catches them unharmed.
I took it about 3km away on the other side of a creek so with luck it won’t come back to my place.Are they problematic? or are they simply also caught while attempting to control rodents?
Fawn-footed Melomys Melomys cervinipes
roughbarked said:
Michael V said:
roughbarked said::) Yes. This was common before someone deliberately left their body to science.
Not really. Before that there were the various Coroners Acts, which allowed students and doctors to practice their cutting up skills.
I’ll have to look that up. See if I can learn something.
You’ll have to go back to the 19th century, or maybe late 18th century.
roughbarked said:
I am right behind Rosie’s dedication to fix this problem. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-17/rosie-ayliffe-welcomes-governments-change-to-visa-program/100221204
Do we know this Rosie?
Michael V said:
roughbarked said:
Arts said:fixed
:) Yes. This was common before someone deliberately left their body to science.
Not really. Before that there were the various Coroners Acts, which allowed students and doctors to practice their cutting up skills.
Arts said:
roughbarked said:
Dark Orange said:Is that to keep things out, or in?
Most likely the latter. :)
we would need more context.. in Romania it might be to keep things in… in medieval England to keep grave robbers out…
Just looks like a padlock on a chain to me. Could be anywhere. On anything.
For those interested I found a mother load of info on the triton fuel system.
https://www.service-engine.com.ua/webroot/pdf/MITSUBISHI%20TRITON%204D56%20%204M41%20ENGINE.pdf
There is no lift pump, the pump runs off the engine and sucks from the tank.
Dark Orange said:
roughbarked said:
Dark Orange said:Income idea:
Cast solid gold dogecoins and sell them online – for dogecoin.
Swapsies? OK how much is dogecoin currently valued at? and how heavy do you plan to make this hollow coin?
41c Australian
I think sovereign size(0.254 oz) would be a commercially viable size.
7.2g ish. = $420.42
buffy said:
roughbarked said:
I am right behind Rosie’s dedication to fix this problem. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-17/rosie-ayliffe-welcomes-governments-change-to-visa-program/100221204
Do we know this Rosie?
I’ve met many of the backpackers and their employers.
Tamb said:
Michael V said:
roughbarked said::) Yes. This was common before someone deliberately left their body to science.
Not really. Before that there were the various Coroners Acts, which allowed students and doctors to practice their cutting up skills.
Often with executed criminals.
They did.
Peak Warming Man said:
For those interested I found a mother load of info on the triton fuel system.
https://www.service-engine.com.ua/webroot/pdf/MITSUBISHI%20TRITON%204D56%20%204M41%20ENGINE.pdf
There is no lift pump, the pump runs off the engine and sucks from the tank.
Have you bench tested the glow plugs yet?
buffy said:
Arts said:
roughbarked said:Most likely the latter. :)
we would need more context.. in Romania it might be to keep things in… in medieval England to keep grave robbers out…
Just looks like a padlock on a chain to me. Could be anywhere. On anything.
Yes. I could send you to where I got it from but no need. It does come from Elmwood cemetery Detroit Michigan.
You can trust the photographer.
Peak Warming Man said:
For those interested I found a mother load of info on the triton fuel system.
https://www.service-engine.com.ua/webroot/pdf/MITSUBISHI%20TRITON%204D56%20%204M41%20ENGINE.pdf
There is no lift pump, the pump runs off the engine and sucks from the tank.
gear type pump there right-middle
been raining, probably more hopefully as approach midday
roughbarked said:
Dark Orange said:
roughbarked said:Swapsies? OK how much is dogecoin currently valued at? and how heavy do you plan to make this hollow coin?
41c Australian
I think sovereign size(0.254 oz) would be a commercially viable size.7.2g ish. = $420.42
USD.
roughbarked said:
buffy said:
roughbarked said:
I am right behind Rosie’s dedication to fix this problem. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-17/rosie-ayliffe-welcomes-governments-change-to-visa-program/100221204
Do we know this Rosie?
I’ve met many of the backpackers and their employers.
But unless you know the person, wouldn’t it be polite to call her Ms Ayliffe?
roughbarked said:
buffy said:
Arts said:we would need more context.. in Romania it might be to keep things in… in medieval England to keep grave robbers out…
Just looks like a padlock on a chain to me. Could be anywhere. On anything.
Yes. I could send you to where I got it from but no need. It does come from Elmwood cemetery Detroit Michigan.
You can trust the photographer.
On here it was a random, uncaptioned picture of a padlock on a chain.
Dark Orange said:
Income idea:
Cast solid gold dogecoins and sell them online – for dogecoin.
Carry out long hard work to extract something of real value from the ground, then swap it for something of zero value.
Good thinking.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Dark Orange said:Income idea:
Cast solid gold dogecoins and sell them online – for dogecoin.
Carry out long hard work to extract something of real value from the ground, then swap it for something of zero value.
Good thinking.
I know, right? :D
buffy said:
roughbarked said:
buffy said:Do we know this Rosie?
I’ve met many of the backpackers and their employers.
But unless you know the person, wouldn’t it be polite to call her Ms Ayliffe?
One can feel as if one knows one. Anyway, her name is posted and is thus personalised.
Peak Warming Man said:
For those interested I found a mother load of info on the triton fuel system.
https://www.service-engine.com.ua/webroot/pdf/MITSUBISHI%20TRITON%204D56%20%204M41%20ENGINE.pdf
There is no lift pump, the pump runs off the engine and sucks from the tank.
That’s a compulcated one Mr Man.
I’m only up to level 1 of these things.
buffy said:
roughbarked said:
buffy said:Just looks like a padlock on a chain to me. Could be anywhere. On anything.
Yes. I could send you to where I got it from but no need. It does come from Elmwood cemetery Detroit Michigan.
You can trust the photographer.
On here it was a random, uncaptioned picture of a padlock on a chain.
It was further discussed.
Woodie said:
Peak Warming Man said:
For those interested I found a mother load of info on the triton fuel system.
https://www.service-engine.com.ua/webroot/pdf/MITSUBISHI%20TRITON%204D56%20%204M41%20ENGINE.pdf
There is no lift pump, the pump runs off the engine and sucks from the tank.
That’s a compulcated one Mr Man.
I’m only up to level 1 of these things.
On that level are you sure it is a fuel problem?
buffy said:
roughbarked said:
buffy said:Just looks like a padlock on a chain to me. Could be anywhere. On anything.
Yes. I could send you to where I got it from but no need. It does come from Elmwood cemetery Detroit Michigan.
You can trust the photographer.
On here it was a random, uncaptioned picture of a padlock on a chain.
It was a photo of marble doors with an ancient brass locking mechanish captioned “Keeping the dead safe?”
Woodie said:
Peak Warming Man said:
For those interested I found a mother load of info on the triton fuel system.
https://www.service-engine.com.ua/webroot/pdf/MITSUBISHI%20TRITON%204D56%20%204M41%20ENGINE.pdf
There is no lift pump, the pump runs off the engine and sucks from the tank.
That’s a compulcated one Mr Man.
I’m only up to level 1 of these things.
NUMBER FOUR NUMBER FOUR
The Rev Dodgson said:
Dark Orange said:Income idea:
Cast solid gold dogecoins and sell them online – for dogecoin.
Carry out long hard work to extract something of real value from the ground, then swap it for something of zero value.
Good thinking.
But what is the difference between Dogecoin and Gold? Why does one thing that has no real practical use more or less valuable than another thing with no real practical use?
Dark Orange said:
buffy said:
roughbarked said:Yes. I could send you to where I got it from but no need. It does come from Elmwood cemetery Detroit Michigan.
You can trust the photographer.
On here it was a random, uncaptioned picture of a padlock on a chain.
It was a photo of marble doors with an ancient brass locking mechanish captioned “Keeping the dead safe?”
Well that is what the link says, if one bothered to read, which you obviously did.
Dark Orange said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Dark Orange said:Income idea:
Cast solid gold dogecoins and sell them online – for dogecoin.
Carry out long hard work to extract something of real value from the ground, then swap it for something of zero value.
Good thinking.
But what is the difference between Dogecoin and Gold? Why does one thing that has no real practical use more or less valuable than another thing with no real practical use?
Gold has many practical uses. One or many are in the mobile phone I’m talking to you through.
Dark Orange said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Dark Orange said:Income idea:
Cast solid gold dogecoins and sell them online – for dogecoin.
Carry out long hard work to extract something of real value from the ground, then swap it for something of zero value.
Good thinking.
But what is the difference between Dogecoin and Gold? Why does one thing that has no real practical use more or less valuable than another thing with no real practical use?
But gold does have practical uses, amongst other things you can make personal decorations out of it, that many people find attractive and of intrinsic value.
buffy said:
But unless you know the person, wouldn’t it be polite to call her Ms Ayliffe?
I don’t know Scott Morrison, but i feel quite entitled to call him an empty-headed, shallow, unimaginative, slow-witted puppet of media, mining and whoever spoke to him last..
Peak Warming Man said:
For those interested I found a mother load of info on the triton fuel system.
https://www.service-engine.com.ua/webroot/pdf/MITSUBISHI%20TRITON%204D56%20%204M41%20ENGINE.pdf
There is no lift pump, the pump runs off the engine and sucks from the tank.
I doubt the issue is fuel pressure related, it mostly looks mechanical.
The ECU not turning on the fuel rail solenoid (and/or the injectors) due to a faulty sensor is the most likely cause.
one of resident pair of grey shrike thrushes just came into the yard not far from the door, talking in singy song
captain_spalding said:
buffy said:But unless you know the person, wouldn’t it be polite to call her Ms Ayliffe?
I don’t know Scott Morrison, but i feel quite entitled to call him an empty-headed, shallow, unimaginative, slow-witted puppet of media, mining and whoever spoke to him last..
and I’d tell him that to his face if I was misfortunate enough to have to ever meet him.
Dark Orange said:
Peak Warming Man said:
For those interested I found a mother load of info on the triton fuel system.
https://www.service-engine.com.ua/webroot/pdf/MITSUBISHI%20TRITON%204D56%20%204M41%20ENGINE.pdf
There is no lift pump, the pump runs off the engine and sucks from the tank.
I doubt the issue is fuel pressure related, it mostly looks mechanical.
The ECU not turning on the fuel rail solenoid (and/or the injectors) due to a faulty sensor is the most likely cause.
Always the weakest point is the switch?
transition said:
one of resident pair of grey shrike thrushes just came into the yard not far from the door, talking in singy song
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It is their time of year. Haven’t heard them here this season yet.
roughbarked said:
Dark Orange said:
Peak Warming Man said:
For those interested I found a mother load of info on the triton fuel system.
https://www.service-engine.com.ua/webroot/pdf/MITSUBISHI%20TRITON%204D56%20%204M41%20ENGINE.pdf
There is no lift pump, the pump runs off the engine and sucks from the tank.
I doubt the issue is fuel pressure related, it mostly looks mechanical.
The ECU not turning on the fuel rail solenoid (and/or the injectors) due to a faulty sensor is the most likely cause.
Always the weakest point is the switch?
I had exactly the same issues with a Triton. Mechanic removed, cleaned, and replaced the air flow sensor.
Will it fire with start-ya-bastard?
Dark Orange said:
roughbarked said:
Dark Orange said:I doubt the issue is fuel pressure related, it mostly looks mechanical.
The ECU not turning on the fuel rail solenoid (and/or the injectors) due to a faulty sensor is the most likely cause.
Always the weakest point is the switch?
I had exactly the same issues with a Triton. Mechanic removed, cleaned, and replaced the air flow sensor.
Will it fire with start-ya-bastard?
I recenty had to replace the oiil pressure sensor, it was spraying oil everywhere.
Dark Orange said:
roughbarked said:
Dark Orange said:I doubt the issue is fuel pressure related, it mostly looks mechanical.
The ECU not turning on the fuel rail solenoid (and/or the injectors) due to a faulty sensor is the most likely cause.
Always the weakest point is the switch?
I had exactly the same issues with a Triton. Mechanic removed, cleaned, and replaced the air flow sensor.
Will it fire with start-ya-bastard?
roughbarked said:
Dark Orange said:
roughbarked said:Always the weakest point is the switch?
I had exactly the same issues with a Triton. Mechanic removed, cleaned, and replaced the air flow sensor.
Will it fire with start-ya-bastard?I recenty had to replace the oiil pressure sensor, it was spraying oil everywhere.
Again I’ll mention the time when it took months to get the Mitsubishi mechanics to bench test the glow plugs after mucking about with the fuel system expensively because the glow plugs appered to be functioning, though three of the four weren’t upon bench testing.
Tamb said:
Dark Orange said:
roughbarked said:Always the weakest point is the switch?
I had exactly the same issues with a Triton. Mechanic removed, cleaned, and replaced the air flow sensor.
Will it fire with start-ya-bastard?
Sorry its off topic but I’ve just been reminded that start-ya-bastard is an excellent tick removal treatment.
Now normal Triton discussion can resume.
Reckon it could also be a skin irritant?
roughbarked said:
Tamb said:
Dark Orange said:I had exactly the same issues with a Triton. Mechanic removed, cleaned, and replaced the air flow sensor.
Will it fire with start-ya-bastard?
Sorry its off topic but I’ve just been reminded that start-ya-bastard is an excellent tick removal treatment.
Now normal Triton discussion can resume.Reckon it could also be a skin irritant?
glares at DO
Bloody sparkies.
roughbarked said:
Dark Orange said:
buffy said:On here it was a random, uncaptioned picture of a padlock on a chain.
It was a photo of marble doors with an ancient brass locking mechanish captioned “Keeping the dead safe?”
Well that is what the link says, if one bothered to read, which you obviously did.
What link? You wrote “keeping the dead safe” at the top of the picture, but I didn’t associate it with a vault in a cemetery. I didn’t know the doors were marble. Could have been old wood. I saw something relating to a bank safe.
captain_spalding said:
buffy said:But unless you know the person, wouldn’t it be polite to call her Ms Ayliffe?
I don’t know Scott Morrison, but i feel quite entitled to call him an empty-headed, shallow, unimaginative, slow-witted puppet of media, mining and whoever spoke to him last..
Ah, but you referred to him by his formal name. Go on…tell me you normally refer to him as Scott, because you “know” him. I bet you use another name…
buffy said:
captain_spalding said:
buffy said:But unless you know the person, wouldn’t it be polite to call her Ms Ayliffe?
I don’t know Scott Morrison, but i feel quite entitled to call him an empty-headed, shallow, unimaginative, slow-witted puppet of media, mining and whoever spoke to him last..
Ah, but you referred to him by his formal name. Go on…tell me you normally refer to him as Scott, because you “know” him. I bet you use another name…
You’re very narky today Elizabeth!
runs away
Witty Rejoinder said:
buffy said:
captain_spalding said:I don’t know Scott Morrison, but i feel quite entitled to call him an empty-headed, shallow, unimaginative, slow-witted puppet of media, mining and whoever spoke to him last..
Ah, but you referred to him by his formal name. Go on…tell me you normally refer to him as Scott, because you “know” him. I bet you use another name…
You’re very narky today Elizabeth!
runs away
Yep, a bit grumpy. Don’t test me.
Peak Warming Man said:
For those interested I found a mother load of info on the triton fuel system.
https://www.service-engine.com.ua/webroot/pdf/MITSUBISHI%20TRITON%204D56%20%204M41%20ENGINE.pdf
There is no lift pump, the pump runs off the engine and sucks from the tank.
probably a bit of a leap to assume it has no fuel before you know you have working glow plugs, dunno, the old ute out there I start every time on aerostart, it’s an alcoholic, if anyone else tried to start it cold and didn’t know none of the glow plugs work they might assume it isn’t getting any fuel, I doubt it would give much indications it was getting fuel, no signs out the exhaust of diesel mist, or sounds of runt combustion, it’d just rrrrrrrrrr asking where’s my morning ether, and the starter motor and battery would be talking loudly about how long it would take for me to give the motor its morning ether
your assumption could be right though
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-17/victoria-declares-state-energy-emergency/100222092
Ahh, good. With the easing of restrictions tonight Victorians were bound to get soft. This will keep them on their toes.
sarahs mum said:
Is that about Mt Wellington?
Witty Rejoinder said:
sarahs mum said:
Is that about Mt Wellington?
Isn’t the “on their phone” bit redundant?
Witty Rejoinder said:
sarahs mum said:
Is that about Mt Wellington?
Yes. The cable car application is sitting with Hobart Council again.
Think I’ll do a vat of beef borscht tonight. If I’m doing a meat borscht it’s usually pork but I’ve had too much pork lately, so beef it will be.
With fresh diced beetroots, red cabbage, taters, carrots, tomatoes, onion, garlic, dill, sour cream etc.
Bubblecar said:
Think I’ll do a vat of beef borscht tonight. If I’m doing a meat borscht it’s usually pork but I’ve had too much pork lately, so beef it will be.With fresh diced beetroots, red cabbage, taters, carrots, tomatoes, onion, garlic, dill, sour cream etc.
Im thinking a meatloaf that I can hide a bunch of veg in and get a few meals out of.
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
Think I’ll do a vat of beef borscht tonight. If I’m doing a meat borscht it’s usually pork but I’ve had too much pork lately, so beef it will be.With fresh diced beetroots, red cabbage, taters, carrots, tomatoes, onion, garlic, dill, sour cream etc.
Im thinking a meatloaf that I can hide a bunch of veg in and get a few meals out of.
Sounds good. Maybe one with whole eggs in it so you get that scotch egg effect.
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
Think I’ll do a vat of beef borscht tonight. If I’m doing a meat borscht it’s usually pork but I’ve had too much pork lately, so beef it will be.With fresh diced beetroots, red cabbage, taters, carrots, tomatoes, onion, garlic, dill, sour cream etc.
Im thinking a meatloaf that I can hide a bunch of veg in and get a few meals out of.
Sounds good. Maybe one with whole eggs in it so you get that scotch egg effect.
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:Im thinking a meatloaf that I can hide a bunch of veg in and get a few meals out of.
Sounds good. Maybe one with whole eggs in it so you get that scotch egg effect.
If you’re ever in need of a roof over your head, and willing to work for room and board, i have a need for an excellent cook who’s willing to work for room and board.
Could be part of the problem, that’s after pulling off leaves and shit and banging it a lot.
Peak Warming Man said:
Could be part of the problem, that’s after pulling off leaves and shit and banging it a lot.
any ants?
Bubblecar said:
Think I’ll do a vat of beef borscht tonight. If I’m doing a meat borscht it’s usually pork but I’ve had too much pork lately, so beef it will be.With fresh diced beetroots, red cabbage, taters, carrots, tomatoes, onion, garlic, dill, sour cream etc.
I am going to make sausage rolls for tea tonight.
Just had a ham and tomato and cheese filled croissant at the bakery for lunch. And mocha. About 11 o’clock I et a jam doughnut. That should bring the blood sugar levels back up and reduce the grumpiness. Perhaps I moved too much firewood this morning.
Bogsnorkler said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Could be part of the problem, that’s after pulling off leaves and shit and banging it a lot.
any ants?
Nup.
buffy said:
Bubblecar said:
Think I’ll do a vat of beef borscht tonight. If I’m doing a meat borscht it’s usually pork but I’ve had too much pork lately, so beef it will be.With fresh diced beetroots, red cabbage, taters, carrots, tomatoes, onion, garlic, dill, sour cream etc.
I am going to make sausage rolls for tea tonight.
Just had a ham and tomato and cheese filled croissant at the bakery for lunch. And mocha. About 11 o’clock I et a jam doughnut. That should bring the blood sugar levels back up and reduce the grumpiness. Perhaps I moved too much firewood this morning.
It’s withdrawal symptoms, Ms Buffy. Withdrawal symptoms I say. You are missing you new tractor. You need to get out and do some more tracting. Even if you just sit on it and pretend you are having a good tract. 🚜🚜🚜
Bogsnorkler said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Could be part of the problem, that’s after pulling off leaves and shit and banging it a lot.
any ants?
The ants are in my kitchen. But they get the sponge and the hot water as soon as I see a scout.
Woodie said:
buffy said:
Bubblecar said:
Think I’ll do a vat of beef borscht tonight. If I’m doing a meat borscht it’s usually pork but I’ve had too much pork lately, so beef it will be.With fresh diced beetroots, red cabbage, taters, carrots, tomatoes, onion, garlic, dill, sour cream etc.
I am going to make sausage rolls for tea tonight.
Just had a ham and tomato and cheese filled croissant at the bakery for lunch. And mocha. About 11 o’clock I et a jam doughnut. That should bring the blood sugar levels back up and reduce the grumpiness. Perhaps I moved too much firewood this morning.
It’s withdrawal symptoms, Ms Buffy. Withdrawal symptoms I say. You are missing you new tractor. You need to get out and do some more tracting. Even if you just sit on it and pretend you are having a good tract. 🚜🚜🚜
The JWs are really good with tracts.
Woodie said:
buffy said:
Bubblecar said:
Think I’ll do a vat of beef borscht tonight. If I’m doing a meat borscht it’s usually pork but I’ve had too much pork lately, so beef it will be.With fresh diced beetroots, red cabbage, taters, carrots, tomatoes, onion, garlic, dill, sour cream etc.
I am going to make sausage rolls for tea tonight.
Just had a ham and tomato and cheese filled croissant at the bakery for lunch. And mocha. About 11 o’clock I et a jam doughnut. That should bring the blood sugar levels back up and reduce the grumpiness. Perhaps I moved too much firewood this morning.
It’s withdrawal symptoms, Ms Buffy. Withdrawal symptoms I say. You are missing you new tractor. You need to get out and do some more tracting. Even if you just sit on it and pretend you are having a good tract. 🚜🚜🚜
buffy said:
Woodie said:
buffy said:I am going to make sausage rolls for tea tonight.
Just had a ham and tomato and cheese filled croissant at the bakery for lunch. And mocha. About 11 o’clock I et a jam doughnut. That should bring the blood sugar levels back up and reduce the grumpiness. Perhaps I moved too much firewood this morning.
It’s withdrawal symptoms, Ms Buffy. Withdrawal symptoms I say. You are missing you new tractor. You need to get out and do some more tracting. Even if you just sit on it and pretend you are having a good tract. 🚜🚜🚜
Oops.
Mr buffy has been to Hamilton this morning to register it. I had to take some more photos for the registration people. Had to prove it’s got all the relevent lights and the flashing beacon thing. I also had to photograph the compliance plate – but I won’t put that one up here…
I haven’t sat on it yet. That one Mr buffy bought with the money from selling the red Mazda CX5. The Razorback rideon is still to come. I bought that one (well, so far I’ve only paid a holding deposit) with some of my money from selling the Casterton house. I probably won’t use the tractor, but I might well learn to use the rideon. I used to know how to drive a rideon, but when I was working full time I let that skill lapse…I didn’t have time to do the tidy mowing and the rideon mowing.
:)
buffy said:
buffy said:
Woodie said:It’s withdrawal symptoms, Ms Buffy. Withdrawal symptoms I say. You are missing you new tractor. You need to get out and do some more tracting. Even if you just sit on it and pretend you are having a good tract. 🚜🚜🚜
Oops.
Mr buffy has been to Hamilton this morning to register it. I had to take some more photos for the registration people. Had to prove it’s got all the relevent lights and the flashing beacon thing. I also had to photograph the compliance plate – but I won’t put that one up here…
I haven’t sat on it yet. That one Mr buffy bought with the money from selling the red Mazda CX5. The Razorback rideon is still to come. I bought that one (well, so far I’ve only paid a holding deposit) with some of my money from selling the Casterton house. I probably won’t use the tractor, but I might well learn to use the rideon. I used to know how to drive a rideon, but when I was working full time I let that skill lapse…I didn’t have time to do the tidy mowing and the rideon mowing.
:)
Ooh, look! The Pug has photobombed. He keeps going out and looking at the step – I wonder if he wants to get on the tractor.
Warning: Pug in next post.
Come to think of it, before Mr buffy got the ginormous green tractor, The Pug was a bit of a tractor hog.
buffy said:
Warning: Pug in next post.
(Pours double brandy. Downs same in one gulp.)
OK, i’m ready.
buffy said:
buffy said:
Woodie said:It’s withdrawal symptoms, Ms Buffy. Withdrawal symptoms I say. You are missing you new tractor. You need to get out and do some more tracting. Even if you just sit on it and pretend you are having a good tract. 🚜🚜🚜
Oops.
Mr buffy has been to Hamilton this morning to register it. I had to take some more photos for the registration people. Had to prove it’s got all the relevent lights and the flashing beacon thing. I also had to photograph the compliance plate – but I won’t put that one up here…
I haven’t sat on it yet. That one Mr buffy bought with the money from selling the red Mazda CX5. The Razorback rideon is still to come. I bought that one (well, so far I’ve only paid a holding deposit) with some of my money from selling the Casterton house. I probably won’t use the tractor, but I might well learn to use the rideon. I used to know how to drive a rideon, but when I was working full time I let that skill lapse…I didn’t have time to do the tidy mowing and the rideon mowing.
:)
That looks rool flash, Ms Buffy. What brand is it?
Woodie said:
buffy said:
buffy said:Oops.
Mr buffy has been to Hamilton this morning to register it. I had to take some more photos for the registration people. Had to prove it’s got all the relevent lights and the flashing beacon thing. I also had to photograph the compliance plate – but I won’t put that one up here…
I haven’t sat on it yet. That one Mr buffy bought with the money from selling the red Mazda CX5. The Razorback rideon is still to come. I bought that one (well, so far I’ve only paid a holding deposit) with some of my money from selling the Casterton house. I probably won’t use the tractor, but I might well learn to use the rideon. I used to know how to drive a rideon, but when I was working full time I let that skill lapse…I didn’t have time to do the tidy mowing and the rideon mowing.
:)
That looks rool flash, Ms Buffy. What brand is it?
Bobcat. Mr buffy says it’s a bobcat on a tractor body.
buffy said:
buffy said:
Woodie said:It’s withdrawal symptoms, Ms Buffy. Withdrawal symptoms I say. You are missing you new tractor. You need to get out and do some more tracting. Even if you just sit on it and pretend you are having a good tract. 🚜🚜🚜
Oops.
Mr buffy has been to Hamilton this morning to register it. I had to take some more photos for the registration people. Had to prove it’s got all the relevent lights and the flashing beacon thing. I also had to photograph the compliance plate – but I won’t put that one up here…
I haven’t sat on it yet. That one Mr buffy bought with the money from selling the red Mazda CX5. The Razorback rideon is still to come. I bought that one (well, so far I’ve only paid a holding deposit) with some of my money from selling the Casterton house. I probably won’t use the tractor, but I might well learn to use the rideon. I used to know how to drive a rideon, but when I was working full time I let that skill lapse…I didn’t have time to do the tidy mowing and the rideon mowing.
:)
Looks like Tamb and I killed the forum.
buffy said:
Looks like Tamb and I killed the forum.
Remember I was crocheting a curtain with a phoenix on it? I seem to have stopped about the middle of last year. Last week I decided it should be finished. Now finished. It’s a little over a metre wide and about a metre long. But after it hangs for a bit, the length will change.
buffy said:
Remember I was crocheting a curtain with a phoenix on it? I seem to have stopped about the middle of last year. Last week I decided it should be finished. Now finished. It’s a little over a metre wide and about a metre long. But after it hangs for a bit, the length will change.
Very neat work.
Browning the diced beef in olive oil with chopped onion, loads of garlic and some thyme, then I’ll add a splash of beef stock, red wine and a tin of diced tomatoes, and let it slow cook for an hour or so. Then add the diced beetroots, spuds, carrots, red cabbage, more stock etc and continue cooking until dinnertime. Last in will be some fresh dill and sour cream.
Bubblecar said:
Browning the diced beef in olive oil with chopped onion, loads of garlic and some thyme, then I’ll add a splash of beef stock, red wine and a tin of diced tomatoes, and let it slow cook for an hour or so. Then add the diced beetroots, spuds, carrots, red cabbage, more stock etc and continue cooking until dinnertime. Last in will be some fresh dill and sour cream.
That doesn’t sound like any meatloaf recipe that I’m aware of.
sibeen said:
Bubblecar said:
Browning the diced beef in olive oil with chopped onion, loads of garlic and some thyme, then I’ll add a splash of beef stock, red wine and a tin of diced tomatoes, and let it slow cook for an hour or so. Then add the diced beetroots, spuds, carrots, red cabbage, more stock etc and continue cooking until dinnertime. Last in will be some fresh dill and sour cream.
That doesn’t sound like any meatloaf recipe that I’m aware of.
It’s beef bortsch. Sarahs mum is doing a meat loaf.
buffy said:
Remember I was crocheting a curtain with a phoenix on it? I seem to have stopped about the middle of last year. Last week I decided it should be finished. Now finished. It’s a little over a metre wide and about a metre long. But after it hangs for a bit, the length will change.
:)
Nice.
:)
Raining cosily out there now. I’m looking up Manning Wardle industrial locomotives while nursing a sherry.
I plan to do a wide and shallow one with a Celtic dragon next. Perhaps I will do it in less than 15 months this time!
Either this one (someone else’s picture off the interwebs):
Or this one (which is wider and probably not really Celtic)
One computer success today, not the HDD swap, I have rear sound. a few years ago i cleaned the dust from the inside and somehow lost sound from the rear jack. been using the headphone jack. just downloaded the realtek drivers and now i have it back.
Bogsnorkler said:
One computer success today, not the HDD swap, I have rear sound. a few years ago i cleaned the dust from the inside and somehow lost sound from the rear jack. been using the headphone jack. just downloaded the realtek drivers and now i have it back.
That’s one in the eye for entropy.
OK new air filter fitted.
Air flow sensor sprayed with air flow sensor spray, everything back together.
I’ll go and start it in a minute.
rubs hands
Peak Warming Man said:
OK new air filter fitted.
Air flow sensor sprayed with air flow sensor spray, everything back together.
I’ll go and start it in a minute.
rubs hands
Still able to fix cars in your own backyard in 2021, it’s a miracle.
buffy said:
Remember I was crocheting a curtain with a phoenix on it? I seem to have stopped about the middle of last year. Last week I decided it should be finished. Now finished. It’s a little over a metre wide and about a metre long. But after it hangs for a bit, the length will change.
that’s really nice,, great work
Lancashire & Yorkshire 0-4-0 saddle tanker with an oversized dome.
Bubblecar said:
sibeen said:
Bubblecar said:
Browning the diced beef in olive oil with chopped onion, loads of garlic and some thyme, then I’ll add a splash of beef stock, red wine and a tin of diced tomatoes, and let it slow cook for an hour or so. Then add the diced beetroots, spuds, carrots, red cabbage, more stock etc and continue cooking until dinnertime. Last in will be some fresh dill and sour cream.
That doesn’t sound like any meatloaf recipe that I’m aware of.
It’s beef bortsch. Sarahs mum is doing a meat loaf.
Sibeen is still correct.
It does not sound like a meatloaf recipe.
buffy said:
Remember I was crocheting a curtain with a phoenix on it? I seem to have stopped about the middle of last year. Last week I decided it should be finished. Now finished. It’s a little over a metre wide and about a metre long. But after it hangs for a bit, the length will change.
Nice work Buffy. :)
Bubblecar said:
Bogsnorkler said:
One computer success today, not the HDD swap, I have rear sound. a few years ago i cleaned the dust from the inside and somehow lost sound from the rear jack. been using the headphone jack. just downloaded the realtek drivers and now i have it back.
That’s one in the eye for entropy.
Yeah, take that, Second Law!
captain_spalding said:
Bubblecar said:
sibeen said:That doesn’t sound like any meatloaf recipe that I’m aware of.
It’s beef bortsch. Sarahs mum is doing a meat loaf.
Sibeen is still correct.
It does not sound like a meatloaf recipe.
For that matter, it doesn’t sound like a cheese & mushroom omelette either.
Bubblecar said:
captain_spalding said:
Bubblecar said:It’s beef bortsch. Sarahs mum is doing a meat loaf.
Sibeen is still correct.
It does not sound like a meatloaf recipe.
For that matter, it doesn’t sound like a cheese & mushroom omelette either.
Or a sock full of custard.
You know what else doesn’t sound like a sock full of custard?
A sock full of custard.
Spike Milligan wanted the sound of someone being hit with a sock full of custard for an episode of The Goons.
So, he went to the BBC canteen, and had one of his socks filled with custard. When swung against an object, the sound was disappointing, so they had to find some substitute sound that sounded more like a sock full of custard.
Bubblecar said:
captain_spalding said:
Bubblecar said:It’s beef bortsch. Sarahs mum is doing a meat loaf.
Sibeen is still correct.
It does not sound like a meatloaf recipe.
For that matter, it doesn’t sound like a cheese & mushroom omelette either.
Nor Peking duck.
captain_spalding said:
Bubblecar said:
captain_spalding said:Sibeen is still correct.
It does not sound like a meatloaf recipe.
For that matter, it doesn’t sound like a cheese & mushroom omelette either.
Or a sock full of custard.
You know what else doesn’t sound like a sock full of custard?
A sock full of custard.
Spike Milligan wanted the sound of someone being hit with a sock full of custard for an episode of The Goons.
So, he went to the BBC canteen, and had one of his socks filled with custard. When swung against an object, the sound was disappointing, so they had to find some substitute sound that sounded more like a sock full of custard.
So…what did they use?
Peak Warming Man said:
OK new air filter fitted.
Air flow sensor sprayed with air flow sensor spray, everything back together.
I’ll go and start it in a minute.
rubs hands
passes Mr Man one rather large and heavy hammer
Here ya go. Use this. Just in case.
Bubblecar said:
captain_spalding said:
Bubblecar said:For that matter, it doesn’t sound like a cheese & mushroom omelette either.
Or a sock full of custard.
You know what else doesn’t sound like a sock full of custard?
A sock full of custard.
Spike Milligan wanted the sound of someone being hit with a sock full of custard for an episode of The Goons.
So, he went to the BBC canteen, and had one of his socks filled with custard. When swung against an object, the sound was disappointing, so they had to find some substitute sound that sounded more like a sock full of custard.
So…what did they use?
I don’t know/can’t remember.
captain_spalding said:
Bubblecar said:
captain_spalding said:Sibeen is still correct.
It does not sound like a meatloaf recipe.
For that matter, it doesn’t sound like a cheese & mushroom omelette either.
Or a sock full of custard.
You know what else doesn’t sound like a sock full of custard?
A sock full of custard.
Spike Milligan wanted the sound of someone being hit with a sock full of custard for an episode of The Goons.
So, he went to the BBC canteen, and had one of his socks filled with custard. When swung against an object, the sound was disappointing, so they had to find some substitute sound that sounded more like a sock full of custard.
that’s literally what foley artists do all the time
https://www.sundaypost.com/fp/custard-filledsocks-swung-at-plywoodsounds-like-spikes-idea/
Arts said:
that’s literally what foley artists do all the time
Politicians often make good foley artists.
They can make sounds that resemble those made by earnest, socially-responsible, empathetic and caring people, but are really nothing of the sort at all.
captain_spalding said:
Bubblecar said:
Bogsnorkler said:
One computer success today, not the HDD swap, I have rear sound. a few years ago i cleaned the dust from the inside and somehow lost sound from the rear jack. been using the headphone jack. just downloaded the realtek drivers and now i have it back.
That’s one in the eye for entropy.
Yeah, take that, Second Law!
yeah, woo hoo….presses reset button.
wait…No… not that one.
I have rear sound.
Filthy bugger.
Peak Warming Man said:
OK new air filter fitted.
Air flow sensor sprayed with air flow sensor spray, everything back together.
I’ll go and start it in a minute.
rubs hands
Praise the Lord.
Peak Warming Man said:
Peak Warming Man said:
OK new air filter fitted.
Air flow sensor sprayed with air flow sensor spray, everything back together.
I’ll go and start it in a minute.
rubs hands
Praise the Lord.
Praise the Air Flow Sensor.
For it senses Air Flow.
Arts said:
buffy said:
Remember I was crocheting a curtain with a phoenix on it? I seem to have stopped about the middle of last year. Last week I decided it should be finished. Now finished. It’s a little over a metre wide and about a metre long. But after it hangs for a bit, the length will change.
that’s really nice,, great work
I can’t claim the design, I nicked it off the interwebs. But I’m pretty happy with it.
Peak Warming Man said:
OK new air filter fitted.
Air flow sensor sprayed with air flow sensor spray, everything back together.
I’ll go and start it in a minute.
rubs hands
Do you need me to send over The Pug to help you with that? He’s very partial to a ride in a car. Any car. With anybody.
Peak Warming Man said:
OK new air filter fitted.
Air flow sensor sprayed with air flow sensor spray, everything back together.
I’ll go and start it in a minute.
rubs hands
Should I be doing some pacing up and down? or is someone else already doing that bit?
buffy said:
Peak Warming Man said:
OK new air filter fitted.
Air flow sensor sprayed with air flow sensor spray, everything back together.
I’ll go and start it in a minute.
rubs hands
Do you need me to send over The Pug to help you with that? He’s very partial to a ride in a car. Any car. With anybody.
No no I’m right thanks.
buffy said:
Should I be doing some pacing up and down? or is someone else already doing that bit?
I think that Mission Control are doing enough worrying for everyone.
“But the capital’s only quarantine hotel returned to regular operation after repatriation flights from India were paused, making it unavailable for the returning G7 attendees.”
Well, that was poor planning on someone’s part. I suspect the G7 was in the works some months ago… shouldn’t some bookings have been made?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-17/g7-returning-travellers-to-quarantine-at-anu-unilodge/100223546
captain_spalding said:
https://www.sundaypost.com/fp/custard-filledsocks-swung-at-plywoodsounds-like-spikes-idea/
Thanks for that.
Five films also came out of the Goons’ activities.
and 26 episodes of The Telegoons,
2 somethings I did not know.
It’s running great now, no warning lights, took it up and down through the revs.
There were some flat spots to start with but it sorted itself out.
Now to get back to the roo damage, once that is made to look reasonable I can drive it again.
Peak Warming Man said:
It’s running great now, no warning lights, took it up and down through the revs.
There were some flat spots to start with but it sorted itself out.
Now to get back to the roo damage, once that is made to look reasonable I can drive it again.
That’s good. The Pug will be pleased to accompany you. He doesn’t care about the roo damage. He says he’s ready to go now.
I should go and shower. I had to go up the ladder to sort out a spouting issue when we had a shower of rain a short time ago. So I need to change clothes anyway.
buffy said:
Peak Warming Man said:
It’s running great now, no warning lights, took it up and down through the revs.
There were some flat spots to start with but it sorted itself out.
Now to get back to the roo damage, once that is made to look reasonable I can drive it again.
That’s good. The Pug will be pleased to accompany you. He doesn’t care about the roo damage. He says he’s ready to go now.
Imagine that thing sitting beside you in the car yapping away.
…….and then we went for a walk……………..and then we had a sleep……..and then we looked for koalas……………and then we had food………..and then we had a sleep………….and then we………………
Peak Warming Man said:
buffy said:
Peak Warming Man said:
It’s running great now, no warning lights, took it up and down through the revs.
There were some flat spots to start with but it sorted itself out.
Now to get back to the roo damage, once that is made to look reasonable I can drive it again.
That’s good. The Pug will be pleased to accompany you. He doesn’t care about the roo damage. He says he’s ready to go now.
Imagine that thing sitting beside you in the car yapping away.
…….and then we went for a walk……………..and then we had a sleep……..and then we looked for koalas……………and then we had food………..and then we had a sleep………….and then we………………
Oh, nowhere near enough sleep in that itinerary…sleeping on Mr buffy’s lap is his major activity. Although today I’ve got some rather hot wattle wood in the woodheater, so he was on the hearth for a bit. Until he started to boil.
Peak Warming Man said:
It’s running great now, no warning lights, took it up and down through the revs.
There were some flat spots to start with but it sorted itself out.
Now to get back to the roo damage, once that is made to look reasonable I can drive it again.
Are we still talking about the drone here?
Borscht now happily simmering, should be ready in an hour or so.
There’s enough to feed a family of eight so there’ll be plenty for the freezer.
Rule 303 said:
Peak Warming Man said:
It’s running great now, no warning lights, took it up and down through the revs.
There were some flat spots to start with but it sorted itself out.
Now to get back to the roo damage, once that is made to look reasonable I can drive it again.
Are we still talking about the drone here?
Umm…no.
wintering nicely, cold rain, occasional thunder, bit windy with gusts
Peak Warming Man said:
Rule 303 said:
Peak Warming Man said:
It’s running great now, no warning lights, took it up and down through the revs.
There were some flat spots to start with but it sorted itself out.
Now to get back to the roo damage, once that is made to look reasonable I can drive it again.
Are we still talking about the drone here?
Umm…no.
Sorry, been busy. The Triton?
transition said:
wintering nicely, cold rain, occasional thunder, bit windy with gusts
Have farmers got a winter crop in?
transition said:
wintering nicely, cold rain, occasional thunder, bit windy with gusts
Fairly gentle rain this end, but pleasantly dark, grey and miserable.
Pretty happy with this in the window too. That’s actually not the window it will be in, but I need to pull the sewing machine away from the window and evict the spiders and dust bunnies etc before I put it into its own window. It can hang there in the centre of the front window for a bit now until I get enthused about the cleaning stuff.
Peak Warming Man said:
transition said:
wintering nicely, cold rain, occasional thunder, bit windy with gustsHave farmers got a winter crop in?
lot of out the ground
buffy said:
Pretty happy with this in the window too. That’s actually not the window it will be in, but I need to pull the sewing machine away from the window and evict the spiders and dust bunnies etc before I put it into its own window. It can hang there in the centre of the front window for a bit now until I get enthused about the cleaning stuff.
It’s beautiful, Buffy. Fabulous work!
buffy said:
Pretty happy with this in the window too. That’s actually not the window it will be in, but I need to pull the sewing machine away from the window and evict the spiders and dust bunnies etc before I put it into its own window. It can hang there in the centre of the front window for a bit now until I get enthused about the cleaning stuff.
Looks suitably triumphant.
Bubblecar said:
transition said:
wintering nicely, cold rain, occasional thunder, bit windy with gusts
Fairly gentle rain this end, but pleasantly dark, grey and miserable.
long as it rains, rains enough, never gets too wet this part of the world, not right here anyway
Peak Warming Man said:
buffy said:
Peak Warming Man said:
It’s running great now, no warning lights, took it up and down through the revs.
There were some flat spots to start with but it sorted itself out.
Now to get back to the roo damage, once that is made to look reasonable I can drive it again.
That’s good. The Pug will be pleased to accompany you. He doesn’t care about the roo damage. He says he’s ready to go now.
Imagine that thing sitting beside you in the car yapping away.
…….and then we went for a walk……………..and then we had a sleep……..and then we looked for koalas……………and then we had food………..and then we had a sleep………….and then we………………
you’ve also got the snorting and snuffling sounds
Four minutes of London Traffic (1952)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWEwgH4nPzw
Peak Warming Man said:
Could be part of the problem, that’s after pulling off leaves and shit and banging it a lot.
Yair, to be fair it needs air.
Peak Warming Man said:
It’s running great now, no warning lights, took it up and down through the revs.
There were some flat spots to start with but it sorted itself out.
Now to get back to the roo damage, once that is made to look reasonable I can drive it again.
Tamb said:
buffy said:
Looks like Tamb and I killed the forum.
Success at last !!!
I had things to do. All full of potato mashed with home made carrot felafel , spoonfuls wrapped in homegrown lettuce leaves.
Now looking at the 12 year old bottle of Jack Douglas. Probably leave it for the nightcap.
Michael V said:
buffy said:
Remember I was crocheting a curtain with a phoenix on it? I seem to have stopped about the middle of last year. Last week I decided it should be finished. Now finished. It’s a little over a metre wide and about a metre long. But after it hangs for a bit, the length will change.
:)
Nice.
:)
Very nice.
Peak Warming Man said:
It’s running great now, no warning lights, took it up and down through the revs.
There were some flat spots to start with but it sorted itself out.
Now to get back to the roo damage, once that is made to look reasonable I can drive it again.
Raises a glass. Congrats.
here’s just one more thing that tilapia can do… skin grafting
Peak Warming Man said:
transition said:
wintering nicely, cold rain, occasional thunder, bit windy with gustsHave farmers got a winter crop in?
If the mice left them any seed.
Arts said:
here’s just one more thing that tilapia can do… skin grafting
Aquaman.
Arts said:
here’s just one more thing that tilapia can do… skin grafting
I remember seeing this somewhere a few years ago. Not this pic but using fish skins.
Arts said:
Peak Warming Man said:
buffy said:That’s good. The Pug will be pleased to accompany you. He doesn’t care about the roo damage. He says he’s ready to go now.
Imagine that thing sitting beside you in the car yapping away.
…….and then we went for a walk……………..and then we had a sleep……..and then we looked for koalas……………and then we had food………..and then we had a sleep………….and then we………………
you’ve also got the snorting and snuffling sounds
And the farting.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666138120300116
Improved skin regeneration with acellular fish skin grafts
Bogsnorkler said:
Arts said:
here’s just one more thing that tilapia can do… skin grafting
I remember seeing this somewhere a few years ago. Not this pic but using fish skins.
Mermaid?
Bogsnorkler said:
Arts said:
here’s just one more thing that tilapia can do… skin grafting
I remember seeing this somewhere a few years ago. Not this pic but using fish skins.
Not that one, but here is a case report. Warning – yucky pictures of burnt skin included.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6565829/
“Innovative treatment using tilapia skin as a xenograft for partial thickness burns after a gunpowder explosion”
Bogsnorkler said:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666138120300116Improved skin regeneration with acellular fish skin grafts
Looks good.
Bogsnorkler said:
Arts said:
here’s just one more thing that tilapia can do… skin grafting
I remember seeing this somewhere a few years ago. Not this pic but using fish skins.
it’s really quite incredible.. apparently it recruits the humans own cells and then converts into living tissue..
Arts said:
Bogsnorkler said:
Arts said:
here’s just one more thing that tilapia can do… skin grafting
I remember seeing this somewhere a few years ago. Not this pic but using fish skins.
it’s really quite incredible.. apparently it recruits the humans own cells and then converts into living tissue..
get really scaly skin though, need heaps of vitA cream.
Arts said:
Bogsnorkler said:
Arts said:
here’s just one more thing that tilapia can do… skin grafting
I remember seeing this somewhere a few years ago. Not this pic but using fish skins.
it’s really quite incredible.. apparently it recruits the humans own cells and then converts into living tissue..
Seems to be big in Brazil, from a quick search.
Wow it must have been when the sun was out. Max today was 11.5 °C
roughbarked said:
Wow it must have been when the sun was out. Max today was 11.5 °C
I think we hit 12 about half an hour before we had about half mm rain just after 3.00pm.
A bowl of fine winter borscht, ready to tuck in.
Bubblecar said:
Four minutes of London Traffic (1952)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWEwgH4nPzw
Hardly changed at all over the last 70 years.
Pity we don’t have something similar from 1882.
It would make a good illustration of the ever slowing rate of change :)
captain_spalding said:
Arts said:that’s literally what foley artists do all the time
Politicians often make good foley artists.
They can make sounds that resemble those made by earnest, socially-responsible, empathetic and caring people, but are really nothing of the sort at all.
LOLOLOLOL
The Rev Dodgson said:
Bubblecar said:
Four minutes of London Traffic (1952)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWEwgH4nPzw
Hardly changed at all over the last 70 years.
it’s a lot noisier now.
Peak Warming Man said:
Peak Warming Man said:
OK new air filter fitted.
Air flow sensor sprayed with air flow sensor spray, everything back together.
I’ll go and start it in a minute.
rubs hands
Praise the Lord.
It goes?
Peak Warming Man said:
It’s running great now, no warning lights, took it up and down through the revs.
There were some flat spots to start with but it sorted itself out.
Now to get back to the roo damage, once that is made to look reasonable I can drive it again.
Roo damage? I haven’t heard that story. What happened?
Michael V said:
Peak Warming Man said:
It’s running great now, no warning lights, took it up and down through the revs.
There were some flat spots to start with but it sorted itself out.
Now to get back to the roo damage, once that is made to look reasonable I can drive it again.
Roo damage? I haven’t heard that story. What happened?
he hit a roo.
Arts said:
here’s just one more thing that tilapia can do… skin grafting
Ref?
Michael V said:
Peak Warming Man said:
It’s running great now, no warning lights, took it up and down through the revs.
There were some flat spots to start with but it sorted itself out.
Now to get back to the roo damage, once that is made to look reasonable I can drive it again.
Roo damage? I haven’t heard that story. What happened?
PWM happened. That’s what!
Bogsnorkler said:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666138120300116Improved skin regeneration with acellular fish skin grafts
Thanks.
Michael V said:
Peak Warming Man said:
It’s running great now, no warning lights, took it up and down through the revs.
There were some flat spots to start with but it sorted itself out.
Now to get back to the roo damage, once that is made to look reasonable I can drive it again.
Roo damage? I haven’t heard that story. What happened?
Quite a while ago, hit a big roo at speed just out of Aratula at night, did considerable body damage.
Bubblecar said:
A bowl of fine winter borscht, ready to tuck in.
Purdy.
Peak Warming Man said:
Michael V said:
Peak Warming Man said:
It’s running great now, no warning lights, took it up and down through the revs.
There were some flat spots to start with but it sorted itself out.
Now to get back to the roo damage, once that is made to look reasonable I can drive it again.
Roo damage? I haven’t heard that story. What happened?
Quite a while ago, hit a big roo at speed just out of Aratula at night, did considerable body damage.
How’s the radiator? Does the triton have a roo bar?
Michael V said:
Bubblecar said:
A bowl of fine winter borscht, ready to tuck in.
Purdy.
That’s his peasant genes coming out.
Bogsnorkler said:
Michael V said:
Peak Warming Man said:
It’s running great now, no warning lights, took it up and down through the revs.
There were some flat spots to start with but it sorted itself out.
Now to get back to the roo damage, once that is made to look reasonable I can drive it again.
Roo damage? I haven’t heard that story. What happened?
he hit a roo.
I want the “whole” story thanks.
I had already reasoned that bit out.
Peak Warming Man said:
Michael V said:
Peak Warming Man said:
It’s running great now, no warning lights, took it up and down through the revs.
There were some flat spots to start with but it sorted itself out.
Now to get back to the roo damage, once that is made to look reasonable I can drive it again.
Roo damage? I haven’t heard that story. What happened?
Quite a while ago, hit a big roo at speed just out of Aratula at night, did considerable body damage.
Bugger. Photos?
Michael V said:
Bogsnorkler said:
Michael V said:Roo damage? I haven’t heard that story. What happened?
he hit a roo.
I want the “whole” story thanks.
I had already reasoned that bit out.
OK poindexter.
Michael V said:
Arts said:
here’s just one more thing that tilapia can do… skin grafting
Ref?
Gangrene leprosy and the plague.
People were told not to got here or do it.
.
Good name for a band too.
roughbarked said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Michael V said:Roo damage? I haven’t heard that story. What happened?
Quite a while ago, hit a big roo at speed just out of Aratula at night, did considerable body damage.
How’s the radiator? Does the triton have a roo bar?
Good, needs a clean though, yes has a bull bar.
Michael V said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Michael V said:Roo damage? I haven’t heard that story. What happened?
Quite a while ago, hit a big roo at speed just out of Aratula at night, did considerable body damage.
Bugger. Photos?
I think I’ve got some somewhere.
Peak Warming Man said:
roughbarked said:
Peak Warming Man said:Quite a while ago, hit a big roo at speed just out of Aratula at night, did considerable body damage.
How’s the radiator? Does the triton have a roo bar?
Good, needs a clean though, yes has a bull bar.
need a roo bar.
Dainty sausage rolls in the oven. Brussels sprouts and broccoli ready to steam. Carrots got etten raw.
Peak Warming Man said:
Michael V said:
Peak Warming Man said:Quite a while ago, hit a big roo at speed just out of Aratula at night, did considerable body damage.
Bugger. Photos?
I think I’ve got some somewhere.
Bogsnorkler said:
Peak Warming Man said:
roughbarked said:How’s the radiator? Does the triton have a roo bar?
Good, needs a clean though, yes has a bull bar.
need a roo bar.
Bull****!
Peak Warming Man said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Michael V said:Bugger. Photos?
I think I’ve got some somewhere.
You need to invest in a little helicopter.
Bubblecar said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Peak Warming Man said:I think I’ve got some somewhere.
You need to invest in a little helicopter.
Someone has to say it – he crashed his little helicopter…
Peak Warming Man said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Michael V said:Bugger. Photos?
I think I’ve got some somewhere.
Kangaroos are the worst pedestrians followed closely by wombats who don’t hurry up and kamikaze insects.
Tau.Neutrino said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Peak Warming Man said:I think I’ve got some somewhere.
Kangaroos are the worst pedestrians followed closely by wombats who don’t hurry up and kamikaze insects.
Sheep are pretty bad.
sarahs mum said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Kangaroos are the worst pedestrians followed closely by wombats who don’t hurry up and kamikaze insects.
Sheep are pretty bad.
Them too. further out goats….
Peak Warming Man said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Michael V said:Bugger. Photos?
I think I’ve got some somewhere.
Imagine a dinosaur popping its head above tree lines while coming around a bend.
Bubblecar said:
A bowl of fine winter borscht, ready to tuck in.
Verdict: дуже смачно indeed, if not quite as gratifying as the pork version.
Kilos of it now in the freezer and another big bowl in the fridge.
Tau.Neutrino said:
sarahs mum said:
Tau.Neutrino said:Kangaroos are the worst pedestrians followed closely by wombats who don’t hurry up and kamikaze insects.
Sheep are pretty bad.
Them too. further out goats….
With sheep it is that I got to the other side of the road but now I have changed my mind routine that is always a surprise for newbies.
Peak Warming Man said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Michael V said:Bugger. Photos?
I think I’ve got some somewhere.
Couple of bits of plastic, a panel-beater’s hammer and some dollies. After that, it should buff out.
I have the hammer and some dollies, if you want to borrow them.
buffy said:
Dainty sausage rolls in the oven. Brussels sprouts and broccoli ready to steam. Carrots got etten raw.
I’m looking for lots of broccoli recipes because I’ve got the best crop I’ve had for years.
Michael V said:
Bogsnorkler said:
Peak Warming Man said:Good, needs a clean though, yes has a bull bar.
need a roo bar.
Bull****!
Can always get along without one until a roo pushes the fan onto the radiator 300 clicks from anywhere.
Peak Warming Man said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Michael V said:Bugger. Photos?
I think I’ve got some somewhere.
That should buff out.
buffy said:
Bubblecar said:
Peak Warming Man said:
You need to invest in a little helicopter.
Someone has to say it – he crashed his little helicopter…
You did – he did.
sarahs mum said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Kangaroos are the worst pedestrians followed closely by wombats who don’t hurry up and kamikaze insects.
Sheep are pretty bad.
Hit two sheep one day because there was nowhere to go for either of us and the road was too slippery to stop in time. Heater smelt of lanolin for ages after.
Tau.Neutrino said:
sarahs mum said:
Tau.Neutrino said:Kangaroos are the worst pedestrians followed closely by wombats who don’t hurry up and kamikaze insects.
Sheep are pretty bad.
Them too. further out goats….
There’s even deer out near Cobar.
roughbarked said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
sarahs mum said:Sheep are pretty bad.
Them too. further out goats….
There’s even deer out near Cobar.
Been to Cobar to see sis a few times, seen heaps of goats, no deer so far.
roughbarked said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
sarahs mum said:Sheep are pretty bad.
Them too. further out goats….
There’s even deer out near Cobar.
In my travels I’ve seen dead donkeys and camels, horses and large bulls. These make a real mess of a speeding car.
Tau.Neutrino said:
roughbarked said:
Tau.Neutrino said:Them too. further out goats….
There’s even deer out near Cobar.
Been to Cobar to see sis a few times, seen heaps of goats, no deer so far.
Love that area for astronomy, heaps of flat ground for low viewing.
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:
Tau.Neutrino said:Them too. further out goats….
There’s even deer out near Cobar.
In my travels I’ve seen dead donkeys and camels, horses and large bulls. These make a real mess of a speeding car.
Yes. large animals would make a mess.
Peak Warming Man said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Michael V said:Bugger. Photos?
I think I’ve got some somewhere.
…and the roo?
Tau.Neutrino said:
roughbarked said:
Tau.Neutrino said:Them too. further out goats….
There’s even deer out near Cobar.
Been to Cobar to see sis a few times, seen heaps of goats, no deer so far.
Better to see them than hit them.
for fallow deer.
https://www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/biosecurity/vertebrate-pests/pest-animals-in-nsw/feral-deer/feral-deer
https://invasives.org.au/blog/australia-occupy-feral-deer/
Dark Orange said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Peak Warming Man said:I think I’ve got some somewhere.
…and the roo?
Even the smell has faded as the bones have bleached.
roughbarked said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
roughbarked said:There’s even deer out near Cobar.
Been to Cobar to see sis a few times, seen heaps of goats, no deer so far.
Better to see them than hit them.
for fallow deer only.
https://www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/biosecurity/vertebrate-pests/pest-animals-in-nsw/feral-deer/feral-deer
https://invasives.org.au/blog/australia-occupy-feral-deer/
https://www.environment.gov.au/system/files/resources/c6679b32-5f03-4839-aa57-9c5723153b0f/files/fs-feral-deer.pdf
Tau.Neutrino said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
roughbarked said:There’s even deer out near Cobar.
Been to Cobar to see sis a few times, seen heaps of goats, no deer so far.
Love that area for astronomy, heaps of flat ground for low viewing.
Next time you are going, drop in and see me on the way. ;)
roughbarked said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
sarahs mum said:Sheep are pretty bad.
Them too. further out goats….
There’s even deer out near Cobar.
I’ve seen plenty of road-kill deer near Moranbah, Qld.
Michael V said:
roughbarked said:
Tau.Neutrino said:Them too. further out goats….
There’s even deer out near Cobar.
I’ve seen plenty of road-kill deer near Moranbah, Qld.
Yep. They are on the verge of becoming and Australia wide pest.
roughbarked said:
Michael V said:
roughbarked said:There’s even deer out near Cobar.
I’ve seen plenty of road-kill deer near Moranbah, Qld.
Yep. They are on the verge of becoming and Australia wide pest.
Simple solution: carnivorous humans should eat them. Same with camels etc.
Michael V said:
roughbarked said:
Tau.Neutrino said:Them too. further out goats….
There’s even deer out near Cobar.
I’ve seen plenty of road-kill deer near Moranbah, Qld.
Pest controllers could collect them for butchers.
Michael V said:
roughbarked said:
Michael V said:I’ve seen plenty of road-kill deer near Moranbah, Qld.
Yep. They are on the verge of becoming and Australia wide pest.
Simple solution: carnivorous humans should eat them. Same with camels etc.
I don’t have a problem with that though I’ll leave the eating of them to others.
Tau.Neutrino said:
Michael V said:
roughbarked said:There’s even deer out near Cobar.
I’ve seen plenty of road-kill deer near Moranbah, Qld.
Pest controllers could collect them for butchers.
There’d need to be a range of quality controls.
Michael V said:
roughbarked said:
Michael V said:I’ve seen plenty of road-kill deer near Moranbah, Qld.
Yep. They are on the verge of becoming and Australia wide pest.
Simple solution: carnivorous humans should eat them. Same with camels etc.
That’s your answer for everything!
:-)
Witty Rejoinder said:
Michael V said:
roughbarked said:Yep. They are on the verge of becoming and Australia wide pest.
Simple solution: carnivorous humans should eat them. Same with camels etc.
That’s your answer for everything!
:-)
It isn’t the answer though. If they taste good you’ll only want there to be more of them than less.
Witty Rejoinder said:
Michael V said:
roughbarked said:Yep. They are on the verge of becoming and Australia wide pest.
Simple solution: carnivorous humans should eat them. Same with camels etc.
That’s your answer for everything!
:-)
If you are not happy with humans eating them, they could conceivably be used for pet food.
roughbarked said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Michael V said:Simple solution: carnivorous humans should eat them. Same with camels etc.
That’s your answer for everything!
:-)
It isn’t the answer though. If they taste good you’ll only want there to be more of them than less.
There could be better pest management across states so that private contractors can make it viable for themselves selling their product to the meat industry or the fertilizer industry.
Pest controllers have a wide range of pests now, 14 + and growing.
buffy said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Michael V said:Simple solution: carnivorous humans should eat them. Same with camels etc.
That’s your answer for everything!
:-)
If you are not happy with humans eating them, they could conceivably be used for pet food.
I was just poking fun at MV’s comment considering he has in the past pondered eating dog IIRC.
Witty Rejoinder said:
buffy said:
Witty Rejoinder said:That’s your answer for everything!
:-)
If you are not happy with humans eating them, they could conceivably be used for pet food.
I was just poking fun at MV’s comment considering he has in the past pondered eating dog IIRC.
I wouldn’t be surprised if he has actually eaten dog. He’s far more adventurous with food than I am.
buffy said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Michael V said:Simple solution: carnivorous humans should eat them. Same with camels etc.
That’s your answer for everything!
:-)
If you are not happy with humans eating them, they could conceivably be used for pet food.
Yep. Might save a few kangaroos from being canned?
Witty Rejoinder said:
buffy said:
Witty Rejoinder said:That’s your answer for everything!
:-)
If you are not happy with humans eating them, they could conceivably be used for pet food.
I was just poking fun at MV’s comment considering he has in the past pondered eating dog IIRC.
I have’t tasted dog, to my knowledge, but camel isn’t great IMO.
what we should do is release some lions.. then when they have eaten all the camel and deer, we can release some hyenas.. then when they have eaten all the lion we can release some hyena specific virus.. and all our problems will be solved.
roughbarked said:
buffy said:
Witty Rejoinder said:That’s your answer for everything!
:-)
If you are not happy with humans eating them, they could conceivably be used for pet food.
Yep. Might save a few kangaroos from being canned?
kangaroos are also a pest in some areas.
roughbarked said:
buffy said:
Witty Rejoinder said:That’s your answer for everything!
:-)
If you are not happy with humans eating them, they could conceivably be used for pet food.
Yep. Might save a few kangaroos from being canned?
I haven’t got anything against using kangaroo for pet food. I feed our dogs Bonnie working dog, which is kangaroo.
buffy said:
roughbarked said:
buffy said:If you are not happy with humans eating them, they could conceivably be used for pet food.
Yep. Might save a few kangaroos from being canned?
I haven’t got anything against using kangaroo for pet food. I feed our dogs Bonnie working dog, which is kangaroo.
Dogs haven’t got anything against it either.
Has anyone got a Flickr account? Doesn’t seem to want to work here.
Tau.Neutrino said:
roughbarked said:
Witty Rejoinder said:That’s your answer for everything!
:-)
It isn’t the answer though. If they taste good you’ll only want there to be more of them than less.
There could be better pest management across states so that private contractors can make it viable for themselves selling their product to the meat industry or the fertilizer industry.
Pest controllers have a wide range of pests now, 14 + and growing.
Maybe TAFES could offer courses on pest management covering all pests. Then connect training with state wide pest management and local pest controllers who have two existing markets to sell to.
roughbarked said:
Has anyone got a Flickr account? Doesn’t seem to want to work here.
Working here through google search.
Tau.Neutrino said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
roughbarked said:It isn’t the answer though. If they taste good you’ll only want there to be more of them than less.
There could be better pest management across states so that private contractors can make it viable for themselves selling their product to the meat industry or the fertilizer industry.
Pest controllers have a wide range of pests now, 14 + and growing.
Maybe TAFES could offer courses on pest management covering all pests. Then connect training with state wide pest management and local pest controllers who have two existing markets to sell to.
Pest controllers use drones too, pest drones need pilots.
Tau.Neutrino said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
roughbarked said:It isn’t the answer though. If they taste good you’ll only want there to be more of them than less.
There could be better pest management across states so that private contractors can make it viable for themselves selling their product to the meat industry or the fertilizer industry.
Pest controllers have a wide range of pests now, 14 + and growing.
Maybe TAFES could offer courses on pest management covering all pests. Then connect training with state wide pest management and local pest controllers who have two existing markets to sell to.
maybe we could increase funding to tafes instead of what we have been doing.
Arts said:
roughbarked said:
buffy said:If you are not happy with humans eating them, they could conceivably be used for pet food.
Yep. Might save a few kangaroos from being canned?
kangaroos are also a pest in some areas.
and delicious
Tau.Neutrino said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Tau.Neutrino said:There could be better pest management across states so that private contractors can make it viable for themselves selling their product to the meat industry or the fertilizer industry.
Pest controllers have a wide range of pests now, 14 + and growing.
Maybe TAFES could offer courses on pest management covering all pests. Then connect training with state wide pest management and local pest controllers who have two existing markets to sell to.
Pest controllers use drones too, pest drones need pilots.
Work out better ways to deal with pop up mouse plagues, return a lot of pests to the local soil where they come from.
sarahs mum said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Tau.Neutrino said:There could be better pest management across states so that private contractors can make it viable for themselves selling their product to the meat industry or the fertilizer industry.
Pest controllers have a wide range of pests now, 14 + and growing.
Maybe TAFES could offer courses on pest management covering all pests. Then connect training with state wide pest management and local pest controllers who have two existing markets to sell to.
maybe we could increase funding to tafes instead of what we have been doing.
Agree.
Tau.Neutrino said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Tau.Neutrino said:Maybe TAFES could offer courses on pest management covering all pests. Then connect training with state wide pest management and local pest controllers who have two existing markets to sell to.
Pest controllers use drones too, pest drones need pilots.
Work out better ways to deal with pop up mouse plagues, return a lot of pests to the local soil where they come from.
:) The local soil where they came from is largely not in Australia. Of introduced pests that is.
roughbarked said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Michael V said:Simple solution: carnivorous humans should eat them. Same with camels etc.
That’s your answer for everything!
:-)
It isn’t the answer though. If they taste good you’ll only want there to be more of them than less.
worked for the dodos
SCIENCE said:
roughbarked said:
Witty Rejoinder said:That’s your answer for everything!
:-)
It isn’t the answer though. If they taste good you’ll only want there to be more of them than less.
worked for the dodos
They didn’t have a chance.
It’s getting very wet in Southern Tasmania.
The first testicular guard (box) was used in cricket in1874.
The first cricket safety helmet was used in 1974.
Which means it took 100 years for men to realise that their brains may also be important!
Peak Warming Man said:
The first testicular guard (box) was used in cricket in1874.
The first cricket safety helmet was used in 1974.
Which means it took 100 years for men to realise that their brains may also be important!
took a while to nut out then
Witty Rejoinder said:
buffy said:
Witty Rejoinder said:That’s your answer for everything!
:-)
If you are not happy with humans eating them, they could conceivably be used for pet food.
I was just poking fun at MV’s comment considering he has in the past pondered eating dog IIRC.
Pugalishish
OI ! Mr Beeny Boy!
Wanna do me footy tips for me this week?
Surely it’d be better than mine last week.
Woodie said:
OI ! Mr Beeny Boy!Wanna do me footy tips for me this week?
Surely it’d be better than mine last week.
you should get mr car to do it as a control group.
Woodie said:
OI ! Mr Beeny Boy!Wanna do me footy tips for me this week?
Surely it’d be better than mine last week.
Not one correct – ROFL
sarahs mum said:
It’s getting very wet in Southern Tasmania.
It’s missing us. Going North of us.
Good evening folks
monkey skipper said:
Good evening folks
I’m the only one left alive. Zombies got the rest.
Bogsnorkler said:
monkey skipper said:
Good evening folks
I’m the only one left alive. Zombies got the rest.
They go for brains.
Bogsnorkler said:
monkey skipper said:
Good evening folks
I’m the only one left alive. Zombies got the rest.
Should we run?
sibeen said:
Bogsnorkler said:
monkey skipper said:
Good evening folks
I’m the only one left alive. Zombies got the rest.
They go for brains.
:D
monkey skipper said:
Bogsnorkler said:
monkey skipper said:
Good evening folks
I’m the only one left alive. Zombies got the rest.
Should we run?
I would. Sibeen is the undercover zombie.
sibeen said:
Bogsnorkler said:
monkey skipper said:
Good evening folks
I’m the only one left alive. Zombies got the rest.
They go for brains.
Is that what they call a suicide bombing?
sarahs mum said:
monkey skipper said:
Bogsnorkler said:I’m the only one left alive. Zombies got the rest.
Should we run?
I would. Sibeen is the undercover zombie.
Isn’t he 6 foot or sumfin? That’s a lot to under cover.
sibeen said:
Bogsnorkler said:
monkey skipper said:
Good evening folks
I’m the only one left alive. Zombies got the rest.
They go for brains.
that’s why I’m safe. and alive.
Bogsnorkler said:
sibeen said:
Bogsnorkler said:I’m the only one left alive. Zombies got the rest.
They go for brains.
that’s why I’m safe. and alive.
I’d hide behind you but you are too far away.
sarahs mum said:
Bogsnorkler said:
sibeen said:They go for brains.
that’s why I’m safe. and alive.
I’d hide behind you but you are too far away.
There’s a guy that wears a t-shirt in the neighbouring suburb that says “If the zombies come for me … I am tripping you.”
It suddenly went quiet in here?
roughbarked said:
It suddenly went quiet in here?
beware the zombies.
sarahs mum said:
roughbarked said:
It suddenly went quiet in here?
beware the zombies.
That’s no problem, they can’t get across the bridge.
So that’s what happened to Flickr. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-17/banks-experiencing-outages-internet-banking-app/100223900
Akami.
roughbarked said:
So that’s what happened to Flickr. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-17/banks-experiencing-outages-internet-banking-app/100223900
Akami.
Hmm. The banks are back but not Flickr?
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:
So that’s what happened to Flickr. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-17/banks-experiencing-outages-internet-banking-app/100223900
Akami.
Hmm. The banks are back but not Flickr?
mine’s working fine, is your computer plugged in..
wench lady’s making cup of tea
transition said:
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:
So that’s what happened to Flickr. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-17/banks-experiencing-outages-internet-banking-app/100223900
Akami.
Hmm. The banks are back but not Flickr?
mine’s working fine, is your computer plugged in..
wench lady’s making cup of tea
Computer is plugged in and flickr should be wrking but it isn’t.
15.2mm rain last couple days, just did the math, well lady did, I walked out and measured today’s just now, tipped it out managed to hold it in memory until got back in here, not sure what I would have done had I forgotten, made something up I guess, perhaps I did forget, who knows, anyway I sounded quite certain when I got back, repeated it a couple of times and so did the lady, so if there was an error it’s in ink now, all formalized
roughbarked said:
transition said:
roughbarked said:Hmm. The banks are back but not Flickr?
mine’s working fine, is your computer plugged in..
wench lady’s making cup of tea
Computer is plugged in and flickr should be wrking but it isn’t.
i’m looking at your flickr, checking for you, it’s working here
transition said:
roughbarked said:
transition said:mine’s working fine, is your computer plugged in..
wench lady’s making cup of tea
Computer is plugged in and flickr should be wrking but it isn’t.
i’m looking at your flickr, checking for you, it’s working here
Must be my iPhone connection isn’t good enough for flickr.
roughbarked said:
transition said:
roughbarked said:Computer is plugged in and flickr should be wrking but it isn’t.
i’m looking at your flickr, checking for you, it’s working here
Must be my iPhone connection isn’t good enough for flickr.
not done a speed test on my internet for long time, only got two to three bars at moment bit marginal hopping to lady’s phone using wifi hotspot
Download Mbps
15.83
Upload Mbps
19.76
goodnight folks
monkey skipper said:
goodnight folks
Good eve.
It is a raining and a pouring but the old man isn’t snoring.
Maybe he should be?
roughbarked said:
It is a raining and a pouring but the old man isn’t snoring.
Maybe he should be?
I thought you wanted some rain?
sarahs mum said:
roughbarked said:
It is a raining and a pouring but the old man isn’t snoring.
Maybe he should be?
I thought you wanted some rain?
I always want rain. Water costs way too much. It disappears five minutes after it rains for most of the year apart from winter and we haven’t really had a wet winter like I’m used to for quite a long time. So far this is looking better than it has for many a year.
roughbarked said:
sarahs mum said:
roughbarked said:
It is a raining and a pouring but the old man isn’t snoring.
Maybe he should be?
I thought you wanted some rain?
I always want rain. Water costs way too much. It disappears five minutes after it rains for most of the year apart from winter and we haven’t really had a wet winter like I’m used to for quite a long time. So far this is looking better than it has for many a year.
I don’t mind a dryish winter. It’s nice not to have the driveway awash. I remember when I had cows how bad it got around the gates in a wet winter.
However the state finances really improve on a wet winter now there is Basslink.Children around a radiating glow of ultraviolet light of the Institute of Ray Therapy , London 1930’s
sarahs mum said:
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Children around a radiating glow of ultraviolet light of the Institute of Ray Therapy , London 1930’s
That’s not creepy. Not creepy at all…
wibble
Wobble
Cold and raining in the Styx.
Good morning Holidayers. Presently 6 degrees. There are some clouds about. Our forecast for today is for showers and 13 degrees.
Morning pilgrims, cold but fine and clear and set fair for the day.
6/10. Lots of things I didn’t read or wasn’t interested in this week. But my guess on the soccer question was right…
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-18/friday-news-quiz-june-18-queen-cristiano-ronaldo-covid-19-vaccin/100219004
sarahs mum said:
roughbarked said:
sarahs mum said:I thought you wanted some rain?
I always want rain. Water costs way too much. It disappears five minutes after it rains for most of the year apart from winter and we haven’t really had a wet winter like I’m used to for quite a long time. So far this is looking better than it has for many a year.
I don’t mind a dryish winter. It’s nice not to have the driveway awash. I remember when I had cows how bad it got around the gates in a wet winter.
However the state finances really improve on a wet winter now there is Basslink.
It dosn’t rain enough in summer. Unless you are pulling water from a river, there is none.
buffy said:
Good morning Holidayers. Presently 6 degrees. There are some clouds about. Our forecast for today is for showers and 13 degrees.
Morning buffy et al.
Slept in this morning. 18°, bit foggy.
buffy said:
6/10. Lots of things I didn’t read or wasn’t interested in this week. But my guess on the soccer question was right…https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-18/friday-news-quiz-june-18-queen-cristiano-ronaldo-covid-19-vaccin/100219004
5/10 for me. Very disappointed in myself for not knowing the native critter answer.
Good Morning. Going to the doctor today to get MRI and ultrasound results for my back, hip and groin, as some areas have not been responding to physiotherapy. I know I am more anxious than I think I am, as in the last two days I have had trouble catching my breath when talking to people on the phone. That’s a strong indicator :(
Speedy said:
Good Morning. Going to the doctor today to get MRI and ultrasound results for my back, hip and groin, as some areas have not been responding to physiotherapy. I know I am more anxious than I think I am, as in the last two days I have had trouble catching my breath when talking to people on the phone. That’s a strong indicator :(
Hoping for the best for you.
Speedy said:
Good Morning. Going to the doctor today to get MRI and ultrasound results for my back, hip and groin, as some areas have not been responding to physiotherapy. I know I am more anxious than I think I am, as in the last two days I have had trouble catching my breath when talking to people on the phone. That’s a strong indicator :(
Tamb said:
Speedy said:
Good Morning. Going to the doctor today to get MRI and ultrasound results for my back, hip and groin, as some areas have not been responding to physiotherapy. I know I am more anxious than I think I am, as in the last two days I have had trouble catching my breath when talking to people on the phone. That’s a strong indicator :(
Hope it’s a good result.
Thanks Tamb and rb :)
This is normal for me, the time between having tests and waiting for results, but this time when the MRI radiographer handed the disk to me with the images on it he said, “Good luck with all of that.”
I mean, why did he say that? Does it mean that there is nothing and that he wishes me luck finding the problem? Does it mean there is so much (’all of that’) that I will need plenty of luck to deal with it? Does it mean nothing in particular? Arggh!
Speedy said:
Tamb said:
Speedy said:
Good Morning. Going to the doctor today to get MRI and ultrasound results for my back, hip and groin, as some areas have not been responding to physiotherapy. I know I am more anxious than I think I am, as in the last two days I have had trouble catching my breath when talking to people on the phone. That’s a strong indicator :(
Hope it’s a good result.Thanks Tamb and rb :)
This is normal for me, the time between having tests and waiting for results, but this time when the MRI radiographer handed the disk to me with the images on it he said, “Good luck with all of that.”
I mean, why did he say that? Does it mean that there is nothing and that he wishes me luck finding the problem? Does it mean there is so much (’all of that’) that I will need plenty of luck to deal with it? Does it mean nothing in particular? Arggh!
I’d go with it being a general good luck comment rather than having any other meaning.
Speedy said:
Tamb said:
Speedy said:
Good Morning. Going to the doctor today to get MRI and ultrasound results for my back, hip and groin, as some areas have not been responding to physiotherapy. I know I am more anxious than I think I am, as in the last two days I have had trouble catching my breath when talking to people on the phone. That’s a strong indicator :(
Hope it’s a good result.Thanks Tamb and rb :)
This is normal for me, the time between having tests and waiting for results, but this time when the MRI radiographer handed the disk to me with the images on it he said, “Good luck with all of that.”
I mean, why did he say that? Does it mean that there is nothing and that he wishes me luck finding the problem? Does it mean there is so much (’all of that’) that I will need plenty of luck to deal with it? Does it mean nothing in particular? Arggh!
Mrs rb is an anxiety bucket. I’m used to that.
The facts will all be revealed in that our medical experts will do everything they can to help you.
You need to submit rather than fear. Relax and allow.
buffy said:
Speedy said:
Tamb said:Hope it’s a good result.
Thanks Tamb and rb :)
This is normal for me, the time between having tests and waiting for results, but this time when the MRI radiographer handed the disk to me with the images on it he said, “Good luck with all of that.”
I mean, why did he say that? Does it mean that there is nothing and that he wishes me luck finding the problem? Does it mean there is so much (’all of that’) that I will need plenty of luck to deal with it? Does it mean nothing in particular? Arggh!
I’d go with it being a general good luck comment rather than having any other meaning.
Yeah.
Most medical people are wary of arousing anxiety.
Speedy said:
Good Morning. Going to the doctor today to get MRI and ultrasound results for my back, hip and groin, as some areas have not been responding to physiotherapy. I know I am more anxious than I think I am, as in the last two days I have had trouble catching my breath when talking to people on the phone. That’s a strong indicator :(
Good luck with that.
Michael V said:
Speedy said:
Good Morning. Going to the doctor today to get MRI and ultrasound results for my back, hip and groin, as some areas have not been responding to physiotherapy. I know I am more anxious than I think I am, as in the last two days I have had trouble catching my breath when talking to people on the phone. That’s a strong indicator :(
Good luck with that.
There you go.
roughbarked said:
Michael V said:
Speedy said:
Good Morning. Going to the doctor today to get MRI and ultrasound results for my back, hip and groin, as some areas have not been responding to physiotherapy. I know I am more anxious than I think I am, as in the last two days I have had trouble catching my breath when talking to people on the phone. That’s a strong indicator :(
Good luck with that.
There you go.
Thanks MV.
rb, did you notice that he omitted the words “all of”. Biiig difference :)
Speedy said:
Tamb said:
Speedy said:
Good Morning. Going to the doctor today to get MRI and ultrasound results for my back, hip and groin, as some areas have not been responding to physiotherapy. I know I am more anxious than I think I am, as in the last two days I have had trouble catching my breath when talking to people on the phone. That’s a strong indicator :(
Hope it’s a good result.Thanks Tamb and rb :)
This is normal for me, the time between having tests and waiting for results, but this time when the MRI radiographer handed the disk to me with the images on it he said, “Good luck with all of that.”
I mean, why did he say that? Does it mean that there is nothing and that he wishes me luck finding the problem? Does it mean there is so much (’all of that’) that I will need plenty of luck to deal with it? Does it mean nothing in particular? Arggh!
Speedy said:
roughbarked said:
Michael V said:Good luck with that.
There you go.
Thanks MV.
rb, did you notice that he omitted the words “all of”. Biiig difference :)
Reading between the lines isn’t going to help a lot with anxiety.
It was probably only his mode of speech. He probably says good luck with all of that every time he says it.
Hello
Cymek said:
Hello
bonjour mes ami
I made this for dinner last night. It was quite yummy. I’ll make it again with a few slight changes.
https://mypureplants.com/vegan-cajun-pasta-sauce/
roughbarked said:
Cymek said:
Hello
bonjour mes ami
Selamat pagi temanku.
Michael V said:
I made this for dinner last night. It was quite yummy. I’ll make it again with a few slight changes.https://mypureplants.com/vegan-cajun-pasta-sauce/
Would those changes be to make it less vegan?
Morning. a favour to ask of those who use FB. could you go to the abc science page and look at a story on contrails. can you see a post from me in the comments? You’ll recognise my name. TIA.
https://www.facebook.com/ABCScience/
Bogsnorkler said:
Morning. a favour to ask of those who use FB. could you go to the abc science page and look at a story on contrails. can you see a post from me in the comments? You’ll recognise my name. TIA.https://www.facebook.com/ABCScience/
you probably will now.
:-)
Bogsnorkler said:
Bogsnorkler said:
Morning. a favour to ask of those who use FB. could you go to the abc science page and look at a story on contrails. can you see a post from me in the comments? You’ll recognise my name. TIA.https://www.facebook.com/ABCScience/
you probably will now.
:-)
I can see a post by some bloke complaining about a previous post getting deleted.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Bogsnorkler said:
Bogsnorkler said:
Morning. a favour to ask of those who use FB. could you go to the abc science page and look at a story on contrails. can you see a post from me in the comments? You’ll recognise my name. TIA.https://www.facebook.com/ABCScience/
you probably will now.
:-)
I can see a post by some bloke complaining about a previous post getting deleted.
There are a few likely candidates.
Having a break for a cuppa and a lamington.
Was taking the wheel off the triton earlier to get at some panel nuts.
Man those nuts were on solid, had to use a piece of pipe to get them off.
How about those employment numbers yesterday!
Scotty seems to have everything under control.
Peak Warming Man said:
How about those employment numbers yesterday!
Scotty seems to have everything under control.
chuckle bit early for political arson, but there are probably worse ways to start the day
Peak Warming Man said:
Having a break for a cuppa and a lamington.
Was taking the wheel off the triton earlier to get at some panel nuts.
Man those nuts were on solid, had to use a piece of pipe to get them off.
My brunch: the last henburger patty with an egg broken on top, grilled, served on buttered toast. Cup of tea.
Two loads of washing on the line & the third in the washer.
It’s given the tanks a bit of a depletion so hoping there will be rain in the next few days.
transition said:
Peak Warming Man said:
How about those employment numbers yesterday!
Scotty seems to have everything under control.
chuckle bit early for political arson, but there are probably worse ways to start the day
He’s just jesting, even PWM won’t be voting for Scomo next time.
But he can’t bring himself to vote Labor so the next election will see the first ever instance of PWM voting GREEN.
Bubblecar said:
transition said:
Peak Warming Man said:
How about those employment numbers yesterday!
Scotty seems to have everything under control.
chuckle bit early for political arson, but there are probably worse ways to start the day
He’s just jesting, even PWM won’t be voting for Scomo next time.
But he can’t bring himself to vote Labor so the next election will see the first ever instance of PWM voting GREEN.
Bogsnorkler said:
Bogsnorkler said:
Morning. a favour to ask of those who use FB. could you go to the abc science page and look at a story on contrails. can you see a post from me in the comments? You’ll recognise my name. TIA.https://www.facebook.com/ABCScience/
you probably will now.
:-)
Not being an FB member, it won’t let me open comments.
Are you getting into fights with the ABC eggheads?
The Rev Dodgson said:
Bogsnorkler said:
Bogsnorkler said:
Morning. a favour to ask of those who use FB. could you go to the abc science page and look at a story on contrails. can you see a post from me in the comments? You’ll recognise my name. TIA.https://www.facebook.com/ABCScience/
you probably will now.
:-)
I can see a post by some bloke complaining about a previous post getting deleted.
yeah. i hate that.
:-)
Peak Warming Man said:
How about those employment numbers yesterday!
Scotty seems to have everything under control.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-05-23/jobs-why-one-hour-enough-work/100155676
Right, HDD swap time. wish me luck as you wave me goodbye.
I have a laptop so I’ll still be around.
Bogsnorkler said:
Right, HDD swap time. wish me luck as you wave me goodbye.I have a laptop so I’ll still be around.
I had to swap out a graphics card the other month, always a worry you’ll mess something up and boom
Bogsnorkler said:
Right, HDD swap time. wish me luck as you wave me goodbye.I have a laptop so I’ll still be around.
Tamb said:
Bubblecar said:
transition said:chuckle bit early for political arson, but there are probably worse ways to start the day
He’s just jesting, even PWM won’t be voting for Scomo next time.
But he can’t bring himself to vote Labor so the next election will see the first ever instance of PWM voting GREEN.
He’ll be in a minority of one.
You mean he’ll be the only Green vote amongst us SSSF Holiday Forum above average voters?
Seems unlikely
Bubblecar said:
Bogsnorkler said:
Bogsnorkler said:
Morning. a favour to ask of those who use FB. could you go to the abc science page and look at a story on contrails. can you see a post from me in the comments? You’ll recognise my name. TIA.https://www.facebook.com/ABCScience/
you probably will now.
:-)
Not being an FB member, it won’t let me open comments.
Are you getting into fights with the ABC eggheads?
Boris is the moderator. He is the egghead.
Witty Rejoinder said:
Bubblecar said:
Bogsnorkler said:you probably will now.
:-)
Not being an FB member, it won’t let me open comments.
Are you getting into fights with the ABC eggheads?
Boris is the moderator. He is the egghead.
Oops. Not the SSSF FB page.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Tamb said:
Bubblecar said:He’s just jesting, even PWM won’t be voting for Scomo next time.
But he can’t bring himself to vote Labor so the next election will see the first ever instance of PWM voting GREEN.
He’ll be in a minority of one.You mean he’ll be the only Green vote amongst us SSSF Holiday Forum above average voters?
Seems unlikely
That was what I thought. Intelligent, well educated group that we are.
Tamb said:
Bogsnorkler said:
Right, HDD swap time. wish me luck as you wave me goodbye.I have a laptop so I’ll still be around.
Do you have two HDD slots in the ‘puter. If so fit the new HDD in the “spare” slot.
Unfortunately I don’t. so the old HDD is just hanging out the side of the case ATM. New HDD bolted in.
Witty Rejoinder said:
Bubblecar said:
Bogsnorkler said:you probably will now.
:-)
Not being an FB member, it won’t let me open comments.
Are you getting into fights with the ABC eggheads?
Boris is the moderator. He is the egghead.
I am not worthy.
Tamb said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Tamb said:He’ll be in a minority of one.
You mean he’ll be the only Green vote amongst us SSSF Holiday Forum above average voters?
Seems unlikely
That was what I thought. Intelligent, well educated group that we are.
Well there is at least one other intelligent well educated person here who I know is likely to vote Green, and I suspect there may be several others.
Bogsnorkler said:
Right, HDD swap time. wish me luck as you wave me goodbye.I have a laptop so I’ll still be around.
Wing and a prayer, BS.
I’m back. Doc told me there is nothing serious to be anxious about. I only have:
-Low-grade osteoarthritis of the hip
-Mildly arthritic L3/L4 joint
-Small disc bulge and subarticulate tear at L4/L5
-Mildly arthritic L5/S1
I’m returning to the physio on Tuesday, so since he will know what we are working with, I intend to be pain-free by the end of next week ;)
Speedy said:
I’m back. Doc told me there is nothing serious to be anxious about. I only have:-Low-grade osteoarthritis of the hip
-Mildly arthritic L3/L4 joint
-Small disc bulge and subarticulate tear at L4/L5
-Mildly arthritic L5/S1I’m returning to the physio on Tuesday, so since he will know what we are working with, I intend to be pain-free by the end of next week ;)
Tamb said:
Speedy said:
I’m back. Doc told me there is nothing serious to be anxious about. I only have:-Low-grade osteoarthritis of the hip
-Mildly arthritic L3/L4 joint
-Small disc bulge and subarticulate tear at L4/L5
-Mildly arthritic L5/S1I’m returning to the physio on Tuesday, so since he will know what we are working with, I intend to be pain-free by the end of next week ;)
All good news then.
Sorta. It could’ve been worse.
Now just to catch up on all the work that I couldn’t get my head around in the last few days. Usually an hour or-so gardening is what helps me to re-focus, but this has been off the cards for a few months as it makes everything hurt. Unfortunately, doc has told me today that I need to rest my hip, so no walking either. She doesn’t understand that, compared to what I would usually do, I have already been resting. Poor Scarlett dog is not going to like this very much.
Tamb said:
roughbarked said:
Cymek said:
Hello
bonjour mes ami
Selamat pagi temanku.
So I remembered the greeting, but I’d forgotten “temanku”. But I guess I only learnt Indonesian for one term, back in 1972, so it’s not all that surprising.
:)
buffy said:
Tamb said:
roughbarked said:bonjour mes ami
Selamat pagi temanku.
So I remembered the greeting, but I’d forgotten “temanku”. But I guess I only learnt Indonesian for one term, back in 1972, so it’s not all that surprising.
:)
buffy said:
So I remembered the greeting, but I’d forgotten “temanku”. But I guess I only learnt Indonesian for one term, back in 1972, so it’s not all that surprising.
:)
Someone on ‘The Project’ said last night that there’s nothing more annoying than someone who knows a little bit of French and who makes sure that everyone else knows that they do.
This was something that French tutor told me a while back. Since then, it’s in my mind that, yes, i can get by in French, but i am not fluent (no shortage of opportunities to be reminded of that), and that it is not the purpose of the language to impress people, even if they are that impressionable (which they aren’t). It just makes you seem tiresome.
On the other hand, if someone trots out some French, i enjoy the opportunity to see if can muster enough to engage.
captain_spalding said:
buffy said:So I remembered the greeting, but I’d forgotten “temanku”. But I guess I only learnt Indonesian for one term, back in 1972, so it’s not all that surprising.
:)
Someone on ‘The Project’ said last night that there’s nothing more annoying than someone who knows a little bit of French and who makes sure that everyone else knows that they do.
This was something that French tutor told me a while back. Since then, it’s in my mind that, yes, i can get by in French, but i am not fluent (no shortage of opportunities to be reminded of that), and that it is not the purpose of the language to impress people, even if they are that impressionable (which they aren’t). It just makes you seem tiresome.
On the other hand, if someone trots out some French, i enjoy the opportunity to see if can muster enough to engage.
Right then. My pancake mix has settled for half an hour, the gluten should be softened now. I’ll cook the pancakes. I’ve made chocolate sauce to have with them. And that’s today’s super healthy lunch!
buffy said:
Right then. My pancake mix has settled for half an hour, the gluten should be softened now. I’ll cook the pancakes. I’ve made chocolate sauce to have with them. And that’s today’s super healthy lunch!
What’s your choc sauce recipe?
arvss
Been busy busy week..
Still catching up with all the mowing after the 4 – 5 (lost count) floods of summer/autumn.. but getting there now.
All of the new ant activity has not made things easier. I have developed various strategies to deal with them locally like. Weird.. I swapped the mower blades for some new ones labelled as suiting mower, but when I engaged the blades they clashed with each other.. it was a 3rd party online spares place.. All Mower Spares.. AVOID!
Spent a while last week ringing around medical centres chasing a COVID vax as family matters will probably require me to take a trip to the deep south soon.. well Central Coast, Sydeney even.
Talking to my usual GP clinic I was told I was on the list and would be contacted in due course. I chased them up a second time and they told me they had been trying to contact me by ringing the land line as a private number and not leaving any message.. DUMB! They have my mobile number ffs.
Anyway, I am now nearly 48 hours post shot and enjoying the autisms and incipient blood clots.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Tamb said:
The Rev Dodgson said:You mean he’ll be the only Green vote amongst us SSSF Holiday Forum above average voters?
Seems unlikely
That was what I thought. Intelligent, well educated group that we are.
Well there is at least one other intelligent well educated person here who I know is likely to vote Green, and I suspect there may be several others.
Cheers.
I have caught a couple of Adam Bandt interviews recently and he is absolutely killing it imnsho.
Witty Rejoinder said:
buffy said:
Right then. My pancake mix has settled for half an hour, the gluten should be softened now. I’ll cook the pancakes. I’ve made chocolate sauce to have with them. And that’s today’s super healthy lunch!What’s your choc sauce recipe?
Melt together dark couverture and cream on half power in the microwave. You can make it thick (lots of chocolate), or thin (more cream). You have to do it slowly and carefully. Or you can melt them together over hot water. But you must put both in together at the beginning or the mix seizes.
buffy said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
buffy said:
Right then. My pancake mix has settled for half an hour, the gluten should be softened now. I’ll cook the pancakes. I’ve made chocolate sauce to have with them. And that’s today’s super healthy lunch!What’s your choc sauce recipe?
Melt together dark couverture and cream on half power in the microwave. You can make it thick (lots of chocolate), or thin (more cream). You have to do it slowly and carefully. Or you can melt them together over hot water. But you must put both in together at the beginning or the mix seizes.
Yeah the cream and chocolate is lovely. Just curious because I have seen some odd recipes in the past.
buffy said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
buffy said:
Right then. My pancake mix has settled for half an hour, the gluten should be softened now. I’ll cook the pancakes. I’ve made chocolate sauce to have with them. And that’s today’s super healthy lunch!What’s your choc sauce recipe?
Melt together dark couverture and cream on half power in the microwave. You can make it thick (lots of chocolate), or thin (more cream). You have to do it slowly and carefully. Or you can melt them together over hot water. But you must put both in together at the beginning or the mix seizes.
It’s really just a thinnish ganashe.
Witty Rejoinder said:
buffy said:
Witty Rejoinder said:What’s your choc sauce recipe?
Melt together dark couverture and cream on half power in the microwave. You can make it thick (lots of chocolate), or thin (more cream). You have to do it slowly and carefully. Or you can melt them together over hot water. But you must put both in together at the beginning or the mix seizes.
Yeah the cream and chocolate is lovely. Just curious because I have seen some odd recipes in the past.
I forgot today, but some vanilla essence added after it’s melted together is nice too.
Whoops!
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-18/truckie-escapes-bridge-collapse/100226214
buffy said:
Whoops!https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-18/truckie-escapes-bridge-collapse/100226214
‘The bridge had no weight limits, and Ms Love said that would also be reviewed.’
Umm…i think the review has just been conducted.
I can report the starter motor is out of the Excel, lady’s little car, one of her little cars, she got two, collects the things. Get the new starter motor installed tomorrow, more contortions, i’m a contortionist
and my noodles nearly be cooked, hopefully before the kettle boils dry
Ian said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Tamb said:That was what I thought. Intelligent, well educated group that we are.
Well there is at least one other intelligent well educated person here who I know is likely to vote Green, and I suspect there may be several others.
Cheers.
I have caught a couple of Adam Bandt interviews recently and he is absolutely killing it imnsho.
I have people who call me talking about tell the greenies to get out there and do the work.
buffy said:
Whoops!https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-18/truckie-escapes-bridge-collapse/100226214
Brooke Love said the council had “been watching” the bridge after a routine condition assessment flagged it as needing a more detailed review by an independent contractor.
.
transition said:
I can report the starter motor is out of the Excel, lady’s little car, one of her little cars, she got two, collects the things. Get the new starter motor installed tomorrow, more contortions, i’m a contortionistand my noodles nearly be cooked, hopefully before the kettle boils dry
Maybe the noodles train your contortionism?
roughbarked said:
transition said:
I can report the starter motor is out of the Excel, lady’s little car, one of her little cars, she got two, collects the things. Get the new starter motor installed tomorrow, more contortions, i’m a contortionistand my noodles nearly be cooked, hopefully before the kettle boils dry
Maybe the noodles train your contortionism?
that took some imagination, a little funny, but I got there
turns out the two-minute noodles were just boiling dry, you know how they smell and taste if you burn them, but I saved them, just
transition said:
roughbarked said:
transition said:
I can report the starter motor is out of the Excel, lady’s little car, one of her little cars, she got two, collects the things. Get the new starter motor installed tomorrow, more contortions, i’m a contortionistand my noodles nearly be cooked, hopefully before the kettle boils dry
Maybe the noodles train your contortionism?
that took some imagination, a little funny, but I got there
turns out the two-minute noodles were just boiling dry, you know how they smell and taste if you burn them, but I saved them, just
They are cheap, if you fuck up, make some more.
The contortionism relates from not havit a pit and a block and tackle. There was a time when you clould pack your kids in around the engine, there was enough room.
roughbarked said:
There was a time when you clould pack your kids in around the engine, there was enough room.
Kids packed in around the engine?
They were lucky.
We had to ride on the roof, with nowt to hang on to but the rain gutter.
captain_spalding said:
roughbarked said:
There was a time when you clould pack your kids in around the engine, there was enough room.
Kids packed in around the engine?
They were lucky.
We had to ride on the roof, with nowt to hang on to but the rain gutter.
They were also warm, the lucky ones. ;)
roughbarked said:
captain_spalding said:
roughbarked said:
There was a time when you clould pack your kids in around the engine, there was enough room.
Kids packed in around the engine?
They were lucky.
We had to ride on the roof, with nowt to hang on to but the rain gutter.
They were also warm, the lucky ones. ;)
and by the way, how has that fingertip exercise treated your finger joint arthritis with age?
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:
captain_spalding said:Kids packed in around the engine?
They were lucky.
We had to ride on the roof, with nowt to hang on to but the rain gutter.
They were also warm, the lucky ones. ;)
and by the way, how has that fingertip exercise treated your finger joint arthritis with age?
I’m fine. It toughened my fingers up no end. I can still poke holes in a sheet of Colorbond with my index finger.
roughbarked said:
transition said:
roughbarked said:Maybe the noodles train your contortionism?
that took some imagination, a little funny, but I got there
turns out the two-minute noodles were just boiling dry, you know how they smell and taste if you burn them, but I saved them, just
They are cheap, if you fuck up, make some more.
The contortionism relates from not havit a pit and a block and tackle. There was a time when you clould pack your kids in around the engine, there was enough room.
i’m doing on ramps on shed floor, cross engine so not much space between firewall and engine, it’s tight and busy down in there
lots of light helps
only two studs on starter to housing, they cracked easy and then were no trouble, then just had to get it out around the exhaust, which has a generous flex coupling fortunately
captain_spalding said:
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:They were also warm, the lucky ones. ;)
and by the way, how has that fingertip exercise treated your finger joint arthritis with age?
I’m fine. It toughened my fingers up no end. I can still poke holes in a sheet of Colorbond with my index finger.
Proved that your parents gave you exercise. Better than those who lived in a cardboard box at the tip.
buffy said:
Whoops!https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-18/truckie-escapes-bridge-collapse/100226214
“but he said his truck suffered at least $1,000 damage”
Is should think that would still be true if you added a zero.
Looks like the local council need to lift their game.
transition said:
roughbarked said:
transition said:that took some imagination, a little funny, but I got there
turns out the two-minute noodles were just boiling dry, you know how they smell and taste if you burn them, but I saved them, just
They are cheap, if you fuck up, make some more.
The contortionism relates from not havit a pit and a block and tackle. There was a time when you clould pack your kids in around the engine, there was enough room.
i’m doing on ramps on shed floor, cross engine so not much space between firewall and engine, it’s tight and busy down in there
lots of light helps
only two studs on starter to housing, they cracked easy and then were no trouble, then just had to get it out around the exhaust, which has a generous flex coupling fortunately
Can be fiddly. I curse the tritonasaurus builders in Thailand for putting the oil filter where you had to be right underneath it to undo it.
captain_spalding said:
roughbarked said:
There was a time when you clould pack your kids in around the engine, there was enough room.
Kids packed in around the engine?
They were lucky.
We had to ride on the roof, with nowt to hang on to but the rain gutter.
the good old days, when you could put the kids in the engine bay, in the boot, on the bonnet, or on the roof, I really miss the freedom
The Rev Dodgson said:
buffy said:
Whoops!https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-18/truckie-escapes-bridge-collapse/100226214
“but he said his truck suffered at least $1,000 damage”
Is should think that would still be true if you added a zero.
Looks like the local council need to lift their game.
and their bridges.
well, the cloning didn’t go as planned. keep getting a error message. might have to go into BIOS and check the SATA configurations. another time.
transition said:
captain_spalding said:
roughbarked said:
There was a time when you clould pack your kids in around the engine, there was enough room.
Kids packed in around the engine?
They were lucky.
We had to ride on the roof, with nowt to hang on to but the rain gutter.
the good old days, when you could put the kids in the engine bay, in the boot, on the bonnet, or on the roof, I really miss the freedom
The bloody cat used to come for journeys in the engine bay.
Anyway, she kept the rats out of the wiring.
Bogsnorkler said:
well, the cloning didn’t go as planned. keep getting a error message. might have to go into BIOS and check the SATA configurations. another time.
You probably should have started in the BIOS.
roughbarked said:
transition said:
roughbarked said:They are cheap, if you fuck up, make some more.
The contortionism relates from not havit a pit and a block and tackle. There was a time when you clould pack your kids in around the engine, there was enough room.
i’m doing on ramps on shed floor, cross engine so not much space between firewall and engine, it’s tight and busy down in there
lots of light helps
only two studs on starter to housing, they cracked easy and then were no trouble, then just had to get it out around the exhaust, which has a generous flex coupling fortunately
Can be fiddly. I curse the tritonasaurus builders in Thailand for putting the oil filter where you had to be right underneath it to undo it.
On the Austin 1800 you had to remove the sump guard ( a major job in itself) to change the oil filter.
Aus Post
We’d appreciate a few minutes of your time to provide feedback on your experience. This helps us improve our delivery service to you so next time it will be even better.
Me: No. You just did what you are supposed to do.
roughbarked said:
Bogsnorkler said:
well, the cloning didn’t go as planned. keep getting a error message. might have to go into BIOS and check the SATA configurations. another time.
You probably should have started in the BIOS.
No.
Bogsnorkler said:
Aus PostWe’d appreciate a few minutes of your time to provide feedback on your experience. This helps us improve our delivery service to you so next time it will be even better.
Me: No. You just did what you are supposed to do.
I never bother replying. They keep asking, there’s still time to fill in our survey, it will help us support our customers… BS.
Bogsnorkler said:
roughbarked said:
Bogsnorkler said:
well, the cloning didn’t go as planned. keep getting a error message. might have to go into BIOS and check the SATA configurations. another time.
You probably should have started in the BIOS.
No.
Probably best to stay out of there unless necessary.
roughbarked said:
Bogsnorkler said:
Aus PostWe’d appreciate a few minutes of your time to provide feedback on your experience. This helps us improve our delivery service to you so next time it will be even better.
Me: No. You just did what you are supposed to do.
I never bother replying. They keep asking, there’s still time to fill in our survey, it will help us support our customers… BS.
Actually told the last bloke who was helping me. “You have the answer to the survey questions, I thank you here and now for your excellent work”. So don’t bother asking me to do the survey. They still did anyway. Bloody robots.
roughbarked said:
Bogsnorkler said:
roughbarked said:You probably should have started in the BIOS.
No.
Probably best to stay out of there unless necessary.
Tamb said:
roughbarked said:
Bogsnorkler said:No.
Probably best to stay out of there unless necessary.
It could be looking at the wrong HDD.
Probably doing that.
roughbarked said:
transition said:
captain_spalding said:Kids packed in around the engine?
They were lucky.
We had to ride on the roof, with nowt to hang on to but the rain gutter.
the good old days, when you could put the kids in the engine bay, in the boot, on the bonnet, or on the roof, I really miss the freedom
The bloody cat used to come for journeys in the engine bay.
Anyway, she kept the rats out of the wiring.
dad onetime took off down the road in the Acco truck with some kittens in there, on top the engine probably, unknown to him, you’d think the engine sound would be enough to have driven them out, anyway must have got too hot for them eventually, couple might have studied the radiator fan too closely
Bogsnorkler said:
Aus PostWe’d appreciate a few minutes of your time to provide feedback on your experience. This helps us improve our delivery service to you so next time it will be even better.
Me: No. You just did what you are supposed to do.
Possibly useful if they didn’t do what they were supposed to do.
roughbarked said:
Tamb said:
roughbarked said:Probably best to stay out of there unless necessary.
It could be looking at the wrong HDD.Probably doing that.
More likely not finding it, for various reasons.
Bubblecar said:
Bogsnorkler said:
Aus PostWe’d appreciate a few minutes of your time to provide feedback on your experience. This helps us improve our delivery service to you so next time it will be even better.
Me: No. You just did what you are supposed to do.
Possibly useful if they didn’t do what they were supposed to do.
They won’t listen anyway. Their agenda is different to yours.
The Rev Dodgson said:
buffy said:
Whoops!https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-18/truckie-escapes-bridge-collapse/100226214
“but he said his truck suffered at least $1,000 damage”
Is should think that would still be true if you added a zero.
Looks like the local council need to lift their game.
You could say that about nearly every council ime
Obvs bridge needs replacing anyway.
Lunch was leftover borscht, dinner will be some spicy fish dish. Haven’t decided on the details but it will involve 2 x barramundi fillets.
Question is: could I be bothered having a shower and going to get a bottle of wine to accompany?
Tamb said:
roughbarked said:
Bogsnorkler said:No.
Probably best to stay out of there unless necessary.
It could be looking at the wrong HDD.
Nah, unplugged all external drives. Only two HDD, one with stuff on and one with nowt on. I think the SATA sockets on the MoBo might not like what I am trying to do. I have four 2xSATA3 and 2XSATA2. C:// drive is in SATA3 socket 0. CD is in SATA3 socket 1. Unplugged the CD and plugged new drive in there. Macrium (the cloning software) saw it. No go. So I tried C:// drive in SATA3 1 but the computer wouldn’t boot. So that leads me to having a look in BIOS.
transition said:
roughbarked said:
transition said:the good old days, when you could put the kids in the engine bay, in the boot, on the bonnet, or on the roof, I really miss the freedom
The bloody cat used to come for journeys in the engine bay.
Anyway, she kept the rats out of the wiring.
dad onetime took off down the road in the Acco truck with some kittens in there, on top the engine probably, unknown to him, you’d think the engine sound would be enough to have driven them out, anyway must have got too hot for them eventually, couple might have studied the radiator fan too closely
Did I tell you about the time I wound up the starter on the lawnmower and the kitten left bloody marks on the three walls surrounding the mower, yet walked away?
transition said:
roughbarked said:
transition said:the good old days, when you could put the kids in the engine bay, in the boot, on the bonnet, or on the roof, I really miss the freedom
The bloody cat used to come for journeys in the engine bay.
Anyway, she kept the rats out of the wiring.
dad onetime took off down the road in the Acco truck with some kittens in there, on top the engine probably, unknown to him, you’d think the engine sound would be enough to have driven them out, anyway must have got too hot for them eventually, couple might have studied the radiator fan too closely
A rodent fatally got under the SIL’s fanbelt. Threw the belt. She told me the car felt funny & the steering was really heavy. Yes, you’re right. power steering pump also ran off the fanbelt. 5 minutes work to refit it.
Bubblecar said:
Bogsnorkler said:
Aus PostWe’d appreciate a few minutes of your time to provide feedback on your experience. This helps us improve our delivery service to you so next time it will be even better.
Me: No. You just did what you are supposed to do.
Possibly useful if they didn’t do what they were supposed to do.
It is just a generic email. I guess if you had an unusual delivery it might be worth it. I didn’t so didn’t bother.
Ian said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
buffy said:
Whoops!https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-18/truckie-escapes-bridge-collapse/100226214
“but he said his truck suffered at least $1,000 damage”
Is should think that would still be true if you added a zero.
Looks like the local council need to lift their game.
You could say that about nearly every council ime
Obvs bridge needs replacing anyway.
stating the obvious again?
Tamb said:
transition said:
roughbarked said:The bloody cat used to come for journeys in the engine bay.
Anyway, she kept the rats out of the wiring.
dad onetime took off down the road in the Acco truck with some kittens in there, on top the engine probably, unknown to him, you’d think the engine sound would be enough to have driven them out, anyway must have got too hot for them eventually, couple might have studied the radiator fan too closely
A rodent fatally got under the SIL’s fanbelt. Threw the belt. She told me the car felt funny & the steering was really heavy. Yes, you’re right. power steering pump also ran off the fanbelt. 5 minutes work to refit it.
Several times got vehicle back from service and something with belts not tightened properly, things go very awry.
Bogsnorkler said:
Bubblecar said:
Bogsnorkler said:
Aus PostWe’d appreciate a few minutes of your time to provide feedback on your experience. This helps us improve our delivery service to you so next time it will be even better.
Me: No. You just did what you are supposed to do.
Possibly useful if they didn’t do what they were supposed to do.
It is just a generic email. I guess if you had an unusual delivery it might be worth it. I didn’t so didn’t bother.
yep. If you had an issue, you’d be trying to contact them somehow.
Bubblecar said:
Lunch was leftover borscht, dinner will be some spicy fish dish. Haven’t decided on the details but it will involve 2 x barramundi fillets.Question is: could I be bothered having a shower and going to get a bottle of wine to accompany?
If you’d arranged your life properly earlier, you’d have servants who could do that. And a fully stocked wine cellar which would make it unnecessary anyway.
give something back? https://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/article/2021/06/17/sigh-relief-central-nsw-land-protection-ceremony-finally-held
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
Lunch was leftover borscht, dinner will be some spicy fish dish. Haven’t decided on the details but it will involve 2 x barramundi fillets.Question is: could I be bothered having a shower and going to get a bottle of wine to accompany?
If you’d arranged your life properly earlier, you’d have servants who could do that. And a fully stocked wine cellar which would make it unnecessary anyway.
I assume that’s a “no”.
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
Lunch was leftover borscht, dinner will be some spicy fish dish. Haven’t decided on the details but it will involve 2 x barramundi fillets.Question is: could I be bothered having a shower and going to get a bottle of wine to accompany?
If you’d arranged your life properly earlier, you’d have servants who could do that. And a fully stocked wine cellar which would make it unnecessary anyway.
Something I sadly never got around to.. as well.
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
Lunch was leftover borscht, dinner will be some spicy fish dish. Haven’t decided on the details but it will involve 2 x barramundi fillets.Question is: could I be bothered having a shower and going to get a bottle of wine to accompany?
If you’d arranged your life properly earlier, you’d have servants who could do that. And a fully stocked wine cellar which would make it unnecessary anyway.
I assume that’s a “no”.
I really don’t think that drinking fine wine in the shower is a great idea anyway.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:If you’d arranged your life properly earlier, you’d have servants who could do that. And a fully stocked wine cellar which would make it unnecessary anyway.
I assume that’s a “no”.
I really don’t think that drinking fine wine in the shower is a great idea anyway.
Too easy, the falling down part.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:If you’d arranged your life properly earlier, you’d have servants who could do that. And a fully stocked wine cellar which would make it unnecessary anyway.
I assume that’s a “no”.
I really don’t think that drinking fine wine in the shower is a great idea anyway.
Heh.
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
Lunch was leftover borscht, dinner will be some spicy fish dish. Haven’t decided on the details but it will involve 2 x barramundi fillets.Question is: could I be bothered having a shower and going to get a bottle of wine to accompany?
If you’d arranged your life properly earlier, you’d have servants who could do that. And a fully stocked wine cellar which would make it unnecessary anyway.
Tamb said:
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
Lunch was leftover borscht, dinner will be some spicy fish dish. Haven’t decided on the details but it will involve 2 x barramundi fillets.Question is: could I be bothered having a shower and going to get a bottle of wine to accompany?
If you’d arranged your life properly earlier, you’d have servants who could do that. And a fully stocked wine cellar which would make it unnecessary anyway.
That’s why I bought a wine fridge. One stop at uncle Dans & I’m right for a month with a couple bottles put aside for ageing.
Wine isn’t the problem for me. I live where they make it and I went to school with them, fixed their watches etc.
Trouble is, I don’t drink enough of it.
Tamb said:
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
Lunch was leftover borscht, dinner will be some spicy fish dish. Haven’t decided on the details but it will involve 2 x barramundi fillets.Question is: could I be bothered having a shower and going to get a bottle of wine to accompany?
If you’d arranged your life properly earlier, you’d have servants who could do that. And a fully stocked wine cellar which would make it unnecessary anyway.
That’s why I bought a wine fridge. One stop at uncle Dans & I’m right for a month with a couple bottles put aside for ageing.
But Mr Car does benefit from the amble.
roughbarked said:
Tamb said:
Bubblecar said:If you’d arranged your life properly earlier, you’d have servants who could do that. And a fully stocked wine cellar which would make it unnecessary anyway.
That’s why I bought a wine fridge. One stop at uncle Dans & I’m right for a month with a couple bottles put aside for ageing.Wine isn’t the problem for me. I live where they make it and I went to school with them, fixed their watches etc.
Trouble is, I don’t drink enough of it.
I grafted their vines and harvested their grapes. I get the stuff for free.
sarahs mum said:
Tamb said:
Bubblecar said:If you’d arranged your life properly earlier, you’d have servants who could do that. And a fully stocked wine cellar which would make it unnecessary anyway.
That’s why I bought a wine fridge. One stop at uncle Dans & I’m right for a month with a couple bottles put aside for ageing.But Mr Car does benefit from the amble.
Needs a longer amble.
roughbarked said:
sarahs mum said:
Tamb said:That’s why I bought a wine fridge. One stop at uncle Dans & I’m right for a month with a couple bottles put aside for ageing.
But Mr Car does benefit from the amble.
Needs a longer amble.
My brother trained for the football by running between four pubs having a short stop at each a few times a week.
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
Lunch was leftover borscht, dinner will be some spicy fish dish. Haven’t decided on the details but it will involve 2 x barramundi fillets.Question is: could I be bothered having a shower and going to get a bottle of wine to accompany?
If you’d arranged your life properly earlier, you’d have servants who could do that. And a fully stocked wine cellar which would make it unnecessary anyway.
I assume that’s a “no”.
Be a devil: say yes!
:)
roughbarked said:
LOLOL
roughbarked said:
Ian said:
The Rev Dodgson said:“but he said his truck suffered at least $1,000 damage”
Is should think that would still be true if you added a zero.
Looks like the local council need to lift their game.
You could say that about nearly every council ime
Obvs bridge needs replacing anyway.
stating the obvious again?
“you can talk”
A Baldwin steam motor and flat wagon trundle along Parramatta Road, Camperdown towards Sydney University in approximately 1890. The small consist has possibly been engaged in maintenance work, which required a dedicated fleet of maintenance wagons. City of Sydney Archives
sarahs mum said:
Tamb said:
Bubblecar said:If you’d arranged your life properly earlier, you’d have servants who could do that. And a fully stocked wine cellar which would make it unnecessary anyway.
That’s why I bought a wine fridge. One stop at uncle Dans & I’m right for a month with a couple bottles put aside for ageing.But Mr Car does benefit from the amble.
sarahs mum said:
roughbarked said:
sarahs mum said:But Mr Car does benefit from the amble.
Needs a longer amble.
My brother trained for the football by running between four pubs having a short stop at each a few times a week.
My dad who played football when the local town gave the winners real gold medals, said of the drinking and smoking. “Why waste the whole week’s training in one evenings celebrations?”
He also often said, “you don’t get hurt if you keep your fitness up”.
SCIENCE said:
roughbarked said:
Ian said:You could say that about nearly every council ime
Obvs bridge needs replacing anyway.
stating the obvious again?
“you can talk”
Trust British Paints?
Tamb said:
sarahs mum said:
Tamb said:That’s why I bought a wine fridge. One stop at uncle Dans & I’m right for a month with a couple bottles put aside for ageing.
But Mr Car does benefit from the amble.
8km each way is a bit too much of an amble for me.
Me as well. It is twice that for me.
SCIENCE said:
roughbarked said:
Ian said:You could say that about nearly every council ime
Obvs bridge needs replacing anyway.
stating the obvious again?
“you can talk”
roughbarked said:
Tamb said:
sarahs mum said:But Mr Car does benefit from the amble.
8km each way is a bit too much of an amble for me.Me as well. It is twice that for me.
When I go to the shops, I buy a month’s supply.
Tamb said:
SCIENCE said:
roughbarked said:stating the obvious again?
“you can talk”
Didn’t we once have an Obviousman?
We still do on obvious occasions.
Betta Bilda, made by Airfix, was a not-very-successful attempt to compete with Lego in the 1960s.
My siblings and I were given a big set of Betta Bilda while still in England. I remember the roof tiles were pretty good, more sophisticated than anything offered by Lego at the time.
sarahs mum said:
A Baldwin steam motor and flat wagon trundle along Parramatta Road, Camperdown towards Sydney University in approximately 1890. The small consist has possibly been engaged in maintenance work, which required a dedicated fleet of maintenance wagons. City of Sydney Archives
Interesting that fairly simple little vehicles like that were still presumably cheaper to import (Baldwin were American) than make locally.
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
A Baldwin steam motor and flat wagon trundle along Parramatta Road, Camperdown towards Sydney University in approximately 1890. The small consist has possibly been engaged in maintenance work, which required a dedicated fleet of maintenance wagons. City of Sydney Archives
Interesting that fairly simple little vehicles like that were still presumably cheaper to import (Baldwin were American) than make locally.
In that day, almost everything was imported. We valued our own stuff little unless there was a market to export it to.
Probably hasn’t changed much.
Tamb said:
sarahs mum said:
Tamb said:That’s why I bought a wine fridge. One stop at uncle Dans & I’m right for a month with a couple bottles put aside for ageing.
But Mr Car does benefit from the amble.
8km each way is a bit too much of an amble for me.
Just about 1km each way here.
roughbarked said:
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
A Baldwin steam motor and flat wagon trundle along Parramatta Road, Camperdown towards Sydney University in approximately 1890. The small consist has possibly been engaged in maintenance work, which required a dedicated fleet of maintenance wagons. City of Sydney Archives
Interesting that fairly simple little vehicles like that were still presumably cheaper to import (Baldwin were American) than make locally.
In that day, almost everything was imported. We valued our own stuff little unless there was a market to export it to.
Probably hasn’t changed much.
There were something like forty motor vehicle manufacturers who imported much of what they packed into their motor vehicles.
Bubblecar said:
Tamb said:
sarahs mum said:But Mr Car does benefit from the amble.
8km each way is a bit too much of an amble for me.
Just about 1km each way here.
Spent most of my life walking as nearly everything was within 3km. Though it was more than three miles to school.
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:
Bubblecar said:Interesting that fairly simple little vehicles like that were still presumably cheaper to import (Baldwin were American) than make locally.
In that day, almost everything was imported. We valued our own stuff little unless there was a market to export it to.
Probably hasn’t changed much.
There were something like forty motor vehicle manufacturers who imported much of what they packed into their motor vehicles.
A little later than 1890 but still, for a country of the population we were out front in attempting to make it work for us.
Sixteen philanthropists who have collectively donated millions to University of Newcastle projects cut ties over the appointment of former deputy PM Mark Vaile, who is also the head of Whitehaven Coal.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-18/mark-vaile-chancellor-university-of-newcastle-donor-boycott/100225906
Bubblecar said:
Lunch was leftover borscht, dinner will be some spicy fish dish. Haven’t decided on the details but it will involve 2 x barramundi fillets.Question is: could I be bothered having a shower and going to get a bottle of wine to accompany?
We are up to takeaway pizza from the pub tonight. They have been ordered.
buffy said:
Bubblecar said:
Lunch was leftover borscht, dinner will be some spicy fish dish. Haven’t decided on the details but it will involve 2 x barramundi fillets.Question is: could I be bothered having a shower and going to get a bottle of wine to accompany?
We are up to takeaway pizza from the pub tonight. They have been ordered.
Me I’m up to my ears in broccoli.
R.I.P. Alex Harvill.
A world record attempt to jump a motorcycle 107 metres has ended in disaster after US daredevil Alex Harvill was killed in a warm-up jump.
Hey DO.
You tube offered me
Did I Just Break My GOLD SNIPING RECORD? Crevices Loaded With GOLD NUGGETS!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aTePQUEMpE
Have you watched them?
And also…I watched this vid on Jordies.
7 NEWS JUST SCREWED FRIENDLY JORDIES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csBnxm4_bS8
For those who watched the Jordies vids it is obvious to see how they were editted for spin.
The good stuff always falls in the cracks.
roughbarked said:
The good stuff always falls in the cracks.
I was interested because the other night DO was talking about gold and I said he should youtube. And now I am being offered youtubes about gold. Albeit in Tassie. That probably pushed the algorithm along.
sarahs mum said:
roughbarked said:
The good stuff always falls in the cracks.
I was interested because the other night DO was talking about gold and I said he should youtube. And now I am being offered youtubes about gold. Albeit in Tassie. That probably pushed the algorithm along.
Buy yourself a gold pan.
Wayne Brookes – Artist Interview – Opulence and Ostentation: A Covid Operation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=O8uoC95t4Dk&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR2qVq1mXUIbor3f0l8UYs947pLrB9Ae1fn5AbbbtHXCEn6LxViP5DLoec8
—
Wayne is one of my heroes.
roughbarked said:
sarahs mum said:
roughbarked said:
The good stuff always falls in the cracks.
I was interested because the other night DO was talking about gold and I said he should youtube. And now I am being offered youtubes about gold. Albeit in Tassie. That probably pushed the algorithm along.
Buy yourself a gold pan.
When I bought the place we did a search and someone had the right to prospect my creek. But that was 37 years ago.
Ive often thought it would be good to run and metal detector down there in summer when it was dryish and less leech ridden.
roughbarked said:
sarahs mum said:
roughbarked said:
The good stuff always falls in the cracks.
I was interested because the other night DO was talking about gold and I said he should youtube. And now I am being offered youtubes about gold. Albeit in Tassie. That probably pushed the algorithm along.
Buy yourself a gold pan.
Won’t a tin one do just as well?
‘nings!
Is it FNDC yet?
I have a cheap but ludicrously drinkable red blend.
Rule 303 said:
‘nings!Is it FNDC yet?
I have a cheap but ludicrously drinkable red blend.
More info please. Brand, type, year, cost, etc.
I’ve got a T-bone that I’ll do something with shortly.
Peak Warming Man said:
I’ve got a T-bone that I’ll do something with shortly.
Turn it into coal and add tomato sauce?
captain_spalding said:
roughbarked said:
sarahs mum said:I was interested because the other night DO was talking about gold and I said he should youtube. And now I am being offered youtubes about gold. Albeit in Tassie. That probably pushed the algorithm along.
Buy yourself a gold pan.
Won’t a tin one do just as well?
Plastic works better. Doesn’t rust.
Michael V said:
Rule 303 said:
‘nings!Is it FNDC yet?
I have a cheap but ludicrously drinkable red blend.
More info please. Brand, type, year, cost, etc.
19 Crimes, Red Blend, 2019, $13 on special, down from $16.
Rule 303 said:
Michael V said:
Rule 303 said:
‘nings!Is it FNDC yet?
I have a cheap but ludicrously drinkable red blend.
More info please. Brand, type, year, cost, etc.
19 Crimes, Red Blend, 2019, $13 on special, down from $16.
NHOI.
Peak Warming Man said:
I’ve got a T-bone that I’ll do something with shortly.
I was thinking about making a meat loaf last night. i made a bunch of rissoles with finely diced onion, celery, carrot and parsely around 2 am. Ate some with some BBQ sauce as a sandwich. I think I’ll make some mash and gravy and heat up the rest.
If vaccines were hot chips and Australians over 60 were seagulls we wouldnt be having any of these problems.
First Dog.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jun/18/do-you-want-me-to-parade-vaccinated-old-people-around-the-place-just-for-your-benefit
sarahs mum said:
If vaccines were hot chips and Australians over 60 were seagulls we wouldnt be having any of these problems.First Dog.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jun/18/do-you-want-me-to-parade-vaccinated-old-people-around-the-place-just-for-your-benefit
I am a vaccinated old people.
Had a chat to my father earlier in the week. He’s of the opinion that he doesn’t need the vaccine because there’s not much covid around where he lives, he has no comorbidities, and he gets plenty of vitamin D.
I will collect a few anecdotes from friends who have had covid and see if that changes his mind, because the reality is that he will ultimately get a vaccine, or covid.
Dark Orange said:
Had a chat to my father earlier in the week. He’s of the opinion that he doesn’t need the vaccine because there’s not much covid around where he lives, he has no comorbidities, and he gets plenty of vitamin D.
I will collect a few anecdotes from friends who have had covid and see if that changes his mind, because the reality is that he will ultimately get a vaccine, or covid.
He’ll catch Covid for sure when us young people are all let loose. Tell him that today I visited the Homemaker Centre that had a case two days ago, and I am also planning a lap around Australia.
Peak Warming Man said:
I’ve got a T-bone that I’ll do something with shortly.
Crisp, presumably.
A loaf of chilli sourdough bread has been made. Nice.
Kimchi has been prepared and the ferment is starting.
The 2.9 kg lump of corned beef has been simmering for over two hours and has less than 2 hours to go. I’ve turned it.
Rule 303 said:
Michael V said:
Rule 303 said:
‘nings!Is it FNDC yet?
I have a cheap but ludicrously drinkable red blend.
More info please. Brand, type, year, cost, etc.
19 Crimes, Red Blend, 2019, $13 on special, down from $16.
That’s quite a nice wine.
party_pants said:
Rule 303 said:
Michael V said:More info please. Brand, type, year, cost, etc.
19 Crimes, Red Blend, 2019, $13 on special, down from $16.
NHOI.
???
Well I thought the good results at the doctor would make my anxiety go away, but Speedy Jnr has decided to go to the big city with his friends tonight. He has never done this before, not even during the day. They are driving to the north shore, then catching a train, so it’s a double triple whammy. At the age of 17, I was already at the tail-end of my city night-clubbing days, so I don’t know why this worries me so much, especially as he tells me they are going to………………….a bookshop to buy a book! :)
Michael V said:
party_pants said:
Rule 303 said:19 Crimes, Red Blend, 2019, $13 on special, down from $16.
NHOI.
???
I googled as I’d never heard of it either.
sarahs mum said:
If vaccines were hot chips and Australians over 60 were seagulls we wouldnt be having any of these problems.First Dog.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jun/18/do-you-want-me-to-parade-vaccinated-old-people-around-the-place-just-for-your-benefit
Ta.
:)
Speedy said:
Well I thought the good results at the doctor would make my anxiety go away, but Speedy Jnr has decided to go to the big city with his friends tonight. He has never done this before, not even during the day. They are driving to the north shore, then catching a train, so it’s adoubletriple whammy. At the age of 17, I was already at the tail-end of my city night-clubbing days, so I don’t know why this worries me so much, especially as he tells me they are going to………………….a bookshop to buy a book! :)
Glad you got good results :)
Speedy Jnr is unlikely to come to much harm.
Speedy said:
Michael V said:
party_pants said:NHOI.
???
I googled as I’d never heard of it either.
Ha!
:)
Rule 303 said:
Michael V said:
Rule 303 said:
‘nings!Is it FNDC yet?
I have a cheap but ludicrously drinkable red blend.
More info please. Brand, type, year, cost, etc.
19 Crimes, Red Blend, 2019, $13 on special, down from $16.
Cheers.
I’ve decided to have a dry night, on account of:
a) I had enough too much booze last night.
b) I couldn’t be bothered going to the bottlo.
Speedy said:
Well I thought the good results at the doctor would make my anxiety go away, but Speedy Jnr has decided to go to the big city with his friends tonight. He has never done this before, not even during the day. They are driving to the north shore, then catching a train, so it’s adoubletriple whammy. At the age of 17, I was already at the tail-end of my city night-clubbing days, so I don’t know why this worries me so much, especially as he tells me they are going to………………….a bookshop to buy a book! :)
So you’re not dying of some dreaded lurgy, or other nasty disease?
Decided to bake the fish on a bed of vermicelli with a creamy & spicy sauce.
Bubblecar said:
Rule 303 said:
Michael V said:More info please. Brand, type, year, cost, etc.
19 Crimes, Red Blend, 2019, $13 on special, down from $16.
Cheers.
I’ve decided to have a dry night, on account of:
a) I had
enoughtoo much booze last night.
b) I couldn’t be bothered going to the bottlo.
This puts you a bit out of sync with the rest of us. I haven’t had a drop since Sunday evening, so looking forward to a tipple soon.
Bubblecar said:
Rule 303 said:
Michael V said:More info please. Brand, type, year, cost, etc.
19 Crimes, Red Blend, 2019, $13 on special, down from $16.
Cheers.
I’ve decided to have a dry night, on account of:
a) I had
enoughtoo much booze last night.
b) I couldn’t be bothered going to the bottlo.
But, but, but; It’s FNDC!
Michael V said:
Speedy said:
Well I thought the good results at the doctor would make my anxiety go away, but Speedy Jnr has decided to go to the big city with his friends tonight. He has never done this before, not even during the day. They are driving to the north shore, then catching a train, so it’s adoubletriple whammy. At the age of 17, I was already at the tail-end of my city night-clubbing days, so I don’t know why this worries me so much, especially as he tells me they are going to………………….a bookshop to buy a book! :)
So you’re not dying of some dreaded lurgy, or other nasty disease?
No not yet, thankfully. Just some hip and back stuff that is likely age-related.
Speedy said:
Michael V said:
Speedy said:
Well I thought the good results at the doctor would make my anxiety go away, but Speedy Jnr has decided to go to the big city with his friends tonight. He has never done this before, not even during the day. They are driving to the north shore, then catching a train, so it’s adoubletriple whammy. At the age of 17, I was already at the tail-end of my city night-clubbing days, so I don’t know why this worries me so much, especially as he tells me they are going to………………….a bookshop to buy a book! :)
So you’re not dying of some dreaded lurgy, or other nasty disease?
No not yet, thankfully. Just some hip and back stuff that is likely age-related.
This was the most worrying (and probably most painful) thing …
‘Small disc bulge and subarticulate tear at L4/L5’
How would grilling a T-bone go, Imight try that.
I know if I fry it it will be good but what are the chances of rooting it under the grill?
sarahs mum said:
Hey DO.You tube offered me
Did I Just Break My GOLD SNIPING RECORD? Crevices Loaded With GOLD NUGGETS!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aTePQUEMpEHave you watched them?
I’ll check it out later, thanks.
We are looking in similar crevaces, but in dry creeks. And we’re looking at 3 x his find per day ;)
Peak Warming Man said:
How would grilling a T-bone go, Imight try that.
I know if I fry it it will be good but what are the chances of rooting it under the grill?
you’d probably burn your arse.
Peak Warming Man said:
How would grilling a T-bone go, Imight try that.
I know if I fry it it will be good but what are the chances of rooting it under the grill?
Rooting it is how most people would describe your ‘burnt to a crisp’ preference so that’s probably a no.
Bogsnorkler said:
Peak Warming Man said:
How would grilling a T-bone go, Imight try that.
I know if I fry it it will be good but what are the chances of rooting it under the grill?
you’d probably burn your arse.
I was using rooting metaphorically.
Here’s a similar example.
I backed over the mower the other day and fucked it.
Rule 303 said:
‘nings!Is it FNDC yet?
I have a cheap but ludicrously drinkable red blend.
Have you earnt it and do you deserve it?
:)
Witty Rejoinder said:
Peak Warming Man said:
How would grilling a T-bone go, Imight try that.
I know if I fry it it will be good but what are the chances of rooting it under the grill?
Rooting it is how most people would describe your ‘burnt to a crisp’ preference so that’s probably a no.
You people.
Dark Orange said:
sarahs mum said:
Hey DO.You tube offered me
Did I Just Break My GOLD SNIPING RECORD? Crevices Loaded With GOLD NUGGETS!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aTePQUEMpEHave you watched them?
I’ll check it out later, thanks.
We are looking in similar crevaces, but in dry creeks. And we’re looking at 3 x his find per day ;)
:)
Is Mr Buffy still down in the lower forty ploughing? if he is he’s going to want his tea on the table.
Peak Warming Man said:
Is Mr Buffy still down in the lower forty ploughing? if he is he’s going to want his tea on the table.
He’s just started walking around to the pub to pick up our pizzas. After he got out the gate and had to come back to get a mask. I don’t go with him because I don’t like crowds.
Witty Rejoinder said:
Peak Warming Man said:
How would grilling a T-bone go, Imight try that.
I know if I fry it it will be good but what are the chances of rooting it under the grill?
Rooting it is how most people would describe your ‘burnt to a crisp’ preference so that’s probably a no.
But not all.
Woodie said:
sarahs mum said:
If vaccines were hot chips and Australians over 60 were seagulls we wouldnt be having any of these problems.First Dog.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jun/18/do-you-want-me-to-parade-vaccinated-old-people-around-the-place-just-for-your-benefit
I am a vaccinated old people.
There are a few of us here. Although I won’t have the second jab until September, so only partially vaccinated.
I just sat down and wrote out my side effects, because I feel sure P (the practice nurse) will ask me if I had any, and by then I won’t be able to remember the order or timescale. It was a bit messed up for me by the distressing news of C’s death which came in late last Friday night, three days after the jab. I’m pretty sure that is why I lost Saturday, and not because of the vaccination.
buffy said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Is Mr Buffy still down in the lower forty ploughing? if he is he’s going to want his tea on the table.
He’s just started walking around to the pub to pick up our pizzas. After he got out the gate and had to come back to get a mask. I don’t go with him because I don’t like crowds.
How are crowds at pizza collection different from the usual crowd at the pub on a Friday night?
Speedy said:
Speedy said:
Michael V said:So you’re not dying of some dreaded lurgy, or other nasty disease?
No not yet, thankfully. Just some hip and back stuff that is likely age-related.
This was the most worrying (and probably most painful) thing …
‘Small disc bulge and subarticulate tear at L4/L5’
Oh, bugger.
buffy said:
Woodie said:
sarahs mum said:
If vaccines were hot chips and Australians over 60 were seagulls we wouldnt be having any of these problems.First Dog.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jun/18/do-you-want-me-to-parade-vaccinated-old-people-around-the-place-just-for-your-benefit
I am a vaccinated old people.
There are a few of us here. Although I won’t have the second jab until September, so only partially vaccinated.
I just sat down and wrote out my side effects, because I feel sure P (the practice nurse) will ask me if I had any, and by then I won’t be able to remember the order or timescale. It was a bit messed up for me by the distressing news of C’s death which came in late last Friday night, three days after the jab. I’m pretty sure that is why I lost Saturday, and not because of the vaccination.
uh surely that’s confirmation bias or something similar
Witty Rejoinder said:
buffy said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Is Mr Buffy still down in the lower forty ploughing? if he is he’s going to want his tea on the table.
He’s just started walking around to the pub to pick up our pizzas. After he got out the gate and had to come back to get a mask. I don’t go with him because I don’t like crowds.
How are crowds at pizza collection different from the usual crowd at the pub on a Friday night?
They are not different. You pick up from the bar. When we eat there we eat in the quiet room at the front, which they call the bistro.
SCIENCE said:
buffy said:
Woodie said:I am a vaccinated old people.
There are a few of us here. Although I won’t have the second jab until September, so only partially vaccinated.
I just sat down and wrote out my side effects, because I feel sure P (the practice nurse) will ask me if I had any, and by then I won’t be able to remember the order or timescale. It was a bit messed up for me by the distressing news of C’s death which came in late last Friday night, three days after the jab. I’m pretty sure that is why I lost Saturday, and not because of the vaccination.
uh surely that’s confirmation bias or something similar
What is?
Peak Warming Man said:
Is Mr Buffy still down in the lower forty ploughing? if he is he’s going to want his tea on the table.
There still five more acres, and he’ll probably want black-eyed peas.
sarahs mum said:
If vaccines were hot chips and Australians over 60 were seagulls we wouldnt be having any of these problems.First Dog.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jun/18/do-you-want-me-to-parade-vaccinated-old-people-around-the-place-just-for-your-benefit
The worst part about this is that FDOTM’s version makes a lot more sense than does the government’s.
(I’d forgotten about FDOTM. Thanks for giving the grey cells a kick.)
Michael V said:
Speedy said:
Speedy said:No not yet, thankfully. Just some hip and back stuff that is likely age-related.
This was the most worrying (and probably most painful) thing …
‘Small disc bulge and subarticulate tear at L4/L5’
Oh, bugger.
Mrs S had surgery for a similar thing back in September last year.
Huge improvement for her.
There is hope.
buffy said:
Rule 303 said:
‘nings!Is it FNDC yet?
I have a cheap but ludicrously drinkable red blend.
Have you earnt it and do you deserve it?
:)
I feel like one day of VET in School Electrical trainees and two of Arboriculture guys is an honest week’s work.
Interesting article:
https://www.sciencealert.com/for-the-first-time-we-ve-found-evidence-of-rotation-in-the-cosmic-web
Rule 303 said:
buffy said:
Rule 303 said:
‘nings!Is it FNDC yet?
I have a cheap but ludicrously drinkable red blend.
Have you earnt it and do you deserve it?
:)
I feel like one day of VET in School Electrical trainees and two of Arboriculture guys is an honest week’s work.
Sounds fair.
:)
Rule 303 said:
buffy said:
Rule 303 said:
‘nings!Is it FNDC yet?
I have a cheap but ludicrously drinkable red blend.
Have you earnt it and do you deserve it?
:)
I feel like one day of VET in School Electrical trainees and two of Arboriculture guys is an honest week’s work.
That seems OK then.
:)
“All the accused had done was to store, transport or carry icing sugar, which was self-evidently not an offence.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-18/drug-acquittal-after-police-switched-cocaine-with-icing-sugar/100227346
sarahs mum said:
“All the accused had done was to store, transport or carry icing sugar, which was self-evidently not an offence.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-18/drug-acquittal-after-police-switched-cocaine-with-icing-sugar/100227346
Well, that was a fuckup by the police.
Dark Orange said:
sarahs mum said:
“All the accused had done was to store, transport or carry icing sugar, which was self-evidently not an offence.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-18/drug-acquittal-after-police-switched-cocaine-with-icing-sugar/100227346
Well, that was a fuckup by the police.
Good lawyer by the sounds of it.
A question…the blood clot thing with AZ…reported only for first shots? Why are people cancelling going for their second shots? (ABC news just now)
Hopefully this isn’t behind a paywall. 7 min video:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/06/17/best-health-care-systems-world/?
Dark Orange said:
sarahs mum said:
“All the accused had done was to store, transport or carry icing sugar, which was self-evidently not an offence.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-18/drug-acquittal-after-police-switched-cocaine-with-icing-sugar/100227346
Well, that was a fuckup by the police.
yeah but consider the flip side, who needs mens rea when police can just plant some in your transport mode of choice
Witty Rejoinder said:
Hopefully this isn’t behind a paywall. 7 min video:https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/06/17/best-health-care-systems-world/?
What’s the transcript ¿
buffy said:
A question…the blood clot thing with AZ…reported only for first shots? Why are people cancelling going for their second shots? (ABC news just now)
probably if you gonna getit you gonna getit the first time anyway
SCIENCE said:
buffy said:
A question…the blood clot thing with AZ…reported only for first shots? Why are people cancelling going for their second shots? (ABC news just now)
probably if you gonna getit you gonna getit the first time anyway
I’d have thought so.
SCIENCE said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Hopefully this isn’t behind a paywall. 7 min video:https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/06/17/best-health-care-systems-world/?
What’s the transcript ¿
5 health economists compare the features of what they consider the best health-care systems. Too short to go into any great detail but gives a good summary of how that question would be answered.
buffy said:
SCIENCE said:
buffy said:
A question…the blood clot thing with AZ…reported only for first shots? Why are people cancelling going for their second shots? (ABC news just now)
probably if you gonna getit you gonna getit the first time anyway
I’d have thought so.
That said there is a growing body of evidence suggesting mixing the shots is more effective. We don’t claim to have studied it ourselves at all.
Witty Rejoinder said:
Hopefully this isn’t behind a paywall. 7 min video:https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/06/17/best-health-care-systems-world/?
it is.
SCIENCE said:
buffy said:
SCIENCE said:probably if you gonna getit you gonna getit the first time anyway
I’d have thought so.
That said there is a growing body of evidence suggesting mixing the shots is more effective. We don’t claim to have studied it ourselves at all.
Nobody much has.
Witty Rejoinder said:
SCIENCE said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Hopefully this isn’t behind a paywall. 7 min video:https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/06/17/best-health-care-systems-world/?
What’s the transcript ¿
5 health economists compare the features of what they consider the best health-care systems. Too short to go into any great detail but gives a good summary of how that question would be answered.
We’ll have a look. Are there other aspects to healthcare like 5 health care providers or 5 health care seekers who might give different answers ¿
Bogsnorkler said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Hopefully this isn’t behind a paywall. 7 min video:https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/06/17/best-health-care-systems-world/?
it is.
Sucks to be you innit.
Peak Warming Man said:
Dark Orange said:
sarahs mum said:
“All the accused had done was to store, transport or carry icing sugar, which was self-evidently not an offence.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-18/drug-acquittal-after-police-switched-cocaine-with-icing-sugar/100227346
Well, that was a fuckup by the police.
Good lawyer by the sounds of it.
He wasn’t charged with the right thing in the first place.
Witty Rejoinder said:
Bogsnorkler said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Hopefully this isn’t behind a paywall. 7 min video:https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/06/17/best-health-care-systems-world/?
it is.
Sucks to be you innit.
get a dog up ya!!!
a right angle triangle has a hypotenuse of 10 and an altitude of 6. what is the area of the triangle?
Bogsnorkler said:
a right angle triangle has a hypotenuse of 10 and an altitude of 6. what is the area of the triangle?
24?
Bogsnorkler said:
a right angle triangle has a hypotenuse of 10 and an altitude of 6. what is the area of the triangle?
https://www.google.com/search?client=opera&q=a+right+angle+triangle+has+a+hypotenuse+of+10+and+an+altitude+of+6.+what+is+the+area+of+the+triangle%3F&sourceid=opera&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
Witty Rejoinder said:
Bogsnorkler said:
a right angle triangle has a hypotenuse of 10 and an altitude of 6. what is the area of the triangle?
https://www.google.com/search?client=opera&q=a+right+angle+triangle+has+a+hypotenuse+of+10+and+an+altitude+of+6.+what+is+the+area+of+the+triangle%3F&sourceid=opera&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
i actually wanted people here to have a go at working it out.
Dark Orange said:
Bogsnorkler said:
a right angle triangle has a hypotenuse of 10 and an altitude of 6. what is the area of the triangle?
24?
I concur. Had to dust off the neurons and draw me a picture. I always had to draw a picture. Nice set of numbers though.
Dark Orange said:
Bogsnorkler said:
a right angle triangle has a hypotenuse of 10 and an altitude of 6. what is the area of the triangle?
24?
…assuming “Altitude” is the lenght of one of the sides?
Bogsnorkler said:
a right angle triangle has a hypotenuse of 10 and an altitude of 6. what is the area of the triangle?
3 – 4 – 5 triangle.
Peak Warming Man said:
How would grilling a T-bone go, Imight try that.
I know if I fry it it will be good but what are the chances of rooting it under the grill?
I’ll tell you what if you ever get the chance to cook a nice big juicy T-bone steak under the griller
DONT
Peak Warming Man said:
Peak Warming Man said:
How would grilling a T-bone go, Imight try that.
I know if I fry it it will be good but what are the chances of rooting it under the grill?
I’ll tell you what if you ever get the chance to cook a nice big juicy T-bone steak under the griller
DONT
Didn’t you leave it there long enough? Or did it catch fire?
Dark Orange said:
Dark Orange said:
Bogsnorkler said:
a right angle triangle has a hypotenuse of 10 and an altitude of 6. what is the area of the triangle?
24?
…assuming “Altitude” is the lenght of one of the sides?
it isn’t.
buffy said:
A question…the blood clot thing with AZ…reported only for first shots? Why are people cancelling going for their second shots? (ABC news just now)
Bogsnorkler said:
Dark Orange said:
Dark Orange said:24?
…assuming “Altitude” is the lenght of one of the sides?
it isn’t.
“h” is the altitude.
poikilotherm said:
buffy said:
A question…the blood clot thing with AZ…reported only for first shots? Why are people cancelling going for their second shots? (ABC news just now)
still happens after second dose, just rarer.
So really, really rare then. I don’t think I’ve seen any reports of it. But I may not have looked very hard.
Bogsnorkler said:
Bogsnorkler said:
Dark Orange said:…assuming “Altitude” is the lenght of one of the sides?
it isn’t.
“h” is the altitude.
Well, if you will draw your triangle standing on its head. Mine are much more well behaved than that and sit nicely horizontal and vertical.
buffy said:
Bogsnorkler said:
Bogsnorkler said:it isn’t.
“h” is the altitude.
Well, if you will draw your triangle standing on its head. Mine are much more well behaved than that and sit nicely horizontal and vertical.
the altitude would remain the same.
Going to watch a Dr Who episode now. “The Witch’s Familiar”. We are into the ones we aren’t so keen on now. Except that next week they are showing “The Girl Who Died”, which we do like.
buffy said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Peak Warming Man said:
How would grilling a T-bone go, Imight try that.
I know if I fry it it will be good but what are the chances of rooting it under the grill?
I’ll tell you what if you ever get the chance to cook a nice big juicy T-bone steak under the griller
DONT
Didn’t you leave it there long enough? Or did it catch fire?
I didn’t leave it long enough and it wasn’t going crispy anyway.
buffy said:
poikilotherm said:
buffy said:
A question…the blood clot thing with AZ…reported only for first shots? Why are people cancelling going for their second shots? (ABC news just now)
still happens after second dose, just rarer.
So really, really rare then. I don’t think I’ve seen any reports of it. But I may not have looked very hard.
something like 1/6 the rate
Peak Warming Man said:
buffy said:
Peak Warming Man said:I’ll tell you what if you ever get the chance to cook a nice big juicy T-bone steak under the griller
DONT
Didn’t you leave it there long enough? Or did it catch fire?
I didn’t leave it long enough and it wasn’t going crispy anyway.
You could always put it back.
buffy said:
poikilotherm said:
buffy said:
A question…the blood clot thing with AZ…reported only for first shots? Why are people cancelling going for their second shots? (ABC news just now)
still happens after second dose, just rarer.
So really, really rare then. I don’t think I’ve seen any reports of it. But I may not have looked very hard.
If you squint really hard you’ll find em.
Bogsnorkler said:
buffy said:
Bogsnorkler said:
“h” is the altitude.
Well, if you will draw your triangle standing on its head. Mine are much more well behaved than that and sit nicely horizontal and vertical.
the altitude would remain the same.
uh are you https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Altitude.html sure about that
SCIENCE said:
Bogsnorkler said:
buffy said:Well, if you will draw your triangle standing on its head. Mine are much more well behaved than that and sit nicely horizontal and vertical.
the altitude would remain the same.
uh are you https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Altitude.html sure about that
yes.
Bogsnorkler said:
SCIENCE said:
Bogsnorkler said:the altitude would remain the same.
uh are you https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Altitude.html sure about that
yes.
for this particular problem.
Bogsnorkler said:
SCIENCE said:
Bogsnorkler said:the altitude would remain the same.
uh are you https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Altitude.html sure about that
yes.
Bogsnorkler said:
Bogsnorkler said:
SCIENCE said:uh are you https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Altitude.html sure about that
yes.
for this particular problem.
because otherwise it’s nearly trivial to consider the triangle a 6 8 10 right right
Bogsnorkler said:
buffy said:
Bogsnorkler said:
“h” is the altitude.
Well, if you will draw your triangle standing on its head. Mine are much more well behaved than that and sit nicely horizontal and vertical.
the altitude would remain the same.
using the above triangle.
ab=10
dc=6
area=?
Bogsnorkler said:
Bogsnorkler said:
buffy said:Well, if you will draw your triangle standing on its head. Mine are much more well behaved than that and sit nicely horizontal and vertical.
the altitude would remain the same.
using the above triangle.
ab=10
dc=6
area=?
30.594
Bogsnorkler said:
Bogsnorkler said:
buffy said:Well, if you will draw your triangle standing on its head. Mine are much more well behaved than that and sit nicely horizontal and vertical.
the altitude would remain the same.
using the above triangle.
ab=10
dc=6
area=?
ok we mean you seem to suggest this is going to be trivial too
SCIENCE said:
Bogsnorkler said:
Bogsnorkler said:the altitude would remain the same.
using the above triangle.
ab=10
dc=6
area=?
ok we mean you seem to suggest this is going to be trivial too
OK. If AB=10 then dc cannot =6.
The area of a triangle is given by the formula (base)(height)/2.
If the hypotenuse is taken as the base, and its altitude is taken as the height, then the area of the triangle would be (10)(6)/2 = 30. But this is not the correct answer!
The correct answer is there is no right triangle with the given dimensions. A right triangle with a hypotenuse of 10 can have an altitude on its hypotenuse of at most 5, so its maximal area would be 25.
https://mindyourdecisions.com/blog/2016/02/28/evil-geometry-problem-sunday-puzzle/#:~:text=If%20the%20hypotenuse%20is%20taken,)(6)%2F2%20%3D%2030.
Bogsnorkler said:
buffy said:
Bogsnorkler said:
“h” is the altitude.
Well, if you will draw your triangle standing on its head. Mine are much more well behaved than that and sit nicely horizontal and vertical.
the altitude would remain the same.
If you’d said ‘height’ instead of ‘altitude’ it would have bumped some remedial geometry in my brane.
SCIENCE said:
Bogsnorkler said:
SCIENCE said:uh are you https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Altitude.html sure about that
yes.
What does you being a Wicca have to do with anything?
Witty Rejoinder said:
Bogsnorkler said:
buffy said:Well, if you will draw your triangle standing on its head. Mine are much more well behaved than that and sit nicely horizontal and vertical.
the altitude would remain the same.
If you’d said ‘height’ instead of ‘altitude’ it would have bumped some remedial geometry in my brane.
I just wrote what the problem writer wrote.
Witty Rejoinder said:
Bogsnorkler said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Hopefully this isn’t behind a paywall. 7 min video:https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/06/17/best-health-care-systems-world/?
it is.
Sucks to be you innit.
If only Witty Rejoinder could help us with some of h’ boundless economic resources and invest in transcription processes that we may reap the returns.
Bogsnorkler said:
SCIENCE said:
Bogsnorkler said:using the above triangle.
ab=10
dc=6
area=?
ok we mean you seem to suggest this is going to be trivial too
OK. If AB=10 then dc cannot =6.
The area of a triangle is given by the formula (base)(height)/2.
If the hypotenuse is taken as the base, and its altitude is taken as the height, then the area of the triangle would be (10)(6)/2 = 30. But this is not the correct answer!
The correct answer is there is no right triangle with the given dimensions. A right triangle with a hypotenuse of 10 can have an altitude on its hypotenuse of at most 5, so its maximal area would be 25.
https://mindyourdecisions.com/blog/2016/02/28/evil-geometry-problem-sunday-puzzle/#:~:text=If%20the%20hypotenuse%20is%20taken,)(6)%2F2%20%3D%2030.
I actually just worked that out through the law of sines.
I went, OK, as (sin a)/a = 6 then this side must be 6 and worked from there, but then realised that (sin b)/b = 6. Both cannot be true therefore it’s false.
sibeen said:
Bogsnorkler said:
SCIENCE said:ok we mean you seem to suggest this is going to be trivial too
OK. If AB=10 then dc cannot =6.
The area of a triangle is given by the formula (base)(height)/2.
If the hypotenuse is taken as the base, and its altitude is taken as the height, then the area of the triangle would be (10)(6)/2 = 30. But this is not the correct answer!
The correct answer is there is no right triangle with the given dimensions. A right triangle with a hypotenuse of 10 can have an altitude on its hypotenuse of at most 5, so its maximal area would be 25.
https://mindyourdecisions.com/blog/2016/02/28/evil-geometry-problem-sunday-puzzle/#:~:text=If%20the%20hypotenuse%20is%20taken,)(6)%2F2%20%3D%2030.
I actually just worked that out through the law of sines.
I went, OK, as (sin a)/a = 6 then this side must be 6 and worked from there, but then realised that (sin b)/b = 6. Both cannot be true therefore it’s false.
thank you for actually having a go at solving it, and getting it right, instead of moaning about the wording.
Bogsnorkler said:
sibeen said:
Bogsnorkler said:OK. If AB=10 then dc cannot =6.
The area of a triangle is given by the formula (base)(height)/2.
If the hypotenuse is taken as the base, and its altitude is taken as the height, then the area of the triangle would be (10)(6)/2 = 30. But this is not the correct answer!
The correct answer is there is no right triangle with the given dimensions. A right triangle with a hypotenuse of 10 can have an altitude on its hypotenuse of at most 5, so its maximal area would be 25.
https://mindyourdecisions.com/blog/2016/02/28/evil-geometry-problem-sunday-puzzle/#:~:text=If%20the%20hypotenuse%20is%20taken,)(6)%2F2%20%3D%2030.
I actually just worked that out through the law of sines.
I went, OK, as (sin a)/a = 6 then this side must be 6 and worked from there, but then realised that (sin b)/b = 6. Both cannot be true therefore it’s false.
thank you for actually having a go at solving it, and getting it right, instead of moaning about the wording.
THE WORDING WAS STILL SHIT!!!!
Bogsnorkler said:
sibeen said:
Bogsnorkler said:OK. If AB=10 then dc cannot =6.
The area of a triangle is given by the formula (base)(height)/2.
If the hypotenuse is taken as the base, and its altitude is taken as the height, then the area of the triangle would be (10)(6)/2 = 30. But this is not the correct answer!
The correct answer is there is no right triangle with the given dimensions. A right triangle with a hypotenuse of 10 can have an altitude on its hypotenuse of at most 5, so its maximal area would be 25.
https://mindyourdecisions.com/blog/2016/02/28/evil-geometry-problem-sunday-puzzle/#:~:text=If%20the%20hypotenuse%20is%20taken,)(6)%2F2%20%3D%2030.
I actually just worked that out through the law of sines.
I went, OK, as (sin a)/a = 6 then this side must be 6 and worked from there, but then realised that (sin b)/b = 6. Both cannot be true therefore it’s false.
thank you for actually having a go at solving it, and getting it right, instead of moaning about the wording.
It was more a whine.
sibeen said:
Bogsnorkler said:
sibeen said:I actually just worked that out through the law of sines.
I went, OK, as (sin a)/a = 6 then this side must be 6 and worked from there, but then realised that (sin b)/b = 6. Both cannot be true therefore it’s false.
thank you for actually having a go at solving it, and getting it right, instead of moaning about the wording.
THE WORDING WAS STILL SHIT!!!!
oh no it wasn’t!!!!!
Bogsnorkler said:
SCIENCE said:
Bogsnorkler said:using the above triangle.
ab=10
dc=6
area=?
ok we mean you seem to suggest this is going to be trivial too
OK. If AB=10 then dc cannot =6.
The area of a triangle is given by the formula (base)(height)/2.
If the hypotenuse is taken as the base, and its altitude is taken as the height, then the area of the triangle would be (10)(6)/2 = 30. But this is not the correct answer!
The correct answer is there is no right triangle with the given dimensions. A right triangle with a hypotenuse of 10 can have an altitude on its hypotenuse of at most 5, so its maximal area would be 25.
https://mindyourdecisions.com/blog/2016/02/28/evil-geometry-problem-sunday-puzzle/#:~:text=If%20the%20hypotenuse%20is%20taken,)(6)%2F2%20%3D%2030.
Thanks, so a bit like that area of a sheet of paper video from one of the mathematics groups a few years back ¿
Or like asking what colour some fictitious creature is ¿
Surely this is getting close to the “Words that End in GRY” thing…
Bogsnorkler said:
sibeen said:
Bogsnorkler said:thank you for actually having a go at solving it, and getting it right, instead of moaning about the wording.
THE WORDING WAS STILL SHIT!!!!
oh no it wasn’t!!!!!
honestly we were going to throw in 24 but hey
SCIENCE said:
Bogsnorkler said:
SCIENCE said:ok we mean you seem to suggest this is going to be trivial too
OK. If AB=10 then dc cannot =6.
The area of a triangle is given by the formula (base)(height)/2.
If the hypotenuse is taken as the base, and its altitude is taken as the height, then the area of the triangle would be (10)(6)/2 = 30. But this is not the correct answer!
The correct answer is there is no right triangle with the given dimensions. A right triangle with a hypotenuse of 10 can have an altitude on its hypotenuse of at most 5, so its maximal area would be 25.
https://mindyourdecisions.com/blog/2016/02/28/evil-geometry-problem-sunday-puzzle/#:~:text=If%20the%20hypotenuse%20is%20taken,)(6)%2F2%20%3D%2030.
Thanks, so a bit like that area of a sheet of paper video from one of the mathematics groups a few years back ¿
Or like asking what colour some fictitious creature is ¿
Surely this is getting close to the “Words that End in GRY” thing…
should of been easy to give the straightforward answer of “it’s false” then.
:-P
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-18/botswana-diamond-third-largest/100226840
sarahs mum said:
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-18/botswana-diamond-third-largest/100226840
They look like two different hands even allowing for the nails.
Peak Warming Man said:
sarahs mum said:
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-18/botswana-diamond-third-largest/100226840
They look like two different hands even allowing for the nails.
It is two different hands.
sarahs mum said:
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-18/botswana-diamond-third-largest/100226840
I was looking at a large diamond wit h a friend at an exhibition in Sydney back in the late 80s. There was some enormous dollar figure attached to it.
‘To me’, said my friend, ‘it’s worthless.’
‘Why’s that?’, i asked.
‘Well,’ he said, ‘ I don’t own it. I can’t afford to buy it. I don’t know how i could steal it. Even if i could steal it, i doubt that i could unload it without being detected, caught, and imprisoned. There’s no way i can ever have possession of it, or turn it into any sort of profit. It might as well be lying on the surface of Pluto for all that it means to me. It has no value to me.’
Bogsnorkler said:
SCIENCE said:
Bogsnorkler said:OK. If AB=10 then dc cannot =6.
The area of a triangle is given by the formula (base)(height)/2.
If the hypotenuse is taken as the base, and its altitude is taken as the height, then the area of the triangle would be (10)(6)/2 = 30. But this is not the correct answer!
The correct answer is there is no right triangle with the given dimensions. A right triangle with a hypotenuse of 10 can have an altitude on its hypotenuse of at most 5, so its maximal area would be 25.
https://mindyourdecisions.com/blog/2016/02/28/evil-geometry-problem-sunday-puzzle/#:~:text=If%20the%20hypotenuse%20is%20taken,)(6)%2F2%20%3D%2030.
Thanks, so a bit like that area of a sheet of paper video from one of the mathematics groups a few years back ¿
Or like asking what colour some fictitious creature is ¿
Surely this is getting close to the “Words that End in GRY” thing…
should of been easy to give the straightforward answer of “it’s false” then.
:-P
Not necessarily, we operate efficiently in a world where assumptions, and stereotypes (see also: The Rev Dodgson), and so forth, are part of our sets of heuristics that enable such efficient operation. Things like trusting others and taking abridged information. Apparently it fails in this instance. And yet it doesn’t, because it’s obvious that the triangle has side lengths of 10, 50+10j and 50-10j, which doesn’t count as “false” in our book.
captain_spalding said:
sarahs mum said:
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-18/botswana-diamond-third-largest/100226840
I was looking at a large diamond wit h a friend at an exhibition in Sydney back in the late 80s. There was some enormous dollar figure attached to it.
‘To me’, said my friend, ‘it’s worthless.’
‘Why’s that?’, i asked.
‘Well,’ he said, ‘ I don’t own it. I can’t afford to buy it. I don’t know how i could steal it. Even if i could steal it, i doubt that i could unload it without being detected, caught, and imprisoned. There’s no way i can ever have possession of it, or turn it into any sort of profit. It might as well be lying on the surface of Pluto for all that it means to me. It has no value to me.’
did you agree
SCIENCE said:
Apparently it fails in this instance.
It did. I hope it was a learning experience for you not to be so trusting. it’s a cruel world.
;-)
SCIENCE said:
Bogsnorkler said:
SCIENCE said:Thanks, so a bit like that area of a sheet of paper video from one of the mathematics groups a few years back ¿
Or like asking what colour some fictitious creature is ¿
Surely this is getting close to the “Words that End in GRY” thing…
should of been easy to give the straightforward answer of “it’s false” then.
:-P
Not necessarily, we operate efficiently in a world where assumptions, and stereotypes (see also: The Rev Dodgson), and so forth, are part of our sets of heuristics that enable such efficient operation. Things like trusting others and taking abridged information. Apparently it fails in this instance. And yet it doesn’t, because it’s obvious that the triangle has side lengths of 10, 50+10j and 50-10j, which doesn’t count as “false” in our book.
Sorry forgot to complete the Math.sqrt()s, we mean
Bogsnorkler said:
SCIENCE said:Apparently it fails in this instance.
It did. I hope it was a learning experience for you not to be so trusting. it’s a cruel world.
;-)
So you didn’t check our justification for the correct answer which was to be correctly posted in the future ¿
SCIENCE said:
captain_spalding said:
sarahs mum said:
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-18/botswana-diamond-third-largest/100226840
I was looking at a large diamond wit h a friend at an exhibition in Sydney back in the late 80s. There was some enormous dollar figure attached to it.
‘To me’, said my friend, ‘it’s worthless.’
‘Why’s that?’, i asked.
‘Well,’ he said, ‘ I don’t own it. I can’t afford to buy it. I don’t know how i could steal it. Even if i could steal it, i doubt that i could unload it without being detected, caught, and imprisoned. There’s no way i can ever have possession of it, or turn it into any sort of profit. It might as well be lying on the surface of Pluto for all that it means to me. It has no value to me.’
did you agree
On reflection, i did.
SCIENCE said:
Bogsnorkler said:
SCIENCE said:Apparently it fails in this instance.
It did. I hope it was a learning experience for you not to be so trusting. it’s a cruel world.
;-)
So you didn’t check our justification for the correct answer which was to be correctly posted in the future ¿
I trust you to give a correct answer plus I am a numpty at maths so that is all I can do.
:-)
captain_spalding said:
SCIENCE said:
captain_spalding said:I was looking at a large diamond wit h a friend at an exhibition in Sydney back in the late 80s. There was some enormous dollar figure attached to it.
‘To me’, said my friend, ‘it’s worthless.’
‘Why’s that?’, i asked.
‘Well,’ he said, ‘ I don’t own it. I can’t afford to buy it. I don’t know how i could steal it. Even if i could steal it, i doubt that i could unload it without being detected, caught, and imprisoned. There’s no way i can ever have possession of it, or turn it into any sort of profit. It might as well be lying on the surface of Pluto for all that it means to me. It has no value to me.’
did you agree
On reflection, i did.
It is a rock. And it isnt that far away from a lump of seaglass or exposed quartz crustal in it’s present state as far as looks go. It’s a tad big for jewellery and it isn’t likey they will cut it. But if they did it is a crown or coronet sort of rock. It’s a tad big for most occasions.
Witty Rejoinder said:
SCIENCE said:Bogsnorkler said:yes.
What does you being a Wicca have to do with anything?
Bogsnorkler said:
SCIENCE said:Bogsnorkler said:It did. I hope it was a learning experience for you not to be so trusting. it’s a cruel world.
;-)
So you didn’t check our justification for the correct answer which was to be correctly posted in the future ¿
I trust you to give a correct answer plus I am a numpty at maths so that is all I can do.
:-)
You’re lucky dv isn’t in or ‘e’d call your and raise a
’s Law.
SCIENCE said:
Bogsnorkler said:
SCIENCE said:ok we mean you seem to suggest this is going to be trivial too
OK. If AB=10 then dc cannot =6.
The area of a triangle is given by the formula (base)(height)/2.
If the hypotenuse is taken as the base, and its altitude is taken as the height, then the area of the triangle would be (10)(6)/2 = 30. But this is not the correct answer!
The correct answer is there is no right triangle with the given dimensions. A right triangle with a hypotenuse of 10 can have an altitude on its hypotenuse of at most 5, so its maximal area would be 25.
https://mindyourdecisions.com/blog/2016/02/28/evil-geometry-problem-sunday-puzzle/#:~:text=If%20the%20hypotenuse%20is%20taken,)(6)%2F2%20%3D%2030.
