Yes. Yes. I know. It is still July where some of us are posting from, but give it a bit of time, and soon you’ll be in August, too.

AussieDJ said:

Yes. Yes. I know. It is still July where some of us are posting from, but give it a bit of time, and soon you’ll be in August, too.

Well at least I’m on your side of the island.

roughbarked said:

roughbarked said:

kii said:

Oh

Callistemon phoenecius on a dark day.

I also have the Goldfields bottlebrush, which happens to be Melaleuca coccinea iin my garden.

Well they do all look like red bottlebrushes. :)

They’re glorious!

AussieDJ said:

roughbarked said:

roughbarked said:

Callistemon phoenecius on a dark day.

I also have the Goldfields bottlebrush, which happens to be Melaleuca coccinea iin my garden.

Well they do all look like red bottlebrushes. :)

They’re glorious!

I think so too. Which is why I grew them from seed.

roughbarked said:

AussieDJ said:

roughbarked said:

I also have the Goldfields bottlebrush, which happens to be Melaleuca coccinea iin my garden.

Well they do all look like red bottlebrushes. :)

They’re glorious!

I think so too. Which is why I grew them from seed.

I searched my Flickr for the word, flower. Got something like 838 images, yet I know that AI can’t be all that smart because I have more than 8,000 images on there and most of them are of flowers.

House price recovery slows as listings rise and regional markets stagnate… I’m sure somebody will wake up, see that and want to know what’s goiing on.

Good morning Holidayers. Presently 7 degrees, dark and the ground is wet, so it must have been raining in the night. We are forecast 14 degrees with a shower or two.

Got woken at 5.15am by the recycle truck. Today is Bakery Breakfast day. No archery as the showgrounds where we use the sheep pavilion are being prepared for Sheepvention.

buffy said:

Good morning Holidayers. Presently 7 degrees, dark and the ground is wet, so it must have been raining in the night. We are forecast 14 degrees with a shower or two.

Got woken at 5.15am by the recycle truck. Today is Bakery Breakfast day. No archery as the showgrounds where we use the sheep pavilion are being prepared for Sheepvention.

Morning buffy. Chilly one expected this end with a max of 11 and min of -1.

Holy crap that is fast!

Fastest EVER Lap of the Isle of Man TT | Peter Hickman – 136.358mph.

“https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31RZ5wU-Fg0

Bubblecar said:

buffy said:

Good morning Holidayers. Presently 7 degrees, dark and the ground is wet, so it must have been raining in the night. We are forecast 14 degrees with a shower or two.

Got woken at 5.15am by the recycle truck. Today is Bakery Breakfast day. No archery as the showgrounds where we use the sheep pavilion are being prepared for Sheepvention.

Morning buffy. Chilly one expected this end with a max of 11 and min of -1.

I might stay in bed.

sarahs mum said:

Bubblecar said:

buffy said:

Good morning Holidayers. Presently 7 degrees, dark and the ground is wet, so it must have been raining in the night. We are forecast 14 degrees with a shower or two.

Got woken at 5.15am by the recycle truck. Today is Bakery Breakfast day. No archery as the showgrounds where we use the sheep pavilion are being prepared for Sheepvention.

Morning buffy. Chilly one expected this end with a max of 11 and min of -1.

I might stay in bed.

I’ll probably have a bit of daytime kip at some stage.

But right now I’m going to have breakfast, then clean the kitchen including interior of fridge and microwave.

Then some hoovering. In between I’ll be practising a little solo guitar piece I composed the other day.

Spiny Norman said:

Holy crap that is fast!

Fastest EVER Lap of the Isle of Man TT | Peter Hickman – 136.358mph.

“https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31RZ5wU-Fg0

Michael posted scary footage like that some days ago, think it’s the same one.

Looks grossly speeded up but apparently it’s not :)

Bubblecar said:

Spiny Norman said:

Holy crap that is fast!

Fastest EVER Lap of the Isle of Man TT | Peter Hickman – 136.358mph.

“https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31RZ5wU-Fg0

Michael posted scary footage like that some days ago, think it’s the same one.

Looks grossly speeded up but apparently it’s not :)

It blows me away. You simply can’t have a small accident at that track.

I up before my alarm
breakfast did toast’n coffee
unsure ‘bout this line
was little some uncertainty
findin’t my mojo I am
alphabetly’n line six this be
reckons this’s seven
get to other things I oughtly
stuff to do say’n nine
here’t line ten now ya sees
yes silly morn rhyme

roughbarked said:

dv said:

https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/chinese-zoo-denies-allegations-star-attraction-is-a-man-in-a-sun-bear-costume

China zoo denies allegations that star attraction is a man in a sun bear costume

Do you mean to say that they still have real sun bears?

Thing is though why not it’sn’t like circuses are celebrated for amusing animals and so became all human performers right¿

SCIENCE said:

roughbarked said:

dv said:

https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/chinese-zoo-denies-allegations-star-attraction-is-a-man-in-a-sun-bear-costume

China zoo denies allegations that star attraction is a man in a sun bear costume

Do you mean to say that they still have real sun bears?

Thing is though why not it’sn’t like circuses are celebrated for amusing animals and so became all human performers right¿

1. SCIENCE, you need to take your morning pills and have a little rest. That comment is just incomprehensible.

2. Anyone else remember how Circus Oz had ‘animals’ i.e. circus performers in kangaroo suits and similar?

captain_spalding said:

SCIENCE said:

roughbarked said:

Do you mean to say that they still have real sun bears?

Thing is though why not it’sn’t like circuses are celebrated for amusing animals and so became all human performers right¿

1. SCIENCE, you need to take your morning pills and have a little rest. That comment is just incomprehensible.

2. Anyone else remember how Circus Oz had ‘animals’ i.e. circus performers in kangaroo suits and similar?

You’re right though we got ducked by autocorrect on that one… we meant to say the following.

Thing is though why not¿ It’sn’t like circuses are celebrated for abusing animals. And so they made circuses all human performers right¿

SCIENCE said:

captain_spalding said:

SCIENCE said:

Thing is though why not it’sn’t like circuses are celebrated for amusing animals and so became all human performers right¿

1. SCIENCE, you need to take your morning pills and have a little rest. That comment is just incomprehensible.

2. Anyone else remember how Circus Oz had ‘animals’ i.e. circus performers in kangaroo suits and similar?

You’re right though we got ducked by autocorrect on that one… we meant to say the following.

Thing is though why not¿ It’sn’t like circuses are celebrated for abusing animals. And so they made circuses all human performers right¿

Nah. You still aren’t well. All your question marks and exclamation marks are astray and have had a rollover.

roughbarked said:

SCIENCE said:

captain_spalding said:

1. SCIENCE, you need to take your morning pills and have a little rest. That comment is just incomprehensible.

2. Anyone else remember how Circus Oz had ‘animals’ i.e. circus performers in kangaroo suits and similar?

You’re right though we got ducked by autocorrect on that one… we meant to say the following.

Thing is though why not¿ It’sn’t like circuses are celebrated for abusing animals. And so they made circuses all human performers right¿

Nah. You still aren’t well. All your question marks and exclamation marks are astray and have had a rollover.

Are you making fun of illness now, is this wokery or mockery ¿

The only wokery we eat for breakfast.

Morning Tamb, how’s that hip?

SCIENCE said:

roughbarked said:

SCIENCE said:

You’re right though we got ducked by autocorrect on that one… we meant to say the following.

Thing is though why not¿ It’sn’t like circuses are celebrated for abusing animals. And so they made circuses all human performers right¿

Nah. You still aren’t well. All your question marks and exclamation marks are astray and have had a rollover.

Are you making fun of illness now, is this wokery or mockery ¿

No you are the joker. I tend to be more serious. I am sure that you aren’t well. Should take your temperature.

roughbarked said:

SCIENCE said:

roughbarked said:

Nah. You still aren’t well. All your question marks and exclamation marks are astray and have had a rollover.

Are you making fun of illness now, is this wokery or mockery ¿

No you are the joker. I tend to be more serious. I am sure that you aren’t well. Should take your temperature.

Hmm, you’re usually tolerant of idiosyncrasies, roughie.

Bubblecar said:

Morning Tamb, how’s that hip?

Morning all.
Thanks bubblecar.
Hip is a bit painful especially combined with the after effects of a week’s worth of chemo.
Hoping to be near normal by the weekend.

They should have had it put down after the first killing:

Same tractor that killed father kills son 43 years later, as coroner calls for ban

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-01/old-tractor-ban-recommended-after-death-of-father-and-son/102670386

Tamb said:

Bubblecar said:

Morning Tamb, how’s that hip?

Morning all.
Thanks bubblecar.
Hip is a bit painful especially combined with the after effects of a week’s worth of chemo.
Hoping to be near normal by the weekend.

Goodo, keep your spirits up.

Pee-wee’s gone:

Actor Paul Reubens, known for Pee-wee Herman, dies

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-01/pee-wee-herman-actor-paul-reuben-dies-/102671570

Tamb said:

Bubblecar said:

Morning Tamb, how’s that hip?

Morning all.
Thanks bubblecar.
Hip is a bit painful especially combined with the after effects of a week’s worth of chemo.
Hoping to be near normal by the weekend.

Gninrom Bmat.

Bubblecar said:

Tamb said:

Bubblecar said:

Morning Tamb, how’s that hip?

Morning all.
Thanks bubblecar.
Hip is a bit painful especially combined with the after effects of a week’s worth of chemo.
Hoping to be near normal by the weekend.

Goodo, keep your spirits up.

Greetings

Bubblecar said:

Pee-wee’s gone:

Actor Paul Reubens, known for Pee-wee Herman, dies

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-01/pee-wee-herman-actor-paul-reuben-dies-/102671570

Adult cinemas have flags at half mast

Cymek said:

Bubblecar said:

Pee-wee’s gone:

Actor Paul Reubens, known for Pee-wee Herman, dies

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-01/pee-wee-herman-actor-paul-reuben-dies-/102671570

Adult cinemas have flags at half mast

I had nor heard of pee-wee herman until a few minutes ago.

The Rev Dodgson said:

Cymek said:

Bubblecar said:

Pee-wee’s gone:

Actor Paul Reubens, known for Pee-wee Herman, dies

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-01/pee-wee-herman-actor-paul-reuben-dies-/102671570

Adult cinemas have flags at half mast

I had nor heard of pee-wee herman until a few minutes ago.

I enjoyed his films in the 1980s. Childish humour but well done.

Bing tells me that:

According to the search results, there will be two full moons in August 2023. The first one will be on August 1 at 18:31 UTC and it will be a supermoon1. The second one will be on August 31 at 01:35 UTC and it will be a blue moon1

and also

The Full Moon is a time of culmination and the promise of fulfillment of that which was started at the New Moon.

so aren’t we lucky.

The Rev Dodgson said:

Cymek said:

Bubblecar said:

Pee-wee’s gone:

Actor Paul Reubens, known for Pee-wee Herman, dies

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-01/pee-wee-herman-actor-paul-reuben-dies-/102671570

Adult cinemas have flags at half mast

I had nor heard of pee-wee herman until a few minutes ago.

Pity he’sn’t a billionaire eh¿

https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna4653913

The Rev Dodgson said:

Bing tells me that:

According to the search results, there will be two full moons in August 2023. The first one will be on August 1 at 18:31 UTC and it will be a supermoon1. The second one will be on August 31 at 01:35 UTC and it will be a blue moon1

and also

The Full Moon is a time of culmination and the promise of fulfillment of that which was started at the New Moon.

so aren’t we lucky.

Technically full on the 2nd, at least where I live.

Anyway time to get off the arse and fire up the hoover.

Bubblecar said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

Bing tells me that:

According to the search results, there will be two full moons in August 2023. The first one will be on August 1 at 18:31 UTC and it will be a supermoon1. The second one will be on August 31 at 01:35 UTC and it will be a blue moon1

and also

The Full Moon is a time of culmination and the promise of fulfillment of that which was started at the New Moon.

so aren’t we lucky.

Technically full on the 2nd, at least where I live.

OK, so when it is 18:31 in Greenwich it will be 2nd August all over Australia, but I shall look out for the near full moon this evening anyway.

Also it seems the second full moon is also a super moon, so it’s a super blue moon, and you don’t see those very often.

The Rev Dodgson said:

Bing tells me that:

According to the search results, there will be two full moons in August 2023. The first one will be on August 1 at 18:31 UTC and it will be a supermoon1. The second one will be on August 31 at 01:35 UTC and it will be a blue moon1

That doesn’t happen very often.

Peak Warming Man said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

Bing tells me that:

According to the search results, there will be two full moons in August 2023. The first one will be on August 1 at 18:31 UTC and it will be a supermoon1. The second one will be on August 31 at 01:35 UTC and it will be a blue moon1

That doesn’t happen very often.

Lol

Peak Warming Man said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

Bing tells me that:

According to the search results, there will be two full moons in August 2023. The first one will be on August 1 at 18:31 UTC and it will be a supermoon1. The second one will be on August 31 at 01:35 UTC and it will be a blue moon1

That doesn’t happen very often.

once in a blue moon…

Damn, a 45 year old male childcare worker charged with over 1,600 child sex offenses…Brisbane, Sydney and overseas.

