That’s it! We can consign November to the dustbin of history.
(Where did that expression come from? Apart from me, that is.)
Roll on December…
AussieDJ said:
That’s it! We can consign November to the dustbin of history.(Where did that expression come from? Apart from me, that is.)
Roll on December…
and thus tearing the last but one sheet off the 2024 dunny roll.
AussieDJ said:
That’s it! We can consign November to the dustbin of history.(Where did that expression come from? Apart from me, that is.)
Roll on December…
The phrase “ash heap of history”, is a derogatory metaphoric reference to oblivion of things no longer relevant.
In 1887 the English essayist Augustine Birrell (1850–1933) coined the term in his series of essays, “Obiter Dicta”: that great dust heap called ‘history.’
A notable usage was that of the Russian Bolshevik Leon Trotsky referring to the Mensheviks: “Go where you belong from now on – into the dustbin of history!” as the Menshevik faction walked out of the All-Russian Congress of Soviets on 25 October 1917 in Petrograd.
In a speech to the British House of Commons, on 8 June 1982, U.S. President Ronald Reagan later responded that “freedom and democracy will leave Marxism and Leninism on the ash heap of history”. The speech was written by Reagan’s chief speechwriter, Anthony Dolan, who stated that they had deliberately echoed Trotsky’s statement “to throw it back in the communists’ faces.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ash_heap_of_history
Heading for 23 here, high chance of showers.
It’s nil-by-gob except liquid, so I’ll be making a mixed vegetable & turkey soup which will be blitzed to the point of purée.
Bubblecar said:
Heading for 23 here, high chance of showers.It’s nil-by-gob except liquid, so I’ll be making a mixed vegetable & turkey soup which will be blitzed to the point of purée.
Are you supposed to be on clear fluid, ie; water?
roughbarked said:
Bubblecar said:
Heading for 23 here, high chance of showers.It’s nil-by-gob except liquid, so I’ll be making a mixed vegetable & turkey soup which will be blitzed to the point of purée.
Are you supposed to be on clear fluid, ie; water?
As I understand it Mr Car has a painful broken tooth and can’t eat solids.
roughbarked said:
Bubblecar said:
Heading for 23 here, high chance of showers.It’s nil-by-gob except liquid, so I’ll be making a mixed vegetable & turkey soup which will be blitzed to the point of purée.
Are you supposed to be on clear fluid, ie; water?
No. I just can’t currently chew foods without pain, due to a cracked tooth. I’ll be making a dental appointment asap.
Michael V said:
roughbarked said:
Bubblecar said:
Heading for 23 here, high chance of showers.It’s nil-by-gob except liquid, so I’ll be making a mixed vegetable & turkey soup which will be blitzed to the point of purée.
Are you supposed to be on clear fluid, ie; water?
As I understand it Mr Car has a painful broken tooth and can’t eat solids.
Ah. I should keep up.
Good morning Holidayers. Presently 13 degrees at the back door and it has been lightly precipitating for about 24 hours now. It’s lovely. I’d guess we’ve had around 15mm, going on various places around us with BoM stations. We are forecast 20 degrees with showers today.
I suppose I should start thinking about doing a few Christmas cards. And deciding how to decorate the front window this year.
How are you feeling this morning, buffy?
Michael V said:
How are you feeling this morning, buffy?
Thinking Christmas cards. So she’s either feeling better or it’s soldier on.
Good morning everybody. I wish you all a happy and productive day.
It’s 17.8° C, 99% RH, and overcast with light breezes. BoM forecasts an 80% chance of rain and a top of 27°C.
No food agenda yet, but I will likely watch the WBBL cricket final on TV. It’s at the MCG.
And of course, there is always washing up, cleaning and tidying to do. And a few more cryptic crosswords.
Michael V said:
Good morning everybody. I wish you all a happy and productive day.It’s 17.8° C, 99% RH, and overcast with light breezes. BoM forecasts an 80% chance of rain and a top of 27°C.
No food agenda yet, but I will likely watch the WBBL cricket final on TV. It’s at the MCG.
And of course, there is always washing up, cleaning and tidying to do. And a few more cryptic crosswords.
Morning M. :)
21˚ and 87% R/H. 11k/ph NW.
Washing cleaning tidying and etc. Might find time away from the lovely day for gardening.
So it was Tiger whiskey and vodka
Michael V said:
How are you feeling this morning, buffy?
Not too bad. I lay in bed listening to the rain for a couple of hours after I woke up. I had some sore throatedness during the night, but it’s gone now. There is a bit of a cough. However, have plenty of things I want to do, so I’m up. Just et some smashed egg on toast for breakfast. I think I’ll use my usual method of dealing with this…slow up slightly and bide my time. It will go away – I’ve got a fairly good immune system and over the years it has come into contact with a lot of upper respiratory viruses, up close.
buffy said:
Michael V said:
How are you feeling this morning, buffy?
Not too bad. I lay in bed listening to the rain for a couple of hours after I woke up. I had some sore throatedness during the night, but it’s gone now. There is a bit of a cough. However, have plenty of things I want to do, so I’m up. Just et some smashed egg on toast for breakfast. I think I’ll use my usual method of dealing with this…slow up slightly and bide my time. It will go away – I’ve got a fairly good immune system and over the years it has come into contact with a lot of upper respiratory viruses, up close.
Good to hear.
buffy said:
Michael V said:
How are you feeling this morning, buffy?
Not too bad. I lay in bed listening to the rain for a couple of hours after I woke up. I had some sore throatedness during the night, but it’s gone now. There is a bit of a cough. However, have plenty of things I want to do, so I’m up. Just et some smashed egg on toast for breakfast. I think I’ll use my usual method of dealing with this…slow up slightly and bide my time. It will go away – I’ve got a fairly good immune system and over the years it has come into contact with a lot of upper respiratory viruses, up close.
Do you have any RAT tests for COVID left? If so, it’s be fun to see whether that’s what you’ve got.
Michael V said:
buffy said:
Michael V said:
How are you feeling this morning, buffy?
Not too bad. I lay in bed listening to the rain for a couple of hours after I woke up. I had some sore throatedness during the night, but it’s gone now. There is a bit of a cough. However, have plenty of things I want to do, so I’m up. Just et some smashed egg on toast for breakfast. I think I’ll use my usual method of dealing with this…slow up slightly and bide my time. It will go away – I’ve got a fairly good immune system and over the years it has come into contact with a lot of upper respiratory viruses, up close.
Do you have any RAT tests for COVID left? If so, it’s be fun to see whether that’s what you’ve got.
No, and the pharmacy is 30km away. Not going there for a $4 RAT.
Morning pilgrims.
It’s still raining in the Pearl, you’re gunna need a pith helmet to go outside once the sun hits the grass.
buffy said:
Michael V said:
buffy said:Not too bad. I lay in bed listening to the rain for a couple of hours after I woke up. I had some sore throatedness during the night, but it’s gone now. There is a bit of a cough. However, have plenty of things I want to do, so I’m up. Just et some smashed egg on toast for breakfast. I think I’ll use my usual method of dealing with this…slow up slightly and bide my time. It will go away – I’ve got a fairly good immune system and over the years it has come into contact with a lot of upper respiratory viruses, up close.
Do you have any RAT tests for COVID left? If so, it’s be fun to see whether that’s what you’ve got.
No, and the pharmacy is 30km away. Not going there for a $4 RAT.
Ah. Fair enough. We still have a box of RATs; probably out of date by now.
buffy said:
Sunday quiz30/50
20/50
I was headed for 5/50, but then got a string of lucky guesses, and the last one was too easy.
roughbarked said:
Peak Warming Man said:
buffy said:
Sunday quiz30/50
3/10 here.
1/10
The Rev Dodgson said:
buffy said:
Sunday quiz30/50
20/50
I was headed for 5/50, but then got a string of lucky guesses, and the last one was too easy.
I just gave up.
The Rev Dodgson said:
roughbarked said:
Peak Warming Man said:3/10 here.
1/10
I hope your 1 was the last one.
I’d given up by then.
Mitchell South Dakota Corn Palace. This year they did the Syd Opera House but it looks like they couldn’t get any blue corn.
“Australian rugby’s history books may record a 22-19 defeat in Dublin to end 2024, but it will not tell the full story of an extremely brave Wallabies performance that has shown just how much pride has been restored in the team ahead of the arrival of the British and Irish Lions next year.”
Yep, Eddy Jones has a lot to answer for.
roughbarked said:
Mitchell South Dakota Corn Palace. This year they did the Syd Opera House but it looks like they couldn’t get any blue corn.
Nice of them to recognise our opera house’s 51st birthday.
The Rev Dodgson said:
buffy said:
Sunday quiz30/50
20/50
I was headed for 5/50, but then got a string of lucky guesses, and the last one was too easy.
30/50, involving several guesses.
Bubblecar said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
buffy said:
Sunday quiz30/50
20/50
I was headed for 5/50, but then got a string of lucky guesses, and the last one was too easy.
30/50, involving several guesses.
25. I knew 3 of them, 2 were lucky guesses.
I think I might have started snoring, because it’s raining, it’s pouring.
Michael V said:
I think I might have started snoring, because it’s raining, it’s pouring.
Just be careful getting in and out of bed
https://www.granddesignsmagazine.com/grand-designs-houses/hedgehog-housing-brighton/
party_pants said:
Michael V said:
I think I might have started snoring, because it’s raining, it’s pouring.
Just be careful getting in and out of bed
I will, I promise.
Morning. Sings – Birds and the bees and flowers and the trees…
So during the week we received a flyer with our mail from Advance Australia. It’s against Alex Dyson, an independent standing in this electorate at the next election. He’s a very interesting person and from local talk, he’s got quite a lot of the Liberal bluebloods on side. This is Malcolm Fraser’s old area…it’s very blueblood. Anyway, I looked up Advance Australia. Here is the Wikipedia entry about them:
Note in the section for the 2022 federal election a mention of something they did to David Pocock. Which was found to be a breach of the electoral act. The flyer we have just received is exactly that…the superman image thing, this time with Alex’s face on it.
So I have retrieved the flyer from the recycling basket and I am going to put it into an envelope (with no stamp) and return it to the address on the flyer. With a sticky not that says “Last time you did t his it was found to be in breach of the electoral laws by the AEC”. I’ll post it at the Hamilton Post Office next time I am in town.
buffy said:
So during the week we received a flyer with our mail from Advance Australia. It’s against Alex Dyson, an independent standing in this electorate at the next election. He’s a very interesting person and from local talk, he’s got quite a lot of the Liberal bluebloods on side. This is Malcolm Fraser’s old area…it’s very blueblood. Anyway, I looked up Advance Australia. Here is the Wikipedia entry about them:Note in the section for the 2022 federal election a mention of something they did to David Pocock. Which was found to be a breach of the electoral act. The flyer we have just received is exactly that…the superman image thing, this time with Alex’s face on it.
So I have retrieved the flyer from the recycling basket and I am going to put it into an envelope (with no stamp) and return it to the address on the flyer. With a sticky not that says “Last time you did t his it was found to be in breach of the electoral laws by the AEC”. I’ll post it at the Hamilton Post Office next time I am in town.
Include a harmless stink bomb that detonates when they open it.
buffy said:
So during the week we received a flyer with our mail from Advance Australia. It’s against Alex Dyson, an independent standing in this electorate at the next election. He’s a very interesting person and from local talk, he’s got quite a lot of the Liberal bluebloods on side. This is Malcolm Fraser’s old area…it’s very blueblood. Anyway, I looked up Advance Australia. Here is the Wikipedia entry about them:Note in the section for the 2022 federal election a mention of something they did to David Pocock. Which was found to be a breach of the electoral act. The flyer we have just received is exactly that…the superman image thing, this time with Alex’s face on it.
So I have retrieved the flyer from the recycling basket and I am going to put it into an envelope (with no stamp) and return it to the address on the flyer. With a sticky not that says “Last time you did t his it was found to be in breach of the electoral laws by the AEC”. I’ll post it at the Hamilton Post Office next time I am in town.
Why not send it to the AEC?
party_pants said:
buffy said:
So during the week we received a flyer with our mail from Advance Australia. It’s against Alex Dyson, an independent standing in this electorate at the next election. He’s a very interesting person and from local talk, he’s got quite a lot of the Liberal bluebloods on side. This is Malcolm Fraser’s old area…it’s very blueblood. Anyway, I looked up Advance Australia. Here is the Wikipedia entry about them:Note in the section for the 2022 federal election a mention of something they did to David Pocock. Which was found to be a breach of the electoral act. The flyer we have just received is exactly that…the superman image thing, this time with Alex’s face on it.
So I have retrieved the flyer from the recycling basket and I am going to put it into an envelope (with no stamp) and return it to the address on the flyer. With a sticky not that says “Last time you did t his it was found to be in breach of the electoral laws by the AEC”. I’ll post it at the Hamilton Post Office next time I am in town.
Why not send it to the AEC?
Good idea. I’ll see if I can get another one from one of the neighbours to send to them.
buffy said:
party_pants said:
buffy said:
So during the week we received a flyer with our mail from Advance Australia. It’s against Alex Dyson, an independent standing in this electorate at the next election. He’s a very interesting person and from local talk, he’s got quite a lot of the Liberal bluebloods on side. This is Malcolm Fraser’s old area…it’s very blueblood. Anyway, I looked up Advance Australia. Here is the Wikipedia entry about them:Note in the section for the 2022 federal election a mention of something they did to David Pocock. Which was found to be a breach of the electoral act. The flyer we have just received is exactly that…the superman image thing, this time with Alex’s face on it.
So I have retrieved the flyer from the recycling basket and I am going to put it into an envelope (with no stamp) and return it to the address on the flyer. With a sticky not that says “Last time you did t his it was found to be in breach of the electoral laws by the AEC”. I’ll post it at the Hamilton Post Office next time I am in town.
Why not send it to the AEC?
Good idea. I’ll see if I can get another one from one of the neighbours to send to them.
Can you post the flyer so we can see what they problem is?
buffy said:
party_pants said:
buffy said:
So during the week we received a flyer with our mail from Advance Australia. It’s against Alex Dyson, an independent standing in this electorate at the next election. He’s a very interesting person and from local talk, he’s got quite a lot of the Liberal bluebloods on side. This is Malcolm Fraser’s old area…it’s very blueblood. Anyway, I looked up Advance Australia. Here is the Wikipedia entry about them:Note in the section for the 2022 federal election a mention of something they did to David Pocock. Which was found to be a breach of the electoral act. The flyer we have just received is exactly that…the superman image thing, this time with Alex’s face on it.
So I have retrieved the flyer from the recycling basket and I am going to put it into an envelope (with no stamp) and return it to the address on the flyer. With a sticky not that says “Last time you did t his it was found to be in breach of the electoral laws by the AEC”. I’ll post it at the Hamilton Post Office next time I am in town.
Why not send it to the AEC?
Good idea. I’ll see if I can get another one from one of the neighbours to send to them.
Great!
:)
Witty Rejoinder said:
buffy said:
party_pants said:Why not send it to the AEC?
Good idea. I’ll see if I can get another one from one of the neighbours to send to them.
Can you post the flyer so we can see what they problem is?
Here’s the Pocock one:
Michael V said:
buffy said:
party_pants said:Why not send it to the AEC?
Good idea. I’ll see if I can get another one from one of the neighbours to send to them.
Great!
:)
And after further consideration, I’ll go and visit the person I know is part of the local kitchen table group and make sure they know about the previous finding that it was a breach. The Libs here really do have a problem when the kitchen table discussion group consists of bluebloods and died in the wool Labor folk.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
buffy said:Good idea. I’ll see if I can get another one from one of the neighbours to send to them.
Can you post the flyer so we can see what they problem is?
Here’s the Pocock one:
And here is the Dyson one – it’s the same photo with a different head photoshopped onto it:
buffy said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Witty Rejoinder said:Can you post the flyer so we can see what they problem is?
Here’s the Pocock one:
And here is the Dyson one – it’s the same photo with a different head photoshopped onto it:
Thanks.
I already have 4 electric/battery sanding machines.
I have decided I need 1 more. Who knew 4 was not enough?
That Lithuanian rafter who had to have his leg amputated to save him in Tazzie, is now in a stable condition.
Good.
60% chance of rain ‘ere
Michael V said:
That Lithuanian rafter who had to have his leg amputated to save him in Tazzie, is now in a stable condition.
Good.
so he’s a bit hoarse
buffy said:
Michael V said:
buffy said:Good idea. I’ll see if I can get another one from one of the neighbours to send to them.
Great!
:)
And after further consideration, I’ll go and visit the person I know is part of the local kitchen table group and make sure they know about the previous finding that it was a breach. The Libs here really do have a problem when the kitchen table discussion group consists of bluebloods and died in the wool Labor folk.
If you want to take it further, you could also make the matter known to the sitting member for Wannon, who i understand is Dan Tehan, Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
buffy said:Good idea. I’ll see if I can get another one from one of the neighbours to send to them.
Can you post the flyer so we can see what they problem is?
Here’s the Pocock one:
Eh, Pocock has very nicely placed himself between the Green and the ALP, negotiating concessions and then telling the Greens that it is time to get on board.
buffy said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Can you post the flyer so we can see what they problem is?
Here’s the Pocock one:
And here is the Dyson one – it’s the same photo with a different head photoshopped onto it:
Those Who Live In Green Houses Ought Not Throw Shade
SCIENCE said:
Michael V said:
That Lithuanian rafter who had to have his leg amputated to save him in Tazzie, is now in a stable condition.
Good.
so he’s a bit hoarse
LOL
The Rev Dodgson said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
buffy said:Good idea. I’ll see if I can get another one from one of the neighbours to send to them.
Can you post the flyer so we can see what they problem is?
Here’s the Pocock one:
Here’s a more accurate one:
Bubblecar said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Can you post the flyer so we can see what they problem is?
Here’s the Pocock one:
Here’s a more accurate one:
^
Bubblecar said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Witty Rejoinder said:Can you post the flyer so we can see what they problem is?
Here’s the Pocock one:
Here’s a more accurate one:
LOLOLOL
Where did you find that?
Bubblecar said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Witty Rejoinder said:Can you post the flyer so we can see what they problem is?
Here’s the Pocock one:
Here’s a more accurate one:
Only radical, howling at the moon left wing nutters believe that.
We’ve got them in spades on this forum.
Michael V said:
Bubblecar said:
The Rev Dodgson said:Here’s the Pocock one:
Here’s a more accurate one:
LOLOLOL
Where did you find that?
I did it in Photoshop.
Peak Warming Man said:
Bubblecar said:
The Rev Dodgson said:Here’s the Pocock one:
Here’s a more accurate one:
Only radical, howling at the moon left wing nutters believe that.
We’ve got them in spades on this forum.
You’ll be the first against the wall…
Witty Rejoinder said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Bubblecar said:Here’s a more accurate one:
Only radical, howling at the moon left wing nutters believe that.
We’ve got them in spades on this forum.
You’ll be the first against the wall…
Before I go to the wall, I’m going to have a hot dog with cheese and onion and tomato sauce for lunch, washed down with a solo that I’m going to slam down fast.
Over.
Peak Warming Man said:
Before I go to the wall, I’m going to have a hot dog with cheese and onion and tomato sauce for lunch, washed down with a solo that I’m going to slam down fast.
Over.
Does ‘slam down fast’ still mean pour it into your mouth so clumsily that lots of it misses your gob? Like it used to be in the TV ads.
Something’s awry in the world of cat food: The price of all the high-quality dry food has gone up by 50% since I last made a purchase 6 months ago.
Witty Rejoinder said:
Something’s awry in the world of cat food: The price of all the high-quality dry food has gone up by 50% since I last made a purchase 6 months ago.
Just market forces at work.
Move along, nothingto see here, go to your homes.
Witty Rejoinder said:
Something’s awry in the world of cat food: The price of all the high-quality dry food has gone up by 50% since I last made a purchase 6 months ago.
Thank you. I shall add it to the list I am compiling.
Bubblecar said:
Michael V said:
Bubblecar said:Here’s a more accurate one:
LOLOLOL
Where did you find that?
I did it in Photoshop.
:)
Made my day.
captain_spalding said:
Peak Warming Man said:Before I go to the wall, I’m going to have a hot dog with cheese and onion and tomato sauce for lunch, washed down with a solo that I’m going to slam down fast.
Over.
Does ‘slam down fast’ still mean pour it into your mouth so clumsily that lots of it misses your gob? Like it used to be in the TV ads.
Absolutely.
Witty Rejoinder said:
Something’s awry in the world of cat food: The price of all the high-quality dry food has gone up by 50% since I last made a purchase 6 months ago.
Cat Jerky. Nice. Is it chillied?
Peak Warming Man said:
captain_spalding said:
Peak Warming Man said:Before I go to the wall, I’m going to have a hot dog with cheese and onion and tomato sauce for lunch, washed down with a solo that I’m going to slam down fast.
Over.
Does ‘slam down fast’ still mean pour it into your mouth so clumsily that lots of it misses your gob? Like it used to be in the TV ads.
Absolutely.
Do you have the big Zapata moustache?
party_pants said:
I already have 4 electric/battery sanding machines.
I have decided I need 1 more. Who knew 4 was not enough?
The first step is admitting you have a problem
dv said:
party_pants said:
I already have 4 electric/battery sanding machines.
I have decided I need 1 more. Who knew 4 was not enough?
The first step is admitting you have a problem
‘My name is party pants, and i’m a power tool addict.’
dv said:
party_pants said:
I already have 4 electric/battery sanding machines.
I have decided I need 1 more. Who knew 4 was not enough?
The first step is admitting you have a problem
Yes, I have a problem in that none of my current sanders is ideally suited for this particular project.
captain_spalding said:
buffy said:
Michael V said:Great!
:)
And after further consideration, I’ll go and visit the person I know is part of the local kitchen table group and make sure they know about the previous finding that it was a breach. The Libs here really do have a problem when the kitchen table discussion group consists of bluebloods and died in the wool Labor folk.
If you want to take it further, you could also make the matter known to the sitting member for Wannon, who i understand is Dan Tehan, Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment.
And one of the main reasons the Libs are defecting here…
captain_spalding said:
Peak Warming Man said:
captain_spalding said:Does ‘slam down fast’ still mean pour it into your mouth so clumsily that lots of it misses your gob? Like it used to be in the TV ads.
Absolutely.
Do you have the big Zapata moustache?
I’m due to get it trimmed.
buffy said:
captain_spalding said:
buffy said:And after further consideration, I’ll go and visit the person I know is part of the local kitchen table group and make sure they know about the previous finding that it was a breach. The Libs here really do have a problem when the kitchen table discussion group consists of bluebloods and died in the wool Labor folk.
If you want to take it further, you could also make the matter known to the sitting member for Wannon, who i understand is Dan Tehan, Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment.
And one of the main reasons the Libs are defecting here…
Oh.
Well, his office might at least be useful for instigating some action over Adv. Aust.‘s tomfoolery.
captain_spalding said:
buffy said:
captain_spalding said:If you want to take it further, you could also make the matter known to the sitting member for Wannon, who i understand is Dan Tehan, Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment.
And one of the main reasons the Libs are defecting here…
Oh.
Well, his office might at least be useful for instigating some action over Adv. Aust.‘s tomfoolery.
Unlikely, on past experience. Especially as Adv. Aust is apparently a Liberal Party front.
party_pants said:
dv said:
party_pants said:
I already have 4 electric/battery sanding machines.
I have decided I need 1 more. Who knew 4 was not enough?
The first step is admitting you have a problem
Yes, I have a problem in that none of my current sanders is ideally suited for this particular project.
THATS WHAT THE CAPITALIST RUNNING DOS AT BUNNINGS TELL YOU
Bubblecar said:
I did it in Photoshop.
I should tell you off for doing that, and posting it in a semi-public place. You could get in a bit of legal trouble for using nazi symbols.
buffy said:
captain_spalding said:
buffy said:And one of the main reasons the Libs are defecting here…
Oh.
Well, his office might at least be useful for instigating some action over Adv. Aust.‘s tomfoolery.
Unlikely, on past experience. Especially as Adv. Aust is apparently a Liberal Party front.
Oh, well.
Anyway, i’ve e-mailed Adv. Aust in Canberra:
“I see that Advance Australia is up to some old tricks, again.
Adv. Aust. flyers in the Division of Wannon, employing precisely the same ‘Greens t-shirt underneath’ imagery against Alex Dyson as was tried against David Pocock.
Do you need to be reminded that the Australian Electoral Commission found that that imagery, with Senator Pocock’s face on it, was in breach of Section 329 of the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918?
And that Adv. Aust agreed to withdraw materials using that form of imagery?
What makes you think that it’s all right to do it again?
Did you think that no-one would notice?
Do you want to get your backsides kicked again?
Apart from anything else, it demonstrates that Adv. Aust. is entirely lacking in any capacity for original thought.
You will be hearing more about this, we can be sure.”
Peak Warming Man said:
party_pants said:
dv said:The first step is admitting you have a problem
Yes, I have a problem in that none of my current sanders is ideally suited for this particular project.
THATS WHAT THE CAPITALIST RUNNING DOS AT BUNNINGS TELL YOU
…and we fall for it, every time.
Peak Warming Man said:
party_pants said:
dv said:The first step is admitting you have a problem
Yes, I have a problem in that none of my current sanders is ideally suited for this particular project.
THATS WHAT THE CAPITALIST RUNNING DOS AT BUNNINGS TELL YOU
…and we fall for it, every time.
Bubblecar said:
Michael V said:
Bubblecar said:Here’s a more accurate one:
LOLOLOL
Where did you find that?
I did it in Photoshop.
You are your own Artificial Intelligence bot, Parpyone. Beats these fake AI online bots any day, hey what but.😁
Peak Warming Man said:
party_pants said:
dv said:The first step is admitting you have a problem
Yes, I have a problem in that none of my current sanders is ideally suited for this particular project.
THATS WHAT THE CAPITALIST RUNNING DOS AT BUNNINGS TELL YOU
Go to Bunnings
Go directly to Bunnings
Do not pass GO
Do not collect a random orbital sander
captain_spalding said:
buffy said:
captain_spalding said:Oh.
Well, his office might at least be useful for instigating some action over Adv. Aust.‘s tomfoolery.
Unlikely, on past experience. Especially as Adv. Aust is apparently a Liberal Party front.
Oh, well.
Anyway, i’ve e-mailed Adv. Aust in Canberra:
“I see that Advance Australia is up to some old tricks, again.
Adv. Aust. flyers in the Division of Wannon, employing precisely the same ‘Greens t-shirt underneath’ imagery against Alex Dyson as was tried against David Pocock.
Do you need to be reminded that the Australian Electoral Commission found that that imagery, with Senator Pocock’s face on it, was in breach of Section 329 of the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918?
And that Adv. Aust agreed to withdraw materials using that form of imagery?
What makes you think that it’s all right to do it again?
Did you think that no-one would notice?
Do you want to get your backsides kicked again?
Apart from anything else, it demonstrates that Adv. Aust. is entirely lacking in any capacity for original thought.
You will be hearing more about this, we can be sure.”
Thanks for that. I’m about to go and visit the local Relevent Person.
dv said:
60% chance of rain ‘ere
had rained in bunbury this morn.
Witty Rejoinder said:
Something’s awry in the world of cat food: The price of all the high-quality dry food has gone up by 50% since I last made a purchase 6 months ago.
it’s a crying shame what poor people have to eat these days.
Mustering dogs.
https://iview.abc.net.au/video/DO2336H001S00
JudgeMental said:
dv said:
60% chance of rain ‘ere
had rained in bunbury this morn.
It was raining at my local Bunnings
party_pants said:
JudgeMental said:
dv said:
60% chance of rain ‘ere
had rained in bunbury this morn.
It was raining at my local Bunnings
Nothing at Busselton.
Cape Naturalistes weather station got blasted offline by lightning a couple of weeks ago and hasn’t been repaired yet.
Kingy said:
party_pants said:
JudgeMental said:had rained in bunbury this morn.
It was raining at my local Bunnings
Nothing at Busselton.
Cape Naturalistes weather station got blasted offline by lightning a couple of weeks ago and hasn’t been repaired yet.
Bit patchy
party_pants said:
JudgeMental said:
dv said:
60% chance of rain ‘ere
had rained in bunbury this morn.
It was raining at my local Bunnings
We’ve got a piss weak attempt at a storm happening, with piss weak rumblings, a poor excuse for thunder and a piss weak sprinkling of rain.
Over.
JudgeMental said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Something’s awry in the world of cat food: The price of all the high-quality dry food has gone up by 50% since I last made a purchase 6 months ago.
it’s a crying shame what poor people have to eat these days.
avocado just not smashed and latte just not skim
awesome
Hoa Tek Chiem, 69, and his wife, Kim Heang Gau, 68, were found by a family member in their Buzzy Bee’s Burger House at Cambridge Park, near Penrith, at 9:40am on Saturday. Allan Chiem, 31, from Canley Heights, has been charged with two counts of domestic violence murder.
JudgeMental said:
dv said:
60% chance of rain ‘ere
had rained in bunbury this morn.
We’ve had two short but heavy patches of rain today.
https://youtu.be/UPxLnalkh-s?si=kFxNOK1uzOcEP5kJ
Dr Geoff Lindsey’s apology to Australia for British sociophonetics
ABC News:
ABC forget the third, and most likely, outcome: it won’t make the very tiniest bit of difference.
25/50 in the hard quiz.
Ms Kingy helped with the music questions.
I dont know where this tunnel is, it’s apparently spectacular if you’re into that sort of thing.
Light shower here now. Just enough to wet the washing on the line.
I’m back. It seems Alex Dyson is gaining followers apace amongst the Liberals here. Including receiving funding from some of the more landed gentry. All still a bit hush hush at the moment though apparently. Anyway, we retrieved another of those flyers from D’s woodheater (he hadn’t lit it lately), so I’ll be able to compose a letter to the Electoral Commission as well as sending a flyer back to it’s originator.
Peak Warming Man said:
I dont know where this tunnel is, it’s apparently spectacular if you’re into that sort of thing.
My list consists of:
1: The tunnel under the approaches to the New Parliament House in Canberra.
Kingy said:
Light shower here now. Just enough to wet the washing on the line.
Light shower at the MCG. Just enough to stop the Final match in the WBBL cricket.
Bit surprised it didn’t include any of the great MRT tunnels in Singapore that relied on superb geophysics.
first mozzie of the season.
and it can gagf.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Peak Warming Man said:I dont know where this tunnel is, it’s apparently spectacular if you’re into that sort of thing.
My list consists of:
1: The tunnel under the approaches to the New Parliament House in Canberra.
They have a strange idea of what constitutes a tunnel and what is beauty.
The Rev Dodgson said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Peak Warming Man said:I dont know where this tunnel is, it’s apparently spectacular if you’re into that sort of thing.
My list consists of:
1: The tunnel under the approaches to the New Parliament House in Canberra.
They have a strange idea of what constitutes a tunnel and what is beauty.
The Guoliang Tunnel, China is a doozey.
dv said:
Bit surprised it didn’t include any of the great MRT tunnels in Singapore that relied on superb geophysics.
did you do the geophysics?
Why yes
A likely story.
Peak Warming Man said:
A likely story.
She was caught fair and square of driving without shoes.
Peak Warming Man said:
Peak Warming Man said:
A likely story.
She was caught fair and square of driving without shoes.
According to the ABC report she had shoes on, but left one behind when she escaped from the car.
buffy said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Peak Warming Man said:
A likely story.
She was caught fair and square of driving without shoes.
According to the ABC report she had shoes on, but left one behind when she escaped from the car.
A likely story.
dv said:
Why yes
:)
https://www.msn.com/en-ie/lifestyle/style/plastic-surgeons-explain-rise-of-the-mar-a-lago-face/ar-AA1v2cW4
There’ll be a new look on Capitol Hill in January when the Trump Administration officially takes office.
Many in Donald Trump’s inner circle appear to have gone under the plastic surgeons knife, creating what is now being dubbed the ‘Mar-a-Lago’ face.
Defined by copious use of Botox, a Miami-bronze tan, puffy lips and silky smooth skin, plastic surgeons told DailyMail.com it was giving Trumpland an almost ‘plastic’ and ‘Real Housewives’ look.
Melbourne Renegades win WBBL 10 against the Brisbane Heat.
Their first championship.
Well done!
dv said:
https://www.msn.com/en-ie/lifestyle/style/plastic-surgeons-explain-rise-of-the-mar-a-lago-face/ar-AA1v2cW4
There’ll be a new look on Capitol Hill in January when the Trump Administration officially takes office.
Many in Donald Trump’s inner circle appear to have gone under the plastic surgeons knife, creating what is now being dubbed the ‘Mar-a-Lago’ face.
Defined by copious use of Botox, a Miami-bronze tan, puffy lips and silky smooth skin, plastic surgeons told DailyMail.com it was giving Trumpland an almost ‘plastic’ and ‘Real Housewives’ look.
Plenty of women.
Sausages, home made chips and eggs for tea.
Over.
Peak Warming Man said:
dv said:
https://www.msn.com/en-ie/lifestyle/style/plastic-surgeons-explain-rise-of-the-mar-a-lago-face/ar-AA1v2cW4
There’ll be a new look on Capitol Hill in January when the Trump Administration officially takes office.
Many in Donald Trump’s inner circle appear to have gone under the plastic surgeons knife, creating what is now being dubbed the ‘Mar-a-Lago’ face.
Defined by copious use of Botox, a Miami-bronze tan, puffy lips and silky smooth skin, plastic surgeons told DailyMail.com it was giving Trumpland an almost ‘plastic’ and ‘Real Housewives’ look.
Plenty of women.
It’s all about looking like ‘his type’. Even for the men.
The more you look like the ‘type’ of woman that he ‘goes for’, the more likely he is to notice you, to listen to you, and confer favour on you.
It’s extreme (even Goebbels and Himmler didn’t contemplate plastic surgery), and quite unsubtle, but i’d bet that it works a treat.
The Rev Dodgson said:
roughbarked said:
Mitchell South Dakota Corn Palace. This year they did the Syd Opera House but it looks like they couldn’t get any blue corn.
Nice of them to recognise our opera house’s 51st birthday.
Yep.
Peak Warming Man said:
Sausages, home made chips and eggs for tea.
Over.
I’m having another bowl of concentrated soup followed by 1 x Metformin, 1 x Crosuva, 1 x Candesan Combi and half a Metoprolol.
Anyone know if there’s a hand tool I can use to put a lot of force in a small area (say ~3kPa (or more) onto about 150-200 square mm)? I was thinking something with two handles (like a pair of pliers) that drive a ratchet (or something similar) to apply increasing force between two faces (again, similar to a pair of pliers.)
Peak Warming Man said:
dv said:
https://www.msn.com/en-ie/lifestyle/style/plastic-surgeons-explain-rise-of-the-mar-a-lago-face/ar-AA1v2cW4
There’ll be a new look on Capitol Hill in January when the Trump Administration officially takes office.
Many in Donald Trump’s inner circle appear to have gone under the plastic surgeons knife, creating what is now being dubbed the ‘Mar-a-Lago’ face.
Defined by copious use of Botox, a Miami-bronze tan, puffy lips and silky smooth skin, plastic surgeons told DailyMail.com it was giving Trumpland an almost ‘plastic’ and ‘Real Housewives’ look.
Plenty of women.
folders of them.
btm said:
Anyone know if there’s a hand tool I can use to put a lot of force in a small area (say ~3kPa (or more) onto about 150-200 square mm)? I was thinking something with two handles (like a pair of pliers) that drive a ratchet (or something similar) to apply increasing force between two faces (again, similar to a pair of pliers.)
what are you trying to do?
btm said:
Anyone know if there’s a hand tool I can use to put a lot of force in a small area (say ~3kPa (or more) onto about 150-200 square mm)? I was thinking something with two handles (like a pair of pliers) that drive a ratchet (or something similar) to apply increasing force between two faces (again, similar to a pair of pliers.)
a shaped charge should do it.
JudgeMental said:
btm said:
Anyone know if there’s a hand tool I can use to put a lot of force in a small area (say ~3kPa (or more) onto about 150-200 square mm)? I was thinking something with two handles (like a pair of pliers) that drive a ratchet (or something similar) to apply increasing force between two faces (again, similar to a pair of pliers.)
a shaped charge should do it.
Too much gun.
dv said:
Why yes
I thought as much.
buffy said:
btm said:
Anyone know if there’s a hand tool I can use to put a lot of force in a small area (say ~3kPa (or more) onto about 150-200 square mm)? I was thinking something with two handles (like a pair of pliers) that drive a ratchet (or something similar) to apply increasing force between two faces (again, similar to a pair of pliers.)
what are you trying to do?
And to add to that, 3 kPa is not a great deal of pressure, so g-clamps, locking pliers, a vise will do that easily. Heck, even a box filled with old books would be fine.
Michael V said:
buffy said:
btm said:
Anyone know if there’s a hand tool I can use to put a lot of force in a small area (say ~3kPa (or more) onto about 150-200 square mm)? I was thinking something with two handles (like a pair of pliers) that drive a ratchet (or something similar) to apply increasing force between two faces (again, similar to a pair of pliers.)
what are you trying to do?
And to add to that, 3 kPa is not a great deal of pressure, so g-clamps, locking pliers, a vise will do that easily. Heck, even a box filled with old books would be fine.
3 kPa is about 150 mm of compacted soil, so about a foot of books would do it.
btm said:
Anyone know if there’s a hand tool I can use to put a lot of force in a small area (say ~3kPa (or more) onto about 150-200 square mm)? I was thinking something with two handles (like a pair of pliers) that drive a ratchet (or something similar) to apply increasing force between two faces (again, similar to a pair of pliers.)
This should do the trick, a bit hexy but.
https://www.bunnings.com.au/irwin-1270mm-quick-grip-heavy-duty-bar-clamp_p5860116
Michael V said:
buffy said:
btm said:
Anyone know if there’s a hand tool I can use to put a lot of force in a small area (say ~3kPa (or more) onto about 150-200 square mm)? I was thinking something with two handles (like a pair of pliers) that drive a ratchet (or something similar) to apply increasing force between two faces (again, similar to a pair of pliers.)
what are you trying to do?
And to add to that, 3 kPa is not a great deal of pressure, so g-clamps, locking pliers, a vise will do that easily. Heck, even a box filled with old books would be fine.
1 kPa = 10 g / (1 cm^2)
200 mm^2 = 2 cm^2
So the load is 3*2*10 g = 60 g
Much less than I’d initially estimated.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Michael V said:
buffy said:what are you trying to do?
And to add to that, 3 kPa is not a great deal of pressure, so g-clamps, locking pliers, a vise will do that easily. Heck, even a box filled with old books would be fine.
3 kPa is about 150 mm of compacted soil, so about a foot of books would do it.
or one book by Solzhenitsyn
JudgeMental said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Michael V said:And to add to that, 3 kPa is not a great deal of pressure, so g-clamps, locking pliers, a vise will do that easily. Heck, even a box filled with old books would be fine.
3 kPa is about 150 mm of compacted soil, so about a foot of books would do it.
or one book by Solzhenitsyn
Hehe
btm said:
Anyone know if there’s a hand tool I can use to put a lot of force in a small area (say ~3kPa (or more) onto about 150-200 square mm)? I was thinking something with two handles (like a pair of pliers) that drive a ratchet (or something similar) to apply increasing force between two faces (again, similar to a pair of pliers.)
Park the car wheel on it……………………. Or get the missers to sit on it!!!! hehehehehehehe 😮
buffy said:
btm said:
Anyone know if there’s a hand tool I can use to put a lot of force in a small area (say ~3kPa (or more) onto about 150-200 square mm)? I was thinking something with two handles (like a pair of pliers) that drive a ratchet (or something similar) to apply increasing force between two faces (again, similar to a pair of pliers.)
what are you trying to do?
Now you’ve done it…
JudgeMental said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Michael V said:And to add to that, 3 kPa is not a great deal of pressure, so g-clamps, locking pliers, a vise will do that easily. Heck, even a box filled with old books would be fine.
3 kPa is about 150 mm of compacted soil, so about a foot of books would do it.
or one book by Solzhenitsyn
On reflection, 3kPa is way too little. I’ve tried with pliers, multi-grips, and g-clamps without success.
I haven’t tried f-clamps, but I’ve never been able to get much pressure out of them.
It’s for crushing some metal.
Michael V said:
Michael V said:
buffy said:what are you trying to do?
And to add to that, 3 kPa is not a great deal of pressure, so g-clamps, locking pliers, a vise will do that easily. Heck, even a box filled with old books would be fine.
1 kPa = 10 g / (1 cm^2)
200 mm^2 = 2 cm^2
So the load is 3*2*10 g = 60 g
Much less than I’d initially estimated.
Don’t worry, I won’t blame you when Btn blows himself up…
btm said:
JudgeMental said:
The Rev Dodgson said:3 kPa is about 150 mm of compacted soil, so about a foot of books would do it.
or one book by Solzhenitsyn
On reflection, 3kPa is way too little. I’ve tried with pliers, multi-grips, and g-clamps without success.
I haven’t tried f-clamps, but I’ve never been able to get much pressure out of them.
It’s for crushing some metal.
It needs to be hand-held because I can’t bring the work piece to the tool.
Witty Rejoinder said:
Michael V said:
Michael V said:And to add to that, 3 kPa is not a great deal of pressure, so g-clamps, locking pliers, a vise will do that easily. Heck, even a box filled with old books would be fine.
1 kPa = 10 g / (1 cm^2)
200 mm^2 = 2 cm^2
So the load is 3*2*10 g = 60 g
Much less than I’d initially estimated.
Don’t worry, I won’t blame you when Btn blows himself up…
I did that years ago, when I was making nitroglycerin. And that’s an m, not n (possibly a typo, but you seem to have done it a few times.)
btm said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Michael V said:1 kPa = 10 g / (1 cm^2)
200 mm^2 = 2 cm^2
So the load is 3*2*10 g = 60 g
Much less than I’d initially estimated.
Don’t worry, I won’t blame you when Btn blows himself up…
I did that years ago, when I was making nitroglycerin. And that’s an m, not n (possibly a typo, but you seem to have done it a few times.)
Hmmm. maybe I have. I will try better in the future.
btm said:
btm said:
JudgeMental said:or one book by Solzhenitsyn
On reflection, 3kPa is way too little. I’ve tried with pliers, multi-grips, and g-clamps without success.
I haven’t tried f-clamps, but I’ve never been able to get much pressure out of them.
It’s for crushing some metal.
It needs to be hand-held because I can’t bring the work piece to the tool.
Have a look at Hare and Forbes Machinery House. They have a wide range of specialist tools. Yoo might like to look at the panel beating and welding sections of their catalogue.
Witty Rejoinder said:
btm said:
Witty Rejoinder said:Don’t worry, I won’t blame you when Btn blows himself up…
I did that years ago, when I was making nitroglycerin. And that’s an m, not n (possibly a typo, but you seem to have done it a few times.)
Hmmm. maybe I have. I will try better in the future.
Thats hard to inagine but not inpossible.
Michael V said:
btm said:
btm said:On reflection, 3kPa is way too little. I’ve tried with pliers, multi-grips, and g-clamps without success.
I haven’t tried f-clamps, but I’ve never been able to get much pressure out of them.
It’s for crushing some metal.
It needs to be hand-held because I can’t bring the work piece to the tool.
Have a look at Hare and Forbes Machinery House. They have a wide range of specialist tools. Yoo might like to look at the panel beating and welding sections of their catalogue.
Think about what you might be able to do with a car or truck jack and some type of containment frame.
43C thursday, be a bit of a rude shock if it did, I blame the obliquity of the ecliptic, yeah ecliptic obliquity, nasty business, get vaccinated now
Michael V said:
Michael V said:
btm said:It needs to be hand-held because I can’t bring the work piece to the tool.
Have a look at Hare and Forbes Machinery House. They have a wide range of specialist tools. Yoo might like to look at the panel beating and welding sections of their catalogue.
Think about what you might be able to do with a car or truck jack and some type of containment frame.
Sometimes even large-diameter nuts and bolts pulling together heavy metal or thick pieces of wood might do. Use sockets or well-fitting ring spanners and cheater bars (handle extensions – such as pipe).
Michael V said:
btm said:
btm said:On reflection, 3kPa is way too little. I’ve tried with pliers, multi-grips, and g-clamps without success.
I haven’t tried f-clamps, but I’ve never been able to get much pressure out of them.
It’s for crushing some metal.
It needs to be hand-held because I can’t bring the work piece to the tool.
Have a look at Hare and Forbes Machinery House. They have a wide range of specialist tools. Yoo might like to look at the panel beating and welding sections of their catalogue.
Thanks MV. The closest I can find to what I want is this crimping tool, but it might be too small, and it doesn’t tell me how much pressure I can put on it (they only seem to have one.)
Michael V said:
Michael V said:
Michael V said:Have a look at Hare and Forbes Machinery House. They have a wide range of specialist tools. Yoo might like to look at the panel beating and welding sections of their catalogue.
Think about what you might be able to do with a car or truck jack and some type of containment frame.
Sometimes even large-diameter nuts and bolts pulling together heavy metal or thick pieces of wood might do. Use sockets or well-fitting ring spanners and cheater bars (handle extensions – such as pipe).
I’ve tried that, even putting sacrificial metal plates on the piece to be crushed, but only managed to bend my spanner.
btm said:
Michael V said:
btm said:It needs to be hand-held because I can’t bring the work piece to the tool.
Have a look at Hare and Forbes Machinery House. They have a wide range of specialist tools. Yoo might like to look at the panel beating and welding sections of their catalogue.
Thanks MV. The closest I can find to what I want is this crimping tool, but it might be too small, and it doesn’t tell me how much pressure I can put on it (they only seem to have one.)
Click on the picture, and you’ll get to see the specifications. It is designed for electrical terminal crimping mainly.
Inside the AI back-channel between China and the West
Computer scientists are reaching out across the geopolitical divide to try to stop an apocalypse
Nov 29th 2024
By Peter Guest
One day this March in the Summer Palace of Beijing, a tour guide was struggling to hold his group’s attention. Instead of taking in the magnificent pavilions of the imperial gardens, the tourists – a gaggle of Western and Chinese technology experts – were more interested in talking to each other. “I felt sorry for the guy,” one of them recalled. “People are walking around this UNESCO World Heritage site, and it’s, like, beautiful, but they’re arguing about AI.”
The squabbles had an edge. For over a year, ChatGPT, an artificial-intelligence (AI) tool, had showcased the extraordinary leaps the technology was making. As big firms raced to develop their own faster, smarter products, debates intensified about how these models might evolve. Many experts fear that without robust guardrails, AI could be used to develop new diseases or cyber-weapons. Some believe it could advance to the point where humans can no longer control it, with potentially apocalyptic consequences. The fact that the two superpowers driving the development of AI – America and China – are locked in an escalating cycle of confrontation only adds to the sense of alarm.
The trip to the Summer Palace had been designed to foster camaraderie among an unlikely AI working group. It had been convened by Stuart Russell, a British computer scientist at the University of California, Berkeley, and one of the sector’s most prominent “doomers”. Russell sees the dangers of AI as analogous to the risks created by the nuclear-arms race during the cold war – America and China are reluctant to impose strict rules on their own AI industries, in part because neither side wants the other to pull ahead. (Many experts think Russell’s worries about rogue AI are far-fetched, but share his concern about the lack of meaningful dialogue between the superpowers.)
With his grey temples and soft voice, Russell comes across as the archetypal scholar. But last year he decided to make a quietly radical intervention into geopolitics. He had worked with many Chinese computer scientists in the past, and was affiliated with Beijing’s Tsinghua University. Using those connections he sought to create a new channel for AI experts from East and West to talk to each other. “Scientists,” he told me, “with a few exceptions, have a common interest in the wellbeing of humanity.”
The aim of the conference was to get the delegates to agree on how you might control AI once you had decided to do it. Where and how could you draw a line to mark the point at which model ran the risk of being too dangerous? Politics was supposed to be off the table, and indeed some of the attendees were people who had previously given little thought to the tensions between China and the West. Gillian Hadfield, then a law professor from the University of Toronto, had planned to bring her own laptop and mobile phone with her until colleagues warned her that there was a strong chance the Chinese government would hack them. “I don’t do geopolitics,” she explained to me later.
The event organisers were more clued up, and issued Western participants with burner devices before they boarded their flights. “We were warned to assume that all conversations could be monitored,” said Hadfield. “Even in hotel rooms.”
In a memo to staff last year, a US Air Force general predicted that America and China would soon be at war over Taiwan. “My gut tells me we will fight in 2025,” he wrote. Although the Pentagon’s official pronouncements are not quite so alarmist, there is no doubt that the military establishments of both countries are preparing for open conflict.
Preventing China from getting access to advanced semiconductors – in particular, the high-powered chips that are used to train and operate the most advanced AI models – has become an obsession of the American government. Washington has imposed waves of sanctions against Chinese companies, public bodies and academic institutions, and restricted the export of chips and chipmaking equipment to China. Beijing has responded by investing heavily in domestic research and development.
The race for technological advantage makes it hard for China and America to reach agreement on shared AI safety protocols. When representatives from both governments met in Geneva in May to discuss the risks of AI, they struggled to move beyond China’s fury at the semiconductor export ban.
There are other, less formal, conversations taking place. For years, think-tanks and other organisations with links to the Chinese and American governments have been running so-called track-two discussions on AI. The theory behind this kind of diplomacy, which is mostly carried out by analysts and experts rather than government representatives, is that both sides are free to explore ideas without the constraints of official positions.
But even in these more relaxed forums, disagreements between the two sides’ respective governments often lead to gridlock. It’s hard for any Chinese representative to be truly disconnected from the government – indeed, those who travel or meet American peers are assumed to do so with the Chinese government’s approval. “We’d have ten minutes up front, where there’d be, essentially, political-message passing,” said one participant in track-two discussions, speaking on condition of anonymity. “The Chinese side would read the litany of US sins, and we would kind of come right back at them with Xinjiang, and other stuff.” (The Chinese government has allegedly used AI-powered surveillance tools to snoop on Uyghurs, a persecuted minority, in Xinjiang province.)
America keeps adding Chinese people and institutions to its list of sanctioned entities, making it hard for American participants to know if they are even allowed to speak to their counterparts. Dozens of Chinese research establishments, such as the Beijing Institute of Technology and the Beijing Computational Science Research Centre, are now on US sanctions lists. In the past year there have been several occasions when track-two talks have had to be put on hold while the Americans sought legal advice. (One person involved in organising Russell’s conference in Beijing admitted the guest list had been carefully curated to avoid violating sanctions.)
Even if the American and Chinese governments were willing to work together, putting safeguards on AI would be difficult. The designers of the most cutting-edge AI models don’t fully understand how they learn, so it’s hard to pinpoint the moment they risk evolving into something that can’t be controlled.
It was because of these technical challenges that Russell felt scientists could play a role. He was partly inspired by the limited nuclear-test-ban treaty of 1963. In getting America and the Soviet Union to agree to some limits on weapons testing at the height of the cold war, the treaty achieved a minor diplomatic miracle. It was made possible by an international consortium of scientists who came up with a monitoring regime, which assured each side that the other would not be secretly taking advantage of the agreement to unilaterally advance their own programme.
In the 2000s and early 2010s Russell was hired by the United Nations body that carries out the monitoring to work out how to improve detection capabilities. He got to know some of the scientists from the project’s early days, and realised there had been a real rapport between the Soviet and Western experts. These relationships had even contributed to developments on the diplomatic front. Why, thought Russell, couldn’t the same approach be applied to AI?
First he reached out to two former winners of the Turing award for advances in computer science: Yoshua Bengio, a Canadian, and Andrew Yao, who is Chinese. Together, the three men set about pulling together a group of around two dozen experts.
In October 2023 the group met for the first time at Ditchley Park, a British stately home. The meeting had been arranged hurriedly, because it had just been announced that representatives from 27 governments were going to meet the following month at Bletchley Park, where British codebreakers once deciphered Nazi communications, to work on AI safety. Russell and his colleagues hoped they could lay the groundwork for it.
At first, Russell’s group struggled to get away from politics. Even though the occasion was supposed to be a meeting of scientific minds, some of the Chinese delegates seemed to be treating it like a normal track-two discussion, and wanted to talk about matters like China’s disputed claims to islands in the South China Sea. “I think a lot of us were like, whatevs. That’s none of our business,” said Russell. But the delegates warmed up enough to agree on the principles of their next discussion in Beijing.
Hadfield, the law professor, arrived in Beijing with a degree of trepidation. She had met her Chinese counterparts at Russell’s first meeting in Britain, and they had been friendly enough (many of them spoke fluent English), but she expected conversation to be more stilted in China.
In fact the atmosphere was surprisingly relaxed. On the first evening the delegates were invited to a party at the Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence, where they mingled over wine, Moutai (a Chinese spirit) and canapés. When the Chinese delegates found out that Yoshua Bengio, the Canadian computer scientist, had just celebrated his birthday, they toasted him.
On the first day of talks they met in the conference room of a five-star hotel close to the Summer Palace. In official discussions, or even in track-two ones, the two blocs are usually seated opposite each other at the table. In Russell’s conference the nationalities were dispersed across the room. Russell said that he and the other organisers had wanted to create a sense that “there isn’t one side or the other side. We’re just working on this problem together.”
The aim of the conversations was to arrive at a series of “red lines” – technically sound, politically enforceable limits on what AI systems should be allowed to do. After opening presentations from Russell, Bengio and Yao, the participants were assigned to smaller groups to work on individual topics, such as how to measure the progress of an AI model. The event felt a bit like a corporate awayday, according to those who attended, with Bengio and Yao cast in the roles of the bosses whom everyone wanted to impress.
“Yoshua Bengio and Andrew Yao are minor, if not major, celebrities in their own right,” one attendee said. “There was a little bit of ‘Yoshua is in that group, talking about loss-of-control risks, I want to go join that group.’”
The discussions mostly stuck to technical issues, though occasionally they drifted into politics. Export controls were not openly complained about, but clearly referenced in people’s subtexts – “the elephant in the room”, two different attendees said. A conversation about scientific co-operation became derailed by a long complaint about the difficulty of getting visas for Chinese academics.
Hadfield noticed how the atmosphere underwent a subtle change when political subjects came up. Politicians and civil servants were not invited to the technical discussions (though they attended ceremonial meetings at the beginning and end of the conference), but some attendees had links to the Chinese government. Hadfield had the sense that the other Chinese delegates were self-conscious when they deviated from the official line. “Sometimes there would be an acknowledgment of ‘not something I should be saying’ and I could sense people knew that they could be observed.”
At the end of the conference the group produced a document outlining the principles they had agreed on. AI shouldn’t have the capacity to improve autonomously or replicate itself, or have the capability to seek more power in pursuit of its goal. AI shouldn’t be used to develop weapons of mass destruction, chemical or biological agents; nor should it be used to execute cyber-attacks. AI shouldn’t be capable of deceiving its creators – an AI that “knows” it would be shut down because it’s too powerful might lie about its abilities in order to survive and achieve its aims.
Other experts I spoke to broadly agreed that these red lines were sane and sensible. But the point of the meeting in Beijing was to show that they were also practical. Russell and his colleagues didn’t just talk about what they wanted to prevent. They also discussed prevention mechanisms, such automatic audits of all AI models above a certain size, requiring developers to publish mathematical proofs that their AI couldn’t breach the red lines, and programming AIs to obey certain rules.
Not everyone sees Russell’s initiative as useful. Some think he and the others are excessively focused on a hypothetical (and implausible) advance in AI. Others, especially in the American defence establishment, think China’s government allows such dialogues to take place purely as a PR stunt, in order to seem more open to engagement than it really is.
Western AI experts can be “totally naive when it comes to Chinese message control techniques, or Chinese elite influence operation techniques,” said one former Pentagon official, who has taken part in negotiations with China on AI. “I’m not calling for these track-two dialogues to be shut down,” they added. “But I think their importance is radically overestimated.”
Afollow-up summit took place in September. Visa rules make it hard for Chinese scientists to come to America, so it took place in a neo-Gothic palace in Venice. The participants tried to drill down further into the technical aspects of monitoring those red lines – if they made their way into a treaty, how could they be enforced? Given how much of AI research happens in black boxes in private tech companies, that’s not a trivial issue. They talked about the need for “early-warning” mechanisms, and about how to set the thresholds for safe design of AI models.
There isn’t much chance of an international agreement on AI safety at the moment. Now that the AI mania sparked by the release of ChatGPT has subsided a little, existential risk has started to slip down policymakers’ agendas. When they do discuss the dangers of AI, their focus tends to be on more immediate concerns like labour force disruption, disinformation and surveillance. Donald Trump’s re-election to the White House has meanwhile raised the prospect of a further deterioration in relations between America and China.
Russell nonetheless believes there is value in pushing forward with his initiative. “China is not ideologically completely uniform,” he said, arguing that some Chinese scientists and even government officials view the issues outside the zero-sum framework of great-power rivalry.
He is at heart an optimist, refusing to participate in the macabre pastime of estimating the probability of an AI apocalypse (“P(doom)”) to which some of his fellow doomers are prone. “The whole idea of P(doom) is that you’re a disinterested alien, looking down and taking bets over whether we’re going to screw up or not,” he said. “But we’re on Earth, we have to do our utmost to make sure that things work out in the right direction.”
https://www.economist.com/1843/2024/11/29/inside-the-ai-back-channel-between-china-and-the-west?
JudgeMental said:
Interesting. What’s it designed to do?
Michael V said:
JudgeMental said:
Interesting. What’s it designed to do?
crimping terminals. I have one for doing battery type cables and terminals.
Michael V said:
btm said:
Michael V said:Have a look at Hare and Forbes Machinery House. They have a wide range of specialist tools. Yoo might like to look at the panel beating and welding sections of their catalogue.
Thanks MV. The closest I can find to what I want is this crimping tool, but it might be too small, and it doesn’t tell me how much pressure I can put on it (they only seem to have one.)
Click on the picture, and you’ll get to see the specifications. It is designed for electrical terminal crimping mainly.
I did that; I even read the brochure, but there doesn’t seem to be anything to tell me what kind of pressure I can put on the workpiece.
JudgeMental said:
Michael V said:
JudgeMental said:
Interesting. What’s it designed to do?
crimping terminals. I have one for doing battery type cables and terminals.
Might work nicely on something that’s only 2 cm^2.
https://www.ebay.com.au/p/1580804305?iid=395702205536
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In the Geology Department at UNE we had a hydraulic rock jaw crusher that was a serious bit of gear.
French agrivoltaics company Sun’Agri says that two of its facilities increased grape yields by 20% to 60% in 2024, compared to areas without solar panels.
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2024/11/29/agrivoltaics-can-increase-grape-yield-by-up-to-60/
btm said:
Michael V said:
btm said:Thanks MV. The closest I can find to what I want is this crimping tool, but it might be too small, and it doesn’t tell me how much pressure I can put on it (they only seem to have one.)
Click on the picture, and you’ll get to see the specifications. It is designed for electrical terminal crimping mainly.
I did that; I even read the brochure, but there doesn’t seem to be anything to tell me what kind of pressure I can put on the workpiece.
Won’t be a lot.
Could you modify long-handled pruners?
Could you modify large bolt-cutters?
Michael V said:
btm said:
Michael V said:Click on the picture, and you’ll get to see the specifications. It is designed for electrical terminal crimping mainly.
I did that; I even read the brochure, but there doesn’t seem to be anything to tell me what kind of pressure I can put on the workpiece.
Won’t be a lot.
Could you modify long-handled pruners?
Could you modify large bolt-cutters?
I’ve thought about both of those, but would prefer to use a dedicated tool (which I will have a use for in the future, too.)
Right now I’m looking at the crimping tool Boris posted. That looks like the sort of thing I need.
btm said:
Michael V said:
btm said:I did that; I even read the brochure, but there doesn’t seem to be anything to tell me what kind of pressure I can put on the workpiece.
Won’t be a lot.
Could you modify long-handled pruners?
Could you modify large bolt-cutters?
I’ve thought about both of those, but would prefer to use a dedicated tool (which I will have a use for in the future, too.)
Right now I’m looking at the crimping tool Boris posted. That looks like the sort of thing I need.
Good-oh.
Dusts hands off.
btm said:
Michael V said:
btm said:I did that; I even read the brochure, but there doesn’t seem to be anything to tell me what kind of pressure I can put on the workpiece.
Won’t be a lot.
Could you modify long-handled pruners?
Could you modify large bolt-cutters?
I’ve thought about both of those, but would prefer to use a dedicated tool (which I will have a use for in the future, too.)
Right now I’m looking at the crimping tool Boris posted. That looks like the sort of thing I need.
I keep seeing the pining pliers we used to use on spectacle frames, but I don’t know if there is anything on a larger scale like you need.
btm said:
I did that years ago, when I was making nitroglycerin.
Nitroglycerin is very scary stuff.
You should not try that at home.
buffy said:
btm said:
Michael V said:Won’t be a lot.
Could you modify long-handled pruners?
Could you modify large bolt-cutters?
I’ve thought about both of those, but would prefer to use a dedicated tool (which I will have a use for in the future, too.)
Right now I’m looking at the crimping tool Boris posted. That looks like the sort of thing I need.
I keep seeing the pining pliers we used to use on spectacle frames, but I don’t know if there is anything on a larger scale like you need.
That would be peening, I think.
captain_spalding said:
btm said:I did that years ago, when I was making nitroglycerin.
Nitroglycerin is very scary stuff.
You should not try that at home.
I know that now; I had to learn the hard way.
btm said:
captain_spalding said:
btm said:I did that years ago, when I was making nitroglycerin.
Nitroglycerin is very scary stuff.
You should not try that at home.
I know that now; I had to learn the hard way.
Were you much injured?
btm said:
captain_spalding said:
btm said:I did that years ago, when I was making nitroglycerin.
Nitroglycerin is very scary stuff.
You should not try that at home.
I know that now; I had to learn the hard way.
Were you much injured?
I made sawdust.
Then sat outside to enjoy a cold beer, but a big dark cloud came over and forced me indoors. Strong smell of petrichor wafting in.
captain_spalding said:
btm said:
captain_spalding said:Nitroglycerin is very scary stuff.
You should not try that at home.
I know that now; I had to learn the hard way.
Were you much injured?
The Toymaker is immortal.
captain_spalding said:
btm said:
captain_spalding said:Nitroglycerin is very scary stuff.
You should not try that at home.
I know that now; I had to learn the hard way.
Were you much injured?
Fortunately not at all. There were some very close shaves, though. I’ve still got both arms and all fingers. And eyes, though they don’t work as well as they used to.
Heavy rain now
btm said:
captain_spalding said:
btm said:I know that now; I had to learn the hard way.
Were you much injured?
Fortunately not at all. There were some very close shaves, though. I’ve still got both arms and all fingers. And eyes, though they don’t work as well as they used to.
Your life is a never-ending series of wacky adventures.
dv said:
Heavy rain now
…and it’s a heavy rain a-gunna fall.
Witty Rejoinder said:
btm said:
captain_spalding said:Were you much injured?
Fortunately not at all. There were some very close shaves, though. I’ve still got both arms and all fingers. And eyes, though they don’t work as well as they used to.
Your life is a never-ending series of wacky adventures.
I sometimes wonder if he uses nitrogen for fertiliser for the wheatfield over the dead bodies or for the nitroglycerin to remove those people who ask questions about it.
Arts will know, when the truth comes out.
party_pants said:
I made sawdust.Then sat outside to enjoy a cold beer, but a big dark cloud came over and forced me indoors. Strong smell of petrichor wafting in.
I made email dust.
There is a Western Power grant available for fire brigades that closes on the 4th but I only just found out about it, I’m trying to get quotes for stuff to attach to the grant app before it closes.
Currently our immediate wish list includes, but is not limited to:
A fridge for our second fire station.
Kitbags for new vollies.
Extra handheld CB radios.
A full toolbox for the station.
A fuel/oil locker for our splodey stuff.
A training scenario kit, I think I posted pics of it a month ago.
Just waiting for quotes to come in tomorrow hopefully.
Evening.
Tau.Neutrino said:
Evening.
Yes.
https://www.earth.com/news/new-discovery-water-molecules-will-force-chemistry-textbooks-to-be-rewritten/
paintbrush into cup of tea.
happens to the best of us.
Tau.Neutrino said:
Evening.
*waves
sarahs mum said:
paintbrush into cup of tea.happens to the best of us.
can’t say I’ve ever done that
sarahs mum said:
paintbrush into cup of tea.
White or black tea?
AussieDJ said:
sarahs mum said:
paintbrush into cup of tea.White or black tea?
white. I remember taking a swig of the turps once. that won’t happen again.
sarahs mum said:
paintbrush into cup of tea.happens to the best of us.
Yep, I almost poured bourbon into a stubby holder once.
The “art” that followed would not have been something that I would post here.
sarahs mum said:
AussieDJ said:
sarahs mum said:
paintbrush into cup of tea.White or black tea?
white. I remember taking a swig of the turps once. that won’t happen again.
I have no idea what white tea is.
Kingy said:
sarahs mum said:
AussieDJ said:White or black tea?
white. I remember taking a swig of the turps once. that won’t happen again.
I have no idea what white tea is.
it’s just tea with a bit of milk in it.
sarahs mum said:
AussieDJ said:
sarahs mum said:
paintbrush into cup of tea.White or black tea?
white.
Invisible ink! Or, hang on, is it lemon juice that makes invisible ink?
party_pants said:
Kingy said:
sarahs mum said:white. I remember taking a swig of the turps once. that won’t happen again.
I have no idea what white tea is.
it’s just tea with a bit of milk in it.
Oh, ok.
I was wondering if it had turps in it.
It’s raining again here.
Kingy said:
party_pants said:
Kingy said:I have no idea what white tea is.
it’s just tea with a bit of milk in it.
Oh, ok.
I was wondering if it had turps in it.
It’s raining again here.
tonight I was watercolouring. so there was a glass of water sitting next to a cup of tea.
in the past the same thing has happened when painting with oils. where the turps was sitting next to what I was drinking atm.
So you can absent mindedly dip the brush in what you’re drinking.
sarahs mum said:
Kingy said:
party_pants said:it’s just tea with a bit of milk in it.
Oh, ok.
I was wondering if it had turps in it.
It’s raining again here.
tonight I was watercolouring. so there was a glass of water sitting next to a cup of tea.
in the past the same thing has happened when painting with oils. where the turps was sitting next to what I was drinking atm.
So you can absent mindedly dip the brush in what you’re drinking.
but now i have finished. and done the paperwork. shall drop it at a printmaker in the next suburb tomorrow and she will take in for hanging on Tuesday. this year the mini print is a little later than most years. and that means I won’t get paid until the new year. Usually it is my christmas fund.
sarahs mum said:
Kingy said:
party_pants said:it’s just tea with a bit of milk in it.
Oh, ok.
I was wondering if it had turps in it.
It’s raining again here.
tonight I was watercolouring. so there was a glass of water sitting next to a cup of tea.
in the past the same thing has happened when painting with oils. where the turps was sitting next to what I was drinking atm.
So you can absent mindedly dip the brush in what you’re drinking.
I understand, watercolours are nice, and I wish I had enough spare time to paint them. I was once a cartoonist but I didn’t get the gig with a paying job drawing them myself.
Kingy said:
sarahs mum said:
Kingy said:Oh, ok.
I was wondering if it had turps in it.
It’s raining again here.
tonight I was watercolouring. so there was a glass of water sitting next to a cup of tea.
in the past the same thing has happened when painting with oils. where the turps was sitting next to what I was drinking atm.
So you can absent mindedly dip the brush in what you’re drinking.
I understand, watercolours are nice, and I wish I had enough spare time to paint them. I was once a cartoonist but I didn’t get the gig with a paying job drawing them myself.
I recently passed on a little watercolour commission to my sister. two dogs. ‘she’s a much better watercolourist than I am’, I said. Sister was chuffed when she got the cheque. then she felt guilty that she had taken money from my pocket. ‘but I really didn’t want to do it and you enjoyed it.’ she posted the works on facebook and got another two orders.
btm said:
btm said:
JudgeMental said:or one book by Solzhenitsyn
On reflection, 3kPa is way too little. I’ve tried with pliers, multi-grips, and g-clamps without success.
I haven’t tried f-clamps, but I’ve never been able to get much pressure out of them.
It’s for crushing some metal.
It needs to be hand-held because I can’t bring the work piece to the tool.
A watchmaker’s tool for opening backs of watches.
Why do we kiss, and where has it come from?
The evolutionary origin of human kissing –
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/evan.22050
and, from The Guardian –
You must remember this
A kiss is just a kiss, a sigh is just a sigh.
The fundamental things apply…
Sorry, not for children.
https://i.imgur.com/YRDN7Lw.mp4
Stah worz/tartanik
https://i.imgur.com/x3cezCy.mp4
Good morning Holidayers. Presently 9 degrees at the back door and overcast. We are forecast 28 degrees with a shower or two.
Unless it is actually showering, I intend to get some weeds pulled and FOGOed this morning.
Morning buffy. Cloudy and a bit windy here, 26 expected.
I’ll be doing music maintenance tasks (adjusting nut depth on the rebec, changing strings on the electric violin and at the same time fitting a better quality German-made tailpiece).
Apart from that, housework, making a dental appointment, contacting the transport officer about same, calling older sister for a chat etc.
Morning pilgrims.
Over.
There’s now a dentist in this village, I didn’t realise. But he’s only here on Fridays.
His assistant thinks I can get an appointment for this Friday but I’ll get a call back in half an hour or so to confirm.
Bubblecar said:
There’s now a dentist in this village, I didn’t realise. But he’s only here on Fridays.His assistant thinks I can get an appointment for this Friday but I’ll get a call back in half an hour or so to confirm.
@Two thirty?
roughbarked said:
Bubblecar said:
There’s now a dentist in this village, I didn’t realise. But he’s only here on Fridays.His assistant thinks I can get an appointment for this Friday but I’ll get a call back in half an hour or so to confirm.
@Two thirty?
Heh.
She was saying 8:30, which seems rather early for a dentist to be wielding his tools, but there you are.
Bubblecar said:
roughbarked said:
Bubblecar said:
There’s now a dentist in this village, I didn’t realise. But he’s only here on Fridays.His assistant thinks I can get an appointment for this Friday but I’ll get a call back in half an hour or so to confirm.
@Two thirty?
Heh.
She was saying 8:30, which seems rather early for a dentist to be wielding his tools, but there you are.
Did you tell her it ate hurty too?
roughbarked said:
Bubblecar said:
roughbarked said:@Two thirty?
Heh.
She was saying 8:30, which seems rather early for a dentist to be wielding his tools, but there you are.
Did you tell her it ate hurty too?
I told her it only hurts when I chew. But then it really, really hurts.
Bubblecar said:
roughbarked said:
Bubblecar said:Heh.
She was saying 8:30, which seems rather early for a dentist to be wielding his tools, but there you are.
Did you tell her it ate hurty too?
I told her it only hurts when I chew. But then it really, really hurts.
root canal stuff by the sounds of it.
Right then I’d better do some mowing.
I’m back. Some weeding has been done. FOGO is pretty full. There is lots of stuff thrown out across the grass to be mowed in this afternoon when things dry out a bit. It’s not looking like it will rain here today.
roughbarked said:
Bubblecar said:
roughbarked said:Did you tell her it ate hurty too?
I told her it only hurts when I chew. But then it really, really hurts.
root canal stuff by the sounds of it.
The tooth is cracked. I heard and felt the cracking when it happened.
If it’s like the last one that cracked, the work to save it would be too expensive and laborious to bother with, so it’ll likely just be yanked.
Luckily I haven’t lost any others on that side of the upper jaw yet.
Peak Warming Man said:
Right then I’d better do some mowing.
don’t forget the dog.
Right, I’ll just pop over to the Post Office and send that flyer to the Electoral Commission. I suspect as the writs for the election haven’t yet been issued, they won’t be able to do anything about it.
Bubblecar said:
roughbarked said:
Bubblecar said:I told her it only hurts when I chew. But then it really, really hurts.
root canal stuff by the sounds of it.
The tooth is cracked. I heard and felt the cracking when it happened.
If it’s like the last one that cracked, the work to save it would be too expensive and laborious to bother with, so it’ll likely just be yanked.
Luckily I haven’t lost any others on that side of the upper jaw yet.
They don’t pull cracked teeth as much these days. However, that might only be my dental surgery practice.
buffy said:
Right, I’ll just pop over to the Post Office and send that flyer to the Electoral Commission. I suspect as the writs for the election haven’t yet been issued, they won’t be able to do anything about it.
Maybe we all should send one?
roughbarked said:
buffy said:
Right, I’ll just pop over to the Post Office and send that flyer to the Electoral Commission. I suspect as the writs for the election haven’t yet been issued, they won’t be able to do anything about it.
Maybe we all should send one?
I doubt you had a flyer for the electorate of Wannon delivered to you.
buffy said:
roughbarked said:
buffy said:
Right, I’ll just pop over to the Post Office and send that flyer to the Electoral Commission. I suspect as the writs for the election haven’t yet been issued, they won’t be able to do anything about it.
Maybe we all should send one?
I doubt you had a flyer for the electorate of Wannon delivered to you.
True.
But it would be fun to do if I did.
JudgeMental said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Right then I’d better do some mowing.
don’t forget the dog.
Tamb said:
JudgeMental said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Right then I’d better do some mowing.
don’t forget the dog.
You should not EVER mow the dog.
That would go bump bump. Unlike the snake I ran over which thankfully slithered away with a few scales missing off its back.
Hello
JudgeMental said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Right then I’d better do some mowing.
don’t forget the dog.
I, also, have mowing to do today.
Andi cannot forget the dog.
When i’m mowing at the front of the house, the Barely-Domesticated Wolf insisits on being let out, and then he goes and lies in the shade of the tree on the opposite footpath, and supervises my work from there.
roughbarked said:
buffy said:
Right, I’ll just pop over to the Post Office and send that flyer to the Electoral Commission. I suspect as the writs for the election haven’t yet been issued, they won’t be able to do anything about it.
Maybe we all should send one?
I’ve already e-mailed the Advance Australia people, notifyingthat they’ve been busted for using the same dud trick.
I might also email the AEC.
Cymek said:
Hello
buffy said:
roughbarked said:
buffy said:
Right, I’ll just pop over to the Post Office and send that flyer to the Electoral Commission. I suspect as the writs for the election haven’t yet been issued, they won’t be able to do anything about it.
Maybe we all should send one?
I doubt you had a flyer for the electorate of Wannon delivered to you.
But, we are aware of the attempt at deceit.
We’re under no obligation to remain silent when we see such things, even though we dont have an actual example to send to them.
captain_spalding said:
roughbarked said:
buffy said:
Right, I’ll just pop over to the Post Office and send that flyer to the Electoral Commission. I suspect as the writs for the election haven’t yet been issued, they won’t be able to do anything about it.
Maybe we all should send one?
I’ve already e-mailed the Advance Australia people, notifying that they’ve been busted for using the same dud trick.
I might also email the AEC.
Good.
Tamb said:
Cymek said:
Hello
Lo.
Hi.
captain_spalding said:
buffy said:
roughbarked said:Maybe we all should send one?
I doubt you had a flyer for the electorate of Wannon delivered to you.
But, we are aware of the attempt at deceit.
We’re under no obligation to remain silent when we see such things, even though we dont have an actual example to send to them.
This.
Tamb said:
JudgeMental said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Right then I’d better do some mowing.
don’t forget the dog.
You should not EVER mow the dog.
Belgium’s sex workers get maternity leave and pensions under world-first law
“I had to work while I was nine months pregnant,” says Sophie, a sex worker in Belgium. “I was having sex with clients one week before giving birth.”
She juggles her job with being a mother of five – which is “really hard”.
When Sophie had her fifth child by Caesarean, she was told she needed bed rest for six weeks. But she says that wasn’t an option, and she went back to work immediately.
“I couldn’t afford to stop because I needed the money.”
Her life would have been much easier had she had a right to maternity leave, paid by her employer.
Under a new law in Belgium – the first of its kind in the world – this will now be the case. Sex workers will be entitled to official employment contracts, health insurance, pensions, maternity leave and sick days. Essentially, it will be treated like any other job.
“It’s an opportunity for us to exist as people,” Sophie says.
There are tens of millions of sex workers worldwide. Sex work was decriminalised in Belgium in 2022 and is legal in several countries including Germany, Greece, the Netherlands and Turkey. But establishing employment rights and contracts is a global first.
“This is radical, and it’s the best step we have seen anywhere in the world so far,” says Erin Kilbride, a researcher at Human Rights Watch. “We need every country to be moving in that direction.
Critics say the trade causes trafficking, exploitation and abuse – which this law will not prevent.
“It is dangerous because it normalises a profession that is always violent at its core,” says Julia Crumière, a volunteer with Isala – an NGO that helps sex workers on the streets in Belgium.
For many sex workers, the job is a necessity, and the law could not come soon enough.
Mel was horrified when she was forced to give a client oral sex without a condom, when she knew a sexually transmitted infection (STI) was going round the brothel. But she felt she had no option.
“My choice was either to spread the disease, or make no money.”
She had become an escort when she was 23 – she needed money, and quickly started earning beyond expectations. She thought she had struck gold, but the experience with the STI brought her sharply back to earth.
Mel will now be able to refuse any client or sexual act she feels uncomfortable with – meaning she could have handled that situation differently.
“I could have pointed the finger at my madam and said: ‘You’re violating these terms and this is how you should treat me.’ I would have been legally protected.”
Belgium’s decision to change the law was the result of months of protests in 2022, prompted by the lack of state support during the Covid pandemic.
One of those at the forefront was Victoria, president of the Belgian Union of Sex Workers (UTSOPI) and previously an escort for 12 years.
For her, it was a personal fight. Victoria regards prostitution as a social service, with sex being only about 10% of what she does.
“It’s giving people attention, listening to their stories, eating cake with them, dancing to waltz music,” she explains. “Ultimately, it’s about loneliness.”
But the illegality of her job before 2022 raised significant challenges. She worked in unsafe conditions, with no choice over her clients and her agency taking a big cut of her earnings.
In fact, Victoria says she was raped by a client who had become obsessed with her.
She went to a police station, where she says the female officer was “so hard” on her.
“She told me sex workers can’t be raped. She made me feel it was my fault, because I did that job.” Victoria left the station crying.
Every sex worker we spoke to told us that at some point they had been pressured to do something against their will.
Because of that, Victoria fiercely believes this new law will improve their lives.
“If there is no law and your job is illegal, there are no protocols to help you. This law gives people the tools to make us safer.”
Pimps who control sex work will be allowed to operate legally under the new law – provided they follow strict rules. Anyone who has been convicted of a serious crime will not be allowed to employ sex workers.
“I think many businesses will have to shut down, because a lot of employers have a criminal record,” says Kris Reekmans. He and his wife Alexandra run a massage parlour on Love Street in the small town of Bekkevoort.
The massages they offer clients include “tantra” and “double pleasure”.
It is fully booked when we visit – not what we were expecting for a Monday morning. We are shown meticulously furnished rooms with massage beds, fresh towels and robes, hot tubs and a swimming pool.
Kris and his wife employ 15 sex workers, and pride themselves on treating them with respect, protecting them and paying them good salaries.
“I hope the bad employers will be shut out and the good people, who want to do this profession honestly, will stay – and the more the better,” he says.
Erin Kilbride from Human Rights Watch is of similar mind – and says, by putting restrictions on employers, the new law will significantly “cut away at the power they have over sex workers”.
But Julia Crumière says the majority of the women she helps just want help to leave the profession and get a “normal job” – not labour rights.
“It’s about not being outside in the freezing weather and having sex with strangers who pay to access your body.”
Under Belgium’s new law, each room where sexual services take place must be equipped with an alarm button that will connect a sex worker with their “reference person”.
But Julia believes there is no way to make sex work safe.
“In what other job would you need a panic button? It’s not the oldest profession in the world, it’s the oldest exploitation in the world.”
How to regulate the sex industry remains a divisive issue globally. But for Mel, bringing it out of the shadows can only help women.
“I am very proud that Belgium is so far ahead,” she says. “I have a future now.”
Some names have been changed to protect people’s safety.
captain_spalding said:
roughbarked said:
buffy said:
Right, I’ll just pop over to the Post Office and send that flyer to the Electoral Commission. I suspect as the writs for the election haven’t yet been issued, they won’t be able to do anything about it.
Maybe we all should send one?
I’ve already e-mailed the Advance Australia people, notifyingthat they’ve been busted for using the same dud trick.
I might also email the AEC.
Thanks for that. I’ve posted one to Advance Australia (no stamp, no return address on the envelope) and one to the AEC. You might have missed my report yesterday afternoon. I went and talked to the Relevent Local Person. Alex Dyson is still picking up more Liberal folks, and some of them are very much Liberal royalty. I suspect this little effort is a bit of a panic. He came very close to chucking Dan Tehan out of the seat last election.
By the way…this is how he introduced himself for his first attempt at the electorate, five years ago.
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=425265554972422
I’m having a rather political morning.
Not only have i emailed the AEC about the Adv. Aust. flyers in Wannon, but i’ve also just sent an e-mail to the Minister for Home Affairs, Tony Burke, about the Prohibiting Items in Immigration Detention Facilities Bill, and the granting of powers to immigration authorities to search and seize phones from immigration detainees.
buffy said:
Right, I’ll just pop over to the Post Office and send that flyer to the Electoral Commission. I suspect as the writs for the election haven’t yet been issued, they won’t be able to do anything about it.
G’donya.
I hope they can do something about it.
Still no return call about the dental appointment.
I want to put my Coles order together, but what items I’ll be getting will obviously depend on when I can chew again.
I’ll do it anyway, working on the assumption that I’ll be able to chew food again on Friday.
buffy said:
captain_spalding said:
roughbarked said:Maybe we all should send one?
I’ve already e-mailed the Advance Australia people, notifyingthat they’ve been busted for using the same dud trick.
I might also email the AEC.
Thanks for that. I’ve posted one to Advance Australia (no stamp, no return address on the envelope) and one to the AEC. You might have missed my report yesterday afternoon. I went and talked to the Relevent Local Person. Alex Dyson is still picking up more Liberal folks, and some of them are very much Liberal royalty. I suspect this little effort is a bit of a panic. He came very close to chucking Dan Tehan out of the seat last election.
By the way…this is how he introduced himself for his first attempt at the electorate, five years ago.
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=425265554972422
:)
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Just had a bit of a tricky KRNN vs KR end game. Normally when one is up in material the instinct is to accept an even trade since it improves one’s relative advantage. Accepting the trade of rooks here however would leave me with just two knights and you can’t get checkmate with just two knights. So instead I had to patiently shepherd the opponent’s king while hiding in amongst the horses.
There’s a lot of western inventions that are now being attributed to other cultures like the transistor being invented during the Woo Dynasty and the like.
But there’s one thing for sure, that Isac Newton invented gravity and the world is a much better place for it.
Peak Warming Man said:
There’s a lot of western inventions that are now being attributed to other cultures like the transistor being invented during the Woo Dynasty and the like.
But there’s one thing for sure, that Isac Newton invented gravity and the world is a much better place for it.
dv said:
Just had a bit of a tricky KRNN vs KR end game. Normally when one is up in material the instinct is to accept an even trade since it improves one’s relative advantage. Accepting the trade of rooks here however would leave me with just two knights and you can’t get checkmate with just two knights. So instead I had to patiently shepherd the opponent’s king while hiding in amongst the horses.
Did you prevail.
Peak Warming Man said:
There’s a lot of western inventions that are now being attributed to other cultures like the transistor being invented during the Woo Dynasty and the like.
But there’s one thing for sure, that Isac Newton invented gravity and the world is a much better place for it.
Isn’t discovery a better word there?
Peak Warming Man said:
dv said:
Just had a bit of a tricky KRNN vs KR end game. Normally when one is up in material the instinct is to accept an even trade since it improves one’s relative advantage. Accepting the trade of rooks here however would leave me with just two knights and you can’t get checkmate with just two knights. So instead I had to patiently shepherd the opponent’s king while hiding in amongst the horses.
Did you prevail.
Cavalry to the rescue.
Coles order now placed. Still no communique from the dentist.
Peak Warming Man said:
There’s a lot of western inventions that are now being attributed to other cultures like the transistor being invented during the Woo Dynasty and the like.
Can you give an example?
Peak Warming Man said:
dv said:
Just had a bit of a tricky KRNN vs KR end game. Normally when one is up in material the instinct is to accept an even trade since it improves one’s relative advantage. Accepting the trade of rooks here however would leave me with just two knights and you can’t get checkmate with just two knights. So instead I had to patiently shepherd the opponent’s king while hiding in amongst the horses.
Did you prevail.
yes
roughbarked said:
Peak Warming Man said:
There’s a lot of western inventions that are now being attributed to other cultures like the transistor being invented during the Woo Dynasty and the like.
But there’s one thing for sure, that Isac Newton invented gravity and the world is a much better place for it.
Isn’t discovery a better word there?
“Explain”, really.
dv said:
roughbarked said:
Peak Warming Man said:
There’s a lot of western inventions that are now being attributed to other cultures like the transistor being invented during the Woo Dynasty and the like.
But there’s one thing for sure, that Isac Newton invented gravity and the world is a much better place for it.
Isn’t discovery a better word there?
“Explain”, really.
Tamb said:
dv said:
roughbarked said:Isn’t discovery a better word there?
“Explain”, really.
How about quantified?
Specifically, he came up with a gravitational model that reconciled what we observe at earth’s surface, and what we observe in the heavens.
Bubblecar said:
Coles order now placed. Still no communique from the dentist.
Bummer. Time to call them back.
Michael V said:
Bubblecar said:
Coles order now placed. Still no communique from the dentist.
Bummer. Time to call them back.
Probably just very busy. He’s in Deloraine today, which is a much bigger town than this one.
Bubblecar said:
Michael V said:
Bubblecar said:
Coles order now placed. Still no communique from the dentist.
Bummer. Time to call them back.
Probably just very busy. He’s in Deloraine today, which is a much bigger town than this one.
Tamb said:
Bubblecar said:
Michael V said:Bummer. Time to call them back.
Probably just very busy. He’s in Deloraine today, which is a much bigger town than this one.
Rain sneaked up on my almost dry washing :(
Damn.
Dropped by someone from Red Bull or by someone doing their makeup?
Tamb said:
Bubblecar said:
Michael V said:Bummer. Time to call them back.
Probably just very busy. He’s in Deloraine today, which is a much bigger town than this one.
Rain sneaked up on my almost dry washing :(
Bummer.
Bubblecar said:
Tamb said:
Bubblecar said:Probably just very busy. He’s in Deloraine today, which is a much bigger town than this one.
Rain sneaked up on my almost dry washing :(
Damn.
Tamb said:
Bubblecar said:
Michael V said:Bummer. Time to call them back.
Probably just very busy. He’s in Deloraine today, which is a much bigger town than this one.
Rain sneaked up on my almost dry washing :(
How long did it stay?
roughbarked said:
Tamb said:
Bubblecar said:Probably just very busy. He’s in Deloraine today, which is a much bigger town than this one.
Rain sneaked up on my almost dry washing :(
How long did it stay?
Tamb said:
roughbarked said:
Tamb said:Rain sneaked up on my almost dry washing :(
How long did it stay?
Still lightly drizzling.
Bugger.
Tamb said:
JudgeMental said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Right then I’d better do some mowing.
don’t forget the dog.
You should not EVER mow the dog.
What if it’s one of those annoying little yappy bitey handbag dogs owned by Karen who wants to see the manager?
Kingy said:
Tamb said:
JudgeMental said:don’t forget the dog.
You should not EVER mow the dog.What if it’s one of those annoying little yappy bitey handbag dogs owned by Karen who wants to see the manager?
Lower the rideon’s platform and go.
roughbarked said:
Tamb said:
roughbarked said:How long did it stay?
Still lightly drizzling.Bugger.
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs. The story gets sicker and sicker every day.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-02/diddy-bryana-bongolan-civil-suit-luca-guadagnino-queer/104671622
Tamb said:
roughbarked said:
Tamb said:Still lightly drizzling.
Bugger.
We had 4mm in that shower so I put the washing in the drier as we normally we get 11mm per day at this time of year.
Oh well, put your washing back out. You might get your 11 yet. ;).
Kingy said:
Tamb said:
JudgeMental said:don’t forget the dog.
You should not EVER mow the dog.What if it’s one of those annoying little yappy bitey handbag dogs owned by Karen who wants to see the manager?
Quick fix. Mow Karen not the dog.
Tamb said:
Kingy said:
Tamb said:You should not EVER mow the dog.
What if it’s one of those annoying little yappy bitey handbag dogs owned by Karen who wants to see the manager?
Quick fix. Mow Karen not the dog.
That’d put a load on the governor.
roughbarked said:
Tamb said:
roughbarked said:Bugger.
We had 4mm in that shower so I put the washing in the drier as we normally we get 11mm per day at this time of year.Oh well, put your washing back out. You might get your 11 yet. ;).
We got 19 mm yesterday. Sheets (and pillows) are on the line. I’m checking the radar etc regularly.
Michael V said:
roughbarked said:
Tamb said:We had 4mm in that shower so I put the washing in the drier as we normally we get 11mm per day at this time of year.
Oh well, put your washing back out. You might get your 11 yet. ;).
We got 19 mm yesterday. Sheets (and pillows) are on the line. I’m checking the radar etc regularly.
Can’t blame you.
The Sunshine Coast. If it isn’t raining there, then it’s raining nowhere in the southern half of Qld.
captain_spalding said:
Michael V said:
roughbarked said:Oh well, put your washing back out. You might get your 11 yet. ;).
We got 19 mm yesterday. Sheets (and pillows) are on the line. I’m checking the radar etc regularly.
Can’t blame you.
The Sunshine Coast. If it isn’t raining there, then it’s raining nowhere in the southern half of Qld.
captain_spalding said:
Michael V said:
roughbarked said:Oh well, put your washing back out. You might get your 11 yet. ;).
We got 19 mm yesterday. Sheets (and pillows) are on the line. I’m checking the radar etc regularly.
Can’t blame you.
The Sunshine Coast. If it isn’t raining there, then it’s raining nowhere in the southern half of Qld.
It’s not in Tully’s league, but the average rainfall since records started here is a smidge under 1500 mm/a.
I have all of the duds out of the laundry basket on the line, plus all of the towels from the bathroom, and the kitchen towels, and i have very little concern about pluviation.
I have, this morning, also prepared the breakfast, done the washing up, made the bed, sent two e-mails about political matters, vacuumed all of the floors, washed all of the hard floors, cleaned the microwave oven, and cleaned all kitchen surfaces.
I now look toward preparing lunches, cleaning up, mowing (at least) the grass at the front of the house, perhaps dusting in the lounge room, and walking with the Wolf, followed by making dinner etc.
Michael V said:
Dropped by someone from Red Bull or by someone doing their makeup?
rogue. unless it was actually red.
captain_spalding said:
I have all of the duds out of the laundry basket on the line, plus all of the towels from the bathroom, and the kitchen towels, and i have very little concern about pluviation.I have, this morning, also prepared the breakfast, done the washing up, made the bed, sent two e-mails about political matters, vacuumed all of the floors, washed all of the hard floors, cleaned the microwave oven, and cleaned all kitchen surfaces.
I now look toward preparing lunches, cleaning up, mowing (at least) the grass at the front of the house, perhaps dusting in the lounge room, and walking with the Wolf, followed by making dinner etc.
Here. You deserve these: 
captain_spalding said:
I have all of the duds out of the laundry basket on the line, plus all of the towels from the bathroom, and the kitchen towels, and i have very little concern about pluviation.I have, this morning, also prepared the breakfast, done the washing up, made the bed, sent two e-mails about political matters, vacuumed all of the floors, washed all of the hard floors, cleaned the microwave oven, and cleaned all kitchen surfaces.
I now look toward preparing lunches, cleaning up, mowing (at least) the grass at the front of the house, perhaps dusting in the lounge room, and walking with the Wolf, followed by making dinner etc.
I need to go and lie down – too much activity! You make me feel tired.
(I have weeded and mowed the front yard and done a load of washing. The Enormous Sheet (I like a king size flat sheet on the queen size bed) is now out on the line. I’ve also done a couple of Political Acts, and I’ve written the Christmas letter (Penshurst Palaver) to go with the cards I will be posting sometime quite shortly. But not today)
JudgeMental said:
Michael V said:
Dropped by someone from Red Bull or by someone doing their makeup?
rogue. unless it was actually red.
I figured it was a typo and rogue was used in the article several times. But the error amused me, and I had hoped it might amuse others.
JudgeMental said:
Michael V said:
Dropped by someone from Red Bull or by someone doing their makeup?
rogue. unless it was actually red.
Georges Lepape
French, 1887–1971
Le miroir rouge
Michael V said:
JudgeMental said:
Michael V said:
Dropped by someone from Red Bull or by someone doing their makeup?
rogue. unless it was actually red.
I figured it was a typo and rogue was used in the article several times. But the error amused me, and I had hoped it might amuse others.
Meaning of rouge in English
rouge
noun
uk
A red or pink powder put on the cheeks to make the face look more attractive
Synonym
blusher
Michael V said:
JudgeMental said:
Michael V said:
Dropped by someone from Red Bull or by someone doing their makeup?
rogue. unless it was actually red.
I figured it was a typo and rogue was used in the article several times. But the error amused me, and I had hoped it might amuse others.
being of the printing fraternity it gauled me no end.
Tamb said:
captain_spalding said:
I have all of the duds out of the laundry basket on the line, plus all of the towels from the bathroom, and the kitchen towels, and i have very little concern about pluviation.I have, this morning, also prepared the breakfast, done the washing up, made the bed, sent two e-mails about political matters, vacuumed all of the floors, washed all of the hard floors, cleaned the microwave oven, and cleaned all kitchen surfaces.
I now look toward preparing lunches, cleaning up, mowing (at least) the grass at the front of the house, perhaps dusting in the lounge room, and walking with the Wolf, followed by making dinner etc.
Here. You deserve these:
I have a large box of Brownie and Guides badges and Scout memorabilia that was in Mum’s place when I cleaned up after she died. Mum and Dad met through the Scouting movement.
captain_spalding said:
JudgeMental said:
Michael V said:
Dropped by someone from Red Bull or by someone doing their makeup?
rogue. unless it was actually red.
Georges Lepape
French, 1887–1971
Le miroir rouge
:)
Michael V said:
My total precipitation for November is above average at 68.4mm.
roughbarked said:
Tamb said:We had 4mm in that shower so I put the washing in the drier as we normally we get 11mm per day at this time of year.
Oh well, put your washing back out. You might get your 11 yet. ;).
We got 19 mm yesterday. Sheets (and pillows) are on the line. I’m checking the radar etc regularly.
Well I’ll be eating pap for some time yet. Dentist won’t be able to see me after all until Saturday 14th.
Bubblecar said:
Well I’ll be eating pap for some time yet. Dentist won’t be able to see me after all until Saturday 14th.
That’s a while. Might be worthwhile to venture further afield if it’s only gonna be a quick and easy extraction.
Witty Rejoinder said:
Bubblecar said:
Well I’ll be eating pap for some time yet. Dentist won’t be able to see me after all until Saturday 14th.
That’s a while. Might be worthwhile to venture further afield if it’s only gonna be a quick and easy extraction.
Yeah, nearly two weeks is quite the wait. Hope you can find something more convenient.
I should be okay. I’ve been practising chewing on the left side of the mouth only and find I can do it without involving the right side as long as I eat slowly and carefully, with bites about half the size I’d normally take.
Anyway restricted intake for a while will do me good in itself :)
Three adult swans at the park, which is unusual. I think someone didn’t get the hint about moving out.
Also a large number of shelducks.
Bubblecar said:
I should be okay. I’ve been practising chewing on the left side of the mouth only and find I can do it without involving the right side as long as I eat slowly and carefully, with bites about half the size I’d normally take.Anyway restricted intake for a while will do me good in itself :)
Can’t you just tie some string around it and a door handle, then slam the door?
It works in the cartoons.
Bubblecar said:
I should be okay. I’ve been practising chewing on the left side of the mouth only and find I can do it without involving the right side as long as I eat slowly and carefully, with bites about half the size I’d normally take.Anyway restricted intake for a while will do me good in itself :)
Have you got a firm date to see the dennis?
Kingy said:
Bubblecar said:
I should be okay. I’ve been practising chewing on the left side of the mouth only and find I can do it without involving the right side as long as I eat slowly and carefully, with bites about half the size I’d normally take.Anyway restricted intake for a while will do me good in itself :)
Can’t you just tie some string around it and a door handle, then slam the door?
It works in the cartoons.
Or what Tom Hanks did in ‘Castaway’.
Bash it out of your head with an ice-skate and a rock.
captain_spalding said:
Kingy said:
Bubblecar said:
I should be okay. I’ve been practising chewing on the left side of the mouth only and find I can do it without involving the right side as long as I eat slowly and carefully, with bites about half the size I’d normally take.Anyway restricted intake for a while will do me good in itself :)
Can’t you just tie some string around it and a door handle, then slam the door?
It works in the cartoons.
Or what Tom Hanks did in ‘Castaway’.
Bash it out of your head with an ice-skate and a rock.
I’ve known blokes who used pliers and a bottle of bourbon for the anaesthetic.
just take drugs for a fortnight car.
Bubblecar said:
Well I’ll be eating pap for some time yet. Dentist won’t be able to see me after all until Saturday 14th.
Gosh!
Our dentist always has vacancies for emergencies. I had the side fall of a tooth, and he saw me an hour and a half later, made a temporary repair and booked me in for the later permanent fix.
Michael V said:
Bubblecar said:
Well I’ll be eating pap for some time yet. Dentist won’t be able to see me after all until Saturday 14th.
Gosh!
Our dentist always has vacancies for emergencies. I had the side fall of a tooth, and he saw me an hour and a half later, made a temporary repair and booked me in for the later permanent fix.
I’ve had appointments at 8:30PM.
Kingy said:
Bubblecar said:
I should be okay. I’ve been practising chewing on the left side of the mouth only and find I can do it without involving the right side as long as I eat slowly and carefully, with bites about half the size I’d normally take.Anyway restricted intake for a while will do me good in itself :)
Can’t you just tie some string around it and a door handle, then slam the door?
It works in the cartoons.
My father did that as each of my milk- teeth became loose. Only worked on one occasion. And they all hurt. A lot.
Peak Warming Man said:
Bubblecar said:
I should be okay. I’ve been practising chewing on the left side of the mouth only and find I can do it without involving the right side as long as I eat slowly and carefully, with bites about half the size I’d normally take.Anyway restricted intake for a while will do me good in itself :)
Have you got a firm date to see the dennis?
TMI
Peak Warming Man said:
Bubblecar said:
I should be okay. I’ve been practising chewing on the left side of the mouth only and find I can do it without involving the right side as long as I eat slowly and carefully, with bites about half the size I’d normally take.Anyway restricted intake for a while will do me good in itself :)
Have you got a firm date to see the dennis?
Yes. At tooth hurty.
This is why naval aviators can fly rings around most air force and army fliers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3A_noXLzuo
What’s really impressive is that he didn’t use the Recovery Assist Secure and Traverse (RAST) system, where a cable connects the helicopter to the deck, and the helicopter is ‘winched down’.
He must not have thought that conditions were bad enough to justify it.
JudgeMental said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Bubblecar said:
I should be okay. I’ve been practising chewing on the left side of the mouth only and find I can do it without involving the right side as long as I eat slowly and carefully, with bites about half the size I’d normally take.Anyway restricted intake for a while will do me good in itself :)
Have you got a firm date to see the dennis?
TMI
Lol
I read that the next spacex flight of the BFR will have it land near Australia and be towed into port here somewhere.
I’m guessing somewhere between Carnarvon and Port Hedland.
captain_spalding said:
This is why naval aviators can fly rings around most air force and army fliers:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3A_noXLzuo
What’s really impressive is that he didn’t use the Recovery Assist Secure and Traverse (RAST) system, where a cable connects the helicopter to the deck, and the helicopter is ‘winched down’.
He must not have thought that conditions were bad enough to justify it.
I was wondering about that, and there was no haste to tie the chopper down.
tell yous what though we just realised that aniseeds look kind of like those maggots that were alleged to have been served under steak
captain_spalding said:
Kingy said:
Bubblecar said:
I should be okay. I’ve been practising chewing on the left side of the mouth only and find I can do it without involving the right side as long as I eat slowly and carefully, with bites about half the size I’d normally take.Anyway restricted intake for a while will do me good in itself :)
Can’t you just tie some string around it and a door handle, then slam the door?
It works in the cartoons.
Or what Tom Hanks did in ‘Castaway’.
Bash it out of your head with an ice-skate and a rock.
wait.. someone actually watched that movie?
Arts said:
captain_spalding said:
Kingy said:Can’t you just tie some string around it and a door handle, then slam the door?
It works in the cartoons.
Or what Tom Hanks did in ‘Castaway’.
Bash it out of your head with an ice-skate and a rock.
wait.. someone actually watched that movie?
It was a massive box office hit. I would estimate that 50 million people saw it at theatres, though obviously a lot of people have seen it by other means since its release.
dv said:
Arts said:
captain_spalding said:Or what Tom Hanks did in ‘Castaway’.
Bash it out of your head with an ice-skate and a rock.
wait.. someone actually watched that movie?
It was a massive box office hit. I would estimate that 50 million people saw it at theatres, though obviously a lot of people have seen it by other means since its release.
I will never understand humans
Arts said:
dv said:
Arts said:wait.. someone actually watched that movie?
It was a massive box office hit. I would estimate that 50 million people saw it at theatres, though obviously a lot of people have seen it by other means since its release.
I will never understand humans
(shrugs)
For mine, it was “fine”. Like 6.5 / 10 range.
Arts said:
dv said:
Arts said:wait.. someone actually watched that movie?
It was a massive box office hit. I would estimate that 50 million people saw it at theatres, though obviously a lot of people have seen it by other means since its release.
I will never understand humans
I trust you’ve actually watched the film to so confidently criticize it?
Witty Rejoinder said:
Arts said:
dv said:It was a massive box office hit. I would estimate that 50 million people saw it at theatres, though obviously a lot of people have seen it by other means since its release.
I will never understand humans
I trust you’ve actually watched the film to so confidently criticize it?
Hello Witty Rejoinder and welcome to the internet.. today we will be talking about opinions regarding things people have no experience with
Arts said:
captain_spalding said:
Kingy said:Can’t you just tie some string around it and a door handle, then slam the door?
It works in the cartoons.
Or what Tom Hanks did in ‘Castaway’.
Bash it out of your head with an ice-skate and a rock.
wait.. someone actually watched that movie?
There was some good moments in it.
One was where he got a massive wound in his leg from being bashed on some coral.
And he just got better.
We’d get coral wounds at Bundaberg Hospital. They needed an absolute shitload of antibiotic therapy. Coral is very nasty stuff.
Witty Rejoinder said:
Arts said:
dv said:It was a massive box office hit. I would estimate that 50 million people saw it at theatres, though obviously a lot of people have seen it by other means since its release.
I will never understand humans
I trust you’ve actually watched the film to so confidently criticize it?
only this forum could take an offhanded comment and be so outraged about it… I want my 2.5 hours back
What are the chances of hallucinating an email that can now not be found either on a laptop or a smartphone? Asking for a friend.
Witty Rejoinder said:
What are the chances of hallucinating an email that can now not be found either on a laptop or a smartphone? Asking for a friend.
psst I think witty inhaled.
Witty Rejoinder said:
What are the chances of hallucinating an email that can now not be found either on a laptop or a smartphone? Asking for a friend.
if your friend is a drongo probably 100%.
Arts said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Arts said:I will never understand humans
I trust you’ve actually watched the film to so confidently criticize it?
only this forum could take an offhanded comment and be so outraged about it… I want my 2.5 hours back
I think you’ve mistaken gentle ribbing for outrage
captain_spalding said:
Arts said:
captain_spalding said:Or what Tom Hanks did in ‘Castaway’.
Bash it out of your head with an ice-skate and a rock.
wait.. someone actually watched that movie?
There was some good moments in it.
One was where he got a massive wound in his leg from being bashed on some coral.
And he just got better.
We’d get coral wounds at Bundaberg Hospital. They needed an absolute shitload of antibiotic therapy. Coral is very nasty stuff.
Who’d‘ve thought that millions of symbiotes making a basecamp in your bloodstream could have negative consequences.
dv said:
Arts said:
Witty Rejoinder said:I trust you’ve actually watched the film to so confidently criticize it?
only this forum could take an offhanded comment and be so outraged about it… I want my 2.5 hours back
I think you’ve mistaken gentle ribbing for outrage
Well, it can be hard for some people to differentiate between the two.
On both the ‘giving’ and ‘receiving’ ends.
captain_spalding said:
dv said:
Arts said:only this forum could take an offhanded comment and be so outraged about it… I want my 2.5 hours back
I think you’ve mistaken gentle ribbing for outrage
Well, it can be hard for some people to differentiate between the two.
On both the ‘giving’ and ‘receiving’ ends.
DV hates it when I diss movies or actors.. it’s a thing we have…
dv said:
Arts said:
Witty Rejoinder said:I trust you’ve actually watched the film to so confidently criticize it?
only this forum could take an offhanded comment and be so outraged about it… I want my 2.5 hours back
I think you’ve mistaken gentle ribbing for outrage
Arts said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Arts said:
I will never understand humans
I trust you’ve actually watched the film to so confidently criticize it?
only this forum could take an offhanded comment and be so outraged about it… I want my 2.5 hours back
hence the need to ban 16 year olds from the like
Tamb said:
dv said:
Arts said:only this forum could take an offhanded comment and be so outraged about it… I want my 2.5 hours back
I think you’ve mistaken gentle ribbing for outrage
Didn’t we have a bus for that?
We need a gentle ribbing bus thread.
dv said:
captain_spalding said:
Arts said:
wait.. someone actually watched that movie?
There was some good moments in it.
One was where he got a massive wound in his leg from being bashed on some coral.
And he just got better.
We’d get coral wounds at Bundaberg Hospital. They needed an absolute shitload of antibiotic therapy. Coral is very nasty stuff.
Who’d‘ve thought that millions of symbiotes making a basecamp in your bloodstream could have negative consequences.
so it was already dead coral
Arts said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
What are the chances of hallucinating an email that can now not be found either on a laptop or a smartphone? Asking for a friend.
psst I think witty inhaled.
Well I just checked a bank account referenced in the email and the funds are there so I’m not going insane. Either that or I’m manifesting money using the powers of my mind.
Tamb said:
dv said:
Arts said:only this forum could take an offhanded comment and be so outraged about it… I want my 2.5 hours back
I think you’ve mistaken gentle ribbing for outrage
Didn’t we have a bus for that?
https://www.facebook.com/groups/844803208917464
it is outrageously quiet as well.
Arts said:
captain_spalding said:
dv said:I think you’ve mistaken gentle ribbing for outrage
Well, it can be hard for some people to differentiate between the two.
On both the ‘giving’ and ‘receiving’ ends.
DV hates it when I diss movies or actors.. it’s a thing we have…
I’m just surprised you watched a movie about a plane crash. Is this you?
Witty Rejoinder said:
Arts said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
What are the chances of hallucinating an email that can now not be found either on a laptop or a smartphone? Asking for a friend.
psst I think witty inhaled.
Well I just checked a bank account referenced in the email and the funds are there so I’m not going insane. Either that or I’m manifesting money using the powers of my mind.
chump change isn’t real money.
JudgeMental said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Arts said:psst I think witty inhaled.
Well I just checked a bank account referenced in the email and the funds are there so I’m not going insane. Either that or I’m manifesting money using the powers of my mind.
chump change isn’t real money.
Next time you receive $1300 you can send it my way then.
CTTOI I didn’t see Castaway at the cinema either but I did watch it on a flight. At the time I thought it was unlikely that an airline wouldn’t be using an uninterruptible GPS transponder to keep track of all flights but lol we have since learned they don’t do that.
There’ll be plenty of outrage to go around this Christmas.
You take the three wise men, being sent on a mission to find a kid in a stable.
They were outraged, right pissed orf.
Lets go to the tape.
A cold coming we had of it,
Just the worst time of the year
For a journey, and such a long journey:
The ways deep and the weather sharp,
The very dead of winter.’
And the camels galled, sorefooted, refractory,
Lying down in the melting snow.
There were times we regretted
The summer palaces on slopes, the terraces,
And the silken girls bringing sherbet.
Then the camel men cursing and grumbling
and running away, and wanting their liquor and women,
And the night-fires going out, and the lack of shelters,
Witty Rejoinder said:
JudgeMental said:
Witty Rejoinder said:Well I just checked a bank account referenced in the email and the funds are there so I’m not going insane. Either that or I’m manifesting money using the powers of my mind.
chump change isn’t real money.
Next time you receive $1300 you can send it my way then.
no worries.
Arts said:
captain_spalding said:
dv said:I think you’ve mistaken gentle ribbing for outrage
Well, it can be hard for some people to differentiate between the two.
On both the ‘giving’ and ‘receiving’ ends.
DV hates it when I diss movies or actors.. it’s a thing we have…
No I don’t.
JudgeMental said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
JudgeMental said:chump change isn’t real money.
Next time you receive $1300 you can send it my way then.
no worries.
he’ll need it to buy back the kidney
dv said:
Arts said:
captain_spalding said:Well, it can be hard for some people to differentiate between the two.
On both the ‘giving’ and ‘receiving’ ends.
DV hates it when I diss movies or actors.. it’s a thing we have…
No I don’t.
heh
Peak Warming Man said:
There’ll be plenty of outrage to go around this Christmas.
You take the three wise men, being sent on a mission to find a kid in a stable.
They were outraged, right pissed orf.
Lets go to the tape.And the night-fires going out, and the lack of shelters,
the shepherds had fires.
Arts said:
dv said:
Arts said:DV hates it when I diss movies or actors.. it’s a thing we have…
No I don’t.
heh
To me this is just “making polite conversation”
dv said:
Arts said:
dv said:No I don’t.
heh
To me this is just “making polite conversation”
look a bit of banter is fine.. but let’s not be polite about it
I’m certainly not going to pop an o-ring defending Cast Away which is mid, ibid.
dv said:
Arts said:
dv said:No I don’t.
heh
To me this is just “making polite conversation”
ain’t nobody got time for that
Peak Warming Man said:
There’ll be plenty of outrage to go around this Christmas.
You take the three wise men, being sent on a mission to find a kid in a stable.
They were outraged, right pissed orf.
Lets go to the tape.A cold coming we had of it,
Just the worst time of the year
For a journey, and such a long journey:
The ways deep and the weather sharp,
The very dead of winter.’
And the camels galled, sorefooted, refractory,
Lying down in the melting snow.
There were times we regretted
The summer palaces on slopes, the terraces,
And the silken girls bringing sherbet.
Then the camel men cursing and grumbling
and running away, and wanting their liquor and women,
And the night-fires going out, and the lack of shelters,
Trumps nativity scenario.
Kingy said:
Peak Warming Man said:
There’ll be plenty of outrage to go around this Christmas.
You take the three wise men, being sent on a mission to find a kid in a stable.
They were outraged, right pissed orf.
Lets go to the tape.A cold coming we had of it,
Just the worst time of the year
For a journey, and such a long journey:
The ways deep and the weather sharp,
The very dead of winter.’
And the camels galled, sorefooted, refractory,
Lying down in the melting snow.
There were times we regretted
The summer palaces on slopes, the terraces,
And the silken girls bringing sherbet.
Then the camel men cursing and grumbling
and running away, and wanting their liquor and women,
And the night-fires going out, and the lack of shelters,
Trumps nativity scenario.
LOL
SCIENCE said:
dv said:
captain_spalding said:
There was some good moments in it.
One was where he got a massive wound in his leg from being bashed on some coral.
And he just got better.
We’d get coral wounds at Bundaberg Hospital. They needed an absolute shitload of antibiotic therapy. Coral is very nasty stuff.
Who’d‘ve thought that millions of symbiotes making a basecamp in your bloodstream could have negative consequences.
so it was already dead coral
Live or dead, there’s no such thing as clean coral.
In short:
A 65-year-old Lithuanian man was pack-rafting along Tasmania’s Franklin River with 10 other people when his leg became trapped in a rock crevice last week.
Health authorities now say the man is in a “stable” condition in hospital, more than a week after his leg was amputated above the knee in a complex operation in fast-flowing water to free him.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-01/franklin-river-man-who-had-leg-amputated-now-in-stable-condition/104652740
dv said:
CTTOI I didn’t see Castaway at the cinema either but I did watch it on a flight. At the time I thought it was unlikely that an airline wouldn’t be using an uninterruptible GPS transponder to keep track of all flights but lol we have since learned they don’t do that.
Well, they do.
Normally.
They use this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_Dependent_Surveillance%E2%80%93Broadcast
You’re not supposed to turn off the ADS-B. But, that’s not to say that it can’t be done.
In the case of ‘Castaway’s FedEx flight, it seems unlikely that they would have had it turned off.
But, they get around that by simply having no-one mention ADS-B at all.
Kingy said:
Peak Warming Man said:
There’ll be plenty of outrage to go around this Christmas.
You take the three wise men, being sent on a mission to find a kid in a stable.
They were outraged, right pissed orf.
Lets go to the tape.A cold coming we had of it,
Just the worst time of the year
For a journey, and such a long journey:
The ways deep and the weather sharp,
The very dead of winter.’
And the camels galled, sorefooted, refractory,
Lying down in the melting snow.
There were times we regretted
The summer palaces on slopes, the terraces,
And the silken girls bringing sherbet.
Then the camel men cursing and grumbling
and running away, and wanting their liquor and women,
And the night-fires going out, and the lack of shelters,
Trumps nativity scenario.
Surely he kept the fat bloke. You know, what was his name again? oh…..that’s it. Round John Virgin.
sarahs mum said:
In short:
A 65-year-old Lithuanian man was pack-rafting along Tasmania’s Franklin River with 10 other people when his leg became trapped in a rock crevice last week.Health authorities now say the man is in a “stable” condition in hospital, more than a week after his leg was amputated above the knee in a complex operation in fast-flowing water to free him.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-01/franklin-river-man-who-had-leg-amputated-now-in-stable-condition/104652740
Goodo. But his rafting days might be over.
captain_spalding said:
dv said:
CTTOI I didn’t see Castaway at the cinema either but I did watch it on a flight. At the time I thought it was unlikely that an airline wouldn’t be using an uninterruptible GPS transponder to keep track of all flights but lol we have since learned they don’t do that.
Well, they do.
Normally.
They use this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_Dependent_Surveillance%E2%80%93Broadcast
You’re not supposed to turn off the ADS-B. But, that’s not to say that it can’t be done.
In the case of ‘Castaway’s FedEx flight, it seems unlikely that they would have had it turned off.
But, they get around that by simply having no-one mention ADS-B at all.
What does uninterruptible mean to you?
captain_spalding said:
SCIENCE said:
dv said:
Who’d‘ve thought that millions of symbiotes making a basecamp in your bloodstream could have negative consequences.
so it was already dead coral
Live or dead, there’s no such thing as clean coral.
don’t they use it for bone grafts
dv said:
captain_spalding said:
dv said:
CTTOI I didn’t see Castaway at the cinema either but I did watch it on a flight. At the time I thought it was unlikely that an airline wouldn’t be using an uninterruptible GPS transponder to keep track of all flights but lol we have since learned they don’t do that.
Well, they do.
Normally.
They use this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_Dependent_Surveillance%E2%80%93Broadcast
You’re not supposed to turn off the ADS-B. But, that’s not to say that it can’t be done.
In the case of ‘Castaway’s FedEx flight, it seems unlikely that they would have had it turned off.
But, they get around that by simply having no-one mention ADS-B at all.
What does uninterruptible mean to you?
it survives heat death
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
In short:
A 65-year-old Lithuanian man was pack-rafting along Tasmania’s Franklin River with 10 other people when his leg became trapped in a rock crevice last week.Health authorities now say the man is in a “stable” condition in hospital, more than a week after his leg was amputated above the knee in a complex operation in fast-flowing water to free him.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-01/franklin-river-man-who-had-leg-amputated-now-in-stable-condition/104652740
Goodo. But his rafting days might be over.
he wasn’t rafting when he got caught. he was checking out the rapids on foot and slipped. but I doubt he wants to go back there and try again.
dv said:
captain_spalding said:
dv said:
CTTOI I didn’t see Castaway at the cinema either but I did watch it on a flight. At the time I thought it was unlikely that an airline wouldn’t be using an uninterruptible GPS transponder to keep track of all flights but lol we have since learned they don’t do that.
Well, they do.
Normally.
They use this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_Dependent_Surveillance%E2%80%93Broadcast
You’re not supposed to turn off the ADS-B. But, that’s not to say that it can’t be done.
In the case of ‘Castaway’s FedEx flight, it seems unlikely that they would have had it turned off.
But, they get around that by simply having no-one mention ADS-B at all.
What does uninterruptible mean to you?
Oh, you mean a system that really can’t be turned off.
Well, no, they don’t got one of those.
If you do some hunting around on the matter, you’ll find that there’s some scenarios where it’s necessary to switch off ADS-B, and that air traffic control may, on rare occasions, instruct flight crew to do just that.
Having a truly uninterruptible system might exacerbate the very situations that might need to have ADS-B switched off for a bit.
Arts said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Arts said:I will never understand humans
I trust you’ve actually watched the film to so confidently criticize it?
only this forum could take an offhanded comment and be so outraged about it… I want my 2.5 hours back
I pretty sure there could be one or two others out there.
But thanks for the warning not to bother reading this afternoon’s chat.
dv said:
captain_spalding said:
dv said:
CTTOI I didn’t see Castaway at the cinema either but I did watch it on a flight. At the time I thought it was unlikely that an airline wouldn’t be using an uninterruptible GPS transponder to keep track of all flights but lol we have since learned they don’t do that.
Well, they do.
Normally.
They use this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_Dependent_Surveillance%E2%80%93Broadcast
You’re not supposed to turn off the ADS-B. But, that’s not to say that it can’t be done.
In the case of ‘Castaway’s FedEx flight, it seems unlikely that they would have had it turned off.
But, they get around that by simply having no-one mention ADS-B at all.
What does uninterruptible mean to you?
Well, if he had worked for UPS instead of FedEx…
SCIENCE said:
captain_spalding said:
SCIENCE said:
so it was already dead coral
Live or dead, there’s no such thing as clean coral.
don’t they use it for bone grafts
Well, that’s bit like saying that they use stainless steel bits and pieces in e.g. reconstructing joints.
Doesn’t mean you can just go and lift a S/S fitting off your sailing dinghy, and say, here ya go, doc. Or even one bought new out of the sailing boat outfitters.
Coral that they might implant in a bone graft has been sterilised as much as has anything else in the surgery.
Coral, live or dead, in the sea, is a whole other matter.
sarahs mum said:
In short:
A 65-year-old Lithuanian man was pack-rafting along Tasmania’s Franklin River with 10 other people when his leg became trapped in a rock crevice last week.Health authorities now say the man is in a “stable” condition in hospital, more than a week after his leg was amputated above the knee in a complex operation in fast-flowing water to free him.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-01/franklin-river-man-who-had-leg-amputated-now-in-stable-condition/104652740
Is his leg still in the creek? Might be worth taking some scoop nets there and get a feed of gilgies.
Kingy said:
sarahs mum said:
In short:
A 65-year-old Lithuanian man was pack-rafting along Tasmania’s Franklin River with 10 other people when his leg became trapped in a rock crevice last week.Health authorities now say the man is in a “stable” condition in hospital, more than a week after his leg was amputated above the knee in a complex operation in fast-flowing water to free him.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-01/franklin-river-man-who-had-leg-amputated-now-in-stable-condition/104652740
Is his leg still in the creek? Might be worth taking some scoop nets there and get a feed of gilgies.
bloody hell
Kingy said:
sarahs mum said:
In short:
A 65-year-old Lithuanian man was pack-rafting along Tasmania’s Franklin River with 10 other people when his leg became trapped in a rock crevice last week.Health authorities now say the man is in a “stable” condition in hospital, more than a week after his leg was amputated above the knee in a complex operation in fast-flowing water to free him.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-01/franklin-river-man-who-had-leg-amputated-now-in-stable-condition/104652740
Is his leg still in the creek? Might be worth taking some scoop nets there and get a feed of gilgies.
according to what I have read…yes…his leg is still stuck in the river.
sarahs mum said:
Kingy said:
sarahs mum said:
In short:
A 65-year-old Lithuanian man was pack-rafting along Tasmania’s Franklin River with 10 other people when his leg became trapped in a rock crevice last week.Health authorities now say the man is in a “stable” condition in hospital, more than a week after his leg was amputated above the knee in a complex operation in fast-flowing water to free him.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-01/franklin-river-man-who-had-leg-amputated-now-in-stable-condition/104652740
Is his leg still in the creek? Might be worth taking some scoop nets there and get a feed of gilgies.
according to what I have read…yes…his leg is still stuck in the river.
…until nature takes its course.
furious said:
dv said:
captain_spalding said:Well, they do.
Normally.
They use this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_Dependent_Surveillance%E2%80%93Broadcast
You’re not supposed to turn off the ADS-B. But, that’s not to say that it can’t be done.
In the case of ‘Castaway’s FedEx flight, it seems unlikely that they would have had it turned off.
But, they get around that by simply having no-one mention ADS-B at all.
What does uninterruptible mean to you?
Well, if he had worked for UPS instead of FedEx…
that’s pretty funny
The Rev Dodgson said:
Arts said:
Witty Rejoinder said:I trust you’ve actually watched the film to so confidently criticize it?
only this forum could take an offhanded comment and be so outraged about it… I want my 2.5 hours back
I pretty sure there could be one or two others out there.
But thanks for the warning not to bother reading this afternoon’s chat.
There were about three comments.
captain_spalding said:
dv said:
captain_spalding said:Well, they do.
Normally.
They use this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_Dependent_Surveillance%E2%80%93Broadcast
You’re not supposed to turn off the ADS-B. But, that’s not to say that it can’t be done.
In the case of ‘Castaway’s FedEx flight, it seems unlikely that they would have had it turned off.
But, they get around that by simply having no-one mention ADS-B at all.
What does uninterruptible mean to you?
Oh, you mean a system that really can’t be turned off.
Well, no, they don’t got one of those.
If you do some hunting around on the matter, you’ll find that there’s some scenarios where it’s necessary to switch off ADS-B, and that air traffic control may, on rare occasions, instruct flight crew to do just that.
Having a truly uninterruptible system might exacerbate the very situations that might need to have ADS-B switched off for a bit.
Well basically this means the situation that occurred with mh370 can still happen. If people in the cockpit can switch off transponders then any hijacker can make the plane untrackable.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Arts said:only this forum could take an offhanded comment and be so outraged about it… I want my 2.5 hours back
I pretty sure there could be one or two others out there.
But thanks for the warning not to bother reading this afternoon’s chat.
There were about three comments.
Though it occurs to me that perhaps Rev is being archly comic.
hey DV you have the chat thread linked in the meme thread first post in you index.
dv said:
Well basically this means the situation that occurred with mh370 can still happen. If people in the cockpit can switch off transponders then any hijacker can make the plane untrackable.
Hmmm…yeah.
I’ve seen a RAAF Airbus KC-30 tanker just drop off of e.g. Flightradar24, just like that.
Tootling along at several hundred kmh, at X thousand feet, and they just, for whatever reason, switched off ADS-B. Not there any more.
Of course, they’d still have been visible on any radar for which they were in range, but ADS-B is not radar.
You’ll see it happen from time to time on FR24, mostly with military aircraft, especially around the Black Sea and the Persian Gulf.
Any aircraft that’s far enough out over the sea, with no ADS-B, is pretty much invisible to the rest of the world.
JudgeMental said:
hey DV you have the chat thread linked in the meme thread first post in you index.
thanks for alerting me
captain_spalding said:
dv said:Well basically this means the situation that occurred with mh370 can still happen. If people in the cockpit can switch off transponders then any hijacker can make the plane untrackable.
Hmmm…yeah.
I’ve seen a RAAF Airbus KC-30 tanker just drop off of e.g. Flightradar24, just like that.
Tootling along at several hundred kmh, at X thousand feet, and they just, for whatever reason, switched off ADS-B. Not there any more.
Of course, they’d still have been visible on any radar for which they were in range, but ADS-B is not radar.
You’ll see it happen from time to time on FR24, mostly with military aircraft, especially around the Black Sea and the Persian Gulf.
Any aircraft that’s far enough out over the sea, with no ADS-B, is pretty much invisible to the rest of the world.
I’ve seen Australian military aircraft drop off (and on) in the area where I keep an eye on: Lismore to Bundaberg.
https://globe.adsbexchange.com/
Our local charter helicopter never shows up. But the GA8 that takes charter flights from 75 mile beach on K’gari does.
¿ any of these schoolies going on to do engineering at university ?
captain_spalding said:
dv said:
captain_spalding said:Well, they do.
Normally.
They use this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_Dependent_Surveillance%E2%80%93Broadcast
You’re not supposed to turn off the ADS-B. But, that’s not to say that it can’t be done.
In the case of ‘Castaway’s FedEx flight, it seems unlikely that they would have had it turned off.
But, they get around that by simply having no-one mention ADS-B at all.
What does uninterruptible mean to you?
Oh, you mean a system that really can’t be turned off.
Well, no, they don’t got one of those.
If you do some hunting around on the matter, you’ll find that there’s some scenarios where it’s necessary to switch off ADS-B, and that air traffic control may, on rare occasions, instruct flight crew to do just that.
Having a truly uninterruptible system might exacerbate the very situations that might need to have ADS-B switched off for a bit.
didnt the 9/11 dudes do that? (switch it off)
sarahs mum said:
Kingy said:
sarahs mum said:
In short:
A 65-year-old Lithuanian man was pack-rafting along Tasmania’s Franklin River with 10 other people when his leg became trapped in a rock crevice last week.Health authorities now say the man is in a “stable” condition in hospital, more than a week after his leg was amputated above the knee in a complex operation in fast-flowing water to free him.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-01/franklin-river-man-who-had-leg-amputated-now-in-stable-condition/104652740
Is his leg still in the creek? Might be worth taking some scoop nets there and get a feed of gilgies.
according to what I have read…yes…his leg is still stuck in the river.
well it’ll disarticulate at the ankle first… if the foot is still in a shoe, there is a good likelihood of that foot not being eaten by aquatic life too quickly.. the lower part of the limb and any submerged part will begin to show signs of adipocere and…
ok no one asked…
Arts said:
captain_spalding said:
dv said:What does uninterruptible mean to you?
Oh, you mean a system that really can’t be turned off.
Well, no, they don’t got one of those.
If you do some hunting around on the matter, you’ll find that there’s some scenarios where it’s necessary to switch off ADS-B, and that air traffic control may, on rare occasions, instruct flight crew to do just that.
Having a truly uninterruptible system might exacerbate the very situations that might need to have ADS-B switched off for a bit.
didnt the 9/11 dudes do that? (switch it off)
I think switched it off so no one would know they landed in Pakistan.
captain_spalding said:
Oh, you mean a system that really can’t be turned off.
Well, no, they don’t got one of those.
If you do some hunting around on the matter, you’ll find that there’s some scenarios where it’s necessary to switch off ADS-B, and that air traffic control may, on rare occasions, instruct flight crew to do just that.
Having a truly uninterruptible system might exacerbate the very situations that might need to have ADS-B switched off for a bit.
Under what circumstances, in flight, would you need to have the ads-b switched off for a bit?
dv said:
Kingy said:
sarahs mum said:
In short:
A 65-year-old Lithuanian man was pack-rafting along Tasmania’s Franklin River with 10 other people when his leg became trapped in a rock crevice last week.Health authorities now say the man is in a “stable” condition in hospital, more than a week after his leg was amputated above the knee in a complex operation in fast-flowing water to free him.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-01/franklin-river-man-who-had-leg-amputated-now-in-stable-condition/104652740
Is his leg still in the creek? Might be worth taking some scoop nets there and get a feed of gilgies.
bloody hell
Yeah, you’re right. It’s only fair that he gets the first go, it’s his bait. It’d be like pulling some else’s lobster pots. Unaustralian.
Well that’s got some mor mowing done, and it’s hot.
Grabs a solo and slams it down fast.
Where do we stand on Prince.
Peak Warming Man said:
Where do we stand on Prince.
On his feet?
Peak Warming Man said:
Where do we stand on Prince.
Prince’s cremated remains are held in a customized urn displayed in the foyer of Paisley Park
dv said:
captain_spalding said:
Oh, you mean a system that really can’t be turned off.
Well, no, they don’t got one of those.
If you do some hunting around on the matter, you’ll find that there’s some scenarios where it’s necessary to switch off ADS-B, and that air traffic control may, on rare occasions, instruct flight crew to do just that.
Having a truly uninterruptible system might exacerbate the very situations that might need to have ADS-B switched off for a bit.
Under what circumstances, in flight, would you need to have the ads-b switched off for a bit?
One situation could be a CSMM. CSMM in aviation stands for Call Sign Mismatch, which occurs when the aircraft identification in a flight plan doesn’t match the ADS-B transmitted identification. To avoid a CSMM, it should be ensured that the ADS-B Flight Identification (FLT ID) matches the aircraft identification on the flight plan.
CSMM can lead to operational inconsistencies with ADS-B Out.
Another time might be if ADS-B shows aircraft with duplicated ICAO addresses. ICAO adresses are 24-bit addresses, allocated by the International Civil Aviation Organization to states to uniquely identify aircraft worldwide.
Another time is when aircraft are flying in formation, in which case only the lead aircraft should have ADS-B Out enabled.
captain_spalding said:
dv said:captain_spalding said:
Oh, you mean a system that really can’t be turned off.
Well, no, they don’t got one of those.
If you do some hunting around on the matter, you’ll find that there’s some scenarios where it’s necessary to switch off ADS-B, and that air traffic control may, on rare occasions, instruct flight crew to do just that.
Having a truly uninterruptible system might exacerbate the very situations that might need to have ADS-B switched off for a bit.
Under what circumstances, in flight, would you need to have the ads-b switched off for a bit?
One situation could be a CSMM. CSMM in aviation stands for Call Sign Mismatch, which occurs when the aircraft identification in a flight plan doesn’t match the ADS-B transmitted identification. To avoid a CSMM, it should be ensured that the ADS-B Flight Identification (FLT ID) matches the aircraft identification on the flight plan.
CSMM can lead to operational inconsistencies with ADS-B Out.Another time might be if ADS-B shows aircraft with duplicated ICAO addresses. ICAO adresses are 24-bit addresses, allocated by the International Civil Aviation Organization to states to uniquely identify aircraft worldwide.
Another time is when aircraft are flying in formation, in which case only the lead aircraft should have ADS-B Out enabled.
I realise that I’m speaking from ignorance but it seems to me that all of this should be manageable using software on the ground. One would hope that duplicated ICAO addresses would be a) extremely rare, basically indicative of a systemic failure and b) detected almost immediately.
Peak Warming Man said:
Where do we stand on Prince.
Working out whether he is underrated would require coming up with a consensus on how highly rated he is.
To my mind he is, rightly, very highly rated.
we have a new member at The Outrage Bus. Obviously a forumite. 36 members now.
JudgeMental said:
we have a new member at The Outrage Bus. Obviously a forumite. 36 members now.
name?
dv said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Where do we stand on Prince.
Working out whether he is underrated would require coming up with a consensus on how highly rated he is.
To my mind he is, rightly, very highly rated.
i’m not that much into prince’s music but his gitar solo at the end of ‘while my guitar gently weeps’ is shit hot.
dv said:
JudgeMental said:
we have a new member at The Outrage Bus. Obviously a forumite. 36 members now.
name?
They use their real name on FB so I won’t mention it here.
JudgeMental said:
dv said:
JudgeMental said:
we have a new member at The Outrage Bus. Obviously a forumite. 36 members now.
name?
They use their real name on FB so I won’t mention it here.
fair
captain_spalding said:
dv said:captain_spalding said:
Oh, you mean a system that really can’t be turned off.
Well, no, they don’t got one of those.
If you do some hunting around on the matter, you’ll find that there’s some scenarios where it’s necessary to switch off ADS-B, and that air traffic control may, on rare occasions, instruct flight crew to do just that.
Having a truly uninterruptible system might exacerbate the very situations that might need to have ADS-B switched off for a bit.
Under what circumstances, in flight, would you need to have the ads-b switched off for a bit?
One situation could be a CSMM. CSMM in aviation stands for Call Sign Mismatch, which occurs when the aircraft identification in a flight plan doesn’t match the ADS-B transmitted identification. To avoid a CSMM, it should be ensured that the ADS-B Flight Identification (FLT ID) matches the aircraft identification on the flight plan.
CSMM can lead to operational inconsistencies with ADS-B Out.Another time might be if ADS-B shows aircraft with duplicated ICAO addresses. ICAO adresses are 24-bit addresses, allocated by the International Civil Aviation Organization to states to uniquely identify aircraft worldwide.
Another time is when aircraft are flying in formation, in which case only the lead aircraft should have ADS-B Out enabled.
Interesting, thanks.
JudgeMental said:
we have a new member at The Outrage Bus. Obviously a forumite. 36 members now.
been 10 years since I started it.
JudgeMental said:
we have a new member at The Outrage Bus. Obviously a forumite. 36 members now.
37 now. Dunno who this one is.
JudgeMental said:
JudgeMental said:
we have a new member at The Outrage Bus. Obviously a forumite. 36 members now.
37 now. Dunno who this one is.
It’s not me, and anyway you can’t prove it.
dv said:
captain_spalding said:
dv said:Under what circumstances, in flight, would you need to have the ads-b switched off for a bit?
One situation could be a CSMM. CSMM in aviation stands for Call Sign Mismatch, which occurs when the aircraft identification in a flight plan doesn’t match the ADS-B transmitted identification. To avoid a CSMM, it should be ensured that the ADS-B Flight Identification (FLT ID) matches the aircraft identification on the flight plan.
CSMM can lead to operational inconsistencies with ADS-B Out.Another time might be if ADS-B shows aircraft with duplicated ICAO addresses. ICAO adresses are 24-bit addresses, allocated by the International Civil Aviation Organization to states to uniquely identify aircraft worldwide.
Another time is when aircraft are flying in formation, in which case only the lead aircraft should have ADS-B Out enabled.
I realise that I’m speaking from ignorance but it seems to me that all of this should be manageable using software on the ground. One would hope that duplicated ICAO addresses would be a) extremely rare, basically indicative of a systemic failure and b) detected almost immediately.
While i tend to agree, we ‘re stuck with the world we live in, and this is the way that they do things.
I don’t doubt that there has been, and is, ongoing work to resolve these matters, but, right now, things go on as they were.
Perhaps you should enquire of the ICAO as to what progress they’ve made with the siutation?
Ya’ll remember Whiplash.
“Whiplash is a British/Australian television series in the Australian Western genre, produced by the Seven Network, ATV, and ITC Entertainment, and starring Peter Graves. Filmed in 1959-60, the series was first broadcast in the United Kingdom in September 1960, and in Australia in February 1961.”
Peak Warming Man said:
Ya’ll remember Whiplash.“Whiplash is a British/Australian television series in the Australian Western genre, produced by the Seven Network, ATV, and ITC Entertainment, and starring Peter Graves. Filmed in 1959-60, the series was first broadcast in the United Kingdom in September 1960, and in Australia in February 1961.”
My grandmother’s next door neighbour, in Rozelle in inner Sydney, owned a ‘dude ranch’ at Windsor, and he supplied the horses and the stage coach and other wagons for the show.
captain_spalding said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Ya’ll remember Whiplash.“Whiplash is a British/Australian television series in the Australian Western genre, produced by the Seven Network, ATV, and ITC Entertainment, and starring Peter Graves. Filmed in 1959-60, the series was first broadcast in the United Kingdom in September 1960, and in Australia in February 1961.”
My grandmother’s next door neighbour, in Rozelle in inner Sydney, owned a ‘dude ranch’ at Windsor, and he supplied the horses and the stage coach and other wagons for the show.
Well there you go.
Peak Warming Man said:
captain_spalding said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Ya’ll remember Whiplash.“Whiplash is a British/Australian television series in the Australian Western genre, produced by the Seven Network, ATV, and ITC Entertainment, and starring Peter Graves. Filmed in 1959-60, the series was first broadcast in the United Kingdom in September 1960, and in Australia in February 1961.”
My grandmother’s next door neighbour, in Rozelle in inner Sydney, owned a ‘dude ranch’ at Windsor, and he supplied the horses and the stage coach and other wagons for the show.
Well there you go.
As a kid, i got to ride around in that stage coach.
And, a bloody rough and uncomfortable ride it was.
Those olden-days people must have been made of stern stuff.
captain_spalding said:
Peak Warming Man said:
captain_spalding said:My grandmother’s next door neighbour, in Rozelle in inner Sydney, owned a ‘dude ranch’ at Windsor, and he supplied the horses and the stage coach and other wagons for the show.
Well there you go.
As a kid, i got to ride around in that stage coach.
And, a bloody rough and uncomfortable ride it was.
Those olden-days people must have been made of stern stuff.
As an aside Stagecoach was a great movie.
Peak Warming Man said:
captain_spalding said:
Peak Warming Man said:Well there you go.
As a kid, i got to ride around in that stage coach.
And, a bloody rough and uncomfortable ride it was.
Those olden-days people must have been made of stern stuff.
As an aside Stagecoach was a great movie.
Yes, should give that another look, for old times’ sake.
I learnt to ride at that dude ranch. No frills, no ‘poise’ riding, applicable to the real world.
Would probably give an instructor in the equine arts a fit of apoplexy.
captain_spalding said:
Peak Warming Man said:
captain_spalding said:My grandmother’s next door neighbour, in Rozelle in inner Sydney, owned a ‘dude ranch’ at Windsor, and he supplied the horses and the stage coach and other wagons for the show.
Well there you go.
As a kid, i got to ride around in that stage coach.
And, a bloody rough and uncomfortable ride it was.
Those olden-days people must have been made of stern stuff.
I am sure they dreaded it, but it was better than walking.
party_pants said:
I am sure they dreaded it, but it was better than walking.
As i recall, walking would probably have been quite a feat after a long ride in a stage coach.
captain_spalding said:
Peak Warming Man said:
captain_spalding said:As a kid, i got to ride around in that stage coach.
And, a bloody rough and uncomfortable ride it was.
Those olden-days people must have been made of stern stuff.
As an aside Stagecoach was a great movie.
Yes, should give that another look, for old times’ sake.
I learnt to ride at that dude ranch. No frills, no ‘poise’ riding, applicable to the real world.
Would probably give an instructor in the equine arts a fit of apoplexy.
I’ve downloaded quite a library of movies. nothing too cerebral
Khartoum, Zulu, the original Great Expectations, The Wicker Man etc
There all on the net if you can find them.
Peak Warming Man said:
captain_spalding said:
Peak Warming Man said:As an aside Stagecoach was a great movie.
Yes, should give that another look, for old times’ sake.
I learnt to ride at that dude ranch. No frills, no ‘poise’ riding, applicable to the real world.
Would probably give an instructor in the equine arts a fit of apoplexy.
I’ve downloaded quite a library of movies. nothing too cerebral
Khartoum, Zulu, the original Great Expectations, The Wicker Man etc
There all on the net if you can find them.
I get all my movies from Youtube.
Peak Warming Man said:
captain_spalding said:
Peak Warming Man said:As an aside Stagecoach was a great movie.
Yes, should give that another look, for old times’ sake.
I learnt to ride at that dude ranch. No frills, no ‘poise’ riding, applicable to the real world.
Would probably give an instructor in the equine arts a fit of apoplexy.
I’ve downloaded quite a library of movies. nothing too cerebral
Khartoum, Zulu, the original Great Expectations, The Wicker Man etc
There all on the net if you can find them.
i’ve got Zulu on DVD.
Reasonably close to the actual events, although some of the characters are sadly misrepresented.
And, those Martini-Henry rifles, .577!
Of course, they couldn’t, by the standards of the day (1964), accurately represent on film the wounds caused by those rifles. It would have been enormously horrific.
I’ve seen one of those rifles go off, and what it does to a target.
Takes your breath way.
I’ve only just realised what Arts meant. The movie wasted 2.5 hours of her time.
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in the rain…
Vietnam OKs $67bn bullet train for 5-hour trip north to south
HO CHI MINH CITY — Vietnam’s parliament has approved a $67 billion high-speed railway project that would reduce travel time between Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City from 35 hours to just 5.5 hours.
The 1,500-kilometer line, which would require the removal of 120,000 residents and parts of protected forests and rice fields, is set to begin construction in 2027, with a completion target of 2035.
https://asia.nikkei.com/
…
Behind a paywall so that’s all I’ve got.
Witty Rejoinder said:
Vietnam OKs $67bn bullet train for 5-hour trip north to southHO CHI MINH CITY — Vietnam’s parliament has approved a $67 billion high-speed railway project that would reduce travel time between Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City from 35 hours to just 5.5 hours.
The 1,500-kilometer line, which would require the removal of 120,000 residents and parts of protected forests and rice fields, is set to begin construction in 2027, with a completion target of 2035.
https://asia.nikkei.com/
…
Behind a paywall so that’s all I’ve got.
I hope they buy Japanese, French or German trains, and not Chinese.
party_pants said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Vietnam OKs $67bn bullet train for 5-hour trip north to southHO CHI MINH CITY — Vietnam’s parliament has approved a $67 billion high-speed railway project that would reduce travel time between Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City from 35 hours to just 5.5 hours.
The 1,500-kilometer line, which would require the removal of 120,000 residents and parts of protected forests and rice fields, is set to begin construction in 2027, with a completion target of 2035.
https://asia.nikkei.com/
…
Behind a paywall so that’s all I’ve got.
I hope they buy Japanese, French or German trains, and not Chinese.
Would be surprised if it was not Chinese, Belt and Road is their strategy.
tauto said:
party_pants said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Vietnam OKs $67bn bullet train for 5-hour trip north to southHO CHI MINH CITY — Vietnam’s parliament has approved a $67 billion high-speed railway project that would reduce travel time between Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City from 35 hours to just 5.5 hours.
The 1,500-kilometer line, which would require the removal of 120,000 residents and parts of protected forests and rice fields, is set to begin construction in 2027, with a completion target of 2035.
https://asia.nikkei.com/
…
Behind a paywall so that’s all I’ve got.
I hope they buy Japanese, French or German trains, and not Chinese.
Would be surprised if it was not Chinese, Belt and Road is their strategy.
Yes. I feel the same. Just wishful thinking on my part, most likely.
party_pants said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Vietnam OKs $67bn bullet train for 5-hour trip north to southHO CHI MINH CITY — Vietnam’s parliament has approved a $67 billion high-speed railway project that would reduce travel time between Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City from 35 hours to just 5.5 hours.
The 1,500-kilometer line, which would require the removal of 120,000 residents and parts of protected forests and rice fields, is set to begin construction in 2027, with a completion target of 2035.
https://asia.nikkei.com/
…
Behind a paywall so that’s all I’ve got.
I hope they buy Japanese, French or German trains, and not Chinese.
Not trying to paint you as inconsistent but do you try avoid Chinese products in general? The new belt sander for example
Sick days are increasingly becoming a drag on some of Europe’s economies, resulting in high costs and inefficiencies. Workers in Norway take more sick days than anywhere else in Europe, with absences at the highest level in 15 years. It’s a similar story in the UK, where illness leaves take an estimated £33 billion toll on productivity, and in Germany to the tune of €200 billion. Companies are struggling with chronic shortages, and for many governments it’s an extra financial strain. The IMF calls it “costly and distortionary” and says that reform should be a priority.
…
Lazy Norwegians and hard-working Greeks: I don’t understand the world anymore.
Witty Rejoinder said:
party_pants said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Vietnam OKs $67bn bullet train for 5-hour trip north to southHO CHI MINH CITY — Vietnam’s parliament has approved a $67 billion high-speed railway project that would reduce travel time between Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City from 35 hours to just 5.5 hours.
The 1,500-kilometer line, which would require the removal of 120,000 residents and parts of protected forests and rice fields, is set to begin construction in 2027, with a completion target of 2035.
https://asia.nikkei.com/
…
Behind a paywall so that’s all I’ve got.
I hope they buy Japanese, French or German trains, and not Chinese.
Not trying to paint you as inconsistent but do you try avoid Chinese products in general? The new belt sander for example
There’s a big difference between an electric sander and a high speed passenger rail network.
The electric sander is plug in and play. Until it conks out and I chuck it in the dam and buy a new one.
It requires no ongoing maintenance, no reliable supply chain of spare parts, no specific training to operate, no trained and experienced engineering support… etc. If China don’t like my posts they can’t cut off my electric sander. But they can bring my flash new high speed rail network to a standstill and use all these things as blackmail political leverage.
party_pants said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
party_pants said:I hope they buy Japanese, French or German trains, and not Chinese.
Not trying to paint you as inconsistent but do you try avoid Chinese products in general? The new belt sander for example
There’s a big difference between an electric sander and a high speed passenger rail network.
The electric sander is plug in and play. Until it conks out and I chuck it in the dam and buy a new one.
It requires no ongoing maintenance, no reliable supply chain of spare parts, no specific training to operate, no trained and experienced engineering support… etc. If China don’t like my posts they can’t cut off my electric sander. But they can bring my flash new high speed rail network to a standstill and use all these things as
blackmailpolitical leverage.
I mean… China is basically the bees knees with regard to HSR.
party_pants said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
party_pants said:I hope they buy Japanese, French or German trains, and not Chinese.
Not trying to paint you as inconsistent but do you try avoid Chinese products in general? The new belt sander for example
There’s a big difference between an electric sander and a high speed passenger rail network.
The electric sander is plug in and play. Until it conks out and I chuck it in the dam and buy a new one.
It requires no ongoing maintenance, no reliable supply chain of spare parts, no specific training to operate, no trained and experienced engineering support… etc. If China don’t like my posts they can’t cut off my electric sander. But they can bring my flash new high speed rail network to a standstill and use all these things as
blackmailpolitical leverage.
Sorry that wasn’t my point of contention. I was more curious to know if you were boycotting China because the CCP are arseholes.
dv said:
party_pants said:
Witty Rejoinder said:Not trying to paint you as inconsistent but do you try avoid Chinese products in general? The new belt sander for example
There’s a big difference between an electric sander and a high speed passenger rail network.
The electric sander is plug in and play. Until it conks out and I chuck it in the dam and buy a new one.
It requires no ongoing maintenance, no reliable supply chain of spare parts, no specific training to operate, no trained and experienced engineering support… etc. If China don’t like my posts they can’t cut off my electric sander. But they can bring my flash new high speed rail network to a standstill and use all these things as
blackmailpolitical leverage.
I mean… China is basically the bees knees with regard to HSR.
From what I have heard to initial cost is cheap but the quality is low. Leading to high on-going maintenance costs, especially in wheels and axles and bearings and so on.
Witty Rejoinder said:
party_pants said:
Witty Rejoinder said:Not trying to paint you as inconsistent but do you try avoid Chinese products in general? The new belt sander for example
There’s a big difference between an electric sander and a high speed passenger rail network.
The electric sander is plug in and play. Until it conks out and I chuck it in the dam and buy a new one.
It requires no ongoing maintenance, no reliable supply chain of spare parts, no specific training to operate, no trained and experienced engineering support… etc. If China don’t like my posts they can’t cut off my electric sander. But they can bring my flash new high speed rail network to a standstill and use all these things as
blackmailpolitical leverage.
Sorry that wasn’t my point of contention. I was more curious to know if you were boycotting China because the CCP are arseholes.
The Chinese use the BRI as political leverage over the countries that sign up. I am not a big fan of the CCP for the reasons that they want to reshape the world into something that resembles their own philosophy. I am philosophically opposed to their philosophy.
Witty Rejoinder said:
Sick days are increasingly becoming a drag on some of Europe’s economies, resulting in high costs and inefficiencies. Workers in Norway take more sick days than anywhere else in Europe, with absences at the highest level in 15 years. It’s a similar story in the UK, where illness leaves take an estimated £33 billion toll on productivity, and in Germany to the tune of €200 billion. Companies are struggling with chronic shortages, and for many governments it’s an extra financial strain. The IMF calls it “costly and distortionary” and says that reform should be a priority.
…
Lazy Norwegians and hard-working Greeks: I don’t understand the world anymore.
Chuckle
Witty Rejoinder said:
Sick days are increasingly becoming a drag on some of Europe’s economies, resulting in high costs and inefficiencies. Workers in Norway take more sick days than anywhere else in Europe, with absences at the highest level in 15 years. It’s a similar story in the UK, where illness leaves take an estimated £33 billion toll on productivity, and in Germany to the tune of €200 billion. Companies are struggling with chronic shortages, and for many governments it’s an extra financial strain. The IMF calls it “costly and distortionary” and says that reform should be a priority.
…
Lazy Norwegians and hard-working Greeks: I don’t understand the world anymore.
Where are we on this list?
Peak Warming Man said:
JudgeMental said:
JudgeMental said:
we have a new member at The Outrage Bus. Obviously a forumite. 36 members now.
37 now. Dunno who this one is.
It’s not me, and anyway you can’t prove it.
Me?
dv said:
I’ve only just realised what Arts meant. The movie wasted 2.5 hours of her time.
Good morning Holidayers. Presently 17 degrees at the back door and there has been some rain overnight. We are forecast 21 degrees with “a shower or two clearing”.
Bakery breakfast this morning. Nothing else definitely planned yet for today.
dv said:
I’ve only just realised what Arts meant. The movie wasted 2.5 hours of her time.
Yes.
There was a time when I would watch movies that I didn’t enjoy because my need for completion overruled common sense. Then I watched The Blair Witch Project – which holds the title of the first movie I have ever walked out of… now I walk out, turn off, stop, and avoid as much as I like.
I started watching the Ramsey thing on Netflix.. I got to about seven minutes when I realised that it was going to be a waste of time.
As for castaway. I think I might have watched it to the end, but I actually don’t recall how it ends, so maybe not? I guess I presumed that the character was rescued. If not please, no spoilers, one day I might get back to it.
Morning. We have cloudy and a high chance of showers, max 23.
I’ve been up for some time and have already made a blitzed soup of mixed legumes (green & broad beans, peas) with onion, garlic, spinach, avocado oil, thyme, sage, mace, hen stock, balsamic.
Breakfasted on same and am now about to brew a cup of tea. Today’s agenda will include music creation and housework.
Ooh, got an email purportedly from the tax office and mygov. Apparently my 2024 tax stuff is ready. Or something. Apparently the scammers don’t know it was all finalized some months ago…and they emailed to “practice manager” as the name of the tax account.
buffy said:
Ooh, got an email purportedly from the tax office and mygov. Apparently my 2024 tax stuff is ready. Or something. Apparently the scammers don’t know it was all finalized some months ago…and they emailed to “practice manager” as the name of the tax account.
I got an email purportedly from the tax office a few years ago saying they had $30000 of my money, and asking for an account to put it into. I replied saying that they should have details of my superannuation fund, and they should put it in there. They did.
Arts said:
dv said:
I’ve only just realised what Arts meant. The movie wasted 2.5 hours of her time.
Yes.
There was a time when I would watch movies that I didn’t enjoy because my need for completion overruled common sense. Then I watched The Blair Witch Project – which holds the title of the first movie I have ever walked out of… now I walk out, turn off, stop, and avoid as much as I like.
I started watching the Ramsey thing on Netflix.. I got to about seven minutes when I realised that it was going to be a waste of time.
As for castaway. I think I might have watched it to the end, but I actually don’t recall how it ends, so maybe not? I guess I presumed that the character was rescued. If not please, no spoilers, one day I might get back to it.
so everyone should watch The Blair Witch Project and free themselves
Arts said:
dv said:
I’ve only just realised what Arts meant. The movie wasted 2.5 hours of her time.
Yes.
There was a time when I would watch movies that I didn’t enjoy because my need for completion overruled common sense. Then I watched The Blair Witch Project – which holds the title of the first movie I have ever walked out of… now I walk out, turn off, stop, and avoid as much as I like.
I started watching the Ramsey thing on Netflix.. I got to about seven minutes when I realised that it was going to be a waste of time.
As for castaway. I think I might have watched it to the end, but I actually don’t recall how it ends, so maybe not? I guess I presumed that the character was rescued. If not please, no spoilers, one day I might get back to it.
chuck and wilson get married. get rescued and live in NY. Wilson isn’t accepted by chucks friends and say chuck is crazy in the coconut. they move back to the island.
JudgeMental said:
Arts said:
dv said:
I’ve only just realised what Arts meant. The movie wasted 2.5 hours of her time.
Yes.
There was a time when I would watch movies that I didn’t enjoy because my need for completion overruled common sense. Then I watched The Blair Witch Project – which holds the title of the first movie I have ever walked out of… now I walk out, turn off, stop, and avoid as much as I like.
I started watching the Ramsey thing on Netflix.. I got to about seven minutes when I realised that it was going to be a waste of time.
As for castaway. I think I might have watched it to the end, but I actually don’t recall how it ends, so maybe not? I guess I presumed that the character was rescued. If not please, no spoilers, one day I might get back to it.
chuck and wilson get married. get rescued and live in NY. Wilson isn’t accepted by chucks friends and say chuck is crazy in the coconut. they move back to the island.
That’s the thing i’n‘it ¿ Why not satisfy both the need for completion and the overruled common sense, and walk out while taking spoilers¿
Rob Ert
my M36 Jackson, from above, recently finished
Morning punters and correctors.
Today looks set fair so I’ll do some more mowing and gining around in the yard.
Over.
Peak Warming Man said:
Morning punters and correctors.
Today looks set fair so I’ll do some more mowing and gining around in the yard.
Over.
Whilst drinking gin?
btm said:
buffy said:
Ooh, got an email purportedly from the tax office and mygov. Apparently my 2024 tax stuff is ready. Or something. Apparently the scammers don’t know it was all finalized some months ago…and they emailed to “practice manager” as the name of the tax account.
I got an email purportedly from the tax office a few years ago saying they had $30000 of my money, and asking for an account to put it into. I replied saying that they should have details of my superannuation fund, and they should put it in there. They did.
Was this just a normal tax refund or something more serendipitous?
btm said:
buffy said:
Ooh, got an email purportedly from the tax office and mygov. Apparently my 2024 tax stuff is ready. Or something. Apparently the scammers don’t know it was all finalized some months ago…and they emailed to “practice manager” as the name of the tax account.
I got an email purportedly from the tax office a few years ago saying they had $30000 of my money, and asking for an account to put it into. I replied saying that they should have details of my superannuation fund, and they should put it in there. They did.
Nice.
:)
Good morning everybody. I wish you all a happy and productive day.
I’ve been having battery trouble with my laptop lately, and Mrs V’s laptop has been painfully slow for ages. Yesterday I looked up Harvey Norman and found a laptop on special (-$431) with excellent specs. Yes, they are in stock at Maryborough, an hour and a quarter drive away. This morning I had another read, and the price has gone back up to $999.
Bummer.
They didn’t say when the special would end.
>>Trump nominates billionaire investment banker to be British ambassador
He should fit in well with the chaps.
Michael V said:
Good morning everybody. I wish you all a happy and productive day.I’ve been having battery trouble with my laptop lately, and Mrs V’s laptop has been painfully slow for ages. Yesterday I looked up Harvey Norman and found a laptop on special (-$431) with excellent specs. Yes, they are in stock at Maryborough, an hour and a quarter drive away. This morning I had another read, and the price has gone back up to $999.
Bummer.
They didn’t say when the special would end.
Blimey that would have been good buying, maybe it was a mistake.
Michael V said:
Good morning everybody. I wish you all a happy and productive day.
I’ve been having battery trouble with my laptop lately, and Mrs V’s laptop has been painfully slow for ages. Yesterday I looked up Harvey Norman and found a laptop on special (-$431) with excellent specs. Yes, they are in stock at Maryborough, an hour and a quarter drive away. This morning I had another read, and the price has gone back up to $999.
Bummer.
They didn’t say when the special would end.
ah but weren’t you just saying that these blackhalloweenthanksgivingfriday sales things were silly
SCIENCE said:
Michael V said:
Good morning everybody. I wish you all a happy and productive day.
I’ve been having battery trouble with my laptop lately, and Mrs V’s laptop has been painfully slow for ages. Yesterday I looked up Harvey Norman and found a laptop on special (-$431) with excellent specs. Yes, they are in stock at Maryborough, an hour and a quarter drive away. This morning I had another read, and the price has gone back up to $999.
Bummer.
They didn’t say when the special would end.
ah but weren’t you just saying that these blackhalloweenthanksgivingfriday sales things were silly
Might have just been for Cyber Monday which was yesterday MV.
SCIENCE said:
Michael V said:
Good morning everybody. I wish you all a happy and productive day.
I’ve been having battery trouble with my laptop lately, and Mrs V’s laptop has been painfully slow for ages. Yesterday I looked up Harvey Norman and found a laptop on special (-$431) with excellent specs. Yes, they are in stock at Maryborough, an hour and a quarter drive away. This morning I had another read, and the price has gone back up to $999.
Bummer.
They didn’t say when the special would end.
ah but weren’t you just saying that these blackhalloweenthanksgivingfriday sales things were silly
I didn’t say they were silly. I objected to the cultural imperialism.
Interestingly, one mob advertised on TV “Pink Friday Sale”, and another “November Sale”. No objections to those.
I suspect that HN had the discount as a one day “Cyber Monday” sale, although they didn’t say that.
Witty Rejoinder said:
btm said:
buffy said:
Ooh, got an email purportedly from the tax office and mygov. Apparently my 2024 tax stuff is ready. Or something. Apparently the scammers don’t know it was all finalized some months ago…and they emailed to “practice manager” as the name of the tax account.
I got an email purportedly from the tax office a few years ago saying they had $30000 of my money, and asking for an account to put it into. I replied saying that they should have details of my superannuation fund, and they should put it in there. They did.
Was this just a normal tax refund or something more serendipitous?
They didn’t say (which made me very suspicious.)
Peak Warming Man said:
>>Trump nominates billionaire investment banker to be British ambassadorHe should fit in well with the chaps.
so long as there no plutocratic cronyism, some big hegemonic turd that way
Only Communists Are Corrupt
Australian Federal Police
19h ·
The AFP has charged 11 men and two juveniles following an investigation into a transnational organised crime syndicate accused of conspiring to import 2.34 tonnes of cocaine into Australia by sea.
This is the largest ever seizure of cocaine in Australia.
The men, including the crew of a vessel, allegedly attempted to import the illicit drugs into Queensland and were arrested at the weekend, thanks to the major joint investigation between Queensland Police Service and Australian Border Force.
The largest seizure of cocaine in Australia has an estimated street value of about $760 million dollars, with the potential to equate to 11.7 million individual street deals, had it reached the community.
So the street price for cocaine is $324 / g, good to know
Hello
dv said:
So the street price for cocaine is $324 / g, good to know
police never get the pricing accurate tho.
I’m sort of sorry I never got to try cocaine.
Cymek said:
Hello
Greetings
The Soviet Vostok spacecraft carrying cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was launched at 06.07 UT on 12 April 1961 and reached Earth’s orbit, making Gagarin the first human in space. The craft reentered the atmosphere at 07.35 UT and landed in Engels, USSR. It’s now on display at Korolyov’s RKK Energiya museum near Moscow.
sarahs mum said:
dv said:
So the street price for cocaine is $324 / g, good to know
police never get the pricing accurate tho.
I’m sort of sorry I never got to try cocaine.
Where there’s life there’s hope
Peak Warming Man said:
The Soviet Vostok spacecraft carrying cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was launched at 06.07 UT on 12 April 1961 and reached Earth’s orbit, making Gagarin the first human in space. The craft reentered the atmosphere at 07.35 UT and landed in Engels, USSR. It’s now on display at Korolyov’s RKK Energiya museum near Moscow.
I wouldn’t mind seeing Russia one day but things would have to be pretty different for that to happen
Launched in 1977, 16 days before its twin Voyager 1, the Voyager 2 probe explored the outer planets of our solar system before crossing into interstellar space in 2018.
If it stays intact, the American craft will pass the stars Ross 248 and Sirius and is destined to roam interstellar space for almost infinity.
dv said:
Peak Warming Man said:
The Soviet Vostok spacecraft carrying cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was launched at 06.07 UT on 12 April 1961 and reached Earth’s orbit, making Gagarin the first human in space. The craft reentered the atmosphere at 07.35 UT and landed in Engels, USSR. It’s now on display at Korolyov’s RKK Energiya museum near Moscow.
I wouldn’t mind seeing Russia one day but things would have to be pretty different for that to happen
When visiting Russia the Germans said they got to see the sun glistening off buildings in the outskirts of Moscow.
They’d probably like to go back one day too.
Peak Warming Man said:
dv said:
Peak Warming Man said:
The Soviet Vostok spacecraft carrying cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was launched at 06.07 UT on 12 April 1961 and reached Earth’s orbit, making Gagarin the first human in space. The craft reentered the atmosphere at 07.35 UT and landed in Engels, USSR. It’s now on display at Korolyov’s RKK Energiya museum near Moscow.
I wouldn’t mind seeing Russia one day but things would have to be pretty different for that to happen
When visiting Russia the Germans said they got to see the sun glistening off buildings in the outskirts of Moscow.
They’d probably like to go back one day too.
steady
dv said:
sarahs mum said:
dv said:
So the street price for cocaine is $324 / g, good to know
police never get the pricing accurate tho.
I’m sort of sorry I never got to try cocaine.
Where there’s life there’s hope
Just join the force¡
wtf is Thoth anyway
SCIENCE said:
wtf is Thoth anyway
daffy duck saying sos
SCIENCE said:
wtf is Thoth anyway
Ancient Egyptian deity.
Why are those long french bread sticks that you buy in colesworth fucked pretty much after a day?
Over.
Peak Warming Man said:
Why are those long french bread sticks that you buy in colesworth fucked pretty much after a day?
Over.
Could be 6 months old after being half baked in Ireland, imported, rebaked and sold to you as fresh.
Peak Warming Man said:
Why are those long french bread sticks that you buy in colesworth fucked pretty much after a day?
Over.
Large surface area to weight ratio helps them dry out quickly, I expect.
You might be able to revive it by sprinkling, or wiping a small amount of water onto it the microwaving it for a few seconds.
Another solution is to eat it torn then dipped into olive oil, as is traditional.
Or you could urn the remnant into garlic bread. Slice most of the way through, and wipe each slice with garlic butter, then oven it in foil for a few minutes.
Michael V said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Why are those long french bread sticks that you buy in colesworth fucked pretty much after a day?
Over.
Large surface area to weight ratio helps them dry out quickly, I expect.
You might be able to revive it by sprinkling, or wiping a small amount of water onto it the microwaving it for a few seconds.
Another solution is to eat it torn then dipped into olive oil, as is traditional.
Or you could urn the remnant into garlic bread. Slice most of the way through, and wipe each slice with garlic butter, then oven it in foil for a few minutes.
don’t even have to sprinkle it with water. just put it in the microwave for 20 secs or less.
Comm bank will charge for cash withdrawals at branches
OK, but…apparently the reason is the cost to the bank of moving cash around. But…they suggest that instead you use the ATM to withdraw cash and thus avoid the fee. So the cash in the ATM is magic? Surely it comes in the same Armaguard truck the cash in the bank safe comes in…same cost.
buffy said:
Comm bank will charge for cash withdrawals at branchesOK, but…apparently the reason is the cost to the bank of moving cash around. But…they suggest that instead you use the ATM to withdraw cash and thus avoid the fee. So the cash in the ATM is magic? Surely it comes in the same Armaguard truck the cash in the bank safe comes in…same cost.
It’s sent there by email.
Peak Warming Man said:
Why are those long french bread sticks that you buy in colesworth fucked pretty much after a day?
Over.
Mostly due to moisture migrating out and softening the crust, making it chewy. Putting it in a hot oven for will crisp up the crust again.
Bubblecar said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Why are those long french bread sticks that you buy in colesworth fucked pretty much after a day?