Thanks, so a bit like that area of a sheet of paper video from one of the mathematics groups a few years back ¿
Or like asking what colour some fictitious creature is ¿
Surely this is getting close to the “Words that End in GRY” thing…
www.fun-with-words.com/word_gry_angry_hungry.html
The Rev Dodgson said:
SCIENCE said:Bogsnorkler said:OK. If AB=10 then dc cannot =6.
The area of a triangle is given by the formula (base)(height)/2.
If the hypotenuse is taken as the base, and its altitude is taken as the height, then the area of the triangle would be (10)(6)/2 = 30. But this is not the correct answer!
The correct answer is there is no right triangle with the given dimensions. A right triangle with a hypotenuse of 10 can have an altitude on its hypotenuse of at most 5, so its maximal area would be 25.
https://mindyourdecisions.com/blog/2016/02/28/evil-geometry-problem-sunday-puzzle/#:~:text=If%20the%20hypotenuse%20is%20taken,)(6)%2F2%20%3D%2030.
Thanks, so a bit like that area of a sheet of paper video from one of the mathematics groups a few years back ¿
Or like asking what colour some fictitious creature is ¿
Surely this is getting close to the “Words that End in GRY” thing…
www.fun-with-words.com/word_gry_angry_hungry.html
The fifth panel also applies to postmodernists.
but yes we’ve also entertained ourselves finding better ways to pose such “problems” to be semantically valid
Before we go, found it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yUZTTLpDtk
captain_spalding said:
sarahs mum said:
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-18/botswana-diamond-third-largest/100226840
I was looking at a large diamond wit h a friend at an exhibition in Sydney back in the late 80s. There was some enormous dollar figure attached to it.
‘To me’, said my friend, ‘it’s worthless.’
‘Why’s that?’, i asked.
‘Well,’ he said, ‘ I don’t own it. I can’t afford to buy it. I don’t know how i could steal it. Even if i could steal it, i doubt that i could unload it without being detected, caught, and imprisoned. There’s no way i can ever have possession of it, or turn it into any sort of profit. It might as well be lying on the surface of Pluto for all that it means to me. It has no value to me.’
You could always imagine a bigger diamond, with a higher value and be happy with that.
SCIENCE said:
Before we go, found it.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yUZTTLpDtk
Ten years ago
I taught some eighth graders science.
The principal said “Oh Cliff, you can teach exactly as you wish.” So my idea in teaching is,
every day have the kids go home and do an experiment. And, first thing I did was say, okay,
hey peoples,
here’s a homework assignment.
Measure the area of this sheet of paper. Use metric units and show your work. And, by the way, here’s a ruler for you.
So, I don’t know, what’s the area of this sheet of paper?
Just go do it. Bring it in tomorrow. So the obvious thing to do is you take your ruler, you measure across here, 20 centimeters
this way.
You go across this way, you measure up and down, 26 centimeters this way. 20 centimeters times 26 centimeters should be around
520 square centimeters. Okay, that much you would do, I’d do. What my students didn’t realize is, of course,
this reflects the type of
science problem, or math problem,
that has lots of wrinkles and difficulties. For example,
oh, what do you mean by the area of this sheet of paper?
The front side, or the front plus the back? Or maybe just the back side?
Oh! Did you include
the circles that have been knocked out? Do they count as part of the area? Worse than that.
When you measured this,
did you realize that its height over here
is different from its height
over here? Let’s put this piece of paper onto a square sheet of paper.
Oh, this isn’t a rectangular piece of paper. In other words,
multiplying height times width doesn’t work. You’re gonna have to do
at least some kind of outer product or an integral perhaps. The rulers that I gave to my students
9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 17 18 19 centimeters.
Uh, there’s something wrong with Theophilus Measure Company.
It’s an Imperfecto. In other words, this is a comment about doing science
Always examine the assumptions that you’re making whenever you make a measurement.
Whenever you write something.
Hey! Look for the places where you have ambiguous statements. What’s the area of this sheet of paper?
Should I count the edges?
Don’t trust your measurement tools.
Good science does not mean getting the perfect answer.
Good science means figuring out what could go wrong.
BRADY: “How did your students do? How many of these
embedded tricks did your students pick up on?”
Oh, so, I had two classes, fifteen sixteen people in each class.
This is 10, 12 years ago
One kid right away picked up. Hey, there’s these holes in it.
I’ll have to subtract the holes, if, you know, pi r squared, he figured,
and he subtracted from it. Another kid said, wait a second,
I don’t know what you mean by area. In fact, two or three kids said,
oh, there’s a front side, or front plus back, or was just the back side?
Nobody picked up on
The Imperfecto ruler.
Brady: “And the shape?”
And the shape? Nobody really saw that. Nobody saw this coming,
and no one recognized that,
oh, they’d been handed a bill of goods.
Brady, people write to me and say I’m thinking of going to college. How do I write an essay?
People write to me and say I’m trying to get into grad school, what should I say on my application?
My idea is,
what I want to see is somebody
who’s got to figure things out, who says “I don’t know now, but I got to know!”
and somebody,
somebody who’s got enthusiasm. Not somebody who’s boring or puts me to sleep.
Brady: “Cliff, is that natural? Do you learn that or does it come naturally?”
Does it come naturally? Who knows? I mean,
to me,
to me,
I can’t stand … not …
I want to know things. I gotta know things.
What’s the what’s the -
Wait wait wait wait wait wait what’s the mathematician, the German mathematician?
“We must know, we will know”, What’s his epitaph? What was his name? Uh hell, come on. You must know. Oh.
Hold on. We must know we must know. I’m gonna look him up real fast. I’ll take a second.
Well, he’s curious. He’s gone off to find out who the mathematician is.
Brady: “Is that an iPhone?”
Yeah.
Brady: “I didn’t think you’d be an iPhone guy.”
Hilbert! It was David Hilbert! On his grave it says,
“We must know, we will know.”
I like that feeling.
…1894 1895 in Switzerland, came up with an absolutely wonderful device.
A calculator called the millionaire.
This device – check this out – this will not only … hey! Go over here, over here…
the sides have an area too!!!
She makes the sign of a teaspoon, he makes the sign of a wave.
So now I’ve finished watching Dr Who and Nero Wolfe, I can come back here and say I’ve never heard of the geometric mean theorem until I just looked up that triangle thing. How did that happen?
buffy said:
So now I’ve finished watching Dr Who and Nero Wolfe, I can come back here and say I’ve never heard of the geometric mean theorem until I just looked up that triangle thing. How did that happen?
Good fortune I’d say.
buffy said:
So now I’ve finished watching Dr Who and Nero Wolfe, I can come back here and say I’ve never heard of the geometric mean theorem until I just looked up that triangle thing. How did that happen?
I hadn’t heard of it either.
Not that I recall anyway.
HTH :)
Coffee with a spoon of brown sugar in it to brighten up my evening.
Feeling a bit sad tonight, it’s just a chemical imbalance.
I wonder if these work.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-18/significant-collection-of-australian-photographs-for-sale/100223270
The Rev Dodgson said:
buffy said:
So now I’ve finished watching Dr Who and Nero Wolfe, I can come back here and say I’ve never heard of the geometric mean theorem until I just looked up that triangle thing. How did that happen?I hadn’t heard of it either.
Not that I recall anyway.
HTH :)
+1
Bubblecar said:
Coffee with a spoon of brown sugar in it to brighten up my evening.Feeling a bit sad tonight, it’s just a chemical imbalance.
I wonder if these work.
At their best happy pills will make you not as sad.
sarahs mum said:
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-18/significant-collection-of-australian-photographs-for-sale/100223270
Interesting. I’m surprised the Queen baby photo is considered rare though. I would have thought she’s been snapped 50 billion times, from babyhood onwards.
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
Coffee with a spoon of brown sugar in it to brighten up my evening.Feeling a bit sad tonight, it’s just a chemical imbalance.
I wonder if these work.
At their best happy pills will make you not as sad.
A good night’s sleep will see me right.
hello you lot.
so…i was looking on the net a little bit earlier and saw something that suggested if you beauty on the beast on vhs , it could be worth 45 K … to which I sang out to one of my daughters…oi … do we have that one on vhs? For the reason, I still have a collection of vhs films.
apparently no but we do have grease on vhs. i wonder if that’s worth something?
monkey skipper said:
hello you lot.
Have a couple of parp hankies.
Bubblecar said:
monkey skipper said:
hello you lot.
Have a couple of parp hankies.
why thank you … kind sir.
monkey skipper said:
so…i was looking on the net a little bit earlier and saw something that suggested if you beauty on the beast on vhs , it could be worth 45 K … to which I sang out to one of my daughters…oi … do we have that one on vhs? For the reason, I still have a collection of vhs films.apparently no but we do have grease on vhs. i wonder if that’s worth something?
I still have a few titles but I suspect they’re worth sod all.
Is your sister a lot better now bubblecar or are you still waiting for the return of your visiting sisters to fill you in on how she is going?
monkey skipper said:
so…i was looking on the net a little bit earlier and saw something that suggested if you beauty on the beast on vhs , it could be worth 45 K … to which I sang out to one of my daughters…oi … do we have that one on vhs? For the reason, I still have a collection of vhs films.apparently no but we do have grease on vhs. i wonder if that’s worth something?
Beauty on the beast, are you certain this isn’t some vintage porn?
monkey skipper said:
Is your sister a lot better now bubblecar or are you still waiting for the return of your visiting sisters to fill you in on how she is going?
She does seem much better, but we’ll get a more detailed picture when the visiting sisters return tomorrow.
Mr Beeny Boy,
Broke the drought. :)
Wunfa in me footy tip. :)
Only just. After the siren, hey what but. 😁
sibeen said:
monkey skipper said:
so…i was looking on the net a little bit earlier and saw something that suggested if you beauty on the beast on vhs , it could be worth 45 K … to which I sang out to one of my daughters…oi … do we have that one on vhs? For the reason, I still have a collection of vhs films.apparently no but we do have grease on vhs. i wonder if that’s worth something?
Beauty on the beast, are you certain this isn’t some vintage porn?
well he was not in human form when they first met …so maybe….:D
Hehehe, five minutes ago I thought to myself, “I wonder if woodie picked the doggies?”
:)
sibeen said:
monkey skipper said:
so…i was looking on the net a little bit earlier and saw something that suggested if you beauty on the beast on vhs , it could be worth 45 K … to which I sang out to one of my daughters…oi … do we have that one on vhs? For the reason, I still have a collection of vhs films.apparently no but we do have grease on vhs. i wonder if that’s worth something?
Beauty on the beast, are you certain this isn’t some vintage porn?
Do people still have VHS players that work?
sarahs mum said:
captain_spalding said:
SCIENCE said:did you agree
On reflection, i did.
It is a rock. And it isnt that far away from a lump of seaglass or exposed quartz crustal in it’s present state as far as looks go. It’s a tad big for jewellery and it isn’t likey they will cut it. But if they did it is a crown or coronet sort of rock. It’s a tad big for most occasions.
Oh they’ll cut it. Even the Cullinian was cut into a number of stones.
Cutting them makes them diamonds. Otherwise as been said, they are just rocks.
Aquarium Jellyfish Turns Out to Be Undescribed Species
The newly characterized “elegant jellyfish,” roughly the size of a human hand, had been on display in two aquariums in Japan for more than a decade.
The world now has one more species of named jellyfish and it’s been hiding right under scientists’ noses for more than a decade. Tima nigroannulata, the species formally described in a June 8 paper in Zoological Science, was mistaken for a closely related cousin until genetic analyses revealed otherwise.
When the animals, nicknamed elegant jellyfish, were initially collected off the coast of Japan, they were assumed to be T. formosa, a species that lives in northern Atlantic waters. Researchers had even kept the animals alive and reproducing for more than 15 years at two public aquariums in Japan with the label T. formosa. Their uniqueness was only revealed when DNA sequencing of the animals’ tissues, completed at Hawai‘i Pacific University, did not match any known species.
A fully grown adult is about the size of a human palm, with an umbrella (also called a bell) that is between 23 and 46 millimeters in diameter and 12 to 38 mm tall. The bases of T. nigroannulata’s 53 tentacles fluoresce under a blacklight, but it is not yet known if it has the same bioluminescent capabilities as some others in the genus. So far, they’ve only been found in temperate waters (roughly 20 °C).
Each elegant jellyfish has granules of pigment around the base of its umbrella, creating a black ring of spots, and in some cases, those freckles extend to the top of its tentacles. In fact, the species name nigroannulata is derived from the Latin words for black and ring: niger and annulus, respectively.
https://youtu.be/XLV0-4kubYI
Aquarium Jellyfish Turns Out to Be Undescribed Species
https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/aquarium-jellyfish-turns-out-to-be-undescribed-species-68907
Good morning Holidayers. Presently 7 degrees and still dark.
There is wood to be cut and stacked this morning. But not until it gets light, and after 9.00am. Can’t start the chainsaw before 9.00am on a Saturday.
roughbarked said:
sibeen said:
monkey skipper said:
so…i was looking on the net a little bit earlier and saw something that suggested if you beauty on the beast on vhs , it could be worth 45 K … to which I sang out to one of my daughters…oi … do we have that one on vhs? For the reason, I still have a collection of vhs films.apparently no but we do have grease on vhs. i wonder if that’s worth something?
Beauty on the beast, are you certain this isn’t some vintage porn?
Do people still have VHS players that work?
I’ve got one. I haven’t used it for a while. But I’ve still got a collection of videos.
Morning punters and correctors, it’s cold but fine in the Pearl of the South Specific.
Peak Warming Man said:
Morning punters and correctors, it’s cold but fine in the Pearl of the South Specific.
I’m in shorts and have opened the doors and windows to cool the place down. I even turned the aircon on about 4am.
buffy said:
roughbarked said:
sibeen said:Beauty on the beast, are you certain this isn’t some vintage porn?
Do people still have VHS players that work?
I’ve got one. I haven’t used it for a while. But I’ve still got a collection of videos.
I’ve got a shed full. Well at least a dozen of them that people gave to me and said if you can make it work, keep it.
Also, I’ve found that leave an item aush as this or tape deck CD player where it can get dust in it and in Australiia that’s just about everywhere. The first time you say oh haven’t used this fr a while and try turning it on, It will lokely not work properly. Dust is the enemy.
Almost 5 in the Styx, clear sunny and damp after 2 days of rain.
Peak Warming Man said:
Morning punters and correctors, it’s cold but fine in the Pearl of the South Specific.
Morning PWM et al.
9° -> 23, 2/8 cloud, zero wind
roughbarked said:
Also, I’ve found that leave an item such as this or tape deck CD player where it can get dust in it and in Australiia that’s just about everywhere. The first time you say oh haven’t used this fr a while and try turning it on, It will likely not work properly. Dust is the enemy.
As it is with anything with moving parts. Dust collects and sticks together, gumming up the works.
So many devices thrown on the junk heap when all they really need is a good clean
captain_spalding said:
roughbarked said:Also, I’ve found that leave an item such as this or tape deck CD player where it can get dust in it and in Australiia that’s just about everywhere. The first time you say oh haven’t used this fr a while and try turning it on, It will likely not work properly. Dust is the enemy.
As it is with anything with moving parts. Dust collects and sticks together, gumming up the works.
So many devices thrown on the junk heap when all they really need is a good clean
The numbers of people with the skills and knowledge to clean them and bring them back to function though, are few on the ground.
The cutting up of the branch that came down a couple of days ago is postponed. It might be only a mm or so of rain each day, but it’s decidedly damp out there. So dangerous. So inside jobs today. It’s also currently very lightly drizzling.
Meet the Kowari.
roughbarked said:
Meet the Kowari.
That record number was 14 from a survey of almost 100 kilometres of tracks.
“That was quite good news, given the background of declines across the country.”
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-19/rare-footage-of-endangered-marsupial-kowari/100225508
roughbarked said:
Meet the Kowari.
Tamb said:
roughbarked said:
Meet the Kowari.
Marsupial?
Yep.
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:
Meet the Kowari.
Even if a cat isn’t hungry, it could not resist that fluffy tail.
But he said the story was not all sad, with “record numbers” of kowari sighted at Astrebla Downs during this month’s monitoring trip.That record number was 14 from a survey of almost 100 kilometres of tracks.
“That was quite good news, given the background of declines across the country.”
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-19/rare-footage-of-endangered-marsupial-kowari/100225508
ABC News:
‘Revelations WA Police accessed SafeWA data as part of criminal investigations sparked concerns over privacy — but did it amount to an unacceptable breach of trust or was it in the public interest?’
If people had confidence in the police forces, then it’d be a lot easier to forgive the WA cops for this.
But, police all over the country have a history of misusing information systems for their own personal (and often nefarious) purposes, or to help their dodgy mates.
WA cops are no better than the rest, and it’s just as likely as not that the next story about SafeWA will be about coppers passing information from it to e.g. a mate about the mate’s ex-partner’s doings.
Or similar in another State.
captain_spalding said:
ABC News:‘Revelations WA Police accessed SafeWA data as part of criminal investigations sparked concerns over privacy — but did it amount to an unacceptable breach of trust or was it in the public interest?’
If people had confidence in the police forces, then it’d be a lot easier to forgive the WA cops for this.
But, police all over the country have a history of misusing information systems for their own personal (and often nefarious) purposes, or to help their dodgy mates.
WA cops are no better than the rest, and it’s just as likely as not that the next story about SafeWA will be about coppers passing information from it to e.g. a mate about the mate’s ex-partner’s doings.
Or similar in another State.
Hear hear.
Sunny here and the temp is 8.6 headiing for 16 degrees. Might get out and start cleaning up again.
Good morning everybody.
Saturday check-in.
Cool, clear and a bit breezy at time. Maybe too breezy to put an extension ladder into the weeping fig, to do more lopping and test this dodgy ankle out. We’ll see after breakfast, which will be last night’s spicy gravy, reheated with cubes of corned beef with some unfrozen peas, carrot and corn mix. A simple, tasty and filling breakfast.
Yesterday, it was wet and dreary by human standards but the birds were having a ball.
Where I’ve planted trees the birds come. There was an uncountable number of white winged choughs somewhere above twenty and maybe below thirty. Then there were the full compliment of apostle birds and amongst them were butcherbirds mudlarks magpies. Mallee ringnecks and red rumps frolicked and variegated wrens flitted between bushes.
roughbarked said:
Yesterday, it was wet and dreary by human standards but the birds were having a ball.
Where I’ve planted trees the birds come. There was an uncountable number of white winged choughs somewhere above twenty and maybe below thirty. Then there were the full compliment of apostle birds and amongst them were butcherbirds mudlarks magpies. Mallee ringnecks and red rumps frolicked and variegated wrens flitted between bushes.
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What bird is that? Very pretty plumage.
Witty Rejoinder said:
roughbarked said:
Yesterday, it was wet and dreary by human standards but the birds were having a ball.
Where I’ve planted trees the birds come. There was an uncountable number of white winged choughs somewhere above twenty and maybe below thirty. Then there were the full compliment of apostle birds and amongst them were butcherbirds mudlarks magpies. Mallee ringnecks and red rumps frolicked and variegated wrens flitted between bushes.
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What bird is that? Very pretty plumage.
I think those are Mallee Ringnecked Parrots.
Michael V said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
roughbarked said:
Yesterday, it was wet and dreary by human standards but the birds were having a ball.
Where I’ve planted trees the birds come. There was an uncountable number of white winged choughs somewhere above twenty and maybe below thirty. Then there were the full compliment of apostle birds and amongst them were butcherbirds mudlarks magpies. Mallee ringnecks and red rumps frolicked and variegated wrens flitted between bushes.
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What bird is that? Very pretty plumage.
I think those are Mallee Ringnecked Parrots.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_ringneck
Michael V said:
Michael V said:
Witty Rejoinder said:What bird is that? Very pretty plumage.
I think those are Mallee Ringnecked Parrots.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_ringneck
Thanks MV.
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/church-of-the-flying-spaghetti-monster-loses-bid-for-legal-recognition-as-incorporated-entity/ar-AALcfqN?ocid=msedgntp
this made me think of Bill.
Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster loses bid for legal recognition as incorporated entity
The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster will remain in the realms of satire, after an attempt to have its Australian wing formally recognised was rejected by a South Australian legal authority on the grounds that the purported religion is nothing more than a “hoax”.
Adelaide woman Tanya Watkins, a self-described “captain” of the church and adherent of its creed of “Pastafarianism”, has made repeated attempts to secure the offbeat movement official status as an incorporated association.
After the latest attempt was knocked back by the Corporate Affairs Commission, Ms Watkins sought a review of that decision, and the matter was subsequently referred to the South Australian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (SACAT).
The tribunal heard evidence from the commission and from Ms Watkins, who contended that the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster was formed for a “religious, educational, charitable or benevolent purpose”, thereby meeting the criteria of South Australia’s Associations Incorporation Act.
Ms Watkins told the tribunal the church placed emphasis on helping others, and had engaged in acts of charity such as an event at Flinders University to “feed the hungry”.
In a ruling handed down earlier this year, and recently published online, SACAT Senior Member Kathleen McEvoy rejected the arguments for incorporation.
“Ms Watkins explained to the tribunal that she was seeking incorporation for the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster Australia in order that the association would be recognised as a not for profit organisation under the Act, and be a legal entity in its own right,” Ms McEvoy stated.
In the ruling, Ms McEvoy noted that while various “Pastafarian texts” are set out in traditional religious forms, they “contain some surprising articulations”, such as references to the books of the Bible as the “Old Testicle” and “New Testicle”.
“In particular there are numerous expressions which reference the texts of established religions, mimicking those texts in form and language, but in a clearly parodic form,” Ms McEvoy wrote.
“I do not accept the applicant’s explanation of the use of these expressions (and numerous other similar expressions, many expressed in racist and sexist terms, referencing texts or practices of other religions) as examples of humour, and for the purpose of generating curiosity.”
Ms McEvoy said she was satisfied that the “Pastafarian texts present a hoax religion”.
“It is my view that the Pastafarian texts can only be read as parody or satire, namely, an imitation of work made for comic effect. In my view, its purpose is to satirise or mock established religions, and it does so without discrimination,” she wrote.
Ms McEvoy upheld the Corporate Affairs Commission’s decision that there was no evidence the church engaged in “systematic teaching and learning processes, nor of any structured, consistent, and broad-based charitable activities”.
“I am satisfied that the proposed incorporated association merely presents as having a religious purpose, but is a sham religion or a parody of religion,” she wrote.
“It was not formed for a religious purpose. On this basis, to conclude it is eligible for incorporation as a body with a religious purpose could clearly not be a preferable decision.”
Ms Watkins told the ABC she found SACAT’s decision “quite disappointing”, and said incorporation would have brought considerable benefits.
“If you’ve got an association, then you should get it incorporated because then you’ve got government oversight, you can run a bank account and all those sorts of things so we could be transparent and above board,” she said.
Ms Watkins rejected claims that the church was a “sham” and a “hoax”, which she said came “from a misunderstanding”.
She said the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster would continue to operate as an unincorporated body.
“You’ll find that there is a core group of people who really believe in Pastafarianism and that it can change people’s lives for the better,” she said.
“Satire does have a serious purpose, because satire makes people think.”
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/church-of-the-flying-spaghetti-monster-loses-bid-for-legal-recognition-as-incorporated-entity/ar-AALcfqN?ocid=msedgntp
this made me think of Bill.
Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster loses bid for legal recognition as incorporated entity
The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster will remain in the realms of satire, after an attempt to have its Australian wing formally recognised was rejected by a South Australian legal authority on the grounds that the purported religion is nothing more than a “hoax”.
Adelaide woman Tanya Watkins, a self-described “captain” of the church and adherent of its creed of “Pastafarianism”, has made repeated attempts to secure the offbeat movement official status as an incorporated association.
After the latest attempt was knocked back by the Corporate Affairs Commission, Ms Watkins sought a review of that decision, and the matter was subsequently referred to the South Australian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (SACAT).
The tribunal heard evidence from the commission and from Ms Watkins, who contended that the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster was formed for a “religious, educational, charitable or benevolent purpose”, thereby meeting the criteria of South Australia’s Associations Incorporation Act.
Ms Watkins told the tribunal the church placed emphasis on helping others, and had engaged in acts of charity such as an event at Flinders University to “feed the hungry”.
In a ruling handed down earlier this year, and recently published online, SACAT Senior Member Kathleen McEvoy rejected the arguments for incorporation.
“Ms Watkins explained to the tribunal that she was seeking incorporation for the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster Australia in order that the association would be recognised as a not for profit organisation under the Act, and be a legal entity in its own right,” Ms McEvoy stated.
In the ruling, Ms McEvoy noted that while various “Pastafarian texts” are set out in traditional religious forms, they “contain some surprising articulations”, such as references to the books of the Bible as the “Old Testicle” and “New Testicle”.
“In particular there are numerous expressions which reference the texts of established religions, mimicking those texts in form and language, but in a clearly parodic form,” Ms McEvoy wrote.
“I do not accept the applicant’s explanation of the use of these expressions (and numerous other similar expressions, many expressed in racist and sexist terms, referencing texts or practices of other religions) as examples of humour, and for the purpose of generating curiosity.”
Ms McEvoy said she was satisfied that the “Pastafarian texts present a hoax religion”.
“It is my view that the Pastafarian texts can only be read as parody or satire, namely, an imitation of work made for comic effect. In my view, its purpose is to satirise or mock established religions, and it does so without discrimination,” she wrote.
Ms McEvoy upheld the Corporate Affairs Commission’s decision that there was no evidence the church engaged in “systematic teaching and learning processes, nor of any structured, consistent, and broad-based charitable activities”.
“I am satisfied that the proposed incorporated association merely presents as having a religious purpose, but is a sham religion or a parody of religion,” she wrote.
“It was not formed for a religious purpose. On this basis, to conclude it is eligible for incorporation as a body with a religious purpose could clearly not be a preferable decision.”
Ms Watkins told the ABC she found SACAT’s decision “quite disappointing”, and said incorporation would have brought considerable benefits.
“If you’ve got an association, then you should get it incorporated because then you’ve got government oversight, you can run a bank account and all those sorts of things so we could be transparent and above board,” she said.
Ms Watkins rejected claims that the church was a “sham” and a “hoax”, which she said came “from a misunderstanding”.
She said the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster would continue to operate as an unincorporated body.
“You’ll find that there is a core group of people who really believe in Pastafarianism and that it can change people’s lives for the better,” she said.
“Satire does have a serious purpose, because satire makes people think.”
Witty Rejoinder said:
roughbarked said:
Yesterday, it was wet and dreary by human standards but the birds were having a ball.
Where I’ve planted trees the birds come. There was an uncountable number of white winged choughs somewhere above twenty and maybe below thirty. Then there were the full compliment of apostle birds and amongst them were butcherbirds mudlarks magpies. Mallee ringnecks and red rumps frolicked and variegated wrens flitted between bushes.
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What bird is that? Very pretty plumage.
Mallee ringneck parrot Barnardius zonarius.
roughbarked said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
roughbarked said:
Yesterday, it was wet and dreary by human standards but the birds were having a ball.
Where I’ve planted trees the birds come. There was an uncountable number of white winged choughs somewhere above twenty and maybe below thirty. Then there were the full compliment of apostle birds and amongst them were butcherbirds mudlarks magpies. Mallee ringnecks and red rumps frolicked and variegated wrens flitted between bushes.
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What bird is that? Very pretty plumage.
Mallee ringneck parrot Barnardius zonarius.
Ta.
monkey skipper said:
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/church-of-the-flying-spaghetti-monster-loses-bid-for-legal-recognition-as-incorporated-entity/ar-AALcfqN?ocid=msedgntpthis made me think of Bill.
Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster loses bid for legal recognition as incorporated entity
The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster will remain in the realms of satire, after an attempt to have its Australian wing formally recognised was rejected by a South Australian legal authority on the grounds that the purported religion is nothing more than a “hoax”.
Adelaide woman Tanya Watkins, a self-described “captain” of the church and adherent of its creed of “Pastafarianism”, has made repeated attempts to secure the offbeat movement official status as an incorporated association.
After the latest attempt was knocked back by the Corporate Affairs Commission, Ms Watkins sought a review of that decision, and the matter was subsequently referred to the South Australian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (SACAT).
The tribunal heard evidence from the commission and from Ms Watkins, who contended that the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster was formed for a “religious, educational, charitable or benevolent purpose”, thereby meeting the criteria of South Australia’s Associations Incorporation Act.
Ms Watkins told the tribunal the church placed emphasis on helping others, and had engaged in acts of charity such as an event at Flinders University to “feed the hungry”.
In a ruling handed down earlier this year, and recently published online, SACAT Senior Member Kathleen McEvoy rejected the arguments for incorporation.
“Ms Watkins explained to the tribunal that she was seeking incorporation for the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster Australia in order that the association would be recognised as a not for profit organisation under the Act, and be a legal entity in its own right,” Ms McEvoy stated.
In the ruling, Ms McEvoy noted that while various “Pastafarian texts” are set out in traditional religious forms, they “contain some surprising articulations”, such as references to the books of the Bible as the “Old Testicle” and “New Testicle”.
“In particular there are numerous expressions which reference the texts of established religions, mimicking those texts in form and language, but in a clearly parodic form,” Ms McEvoy wrote.
“I do not accept the applicant’s explanation of the use of these expressions (and numerous other similar expressions, many expressed in racist and sexist terms, referencing texts or practices of other religions) as examples of humour, and for the purpose of generating curiosity.”
Ms McEvoy said she was satisfied that the “Pastafarian texts present a hoax religion”.
“It is my view that the Pastafarian texts can only be read as parody or satire, namely, an imitation of work made for comic effect. In my view, its purpose is to satirise or mock established religions, and it does so without discrimination,” she wrote.
Ms McEvoy upheld the Corporate Affairs Commission’s decision that there was no evidence the church engaged in “systematic teaching and learning processes, nor of any structured, consistent, and broad-based charitable activities”.
“I am satisfied that the proposed incorporated association merely presents as having a religious purpose, but is a sham religion or a parody of religion,” she wrote.
“It was not formed for a religious purpose. On this basis, to conclude it is eligible for incorporation as a body with a religious purpose could clearly not be a preferable decision.”
Ms Watkins told the ABC she found SACAT’s decision “quite disappointing”, and said incorporation would have brought considerable benefits.
“If you’ve got an association, then you should get it incorporated because then you’ve got government oversight, you can run a bank account and all those sorts of things so we could be transparent and above board,” she said.
Ms Watkins rejected claims that the church was a “sham” and a “hoax”, which she said came “from a misunderstanding”.
She said the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster would continue to operate as an unincorporated body.
“You’ll find that there is a core group of people who really believe in Pastafarianism and that it can change people’s lives for the better,” she said.
“Satire does have a serious purpose, because satire makes people think.”
pity even if fun
monkey skipper said:
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/church-of-the-flying-spaghetti-monster-loses-bid-for-legal-recognition-as-incorporated-entity/ar-AALcfqN?ocid=msedgntpthis made me think of Bill.
Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster loses bid for legal recognition as incorporated entity
The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster will remain in the realms of satire, after an attempt to have its Australian wing formally recognised was rejected by a South Australian legal authority on the grounds that the purported religion is nothing more than a “hoax”.
Adelaide woman Tanya Watkins, a self-described “captain” of the church and adherent of its creed of “Pastafarianism”, has made repeated attempts to secure the offbeat movement official status as an incorporated association.
After the latest attempt was knocked back by the Corporate Affairs Commission, Ms Watkins sought a review of that decision, and the matter was subsequently referred to the South Australian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (SACAT).
The tribunal heard evidence from the commission and from Ms Watkins, who contended that the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster was formed for a “religious, educational, charitable or benevolent purpose”, thereby meeting the criteria of South Australia’s Associations Incorporation Act.
Ms Watkins told the tribunal the church placed emphasis on helping others, and had engaged in acts of charity such as an event at Flinders University to “feed the hungry”.
In a ruling handed down earlier this year, and recently published online, SACAT Senior Member Kathleen McEvoy rejected the arguments for incorporation.
“Ms Watkins explained to the tribunal that she was seeking incorporation for the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster Australia in order that the association would be recognised as a not for profit organisation under the Act, and be a legal entity in its own right,” Ms McEvoy stated.
In the ruling, Ms McEvoy noted that while various “Pastafarian texts” are set out in traditional religious forms, they “contain some surprising articulations”, such as references to the books of the Bible as the “Old Testicle” and “New Testicle”.
“In particular there are numerous expressions which reference the texts of established religions, mimicking those texts in form and language, but in a clearly parodic form,” Ms McEvoy wrote.
“I do not accept the applicant’s explanation of the use of these expressions (and numerous other similar expressions, many expressed in racist and sexist terms, referencing texts or practices of other religions) as examples of humour, and for the purpose of generating curiosity.”
Ms McEvoy said she was satisfied that the “Pastafarian texts present a hoax religion”.
“It is my view that the Pastafarian texts can only be read as parody or satire, namely, an imitation of work made for comic effect. In my view, its purpose is to satirise or mock established religions, and it does so without discrimination,” she wrote.
Ms McEvoy upheld the Corporate Affairs Commission’s decision that there was no evidence the church engaged in “systematic teaching and learning processes, nor of any structured, consistent, and broad-based charitable activities”.
“I am satisfied that the proposed incorporated association merely presents as having a religious purpose, but is a sham religion or a parody of religion,” she wrote.
“It was not formed for a religious purpose. On this basis, to conclude it is eligible for incorporation as a body with a religious purpose could clearly not be a preferable decision.”
Ms Watkins told the ABC she found SACAT’s decision “quite disappointing”, and said incorporation would have brought considerable benefits.
“If you’ve got an association, then you should get it incorporated because then you’ve got government oversight, you can run a bank account and all those sorts of things so we could be transparent and above board,” she said.
Ms Watkins rejected claims that the church was a “sham” and a “hoax”, which she said came “from a misunderstanding”.
She said the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster would continue to operate as an unincorporated body.
“You’ll find that there is a core group of people who really believe in Pastafarianism and that it can change people’s lives for the better,” she said.
“Satire does have a serious purpose, because satire makes people think.”
I am outraged by this clear government infringement of religious freedom.
The Rev Dodgson said:
monkey skipper said:
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/church-of-the-flying-spaghetti-monster-loses-bid-for-legal-recognition-as-incorporated-entity/ar-AALcfqN?ocid=msedgntpthis made me think of Bill.
Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster loses bid for legal recognition as incorporated entity
Ms Watkins told the tribunal the church placed emphasis on helping others, and had engaged in acts of charity such as an event at Flinders University to “feed the hungry”.
In the ruling, Ms McEvoy noted that while various “Pastafarian texts” are set out in traditional religious forms, they “contain some surprising articulations”, such as references to the books of the Bible as the “Old Testicle” and “New Testicle”. “In particular there are numerous expressions which reference the texts of established religions, mimicking those texts in form and language, but in a clearly parodic form,” Ms McEvoy wrote. “It is my view that the Pastafarian texts can only be read as parody or satire, namely, an imitation of work made for comic effect. In my view, its purpose is to satirise or mock established religions, and it does so without discrimination,” she wrote.
Ms McEvoy upheld the Corporate Affairs Commission’s decision that there was no evidence the church engaged in “systematic teaching and learning processes, nor of any structured, consistent, and broad-based charitable activities”.
“Satire does have a serious purpose, because satire makes people think.”
I am outraged by this clear government infringement of religious freedom.
indeed, some aspects of the judgement do seem unfair
Overslept. Dreamt I was scoffing salted caramel chocolate from Bulgaria and the taste was extremely vivid.
SCIENCE said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
monkey skipper said:
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/church-of-the-flying-spaghetti-monster-loses-bid-for-legal-recognition-as-incorporated-entity/ar-AALcfqN?ocid=msedgntpthis made me think of Bill.
Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster loses bid for legal recognition as incorporated entity
Ms Watkins told the tribunal the church placed emphasis on helping others, and had engaged in acts of charity such as an event at Flinders University to “feed the hungry”.
In the ruling, Ms McEvoy noted that while various “Pastafarian texts” are set out in traditional religious forms, they “contain some surprising articulations”, such as references to the books of the Bible as the “Old Testicle” and “New Testicle”. “In particular there are numerous expressions which reference the texts of established religions, mimicking those texts in form and language, but in a clearly parodic form,” Ms McEvoy wrote. “It is my view that the Pastafarian texts can only be read as parody or satire, namely, an imitation of work made for comic effect. In my view, its purpose is to satirise or mock established religions, and it does so without discrimination,” she wrote.
Ms McEvoy upheld the Corporate Affairs Commission’s decision that there was no evidence the church engaged in “systematic teaching and learning processes, nor of any structured, consistent, and broad-based charitable activities”.
“Satire does have a serious purpose, because satire makes people think.”
I am outraged by this clear government infringement of religious freedom.
indeed, some aspects of the judgement do seem unfair
It seems you can have bullshit legally incorporated if you literally believe in it, but if you’re not that stupid, you have fewer rights.
>Ms McEvoy said she was satisfied that the “Pastafarian texts present a hoax religion”.
It can sensibly be argued that all religions are hoaxes. But apparently if they can find enough suckers to believe in them, that makes them “real”.
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:SCIENCE said:The Rev Dodgson said:I am outraged by this clear government infringement of religious freedom.
indeed, some aspects of the judgement do seem unfair
It seems you can have bullshit legally incorporated if you literally believe in it, but if you’re not that stupid, you have fewer rights.
>Ms McEvoy said she was satisfied that the “Pastafarian texts present a hoax religion”.
It can sensibly be argued that all religions are hoaxes. But apparently if they can find enough suckers to believe in them, that makes them “real”.
agreement
Bogsnorkler said:
we thought that was known since the earliest revolutions
Bogsnorkler said:
That also applies to TV channels/media. All this shit they are putting on the ABC…
Morning Saturdays. :)
19.0C & 41% indoors
18.4C & 46% outdoors
1012 hPa and falling
It’s a nice day today. Nice bitta sun, nice bitta breeze and nice that there’s no moolies.
Headed for 20C
Woodie said:
Morning Saturdays. :)19.0C & 41% indoors
18.4C & 46% outdoors1012 hPa and falling
It’s a nice day today. Nice bitta sun, nice bitta breeze and nice that there’s no moolies.
Headed for 20C
Morning Woodie.
We’re headed for a max of 13, min of 0, light winds, slight chance of a sprinkle.
Sarah Hanson Young drives the Tesla and I think she was speeding.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7F5jqw8ZFg
monkey skipper said:
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/church-of-the-flying-spaghetti-monster-loses-bid-for-legal-recognition-as-incorporated-entity/ar-AALcfqN?ocid=msedgntp
…/cut by me master transition/….
that’s my morn chuckle, thankyou
Bubblecar said:
>Ms McEvoy said she was satisfied that the “Pastafarian texts present a hoax religion”.It can sensibly be argued that all religions are hoaxes. But apparently if they can find enough suckers to believe in them, that makes them “real”.
brains do that anyway, even of the most regular apparently mundane phenomena, like the sun rises in the east, traverses the sky and sets in the west, the alternative is to imagine the earth spinning constantly, you and I hurtling around at great speed on the spinning thing, which is actually quite disconcerting if you hold that in your mind as a persistent reality
oh and there are colors, green grass, orange oranges, oranges in the dark, and rainbows, the work of qualia, and try for a moment to override any of that with ‘truth’, again disconcerting
transition said:
Bubblecar said:
>Ms McEvoy said she was satisfied that the “Pastafarian texts present a hoax religion”.It can sensibly be argued that all religions are hoaxes. But apparently if they can find enough suckers to believe in them, that makes them “real”.
brains do that anyway, even of the most regular apparently mundane phenomena, like the sun rises in the east, traverses the sky and sets in the west, the alternative is to imagine the earth spinning constantly, you and I hurtling around at great speed on the spinning thing, which is actually quite disconcerting if you hold that in your mind as a persistent reality
oh and there are colors, green grass, orange oranges, oranges in the dark, and rainbows, the work of qualia, and try for a moment to override any of that with ‘truth’, again disconcerting
You’re confusing superficial sensory data with deliberately fabricated myths and legends.
The irony in this instance is that because Pastafarianism is clearly satirical in intent, it’s the one religion that isn’t trying to deceive anyone, and is thus clearly not a “hoax”.
Bubblecar said:
transition said:
Bubblecar said:
>Ms McEvoy said she was satisfied that the “Pastafarian texts present a hoax religion”.It can sensibly be argued that all religions are hoaxes. But apparently if they can find enough suckers to believe in them, that makes them “real”.
brains do that anyway, even of the most regular apparently mundane phenomena, like the sun rises in the east, traverses the sky and sets in the west, the alternative is to imagine the earth spinning constantly, you and I hurtling around at great speed on the spinning thing, which is actually quite disconcerting if you hold that in your mind as a persistent reality
oh and there are colors, green grass, orange oranges, oranges in the dark, and rainbows, the work of qualia, and try for a moment to override any of that with ‘truth’, again disconcerting
You’re confusing superficial sensory data with deliberately fabricated myths and legends.
The irony in this instance is that because Pastafarianism is clearly satirical in intent, it’s the one religion that isn’t trying to deceive anyone, and is thus clearly not a “hoax”.
It is a bit of a philosophical rabbit-hole.
Bubblecar said:
transition said:
Bubblecar said:
>Ms McEvoy said she was satisfied that the “Pastafarian texts present a hoax religion”.It can sensibly be argued that all religions are hoaxes. But apparently if they can find enough suckers to believe in them, that makes them “real”.
brains do that anyway, even of the most regular apparently mundane phenomena, like the sun rises in the east, traverses the sky and sets in the west, the alternative is to imagine the earth spinning constantly, you and I hurtling around at great speed on the spinning thing, which is actually quite disconcerting if you hold that in your mind as a persistent reality
oh and there are colors, green grass, orange oranges, oranges in the dark, and rainbows, the work of qualia, and try for a moment to override any of that with ‘truth’, again disconcerting
You’re confusing superficial sensory data with deliberately fabricated myths and legends.
The irony in this instance is that because Pastafarianism is clearly satirical in intent, it’s the one religion that isn’t trying to deceive anyone, and is thus clearly not a “hoax”.
yeah I got the amusing idea in the latter
not sure about your use of superficial ahead of sensory…, seems very powerful and necessary, but it could be just a matter of vernacular couldn’t it
party_pants said:
Bubblecar said:
transition said:brains do that anyway, even of the most regular apparently mundane phenomena, like the sun rises in the east, traverses the sky and sets in the west, the alternative is to imagine the earth spinning constantly, you and I hurtling around at great speed on the spinning thing, which is actually quite disconcerting if you hold that in your mind as a persistent reality
oh and there are colors, green grass, orange oranges, oranges in the dark, and rainbows, the work of qualia, and try for a moment to override any of that with ‘truth’, again disconcerting
You’re confusing superficial sensory data with deliberately fabricated myths and legends.
The irony in this instance is that because Pastafarianism is clearly satirical in intent, it’s the one religion that isn’t trying to deceive anyone, and is thus clearly not a “hoax”.
It is a bit of a philosophical rabbit-hole.
Not really. We have sufficient knowledge of relatively modern religions and cults to have an idea of the ways in which they form.
Look at Joseph Smith and the LDS, or L. Ron Hubbard and Scientology – clearly just deliberate hoaxes, perpetrated for the personal benefit of their founders.
This sort of deceit has been going on for many thousands of years.
transition said:
Bubblecar said:
transition said:brains do that anyway, even of the most regular apparently mundane phenomena, like the sun rises in the east, traverses the sky and sets in the west, the alternative is to imagine the earth spinning constantly, you and I hurtling around at great speed on the spinning thing, which is actually quite disconcerting if you hold that in your mind as a persistent reality
oh and there are colors, green grass, orange oranges, oranges in the dark, and rainbows, the work of qualia, and try for a moment to override any of that with ‘truth’, again disconcerting
You’re confusing superficial sensory data with deliberately fabricated myths and legends.
The irony in this instance is that because Pastafarianism is clearly satirical in intent, it’s the one religion that isn’t trying to deceive anyone, and is thus clearly not a “hoax”.
yeah I got the amusing idea in the latter
not sure about your use of superficial ahead of sensory…, seems very powerful and necessary, but it could be just a matter of vernacular couldn’t it
What I mean by superficial is that in these kind of instances, more detailed empirical study will show that the “everyday” sensory data can easily lend itself to inaccurate modelling of what’s going on.
Pastafarianism can’t be an incorporated body, at least not in SA.
Yet, when me an another bloke formed a local French-language and culture group (in Qld), we were heartily encouraged by people including our local council and the local multicultural society to become incorporated for the sake of the liability and oversight provisions that would be available to us, and we never encountered any legal or other hurdles on that path.
Bubblecar said:
transition said:
Bubblecar said:You’re confusing superficial sensory data with deliberately fabricated myths and legends.
The irony in this instance is that because Pastafarianism is clearly satirical in intent, it’s the one religion that isn’t trying to deceive anyone, and is thus clearly not a “hoax”.
yeah I got the amusing idea in the latter
not sure about your use of superficial ahead of sensory…, seems very powerful and necessary, but it could be just a matter of vernacular couldn’t it
What I mean by superficial is that in these kind of instances, more detailed empirical study will show that the “everyday” sensory data can easily lend itself to inaccurate modelling of what’s going on.
but it must to great extent for much of our purposes yield something reliable about reality, yield some relational reality between the mind and whatever it does work regard
a lot of what it does is superficial in that it produced processing artifacts, in fact the latter is probably the larger part of what it does, there wouldn’t be too many exceptions to that other than perhaps getting machines to do whatever, but even that is arguable
some music history on my way out the door
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoochie_Coochie_Man
“……..“Hoochie Coochie Man” (originally titled “I’m Your Hoochie Cooche Man”) is a blues standard written by Willie Dixon and first recorded by Muddy Waters in 1954. The song makes reference to hoodoo folk magic elements and makes novel use of a stop-time musical arrangement. It became one of Waters’ most popular and identifiable songs and helped secure Dixon’s role as Chess Records’ chief songwriter.
The song is a classic of Chicago blues and one of Waters’ first recordings with a full backing band. Dixon’s lyrics build on Waters’ earlier use of braggadocio and themes of fortune and sex appeal. The stop-time riff was “soon absorbed into the lingua franca of blues, R&B, jazz, and rock and roll”, according to musicologist Robert Palmer, and is used in several popular songs. When Bo Diddley adapted it for “I’m a Man”, it became one of the most recognizable musical phrases in blues…”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOZHc7IDKSs
Willie Dixon-I’m Your Hoochie Coochie Man
Art in Tas.
Sally was doing her PhD while I was doing my Masters. It’s noice to know some get to have a life.
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/jun/19/artist-sally-rees-unveils-her-inner-crone-we-need-to-embrace-being-cranky-and-terrifying
Also…
He’s been working on this such a long time.
transition said:
some music history on my way out the doorhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoochie_Coochie_Man
“……..“Hoochie Coochie Man” (originally titled “I’m Your Hoochie Cooche Man”) is a blues standard written by Willie Dixon and first recorded by Muddy Waters in 1954. The song makes reference to hoodoo folk magic elements and makes novel use of a stop-time musical arrangement. It became one of Waters’ most popular and identifiable songs and helped secure Dixon’s role as Chess Records’ chief songwriter.
The song is a classic of Chicago blues and one of Waters’ first recordings with a full backing band. Dixon’s lyrics build on Waters’ earlier use of braggadocio and themes of fortune and sex appeal. The stop-time riff was “soon absorbed into the lingua franca of blues, R&B, jazz, and rock and roll”, according to musicologist Robert Palmer, and is used in several popular songs. When Bo Diddley adapted it for “I’m a Man”, it became one of the most recognizable musical phrases in blues…”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOZHc7IDKSs
Willie Dixon-I’m Your Hoochie Coochie Man
It was one of Sarah’s Dad’s first bracket tunes.
Eating fresh white bread and butter for lunch.
My black dress is now cut out (view B). I adjusted the pattern for my broad shoulders and back the other day. Not one of my favourite jobs, but worth it. Stretch black poplin. I had to tidy off and clean the cutting table first. Because I use it as a desk also. I need to cut a couple of pocket pieces because this dress zips up on the left side, but I can slip a pocket into the right side seam. Useful to have a pocket in a dress and it needn’t show.
buffy said:
Eating fresh white bread and butter for lunch.My black dress is now cut out (view B). I adjusted the pattern for my broad shoulders and back the other day. Not one of my favourite jobs, but worth it. Stretch black poplin. I had to tidy off and clean the cutting table first. Because I use it as a desk also. I need to cut a couple of pocket pieces because this dress zips up on the left side, but I can slip a pocket into the right side seam. Useful to have a pocket in a dress and it needn’t show.
It might be 20 years since I wore a dress.
sarahs mum said:
buffy said:
Eating fresh white bread and butter for lunch.My black dress is now cut out (view B). I adjusted the pattern for my broad shoulders and back the other day. Not one of my favourite jobs, but worth it. Stretch black poplin. I had to tidy off and clean the cutting table first. Because I use it as a desk also. I need to cut a couple of pocket pieces because this dress zips up on the left side, but I can slip a pocket into the right side seam. Useful to have a pocket in a dress and it needn’t show.
It might be 20 years since I wore a dress.
I’m not wearing them much now I have retired. I used to wear elastic waisted skirts and fancy t-shirts to work. I don’t mind wearing a dress in Summer.
And going to watch last night’s Planet America now, for a break from the cutting out. I’ve got a pair of black pants/slacks to cut out too, while I’ve got the table cleared.
sarahs mum said:
buffy said:
Eating fresh white bread and butter for lunch.My black dress is now cut out (view B). I adjusted the pattern for my broad shoulders and back the other day. Not one of my favourite jobs, but worth it. Stretch black poplin. I had to tidy off and clean the cutting table first. Because I use it as a desk also. I need to cut a couple of pocket pieces because this dress zips up on the left side, but I can slip a pocket into the right side seam. Useful to have a pocket in a dress and it needn’t show.
It might be 20 years since I wore a dress.
With the exception of a couple of weddings attended, I am the same. Long dresses do not suit my body type, and the short dresses I used to wear are now not as comfortable nor appropriate.
Still here :)
It’s getting closer and closer. One of the Covid exposure sites is now in my own suburb, and Speedy Jnr was on the train last night, in the city.
“These generators are large enough to be able to provide about 8 kilowatts of power, which will be sufficient to run a number of lights in a home, a small heater, and enable Victorians to be able to get back ,” she said.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-19/victorian-storms-generators-for-dandenong-yarra-ranges-power/100228408
ROFL
sibeen said:
“These generators are large enough to be able to provide about 8 kilowatts of power, which will be sufficient to run a number of lights in a home, a small heater, and enable Victorians to be able to get back ,” she said.https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-19/victorian-storms-generators-for-dandenong-yarra-ranges-power/100228408
ROFL
more than enough if you’re frugal.
sibeen said:
“These generators are large enough to be able to provide about 8 kilowatts of power, which will be sufficient to run a number of lights in a home, a small heater, and enable Victorians to be able to get back ,” she said.https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-19/victorian-storms-generators-for-dandenong-yarra-ranges-power/100228408
ROFL
The layperson’s concept of energy and power is not the same as the scientist or engineer.
Deal with it.
party_pants said:
sibeen said:
“These generators are large enough to be able to provide about 8 kilowatts of power, which will be sufficient to run a number of lights in a home, a small heater, and enable Victorians to be able to get back ,” she said.https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-19/victorian-storms-generators-for-dandenong-yarra-ranges-power/100228408
ROFL
The layperson’s concept of energy and power is not the same as the scientist or engineer.
Deal with it.
No. I will not.
sarahs mum said:
Art in Tas.Sally was doing her PhD while I was doing my Masters. It’s noice to know some get to have a life.
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/jun/19/artist-sally-rees-unveils-her-inner-crone-we-need-to-embrace-being-cranky-and-terrifyingAlso…
He’s been working on this such a long time.
The Sally Rees work looks like it would be enjoyable.
I’d have to see that Raymond Arnold vista in real life to get a proper impression.
Speedy said:
Still here :)It’s getting closer and closer. One of the Covid exposure sites is now in my own suburb, and Speedy Jnr was on the train last night, in the city.
Keep safe.
Well, that’s more of the weeping fig cut off and ground up. I stayed on the ground and used the pole pruner, instead of a ladder and hand saw.
can anyone access this?
The Mercury Newspaper
4 mins ·
Child support payments would be quarantined in a bank account or welfare card and divorcing couples would have more asset protections under a proposal by Senator Pauline Hanson. https://bit.ly/35yFj6w
Michael V said:
Speedy said:
Still here :)It’s getting closer and closer. One of the Covid exposure sites is now in my own suburb, and Speedy Jnr was on the train last night, in the city.
Keep safe.
That is my intention. I thought I was due for my fist vaccination this coming week, but on checking again I discovered that it’s not until 7/7, then another on 30/7. I stupidly trusted that if I registered my interest with NSW Health they would contact me, hence the delay.
Speedy said:
Michael V said:
Speedy said:
Still here :)It’s getting closer and closer. One of the Covid exposure sites is now in my own suburb, and Speedy Jnr was on the train last night, in the city.
Keep safe.
That is my intention. I thought I was due for my fist vaccination this coming week, but on checking again I discovered that it’s not until 7/7, then another on 30/7. I stupidly trusted that if I registered my interest with NSW Health they would contact me, hence the delay.
Good luck.
I’m seeing the GP on Tuesday and I’ll ask about the Covid shots then.
Michael V said:
Well, that’s more of the weeping fig cut off and ground up. I stayed on the ground and used the pole pruner, instead of a ladder and hand saw.
It’s always a good idea to stay away from ladders
Bubblecar said:
Speedy said:
Michael V said:Keep safe.
That is my intention. I thought I was due for my fist vaccination this coming week, but on checking again I discovered that it’s not until 7/7, then another on 30/7. I stupidly trusted that if I registered my interest with NSW Health they would contact me, hence the delay.
Good luck.
I’m seeing the GP on Tuesday and I’ll ask about the Covid shots then.
You may like to phone beforehand to check. If you’re lucky, they might be able to book you in for a shot on Tuesday.
sibeen said:
party_pants said:
sibeen said:
“These generators are large enough to be able to provide about 8 kilowatts of power, which will be sufficient to run a number of lights in a home, a small heater, and enable Victorians to be able to get back ,” she said.https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-19/victorian-storms-generators-for-dandenong-yarra-ranges-power/100228408
ROFL
The layperson’s concept of energy and power is not the same as the scientist or engineer.
Deal with it.
No. I will not.
Gee, harsh. The sentence was using “power” as a substitute for “electricity”. Like “power point”. It’s very a common usage.
Speedy said:
Bubblecar said:
Speedy said:That is my intention. I thought I was due for my fist vaccination this coming week, but on checking again I discovered that it’s not until 7/7, then another on 30/7. I stupidly trusted that if I registered my interest with NSW Health they would contact me, hence the delay.
Good luck.
I’m seeing the GP on Tuesday and I’ll ask about the Covid shots then.
You may like to phone beforehand to check. If you’re lucky, they might be able to book you in for a shot on Tuesday.
I’d better discuss it with the GP first. I have no idea what’s going on with the hernia operation, if and when it will be rescheduled, and I’m not supposed to have the Covid vax within two weeks of the operation.
Speedy said:
Michael V said:
Well, that’s more of the weeping fig cut off and ground up. I stayed on the ground and used the pole pruner, instead of a ladder and hand saw.
It’s always a good idea to stay away from ladders
Or not be stupid with them.
Bubblecar said:
Speedy said:
Bubblecar said:Good luck.
I’m seeing the GP on Tuesday and I’ll ask about the Covid shots then.
You may like to phone beforehand to check. If you’re lucky, they might be able to book you in for a shot on Tuesday.
I’d better discuss it with the GP first. I have no idea what’s going on with the hernia operation, if and when it will be rescheduled, and I’m not supposed to have the Covid vax within two weeks of the operation.
I see. Did you surgery get cancelled previously?
Michael V said:
sibeen said:
party_pants said:The layperson’s concept of energy and power is not the same as the scientist or engineer.
Deal with it.
No. I will not.
Gee, harsh. The sentence was using “power” as a substitute for “electricity”. Like “power point”. It’s very a common usage.
But as the Watt is a unit of power anyway, what is the problem?
Speedy said:
Bubblecar said:
Speedy said:You may like to phone beforehand to check. If you’re lucky, they might be able to book you in for a shot on Tuesday.
I’d better discuss it with the GP first. I have no idea what’s going on with the hernia operation, if and when it will be rescheduled, and I’m not supposed to have the Covid vax within two weeks of the operation.
I see. Did you surgery get cancelled previously?
It was cancelled on the day I turned up for it, due to a swollen calf. I had a course of antibiotics for that but the doctors were still not sure what’s causing it (it’s still swollen), so I also had chest X-rays to see if any heart problem might be involved, as they’d detected a murmur. I’ll be seeing the GP on Tuesday to discuss the X-ray results.
Michael V said:
Well, that’s more of the weeping fig cut off and ground up. I stayed on the ground and used the pole pruner, instead of a ladder and hand saw.
Nice to see you are able to prune poles now.
Do you have new decibels from your new decibel machine? You know. The one where you can graphicalise your equals.
Michael V said:
sibeen said:
party_pants said:The layperson’s concept of energy and power is not the same as the scientist or engineer.
Deal with it.
No. I will not.
Gee, harsh. The sentence was using “power” as a substitute for “electricity”. Like “power point”. It’s very a common usage.
8 kilowatts to run a few lights :)
Bubblecar said:
Speedy said:
Bubblecar said:I’d better discuss it with the GP first. I have no idea what’s going on with the hernia operation, if and when it will be rescheduled, and I’m not supposed to have the Covid vax within two weeks of the operation.
I see. Did you surgery get cancelled previously?
It was cancelled on the day I turned up for it, due to a swollen calf. I had a course of antibiotics for that but the doctors were still not sure what’s causing it (it’s still swollen), so I also had chest X-rays to see if any heart problem might be involved, as they’d detected a murmur. I’ll be seeing the GP on Tuesday to discuss the X-ray results.
That must have been disappointing :(
How strange though. You would think that if it’s a heart problem it would be affecting both calves, no?
sibeen said:
Michael V said:
sibeen said:No. I will not.
Gee, harsh. The sentence was using “power” as a substitute for “electricity”. Like “power point”. It’s very a common usage.
8 kilowatts to run a few lights :)
Ah, yes that did seem a little strange.
Maybe they meant a few lights and a quite large heater in each room.
Castelmezzano, Italy
The Rev Dodgson said:
sibeen said:
Michael V said:Gee, harsh. The sentence was using “power” as a substitute for “electricity”. Like “power point”. It’s very a common usage.
8 kilowatts to run a few lights :)
Ah, yes that did seem a little strange.
Maybe they meant a few lights and a quite large heater in each room.
So anyway, why is it taking so long to string a few replacement cables up?
Solar to blame I expect.
Speedy said:
Bubblecar said:
Speedy said:That is my intention. I thought I was due for my fist vaccination this coming week, but on checking again I discovered that it’s not until 7/7, then another on 30/7. I stupidly trusted that if I registered my interest with NSW Health they would contact me, hence the delay.
Good luck.
I’m seeing the GP on Tuesday and I’ll ask about the Covid shots then.
You may like to phone beforehand to check. If you’re lucky, they might be able to book you in for a shot on Tuesday.
No waiting at all round my parts, for test or vaccine.
Does your GP etc us Hotdocs for appointments?
The Rev Dodgson said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
sibeen said:8 kilowatts to run a few lights :)
Ah, yes that did seem a little strange.
Maybe they meant a few lights and a quite large heater in each room.
So anyway, why is it taking so long to string a few replacement cables up?
Solar to blame I expect.
I expect that the damage is quite severe and extensive.
Speedy said:
Bubblecar said:
Speedy said:I see. Did you surgery get cancelled previously?
It was cancelled on the day I turned up for it, due to a swollen calf. I had a course of antibiotics for that but the doctors were still not sure what’s causing it (it’s still swollen), so I also had chest X-rays to see if any heart problem might be involved, as they’d detected a murmur. I’ll be seeing the GP on Tuesday to discuss the X-ray results.
That must have been disappointing :(
How strange though. You would think that if it’s a heart problem it would be affecting both calves, no?
Last time I saw the GPs they said it was affecting both calves, although one was clearly more swollen than the other. Since then I wore compression socks for a week or two and the less swollen one now looks completely normal to me. The other is still much fatter than normal (and also still has what might be a cellulitis rash).
Anyway they think it’s unlikely to be a heart problem, but the X-rays were a precaution. I’ll see what they think on Tuesday.
Woodie said:
Michael V said:
Well, that’s more of the weeping fig cut off and ground up. I stayed on the ground and used the pole pruner, instead of a ladder and hand saw.
Nice to see you are able to prune poles now.
Tries to mentally picture the purpose of sticking prunes to a pole
Woodie said:
Michael V said:
Well, that’s more of the weeping fig cut off and ground up. I stayed on the ground and used the pole pruner, instead of a ladder and hand saw.
Nice to see you are able to prune poles now.
Do you have new decibels from your new decibel machine? You know. The one where you can graphicalise your equals.
Ha! Not yet. I need to be able to get down to floor level and up again. (The old stereo is on the floor.) My ankle only collapsed once on me today. So things are looking good to be able to do testing soon.
Hoover Dam’s Lake Mead Hits Lowest Water Level Since 1930s
The reservoir generates electricity and supplies water to about 25 million people across tribal lands, farms and major cities
Lake Mead hit record-low water levels last week, highlighting the severe drought sweeping through the western United States, report Reuters’ Daniel Trotta and Andrea Januta.
Formed by damming the Colorado River, the body of water is technically a reservoir of the Hoover Dam. As of last week, the reservoir is just 200 feet above “dead pool” level, the point in which water cannot pass through Hoover Dam. A white “bathtub ring” on the lake’s shores marks how much water has retreated over time. At only 36 percent of full capacity, the water level is decreasing at a faster rate than previously projected, reports Ian James for Arizona Republic.
Constructed in 1937, Lake Mead is one of the largest human-made lakes in the world, covering up to 248 square miles when full, reports Matthew Cappucci for the Washington Post. The reservoir is considered at full capacity when water rises to 1,219.6 feet above sea level, but it’s able to hold a maximum of 1,229 feet of water. In 1983, the lake reached its highest recorded water level at 1,225 feet.
sibeen said:
Michael V said:
sibeen said:No. I will not.
Gee, harsh. The sentence was using “power” as a substitute for “electricity”. Like “power point”. It’s very a common usage.
8 kilowatts to run a few lights :)
(And a few washing machines and fridges…)
Michael V said:
Woodie said:
Michael V said:
Well, that’s more of the weeping fig cut off and ground up. I stayed on the ground and used the pole pruner, instead of a ladder and hand saw.
Nice to see you are able to prune poles now.
Do you have new decibels from your new decibel machine? You know. The one where you can graphicalise your equals.
Ha! Not yet. I need to be able to get down to floor level and up again. (The old stereo is on the floor.) My ankle only collapsed once on me today. So things are looking good to be able to do testing soon.
I found the manual for it. Do you want a copy?
Bubblecar said:
Speedy said:
Bubblecar said:It was cancelled on the day I turned up for it, due to a swollen calf. I had a course of antibiotics for that but the doctors were still not sure what’s causing it (it’s still swollen), so I also had chest X-rays to see if any heart problem might be involved, as they’d detected a murmur. I’ll be seeing the GP on Tuesday to discuss the X-ray results.
That must have been disappointing :(
How strange though. You would think that if it’s a heart problem it would be affecting both calves, no?
Last time I saw the GPs they said it was affecting both calves, although one was clearly more swollen than the other. Since then I wore compression socks for a week or two and the less swollen one now looks completely normal to me. The other is still much fatter than normal (and also still has what might be a cellulitis rash).
Anyway they think it’s unlikely to be a heart problem, but the X-rays were a precaution. I’ll see what they think on Tuesday.
Well, hopefully it will be good news on Tuesday.
Woodie said:
Michael V said:
Woodie said:Nice to see you are able to prune poles now.
Do you have new decibels from your new decibel machine? You know. The one where you can graphicalise your equals.
Ha! Not yet. I need to be able to get down to floor level and up again. (The old stereo is on the floor.) My ankle only collapsed once on me today. So things are looking good to be able to do testing soon.
I found the manual for it. Do you want a copy?
Maybe, if I can’t get it working using the diagram on the back of the thing.
In 1921, Ruth Middleton embroidered this cotton sack with a powerful family story.
Anyway, in spite of all this, I must say that I support John Barilaro’s use of the fixated person’s unit in dealing with satirist friendlyjordies and his producer. I know that many people have criticised him and said that this unit was meant to be about potential terrorist threats and if the NSW Deputy Premier felt stalked then he should have just used the police rather than this overreach. However, given how tardy the NSW police were in taking a statement from Christian Porter’s accuser, it’s understandable that Barilaro may have no faith in their ability to act promptly. And thankfully now that the matter has been dealt with and, according to the bail conditions, the friendlyjordies’ producer may not possess or distribute any caricature of John Barilaro.
https://theaimn.com/what-about-the-other-secret-trial/
I used HotDocs. The online process was okay, no major issues, could be better. Each time I got to my vaccination centre, though, the situation was different. My last visit was the same experience as the first.
I was booked for a 1220 jab and turned up at 1215, where I filled in the forms saying I felt fine and they took my temp. I got given a clipboard and asked to wait in an adjoining room.
There were chairs, spaced apart, about four rows of four. And there was one other guy in the room, way in the corner.
I sat down and flashed up Kindle on the phone.
Next thing I know they call my bloody name!
I went to a lovely lady who explained everything, signed the form, barely felt the needle and it was done. At 1225 I was sitting in the waiting room, doing my 15 mins wait post injection.
I mean, really!!!
8-)
PermeateFree said:
In 1921, Ruth Middleton embroidered this cotton sack with a powerful family story.
:(
Obviousman said:
I used HotDocs. The online process was okay, no major issues, could be better. Each time I got to my vaccination centre, though, the situation was different. My last visit was the same experience as the first.I was booked for a 1220 jab and turned up at 1215, where I filled in the forms saying I felt fine and they took my temp. I got given a clipboard and asked to wait in an adjoining room.
There were chairs, spaced apart, about four rows of four. And there was one other guy in the room, way in the corner.
I sat down and flashed up Kindle on the phone.
Next thing I know they call my bloody name!
I went to a lovely lady who explained everything, signed the form, barely felt the needle and it was done. At 1225 I was sitting in the waiting room, doing my 15 mins wait post injection.
I mean, really!!!
8-)
As a lay doctor I can say with some confidence that 15 minutes is not long enough to see signs of autism.
Bogsnorkler said:
Anyway, in spite of all this, I must say that I support John Barilaro’s use of the fixated person’s unit in dealing with satirist friendlyjordies and his producer. I know that many people have criticised him and said that this unit was meant to be about potential terrorist threats and if the NSW Deputy Premier felt stalked then he should have just used the police rather than this overreach. However, given how tardy the NSW police were in taking a statement from Christian Porter’s accuser, it’s understandable that Barilaro may have no faith in their ability to act promptly. And thankfully now that the matter has been dealt with and, according to the bail conditions, the friendlyjordies’ producer may not possess or distribute any caricature of John Barilaro.https://theaimn.com/what-about-the-other-secret-trial/
Having looked up the AIMN, I presume that’s satire, but really, it’s pretty hard to be sure these days.
Paisley just bought in a small skull with lots of teeth. Other artists I know would be happy and put it in their collection of dead stuff. They would draw it and etch it and contemplate life and death.
I’ve just tossed it in the bin. I don’t want to contemplate that stuff.
sibeen said:
party_pants said:
sibeen said:
“These generators are large enough to be able to provide about 8 kilowatts of power, which will be sufficient to run a number of lights in a home, a small heater, and enable Victorians to be able to get back ,” she said.https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-19/victorian-storms-generators-for-dandenong-yarra-ranges-power/100228408
ROFL
The layperson’s concept of energy and power is not the same as the scientist or engineer.
Deal with it.
No. I will not.
what’s wrong with some good old fashioned straight watties, the ideal of all the volties and amperies lined up nicely doing real work, like you get with a bar heater, or an incandescent light bulb
have to say 8KW seems a fairly generous power pack, I could run everything with that, near run HWS electric boost and little arc welder at same time, reckon generator be working hard, chewing through the fuel
sarahs mum said:
Paisley just bought in a small skull with lots of teeth. Other artists I know would be happy and put it in their collection of dead stuff. They would draw it and etch it and contemplate life and death.I’ve just tossed it in the bin. I don’t want to contemplate that stuff.
Our friend Victor liked skulls and stuff. But he did a series of Totentanz prints. I wasn’t so keen on those ones.
https://searchthecollection.nga.gov.au/object?uniqueId=407
I liked some of his later stuff. He’s been back in Germany 20 years now.
buffy said:
sarahs mum said:
Paisley just bought in a small skull with lots of teeth. Other artists I know would be happy and put it in their collection of dead stuff. They would draw it and etch it and contemplate life and death.I’ve just tossed it in the bin. I don’t want to contemplate that stuff.
Our friend Victor liked skulls and stuff. But he did a series of Totentanz prints. I wasn’t so keen on those ones.
https://searchthecollection.nga.gov.au/object?uniqueId=407
I liked some of his later stuff. He’s been back in Germany 20 years now.
It doesn’t do it for me.
Maybe I will lino print again sometime. It might free me up a bit.
Tonight I’m going for a hungry jacks big whopper meal.
Over.
Peak Warming Man said:
Tonight I’m going for a hungry jacks big whopper meal.
Over.
OK this is what we’re looking at, it may not be big enough for a growing lad with wintery cold westerlies blowing.
So I might have to make that a double whopper of flame grilled prime aussie beef and seasonal fresh garden salad with a large bucket of chips fried in freshly pressed Fassifern vegetable oil.
transition said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Tonight I’m going for a hungry jacks big whopper meal.
Over.
I am cook tonight. I’m going to make chicken and veggie soup. It’s been drizzly most of the day. Not cold, as I’ve been busy, but Mr buffy has got the woodheater going. He is watching racing cars crash into each other.
Peak Warming Man said:
OK this is what we’re looking at, it may not be big enough for a growing lad with wintery cold westerlies blowing.
So I might have to make that a double whopper of flame grilled prime aussie beef and seasonal fresh garden salad with a large bucket of chips fried in freshly pressed Fassifern vegetable oil.
It certainly doesn’t “take two hands to handle a Whopper” these days. Two mouthfuls more like.
transition said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Tonight I’m going for a hungry jacks big whopper meal.
Over.
buffy said:
transition said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Tonight I’m going for a hungry jacks big whopper meal.
Over.
I am cook tonight. I’m going to make chicken and veggie soup. It’s been drizzly most of the day. Not cold, as I’ve been busy, but Mr buffy has got the woodheater going. He is watching racing cars crash into each other.
I’m having reheated turkey stew from the freezer.
sarahs mum said:
transition said:
some music history on my way out the doorhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoochie_Coochie_Man
“……..“Hoochie Coochie Man” (originally titled “I’m Your Hoochie Cooche Man”) is a blues standard written by Willie Dixon and first recorded by Muddy Waters in 1954. The song makes reference to hoodoo folk magic elements and makes novel use of a stop-time musical arrangement. It became one of Waters’ most popular and identifiable songs and helped secure Dixon’s role as Chess Records’ chief songwriter.
The song is a classic of Chicago blues and one of Waters’ first recordings with a full backing band. Dixon’s lyrics build on Waters’ earlier use of braggadocio and themes of fortune and sex appeal. The stop-time riff was “soon absorbed into the lingua franca of blues, R&B, jazz, and rock and roll”, according to musicologist Robert Palmer, and is used in several popular songs. When Bo Diddley adapted it for “I’m a Man”, it became one of the most recognizable musical phrases in blues…”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOZHc7IDKSs
Willie Dixon-I’m Your Hoochie Coochie Man
It was one of Sarah’s Dad’s first bracket tunes.
watching a bobby rush version think it was lastnight, jeeez he still singing way into old age, impressed I was
anyway I wasn’t aware willie dixon wrote the song, though have listened to quite a bit of willie dixon, well I thought I had until I looked up the song origins
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Rush_(musician)
Bobby Rush (born Emmett Ellis Jr. in Homer, Louisiana on November 10, 1933) is an American blues musician, composer, and singer. His style incorporates elements of blues, rap, and funk.
Rush has won twelve Blues Music Awards and in 2017, at the age of 83, he won his first Grammy Award for the album Porcupine Meat. He is inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame, Mississippi Musicians Hall of Fame, and Rhythm & Blues Music Hall of Fame
Born – November 10, 1933 (age 87)
Years active – 1951–present
sibeen said:
transition said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Tonight I’m going for a hungry jacks big whopper meal.
Over.
chuckle you’ve got a bigger crayon
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Michael V said:
dv said:
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dv said:
Michael V said:
dv said:
yo
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dv said:
yo
you’re back.
*checks around. Short on fatted calf.
sibeen said:
dv said:
Michael V said:yo-yo
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7-Year-Old Cellist Prodigy Yo-Yo Ma’s Debut Performance for President JFK | The Kennedy Center
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiwkBFR6rW0
any news or gossip?
dv said:
Michael V said:
dv said:
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ABC News:
‘This church costs about as much as a Sydney apartment, but don’t be fooled, agent says
By Rebecca Hewett
A towering Gothic church made from pink sandstone in the heart of Hobart is up for sale for $1.2 million, but any proposed changes would have to go through a rigorous application process, says an agent.’
Piece of cake.
Just label the development application as ‘cable car project’, drop off a paper bag or two of money, and Hobart Council is no problem.
dv said:
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any news or gossip?
Mate Danny (not his real name) got arrested for pushing his BIL over at the pub.
captain_spalding said:
ABC News:‘This church costs about as much as a Sydney apartment, but don’t be fooled, agent says
By Rebecca Hewett
A towering Gothic church made from pink sandstone in the heart of Hobart is up for sale for $1.2 million, but any proposed changes would have to go through a rigorous application process, says an agent.’Piece of cake.
Just label the development application as ‘cable car project’, drop off a paper bag or two of money, and Hobart Council is no problem.
I think you will find that Hobart Council have not been making the cable car project a breeze. They have sent the proect back to drawing board three times now. And they might do it again.
Meanwhile I have a pathetic submission open in open office. I might get it finished.
dv said:
any news or gossip?
DA is still AWOL.
sarahs mum said:
captain_spalding said:
ABC News:‘This church costs about as much as a Sydney apartment, but don’t be fooled, agent says
By Rebecca Hewett
A towering Gothic church made from pink sandstone in the heart of Hobart is up for sale for $1.2 million, but any proposed changes would have to go through a rigorous application process, says an agent.’Piece of cake.
Just label the development application as ‘cable car project’, drop off a paper bag or two of money, and Hobart Council is no problem.
I think you will find that Hobart Council have not been making the cable car project a breeze. They have sent the proect back to drawing board three times now. And they might do it again.
Meanwhile I have a pathetic submission open in open office. I might get it finished.
Pathetic?
Never underestimate the power of pathos.
Also ABC News:
‘For the second time in six months, Australia has called in the WTO in China trade dispute
By national rural reporter Kath Sullivan
For the second time in six months, Australia will refer China to the international trade umpire, arguing tariffs of up to 220 per cent on Australian wine are unfair.’
Predicted outcome:
WTO wrings hands, says:
Peak Warming Man said:
OK this is what we’re looking at, it may not be big enough for a growing lad with wintery cold westerlies blowing.
So I might have to make that a double whopper of flame grilled prime aussie beef and seasonal fresh garden salad with a large bucket of chips fried in freshly pressed Fassifern vegetable oil.
Gross
Arts said:
Peak Warming Man said:
OK this is what we’re looking at, it may not be big enough for a growing lad with wintery cold westerlies blowing.
So I might have to make that a double whopper of flame grilled prime aussie beef and seasonal fresh garden salad with a large bucket of chips fried in freshly pressed Fassifern vegetable oil.
Gross
It’s junk food, all right, but as junk food goes, HJs is better than Maccas.
Arts said:
Peak Warming Man said:
OK this is what we’re looking at, it may not be big enough for a growing lad with wintery cold westerlies blowing.
So I might have to make that a double whopper of flame grilled prime aussie beef and seasonal fresh garden salad with a large bucket of chips fried in freshly pressed Fassifern vegetable oil.
Gross
He said big whopper. I think the gross whopper was a limited offer.
dv said:
yo
Ten days already?
Witty Rejoinder said:
dv said:
yo
Ten days already?
Time flies eh
dv said:
any news or gossip?
No, everything went into stasis because you were away.
dv said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
dv said:
yo
Ten days already?
Time flies eh
So where’s ya bin?
dv said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
dv said:
yo
Ten days already?
Time flies eh
tempus fugit all right.
captain_spalding said:
sarahs mum said:
captain_spalding said:
ABC News:‘This church costs about as much as a Sydney apartment, but don’t be fooled, agent says
By Rebecca Hewett
A towering Gothic church made from pink sandstone in the heart of Hobart is up for sale for $1.2 million, but any proposed changes would have to go through a rigorous application process, says an agent.’Piece of cake.
Just label the development application as ‘cable car project’, drop off a paper bag or two of money, and Hobart Council is no problem.
I think you will find that Hobart Council have not been making the cable car project a breeze. They have sent the proect back to drawing board three times now. And they might do it again.
Meanwhile I have a pathetic submission open in open office. I might get it finished.
Pathetic?
Never underestimate the power of pathos.
One of the bits that get to me is that if you respond on a facebook thread about it and discuss your worries you are branded a snowflake with a bunch of other insults. The project’s instigator has done a bit of this himself. The pro lobby are all the pro lobby for forestry. They are the pro lobby for hunting. This is the new cause for those who just like to do a bit of greeny bashing on the weekends. I don’t see a way of writing this up.
I am writing up how this public land. Common ground. Shared landscape. It changes the view for most Hobartians.The cablecar goes over the most visible and iconic bit of the mountain. The new restaurant and whiskey bar etc will be open to 10pm? The inebriated won’t be confined to the cable car… they will also be driving their cars down the winding windy icy road. (although there is talk of shutting own the road to make the cable car more viable) It changes the primary use of the mountain…as a park. it is privatising that which is owned by all.
Some years back there was a movement to attempt to make Mt welly a nat park. At the time I thought it was nice that Hobart council did a cracker job at keeping the mountain in the community. We don’t have to pay. We can play at will. (allowing for snow/snow clearing and gates) It isn’t like kuringai where I grew up. There isn’t a park at the end of each suburban street. We just have the big rock garden in the backyard and starting a privatisation run on it is just wrong.
Well that was delicious although I did mark it down slightly because I got tomato ends and there was no straw for the popular cola container.
Dinner report – 3 pides: Spinach and Fetta, Lamb and red capsicum, & Chorizo sausage and tomato.
Rule 303 said:
Dinner report – 3 pides: Spinach and Fetta, Lamb and red capsicum, & Chorizo sausage and tomato.
I don’t know what a 1 pide is?
Peak Warming Man said:
Rule 303 said:
Dinner report – 3 pides: Spinach and Fetta, Lamb and red capsicum, & Chorizo sausage and tomato.
I don’t know what a 1 pide is?
Like a small pizza but made with Turkish flatbread.
Bubblecar said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Rule 303 said:
Dinner report – 3 pides: Spinach and Fetta, Lamb and red capsicum, & Chorizo sausage and tomato.
I don’t know what a 1 pide is?
Like a small pizza but made with Turkish flatbread.
That’s my learning for today.
Oh and also I learnt that to take the blade disk off a mower you need a impact wrench.
Peak Warming Man said:
Bubblecar said:
Peak Warming Man said:I don’t know what a 1 pide is?
Like a small pizza but made with Turkish flatbread.
That’s my learning for today.
Oh and also I learnt that to take the blade disk off a mower you need a impact wrench.
Or, you need to leave all that stuff to Mr Tunks.
I spotted an albino Dalmatian today. It was the least I could do for him.
Bubblecar said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Bubblecar said:Like a small pizza but made with Turkish flatbread.
That’s my learning for today.
Oh and also I learnt that to take the blade disk off a mower you need a impact wrench.
Or, you need to leave all that stuff to Mr Tunks.
To each their own, he probably hasn’t even got a harpsichord.
Peak Warming Man said:
Well that was delicious although I did mark it down slightly because I got tomato ends and there was no straw for the popular cola container.
No straw, but you can fold the little sippy flap back into a little holder clip thingy.
The turtles designed it.
Bogsnorkler said:
I spotted an albino Dalmatian today. It was the least I could do for him.
polite applause
Kingy said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Well that was delicious although I did mark it down slightly because I got tomato ends and there was no straw for the popular cola container.
No straw, but you can fold the little sippy flap back into a little holder clip thingy.
The turtles designed it.
Ah, so you can.
Bogsnorkler said:
I spotted an albino Dalmatian today. It was the least I could do for him.
Yeah that’s funny
Bogsnorkler said:
I spotted an albino Dalmatian today. It was the least I could do for him.
LOL
They didn’t make it across Scotland in a straight line DV. A farmer (who was Irish) let the police know that there were two Englishmen not locked down.
They got halfway with a max 14m deviation.
sarahs mum said:
They didn’t make it across Scotland in a straight line DV. A farmer (who was Irish) let the police know that there were two Englishmen not locked down.They got halfway with a max 14m deviation.
Still, good effort
sarahs mum said:
They didn’t make it across Scotland in a straight line DV. A farmer (who was Irish) let the police know that there were two Englishmen not locked down.They got halfway with a max 14m deviation.
Is ‘straight line’ walking a thing outside of this attempt in Scotland?
Witty Rejoinder said:
sarahs mum said:
They didn’t make it across Scotland in a straight line DV. A farmer (who was Irish) let the police know that there were two Englishmen not locked down.They got halfway with a max 14m deviation.
Is ‘straight line’ walking a thing outside of this attempt in Scotland?
big in the USA. usually after you get stopped for suspected DUI.
Witty Rejoinder said:
dv said:
Witty Rejoinder said:Ten days already?
Time flies eh
So where’s ya bin?
If I tell you I’ll have to kill you.
Witty Rejoinder said:
sarahs mum said:
They didn’t make it across Scotland in a straight line DV. A farmer (who was Irish) let the police know that there were two Englishmen not locked down.They got halfway with a max 14m deviation.
Is ‘straight line’ walking a thing outside of this attempt in Scotland?
I think they have done Wales and failed Norway. I’m not really sure. I started watching because a walk through Scotland appealed. But being straight line there is some drama. They did get over a lot of barriers and walls including security mesh and barbed. They ended up just strolling through one factory and waing as they were exiting past security.
sarahs mum said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
sarahs mum said:
They didn’t make it across Scotland in a straight line DV. A farmer (who was Irish) let the police know that there were two Englishmen not locked down.They got halfway with a max 14m deviation.
Is ‘straight line’ walking a thing outside of this attempt in Scotland?
I think they have done Wales and failed Norway. I’m not really sure. I started watching because a walk through Scotland appealed. But being straight line there is some drama. They did get over a lot of barriers and walls including security mesh and barbed. They ended up just strolling through one factory and waing as they were exiting past security.
waving
dv said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
dv said:Time flies eh
So where’s ya bin?
If I tell you I’ll have to kill you.
Say no more… taps nose
dv said:
sarahs mum said:
They didn’t make it across Scotland in a straight line DV. A farmer (who was Irish) let the police know that there were two Englishmen not locked down.They got halfway with a max 14m deviation.
Still, good effort
I did a walking tour of England and Scotland a few years ago, from John O’Groats to Land’s End. I thought going further would be Scilly.
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I might watch the Wales one.
Peak Warming Man said:
Well that was delicious although I did mark it down slightly because I got tomato ends and there was no straw for the popular cola container.
Did you win the car, Mr Man? On the scratch and sniff thingy peel-offs?
“I would much sooner, much sooner live in Australia than anywhere else in the nation.”
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2021/jun/18/from-tubular-bells-to-horses-10-of-the-best-pieces-of-album-artwork
—-
Does not include Sgt Peppers.
Does not include Disraeli Gears.
sarahs mum said:
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2021/jun/18/from-tubular-bells-to-horses-10-of-the-best-pieces-of-album-artwork—-
Does not include Sgt Peppers.
Does not include Disraeli Gears.
But how could you possibly not include this in your top ten?
Bogsnorkler said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
sarahs mum said:
They didn’t make it across Scotland in a straight line DV. A farmer (who was Irish) let the police know that there were two Englishmen not locked down.They got halfway with a max 14m deviation.
Is ‘straight line’ walking a thing outside of this attempt in Scotland?
big in the USA. usually after you get stopped for suspected DUI.
Germany too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unseSFWjuqs
Woodie said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Well that was delicious although I did mark it down slightly because I got tomato ends and there was no straw for the popular cola container.
Did you win the car, Mr Man? On the scratch and sniff thingy peel-offs?
Do you think he would swap it for the Triton, or just put it on ebay?
sarahs mum said:
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2021/jun/18/from-tubular-bells-to-horses-10-of-the-best-pieces-of-album-artwork—-
Does not include Sgt Peppers.
Does not include Disraeli Gears.
The Fleet Foxes one is a bit of a cheat isn’t it?
My daughter would approve of the Patti Smith one.
The Rev Dodgson said:
sarahs mum said:
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2021/jun/18/from-tubular-bells-to-horses-10-of-the-best-pieces-of-album-artwork—-
Does not include Sgt Peppers.
Does not include Disraeli Gears.
The Fleet Foxes one is a bit of a cheat isn’t it?
My daughter would approve of the Patti Smith one.
I think calling it for Bruegal is a bit rich too.
Woodie said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Well that was delicious although I did mark it down slightly because I got tomato ends and there was no straw for the popular cola container.
Did you win the car, Mr Man? On the scratch and sniff thingy peel-offs?
What? the packaging is all in the bin and I aint going outside again tonight.
Peak Warming Man said:
Woodie said:Peak Warming Man said:
Well that was delicious although I did mark it down slightly because I got tomato ends and there was no straw for the popular cola container.
Did you win the car, Mr Man? On the scratch and sniff thingy peel-offs?
What? the packaging is all in the bin and I aint going outside again tonight.
Apparently there’s eleventy seven magmillion dollars worth in prizes, Mr Man. So the tele tells me, anyway. You might have won the quadie. Better get out there before some feral neighbourhood kid raids the bin lookin’ for Hungry Jacks scratchies.
sarahs mum said:
They didn’t make it across Scotland in a straight line DV. A farmer (who was Irish) let the police know that there were two Englishmen not locked down.They got halfway with a max 14m deviation.
Punchline needs work
Evening, going to test to see which is cheaper to heat the house this week, split system A/C (2× 9kW @ 20 degrees) or the ducted gas. Fun times.
poikilotherm said:
Evening, going to test to see which is cheaper to heat the house this week, split system A/C (2× 9kW @ 20 degrees) or the ducted gas. Fun times.
Are you going to do day and day about? Or have you already done a week of one of them?
And my brain went on to think about being cold. On the night I’d had my AZ I had cold feet. This is not something I normally have trouble with. If I wear socks to bed, I almost invariably have to take them off after about an hour, sometimes less. That night I could not get my feet warm. In the end I had socks on and I also put a small rug under the blankets around my feet as well. It was very odd. And I can’t think of any way that could be part of an immune response. My feet were back to their normal hot selves the next night and since.
poikilotherm said:
Evening, going to test to see which is cheaper to heat the house this week, split system A/C (2× 9kW @ 20 degrees) or the ducted gas. Fun times.
How are you going to calculate it, Mr Poiky?
I remember the old dart throwers used to have something on a string that they used to swing around to measure something.
Peak Warming Man said:
I remember the old dart throwers used to have something on a string that they used to swing around to measure something.
It was a cat, Mr Man. On the end of the string. For when they tried to measure the room.
sarahs mum said:
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2021/jun/18/from-tubular-bells-to-horses-10-of-the-best-pieces-of-album-artwork—-
Does not include Sgt Peppers.
Does not include Disraeli Gears.
you would actually buy albums for their covers.
—
Nah
Peak Warming Man said:
I remember the old dart throwers used to have something on a string that they used to swing around to measure something.
maybe a sling psychrometer
buffy said:
poikilotherm said:
Evening, going to test to see which is cheaper to heat the house this week, split system A/C (2× 9kW @ 20 degrees) or the ducted gas. Fun times.
Are you going to do day and day about? Or have you already done a week of one of them?
I just entered some meter readings before I switched over. I’ll do the same this time next week and see, it’ll be close enough to comparable weatherwise.
Woodie said:
poikilotherm said:
Evening, going to test to see which is cheaper to heat the house this week, split system A/C (2× 9kW @ 20 degrees) or the ducted gas. Fun times.
How are you going to calculate it, Mr Poiky?
Meter reads and the resulting cost for that week. The power provider lets you do your own meter reads (how nice of them…) but in this case, it’ll be useful, I think.
buffy said:
And my brain went on to think about being cold. On the night I’d had my AZ I had cold feet. This is not something I normally have trouble with. If I wear socks to bed, I almost invariably have to take them off after about an hour, sometimes less. That night I could not get my feet warm. In the end I had socks on and I also put a small rug under the blankets around my feet as well. It was very odd. And I can’t think of any way that could be part of an immune response. My feet were back to their normal hot selves the next night and since.
Blood circulation, low blood pressure perhaps?
poikilotherm said:
Woodie said:
poikilotherm said:
Evening, going to test to see which is cheaper to heat the house this week, split system A/C (2× 9kW @ 20 degrees) or the ducted gas. Fun times.
How are you going to calculate it, Mr Poiky?
Meter reads and the resulting cost for that week. The power provider lets you do your own meter reads (how nice of them…) but in this case, it’ll be useful, I think.
Silly question, I know, but have you read the gas meter too?
poikilotherm said:
Evening, going to test to see which is cheaper to heat the house this week, split system A/C (2× 9kW @ 20 degrees) or the ducted gas. Fun times.
Ducted gas..
.. with a wiff of the final solution
btm said:
poikilotherm said:
Woodie said:How are you going to calculate it, Mr Poiky?
Meter reads and the resulting cost for that week. The power provider lets you do your own meter reads (how nice of them…) but in this case, it’ll be useful, I think.
Silly question, I know, but have you read the gas meter too?
Yes, luckily they are right next to each other.
Ian said:
poikilotherm said:
Evening, going to test to see which is cheaper to heat the house this week, split system A/C (2× 9kW @ 20 degrees) or the ducted gas. Fun times.
Ducted gas..
.. with a wiff of the final solution
I think that may be overstating poikilotherm’s impact on climate change.
One of my female fire vollies is returning to Germany due to her visa conditions, and doesn’t know when or if she’ll be back. I am very dissappoint as she is one of my best firefighters and admin people. I have already tried to promote her to Lieutenant, but she has declined due to not being able to fulfill the role while away.
Now I am writing a recommendation letter to some volunteer fire Captain in Germany about how good she is.
I am not happy about it, and if she is not back within 3 months, I will be petitioning the Australian Government to invade Germany to get her back.
My fans here probably remember that a couple of weeks ago I was pondering over the “reservor” pronunciation of Reservoir
Apparently that’s the correct pronunciation for the town of Reservoir, the Melbourne suburb.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/jun/17/from-res-er-vwah-to-lawnceston-butchering-the-names-of-places-australians-call-home?CMP=soc_567
Then again the article fucks up some other things so maybe they are wrong about that as well.
Article says:
“The actual name is pronounced Res-er-vore, rhymes with door, with the -voir pronounced like the Latin term voir dire.”
Cool cool cool except
1/ voir dire is Anglo-French. How could you think it was Latin? Doesn’t even look Latin.
2/ voir dire IS mainly pronounced vwah deer.
sibeen said:
Ian said:
poikilotherm said:
Evening, going to test to see which is cheaper to heat the house this week, split system A/C (2× 9kW @ 20 degrees) or the ducted gas. Fun times.
Ducted gas..
.. with a wiff of the final solution
I think that may be overstating poikilotherm’s impact on climate change.
Could give it a run, I’ve used 16500 MJ since 30 April and usually use around 32-34000MJ over Winter.
dv said:
My fans here probably remember that a couple of weeks ago I was pondering over the “reservor” pronunciation of Reservoir
Apparently that’s the correct pronunciation for the town of Reservoir, the Melbourne suburb.https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/jun/17/from-res-er-vwah-to-lawnceston-butchering-the-names-of-places-australians-call-home?CMP=soc_567
Then again the article fucks up some other things so maybe they are wrong about that as well.
Article says:
“The actual name is pronounced Res-er-vore, rhymes with door, with the -voir pronounced like the Latin term voir dire.”
Cool cool cool except
1/ voir dire is Anglo-French. How could you think it was Latin? Doesn’t even look Latin.
2/ voir dire IS mainly pronounced vwah deer.
So what have you decided?
dv said:
My fans here probably remember that a couple of weeks ago I was pondering over the “reservor” pronunciation of Reservoir
Apparently that’s the correct pronunciation for the town of Reservoir, the Melbourne suburb.https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/jun/17/from-res-er-vwah-to-lawnceston-butchering-the-names-of-places-australians-call-home?CMP=soc_567
Then again the article fucks up some other things so maybe they are wrong about that as well.
Article says:
“The actual name is pronounced Res-er-vore, rhymes with door, with the -voir pronounced like the Latin term voir dire.”
Cool cool cool except
1/ voir dire is Anglo-French. How could you think it was Latin? Doesn’t even look Latin.
2/ voir dire IS mainly pronounced vwah deer.
I’ve always pronounced it res-ev-war and have never got strange looks from startled locals.
One large bowl of hearty slow cooked lamb shank broth coming up. It’s been on the cook since 10 o’clock this morning. :)
Woodie said:
One large bowl of hearty slow cooked lamb shank broth coming up. It’s been on the cook since 10 o’clock this morning. :)
:)
All I have eaten today is porridge.
sarahs mum said:
Woodie said:
One large bowl of hearty slow cooked lamb shank broth coming up. It’s been on the cook since 10 o’clock this morning. :)
:)
All I have eaten today is porridge.
I have eaten no porridge today.
party_pants said:
sarahs mum said:
Woodie said:
One large bowl of hearty slow cooked lamb shank broth coming up. It’s been on the cook since 10 o’clock this morning. :)
:)
All I have eaten today is porridge.
I have eaten no porridge today.
I had a nice first time dish. sliced leek, ~3mm. Sliced mushrooms, ~5mm. Chicken thighs, boneless. place leeks and mushrooms evenly on the base of an ovenproof dish, mine is ~50mm deep x 280mm x 280mm. place chook on top spread our to cover. pour ~200ml of thickened cream over. add some sage and salt. add some knobs of butter on top. bake until cooked.
Bogsnorkler said:
party_pants said:
sarahs mum said::)
All I have eaten today is porridge.
I have eaten no porridge today.
I had a nice first time dish. sliced leek, ~3mm. Sliced mushrooms, ~5mm. Chicken thighs, boneless. place leeks and mushrooms evenly on the base of an ovenproof dish, mine is ~50mm deep x 280mm x 280mm. place chook on top spread our to cover. pour ~200ml of thickened cream over. add some sage and salt. add some knobs of butter on top. bake until cooked.
Sounds good.
Bogsnorkler said:
party_pants said:
sarahs mum said::)
All I have eaten today is porridge.
I have eaten no porridge today.
I had a nice first time dish. sliced leek, ~3mm. Sliced mushrooms, ~5mm. Chicken thighs, boneless. place leeks and mushrooms evenly on the base of an ovenproof dish, mine is ~50mm deep x 280mm x 280mm. place chook on top spread our to cover. pour ~200ml of thickened cream over. add some sage and salt. add some knobs of butter on top. bake until cooked.
Sounds nom noms. Any leftovers?
Woodie said:
Bogsnorkler said:
party_pants said:I have eaten no porridge today.
I had a nice first time dish. sliced leek, ~3mm. Sliced mushrooms, ~5mm. Chicken thighs, boneless. place leeks and mushrooms evenly on the base of an ovenproof dish, mine is ~50mm deep x 280mm x 280mm. place chook on top spread our to cover. pour ~200ml of thickened cream over. add some sage and salt. add some knobs of butter on top. bake until cooked.
Sounds nom noms. Any leftovers?
yep, plenty for another meal.
I am reading a biography of Kingsford-Smith and happened to note that in 1928 he failed to break the aircraft endurance record, which was then 52 hours 22 minutes without refueling. That’s a rather long time. I thought I’d look it up.
Discounting solar impulse 2, because 2015 is after 1986. Discounting that, there is only one airplane endurance record since the year 1931.
The Rutan Voyager was retired in 1987. So I wonder what the endurance record would be today, in crewed aircraft currently in flying condition.
Interesting.
Witty Rejoinder said:
dv said:
My fans here probably remember that a couple of weeks ago I was pondering over the “reservor” pronunciation of Reservoir
Apparently that’s the correct pronunciation for the town of Reservoir, the Melbourne suburb.https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/jun/17/from-res-er-vwah-to-lawnceston-butchering-the-names-of-places-australians-call-home?CMP=soc_567
Then again the article fucks up some other things so maybe they are wrong about that as well.
Article says:
“The actual name is pronounced Res-er-vore, rhymes with door, with the -voir pronounced like the Latin term voir dire.”
Cool cool cool except
1/ voir dire is Anglo-French. How could you think it was Latin? Doesn’t even look Latin.
2/ voir dire IS mainly pronounced vwah deer.
I’ve always pronounced it res-ev-war and have never got strange looks from startled locals.
I’d have written that rez-ev-or. There is are Melbourne Water rez-ev-wahs at rez-ev-or.
party_pants said:
sarahs mum said:
Woodie said:
One large bowl of hearty slow cooked lamb shank broth coming up. It’s been on the cook since 10 o’clock this morning. :)
:)
All I have eaten today is porridge.
I have eaten no porridge today.
I don’t eat porridge.
Raining outside. Getting heavier.
sarahs mum said:
dv said:
My fans here probably remember that a couple of weeks ago I was pondering over the “reservor” pronunciation of Reservoir
Apparently that’s the correct pronunciation for the town of Reservoir, the Melbourne suburb.https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/jun/17/from-res-er-vwah-to-lawnceston-butchering-the-names-of-places-australians-call-home?CMP=soc_567
Then again the article fucks up some other things so maybe they are wrong about that as well.
Article says:
“The actual name is pronounced Res-er-vore, rhymes with door, with the -voir pronounced like the Latin term voir dire.”
Cool cool cool except
1/ voir dire is Anglo-French. How could you think it was Latin? Doesn’t even look Latin.
2/ voir dire IS mainly pronounced vwah deer.
So what have you decided?
That
A) this article is not well researched but
B) it does seem Reservor is the standard pronunciation for the name of that suburb, no matter how dumb that is.
Witty Rejoinder said:
dv said:
My fans here probably remember that a couple of weeks ago I was pondering over the “reservor” pronunciation of Reservoir
Apparently that’s the correct pronunciation for the town of Reservoir, the Melbourne suburb.https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/jun/17/from-res-er-vwah-to-lawnceston-butchering-the-names-of-places-australians-call-home?CMP=soc_567
Then again the article fucks up some other things so maybe they are wrong about that as well.
Article says:
“The actual name is pronounced Res-er-vore, rhymes with door, with the -voir pronounced like the Latin term voir dire.”
Cool cool cool except
1/ voir dire is Anglo-French. How could you think it was Latin? Doesn’t even look Latin.
2/ voir dire IS mainly pronounced vwah deer.
I’ve always pronounced it res-ev-war and have never got strange looks from startled locals.
Perhaps you exude an air of authority.
Lachlan in Tasmania is pronounced Lacklan.
dv said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
dv said:
My fans here probably remember that a couple of weeks ago I was pondering over the “reservor” pronunciation of Reservoir
Apparently that’s the correct pronunciation for the town of Reservoir, the Melbourne suburb.https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/jun/17/from-res-er-vwah-to-lawnceston-butchering-the-names-of-places-australians-call-home?CMP=soc_567
Then again the article fucks up some other things so maybe they are wrong about that as well.
Article says:
“The actual name is pronounced Res-er-vore, rhymes with door, with the -voir pronounced like the Latin term voir dire.”
Cool cool cool except
1/ voir dire is Anglo-French. How could you think it was Latin? Doesn’t even look Latin.
2/ voir dire IS mainly pronounced vwah deer.
I’ve always pronounced it res-ev-war and have never got strange looks from startled locals.
Perhaps you exude an air of authority.
There is that.
dv said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
dv said:
My fans here probably remember that a couple of weeks ago I was pondering over the “reservor” pronunciation of Reservoir
Apparently that’s the correct pronunciation for the town of Reservoir, the Melbourne suburb.https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/jun/17/from-res-er-vwah-to-lawnceston-butchering-the-names-of-places-australians-call-home?CMP=soc_567
Then again the article fucks up some other things so maybe they are wrong about that as well.
Article says:
“The actual name is pronounced Res-er-vore, rhymes with door, with the -voir pronounced like the Latin term voir dire.”
Cool cool cool except
1/ voir dire is Anglo-French. How could you think it was Latin? Doesn’t even look Latin.
2/ voir dire IS mainly pronounced vwah deer.
I’ve always pronounced it res-ev-war and have never got strange looks from startled locals.
Perhaps you exude an air of authority.
exudes something.
Talking of getting names wrong:
sarahs mum said:
Lachlan in Tasmania is pronounced Lacklan.
Now I understand why my Tassie mate Trev tried to convince us that RuleKid1’s name should be pronounced ‘lacklan’.
‘sif that was ever going to happen.
buffy said:
party_pants said:
sarahs mum said::)
All I have eaten today is porridge.
I have eaten no porridge today.
I don’t eat porridge.
I have not done porridge for a number of years.
btm said:
buffy said:
party_pants said:I have eaten no porridge today.
I don’t eat porridge.
I have not done porridge for a number of years.
Therapy worked then?
btm said:
buffy said:
party_pants said:I have eaten no porridge today.
I don’t eat porridge.
I have not done porridge for a number of years.
I eat raw rolled oats with dried fruit most mornings. Seems like a good thing.
dv said:
sarahs mum said:
dv said:
My fans here probably remember that a couple of weeks ago I was pondering over the “reservor” pronunciation of Reservoir
Apparently that’s the correct pronunciation for the town of Reservoir, the Melbourne suburb.https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/jun/17/from-res-er-vwah-to-lawnceston-butchering-the-names-of-places-australians-call-home?CMP=soc_567
Then again the article fucks up some other things so maybe they are wrong about that as well.
Article says:
“The actual name is pronounced Res-er-vore, rhymes with door, with the -voir pronounced like the Latin term voir dire.”
Cool cool cool except
1/ voir dire is Anglo-French. How could you think it was Latin? Doesn’t even look Latin.
2/ voir dire IS mainly pronounced vwah deer.
So what have you decided?
That
A) this article is not well researched but
B) it does seem Reservor is the standard pronunciation for the name of that suburb, no matter how dumb that is.
I was born in a town called Sebastopol, now a suburb of Ballaarat. At various times I’ve heard people who’d just moved there try to correct my/others’ pronunciation of the town/suburb’s name; similarly the nearby town (and now TN’s city of residence) Creswick: a woman newly arrived from Adelaide tried to tell us that its correct pronunciation was similar to that of Keswick, SA.
However you think the name should be pronounced, the locals are always right.
poikilotherm said:
btm said:
buffy said:I don’t eat porridge.
I have not done porridge for a number of years.
Therapy worked then?
Nah, just haven’t been caught.
btm said:
buffy said:
party_pants said:I have eaten no porridge today.
I don’t eat porridge.
I have not done porridge for a number of years.
Me too. About 40 years. Last time was when my Aunt stayed with us for a few weeks.
went to the new air and space museum in perth. it was just a big empty shed.
Rule 303 said:
btm said:
buffy said:I don’t eat porridge.
I have not done porridge for a number of years.
I eat raw rolled oats with dried fruit most mornings. Seems like a good thing.
Same here.
Bogsnorkler said:
went to the new air and space museum in perth. it was just a big empty shed.
Damn you. The mention of a new museum in Perth had my hopes up.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Talking of getting names wrong:
Hate that sketch. Not funny.
Rule 303 said:
btm said:
buffy said:I don’t eat porridge.
I have not done porridge for a number of years.
I eat raw rolled oats with dried fruit most mornings. Seems like a good thing.
Yuck. They stick to your tongue.
Bogsnorkler said:
went to the new air and space museum in perth. it was just a big empty shed.
Let NSW gov know about that.
An air&space museum at the Powerhouse could save a fortune.
Bogsnorkler said:
dv said:
Witty Rejoinder said:I’ve always pronounced it res-ev-war and have never got strange looks from startled locals.
Perhaps you exude an air of authority.
exudes something.
Charm, good looks: I’ve got it all covered.
btm said:
dv said:
sarahs mum said:So what have you decided?
That
A) this article is not well researched but
B) it does seem Reservor is the standard pronunciation for the name of that suburb, no matter how dumb that is.I was born in a town called Sebastopol, now a suburb of Ballaarat. At various times I’ve heard people who’d just moved there try to correct my/others’ pronunciation of the town/suburb’s name; similarly the nearby town (and now TN’s city of residence) Creswick: a woman newly arrived from Adelaide tried to tell us that its correct pronunciation was similar to that of Keswick, SA.
However you think the name should be pronounced, the locals are always right.
Sure, just ask Mackay
The Rev Dodgson said:
Bogsnorkler said:
went to the new air and space museum in perth. it was just a big empty shed.
Let NSW gov know about that.
An air&space museum at the Powerhouse could save a fortune.
I wrote a Good Scientist Cartoon about that.
dv said:
btm said:
dv said:That
A) this article is not well researched but
B) it does seem Reservor is the standard pronunciation for the name of that suburb, no matter how dumb that is.I was born in a town called Sebastopol, now a suburb of Ballaarat. At various times I’ve heard people who’d just moved there try to correct my/others’ pronunciation of the town/suburb’s name; similarly the nearby town (and now TN’s city of residence) Creswick: a woman newly arrived from Adelaide tried to tell us that its correct pronunciation was similar to that of Keswick, SA.
However you think the name should be pronounced, the locals are always right.
Sure, just ask Mackay
i’ll get my man Chumley onto it.
Sarah took the kids to the dark feast. Henry ate chargrilled octopus on a stick. Sarah ate smoked and grilled cauliflower with cheese sauce and truffles.
sarahs mum said:
Sarah took the kids to the dark feast. Henry ate chargrilled octopus on a stick. Sarah ate smoked and grilled cauliflower with cheese sauce and truffles.
Didn’t they have any food there?
sarahs mum said:
Sarah took the kids to the dark feast. Henry ate chargrilled octopus on a stick. Sarah ate smoked and grilled cauliflower with cheese sauce and truffles.
I suppse that’s better than chagrined octopus.
mollwollfumble said:
sarahs mum said:
Sarah took the kids to the dark feast. Henry ate chargrilled octopus on a stick. Sarah ate smoked and grilled cauliflower with cheese sauce and truffles.
I suppse that’s better than chagrined octopus.
or shagreened shark.
I guess Mr Beeny Boy is off mopping up that little bit of wee that came out towards the end of the third quarter.
furious said:
sarahs mum said:
Sarah took the kids to the dark feast. Henry ate chargrilled octopus on a stick. Sarah ate smoked and grilled cauliflower with cheese sauce and truffles.
Didn’t they have any food there?
I don’t know. sarah said the queues were worse than previous years.
Tribal People Try 4th Grader’s Favorite Snacks For The First Time
What snacks did you take to school?
We used to herd camels and beat each other to death.
sarahs mum said:
Sarah took the kids to the dark feast. Henry ate chargrilled octopus on a stick. Sarah ate smoked and grilled cauliflower with cheese sauce and truffles.
Sounds lovely.
sarahs mum said:
Sarah took the kids to the dark feast. Henry ate chargrilled octopus on a stick. Sarah ate smoked and grilled cauliflower with cheese sauce and truffles.
Noice
https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/that-viral-video-of-toads-hitchhiking-on-a-friendly-python-is-actually-pure-filth/
Remember farnarkeling?
dv said:
Remember farnarkeling?
John Clarke?
dv said:
Remember farnarkeling?
not really.
dv said:
Remember farnarkeling?
How could you not?
Rule 303 said:
dv said:
Remember farnarkeling?
How could you not?
Organisers said that this was the first time since the function’s inception that the award had been taken internally.
dv said:
Rule 303 said:
dv said:
Remember farnarkeling?
How could you not?
Organisers said that this was the first time since the function’s inception that the award had been taken internally.
hope it didn’t have any pointy bits.
Morning pilgrims, another spiffing winters day in the Pearl.
All that stuff about pronunciation of places names…
The joke about the German chap who visited London to improve his English.
Spend days struggling with the contradictory spellings and pronunciations of English words.
Just when he thought he’d mastered it, he saw poster on a theatre that said ‘Hamlet: pronounced success!’, and he fainted.
Good morning Holidayers. Six degrees and overcast. Forecast is for 13 and partly cloudy.
Washing almost dried overnight on the line. So cutting up of fallen timber will be happening this morning because it should be dryish on the outside now.
Peak Warming Man said:
Morning pilgrims, another spiffing winters day in the Pearl.
Morning PWM et al.
At 0700 it was 10° on the verandah & 16° inside the house. Haven’t lit the fire yet this winter.
well….
Bogsnorkler said:
well….
Tamb said:
Bogsnorkler said:
well….
Yes. Thanks for asking.
Good.
Witty Rejoinder said:
Tamb said:
Bogsnorkler said:
well….
Yes. Thanks for asking.
Good.
after we talked of porridge a few days ago I decided to have some this morn. very nice with golden syrup.
Tamb said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Tamb said:Yes. Thanks for asking.
Good.
I am that too.
Heh.
Bogsnorkler said:
after we talked of porridge a few days ago I decided to have some this morn. very nice with golden syrup.
Yeah. Great on a chilly winter morning.
dv said:
Remember farnarkeling?
How could we forget?
The Rev Dodgson said:
dv said:
Remember farnarkeling?
How could we forget?
Farnarkling, originally invented by Alfred Nobel in 1886 and subsequently popularised by Max Gilles and BBC Radio 5, is a sport for two, three or sometimes four teams of eleven players, three of which must remain on the bench at all times.
Tamb said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Tamb said:Yes. Thanks for asking.
Good.
I am that too.
No he’s not. He’s very naughty boy.
Michael V said:
Tamb said:
Witty Rejoinder said:Good.
I am that too.No he’s not. He’s very naughty boy.
Tamb said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
dv said:
Remember farnarkeling?
How could we forget?
Farnarkling, originally invented by Alfred Nobel in 1886 and subsequently popularised by Max Gilles and BBC Radio 5, is a sport for two, three or sometimes four teams of eleven players, three of which must remain on the bench at all times.
Invented in 1886?
It was invented in Mesopotamia (which is somewhere between the Murray and Darling rivers).
Surely it must be much older than that?
The Rev Dodgson said:
Tamb said:
The Rev Dodgson said:How could we forget?
Farnarkling, originally invented by Alfred Nobel in 1886 and subsequently popularised by Max Gilles and BBC Radio 5, is a sport for two, three or sometimes four teams of eleven players, three of which must remain on the bench at all times.
Invented in 1886?
It was invented in Mesopotamia (which is somewhere between the Murray and Darling rivers).
Surely it must be much older than that?
The Rev Dodgson said:
Tamb said:
The Rev Dodgson said:How could we forget?
Farnarkling, originally invented by Alfred Nobel in 1886 and subsequently popularised by Max Gilles and BBC Radio 5, is a sport for two, three or sometimes four teams of eleven players, three of which must remain on the bench at all times.
Invented in 1886?
It was invented in Mesopotamia (which is somewhere between the Murray and Darling rivers).
Surely it must be much older than that?
But searching for Tamb’s alternative history I discover that:
“The first bi-annual Farnakling World Cup (the Glenn Ward Cup) is scheduled to be played in Beaufort, Victoria, Australia in November 2021. “
so I have no idea what dv is on about.
Tamb said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Tamb said:Farnarkling, originally invented by Alfred Nobel in 1886 and subsequently popularised by Max Gilles and BBC Radio 5, is a sport for two, three or sometimes four teams of eleven players, three of which must remain on the bench at all times.
Invented in 1886?
It was invented in Mesopotamia (which is somewhere between the Murray and Darling rivers).
Surely it must be much older than that?
I saw that but the connection seemed a bit tenuous.
Maybe like the modern Olympics v the ancient.
Good point
Tamb said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Tamb said:Farnarkling, originally invented by Alfred Nobel in 1886 and subsequently popularised by Max Gilles and BBC Radio 5, is a sport for two, three or sometimes four teams of eleven players, three of which must remain on the bench at all times.
Invented in 1886?
It was invented in Mesopotamia (which is somewhere between the Murray and Darling rivers).
Surely it must be much older than that?
I saw that but the connection seemed a bit tenuous.
Maybe like the modern Olympics v the ancient.
it’s never been the same since Dave Sorenson retired.
Neophyte said:
Tamb said:
The Rev Dodgson said:Invented in 1886?
It was invented in Mesopotamia (which is somewhere between the Murray and Darling rivers).
Surely it must be much older than that?
I saw that but the connection seemed a bit tenuous.
Maybe like the modern Olympics v the ancient.it’s never been the same since Dave Sorenson retired.
yeah, I went to a game just to watch him but someone told me “Dave’s not here, man”. gutted I was.
Bogsnorkler said:
Neophyte said:
Tamb said:I saw that but the connection seemed a bit tenuous.
Maybe like the modern Olympics v the ancient.it’s never been the same since Dave Sorenson retired.
yeah, I went to a game just to watch him but someone told me “Dave’s not here, man”. gutted I was.
John Clarke only espoused it to give NZ something else to beat Aust at.
Bogsnorkler said:
Neophyte said:
Tamb said:I saw that but the connection seemed a bit tenuous.
Maybe like the modern Olympics v the ancient.it’s never been the same since Dave Sorenson retired.
yeah, I went to a game just to watch him but someone told me “Dave’s not here, man”. gutted I was.
:)
Did you see the am-bu-lance?
Tamb said:
the modern Olympics
oh that reminds us
yeah not too sure about that
Morning Sundays. :)
20.3C & 45% indoors
19.1C & 53% outdoors
1018 hPa and steady
Bitta cloud, Bitta breeze and no moolies.
Headed for 21C
this morning has spoken
is blackbirds’n others too
honeyeater also I reckon
spiny-cheeked warble do
I think jobs they be sayin’
had better get to ‘em you
will’t turn idea into action
so’ll go now I make’t true
Got more fungi about as it’s getting wetter. I’m not sure on this one, I’ll call it Marasmius for now.
And this has got to be one of the Tremella (jelly fungi)
Neophyte said:
Tamb said:
The Rev Dodgson said:Invented in 1886?
It was invented in Mesopotamia (which is somewhere between the Murray and Darling rivers).
Surely it must be much older than that?
I saw that but the connection seemed a bit tenuous.
Maybe like the modern Olympics v the ancient.it’s never been the same since Dave Sorenson retired.
Oh good lord, that’s a phenomenal arkle!
https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-discover-a-brand-new-plant-part-in-a-plant-we-ve-been-studying-for-over-100-years
OK time for breakfast. I’ve already composed 12 x bars of dance and tried out the re-set rebec frets, finding that d on the second string (second fret) is still too sharp.
shakes fist at unknown factors
went for a drive. Ironstone Gully Falls.
Bubblecar said:
OK time for breakfast. I’ve already composed 12 x bars of dance and tried out the re-set rebec frets, finding that d on the second string (second fret) is still too sharp.shakes fist at unknown factors
It’s not quantum mechanics. As you know, it’s not fret spacing alone but also fret height + string height above fingerboard as determined by nut and bridge. If you’ve made the corrective fret too high it will sharpen the note anyway when the string is depressed.
Bogsnorkler said:
went for a drive. Ironstone Gully Falls.
That looks good & wet. I hope you were wearing your wellingtons.
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
OK time for breakfast. I’ve already composed 12 x bars of dance and tried out the re-set rebec frets, finding that d on the second string (second fret) is still too sharp.shakes fist at unknown factors
It’s not quantum mechanics. As you know, it’s not fret spacing alone but also fret height + string height above fingerboard as determined by nut and bridge. If you’ve made the corrective fret too high it will sharpen the note anyway when the string is depressed.
No it’s not quantum mechanics, it’s string theory. And what works in theory doesn’t necessarily work in practice.
Bogsnorkler said:
went for a drive. Ironstone Gully Falls.
Nice spot for a picnic. :)
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
OK time for breakfast. I’ve already composed 12 x bars of dance and tried out the re-set rebec frets, finding that d on the second string (second fret) is still too sharp.shakes fist at unknown factors
It’s not quantum mechanics. As you know, it’s not fret spacing alone but also fret height + string height above fingerboard as determined by nut and bridge. If you’ve made the corrective fret too high it will sharpen the note anyway when the string is depressed.
No it’s not quantum mechanics, it’s string theory. And what works in theory doesn’t necessarily work in practice.
Hehehehe
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
OK time for breakfast. I’ve already composed 12 x bars of dance and tried out the re-set rebec frets, finding that d on the second string (second fret) is still too sharp.shakes fist at unknown factors
It’s not quantum mechanics. As you know, it’s not fret spacing alone but also fret height + string height above fingerboard as determined by nut and bridge. If you’ve made the corrective fret too high it will sharpen the note anyway when the string is depressed.
No it’s not quantum mechanics, it’s string theory. And what works in theory doesn’t necessarily work in practice.
Ha!
Woodie said:
Bogsnorkler said:
went for a drive. Ironstone Gully Falls.
Nice spot for a picnic. :)
it was set up as a recreation spot in 1903 for capel residents. the water has a 37% iron content.
sibeen said:
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:It’s not quantum mechanics. As you know, it’s not fret spacing alone but also fret height + string height above fingerboard as determined by nut and bridge. If you’ve made the corrective fret too high it will sharpen the note anyway when the string is depressed.
No it’s not quantum mechanics, it’s string theory. And what works in theory doesn’t necessarily work in practice.
Hehehehe
we thought all that wave function shit really was just quantum mechanics
Bogsnorkler said:
Woodie said:
Bogsnorkler said:
went for a drive. Ironstone Gully Falls.
Nice spot for a picnic. :)
it was set up as a recreation spot in 1903 for capel residents. the water has a 37% iron content.
I seriously doubt that the water has a 37% iron content.
Bogsnorkler said:
Woodie said:
Bogsnorkler said:
went for a drive. Ironstone Gully Falls.
Nice spot for a picnic. :)
it was set up as a recreation spot in 1903 for capel residents. the water has a 37% iron content.
magnetic water???
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
OK time for breakfast. I’ve already composed 12 x bars of dance and tried out the re-set rebec frets, finding that d on the second string (second fret) is still too sharp.shakes fist at unknown factors
It’s not quantum mechanics. As you know, it’s not fret spacing alone but also fret height + string height above fingerboard as determined by nut and bridge. If you’ve made the corrective fret too high it will sharpen the note anyway when the string is depressed.
No it’s not quantum mechanics, it’s string theory. And what works in theory doesn’t necessarily work in practice.
But string theory ultimately just becomes quantum mechanics.
And if the theory doesn’t work in practice then it needs to be modified so that it does.
SCIENCE said:
sibeen said:
Bubblecar said:No it’s not quantum mechanics, it’s string theory. And what works in theory doesn’t necessarily work in practice.
Hehehehe
we thought all that wave function shit really was just quantum mechanics
Damn
Beaten by SCIENCE again.
Michael V said:
Bogsnorkler said:
Woodie said:Nice spot for a picnic. :)
it was set up as a recreation spot in 1903 for capel residents. the water has a 37% iron content.
I seriously doubt that the water has a 37% iron content.
sorry I misread the sign, must be the rock and it is 38%
Michael V said:
https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-discover-a-brand-new-plant-part-in-a-plant-we-ve-been-studying-for-over-100-years
Interesting.
Sometimes observation can take a while.
100 years sounds about right.
Woodie said:
Bogsnorkler said:
Woodie said:Nice spot for a picnic. :)
it was set up as a recreation spot in 1903 for capel residents. the water has a 37% iron content.
magnetic water???
Heavy water.
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
OK time for breakfast. I’ve already composed 12 x bars of dance and tried out the re-set rebec frets, finding that d on the second string (second fret) is still too sharp.shakes fist at unknown factors
It’s not quantum mechanics. As you know, it’s not fret spacing alone but also fret height + string height above fingerboard as determined by nut and bridge. If you’ve made the corrective fret too high it will sharpen the note anyway when the string is depressed.
No it’s not quantum mechanics, it’s string theory. And what works in theory doesn’t necessarily work in practice.
:)
Bogsnorkler said:
Michael V said:
Bogsnorkler said:it was set up as a recreation spot in 1903 for capel residents. the water has a 37% iron content.
I seriously doubt that the water has a 37% iron content.
sorry I misread the sign, must be the rock and it is 38%
I thought that even 38% iron in the rock seemed pretty high, but the Internet tells me that:
“The iron content of these ores varies widely and until recently most deposits needed to have an average grade of more than 60% iron for mining to be commercially viable.”
Bogsnorkler said:
Michael V said:
Bogsnorkler said:it was set up as a recreation spot in 1903 for capel residents. the water has a 37% iron content.
I seriously doubt that the water has a 37% iron content.
sorry I misread the sign, must be the rock and it is 38%
Yes, likely it’s the iron content of the ironstone.
Tau.Neutrino said:
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:It’s not quantum mechanics. As you know, it’s not fret spacing alone but also fret height + string height above fingerboard as determined by nut and bridge. If you’ve made the corrective fret too high it will sharpen the note anyway when the string is depressed.
No it’s not quantum mechanics, it’s string theory. And what works in theory doesn’t necessarily work in practice.
:)
What I should have said was of course:
If it doesn’t work in practice, you need to practice more.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Bubblecar said:No it’s not quantum mechanics, it’s string theory. And what works in theory doesn’t necessarily work in practice.
:)
What I should have said was of course:
If it doesn’t work in practice, you need to practice more.
The trick is to mathematically reconfigure each string not as a single string but as a statistical ensemble of strings, and think of each fret as a gravitational anomaly of value F.
A dynamic general relativistic map of the fingerboard combined with a sum-over-histories reduction of all possible outcomes should tell you approximately what is going wrong, or not.
buffy said:
Got more fungi about as it’s getting wetter. I’m not sure on this one, I’ll call it Marasmius for now.
And this has got to be one of the Tremella (jelly fungi)
nice
few of honeyeaters coming down the driveway sunset yesterday, was new hollands also, wattle birds, and some wagtails
Bubblecar said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Tau.Neutrino said::)
What I should have said was of course:
If it doesn’t work in practice, you need to practice more.
The trick is to mathematically reconfigure each string not as a single string but as a statistical ensemble of strings, and think of each fret as a gravitational anomaly of value F.
A dynamic general relativistic map of the fingerboard combined with a sum-over-histories reduction of all possible outcomes should tell you approximately what is going wrong, or not.
Maybe just put the rebec aside for a while and do something else.
Bubblecar said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Tau.Neutrino said::)
What I should have said was of course:
If it doesn’t work in practice, you need to practice more.
The trick is to mathematically reconfigure each string not as a single string but as a statistical ensemble of strings, and think of each fret as a gravitational anomaly of value F.
A dynamic general relativistic map of the fingerboard combined with a sum-over-histories reduction of all possible outcomes should tell you approximately what is going wrong, or not.
:)
The Rev Dodgson said:
Bogsnorkler said:
Michael V said:I seriously doubt that the water has a 37% iron content.
sorry I misread the sign, must be the rock and it is 38%
I thought that even 38% iron in the rock seemed pretty high, but the Internet tells me that:
“The iron content of these ores varies widely and until recently most deposits needed to have an average grade of more than 60% iron for mining to be commercially viable.”
You can apparently weld the ore coming out of the pit in Newman, WA.
Dark Orange said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Bogsnorkler said:sorry I misread the sign, must be the rock and it is 38%
I thought that even 38% iron in the rock seemed pretty high, but the Internet tells me that:
“The iron content of these ores varies widely and until recently most deposits needed to have an average grade of more than 60% iron for mining to be commercially viable.”You can apparently weld the ore coming out of the pit in Newman, WA.
Not in any conventional sense of weld (unless you mean fuse with heat by melting). Even at it’s highest grade, it is still hematite (Fe2O3), which is, effectively, rust. Rust is not easily welded.
Bubblecar said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Tau.Neutrino said::)
What I should have said was of course:
If it doesn’t work in practice, you need to practice more.
The trick is to mathematically reconfigure each string not as a single string but as a statistical ensemble of strings, and think of each fret as a gravitational anomaly of value F.
A dynamic general relativistic map of the fingerboard combined with a sum-over-histories reduction of all possible outcomes should tell you approximately what is going wrong, or not.
Or you could just pluck, listen, adjust…
transition said:
buffy said:
Got more fungi about as it’s getting wetter. I’m not sure on this one, I’ll call it Marasmius for now.
And this has got to be one of the Tremella (jelly fungi)
nice
few of honeyeaters coming down the driveway sunset yesterday, was new hollands also, wattle birds, and some wagtails
The wattlebirds are very keen on my banksia bush at the moment. It’s got flowers.
buffy said:
Bubblecar said:
The Rev Dodgson said:What I should have said was of course:
If it doesn’t work in practice, you need to practice more.
The trick is to mathematically reconfigure each string not as a single string but as a statistical ensemble of strings, and think of each fret as a gravitational anomaly of value F.
A dynamic general relativistic map of the fingerboard combined with a sum-over-histories reduction of all possible outcomes should tell you approximately what is going wrong, or not.
Or you could just pluck, listen, adjust…
In real life that’s what I’m doing (although bowing gives a better idea than plucking :)).
Trouble is, “adjust” in this case means: detune offending string, remove from fingerboard, decide what to do about the fret. File it down, remove and try again? Maybe lower the nut or bridge a little, which means removing all strings, blah blah blah.
So you have to be prepared for a lot of mucking about.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-20/nature-school-changing-the-way-children-learn/100202750
I only looked at the pictures. I noted they were using paper and pencils for field notes. I see, right at the end of the piece, that they do use some tech.
buffy said:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-20/nature-school-changing-the-way-children-learn/100202750I only looked at the pictures. I noted they were using paper and pencils for field notes. I see, right at the end of the piece, that they do use some tech.
is that natural though
I think I’ve been largely ignorant of the separate work of composers and arrangers/orchestrators in a modern sense. In film and television it seems that the composer is often not doing the work of applying their tunes to an orchestra. Ben Foster did the orchestration for the Prometheus score.
dv said:
I think I’ve been largely ignorant of the separate work of composers and arrangers/orchestrators in a modern sense. In film and television it seems that the composer is often not doing the work of applying their tunes to an orchestra. Ben Foster did the orchestration for the Prometheus score.
I would assume it varies quite a lot. Some composers might do the whole thing, or various bits of the orchestration that still need an orchestrator to finish off. In others it might be the equivalent of a piano score that needs full orchestration. And of course there’ll be lots of editing required to fit in with the visuals and script etc.
Watching the Sarah Hanson Young road trip in the Tesla.
75% of all new vehicles in Norway are electric.
Less than 1% in Aus.
Oslo’s air is 30% cleaner than it was 10 years ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBi2ZX4LPk0
Bubblecar said:
dv said:
I think I’ve been largely ignorant of the separate work of composers and arrangers/orchestrators in a modern sense. In film and television it seems that the composer is often not doing the work of applying their tunes to an orchestra. Ben Foster did the orchestration for the Prometheus score.
I would assume it varies quite a lot. Some composers might do the whole thing, or various bits of the orchestration that still need an orchestrator to finish off. In others it might be the equivalent of a piano score that needs full orchestration. And of course there’ll be lots of editing required to fit in with the visuals and script etc.
This is one of my favourite pieces of music from a television score: the Greatest Story Never Told, from the Doctor Who episode Forest of the Dead. Murray Gold composed and Ben Foster orchestrated.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=8YONPpWj31s
sarahs mum said:
Watching the Sarah Hanson Young road trip in the Tesla.75% of all new vehicles in Norway are electric.
Less than 1% in Aus.Oslo’s air is 30% cleaner than it was 10 years ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBi2ZX4LPk0
Norway has had a 25% subsidy on electric vehicles since 2001.
Danny Elfman has been nominated for Acadamy Awards and Golden Globes and has won BAFTAS and Emmys for his television and film scores (Good Will Hunting, Batman, Justice League etc).
He’s somewhat decried as a “hummer”, a composer who can’t read or write music but has a team of people around him to turn his motifs into scores.
sarahs mum said:
sarahs mum said:
Watching the Sarah Hanson Young road trip in the Tesla.75% of all new vehicles in Norway are electric.
Less than 1% in Aus.Oslo’s air is 30% cleaner than it was 10 years ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBi2ZX4LPk0
Norway has had a 25% subsidy on electric vehicles since 2001.
Bear in mind their entire population is quite a lot smaller than that of Victoria. But yes, they have the right attitude.
sarahs mum said:
sarahs mum said:
Watching the Sarah Hanson Young road trip in the Tesla.75% of all new vehicles in Norway are electric.
Less than 1% in Aus.Oslo’s air is 30% cleaner than it was 10 years ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBi2ZX4LPk0
Norway has had a 25% subsidy on electric vehicles since 2001.
It’s interesting because Norway’s income is still mainly from oil. It’s a good example for Australia, I suppose: we can stop using coal while still exporting it.
dv said:
Danny Elfman has been nominated for Acadamy Awards and Golden Globes and has won BAFTAS and Emmys for his television and film scores (Good Will Hunting, Batman, Justice League etc).He’s somewhat decried as a “hummer”, a composer who can’t read or write music but has a team of people around him to turn his motifs into scores.
Bit like McCartney then, a complete n00b.
dv said:
sarahs mum said:
sarahs mum said:
Watching the Sarah Hanson Young road trip in the Tesla.75% of all new vehicles in Norway are electric.
Less than 1% in Aus.Oslo’s air is 30% cleaner than it was 10 years ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBi2ZX4LPk0
Norway has had a 25% subsidy on electric vehicles since 2001.
It’s interesting because Norway’s income is still mainly from oil. It’s a good example for Australia, I suppose: we can stop using coal while still exporting it.
Yeah, I was going to have a laugh about that. 25% subsidy – brought to you by your friendly oil and gas exporting company.
dv said:
Danny Elfman has been nominated for Acadamy Awards and Golden Globes and has won BAFTAS and Emmys for his television and film scores (Good Will Hunting, Batman, Justice League etc).He’s somewhat decried as a “hummer”, a composer who can’t read or write music but has a team of people around him to turn his motifs into scores.
Be a strange way to work.
dv said:
sarahs mum said:
sarahs mum said:
Watching the Sarah Hanson Young road trip in the Tesla.75% of all new vehicles in Norway are electric.
Less than 1% in Aus.Oslo’s air is 30% cleaner than it was 10 years ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBi2ZX4LPk0
Norway has had a 25% subsidy on electric vehicles since 2001.
It’s interesting because Norway’s income is still mainly from oil. It’s a good example for Australia, I suppose: we can stop using coal while still exporting it.
I’d forgotten that :)
I assume they’re working towards an alternative economic model eventually.
One officer said it was unusual for people to bring the metal balls used in the French sport of boules or petanque to a rave.
Two partygoers were hurt, including a 22-year-old man who lost a hand, but no further details were available. According to the authorities, five police officers were injured, two of whom were taken to hospital.
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Les grenouilles peuvent faire la fête
sibeen said:
dv said:
sarahs mum said:Norway has had a 25% subsidy on electric vehicles since 2001.
It’s interesting because Norway’s income is still mainly from oil. It’s a good example for Australia, I suppose: we can stop using coal while still exporting it.
Yeah, I was going to have a laugh about that. 25% subsidy – brought to you by your friendly oil and gas exporting company.
shit, that is pretty good that the fossil fuel industry is subsidising electric vehicles. do they do it on a similar scale in australia?
dv said:
Danny Elfman has been nominated for Acadamy Awards and Golden Globes and has won BAFTAS and Emmys for his television and film scores (Good Will Hunting, Batman, Justice League etc).He’s somewhat decried as a “hummer”, a composer who can’t read or write music but has a team of people around him to turn his motifs into scores.
I worked for one of those..
bummers
Bogsnorkler said:
sibeen said:
dv said:It’s interesting because Norway’s income is still mainly from oil. It’s a good example for Australia, I suppose: we can stop using coal while still exporting it.
Yeah, I was going to have a laugh about that. 25% subsidy – brought to you by your friendly oil and gas exporting company.
shit, that is pretty good that the fossil fuel industry is subsidising electric vehicles. do they do it on a similar scale in australia?
probably, out of the 4 electric cars bought in Australia last year, 1 was probably purchased by a fossil fuel industrialist
Prime Minister Scott Morrison attended that G7 plus meeting in Cornwall in south-west England insisting Australia was on the right path in terms of climate policy.
“Dealing with climate change isn’t that different to dealing with COVID-19,” Mr Morrison said.
“COVID-19, you need a vaccine. Climate change you need technologies that enable you to run your economies at net zero emissions, keep the jobs, keep the power, keep the lights on and keep your industry,” Mr Morrison said.
“We participated very positively in the discussion about climate change and we were able to demonstrate once again that Australia’s performance speaks loudly, 20 per cent reduction in emissions, over 50 per cent reduction in emissions intensity.”
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-20/marise-payne-emissions-policy-national-party-tension/100229158
sarahs mum said:
Watching the Sarah Hanson Young road trip in the Tesla.75% of all new vehicles in Norway are electric.
Less than 1% in Aus.Oslo’s air is 30% cleaner than it was 10 years ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBi2ZX4LPk0
NSW is going to be the Norway of Australia.
Or so says the state gov guy responsible for this stuff.
(To be fair, for a Lib, he’s pretty good).
dv said:
It’s interesting because Norway’s income is still mainly from oil. It’s a good example for Australia, I suppose: we can stop using coal while still exporting it.
Indeed, some would say it makes good economic sense to do that.
The Rev Dodgson said:
sarahs mum said:Watching the Sarah Hanson Young road trip in the Tesla.75% of all new vehicles in Norway are electric.
Less than 1% in Aus.Oslo’s air is 30% cleaner than it was 10 years ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBi2ZX4LPk0
NSW is going to be the Norway of Australia.
Or so says the state gov guy responsible for this stuff.
(To be fair, for a Lib, he’s pretty good).
not a TruLib then
SCIENCE said:
The Rev Dodgson said:sarahs mum said:Watching the Sarah Hanson Young road trip in the Tesla.75% of all new vehicles in Norway are electric.
Less than 1% in Aus.Oslo’s air is 30% cleaner than it was 10 years ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBi2ZX4LPk0
NSW is going to be the Norway of Australia.
Or so says the state gov guy responsible for this stuff.
(To be fair, for a Lib, he’s pretty good).
not a TruLib then
Possibly more of a trulib.
sarahs mum said:
Prime Minister Scott Morrison attended that G7 plus meeting in Cornwall in south-west England insisting Australia was on the right path in terms of climate policy.“Dealing with climate change isn’t that different to dealing with COVID-19,” Mr Morrison said.
“COVID-19, you need a vaccine. Climate change you need technologies that enable you to run your economies at net zero emissions, keep the jobs, keep the power, keep the lights on and keep your industry,” Mr Morrison said.
“We participated very positively in the discussion about climate change and we were able to demonstrate once again that Australia’s performance speaks loudly, 20 per cent reduction in emissions, over 50 per cent reduction in emissions intensity.”
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-20/marise-payne-emissions-policy-national-party-tension/100229158
20% reduction?
https://www.industry.gov.au/data-and-publications/national-greenhouse-gas-inventory-june-2020
OK, if you start from the absolute peak, and stop at the time when Covid19 effects on the economy were greatest, I suppose that is about 20%.
The great majority of it when the Labor mob were in power though.
This high-rise building was assembled in 28 hours and 45 minutes in Changsha, China, using prefabricated building modules
https://newatlas.com/architecture/broad-group-prefab-high-rise/
The Rev Dodgson said:
sarahs mum said:Prime Minister Scott Morrison attended that G7 plus meeting in Cornwall in south-west England insisting Australia was on the right path in terms of climate policy.
“Dealing with climate change isn’t that different to dealing with COVID-19,” Mr Morrison said.
“COVID-19, you need a vaccine. Climate change you need technologies that enable you to run your economies at net zero emissions, keep the jobs, keep the power, keep the lights on and keep your industry,” Mr Morrison said.
“We participated very positively in the discussion about climate change and we were able to demonstrate once again that Australia’s performance speaks loudly, 20 per cent reduction in emissions, over 50 per cent reduction in emissions intensity.”
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-20/marise-payne-emissions-policy-national-party-tension/100229158
20% reduction?
https://www.industry.gov.au/data-and-publications/national-greenhouse-gas-inventory-june-2020
OK, if you start from the absolute peak, and stop at the time when Covid19 effects on the economy were greatest, I suppose that is about 20%.
The great majority of it when the Labor mob were in power though.
just had a chat with some colleagues and established that people one might expect to be world aware still in large part are not keeping up to date with news, and reckon it’s all fake shit anyway, so we suppose none of this so-called fact-finding is really going to matter much when the election stealing time draws near
https://www.police.vic.gov.au/three-arrested-after-police-give-chase-borrowed-bicycles
PermeateFree said:
This high-rise building was assembled in 28 hours and 45 minutes in Changsha, China, using prefabricated building moduleshttps://newatlas.com/architecture/broad-group-prefab-high-rise/
how does it compare to the Cladding Safety Victoria cases or the Grenfell Tower or the Opal and Mascot Towers then
PermeateFree said:
This high-rise building was assembled in 28 hours and 45 minutes in Changsha, China, using prefabricated building moduleshttps://newatlas.com/architecture/broad-group-prefab-high-rise/
I like their progress on building things fast, other countries should get in on this, including us.
It will be good for space exploration and building structures on the Moon and Mars.
buffy said:
https://www.police.vic.gov.au/three-arrested-after-police-give-chase-borrowed-bicycles
Three teens have been arrested after two quick-thinking police officers borrowed bicycles to give chase after they fled from a stolen car in Bangholme this morning.
It’s understood a stolen Hyundai sedan was involved in a collision with two vehicles on the Eastlink about 8.20am.
Three occupants got out of the stolen vehicle and fled on foot before one of the motorists involved in the crash followed them on foot.
The man observed the offenders enter the Dandenong Creek Trail and advised two attending police officers who quickly improvised and borrowed an electric bike and push bike from members of the public.
Police rode after the trio for over 1km and circled them on the trial before arresting them without incident.
Two 15-year-old boys and a 16-year-old girl were taken into custody before being transported to hospital under police guard for observation.
Police returned the bicycles to the helpful owners shortly after the incident.
Investigators have since discovered the car was allegedly stolen during an aggravated burglary in Lyndhurst on Monday.
Anyone who witnessed the incident or has dashcam footage is urged to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or submit a confidential crime report at
Nikki Ladgrove
Media Advisor
98092
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typical police state shenanigans
SCIENCE said:
The Rev Dodgson said:sarahs mum said:Prime Minister Scott Morrison attended that G7 plus meeting in Cornwall in south-west England insisting Australia was on the right path in terms of climate policy.
“Dealing with climate change isn’t that different to dealing with COVID-19,” Mr Morrison said.
“COVID-19, you need a vaccine. Climate change you need technologies that enable you to run your economies at net zero emissions, keep the jobs, keep the power, keep the lights on and keep your industry,” Mr Morrison said.
“We participated very positively in the discussion about climate change and we were able to demonstrate once again that Australia’s performance speaks loudly, 20 per cent reduction in emissions, over 50 per cent reduction in emissions intensity.”
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-20/marise-payne-emissions-policy-national-party-tension/100229158
20% reduction?
https://www.industry.gov.au/data-and-publications/national-greenhouse-gas-inventory-june-2020
OK, if you start from the absolute peak, and stop at the time when Covid19 effects on the economy were greatest, I suppose that is about 20%.
The great majority of it when the Labor mob were in power though.
just had a chat with some colleagues and established that people one might expect to be world aware still in large part are not keeping up to date with news, and reckon it’s all fake shit anyway, so we suppose none of this so-called fact-finding is really going to matter much when the election stealing time draws near
Maybe I’m just hearing what I want to hear (and disregarding the rest), but in general conversation with my non-lefty mates, the idea that the Australia n Governments need to be doing much more in planning and implementing emissions reduction is much more widespread than it used to be.
SCIENCE said:
PermeateFree said:
This high-rise building was assembled in 28 hours and 45 minutes in Changsha, China, using prefabricated building moduleshttps://newatlas.com/architecture/broad-group-prefab-high-rise/
how does it compare to the Cladding Safety Victoria cases or the Grenfell Tower or the Opal and Mascot Towers then
I wonder how they keep everything accurate during a fast construction?
The Rev Dodgson said:
SCIENCE said:The Rev Dodgson said:20% reduction?
https://www.industry.gov.au/data-and-publications/national-greenhouse-gas-inventory-june-2020
OK, if you start from the absolute peak, and stop at the time when Covid19 effects on the economy were greatest, I suppose that is about 20%.
The great majority of it when the Labor mob were in power though.
just had a chat with some colleagues and established that people one might expect to be world aware still in large part are not keeping up to date with news, and reckon it’s all fake shit anyway, so we suppose none of this so-called fact-finding is really going to matter much when the election stealing time draws near
Maybe I’m just hearing what I want to hear (and disregarding the rest), but in general conversation with my non-lefty mates, the idea that the Australia n Governments need to be doing much more in planning and implementing emissions reduction is much more widespread than it used to be.
On the assumption we’re more juvenile than The Rev Dodgson (correct us if we’re wrong) perhaps this is a reflection of changing generational culture, and the “young voters” (note: we do not identify as such) who were supposed to save us from the shitty governments might not actually be the ones doing the saving over the next few years¿
(speculation; we give no further evidence)
Tau.Neutrino said:
SCIENCE said:PermeateFree said:
This high-rise building was assembled in 28 hours and 45 minutes in Changsha, China, using prefabricated building moduleshttps://newatlas.com/architecture/broad-group-prefab-high-rise/
how does it compare to the Cladding Safety Victoria cases or the Grenfell Tower or the Opal and Mascot Towers then
I wonder how they keep everything accurate during a fast construction?
maybe it’s easier to line things up quickly than when you give time for unpredictable shifts to happen
sarahs mum said:
Prime Minister Scott Morrison attended that G7 plus meeting in Cornwall in south-west England insisting Australia was on the right path in terms of climate policy.“Dealing with climate change isn’t that different to dealing with COVID-19,” Mr Morrison said.
“COVID-19, you need a vaccine. Climate change you need technologies that enable you to run your economies at net zero emissions, keep the jobs, keep the power, keep the lights on and keep your industry,” Mr Morrison said.
“We participated very positively in the discussion about climate change and we were able to demonstrate once again that Australia’s performance speaks loudly, 20 per cent reduction in emissions, over 50 per cent reduction in emissions intensity.”
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-20/marise-payne-emissions-policy-national-party-tension/100229158
Spinorlies…
PermeateFree said:
This high-rise building was assembled in 28 hours and 45 minutes in Changsha, China, using prefabricated building moduleshttps://newatlas.com/architecture/broad-group-prefab-high-rise/
Huh!
SCIENCE said:
The Rev Dodgson said:sarahs mum said:Prime Minister Scott Morrison attended that G7 plus meeting in Cornwall in south-west England insisting Australia was on the right path in terms of climate policy.
“Dealing with climate change isn’t that different to dealing with COVID-19,” Mr Morrison said.
“COVID-19, you need a vaccine. Climate change you need technologies that enable you to run your economies at net zero emissions, keep the jobs, keep the power, keep the lights on and keep your industry,” Mr Morrison said.
“We participated very positively in the discussion about climate change and we were able to demonstrate once again that Australia’s performance speaks loudly, 20 per cent reduction in emissions, over 50 per cent reduction in emissions intensity.”
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-20/marise-payne-emissions-policy-national-party-tension/100229158
20% reduction?
https://www.industry.gov.au/data-and-publications/national-greenhouse-gas-inventory-june-2020
OK, if you start from the absolute peak, and stop at the time when Covid19 effects on the economy were greatest, I suppose that is about 20%.
The great majority of it when the Labor mob were in power though.
just had a chat with some colleagues and established that people one might expect to be world aware still in large part are not keeping up to date with news, and reckon it’s all fake shit anyway, so we suppose none of this so-called fact-finding is really going to matter much when the election stealing time draws near
Comparing the full clip of the Jordie clip of the arrest of his producer vs the clip 7news showed…same footage but with some of the sound removed where Mum was screaming and the vision stopped before Mum is set hurtling. It wasn’t so much reporting as manipulating.
And that is where the news is these days. Shit.
But let’s put more shit on the ABC.
SCIENCE said:
Tau.Neutrino said:SCIENCE said:how does it compare to the Cladding Safety Victoria cases or the Grenfell Tower or the Opal and Mascot Towers then
I wonder how they keep everything accurate during a fast construction?
maybe it’s easier to line things up quickly than when you give time for unpredictable shifts to happen
Design in accuracy into both prefab and construction.
Then check for accuracy after prefabrication of all parts, then a streamlined accuracy procedure during construction.
Tau.Neutrino said:
SCIENCE said:
Tau.Neutrino said:I wonder how they keep everything accurate during a fast construction?
maybe it’s easier to line things up quickly than when you give time for unpredictable shifts to happen
Design in accuracy into both prefab and construction.
Then check for accuracy after prefabrication of all parts, then a streamlined accuracy procedure during construction.
How long does it take to build an average home in Australia?
How fast could an average home be constructed using prefab methods?
Say a whole new suburb was constructed using prefab, that would speed things up.
I’m going to go and have a read on the bed. I’m reading Sally Morgan’s “My Place” again. It’s probably 25 years or more since I last read it.
You missed my shitty memes eh
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PermeateFree said:
This high-rise building was assembled in 28 hours and 45 minutes in Changsha, China, using prefabricated building moduleshttps://newatlas.com/architecture/broad-group-prefab-high-rise/
I have no problem with this building method. 28 hours is a bit extreme but even a week would be good. Minimises traffic and noise issues for the neighbours. Of course the modules would have taken weeks or months to build in the factory. Also, medium-rise like 10-12 floors is much cheaper to build than big skyscrapers of 20+ floors, and a much more economic use of floor space.
There’s been a big move in recent years to building 8-12 floors apartment buildings out of wood using glulam beams and cross-laminated timber panels for walls and floors. Some of them look pretty awesome. feature wood walls and floors, so much wood that some walls they paint over so as not to overdo the effect.
Tau.Neutrino said:
SCIENCE said:
Tau.Neutrino said:I wonder how they keep everything accurate during a fast construction?
maybe it’s easier to line things up quickly than when you give time for unpredictable shifts to happen
Design in accuracy into both prefab and construction.
Then check for accuracy after prefabrication of all parts, then a streamlined accuracy procedure during construction.
Using horizontal and vertical laser measurements and working within specified ranges.
Tau.Neutrino said:
How long does it take to build an average home in Australia?
How fast could an average home be constructed using prefab methods?
Say a whole new suburb was constructed using prefab, that would speed things up.
If only. It would revolutionise affordable housing.
So it will probably be outlawed in most LGAs to preserve the “niceness” or “character” of the suburb.
party_pants said:
Tau.Neutrino said:How long does it take to build an average home in Australia?
How fast could an average home be constructed using prefab methods?
Say a whole new suburb was constructed using prefab, that would speed things up.
If only. It would revolutionise affordable housing.
So it will probably be outlawed in most LGAs to preserve the “niceness” or “character” of the suburb.
Why cant it be made to look nice?
Canon put AI cameras in its Chinese offices that only let smiling workers inside
Tech company Canon has come up with a downright dystopic way to tackle the problem of workplace morale: it’s installed cameras with AI-enabled “smile recognition” technology in the offices of its Chinese subsidiary Canon Information Technology. The cameras only let smiling workers enter rooms or book meetings, ensuring that every employee is definitely, 100 percent happy all the time.
https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/17/22538160/ai-camera-smile-recognition-office-workers-china-canon
party_pants said:
Tau.Neutrino said:How long does it take to build an average home in Australia?
How fast could an average home be constructed using prefab methods?
Say a whole new suburb was constructed using prefab, that would speed things up.
If only. It would revolutionise affordable housing.
So it will probably be outlawed in most LGAs to preserve the “niceness” or “character” of the suburb.
They could prefrab homes or whole suburbs for different income groups.
They could have energy ratings for construction of home and energy use over each year per home.
Tau.Neutrino said:
party_pants said:
Tau.Neutrino said:How long does it take to build an average home in Australia?
How fast could an average home be constructed using prefab methods?
Say a whole new suburb was constructed using prefab, that would speed things up.
If only. It would revolutionise affordable housing.
So it will probably be outlawed in most LGAs to preserve the “niceness” or “character” of the suburb.
Why cant it be made to look nice?
Oh, they can be made to look nice.
I was being cynical. Affordable housing would mean an influx of people into a suburb of a different “class” to what already live there. The great fear is that it will drive down property prices and erode the reputation of the suburb.
Australia doesn’t have a formal class system as such, but what it does have is an extreme level of irrational snobbishness about which suburbs are “good” and “rough”. Even suburbs that were gentrified 25 years ago still bear the reputation for another generation before attitudes change. Everyone wants affordable housing for those thast need it, but nobody wants it in their suburb.
Perhaps if you were building a whole new city from scratch it might take on.
Contemplating now 90% of car accidents not happening. That’s a lot of death to not deal with.
Also contemplating how good the connection is to the car. My satellite is not this good.
Also contemplating how much data this is accruing some of which rewrites the software. With software downloads improving the car all the time it makes it a purchase to last. The car sees the stop sign but it knows it is there from previous driver’s by. So it will tell you the stop sign is there if a truck wiped out a few hour’s before. He says the car didn’t see witches hats in the past but has been since the last download.
The ute that is going into production now can run tools on site.
dv said:
Canon put AI cameras in its Chinese offices that only let smiling workers insideTech company Canon has come up with a downright dystopic way to tackle the problem of workplace morale: it’s installed cameras with AI-enabled “smile recognition” technology in the offices of its Chinese subsidiary Canon Information Technology. The cameras only let smiling workers enter rooms or book meetings, ensuring that every employee is definitely, 100 percent happy all the time.
https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/17/22538160/ai-camera-smile-recognition-office-workers-china-canon
I had a phone that did the same trick in reverse.
It started off taking ages to recognise my face.
Eventually it got better and recognised me quickly, but only if I pretended to be cross because it was being so slow.
Latest phone was pretty good until the latest upgrade, but has now gone into slow-recognition mode.
Presumably it too will learn to recognise the scowls pretty soon.
dv said:
Canon put AI cameras in its Chinese offices that only let smiling workers insideTech company Canon has come up with a downright dystopic way to tackle the problem of workplace morale: it’s installed cameras with AI-enabled “smile recognition” technology in the offices of its Chinese subsidiary Canon Information Technology. The cameras only let smiling workers enter rooms or book meetings, ensuring that every employee is definitely, 100 percent happy all the time.
https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/17/22538160/ai-camera-smile-recognition-office-workers-china-canon
Depressives lose their job.
That’s sad.
sarahs mum said:
dv said:
Canon put AI cameras in its Chinese offices that only let smiling workers insideTech company Canon has come up with a downright dystopic way to tackle the problem of workplace morale: it’s installed cameras with AI-enabled “smile recognition” technology in the offices of its Chinese subsidiary Canon Information Technology. The cameras only let smiling workers enter rooms or book meetings, ensuring that every employee is definitely, 100 percent happy all the time.
https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/17/22538160/ai-camera-smile-recognition-office-workers-china-canon
Depressives lose their job.
That’s sad.
Selective discrimination.
party_pants said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
party_pants said:If only. It would revolutionise affordable housing.
So it will probably be outlawed in most LGAs to preserve the “niceness” or “character” of the suburb.
Why cant it be made to look nice?
Oh, they can be made to look nice.
I was being cynical. Affordable housing would mean an influx of people into a suburb of a different “class” to what already live there. The great fear is that it will drive down property prices and erode the reputation of the suburb.
Australia doesn’t have a formal class system as such, but what it does have is an extreme level of irrational snobbishness about which suburbs are “good” and “rough”. Even suburbs that were gentrified 25 years ago still bear the reputation for another generation before attitudes change. Everyone wants affordable housing for those thast need it, but nobody wants it in their suburb.
Perhaps if you were building a whole new city from scratch it might take on.
There are many reasons why house prices are so high, but lack of use of precast concrete isn’t one of them.
If builders could reduce costs by using more precast, they’d use more precast.
could be music day, outdoors, my church, my church music, some Blues
The Rev Dodgson said:
party_pants said:
Tau.Neutrino said:Why cant it be made to look nice?
Oh, they can be made to look nice.
I was being cynical. Affordable housing would mean an influx of people into a suburb of a different “class” to what already live there. The great fear is that it will drive down property prices and erode the reputation of the suburb.
Australia doesn’t have a formal class system as such, but what it does have is an extreme level of irrational snobbishness about which suburbs are “good” and “rough”. Even suburbs that were gentrified 25 years ago still bear the reputation for another generation before attitudes change. Everyone wants affordable housing for those thast need it, but nobody wants it in their suburb.
Perhaps if you were building a whole new city from scratch it might take on.
There are many reasons why house prices are so high, but lack of use of precast concrete isn’t one of them.
If builders could reduce costs by using more precast, they’d use more precast.
One way to reduce costs is to use prefab but to be more successful it needs co-ordination of building across whole suburbs at once and the construction teams that go with it.
They need to move around as needed co-ordinated on a state level.
They were discussing how Angus Taylor says he drives too much each week for an EV. This guy says he has done 2000k in the last few days. Taylor’s office is in Queanbeyan. How far does he drive?
Sarah Hanson-Young challenges Angus Taylor to a Bathurst race.
The Rev Dodgson said:
party_pants said:
Tau.Neutrino said:Why cant it be made to look nice?
Oh, they can be made to look nice.
I was being cynical. Affordable housing would mean an influx of people into a suburb of a different “class” to what already live there. The great fear is that it will drive down property prices and erode the reputation of the suburb.
Australia doesn’t have a formal class system as such, but what it does have is an extreme level of irrational snobbishness about which suburbs are “good” and “rough”. Even suburbs that were gentrified 25 years ago still bear the reputation for another generation before attitudes change. Everyone wants affordable housing for those thast need it, but nobody wants it in their suburb.
Perhaps if you were building a whole new city from scratch it might take on.
There are many reasons why house prices are so high, but lack of use of precast concrete isn’t one of them.
If builders could reduce costs by using more precast, they’d use more precast.
There are lots of options aside from precast concrete. Part of the problem is zoning codes too. There seems to be very little in between housing stock with single storey detached houses at one end and high rise apartments at the other.
China has 500,000 EV buses on the road.
I’ve wondered why Tassie’s city and urban buses arent electric before.
Anyway, seems to have stopped raining for now, so back to my sawdust making for a couple of hours.
sarahs mum said:
China has 500,000 EV buses on the road.I’ve wondered why Tassie’s city and urban buses arent electric before.
Victoria has had two electric buses ‘on trial’ for 3 years.
Mr T.N:
https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-weigh-in-on-the-evidence-for-emotional-intelligence-in-humans
Tau.Neutrino said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
party_pants said:Oh, they can be made to look nice.
I was being cynical. Affordable housing would mean an influx of people into a suburb of a different “class” to what already live there. The great fear is that it will drive down property prices and erode the reputation of the suburb.
Australia doesn’t have a formal class system as such, but what it does have is an extreme level of irrational snobbishness about which suburbs are “good” and “rough”. Even suburbs that were gentrified 25 years ago still bear the reputation for another generation before attitudes change. Everyone wants affordable housing for those thast need it, but nobody wants it in their suburb.
Perhaps if you were building a whole new city from scratch it might take on.
There are many reasons why house prices are so high, but lack of use of precast concrete isn’t one of them.
If builders could reduce costs by using more precast, they’d use more precast.
One way to reduce costs is to use prefab but to be more successful it needs co-ordination of building across whole suburbs at once and the construction teams that go with it.
They need to move around as needed co-ordinated on a state level.
Every State looks at expanding suburbs in every growing city.
Plan the development across various periods of time from the present to fity years into the future in each State so that groups of builders move around together.
Fine tuning that would go some way to reduce costs.
Michael V said:
Mr T.N:https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-weigh-in-on-the-evidence-for-emotional-intelligence-in-humans
Thanks for that.
sarahs mum said:
They were discussing how Angus Taylor says he drives too much each week for an EV. This guy says he has done 2000k in the last few days. Taylor’s office is in Queanbeyan. How far does he drive?Sarah Hanson-Young challenges Angus Taylor to a Bathurst race.
Interesting business model: quite a few EV-charging points are at motels.
Michael V said:
sarahs mum said:
They were discussing how Angus Taylor says he drives too much each week for an EV. This guy says he has done 2000k in the last few days. Taylor’s office is in Queanbeyan. How far does he drive?Sarah Hanson-Young challenges Angus Taylor to a Bathurst race.
Interesting business model: quite a few EV-charging points are at motels.
But the car has spotify and youtube and netflix and games including a car race that you use the car’s wheel to play. So you don’t have to be bored.
Tau.Neutrino said:
Michael V said:
Mr T.N:https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-weigh-in-on-the-evidence-for-emotional-intelligence-in-humans
Thanks for that.
Already had it and read it.
Thanks again though.
sarahs mum said:
Michael V said:
sarahs mum said:
They were discussing how Angus Taylor says he drives too much each week for an EV. This guy says he has done 2000k in the last few days. Taylor’s office is in Queanbeyan. How far does he drive?Sarah Hanson-Young challenges Angus Taylor to a Bathurst race.
Interesting business model: quite a few EV-charging points are at motels.
But the car has spotify and youtube and netflix and games including a car race that you use the car’s wheel to play. So you don’t have to be bored.
seems that supercharging takes 20 or 30 mins. Purpose home charger charges to full o/nite. Plug into normal socket does 250kish o/nite.
Michael V said:
sarahs mum said:
They were discussing how Angus Taylor says he drives too much each week for an EV. This guy says he has done 2000k in the last few days. Taylor’s office is in Queanbeyan. How far does he drive?Sarah Hanson-Young challenges Angus Taylor to a Bathurst race.
Interesting business model: quite a few EV-charging points are at motels.
https://www.plugshare.com/
The Rev Dodgson said:
If builders could reduce costs by using more precast, they’d use more precast.
Well, that sounds logical.
However, there can be something of a gulf between ‘reducing costs’ and ‘reducing prices’.
Tesla car drivers wave at each other in passing. With two hands.
sarahs mum said:
Tesla car drivers wave at each other in passing. With two hands.
Or are they throwing up their hands in an expression of mutual despair? :)
ABC News:
‘Biloela girl Tharnicaa released from hospital as Murugappan family remain in Perth community detention ‘
It was all a ruse! A deception, to get back to mainland Australia!
Don’t let ‘em get near any boats, or those kids will be getting thrown overboard faster than you can say ‘ker-splash’.
sarahs mum said:
Tesla car drivers wave at each other in passing. With two hands.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/jun/18/thirty-tesla-crashes-linked-to-assisted-driving-system-under-investigation-in-us
captain_spalding said:
ABC News:‘Biloela girl Tharnicaa released from hospital as Murugappan family remain in Perth community detention ‘
It was all a ruse! A deception, to get back to mainland Australia!
Don’t let ‘em get near any boats, or those kids will be getting thrown overboard faster than you can say ‘ker-splash’.
This has all proved to me how far we are from a real representative deomocracy. Morrison and all will not change their stance no matter how many people demonstrate or petition. He’s not even really listening to his back bench.
There are lots of options aside from precast concrete.
—
I’d like to see more use of rammed earth..
It’s dirt cheap
sibeen said:
sarahs mum said:
Tesla car drivers wave at each other in passing. With two hands.https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/jun/18/thirty-tesla-crashes-linked-to-assisted-driving-system-under-investigation-in-us
How many Teslas in the states I wonder.
Annual United States Road Crash Statistics
More than 38,000 people die every year in crashes on U.S. roadways. The U.S. traffic fatality rate is 12.4 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants. An additional 4.4 million are injured seriously enough to require medical attention.
Michael V said:
Mr T.N:https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-weigh-in-on-the-evidence-for-emotional-intelligence-in-humans
Trump had lots of negative traits, not many positive abilities.
There is a spectrum of around 80+ emotions, each emotion has a range and each emotion can overlap with another.
Seems to make sense that if some emotions can group together in a specific way then emotional awareness of other emotions would be diminished, an angry person’s emotions are different to that of a relaxed person.
Ian said:
There are lots of options aside from precast concrete.—
I’d like to see more use of rammed earth..
It’s dirt cheap
:)
Ian said:
There are lots of options aside from precast concrete.—
I’d like to see more use of rammed earth..
It’s dirt cheap
LOL
Tau.Neutrino said:
Michael V said:
Mr T.N:https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-weigh-in-on-the-evidence-for-emotional-intelligence-in-humans
Trump had lots of negative traits, not many positive abilities.
There is a spectrum of around 80+ emotions, each emotion has a range and each emotion can overlap with another.
Seems to make sense that if some emotions can group together in a specific way then emotional awareness of other emotions would be diminished, an angry person’s emotions are different to that of a relaxed person.
EMOTIONS
At birth there are around 6 basic emotions, this increases to around 27 in young adults, to around 80+ later in life.
This site lists around 27 basic emotions
https://www.countryliving.com/uk/wellbeing/news/a2454/27-human-emotions-new-study/
This site lists around 80 emotions
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotion_classification
This lists lists around 130 emotions on an Emotion wheel
Understanding Your Emotions Inside Out With the Emotion Wheel: FEAR
https://www.calmsage.com/understanding-the-emotion-wheel/
TRAITS
There are around 4000 traits that can be found across people.
https://www.verywellmind.com/how-many-personality-traits-are-there-2795430
Personality Traits & Personality Types: What is Personality?
https://www.livescience.com/41313-personality-traits.html
Big Five personality traits
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_personality_traits
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Personality_traits
https://www.livescience.com/41313-personality-traits.html
Thinking a simple offering tonight of roast hen pieces with spuds, parsnips, green beans, cabbage, herb & onion gravy.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/commentisfree/2021/jun/20/marmite-for-vegemite-australias-trade-deal-with-the-uk-really-is-rather-small-beer
It’s either Aussie’s did well from the deal or the Brits did. Or it is inconsequenitial. one of them.
Researchers translate a bird’s brain activity into song
Study demonstrates the possibilities of a future speech prosthesis for humans
more…
That’s the Pearl Oyster Mushroom spawning mixture done, zip-lock bagged and in my dark school bag.
(Excited.)
Tau.Neutrino said:
EMOTIONS
At birth there are around 6 basic emotions, this increases to around 27 in young adults, to around 80+ later in life.
That, I suspect, is nonsense.
You can divide up continua however you like.
Michael V said:
That’s the Pearl Oyster Mushroom spawning mixture done, zip-lock bagged and in my dark school bag.(Excited.)
I hope you transferred your school books to another bag first.
Bubblecar said:
Michael V said:
That’s the Pearl Oyster Mushroom spawning mixture done, zip-lock bagged and in my dark school bag.(Excited.)
I hope you transferred your school books to another bag first.
:)
They went by the wayside about 50 years ago.
sarahs mum said:
https://www.theguardian.com/business/commentisfree/2021/jun/20/marmite-for-vegemite-australias-trade-deal-with-the-uk-really-is-rather-small-beerIt’s either Aussie’s did well from the deal or the Brits did. Or it is inconsequenitial. one of them.
Our cheap biscuits and jam are generally better than theirs anyway. And Marmite is too sweet.
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
https://www.theguardian.com/business/commentisfree/2021/jun/20/marmite-for-vegemite-australias-trade-deal-with-the-uk-really-is-rather-small-beerIt’s either Aussie’s did well from the deal or the Brits did. Or it is inconsequenitial. one of them.
Our cheap biscuits and jam are generally better than theirs anyway. And Marmite is too sweet.