My brother is a childcare worker in Brisbane. He’s 64. Wonder if he’s worked with him.

kii said:

Damn, a 45 year old male childcare worker charged with over 1,600 child sex offenses…Brisbane, Sydney and overseas.

My brother is a childcare worker in Brisbane. He’s 64. Wonder if he’s worked with him.

Aside from the horrible offences they do a disservice to all male workers in this industry

Cymek said:

kii said:

Damn, a 45 year old male childcare worker charged with over 1,600 child sex offenses…Brisbane, Sydney and overseas.

My brother is a childcare worker in Brisbane. He’s 64. Wonder if he’s worked with him.

Aside from the horrible offences they do a disservice to all male workers in this industry

Exactly. Brother is qualified as a trained childcare worker, but won’t take the assessments for his degree to qualify as a teacher. He’s done the course work. Mainly because as a teacher he would be expected to do more one-on-one work with babies and toddlers. He’s also told me he won’t do nappy changing etc, because of how some parents behave around him.

Cymek said:

kii said:

Damn, a 45 year old male childcare worker charged with over 1,600 child sex offenses…Brisbane, Sydney and overseas.

My brother is a childcare worker in Brisbane. He’s 64. Wonder if he’s worked with him.

Aside from the horrible offences they do a disservice to all male workers in this industry

Yes, it’s this kind of thing that discourages men from entering into professions like teaching, child care, nursing and more. You feel that you’d immediately be ‘suspect’ if you expressed any interest in those kinds of work.

And, of course, any voluntary or organisational work where you might encounter children, young people, women with any sort of vulnerability…well, those things are right out of consideration.

kii said:

Cymek said:

kii said:

Damn, a 45 year old male childcare worker charged with over 1,600 child sex offenses…Brisbane, Sydney and overseas.

My brother is a childcare worker in Brisbane. He’s 64. Wonder if he’s worked with him.

Aside from the horrible offences they do a disservice to all male workers in this industry

Exactly. Brother is qualified as a trained childcare worker, but won’t take the assessments for his degree to qualify as a teacher. He’s done the course work. Mainly because as a teacher he would be expected to do more one-on-one work with babies and toddlers. He’s also told me he won’t do nappy changing etc, because of how some parents behave around him.

Wayne Arthurs was the Balmain/Wests Tigers of the tennis world. Do well enough, especially in the preliminaries or early rounds to ensure that the club stays in the competition and your contract is safe, but there’s NO WAY you’re going to maintain that level of commitment all season. Turn up for training, sure, but let’s not take it TOO seriously, right?

captain_spalding said:

kii said:

Cymek said:

Aside from the horrible offences they do a disservice to all male workers in this industry

Exactly. Brother is qualified as a trained childcare worker, but won’t take the assessments for his degree to qualify as a teacher. He’s done the course work. Mainly because as a teacher he would be expected to do more one-on-one work with babies and toddlers. He’s also told me he won’t do nappy changing etc, because of how some parents behave around him.

Wayne Arthurs was the Balmain/Wests Tigers of the tennis world. Do well enough, especially in the preliminaries or early rounds to ensure that the club stays in the competition and your contract is safe, but there’s NO WAY you’re going to maintain that level of commitment all season. Turn up for training, sure, but let’s not take it TOO seriously, right?

Wrong thread. :(

Wayne Arthurs is fairly famous

1947 DISPOSAL OF 20,000 POUNDS OF SODIUM IN WATER

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNWTpfHovHM

A cousin’s daughter was being groomed by a man in their Brisbane church. Apparently he was caught before touching her, but many were sexually abused.This was a huge case in Queensland. Quite a few years ago

kii said:

A cousin’s daughter was being groomed by a man in their Brisbane church. Apparently he was caught before touching her, but many were sexually abused.This was a huge case in Queensland. Quite a few years ago

Yeah, but we all know it’s really drag queens that are the worst for that right? They’re ALWAYS getting dragged up in front of courts for abusing kids.

Aren’t they?

kii said:

A cousin’s daughter was being groomed by a man in their Brisbane church. Apparently he was caught before touching her, but many were sexually abused.This was a huge case in Queensland. Quite a few years ago

I’m surprised by the restraint shown by parents whose children are victims.
I’d likely go after the person and disappear them.

captain_spalding said:

kii said:

A cousin’s daughter was being groomed by a man in their Brisbane church. Apparently he was caught before touching her, but many were sexually abused.This was a huge case in Queensland. Quite a few years ago

Yeah, but we all know it’s really drag queens that are the worst for that right? They’re ALWAYS getting dragged up in front of courts for abusing kids.

Aren’t they?

but, but there was this one guy in the USA who was an offender and got a job at a library reading to kids in drag. he was in drag not the kids.

Fuck CHINA¡

A body found in the the Mid-Levels area of Hong Kong is believed to be Remi Lucidi

It is believed he fell from the rooftop

“https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-01/french-daredevil-dies-after-falling-in-hong-kong-from-sky-scrape/102672828:“https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-01/french-daredevil-dies-after-falling-in-hong-kong-from-sky-scrape/102672828

Can’t they at least have windows like the friendly Russians¿ Oh wait.

Local media cited an unnamed source saying he was last seen alive knocking on a penthouse window on the 68th floor of a residential tower on Thursday evening.

ChrispenEvan said:

captain_spalding said:

kii said:

A cousin’s daughter was being groomed by a man in their Brisbane church. Apparently he was caught before touching her, but many were sexually abused.This was a huge case in Queensland. Quite a few years ago

Yeah, but we all know it’s really drag queens that are the worst for that right? They’re ALWAYS getting dragged up in front of courts for abusing kids.

Aren’t they?

but, but there was this one guy in the USA who was an offender and got a job at a library reading to kids in drag. he was in drag not the kids.

I just noticed that i made an unintentional pun there: ‘…getting dragged up in front of courts…’

Spiny Norman said:

1947 DISPOSAL OF 20,000 POUNDS OF SODIUM IN WATER

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNWTpfHovHM

One of my dad’s tasks in the Air Force was blowing up surplus ammunition, quite a lot of it left over from WW2.

He said it was hot and repetitive work, but sometimes you got a ka-boom that made the day worthwhile.

captain_spalding said:

Spiny Norman said:

1947 DISPOSAL OF 20,000 POUNDS OF SODIUM IN WATER

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNWTpfHovHM

One of my dad’s tasks in the Air Force was blowing up surplus ammunition, quite a lot of it left over from WW2.

He said it was hot and repetitive work, but sometimes you got a ka-boom that made the day worthwhile.

A man widely believed to be the world’s oldest has died at the ripe old age of 127, according to local media in his home country of Brazil.
Jose Paulino Gomes died just seven days before his 128th birthday at his home in Corrego del Cafe in Pedra Bonita, Minas Gerais state, on Friday. According to reports, the centenarian was still riding horses up until four years ago.
According to his 1917 marriage certificate from Pedra Bonita’s registry office, Jose was born on August 4 1895. If his claim about his age is correct, that would mean Mr Gomes was born before the death of Queen Victoria, living through both World Wars and three global pandemics.

Gomes loved it when his wife spoke French to him.

Peak Warming Man said:

A man widely believed to be the world’s oldest has died at the ripe old age of 127, according to local media in his home country of Brazil.
Jose Paulino Gomes died just seven days before his 128th birthday at his home in Corrego del Cafe in Pedra Bonita, Minas Gerais state, on Friday. According to reports, the centenarian was still riding horses up until four years ago.
According to his 1917 marriage certificate from Pedra Bonita’s registry office, Jose was born on August 4 1895. If his claim about his age is correct, that would mean Mr Gomes was born before the death of Queen Victoria, living through both World Wars and three global pandemics.

Gomes loved it when his wife spoke French to him.

No-one loves it when i speak French. Especially not native French speakers.

Peak Warming Man said:

A man widely believed to be the world’s oldest has died at the ripe old age of 127, according to local media in his home country of Brazil.
Jose Paulino Gomes died just seven days before his 128th birthday at his home in Corrego del Cafe in Pedra Bonita, Minas Gerais state, on Friday. According to reports, the centenarian was still riding horses up until four years ago.
According to his 1917 marriage certificate from Pedra Bonita’s registry office, Jose was born on August 4 1895. If his claim about his age is correct, that would mean Mr Gomes was born before the death of Queen Victoria, living through both World Wars and three global pandemics.

Gomes loved it when his wife spoke French to him.

As did Morticia Addams with Gomez.

captain_spalding said:

Peak Warming Man said:

A man widely believed to be the world’s oldest has died at the ripe old age of 127, according to local media in his home country of Brazil.
Jose Paulino Gomes died just seven days before his 128th birthday at his home in Corrego del Cafe in Pedra Bonita, Minas Gerais state, on Friday. According to reports, the centenarian was still riding horses up until four years ago.
According to his 1917 marriage certificate from Pedra Bonita’s registry office, Jose was born on August 4 1895. If his claim about his age is correct, that would mean Mr Gomes was born before the death of Queen Victoria, living through both World Wars and three global pandemics.

Gomes loved it when his wife spoke French to him.

No-one loves it when i speak French. Especially not native French speakers.

Do they speak English in self defence?

Tamb said:

captain_spalding said:

Peak Warming Man said:

A man widely believed to be the world’s oldest has died at the ripe old age of 127, according to local media in his home country of Brazil.
Jose Paulino Gomes died just seven days before his 128th birthday at his home in Corrego del Cafe in Pedra Bonita, Minas Gerais state, on Friday. According to reports, the centenarian was still riding horses up until four years ago.
According to his 1917 marriage certificate from Pedra Bonita’s registry office, Jose was born on August 4 1895. If his claim about his age is correct, that would mean Mr Gomes was born before the death of Queen Victoria, living through both World Wars and three global pandemics.

Gomes loved it when his wife spoke French to him.

No-one loves it when i speak French. Especially not native French speakers.

Do they speak English in self defence?

It has been known to happen. :)

captain_spalding said:

captain_spalding said:

kii said:

Exactly. Brother is qualified as a trained childcare worker, but won’t take the assessments for his degree to qualify as a teacher. He’s done the course work. Mainly because as a teacher he would be expected to do more one-on-one work with babies and toddlers. He’s also told me he won’t do nappy changing etc, because of how some parents behave around him.

Wayne Arthurs was the Balmain/Wests Tigers of the tennis world. Do well enough, especially in the preliminaries or early rounds to ensure that the club stays in the competition and your contract is safe, but there’s NO WAY you’re going to maintain that level of commitment all season. Turn up for training, sure, but let’s not take it TOO seriously, right?

Wrong thread. :(

Or maybe correct thread oh wait…

Ah, there you are. Annoyingly, this morning my mouse on my computer (as distinct from Mr buffy’s computer) had lost its left clicking ability. Change the battery. Nup, not the battery (and anyway, it was quite happy to move the cursor and right click). Try turning the mouse off and on. Nup. Try removing the USB doodad and putting it back. Nup. So I’ve dragged out what I think is my last “spare” mouse from the box of computer stuff. This one works fine.

Cymek said:

kii said:

A cousin’s daughter was being groomed by a man in their Brisbane church. Apparently he was caught before touching her, but many were sexually abused.This was a huge case in Queensland. Quite a few years ago

I’m surprised by the restraint shown by parents whose children are victims.
I’d likely go after the person and disappear them.

you wouldn’t be the first

https://allthatsinteresting.com/gary-plauche

but an eye for an eye makes the whole world… etc

Spiny Norman said:

captain_spalding said:

Spiny Norman said:

1947 DISPOSAL OF 20,000 POUNDS OF SODIUM IN WATER

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNWTpfHovHM

One of my dad’s tasks in the Air Force was blowing up surplus ammunition, quite a lot of it left over from WW2.

He said it was hot and repetitive work, but sometimes you got a ka-boom that made the day worthwhile.

mr kii had “recreational demolition” as a skill on his CV.

buffy said:

Ah, there you are. Annoyingly, this morning my mouse on my computer (as distinct from Mr buffy’s computer) had lost its left clicking ability. Change the battery. Nup, not the battery (and anyway, it was quite happy to move the cursor and right click). Try turning the mouse off and on. Nup. Try removing the USB doodad and putting it back. Nup. So I’ve dragged out what I think is my last “spare” mouse from the box of computer stuff. This one works fine.

Praise the Lord.

SCIENCE said:

Fuck CHINA¡

A body found

Excellent¡ We should kick ‘em while they’re down¡

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-01/china-flooded-by-heavy-rain-after-typhoon-doksuri/102672308

Peak Warming Man said:

buffy said:

Ah, there you are. Annoyingly, this morning my mouse on my computer (as distinct from Mr buffy’s computer) had lost its left clicking ability. Change the battery. Nup, not the battery (and anyway, it was quite happy to move the cursor and right click). Try turning the mouse off and on. Nup. Try removing the USB doodad and putting it back. Nup. So I’ve dragged out what I think is my last “spare” mouse from the box of computer stuff. This one works fine.