Over.
Mostly due to moisture migrating out and softening the crust, making it chewy. Putting it in a hot oven for will crisp up the crust again.
for will = for a while will
Bubblecar said:
buffy said:
Comm bank will charge for cash withdrawals at branchesOK, but…apparently the reason is the cost to the bank of moving cash around. But…they suggest that instead you use the ATM to withdraw cash and thus avoid the fee. So the cash in the ATM is magic? Surely it comes in the same Armaguard truck the cash in the bank safe comes in…same cost.
It’s sent there by email.
Interesting quote in that ABC piece:
>>Ms Tindall also noted that Australians still relied on cash to pay for things.
“The latest ATM statistics from the RBA shows Australians withdrew $107 billion in the last 12 months alone — that’s a lot of cash,” she said.<<
That is, indeed, a lot of cash floating around.
Anyway, I mowed for a bit more than an hour before lunch, I’ve eaten a toasted ham and cheese sammich and now I think I need a little read and siesta.
buffy said:
Comm bank will charge for cash withdrawals at branchesOK, but…apparently the reason is the cost to the bank of moving cash around. But…they suggest that instead you use the ATM to withdraw cash and thus avoid the fee. So the cash in the ATM is magic? Surely it comes in the same Armaguard truck the cash in the bank safe comes in…same cost.
Sure, but the ATM doesn’t require oversight of humans counting and moving the money, except the Armaguard guys. There are fewer bodies involved in handling of cash if done via ATM compared to via a teller.
buffy said:
Bubblecar said:
buffy said:
Comm bank will charge for cash withdrawals at branchesOK, but…apparently the reason is the cost to the bank of moving cash around. But…they suggest that instead you use the ATM to withdraw cash and thus avoid the fee. So the cash in the ATM is magic? Surely it comes in the same Armaguard truck the cash in the bank safe comes in…same cost.
It’s sent there by email.
Interesting quote in that ABC piece:
>>Ms Tindall also noted that Australians still relied on cash to pay for things.
“The latest ATM statistics from the RBA shows Australians withdrew $107 billion in the last 12 months alone — that’s a lot of cash,” she said.<<
That is, indeed, a lot of cash floating around.
What the hell are people doing with it?
buffy said:
Bubblecar said:
buffy said:
Comm bank will charge for cash withdrawals at branchesOK, but…apparently the reason is the cost to the bank of moving cash around. But…they suggest that instead you use the ATM to withdraw cash and thus avoid the fee. So the cash in the ATM is magic? Surely it comes in the same Armaguard truck the cash in the bank safe comes in…same cost.
It’s sent there by email.
Interesting quote in that ABC piece:
>>Ms Tindall also noted that Australians still relied on cash to pay for things.
“The latest ATM statistics from the RBA shows Australians withdrew $107 billion in the last 12 months alone — that’s a lot of cash,” she said.<<
That is, indeed, a lot of cash floating around.
I only withdraw cash to pay Mr Tunks.
Actually that kind of doesn’t make sense. He is saying Australians withdrew $107 billion in cash in 12 months.
The total amount in circulation was $102 billion in 2022.
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/annual-reports/rba/2022/banknotes.html
Maybe the author just misunderstood the statistics.
Bubblecar said:
buffy said:
Bubblecar said:It’s sent there by email.
Interesting quote in that ABC piece:
>>Ms Tindall also noted that Australians still relied on cash to pay for things.
“The latest ATM statistics from the RBA shows Australians withdrew $107 billion in the last 12 months alone — that’s a lot of cash,” she said.<<
That is, indeed, a lot of cash floating around.
I only withdraw cash to pay Mr Tunks.
…Oh, and to buy transport card thingies from the community centre. Have to pay cash because they don’t have EFTPOS.
My lunch was a ham and salad roll, I’m now having Two Fruits with a passionfruit mixed in with it, it’s quite yum.
Over.
Google AI’s take:
…
Cash use in Australia has been declining in recent years, with the COVID-19 pandemic accelerating the trend:
Cash as a share of total payments: In 2022, cash accounted for 13% of the number of consumer payments and 8% of their value. This is down from 69% in 2007.
Cash for in-person transactions: In 2022, cash was used for 16% of in-person transactions, down from 32%.
Cash for smaller payments: Cash is now used less than electronic methods for all transaction sizes.
Demographic groups: The elderly, those on lower incomes, and those in regional areas have seen the largest declines in cash use.
Some reasons for the decline in cash use include:
Payment cards replacing cash, particularly for low-value payments
Online payments replacing in-person payments for some types of payments, such as bills
The shift to contactless payments
The decline in cash lodgements at cash depots
Lower ATM withdrawals
However, cash is still the dominant payment method for low-value payments at the point of sale. It’s used extensively in situations where quick transaction times are preferred, such as at hotels, bars, and small food and take-away stores.
Australia’s national currency is the Australian dollar (AUD), which comes in denominations of $5, $10, $20, $50, and $100 notes. Coins come in 5, 10, 20, and 50 cent and one and two dollar denominations.
dv said:
Actually that kind of doesn’t make sense. He is saying Australians withdrew $107 billion in cash in 12 months.The total amount in circulation was $102 billion in 2022.
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/annual-reports/rba/2022/banknotes.html
Maybe the author just misunderstood the statistics.
stuff that was spent was put back into the bank by the seller and then someone drew that money out.
dv said:
buffy said:
Bubblecar said:
It’s sent there by email.
Interesting quote in that ABC piece:
>>Ms Tindall also noted that Australians still relied on cash to pay for things.
“The latest ATM statistics from the RBA shows Australians withdrew $107 billion in the last 12 months alone — that’s a lot of cash,” she said.<<
That is, indeed, a lot of cash floating around.
What the hell are people doing with it?
Buy¡ Buy¡ Buy¡
I trust the chaps at the banks to do the right thing.
JudgeMental said:
dv said:
Actually that kind of doesn’t make sense. He is saying Australians withdrew $107 billion in cash in 12 months.The total amount in circulation was $102 billion in 2022.
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/annual-reports/rba/2022/banknotes.html
Maybe the author just misunderstood the statistics.
stuff that was spent was put back into the bank by the seller and then someone drew that money out.
I guess. Seems a surprising ratio to me.
SCIENCE said:
dv said:
buffy said:
Interesting quote in that ABC piece:
>>Ms Tindall also noted that Australians still relied on cash to pay for things.
“The latest ATM statistics from the RBA shows Australians withdrew $107 billion in the last 12 months alone — that’s a lot of cash,” she said.<<
That is, indeed, a lot of cash floating around.
What the hell are people doing with it?
Buy¡ Buy¡ Buy¡
白白白
JudgeMental said:
dv said:
Actually that kind of doesn’t make sense. He is saying Australians withdrew $107 billion in cash in 12 months.
The total amount in circulation was $102 billion in 2022.
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/annual-reports/rba/2022/banknotes.html
Maybe the author just misunderstood the statistics.
stuff that was spent was put back into the bank by the seller and then someone drew that money out.
So if it circulates more rapidly than 3.2e-8 Hz there should be much more than that being drawn each year.
dv said:
JudgeMental said:
dv said:
Actually that kind of doesn’t make sense. He is saying Australians withdrew $107 billion in cash in 12 months.The total amount in circulation was $102 billion in 2022.
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/annual-reports/rba/2022/banknotes.html
Maybe the author just misunderstood the statistics.
stuff that was spent was put back into the bank by the seller and then someone drew that money out.
I guess. Seems a surprising ratio to me.
seeing as all dollars are identical maybe it is just one that is withdrawn 107 billion times…
dv said:
SCIENCE said:
dv said:
What the hell are people doing with it?
Buy¡ Buy¡ Buy¡
白白白
maybe 百百百 if it’s money
JudgeMental said:
dv said:
JudgeMental said:stuff that was spent was put back into the bank by the seller and then someone drew that money out.
I guess. Seems a surprising ratio to me.
seeing as all dollars are identical maybe it is just one that is withdrawn 107 billion times…
The Feyman dollar
take the cash, don’t let them pay you in kind. take the cash before they change their mind. and lets see the colour of their money. Take the cash.
Peak Warming Man said:
I trust the chaps at the banks to do the right thing.
I’d be wary of chaps in the bank who wear open neck shirts with no tie and wear shorts with long socks.
They aren’t proper chaps, proper banking chaps.
JudgeMental said:
take the cash, don’t let them pay you in kind. take the cash before they change their mind. and lets see the colour of their money. Take the cash.
Sure seems crazy but it ain’t no 來 baby 百百百
JudgeMental said:
take the cash, don’t let them pay you in kind. take the cash before they change their mind. and lets see the colour of their money. Take the cash.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lNrm5XT-08
wreckless eric.
JudgeMental said:
JudgeMental said:
take the cash, don’t let them pay you in kind. take the cash before they change their mind. and lets see the colour of their money. Take the cash.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lNrm5XT-08
wreckless eric.
Peak Warming Man said:
Why are those long french bread sticks that you buy in colesworth fucked pretty much after a day?
Over.
The Coles ones are actually made in Ireland, snap frozen, flown here, then finished in the “bakery” in the supermarket.
Bruddy-eck!
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-03/fire-ant-authority-slams-media-misinformation/104675196
i’m here for you
back from the magic faraway farm, land of happy sheep and happy birds
walks a long way I did, likes a walk, cleaned a big trough, puts copper in keeps algae monsters under control
turns pressure up for people spraying, fill big tank faster, not want them runs out of water
reads few other meters, gets totals, flows, and pressures, what I do
coffee in a moment shortly not too long soon
From the Reserve bank Annual Report
the value of banknotes in circulation remained high: $100.8 billion at the end of June 2024, equivalent to around 4 per cent of GDP. There are currently almost 2 billion banknotes in circulation.Michael V said:
Bruddy-eck!https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-03/fire-ant-authority-slams-media-misinformation/104675196
saw a post from that bearded guy on facebook.
Witty Rejoinder said:
However, cash is still the dominant payment method for low-value payments at the point of sale. It’s used extensively in situations where quick transaction times are preferred, such as at hotels, bars, and small food and take-away stores.
Australia’s national currency is the Australian dollar (AUD), which comes in denominations of $5, $10, $20, $50, and $100 notes. Coins come in 5, 10, 20, and 50 cent and one and two dollar denominations.
I’m suspicious of this claim by Google AI as well. I can well believe that the dominant cash payment is small transactions at hotels, bars, small food and take-away stores, but this isn’t the same as saying the dominant payment form at hotels, bars, small food and take-away stores is cash. You hardly ever see people trying to pay cash at a pub. Largely because, despite Google AI’s claim, blipping a card takes less than a second and paying by cash and waiting for change is slow.
JudgeMental said:
Michael V said:
Bruddy-eck!https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-03/fire-ant-authority-slams-media-misinformation/104675196
saw a post from that bearded guy on facebook.
Media misinformation is causing a lot of troubles…
Michael V said:
Bruddy-eck!https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-03/fire-ant-authority-slams-media-misinformation/104675196
Don’t make eye contact with Trev.
JudgeMental said:
Michael V said:
Bruddy-eck!https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-03/fire-ant-authority-slams-media-misinformation/104675196
saw a post from that bearded guy on facebook.
Was he spreading misinformation?
Michael V said:
JudgeMental said:
Michael V said:
Bruddy-eck!https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-03/fire-ant-authority-slams-media-misinformation/104675196
saw a post from that bearded guy on facebook.
Was he spreading misinformation?
Yes. Trevor Hold and his Stop the Toxic Fire Ant Program FB page. full of ignorant nutters. almost sovcit types.
JudgeMental said:
Michael V said:
JudgeMental said:saw a post from that bearded guy on facebook.
Was he spreading misinformation?
Yes. Trevor Hold and his Stop the Toxic Fire Ant Program FB page. full of ignorant nutters. almost sovcit types.
R. Soles and mates.
Michael V said:
JudgeMental said:
Michael V said:
dv said:
JudgeMental said:
Michael V said:
Bruddy-eck!
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-03/fire-ant-authority-slams-media-misinformation/104675196
saw a post from that bearded guy on facebook.
Media misinformation is causing a lot of troubles…
Was he spreading misinformation?
Yes. Trevor Hold and his Stop the Toxic Fire Ant Program FB page. full of ignorant nutters. almost sovcit types.
R. Soles and mates.
seems fucked up, wonder if they kind of pricks were being letting varroa rip as well
fuck
Peak Warming Man said:
Michael V said:
Bruddy-eck!https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-03/fire-ant-authority-slams-media-misinformation/104675196
Don’t make eye contact with Trev.
Wait until Trev sees this.
how tall is a standing goanna? About 1.2 metres or so?
dv said:
how tall is a standing goanna? About 1.2 metres or so?
Yep.
dv said:
how tall is a standing goanna? About 1.2 metres or so?
My guess:
On two legs, possibly 0.6 m. On four legs, possibly 0.2 m.
dv said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
However, cash is still the dominant payment method for low-value payments at the point of sale. It’s used extensively in situations where quick transaction times are preferred, such as at hotels, bars, and small food and take-away stores.
Australia’s national currency is the Australian dollar (AUD), which comes in denominations of $5, $10, $20, $50, and $100 notes. Coins come in 5, 10, 20, and 50 cent and one and two dollar denominations.
I’m suspicious of this claim by Google AI as well. I can well believe that the dominant cash payment is small transactions at hotels, bars, small food and take-away stores, but this isn’t the same as saying the dominant payment form at hotels, bars, small food and take-away stores is cash. You hardly ever see people trying to pay cash at a pub. Largely because, despite Google AI’s claim, blipping a card takes less than a second and paying by cash and waiting for change is slow.
certainly cash could be seen as comparatively slow so long as the power is on to operate electronic transaction equipment, same of network more broadly operating without problems, but in the situation of such trouble cash in the pocket is reliably faster, quick by comparison if the electronic trouble isn’t a momentary blip
that’s if whatever a hypothetical example didn’t get robbed and bashed to death
in the situation cash has been completely abandoned and no longer legal tender it’s probably much slower than digital transaction, just a hunch though, don’t take my word for it
in the case an example has no or not enough money to pay for things no matter the method of payment can be really slow, how fortunate an example can borrow money, if you don’t live under a bridge
cash might be really inconvenient if need go to negative interest rates, if things got really fucked from lending too much money, too much borrowed money, yeah whatever i’m having a rant, rambling, alphabet diarrhea
transition said:
dv said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
However, cash is still the dominant payment method for low-value payments at the point of sale. It’s used extensively in situations where quick transaction times are preferred, such as at hotels, bars, and small food and take-away stores.
Australia’s national currency is the Australian dollar (AUD), which comes in denominations of $5, $10, $20, $50, and $100 notes. Coins come in 5, 10, 20, and 50 cent and one and two dollar denominations.
I’m suspicious of this claim by Google AI as well. I can well believe that the dominant cash payment is small transactions at hotels, bars, small food and take-away stores, but this isn’t the same as saying the dominant payment form at hotels, bars, small food and take-away stores is cash. You hardly ever see people trying to pay cash at a pub. Largely because, despite Google AI’s claim, blipping a card takes less than a second and paying by cash and waiting for change is slow.
certainly cash could be seen as comparatively slow so long as the power is on to operate electronic transaction equipment, same of network more broadly operating without problems, but in the situation of such trouble cash in the pocket is reliably faster, quick by comparison if the electronic trouble isn’t a momentary blip
that’s if whatever a hypothetical example didn’t get robbed and bashed to death
in the situation cash has been completely abandoned and no longer legal tender it’s probably much slower than digital transaction, just a hunch though, don’t take my word for it
in the case an example has no or not enough money to pay for things no matter the method of payment can be really slow, how fortunate an example can borrow money, if you don’t live under a bridge
cash might be really inconvenient if need go to negative interest rates, if things got really fucked from lending too much money, too much borrowed money, yeah whatever i’m having a rant, rambling, alphabet diarrhea
Yeah but that’s all by the by. I’m taking Google AI to task for its description.
dv said:
JudgeMental said:
Michael V said:
Bruddy-eck!https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-03/fire-ant-authority-slams-media-misinformation/104675196
saw a post from that bearded guy on facebook.
Media misinformation is causing a lot of troubles…
dv said:
transition said:
dv said:I’m suspicious of this claim by Google AI as well. I can well believe that the dominant cash payment is small transactions at hotels, bars, small food and take-away stores, but this isn’t the same as saying the dominant payment form at hotels, bars, small food and take-away stores is cash. You hardly ever see people trying to pay cash at a pub. Largely because, despite Google AI’s claim, blipping a card takes less than a second and paying by cash and waiting for change is slow.
certainly cash could be seen as comparatively slow so long as the power is on to operate electronic transaction equipment, same of network more broadly operating without problems, but in the situation of such trouble cash in the pocket is reliably faster, quick by comparison if the electronic trouble isn’t a momentary blip
that’s if whatever a hypothetical example didn’t get robbed and bashed to death
in the situation cash has been completely abandoned and no longer legal tender it’s probably much slower than digital transaction, just a hunch though, don’t take my word for it
in the case an example has no or not enough money to pay for things no matter the method of payment can be really slow, how fortunate an example can borrow money, if you don’t live under a bridge
cash might be really inconvenient if need go to negative interest rates, if things got really fucked from lending too much money, too much borrowed money, yeah whatever i’m having a rant, rambling, alphabet diarrhea
Yeah but that’s all by the by. I’m taking Google AI to task for its description.
you watch them, the thing, it’s harvesting all of human knowledge, all of the structure of the world and universe, it can’t end well
Wheeee. 60+ mm of rain in about 20 mins. One tank near overflowing. Big tank 25% full
transition said:
dv said:
transition said:
certainly cash could be seen as comparatively slow so long as the power is on to operate electronic transaction equipment, same of network more broadly operating without problems, but in the situation of such trouble cash in the pocket is reliably faster, quick by comparison if the electronic trouble isn’t a momentary blip
that’s if whatever a hypothetical example didn’t get robbed and bashed to death
in the situation cash has been completely abandoned and no longer legal tender it’s probably much slower than digital transaction, just a hunch though, don’t take my word for it
in the case an example has no or not enough money to pay for things no matter the method of payment can be really slow, how fortunate an example can borrow money, if you don’t live under a bridge
cash might be really inconvenient if need go to negative interest rates, if things got really fucked from lending too much money, too much borrowed money, yeah whatever i’m having a rant, rambling, alphabet diarrhea
Yeah but that’s all by the by. I’m taking Google AI to task for its description.
you watch them, the thing, it’s harvesting all of human knowledge, all of the structure of the world and universe, it can’t end well
so what we’re saying is that the USSA and USSR disinformation agents (fuck the lot of them) are actually the greatest defenders of human dignity in that they feed the nascent 癌 overlords with so much shit that they’ll be useless when they try to take over, makes sense
transition said:
dv said:
transition said:certainly cash could be seen as comparatively slow so long as the power is on to operate electronic transaction equipment, same of network more broadly operating without problems, but in the situation of such trouble cash in the pocket is reliably faster, quick by comparison if the electronic trouble isn’t a momentary blip
that’s if whatever a hypothetical example didn’t get robbed and bashed to death
in the situation cash has been completely abandoned and no longer legal tender it’s probably much slower than digital transaction, just a hunch though, don’t take my word for it
in the case an example has no or not enough money to pay for things no matter the method of payment can be really slow, how fortunate an example can borrow money, if you don’t live under a bridge
cash might be really inconvenient if need go to negative interest rates, if things got really fucked from lending too much money, too much borrowed money, yeah whatever i’m having a rant, rambling, alphabet diarrhea
Yeah but that’s all by the by. I’m taking Google AI to task for its description.
you watch them, the thing, it’s harvesting all of human knowledge, all of the structure of the world and universe, it can’t end well
Tamb said:
Wheeee. 60+ mm of rain in about 20 mins. One tank near overflowing. Big tank 25% full
Steady.
No caption but they seem to be inspecting goudas in the street.
Bubblecar said:
No caption but they seem to be inspecting goudas in the street.
Further research reveals it’s actually the gouda market in Gouda, Netherlands.
Tamb said:
Wheeee. 60+ mm of rain in about 20 mins. One tank near overflowing. Big tank 25% full
Nice.
:)
Michael V said:
Tamb said:
Wheeee. 60+ mm of rain in about 20 mins. One tank near overflowing. Big tank 25% full
Nice.
:)
As long as it stops eventually.
Bubblecar said:
No caption but they seem to be inspecting goudas in the street.
He’s got a white coat on so he’s a fairly important person.
Tamb said:
Wheeee. 60+ mm of rain in about 20 mins. One tank near overflowing. Big tank 25% full
braggart, i’ve seen that sort of rain anyway, washes troughs out, washes roads away
Bubblecar said:
No caption but they seem to be inspecting goudas in the street.
There’s a wedge of Dutch gouda in my Coles order.
Bubblecar said:
Michael V said:
Tamb said:
Wheeee. 60+ mm of rain in about 20 mins. One tank near overflowing. Big tank 25% full
Nice.
:)
As long as it stops eventually.
Tamb said:
Bubblecar said:
Michael V said:Nice.
:)
As long as it stops eventually.
We are getting afternoon rain every day now. Back to the old “Do the washing first thing & get it off the line before midday.”
Goodo. Had a fair bit here recently, including today.
Bubblecar said:
Tamb said:
Bubblecar said:As long as it stops eventually.
We are getting afternoon rain every day now. Back to the old “Do the washing first thing & get it off the line before midday.”
Goodo. Had a fair bit here recently, including today.
Bubblecar said:
There’s a wedge of Dutch gouda in my Coles order.
But how are you pronouncing it?
dv said:
Bubblecar said:
There’s a wedge of Dutch gouda in my Coles order.
But how are you pronouncing it?
Goooda. Sounds tastier than “howda”, which is howda Dutch say it.
Afternoon. Here is a strange looking Italian plane.
Italy’s Bizarre Flying Barrel | The Stipa Caproni [Aircraft Overview
Email from the estate agent. The new lease to sign in Docusign form.
Rent will go up $20 a week from February. Could have been worse.
Bubblecar said:
Email from the estate agent. The new lease to sign in Docusign form.Rent will go up $20 a week from February. Could have been worse.
Aye.
gouda nuff I suppose
dv said:
how tall is a standing goanna? About 1.2 metres or so?
I recall watching a bloke try to shoot one and it ran over and climbed up him like he was a tree, it was licking his face to smell him and its tail was still well on the ground.
roughbarked said:
dv said:
how tall is a standing goanna? About 1.2 metres or so?
I recall watching a bloke try to shoot one and it ran over and climbed up him like he was a tree, it was licking his face to smell him and its tail was still well on the ground.
I looked at him and said, what’s your next move?
transition said:
Tamb said:
Wheeee. 60+ mm of rain in about 20 mins. One tank near overflowing. Big tank 25% full
braggart, i’ve seen that sort of rain anyway, washes troughs out, washes roads away
68.5mm for Nov. 9mm in Dec. so far.
Tamb said:
Wheeee. 60+ mm of rain in about 20 mins. One tank near overflowing. Big tank 25% full
That’ll help solve your dry problems and start the millstream up again.
roughbarked said:
Tamb said:
Wheeee. 60+ mm of rain in about 20 mins. One tank near overflowing. Big tank 25% full
That’ll help solve your dry problems and start the millstream up again.
only a goanna goin to know.
sarahs mum said:
only a goanna goin to know.
Tamb said:
roughbarked said:
Tamb said:
Wheeee. 60+ mm of rain in about 20 mins. One tank near overflowing. Big tank 25% full
That’ll help solve your dry problems and start the millstream up again.
The Millie hasn’t stopped since the late 1800s
You’ve been watching it that long?
roughbarked said:
Tamb said:
roughbarked said:That’ll help solve your dry problems and start the millstream up again.
The Millie hasn’t stopped since the late 1800sYou’ve been watching it that long?
Tamb said:
roughbarked said:
Tamb said:The Millie hasn’t stopped since the late 1800s
You’ve been watching it that long?
Notes on BoM Rainfall records.
Didn’t even think BOM was around in the 1800’s. ;)
Anyway, I went down to my local swamp/wetland. Could walk in much closer as the water has retreated a lot.
There’s a lot of birds there but they are a long walk in gumboots to get there.
roughbarked said:
Anyway, I went down to my local swamp/wetland. Could walk in much closer as the water has retreated a lot.
There’s a lot of birds there but they are a long walk in gumboots to get there.
And they’d only fly away.
Very flat topography there.
Tennis legend Neil Fraser has died, he had a good innings, 91.
Anyway, let the lens do the walking if only I can hold it steady.
There’s a lot of ducks bum shots.
There will be the odd bald coot in the background of some images and some banded stilts in the foreground of others.
Some almost fully coloured swan younguns.
Some ibis and a few spoonbills amongst the swans and ducks bums.
Peak Warming Man said:
Tennis legend Neil Fraser has died, he had a good innings, 91.
Known for his left-handed backhand.
Bubblecar said:
roughbarked said:
Anyway, I went down to my local swamp/wetland. Could walk in much closer as the water has retreated a lot.
There’s a lot of birds there but they are a long walk in gumboots to get there.
And they’d only fly away.
Very flat topography there.
Regarding that, you are not wrong.
Goanna pulling championships is an annual thing out at Wooli..
.. where I’ve seen grown men pull their own heads off rather than admit they need to see a chiro.
roughbarked said:
Anyway, let the lens do the walking if only I can hold it steady.
There’s a lot of ducks bum shots.
There will be the odd bald coot in the background of some images and some banded stilts in the foreground of others.
Some almost fully coloured swan younguns.
Some ibis and a few spoonbills amongst the swans and ducks bums.
Plentiful and varied birdlife.
Ian said:
Goanna pulling championships is an annual thing out at Wooli..
.. where I’ve seen grown men pull their own heads off rather than admit they need to see a chiro.
How odd.
Michael V said:
Ian said:
Goanna pulling championships is an annual thing out at Wooli..
.. where I’ve seen grown men pull their own heads off rather than admit they need to see a chiro.
How odd.
First time I’ve seen it.
poikilotherm said:
buffy said:
Comm bank will charge for cash withdrawals at branchesOK, but…apparently the reason is the cost to the bank of moving cash around. But…they suggest that instead you use the ATM to withdraw cash and thus avoid the fee. So the cash in the ATM is magic? Surely it comes in the same Armaguard truck the cash in the bank safe comes in…same cost.
Sure, but the ATM doesn’t require oversight of humans counting and moving the money, except the Armaguard guys. There are fewer bodies involved in handling of cash if done via ATM compared to via a teller.
I was pointing out that the bank was not actually using the use of tellers as the excuse. They were using the cost of moving the money around. Do the Armaguard blokes and blokettes fill the ATM, or do they just put the cash into the safe and the bank staff stock the ATM?
diddly-squat said:
From the Reserve bank Annual Report
the value of banknotes in circulation remained high: $100.8 billion at the end of June 2024, equivalent to around 4 per cent of GDP. There are currently almost 2 billion banknotes in circulation.
I had this sort of in the back of my mind. I recall a discussion, probably an ABC news item, not very long ago about how much was sloshing around and that it was higher than it has been for quite some time? I don’t know if I misremembered that bit.
Hang about…here, third graph down. Perhaps I was vaguely remembering something around that 2020ish peak.
Tamb said:
Wheeee. 60+ mm of rain in about 20 mins. One tank near overflowing. Big tank 25% full
We have all three tanks full, but we did it in a gentle fashion, steady gentle rain over a couple of days. Total of around 20mm.
I suppose perenties are bigger but I’ve never seen one.
We should count our stars that crocodiles don’t rear up like that on land.
dv said:
I suppose perenties are bigger but I’ve never seen one.We should count our stars that crocodiles don’t rear up like that on land.
Revealed – the terrifying 9ft-long crocodile that walked upright
There’s got to be seven or eight species in this photo.
At the right middle what looks like a small grass island wedge in front of the swans, is a lot of marsh sandpiper.
There are hundreds of birds.
dv said:
I suppose perenties are bigger but I’ve never seen one.We should count our stars that crocodiles don’t rear up like that on land.
They leap forward further with big open jaws though.
Funnily enough I think the biggest varanid I ever saw was a Malayan water monitor I saw at the Macritchie reservoir in Singapore.
dv said:
Funnily enough I think the biggest varanid I ever saw was a Malayan water monitor I saw at the Macritchie reservoir in Singapore.
Nice.
All this talk of lizards and yet no spare thought for Dalton James Patrick McGuinty Jr.
dv said:
Funnily enough I think the biggest varanid I ever saw was a Malayan water monitor I saw at the Macritchie reservoir in Singapore.
I guess you could come to the zoo and see Raja
SCIENCE said:
All this talk of lizards and yet no spare thought for Dalton James Patrick McGuinty Jr.
What’s this about?
Michael V said:
SCIENCE said:
All this talk of lizards and yet no spare thought for Dalton James Patrick McGuinty Jr.
What’s this about?
however we haven’t checked so it’s probably just a conspiracy theory
SCIENCE said:
Michael V said:
SCIENCE said:
All this talk of lizards and yet no spare thought for Dalton James Patrick McGuinty Jr.
What’s this about?
however we haven’t checked so it’s probably just a conspiracy theory
Thanks.
Slade’s Merry Xmas Everyone has featured in six episodes of Doctor Who.
dv said:
Slade’s Merry Xmas Everyone has featured in six episodes of Doctor Who.
Noddy Holder makes 500,000 pounds a year from royalties from that one song.
Neophyte said:
dv said:
Slade’s Merry Xmas Everyone has featured in six episodes of Doctor Who.
Noddy Holder makes 500,000 pounds a year from royalties from that one song.
So much for his profession, what’s his name?
kettle’s boiling, just sit there and let it boil dry wont you, then it will glow orange hot, the handle will burn off eventually, stink the room out, probably start a fire, burn the building down
you don’t care do you, Captain Indifference aren’t ya
roughbarked said:
There’s got to be seven or eight species in this photo.
At the right middle what looks like a small grass island wedge in front of the swans, is a lot of marsh sandpiper.
There are hundreds of birds.
.
transition said:
kettle’s boiling, just sit there and let it boil dry wont you, then it will glow orange hot, the handle will burn off eventually, stink the room out, probably start a fire, burn the building downyou don’t care do you, Captain Indifference aren’t ya
I would have got up and fixed it only you are closer.
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:
There’s got to be seven or eight species in this photo.
At the right middle what looks like a small grass island wedge in front of the swans, is a lot of marsh sandpiper.
There are hundreds of birds.
.
Well they are either marsh sandpiper or wood sandpiper.
likes ya bird pictures, master rb, respectable company after all, I might risk being seen dead with you
transition said:
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:
There’s got to be seven or eight species in this photo.
At the right middle what looks like a small grass island wedge in front of the swans, is a lot of marsh sandpiper.
There are hundreds of birds.
.
Well they are either marsh sandpiper or wood sandpiper.
likes ya bird pictures, master rb, respectable company after all, I might risk being seen dead with you
I’d prefer to be seen alive thanks. ;)
transition said:
likes ya bird pictures, master rb, respectable company after all, I might risk being seen dead with you
after which you can be fed to the birds and so the circle of life continues
dv said:
transition said:likes ya bird pictures, master rb, respectable company after all, I might risk being seen dead with you
after which you can be fed to the birds and so the circle of life continues
chuckles
roughbarked said:
transition said:
roughbarked said:Well they are either marsh sandpiper or wood sandpiper.
likes ya bird pictures, master rb, respectable company after all, I might risk being seen dead with you
I’d prefer to be seen alive thanks. ;)
possible cause for suspicion if i’m seen dead with you, second thoughts I wont risk being seen dead with you, don’t want to damage my reputation
transition said:
roughbarked said:
transition said:likes ya bird pictures, master rb, respectable company after all, I might risk being seen dead with you
I’d prefer to be seen alive thanks. ;)
possible cause for suspicion if i’m seen dead with you, second thoughts I wont risk being seen dead with you, don’t want to damage my reputation
“..possible cause for suspicion if i’m seen dead with you..”
that of course astutely astute observant discerning discerners is meant to be wrote seen with dead you or seen with you being dead or not alive, your corpse, hope i’ve conveyed the gist there, and strongly apologize for the confusing structure of the sentence, which altered the propositional content quite substantially to mean I may have desisted from living, as it was put
dv said:
transition said:likes ya bird pictures, master rb, respectable company after all, I might risk being seen dead with you
after which you can be fed to the birds and so the circle of life continues
I wouldn’t mind that.
transition said:
roughbarked said:
transition said:likes ya bird pictures, master rb, respectable company after all, I might risk being seen dead with you
I’d prefer to be seen alive thanks. ;)
possible cause for suspicion if i’m seen dead with you, second thoughts I wont risk being seen dead with you, don’t want to damage my reputation
I don’t want it to look like I’ve killed you.
Don’t want to make it too easy for Arts.
Apparently prints were selling fast while they were hanging. It looks like sales at the new ground floor Salamanca gallery location are going to be great.
transition said:
transition said:
roughbarked said:I’d prefer to be seen alive thanks. ;)
possible cause for suspicion if i’m seen dead with you, second thoughts I wont risk being seen dead with you, don’t want to damage my reputation
“..possible cause for suspicion if i’m seen dead with you..”
that of course astutely astute observant discerning discerners is meant to be wrote seen with dead you or seen with you being dead or not alive, your corpse, hope i’ve conveyed the gist there, and strongly apologize for the confusing structure of the sentence, which altered the propositional content quite substantially to mean I may have desisted from living, as it was put
No worries. I’d rather not get to know your corpse. I’d prefer to share the bird photography with you.
sarahs mum said:
Apparently prints were selling fast while they were hanging. It looks like sales at the new ground floor Salamanca gallery location are going to be great.
Splendid.
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
Apparently prints were selling fast while they were hanging. It looks like sales at the new ground floor Salamanca gallery location are going to be great.
Splendid.
Your prints, sm?
sarahs mum said:
Apparently prints were selling fast while they were hanging. It looks like sales at the new ground floor Salamanca gallery location are going to be great.
Nice.
:)
roughbarked said:
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
Apparently prints were selling fast while they were hanging. It looks like sales at the new ground floor Salamanca gallery location are going to be great.
Splendid.
Your prints, sm?
The Hunter Island Press mini print exhibition. Held each year around this time. It’s a collective of printmakers and has an open studio on the eastern shore.
sarahs mum said:
roughbarked said:
Bubblecar said:Splendid.
Your prints, sm?
The Hunter Island Press mini print exhibition. Held each year around this time. It’s a collective of printmakers and has an open studio on the eastern shore.
sarahs mum said:
roughbarked said:
Bubblecar said:Splendid.
Your prints, sm?
The Hunter Island Press mini print exhibition. Held each year around this time. It’s a collective of printmakers and has an open studio on the eastern shore.
Salamanca Arts Centre
10h ·
2024 MINI PRINT EXHIBITION & SALE | HUNTER ISLAND PRESS | DECEMBER 3 – 16 | SOCIAL
Come along to Hunter Island Press‘ annual Mini Print Exhibition – artworks included can be any type of print, or mixed media with print being its major element.
HIP’s annual Mini Prints exhibition and sale features mini prints sized 21 × 21 cm – all priced at $50 each.
Each is the printmaker’s own hand-printed work. As there are no restrictions on theme or image of the mini prints, you will often see work not shown in other exhibitions.
roughbarked said:
I fixed the second image.
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:
I fixed the second image.
It’s a fair walk out there. 
getting a little closer. 
Nearly there. 
G’wan, count all the birds in this image.
roughbarked said:
G’wan, count all the birds in this image.
76 77 79 81 82 84 Aw fuck it.
! 2 3 4………….
Peak Warming Man said:
roughbarked said:
G’wan, count all the birds in this image.
76 77 79 81 82 84 Aw fuck it.
! 2 3 4………….
:) They were all sitting on the lake/swamp and something made them go for a few circuits. Then they settled down again.There were many hundreds of birds.
Then these flew over.
Graceful fliers they are.
dv said:
Neophyte said:
dv said:
Slade’s Merry Xmas Everyone has featured in six episodes of Doctor Who.
Noddy Holder makes 500,000 pounds a year from royalties from that one song.
So much for his profession, what’s his name?
I did a course in basic noddy holding in the early 80s, then approached a BBC producer expecting demand would be high.
He took me out onto a balcony overlooking the crowded cafeteria and said, “Throw a stone down there mate, any direction, you’ll hit a noddy holder. They’re ten a penny these days and some of them are very skilled indeed.”
So that was the end of that career.
Evenin’ all.
Peak Warming Man said:
roughbarked said:
G’wan, count all the birds in this image.
76 77 79 81 82 84 Aw fuck it.
! 2 3 4………….
When you get in closer, they appear not to be black ducks.
captain_spalding said:
Evenin’ all.
Greetings.
Jesus is tossing bocce balls again.
roughbarked said:
made that top one my desktop background, hope ya doesn’t mind troubles you cause disquiet unsettles offends not
yawn
someone insult me, wake me up a bit
I been for long walk, makes me all sleepy go to bed soon feeling
lady make toasted scones, and coffee, tea for her
what now, not much, having some pleasant feelings about my pillows, i’m in a relationship with both of them, just quietly, they get on well, probably more generally it can be safely said i’m in a relationship with my bed, and my room, for many years now, not married it’s a defacto relationship
yeah extended yawn
don’t breathe that in, certain catatonia, you will be frozen like a statue, I exhale the most potent yawns known, yes seen a few doctors about it, even p2 masks are no help, doctors instantly turned to stone when breathed in one of my yawns, i’m a phenomenon, even had a visit from legit x files people, specialist yawn researchers, nobody survives
oh look coffee landed, and toasted scones
hello sconeless people, losers
captain_spalding said:
Evenin’ all.
Waves ~~~~~~~~~
In other news, the pilot that bumped the wall at Bathurst and took off without inspecting the damage is being charged by CASA.
And I quote from a not very reliable source:
————————————————————————————————
According to The Australian, CASA has now launched its own investigation into an alleged “serious, wilful or repeated disregard of the aviation rules”.
The report reads that the safety body has filed a lawsuit against Pullen in the Federal Court in a bid for more time for the investigation.
According to the CASA website, “ can immediately suspend a licence or authorisation for five days while we investigate.
“If we need more time to investigate, we must apply to the Federal Court and the court may allow further time to complete an investigation.”
Kingy said:
captain_spalding said:
Evenin’ all.
Waves ~~~~~~~~~
In other news, the pilot that bumped the wall at Bathurst and took off without inspecting the damage is being charged by CASA.
And I quote from a not very reliable source:
————————————————————————————————
According to The Australian, CASA has now launched its own investigation into an alleged “serious, wilful or repeated disregard of the aviation rules”.
The report reads that the safety body has filed a lawsuit against Pullen in the Federal Court in a bid for more time for the investigation.
According to the CASA website, “ can immediately suspend a licence or authorisation for five days while we investigate.
“If we need more time to investigate, we must apply to the Federal Court and the court may allow further time to complete an investigation.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yasNRkhUDqo
And Mick Doohans son has now got a ride in an F1 car.
Thanks dad.
Kingy said:
And Mick Doohans son has now got a ride in an F1 car.Thanks dad.
Oh yeah. big help from Dad to fund his junior career. but he got some good results in FIA Formula 3 and then Formula 2, So he’s got some actual driving ability too, moreso than the talentless sons of millionaires and billionaires that also plague the sport.
party_pants said:
Kingy said:
And Mick Doohans son has now got a ride in an F1 car.Thanks dad.
Oh yeah. big help from Dad to fund his junior career. but he got some good results in FIA Formula 3 and then Formula 2, So he’s got some actual driving ability too, moreso than the talentless sons of millionaires and billionaires that also plague the sport.
Completely correct. I no longer watch F1 because of that. It’s mostly just a wallet comparison game, as it’s always been.
Occasionally a talented driver gets a go at it. I hope he does ok.
watching
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2qFOirA1JQ
Using passive radars and satellite signals to detect and identify airborne threats
Kingy said:
party_pants said:
Kingy said:
And Mick Doohans son has now got a ride in an F1 car.Thanks dad.
Oh yeah. big help from Dad to fund his junior career. but he got some good results in FIA Formula 3 and then Formula 2, So he’s got some actual driving ability too, moreso than the talentless sons of millionaires and billionaires that also plague the sport.
Completely correct. I no longer watch F1 because of that. It’s mostly just a wallet comparison game, as it’s always been.
Occasionally a talented driver gets a go at it. I hope he does ok.
Daniel Ricciardo used to race gokarts, and when he was younger, he occasionally would swap gokarts with his mates on practice days. As it turned out, whoever was driving Daniels gokart was fastest in that practice session.
There are 4 important parts of a race car/kart.
Traction: New tires are faster. $
Engine: More power is faster. $
Chassis: Better handling is faster. $ and experience.
Driver: Talent is faster.
If you have all 4, you are faster than the others who only have 3 or less of those.
F1 is the same but with a LOT more $ that can make up for the lack of talent.
Kingy said:
party_pants said:
Kingy said:
And Mick Doohans son has now got a ride in an F1 car.Thanks dad.
Oh yeah. big help from Dad to fund his junior career. but he got some good results in FIA Formula 3 and then Formula 2, So he’s got some actual driving ability too, moreso than the talentless sons of millionaires and billionaires that also plague the sport.
Completely correct. I no longer watch F1 because of that. It’s mostly just a wallet comparison game, as it’s always been.
Occasionally a talented driver gets a go at it. I hope he does ok.
What i would really love to see is a formula where the organisers build a fleet of identical cars, and the teams lease the car. Fill it full of all sorts of tactical nuances like tyre changes and refueling stops and all that, but give each team that same car. it all comes down to race strategy, driver ability, and pit crew speed & competence. Then have all the wannabe drivers on a central contract and have a draft system like school kids picking footy teams. I don’t watch a lot of F1 myself these days bacause it is always about the big money teams and the also-rans.
party_pants said:
Kingy said:
party_pants said:Oh yeah. big help from Dad to fund his junior career. but he got some good results in FIA Formula 3 and then Formula 2, So he’s got some actual driving ability too, moreso than the talentless sons of millionaires and billionaires that also plague the sport.
Completely correct. I no longer watch F1 because of that. It’s mostly just a wallet comparison game, as it’s always been.
Occasionally a talented driver gets a go at it. I hope he does ok.
What i would really love to see is a formula where the organisers build a fleet of identical cars, and the teams lease the car. Fill it full of all sorts of tactical nuances like tyre changes and refueling stops and all that, but give each team that same car. it all comes down to race strategy, driver ability, and pit crew speed & competence. Then have all the wannabe drivers on a central contract and have a draft system like school kids picking footy teams. I don’t watch a lot of F1 myself these days bacause it is always about the big money teams and the also-rans.
Back in the early 90’s, there was a race car competition in Bunbury where they asked random people to buy in to a weekend race event in a local carpark to race rally cars where the winner got to drive a WRC rally car for the WA leg of the World Rally Championship back when it was held in WA.
All of the local “professional” drivers were invited, but they needed randoms like me to make up the numbers to make it interesting.
I think I payed about $70(a weeks income) to have a go. I was unemployed at the time and thought it might be a good opportunity to get a drive in a race car just for giggles etc.
As it turned out, I did ok. Almost none of the rich people made it past the first weekend where we were driving standard cars and relied on money to make them fast.
At the second weekend, the five of us remaining had a chance to drive an actual rally car. One of whom owned and raced that actual rally car.
All 5 of us had another go with a professional rally car, at the racetrack while on the clock. Same car, same track.
As it turned out, Kingy was the fastest. I was supposed to win a drive in a WRC car in the WA leg of the world rally championship, but some random bloke wasn’t supposed to win, and they had not expected some guy without a full racing license to actually win that challenge.
So despite beating all of the “professional” race drivers at their own game, I wasn’t allowed to have a go at it because I don’t have a full race license.
I no longer give a fuck about rich people and their games.
Kingy said:
party_pants said:
Kingy said:Completely correct. I no longer watch F1 because of that. It’s mostly just a wallet comparison game, as it’s always been.
Occasionally a talented driver gets a go at it. I hope he does ok.
What i would really love to see is a formula where the organisers build a fleet of identical cars, and the teams lease the car. Fill it full of all sorts of tactical nuances like tyre changes and refueling stops and all that, but give each team that same car. it all comes down to race strategy, driver ability, and pit crew speed & competence. Then have all the wannabe drivers on a central contract and have a draft system like school kids picking footy teams. I don’t watch a lot of F1 myself these days bacause it is always about the big money teams and the also-rans.
Back in the early 90’s, there was a race car competition in Bunbury where they asked random people to buy in to a weekend race event in a local carpark to race rally cars where the winner got to drive a WRC rally car for the WA leg of the World Rally Championship back when it was held in WA.
All of the local “professional” drivers were invited, but they needed randoms like me to make up the numbers to make it interesting.
I think I payed about $70(a weeks income) to have a go. I was unemployed at the time and thought it might be a good opportunity to get a drive in a race car just for giggles etc.
As it turned out, I did ok. Almost none of the rich people made it past the first weekend where we were driving standard cars and relied on money to make them fast.
At the second weekend, the five of us remaining had a chance to drive an actual rally car. One of whom owned and raced that actual rally car.
All 5 of us had another go with a professional rally car, at the racetrack while on the clock. Same car, same track.
As it turned out, Kingy was the fastest. I was supposed to win a drive in a WRC car in the WA leg of the world rally championship, but some random bloke wasn’t supposed to win, and they had not expected some guy without a full racing license to actually win that challenge.
So despite beating all of the “professional” race drivers at their own game, I wasn’t allowed to have a go at it because I don’t have a full race license.
I no longer give a fuck about rich people and their games.
fair
Kingy said:
party_pants said:
Kingy said:Completely correct. I no longer watch F1 because of that. It’s mostly just a wallet comparison game, as it’s always been.
Occasionally a talented driver gets a go at it. I hope he does ok.
What i would really love to see is a formula where the organisers build a fleet of identical cars, and the teams lease the car. Fill it full of all sorts of tactical nuances like tyre changes and refueling stops and all that, but give each team that same car. it all comes down to race strategy, driver ability, and pit crew speed & competence. Then have all the wannabe drivers on a central contract and have a draft system like school kids picking footy teams. I don’t watch a lot of F1 myself these days bacause it is always about the big money teams and the also-rans.
Back in the early 90’s, there was a race car competition in Bunbury where they asked random people to buy in to a weekend race event in a local carpark to race rally cars where the winner got to drive a WRC rally car for the WA leg of the World Rally Championship back when it was held in WA.
All of the local “professional” drivers were invited, but they needed randoms like me to make up the numbers to make it interesting.
I think I payed about $70(a weeks income) to have a go. I was unemployed at the time and thought it might be a good opportunity to get a drive in a race car just for giggles etc.
As it turned out, I did ok. Almost none of the rich people made it past the first weekend where we were driving standard cars and relied on money to make them fast.
At the second weekend, the five of us remaining had a chance to drive an actual rally car. One of whom owned and raced that actual rally car.
All 5 of us had another go with a professional rally car, at the racetrack while on the clock. Same car, same track.
As it turned out, Kingy was the fastest. I was supposed to win a drive in a WRC car in the WA leg of the world rally championship, but some random bloke wasn’t supposed to win, and they had not expected some guy without a full racing license to actually win that challenge.
So despite beating all of the “professional” race drivers at their own game, I wasn’t allowed to have a go at it because I don’t have a full race license.
I no longer give a fuck about rich people and their games.
that’s just crap.
dv said:
Kingy said:
party_pants said:
What i would really love to see is a formula where the organisers build a fleet of identical cars, and the teams lease the car. Fill it full of all sorts of tactical nuances like tyre changes and refueling stops and all that, but give each team that same car. it all comes down to race strategy, driver ability, and pit crew speed & competence. Then have all the wannabe drivers on a central contract and have a draft system like school kids picking footy teams. I don’t watch a lot of F1 myself these days bacause it is always about the big money teams and the also-rans.
Back in the early 90’s, there was a race car competition in Bunbury where they asked random people to buy in to a weekend race event in a local carpark to race rally cars where the winner got to drive a WRC rally car for the WA leg of the World Rally Championship back when it was held in WA.
All of the local “professional” drivers were invited, but they needed randoms like me to make up the numbers to make it interesting.
I think I payed about $70(a weeks income) to have a go. I was unemployed at the time and thought it might be a good opportunity to get a drive in a race car just for giggles etc.
As it turned out, I did ok. Almost none of the rich people made it past the first weekend where we were driving standard cars and relied on money to make them fast.
At the second weekend, the five of us remaining had a chance to drive an actual rally car. One of whom owned and raced that actual rally car.
All 5 of us had another go with a professional rally car, at the racetrack while on the clock. Same car, same track.
As it turned out, Kingy was the fastest. I was supposed to win a drive in a WRC car in the WA leg of the world rally championship, but some random bloke wasn’t supposed to win, and they had not expected some guy without a full racing license to actually win that challenge.
So despite beating all of the “professional” race drivers at their own game, I wasn’t allowed to have a go at it because I don’t have a full race license.
I no longer give a fuck about rich people and their games.
fair
so give 1 gaming laptop per child and esports including racing games is the way to go
transition said:
roughbarked said:
made that top one my desktop background, hope ya doesn’t mind troubles you cause disquiet unsettles offends not
yawn
someone insult me, wake me up a bit
I been for long walk, makes me all sleepy go to bed soon feeling
lady make toasted scones, and coffee, tea for her
what now, not much, having some pleasant feelings about my pillows, i’m in a relationship with both of them, just quietly, they get on well, probably more generally it can be safely said i’m in a relationship with my bed, and my room, for many years now, not married it’s a defacto relationship
yeah extended yawn
don’t breathe that in, certain catatonia, you will be frozen like a statue, I exhale the most potent yawns known, yes seen a few doctors about it, even p2 masks are no help, doctors instantly turned to stone when breathed in one of my yawns, i’m a phenomenon, even had a visit from legit x files people, specialist yawn researchers, nobody survives
oh look coffee landed, and toasted scones
hello sconeless people, losers
No offence taken if used as a desktop. but I have no scones!
Good morning Holidayers. Presently 7 degrees at the back door, overcast. We are forecast a sunny 24 degrees today.
I will go supermarketing this morning. There will be some weeding later. Archery this afternoon.
Morning. Add another 7.2mm to the tally. 18 degrees but up to 33 in a couple of hours or so.
Have to go get some new prsecriptions. My great doctor has been spending time with his dying father in the big smoke and probably won’t ever come back. So I’ll have to find a new doctor, it now being a couple of months without one. Mine said he was taking six months but the surgery said he may not come back at all.
roughbarked said:
Morning. Add another 7.2mm to the tally. 18 degrees but up to 33 in a couple of hours or so.Have to go get some new prsecriptions. My great doctor has been spending time with his dying father in the big smoke and probably won’t ever come back. So I’ll have to find a new doctor, it now being a couple of months without one. Mine said he was taking six months but the surgery said he may not come back at all.
I don’t like it when good people keep going away and not coming back. People should stay put.
Heading for 25 here and sunny. Music playing and model painting are on the agenda.
Bloody heck!
the Trumpists are growing stronger in Australia.
Good morning everybody. I wish you all a happy and productive day.
It’s 19.7° C, 97% RH, overcast and calm. BoM forecasts a top of 29° C and a 20-30% chance of rain throughout the day. Gympie radar is back up and running after repairs. It is showing rain approaching from the northeast. Whether that is true or not, I’m not sure. It doesn’t show up on the overlapping Brisbane, Toowoomba and Gladstone radars.
First day of the rest of my life has started. I’ve already made my coffee and taken my morning tablets. No agenda set. Except, if I feel up to it I’ll be making cevapcici again.
roughbarked said:
Bloody heck!the Trumpists are growing stronger in Australia.
One of the problems of social media. I have no idea how we might go about fixing that error.
Michael V said:
Good morning everybody. I wish you all a happy and productive day.It’s 19.7° C, 97% RH, overcast and calm. BoM forecasts a top of 29° C and a 20-30% chance of rain throughout the day. Gympie radar is back up and running after repairs. It is showing rain approaching from the northeast. Whether that is true or not, I’m not sure. It doesn’t show up on the overlapping Brisbane, Toowoomba and Gladstone radars.
First day of the rest of my life has started. I’ve already made my coffee and taken my morning tablets. No agenda set. Except, if I feel up to it I’ll be making cevapcici again.
I have some Coles chevaps in tomorrow’s delivery.
Hopefully I’ll be able to carefully eat some with the current dental handicap.
I’ll make another little batch of veg soup for today’s breakfast, and probably have spaghetti again for today’s dinner.
Michael V said:
roughbarked said:
Bloody heck!the Trumpists are growing stronger in Australia.
One of the problems of social media. I have no idea how we might go about fixing that error.
The false claims were spread by a range of fringe groups including Save the Bees Australia, which has more than 121,000 followers on Facebook.
Morning pilgrims, today I’ll put the car in for a service, walk home and possibly do some mowing.
If the car is ready early enough I might go up to the redoubt later on.
Over.
Michael V said:
Good morning everybody. I wish you all a happy and productive day.It’s 19.7° C, 97% RH, overcast and calm. BoM forecasts a top of 29° C and a 20-30% chance of rain throughout the day. Gympie radar is back up and running after repairs. It is showing rain approaching from the northeast. Whether that is true or not, I’m not sure. It doesn’t show up on the overlapping Brisbane, Toowoomba and Gladstone radars.
First day of the rest of my life has started. I’ve already made my coffee and taken my morning tablets. No agenda set. Except, if I feel up to it I’ll be making cevapcici again.
What the hell is cevapici?
Peak Warming Man said:
Morning pilgrims, today I’ll put the car in for a service, walk home and possibly do some mowing.
If the car is ready early enough I might go up to the redoubt later on.
Over.
One would imagine that a gentelman farmer such as yourself could possibly be able to change the oil yourself?
Bubblecar said:
Michael V said:
Good morning everybody. I wish you all a happy and productive day.It’s 19.7° C, 97% RH, overcast and calm. BoM forecasts a top of 29° C and a 20-30% chance of rain throughout the day. Gympie radar is back up and running after repairs. It is showing rain approaching from the northeast. Whether that is true or not, I’m not sure. It doesn’t show up on the overlapping Brisbane, Toowoomba and Gladstone radars.
First day of the rest of my life has started. I’ve already made my coffee and taken my morning tablets. No agenda set. Except, if I feel up to it I’ll be making cevapcici again.
I have some Coles chevaps in tomorrow’s delivery.
Hopefully I’ll be able to carefully eat some with the current dental handicap.
I’ll make another little batch of veg soup for today’s breakfast, and probably have spaghetti again for today’s dinner.
The spaghetti meal seems a quick and tasty thing.
roughbarked said:
Michael V said:
roughbarked said:
Bloody heck!the Trumpists are growing stronger in Australia.
One of the problems of social media. I have no idea how we might go about fixing that error.
The false claims were spread by a range of fringe groups including Save the Bees Australia, which has more than 121,000 followers on Facebook.
False signs using police logo
The group Stop the Toxic Fire Ant Program is selling fake legal documents and signs that state they are a “legal notice” and “no trespass”.
The signs and documents are being used to attempt to block fire ant workers from accessing properties.
Several of the signs warn that trespassers will be fined $1 million for entering their property, citing their “common law” rights.
The signs declare property owners “remove consent” for fire ant workers to spray their properties.
> surely the makers of such signs can be tracked down?
Michael V said:
roughbarked said:
Bloody heck!the Trumpists are growing stronger in Australia.
One of the problems of social media. I have no idea how we might go about fixing that error.
I believe it is like the colt from old regret that got away, before someone shut the gate.
Peak Warming Man said:
Michael V said:
Good morning everybody. I wish you all a happy and productive day.It’s 19.7° C, 97% RH, overcast and calm. BoM forecasts a top of 29° C and a 20-30% chance of rain throughout the day. Gympie radar is back up and running after repairs. It is showing rain approaching from the northeast. Whether that is true or not, I’m not sure. It doesn’t show up on the overlapping Brisbane, Toowoomba and Gladstone radars.
First day of the rest of my life has started. I’ve already made my coffee and taken my morning tablets. No agenda set. Except, if I feel up to it I’ll be making cevapcici again.
What the hell is cevapici?
Skinless spiced Balkans sausages. Absolutely wonderful.
:)
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-04/distiller-explains-danger-of-brewing-alcohol/104679044
My local farmer friend makes his own and brings it down here. He hasn’t killed me yet. He makes his sprit with the methanol taken out. In fact he brings me the odd bottle of methanol for cleaning purposes.
Michael V said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Michael V said:
Good morning everybody. I wish you all a happy and productive day.It’s 19.7° C, 97% RH, overcast and calm. BoM forecasts a top of 29° C and a 20-30% chance of rain throughout the day. Gympie radar is back up and running after repairs. It is showing rain approaching from the northeast. Whether that is true or not, I’m not sure. It doesn’t show up on the overlapping Brisbane, Toowoomba and Gladstone radars.
First day of the rest of my life has started. I’ve already made my coffee and taken my morning tablets. No agenda set. Except, if I feel up to it I’ll be making cevapcici again.
What the hell is cevapici?
Skinless spiced Balkans sausages. Absolutely wonderful.
:)
If skinless aren’t they just sausage meat?
Michael V said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Michael V said:
Good morning everybody. I wish you all a happy and productive day.It’s 19.7° C, 97% RH, overcast and calm. BoM forecasts a top of 29° C and a 20-30% chance of rain throughout the day. Gympie radar is back up and running after repairs. It is showing rain approaching from the northeast. Whether that is true or not, I’m not sure. It doesn’t show up on the overlapping Brisbane, Toowoomba and Gladstone radars.
First day of the rest of my life has started. I’ve already made my coffee and taken my morning tablets. No agenda set. Except, if I feel up to it I’ll be making cevapcici again.
What the hell is cevapici?
Skinless spiced Balkans sausages. Absolutely wonderful.
:)
Righto, I’ll give them a go, where do you get them.
Peak Warming Man said:
Michael V said:
Peak Warming Man said:What the hell is cevapici?
Skinless spiced Balkans sausages. Absolutely wonderful.
:)
Righto, I’ll give them a go, where do you get them.
I don’t know where to buy them in Qld, but Mr Car gets them from Coles in Tazzie.
I make them, based on several internet recipes I read. They are pretty simple.
I’ll make a couple of changes to the recipe tonight, and post it the recipes thread tomorrow, if you remind me.
Michael V said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Michael V said:Skinless spiced Balkans sausages. Absolutely wonderful.
:)
Righto, I’ll give them a go, where do you get them.
I don’t know where to buy them in Qld, but Mr Car gets them from Coles in Tazzie.
I make them, based on several internet recipes I read. They are pretty simple.
I’ll make a couple of changes to the recipe tonight, and post it the recipes thread tomorrow, if you remind me.
Goodo.
Peak Warming Man said:
Michael V said:
Peak Warming Man said:Righto, I’ll give them a go, where do you get them.
I don’t know where to buy them in Qld, but Mr Car gets them from Coles in Tazzie.
I make them, based on several internet recipes I read. They are pretty simple.
I’ll make a couple of changes to the recipe tonight, and post it the recipes thread tomorrow, if you remind me.
Goodo.
Home-made are doubtless best but Coles version is pretty good.
Bubblecar said:
roughbarked said:
Morning. Add another 7.2mm to the tally. 18 degrees but up to 33 in a couple of hours or so.Have to go get some new prsecriptions. My great doctor has been spending time with his dying father in the big smoke and probably won’t ever come back. So I’ll have to find a new doctor, it now being a couple of months without one. Mine said he was taking six months but the surgery said he may not come back at all.
I don’t like it when good people keep going away and not coming back. People should stay put.
Seems a little self absorbed.
Seeing as it’s going to be a sunny day I’ll wash and hang a couple loads of towels.
But first: clean out those filthy lint filters.
Bubblecar said:
Seeing as it’s going to be a sunny day I’ll wash and hang a couple loads of towels.But first: clean out those filthy lint filters.
Huh! My last two washing machines have had auto-cleaning lint filters. Marvellous inventions.
Witty Rejoinder said:
Bubblecar said:
roughbarked said:
Morning. Add another 7.2mm to the tally. 18 degrees but up to 33 in a couple of hours or so.Have to go get some new prsecriptions. My great doctor has been spending time with his dying father in the big smoke and probably won’t ever come back. So I’ll have to find a new doctor, it now being a couple of months without one. Mine said he was taking six months but the surgery said he may not come back at all.
I don’t like it when good people keep going away and not coming back. People should stay put.
Seems a little self absorbed.
Maybe he was thinking of Rodney?
However, I do miss my doctor. He was the first doctor I’d ever had who completely understood me and made himself absolutely clear to me. Plus he printed everything and gave me a copy.
Michael V said:
Bubblecar said:
Seeing as it’s going to be a sunny day I’ll wash and hang a couple loads of towels.But first: clean out those filthy lint filters.
Huh! My last two washing machines have had auto-cleaning lint filters. Marvellous inventions.
Yeah. Mine too.
Ruddy ‘eck!
In short:
A former rice farmer has spotted what he believes are rice plants inside brooms for sale at Bunnings.
A Bunnings spokesperson says the company takes biosecurity “very seriously” and has removed the items from shelves while an investigation is conducted.
What’s next?
The Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry is also investigating the imported brooms.
“Unlike modern Australian players the Test cricketers of Bradman’s era wore a different cap for each series, so the one worn by Bradman during the 1947-48 home summer against India is far from unique, but it has nevertheless sold at auction for $479,700, a record for a cap worn by the great batter.”
$479k was my limit, I wasn’t going to $480k
Peak Warming Man said:
“Unlike modern Australian players the Test cricketers of Bradman’s era wore a different cap for each series, so the one worn by Bradman during the 1947-48 home summer against India is far from unique, but it has nevertheless sold at auction for $479,700, a record for a cap worn by the great batter.”$479k was my limit, I wasn’t going to $480k
Cheapskate. ;)
roughbarked said:
Michael V said:
roughbarked said:
Bloody heck!the Trumpists are growing stronger in Australia.
One of the problems of social media. I have no idea how we might go about fixing that error.
The false claims were spread by a range of fringe groups including Save the Bees Australia, which has more than 121,000 followers on Facebook.
121000 followers is fringe
Michael V said:
Bubblecar said:
Seeing as it’s going to be a sunny day I’ll wash and hang a couple loads of towels.But first: clean out those filthy lint filters.
Huh! My last two washing machines have had auto-cleaning lint filters. Marvellous inventions.
where does it go
Peak Warming Man said:
“Unlike modern Australian players the Test cricketers of Bradman’s era wore a different cap for each series, so the one worn by Bradman during the 1947-48 home summer against India is far from unique, but it has nevertheless sold at auction for $479,700, a record for a cap worn by the great batter.”$479k was my limit, I wasn’t going to $480k
that last duck certainly cost them
SCIENCE said:
Michael V said:
Bubblecar said:
Seeing as it’s going to be a sunny day I’ll wash and hang a couple loads of towels.But first: clean out those filthy lint filters.
Huh! My last two washing machines have had auto-cleaning lint filters. Marvellous inventions.
where does it go
Down the drain, into the sewer and on out to be treated along with other human waste.
Michael V said:
SCIENCE said:
Michael V said:Huh! My last two washing machines have had auto-cleaning lint filters. Marvellous inventions.
where does it go
Down the drain, into the sewer and on out to be treated along with other human waste.
This.
“Bunnings launches biosecurity investigation after rice plant apparently found in broom imported from China”
Oooooh
roughbarked said:
Michael V said:
SCIENCE said:
where does it go
Down the drain, into the sewer and on out to be treated along with other human waste.
This.
then why does it need to be filtered
Peak Warming Man said:
“Bunnings launches biosecurity investigation after rice plant apparently found in broom imported from China”
Oooooh
Now Do What Was Recently Fun Again Oh That’s Right Fire Ants And Varroa
SCIENCE said:
roughbarked said:
Michael V said:
Down the drain, into the sewer and on out to be treated along with other human waste.
This.
then why does it need to be filtered
It is filtered separately from the surface of the washing water so that it is removed rather than distributed all over the said ‘washed’ clothes.
Morning all.
SCIENCE said:
Peak Warming Man said:
“Bunnings launches biosecurity investigation after rice plant apparently found in broom imported from China”
Oooooh
Now Do What Was Recently Fun Again Oh That’s Right Fire Ants And Varroa
and yellow crazy ants and rice plants in brooms. Our biosecurity has becoome very lax.
Funny goings on in South Korean politics.
Tau.Neutrino said:
Morning all.
You are up early.
roughbarked said:
Michael V said:
SCIENCE said:where does it go
Down the drain, into the sewer and on out to be treated along with other human waste.
This.
The washing robot back-flushes the filter during the final drain before the final spin.
SCIENCE said:
roughbarked said:
Michael V said:
Down the drain, into the sewer and on out to be treated along with other human waste.
This.
then why does it need to be filtered
Water is constantly recirculated during the wash and rinse cycles, passing through the lint filter which stops the lint getting back onto the clothes.
Michael V said:
Bubblecar said:
Seeing as it’s going to be a sunny day I’ll wash and hang a couple loads of towels.But first: clean out those filthy lint filters.
Huh! My last two washing machines have had auto-cleaning lint filters. Marvellous inventions.
I could do with a new machine but I keep putting it off and buying toy trains instead.
Michael V said:
roughbarked said:
Michael V said:Down the drain, into the sewer and on out to be treated along with other human waste.
This.
The washing robot back-flushes the filter during the final drain before the final spin.
Sorry, each drain before each spin.
Bubblecar said:
Michael V said:
Bubblecar said:
Seeing as it’s going to be a sunny day I’ll wash and hang a couple loads of towels.But first: clean out those filthy lint filters.
Huh! My last two washing machines have had auto-cleaning lint filters. Marvellous inventions.
I could do with a new machine but I keep putting it off and buying toy trains instead.
LOL
:)
I geddit.
:)
roughbarked said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Morning all.You are up early.
Yes, things to do.
Bubblecar said:
Michael V said:
Bubblecar said:
Seeing as it’s going to be a sunny day I’ll wash and hang a couple loads of towels.But first: clean out those filthy lint filters.
Huh! My last two washing machines have had auto-cleaning lint filters. Marvellous inventions.
I could do with a new machine but I keep putting it off and buying toy trains instead.
If you can afford toys, a new washing machine should be the smaller cost off your budget?
Tau.Neutrino said:
roughbarked said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Morning all.You are up early.
Yes, things to do.
I get up every morning to things I should have done adding up.
LOL guess we haven’t kept pace with developments in clothes washing we just read the label and press the buttons and pay the bills ah well thanks fellas
SCIENCE said:
LOL guess we haven’t kept pace with developments in clothes washing we just read the label and press the buttons and pay the bills ah well thanks fellas
:)
They’re pretty good robots these days.
Pity they don’t pick up the dirty clothes and hang them on the line after washing and bring them in when dry. But they do wash them pretty well.
:)
SCIENCE said:
LOL guess we haven’t kept pace with developments in clothes washing we just read the label and press the buttons and pay the bills ah well thanks fellas
Some washing machines seem to last forever. I recall my mother bought the very first automatic washing machine made iin Australia when she finally got rid of the old wringer washer. She died 26 years later and the washing machine was still working like it was bought yesterday.
Thinking I’ll get a front loader next time. My current and former top loaders are/were not very good.
roughbarked said:
SCIENCE said:LOL guess we haven’t kept pace with developments in clothes washing we just read the label and press the buttons and pay the bills ah well thanks fellas
Some washing machines seem to last forever. I recall my mother bought the very first automatic washing machine made iin Australia when she finally got rid of the old wringer washer. She died 26 years later and the washing machine was still working like it was bought yesterday.
I’ve got a dryer that must be 40 years old.
Bubblecar said:
Thinking I’ll get a front loader next time. My current and former top loaders are/were not very good.
I still prefer top loader. However, I put a new main shaft in this old thing(and that was almost 20 years ago now) so I want it to keep going. I’ve observed other people’s front loaders and I wasn’t really impressed at all.
roughbarked said:
Bubblecar said:
Thinking I’ll get a front loader next time. My current and former top loaders are/were not very good.
I still prefer top loader. However, I put a new main shaft in this old thing(and that was almost 20 years ago now) so I want it to keep going. I’ve observed other people’s front loaders and I wasn’t really impressed at all.
also we’re still pretty much only using the 4500000000 year old dryer, do the new electric ones still destroy clothes too quickly or are they just as good as fresh photons in air
SCIENCE said:
also we’re still pretty much only using the 4500000000 year old dryer, do the new electric ones still destroy clothes too quickly or are they just as good as fresh photons in air
I don’t own a dryer. I use the hygroscopic nature of moving air when it is below 100% humidity.
Witty Rejoinder said:
roughbarked said:
SCIENCE said:LOL guess we haven’t kept pace with developments in clothes washing we just read the label and press the buttons and pay the bills ah well thanks fellas
Some washing machines seem to last forever. I recall my mother bought the very first automatic washing machine made iin Australia when she finally got rid of the old wringer washer. She died 26 years later and the washing machine was still working like it was bought yesterday.
I’ve got a dryer that must be 40 years old.
Mine is slightly younger because the one that we brought with us to this house died(well it didn’t die really) Mrs rb decided to replace it rather than get a new belt every time it stretched from being overloaded. So the new one is either just forty or just short of forty because we’ve been here 43 and 8 months.
She who must always be right wanted to replace it not long after we bought it because the plastic door hinge broke. Same as with the washing machines she wanted to replace or did replace, it was usually a simple fix but because we live out of town, the costs of getting repairmen here was prohibitive, for her. I repaired a lot of them but the roughest repair I’m still proud of because my repair of the broken plastic door hinge has kept the drier on the wall all this time.
A biro and a coffee tin lid.
Michael V said:
SCIENCE said:also we’re still pretty much only using the 4500000000 year old dryer, do the new electric ones still destroy clothes too quickly or are they just as good as fresh photons in air
I don’t own a dryer. I use the hygroscopic nature of moving air when it is below 100% humidity.
I don’t currently have a dryer either but that’s one of the reasons I want a front loading washing machine – so I can put a dryer on top of it. Otherwise I just have no room for one.
SCIENCE said:
also we’re still pretty much only using the 4500000000 year old dryer, do the new electric ones still destroy clothes too quickly or are they just as good as fresh photons in air
Michael V said:
SCIENCE said:also we’re still pretty much only using the 4500000000 year old dryer, do the new electric ones still destroy clothes too quickly or are they just as good as fresh photons in air
I don’t own a dryer. I use the hygroscopic nature of moving air when it is below 100% humidity.
Yeah. The drier was really only used in wet years to get the kids school uniforms dry in time.
SCIENCE said:
roughbarked said:
Bubblecar said:
Thinking I’ll get a front loader next time. My current and former top loaders are/were not very good.
I still prefer top loader. However, I put a new main shaft in this old thing(and that was almost 20 years ago now) so I want it to keep going. I’ve observed other people’s front loaders and I wasn’t really impressed at all.
:)
A dryer would certainly be a good idea here in winter, because of all the neighbours with their wood heaters.
Sick of bringing washing in from the line and finding it stinking of smoke.
watching
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fb01W-4G-no
How the UK recaptured the Falkland Islands in 1982
Time to go and rust a load of wagon underframes in the studio.
Bubblecar said:
Time to go and rust a load of wagon underframes in the studio.
Won’t they do that by themselves if you leave them parked on the lawn overnight?
Bubblecar said:
A dryer would certainly be a good idea here in winter, because of all the neighbours with their wood heaters.Sick of bringing washing in from the line and finding it stinking of smoke.
transition said:
watching
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fb01W-4G-no
How the UK recaptured the Falkland Islands in 1982
now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQA20OgXXCQ
Fix Bayonets – The Battle for Goose Green
My Ikea Christmas tree has arrived.
JudgeMental said:
My Ikea Christmas tree has arrived.
Hah. Looks llike they forgot the Allen key.
transition said:
transition said:
watching
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fb01W-4G-no
How the UK recaptured the Falkland Islands in 1982
now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQA20OgXXCQ
Fix Bayonets – The Battle for Goose Green
JudgeMental said:
My Ikea Christmas tree has arrived.
roughbarked said:
JudgeMental said:
My Ikea Christmas tree has arrived.
Hah. Looks llike they forgot the Allen key.
is that rice in there
wouldn’t be the first time someone sprayed high proof through a burner flame
unlike above luckily we avoided injury though
SCIENCE said:
roughbarked said:
JudgeMental said:
My Ikea Christmas tree has arrived.
Hah. Looks llike they forgot the Allen key.
is that rice in there
it is from Ikea not Bunnings!
JudgeMental said:
SCIENCE said:
roughbarked said:
Hah. Looks llike they forgot the Allen key.
is that rice in there
it is from Ikea not Bunnings!
so it’s barley
transition said:
watching
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fb01W-4G-no
How the UK recaptured the Falkland Islands in 1982
Watched that, Ta.
SCIENCE said:
JudgeMental said:
SCIENCE said:
is that rice in there
it is from Ikea not Bunnings!
so it’s barley
It is Gazania.
Tau.Neutrino said:
“One-Man Amphibious ‘Copter”
These INSANE DEADLY Flying Hoverboards actually existed!
roughbarked said:
SCIENCE said:
JudgeMental said:
it is from Ikea not Bunnings!
so it’s barley
It is Gazania.
Quick illegally occupy it now¡
Synthsaga SciFi: Late 1940s retro TrainPunk V5 – LEVITRAINS – ,parallel dimension
Steam Train Dream Train 🚂 SciFi: 20th century retro TrainPunk
Hello
Cymek said:
Hello
What do you want?
Peak Warming Man said:
Cymek said:
Hello
What do you want?
World peace, fairer distribution of wealth, an end to hunger and poverty, better worldwide assistance for health care…we could go on.
captain_spalding said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Cymek said:
Hello
What do you want?
World peace, fairer distribution of wealth, an end to hunger and poverty, better worldwide assistance for health care…we could go on.
^
wait they’re all the same thing
SCIENCE said:
captain_spalding said:
Peak Warming Man said:What do you want?
World peace, fairer distribution of wealth, an end to hunger and poverty, better worldwide assistance for health care…we could go on.
^
wait they’re all the same thing
Not really. You can be comfortably well off, fairly well fed, and still be dying from malaria because you can’t gain access to proper care.
captain_spalding said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Cymek said:
Hello
What do you want?
World peace, fairer distribution of wealth, an end to hunger and poverty, better worldwide assistance for health care…we could go on.
Peak Warming Man said:
Cymek said:
Hello
What do you want?
When do you want it?
That South Korea hey, another president trying to become a fascist.
Woodie said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Cymek said:
Hello
What do you want?
When do you want it?
NOW!
Michael V said:
Woodie said:
Peak Warming Man said:What do you want?
When do you want it?
NOW!
Right now.
Michael V said:
Woodie said:
Peak Warming Man said:What do you want?
When do you want it?
NOW!
Ah, memories.
We are taking care of a king charles cavalier for a friend of ours who is on holidays. Down at the park the boss lady held up his poop bag and said “king charles the turd”.
The owner appears to have neglected this boy for a bit as he is a little matty so we’ll take him to be shorn and clipped etc today.
https://youtu.be/4358hILcYgM?si=-xmsmRpWGR1sTu12
History Matters: why did the US side against the UK in the Suez crisis.
captain_spalding said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Cymek said:
Hello
What do you want?
World peace, fairer distribution of wealth, an end to hunger and poverty, better worldwide assistance for health care…we could go on.
You could be a Miss World contestant with that list.
Neophyte said:
captain_spalding said:
Peak Warming Man said:What do you want?
World peace, fairer distribution of wealth, an end to hunger and poverty, better worldwide assistance for health care…we could go on.
You could be a Miss World contestant with that list.
LOL
dv said:
We are taking care of a king charles cavalier for a friend of ours who is on holidays. Down at the park the boss lady held up his poop bag and said “king charles the turd”.
The owner appears to have neglected this boy for a bit as he is a little matty so we’ll take him to be shorn and clipped etc today.
Neophyte said:
captain_spalding said:
Peak Warming Man said:What do you want?
World peace, fairer distribution of wealth, an end to hunger and poverty, better worldwide assistance for health care…we could go on.
You could be a Miss World contestant with that list.
The Chicxulub impactor failed that contest
dv said:
We are taking care of a king charles cavalier for a friend of ours who is on holidays. Down at the park the boss lady held up his poop bag and said “king charles the turd”.
The owner appears to have neglected this boy for a bit as he is a little matty so we’ll take him to be shorn and clipped etc today.
does he snort? they aren’t my favourite spaniel.
sarahs mum said:
dv said:
We are taking care of a king charles cavalier for a friend of ours who is on holidays. Down at the park the boss lady held up his poop bag and said “king charles the turd”.
The owner appears to have neglected this boy for a bit as he is a little matty so we’ll take him to be shorn and clipped etc today.
does he snort? they aren’t my favourite spaniel.
He’s not too snorty.
roughbarked said:
Michael V said:
Woodie said:When do you want it?
NOW!
Right now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmHdefsaL6I
Psy.
dv said:
sarahs mum said:
dv said:
We are taking care of a king charles cavalier for a friend of ours who is on holidays. Down at the park the boss lady held up his poop bag and said “king charles the turd”.
The owner appears to have neglected this boy for a bit as he is a little matty so we’ll take him to be shorn and clipped etc today.
does he snort? they aren’t my favourite spaniel.
He’s not too snorty.
good.
I am back from the supermarketing etc. Woolies report: Shelves a little depleted. No toilet paper. Prepared meals in the fridges and frozen meals quite low stock. Obviously some problems with butter, but not with milk. But milk is local here. Fruit and veg well stocked.
I’ve put the shopping away, we’ve been to the bakery for the dogs’ “party pie!” excursion. Now I might toast a bagel and butter it for lunch and then go and lie down and read. It’s getting a bit hot here already.
JudgeMental said:
The most popular drink in India is tea
JudgeMental said:
Pepsi does taste like flat Coke tm
kii said:
dv said:
We are taking care of a king charles cavalier for a friend of ours who is on holidays. Down at the park the boss lady held up his poop bag and said “king charles the turd”.
The owner appears to have neglected this boy for a bit as he is a little matty so we’ll take him to be shorn and clipped etc today.
Hmmmm….my pithy comment was magically disappeared.
Oh well.
Last night I et Lamb Rogan Josh.
Apparently it’s named after a rice horse.
Cymek said:
JudgeMental said:
Pepsi does taste like flat Coke tm
Irn bru doesn’t taste like either.
Michael V said:
SCIENCE said:
Michael V said:Huh! My last two washing machines have had auto-cleaning lint filters. Marvellous inventions.
where does it go
Down the drain, into the sewer and on out to be treated along with other human waste.
There is a not very efficient lint filter on our washing machine. After each load I pick out the fluff and take it outside with me when I go to hang the washing. I chuck it on the grass. I presume the birds put it to use in nests.
Cymek said:
JudgeMental said:
Pepsi does taste like flat Coke tm
Pepsi tastes terrible. I can’t understand why people drink it.
Kingy said:
Last night I et Lamb Rogan Josh.Apparently it’s named after a rice horse.
Complex
dv said:
We are taking care of a king charles cavalier for a friend of ours who is on holidays. Down at the park the boss lady held up his poop bag and said “king charles the turd”.
The owner appears to have neglected this boy for a bit as he is a little matty so we’ll take him to be shorn and clipped etc today.
A bit too cavalier.
kii said:
kii said:
dv said:
We are taking care of a king charles cavalier for a friend of ours who is on holidays. Down at the park the boss lady held up his poop bag and said “king charles the turd”.
The owner appears to have neglected this boy for a bit as he is a little matty so we’ll take him to be shorn and clipped etc today.
Hmmmm….my pithy comment was magically disappeared.
Oh well.
Well don’t leave us wondering, what was it?
dv said:
kii said:
kii said:Hmmmm….my pithy comment was magically disappeared.
Oh well.
Well don’t leave us wondering, what was it?
Agreeing with your wife’s observation about KCIII.
kii said:
dv said:
kii said:Hmmmm….my pithy comment was magically disappeared.
Oh well.
Well don’t leave us wondering, what was it?
Agreeing with your wife’s observation about KCIII.
SCIENCE said:
roughbarked said:
JudgeMental said:
My Ikea Christmas tree has arrived.
Hah. Looks llike they forgot the Allen key.
is that rice in there
It’s probably that recently trendy green tea stuff.
buffy said:
SCIENCE said:roughbarked said:
Hah. Looks llike they forgot the Allen key.
is that rice in there
It’s probably that recently trendy green tea stuff.
Did Naranda tea go belly up, I haven’t seen it around for ages.
Peak Warming Man said:
buffy said:
SCIENCE said:is that rice in there
It’s probably that recently trendy green tea stuff.
Did Naranda tea go belly up, I haven’t seen it around for ages.
Assuming you mean Nerada, they are apparently still a going concern but I agree that you don’t see ‘em dahn the shops any more.
Peak Warming Man said:
buffy said:
SCIENCE said:is that rice in there
It’s probably that recently trendy green tea stuff.
Did Naranda tea go belly up, I haven’t seen it around for ages.
That’s because you aren’t looking for Nerada.
dv said:
Peak Warming Man said:
buffy said:It’s probably that recently trendy green tea stuff.
Did Naranda tea go belly up, I haven’t seen it around for ages.
Assuming you mean Nerada, they are apparently still a going concern but I agree that you don’t see ‘em dahn the shops any more.
Supermatket computers have dropped them. They do it to all the stuff that was good.
dv said:
Peak Warming Man said:
buffy said:It’s probably that recently trendy green tea stuff.
Did Naranda tea go belly up, I haven’t seen it around for ages.
Assuming you mean Nerada, they are apparently still a going concern but I agree that you don’t see ‘em dahn the shops any more.
Roger.
dv said:
kii said:
dv said:Well don’t leave us wondering, what was it?
Agreeing with your wife’s observation about KCIII.
His current wife is a cunt.
roughbarked said:
dv said:
Peak Warming Man said:Did Naranda tea go belly up, I haven’t seen it around for ages.
Assuming you mean Nerada, they are apparently still a going concern but I agree that you don’t see ‘em dahn the shops any more.
Supermatket computers have dropped them. They do it to all the stuff that was good.
Saw a load of it in our local Coles just the other day.
The Rev Dodgson said:
roughbarked said:
dv said:Assuming you mean Nerada, they are apparently still a going concern but I agree that you don’t see ‘em dahn the shops any more.
Supermatket computers have dropped them. They do it to all the stuff that was good.
Saw a load of it in our local Coles just the other day.
Send some to Pedro
kii said:
dv said:
kii said:Agreeing with your wife’s observation about KCIII.
His current wife is a cunt.
You and my current wife are on the same page.
I only drink coffee at home.
dv said:
kii said:
dv said:
His current wife is a cunt.
You and my current wife are on the same page.
I don’t think about them.
Peak Warming Man said:
buffy said:
SCIENCE said:is that rice in there
It’s probably that recently trendy green tea stuff.
Did Naranda tea go belly up, I haven’t seen it around for ages.
Nerada? The plantation is still there, but they are not currently producing. I bought some teabags and loose leaf before it disappeared. As I use so little of it, I can probably wait it out until they decide to produce again.
buffy said:
Peak Warming Man said:
buffy said:It’s probably that recently trendy green tea stuff.
Did Naranda tea go belly up, I haven’t seen it around for ages.
Nerada? The plantation is still there, but they are not currently producing. I bought some teabags and loose leaf before it disappeared. As I use so little of it, I can probably wait it out until they decide to produce again.
Roger.
Peak Warming Man said:
buffy said:
Peak Warming Man said:Did Naranda tea go belly up, I haven’t seen it around for ages.
Nerada? The plantation is still there, but they are not currently producing. I bought some teabags and loose leaf before it disappeared. As I use so little of it, I can probably wait it out until they decide to produce again.
Roger.
From their website:
>>Nerada Tea Estate remains the largest tea plantation in Australia and whilst the harvesting & production of black tea was paused in June 2023, the future’s looking bright in creating a long term, sustainable Estate creating higher value offers for global markets<<
Free chairs on my local free things fb page.
https://youtu.be/K_RIdx-lQ7g
Surely there has to be a better way of doing tidal power.
Peak Warming Man said:
https://youtu.be/K_RIdx-lQ7gSurely there has to be a better way of doing tidal power.
I’m not sure I’m up for a three hour video on the topic.
dv said:
Peak Warming Man said:
https://youtu.be/K_RIdx-lQ7gSurely there has to be a better way of doing tidal power.
I’m not sure I’m up for a three hour video on the topic.
and Sibeen is not here to put shit on it.
sarahs mum said:
dv said:
Peak Warming Man said:
https://youtu.be/K_RIdx-lQ7gSurely there has to be a better way of doing tidal power.
I’m not sure I’m up for a three hour video on the topic.
and Sibeen is not here to put shit on it.
Wind and solar have had an order of magnitude decrease in capital costs and tidal just hasn’t.
dv said:
sarahs mum said:
dv said:I’m not sure I’m up for a three hour video on the topic.
and Sibeen is not here to put shit on it.
Wind and solar have had an order of magnitude decrease in capital costs and tidal just hasn’t.
Lack of innovation or the nature of them means costs will always be relatively high ?
IF THEY AREN’T USING CHEMTRAILS THEY ARE USING DRINKING WATER
Cymek said:
dv said:
sarahs mum said:and Sibeen is not here to put shit on it.
Wind and solar have had an order of magnitude decrease in capital costs and tidal just hasn’t.
Lack of innovation or the nature of them means costs will always be relatively high ?
I’m leaning towards the latter. There’s been a lot of R&D on tidal.
Peak Warming Man said:
buffy said:
SCIENCE said:is that rice in there
It’s probably that recently trendy green tea stuff.
Did Naranda tea go belly up, I haven’t seen it around for ages.
Nerada suspended operations last year, as reported by Justin back then.
dv said:
Cymek said:
dv said:Wind and solar have had an order of magnitude decrease in capital costs and tidal just hasn’t.
Lack of innovation or the nature of them means costs will always be relatively high ?
I’m leaning towards the latter. There’s been a lot of R&D on tidal.
The ocean is a pretty unforgiving environment as well.. hard to place to engineering long term solutions
Peak Warming Man said:
IF THEY AREN’T USING CHEMTRAILS THEY ARE USING DRINKING WATER
MY INSIGHTS INTO WHAT IS REALL GOING ON IS MORE ACUTE SINCE I’VE BEEN DRINKING TANK WATER
Peak Warming Man said:
https://youtu.be/K_RIdx-lQ7gSurely there has to be a better way of doing tidal power.
2 hours 41 minutes and 11 seconds?
No-one got time for that.
Peak Warming Man said:
Peak Warming Man said:
IF THEY AREN’T USING CHEMTRAILS THEY ARE USING DRINKING WATER
MY INSIGHTS INTO WHAT IS REALL GOING ON IS MORE ACUTE SINCE I’VE BEEN DRINKING TANK WATER
lolololol
kii said:
Free chairs on my local free things fb page.
Well, I’ll say it…wtf is the 4th chair?
kii said:
kii said:
Free chairs on my local free things fb page.
Well, I’ll say it…wtf is the 4th chair?
Sitting on it to take the photo ?
kii said:
kii said:
Free chairs on my local free things fb page.
Well, I’ll say it…wtf is the 4th chair?
Been used in a bar-room brawl scene.
Cymek said:
kii said:
kii said:
Free chairs on my local free things fb page.
Well, I’ll say it…wtf is the 4th chair?
Sitting on it to take the photo ?
eaten by the dog the only partially consumed the one pictured?
sarahs mum said:
Cymek said:
kii said:Well, I’ll say it…wtf is the 4th chair?
Sitting on it to take the photo ?
eaten by the dog the only partially consumed the one pictured?
i’ll make my own coffee, don’t want reluctance stirred into it or whatever nasty, then suffer with some mystery illness afterward as if my soul was removed, like I secretly had the bone pointed at me
i’ll stir my own coffee
transition said:
i’ll make my own coffee, don’t want reluctance stirred into it or whatever nasty, then suffer with some mystery illness afterward as if my soul was removed, like I secretly had the bone pointed at mei’ll stir my own coffee
Tamb said:
transition said:
i’ll make my own coffee, don’t want reluctance stirred into it or whatever nasty, then suffer with some mystery illness afterward as if my soul was removed, like I secretly had the bone pointed at mei’ll stir my own coffee
It’s far too late for coffee. Almost drinkies time.
i’m having noodles too, some salt, I like salt
not listening to those low-salt panzies, not even trying for a good stroke or heart attack, wimps, pathetic
41C tomorrow the weatherology people predict, but what would they know with all their data collecting for decades, models, computers and experts, don’t forget the experts, cluttering up the world with information and facts, yes physics too and science, it’s the antichrist I tells ya, they are all witches and should be burned
transition said:
Tamb said:
transition said:
i’ll make my own coffee, don’t want reluctance stirred into it or whatever nasty, then suffer with some mystery illness afterward as if my soul was removed, like I secretly had the bone pointed at mei’ll stir my own coffee
It’s far too late for coffee. Almost drinkies time.i’m having noodles too, some salt, I like salt
not listening to those low-salt panzies, not even trying for a good stroke or heart attack, wimps, pathetic
I have my doctors OK to eat & drink anything I like.
transition said:
41C tomorrow the weatherology people predict, but what would they know with all their data collecting for decades, models, computers and experts, don’t forget the experts, cluttering up the world with information and facts, yes physics too and science, it’s the antichrist I tells ya, they are all witches and should be burned
and if they turn out to be correct?
Tamb said:
transition said:
Tamb said:It’s far too late for coffee. Almost drinkies time.
i’m having noodles too, some salt, I like salt
not listening to those low-salt panzies, not even trying for a good stroke or heart attack, wimps, pathetic
I have my doctors OK to eat & drink anything I like.
My doctor keeps telling me to drink water.
transition said:
41C tomorrow the weatherology people predict, but what would they know with all their data collecting for decades, models, computers and experts, don’t forget the experts, cluttering up the world with information and facts, yes physics too and science, it’s the antichrist I tells ya, they are all witches and should be burned
Thursday 5 December
Summary Min 21 Max 35 Partly cloudy. Possible rainfall: 0 to 1 mm Chance of any rain: 30%
Partly cloudy. Slight chance of a shower. The chance of a thunderstorm in the morning and afternoon. Light winds.
Fire Danger – Moderate
Sun protection recommended from 8:50 am to 5:20 pm, UV Index predicted to reach 12
Friday 6 December
Summary Min 22 Max 38 Shower or two. Possible storm. Possible rainfall: 0 to 6 mm Chance of any rain: 50%
Partly cloudy. Medium chance of showers, most likely in the evening. The chance of a thunderstorm. Light winds becoming northeasterly 15 to 20 km/h in the late afternoon.
Sun protection recommended from 8:50 am to 5:20 pm, UV Index predicted to reach 12
roughbarked said:
transition said:
41C tomorrow the weatherology people predict, but what would they know with all their data collecting for decades, models, computers and experts, don’t forget the experts, cluttering up the world with information and facts, yes physics too and science, it’s the antichrist I tells ya, they are all witches and should be burned
and if they turn out to be correct?
i’m of the opinion they will be right get a red tick correct prediction affirmed not wrong no serious inexactness
yawn
reminds me was taking the parents to the magic faraway hospital was yawning quite a bit and mum asked if I was tired, I responded I wasn’t tired just that she was so unbearably boring I could hardly stand being locked in the vehicle with her and was considering jumping out at speed, which actually was a freudian slip, I meant to say i’m feeling fine
transition said:
roughbarked said:
transition said:
41C tomorrow the weatherology people predict, but what would they know with all their data collecting for decades, models, computers and experts, don’t forget the experts, cluttering up the world with information and facts, yes physics too and science, it’s the antichrist I tells ya, they are all witches and should be burned
and if they turn out to be correct?
i’m of the opinion they will be right get a red tick correct prediction affirmed not wrong no serious inexactness
yawn
reminds me was taking the parents to the magic faraway hospital was yawning quite a bit and mum asked if I was tired, I responded I wasn’t tired just that she was so unbearably boring I could hardly stand being locked in the vehicle with her and was considering jumping out at speed, which actually was a freudian slip, I meant to say i’m feeling fine
Living with you must be fun. :)
Season 13 opener, the Terror of the Zygons, one I’ve seen quite a few times.
The Zygons are using the Loch Ness Monster to destroy oil rigs. This is the first appearance of the Zygons and indeed the last until the 21st century. Possibly the best one-shot beastie of the Classic era and it’s a wonder they never reused them. They must spent all their budget on the Zygon-suits because goddamn the LNM looks like shit. Somehow worse than the dinosaurs in Invasion thereof.
The Doctor advocates for hydrogen power rather than oil which was rather an advanced idea at that stage.
This is also the last appearance of the Brigadier until Season 20.
Along with the Season 13 finale, Seeds of Doom, this story has been removed from BBC iPlayer a couple of weeks ago, with the Beeb announcing that they “do not have the rights to make them available.” Both of these stories were penned by Robert Banks Stewart so I assume this relates to some legal dispute with his estate. So I’m glad for btm’s archive link.
dv said:
Season 13 opener, the Terror of the Zygons, one I’ve seen quite a few times.The Zygons are using the Loch Ness Monster to destroy oil rigs. This is the first appearance of the Zygons and indeed the last until the 21st century. Possibly the best one-shot beastie of the Classic era and it’s a wonder they never reused them. They must spent all their budget on the Zygon-suits because goddamn the LNM looks like shit. Somehow worse than the dinosaurs in Invasion thereof.
The Doctor advocates for hydrogen power rather than oil which was rather an advanced idea at that stage.
This is also the last appearance of the Brigadier until Season 20.
Along with the Season 13 finale, Seeds of Doom, this story has been removed from BBC iPlayer a couple of weeks ago, with the Beeb announcing that they “do not have the rights to make them available.” Both of these stories were penned by Robert Banks Stewart so I assume this relates to some legal dispute with his estate. So I’m glad for btm’s archive link.
Aye, the Zygons were impressive while Nessie was beyond comic relief.
Tau.Neutrino said:
Archaeologists Make Remarkable Find: 60,000-Year-Old Neanderthal Workshop Found in Cave
nice
kii said:
sarahs mum said:
Cymek said:Sitting on it to take the photo ?
eaten by the dog the only partially consumed the one pictured?
Bingo!
I’m glad I continued my catchup reading before offering a quite similar explanation. Although I was going to suggest the dragon done it.
They had to clip the cavilier back to 5 mm. Brings his spots out.
dv said:
They had to clip the cavilier back to 5 mm. Brings his spots out.
Spots on skin or coat?
dv said:
They had to clip the cavilier back to 5 mm. Brings his spots out.
cobbett is so very hairy you can’t tell he is a spotty dog until he is clipped.
Michael V said:
dv said:
They had to clip the cavilier back to 5 mm. Brings his spots out.
Spots on skin or coat?
Coat.
sarahs mum said:
:)
Email from Coles – a number of substitutions in tomorrow’s delivery, but one of them is quite welcome :)
I ordered 1 x Monini Classico Italian Extra Virgin Olive Oil 750ml (on special at $14.40, normally $24) but it was out of stock, so they substituted 2 x Monini Organic Premium Selection Extra Virgin Olive Oil 500ml ($19 each, so $38 but charged at $14.40). So a litre instead of 750ml, with a saving of $23.60.
Bubblecar said:
Email from Coles – a number of substitutions in tomorrow’s delivery, but one of them is quite welcome :)I ordered 1 x Monini Classico Italian Extra Virgin Olive Oil 750ml (on special at $14.40, normally $24) but it was out of stock, so they substituted 2 x Monini Organic Premium Selection Extra Virgin Olive Oil 500ml ($19 each, so $38 but charged at $14.40). So a litre instead of 750ml, with a saving of $23.60.
nice.
watching
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp-WiNXH6hI
Carl Sagan testifying before Congress in 1985 on climate change
ABC News:
FA&FO, antivaxx raw-milk homeopathic parents.
watching
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Um017R5Kr3A
Philosopher Michael Sandel on What Trump’s Win Says About American Society | Amanpour and Company
At the redoubt and the road in was a mess and very treacherous all the creeks were up and there was a spectacular light show.
I didn’t want to get out and open the gate in the rain and lighting but I got here in one piece if a bit wet and frazzled.
Peak Warming Man said:
At the redoubt and the road in was a mess and very treacherous all the creeks were up and there was a spectacular light show.
I didn’t want to get out and open the gate in the rain and lighting but I got here in one piece if a bit wet and frazzled.
Nocturnal adventure. Now you deserve a stiff nightcap.
Peak Warming Man said:
At the redoubt and the road in was a mess and very treacherous all the creeks were up and there was a spectacular light show.
I didn’t want to get out and open the gate in the rain and lighting but I got here in one piece if a bit wet and frazzled.
So how did you get by the gate? Did you just crash-drive on through it?
Bubblecar said:
Peak Warming Man said:
At the redoubt and the road in was a mess and very treacherous all the creeks were up and there was a spectacular light show.
I didn’t want to get out and open the gate in the rain and lighting but I got here in one piece if a bit wet and frazzled.
Nocturnal adventure. Now you deserve a stiff nightcap.
Aye.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2024/dec/04/who-is-responsible-for-the-breathtakingly-immoral-volumes-of-taxpayer-cash-being-foie-grased-to-private-schools
party_pants said:
Peak Warming Man said:
At the redoubt and the road in was a mess and very treacherous all the creeks were up and there was a spectacular light show.
I didn’t want to get out and open the gate in the rain and lighting but I got here in one piece if a bit wet and frazzled.
So how did you get by the gate? Did you just crash-drive on through it?
I got out and fumbled with the key and opened it, got a tad wet. Now enjoying a xxxx.
So, just got in the mail today news of State electorate boundaries changing. The northern part of my suburb (where I live) is going to be added to adjacent electorate. The current member of that electorate is the WA Premier.
Is this a good thing or a bad thing to be in the Premier’s electorate?
Or is it better to have a back-bencher as your MLA?
party_pants said:
So, just got in the mail today news of State electorate boundaries changing. The northern part of my suburb (where I live) is going to be added to adjacent electorate. The current member of that electorate is the WA Premier.Is this a good thing or a bad thing to be in the Premier’s electorate?
Or is it better to have a back-bencher as your MLA?
it’s a good thing – the electorate of the Premier gets the love
diddly-squat said:
party_pants said:
So, just got in the mail today news of State electorate boundaries changing. The northern part of my suburb (where I live) is going to be added to adjacent electorate. The current member of that electorate is the WA Premier.Is this a good thing or a bad thing to be in the Premier’s electorate?
Or is it better to have a back-bencher as your MLA?
it’s a good thing – the electorate of the Premier gets the love
I hope we get some intersection upgrades to traffic black spots. Would be nice.
It’s interesting to note that the attempted coup in South Korea was live “tweeted” on bluesky, not shitter.
I don’t know what a tweet is called on bluesky, anyone have ideas?
It’s a butterfly, so is it a flutter?
dv said:
Michael V said:
dv said:
They had to clip the cavilier back to 5 mm. Brings his spots out.
Spots on skin or coat?
Coat.
Thanks.
sarahs mum said:
Huh! Well there you go.
sarahs mum said:
Cymek said:
kii said:Well, I’ll say it…wtf is the 4th chair?
Sitting on it to take the photo ?
eaten by the dog the only partially consumed the one pictured?
Our old chairs look like that from the cats.
And why does there need to be a fourth chair anyway? We replaced aforementioned chairs recently and bought an odd number because Mr arts brings his own chair
Arts said:
sarahs mum said:
Cymek said:Sitting on it to take the photo ?
eaten by the dog the only partially consumed the one pictured?
Our old chairs look like that from the cats.
And why does there need to be a fourth chair anyway? We replaced aforementioned chairs recently and bought an odd number because Mr arts brings his own chair
Strangely I’ve never had animals that destroy furniture. I mean Gracie Blue ate the whole house* once, but left the furniture alone.
I have 3 matching dining chairs because somehow I gave one away, don’t ask.
*pre-crate days when her anxiety was not understood by her dumb humans.
Good morning Holidayers. Presently 12 degrees at the back door and getting light. We are forecast a sunny 31 degrees today.
I’m going to have breakfast with my bushwandering friend and then we are going to nip over to a close old cemetery to check for flowers before the heat hits. It’s only 35km to Macarthur from here. Then I will have to hibernate for the rest of the day, I expect.
Morning all, quite warm here too, 27 expected.
Coles delivery will be between 9am and 10am. Then I’ll visit the IGA for a few items.
Wasn’t going to get any bread because of the chewing involved, but I might get a sliced loaf and cut off the crusts.
Morning.
Tau.Neutrino said:
Morning.
G’day. Bright sunny day at the mo.
Though BOM says:
Summary Min 21 Max 35 Partly cloudy. Possible rainfall: 0 to 1 mm Chance of any rain: 30%
Partly cloudy. Slight chance of a shower. The chance of a thunderstorm in the morning and afternoon. Light winds.
Arts said:
sarahs mum said:
Cymek said:
Sitting on it to take the photo ?
eaten by the dog the only partially consumed the one pictured?
Our old chairs look like that from the cats.
And why does there need to be a fourth chair anyway? We replaced aforementioned chairs recently and bought an odd number because Mr arts brings his own chair
this obsession with integer numbers of things is unhealthy
Hmm, the socks that were delivered this week are allegedly made in Australia, but the packaging says “Made In Australian”.
SCIENCE said:
Arts said:
sarahs mum said:
eaten by the dog the only partially consumed the one pictured?
Our old chairs look like that from the cats.
And why does there need to be a fourth chair anyway? We replaced aforementioned chairs recently and bought an odd number because Mr arts brings his own chair
this obsession with integer numbers of things is unhealthy
For me it’s actually part of my ND coping strategies. I count stuff to ease my anxiety.
kii said:
SCIENCE said:
Arts said:
Our old chairs look like that from the cats.
And why does there need to be a fourth chair anyway? We replaced aforementioned chairs recently and bought an odd number because Mr arts brings his own chair
this obsession with integer numbers of things is unhealthy
For me it’s actually part of my ND coping strategies. I count stuff to ease my anxiety.
what we mean is no need to be discreet about it
Bubblecar said:
Hmm, the socks that were delivered this week are allegedly made in Australia, but the packaging says “Made In Australian”.
Real Australians Wouldn’t Grammatic Err
SCIENCE said:
kii said:
SCIENCE said:
this obsession with integer numbers of things is unhealthy
For me it’s actually part of my ND coping strategies. I count stuff to ease my anxiety.
what we mean is no need to be discreet about it
I’m not.
kii said:
SCIENCE said:kii said:
For me it’s actually part of my ND coping strategies. I count stuff to ease my anxiety.
what we mean is no need to be discreet about it
I’m not.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_or_discrete_variable
kii said:
SCIENCE said:
kii said:
For me it’s actually part of my ND coping strategies. I count stuff to ease my anxiety.
what we mean is no need to be discreet about it
I’m not.
Hey no worries we get yous, this is absolutely a natural thing.
SCIENCE said:
kii said:
SCIENCE said:
what we mean is no need to be discreet about it
I’m not.
Hey no worries we get yous, this is absolutely a natural thing.
LOL
Morning pilgrims, its raining slightly,it might clear up.
Nothing planned for today just faffing around at the redoubt.
Peak Warming Man said:
Morning pilgrims, its raining slightly,it might clear up.
Nothing planned for today just faffing around at the redoubt.
Getting your boots muddy?
SCIENCE said:
kii said:
SCIENCE said:
what we mean is no need to be discreet about it
I’m not.
Hey no worries we get yous, this is absolutely a natural thing.
I also like lists, featuring numbers.
One mug of tea, two tea bags.
One grilled cheese sandwich, cut in half.
One Roomba wandering around the room.
One replacement credit card.
Four new beaded bracelets.
Two Alt National Park Service stickers, featuring Smokey Bear.
Season 2 Episode 6 of Ozark.
One tired kii.
Peak Warming Man said:
At the redoubt and the road in was a mess and very treacherous all the creeks were up and there was a spectacular light show.
I didn’t want to get out and open the gate in the rain and lighting but I got here in one piece if a bit wet and frazzled.
My Hero.
Kingy said:
It’s interesting to note that the attempted coup in South Korea was live “tweeted” on bluesky, not shitter.I don’t know what a tweet is called on bluesky, anyone have ideas?
It’s a butterfly, so is it a flutter?
Flitter.
JudgeMental said:
Kingy said:
It’s interesting to note that the attempted coup in South Korea was live “tweeted” on bluesky, not shitter.I don’t know what a tweet is called on bluesky, anyone have ideas?
It’s a butterfly, so is it a flutter?
Flitter.
Skeet.
Peak Warming Man said:
Morning pilgrims, its raining slightly,it might clear up.
Nothing planned for today just faffing around at the redoubt.
One must have a good faff every now and then, Mr Man. Happy faffing.😎
Woodie said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Morning pilgrims, its raining slightly,it might clear up.
Nothing planned for today just faffing around at the redoubt.
One must have a good faff every now and then, Mr Man. Happy faffing.😎
When you’ve retired, you can faff every day if you want.
Woodie said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Morning pilgrims, its raining slightly,it might clear up.
Nothing planned for today just faffing around at the redoubt.
One must have a good faff every now and then, Mr Man. Happy faffing.😎
We need a National Faff Day.
This has been tested in parts of Canberra, and other capital cities, and found to be so good that, at those locations, it’s National Faff Day every day.
Coles truck is here. But it has no name!
Bubblecar said:
Coles truck is here. But it has no name!
Beware the anonymous traveller bearing gifts.
roughbarked said:
Bubblecar said:
Coles truck is here. But it has no name!
Beware the anonymous traveller bearing gifts.
Driver explained that they had to replace the door.
Bubblecar said:
roughbarked said:
Bubblecar said:
Coles truck is here. But it has no name!
Beware the anonymous traveller bearing gifts.
Driver explained that they had to replace the door.
OK, sounds reasonable. He’s free to go.
Bubblecar said:
Coles truck is here. But it has no name!
Sings:
They went though Tazzie
in a truck with no name,
It brought my groceries ju-ust the same.
Bubblecar said:
Coles truck is here. But it has no name!
He’s got a horse with the same name.
Peak Warming Man said:
Bubblecar said:
Coles truck is here. But it has no name!
He’s got a horse with the same name.
One egg was broken but I only discovered that when removing it from the box, and the contents of the egg splattered over the floor :/
Bubblecar said:
Coles truck is here. But it has no name!
Better send it back then, hey what but!! Until it has a name.
Bubblecar said:
One egg was broken but I only discovered that when removing it from the box, and the contents of the egg splattered over the floor :/
It’s now a pre-prepared eggmess. How thoughtful of them.
Woodie said:
Bubblecar said:
One egg was broken but I only discovered that when removing it from the box, and the contents of the egg splattered over the floor :/
It’s now a pre-prepared eggmess. How thoughtful of them.
Heh.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DAeLBRyCZYz/?igsh=MWg3bTl5bmJ4Y204bg==
Cow
breakfast done, been listening to various, presently Carl Sagan speaking about flatland
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnURElCzGc0
Cosmos – Carl Sagan – 4th Dimension
feels like a hot mongrel day, beginnings of, i’m watering
One for The Rev
captain_spalding said:
Bubblecar said:
roughbarked said:
Beware the anonymous traveller bearing gifts.
Driver explained that they had to replace the door.
OK, sounds reasonable. He’s free to go.
look we know that mental health is important but at these rates what’s the answer
Over a 10-year period, mental health claims by Australian workers aged between 30 and 40 have increased by more than 730 per cent, new data has revealed.
Tau.Neutrino said:
SCIENCE said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Archaeologists Make Remarkable Find: 60,000-Year-Old Neanderthal Workshop Found in Cave
nice
Archaeologists Make Remarkable Find: 60,000-Year-Old Neanderthal Workshop Found in Cave
nice
JudgeMental said:
One for The Rev
:)
Love it!
:)
Tau.Neutrino said:
Archaeologists Make Remarkable Find: 60,000-Year-Old Neanderthal Workshop Found in Cave
Didn’t you post something about that last night?
SCIENCE said:
look we know that mental health is important but at these rates what’s the answer
Over a 10-year period, mental health claims by Australian workers aged between 30 and 40 have increased by more than 730 per cent, new data has revealed.
I need to see more detail, the yearly change, trend, quite often statistics are used to distract from something, change or obscure possible correlates in favor of preferred explanations, even if just to render some potential correlate less discernible, to add uncertainty, to hide it in the oblivion of noise, so that seeing it adds great uncertainty, to the extent someone may lose all desire to look and find, to see what is right under their eyes
Michael V said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Archaeologists Make Remarkable Find: 60,000-Year-Old Neanderthal Workshop Found in Cave
Didn’t you post something about that last night?
I did and forgot.
I’m back. We decided not to attempt any cemetery adventures this morning, it was warming up too quickly. We nipped out the road to check if the 30-40 brolgas that I saw yesterday evening were still there (they weren’t) and now I’ve filled all the bird water dishes and put on some low use sprinklers. It’s heading into the high twenties already.
Here is a link to my Brolga observation from yesterday afternoon
Michael V said:
Bubblecar said:
Coles truck is here. But it has no name!
Sings:
They went though Tazzie
in a truck with no name,
It brought my groceries ju-ust the same.
In the Tazzie you don’t remember your name.
BACK and about to enjoy a brunch of avocado upon toast, with the crusts removed and eaten carefully with a knife and fork.
SCIENCE said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
SCIENCE said:
nice
Archaeologists Make Remarkable Find: 60,000-Year-Old Neanderthal Workshop Found in Cave
nice
It is getting a bit repetitive around here.
Tau.Neutrino said:
Michael V said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Archaeologists Make Remarkable Find: 60,000-Year-Old Neanderthal Workshop Found in Cave
Didn’t you post something about that last night?
I did and forgot.
it’s worth noting, however, that not everyone is convinced. Two archaeologists not involved with the study recently told Science that there was not enough evidence to prove the Neanderthals had been burning the wood specifically to make tar.
some rain starts, i’m a little bit excited, don’t tell anyone though, they may have abandoned the child in them, forgotten about jumping in puddles and stuff, playing in the mud, not appreciate how quickly they matured, the prematurity of it, they stay inside now and drink beer, smoke cigarettes, and watch TV, the brutality of cultural expectations turned to vice, found expression so, collectively now most humans find rain the be inconvenient, imagine the offense this causes the rain Gods, so the planet is heating up, the Gods are conspiring to render the planet uninhabitable for a few centuries, a cleansing, fighting back against the human interference
so ends this morning’s typing episode
coffee lands in a moment
Michael V said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Archaeologists Make Remarkable Find: 60,000-Year-Old Neanderthal Workshop Found in Cave
Didn’t you post something about that last night?
He did.
buffy said:
I’m back. We decided not to attempt any cemetery adventures this morning, it was warming up too quickly. We nipped out the road to check if the 30-40 brolgas that I saw yesterday evening were still there (they weren’t) and now I’ve filled all the bird water dishes and put on some low use sprinklers. It’s heading into the high twenties already.Here is a link to my Brolga observation from yesterday afternoon
Love Brolgas. Don’t see them so much now that rice farming has almost disappeared from here.
Already 32.5 outside. Came in to sit in front of a fan to blow the sweat off.
dv said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Michael V said:I did and forgot.
it’s worth noting, however, that not everyone is convinced. Two archaeologists not involved with the study recently told Science that there was not enough evidence to prove the Neanderthals had been burning the wood specifically to make tar.
noted.
From my Quora browsing:
“Is Elon Musk as humble as the image of him projected to the public?”
What?
transition said:
some rain starts, i’m a little bit excited, don’t tell anyone though, they may have abandoned the child in them, forgotten about jumping in puddles and stuff, playing in the mud, not appreciate how quickly they matured, the prematurity of it, they stay inside now and drink beer, smoke cigarettes, and watch TV, the brutality of cultural expectations turned to vice, found expression so, collectively now most humans find rain the be inconvenient, imagine the offense this causes the rain Gods, so the planet is heating up, the Gods are conspiring to render the planet uninhabitable for a few centuries, a cleansing, fighting back against the human interferenceso ends this morning’s typing episode
coffee lands in a moment
You could always dance naked in the rain, hoping for a good wash?
The Rev Dodgson said:
From my Quora browsing:“Is Elon Musk as humble as the image of him projected to the public?”
What?
Obvious click bait?
The Rev Dodgson said:
From my Quora browsing:“Is Elon Musk as humble as the image of him projected to the public?”
What?
perhaps the person or whatever doesn’t really have a working concept of humble, somewhat underdeveloped, distorted, or perhaps really it is completely absent, some notion worse than no idea at all
transition said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
From my Quora browsing:“Is Elon Musk as humble as the image of him projected to the public?”
What?
perhaps the person or whatever doesn’t really have a working concept of humble, somewhat underdeveloped, distorted, or perhaps really it is completely absent, some notion worse than no idea at all
the last four words would seem to be the correct analysis.
The Rev Dodgson said:
From my Quora browsing:“Is Elon Musk as humble as the image of him projected to the public?”
What?
LOL. Yeah a lot of dumb questions on Quora. The answers are for the most part better.
JudgeMental said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
From my Quora browsing:“Is Elon Musk as humble as the image of him projected to the public?”
What?
LOL. Yeah a lot of dumb questions on Quora. The answers are for the most part better.
Hasn’t been said, there are no stupid questions. Only stupid answers.
?
roughbarked said:
JudgeMental said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
From my Quora browsing:“Is Elon Musk as humble as the image of him projected to the public?”
What?
LOL. Yeah a lot of dumb questions on Quora. The answers are for the most part better.
Hasn’t been said, there are no stupid questions. Only stupid answers.
?
That’s a stupid question :)
The Rev Dodgson said:
roughbarked said:
JudgeMental said:LOL. Yeah a lot of dumb questions on Quora. The answers are for the most part better.
Hasn’t been said, there are no stupid questions. Only stupid answers.
?
That’s a stupid question :)
:)
The Rev Dodgson said:
From my Quora browsing:
“Is Elon Musk as humble as the image of him projected to the public?”
What?
Is Any Republican Nominee As Innocent As The Fascists Present H’ To Be
roughbarked said:
JudgeMental said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
From my Quora browsing:
“Is Elon Musk as humble as the image of him projected to the public?”
What?
LOL. Yeah a lot of dumb questions on Quora. The answers are for the most part better.
Hasn’t been said, there are no stupid questions. Only stupid answers.
?
it’s fair, who said humble has to be a positive integer like chairs
The Rev Dodgson said:
From my Quora browsing:“Is Elon Musk as humble as the image of him projected to the public?”
What?
Some classic quora there
Hello
Bubblecar said:
BACK and about to enjoy a brunch of avocado upon toast, with the crusts removed and eaten carefully with a knife and fork.
Actually it wasn’t necessary to remove the crusts when toasted.
Added a good shake of white pepper, goes very well with avocado.
The Rev Dodgson said:
From my Quora browsing:“Is Elon Musk as humble as the image of him projected to the public?”
What?
Um, yeah.
Last time I looked he was cramming his punchable face into every media frame and endlessly spouting self-aggrandising bullshit, on a par with Trump for its “look at me, look at me, worship me!” mania.
The Rev Dodgson said:
From my Quora browsing:“Is Elon Musk as humble as the image of him projected to the public?”
What?
“He’s quite a bit less humble than that.”
SCIENCE said:
roughbarked said:
JudgeMental said:
LOL. Yeah a lot of dumb questions on Quora. The answers are for the most part better.
Hasn’t been said, there are no stupid questions. Only stupid answers.
?
it’s fair, who said humble has to be a positive integer like chairs
So the actual question is:
Is Elon Musk’s actual Humility Quotient equal to that of the image of him projected to the public?
Fair enough then.
For my birthday Spocky bought a used Lenovo Thinkpad P16S for me, as I need a powerful laptop for the CAD work I do. Solidworks runs very well on it indeed.
So I was looking forward to updating this PC, as the SSD used for C drive was getting pretty tired and there’s a few other things that are also in dire need of a fresh install. So last Monday I pulled it all apart, replaced the CPU thermal paste, fitted a new SSD and better video card (MSI 3070 Gaming X Trio) and it runs very nicely now.
But I’m still a bit surprised that Solidworks takes twice as long to open on the PC as it does on the laptop. about eight seconds versus about four. The PC has a Ryzen 3700X, five years old and the laptop a two year-old Intel CPU of some type – I wouldn’t have thought only a few years between them would have made that much difference, but it does.
The Hercules–Corona Borealis Great Wall: is it as minuscule as it appears?
The Rev Dodgson said:
SCIENCE said:roughbarked said:
Hasn’t been said, there are no stupid questions. Only stupid answers.
?
it’s fair, who said humble has to be a positive integer like chairs
So the actual question is:
Is Elon Musk’s actual Humility Quotient equal to that of the image of him projected to the public?
Fair enough then.
Him siding with Trump makes you wonder if a deal has been struck that borders on human rights violations.
Musky can experiment with people using his mind control musk odour
transition said:
SCIENCE said:look we know that mental health is important but at these rates what’s the answer
Over a 10-year period, mental health claims by Australian workers aged between 30 and 40 have increased by more than 730 per cent, new data has revealed.
I need to see more detail, the yearly change, trend, quite often statistics are used to distract from something, change or obscure possible correlates in favor of preferred explanations, even if just to render some potential correlate less discernible, to add uncertainty, to hide it in the oblivion of noise, so that seeing it adds great uncertainty, to the extent someone may lose all desire to look and find, to see what is right under their eyes
reading
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-05/workers-mental-health-insurance-claims-spike/104682336
Spiny Norman said:
For my birthday Spocky bought a used Lenovo Thinkpad P16S for me, as I need a powerful laptop for the CAD work I do. Solidworks runs very well on it indeed.
So I was looking forward to updating this PC, as the SSD used for C drive was getting pretty tired and there’s a few other things that are also in dire need of a fresh install. So last Monday I pulled it all apart, replaced the CPU thermal paste, fitted a new SSD and better video card (MSI 3070 Gaming X Trio) and it runs very nicely now.
But I’m still a bit surprised that Solidworks takes twice as long to open on the PC as it does on the laptop. about eight seconds versus about four. The PC has a Ryzen 3700X, five years old and the laptop a two year-old Intel CPU of some type – I wouldn’t have thought only a few years between them would have made that much difference, but it does.
do you have the same libraries installed on both machines?
Wisdom the Laysan albatross lays new egg at 74 years old after finding new mate. Banded in 1956.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-05/worlds-oldest-known-wild-bird-wisdom-lays-egg/104687366
dv said:
The Hercules–Corona Borealis Great Wall: is it as minuscule as it appears?
yes, because it is a long way away.
Michael V said:
Wisdom the Laysan albatross lays new egg at 74 years old after finding new mate. Banded in 1956.https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-05/worlds-oldest-known-wild-bird-wisdom-lays-egg/104687366
Well done that big old bird.
Bubblecar said:
Michael V said:
Wisdom the Laysan albatross lays new egg at 74 years old after finding new mate. Banded in 1956.https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-05/worlds-oldest-known-wild-bird-wisdom-lays-egg/104687366
Well done that big old bird.
Indeed.
transition said:
transition said:
SCIENCE said:look we know that mental health is important but at these rates what’s the answer
Over a 10-year period, mental health claims by Australian workers aged between 30 and 40 have increased by more than 730 per cent, new data has revealed.
I need to see more detail, the yearly change, trend, quite often statistics are used to distract from something, change or obscure possible correlates in favor of preferred explanations, even if just to render some potential correlate less discernible, to add uncertainty, to hide it in the oblivion of noise, so that seeing it adds great uncertainty, to the extent someone may lose all desire to look and find, to see what is right under their eyes
reading
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-05/workers-mental-health-insurance-claims-spike/104682336
so long as the debt and debt trajectory isn’t turning culture into a darwinian hellscape, everything should be fine
roughbarked said:
Bubblecar said:
Michael V said:
Wisdom the Laysan albatross lays new egg at 74 years old after finding new mate. Banded in 1956.https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-05/worlds-oldest-known-wild-bird-wisdom-lays-egg/104687366
Well done that big old bird.
Indeed.
Wisdom at being a parent at that age, hmm
Michael V said:
Wisdom the Laysan albatross lays new egg at 74 years old after finding new mate. Banded in 1956.https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-05/worlds-oldest-known-wild-bird-wisdom-lays-egg/104687366
That’s incredible.
Elon Musk is going to destroy the international space station.
Shakes fist.
Peak Warming Man said:
Elon Musk is going to destroy the international space station.
Shakes fist.
ref?
roughbarked said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Elon Musk is going to destroy the international space station.
Shakes fist.
ref?
My word is my bond.
Peak Warming Man said:
roughbarked said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Elon Musk is going to destroy the international space station.
Shakes fist.
ref?
My word is my bond.
Seems unlikely.
Peak Warming Man said:
Elon Musk is going to destroy the international space station.
Shakes fist.
Yes, the Kessler Syndrome where cascading satellite collisions make earth’s orbit untenable has now been brought forward to approximately 2050.
If it is any consolation, the current plan is to destroy the ISS five years from now anyway.
dv said:
If it is any consolation, the current plan is to destroy the ISS five years from now anyway.
And Elon has won the contract.
Peak Warming Man said:
dv said:
If it is any consolation, the current plan is to destroy the ISS five years from now anyway.
And Elon has won the contract.
You’ve won this round, Gadget
dv said:
If it is any consolation, the current plan is to destroy the ISS five years from now anyway.
Elon will probably be president by then.
Peak Warming Man said:
dv said:
If it is any consolation, the current plan is to destroy the ISS five years from now anyway.
Elon will probably be president by then.
dv said:
Peak Warming Man said:
dv said:
If it is any consolation, the current plan is to destroy the ISS five years from now anyway.
And Elon has won the contract.
You’ve won this round, Gadget
Tamb said:
dv said:
Peak Warming Man said:And Elon has won the contract.
You’ve won this round, Gadget
With a 9hr flight time Beijing to Cairns we should be back on line tomorrow.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/travel/news/inside-incredible-156trn-transatlantic-tunnel-34243843
science fiction.
sarahs mum said:
https://www.mirror.co.uk/travel/news/inside-incredible-156trn-transatlantic-tunnel-34243843science fiction.
sarahs mum said:
https://www.mirror.co.uk/travel/news/inside-incredible-156trn-transatlantic-tunnel-34243843science fiction.
This sentence seems at odds with itself:
>Despite the colossal costs and logistical challenges linked with the concept, no serious proposals are currently under consideration by governments on either side of the Atlantic.
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
https://www.mirror.co.uk/travel/news/inside-incredible-156trn-transatlantic-tunnel-34243843science fiction.
This sentence seems at odds with itself:
>Despite the colossal costs and logistical challenges linked with the concept, no serious proposals are currently under consideration by governments on either side of the Atlantic.
but Spain> Morocco is on.
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
https://www.mirror.co.uk/travel/news/inside-incredible-156trn-transatlantic-tunnel-34243843science fiction.
This sentence seems at odds with itself:
>Despite the colossal costs and logistical challenges linked with the concept, no serious proposals are currently under consideration by governments on either side of the Atlantic.
but Spain> Morocco is on.
The pillars of Hercules should be a doddle.
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
https://www.mirror.co.uk/travel/news/inside-incredible-156trn-transatlantic-tunnel-34243843science fiction.
This sentence seems at odds with itself:
>Despite the colossal costs and logistical challenges linked with the concept, no serious proposals are currently under consideration by governments on either side of the Atlantic.
but Spain> Morocco is on.
That would be a good place for the new Tassie ferries to work until they can be used here.
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
https://www.mirror.co.uk/travel/news/inside-incredible-156trn-transatlantic-tunnel-34243843science fiction.
This sentence seems at odds with itself:
>Despite the colossal costs and logistical challenges linked with the concept, no serious proposals are currently under consideration by governments on either side of the Atlantic.
but Spain> Morocco is on.
A fairly short route but apparently very deep.
Peak Warming Man said:
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:This sentence seems at odds with itself:
>Despite the colossal costs and logistical challenges linked with the concept, no serious proposals are currently under consideration by governments on either side of the Atlantic.
but Spain> Morocco is on.
The pillars of Hercules should be a doddle.
I wonder if the Chunnel paid for itself.
Peak Warming Man said:
Peak Warming Man said:
sarahs mum said:but Spain> Morocco is on.
The pillars of Hercules should be a doddle.
I wonder if the Chunnel paid for itself.
Seems to have facillitated people smuggling.
Peak Warming Man said:
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:This sentence seems at odds with itself:
>Despite the colossal costs and logistical challenges linked with the concept, no serious proposals are currently under consideration by governments on either side of the Atlantic.
but Spain> Morocco is on.
The pillars of Hercules should be a doddle.
Oz > NZ?
or Oz > Bali?
Peak Warming Man said:
dv said:
If it is any consolation, the current plan is to destroy the ISS five years from now anyway.
Elon will probably be president by then.
Unless there is a constitutional amendment, he can’t become president, per article 2 section 1.
Peak Warming Man said:
Peak Warming Man said:
sarahs mum said:but Spain> Morocco is on.
The pillars of Hercules should be a doddle.
I wonder if the Chunnel paid for itself.
the users pay for it. the tunnel has no independent income.
Tamb said:
sarahs mum said:
https://www.mirror.co.uk/travel/news/inside-incredible-156trn-transatlantic-tunnel-34243843science fiction.
There was a satirical novel called “ A Transatlantic tunnel. Hurrah.
A Transatlantic Tunnel, Hurrah! is a 1972 alternate history / science fiction novel by American writer Harry Harrison1. The novel is set in an alternate 1973, where Washington lost the Battle of Lexington and America remains a British colony dreaming of independence2. The novel describes a vacuum/maglev system on the ocean floor3. The Transatlantic Tunnel is the greatest engineering feat in the history of the British Empire, a project worthy of Her Majesty’s Empire.
A Transpacific tunnel might be more practical, spanning from the Chukchi Peninsula of the Russian Far East to the Seward Peninsula of Alaska.
dv said:
Tamb said:
sarahs mum said:
https://www.mirror.co.uk/travel/news/inside-incredible-156trn-transatlantic-tunnel-34243843science fiction.
There was a satirical novel called “ A Transatlantic tunnel. Hurrah.
A Transatlantic Tunnel, Hurrah! is a 1972 alternate history / science fiction novel by American writer Harry Harrison1. The novel is set in an alternate 1973, where Washington lost the Battle of Lexington and America remains a British colony dreaming of independence2. The novel describes a vacuum/maglev system on the ocean floor3. The Transatlantic Tunnel is the greatest engineering feat in the history of the British Empire, a project worthy of Her Majesty’s Empire.
A Transpacific tunnel might be more practical, spanning from the Chukchi Peninsula of the Russian Far East to the Seward Peninsula of Alaska.
Wouldn’t it need a demilitarized zone?
roughbarked said:
dv said:
Tamb said:There was a satirical novel called “ A Transatlantic tunnel. Hurrah.
A Transatlantic Tunnel, Hurrah! is a 1972 alternate history / science fiction novel by American writer Harry Harrison1. The novel is set in an alternate 1973, where Washington lost the Battle of Lexington and America remains a British colony dreaming of independence2. The novel describes a vacuum/maglev system on the ocean floor3. The Transatlantic Tunnel is the greatest engineering feat in the history of the British Empire, a project worthy of Her Majesty’s Empire.
A Transpacific tunnel might be more practical, spanning from the Chukchi Peninsula of the Russian Far East to the Seward Peninsula of Alaska.
Wouldn’t it need a demilitarized zone?
Nobody noticed that roughbarked scored ID: 2222222 with his opening post in Interesting Clocks….
Bubblecar said:
Nobody noticed that roughbarked scored ID: 2222222 with his opening post in Interesting Clocks….
Whoa!
I could be famous and yeah, it was an accident. ;)
roughbarked said:
Bubblecar said:
Nobody noticed that roughbarked scored ID: 2222222 with his opening post in Interesting Clocks….Whoa!
I could be famous and yeah, it was an accident. ;)
But it ran like clockwork :)
roughbarked said:
dv said:
Tamb said:There was a satirical novel called “ A Transatlantic tunnel. Hurrah.
A Transatlantic Tunnel, Hurrah! is a 1972 alternate history / science fiction novel by American writer Harry Harrison1. The novel is set in an alternate 1973, where Washington lost the Battle of Lexington and America remains a British colony dreaming of independence2. The novel describes a vacuum/maglev system on the ocean floor3. The Transatlantic Tunnel is the greatest engineering feat in the history of the British Empire, a project worthy of Her Majesty’s Empire.
A Transpacific tunnel might be more practical, spanning from the Chukchi Peninsula of the Russian Far East to the Seward Peninsula of Alaska.
Wouldn’t it need a demilitarized zone?
Well hopefully one day Russia will be a better place and maybe the USA will be too.
The two longest tunnels in the world are for water, not transport. The longest transport tunnel is a 87 km rail tunnel is Suzhou.
Bubblecar said:
Nobody noticed that roughbarked scored ID: 2222222 with his opening post in Interesting Clocks….
Good
Bubblecar said:
roughbarked said:
Bubblecar said:
Nobody noticed that roughbarked scored ID: 2222222 with his opening post in Interesting Clocks….Whoa!
I could be famous and yeah, it was an accident. ;)
But it ran like clockwork :)
it did at that.
dv said:
roughbarked said:
dv said:A Transpacific tunnel might be more practical, spanning from the Chukchi Peninsula of the Russian Far East to the Seward Peninsula of Alaska.
Wouldn’t it need a demilitarized zone?
Well hopefully one day Russia will be a better place and maybe the USA will be too.
The two longest tunnels in the world are for water, not transport. The longest transport tunnel is a 87 km rail tunnel is Suzhou.
The pipeline to Kalgoorlie is a water tunnel.
dv said:
Bubblecar said:
Nobody noticed that roughbarked scored ID: 2222222 with his opening post in Interesting Clocks….Good
When did that count start?
Whoa!
I could be famous and yeah, it was an accident. ;)
But it ran like clockwork :)
it did at that.
Peak Warming Man said:
dv said:
Bubblecar said:
Nobody noticed that roughbarked scored ID: 2222222 with his opening post in Interesting Clocks….Good
When did that count start?
30 posts ago not counting hthis one.
Of course, the would be major engineering challenges with building very long tunnels between major tectonic plates.
dv said:
Of course, the would be major engineering challenges with building very long tunnels between major tectonic plates.
I suppose the contractors would be shifty types.
dv said:
Of course, the would be major engineering challenges with building very long tunnels between major tectonic plates.
They’d need a geophysics.
Peak Warming Man said:
dv said:
Of course, the would be major engineering challenges with building very long tunnels between major tectonic plates.
They’d need a geophysics.
Geophysicists.
Peak Warming Man said:
Peak Warming Man said:
dv said:
Of course, the would be major engineering challenges with building very long tunnels between major tectonic plates.
They’d need a geophysics.
Geophysicists.
Geophysicist.
Peak Warming Man said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Peak Warming Man said:They’d need a geophysics.
Geophysicists.
Geophysicist.
Geofizz will do.
Peak Warming Man said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Peak Warming Man said:They’d need a geophysics.
Geophysicists.
Geophysicist.
You had a traumatic evening yesterday.
Peak Warming Man said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Peak Warming Man said:They’d need a geophysics.
Geophysicists.
Geophysicist.
Geoff
Grace Tame defended her Bruny Island Ultra title on the weekend, taking a massive 12 minutes off her time to break her own record and become the first woman to run the event in under five hours.
-ABC
sarahs mum said:
Grace Tame defended her Bruny Island Ultra title on the weekend, taking a massive 12 minutes off her time to break her own record and become the first woman to run the event in under five hours.
-ABC
Is that the same Grace Tame?
Peak Warming Man said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Peak Warming Man said:They’d need a geophysics.
Geophysicists.
Geophysicist.
Are we there yet?
sarahs mum said:
Grace Tame defended her Bruny Island Ultra title on the weekend, taking a massive 12 minutes off her time to break her own record and become the first woman to run the event in under five hours.
-ABC
G’don her.
It’s going to be dog city around here as yet another friend is dropping a terrior on us while they vacation, this one a Jack Russell.
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
Grace Tame defended her Bruny Island Ultra title on the weekend, taking a massive 12 minutes off her time to break her own record and become the first woman to run the event in under five hours.
-ABCIs that the same Grace Tame?
It is indeed:
Tame is a visual artist, and her clientèle has included actor John Cleese, and musician Martin Gore. She is also a yoga teacher and long-distance runner, having won the 2020 Ross Marathon in a course record time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Tame
dv said:
It’s going to be dog city around here as yet another friend is dropping a terrior on us while they vacation, this one a Jack Russell.
Good lick luck.
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
Grace Tame defended her Bruny Island Ultra title on the weekend, taking a massive 12 minutes off her time to break her own record and become the first woman to run the event in under five hours.
-ABCIs that the same Grace Tame?
yep.
dv said:
It’s going to be dog city around here as yet another friend is dropping a terrior on us while they vacation, this one a Jack Russell.
it won’t need a groomer.
Looking up Jack Russells, they are highly energetic dogs and require much exercise and stimulation.
dv said:
It’s going to be dog city around here as yet another friend is dropping a terrior on us while they vacation, this one a Jack Russell.
G’donya.
:)
Michael V said:
dv said:
It’s going to be dog city around here as yet another friend is dropping a terrior on us while they vacation, this one a Jack Russell.
G’donya.
:)
I hope there is friendship, not war between the two dogs.
sarahs mum said:
dv said:
It’s going to be dog city around here as yet another friend is dropping a terrior on us while they vacation, this one a Jack Russell.
it won’t need a groomer.
No.
They have very different temperaments. The Charles is a hmmmHMMM kind of dog and the Jack is a YapYapYap kind of dog.
Bubblecar said:
Looking up Jack Russells, they are highly energetic dogs and require much exercise and stimulation.
The one our friend has got certainly has our friend well trained.
Norman Pain isn’t as good as Pete and or Bas but he did makr me smile with “Got packs in the walls of me white house. Think I won’t war but I will, son: Woodrow.”
dv said:
sarahs mum said:
dv said:
It’s going to be dog city around here as yet another friend is dropping a terrior on us while they vacation, this one a Jack Russell.
it won’t need a groomer.
No.
They have very different temperaments. The Charles is a hmmmHMMM kind of dog and the Jack is a YapYapYap kind of dog.
you could probably teach the jack russell to do a trick or two.
sarahs mum said:
dv said:
sarahs mum said:it won’t need a groomer.
No.
They have very different temperaments. The Charles is a hmmmHMMM kind of dog and the Jack is a YapYapYap kind of dog.
you could probably teach the jack russell to do a trick or two.
I didn’t even know I had any friends and now I’ve got friends who trust me with their pets.
dv said:
I didn’t even know I had any friends and now I’ve got friends who trust me with their pets.
maybe they tried others and you are the last resort.
JudgeMental said:
dv said:
I didn’t even know I had any friends and now I’ve got friends who trust me with their pets.
maybe they tried others and you are the last resort.
JudgeMental said:
dv said:
I didn’t even know I had any friends and now I’ve got friends who trust me with their pets.
maybe they tried others and you are the last resort.
hopefully that’s it
dv said:
I didn’t even know I had any friends and now I’ve got friends who trust me with their pets.
do these people only talk to you when they need a dogsitter? Sometimes I feel that way. I get to spend ore time with sarah’s dog than I do with the grandkiddos.
thunderhead van de graaff generator overhead, the Lord mixing electricity and water, with strong wind, got lightning bolts parting the air creating a vaccum, air rushing back together making rumbles, even explosions
a nasty business
just need a fire now
sarahs mum said:
Brilliant! I love it.
:)
Ta.
sarahs mum said:
dv said:
I didn’t even know I had any friends and now I’ve got friends who trust me with their pets.
do these people only talk to you when they need a dogsitter?
No it’s not like that, I’m being silly.
Michael V said:
sarahs mum said:
Brilliant! I love it.
:)
Ta.
Me too.
Fast bowler Scott Boland has been recalled to Australia’s XI for the second men’s Test against India at Adelaide Oval, while all-rounder Mitch Marsh is cleared to bowl.
dv said:
sarahs mum said:
dv said:
I didn’t even know I had any friends and now I’ve got friends who trust me with their pets.
do these people only talk to you when they need a dogsitter?
No it’s not like that, I’m being silly.
But, if your wife comes home from work and finds a live terrier in your garage, will you get a divorce? No trial separation…
furious said:
dv said:
sarahs mum said:do these people only talk to you when they need a dogsitter?
No it’s not like that, I’m being silly.
But, if your wife comes home from work and finds a live terrier in your garage, will you get a divorce? No trial separation…
The Boss Lady Situation.
Michael V said:
sarahs mum said:
Brilliant! I love it.
:)
Ta.
Lovely
https://youtu.be/4drm5W3Ghn8?si=kGojWfzd8IOi6uUE
Is this a synthetic voice?
dv said:
https://youtu.be/4drm5W3Ghn8?si=kGojWfzd8IOi6uUEIs this a synthetic voice?
I’m thinking yes.
sarahs mum said:
dv said:
https://youtu.be/4drm5W3Ghn8?si=kGojWfzd8IOi6uUEIs this a synthetic voice?
I’m thinking yes.
It’s very sophisticated. I only really twigged because the cadence is very constant.
Patting him is more pleasant now. For us and presumably for him.
dv said:
sarahs mum said:
dv said:
https://youtu.be/4drm5W3Ghn8?si=kGojWfzd8IOi6uUEIs this a synthetic voice?
I’m thinking yes.
It’s very sophisticated. I only really twigged because the cadence is very constant.
Are they singing about rifles
dv said:
Patting him is more pleasant now. For us and presumably for him.
Lot of panda blood in that one.
dv said:
sarahs mum said:
dv said:
https://youtu.be/4drm5W3Ghn8?si=kGojWfzd8IOi6uUEIs this a synthetic voice?
I’m thinking yes.
It’s very sophisticated. I only really twigged because the cadence is very constant.
dv said:
Patting him is more pleasant now. For us and presumably for him.
I rang the mobile groomer to see if she could get time to come and see cobbett. but she is off to england tomorrow to organise putting her mother in a hospice. she said she expected to be back early in the new year and will come and see him them. it doesn’t sound like she is expecting her mother to be in the hospice for very long. :(
dv said:
Patting him is more pleasant now. For us and presumably for him.
love those dogs
dv said:
Patting him is more pleasant now. For us and presumably for him.
Awww.
dv said:
:)
Painkillers time, a couple of Paris eat ‘em all.
Then finish this bottle of rosé while looking further into my Prohibition folder.
Fairly early night is on the cards, as has been recent habit.
I put some day old mince and vegie leftovers out for the ravens. To my surprise I also lured an Ibis in. First time for one in the yard.
JudgeMental said:
I put some day old mince and vegie leftovers out for the ravens. To my surprise I also lured an Ibis in. First time for one in the yard.
I don’t feed birds but I have had ravens and ibis in my yard.
roughbarked said:
JudgeMental said:
I put some day old mince and vegie leftovers out for the ravens. To my surprise I also lured an Ibis in. First time for one in the yard.
I don’t feed birds but I have had ravens and ibis in my yard.
Heidi has been feeding the currawongs. Slices of banana. One of them as started bringing her earthworms.
roughbarked said:
JudgeMental said:
I put some day old mince and vegie leftovers out for the ravens. To my surprise I also lured an Ibis in. First time for one in the yard.
I don’t feed birds but I have had ravens and ibis in my yard.
it is either give them bits and pieces of leftovers or throw them out.
sarahs mum said:
roughbarked said:
JudgeMental said:
I put some day old mince and vegie leftovers out for the ravens. To my surprise I also lured an Ibis in. First time for one in the yard.
I don’t feed birds but I have had ravens and ibis in my yard.
Heidi has been feeding the currawongs. Slices of banana. One of them as started bringing her earthworms.
She’s got a mate for life if she eats the worms?
JudgeMental said:
roughbarked said:
JudgeMental said:
I put some day old mince and vegie leftovers out for the ravens. To my surprise I also lured an Ibis in. First time for one in the yard.
I don’t feed birds but I have had ravens and ibis in my yard.
it is either give them bits and pieces of leftovers or throw them out.
All my leftovers are compost. The birds freed off the life the compost feeds.
Carrucans of Kurrajong by Jasmine Yuen
dv said:
Carrucans of Kurrajong by Jasmine Yuen
A bit of fiction?
sarahs mum said:
roughbarked said:
JudgeMental said:
I put some day old mince and vegie leftovers out for the ravens. To my surprise I also lured an Ibis in. First time for one in the yard.
I don’t feed birds but I have had ravens and ibis in my yard.
Heidi has been feeding the currawongs. Slices of banana. One of them as started bringing her earthworms.
Awwww.
Lovely.
Daggers don’t dag
JudgeMental said:
I put some day old mince and vegie leftovers out for the ravens. To my surprise I also lured an Ibis in. First time for one in the yard.
All it’s one talks will be there tomorrow.
dv said:
Daggers don’t dag
That’s because they are daggers and not dags.
roughbarked said:
dv said:
Daggers don’t dag
That’s because they are daggers and not dags.
Yeah but rollers roll
dv said:
roughbarked said:
dv said:
Daggers don’t dag
That’s because they are daggers and not dags.
Yeah but rollers roll
I supppose if you sundried some dags they could have sharp edges.
dv said:
roughbarked said:
dv said:
Daggers don’t dag
That’s because they are daggers and not dags.
Yeah but rollers roll
furious said:
dv said:
roughbarked said:That’s because they are daggers and not dags.
Yeah but rollers roll
He’s got less fingers than Boris.
Peak Warming Man said:
furious said:
dv said:Yeah but rollers roll
He’s got less fingers than Boris.
It was just a small error in judgement with the yakuza. Debts are settled.
Peak Warming Man said:
furious said:
dv said:Yeah but rollers roll
He’s got less fingers than Boris.
They are dem fings at the end of his palms.
furious said:
dv said:
roughbarked said:That’s because they are daggers and not dags.
Yeah but rollers roll
Classic
Eminem’s mother just died of cancer but apparently they reconciled before she passed.
I sees a storm approaching, lots black cloud and lightning flashes, so i’ve just elevated my lighting conductor, checked it’s connected to the batteries, might get lucky get a quick battery recharge
first time i’ve tried it, I got a secondhand lightning conductor from a sale, from an old communications site, came off a tower, I thought that looks perfect, even has the fingers on top to attract the lightning better
I have of course had to build a substantial insulator at the base of the lightning conductor supporting pole, taking into consideration the possibility it may exceed the battery voltage a bit, or substantially
there was also the requirement of a rectifier, or more properly steering diodes, because I can’t know if I will get positive or negative lightning, so I have in fact made an extremely high voltage equivalent full wave rectifier to do that, took not a few silicon diodes, the biggest order the supplier had had for some time in fact, then high voltage resistors were required across each diode to equalize the voltage across them
so we’ll see how it goes
in other news I had coffee and toast, removed a wasp from the room just before that, had a few big wasps inside lately, mutant wasps, the last most recent I tried to unalive it with the broom, desist the livingness within it, render it inanimate, but no I had to sneak up on it with a towel because it was angry then, felt threatened, so I chuck the towel around it and relocate it outside, I could feel it fighting with me, quite an effort I could only just mange it, really was a struggle, it was that big and strong, a monster, never seen anything like it
so I have to live with an angry wasp outside now, it’s likely going to wait for me out there tonight, probably talking nasty shit about me to its friends, organizing something, revenge of the wasps
if I don’t return tomorrow good chance they got me
I have just paid a large sum of money for a 50% deposit on getting some aircon installed in my house before the real summer heat arrives.
dv said:
Daggers don’t dag
Surely they could be used to cut dags off.
dv said:
Daggers don’t dag
Also, mothers don’t moth.
Bubblecar said:
dv said:
Season 13 opener, the Terror of the Zygons, one I’ve seen quite a few times.The Zygons are using the Loch Ness Monster to destroy oil rigs. This is the first appearance of the Zygons and indeed the last until the 21st century. Possibly the best one-shot beastie of the Classic era and it’s a wonder they never reused them. They must spent all their budget on the Zygon-suits because goddamn the LNM looks like shit. Somehow worse than the dinosaurs in Invasion thereof.
The Doctor advocates for hydrogen power rather than oil which was rather an advanced idea at that stage.
This is also the last appearance of the Brigadier until Season 20.
Along with the Season 13 finale, Seeds of Doom, this story has been removed from BBC iPlayer a couple of weeks ago, with the Beeb announcing that they “do not have the rights to make them available.” Both of these stories were penned by Robert Banks Stewart so I assume this relates to some legal dispute with his estate. So I’m glad for btm’s archive link.
Aye, the Zygons were impressive while Nessie was beyond comic relief.
The Brigadier addresses the Prime Minister as “madam”, a further nod to the UNIT stories being set in the “not too distant future”.
Michael V said:
dv said:
Daggers don’t dag
Surely they could be used to cut dags off.
I suppose
party_pants said:
I have just paid a large sum of money for a 50% deposit on getting some aircon installed in my house before the real summer heat arrives.
i wish you every success.
watching various
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ks27C8om1WA
Steven Pinker: Campus culture wars and Trump threaten future of US democracy
sarahs mum said:
party_pants said:
I have just paid a large sum of money for a 50% deposit on getting some aircon installed in my house before the real summer heat arrives.
i wish you every success.
I think it has to be done. I refinanced my house a few weeks ago and added a little extra, for the purpose of getting some proper aircon installed.
Michael V said:
dv said:
Daggers don’t dag
Also, mothers don’t moth.
But sleepers do sleep.
And what might tyres do?
captain_spalding said:
Michael V said:
dv said:
Daggers don’t dag
Also, mothers don’t moth.
But sleepers do sleep.
And what might tyres do?
Obviously, something opposite. re =/= er.
transition said:
watching varioushttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ks27C8om1WA
Steven Pinker: Campus culture wars and Trump threaten future of US democracy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7tiTdWiEck
Ex-Republican predicts “FASCISM” and “CHAOS” in Trump 2nd term
transition said:
transition said:
watching varioushttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ks27C8om1WA
Steven Pinker: Campus culture wars and Trump threaten future of US democracy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7tiTdWiEck
Ex-Republican predicts “FASCISM” and “CHAOS” in Trump 2nd term
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VY9PZvK6CZs
The End of Organized Humanity Noam Chomsky
So, a big day today. Helped a builder deliver pallets of pavers up a near 45 degree driveway in Yallingup.
Cleared and landscaped a block out in the bush.
Fire training night, so we went through the abilities and lack thereof of all of the aerial appliances available this season.
Decorated the fire trucks with tinsel and stuff.
Organised a route for santa on the back of the truck next week.
Watched FRS dismember an innocent car out the back of the station, with a live human and a crash test dummy inside.
Inducted a new vollie into the brigade.
Now I’m home and ready to make headway into all the emails I received while away doing other stuff.
Oh, and the line-up of earthworks quotes waiting for me to have some spare time.
dv said:
have you considered opening a boarding kennel?
“Morning all. Expecting a warm one this end, just one degree shy of the big three-oh,” chirped Bubblecar, annoyingly.
Luckily I don’t have to go anywhere and the day ahead is largely one of R & R.
A high-protein breakfast is in order: egg upon toast with 2 x chevaps.
Bubblecar said:
“Morning all. Expecting a warm one this end, just one degree shy of the big three-oh,” chirped Bubblecar, annoyingly.Luckily I don’t have to go anywhere and the day ahead is largely one of R & R.
A high-protein breakfast is in order: egg upon toast with 2 x chevaps.
38 degrees is expected here and is already 28.
roughbarked said:
Bubblecar said:
“Morning all. Expecting a warm one this end, just one degree shy of the big three-oh,” chirped Bubblecar, annoyingly.Luckily I don’t have to go anywhere and the day ahead is largely one of R & R.
A high-protein breakfast is in order: egg upon toast with 2 x chevaps.
38 degrees is expected here and is already 28.
Madness.
Good morning Holidayers. Presently 18 degrees at the back door and overcast. We are forecast 27 degrees with possible showers.
I need to go out and pick loganberries, and I’ll do a little weeding. Then I’ll be back inside for the rest of the day as it will be too hot to be outside.
there is a part at every conference when you reach peak information… you are tired, the endless coffees and sandwiches (it doesn’t matter how you cut the bread, it’s still just a sandwich) are taking their toll and you are just done…
members of the forum… we have reached that peak.
1 whole day to go.
I’ll have another coffee.
Good morning everybody. I wish you all a happy, pleasant and productive day..
Here, it’s 21.2° C, 85% RH, and we have scattered cloud with a light air. BoM forecasts a top of 28° C and a 40% chance of almost no rain.
Agenda: To Gympie to renew Mrs V’s Driver Licence, a smidge of shopping and a very special hamburger lunch at Fraser Grill on the way home. Then to settle in at home and watch the first day of the Adelaide day-night pink ball cricket test – Australia vs India.
Arts said:
there is a part at every conference when you reach peak information… you are tired, the endless coffees and sandwiches (it doesn’t matter how you cut the bread, it’s still just a sandwich) are taking their toll and you are just done…members of the forum… we have reached that peak.
1 whole day to go.
I’ll have another coffee.
Conference saturation point. Been there, done that.
Michael V said:
Arts said:
there is a part at every conference when you reach peak information… you are tired, the endless coffees and sandwiches (it doesn’t matter how you cut the bread, it’s still just a sandwich) are taking their toll and you are just done…members of the forum… we have reached that peak.
1 whole day to go.
I’ll have another coffee.
Conference saturation point. Been there, done that.
Can be sapping. Hang in there.
Arts said:
there is a part at every conference when you reach peak information… you are tired, the endless coffees and sandwiches (it doesn’t matter how you cut the bread, it’s still just a sandwich) are taking their toll and you are just done…members of the forum… we have reached that peak.
1 whole day to go.
I’ll have another coffee.
Are you coming straight back after that or enjoying some proper holiday?
Bubblecar said:
Arts said:
there is a part at every conference when you reach peak information… you are tired, the endless coffees and sandwiches (it doesn’t matter how you cut the bread, it’s still just a sandwich) are taking their toll and you are just done…members of the forum… we have reached that peak.
1 whole day to go.
I’ll have another coffee.
Are you coming straight back after that or enjoying some proper holiday?
proper holiday for a week.
Arts said:
Bubblecar said:
Arts said:
there is a part at every conference when you reach peak information… you are tired, the endless coffees and sandwiches (it doesn’t matter how you cut the bread, it’s still just a sandwich) are taking their toll and you are just done…members of the forum… we have reached that peak.
1 whole day to go.
I’ll have another coffee.
Are you coming straight back after that or enjoying some proper holiday?
proper holiday for a week.
Good.
Arts said:
Bubblecar said:
Arts said:
there is a part at every conference when you reach peak information… you are tired, the endless coffees and sandwiches (it doesn’t matter how you cut the bread, it’s still just a sandwich) are taking their toll and you are just done…members of the forum… we have reached that peak.
1 whole day to go.
I’ll have another coffee.
Are you coming straight back after that or enjoying some proper holiday?
proper holiday for a week.
Unwinding will ensue.
Arts said:
there is a part at every conference when you reach peak information… you are tired, the endless coffees and sandwiches (it doesn’t matter how you cut the bread, it’s still just a sandwich) are taking their toll and you are just done…members of the forum… we have reached that peak.
1 whole day to go.
I’ll have another coffee.
Son recently presented a paper to a musicology conference – but it was all online – he said the catering was crap :-)
Bubblecar said:
Arts said:
Bubblecar said:Are you coming straight back after that or enjoying some proper holiday?
proper holiday for a week.
Good.
Where is the conference?
Brindabellas said:
Bubblecar said:
Arts said:proper holiday for a week.
Good.
Where is the conference?
IIRC, Christchurch, NZ.
Brindabellas said:
Arts said:
there is a part at every conference when you reach peak information… you are tired, the endless coffees and sandwiches (it doesn’t matter how you cut the bread, it’s still just a sandwich) are taking their toll and you are just done…members of the forum… we have reached that peak.
1 whole day to go.
I’ll have another coffee.
Son recently presented a paper to a musicology conference – but it was all online – he said the catering was crap :-)
LOL… I presented online in 2020 because of some thing that happened that I can’t quite remember… the catering there was also crap :)
Michael V said:
Brindabellas said:
Bubblecar said:Good.
Where is the conference?
IIRC, Christchurch, NZ.
yes, where they give you an earthquake warning action and a lockdown warning action as part of the regular ‘housekeeping’.
becuase this city has been through it in the last couple of decades.
Arts said:
there is a part at every conference when you reach peak information… you are tired, the endless coffees and sandwiches (it doesn’t matter how you cut the bread, it’s still just a sandwich) are taking their toll and you are just done…members of the forum… we have reached that peak.
1 whole day to go.
I’ll have another coffee.
and a sandwich.
JudgeMental said:
Arts said:
there is a part at every conference when you reach peak information… you are tired, the endless coffees and sandwiches (it doesn’t matter how you cut the bread, it’s still just a sandwich) are taking their toll and you are just done…
members of the forum… we have reached that peak.
1 whole day to go.
I’ll have another coffee.
and a sandwich.
do it like the Real Professionals, do a line of cocaine
SCIENCE said:
JudgeMental said:
Arts said:
there is a part at every conference when you reach peak information… you are tired, the endless coffees and sandwiches (it doesn’t matter how you cut the bread, it’s still just a sandwich) are taking their toll and you are just done…
members of the forum… we have reached that peak.
1 whole day to go.
I’ll have another coffee.
and a sandwich.
do it like the Real Professionals, do a line of cocaine
I should have bought a jar of Vegemite. I usually have Vegemite on vitawheat to pick me up…
Arts said:
SCIENCE said:JudgeMental said:
and a sandwich.
do it like the Real Professionals, do a line of cocaine
I should have bought a jar of Vegemite. I usually have Vegemite on vitawheat to pick me up…
My son used to take the tube of vebemite.
Arts said:
Michael V said:
Brindabellas said:Where is the conference?
IIRC, Christchurch, NZ.
yes, where they give you an earthquake warning action and a lockdown warning action as part of the regular ‘housekeeping’.
becuase this city has been through it in the last couple of decades.
Good stuff!
Arts said:
there is a part at every conference when you reach peak information… you are tired, the endless coffees and sandwiches (it doesn’t matter how you cut the bread, it’s still just a sandwich) are taking their toll and you are just done…members of the forum… we have reached that peak.
1 whole day to go.
I’ll have another coffee.
Meh…someone else is doing the food prep. It’s a win in my world.
Michael V said:
Arts said:
Michael V said:IIRC, Christchurch, NZ.
yes, where they give you an earthquake warning action and a lockdown warning action as part of the regular ‘housekeeping’.
becuase this city has been through it in the last couple of decades.
Good stuff!
it really isn’t
Arts said:
Michael V said:
Arts said:yes, where they give you an earthquake warning action and a lockdown warning action as part of the regular ‘housekeeping’.
becuase this city has been through it in the last couple of decades.
Good stuff!
it really isn’t
What I meant that it’s good that they put you through the drill.
They don’t do that in Perth, because nobody in charge there realises the risk. Earthquakes in Perth may be quite rare, but they are likely very severe. Just look to the east and see the up-jump that is the Darling Fault.
Brindabellas said:
Arts said:
there is a part at every conference when you reach peak information… you are tired, the endless coffees and sandwiches (it doesn’t matter how you cut the bread, it’s still just a sandwich) are taking their toll and you are just done…members of the forum… we have reached that peak.
1 whole day to go.
I’ll have another coffee.
Son recently presented a paper to a musicology conference – but it was all online – he said the catering was crap :-)
Did you tell him he had only himself to blame for the catering?
i’ll make my own breakfast, don’t get up
wander out measure the rain shortly, you’ll need be patient, I don’t feel like being hurried
transition said:
i’ll make my own breakfast, don’t get upwander out measure the rain shortly, you’ll need be patient, I don’t feel like being hurried
burnt me toast, gorilla’s punishment for not getting their sooner, attending to my responsibility, anyways compensated after scraped that side off by not toasting the other side at all, brought some balance to the universe, my part in that
all landed, I could eat and drink
hear crested pigeon out there calling to its partner
transition said:
i’ll make my own breakfast, don’t get upwander out measure the rain shortly, you’ll need be patient, I don’t feel like being hurried
See they got 15mm at Olympic Dam.
roughbarked said:
transition said:
i’ll make my own breakfast, don’t get upwander out measure the rain shortly, you’ll need be patient, I don’t feel like being hurried
See they got 15mm at Olympic Dam.
Morning pilgrims, I had a good sleep, just woke up. 9 hours straight, didn’t even get up for a leak.
Talking about AI, my Melbourne nephew is expecting to make $billions from it. He’s the founder and CEO of this new medical company:
Bubblecar said:
Talking about AI, my Melbourne nephew is expecting to make $billions from it. He’s the founder and CEO of this new medical company:
is it true that IT professionals are getting $500000 pa for working on shIT like this
SCIENCE said:
Bubblecar said:
Talking about AI, my Melbourne nephew is expecting to make $billions from it. He’s the founder and CEO of this new medical company:
is it true that IT professionals are getting $500000 pa for working on shIT like this
It could prove genuinely useful.
They’re just looking for expressions of interest at this stage.
SCIENCE said:
Bubblecar said:
Talking about AI, my Melbourne nephew is expecting to make $billions from it. He’s the founder and CEO of this new medical company:
is it true that IT professionals are getting $500000 pa for working on shIT like this
What, all of them?
captain_spalding said:
SCIENCE said:
Bubblecar said:
Talking about AI, my Melbourne nephew is expecting to make $billions from it. He’s the founder and CEO of this new medical company:
is it true that IT professionals are getting $500000 pa for working on shIT like this
What, all of them?
d’n‘o’ someone recently told us 5 year after graduate were getting AUD5k and we thought it was pretty ridiculous but hey they’r‘n’t vice chancellors so we couldn’t independently confirm or refute
SCIENCE said:
captain_spalding said:
SCIENCE said:
is it true that IT professionals are getting $500000 pa for working on shIT like this
What, all of them?
d’n‘o’ someone recently told us 5 year after graduate were getting AUD5k and we thought it was pretty ridiculous but hey they’r‘n’t vice chancellors so we couldn’t independently confirm or refute
That’s what the unis and training outfits tell you, to get you to sign up for the courses.
Have we done the ABC news quiz?
7/10. All sports questions were wrong guesses.
buffy said:
Have we done the ABC news quiz?7/10. All sports questions were wrong guesses.
Not yet but if sports questions other than cricket then I’ll probably best to put my attentions elsewhere.
sarahs mum said:
good news ¿ we presume
SCIENCE said:
sarahs mum said:
good news ¿ we presume
that must be some contract kyle has.
buffy said:
Have we done the ABC news quiz?7/10. All sports questions were wrong guesses.
20/50 here.
The sign in 6 was misleading.
So I’m not counting that one they can get rogered and burnt.
Hello
Peak Warming Man said:
buffy said:
Have we done the ABC news quiz?7/10. All sports questions were wrong guesses.
20/50 here.
The sign in 6 was misleading.
So I’m not counting that one they can get rogered and burnt.
That particular bit of road in the image is good for 160.
Peak Warming Man said:
buffy said:
Have we done the ABC news quiz?7/10. All sports questions were wrong guesses.
20/50 here.
The sign in 6 was misleading.
So I’m not counting that one they can get rogered and burnt.
15/50
Even got no. 6 wrong.
See that’s why I don’t do the news quiz.
roughbarked said:
Peak Warming Man said:
buffy said:
Have we done the ABC news quiz?7/10. All sports questions were wrong guesses.
20/50 here.
The sign in 6 was misleading.
So I’m not counting that one they can get rogered and burnt.
That particular bit of road in the image is good for 160.
Yeah, I’d do 200kph safely.
Peak Warming Man said:
roughbarked said:
Peak Warming Man said:20/50 here.
The sign in 6 was misleading.
So I’m not counting that one they can get rogered and burnt.
That particular bit of road in the image is good for 160.
Yeah, I’d do 200kph safely.
But I’m a good driver.
Peak Warming Man said:
Peak Warming Man said:
roughbarked said:That particular bit of road in the image is good for 160.
Yeah, I’d do 200kph safely.
But I’m a good driver.
At those kinds of speeds, it doesn’t matter what level of health insurance you have. It won’t be needed…
The Rev Dodgson said:
Peak Warming Man said:
buffy said:
Have we done the ABC news quiz?7/10. All sports questions were wrong guesses.
20/50 here.
The sign in 6 was misleading.
So I’m not counting that one they can get rogered and burnt.
15/50
Even got no. 6 wrong.
See that’s why I don’t do the news quiz.
well surprise surprise, Score: 9.9 / 10
Peak Warming Man said:
Peak Warming Man said:
roughbarked said:That particular bit of road in the image is good for 160.
Yeah, I’d do 200kph safely.
But I’m a good driver.
Yes, you’ve told me beforehand.
furious said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Peak Warming Man said:Yeah, I’d do 200kph safely.
But I’m a good driver.
At those kinds of speeds, it doesn’t matter what level of health insurance you have. It won’t be needed…
That’s what I say to people who criticize my love of European 300kph + trains.
furious said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Peak Warming Man said:Yeah, I’d do 200kph safely.
But I’m a good driver.
At those kinds of speeds, it doesn’t matter what level of health insurance you have. It won’t be needed…
Funeral insurance maybe?
buffy said:
Have we done the ABC news quiz?7/10. All sports questions were wrong guesses.
6/10 here
The prime minister says a synagogue was set on fire as an “act of hate” by arsonists who used a broom to spread accelerant.
About 60 firefighters and 17 trucks were called to the massive blaze at Adass Israel synagogue at Ripponlea in Glen Eira around 4.18am on Friday.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese revealed accelerant was used and police had identified two people of interest.
“This is an outrage. It’s clearly aimed at creating fear in the community,” he told ABC Radio Melbourne.
The Israels set fire to their own Synagogue to get sympathy.
Down with the running dog Jews.
Are you with me brothers and sisters.
Peak Warming Man said:
The prime minister says a synagogue was set on fire as an “act of hate” by arsonists who used a broom to spread accelerant.
About 60 firefighters and 17 trucks were called to the massive blaze at Adass Israel synagogue at Ripponlea in Glen Eira around 4.18am on Friday.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese revealed accelerant was used and police had identified two people of interest.
“This is an outrage. It’s clearly aimed at creating fear in the community,” he told ABC Radio Melbourne.The Israels set fire to their own Synagogue to get sympathy.
Down with the running dog Jews.
Are you with me brothers and sisters.
Sounds more likely to be an antisemitic attack. I hope they get the max.
kii said:
dv said:
have you considered opening a boarding kennel?
Seems like I have
Peak Warming Man said:
Speak to the Sky whenever things go wrong
dv said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Speak to the Sky whenever things go wrong
Tamb said:
dv said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Speak to the Sky whenever things go wrong
I’m fairly certain I’m part of that cost blowout.
I’ve had 65 rounds of treatment and while I can’t get a $$ costing it is quite high.
You bastard.
dv said:
Peak Warming Man said:
The prime minister says a synagogue was set on fire as an “act of hate” by arsonists who used a broom to spread accelerant.
About 60 firefighters and 17 trucks were called to the massive blaze at Adass Israel synagogue at Ripponlea in Glen Eira around 4.18am on Friday.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese revealed accelerant was used and police had identified two people of interest.
“This is an outrage. It’s clearly aimed at creating fear in the community,” he told ABC Radio Melbourne.The Israels set fire to their own Synagogue to get sympathy.
Down with the running dog Jews.
Are you with me brothers and sisters.
Sounds more likely to be an antisemitic attack. I hope they get the max.
I could offer you a conspiracy theory, if you wanted one.
Tamb said:
dv said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Speak to the Sky whenever things go wrong
I’m fairly certain I’m part of that cost blowout.
I’ve had 65 rounds of treatment and while I can’t get a $$ costing it is quite high.
lady been typing out my notes from notepads – scribbles – four months of, ready to send account, similar experience to waterboarding i’d reckon, possibly worse, she’s gone for a walk now, I think I can hear her slamming the car door on her head, needs a distraction apparently
think I can here her slamming the door on her hands now
“Nasa says its Artemis mission to put astronauts back on the Moon will be further delayed.