And you can buy NZ lamb across Britain that is better than ours.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Tau.Neutrino said:EMOTIONS
At birth there are around 6 basic emotions, this increases to around 27 in young adults, to around 80+ later in life.
That, I suspect, is nonsense.
You can divide up continua however you like.
Agree. The exact number is unknown.
Why Did the Cave Art Vanish? It Was Erased by This Furry Creature and Its Feces.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/17/science/bats-guano-cave-art.html
Tau.Neutrino said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Tau.Neutrino said:EMOTIONS
At birth there are around 6 basic emotions, this increases to around 27 in young adults, to around 80+ later in life.
That, I suspect, is nonsense.
You can divide up continua however you like.
Agree. The exact number is unknown.
There isn’t an “exact Number”. It is arbitrary when you get to the 80+ level, or even 27.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
The Rev Dodgson said:That, I suspect, is nonsense.
You can divide up continua however you like.
Agree. The exact number is unknown.
There isn’t an “exact Number”. It is arbitrary when you get to the 80+ level, or even 27.
After all these years we should know how many emotions we have.
How many years does it take to work out if we have 27, 80 or 130 or more?
Does each psychologist have a different arbitrary scale of emotions from which to work from?
It seems confusing, correction after all this time, it seems deliberately confusing.
sarahs mum said:
https://www.theguardian.com/business/commentisfree/2021/jun/20/marmite-for-vegemite-australias-trade-deal-with-the-uk-really-is-rather-small-beerIt’s either Aussie’s did well from the deal or the Brits did. Or it is inconsequenitial. one of them.
Australia has done well (we think, detail has not yet been finalised). It will be marginal for Australia, inconseqential to the UK.
Tau.Neutrino said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Tau.Neutrino said:Agree. The exact number is unknown.
There isn’t an “exact Number”. It is arbitrary when you get to the 80+ level, or even 27.
After all these years we should know how many emotions we have.
How many years does it take to work out if we have 27, 80 or 130 or more?
Does each psychologist have a different arbitrary scale of emotions from which to work from?
It seems confusing, correction after all this time, it seems deliberately confusing.
If we want psychology to be a science it has to be more accurate about how many emotions we have not some arbitrary numbers floating around.
How long does validating emotions take?
Who does it in Australia?
sarahs mum said:
And you can buy NZ lamb across Britain that is better than ours.
But at what price?
I knew a Kiwi lass who lived in Britain, and she decided to put on a traditional ‘baked dinner’ for her friends, with a roast leg of lamb.
She had no trouble finding the leg, but it set her back nearly a week’s wages.
Tau.Neutrino said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
The Rev Dodgson said:There isn’t an “exact Number”. It is arbitrary when you get to the 80+ level, or even 27.
After all these years we should know how many emotions we have.
How many years does it take to work out if we have 27, 80 or 130 or more?
Does each psychologist have a different arbitrary scale of emotions from which to work from?
It seems confusing, correction after all this time, it seems deliberately confusing.
If we want psychology to be a science it has to be more accurate about how many emotions we have not some arbitrary numbers floating around.
How long does validating emotions take?
Who does it in Australia?
If we want psychology to be a science it has to accurate numbers not arbitrary ones.
There is a clear different between 27 and 130.
party_pants said:
sarahs mum said:
https://www.theguardian.com/business/commentisfree/2021/jun/20/marmite-for-vegemite-australias-trade-deal-with-the-uk-really-is-rather-small-beerIt’s either Aussie’s did well from the deal or the Brits did. Or it is inconsequenitial. one of them.
Australia has done well (we think, detail has not yet been finalised). It will be marginal for Australia, inconseqential to the UK.
Probably more about the ‘who-needs-the-EU-anyway?’ posturing.
Tau.Neutrino said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Tau.Neutrino said:After all these years we should know how many emotions we have.
How many years does it take to work out if we have 27, 80 or 130 or more?
Does each psychologist have a different arbitrary scale of emotions from which to work from?
It seems confusing, correction after all this time, it seems deliberately confusing.
If we want psychology to be a science it has to be more accurate about how many emotions we have not some arbitrary numbers floating around.
How long does validating emotions take?
Who does it in Australia?
If we want psychology to be a science it has to accurate numbers not arbitrary ones.
There is a clear different between 27 and 130.
And its not up to us
It might be a job for each States psychology association ?
Tau.Neutrino said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Tau.Neutrino said:If we want psychology to be a science it has to be more accurate about how many emotions we have not some arbitrary numbers floating around.
How long does validating emotions take?
Who does it in Australia?
If we want psychology to be a science it has to accurate numbers not arbitrary ones.
There is a clear different between 27 and 130.
And its not up to us
It might be a job for each States psychology association ?
Or universities,
Dunno.
Tau.Neutrino said:
Michael V said:
Mr T.N:https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-weigh-in-on-the-evidence-for-emotional-intelligence-in-humans
Trump had lots of negative traits, not many positive abilities.
There is a spectrum of around 80+ emotions, each emotion has a range and each emotion can overlap with another.
Seems to make sense that if some emotions can group together in a specific way then emotional awareness of other emotions would be diminished, an angry person’s emotions are different to that of a relaxed person.
the force and orientation of the mental tools (composite of), experience of (related, and important), projection of, and reading of others, complex territory, lot of it is done instinctively
and there are assumptions about mental state convergence, powerful I think of behavior controls, or behavioral influence
some really dodgy stuff in that just above last mentioned, the assumptions related convergence
Just experimented with slicing veneers from a piece of meranti hardwood.
My estimation: it’s a bitch on an ‘amateur’ table-saw.
Are there any other saw-dust manufacturers with an opinion on this.
Bubblecar said:
Thinking a simple offering tonight of roast hen pieces with spuds, parsnips, green beans, cabbage, herb & onion gravy.
Mr buffy is barbecuing some lamb forequarter chops. Also baking some potatoes in their skins. Not sure what else.
Tau.Neutrino said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Tau.Neutrino said:If we want psychology to be a science it has to accurate numbers not arbitrary ones.
There is a clear different between 27 and 130.
And its not up to us
It might be a job for each States psychology association ?
Or universities,
Dunno.
Perhaps it a study for universities?
captain_spalding said:
sarahs mum said:And you can buy NZ lamb across Britain that is better than ours.
But at what price?
I knew a Kiwi lass who lived in Britain, and she decided to put on a traditional ‘baked dinner’ for her friends, with a roast leg of lamb.
She had no trouble finding the leg, but it set her back nearly a week’s wages.
It ain’t cheap here either anymore.
No sides of hogget for $12.99 for years.
Dinner here tonight is a pizza from the freezer, with mucho pepperoni added.
Have had a big day in the garden, took a very large ute-load of loppings to the tip, culinary energies are correspondingly low.
Tau.Neutrino said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Tau.Neutrino said:And its not up to us
It might be a job for each States psychology association ?
Or universities,
Dunno.
Perhaps it a study for universities?
One would have thought it had been done by now.
Scratches head.
sarahs mum said:
captain_spalding said:
sarahs mum said:And you can buy NZ lamb across Britain that is better than ours.
But at what price?
I knew a Kiwi lass who lived in Britain, and she decided to put on a traditional ‘baked dinner’ for her friends, with a roast leg of lamb.
She had no trouble finding the leg, but it set her back nearly a week’s wages.
It ain’t cheap here either anymore.
No sides of hogget for $12.99 for years.
Lamb is the most expensive meat here I think.
It goes, from least to most expensive:
Chicken
Fish
Pork
Beef
Lamb
Tau.Neutrino said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Tau.Neutrino said:Or universities,
Dunno.
Perhaps it a study for universities?
One would have thought it had been done by now.
Scratches head.
It’s not important.
captain_spalding said:
Dinner here tonight is a pizza from the freezer, with mucho pepperoni added.Have had a big day in the garden, took a very large ute-load of loppings to the tip, culinary energies are correspondingly low.
Some of those Aldi frozen pizzas are alright.
buffy said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Tau.Neutrino said:Perhaps it a study for universities?
One would have thought it had been done by now.
Scratches head.
It’s not important.
I thought it would be for a complete psychology dictionary of emotions, traits, abilities.
Which we don’t appear to have.
I know some nurses have a dictionary of medicines on their smartphones, they can look up specific medicines.
Bubblecar said:
Thinking a simple offering tonight of roast hen pieces with spuds, parsnips, green beans, cabbage, herb & onion gravy.
Won’t be long now. I used cauliflower instead of cabbage and added garlic & mustard to the gravy.
Tau.Neutrino said:
buffy said:
Tau.Neutrino said:One would have thought it had been done by now.
Scratches head.
It’s not important.
I thought it would be for a complete psychology dictionary of emotions, traits, abilities.
Which we don’t appear to have.
I know some nurses have a dictionary of medicines on their smartphones, they can look up specific medicines.
I can’t think why you would need such a dictionary.
Speedy said:
sarahs mum said:
captain_spalding said:But at what price?
I knew a Kiwi lass who lived in Britain, and she decided to put on a traditional ‘baked dinner’ for her friends, with a roast leg of lamb.
She had no trouble finding the leg, but it set her back nearly a week’s wages.
It ain’t cheap here either anymore.
No sides of hogget for $12.99 for years.
Lamb is the most expensive meat here I think.
It goes, from least to most expensive:
Chicken
Fish
Pork
Beef
Lamb
When sarah was young we lived on sheep (and garden) A side of hogget is much bigger than a lamb. We also had a friend who wanted us to cull his flock. When we visited Scott would do the deed and we would bring half home.
this was before the wool crash. The state had lots of cross bred wool/meat sheep that were only shorn once or twice.
in my life I have seen dual purpose animals almost disappear from the landscape.
buffy said:
Tau.Neutrino said:I know some nurses have a dictionary of medicines on their smartphones, they can look up specific medicines.
I can’t think why you would need such a dictionary.
Possibly to be aware of what the desired and undesired effects of a medication are, so that when e.g. the patient’s eyeballs start going around in opposite directions, the nurse on the scene ( the doctor having long departed) knows whether or not it’s likely due to the prescribed medicine.
buffy said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
buffy said:It’s not important.
I thought it would be for a complete psychology dictionary of emotions, traits, abilities.
Which we don’t appear to have.
I know some nurses have a dictionary of medicines on their smartphones, they can look up specific medicines.
I can’t think why you would need such a dictionary.
This book on Emotions lists 350.
Helleman Vera-Ency Of Emotions BOOK NEW
THE ENCYCLOPEDIAOF EMOTIONS covers 350 emotions and their interpretations, as well as a helping hand on how to use this information constructively.
https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/293536784038
The Rev Dodgson said:
SCIENCE said:
sibeen said:Hehehehe
we thought all that wave function shit really was just quantum mechanics
Damn
Beaten by SCIENCE again.
sorry for missing this beat earlier
we were going to say it was just a matter of simple time but instead we might give it a rest
John Williams typically did his own orchestration, and conducting.
Had some help with the recent Star Wars films. He’s pushing 90, cut him some slack.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
The Rev Dodgson said:That, I suspect, is nonsense.
You can divide up continua however you like.
Agree. The exact number is unknown.
There isn’t an “exact Number”. It is arbitrary when you get to the 80+ level, or even 27.
we disagree, there are exactly 2, and linear or nonlinear combinations of them
Tau.Neutrino said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Tau.Neutrino said:After all these years we should know how many emotions we have.
How many years does it take to work out if we have 27, 80 or 130 or more?
Does each psychologist have a different arbitrary scale of emotions from which to work from?
It seems confusing, correction after all this time, it seems deliberately confusing.
If we want psychology to be a science it has to be more accurate about how many emotions we have not some arbitrary numbers floating around.
How long does validating emotions take?
Who does it in Australia?
If we want psychology to be a science it has to accurate numbers not arbitrary ones.
There is a clear different between 27 and 130.
disagree; SCIENCE is not about quantifying bullsh
dv said:
John Williams typically did his own orchestration, and conducting.Had some help with the recent Star Wars films. He’s pushing 90, cut him some slack.
Some classics.
sarahs mum said:
captain_spalding said:
ABC News:‘Biloela girl Tharnicaa released from hospital as Murugappan family remain in Perth community detention ‘
It was all a ruse! A deception, to get back to mainland Australia!
Don’t let ‘em get near any boats, or those kids will be getting thrown overboard faster than you can say ‘ker-splash’.
This has all proved to me how far we are from a real representative deomocracy. Morrison and all will not change their stance no matter how many people demonstrate or petition. He’s not even really listening to his back bench.
agree but back to being our usual silly selves we say
WA could easily solve this problem by declaring independence now, and keeping these quiet Australian battlers for the better
SCIENCE said:
agree but back to being our usual silly selves we say
WA could easily solve this problem by declaring independence now,
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
SCIENCE said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
SCIENCE said:we thought all that wave function shit really was just quantum mechanics
Damn
Beaten by SCIENCE again.
sorry for missing this beat earlier
we were going to say it was just a matter of simple time but instead we might give it a rest
No need to apaologise.
It’s all music to my ears, whatever the time of the delivery.
buffy said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Tau.Neutrino said:Perhaps it a study for universities?
One would have thought it had been done by now.
Scratches head.
It’s not important.
Its important for understanding emotional awareness, emotional control and emotional intelligence.
Encyclopedia of Emotion listed at the bottom describes 400 emotions
Its also a good resource for non fiction writers.
The Emotion Thesaurus
A Writer’s Guide to Character Expression
https://www.booktopia.com.au/the-emotion-thesaurus-angela-ackerman/book/9780999296349.html
The Biology of Emotions
by Jean-Didier Vincent
Aiming to combine serious intellectual discussion with wit and verbal dexterity, the author proposes a new theory of emotions which harmonizes present understanding of humankind and attempts to go beyond the traditional dichotomy of body and soul, of reasonable brain and passionate body.
https://biblio.com.au/book/biology-emotions-vincent-jean-didier-hughes/d/897189586
Cognition and Emotion
https://textbooks.zookal.com.au/products/cognition-and-emotion-9780195113334
Written in debate format, this book covers developing fields such as social cognition, as well as classic areas such as memory, learning, perception and categorization. The links between emotion and memory, learning, perception, categorization, social judgements, and behavior are addressed.
THE ENCYCLOPEDIAOF EMOTIONS
by Vera Helleman
THE ENCYCLOPEDIAOF EMOTIONS covers 350 emotions and their interpretations, as well as a helping hand on how to use this information constructively. – Emotions give us feedback on how our inner world is dealing with the outer world. Not just for ourselves, but also to use as a diagnostic tool. – What participants in the training say: “A unique and ground-breaking vision”“This should be included on every social education syllabus“VERA HELLEMAN is a popular inspirational speaker, trainer and writer of the bestseller ‘Eff ortlessly being Yourself’ and above all an expert on feelings. Her work comes from an awake and very precise consciousness which lovingly and lightly confronts people with their own self-sabotaging patterns. She has the gift of translating the emotional world into our daily reality in a down-to-earth-way. – Vera has a background in integrative psychotherapy, but, as she puts it, “my greatest teacher has always been life itself.” In her work she explains how a human being functions, how the world of creation works and how to attract a life that suits who you truly are.Less
https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/293536784038?chn=ps&mkevt=1&mkcid=28
Encyclopedia of Emotion
This unique two-volume reference is an accessible, up-to-date resource for the rich and fascinating study of human emotion.
Drawing on both contemporary and classic research, Encyclopedia of Emotion explores the complex realities of our emotional lives and communicates what psychologists have learned about them to date in a clear and captivating way. The landmark work bridges the divide within psychology as a discipline between basic and applied science, gathering together in one comprehensive resource both theoretical and clinical perspectives on this important subject.
In two volumes, Encyclopedia of Emotion offers more than 400 alphabetically organized entries on a broad range of topics, including the neurological foundations of emotional function, competing theories of emotion, multicultural perspectives on emotions, emotional disorders, their diagnosis and treatment, and profiles of important organizations and key figures who have shaped our understanding of how and why we feel the way we do.
https://www.kogan.com/au/buy/shoptheglobe-encyclopedia-of-emotion-2-volumes-61-2886039-au/
captain_spalding said:
buffy said:
Tau.Neutrino said:I know some nurses have a dictionary of medicines on their smartphones, they can look up specific medicines.
I can’t think why you would need such a dictionary.
Possibly to be aware of what the desired and undesired effects of a medication are, so that when e.g. the patient’s eyeballs start going around in opposite directions, the nurse on the scene ( the doctor having long departed) knows whether or not it’s likely due to the prescribed medicine.
Not the nurses notebook.
SCIENCE said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Tau.Neutrino said:Agree. The exact number is unknown.
There isn’t an “exact Number”. It is arbitrary when you get to the 80+ level, or even 27.
we disagree, there are exactly 2, and linear or nonlinear combinations of them
OK, at that level it is reasonable to talk of separate, numerable emotions.
There may even be more than two.
buffy said:
captain_spalding said:
buffy said:I can’t think why you would need such a dictionary.
Possibly to be aware of what the desired and undesired effects of a medication are, so that when e.g. the patient’s eyeballs start going around in opposite directions, the nurse on the scene ( the doctor having long departed) knows whether or not it’s likely due to the prescribed medicine.
Not the nurses notebook.
No.
Not the nurses’ notebook.
captain_spalding said:
buffy said:
captain_spalding said:Possibly to be aware of what the desired and undesired effects of a medication are, so that when e.g. the patient’s eyeballs start going around in opposite directions, the nurse on the scene ( the doctor having long departed) knows whether or not it’s likely due to the prescribed medicine.
Not the nurses notebook.
No.
Not the nurses’ notebook.
I was questioning the point of trying to label subjective things.
The Rev Dodgson said:
SCIENCE said:
The Rev Dodgson said:Damn
Beaten by SCIENCE again.
sorry for missing this beat earlier
we were going to say it was just a matter of simple time but instead we might give it a rest
No need to apaologise.
It’s all music to my ears, whatever the time of the delivery.
we hrear you like an acrousis
captain_spalding said:
buffy said:
captain_spalding said:Possibly to be aware of what the desired and undesired effects of a medication are, so that when e.g. the patient’s eyeballs start going around in opposite directions, the nurse on the scene ( the doctor having long departed) knows whether or not it’s likely due to the prescribed medicine.
Not the nurses notebook.
No.
Not the nurses’ notebook.
One would have though it would be good for teachers, social science teachers, psychologists, criminal psychologists, robot emotion intelligence programmers etc
Tau.Neutrino said:
captain_spalding said:
buffy said:Not the nurses notebook.
No.
Not the nurses’ notebook.
One would have though it would be good for teachers, social science teachers, psychologists, criminal psychologists, robot emotion intelligence programmers etc
One would have though it would be good for non fiction writers, teachers, social science teachers, psychologists, criminal psychologists, robot emotion intelligence programmers etc
Tau.Neutrino said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
captain_spalding said:No.
Not the nurses’ notebook.
One would have though it would be good for teachers, social science teachers, psychologists, criminal psychologists, robot emotion intelligence programmers etc
One would have though it would be good for non fiction writers, teachers, social science teachers, psychologists, criminal psychologists, robot emotion intelligence programmers etc
The fact that have haven’t validated the complete range of emotions shows itself clearly in domestic violence, of around 600 call outs a day or more.
Why is there so much domestic violence, its because of lack of emotional intelligence education.
Why is there a lack of emotional intelligence education across all states.
Why are some publishers of emotion books only describing 27 when there are 350?
Do they want a dumbed down readership or are they frightened of complexity, of something else?
What is going on?
I rest my case your honour.
:)
.
You see a lot of emotion communicated on TV, and a lot of variance of emotional communication in movies and tv series shows.
Each Movie, series and TV show will have different emotional dynamics.
The news will be different to chat shows.
Most of the general public watch a lot of TV and movies, and are unaware of all the underlying emotion that say Disney productions puts into its movies.
Cartoon characters generate a lot of emotions.
A lot of people cannot articulate their emotions so it may manifest itself as sickness, tension, anxiety some other mental to physical manifestation.
Educating people to cover 130 emotions would be different to that of educating people with only 27.
Which group would have an advantage?
Tau.Neutrino said:
You see a lot of emotion communicated on TV, and a lot of variance of emotional communication in movies and tv series shows.Each Movie, series and TV show will have different emotional dynamics.
The news will be different to chat shows.
Most of the general public watch a lot of TV and movies, and are unaware of all the underlying emotion that say Disney productions puts into its movies.
Cartoon characters generate a lot of emotions.
A lot of people cannot articulate their emotions so it may manifest itself as sickness, tension, anxiety some other mental to physical manifestation.
Educating people to cover 130 emotions would be different to that of educating people with only 27.
Which group would have an advantage?
Educating people to cover 350 emotions would be different to that of educating people with only 27.
Which group would have an advantage?
13 C outside today. Rather cold for my neck of the woods. Spent most of the afternoon standing at the work bench and now I am getting mini cramps in the legs. I’m blaming the cold.
Tau.Neutrino said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Tau.Neutrino said:One would have though it would be good for teachers, social science teachers, psychologists, criminal psychologists, robot emotion intelligence programmers etc
One would have though it would be good for non fiction writers, teachers, social science teachers, psychologists, criminal psychologists, robot emotion intelligence programmers etc
The fact that have haven’t validated the complete range of emotions shows itself clearly in domestic violence, of around 600 call outs a day or more.
Why is there so much domestic violence, its because of lack of emotional intelligence education.
Why is there a lack of emotional intelligence education across all states.
Why are some publishers of emotion books only describing 27 when there are 350?
Do they want a dumbed down readership or are they frightened of complexity, of something else?
What is going on?
How many colours are there?
The Rev Dodgson said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Tau.Neutrino said:One would have though it would be good for non fiction writers, teachers, social science teachers, psychologists, criminal psychologists, robot emotion intelligence programmers etc
The fact that have haven’t validated the complete range of emotions shows itself clearly in domestic violence, of around 600 call outs a day or more.
Why is there so much domestic violence, its because of lack of emotional intelligence education.
Why is there a lack of emotional intelligence education across all states.
Why are some publishers of emotion books only describing 27 when there are 350?
Do they want a dumbed down readership or are they frightened of complexity, of something else?
What is going on?
How many colours are there?
roygbiv, 7. + the ones inbetween those 7.
;-)
Tau.Neutrino said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
You see a lot of emotion communicated on TV, and a lot of variance of emotional communication in movies and tv series shows.Each Movie, series and TV show will have different emotional dynamics.
The news will be different to chat shows.
Most of the general public watch a lot of TV and movies, and are unaware of all the underlying emotion that say Disney productions puts into its movies.
Cartoon characters generate a lot of emotions.
A lot of people cannot articulate their emotions so it may manifest itself as sickness, tension, anxiety some other mental to physical manifestation.
Educating people to cover 130 emotions would be different to that of educating people with only 27.
Which group would have an advantage?
Educating people to cover 350 emotions would be different to that of educating people with only 27.
Which group would have an advantage?
350 emotions would generate lot of data and would cover a lot of study in future statistical analysis of that data.
Tau.Neutrino said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
You see a lot of emotion communicated on TV, and a lot of variance of emotional communication in movies and tv series shows.Each Movie, series and TV show will have different emotional dynamics.
The news will be different to chat shows.
Most of the general public watch a lot of TV and movies, and are unaware of all the underlying emotion that say Disney productions puts into its movies.
Cartoon characters generate a lot of emotions.
A lot of people cannot articulate their emotions so it may manifest itself as sickness, tension, anxiety some other mental to physical manifestation.
Educating people to cover 130 emotions would be different to that of educating people with only 27.
Which group would have an advantage?
Educating people to cover 350 emotions would be different to that of educating people with only 27.
Which group would have an advantage?
350 emotions would generate lot of data and would cover a lot of study in future statistical analysis of that data.
Would it matter if robots had more emotions than humans?
party_pants said:
13 C outside today. Rather cold for my neck of the woods. Spent most of the afternoon standing at the work bench and now I am getting mini cramps in the legs. I’m blaming the old.
fixed
Tau.Neutrino said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Tau.Neutrino said:Educating people to cover 350 emotions would be different to that of educating people with only 27.
Which group would have an advantage?
350 emotions would generate lot of data and would cover a lot of study in future statistical analysis of that data.
Would it matter if robots had more emotions than humans?
Are there groups of people with 27 emotions, groups of people with 130 emotions and groups of people with 350 emotions?
Tau.Neutrino said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Tau.Neutrino said:350 emotions would generate lot of data and would cover a lot of study in future statistical analysis of that data.
Would it matter if robots had more emotions than humans?
Are there groups of people with 27 emotions, groups of people with 130 emotions and groups of people with 350 emotions?
Is there a similar thing with traits?
MV bought it up.
Points.
sibeen said:
party_pants said:
13 C outside today. Rather cold for my neck of the woods. Spent most of the afternoon standing at the work bench and now I am getting mini cramps in the legs. I’m blaming the old.
fixed
meh. I’m not that old yet.
party_pants said:
sibeen said:
party_pants said:
13 C outside today. Rather cold for my neck of the woods. Spent most of the afternoon standing at the work bench and now I am getting mini cramps in the legs. I’m blaming the old.
fixed
meh. I’m not that old yet.
Exterior max of 12 today but most rooms of the house wouldn’t have reached that. It’s the time of the year when the inside of the house tends to retain night temperatures expect in the heated rooms. Heading for 0 tonight.
Bogsnorkler said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Tau.Neutrino said:The fact that have haven’t validated the complete range of emotions shows itself clearly in domestic violence, of around 600 call outs a day or more.
Why is there so much domestic violence, its because of lack of emotional intelligence education.
Why is there a lack of emotional intelligence education across all states.
Why are some publishers of emotion books only describing 27 when there are 350?
Do they want a dumbed down readership or are they frightened of complexity, of something else?
What is going on?
How many colours are there?
roygbiv, 7. + the ones inbetween those 7.
;-)
Newton claimed there are 7 (which is why the 7 you’ve named are so often quoted,) but he chose 7 because it was a magical (and biblical) number: 7 planets (at the time), 7 holes in the head, 7 days of the week/Creation, 7 metals of Antiquity, 7 seas/continents, 7 Wonders of the Ancient World, many, many biblical references to 7, etc, etc.
There are quite a few facial expression books around.
The Science of Facial Expression By: José-Miguel Fernández-Dols (Editor), James A. Russell (Editor)
Unmasking The Face: A Guide to Recognizing Emotions from Facial Expressions… by Paul Ekman
Dictionary of Facial Expression of Emotion A. Freitas-magalhães
Anatomy of Facial Expressions
Artist’s Complete Guide to Facial Expression, The by Gary Faigin
Facial Expressions: A Visual Reference for Artists
The Psychology of Facial Expression
Carving Facial Expressions by Ian Norbury
Facial Expression Recognition A. W. Young
Facial Expressions A Visual Reference for Artists By: Mark Simon
Bubblecar said:
party_pants said:
sibeen said:fixed
meh. I’m not that old yet.
Exterior max of 12 today but most rooms of the house wouldn’t have reached that. It’s the time of the year when the inside of the house tends to retain night temperatures expect in the heated rooms. Heading for 0 tonight.
Just arrived at the redoubt, it’s surprisingly uncold.
The 27.5-million-year cycle of geological activity
https://phys.org/news/2021-06-million-year-geological.html
Geologic activity on Earth appears to follow a 27.5-million-year cycle, giving the planet a ‘pulse,’ according to a new study published in the journal Geoscience Frontiers.
more…
Peak Warming Man said:
Bubblecar said:
party_pants said:meh. I’m not that old yet.
Exterior max of 12 today but most rooms of the house wouldn’t have reached that. It’s the time of the year when the inside of the house tends to retain night temperatures expect in the heated rooms. Heading for 0 tonight.
Just arrived at the redoubt, it’s surprisingly uncold.
Not like the Styx then?
Astronomers spot largest rotation in the universe
https://earthsky.org/space/largest-rotation-universe-cosmic-filament/
Filaments of the cosmic web
Astronomers at the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam, in collaboration with scientists in China and Estonia, said on June 14, 2021, that they’ve discovered a rotation – a spin – on an enormous scale never seen before.
Hundreds of millions of light-years long, but just a few million light-years in diameter.
more…
henry @ darkMOFO
Some Heidi pics.
Tristan’s photo.
sarahs mum said:
henry @ darkMOFOSome Heidi pics.
I like the Neon car.
Those are nice pictures.
Y’all getting any aurorae?
poikilotherm said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Bubblecar said:Exterior max of 12 today but most rooms of the house wouldn’t have reached that. It’s the time of the year when the inside of the house tends to retain night temperatures expect in the heated rooms. Heading for 0 tonight.
Just arrived at the redoubt, it’s surprisingly uncold.
Not like the Styx then?
7° in East Gippsland.
dv said:
Those are nice pictures.Y’all getting any aurorae?
There has been a lot of cloud cover here on the good nights. Not a lot of spotting on the enthusiast pages.
sarahs mum said:
this one looks nice and warm :)
party_pants said:
sarahs mum said:
this one looks nice and warm :)
That is the beast that contained everyone’s hand written fears. I watched a film clip. Everyone was marching along and chanting and whooping to where it would be burnt. One guy looked naked.
There are many different fields of psychology.
I’m going to buy both those 2 encyclopedias on Emotions.
sarahs mum said:
henry @ darkMOFO
Some Heidi pics.
Tristan’s photo.
The view through the autumn tree is a good shot.
The Springs Hotel, Mt Wellington (Kunanyi). The building burned to the ground in the 1967 bushfires and was never rebuilt. #colourisedtasmania
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And the govt have been trying to entice someone into developing the site for a decade or so.
sarahs mum said:
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The Springs Hotel, Mt Wellington (Kunanyi). The building burned to the ground in the 1967 bushfires and was never rebuilt. #colourisedtasmania
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And the govt have been trying to entice someone into developing the site for a decade or so.
They could rebiuld it in stone next time with buttresses, lots of buttresses.
Tau.Neutrino said:
sarahs mum said:
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The Springs Hotel, Mt Wellington (Kunanyi). The building burned to the ground in the 1967 bushfires and was never rebuilt. #colourisedtasmania
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And the govt have been trying to entice someone into developing the site for a decade or so.
They could rebiuld it in stone next time with buttresses, lots of buttresses.
You could build it in stone and cement board and keep that romantic feel.
The govt’s prefered redevelopment design is a lot of underground and curved concrete wall and car park.
sarahs mum said:
henry @ darkMOFO
Some Heidi pics.
Tristan’s photo.
:)
Some of that must have been quite scary for the littlies.
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
henry @ darkMOFO
Some Heidi pics.
Tristan’s photo.
:)
Some of that must have been quite scary for the littlies.
They only went to the dark feast.
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
henry @ darkMOFO
Some Heidi pics.
Tristan’s photo.
:)
Some of that must have been quite scary for the littlies.
They only went to the dark feast.
Ah.
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said::)
Some of that must have been quite scary for the littlies.
They only went to the dark feast.
Ah.
I’m wondering if my nephew will do the naked swim tomorrow.
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:They only went to the dark feast.
Ah.
I’m wondering if my nephew will do the naked swim tomorrow.
Better him than me.
I think the water round Tas is too cold in summer,
I’d better fire up the bagpipes and see if I can play this dance I’ve composed today.
It does use one note that can’t be reached by the pipes, but I can ignore that for the time being.
Bubblecar said:
I’d better fire up the bagpipes and see if I can play this dance I’ve composed today.It does use one note that can’t be reached by the pipes, but I can ignore that for the time being.
play a third or fifth.
Current apparent temp here is -0.5C.
Tomorrow morning is expected to be crisp.
Mental health workers, counsellors, mental heath nurses, mental health doctors and mental health psychologist sand psychiatrists could also benefit from knowing about 350 emotions.
Kingy said:
Current apparent temp here is -0.5C.Tomorrow morning is expected to be crisp.
it’s Chrisp.
Kingy said:
Current apparent temp here is -0.5C.Tomorrow morning is expected to be crisp.
much rain to go with it?
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
I’d better fire up the bagpipes and see if I can play this dance I’ve composed today.It does use one note that can’t be reached by the pipes, but I can ignore that for the time being.
play a third or fifth.
Are their pinch notes or harmonics on pipes?
party_pants said:
Kingy said:
Current apparent temp here is -0.5C.Tomorrow morning is expected to be crisp.
much rain to go with it?
As it appears, not a huge amount. Just a standard winter front. Mandurah got 50+mm yesterday, Dunsborough got about 35mm.
Just now checking the radar, and you may be getting some rain overnight.
It seems we are forecast 2 to 13 tomorrow, chance of fog. We have to go to a funeral tomorrow. I may not be in the forum much.
Kingy said:
party_pants said:
Kingy said:
Current apparent temp here is -0.5C.Tomorrow morning is expected to be crisp.
much rain to go with it?
As it appears, not a huge amount. Just a standard winter front. Mandurah got 50+mm yesterday, Dunsborough got about 35mm.
Just now checking the radar, and you may be getting some rain overnight.
Yeah. Mandurah got hammered, it only slowly moved north. Garden Is is there nearest to me and got 41 mm yesterday while Perth city got only 25. That puts me in the 40+ bracket I reckon.
party_pants said:
Kingy said:
party_pants said:much rain to go with it?
As it appears, not a huge amount. Just a standard winter front. Mandurah got 50+mm yesterday, Dunsborough got about 35mm.
Just now checking the radar, and you may be getting some rain overnight.
Yeah. Mandurah got hammered, it only slowly moved north. Garden Is is there nearest to me and got 41 mm yesterday while Perth city got only 25. That puts me in the 40+ bracket I reckon.
Our forecast suggests we may get up to 18mm in total from Wednesday to next Saturday. Our numbers always look pathetic!
buffy said:
party_pants said:
Kingy said:As it appears, not a huge amount. Just a standard winter front. Mandurah got 50+mm yesterday, Dunsborough got about 35mm.
Just now checking the radar, and you may be getting some rain overnight.
Yeah. Mandurah got hammered, it only slowly moved north. Garden Is is there nearest to me and got 41 mm yesterday while Perth city got only 25. That puts me in the 40+ bracket I reckon.
Our forecast suggests we may get up to 18mm in total from Wednesday to next Saturday. Our numbers always look pathetic!
We get nearly all our rain in the winter months and very little outside of that. Summer rain is usually the remnants of some tropical cyclone drifting south. Winter rain is cold fronts from the southern India Ocean. You probably get more rain overall but spread out more evenly.
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
I’d better fire up the bagpipes and see if I can play this dance I’ve composed today.It does use one note that can’t be reached by the pipes, but I can ignore that for the time being.
play a third or fifth.
Well it sounds quite majestic for a such a basic choon (a medieval-type ring dance & variations, with some Breton folk influence, but it actually sounds more like a fast march).
Simple scoring in C minor for one of the “extra” bagpipes on the Blair chanter that enables that key, with real tambourine + VST tablas, VST bassoon & VST viola (the last part to be played on rebec, once I’ve practised it).
Even for quite simple pieces like this on the chanter, precise timing of the grace notes requires quite a lot of rehearsal.
Evening. Starting to think reverse cycle ac when outside air is around 0, loses its efficiency.
poikilotherm said:
Evening. Starting to think reverse cycle ac when outside air is around 0, loses its efficiency.
Yeah, I’d go along with that.
party_pants said:
poikilotherm said:
Evening. Starting to think reverse cycle ac when outside air is around 0, loses its efficiency.
Yeah, I’d go along with that.
Which unfortunately is when you need it the most.
poikilotherm said:
Evening. Starting to think reverse cycle ac when outside air is around 0, loses its efficiency.
It does. This was one of the issues in the recent Texas power outage. As the temp fell below freezing the heating cycle of all the reverse cycle ac started to go to max as clients pushed up the temperature and at the same time the efficiency was falling off a cliff. The result was markedly increased power draw right at the time they were trying to shed load.
It’s common enough to hear people bitch about it on icy mornings in Tassie.
roughbarked said:
party_pants said:
poikilotherm said:
Evening. Starting to think reverse cycle ac when outside air is around 0, loses its efficiency.
Yeah, I’d go along with that.
Which unfortunately is when you need it the most.
Yeah. My sister had one (cheap model) that was only rated good down to 4C. She thought it would be good enough because on;y a handful of days below that. But they quickly found out that is when you want it the most.
sarahs mum said:
It’s common enough to hear people bitch about it on icy mornings in Tassie.
A lot of Australians have reverse cycle so there should be a lot of whingers on icy mornings.
sarahs mum said:
It’s common enough to hear people bitch about it on icy mornings in Tassie.
Whilst those on gas heating are living the life of Riley :)
The Rev Dodgson said:
Tau.Neutrino said:Tau.Neutrino said:One would have though it would be good for non fiction writers, teachers, social science teachers, psychologists, criminal psychologists, robot emotion intelligence programmers etc
The fact that have haven’t validated the complete range of emotions shows itself clearly in domestic violence, of around 600 call outs a day or more.
Why is there so much domestic violence, its because of lack of emotional intelligence education.
Why is there a lack of emotional intelligence education across all states.
Why are some publishers of emotion books only describing 27 when there are 350?
Do they want a dumbed down readership or are they frightened of complexity, of something else?
What is going on?
How many colours are there?
depends on what you have receptors for so as far as emotions go we stand by our contention
sibeen said:
sarahs mum said:
It’s common enough to hear people bitch about it on icy mornings in Tassie.Whilst those on gas heating are living the life of Riley :)
Until the gas freezes in the pipes!!!
party_pants said:
roughbarked said:
party_pants said:Yeah, I’d go along with that.
Which unfortunately is when you need it the most.
Yeah. My sister had one (cheap model) that was only rated good down to 4C. She thought it would be good enough because on;y a handful of days below that. But they quickly found out that is when you want it the most.
I do miss the old fire. Wood fires warm you thrice or they do if you cut the wood yourself.
sibeen said:
sarahs mum said:
It’s common enough to hear people bitch about it on icy mornings in Tassie.Whilst those on gas heating are living the life of Riley :)
My house is usually warm if I I heat the house/slab in the evenings.
ChrispenEvan said:
sibeen said:
sarahs mum said:
It’s common enough to hear people bitch about it on icy mornings in Tassie.Whilst those on gas heating are living the life of Riley :)
Until the gas freezes in the pipes!!!
Very true.
roughbarked said:
party_pants said:
roughbarked said:Which unfortunately is when you need it the most.
Yeah. My sister had one (cheap model) that was only rated good down to 4C. She thought it would be good enough because on;y a handful of days below that. But they quickly found out that is when you want it the most.
I do miss the old fire. Wood fires warm you thrice or they do if you cut the wood yourself.
Depends how often you move the wood too.
The love of the common people supplied me with the last load of firewood. The guy dropped it just outside the sliding door ony 15 or 20 foot from the heater. I moed a lot of it into the house and the rest onto the veranda.
Are you in your new house yet, sibeen?
btm said:
Are you in your new house yet, sibeen?
be a while yet apparently, swmbo has rearrange all the rooms.
When I lived with the rock and roll band we had gas heating. They used to use it to heat the knives for the communal smoking of hashish.
btm said:
Are you in your new house yet, sibeen?
Not yet. Hoping to get the keys in 9 or 10 days and then we still have about two weeks of other trades doing stuff before we can move in.
The trade that has put us behind is the bloody sparkies, Cutting corners and hoping no-one ever spots it.
sarahs mum said:
roughbarked said:
party_pants said:Yeah. My sister had one (cheap model) that was only rated good down to 4C. She thought it would be good enough because on;y a handful of days below that. But they quickly found out that is when you want it the most.
I do miss the old fire. Wood fires warm you thrice or they do if you cut the wood yourself.
Depends how often you move the wood too.
The love of the common people supplied me with the last load of firewood. The guy dropped it just outside the sliding door ony 15 or 20 foot from the heater. I moed a lot of it into the house and the rest onto the veranda.
Cow of a job :)
sibeen said:
btm said:
Are you in your new house yet, sibeen?
Not yet. Hoping to get the keys in 9 or 10 days and then we still have about two weeks of other trades doing stuff before we can move in.
The trade that has put us behind is the bloody sparkies, Cutting corners and hoping no-one ever spots it.
what did the sparkies say when you fronted them?
sarahs mum said:
When I lived with the rock and roll band we had gas heating. They used to use it to heat the knives for the communal smoking of hashish.
They threw the hash on the hotplate of the stove and put a pyrex funnel over it. A tube went through a cooling chamber and there were bodies all over the floor.
roughbarked said:
sarahs mum said:
When I lived with the rock and roll band we had gas heating. They used to use it to heat the knives for the communal smoking of hashish.They threw the hash on the hotplate of the stove and put a pyrex funnel over it. A tube went through a cooling chamber and there were bodies all over the floor.
Phil once put a large lump of it on a brazier and burnt it while he had the house open for inspections for a room to let. He said they should know what they are signing up to.
ChrispenEvan said:
sibeen said:
btm said:
Are you in your new house yet, sibeen?
Not yet. Hoping to get the keys in 9 or 10 days and then we still have about two weeks of other trades doing stuff before we can move in.
The trade that has put us behind is the bloody sparkies, Cutting corners and hoping no-one ever spots it.
what did the sparkies say when you fronted them?
It was all done through the builder, I’ve yet to meet any of the sparkies on site. Their manager really tried it on last week and put a heap of shit in writing and citing AS3000 and placing excepts of the document throughout the email and complaining to the builder that the clients don’t understand these complex matters. The project manager from the builder sent me the email saying “looks like they have you over a barrel”. I meekly asked whether he’d have any issue with me ringing the electrical company’s manager.
10 minutes late I rang the builder back and told him that the electricians would be back on-site and would be running new cables and unfortunately they’ll be putting a lot of holes in pristine plaster work.
sibeen said:
ChrispenEvan said:
sibeen said:Not yet. Hoping to get the keys in 9 or 10 days and then we still have about two weeks of other trades doing stuff before we can move in.
The trade that has put us behind is the bloody sparkies, Cutting corners and hoping no-one ever spots it.
what did the sparkies say when you fronted them?
It was all done through the builder, I’ve yet to meet any of the sparkies on site. Their manager really tried it on last week and put a heap of shit in writing and citing AS3000 and placing excepts of the document throughout the email and complaining to the builder that the clients don’t understand these complex matters. The project manager from the builder sent me the email saying “looks like they have you over a barrel”. I meekly asked whether he’d have any issue with me ringing the electrical company’s manager.
10 minutes late I rang the builder back and told him that the electricians would be back on-site and would be running new cables and unfortunately they’ll be putting a lot of holes in pristine plaster work.
And they would have gotten away with it if you hadn’t been an EE.
It’s like one of those memes where someone is mansplaining a topic to the person who wrote the paper they are quoting.
ChrispenEvan said:
sibeen said:
ChrispenEvan said:what did the sparkies say when you fronted them?
It was all done through the builder, I’ve yet to meet any of the sparkies on site. Their manager really tried it on last week and put a heap of shit in writing and citing AS3000 and placing excepts of the document throughout the email and complaining to the builder that the clients don’t understand these complex matters. The project manager from the builder sent me the email saying “looks like they have you over a barrel”. I meekly asked whether he’d have any issue with me ringing the electrical company’s manager.
10 minutes late I rang the builder back and told him that the electricians would be back on-site and would be running new cables and unfortunately they’ll be putting a lot of holes in pristine plaster work.
And they would have gotten away with it if you hadn’t been an EE.
It’s like one of those memes where someone is mansplaining a topic to the person who wrote the paper they are quoting.
ROFL – I’ve actually had that happen to me.
In this case I suspect they’ve cut this corner on many occasions and just haven’t been picked up on it. The installation was perfectly safe and an electrical inspector would have no issues signing off on the job. Hey, the client experiences a lot of nuisance tripping of the house’s incoming main breaker – that’s no big deal – right.
sibeen said:
ChrispenEvan said:
sibeen said:It was all done through the builder, I’ve yet to meet any of the sparkies on site. Their manager really tried it on last week and put a heap of shit in writing and citing AS3000 and placing excepts of the document throughout the email and complaining to the builder that the clients don’t understand these complex matters. The project manager from the builder sent me the email saying “looks like they have you over a barrel”. I meekly asked whether he’d have any issue with me ringing the electrical company’s manager.
10 minutes late I rang the builder back and told him that the electricians would be back on-site and would be running new cables and unfortunately they’ll be putting a lot of holes in pristine plaster work.
And they would have gotten away with it if you hadn’t been an EE.
It’s like one of those memes where someone is mansplaining a topic to the person who wrote the paper they are quoting.
ROFL – I’ve actually had that happen to me.
In this case I suspect they’ve cut this corner on many occasions and just haven’t been picked up on it. The installation was perfectly safe and an electrical inspector would have no issues signing off on the job. Hey, the client experiences a lot of nuisance tripping of the house’s incoming main breaker – that’s no big deal – right.
Sounds like my house.
dv said:
Trying to read that is doing my head in but then I do have a raging head cold.
I’ve been keeping my eye on the NZ vs India test match.
India started the day in a superb position at 3/146. They were all out for 217.
The Kiwis are currently 0/36 at tea. It’s day 3 as the first day was washed out and yesterday and today have had rain delays.
sibeen said:
I’ve been keeping my eye on the NZ vs India test match.India started the day in a superb position at 3/146. They were all out for 217.
The Kiwis are currently 0/36 at tea. It’s day 3 as the first day was washed out and yesterday and today have had rain delays.
Been watching the Formula 1 and Formula 3 this evening, but keeping an eye on the cricket scores too.
Perth BOM radar looking a bit odd, we seem to be in the middle of a swirly thing.
party_pants said:
Perth BOM radar looking a bit odd, we seem to be in the middle of a swirly thing.
That sort of this happens in a low pressure system. Have a look at the mslp chart for Perth: I’ll put money on there being a low pressure system there.
btm said:
party_pants said:
Perth BOM radar looking a bit odd, we seem to be in the middle of a swirly thing.
That sort of
thishappens in a low pressure system. Have a look at the mslp chart for Perth: I’ll put money on there being a low pressure system there.
thing
btm said:
party_pants said:
Perth BOM radar looking a bit odd, we seem to be in the middle of a swirly thing.
That sort of this happens in a low pressure system. Have a look at the mslp chart for Perth: I’ll put money on there being a low pressure system there.
Yeah, there is normally one behind the cold fronts driving them along. Usually a bit further south and we just get the fronts only.
sibeen said:
btm said:
Are you in your new house yet, sibeen?
Not yet. Hoping to get the keys in 9 or 10 days and then we still have about two weeks of other trades doing stuff before we can move in.
The trade that has put us behind is the bloody sparkies, Cutting corners and hoping no-one ever spots it.
To be fair, most others wouldn’t have noticed…
Morning, cold and clear in the Styx.
poikilotherm said:
Morning, cold and clear in the Styx.
Zero here at the redoubt but fine.
Peak Warming Man said:
poikilotherm said:
Morning, cold and clear in the Styx.
Zero here at the redoubt but fine.
Touch warmer than here
I’m not sure the split systems are going to win the heating battle, I’ve had to turn the temp settings up to get the house to a similar temperature to gas.
poikilotherm said:
Peak Warming Man said:
poikilotherm said:
Morning, cold and clear in the Styx.
Zero here at the redoubt but fine.
Touch warmer than here
I’m not sure the split systems are going to win the heating battle, I’ve had to turn the temp settings up to get the house to a similar temperature to gas.
Yeah, they don’t like it when it’s rooly cold. Apparently the secret is to leave them running all night, otherwise they won’t get going in the cold.
Good morning Holidayers. It is one degree here and the sun is flaring just above the horizon and projecting my phoenix curtain pattern onto the wall above my screen. It’s quite nice.
Looking towards Gariwerd this morning there is a fog lake on the plains between us and the hills. Quite a nice view from the front door.
buffy said:
Good morning Holidayers. It is one degree here and the sun is flaring just above the horizon and projecting my phoenix curtain pattern onto the wall above my screen. It’s quite nice.
Looking towards Gariwerd this morning there is a fog lake on the plains between us and the hills. Quite a nice view from the front door.
Very nice.
Dark Orange said:
poikilotherm said:
Peak Warming Man said:Zero here at the redoubt but fine.
Touch warmer than here
I’m not sure the split systems are going to win the heating battle, I’ve had to turn the temp settings up to get the house to a similar temperature to gas.
Yeah, they don’t like it when it’s rooly cold. Apparently the secret is to leave them running all night, otherwise they won’t get going in the cold.
Mr buffy turned ours on when he went to the pool at 6.15 this morning. It’s about 13 in the kitchen now. Cooler in the rest of the house. Bu we don’t heat the whole house. This old fashioned house is not open plan, so we shut doors. And we keep the bedroom cold. Much better for sleeping.
Dark Orange said:
poikilotherm said:
Peak Warming Man said:Zero here at the redoubt but fine.
Touch warmer than here
I’m not sure the split systems are going to win the heating battle, I’ve had to turn the temp settings up to get the house to a similar temperature to gas.
Yeah, they don’t like it when it’s rooly cold. Apparently the secret is to leave them running all night, otherwise they won’t get going in the cold.
I have been to be comparable as we leave the gas on 24/7 , just adjust temps down over night or when not home etc.
I see Queensland is increasing the places you have to check into. Not quite to the Victorian level where it is every shop etc.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-21/covid-live-updates-latest-vaccine-rollout-national-cabinet/100229444
poikilotherm said:
Peak Warming Man said:
poikilotherm said:
Morning, cold and clear in the Styx.
Zero here at the redoubt but fine.
Touch warmer than here
I’m not sure the split systems are going to win the heating battle, I’ve had to turn the temp settings up to get the house to a similar temperature to gas.
10° outside, 16° inside.
>>went to the pool at 6.15 this morning
He’s nuts
Peak Warming Man said:
>>went to the pool at 6.15 this morningHe’s nuts
The pool is heated. He does his physio exercises and chats with a lot of old farts.
https://www.killjoydrinks.com
I think some here might like to try these products for health reasons.
https://theconversation.com/top-economists-call-for-budget-measures-to-speed-the-switch-to-electric-cars-162883
Damn. My sewing machine has just decided not to pick up the bobbin thread. I’ve emailed its doctor. Hopefully she will be able to get it going again.
https://theconversation.com/stolen-wages-northern-territory-class-action-will-hold-the-commonwealth-to-account-149155
https://thenewdaily.com.au/finance/2021/06/21/super-fund-changes-government/
Mystery gemstones that sparked South Africa diamond rush just quartz crystals
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-21/south-africa-diamond-rush-quartz-crystals/100229970
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I said it looked like weathered quartz.
sarahs mum said:
Mystery gemstones that sparked South Africa diamond rush just quartz crystalshttps://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-21/south-africa-diamond-rush-quartz-crystals/100229970
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I said it looked like weathered quartz.
Yeah.
roughbarked said:
sarahs mum said:
Mystery gemstones that sparked South Africa diamond rush just quartz crystalshttps://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-21/south-africa-diamond-rush-quartz-crystals/100229970
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I said it looked like weathered quartz.
Yeah.
Good clear quartz though.
sarahs mum said:
Mystery gemstones that sparked South Africa diamond rush just quartz crystalshttps://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-21/south-africa-diamond-rush-quartz-crystals/100229970
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I said it looked like weathered quartz.
The original seems to be a diamond. Those that followed are quartz.
sarahs mum said:
sarahs mum said:
Mystery gemstones that sparked South Africa diamond rush just quartz crystalshttps://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-21/south-africa-diamond-rush-quartz-crystals/100229970
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I said it looked like weathered quartz.
The original seems to be a diamond. Those that followed are quartz.
Someone dropped a diamond?
It isn’t diamond bearing ground.
poikilotherm said:
Dark Orange said:
poikilotherm said:Touch warmer than here
I’m not sure the split systems are going to win the heating battle, I’ve had to turn the temp settings up to get the house to a similar temperature to gas.
Yeah, they don’t like it when it’s rooly cold. Apparently the secret is to leave them running all night, otherwise they won’t get going in the cold.
I have been to be comparable as we leave the gas on 24/7 , just adjust temps down over night or when not home etc.
takes more compressor on time as the outside temp goes down I gather, less heat to move from outside (per volume air), or takes more time to move what heat there is to where you want it (inside)
quick look suggests lot of AC heat pump units are good down to 1.7C outside, but when gets down -1C and lower the efficiency can be terrible, meaning probably wont keep up with what’s required
Well the sisters are back from visiting the mainland sister, and report that she seems happy and positive etc.
While still smoking :(
And still drinking two bottles of wine every night. But at least she has an appointment next month to see a shrink about the smoking.
Lunch: eggmess with peas & pepper, hence the sneezing.
Bubblecar said:
Lunch: eggmess with peas & pepper, hence the sneezing.
I’ve got some kind of chicken wrap thing happening
check out these idiots, everyone knows that coal and oil are more reliable
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-21/spacewalk-solar-panels-astronauts-iss-space-tourism/100229908
The Prince
Keyheed Martial Corporation
Dear Phnom,
This certificate of authenticity confirms that the landmine you stepped on was a genuine Keyheed® landmine. It was assembled by Karen Smith in our Oklahoma City plant.
She has been a conscientious member of our team for more than two decades and during that time she has assembled more than 70,000 precision landmines of exceptionally high-quality. We can only imagine the results her meticulous work has produced. We are so proud of her.
She volunteers in her church and loves God with her whole heart. She has two children, Susie, 9, who loves softball, and Max, 14, who made varsity soccer this year. When not attending her children’s sports, she enjoys a round of golf herself.
She wishes you a long and happy life.
Regards,
Keyheed Management
PS: As a special perk of being a satisfied consumer of our products, we include a coupon that entitles you to a free tour of our landmine plant in Oklahoma City.
ChrispenEvan said:
PS: As a special perk of being a satisfied consumer of our products, we include a coupon that entitles you to a free tour of our landmine plant in Oklahoma City.
I know it’s a joke, but…
i really hate land mines.
captain_spalding said:
ChrispenEvan said:PS: As a special perk of being a satisfied consumer of our products, we include a coupon that entitles you to a free tour of our landmine plant in Oklahoma City.
I know it’s a joke, but…
i really hate land mines.
yes, It is an email from a word a day, the rest of it
A.Word.A.Day
with Anu Garg
Magawa the rat is retiring from his job detecting landmines. In his long and distinguished career, this gold-medalist creature has sniffed out dozens of landmines and other explosives in Cambodia. (BBC)
Magawa is special, but even ordinary rodents are smarter than some humans. They have inspired poems. Robert Burns’s “To a Mouse” tells us: “The best-laid schemes of mice and men / Go oft awry.”
They do. And best-laid landmines kill and maim decades after they have been planted. I propose a journalistic standard that whenever someone writes an article about landmines somewhere, they should also mention who put them there in the first place.
Also, I propose that after a person steps on a landmine, if they survive, when they hobble out of the hospital on crutches, a representative of the armament factory meets them at the hospital gate and presents them with a certificate of authenticity. It’s the least they can do.
On the other hand, why worry about all this? Phnom is probably the wrong religion and going to hell anyway. And if she didn’t want her legs blown off, why did she choose to be born in the wrong country? Why did she pick the wrong skin color? And, above all, why did she go out to play in the open instead of staying in the nicely fenced and manicured backyard in her home?
Fortunately, treaties are in place banning landmines, but some countries have not signed on. No, we haven’t maimed and killed enough people yet. H. sapiens,* literally “wise man”. Wise indeed! Can we rename ourselves to something else? What happened to the truth-in-advertising laws? I propose H. nesciens or H. malevolens.
Enough about humans and their despicable actions. Sometimes it takes a rat like Magawa to clean up after humans. This week we’ll feature five words derived from rats and mice.
*We are so wise that if I spell out the H in H. sapiens this email would be blocked by email filters at many schools and corporations as containing a slur. Because smart computers! High-tech! AI! If these email nannies were any smarter, they would filter out “landmines”.
ChrispenEvan said:
captain_spalding said:
ChrispenEvan said:PS: As a special perk of being a satisfied consumer of our products, we include a coupon that entitles you to a free tour of our landmine plant in Oklahoma City.
I know it’s a joke, but…
i really hate land mines.
yes, It is an email from a word a day, the rest of it
A.Word.A.Day
with Anu GargMagawa the rat is retiring from his job detecting landmines. In his long and distinguished career, this gold-medalist creature has sniffed out dozens of landmines and other explosives in Cambodia. (BBC)
Magawa is special, but even ordinary rodents are smarter than some humans. They have inspired poems. Robert Burns’s “To a Mouse” tells us: “The best-laid schemes of mice and men / Go oft awry.”
They do. And best-laid landmines kill and maim decades after they have been planted. I propose a journalistic standard that whenever someone writes an article about landmines somewhere, they should also mention who put them there in the first place.
Also, I propose that after a person steps on a landmine, if they survive, when they hobble out of the hospital on crutches, a representative of the armament factory meets them at the hospital gate and presents them with a certificate of authenticity. It’s the least they can do.
On the other hand, why worry about all this? Phnom is probably the wrong religion and going to hell anyway. And if she didn’t want her legs blown off, why did she choose to be born in the wrong country? Why did she pick the wrong skin color? And, above all, why did she go out to play in the open instead of staying in the nicely fenced and manicured backyard in her home?
Fortunately, treaties are in place banning landmines, but some countries have not signed on. No, we haven’t maimed and killed enough people yet. H. sapiens,* literally “wise man”. Wise indeed! Can we rename ourselves to something else? What happened to the truth-in-advertising laws? I propose H. nesciens or H. malevolens.
Enough about humans and their despicable actions. Sometimes it takes a rat like Magawa to clean up after humans. This week we’ll feature five words derived from rats and mice.
*We are so wise that if I spell out the H in H. sapiens this email would be blocked by email filters at many schools and corporations as containing a slur. Because smart computers! High-tech! AI! If these email nannies were any smarter, they would filter out “landmines”.
It looks like they gave you a lot more than one word today. Maybe they’re going on holidays and giving you enough to see you through …
I wonder what Angkor Wat is like these days.
I saw it from the air, in the distance, quite a long time back.
No tourists around it then. The place was laid thick with all sorts of land-mines. It was so bad that the main casualties of the mines were people from e.g. the remnants of the Khmer Rouge who were sneaking about the place trying to lay more of the things.
No-one knew who’d laid what mines, where they’d laid them, or how many of them.
I couldn’t imagine any way to make it safe again. I suppose they must have cleared a lot of them, but i can also imagine that there’s still plenty of no-go areas around the sites.
captain_spalding said:
I wonder what Angkor Wat is like these days.I saw it from the air, in the distance, quite a long time back.
No tourists around it then. The place was laid thick with all sorts of land-mines. It was so bad that the main casualties of the mines were people from e.g. the remnants of the Khmer Rouge who were sneaking about the place trying to lay more of the things.
No-one knew who’d laid what mines, where they’d laid them, or how many of them.
I couldn’t imagine any way to make it safe again. I suppose they must have cleared a lot of them, but i can also imagine that there’s still plenty of no-go areas around the sites.
Presume so. It is one of the major tourist attractions. Before the coronavirus pandemic it was getting around 6 million visitors a year, according toa quick Google search I just did.
captain_spalding said:
I wonder what Angkor Wat is like these days.I saw it from the air, in the distance, quite a long time back.
No tourists around it then. The place was laid thick with all sorts of land-mines. It was so bad that the main casualties of the mines were people from e.g. the remnants of the Khmer Rouge who were sneaking about the place trying to lay more of the things.
No-one knew who’d laid what mines, where they’d laid them, or how many of them.
I couldn’t imagine any way to make it safe again. I suppose they must have cleared a lot of them, but i can also imagine that there’s still plenty of no-go areas around the sites.
I did a couple of weeks work in Phnom Penh in ’98. At that time I was a member of the Hash House Harriers in Canberra and someone I met in Phnom Penh was a member of the local group. He asked if I wanted to come for a run with them on the weekend and I jumped at the chance.
They put us on a bus and drove about 40 or 50 ks outside town. We were then running through small villages and through rice paddies etc. I was very careful to run at the rear and watch where the person in front of me was placing their feet.
The running at the rear bit wasn’t all by choice. I was reasonably fit back in those days but the combination of a few weeks without a run, the humidity and heat which were both off the chart and the fact that this HHH group seemed to be full of really fit bastards who were in a running club for the running and not the drinking made me a tail end ragged runner.
Do I want these trousers?
Bubblecar said:
Do I want these trousers?
Someone else seems to be wearing them, so no.
sibeen said:
Bubblecar said:
Do I want these trousers?
Someone else seems to be wearing them, so no.
Not that specific pair. Mine will need to be much fatter.
Bubblecar said:
sibeen said:
Bubblecar said:
Do I want these trousers?
Someone else seems to be wearing them, so no.
Not that specific pair. Mine will need to be much fatter.
Yes, order them. They make a change from trousers that aren’t checked, and look vaguely Dr Who.
furious said:
ChrispenEvan said:
captain_spalding said:I know it’s a joke, but…
i really hate land mines.
yes, It is an email from a word a day, the rest of it
A.Word.A.Day
with Anu GargMagawa the rat is retiring from his job detecting landmines. In his long and distinguished career, this gold-medalist creature has sniffed out dozens of landmines and other explosives in Cambodia. (BBC)
Magawa is special, but even ordinary rodents are smarter than some humans. They have inspired poems. Robert Burns’s “To a Mouse” tells us: “The best-laid schemes of mice and men / Go oft awry.”
They do. And best-laid landmines kill and maim decades after they have been planted. I propose a journalistic standard that whenever someone writes an article about landmines somewhere, they should also mention who put them there in the first place.
Also, I propose that after a person steps on a landmine, if they survive, when they hobble out of the hospital on crutches, a representative of the armament factory meets them at the hospital gate and presents them with a certificate of authenticity. It’s the least they can do.
On the other hand, why worry about all this? Phnom is probably the wrong religion and going to hell anyway. And if she didn’t want her legs blown off, why did she choose to be born in the wrong country? Why did she pick the wrong skin color? And, above all, why did she go out to play in the open instead of staying in the nicely fenced and manicured backyard in her home?
Fortunately, treaties are in place banning landmines, but some countries have not signed on. No, we haven’t maimed and killed enough people yet. H. sapiens,* literally “wise man”. Wise indeed! Can we rename ourselves to something else? What happened to the truth-in-advertising laws? I propose H. nesciens or H. malevolens.
Enough about humans and their despicable actions. Sometimes it takes a rat like Magawa to clean up after humans. This week we’ll feature five words derived from rats and mice.
*We are so wise that if I spell out the H in H. sapiens this email would be blocked by email filters at many schools and corporations as containing a slur. Because smart computers! High-tech! AI! If these email nannies were any smarter, they would filter out “landmines”.
It looks like they gave you a lot more than one word today. Maybe they’re going on holidays and giving you enough to see you through …
I’m back. Wearing a mask at a funeral when you are a sobber is yucky. Mask most definitely has to be washed. It was a gentle, sombre funeral. No-one wore “look at me!” clothes. And all C’s grandchildren, all under 10 years old, were there. Recognizing people in masks and sunglasses is quite challenging too. Easier at the cemetery where masks were off. Behind the hearse in the cortege were about half a dozen street rods. Then the rest of us. We held up the traffic on the Hamilton Highway for about 5 minutes.
buffy said:
I’m back. Wearing a mask at a funeral when you are a sobber is yucky. Mask most definitely has to be washed. It was a gentle, sombre funeral. No-one wore “look at me!” clothes. And all C’s grandchildren, all under 10 years old, were there. Recognizing people in masks and sunglasses is quite challenging too. Easier at the cemetery where masks were off. Behind the hearse in the cortege were about half a dozen street rods. Then the rest of us. We held up the traffic on the Hamilton Highway for about 5 minutes.
Makes me wonder if a Zoom-type funeral might be a better idea in the present circumstances.
Dinner is from the freezer again tonight, choice of turkey stew or beef bortsch.
Bubblecar said:
buffy said:
I’m back. Wearing a mask at a funeral when you are a sobber is yucky. Mask most definitely has to be washed. It was a gentle, sombre funeral. No-one wore “look at me!” clothes. And all C’s grandchildren, all under 10 years old, were there. Recognizing people in masks and sunglasses is quite challenging too. Easier at the cemetery where masks were off. Behind the hearse in the cortege were about half a dozen street rods. Then the rest of us. We held up the traffic on the Hamilton Highway for about 5 minutes.
Makes me wonder if a Zoom-type funeral might be a better idea in the present circumstances.
the video recording and viewing is certainly better
Bubblecar said:
buffy said:
I’m back. Wearing a mask at a funeral when you are a sobber is yucky. Mask most definitely has to be washed. It was a gentle, sombre funeral. No-one wore “look at me!” clothes. And all C’s grandchildren, all under 10 years old, were there. Recognizing people in masks and sunglasses is quite challenging too. Easier at the cemetery where masks were off. Behind the hearse in the cortege were about half a dozen street rods. Then the rest of us. We held up the traffic on the Hamilton Highway for about 5 minutes.
Makes me wonder if a Zoom-type funeral might be a better idea in the present circumstances.
It was recorded and will be on the funeral director’s website tomorrow afternoon. Numbers were limited – Mr buffy and I were honorary family members. There wasn’t a QR code sign in. They had a list of attendees and our phone numbers at the door and someone standing there to get you to tick off your name. Then there was a condolence book (basically just a list of attendees) as well.
Bubblecar said:
Dinner is from the freezer again tonight, choice of turkey stew or beef bortsch.
I’m reheating leftover pizza from Friday night. I knew I wasn’t going to feel much like cooking tonight.
buffy said:
Bubblecar said:
Dinner is from the freezer again tonight, choice of turkey stew or beef bortsch.
I’m reheating leftover pizza from Friday night. I knew I wasn’t going to feel much like cooking tonight.
Fair enough.
And I splet borscht wrongly again.
buffy said:
I’m back. Wearing a mask at a funeral when you are a sobber is yucky. Mask most definitely has to be washed. It was a gentle, sombre funeral. No-one wore “look at me!” clothes. And all C’s grandchildren, all under 10 years old, were there. Recognizing people in masks and sunglasses is quite challenging too. Easier at the cemetery where masks were off. Behind the hearse in the cortege were about half a dozen street rods. Then the rest of us. We held up the traffic on the Hamilton Highway for about 5 minutes.
Egads, I first read that as ‘sober’.
sibeen said:
buffy said:
I’m back. Wearing a mask at a funeral when you are a sobber is yucky. Mask most definitely has to be washed. It was a gentle, sombre funeral. No-one wore “look at me!” clothes. And all C’s grandchildren, all under 10 years old, were there. Recognizing people in masks and sunglasses is quite challenging too. Easier at the cemetery where masks were off. Behind the hearse in the cortege were about half a dozen street rods. Then the rest of us. We held up the traffic on the Hamilton Highway for about 5 minutes.
Egads, I first read that as ‘sober’.
Well, everyone was at that stage. I’m sure they aren’t by now. We came home after the cemetery. I was a bit upset.
buffy said:
sibeen said:
buffy said:
I’m back. Wearing a mask at a funeral when you are a sobber is yucky. Mask most definitely has to be washed. It was a gentle, sombre funeral. No-one wore “look at me!” clothes. And all C’s grandchildren, all under 10 years old, were there. Recognizing people in masks and sunglasses is quite challenging too. Easier at the cemetery where masks were off. Behind the hearse in the cortege were about half a dozen street rods. Then the rest of us. We held up the traffic on the Hamilton Highway for about 5 minutes.
Egads, I first read that as ‘sober’.
Well, everyone was at that stage. I’m sure they aren’t by now. We came home after the cemetery. I was a bit upset.
((((( buffy )))))
Michael V said:
buffy said:
sibeen said:Egads, I first read that as ‘sober’.
Well, everyone was at that stage. I’m sure they aren’t by now. We came home after the cemetery. I was a bit upset.
((((( buffy )))))
And me.
sibeen said:
buffy said:
I’m back. Wearing a mask at a funeral when you are a sobber is yucky. Mask most definitely has to be washed. It was a gentle, sombre funeral. No-one wore “look at me!” clothes. And all C’s grandchildren, all under 10 years old, were there. Recognizing people in masks and sunglasses is quite challenging too. Easier at the cemetery where masks were off. Behind the hearse in the cortege were about half a dozen street rods. Then the rest of us. We held up the traffic on the Hamilton Highway for about 5 minutes.
Egads, I first read that as ‘sober’.
at least you know the word. do you also know what it means though??
ChrispenEvan said:
sibeen said:
buffy said:
I’m back. Wearing a mask at a funeral when you are a sobber is yucky. Mask most definitely has to be washed. It was a gentle, sombre funeral. No-one wore “look at me!” clothes. And all C’s grandchildren, all under 10 years old, were there. Recognizing people in masks and sunglasses is quite challenging too. Easier at the cemetery where masks were off. Behind the hearse in the cortege were about half a dozen street rods. Then the rest of us. We held up the traffic on the Hamilton Highway for about 5 minutes.
Egads, I first read that as ‘sober’.
at least you know the word. do you also know what it means though??
1.used to refer to a thing previously mentioned or easily identified.
“a room with two beds in it”
2.used to identify a person.
“it’s me”
sibeen said:
ChrispenEvan said:
sibeen said:Egads, I first read that as ‘sober’.
at least you know the word. do you also know what it means though??
1.used to refer to a thing previously mentioned or easily identified.
“a room with two beds in it”2.used to identify a person.
“it’s me”
I was hoping you’d go with this one
2.
serious, sensible, and solemn.
sibeen said:
Egads, I first read that as ‘sober’.
As did I…
sibeen said:
ChrispenEvan said:
sibeen said:Egads, I first read that as ‘sober’.
at least you know the word. do you also know what it means though??
1.used to refer to a thing previously mentioned or easily identified.
“a room with two beds in it”2.used to identify a person.
“it’s me”
What’s the “it” in “it’s raining”? Or in “what time is it?”
Dark Orange said:
sibeen said:
Egads, I first read that as ‘sober’.
As did I…
two Bs or not two Bs, that is the question.
The family will be meeting in this Oatlands establishment next week to celebrate my and the immediately younger sister’s birthdays.
http://www.imbibers.com.au/
btm said:
sibeen said:
ChrispenEvan said:at least you know the word. do you also know what it means though??
1.used to refer to a thing previously mentioned or easily identified.
“a room with two beds in it”2.used to identify a person.
“it’s me”
What’s the “it” in “it’s raining”? Or in “what time is it?”
present status
Bubblecar said:
The family will be meeting in this Oatlands establishment next week to celebrate my and the immediately younger sister’s birthdays.http://www.imbibers.com.au/
dig it.
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
The family will be meeting in this Oatlands establishment next week to celebrate my and the immediately younger sister’s birthdays.http://www.imbibers.com.au/
dig it.
oh
didn’t know that Imbar Nassi was a Berber but there you go
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
The family will be meeting in this Oatlands establishment next week to celebrate my and the immediately younger sister’s birthdays.http://www.imbibers.com.au/
dig it.
5th
Bubblecar said:
The family will be meeting in this Oatlands establishment next week to celebrate my and the immediately younger sister’s birthdays.http://www.imbibers.com.au/
Noice
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
The family will be meeting in this Oatlands establishment next week to celebrate my and the immediately younger sister’s birthdays.http://www.imbibers.com.au/
dig it.
That looks like it would blow my budget.
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:dig it.
That looks like it would blow my budget.
They’re not cheap, but then that’s Tasmanian fancy produce for you.
But worthy enough as an occasional treat.
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:That looks like it would blow my budget.
They’re not cheap, but then that’s Tasmanian fancy produce for you.
But worthy enough as an occasional treat.
and it is the fancy produce I want.
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:That looks like it would blow my budget.
They’re not cheap, but then that’s Tasmanian fancy produce for you.
But worthy enough as an occasional treat.
and it is the fancy produce I want.
As one of the birthday people, I assume I’ll be being treated. But I’ll take a fat wallet regardless :)
SCIENCE said:
btm said:
sibeen said:1.used to refer to a thing previously mentioned or easily identified.
“a room with two beds in it”2.used to identify a person.
“it’s me”
What’s the “it” in “it’s raining”? Or in “what time is it?”
present status
This is a futile discussion.
It can mean anything.
The Rev Dodgson said:
SCIENCE said:
btm said:What’s the “it” in “it’s raining”? Or in “what time is it?”
present status
This is a futile discussion.
It can mean anything.
it started it.
ChrispenEvan said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
SCIENCE said:present status
This is a futile discussion.
It can mean anything.
it started it.
It it It it it it It it.
SCIENCE said:
ChrispenEvan said:
The Rev Dodgson said:This is a futile discussion.
It can mean anything.
it started it.
It it It it it it It it.
Itt
The Julie Bishop Barbie doll. I would have thought someone here would have told me about that.
ChrispenEvan said:
SCIENCE said:
ChrispenEvan said:it started it.
It it It it it it It it.
Itt
This this This this this this This this.
SCIENCE said:
ChrispenEvan said:
SCIENCE said:It it It it it it It it.
Itt
This this This this this this This this.
This is it
I can say
ChrispenEvan said:
SCIENCE said:
ChrispenEvan said:Itt
This this This this this this This this.
This is it
I can say
sarahs mum said:
The Julie Bishop Barbie doll. I would have thought someone here would have told me about that.
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
The Julie Bishop Barbie doll. I would have thought someone here would have told me about that.
do those men have their pants on the right way?
sarahs mum said:
The Julie Bishop Barbie doll. I would have thought someone here would have told me about that.
I had no idea, sorry.
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
The Julie Bishop Barbie doll. I would have thought someone here would have told me about that.
do those men have their pants on the right way?
Didn’t even notice that ‘till you pointed it out. :)
But after Media Watch I’ve had my fill of discussing media matters, so I’m off to some reading words printed on paper.
Michael V said:
sarahs mum said:
The Julie Bishop Barbie doll. I would have thought someone here would have told me about that.
I had no idea, sorry.
Michael V said:
Michael V said:
sarahs mum said:
The Julie Bishop Barbie doll. I would have thought someone here would have told me about that.
I had no idea, sorry.
sigh.
sarahs mum said:
Michael V said:
Michael V said:I had no idea, sorry.
sigh.
Ah well. Worse things happen at sea.
The Rev Dodgson said:
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
do those men have their pants on the right way?
Didn’t even notice that ‘till you pointed it out. :)
But after Media Watch I’ve had my fill of discussing media matters, so I’m off to some reading words printed on paper.
Thank god for printers, setting the world free since the late 1430s.
Michael V said:
Michael V said:
sarahs mum said:
The Julie Bishop Barbie doll. I would have thought someone here would have told me about that.
I had no idea, sorry.
saw something on TV other day regard^, i’d be out with textas putting some freckles on that, the face
always did with daughter’s dolls when she young, she does same with defacto children, lahlia’s
something about the act of adding freckles, freckled were always cool in our family, even just a few, if someone had lots that was better again
ChrispenEvan said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
sarahs mum said:do those men have their pants on the right way?
Didn’t even notice that ‘till you pointed it out. :)
But after Media Watch I’ve had my fill of discussing media matters, so I’m off to some reading words printed on paper.
Thank god for printers, setting the world free since the late 1430s.
But, but, but, those beautiful illuminated bibles. Gone forever…
Michael V said:
ChrispenEvan said:
The Rev Dodgson said:Didn’t even notice that ‘till you pointed it out. :)
But after Media Watch I’ve had my fill of discussing media matters, so I’m off to some reading words printed on paper.
Thank god for printers, setting the world free since the late 1430s.
But, but, but, those beautiful illuminated bibles. Gone forever…
there are still a few copies of the 42 line bible around, which isn’t a bad replacement.
Michael V said:
ChrispenEvan said:
The Rev Dodgson said:Didn’t even notice that ‘till you pointed it out. :)
But after Media Watch I’ve had my fill of discussing media matters, so I’m off to some reading words printed on paper.
Thank god for printers, setting the world free since the late 1430s.
But, but, but, those beautiful illuminated bibles. Gone forever…
When I visited the Gutenberg museum in Mainz in 1965, I bought myself one of these.
https://www.gutenberg-shop.com/das-kleinste-buch-der-welt-das-vaterunser.html?___store=default_en&___from_store=default
transition said:
Michael V said:
Michael V said:I had no idea, sorry.
saw something on TV other day regard^, i’d be out with textas putting some freckles on that, the face
always did with daughter’s dolls when she young, she does same with defacto children, lahlia’s
something about the act of adding freckles, freckled were always cool in our family, even just a few, if someone had lots that was better again
I have plenty. Mrs V has plenty more. Her back is like a Van Gogh painting in browns. It’s gorgeous.
Michael V said:
Michael V said:
ChrispenEvan said:Thank god for printers, setting the world free since the late 1430s.
But, but, but, those beautiful illuminated bibles. Gone forever…
When I visited the Gutenberg museum in Mainz in 1965, I bought myself one of these.
https://www.gutenberg-shop.com/das-kleinste-buch-der-welt-das-vaterunser.html?___store=default_en&___from_store=default
Nice, the 42 line bible is probably a bit out of our price range. it is said to be the most expensive book in the world.
Michael V said:
transition said:
Michael V said:
saw something on TV other day regard^, i’d be out with textas putting some freckles on that, the face
always did with daughter’s dolls when she young, she does same with defacto children, lahlia’s
something about the act of adding freckles, freckled were always cool in our family, even just a few, if someone had lots that was better again
I have plenty. Mrs V has plenty more. Her back is like a Van Gogh painting in browns. It’s gorgeous.
though saying that you like seeing the back of your wife will get you in all sorts of bother.
howdy ho ho folks
ChrispenEvan said:
Michael V said:
Michael V said:But, but, but, those beautiful illuminated bibles. Gone forever…
When I visited the Gutenberg museum in Mainz in 1965, I bought myself one of these.
https://www.gutenberg-shop.com/das-kleinste-buch-der-welt-das-vaterunser.html?___store=default_en&___from_store=default
Nice, the 42 line bible is probably a bit out of our price range. it is said to be the most expensive book in the world.
I’m thinking I should buy one of these:
https://www.gutenberg-shop.com/type-for-the-lord-s-prayer.html
ChrispenEvan said:
Michael V said:
transition said:saw something on TV other day regard^, i’d be out with textas putting some freckles on that, the face
always did with daughter’s dolls when she young, she does same with defacto children, lahlia’s
something about the act of adding freckles, freckled were always cool in our family, even just a few, if someone had lots that was better again
I have plenty. Mrs V has plenty more. Her back is like a Van Gogh painting in browns. It’s gorgeous.
though saying that you like seeing the back of your wife will get you in all sorts of bother.
LOL
I didn’t mean that.
monkey skipper said:
howdy ho ho folks
:)
Ho ho(w) goes it?
monkey skipper said:
howdy ho ho folks
*waves.
Michael V said:
ChrispenEvan said:
Michael V said:I have plenty. Mrs V has plenty more. Her back is like a Van Gogh painting in browns. It’s gorgeous.
though saying that you like seeing the back of your wife will get you in all sorts of bother.
LOL
I didn’t mean that.
I know. funny how just a small change in the order of words can make such a difference.
Michael V said:
monkey skipper said:
howdy ho ho folks
:)
Ho ho(w) goes it?
good for a monday. you?
sarahs mum said:
monkey skipper said:
howdy ho ho folks
*waves.
waves back!
ChrispenEvan said:
Michael V said:
ChrispenEvan said:though saying that you like seeing the back of your wife will get you in all sorts of bother.
LOL
I didn’t mean that.
I know. funny how just a small change in the order of words can make such a difference.
:)
You’re probably good at cryptic crossword puzzles. I’m trying to train myself. But it’s difficult.
Michael V said:
ChrispenEvan said:
Michael V said:When I visited the Gutenberg museum in Mainz in 1965, I bought myself one of these.
https://www.gutenberg-shop.com/das-kleinste-buch-der-welt-das-vaterunser.html?___store=default_en&___from_store=default
Nice, the 42 line bible is probably a bit out of our price range. it is said to be the most expensive book in the world.
I’m thinking I should buy one of these:
https://www.gutenberg-shop.com/type-for-the-lord-s-prayer.html
I used to have one of those, or similar, with the english version. It was a piece of monotype.
Michael V said:
ChrispenEvan said:
Michael V said:LOL
I didn’t mean that.
I know. funny how just a small change in the order of words can make such a difference.
:)
You’re probably good at cryptic crossword puzzles. I’m trying to train myself. But it’s difficult.
I’m out of practice. do ones by the same author as you’ll get to know their style.
Michael V said:
ChrispenEvan said:
Michael V said:LOL
I didn’t mean that.
I know. funny how just a small change in the order of words can make such a difference.
:)
You’re probably good at cryptic crossword puzzles. I’m trying to train myself. But it’s difficult.
my mum loves doing crossword puzzles
monkey skipper said:
Michael V said:
monkey skipper said:
howdy ho ho folks
:)
Ho ho(w) goes it?
good for a monday. you?
Mustn’t grumble.
Mrs V has had a persistent cough (not COVID – we’ve been tested). This may interfere with us getting the vaccine.
ChrispenEvan said:
Michael V said:
ChrispenEvan said:Nice, the 42 line bible is probably a bit out of our price range. it is said to be the most expensive book in the world.
I’m thinking I should buy one of these:
https://www.gutenberg-shop.com/type-for-the-lord-s-prayer.html
I used to have one of those, or similar, with the english version. It was a piece of monotype.
Nice!
:)
(Envy.)
Michael V said:
monkey skipper said:
Michael V said::)
Ho ho(w) goes it?
good for a monday. you?
Mustn’t grumble.
Mrs V has had a persistent cough (not COVID – we’ve been tested). This may interfere with us getting the vaccine.
i’ve inlisted my daughter to phone up 2 different practises as my local gp practise aren’t going to be vaccinating apparently.
monkey skipper said:
Michael V said:
monkey skipper said:good for a monday. you?
Mustn’t grumble.
Mrs V has had a persistent cough (not COVID – we’ve been tested). This may interfere with us getting the vaccine.
i’ve inlisted my daughter to phone up 2 different practises as my local gp practise aren’t going to be vaccinating apparently.
We’re booked in for Thursday. I hope the cough disappears. I really want the vaccine.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-21/tokyo-olympics-local-spectators-allowed/100232322
The Tokyo Olympics are going ahead. They have decided to let in locals only as spectators, to the limit of 50% of crowd capacity. Spectators must wear masks and are not allowed to shout or cheer. They may applaud politely.
What’s the fucking point?
party_pants said:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-21/tokyo-olympics-local-spectators-allowed/100232322The Tokyo Olympics are going ahead. They have decided to let in locals only as spectators, to the limit of 50% of crowd capacity. Spectators must wear masks and are not allowed to shout or cheer. They may applaud politely.
What’s the fucking point?
party_pants said:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-21/tokyo-olympics-local-spectators-allowed/100232322The Tokyo Olympics are going ahead. They have decided to let in locals only as spectators, to the limit of 50% of crowd capacity. Spectators must wear masks and are not allowed to shout or cheer. They may applaud politely.
What’s the fucking point?
Many Bothans died applauding politely.
Tau.Neutrino said:
party_pants said:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-21/tokyo-olympics-local-spectators-allowed/100232322The Tokyo Olympics are going ahead. They have decided to let in locals only as spectators, to the limit of 50% of crowd capacity. Spectators must wear masks and are not allowed to shout or cheer. They may applaud politely.
What’s the fucking point?
Many Bothans died applauding politely.
Many Bothans died of boredom.
Tau.Neutrino said:
party_pants said:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-21/tokyo-olympics-local-spectators-allowed/100232322The Tokyo Olympics are going ahead. They have decided to let in locals only as spectators, to the limit of 50% of crowd capacity. Spectators must wear masks and are not allowed to shout or cheer. They may applaud politely.
What’s the fucking point?
Many Bothans died applauding politely.
Its a Japanese cultural tradition, to applaud politely, who are we to disagree…
Tau.Neutrino said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
party_pants said:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-21/tokyo-olympics-local-spectators-allowed/100232322The Tokyo Olympics are going ahead. They have decided to let in locals only as spectators, to the limit of 50% of crowd capacity. Spectators must wear masks and are not allowed to shout or cheer. They may applaud politely.
What’s the fucking point?
Many Bothans died applauding politely.
Many Bothans died of boredom.
Other Bothans died as well.
Tau.Neutrino said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
party_pants said:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-21/tokyo-olympics-local-spectators-allowed/100232322The Tokyo Olympics are going ahead. They have decided to let in locals only as spectators, to the limit of 50% of crowd capacity. Spectators must wear masks and are not allowed to shout or cheer. They may applaud politely.
What’s the fucking point?
Many Bothans died applauding politely.
Many Bothans died of boredom.
If they hadn’t done what I told ‘em not to do, they’d still be alive…
furious said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
party_pants said:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-21/tokyo-olympics-local-spectators-allowed/100232322The Tokyo Olympics are going ahead. They have decided to let in locals only as spectators, to the limit of 50% of crowd capacity. Spectators must wear masks and are not allowed to shout or cheer. They may applaud politely.
What’s the fucking point?
Many Bothans died applauding politely.
Its a Japanese cultural tradition, to applaud politely, who are we to disagree…
They died applauding politely..
Many Bothans died waiting for Governments to act on Climate Change.
Many Bothans died waiting for Scotty to do something.
Happy winter solstice day yesterday and today elsewhere.
Tau.Neutrino said:
Many Bothans died waiting for Scotty to do something.
You don’t have to be Bothan.
Good morning Holidayers. Five degrees and the clouds on the Eastern horizon are hot pink.
It’s breakfast at the bakery morning.
Morning. -1.6 in the Styx. Clear and sunny.
poikilotherm said:
Morning. -1.6 in the Styx. Clear and sunny.
No frosts here today. 4.1 was as cold as “it” got.
While Australia’s 5G mobile network rollout is still in its infancy, China has announced its 6G will be ready for commercial use in nine years, according to an industry white paper released earlier this month.
Ms Li wanted to work for Chinese telecommunication giant Huawei in Australia, but it was banned from supplying Australia’s 5G equipment over national security concerns.
Now the company is reportedly sending two satellites next month to test its potential 6G technology.
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LOL
2 degrees reasonably cold
On my way to work
Cymek said:
2 degrees reasonably cold
On my way to work
Just been out and about. Shorts and T-shirt weather.
furious said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
party_pants said:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-21/tokyo-olympics-local-spectators-allowed/100232322The Tokyo Olympics are going ahead. They have decided to let in locals only as spectators, to the limit of 50% of crowd capacity. Spectators must wear masks and are not allowed to shout or cheer. They may applaud politely.
What’s the fucking point?
Many Bothans died applauding politely.
Its a Japanese cultural tradition, to applaud politely, who are we to disagree…
“I am, you are, we are Australian”
I not one actually.
Gumption building 2 deg C in the artificial pearl of the Indian Ocean
dv said:
Gumption building 2 deg C in the artificial pearl of the Indian Ocean
dv said:
Gumption building 2 deg C in the artificial pearl of the Indian Ocean
Environment Minister Sussan Ley says Australia has been “blindsided” by a draft recommendation to list the Great Barrier Reef as “in danger”, suggesting the decision was politically motivated.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-22/environment-minister-great-barrier-reef-listed-in-danger/100233088
Michael V said:
dv said:
Gumption building 2 deg C in the artificial pearl of the Indian Ocean
Look MV, you don’t have to make it so obvious you don’t read my posts!!!!!
Call from the medical centre. My GP is unwell, so today’s appointment has been rescheduled for next Tuesday.
I hope those chest X-rays I had some time ago didn’t reveal anything urgent. It’s becoming very difficult to get prompt medical attention in this state.
roughbarked said:
Environment Minister Sussan Ley says Australia has been “blindsided” by a draft recommendation to list the Great Barrier Reef as “in danger”, suggesting the decision was politically motivated.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-22/environment-minister-great-barrier-reef-listed-in-danger/100233088
yet another conspiracy driven by CHINA just like when they bought out the WHO that the USSA defunded
Bubblecar said:
Call from the medical centre. My GP is unwell, so today’s appointment has been rescheduled for next Tuesday.I hope those chest X-rays I had some time ago didn’t reveal anything urgent. It’s becoming very difficult to get prompt medical attention in this state.
isn’t there some emergency department people can go to
Bubblecar said:
Call from the medical centre. My GP is unwell, so today’s appointment has been rescheduled for next Tuesday.I hope those chest X-rays I had some time ago didn’t reveal anything urgent. It’s becoming very difficult to get prompt medical attention in this state.
If it was urgent, you’d be noticing it?
SCIENCE said:
Bubblecar said:
Call from the medical centre. My GP is unwell, so today’s appointment has been rescheduled for next Tuesday.I hope those chest X-rays I had some time ago didn’t reveal anything urgent. It’s becoming very difficult to get prompt medical attention in this state.
isn’t there some emergency department people can go to
Have to wait there too.
roughbarked said:
SCIENCE said:Bubblecar said:Call from the medical centre. My GP is unwell, so today’s appointment has been rescheduled for next Tuesday.
I hope those chest X-rays I had some time ago didn’t reveal anything urgent. It’s becoming very difficult to get prompt medical attention in this state.
isn’t there some emergency department people can go to
Have to wait there too.
so what we mean is prompt but not like prompt critical
SCIENCE said:
roughbarked said:SCIENCE said:isn’t there some emergency department people can go to
Have to wait there too.
so what we mean is prompt but not like prompt critical
Depends. If you are bleeding they move you up the queue.
I have a doctor’s appointment this morning. might be painful. hopefully there’ll be nice drugs.
SCIENCE said:
Bubblecar said:
Call from the medical centre. My GP is unwell, so today’s appointment has been rescheduled for next Tuesday.I hope those chest X-rays I had some time ago didn’t reveal anything urgent. It’s becoming very difficult to get prompt medical attention in this state.
isn’t there some emergency department people can go to
You can go to an emergency department in an emergency, although you’ll often be waiting there for many hours before you score any attention.
But average waiting time for an ordinary GP appointment in this village is now about 3 weeks.
After my hernia operation for the 19th May was cancelled due to the surgeon’s concerns about my swollen leg, I’ve only been able to see the GP once. Still don’t really know what’s going on with the leg (I suspect it’s still infected) and the chest X-rays were supposed to help ascertain whether any heart trouble might be involved.
No idea when the operation will be rescheduled or when I can have a Covid shot etc.
Pretty foggy down at the park
ChrispenEvan said:
I have a doctor’s appointment this morning. might be painful. hopefully there’ll be nice drugs.
Save some for your mates
dv said:
Pretty foggy down at the park
foggy down here as well.
dv said:
ChrispenEvan said:
I have a doctor’s appointment this morning. might be painful. hopefully there’ll be nice drugs.
Save some for your mates
unfortunately they don’t do take-a-ways.
ChrispenEvan said:
Michael V said:
dv said:
Gumption building 2 deg C in the artificial pearl of the Indian Ocean
Look MV, you don’t have to make it so obvious you don’t read my posts!!!!!
The late Michael V…
Bubblecar said:
Call from the medical centre. My GP is unwell, so today’s appointment has been rescheduled for next Tuesday.I hope those chest X-rays I had some time ago didn’t reveal anything urgent. It’s becoming very difficult to get prompt medical attention in this state.
Oh, bugger.
ChrispenEvan said:
I have a doctor’s appointment this morning. might be painful. hopefully there’ll be nice drugs.
Just back from my blood test. Vein behaved & didn’t roll so quick in & out.
Results tomorrow & if OK Cairns Thursday.
ChrispenEvan said:
I have a doctor’s appointment this morning. might be painful. hopefully there’ll be nice drugs.
Painful? Why?
Bubblecar said:
SCIENCE said:
Bubblecar said:
Call from the medical centre. My GP is unwell, so today’s appointment has been rescheduled for next Tuesday.I hope those chest X-rays I had some time ago didn’t reveal anything urgent. It’s becoming very difficult to get prompt medical attention in this state.
isn’t there some emergency department people can go to
You can go to an emergency department in an emergency, although you’ll often be waiting there for many hours before you score any attention.
But average waiting time for an ordinary GP appointment in this village is now about 3 weeks.
After my hernia operation for the 19th May was cancelled due to the surgeon’s concerns about my swollen leg, I’ve only been able to see the GP once. Still don’t really know what’s going on with the leg (I suspect it’s still infected) and the chest X-rays were supposed to help ascertain whether any heart trouble might be involved.
No idea when the operation will be rescheduled or when I can have a Covid shot etc.
Usually, if there is something bad happening, when GPs receive results, they get you in promptly.
It’s a pity that they are keeping you on tenterhooks.
Michael V said:
Bubblecar said:
SCIENCE said:isn’t there some emergency department people can go to
You can go to an emergency department in an emergency, although you’ll often be waiting there for many hours before you score any attention.
But average waiting time for an ordinary GP appointment in this village is now about 3 weeks.
After my hernia operation for the 19th May was cancelled due to the surgeon’s concerns about my swollen leg, I’ve only been able to see the GP once. Still don’t really know what’s going on with the leg (I suspect it’s still infected) and the chest X-rays were supposed to help ascertain whether any heart trouble might be involved.
No idea when the operation will be rescheduled or when I can have a Covid shot etc.
Usually, if there is something bad happening, when GPs receive results, they get you in promptly.
It’s a pity that they are keeping you on tenterhooks.
It was sunny earlier this morning, so washing was done and hung on the line. Now it is raining.
Ah well.
looks like highest probability of rain is ~3-7pm, so better get whatever done before then, not raining presently
walked the larry, he’s enjoying the warm fire here with me now
another coffee is in order, yawn that’s all I have to say about the early morning
Michael V said:
ChrispenEvan said:
I have a doctor’s appointment this morning. might be painful. hopefully there’ll be nice drugs.
Painful? Why?
wasn’t painful at all. my doc is really good at this stuff. this was a biopsy of a bruiselike area on my lower leg. been there a while.
ChrispenEvan said:
Michael V said:ChrispenEvan said:I have a doctor’s appointment this morning. might be painful. hopefully there’ll be nice drugs.
Painful? Why?
wasn’t painful at all. my doc is really good at this stuff. this was a biopsy of a bruiselike area on my lower leg. been there a while.
some might call that a lame punchline
ChrispenEvan said:
Michael V said:
ChrispenEvan said:
I have a doctor’s appointment this morning. might be painful. hopefully there’ll be nice drugs.
Painful? Why?
wasn’t painful at all. my doc is really good at this stuff. this was a biopsy of a bruiselike area on my lower leg. been there a while.
I hope it’s nothing sinister.
Mrs V’s been to the doctor and has been prescribed antibiotics for her cough. Unfortunately she’s had to cancel our vaccine appointment on Thursday, because they won’t give it to someone who is ill. This is very, very disappointing.
:(
Flogging made us what we are today.
Peak Warming Man said:
Flogging made us what we are today.
What meaning of the word “flogging” are we using here?
A camogie team, Ireland, 1915.
Peak Warming Man said:
Flogging made us what we are today.
Stop it you’ll go blind!
The Rev Dodgson said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Flogging made us what we are today.
What meaning of the word “flogging” are we using here?
Anyway
Bubblecar said:
A camogie team, Ireland, 1915.
TIL a new sport name: camogie.
Ta.
Peak Warming Man said:
Flogging made us what we are today.
what better way to build resilience than a regular flogging
imagine that, culture delivering resilience, a gem of an idea, a social constructionist fantasy perhaps
Michael V said:
Bubblecar said:
A camogie team, Ireland, 1915.
TIL a new sport name: camogie.
Ta.
Looks like it might be similar to hockey.
But being Irish, that might be a completely false impression of course.
Peak Warming Man said:
Flogging made us what we are today.
If you mean selling off valuable things cheaply, then yes.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Michael V said:
Bubblecar said:
A camogie team, Ireland, 1915.
TIL a new sport name: camogie.
Ta.
Looks like it might be similar to hockey.
But being Irish, that might be a completely false impression of course.
played by women. variant of hurling which is only played by men.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Michael V said:
Bubblecar said:
A camogie team, Ireland, 1915.
TIL a new sport name: camogie.
Ta.
Looks like it might be similar to hockey.
But being Irish, that might be a completely false impression of course.
It’s a female version of hurling, which is not much like hockey at all.
Lunch: 2 x blue grenadier fillets baked with some onion, capsicum, olive oil, lemon juice and a little shake of Cajun seasoning.
Bubblecar said:
Lunch: 2 x blue grenadier fillets baked with some onion, capsicum, olive oil, lemon juice and a little shake of Cajun seasoning.
Huh. I’n‘t think I’ve even heard of that fish.
dv said:
Bubblecar said:
Lunch: 2 x blue grenadier fillets baked with some onion, capsicum, olive oil, lemon juice and a little shake of Cajun seasoning.
Huh. I’n‘t think I’ve even heard of that fish.
It’s just another name for hoki.
Bubblecar said:
A camogie team, Ireland, 1915.
And don’t they look like they’re all having a good time.
Peak Warming Man said:
Bubblecar said:
A camogie team, Ireland, 1915.
And don’t they look like they’re all having a good time.
yeah, they’d be so much prettier if they smiled.
Bubblecar said:
dv said:
Bubblecar said:
Lunch: 2 x blue grenadier fillets baked with some onion, capsicum, olive oil, lemon juice and a little shake of Cajun seasoning.
Huh. I’n‘t think I’ve even heard of that fish.
It’s just another name for hoki.
But ‘do the blue grenadier pokie’ just doesn’t work.
Peak Warming Man said:
Bubblecar said:
dv said:Huh. I’n‘t think I’ve even heard of that fish.
It’s just another name for hoki.
But ‘do the blue grenadier pokie’ just doesn’t work.
both found in smoky pubs so maybe it does
Hello
Doing reception work, something different, but boring
Cymek said:
HelloDoing reception work, something different, but boring
Can I help you there?
Cymek said:
HelloDoing reception work, something different, but boring
Have you been told to wear this expression?
Bubblecar said:
Cymek said:
HelloDoing reception work, something different, but boring
Have you been told to wear this expression?
I’m a little bit more animated
Michael V said:
It was sunny earlier this morning, so washing was done and hung on the line. Now it is raining.Ah well.
It’s OK. The washing was wet anyway.
Cymek said:
Bubblecar said:
Cymek said:
HelloDoing reception work, something different, but boring
Have you been told to wear this expression?
I’m a little bit more animated
With a gob like that, Iwazume can double as the mailbox.
Michael V said:
ChrispenEvan said:
Michael V said:Painful? Why?
wasn’t painful at all. my doc is really good at this stuff. this was a biopsy of a bruiselike area on my lower leg. been there a while.
I hope it’s nothing sinister.
Mrs V’s been to the doctor and has been prescribed antibiotics for her cough. Unfortunately she’s had to cancel our vaccine appointment on Thursday, because they won’t give it to someone who is ill. This is very, very disappointing.
:(
Can’t you still go for yours? You are not unwell.
Remember Frosties? that sugar coated Cornflake ripoff sponsored by the Australian College of Dentistry?
captain_spalding said:
Cymek said:
Bubblecar said:Have you been told to wear this expression?
I’m a little bit more animated
With a gob like that, Iwazume can double as the mailbox.
That is extremely disturbing.
dv said:
captain_spalding said:
Cymek said:I’m a little bit more animated
With a gob like that, Iwazume can double as the mailbox.
That is extremely disturbing.
Well, she’s a robot, right?
She should be adaptable to mail sorting.
buffy said:
Michael V said:
ChrispenEvan said:wasn’t painful at all. my doc is really good at this stuff. this was a biopsy of a bruiselike area on my lower leg. been there a while.
I hope it’s nothing sinister.
Mrs V’s been to the doctor and has been prescribed antibiotics for her cough. Unfortunately she’s had to cancel our vaccine appointment on Thursday, because they won’t give it to someone who is ill. This is very, very disappointing.
:(
Can’t you still go for yours? You are not unwell.
I can, but it’s an 80 km round trip so we’d prefer to do it together, to save fuel etc. They have not been authorised by the government to use the Rainbow Beach clinic.
buffy said:
Michael V said:
It was sunny earlier this morning, so washing was done and hung on the line. Now it is raining.Ah well.
It’s OK. The washing was wet anyway.
:)
captain_spalding said:
dv said:
captain_spalding said:With a gob like that, Iwazume can double as the mailbox.
That is extremely disturbing.
Well, she’s a robot, right?
She should be adaptable to mail sorting.
I just meant the image was disturbing.
And, late lunch report. Boiled Ayam noodles with light soy sauce. Had a big breakfast of toasted croissant with ham, cheese and tomato.
This morning’s activities included sitting and talking to Hamilton friend until about 11.00am, then me lifting and carrying while Mr buffy docked some prunings, and then me stacking all the bits of wood. My email to my sewing machine mechanic bounced, so I’ve left a message on her phone to see if she is still doing that work. If not, I might have to take a drive to Portland and see if the people there are still doing it. It was J doing it there a couple of days a week, but I dealt with her at her home business.
This one is sad, and a bit puzzling.
https://www.police.vic.gov.au/womans-body-located-wickliffe
I got a call from my local medical centre advising me of the prospective change in vaccine policy and asking whether I wanted to delay so that I can get Pfizer, and said okay.
buffy said:
And, late lunch report. Boiled Ayam noodles with light soy sauce. Had a big breakfast of toasted croissant with ham, cheese and tomato.This morning’s activities included sitting and talking to Hamilton friend until about 11.00am, then me lifting and carrying while Mr buffy docked some prunings, and then me stacking all the bits of wood. My email to my sewing machine mechanic bounced, so I’ve left a message on her phone to see if she is still doing that work. If not, I might have to take a drive to Portland and see if the people there are still doing it. It was J doing it there a couple of days a week, but I dealt with her at her home business.
I had gruel for lunch, basically a thick leek, bacon and potato soup with sourdough bread and a cup of tea (black and one)
Peak Warming Man said:
buffy said:
And, late lunch report. Boiled Ayam noodles with light soy sauce. Had a big breakfast of toasted croissant with ham, cheese and tomato.This morning’s activities included sitting and talking to Hamilton friend until about 11.00am, then me lifting and carrying while Mr buffy docked some prunings, and then me stacking all the bits of wood. My email to my sewing machine mechanic bounced, so I’ve left a message on her phone to see if she is still doing that work. If not, I might have to take a drive to Portland and see if the people there are still doing it. It was J doing it there a couple of days a week, but I dealt with her at her home business.
I had gruel for lunch, basically a thick leek, bacon and potato soup with sourdough bread and a cup of tea (black and one)
Fine lunch for winter
dv said:
Peak Warming Man said:
buffy said:
And, late lunch report. Boiled Ayam noodles with light soy sauce. Had a big breakfast of toasted croissant with ham, cheese and tomato.This morning’s activities included sitting and talking to Hamilton friend until about 11.00am, then me lifting and carrying while Mr buffy docked some prunings, and then me stacking all the bits of wood. My email to my sewing machine mechanic bounced, so I’ve left a message on her phone to see if she is still doing that work. If not, I might have to take a drive to Portland and see if the people there are still doing it. It was J doing it there a couple of days a week, but I dealt with her at her home business.
I had gruel for lunch, basically a thick leek, bacon and potato soup with sourdough bread and a cup of tea (black and one)
Fine lunch for winter
Safe too. Only recently has PWM been handed back his stove-top privileges.
Peak Warming Man said:
buffy said:
And, late lunch report. Boiled Ayam noodles with light soy sauce. Had a big breakfast of toasted croissant with ham, cheese and tomato.This morning’s activities included sitting and talking to Hamilton friend until about 11.00am, then me lifting and carrying while Mr buffy docked some prunings, and then me stacking all the bits of wood. My email to my sewing machine mechanic bounced, so I’ve left a message on her phone to see if she is still doing that work. If not, I might have to take a drive to Portland and see if the people there are still doing it. It was J doing it there a couple of days a week, but I dealt with her at her home business.
I had gruel for lunch, basically a thick leek, bacon and potato soup with sourdough bread and a cup of tea (black and one)
When it re-heats, we are having soup for lunch. I made it yesterday: water that I had boiled the corned beef in, red kidney beans, reconstituted black wood-ear fungus (and most of it’s water) reconstituted shitake mushrooms, reconstituted tofu strips, reconstituted wakame, ginger, Korean chilli flakes and various left-overs.
Michael V said:
Peak Warming Man said:
buffy said:
And, late lunch report. Boiled Ayam noodles with light soy sauce. Had a big breakfast of toasted croissant with ham, cheese and tomato.This morning’s activities included sitting and talking to Hamilton friend until about 11.00am, then me lifting and carrying while Mr buffy docked some prunings, and then me stacking all the bits of wood. My email to my sewing machine mechanic bounced, so I’ve left a message on her phone to see if she is still doing that work. If not, I might have to take a drive to Portland and see if the people there are still doing it. It was J doing it there a couple of days a week, but I dealt with her at her home business.
I had gruel for lunch, basically a thick leek, bacon and potato soup with sourdough bread and a cup of tea (black and one)
When it re-heats, we are having soup for lunch. I made it yesterday: water that I had boiled the corned beef in, red kidney beans, reconstituted black wood-ear fungus (and most of it’s water) reconstituted shitake mushrooms, reconstituted tofu strips, reconstituted wakame, ginger, Korean chilli flakes and various left-overs.
Oh, and TVP. Which I’ve not used before.
Michael V said:
Michael V said:
Peak Warming Man said:I had gruel for lunch, basically a thick leek, bacon and potato soup with sourdough bread and a cup of tea (black and one)
When it re-heats, we are having soup for lunch. I made it yesterday: water that I had boiled the corned beef in, red kidney beans, reconstituted black wood-ear fungus (and most of it’s water) reconstituted shitake mushrooms, reconstituted tofu strips, reconstituted wakame, ginger, Korean chilli flakes and various left-overs.
Oh, and TVP. Which I’ve not used before.
Its useful to fill out actual mince meat, not much taste on it own.
We have enough to last through the apocalypse
Michael V said:
Peak Warming Man said:
buffy said:
And, late lunch report. Boiled Ayam noodles with light soy sauce. Had a big breakfast of toasted croissant with ham, cheese and tomato.This morning’s activities included sitting and talking to Hamilton friend until about 11.00am, then me lifting and carrying while Mr buffy docked some prunings, and then me stacking all the bits of wood. My email to my sewing machine mechanic bounced, so I’ve left a message on her phone to see if she is still doing that work. If not, I might have to take a drive to Portland and see if the people there are still doing it. It was J doing it there a couple of days a week, but I dealt with her at her home business.
I had gruel for lunch, basically a thick leek, bacon and potato soup with sourdough bread and a cup of tea (black and one)
When it re-heats, we are having soup for lunch. I made it yesterday: water that I had boiled the corned beef in, red kidney beans, reconstituted black wood-ear fungus (and most of it’s water) reconstituted shitake mushrooms, reconstituted tofu strips, reconstituted wakame, ginger, Korean chilli flakes and various left-overs.
At least put a gum leaf in it.
dv said:
I got a call from my local medical centre advising me of the prospective change in vaccine policy and asking whether I wanted to delay so that I can get Pfizer, and said okay.
Aha so the failure of the Australian pandemic vaccine rollout is Your Fault we knew it ¡
SCIENCE said:
dv said:
I got a call from my local medical centre advising me of the prospective change in vaccine policy and asking whether I wanted to delay so that I can get Pfizer, and said okay.
Aha so the failure of the Australian pandemic vaccine rollout is Your Fault we knew it ¡
I seemed to gotten lucky by knowing someone working at a clinic, got mine through a cancellation
Michael V said:
Michael V said:
Peak Warming Man said:I had gruel for lunch, basically a thick leek, bacon and potato soup with sourdough bread and a cup of tea (black and one)
When it re-heats, we are having soup for lunch. I made it yesterday: water that I had boiled the corned beef in, red kidney beans, reconstituted black wood-ear fungus (and most of it’s water) reconstituted shitake mushrooms, reconstituted tofu strips, reconstituted wakame, ginger, Korean chilli flakes and various left-overs.
Oh, and TVP. Which I’ve not used before.
I’m forgetful, too. It also has goji berries and jujubes (red dates) in it, too.
Verdict: yummy and filling.
Cymek said:
SCIENCE said:
dv said:
I got a call from my local medical centre advising me of the prospective change in vaccine policy and asking whether I wanted to delay so that I can get Pfizer, and said okay.
Aha so the failure of the Australian pandemic vaccine rollout is Your Fault we knew it ¡
I seemed to gotten lucky by knowing someone working at a clinic, got mine through a cancellation
I booked online to get mine at the nearest community vaccination centre. First available appointment was mid August. So I am waiting until then. I think it will be the Pfizer, but I’ll take whatever they give me.
Cymek said:
Michael V said:
Michael V said:When it re-heats, we are having soup for lunch. I made it yesterday: water that I had boiled the corned beef in, red kidney beans, reconstituted black wood-ear fungus (and most of it’s water) reconstituted shitake mushrooms, reconstituted tofu strips, reconstituted wakame, ginger, Korean chilli flakes and various left-overs.
Oh, and TVP. Which I’ve not used before.
Its useful to fill out actual mince meat, not much taste on it own.
We have enough to last through the apocalypse
OK.
Thanks for that.
Peak Warming Man said:
Michael V said:
Peak Warming Man said:I had gruel for lunch, basically a thick leek, bacon and potato soup with sourdough bread and a cup of tea (black and one)
When it re-heats, we are having soup for lunch. I made it yesterday: water that I had boiled the corned beef in, red kidney beans, reconstituted black wood-ear fungus (and most of it’s water) reconstituted shitake mushrooms, reconstituted tofu strips, reconstituted wakame, ginger, Korean chilli flakes and various left-overs.
At least put a gum leaf in it.
Last time I did that, (out in the bush, billy of tea), they turned out to be lemon myrtle leaves. Boy didn’t that affect the cuppa.
Dark Orange said:
:)
A project to preserve endangered Tasmanian devils on a small island has backfired after the predators killed seabirds in large numbers, a conservation group says.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-57558396
Peak Warming Man said:
A project to preserve endangered Tasmanian devils on a small island has backfired after the predators killed seabirds in large numbers, a conservation group says.https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-57558396
Swings and roundabouts.
Peak Warming Man said:
A project to preserve endangered Tasmanian devils on a small island has backfired after the predators killed seabirds in large numbers, a conservation group says.https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-57558396
“Losing 3,000 pairs of penguins from an island that is a national park that should be a refuge for this species basically is a major blow,” said Dr Eric Woehler, a researcher for the group.
Eric’s got a fair point there.
Peak Warming Man said:
Peak Warming Man said:
A project to preserve endangered Tasmanian devils on a small island has backfired after the predators killed seabirds in large numbers, a conservation group says.https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-57558396
“Losing 3,000 pairs of penguins from an island that is a national park that should be a refuge for this species basically is a major blow,” said Dr Eric Woehler, a researcher for the group.
Eric’s got a fair point there.
Tas devils are classed endangered.. little penguins are classed as least concern… but putting the devils on an island with flightless birds was always going to be problematic…
Peak Warming Man said:
A project to preserve endangered Tasmanian devils on a small island has backfired after the predators killed seabirds in large numbers, a conservation group says.https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-57558396
It was so obvious that a large predator would feast on everything it fancied in the confinement of an island. You have to despair about how conservation is handled by governmental departments. O’yes the Feds even give themselves a gold medal for their conservation of the Great Barrier Reef.
Arts said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Peak Warming Man said:
A project to preserve endangered Tasmanian devils on a small island has backfired after the predators killed seabirds in large numbers, a conservation group says.https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-57558396
“Losing 3,000 pairs of penguins from an island that is a national park that should be a refuge for this species basically is a major blow,” said Dr Eric Woehler, a researcher for the group.
Eric’s got a fair point there.
Tas devils are classed endangered.. little penguins are classed as least concern… but putting the devils on an island with flightless birds was always going to be problematic…
Now that is an understatement!
OK, I don’t feel like doing any more outside work. I’m going to go and read for a bit.
Afternoon.
I had a visit from the grand kiddies.
I also sent in my opposition to the cable car development. I got seriously off track at the end and talked about how a strongly felt sense of place is often a problem. What a wanker.
The Scientific Naturalist
Ecosystem engineering by deep-nesting monitor lizards
J. Sean Doody, Kari F. Soennichsen, Hugh James, Colin McHenry, Simon Clulow
First published: 18 December 2020
https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ecy.3271
sarahs mum said:
The Scientific Naturalist
Ecosystem engineering by deep-nesting monitor lizards
J. Sean Doody, Kari F. Soennichsen, Hugh James, Colin McHenry, Simon Clulow
First published: 18 December 2020
https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ecy.3271
Just getting interested and then they hit you with a viewing fee for the next and following pages. Such is life.
PermeateFree said:
sarahs mum said:
The Scientific Naturalist
Ecosystem engineering by deep-nesting monitor lizards
J. Sean Doody, Kari F. Soennichsen, Hugh James, Colin McHenry, Simon Clulow
First published: 18 December 2020
https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ecy.3271
Just getting interested and then they hit you with a viewing fee for the next and following pages. Such is life.
i know :(
.
PermeateFree said:
sarahs mum said:
The Scientific Naturalist
Ecosystem engineering by deep-nesting monitor lizards
J. Sean Doody, Kari F. Soennichsen, Hugh James, Colin McHenry, Simon Clulow
First published: 18 December 2020
https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ecy.3271
Just getting interested and then they hit you with a viewing fee for the next and following pages. Such is life.
https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3271
https://sci-hub.do
sarahs mum said:
The Scientific Naturalist
Ecosystem engineering by deep-nesting monitor lizards
J. Sean Doody, Kari F. Soennichsen, Hugh James, Colin McHenry, Simon Clulow
First published: 18 December 2020
https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ecy.3271
What a lovely diagram
(shrugs) There are flipping millions of little penguins.
What’s the news story here? “Endangered marsupials ate something.”
unka chucker unka chucker unka unka unka chucker……………
Peak Warming Man said:
unka chucker unka chucker unka unka unka chucker……………
hooked on a feeling?
sarahs mum said:
Peak Warming Man said:
unka chucker unka chucker unka unka unka chucker……………
hooked on a feeling?
Seems to be Morse Code for AAV, meaning Adeno-associated viruses
sarahs mum said:
Peak Warming Man said:
unka chucker unka chucker unka unka unka chucker……………
hooked on a feeling?
aye sounds like two different songs in one.
sarahs mum said:
Peak Warming Man said:
unka chucker unka chucker unka unka unka chucker……………
hooked on a feeling?
Well that would be unka chucker unka unka unka chucker unka unka.
BTW I was yesterday years old when I found out that Lindsay Buckingham’s “Trouble” begins with the words “Two Three Four”.
ChrispenEvan said:
PermeateFree said:
sarahs mum said:
The Scientific Naturalist
Ecosystem engineering by deep-nesting monitor lizards
J. Sean Doody, Kari F. Soennichsen, Hugh James, Colin McHenry, Simon Clulow
First published: 18 December 2020
https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ecy.3271
Just getting interested and then they hit you with a viewing fee for the next and following pages. Such is life.
https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3271
https://sci-hub.do
Thanks for that, everything bar illustrations, but still good.
Very interesting how the borrows act as a catalyst for many other species from being a refuge to a vital safe nesting site that obviously play an important part in the local ecosystem. However the cane toad is now entering the scene and killing these large deep burrowing lizards and may disrupt this ecological relationship to the detriment of the species that rely upon it and the monitors nesting activities.
PermeateFree said:
ChrispenEvan said:
PermeateFree said:Just getting interested and then they hit you with a viewing fee for the next and following pages. Such is life.
https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3271
https://sci-hub.do
Thanks for that, everything bar illustrations, but still good.
Very interesting how the borrows act as a catalyst for many other species from being a refuge to a vital safe nesting site that obviously play an important part in the local ecosystem. However the cane toad is now entering the scene and killing these large deep burrowing lizards and may disrupt this ecological relationship to the detriment of the species that rely upon it and the monitors nesting activities.
illustration right at the bottom.
dv said:
sarahs mum said:
Peak Warming Man said:
unka chucker unka chucker unka unka unka chucker……………
hooked on a feeling?
Well that would be unka chucker unka unka unka chucker unka unka.
BTW I was yesterday years old when I found out that Lindsay Buckingham’s “Trouble” begins with the words “Two Three Four”.
Is that the “I think I think I’m in trouble” song? Always thought that was a neat little lyric.
dv said:
(shrugs) There are flipping millions of little penguins.What’s the news story here? “Endangered marsupials ate something.”
It is the attitude you display that has brought us to our current environmental situation. Just take or do what you want and too bad for the biota that call the place home. Wildlife survival is different to the cold economic facts.
PermeateFree said:
dv said:
(shrugs) There are flipping millions of little penguins.What’s the news story here? “Endangered marsupials ate something.”
It is the attitude you display that has brought us to our current environmental situation.
On the contrary, risk assessment is exactly what’s been lacking.
ChrispenEvan said:
PermeateFree said:
ChrispenEvan said:https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3271
https://sci-hub.do
Thanks for that, everything bar illustrations, but still good.
Very interesting how the borrows act as a catalyst for many other species from being a refuge to a vital safe nesting site that obviously play an important part in the local ecosystem. However the cane toad is now entering the scene and killing these large deep burrowing lizards and may disrupt this ecological relationship to the detriment of the species that rely upon it and the monitors nesting activities.
illustration right at the bottom.
Good to know, had thought the references was the end of the paper.
dv said:
sarahs mum said:
Peak Warming Man said:
unka chucker unka chucker unka unka unka chucker……………
hooked on a feeling?
Well that would be unka chucker unka unka unka chucker unka unka.
BTW I was yesterday years old when I found out that Lindsay Buckingham’s “Trouble” begins with the words “Two Three Four”.
It was only recently that I found out Fleetwood Mac were an English band.
When I say recently I mean within the last 5 years or more pacifically within the last five but not including the immediate past.
I thought they were American probably because Stevie Nicks (ER) was American.
dv said:
PermeateFree said:
dv said:
(shrugs) There are flipping millions of little penguins.What’s the news story here? “Endangered marsupials ate something.”
It is the attitude you display that has brought us to our current environmental situation.
On the contrary, risk assessment is exactly what’s been lacking.
Yes like your attitude, you couldn’t give a shit as long as you could do what you wanted and do it as quickly and cheaply as you can. You are dead right we have always done it that way which is why wildlife and their habitats are so impoverished.
Peak Warming Man said:
dv said:
sarahs mum said:hooked on a feeling?
Well that would be unka chucker unka unka unka chucker unka unka.
BTW I was yesterday years old when I found out that Lindsay Buckingham’s “Trouble” begins with the words “Two Three Four”.
It was only recently that I found out Fleetwood Mac were an English band.
When I say recently I mean within the last 5 years or more pacifically within the last five but not including the immediate past.
I thought they were American probably because Stevie Nicks (ER) was American.
I mean you could fairly call them a British-American band, like 40% of the original members were American.
PermeateFree said:
dv said:
PermeateFree said:It is the attitude you display that has brought us to our current environmental situation.
On the contrary, risk assessment is exactly what’s been lacking.
Yes like your attitude, you couldn’t give a shit as long as you could do what you wanted and do it as quickly and cheaply as you can. You are dead right we have always done it that way which is why wildlife and their habitats are so impoverished.
Little Penguins are top ocean predators, playing an important role in the marine ecosystem food web, and a valuable indicator species with changes in their population alerting us to changes in ocean health, such impacts to prey they eat.
Given Little Penguins live both at sea and on land, it is critically important for marine scientists to better understand the implications of marine and terrestrial threats to Little Penguins including commercial fishing operations, ingestion and entanglement of plastics and marine debris, oil spills, climate change, introduced predators, habitat destruction and invasive weeds in order to protect them.
https://penguinfoundation.org.au/about-us/species/little-penguin
Between 2012-13, 28 Devils were released onto the island. But by 2016, the population had grown to an estimated 100. The convenor of BirdLife Tasmania Dr Eric Woehler told The Guardian that every time mammals were introduced to oceanic islands, a similar catastrophic impact was felt on bird species.
In 2011, a report published by the Tasmanian Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment rightly predicted that the introduction of carnivorous species like the Tasmanian Devils would have a massive negative impact on Little Penguin colonies
Penguins are not the only victims. Turns out, the Devils have also reduced the colonies of short-tailed shearwaters on Maria Island. Tasmanian Devils are relatively larger than bird species and can also dig efficiently.
What is all necessary? Another research from 2020 claims that facial cancer was unlikely to wipe out Tasmanian Devils and the spread of this disease has appeared to slow down. Unfortunately for the Little Penguins, there is no redemption.
https://www.wionews.com/science/how-saving-tasmanian-devils-meant-sentencing-little-penguins-to-death-on-maria-island-392931
PermeateFree said:
PermeateFree said:
dv said:On the contrary, risk assessment is exactly what’s been lacking.
Yes like your attitude, you couldn’t give a shit as long as you could do what you wanted and do it as quickly and cheaply as you can. You are dead right we have always done it that way which is why wildlife and their habitats are so impoverished.
Little Penguins are top ocean predators, playing an important role in the marine ecosystem food web, and a valuable indicator species with changes in their population alerting us to changes in ocean health, such impacts to prey they eat.
Given Little Penguins live both at sea and on land, it is critically important for marine scientists to better understand the implications of marine and terrestrial threats to Little Penguins including commercial fishing operations, ingestion and entanglement of plastics and marine debris, oil spills, climate change, introduced predators, habitat destruction and invasive weeds in order to protect them.
https://penguinfoundation.org.au/about-us/species/little-penguin
Between 2012-13, 28 Devils were released onto the island. But by 2016, the population had grown to an estimated 100. The convenor of BirdLife Tasmania Dr Eric Woehler told The Guardian that every time mammals were introduced to oceanic islands, a similar catastrophic impact was felt on bird species.
In 2011, a report published by the Tasmanian Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment rightly predicted that the introduction of carnivorous species like the Tasmanian Devils would have a massive negative impact on Little Penguin colonies
Penguins are not the only victims. Turns out, the Devils have also reduced the colonies of short-tailed shearwaters on Maria Island. Tasmanian Devils are relatively larger than bird species and can also dig efficiently.
What is all necessary? Another research from 2020 claims that facial cancer was unlikely to wipe out Tasmanian Devils and the spread of this disease has appeared to slow down. Unfortunately for the Little Penguins, there is no redemption.
https://www.wionews.com/science/how-saving-tasmanian-devils-meant-sentencing-little-penguins-to-death-on-maria-island-392931
Yeah nah. We’re still talking about thousands versus millions.
“We’d like to set up a refuge for white rhino but what if they tread on ants?”
(CNN)Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan refused to condemn the Chinese government’s alleged human rights abuses against the Muslim-majority Uyghur people in Xinjiang in an interview with Axios Sunday.
When pressed on reports of widespread detention and abuse of Uyghurs, Khan said China had been “one of the greatest friends to us in our most difficult times,” and any conversations with Beijing on Xinjiang would happen “behind closed doors.”
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/06/22/asia/imran-khan-xinjiang-axios-intl-hnk/index.html
A long day on-site so a well deserved Coopers Mid Ale.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/jun/22/drinking-coffee-may-cut-risk-of-chronic-liver-disease-study-suggests
Now that is good news. The stuff I do during the day counteracting the stuff I do at night.
The lord works in mysterious ways.
sibeen said:
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/jun/22/drinking-coffee-may-cut-risk-of-chronic-liver-disease-study-suggestsNow that is good news. The stuff I do during the day counteracting the stuff I do at night.
The lord works in mysterious ways.
Woo-hoo!
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-22/barnaby-joyce-nationals-leader-return-angers-women/100232576
For those wanting an unbiased explanation of the Friendly Jordies kerfuffle, then here is Media Watch to the rescue.
https://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/episodes/jordies/13404388
dv said:
(CNN)Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan refused to condemn the Chinese government’s alleged human rights abuses against the Muslim-majority Uyghur people in Xinjiang in an interview with Axios Sunday.When pressed on reports of widespread detention and abuse of Uyghurs, Khan said China had been “one of the greatest friends to us in our most difficult times,” and any conversations with Beijing on Xinjiang would happen “behind closed doors.”
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/06/22/asia/imran-khan-xinjiang-axios-intl-hnk/index.html
China are very heavily invested in Pakistan. The Belt and Road stuff is not a charity.
dv said:
PermeateFree said:
PermeateFree said:Yes like your attitude, you couldn’t give a shit as long as you could do what you wanted and do it as quickly and cheaply as you can. You are dead right we have always done it that way which is why wildlife and their habitats are so impoverished.
Little Penguins are top ocean predators, playing an important role in the marine ecosystem food web, and a valuable indicator species with changes in their population alerting us to changes in ocean health, such impacts to prey they eat.
Given Little Penguins live both at sea and on land, it is critically important for marine scientists to better understand the implications of marine and terrestrial threats to Little Penguins including commercial fishing operations, ingestion and entanglement of plastics and marine debris, oil spills, climate change, introduced predators, habitat destruction and invasive weeds in order to protect them.
https://penguinfoundation.org.au/about-us/species/little-penguin
Between 2012-13, 28 Devils were released onto the island. But by 2016, the population had grown to an estimated 100. The convenor of BirdLife Tasmania Dr Eric Woehler told The Guardian that every time mammals were introduced to oceanic islands, a similar catastrophic impact was felt on bird species.
In 2011, a report published by the Tasmanian Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment rightly predicted that the introduction of carnivorous species like the Tasmanian Devils would have a massive negative impact on Little Penguin colonies
Penguins are not the only victims. Turns out, the Devils have also reduced the colonies of short-tailed shearwaters on Maria Island. Tasmanian Devils are relatively larger than bird species and can also dig efficiently.
What is all necessary? Another research from 2020 claims that facial cancer was unlikely to wipe out Tasmanian Devils and the spread of this disease has appeared to slow down. Unfortunately for the Little Penguins, there is no redemption.
https://www.wionews.com/science/how-saving-tasmanian-devils-meant-sentencing-little-penguins-to-death-on-maria-island-392931
Yeah nah. We’re still talking about thousands versus millions.
“We’d like to set up a refuge for white rhino but what if they tread on ants?”
You miss the point entirely with your attitude. It was known the Devils would create havoc on the Island, so you look to solve the problem elsewhere without destroying the Island’s ecosystem, but that would cost a little money and take a little effort to do. So they take your way and destroy a little more indigenous wildlife simply because it was easy and hey there are more elsewhere. (heard that one a few times).
Food report. buffy is cook tonight: I’m making fried rice. With brown rice. And lots of finely diced veggies. And some Chinese sausage for flavouring. And some scrambled egg.
buffy said:
Food report. buffy is cook tonight: I’m making fried rice. With brown rice. And lots of finely diced veggies. And some Chinese sausage for flavouring. And some scrambled egg.
Fish and chips I’m thinking, probably snapper in batter, popular cola.
buffy said:
Food report. buffy is cook tonight: I’m making fried rice. With brown rice. And lots of finely diced veggies. And some Chinese sausage for flavouring. And some scrambled egg.
Tuna steak, mash, bok choy, peas and corn and a light mustard sauce.
Peak Warming Man said:
buffy said:
Food report. buffy is cook tonight: I’m making fried rice. With brown rice. And lots of finely diced veggies. And some Chinese sausage for flavouring. And some scrambled egg.
Fish and chips I’m thinking, probably snapper in batter, popular cola.
We will do that tomorrow after archery. Lately we have been having butterfish.
Michael V said:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-22/barnaby-joyce-nationals-leader-return-angers-women/100232576
I wonder whether they gave any consideration to having a female leader…
sibeen said:
buffy said:
Food report. buffy is cook tonight: I’m making fried rice. With brown rice. And lots of finely diced veggies. And some Chinese sausage for flavouring. And some scrambled egg.
Tuna steak, mash, bok choy, peas and corn and a light mustard sauce.
Cooking up a few extra vegetables to join the last batch of turkey stew from the freezer.
Doing a big shop soon.
dv said:
Michael V said:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-22/barnaby-joyce-nationals-leader-return-angers-women/100232576
I wonder whether they gave any consideration to having a female leader…
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Dark Orange said:
For those wanting an unbiased explanation of the Friendly Jordies kerfuffle, then here is Media Watch to the rescue.
https://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/episodes/jordies/13404388
Thanks. I’ll watch that later.
dv said:
PermeateFree said:
PermeateFree said:Yes like your attitude, you couldn’t give a shit as long as you could do what you wanted and do it as quickly and cheaply as you can. You are dead right we have always done it that way which is why wildlife and their habitats are so impoverished.
Little Penguins are top ocean predators, playing an important role in the marine ecosystem food web, and a valuable indicator species with changes in their population alerting us to changes in ocean health, such impacts to prey they eat.
Given Little Penguins live both at sea and on land, it is critically important for marine scientists to better understand the implications of marine and terrestrial threats to Little Penguins including commercial fishing operations, ingestion and entanglement of plastics and marine debris, oil spills, climate change, introduced predators, habitat destruction and invasive weeds in order to protect them.
https://penguinfoundation.org.au/about-us/species/little-penguin
Between 2012-13, 28 Devils were released onto the island. But by 2016, the population had grown to an estimated 100. The convenor of BirdLife Tasmania Dr Eric Woehler told The Guardian that every time mammals were introduced to oceanic islands, a similar catastrophic impact was felt on bird species.
In 2011, a report published by the Tasmanian Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment rightly predicted that the introduction of carnivorous species like the Tasmanian Devils would have a massive negative impact on Little Penguin colonies
Penguins are not the only victims. Turns out, the Devils have also reduced the colonies of short-tailed shearwaters on Maria Island. Tasmanian Devils are relatively larger than bird species and can also dig efficiently.
What is all necessary? Another research from 2020 claims that facial cancer was unlikely to wipe out Tasmanian Devils and the spread of this disease has appeared to slow down. Unfortunately for the Little Penguins, there is no redemption.
https://www.wionews.com/science/how-saving-tasmanian-devils-meant-sentencing-little-penguins-to-death-on-maria-island-392931
Yeah nah. We’re still talking about thousands versus millions.
“We’d like to set up a refuge for white rhino but what if they tread on ants?”
Of course, not everyone out there is oblivious to environment issues — but the firepower of those who are just isn’t enough. Plenty of well-informed people make educated decisions about their habits and even dedicate their lives to protecting the environment, but unfortunately for Earth, these people cannot save the planet without global support. We as a species need to be more aware of life around us and realize that our selfish practices are ruining our planet, whether we can feel it or not.
PermeateFree said:
dv said:
PermeateFree said:Little Penguins are top ocean predators, playing an important role in the marine ecosystem food web, and a valuable indicator species with changes in their population alerting us to changes in ocean health, such impacts to prey they eat.
Given Little Penguins live both at sea and on land, it is critically important for marine scientists to better understand the implications of marine and terrestrial threats to Little Penguins including commercial fishing operations, ingestion and entanglement of plastics and marine debris, oil spills, climate change, introduced predators, habitat destruction and invasive weeds in order to protect them.
https://penguinfoundation.org.au/about-us/species/little-penguin
Between 2012-13, 28 Devils were released onto the island. But by 2016, the population had grown to an estimated 100. The convenor of BirdLife Tasmania Dr Eric Woehler told The Guardian that every time mammals were introduced to oceanic islands, a similar catastrophic impact was felt on bird species.
In 2011, a report published by the Tasmanian Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment rightly predicted that the introduction of carnivorous species like the Tasmanian Devils would have a massive negative impact on Little Penguin colonies
Penguins are not the only victims. Turns out, the Devils have also reduced the colonies of short-tailed shearwaters on Maria Island. Tasmanian Devils are relatively larger than bird species and can also dig efficiently.
What is all necessary? Another research from 2020 claims that facial cancer was unlikely to wipe out Tasmanian Devils and the spread of this disease has appeared to slow down. Unfortunately for the Little Penguins, there is no redemption.
https://www.wionews.com/science/how-saving-tasmanian-devils-meant-sentencing-little-penguins-to-death-on-maria-island-392931
Yeah nah. We’re still talking about thousands versus millions.
“We’d like to set up a refuge for white rhino but what if they tread on ants?”
Of course, not everyone out there is oblivious to environment issues — but the firepower of those who are just isn’t enough. Plenty of well-informed people make educated decisions about their habits and even dedicate their lives to protecting the environment, but unfortunately for Earth, these people cannot save the planet without global support. We as a species need to be more aware of life around us and realize that our selfish practices are ruining our planet, whether we can feel it or not.
https://nsucurrent.nova.edu/2018/04/17/our-selfishness-is-ruining-our-planet/
dv said:
Michael V said:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-22/barnaby-joyce-nationals-leader-return-angers-women/100232576
I wonder whether they gave any consideration to having a female leader…
It seems that they gave no consideration to anybody but BJ.
Amazon destroying unsold TVs and laptops with ‘130,000 items wasted each week’
Amazon is destroying millions of items of unsold stock every year including smart TVs and laptops, an investigation has uncovered.
Undercover footage shows the astonishing scale of waste from just one of 24 distribution centres in operation across the UK.
Products that are often new and unused get sorted into boxes labelled ‘destroy’, including drones, hairdryers, top of the range headphones and books.
https://metro.co.uk/2021/06/21/amazon-destroying-unsold-tvs-and-laptops-with-130000-items-wasted-each-week-14804809/?ito=facebook|social|metroukfacebook
dv said:
Amazon destroying unsold TVs and laptops with ‘130,000 items wasted each week’Amazon is destroying millions of items of unsold stock every year including smart TVs and laptops, an investigation has uncovered.
Undercover footage shows the astonishing scale of waste from just one of 24 distribution centres in operation across the UK.
Products that are often new and unused get sorted into boxes labelled ‘destroy’, including drones, hairdryers, top of the range headphones and books.
https://metro.co.uk/2021/06/21/amazon-destroying-unsold-tvs-and-laptops-with-130000-items-wasted-each-week-14804809/?ito=facebook|social|metroukfacebook
Seems odd. Most companies would just decalre a sale to move items out of inventory.
party_pants said:
dv said:
Amazon destroying unsold TVs and laptops with ‘130,000 items wasted each week’Amazon is destroying millions of items of unsold stock every year including smart TVs and laptops, an investigation has uncovered.
Undercover footage shows the astonishing scale of waste from just one of 24 distribution centres in operation across the UK.
Products that are often new and unused get sorted into boxes labelled ‘destroy’, including drones, hairdryers, top of the range headphones and books.
https://metro.co.uk/2021/06/21/amazon-destroying-unsold-tvs-and-laptops-with-130000-items-wasted-each-week-14804809/?ito=facebook|social|metroukfacebookSeems odd. Most companies would just decalre a sale to move items out of inventory.
I agree.
party_pants said:
dv said:
Amazon destroying unsold TVs and laptops with ‘130,000 items wasted each week’Amazon is destroying millions of items of unsold stock every year including smart TVs and laptops, an investigation has uncovered.
Undercover footage shows the astonishing scale of waste from just one of 24 distribution centres in operation across the UK.
Products that are often new and unused get sorted into boxes labelled ‘destroy’, including drones, hairdryers, top of the range headphones and books.
https://metro.co.uk/2021/06/21/amazon-destroying-unsold-tvs-and-laptops-with-130000-items-wasted-each-week-14804809/?ito=facebook|social|metroukfacebookSeems odd. Most companies would just declare a sale to move items out of inventory.
Amazon is not most companies. Their market will be there for the goods, whether they offer budget prices or not. They’ve done their sums.
Hey Speedy there is an egg in the sea eagles nest, laid a couple of days ago.
Peak Warming Man said:
Hey Speedy there is an egg in the sea eagles nest, laid a couple of days ago.
yum fish flavoured omelette tonight.
Dark Orange said:
For those wanting an unbiased explanation of the Friendly Jordies kerfuffle, then here is Media Watch to the rescue.
https://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/episodes/jordies/13404388
And good on them for also doing the Dark Emu fraud story.
undead
Peak Warming Man said:
Hey Speedy there is an egg in the sea eagles nest, laid a couple of days ago.
Wow. I’ll go and take a look :)
Peak Warming Man said:
Dark Orange said:For those wanting an unbiased explanation of the Friendly Jordies kerfuffle, then here is Media Watch to the rescue.
https://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/episodes/jordies/13404388
And good on them for also doing the Dark Emu fraud story.
Yeah you have to give it to MW for its willingness to ding the ABC when necessary
Peak Warming Man said:
Dark Orange said:For those wanting an unbiased explanation of the Friendly Jordies kerfuffle, then here is Media Watch to the rescue.
https://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/episodes/jordies/13404388
And good on them for also doing the Dark Emu fraud story.
The debate is far from over. Interesting article from last Friday:
Friday essay: how our new archaeological research investigates Dark Emu’s idea of Aboriginal ‘agriculture’ and villages
>….We have been working in a landscape that provides an important test of the Dark Emu hypothesis. In partnership with the Mithaka Aboriginal Corporation, who occupy the Channel Country in Central Australia, we have begun investigating Aboriginal settlement sites, pit dwelling huts (known as gunyahs) and quarries.
Our landscape study, published in the journal Antiquity, has found over 140 quarry sites, where rock was excavated to produce seed grinding stones. We have also developed a method to locate traces of long-lost village sites.
Were First Australians farmers or hunter-gatherers? Contemporary archaeological research suggests it’s not such a simple dichotomy. Understanding the Mithaka food production system may well tell us whether such terms are a good fit for defining socio-economic networks in Aboriginal Australia.
https://theconversation.com/friday-essay-how-our-new-archaeological-research-investigates-dark-emus-idea-of-aboriginal-agriculture-and-villages-146754
Speedy said:
party_pants said:
dv said:
Amazon destroying unsold TVs and laptops with ‘130,000 items wasted each week’Amazon is destroying millions of items of unsold stock every year including smart TVs and laptops, an investigation has uncovered.
Undercover footage shows the astonishing scale of waste from just one of 24 distribution centres in operation across the UK.
Products that are often new and unused get sorted into boxes labelled ‘destroy’, including drones, hairdryers, top of the range headphones and books.
https://metro.co.uk/2021/06/21/amazon-destroying-unsold-tvs-and-laptops-with-130000-items-wasted-each-week-14804809/?ito=facebook|social|metroukfacebookSeems odd. Most companies would just declare a sale to move items out of inventory.
Amazon is not most companies. Their market will be there for the goods, whether they offer budget prices or not. They’ve done their sums.
Be surprised if some of it doesn’t go missing between being loaded and arriving at landfill. Some of those Amazon employees are saving up for a new piss jar.
Speedy said:
party_pants said:
dv said:
Amazon destroying unsold TVs and laptops with ‘130,000 items wasted each week’Amazon is destroying millions of items of unsold stock every year including smart TVs and laptops, an investigation has uncovered.
Undercover footage shows the astonishing scale of waste from just one of 24 distribution centres in operation across the UK.
Products that are often new and unused get sorted into boxes labelled ‘destroy’, including drones, hairdryers, top of the range headphones and books.
https://metro.co.uk/2021/06/21/amazon-destroying-unsold-tvs-and-laptops-with-130000-items-wasted-each-week-14804809/?ito=facebook|social|metroukfacebookSeems odd. Most companies would just declare a sale to move items out of inventory.
Amazon is not most companies. Their market will be there for the goods, whether they offer budget prices or not. They’ve done their sums.
It’s madness really. The economy stays on track with millions of brand new goods destroyed each year, yet we’re supposed to believe the whole system would collapse if they were given to the poor.
dv said:
Speedy said:
party_pants said:Seems odd. Most companies would just declare a sale to move items out of inventory.
Amazon is not most companies. Their market will be there for the goods, whether they offer budget prices or not. They’ve done their sums.
Be surprised if some of it doesn’t go missing between being loaded and arriving at landfill. Some of those Amazon employees are saving up for a new piss jar.
“New and Unused” does not mean “Not shop soiled”. If a drone falls from the top of the pallet rack onto concrete, it’s probably easier for all concerned to just not risk selling it.
Fashion for pointy shoes unleashed a wave of bunions in medieval England
The 14th century saw the arrival of an abundance of new styles of dress and footwear in Europe, coming in a wide range of fabrics and colours. Among these new fashion trends were “poulaines” – rather eccentric-looking medieval shoes with a lengthy pointed tip.
The archaeological and the historical record suggests that this new fashion item was widely adopted by England’s medieval society and that, by the late 14th century, almost every type of shoe was at least slightly pointed, even in children. Shoe pointiness would eventually became so extreme that in 1463 King Edward IV passed a law limiting toe-point length to less than two inches within London.
The adoption of this latest flavour of footwear was not without its risks. Our research, conducted on medieval human skeletal remains from Cambridge in England, shows that hallux valgus of the big toe – commonly know as bunions – was surprisingly widespread at the time.
Seeing as modern clinical research has shown that the development of bunions is often linked to wearing tight, ill-fitting footwear, our study suggests that people in late medieval England paid a high price for footwear fashion – in bunions and broken bones.
Bubblecar said:
Fashion for pointy shoes unleashed a wave of bunions in medieval EnglandThe 14th century saw the arrival of an abundance of new styles of dress and footwear in Europe, coming in a wide range of fabrics and colours. Among these new fashion trends were “poulaines” – rather eccentric-looking medieval shoes with a lengthy pointed tip.
The archaeological and the historical record suggests that this new fashion item was widely adopted by England’s medieval society and that, by the late 14th century, almost every type of shoe was at least slightly pointed, even in children. Shoe pointiness would eventually became so extreme that in 1463 King Edward IV passed a law limiting toe-point length to less than two inches within London.
The adoption of this latest flavour of footwear was not without its risks. Our research, conducted on medieval human skeletal remains from Cambridge in England, shows that hallux valgus of the big toe – commonly know as bunions – was surprisingly widespread at the time.
Seeing as modern clinical research has shown that the development of bunions is often linked to wearing tight, ill-fitting footwear, our study suggests that people in late medieval England paid a high price for footwear fashion – in bunions and broken bones.
Even today a lot of shoes are two pointy for my liking
“We do not have a pandemic in Australia” – Pauline Hanson
Is she etymologically correct?
Bubblecar said:
Fashion for pointy shoes unleashed a wave of bunions in medieval EnglandThe 14th century saw the arrival of an abundance of new styles of dress and footwear in Europe, coming in a wide range of fabrics and colours. Among these new fashion trends were “poulaines” – rather eccentric-looking medieval shoes with a lengthy pointed tip.
The archaeological and the historical record suggests that this new fashion item was widely adopted by England’s medieval society and that, by the late 14th century, almost every type of shoe was at least slightly pointed, even in children. Shoe pointiness would eventually became so extreme that in 1463 King Edward IV passed a law limiting toe-point length to less than two inches within London.
The adoption of this latest flavour of footwear was not without its risks. Our research, conducted on medieval human skeletal remains from Cambridge in England, shows that hallux valgus of the big toe – commonly know as bunions – was surprisingly widespread at the time.
Seeing as modern clinical research has shown that the development of bunions is often linked to wearing tight, ill-fitting footwear, our study suggests that people in late medieval England paid a high price for footwear fashion – in bunions and broken bones.
Those are those gay slippers that minstrels wore as they cavorted and danced their way through the village while playing a harpsichord.
Peak Warming Man said:
Bubblecar said:
Fashion for pointy shoes unleashed a wave of bunions in medieval EnglandThe 14th century saw the arrival of an abundance of new styles of dress and footwear in Europe, coming in a wide range of fabrics and colours. Among these new fashion trends were “poulaines” – rather eccentric-looking medieval shoes with a lengthy pointed tip.
The archaeological and the historical record suggests that this new fashion item was widely adopted by England’s medieval society and that, by the late 14th century, almost every type of shoe was at least slightly pointed, even in children. Shoe pointiness would eventually became so extreme that in 1463 King Edward IV passed a law limiting toe-point length to less than two inches within London.
The adoption of this latest flavour of footwear was not without its risks. Our research, conducted on medieval human skeletal remains from Cambridge in England, shows that hallux valgus of the big toe – commonly know as bunions – was surprisingly widespread at the time.
Seeing as modern clinical research has shown that the development of bunions is often linked to wearing tight, ill-fitting footwear, our study suggests that people in late medieval England paid a high price for footwear fashion – in bunions and broken bones.
Those are those gay slippers that minstrels wore as they cavorted and danced their way through the village while playing a harpsichord.
Lyre.
Dark Orange said:
“We do not have a pandemic in Australia” – Pauline Hanson
Is she etymologically correct?
It’s a dampanic.
ChrispenEvan said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Bubblecar said:
Fashion for pointy shoes unleashed a wave of bunions in medieval EnglandThe 14th century saw the arrival of an abundance of new styles of dress and footwear in Europe, coming in a wide range of fabrics and colours. Among these new fashion trends were “poulaines” – rather eccentric-looking medieval shoes with a lengthy pointed tip.
The archaeological and the historical record suggests that this new fashion item was widely adopted by England’s medieval society and that, by the late 14th century, almost every type of shoe was at least slightly pointed, even in children. Shoe pointiness would eventually became so extreme that in 1463 King Edward IV passed a law limiting toe-point length to less than two inches within London.
The adoption of this latest flavour of footwear was not without its risks. Our research, conducted on medieval human skeletal remains from Cambridge in England, shows that hallux valgus of the big toe – commonly know as bunions – was surprisingly widespread at the time.
Seeing as modern clinical research has shown that the development of bunions is often linked to wearing tight, ill-fitting footwear, our study suggests that people in late medieval England paid a high price for footwear fashion – in bunions and broken bones.
Those are those gay slippers that minstrels wore as they cavorted and danced their way through the village while playing a harpsichord.
Lyre.
This is a trap if ever there was one.
I think she’s entomologically correct
Dark Orange said:
“We do not have a pandemic in Australia” – Pauline Hanson
Is she etymologically correct?
There is no strict definition of pandemic, but it is usually taken to mean a disease spreading over multiple countries, or an interconnected region, if not the whole of the world.
So there is definitely a pandemic going on. But the pandemic has not affected Australia as badly as other places in the world.
About this object
PRODUCTION DATE:
Late Medieval; late 14th century
LOCATION:
On Display: Museum of London: Medieval London: London Industry and Civic Authority: Leatherwork
Pointed medieval shoe known as a ‘poulaine’. It has a latchet fastening (a leather strap split into two at the end, which goes through a pair of holes). The decoration of this shoe is divided by suede bands into rectangular panels of cross-hatching. Such decorated and pointed shoes would only have been afforded by the wealthy fashion-conscious sections of society. The site of Baynards Castle where this shoe was found was close to the Royal Wardrobe so some of the shoes uncovered there may have royal connections. Shoes with long points had to be stuffed with moss or hair to keep their shape. At the time, poulaines were condemned by some clergymen as ‘claws of devils’ and were the subject of many jokes due to their extreme appearance.
MEASUREMENTS
L 315 mm; W 72 mm; H 72 mm (overall)
https://collections.museumoflondon.org.uk/online/object/311107.html
After claiming “official” discussions with Pfizer had only started in December, Health Minister Greg Hunt has finally confirmed that the government met with Pfizer last July to discuss purchasing the Pfizer vaccine. Sources say Australia was given options for as many doses as needed to be delivered in January this year, yet government officials turned down the offer Callum Foote reports.
Until Question Time on Thursday, Health Minister Greg Hunt had for months repeatedly avoided answering questions on the issue, claiming the “offical” meetings with Pfizer had only started in December 2020.
Pfizer had allegedly offered Australia priority options for the vaccine in July 2020. According to Hunt, the government rejected the offer citing “medical advice”, deciding instead to back the AstraZeneca vaccine.
However, according to Bill Bowtell, UNSW Adjunct Professor of Strategic Health Policy, that advice must have been based on “commercial and political advice”.
Sources say the government could not have possibly decided on “medical advice” because it wasn’t available at the time.
The medical advice – the USFDA’s approval of Pfizer – didn’t occur until the end of 2020.
Sources say it appears the government decided to go with AZ for financial reasons. It was cheaper and AstraZeneca was allowing CSL to manufacture the vaccine in Melbourne. Studies have since shown the AZ vaccine to be far less effective against certain strains of COVID emerging from South Africa.
Bowtell believes questions of cost “should have been completely immaterial given the opportunity to secure best vaccines in shortest possible time”.
“We could have had 40 million doses by the start of January and the same coverage rates of adults as seen in US, UK and Israel.”
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I might have to downgrade them
15th century. Mop tops, shoulder pillows, very tight hose and pointy shoes.
Bubblecar said:
15th century. Mop tops, shoulder pillows, very tight hose and pointy shoes.
15th century Rutles
Peak Warming Man said:
dv said:
sarahs mum said:hooked on a feeling?
Well that would be unka chucker unka unka unka chucker unka unka.
BTW I was yesterday years old when I found out that Lindsay Buckingham’s “Trouble” begins with the words “Two Three Four”.
It was only recently that I found out Fleetwood Mac were an English band.
When I say recently I mean within the last 5 years or more pacifically within the last five but not including the immediate past.
I thought they were American probably because Stevie Nicks (ER) was American.
There was a time when Mick Fleetwood, Eric clapton, George harrison and Martin Sharp were hanging out.
“Fleetwood’s ex-wife, Jenny Boyd, is the younger sister of Pattie Boyd, who married George Harrison and Eric Clapton. Fleetwood referred to Harrison as his brother-in-law, in his autobiography.”
Bubblecar said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Dark Orange said:For those wanting an unbiased explanation of the Friendly Jordies kerfuffle, then here is Media Watch to the rescue.
https://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/episodes/jordies/13404388
And good on them for also doing the Dark Emu fraud story.
The debate is far from over. Interesting article from last Friday:
Friday essay: how our new archaeological research investigates Dark Emu’s idea of Aboriginal ‘agriculture’ and villages
>….We have been working in a landscape that provides an important test of the Dark Emu hypothesis. In partnership with the Mithaka Aboriginal Corporation, who occupy the Channel Country in Central Australia, we have begun investigating Aboriginal settlement sites, pit dwelling huts (known as gunyahs) and quarries.
Our landscape study, published in the journal Antiquity, has found over 140 quarry sites, where rock was excavated to produce seed grinding stones. We have also developed a method to locate traces of long-lost village sites.
Were First Australians farmers or hunter-gatherers? Contemporary archaeological research suggests it’s not such a simple dichotomy. Understanding the Mithaka food production system may well tell us whether such terms are a good fit for defining socio-economic networks in Aboriginal Australia.
https://theconversation.com/friday-essay-how-our-new-archaeological-research-investigates-dark-emus-idea-of-aboriginal-agriculture-and-villages-146754
I have been to several ?Aborigine quarries and I can assure you they are nothing like the quarries we as Europeans construct. They were not breaking rock to extract and make grinding stones, what you have is an area with many convenient sized hard rocks where they would hunt around looking for suitable sized and shaped rocks that were either picked up or dug up near the surface.
The same thing happened near me with a chert quarry, being a place where chert nodules of good quality were to be found at or near the surface, which of course they collected for making tools. The only real excavation I have seen was a deep red clay ochre rich in iron in the Weld Range, which was 10 or so metres deep and had been excavated over a long period of time. The clay pigment is relatively soft and capable of being dug out with a hardened stick, plus the ochre being highly prized and worth the effort.
Regarding the grinding stones and growing the grain, again this would be an area where certain grasses grew and which they possibly encouraged in the process of harvesting the grain. This is easy as they could gather the grain knowing next year it would be there again, there was no need to turn the earth to cultivate the soil as it was an indigenous plant growing where it normally grew, there was not need to work in order to get a crop.
The 130 shelters the explorer saw, well in times of plenty many people from neighbouring areas would travel to share whatever was plentiful and if they were going to be there for a little while, or just for the shelter, would build a shelter. They are simple structures and quick and easy to make, so when they went home they were left to fall down on their own. One of the criticisms of Dark Emu is Pascoe accepted the interpretation of the explorer who in order to explain what he had found was to relate it to his own experience.
As I said last time, this will grumble away for many years yet.
Bubblecar said:
15th century. Mop tops, shoulder pillows, very tight hose and pointy shoes.
They look like winklepickers
Dark Orange said:
For those wanting an unbiased explanation of the Friendly Jordies kerfuffle, then here is Media Watch to the rescue.
https://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/episodes/jordies/13404388
Mediawatch did not break down WIN news manipulation of the videos. Which is a shame. That is normally their thing.
dv said:
Bubblecar said:
15th century. Mop tops, shoulder pillows, very tight hose and pointy shoes.
They look like winklepickers
I think I still might have a pair of them.
Peak Warming Man said:
dv said:
Bubblecar said:
15th century. Mop tops, shoulder pillows, very tight hose and pointy shoes.
They look like winklepickers
I think I still might have a pair of them.
from your youth?
sarahs mum said:
Played drums on Warren Zevon’s Top 40 hit “Werewolves of London”. Stevie Nicks is godmother of his twin daughters. Dropped out of school at age 15 and moved to London to become a Drummer. Lives in Los Angeles, California. He has lived in the United States since the 1970’s and became a citizen in 2006.
Peak Warming Man said:
dv said:Well that would be unka chucker unka unka unka chucker unka unka.
BTW I was yesterday years old when I found out that Lindsay Buckingham’s “Trouble” begins with the words “Two Three Four”.
It was only recently that I found out Fleetwood Mac were an English band.
When I say recently I mean within the last 5 years or more pacifically within the last five but not including the immediate past.
I thought they were American probably because Stevie Nicks (ER) was American.
There was a time when Mick Fleetwood, Eric clapton, George harrison and Martin Sharp were hanging out.
“Fleetwood’s ex-wife, Jenny Boyd, is the younger sister of Pattie Boyd, who married George Harrison and Eric Clapton. Fleetwood referred to Harrison as his brother-in-law, in his autobiography.”
“In 1933 on the eastern edge of the US state of Oklahoma, a group of failed gold prospectors watched as their partner struck a pickaxe into clay. Witnesses say the air hissed as it escaped from a burial chamber that had been sealed for 500 years.”
more to come……….
party_pants said:
Peak Warming Man said:
dv said:They look like winklepickers
I think I still might have a pair of them.
from your youth?
Pretty sure Pedro is still in his fighting prime.
Peak Warming Man said:
“In 1933 on the eastern edge of the US state of Oklahoma, a group of failed gold prospectors watched as their partner struck a pickaxe into clay. Witnesses say the air hissed as it escaped from a burial chamber that had been sealed for 500 years.”more to come……….
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20210621-spiro-mounds-north-americas-lost-civilisation
sarahs mum said:
sarahs mum said:Played drums on Warren Zevon’s Top 40 hit “Werewolves of London”. Stevie Nicks is godmother of his twin daughters. Dropped out of school at age 15 and moved to London to become a Drummer. Lives in Los Angeles, California. He has lived in the United States since the 1970’s and became a citizen in 2006.
Peak Warming Man said:It was only recently that I found out Fleetwood Mac were an English band.
When I say recently I mean within the last 5 years or more pacifically within the last five but not including the immediate past.
I thought they were American probably because Stevie Nicks (ER) was American.
There was a time when Mick Fleetwood, Eric clapton, George harrison and Martin Sharp were hanging out.
“Fleetwood’s ex-wife, Jenny Boyd, is the younger sister of Pattie Boyd, who married George Harrison and Eric Clapton. Fleetwood referred to Harrison as his brother-in-law, in his autobiography.”
Saw a ghost on the way home from a gig in the mid 60s.
Peak Warming Man said:
Peak Warming Man said:
“In 1933 on the eastern edge of the US state of Oklahoma, a group of failed gold prospectors watched as their partner struck a pickaxe into clay. Witnesses say the air hissed as it escaped from a burial chamber that had been sealed for 500 years.”more to come……….
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20210621-spiro-mounds-north-americas-lost-civilisation
hmmm
Unadorned, unkempt and unloved, Ulva is the Scottish island no one wanted to live on. But now an era-defining community buy-out is behind its welcome resurrection.
good evening people … hope your winter is going well … where ever you may be living.
can’t say that it’s my fave season … but i do tolerate it.
monkey skipper said:
good evening people … hope your winter is going well … where ever you may be living.can’t say that it’s my fave season … but i do tolerate it.
I go outside every now and again and yell at the clouds.
ChrispenEvan said:
monkey skipper said:
good evening people … hope your winter is going well … where ever you may be living.can’t say that it’s my fave season … but i do tolerate it.
I go outside every now and again and yell at the clouds.
why is that then?
ChrispenEvan said:
monkey skipper said:
good evening people … hope your winter is going well … where ever you may be living.can’t say that it’s my fave season … but i do tolerate it.
I go outside every now and again and yell at the clouds.
I’ve looked at clouds from both sides now.
monkey skipper said:
ChrispenEvan said:
monkey skipper said:
good evening people … hope your winter is going well … where ever you may be living.can’t say that it’s my fave season … but i do tolerate it.
I go outside every now and again and yell at the clouds.
why is that then?
He’s a loon.
monkey skipper said:
ChrispenEvan said:
monkey skipper said:
good evening people … hope your winter is going well … where ever you may be living.can’t say that it’s my fave season … but i do tolerate it.
I go outside every now and again and yell at the clouds.
why is that then?
Nobody knows why, it’s just something old men do. tradition.
monkey skipper said:
good evening people … hope your winter is going well … where ever you may be living.can’t say that it’s my fave season … but i do tolerate it.
Same. It is cold a Allfolk today/tonight.
sibeen said:
ChrispenEvan said:
monkey skipper said:
good evening people … hope your winter is going well … where ever you may be living.can’t say that it’s my fave season … but i do tolerate it.
I go outside every now and again and yell at the clouds.
I’ve looked at clouds from both sides now.
me too.
sibeen said:
monkey skipper said:
ChrispenEvan said:I go outside every now and again and yell at the clouds.
why is that then?
He’s a loon.
beautiful plumage.
party_pants said:
monkey skipper said:
good evening people … hope your winter is going well … where ever you may be living.can’t say that it’s my fave season … but i do tolerate it.
Same. It is cold a Allfolk today/tonight.
clear skies.
sarahs mum said:
There was a time when Mick Fleetwood, Eric clapton, George harrison and Martin Sharp were hanging out.
Then there was that one time in ’89 that Mick Fleetwood also hung out with my workmate, Dave the plumber. He even played the Petersham RSL under an alias with him and nobody even noticed.
Nice carved oak box, c.1650, Devon. Surprisingly cheap at £1,250 (about $2315).
Bubblecar said:
Nice carved oak box, c.1650, Devon. Surprisingly cheap at £1,250 (about $2315).
Bloody. That would take me weeks to do, and get perfect.
Whereas these two Elizabethan heraldic beasts (from either a table or a cupboard) will set you back £8,950 (about $16,5600).
Bubblecar said:
Whereas these two Elizabethan heraldic beasts (from either a table or a cupboard) will set you back £8,950 (about $16,5600).
um, $16,560
Another cheapie: Henry VIII oak portrait panel c.1530, £1,250.
More old treasures for sale: https://www.marhamchurchantiques.com/works/browse/
Think I’m going to give up on the AC v Gas cost competition, house is nowhere near as warm with the AC as it was with the gas.
£30,000 for this pleasing Henry VIII oak carved food cupboard c. 1530. In fine condition for its age.
Has this been reported in the Aussie press?
…
Green groups fume as Canberra rejects world’s biggest renewables project
Minister dismisses Asian Renewable Energy Hub as climate debate claims another political scalp
Jamie Smyth in Sydney YESTERDAY
Canberra has rejected an application to build the world’s biggest renewable energy project in an Australian desert, infuriating groups hoping the government would take a more aggressive stance against climate change.
The government warned that the A$50bn green hydrogen export project threatened sensitive wetland areas and migratory bird species.
The decision represents a U-turn by Canberra, which last year supported fast tracking construction of the Asian Renewable Energy Hub on a 6,500 sq km site in a remote region in Western Australia.
“The minister concluded that the proposal would have unacceptable impacts on matters of national environmental significance,” said a spokesman for Sussan Ley, Australia’s minister for environment, on Monday.
The consortium behind the hub said it would revise its proposal to build solar and wind farms in the Pilbara, an area better known for liquefied natural gas.
But the decision to knock back the project has alarmed groups that want the conservative government to commit to a national target of net zero emissions by 2050.
“Once again, the federal government has demonstrated that it is unwilling to support projects that would accelerate the transition away from fossil fuels,” said Dan Gocher at the Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility.
“If the government is to be taken seriously on developing a hydrogen economy, companies prioritising genuinely zero emissions projects should be assisted to reach a final investment decision.”
Last month, the government vetoed a proposal by one of its own development agencies to provide a A$280m loan to co-found a renewable project in Queensland backed by French company Neoen.
The decision to reject the hub consortium application coincides with a bitter debate within the ruling Liberal-National coalition over whether to embrace net zero emissions by 2050.
The US and UK lobbied Scott Morrison, Australia’s prime minister, at the recent G7 meeting in Cornwall to commit to the target before a UN climate conference in Glasgow in November.
But the issue is politically toxic in Australia, where friction over climate change has claimed the scalps of several prime ministers over the past 15 years and stymied efforts to reduce emissions.
https://www.ft.com/content/c0a9a866-d2dd-497c-9563-581cd6d908dc?
poikilotherm said:
Think I’m going to give up on the AC v Gas cost competition, house is nowhere near as warm with the AC as it was with the gas.
Poik, if you’re still around, what are the long term (>=6 months or so) of Maxidex use? I’ve been up to 1 drop every hour, but now on 4/day, since January.
btm said:
poikilotherm said:
Think I’m going to give up on the AC v Gas cost competition, house is nowhere near as warm with the AC as it was with the gas.Poik, if you’re still around, what are the long term (>=6 months or so) of Maxidex use? I’ve been up to 1 drop every hour, but now on 4/day, since January.
FMD. Why?
Can raise intraocular pressure – glaucoma/cataracts etc.
Although, in some cases it’s fine. Really depends on why you’re on it in the first place.
poikilotherm said:
btm said:
poikilotherm said:
Think I’m going to give up on the AC v Gas cost competition, house is nowhere near as warm with the AC as it was with the gas.Poik, if you’re still around, what are the long term (>=6 months or so) of Maxidex use? I’ve been up to 1 drop every hour, but now on 4/day, since January.
FMD. Why?
Can raise intraocular pressure – glaucoma/cataracts etc.
Anterior uveitis.
There’s evidence of increased iop; it’s usually around 11-14, but a month ago (last it was checked) it up to 19.
Witty Rejoinder said:
But the issue is politically toxic in Australia, where friction over climate change has claimed the scalps of several prime ministers over the past 15 years and stymied efforts to reduce emissions.
Anyone else feel faintly embarrassed when they see things like this in the international press?
btm said:
poikilotherm said:
btm said:Poik, if you’re still around, what are the long term (>=6 months or so) of Maxidex use? I’ve been up to 1 drop every hour, but now on 4/day, since January.
FMD. Why?
Can raise intraocular pressure – glaucoma/cataracts etc.
Anterior uveitis.
There’s evidence of increased iop; it’s usually around 11-14, but a month ago (last it was checked) it up to 19.
Witty Rejoinder said:
Has this been reported in the Aussie press?…
Green groups fume as Canberra rejects world’s biggest renewables project
Minister dismisses Asian Renewable Energy Hub as climate debate claims another political scalpJamie Smyth in Sydney YESTERDAY
Canberra has rejected an application to build the world’s biggest renewable energy project in an Australian desert, infuriating groups hoping the government would take a more aggressive stance against climate change.
The government warned that the A$50bn green hydrogen export project threatened sensitive wetland areas and migratory bird species.
The decision represents a U-turn by Canberra, which last year supported fast tracking construction of the Asian Renewable Energy Hub on a 6,500 sq km site in a remote region in Western Australia.
“The minister concluded that the proposal would have unacceptable impacts on matters of national environmental significance,” said a spokesman for Sussan Ley, Australia’s minister for environment, on Monday.
The consortium behind the hub said it would revise its proposal to build solar and wind farms in the Pilbara, an area better known for liquefied natural gas.
But the decision to knock back the project has alarmed groups that want the conservative government to commit to a national target of net zero emissions by 2050.
“Once again, the federal government has demonstrated that it is unwilling to support projects that would accelerate the transition away from fossil fuels,” said Dan Gocher at the Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility.
“If the government is to be taken seriously on developing a hydrogen economy, companies prioritising genuinely zero emissions projects should be assisted to reach a final investment decision.”
Last month, the government vetoed a proposal by one of its own development agencies to provide a A$280m loan to co-found a renewable project in Queensland backed by French company Neoen.
The decision to reject the hub consortium application coincides with a bitter debate within the ruling Liberal-National coalition over whether to embrace net zero emissions by 2050.