Praise the Lord.

Feels a bit odd though, not as racy as the little red Logitech was. (This is a bigger silver Logitech). And it’s not the last gasp, there is yet another mouse in the box of bits. But it’s not wireless. Not sure I could cope with a wire attached any more.

SCIENCE said:

SCIENCE said:

Fuck CHINA¡

A body found

Excellent¡ We should kick ‘em while they’re down¡

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-01/china-flooded-by-heavy-rain-after-typhoon-doksuri/102672308

AND WHAT ABOUT THE RABBIT SCANDAL?

Peak Warming Man said:

SCIENCE said:

SCIENCE said:

Fuck CHINA¡

A body found

Excellent¡ We should kick ‘em while they’re down¡

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-01/china-flooded-by-heavy-rain-after-typhoon-doksuri/102672308

AND WHAT ABOUT THE RABBIT SCANDAL?

Tell me about the rabbits, George.

Bubblecar said:

Pee-wee’s gone:

Actor Paul Reubens, known for Pee-wee Herman, dies

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-01/pee-wee-herman-actor-paul-reuben-dies-/102671570

So yet again I know someone for something other than what they are famous for, because I don’t know the role he was famous for. But he overacted the most magnificent dying role in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie.

captain_spalding said:

Peak Warming Man said:

SCIENCE said:

Excellent¡ We should kick ‘em while they’re down¡

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-01/china-flooded-by-heavy-rain-after-typhoon-doksuri/102672308

AND WHAT ABOUT THE RABBIT SCANDAL?

Tell me about the rabbits, George.

Had to look that one up, and now I’m just a tiny smidgen more knowledgeable.

Peak Warming Man said:

captain_spalding said:

Peak Warming Man said:

AND WHAT ABOUT THE RABBIT SCANDAL?

Tell me about the rabbits, George.

Had to look that one up, and now I’m just a tiny smidgen more knowledgeable.

Little kids pat pets like Lenny Small

buffy said:

Bubblecar said:

Pee-wee’s gone:

Actor Paul Reubens, known for Pee-wee Herman, dies

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-01/pee-wee-herman-actor-paul-reuben-dies-/102671570

So yet again I know someone for something other than what they are famous for, because I don’t know the role he was famous for. But he overacted the most magnificent dying role in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie.

Haven’t seen that one but he was good in those I have seen like his Big Adventure.

Thinking that since there’s a football match (UK vs China) tonight along with a full moon tonight, I might sneak into the village and get something nice for dinner (there’s hardly anything left in the fridge) and maybe a bottle of French brandy.

Bubblecar said:

Thinking that since there’s a football match (UK vs China) tonight along with a full moon tonight, I might sneak into the village and get something nice for dinner (there’s hardly anything left in the fridge) and maybe a bottle of French brandy.

You could at least get some pork sausages and a couple spuds to accompany sauerkraut, of which there’s plenty in the fridge.

The Rev Dodgson said:

Cymek said:

Bubblecar said:

Pee-wee’s gone:

Actor Paul Reubens, known for Pee-wee Herman, dies

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-01/pee-wee-herman-actor-paul-reuben-dies-/102671570

Adult cinemas have flags at half mast

I had nor heard of pee-wee herman until a few minutes ago.

You probably know him better as Spleen from the movie Mystery Men.

My Melbourne nephew is back in Tasmania and doing the Cradle Mountain Overland Track again. Here’s the view from his tent the other day.

Bubblecar said:

My Melbourne nephew is back in Tasmania and doing the Cradle Mountain Overland Track again. Here’s the view from his tent the other day.

Here are his snowshoes. They weigh a kilo each apparently.

schnitzel shortly, with potato and carrot, gravy with, made properly thick this time, yeah, just now going onto the plates

transition said:

schnitzel shortly, with potato and carrot, gravy with, made properly thick this time, yeah, just now going onto the plates

That’s a decent luncheon effort.

Bubblecar said:

transition said:

schnitzel shortly, with potato and carrot, gravy with, made properly thick this time, yeah, just now going onto the plates

That’s a decent luncheon effort.

have some countryside, while daddy at the physio, a town east from here, from the lookout

and meal landed

transition said:

schnitzel shortly, with potato and carrot, gravy with, made properly thick this time, yeah, just now going onto the plates

I had cold left over beef rissoles on bread with tomato slices and cheese washed down with a cup of tea (black and one)
Over.

Peak Warming Man said:

transition said:

schnitzel shortly, with potato and carrot, gravy with, made properly thick this time, yeah, just now going onto the plates

I had cold left over beef rissoles on bread with tomato slices and cheese washed down with a cup of tea (black and one)
Over.

Rissole sandwiches.

Food of the gods.

All-time favourite.

transition said:

Bubblecar said:

transition said:

schnitzel shortly, with potato and carrot, gravy with, made properly thick this time, yeah, just now going onto the plates

That’s a decent luncheon effort.

have some countryside, while daddy at the physio, a town east from here, from the lookout

and meal landed

What’s the yellow crop they’ve got in there?

transition said:

Bubblecar said:

transition said:

schnitzel shortly, with potato and carrot, gravy with, made properly thick this time, yeah, just now going onto the plates

That’s a decent luncheon effort.

have some countryside, while daddy at the physio, a town east from here, from the lookout

and meal landed

Pleasingly expansive view.

The word “update” was first used in the late 1940s.

Peak Warming Man said:

transition said:

Bubblecar said:

That’s a decent luncheon effort.

have some countryside, while daddy at the physio, a town east from here, from the lookout

and meal landed

What’s the yellow crop they’ve got in there?

Rapeseed I should think.

Bubblecar said:

My Melbourne nephew is back in Tasmania and doing the Cradle Mountain Overland Track again. Here’s the view from his tent the other day.

full bore tale of ruby rose. f that.

Peak Warming Man said:

transition said:

Bubblecar said:

That’s a decent luncheon effort.

have some countryside, while daddy at the physio, a town east from here, from the lookout

and meal landed

What’s the yellow crop they’ve got in there?

plenty canola around

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-01/canberra-deep-space-communication-complex-look-for-voyager-2/102672664

What would 2 degrees equal in regards to Voyager 2 location versus were the dish was transmitting/receiving.

dv said:

The word “update” was first used in the late 1940s.

Ta, I’ll remember to avoid using it if I find myself in earlier destinations than that.

sarahs mum said:

Bubblecar said:

My Melbourne nephew is back in Tasmania and doing the Cradle Mountain Overland Track again. Here’s the view from his tent the other day.

full bore tale of ruby rose. f that.

He was holed up in one of the huts for two days due to foul weather. He was the only one there, as usual.

dv said:

The word “update” was first used in the late 1940s.

Keep us informed about that.

Bubblecar said:

sarahs mum said:

Bubblecar said:

My Melbourne nephew is back in Tasmania and doing the Cradle Mountain Overland Track again. Here’s the view from his tent the other day.

full bore tale of ruby rose. f that.

He was holed up in one of the huts for two days due to foul weather. He was the only one there, as usual.

Could manage a hut.

Bubblecar said:

sarahs mum said:

Bubblecar said:

My Melbourne nephew is back in Tasmania and doing the Cradle Mountain Overland Track again. Here’s the view from his tent the other day.

full bore tale of ruby rose. f that.

He was holed up in one of the huts for two days due to foul weather. He was the only one there, as usual.

Lucky he didn’t he run into Jabba.

Bubblecar said:

Bubblecar said:

My Melbourne nephew is back in Tasmania and doing the Cradle Mountain Overland Track again. Here’s the view from his tent the other day.

Here are his snowshoes. They weigh a kilo each apparently.

Looking them up, they cost about $800 a pair. Madness.

how’s WW3 going

nice work

might go do some whippering, something innocuous

Bubblecar said:

buffy said:

Bubblecar said:

Pee-wee’s gone:

Actor Paul Reubens, known for Pee-wee Herman, dies

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-01/pee-wee-herman-actor-paul-reuben-dies-/102671570

So yet again I know someone for something other than what they are famous for, because I don’t know the role he was famous for. But he overacted the most magnificent dying role in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie.

Haven’t seen that one but he was good in those I have seen like his Big Adventure.

I think we checked it once and it was about 10 minutes in total. With cuts to other scenes and stuff, but keeping on coming back to him (as a vampire with a stake through his chest) Oohing and Aahing and checking for reaction. We found it hilarious.

Bubblecar said:

Bubblecar said:

Bubblecar said:

My Melbourne nephew is back in Tasmania and doing the Cradle Mountain Overland Track again. Here’s the view from his tent the other day.

Here are his snowshoes. They weigh a kilo each apparently.

Looking them up, they cost about $800 a pair. Madness.

Wouldn’t wear them in the middle of the street that’s for sure

Bubblecar said:

Thinking that since there’s a football match (UK vs China) tonight along with a full moon tonight, I might sneak into the village and get something nice for dinner (there’s hardly anything left in the fridge) and maybe a bottle of French brandy.

We are going to have lamb potato pie from the bakery with cauli cheese, sprouts or broccoli and probably carrots for tea.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOV9pmdz1IU

Link

Reporter Helps Starving Dogs By Personally Shooting Them

For Bubblecar:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHVh_S9NGIU

Vampire death scene from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. This isn’t all of it, but it’s a good taster.

buffy said:

For Bubblecar:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHVh_S9NGIU

Vampire death scene from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. This isn’t all of it, but it’s a good taster.

Heh.

ChrispenEvan said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOV9pmdz1IU

Link

Reporter Helps Starving Dogs By Personally Shooting Them

https://edition.cnn.com/videos/world/2020/01/10/australia-fire-mallacoota-animal-euthanasia-coren-pkg-vpx.cnn

We had a visitor in the kitchen this morning. No idea how he got inside – maybe Bruna has reverted to her puppy habit of catching frogs and bringing them inside. He found the dustiest corner to collect fluff, I think. I took him outside and removed a lot of fluff and in return he kept hopping off my hand. But I did get some pictures. I think it’s a striped marsh frog, Limnodynastes peronii.

buffy said:

We had a visitor in the kitchen this morning. No idea how he got inside – maybe Bruna has reverted to her puppy habit of catching frogs and bringing them inside. He found the dustiest corner to collect fluff, I think. I took him outside and removed a lot of fluff and in return he kept hopping off my hand. But I did get some pictures. I think it’s a striped marsh frog, Limnodynastes peronii.

Heh. Where did you put him after his cleaning?

Bubblecar said:

buffy said:

We had a visitor in the kitchen this morning. No idea how he got inside – maybe Bruna has reverted to her puppy habit of catching frogs and bringing them inside. He found the dustiest corner to collect fluff, I think. I took him outside and removed a lot of fluff and in return he kept hopping off my hand. But I did get some pictures. I think it’s a striped marsh frog, Limnodynastes peronii.

Heh. Where did you put him after his cleaning?

In the garden. If he is wise he will stay away from Bruna, or at least not call when she is nearby. We have quite a few frogs in the garden.

The oldest man who ever lived (and whose age could be proven with documentation) was Jiroemon Kimura, who died in 2013 at the age of 116.

dv said:

The oldest man who ever lived (and whose age could be proven with documentation) was Jiroemon Kimura, who died in 2013 at the age of 116.

Well done that lad.

Ok off to the shops, let’s go.

Bubblecar said:

Ok off to the shops, let’s go.

Bubblecar said:

dv said:

The oldest man who ever lived (and whose age could be proven with documentation) was Jiroemon Kimura, who died in 2013 at the age of 116.

Well done that lad.

The reason I mention it is that a certain PWM mentioned that José Paulino Gomes, “widely regarded” as the oldest man, just died at age 127, but there’s nothing at all about this person, even as a false claimant, in any of the gerontology resources that track this kind of thing, and indeed no mention of him on the internet at all dating from before yesterday.

Some wikipedia pages exist about him, for instance in Russian, but they too were created yesterday.

dv said:

Bubblecar said:

dv said:

The oldest man who ever lived (and whose age could be proven with documentation) was Jiroemon Kimura, who died in 2013 at the age of 116.

Well done that lad.

The reason I mention it is that a certain PWM mentioned that José Paulino Gomes, “widely regarded” as the oldest man, just died at age 127, but there’s nothing at all about this person, even as a false claimant, in any of the gerontology resources that track this kind of thing, and indeed no mention of him on the internet at all dating from before yesterday.

Some wikipedia pages exist about him, for instance in Russian, but they too were created yesterday.

Brazil seems an unlikely place for it but what would we know eh¿

dv said:

The oldest man who ever lived (and whose age could be proven with documentation) was Jiroemon Kimura, who died in 2013 at the age of 116.

and the oldest woman?

sarahs mum said:

dv said:

The oldest man who ever lived (and whose age could be proven with documentation) was Jiroemon Kimura, who died in 2013 at the age of 116.

and the oldest woman?

Jeanne Calment, who died in 1997, aged 122.