The space agency found problems with the heat shield on the Orion spacecraft that will eventually carry humans back to the lunar surface.
It said that it had found a fix to that problem. But it will require a different trajectory and yet more delays to the mission schedule.”
Don’t fix the problem find a work around.
Thats it, I’m definitely not going up on one of their rockets
Peak Warming Man said:
“Nasa says its Artemis mission to put astronauts back on the Moon will be further delayed.
The space agency found problems with the heat shield on the Orion spacecraft that will eventually carry humans back to the lunar surface.
It said that it had found a fix to that problem. But it will require a different trajectory and yet more delays to the mission schedule.”Don’t fix the problem find a work around.
Thats it, I’m definitely not going up on one of their rockets
no sense of adventure, it’s just the heat shield, non-critical, stop sowing the seeds of unnecessary concern
transition said:
Peak Warming Man said:
“Nasa says its Artemis mission to put astronauts back on the Moon will be further delayed.
The space agency found problems with the heat shield on the Orion spacecraft that will eventually carry humans back to the lunar surface.
It said that it had found a fix to that problem. But it will require a different trajectory and yet more delays to the mission schedule.”Don’t fix the problem find a work around.
Thats it, I’m definitely not going up on one of their rockets
no sense of adventure, it’s just the heat shield, non-critical, stop sowing the seeds of unnecessary concern
don’t worry felon will fix this
sarahs mum said:
Holy Fnerk!
$200M!
TV and fashion personality Maggie Tabberer dies aged 87
A pretty good innings.
Michael V said:
sarahs mum said:
Holy Fnerk!
$200M!
The initial offer Paris Hilton’s offered to buy Butters
Peak Warming Man said:
TV and fashion personality Maggie Tabberer dies aged 87A pretty good innings.
One of those household names from the households of yesteryear.
Peak Warming Man said:
TV and fashion personality Maggie Tabberer dies aged 87A pretty good innings.
I went to school with her daughters. Amanda gave me brown paperbags to spew in on the bus during the school excursion to Jenolan Caves.
Cymek said:
Michael V said:
sarahs mum said:
SCIENCE said:
sarahs mum said:
good news ¿ we presume
that must be some contract kyle has.
Holy Fnerk!
$200M!
The initial offer Paris Hilton’s offered to buy Butters
the totally-not-criminals protection racket is big money
Peak Warming Man said:
TV and fashion personality Maggie Tabberer dies aged 87A pretty good innings.
I didn’t know she played cricket.
Woodie said:
Peak Warming Man said:
TV and fashion personality Maggie Tabberer dies aged 87A pretty good innings.
I didn’t know she played cricket.
It’s a meta for reaching a good old age.
FMD…. It’s only Friday. I’ve thoughtened it was Saturday all day so far.😕
Woodie said:
FMD…. It’s only Friday. I’ve thoughtened it was Saturday all day so far.😕
You’ve been robbed of most of a day.
Peak Warming Man said:
TV and fashion personality Maggie Tabberer dies aged 87A pretty good innings.
Yes
I think the cricket starts at 2 o’clock Easter Standard Queensland time.
Aw yeah got offshore wind farm projects lined up for 30 months. On the teat of Big Breeze.
dv said:
Peak Warming Man said:
TV and fashion personality Maggie Tabberer dies aged 87A pretty good innings.
Yes
Stop saying that. A few more years & I’ll be having a good innings.
dv said:
Aw yeah got offshore wind farm projects lined up for 30 months. On the teat of Big Breeze.
Well done but it might get torpedoed early next year.
Peak Warming Man said:
dv said:
Aw yeah got offshore wind farm projects lined up for 30 months. On the teat of Big Breeze.
Well done but it might get torpedoed early next year.
Yeah. It will no doubt be a cheap and rapid transition to our fission uplands.
dv said:
Peak Warming Man said:
TV and fashion personality Maggie Tabberer dies aged 87A pretty good innings.
Yes
Speaking of innings, the second test is about to start.
Michael V said:
dv said:
Peak Warming Man said:
TV and fashion personality Maggie Tabberer dies aged 87A pretty good innings.
Yes
Speaking of innings, the second test is about to start.
Australia lost the toss and elected to bowl.
Peak Warming Man said:
dv said:
Aw yeah got offshore wind farm projects lined up for 30 months. On the teat of Big Breeze.
Well done but it might get torpedoed early next year.
Not literally I hope
dv said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Peak Warming Man said:
dv said:
Aw yeah got offshore wind farm projects lined up for 30 months. On the teat of Big Breeze.
Well done but it might get torpedoed early next year.
Yeah. It will no doubt be a cheap and rapid transition to our fission uplands.
Not literally I hope
fkn USUKAU bs
sounds like a great workplace.
RangerJudy 3h
December 6: today we released SE33 in a safe place in his natal area. After some time looking out of his carry cage, he flew up and off strongly, heading to the river area. He flew off over mangroves, out of sight. We were really pleased later to see one of the parents on Mangrove Island. Hopefully they will find one another. He has had marvellous care and now the chance to be wild and free.
sarahs mum said:
sounds like a great workplace.
Turds of a feather…
captain_spalding said:
sarahs mum said:
sounds like a great workplace.
Turds of a feather…
LOL
Usman gorn 13
ABC News:
Canadian man leaps onto polar bear to defend wife during attack
“A scientist at Polar Bears International, Alysa McCall, told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) that polar bears rarely attacked humans.
She said when attacks did happen, the bears were often hungry, young or unwell.”
Hungry, young, or unwell, who gives a shit?
The largest land predator on the planet.
And you attack it with your bare hands (no pun there) and your teeth.
Cojones of steel, and the size of basketballs.
captain_spalding said:
ABC News:Canadian man leaps onto polar bear to defend wife during attack
“A scientist at Polar Bears International, Alysa McCall, told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) that polar bears rarely attacked humans.
She said when attacks did happen, the bears were often hungry, young or unwell.”
Hungry, young, or unwell, who gives a shit?
The largest land predator on the planet.
And you attack it with your bare hands (no pun there) and your teeth.
Cojones of steel, and the size of basketballs.
i dunno. I’d like to think that the first thing on my mind when confronted with an aggressive polar bear wasn’t that my first priority was to outrun my wife.
Witty Rejoinder said:
captain_spalding said:
ABC News:Canadian man leaps onto polar bear to defend wife during attack
“A scientist at Polar Bears International, Alysa McCall, told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) that polar bears rarely attacked humans.
She said when attacks did happen, the bears were often hungry, young or unwell.”
Hungry, young, or unwell, who gives a shit?
The largest land predator on the planet.
And you attack it with your bare hands (no pun there) and your teeth.
Cojones of steel, and the size of basketballs.
i dunno. I’d like to think that the first thing on my mind when confronted with an aggressive polar bear wasn’t that my first priority was to outrun my wife.
I reckon that, confronted by a polar bear, the wisest course for both was to legit.
But, when the missus slipped and fell, your man just went full-on bull-goose feral, and attacked.
Bravo Zulu.
captain_spalding said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
captain_spalding said:
ABC News:Canadian man leaps onto polar bear to defend wife during attack
“A scientist at Polar Bears International, Alysa McCall, told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) that polar bears rarely attacked humans.
She said when attacks did happen, the bears were often hungry, young or unwell.”
Hungry, young, or unwell, who gives a shit?
The largest land predator on the planet.
And you attack it with your bare hands (no pun there) and your teeth.
Cojones of steel, and the size of basketballs.
i dunno. I’d like to think that the first thing on my mind when confronted with an aggressive polar bear wasn’t that my first priority was to outrun my wife.
I reckon that, confronted by a polar bear, the wisest course for both was to legit.
But, when the missus slipped and fell, your man just went full-on bull-goose feral, and attacked.
Bravo Zulu.
legit = leg it
Witty Rejoinder said:
captain_spalding said:
ABC News:Canadian man leaps onto polar bear to defend wife during attack
“A scientist at Polar Bears International, Alysa McCall, told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) that polar bears rarely attacked humans.
She said when attacks did happen, the bears were often hungry, young or unwell.”
Hungry, young, or unwell, who gives a shit?
The largest land predator on the planet.
And you attack it with your bare hands (no pun there) and your teeth.
Cojones of steel, and the size of basketballs.
i dunno. I’d like to think that the first thing on my mind when confronted with an aggressive polar bear wasn’t that my first priority was to outrun my wife.
I’m with Witty.
captain_spalding said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
captain_spalding said:
ABC News:Canadian man leaps onto polar bear to defend wife during attack
“A scientist at Polar Bears International, Alysa McCall, told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) that polar bears rarely attacked humans.
She said when attacks did happen, the bears were often hungry, young or unwell.”
Hungry, young, or unwell, who gives a shit?
The largest land predator on the planet.
And you attack it with your bare hands (no pun there) and your teeth.
Cojones of steel, and the size of basketballs.
i dunno. I’d like to think that the first thing on my mind when confronted with an aggressive polar bear wasn’t that my first priority was to outrun my wife.
I reckon that, confronted by a polar bear, the wisest course for both was to legit.
But, when the missus slipped and fell, your man just went full-on bull-goose feral, and attacked.
Bravo Zulu.
i went to a lecture once by a fellow who ran an open studio in the far far north. He said he would do laps of the settlement on skis for exercise and sometimes on his laps he would come across bear prints following his last lap. and then he would immediately get back inside.
lady making scones, got down to last third of loaf of bread founds the green mold, in the bin with that and making scones
did I mention the moldy bread and scones, the situation
Peak Warming Man said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
captain_spalding said:
ABC News:Canadian man leaps onto polar bear to defend wife during attack
“A scientist at Polar Bears International, Alysa McCall, told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) that polar bears rarely attacked humans.
She said when attacks did happen, the bears were often hungry, young or unwell.”
Hungry, young, or unwell, who gives a shit?
The largest land predator on the planet.
And you attack it with your bare hands (no pun there) and your teeth.
Cojones of steel, and the size of basketballs.
i dunno. I’d like to think that the first thing on my mind when confronted with an aggressive polar bear wasn’t that my first priority was to outrun my wife.
I’m with Witty.
Ah, I see you’ve got a wasn’t in there.
sarahs mum said:
captain_spalding said:
Witty Rejoinder said:i dunno. I’d like to think that the first thing on my mind when confronted with an aggressive polar bear wasn’t that my first priority was to outrun my wife.
I reckon that, confronted by a polar bear, the wisest course for both was to legit.
But, when the missus slipped and fell, your man just went full-on bull-goose feral, and attacked.
Bravo Zulu.
i went to a lecture once by a fellow who ran an open studio in the far far north. He said he would do laps of the settlement on skis for exercise and sometimes on his laps he would come across bear prints following his last lap. and then he would immediately get back inside.
..and get his rifle, and ensure that it was loaded.
I’ve seen some documentaries that showed how polar bears had broken into cabins and vehicles and storehouses looking for food.
It takes a lot to keep them out.
transition said:
lady making scones, got down to last third of loaf of bread founds the green mold, in the bin with that and making sconesdid I mention the moldy bread and scones, the situation
Yes it’s all covered.
So how was your day.
captain_spalding said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
captain_spalding said:
ABC News:Canadian man leaps onto polar bear to defend wife during attack
“A scientist at Polar Bears International, Alysa McCall, told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) that polar bears rarely attacked humans.
She said when attacks did happen, the bears were often hungry, young or unwell.”
Hungry, young, or unwell, who gives a shit?
The largest land predator on the planet.
And you attack it with your bare hands (no pun there) and your teeth.
Cojones of steel, and the size of basketballs.
i dunno. I’d like to think that the first thing on my mind when confronted with an aggressive polar bear wasn’t that my first priority was to outrun my wife.
I reckon that, confronted by a polar bear, the wisest course for both was to legit.
But, when the missus slipped and fell, your man just went full-on bull-goose feral, and attacked.
Bravo Zulu.
be husbands jumping on bears everywhere now, even when not a threat at all, pretending, might try it myself to get in the news
transition said:
captain_spalding said:
Witty Rejoinder said:i dunno. I’d like to think that the first thing on my mind when confronted with an aggressive polar bear wasn’t that my first priority was to outrun my wife.
I reckon that, confronted by a polar bear, the wisest course for both was to legit.
But, when the missus slipped and fell, your man just went full-on bull-goose feral, and attacked.
Bravo Zulu.
be husbands jumping on bears everywhere now, even when not a threat at all, pretending, might try it myself to get in the news
I dunno, “Man Attacks Dozy Koala” doesn’t have quite the same heroic ring about it.
Peak Warming Man said:
transition said:
lady making scones, got down to last third of loaf of bread founds the green mold, in the bin with that and making sconesdid I mention the moldy bread and scones, the situation
Yes it’s all covered.
So how was your day.
bit warm and had the humidity with it, after the rain, increased the humidity, so had heat and some humidity, though it wasn’t super hot it seemed hotter because it was humid, i’m reckoning has a thunky the humidity effects evaporation, off ya skin ya know, doesn’t carry the heat away so well, but i’m not a refrigeration expert, my specialty field is more cosmic entropy, the eventual heat death of the universe
captain_spalding said:
transition said:
captain_spalding said:I reckon that, confronted by a polar bear, the wisest course for both was to legit.
But, when the missus slipped and fell, your man just went full-on bull-goose feral, and attacked.
Bravo Zulu.
be husbands jumping on bears everywhere now, even when not a threat at all, pretending, might try it myself to get in the news
I dunno, “Man Attacks Dozy Koala” doesn’t have quite the same heroic ring about it.
don’t trivialize my experience, you’ve heard how nasty koalas can sound, mongrel things
I reckon I could fight off a koala to save the lady
transition said:
captain_spalding said:
transition said:be husbands jumping on bears everywhere now, even when not a threat at all, pretending, might try it myself to get in the news
I dunno, “Man Attacks Dozy Koala” doesn’t have quite the same heroic ring about it.
don’t trivialize my experience, you’ve heard how nasty koalas can sound, mongrel things
I reckon I could fight off a koala to save the lady
Yes, heard their gruntings in the bush many a time.
And, those claws…
OK, you can have the grade of ‘Hero, Class 1B’.
I have to admit that I’m surprised that in 2024 there is enough money in commercial FM radio to peel out $200 M for this pair of hosts. I would have considered that by now it would have rather a niche audience as most people tailor their own playlists.
I mean I listen to Classic FM but I’m an odd bod. Sometimes they’ll bring some gem to my attention. Today they played this thing: https://youtu.be/jI8fk93ANuE?si=kTM1Z8QVkAdJvFlF
dv said:
I mean I listen to Classic FM but I’m an odd bod. Sometimes they’ll bring some gem to my attention. Today they played this thing: https://youtu.be/jI8fk93ANuE?si=kTM1Z8QVkAdJvFlF
… and everything bloody else ABBA as well.
Woodie said:
dv said:I mean I listen to Classic FM but I’m an odd bod. Sometimes they’ll bring some gem to my attention. Today they played this thing: https://youtu.be/jI8fk93ANuE?si=kTM1Z8QVkAdJvFlF
… and everything bloody else ABBA as well.
….. and repeat ad-infinitum.
dv said:
I have to admit that I’m surprised that in 2024 there is enough money in commercial FM radio to peel out $200 M for this pair of hosts. I would have considered that by now it would have rather a niche audience as most people tailor their own playlists.I mean I listen to Classic FM but I’m an odd bod. Sometimes they’ll bring some gem to my attention. Today they played this thing: https://youtu.be/jI8fk93ANuE?si=kTM1Z8QVkAdJvFlF
That’s pleasant background music.
dv said:
I have to admit that I’m surprised that in 2024 there is enough money in commercial FM radio to peel out $200 M for this pair of hosts. I would have considered that by now it would have rather a niche audience as most people tailor their own playlists.I mean I listen to Classic FM but I’m an odd bod. Sometimes they’ll bring some gem to my attention. Today they played this thing: https://youtu.be/jI8fk93ANuE?si=kTM1Z8QVkAdJvFlF
766 views.
Must be good :)
how are the scones you are probably wondering, and it may hearten you that I haven’t waited at all after trying them to then convey to you what they are like, I can put an end to the suspense, the anticipation must be horrendous, destroying your inner equilibrium, so I say now it is time, time to let you know, to put an end to the suspense
dv said:
I have to admit that I’m surprised that in 2024 there is enough money in commercial FM radio to peel out $200 M for this pair of hosts. I would have considered that by now it would have rather a niche audience as most people tailor their own playlists.I mean I listen to Classic FM but I’m an odd bod. Sometimes they’ll bring some gem to my attention. Today they played this thing: https://youtu.be/jI8fk93ANuE?si=kTM1Z8QVkAdJvFlF
that is easy listening.
transition said:
how are the scones you are probably wondering, and it may hearten you that I haven’t waited at all after trying them to then convey to you what they are like, I can put an end to the suspense, the anticipation must be horrendous, destroying your inner equilibrium, so I say now it is time, time to let you know, to put an end to the suspense
have you tried irish soda bread?
Bubblecar said:
dv said:
I have to admit that I’m surprised that in 2024 there is enough money in commercial FM radio to peel out $200 M for this pair of hosts. I would have considered that by now it would have rather a niche audience as most people tailor their own playlists.I mean I listen to Classic FM but I’m an odd bod. Sometimes they’ll bring some gem to my attention. Today they played this thing: https://youtu.be/jI8fk93ANuE?si=kTM1Z8QVkAdJvFlF
That’s pleasant background music.
ABC Classic FM does “ABBA goes baroque”.. Floggin’ it to death, theyz is At least it’s taken them Gregorian Brothers of the Flog to Death list, hey what but.
8 minute flight in a Dragon Rapide.
De Havilland Dragon Rapide G-AIDL flight – pilots eye view
De Havilland Dragon Rapide G-AIDL flight from Imperial War Museum, Duxford, July 2016 with Classic Wings. Video shot over pilots shoulder to see take off and landing and flight above Cambridge, Ely and Newmarket.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaZ79yexR28
sarahs mum said:
dv said:
I have to admit that I’m surprised that in 2024 there is enough money in commercial FM radio to peel out $200 M for this pair of hosts. I would have considered that by now it would have rather a niche audience as most people tailor their own playlists.I mean I listen to Classic FM but I’m an odd bod. Sometimes they’ll bring some gem to my attention. Today they played this thing: https://youtu.be/jI8fk93ANuE?si=kTM1Z8QVkAdJvFlF
that is easy listening.
Have you tried Lo-fi Girl?
sarahs mum said:
transition said:
how are the scones you are probably wondering, and it may hearten you that I haven’t waited at all after trying them to then convey to you what they are like, I can put an end to the suspense, the anticipation must be horrendous, destroying your inner equilibrium, so I say now it is time, time to let you know, to put an end to the suspense
have you tried irish soda bread?
reading about, that sounds alright
Woodie said:
Bubblecar said:
dv said:
I have to admit that I’m surprised that in 2024 there is enough money in commercial FM radio to peel out $200 M for this pair of hosts. I would have considered that by now it would have rather a niche audience as most people tailor their own playlists.I mean I listen to Classic FM but I’m an odd bod. Sometimes they’ll bring some gem to my attention. Today they played this thing: https://youtu.be/jI8fk93ANuE?si=kTM1Z8QVkAdJvFlF
That’s pleasant background music.
ABC Classic FM does “ABBA goes baroque”.. Floggin’ it to death, theyz is At least it’s taken them Gregorian Brothers of the Flog to Death list, hey what but.
Ah. I only listen to Classic FM when I’m reading in the living room, and then only if they’re playing something that more-or-less blends with what I’m reading.
Then, there’s the Bill Evans Trio.
i just got an ad from lockheed martin australia. I’m not sure why google thought i needed that.
Mystery outbreak alert: Health officials in the Democratic Republic of the Congo expect to know within days the cause of an infectious disease outbreak termed “Disease X” that’s sickened hundreds of people and killed at least 79 since late October. Almost 200 of the 376 afflicted with a flu-like illness are younger than five years old. The outbreak has renewed concerns of the emergence of a new pathogen with potential to spread across the world just a few years after Covid forced countries to shut down borders. Health authorities in Hong Kong said late Thursday that they will tighten screenings at the airport for visitors arriving from Johannesburg and Addis Ababa, the two African transit hubs that could ferry travelers from the Democratic Republic of Congo. In Japan, the foreign ministry also advised people against unnecessary travel to the region affected by the outbreak.
dv said:
I mean I listen to Classic FM but I’m an odd bod. Sometimes they’ll bring some gem to my attention. Today they played this thing: https://youtu.be/jI8fk93ANuE?si=kTM1Z8QVkAdJvFlF
If you’re going to listen to baroque adaptations of modern music, then you can’t go past one of the original versions of this genre (which I still have on, now very-worn, vinyl):
The Baroque Beatles Book … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTHTaSfvJ-M
Good morning Holidayers. Presently 17 degrees at the back door, getting light. We are forecast 24 degrees with a shower or two. There has been some rain overnight, it was nice and gentle.
Breakfast with my bushwandering friend again this morning, but no wandering. I will probably do yet more weeding after that.
captain_spalding said:
transition said:
captain_spalding said:I reckon that, confronted by a polar bear, the wisest course for both was to legit.
But, when the missus slipped and fell, your man just went full-on bull-goose feral, and attacked.
Bravo Zulu.
be husbands jumping on bears everywhere now, even when not a threat at all, pretending, might try it myself to get in the news
I dunno, “Man Attacks Dozy Koala” doesn’t have quite the same heroic ring about it.
Man attacks dropbear though?
Morning. We’re heading for 24, very high chance of showers, chance of a thunderstorm.
Thinking tinned soup for breakfast, but which? I have all these in stock:
Tomato
Cream of Mushroom
Cream of Asparagus
Cream of Celery
Creamy Pumpkin
Creamy Chicken
I chose, and consumed, cream of mushroom.
But now I fancy an egg on toast. I’ll wait an hour or so then have Second Breakfast.
Bubblecar said:
I chose, and consumed, cream of mushroom.But now I fancy an egg on toast. I’ll wait an hour or so then have Second Breakfast.
So weight loss program is on the back burner?
roughbarked said:
Bubblecar said:
I chose, and consumed, cream of mushroom.But now I fancy an egg on toast. I’ll wait an hour or so then have Second Breakfast.
So weight loss program is on the back burner?
Back to it tomorrow.
Bubblecar said:
roughbarked said:
Bubblecar said:
I chose, and consumed, cream of mushroom.But now I fancy an egg on toast. I’ll wait an hour or so then have Second Breakfast.
So weight loss program is on the back burner?
Back to it tomorrow.
…not that I’ll be shovelling it in today. I’ll probably skip lunch.
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
roughbarked said:So weight loss program is on the back burner?
Back to it tomorrow.
…not that I’ll be shovelling it in today. I’ll probably skip lunch.
Yes. Skipping ropes for lunch is a good idea. I’d be working on that if weight loss was an issue.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-07/eating-invasive-species-wildpie-ecology-concerns-new-zealand/104687796
It is not the meat from recreational hunting that most concerns the Invasive Species Council, but the thought of a culinary industry built around feral animals.
“It does highlight the issue of invasive species … and it also can build a bit of that social licence for control,” conservation officer Tiana Pirtle said.
“But the objectives of a commercial market is to self-perpetuate and keep generating revenue, and at a certain point those are going to conflict with each other.”
In other words, Dr Pirtle said if your conservation goal is to eradicate or tightly control an invasive species, then eventually the population is going to fall to a point where it undermines the market.
> Well, that would be the point of using iinvasive species for food. To reduce their numbers to the lowest point.
The business enterprise side of it? Well they could always switch to roadkill?
The tiniest ant. Well maybe there are smaller but these came into my kitchen.
Health officials grapple with deadly mystery ‘Disease X’ in Congo
The mysterious flu-like disease has killed dozens in the central African country of the Democratic Republic of Congo, mostly women and children, officials said.
By Vivian Ho
December 6, 2024 at 8:22 a.m. ESTToday at 8:22 a.m. EST
A mysterious, flu-like disease has killed dozens in the southwest region of the Democratic Republic of Congo, with women and children among the most affected, health officials said Thursday.
At least 376 cases have been reported since Oct. 24 of individuals experiencing fevers, headaches and runny noses, in addition to difficulty breathing and anemia, Jean Kaseya, director general of the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said in the agency’s weekly briefing.
Health officials have begun referring to the mysterious illness as “Disease X.” Africa CDC has recorded a total of 79 deaths caused by the illness, while local officials told Reuters that 143 have died. The numbers differ because the case definition is still unclear and some cases are still being confirmed, Margaret Muigai Edwin, communications director for Africa CDC, said in an email to The Washington Post.
The disease emerged in the Panzi health zone, Kaseya said, a remote, rural part of Kwango province along the border of Angola. The most affected age group is children under 5, with 198 cases reported — more than half of total cases.
Malnutrition, from which 40 percent of the region suffers, may have played a role in making infected individuals more vulnerable to the disease, said Dieudonné Mwamba, director general of Congo’s National Public Health Institute, at the briefing.
A breakdown in communication may have also contributed to the spread, Kaseya said. The first case was reported on Oct. 24, but it wasn’t until Sunday that authorities notified the national government. “That means we had a delay of almost five to six weeks,” Kaseya said. “In five to six weeks, so many things can happen.”
A team of epidemiologists, lab experts and infection prevention and control workers from Africa CDC are now in the Kwango province hoping to identify the disease, Kaseya said. Officials are urging people to remain calm and vigilant and to prevent the spread of the disease by engaging in good hygiene practices and reporting any suspected cases to health officials, and to avoid mass gatherings and handling a deceased person’s remains.
The World Health Organization will be sending medical professionals and supplies to aid in treatment of the disease, as well as in its identification, the organization said in a statement provided to The Washington Post. WHO officials cautioned against calling the disease “unidentified,” advising instead to describe it as “undiagnosed,” noting that the remote nature of the region — as well as its lack of laboratory services — may mean that what is infecting people may be an existing pathogen. Conflict, as well as the ongoing rainy season, has made it difficult to access the area, according to WHO.
Medical professionals will also be testing for flu — it is peak flu season in the region, WHO said — as well as coronavirus, malaria and measles, in case the unknown disease may be multiple known diseases affecting the area.
Disease X is hitting the Democratic Republic of Congo as the country struggles to get a handle on an upsurge of mpox, with nearly 48,000 cases and 1,200 deaths reported, according to Africa CDC. Mpox, an infectious, flu-like disease that can cause a painful rash, has spread to 20 different countries since January, the Africa CDC said.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/12/06/congo-mystery-flu-disease-x-illness/?
breakfast is an apple, did already walk
roughbarked said:
The tiniest ant. Well maybe there are smaller but these came into my kitchen.
you could be infested with an infestation, of mutant miniature ants, you may need to ring the miniature ant extermination people, they’ll visit in their lilliputian extermination vehicle
Um, no thanks Santa.
Bubblecar said:
Um, no thanks Santa.
Just what you want to see when contemplating the clean-up on the morning after:
a crunchy, wall-to-wall, front door to back door, carpet of Weet-Bix crumbs.
Witty Rejoinder said:
Health officials grapple with deadly mystery ‘Disease X’ in Congo
The mysterious flu-like disease has killed dozens in the central African country of the Democratic Republic of Congo, mostly women and children, officials said.By Vivian Ho
December 6, 2024 at 8:22 a.m. ESTToday at 8:22 a.m. ESTA mysterious, flu-like disease has killed dozens in the southwest region of the Democratic Republic of Congo, with women and children among the most affected, health officials said Thursday.
At least 376 cases have been reported since Oct. 24 of individuals experiencing fevers, headaches and runny noses, in addition to difficulty breathing and anemia, Jean Kaseya, director general of the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said in the agency’s weekly briefing.
Health officials have begun referring to the mysterious illness as “Disease X.” Africa CDC has recorded a total of 79 deaths caused by the illness, while local officials told Reuters that 143 have died. The numbers differ because the case definition is still unclear and some cases are still being confirmed, Margaret Muigai Edwin, communications director for Africa CDC, said in an email to The Washington Post.
The disease emerged in the Panzi health zone, Kaseya said, a remote, rural part of Kwango province along the border of Angola. The most affected age group is children under 5, with 198 cases reported — more than half of total cases.
Malnutrition, from which 40 percent of the region suffers, may have played a role in making infected individuals more vulnerable to the disease, said Dieudonné Mwamba, director general of Congo’s National Public Health Institute, at the briefing.
A breakdown in communication may have also contributed to the spread, Kaseya said. The first case was reported on Oct. 24, but it wasn’t until Sunday that authorities notified the national government. “That means we had a delay of almost five to six weeks,” Kaseya said. “In five to six weeks, so many things can happen.”
A team of epidemiologists, lab experts and infection prevention and control workers from Africa CDC are now in the Kwango province hoping to identify the disease, Kaseya said. Officials are urging people to remain calm and vigilant and to prevent the spread of the disease by engaging in good hygiene practices and reporting any suspected cases to health officials, and to avoid mass gatherings and handling a deceased person’s remains.
The World Health Organization will be sending medical professionals and supplies to aid in treatment of the disease, as well as in its identification, the organization said in a statement provided to The Washington Post. WHO officials cautioned against calling the disease “unidentified,” advising instead to describe it as “undiagnosed,” noting that the remote nature of the region — as well as its lack of laboratory services — may mean that what is infecting people may be an existing pathogen. Conflict, as well as the ongoing rainy season, has made it difficult to access the area, according to WHO.
Medical professionals will also be testing for flu — it is peak flu season in the region, WHO said — as well as coronavirus, malaria and measles, in case the unknown disease may be multiple known diseases affecting the area.
Disease X is hitting the Democratic Republic of Congo as the country struggles to get a handle on an upsurge of mpox, with nearly 48,000 cases and 1,200 deaths reported, according to Africa CDC. Mpox, an infectious, flu-like disease that can cause a painful rash, has spread to 20 different countries since January, the Africa CDC said.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/12/06/congo-mystery-flu-disease-x-illness/?
Elon Musk ain’t going to be happy that his X branding has been co-opted for a stinky disease…
ruby said:
Elon Musk ain’t going to be happy that his X branding has been co-opted for a stinky disease…
Why?
The declaration that “X is not good for you” holds true in both cases.
ruby said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Health officials grapple with deadly mystery ‘Disease X’ in Congo
The mysterious flu-like disease has killed dozens in the central African country of the Democratic Republic of Congo, mostly women and children, officials said.By Vivian Ho
December 6, 2024 at 8:22 a.m. ESTToday at 8:22 a.m. ESTA mysterious, flu-like disease has killed dozens in the southwest region of the Democratic Republic of Congo, with women and children among the most affected, health officials said Thursday.
At least 376 cases have been reported since Oct. 24 of individuals experiencing fevers, headaches and runny noses, in addition to difficulty breathing and anemia, Jean Kaseya, director general of the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said in the agency’s weekly briefing.
Health officials have begun referring to the mysterious illness as “Disease X.” Africa CDC has recorded a total of 79 deaths caused by the illness, while local officials told Reuters that 143 have died. The numbers differ because the case definition is still unclear and some cases are still being confirmed, Margaret Muigai Edwin, communications director for Africa CDC, said in an email to The Washington Post.
The disease emerged in the Panzi health zone, Kaseya said, a remote, rural part of Kwango province along the border of Angola. The most affected age group is children under 5, with 198 cases reported — more than half of total cases.
Malnutrition, from which 40 percent of the region suffers, may have played a role in making infected individuals more vulnerable to the disease, said Dieudonné Mwamba, director general of Congo’s National Public Health Institute, at the briefing.
A breakdown in communication may have also contributed to the spread, Kaseya said. The first case was reported on Oct. 24, but it wasn’t until Sunday that authorities notified the national government. “That means we had a delay of almost five to six weeks,” Kaseya said. “In five to six weeks, so many things can happen.”
A team of epidemiologists, lab experts and infection prevention and control workers from Africa CDC are now in the Kwango province hoping to identify the disease, Kaseya said. Officials are urging people to remain calm and vigilant and to prevent the spread of the disease by engaging in good hygiene practices and reporting any suspected cases to health officials, and to avoid mass gatherings and handling a deceased person’s remains.
The World Health Organization will be sending medical professionals and supplies to aid in treatment of the disease, as well as in its identification, the organization said in a statement provided to The Washington Post. WHO officials cautioned against calling the disease “unidentified,” advising instead to describe it as “undiagnosed,” noting that the remote nature of the region — as well as its lack of laboratory services — may mean that what is infecting people may be an existing pathogen. Conflict, as well as the ongoing rainy season, has made it difficult to access the area, according to WHO.
Medical professionals will also be testing for flu — it is peak flu season in the region, WHO said — as well as coronavirus, malaria and measles, in case the unknown disease may be multiple known diseases affecting the area.
Disease X is hitting the Democratic Republic of Congo as the country struggles to get a handle on an upsurge of mpox, with nearly 48,000 cases and 1,200 deaths reported, according to Africa CDC. Mpox, an infectious, flu-like disease that can cause a painful rash, has spread to 20 different countries since January, the Africa CDC said.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/12/06/congo-mystery-flu-disease-x-illness/?
Elon Musk ain’t going to be happy that his X branding has been co-opted for a stinky disease…
Hah. Didn’t think of that.
captain_spalding said:
ruby said:Elon Musk ain’t going to be happy that his X branding has been co-opted for a stinky disease…
Why?
The declaration that “X is not good for you” holds true in both cases.
That’s what’s funny.
‘X’- toxic sludge heap social media platform – run away run away
“X’- disease – run away run away
ruby said:
captain_spalding said:
ruby said:Elon Musk ain’t going to be happy that his X branding has been co-opted for a stinky disease…
Why?
The declaration that “X is not good for you” holds true in both cases.
That’s what’s funny.
‘X’- toxic sludge heap social media platform – run away run away
“X’- disease – run away run away
thank you. My ‘funny’ detector has not yet warmed up for the day.
captain_spalding said:
Bubblecar said:
Um, no thanks Santa.
Just what you want to see when contemplating the clean-up on the morning after:
a crunchy, wall-to-wall, front door to back door, carpet of Weet-Bix crumbs.
captain_spalding said:
ruby said:
captain_spalding said:Why?
The declaration that “X is not good for you” holds true in both cases.
That’s what’s funny.
‘X’- toxic sludge heap social media platform – run away run away
“X’- disease – run away run away
thank you. My ‘funny’ detector has not yet warmed up for the day.
Tamb said:
captain_spalding said:
Bubblecar said:
Um, no thanks Santa.
Just what you want to see when contemplating the clean-up on the morning after:
a crunchy, wall-to-wall, front door to back door, carpet of Weet-Bix crumbs.
No thanks. Looks far too healthy.
Fried eggs and tomato on Weet-Bix.
An innovative idea, that i confess would probably have never occurred spontaneously to me.
please note: by ‘innovative’, i don’t mean to convey any sense of ‘attractive’ or ‘practical’.
Tamb said:
captain_spalding said:
ruby said:That’s what’s funny.
‘X’- toxic sludge heap social media platform – run away run away
“X’- disease – run away run away
thank you. My ‘funny’ detector has not yet warmed up for the day.
When I was in Congo-Brazzaville the main thing to worry about was a “patriot” with an AK 47.
Still is, according to my erstwhile neighbour, who was there on civil engineering projects.
You hire your own crew of Kalashnikov Kids, and you don’t go anywhere without them.
captain_spalding said:
Tamb said:
captain_spalding said:Just what you want to see when contemplating the clean-up on the morning after:
a crunchy, wall-to-wall, front door to back door, carpet of Weet-Bix crumbs.
No thanks. Looks far too healthy.Fried eggs and tomato on Weet-Bix.
An innovative idea, that i confess would probably have never occurred spontaneously to me.
please note: by ‘innovative’, i don’t mean to convey any sense of ‘attractive’ or ‘practical’.
Supposed to be sliced hard-boiled, I’d wager.
Whatever, it would be a very dry and crumbly base in constant danger of disintegrating while you try to eat it.
Bubblecar said:
captain_spalding said:
Tamb said:No thanks. Looks far too healthy.
Fried eggs and tomato on Weet-Bix.
An innovative idea, that i confess would probably have never occurred spontaneously to me.
please note: by ‘innovative’, i don’t mean to convey any sense of ‘attractive’ or ‘practical’.
Supposed to be sliced hard-boiled, I’d wager.
Whatever, it would be a very dry and crumbly base in constant danger of disintegrating while you try to eat it.
Ah. Hard-boiled. Of course.
Need more coffee.
captain_spalding said:
Bubblecar said:
Um, no thanks Santa.
Just what you want to see when contemplating the clean-up on the morning after:
a crunchy, wall-to-wall, front door to back door, carpet of Weet-Bix crumbs.
If you’re smart like Buffy you’ll spread them with butter and avoid any mess.
Witty Rejoinder said:
captain_spalding said:
Bubblecar said:
Um, no thanks Santa.
Just what you want to see when contemplating the clean-up on the morning after:
a crunchy, wall-to-wall, front door to back door, carpet of Weet-Bix crumbs.
If you’re smart like Buffy you’ll spread them with butter and avoid any mess.
No, not of any help.
The few flakes that might be prevented from fluttering away will be vastly outnumbered by those which remain unbuttered.
I wonder if deep-frying them would be of any help?
captain_spalding said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
captain_spalding said:Just what you want to see when contemplating the clean-up on the morning after:
a crunchy, wall-to-wall, front door to back door, carpet of Weet-Bix crumbs.
If you’re smart like Buffy you’ll spread them with butter and avoid any mess.
No, not of any help.
The few flakes that might be prevented from fluttering away will be vastly outnumbered by those which remain unbuttered.
I wonder if deep-frying them would be of any help?
Up there for thinking….
Witty Rejoinder said:
captain_spalding said:
Witty Rejoinder said:If you’re smart like Buffy you’ll spread them with butter and avoid any mess.
No, not of any help.
The few flakes that might be prevented from fluttering away will be vastly outnumbered by those which remain unbuttered.
I wonder if deep-frying them would be of any help?
Up there for thinking….
transition said:
roughbarked said:
The tiniest ant. Well maybe there are smaller but these came into my kitchen.
you could be infested with an infestation, of mutant miniature ants, you may need to ring the miniature ant extermination people, they’ll visit in their lilliputian extermination vehicle
:)
Without any knowledge, they are small enough to be Argentinian ants which have been here a long time now.
ruby said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Health officials grapple with deadly mystery ‘Disease X’ in Congo
The mysterious flu-like disease has killed dozens in the central African country of the Democratic Republic of Congo, mostly women and children, officials said.By Vivian Ho
December 6, 2024 at 8:22 a.m. ESTToday at 8:22 a.m. ESTA mysterious, flu-like disease has killed dozens in the southwest region of the Democratic Republic of Congo, with women and children among the most affected, health officials said Thursday.
At least 376 cases have been reported since Oct. 24 of individuals experiencing fevers, headaches and runny noses, in addition to difficulty breathing and anemia, Jean Kaseya, director general of the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said in the agency’s weekly briefing.
Health officials have begun referring to the mysterious illness as “Disease X.” Africa CDC has recorded a total of 79 deaths caused by the illness, while local officials told Reuters that 143 have died. The numbers differ because the case definition is still unclear and some cases are still being confirmed, Margaret Muigai Edwin, communications director for Africa CDC, said in an email to The Washington Post.
The disease emerged in the Panzi health zone, Kaseya said, a remote, rural part of Kwango province along the border of Angola. The most affected age group is children under 5, with 198 cases reported — more than half of total cases.
Malnutrition, from which 40 percent of the region suffers, may have played a role in making infected individuals more vulnerable to the disease, said Dieudonné Mwamba, director general of Congo’s National Public Health Institute, at the briefing.
A breakdown in communication may have also contributed to the spread, Kaseya said. The first case was reported on Oct. 24, but it wasn’t until Sunday that authorities notified the national government. “That means we had a delay of almost five to six weeks,” Kaseya said. “In five to six weeks, so many things can happen.”
A team of epidemiologists, lab experts and infection prevention and control workers from Africa CDC are now in the Kwango province hoping to identify the disease, Kaseya said. Officials are urging people to remain calm and vigilant and to prevent the spread of the disease by engaging in good hygiene practices and reporting any suspected cases to health officials, and to avoid mass gatherings and handling a deceased person’s remains.
The World Health Organization will be sending medical professionals and supplies to aid in treatment of the disease, as well as in its identification, the organization said in a statement provided to The Washington Post. WHO officials cautioned against calling the disease “unidentified,” advising instead to describe it as “undiagnosed,” noting that the remote nature of the region — as well as its lack of laboratory services — may mean that what is infecting people may be an existing pathogen. Conflict, as well as the ongoing rainy season, has made it difficult to access the area, according to WHO.
Medical professionals will also be testing for flu — it is peak flu season in the region, WHO said — as well as coronavirus, malaria and measles, in case the unknown disease may be multiple known diseases affecting the area.
Disease X is hitting the Democratic Republic of Congo as the country struggles to get a handle on an upsurge of mpox, with nearly 48,000 cases and 1,200 deaths reported, according to Africa CDC. Mpox, an infectious, flu-like disease that can cause a painful rash, has spread to 20 different countries since January, the Africa CDC said.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/12/06/congo-mystery-flu-disease-x-illness/?
Elon Musk ain’t going to be happy that his X branding has been co-opted for a stinky disease…
Good. He can’t keep X for himself.
Morning pilgrims.
Bubblecar said:
Morning. We’re heading for 24, very high chance of showers, chance of a thunderstorm.Thinking tinned soup for breakfast, but which? I have all these in stock:
Tomato
Cream of Mushroom
Cream of Asparagus
Cream of Celery
Creamy Pumpkin
Creamy Chicken
Sensible
Peak Warming Man said:
Morning pilgrims.
Good morning. How goes it?
Michael V said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Morning pilgrims.
Good morning. How goes it?
It goes good, nothing too grandiose planned for today, potter about in the yard, listen to a bit of cricket.
What about yourself?
Peak Warming Man said:
Michael V said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Morning pilgrims.
Good morning. How goes it?
It goes good, nothing too grandiose planned for today, potter about in the yard, listen to a bit of cricket.
What about yourself?
Fair to muddling.
Still trying to fix whatever Microsoft has done to my computer battery on their last Win 10 upgrade. It was on the charger, at 100%, and at the end of the upgrade it had 2%. It no longer charges. Well it charges for 5 to 50 seconds after reconnecting power then stops.
AI and birth control for pigeons
I would follow the Eastern states grain farmers who don’t spill grain on the road anymore.
It has reduced the galah population dramatically and also stopped the roadkill of grain eating birds.
The courts in Romania have scrubbed the election result and told the people to go back and do it again until they get it right.
Peak Warming Man said:
The courts in Romania have scrubbed the election result and told the people to go back and do it again until they get it right.
They also reveal that access data for electoral websites was stolen from legitimate users and published online “on cyber-crime platforms originating from Russia”.
Separately, the intelligence agencies report some 85,000 attempted hacks in an attempt to access electoral data and change content – including on election day. The report says the cyber-attackers used advanced methods to remain anonymous, working in a way and on a scale “typical of state-sponsored actors”.
Maybe just need to switch the internet off for a while.
dv said:
Peak Warming Man said:
The courts in Romania have scrubbed the election result and told the people to go back and do it again until they get it right.
They also reveal that access data for electoral websites was stolen from legitimate users and published online “on cyber-crime platforms originating from Russia”.
Separately, the intelligence agencies report some 85,000 attempted hacks in an attempt to access electoral data and change content – including on election day. The report says the cyber-attackers used advanced methods to remain anonymous, working in a way and on a scale “typical of state-sponsored actors”.Maybe just need to switch the internet off for a while.
Cut connection to Russia
And my Christmas window is done. The three clowns are out of their suitcase again. Just staring out the window.
I need a rest now. It’s humid and I’ve been a bit sweaty climbing ladders, cleaning windows, hanging tinsel and glitter balls and net lights.
buffy said:
And my Christmas window is done. The three clowns are out of their suitcase again. Just staring out the window.I need a rest now. It’s humid and I’ve been a bit sweaty climbing ladders, cleaning windows, hanging tinsel and glitter balls and net lights.
You have a nice lie down now.
“The three clowns are out of their suitcase again. “
Detonate relatives and fly to Dover
dv said:
“The three clowns are out of their suitcase again. “Detonate relatives and fly to Dover
Might be the right response. Here they are. I’ll try for a better photo in the dark when you get less reflection from the surrounding countryside.
What’s the difference between a health insurance company CEO and an anti-vaxxer?
The anti-vaxxer dies because he didn’t take the shot.
btm said:
What’s the difference between a health insurance company CEO and an anti-vaxxer?
The anti-vaxxer dies because he didn’t take the shot.
Seems too soon for me.
https://youtube.com/shorts/wyUrgH4DtE8?si=ZdIa7zC7SrlfAoPd
Name the country
dv said:
https://youtube.com/shorts/wyUrgH4DtE8?si=ZdIa7zC7SrlfAoPdName the country
omg. i would expect a 5 or 6 year old to get that.
sarahs mum said:
dv said:
https://youtube.com/shorts/wyUrgH4DtE8?si=ZdIa7zC7SrlfAoPdName the country
omg. i would expect a 5 or 6 year old to get that.
Yeah so maybe these Americans are too old to get it.
btm said:
What’s the difference between a health insurance company CEO and an anti-vaxxer?
The anti-vaxxer dies because he didn’t take the shot.
:)
dv said:
https://youtube.com/shorts/wyUrgH4DtE8?si=ZdIa7zC7SrlfAoPdName the country
LOLOL
Brilliant.
:)
sarahs mum said:
dv said:
https://youtube.com/shorts/wyUrgH4DtE8?si=ZdIa7zC7SrlfAoPdName the country
omg. i would expect a 5 or 6 year old to get that.
Seriously fucked education system over there.
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
dv said:
https://youtube.com/shorts/wyUrgH4DtE8?si=ZdIa7zC7SrlfAoPdName the country
omg. i would expect a 5 or 6 year old to get that.
Seriously fucked education system over there.
lots of home schooling by people who were home schooled.
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:omg. i would expect a 5 or 6 year old to get that.
Seriously fucked education system over there.
lots of home schooling by people who were home schooled.
although i do know home schooled kids here that have excelled. but they were not home schooled so they could be god bothered.
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
dv said:
https://youtube.com/shorts/wyUrgH4DtE8?si=ZdIa7zC7SrlfAoPdName the country
omg. i would expect a 5 or 6 year old to get that.
Seriously fucked education system over there.
You’re reading too much into a youtube clip pilgrim.
So apparently the first Generation Beta kids will be born in 2025.
Peak Warming Man said:
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:omg. i would expect a 5 or 6 year old to get that.
Seriously fucked education system over there.
You’re reading too much into a youtube clip pilgrim.
The United States has been struggling to keep up with other countries in terms of educational performance, particularly in mathematics and science. The consequences of this educational gap are far-reaching, impacting both the economy and the prospects of American workers.
The USA “is now the worst-educated workforce in the industrialized world. Because our workers are among the most highly paid in the world, that makes a lot of Americans uncompetitive in the global economy. And uncompetitive against increasingly smart machines. It is a formula for a grim future,” states a 2021 Education Week article.
….The United States is grappling with an educational crisis and has been for some time, as indicated by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
Numerous countries outperform the United States in high school mathematics, revealing a notable achievement gap. Additionally, American millennials rank last in mathematics and problem-solving tests when compared to their counterparts in other countries. This situation poses a substantial challenge to the nation’s global economic standing and undermines the future competitiveness of American workers.
These challenges extend beyond mathematics. American students also face significant gaps in other key subjects, including reading comprehension, science, and problem-solving skills. These shortcomings in multiple subjects further compound the nation’s educational concerns and hinder its ability to compete globally.
https://educationonline.ku.edu/community/how-usa-education-measures-up-worldwide
Peak Warming Man said:
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
omg. i would expect a 5 or 6 year old to get that.
Seriously fucked education system over there.
You’re reading too much into a youtube clip pilgrim.
staged
Just noticed that I ordered 3 x bunches asparagus in my Coles order but didn’t receive any.
Was going to have asparagus with my roast chicken dinner this evening.
Bubblecar said:
Just noticed that I ordered 3 x bunches asparagus in my Coles order but didn’t receive any.Was going to have asparagus with my roast chicken dinner this evening.
They didn’t substitute it with the tinned stuff?
Woodie said:
Bubblecar said:
Just noticed that I ordered 3 x bunches asparagus in my Coles order but didn’t receive any.Was going to have asparagus with my roast chicken dinner this evening.
They didn’t substitute it with the tinned stuff?
They just neglected to provide any. No mention in the substitutions.
Anyway I’ve done their “missing items” routine and they’ve credited it to my account.
Now, can I be bothered going to the IGA to get some asparagus?
Woodie said:
Bubblecar said:
Just noticed that I ordered 3 x bunches asparagus in my Coles order but didn’t receive any.Was going to have asparagus with my roast chicken dinner this evening.
They didn’t substitute it with the tinned stuff?
it probably got slipped into someone else’s order. Somone who doesn’t like asparagus.
Bubblecar said:
Woodie said:
Bubblecar said:
Just noticed that I ordered 3 x bunches asparagus in my Coles order but didn’t receive any.Was going to have asparagus with my roast chicken dinner this evening.
They didn’t substitute it with the tinned stuff?
They just neglected to provide any. No mention in the substitutions.
Anyway I’ve done their “missing items” routine and they’ve credited it to my account.
Now, can I be bothered going to the IGA to get some asparagus?
Aye and get a nice bottle of white to serve with dinner while you’re at it.
Bubblecar said:
Woodie said:
Bubblecar said:
Just noticed that I ordered 3 x bunches asparagus in my Coles order but didn’t receive any.Was going to have asparagus with my roast chicken dinner this evening.
They didn’t substitute it with the tinned stuff?
They just neglected to provide any. No mention in the substitutions.
Anyway I’ve done their “missing items” routine and they’ve credited it to my account.
Now, can I be bothered going to the IGA to get some asparagus?
Of course you can.
:)
Bubblecar said:
Woodie said:
Bubblecar said:
Just noticed that I ordered 3 x bunches asparagus in my Coles order but didn’t receive any.Was going to have asparagus with my roast chicken dinner this evening.
They didn’t substitute it with the tinned stuff?
They just neglected to provide any. No mention in the substitutions.
Anyway I’ve done their “missing items” routine and they’ve credited it to my account.
Now, can I be bothered going to the IGA to get some asparagus?
Gawn….. off ya go. Get some exercise………… and a bottle of red (or two) to accompany dinner.
Woodie said:
Bubblecar said:
Woodie said:They didn’t substitute it with the tinned stuff?
They just neglected to provide any. No mention in the substitutions.
Anyway I’ve done their “missing items” routine and they’ve credited it to my account.
Now, can I be bothered going to the IGA to get some asparagus?
Gawn….. off ya go. Get some exercise………… and a bottle of red (or two) to accompany dinner.
White with roast hen :)
They have pretty strict rules for naming conventions for horses, nothing inappropriate etc.
I wonder how Thrill Kill got through?
Peak Warming Man said:
They have pretty strict rules for naming conventions for horses, nothing inappropriate etc.
I wonder how Thrill Kill got through?
What about Democracy Manifest.. starting in Perth today?
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
dv said:
https://youtube.com/shorts/wyUrgH4DtE8?si=ZdIa7zC7SrlfAoPdName the country
omg. i would expect a 5 or 6 year old to get that.
Seriously fucked education system over there.
They don’t really need to worry about the rest of the world. They have some of the best and most fertile land anywhere in the world, and a huge system of interconnected waterways. A huge populatiion and a huge economy. Isolationism is always a viable option for them.
party_pants said:
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:omg. i would expect a 5 or 6 year old to get that.
Seriously fucked education system over there.
They don’t really need to worry about the rest of the world. They have some of the best and most fertile land anywhere in the world, and a huge system of interconnected waterways. A huge populatiion and a huge economy. Isolationism is always a viable option for them.
We’re not talking about the rest of the world.
They weren’t able to identify the USA.
dv said:
party_pants said:
Bubblecar said:Seriously fucked education system over there.
They don’t really need to worry about the rest of the world. They have some of the best and most fertile land anywhere in the world, and a huge system of interconnected waterways. A huge populatiion and a huge economy. Isolationism is always a viable option for them.
We’re not talking about the rest of the world.
They weren’t able to identify the USA.
Yeah. I have seen stuff like this before. Geography is often taught by giving them a picture of just the USA without Canada and Mexico attached. So that is the picture they have in mind when looking at a world map. It takes a while for them to realise it is just the middle bit of a much larger land mass.
In the television show The Simpsons, Mr Burns goes to jail. Among his belongings is a ticket stub for Tillie’s Pubctured Romance. I thought this was just a weird joke but it turns out that was a real movie from 1914, the first feature length comedy.
party_pants said:
dv said:
party_pants said:They don’t really need to worry about the rest of the world. They have some of the best and most fertile land anywhere in the world, and a huge system of interconnected waterways. A huge populatiion and a huge economy. Isolationism is always a viable option for them.
We’re not talking about the rest of the world.
They weren’t able to identify the USA.
Yeah. I have seen stuff like this before. Geography is often taught by giving them a picture of just the USA without Canada and Mexico attached. So that is the picture they have in mind when looking at a world map. It takes a while for them to realise it is just the middle bit of a much larger land mass.
So they think they are an island?
roughbarked said:
party_pants said:
dv said:We’re not talking about the rest of the world.
They weren’t able to identify the USA.
Yeah. I have seen stuff like this before. Geography is often taught by giving them a picture of just the USA without Canada and Mexico attached. So that is the picture they have in mind when looking at a world map. It takes a while for them to realise it is just the middle bit of a much larger land mass.
So they think they are an island?
I presume they are not that silly. They know Canada and Mexico are attached, but they don’t know what shape they are.
party_pants said:
roughbarked said:
party_pants said:Yeah. I have seen stuff like this before. Geography is often taught by giving them a picture of just the USA without Canada and Mexico attached. So that is the picture they have in mind when looking at a world map. It takes a while for them to realise it is just the middle bit of a much larger land mass.
So they think they are an island?
I presume they are not that silly. They know Canada and Mexico are attached, but they don’t know what shape they are.
Sounds like they were not paying attention in class.
roughbarked said:
party_pants said:
roughbarked said:So they think they are an island?
I presume they are not that silly. They know Canada and Mexico are attached, but they don’t know what shape they are.
Sounds like they were not paying attention in class.
Too busy doing shooter drills.
party_pants said:
roughbarked said:
party_pants said:I presume they are not that silly. They know Canada and Mexico are attached, but they don’t know what shape they are.
Sounds like they were not paying attention in class.
Too busy doing shooter drills.
Seems like they are trained to kill school children?
Now I have to figure out which google script I’ve blocked that suddenly has stopped all my youtube videos at one minute.
BACK with a bunch of asparagus, some nice big mushrooms and another punnet of strawberries.
only got one apple left, after I finish this one, not the first apple i’ve had today, I can’t have another one today because I need to leave one for tomorrow before we do the shopping, typically I eat at least four apples a day
in the situation I run out of apples i’ll eat carrots
don’t hesitate to ask for more information
transition said:
only got one apple left, after I finish this one, not the first apple i’ve had today, I can’t have another one today because I need to leave one for tomorrow before we do the shopping, typically I eat at least four apples a dayin the situation I run out of apples i’ll eat carrots
don’t hesitate to ask for more information
My apple and raw carrot crunching days will have to wait until this tooth is pulled.
Bubblecar said:
BACK with a bunch of asparagus, some nice big mushrooms and another punnet of strawberries.
And a aperitif?
Bubblecar said:
transition said:
only got one apple left, after I finish this one, not the first apple i’ve had today, I can’t have another one today because I need to leave one for tomorrow before we do the shopping, typically I eat at least four apples a dayin the situation I run out of apples i’ll eat carrots
don’t hesitate to ask for more information
My apple and raw carrot crunching days will have to wait until this tooth is pulled.
i’ve strongly resisted having my remaining tooth pulled out, I look after it, polish it every day, keep it real clean, all shiny
you should have looked after your tooth better
transition said:
Bubblecar said:
transition said:
only got one apple left, after I finish this one, not the first apple i’ve had today, I can’t have another one today because I need to leave one for tomorrow before we do the shopping, typically I eat at least four apples a dayin the situation I run out of apples i’ll eat carrots
don’t hesitate to ask for more information
My apple and raw carrot crunching days will have to wait until this tooth is pulled.
i’ve strongly resisted having my remaining tooth pulled out, I look after it, polish it every day, keep it real clean, all shiny
you should have looked after your tooth better
A tooth! looxury.
transition said:
only got one apple left, after I finish this one, not the first apple i’ve had today, I can’t have another one today because I need to leave one for tomorrow before we do the shopping, typically I eat at least four apples a dayin the situation I run out of apples i’ll eat carrots
don’t hesitate to ask for more information
At least you are getting all your vitamins in order.
roughbarked said:
transition said:
only got one apple left, after I finish this one, not the first apple i’ve had today, I can’t have another one today because I need to leave one for tomorrow before we do the shopping, typically I eat at least four apples a dayin the situation I run out of apples i’ll eat carrots
don’t hesitate to ask for more information
At least you are getting all your vitamins in order.
I don’t eat much cooked flesh though
transition said:
roughbarked said:
transition said:
only got one apple left, after I finish this one, not the first apple i’ve had today, I can’t have another one today because I need to leave one for tomorrow before we do the shopping, typically I eat at least four apples a dayin the situation I run out of apples i’ll eat carrots
don’t hesitate to ask for more information
At least you are getting all your vitamins in order.
I don’t eat much cooked flesh though
Neither do I.
Bubblecar said:
transition said:
only got one apple left, after I finish this one, not the first apple i’ve had today, I can’t have another one today because I need to leave one for tomorrow before we do the shopping, typically I eat at least four apples a dayin the situation I run out of apples i’ll eat carrots
don’t hesitate to ask for more information
My apple and raw carrot crunching days will have to wait until this tooth is pulled.
Apple and carrot puree makes an interesting sauce for ice cream. I haven’t had it for a few years, but I used to make it regularly.
Peak Warming Man said:
Bubblecar said:
BACK with a bunch of asparagus, some nice big mushrooms and another punnet of strawberries.
And a aperitif?
Cooling down with a pint of beer now. There’s a bottle of rosé to accompany dinner.
Michael V said:
Bubblecar said:
transition said:
only got one apple left, after I finish this one, not the first apple i’ve had today, I can’t have another one today because I need to leave one for tomorrow before we do the shopping, typically I eat at least four apples a dayin the situation I run out of apples i’ll eat carrots
don’t hesitate to ask for more information
My apple and raw carrot crunching days will have to wait until this tooth is pulled.
Apple and carrot puree makes an interesting sauce for ice cream. I haven’t had it for a few years, but I used to make it regularly.
Now there’s something I haven’t tried.
Bubblecar said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Bubblecar said:
BACK with a bunch of asparagus, some nice big mushrooms and another punnet of strawberries.
And a aperitif?
Cooling down with a pint of beer now. There’s a bottle of rosé to accompany dinner.
I’d forgotten there is beer in the fridge.
Time to get a whole boned hen in the oven along with some roasting taters and carrots.
I’m in no great rush.
Bubblecar said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Bubblecar said:
BACK with a bunch of asparagus, some nice big mushrooms and another punnet of strawberries.
And a aperitif?
Cooling down with a pint of beer now. There’s a bottle of rosé to accompany dinner.
Jolly good.
Bubblecar said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Bubblecar said:
BACK with a bunch of asparagus, some nice big mushrooms and another punnet of strawberries.
And a aperitif?
Cooling down with a pint of beer now. There’s a bottle of rosé to accompany dinner.
I am having an unpopular cola. There is cold beer in the fridge for later.
party_pants said:
Bubblecar said:
Peak Warming Man said:And a aperitif?
Cooling down with a pint of beer now. There’s a bottle of rosé to accompany dinner.
I am having an unpopular cola. There is cold beer in the fridge for later.
I’ll be heading out to minigolf in Busso shortly, as part of Ms Kingys work xmas party. There will be beers, tacos, nachos and loaded fries, and some more beers.
Kingy said:
party_pants said:
Bubblecar said:Cooling down with a pint of beer now. There’s a bottle of rosé to accompany dinner.
I am having an unpopular cola. There is cold beer in the fridge for later.
I’ll be heading out to minigolf in Busso shortly, as part of Ms Kingys work xmas party. There will be beers, tacos, nachos and loaded fries, and some more beers.
Hope somebody is driving you home.
It’s 26 degrees at the bayside of the pearl of the south specific, there’s a gentle north easterly breeze bringing exotic fragrances from offshore islands and there’s cricket on the radio.
i’m listening to american freedom songs, what I typed into the youtube search, it knew what I wanted, gave me a lot of that
not sure i’ll be able to do it for long, not the highest quality music i’ve ever heard, marginally better than watching and listening to someone drag their finger nails down a chalkboard
dinner will interrupt the effort in a moment, how terrible that will be
Peak Warming Man said:
It’s 26 degrees at the bayside of the pearl of the south specific, there’s a gentle north easterly breeze bringing exotic fragrances from offshore islands and there’s cricket on the radio.
Cooled off to 29 here after some hail and another 6mm to add to the 6mm we got last night but it had been to a sweaty 36 degrees just prior to the hail.
transition said:
i’m listening to american freedom songs, what I typed into the youtube search, it knew what I wanted, gave me a lot of thatnot sure i’ll be able to do it for long, not the highest quality music i’ve ever heard, marginally better than watching and listening to someone drag their finger nails down a chalkboard
dinner will interrupt the effort in a moment, how terrible that will be
Sounds like it had stop listening written all over it?
Gout Gout breaks Peter Normans 1968 Australian record for 200m.
Peak Warming Man said:
Gout Gout breaks Peter Normans 1968 Australian record for 200m.
I read that. He’s certainly a talent.
looks like they shares incubation, changed over there from what could see, top one just got off, other came in and on
Peak Warming Man said:
Gout Gout breaks Peter Normans 1968 Australian record for 200m.
If I had double Gout, I wouldn’t be able to walk, let alone run, and break records!
Imagine what he’d be able to do if he got rid of the Gout. Take Adenuric, I say.
Peak Warming Man said:
Gout Gout breaks Peter Normans 1968 Australian record for 200m.
and well done to him.
transition said:
looks like they shares incubation, changed over there from what could see, top one just got off, other came in and on
Yes they do share incubation. She has to get down and feed.
Michael V said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Gout Gout breaks Peter Normans 1968 Australian record for 200m.
If I had double Gout, I wouldn’t be able to walk, let alone run, and break records!
Imagine what he’d be able to do if he got rid of the Gout. Take Adenuric, I say.
;)
roughbarked said:
that a beauty, what is it is
Peak Warming Man said:
Gout Gout breaks Peter Normans 1968 Australian record for 200m.
That will annoy the chaps.
transition said:
roughbarked said:
that a beauty, what is it is
Apparently a hybrid between galah and sulphur crested.
transition said:
roughbarked said:
that a beauty, what is it is
Shopped.
Peak Warming Man said:
transition said:
roughbarked said:
that a beauty, what is it is
Shopped.
Not. They do occur in captivity.
Queensland 16-year-old Gout Gout has broken the national men’s 200 metres record, which has stood since 1968.
dv said:
Queensland 16-year-old Gout Gout has broken the national men’s 200 metres record, which has stood since 1968.
Just watched that run. Were there other runners?
How’s the grass going Woodie, cand the tractor handle it?
Peak Warming Man said:
How’s the grass going Woodie, cand the tractor handle it?
Doesn’t know, it is in the dam.
SNDC been called?
Coopers Original Pale Ale here.
They’re onto him, now it’s only a matter of time.
roughbarked said:
transition said:
roughbarked said:
that a beauty, what is it is
Apparently a hybrid between galah and sulphur crested.
hope it was consensual
Peak Warming Man said:
They’re onto him, now it’s only a matter of time.
But SCIENCE will no doubt be in later and explain it all,
roughbarked said:
Peak Warming Man said:
How’s the grass going Woodie, cand the tractor handle it?
Doesn’t know, it is in the dam.
The Lady Toro (God bless her and all who mow in her) is doing well.
The Little Red Tractor that Huffed and Puffed will get a run down that front this week. It’ll need to churn through two metre high stuff ta boot!!! So it’ll be slow going.
If anyone’s interested, I finished up getting one of these crimping tools for the job I had last week; it worked well.
https://www.totaltools.com.au/117098-matson-16-300mm-hydraulic-crimper-ma2330
Woodie said:
roughbarked said:
Peak Warming Man said:
How’s the grass going Woodie, cand the tractor handle it?
Doesn’t know, it is in the dam.
The Lady Toro (God bless her and all who mow in her) is doing well.
The Little Red Tractor that Huffed and Puffed will get a run down that front this week. It’ll need to churn through two metre high stuff ta boot!!! So it’ll be slow going.
…… and I’m getting a man in on Monday (Well, men akshirley). 10 metre * 7 metre carport out the front of the garage. The posts went in a week or so ago. Best it’s done that way rather than putting the roof on first.
That’ll all give me more room to put stuff.
btm said:
If anyone’s interested, I finished up getting one of these crimping tools for the job I had last week; it worked well.
https://www.totaltools.com.au/117098-matson-16-300mm-hydraulic-crimper-ma2330
Kewlies. :)
captain_spalding said:
SNDC been called?Coopers Original Pale Ale here.
Peak Warming Man said:
They’re onto him, now it’s only a matter of time.
Heaven looks a lot more smoky than i’d imagined.
transition said:
roughbarked said:
transition said:that a beauty, what is it is
Apparently a hybrid between galah and sulphur crested.
hope it was consensual
Most likely stuck in a cage together.
roughbarked said:
captain_spalding said:
SNDC been called?Coopers Original Pale Ale here.
Coopers sparkling here.
I tosssed up between ‘Original’ and ‘Sparkling’, and went for the O.
Woodie said:
Woodie said:
roughbarked said:Doesn’t know, it is in the dam.
The Lady Toro (God bless her and all who mow in her) is doing well.
The Little Red Tractor that Huffed and Puffed will get a run down that front this week. It’ll need to churn through two metre high stuff ta boot!!! So it’ll be slow going.
…… and I’m getting a man in on Monday (Well, men akshirley). 10 metre * 7 metre carport out the front of the garage. The posts went in a week or so ago. Best it’s done that way rather than putting the roof on first.
That’ll all give me more room to put stuff.
Every man needs a bigger roofed area onto his shed.
btm said:
If anyone’s interested, I finished up getting one of these crimping tools for the job I had last week; it worked well.
https://www.totaltools.com.au/117098-matson-16-300mm-hydraulic-crimper-ma2330
:)
Peak Warming Man said:
They’re onto him, now it’s only a matter of time.
Pfffft….. What would science know.
Just burn a bit of toast. Et voila. That’s what God looks like.
captain_spalding said:
Peak Warming Man said:
They’re onto him, now it’s only a matter of time.
Heaven looks a lot more smoky than i’d imagined.
That’s because, on the sixth day God invented the seeded herb and he’s been smoking the stuff ever since.
captain_spalding said:
roughbarked said:
captain_spalding said:
SNDC been called?Coopers Original Pale Ale here.
Coopers sparkling here.I tosssed up between ‘Original’ and ‘Sparkling’, and went for the O.
Actually, the sparkling is the original.
Michael V said:
btm said:
If anyone’s interested, I finished up getting one of these crimping tools for the job I had last week; it worked well.
https://www.totaltools.com.au/117098-matson-16-300mm-hydraulic-crimper-ma2330
:)
Costs too much. I’ve gotta sledgehammer.
Raygun-inspired musical cancelled over legal threats, Sydney comedian says.
Got letters from Olympic breakdance lawyers.
roughbarked said:
Michael V said:
btm said:
If anyone’s interested, I finished up getting one of these crimping tools for the job I had last week; it worked well.
https://www.totaltools.com.au/117098-matson-16-300mm-hydraulic-crimper-ma2330
:)
Costs too much. I’ve gotta sledgehammer.
Perzaktermont, Mr Barked. If at first you don’t succeed, use a larger hammer.
hey spalding sir…
would it be possible to park the new ship in the derwent river and run it as hotel accommodation? i have only ever got on it via drive on.
roughbarked said:
Michael V said:
btm said:
If anyone’s interested, I finished up getting one of these crimping tools for the job I had last week; it worked well.
https://www.totaltools.com.au/117098-matson-16-300mm-hydraulic-crimper-ma2330
:)
Costs too much. I’ve gotta sledgehammer.
That’s what Ken Halliwell said.
sarahs mum said:
hey spalding sir…would it be possible to park the new ship in the derwent river and run it as hotel accommodation? i have only ever got on it via drive on.
you should be able to park it next to mac point…when the cruise ships weren’t double booked.
roughbarked said:
captain_spalding said:
roughbarked said:Coopers sparkling here.
I tosssed up between ‘Original’ and ‘Sparkling’, and went for the O.
Actually, the sparkling is the original.
Always caring about our education…
roughbarked said:
Raygun-inspired musical cancelled over legal threats, Sydney comedian says.Got letters from Olympic breakdance lawyers.
Probably feared that she’d be held up to ridicule.
Of course, that horse took advantage of the stable door situation, and is now living in Brazil under an assumed name.
sarahs mum said:
hey spalding sir…would it be possible to park the new ship in the derwent river and run it as hotel accommodation? i have only ever got on it via drive on.
They do it with the ‘Queen Mary’ in Long Beach, CA.
It’d be a link to Tasmania’s convict past: ‘The Hobart Hulk Hotel’.
sarahs mum said:
hey spalding sir…would it be possible to park the new ship in the derwent river and run it as hotel accommodation? i have only ever got on it via drive on.
The berths would be pretty titchy for a hotel room.
Witty Rejoinder said:
sarahs mum said:
hey spalding sir…would it be possible to park the new ship in the derwent river and run it as hotel accommodation? i have only ever got on it via drive on.
The berths would be pretty titchy for a hotel room.
that’s part of the fitting that was supposed to happen here. with a tasmanian vibe. not sure how they are going to do it now they are thinking of leasing it o/s.
Witty Rejoinder said:
sarahs mum said:
hey spalding sir…would it be possible to park the new ship in the derwent river and run it as hotel accommodation? i have only ever got on it via drive on.
The berths would be pretty titchy for a hotel room.
They could put up glamping tents on the car decks.
Jiangmen, China
In a cavern deep underground, scientists are putting the final touches on a 600-ton sphere that could solve the biggest mysteries of the universe. Secured by safety harnesses and ropes, dozens of workers dot the surface of the 12-story, steel-plated acrylic ball — the centerpiece of the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory. This $300 million facility is designed to detect subatomic particles known as neutrinos, and is a testament to China’s growing scientific prowess.
Witty Rejoinder said:
sarahs mum said:
hey spalding sir…would it be possible to park the new ship in the derwent river and run it as hotel accommodation? i have only ever got on it via drive on.
The berths would be pretty titchy for a hotel room.
No more titchy than they are for passengers on the ship’s intended crossings. Price them accordingly.
sarahs mum said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
sarahs mum said:
hey spalding sir…would it be possible to park the new ship in the derwent river and run it as hotel accommodation? i have only ever got on it via drive on.
The berths would be pretty titchy for a hotel room.
that’s part of the fitting that was supposed to happen here. with a tasmanian vibe. not sure how they are going to do it now they are thinking of leasing it o/s.
Hammocks.
warming u
JudgeMental said:
warming u
Nope, it won’t be warming me.
I haven’t seen the hunchback yet, but he’s probably up in the belfry somewhere.
Woodie said:
I haven’t seen the hunchback yet, but he’s probably up in the belfry somewhere.
Can’t see The Pope either.
Good morning Holidayers. Presently 8 degrees at the back door and just starting to get light. We are forecast a partly cloudy 19 degrees today.
I will be making shortbread and jam owl biscuits this morning. There will be another Big Biscuit Bakery session in a couple of weeks, but for now I need some bikkies in the house.
roughbarked said:
that’s the 21st century for yous, accountability for everyone
except the people it’s most needed for
Morning troops. A sensible 17 expected on this Sunday, which rhymes with Monday, the only two days that rhyme.
Sunday used to be handcrafted in oak, maple and raffia, but is now mass-produced in green plastic.
Breakfast today will be reheated roast chicken dinner leftovers.
buffy said:
Good morning Holidayers. Presently 8 degrees at the back door and just starting to get light. We are forecast a partly cloudy 19 degrees today.I will be making shortbread and jam owl biscuits this morning. There will be another Big Biscuit Bakery session in a couple of weeks, but for now I need some bikkies in the house.
True, you haven’t made biscuits for ages.
Bubblecar said:
Morning troops. A sensible 17 expected on this Sunday, which rhymes with Monday, the only two days that rhyme.
Sunday used to be handcrafted in oak, maple and raffia, but is now mass-produced in green plastic.
Breakfast today will be reheated roast chicken dinner leftovers.
wut, Wednsday rhymes with Thsday, and also Frday rhymes with Satrday, so we disagree
Bubblecar said:
buffy said:
Good morning Holidayers. Presently 8 degrees at the back door and just starting to get light. We are forecast a partly cloudy 19 degrees today.I will be making shortbread and jam owl biscuits this morning. There will be another Big Biscuit Bakery session in a couple of weeks, but for now I need some bikkies in the house.
True, you haven’t made biscuits for ages.
Five dozen shortbread achieved. Now for the jam owls.
Good morning everybody. I hope this day finds you well, happy and as productive as you need to be.
It’s 24.0°C, 75% RH, with light to gentle breezes and scattered clouds. BoM forecasts a top of 32° C and very little chance of rain. Thank goodness for fans.
Agenda: breakfast will be a pan-fried sausage, probably with tomato and certainly with Cholula sauce. There’s women’s cricket starting at 9:30, and the test restarting at 2 pm. That’s my day done there. No other agenda discussed yet.
ABC News:
What i find most remarkable about this story is that there are, apparently, some ladies who have been through childbirth, and then entered into the world of caring for a newborn infant, with all of its activities, labours, and sleep-deprivation, and who still have sufficient reserves to even contemplate a ‘return to exercise’.
Never met one myself, but i suppose that, among the moneyed classes who can get some ‘help’ to deal with all of that…
captain_spalding said:
ABC News:
What i find most remarkable about this story is that there are, apparently, some ladies who have been through childbirth, and then entered into the world of caring for a newborn infant, with all of its activities, labours, and sleep-deprivation, and who still have sufficient reserves to even contemplate a ‘return to exercise’.
Never met one myself, but i suppose that, among the moneyed classes who can get some ‘help’ to deal with all of that…
Just the normal activities of caring for a newborn is a form of exercise. Also as the baby grows you increase your weight lifting . So, there’s that. I started ahead of the game…2 babies each just under 11lb.
Morning pilgrims, the days set fair in the pearl, it should be a corker.
Should I do some work or laze around all say and listen to Australia stick it up India.
kii said:
captain_spalding said:
ABC News:
What i find most remarkable about this story is that there are, apparently, some ladies who have been through childbirth, and then entered into the world of caring for a newborn infant, with all of its activities, labours, and sleep-deprivation, and who still have sufficient reserves to even contemplate a ‘return to exercise’.
Never met one myself, but i suppose that, among the moneyed classes who can get some ‘help’ to deal with all of that…
Just the normal activities of caring for a newborn is a form of exercise. Also as the baby grows you increase your weight lifting . So, there’s that. I started ahead of the game…2 babies each just under 11lb.
Big bubs!
Peak Warming Man said:
Morning pilgrims, the days set fair in the pearl, it should be a corker.
Should I do some work or laze around all day and listen to Australia stick it up India.
Listen and watch.
Michael V said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Morning pilgrims, the days set fair in the pearl, it should be a corker.
Should I do some work or laze around all day and listen to Australia stick it up India.
Listen and watch.
Got my first petrol lawnmower yesterday (always used a gardener until now but on a smaller block now).
How much oil should the engine approximately need?
Witty Rejoinder said:
Michael V said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Morning pilgrims, the days set fair in the pearl, it should be a corker.
Should I do some work or laze around all day and listen to Australia stick it up India.
Listen and watch.
Got my first petrol lawnmower yesterday (always used a gardener until now but on a smaller block now).
How much oil should the engine approximately need?
As much as is noted in the users manual.
Witty Rejoinder said:
Michael V said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Morning pilgrims, the days set fair in the pearl, it should be a corker.
Should I do some work or laze around all day and listen to Australia stick it up India.
Listen and watch.
Got my first petrol lawnmower yesterday (always used a gardener until now but on a smaller block now).
How much oil should the engine approximately need?
Google sayy about 1/2 litre.
Witty Rejoinder said:
Michael V said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Morning pilgrims, the days set fair in the pearl, it should be a corker.
Should I do some work or laze around all day and listen to Australia stick it up India.
Listen and watch.
Got my first petrol lawnmower yesterday (always used a gardener until now but on a smaller block now).
How much oil should the engine approximately need?
Is it a 2-stroke or a 4-stroke engine?
Either way it should be in the manual
Spiny Norman said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Michael V said:Listen and watch.
Got my first petrol lawnmower yesterday (always used a gardener until now but on a smaller block now).
How much oil should the engine approximately need?
As much as is noted in the users manual.
Thanks. Found it in a totally other section: oil reservoir 440-500ml.
Witty Rejoinder said:
Michael V said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Morning pilgrims, the days set fair in the pearl, it should be a corker.
Should I do some work or laze around all day and listen to Australia stick it up India.
Listen and watch.
Got my first petrol lawnmower yesterday (always used a gardener until now but on a smaller block now).
How much oil should the engine approximately need?
and remember, because it is such a small amount it will require changing more often than your car does.
JudgeMental said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Michael V said:Listen and watch.
Got my first petrol lawnmower yesterday (always used a gardener until now but on a smaller block now).
How much oil should the engine approximately need?
and remember, because it is such a small amount it will require changing more often than your car does.
What!
I started mowing but it is way too hot for a elderly gentleman.
Knocked over a bit but it’s a jungle out there.
I’ll do some more in the cool cool cool of the evening.
JudgeMental said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Michael V said:Listen and watch.
Got my first petrol lawnmower yesterday (always used a gardener until now but on a smaller block now).
How much oil should the engine approximately need?
and remember, because it is such a small amount it will require changing more often than your car does.
Cars need changing?
Speaking of fairy tales, I’ve ordered this nice leatherbound edition of the Brothers Grimm for my youngest nephew, and one for myself.
JudgeMental said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Michael V said:Listen and watch.
Got my first petrol lawnmower yesterday (always used a gardener until now but on a smaller block now).
How much oil should the engine approximately need?
and remember, because it is such a small amount it will require changing more often than your car does.
And check the level every time before you use it. Lawn mower motors are notorious for using oil.
Peak Warming Man said:
I started mowing but it is way too hot for a elderly gentleman.
Knocked over a bit but it’s a jungle out there.
I’ll do some more in the cool cool cool of the evening.
But, but, but, the test is on.
Just had a nice phone chat with my cousin, who I haven’t talked to for many years. He answered the phone at my uncle’s place – my uncle is in hospital, after a trip to Italy with my cousin.
Michael V said:
Just had a nice phone chat with my cousin, who I haven’t talked to for many years. He answered the phone at my uncle’s place – my uncle is in hospital, after a trip to Italy with my cousin.
Was it a pizza accident?
The Deeprobotics Lynx looks like it’s having fun.
https://youtu.be/iL833P0Vino?si=Yi8vOG8laInPEOWk
Kingy said:
Michael V said:
Just had a nice phone chat with my cousin, who I haven’t talked to for many years. He answered the phone at my uncle’s place – my uncle is in hospital, after a trip to Italy with my cousin.
Was it a pizza accident?
No, somewhat more serious – several lung embolisms.
Michael V said:
Just had a nice phone chat with my cousin, who I haven’t talked to for many years. He answered the phone at my uncle’s place – my uncle is in hospital, after a trip to Italy with my cousin.
I should point out that my cousin lives in Hong Kong.
captain_spalding said:
ABC News:
What i find most remarkable about this story is that there are, apparently, some ladies who have been through childbirth, and then entered into the world of caring for a newborn infant, with all of its activities, labours, and sleep-deprivation, and who still have sufficient reserves to even contemplate a ‘return to exercise’.
Never met one myself, but i suppose that, among the moneyed classes who can get some ‘help’ to deal with all of that…
^ $$$
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-08/hard-quiz-weekly-trivia/104676926
25/50
dv said:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-08/hard-quiz-weekly-trivia/10467692625/50
+1
Planet of Evil.
I scarcely remember it all. Season 13 is full of bangers but this one seems to have gone in the memory hole. I just about vaguely remember the semi-visible antimatter monster and that’s about it.
The desiccated corpses are alarming, the threat is mysterious, the sets are nice. The whole thing reminds me of Alien which came out three years later, or perhaps a bit of Predator from the 1980s.
The cast is familiar: pretty much all of them were in multiple DW stories. Peter Solon was a regular fixture on British and Australian television in that era, and Frederick Jaeger’s face is also familiar. Michael Wisher, more famous for playing Davros, is also in this.
This is one of four DW stories for Prentis Hancock, and one of three for Louis Mahoney, who notably appeared in the modern story Blink.
dv said:
Planet of Evil.
I scarcely remember it all. Season 13 is full of bangers but this one seems to have gone in the memory hole. I just about vaguely remember the semi-visible antimatter monster and that’s about it.
The desiccated corpses are alarming, the threat is mysterious, the sets are nice. The whole thing reminds me of Alien which came out three years later, or perhaps a bit of Predator from the 1980s. The cast is familiar: pretty much all of them were in multiple DW stories. Peter Solon was a regular fixture on British and Australian television in that era, and Frederick Jaeger’s face is also familiar. Michael Wisher, more famous for playing Davros, is also in this.
This is one of four DW stories for Prentis Hancock, and one of three for Louis Mahoney, who notably appeared in the modern story Blink.
I remember it being a rather complicated one, but not much else. One of those I’ve only seen once, long ago.
party_pants said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Michael V said:Listen and watch.
Got my first petrol lawnmower yesterday (always used a gardener until now but on a smaller block now).
How much oil should the engine approximately need?
Is it a 2-stroke or a 4-stroke engine?
Either way it should be in the manual
enough to cover the dip stick on the bung.
Just Googled my house and discovered that the workshop, a separate building that we built 14 years ago, has been assigned a street number for the street at the rear of our property. It already has a street number for the separate electric bill that is the house’s number and street with the letter G added to it.
There’s a driveway entrance in the rear street and access gates to the workshop.
I’ve never seen this number on any paperwork and it’s only just appeared on Google Maps.
I’m confused.
That’s great news.
Bubblecar said:
dv said:
Planet of Evil.
I scarcely remember it all. Season 13 is full of bangers but this one seems to have gone in the memory hole. I just about vaguely remember the semi-visible antimatter monster and that’s about it.
The desiccated corpses are alarming, the threat is mysterious, the sets are nice. The whole thing reminds me of Alien which came out three years later, or perhaps a bit of Predator from the 1980s. The cast is familiar: pretty much all of them were in multiple DW stories. Peter Solon was a regular fixture on British and Australian television in that era, and Frederick Jaeger’s face is also familiar. Michael Wisher, more famous for playing Davros, is also in this.
This is one of four DW stories for Prentis Hancock, and one of three for Louis Mahoney, who notably appeared in the modern story Blink.
I remember it being a rather complicated one, but not much else. One of those I’ve only seen once, long ago.
Notable quote:
Vishinsky: “We may have to play the last rites but we don’t have to listen.”
—-
The Doctor: “I am just going outside and may be some time”,
dv said:
Bubblecar said:
dv said:
Planet of Evil.
I scarcely remember it all. Season 13 is full of bangers but this one seems to have gone in the memory hole. I just about vaguely remember the semi-visible antimatter monster and that’s about it.
The desiccated corpses are alarming, the threat is mysterious, the sets are nice. The whole thing reminds me of Alien which came out three years later, or perhaps a bit of Predator from the 1980s. The cast is familiar: pretty much all of them were in multiple DW stories. Peter Solon was a regular fixture on British and Australian television in that era, and Frederick Jaeger’s face is also familiar. Michael Wisher, more famous for playing Davros, is also in this.
This is one of four DW stories for Prentis Hancock, and one of three for Louis Mahoney, who notably appeared in the modern story Blink.
I remember it being a rather complicated one, but not much else. One of those I’ve only seen once, long ago.
Notable quote:
Vishinsky: “We may have to play the last rites but we don’t have to listen.”—-
The Doctor: “I am just going outside and may be some time”,
:)
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1618250865794218
EarthScope Consortium
Watch the waves from the M7.0 earthquake in Northern California roll across seismic stations in North America.
This animation, called a Ground Motion Visualization (GMV), shows the motion of the ground as detected on seismometers across North America. Each dot is a seismic station, and when the ground moves up it turns red 🔴 and when it moves down it turns blue 🔵.
Earthquake waves travel around and through the Earth. Once the earthquake waves are far enough away from the location where the earthquake occurred, they can no longer be felt by people, BUT they can still be detected by sensitive seismic instruments.
Learn more about GMVs, what’s shown in this animation, and FAQs: https://www.earthscope.org/news/social-media/about-gmvs/
Michael V said:
Peak Warming Man said:
I started mowing but it is way too hot for a elderly gentleman.
Knocked over a bit but it’s a jungle out there.
I’ll do some more in the cool cool cool of the evening.
But, but, but, the test is on.
might not last that long at this rate.
Just perused the Sunday quiz. I only know one answer, but Ms Kingy will know the music one, so that’s hopefully two.
I’ll give it a go shortly.
Time for a lay-me-down before getting tonight’s dinner underway, which will be another spaghetti outing.
This time involving garlic, red capsicum, tomato, brislings, crumbled feta, chilli flakes etc. and Italian “premium organic” olive oil.
hears crested pigeon calling to partner to take over on the eggs
Bubblecar said:
Time for a lay-me-down before getting tonight’s dinner underway, which will be another spaghetti outing.This time involving garlic, red capsicum, tomato, brislings, crumbled feta, chilli flakes etc. and Italian “premium organic” olive oil.
I’ve been invited to my sister’s place for afternoon tea. Just having a spot of light lunch before heading out. 2 minute noodles and an apple, i’ll probably be snacking on cakes and biccies all afternoon.
transition said:
hears crested pigeon calling to partner to take over on the eggs
Exicting stuff. :) I found another nest today.
roughbarked said:
transition said:
hears crested pigeon calling to partner to take over on the eggs
Exicting stuff. :) I found another nest today.
reminds me was walking across biggest paddock on farm today, from water meter long walk check to trough and check tank level otherside, was wedge-tailed eagle, not sure any great pictures, i’ll has a gander now
you wait there
transition said:
roughbarked said:
transition said:
hears crested pigeon calling to partner to take over on the eggs
Exicting stuff. :) I found another nest today.
reminds me was walking across biggest paddock on farm today, from water meter long walk check to trough and check tank level otherside, was wedge-tailed eagle, not sure any great pictures, i’ll has a gander now
you wait there
ok
transition said:
roughbarked said:
transition said:
hears crested pigeon calling to partner to take over on the eggs
Exicting stuff. :) I found another nest today.
reminds me was walking across biggest paddock on farm today, from water meter long walk check to trough and check tank level otherside, was wedge-tailed eagle, not sure any great pictures, i’ll has a gander now
you wait there
Kingy said:
Just perused the Sunday quiz. I only know one answer, but Ms Kingy will know the music one, so that’s hopefully two.I’ll give it a go shortly.
30/50
Ms Kingy got three, and I fluked several wild guesses.
roughbarked said:
transition said:
roughbarked said:Exicting stuff. :) I found another nest today.
reminds me was walking across biggest paddock on farm today, from water meter long walk check to trough and check tank level otherside, was wedge-tailed eagle, not sure any great pictures, i’ll has a gander now
you wait there
I will.
has better look work on them later, some alright, make a good composite
I has more jobs to does
Kingy said:
Kingy said:
Just perused the Sunday quiz. I only know one answer, but Ms Kingy will know the music one, so that’s hopefully two.I’ll give it a go shortly.
30/50
Ms Kingy got three, and I fluked several wild guesses.
smarmy git would be disapproving.
JudgeMental said:
Kingy said:
Kingy said:
Just perused the Sunday quiz. I only know one answer, but Ms Kingy will know the music one, so that’s hopefully two.I’ll give it a go shortly.
30/50
Ms Kingy got three, and I fluked several wild guesses.
smarmy git would be disapproving.
I like him. He’s real and doesn’t give a shit what anyone thinks. I can relate.
Arts said:
JudgeMental said:
Kingy said:30/50
Ms Kingy got three, and I fluked several wild guesses.
smarmy git would be disapproving.
I like him. He’s real and doesn’t give a shit what anyone thinks. I can relate.
Kingy said:
Kingy said:
Just perused the Sunday quiz. I only know one answer, but Ms Kingy will know the music one, so that’s hopefully two.I’ll give it a go shortly.
30/50
Ms Kingy got three, and I fluked several wild guesses.
5/10
Witty Rejoinder said:
Arts said:
JudgeMental said:smarmy git would be disapproving.
I like him. He’s real and doesn’t give a shit what anyone thinks. I can relate.
Sociopathic tendencies?
I’d be offended but I don’t give a shit what you think.
Today I went to Akaroa.. the French quarter – where they don’t speak French. I had a croissant.
I’m assuming none will be put out if I have cheese, crackers, chocolate and fudge for dinner.
Arts said:
Today I went to Akaroa.. the French quarter – where they don’t speak French. I had a croissant.I’m assuming none will be put out if I have cheese, crackers, chocolate and fudge for dinner.
Lose the fudge.
My bank emailed me on friday saying services would be down until 9:30 am Sunday.
They are still not up and running, they never come back on time, never, someone needs a rocket.
Peak Warming Man said:
My bank emailed me on friday saying services would be down until 9:30 am Sunday.
They are still not up and running, they never come back on time, never, someone needs a rocket.
Which bank?
Witty Rejoinder said:
Peak Warming Man said:
My bank emailed me on friday saying services would be down until 9:30 am Sunday.
They are still not up and running, they never come back on time, never, someone needs a rocket.
Which bank?
No
Peak Warming Man said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Peak Warming Man said:
My bank emailed me on friday saying services would be down until 9:30 am Sunday.
They are still not up and running, they never come back on time, never, someone needs a rocket.
Which bank?
No
Blink twice if they are forcing you to say that.
Peak Warming Man said:
My bank emailed me on friday saying services would be down until 9:30 am Sunday.
They are still not up and running, they never come back on time, never, someone needs a rocket.
Bar-stewards, mung-beans!
Speaking of bullets (in the US thread), I noticed in an ABC piece today that some bullets were found in Melbourne near the Adass Israel synagogue that was torched. Seems a bit odd.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-08/melbourne-synagogue-fire-investigation/104699054
Kingy said:
Kingy said:
Just perused the Sunday quiz. I only know one answer, but Ms Kingy will know the music one, so that’s hopefully two.I’ll give it a go shortly.
30/50
Ms Kingy got three, and I fluked several wild guesses.
10/50
Didn’t even get No. 5
The Rev Dodgson said:
Kingy said:
Kingy said:
Just perused the Sunday quiz. I only know one answer, but Ms Kingy will know the music one, so that’s hopefully two.I’ll give it a go shortly.
30/50
Ms Kingy got three, and I fluked several wild guesses.
10/50
Didn’t even get No. 5
And quite a few others.
Peak Warming Man said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Kingy said:30/50
Ms Kingy got three, and I fluked several wild guesses.
10/50
Didn’t even get No. 5
And quite a few others.
I did it earlier but didn’t report. I think I got one or two right.
buffy said:
Peak Warming Man said:
The Rev Dodgson said:10/50
Didn’t even get No. 5
And quite a few others.
I did it earlier but didn’t report. I think I got one or two right.
Just went back to remind myself of the questions. I got no 1 and no7 right (because I could reasonably guess 1 and I knew 7). All my other guesses were wrong.
buffy said:
Peak Warming Man said:
The Rev Dodgson said:10/50
Didn’t even get No. 5
And quite a few others.
I did it earlier but didn’t report. I think I got one or two right.
Cor blimey, I got 35/50.
I knew some of them too. My trivia brain is not dead.
buffy said:
Speaking of bullets (in the US thread), I noticed in an ABC piece today that some bullets were found in Melbourne near the Adass Israel synagogue that was torched. Seems a bit odd.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-08/melbourne-synagogue-fire-investigation/104699054
maybe it’s a place with a lot of bullets
Arts said:
JudgeMental said:
Kingy said:30/50
Ms Kingy got three, and I fluked several wild guesses.
smarmy git would be disapproving.
I like him. He’s real and doesn’t give a shit what anyone thinks. I can relate.
well, i just would to give him a quiz and smirk when he fails. teach him some humility. if that is possible to do with a smarmy git.
SCIENCE said:
buffy said:
Speaking of bullets (in the US thread), I noticed in an ABC piece today that some bullets were found in Melbourne near the Adass Israel synagogue that was torched. Seems a bit odd.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-08/melbourne-synagogue-fire-investigation/104699054
maybe it’s a place with a lot of bullets
Ripponlea?
Michael V said:
Peak Warming Man said:
My bank emailed me on friday saying services would be down until 9:30 am Sunday.
They are still not up and running, they never come back on time, never, someone needs a rocket.
Bar-stewards, mung-beans!
During my brief tenure at Westpac, i was in ‘change management’.
Specifically, network change management.
This meant that i was go-between for engineering, operation, currency and share tading, travel, and several other things.
Changes to the banking network had to be submitted to me, including assessments of what was going to be impacted, how it would be affected, for how long it would be affected, and what the back-out plan was.
I had to then liaise with all parties likely to be involved or affected, notify them, note their concerns, and obtain consensus from various parties.
Even with the best-laid-out and agreed plans, something unforeseen might come up. ‘Failures’ in a plan were always investigated, and assessed for application to plans in the future.
If a change was implemented without our knowledge, and especially if something went wrong with it, the, rest assured, bums were kicked and names were taken.
captain_spalding said:
Michael V said:
Peak Warming Man said:
My bank emailed me on friday saying services would be down until 9:30 am Sunday.
They are still not up and running, they never come back on time, never, someone needs a rocket.
Bar-stewards, mung-beans!
During my brief tenure at Westpac, i was in ‘change management’.
Specifically, network change management.
This meant that i was go-between for engineering, operation, currency and share tading, travel, and several other things.
Changes to the banking network had to be submitted to me, including assessments of what was going to be impacted, how it would be affected, for how long it would be affected, and what the back-out plan was.
I had to then liaise with all parties likely to be involved or affected, notify them, note their concerns, and obtain consensus from various parties.
Even with the best-laid-out and agreed plans, something unforeseen might come up. ‘Failures’ in a plan were always investigated, and assessed for application to plans in the future.
If a change was implemented without our knowledge, and especially if something went wrong with it, the, rest assured, bums were kicked and names were taken.
:)
I’ve added the Eating thread to the Index.
dv said:
I’ve added the Eating thread to the Index.
Stom he come, make squiggly lines all over tele.
Peak Warming Man said:
dv said:
I’ve added the Eating thread to the Index.
Stom he come, make squiggly lines all over tele.
Mmmhh.
Bad omen. Isobars close. Mean heap big wind.
PHWOOOOOAR!!!
Woodie said:
PHWOOOOOAR!!!
Is that just the free version, or an upgrade version?
Have you ever noticed just how ‘civilised’ is the taste of Chivas Regal?
captain_spalding said:
Have you ever noticed just how ‘civilised’ is the taste of Chivas Regal?
Yes it makes this hellhole with the heat and the drums almost bearable, and the house boy not having my boots spick and span in the morning.
But yes I’ll have another there’s a good chap.
captain_spalding said:
Have you ever noticed just how ‘civilised’ is the taste of Chivas Regal?
Not when I was chugging it back mixed 50:50 with a popular cola in my 20’s. It tasted like booze.
I might try it again now that I am cough over 30.
captain_spalding said:
Woodie said:
PHWOOOOOAR!!!
Is that just the free version, or an upgrade version?
Free version.
Peak Warming Man said:
captain_spalding said:
Have you ever noticed just how ‘civilised’ is the taste of Chivas Regal?
Yes it makes this hellhole with the heat and the drums almost bearable, and the house boy not having my boots spick and span in the morning.
But yes I’ll have another there’s a good chap.
Certainly takesthe edge off, after the quinine dose mixed with the gin.
Do you think that we’ll ever be able to dispense with dressing for dinner, or would that signal to the natives a loss of of ‘character’ and resolve?
Peak Warming Man said:
captain_spalding said:
Have you ever noticed just how ‘civilised’ is the taste of Chivas Regal?
Yes it makes this hellhole with the heat and the drums almost bearable, and the house boy not having my boots spick and span in the morning.
But yes I’ll have another there’s a good chap.
Never mind, old boy, the hunt is on in the morning. There’ll be enough Top Shelf to go around after we sell the Ivory and the Tiger pelts. Now, where’s my damned mosquito net?
captain_spalding said:
Have you ever noticed just how ‘civilised’ is the taste of Chivas Regal?
Yes. By the bottle full.
Kingy said:
captain_spalding said:
Have you ever noticed just how ‘civilised’ is the taste of Chivas Regal?
Not when I was chugging it back mixed 50:50 with a popular cola in my 20’s. It tasted like booze.
I might try it again now that I am cough over 30.
You put cola in Chivas Regal.
I know that it’s a blended whisky, but, my good man, you are sailing perilously close to the wind there.
captain_spalding said:
Kingy said:
captain_spalding said:
Have you ever noticed just how ‘civilised’ is the taste of Chivas Regal?
Not when I was chugging it back mixed 50:50 with a popular cola in my 20’s. It tasted like booze.
I might try it again now that I am cough over 30.
You put cola in Chivas Regal.
I know that it’s a blended whisky, but, my good man, you are sailing perilously close to the wind there.
In my defence, your Honour, I was young and impressionable, and had come into the company of some children of the landed gentry. They “procured” a few bottles of mysterious spirits, and proceeded to distribute them amongst us heathens.
We were not worthy, and we knew not what we were doing.
Especially after a few bottles were consumed.
I recall a CTC Line (Russian) cruise ship in the 1980s, a ‘lost weekend’ cruise out to Lord Howe Island, and we found a bar near the pool deck that sold Chivasat 40c per nip.
Didn’t see a lot of the rest of the ship after that.
(I did notice that the barman had a good, if imperfect, command of English, until he was sure that you’d had a good few under your belt, when his language skill seemed to improve. May not have been KGB/GRU, but he knew where to find those people.)
Kingy said:
captain_spalding said:
Kingy said:Not when I was chugging it back mixed 50:50 with a popular cola in my 20’s. It tasted like booze.
I might try it again now that I am cough over 30.
You put cola in Chivas Regal.
I know that it’s a blended whisky, but, my good man, you are sailing perilously close to the wind there.
In my defence, your Honour, I was young and impressionable, and had come into the company of some children of the landed gentry. They “procured” a few bottles of mysterious spirits, and proceeded to distribute them amongst us heathens.
We were not worthy, and we knew not what we were doing.
Especially after a few bottles were consumed.
Well, we all commit sins of ignorance in our youth, until maturity teaches us otherwise.
Ego te absolvo.
captain_spalding said:
Kingy said:
captain_spalding said:You put cola in Chivas Regal.
I know that it’s a blended whisky, but, my good man, you are sailing perilously close to the wind there.
In my defence, your Honour, I was young and impressionable, and had come into the company of some children of the landed gentry. They “procured” a few bottles of mysterious spirits, and proceeded to distribute them amongst us heathens.
We were not worthy, and we knew not what we were doing.
Especially after a few bottles were consumed.
Well, we all commit sins of ignorance in our youth, until maturity teaches us otherwise.
Ego te absolvo.
Yeah, that’s what the English language sounded like that evening.
Fuck that fathead in the Volvo.
It was funny at the time.
dv said:
Tamb said:
sarahs mum said:
https://www.mirror.co.uk/travel/news/inside-incredible-156trn-transatlantic-tunnel-34243843science fiction.
There was a satirical novel called “ A Transatlantic tunnel. Hurrah.
A Transatlantic Tunnel, Hurrah! is a 1972 alternate history / science fiction novel by American writer Harry Harrison1. The novel is set in an alternate 1973, where Washington lost the Battle of Lexington and America remains a British colony dreaming of independence2. The novel describes a vacuum/maglev system on the ocean floor3. The Transatlantic Tunnel is the greatest engineering feat in the history of the British Empire, a project worthy of Her Majesty’s Empire.
A Transpacific tunnel might be more practical, spanning from the Chukchi Peninsula of the Russian Far East to the Seward Peninsula of Alaska.
Youse’ve nerdsniped me into working out how much of the world can be connected to AfroEurasia by way of tunnels of the type that have been built already, around 100 km.
Turns out: quite a bit.
Probably simpler to list all the parts that can’t be connected that way:
Antarctica and its adjacent islands south of 60 S.
South Sandwich Islands.
South Georgia.
Bouvet Island.
Falklands.
Kerguelen.
Heard and McDonald Islands.
Crozet Islands.
Prince Edward Island.
Macquarie Island.
Chile’s various Pacific possessions: Easter Island, Salas Y Gomez, Selkirk, Crusoe, San Ambrosia, San Felix.
Galapagos Islands
Manus Island Group (PNG)
Rennell Province (Solomons)
Temotu Province (Solomons)
New Zealand
Hawaii and various unincorporated Pacific territories of the US (Wake Island, Kingman Reef, Jarvis, Midway, Baker, Howland, Palmyra Atoll, Johnson Atoll)
All the other island nations and territories of the South Pacific: Fiji, New Caledonia, Vanuatu Tuvalu, Tokelau, Niue, Samoa, American Samoa, Wallis and Futuna, Cook Islands, French Polynesia, Pitcairn Island, Kiribati, Nauru, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, North Mariana Islands, Guam, Palau
Andaman and Nicobar Islands (sadly, no tunnel to North Sentinel this time)
Enggano Island (Indonesia)
Christmas Island
Cocos Island
Norfolk
Lord Howe
Comoros
Mayotte
Madagascar
Seychelles
Mauritius
Maldives
British Indian Ocean Territory
Iceland
Jan Mayen
Svalbard
Franz Josef Land
Some Alaskan islands: St Matthew Island, St Paul, St George
Isla Guadalupe (Mexico)
Jamaica
Bermuda
Cape Verde
Ascension Island
St Helena
Tristan de Cunha
Madeira
Azores
I thought maybe Taiwan would just dip out, but it is connected via a small island chain of the Philippines to the south. Similarly, the southernmost islands of Japan are only connected via Taiwan.
dv said:
dv said:
Tamb said:There was a satirical novel called “ A Transatlantic tunnel. Hurrah.
A Transatlantic Tunnel, Hurrah! is a 1972 alternate history / science fiction novel by American writer Harry Harrison1. The novel is set in an alternate 1973, where Washington lost the Battle of Lexington and America remains a British colony dreaming of independence2. The novel describes a vacuum/maglev system on the ocean floor3. The Transatlantic Tunnel is the greatest engineering feat in the history of the British Empire, a project worthy of Her Majesty’s Empire.
A Transpacific tunnel might be more practical, spanning from the Chukchi Peninsula of the Russian Far East to the Seward Peninsula of Alaska.
Youse’ve nerdsniped me into working out how much of the world can be connected to AfroEurasia by way of tunnels of the type that have been built already, around 100 km.
Turns out: quite a bit.
Probably simpler to list all the parts that can’t be connected that way:
Antarctica and its adjacent islands south of 60 S.
South Sandwich Islands.
South Georgia.
Bouvet Island.
Falklands.
Kerguelen.
Heard and McDonald Islands.
Crozet Islands.
Prince Edward Island.
Macquarie Island.
Chile’s various Pacific possessions: Easter Island, Salas Y Gomez, Selkirk, Crusoe, San Ambrosia, San Felix.
Galapagos Islands
Manus Island Group (PNG)
Rennell Province (Solomons)
Temotu Province (Solomons)
New Zealand
Hawaii and various unincorporated Pacific territories of the US (Wake Island, Kingman Reef, Jarvis, Midway, Baker, Howland, Palmyra Atoll, Johnson Atoll)
All the other island nations and territories of the South Pacific: Fiji, New Caledonia, Vanuatu Tuvalu, Tokelau, Niue, Samoa, American Samoa, Wallis and Futuna, Cook Islands, French Polynesia, Pitcairn Island, Kiribati, Nauru, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, North Mariana Islands, Guam, Palau
Andaman and Nicobar Islands (sadly, no tunnel to North Sentinel this time)
Enggano Island (Indonesia)
Christmas Island
Cocos Island
Norfolk
Lord Howe
Comoros
Mayotte
Madagascar
Seychelles
Mauritius
Maldives
British Indian Ocean Territory
Iceland
Jan Mayen
Svalbard
Franz Josef Land
Some Alaskan islands: St Matthew Island, St Paul, St George
Isla Guadalupe (Mexico)
Jamaica
Bermuda
Cape Verde
Ascension Island
St Helena
Tristan de Cunha
Madeira
Azores
I thought maybe Taiwan would just dip out, but it is connected via a small island chain of the Philippines to the south. Similarly, the southernmost islands of Japan are only connected via Taiwan.
north to south island in nz could be handy. it’s a lot of dollars for not many people.
sarahs mum said:
north to south island in nz could be handy. it’s a lot of dollars for not many people.
It’s a tectonically active area so it could be hazardous. A run from Wellington to Oyster Bay should be okay because they are both on the same plate.
dv said:
sarahs mum said:north to south island in nz could be handy. it’s a lot of dollars for not many people.
It’s a tectonically active area so it could be hazardous. A run from Wellington to Oyster Bay should be okay because they are both on the same plate.
ok.
sarahs mum said:
dv said:
sarahs mum said:
north to south island in nz could be handy. it’s a lot of dollars for not many people.
It’s a tectonically active area so it could be hazardous. A run from Wellington to Oyster Bay should be okay because they are both on the same plate.
ok.
hyperloop would fix this
I bought some extra tinsel today to attach to the firetruck that I’ll be taking santa to the shopping centre in.
We weren’t expecting it to be a big deal, but there are several full page ads in the local papers about it.
dv said:
I’ve added the Eating thread to the Index.
Ta.
:)
is assad dead?
JudgeMental said:
is assad dead?
Reports are that he has left by aeroplane to an unknown destination.
Michael V said:
dv said:
I’ve added the Eating thread to the Index.
Ta.
:)
+1
https://youtu.be/ZWG611KiNSE?si=63BkA824p02FUY1z
London Museum of Water and Steam
AussieDJ said:
Michael V said:
dv said:
I’ve added the Eating thread to the Index.
Ta.
:)
+1
Lololol 😆
Michael V said:
JudgeMental said:
is assad dead?
Reports are that he has left by aeroplane to an unknown destination.
Probably moving in with Putin.
I had a dream about throwing eggs at cars.
We tried the traditional way, with uncooked eggs, and then used peeled hard-boiled eggs.
https://youtu.be/hXfeh0Rf5gI?si=YVnC9qpvWd8xx9dB
English as she is spoke
dv said:
https://youtu.be/hXfeh0Rf5gI?si=YVnC9qpvWd8xx9dBEnglish as she is spoke
Yeah, saw that one earlier today. Quite amusing.
Michael V said:
JudgeMental said:
is assad dead?
Reports are that he has left by aeroplane to an unknown destination.
Russia?
Good morning Holidayers. Presently 7 degrees at the back door and overcast. We are forecast a partly cloudy 22 degrees.
Mr buffy has a scan appointment in Warrnambool mid morning, so it’s off we go again today.
buffy said:
Good morning Holidayers. Presently 7 degrees at the back door and overcast. We are forecast a partly cloudy 22 degrees.Mr buffy has a scan appointment in Warrnambool mid morning, so it’s off we go again today.
Hope all goes well.
Good morning everybody. I hope the day finds you health, happy and contented.
It’s 19.8° C, 99% RH, calm and mostly cloudy. There are a few spots of water on leaves outside so I suspect we may have had a tad of rain overnight, but I didn’t hear it. BoM forecasts a top of 30° C and a small chance of rain.
Agenda: Mrs V’s low kJ day so we take care of our own breakfasts and lunches. Dinner will be a tuna salad.
I have a list of job to do. Administrative work, almost entirely.
Michael V said:
Good morning everybody. I hope the day finds you health, happy and contented.It’s 19.8° C, 99% RH, calm and mostly cloudy. There are a few spots of water on leaves outside so I suspect we may have had a tad of rain overnight, but I didn’t hear it. BoM forecasts a top of 30° C and a small chance of rain.
Agenda: Mrs V’s low kJ day so we take care of our own breakfasts and lunches. Dinner will be a tuna salad.
I have a list of job to do. Administrative work, almost entirely.
Morning Michael et al. Heading for 21 here, a mild day.
Fasting resumes today so nothing to eat until gone midday.
I’ll be choosing images to print for Xmas cards.
roughbarked said:
Michael V said:
JudgeMental said:
is assad dead?
Reports are that he has left by aeroplane to an unknown destination.
Russia?
Wherever his money is.
https://7news.com.au/news/schapelle-corby-sadly-reveals-she-can-no-longer-make-resin-clocks-due-to-a-change-in-her-life-c-16999707
Quiet news day
This is a composite image. The interesting bit is that it shows Mercury’s sodium tail.
JudgeMental said:
This is a composite image. The interesting bit is that it shows Mercury’s sodium tail.
Love it
JudgeMental said:
This is a composite image. The interesting bit is that it shows Mercury’s sodium tail.
And if I’m not mistaken it shows Subaru.
dv said:
JudgeMental said:
This is a composite image. The interesting bit is that it shows Mercury’s sodium tail.
Love it
damn 爱 images
Peak Warming Man said:
JudgeMental said:
This is a composite image. The interesting bit is that it shows Mercury’s sodium tail.
And if I’m not mistaken it shows Subaru.
Get Woke
Postman has delivered a large letter from the AFL, addressed to this house but somebody else’s name.
dv: the eating thread you put up is not the correct one, it is a satire thread about food.
The correct one is “Wot I am eating”, thread number 17612.
Hello
Michael V said:
dv: the eating thread you put up is not the correct one, it is a satire thread about food.The correct one is “Wot I am eating”, thread number 17612.
Damn! I was hoping the mistake would run for longer!
I even lolololed at dv’s chat post…then posted the glitter gravy video to bump it.
Well, congratulations to mv.
Bubblecar said:
Postman has delivered a large letter from the AFL, addressed to this house but somebody else’s name.
Nudes calendar?
Michael V said:
dv: the eating thread you put up is not the correct one, it is a satire thread about food.The correct one is “Wot I am eating”, thread number 17612.
Sure, let me just check out some of the satire in the Wot am I eating? thread to confirm your claim.
From: Bubblecar
ID: 2215285
Subject: re: Wot am I eating?Dinner: Last of the turkey mince, cooked up with mushrooms, tomatoes, capsicum, onion, garlic, chilli etc and served with macaroni.
From: Peak Warming Man
ID: 2186074
Subject: re: Wot am I eating?Various left overs on toast and a drink that I slammed down fast.
From: sarahs mum
ID: 2206901
Subject: re: Wot am I eating?I had the common people over for pizzas. The pizza shop threw in a nutella calzone..
i have pizza leftovers.
Hilarious stuff! Too subtle for some, probably.
kii said:
Michael V said:
dv: the eating thread you put up is not the correct one, it is a satire thread about food.The correct one is “Wot I am eating”, thread number 17612.
Damn! I was hoping the mistake would run for longer!
I even lolololed at dv’s chat post…then posted the glitter gravy video to bump it.
Well, congratulations to mv.
:)
fsm said:
Ta. Saved in Nostalgia/Printed Material/Appliances/Telephones.
Bubblecar said:
fsm said:
Ta. Saved in Nostalgia/Printed Material/Appliances/Telephones.
I’m remembering the smell of those old phones.
dv said:
Bubblecar said:
fsm said:
Ta. Saved in Nostalgia/Printed Material/Appliances/Telephones.
I’m remembering the smell of those old phones.
It wasn’t unpleasant. Sort of office-like.
Bubblecar said:
dv said:
Bubblecar said:Ta. Saved in Nostalgia/Printed Material/Appliances/Telephones.
I’m remembering the smell of those old phones.
It wasn’t unpleasant. Sort of office-like.
Always struck me as odd that Douglas Adams picked on telephone sanitizers as part of the useless third of humanity.
dv said:
Bubblecar said:
dv said:I’m remembering the smell of those old phones.
It wasn’t unpleasant. Sort of office-like.
Always struck me as odd that Douglas Adams picked on telephone sanitizers as part of the useless third of humanity.
To be fair, he acknowledged that was a mistake.
Bubblecar said:
dv said:
Bubblecar said:It wasn’t unpleasant. Sort of office-like.
Always struck me as odd that Douglas Adams picked on telephone sanitizers as part of the useless third of humanity.
To be fair, he acknowledged that was a mistake.
Good
dv said:
Bubblecar said:
dv said:Always struck me as odd that Douglas Adams picked on telephone sanitizers as part of the useless third of humanity.
To be fair, he acknowledged that was a mistake.
Good
Well it was unfortunate really, as the remaining population of Earth was wiped by a virus spread by dirty telephones, if I remember rightly.
dv said:
Bubblecar said:
dv said:I’m remembering the smell of those old phones.
It wasn’t unpleasant. Sort of office-like.
Always struck me as odd that Douglas Adams picked on telephone sanitizers as part of the useless third of humanity.
Telephone sanitiser (unbranded – in a fluted brown bottle) was a product available from NSW Gov’t Stores Department, back in the 1970s – 80s.
Bubblecar said:
dv said:
Bubblecar said:To be fair, he acknowledged that was a mistake.
Good
Well it was unfortunate really, as the remaining population of Earth was wiped by a virus spread by dirty telephones, if I remember rightly.
wiped = wiped out
Bubblecar said:
dv said:
Bubblecar said:To be fair, he acknowledged that was a mistake.
Good
Well it was unfortunate really, as the remaining population of Earth was wiped by a virus spread by dirty telephones, if I remember rightly.
That’s what happened to the neanderthals.
Peak Warming Man said:
Bubblecar said:
dv said:Good
Well it was unfortunate really, as the remaining population of Earth was wiped by a virus spread by dirty telephones, if I remember rightly.
That’s what happened to the neanderthals.
Not many people know that.
A new Chinese police ball, that can chase criminals and throw a net at them.
https://x.com/i/status/1865841696409358769
I imagine having convenient stairs or a door that can be close will deter the ball somewhat.
Spiny Norman said:
A new Chinese police ball, that can chase criminals and throw a net at them.https://x.com/i/status/1865841696409358769
I imagine having convenient stairs or a door that can be close will deter the ball somewhat.
Not so secret policeman’s ball
Spiny Norman said:
Nice.
The loblolly pine I planted in the back yard of a place I lived in in Armidale now thoroughly stands out.
:)
dv said:
Spiny Norman said:
A new Chinese police ball, that can chase criminals and throw a net at them.https://x.com/i/status/1865841696409358769
I imagine having convenient stairs or a door that can be close will deter the ball somewhat.
Not so secret policeman’s ball
LOL
dv said:
Spiny Norman said:
A new Chinese police ball, that can chase criminals and throw a net at them.
https://x.com/i/status/1865841696409358769
I imagine having convenient stairs or a door that can be close will deter the ball somewhat.
Not so secret policeman’s ball
SCIENCE said:
dv said:
Spiny Norman said:
A new Chinese police ball, that can chase criminals and throw a net at them.
https://x.com/i/status/1865841696409358769
I imagine having convenient stairs or a door that can be close will deter the ball somewhat.
Not so secret policeman’s ball
Master “Destroyers !”
so you missed me, perfectly understandable
transition said:
so you missed me, perfectly understandable
hard target
fsm said:
I was in a museum yesterday and had a moment when I saw this… I remember operating the one we had in the hotel (obviously when I was very young)
Arts said:
fsm said:
I was in a museum yesterday and had a moment when I saw this… I remember operating the one we had in the hotel (obviously when I was very young)
When I worked at Walgett, the town had a manual phone exchange. It was kind of one of those wonderful “last of” experiences. My work phone number was Walgett 408. The Police Station was Walgett 44. In fact right through NSW, the Police Station phone number was 44. This was often included in the number after the exchange automated.
In a year when we thought we’d seen and heard everything during this #VileKyle campaign, witches, this new development is so horrific we don’t even truly know how to post on it.
Because this appears to be a collaboration or at least some kind of back-slapping support going on between companies run by two of the worst people in the world: Rupert Murdoch and Kyle Sandilands.
And yes, we did hesitate to discuss this today, but in view of the fact millions would have already seen the article below on page 12 of The Herald-Sun newspaper this past Saturday, our raising it here now will have no further impact compared to the damage already done.
This is a piece discussing a woman who was tragically killed just a couple of weeks ago in a terrible accident in Victoria. And in the piece, NewsCorp are now deliberately using her death to claim the withdrawal of Coles last week from advertising on Kyle and Jackie’s show was a lie on MFW’s part since (according to the writer of the piece) Coles withdrew from advertising at this woman’s directive long ago.
Well, no, they did not. Coles were heard advertising from the first week we listened to the K & J show back on May 3rd this year, and have been heard multiple times nearly every week since (up till this morning, when they were missing as they said they would be in an email to us last week). They thus had multiple ads played almost every week during the 31 weeks which have elapsed since we first started listening to the show.
Since Lisa left her job as CMO for Coles to work at Medibank sometime in 2023 (according to our internet searches), she couldn’t possibly have had an impact on stopping Coles from advertising on the K & J show. She wasn’t even with the company when our campaign began, and since Coles have been relentlessly advertising till last week, she couldn’t have impacted their ad spend with KiiSFM.
Yet this disgraceful rag has seen fit to use the name and image of a woman killed just a few weeks ago (and who thus can’t shed any light herself on the issue) to try to denigrate our MFW campaign.
This is just … there really are no words for how bad this is.
Yet this is the depths these media people will stoop to in order to claim we are making untrue claims about a withdrawing advertiser. This is how low they will go to protect each other and continue to do untold harm to women.
The bigger point is: why is Murdoch sticking up for Kyle in this way? Why would a newspaper print such an outrageous and ridiculous lie? And just how low are they prepared to go to damage our campaign and keep their misogyny and hatred of women spewing forth every day?
It’s too much. They’ve gone too far. And we’ve no choice today but to name this and deplore the depths they’ll stoop to in their rabid need to control and demean others.
We’re so horribly sorry for Lisa’s family and friends to have her name used in this way to make some kind of point about MFW. We can’t even believe this has happened. It just beggars belief. And it will further beggar belief if no other media call out this unconscionable and sick behaviour in their own industry.
We can’t stop what we’re doing. We know there are people such as decent employees at KiiSFM/ARN and associated companies and people like Lisa’s family now caught up in the crossfire, but we must continue to try to stop the outrageous harm being done in this country by a media cohort who’ve gone mad with hate.
#ToYourBrooms
sarahs mum said:
In a year when we thought we’d seen and heard everything during this #VileKyle campaign, witches, this new development is so horrific we don’t even truly know how to post on it.
Because this appears to be a collaboration or at least some kind of back-slapping support going on between companies run by two of the worst people in the world: Rupert Murdoch and Kyle Sandilands.
And yes, we did hesitate to discuss this today, but in view of the fact millions would have already seen the article below on page 12 of The Herald-Sun newspaper this past Saturday, our raising it here now will have no further impact compared to the damage already done.
This is a piece discussing a woman who was tragically killed just a couple of weeks ago in a terrible accident in Victoria. And in the piece, NewsCorp are now deliberately using her death to claim the withdrawal of Coles last week from advertising on Kyle and Jackie’s show was a lie on MFW’s part since (according to the writer of the piece) Coles withdrew from advertising at this woman’s directive long ago.
Well, no, they did not. Coles were heard advertising from the first week we listened to the K & J show back on May 3rd this year, and have been heard multiple times nearly every week since (up till this morning, when they were missing as they said they would be in an email to us last week). They thus had multiple ads played almost every week during the 31 weeks which have elapsed since we first started listening to the show.
Since Lisa left her job as CMO for Coles to work at Medibank sometime in 2023 (according to our internet searches), she couldn’t possibly have had an impact on stopping Coles from advertising on the K & J show. She wasn’t even with the company when our campaign began, and since Coles have been relentlessly advertising till last week, she couldn’t have impacted their ad spend with KiiSFM.
Yet this disgraceful rag has seen fit to use the name and image of a woman killed just a few weeks ago (and who thus can’t shed any light herself on the issue) to try to denigrate our MFW campaign.
This is just … there really are no words for how bad this is.
Yet this is the depths these media people will stoop to in order to claim we are making untrue claims about a withdrawing advertiser. This is how low they will go to protect each other and continue to do untold harm to women.
The bigger point is: why is Murdoch sticking up for Kyle in this way? Why would a newspaper print such an outrageous and ridiculous lie? And just how low are they prepared to go to damage our campaign and keep their misogyny and hatred of women spewing forth every day?
It’s too much. They’ve gone too far. And we’ve no choice today but to name this and deplore the depths they’ll stoop to in their rabid need to control and demean others.
We’re so horribly sorry for Lisa’s family and friends to have her name used in this way to make some kind of point about MFW. We can’t even believe this has happened. It just beggars belief. And it will further beggar belief if no other media call out this unconscionable and sick behaviour in their own industry.
We can’t stop what we’re doing. We know there are people such as decent employees at KiiSFM/ARN and associated companies and people like Lisa’s family now caught up in the crossfire, but we must continue to try to stop the outrageous harm being done in this country by a media cohort who’ve gone mad with hate. #ToYourBrooms
Media Watch (ABC) needs to be informed. Somehow they occasionally bring other media to their knees.
sarahs mum said:
In a year when we thought we’d seen and heard everything during this #VileKyle campaign, witches, this new development is so horrific we don’t even truly know how to post on it.
Because this appears to be a collaboration or at least some kind of back-slapping support going on between companies run by two of the worst people in the world: Rupert Murdoch and Kyle Sandilands.
And yes, we did hesitate to discuss this today, but in view of the fact millions would have already seen the article below on page 12 of The Herald-Sun newspaper this past Saturday, our raising it here now will have no further impact compared to the damage already done.
This is a piece discussing a woman who was tragically killed just a couple of weeks ago in a terrible accident in Victoria. And in the piece, NewsCorp are now deliberately using her death to claim the withdrawal of Coles last week from advertising on Kyle and Jackie’s show was a lie on MFW’s part since (according to the writer of the piece) Coles withdrew from advertising at this woman’s directive long ago.
Well, no, they did not. Coles were heard advertising from the first week we listened to the K & J show back on May 3rd this year, and have been heard multiple times nearly every week since (up till this morning, when they were missing as they said they would be in an email to us last week). They thus had multiple ads played almost every week during the 31 weeks which have elapsed since we first started listening to the show.
Since Lisa left her job as CMO for Coles to work at Medibank sometime in 2023 (according to our internet searches), she couldn’t possibly have had an impact on stopping Coles from advertising on the K & J show. She wasn’t even with the company when our campaign began, and since Coles have been relentlessly advertising till last week, she couldn’t have impacted their ad spend with KiiSFM.
Yet this disgraceful rag has seen fit to use the name and image of a woman killed just a few weeks ago (and who thus can’t shed any light herself on the issue) to try to denigrate our MFW campaign.
This is just … there really are no words for how bad this is.
Yet this is the depths these media people will stoop to in order to claim we are making untrue claims about a withdrawing advertiser. This is how low they will go to protect each other and continue to do untold harm to women.
The bigger point is: why is Murdoch sticking up for Kyle in this way? Why would a newspaper print such an outrageous and ridiculous lie? And just how low are they prepared to go to damage our campaign and keep their misogyny and hatred of women spewing forth every day?
It’s too much. They’ve gone too far. And we’ve no choice today but to name this and deplore the depths they’ll stoop to in their rabid need to control and demean others.
We’re so horribly sorry for Lisa’s family and friends to have her name used in this way to make some kind of point about MFW. We can’t even believe this has happened. It just beggars belief. And it will further beggar belief if no other media call out this unconscionable and sick behaviour in their own industry.
We can’t stop what we’re doing. We know there are people such as decent employees at KiiSFM/ARN and associated companies and people like Lisa’s family now caught up in the crossfire, but we must continue to try to stop the outrageous harm being done in this country by a media cohort who’ve gone mad with hate. #ToYourBrooms
The hatred of women is unbelievable. Sickening and exhausting. All the women who don’t push back against it disgust me. Especially as they enjoy the benefits that other women have literally fought for.
sarahs mum said:
In a year when we thought we’d seen and heard everything during this #VileKyle campaign, witches, this new development is so horrific we don’t even truly know how to post on it.
Because this appears to be a collaboration or at least some kind of back-slapping support going on between companies run by two of the worst people in the world: Rupert Murdoch and Kyle Sandilands.
And yes, we did hesitate to discuss this today, but in view of the fact millions would have already seen the article below on page 12 of The Herald-Sun newspaper this past Saturday, our raising it here now will have no further impact compared to the damage already done.
This is a piece discussing a woman who was tragically killed just a couple of weeks ago in a terrible accident in Victoria. And in the piece, NewsCorp are now deliberately using her death to claim the withdrawal of Coles last week from advertising on Kyle and Jackie’s show was a lie on MFW’s part since (according to the writer of the piece) Coles withdrew from advertising at this woman’s directive long ago.
Well, no, they did not. Coles were heard advertising from the first week we listened to the K & J show back on May 3rd this year, and have been heard multiple times nearly every week since (up till this morning, when they were missing as they said they would be in an email to us last week). They thus had multiple ads played almost every week during the 31 weeks which have elapsed since we first started listening to the show.
Since Lisa left her job as CMO for Coles to work at Medibank sometime in 2023 (according to our internet searches), she couldn’t possibly have had an impact on stopping Coles from advertising on the K & J show. She wasn’t even with the company when our campaign began, and since Coles have been relentlessly advertising till last week, she couldn’t have impacted their ad spend with KiiSFM.
Yet this disgraceful rag has seen fit to use the name and image of a woman killed just a few weeks ago (and who thus can’t shed any light herself on the issue) to try to denigrate our MFW campaign.
This is just … there really are no words for how bad this is.
Yet this is the depths these media people will stoop to in order to claim we are making untrue claims about a withdrawing advertiser. This is how low they will go to protect each other and continue to do untold harm to women.
The bigger point is: why is Murdoch sticking up for Kyle in this way? Why would a newspaper print such an outrageous and ridiculous lie? And just how low are they prepared to go to damage our campaign and keep their misogyny and hatred of women spewing forth every day?
It’s too much. They’ve gone too far. And we’ve no choice today but to name this and deplore the depths they’ll stoop to in their rabid need to control and demean others.
We’re so horribly sorry for Lisa’s family and friends to have her name used in this way to make some kind of point about MFW. We can’t even believe this has happened. It just beggars belief. And it will further beggar belief if no other media call out this unconscionable and sick behaviour in their own industry.
We can’t stop what we’re doing. We know there are people such as decent employees at KiiSFM/ARN and associated companies and people like Lisa’s family now caught up in the crossfire, but we must continue to try to stop the outrageous harm being done in this country by a media cohort who’ve gone mad with hate. #ToYourBrooms
The icing on the cake is the wealth Sandilands makes from being himself, ugh
kii said:
sarahs mum said:
In a year when we thought we’d seen and heard everything during this #VileKyle campaign, witches, this new development is so horrific we don’t even truly know how to post on it.
Because this appears to be a collaboration or at least some kind of back-slapping support going on between companies run by two of the worst people in the world: Rupert Murdoch and Kyle Sandilands.
And yes, we did hesitate to discuss this today, but in view of the fact millions would have already seen the article below on page 12 of The Herald-Sun newspaper this past Saturday, our raising it here now will have no further impact compared to the damage already done.
This is a piece discussing a woman who was tragically killed just a couple of weeks ago in a terrible accident in Victoria. And in the piece, NewsCorp are now deliberately using her death to claim the withdrawal of Coles last week from advertising on Kyle and Jackie’s show was a lie on MFW’s part since (according to the writer of the piece) Coles withdrew from advertising at this woman’s directive long ago.
Well, no, they did not. Coles were heard advertising from the first week we listened to the K & J show back on May 3rd this year, and have been heard multiple times nearly every week since (up till this morning, when they were missing as they said they would be in an email to us last week). They thus had multiple ads played almost every week during the 31 weeks which have elapsed since we first started listening to the show.
Since Lisa left her job as CMO for Coles to work at Medibank sometime in 2023 (according to our internet searches), she couldn’t possibly have had an impact on stopping Coles from advertising on the K & J show. She wasn’t even with the company when our campaign began, and since Coles have been relentlessly advertising till last week, she couldn’t have impacted their ad spend with KiiSFM.
Yet this disgraceful rag has seen fit to use the name and image of a woman killed just a few weeks ago (and who thus can’t shed any light herself on the issue) to try to denigrate our MFW campaign.
This is just … there really are no words for how bad this is.
Yet this is the depths these media people will stoop to in order to claim we are making untrue claims about a withdrawing advertiser. This is how low they will go to protect each other and continue to do untold harm to women.
The bigger point is: why is Murdoch sticking up for Kyle in this way? Why would a newspaper print such an outrageous and ridiculous lie? And just how low are they prepared to go to damage our campaign and keep their misogyny and hatred of women spewing forth every day?
It’s too much. They’ve gone too far. And we’ve no choice today but to name this and deplore the depths they’ll stoop to in their rabid need to control and demean others.
We’re so horribly sorry for Lisa’s family and friends to have her name used in this way to make some kind of point about MFW. We can’t even believe this has happened. It just beggars belief. And it will further beggar belief if no other media call out this unconscionable and sick behaviour in their own industry.
We can’t stop what we’re doing. We know there are people such as decent employees at KiiSFM/ARN and associated companies and people like Lisa’s family now caught up in the crossfire, but we must continue to try to stop the outrageous harm being done in this country by a media cohort who’ve gone mad with hate. #ToYourBrooms
The hatred of women is unbelievable. Sickening and exhausting. All the women who don’t push back against it disgust me. Especially as they enjoy the benefits that other women have literally fought for.
and we’re losing ground.
sarahs mum said:
kii said:
sarahs mum said:
In a year when we thought we’d seen and heard everything during this #VileKyle campaign, witches, this new development is so horrific we don’t even truly know how to post on it.
Because this appears to be a collaboration or at least some kind of back-slapping support going on between companies run by two of the worst people in the world: Rupert Murdoch and Kyle Sandilands.
And yes, we did hesitate to discuss this today, but in view of the fact millions would have already seen the article below on page 12 of The Herald-Sun newspaper this past Saturday, our raising it here now will have no further impact compared to the damage already done.
This is a piece discussing a woman who was tragically killed just a couple of weeks ago in a terrible accident in Victoria. And in the piece, NewsCorp are now deliberately using her death to claim the withdrawal of Coles last week from advertising on Kyle and Jackie’s show was a lie on MFW’s part since (according to the writer of the piece) Coles withdrew from advertising at this woman’s directive long ago.
Well, no, they did not. Coles were heard advertising from the first week we listened to the K & J show back on May 3rd this year, and have been heard multiple times nearly every week since (up till this morning, when they were missing as they said they would be in an email to us last week). They thus had multiple ads played almost every week during the 31 weeks which have elapsed since we first started listening to the show.
Since Lisa left her job as CMO for Coles to work at Medibank sometime in 2023 (according to our internet searches), she couldn’t possibly have had an impact on stopping Coles from advertising on the K & J show. She wasn’t even with the company when our campaign began, and since Coles have been relentlessly advertising till last week, she couldn’t have impacted their ad spend with KiiSFM.
Yet this disgraceful rag has seen fit to use the name and image of a woman killed just a few weeks ago (and who thus can’t shed any light herself on the issue) to try to denigrate our MFW campaign.
This is just … there really are no words for how bad this is.
Yet this is the depths these media people will stoop to in order to claim we are making untrue claims about a withdrawing advertiser. This is how low they will go to protect each other and continue to do untold harm to women.
The bigger point is: why is Murdoch sticking up for Kyle in this way? Why would a newspaper print such an outrageous and ridiculous lie? And just how low are they prepared to go to damage our campaign and keep their misogyny and hatred of women spewing forth every day?
It’s too much. They’ve gone too far. And we’ve no choice today but to name this and deplore the depths they’ll stoop to in their rabid need to control and demean others.
We’re so horribly sorry for Lisa’s family and friends to have her name used in this way to make some kind of point about MFW. We can’t even believe this has happened. It just beggars belief. And it will further beggar belief if no other media call out this unconscionable and sick behaviour in their own industry.
We can’t stop what we’re doing. We know there are people such as decent employees at KiiSFM/ARN and associated companies and people like Lisa’s family now caught up in the crossfire, but we must continue to try to stop the outrageous harm being done in this country by a media cohort who’ve gone mad with hate. #ToYourBrooms
The hatred of women is unbelievable. Sickening and exhausting. All the women who don’t push back against it disgust me. Especially as they enjoy the benefits that other women have literally fought for.
and we’re losing ground.
People are strange about equality
They seem to think it should also include equal rights to continue repressing people.
“what about my rights to continue something that was never quite decent”
Cymek said:
sarahs mum said:
kii said:The hatred of women is unbelievable. Sickening and exhausting. All the women who don’t push back against it disgust me. Especially as they enjoy the benefits that other women have literally fought for.
and we’re losing ground.
People are strange about equality
They seem to think it should also include equal rights to continue repressing people.
“what about my rights to continue something that was never quite decent”
1:59 / 3:28
“Men Can Say No” – Marsh Family parody of “I’m Just a Girl Who Cain’t Say No” from Oklahoma!
I’m surprised this isn’t a resounding “NO!”.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-09/bogie-triple-murder-accused-darryl-young-applies-for-bail/104700904
sarahs mum said:
kii said:
sarahs mum said:
In a year when we thought we’d seen and heard everything during this #VileKyle campaign, witches, this new development is so horrific we don’t even truly know how to post on it.
Because this appears to be a collaboration or at least some kind of back-slapping support going on between companies run by two of the worst people in the world: Rupert Murdoch and Kyle Sandilands.
And yes, we did hesitate to discuss this today, but in view of the fact millions would have already seen the article below on page 12 of The Herald-Sun newspaper this past Saturday, our raising it here now will have no further impact compared to the damage already done.
This is a piece discussing a woman who was tragically killed just a couple of weeks ago in a terrible accident in Victoria. And in the piece, NewsCorp are now deliberately using her death to claim the withdrawal of Coles last week from advertising on Kyle and Jackie’s show was a lie on MFW’s part since (according to the writer of the piece) Coles withdrew from advertising at this woman’s directive long ago.
Well, no, they did not. Coles were heard advertising from the first week we listened to the K & J show back on May 3rd this year, and have been heard multiple times nearly every week since (up till this morning, when they were missing as they said they would be in an email to us last week). They thus had multiple ads played almost every week during the 31 weeks which have elapsed since we first started listening to the show.
Since Lisa left her job as CMO for Coles to work at Medibank sometime in 2023 (according to our internet searches), she couldn’t possibly have had an impact on stopping Coles from advertising on the K & J show. She wasn’t even with the company when our campaign began, and since Coles have been relentlessly advertising till last week, she couldn’t have impacted their ad spend with KiiSFM.
Yet this disgraceful rag has seen fit to use the name and image of a woman killed just a few weeks ago (and who thus can’t shed any light herself on the issue) to try to denigrate our MFW campaign.
This is just … there really are no words for how bad this is.
Yet this is the depths these media people will stoop to in order to claim we are making untrue claims about a withdrawing advertiser. This is how low they will go to protect each other and continue to do untold harm to women.
The bigger point is: why is Murdoch sticking up for Kyle in this way? Why would a newspaper print such an outrageous and ridiculous lie? And just how low are they prepared to go to damage our campaign and keep their misogyny and hatred of women spewing forth every day?
It’s too much. They’ve gone too far. And we’ve no choice today but to name this and deplore the depths they’ll stoop to in their rabid need to control and demean others.
We’re so horribly sorry for Lisa’s family and friends to have her name used in this way to make some kind of point about MFW. We can’t even believe this has happened. It just beggars belief. And it will further beggar belief if no other media call out this unconscionable and sick behaviour in their own industry.
We can’t stop what we’re doing. We know there are people such as decent employees at KiiSFM/ARN and associated companies and people like Lisa’s family now caught up in the crossfire, but we must continue to try to stop the outrageous harm being done in this country by a media cohort who’ve gone mad with hate. #ToYourBrooms
The hatred of women is unbelievable. Sickening and exhausting. All the women who don’t push back against it disgust me. Especially as they enjoy the benefits that other women have literally fought for.
and we’re losing ground.
we’re concerned that that number 1 podcast is a fascism enabler if not outright
Michael V said:
I’m surprised this isn’t a resounding “NO!”.https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-09/bogie-triple-murder-accused-darryl-young-applies-for-bail/104700904
He is within his rights to apply for bail.
Spiny Norman said:
Shopped.
Arts said:
Michael V said:
I’m surprised this isn’t a resounding “NO!”.https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-09/bogie-triple-murder-accused-darryl-young-applies-for-bail/104700904
He is within his rights to apply for bail.
Sure. I don’t dispute that in any way.
I’m surprised that bail wasn’t refused. Instead, it’s “I’ll get more info and get back to you in a month”.
roughbarked said:
Spiny Norman said:
Shopped.
It’s a pretty typical macro shot. The image has been turned upside down.
Arts said:
Michael V said:
I’m surprised this isn’t a resounding “NO!”.https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-09/bogie-triple-murder-accused-darryl-young-applies-for-bail/104700904
He is within his rights to apply for bail.
The part about electronic monitoring not working throughout the property is something likely to occur.
If nothing else lose of signal could put him into alert and the police come out to check on him.
It seems to be an option to relieve pressure on the jails for remanded prisoners who are waiting trial/sentencing.
35 deg C …
dv said:
35 deg C …
Madness.
About 18 here atm.
Michael V said:
Arts said:
Michael V said:
I’m surprised this isn’t a resounding “NO!”.https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-09/bogie-triple-murder-accused-darryl-young-applies-for-bail/104700904
He is within his rights to apply for bail.
Sure. I don’t dispute that in any way.
I’m surprised that bail wasn’t refused. Instead, it’s “I’ll get more info and get back to you in a month”.
the qld prison system is struggling.. the application for bail is standard for almost all offences/offenders. it allows offenders to be monitored, while keeping them out of the system.
being in prison on remand creates a whole host of issues and problems.. the individual in this case has not been found guilty yet… his age, his criminal history (or lack thereof) all go toward determining a bail application. the fact that the judge has decided to give the accused time to find suitable accomodation to be on bail is a wise decision.
This dog seems to spend a lot of his urine on loose leaves and bits of bark. I’m not trying to humansplain to him but those are not very permanent territorial markers.
dv said:
35 deg C …
Too much Entropy.
dv said:
This dog seems to spend a lot of his urine on loose leaves and bits of bark. I’m not trying to humansplain to him but those are not very permanent territorial markers.
Maybe he understands that as a guest he’s “just passing through”, so deliberately chooses more transient spots.
Arts said:
Michael V said:
Arts said:He is within his rights to apply for bail.
Sure. I don’t dispute that in any way.
I’m surprised that bail wasn’t refused. Instead, it’s “I’ll get more info and get back to you in a month”.
the qld prison system is struggling.. the application for bail is standard for almost all offences/offenders. it allows offenders to be monitored, while keeping them out of the system.
being in prison on remand creates a whole host of issues and problems.. the individual in this case has not been found guilty yet… his age, his criminal history (or lack thereof) all go toward determining a bail application. the fact that the judge has decided to give the accused time to find suitable accomodation to be on bail is a wise decision.
None of that stops me being surprised.
dv said:
This dog seems to spend a lot of his urine on loose leaves and bits of bark. I’m not trying to humansplain to him but those are not very permanent territorial markers.
Maybe the dog knows that the wind will blow those loose bits around so it’s a good way to spread his message.
Arts said:
roughbarked said:
Spiny Norman said:
Shopped.
It’s a pretty typical macro shot. The image has been turned upside down.
That’s all I meant. I’ve taken a lot of those and they naturally hang with the reflection upside down.
dv said:
This dog seems to spend a lot of his urine on loose leaves and bits of bark. I’m not trying to humansplain to him but those are not very permanent territorial markers.
Dog looks at owner and says, you don’t know how strong my piss smells.
roughbarked said:
Arts said:
roughbarked said:Shopped.
It’s a pretty typical macro shot. The image has been turned upside down.
That’s all I meant. I’ve taken a lot of those and they naturally hang with the reflection upside down.
On the other hand, if this shot was taken in the vicinity of the North Atlantic then it still has the same orientation.
dv said:
roughbarked said:
Arts said:It’s a pretty typical macro shot. The image has been turned upside down.
That’s all I meant. I’ve taken a lot of those and they naturally hang with the reflection upside down.
On the other hand, if this shot was taken in the vicinity of the North Atlantic then it still has the same orientation.
Slaps forehead, now why didn’t I think of that? Still shopped.
roughbarked said:
dv said:
roughbarked said:That’s all I meant. I’ve taken a lot of those and they naturally hang with the reflection upside down.
On the other hand, if this shot was taken in the vicinity of the North Atlantic then it still has the same orientation.
Slaps forehead, now why didn’t I think of that? Still shopped.
I dont agree that turning an image upside down = ‘shopped’. but the whole photography world doesn’t agree on what is enhancement, shopped, and photo art.. so everything’s ok.
Arts said:
roughbarked said:
dv said:On the other hand, if this shot was taken in the vicinity of the North Atlantic then it still has the same orientation.
Slaps forehead, now why didn’t I think of that? Still shopped.
I dont agree that turning an image upside down = ‘shopped’. but the whole photography world doesn’t agree on what is enhancement, shopped, and photo art.. so everything’s ok.
Yes. We all have software that can rotate the image.
roughbarked said:
Arts said:
roughbarked said:Slaps forehead, now why didn’t I think of that? Still shopped.
I dont agree that turning an image upside down = ‘shopped’. but the whole photography world doesn’t agree on what is enhancement, shopped, and photo art.. so everything’s ok.
Yes. We all have software that can rotate the image.
Is looking at photos drunk considered shopping them.
That 4 is now a 9
Cymek said:
roughbarked said:
Arts said:I dont agree that turning an image upside down = ‘shopped’. but the whole photography world doesn’t agree on what is enhancement, shopped, and photo art.. so everything’s ok.
Yes. We all have software that can rotate the image.
Is looking at photos drunk considered shopping them.
That 4 is now a 9
But when you wake up, it is still a 4.
Bubblecar said:
dv said:
35 deg C …
Madness.
About 18 here atm.
Small modular nuclear reactors in 20 years will fix this.
Arts said:
roughbarked said:
dv said:On the other hand, if this shot was taken in the vicinity of the North Atlantic then it still has the same orientation.
Slaps forehead, now why didn’t I think of that? Still shopped.
I dont agree that turning an image upside down = ‘shopped’. but the whole photography world doesn’t agree on what is enhancement, shopped, and photo art.. so everything’s ok.
maybe they didn’t do any of that at all and just turned the camera upside down
roughbarked said:
Cymek said:
roughbarked said:Yes. We all have software that can rotate the image.
Is looking at photos drunk considered shopping them.
That 4 is now a 9
But when you wake up, it is still a 4.
except in this case if it became a 9 it would have previously been a 6 think about it
SCIENCE said:
roughbarked said:
Cymek said:Is looking at photos drunk considered shopping them.
That 4 is now a 9
But when you wake up, it is still a 4.
except in this case if it became a 9 it would have previously been a 6 think about it
True I apologise for not thinking it all the way through.
Arts said:
roughbarked said:
dv said:On the other hand, if this shot was taken in the vicinity of the North Atlantic then it still has the same orientation.
Slaps forehead, now why didn’t I think of that? Still shopped.
I dont agree that turning an image upside down = ‘shopped’. but the whole photography world doesn’t agree on what is enhancement, shopped, and photo art.. so everything’s ok.
The photo world has been dithering for ages on that topic.
JudgeMental said:
Arts said:
roughbarked said:
Slaps forehead, now why didn’t I think of that? Still shopped.
I dont agree that turning an image upside down = ‘shopped’. but the whole photography world doesn’t agree on what is enhancement, shopped, and photo art.. so everything’s ok.
The photo world has been dithering for ages on that topic.
since when did being out of their depth stop anyone from commenting
dv said:
This dog seems to spend a lot of his urine on loose leaves and bits of bark. I’m not trying to humansplain to him but those are not very permanent territorial markers.
But they move. So he covers a lot more ground with his scent.
:)
Arts said:
roughbarked said:
dv said:On the other hand, if this shot was taken in the vicinity of the North Atlantic then it still has the same orientation.
Slaps forehead, now why didn’t I think of that? Still shopped.
I dont agree that turning an image upside down = ‘shopped’. but the whole photography world doesn’t agree on what is enhancement, shopped, and photo art.. so everything’s ok.
I rotate my photos of wildflowers to find the best orientation to allow identification. Sometimes I have to photograph with the camera upside down to get a photo, so I have to rotate to make the thing look like it does in the reference photos.
Anyway, now I’ve caught up with you lot I’m going to serve up the loganberry tart and go and watch another episode of Baeckstroem. (One day I’ll bother remembering how to put an umlaut on a vowel)
Bäckström
SCIENCE said:
JudgeMental said:
Arts said:
I dont agree that turning an image upside down = ‘shopped’. but the whole photography world doesn’t agree on what is enhancement, shopped, and photo art.. so everything’s ok.
The photo world has been dithering for ages on that topic.
since when did being out of their depth stop anyone from commenting
When their head went under.
buffy said:
Arts said:
roughbarked said:Slaps forehead, now why didn’t I think of that? Still shopped.
I dont agree that turning an image upside down = ‘shopped’. but the whole photography world doesn’t agree on what is enhancement, shopped, and photo art.. so everything’s ok.
I rotate my photos of wildflowers to find the best orientation to allow identification. Sometimes I have to photograph with the camera upside down to get a photo, so I have to rotate to make the thing look like it does in the reference photos.
Yes. I do too.
transition said:
The power and the passion.
dv said:
This dog seems to spend a lot of his urine on loose leaves and bits of bark. I’m not trying to humansplain to him but those are not very permanent territorial markers.
Bubblecar said:
Maybe he understands that as a guest he’s “just passing through”, so deliberately chooses more transient spots.
buffy said:
But they move. So he covers a lot more ground with his scent.
:)
These are both solid ideas.
transition said:
Flower from the tenth dimension.
More passion flowers.
Bubblecar said:
More passion flowers.
there is a glitch in the matrix. both FB and YT plus other sites are unobtainable. to varying degrees.
JudgeMental said:
there is a glitch in the matrix. both FB and YT plus other sites are unobtainable. to varying degrees.
well grow up, yous already know it’s banned for juveniles
Bubblecar said:
More passion flowers.
JudgeMental said:
there is a glitch in the matrix. both FB and YT plus other sites are unobtainable. to varying degrees.
Both seem to be working for me.
Witty Rejoinder said:
JudgeMental said:
there is a glitch in the matrix. both FB and YT plus other sites are unobtainable. to varying degrees.
Both seem to be working for me.
all a o k here now.
Peak Warming Man said:
Bubblecar said:
More passion flowers.
Passion fruit flowers are pretty.
I also like. And they are pretty specky.
Witty Rejoinder said:
JudgeMental said:
there is a glitch in the matrix. both FB and YT plus other sites are unobtainable. to varying degrees.
Both seem to be working for me.
also.
Peak Warming Man said:
Bubblecar said:
More passion flowers.
Passion fruit flowers are pretty.
The lemon tree flowers are also pretty…
JudgeMental said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Bubblecar said:
More passion flowers.
Passion fruit flowers are pretty.The lemon tree flowers are also pretty…
and sweet.
LOL Yanks
Rod Reece
Having worked for five different countries/Embassies I’ve learned they all must agree on a common language for formal documents.
So, one must pick which version of English that is to be used.
In every case, Laos, Thai, Cambodian, Vietnamese and French AMERICAN ENGLISH is the predominant and agreed upon version of English that has been chosen.
I completely understand if the British don’t like it, I’ve seen their reaction first hand, but due to the U.S. having the overwhelming greatest GDP and global influence that’s simply the way business is conducted in most of the world.
Was going back through trying to find something when I came across the old December chatastrophe.
dv said:
Was going back through trying to find something when I came across the old December chatastrophe.
geez some people are real nongs.
A few years ago I watched a series of short youtube videos on evolution. Now I can’t find them in my youtube history. I thoughts I’d posted some of them here but I can’t find those posts either. Oh well.
dv said:
A few years ago I watched a series of short youtube videos on evolution. Now I can’t find them in my youtube history. I thoughts I’d posted some of them here but I can’t find those posts either. Oh well.
dv said:
Was going back through trying to find something when I came across the old December chatastrophe.
Weirdness.
Good morning Holidayers. Presently 7 degrees at the back door and the sky is lightly overcast. We are forecast a cloudy 21 degrees today.
Bakery Breakfast with Hamilton friend this morning. I will probably get some maar-ing done later. Friends of Yatmerone meeting tonight.
Morning. 12 degrees here, 93% r/h and zero wind. dead calm.
Early weeding and stuff like finding a place to put all the capsicum plants and tomatoes etc.
I’ll leave thesr here in case anybody has better ideas. I think they may be wood ducks? Hard to tell but they are plentiful.
roughbarked said:
I’ll leave thesr here in case anybody has better ideas. I think they may be wood ducks? Hard to tell but they are plentiful.
It can be seen how the sky is full of them.
Morning pilgrims.
Rainy old day at the redoubt, been raining most of the night.
Hope the road out is not flooded.
Peak Warming Man said:
Morning pilgrims.
Rainy old day at the redoubt, been raining most of the night.
Hope the road out is not flooded.
Only one way to fond out.
Morning monkeys. Had a lovely mixed bag of vivid dreams but I won’t burden you with the details.
Heading for 21 today with medium chance of showers. Should be a nice creative day but I may go and post my Xmas cards later, if they’re ready on time.
Dinner this evening will be another uncommon soup – creamy zucchini, using this recipe of Nagi’s, but with not so many zucchinis.
I like this line from her intro to this recipe:
“There I am going on and on about how healthy this soup is, then I show you a photo of me dunking a butter slathered piece of toast into the soup with my little Chipolata-Sausage-like-fingers.”
https://www.recipetineats.com/creamy-zucchini-soup/
who you calling us monkeys?
Anyway, Iike dunking butter slathered toast in my healthy soups too.
MFW
11 minutes ago ·
We’re thrilled to bits to announce today that Rupert Murdoch appears to have FAILED in his court attempt to hand his entire disgusting company over to his eldest son Lachlan after his death.
If you’re not up with this story, this matters because if Murdoch had won this case it would’ve enabled Lachlan to continue spouting the fascist lies they’ve spread internationally into future decades after his father departs the planet.
So the failure means the Murdoch Family Trust still stands, and after Rupert’s death control will be shared equally between all four of his children: three of whom (Elizabeth, Prudence and James) are now decidedly progressive or at least, way less horrific than their father and their eldest brother.
Unless this decision hits further legal snags or a successful appeal, this is the best news the countries Murdoch operates in have had about him for decades.
Now, we keep working to reform the media but also, we wait.
Because nobody lives forever.
So why not just piss off forever now, you degenerate fucking old bastard.
#MurdochFreeWorld
#NewsCorpse
sarahs mum said:
MFW
11 minutes ago ·
We’re thrilled to bits to announce today that Rupert Murdoch appears to have FAILED in his court attempt to hand his entire disgusting company over to his eldest son Lachlan after his death.
If you’re not up with this story, this matters because if Murdoch had won this case it would’ve enabled Lachlan to continue spouting the fascist lies they’ve spread internationally into future decades after his father departs the planet.
So the failure means the Murdoch Family Trust still stands, and after Rupert’s death control will be shared equally between all four of his children: three of whom (Elizabeth, Prudence and James) are now decidedly progressive or at least, way less horrific than their father and their eldest brother.
Unless this decision hits further legal snags or a successful appeal, this is the best news the countries Murdoch operates in have had about him for decades.
Now, we keep working to reform the media but also, we wait.
Because nobody lives forever.
So why not just piss off forever now, you degenerate fucking old bastard. #MurdochFreeWorld #NewsCorpse
We all eagerly await the start of the The Murdoch Family Combined Circus And Demolition Derby.
sarahs mum said:
MFW
11 minutes ago ·
We’re thrilled to bits to announce today that Rupert Murdoch appears to have FAILED in his court attempt to hand his entire disgusting company over to his eldest son Lachlan after his death.
If you’re not up with this story, this matters because if Murdoch had won this case it would’ve enabled Lachlan to continue spouting the fascist lies they’ve spread internationally into future decades after his father departs the planet.
So the failure means the Murdoch Family Trust still stands, and after Rupert’s death control will be shared equally between all four of his children: three of whom (Elizabeth, Prudence and James) are now decidedly progressive or at least, way less horrific than their father and their eldest brother.
Unless this decision hits further legal snags or a successful appeal, this is the best news the countries Murdoch operates in have had about him for decades.
Now, we keep working to reform the media but also, we wait.
Because nobody lives forever.
So why not just piss off forever now, you degenerate fucking old bastard. #MurdochFreeWorld #NewsCorpse
:)
sarahs mum said:
MFW
11 minutes ago ·
We’re thrilled to bits to announce today that Rupert Murdoch appears to have FAILED in his court attempt to hand his entire disgusting company over to his eldest son Lachlan after his death.
If you’re not up with this story, this matters because if Murdoch had won this case it would’ve enabled Lachlan to continue spouting the fascist lies they’ve spread internationally into future decades after his father departs the planet.
So the failure means the Murdoch Family Trust still stands, and after Rupert’s death control will be shared equally between all four of his children: three of whom (Elizabeth, Prudence and James) are now decidedly progressive or at least, way less horrific than their father and their eldest brother.
Unless this decision hits further legal snags or a successful appeal, this is the best news the countries Murdoch operates in have had about him for decades.
Now, we keep working to reform the media but also, we wait.
Because nobody lives forever.
So why not just piss off forever now, you degenerate fucking old bastard. #MurdochFreeWorld #NewsCorpse
Good if true.
sarahs mum said:
MFW
11 minutes ago ·
We’re thrilled to bits to announce today that Rupert Murdoch appears to have FAILED in his court attempt to hand his entire disgusting company over to his eldest son Lachlan after his death.
If you’re not up with this story, this matters because if Murdoch had won this case it would’ve enabled Lachlan to continue spouting the fascist lies they’ve spread internationally into future decades after his father departs the planet.
So the failure means the Murdoch Family Trust still stands, and after Rupert’s death control will be shared equally between all four of his children: three of whom (Elizabeth, Prudence and James) are now decidedly progressive or at least, way less horrific than their father and their eldest brother.
Unless this decision hits further legal snags or a successful appeal, this is the best news the countries Murdoch operates in have had about him for decades.
Now, we keep working to reform the media but also, we wait.
Because nobody lives forever.
So why not just piss off forever now, you degenerate fucking old bastard. #MurdochFreeWorld #NewsCorpse
what about grace and chloe?
captain_spalding said:
sarahs mum said:
MFW
11 minutes ago ·
We’re thrilled to bits to announce today that Rupert Murdoch appears to have FAILED in his court attempt to hand his entire disgusting company over to his eldest son Lachlan after his death.
If you’re not up with this story, this matters because if Murdoch had won this case it would’ve enabled Lachlan to continue spouting the fascist lies they’ve spread internationally into future decades after his father departs the planet.
So the failure means the Murdoch Family Trust still stands, and after Rupert’s death control will be shared equally between all four of his children: three of whom (Elizabeth, Prudence and James) are now decidedly progressive or at least, way less horrific than their father and their eldest brother.
Unless this decision hits further legal snags or a successful appeal, this is the best news the countries Murdoch operates in have had about him for decades.
Now, we keep working to reform the media but also, we wait.
Because nobody lives forever.
So why not just piss off forever now, you degenerate fucking old bastard. #MurdochFreeWorld #NewsCorpse
We all eagerly await the start of the The Murdoch Family Combined Circus And Demolition Derby.
Murdoch is appealing.
….pantomime voice on…..
Oh no he isn’t
Back to printing cards. Not much card paper left, so no room for errors.
Cards printed, cut out and folded.
Thinking I’ll have lunch before I write in them and envelope them etc.
Strictly speaking I’m allowed “nil-by-gob” until after 12, but since I’ve been good I’ll allow myself an early hour.
Hello
Cymek said:
Hello
Tamb said:
Cymek said:
Hello
Good morning Cymek.
Yair, g’day.
Cards now ready to post.
Had a long phone chat with the ex-Ross sister. She, her husband + our brother will be visiting me for Christmas Day lunch, so that’s the festivities sorted.
Bubblecar said:
Cards now ready to post.Had a long phone chat with the ex-Ross sister. She, her husband + our brother will be visiting me for Christmas Day lunch, so that’s the festivities sorted.
Don’t panic there’s plenty of time.
Found it. Professor Laura.
Peak Warming Man said:
Bubblecar said:
Cards now ready to post.Had a long phone chat with the ex-Ross sister. She, her husband + our brother will be visiting me for Christmas Day lunch, so that’s the festivities sorted.
Don’t panic there’s plenty of time.
I already know I’ll be doing my much-loved potato salad, a nice batch of tabouli and a batch of traditional British sausage rolls amongst various other items.
They’ll be bringing ham, Christmas cake, mince pies etc.
dv said:
Found it. Professor Laura.
Goodo.
Bubblecar said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Bubblecar said:
Cards now ready to post.Had a long phone chat with the ex-Ross sister. She, her husband + our brother will be visiting me for Christmas Day lunch, so that’s the festivities sorted.
Don’t panic there’s plenty of time.
I already know I’ll be doing my much-loved potato salad, a nice batch of tabouli and a batch of traditional British sausage rolls amongst various other items.
They’ll be bringing ham, Christmas cake, mince pies etc.
But who’s gonna make the gravy?
Bubblecar said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Bubblecar said:
Cards now ready to post.Had a long phone chat with the ex-Ross sister. She, her husband + our brother will be visiting me for Christmas Day lunch, so that’s the festivities sorted.
Don’t panic there’s plenty of time.
I already know I’ll be doing my much-loved potato salad, a nice batch of tabouli and a batch of traditional British sausage rolls amongst various other items.
They’ll be bringing ham, Christmas cake, mince pies etc.
So it’ll be a cold lunch then.
and as a quick reminder here is the trailer for “How To Make Gravy”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_Fwe9Q6NB0
Twin 1 worked on this film…
diddly-squat said:
and as a quick reminder here is the trailer for “How To Make Gravy”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_Fwe9Q6NB0
Twin 1 worked on this film…
good
And the rain continues but I’ve got 4 amps going into the battery banks.i
I’m not using them at the moment I’m running the genny.
dv said:
Found it. Professor Laura.
So, not the weird Charles Darwin and the story of the phoenix YouTubes?
kii said:
dv said:
Found it. Professor Laura.
So, not the weird Charles Darwin and the story of the phoenix YouTubes?
I haven’t seen all the Harry Potter movies sorry
Mr buffy update: He had a scan yesterday morning, but the specialist failed to phone him in the afternoon as arranged to discuss it. It transpires the specialist was in surgery until late last night. Anyway, Mr buffy has an appointment to see him tomorrow morning at 11.10am and has also done all the paperwork to be admitted after that for further surgery of some sort tomorrow afternoon. He has been told to take an overnight bag. I will drive Mr buffy to Warrnambool, and wait until he has had his consultation, in case there are any changes of plan. Presuming he goes straight in to admission, I’ll head up to Hamilton and do the supermarketing and then come home to await developments. Either I will be called to pick him up in the evening or something, or they will overnight him and I’ll pick him up on Thursday morning. We shall see.
Peak Warming Man said:
Bubblecar said:
Cards now ready to post.Had a long phone chat with the ex-Ross sister. She, her husband + our brother will be visiting me for Christmas Day lunch, so that’s the festivities sorted.
Don’t panic there’s plenty of time.
PANIC????? WHAT ELSE IS THERE TO DO!!!
buffy said:
Mr buffy update: He had a scan yesterday morning, but the specialist failed to phone him in the afternoon as arranged to discuss it. It transpires the specialist was in surgery until late last night. Anyway, Mr buffy has an appointment to see him tomorrow morning at 11.10am and has also done all the paperwork to be admitted after that for further surgery of some sort tomorrow afternoon. He has been told to take an overnight bag. I will drive Mr buffy to Warrnambool, and wait until he has had his consultation, in case there are any changes of plan. Presuming he goes straight in to admission, I’ll head up to Hamilton and do the supermarketing and then come home to await developments. Either I will be called to pick him up in the evening or something, or they will overnight him and I’ll pick him up on Thursday morning. We shall see.
Bests of everything for you and Mr Buffy. Trust all will end up back at home safe and sound.
buffy said:
Mr buffy update: He had a scan yesterday morning, but the specialist failed to phone him in the afternoon as arranged to discuss it. It transpires the specialist was in surgery until late last night. Anyway, Mr buffy has an appointment to see him tomorrow morning at 11.10am and has also done all the paperwork to be admitted after that for further surgery of some sort tomorrow afternoon. He has been told to take an overnight bag. I will drive Mr buffy to Warrnambool, and wait until he has had his consultation, in case there are any changes of plan. Presuming he goes straight in to admission, I’ll head up to Hamilton and do the supermarketing and then come home to await developments. Either I will be called to pick him up in the evening or something, or they will overnight him and I’ll pick him up on Thursday morning. We shall see.
Is this still in connection with the stones?
dv said:
kii said:
dv said:
Found it. Professor Laura.
So, not the weird Charles Darwin and the story of the phoenix YouTubes?
I haven’t seen all the Harry Potter movies sorry
iT’s noT ALwayS AbOUt hARry POttEr!!
dv said:
kii said:
dv said:
Found it. Professor Laura.
So, not the weird Charles Darwin and the story of the phoenix YouTubes?
I haven’t seen all the Harry Potter movies sorry
do yourself a favor and go read all the books instead
diddly-squat said:
and as a quick reminder here is the trailer for “How To Make Gravy”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_Fwe9Q6NB0
Twin 1 worked on this film…
Did he consider the song the most tedious inspiration for a film in quite some time?
Bubblecar said:
buffy said:
Mr buffy update: He had a scan yesterday morning, but the specialist failed to phone him in the afternoon as arranged to discuss it. It transpires the specialist was in surgery until late last night. Anyway, Mr buffy has an appointment to see him tomorrow morning at 11.10am and has also done all the paperwork to be admitted after that for further surgery of some sort tomorrow afternoon. He has been told to take an overnight bag. I will drive Mr buffy to Warrnambool, and wait until he has had his consultation, in case there are any changes of plan. Presuming he goes straight in to admission, I’ll head up to Hamilton and do the supermarketing and then come home to await developments. Either I will be called to pick him up in the evening or something, or they will overnight him and I’ll pick him up on Thursday morning. We shall see.
Is this still in connection with the stones?
Don’t forget the mushrooms!
Woodie said:
buffy said:
Mr buffy update: He had a scan yesterday morning, but the specialist failed to phone him in the afternoon as arranged to discuss it. It transpires the specialist was in surgery until late last night. Anyway, Mr buffy has an appointment to see him tomorrow morning at 11.10am and has also done all the paperwork to be admitted after that for further surgery of some sort tomorrow afternoon. He has been told to take an overnight bag. I will drive Mr buffy to Warrnambool, and wait until he has had his consultation, in case there are any changes of plan. Presuming he goes straight in to admission, I’ll head up to Hamilton and do the supermarketing and then come home to await developments. Either I will be called to pick him up in the evening or something, or they will overnight him and I’ll pick him up on Thursday morning. We shall see.
Bests of everything for you and Mr Buffy. Trust all will end up back at home safe and sound.
+1
diddly-squat said:
dv said:
kii said:So, not the weird Charles Darwin and the story of the phoenix YouTubes?