The US and UK lobbied Scott Morrison, Australia’s prime minister, at the recent G7 meeting in Cornwall to commit to the target before a UN climate conference in Glasgow in November.
But the issue is politically toxic in Australia, where friction over climate change has claimed the scalps of several prime ministers over the past 15 years and stymied efforts to reduce emissions.
https://www.ft.com/content/c0a9a866-d2dd-497c-9563-581cd6d908dc?
I read about it earlier this week on the ABC website.
Preserving wetlands for migratory birds has sunk many other projects. I don’t think this one should be immune from the same scrutiny. If they could find a better place to plonk it down it might get approved more easily.
poikilotherm said:
btm said:
poikilotherm said:FMD. Why?
Can raise intraocular pressure – glaucoma/cataracts etc.
Anterior uveitis.
There’s evidence of increased iop; it’s usually around 11-14, but a month ago (last it was checked) it up to 19.
Ah ok, did you get atropine at the start as well? Seems odd to be ongoing. I’d ask for a referral to an opthalmologist.
I was atropine for the first 4 months or so, and I’m seeing an ophthal at the RVEEH. I’ll see if I can find out more when I see them next Wednesday. There’s also a possibility I’ve got sarcoidosis, but that hasn’t been confirmed.
party_pants said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Has this been reported in the Aussie press?…
Green groups fume as Canberra rejects world’s biggest renewables project
Minister dismisses Asian Renewable Energy Hub as climate debate claims another political scalpJamie Smyth in Sydney YESTERDAY
Canberra has rejected an application to build the world’s biggest renewable energy project in an Australian desert, infuriating groups hoping the government would take a more aggressive stance against climate change.
The government warned that the A$50bn green hydrogen export project threatened sensitive wetland areas and migratory bird species.
The decision represents a U-turn by Canberra, which last year supported fast tracking construction of the Asian Renewable Energy Hub on a 6,500 sq km site in a remote region in Western Australia.
“The minister concluded that the proposal would have unacceptable impacts on matters of national environmental significance,” said a spokesman for Sussan Ley, Australia’s minister for environment, on Monday.
The consortium behind the hub said it would revise its proposal to build solar and wind farms in the Pilbara, an area better known for liquefied natural gas.
But the decision to knock back the project has alarmed groups that want the conservative government to commit to a national target of net zero emissions by 2050.
“Once again, the federal government has demonstrated that it is unwilling to support projects that would accelerate the transition away from fossil fuels,” said Dan Gocher at the Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility.
“If the government is to be taken seriously on developing a hydrogen economy, companies prioritising genuinely zero emissions projects should be assisted to reach a final investment decision.”
Last month, the government vetoed a proposal by one of its own development agencies to provide a A$280m loan to co-found a renewable project in Queensland backed by French company Neoen.
The decision to reject the hub consortium application coincides with a bitter debate within the ruling Liberal-National coalition over whether to embrace net zero emissions by 2050.
The US and UK lobbied Scott Morrison, Australia’s prime minister, at the recent G7 meeting in Cornwall to commit to the target before a UN climate conference in Glasgow in November.
But the issue is politically toxic in Australia, where friction over climate change has claimed the scalps of several prime ministers over the past 15 years and stymied efforts to reduce emissions.
https://www.ft.com/content/c0a9a866-d2dd-497c-9563-581cd6d908dc?
I read about it earlier this week on the ABC website.
Preserving wetlands for migratory birds has sunk many other projects. I don’t think this one should be immune from the same scrutiny. If they could find a better place to plonk it down it might get approved more easily.
https://asianrehub.com
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandora_Marsh
btm said:
poikilotherm said:
btm said:Anterior uveitis.
There’s evidence of increased iop; it’s usually around 11-14, but a month ago (last it was checked) it up to 19.
Ah ok, did you get atropine at the start as well? Seems odd to be ongoing. I’d ask for a referral to an opthalmologist.
I was atropine for the first 4 months or so, and I’m seeing an ophthal at the RVEEH. I’ll see if I can find out more when I see them next Wednesday. There’s also a possibility I’ve got sarcoidosis, but that hasn’t been confirmed.
Ah, already under an opthal – you may be (un)lucky and have chronic uveitis, it’s more commonly short term. I think all there is is Maxidex and monitoring, if the pressure gets too high, treat that as well.
ChrispenEvan said:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandora_Marsh
So if someone tried to build a natural gas plant here the screaming would be legion then :)
sibeen said:
ChrispenEvan said:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandora_Marsh
So if someone tried to build a natural gas plant here the screaming would be legion then :)
nah, that natural so would be fine.
ChrispenEvan said:
sibeen said:
ChrispenEvan said:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandora_Marsh
So if someone tried to build a natural gas plant here the screaming would be legion then :)
nah, that natural so would be fine.
I’m going to have to agree with PP. :)
poikilotherm said:
btm said:
poikilotherm said:Ah ok, did you get atropine at the start as well? Seems odd to be ongoing. I’d ask for a referral to an opthalmologist.
I was atropine for the first 4 months or so, and I’m seeing an ophthal at the RVEEH. I’ll see if I can find out more when I see them next Wednesday. There’s also a possibility I’ve got sarcoidosis, but that hasn’t been confirmed.
Ah, already under an opthal – you may be (un)lucky and have chronic uveitis, it’s more commonly short term. I think all there is is Maxidex and monitoring, if the pressure gets too high, treat that as well.
Thanks, poik.
sibeen said:
ChrispenEvan said:
sibeen said:So if someone tried to build a natural gas plant here the screaming would be legion then :)
nah, that natural so would be fine.
I’m going to have to agree with PP. :)
I do want these things built eventually… somewhere. There is another project trying to get off the ground in the NT too.
party_pants said:
sibeen said:
ChrispenEvan said:nah, that natural so would be fine.
I’m going to have to agree with PP. :)
I do want these things built eventually… somewhere. There is another project trying to get off the ground in the NT too.
So do I, but I’ve seen many a scheme, and been asked to be involved in a few, where it is obvious the only motive is profit and the scheme’s “innovative founders” will mutter and cant whatever bullshit they can to get the government and investors on board. The engineering isn’t even close to a distant second, it couldn’t be sighted on the horizon.
looking at google earth i wonder why they can’t just site it 50km further south? it isn’t as if there isn’t a lot of space up that way. shay gap and a rail is not far away.
The Kiwis are falling into a bit of a heap.
ChrispenEvan said:
But Boris, I ask you this all the time. What more could I do?
sibeen said:
ChrispenEvan said:
But Boris, I ask you this all the time. What more could I do?
I just get the feeling that you don’t really care.
sibeen said:
The Kiwis are falling into a bit of a heap.
Already lunch on day 5 and we are still on the first innings. Going to be a draw.
Do you know who wins the championship if it is a draw?
ChrispenEvan said:
sibeen said:
ChrispenEvan said:
But Boris, I ask you this all the time. What more could I do?
I just get the feeling that you don’t really care.
Throw those worrisome thoughts to the winds. Banish them .
party_pants said:
sibeen said:
The Kiwis are falling into a bit of a heap.
Already lunch on day 5 and we are still on the first innings. Going to be a draw.
Do you know who wins the championship if it is a draw?
There is another day to go, they had one up the sleeve for this match.
I remember reading something about a drawn result and I cannot for the life of me remember what it was.
sibeen said:
party_pants said:
sibeen said:I’m going to have to agree with PP. :)
I do want these things built eventually… somewhere. There is another project trying to get off the ground in the NT too.
So do I, but I’ve seen many a scheme, and been asked to be involved in a few, where it is obvious the only motive is profit and the scheme’s “innovative founders” will mutter and cant whatever bullshit they can to get the government and investors on board. The engineering isn’t even close to a distant second, it couldn’t be sighted on the horizon.
Is that the building of the solar panels, or the undersea HVDC cable to get it to Asia?
sibeen said:
party_pants said:
sibeen said:
The Kiwis are falling into a bit of a heap.
Already lunch on day 5 and we are still on the first innings. Going to be a draw.
Do you know who wins the championship if it is a draw?
There is another day to go, they had one up the sleeve for this match.
I remember reading something about a drawn result and I cannot for the life of me remember what it was.
I looked it up. Joint winners if it is a draw or tie.
Bit of a fizzer.
The first geographical feature of Australia given a name by Europeans was Cape Keerweer (Keer weer meaning “turn back” in Dutch).
Charing Cross’s name comes from an old English word ceirring, meaning turning, in reference to a bend in the river.
Keer and Ceir are related.
sibeen said:
party_pants said:
sibeen said:
The Kiwis are falling into a bit of a heap.
Already lunch on day 5 and we are still on the first innings. Going to be a draw.
Do you know who wins the championship if it is a draw?
There is another day to go, they had one up the sleeve for this match.
I remember reading something about a drawn result and I cannot for the life of me remember what it was.
Shared trophy for a draw.
I think that’s a terrible idea.
dv said:
sibeen said:
party_pants said:Already lunch on day 5 and we are still on the first innings. Going to be a draw.
Do you know who wins the championship if it is a draw?
There is another day to go, they had one up the sleeve for this match.
I remember reading something about a drawn result and I cannot for the life of me remember what it was.
Shared trophy for a draw.
I think that’s a terrible idea.
It seems playing the match in England and hoping for a result is even worse.
party_pants said:
sibeen said:
party_pants said:I do want these things built eventually… somewhere. There is another project trying to get off the ground in the NT too.
So do I, but I’ve seen many a scheme, and been asked to be involved in a few, where it is obvious the only motive is profit and the scheme’s “innovative founders” will mutter and cant whatever bullshit they can to get the government and investors on board. The engineering isn’t even close to a distant second, it couldn’t be sighted on the horizon.
Is that the building of the solar panels, or the undersea HVDC cable to get it to Asia?
Oh, I never even really looked into that one. When it’s a two page website and they confuse power and energy then you know it’s chancers. Doesn’t mean that the project won’t get funding but the biggest winners will be those who stared at the start.
Nah, I’ve been asked to be involved in a couple. One last year was a molten salt boondoogle. I had a few zoom style meetings with the principles (sic) and quickly realised they were just trying to pick my and partners brain over how they could quickly enter the market with a battery storage system as an ‘interim’ solution whilst their R&D team cough sorted out a few minor details with the salt storage solution. They were trying to play the FCAS game which is where the money is and layer on top funding for R&D. Having a cake and just gorging on it is the plan.
It wasn’t the first, and I doubt it will be the last.
party_pants said:
dv said:
sibeen said:There is another day to go, they had one up the sleeve for this match.
I remember reading something about a drawn result and I cannot for the life of me remember what it was.
Shared trophy for a draw.
I think that’s a terrible idea.
It seems playing the match in England and hoping for a result is even worse.
They did give it six days. Perhaps it should have been an endless test.
last cup of tea and reckon i’m done with today
transition said:
last cup of tea and reckon i’m done with today
sounds fair. I might chuck it in early tonight too.
Another wicket.
sibeen said:
party_pants said:
sibeen said:So do I, but I’ve seen many a scheme, and been asked to be involved in a few, where it is obvious the only motive is profit and the scheme’s “innovative founders” will mutter and cant whatever bullshit they can to get the government and investors on board. The engineering isn’t even close to a distant second, it couldn’t be sighted on the horizon.
Is that the building of the solar panels, or the undersea HVDC cable to get it to Asia?
Oh, I never even really looked into that one. When it’s a two page website and they confuse power and energy then you know it’s chancers. Doesn’t mean that the project won’t get funding but the biggest winners will be those who stared at the start.
Nah, I’ve been asked to be involved in a couple. One last year was a molten salt boondoogle. I had a few zoom style meetings with the principles (sic) and quickly realised they were just trying to pick my and partners brain over how they could quickly enter the market with a battery storage system as an ‘interim’ solution whilst their R&D team cough sorted out a few minor details with the salt storage solution. They were trying to play the FCAS game which is where the money is and layer on top funding for R&D. Having a cake and just gorging on it is the plan.
It wasn’t the first, and I doubt it will be the last.
Solar energy exports from the Pilbara to Indonesia the focus of new WA Government-backed study
An ambitious energy export plan could see solar power generated in Western Australia’s north-west piped to Indonesia.
A report commissioned by the Pilbara Development Commission and authored by Australian and Indonesian researchers looked into the potential to export electricity generated by photovoltaic (PV) solar in the Pilbara to Asia.
The study found it was feasible to deliver energy generated from a Pilbara solar facility and send it via a high voltage direct current (HVDC) cable under the sea to Indonesia.
Project manager Geoff James said the aim was to deliver a pilot project which would involve the development of a three gigawatt solar farm and a subsea transmission cable by 2030.
Dr James said the solar technology existed now but plans for the subsea cable would need further investigation.
“Our proposition is that the solar industry should be scaled up right now so that when the link comes into existence it’s ready,” he said.
The pilot project could create up to 2,000 permanent jobs in the Pilbara region and more than 12,000 jobs across Western Australia.
Dr James said solar PV potential in the Pilbara was “absolutely massive” and Indonesia had a “massive growth target” for increased energy generation.
“ wants 80 gigawatts more capacity, which is much more than Australia’s entire generation capacity at the moment,” he said.
He said Indonesia wanted to incorporate renewable energy into its target.
The WA Minister for Regional Development, Alannah MacTiernan, launched the study on Tuesday.
She said the study established dialogue with Indonesia about WA’s capacity to export renewable energy.
Pilbara renewables could power Australia
Renewable energy generated in the Pilbara region could produce four times Australia’s total power needs, according to new research.
In his report The Pilbara Powerhouse, Australian National University research fellow Dr Matthew Stocks found that there was huge potential for renewable energy production in the region.
Dr Stocks said that if the existing grid, the North West Interconnected System (NWIS), was replaced by hydro, solar and wind power, the Pilbara region could make significant contributions to the National Electricity Market (NEM).
“The potential is massive,” he said.
Dr Stocks also conceded that “the costs would be massive” to initially transform the north-west’s energy system to renewables.
But he said the investment into new, clean technology would be well worth it.
“The thing about renewable energy is that you pay for 25 years of electricity up front. It’s very expensive capital, but then very, very low running cost,” he said.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2017-08-29/pilbara-renewable-energy-potential-to-power-indonesia/8853238
PermeateFree said:
sibeen said:
party_pants said:Is that the building of the solar panels, or the undersea HVDC cable to get it to Asia?
Oh, I never even really looked into that one. When it’s a two page website and they confuse power and energy then you know it’s chancers. Doesn’t mean that the project won’t get funding but the biggest winners will be those who stared at the start.
Nah, I’ve been asked to be involved in a couple. One last year was a molten salt boondoogle. I had a few zoom style meetings with the principles (sic) and quickly realised they were just trying to pick my and partners brain over how they could quickly enter the market with a battery storage system as an ‘interim’ solution whilst their R&D team cough sorted out a few minor details with the salt storage solution. They were trying to play the FCAS game which is where the money is and layer on top funding for R&D. Having a cake and just gorging on it is the plan.
It wasn’t the first, and I doubt it will be the last.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2017-08-29/pilbara-renewable-energy-potential-to-power-indonesia/8853238
Oh, gods, the one I was talking about was way more biggum. Wanted to p0wer Singapore. A fucking goldmine.
PermeateFree said:
sibeen said:
party_pants said:Is that the building of the solar panels, or the undersea HVDC cable to get it to Asia?
Oh, I never even really looked into that one. When it’s a two page website and they confuse power and energy then you know it’s chancers. Doesn’t mean that the project won’t get funding but the biggest winners will be those who stared at the start.
Nah, I’ve been asked to be involved in a couple. One last year was a molten salt boondoogle. I had a few zoom style meetings with the principles (sic) and quickly realised they were just trying to pick my and partners brain over how they could quickly enter the market with a battery storage system as an ‘interim’ solution whilst their R&D team cough sorted out a few minor details with the salt storage solution. They were trying to play the FCAS game which is where the money is and layer on top funding for R&D. Having a cake and just gorging on it is the plan.
It wasn’t the first, and I doubt it will be the last.
Solar energy exports from the Pilbara to Indonesia the focus of new WA Government-backed study
An ambitious energy export plan could see solar power generated in Western Australia’s north-west piped to Indonesia.
A report commissioned by the Pilbara Development Commission and authored by Australian and Indonesian researchers looked into the potential to export electricity generated by photovoltaic (PV) solar in the Pilbara to Asia.
The study found it was feasible to deliver energy generated from a Pilbara solar facility and send it via a high voltage direct current (HVDC) cable under the sea to Indonesia.
Project manager Geoff James said the aim was to deliver a pilot project which would involve the development of a three gigawatt solar farm and a subsea transmission cable by 2030.
Dr James said the solar technology existed now but plans for the subsea cable would need further investigation.
“Our proposition is that the solar industry should be scaled up right now so that when the link comes into existence it’s ready,” he said.
The pilot project could create up to 2,000 permanent jobs in the Pilbara region and more than 12,000 jobs across Western Australia.
Dr James said solar PV potential in the Pilbara was “absolutely massive” and Indonesia had a “massive growth target” for increased energy generation.
“ wants 80 gigawatts more capacity, which is much more than Australia’s entire generation capacity at the moment,” he said.
He said Indonesia wanted to incorporate renewable energy into its target.
The WA Minister for Regional Development, Alannah MacTiernan, launched the study on Tuesday.
She said the study established dialogue with Indonesia about WA’s capacity to export renewable energy.
Pilbara renewables could power Australia
Renewable energy generated in the Pilbara region could produce four times Australia’s total power needs, according to new research.In his report The Pilbara Powerhouse, Australian National University research fellow Dr Matthew Stocks found that there was huge potential for renewable energy production in the region.
Dr Stocks said that if the existing grid, the North West Interconnected System (NWIS), was replaced by hydro, solar and wind power, the Pilbara region could make significant contributions to the National Electricity Market (NEM).
“The potential is massive,” he said.
Dr Stocks also conceded that “the costs would be massive” to initially transform the north-west’s energy system to renewables.
But he said the investment into new, clean technology would be well worth it.
“The thing about renewable energy is that you pay for 25 years of electricity up front. It’s very expensive capital, but then very, very low running cost,” he said.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2017-08-29/pilbara-renewable-energy-potential-to-power-indonesia/8853238
A more likely reason for the rejection.
The government through the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources is reviewing the possibility to export electricity to Singapore. This is based on the electricity supply surplus experienced by PLN. With the penetration of power plants from the 35 GW project, and a decrease in domestic demand for electricity. Indonesia will experience a power supply surplus of around 40%. This numerous surplus of electricity supply occurred because of the mismatch of assumptions during project planning and preparation.
https://iesr.or.id/en/electricity-surplus-in-indonesia-can-it-be-exported
March 5, 2021
PermeateFree said:
PermeateFree said:
sibeen said:Oh, I never even really looked into that one. When it’s a two page website and they confuse power and energy then you know it’s chancers. Doesn’t mean that the project won’t get funding but the biggest winners will be those who stared at the start.
Nah, I’ve been asked to be involved in a couple. One last year was a molten salt boondoogle. I had a few zoom style meetings with the principles (sic) and quickly realised they were just trying to pick my and partners brain over how they could quickly enter the market with a battery storage system as an ‘interim’ solution whilst their R&D team cough sorted out a few minor details with the salt storage solution. They were trying to play the FCAS game which is where the money is and layer on top funding for R&D. Having a cake and just gorging on it is the plan.
It wasn’t the first, and I doubt it will be the last.
Solar energy exports from the Pilbara to Indonesia the focus of new WA Government-backed study
An ambitious energy export plan could see solar power generated in Western Australia’s north-west piped to Indonesia.
A report commissioned by the Pilbara Development Commission and authored by Australian and Indonesian researchers looked into the potential to export electricity generated by photovoltaic (PV) solar in the Pilbara to Asia.
The study found it was feasible to deliver energy generated from a Pilbara solar facility and send it via a high voltage direct current (HVDC) cable under the sea to Indonesia.
Project manager Geoff James said the aim was to deliver a pilot project which would involve the development of a three gigawatt solar farm and a subsea transmission cable by 2030.
Dr James said the solar technology existed now but plans for the subsea cable would need further investigation.
“Our proposition is that the solar industry should be scaled up right now so that when the link comes into existence it’s ready,” he said.
The pilot project could create up to 2,000 permanent jobs in the Pilbara region and more than 12,000 jobs across Western Australia.
Dr James said solar PV potential in the Pilbara was “absolutely massive” and Indonesia had a “massive growth target” for increased energy generation.
“ wants 80 gigawatts more capacity, which is much more than Australia’s entire generation capacity at the moment,” he said.
He said Indonesia wanted to incorporate renewable energy into its target.
The WA Minister for Regional Development, Alannah MacTiernan, launched the study on Tuesday.
She said the study established dialogue with Indonesia about WA’s capacity to export renewable energy.
Pilbara renewables could power Australia
Renewable energy generated in the Pilbara region could produce four times Australia’s total power needs, according to new research.In his report The Pilbara Powerhouse, Australian National University research fellow Dr Matthew Stocks found that there was huge potential for renewable energy production in the region.
Dr Stocks said that if the existing grid, the North West Interconnected System (NWIS), was replaced by hydro, solar and wind power, the Pilbara region could make significant contributions to the National Electricity Market (NEM).
“The potential is massive,” he said.
Dr Stocks also conceded that “the costs would be massive” to initially transform the north-west’s energy system to renewables.
But he said the investment into new, clean technology would be well worth it.
“The thing about renewable energy is that you pay for 25 years of electricity up front. It’s very expensive capital, but then very, very low running cost,” he said.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2017-08-29/pilbara-renewable-energy-potential-to-power-indonesia/8853238
A more likely reason for the rejection.
The government through the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources is reviewing the possibility to export electricity to Singapore. This is based on the electricity supply surplus experienced by PLN. With the penetration of power plants from the 35 GW project, and a decrease in domestic demand for electricity. Indonesia will experience a power supply surplus of around 40%. This numerous surplus of electricity supply occurred because of the mismatch of assumptions during project planning and preparation.
https://iesr.or.id/en/electricity-surplus-in-indonesia-can-it-be-exported
March 5, 2021
Thanks for that link, PF. Although the power vs energy thing seems to be too high a hurdle for even journalists who are reporting in the area.
I can certainly see Indonesia giving an undersea cable right of way through their archipelago to Singapore, especially when they may have excess energy.
https://www.facebook.com/abchobart/videos/1002250753910794
For millennia, Maria Island off Tasmania’s east coast was a predator-free haven for ground-nesting and flightless birds such as the Tasmanian native hen, shear waters, Cape Barren geese and the little penguin.
Key points:
That was until 2012, when during the height of crisis seeing a facial tumour disease decimating the Tasmanian devil population, 28 devils were brought onto the island as an insurance population.
In the years since, the have devils thrived — to the point there are now up to 90 devils living on Maria.
But experts say that success has come at the expense of local birds.
“Before the devils were released, the estimate was around about 3,000 pairs of little penguins lived on Maria Island,” BirdLife Tasmania’s Eric Woehler said.
“A survey was conducted by Parks and Wildlife staff about 18 months ago … and they found that all of the penguin colonies on Maria Island were empty.
“There were no penguins left on Maria Island.”
Little penguins on an unidentified beach in Tasmania.
Little penguins are the smallest of all the penguin species.(
BirdLife Tasmania: Eric Woehler)
BirdLife Tasmania and several other conservation groups warned the Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment (DPIPWE) before the 2012 introduction that this would be the outcome.
“For the last 500 or more years, every time we’ve seen a deliberate or accidental introduction of a predator onto an oceanic island, the result has been the same: a catastrophic impact on one or more species of bird,” Dr Woehler said.
“We suggested that the outcome of this particular introduction on Maria would follow what has been seen without fail everywhere else in the world, and sadly we were right.”
Cape Barren goose and chick.
Maria Island is also home to Cape Barren geese.(
BirdLife Tasmania: Eric Woehler)
A spokesperson for DPIPWE said Maria Island remained an important part of the Save the Devil Program (STDP) to restore the wild devil population in Tasmania.
Two images of Tasmanian devils, one healthy devil and another devil with facial tumour disease.
A healthy Tasmanian devil, and one with facial tumour disease.(
Supplied: Save the Tasmanian Devil Program)
“The devil population is currently managed to achieve a population-size range of between 60 to 90 individuals to reduce impacts to island ecology,” the spokesperson said.
“All effective conservation programs are adaptive and the STDP will continue to evolve in line with new knowledge in science and emerging priorities.”But Dr Woehler said efforts to reduce the program’s impact on Maria Island’s ecology had clearly failed.
He called on the DPIPWE to act quickly to give the little penguins a chance to return to the island, which had been a rare, safe breeding spot away from feral dogs and cats.
“Losing 3,000 pairs of penguins from a national park on an island that should act as a refuge for the species is clearly a catastrophic impact,” Dr Woehler said.
“One could only hope the devils are removed as quickly as possible.”
A healthy Tasmanian devil calmly looks out over a rock
Devils on mainland Tasmania are still under threat from the highly contagious form of cancer.(
Damien Larkins: ABC Local)
While the devil population in Tasmania has stabilised in recent years thanks to breeding programs and new research into the deadly facial tumour disease, experts warn the species is not out of the woods yet.
Bruce Lyons, an expert in Tasmanian devil facial tumour disease, argued that to remove a successful insurance population now would be premature.
“There’s a second tumour that’s arisen … and the effects of that, we really don’t know what will happen,” Dr Lyons said.
“At this stage it would be prudent to keep them where they are.”https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-22/tasmanian-devils-decimate-wildlife-on-maria-island/100234550
sarahs mum said:
For millennia, Maria Island off Tasmania’s east coast was a predator-free haven for ground-nesting and flightless birds such as the Tasmanian native hen, shear waters, Cape Barren geese and the little penguin.
Key points: Devil numbers in many areas of Tasmania have been severely impacted by a highly aggressive facial tumour disease A small group of healthy devils were taken to Maria Island as an insurance population The transported marsupials have thrived, but are now threatening other speciesThat was until 2012, when during the height of crisis seeing a facial tumour disease decimating the Tasmanian devil population, 28 devils were brought onto the island as an insurance population.
In the years since, the have devils thrived — to the point there are now up to 90 devils living on Maria.
But experts say that success has come at the expense of local birds.
“Before the devils were released, the estimate was around about 3,000 pairs of little penguins lived on Maria Island,” BirdLife Tasmania’s Eric Woehler said.
“A survey was conducted by Parks and Wildlife staff about 18 months ago … and they found that all of the penguin colonies on Maria Island were empty.
“There were no penguins left on Maria Island.”
Little penguins on an unidentified beach in Tasmania.
Little penguins are the smallest of all the penguin species.(BirdLife Tasmania: Eric Woehler)
BirdLife Tasmania and several other conservation groups warned the Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment (DPIPWE) before the 2012 introduction that this would be the outcome.
“For the last 500 or more years, every time we’ve seen a deliberate or accidental introduction of a predator onto an oceanic island, the result has been the same: a catastrophic impact on one or more species of bird,” Dr Woehler said.
“We suggested that the outcome of this particular introduction on Maria would follow what has been seen without fail everywhere else in the world, and sadly we were right.”
Cape Barren goose and chick.
Maria Island is also home to Cape Barren geese.(BirdLife Tasmania: Eric Woehler)
A spokesperson for DPIPWE said Maria Island remained an important part of the Save the Devil Program (STDP) to restore the wild devil population in Tasmania.
Two images of Tasmanian devils, one healthy devil and another devil with facial tumour disease.
A healthy Tasmanian devil, and one with facial tumour disease.(Supplied: Save the Tasmanian Devil Program)
“The devil population is currently managed to achieve a population-size range of between 60 to 90 individuals to reduce impacts to island ecology,” the spokesperson said.
“All effective conservation programs are adaptive and the STDP will continue to evolve in line with new knowledge in science and emerging priorities.”But Dr Woehler said efforts to reduce the program’s impact on Maria Island’s ecology had clearly failed.
He called on the DPIPWE to act quickly to give the little penguins a chance to return to the island, which had been a rare, safe breeding spot away from feral dogs and cats.
“Losing 3,000 pairs of penguins from a national park on an island that should act as a refuge for the species is clearly a catastrophic impact,” Dr Woehler said.
“One could only hope the devils are removed as quickly as possible.”
A healthy Tasmanian devil calmly looks out over a rock
Devils on mainland Tasmania are still under threat from the highly contagious form of cancer.(Damien Larkins: ABC Local)
While the devil population in Tasmania has stabilised in recent years thanks to breeding programs and new research into the deadly facial tumour disease, experts warn the species is not out of the woods yet.
Bruce Lyons, an expert in Tasmanian devil facial tumour disease, argued that to remove a successful insurance population now would be premature.
“There’s a second tumour that’s arisen … and the effects of that, we really don’t know what will happen,” Dr Lyons said.
“At this stage it would be prudent to keep them where they are.”https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-22/tasmanian-devils-decimate-wildlife-on-maria-island/100234550
Think Bruce Lyons is more interested in the medical side rather than the welfare of other animals on the island.
Dr Bruce Lyons, a senior lecturer in Immunology in the UTAS School of Medicine, is a leader of the group that is working on a vaccine to protect Tasmanian devils from this almost invariably-fatal cancer. The team has been able to produce in the laboratory an immune response in devils to DFTD, and also found that the devil’s immune system can, in certain circumstances, eradicate the tumours. The next step is to ‘connect the dots’ to hopefully produce a single-shot vaccine.
https://www.utas.edu.au/profiles/staff/health/bruce-lyons
Who has the most vandalized star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame?
Apparently the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce is tired of paying for the repairs!
A decision has been made
Following these numerous acts of vandalism in the last 11 years, the West Hollywood City Council has passed a resolution to remove Trump’s Walk of Fame star.
PermeateFree said:
sarahs mum said:
For millennia, Maria Island off Tasmania’s east coast was a predator-free haven for ground-nesting and flightless birds such as the Tasmanian native hen, shear waters, Cape Barren geese and the little penguin.
Key points: Devil numbers in many areas of Tasmania have been severely impacted by a highly aggressive facial tumour disease A small group of healthy devils were taken to Maria Island as an insurance population The transported marsupials have thrived, but are now threatening other speciesThat was until 2012, when during the height of crisis seeing a facial tumour disease decimating the Tasmanian devil population, 28 devils were brought onto the island as an insurance population.
In the years since, the have devils thrived — to the point there are now up to 90 devils living on Maria.
But experts say that success has come at the expense of local birds.
“Before the devils were released, the estimate was around about 3,000 pairs of little penguins lived on Maria Island,” BirdLife Tasmania’s Eric Woehler said.
“A survey was conducted by Parks and Wildlife staff about 18 months ago … and they found that all of the penguin colonies on Maria Island were empty.
“There were no penguins left on Maria Island.”
Little penguins on an unidentified beach in Tasmania.
Little penguins are the smallest of all the penguin species.(BirdLife Tasmania: Eric Woehler)
BirdLife Tasmania and several other conservation groups warned the Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment (DPIPWE) before the 2012 introduction that this would be the outcome.
“For the last 500 or more years, every time we’ve seen a deliberate or accidental introduction of a predator onto an oceanic island, the result has been the same: a catastrophic impact on one or more species of bird,” Dr Woehler said.
“We suggested that the outcome of this particular introduction on Maria would follow what has been seen without fail everywhere else in the world, and sadly we were right.”
Cape Barren goose and chick.
Maria Island is also home to Cape Barren geese.(BirdLife Tasmania: Eric Woehler)
A spokesperson for DPIPWE said Maria Island remained an important part of the Save the Devil Program (STDP) to restore the wild devil population in Tasmania.
Two images of Tasmanian devils, one healthy devil and another devil with facial tumour disease.
A healthy Tasmanian devil, and one with facial tumour disease.(Supplied: Save the Tasmanian Devil Program)
“The devil population is currently managed to achieve a population-size range of between 60 to 90 individuals to reduce impacts to island ecology,” the spokesperson said.
“All effective conservation programs are adaptive and the STDP will continue to evolve in line with new knowledge in science and emerging priorities.”But Dr Woehler said efforts to reduce the program’s impact on Maria Island’s ecology had clearly failed.
He called on the DPIPWE to act quickly to give the little penguins a chance to return to the island, which had been a rare, safe breeding spot away from feral dogs and cats.
“Losing 3,000 pairs of penguins from a national park on an island that should act as a refuge for the species is clearly a catastrophic impact,” Dr Woehler said.
“One could only hope the devils are removed as quickly as possible.”
A healthy Tasmanian devil calmly looks out over a rock
Devils on mainland Tasmania are still under threat from the highly contagious form of cancer.(Damien Larkins: ABC Local)
While the devil population in Tasmania has stabilised in recent years thanks to breeding programs and new research into the deadly facial tumour disease, experts warn the species is not out of the woods yet.
Bruce Lyons, an expert in Tasmanian devil facial tumour disease, argued that to remove a successful insurance population now would be premature.
“There’s a second tumour that’s arisen … and the effects of that, we really don’t know what will happen,” Dr Lyons said.
“At this stage it would be prudent to keep them where they are.”https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-22/tasmanian-devils-decimate-wildlife-on-maria-island/100234550
Think Bruce Lyons is more interested in the medical side rather than the welfare of other animals on the island.
Dr Bruce Lyons, a senior lecturer in Immunology in the UTAS School of Medicine, is a leader of the group that is working on a vaccine to protect Tasmanian devils from this almost invariably-fatal cancer. The team has been able to produce in the laboratory an immune response in devils to DFTD, and also found that the devil’s immune system can, in certain circumstances, eradicate the tumours. The next step is to ‘connect the dots’ to hopefully produce a single-shot vaccine.
https://www.utas.edu.au/profiles/staff/health/bruce-lyons
He doesn’t seem to give a shit about little penguins.
PermeateFree said:
Who has the most vandalized star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame?
Apparently the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce is tired of paying for the repairs!
A decision has been made
Following these numerous acts of vandalism in the last 11 years, the West Hollywood City Council has passed a resolution to remove Trump’s Walk of Fame star.
good,
Mr Joyce is expected to take a tougher stance against China after earlier in the year describing the country’s rise as a bigger future issue than climate change.
Barnaby’s first utterance since becoming leader of the Nats.
PermeateFree said:
Mr Joyce is expected to take a tougher stance against China after earlier in the year describing the country’s rise as a bigger future issue than climate change.Barnaby’s first utterance since becoming leader of the Nats.
Yes for sure he’s going to be the best help with China. Tongue stuck firmly in cheek.
PermeateFree said:
Who has the most vandalized star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame?
Apparently the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce is tired of paying for the repairs!
A decision has been made
Following these numerous acts of vandalism in the last 11 years, the West Hollywood City Council has passed a resolution to remove Trump’s Walk of Fame star.
What a most sensible decision.
Priorities.
“A former Gold Coast police officer, who is accused of snorting cocaine off a stripper’s breasts at a party, has embarked on a porn career.”
Good morning Holidayers. Eight degrees this morning and gentle drizzle happening. I heard a heavier shower around 5.30am. Our forecast for today is for 13, with showers. We might manage about 20mm over the next 5 days.
buffy said:
Good morning Holidayers. Eight degrees this morning and gentle drizzle happening. I heard a heavier shower around 5.30am. Our forecast for today is for 13, with showers. We might manage about 20mm over the next 5 days.
Morning. Rain isn’t here yet. Temp is currently 12 degrees.
roughbarked said:
buffy said:
Good morning Holidayers. Eight degrees this morning and gentle drizzle happening. I heard a heavier shower around 5.30am. Our forecast for today is for 13, with showers. We might manage about 20mm over the next 5 days.Morning. Rain isn’t here yet. Temp is currently 12 degrees.
Morning, day off today. Cloudy and cool in the Styx. Woke with epistaxis this morning, I think the ac is drying the air and my mucous membranes. More annoying, didn’t even get to pick it before it bled…
poikilotherm said:
Morning, day off today. Cloudy and cool in the Styx. Woke with epistaxis this morning, I think the ac is drying the air and my mucous membranes. More annoying, didn’t even get to pick it before it bled…
AC and yourself aren’t getting along well by the looks.
en eustreluen hes cerrued Covud eccross the dutch to en zud.
poikilotherm said:
Morning, day off today. Cloudy and cool in the Styx. Woke with epistaxis this morning, I think the ac is drying the air and my mucous membranes. More annoying, didn’t even get to pick it before it bled…
LOL.
Michael V said:
poikilotherm said:
Morning, day off today. Cloudy and cool in the Styx. Woke with epistaxis this morning, I think the ac is drying the air and my mucous membranes. More annoying, didn’t even get to pick it before it bled…
LOL.
petrolatum
roughbarked said:
PermeateFree said:
Who has the most vandalized star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame?
Apparently the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce is tired of paying for the repairs!
A decision has been made
Following these numerous acts of vandalism in the last 11 years, the West Hollywood City Council has passed a resolution to remove Trump’s Walk of Fame star.What a most sensible decision.
Probably got tired of removing poo from it.
roughbarked said:
Priorities.“A former Gold Coast police officer, who is accused of snorting cocaine off a stripper’s breasts at a party, has embarked on a porn career.”
Sounds like a good move for both the porn industry and the policing industry.
Morning punters and correctors.
Hump day they say, could mean anything.
The Rev Dodgson said:
roughbarked said:
Priorities.“A former Gold Coast police officer, who is accused of snorting cocaine off a stripper’s breasts at a party, has embarked on a porn career.”
Sounds like a good move for both the porn industry and the policing industry.
The former police officer and his stripper girlfiend have been making five figure sums per day, if they are to be believed.
Peak Warming Man said:
Morning punters and correctors.
Hump day they say, could mean anything.
a bump in the road and the beginning of the WTF part of the week.
Peak Warming Man said:
Morning punters and correctors.
Hump day they say, could mean anything.
Specially if you are a Dromedary.
UNESCO seems to be attempting to flex its muscle. UNESCO calls on Tasmania to pause development in Wilderness World Heritage Areas
I’m back. I’ve been doing short stretches and weights routines and then I decided to do some tap dancing. This involved driving my car out of the Big Shed and quickly washing it down so the rain can rinse it off. Then sweeping the concrete of the gravel that the cars take in there. Then I could dance. I haven’t done it for a while. I only did practising of various steps. I have forgotten the couple of routines I had worked out because I stopped doing them. I suspect my calf muscles may complain a bit tomorrow.
Mr buffy just phoned from Hamilton. He tells me the GP I have been seeing has just had a couple of stents done. So I guess I’ll have to see one of the others in July when I’m to do the thyroid blood tests again. And inform yet someone else that no, I am not taking the BP medication that is on my record because I took it back and said I couldn’t manage the side effects. I think S (the original doctor) forgot to write that on the record, because J (the latest one) mentioned that I was taking it and I had to disillusion him.
roughbarked said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
roughbarked said:
Priorities.“A former Gold Coast police officer, who is accused of snorting cocaine off a stripper’s breasts at a party, has embarked on a porn career.”
Sounds like a good move for both the porn industry and the policing industry.
The former police officer and his stripper girlfiend have been making five figure sums per day, if they are to be believed.
roughbarked said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
roughbarked said:
Priorities.“A former Gold Coast police officer, who is accused of snorting cocaine off a stripper’s breasts at a party, has embarked on a porn career.”
Sounds like a good move for both the porn industry and the policing industry.
The former police officer and his stripper girlfiend have been making five figure sums per day, if they are to be believed.
People pay to watch porn?
I wonder why.
Tamb said:
roughbarked said:
The Rev Dodgson said:Sounds like a good move for both the porn industry and the policing industry.
The former police officer and his stripper girlfiend have been making five figure sums per day, if they are to be believed.
$100.00 is a 5 figure sum.
Ah, now that seems a more reasonable return on investment.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/school-asked-boys-to-use-rating-system-on-girls-female-students-taught-to-keep-virginity-20210622-p58358.html
The Rev Dodgson said:
roughbarked said:
The Rev Dodgson said:Sounds like a good move for both the porn industry and the policing industry.
The former police officer and his stripper girlfiend have been making five figure sums per day, if they are to be believed.
People pay to watch porn?
I wonder why.
Plenty of free stuff.
roughbarked said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Morning punters and correctors.
Hump day they say, could mean anything.
a bump in the road and the beginning of the WTF part of the week.
Ha!
ChrispenEvan said:
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/school-asked-boys-to-use-rating-system-on-girls-female-students-taught-to-keep-virginity-20210622-p58358.html
“complex issues of consent “ this is not a complex issue. ffs
Arts said:
ChrispenEvan said:“complex issues of consent “ this is not a complex issue. ffs
Surely it is when religion is part of it.
ChrispenEvan said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
roughbarked said:The former police officer and his stripper girlfiend have been making five figure sums per day, if they are to be believed.
People pay to watch porn?
I wonder why.
Plenty of free stuff.
So I have been told :)
Arts said:
ChrispenEvan said:
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/school-asked-boys-to-use-rating-system-on-girls-female-students-taught-to-keep-virginity-20210622-p58358.html
“complex issues of consent “ this is not a complex issue. ffs
Yes and no are rather black and white.
Arts said:
ChrispenEvan said:
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/school-asked-boys-to-use-rating-system-on-girls-female-students-taught-to-keep-virginity-20210622-p58358.html
“complex issues of consent “ this is not a complex issue. ffs
“The year 10 male students at co-ed St Luke’s Grammar School were separated from the female students for the Christian studies exercise.”
“Christian Studies exercise”?
Seriously?
The Rev Dodgson said:
Arts said:
ChrispenEvan said:
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/school-asked-boys-to-use-rating-system-on-girls-female-students-taught-to-keep-virginity-20210622-p58358.html
“complex issues of consent “ this is not a complex issue. ffs
“The year 10 male students at co-ed St Luke’s Grammar School were separated from the female students for the Christian studies exercise.”
“Christian Studies exercise”?
Seriously?
Apparently they were serious. At least the Cristian Studies Tutor was.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Arts said:
ChrispenEvan said:
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/school-asked-boys-to-use-rating-system-on-girls-female-students-taught-to-keep-virginity-20210622-p58358.html
“complex issues of consent “ this is not a complex issue. ffs
“The year 10 male students at co-ed St Luke’s Grammar School were separated from the female students for the Christian studies exercise.”
“Christian Studies exercise”?
Seriously?
Yes, the clue could be in the schools name.
roughbarked said:
Arts said:
ChrispenEvan said:
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/school-asked-boys-to-use-rating-system-on-girls-female-students-taught-to-keep-virginity-20210622-p58358.html
“complex issues of consent “ this is not a complex issue. ffs
Yes and no are rather black and white.
Apparently this: the complex issues of consent and toxic masculinity and contrasting the negative images portrayed in society with god’s plan for strong, healthy relationships where people respect each other as equals.
Arts said:
ChrispenEvan said:
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/school-asked-boys-to-use-rating-system-on-girls-female-students-taught-to-keep-virginity-20210622-p58358.html
“complex issues of consent “ this is not a complex issue. ffs
you read the article and wonder how the fuck this can happen in this day and age, and get taxpayer money to help it happen.
Peak Warming Man said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Arts said:“complex issues of consent “ this is not a complex issue. ffs
“The year 10 male students at co-ed St Luke’s Grammar School were separated from the female students for the Christian studies exercise.”
“Christian Studies exercise”?
Seriously?
Yes, the clue could be in the schools name.
It is all part of the indocrination.
ChrispenEvan said:
Arts said:
ChrispenEvan said:
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/school-asked-boys-to-use-rating-system-on-girls-female-students-taught-to-keep-virginity-20210622-p58358.html
“complex issues of consent “ this is not a complex issue. ffs
you read the article and wonder how the fuck this can happen in this day and age, and get taxpayer money to help it happen.
This day and age seems to be of little interest to so many.
Peak Warming Man said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Arts said:“complex issues of consent “ this is not a complex issue. ffs
“The year 10 male students at co-ed St Luke’s Grammar School were separated from the female students for the Christian studies exercise.”
“Christian Studies exercise”?
Seriously?
Yes, the clue could be in the schools name.
I’m not saying a “Christian school” should not have “Christian studies”, that’s another issue.
I am saying that they shouldn’t have even thought about including that sort of discussion under the heading of “Christian studies”.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Arts said:
ChrispenEvan said:
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/school-asked-boys-to-use-rating-system-on-girls-female-students-taught-to-keep-virginity-20210622-p58358.html
“complex issues of consent “ this is not a complex issue. ffs
“The year 10 male students at co-ed St Luke’s Grammar School were separated from the female students for the Christian studies exercise.”
“Christian Studies exercise”?
Seriously?
There wasn’t room in the science curriculum, it was full of Creation. There probably isn’t still a subject called Social Studies like there was when I was at school.
The Rev Dodgson said:
ChrispenEvan said:The Rev Dodgson said:People pay to watch porn?
I wonder why.
Plenty of free stuff.
So I have been told :)
SCIENCE said:
The Rev Dodgson said:ChrispenEvan said:Plenty of free stuff.
So I have been told :)
What’s the magnification in that? Are they pili?
btm said:
SCIENCE said:
The Rev Dodgson said:So I have been told :)
What’s the magnification in that? Are they pili?
this version has a scaling indicator but yes
SCIENCE said:
btm said:
SCIENCE said:
What’s the magnification in that? Are they pili?
this version has a scaling indicator but yes
Shocking stuff.
Fibonacci clock:
ChrispenEvan said:
Arts said:
ChrispenEvan said:
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/school-asked-boys-to-use-rating-system-on-girls-female-students-taught-to-keep-virginity-20210622-p58358.html
“complex issues of consent “ this is not a complex issue. ffs
you read the article and wonder how the fuck this can happen in this day and age, and get taxpayer money to help it happen.
I am gobsmacked that “a member of the Anglican clergy” is still teaching…
Arts said:
ChrispenEvan said:
Arts said:“complex issues of consent “ this is not a complex issue. ffs
you read the article and wonder how the fuck this can happen in this day and age, and get taxpayer money to help it happen.
I am gobsmacked that “a member of the Anglican clergy” is still teaching…
Only teaching Christian Studies.
buffy said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Arts said:“complex issues of consent “ this is not a complex issue. ffs
“The year 10 male students at co-ed St Luke’s Grammar School were separated from the female students for the Christian studies exercise.”
“Christian Studies exercise”?
Seriously?
There wasn’t room in the science curriculum, it was full of Creation. There probably isn’t still a subject called Social Studies like there was when I was at school.
thy call what we knew as social studies HASS. now. even in public school Humanities and social sciences… Of course my social studies was things like geography, economics, earth studies. etc..
not actual studies on how to be prosocial
SCIENCE said:
The Rev Dodgson said:ChrispenEvan said:Plenty of free stuff.
So I have been told :)
go post your filth elsewhere.
roughbarked said:
Fibonacci clock:
Very clever.
roughbarked said:
Fibonacci clock:
https://www.myminifactory.com/object/3d-print-fibonacci-spiral-clock-108816
Hello
roughbarked said:
Fibonacci clock:
I hate that I love that
roughbarked said:
Fibonacci clock:
Hasn’t that been posted here before?
I’ve certainly seen it recently before today.
Arts said:
buffy said:
The Rev Dodgson said:“The year 10 male students at co-ed St Luke’s Grammar School were separated from the female students for the Christian studies exercise.”
“Christian Studies exercise”?
Seriously?
There wasn’t room in the science curriculum, it was full of Creation. There probably isn’t still a subject called Social Studies like there was when I was at school.
thy call what we knew as social studies HASS. now. even in public school Humanities and social sciences… Of course my social studies was things like geography, economics, earth studies. etc..
not actual studies on how to be prosocial
Yeah we had social studies in primary school and it was about geography and history and stuff.
roughbarked said:
SCIENCE said:
btm said:What’s the magnification in that? Are they pili?
this version has a scaling indicator but yes
Shocking stuff.
Birds do it, bees do it
Even flagellated pili do it
Let’s do it, let’s fall in love
Arts said:
buffy said:
The Rev Dodgson said:“The year 10 male students at co-ed St Luke’s Grammar School were separated from the female students for the Christian studies exercise.”
“Christian Studies exercise”?
Seriously?
There wasn’t room in the science curriculum, it was full of Creation. There probably isn’t still a subject called Social Studies like there was when I was at school.
thy call what we knew as social studies HASS. now. even in public school Humanities and social sciences… Of course my social studies was things like geography, economics, earth studies. etc..
not actual studies on how to be prosocial
You social? That’s a lot of swotting!
Witty Rejoinder said:
roughbarked said:
SCIENCE said:this version has a scaling indicator but yes
Shocking stuff.
Birds do it, bees do it
Even flagellated pili do it
Let’s do it, let’s fall in love
can you get any cilia?
ChrispenEvan said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
roughbarked said:Shocking stuff.
Birds do it, bees do it
Even flagellated pili do it
Let’s do it, let’s fall in love
can you get any cilia?
Witty Rejoinder said:
Arts said:
buffy said:There wasn’t room in the science curriculum, it was full of Creation. There probably isn’t still a subject called Social Studies like there was when I was at school.
thy call what we knew as social studies HASS. now. even in public school Humanities and social sciences… Of course my social studies was things like geography, economics, earth studies. etc..
not actual studies on how to be prosocial
You social? That’s a lot of swotting!
I don’t think many of us would be great socialisers (myself especially)
Peak Warming Man said:
Arts said:
buffy said:There wasn’t room in the science curriculum, it was full of Creation. There probably isn’t still a subject called Social Studies like there was when I was at school.
thy call what we knew as social studies HASS. now. even in public school Humanities and social sciences… Of course my social studies was things like geography, economics, earth studies. etc..
not actual studies on how to be prosocial
Yeah we had social studies in primary school and it was about geography and history and stuff.
Must be an OZ thing.
We didn’t have social studies in England.
We did get some special lessons from the headmaster when we were about 14 (IIRC), who told us that every sperm was sacred, and was not to be wasted.
No detail about how the sperm and ovum actually get together, but luckily we’d had a woman biology teacher (the only female teacher in the school), who had told us all that stuff the year before.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Arts said:thy call what we knew as social studies HASS. now. even in public school Humanities and social sciences… Of course my social studies was things like geography, economics, earth studies. etc..
not actual studies on how to be prosocial
Yeah we had social studies in primary school and it was about geography and history and stuff.
Must be an OZ thing.
We didn’t have social studies in England.
We did get some special lessons from the headmaster when we were about 14 (IIRC), who told us that every sperm was sacred, and was not to be wasted.
No detail about how the sperm and ovum actually get together, but luckily we’d had a woman biology teacher (the only female teacher in the school), who had told us all that stuff the year before.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Arts said:thy call what we knew as social studies HASS. now. even in public school Humanities and social sciences… Of course my social studies was things like geography, economics, earth studies. etc..
not actual studies on how to be prosocial
Yeah we had social studies in primary school and it was about geography and history and stuff.
Must be an OZ thing.
We didn’t have social studies in England.
We did get some special lessons from the headmaster when we were about 14 (IIRC), who told us that every sperm was sacred, and was not to be wasted.
No detail about how the sperm and ovum actually get together, but luckily we’d had a woman biology teacher (the only female teacher in the school), who had told us all that stuff the year before.
that’s under the banner of Health Ed.. not social studies.. health ed you get taught sex education and all the socialisation stuff…
Arts said:
SCIENCE said:
The Rev Dodgson said:So I have been told :)
go post your filth elsewhere.
The Rev Dodgson said:
roughbarked said:
Fibonacci clock:
Hasn’t that been posted here before?
I’ve certainly seen it recently before today.
Probably by me.
Witty Rejoinder said:
roughbarked said:
SCIENCE said:this version has a scaling indicator but yes
Shocking stuff.
Birds do it, bees do it
Even flagellated pili do it
Let’s do it, let’s fall in love
and if you can’t be with the one you love, love the one you’re with.
roughbarked said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
roughbarked said:
Fibonacci clock:
Hasn’t that been posted here before?
I’ve certainly seen it recently before today.
Probably by me.
Actually sometime not long after Thursday, 17 June 2021 at 5:09 pm.
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:
The Rev Dodgson said:Hasn’t that been posted here before?
I’ve certainly seen it recently before today.
Probably by me.
Actually sometime not long after Thursday, 17 June 2021 at 5:09 pm.
now build one using clothoids
ChrispenEvan said:
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/school-asked-boys-to-use-rating-system-on-girls-female-students-taught-to-keep-virginity-20210622-p58358.html
That’s pretty fucked up
Ian said:
ChrispenEvan said:
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/school-asked-boys-to-use-rating-system-on-girls-female-students-taught-to-keep-virginity-20210622-p58358.html
That’s pretty fucked up
..even by Anglican school standards, innit?
Ian said:
ChrispenEvan said:
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/school-asked-boys-to-use-rating-system-on-girls-female-students-taught-to-keep-virginity-20210622-p58358.html
That’s pretty fucked up
Isn’t that why they become clergy?
Ian said:
Ian said:
ChrispenEvan said:
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/school-asked-boys-to-use-rating-system-on-girls-female-students-taught-to-keep-virginity-20210622-p58358.html
That’s pretty fucked up
..even by Anglican school standards, innit?
Parents should be aware of what they are putting their children into.
please de elect our religious overlords and move towards STEMocracy as soon as possible
SCIENCE said:
please de elect our religious overlords and move towards STEMocracy as soon as possible
But what do we know of the religious leanings of the group who would replace our religious overlords, if they were de-elected?
Ian said:
ChrispenEvan said:
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/school-asked-boys-to-use-rating-system-on-girls-female-students-taught-to-keep-virginity-20210622-p58358.html
That’s pretty fucked up
Competition for Facebook
The Rev Dodgson said:
SCIENCE said:
please de elect our religious overlords and move towards STEMocracy as soon as possible
But what do we know of the religious leanings of the group who would replace our religious overlords, if they were de-elected?
Mostly because of habitual leaning to what they deem is right, they heel starboard.
Got my appointment for a lung function test.
4:00pm though c’mon it’s when I finish work so can’t make use of a day off to go
The Rev Dodgson said:
SCIENCE said:
please de elect our religious overlords and move towards STEMocracy as soon as possible
But what do we know of the religious leanings of the group who would replace our religious overlords, if they were de-elected?
Well there is this:
Anthony Albanese objects to idea God
“Opposition leader says he is not commenting on the prime minister’s faith but believes in a separation between church and state”
roughbarked said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
SCIENCE said:
please de elect our religious overlords and move towards STEMocracy as soon as possible
But what do we know of the religious leanings of the group who would replace our religious overlords, if they were de-elected?
Mostly because of habitual leaning to what they deem is right, they heel starboard.
Heeling starboard has nothing to do with religion though.
roughbarked said:
The Rev Dodgson said:SCIENCE said:please de elect our religious overlords and move towards STEMocracy as soon as possible
But what do we know of the religious leanings of the group who would replace our religious overlords, if they were de-elected?
Mostly because of habitual leaning to what they deem is right, they heel starboard.
STEMocratically speaking, they should lean away from that shit
The Rev Dodgson said:
roughbarked said:
The Rev Dodgson said:But what do we know of the religious leanings of the group who would replace our religious overlords, if they were de-elected?
Mostly because of habitual leaning to what they deem is right, they heel starboard.
Heeling starboard has nothing to do with religion though.
:) Playing with words.
The Rev Dodgson said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
SCIENCE said:
please de elect our religious overlords and move towards STEMocracy as soon as possible
But what do we know of the religious leanings of the group who would replace our religious overlords, if they were de-elected?
Well there is this:
Anthony Albanese objects to idea God“Opposition leader says he is not commenting on the prime minister’s faith but believes in a separation between church and state”
That should be a given shouldn’t it
SCIENCE said:
roughbarked said:The Rev Dodgson said:But what do we know of the religious leanings of the group who would replace our religious overlords, if they were de-elected?
Mostly because of habitual leaning to what they deem is right, they heel starboard.
STEMocratically speaking, they should lean away from that shit
Heartily agree. I survived two forty minute periods of Christian studies every day by keeping that thought uppermost.
roughbarked said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
roughbarked said:Mostly because of habitual leaning to what they deem is right, they heel starboard.
Heeling starboard has nothing to do with religion though.
:) Playing with words.
Words are not to be played with sir.
Cymek said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
The Rev Dodgson said:But what do we know of the religious leanings of the group who would replace our religious overlords, if they were de-elected?
Well there is this:
Anthony Albanese objects to idea God“Opposition leader says he is not commenting on the prime minister’s faith but believes in a separation between church and state”
That should be a given shouldn’t it
Well yes
In theory
Cymek said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
The Rev Dodgson said:But what do we know of the religious leanings of the group who would replace our religious overlords, if they were de-elected?
Well there is this:
Anthony Albanese objects to idea God“Opposition leader says he is not commenting on the prime minister’s faith but believes in a separation between church and state”
That should be a given shouldn’t it
Considering that we are in Australia, not Iran, then yes.
The Rev Dodgson said:
roughbarked said:
The Rev Dodgson said:Heeling starboard has nothing to do with religion though.
:) Playing with words.
Words are not to be played with sir.
The do get bandied about though.
Arts said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Peak Warming Man said:Yeah we had social studies in primary school and it was about geography and history and stuff.
Must be an OZ thing.
We didn’t have social studies in England.
We did get some special lessons from the headmaster when we were about 14 (IIRC), who told us that every sperm was sacred, and was not to be wasted.
No detail about how the sperm and ovum actually get together, but luckily we’d had a woman biology teacher (the only female teacher in the school), who had told us all that stuff the year before.
that’s under the banner of Health Ed.. not social studies.. health ed you get taught sex education and all the socialisation stuff…
Yeah.
We had one session a week of health ed, which included sex ed (including STD prevention), diet and junk foods stuff, alcohol and drug education. It was under the banner of the phys ed department and run by the sports teachers for some reason.
Social studies was history, geography, economics and all that kind of stuff.
4×4 enthusiasts? My Triton has a Wheel Lock idiot light that initally comes on and goes off when the key is turned to the start and run positions. Mine has been on all the time lately, maybe a wire is earthing or not earthing?
party_pants said:
Arts said:
The Rev Dodgson said:Must be an OZ thing.
We didn’t have social studies in England.
We did get some special lessons from the headmaster when we were about 14 (IIRC), who told us that every sperm was sacred, and was not to be wasted.
No detail about how the sperm and ovum actually get together, but luckily we’d had a woman biology teacher (the only female teacher in the school), who had told us all that stuff the year before.
that’s under the banner of Health Ed.. not social studies.. health ed you get taught sex education and all the socialisation stuff…
Yeah.
We had one session a week of health ed, which included sex ed (including STD prevention), diet and junk foods stuff, alcohol and drug education. It was under the banner of the phys ed department and run by the sports teachers for some reason.
Social studies was history, geography, economics and all that kind of stuff.
I had social studies in primary school, which was history, geography etc. In high school I had History, no social studies. Might have been something like that as an elective.
Sex ed was in Science and was really just the biology etc.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Cymek said:
The Rev Dodgson said:Well there is this:
Anthony Albanese objects to idea God“Opposition leader says he is not commenting on the prime minister’s faith but believes in a separation between church and state”
That should be a given shouldn’t it
Well yes
In theory
But not in theocracy.
sibeen said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Cymek said:That should be a given shouldn’t it
Well yes
In theory
But not in theocracy.
are you playing with words?
Another cup of coffee than I’d better have a shower and go and get some lavatory paper before the rain starts.
Big shop tomorrow with a lift from the Ross people. But there’ll be bums wanting a wipe before then.
roughbarked said:
SCIENCE said:
roughbarked said:Mostly because of habitual leaning to what they deem is right, they heel starboard.
STEMocratically speaking, they should lean away from that shit
Heartily agree. I survived two forty minute periods of Christian studies every day by keeping that thought uppermost.
roughbarked said:
4×4 enthusiasts? My Triton has a Wheel Lock idiot light that initally comes on and goes off when the key is turned to the start and run positions. Mine has been on all the time lately, maybe a wire is earthing or not earthing?
Tamb said:
roughbarked said:
4×4 enthusiasts? My Triton has a Wheel Lock idiot light that initally comes on and goes off when the key is turned to the start and run positions. Mine has been on all the time lately, maybe a wire is earthing or not earthing?
Or it has a stuck diff lock.
That almost sounds rude.
Bubblecar said:
Tamb said:
roughbarked said:
4×4 enthusiasts? My Triton has a Wheel Lock idiot light that initally comes on and goes off when the key is turned to the start and run positions. Mine has been on all the time lately, maybe a wire is earthing or not earthing?
Or it has a stuck diff lock.
That almost sounds rude.
He said stuck diff, not stiff duck.
Tamb said:
roughbarked said:
SCIENCE said:STEMocratically speaking, they should lean away from that shit
Heartily agree. I survived two forty minute periods of Christian studies every day by keeping that thought uppermost.
I went to a Christian Brothers school. We had a subject called Christian Politeness. No overtly religious stuff. Mainly Etiquette.
I also went to a Christian Brothers school and certainly in the senior years there was very little overt catholic teaching in the religious study courses.
Bubblecar said:
Another cup of coffee than I’d better have a shower and go and get some lavatory paper before the rain starts.Big shop tomorrow with a lift from the Ross people. But there’ll be bums wanting a wipe before then.
Tamb said:
roughbarked said:
SCIENCE said:STEMocratically speaking, they should lean away from that shit
Heartily agree. I survived two forty minute periods of Christian studies every day by keeping that thought uppermost.
I went to a Christian Brothers school. We had a subject called Christian Politeness. No overtly religious stuff. Mainly Etiquette.
Marist Brothers for me.
Tamb said:
roughbarked said:
4×4 enthusiasts? My Triton has a Wheel Lock idiot light that initally comes on and goes off when the key is turned to the start and run positions. Mine has been on all the time lately, maybe a wire is earthing or not earthing?
Or it has a stuck diff lock.
That could be worrying.
Tamb said:
Bubblecar said:
Another cup of coffee than I’d better have a shower and go and get some lavatory paper before the rain starts.Big shop tomorrow with a lift from the Ross people. But there’ll be bums wanting a wipe before then.
Cairns for round 31 of chemo starting tomorrow.
Taking the lappie so I’ll still be in touch here.
Good to see your wotsits are keeping their numbers up.
Tamb said:
roughbarked said:
4×4 enthusiasts? My Triton has a Wheel Lock idiot light that initally comes on and goes off when the key is turned to the start and run positions. Mine has been on all the time lately, maybe a wire is earthing or not earthing?
Or it has a stuck diff lock.
I think this is the 4WD engaged/disengaged indicator light. you’d know if you diff lock was engaged.
sibeen said:
Tamb said:
roughbarked said:Heartily agree. I survived two forty minute periods of Christian studies every day by keeping that thought uppermost.
I went to a Christian Brothers school. We had a subject called Christian Politeness. No overtly religious stuff. Mainly Etiquette.I also went to a Christian Brothers school and certainly in the senior years there was very little overt catholic teaching in the religious study courses.
I wonder if the Marxist Brothers are related to the other ones.
Bubblecar said:
Tamb said:
Bubblecar said:
Another cup of coffee than I’d better have a shower and go and get some lavatory paper before the rain starts.Big shop tomorrow with a lift from the Ross people. But there’ll be bums wanting a wipe before then.
Cairns for round 31 of chemo starting tomorrow.
Taking the lappie so I’ll still be in touch here.
Good to see your wotsits are keeping their numbers up.
ChrispenEvan said:
Tamb said:
roughbarked said:
4×4 enthusiasts? My Triton has a Wheel Lock idiot light that initally comes on and goes off when the key is turned to the start and run positions. Mine has been on all the time lately, maybe a wire is earthing or not earthing?
Or it has a stuck diff lock.I think this is the 4WD engaged/disengaged indicator light. you’d know if you diff lock was engaged.
That’s why I used the term idiot light. I’m reasonably sure what engaged feels like.
ChrispenEvan said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
roughbarked said:Shocking stuff.
Birds do it, bees do it
Even flagellated pili do it
Let’s do it, let’s fall in love
can you get any cilia?
Hahahahaha.
ChrispenEvan said:
Tamb said:
roughbarked said:
4×4 enthusiasts? My Triton has a Wheel Lock idiot light that initally comes on and goes off when the key is turned to the start and run positions. Mine has been on all the time lately, maybe a wire is earthing or not earthing?
Or it has a stuck diff lock.I think this is the 4WD engaged/disengaged indicator light. you’d know if you diff lock was engaged.
Tamb said:
sibeen said:
Tamb said:I went to a Christian Brothers school. We had a subject called Christian Politeness. No overtly religious stuff. Mainly Etiquette.
I also went to a Christian Brothers school and certainly in the senior years there was very little overt catholic teaching in the religious study courses.
Mainly they were concerned with beating the Marist Brothers at Rugby.
or fondling in the change rooms.
Bubblecar said:
I wonder if the Marxist Brothers are related to the other ones.
Marx was a Karl. The Marists come from Mary.
Michael V said:
ChrispenEvan said:
Witty Rejoinder said:Birds do it, bees do it
Even flagellated pili do it
Let’s do it, let’s fall in love
can you get any cilia?
Hahahahaha.
See, there’s much playing with words here.
Tamb said:
ChrispenEvan said:
Tamb said:Or it has a stuck diff lock.
I think this is the 4WD engaged/disengaged indicator light. you’d know if you diff lock was engaged.
Is it in 4WD all the time?
No.
Manual shift, auto hubs.
Now that WA gov has lifted all the stages we can party like it’s 2019 again…
roughbarked said:
Tamb said:
sibeen said:I also went to a Christian Brothers school and certainly in the senior years there was very little overt catholic teaching in the religious study courses.
Mainly they were concerned with beating the Marist Brothers at Rugby.or fondling in the change rooms.
sibeen said:
Tamb said:
roughbarked said:Heartily agree. I survived two forty minute periods of Christian studies every day by keeping that thought uppermost.
I went to a Christian Brothers school. We had a subject called Christian Politeness. No overtly religious stuff. Mainly Etiquette.I also went to a Christian Brothers school and certainly in the senior years there was very little overt catholic teaching in the religious study courses.
or there was and you just didn’t pay attention
Arts said:
Now that WA gov has lifted all the stages we can party like it’s 2019 again…
yay us!
roughbarked said:
Bubblecar said:
I wonder if the Marxist Brothers are related to the other ones.
Marx was a Karl. The Marists come from Mary.
Arts said:
Now that WA gov has lifted all the stages we can party like it’s 2019 again…
Now the people down the back will have a better view.
roughbarked said:
Tamb said:
ChrispenEvan said:I think this is the 4WD engaged/disengaged indicator light. you’d know if you diff lock was engaged.
Is it in 4WD all the time?No.
Manual shift, auto hubs.
party_pants said:
Arts said:
Now that WA gov has lifted all the stages we can party like it’s 2019 again…
yay us!
‘cept it’s too fucking cold to go anywhere. 2deg when I went for my walk this morning
Tamb said:
roughbarked said:
Bubblecar said:
I wonder if the Marxist Brothers are related to the other ones.
Marx was a Karl. The Marists come from Mary.
What about Groucho?
No relation. I think Groucho is related the Marx and Spencers retail chain family.
Tamb said:
Bubblecar said:
Tamb said:Cairns for round 31 of chemo starting tomorrow.
Taking the lappie so I’ll still be in touch here.
Good to see your wotsits are keeping their numbers up.
By the end of this round it will be 434 needles in the tummy.
Gosh!
Arts said:
party_pants said:
Arts said:
Now that WA gov has lifted all the stages we can party like it’s 2019 again…
yay us!
‘cept it’s too fucking cold to go anywhere. 2deg when I went for my walk this morning
the fog is only just starting to lift here.
Tamb said:
roughbarked said:
Bubblecar said:
I wonder if the Marxist Brothers are related to the other ones.
Marx was a Karl. The Marists come from Mary.
What about Groucho?
He didn’t belong to any club.
Arts said:
sibeen said:
Tamb said:I went to a Christian Brothers school. We had a subject called Christian Politeness. No overtly religious stuff. Mainly Etiquette.
I also went to a Christian Brothers school and certainly in the senior years there was very little overt catholic teaching in the religious study courses.
or there was and you just didn’t pay attention
Actually that is a good and fair point. I was probably wagging at least half of those classes.
Michael V said:
Tamb said:
Bubblecar said:Good to see your wotsits are keeping their numbers up.
By the end of this round it will be 434 needles in the tummy.Gosh!
Must be a pain near magnets.
sibeen said:
Arts said:
sibeen said:I also went to a Christian Brothers school and certainly in the senior years there was very little overt catholic teaching in the religious study courses.
or there was and you just didn’t pay attention
Actually that is a good and fair point. I was probably wagging at least half of those classes.
You and me both.
Tamb said:
roughbarked said:
Tamb said:Is it in 4WD all the time?
No.
Manual shift, auto hubs.
Yes. My son had a Triton. It went to his daughter when he died.
https://www.exploroz.com/forum/28863/mitsubishi-triton-4×4-wheel-lock-problems
roughbarked said:
Tamb said:
roughbarked said:No.
Manual shift, auto hubs.
Yes. My son had a Triton. It went to his daughter when he died.https://www.exploroz.com/forum/28863/mitsubishi-triton-4×4-wheel-lock-problems
gibbo57
gibbo57 Members 2 posts My 4WD:2006 MK Triton 2.8lt Diesel dual cab 4×4 State:NSWPosted May 16, 2019
Hi mate, I had same problem after driving through water. Disconnect the sensor on the gearbox and spray with a good electrical contact cleaner and that should fix the problem. They get full of crap, dirt etc and need cleaning after dusty and muddy conditions, that fixed my problem. Cheers
https://forum.australia4wd.com/index.php?/topic/34754-green-wheel-lock-light/
I sat in on the jewish RE.
ChrispenEvan said:
I sat in on the jewish RE.
Always enjoyed horror movies?
ChrispenEvan said:
I sat in on the jewish RE.
In primary school, my friend Philip and I were atheists so the headmaster allowed us to skip RE.
We were both quite literary so he gave us a big wad of paper and told us to sit on the verandah and collaborate on a novel. But we couldn’t agree on the first sentence so it didn’t get very far.
Bubblecar said:
ChrispenEvan said:
I sat in on the jewish RE.
In primary school, my friend Philip and I were atheists so the headmaster allowed us to skip RE.
We were both quite literary so he gave us a big wad of paper and told us to sit on the verandah and collaborate on a novel. But we couldn’t agree on the first sentence so it didn’t get very far.
At least you collaborated.
Bubblecar said:
ChrispenEvan said:
I sat in on the jewish RE.
In primary school, my friend Philip and I were atheists so the headmaster allowed us to skip RE.
We were both quite literary so he gave us a big wad of paper and told us to sit on the verandah and collaborate on a novel. But we couldn’t agree on the first sentence so it didn’t get very far.
“It was a stormy and dark night”
No, it’s “dark and stormy” you berk!
Arts said:
buffy said:
The Rev Dodgson said:“The year 10 male students at co-ed St Luke’s Grammar School were separated from the female students for the Christian studies exercise.”
“Christian Studies exercise”?
Seriously?
There wasn’t room in the science curriculum, it was full of Creation. There probably isn’t still a subject called Social Studies like there was when I was at school.
thy call what we knew as social studies HASS. now. even in public school Humanities and social sciences… Of course my social studies was things like geography, economics, earth studies. etc..
not actual studies on how to be prosocial
I never actually had a subject called social studies either, but I think there was something. My school also had a subject called Consumer Education, which I did, and I think it was quite an unusual one/first of its kind sort of thing in the early 1970s. Geography was a separate subject. Just had a look at my reports – and they call you a girly swot. (I grew out of it)
Too late. Aready raining.
Tamb said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Peak Warming Man said:Yeah we had social studies in primary school and it was about geography and history and stuff.
Must be an OZ thing.
We didn’t have social studies in England.
We did get some special lessons from the headmaster when we were about 14 (IIRC), who told us that every sperm was sacred, and was not to be wasted.
No detail about how the sperm and ovum actually get together, but luckily we’d had a woman biology teacher (the only female teacher in the school), who had told us all that stuff the year before.
We didn’t have any SS. Geography ( In which I once got 100/100 in an exam), History. No biology of any kind. Parents were supposed to give The Talk.
Sex Ed was not in any subjects at my school that I know of. There were girls nights and boys nights at a local hall and your relevent parent took you to see a film. And I was given books to read too.
roughbarked said:
Too late. Aready raining.
and the weird thing, I moved the ute and the green light went off. So I’d venture a guess at dirty contact.
The Rev Dodgson said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
SCIENCE said:
please de elect our religious overlords and move towards STEMocracy as soon as possible
But what do we know of the religious leanings of the group who would replace our religious overlords, if they were de-elected?
Well there is this:
Anthony Albanese objects to idea God“Opposition leader says he is not commenting on the prime minister’s faith but believes in a separation between church and state”
I’m not sure he has to “believe”. It’s in the rules of the country.
Michael V said:
Tamb said:
Bubblecar said:Good to see your wotsits are keeping their numbers up.
By the end of this round it will be 434 needles in the tummy.Gosh!
buffy said:
Tamb said:
The Rev Dodgson said:Must be an OZ thing.
We didn’t have social studies in England.
We did get some special lessons from the headmaster when we were about 14 (IIRC), who told us that every sperm was sacred, and was not to be wasted.
No detail about how the sperm and ovum actually get together, but luckily we’d had a woman biology teacher (the only female teacher in the school), who had told us all that stuff the year before.
We didn’t have any SS. Geography ( In which I once got 100/100 in an exam), History. No biology of any kind. Parents were supposed to give The Talk.Sex Ed was not in any subjects at my school that I know of. There were girls nights and boys nights at a local hall and your relevent parent took you to see a film. And I was given books to read too.
They gave us books which the parents were supposed to read to us. We also got certain individual teachers(brothers) who urged us in avoiding the evils in society, including such things as crossing arms on chest after saying prayers and laying down to sleep so that the hands were free of temptation.
Bubblecar said:
ChrispenEvan said:
I sat in on the jewish RE.
In primary school, my friend Philip and I were atheists so the headmaster allowed us to skip RE.
We were both quite literary so he gave us a big wad of paper and told us to sit on the verandah and collaborate on a novel. But we couldn’t agree on the first sentence so it didn’t get very far.
I went to a Catholic high school for two years.. I also made a point of not being interested in religion but they made me do it anyway. I asked so many questions and clarifications that I was quickly given the opportunity to sit in the library during RE… which I did.. Then about two thirds of the way into my second yr there (yr 9). I was asked to perhaps consider pursuing ‘other academic opportunities’ so I went to public school .. which was great because I was allowed to blow stuff up and dissect rats…
roughbarked said:
Michael V said:
Tamb said:By the end of this round it will be 434 needles in the tummy.
Gosh!
Must be a pain near magnets.
Tamb said:
Michael V said:
Tamb said:By the end of this round it will be 434 needles in the tummy.
Gosh!
Really something to look forward to, eh?
At least it means you are still with us. I’m glad of the sacrifices you have made for us.
Tamb said:
roughbarked said:
Michael V said:Gosh!
Must be a pain near magnets.
I’m always afraid I’ll leak.
Serious wet spots could ensue?
party_pants said:
Bubblecar said:
ChrispenEvan said:
I sat in on the jewish RE.
In primary school, my friend Philip and I were atheists so the headmaster allowed us to skip RE.
We were both quite literary so he gave us a big wad of paper and told us to sit on the verandah and collaborate on a novel. But we couldn’t agree on the first sentence so it didn’t get very far.
“It was a stormy and dark night”
No, it’s “dark and stormy” you berk!
Dark & Stormy
roughbarked said:
Tamb said:
Michael V said:Gosh!
Really something to look forward to, eh?At least it means you are still with us. I’m glad of the sacrifices you have made for us.
You lot are a big reason for keeping going.
roughbarked said:
Tamb said:
roughbarked said:Must be a pain near magnets.
I’m always afraid I’ll leak.Serious wet spots could ensue?
buffy said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
The Rev Dodgson said:But what do we know of the religious leanings of the group who would replace our religious overlords, if they were de-elected?
Well there is this:
Anthony Albanese objects to idea God“Opposition leader says he is not commenting on the prime minister’s faith but believes in a separation between church and state”
I’m not sure he has to “believe”. It’s in the rules of the country.
Not really:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_church_and_state_in_Australia
party_pants said:
Arts said:
The Rev Dodgson said:Must be an OZ thing.
We didn’t have social studies in England.
We did get some special lessons from the headmaster when we were about 14 (IIRC), who told us that every sperm was sacred, and was not to be wasted.
No detail about how the sperm and ovum actually get together, but luckily we’d had a woman biology teacher (the only female teacher in the school), who had told us all that stuff the year before.
that’s under the banner of Health Ed.. not social studies.. health ed you get taught sex education and all the socialisation stuff…
Yeah.
We had one session a week of health ed, which included sex ed (including STD prevention), diet and junk foods stuff, alcohol and drug education. It was under the banner of the phys ed department and run by the sports teachers for some reason.
Social studies was history, geography, economics and all that kind of stuff.
We had nothing at all like your health ed. Phys Ed was the gym (not as gyms are today. Girls did balance beam, parallel bars, etc. Boys did rings and box etc. It was like Olympics gymnastics. But then our phys ed teachers were both middle Europeans and Konda (the girls’ teacher) had been a gymnast, or so we believed. (Her name was H. Kondarovskis. A Google finds a Herta Kondarovskis born in 1922 and dying in 2020, living in Melbourne. Could be the one, the age group would be about right, I think)
Tamb said:
roughbarked said:
Tamb said:Really something to look forward to, eh?
At least it means you are still with us. I’m glad of the sacrifices you have made for us.
You lot are a big reason for keeping going.
:)
Awwwww.
:)
buffy said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
The Rev Dodgson said:But what do we know of the religious leanings of the group who would replace our religious overlords, if they were de-elected?
Well there is this:
Anthony Albanese objects to idea God“Opposition leader says he is not commenting on the prime minister’s faith but believes in a separation between church and state”
I’m not sure he has to “believe”. It’s in the rules of the country.
I take your point, but I do think it is a shame that the “believers” have hi-jacked the word to mean anything more than that you accept something is probably true, or (as in this case) you accept some stated principle as being valid and applicable.
The Rev Dodgson said:
buffy said:
The Rev Dodgson said:Well there is this:
Anthony Albanese objects to idea God“Opposition leader says he is not commenting on the prime minister’s faith but believes in a separation between church and state”
I’m not sure he has to “believe”. It’s in the rules of the country.
I take your point, but I do think it is a shame that the “believers” have hi-jacked the word to mean anything more than that you accept something is probably true, or (as in this case) you accept some stated principle as being valid and applicable.
I’m with you brother.
Michael V said:
Tamb said:
roughbarked said:At least it means you are still with us. I’m glad of the sacrifices you have made for us.
You lot are a big reason for keeping going.
:)
Awwwww.
:)
Time for a group hug?
roughbarked said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
buffy said:I’m not sure he has to “believe”. It’s in the rules of the country.
I take your point, but I do think it is a shame that the “believers” have hi-jacked the word to mean anything more than that you accept something is probably true, or (as in this case) you accept some stated principle as being valid and applicable.
I’m with you brother.
Of course, God being omniscient therefore has scope for ambivalence?
sun’s out, looks like a sunny day, bit windy though, need another jumper maybe out there, for walkies
Well, I’ve had a look online to see if I can solve my sewing machine bobbin thread pickup problem and it seems the answer is in the timing hook..and that is something for the sewing machine mechanic. My email to her bounced, so I’ve left a message on her answering machine at home. I’ll give her a week to get back to me and then I’ll take a drive to Portland to the place there that does repairs. It’s actually J who does them there, if she is still working and hasn’t retired. I should be able to find out what is going on. And a trip to Portland for fish and chips is something we haven’t done for a while.
buffy said:
Well, I’ve had a look online to see if I can solve my sewing machine bobbin thread pickup problem and it seems the answer is in the timing hook..and that is something for the sewing machine mechanic. My email to her bounced, so I’ve left a message on her answering machine at home. I’ll give her a week to get back to me and then I’ll take a drive to Portland to the place there that does repairs. It’s actually J who does them there, if she is still working and hasn’t retired. I should be able to find out what is going on. And a trip to Portland for fish and chips is something we haven’t done for a while.
So you have cleaned the whole bobbin area of waste threads dust and fluff?
transition said:
sun’s out, looks like a sunny day, bit windy though, need another jumper maybe out there, for walkies
Grey and lightly drizzly so far today. I’ve picked up the 10kg of meat for the dogs and packed it into 500g bags in the freezer. Had a mocha and a coffee scroll for morning tea. I should make myself a ham roll for lunch, I suppose. It seems to have got to lunchtime.
roughbarked said:
Michael V said:
Tamb said:You lot are a big reason for keeping going.
:)
Awwwww.
:)
Time for a group hug?
never..
roughbarked said:
buffy said:
Well, I’ve had a look online to see if I can solve my sewing machine bobbin thread pickup problem and it seems the answer is in the timing hook..and that is something for the sewing machine mechanic. My email to her bounced, so I’ve left a message on her answering machine at home. I’ll give her a week to get back to me and then I’ll take a drive to Portland to the place there that does repairs. It’s actually J who does them there, if she is still working and hasn’t retired. I should be able to find out what is going on. And a trip to Portland for fish and chips is something we haven’t done for a while.So you have cleaned the whole bobbin area of waste threads dust and fluff?
Yes. It was sewing along normally. I did one dart. I lined up the second dart and it refused to pick up the bobbin thread. I think there may have been a clunk noise during the first dart sewing. J will be able to retime it for me.
roughbarked said:
Michael V said:
Tamb said:You lot are a big reason for keeping going.
:)
Awwwww.
:)
Time for a group hug?
No.
buffy said:
transition said:
sun’s out, looks like a sunny day, bit windy though, need another jumper maybe out there, for walkiesGrey and lightly drizzly so far today. I’ve picked up the 10kg of meat for the dogs and packed it into 500g bags in the freezer. Had a mocha and a coffee scroll for morning tea. I should make myself a ham roll for lunch, I suppose. It seems to have got to lunchtime.
Has been overcast all day here. Struggling to get above 13 degrees. Back at 12 at the moment.
buffy said:
roughbarked said:
buffy said:
Well, I’ve had a look online to see if I can solve my sewing machine bobbin thread pickup problem and it seems the answer is in the timing hook..and that is something for the sewing machine mechanic. My email to her bounced, so I’ve left a message on her answering machine at home. I’ll give her a week to get back to me and then I’ll take a drive to Portland to the place there that does repairs. It’s actually J who does them there, if she is still working and hasn’t retired. I should be able to find out what is going on. And a trip to Portland for fish and chips is something we haven’t done for a while.So you have cleaned the whole bobbin area of waste threads dust and fluff?
Yes. It was sewing along normally. I did one dart. I lined up the second dart and it refused to pick up the bobbin thread. I think there may have been a clunk noise during the first dart sewing. J will be able to retime it for me.
Not the dart?
Arts said:
roughbarked said:
Michael V said::)
Awwwww.
:)
Time for a group hug?
never..
I’m not a lot into hugging. Although at the funeral the other day there were certain people that did need hugging.
Arts said:
roughbarked said:
Michael V said::)
Awwwww.
:)
Time for a group hug?
never..
:)
Not even masked up and virtual?
ChrispenEvan said:
roughbarked said:
Michael V said::)
Awwwww.
:)
Time for a group hug?
No.
buffy said:
roughbarked said:
buffy said:
Well, I’ve had a look online to see if I can solve my sewing machine bobbin thread pickup problem and it seems the answer is in the timing hook..and that is something for the sewing machine mechanic. My email to her bounced, so I’ve left a message on her answering machine at home. I’ll give her a week to get back to me and then I’ll take a drive to Portland to the place there that does repairs. It’s actually J who does them there, if she is still working and hasn’t retired. I should be able to find out what is going on. And a trip to Portland for fish and chips is something we haven’t done for a while.So you have cleaned the whole bobbin area of waste threads dust and fluff?
Yes. It was sewing along normally. I did one dart. I lined up the second dart and it refused to pick up the bobbin thread. I think there may have been a clunk noise during the first dart sewing. J will be able to retime it for me.
aha.
ChrispenEvan said:
buffy said:
roughbarked said:So you have cleaned the whole bobbin area of waste threads dust and fluff?
Yes. It was sewing along normally. I did one dart. I lined up the second dart and it refused to pick up the bobbin thread. I think there may have been a clunk noise during the first dart sewing. J will be able to retime it for me.
Not the dart?
I actually “got” that one..
Tamb said:
ChrispenEvan said:
roughbarked said:Time for a group hug?
No.
Another plus for the forum. Total honesty.
+1 :)
ChrispenEvan said:
buffy said:
roughbarked said:So you have cleaned the whole bobbin area of waste threads dust and fluff?
Yes. It was sewing along normally. I did one dart. I lined up the second dart and it refused to pick up the bobbin thread. I think there may have been a clunk noise during the first dart sewing. J will be able to retime it for me.
Not the dart?
ROFL
buffy said:
ChrispenEvan said:
buffy said:Yes. It was sewing along normally. I did one dart. I lined up the second dart and it refused to pick up the bobbin thread. I think there may have been a clunk noise during the first dart sewing. J will be able to retime it for me.
Not the dart?
I actually “got” that one..
It actually stopped go go mobiling.
Tamb said:
By the end of this round it will be 434 needles in the tummy.
A great apprenticeship. You would now be qualified to apply for the role as Ms Buffy’s pin cushion in support of her sewing exploits. :)
buffy said:
ChrispenEvan said:
buffy said:Yes. It was sewing along normally. I did one dart. I lined up the second dart and it refused to pick up the bobbin thread. I think there may have been a clunk noise during the first dart sewing. J will be able to retime it for me.
Not the dart?
I actually “got” that one..
Woodie said:
Tamb said:By the end of this round it will be 434 needles in the tummy.
A great apprenticeship. You would now be qualified to apply for the role as Ms Buffy’s pin cushion in support of her sewing exploits. :)
Tamb said:
buffy said:
ChrispenEvan said:Not the dart?
I actually “got” that one..
Here’s another one![]()
ChrispenEvan said:
roughbarked said:
Michael V said::)
Awwwww.
:)
Time for a group hug?
No.
Not even a mutual hand holding? No? How bout an affectionate glance then.:)
ChrispenEvan said:
buffy said:
roughbarked said:So you have cleaned the whole bobbin area of waste threads dust and fluff?
Yes. It was sewing along normally. I did one dart. I lined up the second dart and it refused to pick up the bobbin thread. I think there may have been a clunk noise during the first dart sewing. J will be able to retime it for me.
Not the dart?
It’s a Goggomobile.
Tamb said:
Woodie said:
Tamb said:By the end of this round it will be 434 needles in the tummy.
A great apprenticeship. You would now be qualified to apply for the role as Ms Buffy’s pin cushion in support of her sewing exploits. :)
Not after what she did to her machine.
Yeah, but J can fix things! She’s very nice.
:)
Woodie said:
ChrispenEvan said:
roughbarked said:Time for a group hug?
No.
Not even a mutual hand holding? No? How bout an affectionate glance then.:)
She might do a socially distanced smile. Maybe.
roughbarked said:
Tamb said:
buffy said:I actually “got” that one..
Here’s another one![]()
Luxury model. It has a door.
Here’s one without
Oh-oh..
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-23/nats-plan-to-blow-up-murray-darling-basin-plan/100236826
buffy said:
Oh-oh..https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-23/nats-plan-to-blow-up-murray-darling-basin-plan/100236826
MDB water politics hey….
“Oh Mr Hart, what a mess!”
party_pants said:
buffy said:
Oh-oh..https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-23/nats-plan-to-blow-up-murray-darling-basin-plan/100236826
MDB water politics hey….
“Oh Mr Hart, what a mess!”
Tamb said:
roughbarked said:
Tamb said:Here’s another one
Luxury model. It has a door.Here’s one without
that looks like something you could decapitate easily in.
Arts said:
Tamb said:
roughbarked said:Luxury model. It has a door.
Here’s one without
that looks like something you could decapitate easily in.
I dont think they can go that fast.
Arts said:
Tamb said:
roughbarked said:Luxury model. It has a door.
Here’s one without
that looks like something you could decapitate easily in.
buffy said:
Oh-oh..https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-23/nats-plan-to-blow-up-murray-darling-basin-plan/100236826
This what I was afraid of with Barnaby back..
Tamb said:
Arts said:
Tamb said:Here’s one without
that looks like something you could decapitate easily in.
Happened to a mate of mine. His Triumph Herald went under the back of a truck. Took off the entire roof & his head.
Not good.
:(
Tau.Neutrino said:
Arts said:
Tamb said:Here’s one without
that looks like something you could decapitate easily in.
I dont think they can go that fast.
Hardly get up a hill.
Time for my afternoon, post lunch read and nap. Back later.
roughbarked said:
buffy said:
Oh-oh..https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-23/nats-plan-to-blow-up-murray-darling-basin-plan/100236826
This what I was afraid of with Barnaby back..
Geez Barnaby, he just doesn’t get it.
I just watched Malcolm Roberts drive the Tesla. He makes the list. The list of people I would most not like to travel with.
Tamb said:
Arts said:
Tamb said:Here’s one without
that looks like something you could decapitate easily in.
Happened to a mate of mine. His Triumph Herald went under the back of a truck. Took off the entire roof & his head.
A mate of mine did that on a motorbike. Got too close to the scoop end of a front end loader. Head stayed in helmet.
Tau.Neutrino said:
roughbarked said:
buffy said:
Oh-oh..https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-23/nats-plan-to-blow-up-murray-darling-basin-plan/100236826
This what I was afraid of with Barnaby back..
Geez Barnaby, he just doesn’t get it.
He is not leadership material when he is full of hypocrisy.
Tau.Neutrino said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
roughbarked said:This what I was afraid of with Barnaby back..
Geez Barnaby, he just doesn’t get it.
He is not leadership material when he is full of hypocrisy.
He’s a puppet.
He’s been returned because he does the bidding of water thieves.
roughbarked said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Tau.Neutrino said:Geez Barnaby, he just doesn’t get it.
He is not leadership material when he is full of hypocrisy.
He’s a puppet.
He’s been returned because he does the bidding of water thieves.
Ah, the water thieves want him returned.
Makes sense.
the bars the are at the bottom of the back of trucks are called Mansfield bars.. because actress Jayne Mansfield was ‘almost’ decapitated when the car she was in (with her three children) went under a truck and killed her and the other two adults in the front of the car.. the children and her dogs survived. But the accident caused world wide reform in truck design… and created the Mansfield bar.. so now you can only get squished instead of decapitated.
Arts said:
the bars the are at the bottom of the back of trucks are called Mansfield bars.. because actress Jayne Mansfield was ‘almost’ decapitated when the car she was in (with her three children) went under a truck and killed her and the other two adults in the front of the car.. the children and her dogs survived. But the accident caused world wide reform in truck design… and created the Mansfield bar.. so now you can only get squished instead of decapitated.
I knew about Jane Mansfield. Didn’t know they named the bars after her. Now I do.
roughbarked said:
Arts said:
the bars the are at the bottom of the back of trucks are called Mansfield bars.. because actress Jayne Mansfield was ‘almost’ decapitated when the car she was in (with her three children) went under a truck and killed her and the other two adults in the front of the car.. the children and her dogs survived. But the accident caused world wide reform in truck design… and created the Mansfield bar.. so now you can only get squished instead of decapitated.
I knew about Jane Mansfield. Didn’t know they named the bars after her. Now I do.
My mate’s accident was pre-Mansfield.
Arts said:
the bars the are at the bottom of the back of trucks are called Mansfield bars.. because actress Jayne Mansfield was ‘almost’ decapitated when the car she was in (with her three children) went under a truck and killed her and the other two adults in the front of the car.. the children and her dogs survived. But the accident caused world wide reform in truck design… and created the Mansfield bar.. so now you can only get squished instead of decapitated.
I’ve never heard of Mansfield bars. Poor Jayne.
:(
Tau.Neutrino said:
roughbarked said:
Tau.Neutrino said:He is not leadership material when he is full of hypocrisy.
He’s a puppet.
He’s been returned because he does the bidding of water thieves.
Ah, the water thieves want him returned.
Makes sense.
I briefly saw him talk on SBS news last night, what an absolute ….
BACK with a nice T-bone + bag of mushrooms for dinner and a bottle of red. And toilet rolls (but they’re not for dinner).
Cymek said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
roughbarked said:He’s a puppet.
He’s been returned because he does the bidding of water thieves.
Ah, the water thieves want him returned.
Makes sense.
I briefly saw him talk on SBS news last night, what an absolute ….
He is not fit for any form of leadership.
Appointment with the cardiothoracic surgeon this Friday (quicker than I thought) so its going to happen sooner rather than later.
Woo hoo time off from doing just about everything
Tau.Neutrino said:
Cymek said:
Tau.Neutrino said:Ah, the water thieves want him returned.
Makes sense.
I briefly saw him talk on SBS news last night, what an absolute ….
He is not fit for any form of leadership.
It must have been old footage as he was poo pooing the suggestion (necessity really) of zero carbon emissions by 2050 and having a go at the Greens for asking for it to be done.
Parliament really is like a drunken frat boy party they way the cheer and geer
Cymek said:
Appointment with the cardiothoracic surgeon this Friday (quicker than I thought) so its going to happen sooner rather than later.Woo hoo time off from doing just about everything
Congrats, hope it all goes well.
Bubblecar said:
BACK with a nice T-bone + bag of mushrooms for dinner and a bottle of red. And toilet rolls (but they’re not for dinner).
They’re an after dinner treat.
Cymek said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Cymek said:I briefly saw him talk on SBS news last night, what an absolute ….
He is not fit for any form of leadership.
It must have been old footage as he was poo pooing the suggestion (necessity really) of zero carbon emissions by 2050 and having a go at the Greens for asking for it to be done.
Parliament really is like a drunken frat boy party they way the cheer and geer
Barnaby is a strange man.
Cymek said:
Appointment with the cardiothoracic surgeon this Friday (quicker than I thought) so its going to happen sooner rather than later.Woo hoo time off from doing just about everything
Excellent.
Bubblecar said:
Cymek said:
Appointment with the cardiothoracic surgeon this Friday (quicker than I thought) so its going to happen sooner rather than later.Woo hoo time off from doing just about everything
Congrats, hope it all goes well.
I’ll leave instructions if it doesn’t for someone to log on here and tell you I’m dead, worse than that he’s dead Jim, dead Jim dead
Cymek said:
Bubblecar said:
Cymek said:
Appointment with the cardiothoracic surgeon this Friday (quicker than I thought) so its going to happen sooner rather than later.Woo hoo time off from doing just about everything
Congrats, hope it all goes well.
I’ll leave instructions if it doesn’t for someone to log on here and tell you I’m dead, worse than that he’s dead Jim, dead Jim dead
I wonr play Star Trekkin’
:)
Tau.Neutrino said:
Cymek said:
Bubblecar said:Congrats, hope it all goes well.
I’ll leave instructions if it doesn’t for someone to log on here and tell you I’m dead, worse than that he’s dead Jim, dead Jim dead
Yes from that old song
sibeen said:
Damn, she’s still alive.
sibeen said:
Dear Anita
I am a Texan Redneck and I want God bought back to America, we need to bomb them Muslims and get rid of the queers and the blacks and Mexicans who are taking our jobs.
Blow up them abortion doctors as we need babies so they can grow up and fight in our wars.
After the bleeding nose I’ve had a look at AC v Gas, at the 3 day mark Gas seems to be about half the cost of electricity. Unless I’ve bunningsed the calculations.
Cymek said:
sibeen said:
Dear Anita
I am a Texan Redneck and I want God bought back to America, we need to bomb them Muslims and get rid of the queers and the blacks and Mexicans who are taking our jobs.
Blow up them abortion doctors as we need babies so they can grow up and fight in our wars.
you have earned your place in heaven with 72 virgins wait
poikilotherm said:
After the bleeding nose I’ve had a look at AC v Gas, at the 3 day mark Gas seems to be about half the cost of electricity. Unless I’ve bunningsed the calculations.
what if dirty Labor had brought in a Great Big Carbon Tax how would it work out then
SCIENCE said:
poikilotherm said:
After the bleeding nose I’ve had a look at AC v Gas, at the 3 day mark Gas seems to be about half the cost of electricity. Unless I’ve bunningsed the calculations.
what if dirty Labor had brought in a Great Big Carbon Tax how would it work out then
FIIK.
Posted this snap of a Tudor food cupboard last night (also known as an aumbry).
Reading up on them, the pierced ventilation was usually backed by red cloth, to keep out flies. So the lower image here is closer to what it would look like in use.
poikilotherm said:
After the bleeding nose I’ve had a look at AC v Gas, at the 3 day mark Gas seems to be about half the cost of electricity. Unless I’ve bunningsed the calculations.
But which causes bleeding noses?
Bubblecar said:
poikilotherm said:
After the bleeding nose I’ve had a look at AC v Gas, at the 3 day mark Gas seems to be about half the cost of electricity. Unless I’ve bunningsed the calculations.
But which causes bleeding noses?
The AC, well known for lowering humidity in a room.
poikilotherm said:
Bubblecar said:
poikilotherm said:
After the bleeding nose I’ve had a look at AC v Gas, at the 3 day mark Gas seems to be about half the cost of electricity. Unless I’ve bunningsed the calculations.
But which causes bleeding noses?
The AC, well known for lowering humidity in a room.
Ah.
~15mm rain the last..
here’s june so far, in the little rain book
Bubblecar said:
Posted this snap of a Tudor food cupboard last night (also known as an aumbry).Reading up on them, the pierced ventilation was usually backed by red cloth, to keep out flies. So the lower image here is closer to what it would look like in use.
It’s a nice piece.
transition said:
~15mm rain the last..
here’s june so far, in the little rain book
![]()
56 mm for the month so far. You’d have to be happy with that.
transition said:
~15mm rain the last..
here’s june so far, in the little rain book
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
Posted this snap of a Tudor food cupboard last night (also known as an aumbry).Reading up on them, the pierced ventilation was usually backed by red cloth, to keep out flies. So the lower image here is closer to what it would look like in use.
It’s a nice piece.
Bit of a paint and it’s come up like new.
sibeen said:
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
Posted this snap of a Tudor food cupboard last night (also known as an aumbry).Reading up on them, the pierced ventilation was usually backed by red cloth, to keep out flies. So the lower image here is closer to what it would look like in use.
It’s a nice piece.
Bit of a paint and
it’sit’d come up like new.
fixed
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
Posted this snap of a Tudor food cupboard last night (also known as an aumbry).Reading up on them, the pierced ventilation was usually backed by red cloth, to keep out flies. So the lower image here is closer to what it would look like in use.
It’s a nice piece.
Currently for sale at about $55,515
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
Posted this snap of a Tudor food cupboard last night (also known as an aumbry).Reading up on them, the pierced ventilation was usually backed by red cloth, to keep out flies. So the lower image here is closer to what it would look like in use.
It’s a nice piece.
Currently for sale at about $55,515
What would a brand new one cost?
I could probably make one about every 3 months working full time.
sibeen said:
transition said:
~15mm rain the last..
here’s june so far, in the little rain book
![]()
56 mm for the month so far. You’d have to be happy with that.
well it’s good enough, see what reserves are in the lower ground july end, going into august and beyond
good thing I posted here so you can do my math :-), cunning bastard aren’t I
sibeen said:
sibeen said:
sarahs mum said:It’s a nice piece.
Bit of a paint and
it’sit’d come up like new.
fixed
Doubtless a lot of them were originally painted.
Such cupboards were found in private houses but also in churches, where they held food for the poor.
party_pants said:
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:It’s a nice piece.
Currently for sale at about $55,515
What would a brand new one cost?
I could probably make one about every 3 months working full time.
However much buyers would be willing to pay. Which would presumably be considerably less than for an original example.
Yesterday I did a submission about the cablecar. My last paragraph was about how saying yes to the project will cause social division because there are many people who feel strongly connected to the mountain. About how a strong sense of place can sometimes be problematic.
I know making the people happy is not part of criteria for approving the project.
Today I read…
“NEXT
The Council will be provided with a recommendation of refusal or approval against the provision of the Wellington Park Management Plan and the Hobart Planning Scheme. The information within your representation will be taken into account.
The assessment of MWCC’s DA will cost the ratepayers of Hobart hundreds of thousands of dollars. The Council is due to vote on the recommendation on the 27th of July. We are preparing for that and will have an announcement shortly.
Chris Oldfield has all but admitted that his Company and his colleague and Chairman of Tourism Tasmania are going to fight it in court. Imagine that. Imagine that in 2021 we could see the most senior person in Tasmania’s Tourism Industry help fund a legal challenge to push for a mass tourism development against the community’s wishes and, significantly, the Aboriginal Community. What a moment for Tourism in this State. 😳”
(Guess..It could be a council knock back for still not having completed the forms properly. )
Bubblecar said:
party_pants said:
Bubblecar said:Currently for sale at about $55,515
What would a brand new one cost?
I could probably make one about every 3 months working full time.
However much buyers would be willing to pay. Which would presumably be considerably less than for an original example.
Shame.
I could offer unrivaled after sales service and repairs compared to an antique one.
Here’s one with actual red fabric in the piercings.
sarahs mum said:
Ta. I assume that’s 1960s Sydney.
PermeateFree said:
Great snap.
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
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Ta. I assume that’s 1960s Sydney.
Early 60s. I’ve closed the link ..but there was live music everynight and the auditorium sat 600.
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
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Ta. I assume that’s 1960s Sydney.
Early 60s. I’ve closed the link ..but there was live music everynight and the auditorium sat 600.
The Chevron’s Silver Spade Theatre Restaurant in Potts Point hosted a wide variety of events including balls, banquets, conventions, fashion shows, concerts and events like the TV Week Logie Awards in 1961 and 1963. Situated on the first floor and named after Conrad Hilton’s autobiography, “The Silver Spade,” had a seating capacity of 600, and featured a nightly cabaret show.’
Photographs of the standard menu and pricing of the day
(Caroline Simpson collection – Sydney Living Museums)
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
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Ta. I assume that’s 1960s Sydney.
Ah, the Chevron Hilton.
Also home to ‘The Quarterdeck Bar’, known throughout the Navy by the sobriquet ‘The Shitfights’.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/the-church-stripped-bare-high-rate-of-domestic-abuse-among-anglicans-exposed-20210611-p5809z.html
The Anglican Church has a serious, dangerous problem with women. A report out this week found that those inside the church are significantly more likely to have experienced abuse than those in the broader population.
It’s a stunning finding, worse than predicted, and horrific to think that what should be a place of refuge could be in fact a place of peril for women, and that, despite some recent efforts and the fact that evidence of this has been reported on for years, many clergy remain in denial about it.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/school-asked-boys-to-use-rating-system-on-girls-female-students-taught-to-keep-virginity-20210622-p58358.html#comments
Boys at a northern beaches Anglican school were told to choose the qualities they looked for in a girl from a list that allocated more points for virginity, looks, and strong Christian values than for generosity and adventurousness.
The year 10 male students at co-ed St Luke’s Grammar School were separated from the female students for the Christian studies exercise. In another classroom, girls were given articles to read about why remaining a virgin until marriage was important.
The female students were furious when they heard about the exercise given to the boys. “All the girls were disgusted and really offended,” said one student. Some boys laughingly described their task as “build a bitch”.
dv said:
https://www.smh.com.au/national/the-church-stripped-bare-high-rate-of-domestic-abuse-among-anglicans-exposed-20210611-p5809z.htmlThe Anglican Church has a serious, dangerous problem with women. A report out this week found that those inside the church are significantly more likely to have experienced abuse than those in the broader population.
It’s a stunning finding, worse than predicted, and horrific to think that what should be a place of refuge could be in fact a place of peril for women, and that, despite some recent efforts and the fact that evidence of this has been reported on for years, many clergy remain in denial about it.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/school-asked-boys-to-use-rating-system-on-girls-female-students-taught-to-keep-virginity-20210622-p58358.html#comments
Boys at a northern beaches Anglican school were told to choose the qualities they looked for in a girl from a list that allocated more points for virginity, looks, and strong Christian values than for generosity and adventurousness.
The year 10 male students at co-ed St Luke’s Grammar School were separated from the female students for the Christian studies exercise. In another classroom, girls were given articles to read about why remaining a virgin until marriage was important.
The female students were furious when they heard about the exercise given to the boys. “All the girls were disgusted and really offended,” said one student. Some boys laughingly described their task as “build a bitch”.
Is this happening today?
dv said:
https://www.smh.com.au/national/the-church-stripped-bare-high-rate-of-domestic-abuse-among-anglicans-exposed-20210611-p5809z.htmlThe Anglican Church has a serious, dangerous problem with women. A report out this week found that those inside the church are significantly more likely to have experienced abuse than those in the broader population.
It’s a stunning finding, worse than predicted, and horrific to think that what should be a place of refuge could be in fact a place of peril for women, and that, despite some recent efforts and the fact that evidence of this has been reported on for years, many clergy remain in denial about it.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/school-asked-boys-to-use-rating-system-on-girls-female-students-taught-to-keep-virginity-20210622-p58358.html#comments
Boys at a northern beaches Anglican school were told to choose the qualities they looked for in a girl from a list that allocated more points for virginity, looks, and strong Christian values than for generosity and adventurousness.
The year 10 male students at co-ed St Luke’s Grammar School were separated from the female students for the Christian studies exercise. In another classroom, girls were given articles to read about why remaining a virgin until marriage was important.
The female students were furious when they heard about the exercise given to the boys. “All the girls were disgusted and really offended,” said one student. Some boys laughingly described their task as “build a bitch”.
We usually think of the Anglicans as being less backward than the Catholics, but seems the Oz version (or at least NSW) is remarkably at odds with mainstream society.
Tau.Neutrino said:
dv said:
https://www.smh.com.au/national/the-church-stripped-bare-high-rate-of-domestic-abuse-among-anglicans-exposed-20210611-p5809z.htmlThe Anglican Church has a serious, dangerous problem with women. A report out this week found that those inside the church are significantly more likely to have experienced abuse than those in the broader population.
It’s a stunning finding, worse than predicted, and horrific to think that what should be a place of refuge could be in fact a place of peril for women, and that, despite some recent efforts and the fact that evidence of this has been reported on for years, many clergy remain in denial about it.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/school-asked-boys-to-use-rating-system-on-girls-female-students-taught-to-keep-virginity-20210622-p58358.html#comments
Boys at a northern beaches Anglican school were told to choose the qualities they looked for in a girl from a list that allocated more points for virginity, looks, and strong Christian values than for generosity and adventurousness.
The year 10 male students at co-ed St Luke’s Grammar School were separated from the female students for the Christian studies exercise. In another classroom, girls were given articles to read about why remaining a virgin until marriage was important.
The female students were furious when they heard about the exercise given to the boys. “All the girls were disgusted and really offended,” said one student. Some boys laughingly described their task as “build a bitch”.
Is this happening today?
Not today, it was a few days ago
Bubblecar said:
dv said:
https://www.smh.com.au/national/the-church-stripped-bare-high-rate-of-domestic-abuse-among-anglicans-exposed-20210611-p5809z.htmlThe Anglican Church has a serious, dangerous problem with women. A report out this week found that those inside the church are significantly more likely to have experienced abuse than those in the broader population.
It’s a stunning finding, worse than predicted, and horrific to think that what should be a place of refuge could be in fact a place of peril for women, and that, despite some recent efforts and the fact that evidence of this has been reported on for years, many clergy remain in denial about it.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/school-asked-boys-to-use-rating-system-on-girls-female-students-taught-to-keep-virginity-20210622-p58358.html#comments
Boys at a northern beaches Anglican school were told to choose the qualities they looked for in a girl from a list that allocated more points for virginity, looks, and strong Christian values than for generosity and adventurousness.
The year 10 male students at co-ed St Luke’s Grammar School were separated from the female students for the Christian studies exercise. In another classroom, girls were given articles to read about why remaining a virgin until marriage was important.
The female students were furious when they heard about the exercise given to the boys. “All the girls were disgusted and really offended,” said one student. Some boys laughingly described their task as “build a bitch”.
We usually think of the Anglicans as being less backward than the Catholics, but seems the Oz version (or at least NSW) is remarkably at odds with mainstream society.
Mmm, on quite a few things.
dv said:
https://www.smh.com.au/national/the-church-stripped-bare-high-rate-of-domestic-abuse-among-anglicans-exposed-20210611-p5809z.htmlThe Anglican Church has a serious, dangerous problem with women. A report out this week found that those inside the church are significantly more likely to have experienced abuse than those in the broader population.
It’s a stunning finding, worse than predicted, and horrific to think that what should be a place of refuge could be in fact a place of peril for women, and that, despite some recent efforts and the fact that evidence of this has been reported on for years, many clergy remain in denial about it.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/school-asked-boys-to-use-rating-system-on-girls-female-students-taught-to-keep-virginity-20210622-p58358.html#comments
Boys at a northern beaches Anglican school were told to choose the qualities they looked for in a girl from a list that allocated more points for virginity, looks, and strong Christian values than for generosity and adventurousness.
The year 10 male students at co-ed St Luke’s Grammar School were separated from the female students for the Christian studies exercise. In another classroom, girls were given articles to read about why remaining a virgin until marriage was important.
The female students were furious when they heard about the exercise given to the boys. “All the girls were disgusted and really offended,” said one student. Some boys laughingly described their task as “build a bitch”.
We had the outrage over this earlier today :)
sibeen said:
We had the outrage over this earlier today :)
It’s regularly-scheduled bus.
sibeen said:
dv said:
https://www.smh.com.au/national/the-church-stripped-bare-high-rate-of-domestic-abuse-among-anglicans-exposed-20210611-p5809z.htmlThe Anglican Church has a serious, dangerous problem with women. A report out this week found that those inside the church are significantly more likely to have experienced abuse than those in the broader population.
It’s a stunning finding, worse than predicted, and horrific to think that what should be a place of refuge could be in fact a place of peril for women, and that, despite some recent efforts and the fact that evidence of this has been reported on for years, many clergy remain in denial about it.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/school-asked-boys-to-use-rating-system-on-girls-female-students-taught-to-keep-virginity-20210622-p58358.html#comments
Boys at a northern beaches Anglican school were told to choose the qualities they looked for in a girl from a list that allocated more points for virginity, looks, and strong Christian values than for generosity and adventurousness.
The year 10 male students at co-ed St Luke’s Grammar School were separated from the female students for the Christian studies exercise. In another classroom, girls were given articles to read about why remaining a virgin until marriage was important.
The female students were furious when they heard about the exercise given to the boys. “All the girls were disgusted and really offended,” said one student. Some boys laughingly described their task as “build a bitch”.
We had the outrage over this earlier today :)
Damn, I missed the bus
dv said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
dv said:
https://www.smh.com.au/national/the-church-stripped-bare-high-rate-of-domestic-abuse-among-anglicans-exposed-20210611-p5809z.htmlThe Anglican Church has a serious, dangerous problem with women. A report out this week found that those inside the church are significantly more likely to have experienced abuse than those in the broader population.
It’s a stunning finding, worse than predicted, and horrific to think that what should be a place of refuge could be in fact a place of peril for women, and that, despite some recent efforts and the fact that evidence of this has been reported on for years, many clergy remain in denial about it.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/school-asked-boys-to-use-rating-system-on-girls-female-students-taught-to-keep-virginity-20210622-p58358.html#comments
Boys at a northern beaches Anglican school were told to choose the qualities they looked for in a girl from a list that allocated more points for virginity, looks, and strong Christian values than for generosity and adventurousness.
The year 10 male students at co-ed St Luke’s Grammar School were separated from the female students for the Christian studies exercise. In another classroom, girls were given articles to read about why remaining a virgin until marriage was important.
The female students were furious when they heard about the exercise given to the boys. “All the girls were disgusted and really offended,” said one student. Some boys laughingly described their task as “build a bitch”.
Is this happening today?
Not today, it was a few days ago
Time to shut them down .
It is CO2 not Co2?
Tau.Neutrino said:
dv said:
Tau.Neutrino said:Is this happening today?
Not today, it was a few days ago
Time to shut them down .
They believe in things that don’t exist, they treat the law in a similar way.
sarahs mum said:
It is CO2 not Co2?
CO2 – carbon dioxide.
C – carbon
O – oxygen
Michael V said:
sarahs mum said:
It is CO2 not Co2?CO2 – carbon dioxide.
C – carbon
O – oxygen
Ta. just proofing what someone else had written and that looked wrong. :)
Subscript pushes the 2 away a space
CO 2
Just about time to head off to archery. Back later.
Mid 14th century. A German great helm of later type with the lower part missing. Sold last year for £7,500 (AU $14,000).
Bubblecar said:
Mid 14th century. A German great helm of later type with the lower part missing. Sold last year for £7,500 (AU $14,000).
Actually that one sold for £10,000 ($18,500).
Here’s the one that went for the lower price:
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
Mid 14th century. A German great helm of later type with the lower part missing. Sold last year for £7,500 (AU $14,000).
Actually that one sold for £10,000 ($18,500).
Here’s the one that went for the lower price:
Might be a factory somewhere churning out decayed medieval German helmets.
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
Mid 14th century. A German great helm of later type with the lower part missing. Sold last year for £7,500 (AU $14,000).
Actually that one sold for £10,000 ($18,500).
Here’s the one that went for the lower price:
Might be a factory somewhere churning out decayed medieval German helmets.
I’ve been wondering where to invest a spare $18,500.
Not in a bank, with current interest rates.
mollwollfumble said:
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:Actually that one sold for £10,000 ($18,500).
Here’s the one that went for the lower price:
Might be a factory somewhere churning out decayed medieval German helmets.
I’ve been wondering where to invest a spare $18,500.
Not in a bank, with current interest rates.
Pssst….
Wanna buy some gold?
The fence saga continues.
After a massive effort over the past few week (including removing all the paint because it didn’t adhere), we put up five of the six fence panels today.
Two unexpected problems.
1) I designed the support horizontals for strength, not deflection. The fence panel deflection look resembles that of a suspension bridge.
2) Glue leaked out of the joints when compressed, which doesn’t look good.
Still to do.
a) Lift fence panels at centre span to minimise effect of deflection on the further assembly process.
b) Glue and clamp end palings of each panel, which have been left free floating to make the paling spacing look better, to compensate for subtle differences in fence post spacing.
c) Clamp, drill and screw each panel to attach to the end brackets, (will be a bit difficult to drill below concrete footpath level).
d) Finally, drill drainholes in each panel bottom channels.
Dark Orange said:
mollwollfumble said:
Bubblecar said:Might be a factory somewhere churning out decayed medieval German helmets.
I’ve been wondering where to invest a spare $18,500.
Not in a bank, with current interest rates.
Pssst….
Wanna buy some gold?
Did you find the mother lode?
Dark Orange said:
mollwollfumble said:
Bubblecar said:Might be a factory somewhere churning out decayed medieval German helmets.
I’ve been wondering where to invest a spare $18,500.
Not in a bank, with current interest rates.
Pssst….
Wanna buy some gold?
Thanks for not saying bitcoin.
Gold can be mined. I’m coming around to the idea that the only decent investment is something unique and recognisably valuable.
“The national vaccine rollout plan released on Wednesday afternoon reveals the locally-made AstraZeneca vaccine will be phased out of use in Australia except by request, after health authorities changed advice to limit its use to people older than 60 due to concerns about a rare blood clotting disorder.”
poikilotherm said:
“The national vaccine rollout plan released on Wednesday afternoon reveals the locally-made AstraZeneca vaccine will be phased out of use in Australia except by request, after health authorities changed advice to limit its use to people older than 60 due to concerns about a rare blood clotting disorder.”
Yep, my brain is definitely on extended leave.
I had a moment then when I didn’t know whether to flush the toilet or wash my hands in it.
sarahs mum said:
poikilotherm said:
“The national vaccine rollout plan released on Wednesday afternoon reveals the locally-made AstraZeneca vaccine will be phased out of use in Australia except by request, after health authorities changed advice to limit its use to people older than 60 due to concerns about a rare blood clotting disorder.”
So should I cancel my Saturday vac?
Do you want to live?
https://thenewdaily.com.au/finance/finance-news/2021/06/23/political-advertising-mccormack-pascoe/
I see NSW has donned the plague rat capital mantle.
ChrispenEvan said:
I see NSW has donned the plague rat capital mantle.
No more dancing.
Hey poik: the new flush of King Oysters are growing much quicker and bigger. And they really look like Kings, too.
Michael V said:
Hey poik: the new flush of King Oysters are growing much quicker and bigger. And they really look like Kings, too.
Cool. I think you can get 2-3 flushes from one bucket of media. After that they start to look a little sad. Better conditions this time?
poikilotherm said:
Michael V said:
Hey poik: the new flush of King Oysters are growing much quicker and bigger. And they really look like Kings, too.
Cool. I think you can get 2-3 flushes from one bucket of media. After that they start to look a little sad. Better conditions this time?
Yes. Originally, the mycelium grew through the micropore tape and the mushrooms grew on that mycelium. That’s gone now (on 2.5 of the three buckets – that experiment is continuing). Next batch, I’ll remove the tape as soon as I observe mycelium growing through it.
I’m also trying to spawn some stem butts of Pearl Oyster. And I’ll do another lot in a few days. Basically so I can get a scheduled continuous supply.
Michael V said:
poikilotherm said:
Michael V said:
Hey poik: the new flush of King Oysters are growing much quicker and bigger. And they really look like Kings, too.
Cool. I think you can get 2-3 flushes from one bucket of media. After that they start to look a little sad. Better conditions this time?
Yes. Originally, the mycelium grew through the micropore tape and the mushrooms grew on that mycelium. That’s gone now (on 2.5 of the three buckets – that experiment is continuing). Next batch, I’ll remove the tape as soon as I observe mycelium growing through it.
I’m also trying to spawn some stem butts of Pearl Oyster. And I’ll do another lot in a few days. Basically so I can get a scheduled continuous supply.
Just looked at the spawn. It was bedded on 20 June. Looks like all the butt pieces are myceliating.
:)
>Looks like all the butt pieces are myceliating.
Might be time to evacuate.
Bubblecar said:
>Looks like all the butt pieces are myceliating.Might be time to evacuate.
No, not at all. I’m looking forward to having a continuous supply of fresh, home-grown oyster mushrooms.
Michael V said:
Bubblecar said:
>Looks like all the butt pieces are myceliating.Might be time to evacuate.
No, not at all. I’m looking forward to having a continuous supply of fresh, home-grown oyster mushrooms.
:)
Would be very welcome.
hello, was supposed to bring my work things home to work from home and I couldn’t connect to the work server because that would’ve been too convenient. grumbles
good evening
monkey skipper said:
good evening
What’s happening MS?
Peak Warming Man said:
monkey skipper said:
good evening
What’s happening MS?
not much ….
Roti as a wrap with garlic slathered fried chicken on a bed of kimchi with shredded vintage cheddar and some lettuce for extra crunch. Very moorish,
sibeen said:
Roti as a wrap with garlic slathered fried chicken on a bed of kimchi with shredded vintage cheddar and some lettuce for extra crunch. Very moorish,
We et butterfish, scallops (Mr buffy), sweet potato cakes and ordinary potato cakes.
Time for some TV.
sibeen said:
Roti as a wrap with garlic slathered fried chicken on a bed of kimchi with shredded vintage cheddar and some lettuce for extra crunch. Very moorish,
chicken n corn soup
Heheheh
I just snapped off a bolt on my exercise bike so went to look up an ‘easy out’. My VPN was set in Dallas and so the first hits I got for the search were bail bonds companies.
sibeen said:
HehehehI just snapped off a bolt on my exercise bike so went to look up an ‘easy out’. My VPN was set in Dallas and so the first hits I got for the search were bail bonds companies.
lol
some cold rain happening, more tomorrow, and friday too
transition said:
some cold rain happening, more tomorrow, and friday too
there was some talk of sky rivers in the ABC news website today.
strange thing is I only heard of the term a week or two ago watching some random YouTube video.
sibeen said:
HehehehI just snapped off a bolt…
TMI
party_pants said:
transition said:
some cold rain happening, more tomorrow, and friday too
there was some talk of sky rivers in the ABC news website today.
strange thing is I only heard of the term a week or two ago watching some random YouTube video.
cold front + tropical feed, good picture of it address below
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-22/weather-atmospheric-river-set-to-fuel-wet-week/100232244
sibeen said:
How is it that Bunnings doesn’t appear to sell left handed drill bits?At least my search on their website comes up with nothing.
they aren’t a common item.
https://www.totaltools.com.au/133365-sutton-1-10mm-metric-hss-cobalt-left-hand-jobber-drill-bit-set-10pc-d202lh10m
transition said:
some cold rain happening, more tomorrow, and friday too
It’s just started again here. It was rather wet in Hamilton around 7.00pm. I declined to parallel park in the main street as I could not see through the windows or the mirrors.
buffy said:
transition said:
some cold rain happening, more tomorrow, and friday too
It’s just started again here. It was rather wet in Hamilton around 7.00pm. I declined to parallel park in the main street as I could not see through the windows or the mirrors.
doing some precautionary sandbagging down south around small city CBD where daughter has business, got a king tide as well I think, doesn’t take much of a rain to get flooded, if rain happens quick
Shebs:
https://www.bunnings.com.au/sutton-tools-projects-6-piece-screw-extractor-set_p0047689
if you have a MIG you can weld a bolt onto the broken one and get it out that way.
From APOD.
Juno has made a close pass of Ganymeade, seeing it in unprecedented detail.
Full size image at https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2106/Ganymede_JunoGill_2217.jpg Image below is reduced size.
Spectacular simulation of star formation. Note the jets expelled during formation from the largest stars. I did some simulation of these while at CSIRO, but in nowhere near this detail. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap210623.html
mollwollfumble said:
From APOD.Juno has made a close pass of Ganymeade, seeing it in unprecedented detail.
Full size image at https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2106/Ganymede_JunoGill_2217.jpg Image below is reduced size.
Spectacular simulation of star formation. Note the jets expelled during formation from the largest stars. I did some simulation of these while at CSIRO, but in nowhere near this detail. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap210623.html
Ta. Dramatic chain of craters left of centre.
Bubblecar said:
mollwollfumble said:
From APOD.Juno has made a close pass of Ganymeade, seeing it in unprecedented detail.
Full size image at https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2106/Ganymede_JunoGill_2217.jpg Image below is reduced size.
Spectacular simulation of star formation. Note the jets expelled during formation from the largest stars. I did some simulation of these while at CSIRO, but in nowhere near this detail. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap210623.html
Ta. Dramatic chain of craters left of centre.
Known as Enki Catena.
Enki Catena (Enki from the Assyro-Babylonian principal water god of the Apsu, and catena from Latin meaning “chain”) is a crater chain on Ganymede measuring 161.3 kilometres (100.2 mi) long.
This chain of 13 craters was probably formed by a comet which was pulled into pieces by Jupiter’s gravity as it passed too close to the planet. Soon after this breakup, the 13 fragments crashed onto Ganymede in rapid succession. The Enki craters formed across the sharp boundary between areas of bright terrain and dark terrain, delimited by a thin trough running diagonally across the center of this image. The ejecta deposit surrounding the craters appears very bright on the bright terrain. Even though all the craters formed nearly simultaneously, it is difficult to discern any ejecta deposit on the dark terrain. This may be because the impacts excavated and mixed dark material into the ejecta and the resulting mix is not apparent against the dark background.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enki_Catena
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
mollwollfumble said:
From APOD.Juno has made a close pass of Ganymeade, seeing it in unprecedented detail.
Full size image at https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2106/Ganymede_JunoGill_2217.jpg Image below is reduced size.
Spectacular simulation of star formation. Note the jets expelled during formation from the largest stars. I did some simulation of these while at CSIRO, but in nowhere near this detail. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap210623.html
Ta. Dramatic chain of craters left of centre.
Known as Enki Catena.
Enki Catena (Enki from the Assyro-Babylonian principal water god of the Apsu, and catena from Latin meaning “chain”) is a crater chain on Ganymede measuring 161.3 kilometres (100.2 mi) long.
This chain of 13 craters was probably formed by a comet which was pulled into pieces by Jupiter’s gravity as it passed too close to the planet. Soon after this breakup, the 13 fragments crashed onto Ganymede in rapid succession. The Enki craters formed across the sharp boundary between areas of bright terrain and dark terrain, delimited by a thin trough running diagonally across the center of this image. The ejecta deposit surrounding the craters appears very bright on the bright terrain. Even though all the craters formed nearly simultaneously, it is difficult to discern any ejecta deposit on the dark terrain. This may be because the impacts excavated and mixed dark material into the ejecta and the resulting mix is not apparent against the dark background.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enki_Catena
Ta. That makes sense. Definitely not either a grazing or rolling single impact. A broken up comet is the only option.
Nods punters, correctors.
Fog with ~100m visibility.
I see Barnaby tried to blow up the MDBP.
LOL
Good morning Holidayers. Four degrees and the sky is clear at the moment. Our forecast is for 11 degrees with showers developing.
Today I’m going to Hamilton (for cash from the bank and groceries) and Coleraine for chocolate. I’ll also call in to the Family Practice and check which doctor was on the day I had my AZ shot. I want to report the cold feet reaction to the Victorian reporting place, but I only saw P, the practice nurse, on the day and the reporting form needs a doctor assigned.
Good morning everybody.
Overcast, grey, calm, 15.6°C. On-and-off light showers throughout the night. ORB no yet measured. BoM predicts 23°C and a small chance of rain throughout the day.
Inside job today: finish off the new kitchen shelves.
It’s nice but this is third world shit. Then again, I guess that’s how we treat who it was donated to.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/chris-hemsworth-proves-to-be-a-real-superhero-in-armidale-20210623-p583pc.html
Morning, cold and raining in the Styx. Half day at the GP clinic today.
poikilotherm said:
Morning, cold and raining in the Styx. Half day at the GP clinic today.
Stopped raining at the moment. There’s 48mm in the gauge, 13 degrees at present. There’s a light behind the clouds which mist be the sun.
‘I bet you that’s Craig McLachlan’.
So now will we see him also suing the ABC for defamation?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-24/tv-host-says-craig-mclachlan-groped-her-live-on-air/100238392
roughbarked said:
‘I bet you that’s Craig McLachlan’.So now will we see him also suing the ABC for defamation?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-24/tv-host-says-craig-mclachlan-groped-her-live-on-air/100238392
Gee Skippy Craig just cant keep it down.
Tie my kangaroo down sport tie my kangaroo down.
He couldn’t either Skippy,
Nimbys…
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-24/epuron-wind-farm-proposal-splits-stanley-residents/100239492
Hello
Cymek said:
Hello
Good Morning Cymek.
John McAfee, antivirus software creator, found dead in prison after Spanish court allows extradition
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-24/john-mcafee-found-dead-in-spanish-prison-antivirus-software/100239740
Sad ending.
Cymek said:
Hello
Greetings
Cymek said:
Hello
No worries.
Great Barrier Reef Foundation. the $440 Million group.
Thank you so much if you have already given to the appeal to help replenish the Reef using coral IVF.
You’re helping to restore the Reef which supports iconic Australian species like Nemo the clownfish.
If you’ve not yet donated, it’s not too late for you to give – there’s still 6 days until June 30.
Donate Today
Your caring gift today will go towards coral IVF, an innovative technique which harnesses a natural phenomenon.
It’s called mass coral spawning. It happens just once a year. In an underwater snowstorm, the Reef corals release millions of tiny eggs and sperm into the sea.
With your support, researchers then undertake the following 3-step process:
1. Collection – a portion of the coral spawn is diverted into special floating nurseries. You can help set up these nursery pools.
2. Culturing – the coral spawn are fertilised and the larvae are reared in the nursery pools for 7 days. You help make coral babies.
3. Resettling – the coral babies are delivered onto the damaged sections of Reef. Here they settle and will grow to the size of dinner plates within 2-3 years. You help to replenish dying reef habitats
This process has the potential to help large sections of the Reef to recover from coral bleaching. So the Reef can continue to support marine plants and animals. This includes the sea anemone where Nemo the clownfish makes its home.
But your generosity is needed to roll out coral IVF on a larger scale. Stephen, the Reef needs people like you to care.
DONATE NOW
It’s not too late to restore your beautiful reef.
It’s still an ecosystem that supports so many unique species. That includes the endangered green turtles. And the gentle dugongs – also vulnerable. And iconic species like Nemo the clownfish.
Bleached corals are not yet dead corals, but I need your help to restore as much damaged reef as possible.
What will your gift do?
> Your gift helps to fight the damaging impacts of climate change – by collecting spawn from corals that have survived coral bleaching, you can help us breed more heat tolerant corals.
> Your gift helps to replenish a world heritage listed property – the world’s largest coral reef is an incredible ecosystem in its own right.
> Your gift helps to support endangered and iconic Australia species – this includes Nemo the clownfish, one of many species that depend on the Reef for habitat, protection and food.
The clock is ticking but there is still hope. Your gift today matters to restore reef habitats and homes.
ChrispenEvan said:
Great Barrier Reef Foundation. the $440 Million group.Thank you so much if you have already given to the appeal to help replenish the Reef using coral IVF.
You’re helping to restore the Reef which supports iconic Australian species like Nemo the clownfish.
If you’ve not yet donated, it’s not too late for you to give – there’s still 6 days until June 30.
Donate Today
Your caring gift today will go towards coral IVF, an innovative technique which harnesses a natural phenomenon.It’s called mass coral spawning. It happens just once a year. In an underwater snowstorm, the Reef corals release millions of tiny eggs and sperm into the sea.
With your support, researchers then undertake the following 3-step process:
1. Collection – a portion of the coral spawn is diverted into special floating nurseries. You can help set up these nursery pools.2. Culturing – the coral spawn are fertilised and the larvae are reared in the nursery pools for 7 days. You help make coral babies.
3. Resettling – the coral babies are delivered onto the damaged sections of Reef. Here they settle and will grow to the size of dinner plates within 2-3 years. You help to replenish dying reef habitats
This process has the potential to help large sections of the Reef to recover from coral bleaching. So the Reef can continue to support marine plants and animals. This includes the sea anemone where Nemo the clownfish makes its home.But your generosity is needed to roll out coral IVF on a larger scale. Stephen, the Reef needs people like you to care.
DONATE NOW
It’s not too late to restore your beautiful reef.It’s still an ecosystem that supports so many unique species. That includes the endangered green turtles. And the gentle dugongs – also vulnerable. And iconic species like Nemo the clownfish.
Bleached corals are not yet dead corals, but I need your help to restore as much damaged reef as possible.
What will your gift do?
> Your gift helps to fight the damaging impacts of climate change – by collecting spawn from corals that have survived coral bleaching, you can help us breed more heat tolerant corals.
> Your gift helps to replenish a world heritage listed property – the world’s largest coral reef is an incredible ecosystem in its own right.
> Your gift helps to support endangered and iconic Australia species – this includes Nemo the clownfish, one of many species that depend on the Reef for habitat, protection and food.
The clock is ticking but there is still hope. Your gift today matters to restore reef habitats and homes.
D’you think they’ll give?
ChrispenEvan said:
Great Barrier Reef Foundation. the $440 Million group.Thank you so much if you have already given to the appeal to help replenish the Reef using coral IVF.
You’re helping to restore the Reef which supports iconic Australian species like Nemo the clownfish.
If you’ve not yet donated, it’s not too late for you to give – there’s still 6 days until June 30.
Donate Today
Your caring gift today will go towards coral IVF, an innovative technique which harnesses a natural phenomenon.It’s called mass coral spawning. It happens just once a year. In an underwater snowstorm, the Reef corals release millions of tiny eggs and sperm into the sea.
With your support, researchers then undertake the following 3-step process:
1. Collection – a portion of the coral spawn is diverted into special floating nurseries. You can help set up these nursery pools.2. Culturing – the coral spawn are fertilised and the larvae are reared in the nursery pools for 7 days. You help make coral babies.
3. Resettling – the coral babies are delivered onto the damaged sections of Reef. Here they settle and will grow to the size of dinner plates within 2-3 years. You help to replenish dying reef habitats
This process has the potential to help large sections of the Reef to recover from coral bleaching. So the Reef can continue to support marine plants and animals. This includes the sea anemone where Nemo the clownfish makes its home.But your generosity is needed to roll out coral IVF on a larger scale. Stephen, the Reef needs people like you to care.
DONATE NOW
It’s not too late to restore your beautiful reef.It’s still an ecosystem that supports so many unique species. That includes the endangered green turtles. And the gentle dugongs – also vulnerable. And iconic species like Nemo the clownfish.
Bleached corals are not yet dead corals, but I need your help to restore as much damaged reef as possible.
What will your gift do?
> Your gift helps to fight the damaging impacts of climate change – by collecting spawn from corals that have survived coral bleaching, you can help us breed more heat tolerant corals.
> Your gift helps to replenish a world heritage listed property – the world’s largest coral reef is an incredible ecosystem in its own right.
> Your gift helps to support endangered and iconic Australia species – this includes Nemo the clownfish, one of many species that depend on the Reef for habitat, protection and food.
The clock is ticking but there is still hope. Your gift today matters to restore reef habitats and homes.
Is this a scam? Where did you find this?
Britain’s biggest bed, the Great Bed of Ware, c.1590. Can accommodate four couples.
Acquired by the V&A in 1920, after having previously turned it down in the 19th century, describing it then as a “coarse and mutilated relic”.
roughbarked said:
‘I bet you that’s Craig McLachlan’.So now will we see him also suing the ABC for defamation?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-24/tv-host-says-craig-mclachlan-groped-her-live-on-air/100238392
You can see in the video where she jumps.
Reducing NOM is a good thing … thanks COVID…
http://bilbo.economicoutlook.net/blog/?p=47732
Speedy said:
ChrispenEvan said:
Great Barrier Reef Foundation. the $440 Million group.Thank you so much if you have already given to the appeal to help replenish the Reef using coral IVF.
You’re helping to restore the Reef which supports iconic Australian species like Nemo the clownfish.
If you’ve not yet donated, it’s not too late for you to give – there’s still 6 days until June 30.
Donate Today
Your caring gift today will go towards coral IVF, an innovative technique which harnesses a natural phenomenon.It’s called mass coral spawning. It happens just once a year. In an underwater snowstorm, the Reef corals release millions of tiny eggs and sperm into the sea.
With your support, researchers then undertake the following 3-step process:
1. Collection – a portion of the coral spawn is diverted into special floating nurseries. You can help set up these nursery pools.2. Culturing – the coral spawn are fertilised and the larvae are reared in the nursery pools for 7 days. You help make coral babies.
3. Resettling – the coral babies are delivered onto the damaged sections of Reef. Here they settle and will grow to the size of dinner plates within 2-3 years. You help to replenish dying reef habitats
This process has the potential to help large sections of the Reef to recover from coral bleaching. So the Reef can continue to support marine plants and animals. This includes the sea anemone where Nemo the clownfish makes its home.But your generosity is needed to roll out coral IVF on a larger scale. Stephen, the Reef needs people like you to care.
DONATE NOW
It’s not too late to restore your beautiful reef.It’s still an ecosystem that supports so many unique species. That includes the endangered green turtles. And the gentle dugongs – also vulnerable. And iconic species like Nemo the clownfish.
Bleached corals are not yet dead corals, but I need your help to restore as much damaged reef as possible.
What will your gift do?
> Your gift helps to fight the damaging impacts of climate change – by collecting spawn from corals that have survived coral bleaching, you can help us breed more heat tolerant corals.
> Your gift helps to replenish a world heritage listed property – the world’s largest coral reef is an incredible ecosystem in its own right.
> Your gift helps to support endangered and iconic Australia species – this includes Nemo the clownfish, one of many species that depend on the Reef for habitat, protection and food.
The clock is ticking but there is still hope. Your gift today matters to restore reef habitats and homes.
Is this a scam? Where did you find this?
I get emails from them. Not a scam.
Bubblecar said:
Britain’s biggest bed, the Great Bed of Ware, c.1590. Can accommodate four couples.Acquired by the V&A in 1920, after having previously turned it down in the 19th century, describing it then as a “coarse and mutilated relic”.
Four couples? How strange.
I would have thought that this bed, at the time, would have been more suited to families with many surviving children. The Tarago of beds.
Bubblecar said:
Britain’s biggest bed, the Great Bed of Ware, c.1590. Can accommodate four couples.Acquired by the V&A in 1920, after having previously turned it down in the 19th century, describing it then as a “coarse and mutilated relic”.
fancy trying to hoik that up four flights of stairs.
https://theconversation.com/meat-pies-desert-bloody-dingoes-new-australian-film-buckleys-chance-brims-with-dated-cultural-cliches-162858
ChrispenEvan said:
Bubblecar said:
Britain’s biggest bed, the Great Bed of Ware, c.1590. Can accommodate four couples.Acquired by the V&A in 1920, after having previously turned it down in the 19th century, describing it then as a “coarse and mutilated relic”.
fancy trying to hoik that up four flights of stairs.
I think they had serfs or similar for that.
ChrispenEvan said:
Speedy said:
ChrispenEvan said:
Great Barrier Reef Foundation. the $440 Million group.Thank you so much if you have already given to the appeal to help replenish the Reef using coral IVF.
You’re helping to restore the Reef which supports iconic Australian species like Nemo the clownfish.
If you’ve not yet donated, it’s not too late for you to give – there’s still 6 days until June 30.
Donate Today
Your caring gift today will go towards coral IVF, an innovative technique which harnesses a natural phenomenon.It’s called mass coral spawning. It happens just once a year. In an underwater snowstorm, the Reef corals release millions of tiny eggs and sperm into the sea.
With your support, researchers then undertake the following 3-step process:
1. Collection – a portion of the coral spawn is diverted into special floating nurseries. You can help set up these nursery pools.2. Culturing – the coral spawn are fertilised and the larvae are reared in the nursery pools for 7 days. You help make coral babies.
3. Resettling – the coral babies are delivered onto the damaged sections of Reef. Here they settle and will grow to the size of dinner plates within 2-3 years. You help to replenish dying reef habitats
This process has the potential to help large sections of the Reef to recover from coral bleaching. So the Reef can continue to support marine plants and animals. This includes the sea anemone where Nemo the clownfish makes its home.But your generosity is needed to roll out coral IVF on a larger scale. Stephen, the Reef needs people like you to care.
DONATE NOW
It’s not too late to restore your beautiful reef.It’s still an ecosystem that supports so many unique species. That includes the endangered green turtles. And the gentle dugongs – also vulnerable. And iconic species like Nemo the clownfish.
Bleached corals are not yet dead corals, but I need your help to restore as much damaged reef as possible.
What will your gift do?
> Your gift helps to fight the damaging impacts of climate change – by collecting spawn from corals that have survived coral bleaching, you can help us breed more heat tolerant corals.
> Your gift helps to replenish a world heritage listed property – the world’s largest coral reef is an incredible ecosystem in its own right.
> Your gift helps to support endangered and iconic Australia species – this includes Nemo the clownfish, one of many species that depend on the Reef for habitat, protection and food.
The clock is ticking but there is still hope. Your gift today matters to restore reef habitats and homes.
Is this a scam? Where did you find this?
I get emails from them. Not a scam.
Ah, all good then.
I think I would donate only if I was also offered the chance to take photos while I help to make coral babies, so that I can post them on fb.
Speedy said:
ChrispenEvan said:
Speedy said:Is this a scam? Where did you find this?
I get emails from them. Not a scam.
Ah, all good then.
I think I would donate only if I was also offered the chance to take photos while I help to make coral babies, so that I can post them on fb.
I was really just wondering why they don’t use some of that $440 million.
poikilotherm said:
Reducing NOM is a good thing … thanks COVID…http://bilbo.economicoutlook.net/blog/?p=47732
NOM?
ChrispenEvan said:
Speedy said:
ChrispenEvan said:I get emails from them. Not a scam.
Ah, all good then.
I think I would donate only if I was also offered the chance to take photos while I help to make coral babies, so that I can post them on fb.
I was really just wondering why they don’t use some of that $440 million.
That was all allocated on consultation fees, wasn’t it? It looks like the consultants came up with a good funding plan.
ChrispenEvan said:
Speedy said:
ChrispenEvan said:I get emails from them. Not a scam.
Ah, all good then.
I think I would donate only if I was also offered the chance to take photos while I help to make coral babies, so that I can post them on fb.
I was really just wondering why they don’t use some of that $440 million.
Probably given to mates etc.
https://www.crikey.com.au/2021/05/06/great-barrier-reef-foundation-audit/
Witty Rejoinder said:
poikilotherm said:
Reducing NOM is a good thing … thanks COVID…http://bilbo.economicoutlook.net/blog/?p=47732
NOM?
Net Overseas Migration.
poikilotherm said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
poikilotherm said:
Reducing NOM is a good thing … thanks COVID…http://bilbo.economicoutlook.net/blog/?p=47732
NOM?
Net Overseas Migration.
Thanks.
Speedy said:
Bubblecar said:
Britain’s biggest bed, the Great Bed of Ware, c.1590. Can accommodate four couples.Acquired by the V&A in 1920, after having previously turned it down in the 19th century, describing it then as a “coarse and mutilated relic”.
Four couples? How strange.
I would have thought that this bed, at the time, would have been more suited to families with many surviving children. The Tarago of beds.
1 + 7 polygamous arrangement perhaps?
ChrispenEvan said:
Speedy said:
ChrispenEvan said:I get emails from them. Not a scam.
Ah, all good then.
I think I would donate only if I was also offered the chance to take photos while I help to make coral babies, so that I can post them on fb.
I was really just wondering why they don’t use some of that $440 million.
I know they are the evil mates of an evil government, but is there actually good evidence that the money has been mis-spent, if it has actually been spent?
https://thenewdaily.com.au/finance/2021/06/24/alan-kohler-climate-change-cost/
ChrispenEvan said:
https://theconversation.com/meat-pies-desert-bloody-dingoes-new-australian-film-buckleys-chance-brims-with-dated-cultural-cliches-162858
I’ll probably love the movie and will extoll its virtues.
The Rev Dodgson said:
ChrispenEvan said:
Speedy said:Ah, all good then.
I think I would donate only if I was also offered the chance to take photos while I help to make coral babies, so that I can post them on fb.
I was really just wondering why they don’t use some of that $440 million.
I know they are the evil mates of an evil government, but is there actually good evidence that the money has been mis-spent, if it has actually been spent?
Are they obliged to release an annual report or something like that?
party_pants said:
Speedy said:
Bubblecar said:
Britain’s biggest bed, the Great Bed of Ware, c.1590. Can accommodate four couples.Acquired by the V&A in 1920, after having previously turned it down in the 19th century, describing it then as a “coarse and mutilated relic”.
Four couples? How strange.
I would have thought that this bed, at the time, would have been more suited to families with many surviving children. The Tarago of beds.
1 + 7 polygamous arrangement perhaps?
>…The gigantic bed carries a reputation which is a little racier than most historic furniture in the museum. Constructed around 1590, it was most likely made as a tourist attraction for an inn in Ware, Hertfordshire. Ware was a day’s journey from London and a convenient overnight stop for travellers going to Cambridge University or further north. Guests carved their initials into the wood, or applied red wax seals to mark their night in the bed, still visible on the bedposts and headboard today.
https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/great-bed-of-ware
party_pants said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
ChrispenEvan said:I was really just wondering why they don’t use some of that $440 million.
I know they are the evil mates of an evil government, but is there actually good evidence that the money has been mis-spent, if it has actually been spent?
Are they obliged to release an annual report or something like that?
https://www.gbrmpa.gov.au/our-work/reef-strategies/reef-integrated-monitoring-and-reporting-program
party_pants said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
ChrispenEvan said:I was really just wondering why they don’t use some of that $440 million.
I know they are the evil mates of an evil government, but is there actually good evidence that the money has been mis-spent, if it has actually been spent?
Are they obliged to release an annual report or something like that?
I’m pretty sure I read one, and it was so generally worded that you couldn’t actually tell what they were up to, but I may be misremembering.
Bubblecar said:
party_pants said:
Speedy said:Four couples? How strange.
I would have thought that this bed, at the time, would have been more suited to families with many surviving children. The Tarago of beds.
1 + 7 polygamous arrangement perhaps?
>…The gigantic bed carries a reputation which is a little racier than most historic furniture in the museum. Constructed around 1590, it was most likely made as a tourist attraction for an inn in Ware, Hertfordshire. Ware was a day’s journey from London and a convenient overnight stop for travellers going to Cambridge University or further north. Guests carved their initials into the wood, or applied red wax seals to mark their night in the bed, and some left chewing gum which has lost its flavour, still visible on the bedposts and headboard today.
https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/great-bed-of-ware
Fixed.
party_pants said:
Speedy said:
Bubblecar said:
Britain’s biggest bed, the Great Bed of Ware, c.1590. Can accommodate four couples.Acquired by the V&A in 1920, after having previously turned it down in the 19th century, describing it then as a “coarse and mutilated relic”.
Four couples? How strange.
I would have thought that this bed, at the time, would have been more suited to families with many surviving children. The Tarago of beds.
1 + 7 polygamous arrangement perhaps?
Orgy Bed.
sibeen said:
ChrispenEvan said:
https://theconversation.com/meat-pies-desert-bloody-dingoes-new-australian-film-buckleys-chance-brims-with-dated-cultural-cliches-162858
I’ll probably love the movie and will extoll its virtues.
Doesn’t that describe most Australian movies
The quintessential Brian Brown defrosted from cryo for one more Aussie movie
The Rev Dodgson said:
party_pants said:
The Rev Dodgson said:I know they are the evil mates of an evil government, but is there actually good evidence that the money has been mis-spent, if it has actually been spent?
Are they obliged to release an annual report or something like that?
I’m pretty sure I read one, and it was so generally worded that you couldn’t actually tell what they were up to, but I may be misremembering.
Is this the mob? https://elibrary.gbrmpa.gov.au/jspui/handle/11017/3661
ChrispenEvan said:
Bubblecar said:
party_pants said:1 + 7 polygamous arrangement perhaps?
>…The gigantic bed carries a reputation which is a little racier than most historic furniture in the museum. Constructed around 1590, it was most likely made as a tourist attraction for an inn in Ware, Hertfordshire. Ware was a day’s journey from London and a convenient overnight stop for travellers going to Cambridge University or further north. Guests carved their initials into the wood, or applied red wax seals to mark their night in the bed, and some left chewing gum which has lost its flavour, still visible on the bedposts and headboard today.
https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/great-bed-of-ware
Fixed.
Now everyone lie back and think of England
roughbarked said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
party_pants said:Are they obliged to release an annual report or something like that?
I’m pretty sure I read one, and it was so generally worded that you couldn’t actually tell what they were up to, but I may be misremembering.
Is this the mob? https://elibrary.gbrmpa.gov.au/jspui/handle/11017/3661
Looks like it.
The Rev Dodgson said:
roughbarked said:
The Rev Dodgson said:I’m pretty sure I read one, and it was so generally worded that you couldn’t actually tell what they were up to, but I may be misremembering.
Is this the mob? https://elibrary.gbrmpa.gov.au/jspui/handle/11017/3661
Looks like it.
Well we got an expensive looking website.
roughbarked said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
roughbarked said:Is this the mob? https://elibrary.gbrmpa.gov.au/jspui/handle/11017/3661
Looks like it.
Well we got an expensive looking website.
Which otherwise is a promotion for the Australian Government?
Who wants to jump and and down on the orgy bed.
Anyone?
I can type properly any more.
:)
Tau.Neutrino said:
Who wants to jump and and down on the orgy bed.Anyone?
I’m more the laid back type.
The Rev Dodgson said:
roughbarked said:
The Rev Dodgson said:I’m pretty sure I read one, and it was so generally worded that you couldn’t actually tell what they were up to, but I may be misremembering.
Is this the mob? https://elibrary.gbrmpa.gov.au/jspui/handle/11017/3661
Looks like it.
No, one is a part of the Australian Govt. The other is an organisation, headed by a bunch of business people, that was gifted $440m by the govt. to try to preserve the GBR.
party_pants said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Who wants to jump and and down on the orgy bed.Anyone?
I’m more the laid back type.
Quite a few got laid in that bed.
Speedy said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
roughbarked said:Is this the mob? https://elibrary.gbrmpa.gov.au/jspui/handle/11017/3661
Looks like it.
No, one is a part of the Australian Govt. The other is an organisation, headed by a bunch of business people, that was gifted $440m by the govt. to try to preserve the GBR.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-05-22/great-barrier-reef-funding-labor-accuse-due-diligence/9785782
Tau.Neutrino said:
party_pants said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Who wants to jump and and down on the orgy bed.Anyone?
I’m more the laid back type.
Quite a few got laid in that bed.
So they say but I wasn’t there so I’d not really know.
Bubblecar said:
party_pants said:
Speedy said:Four couples? How strange.
I would have thought that this bed, at the time, would have been more suited to families with many surviving children. The Tarago of beds.
1 + 7 polygamous arrangement perhaps?
>…The gigantic bed carries a reputation which is a little racier than most historic furniture in the museum. Constructed around 1590, it was most likely made as a tourist attraction for an inn in Ware, Hertfordshire. Ware was a day’s journey from London and a convenient overnight stop for travellers going to Cambridge University or further north. Guests carved their initials into the wood, or applied red wax seals to mark their night in the bed, still visible on the bedposts and headboard today.
https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/great-bed-of-ware
There’s a good video about the bed at that link, with lots of close-up views. It really is absolutely covered in signatures.
Speedy said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
roughbarked said:Is this the mob? https://elibrary.gbrmpa.gov.au/jspui/handle/11017/3661
Looks like it.
No, one is a part of the Australian Govt. The other is an organisation, headed by a bunch of business people, that was gifted $440m by the govt. to try to preserve the GBR.
Yeah, should have read it properly :)
The private mob do have an annual report somewhere though.
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
party_pants said:1 + 7 polygamous arrangement perhaps?
>…The gigantic bed carries a reputation which is a little racier than most historic furniture in the museum. Constructed around 1590, it was most likely made as a tourist attraction for an inn in Ware, Hertfordshire. Ware was a day’s journey from London and a convenient overnight stop for travellers going to Cambridge University or further north. Guests carved their initials into the wood, or applied red wax seals to mark their night in the bed, still visible on the bedposts and headboard today.
https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/great-bed-of-ware
There’s a good video about the bed at that link, with lots of close-up views. It really is absolutely covered in signatures.
I bet if you used a black light it would look like a Jackson Pollock painting
https://theconversation.com/dirty-secrets-sediment-dna-reveals-a-300-000-year-timeline-of-ancient-and-modern-humans-living-in-siberia-161585
https://theconversation.com/the-governments-idea-of-national-environment-standards-would-entrench-australias-global-pariah-status-163082
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
party_pants said:1 + 7 polygamous arrangement perhaps?
>…The gigantic bed carries a reputation which is a little racier than most historic furniture in the museum. Constructed around 1590, it was most likely made as a tourist attraction for an inn in Ware, Hertfordshire. Ware was a day’s journey from London and a convenient overnight stop for travellers going to Cambridge University or further north. Guests carved their initials into the wood, or applied red wax seals to mark their night in the bed, still visible on the bedposts and headboard today.
https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/great-bed-of-ware
There’s a good video about the bed at that link, with lots of close-up views. It really is absolutely covered in signatures.
I wonder how many signatures it has?
The Rev Dodgson said:
Speedy said:
The Rev Dodgson said:Looks like it.
No, one is a part of the Australian Govt. The other is an organisation, headed by a bunch of business people, that was gifted $440m by the govt. to try to preserve the GBR.
Yeah, should have read it properly :)
The private mob do have an annual report somewhere though.
:)
What do you think the correct answer to “Is this a scam?” was?
Speedy said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Speedy said:No, one is a part of the Australian Govt. The other is an organisation, headed by a bunch of business people, that was gifted $440m by the govt. to try to preserve the GBR.
Yeah, should have read it properly :)
The private mob do have an annual report somewhere though.
:)
What do you think the correct answer to “Is this a scam?” was?
I don’t know. I haven’t seen any good evidence either way.
Speedy said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Speedy said:No, one is a part of the Australian Govt. The other is an organisation, headed by a bunch of business people, that was gifted $440m by the govt. to try to preserve the GBR.
Yeah, should have read it properly :)
The private mob do have an annual report somewhere though.
:)
What do you think the correct answer to “Is this a scam?” was?
It depends. The email wasn’t a scam but that may not apply to the organisation itself.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Speedy said:
The Rev Dodgson said:Yeah, should have read it properly :)
The private mob do have an annual report somewhere though.
:)
What do you think the correct answer to “Is this a scam?” was?
I don’t know. I haven’t seen any good evidence either way.
The fundraising email reeks of scam, and even more-so if it is in fact from the GBRF.
Olive and Mabel – The Call of the Wild.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_7F5n8KDFM
Tau.Neutrino said:
New optical technique paves the way for “hair-thin” endoscopes
Clever use of an astronomy technique.
sarahs mum said:
Olive and Mabel – The Call of the Wild.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_7F5n8KDFM
Watched that this morning :)
The Rev Dodgson said:
Speedy said:
The Rev Dodgson said:Looks like it.
No, one is a part of the Australian Govt. The other is an organisation, headed by a bunch of business people, that was gifted $440m by the govt. to try to preserve the GBR.
Yeah, should have read it properly :)
The private mob do have an annual report somewhere though.
https://www.barrierreef.org/what-we-do/about-us
roughbarked said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Speedy said:No, one is a part of the Australian Govt. The other is an organisation, headed by a bunch of business people, that was gifted $440m by the govt. to try to preserve the GBR.
Yeah, should have read it properly :)
The private mob do have an annual report somewhere though.
https://www.barrierreef.org/what-we-do/about-us
https://www.barrierreef.org/resources/publications
Did a lap around the block outside.
Cop cars stopped suddenly, three got out, handcuffed a guy and put him in the back in the space of half a minute.
Cymek said:
Did a lap around the block outside.
Cop cars stopped suddenly, three got out, handcuffed a guy and put him in the back in the space of half a minute.
Youtuber?
Cymek said:
Did a lap around the block outside.
Cop cars stopped suddenly, three got out, handcuffed a guy and put him in the back in the space of half a minute.
There used to doing that.
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:
The Rev Dodgson said:Yeah, should have read it properly :)
The private mob do have an annual report somewhere though.
https://www.barrierreef.org/what-we-do/about-us
https://www.barrierreef.org/resources/publications
The Rev Dodgson said:
Speedy said:
The Rev Dodgson said:Looks like it.
No, one is a part of the Australian Govt. The other is an organisation, headed by a bunch of business people, that was gifted $440m by the govt. to try to preserve the GBR.
Yeah, should have read it properly :)
The private mob do have an annual report somewhere though.
https://www.barrierreef.org/uploads/FY20192020-GBRF-Annual-Report.pdf
See also
https://www.crikey.com.au/2021/05/06/great-barrier-reef-foundation-audit/
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:https://www.barrierreef.org/what-we-do/about-us
https://www.barrierreef.org/resources/publications
The first one is curious. Are they subsidising farmers not to use fertilisers? Seems a lot of money to spend on it.
Dark Orange said:
sarahs mum said:
Olive and Mabel – The Call of the Wild.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_7F5n8KDFM
Watched that this morning :)
I posted it for Buffy. I’ll try to bump it again later.
Is DA still posting somewhere?
Peak Warming Man said:
Is DA still posting somewhere?
facebook.
Peak Warming Man said:
Is DA still posting somewhere?
Facebook.
interesting
M. Zamolo. NTFNC
Ah well she’s still alive then.
party_pants said:
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:https://www.barrierreef.org/resources/publications
The first one is curious. Are they subsidising farmers not to use fertilisers? Seems a lot of money to spend on it.
Mr Frydenberg said the funding would also allow the Government to work closely with farmers “to modify their practices to ensure that the reef doesn’t get the large amounts of sediment, nitrogen and pesticide run-off which is so damaging to coral and which helps breed this crown-of-thorns starfish”.
Mr Frydenberg was cautious in his response when asked if some damage on the reef was “irreparable”, saying experts had told him the reef could be “remarkably resilient”.
ChrispenEvan said:
interesting
M. Zamolo. NTFNC
People should have that ability to change colour
It would end racism.
party_pants said:
Cymek said:
Did a lap around the block outside.
Cop cars stopped suddenly, three got out, handcuffed a guy and put him in the back in the space of half a minute.Youtuber?
outside the court, he must have been released and arrested on new charges perhaps
captain_spalding said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Speedy said:No, one is a part of the Australian Govt. The other is an organisation, headed by a bunch of business people, that was gifted $440m by the govt. to try to preserve the GBR.
Yeah, should have read it properly :)
The private mob do have an annual report somewhere though.
https://www.barrierreef.org/uploads/FY20192020-GBRF-Annual-Report.pdf
See also
https://www.crikey.com.au/2021/05/06/great-barrier-reef-foundation-audit/
Ta.
roughbarked said:
party_pants said:
roughbarked said:
The first one is curious. Are they subsidising farmers not to use fertilisers? Seems a lot of money to spend on it.
Mr Frydenberg said the funding would also allow the Government to work closely with farmers “to modify their practices to ensure that the reef doesn’t get the large amounts of sediment, nitrogen and pesticide run-off which is so damaging to coral and which helps breed this crown-of-thorns starfish”.
Mr Frydenberg was cautious in his response when asked if some damage on the reef was “irreparable”, saying experts had told him the reef could be “remarkably resilient”.
https://www.reefplan.qld.gov.au/resources/explainers/how-healthy-is-the-gbr
https://www.reefplan.qld.gov.au/tracking-progress/paddock-to-reef
Cymek said:
party_pants said:
Cymek said:
Did a lap around the block outside.
Cop cars stopped suddenly, three got out, handcuffed a guy and put him in the back in the space of half a minute.Youtuber?
outside the court, he must have been released and arrested on new charges perhaps
No shortage of charges.
first doggo.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jun/23/who-does-unesco-think-they-are-listing-the-great-barrier-reef-as-in-danger-after-all-we-have-done-for-it
Tau.Neutrino said:
Cymek said:
party_pants said:Youtuber?
outside the court, he must have been released and arrested on new charges perhaps
No shortage of charges.
The seem to charge people every day.
sarahs mum said:
first doggo.https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jun/23/who-does-unesco-think-they-are-listing-the-great-barrier-reef-as-in-danger-after-all-we-have-done-for-it
I pray for it like Scotty does.
Tau.Neutrino said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Cymek said:outside the court, he must have been released and arrested on new charges perhaps
No shortage of charges.
The seem to charge people every day.
Today’s daily charges…
Tau.Neutrino said:
sarahs mum said:
first doggo.https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jun/23/who-does-unesco-think-they-are-listing-the-great-barrier-reef-as-in-danger-after-all-we-have-done-for-it
I pray for it like Scotty does.
Does it work?
Tau.Neutrino said:
ChrispenEvan said:
interesting
M. Zamolo. NTFNC
People should have that ability to change colour
It would end racism.
What about the kiddy-fiddling?
Tau.Neutrino said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Tau.Neutrino said:No shortage of charges.
The seem to charge people every day.
Today’s daily charges…
charges for the cells …
roughbarked said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
sarahs mum said:
first doggo.https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jun/23/who-does-unesco-think-they-are-listing-the-great-barrier-reef-as-in-danger-after-all-we-have-done-for-it
I pray for it like Scotty does.
Does it work?
No.
Tau.Neutrino said:
roughbarked said:
Tau.Neutrino said:I pray for it like Scotty does.
Does it work?
No.
Seems like the effort should be better placed then?
roughbarked said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
roughbarked said:Does it work?
No.
Seems like the effort should be better placed then?
Yes.
Coral farms, cleaning up, research and such.
Tau.Neutrino said:
ChrispenEvan said:
interesting
M. Zamolo. NTFNC
People should have that ability to change colour
It would end racism.
No way it would do that.
sarahs mum said:
first doggo.https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jun/23/who-does-unesco-think-they-are-listing-the-great-barrier-reef-as-in-danger-after-all-we-have-done-for-it
Ta.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
ChrispenEvan said:
interesting
M. Zamolo. NTFNC
People should have that ability to change colour
It would end racism.
No way it would do that.
What about negative reinforcement, everyone has an implant and receives a mild to strong electric shock every time they say something racist
Michael V said:
sarahs mum said:
first doggo.https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jun/23/who-does-unesco-think-they-are-listing-the-great-barrier-reef-as-in-danger-after-all-we-have-done-for-it
Ta.
Ms Plibersek said it stood in contradiction to the Federal Government’s announcement to remove protections of Australia’s marine parks.
“This is the largest ever removal of any area on land or sea from environmental protection, including areas of the Coral Sea that are absolutely critical to the health of the reef so I guess you’d excuse me for being a little sceptical.”
Australian Marine Conservation Society campaign director Imogen Zethoven said the money for problems like water quality and crown-of-thorns starfish plagues were welcome.
“But there’s a huge missing piece in the puzzle and that is a dramatically significant response to climate change.“So unless it comes up with a strong policy, to slash our carbon pollution, stop the Adani coal mine and rapidly shift Australia to renewable energy, we will not see a future for the reef.”
She said she hoped the funding would adequately address agriculture runoff and pollution issues.
“The reality is, hundreds of millions of taxpayers’ dollars has gone into reef rescue packages for nearly 20 years to deal with poor water quality,” she said.
“Yet we’ve had very little gain, so it’s extremely important that this time around the money is spent properly and we start to see the tide turning.”
Former Australian Conservation Foundation president Geoff Cousins said while any help for the reef was welcome news, it was unfortunate that the package does not address the “real issue … global warming and climate change”.
“We don’t protect the reef at all,” he told the ABC’s National Wrap program.
“A third of the reef is already dead, so for the Government to try and suggest it’s somehow doing quite well in looking after this wonderful, national asset it’s just a lie, it’s not true.”The former Howard government advisor noted the investment comes ahead of the 42nd session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee, scheduled for June 24 to July 4.
“The problem with the reef package is that it makes people think that something is being done,” he said.
“I don’t want to be entirely cynical but it surely can’t be any coincidence that just before one of those meetings is going to take place, suddenly we come out with some new ‘rescue package’.”
The businessman said the economic factors of protecting the reef are as important as environmental factors, noting that there are 70,000 jobs tied to tourism to the Great Barrier Reef.
“Even if you believe the Adani figures of 10,000 jobs, and nobody does, it’s nothing compared with the importance of the GBR,” he said.
“Even if those jobs did exist, they’re mythical, they last for 20-odd years, 30-odd years, maybe at best but the reef is there forever.”
ChrispenEvan said:
interesting
M. Zamolo. NTFNC
so back to science and why it is interesting
K. Yates
As said above calcium deposits, this is a female and she uses the calcium when laying eggs most geckos lay soft shelled eggs but some like the Gehyra lay hard shelled eggs
John McAfee found dead in Spanish prison after his extradition to the US was approved
By Clare Duffy and Alan Goodman, CNN Business
Updated 2229 GMT (0629 HKT) June 23, 2021
New York (CNN Business)John McAfee, the controversial antivirus software magnate who’d had multiple recent run-ins with the US law, has died at 75. McAfee was awaiting extradition in a Spanish prison after being charged with tax evasion in the United States last year.
McAfee was found dead in his cell in a prison near Barcelona on Wednesday around 1 p.m. ET and a medical examiner is on the scene, a spokeswoman for the Superior Court of Catalonia told CNN. She said the cause of death is under investigation.
dv said:
John McAfee found dead in Spanish prison after his extradition to the US was approvedBy Clare Duffy and Alan Goodman, CNN Business
Updated 2229 GMT (0629 HKT) June 23, 2021
New York (CNN Business)John McAfee, the controversial antivirus software magnate who’d had multiple recent run-ins with the US law, has died at 75. McAfee was awaiting extradition in a Spanish prison after being charged with tax evasion in the United States last year.
McAfee was found dead in his cell in a prison near Barcelona on Wednesday around 1 p.m. ET and a medical examiner is on the scene, a spokeswoman for the Superior Court of Catalonia told CNN. She said the cause of death is under investigation.
apparently he got some virus…
Cymek said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Tau.Neutrino said:People should have that ability to change colour
It would end racism.
No way it would do that.
What about negative reinforcement, everyone has an implant and receives a mild to strong electric shock every time they say something racist
Racist mime would just take off.
dv said:
John McAfee found dead in Spanish prison after his extradition to the US was approvedBy Clare Duffy and Alan Goodman, CNN Business
Updated 2229 GMT (0629 HKT) June 23, 2021
New York (CNN Business)John McAfee, the controversial antivirus software magnate who’d had multiple recent run-ins with the US law, has died at 75. McAfee was awaiting extradition in a Spanish prison after being charged with tax evasion in the United States last year.