Here is a via-duct built by the Romans to carry whisky out of Glenfinnan by rail.

dv said:

sarahs mum said:

dv said:

The oldest man who ever lived (and whose age could be proven with documentation) was Jiroemon Kimura, who died in 2013 at the age of 116.

and the oldest woman?

Jeanne Calment, who died in 1997, aged 122.

wow.

Peak Warming Man said:

What’s the Scots term for an artificial valley?

Peak Warming Man said:

Shopped.

Those scroll left/right arrow buttons don’t work.

dv said:

Peak Warming Man said:

What’s the Scots term for an artificial valley?

Och eye the noo noo glen.

Woodie said:

dv said:

Peak Warming Man said:

What’s the Scots term for an artificial valley?

Och eye the noo noo glen.

And a smell that pervades all cricket dressing rooms, or used to.

Peak Warming Man said:

And a smell that pervades all cricket dressing rooms, or used to.

Lurid, lurid. Interesting word. Lurid.

Is the noun luror?

dv said:

Peak Warming Man said:

And a smell that pervades all cricket dressing rooms, or used to.

Lurid, lurid. Interesting word. Lurid.

Is the noun luror?

According to wiktionary it is related to Latin luror, meaning:

“ paleness, pallor, lividness”

The same word means paleness and lividness? No wonder they lost the war.

SCIENCE said:

Brazil seems an unlikely place for it but what would we know eh¿

Well I suppose outliers could occur in any community but the oldest ever dude born in Brazil was Liberalino Ferreira Leite who lived to be 110 years old.

dv said:

SCIENCE said:

Brazil seems an unlikely place for it but what would we know eh¿

Well I suppose outliers could occur in any community but the oldest ever dude born in Brazil was Liberalino Ferreira Leite who lived to be 110 years old.

They tout living to a ripe old age, but you are still old (both in mind and body) that’s not so fantastic

Cymek said:

dv said:

SCIENCE said:

Brazil seems an unlikely place for it but what would we know eh¿

Well I suppose outliers could occur in any community but the oldest ever dude born in Brazil was Liberalino Ferreira Leite who lived to be 110 years old.

They tout living to a ripe old age, but you are still old (both in mind and body) that’s not so fantastic

`Oldness creeps up on you very slowly.

Peak Warming Man said:

Cymek said:

dv said:

Well I suppose outliers could occur in any community but the oldest ever dude born in Brazil was Liberalino Ferreira Leite who lived to be 110 years old.

They tout living to a ripe old age, but you are still old (both in mind and body) that’s not so fantastic

`Oldness creeps up on you very slowly.

Whereas youngness disappears from you at a very rapid rate.

BACK with some “Gourmet Chicken Pieces” from the Wayside Butchery.

Bubblecar said:

BACK with some “Gourmet Chicken Pieces” from the Wayside Butchery.

Is that next to the Wayside Chappel?

Peak Warming Man said:

Bubblecar said:

BACK with some “Gourmet Chicken Pieces” from the Wayside Butchery.

Is that next to the Wayside Chappel?

Maybe. It’s in Prospect Vale near Launceston but they also supply our IGA.

Bubblecar said:

Peak Warming Man said:

Bubblecar said:

BACK with some “Gourmet Chicken Pieces” from the Wayside Butchery.

Is that next to the Wayside Chappel?

Maybe. It’s in Prospect Vale near Launceston but they also supply our IGA.

Looks like sausages are their speciality.

“Ooh ooh
You might not ever get rich
But let me tell ya it’s better than diggin’ a ditch
There ain’t no tellin’ who you might meet
A movie star or maybe even an Indian chief
At the car wash
Workin’ at the car wash, girl
Come on and sing it with me
(Car wash)
Sing it with the feelin’ y’all
(Car wash, yeah)
Ooh”

You just don’t get lyrics like that anymore.

Peak Warming Man said:

“Ooh ooh
You might not ever get rich
But let me tell ya it’s better than diggin’ a ditch
There ain’t no tellin’ who you might meet
A movie star or maybe even an Indian chief
At the car wash
Workin’ at the car wash, girl
Come on and sing it with me
(Car wash)
Sing it with the feelin’ y’all
(Car wash, yeah)
Ooh”

You just don’t get lyrics like that anymore.

yeah

Peak Warming Man said:

“Ooh ooh
You might not ever get rich
But let me tell ya it’s better than diggin’ a ditch
There ain’t no tellin’ who you might meet
A movie star or maybe even an Indian chief
At the car wash
Workin’ at the car wash, girl
Come on and sing it with me
(Car wash)
Sing it with the feelin’ y’all
(Car wash, yeah)
Ooh”

You just don’t get lyrics like that anymore.

Well, I had just got out from the county prison
Doin’ ninety days for non-support
Tried to find me an executive position
But no matter how smooth I talked
They wouldn’t listen to the fact that I was genius
The man say, “we got all that we can use”
Now I got them steadily depressin’, low down mind messin’
Working at the car wash blues
Well, I should be sittin’ in an air conditioned office
In a swivel chair
Talkin’ some trash to the secretaries
Sayin’, “here, now mama, come on over here”
Instead, I’m stuck here rubbin’ these fenders with a rag
And walkin’ home in soggy old shoes
With them steadily depressin’, low down mind messin’
Workin’ at the car wash blues
You know a man of my ability
He should be smokin’ on a big cigar
But ‘til I get myself straight I guess I’ll just have to wait
In my rubber suit rubbin’ these cars
Well, all I can do is to shake my head
You might not believe that it’s true
For workin’ at this end of Niagara Falls
Is an undiscovered Howard Hughes
So baby, don’t expect to see me
With no double martini in any high brow society news
‘Cause I got them steadily depressin’, low down mind messin’
Workin’ at the car wash blues
So baby, don’t expect to see me
With no double martini in any high brow society news
‘Cause I got them steadily depressin’, low down mind messin’
Workin’ at the car wash blues
Yeah, I got them steadily depressin’, low down mind messin’
Workin’ at the car wash blues

In June, 11 women sanitation workers from the southern Indian state of Kerala pooled money to buy a lottery ticket. Last week, they were overjoyed to find out they had hit the jackpot of 100m rupees ($1.2m; £946,685).

The women are part of a group that collects non-biodegradable waste from households in Parappanangadi town in Kerala’s Malappuram district. They usually get around 250 rupees a day – from monthly payments made by the households – and occasionally a share of the money made by the local corporation from selling the segregated waste they collect.
more..

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-66337282

sarahs mum said:

In June, 11 women sanitation workers from the southern Indian state of Kerala pooled money to buy a lottery ticket. Last week, they were overjoyed to find out they had hit the jackpot of 100m rupees ($1.2m; £946,685).

The women are part of a group that collects non-biodegradable waste from households in Parappanangadi town in Kerala’s Malappuram district. They usually get around 250 rupees a day – from monthly payments made by the households – and occasionally a share of the money made by the local corporation from selling the segregated waste they collect.
more..

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-66337282

Well that’s nice.

sarahs mum said:

He could publish the initial drawings as a colouring book.

Bubblecar said:

BACK with some “Gourmet Chicken Pieces” from the Wayside Butchery.

How do they know that the chicken was a gourmet?

captain_spalding said:

Bubblecar said:

BACK with some “Gourmet Chicken Pieces” from the Wayside Butchery.

How do they know that the chicken was a gourmet?

Maybe it had a copy of Larousse Gastronomique on its shelves.

Bubblecar said:

sarahs mum said:

He could publish the initial drawings as a colouring book.

epidiascope?

Pleasantly painted furnishings. From the 1929 Larkin catalogue, all 226 finely scanned pages of which can be viewed here:

https://archive.org/details/1929-larkin-co-catalog-buffalo-ny/page/n1/mode/2up?view=theater

sarahs mum said:

Bubblecar said:

sarahs mum said:

He could publish the initial drawings as a colouring book.

epidiascope?

Yeah. Or whatever he prefers :)

He obviously (and sensibly) documents each painting quite thoroughly as it unfolds.

Bubblecar said:

sarahs mum said:

Bubblecar said:

He could publish the initial drawings as a colouring book.

epidiascope?

Yeah. Or whatever he prefers :)

He obviously (and sensibly) documents each painting quite thoroughly as it unfolds.

I saw this go by tother day.

https://www.amazon.com.au/Lucy-Drawing-Tool-Photo-Projector/dp/B07RN1934G/ref=asc_df_B07RN1934G/

sarahs mum said:

Bubblecar said:

sarahs mum said:

epidiascope?

Yeah. Or whatever he prefers :)

He obviously (and sensibly) documents each painting quite thoroughly as it unfolds.

I saw this go by tother day.

https://www.amazon.com.au/Lucy-Drawing-Tool-Photo-Projector/dp/B07RN1934G/ref=asc_df_B07RN1934G/

Yeah, those things have been around in one form or another since optics were thought of.

Still damn handy, in whatever format they’re assembled/operated.

sarahs mum said:

Bubblecar said:

sarahs mum said:

epidiascope?

Yeah. Or whatever he prefers :)

He obviously (and sensibly) documents each painting quite thoroughly as it unfolds.

I saw this go by tother day.

https://www.amazon.com.au/Lucy-Drawing-Tool-Photo-Projector/dp/B07RN1934G/ref=asc_df_B07RN1934G/

Probably has its uses but I couldn’t envisage drawing that way myself.

Getting properly back into drawing recently. I’m going to make it a rule to do one interesting A4 drawing every day.

I decided this when I remembered how incessantly I used to draw as a child, and comparing it with current efforts, I was appalled :)

Drawing eases all kinds of tensions and opens up endless little vistas.

Bubblecar said:

sarahs mum said:

Bubblecar said:

Yeah. Or whatever he prefers :)

He obviously (and sensibly) documents each painting quite thoroughly as it unfolds.

I saw this go by tother day.

https://www.amazon.com.au/Lucy-Drawing-Tool-Photo-Projector/dp/B07RN1934G/ref=asc_df_B07RN1934G/

Probably has its uses but I couldn’t envisage drawing that way myself.

Getting properly back into drawing recently. I’m going to make it a rule to do one interesting A4 drawing every day.

I decided this when I remembered how incessantly I used to draw as a child, and comparing it with current efforts, I was appalled :)

Drawing eases all kinds of tensions and opens up endless little vistas.

Used to be standard equipment for a lot of comic strip artists – they’d work out page layouts in thumbnail form, then enlarge them using the Lucy.

Bubblecar said:

sarahs mum said:

Bubblecar said:

Yeah. Or whatever he prefers :)

He obviously (and sensibly) documents each painting quite thoroughly as it unfolds.

I saw this go by tother day.

https://www.amazon.com.au/Lucy-Drawing-Tool-Photo-Projector/dp/B07RN1934G/ref=asc_df_B07RN1934G/

Probably has its uses but I couldn’t envisage drawing that way myself.

Getting properly back into drawing recently. I’m going to make it a rule to do one interesting A4 drawing every day.

I decided this when I remembered how incessantly I used to draw as a child, and comparing it with current efforts, I was appalled :)

Drawing eases all kinds of tensions and opens up endless little vistas.

I’m too lazy to go photoreal. I might even be too lazy to make a decision. I put a 30 × 30cm steel plate and some wet and dry next to me over a week ago. I have remade imagery in my head. I have thought about starting with a hard ground. and a soft ground. and a litho pencil …where I would producing white lines on black in the final print. And after all this? I think I have fallen in love with the rust in one corner.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkZYobFW3_s

Link

Liberal Redneck – Why the Obsession with Trans People?

Trae Crowder

ChrispenEvan said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkZYobFW3_s

Link

Liberal Redneck – Why the Obsession with Trans People?

Trae Crowder

I enjoyed his take on Barbie this morning.

sarahs mum said:

Bubblecar said:

sarahs mum said:

I saw this go by tother day.

https://www.amazon.com.au/Lucy-Drawing-Tool-Photo-Projector/dp/B07RN1934G/ref=asc_df_B07RN1934G/

Probably has its uses but I couldn’t envisage drawing that way myself.

Getting properly back into drawing recently. I’m going to make it a rule to do one interesting A4 drawing every day.

I decided this when I remembered how incessantly I used to draw as a child, and comparing it with current efforts, I was appalled :)

Drawing eases all kinds of tensions and opens up endless little vistas.

I’m too lazy to go photoreal. I might even be too lazy to make a decision. I put a 30 × 30cm steel plate and some wet and dry next to me over a week ago. I have remade imagery in my head. I have thought about starting with a hard ground. and a soft ground. and a litho pencil …where I would producing white lines on black in the final print. And after all this? I think I have fallen in love with the rust in one corner.

Maybe I should go full crazy and spit bite in winter.

ChrispenEvan said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkZYobFW3_s

Link

Liberal Redneck – Why the Obsession with Trans People?

Trae Crowder

Not obsessed this end, just concerned with preserving women’s sex-based rights, which we all agreed were so important in the #me too days, which now seem like an ancient enlightened era.

Oh, and the rights of homosexual people to be same-sex attracted without being accused of “sexual racism” by shit-for-brains woke turds.

forgettery

PRONUNCIATION:
(fuhr-GET-uh-ree)

MEANING:
noun:
1. The capacity to forget easily.
2. A poor memory.