I haven’t seen all the Harry Potter movies sorry
do yourself a favor and go read all the books instead
To explain: I have in fact seen all of the HP movies. I was feigning for comedic purposes to assume that Charles Darwin and the Story of the Phoenix Youtubes was a Harry Potter movie.
Bubblecar said:
buffy said:
Mr buffy update: He had a scan yesterday morning, but the specialist failed to phone him in the afternoon as arranged to discuss it. It transpires the specialist was in surgery until late last night. Anyway, Mr buffy has an appointment to see him tomorrow morning at 11.10am and has also done all the paperwork to be admitted after that for further surgery of some sort tomorrow afternoon. He has been told to take an overnight bag. I will drive Mr buffy to Warrnambool, and wait until he has had his consultation, in case there are any changes of plan. Presuming he goes straight in to admission, I’ll head up to Hamilton and do the supermarketing and then come home to await developments. Either I will be called to pick him up in the evening or something, or they will overnight him and I’ll pick him up on Thursday morning. We shall see.
Is this still in connection with the stones?
Yes. There has been two lots of laser and there is presently a stent in place. I’m told that has to be removed at some point.
buffy said:
Bubblecar said:
buffy said:
Mr buffy update: He had a scan yesterday morning, but the specialist failed to phone him in the afternoon as arranged to discuss it. It transpires the specialist was in surgery until late last night. Anyway, Mr buffy has an appointment to see him tomorrow morning at 11.10am and has also done all the paperwork to be admitted after that for further surgery of some sort tomorrow afternoon. He has been told to take an overnight bag. I will drive Mr buffy to Warrnambool, and wait until he has had his consultation, in case there are any changes of plan. Presuming he goes straight in to admission, I’ll head up to Hamilton and do the supermarketing and then come home to await developments. Either I will be called to pick him up in the evening or something, or they will overnight him and I’ll pick him up on Thursday morning. We shall see.
Is this still in connection with the stones?
Yes. There has been two lots of laser and there is presently a stent in place. I’m told that has to be removed at some point.
Righto, so hopefully all fairly routine.
dv said:
diddly-squat said:
dv said:I haven’t seen all the Harry Potter movies sorry
do yourself a favor and go read all the books instead
To explain: I have in fact seen all of the HP movies. I was feigning for comedic purposes to assume that Charles Darwin and the Story of the Phoenix Youtubes was a Harry Potter movie.
You should have added an explanatory not in the appendix.
buffy said:
Bubblecar said:
buffy said:
Mr buffy update: He had a scan yesterday morning, but the specialist failed to phone him in the afternoon as arranged to discuss it. It transpires the specialist was in surgery until late last night. Anyway, Mr buffy has an appointment to see him tomorrow morning at 11.10am and has also done all the paperwork to be admitted after that for further surgery of some sort tomorrow afternoon. He has been told to take an overnight bag. I will drive Mr buffy to Warrnambool, and wait until he has had his consultation, in case there are any changes of plan. Presuming he goes straight in to admission, I’ll head up to Hamilton and do the supermarketing and then come home to await developments. Either I will be called to pick him up in the evening or something, or they will overnight him and I’ll pick him up on Thursday morning. We shall see.
Is this still in connection with the stones?
Yes. There has been two lots of laser and there is presently a stent in place. I’m told that has to be removed at some point.
Ouch. I hope everything goes much better than expected.
Time to go and post the cards. Also get a couple more zucchinis so I can follow Nagi’s recipe to the letter.
dv said:
diddly-squat said:
dv said:I haven’t seen all the Harry Potter movies sorry
do yourself a favor and go read all the books instead
To explain: I have in fact seen all of the HP movies. I was feigning for comedic purposes to assume that Charles Darwin and the Story of the Phoenix Youtubes was a Harry Potter movie.
There was a previous post responding to your query.
Witty Rejoinder said:
diddly-squat said:
and as a quick reminder here is the trailer for “How To Make Gravy”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_Fwe9Q6NB0
Twin 1 worked on this film…
Did he consider the song the most tedious inspiration for a film in quite some time?
I’ve never been able to finish listening to that song.
Witty Rejoinder said:
diddly-squat said:
and as a quick reminder here is the trailer for “How To Make Gravy”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_Fwe9Q6NB0
Twin 1 worked on this film…
Did he consider the song the most tedious inspiration for a film in quite some time?
Since “Convoy” perhaps
kii said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
diddly-squat said:
and as a quick reminder here is the trailer for “How To Make Gravy”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_Fwe9Q6NB0
Twin 1 worked on this film…
Did he consider the song the most tedious inspiration for a film in quite some time?
I’ve never been able to finish listening to that song.
Lucky you…
kii said:
dv said:
diddly-squat said:do yourself a favor and go read all the books instead
To explain: I have in fact seen all of the HP movies. I was feigning for comedic purposes to assume that Charles Darwin and the Story of the Phoenix Youtubes was a Harry Potter movie.
There was a previous post responding to your query.
There certainly was but the mixed-case hurt my feelings.
How soon we forget Purple People Eater
Witty Rejoinder said:
kii said:
Witty Rejoinder said:Did he consider the song the most tedious inspiration for a film in quite some time?
I’ve never been able to finish listening to that song.
Lucky you…
dv said:
How soon we forget Purple People Eater
Friendly little people eater
What a sight to see
Tamb said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
kii said:I’ve never been able to finish listening to that song.
Lucky you…
I had the same problem with “A Tale of Two Cities”
Who sings that?
There’s a Merc that’s often parked in the clearway, regularly gets a ticket.
dv said:
Tamb said:
Witty Rejoinder said:Lucky you…
I had the same problem with “A Tale of Two Cities”Who sings that?
Tamb said:
dv said:
Tamb said:I had the same problem with “A Tale of Two Cities”
Who sings that?
Ooh you are awful dv.
but you like me?
dv said:
Tamb said:
dv said:Who sings that?
Ooh you are awful dv.but you like me?
buffy said:
Bubblecar said:
buffy said:
Mr buffy update: He had a scan yesterday morning, but the specialist failed to phone him in the afternoon as arranged to discuss it. It transpires the specialist was in surgery until late last night. Anyway, Mr buffy has an appointment to see him tomorrow morning at 11.10am and has also done all the paperwork to be admitted after that for further surgery of some sort tomorrow afternoon. He has been told to take an overnight bag. I will drive Mr buffy to Warrnambool, and wait until he has had his consultation, in case there are any changes of plan. Presuming he goes straight in to admission, I’ll head up to Hamilton and do the supermarketing and then come home to await developments. Either I will be called to pick him up in the evening or something, or they will overnight him and I’ll pick him up on Thursday morning. We shall see.
Is this still in connection with the stones?
Yes. There has been two lots of laser and there is presently a stent in place. I’m told that has to be removed at some point.
Hope it all goes well.
dv said:
Tamb said:
dv said:Who sings that?
Ooh you are awful dv.but you like me?
The Dickens we do!
buffy said:
Mr buffy update: He had a scan yesterday morning, but the specialist failed to phone him in the afternoon as arranged to discuss it. It transpires the specialist was in surgery until late last night. Anyway, Mr buffy has an appointment to see him tomorrow morning at 11.10am and has also done all the paperwork to be admitted after that for further surgery of some sort tomorrow afternoon. He has been told to take an overnight bag. I will drive Mr buffy to Warrnambool, and wait until he has had his consultation, in case there are any changes of plan. Presuming he goes straight in to admission, I’ll head up to Hamilton and do the supermarketing and then come home to await developments. Either I will be called to pick him up in the evening or something, or they will overnight him and I’ll pick him up on Thursday morning. We shall see.
I hope it all goes swimmingly
Michael V said:
dv said:
Tamb said:Ooh you are awful dv.
but you like me?
The Dickens we do!
dv said:
How soon we forget Purple People Eater
As quickly as we can.
Except for those deranged people who occasionally remember it, and cause to to be played on the radio.
captain_spalding said:
dv said:
How soon we forget Purple People Eater
As quickly as we can.
Except for those deranged people who occasionally remember it, and cause to to be played on the radio.
That was back in the 60’s?
roughbarked said:
captain_spalding said:
dv said:
How soon we forget Purple People Eater
As quickly as we can.
Except for those deranged people who occasionally remember it, and cause to to be played on the radio.
That was back in the 60’s?
It was a wild time.
Witty Rejoinder said:
roughbarked said:
captain_spalding said:As quickly as we can.
Except for those deranged people who occasionally remember it, and cause to to be played on the radio.
That was back in the 60’s?
It was a wild time.
They say that ‘if you remember, the 60s, then you weren’t there’.
Not remembering a great deal of the 60s would be something of a blessing.
roughbarked said:
captain_spalding said:
dv said:
How soon we forget Purple People Eater
As quickly as we can.
Except for those deranged people who occasionally remember it, and cause to to be played on the radio.
That was back in the 60’s?
Witty Rejoinder said:
roughbarked said:
captain_spalding said:As quickly as we can.
Except for those deranged people who occasionally remember it, and cause to to be played on the radio.
That was back in the 60’s?
It was a wild time.
I remember my friend who had been badly burned in a accident with fire. Had learned to walk on is hands while his legs were healing. So that end of the year school concert, He came out dressed in purple with purple faces on each foot and walked across the stage on is hands to the playing of that song.
captain_spalding said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
roughbarked said:That was back in the 60’s?
It was a wild time.
They say that ‘if you remember, the 60s, then you weren’t there’.
Not remembering a great deal of the 60s would be something of a blessing.
roughbarked said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
roughbarked said:That was back in the 60’s?
It was a wild time.
I remember my friend who had been badly burned in a accident with fire. Had learned to walk on is hands while his legs were healing. So that end of the year school concert, He came out dressed in purple with purple faces on each foot and walked across the stage on is hands to the playing of that song.
We had to make our own entertainment, back then.
Tamb said:
roughbarked said:
captain_spalding said:As quickly as we can.
Except for those deranged people who occasionally remember it, and cause to to be played on the radio.
That was back in the 60’s?
I prefer Puff The Magic Dragon.
I certainly sang that song more. with strings and sealing wax and all that.
captain_spalding said:
roughbarked said:
Witty Rejoinder said:It was a wild time.
I remember my friend who had been badly burned in a accident with fire. Had learned to walk on is hands while his legs were healing. So that end of the year school concert, He came out dressed in purple with purple faces on each foot and walked across the stage on is hands to the playing of that song.
We had to make our own entertainment, back then.
We did. Telvision hadn’t made it out this far out in the bush back then.
roughbarked said:
Tamb said:
roughbarked said:That was back in the 60’s?
I prefer Puff The Magic Dragon.I certainly sang that song more. with strings and sealing wax and all that.
Tamb said:
roughbarked said:
captain_spalding said:As quickly as we can.
Except for those deranged people who occasionally remember it, and cause to to be played on the radio.
That was back in the 60’s?
I prefer Puff The Magic Dragon.
“Puff the magic dragon, couldn’t find a mate.
He frolicked in the Autumn mist accustomed to his fate.
Then one day he found her, a lovely bit of stuff!
but he didn’t know quite what to do……
That’s why they calleed him puff!”
They said it would only get to 27 today. Here it is 31.
roughbarked said:
They said it would only get to 27 today. Here it is 31.
BACK. Also got some nice Xmas ham carved off the bone, to be chewed very carefully.
Tamb said:
roughbarked said:
They said it would only get to 27 today. Here it is 31.
The whigeometer reported that you haven’t met your quota so they arranged a hot spell just for you.
:)
Bubblecar said:
BACK. Also got some nice Xmas ham carved off the bone, to be chewed very carefully.
Mrs rb has a similar problem except her dentist told her she needs to go to a specialist. He won’t touch it. He’s a very good dentist too. He normally doesn’t knock back difficult jobs.
roughbarked said:
Bubblecar said:
BACK. Also got some nice Xmas ham carved off the bone, to be chewed very carefully.
Mrs rb has a similar problem except her dentist told her she needs to go to a specialist. He won’t touch it. He’s a very good dentist too. He normally doesn’t knock back difficult jobs.
Pretty sure this will be a simple yank.
Bubblecar said:
roughbarked said:
Bubblecar said:
BACK. Also got some nice Xmas ham carved off the bone, to be chewed very carefully.
Mrs rb has a similar problem except her dentist told her she needs to go to a specialist. He won’t touch it. He’s a very good dentist too. He normally doesn’t knock back difficult jobs.
Pretty sure this will be a simple yank.
Dumb American dentist, eh.
Ah well thankfully our thermal forecast was an overestimate so we’re happy enough.
Witty Rejoinder said:
roughbarked said:
captain_spalding said:As quickly as we can.
Except for those deranged people who occasionally remember it, and cause to to be played on the radio.
That was back in the 60’s?
It was a wild time.
only people who weren’t there remember them.
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
roughbarked said:Mrs rb has a similar problem except her dentist told her she needs to go to a specialist. He won’t touch it. He’s a very good dentist too. He normally doesn’t knock back difficult jobs.
Pretty sure this will be a simple yank.
Dumb American dentist, eh.
Actually I think he’s Korean.
captain_spalding said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
roughbarked said:
That was back in the 60’s?
It was a wild time.
They say that ‘if you remember, the 60s, then you weren’t there’.
Not remembering a great deal of the 60s would be something of a blessing.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eFjjO_lhf9c
oh wait that’s something else
Bubblecar said:
roughbarked said:
Bubblecar said:
BACK. Also got some nice Xmas ham carved off the bone, to be chewed very carefully.
Mrs rb has a similar problem except her dentist told her she needs to go to a specialist. He won’t touch it. He’s a very good dentist too. He normally doesn’t knock back difficult jobs.
Pretty sure this will be a simple yank.
JudgeMental said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
roughbarked said:That was back in the 60’s?
It was a wild time.
only people who weren’t there remember them.
I heard stories about my shenanigans told back to me in reverent terms!
OK washing up then making creamy zucchini soup, let’s go.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-06/bovaer-maker-says-methane-reduction-cattle-supplement-safe/104687604
causing quite a stir among the illiterati.
Tamb said:
roughbarked said:
They said it would only get to 27 today. Here it is 31.
The whigeometer reported that you haven’t met your quota so they arranged a hot spell just for you.
:)
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:Pretty sure this will be a simple yank.
Dumb American dentist, eh.
Actually I think he’s Korean.
I hope he’s happy with his Korea.
JudgeMental said:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-06/bovaer-maker-says-methane-reduction-cattle-supplement-safe/104687604causing quite a stir among the illiterati.
It is a good subject matter
You could kick it up a notch and say its part of extra-terrestrials plan to take over the Earth.
They are always messing around with cows
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9htInlZfUkw
This past weekend, the 8th Edition of the Dutch Headwind Cycling Championships was held at the Oosterscheldekering Storm Surge Barrier.
Competing against force 7 winds, more than 300 competitors rode the 8.5 km course on upright single-speed bikes.
They need to come up here, too. No helmet, 50 or 60 km/h up the hill without pedalling. Clearly an over-wattage motor without the legal controls. From young teenagers to 40 year-olds. Danger to themselves and others.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-10/sunshine-coast-electric-motorbike-crackdown-e-bikes-qld/104706712
JudgeMental said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9htInlZfUkwThis past weekend, the 8th Edition of the Dutch Headwind Cycling Championships was held at the Oosterscheldekering Storm Surge Barrier.
Competing against force 7 winds, more than 300 competitors rode the 8.5 km course on upright single-speed bikes.
That’s a testing ride. Not for the faint hearted.
Might check this out, could use an old-fashioned comedy
the Honda N-Van appears to be a popular choice of vehicle in Japan.
JudgeMental said:
the Honda N-Van appears to be a popular choice of vehicle in Japan.
I wish more Kei-class vehicle were available in Australia. They’ve been tried at various times, but only one has been successful. Suzuki Sierra (Jimny). Suzuki Carry was around for a while, as was Honda N-360 for a while. I can’t think of any others, though.
There are so many, including Kei-class trucks.
Anything else that needs to be added to the Index? I might as well put Syria there as that’s probably going to be a hot topic. I think I can take Metazooa off since no one is doing that now.
dv said:
Anything else that needs to be added to the Index? I might as well put Syria there as that’s probably going to be a hot topic. I think I can take Metazooa off since no one is doing that now.
I’m the only one that occasionally posts to blossom.
dv said:
Anything else that needs to be added to the Index? I might as well put Syria there as that’s probably going to be a hot topic. I think I can take Metazooa off since no one is doing that now.
As a question without notice, nothing that I know of.
sarahs mum said:
dv said:
Anything else that needs to be added to the Index? I might as well put Syria there as that’s probably going to be a hot topic. I think I can take Metazooa off since no one is doing that now.
I’m the only one that occasionally posts to blossom.
What with my various daily cryptic crosswords, I haven’t really felt much inclination for other word games lately.
Witty Rejoinder said:
roughbarked said:
captain_spalding said:As quickly as we can.
Except for those deranged people who occasionally remember it, and cause to to be played on the radio.
That was back in the 60’s?
It was a wild time.
I’m referring to the movie that is based on the song. Launched Neil Patrick Harris’s career.
The quadruped wants to be outside but I don’t know … seems a bit hot out there.
dv said:
The quadruped wants to be outside but I don’t know … seems a bit hot out there.
if you can’t stand on the pavement in bare feet then neither should your dog.
old jungle saying.
JudgeMental said:
dv said:
The quadruped wants to be outside but I don’t know … seems a bit hot out there.
if you can’t stand on the pavement in bare feet then neither should your dog.
old jungle saying.
I’ll look on TEMU for dogshoes
Alright alright I’ve changed it to the Wot I am eating thread, please refresh.
JudgeMental said:
dv said:
The quadruped wants to be outside but I don’t know … seems a bit hot out there.
if you can’t stand on the pavement in bare feet then neither should your dog.
old jungle saying.
so amputees should never let their dogs on pavement
dv said:
The quadruped wants to be outside but I don’t know … seems a bit hot out there.
Toiletry?
dv said:
Alright alright I’ve changed it to the Wot I am eating thread, please refresh.
Thank you.
:)
Michael V said:
dv said:
The quadruped wants to be outside but I don’t know … seems a bit hot out there.
Toiletry?
He can go in a little covered area we have. Seems like he wants to sit in the sun. Which can feel good, sure, but it’s 36 out there.
dv said:
Alright alright I’ve changed it to the Wot I am eating thread, please refresh.
Ta.
Michael V said:
JudgeMental said:
the Honda N-Van appears to be a popular choice of vehicle in Japan.
I wish more Kei-class vehicle were available in Australia. They’ve been tried at various times, but only one has been successful. Suzuki Sierra (Jimny). Suzuki Carry was around for a while, as was Honda N-360 for a while. I can’t think of any others, though.
There are so many, including Kei-class trucks.
:)
…
dv said:
Michael V said:
dv said:
The quadruped wants to be outside but I don’t know … seems a bit hot out there.
Toiletry?
He can go in a little covered area we have. Seems like he wants to sit in the sun. Which can feel good, sure, but it’s 36 out there.
Strange.
buffy said:
Michael V said:
JudgeMental said:
the Honda N-Van appears to be a popular choice of vehicle in Japan.
I wish more Kei-class vehicle were available in Australia. They’ve been tried at various times, but only one has been successful. Suzuki Sierra (Jimny). Suzuki Carry was around for a while, as was Honda N-360 for a while. I can’t think of any others, though.
There are so many, including Kei-class trucks.
:)
That’s what I should have. The Pajero is not worth fixing.
Down the park, chainsaws have been used to lop branches in order to treat the polyphagus shot borer. Some pink substance has been applied to the cuts.
Dull Men’s Club® ·
John Tenison · 5 hours ago ·
We got sick of having to clean up after birds roosting above our patio table and pooping on it. My wife had the notion of putting down a plastic checkered tablecloth to protect the tabletop. Here’s where it gets interesting. In the 3 months since the tablecloth was installed, the birds are gone and we’ve seen not a speck of poop! Is there something about the pattern they find threatening? Have we just discovered why the Italians have been using checkered tablecloths all this time?
sarahs mum said:
Dull Men’s Club® ·
John Tenison · 5 hours ago ·
We got sick of having to clean up after birds roosting above our patio table and pooping on it. My wife had the notion of putting down a plastic checkered tablecloth to protect the tabletop. Here’s where it gets interesting. In the 3 months since the tablecloth was installed, the birds are gone and we’ve seen not a speck of poop! Is there something about the pattern they find threatening? Have we just discovered why the Italians have been using checkered tablecloths all this time?
How interesting!
:)
Michael V said:
sarahs mum said:
Dull Men’s Club® ·
John Tenison · 5 hours ago ·
We got sick of having to clean up after birds roosting above our patio table and pooping on it. My wife had the notion of putting down a plastic checkered tablecloth to protect the tabletop. Here’s where it gets interesting. In the 3 months since the tablecloth was installed, the birds are gone and we’ve seen not a speck of poop! Is there something about the pattern they find threatening? Have we just discovered why the Italians have been using checkered tablecloths all this time?
How interesting!
:)
Certainly worth a more systematic study
JudgeMental said:
dv said:
The quadruped wants to be outside but I don’t know … seems a bit hot out there.
if you can’t stand on the pavement in bare feet then neither should your dog.
old jungle saying.
If you can’t afford shoes you can’t afford a dog.
dv said:
Michael V said:
sarahs mum said:
Dull Men’s Club® ·
John Tenison · 5 hours ago ·
We got sick of having to clean up after birds roosting above our patio table and pooping on it. My wife had the notion of putting down a plastic checkered tablecloth to protect the tabletop. Here’s where it gets interesting. In the 3 months since the tablecloth was installed, the birds are gone and we’ve seen not a speck of poop! Is there something about the pattern they find threatening? Have we just discovered why the Italians have been using checkered tablecloths all this time?
How interesting!
:)
Certainly worth a more systematic study
Black and white stripes keep flies off.
i made a cassoulet. and it was nice.
Michael V said:
sarahs mum said:
Dull Men’s Club® ·
John Tenison · 5 hours ago ·
We got sick of having to clean up after birds roosting above our patio table and pooping on it. My wife had the notion of putting down a plastic checkered tablecloth to protect the tabletop. Here’s where it gets interesting. In the 3 months since the tablecloth was installed, the birds are gone and we’ve seen not a speck of poop! Is there something about the pattern they find threatening? Have we just discovered why the Italians have been using checkered tablecloths all this time?
How interesting!
:)
Italians use red and white don’t they?
The model is run by Safe Steps at a secure and untraceable location in Victoria, and began as a pilot to run for two years.
While I was out at a meeting, mr buffy’s arrangements got changed. The surgeon phoned and said he didn’t need a consultation, just to turn up for admission and the surgery will happen tomorrow afternoon. And it won’t be a sleepover – so I’ll sit in the carpark again and wait and read some more Pratchett.
buffy said:
While I was out at a meeting, mr buffy’s arrangements got changed. The surgeon phoned and said he didn’t need a consultation, just to turn up for admission and the surgery will happen tomorrow afternoon. And it won’t be a sleepover – so I’ll sit in the carpark again and wait and read some more Pratchett.
Larry says to Merv
That bespectacled lady’s back and giggling to herself in the car park again…
Witty Rejoinder said:
buffy said:
While I was out at a meeting, mr buffy’s arrangements got changed. The surgeon phoned and said he didn’t need a consultation, just to turn up for admission and the surgery will happen tomorrow afternoon. And it won’t be a sleepover – so I’ll sit in the carpark again and wait and read some more Pratchett.
Larry says to Merv
That bespectacled lady’s back and giggling to herself in the car park again…
Sometimes it’s more than giggling. And some of the things in recent books I’ve (re)read, are very, very good predictions of how America has been going in the last couple of years.
44C sunday willyweather reckons, warming a bit, could be worse though if lived on crematoria, horribly hot that place, might have seen it in a documentary called chronicles of riddick, can’t recall now
Professor Laura insists that Neanderthal must not be pronounced with a th sound but I think I will anyway
dv said:
Professor Laura insists that Neanderthal must not be pronounced with a th sound but I think I will anyway
just noticed I says it two ways, th, but also neandertalls
might depend if i’m using the term as a swearword or not
dv said:
Professor Laura insists that Neanderthal must not be pronounced with a th sound but I think I will anyway
I always pronounce it Neander-tarl.
Bubblecar said:
dv said:
Professor Laura insists that Neanderthal must not be pronounced with a th sound but I think I will anyway
I always pronounce it Neander-tarl.
Well apparently, you’re doing it right
dv said:
Bubblecar said:
dv said:
Professor Laura insists that Neanderthal must not be pronounced with a th sound but I think I will anyway
I always pronounce it Neander-tarl.
Well apparently, you’re doing it right
Thal is German for valley – the remains were discovered in the Neander Valley, hence Neanderthal
Neophyte said:
dv said:
Bubblecar said:I always pronounce it Neander-tarl.
Well apparently, you’re doing it right
Thal is German for valley – the remains were discovered in the Neander Valley, hence Neanderthal
It’s an old spelling though. Thal is usually spelt tal in modern German and the Neanderthals are known Neandertaler.
Bubblecar said:
Neophyte said:
dv said:Well apparently, you’re doing it right
Thal is German for valley – the remains were discovered in the Neander Valley, hence Neanderthal
It’s an old spelling though. Thal is usually spelt tal in modern German and the Neanderthals are known Neandertaler.
known = known as
sister is down from NSW We had lunch with Sarah and Madeline(5) today. I asked Maddy what she wanted for Christmas and she said a drone. Sarah quickly said you have to be 12 to have a drone.
Neophyte said:
dv said:
Bubblecar said:I always pronounce it Neander-tarl.
Well apparently, you’re doing it right
Thal is German for valley – the remains were discovered in the Neander Valley, hence Neanderthal
Inasmuch, the word is related to the word “dollar”, which ultimately derives from Joachimsthaler
sarahs mum said:
sister is down from NSW We had lunch with Sarah and Madeline(5) today. I asked Maddy what she wanted for Christmas and she said a drone. Sarah quickly said you have to be 12 to have a drone.
Well it sounds like a nice day
sarahs mum said:
sister is down from NSW We had lunch with Sarah and Madeline(5) today. I asked Maddy what she wanted for Christmas and she said a drone. Sarah quickly said you have to be 12 to have a drone.
:)
I wonder what Maddy imagines herself doing with a drone.
sarahs mum said:
sister is down from NSW We had lunch with Sarah and Madeline(5) today. I asked Maddy what she wanted for Christmas and she said a drone. Sarah quickly said you have to be 12 to have a drone.
Lies make baby Jesus cry.
dv said:
Neophyte said:
dv said:Well apparently, you’re doing it right
Thal is German for valley – the remains were discovered in the Neander Valley, hence Neanderthal
Inasmuch, the word is related to the word “dollar”, which ultimately derives from Joachimsthaler
Also related to the English “dale”.
dv said:
sarahs mum said:
sister is down from NSW We had lunch with Sarah and Madeline(5) today. I asked Maddy what she wanted for Christmas and she said a drone. Sarah quickly said you have to be 12 to have a drone.
Well it sounds like a nice day
it was. I am tired. they will be up here around lunch time tomorrow. Pete is going to be handyman. Alison will probably carry on complaining about my standard of living.
sarahs mum said:
dv said:
sarahs mum said:
sister is down from NSW We had lunch with Sarah and Madeline(5) today. I asked Maddy what she wanted for Christmas and she said a drone. Sarah quickly said you have to be 12 to have a drone.
Well it sounds like a nice day
it was. I am tired. they will be up here around lunch time tomorrow. Pete is going to be handyman. Alison will probably carry on complaining about my standard of living.
Is this the sister who water-colours?
Witty Rejoinder said:
sarahs mum said:
dv said:Well it sounds like a nice day
it was. I am tired. they will be up here around lunch time tomorrow. Pete is going to be handyman. Alison will probably carry on complaining about my standard of living.
Is this the sister who water-colours?
yep. she’s in christmas card mode.
sarahs mum said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
sarahs mum said:it was. I am tired. they will be up here around lunch time tomorrow. Pete is going to be handyman. Alison will probably carry on complaining about my standard of living.
Is this the sister who water-colours?
yep. she’s in christmas card mode.
Phwoar… how much does she sell one of those for?
Witty Rejoinder said:
sarahs mum said:
Witty Rejoinder said:Is this the sister who water-colours?
yep. she’s in christmas card mode.
Phwoar… how much does she sell one of those for?
these are her Christmas cards. I’ll get one. and after Christmas I will put it in the drawer with other people’s works on paper I seem to be collecting.
I don’t think it’s necessarily a “problem”, as long as you understand that the sculpture is very much an “artist’s impression”, informed by what contemporary ideology expects of an artist’s impression.
Why Netflix’s idealization of a Neanderthal woman is a problem
sarahs mum said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
sarahs mum said:yep. she’s in christmas card mode.
Phwoar… how much does she sell one of those for?
these are her Christmas cards. I’ll get one. and after Christmas I will put it in the drawer with other people’s works on paper I seem to be collecting.
Righto… back to your standard of living perhaps emphasise the ‘tortured artist’ angle which allows you to make more meaningful art.
Witty Rejoinder said:
sarahs mum said:
Witty Rejoinder said:Phwoar… how much does she sell one of those for?
these are her Christmas cards. I’ll get one. and after Christmas I will put it in the drawer with other people’s works on paper I seem to be collecting.
Righto… back to your standard of living perhaps emphasise the ‘tortured artist’ angle which allows you to make more meaningful art.
oh. i like that.
Sometimes I think that owning outright a small house on acreage without visible neighbours and a nice valley bush view…is pretty lucky.
sarahs mum said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
sarahs mum said:these are her Christmas cards. I’ll get one. and after Christmas I will put it in the drawer with other people’s works on paper I seem to be collecting.
Righto… back to your standard of living perhaps emphasise the ‘tortured artist’ angle which allows you to make more meaningful art.
oh. i like that.
Sometimes I think that owning outright a small house on acreage without visible neighbours and a nice valley bush view…is pretty lucky.
I certainly envy you.
sarahs mum said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
sarahs mum said:these are her Christmas cards. I’ll get one. and after Christmas I will put it in the drawer with other people’s works on paper I seem to be collecting.
Righto… back to your standard of living perhaps emphasise the ‘tortured artist’ angle which allows you to make more meaningful art.
oh. i like that.
Sometimes I think that owning outright a small house on acreage without visible neighbours and a nice valley bush view…is pretty lucky.
Yes. Certainly seems to be pretty idyllic.
Bubblecar said:
I don’t think it’s necessarily a “problem”, as long as you understand that the sculpture is very much an “artist’s impression”, informed by what contemporary ideology expects of an artist’s impression.Why Netflix’s idealization of a Neanderthal woman is a problem
I’m inclined to agree.
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
Witty Rejoinder said:Righto… back to your standard of living perhaps emphasise the ‘tortured artist’ angle which allows you to make more meaningful art.
oh. i like that.
Sometimes I think that owning outright a small house on acreage without visible neighbours and a nice valley bush view…is pretty lucky.
I certainly envy you.
we chatted today about Dutton and Murdoch going for Albanese’s 4 mill new house…that isn’t far from where Alison is selling. Pete said that some of the houses there were 15 mill…and his was possibly one of the cheaper ones. We all thought that on his salary he could afford it. And there were so many in parliament with a portfolio of houses that perhaps they were going after the wrong target.
Beth & Pete (the ex-Ross people) have been scouting prospects of buying a house on the west coast.
They’ve ruled out Zeehan as being too faded and depressing, but they were actually impressed by Queenstown.
Apparently there’s a thriving art scene there now and quite a lot of interesting blow-ins have been settling there for some time, along with the more tragic types.
So when Pete’s late parents’ house in Hobart sells, they hope to be buying an affordable place in Queenstown.
Bubblecar said:
Beth & Pete (the ex-Ross people) have been scouting prospects of buying a house on the west coast.They’ve ruled out Zeehan as being too faded and depressing, but they were actually impressed by Queenstown.
Apparently there’s a thriving art scene there now and quite a lot of interesting blow-ins have been settling there for some time, along with the more tragic types.
So when Pete’s late parents’ house in Hobart sells, they hope to be buying an affordable place in Queenstown.
ray Arnold has almost single handedly revived Queenstown. He’s now working on a retirement centre for artists with studios and facilities.
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
Beth & Pete (the ex-Ross people) have been scouting prospects of buying a house on the west coast.They’ve ruled out Zeehan as being too faded and depressing, but they were actually impressed by Queenstown.
Apparently there’s a thriving art scene there now and quite a lot of interesting blow-ins have been settling there for some time, along with the more tragic types.
So when Pete’s late parents’ house in Hobart sells, they hope to be buying an affordable place in Queenstown.
ray Arnold has almost single handedly revived Queenstown. He’s now working on a retirement centre for artists with studios and facilities.
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
Beth & Pete (the ex-Ross people) have been scouting prospects of buying a house on the west coast.They’ve ruled out Zeehan as being too faded and depressing, but they were actually impressed by Queenstown.
Apparently there’s a thriving art scene there now and quite a lot of interesting blow-ins have been settling there for some time, along with the more tragic types.
So when Pete’s late parents’ house in Hobart sells, they hope to be buying an affordable place in Queenstown.
ray Arnold has almost single handedly revived Queenstown. He’s now working on a retirement centre for artists with studios and facilities.
Beth says they were received very pleasantly by everyone they encountered, including gallery owners and random people on the street looking forward to them as new neighbours.
Ray Arnold certainly seems to have been very busy.
sarahs mum said:
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
Beth & Pete (the ex-Ross people) have been scouting prospects of buying a house on the west coast.They’ve ruled out Zeehan as being too faded and depressing, but they were actually impressed by Queenstown.
Apparently there’s a thriving art scene there now and quite a lot of interesting blow-ins have been settling there for some time, along with the more tragic types.
So when Pete’s late parents’ house in Hobart sells, they hope to be buying an affordable place in Queenstown.
ray Arnold has almost single handedly revived Queenstown. He’s now working on a retirement centre for artists with studios and facilities.
but I still don’t want to live there. (he did suggest it to me at one stage…)
When I first arrived in Tas Renison Bell offered me a job in zeehan at my Sydney salary with a free 2 bed flat and a o for hubby when one came available. And they would pay to have my stuff in storage shipped down. and pay for electrickery bills.
and I went away and thought about it. and then said…nah.
sarahs mum said:
sarahs mum said:
sarahs mum said:ray Arnold has almost single handedly revived Queenstown. He’s now working on a retirement centre for artists with studios and facilities.
but I still don’t want to live there. (he did suggest it to me at one stage…)When I first arrived in Tas Renison Bell offered me a job in zeehan at my Sydney salary with a free 2 bed flat and a o for hubby when one came available. And they would pay to have my stuff in storage shipped down. and pay for electrickery bills.
and I went away and thought about it. and then said…nah.
job for hubby
sarahs mum said:
sarahs mum said:
sarahs mum said:but I still don’t want to live there. (he did suggest it to me at one stage…)
When I first arrived in Tas Renison Bell offered me a job in zeehan at my Sydney salary with a free 2 bed flat and a o for hubby when one came available. And they would pay to have my stuff in storage shipped down. and pay for electrickery bills.
and I went away and thought about it. and then said…nah.
job for hubby
Mind you we were spoilt for life choices in those days.
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
sarahs mum said:When I first arrived in Tas Renison Bell offered me a job in zeehan at my Sydney salary with a free 2 bed flat and a o for hubby when one came available. And they would pay to have my stuff in storage shipped down. and pay for electrickery bills.
and I went away and thought about it. and then said…nah.
job for hubby
Mind you we were spoilt for life choices in those days.
I had left Sydney chasing a dream. And Zeehan wasn’t it.
Red Dwarf and a hidden gem
dv said:
Professor Laura insists that Neanderthal must not be pronounced with a th sound but I think I will anyway
I pronounce Neanderthal with a “t” rather than “th” sound.
Bubblecar said:
dv said:
Professor Laura insists that Neanderthal must not be pronounced with a th sound but I think I will anyway
I always pronounce it Neander-tarl.
Me, too.
dv said:
Neophyte said:
dv said:Well apparently, you’re doing it right
Thal is German for valley – the remains were discovered in the Neander Valley, hence Neanderthal
Inasmuch, the word is related to the word “dollar”, which ultimately derives from Joachimsthaler
Yes.
dv said:
sarahs mum said:
sister is down from NSW We had lunch with Sarah and Madeline(5) today. I asked Maddy what she wanted for Christmas and she said a drone. Sarah quickly said you have to be 12 to have a drone.
Well it sounds like a nice day
plenty of drones lifting off from ant colonies on nice days they could have some of those
JudgeMental said:
Red Dwarf and a hidden gem
Nice spotto.
I wonder how many episodes had that in there.
Got back to the depot this arvo and was fuelling up and getting ready for a big day tomorrow and then spotted something wrong with my front tyre…
I was lucky to get home. :/
I’ve booked it in for new fronts at 10am in the morning.Kingy said:
Got back to the depot this arvo and was fuelling up and getting ready for a big day tomorrow and then spotted something wrong with my front tyre…
I was lucky to get home. :/
I’ve booked it in for new fronts at 10am in the morning.
expensive things trucks.
Kingy said:
Got back to the depot this arvo and was fuelling up and getting ready for a big day tomorrow and then spotted something wrong with my front tyre…
I was lucky to get home. :/
I’ve booked it in for new fronts at 10am in the morning.
Far Canal!
That’s nasty!
Good morning everybody. I hope this finds you well, and that you have an even better day than you dream of.
It’s 18.0° C and 90% RH, overcast, raining and calm. BoM has forecast a top of 26° C and rain all day.
Agenda: Breakfast: left-over pizza (2 slices) “Inskip” (prawns). Lunch – unknown. Dinner: another, different pizza. Background: Mrs V went to the Surf Club for a Christmas party lunch for the Boomerang Bags group, and came home with two take-away pizzas.
Other: Go to the Post Office and purchase a Mastercard, so I can register that with PayPal to buy stuff off the internet. I want to have two gaps between the Internet and my money, to reduce the risks of losing the lot, which I can ill afford. Bite the bullet, Michael. You have spent years thinking abut this.
More other: re-write my medicines list for my wallet. A fair bit has changed lately. Also more admin – sorting piles of paperwork and stuff.
Good morning everybody. I hope this finds you well, and that you have an even better day than you dream of.
It’s 18.0° C and 90% RH, overcast, raining and calm. BoM has forecast a top of 26° C and rain all day.
Agenda: Breakfast: left-over pizza (2 slices) “Inskip” (prawns). Lunch – unknown. Dinner: another, different pizza. Background: Mrs V went to the Surf Club for a Christmas party lunch for the Boomerang Bags group, and came home with two take-away pizzas.
Other: Go to the Post Office and purchase a Mastercard, so I can register that with PayPal to buy stuff off the internet. I want to have two gaps between the Internet and my money, to reduce the risks of losing the lot, which I can ill afford. Bite the bullet, Michael. You have spent years thinking abut this.
More other: re-write my medicines list for my wallet. A fair bit has changed lately. Also more admin – sorting piles of paperwork and stuff.
Another thing on the agenda is to write up a recipe that Mrs V requested from one of the Boomerang Bags women. Spicy, sticky chicken wings. The woman brought some around here for an afternoon tea not so long back, and they were wonderful.
She was texted the recipe. After some internet searching (and a few dud tries), I was able to forward the the text to my phone. Good. Stage one completed. Now to lift the text to a text editor on my computer so I can well, edit the recipe. Nope, not possible. And I can’t find any freeware out there to do it. Oh, I can purchase some software, but for just one text message that has to be edited anyway? Nup.
Ugh. More computer issues.
Grrrr.
I was up early, back of the farm there, sees the sun rises, it’s a public sun, for anyone and everyone. Imagine it was privatized
made me own breakfast, deprived you the opportunity this occasion, but don’t you be worrying now, other opportunities will occur, not intending to dampen your enthusiasm, your morning exuberance
transition said:
I was up early, back of the farm there, sees the sun rises, it’s a public sun, for anyone and everyone. Imagine it was privatized
That’s what the transmission lines are there for.
roughbarked said:
transition said:
I was up early, back of the farm there, sees the sun rises, it’s a public sun, for anyone and everyone. Imagine it was privatized
That’s what the transmission lines are there for.
yeah some thought to be had, you’re thought provoking, provoking a thought, you got permission for that or what
Good morning Holidayers. Ten degrees at the back door and lightly overcast. We are forecast a partly cloudy 23 degrees today.
Off to Warrnambool again later this morning for Mr buffy’s pre-admission at 12.30.
Kingy said:
Got back to the depot this arvo and was fuelling up and getting ready for a big day tomorrow and then spotted something wrong with my front tyre…
I was lucky to get home. :/
I’ve booked it in for new fronts at 10am in the morning.
bit of a worrying worry when ya tyres splits, fortunately you’re observantly observant, sees things, otherwise it may have announced a rapid deflation during some velocity, making it an unsafer velocity, the vehicle may have become difficult to control, resulting in some physics you possibly may have not successfully managed to compensate for, you observed it, notices it while you were statically stationary, had no kinetic energy, otherwise KE might not have been your friend, all the parts in .5M x V^2 could have conspired against you, released the energy in a less predictable way, a less ideal way, in a way hostile to your aliveness, or someone elses, or caused injury, reduced fitness, suffering perhaps
buffy said:
Good morning Holidayers. Ten degrees at the back door and lightly overcast. We are forecast a partly cloudy 23 degrees today.Off to Warrnambool again later this morning for Mr buffy’s pre-admission at 12.30.
I hope all goes much better than expected.
Michael V said:
Ugh. More computer issues.Grrrr.
Did you end up getting a new computer?
transition said:
roughbarked said:
transition said:
I was up early, back of the farm there, sees the sun rises, it’s a public sun, for anyone and everyone. Imagine it was privatized
That’s what the transmission lines are there for.
yeah some thought to be had, you’re thought provoking, provoking a thought, you got permission for that or what
I write my own permissions notes. ;)
Michael V said:
buffy said:
Good morning Holidayers. Ten degrees at the back door and lightly overcast. We are forecast a partly cloudy 23 degrees today.Off to Warrnambool again later this morning for Mr buffy’s pre-admission at 12.30.
I hope all goes much better than expected.
Thank you.
Witty Rejoinder said:
Michael V said:
Ugh. More computer issues.Grrrr.
Did you end up getting a new computer?
No, not yet.
I had a win yesterday. Then a (different) loss. Then another win on the back of that loss. And this morning a loss on the back of the last win. And I don’t know how to figure out the latest one.
First: the Battery Saga.
A Win 10 update munted the battery. Despite being plugged in, the battery went from 100% to 2% during the final stages of the update process – just a few minutes. Lots of internet searching and tried lots of suggestions, but nothing worked. Finally, I did the “battery removal and do this” suggestions – three of them. Battery removal is difficult, as this laptop has to be dismantled and the battery physically unplugged. Did all of those things – no joy. Been monitoring the battery ever since (well, since about 20 November). The only way I could get any charging happening was to remove and replace the power supply plug. But that only stimulated charging for five to fifteen seconds, and chewed more battery charge than it replaced.
Yesterday afternoon, I noticed the battery charging light blinking. I removed the plug, and re-plugged it. and the battery started (and continued) re-charging. A bit over an hour later, over just 25 seconds, the battery charge suddenly jumped in increments from 73.6% to 100%. It is now fully charged. (Not that the battery is much good, it can only accept 22% of its design charge, because of aging.)
Next: WiFi.
Last night I went to check how long the rain would last – it had just started. Not connected to the internet. Informed that Win 10 had shut down the WiFi adapter because of something. Troubleshoot. Reinstalled the driver. Nope. Nothing. Alright, out to the garage to get a cable to connect to the modem. Started teeming down. Out of the question. Don’t want to get cable wet. Search around the office. Found a new cable in a box of cables. Half a metre short. Reorganise modem, and its cables and eventually get the computer plugged in, with the cable a little tighter than I would like. All good. The internet is connected again. Lots of rain about. Go to bed.
This morning, all good. Battery still 100%, internet connected by cable. Then I notice huge lag times (explaining the double post earlier). It might take three or four minutes to download an image here, or the same to get a post . Not all the time, but around 30% of the time.
Is it the cable connection, or is it at Testra’s end? I don’t know, and I’m not sure how to test between them (I’ve run Ookla and it’s failed a couple of times, but doesn’t test which part is dodgy), until I can get another cable. Guess what? It’s still pouring down…
Thanks for listening to my frustrated whinge.
Michael V said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Michael V said:
Ugh. More computer issues.Grrrr.
Did you end up getting a new computer?
No, not yet.
I had a win yesterday. Then a (different) loss. Then another win on the back of that loss. And this morning a loss on the back of the last win. And I don’t know how to figure out the latest one.
First: the Battery Saga.
A Win 10 update munted the battery. Despite being plugged in, the battery went from 100% to 2% during the final stages of the update process – just a few minutes. Lots of internet searching and tried lots of suggestions, but nothing worked. Finally, I did the “battery removal and do this” suggestions – three of them. Battery removal is difficult, as this laptop has to be dismantled and the battery physically unplugged. Did all of those things – no joy. Been monitoring the battery ever since (well, since about 20 November). The only way I could get any charging happening was to remove and replace the power supply plug. But that only stimulated charging for five to fifteen seconds, and chewed more battery charge than it replaced.
Yesterday afternoon, I noticed the battery charging light blinking. I removed the plug, and re-plugged it. and the battery started (and continued) re-charging. A bit over an hour later, over just 25 seconds, the battery charge suddenly jumped in increments from 73.6% to 100%. It is now fully charged. (Not that the battery is much good, it can only accept 22% of its design charge, because of aging.)
Next: WiFi.
Last night I went to check how long the rain would last – it had just started. Not connected to the internet. Informed that Win 10 had shut down the WiFi adapter because of something. Troubleshoot. Reinstalled the driver. Nope. Nothing. Alright, out to the garage to get a cable to connect to the modem. Started teeming down. Out of the question. Don’t want to get cable wet. Search around the office. Found a new cable in a box of cables. Half a metre short. Reorganise modem, and its cables and eventually get the computer plugged in, with the cable a little tighter than I would like. All good. The internet is connected again. Lots of rain about. Go to bed.
This morning, all good. Battery still 100%, internet connected by cable. Then I notice huge lag times (explaining the double post earlier). It might take three or four minutes to download an image here, or the same to get a post . Not all the time, but around 30% of the time.
Is it the cable connection, or is it at Testra’s end? I don’t know, and I’m not sure how to test between them (I’ve run Ookla and it’s failed a couple of times, but doesn’t test which part is dodgy), until I can get another cable. Guess what? It’s still pouring down…
Thanks for listening to my frustrated whinge.
I listened but unfortunately cannot offer much in the way of help.
Michael V said:
Thanks for listening to my frustrated whinge.
Cable connection should be better than a wifi connection. What type of internet connection do you have? do you connect straight to the modem via wifi usually? or via a router?
buffy said:
Michael V said:
buffy said:
Good morning Holidayers. Ten degrees at the back door and lightly overcast. We are forecast a partly cloudy 23 degrees today.Off to Warrnambool again later this morning for Mr buffy’s pre-admission at 12.30.
I hope all goes much better than expected.
Thank you.
+1
JudgeMental said:
Michael V said:Thanks for listening to my frustrated whinge.
Cable connection should be better than a wifi connection. What type of internet connection do you have? do you connect straight to the modem via wifi usually? or via a router?
Slow browser? dumping caches may help?
JudgeMental said:
Michael V said:Thanks for listening to my frustrated whinge.
Cable connection should be better than a wifi connection. What type of internet connection do you have? do you connect straight to the modem via wifi usually? or via a router?
Internet is Telstra fibre to the node (down the street about 300m), copper to the house. I usually connect via WIFI – in fact always have until last night when the WIFI failed for some reason. It gives a code 43 error. The modem is a modem-router. I have plugged a cable into it that is a bit short. It may have a bit of sideways tension on it on the laptop end.
roughbarked said:
JudgeMental said:
Michael V said:Thanks for listening to my frustrated whinge.
Cable connection should be better than a wifi connection. What type of internet connection do you have? do you connect straight to the modem via wifi usually? or via a router?
Slow browser? dumping caches may help?
Cache cleared. Still spasmodic. Later today, when this persisting-down rain stops, I’ll see whether I can find another cable in the shed.
Michael V said:
JudgeMental said:
Michael V said:Thanks for listening to my frustrated whinge.
Cable connection should be better than a wifi connection. What type of internet connection do you have? do you connect straight to the modem via wifi usually? or via a router?
Internet is Telstra fibre to the node (down the street about 300m), copper to the house. I usually connect via WIFI – in fact always have until last night when the WIFI failed for some reason. It gives a code 43 error. The modem is a modem-router. I have plugged a cable into it that is a bit short. It may have a bit of sideways tension on it on the laptop end.
OK. As it has been raining a lot then it could be the connection of the fibre to the copper that has water ingress and therefore affecting the connection.
JudgeMental said:
Michael V said:
JudgeMental said:Cable connection should be better than a wifi connection. What type of internet connection do you have? do you connect straight to the modem via wifi usually? or via a router?
Internet is Telstra fibre to the node (down the street about 300m), copper to the house. I usually connect via WIFI – in fact always have until last night when the WIFI failed for some reason. It gives a code 43 error. The modem is a modem-router. I have plugged a cable into it that is a bit short. It may have a bit of sideways tension on it on the laptop end.
OK. As it has been raining a lot then it could be the connection of the fibre to the copper that has water ingress and therefore affecting the connection.
Definitely a possibility.
JudgeMental said:
Michael V said:
JudgeMental said:Cable connection should be better than a wifi connection. What type of internet connection do you have? do you connect straight to the modem via wifi usually? or via a router?
Internet is Telstra fibre to the node (down the street about 300m), copper to the house. I usually connect via WIFI – in fact always have until last night when the WIFI failed for some reason. It gives a code 43 error. The modem is a modem-router. I have plugged a cable into it that is a bit short. It may have a bit of sideways tension on it on the laptop end.
OK. As it has been raining a lot then it could be the connection of the fibre to the copper that has water ingress and therefore affecting the connection.
It’s not the heaviest rain nor the longest period of it. Not by a long shot. I mean I have had >250 mm in 24 hours before (who knows how much – the ORB overflowed – one local BoM station recorded >1000 mm, several >600mm that day).
Michael V said:
JudgeMental said:
Michael V said:Internet is Telstra fibre to the node (down the street about 300m), copper to the house. I usually connect via WIFI – in fact always have until last night when the WIFI failed for some reason. It gives a code 43 error. The modem is a modem-router. I have plugged a cable into it that is a bit short. It may have a bit of sideways tension on it on the laptop end.
OK. As it has been raining a lot then it could be the connection of the fibre to the copper that has water ingress and therefore affecting the connection.
It’s not the heaviest rain nor the longest period of it. Not by a long shot. I mean I have had >250 mm in 24 hours before (who knows how much – the ORB overflowed – one local BoM station recorded >1000 mm, several >600mm that day).
There are the possibilities that some work has been carried out that has compromised the system since the other big rains. Direction of rain. things work until they don’t.
JudgeMental said:
Michael V said:
JudgeMental said:OK. As it has been raining a lot then it could be the connection of the fibre to the copper that has water ingress and therefore affecting the connection.
It’s not the heaviest rain nor the longest period of it. Not by a long shot. I mean I have had >250 mm in 24 hours before (who knows how much – the ORB overflowed – one local BoM station recorded >1000 mm, several >600mm that day).
There are the possibilities that some work has been carried out that has compromised the system since the other big rains. Direction of rain. things work until they don’t.
We lost TV other than ABC for almost a day due to heavy rain.
Michael V said:
JudgeMental said:
Michael V said:Internet is Telstra fibre to the node (down the street about 300m), copper to the house. I usually connect via WIFI – in fact always have until last night when the WIFI failed for some reason. It gives a code 43 error. The modem is a modem-router. I have plugged a cable into it that is a bit short. It may have a bit of sideways tension on it on the laptop end.
OK. As it has been raining a lot then it could be the connection of the fibre to the copper that has water ingress and therefore affecting the connection.
It’s not the heaviest rain nor the longest period of it. Not by a long shot. I mean I have had >250 mm in 24 hours before (who knows how much – the ORB overflowed – one local BoM station recorded >1000 mm, several >600mm that day).
I’ve uninstalled the WiFi via Device Manager and restarted the laptop. It now recognises the WiFi device and I have re-connected to the internet via that. We’ll see what that brings. If all is well, then the cable connection was likely dodgy.
JudgeMental said:
Michael V said:
JudgeMental said:OK. As it has been raining a lot then it could be the connection of the fibre to the copper that has water ingress and therefore affecting the connection.
It’s not the heaviest rain nor the longest period of it. Not by a long shot. I mean I have had >250 mm in 24 hours before (who knows how much – the ORB overflowed – one local BoM station recorded >1000 mm, several >600mm that day).
There are the possibilities that some work has been carried out that has compromised the system since the other big rains. Direction of rain. things work until they don’t.
I hear you…
Michael V said:
JudgeMental said:
Michael V said:It’s not the heaviest rain nor the longest period of it. Not by a long shot. I mean I have had >250 mm in 24 hours before (who knows how much – the ORB overflowed – one local BoM station recorded >1000 mm, several >600mm that day).
There are the possibilities that some work has been carried out that has compromised the system since the other big rains. Direction of rain. things work until they don’t.
I hear you…
Our internet is timing out for the forum on start up at the moment and intermittently all the time. Both on the computer connected directly to the dish on the roof and on mine which wifis. It’s been happening for a few days. As usual, I blame the tower on Mt Rouse. Presumably it is something related to the reason we’ve got a notice that our gear is going to be updated. Sometime in the next 6 months…
Michael V said:
buffy said:
Good morning Holidayers. Ten degrees at the back door and lightly overcast. We are forecast a partly cloudy 23 degrees today.Off to Warrnambool again later this morning for Mr buffy’s pre-admission at 12.30.
I hope all goes much better than expected.
+1
probably the copper thieves again
SCIENCE said:
probably the copper thieves again
They can be terribly disruptive.
Was thinking of erecting my little tree today, but I’m unable to muster sufficient Xmas spirit.
Maybe on the weekend.
roughbarked said:
SCIENCE said:
probably the copper thieves again
They can be terribly disruptive.
roughbarked said:
SCIENCE said:
probably the copper thieves again
They can be terribly disruptive.
at least if dirty LABOR had done a proper NBN optic fibre instead of letting hero Corruption fix it up with beautiful ancient technology then no thieves would be caring about stealing sand
No problems with the internet since re-connecting with WiFi to the modem, so I guess the cable and/or its connections are dodgy.
sarahs mum said:
Do have to wonder who chooses to listen to such nasty tripe.
SCIENCE said:
probably the copper thieves again
LOL
No, it still worked a bit…
Tamb said:
roughbarked said:
SCIENCE said:
probably the copper thieves again
They can be terribly disruptive.
Why would anyone want to steal a policeman?
Now there’s a thought.
:)
sarahs mum said:
FMD
sarahs mum said:
No wonder I don’t listen.
Michael V said:
Tamb said:
roughbarked said:They can be terribly disruptive.
Why would anyone want to steal a policeman?Now there’s a thought.
:)
Something to scratch your chin over?
Just saw a video of a saltie eating a shark.
Oz is a wonderful place.
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
Do have to wonder who chooses to listen to such nasty tripe.
Young Real Men
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
Do have to wonder who chooses to listen to such nasty tripe.
not Melbourne.. well done Melbourne.
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
Do have to wonder who chooses to listen to such nasty tripe.
not Melbourne.. well done Melbourne.
i suppose the good news is that this comment lost them some real ad revenue. telstra and medicare.
Hello
Cymek said:
Hello
sarahs mum said:
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:Do have to wonder who chooses to listen to such nasty tripe.
not Melbourne.. well done Melbourne.
i suppose the good news is that this comment lost them some real ad revenue. telstra and medicare.
Good.
Morning pilgrims, still raining.
On the plus side my shares in Gopher Wood R Us Pty, Ltd. have soared.
You would need a lot of government subsidy to build a solar farm in the UK.
Peak Warming Man said:
You would need a lot of government subsidy to build a solar farm in the UK.
4.2% of the UK’s power comes from solar.
dv said:
Peak Warming Man said:You would need a lot of government subsidy to build a solar farm in the UK.
4.2% of the UK’s power comes from solar.
That would be in the uplands.
dv said:
Peak Warming Man said:You would need a lot of government subsidy to build a solar farm in the UK.
4.2% of the UK’s power comes from solar.
pretty good, considering that they get sunshine for only about 4.2% of the year.
captain_spalding said:
dv said:
Peak Warming Man said:You would need a lot of government subsidy to build a solar farm in the UK.
4.2% of the UK’s power comes from solar.
pretty good, considering that they get sunshine for only about 4.2% of the year.
Just ask Eric Olthwaite. “It was always raining in Denley moor”.
captain_spalding said:
dv said:
Peak Warming Man said:You would need a lot of government subsidy to build a solar farm in the UK.
4.2% of the UK’s power comes from solar.
pretty good, considering that they get sunshine for only about 4.2% of the year.
It’s mostly in south Wales, Cornwall, Devonshire and such.
You wouldn’t want to be depending on solar power in Invermoriston or Aberdeen. I did not see the sun while I was there, forgot it existed.
Peak Warming Man said:
You would need a lot of government subsidy to build a solar farm in the UK.
“The UK government has given £20bn more in support to fossil fuel producers than those of renewables since 2015, the Guardian can reveal.
The research, commissioned by the Liberal Democrats, found that while renewable energy was given £60bn in support over that time, fossil fuel companies were given close to £80bn.”
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/09/fossil-fuels-more-support-uk-than-renewables-since-2015
Kingy said:
Peak Warming Man said:
You would need a lot of government subsidy to build a solar farm in the UK.
“The UK government has given £20bn more in support to fossil fuel producers than those of renewables since 2015, the Guardian can reveal.
The research, commissioned by the Liberal Democrats, found that while renewable energy was given £60bn in support over that time, fossil fuel companies were given close to £80bn.”
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/09/fossil-fuels-more-support-uk-than-renewables-since-2015
Praise the Lord
“Multiple councils across Victoria have voted to once again recognise January 26 as Australia Day.
Geelong City Council voted at last night’s meeting to commemorate the date and discontinue any advocacy for changing it from 2026.
The motion, introduced by Cr Eddy Kontelj, passed with seven votes to four, marking a backflip from last year’s decision to no longer celebrate the date.”
He um, he sounds like a foreigner.
kii said:
Dick Van Dyke99 years old and dancing barefoot
I cried.
I came for the terrible cockney accent but I stayed for the Democratic Socialism.
I didn’t know Mrs Fawlty’s husband died this year.
Timothy West – November 12
©Wikimedia
English actor and director known for his work in film, television, and theater. West was renowned for his performances in Shakespearean plays, portraying iconic characters such as King Lear, Macbeth, and Hamlet. West became a familiar face on British television through roles in popular series like ‘Coronation Street’ (as Eric Babbage), ‘EastEnders’ (as Stan Carter), and the comedy ‘Not Going Out’. He also portrayed Winston Churchill three times, solidifying his reputation as a versatile actor capable of handling both dramatic and comedic roles. His film credits included appearances in productions like ‘The Day of the Jackal,’ ’102 Dalmatians,’ and ‘Cry Freedom’. In addition to acting, West was recognized for his work on British canal systems alongside his wife, actress Prunella Scales, in the series ‘Great Canal Journeys.’ In 1984, he was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for his services to drama. West passed away at the age of 90.
Peak Warming Man said:
I didn’t know Mrs Fawlty’s husband died this year.Timothy West – November 12
©Wikimedia
English actor and director known for his work in film, television, and theater. West was renowned for his performances in Shakespearean plays, portraying iconic characters such as King Lear, Macbeth, and Hamlet. West became a familiar face on British television through roles in popular series like ‘Coronation Street’ (as Eric Babbage), ‘EastEnders’ (as Stan Carter), and the comedy ‘Not Going Out’. He also portrayed Winston Churchill three times, solidifying his reputation as a versatile actor capable of handling both dramatic and comedic roles. His film credits included appearances in productions like ‘The Day of the Jackal,’ ’102 Dalmatians,’ and ‘Cry Freedom’. In addition to acting, West was recognized for his work on British canal systems alongside his wife, actress Prunella Scales, in the series ‘Great Canal Journeys.’ In 1984, he was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for his services to drama. West passed away at the age of 90.
Vale Tim. I did enjoy watching you work.
https://ancientlanguage.com/vergil-press/osweald-bera/
Anyway, it is chuck a squirrel at a tree day.
or that’s what won the wildlife comedy photographer of the year
“The man depicted was wearing what police described as a “black Post Modern jacket” with a light blue shirt and dark tie.
He was also wearing light blue jeans, a black baseball cap, black shoes and a black bum bag.
He also had a dark canvas shopping trolley.”
They’re onto him, not many people would be getting around in post modern jacket.
i’ll drink my own coffee, tastes good too
what else, i’m a bit overwhelmed with interest actually, fascinated, enthralled, not even two flies fucking on the screen to offer a momentary distraction, the forum is so slow I may have to time lapse record it then play it back in fast forward to detect any life, possibly hasn’t got a heartbeat
Peak Warming Man said:
“The man depicted was wearing what police described as a “black Post Modern jacket” with a light blue shirt and dark tie.
He was also wearing light blue jeans, a black baseball cap, black shoes and a black bum bag.
He also had a dark canvas shopping trolley.”They’re onto him, not many people would be getting around in post modern jacket.
I think mine is premodern, possibly late chalcolithic
transition said:
i’ll drink my own coffee, tastes good toowhat else, i’m a bit overwhelmed with interest actually, fascinated, enthralled, not even two flies fucking on the screen to offer a momentary distraction, the forum is so slow I may have to time lapse record it then play it back in fast forward to detect any life, possibly hasn’t got a heartbeat
You watch some strange videos.
transition said:
i’ll drink my own coffee, tastes good toowhat else, i’m a bit overwhelmed with interest actually, fascinated, enthralled, not even two flies fucking on the screen to offer a momentary distraction, the forum is so slow I may have to time lapse record it then play it back in fast forward to detect any life, possibly hasn’t got a heartbeat
Not my fault, I was driving a truck. I can’t post my usual dumb shit with one hand while dodging oblivious shoppers in Margaret Rivers main street with the other. I wait till I’m stopped on a building site or a sand pit.
“It was recently announced that Chris Shanahan SC — the acting commissioner for Western Australia’s corruption watchdog — was the successful candidate for the role.
In a statement posted on social media on Tuesday, the Tasmanian Women Lawyers Association (TWLA) said the “apparent decision to overlook one of Tasmania’s most highly respected and experienced judicial officers” was “deeply concerning”.
They said Mr Shanahan “is not known to have held judicial office at any time in his career and has no apparent connection with the state of Tasmania”.
I tried to find what the Tasmanian Mens Lawyers Association (TMLA) had to say on the matter but there doesn’t to be one.
Peak Warming Man said:
“It was recently announced that Chris Shanahan SC — the acting commissioner for Western Australia’s corruption watchdog — was the successful candidate for the role.
In a statement posted on social media on Tuesday, the Tasmanian Women Lawyers Association (TWLA) said the “apparent decision to overlook one of Tasmania’s most highly respected and experienced judicial officers” was “deeply concerning”.
They said Mr Shanahan “is not known to have held judicial office at any time in his career and has no apparent connection with the state of Tasmania”.I tried to find what the Tasmanian Mens Lawyers Association (TMLA) had to say on the matter but there doesn’t to be one.
did you try Gentlemens?
dv said:
Peak Warming Man said:
“It was recently announced that Chris Shanahan SC — the acting commissioner for Western Australia’s corruption watchdog — was the successful candidate for the role.
In a statement posted on social media on Tuesday, the Tasmanian Women Lawyers Association (TWLA) said the “apparent decision to overlook one of Tasmania’s most highly respected and experienced judicial officers” was “deeply concerning”.
They said Mr Shanahan “is not known to have held judicial office at any time in his career and has no apparent connection with the state of Tasmania”.I tried to find what the Tasmanian Mens Lawyers Association (TMLA) had to say on the matter but there doesn’t to be one.
did you try Gentlemens?
No, or Chaps.
So I was chatting with this old(er) couple at dinner from QLD… they were pleasant enough but I learned two things… first is to never tell people of this generation that I am a criminologist…
second is that Old has ‘won’ the olympics – which somehow got past me becuase last time I heard it was still up for grabs (ok so I don’t read much news outside of crime stuff) but LOL QLD. have fun with that and I’m sorry (but I think you might have mining to tide you over)
https://fb.watch/woXV_oBFn3/
sarahs mum said:
https://fb.watch/woXV_oBFn3/
at least they have padding if someone runs a red light
Arts said:
sarahs mum said:
https://fb.watch/woXV_oBFn3/
at least they have padding if someone runs a red light
They got back ok, got their 2 runs but if went hard and tried to make it 3 it would have been suicide.
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/19o6k8xnXB/
Easy two
Fuck … sm beat me by an innings
Boris hasn’t been in today, and he was quite vague yesterday, leaving out of sentences and everything and even posting in the What Eating thread which is unusual for him, I wonder if he died in his sleep.
Peak Warming Man said:
Boris hasn’t been in today, and he was quite vague yesterday, leaving out of sentences and everything and even posting in the What Eating thread which is unusual for him, I wonder if he died in his sleep.
I did die but I got better.
JudgeMental said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Boris hasn’t been in today, and he was quite vague yesterday, leaving out of sentences and everything and even posting in the What Eating thread which is unusual for him, I wonder if he died in his sleep.
I did die but I got better.
Better is a relative term.
JudgeMental said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Boris hasn’t been in today, and he was quite vague yesterday, leaving out of sentences and everything and even posting in the What Eating thread which is unusual for him, I wonder if he died in his sleep.
I did die but I got better.
Praise the Lord.
Witty Rejoinder said:
JudgeMental said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Boris hasn’t been in today, and he was quite vague yesterday, leaving out of sentences and everything and even posting in the What Eating thread which is unusual for him, I wonder if he died in his sleep.
I did die but I got better.
Better is a relative term.
most of my relatives died and didn’t get better.
Witty Rejoinder said:
JudgeMental said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Boris hasn’t been in today, and he was quite vague yesterday, leaving out of sentences and everything and even posting in the What Eating thread which is unusual for him, I wonder if he died in his sleep.
I did die but I got better.
Better is a relative term.
Other options:
“Better for you maybe!”
“Define ‘better’?”
Peak Warming Man said:
JudgeMental said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Boris hasn’t been in today, and he was quite vague yesterday, leaving out of sentences and everything and even posting in the What Eating thread which is unusual for him, I wonder if he died in his sleep.
I did die but I got better.
Praise the Lord.
the Dark Lord moves in mysterious ways.
Thinking this will probably be my last Christmas.
And if it isn’t, it’ll only be because I’m usually way behind my own schedules.
Bubblecar said:
Thinking this will probably be my last Christmas.And if it isn’t, it’ll only be because I’m usually way behind my own schedules.
Dying or can’t be arsed ?
Cymek said:
Bubblecar said:
Thinking this will probably be my last Christmas.And if it isn’t, it’ll only be because I’m usually way behind my own schedules.
Dying or can’t be arsed ?
Things are looking fairly bleak health-wise, worse than I’ve been reporting. Also my mainland sister will be dying soon so there’s that grief to deal with.
Who knows, I might find inner reserves of strength and renewal but I’m not normally an “inner reserves of strength and renewal” type.
Evening all.
Cymek said:
Bubblecar said:
Thinking this will probably be my last Christmas.And if it isn’t, it’ll only be because I’m usually way behind my own schedules.
Dying or can’t be arsed ?
Converting to Buddhism…
Tau.Neutrino said:
Evening all.
How’s it going Tau? I trust your shingles are all cleared up.
Bubblecar said:
Cymek said:
Bubblecar said:
Thinking this will probably be my last Christmas.And if it isn’t, it’ll only be because I’m usually way behind my own schedules.
Dying or can’t be arsed ?
Things are looking fairly bleak health-wise, worse than I’ve been reporting. Also my mainland sister will be dying soon so there’s that grief to deal with.
Who knows, I might find inner reserves of strength and renewal but I’m not normally an “inner reserves of strength and renewal” type.
sorry about that
Have some new headphones.
Bubblecar said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Evening all.
How’s it going Tau? I trust your shingles are all cleared up.
Yes, just some afterpain lurking, my doctor said it will recede over the next few weeks, I can get to sleep and can now sleep on my right side. The lingering pain is under a one, just let’s me know now and then.
Tau.Neutrino said:
Bubblecar said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Evening all.
How’s it going Tau? I trust your shingles are all cleared up.
Yes, just some afterpain lurking, my doctor said it will recede over the next few weeks, I can get to sleep and can now sleep on my right side. The lingering pain is under a one, just let’s me know now and then.
Goodo.
Bubblecar said:
Cymek said:
Bubblecar said:
Thinking this will probably be my last Christmas.And if it isn’t, it’ll only be because I’m usually way behind my own schedules.
Dying or can’t be arsed ?
Things are looking fairly bleak health-wise, worse than I’ve been reporting. Also my mainland sister will be dying soon so there’s that grief to deal with.
Who knows, I might find inner reserves of strength and renewal but I’m not normally an “inner reserves of strength and renewal” type.
Sorry that wasn’t meant to be cold or unfeeling.
Arts said:
So I was chatting with this old(er) couple at dinner from QLD… they were pleasant enough but I learned two things… first is to never tell people of this generation that I am a criminologist…second is that Old has ‘won’ the olympics – which somehow got past me becuase last time I heard it was still up for grabs (ok so I don’t read much news outside of crime stuff) but LOL QLD. have fun with that and I’m sorry (but I think you might have mining to tide you over)
never tell people of this generation that I am a criminologist…
Why? What was the reaction?
Cymek said:
Bubblecar said:
Cymek said:Dying or can’t be arsed ?
Things are looking fairly bleak health-wise, worse than I’ve been reporting. Also my mainland sister will be dying soon so there’s that grief to deal with.
Who knows, I might find inner reserves of strength and renewal but I’m not normally an “inner reserves of strength and renewal” type.
Sorry that wasn’t meant to be cold or unfeeling.
Not to worry, I’m probably over-dramatising, and have years of occasional worthy doings and much time-wasting yet to go :)
If not, I’m not afraid of closing the book, but it would be a shame to do so before it becomes the best or only option.
Bubblecar said:
Cymek said:
Bubblecar said:
Thinking this will probably be my last Christmas.And if it isn’t, it’ll only be because I’m usually way behind my own schedules.
Dying or can’t be arsed ?
Things are looking fairly bleak health-wise, worse than I’ve been reporting. Also my mainland sister will be dying soon so there’s that grief to deal with.
Who knows, I might find inner reserves of strength and renewal but I’m not normally an “inner reserves of strength and renewal” type.
This is not good to hear. Talking to us will help, I’m sure.
Tau.Neutrino said:
Bubblecar said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Evening all.
How’s it going Tau? I trust your shingles are all cleared up.
Yes, just some afterpain lurking, my doctor said it will recede over the next few weeks, I can get to sleep and can now sleep on my right side. The lingering pain is under a one, just let’s me know now and then.
Ah. Great to hear.
Annabell gets her ton.
Well done.
Bubblecar said:
Cymek said:
Bubblecar said:Things are looking fairly bleak health-wise, worse than I’ve been reporting. Also my mainland sister will be dying soon so there’s that grief to deal with.
Who knows, I might find inner reserves of strength and renewal but I’m not normally an “inner reserves of strength and renewal” type.
Sorry that wasn’t meant to be cold or unfeeling.
Not to worry, I’m probably over-dramatising, and have years of occasional worthy doings and much time-wasting yet to go :)
If not, I’m not afraid of closing the book, but it would be a shame to do so before it becomes the best or only option.
You still haven’t fulfilled your dream of going to the Titanic wreck.
Peak Warming Man said:
Annabell gets her ton.
Well done.
Yes, well done Ms Sutherland.
And a total of 298; 299 for the win to go to India.
it’s 9.18pm here and I am trying to stay awake so I can go out in the dark to find glowworms and other glowing things.. but it’s a struggle… I have averaged about 8kms a day of walking for the last 11 days.. and it has started to catch up with me…
but I will stay awake for the glowworms…
Arts said:
it’s 9.18pm here and I am trying to stay awake so I can go out in the dark to find glowworms and other glowing things.. but it’s a struggle… I have averaged about 8kms a day of walking for the last 11 days.. and it has started to catch up with me…but I will stay awake for the glowworms…
Watch out for the ants.
Michael V said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Annabell gets her ton.
Well done.
Yes, well done Ms Sutherland.
And a total of 298; 299 for the win to go to India.
A bridge too far for India I suspect.
Arts said:
it’s 9.18pm here and I am trying to stay awake so I can go out in the dark to find glowworms and other glowing things.. but it’s a struggle… I have averaged about 8kms a day of walking for the last 11 days.. and it has started to catch up with me…but I will stay awake for the glowworms…
I just love glow-worms.
Perth gave 40 a scare today.
Peak Warming Man said:
Michael V said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Annabell gets her ton.
Well done.
Yes, well done Ms Sutherland.
And a total of 298; 299 for the win to go to India.
A bridge too far for India I suspect.
Likely, but we’ll see.
Michael V said:
Arts said:
it’s 9.18pm here and I am trying to stay awake so I can go out in the dark to find glowworms and other glowing things.. but it’s a struggle… I have averaged about 8kms a day of walking for the last 11 days.. and it has started to catch up with me…but I will stay awake for the glowworms…
I just love glow-worms.
So do ants IIRC.
dv said:
Perth gave 40 a scare today.
oof… this was me today
dv said:
Perth gave 40 a scare today.
Hot, hot, hot.
I have a jumper on. It is currently 16.2° C. It may have gotten to 23 or 24. forecast was 26, but it certainly didn’t get that high.
Witty Rejoinder said:
Michael V said:
Arts said:
it’s 9.18pm here and I am trying to stay awake so I can go out in the dark to find glowworms and other glowing things.. but it’s a struggle… I have averaged about 8kms a day of walking for the last 11 days.. and it has started to catch up with me…but I will stay awake for the glowworms…
I just love glow-worms.
So do ants IIRC.
:)
Arts said:
dv said:
Perth gave 40 a scare today.
oof… this was me today
This was my task this arvo. Lay out 400m2 of black plastic in the sun.
Arts said:
dv said:
Perth gave 40 a scare today.
oof… this was me today
Ice rink?
Kingy said:
Arts said:
dv said:
Perth gave 40 a scare today.
oof… this was me today
This was my task this arvo. Lay out 400m2 of black plastic in the sun.
Bloody!
Michael V said:
dv said:
Perth gave 40 a scare today.
Hot, hot, hot.
I have a jumper on. It is currently 16.2° C. It may have gotten to 23 or 24. forecast was 26, but it certainly didn’t get that high.
Same here, I’ve got shorts and a jumper on in the Pearl
dv said:
Perth gave 40 a scare today.
It was nearly 42 near the airport…
Kingy said:
Arts said:
dv said:
Perth gave 40 a scare today.
oof… this was me today
This was my task this arvo. Lay out 400m2 of black plastic in the sun.
Wonder it didn’t melt.
Michael V said:
Arts said:
dv said:
Perth gave 40 a scare today.
oof… this was me today
Ice rink?
no.. glacier
And we are back. The surgeon says he’s now broken up all of the kidney stone, but he left the stent in place because Mr buffy has inflammation in his kidney where the stone was. So there will be yet another trip to theatre for the stent removal, in about 4 weeks time.
Peak Warming Man said:
Michael V said:
dv said:
Perth gave 40 a scare today.
Hot, hot, hot.
I have a jumper on. It is currently 16.2° C. It may have gotten to 23 or 24. forecast was 26, but it certainly didn’t get that high.
Same here, I’ve got shorts and a jumper on in the Pearl
Shorts here, too.
buffy said:
And we are back. The surgeon says he’s now broken up all of the kidney stone, but he left the stent in place because Mr buffy has inflammation in his kidney where the stone was. So there will be yet another trip to theatre for the stent removal, in about 4 weeks time.
Good to hear of a stone-free Mr buffy.
How is he feeling after all that?
Arts said:
Michael V said:
Arts said:oof… this was me today
Ice rink?
no.. glacier
Nice. Fox? Franz Joseph? Aaaagh. I forget the name of the other one.
buffy said:
And we are back. The surgeon says he’s now broken up all of the kidney stone, but he left the stent in place because Mr buffy has inflammation in his kidney where the stone was. So there will be yet another trip to theatre for the stent removal, in about 4 weeks time.
Good luck with it all.
Goodness, you lot have been talkative today while I was sitting in the car listening to RN and NewsRadio and reading some Pratchett.
Thanks for the card, buffy.
The Post Office wrote my surname on the envelope in pencil.
:)
:)
Michael V said:
Arts said:
Michael V said:Ice rink?
no.. glacier
Nice. Fox? Franz Joseph? Aaaagh. I forget the name of the other one.
Franz Joseph.. we flew over the Fox
Michael V said:
Thanks for the card, buffy.The Post Office wrote my surname on the envelope in pencil.
:)
:)
…and I’ve just checked my letterbox and there’s a buffy card here, too :) Ta.
Bubblecar said:
buffy said:
And we are back. The surgeon says he’s now broken up all of the kidney stone, but he left the stent in place because Mr buffy has inflammation in his kidney where the stone was. So there will be yet another trip to theatre for the stent removal, in about 4 weeks time.
Good to hear of a stone-free Mr buffy.
How is he feeling after all that?
A bit flat. He’s had 3 general anaesthetics in a month.
Arts said:
Michael V said:
Arts said:no.. glacier
Nice. Fox? Franz Joseph? Aaaagh. I forget the name of the other one.
Franz Joseph.. we flew over the Fox
And over that big drop?
buffy said:
Bubblecar said:
buffy said:
And we are back. The surgeon says he’s now broken up all of the kidney stone, but he left the stent in place because Mr buffy has inflammation in his kidney where the stone was. So there will be yet another trip to theatre for the stent removal, in about 4 weeks time.
Good to hear of a stone-free Mr buffy.
How is he feeling after all that?
A bit flat. He’s had 3 general anaesthetics in a month.
I hope he is hunky dory soon.
buffy said:
Bubblecar said:
buffy said:
And we are back. The surgeon says he’s now broken up all of the kidney stone, but he left the stent in place because Mr buffy has inflammation in his kidney where the stone was. So there will be yet another trip to theatre for the stent removal, in about 4 weeks time.
Good to hear of a stone-free Mr buffy.
How is he feeling after all that?
A bit flat. He’s had 3 general anaesthetics in a month.
It can take its toll.
buffy said:
Bubblecar said:
buffy said:
And we are back. The surgeon says he’s now broken up all of the kidney stone, but he left the stent in place because Mr buffy has inflammation in his kidney where the stone was. So there will be yet another trip to theatre for the stent removal, in about 4 weeks time.
Good to hear of a stone-free Mr buffy.
How is he feeling after all that?
A bit flat. He’s had 3 general anaesthetics in a month.
I hope gets over that soon.
The 47-year-old Kiwi who just became a billionaire
By Ainsley Thomson and Bruce Einhorn
December 10, 2024 — 6.27am
As a young man, Peter Beck strapped on a homemade jet-pack, put on a pair of roller skates and blasted himself along a road.
Today, the 47-year-old founder’s Rocket Lab USA is being propelled by record revenue forecasts, a clutch of successful rocket launches and investor optimism about the incoming Trump administration’s pro-space policies.
The Nasdaq-listed company’s stock has risen more than 340 per cent in 2024, lifting New Zealander Beck’s personal wealth to $US1.3 billion ($2 billion), according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, which is calculating his fortune for the first time. The primary source of his wealth is a 10.2 per cent stake in California-based Rocket Lab and about $US100 million in proceeds from share sales.
Still, Beck’s fortune lags far behind that of his main competitors in the space industry: SpaceX’s Elon Musk, the world’s richest person with $US376 billion, and Blue Origin’s Jeff Bezos, second richest with $US246 billion.
“Rocket Lab will never have the capital that Jeff and Elon have,” Beck said in an interview with Bloomberg News. “But all that means is you have to be a bit better at hustling, a little bit better at being innovative. You can’t break the laws of physics, no matter how much capital you’ve got.”
Rocket Lab, which conducts launches in the US and New Zealand, is second only to SpaceX among American companies for missions this year. The numbers speak to the gulf between the two firms. Rocket Lab has mounted 13 missions in 2024 compared with more than 120 by SpaceX.
Beck is far from intimidated. Rocket Lab is developing the larger Neutron rocket, projected to come to the launch pad in 2025, that will more directly challenge Musk’s firm.
“If you look at Rocket Lab, we are less than 4 per cent of the valuation of SpaceX,” Beck said, “but as we continue to execute, the difference between those two companies will continue to close.”
A potential roadblock to those ambitions emerged last week when President-elect Donald Trump announced Jared Isaacman, a financial technology executive who is close to Musk and has gone on two SpaceX missions, was his pick to be the new head of NASA. Isaacman has built a $US2.2 billion fortune, according to Bloomberg’s wealth index. That mostly consists of his stake in his company Shift4 Payments, which has provided SpaceX with $US27.5 million in funding.
Musk quickly congratulated Isaacman on his social media platform, X. Still, Beck brushed off concerns about potential bias.
“I can’t imagine that all those conflict rules and processes that have been longstanding and part of the fabric of US democracy are going to get ignored,” he said.
Top honours
It’s been a big year for Beck personally, too. In June, he received one of the top civilian honours in New Zealand – an award that allows him to use the title “sir”.
Becoming Sir Peter, not to mention a billionaire, is a lot for a former dishwasher engineer with no university qualifications.
Beck and his two older brothers grew up with mom Ann and dad Russell in Invercargill, New Zealand’s southernmost city. The brothers spent their time mucking around in Russell’s workshop, creating inventions with his milling machines, lathes and welding gear.
In 1995, the appliance manufacturer Fisher & Paykel, which is based in New Zealand and specialises in high-end dishwashers and washing machines, offered Beck an apprenticeship in the nearby city of Dunedin. Beck went on to spend the next seven years at the company before moving to a government research institute in 2003.
While the skills he developed at work have been valuable, it was what he was doing when he wasn’t working that ultimately lead to the creation of Rocket Lab.
Initially, the young Beck’s hobby was souping up cars. But he told Bloomberg News journalist Ashlee Vance for his 2023 book When the Heavens Went On Sale that the cars didn’t provide enough power or speed.
“So that’s when I started building jet engines,” Beck said. “But they still didn’t produce enough power. And, you know, that’s when I moved into rockets.”
Beck is confident that Elon Musk’s close ties with Donald Trump will benefit the whole space industry.
Beck is confident that Elon Musk’s close ties with Donald Trump will benefit the whole space industry. Credit:AP
He built a rocket-propelled bike, a scooter and then the aforementioned backpack that he built one Christmas.
Commercial reality
In 2006, his passion for rockets got a shot at becoming a commercial reality. Beck joined forces with a wealthy New Zealander who provided $US300,000 for a 50 per cent stake in what would soon become Rocket Lab, according to Vance’s book. The company’s mission was to deliver the world’s first cheap, reliable rocket.
Three years later, it achieved that with the successful launch of Atea-1.
While the company was founded in New Zealand, it moved its headquarters to the US in 2013 and Beck says it’s US-centric. It went public in mid-2021 via a special purpose acquisition company.
Beck has no shortage of challenges ahead. Although SpaceX has made the reuse of Falcon 9 boosters routine, Rocket Lab has yet to deliver on earlier ambitions to send its Electron rockets back to space. It probably won’t try in the near future, Beck said.
“It’s a prioritised project,” he said. “We have a finite amount of resource and that resource is way better spent working on Neutron.”
A lot is riding on the bigger rocket. After previously saying it would be ready this year, Rocket Lab now is aiming for sometime in 2025. The company has already lined up business for the Neutron, announcing last month an agreement for two launches starting from mid-2026 for an undisclosed customer.
Beck has faith the company will continue to do well in Trump’s America, even though his great competitor Musk has the ear of the president-elect. The new administration’s focus on efficiency will benefit Rocket Lab, he said.
“We will never be finished and we’ll never be satisfied,” he said. “We’ll continue to just grow and grow and grow. And that’s part of my DNA but it’s also part of the company’s DNA.”
https://www.theage.com.au/business/companies/the-47-year-old-kiwi-billionaire-taking-on-elon-musk-20241210-p5kx4b.html
Witty Rejoinder said:
The 47-year-old Kiwi who just became a billionaire
By Ainsley Thomson and Bruce Einhorn
December 10, 2024 — 6.27amAs a young man, Peter Beck strapped on a homemade jet-pack, put on a pair of roller skates and blasted himself along a road.
Today, the 47-year-old founder’s Rocket Lab USA is being propelled by record revenue forecasts, a clutch of successful rocket launches and investor optimism about the incoming Trump administration’s pro-space policies.
The Nasdaq-listed company’s stock has risen more than 340 per cent in 2024, lifting New Zealander Beck’s personal wealth to $US1.3 billion ($2 billion), according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, which is calculating his fortune for the first time. The primary source of his wealth is a 10.2 per cent stake in California-based Rocket Lab and about $US100 million in proceeds from share sales.
Still, Beck’s fortune lags far behind that of his main competitors in the space industry: SpaceX’s Elon Musk, the world’s richest person with $US376 billion, and Blue Origin’s Jeff Bezos, second richest with $US246 billion.
“Rocket Lab will never have the capital that Jeff and Elon have,” Beck said in an interview with Bloomberg News. “But all that means is you have to be a bit better at hustling, a little bit better at being innovative. You can’t break the laws of physics, no matter how much capital you’ve got.”
Rocket Lab, which conducts launches in the US and New Zealand, is second only to SpaceX among American companies for missions this year. The numbers speak to the gulf between the two firms. Rocket Lab has mounted 13 missions in 2024 compared with more than 120 by SpaceX.
Beck is far from intimidated. Rocket Lab is developing the larger Neutron rocket, projected to come to the launch pad in 2025, that will more directly challenge Musk’s firm.
“If you look at Rocket Lab, we are less than 4 per cent of the valuation of SpaceX,” Beck said, “but as we continue to execute, the difference between those two companies will continue to close.”
A potential roadblock to those ambitions emerged last week when President-elect Donald Trump announced Jared Isaacman, a financial technology executive who is close to Musk and has gone on two SpaceX missions, was his pick to be the new head of NASA. Isaacman has built a $US2.2 billion fortune, according to Bloomberg’s wealth index. That mostly consists of his stake in his company Shift4 Payments, which has provided SpaceX with $US27.5 million in funding.
Musk quickly congratulated Isaacman on his social media platform, X. Still, Beck brushed off concerns about potential bias.
“I can’t imagine that all those conflict rules and processes that have been longstanding and part of the fabric of US democracy are going to get ignored,” he said.
Top honours
It’s been a big year for Beck personally, too. In June, he received one of the top civilian honours in New Zealand – an award that allows him to use the title “sir”.Becoming Sir Peter, not to mention a billionaire, is a lot for a former dishwasher engineer with no university qualifications.
Beck and his two older brothers grew up with mom Ann and dad Russell in Invercargill, New Zealand’s southernmost city. The brothers spent their time mucking around in Russell’s workshop, creating inventions with his milling machines, lathes and welding gear.
In 1995, the appliance manufacturer Fisher & Paykel, which is based in New Zealand and specialises in high-end dishwashers and washing machines, offered Beck an apprenticeship in the nearby city of Dunedin. Beck went on to spend the next seven years at the company before moving to a government research institute in 2003.
While the skills he developed at work have been valuable, it was what he was doing when he wasn’t working that ultimately lead to the creation of Rocket Lab.
Initially, the young Beck’s hobby was souping up cars. But he told Bloomberg News journalist Ashlee Vance for his 2023 book When the Heavens Went On Sale that the cars didn’t provide enough power or speed.
“So that’s when I started building jet engines,” Beck said. “But they still didn’t produce enough power. And, you know, that’s when I moved into rockets.”
Beck is confident that Elon Musk’s close ties with Donald Trump will benefit the whole space industry.
Beck is confident that Elon Musk’s close ties with Donald Trump will benefit the whole space industry. Credit:APHe built a rocket-propelled bike, a scooter and then the aforementioned backpack that he built one Christmas.
Commercial reality
In 2006, his passion for rockets got a shot at becoming a commercial reality. Beck joined forces with a wealthy New Zealander who provided $US300,000 for a 50 per cent stake in what would soon become Rocket Lab, according to Vance’s book. The company’s mission was to deliver the world’s first cheap, reliable rocket.Three years later, it achieved that with the successful launch of Atea-1.
While the company was founded in New Zealand, it moved its headquarters to the US in 2013 and Beck says it’s US-centric. It went public in mid-2021 via a special purpose acquisition company.
Beck has no shortage of challenges ahead. Although SpaceX has made the reuse of Falcon 9 boosters routine, Rocket Lab has yet to deliver on earlier ambitions to send its Electron rockets back to space. It probably won’t try in the near future, Beck said.
“It’s a prioritised project,” he said. “We have a finite amount of resource and that resource is way better spent working on Neutron.”
A lot is riding on the bigger rocket. After previously saying it would be ready this year, Rocket Lab now is aiming for sometime in 2025. The company has already lined up business for the Neutron, announcing last month an agreement for two launches starting from mid-2026 for an undisclosed customer.
Beck has faith the company will continue to do well in Trump’s America, even though his great competitor Musk has the ear of the president-elect. The new administration’s focus on efficiency will benefit Rocket Lab, he said.
“We will never be finished and we’ll never be satisfied,” he said. “We’ll continue to just grow and grow and grow. And that’s part of my DNA but it’s also part of the company’s DNA.”
https://www.theage.com.au/business/companies/the-47-year-old-kiwi-billionaire-taking-on-elon-musk-20241210-p5kx4b.html
Interesting, ta.
so my sister has bee going on about how much weight I lost. She even checked my fridge today and said to peter that there is plenty of food in there.
So I weighed myself and I have lost a stone ad some odd pounds… but I am sitting just under 10 stone. So it ain’t like I am skinny.
sarahs mum said:
so my sister has bee going on about how much weight I lost. She even checked my fridge today and said to peter that there is plenty of food in there.So I weighed myself and I have lost a stone ad some odd pounds… but I am sitting just under 10 stone. So it ain’t like I am skinny.
Less than half my weight, well done.
sarahs mum said:
so my sister has bee going on about how much weight I lost. She even checked my fridge today and said to peter that there is plenty of food in there.So I weighed myself and I have lost a stone ad some odd pounds… but I am sitting just under 10 stone. So it ain’t like I am skinny.
That was about the weight I was when I met Mrs V. I am now more than 50% greater weight.
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
so my sister has bee going on about how much weight I lost. She even checked my fridge today and said to peter that there is plenty of food in there.So I weighed myself and I have lost a stone ad some odd pounds… but I am sitting just under 10 stone. So it ain’t like I am skinny.
Less than half my weight, well done.
I’ve not been trying. I have skipped meals when I was not hungry. but I have been purchasing fattening items.
sarahs mum said:
so my sister has bee going on about how much weight I lost. She even checked my fridge today and said to peter that there is plenty of food in there.So I weighed myself and I have lost a stone ad some odd pounds… but I am sitting just under 10 stone. So it ain’t like I am skinny.
I reckon I lost a stone today.
Just like Mr Buffy.
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
so my sister has bee going on about how much weight I lost. She even checked my fridge today and said to peter that there is plenty of food in there.So I weighed myself and I have lost a stone ad some odd pounds… but I am sitting just under 10 stone. So it ain’t like I am skinny.
Less than half my weight, well done.
I’ve not been trying. I have skipped meals when I was not hungry. but I have been purchasing fattening items.
I’ve found the 16 hour daily fast works well. But it’s been too often interrupted by drinking days when dieting is put on hold.
Sooner or later I’m going to have to say “booze is out for the next (worthwhile number) of months”.
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:Less than half my weight, well done.
I’ve not been trying. I have skipped meals when I was not hungry. but I have been purchasing fattening items.
I’ve found the 16 hour daily fast works well. But it’s been too often interrupted by drinking days when dieting is put on hold.
Sooner or later I’m going to have to say “booze is out for the next (worthwhile number) of months”.
I think the 16 hour fasts are a good idea too. i also think a few bottles of wine a week is not too much of a problem if you are doing low cal. I am perplexed about all of cream of soups.
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:Less than half my weight, well done.
I’ve not been trying. I have skipped meals when I was not hungry. but I have been purchasing fattening items.
I’ve found the 16 hour daily fast works well. But it’s been too often interrupted by drinking days when dieting is put on hold.
Sooner or later I’m going to have to say “booze is out for the next (worthwhile number) of months”.
I am on my ninth day with no alcohol.
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:I’ve not been trying. I have skipped meals when I was not hungry. but I have been purchasing fattening items.
I’ve found the 16 hour daily fast works well. But it’s been too often interrupted by drinking days when dieting is put on hold.
Sooner or later I’m going to have to say “booze is out for the next (worthwhile number) of months”.
I think the 16 hour fasts are a good idea too. i also think a few bottles of wine a week is not too much of a problem if you are doing low cal. I am perplexed about all of cream of soups.
The soups were introduced while I await removal of the cracked tooth.
They could certainly do with losing cream and some of the oil, which can be done simply enough and I’ll be revising them accordingly.
But I’m finding my guts and bowels really take to these home-made vegetable soups. They result in quick and easy motions with very little clean-up required :)
Michael V said:
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:I’ve not been trying. I have skipped meals when I was not hungry. but I have been purchasing fattening items.
I’ve found the 16 hour daily fast works well. But it’s been too often interrupted by drinking days when dieting is put on hold.
Sooner or later I’m going to have to say “booze is out for the next (worthwhile number) of months”.
I am on my ninth day with no alcohol.
Well done.
Bubblecar said:
Michael V said:
Bubblecar said:I’ve found the 16 hour daily fast works well. But it’s been too often interrupted by drinking days when dieting is put on hold.
Sooner or later I’m going to have to say “booze is out for the next (worthwhile number) of months”.
I am on my ninth day with no alcohol.
Well done.
Ta.
Surprised to learn Nicholas Lyndhurst (Only Fools and Horses, Going Straight, Goodnight Sweetheart) was cast in the new series of Frasier.
But I still won’t watch it.
dv said:
Surprised to learn Nicholas Lyndhurst (Only Fools and Horses, Going Straight, Goodnight Sweetheart) was cast in the new series of Frasier.But I still won’t watch it.
Start a Frasier Hate thread.
Peak Warming Man said:
dv said:
Surprised to learn Nicholas Lyndhurst (Only Fools and Horses, Going Straight, Goodnight Sweetheart) was cast in the new series of Frasier.But I still won’t watch it.
Start a Frasier Hate thread.
You’re up late?
i’m having cornflakes in cold milk, hope nobody minds, seems like the sort of thing that probably wouldn’t bother anyone, but you never know, in this world of expanding exclusivity and sensitivity there could be someone potentially offended
in other news i’m having a sensation of impending sleep, imminent, something like that, pick a word, a soonishness perhaps, precipitated by tiredness, talking shit really, not sure that’s even acceptable English, whatever
dregs of cornflakes drank from the bowl
burp take that
Bubblecar said:
Kingy said:
Arts said:oof… this was me today
This was my task this arvo. Lay out 400m2 of black plastic in the sun.
Wonder it didn’t melt.
I nearly did.
Meanwhile, I got some new tyres on the front of my truck.
Kingy said:
Bubblecar said:
Kingy said:This was my task this arvo. Lay out 400m2 of black plastic in the sun.
Wonder it didn’t melt.
I nearly did.
Meanwhile, I got some new tyres on the front of my truck.
That’s a Good Thing.
dv said:
Surprised to learn Nicholas Lyndhurst (Only Fools and Horses, Going Straight, Goodnight Sweetheart) was cast in the new series of Frasier.But I still won’t watch it.
He looks and sounds much older.
But the show feels very much like going through the motions…and seems to be depending on appearances by cast members of the original.
Michael V said:
Kingy said:
Bubblecar said:Wonder it didn’t melt.
I nearly did.
Meanwhile, I got some new tyres on the front of my truck.
That’s a Good Thing.
I was very lucky that the tyre that failed didn’t fail on the inside, or even the other side, coz I wouldn’t have noticed it.
I’ll be driving around 40 tons around 8 times each way tomorrow through the main street of Margaret River.
It would be unfortunate for all of us if it failed while trying to dodge random shoppers there.
Kingy said:
Michael V said:
Kingy said:I nearly did.
Meanwhile, I got some new tyres on the front of my truck.
That’s a Good Thing.
I was very lucky that the tyre that failed didn’t fail on the inside, or even the other side, coz I wouldn’t have noticed it.
I’ll be driving around 40 tons around 8 times each way tomorrow through the main street of Margaret River.
It would be unfortunate for all of us if it failed while trying to dodge random shoppers there.
There might not be many given the price of random these days.
Kingy said:
Michael V said:
Kingy said:I nearly did.
Meanwhile, I got some new tyres on the front of my truck.
That’s a Good Thing.
I was very lucky that the tyre that failed didn’t fail on the inside, or even the other side, coz I wouldn’t have noticed it.
I’ll be driving around 40 tons around 8 times each way tomorrow through the main street of Margaret River.
It would be unfortunate for all of us if it failed while trying to dodge random shoppers there.
Ooh yeah.
Good morning Holidayers. Presently 10 degrees at the back door and getting light. We are forecast a cloudy 22 degrees.
I need to pick loganberries first thing (when it is light enough) and I’ve still got weeding and maar-ing to do. There is some house cleaning…but I’ll always procrastinate on that sort of thing.
I saw glow worms last night. Another tick off the list that doesn’t exist.
Today a bit of hiking but it’s raining so it will be walking in the rain around a mountain base and a little bit up the mountain.
Arts said:
I saw glow worms last night. Another tick off the list that doesn’t exist.Today a bit of hiking but it’s raining so it will be walking in the rain around a mountain base and a little bit up the mountain.
That sounds like a good day.
Good morning everybody. I hope the day finds you healthy and well, and that it treats you much better than expected.
It’s 15.1°C, 99% RH, overcast and we have a light air. It has been raining, but I don’t think the ORB will record at 9 am as much as it did yesterday, which was 63 mm. BoM forecasts a top of 28° C and a reasonable chance of rain all day.
Agenda: breakfast will be left over chicken and bacon “Double Island” pizza from last night. Lunch undecided, and dinner not yet discussed. More admin, tidying and cleaning to happen.
back from the magic faraway farm, land of happy sheep and chirpy birds, cold out there especially way out the back near the reserve, walks long way cleans few troughs + copper, reads meters are none leaks
before 4:30am was up, straight out there
some tiredness visiting me now, the sleep I didn’t have
so breakfast I have now, will, hears boiling things
Morning pilgrims, clear skies, no rain, praise the lord.
Might get a spot of mowing done later in the day when the grass dries out.
Over.
Morning
Cymek said:
Morning
Morning Cymek.
Today Elbow gave $600 million in aid to PNG.
Like his predecessor Scomo Elbow is a Rugby League tragic.
Missing US woman Hannah Kobayashi found safe after month-long disappearance into Mexico
And they said it was impossible to win
Cymek said:
Missing US woman Hannah Kobayashi found safe after month-long disappearance into MexicoAnd they said it was impossible to win
Blimy, I had written her off.
Peak Warming Man said:
Cymek said:
Missing US woman Hannah Kobayashi found safe after month-long disappearance into MexicoAnd they said it was impossible to win
Blimy, I had written her off.
She’s not a ute.
MFW
43 minutes ago ·
We are truly stoked, witches, to announce today that Kyle and Jackie O continue to plummet in the latest ratings survey released just an hour or so ago this morning.
It’s fantastic-bloody-fucking fantastic.
Not only have the duo dropped yet again in Melbourne (from a base so terminally low they were already drowning in that city), but even in Sydney they’ve lost their long-term top spot by a significant margin (meaning they can no longer even spruik Kyle’s often-repeated claim to be the most popular radio show there):
“The Kyle and Jackie O Show has endured a controversial launch into Melbourne. At the close of 2023, the station’s breakfast show, then hosted by Jase and Lauren, was ranked the third-biggest program in the market. Since their departure, and the arrival of the Sydney duo, the show has been in freefall, ending the year in eighth spot.”
https://www.smh.com.au/…/radio-finishes-its-year-of-big…
Peak Warming Man said:
Morning pilgrims, clear skies, no rain, praise the lord.
Might get a spot of mowing done later in the day when the grass dries out.
Over.
Pfft…why wait for the grass to dry out? Do some extreme mowing!
buffy said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Morning pilgrims, clear skies, no rain, praise the lord.
Might get a spot of mowing done later in the day when the grass dries out.
Over.
Pfft…why wait for the grass to dry out? Do some extreme mowing!
It’s best mown when wet here. We had 3 mm yesterday, and 63 mm the day before. Mowing has just finished.
It’s kind of strange – rain finishes, sun comes out and mowers start up all over the village.
The reason is that there is less damage done to both the lawn and the lawn mower, when the sand is wet.
Michael V said:
buffy said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Morning pilgrims, clear skies, no rain, praise the lord.
Might get a spot of mowing done later in the day when the grass dries out.
Over.
Pfft…why wait for the grass to dry out? Do some extreme mowing!
It’s best mown when wet here. We had 3 mm yesterday, and 63 mm the day before. Mowing has just finished.
It’s kind of strange – rain finishes, sun comes out and mowers start up all over the village.
The reason is that there is less damage done to both the lawn and the lawn mower, when the sand is wet.
Ah.
Michael V said:
buffy said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Morning pilgrims, clear skies, no rain, praise the lord.
Might get a spot of mowing done later in the day when the grass dries out.
Over.
Pfft…why wait for the grass to dry out? Do some extreme mowing!
It’s best mown when wet here. We had 3 mm yesterday, and 63 mm the day before. Mowing has just finished.
It’s kind of strange – rain finishes, sun comes out and mowers start up all over the village.
The reason is that there is less damage done to both the lawn and the lawn mower, when the sand is wet.
At least the sand shower under the mower keeps it clean under there. I know this from the bush mowing, where we are on grey sand. But also, what I am mowing there is different from here. Lush (at times) grass here. Bracken and bush grasses etc over at the covenant.
And yes, I have been mowing this morning. I should go and make sure the underneath of the mower isn’t all caked up actually, now I’ve finished doing that.
And he’s not taking a cent in pay for the work he is doing for the incoming administration, duty is reward in itself.
buffy said:
Michael V said:
buffy said:Pfft…why wait for the grass to dry out? Do some extreme mowing!
It’s best mown when wet here. We had 3 mm yesterday, and 63 mm the day before. Mowing has just finished.
It’s kind of strange – rain finishes, sun comes out and mowers start up all over the village.
The reason is that there is less damage done to both the lawn and the lawn mower, when the sand is wet.
At least the sand shower under the mower keeps it clean under there. I know this from the bush mowing, where we are on grey sand. But also, what I am mowing there is different from here. Lush (at times) grass here. Bracken and bush grasses etc over at the covenant.
:)
I used to get two mows from a set of blades here, and the block is quite small. This was when I mowed conventionally – when it was dry. That improved markedly when we went to wet-grass mowing. Jim down the road does the mowing now, in exchange for borrowing my trailer almost permanently.
Peak Warming Man said:
And he’s not taking a cent in pay for the work he is doing for the incoming administration, duty is reward in itself.
Hail our first super rich overlord
Michael V said:
buffy said:
Michael V said:It’s best mown when wet here. We had 3 mm yesterday, and 63 mm the day before. Mowing has just finished.
It’s kind of strange – rain finishes, sun comes out and mowers start up all over the village.
The reason is that there is less damage done to both the lawn and the lawn mower, when the sand is wet.
At least the sand shower under the mower keeps it clean under there. I know this from the bush mowing, where we are on grey sand. But also, what I am mowing there is different from here. Lush (at times) grass here. Bracken and bush grasses etc over at the covenant.
:)
I used to get two mows from a set of blades here, and the block is quite small. This was when I mowed conventionally – when it was dry. That improved markedly when we went to wet-grass mowing. Jim down the road does the mowing now, in exchange for borrowing my trailer almost permanently.
Jim’s Mowing.
Peak Warming Man said:
Michael V said:
buffy said:At least the sand shower under the mower keeps it clean under there. I know this from the bush mowing, where we are on grey sand. But also, what I am mowing there is different from here. Lush (at times) grass here. Bracken and bush grasses etc over at the covenant.
:)
I used to get two mows from a set of blades here, and the block is quite small. This was when I mowed conventionally – when it was dry. That improved markedly when we went to wet-grass mowing. Jim down the road does the mowing now, in exchange for borrowing my trailer almost permanently.
Jim’s Mowing.
:)
Peak Warming Man said:
Jim’s Mowing.
Good, if he’s in that sort of mood, he can come and do my place.
captain_spalding said:
Peak Warming Man said:Jim’s Mowing.
Good, if he’s in that sort of mood, he can come and do my place.
I’m not sure he needs two trailers, but you can try. Maybe you’ve got something else to trade?
I sets two hoses going, plants likes a bit of moisture, though have to say some cactus I put on a tarp out the back that have no soil seem to be an exception, that was a long time ago now and they seem to have survived quite well, I guess the tarp catches the water well, the plants take it up quite efficiently and it’s expressing an undeadness with a healthy look, defiantly persisting
warming up outside, I see the forecast for sunday has changed a bit, gone from 44C to 43C, so not hot at all now
I wouldn’t mind doing some mowing.. it’s extremely long. But it’s in the shop getting an expensive transmission job done plus other bits and pieces. It’s 6 years old and gets a hammering. Anyway first visit to the doctor. It’s probly due.
Ian said:
I wouldn’t mind doing some mowing.. it’s extremely long. But it’s in the shop getting an expensive transmission job done plus other bits and pieces. It’s 6 years old and gets a hammering. Anyway first visit to the doctor. It’s probly due.
Get them animals eating it.
Michael V said:
Ian said:
I wouldn’t mind doing some mowing.. it’s extremely long. But it’s in the shop getting an expensive transmission job done plus other bits and pieces. It’s 6 years old and gets a hammering. Anyway first visit to the doctor. It’s probly due.Get them animals eating it.
I telling the roos: Get yer heads down.. eat more!
Lunch, a home made hot dog with cheddar cheese and onion washed down with an orange lolly water.
I might even have another.
Ian said:
Michael V said:
Ian said:
I wouldn’t mind doing some mowing.. it’s extremely long. But it’s in the shop getting an expensive transmission job done plus other bits and pieces. It’s 6 years old and gets a hammering. Anyway first visit to the doctor. It’s probly due.Get them animals eating it.
I telling the roos: Get yer heads down.. eat more!
Horses, cattle, donkeys, camels, anything.
Peak Warming Man said:
Lunch, a home made hot dog with cheddar cheese and onion washed down with an orange lolly water.
I might even have another.
Any sauce or mustard?
Michael V said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Lunch, a home made hot dog with cheddar cheese and onion washed down with an orange lolly water.
I might even have another.
Any sauce or mustard?
I neglected to mention the tomato sauce, lashings of it.
Peak Warming Man said:
Lunch, a home made hot dog with cheddar cheese and onion washed down with an orange lolly water.
I might even have another.
Home made as in you minced the pork anuses yourself?
Witty Rejoinder said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Lunch, a home made hot dog with cheddar cheese and onion washed down with an orange lolly water.
I might even have another.
Home made as in you minced the pork anuses yourself?
JudgeMental said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Lunch, a home made hot dog with cheddar cheese and onion washed down with an orange lolly water.
I might even have another.
Home made as in you minced the pork anuses yourself?
mmm yeah they should taste pretty good 19 years on
Peak Warming Man said:
Michael V said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Lunch, a home made hot dog with cheddar cheese and onion washed down with an orange lolly water.
I might even have another.
Any sauce or mustard?
I neglected to mention the tomato sauce, lashings of it.
:)
I see the NZ fascists have banned Greyhound racing.
Peak Warming Man said:
I see the NZ fascists have banned Greyhound racing.
It wouldn’t have happened under Jacinda!
Hitler was very fond of Blondi, keeping her by his side and allowing her to sleep in his bed while in the bunker.
Witty Rejoinder said:
Peak Warming Man said:
I see the NZ fascists have banned Greyhound racing.
It wouldn’t have happened under Jacinda!
Is it not a good thing ?
Witty Rejoinder said:
Peak Warming Man said:
I see the NZ fascists have banned Greyhound racing.
It wouldn’t have happened under Jacinda!
It didn’t happen under Jacinda.
SCIENCE said:
Hitler was very fond of Blondi, keeping her by his side and allowing her to sleep in his bed while in the bunker.
Tuco wasn’t fond of Blondie.
Witty Rejoinder said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Lunch, a home made hot dog with cheddar cheese and onion washed down with an orange lolly water.
I might even have another.
Home made as in you minced the pork anuses yourself?
Pigs arse I did.
Peak Warming Man said:
Cymek said:
Missing US woman Hannah Kobayashi found safe after month-long disappearance into MexicoAnd they said it was impossible to win
Blimy, I had written her off.
We’ve received the second consignment of canid. They are settling in together with some good-natured roughhousing.
dv said:
We’ve received the second consignment of canid. They are settling in together with some good-natured roughhousing.
You shall henceforth be known as Two Dogs.
Peak Warming Man said:
dv said:
We’ve received the second consignment of canid. They are settling in together with some good-natured roughhousing.
You shall henceforth be known as Two Dogs.
две собаки (dve sobaki)
dv said:
We’ve received the second consignment of canid. They are settling in together with some good-natured roughhousing.
Glitches again.
dv said:
We’ve received the second consignment of canid. They are settling in together with some good-natured roughhousing.
Take 2…
Oh dear oh dear oh dear…
kii said:
Glitches again.
Both males
dv said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Cymek said:
Missing US woman Hannah Kobayashi found safe after month-long disappearance into MexicoAnd they said it was impossible to win
Blimy, I had written her off.
Star Trek fans would say she was Kobayashi Marooned
kii said:
dv said:
We’ve received the second consignment of canid. They are settling in together with some good-natured roughhousing.
Take 2…
Oh dear oh dear oh dear…
So you have 2 canids and 3 cervidae
“Veteran broadcaster Clive Robertson has died”
Peak Warming Man said:
“Veteran broadcaster Clive Robertson has died”
He had a wicked sense of the absurd.
dv said:
kii said:
Glitches again.
Both males
Intact?
Peak Warming Man said:
“Veteran broadcaster Clive Robertson has died”
He was good
kii said:
dv said:
kii said:
Glitches again.
Both males
Intact?
I don’t plan to do an inspection but I’m sure they’ve both been done
dv said:
kii said:
dv said:Both males
Intact?
I don’t plan to do an inspection but I’m sure they’ve both been done
Facebook is showing me articles from “China Daily – a state controlled media”.
kii said:
Facebook is showing me articles from “China Daily – a state controlled media”.
I’m looking at news from the USA, a Twitter-controlled state
Peak Warming Man said:
dv said:
We’ve received the second consignment of canid. They are settling in together with some good-natured roughhousing.
You shall henceforth be known as Two Dogs.
LOL
Peak Warming Man said:
“Veteran broadcaster Clive Robertson has died”
Oh.
dv said:
kii said:
Facebook is showing me articles from “China Daily – a state controlled media”.
I’m looking at news from the USA, a Twitter-controlled state
Soon to be a Twit-controlled state.
Peak Warming Man said:
“Veteran broadcaster Clive Robertson has died”
watching various youtube re
I first watched and enjoyed him when working away middle of australia, in the eighties, seemed unusually reflective for TV, eccentric in that context
and still now had another look, enjoy listening to him as much
transition said:
Peak Warming Man said:
“Veteran broadcaster Clive Robertson has died”
watching various youtube re
I first watched and enjoyed him when working away middle of australia, in the eighties, seemed unusually reflective for TV, eccentric in that context
and still now had another look, enjoy listening to him as much
this one now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t74sS5002tY
BTQ-7 Newsworld With Clive Robertson, Wednesday September 16, 1987
transition said:
Peak Warming Man said:
“Veteran broadcaster Clive Robertson has died”
watching various youtube re
I first watched and enjoyed him when working away middle of australia, in the eighties, seemed unusually reflective for TV, eccentric in that context
and still now had another look, enjoy listening to him as much
I used to watch him when I was a kid – he was on shows like Parkinson alot.
Dad has been reading* his autobiography
*by reading I mean it has been on his bedside table for the past 6 months
I was surprised he was only 78, thought he was older
Michael V said:
Peak Warming Man said:
“Veteran broadcaster Clive Robertson has died”
Oh.
Sorry, I don’t know of him. I was thinking of Geoffrey Robertson, who is still alive.
watching..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gSj-4Bg3Cs
Clive Robertson interviews Mr Squiggle on Newsworld 1989
Brindabellas said:
transition said:
Peak Warming Man said:
“Veteran broadcaster Clive Robertson has died”
watching various youtube re
I first watched and enjoyed him when working away middle of australia, in the eighties, seemed unusually reflective for TV, eccentric in that context
and still now had another look, enjoy listening to him as much
I used to watch him when I was a kid – he was on shows like Parkinson alot.
Dad has been reading* his autobiography
*by reading I mean it has been on his bedside table for the past 6 months
I quite enjoyed Clive’s dry humour.
FMD… just saw an add on 7Plus showing various diverse people with the end tagline ‘Yes I a Scientologist’…
Brindabellas said:
transition said:
Peak Warming Man said:
“Veteran broadcaster Clive Robertson has died”
watching various youtube re
I first watched and enjoyed him when working away middle of australia, in the eighties, seemed unusually reflective for TV, eccentric in that context
and still now had another look, enjoy listening to him as much
I used to watch him when I was a kid – he was on shows like Parkinson alot.
Dad has been reading* his autobiography
*by reading I mean it has been on his bedside table for the past 6 months
You might be thinking of Clive James.
Witty Rejoinder said:
I’ve seen those ads here.
FMD… just saw an add on 7Plus showing various diverse people with the end tagline ‘Yes I a Scientologist’…
Witty Rejoinder said:
FMD… just saw an add on 7Plus showing various diverse people with the end tagline ‘Yes I a Scientologist’…
For a new TV show ?
Can you outrun these celebrity cultists scientologists and protect your mid-chlorians from being harvested.
Imagine Tom Cruise and John Travolta chasing you in their full on no holes bared crazy cult mode.
Run you muthafuckers, run
kii said:
Witty Rejoinder said:I’ve seen those ads here.
FMD… just saw an add on 7Plus showing various diverse people with the end tagline ‘Yes I a Scientologist’…
So it’s an ad for scientology??
dv said:
kii said:
Witty Rejoinder said:I’ve seen those ads here.
FMD… just saw an add on 7Plus showing various diverse people with the end tagline ‘Yes I a Scientologist’…
So it’s an ad for scientology??
There’s been an uptick in numbers of people joining nutcase sects so I suppose they were feeling left out?
200 metre ASL contour in SW Western Australia.
Apart from the occasional estuary it appears very straight.
it’s a bit of a grey day here in Hobart but nonetheless I went for a drive with sister and brother-in-law. Had lunch at the top pub in Cygnet. I had the tempura chicken in plum sauce which at least was different to what I normally eat and was a bit of a treat. It’s been years since I was in the Huon valley. lots of orchards in again. When I first moved down here, they were ripping them all out. not everything is in the apple basket though. There are now apples, apricots, cherries and blueberries. And quite a lot of strawberries. less sheep.
dv said:
kii said:
Witty Rejoinder said:I’ve seen those ads here.
FMD… just saw an add on 7Plus showing various diverse people with the end tagline ‘Yes I a Scientologist’…
So it’s an ad for scientology??
It certainly presented that way.
Just remember – the USA is fucking weird.
dv said:
200 metre ASL contour in SW Western Australia.
Apart from the occasional estuary it appears very straight.
You might have to highlight it somehow. I can’t discern what you mean.
sarahs mum said:
it’s a bit of a grey day here in Hobart but nonetheless I went for a drive with sister and brother-in-law. Had lunch at the top pub in Cygnet. I had the tempura chicken in plum sauce which at least was different to what I normally eat and was a bit of a treat. It’s been years since I was in the Huon valley. lots of orchards in again. When I first moved down here, they were ripping them all out. not everything is in the apple basket though. There are now apples, apricots, cherries and blueberries. And quite a lot of strawberries. less sheep.
Sounds like a lovely outing.
Just Googled for the ads about Scientology.
Lots of them.
“Looking past” the embayments of the estuaries, the shape of the coast is much straighter than the current coast.
sarahs mum said:
it’s a bit of a grey day here in Hobart but nonetheless I went for a drive with sister and brother-in-law. Had lunch at the top pub in Cygnet. I had the tempura chicken in plum sauce which at least was different to what I normally eat and was a bit of a treat. It’s been years since I was in the Huon valley. lots of orchards in again. When I first moved down here, they were ripping them all out. not everything is in the apple basket though. There are now apples, apricots, cherries and blueberries. And quite a lot of strawberries. less sheep.
Sounds a pleasant day out. Good to see a variety of fruit trees back in action.
sarahs mum said:
it’s a bit of a grey day here in Hobart but nonetheless I went for a drive with sister and brother-in-law. Had lunch at the top pub in Cygnet. I had the tempura chicken in plum sauce which at least was different to what I normally eat and was a bit of a treat. It’s been years since I was in the Huon valley. lots of orchards in again. When I first moved down here, they were ripping them all out. not everything is in the apple basket though. There are now apples, apricots, cherries and blueberries. And quite a lot of strawberries. less sheep.
How much do you pay for a punet of blueberries SM?
In coles up here they are anywhere between $4 and $8.
Peak Warming Man said:
sarahs mum said:
it’s a bit of a grey day here in Hobart but nonetheless I went for a drive with sister and brother-in-law. Had lunch at the top pub in Cygnet. I had the tempura chicken in plum sauce which at least was different to what I normally eat and was a bit of a treat. It’s been years since I was in the Huon valley. lots of orchards in again. When I first moved down here, they were ripping them all out. not everything is in the apple basket though. There are now apples, apricots, cherries and blueberries. And quite a lot of strawberries. less sheep.
How much do you pay for a punet of blueberries SM?
In coles up here they are anywhere between $4 and $8.
Our Coles has no fresh blueberries at the moment. But the ones they normally stock are from Victoria, $4.50 a punnet.
Bubblecar said:
Peak Warming Man said:
sarahs mum said:
it’s a bit of a grey day here in Hobart but nonetheless I went for a drive with sister and brother-in-law. Had lunch at the top pub in Cygnet. I had the tempura chicken in plum sauce which at least was different to what I normally eat and was a bit of a treat. It’s been years since I was in the Huon valley. lots of orchards in again. When I first moved down here, they were ripping them all out. not everything is in the apple basket though. There are now apples, apricots, cherries and blueberries. And quite a lot of strawberries. less sheep.
How much do you pay for a punet of blueberries SM?
In coles up here they are anywhere between $4 and $8.
Our Coles has no fresh blueberries at the moment. But the ones they normally stock are from Victoria, $4.50 a punnet.
Ta. I haven’t checked whether ours a locally sourced or not.
Peak Warming Man said:
sarahs mum said:
it’s a bit of a grey day here in Hobart but nonetheless I went for a drive with sister and brother-in-law. Had lunch at the top pub in Cygnet. I had the tempura chicken in plum sauce which at least was different to what I normally eat and was a bit of a treat. It’s been years since I was in the Huon valley. lots of orchards in again. When I first moved down here, they were ripping them all out. not everything is in the apple basket though. There are now apples, apricots, cherries and blueberries. And quite a lot of strawberries. less sheep.
How much do you pay for a punet of blueberries SM?
In coles up here they are anywhere between $4 and $8.
sounds on the money.
Clive, get back here, stop lying around.
Tau.Neutrino said:
Clive, get back here, stop lying around.
Clive had that qwerky sense of humour, a rare talent, a great voice.
Tau.Neutrino said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Clive, get back here, stop lying around.Clive had that qwerky sense of humour, a rare talent, a great voice.
And now we have Kyle Sandilands.
:(
captain_spalding said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Clive, get back here, stop lying around.Clive had that qwerky sense of humour, a rare talent, a great voice.
And now we have Kyle Sandilands.
:(
some people feel it’s over the top to talk about the decay of civilization
captain_spalding said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Clive, get back here, stop lying around.Clive had that qwerky sense of humour, a rare talent, a great voice.
And now we have Kyle Sandilands.
:(
Someone could stick a pin in Kyle, he would fly all around the room just like a balloon.
Because compressed hot air can do a lot of damage.
Tau.Neutrino said:
captain_spalding said:
Tau.Neutrino said:Clive had that qwerky sense of humour, a rare talent, a great voice.
And now we have Kyle Sandilands.
:(
Someone could stick a pin in Kyle, he would fly all around the room just like a balloon.
Because compressed hot air can do a lot of damage.
You wouldn’t do it.
Who would willingly burst a bag of shit?
captain_spalding said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Clive, get back here, stop lying around.Clive had that qwerky sense of humour, a rare talent, a great voice.
And now we have Kyle Sandilands.
:(
He elbows mate.
captain_spalding said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Clive, get back here, stop lying around.Clive had that qwerky sense of humour, a rare talent, a great voice.
And now we have Kyle Sandilands.
:(
not if the MFW’s have their way.
sarahs mum said:
captain_spalding said:
Tau.Neutrino said:Clive had that qwerky sense of humour, a rare talent, a great voice.
And now we have Kyle Sandilands.
:(
not if the MFW’s have their way.
mind- i do not see why it is up to them. We are supposed to have public broadcast rules and regs. Surely a morning radio show should not be R rated.
captain_spalding said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
captain_spalding said:And now we have Kyle Sandilands.
:(
Someone could stick a pin in Kyle, he would fly all around the room just like a balloon.
Because compressed hot air can do a lot of damage.
You wouldn’t do it.
Who would willingly burst a bag of shit?
Better to avoid it by using the bypass.
captain_spalding said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
captain_spalding said:And now we have Kyle Sandilands.
:(
Someone could stick a pin in Kyle, he would fly all around the room just like a balloon.
Because compressed hot air can do a lot of damage.
You wouldn’t do it.
Who would willingly burst a bag of shit?
It could explode.
Tau.Neutrino said:
captain_spalding said:
Tau.Neutrino said:Someone could stick a pin in Kyle, he would fly all around the room just like a balloon.
Because compressed hot air can do a lot of damage.
You wouldn’t do it.
Who would willingly burst a bag of shit?
It could explode.
I don’t doubt that it it will. One day.
He’ll push the limits of what can be tolerated beyond their breaking point, and pay the price for that.
Unfortunately, that will tell all of his would-be emulators just where that limit is, and that’s the point at which they’ll operate.
Just as when the speed sign says ’60 kmh’. Everyone does 60 kmh. Who does 50 kmh?
Turtles all the way down…(Photo taken by someone in Melbourne today and uploaded to iNaturalist)
buffy said:
Turtles all the way down…(Photo taken by someone in Melbourne today and uploaded to iNaturalist)
Nice one.
:)
Hugh Cornish has died, he had a good innings, he was 90.
Peak Warming Man said:
Hugh Cornish has died, he had a good innings, he was 90.
Yes
Cheers to the wanker in a silver hilux with the TRUMP 2024 TAKE AMERICA BACK sticker.
buffy said:
Turtles all the way down…(Photo taken by someone in Melbourne today and uploaded to iNaturalist)
arty pose.
Been a female with joey relaxing under the olive tree for a couple of hours. joey has been in and out of the pouch.
JudgeMental said:
Been a female with joey relaxing under the olive tree for a couple of hours. joey has been in and out of the pouch.
Good.
sarahs mum said:
Probably asking to be run over by a Hilux driven by a redneck
party_pants said:
sarahs mum said:
Probably asking to be run over by a Hilux driven by a redneck
neil practices inconvenience. he is a great excuse for getting to work late.
sarahs mum said:
tauto said:
sarahs mum said:
The local council roadworks have been given the seal of approval.
tauto said:
tauto said:
sarahs mum said:
The local council roadworks have been given the seal of approval.
claps
arr, arr, arr!
I finished my paperwork, before midnight like I promises the lady, gold star for me
In the next few weeks I want to do the new Ellenbrook railway line to Whiteman Park, and then do their new electric tramway through the park.
Tau.Neutrino said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Clive, get back here, stop lying around.Clive had that qwerky sense of humour, a rare talent, a great voice.
Documentary feature on Clive Robertson – recorded in 1979. (The quality is a bit ropey at the start, but the remainder is okay.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DPv_gbNnFU
It’s been a big day out again, 9 hours driving 40 tons of sand truck, then about half an hour of compacting before the compactor chewed up and spat out the drive belt, again… fck
Got home and went straight to the station for a fire brigade exec meeting for another 2.5 hours.
Now I’m home. There’s no way that I can catch up on todays chat&stuff, I hope it went well.
I’m having a bourbon or three.
At sunup, I’m refueling the truck and going back at it. First thing is to pull the compactor apart again, and replace the drive belt again, and then put it back together again. There’s a lot of “again“s here. It’s because I’m fkn sick of it. Bastard thing.
party_pants said:
In the next few weeks I want to do the new Ellenbrook railway line to Whiteman Park, and then do their new electric tramway through the park.
A cuppla Choobs vidoes popped up in my list today of the new tramway through the park.
Kingy said:
It’s been a big day out again, 9 hours driving 40 tons of sand truck, then about half an hour of compacting before the compactor chewed up and spat out the drive belt, again… fckGot home and went straight to the station for a fire brigade exec meeting for another 2.5 hours.
Now I’m home. There’s no way that I can catch up on todays chat&stuff, I hope it went well.
I’m having a bourbon or three.
At sunup, I’m refueling the truck and going back at it. First thing is to pull the compactor apart again, and replace the drive belt again, and then put it back together again. There’s a lot of “again“s here. It’s because I’m fkn sick of it. Bastard thing.
Do you have a dam, Mr Kingy?
Woodie said:
party_pants said:
In the next few weeks I want to do the new Ellenbrook railway line to Whiteman Park, and then do their new electric tramway through the park.
A cuppla Choobs vidoes popped up in my list today of the new tramway through the park.
Yeah, mine too.
I’ve gotta do it over the holiday season I think.
You wanna fly over and make it an official Forum PUD?
party_pants said:
Woodie said:
party_pants said:
In the next few weeks I want to do the new Ellenbrook railway line to Whiteman Park, and then do their new electric tramway through the park.
A cuppla Choobs vidoes popped up in my list today of the new tramway through the park.
Yeah, mine too.
I’ve gotta do it over the holiday season I think.
You wanna fly over and make it an official Forum PUD?
The park looked huge with lots of picnic spots available.
I think I’ll be sending my TOOTs and DING DINGs from afar, hey what but!
Woodie said:
Kingy said:
It’s been a big day out again, 9 hours driving 40 tons of sand truck, then about half an hour of compacting before the compactor chewed up and spat out the drive belt, again… fckGot home and went straight to the station for a fire brigade exec meeting for another 2.5 hours.
Now I’m home. There’s no way that I can catch up on todays chat&stuff, I hope it went well.
I’m having a bourbon or three.
At sunup, I’m refueling the truck and going back at it. First thing is to pull the compactor apart again, and replace the drive belt again, and then put it back together again. There’s a lot of “again“s here. It’s because I’m fkn sick of it. Bastard thing.
Do you have a dam, Mr Kingy?
I had one, but it’s full of the remains of compactor drive belts now.
party_pants said:
Woodie said:
party_pants said:
In the next few weeks I want to do the new Ellenbrook railway line to Whiteman Park, and then do their new electric tramway through the park.
A cuppla Choobs vidoes popped up in my list today of the new tramway through the park.
Yeah, mine too.
I’ve gotta do it over the holiday season I think.
You wanna fly over and make it an official Forum PUD?
I reckon there should be a Perth Pud sometime soon.
It’s been too long.
Kingy said:
party_pants said:
Woodie said:A cuppla Choobs vidoes popped up in my list today of the new tramway through the park.
Yeah, mine too.
I’ve gotta do it over the holiday season I think.
You wanna fly over and make it an official Forum PUD?
I reckon there should be a Perth Pud sometime soon.
It’s been too long.
When was the last Pud anywhere?
Kingy said:
party_pants said:
Woodie said:A cuppla Choobs vidoes popped up in my list today of the new tramway through the park.
Yeah, mine too.
I’ve gotta do it over the holiday season I think.
You wanna fly over and make it an official Forum PUD?
I reckon there should be a Perth Pud sometime soon.
It’s been too long.
How about a Whiteman Park PUD?
party_pants said:
Kingy said:
party_pants said:Yeah, mine too.
I’ve gotta do it over the holiday season I think.
You wanna fly over and make it an official Forum PUD?
I reckon there should be a Perth Pud sometime soon.
It’s been too long.
How about a Whiteman Park PUD?
I reckon that’s a great idea.
There are a few Perthites that could come along and meet the people that they often chat to online.
I’m ok with that.
Whiteman Park is fun even if we don’t have a meeting. I’ll be the old bloke there with a mostly grey beard.
Kingy said:
party_pants said:
Kingy said:I reckon there should be a Perth Pud sometime soon.
It’s been too long.
How about a Whiteman Park PUD?
I reckon that’s a great idea.
There are a few Perthites that could come along and meet the people that they often chat to online.
I’m ok with that.
Whiteman Park is fun even if we don’t have a meeting. I’ll be the old bloke there with a mostly grey beard.
Is it worth starting a thread?
I am about to hit the sack for tonight, got an early start tomorrow. Maybe i’ll start a thread tomorrow to see if anyone is keen.
Good morning Holidayers. Presently 12 degrees at the back door and we’ve got a light fog. We are forecast a partly cloudy 23 degrees.
I’m going supermarketing this morning.
Merning. Heading for 21 and slight chance of a shower on this Friday the 13th.
Various creative activities might be happening but I also need to iron some clothes for the dentist tomorrow.
Nil by gob until after 12.
made my own breakfast, chewed it too, swallowed it, reckon got the entire operation covered
i’m thinking oneday, in the future, you’ll be able to get bionic jaws, or some external attachment to help you chew, maybe you’re tired, or it’s an usually thick steak and not as tender as you’d hoped, perhaps in the future the best flavor steaks are as tough as boot leather, who knows
maybe the entire help-chew apparatus is external, you can watch it chew your food up for you, not like a vitamizer, rather this thing has human like teeth, yeah how cool would that be
in other news i’m a bit knackered, if didn’t need get up to urinate, had an external bladder of larger capacity, i’d probably still be in bed, but there you have it, the reality is a finite bladder capacity
hears a raven laughing out there, contemptuous mongrel
Bubblecar said:
Merning. Heading for 21 and slight chance of a shower on this Friday the 13th.
Various creative activities might be happening but I also need to iron some clothes for the dentist tomorrow.
Nil by gob until after 12.
oh we let our dentists iron their own clothes
SCIENCE said:
Bubblecar said:
Merning. Heading for 21 and slight chance of a shower on this Friday the 13th.
Various creative activities might be happening but I also need to iron some clothes for the dentist tomorrow.
Nil by gob until after 12.
oh we let our dentists iron their own clothes
Heh.
transition said:
made my own breakfast, chewed it too, swallowed it, reckon got the entire operation coveredi’m thinking oneday, in the future, you’ll be able to get bionic jaws, or some external attachment to help you chew, maybe you’re tired, or it’s an usually thick steak and not as tender as you’d hoped, perhaps in the future the best flavor steaks are as tough as boot leather, who knows
maybe the entire help-chew apparatus is external, you can watch it chew your food up for you, not like a vitamizer, rather this thing has human like teeth, yeah how cool would that be
in other news i’m a bit knackered, if didn’t need get up to urinate, had an external bladder of larger capacity, i’d probably still be in bed, but there you have it, the reality is a finite bladder capacity
hears a raven laughing out there, contemptuous mongrel
This is essentially what the Sunbeam Stickmaster does. Chews up the saucepan contents, turning it into soup.
Good morning everybody. I hope the day finds you healthy and happy and that it pans out to be an even better day than you want it to be.
It’s 16.0° C, 99% RH, mostly cloudy and we have a light air. It has just finished raining, some of it quite heavy during the night. I haven’t measured the ORB yet. BoM forecasts a top of 28° C and a 20-30% chance of rain all day.
Agenda: spicy scrambled eggs on toast with melting cheeses for breakfast, salad sandwiches for lunch, chicken casserole (probably cacciatore) for dinner.
More admin, cleaning and tidying. Purchase BoM calendars for Christmas presents.
3/10. 15% worse than average.
Morning pilgrims, another spiffing day in the Pearl of the South Specific.
Over.
Hello
Cymek said:
Hello
Greetings.
Nice friendly Airedale dahn the park. Three boys ended in tangled leashes. Kind of weird that such a massive beast is a terrier.
Just got back from the docs. Found out I have lost 20kg somewhere between now and three years ago.
JudgeMental said:
Just got back from the docs. Found out I have lost 20kg somewhere between now and three years ago.
Well that’s probably good, but I suppose possibly not
dv said:
JudgeMental said:
Just got back from the docs. Found out I have lost 20kg somewhere between now and three years ago.
Well that’s probably good, but I suppose possibly not
it is good. just 400 to go.
JudgeMental said:
dv said:
JudgeMental said:
Just got back from the docs. Found out I have lost 20kg somewhere between now and three years ago.
Well that’s probably good, but I suppose possibly not
it is good. just 400 to go.
What’s not so good is seeing a doctor once every three years.
SO, with it now 13 days into December, are we all starting to get merrily into the Christmas spirit?
Just finished whipper-snippering and mowing the grass in both the front and back gardens.
For the second time this week.
Now sitting under the ceiling fan, sucking on ice cubes.
MFW today.
East coast car rentals cancelled their advertising with Kyle and donated money to MFWs.
Hoek modular homes sent them a message saying they were pathetic and to go away with dick emojis on it.
captain_spalding said:
Just finished whipper-snippering and mowing the grass in both the front and back gardens.For the second time this week.
Now sitting under the ceiling fan, sucking on ice cubes.
Good boy.
sarahs mum said:
MFW today.East coast car rentals cancelled their advertising with Kyle and donated money to MFWs.
Hoek modular homes sent them a message saying they were pathetic and to go away with dick emojis on it.
Moral of the tale: don’t buy a Hoek modular home.
JudgeMental said:
Just got back from the docs. Found out I have lost 20kg somewhere between now and three years ago.
Did you have any idea?
Michael V said:
JudgeMental said:
Just got back from the docs. Found out I have lost 20kg somewhere between now and three years ago.
Did you have any idea?
it was the check in baggage
Michael V said:
JudgeMental said:
Just got back from the docs. Found out I have lost 20kg somewhere between now and three years ago.
Did you have any idea?
Nah. I haven’t changed anything in what I eat or do.
JudgeMental said:
Michael V said:
JudgeMental said:
Just got back from the docs. Found out I have lost 20kg somewhere between now and three years ago.
Did you have any idea?
Nah. I haven’t changed anything in what I eat or do.
isn’t unintentional weight loss considered a concerning sign
JudgeMental said:
Michael V said:
JudgeMental said:
Just got back from the docs. Found out I have lost 20kg somewhere between now and three years ago.
Did you have any idea?
Nah. I haven’t changed anything in what I eat or do.
Huh.
Do you think it is a good thing, or could it be sinister?
SCIENCE said:
JudgeMental said:
Michael V said:
Did you have any idea?
Nah. I haven’t changed anything in what I eat or do.
isn’t unintentional weight loss considered a concerning sign
no. the doc was happy about it. and 20kg over 3 years isn’t a drastic change.
Michael V said:
JudgeMental said:
Michael V said:Did you have any idea?
Nah. I haven’t changed anything in what I eat or do.
Huh.
Do you think it is a good thing, or could it be sinister?
a good thing. I have regular blood tests and doc appointments.
I’m still 130kg so not exactly wasting away.
JudgeMental said:
SCIENCE said:JudgeMental said:
Nah. I haven’t changed anything in what I eat or do.
isn’t unintentional weight loss considered a concerning sign
no. the doc was happy about it. and 20kg over 3 years isn’t a drastic change.
How do you clothes still fit you?
JudgeMental said:
Michael V said:
JudgeMental said:Nah. I haven’t changed anything in what I eat or do.
Huh.
Do you think it is a good thing, or could it be sinister?
a good thing. I have regular blood tests and doc appointments.
Nods.
JudgeMental said:
I’m still 130kg so not exactly wasting away.
Fair comment.
Witty Rejoinder said:
JudgeMental said:
SCIENCE said:isn’t unintentional weight loss considered a concerning sign
no. the doc was happy about it. and 20kg over 3 years isn’t a drastic change.
How do you clothes still fit you?
Elves adjust them when he is asleep
JudgeMental said:
SCIENCE said:JudgeMental said:
Nah. I haven’t changed anything in what I eat or do.
isn’t unintentional weight loss considered a concerning sign
no. the doc was happy about it. and 20kg over 3 years isn’t a drastic change.
You only talk to your doctor once every 3 years, we talk to you every day.
Cymek said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
JudgeMental said:no. the doc was happy about it. and 20kg over 3 years isn’t a drastic change.
How do you clothes still fit you?
Elves adjust them when he is asleep
I misread that as ‘Elvis adjusts them…’
Which is an even more bizarre idea.
Test starts tomorrow, it’s not traditional to start a test on a Saturday.
My world is being turned upside down.
It’s not right.
Someone told me I look like Merv Hughes.
It’s not really a compliment nor an insult so I just said “Okay”.
dv said:
Someone told me I look like Merv Hughes.It’s not really a compliment nor an insult so I just said “Okay”.
3/10 in the ABC News Quiz, fuckin hell
furious said:
dv said:
Someone told me I look like Merv Hughes.
It’s not really a compliment nor an insult so I just said “Okay”.
ethanolamine
SCIENCE said:
ethanolamine
iodohydroxylamine
dv said:
Someone told me I look like Merv Hughes.It’s not really a compliment nor an insult so I just said “Okay”.
you don’t look a bit like merv.
JudgeMental said:
dv said:
Someone told me I look like Merv Hughes.It’s not really a compliment nor an insult so I just said “Okay”.
you don’t look a bit like merv.
(shrugs) It certainly surprised me
White to play, mate in 14 moves…
fsm said:
White to play, mate in 14 moves…
You keep checking with the rooks until the queen becomes available then it’s all over.
https://youtu.be/6q_BE5KPp18?si=jqM1kcXPHpDVFnLQ
City Nerd: Self-indentified Rurality
Michael V said:
JudgeMental said:
Just got back from the docs. Found out I have lost 20kg somewhere between now and three years ago.
Did you have any idea?
Like pants falling down?
dv said:
https://youtu.be/6q_BE5KPp18?si=jqM1kcXPHpDVFnLQCity Nerd: Self-indentified Rurality
Rurality, phoaw.
As you can probably tell, I’m in catchup at the moment. I went and read and napped for the afternoon. Again. I suspect this is post viral fatigue from the cold that is just about finished. I wish it would hurry up.
dv said:
3/10 in the ABC News Quiz, fuckin hell
I got 4. Guessing was not working very well today.
buffy said:
dv said:
3/10 in the ABC News Quiz, fuckin hell
I got 4. Guessing was not working very well today.
30/50
My son just ate a grilled cheese sandwich with herring on it.
dv said:
My son just ate a grilled cheese sandwich with herring on it.
Tinned or pickled?
Bubblecar said:
dv said:
My son just ate a grilled cheese sandwich with herring on it.
Tinned or pickled?
This was tinned
dv said:
Bubblecar said:
dv said:
My son just ate a grilled cheese sandwich with herring on it.
Tinned or pickled?
This was tinned
Should be tasty enough.
Mel Brooks was Jimmy Durante.
Bubblecar said:
dv said:
Bubblecar said:Tinned or pickled?
This was tinned
Should be tasty enough.
I dare say but it seems weird to me.
Not “darjeeling and Sprite” weird but still.
dv said:
Bubblecar said:
dv said:This was tinned
Should be tasty enough.
I dare say but it seems weird to me.
Not “darjeeling and Sprite” weird but still.
Now that would be weird, but kippers and cheese, herrings and cheese or sardines and cheese not so much.
dv said:
Bubblecar said:
dv said:This was tinned
Should be tasty enough.
I dare say but it seems weird to me.
Not “darjeeling and Sprite” weird but still.
Well, pickled herrings and sour cream are a common pairing, so tinned herrings with cheese is not terribly offbeat.
dv said:
Bubblecar said:
dv said:This was tinned
Should be tasty enough.
I dare say but it seems weird to me.
Not “darjeeling and Sprite” weird but still.
tuna, cheese and onion sangers are the bombe.
JudgeMental said:
dv said:
Bubblecar said:Should be tasty enough.
I dare say but it seems weird to me.
Not “darjeeling and Sprite” weird but still.
tuna, cheese and onion sangers are the bombe.
And cheesy tuna mornay is an old Aussie favourite.
And for once, a lovely feel-good story.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-13/jin-woodman-dylan-alcott-effect-aus-open-wheelchair-tennis/104718016
Bubblecar said:
JudgeMental said:
dv said:I dare say but it seems weird to me.
Not “darjeeling and Sprite” weird but still.
tuna, cheese and onion sangers are the bombe.
And cheesy tuna mornay is an old Aussie favourite.
Yeah tuna and cheese seens normal
dv said:
Bubblecar said:
JudgeMental said:tuna, cheese and onion sangers are the bombe.
And cheesy tuna mornay is an old Aussie favourite.
Yeah tuna and cheese seens normal
My mother used to makea tuna, cheese and rice casserole when I was young.
aliens are diverting the TV signal, lady says went all blocky earlier along with alien squeaky speak, they manipulate the atmosphere, cause layers, ducts to steer the signal, recharge their spaceship batteries
just between you and me, don’t want to cause panic and hysteria, supermarkets selling out of alfoil
Scientists pinpoint when humans had babies with Neanderthals
Neanderthals interbred with modern humans 47,000 years ago, passing down DNA that still exists in many modern-day people, according to two new studies.
December 12, 2024 at 2:00 p.m. EST Today at 2:00 p.m. EST
By Carolyn Y. Johnson
A pair of new studies sheds light on a pivotal but mysterious chapter of the human origin story, revealing that modern humans and Neanderthals had babies together for an extended period, peaking 47,000 years ago — leaving genetic fingerprints in modern-day people.
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Scientists have long known that Neanderthals and humans had offspring and that among them were our ancestors. Today, people from around the world who are descended from the group of humans that left Africa and successfully settled Eurasia still contain a vestige of Neanderthal DNA in their genomes.
But the timing and specifics of these interspecies pairings have been debated. The new results, published Thursday in the journals Science and Nature, don’t upend our understanding of this period but enrich it with complexities and details.
To gain greater insight, one group of scientists analyzed genomes from 275 present-day and 59 prehistoric humans who lived between 2,200 and 45,000 years ago, looking for segments of Neanderthal DNA and trying to estimate when they entered the human genome. They report in Science that Neanderthals and humans interbred for 7,000 years starting about 50,500 years ago.
A second group of researchers disclosed in Nature a new line of evidence by sequencing the oldest human genomes yet, bringing to life a 45,000-year-old human family, including a mother and baby whose Neanderthal ancestry traced to 80 generations earlier.
“It paints a different story than this rare encounter. Whenever you ran into a Neanderthal, it was okay to have a baby with a Neanderthal,” said Fernando Villanea, an anthropologist at the University of Colorado at Boulder who was not involved in the studies. “It just paints this story that makes sense to how the real world works. For a long period of time, humans were running into Neanderthals, and they were having babies.”
Using DNA to time travel
Modern humans, Homo sapiens, originated in Africa about 300,000 years ago. Somewhere around 50,000 to 60,000 years ago, a key group left the continent and encountered Neanderthals, a hominin relative that was established across western Eurasia but went extinct about 39,000 years ago.
Neanderthals have often been caricatured as brutish and primitive, and for years scientists debated whether they ever interbred with humans.
Research into ancient DNA, which won the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine in 2022, proved that Neanderthals are our ancestors, too. Today, people who descended from the population that left Africa still have faint remnants of Neanderthal ancestry in their genome — somewhere between 1 and 3 percent of their DNA. That includes genes involved in skin pigmentation, the immune response and even whether you’re a morning person.
The nature, duration and frequency of “admixture events” — when humans and Neanderthals paired up and had offspring — has long been unclear. The Science paper suggests these weren’t exceptional trysts but a way of life. Over a 7,000-year period beginning about 50,000 years ago, Neanderthals and humans had babies. For a large part of the modern-day population who trace their ancestry to the group that left Africa, 1 out of every 20 ancestors would have been a Neanderthal during this time period.
Genetics can’t reveal where this interbreeding happened, but many scientists speculate it occurred in the Middle East.
“Obviously, we cannot time travel, but this data is allowing us to time travel and see what’s happening 50,000 years ago in our history,” said Priya Moorjani, an assistant professor of molecular and cell biology at the University of California at Berkeley and a senior author of the study published in Science.
The study also underscores that our branch of humanity is just one of many on the family tree. The group of humans that left Africa didn’t depart as a monolithic group, with one prolonged multimillennia fling with Neanderthals. Some mingled with Neanderthals repeatedly but died out. Others arrived in Europe far earlier than the migration that led to present-day people but didn’t make it to the present.
A “cool thing is that we begin to see that the very first modern humans that came to Europe were divided into different populations, some of which mixed with Neandertals locally in Europe … and others that did not,” Svante Paabo, an evolutionary geneticist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, wrote in an email. Ancient DNA recovered from human remains in Romania and Bulgaria, for example, reveal humans who lived more than 40,000 years ago but had quite recent Neanderthal ancestors.
“Interesting also that none of these contributed their DNA to present-day people in Europe,” said Paabo, who was not involved in the new study.
The oldest modern human family
Beneath a castle in Ranis, Germany, an archaeological excavation in the 1930s unearthed ancient bone fragments and stone tools from more than 41,000 years ago. Archaeologists debated if these tools, from what’s called the Lincombian-Ranisian-Jerzmanowician culture, were made by humans or Neanderthals.
Drawing on a more recent excavation of the same site and by sifting painstakingly through dozens of boxes to find bone fragments that might have been misclassified as coming from other animals, researchers were able to gather enough DNA to reveal who this mystery population was. A research team led by scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology showed this year, using one kind of DNA, that they were humans who lived 45,000 years ago.
In the Nature paper, they were able to reconstruct their genomes. A mother and baby daughter, as well as another relative, were among a half-dozen individuals at the site. To their surprise, they also found that two of the Ranis individuals could have been distant cousins or great-great-great grandparents or children of a female whose skull was unearthed at Zlaty kun in the Czech Republic.
“Ranis is very exciting and gives us some sort of insight into the oldest modern human family that we have genetic data for,” said Arev P. Sümer, a computational biologist at Max Planck and the lead author of the Nature paper.
While these individuals are not related to modern-day people, they are a very close branch of the family tree. About 47,000 years ago, 80 generations before these people were born, their ancestors included Neanderthals — in the same interbreeding event that is a part of our history.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2024/12/12/neanderthals-humans-interbreeding/?
transition said:
aliens are diverting the TV signal, lady says went all blocky earlier along with alien squeaky speak, they manipulate the atmosphere, cause layers, ducts to steer the signal, recharge their spaceship batteriesjust between you and me, don’t want to cause panic and hysteria, supermarkets selling out of alfoil
Big iron bird he come out of sky, make squiggly lines all over telly.
Witty Rejoinder said:
Scientists pinpoint when humans had babies with Neanderthals
Neanderthals interbred with modern humans 47,000 years ago, passing down DNA that still exists in many modern-day people, according to two new studies.December 12, 2024 at 2:00 p.m. EST Today at 2:00 p.m. EST
By Carolyn Y. JohnsonA pair of new studies sheds light on a pivotal but mysterious chapter of the human origin story, revealing that modern humans and Neanderthals had babies together for an extended period, peaking 47,000 years ago — leaving genetic fingerprints in modern-day people.
You are what you read. Reveal your 2024 reader type with Newsprint.
Scientists have long known that Neanderthals and humans had offspring and that among them were our ancestors. Today, people from around the world who are descended from the group of humans that left Africa and successfully settled Eurasia still contain a vestige of Neanderthal DNA in their genomes.But the timing and specifics of these interspecies pairings have been debated. The new results, published Thursday in the journals Science and Nature, don’t upend our understanding of this period but enrich it with complexities and details.
To gain greater insight, one group of scientists analyzed genomes from 275 present-day and 59 prehistoric humans who lived between 2,200 and 45,000 years ago, looking for segments of Neanderthal DNA and trying to estimate when they entered the human genome. They report in Science that Neanderthals and humans interbred for 7,000 years starting about 50,500 years ago.
A second group of researchers disclosed in Nature a new line of evidence by sequencing the oldest human genomes yet, bringing to life a 45,000-year-old human family, including a mother and baby whose Neanderthal ancestry traced to 80 generations earlier.
“It paints a different story than this rare encounter. Whenever you ran into a Neanderthal, it was okay to have a baby with a Neanderthal,” said Fernando Villanea, an anthropologist at the University of Colorado at Boulder who was not involved in the studies. “It just paints this story that makes sense to how the real world works. For a long period of time, humans were running into Neanderthals, and they were having babies.”
Using DNA to time travel
Modern humans, Homo sapiens, originated in Africa about 300,000 years ago. Somewhere around 50,000 to 60,000 years ago, a key group left the continent and encountered Neanderthals, a hominin relative that was established across western Eurasia but went extinct about 39,000 years ago.Neanderthals have often been caricatured as brutish and primitive, and for years scientists debated whether they ever interbred with humans.
Research into ancient DNA, which won the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine in 2022, proved that Neanderthals are our ancestors, too. Today, people who descended from the population that left Africa still have faint remnants of Neanderthal ancestry in their genome — somewhere between 1 and 3 percent of their DNA. That includes genes involved in skin pigmentation, the immune response and even whether you’re a morning person.
The nature, duration and frequency of “admixture events” — when humans and Neanderthals paired up and had offspring — has long been unclear. The Science paper suggests these weren’t exceptional trysts but a way of life. Over a 7,000-year period beginning about 50,000 years ago, Neanderthals and humans had babies. For a large part of the modern-day population who trace their ancestry to the group that left Africa, 1 out of every 20 ancestors would have been a Neanderthal during this time period.
Genetics can’t reveal where this interbreeding happened, but many scientists speculate it occurred in the Middle East.
“Obviously, we cannot time travel, but this data is allowing us to time travel and see what’s happening 50,000 years ago in our history,” said Priya Moorjani, an assistant professor of molecular and cell biology at the University of California at Berkeley and a senior author of the study published in Science.
The study also underscores that our branch of humanity is just one of many on the family tree. The group of humans that left Africa didn’t depart as a monolithic group, with one prolonged multimillennia fling with Neanderthals. Some mingled with Neanderthals repeatedly but died out. Others arrived in Europe far earlier than the migration that led to present-day people but didn’t make it to the present.
A “cool thing is that we begin to see that the very first modern humans that came to Europe were divided into different populations, some of which mixed with Neandertals locally in Europe … and others that did not,” Svante Paabo, an evolutionary geneticist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, wrote in an email. Ancient DNA recovered from human remains in Romania and Bulgaria, for example, reveal humans who lived more than 40,000 years ago but had quite recent Neanderthal ancestors.
“Interesting also that none of these contributed their DNA to present-day people in Europe,” said Paabo, who was not involved in the new study.
The oldest modern human family
Beneath a castle in Ranis, Germany, an archaeological excavation in the 1930s unearthed ancient bone fragments and stone tools from more than 41,000 years ago. Archaeologists debated if these tools, from what’s called the Lincombian-Ranisian-Jerzmanowician culture, were made by humans or Neanderthals.Drawing on a more recent excavation of the same site and by sifting painstakingly through dozens of boxes to find bone fragments that might have been misclassified as coming from other animals, researchers were able to gather enough DNA to reveal who this mystery population was. A research team led by scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology showed this year, using one kind of DNA, that they were humans who lived 45,000 years ago.
In the Nature paper, they were able to reconstruct their genomes. A mother and baby daughter, as well as another relative, were among a half-dozen individuals at the site. To their surprise, they also found that two of the Ranis individuals could have been distant cousins or great-great-great grandparents or children of a female whose skull was unearthed at Zlaty kun in the Czech Republic.
“Ranis is very exciting and gives us some sort of insight into the oldest modern human family that we have genetic data for,” said Arev P. Sümer, a computational biologist at Max Planck and the lead author of the Nature paper.
While these individuals are not related to modern-day people, they are a very close branch of the family tree. About 47,000 years ago, 80 generations before these people were born, their ancestors included Neanderthals — in the same interbreeding event that is a part of our history.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2024/12/12/neanderthals-humans-interbreeding/?
Thread worthy.
Witty Rejoinder said:
… and even whether you’re a morning person.
Oh no!
Peak Warming Man said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Scientists pinpoint when humans had babies with Neanderthals
Neanderthals interbred with modern humans 47,000 years ago, passing down DNA that still exists in many modern-day people, according to two new studies.December 12, 2024 at 2:00 p.m. EST Today at 2:00 p.m. EST
By Carolyn Y. JohnsonA pair of new studies sheds light on a pivotal but mysterious chapter of the human origin story, revealing that modern humans and Neanderthals had babies together for an extended period, peaking 47,000 years ago — leaving genetic fingerprints in modern-day people.
You are what you read. Reveal your 2024 reader type with Newsprint.
Scientists have long known that Neanderthals and humans had offspring and that among them were our ancestors. Today, people from around the world who are descended from the group of humans that left Africa and successfully settled Eurasia still contain a vestige of Neanderthal DNA in their genomes.But the timing and specifics of these interspecies pairings have been debated. The new results, published Thursday in the journals Science and Nature, don’t upend our understanding of this period but enrich it with complexities and details.
To gain greater insight, one group of scientists analyzed genomes from 275 present-day and 59 prehistoric humans who lived between 2,200 and 45,000 years ago, looking for segments of Neanderthal DNA and trying to estimate when they entered the human genome. They report in Science that Neanderthals and humans interbred for 7,000 years starting about 50,500 years ago.
A second group of researchers disclosed in Nature a new line of evidence by sequencing the oldest human genomes yet, bringing to life a 45,000-year-old human family, including a mother and baby whose Neanderthal ancestry traced to 80 generations earlier.
“It paints a different story than this rare encounter. Whenever you ran into a Neanderthal, it was okay to have a baby with a Neanderthal,” said Fernando Villanea, an anthropologist at the University of Colorado at Boulder who was not involved in the studies. “It just paints this story that makes sense to how the real world works. For a long period of time, humans were running into Neanderthals, and they were having babies.”
Using DNA to time travel
Modern humans, Homo sapiens, originated in Africa about 300,000 years ago. Somewhere around 50,000 to 60,000 years ago, a key group left the continent and encountered Neanderthals, a hominin relative that was established across western Eurasia but went extinct about 39,000 years ago.Neanderthals have often been caricatured as brutish and primitive, and for years scientists debated whether they ever interbred with humans.
Research into ancient DNA, which won the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine in 2022, proved that Neanderthals are our ancestors, too. Today, people who descended from the population that left Africa still have faint remnants of Neanderthal ancestry in their genome — somewhere between 1 and 3 percent of their DNA. That includes genes involved in skin pigmentation, the immune response and even whether you’re a morning person.
The nature, duration and frequency of “admixture events” — when humans and Neanderthals paired up and had offspring — has long been unclear. The Science paper suggests these weren’t exceptional trysts but a way of life. Over a 7,000-year period beginning about 50,000 years ago, Neanderthals and humans had babies. For a large part of the modern-day population who trace their ancestry to the group that left Africa, 1 out of every 20 ancestors would have been a Neanderthal during this time period.
Genetics can’t reveal where this interbreeding happened, but many scientists speculate it occurred in the Middle East.
“Obviously, we cannot time travel, but this data is allowing us to time travel and see what’s happening 50,000 years ago in our history,” said Priya Moorjani, an assistant professor of molecular and cell biology at the University of California at Berkeley and a senior author of the study published in Science.
The study also underscores that our branch of humanity is just one of many on the family tree. The group of humans that left Africa didn’t depart as a monolithic group, with one prolonged multimillennia fling with Neanderthals. Some mingled with Neanderthals repeatedly but died out. Others arrived in Europe far earlier than the migration that led to present-day people but didn’t make it to the present.
A “cool thing is that we begin to see that the very first modern humans that came to Europe were divided into different populations, some of which mixed with Neandertals locally in Europe … and others that did not,” Svante Paabo, an evolutionary geneticist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, wrote in an email. Ancient DNA recovered from human remains in Romania and Bulgaria, for example, reveal humans who lived more than 40,000 years ago but had quite recent Neanderthal ancestors.
“Interesting also that none of these contributed their DNA to present-day people in Europe,” said Paabo, who was not involved in the new study.
The oldest modern human family
Beneath a castle in Ranis, Germany, an archaeological excavation in the 1930s unearthed ancient bone fragments and stone tools from more than 41,000 years ago. Archaeologists debated if these tools, from what’s called the Lincombian-Ranisian-Jerzmanowician culture, were made by humans or Neanderthals.Drawing on a more recent excavation of the same site and by sifting painstakingly through dozens of boxes to find bone fragments that might have been misclassified as coming from other animals, researchers were able to gather enough DNA to reveal who this mystery population was. A research team led by scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology showed this year, using one kind of DNA, that they were humans who lived 45,000 years ago.
In the Nature paper, they were able to reconstruct their genomes. A mother and baby daughter, as well as another relative, were among a half-dozen individuals at the site. To their surprise, they also found that two of the Ranis individuals could have been distant cousins or great-great-great grandparents or children of a female whose skull was unearthed at Zlaty kun in the Czech Republic.
“Ranis is very exciting and gives us some sort of insight into the oldest modern human family that we have genetic data for,” said Arev P. Sümer, a computational biologist at Max Planck and the lead author of the Nature paper.
While these individuals are not related to modern-day people, they are a very close branch of the family tree. About 47,000 years ago, 80 generations before these people were born, their ancestors included Neanderthals — in the same interbreeding event that is a part of our history.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2024/12/12/neanderthals-humans-interbreeding/?
Thread worthy.
I’m not some sort of thread fairy…
“Third lake-effect storm hits the US
A significant storm system moved across the eastern US on December 12, triggering another Arctic blast and dumping 10 to 20 inches (approximately 25 to 51 cm) of lake-effect snow downwind of the Great Lakes. This marked the third round of intense snowfall in just two weeks as Mother Nature’s snow machine ramped up once again. Friday’s forecast calls for heavy snow, strong winds, plummeting temperatures, and dangerously low wind chills.
In recent weeks, the US and Canada have been hit hard by lake-effect snowstorms, blanketing many cities in snow and placing 19 million people under winter alerts. These storms occur when cold winds sweep across warmer bodies of water, causing moisture to rise and heavy snow to fall downwind
“
Never heard of it, I think they are just making it up as they go now.
Peak Warming Man said:
“Third lake-effect storm hits the USA significant storm system moved across the eastern US on December 12, triggering another Arctic blast and dumping 10 to 20 inches (approximately 25 to 51 cm) of lake-effect snow downwind of the Great Lakes. This marked the third round of intense snowfall in just two weeks as Mother Nature’s snow machine ramped up once again. Friday’s forecast calls for heavy snow, strong winds, plummeting temperatures, and dangerously low wind chills.
In recent weeks, the US and Canada have been hit hard by lake-effect snowstorms, blanketing many cities in snow and placing 19 million people under winter alerts. These storms occur when cold winds sweep across warmer bodies of water, causing moisture to rise and heavy snow to fall downwind
“
Never heard of it, I think they are just making it up as they go now.
Yeah nah
My sister’s flight has left LA and is about 1/3 of the way into the 10,000km flight to Melbourne. She gets in to Melbourne tomorrow.
buffy said:
My sister’s flight has left LA and is about 1/3 of the way into the 10,000km flight to Melbourne. She gets in to Melbourne tomorrow.
What’s your sisters star sign.
Peak Warming Man said:
buffy said:
My sister’s flight has left LA and is about 1/3 of the way into the 10,000km flight to Melbourne. She gets in to Melbourne tomorrow.
What’s your sisters star sign.
Mine’s Pisces
February 20 to March 20
The past could hold the key to your present. A chance discovery about your ancestors might deliver a profound insight into who you are and what truly drives you. This may not be a quirky fact, it’s a revelation that connects the dots in your soul’s journey, giving you clarity about your desires and direction. Explore family stories, as the wisdom you uncover can be life changing.
I’m not going to do anything about it, I’ll just take what comes.
Peak Warming Man said:
buffy said:
My sister’s flight has left LA and is about 1/3 of the way into the 10,000km flight to Melbourne. She gets in to Melbourne tomorrow.
What’s your sisters star sign.
9th April, whatever that is.
buffy said:
Peak Warming Man said:
buffy said:
My sister’s flight has left LA and is about 1/3 of the way into the 10,000km flight to Melbourne. She gets in to Melbourne tomorrow.
What’s your sisters star sign.
9th April, whatever that is.
Aries
March 21 to April 20
Your words can have extra power today under a potent Moon/Pluto link. A casual comment or observation might accidentally unleash a truth bomb, catching someone off guard. Suddenly, they may begin confessing more than you ever expected. Whether it’s a juicy secret or a heartfelt revelation, sometimes honesty is exactly what’s needed to clear the air and bring about a reset.
Don’t say too much tomorrow.
Peak Warming Man said:
buffy said:
Peak Warming Man said:What’s your sisters star sign.
9th April, whatever that is.
Aries
March 21 to April 20Your words can have extra power today under a potent Moon/Pluto link. A casual comment or observation might accidentally unleash a truth bomb, catching someone off guard. Suddenly, they may begin confessing more than you ever expected. Whether it’s a juicy secret or a heartfelt revelation, sometimes honesty is exactly what’s needed to clear the air and bring about a reset.
Don’t say too much tomorrow.
I won’t see her until after Christmas… she is going from the International to the Domestic terminal and catching a flight to our brother in Hobart. They get on fine. It will be fine.
:)
It’s oppressively humid, maybe I should have a bottle of scotch to help me sleep, I’ll see what bubblecar thinks.
Peak Warming Man said:
It’s oppressively humid, maybe I should have a bottle of scotch to help me sleep, I’ll see what bubblecar thinks.
I asked ChatGPT:
>It’s oppressively humid, so should I have a bottle of scotch to help me sleep?
While it may seem tempting to have a drink like scotch to unwind, it’s important to keep a few things in mind, especially in hot and humid conditions:
Alcohol and Sleep: Alcohol can initially make you feel sleepy, but it disrupts your sleep cycle, particularly the REM phase, which is the most restorative. This means you might fall asleep quicker but wake up feeling less rested.
Dehydration: Alcohol is a diuretic, which means it can contribute to dehydration. Humid conditions already make it easier to become dehydrated, so adding alcohol can worsen this, leaving you feeling more uncomfortable.
Health Considerations: If you’re already feeling sluggish or overheated, consuming alcohol might intensify these feelings. Also, in humid environments, your body might struggle to cool down as efficiently, and alcohol could interfere with this process.
If you’re looking to relax and unwind, you might consider non-alcoholic options like herbal teas (chamomile, peppermint) or cooling drinks that can help with sleep without the dehydrating effects of alcohol.
That said, if you do decide to have a scotch, just be mindful of the amount, and make sure to stay hydrated with water as well!
No booze for me tonight, dentist tomorrow.
Strictly speaking the advice is not to have a drink tomorrow night either, since there’ll doubtless be a local anaesthetic.
But they possibly exaggerate these things.
Ron, who’s 89 years old, got pulled over by the police around 2am.
The officer asked him, “ Where are you off to at this hour?”
Ron responded, “ I’m heading to a lecture on alcohol abuse, its effects on the body, plus smoking and being out late.”
The officer, a bit taken aback, asked, “ Seriously? Who’s giving a lecture like that at this time?”
Ron replied, “That would be my wife.”
I’ll go now.