McAfee was found dead in his cell in a prison near Barcelona on Wednesday around 1 p.m. ET and a medical examiner is on the scene, a spokeswoman for the Superior Court of Catalonia told CNN. She said the cause of death is under investigation.
Probably a virus.
ChrispenEvan said:
dv said:
John McAfee found dead in Spanish prison after his extradition to the US was approvedBy Clare Duffy and Alan Goodman, CNN Business
Updated 2229 GMT (0629 HKT) June 23, 2021
New York (CNN Business)John McAfee, the controversial antivirus software magnate who’d had multiple recent run-ins with the US law, has died at 75. McAfee was awaiting extradition in a Spanish prison after being charged with tax evasion in the United States last year.
McAfee was found dead in his cell in a prison near Barcelona on Wednesday around 1 p.m. ET and a medical examiner is on the scene, a spokeswoman for the Superior Court of Catalonia told CNN. She said the cause of death is under investigation.
apparently he got some virus…
Damn you, damn you to hell.
dv said:
John McAfee found dead in Spanish prison after his extradition to the US was approvedBy Clare Duffy and Alan Goodman, CNN Business
Updated 2229 GMT (0629 HKT) June 23, 2021
New York (CNN Business)John McAfee, the controversial antivirus software magnate who’d had multiple recent run-ins with the US law, has died at 75. McAfee was awaiting extradition in a Spanish prison after being charged with tax evasion in the United States last year.
McAfee was found dead in his cell in a prison near Barcelona on Wednesday around 1 p.m. ET and a medical examiner is on the scene, a spokeswoman for the Superior Court of Catalonia told CNN. She said the cause of death is under investigation.
Reading the small reported segments of his lifestyle, I’m surprised he made it to 75.
I was gonna go with account suspended but okay
dv said:
John McAfee found dead in Spanish prison after his extradition to the US was approvedBy Clare Duffy and Alan Goodman, CNN Business
Updated 2229 GMT (0629 HKT) June 23, 2021
New York (CNN Business)John McAfee, the controversial antivirus software magnate who’d had multiple recent run-ins with the US law, has died at 75. McAfee was awaiting extradition in a Spanish prison after being charged with tax evasion in the United States last year.
McAfee was found dead in his cell in a prison near Barcelona on Wednesday around 1 p.m. ET and a medical examiner is on the scene, a spokeswoman for the Superior Court of Catalonia told CNN. She said the cause of death is under investigation.
Why can’t tech billionaires just pay their bloody taxes like they’re nobody special?
https://www.watoday.com.au/politics/federal/senator-maggoted-in-late-night-sitting-draws-criticism-from-colleagues-20210623-p583ku.html
sarahs mum said:
Olive and Mabel – The Call of the Wild.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_7F5n8KDFM
Thank you sm. I do like them. There is an earlier one on the same theme I seem to remember.
dv said:
I was gonna go with account suspended but okay
He forgot to renew his licence ignoring numerous nags screens for months
ChrispenEvan said:
https://www.watoday.com.au/politics/federal/senator-maggoted-in-late-night-sitting-draws-criticism-from-colleagues-20210623-p583ku.html
Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell.
ChrispenEvan said:
https://www.watoday.com.au/politics/federal/senator-maggoted-in-late-night-sitting-draws-criticism-from-colleagues-20210623-p583ku.html
Run an intervention on Canberra. Shut down the bars. Put her on the card.
sarahs mum said:
ChrispenEvan said:
https://www.watoday.com.au/politics/federal/senator-maggoted-in-late-night-sitting-draws-criticism-from-colleagues-20210623-p583ku.html
Run an intervention on Canberra. Shut down the bars. Put her on the card.
They passed a bill the other day to make it quite okay for them to stage party fundraisers at Parliament house. I guess there will be a lot of this going on in the near future.
sarahs mum said:
sarahs mum said:
ChrispenEvan said:
https://www.watoday.com.au/politics/federal/senator-maggoted-in-late-night-sitting-draws-criticism-from-colleagues-20210623-p583ku.html
Run an intervention on Canberra. Shut down the bars. Put her on the card.
They passed a bill the other day to make it quite okay for them to stage party fundraisers at Parliament house. I guess there will be a lot of this going on in the near future.
Then again…look at what seems to be playing out in NSW after the post budget Liberals dinner…
Jackie Lane, who played First Doctor companion Dodo Chaplet, has died at the age of 79.
Had a call from the accountant, who is dealing with a Tax Office audit for me. Apparently the auditor doesn’t want to have to go through the dockets from the Medicare Hicaps Easyclaim stuff and asked for the monthly statements from Medicare. There aren’t any. Once you are on Easyclaim, it’s the eftpos terminal dockets and that’s it. As far as I can remember. My accountant offered to send all the dockets to the auditor (some are now a bit faded and won’t photocopy/scan) but they asked for monthly statements. So now the accountant will again phone the auditor and tell her how it is. As the Tax Office should be able to link in to the Medicare office anyway, I can’t see the problem. They can easily find out how much Medicare paid me for that year. I also don’t know why they are even bothering to audit someone who has been eligible for the low income offset and the low and middle income offset for years and years. Even if they find any minor errors in the tax return, there isn’t likely to be much in it for them. They might even find they owe me money.
buffy said:
Had a call from the accountant, who is dealing with a Tax Office audit for me. Apparently the auditor doesn’t want to have to go through the dockets from the Medicare Hicaps Easyclaim stuff and asked for the monthly statements from Medicare. There aren’t any. Once you are on Easyclaim, it’s the eftpos terminal dockets and that’s it. As far as I can remember. My accountant offered to send all the dockets to the auditor (some are now a bit faded and won’t photocopy/scan) but they asked for monthly statements. So now the accountant will again phone the auditor and tell her how it is. As the Tax Office should be able to link in to the Medicare office anyway, I can’t see the problem. They can easily find out how much Medicare paid me for that year. I also don’t know why they are even bothering to audit someone who has been eligible for the low income offset and the low and middle income offset for years and years. Even if they find any minor errors in the tax return, there isn’t likely to be much in it for them. They might even find they owe me money.
tax evasion was Al Capones downfall. I’m sure Witty will visit you.
ChrispenEvan said:
buffy said:
Had a call from the accountant, who is dealing with a Tax Office audit for me. Apparently the auditor doesn’t want to have to go through the dockets from the Medicare Hicaps Easyclaim stuff and asked for the monthly statements from Medicare. There aren’t any. Once you are on Easyclaim, it’s the eftpos terminal dockets and that’s it. As far as I can remember. My accountant offered to send all the dockets to the auditor (some are now a bit faded and won’t photocopy/scan) but they asked for monthly statements. So now the accountant will again phone the auditor and tell her how it is. As the Tax Office should be able to link in to the Medicare office anyway, I can’t see the problem. They can easily find out how much Medicare paid me for that year. I also don’t know why they are even bothering to audit someone who has been eligible for the low income offset and the low and middle income offset for years and years. Even if they find any minor errors in the tax return, there isn’t likely to be much in it for them. They might even find they owe me money.tax evasion was Al Capones downfall. I’m sure Witty will visit you.
I’ve been putting in a tax return since 1982 and never got audited. I expected to be audited when we split the company away from my consulting back in about 1992. But no. I suspect this audit is because 2019-2020 was magnificently different in terms of income etc from 2018-19. That would be because we only had income from some dribs and drabs left over and a couple of equipment sales after we shut the door. Funnily enough, it is 2018-19 that they are auditing. It’s pretty simple. We shut the door. I deregistered as an optometrist. And we closed down the company. All completely and perfectly explainable. We even cancelled the ABNs and stopped the BASs. It couldn’t be more obvious really. Perhaps it is because there was no lump sum from the sale of the business (because there was no sale)
BACK from lunch in JJ’s with the Ross people, followed by big shopping.
Now about to to put it all away but first, pour myself a stiff Tullamore Dew.
buffy said:
ChrispenEvan said:
buffy said:
Had a call from the accountant, who is dealing with a Tax Office audit for me. Apparently the auditor doesn’t want to have to go through the dockets from the Medicare Hicaps Easyclaim stuff and asked for the monthly statements from Medicare. There aren’t any. Once you are on Easyclaim, it’s the eftpos terminal dockets and that’s it. As far as I can remember. My accountant offered to send all the dockets to the auditor (some are now a bit faded and won’t photocopy/scan) but they asked for monthly statements. So now the accountant will again phone the auditor and tell her how it is. As the Tax Office should be able to link in to the Medicare office anyway, I can’t see the problem. They can easily find out how much Medicare paid me for that year. I also don’t know why they are even bothering to audit someone who has been eligible for the low income offset and the low and middle income offset for years and years. Even if they find any minor errors in the tax return, there isn’t likely to be much in it for them. They might even find they owe me money.tax evasion was Al Capones downfall. I’m sure Witty will visit you.
I’ve been putting in a tax return since 1982 and never got audited. I expected to be audited when we split the company away from my consulting back in about 1992. But no. I suspect this audit is because 2019-2020 was magnificently different in terms of income etc from 2018-19. That would be because we only had income from some dribs and drabs left over and a couple of equipment sales after we shut the door. Funnily enough, it is 2018-19 that they are auditing. It’s pretty simple. We shut the door. I deregistered as an optometrist. And we closed down the company. All completely and perfectly explainable. We even cancelled the ABNs and stopped the BASs. It couldn’t be more obvious really. Perhaps it is because there was no lump sum from the sale of the business (because there was no sale)
I would imagine it is just clearing up what they see as loose ends. even if they don’t exist.
dv said:
Jackie Lane, who played First Doctor companion Dodo Chaplet, has died at the age of 79.
Aw.
Arrest of ‘friendlyjordies’ producer raises serious questions Julian Hill MP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Z4aiBWOpzI
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friendlyjordies
friendlyjordies
14 minutes ago
BREAKING. Message from our lawyers Xenophon Davis.
Most of Kristo’s gag orders lifted. Grateful for that. The work on beating the charges lies ahead.
ChrispenEvan said:
buffy said:
ChrispenEvan said:tax evasion was Al Capones downfall. I’m sure Witty will visit you.
I’ve been putting in a tax return since 1982 and never got audited. I expected to be audited when we split the company away from my consulting back in about 1992. But no. I suspect this audit is because 2019-2020 was magnificently different in terms of income etc from 2018-19. That would be because we only had income from some dribs and drabs left over and a couple of equipment sales after we shut the door. Funnily enough, it is 2018-19 that they are auditing. It’s pretty simple. We shut the door. I deregistered as an optometrist. And we closed down the company. All completely and perfectly explainable. We even cancelled the ABNs and stopped the BASs. It couldn’t be more obvious really. Perhaps it is because there was no lump sum from the sale of the business (because there was no sale)
I would imagine it is just clearing up what they see as loose ends. even if they don’t exist.
I can do without it. I’m finding it difficult to remember the finer details of daily reconciliation, particularly as I only did it when Chris was on holidays and she did it the rest of the time. It’s two years now since I retired. And I can’t ask Chris any more, we buried her on Monday.
buffy said:
ChrispenEvan said:
buffy said:I’ve been putting in a tax return since 1982 and never got audited. I expected to be audited when we split the company away from my consulting back in about 1992. But no. I suspect this audit is because 2019-2020 was magnificently different in terms of income etc from 2018-19. That would be because we only had income from some dribs and drabs left over and a couple of equipment sales after we shut the door. Funnily enough, it is 2018-19 that they are auditing. It’s pretty simple. We shut the door. I deregistered as an optometrist. And we closed down the company. All completely and perfectly explainable. We even cancelled the ABNs and stopped the BASs. It couldn’t be more obvious really. Perhaps it is because there was no lump sum from the sale of the business (because there was no sale)
I would imagine it is just clearing up what they see as loose ends. even if they don’t exist.
I can do without it. I’m finding it difficult to remember the finer details of daily reconciliation, particularly as I only did it when Chris was on holidays and she did it the rest of the time. It’s two years now since I retired. And I can’t ask Chris any more, we buried her on Monday.
:(
sarahs mum said:
buffy said:
ChrispenEvan said:I would imagine it is just clearing up what they see as loose ends. even if they don’t exist.
I can do without it. I’m finding it difficult to remember the finer details of daily reconciliation, particularly as I only did it when Chris was on holidays and she did it the rest of the time. It’s two years now since I retired. And I can’t ask Chris any more, we buried her on Monday.
:(
In the meantime, I’m shredding dockets and bank statements from 2014-15 year. Soon I can start on 2015-16 year.
My shopping includes 1 x Scottish product: a jar of Mackays Lemon Curd.
ChrispenEvan said:
That’s a bit sadistic.
Bubblecar said:
My shopping includes 1 x Scottish product: a jar of Mackays Lemon Curd.
I should go and sort out the chicken shopping I did too. I’ve put the other stuff away. I had to buy white, brown and arborio rice this morning because I threw rice out recently that was infested. But that all just went into the big rice bin for now. I bought 3kg drumsticks and 1.5kg wings for the dogs and they have to be bagged into 2 drumsticks+1 wing and frozen for use over the next month or so, alternated with the 500g bags of red meat bits that I bagged yesterday. I also got some chicken cutlets (skin on) so for tea tonight we will have a cutlet and a drumstick (stolen from the dog’s supply) each cooked on that bed of angelhair spaghetti idea, with a heap of halved black berry tomatoes under the chicken. And a bit of garlic. I think I’ll keep that simple.
ChrispenEvan said:
A bit Escheroteric.
ChrispenEvan said:
That is really annoying.
ChrispenEvan said:
Arrgh stop that, you’re hurting my eyes!
buffy said:
Bubblecar said:
My shopping includes 1 x Scottish product: a jar of Mackays Lemon Curd.
I should go and sort out the chicken shopping I did too. I’ve put the other stuff away. I had to buy white, brown and arborio rice this morning because I threw rice out recently that was infested. But that all just went into the big rice bin for now. I bought 3kg drumsticks and 1.5kg wings for the dogs and they have to be bagged into 2 drumsticks+1 wing and frozen for use over the next month or so, alternated with the 500g bags of red meat bits that I bagged yesterday. I also got some chicken cutlets (skin on) so for tea tonight we will have a cutlet and a drumstick (stolen from the dog’s supply) each cooked on that bed of angelhair spaghetti idea, with a heap of halved black berry tomatoes under the chicken. And a bit of garlic. I think I’ll keep that simple.
Infested with what?
I still have a T-bone that should be eaten, so tonight it’s another night of steak, mushrooms & chips.
sibeen said:
ChrispenEvan said:
A bit Escheroteric.
A bit Escher-bark if you ask me.
Bubblecar said:
I still have a T-bone that should be eaten, so tonight it’s another night of steak, mushrooms & chips.
+ onion, garlic & capsicum.
another 9.3mm rain, on top of yesterday’s 15mm, possibly more later and tomorrow
looking good
coffee and snacks shortly
ChrispenEvan said:
Hey Maurits you do know what a dog looks like?
Sure, no probs.
ChrispenEvan said:
Great Barrier Reef Foundation. the $440 Million group.Thank you so much if you have already given to the appeal to help replenish the Reef using coral IVF.
You’re helping to restore the Reef which supports iconic Australian species like Nemo the clownfish.
If you’ve not yet donated, it’s not too late for you to give – there’s still 6 days until June 30.
Donate Today
Your caring gift today will go towards coral IVF, an innovative technique which harnesses a natural phenomenon.It’s called mass coral spawning. It happens just once a year. In an underwater snowstorm, the Reef corals release millions of tiny eggs and sperm into the sea.
With your support, researchers then undertake the following 3-step process:
1. Collection – a portion of the coral spawn is diverted into special floating nurseries. You can help set up these nursery pools.2. Culturing – the coral spawn are fertilised and the larvae are reared in the nursery pools for 7 days. You help make coral babies.
3. Resettling – the coral babies are delivered onto the damaged sections of Reef. Here they settle and will grow to the size of dinner plates within 2-3 years. You help to replenish dying reef habitats
This process has the potential to help large sections of the Reef to recover from coral bleaching. So the Reef can continue to support marine plants and animals. This includes the sea anemone where Nemo the clownfish makes its home.But your generosity is needed to roll out coral IVF on a larger scale. Stephen, the Reef needs people like you to care.
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It’s not too late to restore your beautiful reef.It’s still an ecosystem that supports so many unique species. That includes the endangered green turtles. And the gentle dugongs – also vulnerable. And iconic species like Nemo the clownfish.
Bleached corals are not yet dead corals, but I need your help to restore as much damaged reef as possible.
What will your gift do?
> Your gift helps to fight the damaging impacts of climate change – by collecting spawn from corals that have survived coral bleaching, you can help us breed more heat tolerant corals.
> Your gift helps to replenish a world heritage listed property – the world’s largest coral reef is an incredible ecosystem in its own right.
> Your gift helps to support endangered and iconic Australia species – this includes Nemo the clownfish, one of many species that depend on the Reef for habitat, protection and food.
The clock is ticking but there is still hope. Your gift today matters to restore reef habitats and homes.
They can bring that one out every year from now on.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-24/kimberley-marine-park-plan-submissions/100241300
Bubblecar said:
buffy said:
Bubblecar said:
My shopping includes 1 x Scottish product: a jar of Mackays Lemon Curd.
I should go and sort out the chicken shopping I did too. I’ve put the other stuff away. I had to buy white, brown and arborio rice this morning because I threw rice out recently that was infested. But that all just went into the big rice bin for now. I bought 3kg drumsticks and 1.5kg wings for the dogs and they have to be bagged into 2 drumsticks+1 wing and frozen for use over the next month or so, alternated with the 500g bags of red meat bits that I bagged yesterday. I also got some chicken cutlets (skin on) so for tea tonight we will have a cutlet and a drumstick (stolen from the dog’s supply) each cooked on that bed of angelhair spaghetti idea, with a heap of halved black berry tomatoes under the chicken. And a bit of garlic. I think I’ll keep that simple.
Infested with what?
I still have a T-bone that should be eaten, so tonight it’s another night of steak, mushrooms & chips.
Rice weevil. I was making baked rice and when I tipped in the milk I noticed small brown things floating out. Closer inspection revealed them to be rice weevils. In my white rice. You can still eat the rice, but as my rice caddy was almost empty I decided to dump the cupful that was left into the compost and start with a new packet. The other rices were just because I needed to replace the backup packets.
roughbarked said:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-24/kimberley-marine-park-plan-submissions/100241300
Perhaps various tourisms to wilderness areas need to cease, what attracts people to them gets ruined by people visiting.
1st August 1930: A stuntman takes off in a customised plane at Alexandra Palace in London.
(Photo by Fox Photos)
No idea if he survived
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/06/23/europe/russia-warning-shots-hms-defender-uk-denial-intl/index.html
“This morning, HMS Defender carried out a routine transit from Odesa towards Georgia across the Black Sea. As is normal for this route, she entered an internationally recognised traffic separation corridor. She exited that corridor safely at 0945 BST. As is routine, Russian vessels shadowed her passage and she was made aware of training exercises in her wider vicinity,” British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace said in a tweet.
The UK Ministry of Defence also said no warning shots were fired at its destroyer Wednesday, contrary to what the Russian Defense Ministry claimed, as cited by TASS.
“No warning shots have been fired at HMS Defender. The Royal Navy ship is conducting innocent passage through Ukrainian territorial waters in accordance with international law. We believe the Russians were undertaking a gunnery exercise in the Black Sea and provided the maritime community with prior warning of their activity,” the UK Defence Ministry Press Office said in a statement.
“No shots were directed at HMS Defender and we do not recognise the claim that bombs were dropped in her path,” the statement added.
BBC journalist Jonathan Beale was on board the vessel during the incident, and reported that it had been harassed by Russian military. Aircraft could be heard overhead during his audio report.
“Increasingly hostile warnings were issued over the radio — including one that said ‘if you don’t change course I’ll fire’,” Beale wrote on the BBC website. “We did hear some firing in the distance but they were believed to be well out of range.”
sarahs mum said:
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1st August 1930: A stuntman takes off in a customised plane at Alexandra Palace in London.
(Photo by Fox Photos)
No idea if he survived
That’s a pedal car gone mental.
Saved in Odd.
Some East Anglian church graffiti, which took many forms:
>…These enigmatic little motifs, which take the form of initials and dates within a house-shaped structure, are common finds from the post-Reformation period. These are from Norwich Cathedral. However, despite their large numbers, the exact meaning or function of the design remains unclear.
While individual portraits and faces are commonly recorded by the surveys it is unusual to be able to identify anything else about the individual. In this example, however, from Scole church in Norfolk, the portrait is depicted wearing what looks to be a medieval bishop’s mitre.
Compass-drawn designs are among the most common of all graffiti motifs recorded in English medieval churches. Many of these are believed to have acted as ritual protection markings – to ward off the ‘evil eye’. Various ancient churches in East Anglia.
A complex knotwork design, known as a ‘Solomon’s Knot’, from Lidgate church, Suffolk. The intricate designs are believed to be ‘apotropaic’ in nature, and had the specific function of warding off demons and ill-fortune.
I’ve got lemon delicious puddings in the oven. Well, lemon and lime, actually, because the limes are now coming into season as well as the lemons, and the mix is a good one. Soooo long since I made lemon delicious. I hope it works – I had to keep reading the recipe. And I still didn’t do it quite the way it said. I’ve done them as individual ones in souffle dishes. Had a bit of trouble separating Gytha’s (the Barnevelder) eggs. She seems to make eggs that are all yolk. Which is great for fried eggs. Not so great if you want to whip up meringue type mixture.
Bubblecar said:
Compass-drawn designs are among the most common of all graffiti motifs recorded in English medieval churches. Many of these are believed to have acted as ritual protection markings – to ward off the ‘evil eye’. Various ancient churches in East Anglia.
Nice
Bubblecar said:
Some East Anglian church graffiti, which took many forms:>…These enigmatic little motifs, which take the form of initials and dates within a house-shaped structure, are common finds from the post-Reformation period. These are from Norwich Cathedral. However, despite their large numbers, the exact meaning or function of the design remains unclear.
“They are kind to beggars here” Or maybe they are witches marks.
;)
A late medieval caricature portrait, from All Saints church, Litcham, in Norfolk. Positioned on a pier near the pulpit it is believed to represent one of the pre-Reformation vicars of the parish.
ChrispenEvan said:
Brilliant!
Just visited Auntie Annie (with a couple of little lemon deliciouses for her). We got another feral kitten and a cat in the trap. Got a kitten last week. Still two kittens and another adult (might be two) to get. They don’t come into our yard, but they are ensconced under Annie’s laundry and behind her woodpile. Annie said the Ranger was not too keen on having to come and pick them up. It’s their job and at this stage we are using our own traps, not even expecting the council to supply the trap. Feral and nuisance animals.
Annie said the Ranger was not too keen on having to come and pick them up
==
I’m sure he would prefer it if the old lady did his job instead.
sarahs mum said:
Annie said the Ranger was not too keen on having to come and pick them up
==I’m sure he would prefer it if the old lady did his job instead.
“Annie get your gun”.
buffy said:
Bubblecar said:
Some East Anglian church graffiti, which took many forms:>…These enigmatic little motifs, which take the form of initials and dates within a house-shaped structure, are common finds from the post-Reformation period. These are from Norwich Cathedral. However, despite their large numbers, the exact meaning or function of the design remains unclear.
“They are kind to beggars here” Or maybe they are witches marks.
;)
I suspect it’s more likely: “These are good Christian families whose houses deserve the protecting of graffiti within sacred ground.”
the protecting of graffiti = the protection of graffiti
Tired this end, good job dinner’s well underway.
reheated cheesy macaroni on toast shortly, in the fry pan now, well being scraped out into a bowl as I write, pepper going on, and landed, steaming to my right, saying eat me
transition said:
reheated cheesy macaroni on toast shortly, in the fry pan now, well being scraped out into a bowl as I write, pepper going on, and landed, steaming to my right, saying eat me
sprinkle of salt, get to eat this to sound of rain on the tin roof, then coffee, then swing the the ax for a while before run out of light
transition said:
transition said:
reheated cheesy macaroni on toast shortly, in the fry pan now, well being scraped out into a bowl as I write, pepper going on, and landed, steaming to my right, saying eat mesprinkle of salt, get to eat this to sound of rain on the tin roof, then coffee, then swing the the ax for a while before run out of light
Well and truly out of light here.
buffy said:
transition said:
transition said:
reheated cheesy macaroni on toast shortly, in the fry pan now, well being scraped out into a bowl as I write, pepper going on, and landed, steaming to my right, saying eat mesprinkle of salt, get to eat this to sound of rain on the tin roof, then coffee, then swing the the ax for a while before run out of light
Well and truly out of light here.
the moon is breaking over the ridge.
buffy said:
transition said:
transition said:
reheated cheesy macaroni on toast shortly, in the fry pan now, well being scraped out into a bowl as I write, pepper going on, and landed, steaming to my right, saying eat mesprinkle of salt, get to eat this to sound of rain on the tin roof, then coffee, then swing the the ax for a while before run out of light
Well and truly out of light here.
better swing the ax before coffee, do that
First AZ jab done. Don’t feel anything ATM.
ChrispenEvan said:
First AZ jab done. Don’t feel anything ATM.
Gone completely numb, that sounds serious.
ChrispenEvan said:
First AZ jab done. Don’t feel anything ATM.
the sensations will come back.
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
I still have a T-bone that should be eaten, so tonight it’s another night of steak, mushrooms & chips.
+ onion, garlic & capsicum.
A very tasty feed, can’t say fairer than that.
Now for a lay-me-down. There’ll probably be a train journey when I awake, but unto where from whence and wherefore to, only time will tell.
ChrispenEvan said:
First AZ jab done. Don’t feel anything ATM.
I’ve just reported my cold feet thing to safevac Victoria. I had some other minor, expected side effects. Not going to bother reporting them. For the report I had to give timespan. I had my jab at 12.15pm and the cold feet kicked in (!) about 8 hours later and then lasted about 8 hours. A minor headache kicked in about midnight but not enough to stop me sleeping. It was still there when I woke around 7.00am the next morning, but I banished it with a single Panadol in half an hour.
buffy said:
ChrispenEvan said:
First AZ jab done. Don’t feel anything ATM.
I’ve just reported my cold feet thing to safevac Victoria. I had some other minor, expected side effects. Not going to bother reporting them. For the report I had to give timespan. I had my jab at 12.15pm and the cold feet kicked in (!) about 8 hours later and then lasted about 8 hours. A minor headache kicked in about midnight but not enough to stop me sleeping. It was still there when I woke around 7.00am the next morning, but I banished it with a single Panadol in half an hour.
Oh, and I got a lump and a red patch at the injection site about 2 days after the actual injection.
New Zealand won the world test championship.
Pretty amazing, I thought this heading for a draw.
sarahs mum said:
ChrispenEvan said:
First AZ jab done. Don’t feel anything ATM.
the sensations will come back.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FrOQC-zEog
dv said:
New Zealand won the world test championship.Pretty amazing, I thought this heading for a draw.
Amazing what a sixth day can bring :)
Just finished 109 pages of calculations for a fault current study. The reports not even due until the end of the month – I’m killing it. I may even have a beer to two this evening to celebrate.
sibeen said:
Just finished 109 pages of calculations for a fault current study. The reports not even due until the end of the month – I’m killing it. I may even have a beer to two this evening to celebrate.
Is that like 10 pages without diagrams? :-P
dv said:
New Zealand won the world test championship.Pretty amazing, I thought this heading for a draw.
Me too, until Sibeen told me there was a reserve day. I went to bed with India at 5-fer and a lead of about 70. I thought there was a good chance of a result at that stage, but I had to go to bed. Pity it was so late, would have been a good one to watch.
Arts Tasmania
Yesterday at 11:17 ·
📣 Commission opportunity alert! 🚨
We are seeking applications from Tasmanian artists to create a graphic artwork for the walls of the Linear Accelerator Bunker, at the North West Regional Hospital, where patients will have Radiation Therapy for cancer.
The artwork should create a space that is welcoming and calming for patients.
—-
well that’s a challenge.
Witty Rejoinder said:
sibeen said:
Just finished 109 pages of calculations for a fault current study. The reports not even due until the end of the month – I’m killing it. I may even have a beer to two this evening to celebrate.
Is that like 10 pages without diagrams? :-P
He’s going to do the illustrations tomorrow. So he can drink beer again.
sibeen said:
Just finished 109 pages of calculations for a fault current study. The reports not even due until the end of the month – I’m killing it. I may even have a beer to two this evening to celebrate.
maley swot
sarahs mum said:
Arts Tasmania
Yesterday at 11:17 ·
📣 Commission opportunity alert! 🚨
We are seeking applications from Tasmanian artists to create a graphic artwork for the walls of the Linear Accelerator Bunker, at the North West Regional Hospital, where patients will have Radiation Therapy for cancer.
The artwork should create a space that is welcoming and calming for patients.—-
well that’s a challenge.
Definitely.
sarahs mum said:
Arts Tasmania
Yesterday at 11:17 ·
📣 Commission opportunity alert! 🚨
We are seeking applications from Tasmanian artists to create a graphic artwork for the walls of the Linear Accelerator Bunker, at the North West Regional Hospital, where patients will have Radiation Therapy for cancer.
The artwork should create a space that is welcoming and calming for patients.—-
well that’s a challenge.
are you going to give it a go?
Arts said:
sarahs mum said:
Arts Tasmania
Yesterday at 11:17 ·
📣 Commission opportunity alert! 🚨
We are seeking applications from Tasmanian artists to create a graphic artwork for the walls of the Linear Accelerator Bunker, at the North West Regional Hospital, where patients will have Radiation Therapy for cancer.
The artwork should create a space that is welcoming and calming for patients.—-
well that’s a challenge.are you going to give it a go?
I got nothing at this point.
Milan’s stuff would work but that’s why he has won two of these commissions in the past.
sarahs mum said:
Arts said:
sarahs mum said:
Arts Tasmania
Yesterday at 11:17 ·
📣 Commission opportunity alert! 🚨
We are seeking applications from Tasmanian artists to create a graphic artwork for the walls of the Linear Accelerator Bunker, at the North West Regional Hospital, where patients will have Radiation Therapy for cancer.
The artwork should create a space that is welcoming and calming for patients.—-
well that’s a challenge.are you going to give it a go?
I got nothing at this point.
Milan’s stuff would work but that’s why he has won two of these commissions in the past.
see how Linear Accelerator Bunker is also LAB :)
They just deglazed the chicken pan with Marsala on Masterchef. And I immediately went back in time and desired and Marsala and coke.
sarahs mum said:
They just deglazed the chicken pan with Marsala on Masterchef. And I immediately went back in time and desired and Marsala and coke.
deglazed eh
sarahs mum said:
They just deglazed the chicken pan with Marsala on Masterchef. And I immediately went back in time and desired and Marsala and coke.
a Marsala
‘nings.
Please accept my sincere apologies for my absence. I have been doing stuff.
Rule 303 said:
‘nings.Please accept my sincere apologies for my absence. I have been doing stuff.
hello.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bgm5ex1q9BU
YouTube video about that Chinese 10 storey building that went up in 28 hours recently. A more detailed look, production and a showroom apartment inside.
Apologies for the crappy background music, but I didn’t make it.
sarahs mum said:
Rule 303 said:
‘nings.Please accept my sincere apologies for my absence. I have been doing stuff.
hello.
Greetings SM. I think I might have invented a guitar game you would enjoy: YouTube Rulette. Plug any song name you like into Youtube, then play along (with the help of ultimate-guitar.com, if you wish) – then pick a video from the suggestions in the right-hand panel and play along to that. It’s the modern version of the old repertoire-building trick of playing along to every song that turned up on the radio. I tested it the other night and played about 15 songs I had never played before.
Love it.
:-)
party_pants said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bgm5ex1q9BUYouTube video about that Chinese 10 storey building that went up in 28 hours recently. A more detailed look, production and a showroom apartment inside.
Apologies for the crappy background music, but I didn’t make it.
You just made a little Chinese gentleman sad who was singing his heart out for you.
PermeateFree said:
party_pants said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bgm5ex1q9BUYouTube video about that Chinese 10 storey building that went up in 28 hours recently. A more detailed look, production and a showroom apartment inside.
Apologies for the crappy background music, but I didn’t make it.
You just made a little Chinese gentleman sad who was singing his heart out for you.
Sounds like he is whistling with a bamboo leaf. So fuck him.
‘ello
Rule 303 said:
sarahs mum said:
Rule 303 said:
‘nings.Please accept my sincere apologies for my absence. I have been doing stuff.
hello.
Greetings SM. I think I might have invented a guitar game you would enjoy: YouTube Rulette. Plug any song name you like into Youtube, then play along (with the help of ultimate-guitar.com, if you wish) – then pick a video from the suggestions in the right-hand panel and play along to that. It’s the modern version of the old repertoire-building trick of playing along to every song that turned up on the radio. I tested it the other night and played about 15 songs I had never played before.
Love it.
:-)
Sounds a challenge. I knew a professional muso way back who knew all the ads on tv and all the day time program themes.
About a crackdown on homeless camps in liberal Portland Oregon. Never thought that you could be both homeless and a hoarder:
….
‘The mansion on Emerson Street’
As homelessness continues to rise, an overwhelmed city issues an ultimatum: 48 hours to clear camp
By Eli Saslow
JUNE 12, 2021
PORTLAND, Ore. — Jeremy Wooldridge had just finished mowing the grass around his tent when he saw a truck pull up in front of his homeless encampment. He’d spent the past two years living here alongside a dead-end road in a neighborhood called Sumner, gradually overtaking a vacant field between a taxi company and a high school. He knew most of the nearby families by name and the makes and models of their cars, but this was a visitor he didn’t recognize.
He watched as three people got out and started coming toward his tent with a bright green sign labeled, “Illegal Campsite.” They walked past the small flower bed he’d planted nearby and up to a hand-painted boulder he’d placed on the sidewalk that read: “Welcome to Our Home.”
“Can I help you?” Jeremy asked. They handed him a box filled with sandwiches, bottled water, a new tent, and a sleeping bag and then introduced themselves as contractors for the city.
“So that’s it?” he said. “You came here to deliver gifts?”
“No. We need to start moving you out of here,” one of the contractors said. “I hate to say it, but it’s time to go.”
After more than a year of allowing most homeless camps to remain intact so as not to displace people during the pandemic, cities across the country are now beginning to confront another public health crisis unfolding on their streets. The number of Americans who are homeless has increased in each of the past five years, according to government data, and for the first time more than half of homeless adults are living not in shelters but in tents or sleeping bags outside. There has yet to be a nationwide homelessness count since the start of the pandemic, but a quarter of Americans now report being at “imminent risk” of losing their homes, and cities up and down the West Coast say they are overwhelmed by an unprecedented rise in homeless people, hazardous encampments and related trash.
This month, as Portland announced plans to start removing more camps, the city said it has gone from having an average of about six large encampments before the pandemic to what it now estimates to be more than 100.
One of them was Jeremy’s camp on Emerson Street, which had grown during the last year into a small village of six tents and five makeshift structures built from fencing, wood pallets, disassembled trampoline parts, and tarps. The field was covered with 10-foot-high piles of scavenged construction materials, and strewn between the tents were rotting couches, car parts, a piano, a cement mixer and dozens of bicycles in various stages of disrepair. The camp had also grown during the past year to attract more people, a few of whom were newly homeless and others who came and went to visit friends or stay for a night. The nearby school and surrounding neighbors had filed a series of complaints to the city as a divide intensified over what to make of an emerging homeless crisis. The neighborhood looked at the encampment and saw suspicious cars, noxious campfire smoke, unleashed dogs, petty crime, drug paraphernalia and another field of hazardous waste in a city that the mayor said was becoming “a shocking affront to the senses.”
But Jeremy, who was 43, saw the only possessions he owned — items he could repair, trade, or sell in order to live a life on the distant margins of a city where he increasingly had nowhere else to go.
“So you just start trashing my things?” he said to the contractors.
“No. It’s a process,” one of them said. “We can put things in storage for you. You can take whatever you want as long as we clear this area. We’ll be back to get started in 48 hours.”
“Can I get 72?”
“Sorry, bud. It’s 48.”
The contractors drove away and Jeremy walked up to a hill overlooking the camp. He started writing down an inventory of all his belongings, until after a while another resident came up to join him. Shannon Stickler, 48, had been living in the encampment on and off for a few months, ever since she was temporarily laid off from her job during the pandemic and forced out of her three-bedroom home after falling $7,500 behind on rent. She’d moved with her 13-year-old daughter into a relative’s house, and then into a budget motel, and finally into their Hyundai Elantra. Eventually she’d put her belongings into storage and sent her daughter to live with a friend. She’d packed a suitcase of clothes, carpentry tools for her construction job, therapy coloring books and Zoloft, and moved into the only place she could think to go: a homeless camp four blocks from the house where she’d been living when the pandemic began.
“It seems like every place I go disappears once I get there,” she told Jeremy. “What options do we have?”
“Bad ones,” he said. Portland had limited affordable housing, and after more than a decade spent living on the street, he didn’t want to move into a shelter and adhere to someone else’s rules.
“So where will we go?” Shannon asked. “Sorry if I’m being slow. I’m new to all this.”
Jeremy shrugged. “I don’t know any more than you. We’ve got two days, and then we’ll have to figure something out.”
The Sumner neighborhood was one of the smallest communities in Portland: 850 modest houses on the outskirts of town, a home to middle-class families and retirees in a city where most other places had become unaffordable. “A quiet, sequestered little area,” was how Sumner advertised itself, and yet like almost everywhere else in Portland, it had become a destination for a growing number of people without housing.
Yvonne Rice was the chair of the neighborhood association, and she’d grown up in Sumner when it had no visible homeless population. Now there were a dozen nearby encampments, and week after week, she saw more tents lined up by the fence of the high school, more hammocks strung between Douglas firs in the community park and hundreds of tarps and sleeping bags bordering the highway.
All of the encampments troubled her, but the one that troubled her the most — the one she called “the mansion on Emerson Street” — was Jeremy’s. A few families on Emerson Street had already decided to sell their homes to get away from the encampment, and some nearby businesses were threatening to move elsewhere. But instead of surrendering to the reality of an entrenched camp during the pandemic, Yvonne had been posting about it on community forums and holding neighborhood meetings to push for its removal. Portland officials were receiving hundreds of complaints about illegal campsites each week from across the city, and Yvonne believed there was only one way for an out-of-the-way neighborhood to get the city’s attention.
“Report it and keep reporting it,” she told her neighbors, and so some residents had gone onto the city’s website each week to create a public record of life on Emerson Street as the pandemic unfolded.
“I watch daily as the fortress of garbage grows.”
“Loud banging and glass breaking noises at 2 or 3 a.m.”
“I understand we are in the midst of a pandemic. I also understand that the city council has put in place rules as far as moving people. I am truly compassionate about their circumstances, but they are not living here responsibly and are putting everyone around them at risk.”
“This camp keeps increasing in size and they are burning garbage at night. This is right outside Broadway Cab, where fire and gasoline don’t mix.”
“Junk everywhere, loud noises, and trash. The same thing I have been reporting for months but nothing ever happens.”
“The flames from their fires are 6-feet high as seen from my window. Noxious smoke fills the air. It makes breathing difficult. I am now using an inhaler because of lung issues. I have to bring in my animals, close the windows, run A/C units and air cleaners.”
“What does it take to get rid of this site???”
“They are making me and my wife sicker every day! The toxic smoke and thieves creeping around at all hours has our anxiety maxed out. PLEASE!”
“The camp is right next to our high school. Needles are found at the basketball court where our students play. Some of our students are rehabilitating from drugs, and this just makes it unacceptable to say the least. There has been vandalism to the school’s vehicles. Stolen bikes. Human waste. Ongoing drug use. The list goes on.”
“Please, please, please clean this spot. Please find a way to permanently address this issue. Please. I shouldn’t have to beg, but I’m begging you at this point.”
The neighbors had filed 174 complaints about Emerson Street since the start of the pandemic. They’d called 911 about homelessness issues at least 14 times. The fire department had responded to two out-of-control campfires. The city had tried sending out social workers and trash cleanup teams, and finally now, after so many months, Yvonne started the latest community meeting by announcing that maybe the end had finally come.
“The city just issued the two-day warning,” she said. “Hallelujah.”
Jeremy spent the first of those two days at the encampment tinkering with a broken bicycle. Another resident drank half a bottle of whiskey. Another talked to herself and recited Bible verses while she searched for flakes of gold in the mud outside her tent. Meanwhile Shannon woke up to her alarm at 4:30 a.m., drove 90 minutes to her construction job site, worked an 8-hour shift doing finishing work on a new bank, stopped on her way home to deliver five online food orders to earn extra money, and then returned to the camp 12 hours later to find everything exactly the same as when she’d left.
“Hey, the clock’s ticking,” she said to Jeremy. “Are we getting organized to move out of here or what?”
He looked up from working on his bicycle, lifted his beer, and raised it in her direction. “I’m still in the processing phase,” he said.
“Okay,” she said. “While you do that, I guess I’ll go find us a storage unit.”
She’d met Jeremy six months earlier, after she discovered that her daughter was stopping by the homeless encampment sometimes after school, giving away secondhand clothes and befriending a few residents. At first Shannon had been furious, and she’d repeated the same warnings to her daughter about drug use, fire and petty crime that she’d seen from her neighbors on the community message board. But then she’d started coming along with her daughter to the camp, where she rarely saw any needles, and where she’d grown to appreciate Jeremy’s dark sense of humor. She’d started telling him about all the ways her own life was unraveling, and when she mentioned that she was losing her home, running out of money and considering sleeping in her car, he’d suggested she park it next to the encampment so he could help make sure she was safe. He’d made a little money by recycling cans and used it to buy pet food for her two dogs. Another resident of the camp had welcomed her with a gift of deodorizer spray and a bucket she could use as a bathroom. They’d taught her how to use the nearby truck stop for showers and how to store her food high up away from rats.
She still didn’t think of herself as one of them. “I wouldn’t exactly call us homeless,” she’d told her daughter, and she’d refused to consider living in a shelter in part because she couldn’t take her dogs, but also because it felt like an admission. She just needed a night or two in her car to figure things out. Just a safe place near the encampment to close her eyes between shifts as she waited for her next paycheck from work. Just a week or so inside one of the tents while she searched real estate applications on her phone for an affordable, dog-friendly apartment, but now three months had gone by, and she still couldn’t find anything in Portland for less than $1,200, and instead of moving into a home she was being evicted from the camp.
She thought she needed to save a total of $5,000 to pay for a first month’s rent, fees and security deposits on a new apartment, but even though she was making $700 each week, she’d learned that living on the street was expensive: $11 for each trip to the laundromat; $15 to shower at the truck stop; $20 a day for fast food since she had no stove, microwave, or refrigerator; $3 for bottled water and a lotto ticket when she needed to use the gas station bathroom that was for customers only; $68 when she wanted to spend a night with her daughter at the cheapest nearby motel; and now a new monthly expense to buy storage for belongings she couldn’t afford to take anyplace else.
“I’m just looking for whatever’s cheapest,” she told the receptionist at the storage facility.
“Let me see what’s available,” the receptionist said. She typed on her computer while Shannon looked at the sterilized hallways of identical red garage doors, the bathroom scented by perfume, the gleaming floors and motion-sensor lights.
“It’s so nice here,” Shannon said. “You have a beautiful setup.”
“Thank you. We take a lot of pride in it, but it’s getting harder to keep anything looking clean around here.”
The receptionist motioned out the window and Shannon followed her eyes to a small homeless encampment on the sidewalk. There were four tents crowded together next to a busted RV with a sign in the window that read: “Never Give Up.”
“We run a tight ship,” the receptionist said. “We take our customer security very seriously. It’s unpleasant to look at, but it doesn’t affect us. You don’t need to worry. We make sure they never come beyond our driveway.”
“Oh,” Shannon said. “It won’t bother me.”
“I get into work and there’s always a pile of trash waiting for me. It’s like, ‘Come on, people. Have a little dignity.’ ”
“I feel for them,” Shannon said. “We all have our upside-down moments in life.”
“That’s true,” the receptionist said. She smiled and then slid over a bill for the cheapest storage unit, a 10-by-10-foot one on the third floor. Shannon handed over her debit card to pay $81 for the first month and then went outside to light a cigarette. She smoked as she did the math in her head, subtracting backward from her goal of $5,000, calculating what the storage unit would ultimately cost her, imagining a few extra nights in her car or a tent.
She finished the cigarette, glanced down at the clean parking lot, and decided to tuck the butt back into her pocket so she could throw it away somewhere else. Then she walked to her car and drove back for her last night in the camp.
The next morning, before nine cleanup crews were dispatched to remove encampments across Portland, a small group of city workers met to discuss everything that could possibly go wrong.
The job of removing illegal campsites in the liberal city had always required a delicate balance of empathy and enforcement, but during the past year the work of the three-person Homelessness and Urban Camping Impact Reduction Program had become particularly fraught. Before the pandemic, the group had helped carry out 50 or 60 removals each week, which meant encampments stayed small and the most problematic sites were typically gone within a month. But the city had stopped all removals at the beginning of the pandemic, working instead to create 125 emergency hygiene stations to protect homeless people from the worst impacts of covid-19. When the city decided to resume a small number of removals five months later, the encampments had become so much bigger and more entrenched that it sometimes took crews up to three weeks just to remove a single site, even as dozens of other encampments continued to grow.
Now officials estimated it would take up to two years to remove millions of pounds of homelessness-related trash and get the city back to its pre-pandemic condition, and already Portland residents had run out of patience. The impact reduction team was receiving a record 1,700 phone calls, emails, and online complaints about illegal encampments each week. “Thanks for turning Portland into a dump!” “You have failed.” “How about I pitch a tent outside YOUR house?” And then there were other threats, which came from the opposite perspective: that it was inhumane to remove camps at all. A group of far-left activists had begun offering support and also protection to some large encampments, occasionally carrying weapons, and vowing to stop removals by force.
The city had decided the best way forward was to increase removals — but only as what it called an “act of last resort.” First a team of social workers went into each camp to refer people to homeless shelters, mental health services, and addiction treatment. They screened residents for a small number of spots in permanent housing. They offered help applying for state IDs and jobs. They cleaned all the surrounding trash, hoping to mitigate the impact of the camp. And only then, if the camp continued to present a hazard to both residents and the public after days or often months of intervention, did the city post a 48-hour warning and add it to a weekly list of sites to remove.
On this Monday, the city sent its contractors a list of 14 sites:
A middle school with two tents and three broken-down RVs blocking access to the student drop-off zone.
A vacant lot near Costco, where some homeless residents had been living for long enough to lay concrete foundations and start building rustic homes.
A highway underpass with at least 20 residents, where the nearby building was charred by fire damage.
A cul-de-sac littered with stolen and disassembled vehicles located next to the DMV.
During the past several years, Portland had systemically eliminated some of its tools for policing life in homeless encampments. Oregon had decriminalized the possession of small amounts of heroin and methamphetamine, which were common in camps. Portland had cut its police budget by $15 million and gutted its neighborhood response team. Increasingly, the city’s homelessness enforcement was left up to teams of contractors armed with nothing but de-escalation training, heavy-duty gloves, Naloxone to treat opioid overdoses, garbage bags and orange buckets to carry away human waste.
The crews had dealt with fires, mental health crises, outbreaks of infectious disease and anarchists who tried to stop removals by standing in front of their trucks, and now one of those trucks pulled up to the encampment on Emerson Street.
Jeremy was the only person in the camp when the truck arrived. Shannon was at work, and a few of the other residents had already moved or scattered, so he walked alone into the street to greet three contractors wearing red construction vests. They handed him sandwiches and water and said they would begin the removal by hauling away several truckloads of unwanted trash to the city dump. They told Jeremy to start going through his belongings to decide what he wanted to keep.
“I don’t understand how I’m bothering anybody,” Jeremy said, but when nobody answered, he went back into the camp to sort through his things as a few neighbors began gathering on the sidewalk to watch the removal.
“We need to claim this space as our own,” said Yvonne, the president of the neighborhood association. “As soon as he’s gone, we should turn it into a community garden.”
“Or a fenced-in dog park,” said Ronda Johnson, who worked on homelessness issues for the neighborhood association.
“Sure. Anything,” Yvonne said. “I’d be okay bringing in some boulders just to make camping impossible.”
Yvonne went to buy doughnuts and drinks for the contracting crew as a thank you gift, and Ronda walked into the camp to talk to Jeremy, who she’d been trying to help for the last year. She’d brought him trash bags and food during the pandemic and encouraged him to get his covid vaccination. Several times, she’d offered to take him to her office so they could call shelters, but he’d always refused, just as he’d refused housing efforts made by the city. The Portland area had only 1,500 shelter beds for more than 4,000 homeless people, which meant shelters could be restrictive. Many required wait lists and signed agreements about curfews, cleanliness, and community living. Jeremy had told Ronda that he was better off on his own, outside, where he could store all of his things.
“What’s the plan now, Jeremy?” she asked. “Do you even know where you’re sleeping tonight?”
“Why? So you can start reporting me again to the city?”
“I’m serious,” she said. “You can’t keep moving around this neighborhood with a mountain of trash.”
She walked through the camp and looked at the stacks of Jeremy’s belongings. The contractors had already taken away an old piano, two couches, a kitchen sink, some cabinetry and five orange buckets of waste. But most of the field was still covered with things Jeremy wanted to keep or put into storage: dozens of bikes, car tires, shopping cars and old leather chairs.
Ronda pointed to a rusted fireplace with a bent exhaust pipe. “I mean, what are you going to do with this?”
“Might be able to fix it,” he said. “You ever slept outside in December? It’s damn cold.”
She rolled her eyes and walked over to a stack of wood pallets, tarps, and broken trampoline parts. She picked up a bucket filled with hundreds of rusted nails. “Come on, Jeremy. This is a hazard. It has to go.”
“Construction supplies,” he said. He smiled at her. “That’s my next camp.”
“Jeremy, it’s junk.”
“To you,” he said. “It’s junk to you. I find stuff. I fix it up. I use it. I sell it. I’m not going around begging or asking for anything from anybody. This is it. This is how I get by.”
She looked at him and shook her head. “You need a solution, Jeremy — a real, permanent solution.”
“A real solution,” he said. “Got it. Thanks for your concern.”
It took the contracting crew five days and a half-dozen trips to haul out 8,000 pounds to the dump, until finally the encampment was gone and the field was vacant except for Jeremy and Shannon, who were still sitting in the grass, trying to decide where to go.
“What do you think?” Shannon asked. “Give me your options.”
“Does it look like I have options?” Jeremy asked.
Shannon had booked a few nights in a motel to bide time while Jeremy looked for a new place to camp. He’d put most of his belongings into storage, but he still had a few rickety carts loaded with tents, tarps and construction supplies, which meant he couldn’t travel far. He’d scouted out a possible spot on a hill overlooking a factory, but he doubted his carts could make it up the embankment. He’d considered moving into an existing encampment on the highway median, but it was exposed to heat and wind, and a homeless person had been found dead in his tent in the same spot a few years earlier.
“I might have one idea,” he said, and he led Shannon up the road to a small house in the center of the neighborhood, where the owner had been paying Jeremy $15 to mow the yard. An azalea hedge bordered the lawn, and next to the hedge was an empty patch of grass less than 10 yards wide.
“You’re crazy,” Shannon said. “What’s going to happen when these neighbors wake up in the morning and see you?”
“They know me,” Jeremy said. “They like me.”
“They don’t like you that much. They’ll go ballistic.”
“You think anyone’s rolling out a welcome mat?” Jeremy asked. “Why do you think I’m going to move in the middle of the night?”
“It can’t be here,” Shannon said. “No. No way.”
They sat on the sidewalk until the last light disappeared from the sky. Shannon smoked a cigarette and Jeremy drank beer. It started to rain, and Jeremy rushed into the street to throw a tarp over his trailers. “Damn it,” he said, and then he looked down the block and saw what seemed at that moment like his best and only option for a new place to live.
It wasn’t a house. It wasn’t an apartment or a shelter or a real solution. It was a tiny strip of burnt grass wedged between the sidewalk and the taxicab company on the exact same street where neighbors had been complaining about his encampment since the pandemic began.
He walked 75 yards down the block from the old camp, and pitched a tent. He carried over another tent, and then another, and then a shopping cart loaded with some of his things. By the time the sun came up the next morning, the Sumner neighborhood had a new homeless encampment, and already the first official complaint was on its way to the city. “Importance: High,” the email read, and underneath that was the subject line.
“Same camp back on Emerson Street.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/06/12/homeless-camps-portland/?
sarahs mum said:
wouldn’t want that bird to panic…
party_pants said:
PermeateFree said:
party_pants said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bgm5ex1q9BUYouTube video about that Chinese 10 storey building that went up in 28 hours recently. A more detailed look, production and a showroom apartment inside.
Apologies for the crappy background music, but I didn’t make it.
You just made a little Chinese gentleman sad who was singing his heart out for you.
Sounds like he is whistling with a bamboo leaf. So fuck him.
meanwhile in some other busted arse country over there
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-24/surfside-florida-apartment-building-collapses/100242850
monkey skipper said:
sarahs mum said:
wouldn’t want that bird to panic…
It’s probably off to start a bushfire next.
But is it odd? The car will know.
sarahs mum said:
monkey skipper said:
sarahs mum said:
wouldn’t want that bird to panic…
It’s probably off to start a bushfire next.
But is it odd? The car will know.
yet another black servant of white privilege paradigm
sarahs mum said:
It’s a bit undignified for the bird.
sarahs mum said:
Rule 303 said:
sarahs mum said:hello.
Greetings SM. I think I might have invented a guitar game you would enjoy: YouTube Rulette. Plug any song name you like into Youtube, then play along (with the help of ultimate-guitar.com, if you wish) – then pick a video from the suggestions in the right-hand panel and play along to that. It’s the modern version of the old repertoire-building trick of playing along to every song that turned up on the radio. I tested it the other night and played about 15 songs I had never played before.
Love it.
:-)
Sounds a challenge. I knew a professional muso way back who knew all the ads on tv and all the day time program themes.
Yep. Need to be able to pick out anything that goes past your ear – Especially if you’re only dealing with 12 different notes.
>whistles to self<
sarahs mum said:
monkey skipper said:
sarahs mum said:
wouldn’t want that bird to panic…
It’s probably off to start a bushfire next.
But is it odd? The car will know.
Tippi Hedren with Pet Raven, Buddy, 1962.
monkey skipper said:
‘ello
>nods<
MS. How goes it?
SCIENCE said:
party_pants said:
PermeateFree said:You just made a little Chinese gentleman sad who was singing his heart out for you.
Sounds like he is whistling with a bamboo leaf. So fuck him.
meanwhile in some other busted arse country over there
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-24/surfside-florida-apartment-building-collapses/100242850
As compared to our highly-regulated society, where the buildings do that to themselves if you flick a lit cigarette at them?
ChrispenEvan said:
sarahs mum said:
monkey skipper said:wouldn’t want that bird to panic…
It’s probably off to start a bushfire next.
But is it odd? The car will know.
Tippi Hedren with Pet Raven, Buddy, 1962.
Probably promo material for Hitchcock’s ‘The Birds’.
SCIENCE said:
party_pants said:
PermeateFree said:You just made a little Chinese gentleman sad who was singing his heart out for you.
Sounds like he is whistling with a bamboo leaf. So fuck him.
meanwhile in some other busted arse country over there
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-24/surfside-florida-apartment-building-collapses/100242850
That’s what you get when a society favours litigation over regulation.
Rule 303 said:
sarahs mum said:
Rule 303 said:Greetings SM. I think I might have invented a guitar game you would enjoy: YouTube Rulette. Plug any song name you like into Youtube, then play along (with the help of ultimate-guitar.com, if you wish) – then pick a video from the suggestions in the right-hand panel and play along to that. It’s the modern version of the old repertoire-building trick of playing along to every song that turned up on the radio. I tested it the other night and played about 15 songs I had never played before.
Love it.
:-)
Sounds a challenge. I knew a professional muso way back who knew all the ads on tv and all the day time program themes.
Yep. Need to be able to pick out anything that goes past your ear – Especially if you’re only dealing with 12 different notes.
>whistles to self<
He used to also be able to play convincing telephone ringing on the bass.
Witty Rejoinder said:
ChrispenEvan said:
sarahs mum said:It’s probably off to start a bushfire next.
But is it odd? The car will know.
Tippi Hedren with Pet Raven, Buddy, 1962.
Probably promo material for Hitchcock’s ‘The Birds’.
https://scvhistory.com/scvhistory/lw2535.htm
Rule 303 said:
SCIENCE said:
party_pants said:Sounds like he is whistling with a bamboo leaf. So fuck him.
meanwhile in some other busted arse country over there
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-24/surfside-florida-apartment-building-collapses/100242850
As compared to our highly-regulated society, where the buildings do that to themselves if you flick a lit cigarette at them?
LOL wasn’t that supposed to be Chairman Dan’s fault
Rule 303 said:
monkey skipper said:
‘ello
>nods<
MS. How goes it?
meh … you?
monkey skipper said:
Rule 303 said:
monkey skipper said:
‘ello
>nods<
MS. How goes it?
meh … you?
On day four of ten traveling the wilds of Victoria. Enjoying the ride at this stage, but I’m sure the miles will defeat the enthusiasm soon enough.
Reading a book. Prompted three thoughts I’d like feedback on.
1) If someone is “playing God” and God doesn’t exist, then what are they playing?
2) What would happen if a mutation of HIV appeared that could be transmitted by air like coronavirus?
Given that HIV is continually mutating, this seems not only possible but likely.
3) I always thought that “pulp fiction” meant either a rubbish story or acid paper that went brittle and yellow. This book is “pulp fiction” in the sense that the binding is designed to disintegrate on first reading, a page is duplicated, the font height varies by up to a factor of two from line to line, chapter initial capitals fade to invisibility, the text is crooked on the page with grey smudges at the edges and extraneous black dots, occasional page numbers are printed upside down. What the heck is happening here?
The worst part is that I can find my place in the book when the book is closed by just looking at where the binding disintegration ends.
mollwollfumble said:
Reading a book. Prompted three thoughts I’d like feedback on.1) If someone is “playing God” and God doesn’t exist, then what are they playing?
2) What would happen if a mutation of HIV appeared that could be transmitted by air like coronavirus?
Given that HIV is continually mutating, this seems not only possible but likely.3) I always thought that “pulp fiction” meant either a rubbish story or acid paper that went brittle and yellow. This book is “pulp fiction” in the sense that the binding is designed to disintegrate on first reading, a page is duplicated, the font height varies by up to a factor of two from line to line, chapter initial capitals fade to invisibility, the text is crooked on the page with grey smudges at the edges and extraneous black dots, occasional page numbers are printed upside down. What the heck is happening here?
The worst part is that I can find my place in the book when the book is closed by just looking at where the binding disintegration ends.
pulp refers to the paper, cheap “newsprint” type. The covers were usually quite good.
mollwollfumble said:
Reading a book. Prompted three thoughts I’d like feedback on.1) If someone is “playing God” and God doesn’t exist, then what are they playing?
2) What would happen if a mutation of HIV appeared that could be transmitted by air like coronavirus?
Given that HIV is continually mutating, this seems not only possible but likely.3) I always thought that “pulp fiction” meant either a rubbish story or acid paper that went brittle and yellow. This book is “pulp fiction” in the sense that the binding is designed to disintegrate on first reading, a page is duplicated, the font height varies by up to a factor of two from line to line, chapter initial capitals fade to invisibility, the text is crooked on the page with grey smudges at the edges and extraneous black dots, occasional page numbers are printed upside down. What the heck is happening here?
The worst part is that I can find my place in the book when the book is closed by just looking at where the binding disintegration ends.
A) If someone is “playing Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565” and Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 doesn’t exist, then what are they playing¿
B) This computer on our table is constantly in thermal motion but is it possible or likely that it will suddenly leap off the table and into orbit by virtue of its own thermal energy¿
C) Whatever¿
SCIENCE said:
party_pants said:
PermeateFree said:You just made a little Chinese gentleman sad who was singing his heart out for you.
Sounds like he is whistling with a bamboo leaf. So fuck him.
meanwhile in some other busted arse country over there
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-24/surfside-florida-apartment-building-collapses/100242850
it reminds me of the Murrah Building
ChrispenEvan said:
mollwollfumble said:
Reading a book. Prompted three thoughts I’d like feedback on.1) If someone is “playing God” and God doesn’t exist, then what are they playing?
2) What would happen if a mutation of HIV appeared that could be transmitted by air like coronavirus?
Given that HIV is continually mutating, this seems not only possible but likely.3) I always thought that “pulp fiction” meant either a rubbish story or acid paper that went brittle and yellow. This book is “pulp fiction” in the sense that the binding is designed to disintegrate on first reading, a page is duplicated, the font height varies by up to a factor of two from line to line, chapter initial capitals fade to invisibility, the text is crooked on the page with grey smudges at the edges and extraneous black dots, occasional page numbers are printed upside down. What the heck is happening here?
The worst part is that I can find my place in the book when the book is closed by just looking at where the binding disintegration ends.
pulp refers to the paper, cheap “newsprint” type. The covers were usually quite good.
Ta. This book has a good cover, not “newsprint” type but type that looks like xeroxed copies of fax machine output.
SCIENCE said:
mollwollfumble said:
Reading a book. Prompted three thoughts I’d like feedback on.1) If someone is “playing God” and God doesn’t exist, then what are they playing?
2) What would happen if a mutation of HIV appeared that could be transmitted by air like coronavirus?
Given that HIV is continually mutating, this seems not only possible but likely.3) I always thought that “pulp fiction” meant either a rubbish story or acid paper that went brittle and yellow. This book is “pulp fiction” in the sense that the binding is designed to disintegrate on first reading, a page is duplicated, the font height varies by up to a factor of two from line to line, chapter initial capitals fade to invisibility, the text is crooked on the page with grey smudges at the edges and extraneous black dots, occasional page numbers are printed upside down. What the heck is happening here?
The worst part is that I can find my place in the book when the book is closed by just looking at where the binding disintegration ends.
A) If someone is “playing Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565” and Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 doesn’t exist, then what are they playing¿
B) This computer on our table is constantly in thermal motion but is it possible or likely that it will suddenly leap off the table and into orbit by virtue of its own thermal energy¿
C) Whatever¿
A) Something like that, but different.
B) Infectivity is something that can vary from day to day among viruses. More like a case of the computer screen being toppled by a breeze.
party_pants said:
SCIENCE said:
party_pants said:Sounds like he is whistling with a bamboo leaf. So fuck him.
meanwhile in some other busted arse country over there
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-24/surfside-florida-apartment-building-collapses/100242850
That’s what you get when a society favours litigation over regulation.
Building design and construction is at least as highly regulated in the USA as in Australia, and just like here some people work their way around the regulations to save a few dollars, and some people make mistakes.
Arts said:
SCIENCE said:
party_pants said:Sounds like he is whistling with a bamboo leaf. So fuck him.
meanwhile in some other busted arse country over there
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-24/surfside-florida-apartment-building-collapses/100242850
it reminds me of the Murrah Building
now that you mention it actually yes
(we didn’t remember it was called that but we thought Oklahoma)
mollwollfumble said:
SCIENCE said:
mollwollfumble said:
Reading a book. Prompted three thoughts I’d like feedback on.1) If someone is “playing God” and God doesn’t exist, then what are they playing?
2) What would happen if a mutation of HIV appeared that could be transmitted by air like coronavirus?
Given that HIV is continually mutating, this seems not only possible but likely.3) I always thought that “pulp fiction” meant either a rubbish story or acid paper that went brittle and yellow. This book is “pulp fiction” in the sense that the binding is designed to disintegrate on first reading, a page is duplicated, the font height varies by up to a factor of two from line to line, chapter initial capitals fade to invisibility, the text is crooked on the page with grey smudges at the edges and extraneous black dots, occasional page numbers are printed upside down. What the heck is happening here?
The worst part is that I can find my place in the book when the book is closed by just looking at where the binding disintegration ends.
A) If someone is “playing Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565” and Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 doesn’t exist, then what are they playing¿
B) This computer on our table is constantly in thermal motion but is it possible or likely that it will suddenly leap off the table and into orbit by virtue of its own thermal energy¿
C) Whatever¿
A) Something like that, but different.
B) Infectivity is something that can vary from day to day among viruses. More like a case of the computer screen being toppled by a breeze.
ii) So you mean HIV could be transmitted through the air on a blood-filled needle that someone launches at the victim then well yes.
The Rev Dodgson said:
party_pants said:
SCIENCE said:meanwhile in some other busted arse country over there
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-24/surfside-florida-apartment-building-collapses/100242850
That’s what you get when a society favours litigation over regulation.
Building design and construction is at least as highly regulated in the USA as in Australia, and just like here some people work their way around the regulations to save a few dollars, and some people make mistakes.
And then there’s a huge group of people who simply ignore the regulations, employ corrupt inspectors, and tell bald-faced lies to the purchaser.
mollwollfumble said:
Reading a book. Prompted three thoughts I’d like feedback on.1) If someone is “playing God” and God doesn’t exist, then what are they playing?
But we know that there are multiple imaginary entities by the name of “god” (or the equivalent in other languages), and an imaginary entity is quite sufficient for someone to play the part of that entity.
If there were no imaginary entities called “god”, then yes, it is hard to see how anyone would know what to do to play god.
SCIENCE said:
Rule 303 said:
SCIENCE said:meanwhile in some other busted arse country over there
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-24/surfside-florida-apartment-building-collapses/100242850
As compared to our highly-regulated society, where the buildings do that to themselves if you flick a lit cigarette at them?
LOL wasn’t that supposed to be Chairman Dan’s fault
some thin concrete in there, probably some rusted reinforcing too after sixty years or whatever
you wouldn’t want a balcony collapse with that design, could be a neat cascade effect
transition said:
SCIENCE said:
Rule 303 said:As compared to our highly-regulated society, where the buildings do that to themselves if you flick a lit cigarette at them?
LOL wasn’t that supposed to be Chairman Dan’s fault
some thin concrete in there, probably some rusted reinforcing too after sixty years or whatever
you wouldn’t want a balcony collapse with that design, could be a neat cascade effect
or messy perhaps, it might be better said
Rule 303 said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
party_pants said:That’s what you get when a society favours litigation over regulation.
Building design and construction is at least as highly regulated in the USA as in Australia, and just like here some people work their way around the regulations to save a few dollars, and some people make mistakes.
And then there’s a huge group of people who simply ignore the regulations, employ corrupt inspectors, and tell bald-faced lies to the purchaser.
Buildings collapsing as shown in the picture is nonetheless, very rare.
transition said:
transition said:
SCIENCE said:LOL wasn’t that supposed to be Chairman Dan’s fault
some thin concrete in there, probably some rusted reinforcing too after sixty years or whatever
you wouldn’t want a balcony collapse with that design, could be a neat cascade effect
or messy perhaps, it might be better said
forty years was it, whatever
transition said:
transition said:
transition said:some thin concrete in there, probably some rusted reinforcing too after sixty years or whatever
you wouldn’t want a balcony collapse with that design, could be a neat cascade effect
or messy perhaps, it might be better said
forty years was it, whatever
Built in 1981 apparently, and near the coast, so yes corrosion does look like a likely culprit.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Rule 303 said:
The Rev Dodgson said:Building design and construction is at least as highly regulated in the USA as in Australia, and just like here some people work their way around the regulations to save a few dollars, and some people make mistakes.
And then there’s a huge group of people who simply ignore the regulations, employ corrupt inspectors, and tell bald-faced lies to the purchaser.
Buildings collapsing as shown in the picture is nonetheless, very rare.
I suspect that, from the occupant’s POV, the designation ‘total destruction/uninhabitable’ is usually better than ‘inhabitable, needs structural repair and major refit’ when it comes to financial impact.
Rule 303 said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Rule 303 said:And then there’s a huge group of people who simply ignore the regulations, employ corrupt inspectors, and tell bald-faced lies to the purchaser.
Buildings collapsing as shown in the picture is nonetheless, very rare.
I suspect that, from the occupant’s POV, the designation ‘total destruction/uninhabitable’ is usually better than ‘inhabitable, needs structural repair and major refit’ when it comes to financial impact.
If they survive, perhaps.
The Rev Dodgson said:
mollwollfumble said:
Reading a book. Prompted three thoughts I’d like feedback on.1) If someone is “playing God” and God doesn’t exist, then what are they playing?
But we know that there are multiple imaginary entities by the name of “god” (or the equivalent in other languages), and an imaginary entity is quite sufficient for someone to play the part of that entity.
If there were no imaginary entities called “god”, then yes, it is hard to see how anyone would know what to do to play god.
so things really can be imagined, or was it that imagination is part of reality, or other similarly complex matters
SCIENCE said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
mollwollfumble said:
Reading a book. Prompted three thoughts I’d like feedback on.1) If someone is “playing God” and God doesn’t exist, then what are they playing?
But we know that there are multiple imaginary entities by the name of “god” (or the equivalent in other languages), and an imaginary entity is quite sufficient for someone to play the part of that entity.
If there were no imaginary entities called “god”, then yes, it is hard to see how anyone would know what to do to play god.
so things really can be imagined, or was it that imagination is part of reality, or other similarly complex matters
I’d say both of those were true (and surely the former needs to be true for the latter to be true.)
The Rev Dodgson said:
Rule 303 said:
The Rev Dodgson said:Buildings collapsing as shown in the picture is nonetheless, very rare.
I suspect that, from the occupant’s POV, the designation ‘total destruction/uninhabitable’ is usually better than ‘inhabitable, needs structural repair and major refit’ when it comes to financial impact.
If they survive, perhaps.
In Carbonworshipping Australia, They Do
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-24/82-year-old-woman-escapes-tree-falling-on-house/100242360
SCIENCE said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Rule 303 said:I suspect that, from the occupant’s POV, the designation ‘total destruction/uninhabitable’ is usually better than ‘inhabitable, needs structural repair and major refit’ when it comes to financial impact.
If they survive, perhaps.
In Carbonworshipping Australia, They Do
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-24/82-year-old-woman-escapes-tree-falling-on-house/100242360
that house looks like a write off.
also we meant coalworshipping sorry
SCIENCE said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Rule 303 said:I suspect that, from the occupant’s POV, the designation ‘total destruction/uninhabitable’ is usually better than ‘inhabitable, needs structural repair and major refit’ when it comes to financial impact.
If they survive, perhaps.
In Carbonworshipping Australia, They Do
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-24/82-year-old-woman-escapes-tree-falling-on-house/100242360
that tree is structurally unsound
transition said:
SCIENCE said:
The Rev Dodgson said:If they survive, perhaps.
In Carbonworshipping Australia, They Do
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-24/82-year-old-woman-escapes-tree-falling-on-house/100242360
that tree is structurally unsound
It doesn’t meet Australian building standards code.
sarahs mum said:
transition said:
SCIENCE said:In Carbonworshipping Australia, They Do
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-24/82-year-old-woman-escapes-tree-falling-on-house/100242360
that tree is structurally unsound
It doesn’t meet Australian building standards code.
I’m certain that someone will cut it up into smaller pieces to check. May even go as far as performing a spectral analysis by burning the material.
sibeen said:
sarahs mum said:
transition said:that tree is structurally unsound
It doesn’t meet Australian building standards code.
I’m certain that someone will cut it up into smaller pieces to check. May even go as far as performing a spectral analysis by burning the material.
is it an act of god?
sarahs mum said:
sibeen said:
sarahs mum said:It doesn’t meet Australian building standards code.
I’m certain that someone will cut it up into smaller pieces to check. May even go as far as performing a spectral analysis by burning the material.
is it an act of god?
do insurance companies still write about acts of god?
sarahs mum said:
sarahs mum said:
sibeen said:I’m certain that someone will cut it up into smaller pieces to check. May even go as far as performing a spectral analysis by burning the material.
is it an act of god?
do insurance companies still write about acts of god?
I don’t know, but I suspect that tree damage wouldn’t come under a AoG. I could of course be wrong.
sarahs mum said:
transition said:
SCIENCE said:In Carbonworshipping Australia, They Do
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-24/82-year-old-woman-escapes-tree-falling-on-house/100242360
that tree is structurally unsound
It doesn’t meet Australian building standards code.
I bet the tree didn’t want to be on the news, and I bet it didn’t want its relationship with the wind and gravity to be of any consequence to humans
transition said:
sarahs mum said:
transition said:that tree is structurally unsound
It doesn’t meet Australian building standards code.
I bet the tree didn’t want to be on the news, and I bet it didn’t want its relationship with the wind and gravity to be of any consequence to humans
Some trees just can’t wait to get their mugs on tele.
sarahs mum said:
sarahs mum said:
sibeen said:I’m certain that someone will cut it up into smaller pieces to check. May even go as far as performing a spectral analysis by burning the material.
is it an act of god?
do insurance companies still write about acts of god?
That tree was home to a number of creatures.. so the human habitat actually got in the way of the tree too..
Arts said:
sarahs mum said:
sarahs mum said:is it an act of god?
do insurance companies still write about acts of god?
That tree was home to a number of creatures.. so the human habitat actually got in the way of the tree too..
probably just termites. there are billions of them, they are not endangered :p
Cup of tea and 3 x Marie biscuits.
Many people think Maries are very dull but I find them a pleasant tea biscuit.
sarahs mum said:
monkey skipper said:
sarahs mum said:
wouldn’t want that bird to panic…
It’s probably off to start a bushfire next.
But is it odd? The car will know.
bump.
Bubblecar said:
Cup of tea and 3 x Marie biscuits.Many people think Maries are very dull but I find them a pleasant tea biscuit.
good for making biscuit base for a refridgerator cheesecake.
transition said:
sarahs mum said:
transition said:that tree is structurally unsound
It doesn’t meet Australian building standards code.
I bet the tree didn’t want to be on the news, and I bet it didn’t want its relationship with the wind and gravity to be of any consequence to humans
I don’t know, looks like it was on a mission. It had been imagining smashing that old lady’s house clean in two for years, and finally found its moment.
;
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
Cup of tea and 3 x Marie biscuits.Many people think Maries are very dull but I find them a pleasant tea biscuit.
good for making biscuit base for a refridgerator cheesecake.
They’re found worldwide. Here’s a potted history from a South African site.
>In 1874 Queen Victoria’s second son, the Duke of Edinburgh, married a Russian princess called Maria Alexandrovna. She was the fifth child and only surviving daughter of Emperor Alexander II of Russia and his first wife, Princess Marie of Hesse and by Rhine. As the youngest sister of Alexander III of Russia, Maria was also the aunt of the last Russian Tsar, Nicolas II.
To celebrate the duke’s wedding to his new duchess, a London pastry chef from the biscuit-making company Peek Freans made a simple round biscuit of flour, oil, sugar and vanilla extract, with the name Maria stamped in the middle, and around the edge a Greek key pattern, which was very popular in Russia.
…Maria biscuits soon became Marie biscuits and proved lastingly popular. They were copied by bigger firms, Huntley and Palmer. The two firms later merged, and Huntley & Palmer exported Marie biscuits in tins to many countries, including SA.
https://www.timeslive.co.za/sunday-times/lifestyle/food/2020-01-26-how-marie-biscuits-got-their-name/
sarahs mum said:
It is odd, but I wonder what happened next.
Bubblecar said:
Cup of tea and 3 x Marie biscuits.Many people think Maries are very dull but I find them a pleasant tea biscuit.
I had to look them up. I wouldn’t have touched one in at least 30 years.
arrowroot are my go to plain bikkie.
sarahs mum said:
arrowroot are my go to plain bikkie.
+1
sibeen said:
sarahs mum said:
arrowroot are my go to plain bikkie.
+1
They are one of the most disgusting things ever invented.
sibeen said:
Bubblecar said:
Cup of tea and 3 x Marie biscuits.Many people think Maries are very dull but I find them a pleasant tea biscuit.
I had to look them up. I wouldn’t have touched one in at least 30 years.
Maybe a 30 year curse.
“If thou sae much as touch a Marie for the next two score and ten, tha’ll never touch another morsel again.”
roughbarked said:
sibeen said:
sarahs mum said:
arrowroot are my go to plain bikkie.
+1
They are one of the most disgusting things ever invented.
Back in the bland 60s sometimes I would have a few with hot milk on them for breakfast.
transition said:
sarahs mum said:
transition said:that tree is structurally unsound
It doesn’t meet Australian building standards code.
I bet the tree didn’t want to be on the news, and I bet it didn’t want its relationship with the wind and gravity to be of any consequence to humans
The tree has been yelling about climate change causing problems for many decades. Nobody was listening.
Arts said:
sarahs mum said:
sarahs mum said:is it an act of god?
do insurance companies still write about acts of god?
That tree was home to a number of creatures.. so the human habitat actually got in the way of the tree too..
Numbering in the myriads, these creatures dependant on each tree.
Marie biscuits by Japanese company Morinaga.
sarahs mum said:
roughbarked said:
sibeen said:+1
They are one of the most disgusting things ever invented.
Back in the bland 60s sometimes I would have a few with hot milk on them for breakfast.
There were people who lived on them.
sarahs mum said:
roughbarked said:
sibeen said:+1
They are one of the most disgusting things ever invented.
Back in the bland 60s sometimes I would have a few with hot milk on them for breakfast.
You definitely couldn’t eat a few without a driink of any kind.
Anyway, good evening to those still awake and sober.
Thinking it’s now time for a pork sausage supper. Followed by an Irish whiskey nightcap while enjoying the rest of tonight’s train ride.
sarahs mum said:
SCIENCE said:
The Rev Dodgson said:If they survive, perhaps.
In Carbonworshipping Australia, They Do
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-24/82-year-old-woman-escapes-tree-falling-on-house/100242360
that house looks like a write off.
It will buff out.
Hernia’s been unhappy the past couple days. Not the excruciating pain requiring ambulance attention, just a brooding background ache and difficulty of pushing it back in, as if the aperture has shrunk somewhat.
Might be heading for major trouble or it might all blow over.
Bubblecar said:
Hernia’s been unhappy the past couple days. Not the excruciating pain requiring ambulance attention, just a brooding background ache and difficulty of pushing it back in, as if the aperture has shrunk somewhat.Might be heading for major trouble or it might all blow over.
Have you looked up food diet’s for Hernia’s ?
Hernia belts ?
What foods not to eat with hernia ?
Bubblecar said:
Hernia’s been unhappy the past couple days. Not the excruciating pain requiring ambulance attention, just a brooding background ache and difficulty of pushing it back in, as if the aperture has shrunk somewhat.Might be heading for major trouble or it might all blow over.
If it is being difficult then you’ll be needing the surgery sooner.
Bubblecar said:
Hernia’s been unhappy the past couple days. Not the excruciating pain requiring ambulance attention, just a brooding background ache and difficulty of pushing it back in, as if the aperture has shrunk somewhat.Might be heading for major trouble or it might all blow over.
hope it improves.
Tau.Neutrino said:
Bubblecar said:
Hernia’s been unhappy the past couple days. Not the excruciating pain requiring ambulance attention, just a brooding background ache and difficulty of pushing it back in, as if the aperture has shrunk somewhat.Might be heading for major trouble or it might all blow over.
Have you looked up food diet’s for Hernia’s ?
Hernia belts ?
What foods not to eat with hernia ?
Pork and whisky at 1:30 AM?
roughbarked said:
Bubblecar said:
Hernia’s been unhappy the past couple days. Not the excruciating pain requiring ambulance attention, just a brooding background ache and difficulty of pushing it back in, as if the aperture has shrunk somewhat.Might be heading for major trouble or it might all blow over.
If it is being difficult then you’ll be needing the surgery sooner.
Tau.Neutrino said:
Bubblecar said:
Hernia’s been unhappy the past couple days. Not the excruciating pain requiring ambulance attention, just a brooding background ache and difficulty of pushing it back in, as if the aperture has shrunk somewhat.Might be heading for major trouble or it might all blow over.
Have you looked up food diet’s for Hernia’s ?
Hernia belts ?
What foods not to eat with hernia ?
You just have to try to not disturb it too much.
Still waiting for the operation to seal it back in with the other guts.
sarahs mum said:
roughbarked said:
Bubblecar said:
Hernia’s been unhappy the past couple days. Not the excruciating pain requiring ambulance attention, just a brooding background ache and difficulty of pushing it back in, as if the aperture has shrunk somewhat.Might be heading for major trouble or it might all blow over.
If it is being difficult then you’ll be needing the surgery sooner.
how is the leg?
Still swollen and possibly infected (cellulitis).
Judging by the Ross sister’s experience (she also tore a calf muscle which resulted in swelling etc) it may remain somewhat swollen for a looong time.
Bubblecar said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Bubblecar said:
Hernia’s been unhappy the past couple days. Not the excruciating pain requiring ambulance attention, just a brooding background ache and difficulty of pushing it back in, as if the aperture has shrunk somewhat.Might be heading for major trouble or it might all blow over.
Have you looked up food diet’s for Hernia’s ?
Hernia belts ?
What foods not to eat with hernia ?
You just have to try to not disturb it too much.
Still waiting for the operation to seal it back in with the other guts.
Afterwards try to increase your daily intake of vitamin E in greater numbers of units.
a team of Australian and US scientists has discovered that a coronavirus epidemic broke out in East Asia around 25,000 years ago and lasted 20,000 years.
According to their study, reported today in Current Biology, evidence of this can be seen in the genomes of modern-day people from the region.
“It wreaked havoc in the population and left significant genetic scars,” said study co-author Kirill Alexandrov, a synthetic biologist at the Queensland University of Technology.
Like the rings of a tree, our genetic code can tell a story about events in our ancient past.
Random mutations to our genes mean some people are naturally more susceptible than others to being infected by viruses or developing serious symptoms of disease.
For instance, a recent study found that people who carry a cluster of genes inherited from Neanderthals some 50,000 years ago have a higher risk of developing severe COVID-19 symptoms.
But other mutations do the opposite, and can give us a survival edge when disease outbreaks occur.
And people with these gene variants are more likely to reproduce than others.
Researchers found a coronavirus-related genetic signal in people from Vietnam, China and Japan, but not in people from other parts of the world.
“After we observed this signature of adaptation we used different tools to tell us how far back that adaptation might have happened,” Dr Soulimi said.
“Adaptation seems to have started about 25,000 years ago.”
Not only is this the earliest evidence of human exposure to coronaviruses but it also shows how long they can hang around.
The researchers found the virus appears to have stopped exerting evolutionary pressure on the genomes 5,000 years ago, which means the epidemic lasted around 20,000 years.
“We really can’t tell if this was a periodic thing that occurred every winter like the flu, or slightly different viruses that jumped from animals to humans every five to 10 years like what happened in the past 20 years with SARS, MERS, and SARS-CoV-2,” Dr Souilmi said.
It may have been a single virus or a series of viruses that use the same molecular machinery, an idea supported by other research that shows the viral family that SARS-CoV-2 belongs to, emerged about 23,000 years ago, he said.
But either way, what’s clear from the research is humans were exposed to coronaviruses for a period of roughly 20,000 years at one point in our history.
“The adaptation of several genes around the same time and at the same rate can only be explained by the exposure to coronaviruses back in time,” Dr Souilmi said.
The researchers also found evidence that the virus involved in the ancient outbreak invaded cells in a similar way to SARS-CoV-2.
Excerpted from https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2021-06-25/coronavirus-epidemic-east-asia-twenty-thousand-years-ago/100226362
roughbarked said:
a team of Australian and US scientists has discovered that a coronavirus epidemic broke out in East Asia around 25,000 years ago and lasted 20,000 years.According to their study, reported today in Current Biology, evidence of this can be seen in the genomes of modern-day people from the region.
“It wreaked havoc in the population and left significant genetic scars,” said study co-author Kirill Alexandrov, a synthetic biologist at the Queensland University of Technology.
Like the rings of a tree, our genetic code can tell a story about events in our ancient past.Random mutations to our genes mean some people are naturally more susceptible than others to being infected by viruses or developing serious symptoms of disease.
For instance, a recent study found that people who carry a cluster of genes inherited from Neanderthals some 50,000 years ago have a higher risk of developing severe COVID-19 symptoms.
But other mutations do the opposite, and can give us a survival edge when disease outbreaks occur.
And people with these gene variants are more likely to reproduce than others.
Researchers found a coronavirus-related genetic signal in people from Vietnam, China and Japan, but not in people from other parts of the world.
“After we observed this signature of adaptation we used different tools to tell us how far back that adaptation might have happened,” Dr Soulimi said.
“Adaptation seems to have started about 25,000 years ago.”
Not only is this the earliest evidence of human exposure to coronaviruses but it also shows how long they can hang around.
The researchers found the virus appears to have stopped exerting evolutionary pressure on the genomes 5,000 years ago, which means the epidemic lasted around 20,000 years.
“We really can’t tell if this was a periodic thing that occurred every winter like the flu, or slightly different viruses that jumped from animals to humans every five to 10 years like what happened in the past 20 years with SARS, MERS, and SARS-CoV-2,” Dr Souilmi said.
It may have been a single virus or a series of viruses that use the same molecular machinery, an idea supported by other research that shows the viral family that SARS-CoV-2 belongs to, emerged about 23,000 years ago, he said.
But either way, what’s clear from the research is humans were exposed to coronaviruses for a period of roughly 20,000 years at one point in our history.
“The adaptation of several genes around the same time and at the same rate can only be explained by the exposure to coronaviruses back in time,” Dr Souilmi said.
The researchers also found evidence that the virus involved in the ancient outbreak invaded cells in a similar way to SARS-CoV-2.
Excerpted from https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2021-06-25/coronavirus-epidemic-east-asia-twenty-thousand-years-ago/100226362
Gee, that’s some medical detective work.
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
roughbarked said:If it is being difficult then you’ll be needing the surgery sooner.
how is the leg?
Still swollen and possibly infected (cellulitis).
Judging by the Ross sister’s experience (she also tore a calf muscle which resulted in swelling etc) it may remain somewhat swollen for a looong time.
If you are not currently using APO-Frusemide Tablets a trip to your GP would be worth while. They are used to treat swelling of the ankles, feet, legs or even the brain or lungs. This swelling is called oedema and can occur in some heart, lung, liver or kidney conditions. You just pee out the fluid build up.
https://www.nps.org.au/medicine-finder/apo-frusemide-tablets
PermeateFree said:
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:how is the leg?
Still swollen and possibly infected (cellulitis).
Judging by the Ross sister’s experience (she also tore a calf muscle which resulted in swelling etc) it may remain somewhat swollen for a looong time.
If you are not currently using APO-Frusemide Tablets a trip to your GP would be worth while. They are used to treat swelling of the ankles, feet, legs or even the brain or lungs. This swelling is called oedema and can occur in some heart, lung, liver or kidney conditions. You just pee out the fluid build up.
https://www.nps.org.au/medicine-finder/apo-frusemide-tablets
I’ve been using these for about nine months now, and agree that they work. And work pretty well for me.
Good morning everybody.
It’s dark, not raining and calm. Currently 16.2°C here, the BoM predicts a top of 23°C with the chance of rain increasing right throughout the day.
Yesterday was productive. I got the new kitchen shelves erected, which allowed us to tidy up the corner that was full of boxes of stuff and looked very, very untidy. I also got the donated stereo erected and tested (thanks Woodie).
Today – re-erect the stereo in the correct place. Measure, calculate, mark and drill holes in the next lot of mushroom buckets, to get ready for the Pearl Oyster mushrooms. The spawn (from stem butts) is colonising rapidly, or so it seems.
roughbarked said:
a team of Australian and US scientists has discovered that a coronavirus epidemic broke out in East Asia around 25,000 years ago and lasted 20,000 years.According to their study, reported today in Current Biology, evidence of this can be seen in the genomes of modern-day people from the region.
“It wreaked havoc in the population and left significant genetic scars,” said study co-author Kirill Alexandrov, a synthetic biologist at the Queensland University of Technology.
Like the rings of a tree, our genetic code can tell a story about events in our ancient past.Random mutations to our genes mean some people are naturally more susceptible than others to being infected by viruses or developing serious symptoms of disease.
For instance, a recent study found that people who carry a cluster of genes inherited from Neanderthals some 50,000 years ago have a higher risk of developing severe COVID-19 symptoms.
But other mutations do the opposite, and can give us a survival edge when disease outbreaks occur.
And people with these gene variants are more likely to reproduce than others.
Researchers found a coronavirus-related genetic signal in people from Vietnam, China and Japan, but not in people from other parts of the world.
“After we observed this signature of adaptation we used different tools to tell us how far back that adaptation might have happened,” Dr Soulimi said.
“Adaptation seems to have started about 25,000 years ago.”
Not only is this the earliest evidence of human exposure to coronaviruses but it also shows how long they can hang around.
The researchers found the virus appears to have stopped exerting evolutionary pressure on the genomes 5,000 years ago, which means the epidemic lasted around 20,000 years.
“We really can’t tell if this was a periodic thing that occurred every winter like the flu, or slightly different viruses that jumped from animals to humans every five to 10 years like what happened in the past 20 years with SARS, MERS, and SARS-CoV-2,” Dr Souilmi said.
It may have been a single virus or a series of viruses that use the same molecular machinery, an idea supported by other research that shows the viral family that SARS-CoV-2 belongs to, emerged about 23,000 years ago, he said.
But either way, what’s clear from the research is humans were exposed to coronaviruses for a period of roughly 20,000 years at one point in our history.
“The adaptation of several genes around the same time and at the same rate can only be explained by the exposure to coronaviruses back in time,” Dr Souilmi said.
The researchers also found evidence that the virus involved in the ancient outbreak invaded cells in a similar way to SARS-CoV-2.
Excerpted from https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2021-06-25/coronavirus-epidemic-east-asia-twenty-thousand-years-ago/100226362
fkn CHINA
Michael V said:
PermeateFree said:
Bubblecar said:Still swollen and possibly infected (cellulitis).
Judging by the Ross sister’s experience (she also tore a calf muscle which resulted in swelling etc) it may remain somewhat swollen for a looong time.
If you are not currently using APO-Frusemide Tablets a trip to your GP would be worth while. They are used to treat swelling of the ankles, feet, legs or even the brain or lungs. This swelling is called oedema and can occur in some heart, lung, liver or kidney conditions. You just pee out the fluid build up.
https://www.nps.org.au/medicine-finder/apo-frusemide-tablets
I’ve been using these for about nine months now, and agree that they work. And work pretty well for me.
videre licet You just pee out the fluid build up. can’t you just drink less water
SCIENCE said:
Michael V said:
PermeateFree said:If you are not currently using APO-Frusemide Tablets a trip to your GP would be worth while. They are used to treat swelling of the ankles, feet, legs or even the brain or lungs. This swelling is called oedema and can occur in some heart, lung, liver or kidney conditions. You just pee out the fluid build up.
https://www.nps.org.au/medicine-finder/apo-frusemide-tablets
I’ve been using these for about nine months now, and agree that they work. And work pretty well for me.
videre licet You just pee out the fluid build up. can’t you just drink less water
That doesn’t seem to work.
Sunrise is a brilliant orange under the clouds here, but fading fast.
Michael V said:
SCIENCE said:
Michael V said:I’ve been using these for about nine months now, and agree that they work. And work pretty well for me.
videre licet You just pee out the fluid build up. can’t you just drink less water
That doesn’t seem to work.
odd, we suppose there’s salt in urine as well though hm
Good morning Holidayers. Six degrees and dark outside. Our forecast for today is for showers and 13 degrees.
Aaaand the chickens are beginning to come home:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-25/rudy-giuliani-suspended-from-practicing-law/100243132
buffy said:
Good morning Holidayers. Six degrees and dark outside. Our forecast for today is for showers and 13 degrees.Aaaand the chickens are beginning to come home:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-25/rudy-giuliani-suspended-from-practicing-law/100243132
Good.
Lucky…
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-24/82-year-old-woman-escapes-tree-falling-on-house/100242360
Unlucky…
:(
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-24/surfside-florida-apartment-building-collapses/100242850
Morning, cold and foggy in the Styx.
Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
Still going strong after being in space for 13 years.
An analysis of gamma ray long period variables measured by Fermi recently appeared at https://arxiv.org/pdf/2106.00100.pdf
Short period gamma ray variables are predominantly Pulsars, and variability of order 1 day is predominantly from flares. Previous work had found “518 flaring gamma-ray sources”.
“We present the first Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) catalog of long-term gamma-ray transient sources (from) a decade of scanning”
Note how all of these are outside our Milky Way.
I’m guessing well today! 10/10!
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-25/news-quiz-barnaby-joyce-steven-spielberg-state-of-origin-aleague/100242336
I even guessed question 7 and question 8 correctly! I did know a lot of the others. Q2 and Q3 were guesses though.
:)
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-24/surfside-florida-apartment-building-collapses/100242850
The surveillance video in the middle of that piece is scary. It’s not going to be good news out of there today.
And now it is light…I can report that there is moderate fog. I noticed the fog coming in last night before we went to bed.
I bought a packet of this yesterday in the supermarket.
I got bored with cornflakes and weetbix. I did think it was likely to taste like cardboard. It’s surprisingly OK. At $2 a box, it wasn’t going to break us to try it.
buffy said:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-24/surfside-florida-apartment-building-collapses/100242850The surveillance video in the middle of that piece is scary. It’s not going to be good news out of there today.
That’s been added to the story since I looked at it earlier this morning.
I agree.
A mettle-testing 3 deg C
SCIENCE said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Rule 303 said:I suspect that, from the occupant’s POV, the designation ‘total destruction/uninhabitable’ is usually better than ‘inhabitable, needs structural repair and major refit’ when it comes to financial impact.
If they survive, perhaps.
In Carbonworshipping Australia, They Do
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-24/82-year-old-woman-escapes-tree-falling-on-house/100242360
Not sure what your point is there Mr Science.
The Rev Dodgson said:
SCIENCE said:
The Rev Dodgson said:If they survive, perhaps.
In Carbonworshipping Australia, They Do
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-24/82-year-old-woman-escapes-tree-falling-on-house/100242360
Not sure what your point is there Mr Science.
Flimsy house. Should have been made out of real timber. Stand up for ironbarks.
roughbarked said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
SCIENCE said:In Carbonworshipping Australia, They Do
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-24/82-year-old-woman-escapes-tree-falling-on-house/100242360
Not sure what your point is there Mr Science.
Flimsy house. Should have been made out of real timber. Stand up for ironbarks.
Au contraire.
In that sort of situation keeping the damage localised and avoiding total collapse of the structure is exactly what should happen.
And the occupant of the hose can be glad that her building performed perfectly.
The Rev Dodgson said:
roughbarked said:
The Rev Dodgson said:Not sure what your point is there Mr Science.
Flimsy house. Should have been made out of real timber. Stand up for ironbarks.
Au contraire.
In that sort of situation keeping the damage localised and avoiding total collapse of the structure is exactly what should happen.
And the occupant of the hose can be glad that her building performed perfectly.
By the way, we had something similar to our house about 20 years ago. Not quite as extreme, but a large tree fell onto one end of our house, that had just been converted from a deck to family room. The insurance company (NRMA) coughed up all repair costs with no trouble at all.
The Rev Dodgson said:
SCIENCE said:
The Rev Dodgson said:If they survive, perhaps.
In Carbonworshipping Australia, They Do
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-24/82-year-old-woman-escapes-tree-falling-on-house/100242360
Not sure what your point is there Mr Science.
Just that in coalworshipping Australia, they the people do survive (nothing more profound than that).
SCIENCE said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
SCIENCE said:In Carbonworshipping Australia, They Do
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-24/82-year-old-woman-escapes-tree-falling-on-house/100242360
Not sure what your point is there Mr Science.
Just that in coalworshipping Australia, they the people do survive (nothing more profound than that).
I just don’t get what coalworshipping has to do with it.
Michael V said:
buffy said:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-24/surfside-florida-apartment-building-collapses/100242850The surveillance video in the middle of that piece is scary. It’s not going to be good news out of there today.
That’s been added to the story since I looked at it earlier this morning.
I agree.
looks like it’s time to bomb Iraq again, we hear there are excellent oil reserves weapons of mass destruction waiting for the finding
The Rev Dodgson said:
SCIENCE said:
The Rev Dodgson said:Not sure what your point is there Mr Science.
Just that in coalworshipping Australia, they the people do survive (nothing more profound than that).
I just don’t get what coalworshipping has to do with it.
the irony of being hit with a renewable?
The Rev Dodgson said:
roughbarked said:
The Rev Dodgson said:Not sure what your point is there Mr Science.
Flimsy house. Should have been made out of real timber. Stand up for ironbarks.
Au contraire.
In that sort of situation keeping the damage localised and avoiding total collapse of the structure is exactly what should happen.
And the occupant of the hose can be glad that her building performed perfectly.
:)
ChrispenEvan said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
SCIENCE said:Just that in coalworshipping Australia, they the people do survive (nothing more profound than that).
I just don’t get what coalworshipping has to do with it.
the irony of being hit with a renewable?
oh that we thought that was just the way the world sees Australia, similar to the Christian Republic of America, or the Hacking Capitalist Communist Police State of China et cetera
still no adverse side effects from the AZ jab.
ChrispenEvan said:
still no adverse side effects from the AZ jab.
What are the positive side effects?
Witty Rejoinder said:
ChrispenEvan said:
still no adverse side effects from the AZ jab.
What are the positive side effects?
none of those either.
Witty Rejoinder said:
ChrispenEvan said:
still no adverse side effects from the AZ jab.
What are the positive side effects?
Lack of infection from a passing virus?
buffy said:
I’m guessing well today! 10/10!https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-25/news-quiz-barnaby-joyce-steven-spielberg-state-of-origin-aleague/100242336
I even guessed question 7 and question 8 correctly! I did know a lot of the others. Q2 and Q3 were guesses though.
:)
9
The Rev Dodgson said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
ChrispenEvan said:
still no adverse side effects from the AZ jab.
What are the positive side effects?
Lack of infection from a passing virus?
we’ll see
Arts said:
Awesome creature.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
ChrispenEvan said:
still no adverse side effects from the AZ jab.
What are the positive side effects?
Lack of infection from a passing virus?
that isn’t a side effect.
Arts said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Witty Rejoinder said:What are the positive side effects?
Lack of infection from a passing virus?
we’ll see
we will. in the fullness of time.
More about collapsed building:
ChrispenEvan said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Witty Rejoinder said:What are the positive side effects?
Lack of infection from a passing virus?
that isn’t a side effect.
And you would have to go somewhere the virus was to find out anyway.
8
buffy said:
ChrispenEvan said:
The Rev Dodgson said:Lack of infection from a passing virus?
that isn’t a side effect.
And you would have to go somewhere the virus was to find out anyway.
OK, well how about: the feeling of satisfaction you get from knowing you have done your bit to keep your fellow community members safe®?
The Rev Dodgson said:
buffy said:
ChrispenEvan said:that isn’t a side effect.
And you would have to go somewhere the virus was to find out anyway.
OK, well how about: the feeling of satisfaction you get from knowing you have done your bit to keep your fellow community members safe®?
Like I said, I’ve had no adverse side effects.
The Rev Dodgson said:
buffy said:
ChrispenEvan said:that isn’t a side effect.
And you would have to go somewhere the virus was to find out anyway.
OK, well how about: the feeling of satisfaction you get from knowing you have done your bit to keep your fellow community members safe®?
except like masks that would make you take more risks and in fact have a higher chance of infection right
Mazda should toss a few bucks her way.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-25/24-hr-pouch-checking-service-tasmania/100236570
roughbarked said:
Mazda should toss a few bucks her way.
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-25/24-hr-pouch-checking-service-tasmania/100236570
do bucks have pouches
SCIENCE said:
roughbarked said:
Mazda should toss a few bucks her way.
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-25/24-hr-pouch-checking-service-tasmania/100236570
do bucks have pouches
No. no need.
Advocates for older Australians call for choice over paperless bills.
“I thought I’ll always get paper bills forever,” he said.After his family showed him how to get set-up to receive bills on his phone, Mr Van Der Wielen called Telstra and visited his local shop in Bunbury in the South West of WA to try and switch back to receiving paper bills.
“ that I was stuck with it,” he said.
While Mr Van Der Wielen said he has been trying to adapt to the new technology, he would still like the choice.
SCIENCE said:
roughbarked said:
Mazda should toss a few bucks her way.
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-25/24-hr-pouch-checking-service-tasmania/100236570
do bucks have pouches
I think they are called “sacks”.
Dark Orange said:
SCIENCE said:
roughbarked said:
Mazda should toss a few bucks her way.
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-25/24-hr-pouch-checking-service-tasmania/100236570
do bucks have pouches
I think they are called “sacks”.
sac would have done. ;)
The Rev Dodgson said:
More about collapsed building:
Were explosives detonated at critical steel columns by the Jews?
Peak Warming Man said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
More about collapsed building:Were explosives detonated at critical steel columns by the Jews?
The Jewish space laser,surely?
Neophyte said:
Peak Warming Man said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
More about collapsed building:Were explosives detonated at critical steel columns by the Jews?
The Jewish space laser,surely?
we retract our Iraq statements
Peak Warming Man said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
More about collapsed building:Were explosives detonated at critical steel columns by the Jews?
Very unlikely.
It doesn’t seem to have any steel columns.
I don’t think the possibility of an explosion in the basement (deliberate or accidental) should be discounted.
But local collapse due to excessive settlement* followed by progressive collapse is probably the most likely cause.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Peak Warming Man said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
More about collapsed building:Were explosives detonated at critical steel columns by the Jews?
Very unlikely.
It doesn’t seem to have any steel columns.
I don’t think the possibility of an explosion in the basement (deliberate or accidental) should be discounted.
But local collapse due to excessive settlement* followed by progressive collapse is probably the most likely cause.
- or maybe corrosion of slab reinforcement in an upper parking level initiating collapse of of 1 basement floor.
No reports of an explosion and no sign of subsidence due to a sinkhole but there are reports of pile driving going on next to the building where they are building a similar building.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Peak Warming Man said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
More about collapsed building:Were explosives detonated at critical steel columns by the Jews?
Very unlikely.
It doesn’t seem to have any steel columns.
I don’t think the possibility of an explosion in the basement (deliberate or accidental) should be discounted.
But local collapse due to excessive settlement* followed by progressive collapse is probably the most likely cause.
- or maybe corrosion of slab reinforcement in an upper parking level initiating collapse of of 1 basement floor.
This seems to have been a bigger catastrophe than what I was imagining last night.
Peak Warming Man said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Peak Warming Man said:Were explosives detonated at critical steel columns by the Jews?
Very unlikely.
It doesn’t seem to have any steel columns.
I don’t think the possibility of an explosion in the basement (deliberate or accidental) should be discounted.
But local collapse due to excessive settlement* followed by progressive collapse is probably the most likely cause.
- or maybe corrosion of slab reinforcement in an upper parking level initiating collapse of of 1 basement floor.
No reports of an explosion and no sign of subsidence due to a sinkhole but there are reports of pile driving going on next to the building where they are building a similar building.
Apparently they been up there repairing the roof. Perhaps an assessment could have ascertained that the need for roof repairs were caused by the building starting to fall apart?
The Rev Dodgson said:
Peak Warming Man said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
More about collapsed building:Were explosives detonated at critical steel columns by the Jews?
Very unlikely.
It doesn’t seem to have any steel columns.
I don’t think the possibility of an explosion in the basement (deliberate or accidental) should be discounted.
But local collapse due to excessive settlement* followed by progressive collapse is probably the most likely cause.
- or maybe corrosion of slab reinforcement in an upper parking level initiating collapse of of 1 basement floor.
when you look at it on google earth you realise how big a piece collapsed.
Peak Warming Man said:
no sign of subsidence due to a sinkhole
My sources disagree.
There are reports of continuing significant settlement since the 90’s.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Peak Warming Man said:no sign of subsidence due to a sinkholeMy sources disagree.
There are reports of continuing significant settlement since the 90’s.
That’s what they said about Gaza and look what happened ¡
roughbarked said:
Peak Warming Man said:
The Rev Dodgson said:Very unlikely.
It doesn’t seem to have any steel columns.
I don’t think the possibility of an explosion in the basement (deliberate or accidental) should be discounted.
But local collapse due to excessive settlement* followed by progressive collapse is probably the most likely cause.
- or maybe corrosion of slab reinforcement in an upper parking level initiating collapse of of 1 basement floor.
No reports of an explosion and no sign of subsidence due to a sinkhole but there are reports of pile driving going on next to the building where they are building a similar building.
Apparently they been up there repairing the roof. Perhaps an assessment could have ascertained that the need for roof repairs were caused by the building starting to fall apart?
Sounds like it had been slowly falling apart for 40 years and not much was being done about it.
party_pants said:
roughbarked said:
Peak Warming Man said:No reports of an explosion and no sign of subsidence due to a sinkhole but there are reports of pile driving going on next to the building where they are building a similar building.
Apparently they been up there repairing the roof. Perhaps an assessment could have ascertained that the need for roof repairs were caused by the building starting to fall apart?
Sounds like it had been slowly falling apart for 40 years and not much was being done about it.
Maintenance undone.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2021-06-25/reef-water-quality-problems-despite-huge-spend-unesco-runoff/100241786
Some of you may have noticed that I was up and about in the early hours. It was because the moon was like daylight outside.
You’re sitting in a dingy in the middle of a pond and you throw a brick into the pond, does the level of the pond rise, stay the same or go down.
Peak Warming Man said:
You’re sitting in a dingy in the middle of a pond and you throw a brick into the pond, does the level of the pond rise, stay the same or go down.
go down
Peak Warming Man said:
You’re sitting in a dingy in the middle of a pond and you throw a brick into the pond, does the level of the pond rise, stay the same or go down.
In theory, it stays exactly the same. The brick of itself will raise the “resting” water level of the pond i.e. if you stood on the bank and threw it. But since you are in a boat and presumably carried it along with you, your boat has already raised the water level by displacing a certain volume of water. Therefore, shifting the brick from inside the bot to the bottom of the pond should see no change in water level.
Belgian infantry helmet. Looks medieval but dates from 1916.
Designed by John MacIntosh and produced by Sankey Ltd of Wolverhampton, it was fitted with a ballistic visor at the express request of Queen Elizabeth of Belgium to protect the eyes of her troops.
70,000 of these were made.
Bubblecar said:
Belgian infantry helmet. Looks medieval but dates from 1916.Designed by John MacIntosh and produced by Sankey Ltd of Wolverhampton, it was fitted with a ballistic visor at the express request of Queen Elizabeth of Belgium to protect the eyes of her troops.
70,000 of these were made.
I take it they were no good?
Peak Warming Man said:
You’re sitting in a dingy in the middle of a pond and you throw a brick into the pond, does the level of the pond rise, stay the same or go down.
Bits rise and bits go down, starting at the point of entry of the brick, and expanding in a roughly circular pattern.
party_pants said:
Peak Warming Man said:
You’re sitting in a dingy in the middle of a pond and you throw a brick into the pond, does the level of the pond rise, stay the same or go down.
In theory, it stays exactly the same. The brick of itself will raise the “resting” water level of the pond i.e. if you stood on the bank and threw it. But since you are in a boat and presumably carried it along with you, your boat has already raised the water level by displacing a certain volume of water. Therefore, shifting the brick from inside the bot to the bottom of the pond should see no change in water level.
I regret to admit that I was about to add that to my correct answer.
But I now realise (and even more regret) that CE is correct.
http://puzzles.nigelcoldwell.co.uk/twentyone.htm
The Water Level Goes Down!!!!
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/math/a25150/solution-riddle-of-the-week-15/
The water level goes down.
don’t confuse weight with volume. or something.
party_pants said:
Bubblecar said:
Belgian infantry helmet. Looks medieval but dates from 1916.Designed by John MacIntosh and produced by Sankey Ltd of Wolverhampton, it was fitted with a ballistic visor at the express request of Queen Elizabeth of Belgium to protect the eyes of her troops.
70,000 of these were made.
I take it they were no good?
Well they didn’t seem to catch on, so I presume they weren’t highly regarded.
ChrispenEvan said:
http://puzzles.nigelcoldwell.co.uk/twentyone.htmThe Water Level Goes Down!!!!
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/math/a25150/solution-riddle-of-the-week-15/
The water level goes down.
don’t confuse weight with volume. or something.
Yes, inside the boat it displaces its weight of water, but when thrown into the pond it displaces its volume of water, which is less than its weight.
Unless its a floating brick of course.
The Rev Dodgson said:
ChrispenEvan said:
http://puzzles.nigelcoldwell.co.uk/twentyone.htmThe Water Level Goes Down!!!!
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/math/a25150/solution-riddle-of-the-week-15/
The water level goes down.
don’t confuse weight with volume. or something.
Yes, inside the boat it displaces its weight of water, but when thrown into the pond it displaces its volume of water, which is less than its weight.
Unless its a floating brick of course.
OK. Makes sense I guess.
NSW press conference was interesting (I read the bits on the ABC live updates). Yesterday…definitely no lockdown. Today…a week for some LGAs and also people who live elsewhere but work in them.
party_pants said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
ChrispenEvan said:
http://puzzles.nigelcoldwell.co.uk/twentyone.htmThe Water Level Goes Down!!!!
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/math/a25150/solution-riddle-of-the-week-15/
The water level goes down.
don’t confuse weight with volume. or something.
Yes, inside the boat it displaces its weight of water, but when thrown into the pond it displaces its volume of water, which is less than its weight.
Unless its a floating brick of course.
OK. Makes sense I guess.
that is because it is physics.
Right then, I’m going to eat a chicken kiev pie for lunch. Cam has been making these for a while, but I haven’t tried one before.
ChrispenEvan said:
party_pants said:
The Rev Dodgson said:Yes, inside the boat it displaces its weight of water, but when thrown into the pond it displaces its volume of water, which is less than its weight.
Unless its a floating brick of course.
OK. Makes sense I guess.
that is because it is physics.
Science always makes more sense to me than any alternative explanation.
party_pants said:
ChrispenEvan said:
party_pants said:OK. Makes sense I guess.
that is because it is physics.
Science always makes more sense to me than any alternative explanation.
yes, even if you can’t understand it you have a good idea that someone smart does.
roughbarked said:
Some of you may have noticed that I was up and about in the early hours. It was because the moon was like daylight outside.
You want ‘night like daylight’?
See https://www.shetlandwebcams.com/sealevel-cam/
It’s 3:17 am over there, and this is about as dark as it get there at this time of year.
The Rev Dodgson said:
ChrispenEvan said:
http://puzzles.nigelcoldwell.co.uk/twentyone.htmThe Water Level Goes Down!!!!
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/math/a25150/solution-riddle-of-the-week-15/
The water level goes down.
don’t confuse weight with volume. or something.
Yes, inside the boat it displaces its weight of water, but when thrown into the pond it displaces its volume of water, which is less than its weight.
Unless its a floating brick of course.
If the dingy has sunk and is on the bottom of the pond (which is consistent with PWM’s original question), and the brick is a regular-sized house brick made of fired clay initially held above the pond surface, the water level will rise. Slightly.
Peak Warming Man said:
You’re sitting in a dingy in the middle of a pond and you throw a brick into the pond, does the level of the pond rise, stay the same or go down.
A red brick or a brown brick?
Woodie said:
Peak Warming Man said:
You’re sitting in a dingy in the middle of a pond and you throw a brick into the pond, does the level of the pond rise, stay the same or go down.
A red brick or a brown brick?
A Lego brick?
C’mon, it’s science, ya gotta be specific?
buffy said:
Right then, I’m going to eat a chicken kiev pie for lunch. Cam has been making these for a while, but I haven’t tried one before.
Sounds good.
I’ll just be having 2 x Scottsdale Pork “thin English” sausages, eaten Bunnings style.
Woodie said:
Peak Warming Man said:
You’re sitting in a dingy in the middle of a pond and you throw a brick into the pond, does the level of the pond rise, stay the same or go down.
A red brick or a brown brick?
Please, no-one mention orange.
Bacon and egg and tomato and onion sanger, cup of tea (black and one)
I’ll tell you what it’s bloody freezing in that kitchen.
btm said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
ChrispenEvan said:
http://puzzles.nigelcoldwell.co.uk/twentyone.htmThe Water Level Goes Down!!!!
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/math/a25150/solution-riddle-of-the-week-15/
The water level goes down.
don’t confuse weight with volume. or something.
Yes, inside the boat it displaces its weight of water, but when thrown into the pond it displaces its volume of water, which is less than its weight.
Unless its a floating brick of course.
If the dingy has sunk and is on the bottom of the pond (which is consistent with PWM’s original question), and the brick is a regular-sized house brick made of fired clay initially held above the pond surface, the water level will rise. Slightly.
jesus!
Bubblecar said:
I’ll tell you what it’s bloody freezing in that kitchen.
Leave the oven on for a while.
sibeen said:
Woodie said:
Peak Warming Man said:
You’re sitting in a dingy in the middle of a pond and you throw a brick into the pond, does the level of the pond rise, stay the same or go down.
A red brick or a brown brick?
Please, no-one mention orange.
….. and why does it have to be a brick? why not, say, a tin of tomatoes? Or an old lawn mover? Must it be a brick?
Bubblecar said:
I’ll tell you what it’s bloody freezing in that kitchen.
Take the heater in there and stop moaning.
party_pants said:
Peak Warming Man said:
You’re sitting in a dingy in the middle of a pond and you throw a brick into the pond, does the level of the pond rise, stay the same or go down.
In theory, it stays exactly the same. The brick of itself will raise the “resting” water level of the pond i.e. if you stood on the bank and threw it. But since you are in a boat and presumably carried it along with you, your boat has already raised the water level by displacing a certain volume of water. Therefore, shifting the brick from inside the bot to the bottom of the pond should see no change in water level.
That only works if the SG is one or less. If the SG is >1 (ie for most normal ceramic bricks) the water level will go down.
ChrispenEvan said:
btm said:
The Rev Dodgson said:Yes, inside the boat it displaces its weight of water, but when thrown into the pond it displaces its volume of water, which is less than its weight.
Unless its a floating brick of course.
If the dingy has sunk and is on the bottom of the pond (which is consistent with PWM’s original question), and the brick is a regular-sized house brick made of fired clay initially held above the pond surface, the water level will rise. Slightly.
jesus!
He doesn’t normally affect the water level.
party_pants said:
Bubblecar said:
I’ll tell you what it’s bloody freezing in that kitchen.
Leave the oven on for a while.
The oven’s on with the two snorkers in it in a baking tin.
Peak Warming Man said:
Bacon and egg and tomato and onion sanger, cup of tea (black and one)
I’m off to lunch with Mr Steve (Primus) to spend our last wine & dine voucher.
Peak Warming Man said:
ChrispenEvan said:
btm said:If the dingy has sunk and is on the bottom of the pond (which is consistent with PWM’s original question), and the brick is a regular-sized house brick made of fired clay initially held above the pond surface, the water level will rise. Slightly.
jesus!
He doesn’t normally affect the water level.
specially if he’s walking on it.
Woodie said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Bacon and egg and tomato and onion sanger, cup of tea (black and one)
I’m off to lunch with Mr Steve (Primus) to spend our last wine & dine voucher.
Say hello from me, please.
Peak Warming Man said:
ChrispenEvan said:
btm said:If the dingy has sunk and is on the bottom of the pond (which is consistent with PWM’s original question), and the brick is a regular-sized house brick made of fired clay initially held above the pond surface, the water level will rise. Slightly.
jesus!
He doesn’t normally affect the water level.
LOLOLOLOL
Peak Warming Man said:
ChrispenEvan said:
btm said:If the dingy has sunk and is on the bottom of the pond (which is consistent with PWM’s original question), and the brick is a regular-sized house brick made of fired clay initially held above the pond surface, the water level will rise. Slightly.
jesus!
He doesn’t normally affect the water level.
well, that was before he had holes in his feet!
sibeen said:
Woodie said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Bacon and egg and tomato and onion sanger, cup of tea (black and one)
I’m off to lunch with Mr Steve (Primus) to spend our last wine & dine voucher.
Say hello from me, please.
no worries.
sibeen said:
Woodie said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Bacon and egg and tomato and onion sanger, cup of tea (black and one)
I’m off to lunch with Mr Steve (Primus) to spend our last wine & dine voucher.
Say hello from me, please.
Will do. :)
Peak Warming Man said:
ChrispenEvan said:
btm said:If the dingy has sunk and is on the bottom of the pond (which is consistent with PWM’s original question), and the brick is a regular-sized house brick made of fired clay initially held above the pond surface, the water level will rise. Slightly.
jesus!
He doesn’t normally affect the water level.
Well that depends on the mechanism he uses to walk on the water.
If he makes himself weightless, then no, the water level would not change.
But if he remains the same weight, but induces a huge increase in the surface tension of the water, sufficient for him to walk on it, then the water would go down locally under his feet, but overall the average depth would increase.
Unless he also increases the density of the water of course, in which case the average level could go either way, or indeed, stay the same.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Peak Warming Man said:
ChrispenEvan said:jesus!
He doesn’t normally affect the water level.
Well that depends on the mechanism he uses to walk on the water.
If he makes himself weightless, then no, the water level would not change.
But if he remains the same weight, but induces a huge increase in the surface tension of the water, sufficient for him to walk on it, then the water would go down locally under his feet, but overall the average depth would increase.
Unless he also increases the density of the water of course, in which case the average level could go either way, or indeed, stay the same.
either way it would be a bloody miracle.
captain_spalding said:
roughbarked said:
Some of you may have noticed that I was up and about in the early hours. It was because the moon was like daylight outside.
You want ‘night like daylight’?
See https://www.shetlandwebcams.com/sealevel-cam/
It’s 3:17 am over there, and this is about as dark as it get there at this time of year.
Though my wife’s family comes from the Shetlands it is shedloads too cold for me in those latitudes.
Woodie said:
sibeen said:
Woodie said:A red brick or a brown brick?
Please, no-one mention orange.
….. and why does it have to be a brick? why not, say, a tin of tomatoes? Or an old lawn mover? Must it be a brick?
A body.
And that chicken kiev pie was delicious.
PWM’s tip #291.
When you’ve got a few grievances with someone or something.
So what you do is you name these say three grievances and then say ‘I could go on and on and on’ even though you really cant.
Peak Warming Man said:
PWM’s tip #291.
When you’ve got a few grievances with someone or something.
So what you do is you name these say three grievances and then say ‘I could go on and on and on’ even though you really cant.
Or just say “Don’t get me started on {grievance}.”
Bubblecar said:
Peak Warming Man said:
PWM’s tip #291.
When you’ve got a few grievances with someone or something.
So what you do is you name these say three grievances and then say ‘I could go on and on and on’ even though you really cant.
Or just say “Don’t get me started on {grievance}.”
Walk into any English pub and say “Don’t get me started on {current England manager},” as a conversation starter.
Wasn’t that long ago that you could walk into any Australian pub and say “How about that Corby girl then,” as a conversation starter.
Peak Warming Man said:
Wasn’t that long ago that you could walk into any Australian pub and say “How about that Corby girl then,” as a conversation starter.
Or Sally Robbins.
ChrispenEvan said:
party_pants said:
ChrispenEvan said:that is because it is physics.
SCIENCE always makes more sense to me than any alternative explanation.
yes, even if you can’t understand it you have a good idea that someone smart does.
Thanks ¡
And you could walk into any Scottish pub and say ‘Looks like rain again” and get !1#%7&&*
%*# you Jimmy
And…they are buying up the toilet paper in Sydney.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-25/shell-covid-blog-june-25-sydney-nsw-parliament-melbourne-case/100242886
buffy said:
And…they are buying up the toilet paper in Sydney.https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-25/shell-covid-blog-june-25-sydney-nsw-parliament-melbourne-case/100242886
Good. I hope they run out.
Bastards…
party_pants said:
buffy said:
And…they are buying up the toilet paper in Sydney.https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-25/shell-covid-blog-june-25-sydney-nsw-parliament-melbourne-case/100242886
Good. I hope they run out.
Bastards…
Does anyone else think flocking to the shops right now might be a good way to spread things around?
Chinese market may have collapsed but the Brits are now guzzling Oz wine like there’s no tomorrow:
The United Kingdom is now Australia’s largest wine market in both volume and value, according to Tony Battaglene from Grape and Wine Australia.
“The UK has grown about 30 per cent in the last three months,” he said.
Mr Battaglene said the UK free trade agreement would be worth about $50 million to the industry once all the tariffs were phased out.
“The most important thing about free trade agreements is the growth in awareness.
“As soon as you get a free trade agreement, you always see a boom in exports because the importing country becomes more aware,” Mr Battaglene said.
The industry has been working on developing markets in South Korea, Vietnam, Thailand, the United States and Canada following the tariffs.
“Obviously, China was paying top dollar for red wine and none of these markets can, in the short-term, compensate for that,” said Mr Battaglene.
He said South Korea was one market showing “great growth.”
“It’s got a population that likes wine and it’s a fairly wealthy nation that’s well educated — a nation that will really appreciate our wine,” he said.
Despite the great “inroads” the industry was making, Mr Battaglene said producers were still concerned about the long-term effects of losing the Chinese market.
“People are still very worried. We don’t think we’ve seen the full effects yet.
“The next vintage in 2022 will be a real tester for grape growers as we see how well we’ve managed to diversify,” Mr Battaglene said.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2021-06-25/wine-exports-australia-china-untied-kingdom-volume-increase/100241724
buffy said:
party_pants said:
buffy said:
And…they are buying up the toilet paper in Sydney.https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-25/shell-covid-blog-june-25-sydney-nsw-parliament-melbourne-case/100242886
Good. I hope they run out.
Bastards…
Does anyone else think flocking to the shops right now might be a good way to spread things around?
Did it every other time ¿ It’s flock immunity ¡
Bubblecar said:
Chinese market may have collapsed but the Brits are now guzzling Oz wine like there’s no tomorrow:
The United Kingdom is now Australia’s largest wine market in both volume and value, according to Tony Battaglene from Grape and Wine Australia.
Despite the great “inroads” the industry was making, Mr Battaglene said producers were still concerned about the long-term effects of losing the Chinese market.
Just wait until the alcohol cancer link matures like a cheap and nasty red or blue cheese, then we’ll see.
buffy said:
party_pants said:
buffy said:
And…they are buying up the toilet paper in Sydney.https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-25/shell-covid-blog-june-25-sydney-nsw-parliament-melbourne-case/100242886
Good. I hope they run out.
Bastards…
Does anyone else think flocking to the shops right now might be a good way to spread things around?
Yes.
Bubblecar said:
Chinese market may have collapsed but the Brits are now guzzling Oz wine like there’s no tomorrow:The United Kingdom is now Australia’s largest wine market in both volume and value, according to Tony Battaglene from Grape and Wine Australia.
“The UK has grown about 30 per cent in the last three months,” he said.
Mr Battaglene said the UK free trade agreement would be worth about $50 million to the industry once all the tariffs were phased out.
“The most important thing about free trade agreements is the growth in awareness.
“As soon as you get a free trade agreement, you always see a boom in exports because the importing country becomes more aware,” Mr Battaglene said.
The industry has been working on developing markets in South Korea, Vietnam, Thailand, the United States and Canada following the tariffs.
“Obviously, China was paying top dollar for red wine and none of these markets can, in the short-term, compensate for that,” said Mr Battaglene.
He said South Korea was one market showing “great growth.”
“It’s got a population that likes wine and it’s a fairly wealthy nation that’s well educated — a nation that will really appreciate our wine,” he said.
Despite the great “inroads” the industry was making, Mr Battaglene said producers were still concerned about the long-term effects of losing the Chinese market.
“People are still very worried. We don’t think we’ve seen the full effects yet.
“The next vintage in 2022 will be a real tester for grape growers as we see how well we’ve managed to diversify,” Mr Battaglene said.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2021-06-25/wine-exports-australia-china-untied-kingdom-volume-increase/100241724
>>according to Tony Battaglene from Grape and Wine Australia
That’s just a front for mafia activity and Tony makes most of his money out of importing coke and ice.
buffy said:
party_pants said:
buffy said:
And…they are buying up the toilet paper in Sydney.https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-25/shell-covid-blog-june-25-sydney-nsw-parliament-melbourne-case/100242886
Good. I hope they run out.
Bastards…
Does anyone else think flocking to the shops right now might be a good way to spread things around?
Yes. But people acting individually sometimes do things that are not the optimal thing to do collectively.
Michael V said:
buffy said:
party_pants said:Good. I hope they run out.
Bastards…
Does anyone else think flocking to the shops right now might be a good way to spread things around?
Yes.
Well I reckon, as you can still go food shopping during lockdown, you are far better to avoid shopping now (having made sure previously that you had some spare toilet paper because this thing isn’t over yet) and then going when it’s quieter, in, say, a couple of days time.
I see Bojo is poking the bears belly with a stick, you can get hurt doing that.
buffy said:
And…they are buying up the toilet paper in Sydney.https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-25/shell-covid-blog-june-25-sydney-nsw-parliament-melbourne-case/100242886
It’s only those who allowed their stockpiles to deplete.
Peak Warming Man said:
Bubblecar said:
Chinese market may have collapsed but the Brits are now guzzling Oz wine like there’s no tomorrow:The United Kingdom is now Australia’s largest wine market in both volume and value, according to Tony Battaglene from Grape and Wine Australia.
“The UK has grown about 30 per cent in the last three months,” he said.
Mr Battaglene said the UK free trade agreement would be worth about $50 million to the industry once all the tariffs were phased out.
“The most important thing about free trade agreements is the growth in awareness.
“As soon as you get a free trade agreement, you always see a boom in exports because the importing country becomes more aware,” Mr Battaglene said.
The industry has been working on developing markets in South Korea, Vietnam, Thailand, the United States and Canada following the tariffs.
“Obviously, China was paying top dollar for red wine and none of these markets can, in the short-term, compensate for that,” said Mr Battaglene.
He said South Korea was one market showing “great growth.”
“It’s got a population that likes wine and it’s a fairly wealthy nation that’s well educated — a nation that will really appreciate our wine,” he said.
Despite the great “inroads” the industry was making, Mr Battaglene said producers were still concerned about the long-term effects of losing the Chinese market.
“People are still very worried. We don’t think we’ve seen the full effects yet.
“The next vintage in 2022 will be a real tester for grape growers as we see how well we’ve managed to diversify,” Mr Battaglene said.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2021-06-25/wine-exports-australia-china-untied-kingdom-volume-increase/100241724
>>according to Tony Battaglene from Grape and Wine Australia
That’s just a front for mafia activity and Tony makes most of his money out of importing coke and ice.
Nods.
I have eaten too much food for lunch. I think it’s OK as I’ll offset it this evening by drinking too much liquid.
Peak Warming Man said:
I see Bojo is poking the bears belly with a stick, you can get hurt doing that.
Russia?
They’re after China next. They plan to sail their new aircraft carrier up and down the coast of China near Taiwan later this year.
party_pants said:
Peak Warming Man said:
I see Bojo is poking the bears belly with a stick, you can get hurt doing that.
Russia?
They’re after China next. They plan to sail their new aircraft carrier up and down the coast of China near Taiwan later this year.
The carrier will be equipped with aircraft owned and operated by the US Marines of course, since they don’t have enough of their own yet.
And the mention of Hillsong in the COVID thread made me check news items. I hadn’t heard of these scandals:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/a-pair-of-hillsong-docuseries-planned-examining-the-megachurchs-culture-the-fall-of-carl-lentz/2021/06/24/5e0bbf4c-d527-11eb-b39f-05a2d776b1f4_story.html
(I probably don’t care enough to have heard of them. But if it’s an endemic problem in the organization, there are people here who may have to look at themselves)
party_pants said:
Peak Warming Man said:
I see Bojo is poking the bears belly with a stick, you can get hurt doing that.
Russia?
They’re after China next. They plan to sail their new aircraft carrier up and down the coast of China near Taiwan later this year.
You can get hurt doing that.
buffy said:
And the mention of Hillsong in the COVID thread made me check news items. I hadn’t heard of these scandals:https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/a-pair-of-hillsong-docuseries-planned-examining-the-megachurchs-culture-the-fall-of-carl-lentz/2021/06/24/5e0bbf4c-d527-11eb-b39f-05a2d776b1f4_story.html
(I probably don’t care enough to have heard of them. But if it’s an endemic problem in the organization, there are people here who may have to look at themselves)
By here, I don’t mean on-forum. I mean in-fed-gov.
buffy said:
buffy said:
And the mention of Hillsong in the COVID thread made me check news items. I hadn’t heard of these scandals:https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/a-pair-of-hillsong-docuseries-planned-examining-the-megachurchs-culture-the-fall-of-carl-lentz/2021/06/24/5e0bbf4c-d527-11eb-b39f-05a2d776b1f4_story.html
(I probably don’t care enough to have heard of them. But if it’s an endemic problem in the organization, there are people here who may have to look at themselves)
By here, I don’t mean on-forum. I mean in-fed-gov.
Hillsong has 43,000 members in Australia. 0.0019% of the population. Federal Cabinet has 22 members. 13 are Hillsong posse. 59.09% of the cabinet.
https://www.spectator.com.au/2021/01/hillsong-church-is-to-blame-for-absolutely-everything/
sarahs mum said:
buffy said:
buffy said:
And the mention of Hillsong in the COVID thread made me check news items. I hadn’t heard of these scandals:https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/a-pair-of-hillsong-docuseries-planned-examining-the-megachurchs-culture-the-fall-of-carl-lentz/2021/06/24/5e0bbf4c-d527-11eb-b39f-05a2d776b1f4_story.html
(I probably don’t care enough to have heard of them. But if it’s an endemic problem in the organization, there are people here who may have to look at themselves)
By here, I don’t mean on-forum. I mean in-fed-gov.
Hillsong has 43,000 members in Australia. 0.0019% of the population. Federal Cabinet has 22 members. 13 are Hillsong posse. 59.09% of the cabinet.
https://www.spectator.com.au/2021/01/hillsong-church-is-to-blame-for-absolutely-everything/
Declared false numbers in story.
I’ll do better.
I remember the quiet peaceful days of Trump and respectful dialogue.
Since Biden and Bojo and Scomo and Franco and the like got together it’s all sabre rattling.
It’s not right.
sarahs mum said:
buffy said:
buffy said:
And the mention of Hillsong in the COVID thread made me check news items. I hadn’t heard of these scandals:https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/a-pair-of-hillsong-docuseries-planned-examining-the-megachurchs-culture-the-fall-of-carl-lentz/2021/06/24/5e0bbf4c-d527-11eb-b39f-05a2d776b1f4_story.html
(I probably don’t care enough to have heard of them. But if it’s an endemic problem in the organization, there are people here who may have to look at themselves)
By here, I don’t mean on-forum. I mean in-fed-gov.
Hillsong has 43,000 members in Australia. 0.0019% of the population. Federal Cabinet has 22 members. 13 are Hillsong posse. 59.09% of the cabinet.
https://www.spectator.com.au/2021/01/hillsong-church-is-to-blame-for-absolutely-everything/
In my area, the proportion of State MPs and Local Councillors who are in some way affiliated with Hillsong would be greater again :(
Speedy said:
sarahs mum said:
buffy said:By here, I don’t mean on-forum. I mean in-fed-gov.
Hillsong has 43,000 members in Australia. 0.0019% of the population. Federal Cabinet has 22 members. 13 are Hillsong posse. 59.09% of the cabinet.
https://www.spectator.com.au/2021/01/hillsong-church-is-to-blame-for-absolutely-everything/
In my area, the proportion of State MPs and Local Councillors who are in some way affiliated with Hillsong would be greater again :(
Do you live next door to the auditorium?
;)
sarahs mum said:
buffy said:
buffy said:
And the mention of Hillsong in the COVID thread made me check news items. I hadn’t heard of these scandals:https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/a-pair-of-hillsong-docuseries-planned-examining-the-megachurchs-culture-the-fall-of-carl-lentz/2021/06/24/5e0bbf4c-d527-11eb-b39f-05a2d776b1f4_story.html
(I probably don’t care enough to have heard of them. But if it’s an endemic problem in the organization, there are people here who may have to look at themselves)
By here, I don’t mean on-forum. I mean in-fed-gov.
Hillsong has 43,000 members in Australia. 0.0019% of the population. Federal Cabinet has 22 members. 13 are Hillsong posse. 59.09% of the cabinet.
https://www.spectator.com.au/2021/01/hillsong-church-is-to-blame-for-absolutely-everything/
This, of course, is not true.
sibeen said:
sarahs mum said:
buffy said:By here, I don’t mean on-forum. I mean in-fed-gov.
Hillsong has 43,000 members in Australia. 0.0019% of the population. Federal Cabinet has 22 members. 13 are Hillsong posse. 59.09% of the cabinet.
https://www.spectator.com.au/2021/01/hillsong-church-is-to-blame-for-absolutely-everything/
This, of course, is not true.
Perhaps you have to weight the average because the head boss man is a member?
:)
Heading axe and chopping block from the Royal Armouries.
Cut from the centre of an oak timber, this heavy rectangular block with deep segments, cut to accommodate the head and upper chest of the kneeling victim, has two parallel axe cuts on the narrow section on which the neck rested.
Tradition says it was used in the execution of the Jacobite Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat, in 1747. Lovat was one of the Highlanders defeated at the Battle of Culloden in 1745 and the last man to be executed by beheading in England. Records show it may also have been used the previous year to behead another Scottish Nobleman from Culloden, William Boyd, 4th Earl of Kilmarnock.
The beheading axe that rests against it is thought to have been used in the decapitation of the Earl of Essex in the Tower during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I.
I am shredding old patient records again. You lot are supposed to be entertaining me.
buffy said:
I am shredding old patient records again. You lot are supposed to be entertaining me.
I hope the shredding of patient records doesn’t have some kind of Voodoo effect on the patients themselves.
buffy said:
I am shredding old patient records again. You lot are supposed to be entertaining me.
greusome
buffy said:
Speedy said:
sarahs mum said:Hillsong has 43,000 members in Australia. 0.0019% of the population. Federal Cabinet has 22 members. 13 are Hillsong posse. 59.09% of the cabinet.
https://www.spectator.com.au/2021/01/hillsong-church-is-to-blame-for-absolutely-everything/
In my area, the proportion of State MPs and Local Councillors who are in some way affiliated with Hillsong would be greater again :(
Do you live next door to the auditorium?
;)
Yes, I’m in the heartland of Hillsong.
party_pants said:
buffy said:
I am shredding old patient records again. You lot are supposed to be entertaining me.greusome
sorry, that should have been in response to the axe and chopping block. Not to Buffy shredding documents.
Bubblecar said:
buffy said:
I am shredding old patient records again. You lot are supposed to be entertaining me.
I hope the shredding of patient records doesn’t have some kind of Voodoo effect on the patients themselves.
None of these have consulted me since prior to 2013, and some of them a lot longer than that. Some of them I saw when they were in kinder or prep, and not since, but I’ve had to keep their records until they turned 25.
sibeen said:
sarahs mum said:
buffy said:By here, I don’t mean on-forum. I mean in-fed-gov.
Hillsong has 43,000 members in Australia. 0.0019% of the population. Federal Cabinet has 22 members. 13 are Hillsong posse. 59.09% of the cabinet.
https://www.spectator.com.au/2021/01/hillsong-church-is-to-blame-for-absolutely-everything/
This, of course, is not true.
I corrected myself.
Bubblecar said:
Heading axe and chopping block from the Royal Armouries.Cut from the centre of an oak timber, this heavy rectangular block with deep segments, cut to accommodate the head and upper chest of the kneeling victim, has two parallel axe cuts on the narrow section on which the neck rested.
Tradition says it was used in the execution of the Jacobite Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat, in 1747. Lovat was one of the Highlanders defeated at the Battle of Culloden in 1745 and the last man to be executed by beheading in England. Records show it may also have been used the previous year to behead another Scottish Nobleman from Culloden, William Boyd, 4th Earl of Kilmarnock.
The beheading axe that rests against it is thought to have been used in the decapitation of the Earl of Essex in the Tower during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I.
It wasn’t this namby pamby catch and release policy back then
Speedy said:
buffy said:
Speedy said:In my area, the proportion of State MPs and Local Councillors who are in some way affiliated with Hillsong would be greater again :(
Do you live next door to the auditorium?
;)
Yes, I’m in the heartland of Hillsong.
Praise the Lord.
Bubblecar said:
Heading axe and chopping block from the Royal Armouries.Cut from the centre of an oak timber, this heavy rectangular block with deep segments, cut to accommodate the head and upper chest of the kneeling victim, has two parallel axe cuts on the narrow section on which the neck rested.
Tradition says it was used in the execution of the Jacobite Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat, in 1747. Lovat was one of the Highlanders defeated at the Battle of Culloden in 1745 and the last man to be executed by beheading in England. Records show it may also have been used the previous year to behead another Scottish Nobleman from Culloden, William Boyd, 4th Earl of Kilmarnock.
The beheading axe that rests against it is thought to have been used in the decapitation of the Earl of Essex in the Tower during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I.
That’s a very narrow strip of wood at the back there. It makes me wonder if the executioner missed sometimes :/
6.7mm rain lastnight, lady just telling me…she’s doing math, with her phone calculator….report in a moment
total so far for june is…..71.9mm
double checking she is…..71.9mm for june so far
sibeen said:
sarahs mum said:
buffy said:By here, I don’t mean on-forum. I mean in-fed-gov.
Hillsong has 43,000 members in Australia. 0.0019% of the population. Federal Cabinet has 22 members. 13 are Hillsong posse. 59.09% of the cabinet.
https://www.spectator.com.au/2021/01/hillsong-church-is-to-blame-for-absolutely-everything/
This, of course, is not true.
What proportion of the population are Hillsong members then?
The Rev Dodgson said:
sibeen said:
sarahs mum said:Hillsong has 43,000 members in Australia. 0.0019% of the population. Federal Cabinet has 22 members. 13 are Hillsong posse. 59.09% of the cabinet.
https://www.spectator.com.au/2021/01/hillsong-church-is-to-blame-for-absolutely-everything/
This, of course, is not true.
What proportion of the population are Hillsong members then?
100%, The Lord touches everyone
transition said:
6.7mm rain lastnight, lady just telling me…she’s doing math, with her phone calculator….report in a momenttotal so far for june is…..71.9mm
double checking she is…..71.9mm for june so far
That seems a lot for this time of year and your location.
I’d get the Larry to check that again.
Corinthian Helmet (650 BC) from the Royal Armouries.
A classically elegant symbol of Ancient Greece, this Corinthian helmet (so called because of its origin in the Ancient city state of Corinth), is made from one piece of bronze with the skull following the shape of the head. Extended downwards at the rear with a slight sweep to form a neckguard and at the sides, the front leaves a narrow face opening which widens into openings for the eyes, with a nasal guard between.
Despite being an iconic shape that recurs on Ancient Greek pottery and coins, the design inhibited the wearer’s vision and hearing on the battlefield and it eventually gave way to more open designs like the Thracian and Chalcidian helmets, which persisted into the Roman period.
buffy said:
I am shredding old patient records again. You lot are supposed to be entertaining me.
is this because of the audit?
The Rev Dodgson said:
sibeen said:
sarahs mum said:Hillsong has 43,000 members in Australia. 0.0019% of the population. Federal Cabinet has 22 members. 13 are Hillsong posse. 59.09% of the cabinet.
https://www.spectator.com.au/2021/01/hillsong-church-is-to-blame-for-absolutely-everything/
This, of course, is not true.
What proportion of the population are Hillsong members then?
The Internet tells me that the Hillsong Church in Australia did indeed have 43,000 members in 2018.
I’ll concede that there may be a small error in the 59% of Cabinet figure.
ChrispenEvan said:
buffy said:
I am shredding old patient records again. You lot are supposed to be entertaining me.is this because of the audit?
If someone else had said that it would be funny.
Peak Warming Man said:
transition said:
6.7mm rain lastnight, lady just telling me…she’s doing math, with her phone calculator….report in a momenttotal so far for june is…..71.9mm
double checking she is…..71.9mm for june so far
That seems a lot for this time of year and your location.
I’d get the Larry to check that again.
Actually that’s not too far off your average for June.
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/averages/tables/cw_018070.shtml
June is the driest month in SEQ, well the Darling Downs at least.
six months until christmas.
ChrispenEvan said:
six months until christmas.
It’s my brother’s birthday. He has always thought himself the Antichrist.
ChrispenEvan said:
buffy said:
I am shredding old patient records again. You lot are supposed to be entertaining me.is this because of the audit?
Must keep records for tax for 5 years. Must keep records for patients for 7 years after last contact or until they reach the age of 15. So it’s not going to help much….
:)
buffy said:
I am shredding old patient records again. You lot are supposed to be entertaining me.
“Sing a song of sixpence
a pocket full of rye…”
buffy said:
ChrispenEvan said:
buffy said:
I am shredding old patient records again. You lot are supposed to be entertaining me.is this because of the audit?
Must keep records for tax for 5 years. Must keep records for patients for 7 years after last contact or until they reach the age of 15. So it’s not going to help much….
:)
It miffs me that Robodebtors can go back so much further than the requirement to keep records.
transition said:
6.7mm rain lastnight, lady just telling me…she’s doing math, with her phone calculator….report in a momenttotal so far for june is…..71.9mm
double checking she is…..71.9mm for june so far
Total this month 79.6mm
WA Labor MP Jackie Jarvis tells State Parliament she was warned in 2014 that then-federal agriculture minister Barnaby Joyce had a history of groping women and was known to sexually harass them at events.
Hey sm! We caught up with Sarah Gabriel at the bakery this morning. She asked us back to the gallery for a look (because we hadn’t been there yet). She has some very beautiful works in there. I had to be a bit quiet though…I’ve got stuff here (including yours) that is not hung. I can’t go buying things at the moment. We were talking about how the town water here isn’t much good for drinking water, and we offered her tank water. Brought some bottles from her back with us and filled them for her. She will probably get a 10 or 20l container and we will fill that for her. When she picked them up she very generously gave me five of her cards. I will use them for writing to Mum. They are nice and bright.
The top 9 pictures on the Instagram page are Penshurst (or most of them are).
https://www.instagram.com/lauristonpress/?hl=en
http://sarahgabriel.com.au/
buffy said:
Hey sm! We caught up with Sarah Gabriel at the bakery this morning. She asked us back to the gallery for a look (because we hadn’t been there yet). She has some very beautiful works in there. I had to be a bit quiet though…I’ve got stuff here (including yours) that is not hung. I can’t go buying things at the moment. We were talking about how the town water here isn’t much good for drinking water, and we offered her tank water. Brought some bottles from her back with us and filled them for her. She will probably get a 10 or 20l container and we will fill that for her. When she picked them up she very generously gave me five of her cards. I will use them for writing to Mum. They are nice and bright.
The top 9 pictures on the Instagram page are Penshurst (or most of them are).
https://www.instagram.com/lauristonpress/?hl=en
http://sarahgabriel.com.au/
Lovely work. I shall send it on to my sister who is trying to develop a lighter touch in her water colours.
roughbarked said:
transition said:
6.7mm rain lastnight, lady just telling me…she’s doing math, with her phone calculator….report in a momenttotal so far for june is…..71.9mm
double checking she is…..71.9mm for june so far
Total this month 79.6mm
We seem to be up to about 55mm for June to date. June mean is 65.6 for data 1983 to present.
sarahs mum said:
buffy said:
Hey sm! We caught up with Sarah Gabriel at the bakery this morning. She asked us back to the gallery for a look (because we hadn’t been there yet). She has some very beautiful works in there. I had to be a bit quiet though…I’ve got stuff here (including yours) that is not hung. I can’t go buying things at the moment. We were talking about how the town water here isn’t much good for drinking water, and we offered her tank water. Brought some bottles from her back with us and filled them for her. She will probably get a 10 or 20l container and we will fill that for her. When she picked them up she very generously gave me five of her cards. I will use them for writing to Mum. They are nice and bright.
The top 9 pictures on the Instagram page are Penshurst (or most of them are).
https://www.instagram.com/lauristonpress/?hl=en
http://sarahgabriel.com.au/
Lovely work. I shall send it on to my sister who is trying to develop a lighter touch in her water colours.
I really liked some of Sarah’s large bird pieces. But got nowhere to put them.
buffy said:
sarahs mum said:
buffy said:
Hey sm! We caught up with Sarah Gabriel at the bakery this morning. She asked us back to the gallery for a look (because we hadn’t been there yet). She has some very beautiful works in there. I had to be a bit quiet though…I’ve got stuff here (including yours) that is not hung. I can’t go buying things at the moment. We were talking about how the town water here isn’t much good for drinking water, and we offered her tank water. Brought some bottles from her back with us and filled them for her. She will probably get a 10 or 20l container and we will fill that for her. When she picked them up she very generously gave me five of her cards. I will use them for writing to Mum. They are nice and bright.
The top 9 pictures on the Instagram page are Penshurst (or most of them are).
https://www.instagram.com/lauristonpress/?hl=en
http://sarahgabriel.com.au/
Lovely work. I shall send it on to my sister who is trying to develop a lighter touch in her water colours.
I really liked some of Sarah’s large bird pieces. But got nowhere to put them.
If you are interested, here is her online gallery.
http://sarahgabriel.com.au/works-on-paper
buffy said:
I am shredding old patient records again. You lot are supposed to be entertaining me.
What would have happened to the records if you’d died while still operating the business?
Neophyte said:
buffy said:
I am shredding old patient records again. You lot are supposed to be entertaining me.What would have happened to the records if you’d died while still operating the business?
That’s a good question. I think officially they would have to be preserved for the seven years/to age 25. So they could have just been put in storage somewhere. In reality, Mr buffy would have given them to another local optometrist I think in that circumstance.
Interesting about delaying incubation.
Peak Warming Man said:
Interesting about delaying incubation.
I’ve got in the back of my mind something about ducks and geese doing this thing as the clutch is being laid, delaying development so ultimately the chicks arrive at much the same time.
buffy said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Interesting about delaying incubation.
I’ve got in the back of my mind something about ducks and geese doing this thing as the clutch is being laid, delaying development so ultimately the chicks arrive at much the same time.
Yeah I think that’s the aim so that the first chick is not too big when the second chick arrives and kills it.
buffy said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Interesting about delaying incubation.
I’ve got in the back of my mind something about ducks and geese doing this thing as the clutch is being laid, delaying development so ultimately the chicks arrive at much the same time.
Yes. The chicks will grow very quickly after they hatch, and with these Sea Eagles at least, even a day’s difference in size means that the chance of survival of the second-hatched chick is reduced. It has difficulty competing with its sibling. A couple of years ago the larger chick (which thrived despite being the second-hatched) killed its sibling on this nest.
Speedy said:
buffy said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Interesting about delaying incubation.
I’ve got in the back of my mind something about ducks and geese doing this thing as the clutch is being laid, delaying development so ultimately the chicks arrive at much the same time.
Yes. The chicks will grow very quickly after they hatch, and with these Sea Eagles at least, even a day’s difference in size means that the chance of survival of the second-hatched chick is reduced. It has difficulty competing with its sibling. A couple of years ago the larger chick (which thrived despite being the second-hatched) killed its smaller sibling on this nest.
Fixed
This is almost the same first stage as when I did the Tour way back in the early seventies.
It was a magnificent northern summer that year, I stopped off and climber the north face of K2 on the way home.
I was pretty fit back then.
Peak Warming Man said:
This is almost the same first stage as when I did the Tour way back in the early seventies.
It was a magnificent northern summer that year, I stopped off and climber the north face of K2 on the way home.
I was pretty fit back then.
Did you swim The Channel to get there?
Woodie said:
Peak Warming Man said:
This is almost the same first stage as when I did the Tour way back in the early seventies.
It was a magnificent northern summer that year, I stopped off and climber the north face of K2 on the way home.
I was pretty fit back then.
Did you swim The Channel to get there?
No no, not to get there but when we finished the Tour in Paris I walked to Calais and then swam over to Dover.
“Good news, super moon haters: This strawberry super moon is the last of the year”…
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-25/super-moon-strawberry-june-nasa/100243452
Peak Warming Man said:
Woodie said:
Peak Warming Man said:
This is almost the same first stage as when I did the Tour way back in the early seventies.
It was a magnificent northern summer that year, I stopped off and climber the north face of K2 on the way home.
I was pretty fit back then.
Did you swim The Channel to get there?
No no, not to get there but when we finished the Tour in Paris I walked to Calais and then swam over to Dover.
I hope you strapped your bike onto the top of your backpack for the swim. Otherwise it would be cheating.
Peak Warming Man said:
This is almost the same first stage as when I did the Tour way back in the early seventies.
It was a magnificent northern summer that year, I stopped off and climber the north face of K2 on the way home.
I was pretty fit back then.
clearly you are still on the drugs…
Speedy said:
“Good news, super moon haters: This strawberry super moon is the last of the year”…https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-25/super-moon-strawberry-june-nasa/100243452
‘Super-moon haters’.
Is this a new hipster thing?
What a fucking bullshit of a day.. bowing to the fuck heads in marketing, son gets concussed at school because of douche bag decisions by 14 yr old boys, sitting in on a pat everyone on the back meeting that was bullshit “You’re all great!”, filling in forms for follow up on ethic proposals, reading about arseholes who treat women like they are only there for them to look at… and then coming here and reading this shit… thank fuck it’s Friday…
Peak Warming Man said:
Woodie said:
Peak Warming Man said:
This is almost the same first stage as when I did the Tour way back in the early seventies.
It was a magnificent northern summer that year, I stopped off and climber the north face of K2 on the way home.
I was pretty fit back then.
Did you swim The Channel to get there?
No no, not to get there but when we finished the Tour in Paris I walked to Calais and then swam over to Dover.
And back, I hope.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Woodie said:Did you swim The Channel to get there?
No no, not to get there but when we finished the Tour in Paris I walked to Calais and then swam over to Dover.
And back, I hope.
I think that he was able to walk on water by then.
Arts said:
What a fucking bullshit of a day.. bowing to the fuck heads in marketing, son gets concussed at school because of douche bag decisions by 14 yr old boys, sitting in on a pat everyone on the back meeting that was bullshit “You’re all great!”, filling in forms for follow up on ethic proposals, reading about arseholes who treat women like they are only there for them to look at… and then coming here and reading this shit… thank fuck it’s Friday…
Damn. Hopefully next week is better.
Arts said:
What a fucking bullshit of a day.. bowing to the fuck heads in marketing, son gets concussed at school because of douche bag decisions by 14 yr old boys, sitting in on a pat everyone on the back meeting that was bullshit “You’re all great!”, filling in forms for follow up on ethic proposals, reading about arseholes who treat women like they are only there for them to look at… and then coming here and reading this shit… thank fuck it’s Friday…
:(
What happened with your son?
captain_spalding said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Peak Warming Man said:No no, not to get there but when we finished the Tour in Paris I walked to Calais and then swam over to Dover.
And back, I hope.
I think that he was able to walk on water by then.
I have never riden the Tour de Frog, but by geez I’ve watched a few on TV over the years.
Arts said:
What a fucking bullshit of a day.. bowing to the fuck heads in marketing, son gets concussed at school because of douche bag decisions by 14 yr old boys, sitting in on a pat everyone on the back meeting that was bullshit “You’re all great!”, filling in forms for follow up on ethic proposals, reading about arseholes who treat women like they are only there for them to look at… and then coming here and reading this shit… thank fuck it’s Friday…
Is the boy OK?
Funnily enough, Irish whiskey and German lager are both in stock in this house tonight. And French wine.
Vintage Car Night Light.
A$18
—
bubblecars. That is what you should do on your etching plates mr car. maybe steampunk em a bit.
Has anyone opened FNDC yet?
Bubblecar said:
Arts said:
What a fucking bullshit of a day.. bowing to the fuck heads in marketing, son gets concussed at school because of douche bag decisions by 14 yr old boys, sitting in on a pat everyone on the back meeting that was bullshit “You’re all great!”, filling in forms for follow up on ethic proposals, reading about arseholes who treat women like they are only there for them to look at… and then coming here and reading this shit… thank fuck it’s Friday…
:(
What happened with your son?
some kid thought it hilarious to pull the chair out while he was sitting down and he smacked hi head on the desk coming down… that old classic.. the nurse said that he lost consciousness, but he’s a 14 yr old boy so I don’t know how she can tell.. (boy I’m mad today). He seems finish now, just keep an eye on him sort of thing.. he’s currently crafting in mine probably knitting something.. or some such
sarahs mum said:
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Vintage Car Night Light.
A$18—
bubblecars. That is what you should do on your etching plates mr car. maybe steampunk em a bit.
:)
Was thinking of doing Ghost of a Fairy.
Bubblecar said:
Funnily enough, Irish whiskey and German lager are both in stock in this house tonight. And French wine.
What would be the point of this cartoon? I’m thinking it has something to do with prohibition in the US, but can’t really pin it down. Any ideas?
Rofl, Rachel Maddow joins Tucker Carlson.
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/a-court-ruled-rachel-maddows-viewers
captain_spalding said:
Has anyone opened FNDC yet?
Not formally but that’s more a matter of tradition than law.
But I’ll do the honours.
FNDC IS NOW OPEN, and have a Happy New Year.
Arts said:
Bubblecar said:
Arts said:
What a fucking bullshit of a day.. bowing to the fuck heads in marketing, son gets concussed at school because of douche bag decisions by 14 yr old boys, sitting in on a pat everyone on the back meeting that was bullshit “You’re all great!”, filling in forms for follow up on ethic proposals, reading about arseholes who treat women like they are only there for them to look at… and then coming here and reading this shit… thank fuck it’s Friday…
:(
What happened with your son?
some kid thought it hilarious to pull the chair out while he was sitting down and he smacked hi head on the desk coming down… that old classic.. the nurse said that he lost consciousness, but he’s a 14 yr old boy so I don’t know how she can tell.. (boy I’m mad today). He seems finish now, just keep an eye on him sort of thing.. he’s currently crafting in mine probably knitting something.. or some such
I remember when they thought it hilarious when they did that to me. But I was never hurt that much.
please vent that madness where it deserved,
Arts said:
Bubblecar said:
Arts said:
What a fucking bullshit of a day.. bowing to the fuck heads in marketing, son gets concussed at school because of douche bag decisions by 14 yr old boys, sitting in on a pat everyone on the back meeting that was bullshit “You’re all great!”, filling in forms for follow up on ethic proposals, reading about arseholes who treat women like they are only there for them to look at… and then coming here and reading this shit… thank fuck it’s Friday…
:(
What happened with your son?
some kid thought it hilarious to pull the chair out while he was sitting down and he smacked hi head on the desk coming down… that old classic.. the nurse said that he lost consciousness, but he’s a 14 yr old boy so I don’t know how she can tell.. (boy I’m mad today). He seems finish now, just keep an eye on him sort of thing.. he’s currently crafting in mine probably knitting something.. or some such
Madness. “Practical jokes” that can result in serious injury or even death.
Bubblecar said:
captain_spalding said:
Has anyone opened FNDC yet?
Not formally but that’s more a matter of tradition than law.
But I’ll do the honours.
FNDC IS NOW OPEN, and have a Happy New Year.
Good.
I was sitting here with some sherry (Portuguese, woo hoo), and i wondered if i was being odd bunny out.
Also shelling and scoffing peanuts that came direct from the farm at Kingaroy.
Mosquito trap.
The mosquito lands on the salt, thinking it’s sugar. It gets thirsty for water, but the cap has rum in it. The mosquito gets drunk, trips on the stick and bangs its head on the rock.
Arts said:
some kid thought it hilarious to pull the chair out while he was sitting down and he smacked hi head on the desk coming down… that old classic.. the nurse said that he lost consciousness, but he’s a 14 yr old boy so I don’t know how she can tell.. (boy I’m mad today). He seems finish now, just keep an eye on him sort of thing.. he’s currently crafting in mine probably knitting something.. or some such
Glad to hear that he is OK.
I was hit on the head with a steel pipe when i was about 14.
Still waiting to regain consciousness.
Speedy said:
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Mosquito trap.
The mosquito lands on the salt, thinking it’s sugar. It gets thirsty for water, but the cap has rum in it. The mosquito gets drunk, trips on the stick and bangs its head on the rock.
waste of rum… but hilarious
Arts said:
Bubblecar said:
Arts said:
What a fucking bullshit of a day.. bowing to the fuck heads in marketing, son gets concussed at school because of douche bag decisions by 14 yr old boys, sitting in on a pat everyone on the back meeting that was bullshit “You’re all great!”, filling in forms for follow up on ethic proposals, reading about arseholes who treat women like they are only there for them to look at… and then coming here and reading this shit… thank fuck it’s Friday…
:(
What happened with your son?
some kid thought it hilarious to pull the chair out while he was sitting down and he smacked hi head on the desk coming down… that old classic.. the nurse said that he lost consciousness, but he’s a 14 yr old boy so I don’t know how she can tell.. (boy I’m mad today). He seems finish now, just keep an eye on him sort of thing.. he’s currently crafting in mine probably knitting something.. or some such
I’d be furious too. Glad he seems OK.
party_pants said:
Bubblecar said:
Funnily enough, Irish whiskey and German lager are both in stock in this house tonight. And French wine.
What would be the point of this cartoon? I’m thinking it has something to do with prohibition in the US, but can’t really pin it down. Any ideas?
TIME says: Cartoon charging Irish and German immigrants with stealing elections, showing a keg of Irish whiskey and a barrel of German beer running off with the ballot box, circa 1840s.
https://time.com/4859478/immigrant-voters-history/
sibeen said:
Rofl, Rachel Maddow joins Tucker Carlson.https://greenwald.substack.com/p/a-court-ruled-rachel-maddows-viewers
So that means Maddow and Carlson are deserving of the same level of disrespect does it?
I think not.
Bubblecar said:
party_pants said:
Bubblecar said:
Funnily enough, Irish whiskey and German lager are both in stock in this house tonight. And French wine.
What would be the point of this cartoon? I’m thinking it has something to do with prohibition in the US, but can’t really pin it down. Any ideas?
TIME says: Cartoon charging Irish and German immigrants with stealing elections, showing a keg of Irish whiskey and a barrel of German beer running off with the ballot box, circa 1840s.
https://time.com/4859478/immigrant-voters-history/
OK.
bloody immigrants, eh? coming over here and stealing our jobs stuff.
The Rev Dodgson said:
sibeen said:
Rofl, Rachel Maddow joins Tucker Carlson.https://greenwald.substack.com/p/a-court-ruled-rachel-maddows-viewers
So that means Maddow and Carlson are deserving of the same level of disrespect does it?
I think not.
No, but it means she also makes up shit :)
Bubblecar said:
party_pants said:
Bubblecar said:
Funnily enough, Irish whiskey and German lager are both in stock in this house tonight. And French wine.
What would be the point of this cartoon? I’m thinking it has something to do with prohibition in the US, but can’t really pin it down. Any ideas?
TIME says: Cartoon charging Irish and German immigrants with stealing elections, showing a keg of Irish whiskey and a barrel of German beer running off with the ballot box, circa 1840s.
https://time.com/4859478/immigrant-voters-history/
… and the times they’re not a-changing
Arts said:
Speedy said:
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Mosquito trap.
The mosquito lands on the salt, thinking it’s sugar. It gets thirsty for water, but the cap has rum in it. The mosquito gets drunk, trips on the stick and bangs its head on the rock.
waste of rum… but hilarious
Yeah, it made me laugh. I forgot to mention that I found it on a fb group I visit, probably a camping or caravanning one.
Speedy said:
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Mosquito trap.
The mosquito lands on the salt, thinking it’s sugar. It gets thirsty for water, but the cap has rum in it. The mosquito gets drunk, trips on the stick and bangs its head on the rock.
That’s…hopeful.
party_pants said:
Bubblecar said:
Funnily enough, Irish whiskey and German lager are both in stock in this house tonight. And French wine.
What would be the point of this cartoon? I’m thinking it has something to do with prohibition in the US, but can’t really pin it down. Any ideas?
Might be Irish sympathy for Germany during WW1.
It’s just Little Speedy and me at home this evening. Mr Speedy has taken Speedy Jnr to RC car racing and they have taken my car as it’s better for lugging things around. I was looking forward to ordering Thai for dinner, but the place we usually eat at does not deliver. We are having pizza. Pizza Hut pizza.
poikilotherm said:
Speedy said:
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Mosquito trap.
The mosquito lands on the salt, thinking it’s sugar. It gets thirsty for water, but the cap has rum in it. The mosquito gets drunk, trips on the stick and bangs its head on the rock.
That’s…hopeful.
I recall a similar treatment for lice.
Sprinkle the sufferer with liquor, then with sand.
Lice get drunk and kill each other in rock-throwing fights.
Speedy said:
It’s just Little Speedy and me at home this evening. Mr Speedy has taken Speedy Jnr to RC car racing and they have taken my car as it’s better for lugging things around. I was looking forward to ordering Thai for dinner, but the place we usually eat at does not deliver. We are having pizza. Pizza Hut pizza.
Goodo.
Not sure what’s on the menu this end. I’ll have a peep in the fridge and cupboards when I’m hungry enough.
Take away from the Japanese restaurant tonight, should be good.
Had the local covid conspiracy nut in today too, just the usual stupid, nothing actually interesting unfortunately.
Spam email says i’m due $12 billion: Shit just got serious!
Witty Rejoinder said:
Spam email says i’m due $12 billion: Shit just got serious!
Sounds like a lot. Just make sure it isn’t in the old Zimbabwean currency.
Had a DA moment at the GP clinic, obese diabetic says they always ask to not have the doughnuts with sugar on them.
ABC News:
‘Afghan translators who helped military flown to Australia on protection visas
By foreign affairs reporter Stephen Dziedzic
Australia has been resettling Afghans who fear for their lives because they worked alongside Australian soldiers and diplomats in Afghanistan.’
Alt version:
‘Aus govt does the decent thing for once in it’s long, sad, sorry, fucking history’.
always knew that Rev fella were up to no good
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Police said John McMahon arrived at Perth Airport on Wednesday from Victoria, and was directed to self-quarantine for 14 days.
It is alleged officers went to the premises where he was staying yesterday to conduct a check, but he was not there.
They arrested him in Fremantle later in the day.
Mr McMahon goes by the name “The Rev”
captain_spalding said:
ABC News:‘Afghan translators who helped military flown to Australia on protection visas
By foreign affairs reporter Stephen Dziedzic
Australia has been resettling Afghans who fear for their lives because they worked alongside Australian soldiers and diplomats in Afghanistan.’Alt version:
‘Aus govt does the decent thing for once in it’s long, sad, sorry, fucking history’.
This should have been happened years ago.
But now with the withdrawal of US forces and every other country that went along with them it looks like things are going to turn to utter shit there and the Taliban are going to have a big payback list.
ABC News:
‘Taliban say they hold 80 per cent of Afghanistan as US announces 650 troops will remain after withdrawal
By Tracey Shelton, wires
Around 650 US troops will remain in Afghanistan to provide security for diplomats after the main military withdrawal, US officials say, as Taliban forces continue to take new territory.’
Like i said several weeks back, the boys will be back in town.
Anyone seen any word on the whereabouts of Ashraf Ghani, President of Afghanistan?
My bet is on ‘at 30,000 feet in a bizjet, headed for Zurich’.
captain_spalding said:
It’s quarter to an election.
ABC News:‘Afghan translators who helped military flown to Australia on protection visas
By foreign affairs reporter Stephen Dziedzic
Australia has been resettling Afghans who fear for their lives because they worked alongside Australian soldiers and diplomats in Afghanistan.’Alt version:
‘Aus govt does the decent thing for once in it’s long, sad, sorry, fucking history’.
SCIENCE said:
always knew that Rev fella were up to no good—
Police said John McMahon arrived at Perth Airport on Wednesday from Victoria, and was directed to self-quarantine for 14 days.
It is alleged officers went to the premises where he was staying yesterday to conduct a check, but he was not there.
They arrested him in Fremantle later in the day.
Mr McMahon goes by the name “The Rev”
Our Dodgy Rev?
sarahs mum said:
captain_spalding said:It’s quarter to an election.