ETYMOLOGY:
Patterned after memory. From English forget, from Old English forgietan (to forget), from for- (away) + get (to grasp). Earliest documented use: 1860.

NOTES:
A good memory is nice, but so is a good forgettery. Certain things are best left in the past: ancient grudges, past grievances, and old scores. Embrace that forgettery and wipe the slate clean.

USAGE:
“We carry along such a heart full of the injuries that other people have done us … We need schools of memory, but we need schools of forgettery, even more.”
Ralph Albert Parlette; The University of Hard Knocks; Parlette-Padget; 1917.

“The forgettery is, apparently, something of a family tradition. ‘My mother has one. I think her mother had one. Stuff that actually doesn’t matter goes in there. Stuff that’s not important, stuff that if you carried it with you would be a burden,’ .”
Penny Wong; Homework in on Time or It’s Double Dissolution for You; The Australian (Canberra); Sep 24, 2009.

Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed. -Herman Melville, novelist and poet (1 Aug 1819-1891)

sarahs mum said:

Bubblecar said:

sarahs mum said:

I saw this go by tother day.

https://www.amazon.com.au/Lucy-Drawing-Tool-Photo-Projector/dp/B07RN1934G/ref=asc_df_B07RN1934G/

Probably has its uses but I couldn’t envisage drawing that way myself.

Getting properly back into drawing recently. I’m going to make it a rule to do one interesting A4 drawing every day.

I decided this when I remembered how incessantly I used to draw as a child, and comparing it with current efforts, I was appalled :)

Drawing eases all kinds of tensions and opens up endless little vistas.

I’m too lazy to go photoreal. I might even be too lazy to make a decision. I put a 30 × 30cm steel plate and some wet and dry next to me over a week ago. I have remade imagery in my head. I have thought about starting with a hard ground. and a soft ground. and a litho pencil …where I would producing white lines on black in the final print. And after all this? I think I have fallen in love with the rust in one corner.

The rusty corner beckons, follow its temptations :)

https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/2023/08/01/zoo-bear-human-costumes/

Link

Baggy trousers, madness.

Bubblecar said:

Pleasantly painted furnishings. From the 1929 Larkin catalogue, all 226 finely scanned pages of which can be viewed here:

https://archive.org/details/1929-larkin-co-catalog-buffalo-ny/page/n1/mode/2up?view=theater

Probably full of lead, but bright and pleasing colours.

The gourmet chicken was appropriately tasty and plenty left for tomorrow.

Now time for a lay-me-down before the football (England vs China) at 9pm, channel 73.

happy birthday, Boris

party_pants said:

happy birthday, Boris

Thank you.

:-)

party_pants said:

happy birthday, Boris

Not again.

ChrispenEvan said:

https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/2023/08/01/zoo-bear-human-costumes/

Link

Baggy trousers, madness.

There is a distinctive primate vibe to them. Tree climbers… convergent evolution. Maybe we are all sun bears in monkey costumes.

Peak Warming Man said:

party_pants said:

happy birthday, Boris

Not again.

yep, and I might even have one next year as well.

Snug butchery beef and chilli sausages.

Verdict: Someone else might really like these.

Happy birthday to Chrispen Evan

dv said:

Happy birthday to Chrispen Evan

Thank you. 68 today. tempus fugit.

ChrispenEvan said:

dv said:

Happy birthday to Chrispen Evan

Thank you. 68 today. tempus fugit.

It’s a real birthday?!

Then many happies. :)

sarahs mum said:

ChrispenEvan said:

dv said:

Happy birthday to Chrispen Evan

Thank you. 68 today. tempus fugit.

It’s a real birthday?!

Then many happies. :)

Thank you.

ChrispenEvan said:

sarahs mum said:

ChrispenEvan said:

Thank you. 68 today. tempus fugit.

It’s a real birthday?!

Then many happies. :)

Thank you.

My birthday is Saturday. 65.

wow

dv said:

Happy birthday to Chrispen Evan

Again?

What is the forum’s perspective on culling or not culling dingoes on Fraser Island ( I do realise the name has formally returned to the indigenous name) to which I have forgotten unfortunately.

poikilotherm said:

dv said:

Happy birthday to Chrispen Evan

Again?

I don’t say happy birthday to him.. I say congratulations.

monkey skipper said:

What is the forum’s perspective on culling or not culling dingoes on Fraser Island ( I do realise the name has formally returned to the indigenous name) to which I have forgotten unfortunately.

It’s thousands of km away from me. I’ve never been there nor am I ever likely to. So I am not emotionally invested one way for the other.

But, my general thinking is that QLDers need to make up there mind what it is for. Is it a nature reserve for all native animals to survive and thrive, or is it a holiday/camping area for families? Make up your minds, then

either kill “problem” dingoes or

start banning camping in certain areas.

party_pants said:

monkey skipper said:

What is the forum’s perspective on culling or not culling dingoes on Fraser Island ( I do realise the name has formally returned to the indigenous name) to which I have forgotten unfortunately.

It’s thousands of km away from me. I’ve never been there nor am I ever likely to. So I am not emotionally invested one way for the other.

But, my general thinking is that QLDers need to make up there mind what it is for. Is it a nature reserve for all native animals to survive and thrive, or is it a holiday/camping area for families? Make up your minds, then

either kill “problem” dingoes or

start banning camping in certain areas.

their

(oh, the shame)

party_pants said:

monkey skipper said:

What is the forum’s perspective on culling or not culling dingoes on Fraser Island ( I do realise the name has formally returned to the indigenous name) to which I have forgotten unfortunately.

It’s thousands of km away from me. I’ve never been there nor am I ever likely to. So I am not emotionally invested one way for the other.

But, my general thinking is that QLDers need to make up there mind what it is for. Is it a nature reserve for all native animals to survive and thrive, or is it a holiday/camping area for families? Make up your minds, then

either kill “problem” dingoes or

start banning camping in certain areas.

Note that dingoes aren’t native.

dv said:

party_pants said:

monkey skipper said:

What is the forum’s perspective on culling or not culling dingoes on Fraser Island ( I do realise the name has formally returned to the indigenous name) to which I have forgotten unfortunately.

It’s thousands of km away from me. I’ve never been there nor am I ever likely to. So I am not emotionally invested one way for the other.

But, my general thinking is that QLDers need to make up there mind what it is for. Is it a nature reserve for all native animals to survive and thrive, or is it a holiday/camping area for families? Make up your minds, then

either kill “problem” dingoes or

start banning camping in certain areas.

Note that dingoes aren’t native.

barge poles at 20 paces

party_pants said:

dv said:

party_pants said:

It’s thousands of km away from me. I’ve never been there nor am I ever likely to. So I am not emotionally invested one way for the other.

But, my general thinking is that QLDers need to make up there mind what it is for. Is it a nature reserve for all native animals to survive and thrive, or is it a holiday/camping area for families? Make up your minds, then

either kill “problem” dingoes or

start banning camping in certain areas.

Note that dingoes aren’t native.

barge poles at 20 paces

I mean, apart from thylacines and the odd baby… they have a place as a functional predator, despite their introduced status.

as for culling… we cull kangaroos, brumbies, hogs.. the cats cull our smaller nocturnal, diurnal, crepuscular critters… the foxes helps the cats and the cane toads remain complete and utter bastards…

it’s all a rich tapestry

Arts said:

party_pants said:

dv said:

Note that dingoes aren’t native.

barge poles at 20 paces

I mean, apart from thylacines and the odd baby… they have a place as a functional predator, despite their introduced status.

as for culling… we cull kangaroos, brumbies, hogs.. the cats cull our smaller nocturnal, diurnal, crepuscular critters… the foxes helps the cats and the cane toads remain complete and utter bastards…

it’s all a rich tapestry

which the Bayeux technically was not.

ChrispenEvan said:

Arts said:

party_pants said:

barge poles at 20 paces

I mean, apart from thylacines and the odd baby… they have a place as a functional predator, despite their introduced status.

as for culling… we cull kangaroos, brumbies, hogs.. the cats cull our smaller nocturnal, diurnal, crepuscular critters… the foxes helps the cats and the cane toads remain complete and utter bastards…

it’s all a rich tapestry

which the Bayeux technically was not.

wasn’t that a sparkling tapestry?

Arts said:

party_pants said:

dv said:

Note that dingoes aren’t native.

barge poles at 20 paces

I mean, apart from thylacines and the odd baby… they have a place as a functional predator, despite their introduced status.

as for culling… we cull kangaroos, brumbies, hogs.. the cats cull our smaller nocturnal, diurnal, crepuscular critters… the foxes helps the cats and the cane toads remain complete and utter bastards…

it’s all a rich tapestry

Public demand is for an inexpensive silk screen print.

Arts said:

ChrispenEvan said:

Arts said:

I mean, apart from thylacines and the odd baby… they have a place as a functional predator, despite their introduced status.

as for culling… we cull kangaroos, brumbies, hogs.. the cats cull our smaller nocturnal, diurnal, crepuscular critters… the foxes helps the cats and the cane toads remain complete and utter bastards…

it’s all a rich tapestry

which the Bayeux technically was not.

wasn’t that a sparkling tapestry?

technically it is an embroidery.

party_pants said:

Arts said:

party_pants said:

barge poles at 20 paces

I mean, apart from thylacines and the odd baby… they have a place as a functional predator, despite their introduced status.

as for culling… we cull kangaroos, brumbies, hogs.. the cats cull our smaller nocturnal, diurnal, crepuscular critters… the foxes helps the cats and the cane toads remain complete and utter bastards…

it’s all a rich tapestry

Public demand is for an inexpensive silk screen print.

try ebayeaux

ChrispenEvan said:

party_pants said:

happy birthday, Boris

Thank you.

:-)

By my calculations, based on the amount of birthdays he has had on this forum, Boris is about 488 years old this July.

party_pants said:

monkey skipper said:

What is the forum’s perspective on culling or not culling dingoes on Fraser Island ( I do realise the name has formally returned to the indigenous name) to which I have forgotten unfortunately.

It’s thousands of km away from me. I’ve never been there nor am I ever likely to. So I am not emotionally invested one way for the other.

But, my general thinking is that QLDers need to make up there mind what it is for. Is it a nature reserve for all native animals to survive and thrive, or is it a holiday/camping area for families? Make up your minds, then

either kill “problem” dingoes or

start banning camping in certain areas.

I think that is part of the problem….people contributing to the problem and then wanting that problem managed.

monkey skipper said:

party_pants said:

monkey skipper said:

What is the forum’s perspective on culling or not culling dingoes on Fraser Island ( I do realise the name has formally returned to the indigenous name) to which I have forgotten unfortunately.

It’s thousands of km away from me. I’ve never been there nor am I ever likely to. So I am not emotionally invested one way for the other.

But, my general thinking is that QLDers need to make up there mind what it is for. Is it a nature reserve for all native animals to survive and thrive, or is it a holiday/camping area for families? Make up your minds, then

either kill “problem” dingoes or

start banning camping in certain areas.

I think that is part of the problem….people contributing to the problem and then wanting that problem managed.

K’gari… you had me curious so I looked it up

dv said:

party_pants said:

monkey skipper said:

What is the forum’s perspective on culling or not culling dingoes on Fraser Island ( I do realise the name has formally returned to the indigenous name) to which I have forgotten unfortunately.

It’s thousands of km away from me. I’ve never been there nor am I ever likely to. So I am not emotionally invested one way for the other.

But, my general thinking is that QLDers need to make up there mind what it is for. Is it a nature reserve for all native animals to survive and thrive, or is it a holiday/camping area for families? Make up your minds, then

either kill “problem” dingoes or

start banning camping in certain areas.

Note that dingoes aren’t native.

recent arrivals …but a canine protected even so….

monkey skipper said:

party_pants said:

monkey skipper said:

What is the forum’s perspective on culling or not culling dingoes on Fraser Island ( I do realise the name has formally returned to the indigenous name) to which I have forgotten unfortunately.

It’s thousands of km away from me. I’ve never been there nor am I ever likely to. So I am not emotionally invested one way for the other.

But, my general thinking is that QLDers need to make up there mind what it is for. Is it a nature reserve for all native animals to survive and thrive, or is it a holiday/camping area for families? Make up your minds, then

either kill “problem” dingoes or

start banning camping in certain areas.

I think that is part of the problem….people contributing to the problem and then wanting that problem managed.

Well, that’s the thing. People don’t do wild places where they’re “on their own” very well. They expect that someone from the government has been there before them and is looking after them while they are there.

dropped a piece of firewood. crushed the middle finger on right hand. much hurt. Might bruise nail. damn.

sarahs mum said:

dropped a piece of firewood. crushed the middle finger on right hand. much hurt. Might bruise nail. damn.

Sympathies. They can be dangerous objects, lumps of firewood.

sarahs mum said:

dropped a piece of firewood. crushed the middle finger on right hand. much hurt. Might bruise nail. damn.

OUCHY OUCHY!!!

sarahs mum said:

dropped a piece of firewood. crushed the middle finger on right hand. much hurt. Might bruise nail. damn.