Geminids reach their peak Sunday morning, shortly before dawn. They’ll be competing with an almost-full moon, though. The best place to look is in the vicinity of the belt of Orion.
buffy said:
Peak Warming Man said:
buffy said:
My sister’s flight has left LA and is about 1/3 of the way into the 10,000km flight to Melbourne. She gets in to Melbourne tomorrow.
What’s your sisters star sign.
9th April, whatever that is.
Aries. Same birthdate as me.
Peak Warming Man said:
Ron, who’s 89 years old, got pulled over by the police around 2am.
The officer asked him, “ Where are you off to at this hour?”
Ron responded, “ I’m heading to a lecture on alcohol abuse, its effects on the body, plus smoking and being out late.”
The officer, a bit taken aback, asked, “ Seriously? Who’s giving a lecture like that at this time?”
Ron replied, “That would be my wife.”I’ll go now.
LOL
Mungo always seems like a weird name to me. Like who looks at their newborn baby and says “yep that’s a Mungo”?
dv said:
Mungo always seems like a weird name to me. Like who looks at their newborn baby and says “yep that’s a Mungo”?
the Jerry’s?
dv said:
Mungo always seems like a weird name to me. Like who looks at their newborn baby and says “yep that’s a Mungo”?
Maybe not so weird if you were Scottish.
I always thought it was Scottish but that’s munro.
dv said:
Mungo always seems like a weird name to me. Like who looks at their newborn baby and says “yep that’s a Mungo”?
Norbet, another strange name.
What has zero legs in the morning, then 1 leg, then 3 legs, then 1 leg, then 3 legs, then 2 legs in the afternoon, then 3 legs, then 2 legs, then 3 legs that night, then 4 legs the next afternoon?
An IKEA coffee table.
sarahs mum said:
I always thought it was Scottish but that’s munro.
The baby boy name Mungo is pronounced as MAHNGGow †. Mungo is used mostly in Scottish and its language of origin is Welsh. It is derived from the word ‘mwyn’ which is of the meaning kind, gentle, dear. This was the nickname of the 6th-century Saint Kentigern, the patron saint and founder of the city of Glasgow. His nickname was recorded by his biographer in the 6th century as ‘carissimus amicus’ meaning ‘dearest friend’ in Latin. The name has been used by Sir Walter Scott for the character Sir Mungo Mallagrowther in his novel The Fortunes of Nigel (1822). It is also known from Mungo Jerry, a British folk rock group which was popular in the early 1970s.
The Scottish Munga, the name Mungoe, the name Mungow, and the name Mungowe are derivatives of Mungo.
See also the related categories, latin, dear (beloved), sir, gentle (quiet), fortunes (abundance), rock (sand), folk, and welsh.
Mungo is not commonly used as a baby boy name. It is not in the top 1000 names.
PermeateFree said:
sarahs mum said:
I always thought it was Scottish but that’s munro.
The baby boy name Mungo is pronounced as MAHNGGow †. Mungo is used mostly in Scottish and its language of origin is Welsh. It is derived from the word ‘mwyn’ which is of the meaning kind, gentle, dear. This was the nickname of the 6th-century Saint Kentigern, the patron saint and founder of the city of Glasgow. His nickname was recorded by his biographer in the 6th century as ‘carissimus amicus’ meaning ‘dearest friend’ in Latin. The name has been used by Sir Walter Scott for the character Sir Mungo Mallagrowther in his novel The Fortunes of Nigel (1822). It is also known from Mungo Jerry, a British folk rock group which was popular in the early 1970s.
The Scottish Munga, the name Mungoe, the name Mungow, and the name Mungowe are derivatives of Mungo.
See also the related categories, latin, dear (beloved), sir, gentle (quiet), fortunes (abundance), rock (sand), folk, and welsh.
Mungo is not commonly used as a baby boy name. It is not in the top 1000 names.
ta. that sounds more like it.
Good morning Holidayers. Presently 9 degrees at the back door and there is a little bit of cloud around. We are forecast a partly cloudy 25 degrees. Not impressed with a forecast for 38 on Monday.
Breakfast with my bushwandering friend this morning and then more weeding and tidying in the garden.
I should check FlightRadar and see where my sister’s plane is now.
buffy said:
Good morning Holidayers. Presently 9 degrees at the back door and there is a little bit of cloud around. We are forecast a partly cloudy 25 degrees. Not impressed with a forecast for 38 on Monday.Breakfast with my bushwandering friend this morning and then more weeding and tidying in the garden.
I should check FlightRadar and see where my sister’s plane is now.
Come past New Caledonia, heading towards Melbourne.
Good morning everybody. I hope the day is good to each of you.
It’s a wintery 12.8° C, 99% RH (muggy), and overcast with a light air. Rain has started again whilst I have been typing this. Rain was had overnight, some quite heavy, but I’ll not measure the ORB until 9 am or so. BoM forecasts a top of 28° C and an 80% chance of rain, at 40-50% chance of rain in any three hour period.
Agenda: Breakfast: likely square crumpets with butter and vegemite. Lunch: salad sandwich. Dinner: remnant Chicken Cacciatore and veges from last night. Or, If I can make enough room in the fridge for storing my left overs, I might do my meal from my half of the chicken:
Same list of stuff as yesterday to be done, as I did virtually nothing yesterday. My new tablets are making me exceedingly tired, and I seem to need a 2-3 hour sleep in the middle of the day. Not conducive to doing stuff, as I am so tired that I’m effectively brain-dead and can’t think. I’ll be seeing the doctor again at the end of December. I want this medicine stopped.
On the plus side, there is the third Test (AUS v IND) to watch on TV. It’s at the ‘Gabba in Brisbane.
kii said:
dv said:
Mungo always seems like a weird name to me. Like who looks at their newborn baby and says “yep that’s a Mungo”?
Norbet, another strange name.
One of the identifiers on iNaturalist uses the name Brother Norbert. He’s in Austria, I think.
Peak Warming Man said:
buffy said:
Peak Warming Man said:What’s your sisters star sign.
9th April, whatever that is.
Aries
March 21 to April 20Your words can have extra power today under a potent Moon/Pluto link. A casual comment or observation might accidentally unleash a truth bomb, catching someone off guard. Suddenly, they may begin confessing more than you ever expected. Whether it’s a juicy secret or a heartfelt revelation, sometimes honesty is exactly what’s needed to clear the air and bring about a reset.
Don’t say too much tomorrow.
Didn’t know you were into astrology.
Michael V said:
Good morning everybody. I hope the day is good to each of you.It’s a wintery 12.8° C, 99% RH (muggy), and overcast with a light air. Rain has started again whilst I have been typing this. Rain was had overnight, some quite heavy, but I’ll not measure the ORB until 9 am or so. BoM forecasts a top of 28° C and an 80% chance of rain, at 40-50% chance of rain in any three hour period.
Agenda: Breakfast: likely square crumpets with butter and vegemite. Lunch: salad sandwich. Dinner: remnant Chicken Cacciatore and veges from last night. Or, If I can make enough room in the fridge for storing my left overs, I might do my meal from my half of the chicken:
Same list of stuff as yesterday to be done, as I did virtually nothing yesterday. My new tablets are making me exceedingly tired, and I seem to need a 2-3 hour sleep in the middle of the day. Not conducive to doing stuff, as I am so tired that I’m effectively brain-dead and can’t think. I’ll be seeing the doctor again at the end of December. I want this medicine stopped.
On the plus side, there is the third Test (AUS v IND) to watch on TV. It’s at the ‘Gabba in Brisbane.
I’ve been doiing similar, which medication is yours?
buffy said:
kii said:
dv said:
Mungo always seems like a weird name to me. Like who looks at their newborn baby and says “yep that’s a Mungo”?
Norbet, another strange name.
One of the identifiers on iNaturalist uses the name Brother Norbert. He’s in Austria, I think.
I had a teacher called Brother Norbet.
roughbarked said:
Michael V said:
Good morning everybody. I hope the day is good to each of you.It’s a wintery 12.8° C, 99% RH (muggy), and overcast with a light air. Rain has started again whilst I have been typing this. Rain was had overnight, some quite heavy, but I’ll not measure the ORB until 9 am or so. BoM forecasts a top of 28° C and an 80% chance of rain, at 40-50% chance of rain in any three hour period.
Agenda: Breakfast: likely square crumpets with butter and vegemite. Lunch: salad sandwich. Dinner: remnant Chicken Cacciatore and veges from last night. Or, If I can make enough room in the fridge for storing my left overs, I might do my meal from my half of the chicken:
Same list of stuff as yesterday to be done, as I did virtually nothing yesterday. My new tablets are making me exceedingly tired, and I seem to need a 2-3 hour sleep in the middle of the day. Not conducive to doing stuff, as I am so tired that I’m effectively brain-dead and can’t think. I’ll be seeing the doctor again at the end of December. I want this medicine stopped.
On the plus side, there is the third Test (AUS v IND) to watch on TV. It’s at the ‘Gabba in Brisbane.
I’ve been doiing similar, which medication is yours?
I’d prefer not to disclose.
Michael V said:
dv said:
Mungo always seems like a weird name to me. Like who looks at their newborn baby and says “yep that’s a Mungo”?
Maybe not so weird if you were Scottish.
Lake Mungo is named after the Mungo sheep station which was created in the 1920s when the land in the area was subdivided for soldier settlement. The property, owned by the Cameron Brothers, was named after a picture of St Mungo they had seen at St Mungo’s Church in Scotland. St Mungo is the patron saint of Glasgow.
Michael V said:
roughbarked said:
Michael V said:
Good morning everybody. I hope the day is good to each of you.It’s a wintery 12.8° C, 99% RH (muggy), and overcast with a light air. Rain has started again whilst I have been typing this. Rain was had overnight, some quite heavy, but I’ll not measure the ORB until 9 am or so. BoM forecasts a top of 28° C and an 80% chance of rain, at 40-50% chance of rain in any three hour period.
Agenda: Breakfast: likely square crumpets with butter and vegemite. Lunch: salad sandwich. Dinner: remnant Chicken Cacciatore and veges from last night. Or, If I can make enough room in the fridge for storing my left overs, I might do my meal from my half of the chicken:
Same list of stuff as yesterday to be done, as I did virtually nothing yesterday. My new tablets are making me exceedingly tired, and I seem to need a 2-3 hour sleep in the middle of the day. Not conducive to doing stuff, as I am so tired that I’m effectively brain-dead and can’t think. I’ll be seeing the doctor again at the end of December. I want this medicine stopped.
On the plus side, there is the third Test (AUS v IND) to watch on TV. It’s at the ‘Gabba in Brisbane.
I’ve been doiing similar, which medication is yours?
I’d prefer not to disclose.
OK. No worries.
My doctor has gone to spend six months with his father in his illness.
I currently don’t have a doctor.
I’ll try a new one on Tuesday.
back from the magic faraway farm, and my breakfast is boiling, i’ll get that, you stay seated
roughbarked said:
OK. No worries.
My doctor has gone to spend six months with his father in his illness.
I currently don’t have a doctor.I’ll try a new one on Tuesday.
Our (previously well-run) practice has been bought out by a couple of retired farmers, who have gutted the staff, and now want a co-payment greater than what they receive from Medicare. The Doctor I was seeing no longer attends Rainbow Beach, so I have to go 35 km to Tin Can Bay to see him. He is booked out 5 weeks in advance. He is now the only doctor at Tin Can Bay; the previous owners had at least 4 doctors there. Rainbow Beach is back to 2 days a week.
Michael V said:
roughbarked said:OK. No worries.
My doctor has gone to spend six months with his father in his illness.
I currently don’t have a doctor.I’ll try a new one on Tuesday.
Our (previously well-run) practice has been bought out by a couple of retired farmers, who have gutted the staff, and now want a co-payment greater than what they receive from Medicare. The Doctor I was seeing no longer attends Rainbow Beach, so I have to go 35 km to Tin Can Bay to see him. He is booked out 5 weeks in advance. He is now the only doctor at Tin Can Bay; the previous owners had at least 4 doctors there. Rainbow Beach is back to 2 days a week.
That sounds like it isn’t fun at all.
roughbarked said:
Michael V said:
roughbarked said:OK. No worries.
My doctor has gone to spend six months with his father in his illness.
I currently don’t have a doctor.I’ll try a new one on Tuesday.
Our (previously well-run) practice has been bought out by a couple of retired farmers, who have gutted the staff, and now want a co-payment greater than what they receive from Medicare. The Doctor I was seeing no longer attends Rainbow Beach, so I have to go 35 km to Tin Can Bay to see him. He is booked out 5 weeks in advance. He is now the only doctor at Tin Can Bay; the previous owners had at least 4 doctors there. Rainbow Beach is back to 2 days a week.
That sounds like it isn’t fun at all.
I avoid doctors and hospitals, medical facilities of any sort, there’s a very strong correlation between medicine and illness, proximity and more
I was at a hospital recently with my parents, took them to the building in fact, sure enough dad has a hairline fracture of a vertebrae after he was released from the place of trouble
buffy said:
kii said:
dv said:
Mungo always seems like a weird name to me. Like who looks at their newborn baby and says “yep that’s a Mungo”?
Norbet, another strange name.
One of the identifiers on iNaturalist uses the name Brother Norbert. He’s in Austria, I think.
If he was in the ISS he’d be Low Earth Norbit.
Neophyte said:
buffy said:
kii said:Norbet, another strange name.
One of the identifiers on iNaturalist uses the name Brother Norbert. He’s in Austria, I think.
If he was in the ISS he’d be Low Earth Norbit.
Uh-oh…
Michael V said:
roughbarked said:OK. No worries.
My doctor has gone to spend six months with his father in his illness.
I currently don’t have a doctor.I’ll try a new one on Tuesday.
Our (previously well-run) practice has been bought out by a couple of retired farmers, who have gutted the staff, and now want a co-payment greater than what they receive from Medicare. The Doctor I was seeing no longer attends Rainbow Beach, so I have to go 35 km to Tin Can Bay to see him. He is booked out 5 weeks in advance. He is now the only doctor at Tin Can Bay; the previous owners had at least 4 doctors there. Rainbow Beach is back to 2 days a week.
My doc has just retired. Luckily we are well covered with docs in this town. Two practices and probably around 6 or 7 docs. Most work parttime.
JudgeMental said:
Michael V said:
roughbarked said:OK. No worries.
My doctor has gone to spend six months with his father in his illness.
I currently don’t have a doctor.I’ll try a new one on Tuesday.
Our (previously well-run) practice has been bought out by a couple of retired farmers, who have gutted the staff, and now want a co-payment greater than what they receive from Medicare. The Doctor I was seeing no longer attends Rainbow Beach, so I have to go 35 km to Tin Can Bay to see him. He is booked out 5 weeks in advance. He is now the only doctor at Tin Can Bay; the previous owners had at least 4 doctors there. Rainbow Beach is back to 2 days a week.
My doc has just retired. Luckily we are well covered with docs in this town. Two practices and probably around 6 or 7 docs. Most work part-time.
Good.
Good mountain all. Heading for 23 in this sector of the planet, $5% chance of rain.
Nil by gob until I get back from my tooth extractation, scheduled for 12:50pm.
Bubblecar said:
Good mountain all. Heading for 23 in this sector of the planet, $5% chance of rain.Nil by gob until I get back from my tooth extractation, scheduled for 12:50pm.
…apart from a cup of tea of course, about to be guzzled.
Hoping to make another batch of these this evening, but it depends on the state of the mouth after the dentist has been let loose in there.
Michael V said:
JudgeMental said:
Michael V said:Our (previously well-run) practice has been bought out by a couple of retired farmers, who have gutted the staff, and now want a co-payment greater than what they receive from Medicare. The Doctor I was seeing no longer attends Rainbow Beach, so I have to go 35 km to Tin Can Bay to see him. He is booked out 5 weeks in advance. He is now the only doctor at Tin Can Bay; the previous owners had at least 4 doctors there. Rainbow Beach is back to 2 days a week.
My doc has just retired. Luckily we are well covered with docs in this town. Two practices and probably around 6 or 7 docs. Most work part-time.
Good.
We have GPs back in our village after losing them for over a year, but they’re all rostered from elsewhere and there’s quite an assortment, with the result that whenever I see a GP these days it’s a different one, usually one I haven’t seen before.
Looks like I have the forum to myself.
The others have probably gone back to bed or are in the kitchen scoffing crumpets while listening to R-rated breakfast radio.
kii said:
dv said:
Mungo always seems like a weird name to me. Like who looks at their newborn baby and says “yep that’s a Mungo”?
Norbet, another strange name.
captain_spalding said:
kii said:
dv said:
Mungo always seems like a weird name to me. Like who looks at their newborn baby and says “yep that’s a Mungo”?
Norbet, another strange name.
Yes, exactly. A local friend has a pug named Daggett.
Michael V said:
Good morning everybody. I hope the day is good to each of you.It’s a wintery 12.8° C, 99% RH (muggy), and overcast with a light air. Rain has started again whilst I have been typing this. Rain was had overnight, some quite heavy, but I’ll not measure the ORB until 9 am or so. BoM forecasts a top of 28° C and an 80% chance of rain, at 40-50% chance of rain in any three hour period.
Agenda: Breakfast: likely square crumpets with butter and vegemite. Lunch: salad sandwich. Dinner: remnant Chicken Cacciatore and veges from last night. Or, If I can make enough room in the fridge for storing my left overs, I might do my meal from my half of the chicken:
Same list of stuff as yesterday to be done, as I did virtually nothing yesterday. My new tablets are making me exceedingly tired, and I seem to need a 2-3 hour sleep in the middle of the day. Not conducive to doing stuff, as I am so tired that I’m effectively brain-dead and can’t think. I’ll be seeing the doctor again at the end of December. I want this medicine stopped.
On the plus side, there is the third Test (AUS v IND) to watch on TV. It’s at the ‘Gabba in Brisbane.
Hope you can find a more suitable medication.
Odd English in that recipe :)
“But if you add a little oyster sauce, it tastes who had absolutely no!”
Bubblecar said:
Looks like I have the forum to myself.The others have probably gone back to bed or are in the kitchen scoffing crumpets while listening to R-rated breakfast radio.
I’m still around. Not back in bed. Not scoffing crumpets. Not listening to the radio – I don’t have one. It broke and I haven’t replaced it.
Morning punters, track good, weather overcast.
Over.
Bubblecar said:
Hoping to make another batch of these this evening, but it depends on the state of the mouth after the dentist has been let loose in there.
It’ll be all right.
You can come around here, and make them.
They won’t go to waste.
I promise.
Michael V said:
Bubblecar said:
Looks like I have the forum to myself.The others have probably gone back to bed or are in the kitchen scoffing crumpets while listening to R-rated breakfast radio.
I’m still around. Not back in bed. Not scoffing crumpets. Not listening to the radio – I don’t have one. It broke and I haven’t replaced it.
I occasionally listen to the kitchen radio (the arched top of which can be glimpsed in this snap) when I’m cooking, but always Classic FM.
Bubblecar said:
Michael V said:
Good morning everybody. I hope the day is good to each of you.It’s a wintery 12.8° C, 99% RH (muggy), and overcast with a light air. Rain has started again whilst I have been typing this. Rain was had overnight, some quite heavy, but I’ll not measure the ORB until 9 am or so. BoM forecasts a top of 28° C and an 80% chance of rain, at 40-50% chance of rain in any three hour period.
Agenda: Breakfast: likely square crumpets with butter and vegemite. Lunch: salad sandwich. Dinner: remnant Chicken Cacciatore and veges from last night. Or, If I can make enough room in the fridge for storing my left overs, I might do my meal from my half of the chicken:
Same list of stuff as yesterday to be done, as I did virtually nothing yesterday. My new tablets are making me exceedingly tired, and I seem to need a 2-3 hour sleep in the middle of the day. Not conducive to doing stuff, as I am so tired that I’m effectively brain-dead and can’t think. I’ll be seeing the doctor again at the end of December. I want this medicine stopped.
On the plus side, there is the third Test (AUS v IND) to watch on TV. It’s at the ‘Gabba in Brisbane.
Hope you can find a more suitable medication.
Odd English in that recipe :)
“But if you add a little oyster sauce, it tastes who had absolutely no!”
The entire site (originally about 2,000 recipes, now cut back) is Chinglish. I think they use a translation program, but none of them speak English, so there is no checking.
They have a recipe that I want to try that includes “1 spoon Fuel consumption”. It turns out that “Fuel consumption” is oyster sauce, confirmed by a bottle photographed in another of their recipes.
https://misschinesefood.com/chicken-wrapped-in-paper/
https://misschinesefood.com/sweet-and-oily-chicken-wings/
(Which is not oily – it is sticky.)
I enjoy their odd recipes. Bullfrogs and other oddities.
Michael V said:
Bubblecar said:
Michael V said:
Good morning everybody. I hope the day is good to each of you.It’s a wintery 12.8° C, 99% RH (muggy), and overcast with a light air. Rain has started again whilst I have been typing this. Rain was had overnight, some quite heavy, but I’ll not measure the ORB until 9 am or so. BoM forecasts a top of 28° C and an 80% chance of rain, at 40-50% chance of rain in any three hour period.
Agenda: Breakfast: likely square crumpets with butter and vegemite. Lunch: salad sandwich. Dinner: remnant Chicken Cacciatore and veges from last night. Or, If I can make enough room in the fridge for storing my left overs, I might do my meal from my half of the chicken:
Same list of stuff as yesterday to be done, as I did virtually nothing yesterday. My new tablets are making me exceedingly tired, and I seem to need a 2-3 hour sleep in the middle of the day. Not conducive to doing stuff, as I am so tired that I’m effectively brain-dead and can’t think. I’ll be seeing the doctor again at the end of December. I want this medicine stopped.
On the plus side, there is the third Test (AUS v IND) to watch on TV. It’s at the ‘Gabba in Brisbane.
Hope you can find a more suitable medication.
Odd English in that recipe :)
“But if you add a little oyster sauce, it tastes who had absolutely no!”
The entire site (originally about 2,000 recipes, now cut back) is Chinglish. I think they use a translation program, but none of them speak English, so there is no checking.
They have a recipe that I want to try that includes “1 spoon Fuel consumption”. It turns out that “Fuel consumption” is oyster sauce, confirmed by a bottle photographed in another of their recipes.
https://misschinesefood.com/chicken-wrapped-in-paper/
https://misschinesefood.com/sweet-and-oily-chicken-wings/
(Which is not oily – it is sticky.)
I enjoy their odd recipes. Bullfrogs and other oddities.
Ha, most odd. When I translate “fuel consumption” into Chinese (Simplified) in Google, it’s 油耗, which translates back as “fuel consumption”.
Peak Warming Man said:
Morning punters, track good, weather overcast.
Over.
There’s cricket at the ‘Gabba today, too. There’s a bit of rain around. I hope it doesn’t affect the match.
Michael V said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Morning punters, track good, weather overcast.
Over.
There’s cricket at the ‘Gabba today, too. There’s a bit of rain around. I hope it doesn’t affect the match.
I’d be sending the other side in if I won the toss.
Michael V said:
Bubblecar said:
Michael V said:
Good morning everybody. I hope the day is good to each of you.It’s a wintery 12.8° C, 99% RH (muggy), and overcast with a light air. Rain has started again whilst I have been typing this. Rain was had overnight, some quite heavy, but I’ll not measure the ORB until 9 am or so. BoM forecasts a top of 28° C and an 80% chance of rain, at 40-50% chance of rain in any three hour period.
Agenda: Breakfast: likely square crumpets with butter and vegemite. Lunch: salad sandwich. Dinner: remnant Chicken Cacciatore and veges from last night. Or, If I can make enough room in the fridge for storing my left overs, I might do my meal from my half of the chicken:
Same list of stuff as yesterday to be done, as I did virtually nothing yesterday. My new tablets are making me exceedingly tired, and I seem to need a 2-3 hour sleep in the middle of the day. Not conducive to doing stuff, as I am so tired that I’m effectively brain-dead and can’t think. I’ll be seeing the doctor again at the end of December. I want this medicine stopped.
On the plus side, there is the third Test (AUS v IND) to watch on TV. It’s at the ‘Gabba in Brisbane.
Hope you can find a more suitable medication.
Odd English in that recipe :)
“But if you add a little oyster sauce, it tastes who had absolutely no!”
The entire site (originally about 2,000 recipes, now cut back) is Chinglish. I think they use a translation program, but none of them speak English, so there is no checking.
They have a recipe that I want to try that includes “1 spoon Fuel consumption”. It turns out that “Fuel consumption” is oyster sauce, confirmed by a bottle photographed in another of their recipes.
https://misschinesefood.com/chicken-wrapped-in-paper/
https://misschinesefood.com/sweet-and-oily-chicken-wings/
(Which is not oily – it is sticky.)
I enjoy their odd recipes. Bullfrogs and other oddities.
Thanks for introducing us to this site Michael. It’s fun.
Browsing through the recipes and I found one for duck heads. The farmer I help out at the farmers markets sometimes brings them. Only dog owners buy them, but now I could spruik this recipe! Not sure if I’m game to try it…
https://misschinesefood.com/spicy-duck-head/
Peak Warming Man said:
Michael V said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Morning punters, track good, weather overcast.
Over.
There’s cricket at the ‘Gabba today, too. There’s a bit of rain around. I hope it doesn’t affect the match.
I’d be sending the other side in if I won the toss.
Yeah, overcast and muggy. The seamers will have it going all over the shop.
ruby said:
Michael V said:
Bubblecar said:Hope you can find a more suitable medication.
Odd English in that recipe :)
“But if you add a little oyster sauce, it tastes who had absolutely no!”
The entire site (originally about 2,000 recipes, now cut back) is Chinglish. I think they use a translation program, but none of them speak English, so there is no checking.
They have a recipe that I want to try that includes “1 spoon Fuel consumption”. It turns out that “Fuel consumption” is oyster sauce, confirmed by a bottle photographed in another of their recipes.
https://misschinesefood.com/chicken-wrapped-in-paper/
https://misschinesefood.com/sweet-and-oily-chicken-wings/
(Which is not oily – it is sticky.)
I enjoy their odd recipes. Bullfrogs and other oddities.
Thanks for introducing us to this site Michael. It’s fun.
Browsing through the recipes and I found one for duck heads. The farmer I help out at the farmers markets sometimes brings them. Only dog owners buy them, but now I could spruik this recipe! Not sure if I’m game to try it…
https://misschinesefood.com/spicy-duck-head/
Hmm. I think it would be too much like eating….duck heads.
And while I went to have breakfast, it seems my sister’s flight must have landed in Melbourne. It’s no longer on Flight Radar. And it was supposed to land at 9.30am. I suppose she is doing customs and baggage retrieval before going to the domestic terminal to catch a flight to Hobart. Hobart airport is going to be very different from LAX.
That won’t be difficult here, as we’ve just had a run of cool summers. Haven’t done a 40 degree day here for some years. And certainly not a run of them.
ruby said:
Michael V said:
Bubblecar said:Hope you can find a more suitable medication.
Odd English in that recipe :)
“But if you add a little oyster sauce, it tastes who had absolutely no!”
The entire site (originally about 2,000 recipes, now cut back) is Chinglish. I think they use a translation program, but none of them speak English, so there is no checking.
They have a recipe that I want to try that includes “1 spoon Fuel consumption”. It turns out that “Fuel consumption” is oyster sauce, confirmed by a bottle photographed in another of their recipes.
https://misschinesefood.com/chicken-wrapped-in-paper/
https://misschinesefood.com/sweet-and-oily-chicken-wings/
(Which is not oily – it is sticky.)
I enjoy their odd recipes. Bullfrogs and other oddities.
Thanks for introducing us to this site Michael. It’s fun.
Browsing through the recipes and I found one for duck heads. The farmer I help out at the farmers markets sometimes brings them. Only dog owners buy them, but now I could spruik this recipe! Not sure if I’m game to try it…
https://misschinesefood.com/spicy-duck-head/
By the spice mixture, I’d guess that that is a Szechuan recipe. Looks good. I’ve not seen it before.
There are recipes for deer antlers, too.
It’s an interesting and quite un-westernised site.
A bird new to me just landed on the washing line for 30 seconds or so before flying off. It wasn’t there long enough to get a photo, unfortunately.
Torresian Kingfisher Todiramphus sordidus.
Michael V said:
A bird new to me just landed on the washing line for 30 seconds or so before flying off. It wasn’t there long enough to get a photo, unfortunately.Torresian Kingfisher Todiramphus sordidus.
I’ve never seen one and am probably unlikely to unless I visit the north.
Michael V said:
A bird new to me just landed on the washing line for 30 seconds or so before flying off. It wasn’t there long enough to get a photo, unfortunately.Torresian Kingfisher Todiramphus sordidus.
reading
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torresian_kingfisher
i’ll make a coffee now, unless someone has a valid objection, though it would be pointless anyway i’ll give you advance warning, what possible legitimacy could your objection have, so i’m having second thoughts about inviting opportunity, more feeling all hardnose going-to-do-it-anyway
transition said:
Michael V said:
A bird new to me just landed on the washing line for 30 seconds or so before flying off. It wasn’t there long enough to get a photo, unfortunately.Torresian Kingfisher Todiramphus sordidus.
reading
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torresian_kingfisheri’ll make a coffee now, unless someone has a valid objection, though it would be pointless anyway i’ll give you advance warning, what possible legitimacy could your objection have, so i’m having second thoughts about inviting opportunity, more feeling all hardnose going-to-do-it-anyway
addict
https://www.forbes.com/sites/maryroeloffs/2024/11/12/billionaire-pavel-durov-offering-free-ivf-to-women-willing-to-have-his-baby/
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The billionaire founder of Telegram is offering to pay for the in vitro fertilization process of medically eligible women who are interested in having a baby using his sperm at a fertility clinic in Moscow, the latest billionaire to speak openly about his desire to widely reproduce.
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This is a weird era
dv said:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/maryroeloffs/2024/11/12/billionaire-pavel-durov-offering-free-ivf-to-women-willing-to-have-his-baby/
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The billionaire founder of Telegram is offering to pay for the in vitro fertilization process of medically eligible women who are interested in having a baby using his sperm at a fertility clinic in Moscow, the latest billionaire to speak openly about his desire to widely reproduce.—-
This is a weird era
and will likely become even more weird.
dv said:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/maryroeloffs/2024/11/12/billionaire-pavel-durov-offering-free-ivf-to-women-willing-to-have-his-baby
—-
The billionaire founder of Telegram is offering to pay for the in vitro fertilization process of medically eligible women who are interested in having a baby using his sperm at a fertility clinic in Moscow, the latest billionaire to speak openly about his desire to widely reproduce.——
This is a weird era
is it really we thought in the good old days people would just economically coerce andor rape their way into parenthood
dv said:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/maryroeloffs/2024/11/12/billionaire-pavel-durov-offering-free-ivf-to-women-willing-to-have-his-baby/
—-
The billionaire founder of Telegram is offering to pay for the in vitro fertilization process of medically eligible women who are interested in having a baby using his sperm at a fertility clinic in Moscow, the latest billionaire to speak openly about his desire to widely reproduce.—-
This is a weird era
I have been reading The Codebreaker, which is primarily about the work of Jennifer Doudna on gene-editing, but also has a lot of stuff on the ethical problems associated with it.
Seems there are similar problems in the modern world without any gene editing.
Though I suppose there have been cases of men in positions of power fathering 10’s or 100’s of kids for a long time.
SCIENCE said:
dv said:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/maryroeloffs/2024/11/12/billionaire-pavel-durov-offering-free-ivf-to-women-willing-to-have-his-baby
—-
The billionaire founder of Telegram is offering to pay for the in vitro fertilization process of medically eligible women who are interested in having a baby using his sperm at a fertility clinic in Moscow, the latest billionaire to speak openly about his desire to widely reproduce.——
This is a weird era
is it really we thought in the good old days people would just economically coerce andor rape their way into parenthood
Here is what scientists believe future humans will look like
The Rev Dodgson said:
dv said:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/maryroeloffs/2024/11/12/billionaire-pavel-durov-offering-free-ivf-to-women-willing-to-have-his-baby/
—-
The billionaire founder of Telegram is offering to pay for the in vitro fertilization process of medically eligible women who are interested in having a baby using his sperm at a fertility clinic in Moscow, the latest billionaire to speak openly about his desire to widely reproduce.—-
This is a weird era
I have been reading The Codebreaker, which is primarily about the work of Jennifer Doudna on gene-editing, but also has a lot of stuff on the ethical problems associated with it.
Seems there are similar problems in the modern world without any gene editing.
Though I suppose there have been cases of men in positions of power fathering 10’s or 100’s of kids for a long time.
dv said:
SCIENCE said:dv said:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/maryroeloffs/2024/11/12/billionaire-pavel-durov-offering-free-ivf-to-women-willing-to-have-his-baby
—-
The billionaire founder of Telegram is offering to pay for the in vitro fertilization process of medically eligible women who are interested in having a baby using his sperm at a fertility clinic in Moscow, the latest billionaire to speak openly about his desire to widely reproduce.——
This is a weird era
is it really we thought in the good old days people would just economically coerce andor rape their way into parenthood
Here is what scientists believe future humans will look like
dv said:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/maryroeloffs/2024/11/12/billionaire-pavel-durov-offering-free-ivf-to-women-willing-to-have-his-baby/
—-
The billionaire founder of Telegram is offering to pay for the in vitro fertilization process of medically eligible women who are interested in having a baby using his sperm at a fertility clinic in Moscow, the latest billionaire to speak openly about his desire to widely reproduce.—-
This is a weird era
Who is going to pay to house, feed, clothe and raise the child?
In her version of The Christmas Song, Whitney seems to be saying “reindeers”. Don’t do drugs, kids.
party_pants said:
dv said:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/maryroeloffs/2024/11/12/billionaire-pavel-durov-offering-free-ivf-to-women-willing-to-have-his-baby/
—-
The billionaire founder of Telegram is offering to pay for the in vitro fertilization process of medically eligible women who are interested in having a baby using his sperm at a fertility clinic in Moscow, the latest billionaire to speak openly about his desire to widely reproduce.—-
This is a weird era
Who is going to pay to house, feed, clothe and raise the child?
the Russian Army?
captain_spalding said:
party_pants said:
dv said:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/maryroeloffs/2024/11/12/billionaire-pavel-durov-offering-free-ivf-to-women-willing-to-have-his-baby/
—-
The billionaire founder of Telegram is offering to pay for the in vitro fertilization process of medically eligible women who are interested in having a baby using his sperm at a fertility clinic in Moscow, the latest billionaire to speak openly about his desire to widely reproduce.—-
This is a weird era
Who is going to pay to house, feed, clothe and raise the child?
the Russian Army?
He’s currently awaiting trial in France on child porn and drug trafficking charges so idk maybe he should save all that money for lawyers.
captain_spalding said:
party_pants said:
dv said:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/maryroeloffs/2024/11/12/billionaire-pavel-durov-offering-free-ivf-to-women-willing-to-have-his-baby/
—-
The billionaire founder of Telegram is offering to pay for the in vitro fertilization process of medically eligible women who are interested in having a baby using his sperm at a fertility clinic in Moscow, the latest billionaire to speak openly about his desire to widely reproduce.—-
This is a weird era
Who is going to pay to house, feed, clothe and raise the child?
the Russian Army?
Aren’t they a bit busy right now?
If any of these people are worried about low birth rates and declining populations fair enough, I don’t think a lack of sperm is the big problem behind it. It is all down to the cost of raising a child in an urban environment. Children are a not a free supply of labour on the farm any more.
party_pants said:
… Children are a not a free supply of labour on the farm any more.
Damn!
JudgeMental said:
party_pants said:
… Children are a not a free supply of labour on the farm any more.
Damn!
They might still be free labour in Russia.
ABC News:
Astonishing.
No F1 racing in Africa for the last 30 plus years.
And 99.9% of the world’s population didn’t know/didn’t care, and it seems to have made no difference at all to the sport of going around in circles at high speed.
This Cavalier King Charles has a habit of sleeping under the middle of heavy blankets. You getting any oxygen to that brain champ?
dv said:
This Cavalier King Charles has a habit of sleeping under the middle of heavy blankets. You getting any oxygen to that brain champ?
Brain?
captain_spalding said:
dv said:
This Cavalier King Charles has a habit of sleeping under the middle of heavy blankets. You getting any oxygen to that brain champ?
Brain?
In my experience King Chucky spaniels always present as dumb.
dv said:
This Cavalier King Charles has a habit of sleeping under the middle of heavy blankets. You getting any oxygen to that brain champ?
kii said:
captain_spalding said:
dv said:
This Cavalier King Charles has a habit of sleeping under the middle of heavy blankets. You getting any oxygen to that brain champ?
Brain?
In my experience King Chucky spaniels always present as dumb.
we thought they were bred to have microcephaly
just like the fascist surrogacy crowd are about to come through with
captain_spalding said:
dv said:
This Cavalier King Charles has a habit of sleeping under the middle of heavy blankets. You getting any oxygen to that brain champ?
Brain?
Fair
I’ve got about half an hour more of edging and weeding and minor maar-ing to do outside. I’ll be back. It’s warming up.
buffy said:
I’ve got about half an hour more of edging and weeding and minor maar-ing to do outside. I’ll be back. It’s warming up.
Already 35 here.
Waiting at the dentist. Had to fill in pages of forms.
Janina delivered my mail. thanks ever so much for the Christmas cart Buffy. :)
sarahs mum said:
Janina delivered my mail. thanks ever so much for the Christmas cart Buffy. :)
There’s one from me on the way too, posted on Tuesday.
Snail mail indeed :)
Bubblecar said:
:)
sarahs mum said:
Janina delivered my mail. thanks ever so much for the Christmas cart Buffy. :)
There’s one from me on the way too, posted on Tuesday.
Snail mail indeed :)
i have not posted any. It might happen. who knows?
Receptionist apologised because the dentist is running late and will be quite a while yet.
watching, lot of bad luck in all that, dear God
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dljA2WJOgRw
STORMY landing – what went wrong? | Britannia 226A
transition said:
watching, lot of bad luck in all that, dear God
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dljA2WJOgRw
STORMY landing – what went wrong? | Britannia 226A
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britannia_Airways_Flight_226A
i’ll move the hose, stay seated, i’ve got this
transition said:
i’ll move the hose, stay seated, i’ve got this
OK. I’m just sitting around waiting for the washing machine to finish its cycle. But it’s raining at the cricket.
Bubblecar said:
Receptionist apologised because the dentist is running late and will be quite a while yet.
These things happen
Another “does English have a word for this”
Dependent – one who depends upon another person to provide the necessities of life.
Independent – one who provides for their own necessities of life
(what word for) – one who provides both for their own needs and also for others who are dependents of that person.
With the opening of the Ellenbrook branch, we get trains every 4 minutes from Bayswater station to Perth station, which is quite good.
dv said:
With the opening of the Ellenbrook branch, we get trains every 4 minutes from Bayswater station to Perth station, which is quite good.
No need for a timetable, just turn up and go.
party_pants said:
Another “does English have a word for this”Dependent – one who depends upon another person to provide the necessities of life.
Independent – one who provides for their own necessities of life
(what word for) – one who provides both for their own needs and also for others who are dependents of that person.
“Breadwinner” is a traditional term.
party_pants said:
Another “does English have a word for this”Dependent – one who depends upon another person to provide the necessities of life.
Independent – one who provides for their own necessities of life
(what word for) – one who provides both for their own needs and also for others who are dependents of that person.
Parent, Guardian.
Michael V said:
party_pants said:
Another “does English have a word for this”Dependent – one who depends upon another person to provide the necessities of life.
Independent – one who provides for their own necessities of life
(what word for) – one who provides both for their own needs and also for others who are dependents of that person.
Parent, Guardian.
Patron might be made to work.
Keeper, custodian, guardian, carer
dv said:
With the opening of the Ellenbrook branch, we get trains every 4 minutes from Bayswater station to Perth station, which is quite good.
Bayswater is where the Midland, Airport and Ellenbrook line all converge so I suspect this is quite the busiest rail corridor in WA.
Been waiting here over an hour so far.
And now there’s another chap waiting to be seen after me.
Bubblecar said:
Been waiting here over an hour so far.And now there’s another chap waiting to be seen after me.
Dearie me
dv said:
dv said:
With the opening of the Ellenbrook branch, we get trains every 4 minutes from Bayswater station to Perth station, which is quite good.
Bayswater is where the Midland, Airport and Ellenbrook line all converge so I suspect this is quite the busiest rail corridor in WA.
Yes. It also runs the standard gauge passenger trains from Kal, and the Indian Pacific to Sydney.
It was a criticism at the time when Metronet was proposed that this rail section was going to get very busy. Does it still have level crossings, or have then all been removed? I don’t get up that way very often.
And I’m back again. Too hot (and too many flies wanting my sweat) out there now. I’ve showered and when my hair is a bit dryer I’ll go and lie down and read (and nap).
My sister on her Facebook…
“In case anyone is wondering the last 5 hours of a fifteen hour flight are brutal”
buffy said:
And I’m back again. Too hot (and too many flies wanting my sweat) out there now. I’ve showered and when my hair is a bit dryer I’ll go and lie down and read (and nap).My sister on her Facebook…
“In case anyone is wondering the last 5 hours of a fifteen hour flight are brutal”
Yes. I find myself counting down the minutes, which doesn’t help.
party_pants said:
dv said:
dv said:
With the opening of the Ellenbrook branch, we get trains every 4 minutes from Bayswater station to Perth station, which is quite good.
Bayswater is where the Midland, Airport and Ellenbrook line all converge so I suspect this is quite the busiest rail corridor in WA.
Yes. It also runs the standard gauge passenger trains from Kal, and the Indian Pacific to Sydney.
It was a criticism at the time when Metronet was proposed that this rail section was going to get very busy. Does it still have level crossings, or have then all been removed? I don’t get up that way very often.
No level crossings on that section but there something further up the way on the Midland line.
Bubblecar said:
party_pants said:
Another “does English have a word for this”Dependent – one who depends upon another person to provide the necessities of life.
Independent – one who provides for their own necessities of life
(what word for) – one who provides both for their own needs and also for others who are dependents of that person.
“Breadwinner” is a traditional term.
or Provider.
That was a bit of fun. We were Santa’s Taxi. There were hundreds of kids there waiting for him. Big smiles all around.
Kingy said:
That was a bit of fun. We were Santa’s Taxi. There were hundreds of kids there waiting for him. Big smiles all around.
Onya!
:)
(Similar used to happen at the Armidale (NSW) Police Christmas party – the local (permanent) Firey would bring Santa.
Kingy said:
That was a bit of fun. We were Santa’s Taxi. There were hundreds of kids there waiting for him. Big smiles all around.
:)
BACK with one less tooth in the skull. He did a quick and efficient job, after that epic wait.
Kingy said:
That was a bit of fun. We were Santa’s Taxi. There were hundreds of kids there waiting for him. Big smiles all around.
all fun and games until you hosed the kids down with retardant.
JudgeMental said:
Kingy said:
That was a bit of fun. We were Santa’s Taxi. There were hundreds of kids there waiting for him. Big smiles all around.all fun and games until you hosed the kids down with retardant.
Pink retardant at that.
No sausage rolls tonight, sadly. I’m supposed to avoid hot and chewy food for 24 hours, so I’ll just have yoghurt.
Bubblecar said:
No sausage rolls tonight, sadly. I’m supposed to avoid hot and chewy food for 24 hours, so I’ll just have yoghurt.
Bugger.
JudgeMental said:
Kingy said:
That was a bit of fun. We were Santa’s Taxi. There were hundreds of kids there waiting for him. Big smiles all around.all fun and games until you hosed the kids down with retardant.
It was tempting to turn the deluge system on while driving down the main street :)
JudgeMental said:
Kingy said:
That was a bit of fun. We were Santa’s Taxi. There were hundreds of kids there waiting for him. Big smiles all around.all fun and games until you hosed the kids down with retardant.
Bubblecar said:
No sausage rolls tonight, sadly. I’m supposed to avoid hot and chewy food for 24 hours, so I’ll just have yoghurt.
Tamb said:
Bubblecar said:
No sausage rolls tonight, sadly. I’m supposed to avoid hot and chewy food for 24 hours, so I’ll just have yoghurt.
Wine is cool & not chewy.
Supposed to avoid alcohol too, but I suspect they say that mainly to cover themselves in extreme cases.
Bubblecar said:
Tamb said:
Bubblecar said:
No sausage rolls tonight, sadly. I’m supposed to avoid hot and chewy food for 24 hours, so I’ll just have yoghurt.
Wine is cool & not chewy.
Supposed to avoid alcohol too, but I suspect they say that mainly to cover themselves in extreme cases.
Bubblecar said:
No sausage rolls tonight, sadly. I’m supposed to avoid hot and chewy food for 24 hours, so I’ll just have yoghurt.
Aren’t you clamping down on a bloody swab?
I had a tooth out recently and it was liquid diet for 24 hours… avoid hot and chewy food for about a week.
Good luck with it.
Ian said:
Bubblecar said:
No sausage rolls tonight, sadly. I’m supposed to avoid hot and chewy food for 24 hours, so I’ll just have yoghurt.
Aren’t you clamping down on a bloody swab?
I had a tooth out recently and it was liquid diet for 24 hours… avoid hot and chewy food for about a week.
Good luck with it.
I had the swab in for about half an hour. It was only slightly pink after removal and there seems to be no further bleeding.
Anaesthetic is fading now but there’s no pain.
Wrong thread.
But I guess it could be a meme.
Bubblecar said:
Ian said:
Bubblecar said:
No sausage rolls tonight, sadly. I’m supposed to avoid hot and chewy food for 24 hours, so I’ll just have yoghurt.
Aren’t you clamping down on a bloody swab?
I had a tooth out recently and it was liquid diet for 24 hours… avoid hot and chewy food for about a week.
Good luck with it.
I had the swab in for about half an hour. It was only slightly pink after removal and there seems to be no further bleeding.
Anaesthetic is fading now but there’s no pain.
That’s good.
dv said:
Wrong thread.But I guess it could be a meme.
Pity those mummies. Must have been a dreadful costume to wear even for a brief shoot.
Ian said:
Bubblecar said:
No sausage rolls tonight, sadly. I’m supposed to avoid hot and chewy food for 24 hours, so I’ll just have yoghurt.
Aren’t you clamping down on a bloody swab?
I had a tooth out recently and it was liquid diet for 24 hours… avoid hot and chewy food for about a week.
Good luck with it.
When I got my last tooth extraction they said to avoid disturbing the blood clot that forms, they said I didn’t want to get a dry socket. On looking up what a dry socket involves, I followed their advice to the letter.
ruby said:
Ian said:
Bubblecar said:
No sausage rolls tonight, sadly. I’m supposed to avoid hot and chewy food for 24 hours, so I’ll just have yoghurt.
Aren’t you clamping down on a bloody swab?
I had a tooth out recently and it was liquid diet for 24 hours… avoid hot and chewy food for about a week.
Good luck with it.
When I got my last tooth extraction they said to avoid disturbing the blood clot that forms, they said I didn’t want to get a dry socket. On looking up what a dry socket involves, I followed their advice to the letter.
Same here.
Dry socket occurs fairly commonly I see. You really don’t want one.
Ian said:
ruby said:
Ian said:Aren’t you clamping down on a bloody swab?
I had a tooth out recently and it was liquid diet for 24 hours… avoid hot and chewy food for about a week.
Good luck with it.
When I got my last tooth extraction they said to avoid disturbing the blood clot that forms, they said I didn’t want to get a dry socket. On looking up what a dry socket involves, I followed their advice to the letter.
Same here.
Dry socket occurs fairly commonly I see. You really don’t want one.
I ended up with one. The dentist’s office said the treatment they can offer is hydrogen peroxide, or get some myself and do regular rinses.
I’ve never had a tooth removed. Seems scary and painful.
Michael V said:
I’ve never had a tooth removed. Seems scary and painful.
If they get it out without shattering it, it’s a quick and painless procedure with local anaesthetic, although the oral injection itself tends to be “unpleasant”, as my dentist warned today.
Bubblecar said:
Michael V said:
I’ve never had a tooth removed. Seems scary and painful.
If they get it out without shattering it, it’s a quick and painless procedure with local anaesthetic, although the oral injection itself tends to be “unpleasant”, as my dentist warned today.
The absolute best invention is a wipe of local anaesthetic on the gums before the injection is done.
Can you tell I have just emerged from reading and napping and pulling the clothes off the line and putting on the sprinklers around the veggies?
Probably watch another episode of Backstrom tonight. Which reminds me, saw an ad for a new series of Vienna Blood the other day. I should check up on that. Liked Vienna Blood.
And a sister report: she is safely in Hobart at my brother’s place around at Neika and relaxing.
Kevin Andrews, former Defence Minister, has died
buffy said:
Bubblecar said:
Michael V said:
I’ve never had a tooth removed. Seems scary and painful.
If they get it out without shattering it, it’s a quick and painless procedure with local anaesthetic, although the oral injection itself tends to be “unpleasant”, as my dentist warned today.
The absolute best invention is a wipe of local anaesthetic on the gums before the injection is done.
I don’t respond well to adrenaline so I need to have anaesthetic with no adrenaline, which means my dentist has to work fast or I get more shots. I always challenge him to work fast.
So, is the tooth going into a bedside glass of water or under the pillow in anticipation of a visit by you-know-who…?
Neophyte said:
So, is the tooth going into a bedside glass of water or under the pillow in anticipation of a visit by you-know-who…?
Preserved in lucite
dv said:
Kevin Andrews, former Defence Minister, has died
That’s a bit sad, he only retired 4 years ago.
Very old-fashioned fellow. I used to mock his Lego hairpiece.
Neophyte said:
So, is the tooth going into a bedside glass of water or under the pillow in anticipation of a visit by you-know-who…?
I left it in the safe care of the dentist.
Arts said:
buffy said:
Bubblecar said:
If they get it out without shattering it, it’s a quick and painless procedure with local anaesthetic, although the oral injection itself tends to be “unpleasant”, as my dentist warned today.
The absolute best invention is a wipe of local anaesthetic on the gums before the injection is done.
I don’t respond well to adrenaline so I need to have anaesthetic with no adrenaline, which means my dentist has to work fast or I get more shots. I always challenge him to work fast.
Just go general and go slow.
SCIENCE said:
Arts said:
buffy said:
The absolute best invention is a wipe of local anaesthetic on the gums before the injection is done.
I don’t respond well to adrenaline so I need to have anaesthetic with no adrenaline, which means my dentist has to work fast or I get more shots. I always challenge him to work fast.
Just go general and go slow.
I don’t get the needle, I’d prefer to have momentary pain than all-day wooziness and funny mouthfeel.
dv said:
SCIENCE said:
Arts said:
I don’t respond well to adrenaline so I need to have anaesthetic with no adrenaline, which means my dentist has to work fast or I get more shots. I always challenge him to work fast.
Just go general and go slow.
I don’t get the needle, I’d prefer to have momentary pain than all-day wooziness and funny mouthfeel.
Counterirregardless of how deep they drill¿
dv said:
SCIENCE said:Arts said:
I don’t respond well to adrenaline so I need to have anaesthetic with no adrenaline, which means my dentist has to work fast or I get more shots. I always challenge him to work fast.
Just go general and go slow.
I don’t get the needle, I’d prefer to have momentary pain than all-day wooziness and funny mouthfeel.
No wooziness here, and the numb mouth only lasts 2-3 hours.
dv said:
SCIENCE said:Arts said:
I don’t respond well to adrenaline so I need to have anaesthetic with no adrenaline, which means my dentist has to work fast or I get more shots. I always challenge him to work fast.
Just go general and go slow.
I don’t get the needle, I’d prefer to have momentary pain than all-day wooziness and funny mouthfeel.
No adrenaline wears off quick and has no lasting effect
fucking hell
Maximums are predicted to exceed 40C across a broad swathe of the interior and east — the warmest summer weather in years for much of south-east Australia, including highs on Monday of 41C in Melbourne and 38C in Canberra. Across the eastern outback maximums will peak well above 45C, hot enough to challenge December records in a handful of western New South Wales towns.
good news though local backyard nuclear in 20 years will fix this and also be cheaper
SCIENCE said:
fucking hell
Maximums are predicted to exceed 40C across a broad swathe of the interior and east — the warmest summer weather in years for much of south-east Australia, including highs on Monday of 41C in Melbourne and 38C in Canberra. Across the eastern outback maximums will peak well above 45C, hot enough to challenge December records in a handful of western New South Wales towns.
good news though local backyard nuclear in 20 years will fix this and also be cheaper
Madness.
It’ll be 31 here on Monday which is bad enough for me, thanks.
SCIENCE said:
fucking hell
Maximums are predicted to exceed 40C across a broad swathe of the interior and east — the warmest summer weather in years for much of south-east Australia, including highs on Monday of 41C in Melbourne and 38C in Canberra. Across the eastern outback maximums will peak well above 45C, hot enough to challenge December records in a handful of western New South Wales towns.
good news though local backyard nuclear in 20 years will fix this and also be cheaper
Today from 11:00
Saura Landcruiser with the plate WAWAWEWA.
Relatively mild 26 and sunny hear
dinner be cooked shortly, it’s in the pan, the fried part is, there are salads and other things too, i’m keen to eat, I have a hunger, an appetite, i’ll endeavor to satiate, i’ll eat the food until the desire fades, until i’m satisfied, i’ll get some satisfaction
transition said:
dinner be cooked shortly, it’s in the pan, the fried part is, there are salads and other things too, i’m keen to eat, I have a hunger, an appetite, i’ll endeavor to satiate, i’ll eat the food until the desire fades, until i’m satisfied, i’ll get some satisfaction
That’s the spirit.
Jelly-like blood clot filling much of the cavity. I will endeavour to avoid dislodging it.
At the redoubt.
The gloaming is quite impressive.
The drive up was tiring I’ll probably have a early night.
Peak Warming Man said:
At the redoubt.
The gloaming is quite impressive.
The drive up was tiring I’ll probably have a early night.
Next time charter a helicopter.
Peak Warming Man said:
At the redoubt.
The gloaming is quite impressive.
The drive up was tiring I’ll probably have a early night.
Did you have to get out and push?
Woodie said:
Peak Warming Man said:
At the redoubt.
The gloaming is quite impressive.
The drive up was tiring I’ll probably have a early night.
Did you have to get out and push?
No no, the moon’s up.
dv said:
SCIENCE said:Arts said:
I don’t respond well to adrenaline so I need to have anaesthetic with no adrenaline, which means my dentist has to work fast or I get more shots. I always challenge him to work fast.
Just go general and go slow.
I don’t get the needle, I’d prefer to have momentary pain than all-day wooziness and funny mouthfeel.
One dentist years ago offered me that option. I took it. It was marvellous. She was so gentle, and reacted well to any withdrawal reaction.
Since then no dentist has offered me that option. They’ll be in there poking around and next thing, the needle is in the gum. Annoying, really.
I stood on the dog and it was totally the dog’s fault
Michael V said:
dv said:
SCIENCE said:Just go general and go slow.
I don’t get the needle, I’d prefer to have momentary pain than all-day wooziness and funny mouthfeel.
One dentist years ago offered me that option. I took it. It was marvellous. She was so gentle, and reacted well to any withdrawal reaction.
Since then no dentist has offered me that option. They’ll be in there poking around and next thing, the needle is in the gum. Annoying, really.
I mean you can just say you don’t want it.
dv said:
I stood on the dog and it was totally the dog’s fault
How?
dv said:
Michael V said:
dv said:I don’t get the needle, I’d prefer to have momentary pain than all-day wooziness and funny mouthfeel.
One dentist years ago offered me that option. I took it. It was marvellous. She was so gentle, and reacted well to any withdrawal reaction.
Since then no dentist has offered me that option. They’ll be in there poking around and next thing, the needle is in the gum. Annoying, really.
I mean you can just say you don’t want it.
Not when all the stuff is in my mouth, holding it open.
Michael V said:
dv said:
SCIENCE said:Just go general and go slow.
I don’t get the needle, I’d prefer to have momentary pain than all-day wooziness and funny mouthfeel.
One dentist years ago offered me that option. I took it. It was marvellous. She was so gentle, and reacted well to any withdrawal reaction.
Since then no dentist has offered me that option. They’ll be in there poking around and next thing, the needle is in the gum. Annoying, really.
They’d be very unlikely to offer me that option at my age, with high blood pressure (extreme pain can dangerously raise bp) and a heart condition.
Michael V said:
dv said:
I stood on the dog and it was totally the dog’s fault
How?
Oh he got underfoot
dv said:
Michael V said:
dv said:
I stood on the dog and it was totally the dog’s fault
How?
Oh he got underfoot
They can send you tumbling, be careful.
dv said:
I stood on the dog and it was totally the dog’s fault
this has happened to me. more than once. and I have been hurt.
dv said:
Michael V said:
dv said:
I stood on the dog and it was totally the dog’s fault
How?
Oh he got underfoot
Was he lying in a doorway?
Michael V said:
dv said:
Michael V said:How?
Oh he got underfoot
Was he lying in a doorway?
No he was zipping between me and the door
dv said:
Michael V said:
dv said:Oh he got underfoot
Was he lying in a doorway?
No he was zipping between me and the door
sometimes when i am making my way to the bathroom Cobett tries to cut me off and tries to make me head toward the kitchen.
Halfway through Part Two of Pyramids of Mars, and enjoying it despite the clichés.
But I paused to play a song I wrote about 40 years ago, which never had a title or a full set of lyrics.
The first phrase of the melody is the same first phrase of the signature tune of Smetana’s Má vlast, which I hadn’t heard or at least hadn’t remembered when I composed this song.
But the rest of the melody is actually much finer than Smetana’s tune, if I do say so myself :)
I’ll have to get some decent lyrics written and it can join the queue of songs I ought to get out there before I drift away.
dv said:
Michael V said:
dv said:Oh he got underfoot
Was he lying in a doorway?
No he was zipping between me and the door
Ah.
coffee in a moment
took offspring for a drive to the magic faraway farm, in her vehicle, her suzuki jimny, reads the meters we did, check a few troughs
previous occasion took her vehicle for drive, down south nearer where offspring lives, I put some stripes down the side of her new vehicle, went too near a shrub overhanging the road, dodging a large puddle I was, fortunate she had a scratch proof coat put on the paint when bought it, but noticeable, they’d buff out
and we visited ruins
dv said:
Michael V said:
dv said:
I stood on the dog and it was totally the dog’s fault
How?
Oh he got underfoot
There must be some Pug in his pedigree. In the kitchen, a Pug will always be right where you want to step next.
at one ruins, what might the tree be
transition said:
at one ruins, what might the tree be
Any seed pods or capsules?
Michael V said:
transition said:
at one ruins, what might the tree be
Any seed pods or capsules?
not that we saw briefly while there
Michael V said:
dv said:
Michael V said:Was he lying in a doorway?
No he was zipping between me and the door
Ah.
Or maybe I was guarding against unnecessary care
transition said:
at one ruins, what might the tree be
Maybe some class of fruit tree.
Bubblecar said:
transition said:
at one ruins, what might the tree be
Maybe some class of fruit tree.
not walnut?
transition said:
Bubblecar said:
transition said:
at one ruins, what might the tree be
Maybe some class of fruit tree.
not walnut?
Possibly.
Bubblecar said:
Jelly-like blood clot filling much of the cavity. I will endeavour to avoid dislodging it.
Now bleeding again, don’t know why.
I’ll let it do its thing. Going to bed in an hour or so.
Bubblecar said:
The first phrase of the melody is the same first phrase of the signature tune of Smetana’s Má vlast, which I hadn’t heard or at least hadn’t remembered when I composed this song.
Which movement?
AussieDJ said:
Bubblecar said:The first phrase of the melody is the same first phrase of the signature tune of Smetana’s Má vlast, which I hadn’t heard or at least hadn’t remembered when I composed this song.
Which movement?
First. Simple ascending scale, really.
Having canapés and beers at the rooftop bar at the Hilton for very incongruous Christmas party for earthworkers.
Another bit of Pyramid of Mars trivia for dv:
George Tovey, who played the poacher, was the father of Roberta Tovey, who played little Susan in the Dr who & Daleks films starring peter Cushing.
Bubblecar said:
Another bit of Pyramid of Mars trivia for dv:George Tovey, who played the poacher, was the father of Roberta Tovey, who played little Susan in the Dr who & Daleks films starring peter Cushing.
Interesting. You made me wonder whether Russell Tovey (who was in DW eps Voyage of the Damned and The End Of Time and has been cast in the spinoff series The War Between The Land And The Sea) was also related, but as far as I can find out, he ain’t.
dv said:
Bubblecar said:
Another bit of Pyramid of Mars trivia for dv:George Tovey, who played the poacher, was the father of Roberta Tovey, who played little Susan in the Dr who & Daleks films starring peter Cushing.
Interesting. You made me wonder whether Russell Tovey (who was in DW eps Voyage of the Damned and The End Of Time and has been cast in the spinoff series The War Between The Land And The Sea) was also related, but as far as I can find out, he ain’t.
I saw Roberta Tovey on the big screen in Dr Who and the Daleks at the Reading Odeon in 1965. I was six years old and didn’t realise that she was six years older than me.
Disappointing to those readers who’ve decided I’m of noble stock, but it was at the Reading Odeon where my parents first met and became an item, in the 1950s.
Dad was the chief projectionist and Mum was an usherette :)
But I think I’ve probably revealed this before.
Bubblecar said:
Disappointing to those readers who’ve decided I’m of noble stock, but it was at the Reading Odeon where my parents first met and became an item, in the 1950s.Dad was the chief projectionist and Mum was an usherette :)
But I think I’ve probably revealed this before.
Nice
Bubblecar said:
But I think I’ve probably revealed this before.
If so, it was so long ago we’d already forgotten.
I’ll add it to my notes…
dv said:
Bubblecar said:
Disappointing to those readers who’ve decided I’m of noble stock, but it was at the Reading Odeon where my parents first met and became an item, in the 1950s.Dad was the chief projectionist and Mum was an usherette :)
But I think I’ve probably revealed this before.
Nice
It was one of the fine Art Deco cinemas that has sadly since been demolished.
Bubblecar said:
dv said:
Bubblecar said:
Another bit of Pyramid of Mars trivia for dv:George Tovey, who played the poacher, was the father of Roberta Tovey, who played little Susan in the Dr who & Daleks films starring peter Cushing.
Interesting. You made me wonder whether Russell Tovey (who was in DW eps Voyage of the Damned and The End Of Time and has been cast in the spinoff series The War Between The Land And The Sea) was also related, but as far as I can find out, he ain’t.
I saw Roberta Tovey on the big screen in Dr Who and the Daleks at the Reading Odeon in 1965. I was six years old and didn’t realise that she was six years older than me.
I watched Dr Who and the Daleks on the BBC either very late 1964 or early 1965, around the time of Churchill’s state funeral, which I also watched on the BBC, somewhere in Dorset (I forget where). We were staying with one of Mum’s school friends, I think.
Speaking of Doctor Who, the missing story The Savages has been animated, to be released soon.
https://youtu.be/qtDr690U7PM?si=_AvZ2QpVbrbkNc_w
To explain: dozens of episodes from the Hartnell and Troughton eras were junked by the BBC. Some of them have been recovered from various places but 97 remain missing. 26 serials are thus wholly or partially incomplete. Fortunately audio exists for all eps, partly because of home recordings by fans.
Animated versions for 16 of these have now been created, based on “telesnap” photos, shooting scripts and directors notes, set photographs etc. They don’t really replace the original eps but they do allow audiences to enjoy the stories in some form.
The quality of the animations has varied. Some of the early attempts were a bit hairy, but I can recommend The Macra Terror, The Invasion, The Faceless Ones. This trailer seems to indicate The Savages looks decent.
Michael V said:
Bubblecar said:
dv said:Interesting. You made me wonder whether Russell Tovey (who was in DW eps Voyage of the Damned and The End Of Time and has been cast in the spinoff series The War Between The Land And The Sea) was also related, but as far as I can find out, he ain’t.
I saw Roberta Tovey on the big screen in Dr Who and the Daleks at the Reading Odeon in 1965. I was six years old and didn’t realise that she was six years older than me.
I watched Dr Who and the Daleks on the BBC either very late 1964 or early 1965, around the time of Churchill’s state funeral, which I also watched on the BBC, somewhere in Dorset (I forget where). We were staying with one of Mum’s school friends, I think.
That would have been the TV series. The cinema film was a lavish spin-off produced by American Milton Subotsky, who bought the rights, and starring Peter Cushing, a fine English actor more prominently associated with Hammer horror films.
Bubblecar said:
Disappointing to those readers who’ve decided I’m of noble stock, but it was at the Reading Odeon where my parents first met and became an item, in the 1950s.Dad was the chief projectionist and Mum was an usherette :)
But I think I’ve probably revealed this before.
how romantic.
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
Disappointing to those readers who’ve decided I’m of noble stock, but it was at the Reading Odeon where my parents first met and became an item, in the 1950s.Dad was the chief projectionist and Mum was an usherette :)
But I think I’ve probably revealed this before.
how romantic.
They remained old film buffs to the end of their days.
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
Disappointing to those readers who’ve decided I’m of noble stock, but it was at the Reading Odeon where my parents first met and became an item, in the 1950s.Dad was the chief projectionist and Mum was an usherette :)
But I think I’ve probably revealed this before.
how romantic.
They remained old film buffs to the end of their days.
my mum and dad met at a ball at the townhall in Ashfield. dad was with the pipe band.
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:how romantic.
They remained old film buffs to the end of their days.
my mum and dad met at a ball at the townhall in Ashfield. dad was with the pipe band.
My Mum and Dad met through their church youth social club. They were from different cities but from the same faith.
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:how romantic.
They remained old film buffs to the end of their days.
my mum and dad met at a ball at the townhall in Ashfield. dad was with the pipe band.
:)
As a pipe player, or drummer?
My dad was a member of various Ukrainian folk bands, playing various instruments. I have photographs of him onstage playing accordion and going all out on drum kit :)
I really should scan and upload them eventually.
Bubblecar said:
Michael V said:
Bubblecar said:I saw Roberta Tovey on the big screen in Dr Who and the Daleks at the Reading Odeon in 1965. I was six years old and didn’t realise that she was six years older than me.
I watched Dr Who and the Daleks on the BBC either very late 1964 or early 1965, around the time of Churchill’s state funeral, which I also watched on the BBC, somewhere in Dorset (I forget where). We were staying with one of Mum’s school friends, I think.
That would have been the TV series. The cinema film was a lavish spin-off produced by American Milton Subotsky, who bought the rights, and starring Peter Cushing, a fine English actor more prominently associated with Hammer horror films.
Ah.
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:They remained old film buffs to the end of their days.
my mum and dad met at a ball at the townhall in Ashfield. dad was with the pipe band.
:)
As a pipe player, or drummer?
My dad was a member of various Ukrainian folk bands, playing various instruments. I have photographs of him onstage playing accordion and going all out on drum kit :)
I really should scan and upload them eventually.
Dad was a drum major in the 30th battalion pipes and drums (cmf) before the war. his real job was a plumber. when war broke out he quit the pipes and drums and joined the engineers. but he went into the engineers as an officer because of his cmf training/service.
party_pants said:
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:They remained old film buffs to the end of their days.
my mum and dad met at a ball at the townhall in Ashfield. dad was with the pipe band.
My Mum and Dad met through their church youth social club. They were from different cities but from the same faith.
My parents met through the scouting association at Dee Why.
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:my mum and dad met at a ball at the townhall in Ashfield. dad was with the pipe band.
:)
As a pipe player, or drummer?
My dad was a member of various Ukrainian folk bands, playing various instruments. I have photographs of him onstage playing accordion and going all out on drum kit :)
I really should scan and upload them eventually.
Dad was a drum major in the 30th battalion pipes and drums (cmf) before the war. his real job was a plumber. when war broke out he quit the pipes and drums and joined the engineers. but he went into the engineers as an officer because of his cmf training/service.
Makes sense.
My dad was a 17-year-old farmer on his Mum’s farm when WW2 started, and quickly became a Ukrainian Soviet slave labourer when the Russians overran Western Ukraine, as per the Nazi-Soviet Pact. He was put to work in the forests, cutting down pines for Russia and expected to sing folk songs all day to please the guards.
Then in 1941 and Barbarossa, when the Germans invaded, he quickly became a German slave labourer and was transported to Bavaria to work on farms, with a very meagre diet and many health problems and no medical attention.
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said::)
As a pipe player, or drummer?
My dad was a member of various Ukrainian folk bands, playing various instruments. I have photographs of him onstage playing accordion and going all out on drum kit :)
I really should scan and upload them eventually.
Dad was a drum major in the 30th battalion pipes and drums (cmf) before the war. his real job was a plumber. when war broke out he quit the pipes and drums and joined the engineers. but he went into the engineers as an officer because of his cmf training/service.
Makes sense.
My dad was a 17-year-old farmer on his Mum’s farm when WW2 started, and quickly became a Ukrainian Soviet slave labourer when the Russians overran Western Ukraine, as per the Nazi-Soviet Pact. He was put to work in the forests, cutting down pines for Russia and expected to sing folk songs all day to please the guards.
Then in 1941 and Barbarossa, when the Germans invaded, he quickly became a German slave labourer and was transported to Bavaria to work on farms, with a very meagre diet and many health problems and no medical attention.
In case it’s not clear, “quickly became” means he had no choice in the matter.
dv said:
Speaking of Doctor Who, the missing story The Savages has been animated, to be released soon.https://youtu.be/qtDr690U7PM?si=_AvZ2QpVbrbkNc_w
To explain: dozens of episodes from the Hartnell and Troughton eras were junked by the BBC. Some of them have been recovered from various places but 97 remain missing. 26 serials are thus wholly or partially incomplete. Fortunately audio exists for all eps, partly because of home recordings by fans.
Animated versions for 16 of these have now been created, based on “telesnap” photos, shooting scripts and directors notes, set photographs etc. They don’t really replace the original eps but they do allow audiences to enjoy the stories in some form.The quality of the animations has varied. Some of the early attempts were a bit hairy, but I can recommend The Macra Terror, The Invasion, The Faceless Ones. This trailer seems to indicate The Savages looks decent.
The ten missing stories that have not yet been animated are
Marco Polo (4/4 missing)
The Crusade (2 / 4 missing)
Mission to the Unknown (1/1 missing) This is a very weird one, kind of a one episode prequel to Daleks’ Master Plan that doesn’t feature the Doctor.
The Mythmakers (4/4 missing)
The Daleks’ Master Plan (9/12 missing)
The Massacre (4/4 missing)
The Smugglers (4/4 missing)
The Highlanders (4/4 missing)
The Wheel in Space (4/6 missing)
The Space Pirates (5/6 missing)
dv said:
dv said:
Speaking of Doctor Who, the missing story The Savages has been animated, to be released soon.https://youtu.be/qtDr690U7PM?si=_AvZ2QpVbrbkNc_w
To explain: dozens of episodes from the Hartnell and Troughton eras were junked by the BBC. Some of them have been recovered from various places but 97 remain missing. 26 serials are thus wholly or partially incomplete. Fortunately audio exists for all eps, partly because of home recordings by fans.
Animated versions for 16 of these have now been created, based on “telesnap” photos, shooting scripts and directors notes, set photographs etc. They don’t really replace the original eps but they do allow audiences to enjoy the stories in some form.The quality of the animations has varied. Some of the early attempts were a bit hairy, but I can recommend The Macra Terror, The Invasion, The Faceless Ones. This trailer seems to indicate The Savages looks decent.
The ten missing stories that have not yet been animated are
Marco Polo (4/4 missing)
The Crusade (2 / 4 missing)
Mission to the Unknown (1/1 missing) This is a very weird one, kind of a one episode prequel to Daleks’ Master Plan that doesn’t feature the Doctor.
The Mythmakers (4/4 missing)
The Daleks’ Master Plan (9/12 missing)
The Massacre (4/4 missing)
The Smugglers (4/4 missing)
The Highlanders (4/4 missing)
The Wheel in Space (4/6 missing)
The Space Pirates (5/6 missing)
I was thinking about The Savages the other night (although I couldn’t remember the title) and the weird one-eyed creatures I remembered from my childhood.
Made a strong impression at the time. One of the more memorable of the lost ones.
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said::)
As a pipe player, or drummer?
My dad was a member of various Ukrainian folk bands, playing various instruments. I have photographs of him onstage playing accordion and going all out on drum kit :)
I really should scan and upload them eventually.
Dad was a drum major in the 30th battalion pipes and drums (cmf) before the war. his real job was a plumber. when war broke out he quit the pipes and drums and joined the engineers. but he went into the engineers as an officer because of his cmf training/service.
Makes sense.
My dad was a 17-year-old farmer on his Mum’s farm when WW2 started, and quickly became a Ukrainian Soviet slave labourer when the Russians overran Western Ukraine, as per the Nazi-Soviet Pact. He was put to work in the forests, cutting down pines for Russia and expected to sing folk songs all day to please the guards.
Then in 1941 and Barbarossa, when the Germans invaded, he quickly became a German slave labourer and was transported to Bavaria to work on farms, with a very meagre diet and many health problems and no medical attention.
I think my Dad lucked out in that he spent most of the war in Aus. infrastructure shit. putting in airfields and such. he was in Darwin when it was bombed. and then he got to go back to Darwin and put some of it back again. his overseas service was not until the end of the war when he joined the big push north.
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:Dad was a drum major in the 30th battalion pipes and drums (cmf) before the war. his real job was a plumber. when war broke out he quit the pipes and drums and joined the engineers. but he went into the engineers as an officer because of his cmf training/service.
Makes sense.
My dad was a 17-year-old farmer on his Mum’s farm when WW2 started, and quickly became a Ukrainian Soviet slave labourer when the Russians overran Western Ukraine, as per the Nazi-Soviet Pact. He was put to work in the forests, cutting down pines for Russia and expected to sing folk songs all day to please the guards.
Then in 1941 and Barbarossa, when the Germans invaded, he quickly became a German slave labourer and was transported to Bavaria to work on farms, with a very meagre diet and many health problems and no medical attention.
shit times for your dad. glad he got through.I think my Dad lucked out in that he spent most of the war in Aus. infrastructure shit. putting in airfields and such. he was in Darwin when it was bombed. and then he got to go back to Darwin and put some of it back again. his overseas service was not until the end of the war when he joined the big push north.
the menado force 1945.
after that he was on a US aircraft carrier taking prisoner of war statements for a time.
Bubblecar said:
dv said:
dv said:
Speaking of Doctor Who, the missing story The Savages has been animated, to be released soon.https://youtu.be/qtDr690U7PM?si=_AvZ2QpVbrbkNc_w
To explain: dozens of episodes from the Hartnell and Troughton eras were junked by the BBC. Some of them have been recovered from various places but 97 remain missing. 26 serials are thus wholly or partially incomplete. Fortunately audio exists for all eps, partly because of home recordings by fans.
Animated versions for 16 of these have now been created, based on “telesnap” photos, shooting scripts and directors notes, set photographs etc. They don’t really replace the original eps but they do allow audiences to enjoy the stories in some form.The quality of the animations has varied. Some of the early attempts were a bit hairy, but I can recommend The Macra Terror, The Invasion, The Faceless Ones. This trailer seems to indicate The Savages looks decent.
The ten missing stories that have not yet been animated are
Marco Polo (4/4 missing)
The Crusade (2 / 4 missing)
Mission to the Unknown (1/1 missing) This is a very weird one, kind of a one episode prequel to Daleks’ Master Plan that doesn’t feature the Doctor.
The Mythmakers (4/4 missing)
The Daleks’ Master Plan (9/12 missing)
The Massacre (4/4 missing)
The Smugglers (4/4 missing)
The Highlanders (4/4 missing)
The Wheel in Space (4/6 missing)
The Space Pirates (5/6 missing)
I was thinking about The Savages the other night (although I couldn’t remember the title) and the weird one-eyed creatures I remembered from my childhood.
Made a strong impression at the time. One of the more memorable of the lost ones.
Actually it seems I’m thinking of The Ark, which is apparently not missing :)
Hartnell story which involved these critters, the Monoids.
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
dv said:The ten missing stories that have not yet been animated are
Marco Polo (4/4 missing)
The Crusade (2 / 4 missing)
Mission to the Unknown (1/1 missing) This is a very weird one, kind of a one episode prequel to Daleks’ Master Plan that doesn’t feature the Doctor.
The Mythmakers (4/4 missing)
The Daleks’ Master Plan (9/12 missing)
The Massacre (4/4 missing)
The Smugglers (4/4 missing)
The Highlanders (4/4 missing)
The Wheel in Space (4/6 missing)
The Space Pirates (5/6 missing)
I was thinking about The Savages the other night (although I couldn’t remember the title) and the weird one-eyed creatures I remembered from my childhood.
Made a strong impression at the time. One of the more memorable of the lost ones.
Actually it seems I’m thinking of The Ark, which is apparently not missing :)
Hartnell story which involved these critters, the Monoids.
I can see why you’d mistake one for the other, they are somewhat similar stories.
Being something of an unexpected survivor of the 1950s BR Modernisation Plan era, the Bubble Cars of the Class 121 and 122 were originally conceived as a means to provide economic services on routes that were facing the end of their working lives, especially as the Beeching Axe came down on many of the less profitable lines across England, Wales and Scotland.
Rory Macve
https://youtu.be/-VW3FzdfHvE?si=WagdnpvGO83cTAgS
Good morning Holidayers. Presently 9 degrees at the back door and getting light. We are forecast a sunny 35 degrees today. Tomorrow’s forecast is presently for 40 degrees, showers and wind. Sounds like fun…
This morning I am going wildflower hunting for an hour or so but it’s not light enough yet.
Morning pilgrims, the day looks set fair.
Not much to report.
dv said:
Being something of an unexpected survivor of the 1950s BR Modernisation Plan era, the Bubble Cars of the Class 121 and 122 were originally conceived as a means to provide economic services on routes that were facing the end of their working lives, especially as the Beeching Axe came down on many of the less profitable lines across England, Wales and Scotland.Rory Macve
https://youtu.be/-VW3FzdfHvE?si=WagdnpvGO83cTAgS
What the hell are you doing up at this hour.
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said::)
As a pipe player, or drummer?
My dad was a member of various Ukrainian folk bands, playing various instruments. I have photographs of him onstage playing accordion and going all out on drum kit :)
I really should scan and upload them eventually.
Dad was a drum major in the 30th battalion pipes and drums (cmf) before the war. his real job was a plumber. when war broke out he quit the pipes and drums and joined the engineers. but he went into the engineers as an officer because of his cmf training/service.
Makes sense.
My dad was a 17-year-old farmer on his Mum’s farm when WW2 started, and quickly became a Ukrainian Soviet slave labourer when the Russians overran Western Ukraine, as per the Nazi-Soviet Pact. He was put to work in the forests, cutting down pines for Russia and expected to sing folk songs all day to please the guards.
Then in 1941 and Barbarossa, when the Germans invaded, he quickly became a German slave labourer and was transported to Bavaria to work on farms, with a very meagre diet and many health problems and no medical attention.
Awful.
Good morning everybody. I hope the day is kind, and that you are better in every way than you expect.
It’s overcast with light breezes, 19.8° C and 99% RH. BoM forecasts a top of 28°C and rain all day. It rain very heavily last night on occasions, so I expect there to be some precipitation captured by the ORB.
No agenda set, but there is cricket to watch, should the rain stay away from Brisbane. There’s one left over meal from last night, as when Mrs V woke me from my afternoon sleep last night after 3 hours kip, I didn’t feel like eating. So I don’t know how that’s going to be used up.
transition said:
Bubblecar said:
transition said:
at one ruins, what might the tree be
Maybe some class of fruit tree.
not walnut?
Seriously?
No it isn’t a walnut.
In one way of putting it, it is a fruit/nut tree if you are Aboriginal.
The fruits when dry contain some very nutty flavoured seeds that taste great after you have stood upwind and separated all the fine irritating hairs out to blow away. Roasted they taste really good.
It is a Kurrajong tree. One of the 31 species of Brachychitons.
Anyway, good morning.
Today’s weather
Forecast for the rest of Sunday
Summary Max 41 Cloud clearing. Chance of any rain: 0%
Cloud clearing. Light winds.
Fire Danger – Moderate
Sun protection recommended from 8:50 am to 5:30 pm, UV Index predicted to reach 12
Tomorrow:
Monday 16 December
Summary Min 23 Max 44 Sunny. Chance of any rain: 0%
Sunny. Winds east to northeasterly 15 to 25 km/h tending northwest to northeasterly 20 to 30 km/h in the morning then becoming northeasterly 15 to 25 km/h in the evening.
Sun protection recommended from 8:50 am to 5:30 pm, UV Index predicted to reach 13
Peak Warming Man said:
dv said:
Being something of an unexpected survivor of the 1950s BR Modernisation Plan era, the Bubble Cars of the Class 121 and 122 were originally conceived as a means to provide economic services on routes that were facing the end of their working lives, especially as the Beeching Axe came down on many of the less profitable lines across England, Wales and Scotland.Rory Macve
https://youtu.be/-VW3FzdfHvE?si=WagdnpvGO83cTAgS
What the hell are you doing up at this hour.
I was up posting stuff about trains.
Michael V said:
Good morning everybody. I hope the day is kind, and that you are better in every way than you expect.It’s overcast with light breezes, 19.8° C and 99% RH. BoM forecasts a top of 28°C and rain all day. It rain very heavily last night on occasions, so I expect there to be some precipitation captured by the ORB.
No agenda set, but there is cricket to watch, should the rain stay away from Brisbane. There’s one left over meal from last night, as when Mrs V woke me from my afternoon sleep last night after 3 hours kip, I didn’t feel like eating. So I don’t know how that’s going to be used up.
Way less rain than expected; just 9 mm in the ORB.
Mind you, anything over 5 mm in the summer and 3 mm in the winter is wasted, anyway.
dv said:
Peak Warming Man said:
dv said:
Being something of an unexpected survivor of the 1950s BR Modernisation Plan era, the Bubble Cars of the Class 121 and 122 were originally conceived as a means to provide economic services on routes that were facing the end of their working lives, especially as the Beeching Axe came down on many of the less profitable lines across England, Wales and Scotland.Rory Macve
https://youtu.be/-VW3FzdfHvE?si=WagdnpvGO83cTAgS
What the hell are you doing up at this hour.
I was up posting stuff about trains.
Yes I noticed that.
roughbarked said:
transition said:
Bubblecar said:Maybe some class of fruit tree.
not walnut?
Seriously?
No it isn’t a walnut.
In one way of putting it, it is a fruit/nut tree if you are Aboriginal.
The fruits when dry contain some very nutty flavoured seeds that taste great after you have stood upwind and separated all the fine irritating hairs out to blow away. Roasted they taste really good.It is a Kurrajong tree. One of the 31 species of Brachychitons.
I thought kurrajong, too – which is why I asked about seeds or seed pods.
Michael V said:
roughbarked said:
transition said:not walnut?
Seriously?
No it isn’t a walnut.
In one way of putting it, it is a fruit/nut tree if you are Aboriginal.
The fruits when dry contain some very nutty flavoured seeds that taste great after you have stood upwind and separated all the fine irritating hairs out to blow away. Roasted they taste really good.It is a Kurrajong tree. One of the 31 species of Brachychitons.
I thought kurrajong, too – which is why I asked about seeds or seed pods.
Yes.
Maybe they don’t see Kurrajongs so often in transition’s part of the world.
Score: 35 / 50
desert wind kicking up, warm already
I done my jobs out the magic faraway farm, nice sunrise this morn
roughbarked said:
Michael V said:
roughbarked said:Seriously?
No it isn’t a walnut.
In one way of putting it, it is a fruit/nut tree if you are Aboriginal.
The fruits when dry contain some very nutty flavoured seeds that taste great after you have stood upwind and separated all the fine irritating hairs out to blow away. Roasted they taste really good.It is a Kurrajong tree. One of the 31 species of Brachychitons.
I thought kurrajong, too – which is why I asked about seeds or seed pods.
Yes.
Maybe they don’t see Kurrajongs so often in transition’s part of the world.
I planted a Brachychiton rupestris (Qld Bottle Tree) on the verge here. I have another in a pot. There is a brilliant specimen in the street parallel to us. I suspect it may be a transplanted tree – it looks to be 50 or more years old. They transplant well, even fully grown. They survive for a very long time lying on their sides after being dug up from their original location.
transition said:
desert wind kicking up, warm alreadyI done my jobs out the magic faraway farm, nice sunrise this morn
watching news bloopers, news reader actually announced what they thought were the names of pilots of downed passenger plane(though seems more likely to be comedy, certainly is now anyway)
captain sum ting wong
wi tu lo
ho lee fuk
bang ding ow
roughbarked said:
transition said:
Bubblecar said:Maybe some class of fruit tree.
not walnut?
Seriously?
No it isn’t a walnut.
In one way of putting it, it is a fruit/nut tree if you are Aboriginal.
The fruits when dry contain some very nutty flavoured seeds that taste great after you have stood upwind and separated all the fine irritating hairs out to blow away. Roasted they taste really good.It is a Kurrajong tree. One of the 31 species of Brachychitons.
thankyou for that, i’ll look it up shortly not too long not far away not a long time soonish I wont postpone it into non-existence or wait a long time certainly not forever or infinity
Score: 50 / 50
🏆🏆 Perfect, incredible, amazing!
Time to go brag to your mates. You’re in the top 5% of quizzers.
Share with your friends to see how well they paid attention:
transition said:
transition said:
desert wind kicking up, warm already
I done my jobs out the magic faraway farm, nice sunrise this morn
watching news bloopers, news reader actually announced what they thought were the names of pilots of downed passenger plane(though seems more likely to be comedy, certainly is now anyway)
captain sum ting wong
wi tu lo
ho lee fuk
bang ding ow
that is so 2012 but anyway
transition said:
roughbarked said:
transition said:not walnut?
Seriously?
No it isn’t a walnut.
In one way of putting it, it is a fruit/nut tree if you are Aboriginal.
The fruits when dry contain some very nutty flavoured seeds that taste great after you have stood upwind and separated all the fine irritating hairs out to blow away. Roasted they taste really good.It is a Kurrajong tree. One of the 31 species of Brachychitons.
thankyou for that, i’ll look it up shortly not too long not far away not a long time soonish I wont postpone it into non-existence or wait a long time certainly not forever or infinity
I reckons you is correctly uninexactitudinally without error
SCIENCE said:
transition said:
transition said:
desert wind kicking up, warm already
I done my jobs out the magic faraway farm, nice sunrise this morn
watching news bloopers, news reader actually announced what they thought were the names of pilots of downed passenger plane(though seems more likely to be comedy, certainly is now anyway)
captain sum ting wong
wi tu lo
ho lee fuk
bang ding ow
that is so 2012 but anyway
just lets me has a giggle, revisit the child that remains
JudgeMental said:
Score: 50 / 50
🏆🏆 Perfect, incredible, amazing!
Time to go brag to your mates. You’re in the top 5% of quizzers.Share with your friends to see how well they paid attention:
I scored 0/0, so well done.
Michael V said:
roughbarked said:
Michael V said:I thought kurrajong, too – which is why I asked about seeds or seed pods.
Yes.
Maybe they don’t see Kurrajongs so often in transition’s part of the world.
I planted a Brachychiton rupestris (Qld Bottle Tree) on the verge here. I have another in a pot. There is a brilliant specimen in the street parallel to us. I suspect it may be a transplanted tree – it looks to be 50 or more years old. They transplant well, even fully grown. They survive for a very long time lying on their sides after being dug up from their original location.
Yes Yes.
transition said:
SCIENCE said:
transition said:
watching news bloopers, news reader actually announced what they thought were the names of pilots of downed passenger plane(though seems more likely to be comedy, certainly is now anyway)
captain sum ting wong
wi tu lo
ho lee fuk
bang ding ow
that is so 2012 but anyway
just lets me has a giggle, revisit the child that remains
well some people considered it racist at the time before and after but we suppose it wasn’t the worst it could be we mean the balance between entertainment and offence was better than some
SCIENCE said:
transition said:
SCIENCE said:
that is so 2012 but anyway
just lets me has a giggle, revisit the child that remains
well some people considered it racist at the time before and after but we suppose it wasn’t the worst it could be we mean the balance between entertainment and offence was better than some
definitely a bit racist for sure, and let it be a lesson, I hope everyone has grown up, seen the error of ways back in the day
buffy said:
roughbarked said:
Hard QuizScore: 35 / 50
30/50. A couple of guesses that worked. A couple I knew.
Another 30/50.
25/50 here in the hard quiz
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-15/hard-quiz-weekly-trivia/104701334
Boris is a nerd
dv said:
25/50 here in the hard quizhttps://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-15/hard-quiz-weekly-trivia/104701334
Boris is a nerd
I did find that it was fairly easy and only a couple of guesses. it was nice to wipe the smarmy grin off the smarmy gits smarmy face though.
The Rev Dodgson said:
buffy said:
roughbarked said:
Hard QuizScore: 35 / 50
30/50. A couple of guesses that worked. A couple I knew.
Another 30/50.
35/50
I’ve never heard of Roxane Gay, let alone what she does or does not do.
Never paid much attention to Twitter, especially in the past, so had no idea on that one.
Just didn’t know the flamingoes one.
But, a lucky/half-remembered shot paid off on the Lleyton Hewitt one. I’ve never watched more than about 20 seconds of any of those soapies.
JudgeMental said:
dv said:
25/50 here in the hard quizhttps://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-15/hard-quiz-weekly-trivia/104701334
Boris is a nerd
I did find that it was fairly easy and only a couple of guesses. it was nice to wipe the smarmy grin off the smarmy gits smarmy face though.
Turns out that their answer on Q6 is completely wrong, and the correct answer is not an option, so that’s no good.
Morning all.
captain_spalding said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
buffy said:30/50. A couple of guesses that worked. A couple I knew.
Another 30/50.
35/50
I’ve never heard of Roxane Gay, let alone what she does or does not do.
Never paid much attention to Twitter, especially in the past, so had no idea on that one.
Just didn’t know the flamingoes one.
All of that, plus I haven’t followed any soaps, and the correct answer regarding the trousers was not an option.
buffy said:
roughbarked said:
Hard QuizScore: 35 / 50
30/50. A couple of guesses that worked. A couple I knew.
5/10 here.
Can teenagers outwit Australia’s social-media ban?
Enforcing the new law may prove tricky
Dec 5th 2024
“We’ve got your back,” Australia’s prime minister, Anthony Albanese, told parents on November 29th, a day after pushing through some of the world’s strictest limits on screentime. One year from now, under-16s will be banned from using social media, in a move intended to protect them from harm. Teenagers groaned. Parents discreetly high-fived. Policymakers around the world took notes.
Most social-media platforms are notionally off-limits for under-13s, a cut-off that was widely adopted after America passed COPPA, a law to protect children’s online privacy, in 1998. But the rules are widely ignored and feebly enforced. Britain’s communications regulator, Ofcom, reports that 22% of the country’s social-media users aged between eight and 17 have an account with an adult’s date of birth. TikTok (minimum age: 13) is used by half of British eight- to 11-year-olds.
Parents and politicians long turned a blind eye. But amid concern that social media harms mental health, governments are getting tougher. European countries including France, Germany and Italy require younger teens to get parents’ permission before signing up. Various American states have passed laws limiting teens’ access to social media, though many have hit legal obstacles. Australia, cheered on by its domestic press, is the first country to enact a blanket ban.
The first problem it must solve is enforcement. Younger teenagers lack the driving licences and credit cards that often serve as proof of age, so many companies use machine learning to estimate age via selfie. Five years ago such models were accurate to within about three years, says Tony Allen of the Age Check Certification Scheme, an auditor that is working with the Australian government. Today they can guess to within about a year, he says, better than most humans.
That still means errors at the margin, especially for people with dark skin, who tend to be underrepresented in training data. Yoti, which checks ages for Meta on products including Facebook Dating, reports an average error of about a year for light-skinned 13- to 17-year-olds, and a year and a half for dark-skinned teens.
Technical challenges aside, how broad should crackdowns on social media be? The category spans everything from video to messaging. Australia has suggested that TikTok will fall under its ban but that YouTube will be exempt, for its “significant” educational content. Video games are also off the hook, though they have become increasingly social as children use platforms like Roblox to chat as well as play.
Another question is who should carry out the checks. Australia is placing the burden on the social-media platforms: “You create the risk, you’ve got to deal with it,” says Mr Allen. Meta and others say the checks should instead be done by operating systems or app stores, making it Apple’s and Google’s problem. That would allow users to have their phone vouch for their age anonymously, rather than hand over mugshots or IDs to every social network, gambling app or porn site they visit. For now, governments seem wary of making Apple and Google create global ID registries of their billions of users.
Age limits will hit some social platforms harder than others. The cost of performing checks will be more burdensome for startups than incumbents (Yoti quotes between three and 31 cents per check, depending on volume). And whereas only about 5% of Facebook’s users in America are under 18, at Snapchat the figure is 19% (see chart). Young users at least are not especially valuable to advertisers: ads aimed at under-16s probably make up a “low single-digit percentage” of spending, estimates Brian Wieser of Madison and Wall, an ad consultancy. Meta has not shown advertisements to under-18s in the EU for more than a year, amid a legal dispute; its bottom line has hardly been dented.
No one yet knows the extent to which keeping teens off social media will reduce their interest as adults. But apps like TikTok, which is already threatened with an outright ban in America, could be disadvantaged if they are banned for teenagers while direct rivals such as YouTube are let off. The big winners from a social-media crackdown may be alternative types of screentime, such as gaming—at least so long as the enthusiasm for banning children’s online pursuits goes no further.
https://www.economist.com/business/2024/12/05/can-teenagers-outwit-australias-social-media-ban?
Tau.Neutrino said:
Morning all.
Morning.
dv said:
JudgeMental said:
dv said:
25/50 here in the hard quizhttps://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-15/hard-quiz-weekly-trivia/104701334
Boris is a nerd
I did find that it was fairly easy and only a couple of guesses. it was nice to wipe the smarmy grin off the smarmy gits smarmy face though.
Turns out that their answer on Q6 is completely wrong, and the correct answer is not an option, so that’s no good.
TATE seems to think it is a possible answer.
John Kinsel used his own language to fool the Japanese
One of the last Navajo code-talkers died on October 19th, aged 107
Dec 5th 2024
On the day John Kinsel came back from the second world war, his mother immediately called in the medicine man. It was not to treat his leg, though it had been broken in Iwo Jima, and on that leg he had walked the last seven miles over the Arizona mountains to Lukachukai and his family, lugging a suitcase so full of hard-to-get cigarettes that he had bound it up with rope. The medicine man was needed to re-initiate him into his community and tribe. To make him a Navajo again.
That night everyone gathered for the Enemy Way ceremony. The same ceremony had been performed when he left to join the Marines, to make sure he returned in one piece. It had worked, so that when the rocks exploded in Iwo Jima they largely missed him, and when malaria got him like a punch in the stomach on Guadalcanal, he didn’t die. This time the prayers and dances, and the killing of the Monster by the Warrior, were a powerful disinfecting. They would drive out the memory of being under mortar fire in open rice paddies, and of all the shattered corpses he had seen and, worse, smelled. The ghosts would be laid, and he would walk the Pollen Path of purity once more.
Yet compared to most of the others who fought in the Pacific, he felt he had an easy war. While they faced death on the front line he was in the rear, sending coded messages by radio. Though he went through basic training with the other boots at Camp Elliott, for much of the time after it he and his colleagues were sitting comfortably, memorising words and tossing metaphors to each other. What did a grenade remind them of? Potatoes. An amphibious vehicle? Perhaps a frog. A dive bomber? Obviously a chicken hawk. How would they think of December? Crusted snow.
The trick, which outfoxed the enemy completely, was then to turn those metaphors into Navajo. The Japanese were good code-breakers, but not this time. The Navajo language was unwritten, tonal and fiendishly complicated. And that was precisely why the Marines were so glad to have him, when he spontaneously volunteered after meeting two Marines on the road. A first cohort of 29 code-talkers (or windtalkers, as they called themselves) had arrived at Camp Elliott in May 1942 and drawn up a list of 211 words. Mr Kinsel and 25 comrades, who came a few months later, added 200 more. Not all used metaphor: some were happy chance, such as “two star” for a major-general. Others, such as “train” and “unit” were straight translations into Navajo. “Train” was coh-nai-ali-bahn-si: no need to stretch that any further.
Learning the code-lists wasn’t difficult, he thought. If you got a puppy dog you gave it a name, and each time you saw it, you remembered. His serial number, the same. For him, the English words were much harder. His early childhood was spent herding sheep and goats up in the canyons and red mesas, with only Navajo in his world. School came late, and was tough and indifferent; from government boarding school he remembered only cold, hunger, the thin ration of oatmeal they got for breakfast and the military outfits, with peaked caps, they had to wear on Sundays. At 12 he could still speak no more in English than one, two, three, four, five, yes and no. At Catholic school later he picked up English from hymns, but all his life he struggled in it. In Navajo, naturally, he soared. His real, Navajo, name, as opposed to the English one he was given at school, meant a leader who talked a lot. A great name for a radio man.
He was especially proud of three code-words he had helped with. One was “turtle”, for a tank, after their slow, tottering pace and the armour on their backs. The second was “bird carriers” for aircraft in general. The third, his own creation, was “rabbit trail”, for route. That metaphor came naturally after all his days in the mountains, noting how after a snowfall or sandstorm the rabbits hopped out and went this way, that way, leaving tracks. From his home in Lukachukai he could see a far white path, a creature-trail, threading through the rocks. So: rabbit trail. It was as vivid as the cipher for code itself, which was “peck”: the jerking jab of a hen on grains, or a human on a keyboard.
In general, though, he did not talk about his own doings. There was no “I” in his war, only “we”: the Navajo code-devisers and radio crews. That was the Navajo way: community, tribe, rather than self, an ethic underscored by being in the Marines. They kept close. Most of them had their eagle feathers for protection and their pipes for tobacco, or stronger stuff. They wished aloud for sweat lodges, and he was once part of a group that scrounged flour, lard, salt and a pan to make frybread. But, most important at this point, they were all doing the same job, taking messages from commanding officers, translating into cipher, and broadcasting to the battalions—or the reverse. Most days they did “jump-offs”, giving the time when the front lines would move. Each message could usually be turned to code and sent within 30 seconds.
Code-talkers therefore did much to win the war, though he did not vaunt himself. When he got home he built a log cabin near the place where he was born, using logs gathered in the forest. It had no electricity or running water, but looked out on the red mesas and a good shade tree. His work for the Bureau of Indian Affairs rewarded him well enough, though his Purple Heart for Iwo Jima took more than four decades to arrive. His one concession to pride was his official Navajo Code-Talkers uniform, which he wore as often as he could and explained in careful detail. Red cap, the Marine Corps. Gold shirt, the sacred corn pollen, or life. Turquoise necklace, his own warrior identity. Right-arm patch, an eagle feather and the special Navajo colours, white, black, blue and yellow, to protect him. Light brown pants, the spirit of Mother Earth. And dark socks, representing Night.
He had left his people, but returned as their hero. As the Enemy Way prayer ended, Bik’eh hózhó: “It is finished in beauty.”
https://www.economist.com/obituary/2024/12/05/john-kinsel-used-his-own-language-to-fool-the-japanese?
Witty Rejoinder said:
John Kinsel used his own language to fool the Japanese
One of the last Navajo code-talkers died on October 19th, aged 107Dec 5th 2024
On the day John Kinsel came back from the second world war, his mother immediately called in the medicine man. It was not to treat his leg, though it had been broken in Iwo Jima, and on that leg he had walked the last seven miles over the Arizona mountains to Lukachukai and his family, lugging a suitcase so full of hard-to-get cigarettes that he had bound it up with rope. The medicine man was needed to re-initiate him into his community and tribe. To make him a Navajo again.
That night everyone gathered for the Enemy Way ceremony. The same ceremony had been performed when he left to join the Marines, to make sure he returned in one piece. It had worked, so that when the rocks exploded in Iwo Jima they largely missed him, and when malaria got him like a punch in the stomach on Guadalcanal, he didn’t die. This time the prayers and dances, and the killing of the Monster by the Warrior, were a powerful disinfecting. They would drive out the memory of being under mortar fire in open rice paddies, and of all the shattered corpses he had seen and, worse, smelled. The ghosts would be laid, and he would walk the Pollen Path of purity once more.
Yet compared to most of the others who fought in the Pacific, he felt he had an easy war. While they faced death on the front line he was in the rear, sending coded messages by radio. Though he went through basic training with the other boots at Camp Elliott, for much of the time after it he and his colleagues were sitting comfortably, memorising words and tossing metaphors to each other. What did a grenade remind them of? Potatoes. An amphibious vehicle? Perhaps a frog. A dive bomber? Obviously a chicken hawk. How would they think of December? Crusted snow.
The trick, which outfoxed the enemy completely, was then to turn those metaphors into Navajo. The Japanese were good code-breakers, but not this time. The Navajo language was unwritten, tonal and fiendishly complicated. And that was precisely why the Marines were so glad to have him, when he spontaneously volunteered after meeting two Marines on the road. A first cohort of 29 code-talkers (or windtalkers, as they called themselves) had arrived at Camp Elliott in May 1942 and drawn up a list of 211 words. Mr Kinsel and 25 comrades, who came a few months later, added 200 more. Not all used metaphor: some were happy chance, such as “two star” for a major-general. Others, such as “train” and “unit” were straight translations into Navajo. “Train” was coh-nai-ali-bahn-si: no need to stretch that any further.
Learning the code-lists wasn’t difficult, he thought. If you got a puppy dog you gave it a name, and each time you saw it, you remembered. His serial number, the same. For him, the English words were much harder. His early childhood was spent herding sheep and goats up in the canyons and red mesas, with only Navajo in his world. School came late, and was tough and indifferent; from government boarding school he remembered only cold, hunger, the thin ration of oatmeal they got for breakfast and the military outfits, with peaked caps, they had to wear on Sundays. At 12 he could still speak no more in English than one, two, three, four, five, yes and no. At Catholic school later he picked up English from hymns, but all his life he struggled in it. In Navajo, naturally, he soared. His real, Navajo, name, as opposed to the English one he was given at school, meant a leader who talked a lot. A great name for a radio man.
He was especially proud of three code-words he had helped with. One was “turtle”, for a tank, after their slow, tottering pace and the armour on their backs. The second was “bird carriers” for aircraft in general. The third, his own creation, was “rabbit trail”, for route. That metaphor came naturally after all his days in the mountains, noting how after a snowfall or sandstorm the rabbits hopped out and went this way, that way, leaving tracks. From his home in Lukachukai he could see a far white path, a creature-trail, threading through the rocks. So: rabbit trail. It was as vivid as the cipher for code itself, which was “peck”: the jerking jab of a hen on grains, or a human on a keyboard.
In general, though, he did not talk about his own doings. There was no “I” in his war, only “we”: the Navajo code-devisers and radio crews. That was the Navajo way: community, tribe, rather than self, an ethic underscored by being in the Marines. They kept close. Most of them had their eagle feathers for protection and their pipes for tobacco, or stronger stuff. They wished aloud for sweat lodges, and he was once part of a group that scrounged flour, lard, salt and a pan to make frybread. But, most important at this point, they were all doing the same job, taking messages from commanding officers, translating into cipher, and broadcasting to the battalions—or the reverse. Most days they did “jump-offs”, giving the time when the front lines would move. Each message could usually be turned to code and sent within 30 seconds.
Code-talkers therefore did much to win the war, though he did not vaunt himself. When he got home he built a log cabin near the place where he was born, using logs gathered in the forest. It had no electricity or running water, but looked out on the red mesas and a good shade tree. His work for the Bureau of Indian Affairs rewarded him well enough, though his Purple Heart for Iwo Jima took more than four decades to arrive. His one concession to pride was his official Navajo Code-Talkers uniform, which he wore as often as he could and explained in careful detail. Red cap, the Marine Corps. Gold shirt, the sacred corn pollen, or life. Turquoise necklace, his own warrior identity. Right-arm patch, an eagle feather and the special Navajo colours, white, black, blue and yellow, to protect him. Light brown pants, the spirit of Mother Earth. And dark socks, representing Night.
He had left his people, but returned as their hero. As the Enemy Way prayer ended, Bik’eh hózhó: “It is finished in beauty.”
https://www.economist.com/obituary/2024/12/05/john-kinsel-used-his-own-language-to-fool-the-japanese?
Interesting, thanks.
My passwords are words that were taught to me by people of various mobs, in largely unrecorded lingos. The good thing is that I can keep text files on my computer that contain 2-or-3 letter hints to me, that are most unlikely to be deciphered by anyone or even a computer.
Had a good sleep and a long lie-in, but no, the blood clot is still jelly-like and not set.
So it looks I can’t have sausage rolls today either. Can’t be helped.
Bubblecar said:
Had a good sleep and a long lie-in, but no, the blood clot is still jelly-like and not set.So it looks I can’t have sausage rolls today either. Can’t be helped.
But if I don’t get to eat a sausage roll soon I’ll go crazy I tell you, I’ll go crazy!
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
Had a good sleep and a long lie-in, but no, the blood clot is still jelly-like and not set.So it looks I can’t have sausage rolls today either. Can’t be helped.
But if I don’t get to eat a sausage roll soon I’ll go crazy I tell you, I’ll go crazy!
Bummer.
JudgeMental said:
dv said:
25/50 here in the hard quizhttps://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-15/hard-quiz-weekly-trivia/104701334
Boris is a nerd
I did find that it was fairly easy and only a couple of guesses. it was nice to wipe the smarmy grin off the smarmy gits smarmy face though.
Hopefully one day a quiz question will be about the meaning of the word “smarmy”, and your misplaced pride will force you to get it wrong.
dv said:
25/50 here in the hard quizhttps://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-15/hard-quiz-weekly-trivia/104701334
Boris is a nerd
35/50 here. Only really got 4 of them, with 3 lucky guesses.
captain_spalding said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
buffy said:30/50. A couple of guesses that worked. A couple I knew.
Another 30/50.
35/50
I’ve never heard of Roxane Gay, let alone what she does or does not do.
Never paid much attention to Twitter, especially in the past, so had no idea on that one.
Just didn’t know the flamingoes one.
But, a lucky/half-remembered shot paid off on the Lleyton Hewitt one. I’ve never watched more than about 20 seconds of any of those soapies.
Pretty much the same here with twitter and Leyton Hewitt.. I should have got the flamingoes in retrospect but I put the wrong answer anyway. I’ve never watched an episode of those soaps.
dv said:
JudgeMental said:
dv said:
25/50 here in the hard quizhttps://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-15/hard-quiz-weekly-trivia/104701334
Boris is a nerd
I did find that it was fairly easy and only a couple of guesses. it was nice to wipe the smarmy grin off the smarmy gits smarmy face though.
Turns out that their answer on Q6 is completely wrong, and the correct answer is not an option, so that’s no good.
Quora disagrees: While tracky daks are unisex, generally it is male pants. Jocks is another common slang for male underpants.
It originates, like other words like xeroxing and hoovering from a brand-name that moved into the common vernacular in the 60’s and 70’s. They were underpants as I remember but I believe they were more than just that. Likewise, jocks are derive from a brand name.
Though the word itself goes back to the 1700’s
But wiktionary gives: From DAKS, trademark for a brand of trousers originally made in the 1930s by Simpsons of Piccadilly; formed from the initials of Alexander Simpson and the first and last letters of the name of his business associate Dudley Beck.
The Rev Dodgson said:
dv said:
JudgeMental said:I did find that it was fairly easy and only a couple of guesses. it was nice to wipe the smarmy grin off the smarmy gits smarmy face though.
Turns out that their answer on Q6 is completely wrong, and the correct answer is not an option, so that’s no good.
TATE seems to think it is a possible answer.
The question is about the Australian slang term rather than some British clothing maker’s copyright.
Many such words have an older history. Australians turned them into slang terms meaning slightly different things.
Michael V said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
John Kinsel used his own language to fool the Japanese
One of the last Navajo code-talkers died on October 19th, aged 107Dec 5th 2024
On the day John Kinsel came back from the second world war, his mother immediately called in the medicine man. It was not to treat his leg, though it had been broken in Iwo Jima, and on that leg he had walked the last seven miles over the Arizona mountains to Lukachukai and his family, lugging a suitcase so full of hard-to-get cigarettes that he had bound it up with rope. The medicine man was needed to re-initiate him into his community and tribe. To make him a Navajo again.
That night everyone gathered for the Enemy Way ceremony. The same ceremony had been performed when he left to join the Marines, to make sure he returned in one piece. It had worked, so that when the rocks exploded in Iwo Jima they largely missed him, and when malaria got him like a punch in the stomach on Guadalcanal, he didn’t die. This time the prayers and dances, and the killing of the Monster by the Warrior, were a powerful disinfecting. They would drive out the memory of being under mortar fire in open rice paddies, and of all the shattered corpses he had seen and, worse, smelled. The ghosts would be laid, and he would walk the Pollen Path of purity once more.
Yet compared to most of the others who fought in the Pacific, he felt he had an easy war. While they faced death on the front line he was in the rear, sending coded messages by radio. Though he went through basic training with the other boots at Camp Elliott, for much of the time after it he and his colleagues were sitting comfortably, memorising words and tossing metaphors to each other. What did a grenade remind them of? Potatoes. An amphibious vehicle? Perhaps a frog. A dive bomber? Obviously a chicken hawk. How would they think of December? Crusted snow.
The trick, which outfoxed the enemy completely, was then to turn those metaphors into Navajo. The Japanese were good code-breakers, but not this time. The Navajo language was unwritten, tonal and fiendishly complicated. And that was precisely why the Marines were so glad to have him, when he spontaneously volunteered after meeting two Marines on the road. A first cohort of 29 code-talkers (or windtalkers, as they called themselves) had arrived at Camp Elliott in May 1942 and drawn up a list of 211 words. Mr Kinsel and 25 comrades, who came a few months later, added 200 more. Not all used metaphor: some were happy chance, such as “two star” for a major-general. Others, such as “train” and “unit” were straight translations into Navajo. “Train” was coh-nai-ali-bahn-si: no need to stretch that any further.
Learning the code-lists wasn’t difficult, he thought. If you got a puppy dog you gave it a name, and each time you saw it, you remembered. His serial number, the same. For him, the English words were much harder. His early childhood was spent herding sheep and goats up in the canyons and red mesas, with only Navajo in his world. School came late, and was tough and indifferent; from government boarding school he remembered only cold, hunger, the thin ration of oatmeal they got for breakfast and the military outfits, with peaked caps, they had to wear on Sundays. At 12 he could still speak no more in English than one, two, three, four, five, yes and no. At Catholic school later he picked up English from hymns, but all his life he struggled in it. In Navajo, naturally, he soared. His real, Navajo, name, as opposed to the English one he was given at school, meant a leader who talked a lot. A great name for a radio man.
He was especially proud of three code-words he had helped with. One was “turtle”, for a tank, after their slow, tottering pace and the armour on their backs. The second was “bird carriers” for aircraft in general. The third, his own creation, was “rabbit trail”, for route. That metaphor came naturally after all his days in the mountains, noting how after a snowfall or sandstorm the rabbits hopped out and went this way, that way, leaving tracks. From his home in Lukachukai he could see a far white path, a creature-trail, threading through the rocks. So: rabbit trail. It was as vivid as the cipher for code itself, which was “peck”: the jerking jab of a hen on grains, or a human on a keyboard.
In general, though, he did not talk about his own doings. There was no “I” in his war, only “we”: the Navajo code-devisers and radio crews. That was the Navajo way: community, tribe, rather than self, an ethic underscored by being in the Marines. They kept close. Most of them had their eagle feathers for protection and their pipes for tobacco, or stronger stuff. They wished aloud for sweat lodges, and he was once part of a group that scrounged flour, lard, salt and a pan to make frybread. But, most important at this point, they were all doing the same job, taking messages from commanding officers, translating into cipher, and broadcasting to the battalions—or the reverse. Most days they did “jump-offs”, giving the time when the front lines would move. Each message could usually be turned to code and sent within 30 seconds.
Code-talkers therefore did much to win the war, though he did not vaunt himself. When he got home he built a log cabin near the place where he was born, using logs gathered in the forest. It had no electricity or running water, but looked out on the red mesas and a good shade tree. His work for the Bureau of Indian Affairs rewarded him well enough, though his Purple Heart for Iwo Jima took more than four decades to arrive. His one concession to pride was his official Navajo Code-Talkers uniform, which he wore as often as he could and explained in careful detail. Red cap, the Marine Corps. Gold shirt, the sacred corn pollen, or life. Turquoise necklace, his own warrior identity. Right-arm patch, an eagle feather and the special Navajo colours, white, black, blue and yellow, to protect him. Light brown pants, the spirit of Mother Earth. And dark socks, representing Night.
He had left his people, but returned as their hero. As the Enemy Way prayer ended, Bik’eh hózhó: “It is finished in beauty.”
https://www.economist.com/obituary/2024/12/05/john-kinsel-used-his-own-language-to-fool-the-japanese?
Interesting, thanks.
My passwords are words that were taught to me by people of various mobs, in largely unrecorded lingos. The good thing is that I can keep text files on my computer that contain 2-or-3 letter hints to me, that are most unlikely to be deciphered by anyone or even a computer.
I use a dead language.
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
Had a good sleep and a long lie-in, but no, the blood clot is still jelly-like and not set.So it looks I can’t have sausage rolls today either. Can’t be helped.
But if I don’t get to eat a sausage roll soon I’ll go crazy I tell you, I’ll go crazy!
Haven’t had one for sixty years and haven’t missed them at all.
roughbarked said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
dv said:Turns out that their answer on Q6 is completely wrong, and the correct answer is not an option, so that’s no good.
TATE seems to think it is a possible answer.
The question is about the Australian slang term rather than some British clothing maker’s copyright.
Many such words have an older history. Australians turned them into slang terms meaning slightly different things.
The question is about where the word came from, and the given answer is included in their list of possibilism, albeit the last one.
roughbarked said:
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
Had a good sleep and a long lie-in, but no, the blood clot is still jelly-like and not set.So it looks I can’t have sausage rolls today either. Can’t be helped.
But if I don’t get to eat a sausage roll soon I’ll go crazy I tell you, I’ll go crazy!
Haven’t had one for sixty years and haven’t missed them at all.
You haven’t tried one of my traditional English pork versions.
Bubblecar said:
JudgeMental said:
dv said:
25/50 here in the hard quizhttps://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-15/hard-quiz-weekly-trivia/104701334
Boris is a nerd
I did find that it was fairly easy and only a couple of guesses. it was nice to wipe the smarmy grin off the smarmy gits smarmy face though.
Hopefully one day a quiz question will be about the meaning of the word “smarmy”, and your misplaced pride will force you to get it wrong.
It is more that none of the multiple choices will be Tom Gleeson.
Bubblecar said:
roughbarked said:
Bubblecar said:But if I don’t get to eat a sausage roll soon I’ll go crazy I tell you, I’ll go crazy!
Haven’t had one for sixty years and haven’t missed them at all.
You haven’t tried one of my traditional English pork versions.
and I never will.
The Rev Dodgson said:
roughbarked said:
The Rev Dodgson said:TATE seems to think it is a possible answer.
The question is about the Australian slang term rather than some British clothing maker’s copyright.
Many such words have an older history. Australians turned them into slang terms meaning slightly different things.
The question is about where the word came from, and the given answer is included in their list of possibilism, albeit the last one.
Dacking is an Australian term?
roughbarked said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
roughbarked said:The question is about the Australian slang term rather than some British clothing maker’s copyright.
Many such words have an older history. Australians turned them into slang terms meaning slightly different things.
The question is about where the word came from, and the given answer is included in their list of possibilism, albeit the last one.
Dacking is an Australian term?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantsing
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dack
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:
The Rev Dodgson said:The question is about where the word came from, and the given answer is included in their list of possibilism, albeit the last one.
Dacking is an Australian term?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantsing
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dack
Feel free to pass on your outrage on this matter to Wikipedia.
I was just reporting what they said.
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:
The Rev Dodgson said:The question is about where the word came from, and the given answer is included in their list of possibilism, albeit the last one.
Dacking is an Australian term?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantsing
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dack
EtymologyFrom daks, Australian slang for trousers or underwear.
https://slll.cass.anu.edu.au/centres/andc/meanings-origins/d
dak
To pull down or remove the trousers from (a person) as a joke or punishment. Dak derives from another Australian term daks meaning ‘a pair of trousers’. The term is first recorded from the early 1990s but is probably much older than that. For a more detailed discussion of dak see our Word of the Month article from July 2009.
1994 Age (Melbourne) 24 July: We played footy together, but his recognition was going on to play for Footscray; I was the little fella so mine was getting dakked every pie night.
2007 Herald Sun (Melbourne) 4 October: The former Fitzroy and Brisbane footballer has ‘Fitzroy RIP 1996’ tattooed on his right buttock. His family didn’t know about it until he was dacked during a game this year.
The Rev Dodgson said:
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:Dacking is an Australian term?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantsing
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dack
Feel free to pass on your outrage on this matter to Wikipedia.
I was just reporting what they said.
:) Not outraged. Still attempting to find its origins in the 1700’s according to quora.
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:Dacking is an Australian term?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantsing
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dack
EtymologyFrom daks, Australian slang for trousers or underwear.
https://slll.cass.anu.edu.au/centres/andc/meanings-origins/d
dakTo pull down or remove the trousers from (a person) as a joke or punishment. Dak derives from another Australian term daks meaning ‘a pair of trousers’. The term is first recorded from the early 1990s but is probably much older than that. For a more detailed discussion of dak see our Word of the Month article from July 2009.
1994 Age (Melbourne) 24 July: We played footy together, but his recognition was going on to play for Footscray; I was the little fella so mine was getting dakked every pie night.
2007 Herald Sun (Melbourne) 4 October: The former Fitzroy and Brisbane footballer has ‘Fitzroy RIP 1996’ tattooed on his right buttock. His family didn’t know about it until he was dacked during a game this year.
It was a thing when I was in primary school in the 1980s. The headmaster said to stop it and anyone caught doing it from now on will get the cane. They still used the cane back then.
roughbarked said:
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
Had a good sleep and a long lie-in, but no, the blood clot is still jelly-like and not set.So it looks I can’t have sausage rolls today either. Can’t be helped.
But if I don’t get to eat a sausage roll soon I’ll go crazy I tell you, I’ll go crazy!
Haven’t had one for sixty years and haven’t missed them at all.
Sausage rolls are the litmus test for a pie shop.
Shops that can make a decent pie are not uncommon.
Shops that can make a good sausage roll; rather more rare.
party_pants said:
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantsing
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dack
EtymologyFrom daks, Australian slang for trousers or underwear.
https://slll.cass.anu.edu.au/centres/andc/meanings-origins/d
dakTo pull down or remove the trousers from (a person) as a joke or punishment. Dak derives from another Australian term daks meaning ‘a pair of trousers’. The term is first recorded from the early 1990s but is probably much older than that. For a more detailed discussion of dak see our Word of the Month article from July 2009.
1994 Age (Melbourne) 24 July: We played footy together, but his recognition was going on to play for Footscray; I was the little fella so mine was getting dakked every pie night.
2007 Herald Sun (Melbourne) 4 October: The former Fitzroy and Brisbane footballer has ‘Fitzroy RIP 1996’ tattooed on his right buttock. His family didn’t know about it until he was dacked during a game this year.
It was a thing when I was in primary school in the 1980s. The headmaster said to stop it and anyone caught doing it from now on will get the cane. They still used the cane back then.
Go to the headmaster’s office. You will get the cane. Was the catch cry of the day.
party_pants said:
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantsing
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dack
EtymologyFrom daks, Australian slang for trousers or underwear.
https://slll.cass.anu.edu.au/centres/andc/meanings-origins/d
dakTo pull down or remove the trousers from (a person) as a joke or punishment. Dak derives from another Australian term daks meaning ‘a pair of trousers’. The term is first recorded from the early 1990s but is probably much older than that. For a more detailed discussion of dak see our Word of the Month article from July 2009.
1994 Age (Melbourne) 24 July: We played footy together, but his recognition was going on to play for Footscray; I was the little fella so mine was getting dakked every pie night.
2007 Herald Sun (Melbourne) 4 October: The former Fitzroy and Brisbane footballer has ‘Fitzroy RIP 1996’ tattooed on his right buttock. His family didn’t know about it until he was dacked during a game this year.
It was a thing when I was in primary school in the 1980s. The headmaster said to stop it and anyone caught doing it from now on will get the cane. They still used the cane back then.
roughbarked said:
party_pants said:
roughbarked said:EtymologyFrom daks, Australian slang for trousers or underwear.
https://slll.cass.anu.edu.au/centres/andc/meanings-origins/d
dakTo pull down or remove the trousers from (a person) as a joke or punishment. Dak derives from another Australian term daks meaning ‘a pair of trousers’. The term is first recorded from the early 1990s but is probably much older than that. For a more detailed discussion of dak see our Word of the Month article from July 2009.
1994 Age (Melbourne) 24 July: We played footy together, but his recognition was going on to play for Footscray; I was the little fella so mine was getting dakked every pie night.
2007 Herald Sun (Melbourne) 4 October: The former Fitzroy and Brisbane footballer has ‘Fitzroy RIP 1996’ tattooed on his right buttock. His family didn’t know about it until he was dacked during a game this year.
It was a thing when I was in primary school in the 1980s. The headmaster said to stop it and anyone caught doing it from now on will get the cane. They still used the cane back then.
I hadn’t heard of this before.
https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/entertainment/confidential/aussie-rock-legend-ross-wilson-reveals-the-origin-of-one-of-our-most-bizarre-musical-traditions/news-story/0e547ed311f564e410df1a61fd481be3?nk=740c2f7fb8814d0123388905e5913351-1734226349
captain_spalding said:
roughbarked said:
Bubblecar said:But if I don’t get to eat a sausage roll soon I’ll go crazy I tell you, I’ll go crazy!
Haven’t had one for sixty years and haven’t missed them at all.
Sausage rolls are the litmus test for a pie shop.
Shops that can make a decent pie are not uncommon.
Shops that can make a good sausage roll; rather more rare.
And then there are different sorts of sausage roll. The ones from the Casterton bakery taste like the ones from the school canteen when I was in primary school (1960s) and I like them for the nostalgia. Buying lunch from the canteen was a very rare treat. The ones made at our bakery here in Penshurst are a totally different animal and have carrot in them and onion, I think. I like them too, but you wouldn’t call them the same thing.
roughbarked said:
Bubblecar said:
roughbarked said:Haven’t had one for sixty years and haven’t missed them at all.
You haven’t tried one of my traditional English pork versions.
and I never will.
Oh, love a nice pork pie.
Bought two from a shop in Kiama, for lunch.
The owner, who was English, went to put them in the microwave oven.
“What the hell are you doing?!”, i exclaimed.
He told me that i was only the second Australian he’d ever met who understood that you eat them cold.
buffy said:
captain_spalding said:
roughbarked said:Haven’t had one for sixty years and haven’t missed them at all.
Sausage rolls are the litmus test for a pie shop.
Shops that can make a decent pie are not uncommon.
Shops that can make a good sausage roll; rather more rare.
And then there are different sorts of sausage roll. The ones from the Casterton bakery taste like the ones from the school canteen when I was in primary school (1960s) and I like them for the nostalgia. Buying lunch from the canteen was a very rare treat. The ones made at our bakery here in Penshurst are a totally different animal and have carrot in them and onion, I think. I like them too, but you wouldn’t call them the same thing.
Tuckshop sausage rolls were grouse.
I’ll have no truck with these, these punced up woke sausage rolls.
captain_spalding said:
roughbarked said:
Bubblecar said:You haven’t tried one of my traditional English pork versions.
and I never will.
Oh, love a nice pork pie.
Bought two from a shop in Kiama, for lunch.
The owner, who was English, went to put them in the microwave oven.
“What the hell are you doing?!”, i exclaimed.
He told me that i was only the second Australian he’d ever met who understood that you eat them cold.
Really? I don’t think I’ve ever eaten them hot. Our Woolies stocks them, but they don’t always put them out. But you can get them from the deli and defrost them. You’ve reminded me to do that again soon.
captain_spalding said:
roughbarked said:
Bubblecar said:You haven’t tried one of my traditional English pork versions.
and I never will.
Oh, love a nice pork pie.
Bought two from a shop in Kiama, for lunch.
The owner, who was English, went to put them in the microwave oven.
“What the hell are you doing?!”, i exclaimed.
He told me that i was only the second Australian he’d ever met who understood that you eat them cold.
hmm. That’s interesting. Though many Australians do eat cold meats
buffy said:
captain_spalding said:
roughbarked said:and I never will.
Oh, love a nice pork pie.
Bought two from a shop in Kiama, for lunch.
The owner, who was English, went to put them in the microwave oven.
“What the hell are you doing?!”, i exclaimed.
He told me that i was only the second Australian he’d ever met who understood that you eat them cold.
Really? I don’t think I’ve ever eaten them hot. Our Woolies stocks them, but they don’t always put them out. But you can get them from the deli and defrost them. You’ve reminded me to do that again soon.
This was quite some years back. And in Kiama.
Well it is 36 and heading for 41.
tomorrow looks warmer
Monday 16 December
Summary Min 23 Max 44 Sunny. Chance of any rain: 0%
Sunny. Winds east to northeasterly 15 to 25 km/h tending northwest to northeasterly 20 to 30 km/h in the morning then becoming northeasterly 15 to 25 km/h in the evening.
Sun protection recommended from 8:50 am to 5:30 pm, UV Index predicted to reach 13
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:
party_pants said:It was a thing when I was in primary school in the 1980s. The headmaster said to stop it and anyone caught doing it from now on will get the cane. They still used the cane back then.
I hadn’t heard of this before.
https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/entertainment/confidential/aussie-rock-legend-ross-wilson-reveals-the-origin-of-one-of-our-most-bizarre-musical-traditions/news-story/0e547ed311f564e410df1a61fd481be3?nk=740c2f7fb8814d0123388905e5913351-1734226349
Interesting but not for the Eagle Drop thing.. nhoi
buffy said:
captain_spalding said:
roughbarked said:and I never will.
Oh, love a nice pork pie.
Bought two from a shop in Kiama, for lunch.
The owner, who was English, went to put them in the microwave oven.
“What the hell are you doing?!”, i exclaimed.
He told me that i was only the second Australian he’d ever met who understood that you eat them cold.
Really? I don’t think I’ve ever eaten them hot. Our Woolies stocks them, but they don’t always put them out. But you can get them from the deli and defrost them. You’ve reminded me to do that again soon.
Do it when it’s your turn to cook.
reading various of…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaw_Neilson
“John Shaw Neilson (1872–1942) was an Australian poet.
Slightly built, for most of his life he worked as a labourer, fruit-picking, clearing scrub, navvying and working in quarries, and, after 1928, working as a messenger with the Country Roads Board in Melbourne. Largely untrained and only basically educated, Neilson became known as one of Australia’s finest lyric poets, who wrote a great deal about the natural world, and the beauty in it.
Early life
Neilson was born in Penola, South Australia of purely Scottish ancestry. His grandparents were John Neilson and Jessie MacFarlane of Cupar, Neil Mackinnon of Skye, and Margaret Stuart of Greenock. His mother, Margaret MacKinnon, was born at Dartmoor, Victoria, his father, John Neilson, at Stranraer, Scotland, in 1844.
John Neilson senior was brought to South Australia at nine years of age, had practically no education, and was a shepherd, shearer and small farmer all his life. He never had enough money to get good land, and like other pioneers he fought drought and rabbits and other pests, receiving little reward for his labours. He died in 1922, having lived just long enough to see his son accepted as an Australian poet. He himself had written verses; one song, Waiting for the Rain, was popular in the shearing sheds, and in January 1893 he wrote the senior prize poem, The Pioneers, for the literary competition held by the Australian Natives’ Association. In 1938 a small collection of his poems, The Men of the Fifties, was published by the Hawthorn Press at Melbourne…”
https://www.australianculture.org/collected-poems-of-john-shaw-neilson/
transition said:
reading various of…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaw_Neilson
“John Shaw Neilson (1872–1942) was an Australian poet.Slightly built, for most of his life he worked as a labourer, fruit-picking, clearing scrub, navvying and working in quarries, and, after 1928, working as a messenger with the Country Roads Board in Melbourne. Largely untrained and only basically educated, Neilson became known as one of Australia’s finest lyric poets, who wrote a great deal about the natural world, and the beauty in it.
Early lifeNeilson was born in Penola, South Australia of purely Scottish ancestry. His grandparents were John Neilson and Jessie MacFarlane of Cupar, Neil Mackinnon of Skye, and Margaret Stuart of Greenock. His mother, Margaret MacKinnon, was born at Dartmoor, Victoria, his father, John Neilson, at Stranraer, Scotland, in 1844.
John Neilson senior was brought to South Australia at nine years of age, had practically no education, and was a shepherd, shearer and small farmer all his life. He never had enough money to get good land, and like other pioneers he fought drought and rabbits and other pests, receiving little reward for his labours. He died in 1922, having lived just long enough to see his son accepted as an Australian poet. He himself had written verses; one song, Waiting for the Rain, was popular in the shearing sheds, and in January 1893 he wrote the senior prize poem, The Pioneers, for the literary competition held by the Australian Natives’ Association. In 1938 a small collection of his poems, The Men of the Fifties, was published by the Hawthorn Press at Melbourne…”
https://www.australianculture.org/collected-poems-of-john-shaw-neilson/
I’ll check outside his work.
transition said:
reading various of…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaw_Neilson
“John Shaw Neilson (1872–1942) was an Australian poet.Slightly built, for most of his life he worked as a labourer, fruit-picking, clearing scrub, navvying and working in quarries, and, after 1928, working as a messenger with the Country Roads Board in Melbourne. Largely untrained and only basically educated, Neilson became known as one of Australia’s finest lyric poets, who wrote a great deal about the natural world, and the beauty in it.
Early lifeNeilson was born in Penola, South Australia of purely Scottish ancestry. His grandparents were John Neilson and Jessie MacFarlane of Cupar, Neil Mackinnon of Skye, and Margaret Stuart of Greenock. His mother, Margaret MacKinnon, was born at Dartmoor, Victoria, his father, John Neilson, at Stranraer, Scotland, in 1844.
John Neilson senior was brought to South Australia at nine years of age, had practically no education, and was a shepherd, shearer and small farmer all his life. He never had enough money to get good land, and like other pioneers he fought drought and rabbits and other pests, receiving little reward for his labours. He died in 1922, having lived just long enough to see his son accepted as an Australian poet. He himself had written verses; one song, Waiting for the Rain, was popular in the shearing sheds, and in January 1893 he wrote the senior prize poem, The Pioneers, for the literary competition held by the Australian Natives’ Association. In 1938 a small collection of his poems, The Men of the Fifties, was published by the Hawthorn Press at Melbourne…”
https://www.australianculture.org/collected-poems-of-john-shaw-neilson/
NHOH
party_pants said:
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantsing
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dack
EtymologyFrom daks, Australian slang for trousers or underwear.
https://slll.cass.anu.edu.au/centres/andc/meanings-origins/d
dakTo pull down or remove the trousers from (a person) as a joke or punishment. Dak derives from another Australian term daks meaning ‘a pair of trousers’. The term is first recorded from the early 1990s but is probably much older than that. For a more detailed discussion of dak see our Word of the Month article from July 2009.
1994 Age (Melbourne) 24 July: We played footy together, but his recognition was going on to play for Footscray; I was the little fella so mine was getting dakked every pie night.
2007 Herald Sun (Melbourne) 4 October: The former Fitzroy and Brisbane footballer has ‘Fitzroy RIP 1996’ tattooed on his right buttock. His family didn’t know about it until he was dacked during a game this year.
It was a thing when I was in primary school in the 1980s. The headmaster said to stop it and anyone caught doing it from now on will get the cane. They still used the cane back then.
And you turned out alright.
captain_spalding said:
roughbarked said:
Bubblecar said:You haven’t tried one of my traditional English pork versions.
and I never will.
Oh, love a nice pork pie.
Bought two from a shop in Kiama, for lunch.
The owner, who was English, went to put them in the microwave oven.
“What the hell are you doing?!”, i exclaimed.
He told me that i was only the second Australian he’d ever met who understood that you eat them cold.
LOL
party_pants said:
transition said:reading various of…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaw_Neilson
“John Shaw Neilson (1872–1942) was an Australian poet.Slightly built, for most of his life he worked as a labourer, fruit-picking, clearing scrub, navvying and working in quarries, and, after 1928, working as a messenger with the Country Roads Board in Melbourne. Largely untrained and only basically educated, Neilson became known as one of Australia’s finest lyric poets, who wrote a great deal about the natural world, and the beauty in it.
Early lifeNeilson was born in Penola, South Australia of purely Scottish ancestry. His grandparents were John Neilson and Jessie MacFarlane of Cupar, Neil Mackinnon of Skye, and Margaret Stuart of Greenock. His mother, Margaret MacKinnon, was born at Dartmoor, Victoria, his father, John Neilson, at Stranraer, Scotland, in 1844.
John Neilson senior was brought to South Australia at nine years of age, had practically no education, and was a shepherd, shearer and small farmer all his life. He never had enough money to get good land, and like other pioneers he fought drought and rabbits and other pests, receiving little reward for his labours. He died in 1922, having lived just long enough to see his son accepted as an Australian poet. He himself had written verses; one song, Waiting for the Rain, was popular in the shearing sheds, and in January 1893 he wrote the senior prize poem, The Pioneers, for the literary competition held by the Australian Natives’ Association. In 1938 a small collection of his poems, The Men of the Fifties, was published by the Hawthorn Press at Melbourne…”
https://www.australianculture.org/collected-poems-of-john-shaw-neilson/
NHOH
Wasn’t he Colin Leslie Dean’s father?
Michael V said:
party_pants said:
transition said:reading various of…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaw_Neilson
“John Shaw Neilson (1872–1942) was an Australian poet.Slightly built, for most of his life he worked as a labourer, fruit-picking, clearing scrub, navvying and working in quarries, and, after 1928, working as a messenger with the Country Roads Board in Melbourne. Largely untrained and only basically educated, Neilson became known as one of Australia’s finest lyric poets, who wrote a great deal about the natural world, and the beauty in it.
Early lifeNeilson was born in Penola, South Australia of purely Scottish ancestry. His grandparents were John Neilson and Jessie MacFarlane of Cupar, Neil Mackinnon of Skye, and Margaret Stuart of Greenock. His mother, Margaret MacKinnon, was born at Dartmoor, Victoria, his father, John Neilson, at Stranraer, Scotland, in 1844.
John Neilson senior was brought to South Australia at nine years of age, had practically no education, and was a shepherd, shearer and small farmer all his life. He never had enough money to get good land, and like other pioneers he fought drought and rabbits and other pests, receiving little reward for his labours. He died in 1922, having lived just long enough to see his son accepted as an Australian poet. He himself had written verses; one song, Waiting for the Rain, was popular in the shearing sheds, and in January 1893 he wrote the senior prize poem, The Pioneers, for the literary competition held by the Australian Natives’ Association. In 1938 a small collection of his poems, The Men of the Fifties, was published by the Hawthorn Press at Melbourne…”
https://www.australianculture.org/collected-poems-of-john-shaw-neilson/
NHOH
Wasn’t he Colin Leslie Dean’s father?
Oddly enough for this forum, I have never been a great follower of Colin Leslie Dean’s poetry.
Call me a Philistine if you must.
party_pants said:
Michael V said:
party_pants said:NHOH
Wasn’t he Colin Leslie Dean’s father?
Oddly enough for this forum, I have never been a great follower of Colin Leslie Dean’s poetry.
Call me a Philistine if you must.
LOLOL
party_pants said:
Michael V said:
party_pants said:NHOH
Wasn’t he Colin Leslie Dean’s father?
Oddly enough for this forum, I have never been a great follower of Colin Leslie Dean’s poetry.
Call me a Philistine if you must.
:)
roughbarked said:
Michael V said:
party_pants said:
Michael V said:
Wasn’t he Colin Leslie Dean’s father?
Oddly enough for this forum, I have never been a great follower of Colin Leslie Dean’s poetry.
Call me a Philistine if you must.
LOLOL
:)
so he loves mugs
Michael V said:
captain_spalding said:
roughbarked said:
and I never will.
Oh, love a nice pork pie.
Bought two from a shop in Kiama, for lunch.
The owner, who was English, went to put them in the microwave oven.
“What the hell are you doing?!”, i exclaimed.
He told me that i was only the second Australian he’d ever met who understood that you eat them cold.
LOL
what about the ones we get from the supermarket freezer though
Hard quiz:
With some help from Ms Kingy.
Score: 45 / 50
🏆🏆 Perfect, incredible, amazing!
Kingy said:
Hard quiz:With some help from Ms Kingy.
Score: 45 / 50
🏆🏆 Perfect, incredible, amazing!
Sorry to quibble, but 45/50 is not a perfect score.
party_pants said:
Kingy said:
Hard quiz:With some help from Ms Kingy.
Score: 45 / 50
🏆🏆 Perfect, incredible, amazing!
Sorry to quibble, but 45/50 is not a perfect score.
Yep, I dunno why they claim it is.
It should be a Hard Quiz™ question.
Q1) Is 45 out of 50 a perfect score?A) None of the above
B) No
C) Maybe
D) Only on Hard Quiz™
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-15/wilman-wadandi-highway-opens-perth-margaret-river/104724314
Finally!
The concrete plant that I get pipes & culverts from is right behind the overpass in the first pic, that’ll save me some time.
Also, the official opening is today and Ms Kingys niece is singing there as part of the ceremony.
Now we wait until the Bussell Hwy gets finished, and that is a giant fuckup. 3+ years so far and not much progress.
Kingy said:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-15/wilman-wadandi-highway-opens-perth-margaret-river/104724314Finally!
The concrete plant that I get pipes & culverts from is right behind the overpass in the first pic, that’ll save me some time.
Also, the official opening is today and Ms Kingys niece is singing there as part of the ceremony.
Now we wait until the Bussell Hwy gets finished, and that is a giant fuckup. 3+ years so far and not much progress.
Just in time for the next election in March. New railway line also opened this week, and the extension to Yanchep a couple of months ago.
At least Vanity Fair isn’t afraid.
Testing…
A rather snotty question on Quora with a very good reply (IMHO).
Two men in New Zealand and Spain have created an “Earth Sandwich” by placing slices of bread at precise points. It’s okay but why did they do it, and what were they trying to prove?
I can answer this one with some authority, since the guy in NZ is my son. He has been wanting to do this for years and eventually found a partner in Spain.
They arranged to make the sandwich, but the Spanish guy (we now know his name is Angel) did not manage to get to the right place at the right time on the first attempt. They tried again this year. My son is very pedantic and had the place worked out to the nth degree and the time to the minute. We walked to the beach and then he remembered that he had left the flag back home. Luckily we were quite early so he ran back to collect the flag. He put it down in the right place and used his compass to check the orientation of the bread. I took a couple of photos and we left the bread there for about 15 minutes in case the other guy was a little late. We ate some ice-cream.
The reason? It was a challenge, he is a geek, he is on university holiday.
I might mention that a few years ago, he was at home, sick. With his parents at work, he somehow recovered enough to build an aluminum smelter in the back yard before we got home.
As I said, challenge + geek, and, I am just starting to see a pattern here…. challenge + geek + boredom = SURPRISE!!
An edit: I am making a list of all the places it has appeared – for the university, and myself – because I am finding it really interesting that it seems to have spread virally, although there is nothing in our little local paper. If you are reading this and want to, I would be grateful if you would let us know where you saw it. A URL is fine. Thanks so much
The Rev Dodgson said:
A rather snotty question on Quora with a very good reply (IMHO).Two men in New Zealand and Spain have created an “Earth Sandwich” by placing slices of bread at precise points. It’s okay but why did they do it, and what were they trying to prove?
I can answer this one with some authority, since the guy in NZ is my son. He has been wanting to do this for years and eventually found a partner in Spain.
They arranged to make the sandwich, but the Spanish guy (we now know his name is Angel) did not manage to get to the right place at the right time on the first attempt. They tried again this year. My son is very pedantic and had the place worked out to the nth degree and the time to the minute. We walked to the beach and then he remembered that he had left the flag back home. Luckily we were quite early so he ran back to collect the flag. He put it down in the right place and used his compass to check the orientation of the bread. I took a couple of photos and we left the bread there for about 15 minutes in case the other guy was a little late. We ate some ice-cream.
The reason? It was a challenge, he is a geek, he is on university holiday.
I might mention that a few years ago, he was at home, sick. With his parents at work, he somehow recovered enough to build an aluminum smelter in the back yard before we got home.
As I said, challenge + geek, and, I am just starting to see a pattern here…. challenge + geek + boredom = SURPRISE!!
An edit: I am making a list of all the places it has appeared – for the university, and myself – because I am finding it really interesting that it seems to have spread virally, although there is nothing in our little local paper. If you are reading this and want to, I would be grateful if you would let us know where you saw it. A URL is fine. Thanks so much
Kingy said:
NHOT
The Rev Dodgson said:
A rather snotty question on Quora with a very good reply (IMHO).Two men in New Zealand and Spain have created an “Earth Sandwich” by placing slices of bread at precise points. It’s okay but why did they do it, and what were they trying to prove?
I can answer this one with some authority, since the guy in NZ is my son. He has been wanting to do this for years and eventually found a partner in Spain.
They arranged to make the sandwich, but the Spanish guy (we now know his name is Angel) did not manage to get to the right place at the right time on the first attempt. They tried again this year. My son is very pedantic and had the place worked out to the nth degree and the time to the minute. We walked to the beach and then he remembered that he had left the flag back home. Luckily we were quite early so he ran back to collect the flag. He put it down in the right place and used his compass to check the orientation of the bread. I took a couple of photos and we left the bread there for about 15 minutes in case the other guy was a little late. We ate some ice-cream.
The reason? It was a challenge, he is a geek, he is on university holiday.
I might mention that a few years ago, he was at home, sick. With his parents at work, he somehow recovered enough to build an aluminum smelter in the back yard before we got home.
As I said, challenge + geek, and, I am just starting to see a pattern here…. challenge + geek + boredom = SURPRISE!!
An edit: I am making a list of all the places it has appeared – for the university, and myself – because I am finding it really interesting that it seems to have spread virally, although there is nothing in our little local paper. If you are reading this and want to, I would be grateful if you would let us know where you saw it. A URL is fine. Thanks so much
Can’t eat that until this socket has healed.
Kingy said:
At least Vanity Fair isn’t afraid.
Well, that’s the end of Vanity Fair.
The Rev Dodgson said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
A rather snotty question on Quora with a very good reply (IMHO).Two men in New Zealand and Spain have created an “Earth Sandwich” by placing slices of bread at precise points. It’s okay but why did they do it, and what were they trying to prove?
I can answer this one with some authority, since the guy in NZ is my son. He has been wanting to do this for years and eventually found a partner in Spain.
They arranged to make the sandwich, but the Spanish guy (we now know his name is Angel) did not manage to get to the right place at the right time on the first attempt. They tried again this year. My son is very pedantic and had the place worked out to the nth degree and the time to the minute. We walked to the beach and then he remembered that he had left the flag back home. Luckily we were quite early so he ran back to collect the flag. He put it down in the right place and used his compass to check the orientation of the bread. I took a couple of photos and we left the bread there for about 15 minutes in case the other guy was a little late. We ate some ice-cream.
The reason? It was a challenge, he is a geek, he is on university holiday.
I might mention that a few years ago, he was at home, sick. With his parents at work, he somehow recovered enough to build an aluminum smelter in the back yard before we got home.
As I said, challenge + geek, and, I am just starting to see a pattern here…. challenge + geek + boredom = SURPRISE!!
An edit: I am making a list of all the places it has appeared – for the university, and myself – because I am finding it really interesting that it seems to have spread virally, although there is nothing in our little local paper. If you are reading this and want to, I would be grateful if you would let us know where you saw it. A URL is fine. Thanks so much
I don’t get that. Why is NZ inverted?
Michael V said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
A rather snotty question on Quora with a very good reply (IMHO).Two men in New Zealand and Spain have created an “Earth Sandwich” by placing slices of bread at precise points. It’s okay but why did they do it, and what were they trying to prove?
I can answer this one with some authority, since the guy in NZ is my son. He has been wanting to do this for years and eventually found a partner in Spain.
They arranged to make the sandwich, but the Spanish guy (we now know his name is Angel) did not manage to get to the right place at the right time on the first attempt. They tried again this year. My son is very pedantic and had the place worked out to the nth degree and the time to the minute. We walked to the beach and then he remembered that he had left the flag back home. Luckily we were quite early so he ran back to collect the flag. He put it down in the right place and used his compass to check the orientation of the bread. I took a couple of photos and we left the bread there for about 15 minutes in case the other guy was a little late. We ate some ice-cream.
The reason? It was a challenge, he is a geek, he is on university holiday.
I might mention that a few years ago, he was at home, sick. With his parents at work, he somehow recovered enough to build an aluminum smelter in the back yard before we got home.
As I said, challenge + geek, and, I am just starting to see a pattern here…. challenge + geek + boredom = SURPRISE!!
An edit: I am making a list of all the places it has appeared – for the university, and myself – because I am finding it really interesting that it seems to have spread virally, although there is nothing in our little local paper. If you are reading this and want to, I would be grateful if you would let us know where you saw it. A URL is fine. Thanks so much
I don’t get that. Why is NZ inverted?
The earth is a sphere.
Bubblecar said:
Michael V said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
I don’t get that. Why is NZ inverted?
The earth is a sphere.
And what sensible projection is used to invert NZ?
Michael V said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
A rather snotty question on Quora with a very good reply (IMHO).Two men in New Zealand and Spain have created an “Earth Sandwich” by placing slices of bread at precise points. It’s okay but why did they do it, and what were they trying to prove?
I can answer this one with some authority, since the guy in NZ is my son. He has been wanting to do this for years and eventually found a partner in Spain.
They arranged to make the sandwich, but the Spanish guy (we now know his name is Angel) did not manage to get to the right place at the right time on the first attempt. They tried again this year. My son is very pedantic and had the place worked out to the nth degree and the time to the minute. We walked to the beach and then he remembered that he had left the flag back home. Luckily we were quite early so he ran back to collect the flag. He put it down in the right place and used his compass to check the orientation of the bread. I took a couple of photos and we left the bread there for about 15 minutes in case the other guy was a little late. We ate some ice-cream.
The reason? It was a challenge, he is a geek, he is on university holiday.
I might mention that a few years ago, he was at home, sick. With his parents at work, he somehow recovered enough to build an aluminum smelter in the back yard before we got home.
As I said, challenge + geek, and, I am just starting to see a pattern here…. challenge + geek + boredom = SURPRISE!!
An edit: I am making a list of all the places it has appeared – for the university, and myself – because I am finding it really interesting that it seems to have spread virally, although there is nothing in our little local paper. If you are reading this and want to, I would be grateful if you would let us know where you saw it. A URL is fine. Thanks so much
I don’t get that. Why is NZ inverted?
Because it is the antipode. Take the Southern Hemisphere part of the map flip it over the norther part, then shift if 180 degrees. The parts that overlap the antipodes.
party_pants said:
Michael V said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
I don’t get that. Why is NZ inverted?
Because it is the antipode. Take the Southern Hemisphere part of the map flip it over the norther part, then shift if 180 degrees. The parts that overlap the antipodes.
Why use a complex projection when a simple one will do?
Michael V said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
A rather snotty question on Quora with a very good reply (IMHO).Two men in New Zealand and Spain have created an “Earth Sandwich” by placing slices of bread at precise points. It’s okay but why did they do it, and what were they trying to prove?
I can answer this one with some authority, since the guy in NZ is my son. He has been wanting to do this for years and eventually found a partner in Spain.
They arranged to make the sandwich, but the Spanish guy (we now know his name is Angel) did not manage to get to the right place at the right time on the first attempt. They tried again this year. My son is very pedantic and had the place worked out to the nth degree and the time to the minute. We walked to the beach and then he remembered that he had left the flag back home. Luckily we were quite early so he ran back to collect the flag. He put it down in the right place and used his compass to check the orientation of the bread. I took a couple of photos and we left the bread there for about 15 minutes in case the other guy was a little late. We ate some ice-cream.
The reason? It was a challenge, he is a geek, he is on university holiday.
I might mention that a few years ago, he was at home, sick. With his parents at work, he somehow recovered enough to build an aluminum smelter in the back yard before we got home.
As I said, challenge + geek, and, I am just starting to see a pattern here…. challenge + geek + boredom = SURPRISE!!
An edit: I am making a list of all the places it has appeared – for the university, and myself – because I am finding it really interesting that it seems to have spread virally, although there is nothing in our little local paper. If you are reading this and want to, I would be grateful if you would let us know where you saw it. A URL is fine. Thanks so much
I don’t get that. Why is NZ inverted?
I don’t get it either. There’s no spread on the bread. It’s all just sand, dirt, rock… horrible
Michael V said:
party_pants said:
Michael V said:I don’t get that. Why is NZ inverted?
Because it is the antipode. Take the Southern Hemisphere part of the map flip it over the norther part, then shift if 180 degrees. The parts that overlap the antipodes.
Why use a complex projection when a simple one will do?
It is not about the projection. it is just what places are directly opposite each other on the globe.
party_pants said:
Michael V said:
party_pants said:Because it is the antipode. Take the Southern Hemisphere part of the map flip it over the norther part, then shift if 180 degrees. The parts that overlap the antipodes.
Why use a complex projection when a simple one will do?
It is not about the projection. it is just what places are directly opposite each other on the globe.
Like the place where MH370 disappeared off the WA coast is the exact opposite side of the globe to the Bermuda Triangle.
party_pants said:
Michael V said:
party_pants said:Because it is the antipode. Take the Southern Hemisphere part of the map flip it over the norther part, then shift if 180 degrees. The parts that overlap the antipodes.
Why use a complex projection when a simple one will do?
It is not about the projection. it is just what places are directly opposite each other on the globe.
Ah.
I probably shouldn’t try to think about things when I have just woken up from several hours sleep. And I shouldn’t talk about things that at that time make no sense to me.
Sadly there is nowhere in Australia proper where you can make such a snack. Australia crams rather snugly between the antipodes of the West Indies and the Azores. Flinders Island does run it pretty close to the Azores, though, as does Perth and Bermuda.
Heard Island and MacDonald Island are Australia territory and they will see you through to Saskatchewan. Cocos or Keeling Island oppose Nicaragua. Christmas Island opposes Colombia.
And just for completeness, the Australian Antarctic territories are opposite various places in Canada and Greenland.
dv said:
Sadly there is nowhere in Australia proper where you can make such a snack. Australia crams rather snugly between the antipodes of the West Indies and the Azores. Flinders Island does run it pretty close to the Azores, though, as does Perth and Bermuda.Heard Island and MacDonald Island are Australia territory and they will see you through to Saskatchewan. Cocos or Keeling Island oppose Nicaragua. Christmas Island opposes Colombia.
And just for completeness, the Australian Antarctic territories are opposite various places in Canada and Greenland.
Wiki says Rottnest Island and Bermuda.
Home is the hunter, home from the hill.
larry and me we weaved the fire hose in the clothesline pointed up and sat under just like heavy rain, flooded the place, stopped caring
transition said:
larry and me we weaved the fire hose in the clothesline pointed up and sat under just like heavy rain, flooded the place, stopped caring
It is the only way to relax at home on a 45 degree day.
Have spent a number of Christmases with a sprinkler on the carport roof.
transition said:
larry and me we weaved the fire hose in the clothesline pointed up and sat under just like heavy rain, flooded the place, stopped caring
coffee landed and I just scoffed three folded bread with butter on
roughbarked said:
transition said:
larry and me we weaved the fire hose in the clothesline pointed up and sat under just like heavy rain, flooded the place, stopped caring
It is the only way to relax at home on a 45 degree day.
Have spent a number of Christmases with a sprinkler on the carport roof.
did I mention you’re paying my water bill, let ya know when I get it
thanks in advance
transition said:
larry and me we weaved the fire hose in the clothesline pointed up and sat under just like heavy rain, flooded the place, stopped caring
Heavy rain alternating with moderate rain most of the day here. And it’s cold.
transition said:
roughbarked said:
transition said:
larry and me we weaved the fire hose in the clothesline pointed up and sat under just like heavy rain, flooded the place, stopped caring
It is the only way to relax at home on a 45 degree day.
Have spent a number of Christmases with a sprinkler on the carport roof.
did I mention you’re paying my water bill, let ya know when I get it
thanks in advance
LOL mine’s scary enough thanks.
roughbarked said:
transition said:
roughbarked said:It is the only way to relax at home on a 45 degree day.
Have spent a number of Christmases with a sprinkler on the carport roof.
did I mention you’re paying my water bill, let ya know when I get it
thanks in advance
LOL mine’s scary enough thanks.
I may have to turn to prostitution to pay mine
transition said:
coffee landed and I just scoffed three folded bread with butter on
You know things are getting bad when the farmers can’t even afford Vegemite.
31 here tomorrow but I have to post another card and visit the chemist.
I’ll do that as soon as the PO opens, then hurry home and spend the day in front of the fan.
Bubblecar said:
31 here tomorrow but I have to post another card and visit the chemist.I’ll do that as soon as the PO opens, then hurry home and spend the day in front of the fan.
Except for when you’re cooking a batch of sausage rolls in a hot oven.
Bubblecar said:
transition said:
coffee landed and I just scoffed three folded bread with butter on
You know things are getting bad when the farmers can’t even afford Vegemite.
sometimes I just feel like margarine on bread, i’d never have vegemite or promite on raw bread, anyway
transition said:
roughbarked said:
transition said:did I mention you’re paying my water bill, let ya know when I get it
thanks in advance
LOL mine’s scary enough thanks.
I may have to turn to prostitution to pay mine
I doubt anybody would pay me for sex.
Bubblecar said:
transition said:
coffee landed and I just scoffed three folded bread with butter on
You know things are getting bad when the farmers can’t even afford Vegemite.
They’ll be eating toothpaste sandwiches next.
roughbarked said:
transition said:
roughbarked said:LOL mine’s scary enough thanks.
I may have to turn to prostitution to pay mine
I doubt anybody would pay me for sex.
not after I told everyone what I gave you, no
transition said:
Bubblecar said:
transition said:
coffee landed and I just scoffed three folded bread with butter on
You know things are getting bad when the farmers can’t even afford Vegemite.
sometimes I just feel like margarine on bread, i’d never have vegemite or promite on raw bread, anyway
Aye, that would certainly be madness.
transition said:
Bubblecar said:
transition said:
coffee landed and I just scoffed three folded bread with butter on
You know things are getting bad when the farmers can’t even afford Vegemite.
sometimes I just feel like margarine on bread, i’d never have vegemite or promite on raw bread, anyway
My son when young was quite happy with two pieces of bread slapped together with vegemite and crushed walnuts between them. Nothing else.
transition said:
roughbarked said:
transition said:I may have to turn to prostitution to pay mine
I doubt anybody would pay me for sex.
not after I told everyone what I gave you, no
:)
Musta bin when I woz drunk and asleep. ;)
Bubblecar said:
transition said:
Bubblecar said:You know things are getting bad when the farmers can’t even afford Vegemite.
sometimes I just feel like margarine on bread, i’d never have vegemite or promite on raw bread, anyway
Aye, that would certainly be madness.
On the other hand, many people lurve some butter in there with the vegemite and bread.
roughbarked said:
transition said:
roughbarked said:I doubt anybody would pay me for sex.
not after I told everyone what I gave you, no
:)
Musta bin when I woz drunk and asleep. ;)
anyway I was more considering pimping the wife, but I have this handicap called a conscience, a moral impediment
transition said:
roughbarked said:
transition said:not after I told everyone what I gave you, no
:)
Musta bin when I woz drunk and asleep. ;)
anyway I was more considering pimping the wife, but I have this handicap called a conscience, a moral impediment
Me too except that I never considered it.
But yes. The situation is becoming dire out in the bush to be able to afford a drink of water or to water some tomato plants.
Bubblecar said:
31 here tomorrow but I have to post another card and visit the chemist.I’ll do that as soon as the PO opens, then hurry home and spend the day in front of the fan.
It gets so hot down there.
We’re forecast 27° C tomorrow. If it’s like today we won’t get anywhere near that. Today got to 23.2° C, after a forecast of 28° C.
roughbarked said:
Bubblecar said:
transition said:sometimes I just feel like margarine on bread, i’d never have vegemite or promite on raw bread, anyway
Aye, that would certainly be madness.
On the other hand, many people lurve some butter in there with the vegemite and bread.
I do.
Michael V said:
Bubblecar said:
31 here tomorrow but I have to post another card and visit the chemist.I’ll do that as soon as the PO opens, then hurry home and spend the day in front of the fan.
It gets so hot down there.
We’re forecast 27° C tomorrow. If it’s like today we won’t get anywhere near that. Today got to 23.2° C, after a forecast of 28° C.
I recall being in Hobart on a 40 degree day. It wasn’t pleasant.
Michael V said:
Bubblecar said:
31 here tomorrow but I have to post another card and visit the chemist.I’ll do that as soon as the PO opens, then hurry home and spend the day in front of the fan.
It gets so hot down there.
We’re forecast 27° C tomorrow. If it’s like today we won’t get anywhere near that. Today got to 23.2° C, after a forecast of 28° C.
It is 37 right now here.
didn’t quite get to the 41 forcast.
5/05:00pm 38.6 was the peak.
Michael V said:
roughbarked said:
Bubblecar said:Aye, that would certainly be madness.
On the other hand, many people lurve some butter in there with the vegemite and bread.
I do.
As do I.
buffy said:
Michael V said:
Bubblecar said:
31 here tomorrow but I have to post another card and visit the chemist.I’ll do that as soon as the PO opens, then hurry home and spend the day in front of the fan.
It gets so hot down there.
We’re forecast 27° C tomorrow. If it’s like today we won’t get anywhere near that. Today got to 23.2° C, after a forecast of 28° C.
I recall being in Hobart on a 40 degree day. It wasn’t pleasant.
I can imagine. I’ve been in Melbourne on a day that went to 42°C. Awful.
BOM are still promising
Summary
Min 23
Max 44
for tomorrow.
A number of Australian tourists are in critical condition in hospital in Fiji after what authorities say is a suspected case of alcohol poisoning.
Local health officials say seven guests staying at the Warwick Resort on Fiji’s Coral Coast fell ill after consuming a cocktail at the resort’s bar on Saturday night.
They were taken to the nearby Sigatoka Hospital with “nausea, vomiting and neurological symptoms”.
Two of the group were later taken to the Lautoka Hospital because of the severity of their conditions.
The tourists are aged between 18 and 56 years old.
It is understood four of the seven are Australians.
Police and health inspectors are investigating.
All the famous directors are men.
Over.
Peak Warming Man said:
All the famous directors are men.
Over.
And the film Speed didn’t have a director; if it had direction it’d be Velocity.
btm said:
Peak Warming Man said:
All the famous directors are men.
Over.
And the film Speed didn’t have a director; if it had direction it’d be Velocity.
That’s actually pretty funny.
In response to PWM’s comment, it would probably pass about 20 years ago but Sofia Coppola, Greta Gerwig, Kathryn Bigelow have become pretty big names. I’d say like 98% of the famous directors are men.
btm said:
Peak Warming Man said:
All the famous directors are men.
Over.
And the film Speed didn’t have a director; if it had direction it’d be Velocity.
LOL
Evenin’ all.
Anything i can help with?
Peak Warming Man said:
dv said:
btm said:
Peak Warming Man said:
All the famous directors are men.
Over.
And the film Speed didn’t have a director; if it had direction it’d be Velocity.
That’s actually pretty funny.
In response to PWM’s comment, it would probably pass about 20 years ago but Sofia Coppola, Greta Gerwig, Kathryn Bigelow have become pretty big names. I’d say like 98% of the famous directors are men.
LOL
an absolute pun
Lovely full yellow moon has now rizz.
Glancing down the street I can see Budgie has his usual spectacular Xmas display going.
Too tired tonight but tomorrow night I’ll go and take some snaps.
Just been to a fire, not much to see but it had flames.
Kingy said:
Just been to a fire, not much to see but it had flames.
So was that a careless landowner, or spontaneous combustion of a heap of composting organic material?
party_pants said:
Kingy said:
Just been to a fire, not much to see but it had flames.
So was that a careless landowner, or spontaneous combustion of a heap of composting organic material?
An old burn pile that was “out” in September. Two separate re-ignitions today in the 30kmh winds.
All the hotspots that we could find were extinguished and it will be monitored for several more days, but the owner will push it out tomorrow.
I suggested to the owner that he should supply at least a carton, coz he owns Eagle Bay brewery nearby.
Kingy said:
party_pants said:
Kingy said:
Just been to a fire, not much to see but it had flames.
So was that a careless landowner, or spontaneous combustion of a heap of composting organic material?
An old burn pile that was “out” in September. Two separate re-ignitions today in the 30kmh winds.
All the hotspots that we could find were extinguished and it will be monitored for several more days, but the owner will push it out tomorrow.
I suggested to the owner that he should supply at least a carton, coz he owns Eagle Bay brewery nearby.
I should think so :)
party_pants said:
Kingy said:
party_pants said:So was that a careless landowner, or spontaneous combustion of a heap of composting organic material?
An old burn pile that was “out” in September. Two separate re-ignitions today in the 30kmh winds.
All the hotspots that we could find were extinguished and it will be monitored for several more days, but the owner will push it out tomorrow.
I suggested to the owner that he should supply at least a carton, coz he owns Eagle Bay brewery nearby.
I should think so :)
Absolutely!
The question remains, though, will he?
cornflakes, what I eats right now
“A Russian oil tanker split in half and sank in the Black Sea near the Crimean Peninsula during an intense storm.At least one person died and another tanker was left drifting having suffered significant damage.”
Oh fantastic. Likely a major oil spill to wreck the environment, as well as a war.
Michael V said:
“A Russian oil tanker split in half and sank in the Black Sea near the Crimean Peninsula during an intense storm.At least one person died and another tanker was left drifting having suffered significant damage.”Oh fantastic. Likely a major oil spill to wreck the environment, as well as a war.
Seems like it is alll cracking at the seams.
roughbarked said:
Michael V said:
“A Russian oil tanker split in half and sank in the Black Sea near the Crimean Peninsula during an intense storm.At least one person died and another tanker was left drifting having suffered significant damage.”Oh fantastic. Likely a major oil spill to wreck the environment, as well as a war.
Seems like it is alll cracking at the seams.
Reading the report, the vessel was overloaded by 100 tons of fuel oil.
Good morning Holidayers. Presently 22 degrees at the back door and getting light. We are forecast 40 degrees, with a cool change later this afternoon.
Going out early, intending to be back by mid morning.
Heading for 31 this end but considerably cooler tomorrow (22).
I have to visit the chemist and PO before the heat sets in.
Doing my Coles order later but mostly today will be relaxing in front of the fan, watching old Dr Whos etc.
Sometimes they don’t bother to go down to the ground and up again. From iNaturalist, photo taken by someone south of us here, recently.
Seeyas later. Going to Hamilton and Coleraine.
buffy said:
Sometimes they don’t bother to go down to the ground and up again. From iNaturalist, photo taken by someone south of us here, recently.
Great action shot. Probably a very rare occurrence to have photographed it occurring?
roughbarked said:
Michael V said:
“A Russian oil tanker split in half and sank in the Black Sea near the Crimean Peninsula during an intense storm.At least one person died and another tanker was left drifting having suffered significant damage.”Oh fantastic. Likely a major oil spill to wreck the environment, as well as a war.
Seems like it is alll cracking at the seams.
And the front fell off.
Ian said:
roughbarked said:
Michael V said:
“A Russian oil tanker split in half and sank in the Black Sea near the Crimean Peninsula during an intense storm.At least one person died and another tanker was left drifting having suffered significant damage.”Oh fantastic. Likely a major oil spill to wreck the environment, as well as a war.
Seems like it is alll cracking at the seams.
And the front fell off.
No that’s the stern.