ABC News:‘Afghan translators who helped military flown to Australia on protection visas
By foreign affairs reporter Stephen Dziedzic
Australia has been resettling Afghans who fear for their lives because they worked alongside Australian soldiers and diplomats in Afghanistan.’Alt version:
‘Aus govt does the decent thing for once in it’s long, sad, sorry, fucking history’.
Well, there you go then.
anyway.. despite my shitty day and firey entrance here tonight, I have actually kicked some goals today and moved things off my list of shit that needs doing.. I also feel calmer.. so definitely calling FNDC… cheers
Arts said:
anyway.. despite my shitty day and firey entrance here tonight, I have actually kicked some goals today and moved things off my list of shit that needs doing.. I also feel calmer.. so definitely calling FNDC… cheers
I am on my second beer. I think one of the AZ side effects is turning one into a sot.
Arts said:
What a fucking bullshit of a day.. bowing to the fuck heads in marketing, son gets concussed at school because of douche bag decisions by 14 yr old boys, sitting in on a pat everyone on the back meeting that was bullshit “You’re all great!”, filling in forms for follow up on ethic proposals, reading about arseholes who treat women like they are only there for them to look at… and then coming here and reading this shit… thank fuck it’s Friday…
Bloody.
Well, I’ve fixed a couple of things, rearranged a few things and had a long phone talk with my nonagenarian mother. I’ve had a good day. I hope yours gets better.
Arts said:
anyway.. despite my shitty day and firey entrance here tonight, I have actually kicked some goals today and moved things off my list of shit that needs doing.. I also feel calmer.. so definitely calling FNDC… cheers
cheers.
I’ve got some cheap Margaret River wine.
ChrispenEvan said:
I think one of the AZ side effects is turning one into a sot.
I am latching on to that like a barnacle to a bilge rail.
Well the snapper was lovely even though it took quite a while for my buzzer to go off.
Peak Warming Man said:
Well the snapper was lovely even though it took quite a while for my buzzer to go off.
I’ve eaten some excellent seafood in my time, but i don’t know if i could declare that any made my buzzer go off.
Aliens Wouldn’t Need Warp Drives to Take Over an Entire Galaxy, Simulation Suggests
It’s also further evidence that extraterrestrials should’ve settled the entire Milky Way by now. So where are they?
https://gizmodo.com/aliens-wouldnt-need-warp-drives-to-take-over-an-entire-1847101242
Michael V said:
Arts said:
What a fucking bullshit of a day.. bowing to the fuck heads in marketing, son gets concussed at school because of douche bag decisions by 14 yr old boys, sitting in on a pat everyone on the back meeting that was bullshit “You’re all great!”, filling in forms for follow up on ethic proposals, reading about arseholes who treat women like they are only there for them to look at… and then coming here and reading this shit… thank fuck it’s Friday…Bloody.
Well, I’ve fixed a couple of things, rearranged a few things and had a long phone talk with my nonagenarian mother. I’ve had a good day. I hope yours gets better.
Marbles still all accounted for by the sounds of things.
And how’s your mother?
captain_spalding said:
ChrispenEvan said:I think one of the AZ side effects is turning one into a sot.
I am latching on to that like a barnacle to a bilge rail.
LOLOL
Witty Rejoinder said:
Aliens Wouldn’t Need Warp Drives to Take Over an Entire Galaxy, Simulation Suggests
It’s also further evidence that extraterrestrials should’ve settled the entire Milky Way by now. So where are they?https://gizmodo.com/aliens-wouldnt-need-warp-drives-to-take-over-an-entire-1847101242
It’s like planning your holidays.
‘Oh, where should we visit next? Will we go to this nice, peaceful, pleasant place where the inhabitants are civilised and welcoming and tolerant? Or will we go to this active war zone where they hate each other for irrational reasons and are always trying to kill each other and render their environment uninhabitable in the name of profit?’
Read the news, and wonder no longer.
captain_spalding said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Aliens Wouldn’t Need Warp Drives to Take Over an Entire Galaxy, Simulation Suggests
It’s also further evidence that extraterrestrials should’ve settled the entire Milky Way by now. So where are they?https://gizmodo.com/aliens-wouldnt-need-warp-drives-to-take-over-an-entire-1847101242
It’s like planning your holidays.
‘Oh, where should we visit next? Will we go to this nice, peaceful, pleasant place where the inhabitants are civilised and welcoming and tolerant? Or will we go to this active war zone where they hate each other for irrational reasons and are always trying to kill each other and render their environment uninhabitable in the name of profit?’
Read the news, and wonder no longer.
No wonder they never visit.
sarahs mum said:
Dr David Hamilton
@davidghamilton1
Friday morning feet
(A spotted-tailed quolls, not mine)
Note the striated pads that help with grip when climbing!
sarahs mum said:
Quoll feet are the best feet :)
sarahs mum said:
sarahs mum said:
Dr David Hamilton
@davidghamilton1
Friday morning feet(A spotted-tailed quolls, not mine)
Note the striated pads that help with grip when climbing!
I suggest that they’re like fingerprints.
Peak Warming Man said:
Michael V said:
Arts said:
What a fucking bullshit of a day.. bowing to the fuck heads in marketing, son gets concussed at school because of douche bag decisions by 14 yr old boys, sitting in on a pat everyone on the back meeting that was bullshit “You’re all great!”, filling in forms for follow up on ethic proposals, reading about arseholes who treat women like they are only there for them to look at… and then coming here and reading this shit… thank fuck it’s Friday…Bloody.
Well, I’ve fixed a couple of things, rearranged a few things and had a long phone talk with my nonagenarian mother. I’ve had a good day. I hope yours gets better.
Marbles still all accounted for by the sounds of things.
And how’s your mother?
LOL
Surprisingly, she whinges very little about her ailments (which are several and very annoying). She does, however describe them. And she has long, long slow ambles down memory lane. Oh, and wants to tell me the plot of a book or movie or two or more. Something she may have seen or read in the last 80 years or so.
Speedy said:
sarahs mum said:
Quoll feet are the best feet :)
They are amazing.
roughbarked said:
Speedy said:
sarahs mum said:
Quoll feet are the best feet :)
They are amazing.
Echidna feet are interesting too, at least the rear-facing rear ones are.
captain_spalding said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Aliens Wouldn’t Need Warp Drives to Take Over an Entire Galaxy, Simulation Suggests
It’s also further evidence that extraterrestrials should’ve settled the entire Milky Way by now. So where are they?https://gizmodo.com/aliens-wouldnt-need-warp-drives-to-take-over-an-entire-1847101242
It’s like planning your holidays.
‘Oh, where should we visit next? Will we go to this nice, peaceful, pleasant place where the inhabitants are civilised and welcoming and tolerant? Or will we go to this active war zone where they hate each other for irrational reasons and are always trying to kill each other and render their environment uninhabitable in the name of profit?’
Read the news, and wonder no longer.
“The whole process, in which the entire inner galaxy is settled, takes one billion years. That sounds like a long time, but it’s only somewhere between 7% and 9% the total age of the Milky Way galaxy.”
Stops reading.
captain_spalding said:
sarahs mum said:
sarahs mum said:
Dr David Hamilton
@davidghamilton1
Friday morning feet(A spotted-tailed quolls, not mine)
Note the striated pads that help with grip when climbing!
I suggest that they’re like fingerprints.
there’s a stupid meme going around that says that koala fingerprints are indistinguishable from humans at a crime scene. While Koalas do have fingerprints extremely similar to humans, the stupid meme started because of a report hat some detectives were given sets fo finger prints to see if they could identify them, many of them failed to identify koala as koala, instead given them the human title. Somehow that translated to the meme.. of course, if you present with just the finger print, it might be difficult to determine, but koala have other identifying features in their prints that might not fool a detective or forensic investigator as easily.. but try telling people that..
Speedy said:
roughbarked said:
Speedy said:Quoll feet are the best feet :)
They are amazing.
Echidna feet are interesting too, at least the rear-facing rear ones are.
It’s got that relaxed far away look in it’s eyes saying I don’t give a shit.
Peak Warming Man said:
It’s got that relaxed far away look in it’s eyes saying I don’t give a shit.
It’s all that (formic) acid it’s been taking.
Oh dear. And incandescent Arts.
ABC News:
‘Iran dismisses Canadian report finding Tehran ‘fully responsible’ for downing of Flight PS752’
Two minutes after Ukraine International Airlines flight PS752 departs Tehran, it’s shot down by a ground to air missile.
Who does Iran think is responsible?
Japan, perhaps?
captain_spalding said:
ABC News:‘Iran dismisses Canadian report finding Tehran ‘fully responsible’ for downing of Flight PS752’
Two minutes after Ukraine International Airlines flight PS752 departs Tehran, it’s shot down by a ground to air missile.
Who does Iran think is responsible?
Japan, perhaps?
It just fell down of its own accord
party_pants said:
captain_spalding said:
ABC News:‘Iran dismisses Canadian report finding Tehran ‘fully responsible’ for downing of Flight PS752’
Two minutes after Ukraine International Airlines flight PS752 departs Tehran, it’s shot down by a ground to air missile.
Who does Iran think is responsible?
Japan, perhaps?
It just fell down of its own accord
Could have done, could of fell on a missile battery.
party_pants said:
captain_spalding said:
ABC News:‘Iran dismisses Canadian report finding Tehran ‘fully responsible’ for downing of Flight PS752’
Two minutes after Ukraine International Airlines flight PS752 departs Tehran, it’s shot down by a ground to air missile.
Who does Iran think is responsible?
Japan, perhaps?
It just fell down of its own accord
apparently the front fell off.
Olive and Mabel – The Call of the Wild.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_7F5n8KDFM
ChrispenEvan said:
party_pants said:
captain_spalding said:
ABC News:‘Iran dismisses Canadian report finding Tehran ‘fully responsible’ for downing of Flight PS752’
Two minutes after Ukraine International Airlines flight PS752 departs Tehran, it’s shot down by a ground to air missile.
Who does Iran think is responsible?
Japan, perhaps?
It just fell down of its own accord
apparently the front fell off.
:)
ChrispenEvan said:
Arts said:
anyway.. despite my shitty day and firey entrance here tonight, I have actually kicked some goals today and moved things off my list of shit that needs doing.. I also feel calmer.. so definitely calling FNDC… cheers
I am on my second beer. I think one of the AZ side effects is turning one into a sot.
Rationalization. Justification.
Just caught a bit of Bargain Hunt, round non descript donut thing about the size of your hand, could be very old, ancient in fact with unknown powers and the runes could hold the secrets to eternal youth, perpetual motion, nuclear fusion and the location of the odd sock sink. Bought for 180 pound.
Auctioneer-: Let’s start me off with 200 pound, 200 anyone, 100 pound then anyone?, 50 pound then…………..10 quid then, yes we have 10 quid….12 anyone for 12, 12 we have………sold for 12 quid.
ChrispenEvan said:
party_pants said:
captain_spalding said:
ABC News:‘Iran dismisses Canadian report finding Tehran ‘fully responsible’ for downing of Flight PS752’
Two minutes after Ukraine International Airlines flight PS752 departs Tehran, it’s shot down by a ground to air missile.
Who does Iran think is responsible?
Japan, perhaps?
It just fell down of its own accord
apparently the front fell off.
party_pants said:
Arts said:
anyway.. despite my shitty day and firey entrance here tonight, I have actually kicked some goals today and moved things off my list of shit that needs doing.. I also feel calmer.. so definitely calling FNDC… cheers
cheers.
I’ve got some cheap Margaret River wine.
Cheap French grenache here called Lulu, which is pleasant enough. But sibeen would refuse to taste it due to the grape variety.
Bubblecar said:
party_pants said:
Arts said:
anyway.. despite my shitty day and firey entrance here tonight, I have actually kicked some goals today and moved things off my list of shit that needs doing.. I also feel calmer.. so definitely calling FNDC… cheers
cheers.
I’ve got some cheap Margaret River wine.
Cheap French grenache here called Lulu, which is pleasant enough. But sibeen would refuse to taste it due to the grape variety.
Does it make you want to shout
Look, your hand’s jumping (shout)
Look, your heart’s thumping (shout)
Throw your head back (shout)
Come on now (shout)
Don’t forget to say you will
Yeah, don’t forget to shout
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
check out this gecko.. super fucking cool
Arts said:
check out this gecko.. super fucking cool
nice one.
Neophyte said:
Bubblecar said:
party_pants said:cheers.
I’ve got some cheap Margaret River wine.
Cheap French grenache here called Lulu, which is pleasant enough. But sibeen would refuse to taste it due to the grape variety.
Does it make you want to shout
Look, your hand’s jumping (shout)
Look, your heart’s thumping (shout)
Throw your head back (shout)
Come on now (shout)Don’t forget to say you will
Yeah, don’t forget to shout
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
Arts said:
check out this gecko.. super fucking cool
It is a fine one. Some of those nodules look like tiny skulls.
Bubblecar said:
Arts said:
check out this gecko.. super fucking cool
It is a fine one. Some of those nodules look like tiny skulls.
he looks kinda fractal like.
Bubblecar said:
Arts said:
check out this gecko.. super fucking cool
It is a fine one. Some of those nodules look like tiny skulls.
papilloma I thought.
The court case for Roberts-Smith seems like he is suggesting a lot of people in his inner circle are lying about what he has said or done to them.
Which is a bit concerning from the outside looking in.
roughbarked said:
captain_spalding said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Aliens Wouldn’t Need Warp Drives to Take Over an Entire Galaxy, Simulation Suggests
It’s also further evidence that extraterrestrials should’ve settled the entire Milky Way by now. So where are they?https://gizmodo.com/aliens-wouldnt-need-warp-drives-to-take-over-an-entire-1847101242
It’s like planning your holidays.
‘Oh, where should we visit next? Will we go to this nice, peaceful, pleasant place where the inhabitants are civilised and welcoming and tolerant? Or will we go to this active war zone where they hate each other for irrational reasons and are always trying to kill each other and render their environment uninhabitable in the name of profit?’
Read the news, and wonder no longer.
No wonder they never visit.
among all its false premises we suggest that the following
no civilization can last longer than 100 million years
based on your suggestions above might be quite far from their claimed “conservative” estimates
The Rev Dodgson said:
captain_spalding said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Aliens Wouldn’t Need Warp Drives to Take Over an Entire Galaxy, Simulation Suggests
It’s also further evidence that extraterrestrials should’ve settled the entire Milky Way by now. So where are they?https://gizmodo.com/aliens-wouldnt-need-warp-drives-to-take-over-an-entire-1847101242
It’s like planning your holidays.
‘Oh, where should we visit next? Will we go to this nice, peaceful, pleasant place where the inhabitants are civilised and welcoming and tolerant? Or will we go to this active war zone where they hate each other for irrational reasons and are always trying to kill each other and render their environment uninhabitable in the name of profit?’
Read the news, and wonder no longer.
“The whole process, in which the entire inner galaxy is settled, takes one billion years. That sounds like a long time, but it’s only somewhere between 7% and 9% the total age of the Milky Way galaxy.”
Stops reading.
quitter talk
monkey skipper said:
The court case for Roberts-Smith seems like he is suggesting a lot of people in his inner circle are lying about what he has said or done to them.Which is a bit concerning from the outside looking in.
is it different from how a Christian Porter might have viewed the world
monkey skipper said:
The court case for Roberts-Smith seems like he is suggesting a lot of people in his inner circle are lying about what he has said or done to them.Which is a bit concerning from the outside looking in.
I don’t find it concerning at all, so long as the people doing the testifying are telling the unembellished truth. If it seems they don’t like him, so be it.
I almost forgot it was Friday, Media Watchdog comes out on Fridays.
rubs hands
Greetings from the lease.
Bubblecar said:
party_pants said:
Arts said:
anyway.. despite my shitty day and firey entrance here tonight, I have actually kicked some goals today and moved things off my list of shit that needs doing.. I also feel calmer.. so definitely calling FNDC… cheers
cheers.
I’ve got some cheap Margaret River wine.
Cheap French grenache here called Lulu, which is pleasant enough. But sibeen would refuse to taste it due to the grape variety.
Correct. It should be shot at enemy forces from a cannon.
sibeen said:
Bubblecar said:
party_pants said:cheers.
I’ve got some cheap Margaret River wine.
Cheap French grenache here called Lulu, which is pleasant enough. But sibeen would refuse to taste it due to the grape variety.
Correct. It should be shot at enemy forces from a cannon.
You would transform ‘cheap French grenache’ into ‘cheap French grenade’?
captain_spalding said:
sibeen said:
Bubblecar said:Cheap French grenache here called Lulu, which is pleasant enough. But sibeen would refuse to taste it due to the grape variety.
Correct. It should be shot at enemy forces from a cannon.
You would transform ‘cheap French grenache’ into ‘cheap French grenade’?
What do the French call a grenade?
Dark Orange said:
Greetings from the lease.
Nice :)
sibeen said:
captain_spalding said:
sibeen said:Correct. It should be shot at enemy forces from a cannon.
You would transform ‘cheap French grenache’ into ‘cheap French grenade’?
What do the French call a grenade?
Grenade, but pronounced Frenchly.
sibeen said:
Bubblecar said:
party_pants said:cheers.
I’ve got some cheap Margaret River wine.
Cheap French grenache here called Lulu, which is pleasant enough. But sibeen would refuse to taste it due to the grape variety.
Correct. It should be shot at enemy forces from a cannon.
I liked picking Grenache. A heavy cropper. I also don’t mind the taste. Shiraz Grenache is nice.
ChrispenEvan said:
sibeen said:
Bubblecar said:Cheap French grenache here called Lulu, which is pleasant enough. But sibeen would refuse to taste it due to the grape variety.
Correct. It should be shot at enemy forces from a cannon.
I liked picking Grenache. A heavy cropper. I also don’t mind the taste. Shiraz Grenache is nice.
This is a subtle, light-bodied red with a pleasant fruity character and a nice dry finish with a hint of olive in the unassuming tannin.
Hard to imagine anyone taking offence to it, you could guzzle this stuff. Although it is 13.5%.
sibeen said:
Bubblecar said:
party_pants said:cheers.
I’ve got some cheap Margaret River wine.
Cheap French grenache here called Lulu, which is pleasant enough. But sibeen would refuse to taste it due to the grape variety.
Correct. It should be shot at enemy forces from a cannon.
Mr Speedy bought a bottle of Tempus Two something something. It was awful, ao tonight it’s the trusty Pepperjack again.
I am still undecided whether the almost-full bottle of Tempus Two something something will ruin the beef and red wine pie tomorrow night.
Bubblecar said:
ChrispenEvan said:
sibeen said:Correct. It should be shot at enemy forces from a cannon.
I liked picking Grenache. A heavy cropper. I also don’t mind the taste. Shiraz Grenache is nice.
This is a subtle, light-bodied red with a pleasant fruity character and a nice dry finish with a hint of olive in the unassuming tannin.
Hard to imagine anyone taking offence to it, you could guzzle this stuff. Although it is 13.5%.
You’re lying!
Bubblecar said:
ChrispenEvan said:
sibeen said:Correct. It should be shot at enemy forces from a cannon.
I liked picking Grenache. A heavy cropper. I also don’t mind the taste. Shiraz Grenache is nice.
This is a subtle, light-bodied red with a pleasant fruity character and a nice dry finish with a hint of olive and mable in the unassuming tannin.
Hard to imagine anyone taking offence to it, you could guzzle this stuff. Although it is 13.5%.
Yes that sounds like a reasonable defence at first blush.
Anyone looking for some reading?
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2778364?guestAccessKey=84d177b3-013d-4410-97fe-7a782636e009&utm_source=silverchair&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=article_alert-jamainternalmedicine&utm_content=etoc&utm_term=060721
“Accuracy of Practitioner Estimates of Probability of Diagnosis Before and After Testing”
sibeen said:
Bubblecar said:
ChrispenEvan said:I liked picking Grenache. A heavy cropper. I also don’t mind the taste. Shiraz Grenache is nice.
This is a subtle, light-bodied red with a pleasant fruity character and a nice dry finish with a hint of olive in the unassuming tannin.
Hard to imagine anyone taking offence to it, you could guzzle this stuff. Although it is 13.5%.
You’re lying!
Not only am I not lying, I have in fact now guzzled the whole bottle, and it’s not yet ten of the clock.
Not switching to beer.
I’m going to have a big glass of 100 proof milo and then go to bed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBeOgGt_oWU
Rare Antique Fractal Vise
Interesting concept.
ChrispenEvan said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBeOgGt_oWURare Antique Fractal Vise
Interesting concept.
Looks a fine tool from the opening sequence.
ChrispenEvan said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBeOgGt_oWURare Antique Fractal Vise
Interesting concept.
Brilliant.
Bubblecar said:
sibeen said:
Bubblecar said:This is a subtle, light-bodied red with a pleasant fruity character and a nice dry finish with a hint of olive in the unassuming tannin.
Hard to imagine anyone taking offence to it, you could guzzle this stuff. Although it is 13.5%.
You’re lying!
Not only am I not lying, I have in fact now guzzled the whole bottle, and it’s not yet ten of the clock.
Not switching to beer.
I’ve just gone and released a bottle of Shiraz from the wine fridge. Good, clean, strong and vital Australian Shiraz. I hoping that it will wipe away the horror of your vile words.
Feargal Sharkey – A Good Heart (HQ Audio)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Z2qFTbyyOQ
Bubblecar said:
sibeen said:
Bubblecar said:This is a subtle, light-bodied red with a pleasant fruity character and a nice dry finish with a hint of olive in the unassuming tannin.
Hard to imagine anyone taking offence to it, you could guzzle this stuff. Although it is 13.5%.
You’re lying!
Not only am I not lying, I have in fact now guzzled the whole bottle, and it’s not yet ten of the clock.
Not switching to beer.
Um, that should be: Now switching to beer.
Apologies for any confusion :)
ChrispenEvan said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBeOgGt_oWURare Antique Fractal Vise
Interesting concept.
That looks fantastic.
Peak Warming Man said:
I’m going to have a big glass of 100 proof milo and then go to bed.
Just did that. Although I haven’t made it to the bedroom yet. Still getting there.
buffy said:
Peak Warming Man said:
I’m going to have a big glass of 100 proof milo and then go to bed.
Just did that. Although I haven’t made it to the bedroom yet. Still getting there.
Not surprised you’re walking into walls after full strength Milo.
;)
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
sibeen said:You’re lying!
Not only am I not lying, I have in fact now guzzled the whole bottle, and it’s not yet ten of the clock.
Not switching to beer.
Um, that should be: Now switching to beer.
Apologies for any confusion :)
Although there’s only one 500ml tin of jerry pilsener left. And someone’s necked all the Irish whiskey.
So it’s a good job I’m already well mellow.
Did them Sainters stuff your footy tips too, hey what but, Mr Beeny Boy?
I hope I’m just absent minded.
Today I wanted a coffee, so went to the cupboard and took out a breakfast bowl to have it in.
In other news, last week I dropped off 10 books at a book exchange. Visited today and 7 of them have already gone. :-)
Woodie said:
Did them Sainters stuff your footy tips too, hey what but, Mr Beeny Boy?
Certainly did :)
Sixto Rodriguez – Sugar Man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E90_aL870ao
For supper I’m thinking: lighty toasted sunflower & barley Vogel, spread with butter and a thick layer of Maille Dijon, generous scattering of capers and fresh parsley.
Topped with a heap of Kiwi extra-tasty cheddar, then shoved under the gorilla to melt.
AKA cheese on toast.
So I occasionally watch a US homesteader/permaculture guru with hundreds of thousands of followers on youtube. He’s recently become a carnivore and at a recent slaughtering he tried raw liver from a yearling beef. He tried the liver from sheep the same day. The other day he tried the raw chicken liver and he’s been been pretty sick since. Keeps on putting out content about how sick he is.
sarahs mum said:
So I occasionally watch a US homesteader/permaculture guru with hundreds of thousands of followers on youtube. He’s recently become a carnivore and at a recent slaughtering he tried raw liver from a yearling beef. He tried the liver from sheep the same day. The other day he tried the raw chicken liver and he’s been been pretty sick since. Keeps on putting out content about how sick he is.
Maybe a bid for misplaced sympathy.
sarahs mum said:
So I occasionally watch a US homesteader/permaculture guru with hundreds of thousands of followers on youtube. He’s recently become a carnivore and at a recent slaughtering he tried raw liver from a yearling beef. He tried the liver from sheep the same day. The other day he tried the raw chicken liver and he’s been been pretty sick since. Keeps on putting out content about how sick he is.
The mind boggles…
Bubblecar said:
For supper I’m thinking: lighty toasted sunflower & barley Vogel, spread with butter and a thick layer of Maille Dijon, generous scattering of capers and fresh parsley.Topped with a heap of Kiwi extra-tasty cheddar, then shoved under the gorilla to melt.
AKA cheese on toast.
Verdict: not that I’m one for overeating*, but that was so good I’m sorely tempted to do another.
*barefaced lie
sarahs mum said:
So I occasionally watch a US homesteader/permaculture guru with hundreds of thousands of followers on youtube. He’s recently become a carnivore and at a recent slaughtering he tried raw liver from a yearling beef. He tried the liver from sheep the same day. The other day he tried the raw chicken liver and he’s been been pretty sick since. Keeps on putting out content about how sick he is.
So he gave up eating anything but meat?
sibeen said:
sarahs mum said:
So I occasionally watch a US homesteader/permaculture guru with hundreds of thousands of followers on youtube. He’s recently become a carnivore and at a recent slaughtering he tried raw liver from a yearling beef. He tried the liver from sheep the same day. The other day he tried the raw chicken liver and he’s been been pretty sick since. Keeps on putting out content about how sick he is.
So he gave up eating anything but meat?
He’s doing dairy products and eggs.
IMO he is going to have to improve his handling skills.
sarahs mum said:
sibeen said:
sarahs mum said:
So I occasionally watch a US homesteader/permaculture guru with hundreds of thousands of followers on youtube. He’s recently become a carnivore and at a recent slaughtering he tried raw liver from a yearling beef. He tried the liver from sheep the same day. The other day he tried the raw chicken liver and he’s been been pretty sick since. Keeps on putting out content about how sick he is.
So he gave up eating anything but meat?
He’s doing dairy products and eggs.
IMO he is going to have to improve his handling skills.
YEah bUt eat. A lot of meat.
I’m going through this year’s Classic top 100 which was based around “Music you can’t live without”.
Nothing too eyebrow raising except number 3: Ralph Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending.
My boy Elgar got three in the 100.
5) Enigma Variations
14) Cello Concerto
81) Pomp and Circumstances
This seems about right.
Beethoven got ten in the 100, including the top two, and five in the top 20.
JS Bach got 7.
Dvorak got 1, New World Symphony, though I prefer his Cello Concerto.
Mozart got 6, but only one in the top 20, which was Clarinet Concerto in A major.
Brahms, nothing. Tough comp.
dv said:
I’m going through this year’s Classic top 100 which was based around “Music you can’t live without”.Nothing too eyebrow raising except number 3: Ralph Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending.
My boy Elgar got three in the 100.
5) Enigma Variations
14) Cello Concerto
81) Pomp and CircumstancesThis seems about right.
Beethoven got ten in the 100, including the top two, and five in the top 20.
JS Bach got 7.
Dvorak got 1, New World Symphony, though I prefer his Cello Concerto.
Mozart got 6, but only one in the top 20, which was Clarinet Concerto in A major.Brahms, nothing. Tough comp.
Sorry, but I hate those mindless Classic FM popularity polls and pay zero attention to them.
dv said:
I’m going through this year’s Classic top 100 which was based around “Music you can’t live without”.Nothing too eyebrow raising except number 3: Ralph Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending.
My boy Elgar got three in the 100.
5) Enigma Variations
14) Cello Concerto
81) Pomp and CircumstancesThis seems about right.
Beethoven got ten in the 100, including the top two, and five in the top 20.
JS Bach got 7.
Dvorak got 1, New World Symphony, though I prefer his Cello Concerto.
Mozart got 6, but only one in the top 20, which was Clarinet Concerto in A major.Brahms, nothing. Tough comp.
Where does Pachabel’s canon come?
dv said:
I’m going through this year’s Classic top 100 which was based around “Music you can’t live without”.Nothing too eyebrow raising except number 3: Ralph Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending.
My boy Elgar got three in the 100.
5) Enigma Variations
14) Cello Concerto
81) Pomp and CircumstancesThis seems about right.
Beethoven got ten in the 100, including the top two, and five in the top 20.
JS Bach got 7.
Dvorak got 1, New World Symphony, though I prefer his Cello Concerto.
Mozart got 6, but only one in the top 20, which was Clarinet Concerto in A major.Brahms, nothing. Tough comp.
It used to be that The Lark Ascending was #1. I mean that just made the whole thing a bit of a joke. I’ve got the box set on CD from years ago and that sullies even the cheap cardboard it was printed on.
A very late evening to all
Signed yet another contract on my unit tonight… feeling fairly sure this one will go ahead. A good price that I’m happy with and is ok with a flexible sign over date that suits me :)
Also fairly sure the Dees will do the Bombers this weekend :D
How is the forum folk doing? All good? :)
Spider Lily said:
A very late evening to allSigned yet another contract on my unit tonight… feeling fairly sure this one will go ahead. A good price that I’m happy with and is ok with a flexible sign over date that suits me :)
Also fairly sure the Dees will do the Bombers this weekend :D
How is the forum folk doing? All good? :)
What happened to the original buyer?
sibeen said:
Spider Lily said:
A very late evening to allSigned yet another contract on my unit tonight… feeling fairly sure this one will go ahead. A good price that I’m happy with and is ok with a flexible sign over date that suits me :)
Also fairly sure the Dees will do the Bombers this weekend :D
How is the forum folk doing? All good? :)
What happened to the original buyer?
Pulled out the next day due to finance… sigh
Spider Lily said:
sibeen said:
Spider Lily said:
A very late evening to allSigned yet another contract on my unit tonight… feeling fairly sure this one will go ahead. A good price that I’m happy with and is ok with a flexible sign over date that suits me :)
Also fairly sure the Dees will do the Bombers this weekend :D
How is the forum folk doing? All good? :)
What happened to the original buyer?
Pulled out the next day due to finance… sigh
Well, obviously not a well heeled Melbourne supporter them.
sibeen said:
Spider Lily said:
sibeen said:What happened to the original buyer?
Pulled out the next day due to finance… sigh
Well, obviously not a well heeled Melbourne supporter them.
No, but I feel this one may be :)
SCIENCE said:
monkey skipper said:
The court case for Roberts-Smith seems like he is suggesting a lot of people in his inner circle are lying about what he has said or done to them.Which is a bit concerning from the outside looking in.
is it different from how a Christian Porter might have viewed the world
They are all fucking liars.
Good morning holidayers, 15.5° at the lease, feels like 5°.
Kookaburras have woken up the rest of the dawn chorus, although the batteries are flat so they are accompanying the drone of a 2.5kVA generator.
Hopefully a clear day to charge the batteries up, and then refill the water tanks from the creek then unpack the supplies from the car.
Dark Orange said:
Good morning holidayers, 15.5° at the lease, feels like 5°.
Kookaburras have woken up the rest of the dawn chorus, although the batteries are flat so they are accompanying the drone of a 2.5kVA generator.Hopefully a clear day to charge the batteries up, and then refill the water tanks from the creek then unpack the supplies from the car.
Wish I was there.
sibeen said:
ChrispenEvan said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBeOgGt_oWURare Antique Fractal Vise
Interesting concept.
That looks fantastic.
I want one.
There are two versions of the facts at Ben Roberts-Smith’s defamation trial. Neither is kind to the SAS
PM
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By Nick Grimm
Regardless of which side succeeds in this case, both legal teams have presented distinctly unflattering pictures of the Australian Army’s elite SAS regiment, certain to tarnish the image of a professional, highly disciplined and drilled fighting force.
Derek Chauvin sentenced to more than 20 years in prison for murder of George Floyd.
roughbarked said:
sibeen said:
ChrispenEvan said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBeOgGt_oWURare Antique Fractal Vise
Interesting concept.
That looks fantastic.
I want one.
Beautiful…
Scary viewing when the apartment building in Miami collapsed.
monkey skipper said:
Scary viewing when the apartment building in Miami collapsed.
Deliberately avoid watching people die if I can help it..
roughbarked said:
monkey skipper said:
Scary viewing when the apartment building in Miami collapsed.
Deliberately avoid watching people die if I can help it..
Hopefully. the video gives some clues as to how and why this happened. I see it as an important piece in the puzzle and I think it is okay to express empathy to strangers you’ve not met and surviving family members you’ve not met.
monkey skipper said:
roughbarked said:
monkey skipper said:
Scary viewing when the apartment building in Miami collapsed.
Deliberately avoid watching people die if I can help it..
Hopefully. the video gives some clues as to how and why this happened. I see it as an important piece in the puzzle and I think it is okay to express empathy to strangers you’ve not met and surviving family members you’ve not met.
Yeah.
Without having studied the data, it is clear to me that the whole idea of putting high rises on a beach and then making climate change is inherently stupid. Developers should all be hung drawn and quartered. Swamp fillers are not my favourite people.
Good morning Holidayers. Presently 5 degrees at the back door and overcast. Our forecast for today is for 11 degrees and increasing showers. Showers are forecast for the next week.
I should get dressed and walk to the bakery to snaffle a good loaf of bread early while there is a choice.
Morning, foggy as all folk here, and cool. My turn for the weekend shift.
poikilotherm said:
Morning, foggy as all folk here, and cool. My turn for the weekend shift.
Looks like it had a few more light sprinkles overniight but not a fog to be seen.
monkey skipper said:
roughbarked said:
monkey skipper said:
Scary viewing when the apartment building in Miami collapsed.
Deliberately avoid watching people die if I can help it..
Hopefully. the video gives some clues as to how and why this happened. I see it as an important piece in the puzzle and I think it is okay to express empathy to strangers you’ve not met and surviving family members you’ve not met.
Already people are saying controlled demolition…. so we’ll see what comes of that
Arts said:
monkey skipper said:
roughbarked said:Deliberately avoid watching people die if I can help it..
Hopefully. the video gives some clues as to how and why this happened. I see it as an important piece in the puzzle and I think it is okay to express empathy to strangers you’ve not met and surviving family members you’ve not met.
Already people are saying controlled demolition…. so we’ll see what comes of that
Looks like wet sand under foundations to me.
roughbarked said:
Arts said:
monkey skipper said:Hopefully. the video gives some clues as to how and why this happened. I see it as an important piece in the puzzle and I think it is okay to express empathy to strangers you’ve not met and surviving family members you’ve not met.
Already people are saying controlled demolition…. so we’ll see what comes of that
Looks like wet sand under foundations to me.
From what I have read… age; environment; local disturbance (construction in the area).
From what I see it kind of looks like flashes before the collapse… but I’m no demolition expert those flashes could be anything. But I didn’t realise how much of the building collapsed until about three minutes ago.
Either way you have to credit the designers that in any event of a collapse that building went straight down and didn’t topple on to another building. The whole area is full of high rise apartments.
Arts said:
roughbarked said:
Arts said:Already people are saying controlled demolition…. so we’ll see what comes of that
Looks like wet sand under foundations to me.
From what I have read… age; environment; local disturbance (construction in the area).
From what I see it kind of looks like flashes before the collapse… but I’m no demolition expert those flashes could be anything. But I didn’t realise how much of the building collapsed until about three minutes ago.
Electrical and gas connections all break when buildings collapse, often resultinhg in fires.
Arts said:
Either way you have to credit the designers that in any event of a collapse that building went straight down and didn’t topple on to another building. The whole area is full of high rise apartments.
Certainly looked like a perfect demolition.
roughbarked said:
Arts said:
Either way you have to credit the designers that in any event of a collapse that building went straight down and didn’t topple on to another building. The whole area is full of high rise apartments.
Certainly looked like a perfect demolition.
Left the pool fairly clean.
Arts said:
monkey skipper said:
roughbarked said:Deliberately avoid watching people die if I can help it..
Hopefully. the video gives some clues as to how and why this happened. I see it as an important piece in the puzzle and I think it is okay to express empathy to strangers you’ve not met and surviving family members you’ve not met.
Already people are saying controlled demolition…. so we’ll see what comes of that
I could see bright lights in the top left-hand of the building footage. I don’t know if that was an explosive or what.
Arts said:
roughbarked said:
Arts said:Already people are saying controlled demolition…. so we’ll see what comes of that
Looks like wet sand under foundations to me.
From what I have read… age; environment; local disturbance (construction in the area).
From what I see it kind of looks like flashes before the collapse… but I’m no demolition expert those flashes could be anything. But I didn’t realise how much of the building collapsed until about three minutes ago.
I saw those flashes too as I just typed in the previous post. I was away watching some super nanny eps on utube.
Arts said:
Either way you have to credit the designers that in any event of a collapse that building went straight down and didn’t topple on to another building. The whole area is full of high rise apartments.
yeah .. they said it literally pancaked.
Sun has peeked over the hills, allowing the solar panels to take over from the genny.
So have had a half hour of philosophical discussion over birdcalls and coffee. Time to unload the Ute and get some work done.
and the police officer got 22.5 years for the george floyd death.
monkey skipper said:
and the police officer got 22.5 years for the george floyd death.
Poor George got just nine minutes.
Arts said:
roughbarked said:
Arts said:Already people are saying controlled demolition…. so we’ll see what comes of that
Looks like wet sand under foundations to me.
From what I have read… age; environment; local disturbance (construction in the area).
From what I see it kind of looks like flashes before the collapse… but I’m no demolition expert those flashes could be anything. But I didn’t realise how much of the building collapsed until about three minutes ago.
I mentioned yesterday that if you look at the building on Google Earth you see how much collapsed.
ChrispenEvan said:
Arts said:
roughbarked said:Looks like wet sand under foundations to me.
From what I have read… age; environment; local disturbance (construction in the area).
From what I see it kind of looks like flashes before the collapse… but I’m no demolition expert those flashes could be anything. But I didn’t realise how much of the building collapsed until about three minutes ago.
I mentioned yesterday that if you look at the building on Google Earth you see how much collapsed.
roughbarked said:
ChrispenEvan said:
Arts said:From what I have read… age; environment; local disturbance (construction in the area).
From what I see it kind of looks like flashes before the collapse… but I’m no demolition expert those flashes could be anything. But I didn’t realise how much of the building collapsed until about three minutes ago.
I mentioned yesterday that if you look at the building on Google Earth you see how much collapsed.
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:
ChrispenEvan said:I mentioned yesterday that if you look at the building on Google Earth you see how much collapsed.
Anyway, if one was going to place explosives for such a demolition, why not do the whole building?
roughbarked said:
ChrispenEvan said:
Arts said:From what I have read… age; environment; local disturbance (construction in the area).
From what I see it kind of looks like flashes before the collapse… but I’m no demolition expert those flashes could be anything. But I didn’t realise how much of the building collapsed until about three minutes ago.
I mentioned yesterday that if you look at the building on Google Earth you see how much collapsed.
That is incorrect. The lift tower is still there.
ChrispenEvan said:
roughbarked said:
ChrispenEvan said:I mentioned yesterday that if you look at the building on Google Earth you see how much collapsed.
That is incorrect. The lift tower is still there.
Yes.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-26/week-meltdowns-barnaby-joyce-covid-morrison-absence-unfortunate/100245056
All the federal government seems to be able to offer is some new branding: Operation COVID Shield, some ludicrous language about Vaccination Allocation Horizons (no one dare mention targets) and unsatisfactory answers on why we don’t have enough of the vaccines we need to step up our vaccine program to something remotely reflecting much of the rest of the developed world, which has not shared our being an island that made keeping the virus out that much easier.
Heading for 11 this end too, slight chance of a shower this evening.
Time for a hot breakfast of scrambled eggs & pork sausages, toast, tea.
ChrispenEvan said:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-26/week-meltdowns-barnaby-joyce-covid-morrison-absence-unfortunate/100245056All the federal government seems to be able to offer is some new branding: Operation COVID Shield, some ludicrous language about Vaccination Allocation Horizons (no one dare mention targets) and unsatisfactory answers on why we don’t have enough of the vaccines we need to step up our vaccine program to something remotely reflecting much of the rest of the developed world, which has not shared our being an island that made keeping the virus out that much easier.
They are a government in disarray.
Bubblecar said:
Heading for 11 this end too, slight chance of a shower this evening.Time for a hot breakfast of scrambled eggs & pork sausages, toast, tea.
9.5°C
Feels like 6.4 °C
heading for 13 °C, hopefully.
ChrispenEvan said:
Arts said:
roughbarked said:Looks like wet sand under foundations to me.
From what I have read… age; environment; local disturbance (construction in the area).
From what I see it kind of looks like flashes before the collapse… but I’m no demolition expert those flashes could be anything. But I didn’t realise how much of the building collapsed until about three minutes ago.
I mentioned yesterday that if you look at the building on Google Earth you see how much collapsed.
But no-one reads your posts…
buffy said:
ChrispenEvan said:
Arts said:From what I have read… age; environment; local disturbance (construction in the area).
From what I see it kind of looks like flashes before the collapse… but I’m no demolition expert those flashes could be anything. But I didn’t realise how much of the building collapsed until about three minutes ago.
I mentioned yesterday that if you look at the building on Google Earth you see how much collapsed.
But no-one reads your posts…
I do.
buffy said:
ChrispenEvan said:
Arts said:From what I have read… age; environment; local disturbance (construction in the area).
From what I see it kind of looks like flashes before the collapse… but I’m no demolition expert those flashes could be anything. But I didn’t realise how much of the building collapsed until about three minutes ago.
I mentioned yesterday that if you look at the building on Google Earth you see how much collapsed.
But no-one reads your posts…
Maybe many of us took him at his word and didn’t bother checking google earth?
ChrispenEvan said:
buffy said:
ChrispenEvan said:I mentioned yesterday that if you look at the building on Google Earth you see how much collapsed.
But no-one reads your posts…
I do.
so too do I.
Bubblecar said:
Heading for 11 this end too, slight chance of a shower this evening.Time for a hot breakfast of scrambled eggs & pork sausages, toast, tea.
We et a couple of party pies each while we were at the bakery. We were going to bring the loaf of bread home and eat some of that for breakfast but…party pies! So the bread will be for lunch. Got ham and smoked chicken in the fridge for sammiches.
roughbarked said:
ChrispenEvan said:
buffy said:But no-one reads your posts…
I do.
so too do I.
I do so that with especially annoying ones I can get out the voodoo doll.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-26/us-report-pentagon-ufos-uap-sightings-unexplained/100246210
Well, there’s a surprise…or not.
roughbarked said:
ChrispenEvan said:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-26/week-meltdowns-barnaby-joyce-covid-morrison-absence-unfortunate/100245056All the federal government seems to be able to offer is some new branding: Operation COVID Shield, some ludicrous language about Vaccination Allocation Horizons (no one dare mention targets) and unsatisfactory answers on why we don’t have enough of the vaccines we need to step up our vaccine program to something remotely reflecting much of the rest of the developed world, which has not shared our being an island that made keeping the virus out that much easier.
They are a government in disarray.
They’re a government which lives in perpetual hope that if issues are ignored for long enough, they’ll simply go away. They’re terrified of making any big decisions for fear of making the wrong decision, which might anger their promoters and subsidisers, so they make no decisions at all.
Oh, sure, they can ‘stand firm’ on things like keeping a family imprisoned on an island, piddly things like that to distract the media and its consumers, but they keep well clear of the big things coming over the horizon.
The Nats rolled McCormack while Morrison was absent from the scene, thus making the point that the tail that wags the dog is definitely an independent entity. They demonstrated to the Liberals that they don’t need to consult or co-ordinate with the Liberals, not even the PM, and what are you gonna do about it, huh? Nothing, ‘cos you need us and don’t you forget it.
The Nats have asserted that, along with Rupert and the miners, they are the ones who really run this government, and Morrison et al can do nothing but say ‘yes, sir’.
Witty Rejoinder said:
roughbarked said:
ChrispenEvan said:I do.
so too do I.
I do so that with especially annoying ones I can get out the voodoo doll.
With especially long pins.
buffy said:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-26/us-report-pentagon-ufos-uap-sightings-unexplained/100246210Well, there’s a surprise…or not.
That’s what the U in UFO always meant?
captain_spalding said:
roughbarked said:
ChrispenEvan said:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-26/week-meltdowns-barnaby-joyce-covid-morrison-absence-unfortunate/100245056All the federal government seems to be able to offer is some new branding: Operation COVID Shield, some ludicrous language about Vaccination Allocation Horizons (no one dare mention targets) and unsatisfactory answers on why we don’t have enough of the vaccines we need to step up our vaccine program to something remotely reflecting much of the rest of the developed world, which has not shared our being an island that made keeping the virus out that much easier.
They are a government in disarray.
They’re a government which lives in perpetual hope that if issues are ignored for long enough, they’ll simply go away. They’re terrified of making any big decisions for fear of making the wrong decision, which might anger their promoters and subsidisers, so they make no decisions at all.
Oh, sure, they can ‘stand firm’ on things like keeping a family imprisoned on an island, piddly things like that to distract the media and its consumers, but they keep well clear of the big things coming over the horizon.
The Nats rolled McCormack while Morrison was absent from the scene, thus making the point that the tail that wags the dog is definitely an independent entity. They demonstrated to the Liberals that they don’t need to consult or co-ordinate with the Liberals, not even the PM, and what are you gonna do about it, huh? Nothing, ‘cos you need us and don’t you forget it.
The Nats have asserted that, along with Rupert and the miners, they are the ones who really run this government, and Morrison et al can do nothing but say ‘yes, sir’.
The bottom line is the country is without a responsible government at the worst possible time in its history.
roughbarked said:
monkey skipper said:
roughbarked said:Deliberately avoid watching people die if I can help it..
Hopefully. the video gives some clues as to how and why this happened. I see it as an important piece in the puzzle and I think it is okay to express empathy to strangers you’ve not met and surviving family members you’ve not met.
Yeah.
Without having studied the data, it is clear to me that the whole idea of putting high rises on a beach and then making climate change is inherently stupid. Developers should all be hung drawn and quartered. Swamp fillers are not my favourite people.
It’s ridiculous to blame the developers for doing their job.
Blame the engineers for not being sufficiently vocal in pointing out the dangers of building high rise in a situation like that if you must.
But really, you have to put in place some pretty high grade hind-sight to blame anybody.
(Unless the actual structural design didn’t comply with the standards of the day, which is quite possible).
The Rev Dodgson said:
(Unless the actual structural design didn’t comply with the standards of the day, which is quite possible).
There is, too, always a fair chance that the design was quite adequate, but the construction was rather more…‘economical’, shall we say?
Arts said:
Either way you have to credit the designers that in any event of a collapse that building went straight down and didn’t topple on to another building. The whole area is full of high rise apartments.
Well no.
Ever since Ronan Point in the UK (which was about 10 years before this one) designers are supposed to make sure that a local failure doesn’t bring down a whole building.
The Rev Dodgson said:
roughbarked said:
monkey skipper said:Hopefully. the video gives some clues as to how and why this happened. I see it as an important piece in the puzzle and I think it is okay to express empathy to strangers you’ve not met and surviving family members you’ve not met.
Yeah.
Without having studied the data, it is clear to me that the whole idea of putting high rises on a beach and then making climate change is inherently stupid. Developers should all be hung drawn and quartered. Swamp fillers are not my favourite people.
It’s ridiculous to blame the developers for doing their job.
Blame the engineers for not being sufficiently vocal in pointing out the dangers of building high rise in a situation like that if you must.
But really, you have to put in place some pretty high grade hind-sight to blame anybody.
(Unless the actual structural design didn’t comply with the standards of the day, which is quite possible).
The latter is the general shortcut to putting more development.
captain_spalding said:
The Rev Dodgson said:(Unless the actual structural design didn’t comply with the standards of the day, which is quite possible).
There is, too, always a fair chance that the design was quite adequate, but the construction was rather more…‘economical’, shall we say?
ditto
The Rev Dodgson said:
Arts said:
Either way you have to credit the designers that in any event of a collapse that building went straight down and didn’t topple on to another building. The whole area is full of high rise apartments.
Well no.
Ever since Ronan Point in the UK (which was about 10 years before this one) designers are supposed to make sure that a local failure doesn’t bring down a whole building.
This be true.
roughbarked said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
roughbarked said:Yeah.
Without having studied the data, it is clear to me that the whole idea of putting high rises on a beach and then making climate change is inherently stupid. Developers should all be hung drawn and quartered. Swamp fillers are not my favourite people.
It’s ridiculous to blame the developers for doing their job.
Blame the engineers for not being sufficiently vocal in pointing out the dangers of building high rise in a situation like that if you must.
But really, you have to put in place some pretty high grade hind-sight to blame anybody.
(Unless the actual structural design didn’t comply with the standards of the day, which is quite possible).
The latter is the general shortcut to putting more development.
No, it isn’t.
roughbarked said:
captain_spalding said:
The Rev Dodgson said:(Unless the actual structural design didn’t comply with the standards of the day, which is quite possible).
There is, too, always a fair chance that the design was quite adequate, but the construction was rather more…‘economical’, shall we say?
ditto
I still think it is simply that the watertable has weakened the footings and the other weaknesses in forethought design and construction, all show up to join the party.
The Rev Dodgson said:
roughbarked said:
The Rev Dodgson said:It’s ridiculous to blame the developers for doing their job.
Blame the engineers for not being sufficiently vocal in pointing out the dangers of building high rise in a situation like that if you must.
But really, you have to put in place some pretty high grade hind-sight to blame anybody.
(Unless the actual structural design didn’t comply with the standards of the day, which is quite possible).
The latter is the general shortcut to putting more development.
No, it isn’t.
I dunno. How many swamps have been filled to put developments on? It is like the demand pushes the limits?
I think that somebody in the building knew too much and had to be got rid of in an “accident”.
ChrispenEvan said:
I think that somebody in the building knew too much and had to be got rid of in an “accident”.
Any minute now there should be ‘actual footage’ of a missile or an airliner striking the building popping up on the usual sites.
Here is Laura Tingle for this week. I haven’t read it yet. I’ve got washing to hang out. And I’m going to make some Paris sticks biscuits. I like Paris sticks.
ChrispenEvan said:
I think that somebody in the building knew too much and had to be got rid of in an “accident”.
:) Always a possibility. Quite the dramatic accident to arrange though. The cops would call it a sophisticated plot.
captain_spalding said:
ChrispenEvan said:
I think that somebody in the building knew too much and had to be got rid of in an “accident”.
Any minute now there should be ‘actual footage’ of a missile or an airliner striking the building popping up on the usual sites.
Wait until they find a plane engine in the rubble?
buffy said:
Here is Laura Tingle for this week. I haven’t read it yet. I’ve got washing to hang out. And I’m going to make some Paris sticks biscuits. I like Paris sticks.
doesn’t look a bit like her.
roughbarked said:
I dunno. How many swamps have been filled to put developments on? It is like the demand pushes the limits?
Mrs S likes those ‘house hunter’ shows on the 9Life channel.
So many of the people who buy home units (‘condos’) in the south-eastern seaboard US talk about the great view of the water. So often ‘the water’ is a fetid, bug-ridden, snake-infested swamp just outside the fence.
Then you think ‘today it’s a swamp. In ten years time – more ‘condos’!’.
ChrispenEvan said:
buffy said:
Here is Laura Tingle for this week. I haven’t read it yet. I’ve got washing to hang out. And I’m going to make some Paris sticks biscuits. I like Paris sticks.
doesn’t look a bit like her.
Oh I don’t know.
Middle bottom row has a bit of the Laura wry smile.
ChrispenEvan said:
buffy said:
Here is Laura Tingle for this week. I haven’t read it yet. I’ve got washing to hang out. And I’m going to make some Paris sticks biscuits. I like Paris sticks.
doesn’t look a bit like her.
Have you seen Laura lately?
captain_spalding said:
ChrispenEvan said:
buffy said:
Here is Laura Tingle for this week. I haven’t read it yet. I’ve got washing to hang out. And I’m going to make some Paris sticks biscuits. I like Paris sticks.
doesn’t look a bit like her.
Have you seen Laura lately?
She’s had a couple of bad hair mornings.
Bubblecar said:
Heading for 11 this end too, slight chance of a shower this evening.Time for a hot breakfast of scrambled eggs & pork sausages, toast, tea.
Verdict: smashing breakfast. If Dan the YouTube take-away man had set his little table on my porch and been served this, he’d have given it a full 10.
Mind you he’s not exactly a harsh marker.
buffy said:
Here is Laura Tingle for this week. I haven’t read it yet. I’ve got washing to hang out. And I’m going to make some Paris sticks biscuits. I like Paris sticks.
most likely this article
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-26/week-meltdowns-barnaby-joyce-covid-morrison-absence-unfortunate/100245056
which I posted earlier.
:-)
ChrispenEvan said:
buffy said:
Here is Laura Tingle for this week. I haven’t read it yet. I’ve got washing to hang out. And I’m going to make some Paris sticks biscuits. I like Paris sticks.
most likely this article
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-26/week-meltdowns-barnaby-joyce-covid-morrison-absence-unfortunate/100245056
which I posted earlier.
:-)
Yes. You did.
buffy said:
Here is Laura Tingle for this week. I haven’t read it yet. I’ve got washing to hang out. And I’m going to make some Paris sticks biscuits. I like Paris sticks.
Whoops…here is Laura:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-26/week-meltdowns-barnaby-joyce-covid-morrison-absence-unfortunate/100245056
buffy said:
buffy said:
Here is Laura Tingle for this week. I haven’t read it yet. I’ve got washing to hang out. And I’m going to make some Paris sticks biscuits. I like Paris sticks.
Whoops…here is Laura:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-26/week-meltdowns-barnaby-joyce-covid-morrison-absence-unfortunate/100245056
Ah, I didn’t realize it had been posted earlier. I’ve been dribs and drabsing in here this morning. Now got those jeans to hang out and then on to the biscuits. Excuse my topsy turvy posts this morning.
buffy said:
buffy said:
buffy said:
Here is Laura Tingle for this week. I haven’t read it yet. I’ve got washing to hang out. And I’m going to make some Paris sticks biscuits. I like Paris sticks.
Whoops…here is Laura:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-26/week-meltdowns-barnaby-joyce-covid-morrison-absence-unfortunate/100245056
Ah, I didn’t realize it had been posted earlier. I’ve been dribs and drabsing in here this morning. Now got those jeans to hang out and then on to the biscuits. Excuse my topsy turvy posts this morning.
The bikkies messed up your schedule? They looks tasy. :)
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-26/cultural-burning-to-protect-from-catastrophic-bushfires/100241046
buffy said:
buffy said:
buffy said:
Here is Laura Tingle for this week. I haven’t read it yet. I’ve got washing to hang out. And I’m going to make some Paris sticks biscuits. I like Paris sticks.
Whoops…here is Laura:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-26/week-meltdowns-barnaby-joyce-covid-morrison-absence-unfortunate/100245056
Ah, I didn’t realize it had been posted earlier. I’ve been dribs and drabsing in here this morning. Now got those jeans to hang out and then on to the biscuits. Excuse my topsy turvy posts this morning.
as long as sibeen keeps reading my posts I am happy.
ChrispenEvan said:
I think that somebody in the building knew too much and had to be got rid of in an “accident”.
Maybe the structure was full of concrete cancer.
The man on the news said the structure was only 70 years old.
buffy said:
ChrispenEvan said:
Arts said:From what I have read… age; environment; local disturbance (construction in the area).
From what I see it kind of looks like flashes before the collapse… but I’m no demolition expert those flashes could be anything. But I didn’t realise how much of the building collapsed until about three minutes ago.
I mentioned yesterday that if you look at the building on Google Earth you see how much collapsed.
But no-one reads your posts…
Hehehehe
roughbarked said:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-26/cultural-burning-to-protect-from-catastrophic-bushfires/100241046
Garbage, they’ve been banging on about this crap for years now and look where it’s got us ¡
Like how long have first nationalists been culturally burning, thousands, tens of thousands of years ¿
They’ve had plenty of time to get it right and is it stopping these huge bushfires ¿ No ¿ Funny that ¡
Table runner the immediately younger sister made for Wilde’s antiques, printed with kokeshi (Japanese wooden dolls).
Bubblecar said:
Table runner the immediately younger sister made for Wilde’s antiques, printed with kokeshi (Japanese wooden dolls).
Adds a splash of colours.
like empire, like empire
roughbarked said:
buffy said:
buffy said:Whoops…here is Laura:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-26/week-meltdowns-barnaby-joyce-covid-morrison-absence-unfortunate/100245056
Ah, I didn’t realize it had been posted earlier. I’ve been dribs and drabsing in here this morning. Now got those jeans to hang out and then on to the biscuits. Excuse my topsy turvy posts this morning.
The bikkies messed up your schedule? They looks tasy. :)
I haven’t actually got to the biscuits yet. About to start. There was washing up, damp clothes off line onto inside clothes horse, feed the chooks, hang out jeans wash, pick lemons that I promised to someone last night. Now I can do biscuits.
buffy said:
roughbarked said:
buffy said:Ah, I didn’t realize it had been posted earlier. I’ve been dribs and drabsing in here this morning. Now got those jeans to hang out and then on to the biscuits. Excuse my topsy turvy posts this morning.
The bikkies messed up your schedule? They looks tasy. :)
I haven’t actually got to the biscuits yet. About to start. There was washing up, damp clothes off line onto inside clothes horse, feed the chooks, hang out jeans wash, pick lemons that I promised to someone last night. Now I can do biscuits.
You are a busy lass. I recall one friend saying, “If you want something done, ask a busy person”.
buffy said:
roughbarked said:I’ll have some bikkies even though they’ll ruin my ketosis.buffy said:I haven’t actually got to the biscuits yet. About to start. There was washing up, damp clothes off line onto inside clothes horse, feed the chooks, hang out jeans wash, pick lemons that I promised to someone last night. Now I can do biscuits.Ah, I didn’t realize it had been posted earlier. I’ve been dribs and drabsing in here this morning. Now got those jeans to hang out and then on to the biscuits. Excuse my topsy turvy posts this morning.The bikkies messed up your schedule? They looks tasy. :)
Bubblecar said:
Table runner the immediately younger sister made for Wilde’s antiques, printed with kokeshi (Japanese wooden dolls).
:)
Morning punters and correctors.
I turned on the telly before and Baldrick was vandalising the countryside on two channels.
OCDC said:
buffy said:roughbarked said:I’ll have some bikkies even though they’ll ruin my ketosis.The bikkies messed up your schedule? They looks tasy. :)I haven’t actually got to the biscuits yet. About to start. There was washing up, damp clothes off line onto inside clothes horse, feed the chooks, hang out jeans wash, pick lemons that I promised to someone last night. Now I can do biscuits.
They will do that.
Have kimchi instead.
OCDC said:
buffy said:roughbarked said:I’ll have some bikkies even though they’ll ruin my ketosis.The bikkies messed up your schedule? They looks tasy. :)I haven’t actually got to the biscuits yet. About to start. There was washing up, damp clothes off line onto inside clothes horse, feed the chooks, hang out jeans wash, pick lemons that I promised to someone last night. Now I can do biscuits.
First two trays in the oven now. I seem to be making dainty ones. That’s OK. They will have jam and chocolate and two bikkies per bikkie.
Peak Warming Man said:
Morning punters and correctors.
I turned on the telly before and Baldrick was vandalising the countryside on two channels.
All part of the cunning plan.
Michael V said:
OCDC said:I have an array of snacks to get me through my day but those bikkies looked very tempting.buffy said:They will do that.I haven’t actually got to the biscuits yet. About to start. There was washing up, damp clothes off line onto inside clothes horse, feed the chooks, hang out jeans wash, pick lemons that I promised to someone last night. Now I can do biscuits.I’ll have some bikkies even though they’ll ruin my ketosis.
Have kimchi instead.
And it’s working – 4.2 kg in 3 weeks, so I’m happy. I’ve undone all the feeding my emotions damage my last workplace bullies caused.
OCDC said:
And it’s working – 4.2 kg in 3 weeks, so I’m happy. I’ve undone all the feeding my emotions damage my last workplace bullies caused.
Good on you.
Pity about the bullies.
OCDC said:
And it’s working – 4.2 kg in 3 weeks, so I’m happy. I’ve undone all the feeding my emotions damage my last workplace bullies caused.
Congratulations.
I need to lose ten times that amount.
Michael V said:
OCDC said:I escalated. They were spoken to. I left.And it’s working – 4.2 kg in 3 weeks, so I’m happy. I’ve undone all the feeding my emotions damage my last workplace bullies caused.Good on you.
Pity about the bullies.
Bubblecar said:
OCDC said:I needed to lose 4.76 times that amount so still plenty to go.And it’s working – 4.2 kg in 3 weeks, so I’m happy. I’ve undone all the feeding my emotions damage my last workplace bullies caused.Congratulations.
I need to lose ten times that amount.
OCDC said:
Michael V said:OCDC said:I escalated. They were spoken to. I left.And it’s working – 4.2 kg in 3 weeks, so I’m happy. I’ve undone all the feeding my emotions damage my last workplace bullies caused.Good on you.
Pity about the bullies.
Good4U :)
OCDC said:
Bubblecar said:OCDC said:I needed to lose 4.76 times that amount so still plenty to go.And it’s working – 4.2 kg in 3 weeks, so I’m happy. I’ve undone all the feeding my emotions damage my last workplace bullies caused.Congratulations.
I need to lose ten times that amount.
I only need to drop 14kg.
OCDC said:
Michael V said:OCDC said:I escalated. They were spoken to. I left.And it’s working – 4.2 kg in 3 weeks, so I’m happy. I’ve undone all the feeding my emotions damage my last workplace bullies caused.Good on you.
Pity about the bullies.
Good on you for the escalation.
OCDC said:
Bubblecar said:OCDC said:I needed to lose 4.76 times that amount so still plenty to go.And it’s working – 4.2 kg in 3 weeks, so I’m happy. I’ve undone all the feeding my emotions damage my last workplace bullies caused.Congratulations.
I need to lose ten times that amount.
You’re doing very well so far, keep it going.
I’ve got to make a proper start and stop being interrupted by various festivities.
Michael V said:
OCDC said:First I found a job for this year. Then their bullying escalated and I had weeks off work due to mental health issues. But it got so bad I would have done it even without a job for this year.Michael V said:Good on you for the escalation.Good on you.I escalated. They were spoken to. I left.Pity about the bullies.
Bubblecar said:
OCDC said:Optifast is my friend. If you stick to it (three VLCD products + 2 cups of vegies per day), the ketosis really does kick in and suppress the appetite.Bubblecar said:You’re doing very well so far, keep it going.Congratulations.I needed to lose 4.76 times that amount so still plenty to go.I need to lose ten times that amount.
I’ve got to make a proper start and stop being interrupted by various festivities.
roughbarked said:
OCDC said:
Bubblecar said:Congratulations.I needed to lose 4.76 times that amount so still plenty to go.I need to lose ten times that amount.
I only need to drop 14kg.
After a little over 3 years I finally regained my pre illness weight.
OCDC said:
Bubblecar said:OCDC said:Optifast is my friend. If you stick to it (three VLCD products + 2 cups of vegies per day), the ketosis really does kick in and suppress the appetite.I needed to lose 4.76 times that amount so still plenty to go.You’re doing very well so far, keep it going.
I’ve got to make a proper start and stop being interrupted by various festivities.
What’s a VLCD?
roughbarked said:
OCDC said:Very low calorie diet (<800 cal / day)Bubblecar said:What’s a VLCD?You’re doing very well so far, keep it going.Optifast is my friend. If you stick to it (three VLCD products + 2 cups of vegies per day), the ketosis really does kick in and suppress the appetite.I’ve got to make a proper start and stop being interrupted by various festivities.
Morning Saturdays. :)
20.9C & 59% indoors
16.5C & 81% outdoors
1021 hPa and steady
It’s a quite day to day. Quite cloudy, and quite frankly, no breeze at all. Moolies? Well to put it quitely. None.
Headed for 19C
Adam Bandt tells me there could be an election within 50 days.
Why would there be an election so soon?
Anyone else heard this rumoured?
OCDC said:
roughbarked said:OCDC said:Very low calorie diet (<800 cal / day)Optifast is my friend. If you stick to it (three VLCD products + 2 cups of vegies per day), the ketosis really does kick in and suppress the appetite.What’s a VLCD?
I never measure but I’d need more than that because I’m quite physically active for my age.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Adam Bandt tells me there could be an election within 50 days.Why would there be an election so soon?
Anyone else heard this rumoured?
Probably wishful thinking but it could well be.. Barnaby is a cesspool.
roughbarked said:
OCDC said:
roughbarked said:What’s a VLCD?Very low calorie diet (<800 cal / day)
I never measure but I’d need more than that because I’m quite physically active for my age.
Meant to put a ?
The Rev Dodgson said:
Adam Bandt tells me there could be an election within 50 days.Why would there be an election so soon?
Anyone else heard this rumoured?
Is he your neighbour or sumifn’?
The Rev Dodgson said:
Adam Bandt tells me there could be an election within 50 days.Why would there be an election so soon?
Anyone else heard this rumoured?
Yeah but he’s nuts.
Woodie said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Adam Bandt tells me there could be an election within 50 days.Why would there be an election so soon?
Anyone else heard this rumoured?
Is he your neighbour or sumifn’?
We’re all virtual neighbours in this new age :)
Hate to be a bore but I’m going to have to take my leave and go back to bed. Can barely keep my eyes open.
Bubblecar said:
Hate to be a bore but I’m going to have to take my leave and go back to bed. Can barely keep my eyes open.
You’re like an old old man, you are. Gets up, eats breakfast, goes back to bed.
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
Hate to be a bore but I’m going to have to take my leave and go back to bed. Can barely keep my eyes open.
You’re like an old old man, you are. Gets up, eats breakfast, goes back to bed.
More like a baby.
roughbarked said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Adam Bandt tells me there could be an election within 50 days.Why would there be an election so soon?
Anyone else heard this rumoured?
Probably wishful thinking but it could well be.. Barnaby is a cesspool.
Maybe the Libs are keen to get it over and done with before BJ and his gang throw too much shit about the place.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Woodie said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Adam Bandt tells me there could be an election within 50 days.Why would there be an election so soon?
Anyone else heard this rumoured?
Is he your neighbour or sumifn’?
We’re all virtual neighbours in this new age :)
isn’t it six degrees?
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
Hate to be a bore but I’m going to have to take my leave and go back to bed. Can barely keep my eyes open.
You’re like an old old man, you are. Gets up, eats breakfast, goes back to bed.
We prefer the term ‘leisured’.
captain_spalding said:
roughbarked said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Adam Bandt tells me there could be an election within 50 days.Why would there be an election so soon?
Anyone else heard this rumoured?
Probably wishful thinking but it could well be.. Barnaby is a cesspool.
Maybe the Libs are keen to get it over and done with before BJ and his gang throw too much shit about the place.
The thought did cross my mind.
captain_spalding said:
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
Hate to be a bore but I’m going to have to take my leave and go back to bed. Can barely keep my eyes open.
You’re like an old old man, you are. Gets up, eats breakfast, goes back to bed.
We prefer the term ‘leisured’.
at liesure = who gives a rats?
Raining here.
Not displeased, got all my garden stuff done last weekend.
Put some things away in the shed to make some working room, cut out timber plugs to go over screw heads in a blanket box, glued them in place. Good task for a wet day.
OCDC said:
Bubblecar said:OCDC said:Optifast is my friend. If you stick to it (three VLCD products + 2 cups of vegies per day), the ketosis really does kick in and suppress the appetite.I needed to lose 4.76 times that amount so still plenty to go.You’re doing very well so far, keep it going.
I’ve got to make a proper start and stop being interrupted by various festivities.
But should only be done under medical supervision.
buffy said:
OCDC said:Please be seated.Bubblecar said:But should only be done under medical supervision.You’re doing very well so far, keep it going.Optifast is my friend. If you stick to it (three VLCD products + 2 cups of vegies per day), the ketosis really does kick in and suppress the appetite.I’ve got to make a proper start and stop being interrupted by various festivities.
Amazingly my last bloods were practically normal! Although we didn’t do lipids…
OCDC said:
buffy said:OCDC said:Please be seated.Optifast is my friend. If you stick to it (three VLCD products + 2 cups of vegies per day), the ketosis really does kick in and suppress the appetite.But should only be done under medical supervision.
Amazingly my last bloods were practically normal! Although we didn’t do lipids…
Would you like to know my biscuits are now done? Jammed and chocolated. I used a mix of dark chocolate melts and couverture. Is yum.
captain_spalding said:
roughbarked said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Adam Bandt tells me there could be an election within 50 days.Why would there be an election so soon?
Anyone else heard this rumoured?
Probably wishful thinking but it could well be.. Barnaby is a cesspool.
Maybe the Libs are keen to get it over and done with before BJ and his gang throw too much shit about the place.
Maybe there’s another scandal brewing somewhere and people will be under pressure to resign. If anyone goes it will force by-elections. By-election results could trigger a change of government, the Morrison government have only the slimmest majority.
buffy said:
OCDC said:No, I would not like to know! I am being strong!buffy said:Would you like to know my biscuits are now done? Jammed and chocolated. I used a mix of dark chocolate melts and couverture. Is yum.But should only be done under medical supervision.Please be seated.
Amazingly my last bloods were practically normal! Although we didn’t do lipids…
I had big ambitions last year for my weight loss, got my BMI down from 33 to 28 and kind of went “That’ll do, pig” so that’s kind of where it stayed. Still hope to get i within the nominal range one day.
party_pants said:
captain_spalding said:“Maybe”??roughbarked said:Maybe there’s another scandal brewing somewhere and people will be under pressure to resign. If anyone goes it will force by-elections. By-election results could trigger a change of government, the Morrison government have only the slimmest majority.Probably wishful thinking but it could well be.. Barnaby is a cesspool.Maybe the Libs are keen to get it over and done with before BJ and his gang throw too much shit about the place.
CATS: Ha ha ha ha
dv said:
I had big ambitions last year for my weight loss, got my BMI down from 33 to 28 and kind of went “That’ll do, pig” so that’s kind of where it stayed. Still hope to get i within the nominal range one day.I wish to be unfat for my 40th birthday (January).
party_pants said:
Maybe there’s another scandal brewing somewhere and people will be under pressure to resign. If anyone goes it will force by-elections. By-election results could trigger a change of government, the Morrison government have only the slimmest majority.
Now, how could that possibly be?
That scenario would suggest that the govt/party/PM know about what’s going on around the place, and as recent events have shown, they know nothing about anything, even when it’s happening just down the hall from their offices.
buffy said:
OCDC said:
buffy said:But should only be done under medical supervision.Please be seated.
Amazingly my last bloods were practically normal! Although we didn’t do lipids…
Would you like to know my biscuits are now done? Jammed and chocolated. I used a mix of dark chocolate melts and couverture. Is yum.
With it being winter those chocolate ones would probably travel alright in Postit bag.
captain_spalding said:
Raining here.Not displeased, got all my garden stuff done last weekend.
Put some things away in the shed to make some working room, cut out timber plugs to go over screw heads in a blanket box, glued them in place. Good task for a wet day.
Let’s fast forward many years and go to the tape.
Let FP = Future Person.
FP1-: What’s this?
FP2-: Looks like some antique box to hold blankets.
FP1-: Yeah but HTF does it go together, there’s no screws.
FP 2
Peak Warming Man said:
buffy said:
OCDC said:
Please be seated.Amazingly my last bloods were practically normal! Although we didn’t do lipids…
Would you like to know my biscuits are now done? Jammed and chocolated. I used a mix of dark chocolate melts and couverture. Is yum.
With it being winter those chocolate ones would probably travel alright in Postit bag.
got to get passed Mr. Buffy first
kryten said:
Peak Warming Man said:Think of your BGLs!buffy said:got to get passed Mr. Buffy firstWould you like to know my biscuits are now done? Jammed and chocolated. I used a mix of dark chocolate melts and couverture. Is yum.With it being winter those chocolate ones would probably travel alright in Postit bag.
Peak Warming Man said:
captain_spalding said:
Raining here.Not displeased, got all my garden stuff done last weekend.
Put some things away in the shed to make some working room, cut out timber plugs to go over screw heads in a blanket box, glued them in place. Good task for a wet day.
Let’s fast forward many years and go to the tape.
Let FP = Future Person.FP1-: What’s this?
FP2-: Looks like some antique box to hold blankets.
FP1-: Yeah but HTF does it go together, there’s no screws.
FP 2
I could make a box that has no screws, or places where screws go/are, visible.
On this one, the screws inserted from the outside will be covered by 40mm wide strips of Tasmanian oak/mountain ash veneer that i cut on the table saw, so they won’t be visible.
The screws on the inside…meh, cover the countersunk heads with plugs, sand smooth.
OCDC said:
roughbarked said:OCDC said:Very low calorie diet (<800 cal / day)Optifast is my friend. If you stick to it (three VLCD products + 2 cups of vegies per day), the ketosis really does kick in and suppress the appetite.What’s a VLCD?
apparently doing exercise could get ketosis going too and has the bonus of eating as much as one wants and building metabolically active tissues
OCDC said:
kryten said:Peak Warming Man said:Think of your BGLs!With it being winter those chocolate ones would probably travel alright in Postit bag.got to get passed Mr. Buffy first
That;s what my GP is for
I have seen things like boxes that are made entirely without screws or nails, but i ain’t that good.
SCIENCE said:
OCDC said:Allow me to switch on my webcam temporarily.roughbarked said:apparently doing exercise could get ketosis going too and has the bonus of eating as much as one wants and building metabolically active tissuesWhat’s a VLCD?Very low calorie diet (<800 cal / day)
captain_spalding said:
Peak Warming Man said:
captain_spalding said:
Raining here.Not displeased, got all my garden stuff done last weekend.
Put some things away in the shed to make some working room, cut out timber plugs to go over screw heads in a blanket box, glued them in place. Good task for a wet day.
Let’s fast forward many years and go to the tape.
Let FP = Future Person.FP1-: What’s this?
FP2-: Looks like some antique box to hold blankets.
FP1-: Yeah but HTF does it go together, there’s no screws.
FP 2
I could make a box that has no screws, or places where screws go/are, visible.
On this one, the screws inserted from the outside will be covered by 40mm wide strips of Tasmanian oak/mountain ash veneer that i cut on the table saw, so they won’t be visible.
The screws on the inside…meh, cover the countersunk heads with plugs, sand smooth.
I like to dowel or biscuit joint things.
captain_spalding said:
I have seen things like boxes that are made entirely without screws or nails, but i ain’t that good.
Dove tails.
party_pants said:
captain_spalding said:
Peak Warming Man said:Let’s fast forward many years and go to the tape.
Let FP = Future Person.FP1-: What’s this?
FP2-: Looks like some antique box to hold blankets.
FP1-: Yeah but HTF does it go together, there’s no screws.
FP 2
I could make a box that has no screws, or places where screws go/are, visible.
On this one, the screws inserted from the outside will be covered by 40mm wide strips of Tasmanian oak/mountain ash veneer that i cut on the table saw, so they won’t be visible.
The screws on the inside…meh, cover the countersunk heads with plugs, sand smooth.
I like to dowel or biscuit joint things.
You’ll need to check with Ms Buffy about the biscuit thing.
OCDC said:
SCIENCE said:OCDC said:Allow me to switch on my webcam temporarily.Very low calorie diet (<800 cal / day)apparently doing exercise could get ketosis going too and has the bonus of eating as much as one wants and building metabolically active tissues
time to wire up some TENS longterm
party_pants said:
I like to dowel or biscuit joint things.
Yeah, i’ve done things with dowel-and-glue joints between planks, and that’s very nice, but some things seem to need a little more structural back up.
Things like blanket boxes, where you just know that people are going to at least sit on them, if not stand on them, at some stage.
SCIENCE said:
OCDC said:Worth considering.SCIENCE said:time to wire up some TENS longtermapparently doing exercise could get ketosis going too and has the bonus of eating as much as one wants and building metabolically active tissuesAllow me to switch on my webcam temporarily.
Blessed are the completists
party_pants said:
captain_spalding said:
Peak Warming Man said:Let’s fast forward many years and go to the tape.
Let FP = Future Person.FP1-: What’s this?
FP2-: Looks like some antique box to hold blankets.
FP1-: Yeah but HTF does it go together, there’s no screws.
FP 2
I could make a box that has no screws, or places where screws go/are, visible.
On this one, the screws inserted from the outside will be covered by 40mm wide strips of Tasmanian oak/mountain ash veneer that i cut on the table saw, so they won’t be visible.
The screws on the inside…meh, cover the countersunk heads with plugs, sand smooth.
I like to dowel or biscuit joint things.
biscuits for panels. proper joints for joining stuff. M&T or dovetails.
dv said:
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Blessed are the completists
I’ve seen some Master Mined programmes on SBS where some people know bugger all about their special subject.
I recon you’d ace Dr. Who.
captain_spalding said:
party_pants said:I like to dowel or biscuit joint things.
Yeah, i’ve done things with dowel-and-glue joints between planks, and that’s very nice, but some things seem to need a little more structural back up.
Things like blanket boxes, where you just know that people are going to at least sit on them, if not stand on them, at some stage.
I try to design things so that joints in one direction are held in place with locking pieces at right angles.
Peak Warming Man said:
dv said:
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Blessed are the completists
I’ve seen some Master Mined programmes on SBS where some people know bugger all about their special subject.
I recon you’d ace Dr. Who.
I’d Dorothy McShane that joint
ChrispenEvan said:
party_pants said:
captain_spalding said:I could make a box that has no screws, or places where screws go/are, visible.
On this one, the screws inserted from the outside will be covered by 40mm wide strips of Tasmanian oak/mountain ash veneer that i cut on the table saw, so they won’t be visible.
The screws on the inside…meh, cover the countersunk heads with plugs, sand smooth.
I like to dowel or biscuit joint things.
biscuits for panels. proper joints for joining stuff. M&T or dovetails.
I have never attempted a dovetail. Mortise and tenons are pretty simple to do but I don’t use them all that often.
dv said:
Peak Warming Man said:
dv said:
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Blessed are the completists
I’ve seen some Master Mined programmes on SBS where some people know bugger all about their special subject.
I recon you’d ace Dr. Who.
I’d Dorothy McShane that joint
Yeah for sure.
thumb thumb….d thumb thumb…………do….thumb thumb……..dor…………………..
party_pants said:
ChrispenEvan said:
party_pants said:I like to dowel or biscuit joint things.
biscuits for panels. proper joints for joining stuff. M&T or dovetails.
I have never attempted a dovetail. Mortise and tenons are pretty simple to do but I don’t use them all that often.
I have a bought jig for dovetails and a homemade one for M&Ts. That 8 drawer unit was made using those two jigs.
party_pants said:
I try to design things so that joints in one direction are held in place with locking pieces at right angles.
I can dig that, but i’m no craftsman, and i’m trying to keep it simple and comparatively quick without it being nasty-looking. I may have to do this sort of thing for money, if the funds for the impending retirement prove to be a little less than desired.
Woodie said:
party_pants said:
captain_spalding said:I could make a box that has no screws, or places where screws go/are, visible.
On this one, the screws inserted from the outside will be covered by 40mm wide strips of Tasmanian oak/mountain ash veneer that i cut on the table saw, so they won’t be visible.
The screws on the inside…meh, cover the countersunk heads with plugs, sand smooth.
I like to dowel or biscuit joint things.
You’ll need to check with Ms Buffy about the biscuit thing.
Should be OK if the oven temp is right…
dv said:
Peak Warming Man said:
dv said:
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Blessed are the completists
I’ve seen some Master Mined programmes on SBS where some people know bugger all about their special subject.
I recon you’d ace Dr. Who.
I’d Dorothy McShane that joint
Ha!
:)
Michael V said:
dv said:
Peak Warming Man said:I’ve seen some Master Mined programmes on SBS where some people know bugger all about their special subject.
I recon you’d ace Dr. Who.
I’d Dorothy McShane that joint
Ha!
:)
I had to check that one. We are watching the Capaldi episodes currently on offer at the ABC. That actress looks very similar to the Osgood actress.
OK, going to watch last night’s Planet America now.
Back later.
(Also going to sample a biscuit, make sure they taste good)
buffy said:
OK, going to watch last night’s Planet America now.I have refused to watch that show since they brushed aside rampant sexual harassment in the 80s and 90s as just being “different times”.Back later.
(Also going to sample a biscuit, make sure they taste good)
https://www.realestate.com.au/property-house-tas-granton-136615002
I might buy a lotto ticket next weekend.
ChrispenEvan said:
party_pants said:
ChrispenEvan said:biscuits for panels. proper joints for joining stuff. M&T or dovetails.
I have never attempted a dovetail. Mortise and tenons are pretty simple to do but I don’t use them all that often.
I have a bought jig for dovetails and a homemade one for M&Ts. That 8 drawer unit was made using those two jigs.
You clever well heeled person.
sarahs mum said:
https://www.realestate.com.au/property-house-tas-granton-136615002I might buy a lotto ticket next weekend.
Not for me that place.
roughbarked said:
sarahs mum said:
https://www.realestate.com.au/property-house-tas-granton-136615002I might buy a lotto ticket next weekend.
Not for me that place.
Might be for you.
buffy said:
Michael V said:
dv said:I’d Dorothy McShane that joint
Ha!
:)
I had to check that one. We are watching the Capaldi episodes currently on offer at the ABC. That actress looks very similar to the Osgood actress.
But it isn’t called HARD QUIZ for nuthin’.
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:
sarahs mum said:
https://www.realestate.com.au/property-house-tas-granton-136615002I might buy a lotto ticket next weekend.
Not for me that place.
Might be for you.
It does have a lot of being surrounded by trucks and traffic. Great view. Good project. I do wonder why we werent told what the inside of the old house looks like.
sarahs mum said:
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:Not for me that place.
Might be for you.
It does have a lot of being surrounded by trucks and traffic. Great view. Good project. I do wonder why we werent told what the inside of the old house looks like.
It has a pretend ye olde façade. all the rest is pure Aussie, corrugated iron tin roof, rusty caravan in yard, etc etc.
Peak Warming Man said:
sarahs mum said:
roughbarked said:Might be for you.
It does have a lot of being surrounded by trucks and traffic. Great view. Good project. I do wonder why we werent told what the inside of the old house looks like.
It has a pretend ye olde façade. all the rest is pure Aussie, corrugated iron tin roof, rusty caravan in yard, etc etc.
but it is genuine ye olde.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Adam Bandt tells me there could be an election within 50 days.Why would there be an election so soon?
Anyone else heard this rumoured?
my runes when cast say 80 days.
All the signs are there. a spill for nationals. The liberals acting like they like people and are caring.
Massive human head in Chinese well forces scientists to rethink evolution
‘Dragon man’ skull reveals new branch of family tree more closely related to modern humans than Neanderthals
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/jun/25/massive-human-head-in-chinese-well-forces-scientists-to-rethink-evolution
——
The Heartbreaking Truth Behind The “Atacama Alien”
https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/new-research-team-points-out-flaws-in-the-recent-alien-mummy-analysis/all/
sarahs mum said:
https://www.realestate.com.au/property-house-tas-granton-136615002I might buy a lotto ticket next weekend.
Needs some pictures of inside the old building. And inside the brick house too, come to that. And you’d have to be younger than I am to contemplate that amount of work, I think.
roughbarked said:
buffy said:
Michael V said:Ha!
:)
I had to check that one. We are watching the Capaldi episodes currently on offer at the ABC. That actress looks very similar to the Osgood actress.
But it isn’t called HARD QUIZ for nuthin’.
What?
buffy said:
sarahs mum said:
https://www.realestate.com.au/property-house-tas-granton-136615002I might buy a lotto ticket next weekend.
Needs some pictures of inside the old building. And inside the brick house too, come to that. And you’d have to be younger than I am to contemplate that amount of work, I think.
It is definitely only for a lotto win.
How much do rainbows weigh?
Not much; they’re pretty light.
Bubblecar said:
dv said:
I’m going through this year’s Classic top 100 which was based around “Music you can’t live without”.Nothing too eyebrow raising except number 3: Ralph Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending.
My boy Elgar got three in the 100.
5) Enigma Variations
14) Cello Concerto
81) Pomp and CircumstancesThis seems about right.
Beethoven got ten in the 100, including the top two, and five in the top 20.
JS Bach got 7.
Dvorak got 1, New World Symphony, though I prefer his Cello Concerto.
Mozart got 6, but only one in the top 20, which was Clarinet Concerto in A major.Brahms, nothing. Tough comp.
Sorry, but I hate those mindless Classic FM popularity polls and pay zero attention to them.
fair enough
dv said:
Bubblecar said:
dv said:
I’m going through this year’s Classic top 100 which was based around “Music you can’t live without”.Nothing too eyebrow raising except number 3: Ralph Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending.
My boy Elgar got three in the 100.
5) Enigma Variations
14) Cello Concerto
81) Pomp and CircumstancesThis seems about right.
Beethoven got ten in the 100, including the top two, and five in the top 20.
JS Bach got 7.
Dvorak got 1, New World Symphony, though I prefer his Cello Concerto.
Mozart got 6, but only one in the top 20, which was Clarinet Concerto in A major.Brahms, nothing. Tough comp.
Sorry, but I hate those mindless Classic FM popularity polls and pay zero attention to them.
fair enough
Bach 7, Dvorak 1
Mozart 6, Brahms nil
I see some relegations to the lower divisions on the horizon. What’s your take on it, Macca?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2021-06-20/acacia-name-debate-botany-taxonomy-africa-australia-plants/100221938
PermeateFree said:
Oh no…MV, avert your eyes!
ennio at 12. and not the good the bad and the ugly. like the new world and planets.
ChrispenEvan said:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2021-06-20/acacia-name-debate-botany-taxonomy-africa-australia-plants/100221938
Thank you. Botanical names, and fungus names, are very frustrating to keep up with.
captain_spalding said:
dv said:
Bubblecar said:Sorry, but I hate those mindless Classic FM popularity polls and pay zero attention to them.
fair enough
Bach 7, Dvorak 1
Mozart 6, Brahms nil
I see some relegations to the lower divisions on the horizon. What’s your take on it, Macca?
I’m thinking that Brahms could get relegated next year unless he spends up big for a new manager, Ibrahimovic or just go nuts and get José Mário.
Peak Warming Man said:
captain_spalding said:
dv said:fair enough
Bach 7, Dvorak 1
Mozart 6, Brahms nil
I see some relegations to the lower divisions on the horizon. What’s your take on it, Macca?
I’m thinking that Brahms could get relegated next year unless he spends up big for a new manager, Ibrahimovic or just go nuts and get José Mário.
or just drop the bass.
Thinking choona-stuffed capsicums tonight. If I can be bothered to go and get the missing ingredients.
Bubblecar said:
Thinking choona-stuffed capsicums tonight. If I can be bothered to go and get the missing ingredients.
Doubtless you’ll want more booze, so stop pretending you’re in two minds about whether to get a lemon and 2 x capsicums while you’re at it.
Bubblecar said:
Thinking choona-stuffed capsicums tonight. If I can be bothered to go and get the missing ingredients.
I’ve got some sausage mince out of the freezer. I’ve still got some brown berry tomatoes. So I’ll make up little sausage balls and wok fry them and then make a tomato and onions sauce to pour over them. I suppose I’ll need some mashed potato and peas or something to go with them.
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
Thinking choona-stuffed capsicums tonight. If I can be bothered to go and get the missing ingredients.
Doubtless you’ll want more booze, so stop pretending you’re in two minds about whether to get a lemon and 2 x capsicums while you’re at it.
Dearth of respect in this household at times.
buffy said:
Bubblecar said:
Thinking choona-stuffed capsicums tonight. If I can be bothered to go and get the missing ingredients.
I’ve got some sausage mince out of the freezer. I’ve still got some brown berry tomatoes. So I’ll make up little sausage balls and wok fry them and then make a tomato and onions sauce to pour over them. I suppose I’ll need some mashed potato and peas or something to go with them.
Probably go well with rice & peas.
I’ll have a VLCD bar for dinner and probably a mini Babybel for supper.
OCDC said:
I’ll have a VLCD bar for dinner and probably a mini Babybel for supper.
You’re my hero.
Bubblecar said:
OCDC said:If I’m being quite honest I’ll probably also have some sugar-free marshmallows after I go to bed.I’ll have a VLCD bar for dinner and probably a mini Babybel for supper.You’re my hero.
Tomorrow I will probably regret today’s dietary choices (too much cheez, too much artificial sweetener), but I won’t be at work so it won’t matter if I have digestive distress.
sarahs mum said:
https://www.realestate.com.au/property-house-tas-granton-136615002I might buy a lotto ticket next weekend.
There’s a lot of work to be done, by the looks of it.
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
Thinking choona-stuffed capsicums tonight. If I can be bothered to go and get the missing ingredients.
Doubtless you’ll want more booze, so stop pretending you’re in two minds about whether to get a lemon and 2 x capsicums while you’re at it.
Lemons are available by the bucketful here. It was well worth planting the tree twenty odd years ago. Which reminds me…there is a bucketful of lemons to go around to the new lady at the pub. Our pub is In Transition at the moment and we promised the new lady lemons when we were there last night. Mr buffy can wander around there with them. They are probably open by now.
sarahs mum said:
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:Not for me that place.
Might be for you.
It does have a lot of being surrounded by trucks and traffic. Great view. Good project. I do wonder why we werent told what the inside of the old house looks like.
Likley because it’s completely had it, and will cost millions to refurbish.
buffy said:
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
Thinking choona-stuffed capsicums tonight. If I can be bothered to go and get the missing ingredients.
Doubtless you’ll want more booze, so stop pretending you’re in two minds about whether to get a lemon and 2 x capsicums while you’re at it.
Lemons are available by the bucketful here. It was well worth planting the tree twenty odd years ago. Which reminds me…there is a bucketful of lemons to go around to the new lady at the pub. Our pub is In Transition at the moment and we promised the new lady lemons when we were there last night. Mr buffy can wander around there with them. They are probably open by now.
Sister has a bountiful lemon tree in a big pot. I should invest in one too.
Lemons and Tangelos.
Went and bought some easy outs and have successfully extracted the two snapped off bolts. Now off to Bunnings to get some replacements.
btm said:
How much do rainbows weigh?Not much; they’re pretty light.
:)
PermeateFree said:
Ummmm.
No thanks. That gives me the heebie-jeebies.
buffy said:
PermeateFree said:
Oh no…MV, avert your eyes!
Too late…
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
Thinking choona-stuffed capsicums tonight. If I can be bothered to go and get the missing ingredients.
Doubtless you’ll want more booze, so stop pretending you’re in two minds about whether to get a lemon and 2 x capsicums while you’re at it.
Dearth of respect in this household at times.
LOLOL
sibeen said:
Went and bought some easy outs and have successfully extracted the two snapped off bolts. Now off to Bunnings to get some replacements.
What’s this about, then?
Michael V said:
sibeen said:
Went and bought some easy outs and have successfully extracted the two snapped off bolts. Now off to Bunnings to get some replacements.
What’s this about, then?
Lardarse broke two bolts on his exercise bike.
Michael V said:
sibeen said:
Went and bought some easy outs and have successfully extracted the two snapped off bolts. Now off to Bunnings to get some replacements.
What’s this about, then?
Exercise bike. Was on it the other night and two bolts sheared off. They attached the pedal to the main body. Maybe if it didn’t have a fat fuck driving the pedals it wouldn’t have happened, either that or cheap chinese bolts.
sibeen said:
Michael V said:
sibeen said:
Went and bought some easy outs and have successfully extracted the two snapped off bolts. Now off to Bunnings to get some replacements.
What’s this about, then?
Exercise bike. Was on it the other night and two bolts sheared off. They attached the pedal to the main body. Maybe if it didn’t have a fat fuck driving the pedals it wouldn’t have happened, either that or cheap chinese bolts.
LOLOL
Michael V said:
sibeen said:
Went and bought some easy outs and have successfully extracted the two snapped off bolts. Now off to Bunnings to get some replacements.
What’s this about, then?
Cheap Chinese bolts apparently.
ChrispenEvan said:
Michael V said:
sibeen said:
Went and bought some easy outs and have successfully extracted the two snapped off bolts. Now off to Bunnings to get some replacements.
What’s this about, then?
Lardarse broke two bolts on his exercise bike.
LOLOL
Bangers and mash with a curry gravy.
Over
sibeen said:
Michael V said:
sibeen said:
Went and bought some easy outs and have successfully extracted the two snapped off bolts. Now off to Bunnings to get some replacements.
What’s this about, then?
Exercise bike. Was on it the other night and two bolts sheared off. They attached the pedal to the main body. Maybe if it didn’t have a fat fuck driving the pedals it wouldn’t have happened, either that or cheap chinese bolts.
Peak Warming Man said:
Bangers and mash with a curry gravy.
Over
What pray-tell is a curry gravy?
Witty Rejoinder said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Bangers and mash with a curry gravy.
Over
What pray-tell is a curry gravy?
something that sounds revolting. as bad as curried sausages.
Witty Rejoinder said:
Peak Warming Man said:I suspect gravy with curry powder.Bangers and mash with a curry gravy.What pray-tell is a curry gravy?
Over
Witty Rejoinder said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Bangers and mash with a curry gravy.
Over
What pray-tell is a curry gravy?
Just some curry powder cooked in the banger juices and a little flower stirred in.
Peak Warming Man said:
Witty Rejoinder said:Daphne and daffodils are my favourite flowers.Peak Warming Man said:Just some curry powder cooked in the banger juices and a little flower stirred in.Bangers and mash with a curry gravy.What pray-tell is a curry gravy?
Over
OCDC said:
Peak Warming Man said:My daffs aren’t out yet, but the jonnies are.Witty Rejoinder said:Daphne and daffodils are my favourite flowers.What pray-tell is a curry gravy?Just some curry powder cooked in the banger juices and a little flower stirred in.
Peak Warming Man said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Bangers and mash with a curry gravy.
Over
What pray-tell is a curry gravy?
Just some curry powder cooked in the banger juices and a little flower stirred in.
ChrispenEvan said:
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Lemons and Tangelos.
My tangelo tree is still a baby. It hasn’t been big enough to fruit yet. Perhaps I’ll get 3 or 4 fruit this coming season. For the moment it is hiding by the orange tree to keep out of the frosts. (My lime, orange and tangelo are on dwarfing stock. The lemon is full size.
OCDC said:
Peak Warming Man said:Witty Rejoinder said:Daphne and daffodils are my favourite flowers.What pray-tell is a curry gravy?Just some curry powder cooked in the banger juices and a little flower stirred in.
White Daphne under one of the big gums is just bursting to let some petals out. I will be able to smell it as soon as the first flower opens. It’s very strong and very lovely.
OCDC said:
OCDC said:Peak Warming Man said:My daffs aren’t out yet, but the jonnies are.Just some curry powder cooked in the banger juices and a little flower stirred in.Daphne and daffodils are my favourite flowers.
No jonnies here yet. Some of the daffs are starting to send up flower buds.
buffy said:
OCDC said:
OCDC said:Daphne and daffodils are my favourite flowers.My daffs aren’t out yet, but the jonnies are.
No jonnies here yet. Some of the daffs are starting to send up flower buds.
It’s winter.
Peak Warming Man said:
buffy said:
OCDC said:
My daffs aren’t out yet, but the jonnies are.
No jonnies here yet. Some of the daffs are starting to send up flower buds.
It’s winter.
Ja. And your point is? Jonquils are a Winter flower. The snowflakes will be out soon too.
CAR’N SWANNIES!
BACK with 3 x capsicums, a lemon, bread, bacon, booze, monkey nuts, you name it.
Bubblecar said:
BACK with 3 x capsicums, a lemon, bread, bacon, booze, monkey nuts, you name it.
Congratulations!
Woodie said:
CAR’N SWANNIES!
You are going to wear them out.
Bubblecar said:
BACK with 3 x capsicums, a lemon, bread, bacon, booze, monkey nuts, you name it.
Well, in the meantime, I’ve mixed falafel mix into my sausage mince and cooked a heap of little teaspoon sized meatballs. And I’ve put together an onion/tomato/garlic sauce. All sitting quietly melding flavours at the moment. I will boil and roughly mash some King Edward potatoes and there are some Brussels sprouts which can steam over the potatoes. But it’s a bit early yet. I’ll wait another half an hour to finalize the cooking.
buffy said:
Bubblecar said:
BACK with 3 x capsicums, a lemon, bread, bacon, booze, monkey nuts, you name it.
Well, in the meantime, I’ve mixed falafel mix into my sausage mince and cooked a heap of little teaspoon sized meatballs. And I’ve put together an onion/tomato/garlic sauce. All sitting quietly melding flavours at the moment. I will boil and roughly mash some King Edward potatoes and there are some Brussels sprouts which can steam over the potatoes. But it’s a bit early yet. I’ll wait another half an hour to finalize the cooking.
Well done.
Five halves of capsicum now blind-baking for a while in the oven (would have been six but one half was a bit mouldy on the inside).
Filling has been mixed and is waiting (a large tin tuna, a large chopped onion cooked in butter, some chopped parsley, capers, grated cheddar, Dijon mustard, lemon juice, white pepper).
buffy said:
Bubblecar said:
BACK with 3 x capsicums, a lemon, bread, bacon, booze, monkey nuts, you name it.
Well, in the meantime, I’ve mixed falafel mix into my sausage mince and cooked a heap of little teaspoon sized meatballs. And I’ve put together an onion/tomato/garlic sauce. All sitting quietly melding flavours at the moment. I will boil and roughly mash some King Edward potatoes and there are some Brussels sprouts which can steam over the potatoes. But it’s a bit early yet. I’ll wait another half an hour to finalize the cooking.
Fire lit, Swannies on the tele, and hearty large mug of home made cream of cauliflower soup What more could a grown man (or woman) want?
When I was last on lease, the first signal I got with the detector was a faint signal that got stronger as I dug down into the shale. Lack of light stopped play when I had dug about a bucketful of dirt, and now, a month later, I have decided to give it another go. I took a pick and fencing bar and managed to make a knee deep hole in 4 hours and while the signal is getting stronger, I get the feeling I still have a fair way to go.
We plan to have our small excavator near there next week, so I think a detour is in order. :)
Dark Orange said:
When I was last on lease, the first signal I got with the detector was a faint signal that got stronger as I dug down into the shale. Lack of light stopped play when I had dug about a bucketful of dirt, and now, a month later, I have decided to give it another go. I took a pick and fencing bar and managed to make a knee deep hole in 4 hours and while the signal is getting stronger, I get the feeling I still have a fair way to go.We plan to have our small excavator near there next week, so I think a detour is in order. :)
Could be the mother lode.
Bubblecar said:
Dark Orange said:
When I was last on lease, the first signal I got with the detector was a faint signal that got stronger as I dug down into the shale. Lack of light stopped play when I had dug about a bucketful of dirt, and now, a month later, I have decided to give it another go. I took a pick and fencing bar and managed to make a knee deep hole in 4 hours and while the signal is getting stronger, I get the feeling I still have a fair way to go.We plan to have our small excavator near there next week, so I think a detour is in order. :)
Could be the mother lode.
We should forewarn the Weather Girl Club…
Woodie said:
buffy said:
Bubblecar said:
BACK with 3 x capsicums, a lemon, bread, bacon, booze, monkey nuts, you name it.
Well, in the meantime, I’ve mixed falafel mix into my sausage mince and cooked a heap of little teaspoon sized meatballs. And I’ve put together an onion/tomato/garlic sauce. All sitting quietly melding flavours at the moment. I will boil and roughly mash some King Edward potatoes and there are some Brussels sprouts which can steam over the potatoes. But it’s a bit early yet. I’ll wait another half an hour to finalize the cooking.
Fire lit, Swannies on the tele, and hearty large mug of home made cream of cauliflower soup What more could a grown man (or woman) want?
for the Swannies to be leading at halftime?
Bubblecar said:
Dark Orange said:
When I was last on lease, the first signal I got with the detector was a faint signal that got stronger as I dug down into the shale. Lack of light stopped play when I had dug about a bucketful of dirt, and now, a month later, I have decided to give it another go. I took a pick and fencing bar and managed to make a knee deep hole in 4 hours and while the signal is getting stronger, I get the feeling I still have a fair way to go.We plan to have our small excavator near there next week, so I think a detour is in order. :)
Could be the mother lode.
It is something weird like that.
Dark Orange said:
Bubblecar said:
Dark Orange said:
When I was last on lease, the first signal I got with the detector was a faint signal that got stronger as I dug down into the shale. Lack of light stopped play when I had dug about a bucketful of dirt, and now, a month later, I have decided to give it another go. I took a pick and fencing bar and managed to make a knee deep hole in 4 hours and while the signal is getting stronger, I get the feeling I still have a fair way to go.We plan to have our small excavator near there next week, so I think a detour is in order. :)
Could be the mother lode.
It is something weird like that.
Alien spaceship, probably.
party_pants said:
Woodie said:
buffy said:Well, in the meantime, I’ve mixed falafel mix into my sausage mince and cooked a heap of little teaspoon sized meatballs. And I’ve put together an onion/tomato/garlic sauce. All sitting quietly melding flavours at the moment. I will boil and roughly mash some King Edward potatoes and there are some Brussels sprouts which can steam over the potatoes. But it’s a bit early yet. I’ll wait another half an hour to finalize the cooking.
Fire lit, Swannies on the tele, and hearty large mug of home made cream of cauliflower soup What more could a grown man (or woman) want?
for the Swannies to be leading at halftime?
Only at halftime?!
Meanwhile, had a stare down with this fellow on the way home for lunch.
Dark Orange said:
Meanwhile, had a stare down with this fellow on the way home for lunch.
So, in the end, who had the bigger cojones?
Bubblecar said:
Dark Orange said:
When I was last on lease, the first signal I got with the detector was a faint signal that got stronger as I dug down into the shale. Lack of light stopped play when I had dug about a bucketful of dirt, and now, a month later, I have decided to give it another go. I took a pick and fencing bar and managed to make a knee deep hole in 4 hours and while the signal is getting stronger, I get the feeling I still have a fair way to go.We plan to have our small excavator near there next week, so I think a detour is in order. :)
Could be the mother lode.
Around here it would be a sheet of buried corrugated iron or a couple of horse shoes…
Dark Orange said:
Meanwhile, had a stare down with this fellow on the way home for lunch.
That scrotum would appear to be a world of trouble.
captain_spalding said:
Dark Orange said:
Bubblecar said:Could be the mother lode.
It is something weird like that.
Alien spaceship, probably.
It looks to me to be in virgin rock, so has been there a very long time.
My guess is a chunk of quartz with gold embedded.
buffy said:
party_pants said:
Woodie said:Fire lit, Swannies on the tele, and hearty large mug of home made cream of cauliflower soup What more could a grown man (or woman) want?
for the Swannies to be leading at halftime?
Only at halftime?!
it is the most up to date score available right now.
captain_spalding said:
Dark Orange said:
Meanwhile, had a stare down with this fellow on the way home for lunch.
So, in the end, who had the bigger cojones?
He blinked first.
party_pants said:
buffy said:
party_pants said:for the Swannies to be leading at halftime?
Only at halftime?!
it is the most up to date score available right now.
Yeah, but he asked what could a grown man want. I put it to you that a grown man could want them to be leading at fulltime…
buffy said:
party_pants said:
buffy said:Only at halftime?!
it is the most up to date score available right now.
Yeah, but he asked what could a grown man want. I put it to you that a grown man could want them to be leading at fulltime…
Yes, you could look at it that way, I guess. Sometimes the intent is lost a bit in plain text.
However, the two outcomes are not mutually exclusive.
FMD, we’ve gone full Victoria , almost.
Bubblecar said:
Dark Orange said:
When I was last on lease, the first signal I got with the detector was a faint signal that got stronger as I dug down into the shale. Lack of light stopped play when I had dug about a bucketful of dirt, and now, a month later, I have decided to give it another go. I took a pick and fencing bar and managed to make a knee deep hole in 4 hours and while the signal is getting stronger, I get the feeling I still have a fair way to go.We plan to have our small excavator near there next week, so I think a detour is in order. :)
Could be the mother lode.
Could be DO’s steelcap boots too.
party_pants said:
buffy said:
party_pants said:it is the most up to date score available right now.
Yeah, but he asked what could a grown man want. I put it to you that a grown man could want them to be leading at fulltime…
Yes, you could look at it that way, I guess. Sometimes the intent is lost a bit in plain text.
However, the two outcomes are not mutually exclusive.
I thought I was the one around here who was a literalist and thought in straight lines…
Dark Orange said:
Meanwhile, had a stare down with this fellow on the way home for lunch.
Shopped.
Kingy said:
Bubblecar said:
Dark Orange said:
When I was last on lease, the first signal I got with the detector was a faint signal that got stronger as I dug down into the shale. Lack of light stopped play when I had dug about a bucketful of dirt, and now, a month later, I have decided to give it another go. I took a pick and fencing bar and managed to make a knee deep hole in 4 hours and while the signal is getting stronger, I get the feeling I still have a fair way to go.We plan to have our small excavator near there next week, so I think a detour is in order. :)
Could be the mother lode.
Could be DO’s steelcap boots too.
Wait… what?
poikilotherm said:
FMD, we’ve gone full Victoria , almost.
the fall is further though.
ChrispenEvan said:
poikilotherm said:The fall is glorious.FMD, we’ve gone full Victoria , almost.the fall is further though.
Ready to tuck in. Obviously I won’t eat them all tonight.
Bubblecar said:
Ready to tuck in. Obviously I won’t eat them all tonight.Yeah you will.
OCDC said:
ChrispenEvan said:poikilotherm said:The fall is glorious.FMD, we’ve gone full Victoria , almost.the fall is further though.
it’s not supposed to be a competition
Bubblecar said:
Ready to tuck in. Obviously I won’t eat them all tonight.
Checks time 6:60. Mark.
party_pants said:
OCDC said:
ChrispenEvan said:the fall is further though.The fall is glorious.
it’s not supposed to be a competition
It’s politics.
Everything is a competition.
Peak Warming Man said:
Bubblecar said:
Ready to tuck in. Obviously I won’t eat them all tonight.
Checks time 6:60. Mark.
6:30
OCDC said:
Bubblecar said:Ready to tuck in. Obviously I won’t eat them all tonight.Yeah you will.
Third supper is a thing!
party_pants said:
OCDC said:
ChrispenEvan said:the fall is further though.The fall is glorious.
it’s not supposed to be a competition
it is a competition to see who laughs last.
captain_spalding said:
party_pants said:
OCDC said:
The fall is glorious.
it’s not supposed to be a competition
It’s politics.
Everything is a competition.
state parochialism moreso than politics.
party_pants said:
OCDC said:
ChrispenEvan said:the fall is further though.The fall is glorious.
it’s not supposed to be a competition
“It isn’t a race”…..wait…
OCDC said:
ChrispenEvan said:poikilotherm said:The fall is glorious.FMD, we’ve gone full Victoria , almost.the fall is further though.
And how you stick the landing matters immensely.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-26/three-nsw-residents-arrested-after-flying-into-coober-pedy/100246682
Doing stuff you know you shouldn’t be doing – and posting it on social media?!
I wonder what the odds are that Bojo is the last UK Prime Minister
buffy said:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-26/three-nsw-residents-arrested-after-flying-into-coober-pedy/100246682Doing stuff you know you shouldn’t be doing – and posting it on social media?!
As i said earlier, these are people who believe that thwy’re ‘exceptional’.
‘Oh, yes, but surely that doesn’t apply to special people like us, who have their own little aeroplane?’.
dv said:
I wonder what the odds are that Bojo is the last UK Prime Minister
Depends on how long he lasts. I expect the breakup of the UK will take about 5 years, I din’t think BoJo will last that long, he is just not competent enough.
party_pants said:
dv said:
I wonder what the odds are that Bojo is the last UK Prime Minister
Depends on how long he lasts. I expect the breakup of the UK will take about 5 years, I din’t think BoJo will last that long, he is just not competent enough.
He puts up a respectable smokescreen, though.
A serviceable mixture of scandal and blithering which distracts media from things that they might otherwise question.
Nearly as good at it as our own government.
Woodie has probably spilt the cauliflower soup by now.
party_pants said:
dv said:
I wonder what the odds are that Bojo is the last UK Prime Minister
Depends on how long he lasts. I expect the breakup of the UK will take about 5 years, I din’t think BoJo will last that long, he is just not competent enough.
He’s only got to win the next election and that’s the 5 years taken care of.
His odds of doing that are excellent.
captain_spalding said:
party_pants said:
dv said:
I wonder what the odds are that Bojo is the last UK Prime Minister
Depends on how long he lasts. I expect the breakup of the UK will take about 5 years, I din’t think BoJo will last that long, he is just not competent enough.
He puts up a respectable smokescreen, though.
A serviceable mixture of scandal and blithering which distracts media from things that they might otherwise question.
Nearly as good at it as our own government.
His political strategy is to promise everything to everyone, even if those things are contradictory or mutually exclusive. Then it is a matter of treading water and kicking the can down the road to avoid actually having to chose one path over the other and disappointing one group over the other.
sibeen said:
Woodie has probably spilt the cauliflower soup by now.
good game going on
party_pants said:
captain_spalding said:
party_pants said:Depends on how long he lasts. I expect the breakup of the UK will take about 5 years, I din’t think BoJo will last that long, he is just not competent enough.
He puts up a respectable smokescreen, though.
A serviceable mixture of scandal and blithering which distracts media from things that they might otherwise question.
Nearly as good at it as our own government.
His political strategy is to promise everything to everyone, even if those things are contradictory or mutually exclusive. Then it is a matter of treading water and kicking the can down the road to avoid actually having to chose one path over the other and disappointing one group over the other.
His job was to get Brexit done, the punditry said he couldn’t do it, it was impossible, too many hurdles, beyond his capacity they said.
It was hard, very hard but he persisted and got the job done.
Peak Warming Man said:
party_pants said:
dv said:
I wonder what the odds are that Bojo is the last UK Prime Minister
Depends on how long he lasts. I expect the breakup of the UK will take about 5 years, I din’t think BoJo will last that long, he is just not competent enough.
He’s only got to win the next election and that’s the 5 years taken care of.
His odds of doing that are excellent.
I reckon he hasn’t got a chance in hell. The Tory’s best bet will be to dump him and go with another leader.
The sausages were awful, full of gristle.
The mashed potato and fried tomato were a triumph though.
party_pants said:
His political strategy is to promise everything to everyone, even if those things are contradictory or mutually exclusive. Then it is a matter of treading water and kicking the can down the road to avoid actually having to chose one path over the other and disappointing one group over the other.
That is rather different to our own government’s strategy, which i described earlier:
do nothing.
Make no decisions on any important issues, promise nothing to the electorate at all other than vague ‘it’d-be-nice-if-we-could-one-day’ type of dreaming, and hope that all of the questions, issues, and problems somehow go away of their own accord, which ensures that you don’t upset the people who really matter to you with the ‘wrong’ decision.
Peak Warming Man said:
His job was to get Brexit done, the punditry said he couldn’t do it, it was impossible, too many hurdles, beyond his capacity they said.
It was hard, very hard but he persisted and got the job done.
It’s a heroic job to win the war.
It’s an equally heroic job to win the peace.
party_pants said:
Peak Warming Man said:
party_pants said:Depends on how long he lasts. I expect the breakup of the UK will take about 5 years, I din’t think BoJo will last that long, he is just not competent enough.
He’s only got to win the next election and that’s the 5 years taken care of.
His odds of doing that are excellent.
I reckon he hasn’t got a chance in hell. The Tory’s best bet will be to dump him and go with another leader.
There’s daylight between the Tories and Labour at the moment.
party_pants said:
Peak Warming Man said:
party_pants said:Depends on how long he lasts. I expect the breakup of the UK will take about 5 years, I din’t think BoJo will last that long, he is just not competent enough.
He’s only got to win the next election and that’s the 5 years taken care of.
His odds of doing that are excellent.
I reckon he hasn’t got a chance in hell. The Tory’s best bet will be to dump him and go with another leader.
This maybe a case of the wish fathering the thought.
brexit is done? who won?
Peak Warming Man said:
party_pants said:
captain_spalding said:He puts up a respectable smokescreen, though.
A serviceable mixture of scandal and blithering which distracts media from things that they might otherwise question.
Nearly as good at it as our own government.
His political strategy is to promise everything to everyone, even if those things are contradictory or mutually exclusive. Then it is a matter of treading water and kicking the can down the road to avoid actually having to chose one path over the other and disappointing one group over the other.
His job was to get Brexit done, the punditry said he couldn’t do it, it was impossible, too many hurdles, beyond his capacity they said.
It was hard, very hard but he persisted and got the job done.
It is not done. They still have years of haggling with the EU to go. There are equivalence standards on many things yet to be decided, by the EU, that will come on line over the next year or two. There are grace periods about to expire which will add another layer of trade barriers one industry at a time. Every time Boris decides to deviate from EU standards there will be a loss or a refusal of equivalence from the EU and that industry or segment will suffer losses. It will be an ongoing tale of woe of people saying “we voted fr Brexit but we never expected this”.
ChrispenEvan said:
brexit is done? who won?
Australia.
sibeen said:
Woodie has probably spilt the cauliflower soup by now.
Tipped it down the sink, along with the rest of them Swannies.
However I must say it was valiant effort.
Peak Warming Man said:
ChrispenEvan said:
brexit is done? who won?
Australia.
woohoo, I await my penguin with slavering jaws.
Woodie said:
sibeen said:
Woodie has probably spilt the cauliflower soup by now.
Tipped it down the sink, along with the rest of them Swannies.
However I must say it was valiant effort.
and look where the valiant is now?
sibeen said:
party_pants said:
Peak Warming Man said:He’s only got to win the next election and that’s the 5 years taken care of.
His odds of doing that are excellent.
I reckon he hasn’t got a chance in hell. The Tory’s best bet will be to dump him and go with another leader.
There’s daylight between the Tories and Labour at the moment.
The Tories hold a lot of former Labour seats in the north by very slim margins. Expect them all to return to Labour once the realities of 5 years of recession hit home. The north will be more heavily affected than the south. It won’t take a big swing to lose a whole swag of seats. Whatisface, the new Labour leader only needs to be marginally better than Corbyn.
ChrispenEvan said:
Peak Warming Man said:
ChrispenEvan said:
brexit is done? who won?
Australia.
woohoo, I await my penguin with slavering jaws.
You might even get some new jokes out of them.
party_pants said:
sibeen said:
party_pants said:I reckon he hasn’t got a chance in hell. The Tory’s best bet will be to dump him and go with another leader.
There’s daylight between the Tories and Labour at the moment.
The Tories hold a lot of former Labour seats in the north by very slim margins. Expect them all to return to Labour once the realities of 5 years of recession hit home. The north will be more heavily affected than the south. It won’t take a big swing to lose a whole swag of seats. Whatisface, the new Labour leader only needs to be marginally better than Corbyn.
Only marginally better? Corbyn got a thrashing; if Starmer is only marginally better then they’d be rooted.
Peak Warming Man said:
party_pants said:
captain_spalding said:He puts up a respectable smokescreen, though.
A serviceable mixture of scandal and blithering which distracts media from things that they might otherwise question.
Nearly as good at it as our own government.
His political strategy is to promise everything to everyone, even if those things are contradictory or mutually exclusive. Then it is a matter of treading water and kicking the can down the road to avoid actually having to chose one path over the other and disappointing one group over the other.
His job was to get Brexit done, the punditry said he couldn’t do it, it was impossible, too many hurdles, beyond his capacity they said.
It was hard, very hard but he persisted and got the job done.
With a customs border in the Irish Sea he promised he wouldn’t do.
sibeen said:
party_pants said:
sibeen said:There’s daylight between the Tories and Labour at the moment.
The Tories hold a lot of former Labour seats in the north by very slim margins. Expect them all to return to Labour once the realities of 5 years of recession hit home. The north will be more heavily affected than the south. It won’t take a big swing to lose a whole swag of seats. Whatisface, the new Labour leader only needs to be marginally better than Corbyn.
Only marginally better? Corbyn got a thrashing; if Starmer is only marginally better then they’d be rooted.
There are lot of seats won by very small margins in 2019. Also, lots of Labour voters made the mistake of not voting because they didn’t like Corbyn, a bit like non-Hilary Democrats in 2016. It is not hard to see that swinging the other way around and Labour getting a better turnout with leader not named Corbyn.
Also, the Lib Dems seem to be making a bit of inroads into traditional Tory seats. They just won a by-election in a seat that been Tory for nearly 100 years.
What they really need to do is come to an alliance and not run candidates up against each other in every seat. Then they could change the FPTP voting system to something more sensible for the next election after that.
What we all* want to know is how was the curry gravy?
OCDC said:
What we all* want to know is how was the curry gravy?
- Whhhhhhhitty
OCDC said:
What we all* want to know is how was the curry gravy?
- Whhhhhhhitty
Last week PWM couldn’t manage burning a T-bone so I have my doubts about the curry gravy.
OCDC said:
What we all* want to know is how was the curry gravy?
- Whhhhhhhitty
It was alright, it was the sausages that were crap.
Terrible gristly things in them of unknown origin.
Peak Warming Man said:
OCDC said:
What we all* want to know is how was the curry gravy?
- Whhhhhhhitty
It was alright, it was the sausages that were crap.
Terrible gristly things in them of unknown origin.
sphinxters.
ChrispenEvan said:
Peak Warming Man said:
OCDC said:
What we all* want to know is how was the curry gravy?
- Whhhhhhhitty
It was alright, it was the sausages that were crap.
Terrible gristly things in them of unknown origin.
sphinxters.
of Egyptian origin?
party_pants said:
ChrispenEvan said:
Peak Warming Man said:It was alright, it was the sausages that were crap.
Terrible gristly things in them of unknown origin.
sphinxters.
of Egyptian origin?
yep, camels.
ChrispenEvan said:
party_pants said:
ChrispenEvan said:sphinxters.
of Egyptian origin?
yep, camels.
better than camel toes in your sausages I guess.
ChrispenEvan said:
Peak Warming Man said:
OCDC said:
What we all* want to know is how was the curry gravy?
- Whhhhhhhitty
It was alright, it was the sausages that were crap.
Terrible gristly things in them of unknown origin.
sphinxters.
Pigs arse.
Tonight I’m having supermarket pizza with a few extra toppings added.
OCDC said:
What we all* want to know is how was the curry gravy?
- Whhhhhhhitty
LOL U FALI
you need to write it like
* Whhhhhhhitty
as in
==*== Whhhhhhhitty
party_pants said:
Tonight I’m having supermarket pizza with a few extra toppings added.
Like what?
party_pants said:
Tonight I’m having supermarket pizza with a few extra toppings added.
Bourbon marinated beef brisket with roast potato and coleslaw, with grilled sweet corn.
Peak Warming Man said:
OCDC said:
What we all* want to know is how was the curry gravy?
- Whhhhhhhitty
It was alright, it was the sausages that were crap.
Terrible gristly things in them of unknown origin.
Kids today, I don’t know. In my day you enjoyed your gristle and if you found a bit of sausage in it, you counted your blessings.
Gristle was regarded as a treat and a colourful change from sod all.
Bubblecar said:
Peak Warming Man said:
OCDC said:
What we all* want to know is how was the curry gravy?
- Whhhhhhhitty
It was alright, it was the sausages that were crap.
Terrible gristly things in them of unknown origin.
Kids today, I don’t know. In my day you enjoyed your gristle and if you found a bit of sausage in it, you counted your blessings.
Gristle was regarded as a treat and a colourful change from sod all.
LOL
Peak Warming Man said:
party_pants said:
Tonight I’m having supermarket pizza with a few extra toppings added.
Like what?
calamari, which look like sphinxters.
Peak Warming Man said:
party_pants said:
Tonight I’m having supermarket pizza with a few extra toppings added.
Like what?
extra cheese, sliced cherry tomatoes, some mushrooms from a tin.
Bubblecar said:
Peak Warming Man said:
OCDC said:
What we all* want to know is how was the curry gravy?
- Whhhhhhhitty
It was alright, it was the sausages that were crap.
Terrible gristly things in them of unknown origin.
Kids today, I don’t know. In my day you enjoyed your gristle and if you found a bit of sausage in it, you counted your blessings.
Gristle was regarded as a treat and a colourful change from sod all.
You got some all with your sod?
Lucky bastard.
party_pants said:
ChrispenEvan said:party_pants said:of Egyptian origin?
yep, camels.
better than camel toes in your sausages I guess.
surely it’s sausages in your camel to… no no we won’t go there that’s an extrapyramidal side effect like a tard’
I had battered rankine cod and wedges. It was the last bit from yesterday when I had it with mashed spud and pumpkin beans and peas.
Speaking of sod all that’s what ginger and the whinger are doing in California, apparently.
Peak Warming Man said:
Speaking of sod all that’s what ginger and the whinger are doing in California, apparently.
Lucky them. I sorted my other raised vegie bed. needed builders plastic under them and tree roots get in and suck everything out of the soil.
ChrispenEvan said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Speaking of sod all that’s what ginger and the whinger are doing in California, apparently.
Lucky them. I sorted my other raised vegie bed. needed builders plastic under them and tree roots get in and suck everything out of the soil.
Gums do that.
They planted some gums in Africa somewhere and they were surprised at how fast they grow and why their wells were drying up.
Peak Warming Man said:
ChrispenEvan said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Speaking of sod all that’s what ginger and the whinger are doing in California, apparently.
Lucky them. I sorted my other raised vegie bed. needed builders plastic under them and tree roots get in and suck everything out of the soil.
Gums do that.
They planted some gums in Africa somewhere and they were surprised at how fast they grow and why their wells were drying up.
No gums near. grape, apricot or fig. But at the choc factory we were putting in vegie beds and the boss wanted some about 3 metres from a lots of gum trees. tried to tell him. nothing ever grew there and they were removed after I had left.
party_pants said:
Tonight I’m having supermarket pizza with a few extra toppings added.
Great minds think alike, hey what but. :)
Mine’s gone gourmet. Motz with rella, some camensberts, avocado, sun dried tomatoes, shaved ham, and of course, the obligatory anchovies. :)
Woodie said:
party_pants said:
Tonight I’m having supermarket pizza with a few extra toppings added.
Great minds think alike, hey what but. :)
Mine’s gone gourmet. Motz with rella, some camensberts, avocado, sun dried tomatoes, shaved ham, and of course, the obligatory anchovies. :)
Well la di dah
In completely unrelated news, my team won today.
party_pants said:
Woodie said:
party_pants said:
Tonight I’m having supermarket pizza with a few extra toppings added.
Great minds think alike, hey what but. :)
Mine’s gone gourmet. Motz with rella, some camensberts, avocado, sun dried tomatoes, shaved ham, and of course, the obligatory anchovies. :)
Well la di dah
In completely unrelated news, my team won today.
I will allow you, Mr Party Pants, on just this one occasion, or any other past or future occasion where similar circumstances may arise, to take full, and just responsibility for having them KICK COLLINGWOOD’S ARSE!
Woodie said:
party_pants said:
Woodie said:Great minds think alike, hey what but. :)
Mine’s gone gourmet. Motz with rella, some camensberts, avocado, sun dried tomatoes, shaved ham, and of course, the obligatory anchovies. :)
Well la di dah
In completely unrelated news, my team won today.
I will allow you, Mr Party Pants, on just this one occasion, or any other past or future occasion where similar circumstances may arise, to take full, and just responsibility for having them KICK COLLINGWOOD’S ARSE!
you betchya
party_pants said:
Woodie said:
party_pants said:
Tonight I’m having supermarket pizza with a few extra toppings added.
Great minds think alike, hey what but. :)
Mine’s gone gourmet. Motz with rella, some camensberts, avocado, sun dried tomatoes, shaved ham, and of course, the obligatory anchovies. :)
Well la di dah
In completely unrelated news, my team won today.
And they beat the filth, so all is good.
I’m in the Dandenong ranges helping out with the recovery after the storms that went though a couple of weeks ago. The trauma load they’re carrying up here is not unlike what you would expect to see after any nasty natural disaster, but the stories of people lying in bed, listening to enormous trees crashing down around them, are very difficult to listen to. Reminded me of accounts from the survivors of bombing raids.
Rule 303 said:
I’m in the Dandenong ranges helping out with the recovery after the storms that went though a couple of weeks ago. The trauma load they’re carrying up here is not unlike what you would expect to see after any nasty natural disaster, but the stories of people lying in bed, listening to enormous trees crashing down around them, are very difficult to listen to. Reminded me of accounts from the survivors of bombing raids.
Anyone’s ute get blown away?
Rule 303 said:
I’m in the Dandenong ranges helping out with the recovery after the storms that went though a couple of weeks ago. The trauma load they’re carrying up here is not unlike what you would expect to see after any nasty natural disaster, but the stories of people lying in bed, listening to enormous trees crashing down around them, are very difficult to listen to. Reminded me of accounts from the survivors of bombing raids.
I remember coming home from NZ and there was a note at the airport saying to get a taxi. When I got home their was a peppermint gum crashed into the front gable. Mum Explained how she had been in bed when it dropped and she ranto the other end of the house when another tree fell down on the room she was in. And then a magpie came down the chimney and attacked her.
Later she told me that Dad wasn’t there because the day before he had had a storke while working under the car.
It was obviously a lot to process.
Peak Warming Man said:
Rule 303 said:
I’m in the Dandenong ranges helping out with the recovery after the storms that went though a couple of weeks ago. The trauma load they’re carrying up here is not unlike what you would expect to see after any nasty natural disaster, but the stories of people lying in bed, listening to enormous trees crashing down around them, are very difficult to listen to. Reminded me of accounts from the survivors of bombing raids.
Anyone’s ute get blown away?
Mate, we had two SES vehicles destroyed.
sarahs mum said:
Rule 303 said:
I’m in the Dandenong ranges helping out with the recovery after the storms that went though a couple of weeks ago. The trauma load they’re carrying up here is not unlike what you would expect to see after any nasty natural disaster, but the stories of people lying in bed, listening to enormous trees crashing down around them, are very difficult to listen to. Reminded me of accounts from the survivors of bombing raids.
I remember coming home from NZ and there was a note at the airport saying to get a taxi. When I got home their was a peppermint gum crashed into the front gable. Mum Explained how she had been in bed when it dropped and she ranto the other end of the house when another tree fell down on the room she was in. And then a magpie came down the chimney and attacked her.
Later she told me that Dad wasn’t there because the day before he had had a storke while working under the car.
It was obviously a lot to process.
Blimey!
sarahs mum said:
Rule 303 said:
I’m in the Dandenong ranges helping out with the recovery after the storms that went though a couple of weeks ago. The trauma load they’re carrying up here is not unlike what you would expect to see after any nasty natural disaster, but the stories of people lying in bed, listening to enormous trees crashing down around them, are very difficult to listen to. Reminded me of accounts from the survivors of bombing raids.
I remember coming home from NZ and there was a note at the airport saying to get a taxi. When I got home their was a peppermint gum crashed into the front gable. Mum Explained how she had been in bed when it dropped and she ranto the other end of the house when another tree fell down on the room she was in. And then a magpie came down the chimney and attacked her.
Later she told me that Dad wasn’t there because the day before he had had a storke while working under the car.
It was obviously a lot to process.
Indeed.
Mums air raid shelter in london was under the stairs with the gas meter. They were rather blasé about it all. If they weren’t close they just went back to bed.
Thousands of trees this big and bigger fell. Dozens of them hit houses. Hundreds of them fell on infrastructure. Two weeks later and there’s still hundreds of houses without power.
Rule 303 said:
Thousands of trees this big and bigger fell. Dozens of them hit houses. Hundreds of them fell on infrastructure. Two weeks later and there’s still hundreds of houses without power.
I didnm’t realise things were so bad.
Are you on the chain(saw) gang?
nice lot of firewood in a coupla years. gotta look on the bright side.
The biggest chainsaws we’ve got are barely enough to take the bark off some of them.
Rule 303 said:
The biggest chainsaws we’ve got are barely enough to take the bark off some of them.
That’s a tree.
I heard a report today about people stealing generators. What a mug act.
Rule 303 said:
Thousands of trees this big and bigger fell. Dozens of them hit houses. Hundreds of them fell on infrastructure. Two weeks later and there’s still hundreds of houses without power.
I have a tree of similar size 3m from my bedroom wall. Sometimes when the weather forecast is for high winds I will sleep on the sofa bed at the other end of the house. I think the tree would easily reach the 20m+ to that room, but I figure the branches are smaller and lighter at the top.
party_pants said:
Rule 303 said:
Thousands of trees this big and bigger fell. Dozens of them hit houses. Hundreds of them fell on infrastructure. Two weeks later and there’s still hundreds of houses without power.
I didnm’t realise things were so bad.
Are you on the chain(saw) gang?
Nah, trees that big need big excavators. I’m helping out at the community recovery centre: They’re past the ‘Shouting at the public meeting’ phase, so we’re up to talking, listening, fetching, organising, helping, referring, supporting, supplying, and generally making sure everyone’s got what they need to keep going.
sarahs mum said:
Rule 303 said:
The biggest chainsaws we’ve got are barely enough to take the bark off some of them.
That’s a tree.
I heard a report today about people stealing generators. What a mug act.
There’s no need to steal them. There’s hundreds of them available for free.
Speedy said:
Rule 303 said:
Thousands of trees this big and bigger fell. Dozens of them hit houses. Hundreds of them fell on infrastructure. Two weeks later and there’s still hundreds of houses without power.
I have a tree of similar size 3m from my bedroom wall. Sometimes when the weather forecast is for high winds I will sleep on the sofa bed at the other end of the house. I think the tree would easily reach the 20m+ to that room, but I figure the branches are smaller and lighter at the top.
As you can imagine, I find myself asking whether there’s any way one could safely live among them. Could houses be built to withstand or deflect the impact? What about a ‘safe’ room, like they have for fires and cyclones? etc etc.
Hey Rule. I saw an accident a couple of weeks ago with 3 cars involved. As I drove by, I noticed that there was still a person trapped in one of the hatchbacks, but also that another crashed hatchback had what appeared to be stickers/post-it notes on its side. It reminded me of those crash-test dummies with the locating symbols on them. Do you know what they may have been?
Speedy said:
Hey Rule. I saw an accident a couple of weeks ago with 3 cars involved. As I drove by, I noticed that there was still a person trapped in one of the hatchbacks, but also that another crashed hatchback had what appeared to be stickers/post-it notes on its side. It reminded me of those crash-test dummies with the locating symbols on them. Do you know what they may have been?
If the rescue agency was already on scene, they’d be “Unexploded Airbag” warning stickers.
If not, I don’t know.
Rule 303 said:
Speedy said:
Rule 303 said:
Thousands of trees this big and bigger fell. Dozens of them hit houses. Hundreds of them fell on infrastructure. Two weeks later and there’s still hundreds of houses without power.
I have a tree of similar size 3m from my bedroom wall. Sometimes when the weather forecast is for high winds I will sleep on the sofa bed at the other end of the house. I think the tree would easily reach the 20m+ to that room, but I figure the branches are smaller and lighter at the top.
As you can imagine, I find myself asking whether there’s any way one could safely live among them. Could houses be built to withstand or deflect the impact? What about a ‘safe’ room, like they have for fires and cyclones? etc etc.
I have considered this also, actually, I have considered placing a huge I beam in the roof at that end of the house. As for safe rooms, it’s unlikely that people would remain in them for the duration of a weather event. Here at least, the strong gusts are few and far between.
Rule 303 said:
Speedy said:
Hey Rule. I saw an accident a couple of weeks ago with 3 cars involved. As I drove by, I noticed that there was still a person trapped in one of the hatchbacks, but also that another crashed hatchback had what appeared to be stickers/post-it notes on its side. It reminded me of those crash-test dummies with the locating symbols on them. Do you know what they may have been?
If the rescue agency was already on scene, they’d be “Unexploded Airbag” warning stickers.
If not, I don’t know.
Yes they were already on-scene. I didn’t know these stickers existed. Thank you.
Rule 303 said:
Speedy said:
Rule 303 said:
Thousands of trees this big and bigger fell. Dozens of them hit houses. Hundreds of them fell on infrastructure. Two weeks later and there’s still hundreds of houses without power.
I have a tree of similar size 3m from my bedroom wall. Sometimes when the weather forecast is for high winds I will sleep on the sofa bed at the other end of the house. I think the tree would easily reach the 20m+ to that room, but I figure the branches are smaller and lighter at the top.
As you can imagine, I find myself asking whether there’s any way one could safely live among them. Could houses be built to withstand or deflect the impact? What about a ‘safe’ room, like they have for fires and cyclones? etc etc.
Well, if you try to cut them down, people complain about that…
furious said:
Rule 303 said:
Speedy said:I have a tree of similar size 3m from my bedroom wall. Sometimes when the weather forecast is for high winds I will sleep on the sofa bed at the other end of the house. I think the tree would easily reach the 20m+ to that room, but I figure the branches are smaller and lighter at the top.
As you can imagine, I find myself asking whether there’s any way one could safely live among them. Could houses be built to withstand or deflect the impact? What about a ‘safe’ room, like they have for fires and cyclones? etc etc.
Well, if you try to cut them down, people complain about that…
thing is why live there if you have to cut the trees down? be like buying near an airport then complaining about the noise.
ChrispenEvan said:
furious said:
Rule 303 said:As you can imagine, I find myself asking whether there’s any way one could safely live among them. Could houses be built to withstand or deflect the impact? What about a ‘safe’ room, like they have for fires and cyclones? etc etc.
Well, if you try to cut them down, people complain about that…
thing is why live there if you have to cut the trees down? be like buying near an airport then complaining about the noise.
Putting aside for a moment that every tree supports a unique ecosystem, many people affected by big tree falls will never be able to insure their house again.
Rule 303 said:
ChrispenEvan said:
furious said:Well, if you try to cut them down, people complain about that…
thing is why live there if you have to cut the trees down? be like buying near an airport then complaining about the noise.
Putting aside for a moment that every tree supports a unique ecosystem, many people affected by big tree falls will never be able to insure their house again.
Why is that? If the house has been properly repaired and there are no more large trees remaining near the house, what is the problem?
An old article, but who knew they now used overweight crash-test dummies?
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/fatter-crash-test-dummies-prevent-road-deaths/story?id=26545335
Speedy said:
An old article, but who knew they now used overweight crash-test dummies?https://abcnews.go.com/Health/fatter-crash-test-dummies-prevent-road-deaths/story?id=26545335
do they use female proportioned ones though?
Speedy said:
Rule 303 said:
ChrispenEvan said:thing is why live there if you have to cut the trees down? be like buying near an airport then complaining about the noise.
Putting aside for a moment that every tree supports a unique ecosystem, many people affected by big tree falls will never be able to insure their house again.
Why is that? If the house has been properly repaired and there are no more large trees remaining near the house, what is the problem?
maybe it is a postcode thing. the insurance companies don’t check every house that needs insurance.
Speedy said:
Rule 303 said:
ChrispenEvan said:thing is why live there if you have to cut the trees down? be like buying near an airport then complaining about the noise.
Putting aside for a moment that every tree supports a unique ecosystem, many people affected by big tree falls will never be able to insure their house again.
Why is that? If the house has been properly repaired and there are no more large trees remaining near the house, what is the problem?
There’s almost always other trees around them. Sometimes it’s just the prohibitive cost, as with flood zones. They either sell the land for nothing or rebuild and live without insurance.
ChrispenEvan said:
Speedy said:
An old article, but who knew they now used overweight crash-test dummies?https://abcnews.go.com/Health/fatter-crash-test-dummies-prevent-road-deaths/story?id=26545335
do they use female proportioned ones though?
Good question. I would think they probably use an “average adult” crash test dummy, at least for the front seats of the car.
Speedy said:
ChrispenEvan said:
Speedy said:
An old article, but who knew they now used overweight crash-test dummies?https://abcnews.go.com/Health/fatter-crash-test-dummies-prevent-road-deaths/story?id=26545335
do they use female proportioned ones though?
Good question. I would think they probably use an “average adult” crash test dummy, at least for the front seats of the car.
I remember reading an article about this only a little while ago.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/feb/23/truth-world-built-for-men-car-crashes
https://www.discovermagazine.com/technology/why-are-there-no-crash-test-dummies-that-represent-average-women
ChrispenEvan said:
https://www.discovermagazine.com/technology/why-are-there-no-crash-test-dummies-that-represent-average-women
let’s be fair there must surely be racial differences in body mechanics as well
Rule 303 said:
Speedy said:
Rule 303 said:Putting aside for a moment that every tree supports a unique ecosystem, many people affected by big tree falls will never be able to insure their house again.
Why is that? If the house has been properly repaired and there are no more large trees remaining near the house, what is the problem?
There’s almost always other trees around them. Sometimes it’s just the prohibitive cost, as with flood zones. They either sell the land for nothing or rebuild and live without insurance.
I think I will continue to hope that the tree near my bedroom falls the other way then. If it falls North, South or East it will land in bushland, but if it falls West, future insurance will likely be the least of my worries. Although it is very big, it is a relatively young and robust tree. It is growing on/in a large sandstone ledge covered in soil, but I don’t know what’s going on under the ground or how well anchored it is.
Speedy said:
Rule 303 said:
Speedy said:Why is that? If the house has been properly repaired and there are no more large trees remaining near the house, what is the problem?
There’s almost always other trees around them. Sometimes it’s just the prohibitive cost, as with flood zones. They either sell the land for nothing or rebuild and live without insurance.
I think I will continue to hope that the tree near my bedroom falls the other way then. If it falls North, South or East it will land in bushland, but if it falls West, future insurance will likely be the least of my worries. Although it is very big, it is a relatively young and robust tree. It is growing on/in a large sandstone ledge covered in soil, but I don’t know what’s going on under the ground or how well anchored it is.
give it a kick.
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SCIENCE said:
ChrispenEvan said:https://www.discovermagazine.com/technology/why-are-there-no-crash-test-dummies-that-represent-average-women
let’s be fair there must surely be racial differences in body mechanics as well
It’s mentioned in the article.
As for representing women, there is the standard iMIKE in the CAD program I use, but at least Google’s SketchUp start-up template has only a woman in it. They’ve noticed.
ChrispenEvan said:
Speedy said:
Rule 303 said:There’s almost always other trees around them. Sometimes it’s just the prohibitive cost, as with flood zones. They either sell the land for nothing or rebuild and live without insurance.
I think I will continue to hope that the tree near my bedroom falls the other way then. If it falls North, South or East it will land in bushland, but if it falls West, future insurance will likely be the least of my worries. Although it is very big, it is a relatively young and robust tree. It is growing on/in a large sandstone ledge covered in soil, but I don’t know what’s going on under the ground or how well anchored it is.
give it a kick.
I have watched it getting blasted during storms. It doesn’t budge at all, but that doesn’t mean much if one day it decides to move.
ChrispenEvan said:
furious said:
Rule 303 said:As you can imagine, I find myself asking whether there’s any way one could safely live among them. Could houses be built to withstand or deflect the impact? What about a ‘safe’ room, like they have for fires and cyclones? etc etc.
Well, if you try to cut them down, people complain about that…
thing is why live there if you have to cut the trees down? be like buying near an airport then complaining about the noise.
Even worse, moving next to a live music venue and complaining about the noise…
furious said:
ChrispenEvan said:
furious said:Well, if you try to cut them down, people complain about that…
thing is why live there if you have to cut the trees down? be like buying near an airport then complaining about the noise.
Even worse, moving next to a live music venue and complaining about the noise…
Rule 303 said:
Speedy said:
Rule 303 said:Putting aside for a moment that every tree supports a unique ecosystem, many people affected by big tree falls will never be able to insure their house again.
Why is that? If the house has been properly repaired and there are no more large trees remaining near the house, what is the problem?
There’s almost always other trees around them. Sometimes it’s just the prohibitive cost, as with flood zones. They either sell the land for nothing or rebuild and live without insurance.
Why encourage them betting on catastrophe?
Fair Isle (/fɛəraɪ̯l/) is a traditional knitting technique used to create patterns with multiple colours. It is named after Fair Isle, one of the Shetland islands. Fair Isle knitting gained considerable popularity when the Prince of Wales (later Edward VIII) wore Fair Isle jumpers in public in 1921. Traditional Fair Isle patterns have a limited palette of five or so colours, use only two colours per row, are worked in the round, and limit the length of a run of any particular colour.
Some people use the term “Fair Isle” to refer to any colourwork knitting where stitches are knitted alternately in various colours, with the unused colours stranded across the back of the work. Others use the term “stranded colourwork” for the generic technique, and reserve the term “Fair Isle” for the characteristic patterns of the Shetland Islands.
Other techniques for knitting in colour include intarsia, slip-stitch colour (also known as mosaic knitting).
Technique
HRH Edward, Prince of Wales in a Fair Isle pullover
Basic two-colour Fair Isle requires no new techniques beyond the basic knit stitch: the purl stitch is not used if circular knitting needles or 3 or more double-pointed needles are used. At each knit stitch, there are two available “active” colours of yarn; one is drawn through to make the knit stitch, and the other is simply held behind the piece, carried as a loose strand of yarn behind the just-made stitch. To avoid “loose” strands larger than 3-5 stitches, the yarn not in use can be “caught” by the yarn in use without this being seen on the front of the work – see below. Knitters who are comfortable with both English style and Continental style knitting can carry one colour with their right hand and one with their left, although it is also possible to simply use two different fingers for the two colours of yarn and knit both using the same style.
The simplest Fair Isle pattern uses circular or double pointed needles, cast on any number of stitches. Knitting then continues round and round, with the colours alternated every stitch. If the pattern is started with an even number of stitches, a vertically striped tube of fabric will be formed, while an odd number will create a diagonal grid that appears to mix the two colours.
Traditional Fair Isle patterns normally had no more than two or three consecutive stitches of any given colour, because they were stranded, and too many consecutive stitches of one colour means a very long strand of the other, quite easy to catch with a finger or button. A more modern variation is woven Fair Isle, where the unused strand is held in slightly different positions relative to the needles and thereby woven into the fabric, still invisible from the front, but trapped closely against the back of the piece. This permits a nearly limitless variety of patterns with considerably larger blocks of colour.
Traditionally, Fair Isle jumper construction involves knitting the body of the jumper completely in the round. Steeks (from the Scottish word meaning ‘stitch’, ‘to close shut’, and comprising several stitches) are worked across the armhole openings allowing the body to be completed in the round without interruption. Once the main body of the jumper is complete, the armhole steeks are cut open (sometimes these are secured before cutting). Stitches are then picked up around the armhole opening and the sleeve is knitted down toward the cuff in the round.
Since the 1990s, the term “Fair Isle” has been applied very generally and loosely to any stranded colour knitting regardless of its relation to the knitting of Fair Isle or any of the other Shetland Islands.
OCDC said:
I’ll have a VLCD bar for dinner and probably a mini Babybel for supper.
sounds like a normal day here but I’m still 14kg overweight for my lifetime average.
buffy said:
OCDC said:
Peak Warming Man said:Just some curry powder cooked in the banger juices and a little flower stirred in.Daphne and daffodils are my favourite flowers.
White Daphne under one of the big gums is just bursting to let some petals out. I will be able to smell it as soon as the first flower opens. It’s very strong and very lovely.
I don’t know what a favourite flower is other than the flower I am sensing at any given moment. Each an every flower has that, its own sweet spot.
Dark Orange said:
When I was last on lease, the first signal I got with the detector was a faint signal that got stronger as I dug down into the shale. Lack of light stopped play when I had dug about a bucketful of dirt, and now, a month later, I have decided to give it another go. I took a pick and fencing bar and managed to make a knee deep hole in 4 hours and while the signal is getting stronger, I get the feeling I still have a fair way to go.We plan to have our small excavator near there next week, so I think a detour is in order. :)
Her’es cheers but I’ve got jackhammers.
Speedy said:
Rule 303 said:
Thousands of trees this big and bigger fell. Dozens of them hit houses. Hundreds of them fell on infrastructure. Two weeks later and there’s still hundreds of houses without power.
I have a tree of similar size 3m from my bedroom wall. Sometimes when the weather forecast is for high winds I will sleep on the sofa bed at the other end of the house. I think the tree would easily reach the 20m+ to that room, but I figure the branches are smaller and lighter at the top.
I’m gunna get abseiling gear to go up and briing my big trees down bit by bit.
ChrispenEvan said:
https://www.discovermagazine.com/technology/why-are-there-no-crash-test-dummies-that-represent-average-women
Because average women don’t crash test dummies.
sarahs mum said:
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Fair Isle (/fɛəraɪ̯l/) is a traditional knitting technique used to create patterns with multiple colours. It is named after Fair Isle, one of the Shetland islands. Fair Isle knitting gained considerable popularity when the Prince of Wales (later Edward VIII) wore Fair Isle jumpers in public in 1921. Traditional Fair Isle patterns have a limited palette of five or so colours, use only two colours per row, are worked in the round, and limit the length of a run of any particular colour.
Some people use the term “Fair Isle” to refer to any colourwork knitting where stitches are knitted alternately in various colours, with the unused colours stranded across the back of the work. Others use the term “stranded colourwork” for the generic technique, and reserve the term “Fair Isle” for the characteristic patterns of the Shetland Islands.
Other techniques for knitting in colour include intarsia, slip-stitch colour (also known as mosaic knitting).
Technique
HRH Edward, Prince of Wales in a Fair Isle pulloverBasic two-colour Fair Isle requires no new techniques beyond the basic knit stitch: the purl stitch is not used if circular knitting needles or 3 or more double-pointed needles are used. At each knit stitch, there are two available “active” colours of yarn; one is drawn through to make the knit stitch, and the other is simply held behind the piece, carried as a loose strand of yarn behind the just-made stitch. To avoid “loose” strands larger than 3-5 stitches, the yarn not in use can be “caught” by the yarn in use without this being seen on the front of the work – see below. Knitters who are comfortable with both English style and Continental style knitting can carry one colour with their right hand and one with their left, although it is also possible to simply use two different fingers for the two colours of yarn and knit both using the same style.
The simplest Fair Isle pattern uses circular or double pointed needles, cast on any number of stitches. Knitting then continues round and round, with the colours alternated every stitch. If the pattern is started with an even number of stitches, a vertically striped tube of fabric will be formed, while an odd number will create a diagonal grid that appears to mix the two colours.
Traditional Fair Isle patterns normally had no more than two or three consecutive stitches of any given colour, because they were stranded, and too many consecutive stitches of one colour means a very long strand of the other, quite easy to catch with a finger or button. A more modern variation is woven Fair Isle, where the unused strand is held in slightly different positions relative to the needles and thereby woven into the fabric, still invisible from the front, but trapped closely against the back of the piece. This permits a nearly limitless variety of patterns with considerably larger blocks of colour.
Traditionally, Fair Isle jumper construction involves knitting the body of the jumper completely in the round. Steeks (from the Scottish word meaning ‘stitch’, ‘to close shut’, and comprising several stitches) are worked across the armhole openings allowing the body to be completed in the round without interruption. Once the main body of the jumper is complete, the armhole steeks are cut open (sometimes these are secured before cutting). Stitches are then picked up around the armhole opening and the sleeve is knitted down toward the cuff in the round.
Since the 1990s, the term “Fair Isle” has been applied very generally and loosely to any stranded colour knitting regardless of its relation to the knitting of Fair Isle or any of the other Shetland Islands.
My wife’s family actually come from the Fair Isle and my son was wrapped in a fair isle shawl hand spun and knitted on Fair Isle, at birth. The same shawl was at least 250 years old.
ChrispenEvan said:
Speedy said:
Rule 303 said:There’s almost always other trees around them. Sometimes it’s just the prohibitive cost, as with flood zones. They either sell the land for nothing or rebuild and live without insurance.
I think I will continue to hope that the tree near my bedroom falls the other way then. If it falls North, South or East it will land in bushland, but if it falls West, future insurance will likely be the least of my worries. Although it is very big, it is a relatively young and robust tree. It is growing on/in a large sandstone ledge covered in soil, but I don’t know what’s going on under the ground or how well anchored it is.
give it a kick.
I just spent an eveing in discussion with a friend almost twenty years my junior and we talked about trees and which way they lean. One should actually look at this sort of stuff more than at the house they are buying.
Speedy said:
ChrispenEvan said:
Speedy said:I think I will continue to hope that the tree near my bedroom falls the other way then. If it falls North, South or East it will land in bushland, but if it falls West, future insurance will likely be the least of my worries. Although it is very big, it is a relatively young and robust tree. It is growing on/in a large sandstone ledge covered in soil, but I don’t know what’s going on under the ground or how well anchored it is.
give it a kick.
I have watched it getting blasted during storms. It doesn’t budge at all, but that doesn’t mean much if one day it decides to move.
Tell me about your tree. Which species and where is it located? let us start from there.
watching media watch, make another coffee in a moment
roughbarked said:
sarahs mum said:
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Fair Isle (/fɛəraɪ̯l/) is a traditional knitting technique used to create patterns with multiple colours. It is named after Fair Isle, one of the Shetland islands. Fair Isle knitting gained considerable popularity when the Prince of Wales (later Edward VIII) wore Fair Isle jumpers in public in 1921. Traditional Fair Isle patterns have a limited palette of five or so colours, use only two colours per row, are worked in the round, and limit the length of a run of any particular colour.
Some people use the term “Fair Isle” to refer to any colourwork knitting where stitches are knitted alternately in various colours, with the unused colours stranded across the back of the work. Others use the term “stranded colourwork” for the generic technique, and reserve the term “Fair Isle” for the characteristic patterns of the Shetland Islands.
Other techniques for knitting in colour include intarsia, slip-stitch colour (also known as mosaic knitting).
Technique
HRH Edward, Prince of Wales in a Fair Isle pulloverBasic two-colour Fair Isle requires no new techniques beyond the basic knit stitch: the purl stitch is not used if circular knitting needles or 3 or more double-pointed needles are used. At each knit stitch, there are two available “active” colours of yarn; one is drawn through to make the knit stitch, and the other is simply held behind the piece, carried as a loose strand of yarn behind the just-made stitch. To avoid “loose” strands larger than 3-5 stitches, the yarn not in use can be “caught” by the yarn in use without this being seen on the front of the work – see below. Knitters who are comfortable with both English style and Continental style knitting can carry one colour with their right hand and one with their left, although it is also possible to simply use two different fingers for the two colours of yarn and knit both using the same style.
The simplest Fair Isle pattern uses circular or double pointed needles, cast on any number of stitches. Knitting then continues round and round, with the colours alternated every stitch. If the pattern is started with an even number of stitches, a vertically striped tube of fabric will be formed, while an odd number will create a diagonal grid that appears to mix the two colours.
Traditional Fair Isle patterns normally had no more than two or three consecutive stitches of any given colour, because they were stranded, and too many consecutive stitches of one colour means a very long strand of the other, quite easy to catch with a finger or button. A more modern variation is woven Fair Isle, where the unused strand is held in slightly different positions relative to the needles and thereby woven into the fabric, still invisible from the front, but trapped closely against the back of the piece. This permits a nearly limitless variety of patterns with considerably larger blocks of colour.
Traditionally, Fair Isle jumper construction involves knitting the body of the jumper completely in the round. Steeks (from the Scottish word meaning ‘stitch’, ‘to close shut’, and comprising several stitches) are worked across the armhole openings allowing the body to be completed in the round without interruption. Once the main body of the jumper is complete, the armhole steeks are cut open (sometimes these are secured before cutting). Stitches are then picked up around the armhole opening and the sleeve is knitted down toward the cuff in the round.
Since the 1990s, the term “Fair Isle” has been applied very generally and loosely to any stranded colour knitting regardless of its relation to the knitting of Fair Isle or any of the other Shetland Islands.
My wife’s family actually come from the Fair Isle and my son was wrapped in a fair isle shawl hand spun and knitted on Fair Isle, at birth. The same shawl was at least 250 years old.
:)
There’s an 1870s christening shawl in my family. But more that fine ring work type of thing. And it is from the lowlands.
My granny did a bit of fairisle.
transition said:
watching media watch, make another coffee in a moment
not watching sent my neighbour home … coming back to earth sowly.
roughbarked said:
transition said:
watching media watch, make another coffee in a moment
not watching sent my neighbour home … coming back to earth sowly.
I watched media watch re the friendly jordies. I was disappointed. He didn’t go far enough.
sarahs mum said:
roughbarked said:
transition said:
watching media watch, make another coffee in a moment
not watching sent my neighbour home … coming back to earth sowly.
I watched media watch re the friendly jordies. I was disappointed. He didn’t go far enough.
to remain untouchable, never go far enough.
roughbarked said:
transition said:
watching media watch, make another coffee in a moment
not watching sent my neighbour home … coming back to earth sowly.
Saturday night is his big night out in the village. He comes here to have a spiritual high with me. We have a few tequilas and maybe or not a few home made spirituous wanderings in the night. He has way more than me and then he goes home again.
He was raised on a farm not more than two hundred metres away and has hardly ever spent as much time in the village with anyone as much as he does with me in his one night a week tasting spirit.
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:
transition said:
watching media watch, make another coffee in a moment
not watching sent my neighbour home … coming back to earth sowly.
Saturday night is his big night out in the village. He comes here to have a spiritual high with me. We have a few tequilas and maybe or not a few home made spirituous wanderings in the night. He has way more than me and then he goes home again.
He was raised on a farm not more than two hundred metres away and has hardly ever spent as much time in the village with anyone as much as he does with me in his one night a week tasting spirit.
He’s a clever man. He only drinks one night a week with someone he deems safe to drink with.
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:not watching sent my neighbour home … coming back to earth sowly.
Saturday night is his big night out in the village. He comes here to have a spiritual high with me. We have a few tequilas and maybe or not a few home made spirituous wanderings in the night. He has way more than me and then he goes home again.
He was raised on a farm not more than two hundred metres away and has hardly ever spent as much time in the village with anyone as much as he does with me in his one night a week tasting spirit.
He’s a clever man. He only drinks one night a week with someone he deems safe to drink with.
He brings all the spirit. I just help him consume it.
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:Saturday night is his big night out in the village. He comes here to have a spiritual high with me. We have a few tequilas and maybe or not a few home made spirituous wanderings in the night. He has way more than me and then he goes home again.
He was raised on a farm not more than two hundred metres away and has hardly ever spent as much time in the village with anyone as much as he does with me in his one night a week tasting spirit.
He’s a clever man. He only drinks one night a week with someone he deems safe to drink with.
He brings all the spirit. I just help him consume it.
Despite all of this, so .. we also talk about shit like this. “Linnaeus had a fair bit of hubris, it must be said,”
sarahs mum said:
roughbarked said:
transition said:
watching media watch, make another coffee in a moment
not watching sent my neighbour home … coming back to earth sowly.
I watched media watch re the friendly jordies. I was disappointed. He didn’t go far enough.
I reckon it was okay, though of course i’ve never watched friendly jordies, whatever that is, I hope it’s not some sort of native vulgarity challenging pretensions to higher things, God help us with everyone being so suggestible and all, the threat of reality being undermanaged, we don’t want civilization derailed by modern court jesters
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:He’s a clever man. He only drinks one night a week with someone he deems safe to drink with.
He brings all the spirit. I just help him consume it.
Despite all of this, so .. we also talk about shit like this. “Linnaeus had a fair bit of hubris, it must be said,”
and he’s just a kid who grew up in an orange orchard.
not a lot differnet from me in that i basically grew up next door.
In another lifetime aways from here.
transition said:
sarahs mum said:
roughbarked said:not watching sent my neighbour home … coming back to earth sowly.
I watched media watch re the friendly jordies. I was disappointed. He didn’t go far enough.
I reckon it was okay, though of course i’ve never watched friendly jordies, whatever that is, I hope it’s not some sort of native vulgarity challenging pretensions to higher things, God help us with everyone being so suggestible and all, the threat of reality being undermanaged, we don’t want civilization derailed by modern court jesters
I only wish to ascertain the facts about whether it is within God’s ken of what saving us actually means, I’m sure his help link comes up with; site not found.
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:He brings all the spirit. I just help him consume it.
Despite all of this, so .. we also talk about shit like this. “Linnaeus had a fair bit of hubris, it must be said,”
and he’s just a kid who grew up in an orange orchard.
not a lot differnet from me in that i basically grew up next door.
In another lifetime aways from here.
fiona sat with me in front of the fire tonight. we talked about modernism. How back in the 60s a Model T looked archaic.Much more archaic that a 80s car looks today. And Modernism did that.
sarahs mum said:
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:Despite all of this, so .. we also talk about shit like this. “Linnaeus had a fair bit of hubris, it must be said,”
and he’s just a kid who grew up in an orange orchard.
not a lot differnet from me in that i basically grew up next door.
In another lifetime aways from here.
fiona sat with me in front of the fire tonight. we talked about modernism. How back in the 60s a Model T looked archaic.Much more archaic that a 80s car looks today. And Modernism did that.
It is just a car. Like a cane toad is what it is.
roughbarked said:
sarahs mum said:
roughbarked said:and he’s just a kid who grew up in an orange orchard.
not a lot differnet from me in that i basically grew up next door.
In another lifetime aways from here.
fiona sat with me in front of the fire tonight. we talked about modernism. How back in the 60s a Model T looked archaic.Much more archaic that a 80s car looks today. And Modernism did that.
It is just a car. Like a cane toad is what it is.
Perception is what changes.
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:
sarahs mum said:fiona sat with me in front of the fire tonight. we talked about modernism. How back in the 60s a Model T looked archaic.Much more archaic that a 80s car looks today. And Modernism did that.
It is just a car. Like a cane toad is what it is.
Perception is what changes.
It was once all written on a message stick by a branch of us that had no other written language as such as we could erstwhile imagine.
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:
sarahs mum said:fiona sat with me in front of the fire tonight. we talked about modernism. How back in the 60s a Model T looked archaic.Much more archaic that a 80s car looks today. And Modernism did that.
It is just a car. Like a cane toad is what it is.
Perception is what changes.
And a quantum leap in design. And it might be happening again.
sarahs mum said:
And it might be happening again.
Not in this country.
sarahs mum said:
sarahs mum said:And it might be happening again.
Not in this country.
Well in the land of Oz, the wicked witch of the west could perhaps end up banished forever?
just sayin’ like?
sarahs mum said:
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:Despite all of this, so .. we also talk about shit like this. “Linnaeus had a fair bit of hubris, it must be said,”
and he’s just a kid who grew up in an orange orchard.
not a lot differnet from me in that i basically grew up next door.
In another lifetime aways from here.
fiona sat with me in front of the fire tonight. we talked about modernism. How back in the 60s a Model T looked archaic.Much more archaic that a 80s car looks today. And Modernism did that.
This was the best selling car in the USA in 1980.
Karl Pilkington’s moaning about life..
what else is on
?
sibeen said:
sarahs mum said:
roughbarked said:and he’s just a kid who grew up in an orange orchard.
not a lot differnet from me in that i basically grew up next door.
In another lifetime aways from here.
fiona sat with me in front of the fire tonight. we talked about modernism. How back in the 60s a Model T looked archaic.Much more archaic that a 80s car looks today. And Modernism did that.
This was the best selling car in the USA in 1980.
And I got it wrong. It was the model As I was thinking about.
Elton John – Roy Rogers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGIds7cSf3U
Here’s a random source of pi.
https://youtu.be/HEfHFsfGXjs
Is this space spooky? It’s the ISS at night.
Good Morning!
mollwollfumble said:
Is this space spooky? It’s the ISS at night.
Looks like a scene from the Matrix.
monkey skipper said:
mollwollfumble said:
Is this space spooky? It’s the ISS at night.
Looks like a scene from the Matrix.
mollwollfumble said:
monkey skipper said:
mollwollfumble said:
Is this space spooky? It’s the ISS at night.
Looks like a scene from the Matrix.
You just reminded me of the resistance the scientist that built the cochlear implant received from his peers as they said he was wasting his time on woo woo science even thinking he could make such a thing.
Moring unfortunate souls.
Slightly warmer at 17.5° this morning.
Going to give Bessie (The truck) an oil and filter change this morning so she can take Buttercup (the baby excavator) down to the other lease to turn a couple of tracks into roads.
Batteries didn’t last the night, looks like we’ll need to buy new ones.
Good morning Holidayers. Presently 7 degrees and overcast. There was a light shower of rain about half an hour ago. Our forecast for today is for 14, with a shower or two. Tomorrow is forecast as sunny, so it might be possible to do some pruning and maar-ing tomorrow.
Dark Orange said:
Moring unfortunate souls.
Slightly warmer at 17.5° this morning.
Going to give Bessie (The truck) an oil and filter change this morning so she can take Buttercup (the baby excavator) down to the other lease to turn a couple of tracks into roads.
Batteries didn’t last the night, looks like we’ll need to buy new ones.
I’m amazed that you can find coverage there.
monkey skipper said:
Good Morning!
Morning ms et al.
Pleasant 17° atm.
buffy said:
Good morning Holidayers. Presently 7 degrees and overcast. There was a light shower of rain about half an hour ago. Our forecast for today is for 14, with a shower or two. Tomorrow is forecast as sunny, so it might be possible to do some pruning and maar-ing tomorrow.
4.8°C here and only expecting 13°C. They said there would be a fog but we only had that at night. All gone in the dawning.
mollwollfumble said:
monkey skipper said:
mollwollfumble said:
Is this space spooky? It’s the ISS at night.
Looks like a scene from the Matrix.
One of many meanings for the word swag.
Morning, cool and clear in the Styx. Mask wearing at work today.
roughbarked said:
Dark Orange said:Moring unfortunate souls.
Slightly warmer at 17.5° this morning.
Going to give Bessie (The truck) an oil and filter change this morning so she can take Buttercup (the baby excavator) down to the other lease to turn a couple of tracks into roads.
Batteries didn’t last the night, looks like we’ll need to buy new ones.
I’m amazed that you can find coverage there.
Satellite NBN. :)
Dark Orange said:
roughbarked said:
Dark Orange said:Moring unfortunate souls.
Slightly warmer at 17.5° this morning.
Going to give Bessie (The truck) an oil and filter change this morning so she can take Buttercup (the baby excavator) down to the other lease to turn a couple of tracks into roads.
Batteries didn’t last the night, looks like we’ll need to buy new ones.
I’m amazed that you can find coverage there.
Satellite NBN. :)
:) We’ve come a long way.
this is a way cool photo.
Tamb said:
monkey skipper said:
Good Morning!
Morning ms et al.
Pleasant 17° atm.
hey there tamb!!
roughbarked said:
Dark Orange said:
roughbarked said:I’m amazed that you can find coverage there.
Satellite NBN. :)
:) We’ve come a long way.
my brother that had the sat phone was the only one that could get mobile reception from my mum’s place when she lived on her 100 acres. everybody else had to climb the steep incline of a driveway get around being in a mountainous region.
monkey skipper said:
Tamb said:
monkey skipper said:
Good Morning!
Morning ms et al.
Pleasant 17° atm.
hey there tamb!!
Tamb said:
monkey skipper said:
Tamb said:Morning ms et al.
Pleasant 17° atm.
hey there tamb!!
World treating you well ms?
i think so.
just what I need, smart carpet, not sure how i’ve managed to this day with dumb carpet
transition said:
just what I need, smart carpet, not sure how i’ve managed to this day with dumb carpet
sarahs mum said:
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:Despite all of this, so .. we also talk about shit like this. “Linnaeus had a fair bit of hubris, it must be said,”
and he’s just a kid who grew up in an orange orchard.
not a lot differnet from me in that i basically grew up next door.
In another lifetime aways from here.
fiona sat with me in front of the fire tonight. we talked about modernism. How back in the 60s a Model T looked archaic.Much more archaic that a 80s car looks today. And Modernism did that.
certainly some relationship to whatever in the brain processing, social dimension relating clothing, what you wear, wheels and rims approximates shoes/boots in some way, and whatever else i’ll let the reader make it up
to my naive thinking, you clothe your body-vehicle, the car is a vehicle extension of that
Tamb said:
transition said:
just what I need, smart carpet, not sure how i’ve managed to this day with dumb carpet
I have smart carpet. It’s called lino.
what people get for treating everyone else like door mats
Tamb said:
transition said:
just what I need, smart carpet, not sure how i’ve managed to this day with dumb carpet
I have smart carpet. It’s called lino.
chuckle much better
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2352409×21002777
“3000-year-old shark attack victim from Tsukumo shell-mound, Okayama, Japan”
Sorry, I can only get the abstract. It wouldn’t come up on SciHub.
buffy said:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2352409×21002777“3000-year-old shark attack victim from Tsukumo shell-mound, Okayama, Japan”
Sorry, I can only get the abstract. It wouldn’t come up on SciHub.