Poor pinky.

dv said:

party_pants said:

monkey skipper said:

What is the forum’s perspective on culling or not culling dingoes on Fraser Island ( I do realise the name has formally returned to the indigenous name) to which I have forgotten unfortunately.

It’s thousands of km away from me. I’ve never been there nor am I ever likely to. So I am not emotionally invested one way for the other.

But, my general thinking is that QLDers need to make up there mind what it is for. Is it a nature reserve for all native animals to survive and thrive, or is it a holiday/camping area for families? Make up your minds, then

either kill “problem” dingoes or

start banning camping in certain areas.

Note that dingoes aren’t native.

There are many species that have arrived here at various times and have adapted to local conditions and blended with local habitats. This naturally takes time and the dingo has adapted remarkably well to serve an important role as a top predator, without destroying its environment and to which other creatures have adapted to its presence and level of predation. The dingo is much better adapted to Australian conditions and environments than domesticated dogs that rarely survive conditions in the wild for any period of time. Therefore, it should be the tourist that makes way for the dingo without the need to cull them.

sarahs mum said:

dropped a piece of firewood. crushed the middle finger on right hand. much hurt. Might bruise nail. damn.

Damn …

If the boss lady were there she’d put some oil of wintergreen on it

sarahs mum said:

dropped a piece of firewood. crushed the middle finger on right hand. much hurt. Might bruise nail. damn.

ouch… please don’t do too much flipping off while it heals…

dv said:

sarahs mum said:

dropped a piece of firewood. crushed the middle finger on right hand. much hurt. Might bruise nail. damn.

Damn …

If the boss lady were there she’d put some oil of wintergreen on it

Good for coughs, colds and sore holes, apparently.

dv said:

sarahs mum said:

dropped a piece of firewood. crushed the middle finger on right hand. much hurt. Might bruise nail. damn.

Damn …

If the boss lady were there she’d put some oil of wintergreen on it

I remember when hubby number one put some of that in his bath. near burned off his balls.

funny.

sarahs mum said:

dv said:

sarahs mum said:

dropped a piece of firewood. crushed the middle finger on right hand. much hurt. Might bruise nail. damn.

Damn …

If the boss lady were there she’d put some oil of wintergreen on it

I remember when hubby number one put some of that in his bath. near burned off his balls.

funny.

classic

having a last coffee, I can drink this all by myself, you stay seated

26° at 8:30am
Forecast 39° light cloud

No idea what I am doing today.

transition said:

having a last coffee, I can drink this all by myself, you stay seated

Just sat down with a large bowl cup of plunger coffee with heated milk, not too hot.

kii said:

transition said:

having a last coffee, I can drink this all by myself, you stay seated

Just sat down with a large bowl cup of plunger coffee with heated milk, not too hot.

I done, couple sweet biscuits I not needed too

kii said:

In fairness he does call himself Scalawag Jim

dv said:

kii said:

In fairness he does call himself Scalawag Jim

Scalewag Jim

Good morning Holidayers. Presently 4 degrees at the back door, starting to get light. We are forecast 15 degrees with cloud clearing.

My Melbourne brother arrived yesterday afternoon to stay for a couple of days. He intends to drive to Dunkeld this morning, ride his bike out towards Halls Gap and back and then come back here. Then we will go to our bush block for a wander.

dv said:

kii said:

In fairness he does call himself Scalawag Jim

No, he (almost certainly in further evidence of ignorance) calls himself ‘Scalewag Jim’.

I’m not sure how to picture a ‘scalewag’, but it gives me the feeling that any such image would not be pleasant.

Minimum here was 1.8°, currently a sunny 6. I will read more of Elizabeth Goudge’s Gentian Hill which I am enjoying, and stuff myself full of delicious food.

Scalewag Jim seemed to never get around to enquiring as to why FIFA is so crazy as to schedule a football match for 2:00 am (or 3:00 am).

I mean, they’ll be playing in the dark, won’t they?

Morning punters and correctors, nothing much happening from a PWM perspextive.
Over.

captain_spalding said:

dv said:

kii said:

In fairness he does call himself Scalawag Jim

No, he (almost certainly in further evidence of ignorance) calls himself ‘Scalewag Jim’.

I’m not sure how to picture a ‘scalewag’, but it gives me the feeling that any such image would not be pleasant.

One time zone, fuck CHINA¡

captain_spalding said:

Scalewag Jim seemed to never get around to enquiring as to why FIFA is so crazy as to schedule a football match for 2:00 am (or 3:00 am).

I mean, they’ll be playing in the dark, won’t they?

Alien Austria is so far south that the sun stays up all winter … wait¿¡

SCIENCE said:

captain_spalding said:

Scalewag Jim seemed to never get around to enquiring as to why FIFA is so crazy as to schedule a football match for 2:00 am (or 3:00 am).

I mean, they’ll be playing in the dark, won’t they?

Alien Austria is so far south that the sun stays up all winter … wait¿¡

You’re crazy, man, it’s summer. Even FIFA wouldn’t make a bunch of ladies pay a match at 2:00 am on a winter’s night!

captain_spalding said:

Scalewag Jim seemed to never get around to enquiring as to why FIFA is so crazy as to schedule a football match for 2:00 am (or 3:00 am).

I mean, they’ll be playing in the dark, won’t they?

Soon he’ll come to the correct conclusion that Australia doesn’t exist. And Reptilians.

coffee landed

apologies for being late

and anything else that troubles you, sorry about that also, if it helps i’m sorry about everything right back to the big bang, I admit it was entirely the cause of all the troubles

Looks like little girls will be safe taking baskets of food to grannies house in Andalucía now.

“For centuries, wolves have roamed the mountain ranges of Andalucía in southern Spain, but after years of decline the creature has been officially declared extinct in the region.”

Peak Warming Man said:

Morning punters and correctors, nothing much happening from a PWM perspextive.
Over.

Morning all.
Dropped in for a short while before tiredness overcomes me.

Peak Warming Man said:

Looks like little girls will be safe taking baskets of food to grannies house in Andalucía now.

“For centuries, wolves have roamed the mountain ranges of Andalucía in southern Spain, but after years of decline the creature has been officially declared extinct in the region.”

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-02/childcare-child-sex-offence-arrest-blue-card/102673708

Tamb said:

Peak Warming Man said:

Morning punters and correctors, nothing much happening from a PWM perspextive.
Over.

Morning all.
Dropped in for a short while before tiredness overcomes me.

You getting more needles today?

Brekkie report: fried eggs, mushies with extra umami (thanks 1005), prosciutto-wrapped asparagus, advocado, baby spinach

Peak Warming Man said:

Tamb said:

Peak Warming Man said:

Morning punters and correctors, nothing much happening from a PWM perspextive.
Over.

Morning all.
Dropped in for a short while before tiredness overcomes me.

You getting more needles today?

No more due until the 28th. Still in recovery after the last lot. Total stands at 705.

Good piece of rope that.

Peak Warming Man said:

Good piece of rope that.

Yeah that boat’s not getting away

How many more years of this trump shit does the world have to endure? So many people have been impacted by this horror of a man. It’s had me stressed for 7 years.

I need to get my Unconscious up to date with current affairs. Last night I dreamt HRH QEII died.

OCDC said:

I need to get my Unconscious up to date with current affairs. Last night I dreamt HRH QEII died.

I was in the dentist’s chair when QEII died. The dentist came in and told me.

kii said:

OCDC said:

I need to get my Unconscious up to date with current affairs. Last night I dreamt HRH QEII died.

I was in the dentist’s chair when QEII died. The dentist came in and told me.

I got a phone call from the palace.

Who the fuck is QEII ¿

Peak Warming Man said:

kii said:

OCDC said:

I need to get my Unconscious up to date with current affairs. Last night I dreamt HRH QEII died.

I was in the dentist’s chair when QEII died. The dentist came in and told me.

I got a phone call from the palace.

The Palace Hotel down near the docks?

kii said:

How many more years of this trump shit does the world have to endure? So many people have been impacted by this horror of a man. It’s had me stressed for 7 years.

I check the news every morning, but the bugger just will not die.

Peak Warming Man said:

kii said:

OCDC said:

I need to get my Unconscious up to date with current affairs. Last night I dreamt HRH QEII died.

I was in the dentist’s chair when QEII died. The dentist came in and told me.

I got a phone call from the palace.

They wanted you to bring back the cutlery you stole?

captain_spalding said:

kii said:

How many more years of this trump shit does the world have to endure? So many people have been impacted by this horror of a man. It’s had me stressed for 7 years.

I check the news every morning, but the bugger just will not die.

His makeup for his latest videos is pretty good. Actually it is impressive. His cheeks look almost youthful.

captain_spalding said:

kii said:

How many more years of this trump shit does the world have to endure? So many people have been impacted by this horror of a man. It’s had me stressed for 7 years.

I check the news every morning, but the bugger just will not die.

Its really astonishing he’s allowed to still be a presidential candidate
OK opposition could invent charges to disqualify someone but this isn’t that.
Its not some minor charge either

Play a fun game with my grandson, we do zombie attack were you zombie walk/run and growl and get each other.
He runs off giggling and is even starting to do the growl as well

SCIENCE said:

Who the fuck is QEII ¿

The second British Queen named Elizabeth.

I think Australia are in with a big chance of winning the World Cup, particularly with Steph Wood in such good form.
“Vice-captain and goal attack Steph Wood had her most influential game of the tournament, making 18 of 19 attempts and adding 13 assists in a player-of-the-match performance.”

Fancied a cup of White King Toilet Gel with my breakfast, and was just about to pour one when I read the back of the bottle:

DIRECTIONS FOR USE: DO NOT SWALLOW

…which just goes to show, always read the instructions.

Bubblecar said:

Fancied a cup of White King Toilet Gel with my breakfast, and was just about to pour one when I read the back of the bottle:

DIRECTIONS FOR USE: DO NOT SWALLOW

…which just goes to show, always read the instructions.

Can i just rinse out my mouth with it, then?

Bubblecar said:

Fancied a cup of White King Toilet Gel with my breakfast, and was just about to pour one when I read the back of the bottle:

DIRECTIONS FOR USE: DO NOT SWALLOW

…which just goes to show, always read the instructions.

Buggered if I know why anyone keeps the toilet cleaner in the kitchen.

captain_spalding said:

kii said:

How many more years of this trump shit does the world have to endure? So many people have been impacted by this horror of a man. It’s had me stressed for 7 years.

I check the news every morning, but the bugger just will not die.

You have to check the funeral notices.

roughbarked said:

captain_spalding said:

kii said:

How many more years of this trump shit does the world have to endure? So many people have been impacted by this horror of a man. It’s had me stressed for 7 years.

I check the news every morning, but the bugger just will not die.

You have to check the funeral notices.

I’m afraid to do that. I might see my name in there one day.

captain_spalding said:

Bubblecar said:

Fancied a cup of White King Toilet Gel with my breakfast, and was just about to pour one when I read the back of the bottle:

DIRECTIONS FOR USE: DO NOT SWALLOW

…which just goes to show, always read the instructions.

Can i just rinse out my mouth with it, then?

I wouldn’t bank on it.

captain_spalding said:

dv said:

kii said:

In fairness he does call himself Scalawag Jim

No, he (almost certainly in further evidence of ignorance) calls himself ‘Scalewag Jim’.

I’m not sure how to picture a ‘scalewag’, but it gives me the feeling that any such image would not be pleasant.

A Wag of scaled proportions?

Bubblecar said:

captain_spalding said:

Bubblecar said:

Fancied a cup of White King Toilet Gel with my breakfast, and was just about to pour one when I read the back of the bottle:

DIRECTIONS FOR USE: DO NOT SWALLOW

…which just goes to show, always read the instructions.

Can i just rinse out my mouth with it, then?

I wouldn’t bank on it.

You can put bleach in your drinking water.

The Centre for Disease Control has guidelines on making water safe to drink using chlorine bleach:

https://www.cdc.gov/healthywater/emergency/making-water-safe.html

PJ O’Rourke was in a Central American country where illnesses from bad water were killing children in large numbers. Aid organisations were there, treating the kids, using rehydration kits that cost $US30 – $US40 each

But, the statistics showed one location where infection numbers were just about zero. PJ went there to find out why.

He asked the community leader what was keeping people from getting sick. ‘This’ she said, and held up a cheap bottle of household bleach. She’d been treating a communal supply of drinking water with it along the lines of the CDC instructions.

PermeateFree said:

dv said:

party_pants said:

It’s thousands of km away from me. I’ve never been there nor am I ever likely to. So I am not emotionally invested one way for the other.

But, my general thinking is that QLDers need to make up there mind what it is for. Is it a nature reserve for all native animals to survive and thrive, or is it a holiday/camping area for families? Make up your minds, then

either kill “problem” dingoes or

start banning camping in certain areas.

Note that dingoes aren’t native.