It was interesting fungi research hat shows it likely that; Newly named psychedelic fungus points to African origins of world’s most popular ‘magic mushroom’.
The closest wild relative to the world’s most popular “magic mushroom” Psilocybe cubensis has been given a preliminary name: Psilocybe ochraceocentrata.
kettle’s boiling
Fk it, got nailed by another tick yesterday and in an area where I didn’t think there were any. I woke up at 2:30 am today and the top of my head felt a bit odd so I felt around and it felt like a tick. Took that photo to confirm it, then woke Spocky to zap me several times with the freezing spray, then pull it out.
We must have got to it fairly early on as there’s not a lot of swelling around the bite zone, unlike previous bites. Each of the three previous ones had a more severe effect than the one before so we’re thinking that I have developed an allergy of sorts to them.
Anyway I’ve been awake since then to keep an eye (well, carefully running a finger over the area) to make sure it doesn’t get much worse. More sleep needed this afternoon I’d reckon.
Spiny Norman said:
Fk it, got nailed by another tick yesterday and in an area where I didn’t think there were any. I woke up at 2:30 am today and the top of my head felt a bit odd so I felt around and it felt like a tick. Took that photo to confirm it, then woke Spocky to zap me several times with the freezing spray, then pull it out.
We must have got to it fairly early on as there’s not a lot of swelling around the bite zone, unlike previous bites. Each of the three previous ones had a more severe effect than the one before so we’re thinking that I have developed an allergy of sorts to them.
Anyway I’ve been awake since then to keep an eye (well, carefully running a finger over the area) to make sure it doesn’t get much worse. More sleep needed this afternoon I’d reckon.
Maybe spray your head with some citronella as a hair oil. You’ll smell better than patchouli and it should keep the ticks off your head?
transition said:
kettle’s boiling
I’m on my second cup. Had the first one at 5am.
roughbarked said:
transition said:
kettle’s boiling
I’m on my second cup. Had the first one at 5am.
early morning riser boaster, drink that coffee and shutup
transition said:
roughbarked said:
transition said:
kettle’s boiling
I’m on my second cup. Had the first one at 5am.
early morning riser boaster, drink that coffee and shutup
done. ;)
Did you miss my baby grey butcherbird?Morning pilgrims, it’s raining……….again.
transition said:
roughbarked said:
transition said:
kettle’s boiling
I’m on my second cup. Had the first one at 5am.
early morning riser boaster, drink that coffee and shutup
my breakfast was an apple
see that healthy breakfast boast, that’s what it is, love sharing
transition said:
transition said:
roughbarked said:I’m on my second cup. Had the first one at 5am.
early morning riser boaster, drink that coffee and shutup
my breakfast was an apple
see that healthy breakfast boast, that’s what it is, love sharing
I’m about to consume a mango. I may use an appple to get the strings out of my teeth afterwards.
roughbarked said:
transition said:
roughbarked said:I’m on my second cup. Had the first one at 5am.
early morning riser boaster, drink that coffee and shutup
done. ;)
Did you miss my baby grey butcherbird?
I sees them yesterday reckons, good company butcher birds, on those days people give ya the shits, or any other day, outside a young burtcherbird might turn up, learning to speak, had one other day actually truly really did not a fib, quite recently, very recently
roughbarked said:
transition said:
transition said:early morning riser boaster, drink that coffee and shutup
my breakfast was an apple
see that healthy breakfast boast, that’s what it is, love sharing
I’m about to consume a mango. I may use an appple to get the strings out of my teeth afterwards.
now ya’s boasting about having teeth, more than one, it’s gotta fucken stop, you’re outa control
transition said:
roughbarked said:
transition said:my breakfast was an apple
see that healthy breakfast boast, that’s what it is, love sharing
I’m about to consume a mango. I may use an appple to get the strings out of my teeth afterwards.
now ya’s boasting about having teeth, more than one, it’s gotta fucken stop, you’re outa control
Ha! they are mostly root canaled and capped, what’s left of them. I don’t make a pretty smile anyway.
roughbarked said:
transition said:
roughbarked said:I’m about to consume a mango. I may use an appple to get the strings out of my teeth afterwards.
now ya’s boasting about having teeth, more than one, it’s gotta fucken stop, you’re outa control
Ha! they are mostly root canaled and capped, what’s left of them. I don’t make a pretty smile anyway.
I should starts with a walk, loosen up ya know, pedal the legs and attached feet, ambulate some, see what my feathered avian dinosaur friends are doing
Spiny Norman said:
Fk it, got nailed by another tick yesterday and in an area where I didn’t think there were any. I woke up at 2:30 am today and the top of my head felt a bit odd so I felt around and it felt like a tick. Took that photo to confirm it, then woke Spocky to zap me several times with the freezing spray, then pull it out.
We must have got to it fairly early on as there’s not a lot of swelling around the bite zone, unlike previous bites. Each of the three previous ones had a more severe effect than the one before so we’re thinking that I have developed an allergy of sorts to them.
Anyway I’ve been awake since then to keep an eye (well, carefully running a finger over the area) to make sure it doesn’t get much worse. More sleep needed this afternoon I’d reckon.
That’s no good Mr Norman.
Tick allergy is not fun.
My sister-in-law doesn’t go outside much any more and carries an epi pen and phone when she does, after developing tick allergy. Which is hard on her as they moved to a lovely beach side paradise on the NSW south coast when they retired.
ruby said:
Spiny Norman said:
Fk it, got nailed by another tick yesterday and in an area where I didn’t think there were any. I woke up at 2:30 am today and the top of my head felt a bit odd so I felt around and it felt like a tick. Took that photo to confirm it, then woke Spocky to zap me several times with the freezing spray, then pull it out.
We must have got to it fairly early on as there’s not a lot of swelling around the bite zone, unlike previous bites. Each of the three previous ones had a more severe effect than the one before so we’re thinking that I have developed an allergy of sorts to them.
Anyway I’ve been awake since then to keep an eye (well, carefully running a finger over the area) to make sure it doesn’t get much worse. More sleep needed this afternoon I’d reckon.That’s no good Mr Norman.
Tick allergy is not fun.
My sister-in-law doesn’t go outside much any more and carries an epi pen and phone when she does, after developing tick allergy. Which is hard on her as they moved to a lovely beach side paradise on the NSW south coast when they retired.
Yes. Be careful about eating red meats.
buffy said:
Sometimes they don’t bother to go down to the ground and up again. From iNaturalist, photo taken by someone south of us here, recently.
Great picture.
Beware the rocket propelled drop bears.
ruby said:
buffy said:
Sometimes they don’t bother to go down to the ground and up again. From iNaturalist, photo taken by someone south of us here, recently.
Great picture.
Beware the rocket propelled drop bears.
:)
roughbarked said:
ruby said:
buffy said:
Sometimes they don’t bother to go down to the ground and up again. From iNaturalist, photo taken by someone south of us here, recently.
Great picture.
Beware the rocket propelled drop bears.
:)
Dear God feels like another warm one, but some cloud distant
I could look at the forecast
39C, not too bad, not great either
transition said:
roughbarked said:
ruby said:Great picture.
Beware the rocket propelled drop bears.
:)
Dear God feels like another warm one, but some cloud distant
I could look at the forecast
They say it will be 44 here. It is 34 right now.
ruby said:
:)
His ears need pointing.
transition said:
39C, not too bad, not great either
It is enough to get you to sit under a sprinkler.
roughbarked said:
transition said:
roughbarked said:
transition said:
roughbarked said:
:)
Dear God feels like another warm one, but some cloud distant
I could look at the forecast
They say it will be 44 here. It is 34 right now.
39C, not too bad, not great either
It is enough to get you to sit under a sprinkler.
Small modular nuclear reactors in 20 years after doing nothing will fix this and cheaper too¡
ruby said:
Shopped I reckon.
BACK and dripping. Not very hot out there yet but certainly humid.
Bubblecar said:
BACK and dripping. Not very hot out there yet but certainly humid.
No eating for 48 hours.
Peak Warming Man said:
Bubblecar said:
BACK and dripping. Not very hot out there yet but certainly humid.
No eating for 48 hours.
Who?
Bubblecar said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Bubblecar said:
BACK and dripping. Not very hot out there yet but certainly humid.
No eating for 48 hours.
Who?
Gazans
buffy said:
Sometimes they don’t bother to go down to the ground and up again. From iNaturalist, photo taken by someone south of us here, recently.
Wow!
:)
Bubblecar said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Bubblecar said:
BACK and dripping. Not very hot out there yet but certainly humid.
No eating for 48 hours.
Who?
Did you have the tooth yanked?
ruby said:
IDGI.
Michael V said:
ruby said:
IDGI.
he is on a punt. now what rhymes with punt and also describes, what some think anyway, dutton?
JudgeMental said:
Michael V said:
ruby said:
IDGI.
he is on a punt. now what rhymes with punt and also describes, what some think anyway, dutton?
It loses a bit when it has to be spelled out.
JudgeMental said:
Michael V said:
ruby said:
IDGI.
he is on a punt. now what rhymes with punt and also describes, what some think anyway, dutton?
Ah, A punt. I didn’t realise.
I thought it some weird gondola.
Michael V said:
JudgeMental said:
Michael V said:IDGI.
he is on a punt. now what rhymes with punt and also describes, what some think anyway, dutton?
Ah, A punt. I didn’t realise.
I thought it some weird gondola.
if it were trump then it could be a fondly on a gondola.
Peak Warming Man said:
Bubblecar said:
Peak Warming Man said:No eating for 48 hours.
Who?
Did you have the tooth yanked?
Yes, but that was on Saturday.
Postman has just delivered two leather-bound editions of Grimms’ Complete Fairy Tales, one for me and one for my nephew.
JudgeMental said:
Michael V said:
JudgeMental said:he is on a punt. now what rhymes with punt and also describes, what some think anyway, dutton?
Ah, A punt. I didn’t realise.
I thought it some weird gondola.
if it were trump then it could be a fondly on a gondola.
:)
you’re right he really is daft on a raft
Coles order placed, 70 items.
dv said:
you’re right he really is daft on a raft
Scrote on a boat…?
dv said:
you’re right he really is daft on a raft
:)
Neophyte said:
dv said:
you’re right he really is daft on a raft
Scrote on a boat…?
:)
STEM biff on a Thames skiff
Michael V said:
Neophyte said:
dv said:
you’re right he really is daft on a raft
Scrote on a boat…?
:)
I just can’t wait until he’s floored on a board.
There’s a couple more old pics on the link
Neophyte said:
dv said:
you’re right he really is daft on a raft
Scrote on a boat…?
Wanker on a tanker.
Neophyte said:
dv said:
you’re right he really is daft on a raft
Scrote on a boat…?
Heh heh heh
Hello
The front fell off.
Cymek said:
Hello
Why goodday to you, young chap.
Cymek said:
Hello
Greetings.
ruby said:
Neophyte said:
dv said:
you’re right he really is daft on a raft
Scrote on a boat…?
Heh heh heh
I was going for goat on a boat, but scrote is probably more accurate.
The Rev Dodgson said:
ruby said:
Neophyte said:Scrote on a boat…?
Heh heh heh
I was going for goat on a boat, but scrote is probably more accurate.
Groper on a grouper?
roughbarked said:
Ian said:
roughbarked said:Seems like it is alll cracking at the seams.
And the front fell off.
No that’s the stern.
Ian said:
roughbarked said:
Ian said:And the front fell off.
No that’s the stern.
yeah I re-read the article and wondered where I got the stern from.. “and the vessel’s bow sank.”
Happy Birthday Beethoven.
254 today.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Happy Birthday Beethoven.254 today.
Still decomposing.
We are back. It’s up to 36 degrees at the back door, and now gusting into the 70s. Not pleasant. Lots of stuff blowing around and hitting the ute as we drove. I’ve put a strap on the front gates to stop them blowing open. I’ve filled the Fire Buckets along the verandah. And I’ve got low use sprinklers on for the birds, and dishes filled with water for them. Almost time for me to hibernate.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Happy Birthday Beethoven.254 today.
Getting on a bit.
buffy said:
We are back. It’s up to 36 degrees at the back door, and now gusting into the 70s. Not pleasant. Lots of stuff blowing around and hitting the ute as we drove. I’ve put a strap on the front gates to stop them blowing open. I’ve filled the Fire Buckets along the verandah. And I’ve got low use sprinklers on for the birds, and dishes filled with water for them. Almost time for me to hibernate.
38.5 here.
24km/h northerly.
Ian said:
roughbarked said:
Ian said:And the front fell off.
No that’s the stern.
:)
buffy said:
We are back. It’s up to 36 degrees at the back door, and now gusting into the 70s. Not pleasant. Lots of stuff blowing around and hitting the ute as we drove. I’ve put a strap on the front gates to stop them blowing open. I’ve filled the Fire Buckets along the verandah. And I’ve got low use sprinklers on for the birds, and dishes filled with water for them. Almost time for me to hibernate.
Sounds unpleasant.
roughbarked said:
JudgeMental said:
Michael V said:IDGI.
he is on a punt. now what rhymes with punt and also describes, what some think anyway, dutton?
It loses a bit when it has to be spelled out.
I was trying to find a rhyme for raft.
buffy said:
We are back. It’s up to 36 degrees at the back door, and now gusting into the 70s. Not pleasant. Lots of stuff blowing around and hitting the ute as we drove. I’ve put a strap on the front gates to stop them blowing open. I’ve filled the Fire Buckets along the verandah. And I’ve got low use sprinklers on for the birds, and dishes filled with water for them. Almost time for me to hibernate.
Fingers crossed.
“Cyclone Chido hits France’s Mayotte archipelago killing ‘several hundred’ to possibly thousands”
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-15/cyclone-chido-hits-mayotte-archipelago/104728338
sarahs mum said:
:)
BOM says it is 40˚.
Their records say 39.7
Anyway it hot.
Peak Warming Man said:
The front fell off.
that has an almost worldwide understanding.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Happy Birthday Beethoven.254 today.
speak up!
roughbarked said:
BOM says it is 40˚.
Their records say 39.7
Anyway it hot.
32 here.
Which is quite warm enough for me.
roughbarked said:
BOM says it is 40˚.
Their records say 39.7
Anyway it hot.
yesterday I went from overcast and cool to fucking humid (fuck you Brisbane) to the loveliness of a balmy Perth evening..
Arts said:
roughbarked said:
BOM says it is 40˚.
Their records say 39.7
Anyway it hot.
yesterday I went from overcast and cool to fucking humid (fuck you Brisbane) to the loveliness of a balmy Perth evening..
It’s humid here (99% RH), but it’s pleasant, because it is just 20.7° C.
The forecast 28°C is unlikely to occur – it’s overcast and likely to remain like that – at least for the next couple of hours.
Sausage rolls now in the oven, minus the sesame seed sprinkle, as the tooth instructions are to avoid seeds and nuts for some days after an extractation.
The Rev Dodgson said:
roughbarked said:
BOM says it is 40˚.
Their records say 39.7
Anyway it hot.
32 here.
Which is quite warm enough for me.
Yes well I went out to move hoses and did something I hadn’t dobe since I was a kid. Walk barefoot on hot bricks.
01:00pm 40.4˚C
Bubblecar said:
Sausage rolls now in the oven, minus the sesame seed sprinkle, as the tooth instructions are to avoid seeds and nuts
Stay away from the forum for 48 hours.
JudgeMental said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Happy Birthday Beethoven.254 today.
speak up!
It’s not his Fifth, is it?
Peak Warming Man said:
Bubblecar said:
Sausage rolls now in the oven, minus the sesame seed sprinkle, as the tooth instructions are to avoid seeds and nuts
Stay away from the forum for 48 hours.
And keep away from tennis tournaments.
roughbarked said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
roughbarked said:
BOM says it is 40˚.
Their records say 39.7
Anyway it hot.
32 here.
Which is quite warm enough for me.
Yes well I went out to move hoses and did something I hadn’t dobe since I was a kid. Walk barefoot on hot bricks.
01:00pm 40.4˚C
Now officially 41.1˚
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:
The Rev Dodgson said:32 here.
Which is quite warm enough for me.
Yes well I went out to move hoses and did something I hadn’t dobe since I was a kid. Walk barefoot on hot bricks.
01:00pm 40.4˚C
Now officially 41.1˚
It’s a dry heat. 16% r/h.
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:Yes well I went out to move hoses and did something I hadn’t dobe since I was a kid. Walk barefoot on hot bricks.
01:00pm 40.4˚C
Now officially 41.1˚
It’s a dry heat. 16% r/h.
I dont believe you can have high humidity with those temperatures.
captain_spalding said:
:)
but really
:(
Peak Warming Man said:
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:Now officially 41.1˚
It’s a dry heat. 16% r/h.
I dont believe you can have high humidity with those temperatures.
No, it’s impossible. You need too much small-droplet water to dissolve into the hot air.
i’m here for you, maybe you’re struggling with feelings of inadequacy, discontents slowly eating away at you, perhaps they’re stealthy discontents, not fully manifest yet, just the early stage of troubles, you aren’t aware you have them, like I said i’m here for you, some raw materials to work with
transition said:
i’m here for you, maybe you’re struggling with feelings of inadequacy, discontents slowly eating away at you, perhaps they’re stealthy discontents, not fully manifest yet, just the early stage of troubles, you aren’t aware you have them, like I said i’m here for you, some raw materials to work with
Nah, i’m good, thanks.
captain_spalding said:
transition said:
i’m here for you, maybe you’re struggling with feelings of inadequacy, discontents slowly eating away at you, perhaps they’re stealthy discontents, not fully manifest yet, just the early stage of troubles, you aren’t aware you have them, like I said i’m here for you, some raw materials to work with
Nah, i’m good, thanks.
you sure, you could be in denial, denying the troubles
i’m here for you anyway
roughbarked said:
buffy said:
We are back. It’s up to 36 degrees at the back door, and now gusting into the 70s. Not pleasant. Lots of stuff blowing around and hitting the ute as we drove. I’ve put a strap on the front gates to stop them blowing open. I’ve filled the Fire Buckets along the verandah. And I’ve got low use sprinklers on for the birds, and dishes filled with water for them. Almost time for me to hibernate.
38.5 here.
24km/h northerly.
Nice fever¡
bit civilized, just cut my finger and toe nails
transition said:
bit civilized, just cut my finger and toe nails
Yeah, I always have to cut mine after a full moon too.
Peak Warming Man said:
transition said:
bit civilized, just cut my finger and toe nails
Yeah, I always have to cut mine after a full moon too.
I know that well
transition said:
captain_spalding said:
transition said:
i’m here for you, maybe you’re struggling with feelings of inadequacy, discontents slowly eating away at you, perhaps they’re stealthy discontents, not fully manifest yet, just the early stage of troubles, you aren’t aware you have them, like I said i’m here for you, some raw materials to work with
Nah, i’m good, thanks.
you sure, you could be in denial, denying the troubles
i’m here for you anyway
To take insults?
Why would we waste time insulting someone who looks like he cuts his hair with a knife and fork?
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:
The Rev Dodgson said:32 here.
Which is quite warm enough for me.
Yes well I went out to move hoses and did something I hadn’t dobe since I was a kid. Walk barefoot on hot bricks.
01:00pm 40.4˚C
Now officially 41.1˚
24 deg, showery rain, cool ESE breeze here.
Oh dear. In epsisode 4 of Pyramids of Mars, when Sutek finally rises from his chair, there’s an errant hand visible on the seat which then quickly scuttles away.
Why they needed a stage hand hiding behind the chair is anyone’s guess.
transition said:
Peak Warming Man said:
transition said:
bit civilized, just cut my finger and toe nails
Yeah, I always have to cut mine after a full moon too.
I know that well
did you drink from it
Bubblecar said:
Oh dear. In epsisode 4 of Pyramids of Mars, when Sutekh finally rises from his chair, there’s an errant hand visible on the seat which then quickly scuttles away.Why they needed a stage hand hiding behind the chair is anyone’s guess.
Most likely holding the cushion in place. In an earlier take it probably stuck to Sutekh’s bum.
Top of 25 today, 35 tomoz
captain_spalding said:
Quite
Thirty-six degrees here now, the wind has dropped right away. Humidity in the mid teens. I had a read and a nap. Might do that again for a bit. VicEmergency seems to have a few “tree down” entries, but so far, not much in the way of fires.
buffy said:
Thirty-six degrees here now, the wind has dropped right away. Humidity in the mid teens. I had a read and a nap. Might do that again for a bit. VicEmergency seems to have a few “tree down” entries, but so far, not much in the way of fires.
Still hasn’t reached 31 here, I doubt that it will. Pleasantly cool by the fan.
Did you get my card, buffy?
Bubblecar said:
Oh dear. In epsisode 4 of Pyramids of Mars, when Sutek finally rises from his chair, there’s an errant hand visible on the seat which then quickly scuttles away.Why they needed a stage hand hiding behind the chair is anyone’s guess.
Probably an Addams Family reference
Bubblecar said:
Oh dear. In epsisode 4 of Pyramids of Mars, when Sutek finally rises from his chair, there’s an errant hand visible on the seat which then quickly scuttles away.Why they needed a stage hand hiding behind the chair is anyone’s guess.
Gave Sutekh a shove to help him get out of the chair…?
Bubblecar said:
Did you get my card, buffy?
Yes, it arrived today by our postie who is a menace to himself and all other road users. Thank you!
I’ve done some IDing on iNaturalist. Someone has been photographing weeds around Melbourne, and I’m getting very good at IDing weeds. Now I’m going to read again on the bed. Possibly another nap before tea.
buffy said:
Bubblecar said:
Did you get my card, buffy?
Yes, it arrived today by our postie who is a menace to himself and all other road users. Thank you!
:)
captain_spalding said:
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:Yes well I went out to move hoses and did something I hadn’t dobe since I was a kid. Walk barefoot on hot bricks.
01:00pm 40.4˚C
Now officially 41.1˚
24 deg, showery rain, cool ESE breeze here.
42.3˚
Neophyte said:
Bubblecar said:
Oh dear. In epsisode 4 of Pyramids of Mars, when Sutek finally rises from his chair, there’s an errant hand visible on the seat which then quickly scuttles away.Why they needed a stage hand hiding behind the chair is anyone’s guess.
Gave Sutekh a shove to help him get out of the chair…?
I guess he was a … Set hand
.
.
.
.
(Egyptology joke)
Bubblecar said:
Did you get my card, buffy?
Did you get mine?
ze BOM predicts a warm one on Friday, will give 50 a nudge in some locations
dv said:
ze BOM predicts a warm one on Friday, will give 50 a nudge in some locations
Looks like it will be tough on the dolphins at Monkey Mia.
roughbarked said:
dv said:
ze BOM predicts a warm one on Friday, will give 50 a nudge in some locations
Looks like it will be tough on the dolphins at Monkey Mia.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-16/australia-heatwave-temperatures-and-fire-danger/104729026
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:
dv said:
ze BOM predicts a warm one on Friday, will give 50 a nudge in some locations
Looks like it will be tough on the dolphins at Monkey Mia.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-16/australia-heatwave-temperatures-and-fire-danger/104729026
I just got out the pool.. it’s beautiful here
diddly-squat said:
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:Looks like it will be tough on the dolphins at Monkey Mia.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-16/australia-heatwave-temperatures-and-fire-danger/104729026
I just got out the pool.. it’s beautiful here
Wilcannia and Ivanhoe are expected to reach 47C, well exceeding long-standing records for December.
dv said:
ze BOM predicts a warm one on Friday, will give 50 a nudge in some locations
JudgeMental said:
dv said:
ze BOM predicts a warm one on Friday, will give 50 a nudge in some locations
Perth is going to have some 30’s
36, 30, 31, 34, 36, 37
Arts said:
JudgeMental said:
dv said:
ze BOM predicts a warm one on Friday, will give 50 a nudge in some locations
Perth is going to have some 30’s
36, 30, 31, 34, 36, 37
early dinner will be, bacon and eggs and salad of some sort, probably grated carrot, yes confirmed I checked verified, and pick a synonym of your own for further reinforcement of the gist
that pig in the pan sounds angry
Kingy said:
transition said:
captain_spalding said:Nah, i’m good, thanks.
you sure, you could be in denial, denying the troubles
i’m here for you anyway
To take insults?
Why would we waste time insulting someone who looks like he cuts his hair with a knife and fork?
chuckle
aren’t you just such a bastard, irretrievably bastard
I have emerged again. Cooling down outside according to Mr buffy. So I’ll go and put on the sprinklers. The radar suggests the rain will go around us. But it won’t hurt to put sprinklers on and then turn them off if that is not the case.
buffy said:
I have emerged again. Cooling down outside according to Mr buffy. So I’ll go and put on the sprinklers. The radar suggests the rain will go around us. But it won’t hurt to put sprinklers on and then turn them off if that is not the case.
spent half the day wetting down inner yard yesterday so it felt habitable
have some aspirin with my pig, in case it seeks revenge
transition said:
have some aspirin with my pig, in case it seeks revenge
car be in later to check I put enough sauce on
transition said:
have some aspirin with my pig, in case it seeks revenge
I’ve been stuffing myself with fine pork sausage rolls.
transition said:
transition said:
have some aspirin with my pig, in case it seeks revenge
car be in later to check I put enough sauce on
Seems there’s no escaping the grated carrot.
Bubblecar said:
transition said:
transition said:
have some aspirin with my pig, in case it seeks revenge
car be in later to check I put enough sauce on
Seems there’s no escaping the grated carrot.
i’ve got incredibly good night vision
transition said:
Bubblecar said:
transition said:car be in later to check I put enough sauce on
Seems there’s no escaping the grated carrot.
i’ve got incredibly good night vision
I should hope so.
transition said:
Bubblecar said:
transition said:car be in later to check I put enough sauce on
Seems there’s no escaping the grated carrot.
i’ve got incredibly good night vision
Well we’ll try you on night fighters but your strike rate will want to improve.
That will be all.
transition said:
Kingy said:
transition said:you sure, you could be in denial, denying the troubles
i’m here for you anyway
To take insults?
Why would we waste time insulting someone who looks like he cuts his hair with a knife and fork?
chuckle
aren’t you just such a bastard, irretrievably bastard
I do my best.
I heard that insult on the weekend, and thought it amusing. You’re just lucky enough to be the first person I’ve used it on. I have another waiting for the right moment.
I’m over the heat. I am ready for the rain.
Kingy said:
transition said:
Kingy said:To take insults?
Why would we waste time insulting someone who looks like he cuts his hair with a knife and fork?
chuckle
aren’t you just such a bastard, irretrievably bastard
I do my best.
I heard that insult on the weekend, and thought it amusing. You’re just lucky enough to be the first person I’ve used it on. I have another waiting for the right moment.
good work, it’s quite difficult to get an insult around here, most people in the forum are fucken useless that way, a man could die waiting
43˚
I’m not sure I really need trousers that are designed to pass farts easily.
But hey, someone no doubt does.
transition said:
Kingy said:
transition said:chuckle
aren’t you just such a bastard, irretrievably bastard
I do my best.
I heard that insult on the weekend, and thought it amusing. You’re just lucky enough to be the first person I’ve used it on. I have another waiting for the right moment.
good work, it’s quite difficult to get an insult around here, most people in the forum are fucken useless that way, a man could die waiting
Well go on then.
sarahs mum said:
I’m over the heat. I am ready for the rain.
Our village was promised much rain for tomorrow but now it’s been downgraded to “Shower or two”.
Spiny Norman said:
I’m not sure I really need trousers that are designed to pass farts easily.
But hey, someone no doubt does.
Dear oh dear.
roughbarked said:
transition said:
Kingy said:I do my best.
I heard that insult on the weekend, and thought it amusing. You’re just lucky enough to be the first person I’ve used it on. I have another waiting for the right moment.
good work, it’s quite difficult to get an insult around here, most people in the forum are fucken useless that way, a man could die waiting
Well go on then.
I’ve seen people like you before, but I had to pay admission.
Bubblecar said:
Spiny Norman said:
I’m not sure I really need trousers that are designed to pass farts easily.
But hey, someone no doubt does.
Dear oh dear.
My farts make thir appearance through whatever material that may be in the way.
Kingy said:
roughbarked said:
transition said:good work, it’s quite difficult to get an insult around here, most people in the forum are fucken useless that way, a man could die waiting
Well go on then.
I’ve seen people like you before, but I had to pay admission.
We used to sneak in under the tent as the show started.
Spiny Norman said:
I’m not sure I really need trousers that are designed to pass farts easily.
But hey, someone no doubt does.
I’M LOOKING FOR LIGHTWEIGHT LONG TROUSERS DAMMIT!!!!
Spiny Norman said:
Spiny Norman said:
I’m not sure I really need trousers that are designed to pass farts easily.
But hey, someone no doubt does.
I’M LOOKING FOR LIGHTWEIGHT LONG TROUSERS DAMMIT!!!!
But if you buy four or more of those they’re only $21.22 each.
Getting straight on with The Android Invasion, a Terry Nation story set mostly in the pretty village of East Hagbourne, Oxfordshire (named Devesham in the story), not far from where I was born.
Spiny Norman said:
I’m not sure I really need trousers that are designed to pass farts easily.
But hey, someone no doubt does.
Not me. I don’t need any trousers. I think I have an old pair somewhere.
Spiny Norman said:
Spiny Norman said:
I’m not sure I really need trousers that are designed to pass farts easily.
But hey, someone no doubt does.
I’M LOOKING FOR LIGHTWEIGHT LONG TROUSERS DAMMIT!!!!
Yeah, right…
Spiny Norman said:
Spiny Norman said:
I’m not sure I really need trousers that are designed to pass farts easily.
But hey, someone no doubt does.
I’M LOOKING FOR LIGHTWEIGHT LONG TROUSERS DAMMIT!!!!
very alluring.
OK, going to watch some more Vienna Blood. We decided to start from Series 1 rather than hopping back in at Series 4 (newly available). It seems it was released in 2019 originally, so it is some time since we saw it. It definitely stands up to a reviewing.
best first dog for yonks. can’t decide which panel I love the most.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2024/dec/16/here-are-first-dog-on-the-moons-tips-for-christmas-on-a-budget
sarahs mum said:
best first dog for yonks. can’t decide which panel I love the most.https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2024/dec/16/here-are-first-dog-on-the-moons-tips-for-christmas-on-a-budget
Heh :)
I won’t photograph Budgie’s display tonight – he may even have protected some of it from tonight’s expected rain.
I’ll go later in the week.
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
best first dog for yonks. can’t decide which panel I love the most.
Heh :)
^
Hi people
monkey skipper said:
Hi people
No-one here by that name.
hides behind curtains
monkey skipper said:
Hi people
Hi monkey. You’ve been end-of-year busy?
monkey skipper said:
Hi people
Hi.
mutters something about seldom uttering more.
sarahs mum said:
mutters something about seldom uttering more.
Nice because “mutter” occurs in “seldom uttering”
Honestly though it’s been a bit of a defeating day.
dv said:
sarahs mum said:
mutters something about seldom uttering more.
Nice because “mutter” occurs in “seldom uttering”
You’re sharp tonight.
sarahs mum said:
mutters something about seldom uttering more.
Sister strife?
dv said:
Honestly though it’s been a bit of a defeating day.
:(
sarahs mum said:
dv said:
Honestly though it’s been a bit of a defeating day.
:(
sorry about all that
Ooh! Got good lightning and thunder now. Well, for the last 15 minutes or so. One crash was right overhead…the dogs lifted their heads, looked at each other, and lay down again.
Witty Rejoinder said:
sarahs mum said:
mutters something about seldom uttering more.
Sister strife?
No, everyone’s been getting along since the brother died. Just work-vehicle and other work-related malarkey and monkeyshines.
Witty Rejoinder said:
sarahs mum said:
mutters something about seldom uttering more.
Sister strife?
thunderstorm way over there.*points
buffy said:
Ooh! Got good lightning and thunder now. Well, for the last 15 minutes or so. One crash was right overhead…the dogs lifted their heads, looked at each other, and lay down again.
Exciting. We have “chance of a thunderstorm later this evening.”
dv said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
sarahs mum said:
mutters something about seldom uttering more.
Sister strife?
No, everyone’s been getting along since the brother died. Just work-vehicle and other work-related malarkey and monkeyshines.
At least the boy hasn’t broken the gate again.
sarahs mum said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
sarahs mum said:
mutters something about seldom uttering more.
Sister strife?
thunderstorm way over there.*points
He’ll sometimes pause as a thing of form
In front of a settler’s door,
And ask for a drink, and remark `It’s warm,
Or say `There’s signs of a thunder-storm’;
But he seldom utters more.
https://allpoetry.com/The-Teams
Bubblecar said:
dv said:
Witty Rejoinder said:Sister strife?
No, everyone’s been getting along since the brother died. Just work-vehicle and other work-related malarkey and monkeyshines.
At least the boy hasn’t broken the gate again.
Always some brightside.
sarahs mum said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
sarahs mum said:
mutters something about seldom uttering more.
Sister strife?
thunderstorm way over there.*points
It’s from Henry Lawson:
He’ll sometimes pause as a thing of form
In front of a settler’s door,
And ask for a drink, and remark, “It’s warm,”
Or say, “There’s signs of a thunderstorm;”
But he seldom utters more.
Gonna be hot as Satan’s taint for the rest of the week.
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
Witty Rejoinder said:Sister strife?
thunderstorm way over there.*points
It’s from Henry Lawson:
He’ll sometimes pause as a thing of form
In front of a settler’s door,
And ask for a drink, and remark, “It’s warm,”
Or say, “There’s signs of a thunderstorm;”
But he seldom utters more.
Well that’s my learnin’ for today
interesting game of chess but I like the presenter.
https://youtu.be/qM95ZO_Fwb0
buffy said:
Ooh! Got good lightning and thunder now. Well, for the last 15 minutes or so. One crash was right overhead…the dogs lifted their heads, looked at each other, and lay down again.
I heard thunder but when I looked, the closest was about 160km away. Must have been a neighbour moving their bin ir something.
my sister went home today. this morning she had coffee down at the docks and managed to trip over a bit of uneven footpath, grazing her hand and gravel rashing her knee. she pulled this off in front of a fellow who was a st johns ambulance type who reached into his car and pulled out a kit and washed out her knee and bandaged her up. and then he said he would be making a report to the port authorities. well done mr man in the street.
sarahs mum said:
my sister went home today. this morning she had coffee down at the docks and managed to trip over a bit of uneven footpath, grazing her hand and gravel rashing her knee. she pulled this off in front of a fellow who was a st johns ambulance type who reached into his car and pulled out a kit and washed out her knee and bandaged her up. and then he said he would be making a report to the port authorities. well done mr man in the street.
She can sue for that sort of thing.
sarahs mum said:
my sister went home today. this morning she had coffee down at the docks and managed to trip over a bit of uneven footpath, grazing her hand and gravel rashing her knee. she pulled this off in front of a fellow who was a st johns ambulance type who reached into his car and pulled out a kit and washed out her knee and bandaged her up. and then he said he would be making a report to the port authorities. well done mr man in the street.
An unfortunate end to the visit but yes, a useful man to have at hand.
Rain now going in fits and starts this end.
Bubblecar said:
Rain now going in fits and starts this end.
More widespread than I thought.
dv said:
Gonna be hot as Satan’s taint for the rest of the week.
my aircon installers have just offered me 9th January as the earlies day they can come.
party_pants said:
dv said:
Gonna be hot as Satan’s taint for the rest of the week.
my aircon installers have just offered me 9th January as the earlies day they can come.
Damn.
party_pants said:
dv said:
Gonna be hot as Satan’s taint for the rest of the week.
my aircon installers have just offered me 9th January as the earlies day they can come.
at least that is before february.
I have rain now.
Bubblecar said:
party_pants said:
dv said:
Gonna be hot as Satan’s taint for the rest of the week.
my aircon installers have just offered me 9th January as the earlies day they can come.
Damn.
I tell an untruth. Just responding to the email now, January 8th they actually said.
The sooner the better. The real hot weather comes in Jan and Feb, and can last for weeks on end.
Bubblecar said:
Getting straight on with The Android Invasion, a Terry Nation story set mostly in the pretty village of East Hagbourne, Oxfordshire (named Devesham in the story), not far from where I was born.
A bit sad this story, as it features the final appeance of both Harry Sullivan (Ian Marter) and Sgt. Benton (John Levene) in Dr Who, but both in zombie-like roles.
Ian Marter went on to write several novelisations of Dr Who stories, as well as collaborating with Tom Baker on a Who screenplay for the cinema, which was never made.
back from the magic faraway farm, land of happy sheep, beautiful evening out there, cleans a trough and did some meter reads
coffee landed, noodles shortly
>Well what do your cormorants eat?
yabby, master roughbarked
yawn
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
Getting straight on with The Android Invasion, a Terry Nation story set mostly in the pretty village of East Hagbourne, Oxfordshire (named Devesham in the story), not far from where I was born.
A bit sad this story, as it features the final appeance of both Harry Sullivan (Ian Marter) and Sgt. Benton (John Levene) in Dr Who, but both in zombie-like roles.
Ian Marter went on to write several novelisations of Dr Who stories, as well as collaborating with Tom Baker on a Who screenplay for the cinema, which was never made.
I’ve hidden the title from me boy, and initially he assumed it was an Auton story because they were shooting from the finger. Then the appearance of the alien face at the end of ep 1 made him guess it’s a Sontaran story.
The mysterious open as The Doctor and Sarah try to work out why the streets are empty and what the heck is going on echoes a previson Invasion story: of the Dinosaurs.
Just last week I was talking about Michael Sheard being an Admiral Ozzel in Empire Strikes Back, and who should pop up in this episode but Milton Johns, who had a bit part in Empire as Bewil. ( Ma’fac’ Empire Strikes Back is quite chockers with Doctor Who regulars, not the least of whom are Julian Glover as Veers and Jeremy Bulloch as Boba Fett.) Milton Johns is always gloriously officious and smackable, as he was in The Enemy Of The World and in the later Invasion Of Time.
Robo-Sarah’s face coming off is one of my clear early DW memories.
dv said:
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
Getting straight on with The Android Invasion, a Terry Nation story set mostly in the pretty village of East Hagbourne, Oxfordshire (named Devesham in the story), not far from where I was born.
A bit sad this story, as it features the final appeance of both Harry Sullivan (Ian Marter) and Sgt. Benton (John Levene) in Dr Who, but both in zombie-like roles.
Ian Marter went on to write several novelisations of Dr Who stories, as well as collaborating with Tom Baker on a Who screenplay for the cinema, which was never made.
I’ve hidden the title from me boy, and initially he assumed it was an Auton story because they were shooting from the finger. Then the appearance of the alien face at the end of ep 1 made him guess it’s a Sontaran story.
The mysterious open as The Doctor and Sarah try to work out why the streets are empty and what the heck is going on echoes a previson Invasion story: of the Dinosaurs.
Just last week I was talking about Michael Sheard being an Admiral Ozzel in Empire Strikes Back, and who should pop up in this episode but Milton Johns, who had a bit part in Empire as Bewil. ( Ma’fac’ Empire Strikes Back is quite chockers with Doctor Who regulars, not the least of whom are Julian Glover as Veers and Jeremy Bulloch as Boba Fett.) Milton Johns is always gloriously officious and smackable, as he was in The Enemy Of The World and in the later Invasion Of Time.
Robo-Sarah’s face coming off is one of my clear early DW memories.
Milton Johns has a fine over-the-top role in this one, obviously enjoying himself.
Big booms looming overhead now, I’d better power down.
Bubblecar said:
Big booms looming overhead now, I’d better power down.
no don’t do that, don’t go all disconnected, stay connected to the mains, perhaps go back to using a USB mouse, give it a try, i’ve heard they are very lightning resistant, I don’t want you to go, i’ll get lonely
perhaps you need a lightning conductor too, like you might have seen on churches and things, if you could get something like that, a metal pole, stand outside with it, you might be safer, I mean look how long the old buildings that have have survived
perhaps you could put your headphones on, try them also, to block out the thunder, if you have cord type headphones I hear the sound quality is superior, so plug in to that 3.5mm socket, and if you’re a bit chilled perhaps hook up the bar heater down near your feet and get your feet real near, perhaps touching the bar heater, things have to be properly earthed to be safe, why should you be any different
transition said:
Bubblecar said:
Big booms looming overhead now, I’d better power down.
no don’t do that, don’t go all disconnected, stay connected to the mains, perhaps go back to using a USB mouse, give it a try, i’ve heard they are very lightning resistant, I don’t want you to go, i’ll get lonely
perhaps you need a lightning conductor too, like you might have seen on churches and things, if you could get something like that, a metal pole, stand outside with it, you might be safer, I mean look how long the old buildings that have have survived
perhaps you could put your headphones on, try them also, to block out the thunder, if you have cord type headphones I hear the sound quality is superior, so plug in to that 3.5mm socket, and if you’re a bit chilled perhaps hook up the bar heater down near your feet and get your feet real near, perhaps touching the bar heater, things have to be properly earthed to be safe, why should you be any different
My power is underground, and the internet connection is fibre to the home. So I generally stay online during thunderry storms.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-29/black-friday-australia-scam-online-stores-meta-shopify/104457034
party_pants said:
transition said:
Bubblecar said:
Big booms looming overhead now, I’d better power down.
no don’t do that, don’t go all disconnected, stay connected to the mains, perhaps go back to using a USB mouse, give it a try, i’ve heard they are very lightning resistant, I don’t want you to go, i’ll get lonely
perhaps you need a lightning conductor too, like you might have seen on churches and things, if you could get something like that, a metal pole, stand outside with it, you might be safer, I mean look how long the old buildings that have have survived
perhaps you could put your headphones on, try them also, to block out the thunder, if you have cord type headphones I hear the sound quality is superior, so plug in to that 3.5mm socket, and if you’re a bit chilled perhaps hook up the bar heater down near your feet and get your feet real near, perhaps touching the bar heater, things have to be properly earthed to be safe, why should you be any different
My power is underground, and the internet connection is fibre to the home. So I generally stay online during thunderry storms.
underground power and optical fiber braggart, a lightning-proof bastard
i’m talking with the devil now, he’ll work on it
perhaps your earth stake wire might get broken, and the negative/earth out to the street might come loose too, that’ll liven everything up nicely
I might get a nurly night and start fresh tomorrow.
transition said:
party_pants said:
transition said:no don’t do that, don’t go all disconnected, stay connected to the mains, perhaps go back to using a USB mouse, give it a try, i’ve heard they are very lightning resistant, I don’t want you to go, i’ll get lonely
perhaps you need a lightning conductor too, like you might have seen on churches and things, if you could get something like that, a metal pole, stand outside with it, you might be safer, I mean look how long the old buildings that have have survived
perhaps you could put your headphones on, try them also, to block out the thunder, if you have cord type headphones I hear the sound quality is superior, so plug in to that 3.5mm socket, and if you’re a bit chilled perhaps hook up the bar heater down near your feet and get your feet real near, perhaps touching the bar heater, things have to be properly earthed to be safe, why should you be any different
My power is underground, and the internet connection is fibre to the home. So I generally stay online during thunderry storms.
underground power and optical fiber braggart, a lightning-proof bastard
i’m talking with the devil now, he’ll work on it
perhaps your earth stake wire might get broken, and the negative/earth out to the street might come loose too, that’ll liven everything up nicely
perhaps. buit i have insurance that would cover that eventuality.
sarahs mum said:
mutters something about seldom uttering more.
Crossword clue?
sarahs mum said:
my sister went home today. this morning she had coffee down at the docks and managed to trip over a bit of uneven footpath, grazing her hand and gravel rashing her knee. she pulled this off in front of a fellow who was a st johns ambulance type who reached into his car and pulled out a kit and washed out her knee and bandaged her up. and then he said he would be making a report to the port authorities. well done mr man in the street.
:)
Nice.
sarahs mum said:
I have rain now.
So do I.
Michael V said:
sarahs mum said:
mutters something about seldom uttering more.
Crossword clue?
the teams by henry lawson. It was what I would recite when I was about 9 years old and was called to recite something.
sarahs mum said:
Michael V said:
sarahs mum said:
mutters something about seldom uttering more.
Crossword clue?
the teams by henry lawson. It was what I would recite when I was about 9 years old and was called to recite something.
Ah.
Good morning Holidayers. Twelve degrees at the back door – much better than yesterday afternoon! We are forecast a partly cloudy 23 degrees today. Heading back to the low thirties for Friday.
Bakery Breakfast this morning. Then more tidying up in the garden. And possibly maar-ing. Again.
buffy said:
Good morning Holidayers. Twelve degrees at the back door – much better than yesterday afternoon! We are forecast a partly cloudy 23 degrees today. Heading back to the low thirties for Friday.Bakery Breakfast this morning. Then more tidying up in the garden. And possibly maar-ing. Again.
Good morning???
I’m still trying to get to sleep!
buffy said:
Good morning Holidayers. Twelve degrees at the back door – much better than yesterday afternoon! We are forecast a partly cloudy 23 degrees today. Heading back to the low thirties for Friday.Bakery Breakfast this morning. Then more tidying up in the garden. And possibly maar-ing. Again.
30 degrees here, which is the coolest it has been all night. Most of the night was around 34. It was still 36 at 10:30pm.
I believe they may be correct that it is a heat wave.
sarahs mum said:
party_pants said:
dv said:
Gonna be hot as Satan’s taint for the rest of the week.
my aircon installers have just offered me 9th January as the earlies day they can come.
at least that is before february.
There’s a point.
transition said:
>Well what do your cormorants eat?yabby, master roughbarked
yawn
Ah.
Kingy said:
buffy said:
Good morning Holidayers. Twelve degrees at the back door – much better than yesterday afternoon! We are forecast a partly cloudy 23 degrees today. Heading back to the low thirties for Friday.Bakery Breakfast this morning. Then more tidying up in the garden. And possibly maar-ing. Again.
Good morning???
I’m still trying to get to sleep!
The Pug Alarm went off at 5.00am when the birds started up outside.
buffy said:
Kingy said:
buffy said:
Good morning Holidayers. Twelve degrees at the back door – much better than yesterday afternoon! We are forecast a partly cloudy 23 degrees today. Heading back to the low thirties for Friday.Bakery Breakfast this morning. Then more tidying up in the garden. And possibly maar-ing. Again.
Good morning???
I’m still trying to get to sleep!
The Pug Alarm went off at 5.00am when the birds started up outside.
Yes. The birds are shouting at the sky at about 5AM.
Speaking of good morning. Looks like BOM thinks it isn’t going to get any hotter than it was all night.
So that will definitely be a good morning.
Morning punters and correctors.
It doesn’t look good for the cricket, drizzling rain in the Pearl.
Peak Warming Man said:
Morning punters and correctors.
It doesn’t look good for the cricket, drizzling rain in the Pearl.
Looks like this test is buggered going by what Nate told us about the weather.
roughbarked said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Morning punters and correctors.
It doesn’t look good for the cricket, drizzling rain in the Pearl.
Looks like this test is buggered going by what Nate told us about the weather.
Well having said that the sun is out now.
Peak Warming Man said:
roughbarked said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Morning punters and correctors.
It doesn’t look good for the cricket, drizzling rain in the Pearl.
Looks like this test is buggered going by what Nate told us about the weather.
Well having said that the sun is out now.
It probably won’t stay that way.
Good morning everybody. I hope the day bring no rain to the ‘Gabba, and that it also finds you all fitter, healthier and more productive than you want to be.
It’s overcast and calm. It’s also 18.0° C and 99% RH. BoM forecasts a high chance of rain all day and a top of 29° C.
I’ve done the washing up, and made my coffee, which is cooling as I write.
Agenda: Sausage and fried tomato for breakfast, mini pizzas on square crumpets for lunch and chicken paprikash for dinner. And watch the cricket, of course.
I meet my new doctor this morning. Hope it works out well.
the mnemonic i before e except after c has been disproved by science.
For Woodie & Bubblecar.
For when you really need to have a tiny train around.
Tiny Train, Big Impact: Building a Coffee Table with a Twist!
breakfast is breakfast
be recursive obviousness
more detail if ya must
apple if want preciseness
I poem this line is last
Paging ruby….email on its way to you if I’ve still got the right addy.
JudgeMental said:
the mnemonic i before e except after c has been disproved by science.
:)
sarahs mum said:
LOL we need to learn to speak like that
sarahs mum said:
Ha. And the brewery was designed by a convict.
Our worm farm had a moment – it fell over, spilling its contents all over the place. Two of the legs have been buckling longitudinally and radially, and they finally convinced the worm farm to collapse. It took a while, but it’s now propped up on bricks for the interim. Some of the contents are now in compost bins, ready to mix in.
It was a difficult job considering my lack of balance, but it is done now. Well, mostly done – Mrs V’s cleaning up and watering in the remaining mess. I had to pull out a fair bit of oregano to do the job, but there’s still plenty left.
Michael V said:
Our worm farm had a moment – it fell over, spilling its contents all over the place. Two of the legs have been buckling longitudinally and radially, and they finally convinced the worm farm to collapse. It took a while, but it’s now propped up on bricks for the interim. Some of the contents are now in compost bins, ready to mix in.It was a difficult job considering my lack of balance, but it is done now. Well, mostly done – Mrs V’s cleaning up and watering in the remaining mess. I had to pull out a fair bit of oregano to do the job, but there’s still plenty left.
Not too disastrous then, well done.
Bubblecar said:
Michael V said:
Our worm farm had a moment – it fell over, spilling its contents all over the place. Two of the legs have been buckling longitudinally and radially, and they finally convinced the worm farm to collapse. It took a while, but it’s now propped up on bricks for the interim. Some of the contents are now in compost bins, ready to mix in.It was a difficult job considering my lack of balance, but it is done now. Well, mostly done – Mrs V’s cleaning up and watering in the remaining mess. I had to pull out a fair bit of oregano to do the job, but there’s still plenty left.
Not too disastrous then, well done.
I’m knackered and feel quite ill now.
Michael V said:
Bubblecar said:
Michael V said:
Our worm farm had a moment – it fell over, spilling its contents all over the place. Two of the legs have been buckling longitudinally and radially, and they finally convinced the worm farm to collapse. It took a while, but it’s now propped up on bricks for the interim. Some of the contents are now in compost bins, ready to mix in.It was a difficult job considering my lack of balance, but it is done now. Well, mostly done – Mrs V’s cleaning up and watering in the remaining mess. I had to pull out a fair bit of oregano to do the job, but there’s still plenty left.
Not too disastrous then, well done.
I’m knackered and feel quite ill now.
Damn.
Michael V said:
Our worm farm had a moment – it fell over, spilling its contents all over the place. Two of the legs have been buckling longitudinally and radially, and they finally convinced the worm farm to collapse. It took a while, but it’s now propped up on bricks for the interim. Some of the contents are now in compost bins, ready to mix in.It was a difficult job considering my lack of balance, but it is done now. Well, mostly done – Mrs V’s cleaning up and watering in the remaining mess. I had to pull out a fair bit of oregano to do the job, but there’s still plenty left.
Oregano should have been harvested and dry by now. New oregano would ve growing again
How do your worms cope with the heat?
Michael V said:
Bubblecar said:
Michael V said:
Our worm farm had a moment – it fell over, spilling its contents all over the place. Two of the legs have been buckling longitudinally and radially, and they finally convinced the worm farm to collapse. It took a while, but it’s now propped up on bricks for the interim. Some of the contents are now in compost bins, ready to mix in.It was a difficult job considering my lack of balance, but it is done now. Well, mostly done – Mrs V’s cleaning up and watering in the remaining mess. I had to pull out a fair bit of oregano to do the job, but there’s still plenty left.
Not too disastrous then, well done.
I’m knackered and feel quite ill now.
Might be time for a lie down?
roughbarked said:
Michael V said:
Our worm farm had a moment – it fell over, spilling its contents all over the place. Two of the legs have been buckling longitudinally and radially, and they finally convinced the worm farm to collapse. It took a while, but it’s now propped up on bricks for the interim. Some of the contents are now in compost bins, ready to mix in.It was a difficult job considering my lack of balance, but it is done now. Well, mostly done – Mrs V’s cleaning up and watering in the remaining mess. I had to pull out a fair bit of oregano to do the job, but there’s still plenty left.
Oregano should have been harvested and dry by now. New oregano would ve growing again
How do your worms cope with the heat?
Oregano grows year-round; we harvest it fresh to use in meals.
Rainbow Beach doesn’t get hot. Hottest we’ve experienced is 34° C. Mostly through summer, the maximum temperatures vary between 25° C and 29° C. Today is forecast to get to 29°C, but I very much doubt it will get there. Currently it is 24.2° C. Mind you, it’s 84% RH, which is somewhat uncomfortable, even at this temperature. But humidity in the air is not going to worry worms.
Michael V said:
roughbarked said:
Michael V said:
Our worm farm had a moment – it fell over, spilling its contents all over the place. Two of the legs have been buckling longitudinally and radially, and they finally convinced the worm farm to collapse. It took a while, but it’s now propped up on bricks for the interim. Some of the contents are now in compost bins, ready to mix in.It was a difficult job considering my lack of balance, but it is done now. Well, mostly done – Mrs V’s cleaning up and watering in the remaining mess. I had to pull out a fair bit of oregano to do the job, but there’s still plenty left.
Oregano should have been harvested and dry by now. New oregano would ve growing again
How do your worms cope with the heat?
Oregano grows year-round; we harvest it fresh to use in meals.
Rainbow Beach doesn’t get hot. Hottest we’ve experienced is 34° C. Mostly through summer, the maximum temperatures vary between 25° C and 29° C. Today is forecast to get to 29°C, but I very much doubt it will get there. Currently it is 24.2° C. Mind you, it’s 84% RH, which is somewhat uncomfortable, even at this temperature. But humidity in the air is not going to worry worms.
Your worms should be happy. :)
I harvest oregano when the flowers are all white. Dried at that stage gives the strongest flavour and lasts for years in a sealed coffee jar.
I also use fresh oregano but it isn’t a patch on the dried stuff.
roughbarked said:
Michael V said:
roughbarked said:Oregano should have been harvested and dry by now. New oregano would ve growing again
How do your worms cope with the heat?
Oregano grows year-round; we harvest it fresh to use in meals.
Rainbow Beach doesn’t get hot. Hottest we’ve experienced is 34° C. Mostly through summer, the maximum temperatures vary between 25° C and 29° C. Today is forecast to get to 29°C, but I very much doubt it will get there. Currently it is 24.2° C. Mind you, it’s 84% RH, which is somewhat uncomfortable, even at this temperature. But humidity in the air is not going to worry worms.
Your worms should be happy. :)
I harvest oregano when the flowers are all white. Dried at that stage gives the strongest flavour and lasts for years in a sealed coffee jar.
I also use fresh oregano but it isn’t a patch on the dried stuff.
I know dried oregano has a much stronger flavour, but you get what you get. I’ve never seen flowers on our oregano. If I dried it, it’d have to be in winter, so I get a few sunny days in a row. (I would use a calico or cheesecloth bag pegged to the clothes line – although, somehow I’ve lost my homemade unbleached calico drying bag that I used for at least twenty years.)
do we have to jingle all the way?
Michael V said:
roughbarked said:
Michael V said:Oregano grows year-round; we harvest it fresh to use in meals.
Rainbow Beach doesn’t get hot. Hottest we’ve experienced is 34° C. Mostly through summer, the maximum temperatures vary between 25° C and 29° C. Today is forecast to get to 29°C, but I very much doubt it will get there. Currently it is 24.2° C. Mind you, it’s 84% RH, which is somewhat uncomfortable, even at this temperature. But humidity in the air is not going to worry worms.
Your worms should be happy. :)
I harvest oregano when the flowers are all white. Dried at that stage gives the strongest flavour and lasts for years in a sealed coffee jar.
I also use fresh oregano but it isn’t a patch on the dried stuff.
I know dried oregano has a much stronger flavour, but you get what you get. I’ve never seen flowers on our oregano. If I dried it, it’d have to be in winter, so I get a few sunny days in a row. (I would use a calico or cheesecloth bag pegged to the clothes line – although, somehow I’ve lost my homemade unbleached calico drying bag that I used for at least twenty years.)
I use a paper bag to dry sage and thyme.
JudgeMental said:
do we have to jingle all the way?
No, I have no bells.
But I can whistle.
Michael V said:
JudgeMental said:
do we have to jingle all the way?
No, I have no bells.
But I can whistle.
do you whistle while you work?
JudgeMental said:
Michael V said:
JudgeMental said:
do we have to jingle all the way?
No, I have no bells.
But I can whistle.
do you whistle while you work?
I’ve been known to.
Have never jingled though.
JudgeMental said:
Michael V said:
roughbarked said:Your worms should be happy. :)
I harvest oregano when the flowers are all white. Dried at that stage gives the strongest flavour and lasts for years in a sealed coffee jar.
I also use fresh oregano but it isn’t a patch on the dried stuff.
I know dried oregano has a much stronger flavour, but you get what you get. I’ve never seen flowers on our oregano. If I dried it, it’d have to be in winter, so I get a few sunny days in a row. (I would use a calico or cheesecloth bag pegged to the clothes line – although, somehow I’ve lost my homemade unbleached calico drying bag that I used for at least twenty years.)
I use a paper bag to dry sage and thyme.
I use fresh thyme. Sage doesn’t like it here.
Michael V said:
JudgeMental said:
Michael V said:I know dried oregano has a much stronger flavour, but you get what you get. I’ve never seen flowers on our oregano. If I dried it, it’d have to be in winter, so I get a few sunny days in a row. (I would use a calico or cheesecloth bag pegged to the clothes line – although, somehow I’ve lost my homemade unbleached calico drying bag that I used for at least twenty years.)
I use a paper bag to dry sage and thyme.
I use fresh thyme. Sage doesn’t like it here.
I could dry thyme but usually use it fresh. I could sell the stuff, I’ve got so much of it. My thyme bed is bigger than a lot of people’s back yard.
JudgeMental said:
Michael V said:
JudgeMental said:
do we have to jingle all the way?
No, I have no bells.
But I can whistle.
do you whistle while you work?
No. Music distracts me too much.
transition said:
Hehe
transition said:
All out of carrots?
A tsunami warning has been issued after a magnitude-7.4 earthquake struck Vanuatu.
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Hmm..Watch and Act notice on our covenant area. Fire South of it, about 10km away. But the fire is moving North East and the covenant is North West. Nothing we have to do, it’s a leave now notice and we aren’t there anyway.
buffy said:
Hmm..Watch and Act notice on our covenant area. Fire South of it, about 10km away. But the fire is moving North East and the covenant is North West. Nothing we have to do, it’s a leave now notice and we aren’t there anyway.
Good luck with that, but it’s sounds like you’ll be spared.
dv said:
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:I was thinking about The Savages the other night (although I couldn’t remember the title) and the weird one-eyed creatures I remembered from my childhood.
Made a strong impression at the time. One of the more memorable of the lost ones.
Actually it seems I’m thinking of The Ark, which is apparently not missing :)
Hartnell story which involved these critters, the Monoids.
I can see why you’d mistake one for the other, they are somewhat similar stories.
Some snippets of the missing episodes have been recovered from people who fpr some reason pointed a film camera at the TV and such is the case with Steven’s departure.
In other cases, small parts of film were clipped out by the ABC on the instruction from censors, usually because the scene was deemed too violent for you eyes, and those were found in the censors’ archives. And example is this 2 second segment from The Macra, the death of the Controller.
dv said:
dv said:
Bubblecar said:Actually it seems I’m thinking of The Ark, which is apparently not missing :)
Hartnell story which involved these critters, the Monoids.
I can see why you’d mistake one for the other, they are somewhat similar stories.
Some snippets of the missing episodes have been recovered from people who fpr some reason pointed a film camera at the TV and such is the case with Steven’s departure.
In other cases, small parts of film were clipped out by the ABC on the instruction from censors, usually because the scene was deemed too violent for you eyes, and those were found in the censors’ archives. And example is this 2 second segment from The Macra, the death of the Controller.
Well, it’s a “cut scene” truly enough.
Poor actor was giving it his all.
Bubblecar said:
dv said:
dv said:I can see why you’d mistake one for the other, they are somewhat similar stories.
Some snippets of the missing episodes have been recovered from people who fpr some reason pointed a film camera at the TV and such is the case with Steven’s departure.
In other cases, small parts of film were clipped out by the ABC on the instruction from censors, usually because the scene was deemed too violent for you eyes, and those were found in the censors’ archives. And example is this 2 second segment from The Macra, the death of the Controller.
Well, it’s a “cut scene” truly enough.
Poor actor was giving it his all.
Signifying nothing.
Peak Warming Man said:
Bubblecar said:
dv said:Some snippets of the missing episodes have been recovered from people who fpr some reason pointed a film camera at the TV and such is the case with Steven’s departure.
In other cases, small parts of film were clipped out by the ABC on the instruction from censors, usually because the scene was deemed too violent for you eyes, and those were found in the censors’ archives. And example is this 2 second segment from The Macra, the death of the Controller.
Well, it’s a “cut scene” truly enough.
Poor actor was giving it his all.
Signifying nothing.
If the death of a Controller by the claw of a Macra signifies nothing unto thee, then I pity thy blank soul.
I hope Budgie’s Xmas display is holding its own on this gusty day.
Reading headlines in the latest New Scientist and I see that the mathemagicians have come up with a new infinity that plays havoc with the old infinities.
That’s all I know so far.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Reading headlines in the latest New Scientist and I see that the mathemagicians have come up with a new infinity that plays havoc with the old infinities.That’s all I know so far.
Does it involve the square root of -1?
Oh dear, it must be near to Christmas. I felt an urge to clean the silver cutlery…my mother always got us to clean the cutlery before Christmas. It must have stuck.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Reading headlines in the latest New Scientist and I see that the mathemagicians have come up with a new infinity that plays havoc with the old infinities.That’s all I know so far.
Don’t you mean the near infinities?
buffy said:
Oh dear, it must be near to Christmas. I felt an urge to clean the silver cutlery…my mother always got us to clean the cutlery before Christmas. It must have stuck.
Old habits.
buffy said:
Oh dear, it must be near to Christmas. I felt an urge to clean the silver cutlery…my mother always got us to clean the cutlery before Christmas. It must have stuck.
I remember cleaning the cutlery. All the kids. Sarah just said ‘Na’ and walked away.
Thems is there moolies out and about around these parts for sure.
Casino 25 moolies, Lismore 39 moolies since 9am
Le Chateau de la Cosy Country Comfort Cottage?
Zero. zilch, nadda nuttin kaput kernuffin moolies.
ie. Not a drop.
I see, hear and read a remake of Nosferatu is due to hit the silvers screens next year.
Woodie said:
Thems is there moolies out and about around these parts for sure.Casino 25 moolies, Lismore 39 moolies since 9am
Le Chateau de la Cosy Country Comfort Cottage?
Zero. zilch, nadda nuttin kaput kernuffin moolies.
ie. Not a drop.
Rain woke me several times lost night, it was so heavy. Just 6 mm. Fine by me.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Reading headlines in the latest New Scientist and I see that the mathemagicians have come up with a new infinity that plays havoc with the old infinities.That’s all I know so far.
Sounds interesting, keep us briefed.
Woodie said:
Thems is there moolies out and about around these parts for sure.Casino 25 moolies, Lismore 39 moolies since 9am
Le Chateau de la Cosy Country Comfort Cottage?
Zero. zilch, nadda nuttin kaput kernuffin moolies.
ie. Not a drop.
You’d have plenty of water if you hadn’t filled the dam with junk.
Michael V said:
Woodie said:
Thems is there moolies out and about around these parts for sure.Casino 25 moolies, Lismore 39 moolies since 9am
Le Chateau de la Cosy Country Comfort Cottage?
Zero. zilch, nadda nuttin kaput kernuffin moolies.
ie. Not a drop.
Rain woke me several times lost night, it was so heavy. Just 6 mm. Fine by me.
Lucky, could have been that viagra rain that keeps you up all night.
JudgeMental said:
Michael V said:
Woodie said:
Thems is there moolies out and about around these parts for sure.Casino 25 moolies, Lismore 39 moolies since 9am
Le Chateau de la Cosy Country Comfort Cottage?
Zero. zilch, nadda nuttin kaput kernuffin moolies.
ie. Not a drop.
Rain woke me several times lost night, it was so heavy. Just 6 mm. Fine by me.
Lucky, could have been that viagra rain that keeps you up all night.
I’m too old for that sort of nonsense.
Michael V said:
JudgeMental said:
Michael V said:Rain woke me several times lost night, it was so heavy. Just 6 mm. Fine by me.
Lucky, could have been that viagra rain that keeps you up all night.
I’m too old for that sort of nonsense.
+1
Leave it to the rich kids like Rupert.
sarahs mum said:
buffy said:
Oh dear, it must be near to Christmas. I felt an urge to clean the silver cutlery…my mother always got us to clean the cutlery before Christmas. It must have stuck.
I remember cleaning the cutlery. All the kids. Sarah just said ‘Na’ and walked away.
I actually find it quite a rewarding job. The forks and spoons look so beautiful when they are shiny. I’ve got quite a few mismatched antique silver bits of cutlery. I don’t care that they are mismatched. We’ve also got a proper cutlery set in a wooden canteen, which is rarely used. That doesn’t need cleaning, I must have done it in the last 18 months or so.
Well, now I have done some edging of couch, eaten lunch and cleaned the silverware, I think I’ll go and lie down for a read and nap.
buffy said:
sarahs mum said:
buffy said:
Oh dear, it must be near to Christmas. I felt an urge to clean the silver cutlery…my mother always got us to clean the cutlery before Christmas. It must have stuck.
I remember cleaning the cutlery. All the kids. Sarah just said ‘Na’ and walked away.
I actually find it quite a rewarding job. The forks and spoons look so beautiful when they are shiny. I’ve got quite a few mismatched antique silver bits of cutlery. I don’t care that they are mismatched. We’ve also got a proper cutlery set in a wooden canteen, which is rarely used. That doesn’t need cleaning, I must have done it in the last 18 months or so.
You are only rubbing your silver away.
Dunk ‘em in tarn off and rinse, air dry
buffy said:
Well, now I have done some edging of couch, eaten lunch and cleaned the silverware, I think I’ll go and lie down for a read and nap.
Occasionally I find a bit of couch in the lawn. It gets dug out straightway.
Your card arrived today Mr Car. Ta muchly. :)
I bought some cherries. They have no cherry flavour. Fail.
A magnitude 7.3 earthquake has struck off the coast of Vanuatu.
The quake was registered about 20 kilometres from the coast of Vanuatu’s capital Port Vila about 12.47pm (AEDT).
Oooh.
roughbarked said:
buffy said:
sarahs mum said:I remember cleaning the cutlery. All the kids. Sarah just said ‘Na’ and walked away.
I actually find it quite a rewarding job. The forks and spoons look so beautiful when they are shiny. I’ve got quite a few mismatched antique silver bits of cutlery. I don’t care that they are mismatched. We’ve also got a proper cutlery set in a wooden canteen, which is rarely used. That doesn’t need cleaning, I must have done it in the last 18 months or so.
You are only rubbing your silver away.
Dunk ‘em in tarn off and rinse, air dry
Does that work for EPNS?
roughbarked said:
buffy said:
Well, now I have done some edging of couch, eaten lunch and cleaned the silverware, I think I’ll go and lie down for a read and nap.
Occasionally I find a bit of couch in the lawn. It gets dug out straightway.
I’m happy to find couch here. Even happier to find broad-leafed carpet grass.
Michael V said:
roughbarked said:
buffy said:I actually find it quite a rewarding job. The forks and spoons look so beautiful when they are shiny. I’ve got quite a few mismatched antique silver bits of cutlery. I don’t care that they are mismatched. We’ve also got a proper cutlery set in a wooden canteen, which is rarely used. That doesn’t need cleaning, I must have done it in the last 18 months or so.
You are only rubbing your silver away.
Dunk ‘em in tarn off and rinse, air dry
Does that work for EPNS?
Yes. As long as the NS part hasn’t already been rubbed off. It is only like 20 microns.
Michael V said:
roughbarked said:
buffy said:
Well, now I have done some edging of couch, eaten lunch and cleaned the silverware, I think I’ll go and lie down for a read and nap.
Occasionally I find a bit of couch in the lawn. It gets dug out straightway.
I’m happy to find couch here. Even happier to find broad-leafed carpet grass.
You would.
You’d also find it a lot easier to pull out than I have to slave away digging sticky and calcreted calcerous clay.
Peak Warming Man said:
A magnitude 7.3 earthquake has struck off the coast of Vanuatu.
The quake was registered about 20 kilometres from the coast of Vanuatu’s capital Port Vila about 12.47pm (AEDT).Oooh.
They were predicting a tsunami, but the warning has been lifted, presumably because there was none. I’d like to see a focal-plane fault solution to find out whether it was a strike-slip fault or a dip-slip fault. Strike-slip faults don’t usually produces tsunamis, where as dip-slip and oblique-slip faults do.
Michael V said:
Peak Warming Man said:
A magnitude 7.3 earthquake has struck off the coast of Vanuatu.
The quake was registered about 20 kilometres from the coast of Vanuatu’s capital Port Vila about 12.47pm (AEDT).Oooh.
They were predicting a tsunami, but the warning has been lifted, presumably because there was none. I’d like to see a focal-plane fault solution to find out whether it was a strike-slip fault or a dip-slip fault. Strike-slip faults don’t usually produces tsunamis, where as dip-slip and oblique-slip faults do.
Apparently the biggest waves were only about a metre or three.
buffy said:
sarahs mum said:
buffy said:
Oh dear, it must be near to Christmas. I felt an urge to clean the silver cutlery…my mother always got us to clean the cutlery before Christmas. It must have stuck.
I remember cleaning the cutlery. All the kids. Sarah just said ‘Na’ and walked away.
I actually find it quite a rewarding job. The forks and spoons look so beautiful when they are shiny. I’ve got quite a few mismatched antique silver bits of cutlery. I don’t care that they are mismatched. We’ve also got a proper cutlery set in a wooden canteen, which is rarely used. That doesn’t need cleaning, I must have done it in the last 18 months or so.
I never understood the ‘good’ cutlery thing. Mum had ‘good’ cutlery We never used it – seems wasteful. But each to their own.
I also refuse to clean the silver ware.
Peak Warming Man said:
A magnitude 7.3 earthquake has struck off the coast of Vanuatu.
The quake was registered about 20 kilometres from the coast of Vanuatu’s capital Port Vila about 12.47pm (AEDT).Oooh.
I can see the headlines now.
“Small earthquake hits Vanuatu. Not many dead”.
sarahs mum said:
Your card arrived today Mr Car. Ta muchly. :)I bought some cherries. They have no cherry flavour. Fail.
Glad you liked the card :)
Sad about the cherries. Are these Tassie cherries?
Arts said:
buffy said:
sarahs mum said:I remember cleaning the cutlery. All the kids. Sarah just said ‘Na’ and walked away.
I actually find it quite a rewarding job. The forks and spoons look so beautiful when they are shiny. I’ve got quite a few mismatched antique silver bits of cutlery. I don’t care that they are mismatched. We’ve also got a proper cutlery set in a wooden canteen, which is rarely used. That doesn’t need cleaning, I must have done it in the last 18 months or so.
I never understood the ‘good’ cutlery thing. Mum had ‘good’ cutlery We never used it – seems wasteful. But each to their own.
I also refuse to clean the silver ware.
I have very little silver cutlery. My everyday cutlery is a 1960s stainless steel catering set by Stephenson Stockport.
I do have a collection of silver goblets but they’re packed away in the garage somewhere.
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
Your card arrived today Mr Car. Ta muchly. :)I bought some cherries. They have no cherry flavour. Fail.
Glad you liked the card :)
Sad about the cherries. Are these Tassie cherries?
dunno. I might go to the ye olde in oyster cove next week. they know their fruit and veg.
roughbarked said:
Michael V said:
roughbarked said:You are only rubbing your silver away.
Dunk ‘em in tarn off and rinse, air dry
Does that work for EPNS?
Yes. As long as the NS part hasn’t already been rubbed off. It is only like 20 microns.
Thanks for that. I’d never heard of that product before.
Michael V said:
roughbarked said:
Michael V said:Does that work for EPNS?
Yes. As long as the NS part hasn’t already been rubbed off. It is only like 20 microns.
Thanks for that. I’d never heard of that product before.
There’s another product called Goddard’s Silver Dip and there are others as well.
It’s a good idea never to leave silver anywhere near anything with Sulphur in it.
roughbarked said:
Michael V said:
roughbarked said:Yes. As long as the NS part hasn’t already been rubbed off. It is only like 20 microns.
Thanks for that. I’d never heard of that product before.
There’s another product called Goddard’s Silver Dip and there are others as well.
It’s a good idea never to leave silver anywhere near anything with Sulphur in it.
Interestingly, Tarn-Off has thiourea and sulphamic acid in it. Both compounds contain sulphur…
Michael V said:
roughbarked said:
Michael V said:Thanks for that. I’d never heard of that product before.
There’s another product called Goddard’s Silver Dip and there are others as well.
It’s a good idea never to leave silver anywhere near anything with Sulphur in it.
Interestingly, Tarn-Off has thiourea and sulphamic acid in it. Both compounds contain sulphur…
Yes.
But they are not as oxides.
roughbarked said:
Michael V said:
roughbarked said:There’s another product called Goddard’s Silver Dip and there are others as well.
It’s a good idea never to leave silver anywhere near anything with Sulphur in it.
Interestingly, Tarn-Off has thiourea and sulphamic acid in it. Both compounds contain sulphur…
Yes.
But they are not as oxides.
I don’t understand what you mean.
Michael V said:
roughbarked said:
Michael V said:Interestingly, Tarn-Off has thiourea and sulphamic acid in it. Both compounds contain sulphur…
Yes.
But they are not as oxides.
I don’t understand what you mean.
Tarnish occurs on silver when in the air.
NSW Police find second body near where woman’s remains were found wrapped in plastic bag at Botany.
>I’m sure that Arts is probably already looking at this with interest.
roughbarked said:
Michael V said:
roughbarked said:Yes.
But they are not as oxides.
I don’t understand what you mean.
Tarnish occurs on silver when in the air.
So what does the sulphur have to do with it?
roughbarked said:
Michael V said:
roughbarked said:Yes. As long as the NS part hasn’t already been rubbed off. It is only like 20 microns.
Thanks for that. I’d never heard of that product before.
There’s another product called Goddard’s Silver Dip and there are others as well.
It’s a good idea never to leave silver anywhere near anything with Sulphur in it.
Like using your best silver to eat eggs.
Michael V said:
roughbarked said:
Michael V said:I don’t understand what you mean.
Tarnish occurs on silver when in the air.
So what does the sulphur have to do with it?
Let’s say you get in the shower and use a dandruff type treating shampoo, say.. Selsun?
When you get out of the shower, your silver neckchain is black?
Woodie said:
roughbarked said:
Michael V said:Thanks for that. I’d never heard of that product before.
There’s another product called Goddard’s Silver Dip and there are others as well.
It’s a good idea never to leave silver anywhere near anything with Sulphur in it.
Like using your best silver to eat eggs.
There’s a man who has done that.
roughbarked said:
Michael V said:
roughbarked said:Tarnish occurs on silver when in the air.
So what does the sulphur have to do with it?
Let’s say you get in the shower and use a dandruff type treating shampoo, say.. Selsun?
When you get out of the shower, your silver neckchain is black?
NFI. I don’t have a silver neck chain, not any jewellery of any type.
Michael V said:
roughbarked said:
Michael V said:So what does the sulphur have to do with it?
Let’s say you get in the shower and use a dandruff type treating shampoo, say.. Selsun?
When you get out of the shower, your silver neckchain is black?
NFI. I don’t have a silver neck chain, nor any jewellery of any type.
nor.
As long as it works. I don’t have much silver-ware, but some did come down from mum, and all that needs tarnish removal. A teapot has gone a very dark bluish colour.
Michael V said:
As long as it works. I don’t have much silver-ware, but some did come down from mum, and all that needs tarnish removal. A teapot has gone a very dark bluish colour.
Yes. All that can be cleaned. Without rubbing the silver off.
roughbarked said:
buffy said:
sarahs mum said:I remember cleaning the cutlery. All the kids. Sarah just said ‘Na’ and walked away.
I actually find it quite a rewarding job. The forks and spoons look so beautiful when they are shiny. I’ve got quite a few mismatched antique silver bits of cutlery. I don’t care that they are mismatched. We’ve also got a proper cutlery set in a wooden canteen, which is rarely used. That doesn’t need cleaning, I must have done it in the last 18 months or so.
You are only rubbing your silver away.
Dunk ‘em in tarn off and rinse, air dry
Plastic container, aluminium foil in the bottom, washing soda, water. Silverware in, watch the bubbles, rinse and dry.
(OK, today I used Silvo, but often I do the other method)
Michael V said:
roughbarked said:
buffy said:I actually find it quite a rewarding job. The forks and spoons look so beautiful when they are shiny. I’ve got quite a few mismatched antique silver bits of cutlery. I don’t care that they are mismatched. We’ve also got a proper cutlery set in a wooden canteen, which is rarely used. That doesn’t need cleaning, I must have done it in the last 18 months or so.
You are only rubbing your silver away.
Dunk ‘em in tarn off and rinse, air dry
Does that work for EPNS?
Yes. See my other post for the chemistry.
buffy said:
roughbarked said:
buffy said:I actually find it quite a rewarding job. The forks and spoons look so beautiful when they are shiny. I’ve got quite a few mismatched antique silver bits of cutlery. I don’t care that they are mismatched. We’ve also got a proper cutlery set in a wooden canteen, which is rarely used. That doesn’t need cleaning, I must have done it in the last 18 months or so.
You are only rubbing your silver away.
Dunk ‘em in tarn off and rinse, air dry
Plastic container, aluminium foil in the bottom, washing soda, water. Silverware in, watch the bubbles, rinse and dry.
(OK, today I used Silvo, but often I do the other method)
Yes.
Silvo like brasso, requires rubbing, which removes silver.
buffy said:
roughbarked said:
buffy said:I actually find it quite a rewarding job. The forks and spoons look so beautiful when they are shiny. I’ve got quite a few mismatched antique silver bits of cutlery. I don’t care that they are mismatched. We’ve also got a proper cutlery set in a wooden canteen, which is rarely used. That doesn’t need cleaning, I must have done it in the last 18 months or so.
You are only rubbing your silver away.
Dunk ‘em in tarn off and rinse, air dry
Plastic container, aluminium foil in the bottom, washing soda, water. Silverware in, watch the bubbles, rinse and dry.
(OK, today I used Silvo, but often I do the other method)
I tried that on mum’s teapot. It did nothing, except sticking the alfoil to the teapot, which removed the silver plate in that area.
Bubblecar said:
dv said:
dv said:I can see why you’d mistake one for the other, they are somewhat similar stories.
Some snippets of the missing episodes have been recovered from people who fpr some reason pointed a film camera at the TV and such is the case with Steven’s departure.
In other cases, small parts of film were clipped out by the ABC on the instruction from censors, usually because the scene was deemed too violent for you eyes, and those were found in the censors’ archives. And example is this 2 second segment from The Macra, the death of the Controller.
Well, it’s a “cut scene” truly enough.
Poor actor was giving it his all.
On the bright side, and perversely, it’s only the fact that it was censored that now enables us to see it.
Michael V said:
buffy said:
roughbarked said:You are only rubbing your silver away.
Dunk ‘em in tarn off and rinse, air dry
Plastic container, aluminium foil in the bottom, washing soda, water. Silverware in, watch the bubbles, rinse and dry.
(OK, today I used Silvo, but often I do the other method)
I tried that on mum’s teapot. It did nothing, except sticking the alfoil to the teapot, which removed the silver plate in that area.
I haven’t done it with anything like a teapot, but I often do it for the silver teaspoons I use all the time. I’ve got a couple of fancy silver cake “plates” and I did them laboriously with Silvo, put them into freezer bags, vacuum pumped them (I’ve got a hand pump thingy for doing stuff to go in the freezer), closed them with a twist tie and put them away. On the basis that a shortage of oxygen would delay tarnishing. This discussion made me curious, so I’ve just now checked them. It’s years (more than 5, because I did them before I retired) and they still look nice and clean in there. So perhaps that is one answer if they are going to be stored anyway rather than displayed, and only brought out to use “as required”.
This kind of thing. Not mine, random photo from the interwebs.
buffy said:
Michael V said:
buffy said:Plastic container, aluminium foil in the bottom, washing soda, water. Silverware in, watch the bubbles, rinse and dry.
(OK, today I used Silvo, but often I do the other method)
I tried that on mum’s teapot. It did nothing, except sticking the alfoil to the teapot, which removed the silver plate in that area.
I haven’t done it with anything like a teapot, but I often do it for the silver teaspoons I use all the time. I’ve got a couple of fancy silver cake “plates” and I did them laboriously with Silvo, put them into freezer bags, vacuum pumped them (I’ve got a hand pump thingy for doing stuff to go in the freezer), closed them with a twist tie and put them away. On the basis that a shortage of oxygen would delay tarnishing. This discussion made me curious, so I’ve just now checked them. It’s years (more than 5, because I did them before I retired) and they still look nice and clean in there. So perhaps that is one answer if they are going to be stored anyway rather than displayed, and only brought out to use “as required”.
This kind of thing. Not mine, random photo from the interwebs.
i have similar.
sarahs mum said:
buffy said:
Michael V said:I tried that on mum’s teapot. It did nothing, except sticking the alfoil to the teapot, which removed the silver plate in that area.
I haven’t done it with anything like a teapot, but I often do it for the silver teaspoons I use all the time. I’ve got a couple of fancy silver cake “plates” and I did them laboriously with Silvo, put them into freezer bags, vacuum pumped them (I’ve got a hand pump thingy for doing stuff to go in the freezer), closed them with a twist tie and put them away. On the basis that a shortage of oxygen would delay tarnishing. This discussion made me curious, so I’ve just now checked them. It’s years (more than 5, because I did them before I retired) and they still look nice and clean in there. So perhaps that is one answer if they are going to be stored anyway rather than displayed, and only brought out to use “as required”.
This kind of thing. Not mine, random photo from the interwebs.
i have similar.
I can’t remember where I got mine from. I’ve had them since my teens or twenties, I think.
buffy said:
sarahs mum said:
buffy said:I haven’t done it with anything like a teapot, but I often do it for the silver teaspoons I use all the time. I’ve got a couple of fancy silver cake “plates” and I did them laboriously with Silvo, put them into freezer bags, vacuum pumped them (I’ve got a hand pump thingy for doing stuff to go in the freezer), closed them with a twist tie and put them away. On the basis that a shortage of oxygen would delay tarnishing. This discussion made me curious, so I’ve just now checked them. It’s years (more than 5, because I did them before I retired) and they still look nice and clean in there. So perhaps that is one answer if they are going to be stored anyway rather than displayed, and only brought out to use “as required”.
This kind of thing. Not mine, random photo from the interwebs.
i have similar.
I can’t remember where I got mine from. I’ve had them since my teens or twenties, I think.
mum and dad’s 25th wedding anniversary.
sarahs mum said:
buffy said:
sarahs mum said:i have similar.
I can’t remember where I got mine from. I’ve had them since my teens or twenties, I think.
mum and dad’s 25th wedding anniversary.
I worked in an op shop in my teens, I probably picked them up there.
I also have this plated silver tray, with old party glassware arranged on it, in the living room.
Snaps from some time ago, before Ave Luna took centre stage on the mantelpiece.
Bubblecar said:
I also have this plated silver tray, with old party glassware arranged on it, in the living room.Snaps from some time ago, before Ave Luna took centre stage on the mantelpiece.
As you can see, the blank wall to the left is screaming out for a large landscape-format painting, which is the next art project.
I’ve decided to postpone Behold, the Dimetrodon so it will be: Behold, the Flowers of the Night.
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
I also have this plated silver tray, with old party glassware arranged on it, in the living room.Snaps from some time ago, before Ave Luna took centre stage on the mantelpiece.
As you can see, the blank wall to the left is screaming out for a large landscape-format painting, which is the next art project.
I’ve decided to postpone Behold, the Dimetrodon so it will be: Behold, the Flowers of the Night.
PermeateFree said:
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
I also have this plated silver tray, with old party glassware arranged on it, in the living room.Snaps from some time ago, before Ave Luna took centre stage on the mantelpiece.
As you can see, the blank wall to the left is screaming out for a large landscape-format painting, which is the next art project.
I’ve decided to postpone Behold, the Dimetrodon so it will be: Behold, the Flowers of the Night.
No, my flowers are friends. I don’t do angsty paintings.
PermeateFree said:
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
I also have this plated silver tray, with old party glassware arranged on it, in the living room.Snaps from some time ago, before Ave Luna took centre stage on the mantelpiece.
As you can see, the blank wall to the left is screaming out for a large landscape-format painting, which is the next art project.
I’ve decided to postpone Behold, the Dimetrodon so it will be: Behold, the Flowers of the Night.
what about some broody rooftops in the night? (I’ve been thinking about landscape/abstract liminal space.)
sarahs mum said:
PermeateFree said:
Bubblecar said:As you can see, the blank wall to the left is screaming out for a large landscape-format painting, which is the next art project.
I’ve decided to postpone Behold, the Dimetrodon so it will be: Behold, the Flowers of the Night.
what about some broody rooftops in the night? (I’ve been thinking about landscape/abstract liminal space.)
As much as I love broody, I’ll leave the broody to artists who have time to brood on such things.
I’m thinking my work, to the extent that there is any more before I go, should focus on uplifting ideas and images.
I grow a stunning, beautiful, stark white night-flowering Epiphyllum here. If you want I could send photos.
Michael V said:
I grow a stunning, beautiful, starkly white, night-flowering Epiphyllum here. If you want I could send photos.
Stand by your man.
Duchess of York: ‘Andrew is a great man and I won’t let him down’
I makes a coffee, very strong coffee, strong enough to kill a horse, possibly a very small horse, a small sick horse, possibly a very small sick horse with a serious coffee allergy, but you get the gist
transition said:
I makes a coffee, very strong coffee, strong enough to kill a horse, possibly a very small horse, a small sick horse, possibly a very small sick horse with a serious coffee allergy, but you get the gist
Yep, the horse was very small and not well.
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
PermeateFree said:
what about some broody rooftops in the night? (I’ve been thinking about landscape/abstract liminal space.)
As much as I love broody, I’ll leave the broody to artists who have time to brood on such things.
I’m thinking my work, to the extent that there is any more before I go, should focus on uplifting ideas and images.
where are you going
transition said:
I makes a coffee, very strong coffee, strong enough to kill a horse, possibly a very small horse, a small sick horse, possibly a very small sick horse with a serious coffee allergy, but you get the gist
I’m sure a coffee could kill any horse, if it had a high enough velocity or temperature
transition said:
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:what about some broody rooftops in the night? (I’ve been thinking about landscape/abstract liminal space.)
As much as I love broody, I’ll leave the broody to artists who have time to brood on such things.
I’m thinking my work, to the extent that there is any more before I go, should focus on uplifting ideas and images.
where are you going
The way of all flesh.
Dull Men’s Club® ·
Benito Darkmemo · 13h ·
Chat gpt doesn’t know what an octagon is, we are still safe from skynet.
buffy said:
Well, now I have done some edging of couch, eaten lunch and cleaned the silverware, I think I’ll go and lie down for a read and nap.
Buffy’s edging again. I hope Mr Buffy’s okay…
sarahs mum said:
Dull Men’s Club® ·
Benito Darkmemo · 13h ·
Chat gpt doesn’t know what an octagon is, we are still safe from skynet.
LOL
But I do love the way the hexagon jumps 3D-2D-3D-2D.
We might have to restrain transition.
Witty Rejoinder said:
buffy said:
Well, now I have done some edging of couch, eaten lunch and cleaned the silverware, I think I’ll go and lie down for a read and nap.
Buffy’s edging again. I hope Mr Buffy’s okay…
With a sharp spade, too.
reads the home block meter, lady just calculated water bill, be ~$760 very near that, sees utility people out the farm reading meters while I was also today, so they’ll do this home block similar time
coffee and toast landed
we recently got a quote for some contractors to come and tear up the pavers and pour aggregated concrete around instead…
I shit you not… a little over $30,000.
Arts said:
we recently got a quote for some contractors to come and tear up the pavers and pour aggregated concrete around instead…I shit you not… a little over $30,000.
how many sq m are we talking
dv said:
Arts said:
we recently got a quote for some contractors to come and tear up the pavers and pour aggregated concrete around instead…I shit you not… a little over $30,000.
how many sq m are we talking
I have no idea… but it seems steep
Arts said:
we recently got a quote for some contractors to come and tear up the pavers and pour aggregated concrete around instead…I shit you not… a little over $30,000.
That’s a lot more than I’d expect to pay.
Arts said:
dv said:
Arts said:
we recently got a quote for some contractors to come and tear up the pavers and pour aggregated concrete around instead…I shit you not… a little over $30,000.
how many sq m are we talking
I have no idea… but it seems steep
Those pavers don’t seem so bad now do they?
Perhaps a purchase of a pressure washer from a certain large hardware store, and it’s expeditious use may allow some extra cash available for more important things.
party_pants said:
Arts said:
we recently got a quote for some contractors to come and tear up the pavers and pour aggregated concrete around instead…I shit you not… a little over $30,000.
That’s a lot more than I’d expect to pay.
we thought the same… so we are getting another quote or two.. but that’s a next year problem now
Kingy said:
Arts said:
dv said:how many sq m are we talking
I have no idea… but it seems steep
Those pavers don’t seem so bad now do they?
Perhaps a purchase of a pressure washer from a certain large hardware store, and it’s expeditious use may allow some extra cash available for more important things.
nah, I still hate them… and there’s no way I am going to waste my time pressure washing them… it’s more about the weeds anyway…
Arts said:
we recently got a quote for some contractors to come and tear up the pavers and pour aggregated concrete around instead…I shit you not… a little over $30,000.
did you tell em they’re dreaming?
Arts said:
Kingy said:
Arts said:I have no idea… but it seems steep
Those pavers don’t seem so bad now do they?
Perhaps a purchase of a pressure washer from a certain large hardware store, and it’s expeditious use may allow some extra cash available for more important things.
nah, I still hate them… and there’s no way I am going to waste my time pressure washing them… it’s more about the weeds anyway…
I got a quote on some hotmix about 10 years ago, it was $30/m2
Did the same a few months ago. $110/m2
Ouch. Did not go ahead.
We have an old burnpile fire that is still cooking off at Eagle Bay, the owner was going to push it out yesterday but hasn’t. I went for a look after work today and it’s heating up again. I’ve rang him but it rang out and I’ve left a msg. When he does push it out, it’ll fire up the flames so we’ll have to provide a heavy tanker to hose it down.
It’s on EmergencyWA, last updated when I rang them about it at 1820 hrs.
party_pants said:
Arts said:
we recently got a quote for some contractors to come and tear up the pavers and pour aggregated concrete around instead…I shit you not… a little over $30,000.
That’s a lot more than I’d expect to pay.
I just had a carport built over the paving out the front of the garage. An area 10 metres by 7 metres.
The paving has aged and sunk a bit in spots and around the edges over the last 30 years or so.
I asked the carport mob about lifting and relaying all the pavers. To neaten it all up nicely. They spluttered a bit and said it’d be far far cheaper to rip them up and concrete instead.
Then they muttered something about $15K for concrete. 10 metres by 7 metres.
Suffice to say, the pavers remain as they are.
Kingy said:
We have an old burnpile fire that is still cooking off at Eagle Bay, the owner was going to push it out yesterday but hasn’t. I went for a look after work today and it’s heating up again. I’ve rang him but it rang out and I’ve left a msg. When he does push it out, it’ll fire up the flames so we’ll have to provide a heavy tanker to hose it down.It’s on EmergencyWA, last updated when I rang them about it at 1820 hrs.
There was a big fire to the south of me today. Lots of smoke haze when I got home, then the wind dropped and changed direction, so the smoke has cleared now. One of the chaps at work was a bit worried if he’d be allowed home, being only 1 km or so away from his house.
Arts said:
Roundup is your friend.
Woodie said:
Arts said:
…………………………….. it’s more about the weeds anyway…Roundup is your friend.
party_pants said:
Kingy said:
We have an old burnpile fire that is still cooking off at Eagle Bay, the owner was going to push it out yesterday but hasn’t. I went for a look after work today and it’s heating up again. I’ve rang him but it rang out and I’ve left a msg. When he does push it out, it’ll fire up the flames so we’ll have to provide a heavy tanker to hose it down.It’s on EmergencyWA, last updated when I rang them about it at 1820 hrs.
There was a big fire to the south of me today. Lots of smoke haze when I got home, then the wind dropped and changed direction, so the smoke has cleared now. One of the chaps at work was a bit worried if he’d be allowed home, being only 1 km or so away from his house.
Yeah, it went to Emergency Warning pretty quick, but there isn’t a large amount of bush there and plenty of resources available, so it was wet down rapidly.
Gandalf reacts to Galadriels stupid gifts
Good morning Holidayers. Presently 7 degrees at the back door and getting light. We are forecast 24 degrees, with cloud clearing. Then there are a couple of days of 30 on the list.
I’ll do some more gardening this morning, perhaps do the kitchen bench cleaning this afternoon. Archery in the late afternoon.
Arts said:
Kingy said:
Arts said:I have no idea… but it seems steep
Those pavers don’t seem so bad now do they?
Perhaps a purchase of a pressure washer from a certain large hardware store, and it’s expeditious use may allow some extra cash available for more important things.
nah, I still hate them… and there’s no way I am going to waste my time pressure washing them… it’s more about the weeds anyway…
Steam clean it then. Surely that’s cheaper?
beautiful day today thank fuck
15 degrees out. I’ll pack up a 200 year old clock and deliver it to Colleambally where a couple of 96 year olds have been awaiting its return.
SCIENCE said:
beautiful day today thank fuck
Still going to be 33 or more here.
Good morning everybody. I hope you are all well and get to enjoy the day immensely.
It’s 20.3° C, 99% RH, mostly cloud and calm, here at Rainbow Beach. BoM forecasts a top of 29° C and 80% chance of rain all day, with the chance increasing throughout the day.
Agenda: Cook dinner (chicken paprikash) this morning before I am too tired to do it, as was the case last night. We ended up reheating a frozen box of chips and crumbed calamari each for dinner. No planned breakfast or lunch yet.
Test to watch, but it will end up as a draw, I expect. Last day today. Losing a day and a half of five days to rain is not good.
Michael V said:
Good morning everybody. I hope you are all well and get to enjoy the day immensely.It’s 20.3° C, 99% RH, mostly cloud and calm, here at Rainbow Beach. BoM forecasts a top of 29° C and 80% chance of rain all day, with the chance increasing throughout the day.
Agenda: Cook dinner (chicken paprikash) this morning before I am too tired to do it, as was the case last night. We ended up reheating a frozen box of chips and crumbed calamari each for dinner. No planned breakfast or lunch yet.
Test to watch, but it will end up as a draw, I expect. Last day today. Losing a day and a half of five days to rain is not good.
Morning Michael et al, it looks rainified in the pearl, they may shake hands and say let’s go and have a drink.
Peak Warming Man said:
Michael V said:
Good morning everybody. I hope you are all well and get to enjoy the day immensely.It’s 20.3° C, 99% RH, mostly cloud and calm, here at Rainbow Beach. BoM forecasts a top of 29° C and 80% chance of rain all day, with the chance increasing throughout the day.
Agenda: Cook dinner (chicken paprikash) this morning before I am too tired to do it, as was the case last night. We ended up reheating a frozen box of chips and crumbed calamari each for dinner. No planned breakfast or lunch yet.
Test to watch, but it will end up as a draw, I expect. Last day today. Losing a day and a half of five days to rain is not good.
Morning Michael et al, it looks rainified in the pearl, they may shake hands and say let’s go and have a drink.
Maybe. The radar doesn’t look too bad, though.
The world faces a significant environmental challenge: two-thirds
of its beaches are retreating due to the global demand for sand.
Sand is an essential resource used in a variety of industries, from
construction to pharmaceuticals. Unfortunately, much of this demand i
s met by mining sand from beaches, which has led to the depletion
of natural sand reserves. In New Zealand, a startling 60,000 tons
of glass are discarded in landfills each year, exacerbating waste issues.
To combat both sand shortages and glass waste, DB Breweries in
New Zealand has introduced an innovative solution through its
“Beer Bottle Sand” campaign. The brewery has partnered with Colenso
BBDO to create machines that can transform empty beer bottles into a
viable substitute for naturally occurring sand. These machines, known
as DB Export Beer Bottle Sand machines, crush a beer bottle into
200 grams of usable sand in just five seconds. The process involves
pulverizing the bottle, removing its label, and extracting silica dust, l
eaving behind clean, usable sand. This sand is then supplied to various
industries, including construction and roading projects, to reduce the
reliance on sand sourced from beaches.
This initiative not only provides a new use for discarded beer bottles
but also helps preserve New Zealand’s beaches, which are integral
to the country’s identity. DB Export is also working with major construction
companies to make this sand an alternative for traditional sand in
construction projects, from concrete production to golf bunkers.
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/archaeologist-axel-von-berg-accused-fake-discoveries-2581741
JudgeMental said:
The world faces a significant environmental challenge: two-thirds
of its beaches are retreating due to the global demand for sand.
Sand is an essential resource used in a variety of industries, from
construction to pharmaceuticals. Unfortunately, much of this demand i
s met by mining sand from beaches, which has led to the depletion
of natural sand reserves. In New Zealand, a startling 60,000 tons
of glass are discarded in landfills each year, exacerbating waste issues.To combat both sand shortages and glass waste, DB Breweries in
New Zealand has introduced an innovative solution through its
“Beer Bottle Sand” campaign. The brewery has partnered with Colenso
BBDO to create machines that can transform empty beer bottles into a
viable substitute for naturally occurring sand. These machines, known
as DB Export Beer Bottle Sand machines, crush a beer bottle into
200 grams of usable sand in just five seconds. The process involves
pulverizing the bottle, removing its label, and extracting silica dust, l
eaving behind clean, usable sand. This sand is then supplied to various
industries, including construction and roading projects, to reduce the
reliance on sand sourced from beaches.This initiative not only provides a new use for discarded beer bottles
but also helps preserve New Zealand’s beaches, which are integral
to the country’s identity. DB Export is also working with major construction
companies to make this sand an alternative for traditional sand in
construction projects, from concrete production to golf bunkers.
Nice. Sharp sand. Like, really sharp.
Better mask up if using the stuff. Don’t want silicosis. Even better – wash and size and keep wet.
Accidentally kicked over a bag full of wee-wee in my dream and it was everywhere, quite traumatic. But I won’t go into it.
Bubblecar said:
Accidentally kicked over a bag full of wee-wee in my dream and it was everywhere, quite traumatic. But I won’t go into it.
Damn
Going to order Dawkins’s latest, which is attracting much praise.
Bubblecar said:
Going to order Dawkins’s latest, which is attracting much praise.
Sounds great
Received an SMS:
>Your Eckersleys parcel is coming today. Not home? Reply Y and we’ll leave it in a safe place.
So I replied Y and then ten minutes later, received another SMS:
>Your Eckersleys parcel is coming today. Not home? We’ll take it to a Post Office.
shakes fist at Oz Post moronics
Why is this dog obsessed with my forbidden office of mystery?
dv said:
Why is this dog obsessed with my forbidden office of mystery?
Got some snacks in there?
Bubblecar said:
dv said:
Why is this dog obsessed with my forbidden office of mystery?
Got some snacks in there?
I don’t. He probably just wants to see what I’m up to.
Bubblecar said:
Received an SMS:>Your Eckersleys parcel is coming today. Not home? Reply Y and we’ll leave it in a safe place.
So I replied Y and then ten minutes later, received another SMS:
>Your Eckersleys parcel is coming today. Not home? We’ll take it to a Post Office.
shakes fist at Oz Post moronics
The post office is a safe place.
Peak Warming Man said:
Bubblecar said:
Received an SMS:>Your Eckersleys parcel is coming today. Not home? Reply Y and we’ll leave it in a safe place.
So I replied Y and then ten minutes later, received another SMS:
>Your Eckersleys parcel is coming today. Not home? We’ll take it to a Post Office.
shakes fist at Oz Post moronics
The post office is a safe place.
Yeah our postal workers don’t go postal
OK, that’s dinner mostly cooked. This evening: add more veges, warm up, add yoghurt, whilst cooking pasta to go with it.
Whew.
dv said:
Why is this dog obsessed with my forbidden office of mystery?
is that a euphuism?
dv said:
Bubblecar said:
dv said:
Why is this dog obsessed with my forbidden office of mystery?
Got some snacks in there?
I don’t. He probably just wants to see what I’m up to.
it’s not a dog it’s a spy, probably Russian.
Eckersleys parcel has now been delivered.
Hello
Bubblecar said:
Eckersleys parcel has now been delivered.
it’s a spy, probably Russian
Bubblecar said:
Eckersleys parcel has now been delivered.
DV’s dog wants to look inside it.
41 deg C predicted for the weekend but supposedly will abate by Christmas
Hot dogs and zero sugar lolly water for lunch.
Over.
Peak Warming Man said:
Hot dogs and zero sugar lolly water for lunch.
Over.
I haven’t even had breakfast yet. I might soak some rolled oats in milk in the fridge, then serve with brown sugar. Haven’t done that for ages.
Peak Warming Man said:
Hot dogs and zero sugar lolly water for lunch.
Over.
I had a four-egg breakfast so will be skipping lunch.
Bubblecar said:
Going to order Dawkins’s latest, which is attracting much praise.
and just think, you could be turning to the good Lord, but no you’re part of spreading the atheism, the work of the devil, you’re evil maybe
Bubblecar said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Hot dogs and zero sugar lolly water for lunch.
Over.
I had a four-egg breakfast so will be skipping lunch.
Eggs have not been available at Woolies at Cooloola Cove for months now. We got three dozen in Gympie the other day. They are a rationed commodity.
Michael V said:
Bubblecar said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Hot dogs and zero sugar lolly water for lunch.
Over.
I had a four-egg breakfast so will be skipping lunch.
Eggs have not been available at Woolies at Cooloola Cove for months now. We got three dozen in Gympie the other day. They are a rationed commodity.
Maybe you should invest in a layer
Michael V said:
Bubblecar said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Hot dogs and zero sugar lolly water for lunch.
Over.
I had a four-egg breakfast so will be skipping lunch.
Eggs have not been available at Woolies at Cooloola Cove for months now. We got three dozen in Gympie the other day. They are a rationed commodity.
Available our Coles and IGA but Coles still have their 2 dozen limit.
Bubblecar said:
Michael V said:
Bubblecar said:I had a four-egg breakfast so will be skipping lunch.
Eggs have not been available at Woolies at Cooloola Cove for months now. We got three dozen in Gympie the other day. They are a rationed commodity.
Available our Coles and IGA but Coles still have their 2 dozen limit.
What has Albanese done to the egg supply now.
I remember under the coalition we had eggs coming out of our arse.
dv said:
Michael V said:
Bubblecar said:I had a four-egg breakfast so will be skipping lunch.
Eggs have not been available at Woolies at Cooloola Cove for months now. We got three dozen in Gympie the other day. They are a rationed commodity.
Maybe you should invest in a layer
Gympie Regional Council, being extremely prescriptive, doesn’t legally allow me to keep chooks. My block of land is under 1,000 m^2.
Michael V said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Hot dogs and zero sugar lolly water for lunch.
Over.
I haven’t even had breakfast yet. I might soak some rolled oats in milk in the fridge, then serve with brown sugar. Haven’t done that for ages.
I loved raw oats made like that when I was a kid!
Michael V said:
Bubblecar said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Hot dogs and zero sugar lolly water for lunch.
Over.
I had a four-egg breakfast so will be skipping lunch.
Eggs have not been available at Woolies at Cooloola Cove for months now. We got three dozen in Gympie the other day. They are a rationed commodity.
And it’ll be like that, until egg producers in Victoria and NSW can re-stock with sufficient numbers of birds after the H7N3 bird flu slaughter.
Peak Warming Man said:
Bubblecar said:
Michael V said:Eggs have not been available at Woolies at Cooloola Cove for months now. We got three dozen in Gympie the other day. They are a rationed commodity.
Available our Coles and IGA but Coles still have their 2 dozen limit.
What has Albanese done to the egg supply now.
I remember under the coalition we had eggs coming out of our arse.
That must have startled your doctor.
kii said:
Michael V said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Hot dogs and zero sugar lolly water for lunch.
Over.
I haven’t even had breakfast yet. I might soak some rolled oats in milk in the fridge, then serve with brown sugar. Haven’t done that for ages.
I loved raw oats made like that when I was a kid!
:)
I’m loving it now.
:)
ABC News:
In the interests of balance, i’d like to also see what their least-bright film buffs have to say on the matter.
“Asteer Saleem, who was born in Iraq and arrived in Australia in 2019, scored top marks in Community and Family Studies, Legal Studies, Studies of Religion 1, Arabic Continuers and Arabic Extension, for which she got the best mark in the state.
Asteer Saleem was born in Iraq and arrived in Australia five years ago.
The war in Iraq caused her to miss her primary education and she did not have a chance to learn to read and write Arabic at an early age.
“I’m proud of myself after all that. It paid off, being resilient, trying hard,” she said.
“It feels good to have something this morning. After all that pain and sadness and after all we went through, maybe it was for this reason,” she said at the first in course presentation on Tuesday.”
—————-
Five years of schooling and serious hard work have made an uneducated kid, unlikely to get an education in Iraq, into the best-educated young woman in NSW.
Well done Asteer Saleem!
:)
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-18/nsw-2024-hsc-results-atar-early-university-offer/104729698
Michael V said:
kii said:
Michael V said:I haven’t even had breakfast yet. I might soak some rolled oats in milk in the fridge, then serve with brown sugar. Haven’t done that for ages.
I loved raw oats made like that when I was a kid!
:)
I’m loving it now.
:)
Raw oats with hot milk and brown sugar is also lovely.
ABC News:
“The wave buoy…provides critical data for fisher, commercial divers, shipping companies and surfers…’
Well, no, it doesn’t, which is rather the point of the story.
Peak Warming Man said:
Bubblecar said:
Michael V said:Eggs have not been available at Woolies at Cooloola Cove for months now. We got three dozen in Gympie the other day. They are a rationed commodity.
Available our Coles and IGA but Coles still have their 2 dozen limit.
What has Albanese done to the egg supply now.
I remember under the coalition we had eggs coming out of our arse.
My Woolies sometimes has left those really expensive organic eggs. You know, eggs with the shit still on them.
captain_spalding said:
Michael V said:
Bubblecar said:I had a four-egg breakfast so will be skipping lunch.
Eggs have not been available at Woolies at Cooloola Cove for months now. We got three dozen in Gympie the other day. They are a rationed commodity.
And it’ll be like that, until egg producers in Victoria and NSW can re-stock with sufficient numbers of birds after the H7N3 bird flu slaughter.
How long does it take to grow a chook?
Woodie said:
captain_spalding said:
Michael V said:Eggs have not been available at Woolies at Cooloola Cove for months now. We got three dozen in Gympie the other day. They are a rationed commodity.
And it’ll be like that, until egg producers in Victoria and NSW can re-stock with sufficient numbers of birds after the H7N3 bird flu slaughter.
How long does it take to grow a chook?
Another question:
does a constrained supply of a product, and the ability to exercise control of major outlets for what supplies are available, work to the benefit of the owners of those outlets?
Woodie said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Bubblecar said:Available our Coles and IGA but Coles still have their 2 dozen limit.
What has Albanese done to the egg supply now.
I remember under the coalition we had eggs coming out of our arse.My Woolies sometimes has left those really expensive organic eggs. You know, eggs with the shit still on them.
Yep, I know them, but I don’t buy them.
Woodie said:
captain_spalding said:
Michael V said:Eggs have not been available at Woolies at Cooloola Cove for months now. We got three dozen in Gympie the other day. They are a rationed commodity.
And it’ll be like that, until egg producers in Victoria and NSW can re-stock with sufficient numbers of birds after the H7N3 bird flu slaughter.
How long does it take to grow a chook?
About 4 months IIRC.
captain_spalding said:
Woodie said:
captain_spalding said:And it’ll be like that, until egg producers in Victoria and NSW can re-stock with sufficient numbers of birds after the H7N3 bird flu slaughter.
How long does it take to grow a chook?
Another question:
does a constrained supply of a product, and the ability to exercise control of major outlets for what supplies are available, work to the benefit of the owners of those outlets?
Probably.
Michael V said:
captain_spalding said:
Woodie said:How long does it take to grow a chook?
Another question:
does a constrained supply of a product, and the ability to exercise control of major outlets for what supplies are available, work to the benefit of the owners of those outlets?
Probably.
If so, then that’s how it’ll be. For some time to come, at least.
Woodie said:
captain_spalding said:
Michael V said:Eggs have not been available at Woolies at Cooloola Cove for months now. We got three dozen in Gympie the other day. They are a rationed commodity.
And it’ll be like that, until egg producers in Victoria and NSW can re-stock with sufficient numbers of birds after the H7N3 bird flu slaughter.
How long does it take to grow a chook?
Internets say: hens start laying at 18-22 weeks.
i have had no problems procuring eggs.
Bubblecar said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Hot dogs and zero sugar lolly water for lunch.
Over.
I had a four-egg breakfast so will be skipping lunch.
I thought you said you were re-starting the no eating until lunchtime thing.
buffy said:
Bubblecar said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Hot dogs and zero sugar lolly water for lunch.
Over.
I had a four-egg breakfast so will be skipping lunch.
I thought you said you were re-starting the no eating until lunchtime thing.
because he’s a spy, possibly Russian, he is under orders
buffy said:
Bubblecar said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Hot dogs and zero sugar lolly water for lunch.
Over.
I had a four-egg breakfast so will be skipping lunch.
I thought you said you were re-starting the no eating until lunchtime thing.
maybe he drank four raw eggs.
Drinking is not eating.
ABC News:
Is this a problem for buffy?
buffy said:
Bubblecar said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Hot dogs and zero sugar lolly water for lunch.
Over.
I had a four-egg breakfast so will be skipping lunch.
I thought you said you were re-starting the no eating until lunchtime thing.
It gets interrupted now and then, but it’ll be easier to maintain after the festive season.
I suppose I’d better get some shoes on and put those bins out.
But first, a cup of tea.
Overcast, thunder, steady heavy-ish rain in Toowoomba, 22 deg, slight breeze.
Just had a Temu ad come up tell me a a Tactical LED flashlight that’s available for “zero Australian dollars”.
I feel as though they probably didn’t need to specify that the dollars were Australian. Zero dollars is easy to convert.
dv said:
Just had a Temu ad come up tell me a a Tactical LED flashlight that’s available for “zero Australian dollars”.I feel as though they probably didn’t need to specify that the dollars were Australian. Zero dollars is easy to convert.
What’s the catch?
Peak Warming Man said:
dv said:
Just had a Temu ad come up tell me a a Tactical LED flashlight that’s available for “zero Australian dollars”.I feel as though they probably didn’t need to specify that the dollars were Australian. Zero dollars is easy to convert.
What’s the catch?
a) $25 postage.
b) Flashlight doesn’t work.
Peak Warming Man said:
dv said:
Just had a Temu ad come up tell me a a Tactical LED flashlight that’s available for “zero Australian dollars”.I feel as though they probably didn’t need to specify that the dollars were Australian. Zero dollars is easy to convert.
What’s the catch?
That you need to order $40 worth of other stuff for them to ship anything ..
and they are spys, origin unknown
And so we say farewell to the King Charles. The Jack Russell will be collected tomoz. No doubt we’ll miss their antics.
dv said:
And so we say farewell to the King Charles. The Jack Russell will be collected tomoz. No doubt we’ll miss their antics.
Well may you say God save the king because nothing will save the Jack Russel.
dv said:
And so we say farewell to the King Charles. The Jack Russell will be collected tomoz. No doubt we’ll miss their antics.
On first reading I thought Chucklehead had fallen off his perch.
Peak Warming Man said:
dv said:
And so we say farewell to the King Charles. The Jack Russell will be collected tomoz. No doubt we’ll miss their antics.
Well may you say God save the king because nothing will save the Jack Russel.
What if they’re girl doggos?
Peak Warming Man said:
dv said:
And so we say farewell to the King Charles. The Jack Russell will be collected tomoz. No doubt we’ll miss their antics.
Well may you say God save the king because nothing will save the Jack Russel.
LOL
Watching La Palma. Evacuating Norwegians from the Canary Islands to avoid death by volcano is giving me Monty Python vibes.
I’m tired.
tip run done. thanks heidi.
christmas tree (1.5 metre pencil pine in large pot) brought in off veranda and installed on the little cupboard. I might choose to decorate it. before the grandchildren turn up on Christoff day.
dv said:
And so we say farewell to the King Charles. The Jack Russell will be collected tomoz. No doubt we’ll miss their antics.
shame you don’t live closer. I could get respite from the crazy spaniel.
kii said:
Peak Warming Man said:
dv said:
And so we say farewell to the King Charles. The Jack Russell will be collected tomoz. No doubt we’ll miss their antics.
Well may you say God save the king because nothing will save the Jack Russel.
What if they’re girl doggos?
What if they are?
sarahs mum said:
dv said:
And so we say farewell to the King Charles. The Jack Russell will be collected tomoz. No doubt we’ll miss their antics.
shame you don’t live closer. I could get respite from the crazy spaniel.
Fedex
dv said:
sarahs mum said:
dv said:
And so we say farewell to the King Charles. The Jack Russell will be collected tomoz. No doubt we’ll miss their antics.
shame you don’t live closer. I could get respite from the crazy spaniel.
Fedex
:)
dv said:
sarahs mum said:
dv said:
And so we say farewell to the King Charles. The Jack Russell will be collected tomoz. No doubt we’ll miss their antics.
shame you don’t live closer. I could get respite from the crazy spaniel.
Fedex
I dont think you’d fit into the box
dv said:
And so we say farewell to the King Charles. The Jack Russell will be collected tomoz. No doubt we’ll miss their antics.
in the early 70s Marvel Comics began a new title “Werewolf By Night” about a young fellow who suffers from lycanthropy.
His name was Jack Russell. At the time, knowing nothing of the breed, the joke sailed over my head.
Arts said:
dv said:
sarahs mum said:shame you don’t live closer. I could get respite from the crazy spaniel.
Fedex
I dont think you’d fit into the box
Sound like a Jack Dyer conundrum “Well, customers, which should DV choose…the mummy of the box?
Neophyte said:
Arts said:
dv said:Fedex
I dont think you’d fit into the box
Sound like a Jack Dyer conundrum “Well, customers, which should DV choose…the mummy of the box?
Ummm……..
cunk interviewing brian cox.
“can I call you brian or do you prefer cox?”
Neophyte said:
dv said:
And so we say farewell to the King Charles. The Jack Russell will be collected tomoz. No doubt we’ll miss their antics.
in the early 70s Marvel Comics began a new title “Werewolf By Night” about a young fellow who suffers from lycanthropy.
His name was Jack Russell. At the time, knowing nothing of the breed, the joke sailed over my head.
The werewolves in Harry Potter also have joke names. Sirius Black and Remus Lupin.
Heather Cox Richardson
20m ·
December 17, 2024 (Tuesday)
Yesterday, Trump gave his first press conference since the election. It was exactly what Trump’s public performances always are: attention-grabbing threats alongside lies and very little apparent understanding of actual issues. His mix of outrageous and threatening is central to his politics, though: it keeps him central to the media, even though, as Josh Marshall pointed out in Talking Points Memo on December 13, he often claims a right to do something he knows very little about and has no power to accomplish. The uncertainty he creates is key to his power, Marshall notes. It keeps everyone off balance and focused on him in anticipation of trouble to come.
At the same time, it seems increasingly clear that the wealthy leaders who backed Trump’s reelection are not terribly concerned about his threats: they seem to see him as a figurehead rather than a policy leader. They are counting on him to deliver more tax cuts and deregulation but apparently are dismissing his campaign vows to raise tariffs and deport immigrants as mere rhetoric.
As the promised tax cuts are already under discussion, interested parties are turning to deregulation. Susanne Rust and Ian James of the Los Angeles Times reported on Sunday that on December 5, more than a hundred industrial trade groups signed a 21-page letter to Trump complaining that “regulations are strangling our economy.” They urged him to gut Biden-era regulations and instead to “partner” with manufacturers to create “workable regulations that achieve important policy goals without imposing overly burdensome and impractical requirements on our sector.”
They single out reductions in air quality, water quality, chemical, vehicle, and power plant environmental regulations as important for their industries. They also call for ending the “regulatory overreach” of the Biden administration on labor rules, saying those rules “threaten the employer-employee relationship and harm manufacturers’ global competitiveness.” They want an end to “right-to-repair” laws, a loosening of the rules for how and when companies need to report cyber incidents, and the replacement of mandated consumer product safety rules with “voluntary standards.”
They also call for cuts to the Biden administration’s antitrust efforts and for looser corporate finance regulations. On December 12, Gina Heeb reported in the Wall Street Journal that Trump’s advisors are exploring ways “to dramatically shrink, consolidate or even eliminate the top bank watchdogs in Washington,” including the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC).
As Catherine Rampell explained in the Washington Post today, Congress created the FDIC in 1933 to protect bank deposits so that a bank’s customers can trust that mismanaged banks won’t lose their money. The FDIC also oversees those banks so that they are less likely to get into trouble in the first place. Congress created the system after people rushing to get their money out before a collapse actually created the very collapse that they feared, with one bank failure creating another in a domino effect that dug the economy even further into the crisis it was in after the Great Crash.
But the insurance money for those banks comes from fees assessed on the banks themselves, so abolishing the FDIC would save the banks money.
When he learned that Trump’s advisors are eyeing cuts to the FDIC, Princeton history professor Kevin Kruse commented: “When I lecture about New Deal banking reforms, I note that some of the key measures—like Glass Steagall—were repealed by the right with disastrous results like the 2008 financial meltdown, but ha ha, no one will ever be stupid enough to kill FDIC and bring back the old bank runs.”
Ben Guggenheim of Politico was the first to report that twenty-nine Republican members of Congress are also quick off the blocks in getting into the act of promoting private industry, calling for the incoming president to end the program of the Internal Revenue Service that lets people file their taxes directly without using a private tax preparer. Other developed countries use a similar public system, but in the U.S., private tax preparers staunchly opposed the public system. When more than 140,000 people used the IRS pilot program this year, they saved an estimated $6.5 million. Republicans called for its end, warning it is “a threat to taxpayers’ freedom from government overreach.”
But for all their faith that Trump will deregulate the economy, economic leaders seem to think his other promises were just rhetoric.
Brian Schwartz of the Wall Street Journal reported Sunday that business executives have been lobbying Trump to change his declared plans on tariffs. The president-elect has vowed to place tariffs of 25% on products from Canada and Mexico, and of an additional 10% on products from China. He claims to believe that other countries will pay these tariffs, but in fact U.S. consumers will pay them. That, plus the fact that other countries will almost certainly respond with their own tariffs against U.S. products, makes economists warn that Trump’s plans will hurt the economy with both inflation and trade wars.
Schwartz reported that some companies and some Republicans are hoping that Trump’s tariff threats are simply a bargaining tactic.
Trump supporters say something similar about his vow to deport 11 to 20 million undocumented immigrants, hoping he won’t actually go after long-term, hardworking undocumented people. On December 10, Jack Dolan reported in the Los Angeles Times that the resort town of Mammoth Lakes, California, depends on migrant labor, and on December 15, Eli Saslow and Erin Schaff of the New York Times reported the story of an undocumented worker brought to the U.S. as an infant, who is now trying to figure out his future after his beloved father-in-law voted for Trump. Two days ago, CNN reported on Trump-supporting dairy farmers in South Dakota who depend on undocumented workers, insisting that Trump will not round up undocumented immigrants, no matter what he says.
One person who is not discounting Trump’s threats is Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY). McConnell will give up his leadership position in January and has told his colleagues he feels “liberated.”
McConnell appears to be taking a stand against Trump’s expected appointee for secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Kennedy speaks often against vaccines, and after the New York Times reported that the lawyer working with Kennedy to vet potential HHS staff petitioned federal regulators to take the polio vaccine off the market, McConnell—a polio survivor—warned: “Efforts to undermine public confidence in proven cures are not just uninformed—they’re dangerous. Anyone seeking the Senate’s consent to serve in the incoming administration would do well to steer clear of even the appearance of association with such efforts.”
McConnell has also been vocal about his opposition to Trump’s isolationism. He is a champion of sending military support to Ukraine and, after he steps down from the leadership, will chair the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense, the subcommittee that controls military spending. “America’s national security interests face the gravest array of threats since the Second World War,” McConnell says. “At this critical moment, a new Senate Republican majority has a responsibility to secure the future of U.S. leadership and primacy.”
McConnell will also chair the Rules Committee, which gives him a chance to stop MAGA senators from trying to abandon the power of the Senate and permit Trump to get his way. McConnell has said that “efending the Senate as an institution and protecting the right to political speech in our elections remain among my longest-standing priorities.”
That last sentence identifies the current struggle in the Republican Party. McConnell is showing his willingness to prevent Trump and MAGA Republicans from bulldozing their way through the Senate in order to undermine the departments of Justice, Defense, and Health and Human Services, among others. But when he talks about “protecting the right to political speech in our elections,” he is talking about protecting the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United decision that permits corporations and wealthy individuals to flood our elections, and thus our political system, with money.
It is those corporations and wealthy individuals who are now lining up for tax cuts and deregulation, but who don’t want the tariffs or mass deportations or isolationism Trump’s “America First” MAGA base wants.
Trump and his team have been talking about their election win as a “mandate” and a “landslide,” but it was actually a razor thin victory with more voters choosing someone other than Trump than voting for him. He will need the support of establishment Republicans in the Senate to put his MAGA policies in place.
At yesterday’s press conference, he appeared to be nodding to McConnell when he promised: “You’re not going to lose the polio vaccine. That’s not going to happen.” McConnell’s fierce use of power in the past suggests that the Senate’s giving up its constitutional power to bend to Trump’s will isn’t likely to happen, either.
JudgeMental said:
cunk interviewing brian cox.“can I call you brian or do you prefer cox?”
I really like Philomena quite the interviewer
Arts said:
JudgeMental said:
cunk interviewing brian cox.“can I call you brian or do you prefer cox?”
I really like Philomena quite the interviewer
and such a straight face.
Get the paint from Bunnings in damaged tins and hire a gurney.
I could do it for three fiddy.
Speaking of the MAGAs, I read the posts under an insanely stupid trump meme. Yes, it’s a mistake to do that.
The majority of people were accusing Biden of stuff that trump did in his 1st term. No concept of time.
One nutter said that Biden shit his pants in front of QEII.
It’s just horrible bullshit.
sarahs mum said:
tip run done. thanks heidi.christmas tree (1.5 metre pencil pine in large pot) brought in off veranda and installed on the little cupboard. I might choose to decorate it. before the grandchildren turn up on Christoff day.
:)
Don’t think I’ll bother with mine this year, even though I’ll have guests on Cribmud Day.
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
tip run done. thanks heidi.christmas tree (1.5 metre pencil pine in large pot) brought in off veranda and installed on the little cupboard. I might choose to decorate it. before the grandchildren turn up on Christoff day.
:)
Don’t think I’ll bother with mine this year, even though I’ll have guests on Cribmud Day.
Santa won’t know where to put the presents so he might go without delivering them then you’ll be remorseful.
Peak Warming Man said:
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
tip run done. thanks heidi.christmas tree (1.5 metre pencil pine in large pot) brought in off veranda and installed on the little cupboard. I might choose to decorate it. before the grandchildren turn up on Christoff day.
:)
Don’t think I’ll bother with mine this year, even though I’ll have guests on Cribmud Day.
Santa won’t know where to put the presents so he might go without delivering them then you’ll be remorseful.
I’ll see. I might put it up on the sideboard in the hallway. It’s only a small fake tree.
Bubblecar said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Bubblecar said::)
Don’t think I’ll bother with mine this year, even though I’ll have guests on Cribmud Day.
Santa won’t know where to put the presents so he might go without delivering them then you’ll be remorseful.
I’ll see. I might put it up on the sideboard in the hallway. It’s only a small fake tree.
That’ll be fine.
Summertime and the living is easy and a fly flew up my nose and into my throat
I’m getting smarter every day, relatively
dv said:
I’m getting smarter every day, relatively
Even with USA’s weird date-numbering system, I cannot for the life of me see that date falling out of the firmament.
dv said:
Summertime and the living is easy and a fly flew up my nose and into my throat
P2 Would Have Prevented This
dv said:
Summertime and the living is easy and a fly flew up my nose and into my throat
I hate that, and feel for you.
Michael V said:
dv said:
Summertime and the living is easy and a fly flew up my nose and into my throat
I hate that, and feel for you.
+1
One of those long-bodied flies that release a horrible acidic gas once flew into my mouth and did its gas thing in there. I nearly passed out.
dv said:
Summertime and the living is easy ..
sublime
sarahs mum said:
Heather Cox Richardson
20m ·
December 17, 2024 (Tuesday)Yesterday, Trump gave his first press conference since the election. It was exactly what Trump’s public performances always are: attention-grabbing threats alongside lies and very little apparent understanding of actual issues. His mix of outrageous and threatening is central to his politics, though: it keeps him central to the media, even though, as Josh Marshall pointed out in Talking Points Memo on December 13, he often claims a right to do something he knows very little about and has no power to accomplish. The uncertainty he creates is key to his power, Marshall notes. It keeps everyone off balance and focused on him in anticipation of trouble to come.
At the same time, it seems increasingly clear that the wealthy leaders who backed Trump’s reelection are not terribly concerned about his threats: they seem to see him as a figurehead rather than a policy leader. They are counting on him to deliver more tax cuts and deregulation but apparently are dismissing his campaign vows to raise tariffs and deport immigrants as mere rhetoric.
As the promised tax cuts are already under discussion, interested parties are turning to deregulation. Susanne Rust and Ian James of the Los Angeles Times reported on Sunday that on December 5, more than a hundred industrial trade groups signed a 21-page letter to Trump complaining that “regulations are strangling our economy.” They urged him to gut Biden-era regulations and instead to “partner” with manufacturers to create “workable regulations that achieve important policy goals without imposing overly burdensome and impractical requirements on our sector.”
They single out reductions in air quality, water quality, chemical, vehicle, and power plant environmental regulations as important for their industries. They also call for ending the “regulatory overreach” of the Biden administration on labor rules, saying those rules “threaten the employer-employee relationship and harm manufacturers’ global competitiveness.” They want an end to “right-to-repair” laws, a loosening of the rules for how and when companies need to report cyber incidents, and the replacement of mandated consumer product safety rules with “voluntary standards.”
They also call for cuts to the Biden administration’s antitrust efforts and for looser corporate finance regulations. On December 12, Gina Heeb reported in the Wall Street Journal that Trump’s advisors are exploring ways “to dramatically shrink, consolidate or even eliminate the top bank watchdogs in Washington,” including the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC).
As Catherine Rampell explained in the Washington Post today, Congress created the FDIC in 1933 to protect bank deposits so that a bank’s customers can trust that mismanaged banks won’t lose their money. The FDIC also oversees those banks so that they are less likely to get into trouble in the first place. Congress created the system after people rushing to get their money out before a collapse actually created the very collapse that they feared, with one bank failure creating another in a domino effect that dug the economy even further into the crisis it was in after the Great Crash.
But the insurance money for those banks comes from fees assessed on the banks themselves, so abolishing the FDIC would save the banks money.
When he learned that Trump’s advisors are eyeing cuts to the FDIC, Princeton history professor Kevin Kruse commented: “When I lecture about New Deal banking reforms, I note that some of the key measures—like Glass Steagall—were repealed by the right with disastrous results like the 2008 financial meltdown, but ha ha, no one will ever be stupid enough to kill FDIC and bring back the old bank runs.”
Ben Guggenheim of Politico was the first to report that twenty-nine Republican members of Congress are also quick off the blocks in getting into the act of promoting private industry, calling for the incoming president to end the program of the Internal Revenue Service that lets people file their taxes directly without using a private tax preparer. Other developed countries use a similar public system, but in the U.S., private tax preparers staunchly opposed the public system. When more than 140,000 people used the IRS pilot program this year, they saved an estimated $6.5 million. Republicans called for its end, warning it is “a threat to taxpayers’ freedom from government overreach.”
But for all their faith that Trump will deregulate the economy, economic leaders seem to think his other promises were just rhetoric.
Brian Schwartz of the Wall Street Journal reported Sunday that business executives have been lobbying Trump to change his declared plans on tariffs. The president-elect has vowed to place tariffs of 25% on products from Canada and Mexico, and of an additional 10% on products from China. He claims to believe that other countries will pay these tariffs, but in fact U.S. consumers will pay them. That, plus the fact that other countries will almost certainly respond with their own tariffs against U.S. products, makes economists warn that Trump’s plans will hurt the economy with both inflation and trade wars.
Schwartz reported that some companies and some Republicans are hoping that Trump’s tariff threats are simply a bargaining tactic.Trump supporters say something similar about his vow to deport 11 to 20 million undocumented immigrants, hoping he won’t actually go after long-term, hardworking undocumented people. On December 10, Jack Dolan reported in the Los Angeles Times that the resort town of Mammoth Lakes, California, depends on migrant labor, and on December 15, Eli Saslow and Erin Schaff of the New York Times reported the story of an undocumented worker brought to the U.S. as an infant, who is now trying to figure out his future after his beloved father-in-law voted for Trump. Two days ago, CNN reported on Trump-supporting dairy farmers in South Dakota who depend on undocumented workers, insisting that Trump will not round up undocumented immigrants, no matter what he says.
One person who is not discounting Trump’s threats is Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY). McConnell will give up his leadership position in January and has told his colleagues he feels “liberated.”
McConnell appears to be taking a stand against Trump’s expected appointee for secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Kennedy speaks often against vaccines, and after the New York Times reported that the lawyer working with Kennedy to vet potential HHS staff petitioned federal regulators to take the polio vaccine off the market, McConnell—a polio survivor—warned: “Efforts to undermine public confidence in proven cures are not just uninformed—they’re dangerous. Anyone seeking the Senate’s consent to serve in the incoming administration would do well to steer clear of even the appearance of association with such efforts.”
McConnell has also been vocal about his opposition to Trump’s isolationism. He is a champion of sending military support to Ukraine and, after he steps down from the leadership, will chair the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense, the subcommittee that controls military spending. “America’s national security interests face the gravest array of threats since the Second World War,” McConnell says. “At this critical moment, a new Senate Republican majority has a responsibility to secure the future of U.S. leadership and primacy.”
McConnell will also chair the Rules Committee, which gives him a chance to stop MAGA senators from trying to abandon the power of the Senate and permit Trump to get his way. McConnell has said that “efending the Senate as an institution and protecting the right to political speech in our elections remain among my longest-standing priorities.”
That last sentence identifies the current struggle in the Republican Party. McConnell is showing his willingness to prevent Trump and MAGA Republicans from bulldozing their way through the Senate in order to undermine the departments of Justice, Defense, and Health and Human Services, among others. But when he talks about “protecting the right to political speech in our elections,” he is talking about protecting the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United decision that permits corporations and wealthy individuals to flood our elections, and thus our political system, with money.
It is those corporations and wealthy individuals who are now lining up for tax cuts and deregulation, but who don’t want the tariffs or mass deportations or isolationism Trump’s “America First” MAGA base wants.
Trump and his team have been talking about their election win as a “mandate” and a “landslide,” but it was actually a razor thin victory with more voters choosing someone other than Trump than voting for him. He will need the support of establishment Republicans in the Senate to put his MAGA policies in place.
At yesterday’s press conference, he appeared to be nodding to McConnell when he promised: “You’re not going to lose the polio vaccine. That’s not going to happen.” McConnell’s fierce use of power in the past suggests that the Senate’s giving up its constitutional power to bend to Trump’s will isn’t likely to happen, either.
We’ll see.
Sorry I was busy the entire day and didn’t post besides saying hello.
I’m going home.
Cymek said:
Sorry I was busy the entire day and didn’t post besides saying hello.I’m going home.
I was flat out all day in the forum.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2024/dec/16/here-are-first-dog-on-the-moons-tips-for-christmas-on-a-budget
sarahs mum said:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2024/dec/16/here-are-first-dog-on-the-moons-tips-for-christmas-on-a-budget
I had a laugh at that frame, but it’s not at the URL you posted.
captain_spalding said:
ABC News:
Is this a problem for buffy?
No, not this time because the wind is coming from the South and we are South of it. I just had a look at the map and it went across the Dunkeld to Halls Gap road, which is a main tourist road. If any of you know the area, it’s near Jimmy Creek, and into the Mirranatwa/Victoria Valley area. My bushwandering friend and I went through there about 6 weeks ago and it was awash with yellow bulbine lilies.
However, before we went to archery at 3.30ish, a fire went off about 5 km into the state forest adjoining our covenant at Digby. Again the wind was in our favour, and they stopped it very quickly, only 2 hectares and now controlled. We couldn’t do anything about that anyway, you don’t drive into a fire area, and we had cleared around the shed.
Bloody. We just had a big gust of wind that blew over several pot plants. One pot was a beautiful blue-glazed ceramic pot. It smashed on the concrete verandah floor.
:(
We’ll leave them on their side tonight and restore two of them tomorrow. I’ll consider the blue pot and whether it is worth repairing in the light of day tomorrow.
Michael V said:
Bloody. We just had a big gust of wind that blew over several pot plants. One pot was a beautiful blue-glazed ceramic pot. It smashed on the concrete verandah floor.:(
We’ll leave them on their side tonight and restore two of them tomorrow. I’ll consider the blue pot and whether it is worth repairing in the light of day tomorrow.
:(
Michael V said:
Bloody. We just had a big gust of wind that blew over several pot plants. One pot was a beautiful blue-glazed ceramic pot. It smashed on the concrete verandah floor.:(
We’ll leave them on their side tonight and restore two of them tomorrow. I’ll consider the blue pot and whether it is worth repairing in the light of day tomorrow.
That’s a shame, my sympathies.
Tired this end but I’ll be good and stay up until it gets dark, then go and snap Budgie’s display.
It’s got quite cool in the pearl, I’ve had to put a jumper on.
Peak Warming Man said:
Mr Seahorse would be right onto that bargain.
Kingy said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Mr Seahorse would be right onto that bargain.
I wonder if there are groups for one-legged people to share the shoe that is useless to them?
JudgeMental said:
Kingy said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Mr Seahorse would be right onto that bargain.
I wonder if there are groups for one-legged people to share the shoe that is useless to them?
Do you think they’re getting about with a peg-leg?
JudgeMental said:
Kingy said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Mr Seahorse would be right onto that bargain.
I wonder if there are groups for one-legged people to share the shoe that is useless to them?
I’m sure there are, I’ve seen similar on farcebook, including a car group that swaps body panels of different colours to match their cars. A couple of guys matched up so well that they just swapped doors and the bonnet and both of them had cars of the original colours.
If not, they’ll be hopping mad.
Witty Rejoinder said:
JudgeMental said:
Kingy said:Mr Seahorse would be right onto that bargain.
I wonder if there are groups for one-legged people to share the shoe that is useless to them?
Do you think they’re getting about with a peg-leg?
of course. science hasn’t progressed in the last few hundred years, you know.
Witty Rejoinder said:
JudgeMental said:
Kingy said:Mr Seahorse would be right onto that bargain.
I wonder if there are groups for one-legged people to share the shoe that is useless to them?
Do you think they’re getting about with a peg-leg?
of course. science hasn’t progressed in the last few hundred years, you know.
‘Holy grail for Western Australia’: New world-leading green steelmaking location announced
By Emma Young
Updated December 17, 2024 — 3.39pm
The West Australian government has announced Kwinana will be the location for Australia’s largest ironmaking electric smelting furnace, which in turning Pilbara iron ore into steel will finally make the state into “more than a quarry”.
The announcement follows Australia’s largest steelmaker BlueScope, and its two largest iron ore producers, BHP and Rio Tinto, announcing earlier this year they would form the NeoSmelt consortium to develop the pioneering plant, with electric smelting the key to producing green iron and steel.
Several locations were considered around Australia with Kwinana emerging as the frontrunner, the state’s Premier Roger Cook said at a press conference flanked by the WA Petroleum Minister David Michael, federal Resources Minister Madeleine King and representatives from each company, as well as Woodside Energy.
It was also announced on Friday that Woodside would join the consortium as an equal equity participant and energy supplier, subject to final arrangements, prompting a renewable energy-focused thinktank to warn that a genuine commitment to green steelmaking needed to rapidly move to coal and gas-free production.
Cook said NeoSmelt would take iron ore from the Pilbara and use renewable energy to produce molten iron, which would then be used to remove coal from the smelting process.
He said steel being manufactured in Western Australia would change the entire business model.
“No longer will we just be a quarry … we will become a producer of green iron as part of the global supply chain for green steel,” he said.
The state will invest $75 million towards the project, including the infrastructure at Kwinana.
Feasibility works are expected to complete next March with a final investment decision in 2026 targeting commissioning in 2028.
“Securing NeoSmelt for Kwinana puts WA at the cutting edge of the global green energy/green steel push,” Cook said.
“I can’t over-emphasise the importance of this announcement. Downstream processing has been the Holy Grail for the mining industry in Western Australia for decades.
“What we’ll be doing here is developing the technology needed to understand the processing plant arrangements, then we are in a position to deploy those at commercial scale, which means Western Australia will be a green iron and a green steel producer in the future. This means thousands of new jobs. This means extra prosperity.”
The pilot plant would produce 30,000 to 40,000 tonnes of molten iron a year. It will initially use natural gas to reduce iron ore to DRI, but once operational, the project aims to use lower-carbon emissions hydrogen to reduce iron ore.
The NeoSmelt parties said in a statement that Kwinana was chosen for its access to transport logistics and existing infrastructure, coupled with the state government’s willingness to contribute financially.
BlueScope chief executive Australia Tania Archibald said this was a significant milestone in a transformative project.
“The progress made during the pre-feasibility stage is a testament to the collaboration of all parties involved,” she said.
“BlueScope’s role as project manager leverages our deep iron and steelmaking experience at the Port Kembla Steelworks and our unique capability as the operator of the world’s only electric smelting furnace processing DRI in New Zealand.”
BHP Western Australia iron ore president Tim Day said a successful pilot plant of this scale would be a huge achievement in the bid to fast-track near-zero emission pathways for steelmakers using the Pilbara ores that powered Australia’s economy.
Beyond Zero Emissions chief executive Heidi Lee said Kwinana was one of the top existing green industrial sites in Australia and the perfect location for new technology to be piloted, but a genuine commitment to green steel-making needed to rapidly move to coal and gas-free production.
“To secure a long-term future for green steel in Kwinana we now need to see equivalent support for new renewables to power green industries, including ironmaking and associated supply chains,” she said.
“BZE research shows that a coordinated approach to new industries and renewable energy can save around half the costs of hydrogen pipelines, and almost 75 per cent savings of new transmission lines.”
WA is the world’s largest single exporter of iron ore into the global market.
The steel industry generates about 8 per cent of global carbon emissions.
https://www.theage.com.au/politics/western-australia/holy-grail-for-western-australia-new-world-leading-green-steelmaking-location-announced-20241217-p5kz08.html?
JudgeMental said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
JudgeMental said:I wonder if there are groups for one-legged people to share the shoe that is useless to them?
Do you think they’re getting about with a peg-leg?
of course. science hasn’t progressed in the last few hundred years, you know.
that’s two.
So, we had a large old burn pile smouldering away in Eagle Bay which reignited on Sunday evening. This arvo we took a couple of heavy tankers and a front end loader, and turned it over and drowned it with 7 tons of water and foam. Hopefully that is the end of that problem.
18 December 2024
Broadcaster Alan Jones speaks after facing court on sexual assault and touching charges
10h ago
In short:
Veteran broadcaster Alan Jones has been charged with an additional eight offences of indecent assault as he faced court for the first time.
In total, he has been charged with 34 counts of alleged indecent assault and sexual touching offences involving 10 complainants.
What’s next?
Mr Jones was excused from attending his next court appearance in March.
Alan Jones’s lawyer has told a Sydney court the veteran broadcaster will plead not guilty to a total of 34 charges relating to alleged indecent assault and sexual touching incidents spanning two decades.
Eight new assault with act of indecency charges relating to a tenth complainant were laid against Mr Jones in court on Wednesday.
The charges now include 11 counts of aggravated indecent assault, 19 counts of assault with act of indecency, two counts of sexually touching another person without consent and two counts of common assault
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-18/nsw-alan-jones-court-charged-indecent-assault-sexual-touching/104739492
JudgeMental said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
JudgeMental said:I wonder if there are groups for one-legged people to share the shoe that is useless to them?
Do you think they’re getting about with a peg-leg?
of course. science hasn’t progressed in the last few hundred years, you know.
fuck that
SCIENCE said:
JudgeMental said:
Witty Rejoinder said:Do you think they’re getting about with a peg-leg?
of course. science hasn’t progressed in the last few hundred years, you know.
fuck that
exactly what a one-legged person would say.
Australian writer John Marsden, author of the Tomorrow series, dies
>>Royal Mail sale to Czech billionaire is a good deal for UK, says Business Secretary
I remember enquiring if there was a bus from Thurso to Tongue at a tea house in Thurso and a little old lady told me she didn’t think so ‘not this time of year’ which became a catch phrase for me during that trip. Anyway she asked another ole lady who said not this time of year. Anyway, they said you could try the chap who does the royal mail trip.
So I talked to Hamish at the post office who was doing that trip tomorrow, next day I went with Hamish next day to Tongue and got a personalized tour and I said how much do I owe you and he said oh a gold coin is fine so I gave him 5 pound in gold coins, and he thanked me and said they dont get many Australians this time of year. I stayed the night in a pub at Tongue and was entertained by a band that had just come from a wedding and were well pissed and they were terrible, but the pub patrons joined in and told me this was all the entertainment they had this time of year. Next day I walked to Bettyhill where I again stayed in the local pub and they said I was lucky to get a room as they normally shut the hotel side of the business this time of year, next day I was walking out of Bettyhill when it started to rain and a local farmer stopped and asked if I wanted a lift to which I answered yes thanks and he replied that they didn’t get many walkers around these parts particularly this time of year.
BACK from admiring Budgie’s effort for 2024, which seems a bit more spartan than previous years.
Unfortunately his big Santa had sprung a leak, and he can be glimpsed fixing it in the video below.
Bubblecar said:
BACK from admiring Budgie’s effort for 2024, which seems a bit more spartan than previous years.Unfortunately his big Santa had sprung a leak, and he can be glimpsed fixing it in the video below.
He’s gone to a lot of trouble.
Peak Warming Man said:
>>Royal Mail sale to Czech billionaire is a good deal for UK, says Business SecretaryI remember enquiring if there was a bus from Thurso to Tongue at a tea house in Thurso and a little old lady told me she didn’t think so ‘not this time of year’ which became a catch phrase for me during that trip. Anyway she asked another ole lady who said not this time of year. Anyway, they said you could try the chap who does the royal mail trip.
So I talked to Hamish at the post office who was doing that trip tomorrow, next day I went with Hamish next day to Tongue and got a personalized tour and I said how much do I owe you and he said oh a gold coin is fine so I gave him 5 pound in gold coins, and he thanked me and said they dont get many Australians this time of year. I stayed the night in a pub at Tongue and was entertained by a band that had just come from a wedding and were well pissed and they were terrible, but the pub patrons joined in and told me this was all the entertainment they had this time of year. Next day I walked to Bettyhill where I again stayed in the local pub and they said I was lucky to get a room as they normally shut the hotel side of the business this time of year, next day I was walking out of Bettyhill when it started to rain and a local farmer stopped and asked if I wanted a lift to which I answered yes thanks and he replied that they didn’t get many walkers around these parts particularly this time of year.
There’s talk of selling the Royal Family to Musk.
Email from Coles. Once again they’ve substituted my two dozen eggs with zero eggs. No potatoes either.
I’ll have to get them from the IGA.
Bubblecar said:
Email from Coles. Once again they’ve substituted my two dozen eggs with zero eggs. No potatoes either.I’ll have to get them from the IGA.
Our Coles actually had some eggs, late this afternoon.
Coles own brand only, but cackleberries nonetheless.
captain_spalding said:
Bubblecar said:
Email from Coles. Once again they’ve substituted my two dozen eggs with zero eggs. No potatoes either.I’ll have to get them from the IGA.
Our Coles actually had some eggs, late this afternoon.
Coles own brand only, but cackleberries nonetheless.
Did you have to sell one of your wifes organs.
captain_spalding said:
Bubblecar said:
Email from Coles. Once again they’ve substituted my two dozen eggs with zero eggs. No potatoes either.I’ll have to get them from the IGA.
Our Coles actually had some eggs, late this afternoon.
Coles own brand only, but cackleberries nonetheless.
Actually I don’t mind much, as one of the eggs arrived broken last delivery.
And it’s better to choose my own potatoes. But it does mean more heavy stuff to carry home myself, along with the other items I’ll be getting.
I’ll be buying the oysters and prawns as usual this year for the family get together.
fkn theres gunna be twenty people this year.
Peak Warming Man said:
I’ll be buying the oysters and prawns as usual this year for the family get together.
fkn theres gunna be twenty people this year.
That’ll be a lot of prawns and oysters.
I’m only having three guests (my brother + the ex-Ross sister and her husband).
Peak Warming Man said:
I’ll be buying the oysters and prawns as usual this year for the family get together.
fkn theres gunna be twenty people this year.
don’t forget to wear your MAGA hat.
JudgeMental said:
Peak Warming Man said:
I’ll be buying the oysters and prawns as usual this year for the family get together.
fkn theres gunna be twenty people this year.
don’t forget to wear your MAGA hat.
How could I forget that.
Peak Warming Man said:
captain_spalding said:
Bubblecar said:
Email from Coles. Once again they’ve substituted my two dozen eggs with zero eggs. No potatoes either.I’ll have to get them from the IGA.
Our Coles actually had some eggs, late this afternoon.
Coles own brand only, but cackleberries nonetheless.
Did you have to sell one of your wifes organs.
Yeah, the Yamaha, but she doesn’t play that one much these days.
captain_spalding said:
Peak Warming Man said:
captain_spalding said:Our Coles actually had some eggs, late this afternoon.
Coles own brand only, but cackleberries nonetheless.
Did you have to sell one of your wifes organs.
Yeah, the Yamaha, but she doesn’t play that one much these days.
LOL
Time for Pastor Chuck.
Peak Warming Man said:
I’ll be buying the oysters and prawns as usual this year for the family get together.
fkn theres gunna be twenty people this year.
That’s twenty dozen oysters and 20 kg of prawns, hey what but!!
Better get a cuppla dozen extra oysters and a cuppla kilos extra of prawns as well. You know, just to be sure.
Seems you can’t get calamine cream in Australia, only the lotion, which is too liquid and messy.
Have to order some from NZ.
Bubblecar said:
Seems you can’t get calamine cream in Australia, only the lotion, which is too liquid and messy.Have to order some from NZ.
You could just buy the lotion and mix it with corn flour.
tauto said:
Bubblecar said:
Seems you can’t get calamine cream in Australia, only the lotion, which is too liquid and messy.Have to order some from NZ.
You could just buy the lotion and mix it with corn flour.
…or possibly moisturiser.
Bubblecar said:
tauto said:
Bubblecar said:
Seems you can’t get calamine cream in Australia, only the lotion, which is too liquid and messy.Have to order some from NZ.
You could just buy the lotion and mix it with corn flour.
…or possibly moisturiser.
I’ll try mixing some now with Epaderm cream and see what happens.
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
tauto said:You could just buy the lotion and mix it with corn flour.
…or possibly moisturiser.
I’ll try mixing some now with Epaderm cream and see what happens.
Combines very nicely. And it works (relief of dermatitis itchiness).
tauto said:
Bubblecar said:
Seems you can’t get calamine cream in Australia, only the lotion, which is too liquid and messy.Have to order some from NZ.
You could just buy the lotion and mix it with corn flour.
Waddda ya wanna do with the stuff? Drink it or sumfin??
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:…or possibly moisturiser.
I’ll try mixing some now with Epaderm cream and see what happens.
Combines very nicely. And it works (relief of dermatitis itchiness).
Ahhhh….. OIC.
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:…or possibly moisturiser.
I’ll try mixing some now with Epaderm cream and see what happens.
Combines very nicely. And it works (relief of dermatitis itchiness).
(makes note for future reference.)
Good morning Holidayers. Presently a lovely 9 degrees at the back door, light breeze, getting light. We are forecast a sunny 31 degrees today.
I’m going to have breakfast at the bakery with my bushwandering friend but we are not going bushwandering in view of the fires going on about the place. Then I will do a bit more weeding and maar-ing before it gets too hot and retire inside for reading and probably attack some dusting. I hate dusting. Mostly I don’t bother, but sometimes it’s necessary. Especially after a season of using the woodheater.
buffy said:
Good morning Holidayers. Presently a lovely 9 degrees at the back door, light breeze, getting light. We are forecast a sunny 31 degrees today.I’m going to have breakfast at the bakery with my bushwandering friend but we are not going bushwandering in view of the fires going on about the place. Then I will do a bit more weeding and maar-ing before it gets too hot and retire inside for reading and probably attack some dusting. I hate dusting. Mostly I don’t bother, but sometimes it’s necessary. Especially after a season of using the woodheater.
Good luck. My Xmas cleaning starts in earnest tomorrow.
26 expected here. Coles delivery will be between 8:30 and 9:30, then I’ll set off for some local shopping, including getting a good single malt scotch and fine wine for the ex-Ross bro-in-law, my “secret Santa” hat-pull this year.
Shaved, showered, hair-washed, blow-dried, brushed, sprayed and tied.
Now cooling off for a minute before donning village garb.
Coles truck is here.
dashes to pull on pants
Bubblecar said:
Coles truck is here.dashes to pull on pants
Oh, and the truck name was Gero again.
Scored a bunch of broccolini I didn’t order.
Might seem good fortune but it means more space taken in an overcrowded fridge.
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
Coles truck is here.dashes to pull on pants
Oh, and the truck name was Gero again.
Is it an old truck? Is ‘Gero’ short for ‘Gerontologic’?
Strange yous all say that, we went to the shops the other day and the shelves were full packed with eggs.
SCIENCE said:
Strange yous all say that, we went to the shops the other day and the shelves were full packed with eggs.
Same here. No visible shortages.
SCIENCE said:
Strange yous all say that, we went to the shops the other day and the shelves were full packed with eggs.
Tamb said:
SCIENCE said:
Strange yous all say that, we went to the shops the other day and the shelves were full packed with eggs.
Strange. It’s nowhere near Easter.
Not them eggs… but there are still hot cross buns on the shelf.
captain_spalding said:
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
Coles truck is here.dashes to pull on pants
Oh, and the truck name was Gero again.
Is it an old truck? Is ‘Gero’ short for ‘Gerontologic’?
What sort of a busted arse name is that.
Peak Warming Man said:
captain_spalding said:
Bubblecar said:Oh, and the truck name was Gero again.
Is it an old truck? Is ‘Gero’ short for ‘Gerontologic’?
What sort of a busted arse name is that.
That’d be a gerocolonostic?
roughbarked said:
Tamb said:
SCIENCE said:
Strange yous all say that, we went to the shops the other day and the shelves were full packed with eggs.
Strange. It’s nowhere near Easter.Not them eggs… but there are still hot cross buns on the shelf.
He’s not even born yet, let alone died…….sheesh
Peak Warming Man said:
captain_spalding said:
Bubblecar said:Oh, and the truck name was Gero again.
Is it an old truck? Is ‘Gero’ short for ‘Gerontologic’?
What sort of a busted arse name is that.
Gero I (c. 900 – 20 May 965), sometimes called the Great (Latin: magnus), was a German nobleman who ruled an initially modest march centred on Merseburg in the south of the present German state of Saxony-Anhalt, which he expanded into a vast territory named after him: the marca Geronis. During the mid-10th century, he was the leader of the Saxon Ostsiedlung
https://www.sciencealert.com/theres-a-simple-method-to-reduce-alcohol-intake-scientists-say-and-it-works
JudgeMental said:
Peak Warming Man said:
captain_spalding said:Is it an old truck? Is ‘Gero’ short for ‘Gerontologic’?
What sort of a busted arse name is that.
Gero I (c. 900 – 20 May 965), sometimes called the Great (Latin: magnus), was a German nobleman who ruled an initially modest march centred on Merseburg in the south of the present German state of Saxony-Anhalt, which he expanded into a vast territory named after him: the marca Geronis. During the mid-10th century, he was the leader of the Saxon Ostsiedlung
A likely story.
The state government has addressed the unfolding mass starvation crisis facing black cockatoos with a one-off funding injection for frontline vets and volunteers.
WAtoday recently reported Perth Zoo and suburban rehab centres were flooded with emaciated birds after Perth’s hottest-ever summer and delayed winter rainfall decimated food sources and stopped them breeding.
Oooh
Peak Warming Man said:
The state government has addressed the unfolding mass starvation crisis facing black cockatoos with a one-off funding injection for frontline vets and volunteers.
WAtoday recently reported Perth Zoo and suburban rehab centres were flooded with emaciated birds after Perth’s hottest-ever summer and delayed winter rainfall decimated food sources and stopped them breeding.Oooh
Decimated eh?
Not that bad then.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Peak Warming Man said:
The state government has addressed the unfolding mass starvation crisis facing black cockatoos with a one-off funding injection for frontline vets and volunteers.
WAtoday recently reported Perth Zoo and suburban rehab centres were flooded with emaciated birds after Perth’s hottest-ever summer and delayed winter rainfall decimated food sources and stopped them breeding.Oooh
Decimated eh?
Not that bad then.
Deoends on whether you are a black cockatoo or not.
Good morning everybody. I hope you are all well and the day proceeds swimmingly for you.
It’s 22.2° C, 60% RH, almost overcast, md we have very gusty light to strong breezes. BoM forecasts a top of 27° C and very little chance of rain.
Agenda: Mrs V’s low kJ day, so ech to their own for b reakfast ans lunch. Mrs V will be making tuna salad for dinner.
We have stood up the two fallen pots from last night. Mrs V has transplanted the night-flowering epiphyllum into a large plastic pot. The blue ceramic pot broke into two halves and may be repairable. I’ll consider that after it has been cleaned and scrubbed. At this stage, there appears to be just the two nearly equal pieces, as no shards were found.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Peak Warming Man said:
The state government has addressed the unfolding mass starvation crisis facing black cockatoos with a one-off funding injection for frontline vets and volunteers.
WAtoday recently reported Perth Zoo and suburban rehab centres were flooded with emaciated birds after Perth’s hottest-ever summer and delayed winter rainfall decimated food sources and stopped them breeding.Oooh
Decimated eh?
Not that bad then.
Yeah I don’t reckon that would stop me breeding but maybe I’m made of sterner stuff
Michael V said:
Good morning everybody. I hope you are all well and the day proceeds swimmingly for you.It’s 22.2° C, 60% RH, almost overcast, md we have very gusty light to strong breezes. BoM forecasts a top of 27° C and very little chance of rain.
Agenda: Mrs V’s low kJ day, so ech to their own for b reakfast ans lunch. Mrs V will be making tuna salad for dinner.
We have stood up the two fallen pots from last night. Mrs V has transplanted the night-flowering epiphyllum into a large plastic pot. The blue ceramic pot broke into two halves and may be repairable. I’ll consider that after it has been cleaned and scrubbed. At this stage, there appears to be just the two nearly equal pieces, as no shards were found.
My best neighboours for the past 25 years have gone today, to Bendigo, :( I’ll miss them. They left me in the care of five wheelbarrow loads of Bromeliads and including a couple of huge Epiphyllum in cracked ceramic pots. Virtually all the plants were so overgrown the all fell over whatever I did with them after I’d yanked all their roots out of the ground. In other words it was too muuch to carry to Bendigo so they dumped it on me.
BACK. Got the potatoes, but not the eggs. Carrying too much.
I’ll be making the potato salad on Xmas Eve so I’ll go and get the eggs then.
Also couldn’t get Metformin at the chemist ‘cos the prescription was a few days out of date.
I’ll call the GP today and see if they can fax a new one to the chemist.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Peak Warming Man said:
The state government has addressed the unfolding mass starvation crisis facing black cockatoos with a one-off funding injection for frontline vets and volunteers.
WAtoday recently reported Perth Zoo and suburban rehab centres were flooded with emaciated birds after Perth’s hottest-ever summer and delayed winter rainfall decimated food sources and stopped them breeding.Oooh
Decimated eh?
Not that bad then.
Some words change meaning with time and usage.
Peak Warming Man said:
The state government has addressed the unfolding mass starvation crisis facing black cockatoos with a one-off funding injection for frontline vets and volunteers.
WAtoday recently reported Perth Zoo and suburban rehab centres were flooded with emaciated birds after Perth’s hottest-ever summer and delayed winter rainfall decimated food sources and stopped them breeding.Oooh
which Black Cockatoo? Probably the Redtail.
dv said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Peak Warming Man said:
The state government has addressed the unfolding mass starvation crisis facing black cockatoos with a one-off funding injection for frontline vets and volunteers.
WAtoday recently reported Perth Zoo and suburban rehab centres were flooded with emaciated birds after Perth’s hottest-ever summer and delayed winter rainfall decimated food sources and stopped them breeding.Oooh
Decimated eh?
Not that bad then.
Yeah I don’t reckon that would stop me breeding but maybe I’m made of sterner stuff
Tamb said:
dv said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Decimated eh?
Not that bad then.
Yeah I don’t reckon that would stop me breeding but maybe I’m made of sterner stuff
Maybe decimated means mated with10.
septated means 86%
wait
Bubblecar said:
BACK. Got the potatoes, but not the eggs. Carrying too much.I’ll be making the potato salad on Xmas Eve so I’ll go and get the eggs then.
Also couldn’t get Metformin at the chemist ‘cos the prescription was a few days out of date.
I’ll call the GP today and see if they can fax a new one to the chemist.
Phone consult, 12:30 today.
SCIENCE said:
Tamb said:
dv said:
Yeah I don’t reckon that would stop me breeding but maybe I’m made of sterner stuff
Maybe decimated means mated with10.septated means 86%
wait
undecimated means × 100 ÷ 99
Losing a dawg and gaining a daug, Child 1 returns from Melbum to spend Christmas with us.
dv said:
Losing a dawg and gaining a daug, Child 1 returns from Melbum to spend Christmas with us.
That’ll be pleasant.
Bubblecar said:
dv said:
Losing a dawg and gaining a daug, Child 1 returns from Melbum to spend Christmas with us.
That’ll be pleasant.
…although she’ll probably now be a lot more sophisticated, so you’ll have to smarten up your conversational skills.
Right then…had breakfast at the bakery, mowed for a bit over an hour. Sweated a lot. First load of washing is on the line, second is underway. There will also be a “dog wash” (dog bedding and rags) today. And I need to take the mat from in front of the kitchen sink outside and hose it down on the line. After the washing comes in. I’m still procrastinating on the kitchen bench cleaning. And I also need to make some lemon cordial today or tomorrow. The lemons are picked and softening. There are other things on the “to do” list, but…
buffy said:
Right then…had breakfast at the bakery, mowed for a bit over an hour. Sweated a lot. First load of washing is on the line, second is underway. There will also be a “dog wash” (dog bedding and rags) today. And I need to take the mat from in front of the kitchen sink outside and hose it down on the line. After the washing comes in. I’m still procrastinating on the kitchen bench cleaning. And I also need to make some lemon cordial today or tomorrow. The lemons are picked and softening. There are other things on the “to do” list, but…
And then have a good lie down.
dv said:
Losing a dawg and gaining a daug, Child 1 returns from Melbum to spend Christmas with us.
Nice.
:)
We don’t have any children to spend Christmas or indeed any other time with us any more.
Which is sad.
He said the practice was not always about “land grabbing” but weed control.Shire chief executive Shane Burge said he did not believe all road reserve cropping was deliberate.
“I think a lot of it is around weed control and management of that area,” Mr Burge said.
Ha!
It has been a legal loophole for a long time in all of Australia. Weed control my arse.
Michael V said:
dv said:
Losing a dawg and gaining a daug, Child 1 returns from Melbum to spend Christmas with us.
Nice.
:)
We don’t have any children to spend Christmas or indeed any other time with us any more.
Which is sad.
I’ll be spending mine with half my children and grandchildren.
buffy said:
Right then…had breakfast at the bakery, mowed for a bit over an hour. Sweated a lot. First load of washing is on the line, second is underway. There will also be a “dog wash” (dog bedding and rags) today. And I need to take the mat from in front of the kitchen sink outside and hose it down on the line. After the washing comes in. I’m still procrastinating on the kitchen bench cleaning. And I also need to make some lemon cordial today or tomorrow. The lemons are picked and softening. There are other things on the “to do” list, but…
Busy day indeed.
My shopping’s packed away, the bins are in, so that’s me about done. Rest of the day is mostly booked for arse-sitting in front of the fan.
But the Xmas housework begins in earnest tomorrow.
Michael V said:
dv said:
Losing a dawg and gaining a daug, Child 1 returns from Melbum to spend Christmas with us.
Nice.
:)
We don’t have any children to spend Christmas or indeed any other time with us any more.
Which is sad.
It certainly is, my sympathies.
Michael V said:
dv said:
Losing a dawg and gaining a daug, Child 1 returns from Melbum to spend Christmas with us.
Nice.
:)
We don’t have any children to spend Christmas or indeed any other time with us any more.
Which is sad.
chrissie morning at the hall with some locals. rest of the day on my pat.
Bubblecar said:
buffy said:
Right then…had breakfast at the bakery, mowed for a bit over an hour. Sweated a lot. First load of washing is on the line, second is underway. There will also be a “dog wash” (dog bedding and rags) today. And I need to take the mat from in front of the kitchen sink outside and hose it down on the line. After the washing comes in. I’m still procrastinating on the kitchen bench cleaning. And I also need to make some lemon cordial today or tomorrow. The lemons are picked and softening. There are other things on the “to do” list, but…
Busy day indeed.
My shopping’s packed away, the bins are in, so that’s me about done. Rest of the day is mostly booked for arse-sitting in front of the fan.
But the Xmas housework begins in earnest tomorrow.
…although I may tempt myself to set up the little Xmas tree on the hallway sideboard this afternoon.
With any luck most of the decorations are still on it. After last Xmas I just put the whole thing into a green garbage bag and hid it behind the wardrobe.
Hello
Cymek said:
Hello
Lo.
Chauvin’s legal team is trying to get access to George Floyd’s heart tissue and histology slides to see if it’s possible that Floyd died from a heart condition and not as a result of Chauvin’s actions when he held his knee on George’s neck for more than nine minutes.
the request has been denied
Look, Chauvin has every right to use his appeal process, that is the system, but this kind of pisses me off… heart condition or no.. standing on someone’s neck for that amount of time is not going to end well…
Tamb said:
Michael V said:
dv said:
Losing a dawg and gaining a daug, Child 1 returns from Melbum to spend Christmas with us.
Nice.
:)
We don’t have any children to spend Christmas or indeed any other time with us any more.
Which is sad.
My child #3 is coming for Chrissy.
As she is the only one still alive she gets to inherit everything.
Nice she’s visiting.
:)
Tamb said:
Michael V said:
dv said:
Losing a dawg and gaining a daug, Child 1 returns from Melbum to spend Christmas with us.
Nice.
:)
We don’t have any children to spend Christmas or indeed any other time with us any more.
Which is sad.
My child #3 is coming for Chrissy.
As she is the only one still alive she gets to inherit everything.
I am trying to avoid Christmas with the non nuclear family this year… I just dont think I have it in me
Arts said:
Chauvin’s legal team is trying to get access to George Floyd’s heart tissue and histology slides to see if it’s possible that Floyd died from a heart condition and not as a result of Chauvin’s actions when he held his knee on George’s neck for more than nine minutes.
the request has been deniedLook, Chauvin has every right to use his appeal process, that is the system, but this kind of pisses me off… heart condition or no.. standing on someone’s neck for that amount of time is not going to end well…
And his request was denied. The system has worked. In this instance, at least.