That link doesn’t work.
roughbarked said:
buffy said:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2352409×21002777“3000-year-old shark attack victim from Tsukumo shell-mound, Okayama, Japan”
Sorry, I can only get the abstract. It wouldn’t come up on SciHub.
That link doesn’t work.
Replace the multiplication symbol with a lowercase x.
Witty Rejoinder said:
roughbarked said:
buffy said:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2352409×21002777“3000-year-old shark attack victim from Tsukumo shell-mound, Okayama, Japan”
Sorry, I can only get the abstract. It wouldn’t come up on SciHub.
That link doesn’t work.
Replace the multiplication symbol with a lowercase x.
Yeah I worked it out .
roughbarked said:
Witty Rejoinder said:roughbarked said:buffy said:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2352409×21002777“3000-year-old shark attack victim from Tsukumo shell-mound, Okayama, Japan”
Sorry, I can only get the abstract. It wouldn’t come up on SciHub.
That link doesn’t work.
Replace the multiplication symbol with a lowercase x.
Yeah I worked it out .
hence why we continue to encourage yous all to use the "Link name":http://example.com/ motif, literally demonstrated in the Textile mark-up quick reference below the input textarea
SCIENCE said:
roughbarked said:Witty Rejoinder said:Replace the multiplication symbol with a lowercase x.
Yeah I worked it out .
hence why we continue to encourage yous all to use the "Link name":http://example.com/ motif, literally demonstrated in the Textile mark-up quick reference below the input textarea
You’re not the boss of me!
Can I just say…calling Howard Springs the “Centre for National Resilience” is pure wanker.
transition said:
sarahs mum said:
roughbarked said:not watching sent my neighbour home … coming back to earth sowly.
I watched media watch re the friendly jordies. I was disappointed. He didn’t go far enough.
I reckon it was okay, though of course i’ve never watched friendly jordies, whatever that is, I hope it’s not some sort of native vulgarity challenging pretensions to higher things, God help us with everyone being so suggestible and all, the threat of reality being undermanaged, we don’t want civilization derailed by modern court jesters
Perhaps not derailed, but a bit of re-routing by the court jesters could be a very good thing.
Witty Rejoinder said:
SCIENCE said:
roughbarked said:Yeah I worked it out .
hence why we continue to encourage yous all to use the "Link name":http://example.com/ motif, literally demonstrated in the Textile mark-up quick reference below the input textarea
You’re not the boss of me!
how about me?
buffy said:
Can I just say…calling Howard Springs the “Centre for National Resilience” is pure wanker.
Is that where Operation Covid Shield is based?
;-)
ChrispenEvan said:
buffy said:
Can I just say…calling Howard Springs the “Centre for National Resilience” is pure wanker.Is that where Operation Covid Shield is based?
;-)
You are probably right…
sarahs mum said:
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:Despite all of this, so .. we also talk about shit like this. “Linnaeus had a fair bit of hubris, it must be said,”
and he’s just a kid who grew up in an orange orchard.
not a lot differnet from me in that i basically grew up next door.
In another lifetime aways from here.
fiona sat with me in front of the fire tonight. we talked about modernism. How back in the 60s a Model T looked archaic.Much more archaic that a 80s car looks today. And Modernism did that.
As I like to say, the ever-slowing rate of change :)
Although I suspect that one’s age when we first make an observation also has an effect on how we see it relative to older things.
buffy said:
Can I just say…calling Howard Springs the “Centre for National Resilience” is pure wanker.
Yes. That marketing man is at it again.
The Rev Dodgson said:
transition said:
sarahs mum said:I watched media watch re the friendly jordies. I was disappointed. He didn’t go far enough.
I reckon it was okay, though of course i’ve never watched friendly jordies, whatever that is, I hope it’s not some sort of native vulgarity challenging pretensions to higher things, God help us with everyone being so suggestible and all, the threat of reality being undermanaged, we don’t want civilization derailed by modern court jesters
Perhaps not derailed, but a bit of re-routing by the court jesters could be a very good thing.
I might have mentioned court jesters entirely approvingly, you know people needing relief from internal repressive forces, models that way, comedy does it (related oppressive social expectations). Lot of brain function involves inhibitory mechanisms, not altogether healthy without some relief
the court is bigger these days, includes the internet
ChrispenEvan said:
ChrispenEvan said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
SCIENCE said:hence why we continue to encourage yous all to use the "Link name":http://example.com/ motif, literally demonstrated in the Textile mark-up quick reference below the input textarea
You’re not the boss of me!
how about me?
Is this a BDSM thing?
Witty Rejoinder said:
ChrispenEvan said:
Witty Rejoinder said:You’re not the boss of me!
how about me?
Is this a BDSM thing?
only if you want it to be.
ChrispenEvan said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
SCIENCE said:hence why we continue to encourage yous all to use the "Link name":http://example.com/ motif, literally demonstrated in the Textile mark-up quick reference below the input textarea
You’re not the boss of me!
how about me?
as we said we’re merely inca ragers
ChrispenEvan said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
ChrispenEvan said:how about me?
Is this a BDSM thing?
only if you want it to be.
ah the complexities of consent
SCIENCE said:
ChrispenEvan said:
Witty Rejoinder said:Is this a BDSM thing?
only if you want it to be.
ah the complexities of consent
it’s boring, but saves a lot of hassles later.
transition said:
I might have mentioned court jesters entirely approvingly,
Well certainly the intended meaning of your words is not always entirely obvious.
https://www.crikey.com.au/2021/06/25/free-trade-deal-with-uk-small-potatoes/
The Rev Dodgson said:
transition said:I might have mentioned court jesters entirely approvingly,
Well certainly the intended meaning of your words is not always entirely obvious.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/morrison-s-leadership-is-missing-and-there-s-no-sign-of-it-on-the-horizon-20210623-p583pl.html
buffy said:
ChrispenEvan said:
buffy said:
Can I just say…calling Howard Springs the “Centre for National Resilience” is pure wanker.Is that where Operation Covid Shield is based?
;-)
You are probably right…
and another one
COVID vaccination allocation horizons
The hellishness of the word “horizons” was not lost on observers. Leigh Sales called it “one of the grandest euphemisms I’ve seen in 25 years as a journalist”.
In a way, that kind of gobbledegook is the only apology for the vaccine farce we’re likely to get; a tacit recognition that we’re not up to the task of goals, targets or even aspirations, only horizons – which, notably, you never really reach.
roughbarked said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
transition said:I might have mentioned court jesters entirely approvingly,
Well certainly the intended meaning of your words is not always entirely obvious.
You have that problem as well?
Just one of the little idiosyncrasies of this site that make it worth visiting :)
The Rev Dodgson said:
roughbarked said:
The Rev Dodgson said:Well certainly the intended meaning of your words is not always entirely obvious.
You have that problem as well?
Just one of the little idiosyncrasies of this site that make it worth visiting :)
Fair point. :)
ChrispenEvan said:
buffy said:
ChrispenEvan said:Is that where Operation Covid Shield is based?
;-)
You are probably right…
and another one
COVID vaccination allocation horizons
The hellishness of the word “horizons” was not lost on observers. Leigh Sales called it “one of the grandest euphemisms I’ve seen in 25 years as a journalist”.
In a way, that kind of gobbledegook is the only apology for the vaccine farce we’re likely to get; a tacit recognition that we’re not up to the task of goals, targets or even aspirations, only horizons – which, notably, you never really reach.
And there is no probably about this one…you are right.
:)
The Rev Dodgson said:
transition said:I might have mentioned court jesters entirely approvingly,
Well certainly the intended meaning of your words is not always entirely obvious.
but the metameaning is
ChrispenEvan said:
https://www.smh.com.au/national/morrison-s-leadership-is-missing-and-there-s-no-sign-of-it-on-the-horizon-20210623-p583pl.html
it’s a submarine leadership and don’t worry it’ll pop up just in time for an election, launch some nuclear missiles, win the war
on the tube learning about auto-tune used in vocals etc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNXg5dIVC1M
Modern Music’s Death By Auto-Tune
SCIENCE said:
The Rev Dodgson said:transition said:I might have mentioned court jesters entirely approvingly,
Well certainly the intended meaning of your words is not always entirely obvious.
but the metameaning is
Is there an app for that?
buffy said:
ChrispenEvan said:
buffy said:You are probably right…
and another one
COVID vaccination allocation horizons
The hellishness of the word “horizons” was not lost on observers. Leigh Sales called it “one of the grandest euphemisms I’ve seen in 25 years as a journalist”.
In a way, that kind of gobbledegook is the only apology for the vaccine farce we’re likely to get; a tacit recognition that we’re not up to the task of goals, targets or even aspirations, only horizons – which, notably, you never really reach.
And there is no probably about this one…you are right.
:)
The Rev Dodgson said:
SCIENCE said:
The Rev Dodgson said:Well certainly the intended meaning of your words is not always entirely obvious.
but the metameaning is
Is there an app for that?
in seriousness a metameaning app seems a good idea
Mr buffy’s Mum would have loved this. She trained at Bendigo Base Hospital and Fairfield Hospital in Melbourne, and was registered as a General Nurse in December 1944. She nursed in the time of starched white uniforms, caps and veils and those little capes.
The Rev Dodgson said:
SCIENCE said:
The Rev Dodgson said:Well certainly the intended meaning of your words is not always entirely obvious.
but the metameaning is
Is there an app for that?
roughbarked said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
SCIENCE said:but the metameaning is
Is there an app for that?
I shall ponder the metameaning of that image.
How come the Internet does not recognise the word “metameaning”?
Morning Pilgrims, I slept in but everything’s alright now, I’m here.
The Rev Dodgson said:
roughbarked said:
The Rev Dodgson said:Is there an app for that?
I shall ponder the metameaning of that image.
How come the Internet does not recognise the word “metameaning”?
You are asking me?
roughbarked said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
roughbarked said:
I shall ponder the metameaning of that image.
How come the Internet does not recognise the word “metameaning”?
You are asking me?
I’ll ask where the picture comes from instead.
One of yours?
The Rev Dodgson said:
roughbarked said:
The Rev Dodgson said:Is there an app for that?
I shall ponder the metameaning of that image.
How come the Internet does not recognise the word “metameaning”?
fair point but even we have not considered to define it yet
have you any better proposal or from us we begin with something like
the information conveyed by a communication, beyond its literal meaning as well as its intended secondary meanings
The Rev Dodgson said:
roughbarked said:
The Rev Dodgson said:I shall ponder the metameaning of that image.
How come the Internet does not recognise the word “metameaning”?
You are asking me?
I’ll ask where the picture comes from instead.
One of yours?
Mr Bandt has been sending me e-mails again.
Australia’s lost in the climate wilderness
I know I shouldn’t be an ‘ pedant, but I can’t help asking:
I wonder which of Australia’s lost he is referring to?
roughbarked said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
roughbarked said:You are asking me?
I’ll ask where the picture comes from instead.
One of yours?
The Rev Dodgson said:
Mr Bandt has been sending me e-mails again.Australia’s lost in the climate wilderness
I know I shouldn’t be an ‘ pedant, but I can’t help asking:
I wonder which of Australia’s lost he is referring to?
He’s lost it.
roughbarked said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
roughbarked said:You are asking me?
I’ll ask where the picture comes from instead.
One of yours?
What I had said was: Of course it is mine almost every image I post here is mine. Occasionally I post one of my daughters. The work was done by borers in a tree (one of many) that I grew from seed watched become tree and then watched climate change drought and borers finish them off.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Mr Bandt has been sending me e-mails again.Australia’s lost in the climate wilderness
I know I shouldn’t be an ‘ pedant, but I can’t help asking:
I wonder which of Australia’s lost he is referring to?
To be fair to Mr Bandt, it was actually sent by Greensoffice, and was
“Authorised by Catherine Garner”
Tamb said:
roughbarked said:
The Rev Dodgson said:I’ll ask where the picture comes from instead.
One of yours?
White ant affected wood?
borers. They do this under the bark until the tree dies and then the bark falls off.
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:
The Rev Dodgson said:I’ll ask where the picture comes from instead.
One of yours?
Stupid smart mouse highlights the wrong stuff while I’m not looking and deletes it.What I had said was: Of course it is mine almost every image I post here is mine. Occasionally I post one of my daughters. The work was done by borers in a tree (one of many) that I grew from seed watched become tree and then watched climate change drought and borers finish them off.
Thanks
And there was I thinking it was some weird lava flow.
roughbarked said:
Tamb said:
roughbarked said:
White ant affected wood?borers. They do this under the bark until the tree dies and then the bark falls off.
roughbarked said:
Tamb said:
roughbarked said:
White ant affected wood?borers. They do this under the bark until the tree dies and then the bark falls off.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Mr Bandt has been sending me e-mails again.Australia’s lost in the climate wilderness
I know I shouldn’t be an ‘ pedant, but I can’t help asking:
I wonder which of Australia’s lost he is referring to?
scratches at stomach
Err, what’s wrong with it?
sibeen said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Mr Bandt has been sending me e-mails again.Australia’s lost in the climate wilderness
I know I shouldn’t be an ‘ pedant, but I can’t help asking:
I wonder which of Australia’s lost he is referring to?
scratches at stomach
Err, what’s wrong with it?
Australia is lost in the climate wilderness.
Oh, my poor, degraded ABC:
ABC News – Just In:
‘Asher used to physically fight their mother, refusing to go to school. Then they met Max
By Mary Gea’
‘Asher McEldrew confidently says their favourite subjects are maths and writing. The seven-year-old wants to be a vet when they grow up.’
‘Asher says earlier the thought of going to school made them think, “Mum would not come back, and I would miss her.”’
I think that Mary Gea needs to see her optometrist. She apparently sees multiple children where there is only one child. Time for some new specs, Mary.
Tamb said:
sibeen said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Mr Bandt has been sending me e-mails again.Australia’s lost in the climate wilderness
I know I shouldn’t be an ‘ pedant, but I can’t help asking:
I wonder which of Australia’s lost he is referring to?
scratches at stomach
Err, what’s wrong with it?
Australia is lost in the climate wilderness.
Yeah, they mean the same thing.
Tamb said:
sibeen said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Mr Bandt has been sending me e-mails again.Australia’s lost in the climate wilderness
I know I shouldn’t be an ‘ pedant, but I can’t help asking:
I wonder which of Australia’s lost he is referring to?
scratches at stomach
Err, what’s wrong with it?
Australia is lost in the climate wilderness.
Well that’s what I assumed was actually meant.
But all this talk of metameanings has got me wondering.
sibeen said:
Tamb said:
sibeen said:scratches at stomach
Err, what’s wrong with it?
Australia is lost in the climate wilderness.
Yeah, they mean the same thing.
So if I wanted to refer to Australia’s lost megafauna, for instance, how would I do that?
sibeen said:
Tamb said:
sibeen said:scratches at stomach
Err, what’s wrong with it?
Australia is lost in the climate wilderness.
Yeah, they mean the same thing.
If it had been meant to suggest that something/some things belonging to Australia were lost in the wilderness, then there would have been no apostrophe needed.
sibeen said:
Tamb said:
sibeen said:scratches at stomach
Err, what’s wrong with it?
Australia is lost in the climate wilderness.
Yeah, they mean the same thing.
captain_spalding said:
sibeen said:
Tamb said:Australia is lost in the climate wilderness.
Yeah, they mean the same thing.
If it had been meant to suggest that something/some things belonging to Australia were lost in the wilderness, then there would have been no apostrophe needed.
Eh?
When did the apostrophe rules change?
Tamb said:
sibeen said:
Tamb said:Australia is lost in the climate wilderness.
Yeah, they mean the same thing.
The apostrophe in the first could be taken to mean possessive rather than abbreviation.
I still think it is perfectly cromulent.
The Rev Dodgson said:
sibeen said:
Tamb said:Australia is lost in the climate wilderness.
Yeah, they mean the same thing.
So if I wanted to refer to Australia’s lost megafauna, for instance, how would I do that?
‘Australias lost megafauna’: the megafauna belonging to Australia that has been lost
‘Australia’s lost megafauna’: Australia has lost some megafauna.
The Rev Dodgson said:
captain_spalding said:
sibeen said:Yeah, they mean the same thing.
If it had been meant to suggest that something/some things belonging to Australia were lost in the wilderness, then there would have been no apostrophe needed.
Eh?
When did the apostrophe rules change?
Never.
captain_spalding said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
sibeen said:Yeah, they mean the same thing.
So if I wanted to refer to Australia’s lost megafauna, for instance, how would I do that?
‘Australias lost megafauna’: the megafauna belonging to Australia that has been lost
‘Australia’s lost megafauna’: Australia has lost some megafauna.
Nyet.
captain_spalding said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
captain_spalding said:If it had been meant to suggest that something/some things belonging to Australia were lost in the wilderness, then there would have been no apostrophe needed.
Eh?
When did the apostrophe rules change?
Never.
Got a ref for your usage?
The Rev Dodgson said:
captain_spalding said:
The Rev Dodgson said:Eh?
When did the apostrophe rules change?
Never.
Got a ref for your usage?
Mrs Davies, English lessons, 1966.
Also:
Let’s use better English by T. Johnson and M. Bruce Schools Projects Pty. Ltd Sydney 1959.
captain_spalding said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
captain_spalding said:Never.
Got a ref for your usage?
Mrs Davies, English lessons, 1966.
I hope she was sacked the same year.
captain_spalding said:
Also:Let’s use better English by T. Johnson and M. Bruce Schools Projects Pty. Ltd Sydney 1959.
OK, but what did these refs actually say?
“An apostrophe is used to indicate possession, except in the case of Australia”, or what?
Should we use apostrophes with;
hi’s
or
her’s ?
Anyway, enough of the apostrophic metameanings.
I have work to do.
captain_spalding said:
Should we use apostrophes with;hi’s
or
her’s ?
Possessive apostrophes are not used with pronouns. They are used with nouns (such as Australia).
Bubblecar said:
captain_spalding said:
Should we use apostrophes with;hi’s
or
her’s ?
Possessive apostrophes are not used with pronouns. They are used with nouns (such as Australia).
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/informatics/punctuation/apostrophe/possessives
The Rev Dodgson said:
captain_spalding said:
Also:Let’s use better English by T. Johnson and M. Bruce Schools Projects Pty. Ltd Sydney 1959.
OK, but what did these refs actually say?
“An apostrophe is used to indicate possession, except in the case of Australia”, or what?
No apostrophe is needed to indicate possession in the individual case e.g. that pencil is Freds.
In the individual case, apostrophes are abbreviations; Fred’s = Fred is, Fred has
The Rev Dodgson said:
Anyway, enough of the apostrophic metameanings.I have work to do.
And I have breakfast to cook.
Bubblecar said:
captain_spalding said:
Should we use apostrophes with;hi’s
or
her’s ?
Possessive apostrophes are not used with pronouns. They are used with nouns (such as Australia).
So if the hi or her in question were things, or the name of things, then yes, there should be an apostrophe.
captain_spalding said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
captain_spalding said:
Also:Let’s use better English by T. Johnson and M. Bruce Schools Projects Pty. Ltd Sydney 1959.
OK, but what did these refs actually say?
“An apostrophe is used to indicate possession, except in the case of Australia”, or what?
No apostrophe is needed to indicate possession in the individual case e.g. that pencil is Freds.
In the individual case, apostrophes are abbreviations; Fred’s = Fred is, Fred has
Wrong. Have a read of the link I provided.
The Rev Dodgson said:
captain_spalding said:
The Rev Dodgson said:Eh?
When did the apostrophe rules change?
Never.
Got a ref for your usage?
You could try a standard reference, like Fowler’s Modern English Usage, or Strunk & White’s The Elements of Style (American, but still has some good advice.)
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
captain_spalding said:
Should we use apostrophes with;hi’s
or
her’s ?
Possessive apostrophes are not used with pronouns. They are used with nouns (such as Australia).
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/informatics/punctuation/apostrophe/possessives
I am bested.
I concede my error, and accept your position on the matter.
My shame is great.
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
captain_spalding said:
Should we use apostrophes with;hi’s
or
her’s ?
Possessive apostrophes are not used with pronouns. They are used with nouns (such as Australia).
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/informatics/punctuation/apostrophe/possessives
Thank you bubblecar.
captain_spalding said:
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:Possessive apostrophes are not used with pronouns. They are used with nouns (such as Australia).
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/informatics/punctuation/apostrophe/possessives
I am bested.
I concede my error, and accept your position on the matter.
My shame is great.
Conceding error is not the forum way!
;)
ChrispenEvan said:
buffy said:
ChrispenEvan said:Is that where Operation Covid Shield is based?
;-)
You are probably right…
and another one
COVID vaccination allocation horizons
The hellishness of the word “horizons” was not lost on observers. Leigh Sales called it “one of the grandest euphemisms I’ve seen in 25 years as a journalist”.
In a way, that kind of gobbledegook is the only apology for the vaccine farce we’re likely to get; a tacit recognition that we’re not up to the task of goals, targets or even aspirations, only horizons – which, notably, you never really reach.
A well made point. Only one in that piece, but hey..
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
captain_spalding said:
Should we use apostrophes with;hi’s
or
her’s ?
Possessive apostrophes are not used with pronouns. They are used with nouns (such as Australia).
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/informatics/punctuation/apostrophe/possessives
Don’t believe anything that comes out of Sussex.
http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDR702.loop.shtml#skip
wet rain on the way.
ChrispenEvan said:
http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDR702.loop.shtml#skipwet rain on the way.
Dry rain is such a let-down.
I could think about making some lunch. Might make up a pancake mix and have them with sugar and lemon juice.
My frugal lunch will be a vegemite sandwich and a cuppa.
I think I’m going to light the fire. Hours earlier than is the norm.
Peak Warming Man said:
My frugal lunch will be a vegemite sandwich and a cuppa.
I’m having one of the left-over stuffed capsicum halves (contrary to OCDC’s prediction, I only ate two last night).
sarahs mum said:
I think I’m going to light the fire. Hours earlier than is the norm.
Mr buffy lit the woodheater about an hour ago. I’ve only just put my jumper back on because I’ve been cleaning floors, hanging out sheets and sweeping and washing out dog run. A bit of physical activity.
And I’ve decided to have butter and maple syrup on my pancakes.
captain_spalding said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
sibeen said:Yeah, they mean the same thing.
So if I wanted to refer to Australia’s lost megafauna, for instance, how would I do that?
‘Australias lost megafauna’: the megafauna belonging to Australia that has been lost
‘Australia’s lost megafauna’: Australia has lost some megafauna.
We still have their bones.
There’s been a shark attack in Kyoto Japan.
Beaches still open though.
Peak Warming Man said:
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:Possessive apostrophes are not used with pronouns. They are used with nouns (such as Australia).
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/informatics/punctuation/apostrophe/possessives
Don’t believe anything that comes out of Sussex.
Don’t go under-rating Sussex now.
Some of the World’s greatest structural engineers received their primary education in Sussex.
Peak Warming Man said:
There’s been a shark attack in Kyoto Japan.
Beaches still open though.
Okay, am a gunna have to ask for more info.
Peak Warming Man said:
There’s been a shark attack in Kyoto Japan.
Beaches still open though.
I reckon the shark is dead though…some thousand years ago…
ChrispenEvan said:
Peak Warming Man said:
There’s been a shark attack in Kyoto Japan.
Beaches still open though.
Okay, am a gunna have to ask for more info.
About 3,000 years time lapse.
buffy said:
Peak Warming Man said:
There’s been a shark attack in Kyoto Japan.
Beaches still open though.
I reckon the shark is dead though…some thousand years ago…
Could be
ChrispenEvan said:
Peak Warming Man said:
There’s been a shark attack in Kyoto Japan.
Beaches still open though.
Okay, am a gunna have to ask for more info.
Okayama
NT doesn’t muck about with “from 11.59 tonight” for lockdown. It’s from 1.00pm today. Sort of “right, let’s go. Now!”
buffy said:
NT doesn’t muck about with “from 11.59 tonight” for lockdown. It’s from 1.00pm today. Sort of “right, let’s go. Now!”
they need to stop the planes.
party_pants said:
buffy said:
NT doesn’t muck about with “from 11.59 tonight” for lockdown. It’s from 1.00pm today. Sort of “right, let’s go. Now!”
they need to stop the planes.
No, no, no, no, no. We don’t stop planes. We stop boats.
party_pants said:
buffy said:
NT doesn’t muck about with “from 11.59 tonight” for lockdown. It’s from 1.00pm today. Sort of “right, let’s go. Now!”
they need to stop the planes.
shoot them down. That’ll stop them.
Ruddy eck! the supermarkets here are already out of TP and flour and stuff. Every supermarket is crammed full of peeps and Woolues were handing out masks at the door. All because a plane stopped here to refuel on the failed attempt to fly to the NT.
roughbarked said:
party_pants said:
buffy said:
NT doesn’t muck about with “from 11.59 tonight” for lockdown. It’s from 1.00pm today. Sort of “right, let’s go. Now!”
they need to stop the planes.
shoot them down. That’ll stop them.
Ruddy eck! the supermarkets here are already out of TP and flour and stuff. Every supermarket is crammed full of peeps and Woolues were handing out masks at the door. All because a plane stopped here to refuel on the failed attempt to fly to the NT.
I thought you lived in a small village.
buffy said:
roughbarked said:
party_pants said:they need to stop the planes.
shoot them down. That’ll stop them.
Ruddy eck! the supermarkets here are already out of TP and flour and stuff. Every supermarket is crammed full of peeps and Woolues were handing out masks at the door. All because a plane stopped here to refuel on the failed attempt to fly to the NT.
I thought you lived in a small village.
I do but I was called by another villager whose wife was in town attempting to do shopping. He was checking to see if I needed anything and warning me to take a mask if I do go t town. I said, I’ve got flour and coffee and TP. 8 rolls lasted me through the first madness with no worries. I might need to get some powdered miilk though?
captain_spalding said:
Oh, my poor, degraded ABC:ABC News – Just In:
‘Asher used to physically fight their mother, refusing to go to school. Then they met Max
By Mary Gea’‘Asher McEldrew confidently says their favourite subjects are maths and writing. The seven-year-old wants to be a vet when they grow up.’
‘Asher says earlier the thought of going to school made them think, “Mum would not come back, and I would miss her.”’
I think that Mary Gea needs to see her optometrist. She apparently sees multiple children where there is only one child. Time for some new specs, Mary.
To be fair, there is no singular non gender-specific pronoun.
roughbarked said:
buffy said:
roughbarked said:shoot them down. That’ll stop them.
Ruddy eck! the supermarkets here are already out of TP and flour and stuff. Every supermarket is crammed full of peeps and Woolues were handing out masks at the door. All because a plane stopped here to refuel on the failed attempt to fly to the NT.
I thought you lived in a small village.
I do but I was called by another villager whose wife was in town attempting to do shopping. He was checking to see if I needed anything and warning me to take a mask if I do go t town. I said, I’ve got flour and coffee and TP. 8 rolls lasted me through the first madness with no worries. I might need to get some powdered miilk though?
I then rang the missus who was out at another village school the other side of town to tell her that the supermarkets were chockers.
Going to see if Insiders is up on iView yet. I don’t like watching TV in the mornings.
so now we can add non-binary to the LBGTQI list of Hughmans?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-27/hugh-sheridan-non-binary/100247282
Cosy scene on this cover, 1957.
Bubblecar said:
Cosy scene on this cover, 1957.
I wont be paying one and thrippence for that magazine no matter how cosy the cover is.
Bubblecar said:
Cosy scene on this cover, 1957.
Cheaper than a small packet of Viscount.
roughbarked said:
so now we can add non-binary to the LBGTQI list of Hughmans?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-27/hugh-sheridan-non-binary/100247282
It’s a “gender” label. Unfortunately it assumes that most people have a “gender” rather than a sex.
I’d suggest that most people identify by sex, not gender.
I’m a man by sex and rather than “non binary” by gender, I’m just non-gender.
Bubblecar said:
roughbarked said:
so now we can add non-binary to the LBGTQI list of Hughmans?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-27/hugh-sheridan-non-binary/100247282
It’s a “gender” label. Unfortunately it assumes that most people have a “gender” rather than a sex.
I’d suggest that most people identify by sex, not gender.
I’m a man by sex and rather than “non binary” by gender, I’m just non-gender.
I’m just confused :?)
sibeen said:
Bubblecar said:
roughbarked said:
so now we can add non-binary to the LBGTQI list of Hughmans?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-27/hugh-sheridan-non-binary/100247282
It’s a “gender” label. Unfortunately it assumes that most people have a “gender” rather than a sex.
I’d suggest that most people identify by sex, not gender.
I’m a man by sex and rather than “non binary” by gender, I’m just non-gender.
I’m just confused :?)
By what?
Dark Orange said:
captain_spalding said:
Oh, my poor, degraded ABC:ABC News – Just In:
‘Asher used to physically fight their mother, refusing to go to school. Then they met Max
By Mary Gea’‘Asher McEldrew confidently says their favourite subjects are maths and writing. The seven-year-old wants to be a vet when they grow up.’
‘Asher says earlier the thought of going to school made them think, “Mum would not come back, and I would miss her.”’
I think that Mary Gea needs to see her optometrist. She apparently sees multiple children where there is only one child. Time for some new specs, Mary.
To be fair, there is no singular non gender-specific pronoun.
there’s, it’s ‘e/h’
Dark Orange said:
captain_spalding said:
Oh, my poor, degraded ABC:ABC News – Just In:
‘Asher used to physically fight their mother, refusing to go to school. Then they met Max
By Mary Gea’‘Asher McEldrew confidently says their favourite subjects are maths and writing. The seven-year-old wants to be a vet when they grow up.’
‘Asher says earlier the thought of going to school made them think, “Mum would not come back, and I would miss her.”’
I think that Mary Gea needs to see her optometrist. She apparently sees multiple children where there is only one child. Time for some new specs, Mary.
To be fair, there is no singular non gender-specific pronoun.
Yes there is: “it”.
SCIENCE said:
Dark Orange said:
captain_spalding said:
Oh, my poor, degraded ABC:ABC News – Just In:
‘Asher used to physically fight their mother, refusing to go to school. Then they met Max
By Mary Gea’‘Asher McEldrew confidently says their favourite subjects are maths and writing. The seven-year-old wants to be a vet when they grow up.’
‘Asher says earlier the thought of going to school made them think, “Mum would not come back, and I would miss her.”’
I think that Mary Gea needs to see her optometrist. She apparently sees multiple children where there is only one child. Time for some new specs, Mary.
To be fair, there is no singular non gender-specific pronoun.
there’s, it’s ‘e/h’
our bad we mean it/its/‘e/h’
Bubblecar said:
sibeen said:
Bubblecar said:It’s a “gender” label. Unfortunately it assumes that most people have a “gender” rather than a sex.
I’d suggest that most people identify by sex, not gender.
I’m a man by sex and rather than “non binary” by gender, I’m just non-gender.
I’m just confused :?)
By what?
The trouble is the word “gender” as used by transgender ideology. It doesn’t seem to have any intelligible meaning.
We’re told it definitely doesn’t mean the same as physical sex, yet it’s still somehow associated with the concepts of “male and female”.
But there isn’t any “male” component to my identity that doesn’t simply relate to my male sex. So I have no use for the term “gender”.
Michael V said:
Dark Orange said:
captain_spalding said:
Oh, my poor, degraded ABC:ABC News – Just In:
‘Asher used to physically fight its parent, refusing to go to school. Then it met Max
By Mary Gea’‘Asher McEldrew confidently says its favourite subjects are maths and writing. The seven-year-old wants to be a vet when it grows up.’
‘Asher says earlier the thought of going to school made it think, “Parent would not come back, and I would miss it.”’
I think that Mary Gea needs to see its optometrist. It apparently sees multiple children where there is only one child. Time for some new specs, Mary.
To be fair, there is no singular non gender-specific pronoun.
Yes there is: “it”.
looks good
sibeen said:
Bubblecar said:
roughbarked said:
so now we can add non-binary to the LBGTQI list of Hughmans?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-27/hugh-sheridan-non-binary/100247282
It’s a “gender” label. Unfortunately it assumes that most people have a “gender” rather than a sex.
I’d suggest that most people identify by sex, not gender.
I’m a man by sex and rather than “non binary” by gender, I’m just non-gender.
I’m just confused :?)
Michael V said:
Dark Orange said:
captain_spalding said:
Oh, my poor, degraded ABC:ABC News – Just In:
‘Asher used to physically fight their mother, refusing to go to school. Then they met Max
By Mary Gea’‘Asher McEldrew confidently says their favourite subjects are maths and writing. The seven-year-old wants to be a vet when they grow up.’
‘Asher says earlier the thought of going to school made them think, “Mum would not come back, and I would miss her.”’
I think that Mary Gea needs to see her optometrist. She apparently sees multiple children where there is only one child. Time for some new specs, Mary.
To be fair, there is no singular non gender-specific pronoun.
Yes there is: “it”.
I’ve got a cousin like that.
Peak Warming Man said:
Michael V said:
Dark Orange said:To be fair, there is no singular non gender-specific pronoun.
Yes there is: “it”.
I’ve got a cousin like that.
is it a male or female cousin, we hear some languages distinguish those too
roughbarked said:
sibeen said:
Bubblecar said:It’s a “gender” label. Unfortunately it assumes that most people have a “gender” rather than a sex.
I’d suggest that most people identify by sex, not gender.
I’m a man by sex and rather than “non binary” by gender, I’m just non-gender.
I’m just confused :?)
Peak Warming Man said:
Michael V said:
Dark Orange said:To be fair, there is no singular non gender-specific pronoun.
Yes there is: “it”.
I’ve got a cousin like that.
Addams!
SCIENCE said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Michael V said:Yes there is: “it”.
I’ve got a cousin like that.
is it a male or female cousin, we hear some languages distinguish those too
He’s in the Addams family, they had a cousin It.
Michael V said:
Dark Orange said:
captain_spalding said:
Oh, my poor, degraded ABC:ABC News – Just In:
‘Asher used to physically fight their mother, refusing to go to school. Then they met Max
By Mary Gea’‘Asher McEldrew confidently says their favourite subjects are maths and writing. The seven-year-old wants to be a vet when they grow up.’
‘Asher says earlier the thought of going to school made them think, “Mum would not come back, and I would miss her.”’
I think that Mary Gea needs to see her optometrist. She apparently sees multiple children where there is only one child. Time for some new specs, Mary.
To be fair, there is no singular non gender-specific pronoun.
Yes there is: “it”.
I don’t think that is apt in this case.
Michael V said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Michael V said:Yes there is: “it”.
I’ve got a cousin like that.
Addams!
Itt.
roughbarked said:
SCIENCE said:
Peak Warming Man said:I’ve got a cousin like that.
is it a male or female cousin, we hear some languages distinguish those too
He’s in the Addams family, they had a cousin It.
Beaten
ChrispenEvan said:
Michael V said:
Dark Orange said:To be fair, there is no singular non gender-specific pronoun.
Yes there is: “it”.
I don’t think that is apt in this case.
we think these prescriptivists need to calm their farms
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:
SCIENCE said:is it a male or female cousin, we hear some languages distinguish those too
He’s in the Addams family, they had a cousin It.
Beaten
the child or the mother
ChrispenEvan said:
Michael V said:
Peak Warming Man said:I’ve got a cousin like that.
Addams!
Itt.
Oh. I never saw it written or didn’t remmember or sumfin’ like thath.
The other one was the thing? the scuttling hand thingy.
I think all the cast members of the Adams Family have passed.
SCIENCE said:
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:He’s in the Addams family, they had a cousin It.
Beaten
the child or the mother
Don’t think anyone knew. Not even Fester.
Peak Warming Man said:
I think all the cast members of the Adams Family have passed.
Gosh yes.
roughbarked said:
Peak Warming Man said:
I think all the cast members of the Adams Family have passed.
Gosh yes.
no..
He’s still alive. John Allen Astin (born March 30, 1930) is an American actor who has appeared in numerous films and television series, as well as a television director and voice artist. He is best known for starring as Gomez Addams
Peak Warming Man said:
I think all the cast members of the Adams Family have passed.
Hang on, Gomez and Wednesday are still present.
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:
Peak Warming Man said:
I think all the cast members of the Adams Family have passed.
Gosh yes.
no..
He’s still alive. John Allen Astin (born March 30, 1930) is an American actor who has appeared in numerous films and television series, as well as a television director and voice artist. He is best known for starring as Gomez Addams
That’s surprising, good on him.
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:
Peak Warming Man said:
I think all the cast members of the Adams Family have passed.
Gosh yes.
no..
He’s still alive. John Allen Astin (born March 30, 1930) is an American actor who has appeared in numerous films and television series, as well as a television director and voice artist. He is best known for starring as Gomez Addams
Mortica has gone to the morticians. Carolyn Sue Jones (April 28, 1930 – August 3, 1983)
their daughter Wednesday (Lisa Loring) is still kicking, (she’s younger than me but Pugsley departed in 2014.
Progress report:
sawdust production has proceeded well, today’s quota fulfilled (note use of apostrophe there).
Ham,cheese and tomato toasted sandwiches now. Maybe back to sawdust mill after, definitely wash house floors later.
captain_spalding said:
Progress report:sawdust production has proceeded well, today’s quota fulfilled (note use of apostrophe there).
Ham,cheese and tomato toasted sandwiches now. Maybe back to sawdust mill after, definitely wash house floors later.
And you’ve got the temerity to wander back in here as if nothing has happened.
I want a servant to come and give my glass pooter desk a damn good clean with Windex.
Peak Warming Man said:
captain_spalding said:
Progress report:sawdust production has proceeded well, today’s quota fulfilled (note use of apostrophe there).
Ham,cheese and tomato toasted sandwiches now. Maybe back to sawdust mill after, definitely wash house floors later.
And you’ve got the temerity to wander back in here as if nothing has happened.
I did concede that i was wrong.
I did acknowledge that i should be, and am, making proper use of apostrophes.
Must i remain an outcast in the wilderness forever more, for a single sin of ignorance?
ABC News:
‘‘Irresponsible’ family fined for leaving Sydney to attend pony club
Police say people are willing to “dob” in others not following COVID-19 restrictions after a man and woman are fined for leaving Sydney to visit a pony club in the Hunter Valley after a tip-off.’
Eastern suburbs wackers again.
Cover of Czech Auto magazine, 1935, with a snap of the 1000 mile race (Prague to Bratislava and back, twice).
Bubblecar said:
Cover of Czech Auto magazine, 1935, with a snap of the 1000 mile race (Prague to Bratislava and back, twice).
Ah, the Great Czech Automobile Census of 1935.
Note how the cars have been numbered, to ensure that they’re not counted twice.
captain_spalding said:
Peak Warming Man said:
captain_spalding said:
Progress report:sawdust production has proceeded well, today’s quota fulfilled (note use of apostrophe there).
Ham,cheese and tomato toasted sandwiches now. Maybe back to sawdust mill after, definitely wash house floors later.
And you’ve got the temerity to wander back in here as if nothing has happened.
I did concede that i was wrong.
I did acknowledge that i should be, and am, making proper use of apostrophes.
Must i remain an outcast in the wilderness forever more, for a single sin of ignorance?
Tamb said:
The error compounded by using i instead of I. (Just teasing)
That’s just laziness on my part.
Can’t be bothered hitting ‘shift’ for a single letter.
American experimental streamliner on the cover of another Auto issue, 1935.
Bubblecar said:
American experimental streamliner on the cover of another Auto issue, 1935.
Every other wally with a drawing board came up with a tear-drop shaped car in the 30s.
They were also the hot prediction in the 40s for ‘your post-war car’.
Something went wrong along the way.
captain_spalding said:
Bubblecar said:
American experimental streamliner on the cover of another Auto issue, 1935.
Every other wally with a drawing board came up with a tear-drop shaped car in the 30s.
They were also the hot prediction in the 40s for ‘your post-war car’.
Something went wrong along the way.
They realised the wedge should be at the front.
captain_spalding said:
Bubblecar said:
American experimental streamliner on the cover of another Auto issue, 1935.
Every other wally with a drawing board came up with a tear-drop shaped car in the 30s.
They were also the hot prediction in the 40s for ‘your post-war car’.
Something went wrong along the way.
Bubblecar said:
captain_spalding said:
Bubblecar said:
American experimental streamliner on the cover of another Auto issue, 1935.
Every other wally with a drawing board came up with a tear-drop shaped car in the 30s.
They were also the hot prediction in the 40s for ‘your post-war car’.
Something went wrong along the way.
They realised the wedge should be at the front.
No.
ChrispenEvan said:
Bubblecar said:
captain_spalding said:Every other wally with a drawing board came up with a tear-drop shaped car in the 30s.
They were also the hot prediction in the 40s for ‘your post-war car’.
Something went wrong along the way.
They realised the wedge should be at the front.
No.
Most aerodynamic car designs have a wedge at the front.
Teardrops are falling down, cars are moving forward on a flat surface.
Bubblecar said:
ChrispenEvan said:
Bubblecar said:They realised the wedge should be at the front.
No.
Most aerodynamic car designs have a wedge at the front.
Teardrops are falling down, cars are moving forward on a flat surface.
Ditto high speed trains.
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
ChrispenEvan said:No.
Most aerodynamic car designs have a wedge at the front.
Teardrops are falling down, cars are moving forward on a flat surface.
Ditto high speed trains.
I mean they have wedges on front AND back
Bubblecar said:
ChrispenEvan said:
Bubblecar said:They realised the wedge should be at the front.
No.
Most aerodynamic car designs have a wedge at the front.
Teardrops are falling down, cars are moving forward on a flat surface.
for speed slower than the speed of sound the most aerodynamic shape is the teardrop with the fat end at the front.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kammback
Bubblecar said:
ChrispenEvan said:
Bubblecar said:They realised the wedge should be at the front.
No.
Most aerodynamic car designs have a wedge at the front.
Teardrops are falling down, cars are moving forward on a flat surface.
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
ChrispenEvan said:No.
Most aerodynamic car designs have a wedge at the front.
Teardrops are falling down, cars are moving forward on a flat surface.
Ditto high speed trains.
LOL, bit hard having a train in a teardrop shape.
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
ChrispenEvan said:No.
Most aerodynamic car designs have a wedge at the front.
Teardrops are falling down, cars are moving forward on a flat surface.
Ditto high speed trains.
but um falling teardrops move forward on a locally flat surface, where downward is the forward direction
Tamb said:
Bubblecar said:
ChrispenEvan said:No.
Most aerodynamic car designs have a wedge at the front.
Teardrops are falling down, cars are moving forward on a flat surface.
The high speed trains are front wedge shaped.![]()
Beat me by that >< much.
ChrispenEvan said:
Bubblecar said:
ChrispenEvan said:No.
Most aerodynamic car designs have a wedge at the front.
Teardrops are falling down, cars are moving forward on a flat surface.
for speed slower than the speed of sound the most aerodynamic shape is the teardrop with the fat end at the front.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kammback
..but all the cars illustrated there have a wedgier front than back :)
Tamb said:
Tamb said:
Bubblecar said:Most aerodynamic car designs have a wedge at the front.
Teardrops are falling down, cars are moving forward on a flat surface.
The high speed trains are front wedge shaped.![]()
Beat me by that >< much.
to keep the argument on track lets stick to cars which was the the point of the discussion.
ChrispenEvan said:
Tamb said:
Tamb said:The high speed trains are front wedge shaped.
Beat me by that >< much.
to keep the argument on track lets stick to cars which was the the point of the discussion.
no but it’s still a fair objection — or do you agree with them that rounded tip is a wedge these days
Bubblecar said:
ChrispenEvan said:
Bubblecar said:Most aerodynamic car designs have a wedge at the front.
Teardrops are falling down, cars are moving forward on a flat surface.
for speed slower than the speed of sound the most aerodynamic shape is the teardrop with the fat end at the front.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kammback
..but all the cars illustrated there have a wedgier front than back :)
“The ideal shape to minimize drag is a teardrop having a smooth airfoil-like shape, but it is not practical for road vehicles because of size constraints.”
Was the relevant bit.
ChrispenEvan said:
Tamb said:
Tamb said:The high speed trains are front wedge shaped.
Beat me by that >< much.
to keep the argument on track lets stick to cars which was the the point of the discussion.
Planes, they’re not tear dropped shaped, are they. Nor bicycles.
Anyway suffice to say, the captain is right that teardrop-shaped road vehicles turned out to be rarities.
I’d imagine that stable road-holding is one factor that favours the frontal wedge, especially at speed.
SCIENCE said:
ChrispenEvan said:
Tamb said:Beat me by that >< much.
to keep the argument on track lets stick to cars which was the the point of the discussion.
no but it’s still a fair objection — or do you agree with them that rounded tip is a wedge these days
as much a wedge as an aerofoil is a wedge.
sibeen said:
ChrispenEvan said:
Tamb said:Beat me by that >< much.
to keep the argument on track lets stick to cars which was the the point of the discussion.
Planes, they’re not tear dropped shaped, are they. Nor bicycles.
Nor are raindrops or sandwiches, let alone Scramjets.
I missed the start of the conversation.
sibeen said:
ChrispenEvan said:
Tamb said:Beat me by that >< much.
to keep the argument on track lets stick to cars which was the the point of the discussion.
Planes, they’re not tear dropped shaped, are they. Nor bicycles.
and neither are they cars.
ChrispenEvan said:
Bubblecar said:
ChrispenEvan said:No.
Most aerodynamic car designs have a wedge at the front.
Teardrops are falling down, cars are moving forward on a flat surface.
for speed slower than the speed of sound the most aerodynamic shape is the teardrop with the fat end at the front.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kammback
all you had to do was invoke form drag and wedging the rear would have been obvious
Bubblecar said:
Anyway suffice to say, the captain is right that teardrop-shaped road vehicles turned out to be rarities.I’d imagine that stable road-holding is one factor that favours the frontal wedge, especially at speed.
What about teardrop shaped apostrophises?
Hey you know what else isn’t teardropped shaped? Teardrops.
dv said:
sibeen said:
ChrispenEvan said:to keep the argument on track lets stick to cars which was the the point of the discussion.
Planes, they’re not tear dropped shaped, are they. Nor bicycles.
Nor are raindrops or sandwiches, let alone Scramjets.
I missed the start of the conversation.
actually they are
ChrispenEvan said:
Bubblecar said:
ChrispenEvan said:for speed slower than the speed of sound the most aerodynamic shape is the teardrop with the fat end at the front.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kammback
..but all the cars illustrated there have a wedgier front than back :)
“The ideal shape to minimize drag is a teardrop having a smooth airfoil-like shape, but it is not practical for road vehicles because of size constraints.”
Was the relevant bit.
seems as unfair as “solar is not practical for the bulk of electricity supply because of XYZ” and so forth
SCIENCE said:
dv said:
sibeen said:Planes, they’re not tear dropped shaped, are they. Nor bicycles.
Nor are raindrops or sandwiches, let alone Scramjets.
I missed the start of the conversation.
actually they are
OR ARE THEY
https://gpm.nasa.gov/education/articles/shape-of-a-raindrop
ChrispenEvan said:
SCIENCE said:
ChrispenEvan said:to keep the argument on track lets stick to cars which was the the point of the discussion.
no but it’s still a fair objection — or do you agree with them that rounded tip is a wedge these days
as much a wedge as an aerofoil is a wedge.
looks pretty wedge-like to us
SCIENCE said:
ChrispenEvan said:
Bubblecar said:..but all the cars illustrated there have a wedgier front than back :)
“The ideal shape to minimize drag is a teardrop having a smooth airfoil-like shape, but it is not practical for road vehicles because of size constraints.”
Was the relevant bit.
seems as unfair as “solar is not practical for the bulk of electricity supply because of XYZ” and so forth
SCIENCE said:
ChrispenEvan said:
SCIENCE said:no but it’s still a fair objection — or do you agree with them that rounded tip is a wedge these days
as much a wedge as an aerofoil is a wedge.
looks pretty wedge-like to us
which is what i was saying.
dv said:
SCIENCE said:
dv said:Nor are raindrops or sandwiches, let alone Scramjets.
I missed the start of the conversation.
actually they are
OR ARE THEY
https://gpm.nasa.gov/education/articles/shape-of-a-raindrop
all right we’re convinced
SCIENCE said:
dv said:
SCIENCE said:actually they are
OR ARE THEY
https://gpm.nasa.gov/education/articles/shape-of-a-raindrop
all right we’re convinced
Wait surely that’s a section of a radially symmetrical distorted torus
Wedgies do sometimes cause tears
Tamb said:
SCIENCE said:
ChrispenEvan said:“The ideal shape to minimize drag is a teardrop having a smooth airfoil-like shape, but it is not practical for road vehicles because of size constraints.”
Was the relevant bit.
seems as unfair as “solar is not practical for the bulk of electricity supply because of XYZ” and so forth
Cars have an aero interaction with the road & must be designed to not have lift.
isn’t that addressed by having another wedge at the … rear … as well
dv said:
SCIENCE said:
dv said:OR ARE THEY
https://gpm.nasa.gov/education/articles/shape-of-a-raindrop
all right we’re convinced
Wait surely that’s a section of a radially symmetrical distorted torus
dv said:
SCIENCE said:
dv said:OR ARE THEY
https://gpm.nasa.gov/education/articles/shape-of-a-raindrop
all right we’re convinced
Wait surely that’s a section of a radially symmetrical distorted torus
but our retinas are essentially 2D manifolds
SCIENCE said:
Tamb said:
SCIENCE said:seems as unfair as “solar is not practical for the bulk of electricity supply because of XYZ” and so forth
Cars have an aero interaction with the road & must be designed to not have lift.isn’t that addressed by having another wedge at the … rear … as well
rear spoilers are to keep traction on the rear. need one on the front to stop lift. don’t want to do a campbell.
dv said:
Wedgies do sometimes cause tears
ChrispenEvan said:
SCIENCE said:
Tamb said:Cars have an aero interaction with the road & must be designed to not have lift.
isn’t that addressed by having another wedge at the … rear … as well
rear spoilers are to keep traction on the rear. need one on the front to stop lift. don’t want to do a campbell.
aha so you agree with them that the front of the car must have wedge
Tamb said:
dv said:Wedgies do sometimes cause tears
Caused by radial distortion.
but wait, they said, that torus
SCIENCE said:
dv said:
SCIENCE said:all right we’re convinced
Wait surely that’s a section of a radially symmetrical distorted torus
but our retinas are essentially 2D manifolds
nice to bring it back to cars
SCIENCE said:
ChrispenEvan said:
SCIENCE said:isn’t that addressed by having another wedge at the … rear … as well
rear spoilers are to keep traction on the rear. need one on the front to stop lift. don’t want to do a campbell.
aha so you agree with them that the front of the car must have wedge
only for high speed and maybe for rear engined cars that don’t have the weight upfront. like formula cars have a front spoiler but very few road cars do.
dv said:
SCIENCE said:
dv said:Wait surely that’s a section of a radially symmetrical distorted torus
but our retinas are essentially 2D manifolds
nice to bring it back to cars
it did occur to us but we hadn’t exhausted the other line of pursuit yet
dv said:
Hey you know what else isn’t teardropped shaped? Teardrops.
anyway before we run for some sun we do agree with dv here that the stereotyped morphs are actually substantially false, much to The Rev Dodgson’s chagrin, and indeed several months ago in our media literacy tutorials we gave students an exercise to find an actual legitimate image of a “teardrop shaped” tear drop
SCIENCE said:
dv said:Hey you know what else isn’t teardropped shaped? Teardrops.
anyway before we run for some sun we do agree with dv here that the stereotyped morphs are actually substantially false, much to The Rev Dodgson’s chagrin, and indeed several months ago in our media literacy tutorials we gave students an exercise to find an actual legitimate image of a “teardrop shaped” tear drop
Also stars aren’t star-shaped and hearts aren’t heart-shaped, maybe nothing is shaped like itself in this wacky universe
SCIENCE said:
dv said:Hey you know what else isn’t teardropped shaped? Teardrops.
anyway before we run for some sun we do agree with dv here that the stereotyped morphs are actually substantially false, much to The Rev Dodgson’s chagrin, and indeed several months ago in our media literacy tutorials we gave students an exercise to find an actual legitimate image of a “teardrop shaped” tear drop
That’s pretty close
dv said:
SCIENCE said:
dv said:Hey you know what else isn’t teardropped shaped? Teardrops.
anyway before we run for some sun we do agree with dv here that the stereotyped morphs are actually substantially false, much to The Rev Dodgson’s chagrin, and indeed several months ago in our media literacy tutorials we gave students an exercise to find an actual legitimate image of a “teardrop shaped” tear drop
Also stars aren’t star-shaped and hearts aren’t heart-shaped, maybe nothing is shaped like itself in this wacky universe
Tramps aren’t bum-shaped.
Omg my baby boy is an According-to-Hoyle teenager now, that’s scary as fuck
dv said:
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:Most aerodynamic car designs have a wedge at the front.
Teardrops are falling down, cars are moving forward on a flat surface.
Ditto high speed trains.
I mean they have wedges on front AND back
Because they are a bugger to turn around.
dv said:
Omg my baby boy is an According-to-Hoyle teenager now, that’s scary as fuck
You find yourself being corrected?
lady’s back from the shopping, got more parts to stuff into her favorite little car, including new water pump, been able to hear the bearing in that for while now when idling, slight rumble, think it’s that anyway, whatever it’s getting a new one
enough coolant for that car^, and the old ute too, latter’s had straight rainwater in it for ages now, since it had a water pump replaced actually, as recall now
new spark plugs for the little car, they get done every six months or so
and wiper blades, I like to be able to see clearly in damp weather
in other news I fell asleep, a nap, had a dream I went for a swim way out into deep water, seemed beautiful weather for it, happened upon a shark that tailed me back to the beach, I then fell asleep in the car and had a nightmare (a dream in or about a dream), I had that sort of auditory thunder effect I get as turns to a nightmare, which was to wake me probably because I was overheated, then in the dream I had to explain the noises I make when trying to wake myself, busting out of the nightmare before it gets going
not properly a nightmare, but I can get intense seemingly auditory and visual effects which are way spooky, if I let, some sort of anomaly in the wetware shutdown sequence I guess, as fall asleep usually, very rarely
Bubblecar said:
dv said:
Omg my baby boy is an According-to-Hoyle teenager now, that’s scary as fuck
You find yourself being corrected?
Nah he still realises I know everything
Murder fingers
I wonder what Mikey Robins is up to
US Motor magazine 1944. Tanks turning into family cars, over the rainbow.
Poisonous?
Kingy said:
Poisonous?
I don’t know. I’ve never seen one, let alone eat one!
Michael V said:
Kingy said:
Poisonous?
I don’t know. I’ve never seen one, let alone eat one!
“The collared lizard is a small lizard from the southern states of the USA. They are know primarily for their pair of dark bands or collars. The females are normally a grey green colour while the males can be bright green, olive, blue and yellow. Both males and females of the species have quite large heads and pale bellies.
This lizards is particularly quick and can rear up on its hind legs to sprint away. They have been known to reach speeds of 15 mph when threatened.
The natural collared lizard habitat most consists of limestone rocks or other rocky outcrops. They normally thrive in areas with numerous cracks and holes in which they can hunt and hide.”
It sure doesn’t blend in with limestone outcrops. I wonder what the colouration is for.
Kingy said:
Poisonous?
It’s certainly colourful.
Kingy said:
Michael V said:
Kingy said:
Poisonous?
I don’t know. I’ve never seen one, let alone eat one!
“The collared lizard is a small lizard from the southern states of the USA. They are know primarily for their pair of dark bands or collars. The females are normally a grey green colour while the males can be bright green, olive, blue and yellow. Both males and females of the species have quite large heads and pale bellies.
This lizards is particularly quick and can rear up on its hind legs to sprint away. They have been known to reach speeds of 15 mph when threatened.
The natural collared lizard habitat most consists of limestone rocks or other rocky outcrops. They normally thrive in areas with numerous cracks and holes in which they can hunt and hide.”
It sure doesn’t blend in with limestone outcrops. I wonder what the colouration is for.
Retiles are being manipulated like plants by selective and cross breeding to achieve brighter colours to increase sales for more money. Don’t know if that is the reason in this case, but could well be.
Kingy said:
Michael V said:
Kingy said:
Poisonous?
I don’t know. I’ve never seen one, let alone eat one!
“The collared lizard is a small lizard from the southern states of the USA. They are know primarily for their pair of dark bands or collars. The females are normally a grey green colour while the males can be bright green, olive, blue and yellow. Both males and females of the species have quite large heads and pale bellies.
This lizards is particularly quick and can rear up on its hind legs to sprint away. They have been known to reach speeds of 15 mph when threatened.
The natural collared lizard habitat most consists of limestone rocks or other rocky outcrops. They normally thrive in areas with numerous cracks and holes in which they can hunt and hide.”
It sure doesn’t blend in with limestone outcrops. I wonder what the colouration is for.
It’s for getting the girls…
Heading for 0 tonight, I thought it was getting a bit nippy.
Tonight’s menu offers tomato soup followed by cheese kranskies with sauerkraut + boiled & buttered spuds.
PermeateFree said:
Kingy said:
Michael V said:I don’t know. I’ve never seen one, let alone eat one!
“The collared lizard is a small lizard from the southern states of the USA. They are know primarily for their pair of dark bands or collars. The females are normally a grey green colour while the males can be bright green, olive, blue and yellow. Both males and females of the species have quite large heads and pale bellies.
This lizards is particularly quick and can rear up on its hind legs to sprint away. They have been known to reach speeds of 15 mph when threatened.
The natural collared lizard habitat most consists of limestone rocks or other rocky outcrops. They normally thrive in areas with numerous cracks and holes in which they can hunt and hide.”
It sure doesn’t blend in with limestone outcrops. I wonder what the colouration is for.
Retiles are being manipulated like plants by selective and cross breeding to achieve brighter colours to increase sales for more money. Don’t know if that is the reason in this case, but could well be.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/1444693
PermeateFree said:
PermeateFree said:
Kingy said:“The collared lizard is a small lizard from the southern states of the USA. They are know primarily for their pair of dark bands or collars. The females are normally a grey green colour while the males can be bright green, olive, blue and yellow. Both males and females of the species have quite large heads and pale bellies.
This lizards is particularly quick and can rear up on its hind legs to sprint away. They have been known to reach speeds of 15 mph when threatened.
The natural collared lizard habitat most consists of limestone rocks or other rocky outcrops. They normally thrive in areas with numerous cracks and holes in which they can hunt and hide.”
It sure doesn’t blend in with limestone outcrops. I wonder what the colouration is for.
Retiles are being manipulated like plants by selective and cross breeding to achieve brighter colours to increase sales for more money. Don’t know if that is the reason in this case, but could well be.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/1444693
Electrophoretic analysis of samples from contiguous populations of Crotaphytus collaris baileyi and C. insularis bicinctores provides conclusive evidence that the two taxa hybridize naturally. The hybrid zone at one locality is narrow (< 1.7 km), suggesting strong selection against hybrids. Two genetic marker loci were examined and hybrids exhibited heterozygosity at one or both loci, or carried alleles of both species in the homozygous state. The morphological evidence and array of hybrid genotypes detected electrophoretically indicate that F1 hybrids are sufficiently fertile to produce later generation and backcross hybrids. There is at present no conclusive evidence of a genetic and/or physiological basis for hybrid inferiority. Ecological and behavioral mechanisms potentially restricting hybridization include limited vagility imposed by habitat discontinuity, interspecific territorial aggression, and perhaps incipient sexual isolation. The taxonomic status of bicinctores is reviewed and its retention as a subspecies of C. insularis is recommended.
Bubblecar said:
Heading for 0 tonight, I thought it was getting a bit nippy.Tonight’s menu offers tomato soup followed by cheese kranskies with sauerkraut + boiled & buttered spuds.
I have liberated half of one of Cam’s meat pies from the freezer. I am about to put a couple of potatoes into the oven to be baked in their jackets. I’ve got some snow peas to nuke as well.
Bubblecar said:
Kingy said:
Poisonous?
It’s certainly colourful.
And well spotted.
Kingy said:
Poisonous?
gorgeous
Arts said:
Kingy said:
Poisonous?
gorgeous
bit lairy for my tastes.
ChrispenEvan said:
Arts said:
Kingy said:
Poisonous?
gorgeous
bit lairy for my tastes.
just put some gravy on it then
today the WA Gov introduced some mask and distancing restrictions back… seems that someone came from NSW, had a test then decided to go out and about while she waited for the test results, which came back positive. I found out at around 11.15 this morning that the mask restrictions were going to start from 12pm. And I also read some of the hot spots this person had been to yesterday… one of them was IKEA… which was the exact place I was standing in when I was reading this news… I got my Swedish meatballs and daim chocolate and got out of there. … .. eventually. (with some plants and a picture frame.. my office now looks like a garden)
Arts said:
ChrispenEvan said:
Arts said:gorgeous
bit lairy for my tastes.
just put some gravy on it then
Which harks back to the question of whether or not it is poisonous.
Michael V said:
Arts said:
ChrispenEvan said:bit lairy for my tastes.
just put some gravy on it then
Which harks back to the question of whether or not it is poisonous.
I’m looking at a proper Italian pizza from the Trattoria, there’ll be no pineapple but there will be lashings of those little salted suckers from the Mediterranean that have been used on Italian pizzas as far back as the shipwrecking of Paul of Tarsus.
Tau.Neutrino said:
Healthcare professionals, government officials and everyday people find themselves in the midst of a pandemic as the CDC works to find a cure.
The death of Beth Emhoff and her son leads to the discovery of a deadly virus.
While the US Centers for Disease Control struggles to curb its spread, worldwide panic ensues.
Tau.Neutrino said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Healthcare professionals, government officials and everyday people find themselves in the midst of a pandemic as the CDC works to find a cure.
The death of Beth Emhoff and her son leads to the discovery of a deadly virus.
While the US Centers for Disease Control struggles to curb its spread, worldwide panic ensues.
Raining here. It is winter though. We moistly get our rain in winter on this side of the country.
Tau.Neutrino said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Healthcare professionals, government officials and everyday people find themselves in the midst of a pandemic as the CDC works to find a cure.
The death of Beth Emhoff and her son leads to the discovery of a deadly virus.
While the US Centers for Disease Control struggles to curb its spread, worldwide panic ensues.
Emily Taylor, despite being reunited with her husband from prison, becomes severely depressed with emotional episodes and suicide attempts. Her psychiatrist, Jonathan Banks, after conferring with her previous doctor, eventually prescribes an experimental new medication called Ablixa. The plot thickens when the side effects of the drug lead to Emily killing her husband in a “sleepwalking” state. With Emily plea-bargained into mental hospital confinement and Dr. Banks’ practice crumbling around him, the case seems closed. However, Dr. Banks cannot accept full responsibility and investigates to clear his name. What follows is a dark quest that threatens to tear what’s left of his life apart even as he discovers the diabolical truth of this tragedy.
Peak Warming Man said:
Michael V said:
Arts said:just put some gravy on it then
Which harks back to the question of whether or not it is poisonous.
I’m looking at a proper Italian pizza from the Trattoria, there’ll be no pineapple but there will be lashings of those little salted suckers from the Mediterranean that have been used on Italian pizzas as far back as the shipwrecking of Paul of Tarsus.
Tarsus is a legend.
ChrispenEvan said:
Raining here. It is winter though. We moistly get our rain in winter on this side of the country.
Yes you have a Mediterranean climate, ver similar to what this chap would have experienced during his shipwrecking.
Just had a weird experience driving south on Beaufort St. Felt and heard a loud thump, like some large object had landed on the roof. Looked back to see whether I’d been hit by something, no vehicle within four metres. Pulled over… no marks or dints or anything like that.
dv said:
Just had a weird experience driving south on Beaufort St. Felt and heard a loud thump, like some large object had landed on the roof. Looked back to see whether I’d been hit by something, no vehicle within four metres. Pulled over… no marks or dints or anything like that.
It probably scurried back under the seat.
dv said:
Just had a weird experience driving south on Beaufort St. Felt and heard a loud thump, like some large object had landed on the roof. Looked back to see whether I’d been hit by something, no vehicle within four metres. Pulled over… no marks or dints or anything like that.
Drive north and see if the same thing happens
Then drive south again and see of the same thing happens.
dv said:
Just had a weird experience driving south on Beaufort St. Felt and heard a loud thump, like some large object had landed on the roof. Looked back to see whether I’d been hit by something, no vehicle within four metres. Pulled over… no marks or dints or anything like that.
Was there anything unusual in the sky?
Peak Warming Man said:
ChrispenEvan said:
Raining here. It is winter though. We moistly get our rain in winter on this side of the country.
Yes you have a Mediterranean climate, ver similar to what this chap would have experienced during his shipwrecking.
He’s holding up the wrong finger.
dv said:
Just had a weird experience driving south on Beaufort St. Felt and heard a loud thump, like some large object had landed on the roof. Looked back to see whether I’d been hit by something, no vehicle within four metres. Pulled over… no marks or dints or anything like that.
Luckily no one was injured.
Peak Warming Man said:
Michael V said:
Arts said:just put some gravy on it then
Which harks back to the question of whether or not it is poisonous.
I’m looking at a proper Italian pizza from the Trattoria, there’ll be no pineapple but there will be lashings of those little salted suckers from the Mediterranean that have been used on Italian pizzas as far back as the shipwrecking of Paul of Tarsus.
you are dead to me
ChrispenEvan said:
Raining here. It is winter though. We moistly get our rain in winter on this side of the country.
nice slip
Peak Warming Man said:
ChrispenEvan said:
Raining here. It is winter though. We moistly get our rain in winter on this side of the country.
Yes you have a Mediterranean climate, ver similar to what this chap would have experienced during his shipwrecking.
He was a bit of a raconteur they say, reckons Jesus wasn’t too popular with the corner stores around Galilee.
One store owner said that the day Jesus came to town things started out really well, just after he opened a chap came in a bought 5 vienna loafs and two nice size bream but that was it, he never sold another thing all day.
dv said:
Just had a weird experience driving south on Beaufort St. Felt and heard a loud thump, like some large object had landed on the roof. Looked back to see whether I’d been hit by something, no vehicle within four metres. Pulled over… no marks or dints or anything like that.
that part of Beaufort st is notoriously haunted…
Peak Warming Man said:
Michael V said:
Arts said:just put some gravy on it then
Which harks back to the question of whether or not it is poisonous.
I’m looking at a proper Italian pizza from the Trattoria, there’ll be no pineapple but there will be lashings of those little salted suckers from the Mediterranean that have been used on Italian pizzas as far back as the shipwrecking of Paul of Tarsus.
:)
dv said:
Just had a weird experience driving south on Beaufort St. Felt and heard a loud thump, like some large object had landed on the roof. Looked back to see whether I’d been hit by something, no vehicle within four metres. Pulled over… no marks or dints or anything like that.
Probably one of those things that goes thump in the night. It quickly worked out that it was up early so went back to bed.
Bubblecar said:
dv said:
Just had a weird experience driving south on Beaufort St. Felt and heard a loud thump, like some large object had landed on the roof. Looked back to see whether I’d been hit by something, no vehicle within four metres. Pulled over… no marks or dints or anything like that.
Was there anything unusual in the sky?
dv said:
Just had a weird experience driving south on Beaufort St. Felt and heard a loud thump, like some large object had landed on the roof. Looked back to see whether I’d been hit by something, no vehicle within four metres. Pulled over… no marks or dints or anything like that.
Oooooh! A mystery!
Peak Warming Man said:
Peak Warming Man said:
ChrispenEvan said:
Raining here. It is winter though. We moistly get our rain in winter on this side of the country.
Yes you have a Mediterranean climate, ver similar to what this chap would have experienced during his shipwrecking.
He was a bit of a raconteur they say, reckons Jesus wasn’t too popular with the corner stores around Galilee.
One store owner said that the day Jesus came to town things started out really well, just after he opened a chap came in a bought 5 vienna loafs and two nice size bream but that was it, he never sold another thing all day.
LOLOLOLOLOLOL
dv said:
Just had a weird experience driving south on Beaufort St. Felt and heard a loud thump, like some large object had landed on the roof. Looked back to see whether I’d been hit by something, no vehicle within four metres. Pulled over… no marks or dints or anything like that.
On a scale of 0 to 12 how heavy was the thump?
Peak Warming Man said:
dv said:
Just had a weird experience driving south on Beaufort St. Felt and heard a loud thump, like some large object had landed on the roof. Looked back to see whether I’d been hit by something, no vehicle within four metres. Pulled over… no marks or dints or anything like that.
On a scale of 0 to 12 how heavy was the thump?
Is this scale linear or logarithmic?
sibeen said:
Peak Warming Man said:
dv said:
Just had a weird experience driving south on Beaufort St. Felt and heard a loud thump, like some large object had landed on the roof. Looked back to see whether I’d been hit by something, no vehicle within four metres. Pulled over… no marks or dints or anything like that.
On a scale of 0 to 12 how heavy was the thump?
Is this scale linear or logarithmic?
Linear I think.
Dinner was tasty enough and now it’s time for an hour’s kip before returning to TRAIN DRIVER’S VIEW: Iron ore trains above the polar circle (The Iron Ore Line).
Bubblecar said:
Dinner was tasty enough and now it’s time for an hour’s kip before returning to TRAIN DRIVER’S VIEW: Iron ore trains above the polar circle (The Iron Ore Line).
My potatoes are just about baked. Cam’s pie is warming in the oven with them now. The snowpeas are awaiting their fate.
Bubblecar said:
Dinner was tasty enough and now it’s time for an hour’s kip before returning to TRAIN DRIVER’S VIEW: Iron ore trains above the polar circle (The Iron Ore Line).
He’s got pig iron, he’s got pig iron, he’s got all pig iron.
sibeen said:
Peak Warming Man said:
dv said:
Just had a weird experience driving south on Beaufort St. Felt and heard a loud thump, like some large object had landed on the roof. Looked back to see whether I’d been hit by something, no vehicle within four metres. Pulled over… no marks or dints or anything like that.
On a scale of 0 to 12 how heavy was the thump?
Is this scale linear or logarithmic?
No. The Ecky scale.
How’s ya footy tips, MR Beeny Boy.
FIGJAM.
Woodie said:
How’s ya footy tips, MR Beeny Boy.FIGJAM.
5 so far and tipped Adelaide in the last.
Peak Warming Man said:
Michael V said:
Arts said:just put some gravy on it then
Which harks back to the question of whether or not it is poisonous.
I’m looking at a proper Italian pizza from the Trattoria, there’ll be no pineapple but there will be lashings of those little salted suckers from the Mediterranean that have been used on Italian pizzas as far back as the shipwrecking of Paul of Tarsus.
Anchovies!
That sharp and oh so fishy taste! That stench, that glorious stench!
Others may shun you, PWM, they may point and jeer, but those of us who worship at the temple of Engraulidae, we salute you.
Bubblecar said:
dv said:
Just had a weird experience driving south on Beaufort St. Felt and heard a loud thump, like some large object had landed on the roof. Looked back to see whether I’d been hit by something, no vehicle within four metres. Pulled over… no marks or dints or anything like that.
Was there anything unusual in the sky?
Just a flying pedestrian.
Have to go and get an anchovy fillet from the jar now.
Kingy said:
Bubblecar said:
dv said:
Just had a weird experience driving south on Beaufort St. Felt and heard a loud thump, like some large object had landed on the roof. Looked back to see whether I’d been hit by something, no vehicle within four metres. Pulled over… no marks or dints or anything like that.
Was there anything unusual in the sky?
Just a flying pedestrian.
Any nuns?
Peak Warming Man said:
sibeen said:
Peak Warming Man said:On a scale of 0 to 12 how heavy was the thump?
Is this scale linear or logarithmic?
Linear I think.
Linear A or linear B?
ABC News:
‘Donald Trump has returned to the rally stage. He hasn’t changed.’
Still a fat,old,stupid, egotistical, lying arsehole.
Neophyte said:
Kingy said:
Bubblecar said:Was there anything unusual in the sky?
Just a flying pedestrian.
Any nuns?
no, no nuns.
Arts said:
today the WA Gov introduced some mask and distancing restrictions back… seems that someone came from NSW, had a test then decided to go out and about while she waited for the test results, which came back positive. I found out at around 11.15 this morning that the mask restrictions were going to start from 12pm. And I also read some of the hot spots this person had been to yesterday… one of them was IKEA… which was the exact place I was standing in when I was reading this news… I got my Swedish meatballs and daim chocolate and got out of there. … .. eventually. (with some plants and a picture frame.. my office now looks like a garden)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7DjMIRkZjE
IN FULL: WA government announces restrictions on Perth, Peel region | ABC News
just watching that^
Evening. Most people were wearing masks today also sold quite a few we had left over from last year.
Water pump proved to be recalcitrant, but it eventually filled the tank. A shame it took me all day to find the problems. On the upside, we have water again.
captain_spalding
ABC News:
‘Donald Trump has returned to the rally stage. He hasn’t changed.’
Still a fat,old,stupid, egotistical, lying arsehole.
[/quote said:
Ex president with over 50 negative traits including narcissism, sociopathism, megalomaniaism and remembered for being a serial lying arsehole and inciting violence in his last few days of office.
Bubblecar said:
dv said:
Just had a weird experience driving south on Beaufort St. Felt and heard a loud thump, like some large object had landed on the roof. Looked back to see whether I’d been hit by something, no vehicle within four metres. Pulled over… no marks or dints or anything like that.
Was there anything unusual in the sky?
I would say not. It’s a bit rainy but this didn’t seem like thunder
dv said:
Bubblecar said:
dv said:
Just had a weird experience driving south on Beaufort St. Felt and heard a loud thump, like some large object had landed on the roof. Looked back to see whether I’d been hit by something, no vehicle within four metres. Pulled over… no marks or dints or anything like that.
Was there anything unusual in the sky?
I would say not. It’s a bit rainy but this didn’t seem like thunder
Did you turn your car off, then turn it on again?
Dark Orange said:
Water pump proved to be recalcitrant, but it eventually filled the tank. A shame it took me all day to find the problems. On the upside, we have water again.
Broken threps?
Dark Orange said:
Water pump proved to be recalcitrant, but it eventually filled the tank. A shame it took me all day to find the problems. On the upside, we have water again.
Living the dream.
poikilotherm said:
Dark Orange said:
Water pump proved to be recalcitrant, but it eventually filled the tank. A shame it took me all day to find the problems. On the upside, we have water again.
Living the dream.
Just need the servo pie.
I’ve eaten my meat, Treeton Farm Scotch Fillet about 2cm thick, now I’m gunna eat some puddding.
PermeateFree said:
dv said:
Bubblecar said:Was there anything unusual in the sky?
I would say not. It’s a bit rainy but this didn’t seem like thunder
Did you turn your car off, then turn it on again?
Did you glance at your watch and realise that four hours had passed without you knowing it?
Peak Warming Man said:
Dark Orange said:
Water pump proved to be recalcitrant, but it eventually filled the tank. A shame it took me all day to find the problems. On the upside, we have water again.
Broken threps?
Dodgy on/off switch, kaput magneto and shit in the float needle valve.
adds small motor mechanic to resume
ChrispenEvan said:
I’ve eaten my meat, Treeton Farm Scotch Fillet about 2cm thick, now I’m gunna eat some puddding.
last night we went to a BBQ grill place in freo… there was many meat, cheesy pasta, white bread and something that might have been a few leaves of cos lettuce… the two toilets were adequate..
Arts said:
… and something that might have been a few leaves of cos lettuce…
bloody vegans are everywhere!!
I’m losing staff left and right this weekend…fucking share houses.
Consider
poikilotherm said:
I’m losing staff left and right this weekend…fucking share houses.
Some sort of pharmacy staff collective?
Witty Rejoinder said:
poikilotherm said:
I’m losing staff left and right this weekend…fucking share houses.
Some sort of pharmacy staff collective?
Younger staff seem to all live in share houses or share their house out to renters, annoyingly their flat mates often work in Sydney as well.
dv said:
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Don’t like the look of that.
dv said:
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Mouth to Mouth resuscitation after hitting a roof of a car in Beaufort St.
poikilotherm said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
poikilotherm said:
I’m losing staff left and right this weekend…fucking share houses.
Some sort of pharmacy staff collective?
Younger staff seem to all live in share houses or share their house out to renters, annoyingly their flat mates often work in Sydney as well.
I don’t understand how this means you are losing staff
dv said:
poikilotherm said:
Witty Rejoinder said:Some sort of pharmacy staff collective?
Younger staff seem to all live in share houses or share their house out to renters, annoyingly their flat mates often work in Sydney as well.
I don’t understand how this means you are losing staff
probably because they have to self quarantine… which is why you should keep all your staff in a dark cellar with little light or contact with the outside world
Arts said:
dv said:
poikilotherm said:Younger staff seem to all live in share houses or share their house out to renters, annoyingly their flat mates often work in Sydney as well.
I don’t understand how this means you are losing staff
probably because they have to self quarantine… which is why you should keep all your staff in a dark cellar with little light or contact with the outside world
They’re staff not your kids!!!
dv said:
poikilotherm said:
Witty Rejoinder said:Some sort of pharmacy staff collective?
Younger staff seem to all live in share houses or share their house out to renters, annoyingly their flat mates often work in Sydney as well.
I don’t understand how this means you are losing staff
Covid restrictions; if anyone’s been to Sydney since 21st, they have to self isolate, flat mates are close contacts and have to isolate as well.
ChrispenEvan said:
Arts said:
dv said:I don’t understand how this means you are losing staff
probably because they have to self quarantine… which is why you should keep all your staff in a dark cellar with little light or contact with the outside world
They’re staff not your kids!!!
to be fair, I would do that to anyone’s kids.
Arts said:
ChrispenEvan said:
Arts said:probably because they have to self quarantine… which is why you should keep all your staff in a dark cellar with little light or contact with the outside world
They’re staff not your kids!!!
to be fair, I would do that to anyone’s kids.
That’s normal isn’t it?
Arts said:
ChrispenEvan said:
Arts said:probably because they have to self quarantine… which is why you should keep all your staff in a dark cellar with little light or contact with the outside world
They’re staff not your kids!!!
to be fair, I would do that to anyone’s kids.
That’s why i never had kids…
https://www.kogan.com/au/buy/crazyshopping-2-x-li-battery-68v-impact-wrench-12-520nm-electric-led-brushless-cordless-xjx0586/?grt=ChQxNjI0ODcwMjM3NTk3NzI5ODY3NhACGgJJViIDcGRwKAA
Plenty of Pros.
Very gruntelled, free shipping, cheap.
Cons.
Battery doesn’t look standard.
Item is overseas in West Taipei.
Peak Warming Man said:
https://www.kogan.com/au/buy/crazyshopping-2-x-li-battery-68v-impact-wrench-12-520nm-electric-led-brushless-cordless-xjx0586/?grt=ChQxNjI0ODcwMjM3NTk3NzI5ODY3NhACGgJJViIDcGRwKAAPlenty of Pros.
Very gruntelled, free shipping, cheap.Cons.
Battery doesn’t look standard.
Item is overseas in West Taipei.
Don’t import landfill.
poikilotherm said:
I’m losing staff left and right this weekend…fucking share houses.
Bugger.
Bonjour le Tour de le Bicyclette du Frog!
I met my nephew toady for the first time. Already one year old and walking on his own. He was born during the first lockdown.
party_pants said:
I met my nephew toady for the first time. Already one year old and walking on his own. He was born during the first lockdown.
Poor kid with a name like that.
ChrispenEvan said:
party_pants said:
I met my nephew toady for the first time. Already one year old and walking on his own. He was born during the first lockdown.
Poor kid with a name like that.
Hopefully he will grow up with bwtter typing skillz than me.
party_pants said:
ChrispenEvan said:
party_pants said:
I met my nephew toady for the first time. Already one year old and walking on his own. He was born during the first lockdown.
Poor kid with a name like that.
Hopefully he will grow up with bwtter typing skillz than me.
So what is his name?
party_pants said:
I met my nephew toady for the first time. Already one year old and walking on his own. He was born during the first lockdown.
Did he have any idea who you are?
sarahs mum said:
party_pants said:
ChrispenEvan said:Poor kid with a name like that.
Hopefully he will grow up with bwtter typing skillz than me.
So what is his name?
Eli.
Bubblecar said:
party_pants said:
I met my nephew toady for the first time. Already one year old and walking on his own. He was born during the first lockdown.
Did he have any idea who you are?
No. But the older two boys did. The eldest even remembered me from last time.
party_pants said:
sarahs mum said:
party_pants said:Hopefully he will grow up with bwtter typing skillz than me.
So what is his name?
Eli.
Nicer than toady.
Hey sibeen, someone took a pic of the wiring in your new house.
ChrispenEvan said:
Hey sibeen, someone took a pic of the wiring in your new house.
I think you’ll find that that standard door Frame was too tall
Arts said:
ChrispenEvan said:
Hey sibeen, someone took a pic of the wiring in your new house.
I think you’ll find that that standard door Frame was too tall
Its for doing chin ups…
ChrispenEvan said:
Hey sibeen, someone took a pic of the wiring in your new house.
Fucking sparkies.
Neophyte said:
Kingy said:
Bubblecar said:Was there anything unusual in the sky?
Just a flying pedestrian.
Any nuns?
Low flying owl.
Is there a kind of exercise bike where you lie on your back and do the cycling above?
Bubblecar said:
Is there a kind of exercise bike where you lie on your back and do the cycling above?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEWBAT9NCBs
SCIENCE said:
Bubblecar said:
Is there a kind of exercise bike where you lie on your back and do the cycling above?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEWBAT9NCBs
furious said:
SCIENCE said:
Bubblecar said:
Is there a kind of exercise bike where you lie on your back and do the cycling above?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEWBAT9NCBs
sorry forgot the specification link
https://medicalpositioning.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/MPI_Stress-EchoBed_Specification-Sheet.pdf
disclaimer: we’ve never built, purchased or used one of these
SCIENCE said:
furious said:
SCIENCE said:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEWBAT9NCBs
sorry forgot the specification link
https://medicalpositioning.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/MPI_Stress-EchoBed_Specification-Sheet.pdf
disclaimer: we’ve never built, purchased or used one of these
So nothing you could get cheap on eBay then.
Bubblecar said:
SCIENCE said:
furious said:
sorry forgot the specification link
https://medicalpositioning.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/MPI_Stress-EchoBed_Specification-Sheet.pdf
disclaimer: we’ve never built, purchased or used one of these
So nothing you could get cheap on eBay then.
What would be wrong with the standard style exercise bike?
sibeen said:
Bubblecar said:
SCIENCE said:sorry forgot the specification link
https://medicalpositioning.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/MPI_Stress-EchoBed_Specification-Sheet.pdf
disclaimer: we’ve never built, purchased or used one of these
So nothing you could get cheap on eBay then.
What would be wrong with the standard style exercise bike?
Low ceilings…
sibeen said:
Bubblecar said:
SCIENCE said:sorry forgot the specification link
https://medicalpositioning.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/MPI_Stress-EchoBed_Specification-Sheet.pdf
disclaimer: we’ve never built, purchased or used one of these
So nothing you could get cheap on eBay then.
What would be wrong with the standard style exercise bike?
I just think a supine one would be better for me. Possibly help with the poor lower leg circulation and the spinal stenosis.
Bubblecar said:
sibeen said:
Bubblecar said:So nothing you could get cheap on eBay then.
What would be wrong with the standard style exercise bike?
I just think a supine one would be better for me. Possibly help with the poor lower leg circulation and the spinal stenosis.
You could always just lie on your back and mime cycling with your legs.
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
sibeen said:What would be wrong with the standard style exercise bike?
I just think a supine one would be better for me. Possibly help with the poor lower leg circulation and the spinal stenosis.
You could always just lie on your back and mime cycling with your legs.
Like one of those beetles that can’t right itself when it tips on its back.
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:I just think a supine one would be better for me. Possibly help with the poor lower leg circulation and the spinal stenosis.
You could always just lie on your back and mime cycling with your legs.
Like one of those beetles that can’t right itself when it tips on its back.
I’m quite sure I could cut bike down and weld some stays to hold it in postion and place cushioning for that pictured position.
I’d shoose one with gearing so that you can change the work levels.
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:I just think a supine one would be better for me. Possibly help with the poor lower leg circulation and the spinal stenosis.
You could always just lie on your back and mime cycling with your legs.
Like one of those beetles that can’t right itself when it tips on its back.
roughbarked said:
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:You could always just lie on your back and mime cycling with your legs.
Like one of those beetles that can’t right itself when it tips on its back.
I’m quite sure I could cut bike down and weld some stays to hold it in postion and place cushioning for that pictured position.
I’d shoose one with gearing so that you can change the work levels.
choose?
The exercise bike has certainly helped me loose weight and strengthen the muscles around the knees.
sibeen said:
The exercise bike has certainly helped me loose weight and strengthen the muscles around the knees.
Fred Flintstone would have greatly benefitted from this addition of a cog and chain in his new car.
When are the Liberals going to give up on this budget deficit crap?
The latest long-term forecasts from the federal Treasury show the budget will remain in deficit through to at least 2060, and population growth will continue to slump.
furious said:
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:You could always just lie on your back and mime cycling with your legs.
Like one of those beetles that can’t right itself when it tips on its back.
Yeah that sort of thing. I’ll give it a go in the week ahead.
sibeen said:
The exercise bike has certainly helped me loose weight and strengthen the muscles around the knees.
Probably get one eventually.
roughbarked said:
When are the Liberals going to give up on this budget deficit crap?The latest long-term forecasts from the federal Treasury show the budget will remain in deficit through to at least 2060, and population growth will continue to slump.
Modern Monetary Theory holds that governments can just print new money in limited circumstances. Like when inflation is very low or even negative, the extra boost of an injection of currency might stimulate the economy just the right amount needed. Governments are not strictly controlled by income and expenditure like a household budget is. So long as they don’t overdo it.
Bubblecar said:
sibeen said:
The exercise bike has certainly helped me loose weight and strengthen the muscles around the knees.
Probably get one eventually.
Yeah, I think he means lose weight…
Bubblecar said:
sibeen said:
The exercise bike has certainly helped me loose weight and strengthen the muscles around the knees.
Probably get one eventually.
A lot of them are just a bike on a stand. Should be easy enough to make a stand that could take a bike either way.
Bubblecar said:
sibeen said:
The exercise bike has certainly helped me loose weight and strengthen the muscles around the knees.
Probably get one eventually.
I have one but after a while it gets as boring as Allfolk. You need to have a supply of good TV/video stuff to watch on hard drive or DVD, otherwise it gets really tedious.
party_pants said:
roughbarked said:
When are the Liberals going to give up on this budget deficit crap?The latest long-term forecasts from the federal Treasury show the budget will remain in deficit through to at least 2060, and population growth will continue to slump.
Modern Monetary Theory holds that governments can just print new money in limited circumstances. Like when inflation is very low or even negative, the extra boost of an injection of currency might stimulate the economy just the right amount needed. Governments are not strictly controlled by income and expenditure like a household budget is. So long as they don’t overdo it.
Yeah the Yanks printed something like 60 million to fix up Germany after the war?
party_pants said:
Bubblecar said:
sibeen said:
The exercise bike has certainly helped me loose weight and strengthen the muscles around the knees.
Probably get one eventually.
I have one but after a while it gets as boring as Allfolk. You need to have a supply of good TV/video stuff to watch on hard drive or DVD, otherwise it gets really tedious.
VR goggles?
roughbarked said:
party_pants said:
Bubblecar said:Probably get one eventually.
I have one but after a while it gets as boring as Allfolk. You need to have a supply of good TV/video stuff to watch on hard drive or DVD, otherwise it gets really tedious.
VR goggles?
overkill, but if you got something interesting to watch on them then why not.
I have watched almost the entire library of Time Team (19 seasons and only missing half a dozen) about three time over sitting on the damn thing.
roughbarked said:
party_pants said:
Bubblecar said:Probably get one eventually.
I have one but after a while it gets as boring as Allfolk. You need to have a supply of good TV/video stuff to watch on hard drive or DVD, otherwise it gets really tedious.
VR goggles?
I could just watch one of these cab view train rides and pretend I’m powering the train.
Bubblecar said:
roughbarked said:
party_pants said:I have one but after a while it gets as boring as Allfolk. You need to have a supply of good TV/video stuff to watch on hard drive or DVD, otherwise it gets really tedious.
VR goggles?
I could just watch one of these cab view train rides and pretend I’m powering the train.
Or a Fred Flinstone movie? ;)
Bubblecar said:
roughbarked said:
party_pants said:I have one but after a while it gets as boring as Allfolk. You need to have a supply of good TV/video stuff to watch on hard drive or DVD, otherwise it gets really tedious.
VR goggles?
I could just watch one of these cab view train rides and pretend I’m powering the train.
whatever keeps you occupied mentally and distracted from just counting down the minutes on your clock, or watching the onboard meter slowly tick over.
party_pants said:
Bubblecar said:
roughbarked said:VR goggles?
I could just watch one of these cab view train rides and pretend I’m powering the train.
whatever keeps you occupied mentally and distracted from just counting down the minutes on your clock, or watching the onboard meter slowly tick over.
Anyway if in inverted position, then so too does the TV screen need to be.
party_pants said:
roughbarked said:
party_pants said:I have one but after a while it gets as boring as Allfolk. You need to have a supply of good TV/video stuff to watch on hard drive or DVD, otherwise it gets really tedious.
VR goggles?
overkill, but if you got something interesting to watch on them then why not.
I have watched almost the entire library of Time Team (19 seasons and only missing half a dozen) about three time over sitting on the damn thing.
Which ones are you missing, p_p? I’ve got a full set of 20 series, excepting only s8e13; you’re welcome to whichever ones you’re missing. Also got some TTDigs (first 3).
They said that Barnaby rewared people who voted him back in but it doesn’t look like he really wanted some of them. Pictured here not showing Bridget this face.
some way to spell rewarded.
9.3°C with dewpoint at 9°C, Cloudy, no fog yet, sun isnae up yet. Town is as dead as a maggot. Usually most people would have gone to work by now. No traffic at all.
roughbarked said:
9.3°C with dewpoint at 9°C, Cloudy, no fog yet, sun isnae up yet. Town is as dead as a maggot. Usually most people would have gone to work by now. No traffic at all.
6:55
7:22
Morning, cold and foggy in the Styx .
poikilotherm said:
Morning, cold and foggy in the Styx .
17.5 and clear skies :)
Dark Orange said:
poikilotherm said:
Morning, cold and foggy in the Styx .
17.5 and clear skies :)
Bastard.
-1.1 here.
poikilotherm said:
Dark Orange said:
poikilotherm said:
Morning, cold and foggy in the Styx .
17.5 and clear skies :)
Bastard.
-1.1 here.
That 17.5 feels like -1.1
I even had to put a jumper on!
Still no movement at the station.
Maybe a lot of work isn’t happening because of rain affecting agricultural pursuits but a lot of the locals drive to town and don’t seem to be moving.
I’ve heard only the one car so far.
How’s the gold searching going?
poikilotherm said:
How’s the gold searching going?
He’s searching. ;)
I remember when people referred me as a miner. I said no, I’m only a prospetor until I find something to mine.Good morning Holidayers. Three degrees, clear sky and the sun is just peeping over the horizon.
I intend to maar today. Been a while, the grass growth finally slowed down and it’s also been a bit too wet.
buffy said:
Good morning Holidayers. Three degrees, clear sky and the sun is just peeping over the horizon.I intend to maar today. Been a while, the grass growth finally slowed down and it’s also been a bit too wet.
I did that before the rain and yes it is still too wet.
Another couple of days and it will be a forest.
poikilotherm said:
How’s the gold searching going?
Spent yesterday fixing the water pump so we could clean the engine bay of the truck to give it an oil and filter change. That will allow us to transport the excavator ( Buttercup) to where we need tracks turned into roads to grant us access to the Trommel so we can get it on the truck (note to self: replace the refurbished hiab ram) and transported to where we have to set it up.
Maybe next weekend we may flick the switch to see if it works.
I call it home.
roughbarked said:
I am finding them spider homes up here big enough to fit a golf ball.
Dark Orange said:
roughbarked said:
I am finding them spider homes up here big enough to fit a golf ball.
They do get big, yep.
Every time I walk out the side gate, there are always more weeds to pull. Took a decade to be rid of the Caltrops and the boxthorn. Now it is onion weed. Need to take care though because it is tall fringe lily country.
roughbarked said:
Every time I walk out the side gate, there are always more weeds to pull. Took a decade to be rid of the Caltrops and the boxthorn. Now it is onion weed. Need to take care though because it is tall fringe lily country.
All in all though, it has changed a lot from a patch of Saffron thistle.
Morbiing….mumble day,,, fibble sun and ribble moobies….
from under my ask at work
Got a recipe for unfogging ya glasses?
buffy said:
Good morning Holidayers. Three degrees, clear sky and the sun is just peeping over the horizon.I intend to maar today. Been a while, the grass growth finally slowed down and it’s also been a bit too wet.
Phreatomagmatic eruption going to happen?
Woodie said:
Morbiing….mumble day,,, fibble sun and ribble moobies….from under my ask at work
Got a recipe for unfogging ya glasses?
soap on them?
Woodie said:
Morbiing….mumble day,,, fibble sun and ribble moobies….from under my ask at work
Got a recipe for unfogging ya glasses?
A hankie.
Woodie said:
Morbiing….mumble day,,, fibble sun and ribble moobies….from under my ask at work
Got a recipe for unfogging ya glasses?
Make sure your mask sits under your glasses, ie put on your mask first and then put your glasses on. Also, don’t pull the mask too tight under your chin, let a little fresh air in there.
Michael V said:
buffy said:
Good morning Holidayers. Three degrees, clear sky and the sun is just peeping over the horizon.I intend to maar today. Been a while, the grass growth finally slowed down and it’s also been a bit too wet.
Phreatomagmatic eruption going to happen?
Had to look that up, although my guess was pretty good. Given the underground streams here, I expect any eruption might be a little bit water affected.
:)
I can’t mow yet, there must have been a shower overnight. The grass is wet. Although I can run around the edges with the sidechute on and prepare, and then mow the centre with the recycler this afternoon. I should get on with getting organized.
And the shrike thrush has just started calling outside the window. I love the call of the shrike thrush.
roughbarked said:
When are the Liberals going to give up on this budget deficit crap?The latest long-term forecasts from the federal Treasury show the budget will remain in deficit through to at least 2060, and population growth will continue to slump.
Is that like acceleration continuing to slump as you fall through the air from a high point towards the ground?
Hello
The Rev Dodgson said:
roughbarked said:
When are the Liberals going to give up on this budget deficit crap?The latest long-term forecasts from the federal Treasury show the budget will remain in deficit through to at least 2060, and population growth will continue to slump.
Is that like acceleration continuing to slump as you fall through the air from a high point towards the ground?
but the acceleration does decrease
buffy said:
I can’t mow yet, there must have been a shower overnight. The grass is wet. Although I can run around the edges with the sidechute on and prepare, and then mow the centre with the recycler this afternoon. I should get on with getting organized.And the shrike thrush has just started calling outside the window. I love the call of the shrike thrush.
I’ve got too many white winged choughs at present.
The Rev Dodgson said:
roughbarked said:
When are the Liberals going to give up on this budget deficit crap?The latest long-term forecasts from the federal Treasury show the budget will remain in deficit through to at least 2060, and population growth will continue to slump.
Is that like acceleration continuing to slump as you fall through the air from a high point towards the ground?
if you got your initial height right you would stop just before you hit the ground.
SCIENCE said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
roughbarked said:
When are the Liberals going to give up on this budget deficit crap?The latest long-term forecasts from the federal Treasury show the budget will remain in deficit through to at least 2060, and population growth will continue to slump.
Is that like acceleration continuing to slump as you fall through the air from a high point towards the ground?
but the acceleration does decrease
That was my point.
Rate of population growth is decreasing as well (at least globally).
ChrispenEvan said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
roughbarked said:
When are the Liberals going to give up on this budget deficit crap?The latest long-term forecasts from the federal Treasury show the budget will remain in deficit through to at least 2060, and population growth will continue to slump.
Is that like acceleration continuing to slump as you fall through the air from a high point towards the ground?
if you got your initial height right you would stop just before you hit the ground.
You might like to check your numbers on that :)
The Rev Dodgson said:
SCIENCE said:
The Rev Dodgson said:Is that like acceleration continuing to slump as you fall through the air from a high point towards the ground?
but the acceleration does decrease
That was my point.
Rate of population growth is decreasing as well (at least globally).
Rate of debt is going through the roof.
The Rev Dodgson said:
ChrispenEvan said:
The Rev Dodgson said:Is that like acceleration continuing to slump as you fall through the air from a high point towards the ground?
if you got your initial height right you would stop just before you hit the ground.
You might like to check your numbers on that :)
Well, you heart might give up about then.
roughbarked said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
ChrispenEvan said:if you got your initial height right you would stop just before you hit the ground.
You might like to check your numbers on that :)
Well, you heart might give up about then.
r
ChrispenEvan said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
roughbarked said:
When are the Liberals going to give up on this budget deficit crap?The latest long-term forecasts from the federal Treasury show the budget will remain in deficit through to at least 2060, and population growth will continue to slump.
Is that like acceleration continuing to slump as you fall through the air from a high point towards the ground?
if you got your initial height right you would stop just before you hit the ground.
Didn’t work for the dual parachutists who fell out of an aeroplane at Goulburn.
:(
Michael V said:
ChrispenEvan said:
The Rev Dodgson said:Is that like acceleration continuing to slump as you fall through the air from a high point towards the ground?
if you got your initial height right you would stop just before you hit the ground.
Didn’t work for the dual parachutists who fell out of an aeroplane at Goulburn.
:(
they obviously didn’t check their numbers.
The Rev Dodgson said:
ChrispenEvan said:
The Rev Dodgson said:Is that like acceleration continuing to slump as you fall through the air from a high point towards the ground?
if you got your initial height right you would stop just before you hit the ground.
You might like to check your numbers on that :)
well the rate of acceleration decrease decreases as well
Hello there, chews on piece of grass
Peak Warming Man said:
Hello there, chews on piece of grass
How did you know my Indian tribal name?
buffy said:
Woodie said:
Morbiing….mumble day,,, fibble sun and ribble moobies….from under my ask at work
Got a recipe for unfogging ya glasses?
Make sure your mask sits under your glasses, ie put on your mask first and then put your glasses on. Also, don’t pull the mask too tight under your chin, let a little fresh air in there.
Doubling/twist over the elastic loops then over your ears seems to do much better.
captain_spalding said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Hello there, chews on piece of grass
How did you know my Indian tribal name?
Bilagaana tribe?
DO if the troopers come and demand to see your miners license tell them to get fucked.
We’ll back you, no matter how many lashes you get or how much blood they draw you can take comfort in the knowledge that we will have set up a support Facebook page or the like.
Peak Warming Man said:
DO if the troopers come and demand to see your miners license tell them to get fucked.
We’ll back you, no matter how many lashes you get or how much blood they draw you can take comfort in the knowledge that we will have set up a support Facebook page or the like.
It’s a bit hard to administer lashes while maintaining social distancing.
Dark Orange said:
Peak Warming Man said:
DO if the troopers come and demand to see your miners license tell them to get fucked.
We’ll back you, no matter how many lashes you get or how much blood they draw you can take comfort in the knowledge that we will have set up a support Facebook page or the like.
It’s a bit hard to administer lashes while maintaining social distancing.
You seen the length of my whip?
Peak Warming Man said:
DO if the troopers come and demand to see your miners license tell them to get fucked.
We’ll back you, no matter how many lashes you get or how much blood they draw you can take comfort in the knowledge that we will have set up a support Facebook page or the like.
Can you also get the CWA to knit us some Eureka Stockade flags?
And just to be boring…
https://www.flickr.com/photos/roughbarked/51273323523/in/dateposted-public/
roughbarked said:
And just to be boring…
https://www.flickr.com/photos/roughbarked/51273323523/in/dateposted-public/
I hope you got Elon’s permission to use that word.
The Rev Dodgson said:
roughbarked said:
And just to be boring…
https://www.flickr.com/photos/roughbarked/51273323523/in/dateposted-public/
I hope you got Elon’s permission to use that word.
I doubt he’s ever been where I’ve been.
Adventures in the mind.
That’s not the real Dan Andrews, they must think we’re mugs. Wife looks like a robot too.
Captain Spalding still around? He might enjoy some of these
https://www.bobclaster.com/
Home grown King Oyster mushrooms on home-made chilli sourdough toast for breakfast.
The stems were great – sweet and with that gorgeous King Oyster flavour and very meaty. The caps are a little bitter. The misshapen stuff with the brown insides was even more bitter.
Overall, a success – 176 g harvested.
:)
Michael V said:
Home grown King Oyster mushrooms on home-made chilli sourdough toast for breakfast.The stems were great – sweet and with that gorgeous King Oyster flavour and very meaty. The caps are a little bitter. The misshapen stuff with the brown insides was even more bitter.
Overall, a success – 176 g harvested.
:)
Well done. Counter looks clean, too.
Bubblecar said:
Michael V said:
Home grown King Oyster mushrooms on home-made chilli sourdough toast for breakfast.The stems were great – sweet and with that gorgeous King Oyster flavour and very meaty. The caps are a little bitter. The misshapen stuff with the brown insides was even more bitter.
Overall, a success – 176 g harvested.
:)
Well done. Counter looks clean, too.
It is clean. It is wiped down before and after preparing any meal.
btm said:
Captain Spalding still around? He might enjoy some of these
https://www.bobclaster.com/
Oh, thank you.
Garrison Keilor. I’d forgotten about Lake Wobegon. About 35 years ago when Mr buffy’s mother was in palliative care Mr buffy would pick me up from work at 8.00pm on a Friday night and we would drive to Melbourne (3 hours) to my mother’s to sleep and then go to see his mother on the Saturday. Then we would come home on the Sunday and start the week over. We did this for three months before the care place basically said “Well, she’s not dying, we’d better sort something else out”. So she came to live with us, which lasted a couple of weeks and then she went into care here. Anyway…..we listened to “A Prairie Home Companion” every week in the very late hours of Friday nights. I’d forgotten the name of the show. But not the voice.
:)
(Some of the other stuff looks pretty interesting too)
How much do pints cost in Oz pubs these days? £18.27 is about $33.50 or nearly $17 per pint.
Glasgow man’s £18 bill for two pints at city boozer sparks debate among pubgoers
https://www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/glasgow-news/glasgow-pub-prices-pints-debate-20889476
Bubblecar said:
How much do pints cost in Oz pubs these days? £18.27 is about $33.50 or nearly $17 per pint.Glasgow man’s £18 bill for two pints at city boozer sparks debate among pubgoers
https://www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/glasgow-news/glasgow-pub-prices-pints-debate-20889476
That’s a lot for any sort of drink that is usually served in pints
Bubblecar said:
How much do pints cost in Oz pubs these days? £18.27 is about $33.50 or nearly $17 per pint.Glasgow man’s £18 bill for two pints at city boozer sparks debate among pubgoers
https://www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/glasgow-news/glasgow-pub-prices-pints-debate-20889476
Around $11 at my local.
Witty Rejoinder said:
Bubblecar said:
How much do pints cost in Oz pubs these days? £18.27 is about $33.50 or nearly $17 per pint.Glasgow man’s £18 bill for two pints at city boozer sparks debate among pubgoers
https://www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/glasgow-news/glasgow-pub-prices-pints-debate-20889476
Around $11 at my local.
I remember when a pot (10oz) was just 42 cents.
ChrispenEvan said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Bubblecar said:
How much do pints cost in Oz pubs these days? £18.27 is about $33.50 or nearly $17 per pint.Glasgow man’s £18 bill for two pints at city boozer sparks debate among pubgoers
https://www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/glasgow-news/glasgow-pub-prices-pints-debate-20889476
Around $11 at my local.
I remember when a pot (10oz) was just 42 cents.
and a pie was 12 cents or 13 cents with sauce. from a squeeze bottle.
ChrispenEvan said:
ChrispenEvan said:
Witty Rejoinder said:Around $11 at my local.
I remember when a pot (10oz) was just 42 cents.
and a pie was 12 cents or 13 cents with sauce. from a squeeze bottle.
and 10 cents worth of chips was a good feed.
ChrispenEvan said:
ChrispenEvan said:
ChrispenEvan said:I remember when a pot (10oz) was just 42 cents.
and a pie was 12 cents or 13 cents with sauce. from a squeeze bottle.
and 10 cents worth of chips was a good feed.
and thousands of people died from car accidents when the got impaled on the steering column because of antiquated car safety design. and crappy drum brakes.
And all the beasts of the forest are mine and the cattle on a thousand hills……………
Peak Warming Man said:
And all the beasts of the forest are mine and the cattle on a thousand hills……………
getting better at keeping your calves together these days?
ChrispenEvan said:
ChrispenEvan said:
ChrispenEvan said:and a pie was 12 cents or 13 cents with sauce. from a squeeze bottle.
and 10 cents worth of chips was a good feed.
and thousands of people died from car accidents when the got impaled on the steering column because of antiquated car safety design. and crappy drum brakes.
… and you try and tell the young people of today that, and they won’t believe you!
ChrispenEvan said:
ChrispenEvan said:
Witty Rejoinder said:Around $11 at my local.
I remember when a pot (10oz) was just 42 cents.
and a pie was 12 cents or 13 cents with sauce. from a squeeze bottle.
a shilling.
ChrispenEvan said:
ChrispenEvan said:
ChrispenEvan said:and a pie was 12 cents or 13 cents with sauce. from a squeeze bottle.
and 10 cents worth of chips was a good feed.
and thousands of people died from car accidents when the got impaled on the steering column because of antiquated car safety design. and crappy drum brakes.
People are still burnt to death while trying to eat overheated pies in their cars, sauce or no sauce.
Alright. I have to go and do some more mowing.
Bubblecar said:
How much do pints cost in Oz pubs these days? £18.27 is about $33.50 or nearly $17 per pint.Glasgow man’s £18 bill for two pints at city boozer sparks debate among pubgoers
https://www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/glasgow-news/glasgow-pub-prices-pints-debate-20889476
The pub I worked at in the West End (London) was 55p for a pint of best.
Woodie said:
Bubblecar said:
How much do pints cost in Oz pubs these days? £18.27 is about $33.50 or nearly $17 per pint.Glasgow man’s £18 bill for two pints at city boozer sparks debate among pubgoers
https://www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/glasgow-news/glasgow-pub-prices-pints-debate-20889476
The pub I worked at in the West End (London) was 55p for a pint of best.
When was that, 1926?
Bubblecar said:
Woodie said:
Bubblecar said:
How much do pints cost in Oz pubs these days? £18.27 is about $33.50 or nearly $17 per pint.Glasgow man’s £18 bill for two pints at city boozer sparks debate among pubgoers
https://www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/glasgow-news/glasgow-pub-prices-pints-debate-20889476
The pub I worked at in the West End (London) was 55p for a pint of best.
When was that, 1926?
Best tap water, perhaps?
Woodie said:
Bubblecar said:
How much do pints cost in Oz pubs these days? £18.27 is about $33.50 or nearly $17 per pint.Glasgow man’s £18 bill for two pints at city boozer sparks debate among pubgoers
https://www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/glasgow-news/glasgow-pub-prices-pints-debate-20889476
The pub I worked at in the West End (London) was 55p for a pint of best.
Probably still get a pint of Wattney’s Red Barrel for that at pubs in Brixton.
Peak Warming Man said:
Woodie said:
Bubblecar said:
How much do pints cost in Oz pubs these days? £18.27 is about $33.50 or nearly $17 per pint.Glasgow man’s £18 bill for two pints at city boozer sparks debate among pubgoers
https://www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/glasgow-news/glasgow-pub-prices-pints-debate-20889476
The pub I worked at in the West End (London) was 55p for a pint of best.
Probably still get a pint of Wattney’s Red Barrel for that at pubs in Brixton.
There hasn’t been any Watneys Red for at least 30 years, probably a lot longer.
55p for a pint of beer that stale is still overcharging.
“I am the creator of this earth”
https://m.facebook.com/watch/?v=586103622370899
https://boakandbailey.com/2019/01/watneys-red-barrel-how-bad-could-it-have-been/
ChrispenEvan said:
https://boakandbailey.com/2019/01/watneys-red-barrel-how-bad-could-it-have-been/
reading that it sounds as good as a lot of aussie generic beers.
Bubblecar said:
Woodie said:
Bubblecar said:
How much do pints cost in Oz pubs these days? £18.27 is about $33.50 or nearly $17 per pint.Glasgow man’s £18 bill for two pints at city boozer sparks debate among pubgoers
https://www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/glasgow-news/glasgow-pub-prices-pints-debate-20889476
The pub I worked at in the West End (London) was 55p for a pint of best.
When was that, 1926?
1981. The Black Horse Public House. 6 Rathbone Place, London W1.
https://fitzrovianews.com/2011/01/25/historic-pub-is-victim-of-brewers-cull/
ChrispenEvan said:
https://boakandbailey.com/2019/01/watneys-red-barrel-how-bad-could-it-have-been/
Makes sense. Beers don’t attain that level of popularity by being nasty, and making a decent, drinkable mass-produced beer is hardly rocket science.
Woodie said:
Bubblecar said:
Woodie said:The pub I worked at in the West End (London) was 55p for a pint of best.
When was that, 1926?
1981. The Black Horse Public House. 6 Rathbone Place, London W1.
https://fitzrovianews.com/2011/01/25/historic-pub-is-victim-of-brewers-cull/
Lovely.
Bubblecar said:
ChrispenEvan said:
https://boakandbailey.com/2019/01/watneys-red-barrel-how-bad-could-it-have-been/
Makes sense. Beers don’t attain that level of popularity by being nasty, and making a decent, drinkable mass-produced beer is hardly rocket science.
> making a decent, drinkable mass-produced beer is hardly rocket science.
PMSL. Australia has never managed it.
mollwollfumble said:
Bubblecar said:
ChrispenEvan said:
https://boakandbailey.com/2019/01/watneys-red-barrel-how-bad-could-it-have-been/
Makes sense. Beers don’t attain that level of popularity by being nasty, and making a decent, drinkable mass-produced beer is hardly rocket science.
> making a decent, drinkable mass-produced beer is hardly rocket science.
PMSL. Australia has never managed it.
I beg to differ. Coopers, for instance.
The intervention seems to be dong a job at saving all the little kiddies.
Bubblecar said:
Woodie said:
Bubblecar said:
How much do pints cost in Oz pubs these days? £18.27 is about $33.50 or nearly $17 per pint.Glasgow man’s £18 bill for two pints at city boozer sparks debate among pubgoers
https://www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/glasgow-news/glasgow-pub-prices-pints-debate-20889476
The pub I worked at in the West End (London) was 55p for a pint of best.
When was that, 1926?
In my final year of high school (1969) we used to nip down to the local pub of a Friday night for a pint or 2 of cider at 2 bob a pint.
Of course, when I moved to London for uni the prices shot up. ‘Arf a crown for a pint in the college bar.
By the time I started work (‘72) prices had shot up still further. 17p (nearly three and six in old money) for a lunch time pint at the pub round the corner from the office.
Bubblecar said:
Woodie said:
Bubblecar said:When was that, 1926?
1981. The Black Horse Public House. 6 Rathbone Place, London W1.
https://fitzrovianews.com/2011/01/25/historic-pub-is-victim-of-brewers-cull/
Lovely.
It was a “city” pub. On the other side of Oxford St from Soho Square. So every had gone home by closing time, and not open Saturday night or Sunday, yet just 5 – 10 mins walk to Soho and China Town, and Piccadilly Circus. Great pub to work and live at, for those reasons. :)
Woodie said:
Bubblecar said:
Woodie said:1981. The Black Horse Public House. 6 Rathbone Place, London W1.
https://fitzrovianews.com/2011/01/25/historic-pub-is-victim-of-brewers-cull/
Lovely.
It was a “city” pub. On the other side of Oxford St from Soho Square. So every had gone home by closing time, and not open Saturday night or Sunday, yet just 5 – 10 mins walk to Soho and China Town, and Piccadilly Circus. Great pub to work and live at, for those reasons. :)
I’m sure I must have been there, although I don’t recall it.
But then remembering all the London pubs would be difficult.
Woodie said:
Bubblecar said:
Woodie said:1981. The Black Horse Public House. 6 Rathbone Place, London W1.
https://fitzrovianews.com/2011/01/25/historic-pub-is-victim-of-brewers-cull/
Lovely.
It was a “city” pub. On the other side of Oxford St from Soho Square. So every had gone home by closing time, and not open Saturday night or Sunday, yet just 5 – 10 mins walk to Soho and China Town, and Piccadilly Circus. Great pub to work and live at, for those reasons. :)
I do like the black and gold colour scheme. Nothing makes a down pipe/sewer pipe look more impressive than to paint it black and paint the clips gold.
Woodie said:
Bubblecar said:
Woodie said:The pub I worked at in the West End (London) was 55p for a pint of best.
When was that, 1926?
1981. The Black Horse Public House. 6 Rathbone Place, London W1.
https://fitzrovianews.com/2011/01/25/historic-pub-is-victim-of-brewers-cull/
Was it a themed pub like say ‘Uncertainty”
Dark Orange said:
“I am the creator of this earth”
https://m.facebook.com/watch/?v=586103622370899
I didn’t know. Why do you need to dig for gold then?
Dark Orange said:
mollwollfumble said:
Bubblecar said:Makes sense. Beers don’t attain that level of popularity by being nasty, and making a decent, drinkable mass-produced beer is hardly rocket science.
> making a decent, drinkable mass-produced beer is hardly rocket science.
PMSL. Australia has never managed it.
I beg to differ. Coopers, for instance.
Yes my good man. Have been making it since 1862.
Bubblecar said:
Woodie said:
Bubblecar said:
How much do pints cost in Oz pubs these days? £18.27 is about $33.50 or nearly $17 per pint.Glasgow man’s £18 bill for two pints at city boozer sparks debate among pubgoers
https://www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/glasgow-news/glasgow-pub-prices-pints-debate-20889476
The pub I worked at in the West End (London) was 55p for a pint of best.
When was that, 1926?
Heh. it was 20 cents in 1970.
Dark Orange said:
mollwollfumble said:
Bubblecar said:Makes sense. Beers don’t attain that level of popularity by being nasty, and making a decent, drinkable mass-produced beer is hardly rocket science.
> making a decent, drinkable mass-produced beer is hardly rocket science.
PMSL. Australia has never managed it.
I beg to differ. Coopers, for instance.
And Abbotsford Invalid Stout for another.
roughbarked said:
Dark Orange said:
mollwollfumble said:> making a decent, drinkable mass-produced beer is hardly rocket science.
PMSL. Australia has never managed it.
I beg to differ. Coopers, for instance.
Yes my good man. Have been making it since 1862.
Should be ready soon, then.
captain_spalding said:
roughbarked said:
Dark Orange said:I beg to differ. Coopers, for instance.
Yes my good man. Have been making it since 1862.
Should be ready soon, then.
I leave it in the bottle for a while.
sibeen said:
And Abbotsford Invalid Stout for another.
I put it to you that this ‘Abbotsford Invalid Stout’ is a creation of your imagination, as it seems to be impossible to obtain from any retailer save the one in your own location.
captain_spalding said:
sibeen said:And Abbotsford Invalid Stout for another.
I put it to you that this ‘Abbotsford Invalid Stout’ is a creation of your imagination, as it seems to be impossible to obtain from any retailer save the one in your own location.
Coopers beest extra shits on it anyway.
roughbarked said:
Bubblecar said:
Woodie said:The pub I worked at in the West End (London) was 55p for a pint of best.
When was that, 1926?
Heh. it was 20 cents in 1970.
At the posh joints!
roughbarked said:
captain_spalding said:
sibeen said:And Abbotsford Invalid Stout for another.
I put it to you that this ‘Abbotsford Invalid Stout’ is a creation of your imagination, as it seems to be impossible to obtain from any retailer save the one in your own location.
Coopers beest extra shits on it anyway.
That i can get.
captain_spalding said:
roughbarked said:
captain_spalding said:I put it to you that this ‘Abbotsford Invalid Stout’ is a creation of your imagination, as it seems to be impossible to obtain from any retailer save the one in your own location.
Coopers beest extra shits on it anyway.
That i can get.
It has beaten Guinness at many an annual beer competition.
There are people who genuinely think ordinary mass-market beer tastes awful, but these tend to be people who think all beer tastes awful.
If you actually like beer, and you sample an ordinary, popular mass-market beer and then pull faces and say “Eww, tastes like piss, sick & shit from the sewer” etc, you’re doubtless exaggerating.
Peak Warming Man said:
Woodie said:
Bubblecar said:When was that, 1926?
1981. The Black Horse Public House. 6 Rathbone Place, London W1.
https://fitzrovianews.com/2011/01/25/historic-pub-is-victim-of-brewers-cull/
Was it a themed pub like say ‘Uncertainty”
It had a certain uncertainty about it, yeah.
Bubblecar said:
There are people who genuinely think ordinary mass-market beer tastes awful, but these tend to be people who think all beer tastes awful.If you actually like beer, and you sample an ordinary, popular mass-market beer and then pull faces and say “Eww, tastes like piss, sick & shit from the sewer” etc, you’re doubtless exaggerating.
They all taste the same after a couple.
roughbarked said:
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I call it home.
Looks like a platform spider rb. If you approach quietly, drop something light (small piece of bark) well away from the hole and often you get it to sprint from its hole to investigate, they are very fast. Usually more active at dusk.
Bubblecar said:
There are people who genuinely think ordinary mass-market beer tastes awful, but these tend to be people who think all beer tastes awful.If you actually like beer, and you sample an ordinary, popular mass-market beer and then pull faces and say “Eww, tastes like piss, sick & shit from the sewer” etc, you’re doubtless exaggerating.
Yeah. I call it inoffensive. Sure there is better quality stuff around if you want it, but the basic stuff isn’t that bad.
PermeateFree said:
roughbarked said:
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I call it home.
Looks like a platform spider rb. If you approach quietly, drop something light (small piece of bark) well away from the hole and often you get it to sprint from its hole to investigate, they are very fast. Usually more active at dusk.
There’s hundreds maybe thousands of them here. ;) All one needs to do is try to allow the bush to come back.
roughbarked said:
PermeateFree said:
roughbarked said:
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I call it home.
Looks like a platform spider rb. If you approach quietly, drop something light (small piece of bark) well away from the hole and often you get it to sprint from its hole to investigate, they are very fast. Usually more active at dusk.
There’s hundreds maybe thousands of them here. ;) All one needs to do is try to allow the bush to come back.
Came home from town to find a couple of old fogeys who usually only walk up and down the street, strolling through my trees and enjoying the birds.
Dark Orange said:
mollwollfumble said:
Bubblecar said:Makes sense. Beers don’t attain that level of popularity by being nasty, and making a decent, drinkable mass-produced beer is hardly rocket science.
> making a decent, drinkable mass-produced beer is hardly rocket science.
PMSL. Australia has never managed it.
I beg to differ. Coopers, for instance.
Yeah they make a crap brew too, both their pale ale and stout.
Bubblecar said:
There are people who genuinely think ordinary mass-market beer tastes awful, but these tend to be people who think all beer tastes awful.If you actually like beer, and you sample an ordinary, popular mass-market beer and then pull faces and say “Eww, tastes like piss, sick & shit from the sewer” etc, you’re doubtless exaggerating.
I was watching a documentary, made about 1964, about the US Army’s 84th Division in WW2.
There was one 84th Div soldier named Fritz Kramer, who spoke with a distinct German accent. He’d been 35 years old in 1944, quite old for a front-line soldier.
He said there was much bitching about US Army food, but he liked it.
“I wanted good food, and i got it. I wanted plenty of it, and i got it.”
“It seems to me that people who complain about the lack of good food, and the lack of comfortable quarters are likely to never have had much experience of either.”
PermeateFree said:
roughbarked said:
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I call it home.
Looks like a platform spider rb. If you approach quietly, drop something light (small piece of bark) well away from the hole and often you get it to sprint from its hole to investigate, they are very fast. Usually more active at dusk.
http://esperancewildlife.blogspot.com/2009/04/platform-spider-corasoides-species.html
PermeateFree said:
Dark Orange said:
mollwollfumble said:> making a decent, drinkable mass-produced beer is hardly rocket science.
PMSL. Australia has never managed it.
I beg to differ. Coopers, for instance.
Yeah they make a crap brew too, both their pale ale and stout.
I find their stout tasty enough.
coolant in the old ute done, got the air out of it, you got to watch that, not a few engines have been wrecked by dropping the coolant out and and refilling but not displacing the air in the head and block, thermostat can be shut because engine cold so coolant doesn’t run freely to highest parts of engine
new windscreen wipers in the lady’s car shortly, give windscreen a good clean while, after coffee and snacks
Bubblecar said:
PermeateFree said:
Dark Orange said:I beg to differ. Coopers, for instance.
Yeah they make a crap brew too, both their pale ale and stout.
I find their stout tasty enough.
You should try unfiltered Murray water then, you would probably like it.
PermeateFree said:
Bubblecar said:
PermeateFree said:Yeah they make a crap brew too, both their pale ale and stout.
I find their stout tasty enough.
You should try unfiltered Murray water then, you would probably like it.
Nope, nothing wrong with their Best Extra Stout, compares well with others.
Not a great fan of some of their other products though. They do have a bit of a muddy taste.
PermeateFree said:
Dark Orange said:
mollwollfumble said:> making a decent, drinkable mass-produced beer is hardly rocket science.
PMSL. Australia has never managed it.
I beg to differ. Coopers, for instance.
Yeah they make a crap brew too, both their pale ale and stout.
I don’t like the pale ale.
I need to shower. I got rather sweaty and dirty mowing the grass. We will have to take my mower to the mower doctor for servicing and sorting out. Needs new blades and oil (which Mr buffy usually does for me), but it’s also running rough and carboning up the plug. And it sort of backfires when I turn it off. It’s rather old and it’s done a lot of work over the years. But I really like it, so I’d rather pay to have it fixed than buy a new one.
captain_spalding said:
PermeateFree said:
Bubblecar said:I find their stout tasty enough.
You should try unfiltered Murray water then, you would probably like it.
Nope, nothing wrong with their Best Extra Stout, compares well with others.
Not a great fan of some of their other products though. They do have a bit of a muddy taste.
That’s their top fermented ales, complete with sediment..
If you like lager or pilsner, I find theirs are as good or bettler than others.
roughbarked said:
PermeateFree said:
Dark Orange said:I beg to differ. Coopers, for instance.
Yeah they make a crap brew too, both their pale ale and stout.
I don’t like the pale ale.
be a quarter of a century since I last had a Coopers. Would have been in Alice Springs.
PermeateFree said:
Dark Orange said:
mollwollfumble said:> making a decent, drinkable mass-produced beer is hardly rocket science.
PMSL. Australia has never managed it.
I beg to differ. Coopers, for instance.
Yeah they make a crap brew too, both their pale ale and stout.
Try this one: https://coopers.com.au/our-beer/seasonal/vintage
Tamb said:
PermeateFree said:
Dark Orange said:I beg to differ. Coopers, for instance.
Yeah they make a crap brew too, both their pale ale and stout.
Try this one: https://coopers.com.au/our-beer/seasonal/vintage
Consume with extreme care.
Exiting the ndue card.
Also.. the department are demanding people offer up After-pay and Zip-pay statements along with 3 months of personal bank account statements. Now actively trolling though your private spending and** non quarantined** income information. Apparently this absolute invasion of peoples privacy is legal despite no mention of it being authorised anywhere in any CDC legislation. They are also asking young people to provide** their parents** credit card AND bank statements
captain_spalding said:
PermeateFree said:
Bubblecar said:I find their stout tasty enough.
You should try unfiltered Murray water then, you would probably like it.
Nope, nothing wrong with their Best Extra Stout, compares well with others.
Not a great fan of some of their other products though. They do have a bit of a muddy taste.
I have half a case of Coopers Best Extra Stout and their Pale Ale. Had them for months largely untouched and only try a bottle on rare occasions. I rate it very poorly as I did with the case of Little Creatures beer and its revolting Grapefruit peel flavour.
I drink european beers these days.
PermeateFree said:
I have half a case of Coopers Best Extra Stout and their Pale Ale. Had them for months largely untouched and only try a bottle on rare occasions. I rate it very poorly as I did with the case of Little Creatures beer and its revolting Grapefruit peel flavour.
Little Creatures is indeed a poor beer. Trades largely on an undeservedly good word-of-mouth rep, as far as i can see.
Tamb said:
PermeateFree said:
Dark Orange said:I beg to differ. Coopers, for instance.
Yeah they make a crap brew too, both their pale ale and stout.
Try this one: https://coopers.com.au/our-beer/seasonal/vintage
Never tasted that one, but having tried a couple of their beers, I am most reluctant to try another one. Might try it if someone gave me a bottle which is highly unlikely.
ChrispenEvan said:
I drink european beers these days.
Fosters?
Bought a case of something when we last visited the Gold Coast, can’t recall the name of it, hadn’t seen it before, thought, yeah, give it a go.
Worst beer ever.
Completely, totally, and utterly tasteless. Didn’t taste good, didn’t taste bad, just didn’t taste at all. No-one who tried it could discern any flavour at all.
Essentially, expensive slightly-alcoholic soda water, except that soda water would have had more taste.
Wish i could think of what it was called, but i don’t think i’ve seen it since.
PermeateFree said:
captain_spalding said:
PermeateFree said:You should try unfiltered Murray water then, you would probably like it.
Nope, nothing wrong with their Best Extra Stout, compares well with others.
Not a great fan of some of their other products though. They do have a bit of a muddy taste.
I have half a case of Coopers Best Extra Stout and their Pale Ale. Had them for months largely untouched and only try a bottle on rare occasions. I rate it very poorly as I did with the case of Little Creatures beer and its revolting Grapefruit peel flavour.
It’s possible you just don’t like stout. Quite a few people accustomed to mild beer find stout too strong tasting.
buffy said:
I need to shower. I got rather sweaty and dirty mowing the grass. We will have to take my mower to the mower doctor for servicing and sorting out. Needs new blades and oil (which Mr buffy usually does for me), but it’s also running rough and carboning up the plug. And it sort of backfires when I turn it off. It’s rather old and it’s done a lot of work over the years. But I really like it, so I’d rather pay to have it fixed than buy a new one.
Two things, see if the air filter needs cleaning and see if anyone’s backed over it in their ute.
Witty Rejoinder said:
ChrispenEvan said:
I drink european beers these days.
Fosters?
I’m not B.C,!!!!
Bubblecar said:
PermeateFree said:
captain_spalding said:Nope, nothing wrong with their Best Extra Stout, compares well with others.
Not a great fan of some of their other products though. They do have a bit of a muddy taste.
I have half a case of Coopers Best Extra Stout and their Pale Ale. Had them for months largely untouched and only try a bottle on rare occasions. I rate it very poorly as I did with the case of Little Creatures beer and its revolting Grapefruit peel flavour.
It’s possible you just don’t like stout. Quite a few people accustomed to mild beer find stout too strong tasting.
Bubblecar said:
PermeateFree said:
captain_spalding said:Nope, nothing wrong with their Best Extra Stout, compares well with others.
Not a great fan of some of their other products though. They do have a bit of a muddy taste.
I have half a case of Coopers Best Extra Stout and their Pale Ale. Had them for months largely untouched and only try a bottle on rare occasions. I rate it very poorly as I did with the case of Little Creatures beer and its revolting Grapefruit peel flavour.
It’s possible you just don’t like stout. Quite a few people accustomed to mild beer find stout too strong tasting.
Guinness I find strong tasting, or did when I last had it, but I did not find the bitterness dominated.
Tamb said:
Bubblecar said:
PermeateFree said:I have half a case of Coopers Best Extra Stout and their Pale Ale. Had them for months largely untouched and only try a bottle on rare occasions. I rate it very poorly as I did with the case of Little Creatures beer and its revolting Grapefruit peel flavour.
It’s possible you just don’t like stout. Quite a few people accustomed to mild beer find stout too strong tasting.
I like Porter. More taste than beer, less bitter than stout.
Yes I recall drinking Porter many years ago and liking it. Must see if I can get some locally.
Jacobinus Bierspezialität Schwarzbier is a nice stout.
Peak Warming Man said:
buffy said:
I need to shower. I got rather sweaty and dirty mowing the grass. We will have to take my mower to the mower doctor for servicing and sorting out. Needs new blades and oil (which Mr buffy usually does for me), but it’s also running rough and carboning up the plug. And it sort of backfires when I turn it off. It’s rather old and it’s done a lot of work over the years. But I really like it, so I’d rather pay to have it fixed than buy a new one.Two things, see if the air filter needs cleaning and see if anyone’s backed over it in their ute.
I knocked out the air filter. It’s not that. And it doesn’t seem to be squashed flat either. (He’s driving his New Tractor around at the moment. It’s just been down to the local mechanic to have an electrical fitting done so the flashing orange light can be used. You have to have one to register the tractor. We rather doubt it will get used)
ChrispenEvan said:
Jacobinus Bierspezialität Schwarzbier is a nice stout.
Yeoman?
Tamb said:
Bubblecar said:
PermeateFree said:I have half a case of Coopers Best Extra Stout and their Pale Ale. Had them for months largely untouched and only try a bottle on rare occasions. I rate it very poorly as I did with the case of Little Creatures beer and its revolting Grapefruit peel flavour.
It’s possible you just don’t like stout. Quite a few people accustomed to mild beer find stout too strong tasting.
I like Porter. More taste than beer, less bitter than stout.
Yes porter out of a stone jug goes well with a ploughman’s lunch.
Witty Rejoinder said:
ChrispenEvan said:
Jacobinus Bierspezialität Schwarzbier is a nice stout.
Yeoman?
more burgherish
ChrispenEvan said:
Jacobinus Bierspezialität Schwarzbier is a nice stout.
Certainly reads like my image of a good stout. Coopers is not on the same page.
https://www.firstchoiceliquor.com.au/beer/moosehead-lager-bottle-350ml_2597968
This is a nice drop too. Used to get it from the Re store, Leederville, along with a continental roll for lunch.
I tried my qr app for the first time today at Supercheap, it didn’t work.
ChrispenEvan said:
https://www.firstchoiceliquor.com.au/beer/moosehead-lager-bottle-350ml_2597968This is a nice drop too. Used to get it from the Re store, Leederville, along with a continental roll for lunch.
Peak Warming Man said:
I tried my qr app for the first time today at Supercheap, it didn’t work.
Was there a younger person available to guide you thorough the process or did you just silently exit the shop in shame?
ChrispenEvan said:
ChrispenEvan said:
https://www.firstchoiceliquor.com.au/beer/moosehead-lager-bottle-350ml_2597968This is a nice drop too. Used to get it from the Re store, Leederville, along with a continental roll for lunch.
Unfortunately it is very difficult to get tasty bread with a crispy crust in Esperance, but I have found the second best. Using Turkish bread, cut to size and cut in half width wise. Place bread in an oven griller, but on the second shelf down. Grill for 3-4 minutes and the bread should be brown and crispy, plus very tasty.
Witty Rejoinder said:
Peak Warming Man said:
I tried my qr app for the first time today at Supercheap, it didn’t work.
Was there a younger person available to guide you thorough the process or did you just silently exit the shop in shame?
I’d downloaded the app onto my tablet, the app came up with an error saying it couldn’t find a server or some such.
I just cancelled it and went in, it’s not mandatory until next month.
I’m guessing my tablet needed to be connected to a network for the app to work.
It is set up to automatically connect to my home wifi and the redoubt wifi but there were hundreds of networks at the Plaza.
It’s not a phone.
I’ll look into it tomorrow at the plaza when I’ve got more time.
I didn’t eat yesterday. I’m surprisingly not hungry still. But I am slowly getting my gorble around a bacon, egg and tomato s/wich.
sarahs mum said:
I didn’t eat yesterday. I’m surprisingly not hungry still. But I am slowly getting my gorble around a bacon, egg and tomato s/wich.
Approved!
Peak Warming Man said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Peak Warming Man said:
I tried my qr app for the first time today at Supercheap, it didn’t work.
Was there a younger person available to guide you thorough the process or did you just silently exit the shop in shame?
I’d downloaded the app onto my tablet, the app came up with an error saying it couldn’t find a server or some such.
I just cancelled it and went in, it’s not mandatory until next month.
I’m guessing my tablet needed to be connected to a network for the app to work.
It is set up to automatically connect to my home wifi and the redoubt wifi but there were hundreds of networks at the Plaza.
It’s not a phone.
I’ll look into it tomorrow at the plaza when I’ve got more time.
yeah, an internet connection is handy.
sarahs mum said:
I didn’t eat yesterday. I’m surprisingly not hungry still. But I am slowly getting my gorble around a bacon, egg and tomato s/wich.
Still feeling after effects of the Covid shot?
Heading for -1 in this village tonight. I’ll probably have an earlyish night.
GP tomorrow afternoon, finally.
Bubblecar said:
Heading for -1 in this village tonight. I’ll probably have an earlyish night.GP tomorrow afternoon, finally.
Excellent.
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
I didn’t eat yesterday. I’m surprisingly not hungry still. But I am slowly getting my gorble around a bacon, egg and tomato s/wich.
Still feeling after effects of the Covid shot?
Yeah. But I am picking myself up.
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
I didn’t eat yesterday. I’m surprisingly not hungry still. But I am slowly getting my gorble around a bacon, egg and tomato s/wich.
Still feeling after effects of the Covid shot?
Yeah. But I am picking myself up.
Mr buffy is cook tonight. I know there are beef sausages. And bread rolls from the bakery. Other than that..it’s a surprise!
https://www.sciencealert.com/someone-leaked-the-next-ipcc-report-here-s-how-experts-are-reacting
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-28/cafe-owners-charged-after-refusing-to-wear-masks/100250288
buffy said:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-28/cafe-owners-charged-after-refusing-to-wear-masks/100250288
Good!
Michael V said:
https://www.sciencealert.com/someone-leaked-the-next-ipcc-report-here-s-how-experts-are-reacting
Just a bunch of alarmists, whose going to take notice of the Greens propaganda?
buffy said:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-28/cafe-owners-charged-after-refusing-to-wear-masks/100250288
crucifixion’s too good for ‘em!
Coal Miners Driving Teslas – Episode 38 – Julia Zemiro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8RI8IyKbEc
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Mentions that in a survey of 20k of US kids the ones that went to school in a yellow bus are 6 points of IQ lower on average.
One for buffy
“ The highly contagious Delta strain of COVID-19 infected everyone who attended a Sydney birthday party except for the six people who were vaccinated, the NSW Government said.”
https://youtu.be/NVdnhplmd4s
Howard Da Silva provided linking narration for North American broadcasts of Doctor Who, providing continuity announcements for episodes from season 12 through season 15, ostensibly to help North American audiences get acclimatized to the nature of serial storytelling, which was then uncommon on non-soap-operatic television in the United States and Canada. His narration accompanied the earliest runs of Doctor Who as broadcast on American PBS stations and Canadian broadcasters like TVOntario during the 1970s and early 1980s. Typically, after Doctor Who had been run on a station for a while, the linking narration was removed as unnecessary. Nevertheless, the announcements were so familiar a part of some viewers’ experience of Doctor Who that they became a standard extra feature on BBC DVD releases of early Tom Baker serials.
How to make your Tesla fart on command
First enter the Application Launcher on your Tesla touchscreen Next tap the Tesla Toy Box After that, tap the whoopie cushion icon to access “Emissions Testing Mode” You can choose either “fart on demand,” and/or “fart using turn signal” Choose your fart sound wisely (see detailed menu below)sarahs mum said:
How to make your Tesla….
I don’t have a Tesla.
party_pants said:
sarahs mum said:
How to make your Tesla….I don’t have a Tesla.
Only 1% of new cars n Aus are electric so you are not alone.
Tesla’s seem to be a common sight around here on the weekend..
poik: ate these this morning. The stems were fantastic.
Michael V said:
poik: ate these this morning. The stems were fantastic.
Nice. Always good when they taste good. they um, look a bit poorly formed on top, are these from the first run?
Michael V said:
poik: ate these this morning. The stems were fantastic.
¿¡ you ate an albino ferret ?!
poikilotherm said:
Michael V said:
poik: ate these this morning. The stems were fantastic.
Nice. Always good when they taste good. they um, look a bit poorly formed on top, are these from the first run?
Three days ago, they were smaller, but had normal caps. The “proper” K O mushrooms in that photo are from the second flush from that hole. I cut them because I thought they might spawn after the caps changed shape, and the gills started getting a little colour.
SCIENCE said:
Michael V said:poik: ate these this morning. The stems were fantastic.
¿¡ you ate an albino ferret ?!
I’ll try most things once.
Michael V said:
poikilotherm said:
Michael V said:
poik: ate these this morning. The stems were fantastic.
Nice. Always good when they taste good. they um, look a bit poorly formed on top, are these from the first run?
Three days ago, they were smaller, but had normal caps. The “proper” K O mushrooms in that photo are from the second flush from that hole. I cut them because I thought they might spawn after the caps changed shape, and the gills started getting a little colour.
Ah cool.
Reminds me that the saffron milk caps out at the pine forest should be good to go now too.
Michael V said:
SCIENCE said:
Michael V said:poik: ate these this morning. The stems were fantastic.
¿¡ you ate an albino ferret ?!
I’ll try most things once.
legit’ that’s what it first looked like to us
poikilotherm said:
Michael V said:
poikilotherm said:Nice. Always good when they taste good. they um, look a bit poorly formed on top, are these from the first run?
Three days ago, they were smaller, but had normal caps. The “proper” K O mushrooms in that photo are from the second flush from that hole. I cut them because I thought they might spawn after the caps changed shape, and the gills started getting a little colour.
Ah cool.
Reminds me that the saffron milk caps out at the pine forest should be good to go now too.
Have fun with that!
:)
SCIENCE said:
Michael V said:
SCIENCE said:¿¡ you ate an albino ferret ?!
I’ll try most things once.
legit’ that’s what it first looked like to us
LOL
Yeah, it is pretty deformed.
An 11-year-old primary school pupil was referred to the government’s controversial counter-radicalisation Prevent programme after a teacher mistook the word “alms” for “arms” during a classroom discussion.
The boy’s teacher asked what pupils would do if they found themselves in possession of a lot of money. According to a legal challenge against the school lodged by the boy’s parents, he said he would “give alms to the oppressed”. The teacher interpreted this as “give arms to the oppressed” and made the Prevent referral.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/jun/27/boy-11-referred-to-prevent-for-wanting-to-give-alms-to-the-oppressed?CMP=fb_gu&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1624860778
good evening
Michael V said:
SCIENCE said:
Michael V said:I’ll try most things once.
legit’ that’s what it first looked like to us
LOL
Yeah, it is pretty deformed.
From this angle you can see its face.
dv said:
An 11-year-old primary school pupil was referred to the government’s controversial counter-radicalisation Prevent programme after a teacher mistook the word “alms” for “arms” during a classroom discussion.The boy’s teacher asked what pupils would do if they found themselves in possession of a lot of money. According to a legal challenge against the school lodged by the boy’s parents, he said he would “give alms to the oppressed”. The teacher interpreted this as “give arms to the oppressed” and made the Prevent referral.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/jun/27/boy-11-referred-to-prevent-for-wanting-to-give-alms-to-the-oppressed?CMP=fb_gu&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1624860778
wouldn’t take long to empty his pockets either as there are many standing in the oppressed queue!!
dv said:
An 11-year-old primary school pupil was referred to the government’s controversial counter-radicalisation Prevent programme after a teacher mistook the word “alms” for “arms” during a classroom discussion.The boy’s teacher asked what pupils would do if they found themselves in possession of a lot of money. According to a legal challenge against the school lodged by the boy’s parents, he said he would “give alms to the oppressed”. The teacher interpreted this as “give arms to the oppressed” and made the Prevent referral.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/jun/27/boy-11-referred-to-prevent-for-wanting-to-give-alms-to-the-oppressed?CMP=fb_gu&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1624860778
:(
I reckon there was some racial profiling in that too.
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/21963
sarahs mum said:
dv said:
An 11-year-old primary school pupil was referred to the government’s controversial counter-radicalisation Prevent programme after a teacher mistook the word “alms” for “arms” during a classroom discussion.The boy’s teacher asked what pupils would do if they found themselves in possession of a lot of money. According to a legal challenge against the school lodged by the boy’s parents, he said he would “give alms to the oppressed”. The teacher interpreted this as “give arms to the oppressed” and made the Prevent referral.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/jun/27/boy-11-referred-to-prevent-for-wanting-to-give-alms-to-the-oppressed?CMP=fb_gu&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1624860778
:(
I reckon there was some racial profiling in that too.
rcr
damn ASIANS and theil risps
dv said:
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MixAndMatchWeapon
There were a lot of swords etc. with built-in pistols at one point. They almost all turned out to be horrifically inefficient — use it as a sword, and it’s badly unbalanced, use it as a pistol and you’ve got this long, heavy weight throwing off your aim. Eventually they were made more or less obsolete by the introduction of the bayonet. There were also full-sized pistols with hatchet blades attached to the barrel, or in at least one case, the butt.poikilotherm said:
One for buffy“ The highly contagious Delta strain of COVID-19 infected everyone who attended a Sydney birthday party except for the six people who were vaccinated, the NSW Government said.”
I saw that.
(I think I worked out how I was thinking last night. I was trying to say that having the vaccination will not stop you breathing in SARS-cov2 and having it in your airways, and being able to breath it out to other people. The vaccination will, however, have taught your body to fight the virus, so any replication will be reduced. So your personal virus load will be lower – probably a lot lower – so you will be a less dangerous vector. I think this dates back to when I was training and there was a lot of emphasis on the difference between disease and disorder and that you do not have disease unless there is detriment, even if you have bacteria/viruses etc in/on your body. Being trained in eyes, the standard example was Herpes simplex. Big discussions about whether you had an infection during the quiet times. If it’s not active and causing inflammation and multiplying – are you infected? I would say you are, because the virus is there, waiting. But there was dispute at that time)
I brought some smoked cheddar to have with an Abbotsford and a glass of red tonight. First time trying a smoked cheddar, it’ll probably be the last. No terrible but nah.
sibeen said:
I brought some smoked cheddar to have with an Abbotsford and a glass of red tonight. First time trying a smoked cheddar, it’ll probably be the last. No terrible but nah.
not keen on it either. like plain cheeses. like i like plain tea.
sibeen said:
I brought some smoked cheddar to have with an Abbotsford and a glass of red tonight. First time trying a smoked cheddar, it’ll probably be the last. No terrible but nah.
A smoked cheese is good on a cheese board.
sarahs mum said:
sibeen said:
I brought some smoked cheddar to have with an Abbotsford and a glass of red tonight. First time trying a smoked cheddar, it’ll probably be the last. No terrible but nah.
A smoked cheese is good on a cheese board.
I don’t mind a good smoked cheese. I can turn a passable cheese into a great tasting cheese.
sarahs mum said:
sibeen said:
I brought some smoked cheddar to have with an Abbotsford and a glass of red tonight. First time trying a smoked cheddar, it’ll probably be the last. No terrible but nah.
A smoked cheese is good on a cheese board.
I’m certain some people really like it. Just not for me.
sibeen said:
sarahs mum said:
sibeen said:
I brought some smoked cheddar to have with an Abbotsford and a glass of red tonight. First time trying a smoked cheddar, it’ll probably be the last. No terrible but nah.
A smoked cheese is good on a cheese board.
I’m certain some people really like it. Just not for me.
we’re just not sophisticated in our tastes…
ChrispenEvan said:
sibeen said:
sarahs mum said:A smoked cheese is good on a cheese board.
I’m certain some people really like it. Just not for me.
we’re just not sophisticated in our tastes…
I think the correct adjective is ‘refined’.
sibeen said:
sarahs mum said:
sibeen said:
I brought some smoked cheddar to have with an Abbotsford and a glass of red tonight. First time trying a smoked cheddar, it’ll probably be the last. No terrible but nah.
A smoked cheese is good on a cheese board.
I’m certain some people really like it. Just not for me.
Mr Beeny Boy, Was your smoked chees done the Mr PWM way? You may have just not had proper smoked cheese. They don’t smoke cheese the way PWM smokes his steak, ya know. They don’t cremate it to charcoal in the process.
Don’t mind a bit of smoked cheese now and then. A good Kashkaval (Bulgarian smoked sheep cheese) can be very tasty.
Woodie said:
sibeen said:
sarahs mum said:A smoked cheese is good on a cheese board.
I’m certain some people really like it. Just not for me.
Mr Beeny Boy, Was your smoked chees done the Mr PWM way? You may have just not had proper smoked cheese. They don’t smoke cheese the way PWM smokes his steak, ya know. They don’t cremate it to charcoal in the process.
It’s the ONLY way to make sure the steak is dead. You have to be certain.
I’m feeling better than i have been. still a little achey but not as nauseous and cold.
.
sarahs mum said:
I’m feeling better than i have been. still a little achey but not as nauseous and cold.
.
Goodo.
Achy doesn’t sound too bad but I very much don’t like nauseous :/
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
I’m feeling better than i have been. still a little achey but not as nauseous and cold.
.
Goodo.
Achy doesn’t sound too bad but I very much don’t like nauseous :/
It wasn’t very imminent upchucky but more a tenderness and ‘Can I interest you in food? No. Fuck off.’
sarahs mum said:
I’m feeling better than i have been. still a little achey but not as nauseous and cold.
.
Ah. That’s good.
I think it would be interesting to do a semi formal survey on age, vaccine, jab number and side effects in this forum
No lockdown here but I won’t be able to visit the IGA when I go to the GP tomorrow ‘cos they’ll be closed for stocktaking.
Bubblecar said:
No lockdown here but I won’t be able to visit the IGA when I go to the GP tomorrow ‘cos they’ll be closed for stocktaking.
Get a nice loaf from Banjo’s.
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
No lockdown here but I won’t be able to visit the IGA when I go to the GP tomorrow ‘cos they’ll be closed for stocktaking.
Get a nice loaf from Banjo’s.
A loaf of bread
a jug of wine
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
No lockdown here but I won’t be able to visit the IGA when I go to the GP tomorrow ‘cos they’ll be closed for stocktaking.
Get a nice loaf from Banjo’s.
A loaf of bread
a jug of wine
I might get some wine.
No point starting the diet in earnest until we’ve done that family do in Oatlands on the weekend.
Arts said:
I think it would be interesting to do a semi formal survey on age, vaccine, jab number and side effects in this forum
Age = 59.3 years (3B in hex)
Vaccine = AZ
Jab # = 1
SE = flu like aches the day after + headache. Lasted the day, was able to drown it in Abbotsfords all purpose restorative and was fine the day after.
New York prosecutors have reportedly given Donald Trump’s lawyers 24 hours to respond with final arguments for why the Trump Organization should not face criminal charges, with a deadline set for Monday.
According to sources quoted in the Washington Post, the deadline is a strong indication that the Manhattan district attorney, Cyrus Vance, and New York attorney general, Letitia James, are considering criminal charges against Trump’s family business.
It comes after it was reported on Friday that Vance could announce charges against the Trump Organization and Allen Weisselberg, its chief financial officer, within a week.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jun/28/first-thing-donald-trump-lawyers-reportedly-given-24-hours-to-say-why-business-should-not-face-charges
Meanwhile in Australia PART 22 🤪😭😳🤣
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TQVdmghdUA
sarahs mum said:
Meanwhile in Australia PART 22 🤪😭😳🤣https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TQVdmghdUA
in which I learned about this…
LONDON, June 27 (Reuters) – Britain’s government will investigate how images of former health minister Matt Hancock kissing an aide found their way into the media and forced his resignation, in the latest scandal to hit Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government.
sarahs mum said:
sarahs mum said:
Meanwhile in Australia PART 22 🤪😭😳🤣https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TQVdmghdUA
in which I learned about this…
LONDON, June 27 (Reuters) – Britain’s government will investigate how images of former health minister Matt Hancock kissing an aide found their way into the media and forced his resignation, in the latest scandal to hit Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government.
It was published by The Sun so it was probably supplied through official channels.
Simon And Garfunkel – Red Rubber Ball
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDLhqcrQuhI
party_pants said:
sarahs mum said:
sarahs mum said:
Meanwhile in Australia PART 22 🤪😭😳🤣https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TQVdmghdUA
in which I learned about this…
LONDON, June 27 (Reuters) – Britain’s government will investigate how images of former health minister Matt Hancock kissing an aide found their way into the media and forced his resignation, in the latest scandal to hit Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government.
It was published by The Sun so it was probably supplied through official channels.
Hehehehehe
sarahs mum said:
Simon And Garfunkel – Red Rubber Ball
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDLhqcrQuhI
A Seeker helped write that one.
sibeen said:
sarahs mum said:
Simon And Garfunkel – Red Rubber Ball
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDLhqcrQuhI
A Seeker helped write that one.
The Seeker’s version was the first one I heard.
sibeen said:
sarahs mum said:
Simon And Garfunkel – Red Rubber Ball
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDLhqcrQuhI
A Seeker helped write that one.
:) A few Seekers sang it.
sarahs mum said:
sibeen said:
sarahs mum said:
Simon And Garfunkel – Red Rubber Ball
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDLhqcrQuhI
A Seeker helped write that one.
The Seeker’s version was the first one I heard.
roughbarked said:
sarahs mum said:
sibeen said:A Seeker helped write that one.
The Seeker’s version was the first one I heard.
that isn’t a great version even though they made the most performer’s rights out of it.
sarahs mum said:
roughbarked said:
sarahs mum said:The Seeker’s version was the first one I heard.
that isn’t a great version even though they made the most performer’s rights out of it.
Yes it was a hit for them. Thought I’d just remind everyone.
roughbarked said:
sarahs mum said:
roughbarked said:that isn’t a great version even though they made the most performer’s rights out of it.
Yes it was a hit for them. Thought I’d just remind everyone.
The Seekers did it the best.
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:
sarahs mum said:that isn’t a great version even though they made the most performer’s rights out of it.
Yes it was a hit for them. Thought I’d just remind everyone.
The Seekers did it the best.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1do8VYr3ts
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:Yes it was a hit for them. Thought I’d just remind everyone.
The Seekers did it the best.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1do8VYr3ts
Though that clearly isn’t their best.
sarahs mum said:
Simon And Garfunkel – Red Rubber Ball
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDLhqcrQuhI
listened to that, quite enjoyed it
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Rubber_Ball
“Red Rubber Ball” is a pop song written by Paul Simon of Simon & Garfunkel and Bruce Woodley of The Seekers and recorded by The Cyrkle, whose version reached No. 2 on the US Billboard Hot 100, and in South Africa and New Zealand. In Canada, the song reached No. 1.
“Red Rubber Ball” is sung from the perspective of a man at the end of an unfulfilling relationship in which his significant other never gave him much attention or affection. He now looks forward to the future with a positive attitude.”
******************************i’ve been listening to the drum work of billy kilson on the tube
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Kilson
“William Earl Kilson (born August 2, 1962) is an American jazz drummer.
Kilson was born in Washington, D.C.. He started on trumpet at ten, switched to trombone at 11, then to drums at 16. He studied at the Berklee College of Music from 1980 to 1985 and took private lessons from Alan Dawson during 1982–89. Following this he did a tour of Europe with Walter Davis”
Good morning Holidayers. The red stuff in the thermometer at the back door is a hair’s breadth above the zero line. The sky is clear. Sunup is about 3/4 hour away yet. It’s likely a frost will settle in the next half hour.
Today’s forecast for us is for 13, becoming sunny.
Breakfast at the bakery, then a trip in to Hamilton to take my mower to the mower people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manspreading
“Manspreading” or “man-sitting” is a pejorative neologism referring to the practice of men sitting in public transport with legs wide apart, thereby covering more than one seat.
A public debate began when an anti-manspreading campaign started on the social media website Tumblr in 2013; the term appeared a year later. These campaigns have been heavily criticised as public shaming campaigns, as the subjects are often clearly identifiable, and the associated practice of taking non-consensual photos of men with emphasis on their crotch has been compared to creepshots or revenge porn.
The usage of the term has received substantial criticism from both feminists and antifeminists. Law enforcement regarding manspreading has unduly targeted Latino men, including a case where a Latino teenager was allegedly charged for having a backpack next to him on the train.
OxfordDictionaries.com added the word “manspreading” in August 2015. Lyndsay Kirkham, an English professor at Humber College, Toronto, said the practice was a metaphor for the permission men were given to take up a disproportionate share of space in society.
Good morning everybody.
Cool, partly cloudy, gusty breezes, with 22°C predicted. What’s really needed is:
C…o…f…f…e…e…
Rushes in
Sorry I am late, dead batteries meant we had to wait for the sun to make it into our valley and onto the panels before we could then find out the internet was flakey.
Other than that, got down to 16 degrees and clear skies.
Morning pilgrims, lovely winters day in Brissy.
sibeen said:
sarahs mum said:
Simon And Garfunkel – Red Rubber Ball
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDLhqcrQuhI
A Seeker helped write that one.
I had no idea of all the stuff Bruce got up to outside The Seekers until very recently.
roughbarked said:
sarahs mum said:
roughbarked said:that isn’t a great version even though they made the most performer’s rights out of it.
Yes it was a hit for them. Thought I’d just remind everyone.
Never ‘eard of them :)
The Rev Dodgson said:
sibeen said:
sarahs mum said:
Simon And Garfunkel – Red Rubber Ball
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDLhqcrQuhI
A Seeker helped write that one.
I had no idea of all the stuff Bruce got up to outside The Seekers until very recently.
Nobody seems to credit Dobe Newton of the Bushwackers fame for his part in penning the song, “I and Australian”.
The Rev Dodgson said:
roughbarked said:
sarahs mum said:that isn’t a great version even though they made the most performer’s rights out of it.
Yes it was a hit for them. Thought I’d just remind everyone.
Never ‘eard of them :)
‘Cloudy’ was another collaboration between Paul Simon and Bruce Woodley.
roughbarked said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
sibeen said:A Seeker helped write that one.
I had no idea of all the stuff Bruce got up to outside The Seekers until very recently.
Nobody seems to credit Dobe Newton of the Bushwackers fame for his part in penning the song, “I and Australian”.
Well he might get some credit for something if he had a proper name.
And to be brutally Frank this will probably be the first and last time I’ll ever hear of Dobe.
Peak Warming Man said:
roughbarked said:
The Rev Dodgson said:I had no idea of all the stuff Bruce got up to outside The Seekers until very recently.
Nobody seems to credit Dobe Newton of the Bushwackers fame for his part in penning the song, “I and Australian”.
Well he might get some credit for something if he had a proper name.
And to be brutally Frank this will probably be the first and last time I’ll ever hear of Dobe.
:)
Peak Warming Man said:
roughbarked said:
The Rev Dodgson said:I had no idea of all the stuff Bruce got up to outside The Seekers until very recently.
Nobody seems to credit Dobe Newton of the Bushwackers fame for his part in penning the song, “I and Australian”.
Well he might get some credit for something if he had a proper name.
And to be brutally Frank this will probably be the first and last time I’ll ever hear of Dobe.
Probably nobody knows?
roughbarked said:
Peak Warming Man said:
roughbarked said:Nobody seems to credit Dobe Newton of the Bushwackers fame for his part in penning the song, “I and Australian”.
Well he might get some credit for something if he had a proper name.
And to be brutally Frank this will probably be the first and last time I’ll ever hear of Dobe.
Probably nobody knows?
Can’t forget the bushwhackers though.
Originally calling themselves the Original Bushwackers and Bullockies Bush Band, the three founding members were guitarist Dave Isom, tea-chest bass player Jan ‘Yarn’ Wositzky and lagerphonist Bert Kahanoff. The band was conceived at Latrobe University in Melbourne when the founding members, in order to qualify for a grant to travel to the Aquarius Arts Festival 1972 at the ANU in Canberra, had to register as a formal act, consequently taking their name from the title of an album by the English folk singer Martyn Wyndham-Read. They were later joined by various players, including accordion and concertina player Mick Slocum, and fiddlers Tony Hunt and Dave Kidd, and in 1974 the band went full-time with their first tour to the British Isles, and Kahanoff was replaced by lagerphone player Dobe Newton. With an ever-changing line-up, and adding tin whistle, harmonica, concertina, 5-string banjo, bodhrán, bones, spoons, electric bass and guitar and drums the band worked throughout Australia and Europe.
Roger Corbett joined the band in 1980 and remains the principal songwriter, producer and manager of the band. Other members have included Fred Kuhnl, David Brannigan (The Colinails), drummer Gregory Martin, Steve Groves, Pete Farndon, Dave Mattacks, Pat Drummond, Michael Harris, Louis McManus, Eddy van Roosendael, Freddie Strauks (ex Skyhooks), drummer Pete Drummond (currently with Dragon) and world-renowned Australian guitarist Tommy Emmanuel.
roughbarked said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
sibeen said:A Seeker helped write that one.
I had no idea of all the stuff Bruce got up to outside The Seekers until very recently.
Nobody seems to credit Dobe Newton of the Bushwackers fame for his part in penning the song, “I and Australian”.
Lucky him: no one would want that dirge on their resume.
Right. Coffee had, and bread (sour)dough in the oven, rising.
Dark Orange said:
Rushes in
Sorry I am late, dead batteries meant we had to wait for the sun to make it into our valley and onto the panels before we could then find out the internet was flakey.Other than that, got down to 16 degrees and clear skies.
Have fun, gold-digger.
‘ning!
Saw stuff, shit happened, now I’m back. Happy days.
Witty Rejoinder said:
roughbarked said:
The Rev Dodgson said:I had no idea of all the stuff Bruce got up to outside The Seekers until very recently.
Nobody seems to credit Dobe Newton of the Bushwackers fame for his part in penning the song, “I and Australian”.
Lucky him: no one would want that dirge on their resume.
It isn’t my fave either.
Rule 303 said:
‘ning!Saw stuff, shit happened, now I’m back. Happy days.
Safe and sound by the looks.
Rule 303 said:
‘ning!Saw stuff, shit happened, now I’m back. Happy days.
Please expand.
Rule 303 said:
‘ning!Saw stuff, shit happened, now I’m back. Happy days.
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:
Peak Warming Man said:Well he might get some credit for something if he had a proper name.
And to be brutally Frank this will probably be the first and last time I’ll ever hear of Dobe.
Probably nobody knows?
Can’t forget the bushwhackers though.
Originally calling themselves the Original Bushwackers and Bullockies Bush Band, the three founding members were guitarist Dave Isom, tea-chest bass player Jan ‘Yarn’ Wositzky and lagerphonist Bert Kahanoff. The band was conceived at Latrobe University in Melbourne when the founding members, in order to qualify for a grant to travel to the Aquarius Arts Festival 1972 at the ANU in Canberra, had to register as a formal act, consequently taking their name from the title of an album by the English folk singer Martyn Wyndham-Read. They were later joined by various players, including accordion and concertina player Mick Slocum, and fiddlers Tony Hunt and Dave Kidd, and in 1974 the band went full-time with their first tour to the British Isles, and Kahanoff was replaced by lagerphone player Dobe Newton. With an ever-changing line-up, and adding tin whistle, harmonica, concertina, 5-string banjo, bodhrán, bones, spoons, electric bass and guitar and drums the band worked throughout Australia and Europe.
Roger Corbett joined the band in 1980 and remains the principal songwriter, producer and manager of the band. Other members have included Fred Kuhnl, David Brannigan (The Colinails), drummer Gregory Martin, Steve Groves, Pete Farndon, Dave Mattacks, Pat Drummond, Michael Harris, Louis McManus, Eddy van Roosendael, Freddie Strauks (ex Skyhooks), drummer Pete Drummond (currently with Dragon) and world-renowned Australian guitarist Tommy Emmanuel.
I also had no idea of all the people Dave Mattacks had played with:
Dave Mattacks
… including (roll of drums)
Judith Durham
not to mention, Incredible String Band, Nick Drake, John Martyn, Jethro Tull, Eric Clapton, in fact almost everybody.
Tamb said:
Rule 303 said:
‘ning!Saw stuff, shit happened, now I’m back. Happy days.
Morning all.
Chemo done for the day.
24°. Might have a walk along the esplanade later.
Morning Tamb. Bad (but essential) stuff done, good stuff still to happen. Great.
:)
Tamb said:
Rule 303 said:
‘ning!Saw stuff, shit happened, now I’m back. Happy days.
Morning all.
Chemo done for the day.
24°. Might have a walk along the esplanade later.
Be careful, they say if you have a compromised immune system you can be susceptible to coconut fall.
Michael V said:
Tamb said:
Rule 303 said:
‘ning!Saw stuff, shit happened, now I’m back. Happy days.
Morning all.
Chemo done for the day.
24°. Might have a walk along the esplanade later.Morning Tamb. Bad (but essential) stuff done, good stuff still to happen. Great.
:)
Thanks. That’s how I look at it.
Peak Warming Man said:
Tamb said:
Rule 303 said:
‘ning!Saw stuff, shit happened, now I’m back. Happy days.
Morning all.
Chemo done for the day.
24°. Might have a walk along the esplanade later.Be careful, they say if you have a compromised immune system you can be susceptible to coconut fall.
Michael V said:
Rule 303 said:
‘ning!Saw stuff, shit happened, now I’m back. Happy days.
Please expand.
I’ve been helping out with the recovery after the storm disaster in the Dandenongs, which is a big hill near Melbourne. Strong winds brought down several thousand trees, many of them big old Mountain Ash, which left a big old mess.
The Rev Dodgson said:
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:Probably nobody knows?
Can’t forget the bushwhackers though.
Originally calling themselves the Original Bushwackers and Bullockies Bush Band, the three founding members were guitarist Dave Isom, tea-chest bass player Jan ‘Yarn’ Wositzky and lagerphonist Bert Kahanoff. The band was conceived at Latrobe University in Melbourne when the founding members, in order to qualify for a grant to travel to the Aquarius Arts Festival 1972 at the ANU in Canberra, had to register as a formal act, consequently taking their name from the title of an album by the English folk singer Martyn Wyndham-Read. They were later joined by various players, including accordion and concertina player Mick Slocum, and fiddlers Tony Hunt and Dave Kidd, and in 1974 the band went full-time with their first tour to the British Isles, and Kahanoff was replaced by lagerphone player Dobe Newton. With an ever-changing line-up, and adding tin whistle, harmonica, concertina, 5-string banjo, bodhrán, bones, spoons, electric bass and guitar and drums the band worked throughout Australia and Europe.
Roger Corbett joined the band in 1980 and remains the principal songwriter, producer and manager of the band. Other members have included Fred Kuhnl, David Brannigan (The Colinails), drummer Gregory Martin, Steve Groves, Pete Farndon, Dave Mattacks, Pat Drummond, Michael Harris, Louis McManus, Eddy van Roosendael, Freddie Strauks (ex Skyhooks), drummer Pete Drummond (currently with Dragon) and world-renowned Australian guitarist Tommy Emmanuel.
I also had no idea of all the people Dave Mattacks had played with:
Dave Mattacks… including (roll of drums)
Judith Durhamnot to mention, Incredible String Band, Nick Drake, John Martyn, Jethro Tull, Eric Clapton, in fact almost everybody.
Yes indeed.
Rule 303 said:
Michael V said:
Rule 303 said:
‘ning!Saw stuff, shit happened, now I’m back. Happy days.
Please expand.
I’ve been helping out with the recovery after the storm disaster in the Dandenongs, which is a big hill near Melbourne. Strong winds brought down several thousand trees, many of them big old Mountain Ash, which left a big old mess.
That’s a lotta trees. It is a shame that they have to suffer from man made climate change.
Rule 303 said:
Michael V said:
Rule 303 said:
‘ning!Saw stuff, shit happened, now I’m back. Happy days.
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I’ve been helping out with the recovery after the storm disaster in the Dandenongs, which is a big hill near Melbourne. Strong winds brought down several thousand trees, many of them big old Mountain Ash, which left a big old mess.
Tamb said:
Rule 303 said:
Michael V said:Please expand.