There are many species that have arrived here at various times and have adapted to local conditions and blended with local habitats. This naturally takes time and the dingo has adapted remarkably well to serve an important role as a top predator, without destroying its environment and to which other creatures have adapted to its presence and level of predation. The dingo is much better adapted to Australian conditions and environments than domesticated dogs that rarely survive conditions in the wild for any period of time. Therefore, it should be the tourist that makes way for the dingo without the need to cull them.

I happen to agree. We should let the island go to the dogs.

roughbarked said:

captain_spalding said:

dv said:

In fairness he does call himself Scalawag Jim

No, he (almost certainly in further evidence of ignorance) calls himself ‘Scalewag Jim’.

I’m not sure how to picture a ‘scalewag’, but it gives me the feeling that any such image would not be pleasant.

A Wag of scaled proportions?

But is he scaled up or scaled down?

captain_spalding said:

Bubblecar said:

captain_spalding said:

Can i just rinse out my mouth with it, then?

I wouldn’t bank on it.

You can put bleach in your drinking water.

The Centre for Disease Control has guidelines on making water safe to drink using chlorine bleach:

https://www.cdc.gov/healthywater/emergency/making-water-safe.html

PJ O’Rourke was in a Central American country where illnesses from bad water were killing children in large numbers. Aid organisations were there, treating the kids, using rehydration kits that cost $US30 – $US40 each

But, the statistics showed one location where infection numbers were just about zero. PJ went there to find out why.

He asked the community leader what was keeping people from getting sick. ‘This’ she said, and held up a cheap bottle of household bleach. She’d been treating a communal supply of drinking water with it along the lines of the CDC instructions.

There’s a difference between diluted bleach and drinking the stuff straight

captain_spalding said:

roughbarked said:

captain_spalding said:

I check the news every morning, but the bugger just will not die.

You have to check the funeral notices.

I’m afraid to do that. I might see my name in there one day.

My mother used to listen to the let’s be morbid show every morning on the radio.
I asked why and she did say she only did it to see who else she had outlasted.

roughbarked said:

captain_spalding said:

roughbarked said:

You have to check the funeral notices.

I’m afraid to do that. I might see my name in there one day.

My mother used to listen to the let’s be morbid show every morning on the radio.
I asked why and she did say she only did it to see who else she had outlasted.

Great minds et cetera¿

ABC Classic FM is having a Mexican Baroque week

“Victorian senator Lidia Thorpe has suffered minor injuries in a car crash.
The independent senator was rear-ended while stationary in a vehicle at the end of last week in Melbourne”

That’s a terrible spot, the intersection of the end of last week and the beginning of next week in Melbourne.

Peak Warming Man said:

“Victorian senator Lidia Thorpe has suffered minor injuries in a car crash.
The independent senator was rear-ended while stationary in a vehicle at the end of last week in Melbourne”

That’s a terrible spot, the intersection of the end of last week and the beginning of next week in Melbourne.

Will you look at thtat? I went and repied to this post in the wrong thread. You should avoid leading me astray.

roughbarked said:

Peak Warming Man said:

“Victorian senator Lidia Thorpe has suffered minor injuries in a car crash.
The independent senator was rear-ended while stationary in a vehicle at the end of last week in Melbourne”

That’s a terrible spot, the intersection of the end of last week and the beginning of next week in Melbourne.

Will you look at thtat? I went and repied to this post in the wrong thread. You should avoid leading me astray.

Sorry.

roughbarked said:

Peak Warming Man said:

“Victorian senator Lidia Thorpe has suffered minor injuries in a car crash.
The independent senator was rear-ended while stationary in a vehicle at the end of last week in Melbourne”

That’s a terrible spot, the intersection of the end of last week and the beginning of next week in Melbourne.

Will you look at thtat? I went and repied to this post in the wrong thread. You should avoid leading me astray.

Oh he’s a reprobate like that

Peak Warming Man said:

roughbarked said:

Peak Warming Man said:

“Victorian senator Lidia Thorpe has suffered minor injuries in a car crash.
The independent senator was rear-ended while stationary in a vehicle at the end of last week in Melbourne”

That’s a terrible spot, the intersection of the end of last week and the beginning of next week in Melbourne.

Will you look at thtat? I went and repied to this post in the wrong thread. You should avoid leading me astray.

Sorry.

Yours and mine faults for not reading the tthread title before posting willy nilly.

Bubblecar said:

Hmm, you’re usually tolerant of idiosyncrasies, roughie.

Yes I am. I was simply tugging his chain.

ChrispenEvan said:

Looks like you are going to get wet you lucky bugger.

ChrispenEvan said:

Looks like you are going to get wet you lucky bugger.

ChrispenEvan said:

Bastard.

roughbarked said:

Bubblecar said:

Hmm, you’re usually tolerant of idiosyncrasies, roughie.

Yes I am. I was simply tugging his chain.

Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains¡

SCIENCE said:

roughbarked said:

Bubblecar said:

Hmm, you’re usually tolerant of idiosyncrasies, roughie.

Yes I am. I was simply tugging his chain.

Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains¡

you can check out any time you want but you can never leave.

Peak Warming Man said:

ChrispenEvan said:

Bastard.

I have to drive to Bunbury in that.

ChrispenEvan said:

Peak Warming Man said:

ChrispenEvan said:

Bastard.

I have to drive to Bunbury in that.

Hope your wipers work.

Vale Paul Reubens

I chainsaw some
whippers too
‘n’ lunch did done
now drive do
to sees me mum

roughbarked said:

Vale Paul Reubens

Wanting to order Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure on DVD but there are no recent releases.

It’s all effing Netflix these days.

“An expert witness has told the Whakaari White Island trial a shipping container was placed on the volcano in 2016 to act as a shelter in the event of an eruption.
Occupational health and safety expert Chris Peace said the shipping container was not an appropriate way to reduce the risk of death or injury on the island.
He told the court there was an issue with its location and questions over the type of shelter it could provide.
“The shipping container placed on Whakaari by the tour operators was not an effective engineering control because in the case of sudden volcanic activity it is likely it would have taken too long for tourists or workers to reach and enter the container to use it as a shelter,” Dr Peace said.”

A shipping container would have made excellent roast long pig just like a hangi.

Composed this message which I think I’ll stuff in the letterboxes of the two offenders in the coming days.

MESSAGE FROM YOUR NEIGHBOUR ACROSS THE ROAD.

On the usual north-westerly winds, the toxic smoke from your wood heater is continually blowing into my house (even with windows closed) making it difficult for me to breathe and taking years off my life with every lungful of carcinogenic filth. It is also affecting my eyes and as you can imagine, making my life miserable every winter.

Please open the air feed wide enough to ensure that minimal smoke is produced by your heater. Or better still, stop using it and invest in clean electric heating, as I do.

If no action is taken by you to reduce my suffering, I will contact the council, who have stringent rules regarding wood heaters that you are not following.

Bubblecar said:

Composed this message which I think I’ll stuff in the letterboxes of the two offenders in the coming days.

MESSAGE FROM YOUR NEIGHBOUR ACROSS THE ROAD.

On the usual north-westerly winds, the toxic smoke from your wood heater is continually blowing into my house (even with windows closed) making it difficult for me to breathe and taking years off my life with every lungful of carcinogenic filth. It is also affecting my eyes and as you can imagine, making my life miserable every winter.

Please open the air feed wide enough to ensure that minimal smoke is produced by your heater. Or better still, stop using it and invest in clean electric heating, as I do.

If no action is taken by you to reduce my suffering, I will contact the council, who have stringent rules regarding wood heaters that you are not following.

Last line is a bluff. The council do have rules but are likely to do fuck all.

Peak Warming Man said:

“An expert witness has told the Whakaari White Island trial a shipping container was placed on the volcano in 2016 to act as a shelter in the event of an eruption.
Occupational health and safety expert Chris Peace said the shipping container was not an appropriate way to reduce the risk of death or injury on the island.
He told the court there was an issue with its location and questions over the type of shelter it could provide.
“The shipping container placed on Whakaari by the tour operators was not an effective engineering control because in the case of sudden volcanic activity it is likely it would have taken too long for tourists or workers to reach and enter the container to use it as a shelter,” Dr Peace said.”

A shipping container would have made excellent roast long pig just like a hangi.

Well they were Kiwis.

Bubblecar said:

Bubblecar said:

Composed this message which I think I’ll stuff in the letterboxes of the two offenders in the coming days.

MESSAGE FROM YOUR NEIGHBOUR ACROSS THE ROAD.

On the usual north-westerly winds, the toxic smoke from your wood heater is continually blowing into my house (even with windows closed) making it difficult for me to breathe and taking years off my life with every lungful of carcinogenic filth. It is also affecting my eyes and as you can imagine, making my life miserable every winter.

Please open the air feed wide enough to ensure that minimal smoke is produced by your heater. Or better still, stop using it and invest in clean electric heating, as I do.

If no action is taken by you to reduce my suffering, I will contact the council, who have stringent rules regarding wood heaters that you are not following.

Last line is a bluff. The council do have rules but are likely to do fuck all.

You are likely to get excrement thrown at your open windows, do you realise?

roughbarked said:

Bubblecar said:

Bubblecar said:

Composed this message which I think I’ll stuff in the letterboxes of the two offenders in the coming days.

MESSAGE FROM YOUR NEIGHBOUR ACROSS THE ROAD.

On the usual north-westerly winds, the toxic smoke from your wood heater is continually blowing into my house (even with windows closed) making it difficult for me to breathe and taking years off my life with every lungful of carcinogenic filth. It is also affecting my eyes and as you can imagine, making my life miserable every winter.

Please open the air feed wide enough to ensure that minimal smoke is produced by your heater. Or better still, stop using it and invest in clean electric heating, as I do.

If no action is taken by you to reduce my suffering, I will contact the council, who have stringent rules regarding wood heaters that you are not following.

Last line is a bluff. The council do have rules but are likely to do fuck all.

You are likely to get excrement thrown at your open windows, do you realise?

Ringing the council now. Just to hear what the inadequate response will be.

Bubblecar said:

roughbarked said:

Bubblecar said:

Last line is a bluff. The council do have rules but are likely to do fuck all.

You are likely to get excrement thrown at your open windows, do you realise?

Ringing the council now. Just to hear what the inadequate response will be.

ring ring
Council-: Hello
Bubblecar-: Good afternoon, my name’s Bubblecar………
Council-: click.
Council-: Who was that Joe?
Joe-: Oh some nutter calling himself Bubblecar.

Bubblecar said:

roughbarked said:

Bubblecar said:

Last line is a bluff. The council do have rules but are likely to do fuck all.

You are likely to get excrement thrown at your open windows, do you realise?

Ringing the council now. Just to hear what the inadequate response will be.

Talked to the Northern Midlands Council environmental officer and it was of little use, as anticipated. I actually felt sorry for her because she sounded terrified. I’m not that intimidating, even with my poshest voice ;)

As I expected, the first step they demand is that I personally contact the offenders and complain. If there’s then no progress within several weeks, I have to submit a formal written complaint to the council.

Then I have to keep a written log for x number of weeks, detailing the time and severity of offences etc. Then submit that to the council to see if they think there are any grounds for taking action, which will probably mean them sending a leaflet about reducing smoke blah blah blah.

It’s no wonder people just accept that their suffering at the hand of others is part of the grand scheme of things.

Bubblecar said:

Bubblecar said:

roughbarked said:

You are likely to get excrement thrown at your open windows, do you realise?

Ringing the council now. Just to hear what the inadequate response will be.

Talked to the Northern Midlands Council environmental officer and it was of little use, as anticipated. I actually felt sorry for her because she sounded terrified. I’m not that intimidating, even with my poshest voice ;)

As I expected, the first step they demand is that I personally contact the offenders and complain. If there’s then no progress within several weeks, I have to submit a formal written complaint to the council.

Then I have to keep a written log for x number of weeks, detailing the time and severity of offences etc. Then submit that to the council to see if they think there are any grounds for taking action, which will probably mean them sending a leaflet about reducing smoke blah blah blah.

It’s no wonder people just accept that their suffering at the hand of others is part of the grand scheme of things.

Maybe if you throw yourself in front of the field at the Melbourne Cup with a placard.

Peak Warming Man said:

Bubblecar said:

Bubblecar said:

Ringing the council now. Just to hear what the inadequate response will be.

Talked to the Northern Midlands Council environmental officer and it was of little use, as anticipated. I actually felt sorry for her because she sounded terrified. I’m not that intimidating, even with my poshest voice ;)

As I expected, the first step they demand is that I personally contact the offenders and complain. If there’s then no progress within several weeks, I have to submit a formal written complaint to the council.

Then I have to keep a written log for x number of weeks, detailing the time and severity of offences etc. Then submit that to the council to see if they think there are any grounds for taking action, which will probably mean them sending a leaflet about reducing smoke blah blah blah.

It’s no wonder people just accept that their suffering at the hand of others is part of the grand scheme of things.

Maybe if you throw yourself in front of the field at the Melbourne Cup with a placard.

You can become a martyr and they’ll build a statue of you in a park.