Michael V said:
Arts said:
Chauvin’s legal team is trying to get access to George Floyd’s heart tissue and histology slides to see if it’s possible that Floyd died from a heart condition and not as a result of Chauvin’s actions when he held his knee on George’s neck for more than nine minutes.
the request has been deniedLook, Chauvin has every right to use his appeal process, that is the system, but this kind of pisses me off… heart condition or no.. standing on someone’s neck for that amount of time is not going to end well…
And his request was denied. The system has worked. In this instance, at least.
for now…
Michael V said:
Tamb said:
Michael V said:Nice.
:)
We don’t have any children to spend Christmas or indeed any other time with us any more.
Which is sad.
My child #3 is coming for Chrissy.
As she is the only one still alive she gets to inherit everything.Nice she’s visiting.
:)
Arts said:
Tamb said:
Michael V said:Nice.
:)
We don’t have any children to spend Christmas or indeed any other time with us any more.
Which is sad.
My child #3 is coming for Chrissy.
As she is the only one still alive she gets to inherit everything.I am trying to avoid Christmas with the non nuclear family this year… I just dont think I have it in me
do or not do, there is no try.
old jungle saying.
Peak Warming Man said:
buffy said:
Right then…had breakfast at the bakery, mowed for a bit over an hour. Sweated a lot. First load of washing is on the line, second is underway. There will also be a “dog wash” (dog bedding and rags) today. And I need to take the mat from in front of the kitchen sink outside and hose it down on the line. After the washing comes in. I’m still procrastinating on the kitchen bench cleaning. And I also need to make some lemon cordial today or tomorrow. The lemons are picked and softening. There are other things on the “to do” list, but…
And then have a good lie down.
That is on the list.
Tamb said:
Michael V said:
Tamb said:My child #3 is coming for Chrissy.
As she is the only one still alive she gets to inherit everything.Nice she’s visiting.
:)
I hope it’s visiting and not stocktaking.
Ha!
I have mum’s stuff here, and it’s not that easy to go through, as it contains her mothers stuff, dad’s stuff and his parents stuff.
Arts said:
Chauvin’s legal team is trying to get access to George Floyd’s heart tissue and histology slides to see if it’s possible that Floyd died from a heart condition and not as a result of Chauvin’s actions when he held his knee on George’s neck for more than nine minutes.
the request has been deniedLook, Chauvin has every right to use his appeal process, that is the system, but this kind of pisses me off… heart condition or no.. standing on someone’s neck for that amount of time is not going to end well…
There is truth in those words.
Michael V said:
Arts said:
Chauvin’s legal team is trying to get access to George Floyd’s heart tissue and histology slides to see if it’s possible that Floyd died from a heart condition and not as a result of Chauvin’s actions when he held his knee on George’s neck for more than nine minutes.
the request has been deniedLook, Chauvin has every right to use his appeal process, that is the system, but this kind of pisses me off… heart condition or no.. standing on someone’s neck for that amount of time is not going to end well…
And his request was denied. The system has worked. In this instance, at least.
Michael V said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Peak Warming Man said:
The state government has addressed the unfolding mass starvation crisis facing black cockatoos with a one-off funding injection for frontline vets and volunteers.
WAtoday recently reported Perth Zoo and suburban rehab centres were flooded with emaciated birds after Perth’s hottest-ever summer and delayed winter rainfall decimated food sources and stopped them breeding.Oooh
Decimated eh?
Not that bad then.
Some words change meaning with time and usage.
Having done my own research on this, I discover that the true and proper meaning of this word has been decimated, and it is now recognised as meaning the removal of most of something, even by proper English dictionaries.
Seems I was being historically pedantic a day early.
Tamb said:
Michael V said:
Tamb said:My child #3 is coming for Chrissy.
As she is the only one still alive she gets to inherit everything.Nice she’s visiting.
:)
I hope it’s visiting and not stocktaking.
Nah. You are all she has got as well.
roughbarked said:
Arts said:
Chauvin’s legal team is trying to get access to George Floyd’s heart tissue and histology slides to see if it’s possible that Floyd died from a heart condition and not as a result of Chauvin’s actions when he held his knee on George’s neck for more than nine minutes.
the request has been deniedLook, Chauvin has every right to use his appeal process, that is the system, but this kind of pisses me off… heart condition or no.. standing on someone’s neck for that amount of time is not going to end well…
There is truth in those words.
Ah, I see the useless comments persist.
roughbarked said:
Tamb said:
Michael V said:Nice she’s visiting.
:)
I hope it’s visiting and not stocktaking.Nah. You are all she has got as well.
kii said:
roughbarked said:
Arts said:
Chauvin’s legal team is trying to get access to George Floyd’s heart tissue and histology slides to see if it’s possible that Floyd died from a heart condition and not as a result of Chauvin’s actions when he held his knee on George’s neck for more than nine minutes.
the request has been deniedLook, Chauvin has every right to use his appeal process, that is the system, but this kind of pisses me off… heart condition or no.. standing on someone’s neck for that amount of time is not going to end well…
There is truth in those words.
Ah, I see the useless comments persist.
As do yours.
Tamb said:
roughbarked said:
Tamb said:I hope it’s visiting and not stocktaking.
Nah. You are all she has got as well.
I’m in the middle of yet another round of chemo. It makes me a bit pessimistic.
:(
kii said:
roughbarked said:
Arts said:
Chauvin’s legal team is trying to get access to George Floyd’s heart tissue and histology slides to see if it’s possible that Floyd died from a heart condition and not as a result of Chauvin’s actions when he held his knee on George’s neck for more than nine minutes.
the request has been deniedLook, Chauvin has every right to use his appeal process, that is the system, but this kind of pisses me off… heart condition or no.. standing on someone’s neck for that amount of time is not going to end well…
There is truth in those words.
Ah, I see the useless comments persist.
and here is one.
Drinking a herbal health shot, the chayene pepper has a hit to it.
well, I have had a good year. I guess not caring too much about anything, or anybody, is good for ones mental health.
roughbarked said:
kii said:
roughbarked said:There is truth in those words.
Ah, I see the useless comments persist.
As do yours.
Equilibrium is maintained.
JudgeMental said:
kii said:
roughbarked said:There is truth in those words.
Ah, I see the useless comments persist.
and here is one.
The underlying conditions is a bit of copout.
OK his heart was weak, it wouldn’t have been stressed at all if someone hadn’t compromised his breathing/blood circulation ability.
Cymek said:
“Drinking a herbal health shot…”
This is going to be my new euphemism for the consumption of gin.
captain_spalding said:
Cymek said:
“Drinking a herbal health shot…”This is going to be my new euphemism for the consumption of gin.
JudgeMental said:
well, I have had a good year. I guess not caring too much about anything, or anybody, is good for ones mental health.
Plus on The Old Forum we used to celebrate Saturnalia. whatever happened to tradition? sad.
Tamb said:
captain_spalding said:
Cymek said:
“Drinking a herbal health shot…”This is going to be my new euphemism for the consumption of gin.
Holy Juniper.
jennifer.
JudgeMental said:
JudgeMental said:
well, I have had a good year. I guess not caring too much about anything, or anybody, is good for ones mental health.
Plus on The Old Forum we used to celebrate Saturnalia. whatever happened to tradition? sad.
JudgeMental said:
JudgeMental said:
well, I have had a good year. I guess not caring too much about anything, or anybody, is good for ones mental health.
Plus on The Old Forum we used to celebrate Saturnalia. whatever happened to tradition? sad.
the old forum is dead, man, let it go…
JudgeMental said:
Tamb said:
captain_spalding said:This is going to be my new euphemism for the consumption of gin.
Holy Juniper.jennifer.
Gone all Donovan on me.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Michael V said:
The Rev Dodgson said:Decimated eh?
Not that bad then.
Some words change meaning with time and usage.
Having done my own research on this, I discover that the true and proper meaning of this word has been decimated, and it is now recognised as meaning the removal of most of something, even by proper English dictionaries.
Seems I was being historically pedantic a day early.
:)
:)
roughbarked said:
JudgeMental said:
Tamb said:Holy Juniper.
jennifer.
Gone all Donovan on me.
Always makes me think of a Jennifer who i was at school with.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Michael V said:
The Rev Dodgson said:Decimated eh?
Not that bad then.
Some words change meaning with time and usage.
Having done my own research on this, I discover that the true and proper meaning of this word has been decimated, and it is now recognised as meaning the removal of most of something, even by proper English dictionaries.
Seems I was being historically pedantic a day early.
I remember once you took me to task for using that word “incorrectly”. So I expect an apology forthwith.
captain_spalding said:
roughbarked said:
JudgeMental said:jennifer.
Gone all Donovan on me.
Always makes me think of a Jennifer who i was at school with.
:)
Arts said:
JudgeMental said:
JudgeMental said:
well, I have had a good year. I guess not caring too much about anything, or anybody, is good for ones mental health.
Plus on The Old Forum we used to celebrate Saturnalia. whatever happened to tradition? sad.
the old forum is dead, man, let it go…
sob, nooooooooooooooo etc.
roughbarked said:
Michael V said:
Arts said:
Chauvin’s legal team is trying to get access to George Floyd’s heart tissue and histology slides to see if it’s possible that Floyd died from a heart condition and not as a result of Chauvin’s actions when he held his knee on George’s neck for more than nine minutes.
the request has been deniedLook, Chauvin has every right to use his appeal process, that is the system, but this kind of pisses me off… heart condition or no.. standing on someone’s neck for that amount of time is not going to end well…
And his request was denied. The system has worked. In this instance, at least.
There is a God? It is called the legal system.
The legal system is definitely no God.
Tamb said:
roughbarked said:
Tamb said:I hope it’s visiting and not stocktaking.
Nah. You are all she has got as well.
I’m in the middle of yet another round of chemo. It makes me a bit pessimistic.
Keep up the good luck.
:)
Cymek said:
Drinking a herbal health shot, the cayenne pepper has a hit to it.
What else is in it (apart from cayenne)?
Michael V said:
Cymek said:
Drinking a herbal health shot, the cayenne pepper has a hit to it.
What else is in it (apart from cayenne)?
Kombucha
Rosemary
Cinnamon
Ginger root
Tumeric
JudgeMental said:
well, I have had a good year. I guess not caring too much about anything, or anybody, is good for ones mental health.
I suspect there’s some good (if quite sad) advice here.
Cymek said:
Michael V said:
Cymek said:
Drinking a herbal health shot, the cayenne pepper has a hit to it.
What else is in it (apart from cayenne)?
Kombucha
Rosemary
Cinnamon
Ginger root
Tumeric
good grief.
Arts said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Michael V said:Some words change meaning with time and usage.
Having done my own research on this, I discover that the true and proper meaning of this word has been decimated, and it is now recognised as meaning the removal of most of something, even by proper English dictionaries.
Seems I was being historically pedantic a day early.
I remember once you took me to task for using that word “incorrectly”. So I expect an apology forthwith.
I offer tenfold apologies, so there will still be one left even though they have been decimated by the passage of time.
roughbarked said:
JudgeMental said:
Tamb said:Holy Juniper.
jennifer.
Gone all Donovan on me.
Maybe he’s a Leitch.
Arts said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Michael V said:Some words change meaning with time and usage.
Having done my own research on this, I discover that the true and proper meaning of this word has been decimated, and it is now recognised as meaning the removal of most of something, even by proper English dictionaries.
Seems I was being historically pedantic a day early.
I remember once you took me to task for using that word “incorrectly”. So I expect an apology forthwith.
Ha!
:)
The Rev Dodgson said:
Arts said:
The Rev Dodgson said:Having done my own research on this, I discover that the true and proper meaning of this word has been decimated, and it is now recognised as meaning the removal of most of something, even by proper English dictionaries.
Seems I was being historically pedantic a day early.
I remember once you took me to task for using that word “incorrectly”. So I expect an apology forthwith.
I offer tenfold apologies, so there will still be one left even though they have been decimated by the passage of time.
you, sir, are a gentleman and a scholar.
Cymek said:
Michael V said:
Cymek said:
Drinking a herbal health shot, the cayenne pepper has a hit to it.
What else is in it (apart from cayenne)?
Kombucha
Rosemary
Cinnamon
Ginger root
Tumeric
Ta.
What’s it claimed to help?
Michael V said:
JudgeMental said:
well, I have had a good year. I guess not caring too much about anything, or anybody, is good for ones mental health.
I suspect there’s some good (if quite sad) advice here.
it is reality. why concern yourself with people or events that you have no control over? Like the very recent comments on Musk. Why get upset about him? You have limited power to change anything either through voting or protesting or supporting a “cause”.
You’ve got to ac-cent-tchu-ate the positive
E-lim-i-nate the negative
Latch on to the affirmative
Don’t mess with Mr. In-Between
You’ve got to spread joy up to the maximum
Bring gloom down to the minimum
Have faith, or pandemonium
Liable to walk upon the scene
To illustrate his last remark
Jonah in the whale, Noah in the ark
What did they do
Just when everything looked so dark?
Man, they said we better
Ac-cent-tchu-ate the positive
E-lim-i-nate the negative
Latch on to the affirmative
Don’t mess with Mr. In-Between
No, do not mess with Mr. In-Between
Do you hear me?
Oh, listen to me children and, uh, you will hear
About eliminatin’ of the negative and an accent on a positive
And gather ‘round me children if you willin’
And sit tight while I start reviewin’ the attitude of doin’ right
You gotta ac-cent-tchu-ate the positive
E-lim-i-nate the negative
Latch on to the affirmative
Don’t mess with Mr. In-Between
You got to spread joy up to the maximum
Bring gloom down to the minimum
Then (otherwise), otherwise
Pandemonium liable to walk upon the scene
well, illustrate
(My last remark) you got the floor
Jonah in the whale, Noah in the ark
(What did they say?) What did they say?
(Say, when everything looked so dark?)
Man, they said we better
Ac-cent-tchu-ate the positive
E-lim-i-nate the negative
Latch on to the affirmative
Don’t mess with Mr. In-Between
No, don’t mess with Mr. In-Between
JudgeMental said:
Michael V said:
JudgeMental said:
well, I have had a good year. I guess not caring too much about anything, or anybody, is good for ones mental health.
I suspect there’s some good (if quite sad) advice here.
it is reality. why concern yourself with people or events that you have no control over? Like the very recent comments on Musk. Why get upset about him? You have limited power to change anything either through voting or protesting or supporting a “cause”.
I agree, however, if people dont get upset with the shitty behaviour of others, then where does that leave us good guys without guns?
I fight back by filling the basement with the bodies of my friends, that way my enemies know how serious I am…
I can now smell the bushfire smoke. I don’t like that smell much. The wind is moving around to the North.
roughbarked said:
Tamb said:
SCIENCE said:
Strange yous all say that, we went to the shops the other day and the shelves were full packed with eggs.
Strange. It’s nowhere near Easter.Not them eggs… but there are still hot cross buns on the shelf.
One of Mrs S’s nephews is a baker.
One January, i said to him, ‘you blokes will be baking hot cross buns soon, i suppose?’.
His reply: ‘mate, we’ve been making them since October’.
Today I mow.
The sun is out, no sign of rain and there’s a goodly drying wind.
So today I mow.
Over.
Peak Warming Man said:
Today I mow.
The sun is out, no sign of rain and there’s a goodly drying wind.
So today I mow.
Over.
yeah, that’ll be ok
JudgeMental said:
Michael V said:
JudgeMental said:
well, I have had a good year. I guess not caring too much about anything, or anybody, is good for ones mental health.
I suspect there’s some good (if quite sad) advice here.
it is reality. why concern yourself with people or events that you have no control over? Like the very recent comments on Musk. Why get upset about him? You have limited power to change anything either through voting or protesting or supporting a “cause”.
You’ve got to ac-cent-tchu-ate the positive
E-lim-i-nate the negative
Latch on to the affirmative
Don’t mess with Mr. In-BetweenYou’ve got to spread joy up to the maximum
Bring gloom down to the minimum
Have faith, or pandemonium
Liable to walk upon the sceneTo illustrate his last remark
Jonah in the whale, Noah in the ark
What did they do
Just when everything looked so dark?Man, they said we better
Ac-cent-tchu-ate the positive
E-lim-i-nate the negative
Latch on to the affirmative
Don’t mess with Mr. In-Between
No, do not mess with Mr. In-Between
Do you hear me?Oh, listen to me children and, uh, you will hear
About eliminatin’ of the negative and an accent on a positive
And gather ‘round me children if you willin’
And sit tight while I start reviewin’ the attitude of doin’ rightYou gotta ac-cent-tchu-ate the positive
E-lim-i-nate the negative
Latch on to the affirmative
Don’t mess with Mr. In-BetweenYou got to spread joy up to the maximum
Bring gloom down to the minimum
Then (otherwise), otherwise
Pandemonium liable to walk upon the scenewell, illustrate
(My last remark) you got the floor
Jonah in the whale, Noah in the ark
(What did they say?) What did they say?
(Say, when everything looked so dark?)Man, they said we better
Ac-cent-tchu-ate the positive
E-lim-i-nate the negative
Latch on to the affirmative
Don’t mess with Mr. In-Between
No, don’t mess with Mr. In-Between
JudgeMental said:
it is reality. why concern yourself with people or events that you have no control over? Like the very recent comments on Musk. Why get upset about him? You have limited power to change anything either through voting or protesting or supporting a “cause”.
+1
And regardless of other considerations, apart from being vile, critters like Musk and Trump are predictable and undeserving attention-seekers of limited interest, who relish all the agonising they’re granted by progressive news addicts.
Each wringing of hands, shaking of heads and shedding of tears brings them joy.
Cymek said:
Michael V said:
Cymek said:
Drinking a herbal health shot, the cayenne pepper has a hit to it.
What else is in it (apart from cayenne)?
Kombucha
Rosemary
Cinnamon
Ginger root
Tumeric
BLYAAAAARK!!!!!! 😝 Home made?
The chap puts black woman in her place.
https://youtu.be/0xxtmdkptZI
Peak Warming Man said:
The chap puts black woman in her place.
https://youtu.be/0xxtmdkptZI
Here hear!!!!! HARUMPH HARUMPH!!
Michael V said:
roughbarked said:
JudgeMental said:jennifer.
Gone all Donovan on me.
Maybe he’s a Leitch.
It must be the season of the witch?
Arts said:
JudgeMental said:
Michael V said:I suspect there’s some good (if quite sad) advice here.
it is reality. why concern yourself with people or events that you have no control over? Like the very recent comments on Musk. Why get upset about him? You have limited power to change anything either through voting or protesting or supporting a “cause”.
I agree, however, if people dont get upset with the shitty behaviour of others, then where does that leave us good guys without guns?
I fight back by filling the basement with the bodies of my friends, that way my enemies know how serious I am…
What do you do about the smell?
My neighbours look at me suspicously. I think they can smell something.buffy said:
I can now smell the bushfire smoke. I don’t like that smell much. The wind is moving around to the North.
Not sounding good.
Woodie said:
Cymek said:
Michael V said:What else is in it (apart from cayenne)?
Kombucha
Rosemary
Cinnamon
Ginger root
Tumeric
BLYAAAAARK!!!!!! 😝 Home made?
I reckon it would taste vile.
roughbarked said:
Michael V said:
roughbarked said:Gone all Donovan on me.
Maybe he’s a Leitch.
It must be the season of the witch?
Maybe he’s just mad about saffron, and they call him Mellow Yellow.
Michael V said:
roughbarked said:
Michael V said:Maybe he’s a Leitch.
It must be the season of the witch?
Maybe he’s just mad about saffron, and they call him Mellow Yellow.
With all that sunshine coming in softly through my window…
i’m here for you, taking insults if ya like
transition said:
i’m here for you, taking insults if ya like
You look like you were drawn with my left hand.
Bubblecar said:
transition said:
i’m here for you, taking insults if ya like
You look like you were drawn with my left hand.
I take it from that you’re right footed, yeti man
transition said:
i’m here for you, taking insults if ya like
Thou art a tatterdemallion rattlecap of a nigmenog.
Cleaning report: Partway there. I have decided that only some of it will be done today. I’ll leave the stuff over the top of the rangehood to be got down and washed another day. I suspect I shouldn’t have so many bits and pieces on the benches…they have to be moved and washed after the end of the woodfire season.
buffy said:
Cleaning report: Partway there. I have decided that only some of it will be done today. I’ll leave the stuff over the top of the rangehood to be got down and washed another day. I suspect I shouldn’t have so many bits and pieces on the benches…they have to be moved and washed after the end of the woodfire season.
When are your guests arriving?
Discussions with a co-worker on the existence of God
transition said:
i’m here for you, taking insults if ya like
Rasclot!
captain_spalding said:
transition said:
i’m here for you, taking insults if ya likeThou art a tatterdemallion rattlecap of a nigmenog.
chuckle, had to look them up
diddly-squat said:
Discussions with a co-worker on the existence of God
LOL @ the typo in the second image.
Michael V said:
diddly-squat said:
Discussions with a co-worker on the existence of God
LOL @ the typo in the second image.
what did I spell incorrectly… can’t see the wood for the trees there
Michael V said:
diddly-squat said:
Discussions with a co-worker on the existence of God
LOL @ the typo in the second image.
Looked deliberate.
Michael V said:
transition said:
i’m here for you, taking insults if ya likeRasclot!
looked that up, I learnies today
diddly-squat said:
Michael V said:
diddly-squat said:
Discussions with a co-worker on the existence of God
LOL @ the typo in the second image.
what did I spell incorrectly… can’t see the wood for the trees there
Purgative.
transition said:
Michael V said:
transition said:
i’m here for you, taking insults if ya likeRasclot!
looked that up, I learnies today
Hope you are taking notes.
roughbarked said:
transition said:
Michael V said:Rasclot!
looked that up, I learnies today
Hope you are taking notes.
furiously smoking the biro up
diddly-squat said:
Michael V said:
diddly-squat said:
Discussions with a co-worker on the existence of God
LOL @ the typo in the second image.
what did I spell incorrectly… can’t see the wood for the trees there
Last word, second last paragraph.
Typo: purgative.
Intended, I expect: prerogative.
transition said:
roughbarked said:
transition said:looked that up, I learnies today
Hope you are taking notes.
furiously smoking the biro up
Here’s some new/old words for you you read up on.
Michael V said:
dv said:
Losing a dawg and gaining a daug, Child 1 returns from Melbum to spend Christmas with us.
Nice.
:)
We don’t have any children to spend Christmas or indeed any other time with us any more.
Which is sad.
Yes that is tremendously sad. Will you have time with your grandchildren?
Michael V said:
diddly-squat said:
Michael V said:LOL @ the typo in the second image.
what did I spell incorrectly… can’t see the wood for the trees there
Last word, second last paragraph.
Typo: purgative.
Intended, I expect: prerogative.
ahhh yes… seems Grammarly both saved me and shot me in the foot
Michael V said:
diddly-squat said:
Michael V said:LOL @ the typo in the second image.
what did I spell incorrectly… can’t see the wood for the trees there
Last word, second last paragraph.
Typo: purgative.
Intended, I expect: prerogative.
I thought he was referring to the crap they spew up.
transition said:
Michael V said:
transition said:
i’m here for you, taking insults if ya likeRasclot!
looked that up, I learnies today
An effective translation from Jamaican patois is not “arsewipe”, but “you are your own used toilet paper”.
It’s the worst thing you can call someone in Jamaica. But watch it – you may get shot for using it on someone.
diddly-squat said:
Michael V said:
diddly-squat said:what did I spell incorrectly… can’t see the wood for the trees there
Last word, second last paragraph.
Typo: purgative.
Intended, I expect: prerogative.
ahhh yes… seems Grammarly both saved me and shot me in the foot
LOL
dv said:
Michael V said:
dv said:
Losing a dawg and gaining a daug, Child 1 returns from Melbum to spend Christmas with us.
Nice.
:)
We don’t have any children to spend Christmas or indeed any other time with us any more.
Which is sad.
Yes that is tremendously sad. Will you have time with your grandchildren?
No. They will be spending time with their mothers, as they should.
Michael V said:
dv said:
Losing a dawg and gaining a daug, Child 1 returns from Melbum to spend Christmas with us.
Nice.
:)
We don’t have any children to spend Christmas or indeed any other time with us any more.
Which is sad.
That sucks Mr V, I’m really sorry to hear that… I hope that you have a safe a healthy Christmas and New Year…
I’m selfishly awaiting the weekend for when the twins arrive.
World’s oldest ship’s biscuit, c. 1852, displayed at the maritime museum in Kronborg, Denmark.
Bubblecar said:
World’s oldest ship’s biscuit, c. 1852, displayed at the maritime museum in Kronborg, Denmark.
What steered you to look that up?
Michael V said:
Bubblecar said:
World’s oldest ship’s biscuit, c. 1852, displayed at the maritime museum in Kronborg, Denmark.
What steered you to look that up?
Was just randomly reading about hardtack:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardtack
Arvs
Ian said:
Arvs
Nasty.
Hottest day we’re forecast for the week ahead is Christmas Day itself, at 27.
Bubblecar said:
Michael V said:
Bubblecar said:
World’s oldest ship’s biscuit, c. 1852, displayed at the maritime museum in Kronborg, Denmark.
What steered you to look that up?
Was just randomly reading about hardtack:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardtack
Ah.
Bubblecar said:
Ian said:Arvs
Nasty.
Hottest day we’re forecast for the week ahead is Christmas Day itself, at 27.
But look at the minimum. I’ll need an extra blanket.
Bubblecar said:
buffy said:
Cleaning report: Partway there. I have decided that only some of it will be done today. I’ll leave the stuff over the top of the rangehood to be got down and washed another day. I suspect I shouldn’t have so many bits and pieces on the benches…they have to be moved and washed after the end of the woodfire season.
When are your guests arriving?
27th. They are not staying with us, so I wouldn’t call them guests (in fact I find that terminology quite quirky, as it’s never been used in my family). They are staying at a B&B around the corner. But I always have to do this clean about this time of year, and I usually do it a couple of times through the year too. When I was working it was because there was time to do it, although not usually before Christmas. And for most of my working life I worked between Christmas and New Year also. So public holidays tended to be cleaning days.
Ian said:
Bubblecar said:
Ian said:Arvs
Nasty.
Hottest day we’re forecast for the week ahead is Christmas Day itself, at 27.
But look at the minimum. I’ll need an extra blanket.
At those minimums I don’t use any bed coverings.
Bubblecar said:
World’s oldest ship’s biscuit, c. 1852, displayed at the maritime museum in Kronborg, Denmark.
Looks like battle dwarf bread to me.
buffy said:
Bubblecar said:
buffy said:
Cleaning report: Partway there. I have decided that only some of it will be done today. I’ll leave the stuff over the top of the rangehood to be got down and washed another day. I suspect I shouldn’t have so many bits and pieces on the benches…they have to be moved and washed after the end of the woodfire season.
When are your guests arriving?
27th. They are not staying with us, so I wouldn’t call them guests (in fact I find that terminology quite quirky, as it’s never been used in my family). They are staying at a B&B around the corner. But I always have to do this clean about this time of year, and I usually do it a couple of times through the year too. When I was working it was because there was time to do it, although not usually before Christmas. And for most of my working life I worked between Christmas and New Year also. So public holidays tended to be cleaning days.
I see. My major cleanings tend to be focused on the quarterly inspections but also any visits by family, such as this Christmas lunch.
But truth be told, there’s not a huge amount to do. A generally tidy single person with a reasonable rate of daily and weekly housework doesn’t make much lingering mess.
buffy said:
Bubblecar said:
World’s oldest ship’s biscuit, c. 1852, displayed at the maritime museum in Kronborg, Denmark.
Looks like battle dwarf bread to me.
Probably not much difference :)
Some of these hardtacks were real toothbusters.
Siesta time for me now.
>The British Royal Navy equipped its dockyards to produce bread on an industrial scale. At Deptford alone the King’s bakers could manufacture enough biscuit in a day to feed more than 24,000 men.
American bakers made navy bread on nearly as large a scale. Stephen Harris of Norfolk, Virginia used three brick ovens to bake 21 barrels of flour into biscuit per day.
Baker William McKenny promised to deliver 2,000 barrels containing 160,000 pounds of bread, or 640,000 individual biscuits.
https://ussconstitutionmuseum.org/2014/07/16/some-notes-on-navy-biscui/
This example, from 1854, looks like it’s been varnished to help preserve it.
Bubblecar said:
>The British Royal Navy equipped its dockyards to produce bread on an industrial scale. At Deptford alone the King’s bakers could manufacture enough biscuit in a day to feed more than 24,000 men.American bakers made navy bread on nearly as large a scale. Stephen Harris of Norfolk, Virginia used three brick ovens to bake 21 barrels of flour into biscuit per day.
Baker William McKenny promised to deliver 2,000 barrels containing 160,000 pounds of bread, or 640,000 individual biscuits.
https://ussconstitutionmuseum.org/2014/07/16/some-notes-on-navy-biscui/
This example, from 1854, looks like it’s been varnished to help preserve it.
This has inspired me to look up Jamaican hardo bread which never went mouldy despite the heat and high humidity. I see nothing in the recipes that would make that happen, so perhaps the bakery added some mould-suppressant.
Bubblecar said:
Michael V said:
Bubblecar said:
World’s oldest ship’s biscuit, c. 1852, displayed at the maritime museum in Kronborg, Denmark.
What steered you to look that up?
Was just randomly reading about hardtack:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardtack
Says that weevil infestations were common. I have to salute any weevil that’s made its way a significant distance into hardtack.
If your surname was a slang term for a penis starting with a C would you like your first name to be Harry
Cymek said:
If your surname was a slang term for a penis starting with a C would you like your first name to be Harry
I have an acquaintance Hunt, first name Jake.
dv said:
Bubblecar said:
Michael V said:What steered you to look that up?
Was just randomly reading about hardtack:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardtack
Says that weevil infestations were common. I have to salute any weevil that’s made its way a significant distance into hardtack.
The tiny bread beetle (Stegobium paniceum, known in America as the “drugstore beetle”), was also known as the “biscuit weevil”, despite not being a true weevil. But it and its larvae commonly attacked ship’s biscuits:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drugstore_beetle
Bubblecar said:
dv said:
Bubblecar said:Was just randomly reading about hardtack:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardtack
Says that weevil infestations were common. I have to salute any weevil that’s made its way a significant distance into hardtack.
The tiny bread beetle (Stegobium paniceum, known in America as the “drugstore beetle”), was also known as the “biscuit weevil”, despite not being a true weevil. But it and its larvae commonly attacked ship’s biscuits:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drugstore_beetle
interesting cheers
Bubblecar said:
dv said:
Bubblecar said:Was just randomly reading about hardtack:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardtack
Says that weevil infestations were common. I have to salute any weevil that’s made its way a significant distance into hardtack.
The tiny bread beetle (Stegobium paniceum, known in America as the “drugstore beetle”), was also known as the “biscuit weevil”, despite not being a true weevil. But it and its larvae commonly attacked ship’s biscuits:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drugstore_beetle
I guess it’s added protein that tastes just like cooked wheat.
https://www.facebook.com/share/r/15P1M5E295/
Singularity
Bubblecar said:
Ian said:Arvs
Nasty.
Hottest day we’re forecast for the week ahead is Christmas Day itself, at 27.
Witty Rejoinder said:
Cymek said:
If your surname was a slang term for a penis starting with a C would you like your first name to be HarryI have an acquaintance Hunt, first name Jake.
mr kii’s nephew has a name that his father deliberately used to reference oral sex via the first and middle name initials, and his family name is another word for sailors…
I’m pretty sure mr kii’s sister was too innocent to realise this when the boy was named.
John Marsden of the Tomorrow series has died.
I really enjoyed reading the Tomorrow series when my teenage sons were into them.
kii said:
John Marsden of the Tomorrow series has died.I really enjoyed reading the Tomorrow series when my teenage sons were into them.
I always put it off, I’ll start reading them tomorrow, but never did
Well I set the tree up, took all of five minutes.
I’ll snap it with the lights on when it gets darker.
Bubblecar said:
Well I set the tree up, took all of five minutes.I’ll snap it with the lights on when it gets darker.
Good lad, Santa looks around Santa might bring you something special.
done change engine oil and auto transmission oil in little car, vehicle done 241,259KM now, reliable machine, so far, got belts to change soon
transition said:
done change engine oil and auto transmission oil in little car, vehicle done 241,259KM now, reliable machine, so far, got belts to change soon
Good job.
Be watching another vintage Who story tonight, but haven’t yet decided which.
The little tree set up in the hallway.
Bubblecar said:
The little tree set up in the hallway.
From small things big things grow.
Ancient DNA suggests syphilis originated in Americas before ravaging Europe
Scientific debate still rages about the ancient origins of syphilis.
December 18, 2024 at 11:00 a.m. ESTToday at 11:00 a.m. EST
By Carolyn Y. Johnson
In 1495, a devastating infection began to sweep across Europe, causing pustules and sores to erupt on people’s bodies and faces. Accusatory finger-pointing about the scourge, syphilis, began almost immediately. The Italians called it “the French disease”; the French called it “the Neapolitan disease”; the Russians called it “the Polish disease.”
The sexually transmitted disease remains a public health menace today, despite the fact that it is easily cured with antibiotics. But the scientific debate still rages about the ancient origins of syphilis — including why the wave of illness that swamped Renaissance Europe was so virulent.
Did syphilis initially emerge in the Americas and arrive in Europe in early 1493 when explorer Christopher Columbus returned to Spain, in the reverse of so many other illnesses that wiped out Indigenous peoples? Or was it a much older “pre-Columbian” disease that has been infecting humanity much longer — one that flew under the radar, perhaps mistaken for leprosy or another ailment in Medieval Europe?
In a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature, an international team studied ancient DNA harvested from lesion-ridden bones or teeth of five people who lived in Peru, Chile, Argentina and Mexico either before or around the time of Columbus. They found that early versions of the microbe, Treponema pallidum, that causes syphilis and related diseases were already diverse and widespread. Their analysis suggests that syphilis emerged in the Americas within the last 8,000 years and spread across the globe fueled by European colonization.
“The syphilis debate was a big one, and it was a very emotional one … a famous paleopathologist described it as one of the most enigmatic questions in science,” said Kirsten Bos, group leader for molecular paleopathology at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and one of the leaders of the work. She argued the new evidence would settle the matter. “It’s a very clear slam dunk: Okay, this clearly came from the Americas.”
Several outside researchers agreed the study provides valuable new evidence strongly suggesting an American origin for syphilis, but added that it wouldn’t close the debate.
“This paper, by being able to anchor when and where it emerged, is going to be fundamental in improving our basic knowledge of syphilis, and therefore act as building a foundation for additional work,” said Molly Zuckerman, a paleopathologist at Mississippi State University.
Tracking the ‘great imitator’
Today, syphilis and other treponemal diseases caused by subspecies of the same bacteria — including the neglected tropical diseases, yaws and bejel — remain a public health threat. There are more than 8 million new infections of syphilis a year globally. Yaws, a disfiguring skin disease caused by a closely related bacterial infection is endemic in 15 countries.
These illnesses are treatable with antibiotics today, but Zuckerman sees understanding how these diseases emerged as key to unlocking a present-day mystery: why is syphilis so variable in its symptoms today — which helps it to go undiagnosed and untreated.
For decades, the major tool scientists had to probe these ancient questions were examinations of skeletal remains. Syphilis is a disfiguring illness that damages organs and causes neurological problems in the long run, but it also leaves marks on a person’s skeleton, including pitted bones.
Scientists have found evidence of ancient skeletons with such lesions in the Americas. But there were also some accounts of “venereal leprosy” from Medieval Europe and European skeletons have been unearthed with bone-scarring that resembles syphilis, lines of evidence that suggested it may have already been in Europe. The disease is sometimes called the “great imitator” because its symptoms can be so similar to others.
The science of ancient DNA opened up new opportunities to go beyond interpreting lesions and pin down the evolutionary history of syphilis.
It is particularly hard to get ahold of the microbe, Treponema pallidum, that causes the disease in ancient samples, said Anne Stone, an anthropological geneticist at Arizona State University. That makes the new study featuring ancient genomes especially exciting — though she said the results also raise new puzzles.
Syphilis-like diseases
The researchers recovered ancient DNA from bacteria that are the extinct precursors of the microbe that causes modern-day syphilis, as well as bejel and yaws.
They used those genomes to estimate when the most recent ancestor to Treponema pallidum emerged, and found that it was 8,000 years ago. That fits best with a New World origin for this group of diseases. But Stone questioned whether that date might get pushed back as more ancient genomes are found, pointing out that much of the world is a black box with a lack of samples to say whether the disease existed or not. She noted that the turn of the 15th century was a time when people were roving the world.
“It’s not just the Americas that we’re ‘discovering’ — it’s also a time when people are exploring the world in general and going to all sorts of places — and it’s basically a bunch of lonely sailors on a boat. There’s the various trade routes, and we have no ancient DNA from the rest of the world on this pathogen,” she said. “This study is great, in the sense we have more data and more genomes.”
A study of ancient DNA from Trepenoma pallidum infections published in Nature in January — which is currently under editorial review because questions have been raised about its data and conclusions — found a timeline that was earlier and which could have placed the emergence of syphilis-like diseases before people arrived in the Americas, suggesting it would have already been in Europe before Columbus voyaged back.
Kerttu Majander, an archaeogeneticist at the University of Basel who led that study, said the new work shows unprecedented diversity of disease-causing bacteria in the Americas, making it clear Columbus didn’t bring them to the Americas. But the question of whether there were already treponemal diseases already in Europe in some form “cannot be really proved or disproved” by this data.
Another outstanding question is why the version of the disease that swept Europe was so severe. Ancient genomes from Europe have shown that Treponema pallidum was present during the late 15th century— including yaws and syphilis. But the uncertainties around dating the skeletons makes it impossible to know whether these specimens were from before or after Columbus.
Understanding the differences between the subspecies that cause these different, but related, diseases is a key question for scientists trying to understand these diseases today.
“This could tell us more about why these diseases (syphilis, yaws, bejel) have such different disease presentations, and if we can find ways to optimise treatment and patient management as a result. The Origins are only important if they can help answer that question,” Mathew Beale, a senior staff scientist who studies bacterial evolutionary genetics at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, wrote in an email. He added that as is so often the case in science, the story is likely far from settled: “It is plausible that each set of new genomes will change things, repeatedly reopening the story.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2024/12/18/syphilis-ancient-dna-americas/?
Bubblecar said:
The little tree set up in the hallway.
Very atmospheric.
We’ve got an artificial tree in a box. It can stay there.. I couldn’t be arsed..
Witty Rejoinder said:
Ancient DNA suggests syphilis originated in Americas before ravaging Europe
Scientific debate still rages about the ancient origins of syphilis.https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2024/12/18/syphilis-ancient-dna-americas/?
wasn’t called Montezuma’s curse for nothing.
Ian said:
Bubblecar said:
The little tree set up in the hallway.
Very atmospheric.
We’ve got an artificial tree in a box. It can stay there.. I couldn’t be arsed..
Similar here, too.
Michael Leunig has died.
ruby said:
Michael Leunig has died.
Polio?
Witty Rejoinder said:
ruby said:
Michael Leunig has died.Polio?
:)))
ruby said:
Michael Leunig has died.
Decent enough run, and a pretty pampered life.
To tell the truth I never much warmed to his cartoons, even before he went bad. He always seemed too self-righteously sentimental in a churchy sort of way.
Bubblecar said:
ruby said:
Michael Leunig has died.
Decent enough run, and a pretty pampered life.
To tell the truth I never much warmed to his cartoons, even before he went bad. He always seemed too self-righteously sentimental in a churchy sort of way.
I like his early stuff.
Vale Leunig
Michael V said:
Ian said:
Bubblecar said:
The little tree set up in the hallway.
Very atmospheric.
We’ve got an artificial tree in a box. It can stay there.. I couldn’t be arsed..
Similar here, too.
surely in this day and age everyone can have a virtual tree or whatever they like
Ian said:
Bubblecar said:
ruby said:
Michael Leunig has died.
Decent enough run, and a pretty pampered life.
To tell the truth I never much warmed to his cartoons, even before he went bad. He always seemed too self-righteously sentimental in a churchy sort of way.
I like his early stuff.
Vale Leunig
He was certainly popular in the previous century. He was declared an Australian Living Treasure by the National Trust of Australia in 1999.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Leunig
Bubblecar said:
Ian said:
Bubblecar said:
Decent enough run, and a pretty pampered life.
To tell the truth I never much warmed to his cartoons, even before he went bad. He always seemed too self-righteously sentimental in a churchy sort of way.
I like his early stuff.
Vale Leunig
He was certainly popular in the previous century. He was declared an Australian Living Treasure by the National Trust of Australia in 1999.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Leunig
is that like a Nobel peace prize or a Time year
SCIENCE said:
Michael V said:
Ian said:
Very atmospheric.
We’ve got an artificial tree in a box. It can stay there.. I couldn’t be arsed..
Similar here, too.
surely in this day and age everyone can have a virtual tree or whatever they like
Mine is an artificial tree too. But when I stored it in a garbage bag after last Xmas I left all the lights and baubles on, and luckily they were still all in place when I got it out again today.
SCIENCE said:
Michael V said:
Ian said:
Very atmospheric.
We’ve got an artificial tree in a box. It can stay there.. I couldn’t be arsed..
Similar here, too.
surely in this day and age everyone can have a virtual tree or whatever they like
Mmm.. virtual Festivus pole
Ian said:
Bubblecar said:
ruby said:
Michael Leunig has died.
Decent enough run, and a pretty pampered life.
To tell the truth I never much warmed to his cartoons, even before he went bad. He always seemed too self-righteously sentimental in a churchy sort of way.
I like his early stuff.
Vale Leunig
+1
Witty Rejoinder said:
Ancient DNA suggests syphilis originated in Americas before ravaging Europe
Scientific debate still rages about the ancient origins of syphilis.December 18, 2024 at 11:00 a.m. ESTToday at 11:00 a.m. EST
By Carolyn Y. JohnsonIn 1495, a devastating infection began to sweep across Europe, causing pustules and sores to erupt on people’s bodies and faces. Accusatory finger-pointing about the scourge, syphilis, began almost immediately. The Italians called it “the French disease”; the French called it “the Neapolitan disease”; the Russians called it “the Polish disease.”
The sexually transmitted disease remains a public health menace today, despite the fact that it is easily cured with antibiotics. But the scientific debate still rages about the ancient origins of syphilis — including why the wave of illness that swamped Renaissance Europe was so virulent.
Did syphilis initially emerge in the Americas and arrive in Europe in early 1493 when explorer Christopher Columbus returned to Spain, in the reverse of so many other illnesses that wiped out Indigenous peoples? Or was it a much older “pre-Columbian” disease that has been infecting humanity much longer — one that flew under the radar, perhaps mistaken for leprosy or another ailment in Medieval Europe?
In a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature, an international team studied ancient DNA harvested from lesion-ridden bones or teeth of five people who lived in Peru, Chile, Argentina and Mexico either before or around the time of Columbus. They found that early versions of the microbe, Treponema pallidum, that causes syphilis and related diseases were already diverse and widespread. Their analysis suggests that syphilis emerged in the Americas within the last 8,000 years and spread across the globe fueled by European colonization.
“The syphilis debate was a big one, and it was a very emotional one … a famous paleopathologist described it as one of the most enigmatic questions in science,” said Kirsten Bos, group leader for molecular paleopathology at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and one of the leaders of the work. She argued the new evidence would settle the matter. “It’s a very clear slam dunk: Okay, this clearly came from the Americas.”
Several outside researchers agreed the study provides valuable new evidence strongly suggesting an American origin for syphilis, but added that it wouldn’t close the debate.
“This paper, by being able to anchor when and where it emerged, is going to be fundamental in improving our basic knowledge of syphilis, and therefore act as building a foundation for additional work,” said Molly Zuckerman, a paleopathologist at Mississippi State University.
Tracking the ‘great imitator’
Today, syphilis and other treponemal diseases caused by subspecies of the same bacteria — including the neglected tropical diseases, yaws and bejel — remain a public health threat. There are more than 8 million new infections of syphilis a year globally. Yaws, a disfiguring skin disease caused by a closely related bacterial infection is endemic in 15 countries.These illnesses are treatable with antibiotics today, but Zuckerman sees understanding how these diseases emerged as key to unlocking a present-day mystery: why is syphilis so variable in its symptoms today — which helps it to go undiagnosed and untreated.
For decades, the major tool scientists had to probe these ancient questions were examinations of skeletal remains. Syphilis is a disfiguring illness that damages organs and causes neurological problems in the long run, but it also leaves marks on a person’s skeleton, including pitted bones.
Scientists have found evidence of ancient skeletons with such lesions in the Americas. But there were also some accounts of “venereal leprosy” from Medieval Europe and European skeletons have been unearthed with bone-scarring that resembles syphilis, lines of evidence that suggested it may have already been in Europe. The disease is sometimes called the “great imitator” because its symptoms can be so similar to others.
The science of ancient DNA opened up new opportunities to go beyond interpreting lesions and pin down the evolutionary history of syphilis.
It is particularly hard to get ahold of the microbe, Treponema pallidum, that causes the disease in ancient samples, said Anne Stone, an anthropological geneticist at Arizona State University. That makes the new study featuring ancient genomes especially exciting — though she said the results also raise new puzzles.
Syphilis-like diseases
The researchers recovered ancient DNA from bacteria that are the extinct precursors of the microbe that causes modern-day syphilis, as well as bejel and yaws.They used those genomes to estimate when the most recent ancestor to Treponema pallidum emerged, and found that it was 8,000 years ago. That fits best with a New World origin for this group of diseases. But Stone questioned whether that date might get pushed back as more ancient genomes are found, pointing out that much of the world is a black box with a lack of samples to say whether the disease existed or not. She noted that the turn of the 15th century was a time when people were roving the world.
“It’s not just the Americas that we’re ‘discovering’ — it’s also a time when people are exploring the world in general and going to all sorts of places — and it’s basically a bunch of lonely sailors on a boat. There’s the various trade routes, and we have no ancient DNA from the rest of the world on this pathogen,” she said. “This study is great, in the sense we have more data and more genomes.”
A study of ancient DNA from Trepenoma pallidum infections published in Nature in January — which is currently under editorial review because questions have been raised about its data and conclusions — found a timeline that was earlier and which could have placed the emergence of syphilis-like diseases before people arrived in the Americas, suggesting it would have already been in Europe before Columbus voyaged back.
Kerttu Majander, an archaeogeneticist at the University of Basel who led that study, said the new work shows unprecedented diversity of disease-causing bacteria in the Americas, making it clear Columbus didn’t bring them to the Americas. But the question of whether there were already treponemal diseases already in Europe in some form “cannot be really proved or disproved” by this data.
Another outstanding question is why the version of the disease that swept Europe was so severe. Ancient genomes from Europe have shown that Treponema pallidum was present during the late 15th century— including yaws and syphilis. But the uncertainties around dating the skeletons makes it impossible to know whether these specimens were from before or after Columbus.
Understanding the differences between the subspecies that cause these different, but related, diseases is a key question for scientists trying to understand these diseases today.
“This could tell us more about why these diseases (syphilis, yaws, bejel) have such different disease presentations, and if we can find ways to optimise treatment and patient management as a result. The Origins are only important if they can help answer that question,” Mathew Beale, a senior staff scientist who studies bacterial evolutionary genetics at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, wrote in an email. He added that as is so often the case in science, the story is likely far from settled: “It is plausible that each set of new genomes will change things, repeatedly reopening the story.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2024/12/18/syphilis-ancient-dna-americas/?
Ta.
What were you watching in 1995?
Feral TV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2irkSCZJvM
Victoria police pull over driver of BMW ‘illegally’ covered in Christmas lights
The driver wasn’t speeding, but the officers considered the vehicle wasn’t legal because of its potential to seriously distract other road users.
It was a vehicle so festive it could have almost been Santa’s sleigh. There was just one problem: it wasn’t legal.
But the Victorian highway patrol officers who pulled over the driver of the particularly Christmasy BMW on Melbourne’s Monash freeway decided to give him an early present, giving him a warning rather than a $790 fine and a defect notice.
Prahran highway patrol officer Sen Con Josh Scarcella said he was targeting speeding drivers heading towards the city with his colleague when they spotted the BMW about 1am on 30 November.
“He was Chapel Street-bound, as they all are,” Scarcella said.
The driver wasn’t speeding, but the officers considered the vehicle defective because of its potential to seriously distract other road users. As well as the hefty fine, it would have resulted in the driver having to attend VicRoads to prove it was no longer defective after the lights were removed.
“He said ‘I’ve been waiting for this to happen, to see how I go’, or something along those lines,” Scarcella said.
“They were both in good spirits, we had a laugh with them.”
Scarcella said that about 1,000 pieces of tape were used to fix the lights to the car. It was running a dual battery system, with a 240 volt inverter and an extension lead being used to power the lights.
While police ordered them to take the lights off immediately, the pair couldn’t do it: the tape was so strong that it would have damaged the paint, so they told Scarcella they had to go home to use a heat gun in order to remove it.
Scarcella told them to send him a photo with the lights removed from the car within 24 hours, and let them go.
He confirmed his decision was motivated by the spirit of the season, and not the industrial action being undertaken by police in the state.
“It was more education piece for them, having those lights on a freeway is a bit of a distraction,” Scarcell said.
“They sent me a selfie about an hour later of them pulling them all off.”
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/dec/18/victoria-police-let-driver-who-illegally-drove-bmw-covered-with-christmas-lights-off-with-warning-ntwnfb
i’ll make my own breakfast, you look busy sleeping
Good morning Holidayers. Presently 18 degrees at the back door. There is some smoke in the air from the fires in the Grampians. We are forecast a sunny 32, which the firies are not happy about.
I’m going to Hamilton soon to do the supermarketing. I’ll take the camera and see how photogenic the smoke over the Grampians is.
ruby said:
Michael Leunig has died.
Sad.
‘Helicopter safari’ at Tasmanian wilderness beach sparked confusion, investigations, documents show
Stateline
By Adam Holmes
Wednesday 11 December
Helicopters landed on Noyhener Beach, Tasmania, 2020
In short:
Right-to-information documents show the confusion, panic and investigations that occurred after 16 helicopters made a sudden, unauthorised landing on a remote wilderness beach in Tasmania in 2020.
It culminated in advice from the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), but the “heli-safari” company behind the tour was able to argue that it was an “emergency” landing.
What’s next?
Debate around the use of helicopters to access wilderness areas in Tasmania is ongoing, including the extent to which they harm wilderness values.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-11/helibiz-hecopter-stop-tasmania-noyhener-beach-rti-documents/104707688
Canada has finally decided where to store its nuclear waste
It took 14 years to find a suitable site: a deep cavern in the rock
Dec 5th 2024
It took 14 years to find a spot on the barren saucer of ancient rock that encircles Hudson Bay, but on November 28th Canada’s nuclear waste was at last given a home. The Nuclear Waste Management Organisation (NWMO), a non-profit organisation established by Canada’s nuclear-power companies, announced that it had selected a site between Wabigoon Lake Ojibway Nation (WLON) and the town of Ignace, Ontario, to host a “deep geological repository”: a cavern drilled out of the rock, 500 metres underground, where Canada’s spent nuclear fuel will be stored in perpetuity.
Only a few countries are making serious efforts to build permanent storage for spent nuclear fuel. Finland is furthest ahead; it is set to put the first canisters of waste underground in 2025 or 2026. Canada is two decades behind. It is not expected to put any waste into the repository before 2040. But eventually the millions of bundles of spent nuclear fuel that Canada has accumulated will be nestled deep underground. It will be Canada’s first permanent storage site for the waste from nuclear-power plants, which will be radioactive for hundreds of thousands of years.
The selection process began with the NWMO asking towns and cities to put themselves forward as potential sites. The payoff was investment and the promise of good jobs. After an examination of the terrain, including seismic tests and borehole drilling, and a long process of community engagement, Ignace and WLON got the nod.
As the selection process honed in on Ignace, bright yellow placards started popping up across the surrounding region, emblazoned with “Say no to nuclear waste”. Opposition was fuelled by fear of disaster, minuscule though the chances of that are. But in the end, for a small town with few other prospects, the pros of the C$30bn ($22bn) repository outweighed the cons. Ignace held a referendum on the matter this summer. Three-quarters voted in favour. The chief of WLON, Clayton Wetelainen, calls the cavern one of the “most important responsibilities of our time”.
https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2024/12/05/canada-has-finally-decided-where-to-store-its-nuclear-waste
Using WD-40 to clean gunk off some tools. I love the smell of WD-40.
Good morning everybody. I hope the day finds you better than expected and continues that way.
It’s 21.6° C, 65% RH, partly cloudy and we have a light air. BoM forecasts a top of 27° C and not much chance of rain.
Agenda: breakfast – toasted cheese with vegemite underneath and pepper on top. Go to Cooloola Cove for groceries, return and pack groceries away. Lunch: a sausage roll from Campbell’s bake house. Likely an afternoon sleep for me. Dinner: reheated Chicken Paprikash (made Wednesday) with spirelli pasta.
I’ve already mad my coffee and done the washing up, including the stove top and benches.
Just as I started the washing up, a large cockroach crawled out of my t-shirt. I was able to flick it onto the floor. Urrrrgghh. Made me feel awful. I will have a shower soon and change my clothes. Mrs V is in there at the moment.
Michael V said:
Good morning everybody. I hope the day finds you better than expected and continues that way.It’s 21.6° C, 65% RH, partly cloudy and we have a light air. BoM forecasts a top of 27° C and not much chance of rain.
Agenda: breakfast – toasted cheese with vegemite underneath and pepper on top. Go to Cooloola Cove for groceries, return and pack groceries away. Lunch: a sausage roll from Campbell’s bake house. Likely an afternoon sleep for me. Dinner: reheated Chicken Paprikash (made Wednesday) with spirelli pasta.
I’ve already mad my coffee and done the washing up, including the stove top and benches.
Just as I started the washing up, a large cockroach crawled out of my t-shirt. I was able to flick it onto the floor. Urrrrgghh. Made me feel awful. I will have a shower soon and change my clothes. Mrs V is in there at the moment.
Got a few roaches trotting around here as well.
We’ll have to add some kind of appropriate trap for them in the next shopping order.
Spiny Norman said:
Michael V said:
Good morning everybody. I hope the day finds you better than expected and continues that way.It’s 21.6° C, 65% RH, partly cloudy and we have a light air. BoM forecasts a top of 27° C and not much chance of rain.
Agenda: breakfast – toasted cheese with vegemite underneath and pepper on top. Go to Cooloola Cove for groceries, return and pack groceries away. Lunch: a sausage roll from Campbell’s bake house. Likely an afternoon sleep for me. Dinner: reheated Chicken Paprikash (made Wednesday) with spirelli pasta.
I’ve already mad my coffee and done the washing up, including the stove top and benches.
Just as I started the washing up, a large cockroach crawled out of my t-shirt. I was able to flick it onto the floor. Urrrrgghh. Made me feel awful. I will have a shower soon and change my clothes. Mrs V is in there at the moment.
Got a few roaches trotting around here as well.
We’ll have to add some kind of appropriate trap for them in the next shopping order.
We have baits out (and they are relatively fresh – we replace them on time) but somehow some escape. Tis one didn’t. I heard Mrs V killing it with her thong. She seems to get a lot of pleasure out of that. I won’t have a shower yet, because she’s put a load of washing on.
What sort of traps do you use? How successful are they?
Michael V said:
Spiny Norman said:
Michael V said:
Good morning everybody. I hope the day finds you better than expected and continues that way.It’s 21.6° C, 65% RH, partly cloudy and we have a light air. BoM forecasts a top of 27° C and not much chance of rain.
Agenda: breakfast – toasted cheese with vegemite underneath and pepper on top. Go to Cooloola Cove for groceries, return and pack groceries away. Lunch: a sausage roll from Campbell’s bake house. Likely an afternoon sleep for me. Dinner: reheated Chicken Paprikash (made Wednesday) with spirelli pasta.
I’ve already mad my coffee and done the washing up, including the stove top and benches.
Just as I started the washing up, a large cockroach crawled out of my t-shirt. I was able to flick it onto the floor. Urrrrgghh. Made me feel awful. I will have a shower soon and change my clothes. Mrs V is in there at the moment.
Got a few roaches trotting around here as well.
We’ll have to add some kind of appropriate trap for them in the next shopping order.
We have baits out (and they are relatively fresh – we replace them on time) but somehow some escape. Tis one didn’t. I heard Mrs V killing it with her thong. She seems to get a lot of pleasure out of that. I won’t have a shower yet, because she’s put a load of washing on.
What sort of traps do you use? How successful are they?
Haven’t got any yet, but I will be later this morning. I’m getting a COVID booster jab at 9:30 and I’ll do a little shopping after that.
This is what the local Coles have, I’ll pick a couple from there.
A major journalism body has urged Apple to scrap its new generative AI feature after it created a misleading headline about a high-profile killing in the United States.
The BBC made a complaint to the US tech giant after Apple Intelligence, which uses artificial intelligence (AI) to summarise and group together notifications, falsely created a headline about murder suspect Luigi Mangione.
The AI-powered summary falsely made it appear that BBC News had published an article claiming Mangione, the man accused of the murder of healthcare insurance CEO Brian Thompson in New York, had shot himself. He has not.
Now, the group Reporters Without Borders has called on Apple to remove the technology. Apple has made no comment.
Apple urged to axe AI feature after false headline
see the whole article here
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2v778×85yo
had read earlier
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Leunig
checked me email
need walk larry in a moment, when get back pump tyres up on the wheeled travel capsule after that
what else, thinkies while I walks I will
Spiny Norman said:
This is what the local Coles have, I’ll pick a couple from there.
We’ve been using this one, but they don’t kill them all. The one that was in my t-shirt was very slow and groggy once I flicked it onto the floor.
https://www.coles.com.au/product/mortein-powergard-cockroach-baits-12-pack-3014147
Michael V said:
Spiny Norman said:
This is what the local Coles have, I’ll pick a couple from there.We’ve been using this one, but they don’t kill them all. The one that was in my t-shirt was very slow and groggy once I flicked it onto the floor.
https://www.coles.com.au/product/mortein-powergard-cockroach-baits-12-pack-3014147
Ta.
I’ve decided on getting the Yates baits, I’ll let you know how they go.
And if you require proof, I can pop the dead roaches into a box and post them to you.
Spiny Norman said:
Michael V said:
Spiny Norman said:
This is what the local Coles have, I’ll pick a couple from there.We’ve been using this one, but they don’t kill them all. The one that was in my t-shirt was very slow and groggy once I flicked it onto the floor.
https://www.coles.com.au/product/mortein-powergard-cockroach-baits-12-pack-3014147
Ta.
I’ve decided on getting the Yates baits, I’ll let you know how they go.
And if you require proof, I can pop the dead roaches into a box and post them to you.
You can spray the creept crawly mortein along entry places like the bottoms of doors, every six months.
Spiny Norman said:
Michael V said:
Spiny Norman said:
This is what the local Coles have, I’ll pick a couple from there.We’ve been using this one, but they don’t kill them all. The one that was in my t-shirt was very slow and groggy once I flicked it onto the floor.
https://www.coles.com.au/product/mortein-powergard-cockroach-baits-12-pack-3014147
Ta.
I’ve decided on getting the Yates baits, I’ll let you know how they go.
And if you require proof, I can pop the dead roaches into a box and post them to you.
We rarely see dead roaches. I don’t know here they go to die.
roughbarked said:
Spiny Norman said:
Michael V said:We’ve been using this one, but they don’t kill them all. The one that was in my t-shirt was very slow and groggy once I flicked it onto the floor.
https://www.coles.com.au/product/mortein-powergard-cockroach-baits-12-pack-3014147
Ta.
I’ve decided on getting the Yates baits, I’ll let you know how they go.
And if you require proof, I can pop the dead roaches into a box and post them to you.
You can spray the creept crawly mortein along entry places like the bottoms of doors, every six months.
It’d be hard to break the habit of a lifetime – I don’t use insect sprays.
Michael V said:
roughbarked said:
Spiny Norman said:Ta.
I’ve decided on getting the Yates baits, I’ll let you know how they go.
And if you require proof, I can pop the dead roaches into a box and post them to you.
You can spray the creept crawly mortein along entry places like the bottoms of doors, every six months.
It’d be hard to break the habit of a lifetime – I don’t use insect sprays.
Good. I know people who use Baygon in all their drawers.
Tthe stickytraps or the bait staions seem to work well enough.
roughbarked said:
Cadbury ruins Hobart beach goers Christmas swim
Just read that.
Alternative headline:
‘Cadbury waste products so vile, even the poo-farm can’t deal with it’.
Michael V said:
Spiny Norman said:
Michael V said:We’ve been using this one, but they don’t kill them all. The one that was in my t-shirt was very slow and groggy once I flicked it onto the floor.
https://www.coles.com.au/product/mortein-powergard-cockroach-baits-12-pack-3014147
Ta.
I’ve decided on getting the Yates baits, I’ll let you know how they go.
And if you require proof, I can pop the dead roaches into a box and post them to you.
We rarely see dead roaches. I don’t know here they go to die.
There was a cockroach on a wall at our place last night, my 19 yr old hates them, so I made her go kill it so she can demonstrate to the other cockroaches her ultimate power and they stay away.
Roaches are the one thing that are NOT catch and release in this house.
I’m back from Hamilton. I think the fire dragon has woken up again this morning. Photo as I was going to Hamilton, when I was in quite a pall of smoke but a good distance from the fire.
And when I was coming home again just now. You could actually see the billows going up on the left side of the photo.
Going to the bakery for an iced chocolate now and then I expect we spend the day waiting. We should be fine here if the wind forecasts are right. But I’ll make sure alll the sprinklers are in place.
Arts said:
Michael V said:
Spiny Norman said:
Ta.
I’ve decided on getting the Yates baits, I’ll let you know how they go.
And if you require proof, I can pop the dead roaches into a box and post them to you.
We rarely see dead roaches. I don’t know here they go to die.
There was a cockroach on a wall at our place last night, my 19 yr old hates them, so I made her go kill it so she can demonstrate to the other cockroaches her ultimate power and they stay away.
Roaches are the one thing that are NOT catch and release in this house.
mosquitoes and other flies all good then
buffy said:
Going to the bakery for an iced chocolate now and then I expect we spend the day waiting. We should be fine here if the wind forecasts are right. But I’ll make sure alll the sprinklers are in place.
Have you got a Go bag ready.
the abc double posted too.
SCIENCE said:
Arts said:
Michael V said:
We rarely see dead roaches. I don’t know here they go to die.
There was a cockroach on a wall at our place last night, my 19 yr old hates them, so I made her go kill it so she can demonstrate to the other cockroaches her ultimate power and they stay away.
Roaches are the one thing that are NOT catch and release in this house.
mosquitoes and other flies all good then
We don’t get mossies inside the house. And rarely flies, but we do try to shooo the flies out… sometimes they just stupid and so they end up in the window sills, but that fate’s work, I can’t claim that.
Arts said:
SCIENCE said:Arts said:
There was a cockroach on a wall at our place last night, my 19 yr old hates them, so I made her go kill it so she can demonstrate to the other cockroaches her ultimate power and they stay away.
Roaches are the one thing that are NOT catch and release in this house.
mosquitoes and other flies all good then
We don’t get mossies inside the house. And rarely flies, but we do try to shooo the flies out… sometimes they just stupid and so they end up in the window sills, but that fate’s work, I can’t claim that.
a fact that is probably unknown on this forum is that on some of the older printing presses there were devices called shoe flies.
Today is my last day of work before the break and designated LSP.
The LSP is great because I can do all the things I do nots to procrastinate but without the guilt.
JudgeMental said:
Arts said:
SCIENCE said:mosquitoes and other flies all good then
We don’t get mossies inside the house. And rarely flies, but we do try to shooo the flies out… sometimes they just stupid and so they end up in the window sills, but that fate’s work, I can’t claim that.
a fact that is probably unknown on this forum is that on some of the older printing presses there were devices called shoe flies.
YOU JUST MADE THAT UP
Peak Warming Man said:
JudgeMental said:
Arts said:We don’t get mossies inside the house. And rarely flies, but we do try to shooo the flies out… sometimes they just stupid and so they end up in the window sills, but that fate’s work, I can’t claim that.
a fact that is probably unknown on this forum is that on some of the older printing presses there were devices called shoe flies.
YOU JUST MADE THAT UP
Drat, i would have gotten away with it except for that damn kid!!!
JudgeMental said:
Peak Warming Man said:
JudgeMental said:a fact that is probably unknown on this forum is that on some of the older printing presses there were devices called shoe flies.
YOU JUST MADE THAT UP
Drat, i would have gotten away with it except for that damn kid!!!
is the emperor stripping again
Peak Warming Man said:
JudgeMental said:
Arts said:We don’t get mossies inside the house. And rarely flies, but we do try to shooo the flies out… sometimes they just stupid and so they end up in the window sills, but that fate’s work, I can’t claim that.
a fact that is probably unknown on this forum is that on some of the older printing presses there were devices called shoe flies.
YOU JUST MADE THAT UP
https://patents.google.com/patent/ZA821764B/en
“The BBC has been slammed as ‘so biased’ for its refusal to play an anti-Starmer Christmas song which has now hit No 1 downloads in the charts.
Freezing This Christmas is all about the government’s slashing of winter fuel payments for pensioners and the resultant ‘hardship’ inflicted on its victims.”
The BBC has every right not to play something that takes the piss out of a Knight of the Relm and one of the Chaps, some would say a duty.
Arts said:
Michael V said:
Spiny Norman said:Ta.
I’ve decided on getting the Yates baits, I’ll let you know how they go.
And if you require proof, I can pop the dead roaches into a box and post them to you.
We rarely see dead roaches. I don’t know here they go to die.
There was a cockroach on a wall at our place last night, my 19 yr old hates them, so I made her go kill it so she can demonstrate to the other cockroaches her ultimate power and they stay away.
Roaches are the one thing that are NOT catch and release in this house.
I had a large one on the kitchen wall a month or so ago. Sprayed it, and it dropped down onto the top of the cupboard. I thought that was a good outcome. At some point it must have struggled over the edge of the cupboard and dived into the sink full dishes soaking*. I found it later that morning, dead. With my bare hand. In the lukewarm water.
*with the very low humidity here dishes need to be soaked before loading into the dishwasher. The tiniest skerrick will be like concrete if left to its own devices. The water is so hard that the dishwasher is the best way to get no hard water stains.
It’s complicated.
Peak Warming Man said:
buffy said:
Going to the bakery for an iced chocolate now and then I expect we spend the day waiting. We should be fine here if the wind forecasts are right. But I’ll make sure alll the sprinklers are in place.
Have you got a Go bag ready.
All documents are in fireproof box and fireproof safe. We still have a stay and defend plan for now.
Back from the bakery. I’ll be outside for a short time making sure sprinklers are set properly and the buckets and mops are all ready.
Arts said:
SCIENCE said:Arts said:
There was a cockroach on a wall at our place last night, my 19 yr old hates them, so I made her go kill it so she can demonstrate to the other cockroaches her ultimate power and they stay away.
Roaches are the one thing that are NOT catch and release in this house.
mosquitoes and other flies all good then
We don’t get mossies inside the house. And rarely flies, but we do try to shooo the flies out… sometimes they just stupid and so they end up in the window sills, but that fate’s work, I can’t claim that.
A strange story about a fly.
In my third year at Uni, I took on a contract to paint a new commercial premises in town. I painted the final dark green coat onto the window sills one evening. I came in in the morning to check them out. I found a fly, alive, but trapped in the now-well-skinned-over paint. I used a new razor blade in my holder to cut the legs off, extremely close to the paint, expecting the fly to die. Instead, it flew away.
Nobody would ever see the slight blemish (6 tiny black projections) so I didn’t have to put another coat of paint on.
Michael V said:
Arts said:
SCIENCE said:mosquitoes and other flies all good then
We don’t get mossies inside the house. And rarely flies, but we do try to shooo the flies out… sometimes they just stupid and so they end up in the window sills, but that fate’s work, I can’t claim that.
A strange story about a fly.
In my third year at Uni, I took on a contract to paint a new commercial premises in town. I painted the final dark green coat onto the window sills one evening. I came in in the morning to check them out. I found a fly, alive, but trapped in the now-well-skinned-over paint. I used a new razor blade in my holder to cut the legs off, extremely close to the paint, expecting the fly to die. Instead, it flew away.
Nobody would ever see the slight blemish (6 tiny black projections) so I didn’t have to put another coat of paint on.
so, better than this attempt then..
JudgeMental said:
Arts said:
SCIENCE said:mosquitoes and other flies all good then
We don’t get mossies inside the house. And rarely flies, but we do try to shooo the flies out… sometimes they just stupid and so they end up in the window sills, but that fate’s work, I can’t claim that.
a fact that is probably unknown on this forum is that on some of the older printing presses there were devices called shoe flies.
Pennsylvania Dutch cuisine has “shoofly pie” as a dessert.
kii said:
Arts said:
Michael V said:We rarely see dead roaches. I don’t know here they go to die.
There was a cockroach on a wall at our place last night, my 19 yr old hates them, so I made her go kill it so she can demonstrate to the other cockroaches her ultimate power and they stay away.
Roaches are the one thing that are NOT catch and release in this house.
I had a large one on the kitchen wall a month or so ago. Sprayed it, and it dropped down onto the top of the cupboard. I thought that was a good outcome. At some point it must have struggled over the edge of the cupboard and dived into the sink full dishes soaking*. I found it later that morning, dead. With my bare hand. In the lukewarm water.
*with the very low humidity here dishes need to be soaked before loading into the dishwasher. The tiniest skerrick will be like concrete if left to its own devices. The water is so hard that the dishwasher is the best way to get no hard water stains.
It’s complicated.
sounds horrible.
Hello
kii said:
Arts said:
Michael V said:We rarely see dead roaches. I don’t know here they go to die.
There was a cockroach on a wall at our place last night, my 19 yr old hates them, so I made her go kill it so she can demonstrate to the other cockroaches her ultimate power and they stay away.
Roaches are the one thing that are NOT catch and release in this house.
I had a large one on the kitchen wall a month or so ago. Sprayed it, and it dropped down onto the top of the cupboard. I thought that was a good outcome. At some point it must have struggled over the edge of the cupboard and dived into the sink full dishes soaking*. I found it later that morning, dead. With my bare hand. In the lukewarm water.
*with the very low humidity here dishes need to be soaked before loading into the dishwasher. The tiniest skerrick will be like concrete if left to its own devices. The water is so hard that the dishwasher is the best way to get no hard water stains.
It’s complicated.
How do you deal with bathroom hard water stains?
Arts said:
Michael V said:
Arts said:We don’t get mossies inside the house. And rarely flies, but we do try to shooo the flies out… sometimes they just stupid and so they end up in the window sills, but that fate’s work, I can’t claim that.
A strange story about a fly.
In my third year at Uni, I took on a contract to paint a new commercial premises in town. I painted the final dark green coat onto the window sills one evening. I came in in the morning to check them out. I found a fly, alive, but trapped in the now-well-skinned-over paint. I used a new razor blade in my holder to cut the legs off, extremely close to the paint, expecting the fly to die. Instead, it flew away.
Nobody would ever see the slight blemish (6 tiny black projections) so I didn’t have to put another coat of paint on.
so, better than this attempt then..
Ha!
Definitely.
(That’s a cockroach.)
Arts said:
kii said:
Arts said:There was a cockroach on a wall at our place last night, my 19 yr old hates them, so I made her go kill it so she can demonstrate to the other cockroaches her ultimate power and they stay away.
Roaches are the one thing that are NOT catch and release in this house.
I had a large one on the kitchen wall a month or so ago. Sprayed it, and it dropped down onto the top of the cupboard. I thought that was a good outcome. At some point it must have struggled over the edge of the cupboard and dived into the sink full dishes soaking*. I found it later that morning, dead. With my bare hand. In the lukewarm water.
*with the very low humidity here dishes need to be soaked before loading into the dishwasher. The tiniest skerrick will be like concrete if left to its own devices. The water is so hard that the dishwasher is the best way to get no hard water stains.
It’s complicated.
sounds horrible.
ah well we suppose gloves exist for a reason
SCIENCE said:
Arts said:
kii said:I had a large one on the kitchen wall a month or so ago. Sprayed it, and it dropped down onto the top of the cupboard. I thought that was a good outcome. At some point it must have struggled over the edge of the cupboard and dived into the sink full dishes soaking*. I found it later that morning, dead. With my bare hand. In the lukewarm water.
*with the very low humidity here dishes need to be soaked before loading into the dishwasher. The tiniest skerrick will be like concrete if left to its own devices. The water is so hard that the dishwasher is the best way to get no hard water stains.
It’s complicated.
sounds horrible.
ah well we suppose gloves exist for a reason
how do you get the roach to wear them?
Arts said:
kii said:
Arts said:There was a cockroach on a wall at our place last night, my 19 yr old hates them, so I made her go kill it so she can demonstrate to the other cockroaches her ultimate power and they stay away.
Roaches are the one thing that are NOT catch and release in this house.
I had a large one on the kitchen wall a month or so ago. Sprayed it, and it dropped down onto the top of the cupboard. I thought that was a good outcome. At some point it must have struggled over the edge of the cupboard and dived into the sink full dishes soaking*. I found it later that morning, dead. With my bare hand. In the lukewarm water.
*with the very low humidity here dishes need to be soaked before loading into the dishwasher. The tiniest skerrick will be like concrete if left to its own devices. The water is so hard that the dishwasher is the best way to get no hard water stains.
It’s complicated.
sounds horrible.
Dead soggy cockroach is pretty blergh.
The dirty dishes dance is bearable. We could have installed a water softener, but mr kii hated the feeling of soft water in the shower.
Michael V said:
Arts said:
SCIENCE said:mosquitoes and other flies all good then
We don’t get mossies inside the house. And rarely flies, but we do try to shooo the flies out… sometimes they just stupid and so they end up in the window sills, but that fate’s work, I can’t claim that.
A strange story about a fly.
In my third year at Uni, I took on a contract to paint a new commercial premises in town. I painted the final dark green coat onto the window sills one evening. I came in in the morning to check them out. I found a fly, alive, but trapped in the now-well-skinned-over paint. I used a new razor blade in my holder to cut the legs off, extremely close to the paint, expecting the fly to die. Instead, it flew away.
Nobody would ever see the slight blemish (6 tiny black projections) so I didn’t have to put another coat of paint on.
The fly would no longer be able to taste it’s food.
Arts said:
Michael V said:
Arts said:We don’t get mossies inside the house. And rarely flies, but we do try to shooo the flies out… sometimes they just stupid and so they end up in the window sills, but that fate’s work, I can’t claim that.
A strange story about a fly.
In my third year at Uni, I took on a contract to paint a new commercial premises in town. I painted the final dark green coat onto the window sills one evening. I came in in the morning to check them out. I found a fly, alive, but trapped in the now-well-skinned-over paint. I used a new razor blade in my holder to cut the legs off, extremely close to the paint, expecting the fly to die. Instead, it flew away.
Nobody would ever see the slight blemish (6 tiny black projections) so I didn’t have to put another coat of paint on.
so, better than this attempt then..
Quite artisitic.
Michael V said:
kii said:
Arts said:There was a cockroach on a wall at our place last night, my 19 yr old hates them, so I made her go kill it so she can demonstrate to the other cockroaches her ultimate power and they stay away.
Roaches are the one thing that are NOT catch and release in this house.
I had a large one on the kitchen wall a month or so ago. Sprayed it, and it dropped down onto the top of the cupboard. I thought that was a good outcome. At some point it must have struggled over the edge of the cupboard and dived into the sink full dishes soaking*. I found it later that morning, dead. With my bare hand. In the lukewarm water.
*with the very low humidity here dishes need to be soaked before loading into the dishwasher. The tiniest skerrick will be like concrete if left to its own devices. The water is so hard that the dishwasher is the best way to get no hard water stains.
It’s complicated.
How do you deal with bathroom hard water stains?
Ignore them on the dark blue tiles. We didn’t tile the bathroom.
Arts said:
SCIENCE said:
Arts said:
sounds horrible.
ah well we suppose gloves exist for a reason
how do you get the roach to wear them?
kii said:
Arts said:
kii said:I had a large one on the kitchen wall a month or so ago. Sprayed it, and it dropped down onto the top of the cupboard. I thought that was a good outcome. At some point it must have struggled over the edge of the cupboard and dived into the sink full dishes soaking*. I found it later that morning, dead. With my bare hand. In the lukewarm water.
*with the very low humidity here dishes need to be soaked before loading into the dishwasher. The tiniest skerrick will be like concrete if left to its own devices. The water is so hard that the dishwasher is the best way to get no hard water stains.
It’s complicated.
sounds horrible.
Dead soggy cockroach is pretty blergh.
The dirty dishes dance is bearable. We could have installed a water softener, but mr kii hated the feeling of soft water in the shower.
A water softener? Never heard of such a thing. I’ll see what I can find.
kii said:
Arts said:
kii said:
I had a large one on the kitchen wall a month or so ago. Sprayed it, and it dropped down onto the top of the cupboard. I thought that was a good outcome. At some point it must have struggled over the edge of the cupboard and dived into the sink full dishes soaking*. I found it later that morning, dead. With my bare hand. In the lukewarm water.
*with the very low humidity here dishes need to be soaked before loading into the dishwasher. The tiniest skerrick will be like concrete if left to its own devices. The water is so hard that the dishwasher is the best way to get no hard water stains.
It’s complicated.
sounds horrible.
Dead soggy cockroach is pretty blergh.
The dirty dishes dance is bearable. We could have installed a water softener, but mr kii hated the feeling of soft water in the shower.
Just shower in the harsh Siberian winter then¡
Arts said:
Michael V said:
Arts said:We don’t get mossies inside the house. And rarely flies, but we do try to shooo the flies out… sometimes they just stupid and so they end up in the window sills, but that fate’s work, I can’t claim that.
A strange story about a fly.
In my third year at Uni, I took on a contract to paint a new commercial premises in town. I painted the final dark green coat onto the window sills one evening. I came in in the morning to check them out. I found a fly, alive, but trapped in the now-well-skinned-over paint. I used a new razor blade in my holder to cut the legs off, extremely close to the paint, expecting the fly to die. Instead, it flew away.
Nobody would ever see the slight blemish (6 tiny black projections) so I didn’t have to put another coat of paint on.
so, better than this attempt then..
Hehe
SCIENCE said:
Arts said:
SCIENCE said:
ah well we suppose gloves exist for a reason
how do you get the roach to wear them?
Use that thane roach flash
Peak Warming Man said:
Arts said:
Michael V said:
A strange story about a fly.
In my third year at Uni, I took on a contract to paint a new commercial premises in town. I painted the final dark green coat onto the window sills one evening. I came in in the morning to check them out. I found a fly, alive, but trapped in the now-well-skinned-over paint. I used a new razor blade in my holder to cut the legs off, extremely close to the paint, expecting the fly to die. Instead, it flew away.
Nobody would ever see the slight blemish (6 tiny black projections) so I didn’t have to put another coat of paint on.
so, better than this attempt then..
Hehe
Arts said:
Michael V said:
Arts said:We don’t get mossies inside the house. And rarely flies, but we do try to shooo the flies out… sometimes they just stupid and so they end up in the window sills, but that fate’s work, I can’t claim that.
A strange story about a fly.
In my third year at Uni, I took on a contract to paint a new commercial premises in town. I painted the final dark green coat onto the window sills one evening. I came in in the morning to check them out. I found a fly, alive, but trapped in the now-well-skinned-over paint. I used a new razor blade in my holder to cut the legs off, extremely close to the paint, expecting the fly to die. Instead, it flew away.
Nobody would ever see the slight blemish (6 tiny black projections) so I didn’t have to put another coat of paint on.
so, better than this attempt then..
BREAKING
Peak Warming Man said:
BREAKING
Easy.
Tell Wills that ‘it’s his duty’.
Tell Harry that she did not want him to eat it.
Arts said:
Michael V said:
Arts said:We don’t get mossies inside the house. And rarely flies, but we do try to shooo the flies out… sometimes they just stupid and so they end up in the window sills, but that fate’s work, I can’t claim that.
A strange story about a fly.
In my third year at Uni, I took on a contract to paint a new commercial premises in town. I painted the final dark green coat onto the window sills one evening. I came in in the morning to check them out. I found a fly, alive, but trapped in the now-well-skinned-over paint. I used a new razor blade in my holder to cut the legs off, extremely close to the paint, expecting the fly to die. Instead, it flew away.
Nobody would ever see the slight blemish (6 tiny black projections) so I didn’t have to put another coat of paint on.
so, better than this attempt then..
Something odd going on with the interwebs here. Mr buffy’s computer, which is plugged in to the wall box from the dish on the roof which talks to Mt Rouse tower is not interwebbing, but timing out. It’s been gradually getting worse over a week or so. But…email is working fine. My computer and Mr buffy’s laptop both seem to be working OK on wifi. Slowish, but working. We are due for equipment upgrades according to Telstra, but that won’t happen until next year. Seems to me that it’s likely to be Telstra that is the problem rather than Mr buffy’s reasonably new computer. Do you nerds think unplugging it and going wireless might fix it for now?
All the usual turn off and turn on again, of computer and wall box, didn’t help matters.
buffy said:
Something odd going on with the interwebs here. Mr buffy’s computer, which is plugged in to the wall box from the dish on the roof which talks to Mt Rouse tower is not interwebbing, but timing out. It’s been gradually getting worse over a week or so. But…email is working fine. My computer and Mr buffy’s laptop both seem to be working OK on wifi. Slowish, but working. We are due for equipment upgrades according to Telstra, but that won’t happen until next year. Seems to me that it’s likely to be Telstra that is the problem rather than Mr buffy’s reasonably new computer. Do you nerds think unplugging it and going wireless might fix it for now?All the usual turn off and turn on again, of computer and wall box, didn’t help matters.
You could try connecting a smartphone hotspot.
buffy said:
Something odd going on with the interwebs here. Mr buffy’s computer, which is plugged in to the wall box from the dish on the roof which talks to Mt Rouse tower is not interwebbing, but timing out. It’s been gradually getting worse over a week or so. But…email is working fine. My computer and Mr buffy’s laptop both seem to be working OK on wifi. Slowish, but working. We are due for equipment upgrades according to Telstra, but that won’t happen until next year. Seems to me that it’s likely to be Telstra that is the problem rather than Mr buffy’s reasonably new computer. Do you nerds think unplugging it and going wireless might fix it for now?All the usual turn off and turn on again, of computer and wall box, didn’t help matters.
Please clarify the wifi.
1) Is it Telstra-provided mobile phone (4G or 5G type) wifi?
2) Or is it wifi from the router attached to your roof dish?
Peak Warming Man said:
BREAKING
MORE BREAKING NEWS!
Michael V said:
buffy said:
Something odd going on with the interwebs here. Mr buffy’s computer, which is plugged in to the wall box from the dish on the roof which talks to Mt Rouse tower is not interwebbing, but timing out. It’s been gradually getting worse over a week or so. But…email is working fine. My computer and Mr buffy’s laptop both seem to be working OK on wifi. Slowish, but working. We are due for equipment upgrades according to Telstra, but that won’t happen until next year. Seems to me that it’s likely to be Telstra that is the problem rather than Mr buffy’s reasonably new computer. Do you nerds think unplugging it and going wireless might fix it for now?All the usual turn off and turn on again, of computer and wall box, didn’t help matters.
Please clarify the wifi.
1) Is it Telstra-provided mobile phone (4G or 5G type) wifi?
2) Or is it wifi from the router attached to your roof dish?
2. As far as I know.
4/10 in the quiz
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-20/weekly-news-quiz-december-20/104745068
I think I can post a question without spoiling anything.
“Esna Boyd will be inducted into the Australian hall of fame for her involvement in tennis. How many Australian Championship titles has she won?”
I love the optimism expressed by the use of the present perfect simple tense rather than past simple tense
Hmm, Grampians fire is now 7800+ hectares. They must be holding it at the tourist road, because the edge of burn on the map runs along the road.
dv said:
4/10 in the quiz
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-20/weekly-news-quiz-december-20/104745068I think I can post a question without spoiling anything.
“Esna Boyd will be inducted into the Australian hall of fame for her involvement in tennis. How many Australian Championship titles has she won?”
I love the optimism expressed by the use of the present perfect simple tense rather than past simple tense
3/10 I don’t think I actually knew any of those.
I have to make some lemon cordial. Back later.
buffy said:
Michael V said:
buffy said:
Something odd going on with the interwebs here. Mr buffy’s computer, which is plugged in to the wall box from the dish on the roof which talks to Mt Rouse tower is not interwebbing, but timing out. It’s been gradually getting worse over a week or so. But…email is working fine. My computer and Mr buffy’s laptop both seem to be working OK on wifi. Slowish, but working. We are due for equipment upgrades according to Telstra, but that won’t happen until next year. Seems to me that it’s likely to be Telstra that is the problem rather than Mr buffy’s reasonably new computer. Do you nerds think unplugging it and going wireless might fix it for now?All the usual turn off and turn on again, of computer and wall box, didn’t help matters.
Please clarify the wifi.
1) Is it Telstra-provided mobile phone (4G or 5G type) wifi?
2) Or is it wifi from the router attached to your roof dish?
2. As far as I know.
If 2, then I don’t understand why the wifi works a bit, but the direct (wired, cable) connection doesn’t. Something may be wrong at your end.
dv said:
4/10 in the quiz
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-20/weekly-news-quiz-december-20/104745068I think I can post a question without spoiling anything.
“Esna Boyd will be inducted into the Australian hall of fame for her involvement in tennis. How many Australian Championship titles has she won?”
I love the optimism expressed by the use of the present perfect simple tense rather than past simple tense
6/30
Move over, Elon: China is building a train that’s faster than a jet
By Adrian Bridge
December 20, 2024 — 5.00am
It may not conform to romantic visions of scenic rail travel, but it is the very stuff of science fiction dreams – a new “floating train” being developed in China that is projected to reach speeds of more than 1000 km/h, making it faster than a commercial plane. Melbourne to Sydney for lunch? That’ll be under one hour; San Francisco to LA for a business meeting; make that 35 minutes; Beijing to Shanghai – just over an hour.
While speeds in excess of 900 km/h haven’t been reached yet, recent reports suggest that tests for China’s new “hyperloop” trains – which shoot through the air in tube-like constructions – are well advanced. The Chinese are not the first to attempt to revolutionise travel in this way – the idea of using pneumatic tube systems and compressed air for propulsion was first mooted more than 200 years ago; more recently Elon Musk and Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin have championed it.
But over the past two decades, China has outpaced all rivals in the conventional high-speed-rail stakes and would appear to have the resources, vision and determination to take it to the next level. So here’s what may lie further down the line; hold on to your seats…
How fast does it go?
In tests earlier this year, China’s aptly-named “T-Flight” train reportedly recorded a new world-record speed of 623 km/h. Those behind the project say the train has the capacity to accelerate to 1000 km/h), which would make it faster than a Boeing 737 plane travelling at a cruising speed of 900 km/h. Some reports suggest the train could ultimately break the sound barrier with a speed of 2000 km/h (not far behind the legendary supersonic Concorde).
How does it work?
The T-Flight trains make use of maglev (“magnetic levitation”) technology which sees magnetic force lifting the carriages above the track, eliminating the need for wheels and significantly reducing friction. Rather than travelling in the open air, these new floating trains utilise “hyperloop” technology to shoot through low-vacuum tubes with reduced air pressure enabling considerably greater speeds. In addition to being an extremely fast and efficient way of transporting lots of people, advocates say this form of travel could help reduce greenhouse gas emissions and air and noise pollution.
What will it be used for?
The primary aim for the T-Flight train is to make it easier for China’s 1.4 billion-strong population to travel speedily between major metropolitan conurbations, unifying the country in a way the 19th century railroads once did in North America, Russia and former British colonies such as India. It will also enable China to further the aims of its Belt and Road Initiative by deepening connections with its neighbours, such as Laos and Vietnam to the south, and the peninsula of Korea to the north east, which will be linked to the high-speed network.
What’s the world’s current fastest passenger train?
With a top speed of 431 km/h, the fastest operating train in the world right now is the Shanghai maglev, which is capable of covering the 30-kilometre journey from the airport to the city in less than eight minutes. In Japan, another maglev train, the L0 Series, due to come into service in 2027, has reached a test speed of 603 km/h, the world record before being overtaken by the T-Flight. The new Chinese train could reportedly come into service within a decade.
What happened to Elon Musk’s hyperloop dream?
Elon Musk’s hyperloop dream seems dead, for now.
In 2013, Musk revealed his vision for a hyperloop transportation system using energy derived from solar panels that could propel passenger pods through low-vacuum tubes at 1220 km/h, reducing the journey time between Los Angeles and San Francisco to just over 30 minutes. Hyperloop One, a company set up to develop Musk’s idea, attracted a host of investors, including Sir Richard Branson, but ultimately proved unsuccessful and ceased operations at the end of 2023. That said, another Musk venture, the Boring Company, continues to research hyperloop-related tunnel construction, as do other US concerns.
Why is hyperloop technology controversial?
Although it sounds wonderful – facilitating ultra-fast travel in a less environmentally-damaging way – the development of hyperloop technology has proved tricky and extremely costly; the tubes for the trains cannot run along existing rail tracks, necessitating the need for completely new infrastructure. It is also difficult to incorporate bends in the tubes, which need to be placed in long straight lines.
Who else is working on a superfast train right now?
In addition to China, hyperloop technology is being trialled in Switzerland, the Netherlands, the United States and Canada. India plans to begin research in 2026. Open-air (i.e. not within the tube framework) maglev trains are operational in only three countries: China, South Korea and, fittingly, Japan, birthplace of the Shinkansen bullet train. Germany has had a significant role in the development of the maglev system.
Which countries have the best conventional high-speed rail networks?
Outside the Asian powerhouses of China, Japan and South Korea, in Europe, Spain, France and Germany all have well-developed high-speed rail networks. Australia, of course, lags some way behind, as does the United States – once a railroad supremo – but long since in thrall to the plane and car.
Are there any downsides to ultra-high-speed trains?
While fast, travelling at very high speeds cocooned in a pod shooting through a tube means there is little chance to take in the passing scenery and enjoy the sensation of leisurely hours, new acquaintances and quiet reflection. The experience is likely at best to be functional; at worst, slightly claustrophobic. There could also be issues with Wi-Fi connectivity.
So is it going to happen?
The recent successful test of T-Flight in China has encouraged companies in the US to believe there could be renewed interest (and investment) in hyperloop technology. “China’s success is a clear demonstration that hyperloop technology is not a distant dream, but a rapidly emerging reality,” Andrés de León, CEO of US-based company HyperloopTT, told the IFLScience news website. Others remain sceptical.
“I’ll believe it when I see it,” says Mark Smith (founder of the seat61.com rail website). “That said, if anyone can make this work it will be the Chinese. They have the clout and they don’t have to worry about things like cost benefit analysis.”
https://www.theage.com.au/traveller/travel-news/move-over-elon-china-is-building-a-train-that-s-faster-than-a-jet-20241219-p5kzr5.html
Michael V said:
buffy said:
Michael V said:Please clarify the wifi.
1) Is it Telstra-provided mobile phone (4G or 5G type) wifi?
2) Or is it wifi from the router attached to your roof dish?
2. As far as I know.
If 2, then I don’t understand why the wifi works a bit, but the direct (wired, cable) connection doesn’t. Something may be wrong at your end.
It’s bafflin’.
Anyway, 2 litres of lemon cordial made and fridged. I’m going to check VicEmergency again and then have a siesta.
Witty Rejoinder said:
Move over, Elon: China is building a train that’s faster than a jet
By Adrian Bridge
December 20, 2024 — 5.00amIt may not conform to romantic visions of scenic rail travel, but it is the very stuff of science fiction dreams – a new “floating train” being developed in China that is projected to reach speeds of more than 1000 km/h, making it faster than a commercial plane. Melbourne to Sydney for lunch? That’ll be under one hour; San Francisco to LA for a business meeting; make that 35 minutes; Beijing to Shanghai – just over an hour.
While speeds in excess of 900 km/h haven’t been reached yet, recent reports suggest that tests for China’s new “hyperloop” trains – which shoot through the air in tube-like constructions – are well advanced. The Chinese are not the first to attempt to revolutionise travel in this way – the idea of using pneumatic tube systems and compressed air for propulsion was first mooted more than 200 years ago; more recently Elon Musk and Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin have championed it.
But over the past two decades, China has outpaced all rivals in the conventional high-speed-rail stakes and would appear to have the resources, vision and determination to take it to the next level. So here’s what may lie further down the line; hold on to your seats…
How fast does it go?
In tests earlier this year, China’s aptly-named “T-Flight” train reportedly recorded a new world-record speed of 623 km/h. Those behind the project say the train has the capacity to accelerate to 1000 km/h), which would make it faster than a Boeing 737 plane travelling at a cruising speed of 900 km/h. Some reports suggest the train could ultimately break the sound barrier with a speed of 2000 km/h (not far behind the legendary supersonic Concorde).How does it work?
The T-Flight trains make use of maglev (“magnetic levitation”) technology which sees magnetic force lifting the carriages above the track, eliminating the need for wheels and significantly reducing friction. Rather than travelling in the open air, these new floating trains utilise “hyperloop” technology to shoot through low-vacuum tubes with reduced air pressure enabling considerably greater speeds. In addition to being an extremely fast and efficient way of transporting lots of people, advocates say this form of travel could help reduce greenhouse gas emissions and air and noise pollution.What will it be used for?
The primary aim for the T-Flight train is to make it easier for China’s 1.4 billion-strong population to travel speedily between major metropolitan conurbations, unifying the country in a way the 19th century railroads once did in North America, Russia and former British colonies such as India. It will also enable China to further the aims of its Belt and Road Initiative by deepening connections with its neighbours, such as Laos and Vietnam to the south, and the peninsula of Korea to the north east, which will be linked to the high-speed network.What’s the world’s current fastest passenger train?
With a top speed of 431 km/h, the fastest operating train in the world right now is the Shanghai maglev, which is capable of covering the 30-kilometre journey from the airport to the city in less than eight minutes. In Japan, another maglev train, the L0 Series, due to come into service in 2027, has reached a test speed of 603 km/h, the world record before being overtaken by the T-Flight. The new Chinese train could reportedly come into service within a decade.What happened to Elon Musk’s hyperloop dream?
Elon Musk’s hyperloop dream seems dead, for now.In 2013, Musk revealed his vision for a hyperloop transportation system using energy derived from solar panels that could propel passenger pods through low-vacuum tubes at 1220 km/h, reducing the journey time between Los Angeles and San Francisco to just over 30 minutes. Hyperloop One, a company set up to develop Musk’s idea, attracted a host of investors, including Sir Richard Branson, but ultimately proved unsuccessful and ceased operations at the end of 2023. That said, another Musk venture, the Boring Company, continues to research hyperloop-related tunnel construction, as do other US concerns.
Why is hyperloop technology controversial?
Although it sounds wonderful – facilitating ultra-fast travel in a less environmentally-damaging way – the development of hyperloop technology has proved tricky and extremely costly; the tubes for the trains cannot run along existing rail tracks, necessitating the need for completely new infrastructure. It is also difficult to incorporate bends in the tubes, which need to be placed in long straight lines.Who else is working on a superfast train right now?
In addition to China, hyperloop technology is being trialled in Switzerland, the Netherlands, the United States and Canada. India plans to begin research in 2026. Open-air (i.e. not within the tube framework) maglev trains are operational in only three countries: China, South Korea and, fittingly, Japan, birthplace of the Shinkansen bullet train. Germany has had a significant role in the development of the maglev system.Which countries have the best conventional high-speed rail networks?
Outside the Asian powerhouses of China, Japan and South Korea, in Europe, Spain, France and Germany all have well-developed high-speed rail networks. Australia, of course, lags some way behind, as does the United States – once a railroad supremo – but long since in thrall to the plane and car.Are there any downsides to ultra-high-speed trains?
While fast, travelling at very high speeds cocooned in a pod shooting through a tube means there is little chance to take in the passing scenery and enjoy the sensation of leisurely hours, new acquaintances and quiet reflection. The experience is likely at best to be functional; at worst, slightly claustrophobic. There could also be issues with Wi-Fi connectivity.So is it going to happen?
The recent successful test of T-Flight in China has encouraged companies in the US to believe there could be renewed interest (and investment) in hyperloop technology. “China’s success is a clear demonstration that hyperloop technology is not a distant dream, but a rapidly emerging reality,” Andrés de León, CEO of US-based company HyperloopTT, told the IFLScience news website. Others remain sceptical.“I’ll believe it when I see it,” says Mark Smith (founder of the seat61.com rail website). “That said, if anyone can make this work it will be the Chinese. They have the clout and they don’t have to worry about things like cost benefit analysis.”
https://www.theage.com.au/traveller/travel-news/move-over-elon-china-is-building-a-train-that-s-faster-than-a-jet-20241219-p5kzr5.html
I’ve been on the Shanghai 431 km/h maglev and it was absolutely amazing. Quite smooth and quiet.
Hey Buffy, Spocky & I did out first archery lesson earlier in the week. It went okay, but we might try a different club.
At the ten metre mark I managed to get three out of four arrows into the smallest circle – deliberately!! – but that was a one-off.
Spiny Norman said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Move over, Elon: China is building a train that’s faster than a jet
By Adrian Bridge
December 20, 2024 — 5.00amIt may not conform to romantic visions of scenic rail travel, but it is the very stuff of science fiction dreams – a new “floating train” being developed in China that is projected to reach speeds of more than 1000 km/h, making it faster than a commercial plane. Melbourne to Sydney for lunch? That’ll be under one hour; San Francisco to LA for a business meeting; make that 35 minutes; Beijing to Shanghai – just over an hour.
While speeds in excess of 900 km/h haven’t been reached yet, recent reports suggest that tests for China’s new “hyperloop” trains – which shoot through the air in tube-like constructions – are well advanced. The Chinese are not the first to attempt to revolutionise travel in this way – the idea of using pneumatic tube systems and compressed air for propulsion was first mooted more than 200 years ago; more recently Elon Musk and Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin have championed it.
But over the past two decades, China has outpaced all rivals in the conventional high-speed-rail stakes and would appear to have the resources, vision and determination to take it to the next level. So here’s what may lie further down the line; hold on to your seats…
How fast does it go?
In tests earlier this year, China’s aptly-named “T-Flight” train reportedly recorded a new world-record speed of 623 km/h. Those behind the project say the train has the capacity to accelerate to 1000 km/h), which would make it faster than a Boeing 737 plane travelling at a cruising speed of 900 km/h. Some reports suggest the train could ultimately break the sound barrier with a speed of 2000 km/h (not far behind the legendary supersonic Concorde).How does it work?
The T-Flight trains make use of maglev (“magnetic levitation”) technology which sees magnetic force lifting the carriages above the track, eliminating the need for wheels and significantly reducing friction. Rather than travelling in the open air, these new floating trains utilise “hyperloop” technology to shoot through low-vacuum tubes with reduced air pressure enabling considerably greater speeds. In addition to being an extremely fast and efficient way of transporting lots of people, advocates say this form of travel could help reduce greenhouse gas emissions and air and noise pollution.What will it be used for?
The primary aim for the T-Flight train is to make it easier for China’s 1.4 billion-strong population to travel speedily between major metropolitan conurbations, unifying the country in a way the 19th century railroads once did in North America, Russia and former British colonies such as India. It will also enable China to further the aims of its Belt and Road Initiative by deepening connections with its neighbours, such as Laos and Vietnam to the south, and the peninsula of Korea to the north east, which will be linked to the high-speed network.What’s the world’s current fastest passenger train?
With a top speed of 431 km/h, the fastest operating train in the world right now is the Shanghai maglev, which is capable of covering the 30-kilometre journey from the airport to the city in less than eight minutes. In Japan, another maglev train, the L0 Series, due to come into service in 2027, has reached a test speed of 603 km/h, the world record before being overtaken by the T-Flight. The new Chinese train could reportedly come into service within a decade.What happened to Elon Musk’s hyperloop dream?
Elon Musk’s hyperloop dream seems dead, for now.In 2013, Musk revealed his vision for a hyperloop transportation system using energy derived from solar panels that could propel passenger pods through low-vacuum tubes at 1220 km/h, reducing the journey time between Los Angeles and San Francisco to just over 30 minutes. Hyperloop One, a company set up to develop Musk’s idea, attracted a host of investors, including Sir Richard Branson, but ultimately proved unsuccessful and ceased operations at the end of 2023. That said, another Musk venture, the Boring Company, continues to research hyperloop-related tunnel construction, as do other US concerns.
Why is hyperloop technology controversial?
Although it sounds wonderful – facilitating ultra-fast travel in a less environmentally-damaging way – the development of hyperloop technology has proved tricky and extremely costly; the tubes for the trains cannot run along existing rail tracks, necessitating the need for completely new infrastructure. It is also difficult to incorporate bends in the tubes, which need to be placed in long straight lines.Who else is working on a superfast train right now?
In addition to China, hyperloop technology is being trialled in Switzerland, the Netherlands, the United States and Canada. India plans to begin research in 2026. Open-air (i.e. not within the tube framework) maglev trains are operational in only three countries: China, South Korea and, fittingly, Japan, birthplace of the Shinkansen bullet train. Germany has had a significant role in the development of the maglev system.Which countries have the best conventional high-speed rail networks?
Outside the Asian powerhouses of China, Japan and South Korea, in Europe, Spain, France and Germany all have well-developed high-speed rail networks. Australia, of course, lags some way behind, as does the United States – once a railroad supremo – but long since in thrall to the plane and car.Are there any downsides to ultra-high-speed trains?
While fast, travelling at very high speeds cocooned in a pod shooting through a tube means there is little chance to take in the passing scenery and enjoy the sensation of leisurely hours, new acquaintances and quiet reflection. The experience is likely at best to be functional; at worst, slightly claustrophobic. There could also be issues with Wi-Fi connectivity.So is it going to happen?
The recent successful test of T-Flight in China has encouraged companies in the US to believe there could be renewed interest (and investment) in hyperloop technology. “China’s success is a clear demonstration that hyperloop technology is not a distant dream, but a rapidly emerging reality,” Andrés de León, CEO of US-based company HyperloopTT, told the IFLScience news website. Others remain sceptical.“I’ll believe it when I see it,” says Mark Smith (founder of the seat61.com rail website). “That said, if anyone can make this work it will be the Chinese. They have the clout and they don’t have to worry about things like cost benefit analysis.”
https://www.theage.com.au/traveller/travel-news/move-over-elon-china-is-building-a-train-that-s-faster-than-a-jet-20241219-p5kzr5.html
I’ve been on the Shanghai 431 km/h maglev and it was absolutely amazing. Quite smooth and quiet.
At that speed what did outside scenery look like, just a blur ?
Cymek said:
Spiny Norman said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Move over, Elon: China is building a train that’s faster than a jet
By Adrian Bridge
December 20, 2024 — 5.00amIt may not conform to romantic visions of scenic rail travel, but it is the very stuff of science fiction dreams – a new “floating train” being developed in China that is projected to reach speeds of more than 1000 km/h, making it faster than a commercial plane. Melbourne to Sydney for lunch? That’ll be under one hour; San Francisco to LA for a business meeting; make that 35 minutes; Beijing to Shanghai – just over an hour.
While speeds in excess of 900 km/h haven’t been reached yet, recent reports suggest that tests for China’s new “hyperloop” trains – which shoot through the air in tube-like constructions – are well advanced. The Chinese are not the first to attempt to revolutionise travel in this way – the idea of using pneumatic tube systems and compressed air for propulsion was first mooted more than 200 years ago; more recently Elon Musk and Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin have championed it.
But over the past two decades, China has outpaced all rivals in the conventional high-speed-rail stakes and would appear to have the resources, vision and determination to take it to the next level. So here’s what may lie further down the line; hold on to your seats…
How fast does it go?
In tests earlier this year, China’s aptly-named “T-Flight” train reportedly recorded a new world-record speed of 623 km/h. Those behind the project say the train has the capacity to accelerate to 1000 km/h), which would make it faster than a Boeing 737 plane travelling at a cruising speed of 900 km/h. Some reports suggest the train could ultimately break the sound barrier with a speed of 2000 km/h (not far behind the legendary supersonic Concorde).How does it work?
The T-Flight trains make use of maglev (“magnetic levitation”) technology which sees magnetic force lifting the carriages above the track, eliminating the need for wheels and significantly reducing friction. Rather than travelling in the open air, these new floating trains utilise “hyperloop” technology to shoot through low-vacuum tubes with reduced air pressure enabling considerably greater speeds. In addition to being an extremely fast and efficient way of transporting lots of people, advocates say this form of travel could help reduce greenhouse gas emissions and air and noise pollution.What will it be used for?
The primary aim for the T-Flight train is to make it easier for China’s 1.4 billion-strong population to travel speedily between major metropolitan conurbations, unifying the country in a way the 19th century railroads once did in North America, Russia and former British colonies such as India. It will also enable China to further the aims of its Belt and Road Initiative by deepening connections with its neighbours, such as Laos and Vietnam to the south, and the peninsula of Korea to the north east, which will be linked to the high-speed network.What’s the world’s current fastest passenger train?
With a top speed of 431 km/h, the fastest operating train in the world right now is the Shanghai maglev, which is capable of covering the 30-kilometre journey from the airport to the city in less than eight minutes. In Japan, another maglev train, the L0 Series, due to come into service in 2027, has reached a test speed of 603 km/h, the world record before being overtaken by the T-Flight. The new Chinese train could reportedly come into service within a decade.What happened to Elon Musk’s hyperloop dream?
Elon Musk’s hyperloop dream seems dead, for now.In 2013, Musk revealed his vision for a hyperloop transportation system using energy derived from solar panels that could propel passenger pods through low-vacuum tubes at 1220 km/h, reducing the journey time between Los Angeles and San Francisco to just over 30 minutes. Hyperloop One, a company set up to develop Musk’s idea, attracted a host of investors, including Sir Richard Branson, but ultimately proved unsuccessful and ceased operations at the end of 2023. That said, another Musk venture, the Boring Company, continues to research hyperloop-related tunnel construction, as do other US concerns.
Why is hyperloop technology controversial?
Although it sounds wonderful – facilitating ultra-fast travel in a less environmentally-damaging way – the development of hyperloop technology has proved tricky and extremely costly; the tubes for the trains cannot run along existing rail tracks, necessitating the need for completely new infrastructure. It is also difficult to incorporate bends in the tubes, which need to be placed in long straight lines.Who else is working on a superfast train right now?
In addition to China, hyperloop technology is being trialled in Switzerland, the Netherlands, the United States and Canada. India plans to begin research in 2026. Open-air (i.e. not within the tube framework) maglev trains are operational in only three countries: China, South Korea and, fittingly, Japan, birthplace of the Shinkansen bullet train. Germany has had a significant role in the development of the maglev system.Which countries have the best conventional high-speed rail networks?
Outside the Asian powerhouses of China, Japan and South Korea, in Europe, Spain, France and Germany all have well-developed high-speed rail networks. Australia, of course, lags some way behind, as does the United States – once a railroad supremo – but long since in thrall to the plane and car.Are there any downsides to ultra-high-speed trains?
While fast, travelling at very high speeds cocooned in a pod shooting through a tube means there is little chance to take in the passing scenery and enjoy the sensation of leisurely hours, new acquaintances and quiet reflection. The experience is likely at best to be functional; at worst, slightly claustrophobic. There could also be issues with Wi-Fi connectivity.So is it going to happen?
The recent successful test of T-Flight in China has encouraged companies in the US to believe there could be renewed interest (and investment) in hyperloop technology. “China’s success is a clear demonstration that hyperloop technology is not a distant dream, but a rapidly emerging reality,” Andrés de León, CEO of US-based company HyperloopTT, told the IFLScience news website. Others remain sceptical.“I’ll believe it when I see it,” says Mark Smith (founder of the seat61.com rail website). “That said, if anyone can make this work it will be the Chinese. They have the clout and they don’t have to worry about things like cost benefit analysis.”
https://www.theage.com.au/traveller/travel-news/move-over-elon-china-is-building-a-train-that-s-faster-than-a-jet-20241219-p5kzr5.html
I’ve been on the Shanghai 431 km/h maglev and it was absolutely amazing. Quite smooth and quiet.
At that speed what did outside scenery look like, just a blur ?
The close-up stuff, yeah pretty much.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-19/australian-cartoonist-michael-leunig-dies/104748614
https://www.facebook.com/share/r/19dx5M5snc/
Silly
fsm said:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-19/australian-cartoonist-michael-leunig-dies/104748614
LOL
Spiny Norman said:
Hey Buffy, Spocky & I did out first archery lesson earlier in the week. It went okay, but we might try a different club.
At the ten metre mark I managed to get three out of four arrows into the smallest circle – deliberately!! – but that was a one-off.
I still like archery, even though I’m not competitive. And it’s rather good for posture. As a friend said to me once…the “thunk” noise is very satisfying. Our club is very big on safety, which is fine by me. And we’ve got a good leader/coach who can coach to high level but is happy with those of us who do what he calls “Zen” archery.
:)
And the Grampians fire is now 10,000+ hectares. Mafeking has gone emergency, get out. Wind is moving round to the West, trending South, and gusting at 50+ km/hr. This is good for us, as we are South of the fire area. Not good for the Northern Grampians, and the Pomonal area that burnt earlier in the year.
buffy said:
And the Grampians fire is now 10,000+ hectares. Mafeking has gone emergency, get out. Wind is moving round to the West, trending South, and gusting at 50+ km/hr. This is good for us, as we are South of the fire area. Not good for the Northern Grampians, and the Pomonal area that burnt earlier in the year.
Steady lass.
Leunig is dead.
Leunig come back, I see the same image in TV.
How did that happen.
This will be fun for Xmas…
NSW Health is advising people to be alert for signs and symptoms of measles – including fever, sore eyes, and a cough, and later by a red blotchy rash – after being notified of a confirmed case who was infectious while visiting several locations in Inner Sydney.
Locations include the Sydney International Airport Arrivals terminal, Sydney CBD, including Circular Quay and The Rocks, Ultimo, Newtown, Redfern and Leichhardt.
For a full list of dates and locations: https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/news/Pages/20241220_02.aspx
Here you go Melbourne, we are sending you this. Although now the wind is moving round more to the South, you might miss the “enjoyment”.
From our street…them’s not rainclouds…
And I walked down through to the other side of the park for a broader view:
Peak Warming Man said:
buffy said:
And the Grampians fire is now 10,000+ hectares. Mafeking has gone emergency, get out. Wind is moving round to the West, trending South, and gusting at 50+ km/hr. This is good for us, as we are South of the fire area. Not good for the Northern Grampians, and the Pomonal area that burnt earlier in the year.
Steady lass.
I wonder when relief will come?
SCIENCE said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Arts said:
so, better than this attempt then..
Hehe
good news, han shot first
BACK with my Metformins. And luckily the IGA had shedloads of fine eggs, so that’s the egg problem solvered.
Horrid children outside the chemist were singing:
Rudolf the red-nosed reindeer
Had a very shiny dick!
…so hopefully Santa will be bringing them raw onions, too.
Bubblecar said:
BACK with my Metformins. And luckily the IGA had shedloads of fine eggs, so that’s the egg problem solvered.Horrid children outside the chemist were singing:
Rudolf the red-nosed reindeer
Had a very shiny dick!…so hopefully Santa will be bringing them raw onions, too.
… how did the rest of it go?
party_pants said:
Bubblecar said:
BACK with my Metformins. And luckily the IGA had shedloads of fine eggs, so that’s the egg problem solvered.Horrid children outside the chemist were singing:
Rudolf the red-nosed reindeer
Had a very shiny dick!…so hopefully Santa will be bringing them raw onions, too.
… how did the rest of it go?
I paid no attention.
Bubblecar said:
party_pants said:
Bubblecar said:
BACK with my Metformins. And luckily the IGA had shedloads of fine eggs, so that’s the egg problem solvered.Horrid children outside the chemist were singing:
Rudolf the red-nosed reindeer
Had a very shiny dick!…so hopefully Santa will be bringing them raw onions, too.
… how did the rest of it go?
I paid no attention.
guess I’ll never know then.
JudgeMental said:
Peak Warming Man said:
buffy said:
And the Grampians fire is now 10,000+ hectares. Mafeking has gone emergency, get out. Wind is moving round to the West, trending South, and gusting at 50+ km/hr. This is good for us, as we are South of the fire area. Not good for the Northern Grampians, and the Pomonal area that burnt earlier in the year.
Steady lass.
I wonder when relief will come?
For us…temp now dropped to low 20s and the wind is from the South. This is a Good Thing for us. This is Not a Good Thing for the little township of Mafeking.
buffy said:
JudgeMental said:
Peak Warming Man said:Steady lass.
I wonder when relief will come?
For us…temp now dropped to low 20s and the wind is from the South. This is a Good Thing for us. This is Not a Good Thing for the little township of Mafeking.
Do the people that live there call it Mafeking town?
The siege of Mafeking was a 217-day siege battle for the town of Mafeking (now called Mahikeng) in South Africa during the Second Boer War from October 1899 to May 1900. The siege received considerable attention as Lord Edward Cecil, the son of the British prime minister, was in the besieged town, as also was Lady Sarah Wilson, a daughter of the Duke of Marlborough and aunt of Winston Churchill. The siege turned the British commander, Colonel Robert Baden-Powell, into a national hero. The Relief of Mafeking (the lifting of the siege), while of little military significance, was a morale boost for the struggling British.
wiki.
I’ve just finished my last housepad for the year, got back to the depot, and am starting the servicing, repairs and cleaning ready for next year.
I might start with an early Great Northern and go from there.
Kingy said:
I’ve just finished my last housepad for the year, got back to the depot, and am starting the servicing, repairs and cleaning ready for next year.I might start with an early Great Northern and go from there.
Cheers. G & T this end, much ice.
Kingy said:
buffy said:
JudgeMental said:I wonder when relief will come?
For us…temp now dropped to low 20s and the wind is from the South. This is a Good Thing for us. This is Not a Good Thing for the little township of Mafeking.
Do the people that live there call it Mafeking town?
And what of Ladysmith?
Kingy said:
buffy said:
JudgeMental said:I wonder when relief will come?
For us…temp now dropped to low 20s and the wind is from the South. This is a Good Thing for us. This is Not a Good Thing for the little township of Mafeking.
Do the people that live there call it Mafeking town?
Just Mafeking, I think.
buffy said:
Kingy said:
buffy said:For us…temp now dropped to low 20s and the wind is from the South. This is a Good Thing for us. This is Not a Good Thing for the little township of Mafeking.
Do the people that live there call it Mafeking town?
Just Mafeking, I think.
They had a gold rush there in 1900.
Quite convincing, ta surgeon.
Motorists sure do go doolally in the peri-Yule
Peak Warming Man said:
Kingy said:
buffy said:For us…temp now dropped to low 20s and the wind is from the South. This is a Good Thing for us. This is Not a Good Thing for the little township of Mafeking.
Do the people that live there call it Mafeking town?
And what of Ladysmith?
It’s a village east of Wagga, on the other side of the river from Oura. It’s also east of Forest Hill RAAF base.
dv said:
Motorists sure do go doolally in the peri-Yule
IDGI.
Michael V said:
dv said:
Motorists sure do go doolally in the peri-Yule
IDGI.
I think DV just drove home in the “last Friday before Christmas Drinks” rush hour.
party_pants said:
Michael V said:
dv said:
Motorists sure do go doolally in the peri-Yule
IDGI.
I think DV just drove home in the “last Friday before Christmas Drinks” rush hour.
or should that be “last Friday before Christmas” drinks, rush hour
JudgeMental said:
The siege of Mafeking was a 217-day siege battle for the town of Mafeking (now called Mahikeng) in South Africa during the Second Boer War from October 1899 to May 1900. The siege received considerable attention as Lord Edward Cecil, the son of the British prime minister, was in the besieged town, as also was Lady Sarah Wilson, a daughter of the Duke of Marlborough and aunt of Winston Churchill. The siege turned the British commander, Colonel Robert Baden-Powell, into a national hero. The Relief of Mafeking (the lifting of the siege), while of little military significance, was a morale boost for the struggling British.wiki.
The idolising of BP (as he was known) more or less led to the formation of the Boy Scout movement
Michael V said:
dv said:
Motorists sure do go doolally in the peri-Yule
IDGI.
Motorists sure do go doolally near Yuletide.
Neophyte said:
JudgeMental said:
The siege of Mafeking was a 217-day siege battle for the town of Mafeking (now called Mahikeng) in South Africa during the Second Boer War from October 1899 to May 1900. The siege received considerable attention as Lord Edward Cecil, the son of the British prime minister, was in the besieged town, as also was Lady Sarah Wilson, a daughter of the Duke of Marlborough and aunt of Winston Churchill. The siege turned the British commander, Colonel Robert Baden-Powell, into a national hero. The Relief of Mafeking (the lifting of the siege), while of little military significance, was a morale boost for the struggling British.wiki.
The idolising of BP (as he was known) more or less led to the formation of the Boy Scout movement
That must have been a ma’fecking relief.
party_pants said:
Michael V said:
dv said:
Motorists sure do go doolally in the peri-Yule
IDGI.
I think DV just drove home in the “last Friday before Christmas Drinks” rush hour.
The lady on the checkout at Woolies this morning commented to me “Who would work in retail at this time of year”. We laughed, because she’s been doing it for 40 years.
buffy said:
party_pants said:
Michael V said:IDGI.
I think DV just drove home in the “last Friday before Christmas Drinks” rush hour.
The lady on the checkout at Woolies this morning commented to me “Who would work in retail at this time of year”. We laughed, because she’s been doing it for 40 years.
I went to the shopping centre on my way home to go to the chemist. The carpark was bonkers, took nearly 5 minutes to get out.
Michael V said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Kingy said:Do the people that live there call it Mafeking town?
And what of Ladysmith?
It’s a village east of Wagga, on the other side of the river from Oura. It’s also east of Forest Hill RAAF base.
Are they relieved?
dinner will be, rhymes with dried hostages and bunion in molded shed with horse and leaper
party_pants said:
Michael V said:
dv said:
Motorists sure do go doolally in the peri-Yule
IDGI.
I think DV just drove home in the “last Friday before Christmas Drinks” rush hour.
Oh. I would never have guessed that.
party_pants said:
Michael V said:
dv said:
Motorists sure do go doolally in the peri-Yule
IDGI.
I think DV just drove home in the “last Friday before Christmas Drinks” rush hour.
I gave up fixing stuff, just refuelled the truck & ute and went home via the bottlo. Now doing quotes, emails, and admin bullshit.
This is a weird town, I was standing in line at the booze shop with a bottle of bourbon, all sweaty and covered in dust and grease, just ahead the leader of the opposition(State), also on her way home via the bottlo.
I guess both of us had a big day out digging holes for someone.
Bubblecar said:
Quite convincing, ta surgeon.
Now Do Ecce Homo En El Santuario De La Misericordia
transition said:
dinner will be, rhymes with dried hostages and bunion in molded shed with horse and leaper
Fried sausages and onion in folded bread with sauce and peeper.
Bubblecar said:
transition said:
dinner will be, rhymes with dried hostages and bunion in molded shed with horse and leaper
Fried sausages and onion in folded bread with sauce and peeper.
not a bad effort, master car
give the man a gold star
party_pants said:
buffy said:
party_pants said:I think DV just drove home in the “last Friday before Christmas Drinks” rush hour.
The lady on the checkout at Woolies this morning commented to me “Who would work in retail at this time of year”. We laughed, because she’s been doing it for 40 years.
I went to the shopping centre on my way home to go to the chemist. The carpark was bonkers, took nearly 5 minutes to get out.
That’s 5 minutes you’ll never get back.
Neophyte said:
JudgeMental said:
The siege of Mafeking was a 217-day siege battle for the town of Mafeking (now called Mahikeng) in South Africa during the Second Boer War from October 1899 to May 1900. The siege received considerable attention as Lord Edward Cecil, the son of the British prime minister, was in the besieged town, as also was Lady Sarah Wilson, a daughter of the Duke of Marlborough and aunt of Winston Churchill. The siege turned the British commander, Colonel Robert Baden-Powell, into a national hero. The Relief of Mafeking (the lifting of the siege), while of little military significance, was a morale boost for the struggling British.wiki.
The idolising of BP (as he was known) more or less led to the formation of the Boy Scout movement
My father designed and welded the iron superstructure for this monument in our garage. He was the Scouting Movement’s District Commissioner at the time. He built it from scrap water pipe.
Wagga’s Rover Scouts (Rovers) built the stone cairns.
dv said:
Michael V said:
dv said:
Motorists sure do go doolally in the peri-Yule
IDGI.
Motorists sure do go doolally near Yuletide.
I’ve not come across “doolally” before.
Michael V said:
Neophyte said:
JudgeMental said:
The siege of Mafeking was a 217-day siege battle for the town of Mafeking (now called Mahikeng) in South Africa during the Second Boer War from October 1899 to May 1900. The siege received considerable attention as Lord Edward Cecil, the son of the British prime minister, was in the besieged town, as also was Lady Sarah Wilson, a daughter of the Duke of Marlborough and aunt of Winston Churchill. The siege turned the British commander, Colonel Robert Baden-Powell, into a national hero. The Relief of Mafeking (the lifting of the siege), while of little military significance, was a morale boost for the struggling British.wiki.
The idolising of BP (as he was known) more or less led to the formation of the Boy Scout movement
My father designed and welded the iron superstructure for this monument in our garage. He was the Scouting Movement’s District Commissioner at the time. He built it from scrap water pipe.
Wagga’s Rover Scouts (Rovers) built the stone cairns.
Thanks for telling me that. I’ll look at it in a different light next time I ambulate past it.
party_pants said:
buffy said:
party_pants said:I think DV just drove home in the “last Friday before Christmas Drinks” rush hour.
The lady on the checkout at Woolies this morning commented to me “Who would work in retail at this time of year”. We laughed, because she’s been doing it for 40 years.
I went to the shopping centre on my way home to go to the chemist. The carpark was bonkers, took nearly 5 minutes to get out.
Mrs V went to Woolies at Cooloola Cove, and commented that it was very quiet. She assumed because it was lunch-time. I didn’t understand that reason.
Michael V said:
dv said:
Michael V said:IDGI.
Motorists sure do go doolally near Yuletide.
I’ve not come across “doolally” before.
Same. But Ladysmith seems to have got about.
try Jondaryan?
captain_spalding said:
Michael V said:
Peak Warming Man said:And what of Ladysmith?
It’s a village east of Wagga, on the other side of the river from Oura. It’s also east of Forest Hill RAAF base.
Are they relieved?
I have no idea. It was there when I was a kid.
Michael V said:
dv said:
Michael V said:IDGI.
Motorists sure do go doolally near Yuletide.
I’ve not come across “doolally” before.
Rather old-fashioned British expression
ABC News:
SCIENCE said:
Bubblecar said:
Quite convincing, ta surgeon.
Now Do Ecce Homo En El Santuario De La Misericordia
He’s already been well and truly “done”.
Michael V said:
dv said:
Michael V said:IDGI.
Motorists sure do go doolally near Yuletide.
I’ve not come across “doolally” before.
dv said:
Michael V said:
dv said:Motorists sure do go doolally near Yuletide.
I’ve not come across “doolally” before.
Rather old-fashioned British expression
From Deolali, the town in India where British troops were based during WW2…apparently it was a bit hot, which could have negative effects on men used to a European climate.
captain_spalding said:
Michael V said:
dv said:Motorists sure do go doolally near Yuletide.
I’ve not come across “doolally” before.
Melvyn Hayes (on the right there) is still alive, aged 89.
roughbarked said:
Michael V said:
dv said:Motorists sure do go doolally near Yuletide.
I’ve not come across “doolally” before.
Same. But Ladysmith seems to have got about.
try Jondaryan?
I can’t see what Ladysmith and Jondaryan have in common except being small villages.
Can you please explain?
dv said:
Michael V said:
dv said:Motorists sure do go doolally near Yuletide.
I’ve not come across “doolally” before.
Rather old-fashioned British expression
Yes, I read that.
Michael V said:
dv said:
Michael V said:IDGI.
Motorists sure do go doolally near Yuletide.
I’ve not come across “doolally” before.
I had only heard the term for the first time about 8 years ago.
Neophyte said:
dv said:
Michael V said:I’ve not come across “doolally” before.
Rather old-fashioned British expression
From Deolali, the town in India where British troops were based during WW2…apparently it was a bit hot, which could have negative effects on men used to a European climate.
Doolally canids and perfidious albinos go out in the midday sun
Michael V said:
Neophyte said:
JudgeMental said:
The siege of Mafeking was a 217-day siege battle for the town of Mafeking (now called Mahikeng) in South Africa during the Second Boer War from October 1899 to May 1900. The siege received considerable attention as Lord Edward Cecil, the son of the British prime minister, was in the besieged town, as also was Lady Sarah Wilson, a daughter of the Duke of Marlborough and aunt of Winston Churchill. The siege turned the British commander, Colonel Robert Baden-Powell, into a national hero. The Relief of Mafeking (the lifting of the siege), while of little military significance, was a morale boost for the struggling British.wiki.
The idolising of BP (as he was known) more or less led to the formation of the Boy Scout movement
My father designed and welded the iron superstructure for this monument in our garage. He was the Scouting Movement’s District Commissioner at the time. He built it from scrap water pipe.
Wagga’s Rover Scouts (Rovers) built the stone cairns.
Nice work. I remember when water pipe was metal.
Nowadays it’s just soft rock.
dv said:
Neophyte said:
dv said:Rather old-fashioned British expression
From Deolali, the town in India where British troops were based during WW2…apparently it was a bit hot, which could have negative effects on men used to a European climate.
Doolally canids and perfidious albinos go out in the midday sun
Coward!
Some years back wags were calling Alan Mullally “Doolally”.
Neophyte said:
dv said:
Neophyte said:From Deolali, the town in India where British troops were based during WW2…apparently it was a bit hot, which could have negative effects on men used to a European climate.
Doolally canids and perfidious albinos go out in the midday sun
Coward!
ha
Kingy said:
Michael V said:
Neophyte said:The idolising of BP (as he was known) more or less led to the formation of the Boy Scout movement
My father designed and welded the iron superstructure for this monument in our garage. He was the Scouting Movement’s District Commissioner at the time. He built it from scrap water pipe.
Wagga’s Rover Scouts (Rovers) built the stone cairns.
Nice work. I remember when water pipe was metal.
Nowadays it’s just soft rock.
And don’t get me started on garden hose fittings these days, well limp.
Michael V said:
dv said:
Michael V said:I’ve not come across “doolally” before.
Rather old-fashioned British expression
Yes, I read that.
It seems to be a post WWII British expression. My mother left the UK just post-WWII, so she may not have come across it. Also, she was seriously not into slang. She had a penchant to only use the dictionary definition of words, and we were taught that system, too. Yes, she was an infants teacher and later, a remedial reading teacher.
Kingy said:
Michael V said:
Neophyte said:The idolising of BP (as he was known) more or less led to the formation of the Boy Scout movement
My father designed and welded the iron superstructure for this monument in our garage. He was the Scouting Movement’s District Commissioner at the time. He built it from scrap water pipe.
Wagga’s Rover Scouts (Rovers) built the stone cairns.
Nice work. I remember when water pipe was metal.
Nowadays it’s just soft rock.
But at least it doesn’t rust internally.
Neophyte said:
dv said:
Neophyte said:From Deolali, the town in India where British troops were based during WW2…apparently it was a bit hot, which could have negative effects on men used to a European climate.
Doolally canids and perfidious albinos go out in the midday sun
Coward!
LOL
Michael V said:
Michael V said:
dv said:Rather old-fashioned British expression
Yes, I read that.
It seems to be a post WWII British expression. My mother left the UK just post-WWII, so she may not have come across it. Also, she was seriously not into slang. She had a penchant to only use the dictionary definition of words, and we were taught that system, too. Yes, she was an infants teacher and later, a remedial reading teacher.
As others have suggested it is possibly I picked it up from It Ain’t Half Hot Mum
dv said:
Some years back wags were calling Alan Mullally “Doolally”.
NHOH, but he was active (just) before I took an interest in cricket.
Michael V said:
Neophyte said:
dv said:Doolally canids and perfidious albinos go out in the midday sun
Coward!
LOL
ties back in to Yule = Noel …
dv said:
Michael V said:
Michael V said:Yes, I read that.
It seems to be a post WWII British expression. My mother left the UK just post-WWII, so she may not have come across it. Also, she was seriously not into slang. She had a penchant to only use the dictionary definition of words, and we were taught that system, too. Yes, she was an infants teacher and later, a remedial reading teacher.
As others have suggested it is possibly I picked it up from It Ain’t Half Hot Mum
Ah, I missed that, too. I was an impecunious single parent at the time. I sold my small black and white TV to raise food money.
Michael V said:
roughbarked said:
Michael V said:I’ve not come across “doolally” before.
Same. But Ladysmith seems to have got about.
try Jondaryan?
I can’t see what Ladysmith and Jondaryan have in common except being small villages.
Can you please explain?
You know of a Jondaryan?
Ladysmith Glen is one of my favourite places.
I know of two Jondaryans and they are a very long way apart.
Just got my fuel bill for the month. $3485.00
I’m glad it’s going down. Last month it was $3762.00
Earlier this year it was well over $4k.
Kingy said:
Just got my fuel bill for the month. $3485.00I’m glad it’s going down. Last month it was $3762.00
Earlier this year it was well over $4k.
well that’s something
dv said:
Michael V said:
Neophyte said:Coward!
LOL
ties back in to Yule = Noel …
Or my father and grandfather – both Noel. Grandfather was named Noel because he was born on Christmas Eve. Dad was named after him.
Michael V said:
Michael V said:
dv said:Rather old-fashioned British expression
Yes, I read that.
It seems to be a post WWII British expression. My mother left the UK just post-WWII, so she may not have come across it. Also, she was seriously not into slang. She had a penchant to only use the dictionary definition of words, and we were taught that system, too. Yes, she was an infants teacher and later, a remedial reading teacher.
My grandmother said it and she was born in Australia…
Michael V said:
dv said:
Michael V said:It seems to be a post WWII British expression. My mother left the UK just post-WWII, so she may not have come across it. Also, she was seriously not into slang. She had a penchant to only use the dictionary definition of words, and we were taught that system, too. Yes, she was an infants teacher and later, a remedial reading teacher.
As others have suggested it is possibly I picked it up from It Ain’t Half Hot Mum
Ah, I missed that, too. I was an impecunious single parent at the time. I sold my small black and white TV to raise food money.
Life. We meet many strange circumstances while going through it.
roughbarked said:
Michael V said:
roughbarked said:Same. But Ladysmith seems to have got about.
try Jondaryan?
I can’t see what Ladysmith and Jondaryan have in common except being small villages.
Can you please explain?
You know of a Jondaryan?
Ladysmith Glen is one of my favourite places.
I know of two Jondaryans and they are a very long way apart.
Jondaryan is a a village in Qld that I used to drive through often, to get to an exploration project I had west of there.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jondaryan,_Queensland
Michael V said:
dv said:
Michael V said:LOL
ties back in to Yule = Noel …
Or my father and grandfather – both Noel. Grandfather was named Noel because he was born on Christmas Eve. Dad was named after him.
That’s why my given name is Ekka
Kingy said:
Just got my fuel bill for the month. $3485.00I’m glad it’s going down. Last month it was $3762.00
Earlier this year it was well over $4k.
Why is it going down? Less jobs?
Michael V said:
roughbarked said:
Michael V said:I can’t see what Ladysmith and Jondaryan have in common except being small villages.
Can you please explain?
You know of a Jondaryan?
Ladysmith Glen is one of my favourite places.
I know of two Jondaryans and they are a very long way apart.
Jondaryan is a a village in Qld that I used to drive through often, to get to an exploration project I had west of there.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jondaryan,_Queensland
Yep. Near Toowoomba? Jondaryan was the first cattle run there and there was aJondaryan shire or parish as well as a church?
Michael V said:
Kingy said:
Just got my fuel bill for the month. $3485.00I’m glad it’s going down. Last month it was $3762.00
Earlier this year it was well over $4k.
Why is it going down? Less jobs?
Cheaper diesel. :)
Dunno why, geopolitical bullshit is at an all-time high, and there doesn’t seem to be an end to it yet.
dv said:
Michael V said:
dv said:ties back in to Yule = Noel …
Or my father and grandfather – both Noel. Grandfather was named Noel because he was born on Christmas Eve. Dad was named after him.
That’s why my given name is Ekka
Conceived at the Ekka?
Kingy said:
Michael V said:
Kingy said:
Just got my fuel bill for the month. $3485.00I’m glad it’s going down. Last month it was $3762.00
Earlier this year it was well over $4k.
Why is it going down? Less jobs?
Cheaper diesel. :)
Dunno why, geopolitical bullshit is at an all-time high, and there doesn’t seem to be an end to it yet.
Ah good. The other was bad.
roughbarked said:
Michael V said:
roughbarked said:You know of a Jondaryan?
Ladysmith Glen is one of my favourite places.
I know of two Jondaryans and they are a very long way apart.
Jondaryan is a a village in Qld that I used to drive through often, to get to an exploration project I had west of there.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jondaryan,_Queensland
Yep. Near Toowoomba? Jondaryan was the first cattle run there and there was aJondaryan shire or parish as well as a church?
Ladysmith Glen is a valley/gorge in Cocoparra NP.
This bloke talks about it a bit but he doesn’t know his river red gums from his tumbledown gums.
Seasons of Cocoparra National Park; a Riverina treasure
Michael V said:
My father designed and welded the iron superstructure for this monument in our garage. He was the Scouting Movement’s District Commissioner at the time. He built it from scrap water pipe.
Wagga’s Rover Scouts (Rovers) built the stone cairns.
That’s a nice monument, Michael V. A bit of Aussie can-do using scrap water pipe, and the Rovers building the cairns.
These days they would pay some obscene amount of money to put up something like that, so it wouldn’t happen.
The lost art of making do
Michael V said:
dv said:
Michael V said:Or my father and grandfather – both Noel. Grandfather was named Noel because he was born on Christmas Eve. Dad was named after him.
That’s why my given name is Ekka
Conceived at the Ekka?
They misspelled Eka, used by Mendeleev to indicate the first missing element in a series, like my sisters Dvi and Tri.
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:
Michael V said:Jondaryan is a a village in Qld that I used to drive through often, to get to an exploration project I had west of there.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jondaryan,_Queensland
Yep. Near Toowoomba? Jondaryan was the first cattle run there and there was aJondaryan shire or parish as well as a church?
The other is the parish of Jondaryan which was in the county of Cooper which is basically where Griffith is.
Ladysmith Glen is a valley/gorge in Cocoparra NP.
This bloke talks about it a bit but he doesn’t know his river red gums from his tumbledown gums.
Seasons of Cocoparra National Park; a Riverina treasure
Ladysmith Glen in which runs Jack’s Creek, is on the list of Australian valleys on Wiki but it doesn’t yet have an entry otherwise. It is a favourite place for photographers of orchid and fungi. They arrive from all over in the season.
how yous know it’s all a crock
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-20/drug-phenylephrine-class-action-johnson-and-johnson/104750806
Dr McKenzie said the result was people looking for relief from congestion were choosing ineffective products when better products were available. “They use that treatment as an alternative to medications that do work,” she said.
Oh yeah¿ So what are the medications that do work¿ Can’t be published¿ Is that right¿
dv said:
Michael V said:
dv said:That’s why my given name is Ekka
Conceived at the Ekka?
They misspelled Eka, used by Mendeleev to indicate the first missing element in a series, like my sisters Dvi and Tri.
That’s all very interesting. Would have enjoyed meeting tour parents.
roughbarked said:
dv said:
Michael V said:Conceived at the Ekka?
They misspelled Eka, used by Mendeleev to indicate the first missing element in a series, like my sisters Dvi and Tri.
That’s all very interesting. Would have enjoyed meeting tour parents.
I’m obviously lying though
dv said:
roughbarked said:
dv said:They misspelled Eka, used by Mendeleev to indicate the first missing element in a series, like my sisters Dvi and Tri.
That’s all very interesting. Would have enjoyed meeting tour parents.
I’m obviously lying though
I get that. Which is why my answer..
Michael V said:
Dad was named after him.
because he was born later!
roughbarked said:
dv said:
roughbarked said:That’s all very interesting. Would have enjoyed meeting tour parents.
I’m obviously lying though
I get that. Which is why my answer..
But sure, tour parents would be fun.
ruby said:
Michael V said:
My father designed and welded the iron superstructure for this monument in our garage. He was the Scouting Movement’s District Commissioner at the time. He built it from scrap water pipe.
Wagga’s Rover Scouts (Rovers) built the stone cairns.
That’s a nice monument, Michael V. A bit of Aussie can-do using scrap water pipe, and the Rovers building the cairns.
These days they would pay some obscene amount of money to put up something like that, so it wouldn’t happen.
The lost art of making do
:)
Ta.
And speaking of making do, even his welder was make do. He was an infants-primary teacher who did his welding trade certificate at night. He topped the state and the prize was a large aircraft generator. But it turned the wrong way for him. He swapped it out for another at the Forest Hill RAAF base. He then attached the new one to his 600cc Ariel motorcycle frame and motor where the gearbox was, and presto! A welder. It made quite a racket, because it had no muffler.
JudgeMental said:
Michael V said:
Dad was named after him.
because he was born later!
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandfather_paradox
dv said:
Michael V said:
dv said:That’s why my given name is Ekka
Conceived at the Ekka?
They misspelled Eka, used by Mendeleev to indicate the first missing element in a series, like my sisters Dvi and Tri.
Too complex for my tiny brian to understand.
JudgeMental said:
Michael V said:
Dad was named after him.
because he was born later!
:)
Michael V said:
ruby said:Michael V said:
My father designed and welded the iron superstructure for this monument in our garage. He was the Scouting Movement’s District Commissioner at the time. He built it from scrap water pipe.
Wagga’s Rover Scouts (Rovers) built the stone cairns.
That’s a nice monument, Michael V. A bit of Aussie can-do using scrap water pipe, and the Rovers building the cairns.
These days they would pay some obscene amount of money to put up something like that, so it wouldn’t happen.
The lost art of making do
:)
Ta.
And speaking of making do, even his welder was make do. He was an infants-primary teacher who did his welding trade certificate at night. He topped the state and the prize was a large aircraft generator. But it turned the wrong way for him. He swapped it out for another at the Forest Hill RAAF base. He then attached the new one to his 600cc Ariel motorcycle frame and motor where the gearbox was, and presto! A welder. It made quite a racket, because it had no muffler.
Wowsers. A very can-do bloke!
dv said:
roughbarked said:
dv said:I’m obviously lying though
I get that. Which is why my answer..
But sure, tour parents would be fun.
;) Wave goodbye as they go off on tour?
Michael V said:
ruby said:Michael V said:
My father designed and welded the iron superstructure for this monument in our garage. He was the Scouting Movement’s District Commissioner at the time. He built it from scrap water pipe.
Wagga’s Rover Scouts (Rovers) built the stone cairns.
That’s a nice monument, Michael V. A bit of Aussie can-do using scrap water pipe, and the Rovers building the cairns.
These days they would pay some obscene amount of money to put up something like that, so it wouldn’t happen.
The lost art of making do
:)
Ta.
And speaking of making do, even his welder was make do. He was an infants-primary teacher who did his welding trade certificate at night. He topped the state and the prize was a large aircraft generator. But it turned the wrong way for him. He swapped it out for another at the Forest Hill RAAF base. He then attached the new one to his 600cc Ariel motorcycle frame and motor where the gearbox was, and presto! A welder. It made quite a racket, because it had no muffler.
So he became a racketeer.
Kingy said:
Quite an effort has been put in there.
Kingy said:
Dear oh dear.
PWM must be beside himself at this point, after investing all of his cash, super and spare weathergirls into bitcoin at $100.
Today 1 Bitcoin = $151,265.70AUD
Yeah, I expected it to go to around $2000, and sold out at $50,000.
Alfred Joyce Kilmer (December 6, 1886 – July 30, 1918) was an American writer and poet mainly remembered for a short poem titled “Trees” (1913), which was published in the collection Trees and Other Poems in 1914. Though a prolific poet whose works celebrated the common beauty of the natural world as well as his Catholic faith, Kilmer was also a journalist, literary critic, lecturer, and editor. At the time of his deployment to Europe during World War I, Kilmer was considered the leading American Catholic poet and lecturer of his generation, whom critics often compared to British contemporaries G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) and Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953).: p.27 He enlisted in the New York National Guard and was deployed to France with the 69th Infantry Regiment (the famous “Fighting 69th”) in 1917. He was killed by a sniper’s bullet at the Second Battle of the Marne in 1918 at the age of 31. He was married to Aline Murray, also an accomplished poet and author, with whom he had five children.
While most of his works are largely unknown today, a select few of his poems remain popular and are published frequently in anthologies. Several critics—including both Kilmer’s contemporaries and modern scholars—have dismissed Kilmer’s work as being too simple and overly sentimental, and suggested that his style was far too traditional, even archaic. Many writers, including notably Ogden Nash, have parodied Kilmer’s work and style—as attested by the many imitations of “Trees.”
Ogden Nash’s criticism would have been short and sharp I’d imagine.
Good heavens…I go and watch some Vienna Blood and the Grampians fire doubles in size. Now up to 19,500 hectares. As the wind changed from North to South this afternoon it is now driving straight up the tourist road between the ranges towards Halls Gap.
buffy said:
Good heavens…I go and watch some Vienna Blood and the Grampians fire doubles in size. Now up to 19,500 hectares. As the wind changed from North to South this afternoon it is now driving straight up the tourist road between the ranges towards Halls Gap.
Poor plants and wildlife :(
Bubblecar said:
buffy said:
Good heavens…I go and watch some Vienna Blood and the Grampians fire doubles in size. Now up to 19,500 hectares. As the wind changed from North to South this afternoon it is now driving straight up the tourist road between the ranges towards Halls Gap.
Poor plants and wildlife :(
I possibly shouldn’t put it this way…but it’s going to be a bumper year for orchids next year. The fire is in rough, steep country. I think all the firies can do really is protect property as it goes on its merry way. We might lose the Mt William weather station, I suppose…just looked and it is still reporting. It’s only 12.6 degrees with wind gusting to the mid 50s.
There is a long established wildlife shelter in the middle there. I don’t know how they are faring.
Peak Warming Man said:
Alfred Joyce Kilmer (December 6, 1886 – July 30, 1918) was an American writer and poet mainly remembered for a short poem titled “Trees” (1913), which was published in the collection Trees and Other Poems in 1914. Though a prolific poet whose works celebrated the common beauty of the natural world as well as his Catholic faith, Kilmer was also a journalist, literary critic, lecturer, and editor. At the time of his deployment to Europe during World War I, Kilmer was considered the leading American Catholic poet and lecturer of his generation, whom critics often compared to British contemporaries G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) and Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953).: p.27 He enlisted in the New York National Guard and was deployed to France with the 69th Infantry Regiment (the famous “Fighting 69th”) in 1917. He was killed by a sniper’s bullet at the Second Battle of the Marne in 1918 at the age of 31. He was married to Aline Murray, also an accomplished poet and author, with whom he had five children.While most of his works are largely unknown today, a select few of his poems remain popular and are published frequently in anthologies. Several critics—including both Kilmer’s contemporaries and modern scholars—have dismissed Kilmer’s work as being too simple and overly sentimental, and suggested that his style was far too traditional, even archaic. Many writers, including notably Ogden Nash, have parodied Kilmer’s work and style—as attested by the many imitations of “Trees.”
Ogden Nash’s criticism would have been short and sharp I’d imagine.
I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
Perhaps, unless the billboards fall,
I’ll never see a tree at all.
— Ogden Nash
btm said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Alfred Joyce Kilmer (December 6, 1886 – July 30, 1918) was an American writer and poet mainly remembered for a short poem titled “Trees” (1913), which was published in the collection Trees and Other Poems in 1914. Though a prolific poet whose works celebrated the common beauty of the natural world as well as his Catholic faith, Kilmer was also a journalist, literary critic, lecturer, and editor. At the time of his deployment to Europe during World War I, Kilmer was considered the leading American Catholic poet and lecturer of his generation, whom critics often compared to British contemporaries G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) and Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953).: p.27 He enlisted in the New York National Guard and was deployed to France with the 69th Infantry Regiment (the famous “Fighting 69th”) in 1917. He was killed by a sniper’s bullet at the Second Battle of the Marne in 1918 at the age of 31. He was married to Aline Murray, also an accomplished poet and author, with whom he had five children.While most of his works are largely unknown today, a select few of his poems remain popular and are published frequently in anthologies. Several critics—including both Kilmer’s contemporaries and modern scholars—have dismissed Kilmer’s work as being too simple and overly sentimental, and suggested that his style was far too traditional, even archaic. Many writers, including notably Ogden Nash, have parodied Kilmer’s work and style—as attested by the many imitations of “Trees.”
Ogden Nash’s criticism would have been short and sharp I’d imagine.
I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
Perhaps, unless the billboards fall,
I’ll never see a tree at all.
— Ogden Nash
Hehe.
btm said:
I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
Perhaps, unless the billboards fall,
I’ll never see a tree at all.
— Ogden Nash
Sorry, the second line should be “A billboard lovely as a tree”
dv said:
roughbarked said:
dv said:
They misspelled Eka, used by Mendeleev to indicate the first missing element in a series, like my sisters Dvi and Tri.
That’s all very interesting. Would have enjoyed meeting tour parents.
I’m obviously lying though
that’s all right, it’s something that many are prone to do
SCIENCE said:
dv said:
roughbarked said:
That’s all very interesting. Would have enjoyed meeting tour parents.
I’m obviously lying though
that’s all right, it’s something that many are prone to do
Makes you wonder why Trump doesn’t just use that line when needed.
Reporter: “Mr Trump, you promised that you’d -”
Trump: “Yes, but I was obviously lying though.”
well, I am chock full of Italian restaurant food. Feel like I won’t need to eat much for the rest of this weekend. I et waaay to much pizza and pasta, then they brought out the main meal which was huge in its own right and would have filled me up. I couldn’t finish all of it, and I passed on dessert.
party_pants said:
well, I am chock full of Italian restaurant food. Feel like I won’t need to eat much for the rest of this weekend. I et waaay to much pizza and pasta, then they brought out the main meal which was huge in its own right and would have filled me up. I couldn’t finish all of it, and I passed on dessert.
I did much the same last evening but with a little less class. We had our last fire brigade training for the year, with 28 vollies fighting a pretend fire with various difficulties thrown in. Tldr.
Afterwards we had a lot of pizzas, garlic bread & beer. This arvo I urgently needed the use of a building site portable dunny.
Kingy said:
party_pants said:
well, I am chock full of Italian restaurant food. Feel like I won’t need to eat much for the rest of this weekend. I et waaay to much pizza and pasta, then they brought out the main meal which was huge in its own right and would have filled me up. I couldn’t finish all of it, and I passed on dessert.
I did much the same last evening but with a little less class. We had our last fire brigade training for the year, with 28 vollies fighting a pretend fire with various difficulties thrown in. Tldr.
Afterwards we had a lot of pizzas, garlic bread & beer. This arvo I urgently needed the use of a building site portable dunny.
Sounds dreadful. Work site portable dunnies are right down the bottom of my list of preferences. Even below servo dunnies.
party_pants said:
Kingy said:
party_pants said:
well, I am chock full of Italian restaurant food. Feel like I won’t need to eat much for the rest of this weekend. I et waaay to much pizza and pasta, then they brought out the main meal which was huge in its own right and would have filled me up. I couldn’t finish all of it, and I passed on dessert.
I did much the same last evening but with a little less class. We had our last fire brigade training for the year, with 28 vollies fighting a pretend fire with various difficulties thrown in. Tldr.
Afterwards we had a lot of pizzas, garlic bread & beer. This arvo I urgently needed the use of a building site portable dunny.
Sounds dreadful. Work site portable dunnies are right down the bottom of my list of preferences. Even below servo dunnies.
Well hopefully you will be at home tomorrow, and get to use your own.
Kingy said:
party_pants said:
Kingy said:I did much the same last evening but with a little less class. We had our last fire brigade training for the year, with 28 vollies fighting a pretend fire with various difficulties thrown in. Tldr.
Afterwards we had a lot of pizzas, garlic bread & beer. This arvo I urgently needed the use of a building site portable dunny.
Sounds dreadful. Work site portable dunnies are right down the bottom of my list of preferences. Even below servo dunnies.
Well hopefully you will be at home tomorrow, and get to use your own.
I was hoping to get out to Bunnings early-ish.
reading and watching various on the tube
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spitting_Image
“Spitting Image is a British satirical television puppet show, created by Peter Fluck, Roger Law and Martin Lambie-Nairn. First broadcast in 1984, the series was produced by ‘Spitting Image Productions’ for Central Independent Television over 18 series which aired on the ITV network. The series was nominated and won numerous awards, including ten BAFTA Television Awards, and two Emmy Awards in 1985 and 1986 in the Popular Arts Category. The series features puppet caricatures of contemporary celebrities and public figures, including British Prime Ministers Margaret Thatcher and John Major and the British royal family. The series was the first to caricature Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother (as an elderly gin-drinker with a Beryl Reid voice)..”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndSj1bbjPTo
The Best of 2020, as Told by Spitting Image
Good morning Holidayers. Presently 10 degrees at the back door. The sky is mildly overcast. We are forecast a partly cloudy 22 degrees today. About three days of lowish temps and then back up to the high twenties and thirties mid week according to the forecast. The fire in the Grampians is now 28,000 hectares. Overnight it added 8,000, moving North. It has now reached Lake Belfield, and on the map looks like it is going around the lake. Halls Gap went “leave immediately” 7 hours ago.
I will have breakfast with my bushwandering friend (bakery closes today until second week in January) and then do some gardening and house cleaning. I’ve been putting of shower cleaning. I really do need to do it, we’ve used bore water a few times recently in the house and the residue needs to be cleaned off the glass and base.
Hello everybody
Did I miss much?
Good morning everybody. I do hope you’re are all healthy and feeling good and that the day brings at least a little joy.
Here, it’s 16.8° C, 92% RH, mostly cloudy (almost overcast) and there’s a light air. BoM forecasts a top of 29° C and no chance of rain.
Some bamboo to cut today – new shoots, a couple of which may provide a bit of food. Also, there are some old dead spears that blew over in the wind the other night. One is within centimetres of the shed. Any wind and it will abrade the shed, giving a point that could rust. These must be removed and shredded, ASAP Couldn’t do it yesterday, because I needed to use the reciprocating saw, which is 240 V. It had rained. I don’t use mains-power tools in rain, or on wet ground.
Food agenda: Breakfast – not discussed. Lunch: share a sausage roll with Mrs V. Dinner: share a meat pie and veges with Mrs V.
monkey skipper said:
Did I miss much?
No, nothing that wouldn’t happen at the local cricket club or knitting circle.
Michael V said:
Good morning everybody. I do hope you’re are all healthy and feeling good and that the day brings at least a little joy.Here, it’s 16.8° C, 92% RH, mostly cloudy (almost overcast) and there’s a light air. BoM forecasts a top of 29° C and no chance of rain.
Some bamboo to cut today – new shoots, a couple of which may provide a bit of food. Also, there are some old dead spears that blew over in the wind the other night. One is within centimetres of the shed. Any wind and it will abrade the shed, giving a point that could rust. These must be removed and shredded, ASAP Couldn’t do it yesterday, because I needed to use the reciprocating saw, which is 240 V. It had rained. I don’t use mains-power tools in rain, or on wet ground.
Food agenda: Breakfast – not discussed. Lunch: share a sausage roll with Mrs V. Dinner: share a meat pie and veges with Mrs V.
Hi MV!!
monkey skipper said:
Did I miss much?
Nup.
Michael V said:
monkey skipper said:
Did I miss much?
No, nothing that wouldn’t happen at the local cricket club or knitting circle.
That is so funny.
I had interesting week. I attempted to go to work last Saturday , made it 30 mins into the shift , walked with a staff member to the GP in the shopping centre , transported via ambulance to QE11 hospital. They kept me hostage there on the ward for 4 days on 24 hour heart monitoring and medication to stablize my hear rate and was diagnosed formally with Atrial Fibrillation … I have has irregular heart rythms since i was in my 20’s and it could never be caught on a test to diagnose what was happening to me. The ambo and the nurse ran when i made a sound standing up trying to get changed from my dress into the hospital gowns and they attached the leads to my chest where my heart rate went from resting heart rate to over 200 beats per minutes in less than 2 minutes.
monkey skipper said:
Michael V said:
monkey skipper said:
Did I miss much?
No, nothing that wouldn’t happen at the local cricket club or knitting circle.
That is so funny.
I had interesting week. I attempted to go to work last Saturday , made it 30 mins into the shift , walked with a staff member to the GP in the shopping centre , transported via ambulance to QE11 hospital. They kept me hostage there on the ward for 4 days on 24 hour heart monitoring and medication to stablize my hear rate and was diagnosed formally with Atrial Fibrillation … I have has irregular heart rythms since i was in my 20’s and it could never be caught on a test to diagnose what was happening to me. The ambo and the nurse ran when i made a sound standing up trying to get changed from my dress into the hospital gowns and they attached the leads to my chest where my heart rate went from resting heart rate to over 200 beats per minutes in less than 2 minutes.
Holy Heck!
That sounds awful.
Do you think they’ve got things sorted now?
So anyway … i have couple more days off before returning to work Friday next week to get into a better recovery feeling than I do now.
I feel lucky though because that detectable enzyme was picked up in my blood test really super early phase stuff not the level of a person who has had a heart attack, my echocardiogram came back showing my heart did not sustain damage, because I stopped and was putting in the resting position early enough to settle the heart back down again
monkey skipper said:
Michael V said:
monkey skipper said:
Did I miss much?
No, nothing that wouldn’t happen at the local cricket club or knitting circle.
That is so funny.
I had interesting week. I attempted to go to work last Saturday , made it 30 mins into the shift , walked with a staff member to the GP in the shopping centre , transported via ambulance to QE11 hospital. They kept me hostage there on the ward for 4 days on 24 hour heart monitoring and medication to stablize my hear rate and was diagnosed formally with Atrial Fibrillation … I have has irregular heart rythms since i was in my 20’s and it could never be caught on a test to diagnose what was happening to me. The ambo and the nurse ran when i made a sound standing up trying to get changed from my dress into the hospital gowns and they attached the leads to my chest where my heart rate went from resting heart rate to over 200 beats per minutes in less than 2 minutes.
But that doesn’t sound funny. :( Good thing someone spotted it.
Michael V said:
monkey skipper said:
Michael V said:No, nothing that wouldn’t happen at the local cricket club or knitting circle.
That is so funny.
I had interesting week. I attempted to go to work last Saturday , made it 30 mins into the shift , walked with a staff member to the GP in the shopping centre , transported via ambulance to QE11 hospital. They kept me hostage there on the ward for 4 days on 24 hour heart monitoring and medication to stablize my hear rate and was diagnosed formally with Atrial Fibrillation … I have has irregular heart rythms since i was in my 20’s and it could never be caught on a test to diagnose what was happening to me. The ambo and the nurse ran when i made a sound standing up trying to get changed from my dress into the hospital gowns and they attached the leads to my chest where my heart rate went from resting heart rate to over 200 beats per minutes in less than 2 minutes.
Holy Heck!
That sounds awful.
Do you think they’ve got things sorted now?
I think so , I wasn’t allowed to leave hospital until they could see I could stand up and not go into tachycardia.
roughbarked said:
monkey skipper said:
Michael V said:No, nothing that wouldn’t happen at the local cricket club or knitting circle.
That is so funny.
I had interesting week. I attempted to go to work last Saturday , made it 30 mins into the shift , walked with a staff member to the GP in the shopping centre , transported via ambulance to QE11 hospital. They kept me hostage there on the ward for 4 days on 24 hour heart monitoring and medication to stablize my hear rate and was diagnosed formally with Atrial Fibrillation … I have has irregular heart rythms since i was in my 20’s and it could never be caught on a test to diagnose what was happening to me. The ambo and the nurse ran when i made a sound standing up trying to get changed from my dress into the hospital gowns and they attached the leads to my chest where my heart rate went from resting heart rate to over 200 beats per minutes in less than 2 minutes.
But that doesn’t sound funny. :( Good thing someone spotted it.
this expression is funny RB “ No, nothing that wouldn’t happen at the local cricket club or knitting circle. “
monkey skipper said:
Michael V said:
monkey skipper said:That is so funny.
I had interesting week. I attempted to go to work last Saturday , made it 30 mins into the shift , walked with a staff member to the GP in the shopping centre , transported via ambulance to QE11 hospital. They kept me hostage there on the ward for 4 days on 24 hour heart monitoring and medication to stablize my hear rate and was diagnosed formally with Atrial Fibrillation … I have has irregular heart rythms since i was in my 20’s and it could never be caught on a test to diagnose what was happening to me. The ambo and the nurse ran when i made a sound standing up trying to get changed from my dress into the hospital gowns and they attached the leads to my chest where my heart rate went from resting heart rate to over 200 beats per minutes in less than 2 minutes.
Holy Heck!
That sounds awful.
Do you think they’ve got things sorted now?
I think so , I wasn’t allowed to leave hospital until they could see I could stand up and not go into tachycardia.
I may have been born with this ,,, my mum had an operation on a faulty heart valve a few years back , her brother had the same operation 2 years ofter her. The cardiologist said , you would have had an irregularate heart beat that became AF being left untreated and undiagnosed for so long
CHELMSFORD, ENGLAND—Interrupting his hushed narration about the inanimate bird’s majesty as he observed it from a small boat, an embarrassed David Attenborough reportedly realized Friday that he had just spent the past 10 minutes describing the stillness of a duck decoy. “The male mallard is a temperate waterfowl, known for its remarkable ability not to blink or even move for minute after minute—wait a second, oh, goddammit, really?” said the renowned naturalist, who grew visibly flustered as he squinted at the wooden bird, cutting off his own monologue praising the “incredible display of commitment and near-woodenness” on the part of the nonliving bird in order to scream with frustration. “I guess I wasn’t wrong to say how serene it looks, but…Jesus Christ. No one could have told me? No one? Fuck all of you. Seriously. Well, I suppose I should have learned my lesson when I tried to speak to that scarecrow in Mozambique.” At press time, Attenborough was spotted chewing out a flustered assistant director of photography and insisting that he needed to delete the footage immediately.
Fun Fact: Chelmsford is the nearest large town to where I used to live in England. I also went to secondary school there.
monkey skipper said:
monkey skipper said:
Michael V said:Holy Heck!
That sounds awful.
Do you think they’ve got things sorted now?
I think so , I wasn’t allowed to leave hospital until they could see I could stand up and not go into tachycardia.
I may have been born with this ,,, my mum had an operation on a faulty heart valve a few years back , her brother had the same operation 2 years ofter her. The cardiologist said , you would have had an irregularate heart beat that became AF being left untreated and undiagnosed for so long
Ah, genetics. That lottery.
JudgeMental said:
CHELMSFORD, ENGLAND—Interrupting his hushed narration about the inanimate bird’s majesty as he observed it from a small boat, an embarrassed David Attenborough reportedly realized Friday that he had just spent the past 10 minutes describing the stillness of a duck decoy. “The male mallard is a temperate waterfowl, known for its remarkable ability not to blink or even move for minute after minute—wait a second, oh, goddammit, really?” said the renowned naturalist, who grew visibly flustered as he squinted at the wooden bird, cutting off his own monologue praising the “incredible display of commitment and near-woodenness” on the part of the nonliving bird in order to scream with frustration. “I guess I wasn’t wrong to say how serene it looks, but…Jesus Christ. No one could have told me? No one? Fuck all of you. Seriously. Well, I suppose I should have learned my lesson when I tried to speak to that scarecrow in Mozambique.” At press time, Attenborough was spotted chewing out a flustered assistant director of photography and insisting that he needed to delete the footage immediately.Fun Fact: Chelmsford is the nearest large town to where I used to live in England. I also went to secondary school there.
:)
monkey skipper said:
monkey skipper said:
Michael V said:Holy Heck!
That sounds awful.
Do you think they’ve got things sorted now?
I think so , I wasn’t allowed to leave hospital until they could see I could stand up and not go into tachycardia.
I may have been born with this ,,, my mum had an operation on a faulty heart valve a few years back , her brother had the same operation 2 years after her. The cardiologist said, you would have had an irregular heart beat that became AF being left untreated and undiagnosed for so long
Now you’ve had your huge warning scare, please keep on top of it. We don’t need to lose another contributor.
monkey skipper said:
roughbarked said:
monkey skipper said:That is so funny.
I had interesting week. I attempted to go to work last Saturday , made it 30 mins into the shift , walked with a staff member to the GP in the shopping centre , transported via ambulance to QE11 hospital. They kept me hostage there on the ward for 4 days on 24 hour heart monitoring and medication to stablize my hear rate and was diagnosed formally with Atrial Fibrillation … I have has irregular heart rythms since i was in my 20’s and it could never be caught on a test to diagnose what was happening to me. The ambo and the nurse ran when i made a sound standing up trying to get changed from my dress into the hospital gowns and they attached the leads to my chest where my heart rate went from resting heart rate to over 200 beats per minutes in less than 2 minutes.
But that doesn’t sound funny. :( Good thing someone spotted it.
this expression is funny RB “ No, nothing that wouldn’t happen at the local cricket club or knitting circle. “
Yes but I was commenting on your health episode. ;)
Michael V said:
monkey skipper said:
monkey skipper said:I think so , I wasn’t allowed to leave hospital until they could see I could stand up and not go into tachycardia.
I may have been born with this ,,, my mum had an operation on a faulty heart valve a few years back , her brother had the same operation 2 years after her. The cardiologist said, you would have had an irregular heart beat that became AF being left untreated and undiagnosed for so long
Now you’ve had your huge warning scare, please keep on top of it. We don’t need to lose another contributor.
+1.
JudgeMental said:
CHELMSFORD, ENGLAND—Interrupting his hushed narration about the inanimate bird’s majesty as he observed it from a small boat, an embarrassed David Attenborough reportedly realized Friday that he had just spent the past 10 minutes describing the stillness of a duck decoy. “The male mallard is a temperate waterfowl, known for its remarkable ability not to blink or even move for minute after minute—wait a second, oh, goddammit, really?” said the renowned naturalist, who grew visibly flustered as he squinted at the wooden bird, cutting off his own monologue praising the “incredible display of commitment and near-woodenness” on the part of the nonliving bird in order to scream with frustration. “I guess I wasn’t wrong to say how serene it looks, but…Jesus Christ. No one could have told me? No one? Fuck all of you. Seriously. Well, I suppose I should have learned my lesson when I tried to speak to that scarecrow in Mozambique.” At press time, Attenborough was spotted chewing out a flustered assistant director of photography and insisting that he needed to delete the footage immediately.
Onion
Ian said:
JudgeMental said:
CHELMSFORD, ENGLAND—Interrupting his hushed narration about the inanimate bird’s majesty as he observed it from a small boat, an embarrassed David Attenborough reportedly realized Friday that he had just spent the past 10 minutes describing the stillness of a duck decoy. “The male mallard is a temperate waterfowl, known for its remarkable ability not to blink or even move for minute after minute—wait a second, oh, goddammit, really?” said the renowned naturalist, who grew visibly flustered as he squinted at the wooden bird, cutting off his own monologue praising the “incredible display of commitment and near-woodenness” on the part of the nonliving bird in order to scream with frustration. “I guess I wasn’t wrong to say how serene it looks, but…Jesus Christ. No one could have told me? No one? Fuck all of you. Seriously. Well, I suppose I should have learned my lesson when I tried to speak to that scarecrow in Mozambique.” At press time, Attenborough was spotted chewing out a flustered assistant director of photography and insisting that he needed to delete the footage immediately.Onion
correct.