I’ve been helping out with the recovery after the storm disaster in the Dandenongs, which is a big hill near Melbourne. Strong winds brought down several thousand trees, many of them big old Mountain Ash, which left a big old mess.
Hope the authorities are disposing of the timber before the next fire season.
There’s a big demand for it and there are some big trees in the Dandenongs.
roughbarked said:
Tamb said:
Rule 303 said:I’ve been helping out with the recovery after the storm disaster in the Dandenongs, which is a big hill near Melbourne. Strong winds brought down several thousand trees, many of them big old Mountain Ash, which left a big old mess.
Hope the authorities are disposing of the timber before the next fire season.There’s a big demand for it and there are some big trees in the Dandenongs.
They’ll be kiln drying ash for many weeks to come by the looks.
The Rev Dodgson said:
roughbarked said:
sarahs mum said:that isn’t a great version even though they made the most performer’s rights out of it.
Yes it was a hit for them. Thought I’d just remind everyone.
Never ‘eard of them :)
roughbarked said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
roughbarked said:Yes it was a hit for them. Thought I’d just remind everyone.
Never ‘eard of them :)
Don Dannemann and Tom Dawes, bass player met at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania. Earle Pickens played keyboards and Marty Fried was the drummer. They started as The Rhondells but were later discovered and managed by Brian Epstein, manager of The BeaTles. John Lennon provided the unusual spelling of “Cyrkle”. Throughout August, 1966 they opened on 19 concerts for the BeaTles in 17 U.S. cities. On August 14, 1966 Tom saw them perform in Cleveland Municipal Stadium. Don tells Tom about “Red Rubber Ball”, “Turn Down Day” and their career.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rdQlEN6cOo
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:
The Rev Dodgson said:Never ‘eard of them :)
Don Dannemann and Tom Dawes, bass player met at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania. Earle Pickens played keyboards and Marty Fried was the drummer. They started as The Rhondells but were later discovered and managed by Brian Epstein, manager of The BeaTles. John Lennon provided the unusual spelling of “Cyrkle”. Throughout August, 1966 they opened on 19 concerts for the BeaTles in 17 U.S. cities. On August 14, 1966 Tom saw them perform in Cleveland Municipal Stadium. Don tells Tom about “Red Rubber Ball”, “Turn Down Day” and their career.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rdQlEN6cOo
roughbarked said:
Rule 303 said:
Michael V said:Please expand.
I’ve been helping out with the recovery after the storm disaster in the Dandenongs, which is a big hill near Melbourne. Strong winds brought down several thousand trees, many of them big old Mountain Ash, which left a big old mess.
That’s a lotta trees. It is a shame that they have to suffer from man made climate change.
The whole forest up there was cleared 100-120 years ago, so these Mountain Ash tree are all roughly that age. The locals tell me they (Mountain Ash trees) are not native to the area and not suited to the soil.
The infrastructure damage up there makes me think they would do better with free-standing power generation and satellite-based comms. You can’t put it in the ground because trees rip it up with their root ball, and you can’t put it on poles because it only takes one falling branch to black out large areas.
Rule 303 said:
roughbarked said:
Rule 303 said:I’ve been helping out with the recovery after the storm disaster in the Dandenongs, which is a big hill near Melbourne. Strong winds brought down several thousand trees, many of them big old Mountain Ash, which left a big old mess.
That’s a lotta trees. It is a shame that they have to suffer from man made climate change.
The whole forest up there was cleared 100-120 years ago, so these Mountain Ash tree are all roughly that age. The locals tell me they (Mountain Ash trees) are not native to the area and not suited to the soil.
The infrastructure damage up there makes me think they would do better with free-standing power generation and satellite-based comms. You can’t put it in the ground because trees rip it up with their root ball, and you can’t put it on poles because it only takes one falling branch to black out large areas.
Nods.
Hello
ChrispenEvan said:
Billy! Put that damn head away and get on with your homework!
And give your little brother back his pants!
Peak Warming Man said:
Tamb said:
Rule 303 said:
‘ning!Saw stuff, shit happened, now I’m back. Happy days.
Morning all.
Chemo done for the day.
24°. Might have a walk along the esplanade later.Be careful, they say if you have a compromised immune system you can be susceptible to coconut fall.
LOL
Rule 303 said:
Michael V said:
Rule 303 said:
‘ning!Saw stuff, shit happened, now I’m back. Happy days.
Please expand.
I’ve been helping out with the recovery after the storm disaster in the Dandenongs, which is a big hill near Melbourne. Strong winds brought down several thousand trees, many of them big old Mountain Ash, which left a big old mess.
Onya!
:)
https://www.sbs.com.au/language/english/audio/sentencing-for-sydney-couple-who-admitted-to-slavery-like-offences_2
Rockdale couple, Joshua McAleer and his wife, Shiela McAleer were today sentenced for slavery-like offences, after luring a Filipino woman to Australia, and forcing her to work around the clock as a domestic helper in their Sydney home and business, including the Kapamilya grocery and eatery stores across Sydney.
Mrs McAleer, a mother of three who enjoys shopping at high-end fashion boutiques, will be put behind bars for 3 years and 3 months, with a non-parole period of 14 months.
Mr McAleer was sentenced to 2 years and 6 months but is on bail until the judge can assess whether he can serve his sentence in the community.
dv said:
https://www.sbs.com.au/language/english/audio/sentencing-for-sydney-couple-who-admitted-to-slavery-like-offences_2Rockdale couple, Joshua McAleer and his wife, Shiela McAleer were today sentenced for slavery-like offences, after luring a Filipino woman to Australia, and forcing her to work around the clock as a domestic helper in their Sydney home and business, including the Kapamilya grocery and eatery stores across Sydney.
Mrs McAleer, a mother of three who enjoys shopping at high-end fashion boutiques, will be put behind bars for 3 years and 3 months, with a non-parole period of 14 months.
Mr McAleer was sentenced to 2 years and 6 months but is on bail until the judge can assess whether he can serve his sentence in the community.
Charming.
Dreamt about vegetables. First that I was vegetable shopping in a huge market absolutely stuffed with every known vegetable, many of giant size.
Then I was making kimchi in a big metal vat but I over-processed it and it turned into a kind of clear liquid. And then I realised I hadn’t sterilised the vat so it would all have to be thrown out.
And two Asian people who owned the vat were discussing how it had been ruined by my efforts as it wasn’t supposed to contain liquid.
Rule 303 said:
Michael V said:
Rule 303 said:
‘ning!Saw stuff, shit happened, now I’m back. Happy days.
Please expand.
I’ve been helping out with the recovery after the storm disaster in the Dandenongs, which is a big hill near Melbourne. Strong winds brought down several thousand trees, many of them big old Mountain Ash, which left a big old mess.
are all the animals ok?
Bubblecar said:
Dreamt about vegetables. First that I was vegetable shopping in a huge market absolutely stuffed with every known vegetable, many of giant size.Then I was making kimchi in a big metal vat but I over-processed it and it turned into a kind of clear liquid. And then I realised I hadn’t sterilised the vat so it would all have to be thrown out.
And two Asian people who owned the vat were discussing how it had been ruined by my efforts as it wasn’t supposed to contain liquid.
Ha!
dv said:
https://www.sbs.com.au/language/english/audio/sentencing-for-sydney-couple-who-admitted-to-slavery-like-offences_2Rockdale couple, Joshua McAleer and his wife, Shiela McAleer were today sentenced for slavery-like offences, after luring a Filipino woman to Australia, and forcing her to work around the clock as a domestic helper in their Sydney home and business, including the Kapamilya grocery and eatery stores across Sydney.
Mrs McAleer, a mother of three who enjoys shopping at high-end fashion boutiques, will be put behind bars for 3 years and 3 months, with a non-parole period of 14 months.
Mr McAleer was sentenced to 2 years and 6 months but is on bail until the judge can assess whether he can serve his sentence in the community.
They should have been sold out as slaves themselves for 2 or 3 years as punishment instead of jail time.
party_pants said:
dv said:
https://www.sbs.com.au/language/english/audio/sentencing-for-sydney-couple-who-admitted-to-slavery-like-offences_2Rockdale couple, Joshua McAleer and his wife, Shiela McAleer were today sentenced for slavery-like offences, after luring a Filipino woman to Australia, and forcing her to work around the clock as a domestic helper in their Sydney home and business, including the Kapamilya grocery and eatery stores across Sydney.
Mrs McAleer, a mother of three who enjoys shopping at high-end fashion boutiques, will be put behind bars for 3 years and 3 months, with a non-parole period of 14 months.
Mr McAleer was sentenced to 2 years and 6 months but is on bail until the judge can assess whether he can serve his sentence in the community.
They should have been sold out as slaves themselves for 2 or 3 years as punishment instead of jail time.
Plus pay her what she is owed
Arts said:
Rule 303 said:
Michael V said:Please expand.
I’ve been helping out with the recovery after the storm disaster in the Dandenongs, which is a big hill near Melbourne. Strong winds brought down several thousand trees, many of them big old Mountain Ash, which left a big old mess.
are all the animals ok?
Hmmm… The storm probably caused a loss of elevated habitat (around1-2%, I guess) and loss of shade and canopy, but otherwise yeah, I think the animals will mostly be OK.
https://chaser.com.au/national/victorian-contact-tracers-race-to-contain-new-outbreak-of-schadenfreude/
Just got back from wasting some time detectoring a creek below some Chinese workings. Picked up a boot heel.
Dark Orange said:
Just got back from wasting some time detectoring a creek below some Chinese workings. Picked up a boot heel.
From the days when people and horses wore the same shoes.
Bubblecar said:
Dark Orange said:Just got back from wasting some time detectoring a creek below some Chinese workings. Picked up a boot heel.
From the days when people and horses wore the same shoes.
Ha!
Rule 303 said:
Arts said:
Rule 303 said:I’ve been helping out with the recovery after the storm disaster in the Dandenongs, which is a big hill near Melbourne. Strong winds brought down several thousand trees, many of them big old Mountain Ash, which left a big old mess.
are all the animals ok?
Hmmm… The storm probably caused a loss of elevated habitat (around1-2%, I guess) and loss of shade and canopy, but otherwise yeah, I think the animals will mostly be OK.
phew
Dark Orange said:
Just got back from wasting some time detectoring a creek below some Chinese workings. Picked up a boot heel.
I thought you meant it was an antique Chinese boot heel.
roughbarked said:
Dark Orange said:Just got back from wasting some time detectoring a creek below some Chinese workings. Picked up a boot heel.
I thought you meant it was an antique Chinese boot heel.
That is exactly what I meant. It’s been lost for nearly 150 years.
Dark Orange said:
roughbarked said:
Dark Orange said:Just got back from wasting some time detectoring a creek below some Chinese workings. Picked up a boot heel.
I thought you meant it was an antique Chinese boot heel.
That is exactly what I meant. It’s been lost for nearly 150 years.
:)
They took the gold and heeled it?
Arts said:
Rule 303 said:
Michael V said:Please expand.
I’ve been helping out with the recovery after the storm disaster in the Dandenongs, which is a big hill near Melbourne. Strong winds brought down several thousand trees, many of them big old Mountain Ash, which left a big old mess.
are all the animals ok?
yeah, animals have a sixth sense that tells them when danger approaches and they clear the area.
Rule 303 said:
roughbarked said:
Rule 303 said:I’ve been helping out with the recovery after the storm disaster in the Dandenongs, which is a big hill near Melbourne. Strong winds brought down several thousand trees, many of them big old Mountain Ash, which left a big old mess.
That’s a lotta trees. It is a shame that they have to suffer from man made climate change.
The whole forest up there was cleared 100-120 years ago, so these Mountain Ash tree are all roughly that age. The locals tell me they (Mountain Ash trees) are not native to the area and not suited to the soil.
The infrastructure damage up there makes me think they would do better with free-standing power generation and satellite-based comms. You can’t put it in the ground because trees rip it up with their root ball, and you can’t put it on poles because it only takes one falling branch to black out large areas.
http://anpsa.org.au/eregn.html
E. regnans (Mountain Ash)
I’ve never heard of them not being native to the area. I do know they only regenerate from seed, so fires wipe out the big guys periodically.
“Most of the Victorian Eucalyptus regnans forests are more or less even-aged (Figure 6.19). This has arisen following the destruction of seed-bearing trees by severe bushfires (Ashton 1976). This community is predominantly confined to the southern slopes of the Great Dividing Range, being common and widespread in the Acheron Valley and the Black Range, and on the Cerberean and Kinglake plateaus, and in the Dandenongs to Walhalla area. The lower limit of this community is at about 450 metres on the sheltered southern escarpments. Other occurrences are in the headwaters of the Bunyip, Latrobe, Thomson, and Yarra Rivers (Gullan et al. 1979). Characteristically it occurs on deep, friable brownish gradational soils; however, at lower elevations it occurs in reddish gradational soils derived from igneous parent rocks.”
From: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/static/bioregions/eastern-highlands
Also:
“Regeneration of Mountain Ash requires a periodic hot and fast bushfire in a forest of trees of at least seed-bearing age. Mountain Ash forests naturally experience a crown fire possibly every 100-200 years-a fire that destroys the forest but results in dense regrowth. Such a crown fire is only possible after a number of years that result in dry fuel, low humidities and high temperatures.”
From (a reasonable way down the page, around halfway): https://museumsvictoria.com.au/melbournemuseum/resources/forest-secrets/
And way back the water catchment areas for Melbourne had logging stopped initially to reduce contamination of the water, but then they found the bush gave better stream flow and more water to catch.
buffy said:
Rule 303 said:
roughbarked said:That’s a lotta trees. It is a shame that they have to suffer from man made climate change.
The whole forest up there was cleared 100-120 years ago, so these Mountain Ash tree are all roughly that age. The locals tell me they (Mountain Ash trees) are not native to the area and not suited to the soil.
The infrastructure damage up there makes me think they would do better with free-standing power generation and satellite-based comms. You can’t put it in the ground because trees rip it up with their root ball, and you can’t put it on poles because it only takes one falling branch to black out large areas.
http://anpsa.org.au/eregn.html
E. regnans (Mountain Ash)
I’ve never heard of them not being native to the area. I do know they only regenerate from seed, so fires wipe out the big guys periodically.
“Most of the Victorian Eucalyptus regnans forests are more or less even-aged (Figure 6.19). This has arisen following the destruction of seed-bearing trees by severe bushfires (Ashton 1976). This community is predominantly confined to the southern slopes of the Great Dividing Range, being common and widespread in the Acheron Valley and the Black Range, and on the Cerberean and Kinglake plateaus, and in the Dandenongs to Walhalla area. The lower limit of this community is at about 450 metres on the sheltered southern escarpments. Other occurrences are in the headwaters of the Bunyip, Latrobe, Thomson, and Yarra Rivers (Gullan et al. 1979). Characteristically it occurs on deep, friable brownish gradational soils; however, at lower elevations it occurs in reddish gradational soils derived from igneous parent rocks.”
From: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/static/bioregions/eastern-highlands
Also:
“Regeneration of Mountain Ash requires a periodic hot and fast bushfire in a forest of trees of at least seed-bearing age. Mountain Ash forests naturally experience a crown fire possibly every 100-200 years-a fire that destroys the forest but results in dense regrowth. Such a crown fire is only possible after a number of years that result in dry fuel, low humidities and high temperatures.”
From (a reasonable way down the page, around halfway): https://museumsvictoria.com.au/melbournemuseum/resources/forest-secrets/
And way back the water catchment areas for Melbourne had logging stopped initially to reduce contamination of the water, but then they found the bush gave better stream flow and more water to catch.
This.
About to get dressed and head off to the GP.
Have to wear damp socks because all the clean socks are still damp.
Bubblecar said:
About to get dressed and head off to the GP.Have to wear damp socks because all the clean socks are still damp.
Do you have a hairdryer?
Bubblecar said:
About to get dressed and head off to the GP.Have to wear damp socks because all the clean socks are still damp.
That’s right, give yourself foot-rot on top of everything else.
Speedy said:
Bubblecar said:
About to get dressed and head off to the GP.Have to wear damp socks because all the clean socks are still damp.
Do you have a hairdryer?
No. I should have put them in front of the heater but it’s too late now.
Bubblecar said:
About to get dressed and head off to the GP.Have to wear damp socks because all the clean socks are still damp.
Do you have a hair dryer, if so put the socks over the exhaust outlet and dry them that way
Bubblecar said:
About to get dressed and head off to the GP.Have to wear damp socks because all the clean socks are still damp.
Better put another half dozen pair of socks on the list.
Bubblecar said:
Speedy said:
Bubblecar said:
About to get dressed and head off to the GP.Have to wear damp socks because all the clean socks are still damp.
Do you have a hairdryer?
No. I should have put them in front of the heater but it’s too late now.
Good luck at the docs.
Bubblecar said:
Speedy said:
Bubblecar said:
About to get dressed and head off to the GP.Have to wear damp socks because all the clean socks are still damp.
Do you have a hairdryer?
No. I should have put them in front of the heater but it’s too late now.
It is a lovely day here, they’d have dried in twenty minutes on the line.
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
About to get dressed and head off to the GP.Have to wear damp socks because all the clean socks are still damp.
Better put another half dozen pair of socks on the list.
…and a hairdryer.
Speedy said:
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
About to get dressed and head off to the GP.Have to wear damp socks because all the clean socks are still damp.
Better put another half dozen pair of socks on the list.
…and a hairdryer.
I’ve got one that is so portable you can shove it in your hand down a sock to dry it in sections from the toe up. It is the size of a packet of longbeach forty’s.
Pfizer $18 a dose
AZ $3 a dose.
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PFIZER , AND A VERY INCOMPETENT GOVERNMENT
A Detailed Analysis.
It has been revealed that in July 2020, just three months after the coronavirus pandemic commenced, the Australian government rejected an offer from the pharmaceutical and biotechnology company, Pfizer Inc., to supply 40 million vaccination doses, whenever they became commercially available.
Vaccines to reduce the impact and effect of the COVID-19 variant were frantically being researched and developed and, at that stage, it was unknown when these vaccines were going to become available—if at all—and the offer also included a proposal to establish Australia as an international model for the rollout of COVID-19 vaccination program, an offer that was subsequently taken up by the Israeli government.
If the Pfizer plan had been agreed to and implemented, Australia would have commenced its vaccination rollout in January this year.
Even with the current dysfunctional national rollout strategy, the amount of people vaccinated would now be around six million, or around 25 per cent of the population—and with the correct vaccination implemented by the states and territories, following the procedures recommended by Pfizer, that figure now would be closer to 60 per cent, which means Australia would have been around one month away from achieving the herd immunity to COVID-19 so many countries around the world have been working towards.
Pfizer has produced the most effective COVID-19 vaccination available: according to the Lancet medical journal, its efficacy rate is 95 per cent, followed by Moderna at 90 per cent, and Gamalaya at 91 per cent.
Towards the back of this queue is the Johnson & Johnson vaccine at 68 per cent, and AstraZeneca at the end of the list, with a 67 per cent efficacy rate.
The Australian government, on behalf of the public, could have obtained the best COVID-19 vaccine—of course, it would have been at a premium price—but they would have also received the first batches of the vaccine, set up Australia as an international model testing zone, and Australia would have been on clear pathway towards full vaccination.
They rejected this proposition.In his 1964 book, The Lucky Country, Donald Horne referred to Australia’s ‘second-rate’ leadership and management, where “most of its leaders (in all fields) so lack curiosity about the events that surround them that they are often taken by surprise”.
The ABC journalist and political editor, Laura Tingle, once suggested Australia is “actually being governed by idiots and fools”, and the management of the vaccines provides ample proof of these sentiments: A second-rate government that has provided the Australian community with a second-rate vaccination program.
Watching the Australian government get it wrong, again and again and again: it’s becoming tedious. It does need to be taken into account that in these unprecedented and difficult circumstances of a pandemic, mistakes are almost inevitably bound to happen and it’s up to governments, who contain the resources and ability to obtain the best possible advice, to ensure mistakes are reduced and problems alleviated.
But it seems this has gone beyond the point of making mistakes and into the realm of wilful incompetence: rejecting the Pfizer proposal in July 2020 is up there with some of the more ridiculous decisions by government, and why they are not prioritising the health of the Australian community is bewildering.
Yes, the Pfizer proposal had a large price tag attached to it, but what’s more expensive in the long term: health, or a sick population with a damaged economy?
Since the pandemic commenced in early 2020, the countries that have managed or reduced the coronavirus effectively, also have the better performing economies.
Australia has managed the pandemic relatively well, but it seems these decisions are going to affect the ability to manage the virus into the future—as can be seen by the recent extended lockdown experiences in Melbourne and Sydney—which, in turn, affects economic output.
It’s not clear who is benefiting from this lack of government action and poor decision-making but it’s almost as though the actions are intended to ensure that vaccines and associated benefits shouldn’t accrue to marginalised people or the electorates that are unlikely to benefit the Liberal or National parties.
It may seem outrageous to suggest this, but Morrison is a highly political prime minister and seemingly only exists to seek political opportunity and political benefit. And his behaviours since he won the May 2019 federal election support this theory.
Why did the Australia government push for the supply of AstraZenica and reject the Pfizer proposal? The public needs to know the full details of what occurred in July 2020 and why those particular decisions were made.
At that particular time, the government was provided carte blanche approval by Parliament to spend $303 billion on stimulus programs, as the JobKeeper scheme, and health and community protection measures.
The cost of Pfizer is around $26 per dose, and the provision of 40 million doses would have cost around $1 billion, and with the development of cold storage facilities to house the vials—longer term storage temperatures are minus 70°C, while vials can be stored in shorter-term locations such as doctor’s surgeries at 2°C—the full cost of provision, storage and delivery would have been in the vicinity of $4 billion.
There’s no question that a $4 billion price tag to secure the Pfizer vaccine is a major consideration but there is a number of key considerations: the government had $303 billion available to it in additional spending, with few questions asked about how it was going to spend this money.
To give this figure further context, the cost of the government’s offshore processing system over the past eight years is $8 billion—a system that has punished 3,000 asylum seekers—and there are many other programs and wasteful spending where the government rarely blinks or thinks twice about before applying this funds. The infamous “sports rorts” affair is another, where $250 million was spent on pork-barrelling in the lead up to the 2019 election, as well as another $200 million in the regional jobs and investment scheme, in which government MPs hand-picked specific projects and assorted rorts which also gave the Coalition an electoral boost in 2019.
The government had a choice of a far superior Pfizer vaccine which could have resulted in Australia close to achieving herd immunity by the end of July 2021—but they chose a far cheaper and less effective AstraZenica vaccine at a cost of $3 per dose, which has now been found to have some greater medical risk for people under 50, as well as supply issues.
The government clearly defined its goal and political rhetoric about opening up the economy and society as quickly as possible and the Pfizer proposal provided a clear solution to these political ambitions, albeit at a far greater financial cost. And by attempting to save costs in what seems to be a short-term decision, this will have greater impacts on health, and implications for the economic recovery and future economic performance. It easier to be wise after the event but there was a wide range of information available at that time about the development of the different vaccines and their likely success. Perhaps there was some level of scepticism about the vaccine being developed at all, considering a vaccine for coronaviruses had never been developed before in human history, and some disbelief that a vaccine to COVID-19 could be developed within six months, in the context that most medical and virological opinion suggested if a vaccine were to be developed, it would be at least five years before it could viably appear on the market.Perhaps the Pfizer proposal was considered too good to be true but at a government level, with its level of top-line chief medical officers, epidemiologists and virus experts, would have been able to access the veracity of these claims and the likelihood of the success of the Pfizer proposal.
The US government signed a $US1.9 billion contract with Pfizer and BioNTech in July 2020 to supply 100 million doses, information which should have provided the Australian government with a high level of confidence to proceed with the Pfizer proposal.
At that time, Pfizer had also been approved in several countries, provisionally approval for emergency usage in the US and European Union, and was considered to be the leading vaccine of a group of 94 vaccines that were in development.
A government committed to opening up society and the economy should have committed itself to obtaining the vaccine with the highest efficacy rate and, if the government’s chief medical officers were unsure about the Pfizer vaccine, they should have secured deals with as many pharmaceutical companies as possible—which many other developed countries achieved.
Morrison assured the electorate that vaccines had been secured but it’s evident that this wasn’t the case and the opportunity to secure the most important and significant deal—with Pfizer—was overlooked.
Pfizer’s deal should have been accepted as soon as their executives walked into the negotiating room.
The rejection indicates a lack of foresight by the government and, if the proposal was rejected for reasons of cost, was a poor economic decision.
The current Sydney lockdown has been estimated to cost $2 billion in lost revenues for the 14-day period, and recent the state-wide lockdowns in Victoria were costing $1 billion per week.
For roughly the same cost as the recent Sydney and Melbourne lockdowns, Australia could have acquired the world’s best-practice vaccination program, and drastically reduced the possibility of ongoing lockdowns throughout Australia.
And provided the economy with the openness and the future security Morrison has been promising the business community and the electorate.
Anger in the medical community.
The information about these negotiations with Pfizer in July 2020—or more accurately, the non-negotiations—have only recently come to light, and many people in the field of epidemiology and medicine have been bemused and surprised about this revelation.
Dr Norman Swan is the ABC’s medical affairs journalist and prominent health communicator, and has barely disguised his fury over the issue, outlining his concerns about the neglect on the Pfizer deal and how it’s currently affecting the national vaccination program:
“I’ve now had three sources telling me the same story. One, including from the United States, of what happened with Pfizer last June .
And if these three separate sources are right, what happened with Pfizer last June is that they wanted to make Australia an example to the world about how to rollout—a bit like Israel or other places—and they said, ‘how much do you want, when do you want it?’
Tenth of July, there was a meeting and what I’m told happened at that meeting was that there was an inexperienced person there with procurement, they were pretty rude at the meeting and they said, ‘well you’re gonna have to give us all your IP ’, which is an amazing thing to have said—and started nickel and diming on the cost.
The government can’t go back and change its mind, it’s far too late to reverse an incredibly bad decision but instead of seeking recourse, and ensuring these poor decisions are not repeated in the future, it doubles down.
It makes more political decisions to cover over their incompetence, obscures reality, or tries to market its way away from political problems.
Morrison still holds large approval ratings: in the most recent Newspoll released on 27 June, he held an approval rating of 55 per cent, although his disapproval rating is 41 per cent. The two-party preferred voting pattern is 49 per cent for the Coalition, 51 per cent for Labor, which is not a clear winning position for either party.
There comes a point where every government reaches its use-by date, and the Morrison government reached this point even before it was elected in May 2019: it’s not a government that’s suitable for the times, and its political behaviour is not synchronised with the requirements of the post-pandemic world in Australia. It’s the wrong government in office at precisely the wrong time.
The key issues for this stage are the vaccination rollout and building quarantine centres in cities and key regional areas, and the government has failed miserably in both tasks.
Running out of luck.
Much self-interest and longevity can be achieved by incompetent governments when they are supported by a soft media.
But the media’s perception and presentation of the issues as they see them can often be different to the lived realities of the electorate.
In the 2017 Western Australia election, the Liberal Party was shocked when they were handed a 12.8 per cent swing, a loss of 20 seats, and an abrupt end to their eight-year period in government.
A print and electronic media landscape dominated by right-wing proprietors promoting coverage slanted towards the Liberal and National parties, and hostile against the Labor Party, masked over the many cracks in that government.
The public was constantly told by the media about the brilliance of the WA Premier, Colin Barnett, and high-performance of the WA Liberal–National government. But the rhetoric of the media didn’t match up to the lived experiences of the public.
And that is the point where this federal government has arrived at within this political cycle: the mainstream media predominantly supports the Liberal and National in its coverage of political news, and is keen to promote Morrison in a positive light at every opportunity.
But the lived experiences of the electorate, as was the case in Western Australia in 2017, is not matching up with the rhetoric.
The vaccination program is in disarray and obvious task of implementing a quarantine system to reduce the changes of costly lockdowns, is not being attended to.
These failures could become quite potent and politically dangerous issues for the Morrison government at the next federal election.
And, as Donald Horne reminded us, the good luck that an incompetent government depends on for its success, simply runs out.
Will it be as bad as the Ruby Princess disaster in 2020 ?
But let’s not worry about that, all should be fine, because ‘Gladys is in love’.
Eddy Jokovich / David Lewis.
Got a mushroom in the backyard. I’m going to put it on iNaturalist with the label Agaricus austrovenaceus and see if anyone confirms or denies it. It smells like mushroom. I’ve got a piece sitting on paper for a spore print, which should be dark brown, according to Fuhrer’s field guide.
…..
buffy said:
Got a mushroom in the backyard. I’m going to put it on iNaturalist with the label Agaricus austrovenaceus and see if anyone confirms or denies it. It smells like mushroom. I’ve got a piece sitting on paper for a spore print, which should be dark brown, according to Fuhrer’s field guide.
…..
Purdy.
Dream Borks | What About bunny
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMrsOVVKqHk
It was a stranger animal.
buffy said:
Got a mushroom in the backyard. I’m going to put it on iNaturalist with the label Agaricus austrovenaceus and see if anyone confirms or denies it. It smells like mushroom. I’ve got a piece sitting on paper for a spore print, which should be dark brown, according to Fuhrer’s field guide.
…..
Put it on a Facebook Mushroom ID page and tell them you think it’s a Slippery Jack. You’ll have your ID in 1.87 seconds.
Speedy said:
buffy said:
Got a mushroom in the backyard. I’m going to put it on iNaturalist with the label Agaricus austrovenaceus and see if anyone confirms or denies it. It smells like mushroom. I’ve got a piece sitting on paper for a spore print, which should be dark brown, according to Fuhrer’s field guide.
…..
Put it on a Facebook Mushroom ID page and tell them you think it’s a Slippery Jack. You’ll have your ID in 1.87 seconds.
LOLOL
Speedy said:
buffy said:
Got a mushroom in the backyard. I’m going to put it on iNaturalist with the label Agaricus austrovenaceus and see if anyone confirms or denies it. It smells like mushroom. I’ve got a piece sitting on paper for a spore print, which should be dark brown, according to Fuhrer’s field guide.
…..
Put it on a Facebook Mushroom ID page and tell them you think it’s a Slippery Jack. You’ll have your ID in 1.87 seconds.
:)
(Yes, I know it’s the wrong colour for a slippery jack. I suspect it’s an edible one. But I won’t be eating it. Apparently A. austrovinaceus smells of aniseed though. Mine smells of mushroom. So I stand to be corrected. )
I’m a little bit subdued and sooky as the cat attacked me and he’s lots bigger than me
I’m mostly better now, so much so I came inside last night and ran off and hid so I could sleep inside
Cymek said:
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I’m a little bit subdued and sooky as the cat attacked me and he’s lots bigger than me
I’m mostly better now, so much so I came inside last night and ran off and hid so I could sleep inside
Aw.
BACK from the GP with some good news and bad news.
Good: The IGA wasn’t shut after all as they’ve postponed their stocktaking until tomorrow.
Bad: The X-rays show my heart is greatly enlarged, much bigger than it should be. That coupled with the murmur and possible connection with fluid retention could mean I’m in the early stages of heart failure.
Anyway he’s referred me for an echo thing on the heart at LGH and they’ll contact me for an appointment. He’s also prescribed Frusemix to help shift the fluids. He’ll see me next week to check how that’s going.
Also a referral for another ultrasound on the leg to look at muscle damage.
And I have an appointment for my first Covid shot this Thursday, 2:30pm.
This offender supposedly didn’t get his coleslaw from KFC so went back and threatened the teenager staff member with a replica gun to get one.
Bubblecar said:
BACK from the GP with some good news and bad news.Good: The IGA wasn’t shut after all as they’ve postponed their stocktaking until tomorrow.
Bad: The X-rays show my heart is greatly enlarged, much bigger than it should be. That coupled with the murmur and possible connection with fluid retention could mean I’m in the early stages of heart failure.
Anyway he’s referred me for an echo thing on the heart at LGH and they’ll contact me for an appointment. He’s also prescribed Frusemix to help shift the fluids. He’ll see me next week to check how that’s going.
Also a referral for another ultrasound on the leg to look at muscle damage.
And I have an appointment for my first Covid shot this Thursday, 2:30pm.
Bummer
Hope it can be fixed
Bubblecar said:
BACK from the GP with some good news and bad news.Good: The IGA wasn’t shut after all as they’ve postponed their stocktaking until tomorrow.
Bad: The X-rays show my heart is greatly enlarged, much bigger than it should be. That coupled with the murmur and possible connection with fluid retention could mean I’m in the early stages of heart failure.
Anyway he’s referred me for an echo thing on the heart at LGH and they’ll contact me for an appointment. He’s also prescribed Frusemix to help shift the fluids. He’ll see me next week to check how that’s going.
Also a referral for another ultrasound on the leg to look at muscle damage.
And I have an appointment for my first Covid shot this Thursday, 2:30pm.
Doesn’t sound like much fun :(
Still, it is worth getting things checked out properly.
Bubblecar said:
BACK from the GP with some good news and bad news.Good: The IGA wasn’t shut after all as they’ve postponed their stocktaking until tomorrow.
Bad: The X-rays show my heart is greatly enlarged, much bigger than it should be. That coupled with the murmur and possible connection with fluid retention could mean I’m in the early stages of heart failure.
Anyway he’s referred me for an echo thing on the heart at LGH and they’ll contact me for an appointment. He’s also prescribed Frusemix to help shift the fluids. He’ll see me next week to check how that’s going.
Also a referral for another ultrasound on the leg to look at muscle damage.
And I have an appointment for my first Covid shot this Thursday, 2:30pm.
The Az?
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
BACK from the GP with some good news and bad news.Good: The IGA wasn’t shut after all as they’ve postponed their stocktaking until tomorrow.
Bad: The X-rays show my heart is greatly enlarged, much bigger than it should be. That coupled with the murmur and possible connection with fluid retention could mean I’m in the early stages of heart failure.
Anyway he’s referred me for an echo thing on the heart at LGH and they’ll contact me for an appointment. He’s also prescribed Frusemix to help shift the fluids. He’ll see me next week to check how that’s going.
Also a referral for another ultrasound on the leg to look at muscle damage.
And I have an appointment for my first Covid shot this Thursday, 2:30pm.
The Az?
I think the bad news outweighs the good.
:(
A head for heights: Six men climb up a rope beside one of the pillars of the Albert Bridge, London, on which they are working . 1926
Bubblecar said:
BACK from the GP with some good news and bad news.Good: The IGA wasn’t shut after all as they’ve postponed their stocktaking until tomorrow.
Bad: The X-rays show my heart is greatly enlarged, much bigger than it should be. That coupled with the murmur and possible connection with fluid retention could mean I’m in the early stages of heart failure.
Anyway he’s referred me for an echo thing on the heart at LGH and they’ll contact me for an appointment. He’s also prescribed Frusemix to help shift the fluids. He’ll see me next week to check how that’s going.
Also a referral for another ultrasound on the leg to look at muscle damage.
And I have an appointment for my first Covid shot this Thursday, 2:30pm.
Sounds like you need to be getting serious about the weight loss + more exercise.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/jun/28/winner-of-brewdogs-solid-gold-beer-can-finds-prize-is-made-mostly-of-brass
sarahs mum said:
A head for heights: Six men climb up a rope beside one of the pillars of the Albert Bridge, London, on which they are working . 1926
Why use a ladder when there is a perfectly good rope to climb up?
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
BACK from the GP with some good news and bad news.Good: The IGA wasn’t shut after all as they’ve postponed their stocktaking until tomorrow.
Bad: The X-rays show my heart is greatly enlarged, much bigger than it should be. That coupled with the murmur and possible connection with fluid retention could mean I’m in the early stages of heart failure.
Anyway he’s referred me for an echo thing on the heart at LGH and they’ll contact me for an appointment. He’s also prescribed Frusemix to help shift the fluids. He’ll see me next week to check how that’s going.
Also a referral for another ultrasound on the leg to look at muscle damage.
And I have an appointment for my first Covid shot this Thursday, 2:30pm.
The Az?
I assume.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Bubblecar said:
BACK from the GP with some good news and bad news.Good: The IGA wasn’t shut after all as they’ve postponed their stocktaking until tomorrow.
Bad: The X-rays show my heart is greatly enlarged, much bigger than it should be. That coupled with the murmur and possible connection with fluid retention could mean I’m in the early stages of heart failure.
Anyway he’s referred me for an echo thing on the heart at LGH and they’ll contact me for an appointment. He’s also prescribed Frusemix to help shift the fluids. He’ll see me next week to check how that’s going.
Also a referral for another ultrasound on the leg to look at muscle damage.
And I have an appointment for my first Covid shot this Thursday, 2:30pm.
Sounds like you need to be getting serious about the weight loss + more exercise.
Aye.
Bubblecar said:
BACK from the GP with some good news and bad news.Good: The IGA wasn’t shut after all as they’ve postponed their stocktaking until tomorrow.
Bad: The X-rays show my heart is greatly enlarged, much bigger than it should be. That coupled with the murmur and possible connection with fluid retention could mean I’m in the early stages of heart failure.
Anyway he’s referred me for an echo thing on the heart at LGH and they’ll contact me for an appointment. He’s also prescribed Frusemix to help shift the fluids. He’ll see me next week to check how that’s going.
Also a referral for another ultrasound on the leg to look at muscle damage.
And I have an appointment for my first Covid shot this Thursday, 2:30pm.
That’s not good news at all Mr Car :(
In the link below is some info. on the echo thing you’ll likely have done at LGH. Where are you having the ultrasound?
https://www.svhhearthealth.com.au/procedures/imaging/echocardiogram-echo
Bubblecar said:
BACK from the GP with some good news and bad news.Good: The IGA wasn’t shut after all as they’ve postponed their stocktaking until tomorrow.
Bad: The X-rays show my heart is greatly enlarged, much bigger than it should be. That coupled with the murmur and possible connection with fluid retention could mean I’m in the early stages of heart failure.
Anyway he’s referred me for an echo thing on the heart at LGH and they’ll contact me for an appointment. He’s also prescribed Frusemix to help shift the fluids. He’ll see me next week to check how that’s going.
Also a referral for another ultrasound on the leg to look at muscle damage.
And I have an appointment for my first Covid shot this Thursday, 2:30pm.
Oh, bugger (to the heart failure).
Bubblecar said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Bubblecar said:
BACK from the GP with some good news and bad news.Good: The IGA wasn’t shut after all as they’ve postponed their stocktaking until tomorrow.
Bad: The X-rays show my heart is greatly enlarged, much bigger than it should be. That coupled with the murmur and possible connection with fluid retention could mean I’m in the early stages of heart failure.
Anyway he’s referred me for an echo thing on the heart at LGH and they’ll contact me for an appointment. He’s also prescribed Frusemix to help shift the fluids. He’ll see me next week to check how that’s going.
Also a referral for another ultrasound on the leg to look at muscle damage.
And I have an appointment for my first Covid shot this Thursday, 2:30pm.
Sounds like you need to be getting serious about the weight loss + more exercise.
Aye.
did you mention your sister’s reaction to it?
sarahs mum said:
A head for heights: Six men climb up a rope beside one of the pillars of the Albert Bridge, London, on which they are working . 1926
No thanks. Not for me.
Speedy said:
Bubblecar said:
BACK from the GP with some good news and bad news.Good: The IGA wasn’t shut after all as they’ve postponed their stocktaking until tomorrow.
Bad: The X-rays show my heart is greatly enlarged, much bigger than it should be. That coupled with the murmur and possible connection with fluid retention could mean I’m in the early stages of heart failure.
Anyway he’s referred me for an echo thing on the heart at LGH and they’ll contact me for an appointment. He’s also prescribed Frusemix to help shift the fluids. He’ll see me next week to check how that’s going.
Also a referral for another ultrasound on the leg to look at muscle damage.
And I have an appointment for my first Covid shot this Thursday, 2:30pm.
That’s not good news at all Mr Car :(
In the link below is some info. on the echo thing you’ll likely have done at LGH. Where are you having the ultrasound?
https://www.svhhearthealth.com.au/procedures/imaging/echocardiogram-echo
Don’t know, maybe LGH as well. I have to arrange that myself and there’s a number to call. Could be St Vincent’s or LGH (same appointment number for both).
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
The Rev Dodgson said:Sounds like you need to be getting serious about the weight loss + more exercise.
Aye.
did you mention your sister’s reaction to it?
No. Anna mentioned it before her shot and they said there shouldn’t be anything to worry about.
She just had a day of tiredness and chills following the shot. But now she has flu :/ (she hadn’t had this year’s flu shot).
Our family do for this weekend will very likely be postponed.
someone could unload the stumps out of the ute, they could, he could, I could, I will
Bubblecar said:
Speedy said:
Bubblecar said:
BACK from the GP with some good news and bad news.Good: The IGA wasn’t shut after all as they’ve postponed their stocktaking until tomorrow.
Bad: The X-rays show my heart is greatly enlarged, much bigger than it should be. That coupled with the murmur and possible connection with fluid retention could mean I’m in the early stages of heart failure.
Anyway he’s referred me for an echo thing on the heart at LGH and they’ll contact me for an appointment. He’s also prescribed Frusemix to help shift the fluids. He’ll see me next week to check how that’s going.
Also a referral for another ultrasound on the leg to look at muscle damage.
And I have an appointment for my first Covid shot this Thursday, 2:30pm.
That’s not good news at all Mr Car :(
In the link below is some info. on the echo thing you’ll likely have done at LGH. Where are you having the ultrasound?
https://www.svhhearthealth.com.au/procedures/imaging/echocardiogram-echo
Don’t know, maybe LGH as well. I have to arrange that myself and there’s a number to call. Could be St Vincent’s or LGH (same appointment number for both).
Fingers crossed that this is a small, albeit inconvenient, bump in the road for you and that things can be easily fixed.
Speedy said:
Bubblecar said:
Speedy said:That’s not good news at all Mr Car :(
In the link below is some info. on the echo thing you’ll likely have done at LGH. Where are you having the ultrasound?
https://www.svhhearthealth.com.au/procedures/imaging/echocardiogram-echo
Don’t know, maybe LGH as well. I have to arrange that myself and there’s a number to call. Could be St Vincent’s or LGH (same appointment number for both).
Fingers crossed that this is a small, albeit inconvenient, bump in the road for you and that things can be easily fixed.
Ta Speedy. GP agreed that shifting a load of excess weight will certainly help, whatever’s wrong.
Bubblecar said:
BACK from the GP with some good news and bad news.Good: The IGA wasn’t shut after all as they’ve postponed their stocktaking until tomorrow.
Bad: The X-rays show my heart is greatly enlarged, much bigger than it should be. That coupled with the murmur and possible connection with fluid retention could mean I’m in the early stages of heart failure.
Anyway he’s referred me for an echo thing on the heart at LGH and they’ll contact me for an appointment. He’s also prescribed Frusemix to help shift the fluids. He’ll see me next week to check how that’s going.
Also a referral for another ultrasound on the leg to look at muscle damage.
And I have an appointment for my first Covid shot this Thursday, 2:30pm.
From now on you shall be known as “Phar Lapp”.
Market gardener, George Rolfe opened the Cauliflower Hotel on what is today the south-east corner of Botany Road and Wellington Street in 1862. He was 39 when he opened the pub, and for many years prior had successfully worked as a market gardener in the area.
Rolfe, who arrived from England to Sydney as a 16-year-old boy with his family, would acquire large tracts of land on the Waterloo Estate, and was said to have made enough money to build his pub from the sale of a bumper crop of cauliflower.
The Australian Star reported on Saturday 11 April 1908:
The Cauliflower Inn, on the Botany-road, still reminds one of European market gardens, prior to the Chow-grown vegetable, when a certain cute producer marketed his cauliflowers in a droughty season to shell good result that he navigated the hotel out of the proceeds. Two-and-six for a small head, four shillings for a large, soon mounted up to the price of a bar.
read more about what went down at the Cauliflower here…
https://timegents.com/2017/07/24/cauliflower-hotel-waterloo/
Bubblecar said:
Speedy said:
Bubblecar said:Don’t know, maybe LGH as well. I have to arrange that myself and there’s a number to call. Could be St Vincent’s or LGH (same appointment number for both).
Fingers crossed that this is a small, albeit inconvenient, bump in the road for you and that things can be easily fixed.
Ta Speedy. GP agreed that shifting a load of excess weight will certainly help, whatever’s wrong.
Well if you’re ever wanting to know what actually works for weight-loss, I have these things to say:
1. You can never out-exercise a bad diet, so don’t bother exercising for weight-loss. Exercise for fitness or enjoyment if that’s your thing.
2. Calorie-counting works, but it’s boring and unsustainable. Nevertheless, it’s worth doing properly for a week-or-so, as it will give you a good idea of where you may be going wrong. Sometimes it’s simply portion size, not poor food choices. MyFitnessPal or MyNetDiary (both free) are good sites (or apps) you can use to help with this.
3. Fasting works and IMHO is easier than calorie-counting. Intermittent fasting is less than 24h and extended fasting is greater than 24h. Extended fasting has the added benefit of ketosis (where fat is burned quickly) as well as autophagy (where old or damaged cells begin to repair/replace themselves). Any fast longer than a couple of days requires electrolyte supplementation and for some are better to be medically supervised.
4. Keto works. I have never tried it, but people who do get good results.
sarahs mum said:
Market gardener, George Rolfe opened the Cauliflower Hotel on what is today the south-east corner of Botany Road and Wellington Street in 1862. He was 39 when he opened the pub, and for many years prior had successfully worked as a market gardener in the area.Rolfe, who arrived from England to Sydney as a 16-year-old boy with his family, would acquire large tracts of land on the Waterloo Estate, and was said to have made enough money to build his pub from the sale of a bumper crop of cauliflower.
The Australian Star reported on Saturday 11 April 1908:
The Cauliflower Inn, on the Botany-road, still reminds one of European market gardens, prior to the Chow-grown vegetable, when a certain cute producer marketed his cauliflowers in a droughty season to shell good result that he navigated the hotel out of the proceeds. Two-and-six for a small head, four shillings for a large, soon mounted up to the price of a bar.
read more about what went down at the Cauliflower here…
https://timegents.com/2017/07/24/cauliflower-hotel-waterloo/
Ha. That was a lot of money in those days.
https://fall.com.au/properties/duck-reach-24-corin-street-west-launceston-tas-11292/
Seems overpriced.
Speedy said:
Bubblecar said:
Speedy said:Fingers crossed that this is a small, albeit inconvenient, bump in the road for you and that things can be easily fixed.
Ta Speedy. GP agreed that shifting a load of excess weight will certainly help, whatever’s wrong.
Well if you’re ever wanting to know what actually works for weight-loss, I have these things to say:
1. You can never out-exercise a bad diet, so don’t bother exercising for weight-loss. Exercise for fitness or enjoyment if that’s your thing.
2. Calorie-counting works, but it’s boring and unsustainable. Nevertheless, it’s worth doing properly for a week-or-so, as it will give you a good idea of where you may be going wrong. Sometimes it’s simply portion size, not poor food choices. MyFitnessPal or MyNetDiary (both free) are good sites (or apps) you can use to help with this.
3. Fasting works and IMHO is easier than calorie-counting. Intermittent fasting is less than 24h and extended fasting is greater than 24h. Extended fasting has the added benefit of ketosis (where fat is burned quickly) as well as autophagy (where old or damaged cells begin to repair/replace themselves). Any fast longer than a couple of days requires electrolyte supplementation and for some are better to be medically supervised.
4. Keto works. I have never tried it, but people who do get good results.
Ta. Portion size is certainly an obvious problem with me, related to cooking enough for a large household that really only has one fat man in it :)
But I’ll also be cutting down on carbs and fats and doing some degree of fasting.
sarahs mum said:
Market gardener, George Rolfe opened the Cauliflower Hotel on what is today the south-east corner of Botany Road and Wellington Street in 1862. He was 39 when he opened the pub, and for many years prior had successfully worked as a market gardener in the area.Rolfe, who arrived from England to Sydney as a 16-year-old boy with his family, would acquire large tracts of land on the Waterloo Estate, and was said to have made enough money to build his pub from the sale of a bumper crop of cauliflower.
The Australian Star reported on Saturday 11 April 1908:
The Cauliflower Inn, on the Botany-road, still reminds one of European market gardens, prior to the Chow-grown vegetable, when a certain cute producer marketed his cauliflowers in a droughty season to shell good result that he navigated the hotel out of the proceeds. Two-and-six for a small head, four shillings for a large, soon mounted up to the price of a bar.
read more about what went down at the Cauliflower here…
https://timegents.com/2017/07/24/cauliflower-hotel-waterloo/
This is the first I’ve heard of it. Google Street View has this, so I’m glad it’s not across the road from my place or I’d have an ever-expanding waistline
sarahs mum said:
https://fall.com.au/properties/duck-reach-24-corin-street-west-launceston-tas-11292/Seems overpriced.
It’s a lovely site. Presumably hoping to attract wealthy mainlanders.
Speedy said:
Bubblecar said:
Speedy said:Fingers crossed that this is a small, albeit inconvenient, bump in the road for you and that things can be easily fixed.
Ta Speedy. GP agreed that shifting a load of excess weight will certainly help, whatever’s wrong.
Well if you’re ever wanting to know what actually works for weight-loss, I have these things to say:
1. You can never out-exercise a bad diet, so don’t bother exercising for weight-loss. Exercise for fitness or enjoyment if that’s your thing.
2. Calorie-counting works, but it’s boring and unsustainable. Nevertheless, it’s worth doing properly for a week-or-so, as it will give you a good idea of where you may be going wrong. Sometimes it’s simply portion size, not poor food choices. MyFitnessPal or MyNetDiary (both free) are good sites (or apps) you can use to help with this.
3. Fasting works and IMHO is easier than calorie-counting. Intermittent fasting is less than 24h and extended fasting is greater than 24h. Extended fasting has the added benefit of ketosis (where fat is burned quickly) as well as autophagy (where old or damaged cells begin to repair/replace themselves). Any fast longer than a couple of days requires electrolyte supplementation and for some are better to be medically supervised.
4. Keto works. I have never tried it, but people who do get good results.
all that sounds good.
Don’t even have to calorie count if that’s too tedious, a food diary can be a good indication. An (un)surprising number of people refuse to do this though.
https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/why-keep-a-food-diary-2019013115855
Speedy said:
Bubblecar said:
Speedy said:Fingers crossed that this is a small, albeit inconvenient, bump in the road for you and that things can be easily fixed.
Ta Speedy. GP agreed that shifting a load of excess weight will certainly help, whatever’s wrong.
Well if you’re ever wanting to know what actually works for weight-loss, I have these things to say:
1. You can never out-exercise a bad diet, so don’t bother exercising for weight-loss. Exercise for fitness or enjoyment if that’s your thing.
2. Calorie-counting works, but it’s boring and unsustainable. Nevertheless, it’s worth doing properly for a week-or-so, as it will give you a good idea of where you may be going wrong. Sometimes it’s simply portion size, not poor food choices. MyFitnessPal or MyNetDiary (both free) are good sites (or apps) you can use to help with this.
3. Fasting works and IMHO is easier than calorie-counting. Intermittent fasting is less than 24h and extended fasting is greater than 24h. Extended fasting has the added benefit of ketosis (where fat is burned quickly) as well as autophagy (where old or damaged cells begin to repair/replace themselves). Any fast longer than a couple of days requires electrolyte supplementation and for some are better to be medically supervised.
4. Keto works. I have never tried it, but people who do get good results.
I completely disagree with 1. I lost 20 kilos in the last year and didn’t change my diet at all. Just went for lots of runs and hopped on the exercise bike.
UFO = Unidentified Fermi-Lat Object.
A recent study of UFOs has ruled out self-annihilating dark matter with a dark matter particle mass greater than 0.3 TeV.
sibeen said:
Speedy said:
Bubblecar said:Ta Speedy. GP agreed that shifting a load of excess weight will certainly help, whatever’s wrong.
Well if you’re ever wanting to know what actually works for weight-loss, I have these things to say:
1. You can never out-exercise a bad diet, so don’t bother exercising for weight-loss. Exercise for fitness or enjoyment if that’s your thing.
2. Calorie-counting works, but it’s boring and unsustainable. Nevertheless, it’s worth doing properly for a week-or-so, as it will give you a good idea of where you may be going wrong. Sometimes it’s simply portion size, not poor food choices. MyFitnessPal or MyNetDiary (both free) are good sites (or apps) you can use to help with this.
3. Fasting works and IMHO is easier than calorie-counting. Intermittent fasting is less than 24h and extended fasting is greater than 24h. Extended fasting has the added benefit of ketosis (where fat is burned quickly) as well as autophagy (where old or damaged cells begin to repair/replace themselves). Any fast longer than a couple of days requires electrolyte supplementation and for some are better to be medically supervised.
4. Keto works. I have never tried it, but people who do get good results.
I completely disagree with 1. I lost 20 kilos in the last year and didn’t change my diet at all. Just went for lots of runs and hopped on the exercise bike.
Presumably you don’t have a bad diet…oh…cheeses and stuff and beer etc at night…
:)
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-29/dubbo-zoo-turns-away-sydney-tourists/100253346
> UFO = Unidentified Fermi-Lat Object.
> A recent study of UFOs has ruled out self-annihilating dark matter with a dark matter particle mass greater than 0.3 TeV.
In more dark matter news.
Galaxies usually have dark matter halos. But do globular clusters?
Some do and some don’t according to this paper. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2106.00751.pdf
“local dark matter is not expected in the disk population of globular clusters” but is expected in the population of globular clusters that formed outside the Milky Way’s disk.
“The halo clusters are very old.The metal poor halo globular clusters are promising targets to search for evidence of dark matter local toclusters. We select 19 Milky Way clusters that are metal poor within 20 kpc of the sun.”
“eleven of the nineteen sample clusters show no evidence for significant local dark matter. The two clusters that show the most convincing (evidence for local dark matter are) NGC 6205 and 6752”.
Bubblecar said:
Speedy said:
Bubblecar said:Ta Speedy. GP agreed that shifting a load of excess weight will certainly help, whatever’s wrong.
Well if you’re ever wanting to know what actually works for weight-loss, I have these things to say:
1. You can never out-exercise a bad diet, so don’t bother exercising for weight-loss. Exercise for fitness or enjoyment if that’s your thing.
2. Calorie-counting works, but it’s boring and unsustainable. Nevertheless, it’s worth doing properly for a week-or-so, as it will give you a good idea of where you may be going wrong. Sometimes it’s simply portion size, not poor food choices. MyFitnessPal or MyNetDiary (both free) are good sites (or apps) you can use to help with this.
3. Fasting works and IMHO is easier than calorie-counting. Intermittent fasting is less than 24h and extended fasting is greater than 24h. Extended fasting has the added benefit of ketosis (where fat is burned quickly) as well as autophagy (where old or damaged cells begin to repair/replace themselves). Any fast longer than a couple of days requires electrolyte supplementation and for some are better to be medically supervised.
4. Keto works. I have never tried it, but people who do get good results.
Ta. Portion size is certainly an obvious problem with me, related to cooking enough for a large household that really only has one fat man in it :)
But I’ll also be cutting down on carbs and fats and doing some degree of fasting.
…. and cutting down on booze.
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
Speedy said:Well if you’re ever wanting to know what actually works for weight-loss, I have these things to say:
1. You can never out-exercise a bad diet, so don’t bother exercising for weight-loss. Exercise for fitness or enjoyment if that’s your thing.
2. Calorie-counting works, but it’s boring and unsustainable. Nevertheless, it’s worth doing properly for a week-or-so, as it will give you a good idea of where you may be going wrong. Sometimes it’s simply portion size, not poor food choices. MyFitnessPal or MyNetDiary (both free) are good sites (or apps) you can use to help with this.
3. Fasting works and IMHO is easier than calorie-counting. Intermittent fasting is less than 24h and extended fasting is greater than 24h. Extended fasting has the added benefit of ketosis (where fat is burned quickly) as well as autophagy (where old or damaged cells begin to repair/replace themselves). Any fast longer than a couple of days requires electrolyte supplementation and for some are better to be medically supervised.
4. Keto works. I have never tried it, but people who do get good results.
Ta. Portion size is certainly an obvious problem with me, related to cooking enough for a large household that really only has one fat man in it :)
But I’ll also be cutting down on carbs and fats and doing some degree of fasting.
…. and cutting down on booze.
….and salt, which is bad for blood pressure. Even with the high strength BP medication I’m on, my readings have been consistently high lately. And high BP is one of the contributors to enlarged heart.
Along with obesity, excess alcohol and sedentary lifestyle.
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:Ta. Portion size is certainly an obvious problem with me, related to cooking enough for a large household that really only has one fat man in it :)
But I’ll also be cutting down on carbs and fats and doing some degree of fasting.
…. and cutting down on booze.
….and salt, which is bad for blood pressure. Even with the high strength BP medication I’m on, my readings have been consistently high lately. And high BP is one of the contributors to enlarged heart.
Along with obesity, excess alcohol and sedentary lifestyle.
….and stress and sorrow.
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:Ta. Portion size is certainly an obvious problem with me, related to cooking enough for a large household that really only has one fat man in it :)
But I’ll also be cutting down on carbs and fats and doing some degree of fasting.
…. and cutting down on booze.
….and salt, which is bad for blood pressure. Even with the high strength BP medication I’m on, my readings have been consistently high lately. And high BP is one of the contributors to enlarged heart.
Along with obesity, excess alcohol and sedentary lifestyle.
Get a dog to take you for a walk twice a day.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:…. and cutting down on booze.
….and salt, which is bad for blood pressure. Even with the high strength BP medication I’m on, my readings have been consistently high lately. And high BP is one of the contributors to enlarged heart.
Along with obesity, excess alcohol and sedentary lifestyle.
Get a dog to take you for a walk twice a day.
It’s that rental problem that would only be worse wth a dog.
He should push his photography with a picture a day posted in the forum.
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The Rev Dodgson said:
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:…. and cutting down on booze.
….and salt, which is bad for blood pressure. Even with the high strength BP medication I’m on, my readings have been consistently high lately. And high BP is one of the contributors to enlarged heart.
Along with obesity, excess alcohol and sedentary lifestyle.
Get a dog to take you for a walk twice a day.
or just one of those joke stiff leads and a collar and pretend.
ChrispenEvan said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Bubblecar said:….and salt, which is bad for blood pressure. Even with the high strength BP medication I’m on, my readings have been consistently high lately. And high BP is one of the contributors to enlarged heart.
Along with obesity, excess alcohol and sedentary lifestyle.
Get a dog to take you for a walk twice a day.
or just one of those joke stiff leads and a collar and pretend.
Or take the invisible dog off lead.
sibeen said:
Speedy said:
Bubblecar said:Ta Speedy. GP agreed that shifting a load of excess weight will certainly help, whatever’s wrong.
Well if you’re ever wanting to know what actually works for weight-loss, I have these things to say:
1. You can never out-exercise a bad diet, so don’t bother exercising for weight-loss. Exercise for fitness or enjoyment if that’s your thing.
2. Calorie-counting works, but it’s boring and unsustainable. Nevertheless, it’s worth doing properly for a week-or-so, as it will give you a good idea of where you may be going wrong. Sometimes it’s simply portion size, not poor food choices. MyFitnessPal or MyNetDiary (both free) are good sites (or apps) you can use to help with this.
3. Fasting works and IMHO is easier than calorie-counting. Intermittent fasting is less than 24h and extended fasting is greater than 24h. Extended fasting has the added benefit of ketosis (where fat is burned quickly) as well as autophagy (where old or damaged cells begin to repair/replace themselves). Any fast longer than a couple of days requires electrolyte supplementation and for some are better to be medically supervised.
4. Keto works. I have never tried it, but people who do get good results.
I completely disagree with 1. I lost 20 kilos in the last year and didn’t change my diet at all. Just went for lots of runs and hopped on the exercise bike.
Excellent! There are probably a few things going on here. In my experience, when I take the time to go for a run I’m more determined to not cancel out any calorie-burn gain by overeating on that day. I would be surprised if you don’t change your diet “at all” when you are making that kind of effort. The other thing is that this type of exercise, especially cycling, will build more muscle. Any increase in muscle mass will increase your BMR, which means that at rest you are burning more calories than you were previously.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:…. and cutting down on booze.
….and salt, which is bad for blood pressure. Even with the high strength BP medication I’m on, my readings have been consistently high lately. And high BP is one of the contributors to enlarged heart.
Along with obesity, excess alcohol and sedentary lifestyle.
Get a dog to take you for a walk twice a day.
That’s a very bad idea, I think. From what I have seen with people who get dogs, if they don’t already have an active lifestyle beforehand, the dog remains un-walked, and the owners live with the guilt of that.
Speedy said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Bubblecar said:….and salt, which is bad for blood pressure. Even with the high strength BP medication I’m on, my readings have been consistently high lately. And high BP is one of the contributors to enlarged heart.
Along with obesity, excess alcohol and sedentary lifestyle.
Get a dog to take you for a walk twice a day.
That’s a very bad idea, I think. From what I have seen with people who get dogs, if they don’t already have an active lifestyle beforehand, the dog remains un-walked, and the owners live with the guilt of that.
I’m not allowed pets in this rented house and I wouldn’t take on a dog, anyway. They need a lot of attention and companionship, and I’m barely able to provide enough for myself :)
Jamin
12 hrs ·
All done on this wall for COMA (Corridor of Modern Art) in Glenorchy! This mural is on the side of the Northgate building and is commissioned by Vibrance Festival and Glenorchy City Council. It took six days on the wall to complete – navigating some wet weather, moving house and delivering a workshop with COTA! My body is a bit sore but spirits are high.
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The mural depicts a mating pair of Satin-Flycatchers emerging from a portal. The Satin-flycatcher is endemic to Tasmania and the rest of Australia. However, sneaking through the portal is another native species, the blue banded bee! This species is also endemic to Australia, but not found in Tasmania – a mainlander! So in someways this mural is about place and belonging. It resonates with the idea that everyone (and everything) has a place, and belongs somewhere. And that difference is worth celebrating.
Stumbled upon a bower this afternoon, a beautifully constructed example decorated with bleached snail shells and crumpled alfoil.
Only a short trip from camp, will take my camera out there tomorrow am.
sarahs mum said:
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Jamin
12 hrs ·
All done on this wall for COMA (Corridor of Modern Art) in Glenorchy! This mural is on the side of the Northgate building and is commissioned by Vibrance Festival and Glenorchy City Council. It took six days on the wall to complete – navigating some wet weather, moving house and delivering a workshop with COTA! My body is a bit sore but spirits are high.
.
The mural depicts a mating pair of Satin-Flycatchers emerging from a portal. The Satin-flycatcher is endemic to Tasmania and the rest of Australia. However, sneaking through the portal is another native species, the blue banded bee! This species is also endemic to Australia, but not found in Tasmania – a mainlander! So in someways this mural is about place and belonging. It resonates with the idea that everyone (and everything) has a place, and belongs somewhere. And that difference is worth celebrating.
Nice :)
We have Blue Banded Bees here, burrowing in the natural sandstone wall in the backyard, but I don’t think I saw one last summer. Lots of things have been changing. We now have Bronzewing pigeons in the yard every day, despite having a dog. I like to think this is because I planted many things native to the area a few years ago, so their range has been extended a little.
Dark Orange said:
Stumbled upon a bower this afternoon, a beautifully constructed example decorated with bleached snail shells and crumpled alfoil.Only a short trip from camp, will take my camera out there tomorrow am.
I read a fb post yesterday where someone found a bower with all-white rubbish. They were agonising over whether they should collect the rubbish. I think everyone who responded said that the rubbish must be left.
Speedy said:
sarahs mum said:
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Jamin
12 hrs ·
All done on this wall for COMA (Corridor of Modern Art) in Glenorchy! This mural is on the side of the Northgate building and is commissioned by Vibrance Festival and Glenorchy City Council. It took six days on the wall to complete – navigating some wet weather, moving house and delivering a workshop with COTA! My body is a bit sore but spirits are high.
.
The mural depicts a mating pair of Satin-Flycatchers emerging from a portal. The Satin-flycatcher is endemic to Tasmania and the rest of Australia. However, sneaking through the portal is another native species, the blue banded bee! This species is also endemic to Australia, but not found in Tasmania – a mainlander! So in someways this mural is about place and belonging. It resonates with the idea that everyone (and everything) has a place, and belongs somewhere. And that difference is worth celebrating.
Nice :)
We have Blue Banded Bees here, burrowing in the natural sandstone wall in the backyard, but I don’t think I saw one last summer. Lots of things have been changing. We now have Bronzewing pigeons in the yard every day, despite having a dog. I like to think this is because I planted many things native to the area a few years ago, so their range has been extended a little.
Tasmanians are being encouraged to make their gardens more friendly for bandicoots.
Speedy said:
Dark Orange said:
Stumbled upon a bower this afternoon, a beautifully constructed example decorated with bleached snail shells and crumpled alfoil.Only a short trip from camp, will take my camera out there tomorrow am.
I read a fb post yesterday where someone found a bower with all-white rubbish. They were agonising over whether they should collect the rubbish. I think everyone who responded said that the rubbish must be left.
Indeed. This one has alfoil that looks like it was taken from camp fires. Not stuff we want left in nature, so will collect them before the next wet season.
This one likes white, so may start collecting some more natural stuff for him to select from for next year.
Bubblecar said:
Speedy said:
sarahs mum said:
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Jamin
12 hrs ·
All done on this wall for COMA (Corridor of Modern Art) in Glenorchy! This mural is on the side of the Northgate building and is commissioned by Vibrance Festival and Glenorchy City Council. It took six days on the wall to complete – navigating some wet weather, moving house and delivering a workshop with COTA! My body is a bit sore but spirits are high.
.
The mural depicts a mating pair of Satin-Flycatchers emerging from a portal. The Satin-flycatcher is endemic to Tasmania and the rest of Australia. However, sneaking through the portal is another native species, the blue banded bee! This species is also endemic to Australia, but not found in Tasmania – a mainlander! So in someways this mural is about place and belonging. It resonates with the idea that everyone (and everything) has a place, and belongs somewhere. And that difference is worth celebrating.
Nice :)
We have Blue Banded Bees here, burrowing in the natural sandstone wall in the backyard, but I don’t think I saw one last summer. Lots of things have been changing. We now have Bronzewing pigeons in the yard every day, despite having a dog. I like to think this is because I planted many things native to the area a few years ago, so their range has been extended a little.
Tasmanians are being encouraged to make their gardens more friendly for bandicoots.
I have ALL the wild things in my garden.
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
Speedy said:Nice :)
We have Blue Banded Bees here, burrowing in the natural sandstone wall in the backyard, but I don’t think I saw one last summer. Lots of things have been changing. We now have Bronzewing pigeons in the yard every day, despite having a dog. I like to think this is because I planted many things native to the area a few years ago, so their range has been extended a little.
Tasmanians are being encouraged to make their gardens more friendly for bandicoots.
I have ALL the wild things in my garden.
We taught Chilli (kelpie x ) to chase rats. After a stay at a boarding kennel in Tassie, the owners somberly apologised for her having caught and dispatched a bandicoot.
Dark Orange said:
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:Tasmanians are being encouraged to make their gardens more friendly for bandicoots.
I have ALL the wild things in my garden.
We taught Chilli (kelpie x ) to chase rats. After a stay at a boarding kennel in Tassie, the owners somberly apologised for her having caught and dispatched a bandicoot.
:( My kelpie has eaten a Rainbow lorikeet, a Bronzewing Pigeon, and another bird who I could not identify from its feathers, but I suspect it was a Butcherbird. She has, however, saved two ring-tailed possums already. One was a tiny juvenile, which she brought in to our bedroom at night, then woke us up to show us what she had brought in. I think she had fished it out of the pond, probably after disturbing its mother. The vet later told us it was uninjured and that they had named it ‘Flash’ as it was fast. The other possum was found by the dog earlier this year. She found it underneath some old sleepers and flung it up into the air. The vet told us it had four very badly burnt feet, and we suspect the injuries happened on Australia Day/Night, after we had had a BBQ. The WIRES carer released it back here a few weeks later.
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
Speedy said:Nice :)
We have Blue Banded Bees here, burrowing in the natural sandstone wall in the backyard, but I don’t think I saw one last summer. Lots of things have been changing. We now have Bronzewing pigeons in the yard every day, despite having a dog. I like to think this is because I planted many things native to the area a few years ago, so their range has been extended a little.
Tasmanians are being encouraged to make their gardens more friendly for bandicoots.
I have ALL the wild things in my garden.
:)
sarahs mum said:
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Jamin
12 hrs ·
All done on this wall for COMA (Corridor of Modern Art) in Glenorchy! This mural is on the side of the Northgate building and is commissioned by Vibrance Festival and Glenorchy City Council. It took six days on the wall to complete – navigating some wet weather, moving house and delivering a workshop with COTA! My body is a bit sore but spirits are high.
.
The mural depicts a mating pair of Satin-Flycatchers emerging from a portal. The Satin-flycatcher is endemic to Tasmania and the rest of Australia. However, sneaking through the portal is another native species, the blue banded bee! This species is also endemic to Australia, but not found in Tasmania – a mainlander! So in someways this mural is about place and belonging. It resonates with the idea that everyone (and everything) has a place, and belongs somewhere. And that difference is worth celebrating.
Birds and the bees? It should have been painted on the wall of the hospital maternity wing :-)
Dark Orange said:
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:Tasmanians are being encouraged to make their gardens more friendly for bandicoots.
I have ALL the wild things in my garden.
We taught Chilli (kelpie x ) to chase rats. After a stay at a boarding kennel in Tassie, the owners somberly apologised for her having caught and dispatched a bandicoot.
I had a lab as a kid. We used to say ‘Rats!’ And he would woof and sniff and play along.
Then one day Dad found some rats turning the compost heap. He said ‘rats!’. And the dog took off as fast as he could.
Speedy said:
Dark Orange said:
sarahs mum said:I have ALL the wild things in my garden.
We taught Chilli (kelpie x ) to chase rats. After a stay at a boarding kennel in Tassie, the owners somberly apologised for her having caught and dispatched a bandicoot.
:( My kelpie has eaten a Rainbow lorikeet, a Bronzewing Pigeon, and another bird who I could not identify from its feathers, but I suspect it was a Butcherbird. She has, however, saved two ring-tailed possums already. One was a tiny juvenile, which she brought in to our bedroom at night, then woke us up to show us what she had brought in. I think she had fished it out of the pond, probably after disturbing its mother. The vet later told us it was uninjured and that they had named it ‘Flash’ as it was fast. The other possum was found by the dog earlier this year. She found it underneath some old sleepers and flung it up into the air. The vet told us it had four very badly burnt feet, and we suspect the injuries happened on Australia Day/Night, after we had had a BBQ. The WIRES carer released it back here a few weeks later.
Chilli was well behaved around other animals, it was only rats (and rat-like critters) and that was because we encouraged that behaviour.
She was very wary around penguins, as they had beaks. ;)
Classified defence documents left at a bus stop in Kent, UK. Somewone found them and passed them on to the BBC.
Someone will be getting the sack. Soon.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-57624942
Speedy said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Bubblecar said:….and salt, which is bad for blood pressure. Even with the high strength BP medication I’m on, my readings have been consistently high lately. And high BP is one of the contributors to enlarged heart.
Along with obesity, excess alcohol and sedentary lifestyle.
Get a dog to take you for a walk twice a day.
That’s a very bad idea, I think. From what I have seen with people who get dogs, if they don’t already have an active lifestyle beforehand, the dog remains un-walked, and the owners live with the guilt of that.
As Sarah’s Mum said, it probably isn’t a good idea for a renter anyway, but it works for me.
Dark Orange said:
Speedy said:
Dark Orange said:We taught Chilli (kelpie x ) to chase rats. After a stay at a boarding kennel in Tassie, the owners somberly apologised for her having caught and dispatched a bandicoot.
:( My kelpie has eaten a Rainbow lorikeet, a Bronzewing Pigeon, and another bird who I could not identify from its feathers, but I suspect it was a Butcherbird. She has, however, saved two ring-tailed possums already. One was a tiny juvenile, which she brought in to our bedroom at night, then woke us up to show us what she had brought in. I think she had fished it out of the pond, probably after disturbing its mother. The vet later told us it was uninjured and that they had named it ‘Flash’ as it was fast. The other possum was found by the dog earlier this year. She found it underneath some old sleepers and flung it up into the air. The vet told us it had four very badly burnt feet, and we suspect the injuries happened on Australia Day/Night, after we had had a BBQ. The WIRES carer released it back here a few weeks later.
Chilli was well behaved around other animals, it was only rats (and rat-like critters) and that was because we encouraged that behaviour.
She was very wary around penguins, as they had beaks. ;)
did you read about the little penguin numbers on Maria island?
Speedy said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Bubblecar said:….and salt, which is bad for blood pressure. Even with the high strength BP medication I’m on, my readings have been consistently high lately. And high BP is one of the contributors to enlarged heart.
Along with obesity, excess alcohol and sedentary lifestyle.
Get a dog to take you for a walk twice a day.
That’s a very bad idea, I think. From what I have seen with people who get dogs, if they don’t already have an active lifestyle beforehand, the dog remains un-walked, and the owners live with the guilt of that.
at least you’ll have a companion and can get fat together.
sarahs mum said:
Dark Orange said:
Speedy said::( My kelpie has eaten a Rainbow lorikeet, a Bronzewing Pigeon, and another bird who I could not identify from its feathers, but I suspect it was a Butcherbird. She has, however, saved two ring-tailed possums already. One was a tiny juvenile, which she brought in to our bedroom at night, then woke us up to show us what she had brought in. I think she had fished it out of the pond, probably after disturbing its mother. The vet later told us it was uninjured and that they had named it ‘Flash’ as it was fast. The other possum was found by the dog earlier this year. She found it underneath some old sleepers and flung it up into the air. The vet told us it had four very badly burnt feet, and we suspect the injuries happened on Australia Day/Night, after we had had a BBQ. The WIRES carer released it back here a few weeks later.
Chilli was well behaved around other animals, it was only rats (and rat-like critters) and that was because we encouraged that behaviour.
She was very wary around penguins, as they had beaks. ;)
did you read about the little penguin numbers on Maria island?
I did. How sad is that?!? I cannot believe no-one thought that releasing the devils might be a bad idea.
My understanding is that Tasmanian Devils have a big problem with their genetic biodiversity, something about a crash in their population thousands of years ago. They are destined to become extinct in the not-too-distant future regardless of any intervention by us, so it is doubly upsetting to see that we have jeopardised other species as well.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Speedy said:
The Rev Dodgson said:Get a dog to take you for a walk twice a day.
That’s a very bad idea, I think. From what I have seen with people who get dogs, if they don’t already have an active lifestyle beforehand, the dog remains un-walked, and the owners live with the guilt of that.
As Sarah’s Mum said, it probably isn’t a good idea for a renter anyway, but it works for me.
I admit to not walking my dogs very much at all. I do do ball throwing and I reward stupid tricks like tail chasing clockwise/anti clockwise, rolling overs etc.
Cobbett marks his territory and now he also follows Paisley around and marks over her scent. They are only using an acre or so.
When we go for a walk we are using the same ground. I haven’t been up the back of the property for years and years.
Cobbett won’t leave the front gate without me. I bet Paisley does as some stage. The people building next door might be too much for her. She might need to monster tradies with tail wagging and prancing aboot.
sarahs mum said:
Dark Orange said:
Speedy said::( My kelpie has eaten a Rainbow lorikeet, a Bronzewing Pigeon, and another bird who I could not identify from its feathers, but I suspect it was a Butcherbird. She has, however, saved two ring-tailed possums already. One was a tiny juvenile, which she brought in to our bedroom at night, then woke us up to show us what she had brought in. I think she had fished it out of the pond, probably after disturbing its mother. The vet later told us it was uninjured and that they had named it ‘Flash’ as it was fast. The other possum was found by the dog earlier this year. She found it underneath some old sleepers and flung it up into the air. The vet told us it had four very badly burnt feet, and we suspect the injuries happened on Australia Day/Night, after we had had a BBQ. The WIRES carer released it back here a few weeks later.
Chilli was well behaved around other animals, it was only rats (and rat-like critters) and that was because we encouraged that behaviour.
She was very wary around penguins, as they had beaks. ;)
did you read about the little penguin numbers on Maria island?
No, will look it up.
ChrispenEvan said:
Speedy said:
The Rev Dodgson said:Get a dog to take you for a walk twice a day.
That’s a very bad idea, I think. From what I have seen with people who get dogs, if they don’t already have an active lifestyle beforehand, the dog remains un-walked, and the owners live with the guilt of that.
at least you’ll have a companion and can get fat together.
It is easier to just borrow somebody else’s dog.
Speedy said:
sarahs mum said:
Dark Orange said:Chilli was well behaved around other animals, it was only rats (and rat-like critters) and that was because we encouraged that behaviour.
She was very wary around penguins, as they had beaks. ;)
did you read about the little penguin numbers on Maria island?
I did. How sad is that?!? I cannot believe no-one thought that releasing the devils might be a bad idea.
My understanding is that Tasmanian Devils have a big problem with their genetic biodiversity, something about a crash in their population thousands of years ago. They are destined to become extinct in the not-too-distant future regardless of any intervention by us, so it is doubly upsetting to see that we have jeopardised other species as well.
Oh, yes – I heard about that, but “seabirds” was mentioned, not “penguins”.
sarah made a wonky bear for someone who wanted a wonky bear.
sarahs mum said:
sarah made a wonky bear for someone who wanted a wonky bear.
:)
That looks a substantial bear.
I’ve got beer and boiled peanuts, I can stop eating the boiled peanuts whenever I like.
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
sarah made a wonky bear for someone who wanted a wonky bear.
:)
That looks a substantial bear.
But it’s handicapped.
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
sarah made a wonky bear for someone who wanted a wonky bear.
:)
That looks a substantial bear.
A Bubble-bear.
Peak Warming Man said:
I’ve got beer and boiled peanuts, I can stop eating the boiled peanuts whenever I like.
Not like you to be scoffing beer and guzzling peanuts on a Tuesday. But that’s retirement for you.
I’m on the dry red with a tiny wedge of blue cheese, and an hour into this pleasing 4.5 hour ride:
4K CABVIEW Požarevac – Zaječar — Winter in the mountainous region of East Serbia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUBVvSxXnvs
Bubblecar said:
I’m on the dry red with a tiny wedge of blue cheese, and an hour into this pleasing 4.5 hour ride:4K CABVIEW Požarevac – Zaječar — Winter in the mountainous region of East Serbia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUBVvSxXnvs
Dry reds and wedges of blue will soon be a dimly remembered treat, once the heart-pampering diet kicks in.
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
I’m on the dry red with a tiny wedge of blue cheese, and an hour into this pleasing 4.5 hour ride:4K CABVIEW Požarevac – Zaječar — Winter in the mountainous region of East Serbia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUBVvSxXnvs
Dry reds and wedges of blue will soon be a dimly remembered treat, once the heart-pampering diet kicks in.
Perhaps you should think about earning them.
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
I’m on the dry red with a tiny wedge of blue cheese, and an hour into this pleasing 4.5 hour ride:4K CABVIEW Požarevac – Zaječar — Winter in the mountainous region of East Serbia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUBVvSxXnvs
Dry reds and wedges of blue will soon be a dimly remembered treat, once the heart-pampering diet kicks in.
Perhaps you should think about earning them.
I don’t work for money but I catch your meaning. Look upon the treats as an occasional reward for suitable expanses of creative effort.
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:Dry reds and wedges of blue will soon be a dimly remembered treat, once the heart-pampering diet kicks in.
Perhaps you should think about earning them.
I don’t work for money but I catch your meaning. Look upon the treats as an occasional reward for suitable expanses of creative effort.
I thought more about expending calories and then saving some more from fasting and having a session once a week of red wine, cheese and salad.
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:Perhaps you should think about earning them.
I don’t work for money but I catch your meaning. Look upon the treats as an occasional reward for suitable expanses of creative effort.
I thought more about expending calories and then saving some more from fasting and having a session once a week of red wine, cheese and salad.
Sensible and scientific. The sort of attitude that will prevail if all goes well.
Having a 98 Blackjack Winery Pinot noir. I just had a look at their website and they don’t appear to make a Pinot anymore. It’s very dry but quite enjoyable with some cheeses.
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/06/29/africa/jacob-zuma-contempt-sentencing-intl/index.html
Johannesburg, South Africa (CNN)South Africa’s highest court found former President Jacob Zuma guilty of contempt of court and sentenced him to 15 months in prison on Tuesday, a landmark move in the country’s long-running corruption saga.
sibeen said:
Having a 98 Blackjack Winery Pinot noir. I just had a look at their website and they don’t appear to make a Pinot anymore. It’s very dry but quite enjoyable with some cheeses.
Little Giant Barossa Shiraz this end. A big and bold offering with lots of flowers in the mix.
a nice glass of cold milk, because I don’t need alcohol all the time.
Bubblecar said:
You want bleakest Russia? Vasily Shul’zhenko delivers.
Truth be told, he’s too fond of a good wallow.
ChrispenEvan said:
a nice glass of cold milk, because I don’t need alcohol all the time.
shakes head
dv said:
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/06/29/africa/jacob-zuma-contempt-sentencing-intl/index.html
Johannesburg, South Africa (CNN)South Africa’s highest court found former President Jacob Zuma guilty of contempt of court and sentenced him to 15 months in prison on Tuesday, a landmark move in the country’s long-running corruption saga.
Be interesting to see how that all turns out.
ChrispenEvan said:
a nice glass of cold milk, because I don’t need alcohol all the time.
Good to see you’re improving :)
Sibeen and I don’t need alcohol any of the time, we just like a drink now and then.
Bubblecar said:
… we just like a drink now and then.
LOL.
sibeen said:
ChrispenEvan said:
a nice glass of cold milk, because I don’t need alcohol all the time.
shakes head
:-)
ChrispenEvan said:
Bubblecar said:
… we just like a drink now and then.
LOL.
Anyway, good to see you taking quiet comfort and satisfaction from other people’s problems.
It’s the Boris way :)
been watching asian udon soups stuff. looks yummo. plus their ramen is nothing like that packet stuff, shudder.
Bubblecar said:
I’m on the dry red with a tiny wedge of blue cheese, and an hour into this pleasing 4.5 hour ride:4K CABVIEW Požarevac – Zaječar — Winter in the mountainous region of East Serbia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUBVvSxXnvs
Jesus Christ. Serbian railway chaos at 1:16:12.
Railway crossing devices break down. So train stops, traffic thinks it can go but train starts again when the traffic starts…
A million years into the future.
Humanity sends a spaceship with the last humans to another earth like planet.
Crashes into red tesla car drifting in space.
Tau.Neutrino said:
A million years into the future.Humanity sends a spaceship with the last humans to another earth like planet.
Crashes into red tesla car drifting in space.
Elon will be thought of as a saviour by all living beings on the destination planet.
PermeateFree said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
A million years into the future.Humanity sends a spaceship with the last humans to another earth like planet.
Crashes into red tesla car drifting in space.
Elon will be thought of as a saviour by all living beings on the destination planet.
He will be thought of as an arsehole by those on the spaceship.
Tau.Neutrino said:
PermeateFree said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
A million years into the future.Humanity sends a spaceship with the last humans to another earth like planet.
Crashes into red tesla car drifting in space.
Elon will be thought of as a saviour by all living beings on the destination planet.
He will be thought of as an arsehole by those on the spaceship.
Thoughts will just fade away without those to nurture them. And nobody will ever think of them again.
PermeateFree said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
PermeateFree said:Elon will be thought of as a saviour by all living beings on the destination planet.
He will be thought of as an arsehole by those on the spaceship.
Thoughts will just fade away without those to nurture them. And nobody will ever think of them again.
A billion years the future.
An alien spaceship passes by close to earth.
Aliens look perplexed as a red tesla car with a dent drifts by in space.
Tau.Neutrino said:
PermeateFree said:
Tau.Neutrino said:He will be thought of as an arsehole by those on the spaceship.
Thoughts will just fade away without those to nurture them. And nobody will ever think of them again.
A billion years the future.
An alien spaceship passes by close to earth.
Aliens look perplexed as a red tesla car with a dent drifts by in space.
4 billion years into the future.
Red tesla car crashes into black hole.
5 billion years into the future.
Alien civilisation picks up 5 billion year old signals from earth.
Mexican Supreme Court rules government should legalise recreational marijuana
Mexico’s Supreme Court has ordered the government to issue permits for the personal use of marijuana and for the growing of limited amounts of cannabis plants, after the country’s Congress took too long to approve a limited legalisation law.
Key points:
More…
OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada will ban the sale of fuel-burning new cars and light-duty trucks from 2035 in an effort to reach net-zero emissions across the country by 2050, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government said on Tuesday.
Only zero-emissions cars and trucks can be sold from 2035, according to a statement, adding that a mixture of investments and regulations will help industry transition toward that goal. The government also said it will set interim targets for 2025 and 2030.
“We are committed to aligning Canada’s zero-emission vehicles sales targets with those of the most ambitious North American jurisdictions,” Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson said in the statement.
Britain said last year it would ban fuel-powered vehicles from 2030, while the United States has yet to fix a date. California, the largest U.S. auto market, said last year it would move to electric vehicles starting in 2035, and the Canadian province of Quebec has set the same target.
British Columbia is phasing out fuel-powered cars and trucks with a total ban coming into effect in 2040.
“We will work with the United States to harmonize fuel efficiency regulations and we’re investing in consumer rebates, charging stations, business tax breaks and industry transition costs,” Wilkinson added.
Trudeau, 49, has pledged to put Canada, the second-largest country by land mass in the world, on a path to net-zero emissions by 2050. Shifting transportation away from fossil fuels is key to meeting that goal.
Canadians broadly support fighting climate change, and Trudeau is expected to trigger an election as soon as September to rid himself of his dependence on opposition support in a minority parliament.
“Canada cannot reach our greenhouse gas targets if emissions from cars, SUVs and pickups, which are currently growing, are not curtailed,” said Keith Brooks, programs director at advocacy group Environmental Defence, who welcomed the move.
Brooks said only 3.5% of vehicles now sold in Canada are electric and that the government needs to do more to support the market for zero-emissions vehicles.
Tau.Neutrino said:
Mexican Supreme Court rules government should legalise recreational marijuanaMexico’s Supreme Court has ordered the government to issue permits for the personal use of marijuana and for the growing of limited amounts of cannabis plants, after the country’s Congress took too long to approve a limited legalisation law.
Key points:
- Mexicans seeking to grow or smoke marijuana will be able to request a government permit
- Individuals will be allowed to have up to six cannabis plants, limited to eight plants per household
- Medical marijuana has been legal in Mexico since 2017
More…
Does this mean, that you’re moving to Mexico Trino?
monkey skipper said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Mexican Supreme Court rules government should legalise recreational marijuanaMexico’s Supreme Court has ordered the government to issue permits for the personal use of marijuana and for the growing of limited amounts of cannabis plants, after the country’s Congress took too long to approve a limited legalisation law.
Key points:
- Mexicans seeking to grow or smoke marijuana will be able to request a government permit
- Individuals will be allowed to have up to six cannabis plants, limited to eight plants per household
- Medical marijuana has been legal in Mexico since 2017
More…
Does this mean, that you’re moving to Mexico Trino?
I’m thinking about it.
Lotus Evija 2000 horsepower
Tau.Neutrino said:
Lotus Evija 2000 horsepowerhttps://www.caranddriver.com/lotus/evija
It’ll look s-o-o-o good wrapped around a power pole.
Tau.Neutrino said:
monkey skipper said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Mexican Supreme Court rules government should legalise recreational marijuanaMexico’s Supreme Court has ordered the government to issue permits for the personal use of marijuana and for the growing of limited amounts of cannabis plants, after the country’s Congress took too long to approve a limited legalisation law.
Key points:
- Mexicans seeking to grow or smoke marijuana will be able to request a government permit
- Individuals will be allowed to have up to six cannabis plants, limited to eight plants per household
- Medical marijuana has been legal in Mexico since 2017
More…
Does this mean, that you’re moving to Mexico Trino?
I’m thinking about it.
I wouldn’t.
roughbarked said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
monkey skipper said:Does this mean, that you’re moving to Mexico Trino?
I’m thinking about it.
I wouldn’t.
Maybe not.
Wow re-discovering music on these Philips Fidelios.
This year’s Australia Talks National Survey 2021 found parents at independent schools had the highest rate of satisfaction with the education their child is receiving at 92 per cent, compared with 85 per cent in the Catholic sector and 77 per cent for public schools.
I wonder what the children think?
Hmm… forum decides it should be in landscape mode. Just turn your monitor on its side.
Dark Orange said:
Hmm… forum decides it should be in landscape mode. Just turn your monitor on its side.
Nice pic.
Forum does the same to my resized photos.
Morning, cold and damp in the Styx.
Dark Orange said:
Hmm… forum decides it should be in landscape mode. Just turn your monitor on its side.
Great bowerbird?
Dark Orange said:
Hmm… forum decides it should be in landscape mode. Just turn your monitor on its side.
Fixed.
roughbarked said:
Dark Orange said:
Hmm… forum decides it should be in landscape mode. Just turn your monitor on its side.
Great bowerbird?
We assume so, they are around here.
Dark Orange said:
roughbarked said:
Dark Orange said:
Hmm… forum decides it should be in landscape mode. Just turn your monitor on its side.
Great bowerbird?
We assume so, they are around here.
It does matter which colours they choose. Each species has a different colour choice.
For example, our spotted bowerbird looks quite similar but it chooses only green fruits to place inside the bower The bleached bones are outside the bower.
Good morning Holidayers. It’s a tropical seven degrees here this morning. Feels a lot warmer that the zero of yesterday morning. The sun is just coming up now. The forecast is for a mostly sunny 15 today. I think I’ll get out the chipper/shredder and deal with some bark and sticks and stuff. The big bluegums are shedding mightily again.
Good morning everybody.
Mostly cloudy. 14 mm overnight. Most in about 3 minutes. It really bucketed down.
Might cut our hair today. It’s got so long we’re both having to brush again.
buffy said:
Good morning Holidayers. It’s a tropical seven degrees here this morning. Feels a lot warmer that the zero of yesterday morning. The sun is just coming up now. The forecast is for a mostly sunny 15 today. I think I’ll get out the chipper/shredder and deal with some bark and sticks and stuff. The big bluegums are shedding mightily again.
10.7°C here. Got past 17 on sunny yesterday. Looks like it will turn back cloudy with possible shower later but we should reach 17 again before that.
Off to get my covid shot. May be autistic when I return.
Morning punters and correctors.
I wouldn’t be surprised if I don’t get pulled over on the way home later today and asked to explain myself.
Peak Warming Man said:
Morning punters and correctors.
I wouldn’t be surprised if I don’t get pulled over on the way home later today and asked to explain myself.
I told you not to keep running over line dancers.
Peak Warming Man said:
Morning punters and correctors.
I wouldn’t be surprised if I don’t get pulled over on the way home later today and asked to explain myself.
Smuggling fruit and vegetables across state-lines?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2021-06-29/scientists-detect-neutron-stars-colliding-with-black-holes/100249518
Peak Warming Man said:
Morning punters and correctors.
I wouldn’t be surprised if I don’t get pulled over on the way home later today and asked to explain myself.
Got the appropriate passes all signed and sealed, ready to be delivered?
Peak Warming Man said:
Morning punters and correctors.
I wouldn’t be surprised if I don’t get pulled over on the way home later today and asked to explain myself.
Tell ‘em you’re adopted. That’ll explain everything.
OK, you lot seem to still be here. It wasn’t on my agenda for today to unplug everything and clean the inside of the CPU. But I got an overheating message, and as I ignored it last week, I thought I probably shouldn’t ignore it again. It wasn’t too dusty in there really.
Woodie said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Morning punters and correctors.
I wouldn’t be surprised if I don’t get pulled over on the way home later today and asked to explain myself.
Tell ‘em you’re adopted. That’ll explain everything.
Ha!
Michael V said:
Woodie said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Morning punters and correctors.
I wouldn’t be surprised if I don’t get pulled over on the way home later today and asked to explain myself.
Tell ‘em you’re adopted. That’ll explain everything.
Ha!
It worked for the Pirates of Penzance.
Hello
Michael V said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Morning punters and correctors.
I wouldn’t be surprised if I don’t get pulled over on the way home later today and asked to explain myself.
Got the appropriate passes all signed and sealed, ready to be delivered?
Don’t need any, it will just be when I enter the Brisbane lockdown area.
poikilotherm said:
Dark Orange said:
Hmm… forum decides it should be in landscape mode. Just turn your monitor on its side.
Nice pic.
Forum does the same to my resized photos.
open it in paint, rotate, save, post. works for me.
Peak Warming Man said:
Michael V said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Morning punters and correctors.
I wouldn’t be surprised if I don’t get pulled over on the way home later today and asked to explain myself.
Got the appropriate passes all signed and sealed, ready to be delivered?
Don’t need any, it will just be when I enter the Brisbane lockdown area.
Ummm.
“Two border passes needed to get between NSW and Queensland
For the first time New South Wales has issued a border declaration pass for anyone entering from Queensland.
Border commuters will also need a current Queensland border declaration pass – so yes, that’s two different declarations to go both ways.
And the Cross-Border Commissioner, James McTavish says anyone who enters Queensland, for example for essential work on the Gold Coast, must follow the same lockdown provisions when they return home to NSW.
“They must make sure that they get online and they do that border declaration for Queensland, and they also, and for everybody who is going between jurisdictions they need to do this: they also need to have a New South Wales permit, so they need to make a border declaration as well for New South Wales and for those declarations they need to make sure that they’ve got them on their person,” he said.”
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-30/covid-live-updates-coronavirus-lockdowns-queensland-nsw-darwin/100254064
(Links on that page)
ChrispenEvan said:
poikilotherm said:
Dark Orange said:
Hmm… forum decides it should be in landscape mode. Just turn your monitor on its side.
Nice pic.
Forum does the same to my resized photos.
open it in paint, rotate, save, post. works for me.
I sent it straight from my phone.
Dark Orange said:
ChrispenEvan said:
poikilotherm said:Nice pic.
Forum does the same to my resized photos.
open it in paint, rotate, save, post. works for me.
I sent it straight from my phone.
yeah, I figured that. It was more for those on proper computers.
;-)
Well I’ve had my first weewee pill (furosemide). Apparently I can expect to be visiting the lavatory quite frequently.
ChrispenEvan said:
Dark Orange said:ChrispenEvan said:poikilotherm said:Dark Orange said:Hmm… forum decides it should be in landscape mode. Just turn your monitor on its side.
Nice pic.
Forum does the same to my resized photos.
open it in paint, rotate, save, post. works for me.
I sent it straight from my phone.
yeah, I figured that. It was more for those on proper computers.
;-)
seems to work for us
Bubblecar said:
Well I’ve had my first weewee pill (furosemide). Apparently I can expect to be visiting the lavatory quite frequently.
isn’t there a bag for that kind of thing
Tau.Neutrino said:
Mexican Supreme Court rules government should legalise recreational marijuanaMexico’s Supreme Court has ordered the government to issue permits for the personal use of marijuana and for the growing of limited amounts of cannabis plants, after the country’s Congress took too long to approve a limited legalisation law.
Key points:
- Mexicans seeking to grow or smoke marijuana will be able to request a government permit
- Individuals will be allowed to have up to six cannabis plants, limited to eight plants per household
- Medical marijuana has been legal in Mexico since 2017
More…
Caution: Side effects
Witty Rejoinder said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Morning punters and correctors.
I wouldn’t be surprised if I don’t get pulled over on the way home later today and asked to explain myself.
Smuggling fruit and vegetables across state-lines?
Diseases.
Ian said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Mexican Supreme Court rules government should legalise recreational marijuanaMexico’s Supreme Court has ordered the government to issue permits for the personal use of marijuana and for the growing of limited amounts of cannabis plants, after the country’s Congress took too long to approve a limited legalisation law.
Key points:
- Mexicans seeking to grow or smoke marijuana will be able to request a government permit
- Individuals will be allowed to have up to six cannabis plants, limited to eight plants per household
- Medical marijuana has been legal in Mexico since 2017
More…
Caution: Side effects
so it was a slippery slope after all
ChrispenEvan said:
Dark Orange said:
ChrispenEvan said:open it in paint, rotate, save, post. works for me.
I sent it straight from my phone.
yeah, I figured that. It was more for those on proper computers.
;-)
Can’t you rotate and save on a phone?
SCIENCE said:
ChrispenEvan said:Dark Orange said:I sent it straight from my phone.
yeah, I figured that. It was more for those on proper computers.
;-)
seems to work for us
roughbarked said:
ChrispenEvan said:
Dark Orange said:I sent it straight from my phone.
yeah, I figured that. It was more for those on proper computers.
;-)
Can’t you rotate and save on a phone?
dunno, haven’t tried yet.
ChrispenEvan said:
roughbarked said:
ChrispenEvan said:yeah, I figured that. It was more for those on proper computers.
;-)
Can’t you rotate and save on a phone?
dunno, haven’t tried yet.
Hi Gloworm
ChrispenEvan said:
roughbarked said:
ChrispenEvan said:yeah, I figured that. It was more for those on proper computers.
;-)
Can’t you rotate and save on a phone?
dunno, haven’t tried yet.
Perhaps if the photo is simply saved it will lock the position.
ChrispenEvan said:
roughbarked said:
ChrispenEvan said:yeah, I figured that. It was more for those on proper computers.
;-)
Can’t you rotate and save on a phone?
dunno, haven’t tried yet.
My phone will rotate images in all manner of directions. I usually email them to myself and open and rotate accordingly in Paint.
Witty Rejoinder said:
ChrispenEvan said:
roughbarked said:Can’t you rotate and save on a phone?
dunno, haven’t tried yet.
My phone will rotate images in all manner of directions. I usually email them to myself and open and rotate accordingly in Paint.
… on the laptop.
SCIENCE said:
ChrispenEvan said:
roughbarked said:Can’t you rotate and save on a phone?
dunno, haven’t tried yet.
Hi Gloworm
Awww. Mention of Glowie makes me all nostalgic.
Tamb said:
SCIENCE said:
ChrispenEvan said:dunno, haven’t tried yet.
Hi Gloworm
Awww. Mention of Glowie makes me all nostalgic.
Brings back clouds of ants.
SCIENCE said:
ChrispenEvan said:
roughbarked said:Can’t you rotate and save on a phone?
dunno, haven’t tried yet.
Hi Gloworm
Nothing of import takes place in my life that warrants a picture taken of it.
ChrispenEvan said:
SCIENCE said:
ChrispenEvan said:dunno, haven’t tried yet.
Hi Gloworm
Nothing of import takes place in my life that warrants a picture taken of it.
Bubblecar said:
Well I’ve had my first weewee pill (furosemide). Apparently I can expect to be visiting the lavatory quite frequently.
Yes, yes you will. Do not take before attempting to sleep!
20 mg or 40 mg?
ChrispenEvan said:
SCIENCE said:
ChrispenEvan said:dunno, haven’t tried yet.
Hi Gloworm
Nothing of import takes place in my life that warrants a picture taken of it.
Pictures are evidence.
Evidence is best avoided.
ChrispenEvan said:
SCIENCE said:
ChrispenEvan said:dunno, haven’t tried yet.
Hi Gloworm
Nothing of import takes place in my life that warrants a picture taken of it.
I can’t drop pictures off the phone. They are in HEIC format. The forum doesn’t recognise them.
These were either saved or not on the phone. However having to export and save them as .jpg automatically locks in the vertical.
captain_spalding said:
ChrispenEvan said:
SCIENCE said:Hi Gloworm
Nothing of import takes place in my life that warrants a picture taken of it.
Pictures are evidence.
Evidence is best avoided.
Particularly your face. This can be fitted to any erroneous evidence and thus be linked to you and the onus is upon you to prove it faked.
SCIENCE said:
ChrispenEvan said:
roughbarked said:Can’t you rotate and save on a phone?
dunno, haven’t tried yet.
Hi Gloworm
LOL
Michael V said:
Bubblecar said:
Well I’ve had my first weewee pill (furosemide). Apparently I can expect to be visiting the lavatory quite frequently.
Yes, yes you will. Do not take before attempting to sleep!
20 mg or 40 mg?
40mg, one a day, upon arising.
Feel sorry for the Canadians experiencing 49.6C. Even I would be complaining at that point. I think that is hotter than any day I have ever experienced in Australia.
roughbarked said:
ChrispenEvan said:
Dark Orange said:I sent it straight from my phone.
yeah, I figured that. It was more for those on proper computers.
;-)
Can’t you rotate and save on a phone?
I could, but it was the right way up on my phone.
Bubblecar said:
Michael V said:
Bubblecar said:
Well I’ve had my first weewee pill (furosemide). Apparently I can expect to be visiting the lavatory quite frequently.
Yes, yes you will. Do not take before attempting to sleep!
20 mg or 40 mg?
40mg, one a day, upon arising.
Good-oh. That dose quite quickly shrunk my summer-worse swollen feet and lower legs. I went back to 20 mg after that. I tried cutting them out altogether during the cooler winter weather, but they quickly swelled again and became uncomfortable.
Also, both doses have had a marked effect on my blood pressure – lowering it. (I measure and record my BP, weight etc every morning. The record is a spreadsheet.)
Early Swiss electric shunting locomotive, showing the insides.
Single large electric motor connected to the side rods by diagonal rod. Impressive set of cutlery for all the nuts & bolts.
party_pants said:
Feel sorry for the Canadians experiencing 49.6C. Even I would be complaining at that point. I think that is hotter than any day I have ever experienced in Australia.
Seems SW Canada is even hotter than W USA at the moment:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57654133
Michael V said:
Bubblecar said:
Michael V said:Yes, yes you will. Do not take before attempting to sleep!
20 mg or 40 mg?
40mg, one a day, upon arising.
Good-oh. That dose quite quickly shrunk my summer-worse swollen feet and lower legs. I went back to 20 mg after that. I tried cutting them out altogether during the cooler winter weather, but they quickly swelled again and became uncomfortable.
Also, both doses have had a marked effect on my blood pressure – lowering it. (I measure and record my BP, weight etc every morning. The record is a spreadsheet.)
Yes, the GP is expecting to see lower BP as well as less swelling and possible weight loss after a week on these.
party_pants said:
Feel sorry for the Canadians experiencing 49.6C. Even I would be complaining at that point. I think that is hotter than any day I have ever experienced in Australia.
It is fucking hot.
Dark Orange said:
roughbarked said:
ChrispenEvan said:yeah, I figured that. It was more for those on proper computers.
;-)
Can’t you rotate and save on a phone?
I could, but it was the right way up on my phone.
:)
Dark Orange said:
roughbarked said:
ChrispenEvan said:yeah, I figured that. It was more for those on proper computers.
;-)
Can’t you rotate and save on a phone?
I could, but it was the right way up on my phone.
There’s probably an app for that..
https://expertphotography.com/best-photo-editing-apps-smartphone/
I’m quite sure these are Agaricus austrovinaceus. Anyway though stronger tasting and thus more delicious, they haven’t killed me yet.
I have just done some training portals that both sucked and were entirely interesting.
The topics were interesting, but the presentation was bland and boring and mostly stale. Although the indigenous cultural awareness one was better than the sexual harassment one…
Bubblecar said:
Michael V said:
Bubblecar said:40mg, one a day, upon arising.
Good-oh. That dose quite quickly shrunk my summer-worse swollen feet and lower legs. I went back to 20 mg after that. I tried cutting them out altogether during the cooler winter weather, but they quickly swelled again and became uncomfortable.
Also, both doses have had a marked effect on my blood pressure – lowering it. (I measure and record my BP, weight etc every morning. The record is a spreadsheet.)
Yes, the GP is expecting to see lower BP as well as less swelling and possible weight loss after a week on these.
It hasn’t affected my weight, unfortunately. (Or at least I don’t think it has, and the data back that up.) But I am working on my weight, with some effect.
Arts said:
I have just done some training portals that both sucked and were entirely interesting.The topics were interesting, but the presentation was bland and boring and mostly stale. Although the indigenous cultural awareness one was better than the sexual harassment one…
Did a panda do the sexual harassment presentation
Pre surgery tests done, blood, nose, mouth and urine tests
Sexist and other discriminatory disparaging humor takes a code for granted: its funniness relies on people recognizing the stereotypes that are the basis for the joke. It asks us to not take discriminatory stereotyping seriously. That’s not going to take the sting out of it.
Ford and Ferguson concluded that jokes don’t create hostility to the outgroup where it doesn’t already exist. But the evidence, they said, showed that joking reinforces existing prejudice. If you joke about women and get away with it, those who are hostile to women will see this as social sanction for their views and behavior. The joke tellers don’t themselves have to be actively misogynist to end up encouraging others to be.
https://absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2015/06/22/just-joking-sexist-talk-in-science/
Cymek said:
Pre surgery tests done, blood, nose, mouth and urine tests
That reminds me, need to book the car in for a service.
Cymek said:
Arts said:
I have just done some training portals that both sucked and were entirely interesting.The topics were interesting, but the presentation was bland and boring and mostly stale. Although the indigenous cultural awareness one was better than the sexual harassment one…
Did a panda do the sexual harassment presentation
damn.. what was that from? the office?
ChrispenEvan said:
Cymek said:
Pre surgery tests done, blood, nose, mouth and urine tests
That reminds me, need to book the car in for a service.
hehe
Cymek said:
Pre surgery tests done, blood, nose, mouth and urine tests
So they’ve decided to try to fix you up, I take it?
And…cat trap report. Another white cat has been caught in the trap we set yesterday at Auntie Annie’s. These ferals are in very good nick, someone in town must be feeding them. This one is the in between generation. We’ve still go to get the original mother and a couple of the latest litter of kittens. The council Ranger is to pick up the cat around lunchtime, so any time soon.
https://thenewdaily.com.au/finance/finance-news/2021/06/29/bitcoin-ato-tax-office/
Arts said:
Cymek said:
Arts said:
I have just done some training portals that both sucked and were entirely interesting.The topics were interesting, but the presentation was bland and boring and mostly stale. Although the indigenous cultural awareness one was better than the sexual harassment one…
Did a panda do the sexual harassment presentation
damn.. what was that from? the office?
Southpark I think
Michael V said:
Cymek said:
Pre surgery tests done, blood, nose, mouth and urine tests
So they’ve decided to try to fix you up, I take it?
Yes hopefully by the end of July, I got in as priority 1 but even that is extremely busy at the moment
New ‘Foundation’ teaser trailer has dropped:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gr6U4ypFITE
Witty Rejoinder said:
New ‘Foundation’ teaser trailer has dropped:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gr6U4ypFITE
It will be interesting to see how that works as a tv series, big world building involved.
Still they did a good job with Altered Carbon
Witty Rejoinder said:
New ‘Foundation’ teaser trailer has dropped:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gr6U4ypFITE
I wonder if the trilogy will be done or just the first book?
Cymek said:
Pre surgery tests done, blood, nose, mouth and urine tests
Which bits are they going to slice open, Mr Mek?
ChrispenEvan said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
New ‘Foundation’ teaser trailer has dropped:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gr6U4ypFITE
I wonder if the trilogy will be done or just the first book?
No idea. I imagine the first series will be based around Seldon while he was alive which is only the first few chapters of book 1 so there is so much to work with.
Witty Rejoinder said:
ChrispenEvan said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
New ‘Foundation’ teaser trailer has dropped:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gr6U4ypFITE
I wonder if the trilogy will be done or just the first book?
No idea. I imagine the first series will be based around Seldon while he was alive which is only the first few chapters of book 1 so there is so much to work with.
yeah, read them long, long ago and far, far away. Melbourne actually, as a teen.
ChrispenEvan said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
New ‘Foundation’ teaser trailer has dropped:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gr6U4ypFITE
I wonder if the trilogy will be done or just the first book?
Perhaps the first book, see how it is received and then decide, probably a big bucks production.
Some series are spending 100’s of millions now and not long seasons, only 10 or episodes
Woodie said:
Cymek said:
Pre surgery tests done, blood, nose, mouth and urine tests
Which bits are they going to slice open, Mr Mek?
Double bypass surgery
Cymek said:
Woodie said:
Cymek said:
Pre surgery tests done, blood, nose, mouth and urine tests
Which bits are they going to slice open, Mr Mek?
Double bypass surgery
Oooh that’s a big one Cymek. When is it?
buffy said:
And…cat trap report. Another white cat has been caught in the trap we set yesterday at Auntie Annie’s. These ferals are in very good nick, someone in town must be feeding them. This one is the in between generation. We’ve still go to get the original mother and a couple of the latest litter of kittens. The council Ranger is to pick up the cat around lunchtime, so any time soon.
You’d think white would be an unusual colour for ferals.
Speedy said:
Cymek said:
Woodie said:Which bits are they going to slice open, Mr Mek?
Double bypass surgery
Oooh that’s a big one Cymek. When is it?
They said hopefully by the end of July
Lunch: molten cheddar + sliced pickled onion on toast.
Bubblecar said:
buffy said:
And…cat trap report. Another white cat has been caught in the trap we set yesterday at Auntie Annie’s. These ferals are in very good nick, someone in town must be feeding them. This one is the in between generation. We’ve still go to get the original mother and a couple of the latest litter of kittens. The council Ranger is to pick up the cat around lunchtime, so any time soon.
You’d think white would be an unusual colour for ferals.
You’re catching the white ones because white cats are more prone to deafness and can’t hear the other cats warning them that ‘it’s a trap!’.
Cymek said:
Woodie said:
Cymek said:
Pre surgery tests done, blood, nose, mouth and urine tests
Which bits are they going to slice open, Mr Mek?
Double bypass surgery
OIC.. redo the dickie ticker plumbing. May the outcome be to you liking. :)
ChrispenEvan said:
https://thenewdaily.com.au/finance/finance-news/2021/06/29/bitcoin-ato-tax-office/
From that:
“the ATO views crypto as an asset rather than a currency, it is taxable when bought, sold or swapped,”
That is interesting. I don’t suppose I’d thought about it.
Cymek said:
Speedy said:
Cymek said:Double bypass surgery
Oooh that’s a big one Cymek. When is it?
They said hopefully by the end of July
Hopefully all these Covid dramas don’t delay things for you.
Bubblecar said:
buffy said:
And…cat trap report. Another white cat has been caught in the trap we set yesterday at Auntie Annie’s. These ferals are in very good nick, someone in town must be feeding them. This one is the in between generation. We’ve still go to get the original mother and a couple of the latest litter of kittens. The council Ranger is to pick up the cat around lunchtime, so any time soon.
You’d think white would be an unusual colour for ferals.
Not at all. It is quite common.
Speedy said:
Cymek said:
Speedy said:Oooh that’s a big one Cymek. When is it?
They said hopefully by the end of July
Hopefully all these Covid dramas don’t delay things for you.
They shouldn’t with priority 1, priority 2 & 3 they do
Bubblecar said:
buffy said:
And…cat trap report. Another white cat has been caught in the trap we set yesterday at Auntie Annie’s. These ferals are in very good nick, someone in town must be feeding them. This one is the in between generation. We’ve still go to get the original mother and a couple of the latest litter of kittens. The council Ranger is to pick up the cat around lunchtime, so any time soon.
You’d think white would be an unusual colour for ferals.
The original mother is white. I suspect they weren’t originally ferals. Perhaps they even belong to someone. But they do not wear collars, behave like wild cats and I don’t expect they have been microchipped or registered. I have no sympathy if we send someone’s unlabelled cat to the Ranger. I am expected to control my dog and keep it on my property or on a lead. I expect people who have cats to prevent them roaming about my place and killing the local birdlife and pooing in my garden.
Speedy said:
Cymek said:
Speedy said:Oooh that’s a big one Cymek. When is it?
They said hopefully by the end of July
Hopefully all these Covid dramas don’t delay things for you.
Here’s hoping the plumbing reno works out well.
captain_spalding said:
Bubblecar said:
buffy said:
And…cat trap report. Another white cat has been caught in the trap we set yesterday at Auntie Annie’s. These ferals are in very good nick, someone in town must be feeding them. This one is the in between generation. We’ve still go to get the original mother and a couple of the latest litter of kittens. The council Ranger is to pick up the cat around lunchtime, so any time soon.
You’d think white would be an unusual colour for ferals.
You’re catching the white ones because white cats are more prone to deafness and can’t hear the other cats warning them that ‘it’s a trap!’.
This one has the bluest of eyes. Very pretty actually, for a cat. (I am not a cat person. Except I loooove tigers. Not that I’d want to get too close…) We don’t think it is deaf.
buffy said:
captain_spalding said:
Bubblecar said:You’d think white would be an unusual colour for ferals.
You’re catching the white ones because white cats are more prone to deafness and can’t hear the other cats warning them that ‘it’s a trap!’.
This one has the bluest of eyes. Very pretty actually, for a cat. (I am not a cat person. Except I loooove tigers. Not that I’d want to get too close…) We don’t think it is deaf.
We just want to see it dead. deaf or not.
buffy said:
captain_spalding said:
Bubblecar said:You’d think white would be an unusual colour for ferals.
You’re catching the white ones because white cats are more prone to deafness and can’t hear the other cats warning them that ‘it’s a trap!’.
This one has the bluest of eyes. Very pretty actually, for a cat. (I am not a cat person. Except I loooove tigers. Not that I’d want to get too close…) We don’t think it is deaf.
Other cats: Stanley! Stay out of there, Stanley, it’s a trap! A trap, Stan! Don’t go in there, Stan!
Stanley: Mmm….tuna…
roughbarked said:
Speedy said:
Cymek said:They said hopefully by the end of July
Hopefully all these Covid dramas don’t delay things for you.
Here’s hoping the plumbing reno works out well.
+1
buffy said:
captain_spalding said:
Bubblecar said:You’d think white would be an unusual colour for ferals.
You’re catching the white ones because white cats are more prone to deafness and can’t hear the other cats warning them that ‘it’s a trap!’.
This one has the bluest of eyes. Very pretty actually, for a cat. (I am not a cat person. Except I loooove tigers. Not that I’d want to get too close…) We don’t think it is deaf.
Mr Speedy’s parents once borrowed our cat trap to try to catch a white cat that had been hunting birds in their backyard. When they discovered it in the trap one morning, they realised that they could not take it to the pound as they had something else on that day, so they released it back into their yard. Sounds stupid and it was, but the cat was even more stupid, being caught again that same evening. White cats are stupid.
captain_spalding said:
buffy said:
captain_spalding said:You’re catching the white ones because white cats are more prone to deafness and can’t hear the other cats warning them that ‘it’s a trap!’.
This one has the bluest of eyes. Very pretty actually, for a cat. (I am not a cat person. Except I loooove tigers. Not that I’d want to get too close…) We don’t think it is deaf.
Other cats: Stanley! Stay out of there, Stanley, it’s a trap! A trap, Stan! Don’t go in there, Stan!
Stanley: Mmm….tuna…
Yep…tuna…
:)
buffy said:
captain_spalding said:
Bubblecar said:You’d think white would be an unusual colour for ferals.
You’re catching the white ones because white cats are more prone to deafness and can’t hear the other cats warning them that ‘it’s a trap!’.
This one has the bluest of eyes. Very pretty actually, for a cat. (I am not a cat person. Except I loooove tigers. Not that I’d want to get too close…) We don’t think it is deaf.
Cats just pretend they can’t hear
Well the bladder seems to be filling every ten minutes or so. I may have to ask the Ross people to drive me to the medical centre for my Covid shot tomorrow as it’s about a 20 minute walk each way.
the naming of cats is a difficult matter,
it’s not one of your everyday ordinary games
you may think at first I’m as mad as a hatter
when I tell you a cat must have three different names…
Speedy said:
…but the cat was even more stupid, being caught again that same evening. White cats are stupid.
Based on the evidence that it had, the cat’s return was quite logical.
‘Last night, i went in there, got some food and a safe place to sleep, and they let me out in the morning. Think i’ll give it another whirl.’
Arts said:
the naming of cats is a difficult matter,
it’s not one of your everyday ordinary games
you may think at first I’m as mad as a hatter
when I tell you a cat must have three different names…
Well, that takes care of three swear words…
Cymek said:
Michael V said:
Cymek said:
Pre surgery tests done, blood, nose, mouth and urine tests
So they’ve decided to try to fix you up, I take it?
Yes hopefully by the end of July, I got in as priority 1 but even that is extremely busy at the moment
Great news!
:)
buffy said:
captain_spalding said:
buffy said:This one has the bluest of eyes. Very pretty actually, for a cat. (I am not a cat person. Except I loooove tigers. Not that I’d want to get too close…) We don’t think it is deaf.
Other cats: Stanley! Stay out of there, Stanley, it’s a trap! A trap, Stan! Don’t go in there, Stan!
Stanley: Mmm….tuna…
Yep…tuna…
:)
Had to be.
Stanley’s always been a sucker for tuna.
Speedy said:
buffy said:
captain_spalding said:You’re catching the white ones because white cats are more prone to deafness and can’t hear the other cats warning them that ‘it’s a trap!’.
This one has the bluest of eyes. Very pretty actually, for a cat. (I am not a cat person. Except I loooove tigers. Not that I’d want to get too close…) We don’t think it is deaf.
Mr Speedy’s parents once borrowed our cat trap to try to catch a white cat that had been hunting birds in their backyard. When they discovered it in the trap one morning, they realised that they could not take it to the pound as they had something else on that day, so they released it back into their yard. Sounds stupid and it was, but the cat was even more stupid, being caught again that same evening. White cats are stupid.
cats are pretty smart for an animal whose whole purpose is to hunt and procreate.. but, because their prefrontal cortex is very small compared to brain size, they lack impulse control. They make great criminals.
Found some more fungi when I was moving the leaf and bark and twig mould under the bluegums this morning. I’m going to label this Podoscypha sp and put it on iNaturalist for comment. They are two different clumps, very near each other, one in the sun and one in the shade. Both have the lighter edges, but it’s not so evident on the one in the sun.
Arts said:
Speedy said:
buffy said:This one has the bluest of eyes. Very pretty actually, for a cat. (I am not a cat person. Except I loooove tigers. Not that I’d want to get too close…) We don’t think it is deaf.
Mr Speedy’s parents once borrowed our cat trap to try to catch a white cat that had been hunting birds in their backyard. When they discovered it in the trap one morning, they realised that they could not take it to the pound as they had something else on that day, so they released it back into their yard. Sounds stupid and it was, but the cat was even more stupid, being caught again that same evening. White cats are stupid.
cats are pretty smart for an animal whose whole purpose is to hunt and procreate.. but, because their prefrontal cortex is very small compared to brain size, they lack impulse control. They make great criminals.
Toss the rampaging tiger a ball of wool?
Arts said:
the naming of cats is a difficult matter,
it’s not one of your everyday ordinary games
you may think at first I’m as mad as a hatter
when I tell you a cat must have three different names…
roughbarked said:
Arts said:
Speedy said:Mr Speedy’s parents once borrowed our cat trap to try to catch a white cat that had been hunting birds in their backyard. When they discovered it in the trap one morning, they realised that they could not take it to the pound as they had something else on that day, so they released it back into their yard. Sounds stupid and it was, but the cat was even more stupid, being caught again that same evening. White cats are stupid.
cats are pretty smart for an animal whose whole purpose is to hunt and procreate.. but, because their prefrontal cortex is very small compared to brain size, they lack impulse control. They make great criminals.
Toss the rampaging tiger a ball of wool?
They can’t resist laser pointers
Tamb said:
Arts said:
the naming of cats is a difficult matter,
it’s not one of your everyday ordinary games
you may think at first I’m as mad as a hatter
when I tell you a cat must have three different names…
Yes. Puss, ‘kn cat & Voetsek.
Had to look up No. 3.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Tamb said:
Arts said:
the naming of cats is a difficult matter,
it’s not one of your everyday ordinary games
you may think at first I’m as mad as a hatter
when I tell you a cat must have three different names…
Yes. Puss, ‘kn cat & Voetsek.Had to look up No. 3.
one of resident grey shrike thrushes, hear them out there now, like to look at themselves in the vehicle mirrors, tap at themselves
Coercive control should be criminalised in NSW amid a “pandemic of domestic abuse” that cannot be ignored, a parliamentary committee has found.
“It is clear that coercive control is a factor and red flag for the horrific and preventable murder deaths of Australian women and children – some 29 murders in 2020 alone in NSW.”
The report, tabled in NSW Parliament today, contains 23 recommendations and found the existing NSW laws do not adequately cover coercive and controlling behaviour.
It said the NSW government should propose amendments to the Crimes (Domestic and Personal Violence) Act 2007 to create “a clear and accessible definition of domestic abuse”, including such behaviour.
“This should be done as a priority, before criminalising coercive control,” the report says.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-30/committee-finds-coercive-control-should-be-criminalised/100255580
transition said:
one of resident grey shrike thrushes, hear them out there now, like to look at themselves in the vehicle mirrors, tap at themselves
Someone on a bird identification facebook page posted this, and honestly I didn’t even see the bird, I only saw the ghost of the 12 year old garden hand who misses his family.
dv said:
transition said:
one of resident grey shrike thrushes, hear them out there now, like to look at themselves in the vehicle mirrors, tap at themselves
Someone on a bird identification facebook page posted this, and honestly I didn’t even see the bird, I only saw the ghost of the 12 year old garden hand who misses his family.
Aw.
1970.
Bubblecar said:
1970.
Logan’s Run wig
Same era.
Beatles wigs were earlier.
Men’s hairstyles from a 1970s barbershop guide.
Riot and Revenge
Posted Tue 22 Jun 2021, 3:51pm
Updated Wed 23 Jun 2021, 10:13am
Expires: Wednesday 20 May 4759 3:51pm
https://www.abc.net.au/4corners/riot-and-revenge/13406944
…
I wonder what happens on 20 May 4759?
dv said:
transition said:
one of resident grey shrike thrushes, hear them out there now, like to look at themselves in the vehicle mirrors, tap at themselves
Someone on a bird identification facebook page posted this, and honestly I didn’t even see the bird, I only saw the ghost of the 12 year old garden hand who misses his family.
:) yeah see that, see the pigeon or whatever on the curtain rail too
Bubblecar said:
Men’s hairstyles from a 1970s barbershop guide.
Some pretty shady looking characters there.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Bubblecar said:
Men’s hairstyles from a 1970s barbershop guide.
Some pretty shady looking characters there.
This wig shop was owned by mafia man Martin Krugman who was later murdered and dismembered by colleagues, following the Lufthansa heist
The Rev Dodgson said:
Bubblecar said:
Men’s hairstyles from a 1970s barbershop guide.
Some pretty shady looking characters there.
They’re all a bit scary.
sarahs mum said:
Last night I watch a youtube of an FBI fellow talking about body language. At one stage they talked about a tell called ‘duping delight.’ A one sided smirky smile that denotes contentment at getting away with a lie or manipulation.one of my supervisors has just published his book on this exact topic.. it will be out in September, but he said he’d get me a copy.. I’m looking forward to reading it. I think I know what you watched and I believe my supervisor (the one who just published) recommended it to me
—
Former FBI Agent Answers Body Language Questions From Twitter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9SA25OukyM
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
Last night I watch a youtube of an FBI fellow talking about body language. At one stage they talked about a tell called ‘duping delight.’ A one sided smirky smile that denotes contentment at getting away with a lie or manipulation.
I was thinking of our very own.
sarahs mum said:
sarahs mum said:
Last night I watch a youtube of an FBI fellow talking about body language. At one stage they talked about a tell called ‘duping delight.’ A one sided smirky smile that denotes contentment at getting away with a lie or manipulation.one of my supervisors has just published his book on this exact topic.. it will be out in September, but he said he’d get me a copy.. I’m looking forward to reading it. I think I know what you watched and I believe my supervisor (the one who just published) recommended it to me
—Former FBI Agent Answers Body Language Questions From Twitter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9SA25OukyM
Is that like a shit eater grin
Cymek said:
sarahs mum said:sarahs mum said:
Last night I watch a youtube of an FBI fellow talking about body language. At one stage they talked about a tell called ‘duping delight.’ A one sided smirky smile that denotes contentment at getting away with a lie or manipulation.one of my supervisors has just published his book on this exact topic.. it will be out in September, but he said he’d get me a copy.. I’m looking forward to reading it. I think I know what you watched and I believe my supervisor (the one who just published) recommended it to me
—Former FBI Agent Answers Body Language Questions From Twitter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9SA25OukyM
Is that like a shit eater grin
sarahs mum said:
sarahs mum said:
Last night I watch a youtube of an FBI fellow talking about body language. At one stage they talked about a tell called ‘duping delight.’ A one sided smirky smile that denotes contentment at getting away with a lie or manipulation.one of my supervisors has just published his book on this exact topic.. it will be out in September, but he said he’d get me a copy.. I’m looking forward to reading it. I think I know what you watched and I believe my supervisor (the one who just published) recommended it to me
—Former FBI Agent Answers Body Language Questions From Twitter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9SA25OukyM
yep. that’s the one…
I have also done a masterclass with a profiler who talked about the same… it makes me side eye everyone and everything….. also wish I had known this stuff years ago.
sarahs mum said:
Cymek said:
sarahs mum said:sarahs mum said:
Last night I watch a youtube of an FBI fellow talking about body language. At one stage they talked about a tell called ‘duping delight.’ A one sided smirky smile that denotes contentment at getting away with a lie or manipulation.one of my supervisors has just published his book on this exact topic.. it will be out in September, but he said he’d get me a copy.. I’m looking forward to reading it. I think I know what you watched and I believe my supervisor (the one who just published) recommended it to me
—Former FBI Agent Answers Body Language Questions From Twitter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9SA25OukyM
Is that like a shit eater grin
My brother looked like that when my mother was yelling at him.
More fashionable wiggy offers.
sarahs mum said:
Cymek said:
sarahs mum said:sarahs mum said:
Last night I watch a youtube of an FBI fellow talking about body language. At one stage they talked about a tell called ‘duping delight.’ A one sided smirky smile that denotes contentment at getting away with a lie or manipulation.one of my supervisors has just published his book on this exact topic.. it will be out in September, but he said he’d get me a copy.. I’m looking forward to reading it. I think I know what you watched and I believe my supervisor (the one who just published) recommended it to me
—Former FBI Agent Answers Body Language Questions From Twitter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9SA25OukyM
Is that like a shit eater grin
these tips only mean the same in certain situations and with certain parameters.. otherwise the same ‘tell’ can mean something completely different in another setting.
sarahs mum said:
Cymek said:
sarahs mum said:sarahs mum said:
Last night I watch a youtube of an FBI fellow talking about body language. At one stage they talked about a tell called ‘duping delight.’ A one sided smirky smile that denotes contentment at getting away with a lie or manipulation.one of my supervisors has just published his book on this exact topic.. it will be out in September, but he said he’d get me a copy.. I’m looking forward to reading it. I think I know what you watched and I believe my supervisor (the one who just published) recommended it to me
—Former FBI Agent Answers Body Language Questions From Twitter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9SA25OukyM
Is that like a shit eater grin
Another good match.
You get the feeling though that body language analysis only works for those that don’t know the topic. Once people are aware of the topic they know the subtle things to do or not to do and can exert conscious control over. So the effectiveness of the analysis declines.
A bit like poker players being trained to recognise the subtle signs. Then they start doing them deliberately to throw the other people off who might try reading them.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Bubblecar said:
Men’s hairstyles from a 1970s barbershop guide.
Some pretty shady looking characters there.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Bubblecar said:
Men’s hairstyles from a 1970s barbershop guide.
Some pretty shady looking characters there.
party_pants said:
You get the feeling though that body language analysis only works for those that don’t know the topic. Once people are aware of the topic they know the subtle things to do or not to do and can exert conscious control over. So the effectiveness of the analysis declines.A bit like poker players being trained to recognise the subtle signs. Then they start doing them deliberately to throw the other people off who might try reading them.
to a point, but under stressful conditions someone with knowledge can still slip… and the interpreter knowing that someone knows, knows to look for the knowledge and then tells of them suppressing tells… ect
Dubbo Photo News
27 June at 14:58 ·
WOW.
A good news sighting.
David Sinnott captured this incredible image and posted
“Barn Owls in Dubbo, NSW.
I counted around 14 in a 1km area – the boom is real!
Most of these are juveniles”.
—-
Arts said:
party_pants said:
You get the feeling though that body language analysis only works for those that don’t know the topic. Once people are aware of the topic they know the subtle things to do or not to do and can exert conscious control over. So the effectiveness of the analysis declines.A bit like poker players being trained to recognise the subtle signs. Then they start doing them deliberately to throw the other people off who might try reading them.
to a point, but under stressful conditions someone with knowledge can still slip… and the interpreter knowing that someone knows, knows to look for the knowledge and then tells of them suppressing tells… ect
ect????
;-)
sarahs mum said:
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Dubbo Photo News
27 June at 14:58 ·
WOW.
A good news sighting.
David Sinnott captured this incredible image and posted
“Barn Owls in Dubbo, NSW.
I counted around 14 in a 1km area – the boom is real!
Most of these are juveniles”.
—-
the earth is healing
sarahs mum said:
![]()
Dubbo Photo News
27 June at 14:58 ·
WOW.
A good news sighting.
David Sinnott captured this incredible image and posted
“Barn Owls in Dubbo, NSW.
I counted around 14 in a 1km area – the boom is real!
Most of these are juveniles”.
—-
Lovely.
ChrispenEvan said:
Arts said:
party_pants said:
You get the feeling though that body language analysis only works for those that don’t know the topic. Once people are aware of the topic they know the subtle things to do or not to do and can exert conscious control over. So the effectiveness of the analysis declines.A bit like poker players being trained to recognise the subtle signs. Then they start doing them deliberately to throw the other people off who might try reading them.
to a point, but under stressful conditions someone with knowledge can still slip… and the interpreter knowing that someone knows, knows to look for the knowledge and then tells of them suppressing tells… ect
ect????
;-)
yes, it’s new.. tell your friends.
Arts said:
sarahs mum said:
![]()
Dubbo Photo News
27 June at 14:58 ·
WOW.
A good news sighting.
David Sinnott captured this incredible image and posted
“Barn Owls in Dubbo, NSW.
I counted around 14 in a 1km area – the boom is real!
Most of these are juveniles”.
—-the earth is healing
just took a mouse plague.
Arts said:
sarahs mum said:sarahs mum said:
Last night I watch a youtube of an FBI fellow talking about body language. At one stage they talked about a tell called ‘duping delight.’ A one sided smirky smile that denotes contentment at getting away with a lie or manipulation.one of my supervisors has just published his book on this exact topic.. it will be out in September, but he said he’d get me a copy.. I’m looking forward to reading it. I think I know what you watched and I believe my supervisor (the one who just published) recommended it to me
—Former FBI Agent Answers Body Language Questions From Twitter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9SA25OukyM
yep. that’s the one…
I have also done a masterclass with a profiler who talked about the same… it makes me side eye everyone and everything….. also wish I had known this stuff years ago.
I thought profiling was treated as woo by most professional police forces?
Come on ladies, be honest…
Bubblecar said:
Come on ladies, be honest…
sibeen said:
Arts said:
sarahs mum said:sarahs mum said:
Last night I watch a youtube of an FBI fellow talking about body language. At one stage they talked about a tell called ‘duping delight.’ A one sided smirky smile that denotes contentment at getting away with a lie or manipulation.one of my supervisors has just published his book on this exact topic.. it will be out in September, but he said he’d get me a copy.. I’m looking forward to reading it. I think I know what you watched and I believe my supervisor (the one who just published) recommended it to me
—Former FBI Agent Answers Body Language Questions From Twitter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9SA25OukyM
yep. that’s the one…
I have also done a masterclass with a profiler who talked about the same… it makes me side eye everyone and everything….. also wish I had known this stuff years ago.
I thought profiling was treated as woo by most professional police forces?
What do the top poker players think about it?
Tamb said:
Bubblecar said:
Come on ladies, be honest…
The one in the middle.
Who is thinking:
I have to choose between those two?
Seriously?
sibeen said:
Arts said:
sarahs mum said:sarahs mum said:
Last night I watch a youtube of an FBI fellow talking about body language. At one stage they talked about a tell called ‘duping delight.’ A one sided smirky smile that denotes contentment at getting away with a lie or manipulation.one of my supervisors has just published his book on this exact topic.. it will be out in September, but he said he’d get me a copy.. I’m looking forward to reading it. I think I know what you watched and I believe my supervisor (the one who just published) recommended it to me
—Former FBI Agent Answers Body Language Questions From Twitter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9SA25OukyM
yep. that’s the one…
I have also done a masterclass with a profiler who talked about the same… it makes me side eye everyone and everything….. also wish I had known this stuff years ago.
I thought profiling was treated as woo by most professional police forces?
profiling is.. well not woo as such, but not as powerful a tool as fucking John Douglas would have everyone believe.. it’s a toll that can be used in a whole lot of tools..
but deception detections is a little bit more credible using tell and signs..
Bubblecar said:
Come on ladies, be honest…
neither, because how someone looks isn’t the deal breaker for me
Arts said:
ChrispenEvan said:
Arts said:to a point, but under stressful conditions someone with knowledge can still slip… and the interpreter knowing that someone knows, knows to look for the knowledge and then tells of them suppressing tells… ect
ect????
;-)
yes, it’s new.. tell your friends.
It would be interesting art to train in truthsayers that can pick on the most subtle sign both by eye and using technology
Arts said:
Bubblecar said:
Come on ladies, be honest…
neither, because how someone looks isn’t the deal breaker for me
Downstairs that counts ?
Arts said:
Bubblecar said:
Come on ladies, be honest…
neither, because how someone looks isn’t the deal breaker for me
And what does your husband think of that?
Arts said:
Bubblecar said:
Come on ladies, be honest…
neither, because how someone looks isn’t the deal breaker for me
^
We have a waterhole near our camp about the size of a normal backyard swimming pool that is teeming with fish life as the water flow slows to a trickle. Dozens of large prawns, a hundred or more eel tailed catfish, and various purple spotted gudgeon and herring. (All around the 8-10cm length)
For the last 2 days there has been a cormorant swimming about, and I just had a look in the pond and they’re all gone. No shrimp, no catfish, no herring – just a handful of rainbows and the larger (20cm) perch I had not seen until now.
Bloody hell they are efficient hunters.
sarahs mum said:
Arts said:
Bubblecar said:
Come on ladies, be honest…
neither, because how someone looks isn’t the deal breaker for me
^
Many short men search for those words on dating sites.
Cymek said:
Arts said:
ChrispenEvan said:ect????
;-)
yes, it’s new.. tell your friends.
It would be interesting art to train in truthsayers that can pick on the most subtle sign both by eye and using technology
I have a friend who assesses patients being admitted into psychiatric care in the hospital system who has been doing it long enough that she claims she can usually diagnose them by the way the walk.
transition said:
dv said:
transition said:
one of resident grey shrike thrushes, hear them out there now, like to look at themselves in the vehicle mirrors, tap at themselves
Someone on a bird identification facebook page posted this, and honestly I didn’t even see the bird, I only saw the ghost of the 12 year old garden hand who misses his family.
:) yeah see that, see the pigeon or whatever on the curtain rail too
Indian turtledove
Dark Orange said:
We have a waterhole near our camp about the size of a normal backyard swimming pool that is teeming with fish life as the water flow slows to a trickle. Dozens of large prawns, a hundred or more eel tailed catfish, and various purple spotted gudgeon and herring. (All around the 8-10cm length)
For the last 2 days there has been a cormorant swimming about, and I just had a look in the pond and they’re all gone. No shrimp, no catfish, no herring – just a handful of rainbows and the larger (20cm) perch I had not seen until now.
Bloody hell they are efficient hunters.
That’s why the fishermen use them in China?
Dark Orange said:
We have a waterhole near our camp about the size of a normal backyard swimming pool that is teeming with fish life as the water flow slows to a trickle. Dozens of large prawns, a hundred or more eel tailed catfish, and various purple spotted gudgeon and herring. (All around the 8-10cm length)
For the last 2 days there has been a cormorant swimming about, and I just had a look in the pond and they’re all gone. No shrimp, no catfish, no herring – just a handful of rainbows and the larger (20cm) perch I had not seen until now.
Bloody hell they are efficient hunters.
and very full
I am getting a bit sick of people cancelling everything and being entirely scared of EVERYTHING or not even knowing what it is they are scared of.. take precautions, sure, be vigilant, yes, but ffs make sensible decisions..
on the upside, I’m gonna gin my way through the weekend now. so there.
Arts said:
I am getting a bit sick of people cancelling everything and being entirely scared of EVERYTHING or not even knowing what it is they are scared of.. take precautions, sure, be vigilant, yes, but ffs make sensible decisions..on the upside, I’m gonna gin my way through the weekend now. so there.
It’s only Wednesday though!
ChrispenEvan said:
Arts said:
I am getting a bit sick of people cancelling everything and being entirely scared of EVERYTHING or not even knowing what it is they are scared of.. take precautions, sure, be vigilant, yes, but ffs make sensible decisions..on the upside, I’m gonna gin my way through the weekend now. so there.
It’s only Wednesday though!
Sounds like it’s going to be a blinder.
:)
ChrispenEvan said:
Arts said:
I am getting a bit sick of people cancelling everything and being entirely scared of EVERYTHING or not even knowing what it is they are scared of.. take precautions, sure, be vigilant, yes, but ffs make sensible decisions..on the upside, I’m gonna gin my way through the weekend now. so there.
It’s only Wednesday though!
yes.. I’m building up to the weekend
Anyway, I am off to work. Late transport into Bunbury.
Arts said:
I am getting a bit sick of people cancelling everything and being entirely scared of EVERYTHING or not even knowing what it is they are scared of.. take precautions, sure, be vigilant, yes, but ffs make sensible decisions..on the upside, I’m gonna gin my way through the weekend now. so there.
I’ve never drunk gin, what does it taste similar too
Cymek said:
Arts said:
I am getting a bit sick of people cancelling everything and being entirely scared of EVERYTHING or not even knowing what it is they are scared of.. take precautions, sure, be vigilant, yes, but ffs make sensible decisions..on the upside, I’m gonna gin my way through the weekend now. so there.
I’ve never drunk gin, what does it taste similar too
Ever had elixir of the gods? It is a little better than that.
Cymek said:
Arts said:
I am getting a bit sick of people cancelling everything and being entirely scared of EVERYTHING or not even knowing what it is they are scared of.. take precautions, sure, be vigilant, yes, but ffs make sensible decisions..on the upside, I’m gonna gin my way through the weekend now. so there.
I’ve never drunk gin, what does it taste similar too
What you flavour it with?
Dark Orange said:
Cymek said:
Arts said:
I am getting a bit sick of people cancelling everything and being entirely scared of EVERYTHING or not even knowing what it is they are scared of.. take precautions, sure, be vigilant, yes, but ffs make sensible decisions..on the upside, I’m gonna gin my way through the weekend now. so there.
I’ve never drunk gin, what does it taste similar too
Ever had elixir of the gods? It is a little better than that.
But to answer your question, it is vodka with botanicals in it. Juniper Berry mostly, but withba little pepper and others depending on the recipe.
Dark Orange said:
Dark Orange said:
Cymek said:I’ve never drunk gin, what does it taste similar too
Ever had elixir of the gods? It is a little better than that.
But to answer your question, it is vodka with botanicals in it. Juniper Berry mostly, but withba little pepper and others depending on the recipe.
OK thanks
Ten-sided box in imitation tortoiseshell celluloid, lid moulded and painted with stylised foliage. Made by E. Fornells, Paris, France, c. 1930s
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Arts said:
sibeen said:
Arts said:yep. that’s the one…
I have also done a masterclass with a profiler who talked about the same… it makes me side eye everyone and everything….. also wish I had known this stuff years ago.
I thought profiling was treated as woo by most professional police forces?
profiling is.. well not woo as such, but not as powerful a tool as fucking John Douglas would have everyone believe.. it’s a toll that can be used in a whole lot of tools..
but deception detections is a little bit more credible using tell and signs..
Oh, nothing angrifies me more than bloody John Douglas.
Cymek said:
Arts said:
I am getting a bit sick of people cancelling everything and being entirely scared of EVERYTHING or not even knowing what it is they are scared of.. take precautions, sure, be vigilant, yes, but ffs make sensible decisions..on the upside, I’m gonna gin my way through the weekend now. so there.
I’ve never drunk gin, what does it taste similar too
other gin
Dark Orange said:
Dark Orange said:
Cymek said:I’ve never drunk gin, what does it taste similar too
Ever had elixir of the gods? It is a little better than that.
But to answer your question, it is vodka with botanicals in it. Juniper Berry mostly, but withba little pepper and others depending on the recipe.
I am going to a gin flavouring class in a while.. they flavour with whatever… the other night at the gin bar I had gin with berries, gin with eucalyptus and honey and gin with gin in it… it gets a bit blurry after then
sibeen said:
Arts said:
sibeen said:I thought profiling was treated as woo by most professional police forces?
profiling is.. well not woo as such, but not as powerful a tool as fucking John Douglas would have everyone believe.. it’s a toll that can be used in a whole lot of tools..
but deception detections is a little bit more credible using tell and signs..
Oh, nothing angrifies me more than bloody John Douglas.
Your membership card is in the post
Cymek said:
Arts said:
I am getting a bit sick of people cancelling everything and being entirely scared of EVERYTHING or not even knowing what it is they are scared of.. take precautions, sure, be vigilant, yes, but ffs make sensible decisions..on the upside, I’m gonna gin my way through the weekend now. so there.
I’ve never drunk gin, what does it taste similar too
Like Avgas with berries in it
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Mr Car…
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-30/undercover-bunker-guns-found-northern-tasmania/100256392
and you might like…
Look At Life: Dustmen’s Day (1959)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tONm4WUwbiM
roughbarked said:
transition said:
dv said:Someone on a bird identification facebook page posted this, and honestly I didn’t even see the bird, I only saw the ghost of the 12 year old garden hand who misses his family.
:) yeah see that, see the pigeon or whatever on the curtain rail too
Indian turtledove
there ya go, I had dove in mind, i’ll look out for them
chips in the pan, sizzling, we’re having chips, gravy on and salad with, latter will have grated carrot in it of course (for bubblecar’s information that is), and capsicum, the red sort
yawn don’t inhale that, you may lose the will to live
sarahs mum said:
Mr Car…https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-30/undercover-bunker-guns-found-northern-tasmania/100256392
and you might like…
Look At Life: Dustmen’s Day (1959)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tONm4WUwbiM
Not something you expect in Longford.
Dustmen’s Day looks cosy, I’ll save it for after dinner.
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
Mr Car…https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-30/undercover-bunker-guns-found-northern-tasmania/100256392
and you might like…
Look At Life: Dustmen’s Day (1959)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tONm4WUwbiM
Not something you expect in Longford.
Dustmen’s Day looks cosy, I’ll save it for after dinner.
Apparently the cops expected to find it.
dv said:
Cymek said:
Arts said:
I am getting a bit sick of people cancelling everything and being entirely scared of EVERYTHING or not even knowing what it is they are scared of.. take precautions, sure, be vigilant, yes, but ffs make sensible decisions..on the upside, I’m gonna gin my way through the weekend now. so there.
I’ve never drunk gin, what does it taste similar too
Like Avgas with berries in it
what sort of berries?
roughbarked said:
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
Mr Car…https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-30/undercover-bunker-guns-found-northern-tasmania/100256392
and you might like…
Look At Life: Dustmen’s Day (1959)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tONm4WUwbiM
Not something you expect in Longford.
Dustmen’s Day looks cosy, I’ll save it for after dinner.
Apparently the cops expected to find it.
I wonder if they were preppers? Let’s see. We’ll need guns and a bit of dakka.
sarahs mum said:
roughbarked said:
Bubblecar said:Not something you expect in Longford.
Dustmen’s Day looks cosy, I’ll save it for after dinner.
Apparently the cops expected to find it.
I wonder if they were preppers? Let’s see. We’ll need guns and a bit of dakka.
Think they were criminals who dealt in guns and drugs.
In a small town with wide eyed coppers.
Arts said:
Dark Orange said:
Dark Orange said:Ever had elixir of the gods? It is a little better than that.
But to answer your question, it is vodka with botanicals in it. Juniper Berry mostly, but withba little pepper and others depending on the recipe.
I am going to a gin flavouring class in a while.. they flavour with whatever… the other night at the gin bar I had gin with berries, gin with eucalyptus and honey and gin with gin in it… it gets a bit blurry after then
Some of it has vickers in it.
roughbarked said:
dv said:
Cymek said:I’ve never drunk gin, what does it taste similar too
Like Avgas with berries in it
what sort of berries?
I mean I’m sure you are aware they are not berries.
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:
dv said:Like Avgas with berries in it
what sort of berries?
I mean I’m sure you are aware they are not berries.
“Berries”, then
Arts said:
Dark Orange said:
Dark Orange said:Ever had elixir of the gods? It is a little better than that.
But to answer your question, it is vodka with botanicals in it. Juniper Berry mostly, but withba little pepper and others depending on the recipe.
I am going to a gin flavouring class in a while.. they flavour with whatever… the other night at the gin bar I had gin with berries, gin with eucalyptus and honey and gin with gin in it… it gets a bit blurry after then
I have a bottle of green ant gin. Very nommy.
Hundreds of deaths in Canada’s south-west are likely linked to a gruelling heat wave.
ya think?
dv said:
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:what sort of berries?
I mean I’m sure you are aware they are not berries.
“Berries”, then
Here, have a cone.
Dark Orange said:
Arts said:
Dark Orange said:But to answer your question, it is vodka with botanicals in it. Juniper Berry mostly, but withba little pepper and others depending on the recipe.
I am going to a gin flavouring class in a while.. they flavour with whatever… the other night at the gin bar I had gin with berries, gin with eucalyptus and honey and gin with gin in it… it gets a bit blurry after then
I have a bottle of green ant gin. Very nommy.
I’d probably prefer them without the gin.
It is an evil drink.
“And the matron said darling I’ve never had a slow gin in my life”
bought some gin a few weeks ago. first time in a long time. Tanqueray, in the green bottle. nice for a change.
dv said:
“And the matron said darling I’ve never had a slow gin in my life”
I’ve had a sloe gin.
Very nice.
dinner’s about to be served
Partial to a gin in the warmer months, in various chilled mixes.
transition said:
dinner’s about to be served
Did you cook the dove?
roughbarked said:
A Melbourne man found guilty of enslaving a woman in his suburban home continued to maintain his innocence, a court heard, as his lawyers urged a judge not to throw him in prison.Some forgot to remind him that this was Australia?
There’s fucked up arseholes in every country.
Dark Orange said:
Arts said:
Dark Orange said:But to answer your question, it is vodka with botanicals in it. Juniper Berry mostly, but withba little pepper and others depending on the recipe.
I am going to a gin flavouring class in a while.. they flavour with whatever… the other night at the gin bar I had gin with berries, gin with eucalyptus and honey and gin with gin in it… it gets a bit blurry after then
I have a bottle of green ant gin. Very nommy.
I had some nonalcoholic gin a few weeks back.. even that was nice.. so it’s definitely the drink I like.
roughbarked said:
transition said:
dinner’s about to be served
Did you cook the dove?
hot chips, mate, can’t you smell them, and salad
you should more attentively read my(previous) posts, i’m a bit disappointed in you master rb, really chipping a way at my self-esteem
Dinner will be a mixed vegetable stew with a little diced lamb in it.
Just poured what will be my last glass of wine for some time. They don’t let you buy booze once your heart is bigger than a certain size.
ChrispenEvan said:
bought some gin a few weeks ago. first time in a long time. Tanqueray, in the green bottle. nice for a change.
I am going to build a gin wall… because they have pretty colours and stuff
Arts said:
Dark Orange said:
Arts said:I am going to a gin flavouring class in a while.. they flavour with whatever… the other night at the gin bar I had gin with berries, gin with eucalyptus and honey and gin with gin in it… it gets a bit blurry after then
I have a bottle of green ant gin. Very nommy.
I had some nonalcoholic gin a few weeks back.. even that was nice.. so it’s definitely the drink I like.
I keep meaning to buy some of that and give it a go. I shall get some on your recommendation. :)
transition said:
roughbarked said:
transition said:
dinner’s about to be served
Did you cook the dove?
hot chips, mate, can’t you smell them, and salad
you should more attentively read my(previous) posts, i’m a bit disappointed in you master rb, really chipping a way at my self-esteem
Chips and salad with no meat or fish, it’s a unique speciality of the transition kitchen.
transition said:
roughbarked said:
transition said:
dinner’s about to be served
Did you cook the dove?
hot chips, mate, can’t you smell them, and salad
you should more attentively read my(previous) posts, i’m a bit disappointed in you master rb, really chipping a way at my self-esteem
Sorry. I’ll go back and read shall I?
Bubblecar said:
Dinner will be a mixed vegetable stew with a little diced lamb in it.
Just about to drop some sweet spuds in the coals, then a couple of pork chops on the BBQ plate later this evening.
Dark Orange said:
Bubblecar said:
Dinner will be a mixed vegetable stew with a little diced lamb in it.Just about to drop some sweet spuds in the coals, then a couple of pork chops on the BBQ plate later this evening.
That’ll be a tasty feed.
transition said:
roughbarked said:
transition said:
dinner’s about to be served
Did you cook the dove?
hot chips, mate, can’t you smell them, and salad
you should more attentively read my(previous) posts, i’m a bit disappointed in you master rb, really chipping a way at my self-esteem
Was the dove yours?
I’ve not seen spotted doves more than a few km from the coast. (We have them here.)
roughbarked said:
transition said:
roughbarked said:Did you cook the dove?
hot chips, mate, can’t you smell them, and salad
you should more attentively read my(previous) posts, i’m a bit disappointed in you master rb, really chipping a way at my self-esteem
Sorry. I’ll go back and read shall I?
When I checked, I realised that I stopped reading after dove. I usually gloss over what people are eating.
Bubblecar said:
transition said:
roughbarked said:Did you cook the dove?
hot chips, mate, can’t you smell them, and salad
you should more attentively read my(previous) posts, i’m a bit disappointed in you master rb, really chipping a way at my self-esteem
Chips and salad with no meat or fish, it’s a unique speciality of the transition kitchen.
don’t eat much meat here
transition said:
Bubblecar said:
transition said:hot chips, mate, can’t you smell them, and salad
you should more attentively read my(previous) posts, i’m a bit disappointed in you master rb, really chipping a way at my self-esteem
Chips and salad with no meat or fish, it’s a unique speciality of the transition kitchen.
don’t eat much meat here
What with the lamb walking around in the kitchen?
roughbarked said:
transition said:
roughbarked said:Did you cook the dove?
hot chips, mate, can’t you smell them, and salad
you should more attentively read my(previous) posts, i’m a bit disappointed in you master rb, really chipping a way at my self-esteem
Sorry. I’ll go back and read shall I?
no, i’m being silly, in a silly mood
transition said:
roughbarked said:
transition said:hot chips, mate, can’t you smell them, and salad
you should more attentively read my(previous) posts, i’m a bit disappointed in you master rb, really chipping a way at my self-esteem
Sorry. I’ll go back and read shall I?
no, i’m being silly, in a silly mood
I’m always in one of those.
Bubblecar said:
Is this what you have?
Bubblecar said:
Life-size model of a blue whale heart.
roughbarked said:
Bubblecar said:
Is this what you have?
So I’m led to believe.
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
Life-size model of a blue whale heart.
nah surely not, really that big?
Bubblecar said:
roughbarked said:
Bubblecar said:
Is this what you have?
So I’m led to believe.
I’d believe them if I were you.
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
Life-size model of a blue whale heart.
My, what big-hearted people.
Bubblecar said:
Dinner will be a mixed vegetable stew with a little diced lamb in it.Just poured what will be my last glass of wine for some time. They don’t let you buy booze once your heart is bigger than a certain size.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Z2qFTbyyOQ
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Bubblecar said:
transition said:
roughbarked said:Did you cook the dove?
hot chips, mate, can’t you smell them, and salad
you should more attentively read my(previous) posts, i’m a bit disappointed in you master rb, really chipping a way at my self-esteem
Chips and salad with no meat or fish, it’s a unique speciality of the transition kitchen.
with gravy
transition said:
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
Life-size model of a blue whale heart.
nah surely not, really that big?
:)
It’s an exaggeration. A blue whale’s heart is really about as big as a small piano, according to National Geo:
https://blog.education.nationalgeographic.org/2015/08/31/how-big-is-a-blue-whales-heart/
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
Dinner will be a mixed vegetable stew with a little diced lamb in it.Just poured what will be my last glass of wine for some time. They don’t let you buy booze once your heart is bigger than a certain size.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Z2qFTbyyOQ
Do they tell the grog shops to ban you?
Bubblecar said:
transition said:
Bubblecar said:Life-size model of a blue whale heart.
nah surely not, really that big?
:)
It’s an exaggeration. A blue whale’s heart is really about as big as a small piano, according to National Geo:
https://blog.education.nationalgeographic.org/2015/08/31/how-big-is-a-blue-whales-heart/
They wanted it big enough to be a bouncy castle.
roughbarked said:
Bubblecar said:
transition said:nah surely not, really that big?
:)
It’s an exaggeration. A blue whale’s heart is really about as big as a small piano, according to National Geo:
https://blog.education.nationalgeographic.org/2015/08/31/how-big-is-a-blue-whales-heart/
They wanted it big enough to be a bouncy castle.
That’s not that much bigger than a small piano.
An actual preserved blue whale’s heart in the Ontario Museum.
Bubblecar said:
transition said:
Bubblecar said:Life-size model of a blue whale heart.
nah surely not, really that big?
:)
It’s an exaggeration. A blue whale’s heart is really about as big as a small piano, according to National Geo:
https://blog.education.nationalgeographic.org/2015/08/31/how-big-is-a-blue-whales-heart/
mislead me and now you’ve showed me a dead whale walks off shaking head
a quick look suggests the smallest grand piano that is 25cm wide and 18cm high, so not a very useful comparison
here it is…
https://youtu.be/0XgIZSuZM7c?t=21
transition said:
Bubblecar said:
transition said:nah surely not, really that big?
:)
It’s an exaggeration. A blue whale’s heart is really about as big as a small piano, according to National Geo:
https://blog.education.nationalgeographic.org/2015/08/31/how-big-is-a-blue-whales-heart/
mislead me and now you’ve showed me a dead whale walks off shaking head
a quick look suggests the smallest grand piano that is 25cm wide and 18cm high, so not a very useful comparison
here it is…
https://youtu.be/0XgIZSuZM7c?t=21
Sounds pretty good but you’d have to play it with toothpicks attached to each finger.
Was checking my Bower photos after seeing DO’s shot of the great bower bird’s bower.
The spotted bower bird definitely uses green fruits in the tunnel. In this case green quandongs and Callitris cones. It also uses a lot of bleached sheep and kangaroo bones, no shells. I’ve been thinking of taking out bleached snail shells but every tiime I collect some, they get played with by grandkids or otherwise broken.
It also collects green glass or pastel green old glass. Shotgun shell wadding, bits of broken car grills..
https://www.flickr.com/photos/roughbarked/albums/72157625458474953
Arts said:
sibeen said:
Arts said:profiling is.. well not woo as such, but not as powerful a tool as fucking John Douglas would have everyone believe.. it’s a toll that can be used in a whole lot of tools..
but deception detections is a little bit more credible using tell and signs..
Oh, nothing angrifies me more than bloody John Douglas.
Your membership card is in the post
I had to look him up. I skimmed the Wikipedia page. Is that all I need to do?
sarahs mum said:
Ha.
Poor dog , this cinder blocks can’t be good for its teeth.
buffy said:
Arts said:
sibeen said:Oh, nothing angrifies me more than bloody John Douglas.
Your membership card is in the post
I had to look him up. I skimmed the Wikipedia page. Is that all I need to do?
I have no idea who this person is, but two finer names will be hard to find.
Meanwhile in Australia PART 23 🤪😭😳🤣
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJyD0B9PWNw
Bubblecar said:
Arts said:
Bubblecar said:
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What makes it bigger? Is it inflamed? Diseased? Buff?
Pfizer/BioNTech COMIRNATY vaccine
Something in the Way She Moves
James Taylor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fa8KzA8BYjI
Bob Dylan – Sara
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ma7BK2MJNqo
According to the Defence Department’s website, Australia currently contributes “around 80 Defence personnel” to NATO’s Resolute Support mission in Afghanistan, who are involved in training, advising and assisting local forces.
However military sources have confirmed to the ABC the last remaining ADF members flew out of Kabul in the middle of June, ahead of a September 11 deadline announced by the United States for the withdrawal of all coalition forces.
“September 11 was the timeframe given, but everyone is rushing for the door,” one defence official told the ABC, speaking on the condition of anonymity.roughbarked said:
According to the Defence Department’s website, Australia currently contributes “around 80 Defence personnel” to NATO’s Resolute Support mission in Afghanistan, who are involved in training, advising and assisting local forces.However military sources have confirmed to the ABC the last remaining ADF members flew out of Kabul in the middle of June, ahead of a September 11 deadline announced by the United States for the withdrawal of all coalition forces.
“September 11 was the timeframe given, but everyone is rushing for the door,” one defence official told the ABC, speaking on the condition of anonymity.
General Leahy said his thoughts are particularly with the families of the 41 Australian soldiers who died in the conflict, as well as the many others who suffered physical and mental injuries from their service.
“Was it worth it? Well as we face the prospect of a savage retribution by the now ascendant Taliban, and I think a return in some ways to the dark ages for Afghanistan — it’s really hard to say that it was worth it,” he said.
Elephant stops traffic at London’s Elephant and Castle by lying down in the middle of the road and refusing to move, 1934.
I love the olde days when they allowed the crowd to get super close to wild animals and the chance of someone being trampled is higher than zero.
sarahs mum said:
Elephant stops traffic at London’s Elephant and Castle by lying down in the middle of the road and refusing to move, 1934.
A sit down strike.
Arts said:
I love the olde days when they allowed the crowd to get super close to wild animals and the chance of someone being trampled is higher than zero.
I remember when I was young.
Arts said:
I love the olde days when they allowed the crowd to get super close to wild animals and the chance of someone being trampled is higher than zero.
Aren’t you in a position to make that happen? At least, occasionally…
furious said:
Arts said:
I love the olde days when they allowed the crowd to get super close to wild animals and the chance of someone being trampled is higher than zero.
Aren’t you in a position to make that happen? At least, occasionally…
Sometimes
Arts said:
furious said:
Arts said:
I love the olde days when they allowed the crowd to get super close to wild animals and the chance of someone being trampled is higher than zero.
Aren’t you in a position to make that happen? At least, occasionally…
Sometimes
Surely it would be quite easy with so many young children wandering about.
Eucalyptus cambageana from memory.. yes I think that’s it. Planted in the late eighties from seed I collected.
The ones I planted out the back are bigger.
roughbarked said:
Eucalyptus cambageana from memory.. yes I think that’s it. Planted in the late eighties from seed I collected.
The ones I planted out the back are bigger.
top pic reminds me of open bite etching.
sarahs mum said:
roughbarked said:
Eucalyptus cambageana from memory.. yes I think that’s it. Planted in the late eighties from seed I collected.
The ones I planted out the back are bigger.
top pic reminds me of open bite etching.
They all have this clear cut off. Attractive trees.
roughbarked said:
oops
Plump for the pot?
roughbarked said:
A very bright Eremophila flower rb, is that a form of E. glabra?
PermeateFree said:
roughbarked said:
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A very bright Eremophila flower rb, is that a form of E. glabra?
Collected from my travels in the bush. It has to be E. glabra yes. Everything about it screams E. glabra.
So many forms.
Any good with Flickr?
here’s my Eremophila garden.
https://www.flickr.com/search/?w=99559986@N00&q=Eremophila
roughbarked said:
PermeateFree said:
roughbarked said:
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A very bright Eremophila flower rb, is that a form of E. glabra?
Collected from my travels in the bush. It has to be E. glabra yes. Everything about it screams E. glabra.
So many forms.
Any good with Flickr? here’s my Eremophila garden.
https://www.flickr.com/search/?w=99559986@N00&q=Eremophila
and.. https://www.flickr.com/photos/roughbarked/albums/72157624721468359
Like this screams E. maculata.
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:
PermeateFree said:A very bright Eremophila flower rb, is that a form of E. glabra?
Collected from my travels in the bush. It has to be E. glabra yes. Everything about it screams E. glabra.
So many forms.
Any good with Flickr? here’s my Eremophila garden.
https://www.flickr.com/search/?w=99559986@N00&q=Eremophila
and.. https://www.flickr.com/photos/roughbarked/albums/72157624721468359
Yes you have good country for Eremophila, around Esperance it is too sandy for most species, although better conditions for them inland. Have seen a couple of distinct E. glabra forms, but nothing like your one. Still it is a very attractive flowering plant.
PermeateFree said:
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:Collected from my travels in the bush. It has to be E. glabra yes. Everything about it screams E. glabra.
So many forms.
Any good with Flickr? here’s my Eremophila garden.
https://www.flickr.com/search/?w=99559986@N00&q=Eremophila
and.. https://www.flickr.com/photos/roughbarked/albums/72157624721468359
Yes you have good country for Eremophila, around Esperance it is too sandy for most species, although better conditions for them inland. Have seen a couple of distinct E. glabra forms, but nothing like your one. Still it is a very attractive flowering plant.
Yes many Eremophila species won’t grow well in your sand. I did travel through the Barrens down to Esperance. So I do know your sand.
I’ve seen them here where they don’t even like sandy loam. Some species grow well in sandy soils though.
roughbarked said:
PermeateFree said:
roughbarked said:and.. https://www.flickr.com/photos/roughbarked/albums/72157624721468359
Yes you have good country for Eremophila, around Esperance it is too sandy for most species, although better conditions for them inland. Have seen a couple of distinct E. glabra forms, but nothing like your one. Still it is a very attractive flowering plant.
Yes many Eremophila species won’t grow well in your sand. I did travel through the Barrens down to Esperance. So I do know your sand.
I’ve seen them here where they don’t even like sandy loam. Some species grow well in sandy soils though.
But you can grow better Banksia than me.
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:
PermeateFree said:Yes you have good country for Eremophila, around Esperance it is too sandy for most species, although better conditions for them inland. Have seen a couple of distinct E. glabra forms, but nothing like your one. Still it is a very attractive flowering plant.
Yes many Eremophila species won’t grow well in your sand. I did travel through the Barrens down to Esperance. So I do know your sand.
I’ve seen them here where they don’t even like sandy loam. Some species grow well in sandy soils though.
But you can grow better Banksia than me.
Yes you would be pushed to grow those. The closely related Myoporum grows well in our sandy soils of which we have 4 species, one of which is very rare. Whereas I have discovered 17 Eremophila spp. inland including a new one now called E. ciliata that is only known to grow on a Granite outcrop where very rare. It is the third one down if you are interested and if you want to see all spp, just click on the “Older Posts” at the bottom of each page.
http://esperancewildflowers.blogspot.com/search/label/Scrophulariaceae%20%28Myoporaceae%29%20-%20Eremophila
I love Eremophila or the Shaking Bush or hairymuffler.
I call them the shaking bush because there are always birds in them and not just for the flowers.
The variegated wrens for example, aren’t there to eat the flowers.
I can look out my dirty windows and see this.
but the ringnecks are so comfortable they get down at my door and nibble on the kangaroo grass.
PermeateFree said:
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:Yes many Eremophila species won’t grow well in your sand. I did travel through the Barrens down to Esperance. So I do know your sand.
I’ve seen them here where they don’t even like sandy loam. Some species grow well in sandy soils though.
But you can grow better Banksia than me.
Yes you would be pushed to grow those. The closely related Myoporum grows well in our sandy soils of which we have 4 species, one of which is very rare. Whereas I have discovered 17 Eremophila spp. inland including a new one now called E. ciliata that is only known to grow on a Granite outcrop where very rare. It is the third one down if you are interested and if you want to see all spp, just click on the “Older Posts” at the bottom of each page.
http://esperancewildflowers.blogspot.com/search/label/Scrophulariaceae%20%28Myoporaceae%29%20-%20Eremophila
Ta.
I’m no lawns and rose beds type of gardener.
roughbarked said:
I’m no lawns and rose beds type of gardener.
Best way for sure. However the promising warm of my bed is calling.