Peak Warming Man said:

Peak Warming Man said:

Bubblecar said:

Talked to the Northern Midlands Council environmental officer and it was of little use, as anticipated. I actually felt sorry for her because she sounded terrified. I’m not that intimidating, even with my poshest voice ;)

As I expected, the first step they demand is that I personally contact the offenders and complain. If there’s then no progress within several weeks, I have to submit a formal written complaint to the council.

Then I have to keep a written log for x number of weeks, detailing the time and severity of offences etc. Then submit that to the council to see if they think there are any grounds for taking action, which will probably mean them sending a leaflet about reducing smoke blah blah blah.

It’s no wonder people just accept that their suffering at the hand of others is part of the grand scheme of things.

Maybe if you throw yourself in front of the field at the Melbourne Cup with a placard.

You can become a martyr and they’ll build a statue of you in a park.

The only reasons I haven’t already slain the northerly neighbours are:

a) Lack of adequate weapons.

b) Concern about my reputation and its historic portrayal.

Bubblecar said:

Peak Warming Man said:

Peak Warming Man said:

Maybe if you throw yourself in front of the field at the Melbourne Cup with a placard.

You can become a martyr and they’ll build a statue of you in a park.

The only reasons I haven’t already slain the northerly neighbours are:

a) Lack of adequate weapons.

b) Concern about my reputation and its historic portrayal.

Go to the neighbours and say just one word to them “Rodney”

Cymek said:

Bubblecar said:

Peak Warming Man said:

You can become a martyr and they’ll build a statue of you in a park.

The only reasons I haven’t already slain the northerly neighbours are:

a) Lack of adequate weapons.

b) Concern about my reputation and its historic portrayal.

Go to the neighbours and say just one word to them “Rodney”

Simple yet effective.

Credit order form in the 1929 mail order catalogue I linked yesterday. Note the question “White or Colored?” I imagine most black people wrote “White” to avoid automatic rejection.

https://archive.org/details/1929-larkin-co-catalog-buffalo-ny/page/76/mode/2up

Bubblecar said:

Peak Warming Man said:

Peak Warming Man said:

Maybe if you throw yourself in front of the field at the Melbourne Cup with a placard.

You can become a martyr and they’ll build a statue of you in a park.

The only reasons I haven’t already slain the northerly neighbours are:

a) Lack of adequate weapons.

b) Concern about my reputation and its historic portrayal.

You won’t need to worry what people thought about you after you are dead. That’s my excuse anyway.

A council’s decision to not allow people to be buried with their pets in its cemeteries has been described as bizarre and heartless.

>I wonder, did anyone ask their pets?

Todat I learned:
According to the glossary of Caucasian mountaineer terms in Pevear & Volokhonsky’s translation of Tolstoy stories, the word “giaour” is a “pejorative term applied by Muslims to non-Muslims, especially Christians.”

roughbarked said:

Today I learned:
According to the glossary of Caucasian mountaineer terms in Pevear & Volokhonsky’s translation of Tolstoy stories, the word “giaour” is a “pejorative term applied by Muslims to non-Muslims, especially Christians.”

Here is a painting by Delacroix: Combat du Giaour et Hassan 1826

!https://m.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19636500#/media/File%3AEug%C3%A8ne_Delacroix_-_Combat_du_Giaour_et_Hassan_(1826).jpg!

roughbarked said:

roughbarked said:

Today I learned:
According to the glossary of Caucasian mountaineer terms in Pevear & Volokhonsky’s translation of Tolstoy stories, the word “giaour” is a “pejorative term applied by Muslims to non-Muslims, especially Christians.”

Here is a painting by Delacroix: Combat du Giaour et Hassan 1826

!https://m.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19636500#/media/File%3AEug%C3%A8ne_Delacroix_-_Combat_du_Giaour_et_Hassan_(1826).jpg!

OK here’s the thumbnail:

roughbarked said:

A council’s decision to not allow people to be buried with their pets in its cemeteries has been described as bizarre and heartless.

>I wonder, did anyone ask their pets?

Yes they’d have to have died before hand for that to work or is it would be heartless

Bubblecar said:

Composed this message which I think I’ll stuff in the letterboxes of the two offenders in the coming days.

MESSAGE FROM YOUR NEIGHBOUR ACROSS THE ROAD.

On the usual north-westerly winds, the toxic smoke from your wood heater is continually blowing into my house (even with windows closed) making it difficult for me to breathe and taking years off my life with every lungful of carcinogenic filth. It is also affecting my eyes and as you can imagine, making my life miserable every winter.

Please open the air feed wide enough to ensure that minimal smoke is produced by your heater. Or better still, stop using it and invest in clean electric heating, as I do.

If no action is taken by you to reduce my suffering, I will contact the council, who have stringent rules regarding wood heaters that you are not following.

imaginary answer from neighbor

dear bubblecar

How wonderful to hear from you, we are also across the road, across the otherside, upwind I guess when there’s a north-westerly wind, which puts us south-east from you if I got my directions correct

One good thing coming from your interest, and very reassuring it is, is that should our place catch fire and it happens to be blowing a north-westerly, good chance you’d notice and maybe ring the fire brigade, i’m sensing some neighborly spirit that way

Similarly if I smelt smoke and it was blowing a south-easterly I might venture out and investigate, check if you’re in danger

yours truly

Otherside neighbor

Cymek said:

roughbarked said:

A council’s decision to not allow people to be buried with their pets in its cemeteries has been described as bizarre and heartless.

>I wonder, did anyone ask their pets?

Yes they’d have to have died before hand for that to work or is it would be heartless

Some Kings had their entire personal attendants including their wives buried with them. It must have been a very messy affair around funeral time though.

Heidi has reached peak jonquil,

sarahs mum said:

Heidi has reached peak jonquil,

:)

I hope she goes for a wander amongst them.

sarahs mum said:

Heidi has reached peak jonquil,

Is it a jonquil farm or is it simply weed infested?

transition said:

Bubblecar said:

Composed this message which I think I’ll stuff in the letterboxes of the two offenders in the coming days.

MESSAGE FROM YOUR NEIGHBOUR ACROSS THE ROAD.

On the usual north-westerly winds, the toxic smoke from your wood heater is continually blowing into my house (even with windows closed) making it difficult for me to breathe and taking years off my life with every lungful of carcinogenic filth. It is also affecting my eyes and as you can imagine, making my life miserable every winter.

Please open the air feed wide enough to ensure that minimal smoke is produced by your heater. Or better still, stop using it and invest in clean electric heating, as I do.

If no action is taken by you to reduce my suffering, I will contact the council, who have stringent rules regarding wood heaters that you are not following.

imaginary answer from neighbor

dear bubblecar

How wonderful to hear from you, we are also across the road, across the otherside, upwind I guess when there’s a north-westerly wind, which puts us south-east from you if I got my directions correct

One good thing coming from your interest, and very reassuring it is, is that should our place catch fire and it happens to be blowing a north-westerly, good chance you’d notice and maybe ring the fire brigade, i’m sensing some neighborly spirit that way

Similarly if I smelt smoke and it was blowing a south-easterly I might venture out and investigate, check if you’re in danger

yours truly

Otherside neighbor

I have sometimes considered calling the fire brigade when they’re choking the whole village with their smoke.

Bubblecar said:

transition said:

Bubblecar said:

Composed this message which I think I’ll stuff in the letterboxes of the two offenders in the coming days.

MESSAGE FROM YOUR NEIGHBOUR ACROSS THE ROAD.

On the usual north-westerly winds, the toxic smoke from your wood heater is continually blowing into my house (even with windows closed) making it difficult for me to breathe and taking years off my life with every lungful of carcinogenic filth. It is also affecting my eyes and as you can imagine, making my life miserable every winter.

Please open the air feed wide enough to ensure that minimal smoke is produced by your heater. Or better still, stop using it and invest in clean electric heating, as I do.

If no action is taken by you to reduce my suffering, I will contact the council, who have stringent rules regarding wood heaters that you are not following.

imaginary answer from neighbor

dear bubblecar

How wonderful to hear from you, we are also across the road, across the otherside, upwind I guess when there’s a north-westerly wind, which puts us south-east from you if I got my directions correct

One good thing coming from your interest, and very reassuring it is, is that should our place catch fire and it happens to be blowing a north-westerly, good chance you’d notice and maybe ring the fire brigade, i’m sensing some neighborly spirit that way

Similarly if I smelt smoke and it was blowing a south-easterly I might venture out and investigate, check if you’re in danger

yours truly

Otherside neighbor

I have sometimes considered calling the fire brigade when they’re choking the whole village with their smoke.

Matilda told such Dreadful Lies,
It made one Gasp and Stretch one’s Eyes;
Her Aunt, who, from her Earliest Youth,
Had kept a Strict Regard for Truth,
Attempted to Believe Matilda:
The effort very nearly killed her,
And would have done so, had not She
Discovered this Infirmity.
For once, towards the Close of Day,
Matilda, growing tired of play,
And finding she was left alone,
Went tiptoe to the Telephone
And summoned the Immediate Aid
Of London’s Noble Fire-Brigade.
Within an hour the Gallant Band
Were pouring in on every hand,
From Putney, Hackney Downs, and Bow
With Courage high and Hearts a-glow
They galloped, roaring through the Town
‘Matilda’s House is Burning Down!’
Inspired by British Cheers and Loud
Proceeding from the Frenzied Crowd,
They ran their ladders through a score
Of windows on the Ball Room Floor;
And took Peculiar Pains to Souse
The Pictures up and down the House,
Until Matilda’s Aunt succeeded
In showing them they were not needed;
And even then she had to pay
To get the Men to go away!

Bubblecar said:

transition said:

Bubblecar said:

Composed this message which I think I’ll stuff in the letterboxes of the two offenders in the coming days.

MESSAGE FROM YOUR NEIGHBOUR ACROSS THE ROAD.

On the usual north-westerly winds, the toxic smoke from your wood heater is continually blowing into my house (even with windows closed) making it difficult for me to breathe and taking years off my life with every lungful of carcinogenic filth. It is also affecting my eyes and as you can imagine, making my life miserable every winter.

Please open the air feed wide enough to ensure that minimal smoke is produced by your heater. Or better still, stop using it and invest in clean electric heating, as I do.

If no action is taken by you to reduce my suffering, I will contact the council, who have stringent rules regarding wood heaters that you are not following.

imaginary answer from neighbor

dear bubblecar

How wonderful to hear from you, we are also across the road, across the otherside, upwind I guess when there’s a north-westerly wind, which puts us south-east from you if I got my directions correct

One good thing coming from your interest, and very reassuring it is, is that should our place catch fire and it happens to be blowing a north-westerly, good chance you’d notice and maybe ring the fire brigade, i’m sensing some neighborly spirit that way

Similarly if I smelt smoke and it was blowing a south-easterly I might venture out and investigate, check if you’re in danger

yours truly

Otherside neighbor

I have sometimes considered calling the fire brigade when they’re choking the whole village with their smoke.

Get a copy of a statement about which wood to burn and how to burn it from somewhere, say https://www.epa.vic.gov.au/for-community/environmental-information/air-quality/smoke-from-wood-heaters/how-to-choose-the-right-wood-for-your-wood-heater
Print it out and post it in their letterbox.

The strange but appealing dresses that were all the rage just before the Crash.

Average price of around $25 was over a week’s wages and would become less affordable as the Depression unfolded.

Arts said:

What the author missed was that people are having barbecues so they can’t shut their windows.

roughbarked said:

Arts said:

What the author missed was that people are having barbecues so they can’t shut their windows.

the person is talking about both…

roughbarked said:

sarahs mum said:

Heidi has reached peak jonquil,

Is it a jonquil farm or is it simply weed infested?

It was a daffodil farm in 50s/early 60s. 67 fires wiped most of it out. Then Baden ploughed it up about 40 years ago and laid out a lot of pasture seed and chicken shit. Tons of chook shit. So the jonquils were separated and spread.

now the pasture has run out and the wobblies get every blade of grass.

Arts said:

roughbarked said:

Arts said:

What the author missed was that people are having barbecues so they can’t shut their windows.

the person is talking about both…

Spotted that now. Yep.

Arts said:

Difference is, meat smells don’t contain the known toxins that slow-burning wood smoke contributes to people’s lungs, resulting in serious health issues.

Let’s try to keep this topic real :(

Especially as wood smoke from home heating contributes substantially to Australia’s greenhouse emissions.

sarahs mum said:

roughbarked said:

sarahs mum said:

Heidi has reached peak jonquil,

Is it a jonquil farm or is it simply weed infested?

It was a daffodil farm in 50s/early 60s. 67 fires wiped most of it out. Then Baden ploughed it up about 40 years ago and laid out a lot of pasture seed and chicken shit. Tons of chook shit. So the jonquils were separated and spread.

now the pasture has run out and the wobblies get every blade of grass.

Someone needs to plant some trees in it so they shade them out gradually.

Bubblecar said:

Arts said:

Difference is, meat smells don’t contain the known toxins that slow-burning wood smoke contributes to people’s lungs, resulting in serious health issues.

Let’s try to keep this topic real :(

Especially as wood smoke from home heating contributes substantially to Australia’s greenhouse emissions.

This.

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