It’s lovely and cool outside. To the weeding…
Morning punters, weather fine track good.
JudgeMental said:
23 is nice for Christmas Day.
BoM was threatening us with 31 but now they’ve taken it back to 27.
Bubblecar said:
JudgeMental said:
23 is nice for Christmas Day.
BoM was threatening us with 31 but now they’ve taken it back to 27.
23 today and a very pleasant 17 on Monday.
“A car plowed into a crowd of shoppers at a busy German Christmas market on Friday evening, killing two people and injuring at least 68 in a suspected deliberate attack.
An extensive police operation is underway following the attack at the market in the German city of Magdeburg that happened at around 7 p.m. local time.
A young child is among the dead, Saxony-Anhalt state governor Reiner Haseloff confirmed.
The suspect is believed to be a 50-year-old doctor from Saudi Arabia who has been in the country since 2006, Saxony-Anhalt interior minister Tamara Zieschang told reporters. The suspect is in police custody.”
Damn.
monkey skipper said:
monkey skipper said:
Michael V said:Holy Heck!
That sounds awful.
Do you think they’ve got things sorted now?
I think so , I wasn’t allowed to leave hospital until they could see I could stand up and not go into tachycardia.
I may have been born with this ,,, my mum had an operation on a faulty heart valve a few years back , her brother had the same operation 2 years ofter her. The cardiologist said , you would have had an irregularate heart beat that became AF being left untreated and undiagnosed for so long
Damn. So are you now on medications?
Speaking of nausea, I have GERD and lately my slight burpiness has a slight underlying aftertaste of roasted sesame.
I haven’t knowingly had anything that contains roasted sesame
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I’ve cut down three long bamboo stalks and picked up a lot of bamboo litter, basically clearing the area that I need to remove more stalks. One new shoot is about 150 mm diameter, and may provide a bit of food. It should fall easily.
Unfortunately, for the next part of the job, I need to be up a ladder on several occasions. Mrs V banned me from doing that a couple of years ago. But she seems to understand this time. I’ve come inside to cool down in front of a fan, whilst she has breakfast.
Michael V said:
I’ve cut down three long bamboo stalks and picked up a lot of bamboo litter, basically clearing the area that I need to remove more stalks. One new shoot is about 150 mm diameter, and may provide a bit of food. It should fall easily.Unfortunately, for the next part of the job, I need to be up a ladder on several occasions. Mrs V banned me from doing that a couple of years ago. But she seems to understand this time. I’ve come inside to cool down in front of a fan, whilst she has breakfast.
Be careful.
Housework this end, all the surfaces in all the rooms. Tomorrow, all the vacuuuming.
But first, a cup of tea and the WP crossword.
Bubblecar said:
Michael V said:
I’ve cut down three long bamboo stalks and picked up a lot of bamboo litter, basically clearing the area that I need to remove more stalks. One new shoot is about 150 mm diameter, and may provide a bit of food. It should fall easily.Unfortunately, for the next part of the job, I need to be up a ladder on several occasions. Mrs V banned me from doing that a couple of years ago. But she seems to understand this time. I’ve come inside to cool down in front of a fan, whilst she has breakfast.
Be careful.
Oh, I will.
Michael V said:
Bubblecar said:
Michael V said:
I’ve cut down three long bamboo stalks and picked up a lot of bamboo litter, basically clearing the area that I need to remove more stalks. One new shoot is about 150 mm diameter, and may provide a bit of food. It should fall easily.Unfortunately, for the next part of the job, I need to be up a ladder on several occasions. Mrs V banned me from doing that a couple of years ago. But she seems to understand this time. I’ve come inside to cool down in front of a fan, whilst she has breakfast.
Be careful.
Oh, I will.
Don’t fall on her.
I had a dream that I lost some treasured belongings of my great uncle Arthur who, in the dream, had recently died. (In real life he died in the 1980s). This included some notes he took on a trip with his wife. Then I had a chat with my uncle Malcolm about city design.
dv said:
I had a dream that I lost some treasured belongings of my great uncle Arthur who, in the dream, had recently died. (In real life he died in the 1980s). This included some notes he took on a trip with his wife. Then I had a chat with my uncle Malcolm about city design.
lights pipe
Peak Warming Man said:
Michael V said:
Bubblecar said:Be careful.
Oh, I will.
Don’t fall on her.
I promise I won’t. She’ll mostly be just an observer, whose job it is to call the ambulance if I get badly injured
Michael V said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Michael V said:Oh, I will.
Don’t fall on her.
I promise I won’t. She’ll mostly be just an observer, whose job it is to call the ambulance if I get badly injured
Phew
dv said:
I had a dream that I lost some treasured belongings of my great uncle Arthur who, in the dream, had recently died. (In real life he died in the 1980s). This included some notes he took on a trip with his wife. Then I had a chat with my uncle Malcolm about city design.
Michael V said:
I’ve cut down three long bamboo stalks and picked up a lot of bamboo litter, basically clearing the area that I need to remove more stalks. One new shoot is about 150 mm diameter, and may provide a bit of food. It should fall easily.Unfortunately, for the next part of the job, I need to be up a ladder on several occasions. Mrs V banned me from doing that a couple of years ago. But she seems to understand this time. I’ve come inside to cool down in front of a fan, whilst she has breakfast.
Goodluck
JudgeMental said:
dv said:
I had a dream that I lost some treasured belongings of my great uncle Arthur who, in the dream, had recently died. (In real life he died in the 1980s). This included some notes he took on a trip with his wife. Then I had a chat with my uncle Malcolm about city design.
Hehe.
Not that one.
He was a nice old interesting old bloke. He and his missus taught us euchre.
dv said:
Michael V said:
I’ve cut down three long bamboo stalks and picked up a lot of bamboo litter, basically clearing the area that I need to remove more stalks. One new shoot is about 150 mm diameter, and may provide a bit of food. It should fall easily.Unfortunately, for the next part of the job, I need to be up a ladder on several occasions. Mrs V banned me from doing that a couple of years ago. But she seems to understand this time. I’ve come inside to cool down in front of a fan, whilst she has breakfast.
Goodluck
Ta. I’ve done a bit so far. Not the major jobs yet, but trimming branches off the bamboo with the long-handled pruners. Been up and down the ladder four times. It’s a bit scary, but I haven’t fallen. So that’s good.
Michael V said:
dv said:Michael V said:
I’ve cut down three long bamboo stalks and picked up a lot of bamboo litter, basically clearing the area that I need to remove more stalks. One new shoot is about 150 mm diameter, and may provide a bit of food. It should fall easily.Unfortunately, for the next part of the job, I need to be up a ladder on several occasions. Mrs V banned me from doing that a couple of years ago. But she seems to understand this time. I’ve come inside to cool down in front of a fan, whilst she has breakfast.
Goodluck
Ta. I’ve done a bit so far. Not the major jobs yet, but trimming branches off the bamboo with the long-handled pruners. Been up and down the ladder four times. It’s a bit scary, but I haven’t fallen. So that’s good.
Got sandbags on the bottom rungs?
Michael V said:
dv said:Michael V said:
I’ve cut down three long bamboo stalks and picked up a lot of bamboo litter, basically clearing the area that I need to remove more stalks. One new shoot is about 150 mm diameter, and may provide a bit of food. It should fall easily.Unfortunately, for the next part of the job, I need to be up a ladder on several occasions. Mrs V banned me from doing that a couple of years ago. But she seems to understand this time. I’ve come inside to cool down in front of a fan, whilst she has breakfast.
Goodluck
Ta. I’ve done a bit so far. Not the major jobs yet, but trimming branches off the bamboo with the long-handled pruners. Been up and down the ladder four times. It’s a bit scary, but I haven’t fallen. So that’s good.
Thats good Michael.
Michael…………….come in Michael
Michael…………..
Fun morning in Spocky’s 1999 Honda Accord.
Parked at the shops, then when testing the door handle to make sure the car was locked, the handle just broke off. There’s enough left of it so I can still open the door easily enough fortunately. So I won’t bother fixing it.
Then on the way home, about 2 K’s from safety, I noticed that the water temp was higher than usual. It seemed otherwise stable for about 30 seconds but I kept an eye on it and it slowly started to creep up again. So air-con off, cabin heater & fan to max and kept going. Temp came down a little but only for a short while and it was pretty obvious I wasn’t going to get the last K down without the needle heading firmly into the red so I stopped at sports park. Opened the bonnet and saw the top radiator hose had popped off the radiator.
It’s had problems with the hoses before so I carry about eight litres of water in the boot. The tricky bit was getting the stiff spring clamp to open up enough so I could get the hose back over the radiator pipe. Had no tools in the car so all I could think of was using a couple of sticks, each one pushing up against the outside of the spring clip tab, so I could use a few more fingers …. and it worked.
Filled it up with water and made the dash home – Time for more silicone sealant and a couple of screw clamps on it next I reckon.
Peak Warming Man said:
Michael V said:
dv said:Goodluck
Ta. I’ve done a bit so far. Not the major jobs yet, but trimming branches off the bamboo with the long-handled pruners. Been up and down the ladder four times. It’s a bit scary, but I haven’t fallen. So that’s good.
Thats good Michael.
Michael…………….come in Michael
Michael…………..
‘e’s fallen in the water!
Michael V said:
dv said:Michael V said:
I’ve cut down three long bamboo stalks and picked up a lot of bamboo litter, basically clearing the area that I need to remove more stalks. One new shoot is about 150 mm diameter, and may provide a bit of food. It should fall easily.Unfortunately, for the next part of the job, I need to be up a ladder on several occasions. Mrs V banned me from doing that a couple of years ago. But she seems to understand this time. I’ve come inside to cool down in front of a fan, whilst she has breakfast.
Goodluck
Ta. I’ve done a bit so far. Not the major jobs yet, but trimming branches off the bamboo with the long-handled pruners. Been up and down the ladder four times. It’s a bit scary, but I haven’t fallen. So that’s good.
I’ve cut down the big (15 m long) dead stalk that had fallen because of the wind and was about to start abrading the shed. And I didn’t need a ladder to do so. Much chuffed. Tensioned it with rope against another bamboo stalk, to ensure it couldn’t possibly hit the shed. Turned out just as hoped.
Cut down another shoot, about 10 m long, but it was alive and simple to do. Mrs V has started shredding some of the bamboo. I’m cooling in front of the fan.
:)
roughbarked said:
Michael V said:
dv said:Goodluck
Ta. I’ve done a bit so far. Not the major jobs yet, but trimming branches off the bamboo with the long-handled pruners. Been up and down the ladder four times. It’s a bit scary, but I haven’t fallen. So that’s good.
Got sandbags on the bottom rungs?
No, why?
Peak Warming Man said:
Michael V said:
dv said:Goodluck
Ta. I’ve done a bit so far. Not the major jobs yet, but trimming branches off the bamboo with the long-handled pruners. Been up and down the ladder four times. It’s a bit scary, but I haven’t fallen. So that’s good.
That’s good Michael.
Michael…………….come in Michael
Michael…………..
LOLOL
:)
Spiny Norman said:
Fun morning in Spocky’s 1999 Honda Accord.
Parked at the shops, then when testing the door handle to make sure the car was locked, the handle just broke off. There’s enough left of it so I can still open the door easily enough fortunately. So I won’t bother fixing it.
Then on the way home, about 2 K’s from safety, I noticed that the water temp was higher than usual. It seemed otherwise stable for about 30 seconds but I kept an eye on it and it slowly started to creep up again. So air-con off, cabin heater & fan to max and kept going. Temp came down a little but only for a short while and it was pretty obvious I wasn’t going to get the last K down without the needle heading firmly into the red so I stopped at sports park. Opened the bonnet and saw the top radiator hose had popped off the radiator.
It’s had problems with the hoses before so I carry about eight litres of water in the boot. The tricky bit was getting the stiff spring clamp to open up enough so I could get the hose back over the radiator pipe. Had no tools in the car so all I could think of was using a couple of sticks, each one pushing up against the outside of the spring clip tab, so I could use a few more fingers …. and it worked.
Filled it up with water and made the dash home – Time for more silicone sealant and a couple of screw clamps on it next I reckon.
so you’ve had problems with the hoses enough to keep water in the car, but not tools… interesting… but nice mcgyvering there
Arts said:
Spiny Norman said:
Fun morning in Spocky’s 1999 Honda Accord.
Parked at the shops, then when testing the door handle to make sure the car was locked, the handle just broke off. There’s enough left of it so I can still open the door easily enough fortunately. So I won’t bother fixing it.
Then on the way home, about 2 K’s from safety, I noticed that the water temp was higher than usual. It seemed otherwise stable for about 30 seconds but I kept an eye on it and it slowly started to creep up again. So air-con off, cabin heater & fan to max and kept going. Temp came down a little but only for a short while and it was pretty obvious I wasn’t going to get the last K down without the needle heading firmly into the red so I stopped at sports park. Opened the bonnet and saw the top radiator hose had popped off the radiator.
It’s had problems with the hoses before so I carry about eight litres of water in the boot. The tricky bit was getting the stiff spring clamp to open up enough so I could get the hose back over the radiator pipe. Had no tools in the car so all I could think of was using a couple of sticks, each one pushing up against the outside of the spring clip tab, so I could use a few more fingers …. and it worked.
Filled it up with water and made the dash home – Time for more silicone sealant and a couple of screw clamps on it next I reckon.
so you’ve had problems with the hoses enough to keep water in the car, but not tools… interesting… but nice mcgyvering there
I used to carry a Leatherman type utility pocketknife, but I thought the car had run out of things to fail like this.
Got that wrong.
I remember when we’d get belted twice a day and once on Saturday, or was that the mail?
I’m back again. I’ve done some weeding. But not the weeding I intended to do. I went out there, and on the way to the intended spot…got sidetracked. Still it all needs doing anyway. Having a cold drink now. Got a wash going in the machine (towels and sundry bits of clothing). I really, really have to clean the laundry floor.
buffy said:
I’m back again. I’ve done some weeding. But not the weeding I intended to do. I went out there, and on the way to the intended spot…got sidetracked. Still it all needs doing anyway. Having a cold drink now. Got a wash going in the machine (towels and sundry bits of clothing). I really, really have to clean the laundry floor.
You’re getting as bad as Bubblecar.
Spiny Norman said:
Arts said:
Spiny Norman said:
Fun morning in Spocky’s 1999 Honda Accord.
Parked at the shops, then when testing the door handle to make sure the car was locked, the handle just broke off. There’s enough left of it so I can still open the door easily enough fortunately. So I won’t bother fixing it.
Then on the way home, about 2 K’s from safety, I noticed that the water temp was higher than usual. It seemed otherwise stable for about 30 seconds but I kept an eye on it and it slowly started to creep up again. So air-con off, cabin heater & fan to max and kept going. Temp came down a little but only for a short while and it was pretty obvious I wasn’t going to get the last K down without the needle heading firmly into the red so I stopped at sports park. Opened the bonnet and saw the top radiator hose had popped off the radiator.
It’s had problems with the hoses before so I carry about eight litres of water in the boot. The tricky bit was getting the stiff spring clamp to open up enough so I could get the hose back over the radiator pipe. Had no tools in the car so all I could think of was using a couple of sticks, each one pushing up against the outside of the spring clip tab, so I could use a few more fingers …. and it worked.
Filled it up with water and made the dash home – Time for more silicone sealant and a couple of screw clamps on it next I reckon.
so you’ve had problems with the hoses enough to keep water in the car, but not tools… interesting… but nice mcgyvering there
I used to carry a Leatherman type utility pocketknife, but I thought the car had run out of things to fail like this.
Got that wrong.
ha, never underestimate the ability for something to fuck up.
Michael V said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Michael V said:Oh, I will.
Don’t fall on her.
I promise I won’t. She’ll mostly be just an observer, whose job it is to call the ambulance if I get badly injured
Around here I climb the ladder (although not as often and not as high as I used to do) and Mr buffy is the watcher. Sometimes I wonder what I was thinking when I used to go to the Casterton house on my own and climb up to paint the 12 ft high ceilings and cut in the walls. I did once fall, when I stepped back from a huntsman spider who was behind the wallpaper as I ripped it off the wall and he came with it towards my face. Fortunately I was not balanced right at the top of the ladder at the time.
Arts said:
Spiny Norman said:
Arts said:so you’ve had problems with the hoses enough to keep water in the car, but not tools… interesting… but nice mcgyvering there
I used to carry a Leatherman type utility pocketknife, but I thought the car had run out of things to fail like this.
Got that wrong.
ha, never underestimate the ability for something to fuck up.
Yeah.
To be fair, the hose is new & supple and the radiator pipe is in good nick so I didn’t think there’d be a problem. I mean it’s not some of the other dodgy shit I’ve done to it, it’s standard!
I wonder if Tamb was affected by all the rain up north.
buffy said:
Michael V said:
Peak Warming Man said:Don’t fall on her.
I promise I won’t. She’ll mostly be just an observer, whose job it is to call the ambulance if I get badly injured
Around here I climb the ladder (although not as often and not as high as I used to do) and Mr buffy is the watcher. Sometimes I wonder what I was thinking when I used to go to the Casterton house on my own and climb up to paint the 12 ft high ceilings and cut in the walls. I did once fall, when I stepped back from a huntsman spider who was behind the wallpaper as I ripped it off the wall and he came with it towards my face. Fortunately I was not balanced right at the top of the ladder at the time.
Yikes!
Peak Warming Man said:
buffy said:
I’m back again. I’ve done some weeding. But not the weeding I intended to do. I went out there, and on the way to the intended spot…got sidetracked. Still it all needs doing anyway. Having a cold drink now. Got a wash going in the machine (towels and sundry bits of clothing). I really, really have to clean the laundry floor.
You’re getting as bad as Bubblecar.
I don’t think Bubblecar would have tolerated how dirty it is out there. He doesn’t have a couple of dogs producing fluffy dust bunnies all the time. And he is waaaaay more houseproud than I am. I’d rather be outside. I can ignore a bit of dirt inside.
I work of the principle of tethering the ladder whenever I have to lean it against something. I’ve always got a few cargo straps in the shed, so I do my best to tie it around something before going too high.
party_pants said:
I work of the principle of tethering the ladder whenever I have to lean it against something. I’ve always got a few cargo straps in the shed, so I do my best to tie it around something before going too high.
Sensible.
Spiny Norman said:
Arts said:
Spiny Norman said:I used to carry a Leatherman type utility pocketknife, but I thought the car had run out of things to fail like this.
Got that wrong.
ha, never underestimate the ability for something to fuck up.
Yeah.
To be fair, the hose is new & supple and the radiator pipe is in good nick so I didn’t think there’d be a problem. I mean it’s not some of the other dodgy shit I’ve done to it, it’s standard!
Did it boil and force it off? Could the thermostat be knackered? Is the spring clamp knackered? Anyway, you’re going to repalce it with a screw clamp – good move. I wouldn’t use silicone. The clamp should always be sufficient.
I had to replace the thermostat on our (much earlier) Accord just once. I had to replace the thermostat on the Landcruiser (HJ60) ever 15 months or so.
Michael V said:
Spiny Norman said:
Arts said:ha, never underestimate the ability for something to fuck up.
Yeah.
To be fair, the hose is new & supple and the radiator pipe is in good nick so I didn’t think there’d be a problem. I mean it’s not some of the other dodgy shit I’ve done to it, it’s standard!
Did it boil and force it off? Could the thermostat be knackered? Is the spring clamp knackered? Anyway, you’re going to repalce it with a screw clamp – good move. I wouldn’t use silicone. The clamp should always be sufficient.
I had to replace the thermostat on our (much earlier) Accord just once. I had to replace the thermostat on the Landcruiser (HJ60) ever 15 months or so.
Ta for that. I’m going to add a screw clamp to the spring clamp. like I did at the engine end of that hose.
Michael V said:
roughbarked said:
Michael V said:Ta. I’ve done a bit so far. Not the major jobs yet, but trimming branches off the bamboo with the long-handled pruners. Been up and down the ladder four times. It’s a bit scary, but I haven’t fallen. So that’s good.
Got sandbags on the bottom rungs?
No, why?
Keeps the ladder more stable. or that’s what I was told at the hospital when I had a couple of fractured vertebrae and three ribs.
all this talk about ladder safety.. no matter how well tethered or sandbagged the ladder is.. people can still fall off the ladder… it is not a prerequisite to a spinal injury for the ladder to fall also.. if you are going to fall, you are going to fall, but having someone aware you are going up a ladder will help help get to you asap.
I am my own ladder.
JudgeMental said:
I am my own ladder.
Shaddap short-arse!
roughbarked said:
Michael V said:
roughbarked said:Got sandbags on the bottom rungs?
No, why?
Keeps the ladder more stable. or that’s what I was told at the hospital when I had a couple of fractured vertebrae and three ribs.
The ladder has four legs. It’s levelled with floor-board off-cuts, and I don’t have any sand bags.
Arts said:
all this talk about ladder safety.. no matter how well tethered or sandbagged the ladder is.. people can still fall off the ladder… it is not a prerequisite to a spinal injury for the ladder to fall also.. if you are going to fall, you are going to fall, but having someone aware you are going up a ladder will help help get to you asap.
^
Mrs V was observer.
JudgeMental said:
I am my own ladder.
First name Jacob?
JudgeMental said:
I am my own ladder.
I am a ladder to my people.
Michael V said:
roughbarked said:
Michael V said:No, why?
Keeps the ladder more stable. or that’s what I was told at the hospital when I had a couple of fractured vertebrae and three ribs.
The ladder has four legs. It’s levelled with floor-board off-cuts, and I don’t have any sand bags.
Level always helps.
For some reason I find this chap, who builds high-end epoxy tables, quite soothing to watch.
Arts said:
all this talk about ladder safety.. no matter how well tethered or sandbagged the ladder is.. people can still fall off the ladder… it is not a prerequisite to a spinal injury for the ladder to fall also.. if you are going to fall, you are going to fall, but having someone aware you are going up a ladder will help help get to you asap.
I don’t have an observer.
party_pants said:
Arts said:
all this talk about ladder safety.. no matter how well tethered or sandbagged the ladder is.. people can still fall off the ladder… it is not a prerequisite to a spinal injury for the ladder to fall also.. if you are going to fall, you are going to fall, but having someone aware you are going up a ladder will help help get to you asap.
I don’t have an observer.
Are you both alive and dead?
Witty Rejoinder said:
party_pants said:
Arts said:
all this talk about ladder safety.. no matter how well tethered or sandbagged the ladder is.. people can still fall off the ladder… it is not a prerequisite to a spinal injury for the ladder to fall also.. if you are going to fall, you are going to fall, but having someone aware you are going up a ladder will help help get to you asap.
I don’t have an observer.
Are you both alive and dead?
Are you a particle or a wave?
Thankyou thankyou,. Try the veal.
Witty Rejoinder said:
party_pants said:
Arts said:
all this talk about ladder safety.. no matter how well tethered or sandbagged the ladder is.. people can still fall off the ladder… it is not a prerequisite to a spinal injury for the ladder to fall also.. if you are going to fall, you are going to fall, but having someone aware you are going up a ladder will help help get to you asap.
I don’t have an observer.
Are you both alive and dead?
You will not know unless I post here.
party_pants said:
Arts said:
all this talk about ladder safety.. no matter how well tethered or sandbagged the ladder is.. people can still fall off the ladder… it is not a prerequisite to a spinal injury for the ladder to fall also.. if you are going to fall, you are going to fall, but having someone aware you are going up a ladder will help help get to you asap.
I don’t have an observer.
I’m a professional observer.
Witty Rejoinder said:
party_pants said:
Arts said:
all this talk about ladder safety.. no matter how well tethered or sandbagged the ladder is.. people can still fall off the ladder… it is not a prerequisite to a spinal injury for the ladder to fall also.. if you are going to fall, you are going to fall, but having someone aware you are going up a ladder will help help get to you asap.
I don’t have an observer.
Are you both alive and dead?
LOL
I’m not sure he’s a cat, though.
party_pants said:
Arts said:
all this talk about ladder safety.. no matter how well tethered or sandbagged the ladder is.. people can still fall off the ladder… it is not a prerequisite to a spinal injury for the ladder to fall also.. if you are going to fall, you are going to fall, but having someone aware you are going up a ladder will help help get to you asap.
I don’t have an observer.
I’m apparently not allowed unless SMBO is observing but I cab’t alw
roughbarked said:
party_pants said:
Arts said:
all this talk about ladder safety.. no matter how well tethered or sandbagged the ladder is.. people can still fall off the ladder… it is not a prerequisite to a spinal injury for the ladder to fall also.. if you are going to fall, you are going to fall, but having someone aware you are going up a ladder will help help get to you asap.
I don’t have an observer.
I’m apparently not allowed unless SMBO is observing but I cab’t alw
cannot always call upon the observer.
sometimes I think a trip through a spinal unit of ABI unit would do everyone a world of good…
maybe a Day in the life… that sort of thing…
Apparently it was in a carpark.
roughbarked said:
Swedish rapper Gaboro shot.Apparently it was in a carpark.
Well now if it was Swedish Gospel Singer Shot that would be worthy news.
Arts said:
sometimes I think a trip through a spinal unit of ABI unit would do everyone a world of good…maybe a Day in the life… that sort of thing…
my back hurts. but I suppose that is a good thing.
party_pants said:
roughbarked said:
Swedish rapper Gaboro shot.Apparently it was in a carpark.
NHOH.
NHI
Do I dare to go to Bunnings today?
Was going to start on a project today, but the forecast is for 38C today and 41C tomorrow. So I might not spend much time in the shed anyway.
party_pants said:
Do I dare to go to Bunnings today?Was going to start on a project today, but the forecast is for 38C today and 41C tomorrow. So I might not spend much time in the shed anyway.
you could buy another fan while you’re there.
I’ve done part of the laundry cleaning. I should go and do some more of it really. Before I siesta. Getting warmer here now, but not yet uncomfortable.
sarahs mum said:
Arts said:
sometimes I think a trip through a spinal unit of ABI unit would do everyone a world of good…maybe a Day in the life… that sort of thing…
my back hurts. but I suppose that is a good thing.
My lower back hasn’t been okay for years. I inherited my Mum’s partially fused vertebrae and extra vertebrae. Then multiple falls over the years has not helped.
sarahs mum said:
Arts said:
sometimes I think a trip through a spinal unit of ABI unit would do everyone a world of good…maybe a Day in the life… that sort of thing…
my back hurts. but I suppose that is a good thing.
Hurting is never good.
kii said:
sarahs mum said:
Arts said:
sometimes I think a trip through a spinal unit of ABI unit would do everyone a world of good…maybe a Day in the life… that sort of thing…
my back hurts. but I suppose that is a good thing.
My lower back hasn’t been okay for years. I inherited my Mum’s partially fused vertebrae and extra vertebrae. Then multiple falls over the years has not helped.
Bruddy-eck! Basket-case.
Michael V said:
party_pants said:
roughbarked said:
Swedish rapper Gaboro shot.Apparently it was in a carpark.
NHOH.
NHI
gnaw me.
sarahs mum said:
party_pants said:
Do I dare to go to Bunnings today?Was going to start on a project today, but the forecast is for 38C today and 41C tomorrow. So I might not spend much time in the shed anyway.
you could buy another fan while you’re there.
I have a couple of pedestal fans already. In a couple of weeks time I get my ducted aircon installed. So I am probably not going to invest in more fans at this time.
party_pants said:
sarahs mum said:
party_pants said:
Do I dare to go to Bunnings today?Was going to start on a project today, but the forecast is for 38C today and 41C tomorrow. So I might not spend much time in the shed anyway.
you could buy another fan while you’re there.
I have a couple of pedestal fans already. In a couple of weeks time I get my ducted aircon installed. So I am probably not going to invest in more fans at this time.
I would go to Bunnings today, because after Christmas it will be even crazier as people spend their Bunnings Christmas vouches
Arts said:
I would go to Bunnings today, because after Christmas it will be even crazier as people spend their Bunnings Christmas vouches
No-one uses Bunnings vouchers.
You put them in a drawer, and then forget about them.
Arts said:
party_pants said:
sarahs mum said:you could buy another fan while you’re there.
I have a couple of pedestal fans already. In a couple of weeks time I get my ducted aircon installed. So I am probably not going to invest in more fans at this time.
I would go to Bunnings today, because after Christmas it will be even crazier as people spend their Bunnings Christmas vouches
I’ve still got a Bunnings voucher from last Christmas.
Peak Warming Man said:
Arts said:
party_pants said:I have a couple of pedestal fans already. In a couple of weeks time I get my ducted aircon installed. So I am probably not going to invest in more fans at this time.
I would go to Bunnings today, because after Christmas it will be even crazier as people spend their Bunnings Christmas vouches
I’ve still got a Bunnings voucher from last Christmas.
see?
captain_spalding said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Arts said:I would go to Bunnings today, because after Christmas it will be even crazier as people spend their Bunnings Christmas vouches
I’ve still got a Bunnings voucher from last Christmas.
see?
I traded something, possibly Qantas points for Bunnings vouchers. I used them up quick smart.
kii said:
sarahs mum said:
Arts said:
sometimes I think a trip through a spinal unit of ABI unit would do everyone a world of good…maybe a Day in the life… that sort of thing…
my back hurts. but I suppose that is a good thing.
My lower back hasn’t been okay for years. I inherited my Mum’s partially fused vertebrae and extra vertebrae. Then multiple falls over the years has not helped.
that hurts. mine hurts from when i was a 14-year-old on an A grade thorough bred eventing horse. luckily it only hurts now and then. for days.
Arts said:
party_pants said:
sarahs mum said:you could buy another fan while you’re there.
I have a couple of pedestal fans already. In a couple of weeks time I get my ducted aircon installed. So I am probably not going to invest in more fans at this time.
I would go to Bunnings today, because after Christmas it will be even crazier as people spend their Bunnings Christmas vouches
You are probably right.
I should go find a clean shirt and comb my hair.
captain_spalding said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Arts said:I would go to Bunnings today, because after Christmas it will be even crazier as people spend their Bunnings Christmas vouches
I’ve still got a Bunnings voucher from last Christmas.
see?
you are part of the corporate greed problem
sarahs mum said:
kii said:
sarahs mum said:my back hurts. but I suppose that is a good thing.
My lower back hasn’t been okay for years. I inherited my Mum’s partially fused vertebrae and extra vertebrae. Then multiple falls over the years has not helped.
that hurts. mine hurts from when i was a 14-year-old on an A grade thorough bred eventing horse. luckily it only hurts now and then. for days.
I’ve discovered that my back hurts:
a) When I sit for too long (ie, more than an hour), or,
b) If I bend over for too long (10 minutes – sometimes less).
If I walk around, the problem dissipates. But if I keep either posture for way too long, it may take days to get relief.
Arts said:
captain_spalding said:
Peak Warming Man said:I’ve still got a Bunnings voucher from last Christmas.
see?
you are part of the corporate greed problem
They manage quite well without my help.
‘Gift vouchers’ are something that retail corporations absolutely loveto bits!
Precisely because they know that a decent percentage of them will never be used, and that’s even more likely if they have an expiration date.
So, what the gift-giver and (indirectly) the recipient have done there is to give money to the corporation. The company gets the gift. A donation to their profits.
Free money. What’s not to like?
My lower back pain (which I suspect is spinal stenosis) is now dwarfed by my left hip pain (which I suspect is arthritis).
Bubblecar said:
My lower back pain (which I suspect is spinal stenosis) is now dwarfed by my left hip pain (which I suspect is arthritis).
Mrs S has considerable pain from a nerve which (in a brief summary) is being pinched by two vertebrae.
She was scheduled to have surgery to relieve this on 11 Dec.
On 10 Dec, she got out of bed, and shortly thereafter collapsed. Pulmonary embolism. Blood clot on her lung.
Ambulance, resusc room, acute care ward, a week in hospital.
On blood thinners for at least three months, quite possibly six months, no surgery until then.
captain_spalding said:
Arts said:
captain_spalding said:see?
you are part of the corporate greed problem
They manage quite well without my help.
‘Gift vouchers’ are something that retail corporations absolutely loveto bits!
Precisely because they know that a decent percentage of them will never be used, and that’s even more likely if they have an expiration date.
So, what the gift-giver and (indirectly) the recipient have done there is to give money to the corporation. The company gets the gift. A donation to their profits.
Free money. What’s not to like?
I mean we agree so..
captain_spalding said:
Bubblecar said:
My lower back pain (which I suspect is spinal stenosis) is now dwarfed by my left hip pain (which I suspect is arthritis).
Mrs S has considerable pain from a nerve which (in a brief summary) is being pinched by two vertebrae.
She was scheduled to have surgery to relieve this on 11 Dec.
On 10 Dec, she got out of bed, and shortly thereafter collapsed. Pulmonary embolism. Blood clot on her lung.
Ambulance, resusc room, acute care ward, a week in hospital.
On blood thinners for at least three months, quite possibly six months, no surgery until then.
Awful. My sympathies to Mrs S.
captain_spalding said:
Bubblecar said:
My lower back pain (which I suspect is spinal stenosis) is now dwarfed by my left hip pain (which I suspect is arthritis).
Mrs S has considerable pain from a nerve which (in a brief summary) is being pinched by two vertebrae.
She was scheduled to have surgery to relieve this on 11 Dec.
On 10 Dec, she got out of bed, and shortly thereafter collapsed. Pulmonary embolism. Blood clot on her lung.
Ambulance, resusc room, acute care ward, a week in hospital.
On blood thinners for at least three months, quite possibly six months, no surgery until then.
shit.
captain_spalding said:
Bubblecar said:
My lower back pain (which I suspect is spinal stenosis) is now dwarfed by my left hip pain (which I suspect is arthritis).
Mrs S has considerable pain from a nerve which (in a brief summary) is being pinched by two vertebrae.
She was scheduled to have surgery to relieve this on 11 Dec.
On 10 Dec, she got out of bed, and shortly thereafter collapsed. Pulmonary embolism. Blood clot on her lung.
Ambulance, resusc room, acute care ward, a week in hospital.
On blood thinners for at least three months, quite possibly six months, no surgery until then.
Damn, how awful for both of you.
Bubblecar said:
My lower back pain (which I suspect is spinal stenosis) is now dwarfed by my left hip pain (which I suspect is arthritis).
Arts said:
party_pants said:
sarahs mum said:you could buy another fan while you’re there.
I have a couple of pedestal fans already. In a couple of weeks time I get my ducted aircon installed. So I am probably not going to invest in more fans at this time.
I would go to Bunnings today, because after Christmas it will be even crazier as people spend their Bunnings Christmas vouches
and return stuff they didn’t want. and probably complain about something.
Tamb said:
Bubblecar said:
My lower back pain (which I suspect is spinal stenosis) is now dwarfed by my left hip pain (which I suspect is arthritis).
I had quite painful sciatica until I fell and broke my hip. After the repair operation the sciatica ceased.
I don’t recommend this cure!
Noted, it certainly sounds drastic.
I’m just a pain.
JudgeMental said:
I’m just a pain.
Yeah, but you’re our favourite pain.
Watching The Six Triple Eight. Based on a true story. I’m crying.
Eighteen years ago mr kii and I landed in Hawaii from Richmond, NSW RAAF Base. We flew over in a KC135.
kii said:
Eighteen years ago mr kii and I landed in Hawaii from Richmond, NSW RAAF Base. We flew over in a KC135.
What? In those pipe-and-webbing troop seats?
You poor buggers.
Bubblecar said:
captain_spalding said:
Bubblecar said:
My lower back pain (which I suspect is spinal stenosis) is now dwarfed by my left hip pain (which I suspect is arthritis).
Mrs S has considerable pain from a nerve which (in a brief summary) is being pinched by two vertebrae.
She was scheduled to have surgery to relieve this on 11 Dec.
On 10 Dec, she got out of bed, and shortly thereafter collapsed. Pulmonary embolism. Blood clot on her lung.
Ambulance, resusc room, acute care ward, a week in hospital.
On blood thinners for at least three months, quite possibly six months, no surgery until then.
Awful. My sympathies to Mrs S.
yeah sorry to hear, hope yous all recover well
JudgeMental said:
Arts said:
party_pants said:
I have a couple of pedestal fans already. In a couple of weeks time I get my ducted aircon installed. So I am probably not going to invest in more fans at this time.
I would go to Bunnings today, because after Christmas it will be even crazier as people spend their Bunnings Christmas vouches
and return stuff they didn’t want. and probably complain about something.
lockdowns
Was the floods far enough north to affect you Tamb?
captain_spalding said:
JudgeMental said:
I’m just a pain.
Yeah, but you’re our favourite pain.
a bit of a loaf then
Well, the floor in the laundry has been cleaned. It was one of those down on your knees cleans. With a knee pad. But I’m definitely not as young as I used to be…getting up again is slower than before. I found a pair of Celtic knot silver ear-rings that I didn’t know I’d misplaced. They need a clean. But I didn’t find my missing hoop ear-ring. I sort of hoped it had come off down there when I got undressed to shower (there is a shower in our laundry) some months ago. Nup. I must have lost it in Hamilton.
I think I might need a lie down, read and siesta for an hour or so before I prepare the food for tea tonight.
captain_spalding said:
Arts said:
captain_spalding said:see?
you are part of the corporate greed problem
They manage quite well without my help.
‘Gift vouchers’ are something that retail corporations absolutely loveto bits!
Precisely because they know that a decent percentage of them will never be used, and that’s even more likely if they have an expiration date.
So, what the gift-giver and (indirectly) the recipient have done there is to give money to the corporation. The company gets the gift. A donation to their profits.
Free money. What’s not to like?
… and they get the cash flow up front.
I was trying to explain this to someone regards the free public transport in Perth only applying if you have a valid SmartRider card with a positive balance. Cash fares still have to pay up. The exercise is to encourage people to get a SR card. The PT Authority love the card system, because they get the cash flow up front and the number of journeys in the future don’t matter, they are already time-tabled and factored in. but cash flow up front is gold.
captain_spalding said:
kii said:
Eighteen years ago mr kii and I landed in Hawaii from Richmond, NSW RAAF Base. We flew over in a KC135.
What? In those pipe-and-webbing troop seats?
You poor buggers.
Yep, but I was in love. Plus we had pizzas from Pizza Hut that were ordered before we left Richmond. It was an adventure.
buffy said:
Well, the floor in the laundry has been cleaned. It was one of those down on your knees cleans. With a knee pad. But I’m definitely not as young as I used to be…getting up again is slower than before. I found a pair of Celtic knot silver ear-rings that I didn’t know I’d misplaced. They need a clean. But I didn’t find my missing hoop ear-ring. I sort of hoped it had come off down there when I got undressed to shower (there is a shower in our laundry) some months ago. Nup. I must have lost it in Hamilton.I think I might need a lie down, read and siesta for an hour or so before I prepare the food for tea tonight.
Well done.
My laundry has no shower but does house the only toilet in the house. Easy clean wood-look vinyl flooring, on top of actual boards.
captain_spalding said:
Bubblecar said:
My lower back pain (which I suspect is spinal stenosis) is now dwarfed by my left hip pain (which I suspect is arthritis).
Mrs S has considerable pain from a nerve which (in a brief summary) is being pinched by two vertebrae.
She was scheduled to have surgery to relieve this on 11 Dec.
On 10 Dec, she got out of bed, and shortly thereafter collapsed. Pulmonary embolism. Blood clot on her lung.
Ambulance, resusc room, acute care ward, a week in hospital.
On blood thinners for at least three months, quite possibly six months, no surgery until then.
:(
ouch. Best wishes.
JudgeMental said:
Arts said:
party_pants said:I have a couple of pedestal fans already. In a couple of weeks time I get my ducted aircon installed. So I am probably not going to invest in more fans at this time.
I would go to Bunnings today, because after Christmas it will be even crazier as people spend their Bunnings Christmas vouches
and return stuff they didn’t want. and probably complain about something.
Bunnings wasn’t too bad.
captain_spalding said:
Bubblecar said:
My lower back pain (which I suspect is spinal stenosis) is now dwarfed by my left hip pain (which I suspect is arthritis).
Mrs S has considerable pain from a nerve which (in a brief summary) is being pinched by two vertebrae.
She was scheduled to have surgery to relieve this on 11 Dec.
On 10 Dec, she got out of bed, and shortly thereafter collapsed. Pulmonary embolism. Blood clot on her lung.
Ambulance, resusc room, acute care ward, a week in hospital.
On blood thinners for at least three months, quite possibly six months, no surgery until then.
Bloody!
I wish for her and you that recovery is spectacularly quick.
party_pants said:
JudgeMental said:
Arts said:I would go to Bunnings today, because after Christmas it will be even crazier as people spend their Bunnings Christmas vouches
and return stuff they didn’t want. and probably complain about something.
Bunnings wasn’t too bad.
What did you purchase?
Bubblecar said:
My lower back pain (which I suspect is spinal stenosis) is now dwarfed by my left hip pain (which I suspect is arthritis).
You probably should get those pains checked out by a qualified medico.
party_pants said:
JudgeMental said:
Arts said:I would go to Bunnings today, because after Christmas it will be even crazier as people spend their Bunnings Christmas vouches
and return stuff they didn’t want. and probably complain about something.
Bunnings wasn’t too bad.
Watcha get, watcha get?
JudgeMental said:
I’m just a pain.
That’s OK. We understand.
kii said:
Eighteen years ago mr kii and I landed in Hawaii from Richmond, NSW RAAF Base. We flew over in a KC135.
Awwwwww.
Bubblecar said:
party_pants said:
JudgeMental said:and return stuff they didn’t want. and probably complain about something.
Bunnings wasn’t too bad.
What did you purchase?
Some pieces of steel. 2 × 2m lengths of 25 × 25 × 1.6 mm RHS. Some screws and washers.
Michael V said:
Bubblecar said:
My lower back pain (which I suspect is spinal stenosis) is now dwarfed by my left hip pain (which I suspect is arthritis).
You probably should get those pains checked out by a qualified medico.
I will eventually. I did go to a local GP years ago with the lower back pain but he was pretty useless and uninterested.
The hip pain kicked in this year but what with all my other medical appointments and tests in Launceston etc., I was too fed up with that stuff to have it looked into.
party_pants said:
Bubblecar said:
party_pants said:Bunnings wasn’t too bad.
What did you purchase?
Some pieces of steel. 2 × 2m lengths of 25 × 25 × 1.6 mm RHS. Some screws and washers.
Phoaw
party_pants said:
Bubblecar said:
party_pants said:Bunnings wasn’t too bad.
What did you purchase?
Some pieces of steel. 2 × 2m lengths of 25 × 25 × 1.6 mm RHS. Some screws and washers.
Sounds like you know what you’re doing.
Bubblecar said:
party_pants said:
Bubblecar said:What did you purchase?
Some pieces of steel. 2 × 2m lengths of 25 × 25 × 1.6 mm RHS. Some screws and washers.
Sounds like you know what you’re doing.
The screws and washers are to put up my canvas awning for shade.
The steel is for another project. I made some outdoor timber folding chairs a while back. The timber legs have not aged well. So I am going to replace them with steel legs, but retaining the timber slats for the seat and backrest. Said timber slats need a good sand and re-varnish.
party_pants said:
Bubblecar said:
party_pants said:Some pieces of steel. 2 × 2m lengths of 25 × 25 × 1.6 mm RHS. Some screws and washers.
Sounds like you know what you’re doing.
The screws and washers are to put up my canvas awning for shade.
The steel is for another project. I made some outdoor timber folding chairs a while back. The timber legs have not aged well. So I am going to replace them with steel legs, but retaining the timber slats for the seat and backrest. Said timber slats need a good sand and re-varnish.
Goodo. Keep us up to date with progress snaps etc.
LOL @ predator prey. This morning Youtube blocked seeing videos if you had an adblocker active. I use UBlock. Had a look just now. Videos are available once again. UBlock is an open source, i guess, app and it usually doesn’t take them long to get around Youtubes efforts. I think a couple of days was the longest.
I take exception to the count down to start time on the TAB for a race. It counts down in minutes and the last minute is in seconds.
So they count down in minutes eg 3 minutes then 2 minutes then1 minute then after a minute it goes to seconds, 59 58 57 etc.
It’s all wrong.
JudgeMental said:
Michael V said:
party_pants said:NHOH.
NHI
gnaw me.
So a meaningless rapper then?
captain_spalding said:
roughbarked said:
Swedish rapper Gaboro shot.Everyone’s a critic.
Looks that way.
roughbarked said:
JudgeMental said:
Michael V said:NHI
gnaw me.
So a meaningless rapper then?
probably had some meaning in Sweden.
party_pants said:
roughbarked said:
JudgeMental said:gnaw me.
So a meaningless rapper then?
probably had some meaning in Sweden.
Maybe.
JudgeMental said:
LOL @ predator prey. This morning Youtube blocked seeing videos if you had an adblocker active. I use UBlock. Had a look just now. Videos are available once again. UBlock is an open source, i guess, app and it usually doesn’t take them long to get around Youtubes efforts. I think a couple of days was the longest.
I take it that Ublock was also updated.
Anyway, I took my containers and recycled then I filled the ute with bales of millet hay. That’s for my daughter in Canberra. I’ll be off to go help out with some stuff for Christmas, early in the morrow. I’ve packed the tools now to mow the lawn and keep watering amd mulching as while I’m away it is tipted to get above 43. If it isn’t being watered or has been recently watered, a day of that and lots of things will be dead and gone.
This may be useful for those who may need to know such things.
Domestic and sexual violence resources
Peak Warming Man said:
I take exception to the count down to start time on the TAB for a race. It counts down in minutes and the last minute is in seconds.
So they count down in minutes eg 3 minutes then 2 minutes then1 minute then after a minute it goes to seconds, 59 58 57 etc.
It’s all wrong.
How would yous do it better then¿
SCIENCE said:
Peak Warming Man said:
I take exception to the count down to start time on the TAB for a race. It counts down in minutes and the last minute is in seconds.
So they count down in minutes eg 3 minutes then 2 minutes then1 minute then after a minute it goes to seconds, 59 58 57 etc.
It’s all wrong.
How would yous do it better then¿
When it gets to 2 minutes let it go for a minute and the start the seconds count ie 2 minutes then 59 58 etc.
They are doing it all rong.
TFH outside.
Peak Warming Man said:
SCIENCE said:Peak Warming Man said:
I take exception to the count down to start time on the TAB for a race. It counts down in minutes and the last minute is in seconds.
So they count down in minutes eg 3 minutes then 2 minutes then1 minute then after a minute it goes to seconds, 59 58 57 etc.
It’s all wrong.
How would yous do it better then¿
When it gets to 2 minutes let it go for a minute and the start the seconds count ie 2 minutes then 59 58 etc.
They are doing it all rong.
ah we see yousr concern, maybe if they always show the seconds it’ll be right
Think the neighbour’s kids are in their pool. Their usual screaming and crying has a greater note of urgency to it.
Bubblecar said:
Think the neighbour’s kids are in their pool. Their usual screaming and crying has a greater note of urgency to it.
urge incontinence in the pool
party_pants said:
Bubblecar said:
party_pants said:Bunnings wasn’t too bad.
What did you purchase?
Some pieces of steel. 2 × 2m lengths of 25 × 25 × 1.6 mm RHS. Some screws and washers.
Who are you gunna crucify?
One thing I found on returning from apartment life in S’pore to detached housing in Aust is readjusting to being able to hear noises made by the neighbours.
Kingy said:
party_pants said:
Bubblecar said:What did you purchase?
Some pieces of steel. 2 × 2m lengths of 25 × 25 × 1.6 mm RHS. Some screws and washers.
Who are you gunna crucify?
nails and timber are more traditional for that application
party_pants said:
Kingy said:
party_pants said:Some pieces of steel. 2 × 2m lengths of 25 × 25 × 1.6 mm RHS. Some screws and washers.
Who are you gunna crucify?
nails and timber are more traditional for that application
Yeah, that’s what I use.
dv said:
One thing I found on returning from apartment life in S’pore to detached housing in Aust is readjusting to being able to hear noises made by the neighbours.
Are the apartments in Singapore so well built that you can’t hear them?
Peak Warming Man said:
party_pants said:
Kingy said:Who are you gunna crucify?
nails and timber are more traditional for that application
Yeah, that’s what I use.
Well not that I’ve ever crucified anyone, well not literally.
And anyway you can’t prove it.
party_pants said:
dv said:
One thing I found on returning from apartment life in S’pore to detached housing in Aust is readjusting to being able to hear noises made by the neighbours.
Are the apartments in Singapore so well built that you can’t hear them?
Yes. They could be having a rave and you wouldn’t know until you’re in the lobby.
dv said:
party_pants said:
dv said:
One thing I found on returning from apartment life in S’pore to detached housing in Aust is readjusting to being able to hear noises made by the neighbours.
Are the apartments in Singapore so well built that you can’t hear them?
Yes. They could be having a rave and you wouldn’t know until you’re in the lobby.
Makes sense i guess, if you are living high density.
I’ll mark that one down as my learning for today.
Peak Warming Man said:
Peak Warming Man said:
party_pants said:nails and timber are more traditional for that application
Yeah, that’s what I use.
Well not that I’ve ever crucified anyone, well not literally.
And anyway you can’t prove it.
I wasn’t about to try.
You seem a fairly balanced chap.
dv said:
party_pants said:
dv said:
One thing I found on returning from apartment life in S’pore to detached housing in Aust is readjusting to being able to hear noises made by the neighbours.
Are the apartments in Singapore so well built that you can’t hear them?
Yes. They could be having a rave and you wouldn’t know until you’re in the lobby.
Earthquake proof?
For those of us in WA, DFES have just released an app.
EmergencyWA app gives you all the same stuff from the website, but also allows you to set circular zones where you will get a push notification if something happens there.
It seems to be functional, I just got a notification of an incident nearby in one of my watch zones.
Kingy said:
For those of us in WA, DFES have just released an app.EmergencyWA app gives you all the same stuff from the website, but also allows you to set circular zones where you will get a push notification if something happens there.
It seems to be functional, I just got a notification of an incident nearby in one of my watch zones.
Well that’s good
Kingy said:
For those of us in WA, DFES have just released an app.EmergencyWA app gives you all the same stuff from the website, but also allows you to set circular zones where you will get a push notification if something happens there.
It seems to be functional, I just got a notification of an incident nearby in one of my watch zones.
OK. I might download it.
Today’s ALP email:
…
It’s time to speak out
Dear Comrades,
We write to you as proud co-patrons of Australian Labor Friends of Israel.
As you know, Labor Friends of Israel was formed to defend and support our party’s longstanding commitment to a two-state solution that leads to a just and lasting peace between Israelis and Palestinians.
We invite you to join Labor Friends of Israel here and follow us on social media here.
You can also read about some of our work here, here and here.
Unfortunately, there are some elements in our great party and movement who have chosen to align with the Greens Party and far-left and far-right extremists who de facto support the annihilation of the Jewish state.
LFI will fight tooth and nail to defeat those views and help repair the relationship between Australia and Israel, as well as between Labor and the Jewish community.
We will also continue to call for the immediate and unconditional release of hostages and stand in firm support of Israel as the only Western democracy in the Middle East. Israel has a right to defend herself, and this fundamental principle must be noted.
It has been a tough time for the Australian Jewish community, but as Labor people, it is in our DNA to stand with them in solidarity against the unacceptable rise of antisemitism and to stand with all minorities.
LFI will continue to speak out against antisemitism and in support of Israel, and we hope you’ll stand with us. Because never before in the history of our great country and our great movement has there been a more important time to stand up for what is right.
In solidarity,
The Hon Daniel ANDREWS AC & Nova Peris OAM OLY
i’m make my own coffee and snacks, you stay seated, I know you really wanted to do it, there will be other opportunities, don’t trouble about it
transition said:
i’m make my own coffee and snacks, you stay seated, I know you really wanted to do it, there will be other opportunities, don’t trouble about it
Roger.
Kingy said:
Heh.
Kingy said:
:)
The Grampians fires can be seen in this satellite image from about 30 mins ago.
fsm said:
The Grampians fires can be seen in this satellite image from about 30 mins ago.
:(
Kingy said:
For those of us in WA, DFES have just released an app.EmergencyWA app gives you all the same stuff from the website, but also allows you to set circular zones where you will get a push notification if something happens there.
It seems to be functional, I just got a notification of an incident nearby in one of my watch zones.
VicEmergency has something like that. mr buffy’s phone does the “Beep-beep-beep” thing quite often.
fsm said:
The Grampians fires can be seen in this satellite image from about 30 mins ago.
At 3.58 today, 30,779 hectares. We haven’t got any smoke smell here, for which I am very grateful.
buffy said:
fsm said:
The Grampians fires can be seen in this satellite image from about 30 mins ago.
At 3.58 today, 30,779 hectares. We haven’t got any smoke smell here, for which I am very grateful.
I just went out and checked. Mt Abrupt (Southern end of the Serra Range) is visible at the moment, although a bit misty. That’s not unusual, although the “mist” is the wrong colour today. It’s not white. I looked at the weather radar about 24 hours ago and you could see the smoke on that. It’s not there today. I think the fire is more diffuse today, not the big billowy clouds of smoke.
Today is the Summer Solstice, the longest day of the year.
I won’t be celebrating this year on the village common, my goat died.
Peak Warming Man said:
Today is the Summer Solstice, the longest day of the year.
I won’t be celebrating this year on the village common, my goat died.
was it your goat goat?
Do y’all think Luigi Mangione’s eyebrows will be charged as accessories after the fact?
Peak Warming Man said:
Today is the Summer Solstice, the longest day of the year.
I won’t be celebrating this year on the village common, my goat died.
Sorry to hear about your goat, but tomorrow is less than 1 second shorter than today, so you could go out and get a new goat and celebrate tomorrow.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Today is the Summer Solstice, the longest day of the year.
I won’t be celebrating this year on the village common, my goat died.
Sorry to hear about your goat, but tomorrow is less than 1 second shorter than today, so you could go out and get a new goat and celebrate tomorrow.
the goat’s gonna know
Peak Warming Man said:
Today is the Summer Solstice, the longest day of the year.
I won’t be celebrating this year on the village common, my goat died.
If you wait until the third day of next year the earth will be at its closest to the sun, and you can sacrifice another goat.
Good morning Holidayers. Presently 8 degrees at the back door, getting light. We are forecast 21 degrees with a shower or two developing.
I shall do some spider eviction and tidying up on the verandah so we can all sit out there next week for meals and chat. There may also be some more weeding. And I need to put in some lettuce seed. I’ve started picking the cos, so the next lot needs to get started.
35/50. I knew quite a few of those, and correctly surmised some. Didn’t know the Olympics question, the Snapchat question, and wrongly guessed the convict question. Although I think I did actually know that one but couldn’t recall.
For SM:
…
A search for roots is behind a surge in Scottish tourism
Americans are especially keen on their Caledonian ancestry
Flowers at headstone that marks the mass grave of fallen Jacobite soldiers of the clan Fraser.
Dec 9th 2024
HERE’S a pub-quiz question: which is Britain’s most-visited battlefield? No, it is not the site of the Battle of Hastings, where William the Conqueror triumphed in 1066, but that of the Battle of Culloden, where in 1746 the Duke of Cumberland squashed the remnants of the Jacobite uprising within Scotland. Culloden had twice as many tourists as Hastings last year. It also had a 76% rise in visits over the year before.
That is partly thanks to a surge in ancestry tourism. Matthew Alexander of the University of Strathclyde says genealogy apps like Ancestry.com are making it easier for people with Scottish roots to trace the villages and towns of their forefathers. Culloden has become a pilgrimage site for such visitors.
The trend in heritage travel goes beyond battlefields. A partnership between Airbnb, a home-rental site, and 23andMe, which sells genetic-testing kits, will enable folk to browse through offerings of rentals and experiences in their “native” country. The Scottish government has developed a search engine, Scotland’s People, to help travellers trace their ancestors. Private genealogists are on hand to help those arriving in Scotland track down their forebears. Tour operators are offering bespoke itineraries for travellers wishing to combine golfing and whisky-tasting with a visit to great-great-grandma’s grave. Tom Miers of Scottish Clans and Castles, one such firm, says about half of his (mostly American) clients have links to Scotland.
A recent survey from VisitScotland, the country’s tourism organisation, found that 70% of long-haul visitors claimed Scottish ancestry and 34% cited it as a motivating factor for their visit. Fortunately for the Scottish economy, there are plenty of foreign Scots. In the century after Culloden, as many as 70,000 emigrated. Some 40m Scottish descendants now live in the diaspora. Luring more of them, above all Americans who spend the most, could further boost a thriving industry. Last year long-haul tourists spent £3.6bn ($4.5bn), a 41% rise over 2019. Prices have also risen: between 2019 and 2024 the cost of summer hotel rooms went up by 74% more in Edinburgh than in London, according to Amadeus, a travel-data firm.
Mr Alexander notes that Scottish-ancestry tourism stands out because of its link with the clan system and a romanticised idea of Scottish culture. “If a tourist comes along and says they are descended from Robert the Bruce, what are you going to say?” he observes.
https://www.economist.com/britain/2024/12/09/a-search-for-roots-is-behind-a-surge-in-scottish-tourism?
buffy said:
Sunday Quiz35/50. I knew quite a few of those, and correctly surmised some. Didn’t know the Olympics question, the Snapchat question, and wrongly guessed the convict question. Although I think I did actually know that one but couldn’t recall.
25/50 here, which was pretty good guesswork.
Exploding the Big Bang
It was thought that science could tell us about the origins of the Universe. Today that great endeavour is in serious doubt
https://aeon.co/essays/scientists-are-no-longer-sure-the-universe-began-with-a-bang?
8/10
JudgeMental said:
8/10
Didn’t you learn about lowest common denominators in school?
Witty Rejoinder said:
JudgeMental said:
8/10
Didn’t you learn about lowest common denominators in school?
you probably weren’t born when i went to school.
JudgeMental said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
JudgeMental said:
8/10
Didn’t you learn about lowest common denominators in school?
you probably weren’t born when i went to school.
I wish.
btm said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Today is the Summer Solstice, the longest day of the year.
I won’t be celebrating this year on the village common, my goat died.
If you wait until the third day of next year the earth will be at its closest to the sun, and you can sacrifice another goat.
well that explains the climate disaster and the ridiculously uncool summer, and all those idiots were blaming coal
SCIENCE said:
btm said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Today is the Summer Solstice, the longest day of the year.
I won’t be celebrating this year on the village common, my goat died.
If you wait until the third day of next year the earth will be at its closest to the sun, and you can sacrifice another goat.
well that explains the climate disaster and the ridiculously uncool summer, and all those idiots were blaming coal
back from the magic faraway farm, land of happy sheep
and my breakfast is all boiled long enough, i’ll back in a moment, don’t go away
have a yawn
transition said:
back from the magic faraway farm, land of happy sheepand my breakfast is all boiled long enough, i’ll back in a moment, don’t go away
have a yawn
Morning, growing magic mushrooms?
You could put some in your coffee.
Make the day more interesting.
JudgeMental said:
SCIENCE said:
btm said:If you wait until the third day of next year the earth will be at its closest to the sun, and you can sacrifice another goat.
well that explains the climate disaster and the ridiculously uncool summer, and all those idiots were blaming coal
so it’s peaked
We have 21 today, showers increasing. 7 overnight and a max of only 17 tomorrow.
Hoovering my head off today but first, the Times cryptic crossword.
Good morning everybody. I hope you aare all well and have a good day.
It’s 21.8° C, 75% RH, mostly cloudy and there’s a light air. BoM forecasts a top of 299° C and little to no rain.
Agenda: More work on the bamboo – remove several more damaged dead stalks and maybe some live ones. Split some bamboo for Mrs V to shred.
Food? Not yet discussed.
C…O…F…F…E…E… ———> made and cooling.
Shopping list – unpurchased groceries on previous list, transferred to new list: done.
Medicines: consume after BP measurement. I forgot last night’s, so I need to take all but one of those (it is taken morning, noon and night).
Bubblecar said:
Hoovering my head off today but first, the Times cryptic crossword.
I’m sure there are safer ways to remove your head, if you must.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Bubblecar said:
Hoovering my head off today but first, the Times cryptic crossword.
I’m sure there are safer ways to remove your head, if you must.
gender affirming surgery for example
SCIENCE said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Bubblecar said:
Hoovering my head off today but first, the Times cryptic crossword.
I’m sure there are safer ways to remove your head, if you must.
gender affirming surgery for example
Hmmm, not sure I’d rely on the safety of that one in mr. car’s case.
Morning pilgrims.
The day looks set fair, prolly do some mowing later when the dew wears off the grass.
In the mean time I’ll annoy youse.
Peak Warming Man said:
Morning pilgrims.
The day looks set fair, prolly do some mowing later when the dew wears off the grass.
In the mean time I’ll annoy youse.
That’d be right. Anyway, I’ve got bamboo to deal with. Probably about now.
Spider eviction completed. It will now be safe to sit on the verandah. Don’t like black house spiders peeping out looking at me from crevices. I’m half minded to string up a few lights. I’ll cogitate/procrastinate a bit longer on that.
Gariwerd/Grampians fire report…as of 6.30am it was out to 36,000 hectares. From the map it looks like it has spotted out to the West a bit too and is running along one of the roads bushwandering friend and I went along about 6 weeks ago. It was dry out there then.
Bubblecar said:
for today and tomorrows, but dropping into the mid-20s by the middle of the week.
We have 21 today, showers increasing. 7 overnight and a max of only 17 tomorrow.
Medicines taken. Dosette box refilled for the rest of the week. New bottle of iced water being prepared in the sink. OK. Now it is time to bamboo.
35/50
party_pants said:
35/50
3/10
SCIENCE said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Bubblecar said:
Hoovering my head off today but first, the Times cryptic crossword.
I’m sure there are safer ways to remove your head, if you must.
gender affirming surgery for example
Lololol 😆
Witty Rejoinder said:
For SM:…
A search for roots is behind a surge in Scottish tourism
Americans are especially keen on their Caledonian ancestry
Flowers at headstone that marks the mass grave of fallen Jacobite soldiers of the clan Fraser.
Dec 9th 2024
HERE’S a pub-quiz question: which is Britain’s most-visited battlefield? No, it is not the site of the Battle of Hastings, where William the Conqueror triumphed in 1066, but that of the Battle of Culloden, where in 1746 the Duke of Cumberland squashed the remnants of the Jacobite uprising within Scotland. Culloden had twice as many tourists as Hastings last year. It also had a 76% rise in visits over the year before.
That is partly thanks to a surge in ancestry tourism. Matthew Alexander of the University of Strathclyde says genealogy apps like Ancestry.com are making it easier for people with Scottish roots to trace the villages and towns of their forefathers. Culloden has become a pilgrimage site for such visitors.
The trend in heritage travel goes beyond battlefields. A partnership between Airbnb, a home-rental site, and 23andMe, which sells genetic-testing kits, will enable folk to browse through offerings of rentals and experiences in their “native” country. The Scottish government has developed a search engine, Scotland’s People, to help travellers trace their ancestors. Private genealogists are on hand to help those arriving in Scotland track down their forebears. Tour operators are offering bespoke itineraries for travellers wishing to combine golfing and whisky-tasting with a visit to great-great-grandma’s grave. Tom Miers of Scottish Clans and Castles, one such firm, says about half of his (mostly American) clients have links to Scotland.
A recent survey from VisitScotland, the country’s tourism organisation, found that 70% of long-haul visitors claimed Scottish ancestry and 34% cited it as a motivating factor for their visit. Fortunately for the Scottish economy, there are plenty of foreign Scots. In the century after Culloden, as many as 70,000 emigrated. Some 40m Scottish descendants now live in the diaspora. Luring more of them, above all Americans who spend the most, could further boost a thriving industry. Last year long-haul tourists spent £3.6bn ($4.5bn), a 41% rise over 2019. Prices have also risen: between 2019 and 2024 the cost of summer hotel rooms went up by 74% more in Edinburgh than in London, according to Amadeus, a travel-data firm.
Mr Alexander notes that Scottish-ancestry tourism stands out because of its link with the clan system and a romanticised idea of Scottish culture. “If a tourist comes along and says they are descended from Robert the Bruce, what are you going to say?” he observes.
https://www.economist.com/britain/2024/12/09/a-search-for-roots-is-behind-a-surge-in-scottish-tourism?
all true. but it is not new. 2004 was the first year of homecoming. and it happened because the market was there.
culloden is weird field on the edge of the suburbs.
Witty Rejoinder said:
For SM:…
A search for roots is behind a surge in Scottish tourism
Americans are especially keen on their Caledonian ancestry
Flowers at headstone that marks the mass grave of fallen Jacobite soldiers of the clan Fraser.
Dec 9th 2024
HERE’S a pub-quiz question: which is Britain’s most-visited battlefield? No, it is not the site of the Battle of Hastings, where William the Conqueror triumphed in 1066, but that of the Battle of Culloden, where in 1746 the Duke of Cumberland squashed the remnants of the Jacobite uprising within Scotland. Culloden had twice as many tourists as Hastings last year. It also had a 76% rise in visits over the year before.
That is partly thanks to a surge in ancestry tourism. Matthew Alexander of the University of Strathclyde says genealogy apps like Ancestry.com are making it easier for people with Scottish roots to trace the villages and towns of their forefathers. Culloden has become a pilgrimage site for such visitors.
The trend in heritage travel goes beyond battlefields. A partnership between Airbnb, a home-rental site, and 23andMe, which sells genetic-testing kits, will enable folk to browse through offerings of rentals and experiences in their “native” country. The Scottish government has developed a search engine, Scotland’s People, to help travellers trace their ancestors. Private genealogists are on hand to help those arriving in Scotland track down their forebears. Tour operators are offering bespoke itineraries for travellers wishing to combine golfing and whisky-tasting with a visit to great-great-grandma’s grave. Tom Miers of Scottish Clans and Castles, one such firm, says about half of his (mostly American) clients have links to Scotland.
A recent survey from VisitScotland, the country’s tourism organisation, found that 70% of long-haul visitors claimed Scottish ancestry and 34% cited it as a motivating factor for their visit. Fortunately for the Scottish economy, there are plenty of foreign Scots. In the century after Culloden, as many as 70,000 emigrated. Some 40m Scottish descendants now live in the diaspora. Luring more of them, above all Americans who spend the most, could further boost a thriving industry. Last year long-haul tourists spent £3.6bn ($4.5bn), a 41% rise over 2019. Prices have also risen: between 2019 and 2024 the cost of summer hotel rooms went up by 74% more in Edinburgh than in London, according to Amadeus, a travel-data firm.
Mr Alexander notes that Scottish-ancestry tourism stands out because of its link with the clan system and a romanticised idea of Scottish culture. “If a tourist comes along and says they are descended from Robert the Bruce, what are you going to say?” he observes.
https://www.economist.com/britain/2024/12/09/a-search-for-roots-is-behind-a-surge-in-scottish-tourism?
culloden is weird field on the edge of the suburbs.
also ta.
sarahs mum said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
For SM:…
A search for roots is behind a surge in Scottish tourism
Americans are especially keen on their Caledonian ancestry
Flowers at headstone that marks the mass grave of fallen Jacobite soldiers of the clan Fraser.
Dec 9th 2024
HERE’S a pub-quiz question: which is Britain’s most-visited battlefield? No, it is not the site of the Battle of Hastings, where William the Conqueror triumphed in 1066, but that of the Battle of Culloden, where in 1746 the Duke of Cumberland squashed the remnants of the Jacobite uprising within Scotland. Culloden had twice as many tourists as Hastings last year. It also had a 76% rise in visits over the year before.
That is partly thanks to a surge in ancestry tourism. Matthew Alexander of the University of Strathclyde says genealogy apps like Ancestry.com are making it easier for people with Scottish roots to trace the villages and towns of their forefathers. Culloden has become a pilgrimage site for such visitors.
The trend in heritage travel goes beyond battlefields. A partnership between Airbnb, a home-rental site, and 23andMe, which sells genetic-testing kits, will enable folk to browse through offerings of rentals and experiences in their “native” country. The Scottish government has developed a search engine, Scotland’s People, to help travellers trace their ancestors. Private genealogists are on hand to help those arriving in Scotland track down their forebears. Tour operators are offering bespoke itineraries for travellers wishing to combine golfing and whisky-tasting with a visit to great-great-grandma’s grave. Tom Miers of Scottish Clans and Castles, one such firm, says about half of his (mostly American) clients have links to Scotland.
A recent survey from VisitScotland, the country’s tourism organisation, found that 70% of long-haul visitors claimed Scottish ancestry and 34% cited it as a motivating factor for their visit. Fortunately for the Scottish economy, there are plenty of foreign Scots. In the century after Culloden, as many as 70,000 emigrated. Some 40m Scottish descendants now live in the diaspora. Luring more of them, above all Americans who spend the most, could further boost a thriving industry. Last year long-haul tourists spent £3.6bn ($4.5bn), a 41% rise over 2019. Prices have also risen: between 2019 and 2024 the cost of summer hotel rooms went up by 74% more in Edinburgh than in London, according to Amadeus, a travel-data firm.
Mr Alexander notes that Scottish-ancestry tourism stands out because of its link with the clan system and a romanticised idea of Scottish culture. “If a tourist comes along and says they are descended from Robert the Bruce, what are you going to say?” he observes.
https://www.economist.com/britain/2024/12/09/a-search-for-roots-is-behind-a-surge-in-scottish-tourism?
all true. but it is not new. 2004 was the first year of homecoming. and it happened because the market was there.
culloden is weird field on the edge of the suburbs.
It was pretty much open country when I was there in 1965. My guess is that the suburbs are recent.
Witty Rejoinder said:
Mr Alexander notes that Scottish-ancestry tourism stands out because of its link with the clan system and a romanticised idea of Scottish culture. “If a tourist comes along and says they are descended from Robert the Bruce, what are you going to say?” he observes.
Witty Rejoinder said:
Mr Alexander notes that Scottish-ancestry tourism stands out because of its link with the clan system and a romanticised idea of Scottish culture. “If a tourist comes along and says they are descended from Robert the Bruce, what are you going to say?” he observes.
Michael V said:
sarahs mum said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
For SM:…
A search for roots is behind a surge in Scottish tourism
Americans are especially keen on their Caledonian ancestry
Flowers at headstone that marks the mass grave of fallen Jacobite soldiers of the clan Fraser.
Dec 9th 2024
HERE’S a pub-quiz question: which is Britain’s most-visited battlefield? No, it is not the site of the Battle of Hastings, where William the Conqueror triumphed in 1066, but that of the Battle of Culloden, where in 1746 the Duke of Cumberland squashed the remnants of the Jacobite uprising within Scotland. Culloden had twice as many tourists as Hastings last year. It also had a 76% rise in visits over the year before.
That is partly thanks to a surge in ancestry tourism. Matthew Alexander of the University of Strathclyde says genealogy apps like Ancestry.com are making it easier for people with Scottish roots to trace the villages and towns of their forefathers. Culloden has become a pilgrimage site for such visitors.
The trend in heritage travel goes beyond battlefields. A partnership between Airbnb, a home-rental site, and 23andMe, which sells genetic-testing kits, will enable folk to browse through offerings of rentals and experiences in their “native” country. The Scottish government has developed a search engine, Scotland’s People, to help travellers trace their ancestors. Private genealogists are on hand to help those arriving in Scotland track down their forebears. Tour operators are offering bespoke itineraries for travellers wishing to combine golfing and whisky-tasting with a visit to great-great-grandma’s grave. Tom Miers of Scottish Clans and Castles, one such firm, says about half of his (mostly American) clients have links to Scotland.
A recent survey from VisitScotland, the country’s tourism organisation, found that 70% of long-haul visitors claimed Scottish ancestry and 34% cited it as a motivating factor for their visit. Fortunately for the Scottish economy, there are plenty of foreign Scots. In the century after Culloden, as many as 70,000 emigrated. Some 40m Scottish descendants now live in the diaspora. Luring more of them, above all Americans who spend the most, could further boost a thriving industry. Last year long-haul tourists spent £3.6bn ($4.5bn), a 41% rise over 2019. Prices have also risen: between 2019 and 2024 the cost of summer hotel rooms went up by 74% more in Edinburgh than in London, according to Amadeus, a travel-data firm.
Mr Alexander notes that Scottish-ancestry tourism stands out because of its link with the clan system and a romanticised idea of Scottish culture. “If a tourist comes along and says they are descended from Robert the Bruce, what are you going to say?” he observes.
https://www.economist.com/britain/2024/12/09/a-search-for-roots-is-behind-a-surge-in-scottish-tourism?
all true. but it is not new. 2004 was the first year of homecoming. and it happened because the market was there.
culloden is weird field on the edge of the suburbs.
It was pretty much open country when I was there in 1965. My guess is that the suburbs are recent.
i exaggerate. but not that much.
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2021/nov/06/battle-of-culloden-is-being-fought-anew-against-an-army-of-house-developers
captain_spalding said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Mr Alexander notes that Scottish-ancestry tourism stands out because of its link with the clan system and a romanticised idea of Scottish culture. “If a tourist comes along and says they are descended from Robert the Bruce, what are you going to say?” he observes.
Oops, clicked the wrong thing.
I was going to say that Americans are weird like that.
They’ll tell you that ‘im Irish’ or, ‘we’re Italian’, Polish or Swedish, or Scottish or whatever.
This despite their connection to the nominated country perhaps being one person who emigrated from there back in about 1871, neitherthey or any of their relatives since then having visited Poland or wherever, none of them speaking the language, or anything else.
It’s like, deep down, they dont really want to be entirely American at all.
There was an anecdote elsewhere on the internet, from a young lady who invited her boyfriend to dinner with the family.
All through the meal, the family made a big deal of ‘we’re Italian’ (although none of them had ever been there, except the grandfather who actually was from Italy). Things like ‘oh, it’s an Italian thing’, and ‘you wouldn’t understand, you’re not Italian’ etc. etc.
After a couple of hours of this the boyfriend had had enough, and began a conversation with the grandfather. In Italian. Which none ofthe rest of the family spoke at all.
They were terribly pissed off about it. Except the grandfather, who enjoyed it immensely, and who mocked the family for their silly behaviour.
captain_spalding said:
captain_spalding said:Witty Rejoinder said:
Mr Alexander notes that Scottish-ancestry tourism stands out because of its link with the clan system and a romanticised idea of Scottish culture. “If a tourist comes along and says they are descended from Robert the Bruce, what are you going to say?” he observes.
Oops, clicked the wrong thing.
I was going to say that Americans are weird like that.
They’ll tell you that ‘im Irish’ or, ‘we’re Italian’, Polish or Swedish, or Scottish or whatever.
This despite their connection to the nominated country perhaps being one person who emigrated from there back in about 1871, neitherthey or any of their relatives since then having visited Poland or wherever, none of them speaking the language, or anything else.
It’s like, deep down, they dont really want to be entirely American at all.
There was an anecdote elsewhere on the internet, from a young lady who invited her boyfriend to dinner with the family.
All through the meal, the family made a big deal of ‘we’re Italian’ (although none of them had ever been there, except the grandfather who actually was from Italy). Things like ‘oh, it’s an Italian thing’, and ‘you wouldn’t understand, you’re not Italian’ etc. etc.
After a couple of hours of this the boyfriend had had enough, and began a conversation with the grandfather. In Italian. Which none ofthe rest of the family spoke at all.
They were terribly pissed off about it. Except the grandfather, who enjoyed it immensely, and who mocked the family for their silly behaviour.
‘performing Scottishness in the diaspora.’
in some places the Scottishness will not be easily recognised by actual Scots.
captain_spalding said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Mr Alexander notes that Scottish-ancestry tourism stands out because of its link with the clan system and a romanticised idea of Scottish culture. “If a tourist comes along and says they are descended from Robert the Bruce, what are you going to say?” he observes.
Passing fads, passing fads.
Years ago (1970s-1980s), many young women claimed to be related to Cleopatra.
sarahs mum said:
Michael V said:
sarahs mum said:all true. but it is not new. 2004 was the first year of homecoming. and it happened because the market was there.
culloden is weird field on the edge of the suburbs.
It was pretty much open country when I was there in 1965. My guess is that the suburbs are recent.
i exaggerate. but not that much.
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2021/nov/06/battle-of-culloden-is-being-fought-anew-against-an-army-of-house-developers
Yes, I looked at the maps and a few buildings – modern curved roads etc.
When we were there, the area was all (rather desolate looking) open countryside, with a nearby manor-house.
captain_spalding said:
captain_spalding said:Witty Rejoinder said:
Mr Alexander notes that Scottish-ancestry tourism stands out because of its link with the clan system and a romanticised idea of Scottish culture. “If a tourist comes along and says they are descended from Robert the Bruce, what are you going to say?” he observes.
Oops, clicked the wrong thing.
I was going to say that Americans are weird like that.
They’ll tell you that ‘im Irish’ or, ‘we’re Italian’, Polish or Swedish, or Scottish or whatever.
This despite their connection to the nominated country perhaps being one person who emigrated from there back in about 1871, neitherthey or any of their relatives since then having visited Poland or wherever, none of them speaking the language, or anything else.
It’s like, deep down, they dont really want to be entirely American at all.
There was an anecdote elsewhere on the internet, from a young lady who invited her boyfriend to dinner with the family.
All through the meal, the family made a big deal of ‘we’re Italian’ (although none of them had ever been there, except the grandfather who actually was from Italy). Things like ‘oh, it’s an Italian thing’, and ‘you wouldn’t understand, you’re not Italian’ etc. etc.
After a couple of hours of this the boyfriend had had enough, and began a conversation with the grandfather. In Italian. Which none ofthe rest of the family spoke at all.
They were terribly pissed off about it. Except the grandfather, who enjoyed it immensely, and who mocked the family for their silly behaviour.
:)
sarahs mum said:
culloden is weird field on the edge of the suburbs.
Culloden, from the accounts i’ve read, and the pictures/videos i’ve seen, is a hell of a place to fight a mid-18th century battle.
An especially poor choice by the Jacobites.
Open moorland, ideal for musketry and artillery, soft (if not actually boggy) ground, poorly suited to manoeuvring large bodies of men, and utterly unsuited to a charge over open space.
It ensured that their ‘Highland charge’ would be torn to shreds by bullet, shell, canister, and grape shot long before it reached the English ranks, and that the Jacobite figthers would be utterly shagged out by the time they got there.
Yes, there was some penetrations of the English line, but there was no reserve anywhere to exploit them, and those penetrations were quickly repelled.
I’m being a bit unfair.
Charles didn’t really have many options besides stand and fight.
But, it was really lousy tactics, command, and control all the way.
sarahs mum said:
Vera Drake
A nice movie to watch on Xmas day.
sarahs mum said:
Look at you! So much daylight!
I’m bambooing in my daylight,in between cooling off and resting in front of the fan.
All the very bad (very dangerous) bits gone now. Quite a few not-quite so bad bits remain. Some of those would be very bad in another high gusty wind (we estimate the other evening to have been 100+ km/h gusts from different directions). Much bamboo splitting remains also.
Tamb said:
sarahs mum said:
Singapore’s longest/shortest day difference is 8 minutes.
That’s what happens when you build a city (almost) on the equator.
Michael V said:
sarahs mum said:
Look at you! So much daylight!
I’m bambooing in my daylight,in between cooling off and resting in front of the fan.
All the very bad (very dangerous) bits gone now. Quite a few not-quite so bad bits remain. Some of those would be very bad in another high gusty wind (we estimate the other evening to have been 100+ km/h gusts from different directions). Much bamboo splitting remains also.
Oh dearie me, the bamboo splitting is difficult, what with dizziness, positional vertigo and serious tiredness. But I got some done. And I got a few thin bits of fallen bamboo removed and cut to length with side-shoots removed, ready for shredding.
Michael V said:
sarahs mum said:
Look at you! So much daylight!
I’m bambooing in my daylight,in between cooling off and resting in front of the fan.
All the very bad (very dangerous) bits gone now. Quite a few not-quite so bad bits remain. Some of those would be very bad in another high gusty wind (we estimate the other evening to have been 100+ km/h gusts from different directions). Much bamboo splitting remains also.
Well. i’ve put up my summer awning for the season. Already getting a bit warm outside. Currently 32C, heading for a top of 41.
party_pants said:
Michael V said:
sarahs mum said:
Look at you! So much daylight!
I’m bambooing in my daylight,in between cooling off and resting in front of the fan.
All the very bad (very dangerous) bits gone now. Quite a few not-quite so bad bits remain. Some of those would be very bad in another high gusty wind (we estimate the other evening to have been 100+ km/h gusts from different directions). Much bamboo splitting remains also.
Well. i’ve put up my summer awning for the season. Already getting a bit warm outside. Currently 32C, heading for a top of 41.
almost a white christmas.
buffy said:
Gariwerd/Grampians fire report…as of 6.30am it was out to 36,000 hectares. From the map it looks like it has spotted out to the West a bit too and is running along one of the roads bushwandering friend and I went along about 6 weeks ago. It was dry out there then.
Just catching up on chat. It looks like they are backburning off Glenelg River Road.
Kingy said:
buffy said:
Gariwerd/Grampians fire report…as of 6.30am it was out to 36,000 hectares. From the map it looks like it has spotted out to the West a bit too and is running along one of the roads bushwandering friend and I went along about 6 weeks ago. It was dry out there then.
Just catching up on chat. It looks like they are backburning off Glenelg River Road.
Archaeologists Found a Skeleton Wearing an Amulet that May Change the History of Christianity
A 1.37-inch inscription could upend our understanding of the religion’s spread
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/archaeology/a63204262/silver-amulet-roman-christianity/
Tamb said:
Kingy said:
buffy said:
Gariwerd/Grampians fire report…as of 6.30am it was out to 36,000 hectares. From the map it looks like it has spotted out to the West a bit too and is running along one of the roads bushwandering friend and I went along about 6 weeks ago. It was dry out there then.
Just catching up on chat. It looks like they are backburning off Glenelg River Road.
Backburning or fuel reduction burning?
That’s backburning to try to contain the current fire.
Fuel reduction burning is done during cooler/safer months in order to prepare for summer.
Kingy said:
Tamb said:
Kingy said:Just catching up on chat. It looks like they are backburning off Glenelg River Road.
Backburning or fuel reduction burning?That’s backburning to try to contain the current fire.
Fuel reduction burning is done during cooler/safer months in order to prepare for summer.
Tamb said:
Kingy said:
Tamb said:
Backburning or fuel reduction burning?
That’s backburning to try to contain the current fire.
Fuel reduction burning is done during cooler/safer months in order to prepare for summer.
Yes but many people often confuse the two.
don’t worry we can solve that by fucking the environment harder until with fires year round they become the same thing
Nobody thought it was possible’: Quantum teleportation is here
A breakthrough in quantum physics could pave the way to achieving a quantum Internet.
https://www.sciencefocus.com/news/impossible-quantum-teleportation
Scientists Just Discovered Magic at the Large Hadron Collider
By University of Adelaide
December 21, 20245
Research from the LHC shows top quarks’ magic could be key to quantum computing advancements, potentially revolutionizing various technologies.
Researchers at the Large Hadron Collider have found that top quarks exhibit a property known as magic, which could advance quantum computing.
https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-just-discovered-magic-at-the-large-hadron-collider/
Too hot, too muggy and too sunny to do more bamboo splitting or cutting until later this afternoon.
28.3° C, 51% RH.
I might have a bit of a think about lunch.
Kingy said:
buffy said:
Gariwerd/Grampians fire report…as of 6.30am it was out to 36,000 hectares. From the map it looks like it has spotted out to the West a bit too and is running along one of the roads bushwandering friend and I went along about 6 weeks ago. It was dry out there then.
Just catching up on chat. It looks like they are backburning off Glenelg River Road.
Yes, I didn’t think of that. That sounds right. It’s certainly only along the road there.
Time for a rest and recline here.
buffy said:
Time for a rest and recline here.
SOme last minute Christmas shopping. A couple bottles of wine for friends at work. Then rest and recline indoors.
fsm said:
They must have hit a kangaroo in mid November or something
I got a FB memory from something I posted 6 years ago and it is looking like being about the same.
dv said:
I got a FB memory from something I posted 6 years ago and it is looking like being about the same.
What does the “h” stand for in the formula?
Michael V said:
dv said:
I got a FB memory from something I posted 6 years ago and it is looking like being about the same.
What does the “h” stand for in the formula?
hecto
dv said:
Michael V said:
dv said:
I got a FB memory from something I posted 6 years ago and it is looking like being about the same.
What does the “h” stand for in the formula?
hecto
what’s that in (N_A)s anyway
dv said:
Michael V said:
dv said:
I got a FB memory from something I posted 6 years ago and it is looking like being about the same.
What does the “h” stand for in the formula?
hecto
Smacks forehead.
Thanks.
Of course. It even went through my tiny brain, but I still didn’t see it.
“Early investigations indicate the deceased was assaulted by two male persons, who may have chased her down railway parade,” Detective Inspector David Harbison said. “During that assault, the deceased received a gunshot wound. Whilst the public nature of this crime is alarming, police do not believe this to be a random attack.”
when sister and brother in-law were down here they organised getting the kitchen tap fixed.
peter is a retired maths teacher of high regard.
I’m just mentioning here that there is quite an amazing amount of space in the reordered clutter under the kitchen sink.
I have not fact checked this
sarahs mum said:
when sister and brother in-law were down here they organised getting the kitchen tap fixed.peter is a retired maths teacher of high regard.
I’m just mentioning here that there is quite an amazing amount of space in the reordered clutter under the kitchen sink.
Perhaps they could come and assist me.
Only three more sleeps.
rubs hands
I’m looking forward to seeing the look on peoples faces as they give me stuff.
Peak Warming Man said:
Only three more sleeps.
rubs hands
I’m looking forward to seeing the look on peoples faces as they give me stuff.
I always thought of you as a receiver.
Witty Rejoinder said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Only three more sleeps.
rubs hands
I’m looking forward to seeing the look on peoples faces as they give me stuff.
I always thought of you as a receiver.
The cops may think the same of him.
Michael V said:
sarahs mum said:
when sister and brother in-law were down here they organised getting the kitchen tap fixed.peter is a retired maths teacher of high regard.
I’m just mentioning here that there is quite an amazing amount of space in the reordered clutter under the kitchen sink.
Perhaps they could come and assist me.
I’ll let you know if they ever come your way.
captain_spalding said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Only three more sleeps.
rubs hands
I’m looking forward to seeing the look on peoples faces as they give me stuff.
I always thought of you as a receiver.
The cops may think the same of him.
Surely he’s not a cattle fence. I know that some in the valley he lives in are a bit dodgy. So perhaps he is a cattle fence.
sarahs mum said:
Michael V said:
sarahs mum said:
when sister and brother in-law were down here they organised getting the kitchen tap fixed.peter is a retired maths teacher of high regard.
I’m just mentioning here that there is quite an amazing amount of space in the reordered clutter under the kitchen sink.
Perhaps they could come and assist me.
I’ll let you know if they ever come your way.
:)
Ta.
:)
Like the t-shirt.
From:
“https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-22/victoria-bushfires-grampians/104754680:“https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-22/victoria-bushfires-grampians/104754680
record year. I sold 17 mini prints.
sarahs mum said:
record year. I sold 17 mini prints.
:)
Very well done.
:)
Michael V said:
sarahs mum said:
record year. I sold 17 mini prints.
:)
Very well done.
:)
I’ll say.
Were they varied or on a theme?
sarahs mum said:
record year. I sold 17 mini prints.
Nice work.
You’ll have your own gallery at the Louvre soon. :)
Peak Warming Man said:
Michael V said:
sarahs mum said:
record year. I sold 17 mini prints.
:)
Very well done.
:)
I’ll say.
Were they varied or on a theme?
varied. some photopolymer etchings. lots of steel etchings.
sarahs mum said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Michael V said::)
Very well done.
:)
I’ll say.
Were they varied or on a theme?
varied. some photopolymer etchings. lots of steel etchings.
Jolly good.
There’s a developing fire just North of Perth that has just gone to Emergency warning.
Appears to be power pole related in the scrub near Two Rocks. There’s lots of UXOs there which makes it awkward.
sarahs mum said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Michael V said::)
Very well done.
:)
I’ll say.
Were they varied or on a theme?
varied. some photopolymer etchings. lots of steel etchings.
puffins sold. so did toy animals on wheels.
Kingy said:
There’s a developing fire just North of Perth that has just gone to Emergency warning.Appears to be power pole related in the scrub near Two Rocks. There’s lots of UXOs there which makes it awkward.
What’s UXO?
Michael V said:
Kingy said:
There’s a developing fire just North of Perth that has just gone to Emergency warning.Appears to be power pole related in the scrub near Two Rocks. There’s lots of UXOs there which makes it awkward.
What’s UXO?
The military TLA is unexploded ordinance, but I can’t figure out why there’d be any at that location.
Kingy said:
There’s a developing fire just North of Perth that has just gone to Emergency warning.Appears to be power pole related in the scrub near Two Rocks. There’s lots of UXOs there which makes it awkward.
UXO’s??
party_pants said:
Kingy said:
There’s a developing fire just North of Perth that has just gone to Emergency warning.Appears to be power pole related in the scrub near Two Rocks. There’s lots of UXOs there which makes it awkward.
UXO’s??
Unexploded ordinance.
Peak Warming Man said:
party_pants said:
Kingy said:
There’s a developing fire just North of Perth that has just gone to Emergency warning.Appears to be power pole related in the scrub near Two Rocks. There’s lots of UXOs there which makes it awkward.
UXO’s??
Unexploded ordinance.
I think the area was a WW2 live fire range.
party_pants said:
Peak Warming Man said:
party_pants said:UXO’s??
Unexploded ordinance.
I think the area was a WW2 live fire range.
Ah. Makes sense.
sarahs mum said:
record year. I sold 17 mini prints.
Excellent :)
I reads, anyone want to buy it off me
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shin_splints
Scientists Claim Dark Energy does not Exist, and Accelerated Expansion of Universe is an Illusion Caused by Gravity slowing down time
https://www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2024/12/scientists-claim-dark-energy-does-not-exist-and-accelerated-expansion-of-universe-is-an-illusion-caused-by-gravity-slowing-down-time/
…
Interesting article that mirrors my own speculative thoughts on the matter (no pun intended).
I know I paid a lot of insurance when I was running my practice, but always, always, there was interruption of business insurance in the package. My risk in the middle of the main street of Hamilton was not a bushfire risk like Halls Gap…but when the large shop opposite burned, we had a risk of it jumping the street. It’s not a wide street and it really went up.
Back to the bamboo. No rest for the wicked. Converse: No wicked for the rest.
At Fremantle prison they told us about a bloke called Charles Odgers who committed murder then tried to kill himself by putting detonators in his mouth. He survived and they managed to keep him alive long enough to be executed by hanging, but because of the previous explosive damage his head came off.
dv said:
At Fremantle prison they told us about a bloke called Charles Odgers who committed murder then tried to kill himself by putting detonators in his mouth. He survived and they managed to keep him alive long enough to be executed by hanging, but because of the previous explosive damage his head came off.
Seems hardly worth the effort.
party_pants said:
dv said:
At Fremantle prison they told us about a bloke called Charles Odgers who committed murder then tried to kill himself by putting detonators in his mouth. He survived and they managed to keep him alive long enough to be executed by hanging, but because of the previous explosive damage his head came off.Seems hardly worth the effort.
It was an unusually short drop and no blame was put on the prisoner for the decapitation.
Arts said:
party_pants said:
dv said:
At Fremantle prison they told us about a bloke called Charles Odgers who committed murder then tried to kill himself by putting detonators in his mouth. He survived and they managed to keep him alive long enough to be executed by hanging, but because of the previous explosive damage his head came off.Seems hardly worth the effort.
It was an unusually short drop and no blame was put on the prisoner for the decapitation.
Rofl
Arts said:
party_pants said:
dv said:
At Fremantle prison they told us about a bloke called Charles Odgers who committed murder then tried to kill himself by putting detonators in his mouth. He survived and they managed to keep him alive long enough to be executed by hanging, but because of the previous explosive damage his head came off.Seems hardly worth the effort.
It was an unusually short drop and no blame was put on the prisoner for the decapitation.
No, I mean keeping a badly injured person alive just long enough to hang them seems pointless.
party_pants said:
Arts said:
party_pants said:Seems hardly worth the effort.
It was an unusually short drop and no blame was put on the prisoner for the decapitation.
No, I mean keeping a badly injured person alive just long enough to hang them seems pointless.
Justice has to be seen to be done.
FFS, youtube now has two minutes of ads before you can watch what you clicked on.
Going to upgrade my blocker.
party_pants said:
Arts said:
party_pants said:Seems hardly worth the effort.
It was an unusually short drop and no blame was put on the prisoner for the decapitation.
No, I mean keeping a badly injured person alive just long enough to hang them seems pointless.
Happens in Judge Dredd comics occasionally – no escapes The Law (they tend to get put into cryonic stasis until they can be fixed/cured, then tried and executed)
it is stinky hot outside.
party_pants said:
Arts said:
party_pants said:Seems hardly worth the effort.
It was an unusually short drop and no blame was put on the prisoner for the decapitation.
No, I mean keeping a badly injured person alive just long enough to hang them seems pointless.
That’s the death penalty. Until the day of death, the health of the prisoner is under the care of the prison and you have to maintain a standard of health that is comparable to general population.
There are people on death row undergoing cancer treatments because of this.
There is also a possibility of a sentence being commuted…
party_pants said:
it is stinky hot outside.
I was at the zoo all day. There were not many people there. It was pretty hot though.
Kingy said:
FFS, youtube now has two minutes of ads before you can watch what you clicked on.Going to upgrade my blocker.
UBlock Origin is what I use. they are really on top of youtube. and it is free.
Arts said:
party_pants said:
it is stinky hot outside.
I was at the zoo all day. There were not many people there. It was pretty hot though.
do they hose down the aminals that like cooler environments?
party_pants said:
it is stinky hot outside.
I think you are sending that to us for Wednesday.
My mower has packed it in.
Hit some metal in the grass and it was vibrating quite a bit, so I turned it off.
A couple of blades are stuck good, can’t move them with a hammer, now it won’t start.
Bugger.
Peak Warming Man said:
My mower has packed it in.
Hit some metal in the grass and it was vibrating quite a bit, so I turned it off.
A couple of blades are stuck good, can’t move them with a hammer, now it won’t start.
Bugger.
Woodies Dam ———->
JudgeMental said:
Kingy said:
FFS, youtube now has two minutes of ads before you can watch what you clicked on.Going to upgrade my blocker.
UBlock Origin is what I use. they are really on top of youtube. and it is free.
Ta, just installed it.
Kingy said:
Peak Warming Man said:
My mower has packed it in.
Hit some metal in the grass and it was vibrating quite a bit, so I turned it off.
A couple of blades are stuck good, can’t move them with a hammer, now it won’t start.
Bugger.
Woodies Dam ———->
I’m thinking along those lines.
Arts said:
party_pants said:
it is stinky hot outside.
I was at the zoo all day. There were not many people there. It was pretty hot though.
Still more than Halls Gap Zoo today. Closed until further notice. I think I read somewhere that some of the animals were being evacuated because of the fires.
Peak Warming Man said:
My mower has packed it in.
Hit some metal in the grass and it was vibrating quite a bit, so I turned it off.
A couple of blades are stuck good, can’t move them with a hammer, now it won’t start.
Bugger.
To lose one mower may be considered a misfortune.
Losing two looks like carelessness.
JudgeMental said:
Arts said:
party_pants said:
it is stinky hot outside.
I was at the zoo all day. There were not many people there. It was pretty hot though.
do they hose down the aminals that like cooler environments?
Yes
party_pants said:
it is stinky hot outside.
Cooled down enough to finish splitting the bamboo pile, and extract three more dead shoots, and cut them up.
25.8° C and 56% RH.
JudgeMental said:
Kingy said:
FFS, youtube now has two minutes of ads before you can watch what you clicked on.Going to upgrade my blocker.
UBlock Origin is what I use. they are really on top of youtube. and it is free.
I changed over after you recommended it. AdBlocker Ultimate has become glitchy and it’s now a 14 day trial before paying for it.
Thanks.
Auntie, Please re-phrase this headline before you read it out on tv.
“Swapping caps for broadbrimmed hats after four skin cancers”
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-22/swapping-caps-for-sun-safe-broadbrimmed-hats-after-skin-cancer/104649084
buffy said:
Arts said:
party_pants said:
it is stinky hot outside.
I was at the zoo all day. There were not many people there. It was pretty hot though.
Still more than Halls Gap Zoo today. Closed until further notice. I think I read somewhere that some of the animals were being evacuated because of the fires.
According to ABC news all the animals were evacuated.
The self propelled doesn’t work on mine anymore and it hasn’t for some time.
This one looks good.
https://www.bigw.com.au/product/baumr-ag-petrol-lawn-mower-220cc-20-inch-self-propelled-push-lawnmower-20-4-stroke-engine/p/9900007966?gclsrc=aw.ds&gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAiAjp-7BhBZEiwAmh9rBQ1Npk533U9yEA47IaWhiPmveHL5k6sEEdYP94Qid4mqbAqvcbWJmRoCSKEQAvD_BwE
You don’t have to type that all in, you can drag the mouse over it and then right click something something………
Peak Warming Man said:
My mower has packed it in.
Hit some metal in the grass and it was vibrating quite a bit, so I turned it off.
A couple of blades are stuck good, can’t move them with a hammer, now it won’t start.
Bugger.
You’ve likely flooded it. First remove the spark-plug cap from the spark plug and turn the control to “Stop or “Off”. Then fix the blades (loosen the bolts, reposition blades and re-tighten bolts).
When that’s done, bring the mower to upright, remove the spark plug, turn the control to “Stop or “Off”. Then give it several to many pulls without the spark plug in it. Look for fuel mist coming out the spark plug hole. Give it a good few pulls after the mist has stopped.
Make sure the spark plug is clean at the spark gap, and around the porcelain. Replace the spark plug and start the mower in the normal manner.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Peak Warming Man said:
My mower has packed it in.
Hit some metal in the grass and it was vibrating quite a bit, so I turned it off.
A couple of blades are stuck good, can’t move them with a hammer, now it won’t start.
Bugger.
To lose one mower may be considered a misfortune.
Losing two looks like carelessness.
Onya Lady Bracknell!
Kingy said:
Auntie, Please re-phrase this headline before you read it out on tv.“Swapping caps for broadbrimmed hats after four skin cancers”
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-22/swapping-caps-for-sun-safe-broadbrimmed-hats-after-skin-cancer/104649084
What’s your objection?
Michael V said:
Kingy said:
Auntie, Please re-phrase this headline before you read it out on tv.“Swapping caps for broadbrimmed hats after four skin cancers”
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-22/swapping-caps-for-sun-safe-broadbrimmed-hats-after-skin-cancer/104649084
What’s your objection?
How do you circumsize a whale?
Michael V said:
Kingy said:
Auntie, Please re-phrase this headline before you read it out on tv.“Swapping caps for broadbrimmed hats after four skin cancers”
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-22/swapping-caps-for-sun-safe-broadbrimmed-hats-after-skin-cancer/104649084
What’s your objection?
four skin cancers
Peak Warming Man said:
The self propelled doesn’t work on mine anymore and it hasn’t for some time.
This one looks good.
https://www.bigw.com.au/product/baumr-ag-petrol-lawn-mower-220cc-20-inch-self-propelled-push-lawnmower-20-4-stroke-engine/p/9900007966?gclsrc=aw.ds&gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAiAjp-7BhBZEiwAmh9rBQ1Npk533U9yEA47IaWhiPmveHL5k6sEEdYP94Qid4mqbAqvcbWJmRoCSKEQAvD_BwEYou don’t have to type that all in, you can drag the mouse over it and then right click something something………
The “self-propelled function not working” is likely to be an adjustment somewhere.
JudgeMental said:
Michael V said:
Kingy said:
Auntie, Please re-phrase this headline before you read it out on tv.“Swapping caps for broadbrimmed hats after four skin cancers”
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-22/swapping-caps-for-sun-safe-broadbrimmed-hats-after-skin-cancer/104649084
What’s your objection?
four skin cancers
Dur LOL
Kingy said:
Michael V said:
Kingy said:
Auntie, Please re-phrase this headline before you read it out on tv.“Swapping caps for broadbrimmed hats after four skin cancers”
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-22/swapping-caps-for-sun-safe-broadbrimmed-hats-after-skin-cancer/104649084
What’s your objection?
How do you circumsize a whale?
Ah. A speaking gap, or replace the “four” with either no word or “several” should clarify the situation.
Michael V said:
Peak Warming Man said:
My mower has packed it in.
Hit some metal in the grass and it was vibrating quite a bit, so I turned it off.
A couple of blades are stuck good, can’t move them with a hammer, now it won’t start.
Bugger.
You’ve likely flooded it. First remove the spark-plug cap from the spark plug and turn the control to “Stop or “Off”. Then fix the blades (loosen the bolts, reposition blades and re-tighten bolts).
When that’s done, bring the mower to upright, remove the spark plug, turn the control to “Stop or “Off”. Then give it several to many pulls without the spark plug in it. Look for fuel mist coming out the spark plug hole. Give it a good few pulls after the mist has stopped.
Make sure the spark plug is clean at the spark gap, and around the porcelain. Replace the spark plug and start the mower in the normal manner.
It could be it won’t start because it’s unbalanced with two of the swing blades no longer swinging, dunno.
Peak Warming Man said:
Michael V said:
Peak Warming Man said:
My mower has packed it in.
Hit some metal in the grass and it was vibrating quite a bit, so I turned it off.
A couple of blades are stuck good, can’t move them with a hammer, now it won’t start.
Bugger.
You’ve likely flooded it. First remove the spark-plug cap from the spark plug and turn the control to “Stop or “Off”. Then fix the blades (loosen the bolts, reposition blades and re-tighten bolts).
When that’s done, bring the mower to upright, remove the spark plug, turn the control to “Stop or “Off”. Then give it several to many pulls without the spark plug in it. Look for fuel mist coming out the spark plug hole. Give it a good few pulls after the mist has stopped.
Make sure the spark plug is clean at the spark gap, and around the porcelain. Replace the spark plug and start the mower in the normal manner.
It could be it won’t start because it’s unbalanced with two of the swing blades no longer swinging, dunno.
No, that won’t cause it to not start. That’ll cause the vibration you felt.
Did you find the metal culprit?
Some rumblings from Mt St Helens, predictions of a minor kablooie within a week.
I’ve just invented a cologne for anti-social people. It’s called Leave me the fuh cologne.
btm said:
I’ve just invented a cologne for anti-social people. It’s called Leave me the fuh cologne.
:)
Hello Good People.
Kingy said:
Some rumblings from Mt St Helens, predictions of a minor kablooie within a week.
Not according to this database, which is generally up to date:
https://volcano.si.edu/volcano.cfm?vn=321050
Kingy said:
Some rumblings from Mt St Helens, predictions of a minor kablooie within a week.
remind where that is …?
monkey skipper said:
Hello Good People.
ms!
How are you going after your severe scare?
party_pants said:
Kingy said:
Some rumblings from Mt St Helens, predictions of a minor kablooie within a week.
remind where that is …?
Cascade chain, Western US. Blew up good and proper in 1980.
Michael V said:
monkey skipper said:
Hello Good People.
ms!
How are you going after your severe scare?
Still scary………. oh you mean my scary heart event … yeah improving each day I think, My cat is acting weird though
Michael V said:
Kingy said:
Some rumblings from Mt St Helens, predictions of a minor kablooie within a week.
Not according to this database, which is generally up to date:
https://volcano.si.edu/volcano.cfm?vn=321050
Hmm, ok.
Seismic activity is raised but within background levels.
monkey skipper said:
Michael V said:
monkey skipper said:
Hello Good People.
ms!
How are you going after your severe scare?
Still scary………. oh you mean my scary heart event … yeah improving each day I think, My cat is acting weird though
Is it orange? That’s normal.
Kingy said:
monkey skipper said:
Michael V said:ms!
How are you going after your severe scare?
Still scary………. oh you mean my scary heart event … yeah improving each day I think, My cat is acting weird though
Is it orange? That’s normal.
My cat , my heart or something else?
monkey skipper said:
Kingy said:
monkey skipper said:Still scary………. oh you mean my scary heart event … yeah improving each day I think, My cat is acting weird though
Is it orange? That’s normal.
My cat , my heart or something else?
Your cat.
I should have been more specific. It’s a known thing that orange cats only have one brain cell between them and they have to share it one cat at a time.
Glad you are improving though.
Kingy said:
monkey skipper said:
Kingy said:Is it orange? That’s normal.
My cat , my heart or something else?
Your cat.
I should have been more specific. It’s a known thing that orange cats only have one brain cell between them and they have to share it one cat at a time.
Glad you are improving though.
My cat is a tabby grey and quite evil too.
monkey skipper said:
Kingy said:
monkey skipper said:My cat , my heart or something else?
Your cat.
I should have been more specific. It’s a known thing that orange cats only have one brain cell between them and they have to share it one cat at a time.
Glad you are improving though.
My cat is a tabby grey and quite evil too.
Yeah, they can be dodgy too.
Kingy said:
FFS, youtube now has two minutes of ads before you can watch what you clicked on.
Going to upgrade my blocker.
enshittification in the age of enshitenement
I see the guy who rammed his car into the crowd in germany was a zionist.
JudgeMental said:
Alternative für Deutschland supporter. Kind of a weird profile.
I see the guy who rammed his car into the crowd in germany was a zionist.
I’ve just been watching a youtube(Desert drifter). He explores the USA southwest deserts for archeological remnants of the original “Ancients”. This is one of the things he found. An ~800 year old food storage “bowl” in the rock under a very difficult to access overhang with the food still in it. 800 years old. Corn, squash and some other bits. Hard to believe, but the museums there have a woven bag found nearby with cornmeal in it dated at 1800 years old.
Kingy said:
I’ve just been watching a youtube(Desert drifter). He explores the USA southwest deserts for archeological remnants of the original “Ancients”. This is one of the things he found. An ~800 year old food storage “bowl” in the rock under a very difficult to access overhang with the food still in it. 800 years old. Corn, squash and some other bits. Hard to believe, but the museums there have a woven bag found nearby with cornmeal in it dated at 1800 years old.
Oops, forgot the link.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmhV0Isktj0
Hey Kingy…looks like they’ve backburned just about all of Glenelg River Road in the Grampians. That is steep and rocky in places. Tomorrow is forecast to be cool, but Christmas day and Boxing day are back up to high temps.
buffy said:
Hey Kingy…looks like they’ve backburned just about all of Glenelg River Road in the Grampians. That is steep and rocky in places. Tomorrow is forecast to be cool, but Christmas day and Boxing day are back up to high temps.
Yes, looks like it does.
buffy said:
Hey Kingy…looks like they’ve backburned just about all of Glenelg River Road in the Grampians. That is steep and rocky in places. Tomorrow is forecast to be cool, but Christmas day and Boxing day are back up to high temps.
Yep, ta. I’ve had the emergency.vic site open, monitoring it since the Grampians fire started.
I figured that they had no other option than to backburn from there. If they didn’t, it would jump that road in the next couple of days and wipe out the rest of the reserve and then head out into private land and homes.
I feel for the critters that are going to be caught in between the two fire fronts, and the person that had to make the decision to backburn. He will be the first up against the wall if anything goes wrong. :/
Kingy said:
Kingy said:
I’ve just been watching a youtube(Desert drifter). He explores the USA southwest deserts for archeological remnants of the original “Ancients”. This is one of the things he found. An ~800 year old food storage “bowl” in the rock under a very difficult to access overhang with the food still in it. 800 years old. Corn, squash and some other bits. Hard to believe, but the museums there have a woven bag found nearby with cornmeal in it dated at 1800 years old.
Oops, forgot the link.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmhV0Isktj0
Very interesting, I would love to go there. I have encountered many Aboriginal remnants in remote areas of the Esperance region, from rock-maps, gnamma holes, tool-making areas, etc., but the most detailed were in an out-of-the-way part of the Hammersley Range where initiation sites of male and female (separate areas) complete with rock art of the procedure was found.
PermeateFree said:
Kingy said:
Kingy said:
I’ve just been watching a youtube(Desert drifter). He explores the USA southwest deserts for archeological remnants of the original “Ancients”. This is one of the things he found. An ~800 year old food storage “bowl” in the rock under a very difficult to access overhang with the food still in it. 800 years old. Corn, squash and some other bits. Hard to believe, but the museums there have a woven bag found nearby with cornmeal in it dated at 1800 years old.
Oops, forgot the link.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmhV0Isktj0
Very interesting, I would love to go there. I have encountered many Aboriginal remnants in remote areas of the Esperance region, from rock-maps, gnamma holes, tool-making areas, etc., but the most detailed were in an out-of-the-way part of the Hammersley Range where initiation sites of male and female (separate areas) complete with rock art of the procedure was found.
Awesome. Do you have any pics or descriptions of what you found?
Did you just go wandering outback like desert drifter to find these places, or did you get some directions to find them?
It is a shame that most of the people who knew this stuff, and their millennia’s of knowledge are gone due to the invasion of the white man and our disgraceful & ignorant removal of the original inhabitants.
monkey skipper said:
Michael V said:
monkey skipper said:
Hello Good People.
ms!
How are you going after your severe scare?
Still scary………. oh you mean my scary heart event … yeah improving each day I think, My cat is acting weird though
Oh that’s good – about your improvement, that is.
Why is your cat acting weird?
PermeateFree said:
Kingy said:
Kingy said:
I’ve just been watching a youtube(Desert drifter). He explores the USA southwest deserts for archeological remnants of the original “Ancients”. This is one of the things he found. An ~800 year old food storage “bowl” in the rock under a very difficult to access overhang with the food still in it. 800 years old. Corn, squash and some other bits. Hard to believe, but the museums there have a woven bag found nearby with cornmeal in it dated at 1800 years old.
Oops, forgot the link.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmhV0Isktj0
Very interesting, I would love to go there. I have encountered many Aboriginal remnants in remote areas of the Esperance region, from rock-maps, gnamma holes, tool-making areas, etc., but the most detailed were in an out-of-the-way part of the Hammersley Range where initiation sites of male and female (separate areas) complete with rock art of the procedure was found.
Around Sydney, as a teen, I found that trails were marked on rocks. The direction to the next one was indicated by carved emu footprints. The rocks often had other carvings on them, too. I could walk for kilometres on these tracks. Sometimes trails would cross. Other times they’d bifurcate. One I loved walking was from French’s Forest to Narrabeen. It neatly bypassed Oxford Falls, but went to the pool below the falls.
Michael V said:
monkey skipper said:
Michael V said:ms!
How are you going after your severe scare?
Still scary………. oh you mean my scary heart event … yeah improving each day I think, My cat is acting weird though
Oh that’s good – about your improvement, that is.
Why is your cat acting weird?
I don’t know.
Kingy said:
PermeateFree said:
Kingy said:Oops, forgot the link.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmhV0Isktj0
Very interesting, I would love to go there. I have encountered many Aboriginal remnants in remote areas of the Esperance region, from rock-maps, gnamma holes, tool-making areas, etc., but the most detailed were in an out-of-the-way part of the Hammersley Range where initiation sites of male and female (separate areas) complete with rock art of the procedure was found.
Awesome. Do you have any pics or descriptions of what you found?
Did you just go wandering outback like desert drifter to find these places, or did you get some directions to find them?
It is a shame that most of the people who knew this stuff, and their millennia’s of knowledge are gone due to the invasion of the white man and our disgraceful & ignorant removal of the original inhabitants.
I do have some pictures of the Hammersley ones, but they are either man and women’s business and should not be shown to members of the other sex. I should not have gone to the women’s site and my wife should not have gone to the men’s, but we did in our ignorance and possibly paid the price. I did show them to a small group of botanists in the Melbourne Herbarium, but they have been the only ones. Aboriginal Law is very strict on these things.
PermeateFree said:
Kingy said:
PermeateFree said:Very interesting, I would love to go there. I have encountered many Aboriginal remnants in remote areas of the Esperance region, from rock-maps, gnamma holes, tool-making areas, etc., but the most detailed were in an out-of-the-way part of the Hammersley Range where initiation sites of male and female (separate areas) complete with rock art of the procedure was found.
Awesome. Do you have any pics or descriptions of what you found?
Did you just go wandering outback like desert drifter to find these places, or did you get some directions to find them?
It is a shame that most of the people who knew this stuff, and their millennia’s of knowledge are gone due to the invasion of the white man and our disgraceful & ignorant removal of the original inhabitants.
I do have some pictures of the Hammersley ones, but they are either man and women’s business and should not be shown to members of the other sex. I should not have gone to the women’s site and my wife should not have gone to the men’s, but we did in our ignorance and possibly paid the price. I did show them to a small group of botanists in the Melbourne Herbarium, but they have been the only ones. Aboriginal Law is very strict on these things.
I have just been checking photos of Aboriginal material and when very little was found I remembered most were taken before the Internet and were actual still photos that I attached to the day seen in my diaries of the period. Perhaps one day I shall thumb through them, but it would be very time consuming.
Regarding how I found these things; they were all by personal exploration as very few people get into these places and even then, they would possibly not realise they were looking at Aboriginal relicts, Aboriginal rock maps would appear to be just a pile of rocks unless you know what you are looking at.
Kingy said:
Kingy said:
I’ve just been watching a youtube(Desert drifter). He explores the USA southwest deserts for archeological remnants of the original “Ancients”. This is one of the things he found. An ~800 year old food storage “bowl” in the rock under a very difficult to access overhang with the food still in it. 800 years old. Corn, squash and some other bits. Hard to believe, but the museums there have a woven bag found nearby with cornmeal in it dated at 1800 years old.
Oops, forgot the link.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmhV0Isktj0
Thanks for this link.
I’ve been to the Gila Cliff Dwellings here in New Mexico. Stunning place. I climbed up a short ladder, with in the dwellings, to peer into a space that had a cooking fire. There were preserved remains of corn cobs.
Not my photos. From memory the space is behind the wall (with the “surprised face”) on the left in the first photo. The ladder is on the other side, iirc.
Last weekend I had arranged to have a company come in to help me with clearing out my studio. The same people who did mr kii’s workshop and our laundry storeroom earlier this year.
The whole thing has turned into a clusterfuck.
One person showed up, she was expecting another worker.
I had paid the deposit a few weeks ago. The final payments usually happen on the morning of and at the completion of the work. After three and a half hours I called it quits. The woman had done as much as could be done on her own, a 2nd worker never arrived, even after she had called the supervisor to arrange for someone. We needed a 2nd person to lift some items, I can’t because my lower back is fucked.
Luckily, since the deposit I had paid weeks ago, my debit card had been compromised (and my credit card, another adventure I had to sort out) so the clearing company couldn’t automatically debit the remained of the payment, as they usually do.
I asked for a revised invoice based on the situation. The revision was a bit pathetic. So I have requested information about how they came to that revision.
I await their response.
And there we have it…Desert Drifter and his buddy are Christians. They always have to do their little announcement about their religion. Probably for funding in this guy’s case.
🙄
Good morning Holidayers. Presently a lovely 5 degrees at the back door and it is overcast. We are forecast a partly cloudy 18 degrees today. Then we start heading up towards a forecast 39 on Boxing Day. Today should help with controlling that fire in the Grampians. It’s now >40,000 hectares burnt. But there will be standing burning trees which could restart things on Thursday.
Today we are going to our bit of bush to check for fallen trees on tracks because we had wild wind in the last week. I shall also see if there are any wildflowers of interest.
Good morning everybody I hope you all have a fantastic day; even better than you wish for.
It’s 21.7° C, 69% RH, clear and calm. BoM forecasts a top of 30° C, and no chance of rain.
Agenda: Mrs V’s low kJ day, so, individual choice for breakfast and lunch – I have no inkling what that might be yet . Dinner is to be tuna salad.
More bamboo cutting and splitting today. I discovered yesterday that we have dozens of Yucca plants reproducing off the old trunks that I dumped out the back after I cut them down. I might need to do something about that. I wish I had someone to give them to. Perhaps it’s best that they be shredded.
And off we go. Making the most of the coolth.
i’m here for you, maybe you’d like to exchange some alphabet, arrange it, assemble letters into words, representative of concepts, organize those words into sentences, and what a wonderful business is the encoding and decoding involved, I can’t help myself, compelled by habits that started back with my first baby utterances, mum and dad and others helped me refine them, associate sounds with concepts, i’m not saying it was all greatly successful, I may have been a difficult baby, somewhat resistant to the project, but there it was the work of culture conveyed by my parents, the English found its way into my central nervous system, helped organize the firing of neurons, and how fortunate there was an alphabet to be verbalized, to help arrange the neurons, coordinate them, it’s an electrical magic really, happens in the dark, in the cranium, behind the eyes, and how limited must have the grunts of our ancestors been two-hundred thousand years ago, just verbal grunts and physical pointing, how limited and limiting must it have been
transition said:
i’m here for you, maybe you’d like to exchange some alphabet, arrange it, assemble letters into words, representative of concepts, organize those words into sentences, and what a wonderful business is the encoding and decoding involved, I can’t help myself, compelled by habits that started back with my first baby utterances, mum and dad and others helped me refine them, associate sounds with concepts, i’m not saying it was all greatly successful, I may have been a difficult baby, somewhat resistant to the project, but there it was the work of culture conveyed by my parents, the English found its way into my central nervous system, helped organize the firing of neurons, and how fortunate there was an alphabet to be verbalized, to help arrange the neurons, coordinate them, it’s an electrical magic really, happens in the dark, in the cranium, behind the eyes, and how limited must have the grunts of our ancestors been two-hundred thousand years ago, just verbal grunts and physical pointing, how limited and limiting must it have been
And it’d be helpful for my understanding if it were organised into short sentences and short paragraphs.
Michael V said:
transition said:
i’m here for you, maybe you’d like to exchange some alphabet, arrange it, assemble letters into words, representative of concepts, organize those words into sentences, and what a wonderful business is the encoding and decoding involved, I can’t help myself, compelled by habits that started back with my first baby utterances, mum and dad and others helped me refine them, associate sounds with concepts, i’m not saying it was all greatly successful, I may have been a difficult baby, somewhat resistant to the project, but there it was the work of culture conveyed by my parents, the English found its way into my central nervous system, helped organize the firing of neurons, and how fortunate there was an alphabet to be verbalized, to help arrange the neurons, coordinate them, it’s an electrical magic really, happens in the dark, in the cranium, behind the eyes, and how limited must have the grunts of our ancestors been two-hundred thousand years ago, just verbal grunts and physical pointing, how limited and limiting must it have been
And it’d be helpful for my understanding if it were organised into short sentences and short paragraphs.
there is a humor about it, often I might mention it’s typing practice, which I nearly did, but on that occasion didn’t, good part of the humor is that writing to expectations – others expectations – may not reliably represent how minds, or a particular mind works, rather it conforms to how the work of minds ought be expressed, and as it goes ought is not reliably honest.
you expressed an ought, your ought, which you’d like others to replicate, which is the power of ought.
transition said:
Michael V said:
transition said:
i’m here for you, maybe you’d like to exchange some alphabet, arrange it, assemble letters into words, representative of concepts, organize those words into sentences, and what a wonderful business is the encoding and decoding involved, I can’t help myself, compelled by habits that started back with my first baby utterances, mum and dad and others helped me refine them, associate sounds with concepts, i’m not saying it was all greatly successful, I may have been a difficult baby, somewhat resistant to the project, but there it was the work of culture conveyed by my parents, the English found its way into my central nervous system, helped organize the firing of neurons, and how fortunate there was an alphabet to be verbalized, to help arrange the neurons, coordinate them, it’s an electrical magic really, happens in the dark, in the cranium, behind the eyes, and how limited must have the grunts of our ancestors been two-hundred thousand years ago, just verbal grunts and physical pointing, how limited and limiting must it have been
And it’d be helpful for my understanding if it were organised into short sentences and short paragraphs.
there is a humor about it, often I might mention it’s typing practice, which I nearly did, but on that occasion didn’t, good part of the humor is that writing to expectations – others expectations – may not reliably represent how minds, or a particular mind works, rather it conforms to how the work of minds ought be expressed, and as it goes ought is not reliably honest.
you expressed an ought, your ought, which you’d like others to replicate, which is the power of ought.
However, if you would like to communicate your information reliably to me, you might organise it into short sentences and short paragraphs.
Otherwise, to me it is just a word salad without meaning. After all, isn’t the reason for talking or writing to communicate?
If a word salad without meaning (to me) is your wish – go right ahead.
Michael V said:
transition said:
Michael V said:And it’d be helpful for my understanding if it were organised into short sentences and short paragraphs.
there is a humor about it, often I might mention it’s typing practice, which I nearly did, but on that occasion didn’t, good part of the humor is that writing to expectations – others expectations – may not reliably represent how minds, or a particular mind works, rather it conforms to how the work of minds ought be expressed, and as it goes ought is not reliably honest.
you expressed an ought, your ought, which you’d like others to replicate, which is the power of ought.
However, if you would like to communicate your information reliably to me, you might organise it into short sentences and short paragraphs.
Otherwise, to me it is just a word salad without meaning. After all, isn’t the reason for talking or writing to communicate?
If a word salad without meaning (to me) is your wish – go right ahead.
LOL, how long have you been on these forums and not known onty talks gibberish.
JudgeMental said:
Michael V said:
transition said:there is a humor about it, often I might mention it’s typing practice, which I nearly did, but on that occasion didn’t, good part of the humor is that writing to expectations – others expectations – may not reliably represent how minds, or a particular mind works, rather it conforms to how the work of minds ought be expressed, and as it goes ought is not reliably honest.
you expressed an ought, your ought, which you’d like others to replicate, which is the power of ought.
However, if you would like to communicate your information reliably to me, you might organise it into short sentences and short paragraphs.
Otherwise, to me it is just a word salad without meaning. After all, isn’t the reason for talking or writing to communicate?
If a word salad without meaning (to me) is your wish – go right ahead.
LOL, how long have you been on these forums and not known onty talks gibberish.
Occasionally I get annoyed by his obfuscatory writings. I then feel compelled to say something. Sometimes I think he may even have something important to say, but I usually can’t tell.
I love the word “obfuscation”; it is so very self-descriptive.
:)
Five bamboo shoots dragged out, cut up and stacked for shredding.
Several 1.2 m lengths cut for splitting, after it becomes a reasonable hour to make noise.
I’m getting through it slowly.
So much more stuff to do, though.
Heading for 17 here, high chance of showers. BoM has kindly lowered our Xmas Day forecast by another degree – now down to 26.
Today I’ll be finishing up housework, then making two dozen sausage rolls in two batches: 12 x traditional English pork and 12 x spicy beef & cheese.
transition said:
i’m here for you, maybe you’d like to exchange some alphabet, arrange it, assemble letters into words, representative of concepts, organize those words into sentences, and what a wonderful business is the encoding and decoding involved, I can’t help myself, compelled by habits that started back with my first baby utterances, mum and dad and others helped me refine them, associate sounds with concepts, i’m not saying it was all greatly successful, I may have been a difficult baby, somewhat resistant to the project, but there it was the work of culture conveyed by my parents, the English found its way into my central nervous system, helped organize the firing of neurons, and how fortunate there was an alphabet to be verbalized, to help arrange the neurons, coordinate them, it’s an electrical magic really, happens in the dark, in the cranium, behind the eyes, and how limited must have the grunts of our ancestors been two-hundred thousand years ago, just verbal grunts and physical pointing, how limited and limiting must it have been
The Armstrong and Miller Show | The Origins Of… | Best Of The Cavemen Sketches
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-89z5HWVlSo
Bubblecar said:
Heading for 17 here, high chance of showers. BoM has kindly lowered our Xmas Day forecast by another degree – now down to 26.Today I’ll be finishing up housework, then making two dozen sausage rolls in two batches: 12 x traditional English pork and 12 x spicy beef & cheese.
Mini, or maxi sausage rolls?
Michael V said:
Bubblecar said:
Heading for 17 here, high chance of showers. BoM has kindly lowered our Xmas Day forecast by another degree – now down to 26.Today I’ll be finishing up housework, then making two dozen sausage rolls in two batches: 12 x traditional English pork and 12 x spicy beef & cheese.
Mini, or maxi sausage rolls?
Mini. Two long ones from each sheet of pastry, with each long one cut into three sausage rolls. So only two sheets of pastry per dozen sausage rolls.
Morning pilgrims.
I’ll finish cutting the yard with a whipper snipper then do some Christmas shopping.
Then I might see what can be done with the mower.
Over.
Red Cross on the phone, wanting me to increase my monthly donation. It’s not a good strategy, people start feeling badgered.
Bubblecar said:
Red Cross on the phone, wanting me to increase my monthly donation. It’s not a good strategy, people start feeling badgered.
tell them you’ll donate to keep them quiet
Bubblecar said:
Michael V said:
Bubblecar said:
Heading for 17 here, high chance of showers. BoM has kindly lowered our Xmas Day forecast by another degree – now down to 26.Today I’ll be finishing up housework, then making two dozen sausage rolls in two batches: 12 x traditional English pork and 12 x spicy beef & cheese.
Mini, or maxi sausage rolls?
Mini. Two long ones from each sheet of pastry, with each long one cut into three sausage rolls. So only two sheets of pastry per dozen sausage rolls.
Nice.
:)
I’ve got to try making sausage rolls some time soon. Mrs V buys them at Cooloola Cove. But whilst tasty and very enjoyable, they are greasy and quite expensive.
Time for more bambooing. Noise making – reciprocating saw and splitting.
Michael V said:
I’ve got to try making sausage rolls some time soon. Mrs V buys them at Cooloola Cove. But whilst tasty and very enjoyable, they are greasy and quite expensive.
Haven’t made SRs for some time now (keep meaning to), but, wow, it’s hugely more economical.
If i recall the arithmetic i did at the time, i was able to make a dozen of them for the price of two bought at the shop.
Michael V said:
Bubblecar said:
Michael V said:Mini, or maxi sausage rolls?
Mini. Two long ones from each sheet of pastry, with each long one cut into three sausage rolls. So only two sheets of pastry per dozen sausage rolls.
Nice.
:)
I’ve got to try making sausage rolls some time soon. Mrs V buys them at Cooloola Cove. But whilst tasty and very enjoyable, they are greasy and quite expensive.
making them at home is the best. you have them on hand, if you freeze some, which is good because as everyone knows it is a long way to the shop…
SCIENCE said:
Bubblecar said:
Red Cross on the phone, wanting me to increase my monthly donation. It’s not a good strategy, people start feeling badgered.
tell them you’ll donate to keep them quiet
LOL
captain_spalding said:
Michael V said:I’ve got to try making sausage rolls some time soon. Mrs V buys them at Cooloola Cove. But whilst tasty and very enjoyable, they are greasy and quite expensive.
Haven’t made SRs for some time now (keep meaning to), but, wow, it’s hugely more economical.
If i recall the arithmetic i did at the time, i was able to make a dozen of them for the price of two bought at the shop.
Nice one.
:)
JudgeMental said:
Michael V said:
Bubblecar said:Mini. Two long ones from each sheet of pastry, with each long one cut into three sausage rolls. So only two sheets of pastry per dozen sausage rolls.
Nice.
:)
I’ve got to try making sausage rolls some time soon. Mrs V buys them at Cooloola Cove. But whilst tasty and very enjoyable, they are greasy and quite expensive.
making them at home is the best. you have them on hand, if you freeze some, which is good because as everyone knows it is a long way to the shop…
In our case, it’s 26 km each way to the shop.
dv said:
JudgeMental said:Alternative für Deutschland supporter. Kind of a weird profile.
I see the guy who rammed his car into the crowd in germany was a zionist.
Musk is, somewhat frantically, tweeting and uncritically retweeting misinformation about this case.
Hello
dv said:
dv said:
JudgeMental said:Alternative für Deutschland supporter. Kind of a weird profile.
I see the guy who rammed his car into the crowd in germany was a zionist.
Musk is, somewhat frantically, tweeting and uncritically retweeting misinformation about this case.
In particular he is retweeting posts that deny the well-evidenced fact that the attacker is an AfD supporter and … I can only assume it is because Musk is trying to defend the AfD???
Michael V said:
transition said:
Michael V said:And it’d be helpful for my understanding if it were organised into short sentences and short paragraphs.
there is a humor about it, often I might mention it’s typing practice, which I nearly did, but on that occasion didn’t, good part of the humor is that writing to expectations – others expectations – may not reliably represent how minds, or a particular mind works, rather it conforms to how the work of minds ought be expressed, and as it goes ought is not reliably honest.
you expressed an ought, your ought, which you’d like others to replicate, which is the power of ought.
However, if you would like to communicate your information reliably to me, you might organise it into short sentences and short paragraphs.
Otherwise, to me it is just a word salad without meaning. After all, isn’t the reason for talking or writing to communicate?
If a word salad without meaning (to me) is your wish – go right ahead.
I don’t think it matters too much, but when of the original post I might ask, did it indicate, suggest or similar, I was talking to you
the trouble maybe started there, the assumption
few bird I see this morn. And I waters, trees, thirsty cedars, get to bamboos after that, and more whatever indeterminate, unknown for sure at this moment, make it up as I go
dv said:
dv said:
dv said:Alternative für Deutschland supporter. Kind of a weird profile.Musk is, somewhat frantically, tweeting and uncritically retweeting misinformation about this case.
In particular he is retweeting posts that deny the well-evidenced fact that the attacker is an AfD supporter and … I can only assume it is because Musk is trying to defend the AfD???
Sarth Efricens.
Closet Nazis.
transition said:
Michael V said:
transition said:there is a humor about it, often I might mention it’s typing practice, which I nearly did, but on that occasion didn’t, good part of the humor is that writing to expectations – others expectations – may not reliably represent how minds, or a particular mind works, rather it conforms to how the work of minds ought be expressed, and as it goes ought is not reliably honest.
you expressed an ought, your ought, which you’d like others to replicate, which is the power of ought.
However, if you would like to communicate your information reliably to me, you might organise it into short sentences and short paragraphs.
Otherwise, to me it is just a word salad without meaning. After all, isn’t the reason for talking or writing to communicate?
If a word salad without meaning (to me) is your wish – go right ahead.
I don’t think it matters too much, but when of the original post I might ask, did it indicate, suggest or similar, I was talking to you
the trouble maybe started there, the assumption
I seemed to be the only one around at the time.
Time to scoff a modest lunch before an afternoon of baking.
Michael V said:
transition said:
Michael V said:However, if you would like to communicate your information reliably to me, you might organise it into short sentences and short paragraphs.
Otherwise, to me it is just a word salad without meaning. After all, isn’t the reason for talking or writing to communicate?
If a word salad without meaning (to me) is your wish – go right ahead.
I don’t think it matters too much, but when of the original post I might ask, did it indicate, suggest or similar, I was talking to you
the trouble maybe started there, the assumption
I seemed to be the only one around at the time.
apologies for that, my part anyway
more silly soliloquy, talking shit out loud, whatever
sometimes puff pastry recipes call for eggs wash and sometimes butter wash.. this leads me to assume that these are interchangeable, but is that correct? I suspect the egg and butter do very different things
so those of you who are into food science… what’s up with that?
Arts said:
sometimes puff pastry recipes call for eggs wash and sometimes butter wash.. this leads me to assume that these are interchangeable, but is that correct? I suspect the egg and butter do very different thingsso those of you who are into food science… what’s up with that?
Egg = shiny glaze, butter = crisp?
transition said:
Michael V said:
transition said:I don’t think it matters too much, but when of the original post I might ask, did it indicate, suggest or similar, I was talking to you
the trouble maybe started there, the assumption
I seemed to be the only one around at the time.
apologies for that, my part anyway
more silly soliloquy, talking shit out loud, whatever
:)
Arts said:
sometimes puff pastry recipes call for eggs wash and sometimes butter wash.. this leads me to assume that these are interchangeable, but is that correct? I suspect the egg and butter do very different thingsso those of you who are into food science… what’s up with that?
Egg wash is more like a brown glaze, whereas butter adds colour but can be uneven. It also makes the pastry more greasy.
I’ll be using egg on these sausage rolls.
Bubblecar said:
Arts said:
sometimes puff pastry recipes call for eggs wash and sometimes butter wash.. this leads me to assume that these are interchangeable, but is that correct? I suspect the egg and butter do very different thingsso those of you who are into food science… what’s up with that?
Egg wash is more like a brown glaze, whereas butter adds colour but can be uneven. It also makes the pastry more greasy.
I’ll be using egg on these sausage rolls.
…but only on top. Don’t want them to stick to the baking paper (which they may not do, but I’d rather not risk it).
kii said:
Arts said:
sometimes puff pastry recipes call for eggs wash and sometimes butter wash.. this leads me to assume that these are interchangeable, but is that correct? I suspect the egg and butter do very different thingsso those of you who are into food science… what’s up with that?
Egg = shiny glaze, butter = crisp?
ok.. so I can substitute without the food Puritans chanting hateful rhetoric
because eggs and me aren’t really friends, so I prefer to use butter
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
Arts said:
sometimes puff pastry recipes call for eggs wash and sometimes butter wash.. this leads me to assume that these are interchangeable, but is that correct? I suspect the egg and butter do very different thingsso those of you who are into food science… what’s up with that?
Egg wash is more like a brown glaze, whereas butter adds colour but can be uneven. It also makes the pastry more greasy.
I’ll be using egg on these sausage rolls.
…but only on top. Don’t want them to stick to the baking paper (which they may not do, but I’d rather not risk it).
A light dusting of flour on the baking paper?
Arts said:
sometimes puff pastry recipes call for eggs wash and sometimes butter wash.. this leads me to assume that these are interchangeable, but is that correct? I suspect the egg and butter do very different thingsso those of you who are into food science… what’s up with that?
This is my thinking:
The egg wash browns the egg.
The oil or butter was causes the flour to brown (rather like making a brown sauce, or gravy.).
Michael V said:
Arts said:
sometimes puff pastry recipes call for eggs wash and sometimes butter wash.. this leads me to assume that these are interchangeable, but is that correct? I suspect the egg and butter do very different thingsso those of you who are into food science… what’s up with that?
This is my thinking:
The egg wash browns the egg.
The oil or butter wash causes the flour to brown (rather like making a brown sauce, or gravy.).
was ——-> wash
Fixed.
captain_spalding said:
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:Egg wash is more like a brown glaze, whereas butter adds colour but can be uneven. It also makes the pastry more greasy.
I’ll be using egg on these sausage rolls.
…but only on top. Don’t want them to stick to the baking paper (which they may not do, but I’d rather not risk it).
A light dusting of flour on the baking paper?
I really only need it on top, both for added colour and to help the sesame seeds stick on :)
Arts said:
kii said:
Arts said:
sometimes puff pastry recipes call for eggs wash and sometimes butter wash.. this leads me to assume that these are interchangeable, but is that correct? I suspect the egg and butter do very different thingsso those of you who are into food science… what’s up with that?
Egg = shiny glaze, butter = crisp?
ok.. so I can substitute without the food Puritans chanting hateful rhetoric
because eggs and me aren’t really friends, so I prefer to use butter
Fuck the food puritans. If you’re cooking they can just stfu.
Bubblecar said:
captain_spalding said:
Bubblecar said:…but only on top. Don’t want them to stick to the baking paper (which they may not do, but I’d rather not risk it).
A light dusting of flour on the baking paper?
I really only need it on top, both for added colour and to help the sesame seeds stick on :)
Yean, s’pose so.
kii said:
Arts said:
kii said:Egg = shiny glaze, butter = crisp?
ok.. so I can substitute without the food Puritans chanting hateful rhetoric
because eggs and me aren’t really friends, so I prefer to use butter
Fuck the food puritans. If you’re cooking they can just stfu.
thank you
So we did go to see Wicked Part 1 last night. Surprisingly good. I’m not otherwise familiar with the musical.
“Why can’t you teach us history instead of harping on the past?”
Arts said:
kii said:
Arts said:
sometimes puff pastry recipes call for eggs wash and sometimes butter wash.. this leads me to assume that these are interchangeable, but is that correct? I suspect the egg and butter do very different thingsso those of you who are into food science… what’s up with that?
Egg = shiny glaze, butter = crisp?
ok.. so I can substitute without the food Puritans chanting hateful rhetoric
because eggs and me aren’t really friends, so I prefer to use butter
You could adopt an egg and care for it like a baby and your attitude might change, they can be eggcellent friends.
Cymek said:
Arts said:
kii said:Egg = shiny glaze, butter = crisp?
ok.. so I can substitute without the food Puritans chanting hateful rhetoric
because eggs and me aren’t really friends, so I prefer to use butter
You could adopt an egg and care for it like a baby and your attitude might change, they can be eggcellent friends.
And ladies and gentlemen he’ll be here all week.
Try the veal.
Ah, Pisces, this week the stars are crafting a celestial symphony just for you! With Jupiter and Saturn squaring off, it’s a time of balancing dreams with reality. Monday sets the stage for introspection, while midweek brings a burst of creative energy and gifts. As the weekend approaches, Venus and Uranus stir the pot, inviting unexpected adventures. Embrace the ebb and flow of cosmic tides, and let your intuition be your guide. Remember, each planetary dance is a step towards personal growth. Trust in the journey, and let the stars illuminate your path.
rubs hands
Peak Warming Man said:
Ah, Pisces, this week the stars are crafting a celestial symphony just for you! With Jupiter and Saturn squaring off, it’s a time of balancing dreams with reality. Monday sets the stage for introspection, while midweek brings a burst of creative energy and gifts. As the weekend approaches, Venus and Uranus stir the pot, inviting unexpected adventures. Embrace the ebb and flow of cosmic tides, and let your intuition be your guide. Remember, each planetary dance is a step towards personal growth. Trust in the journey, and let the stars illuminate your path.rubs hands
James Randi ‘wrote’ the horoscopes for a newspaper at one time.
He bought a lot of other newspapers and magazines, and cut up all of the little paragraphs in their horoscope columns, and put them all into a container.
He’d shake the container, draw out 12 at random, and publish those as his ‘predictions’.
People sent him letters, declaring that his ‘predictions’ for their ‘star sign’ were so wonderfully and consistently accurate.
Quite remarkable.
https://www.threads.net/@xrgr8/post/DD5YxY0TXjU?xmt=AQGzR-vAfeOO6l9ndzS0GPw1_E81PrmuKawsZzoZB1LI7Q
More shithouse journalism from Sky News.
Good thing no one here takes them seriously.
Spiny Norman said:
Quite remarkable.
So it’s the exact same whale.
dv said:
So we did go to see Wicked Part 1 last night. Surprisingly good. I’m not otherwise familiar with the musical.“Why can’t you teach us history instead of harping on the past?”
My only complaint is that the rainbow physics is kind of messed up, by IDK maybe refraction works differently in Oz
And we are back. I found the orchids I went to find. There will be photos. But I should check up on what you lot have been doing here too.
The mountains are getting a white Christmas.
“As bushfires rage out of control in Victoria and parts of Queensland count the cost of recent floods, residents in the NSW Snowy Mountains woke this morning to find snow on the ground.
The Bureau of Meteorology had forecast snow to fall above 1,700 metres today, but some locals have reported sightings of snow flurries as low as Cooma at 800m elevation. “
Michael V said:
transition said:
i’m here for you, maybe you’d like to exchange some alphabet, arrange it, assemble letters into words, representative of concepts, organize those words into sentences, and what a wonderful business is the encoding and decoding involved, I can’t help myself, compelled by habits that started back with my first baby utterances, mum and dad and others helped me refine them, associate sounds with concepts, i’m not saying it was all greatly successful, I may have been a difficult baby, somewhat resistant to the project, but there it was the work of culture conveyed by my parents, the English found its way into my central nervous system, helped organize the firing of neurons, and how fortunate there was an alphabet to be verbalized, to help arrange the neurons, coordinate them, it’s an electrical magic really, happens in the dark, in the cranium, behind the eyes, and how limited must have the grunts of our ancestors been two-hundred thousand years ago, just verbal grunts and physical pointing, how limited and limiting must it have been
And it’d be helpful for my understanding if it were organised into short sentences and short paragraphs.
I just skip posts that present like that. There are more interesting and important things in my life.
captain_spalding said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Ah, Pisces, this week the stars are crafting a celestial symphony just for you! With Jupiter and Saturn squaring off, it’s a time of balancing dreams with reality. Monday sets the stage for introspection, while midweek brings a burst of creative energy and gifts. As the weekend approaches, Venus and Uranus stir the pot, inviting unexpected adventures. Embrace the ebb and flow of cosmic tides, and let your intuition be your guide. Remember, each planetary dance is a step towards personal growth. Trust in the journey, and let the stars illuminate your path.rubs hands
James Randi ‘wrote’ the horoscopes for a newspaper at one time.
He bought a lot of other newspapers and magazines, and cut up all of the little paragraphs in their horoscope columns, and put them all into a container.
He’d shake the container, draw out 12 at random, and publish those as his ‘predictions’.
People sent him letters, declaring that his ‘predictions’ for their ‘star sign’ were so wonderfully and consistently accurate.
:)
Added a bit too much salt to the pork mixture. Just cooked a mouthful to check the balance of spices etc and it’s definitely a little too salty.
BUT I can’t take it out again, so I can either try adjusting it by adding more pork and breadcrumbs (and adjust the sage & mace accordingly), or just say “I made the pork sausage rolls a little too salty, but they’re still very tasty blah blah blah.”
Bubblecar said:
Added a bit too much salt to the pork mixture. Just cooked a mouthful to check the balance of spices etc and it’s definitely a little too salty.BUT I can’t take it out again, so I can either try adjusting it by adding more pork and breadcrumbs (and adjust the sage & mace accordingly), or just say “I made the pork sausage rolls a little too salty, but they’re still very tasty blah blah blah.”
ADJUSTING now underway.
Bubblecar said:
Added a bit too much salt to the pork mixture. Just cooked a mouthful to check the balance of spices etc and it’s definitely a little too salty.BUT I can’t take it out again, so I can either try adjusting it by adding more pork and breadcrumbs (and adjust the sage & mace accordingly), or just say “I made the pork sausage rolls a little too salty, but they’re still very tasty blah blah blah.”
You could add something sour, or chilli, or sichuan pepper. These will mask overly salty food.
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
Added a bit too much salt to the pork mixture. Just cooked a mouthful to check the balance of spices etc and it’s definitely a little too salty.BUT I can’t take it out again, so I can either try adjusting it by adding more pork and breadcrumbs (and adjust the sage & mace accordingly), or just say “I made the pork sausage rolls a little too salty, but they’re still very tasty blah blah blah.”
ADJUSTING now underway.
I don’t add salt to the mix. I rarely add salt to anything much. Anything made with butter (and that includes your puff pastry) has plenty of salt for the whole shebang.
Peak Warming Man said:
The mountains are getting a white Christmas.“As bushfires rage out of control in Victoria and parts of Queensland count the cost of recent floods, residents in the NSW Snowy Mountains woke this morning to find snow on the ground.
The Bureau of Meteorology had forecast snow to fall above 1,700 metres today, but some locals have reported sightings of snow flurries as low as Cooma at 800m elevation. “
Winter of 2006, Mt Victoria train station I stood in the snow and watched a bushfire across the road.
Do you have particular recipes that you use?
If so could you post them in the recipes thread, please?
kii said:
Peak Warming Man said:
The mountains are getting a white Christmas.“As bushfires rage out of control in Victoria and parts of Queensland count the cost of recent floods, residents in the NSW Snowy Mountains woke this morning to find snow on the ground.
The Bureau of Meteorology had forecast snow to fall above 1,700 metres today, but some locals have reported sightings of snow flurries as low as Cooma at 800m elevation. “
Winter of 2006, Mt Victoria train station I stood in the snow and watched a bushfire across the road.
Blimey.
Michael V said:
Bubblecar said:
Added a bit too much salt to the pork mixture. Just cooked a mouthful to check the balance of spices etc and it’s definitely a little too salty.BUT I can’t take it out again, so I can either try adjusting it by adding more pork and breadcrumbs (and adjust the sage & mace accordingly), or just say “I made the pork sausage rolls a little too salty, but they’re still very tasty blah blah blah.”
You could add something sour, or chilli, or sichuan pepper. These will mask overly salty food.
Noo, this is the traditional English recipe :)
buffy said:
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
Added a bit too much salt to the pork mixture. Just cooked a mouthful to check the balance of spices etc and it’s definitely a little too salty.BUT I can’t take it out again, so I can either try adjusting it by adding more pork and breadcrumbs (and adjust the sage & mace accordingly), or just say “I made the pork sausage rolls a little too salty, but they’re still very tasty blah blah blah.”
ADJUSTING now underway.
I don’t add salt to the mix. I rarely add salt to anything much. Anything made with butter (and that includes your puff pastry) has plenty of salt for the whole shebang.
Definitely needs some salt.
If I recall rightly you make sausage rolls with ready-made sausage mixture (which comes salted, probably excessively). I use pure ground meat and add my own spices and seasonings.
kii said:
Peak Warming Man said:
The mountains are getting a white Christmas.“As bushfires rage out of control in Victoria and parts of Queensland count the cost of recent floods, residents in the NSW Snowy Mountains woke this morning to find snow on the ground.
The Bureau of Meteorology had forecast snow to fall above 1,700 metres today, but some locals have reported sightings of snow flurries as low as Cooma at 800m elevation. “
Winter of 2006, Mt Victoria train station I stood in the snow and watched a bushfire across the road.
Gosh.
Anyway after adding a little more pork, breadcrumbs and a touch more spices, the mix is now less salty.
But I’ll still apologise for them being slightly too salty ‘cos I’m like that :)
buffy said:
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
Added a bit too much salt to the pork mixture. Just cooked a mouthful to check the balance of spices etc and it’s definitely a little too salty.BUT I can’t take it out again, so I can either try adjusting it by adding more pork and breadcrumbs (and adjust the sage & mace accordingly), or just say “I made the pork sausage rolls a little too salty, but they’re still very tasty blah blah blah.”
ADJUSTING now underway.
I don’t add salt to the mix. I rarely add salt to anything much. Anything made with butter (and that includes your puff pastry) has plenty of salt for the whole shebang.
I don’t add salt to my home made sausage roll filling. But I do sprinkle seasoned salt onto the glaze which gives a nice salty hit as you bite into them.
I’ve bought some puff pastry to do some sausage rolls for Christmas day. They will be easy to take in my various visitings.
Also, I think people who say “you must be a lot of fun at parties” can get straight in the van.
dv said:
Also, I think people who say “you must be a lot of fun at parties” can get straight in the van.
I would like to have a party and invite all the people who have had that said to or about them.
But then, they are usually not the sort of people to say yes to a party invite.
Witty Rejoinder said:
Scientists Claim Dark Energy does not Exist, and Accelerated Expansion of Universe is an Illusion Caused by Gravity slowing down timehttps://www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2024/12/scientists-claim-dark-energy-does-not-exist-and-accelerated-expansion-of-universe-is-an-illusion-caused-by-gravity-slowing-down-time/
…
Interesting article that mirrors my own speculative thoughts on the matter (no pun intended).
Thanks. We’ll see where this leads…
Witty Rejoinder said:
Scientists Claim Dark Energy does not Exist, and Accelerated Expansion of Universe is an Illusion Caused by Gravity slowing down timehttps://www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2024/12/scientists-claim-dark-energy-does-not-exist-and-accelerated-expansion-of-universe-is-an-illusion-caused-by-gravity-slowing-down-time/
…
Interesting article that mirrors my own speculative thoughts on the matter (no pun intended).
Thanks. We’ll see where this leads…
I sense an interconnectedness of things.
buffy said:
Michael V said:
transition said:
i’m here for you, maybe you’d like to exchange some alphabet, arrange it, assemble letters into words, representative of concepts, organize those words into sentences, and what a wonderful business is the encoding and decoding involved, I can’t help myself, compelled by habits that started back with my first baby utterances, mum and dad and others helped me refine them, associate sounds with concepts, i’m not saying it was all greatly successful, I may have been a difficult baby, somewhat resistant to the project, but there it was the work of culture conveyed by my parents, the English found its way into my central nervous system, helped organize the firing of neurons, and how fortunate there was an alphabet to be verbalized, to help arrange the neurons, coordinate them, it’s an electrical magic really, happens in the dark, in the cranium, behind the eyes, and how limited must have the grunts of our ancestors been two-hundred thousand years ago, just verbal grunts and physical pointing, how limited and limiting must it have been
And it’d be helpful for my understanding if it were organised into short sentences and short paragraphs.
I just skip posts that present like that. There are more interesting and important things in my life.
they’re certainly made to skip, and I know you’re more interesting and important
hose going flatout, since 10:30am, pissing dollars out a hose
Madness at the shops.
Peak Warming Man said:
Madness at the shops.
well, it’s murder on the dance floor!
Peak Warming Man said:
Madness at the shops.
Did they shoot them?
Michael V said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Madness at the shops.
Did they shoot them?
they went one step beyond that!
transition said:
hose going flatout, since 10:30am, pissing dollars out a hose
How is missy copeing.
Peak Warming Man said:
Madness at the shops.
Were they signing autographs? I see they’re getting on a bit now.
Peak Warming Man said:
transition said:
hose going flatout, since 10:30am, pissing dollars out a hose
How is missy copeing.
quite good actually, healthy, on a good diet, no serious run of hot weather yet, mostly nights been cold in fact
i’ll pass on that you inquired about her well-being, think that’ll probably put a smile on her ruminant dial
Tapped 42 deg C at noon which is an unusually early maximum
Speaking of doolally, there is a location northbound on Barrack St near intersection with The Esplanade where there are two left turning lanes and one lane going straight. Two consecutive Hyundai Elantras* that were in a left turning lane tried to barge into the straightgoing lane in very dense traffic. The first came up against a bus and gave up on that endeavour. The second came up against me, and I gave him a bit of a look but then shuffled over a little so that he was at least not blocking the intersection.
*Elantrae? Elantrata?
JudgeMental said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Madness at the shops.
well, it’s murder on the dance floor!
and Panic at the disco
https://www.perthnow.com.au/travel/adventure/end-of-an-incredible-era-crocodile-dundee-star-burt-the-croc-dies-c-17176733
90 is a good innings
dv said:
JudgeMental said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Madness at the shops.
well, it’s murder on the dance floor!
and Panic at the disco
or Stannic at the disco
fanfic
40°
JudgeMental said:
40°
Damnation.
Currently about 15 here. But I still have the fan on here in the pooter room, to cool me down when I emerge from the hot kitchen.
Cymek said:
https://www.perthnow.com.au/travel/adventure/end-of-an-incredible-era-crocodile-dundee-star-burt-the-croc-dies-c-1717673390 is a good innings
Vale Burt.
And he never got a face lift, and he looked all the better for it.
Arts said:
kii said:
Arts said:ok.. so I can substitute without the food Puritans chanting hateful rhetoric
because eggs and me aren’t really friends, so I prefer to use butter
Fuck the food puritans. If you’re cooking they can just stfu.
thank you
This is no excuse for that cauliflower pizza malarkey.
kii said:
Arts said:
kii said:Egg = shiny glaze, butter = crisp?
ok.. so I can substitute without the food Puritans chanting hateful rhetoric
because eggs and me aren’t really friends, so I prefer to use butter
Fuck the food puritans. If you’re cooking they can just stfu.
¿ soft tofu ?
22 December 2024
Melbourne lawyer Elisa Berry’s conduct ‘a stain’ on the profession: judge
Ellie Dudley
A Melbourne family lawyer has been struck off.
A Melbourne family lawyer who repeatedly forged her clients’ signatures, lied to one of them when claiming their child had been kidnapped, and misused trust funds has been struck off, with a judge labelling her conduct a “stain” on the legal profession.
Elisa Berry was slammed by Victorian Supreme Court judge Stephen O’Meara last week for her “deeply unsettling” behaviour in which she impersonated multiple people, created false and forged documents, and took out a loan in a client’s name – putting up his house as security – without his knowledge.
In light of the “serious and alarming” behaviour, Berry has been deemed “not a fit and proper person” to be a lawyer and is no longer allowed to practise.
Court documents revealing the extent of her misconduct show that in early 2021 she set up a fake email account in the name of a client she was assisting in a property dispute, and put it on his file so invoices would be sent to that address.
The client did not receive the invoices, and they were not paid.
Berry subsequently impersonated the client and applied for a legal finance loan under the fake email address and her own phone number. She used her client’s ID and personal finance information, and signed the loan contract under his name.
She then authorised the lender to use the client’s marital home – which was at the centre of the property dispute – as security for the loan, and instructed the lender to divert funds from the loan into a trust account to pay off unpaid legal bills.
When months later the client became aware of the loan, Berry did not disclose that she had taken it out in his name.
Instead, she drafted emails and letters for him to send covering up her actions.
In a separate matter, she forged a client’s signature on a proposed financial settlement of which he had no knowledge.
She applied for the Federal Circuit and Family Court to enforce the proposed settlement, and attended the hearing without her client’s knowledge. At the hearing, she acted as if she was being instructed by her client, but was not. At one point, she said her client “agreed he had failed to comply” with aspects of the orders, causing the court to make further orders against him.
After the client dropped her and hired a new lawyer, Berry falsely claimed she was representing him and demanded money be paid into her firm’s trust account.
In January 2022, she set up another fake email address for her former client, and again impersonated the client to take out a legal finance loan. She tried to put the client’s house up as a caveat but could not do so without the wife’s lawyer’s permission.
“Ms Berry forged an email chain between herself and (the wife’s) solicitor in which she purported to record such consent and she then gave the forged email chain to the lender,” the judgment reads.
Victorian Supreme Court judge Stephen O’Meara.
Victorian Supreme Court judge Stephen O’Meara.
The loan money was redirected into her firm’s trust account and used for another client’s property purchase.
In a third matter, Berry forged five different sets of orders and three email chains from the court and provided them to her client. She also forged an email from her opponent to the court in which her opponent seemed to take issue with certain orders, and then gave the forged email to her client.
Berry falsely advised her client that an agreement had been reached for a change in custody of their children.
However, on three occasions when the client went to pick up his children for where he understood to be an agreed location, they were nowhere to be seen.
“Ms Berry falsely advised her client that his ex-partner had kidnapped their children and absconded with them, or was otherwise preventing him from seeing them,” the judgment reads.
“In that regard, Ms Berry falsely advised her client that it was necessary for him to seek a recovery order in order to obtain custody of his children, and thereafter falsely advised him that she had filed such an application and that the order had been made.”
Justice O’Meara described Berry’s actions as “utterly baffling”. “Ms Berry’s conduct is, however, undeniably tragic, particularly for her clients and those involved in the affected matters,” he said.
“The extensive nature of the conduct is … a stain that the entire profession must wear, as it necessarily strikes at the heart of the trust ordinary members of the community daily, readily and very often unquestioningly, place in their legal advisers.”
He made orders striking Berry’s name from the roll of practitioners.
The tarmac at Perth airport today (from one of our vollies).
Did there not used to be a person on here or the old forum who would leave a thermometer in direct sunlight and report what he considered the “real” temperature?
dv said:
Did there not used to be a person on here or the old forum who would leave a thermometer in direct sunlight and report what he considered the “real” temperature?
zarkov
JudgeMental said:
dv said:
Did there not used to be a person on here or the old forum who would leave a thermometer in direct sunlight and report what he considered the “real” temperature?
zarkov
There was nothing he couldn’t do.
And he was the first person to report the death of clouds in his semenal work.
Peak Warming Man said:
JudgeMental said:
dv said:
Did there not used to be a person on here or the old forum who would leave a thermometer in direct sunlight and report what he considered the “real” temperature?
zarkov
There was nothing he couldn’t do.
And he was the first person to report the death of clouds in his semenal work.
I think there was nothing he couldn’t not do.
Witty Rejoinder said:
Arts said:
kii said:Fuck the food puritans. If you’re cooking they can just stfu.
thank you
This is no excuse for that cauliflower pizza malarkey.
Cauliflower on pizza?
No, there’s no excuse.
But, i’m sure we can come up with a suitable punishment for it.
“Australian two-time doubles grand slam winner Max Purcell has been provisionally suspended following a breach of tennis’ anti-doping rules.
The International Tennis Integrity Agency confirmed the breach of article 2.2 of the Tennis Anti-Doping Program.
The 26-year-old reigning US Open doubles champion’s breach is “relating to the use of a prohibited method”.
Performance enhancing methods?
captain_spalding said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Arts said:thank you
This is no excuse for that cauliflower pizza malarkey.
Cauliflower on pizza?
No, there’s no excuse.
But, i’m sure we can come up with a suitable punishment for it.
If I remember rightly, the pizza crust itself was somehow made of cauliflower.
Peak Warming Man said:
“Australian two-time doubles grand slam winner Max Purcell has been provisionally suspended following a breach of tennis’ anti-doping rules.
The International Tennis Integrity Agency confirmed the breach of article 2.2 of the Tennis Anti-Doping Program.
The 26-year-old reigning US Open doubles champion’s breach is “relating to the use of a prohibited method”.Performance enhancing methods?
Weet-bix
captain_spalding said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Arts said:thank you
This is no excuse for that cauliflower pizza malarkey.
Cauliflower on pizza?
No, there’s no excuse.
But, i’m sure we can come up with a suitable punishment for it.
I think a cauliflower ear should suffice.
captain_spalding said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Arts said:thank you
This is no excuse for that cauliflower pizza malarkey.
Cauliflower on pizza?
No, there’s no excuse.
But, i’m sure we can come up with a suitable punishment for it.
no the base was made from cauliflower… it’s the way pizza should be…
Arts said:
captain_spalding said:
Witty Rejoinder said:This is no excuse for that cauliflower pizza malarkey.
Cauliflower on pizza?
No, there’s no excuse.
But, i’m sure we can come up with a suitable punishment for it.
no the base was made from cauliflower… it’s the way pizza should be…
Burn her, burn her………..burn burn……….
Arts said:
captain_spalding said:
Witty Rejoinder said:This is no excuse for that cauliflower pizza malarkey.
Cauliflower on pizza?
No, there’s no excuse.
But, i’m sure we can come up with a suitable punishment for it.
no the base was made from cauliflower… it’s the way pizza should be…
I’m watching some beach volleyball, and the athleticism is something to behold.
Peak Warming Man said:
I’m watching some beach volleyball, and the athleticism is something to behold.
concur, impressive, looks athletic
ice skating.
This showcase from the Free Dance winners Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier to ‘A Whiter Shade of Pale’ by Annie Lennox
https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=536362752622685
sarahs mum said:
ice skating.This showcase from the Free Dance winners Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier to ‘A Whiter Shade of Pale’ by Annie Lennox
https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=536362752622685
wonder of they started clumsy on roller skates when kids, around the house on the verandah, what could have I progressed to with the right encouragements, perhaps breeding too, mum and dad were both yetis so maybe I wasn’t a natural
and I walked a very long way out the magic faraway farm, totally knackered now
and didn’t put extra inner soles in new boots couple weeks ago, lower back and sciatica is killing me, all the way down to my feet, a horrible feeling
Dozen spicy beef sausage rolls now in the oven. Once again there’ll be an extra three so I can sample what they’re like.
transition said:
sarahs mum said:
ice skating.This showcase from the Free Dance winners Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier to ‘A Whiter Shade of Pale’ by Annie Lennox
https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=536362752622685
wonder of they started clumsy on roller skates when kids, around the house on the verandah, what could have I progressed to with the right encouragements, perhaps breeding too, mum and dad were both yetis so maybe I wasn’t a natural
and I walked a very long way out the magic faraway farm, totally knackered now
and didn’t put extra inner soles in new boots couple weeks ago, lower back and sciatica is killing me, all the way down to my feet, a horrible feeling
I’d not heard Annie Lennox’s version before. It starts off more bachish than the original. And then it has that bit of new score…which i presume is a fandango. I enjoyed. And the skating was triff too.
Nissan and Honda are going to merge to become the world’s third biggest carmaker
dv said:
Nissan and Honda are going to merge to become the world’s third biggest carmaker
I read that there was a major explosion in the Nissan factory a few days ago, and it’s been raining Datsun cogs ever since.
btm said:
dv said:
Nissan and Honda are going to merge to become the world’s third biggest carmaker
I read that there was a major explosion in the Nissan factory a few days ago, and it’s been raining Datsun cogs ever since.
most amusing
dv said:
Nissan and Honda are going to merge to become the world’s third biggest carmaker
Whose 1&2 then?
The Rev Dodgson said:
dv said:
Nissan and Honda are going to merge to become the world’s third biggest carmaker
Whose 1&2 then?
A few surprises (for me):
1 largest car companies volkswagen group logo – Luxe Digital
Volkswagen Group Germany($299.5 billion)
2 largest car companies toyota logo – Luxe Digital
Toyota Japan($278.7 billion)
3 largest car companies stellantis logo – Luxe Digital
Stellantis Netherlands($192.6 billion)
4 largest car companies mercedes benz group logo – Luxe Digital
Mercedes-Benz Germany($160.9 billion)
5 largest car companies ford motor logo – Luxe Digital
Ford Motor United States($158.1 billion)
6 largest car companies general motors logo – Luxe Digital
General Motors United States($156.7 billion)
7 largest car companies bmw group logo – Luxe Digital
BMW Group Germany($153 billion)
8 largest car companies honda logo – Luxe Digital
Honda Japan($136.5 billion)
dv said:
Nissan and Honda are going to merge to become the world’s third biggest carmaker
Honissanda Motors?
Well the spicy beef sausage rolls are tasty enough but not entirely a success, as the cheese mostly leaked out, as I should have predicted :)
Never mind, once they’ve dried out a bit they ought to be presentable.
Kingy said:
dv said:
Nissan and Honda are going to merge to become the world’s third biggest carmaker
Honissanda Motors?
Ninda or Honsan.
Peak Warming Man said:
Arts said:
captain_spalding said:Cauliflower on pizza?
No, there’s no excuse.
But, i’m sure we can come up with a suitable punishment for it.
no the base was made from cauliflower… it’s the way pizza should be…
Burn her, burn her………..burn burn……….
it’s ok if you disagree with me… I can’t force you to be right
The Rev Dodgson said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
dv said:
Nissan and Honda are going to merge to become the world’s third biggest carmaker
Whose 1&2 then?
A few surprises (for me):
1 largest car companies volkswagen group logo – Luxe Digital
Volkswagen Group Germany($299.5 billion)
2 largest car companies toyota logo – Luxe Digital
Toyota Japan($278.7 billion)
3 largest car companies stellantis logo – Luxe Digital
Stellantis Netherlands($192.6 billion)
4 largest car companies mercedes benz group logo – Luxe DigitalMercedes-Benz Germany($160.9 billion)
5 largest car companies ford motor logo – Luxe Digital
Ford Motor United States($158.1 billion)
6 largest car companies general motors logo – Luxe Digital
General Motors United States($156.7 billion)
7 largest car companies bmw group logo – Luxe Digital
BMW Group Germany($153 billion)
8 largest car companies honda logo – Luxe Digital
Honda Japan($136.5 billion)
3 largest car companies stellantis logo – Luxe Digital
never heard of it
Arts said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
The Rev Dodgson said:Whose 1&2 then?
A few surprises (for me):
1 largest car companies volkswagen group logo – Luxe Digital
Volkswagen Group Germany($299.5 billion)
2 largest car companies toyota logo – Luxe Digital
Toyota Japan($278.7 billion)
3 largest car companies stellantis logo – Luxe Digital
Stellantis Netherlands($192.6 billion)
4 largest car companies mercedes benz group logo – Luxe DigitalMercedes-Benz Germany($160.9 billion)
5 largest car companies ford motor logo – Luxe Digital
Ford Motor United States($158.1 billion)
6 largest car companies general motors logo – Luxe Digital
General Motors United States($156.7 billion)
7 largest car companies bmw group logo – Luxe Digital
BMW Group Germany($153 billion)
8 largest car companies honda logo – Luxe Digital
Honda Japan($136.5 billion)3 largest car companies stellantis logo – Luxe Digital
never heard of it
New name instituted after the Peugeot FIAT Chrysler merger.
It appears that my brothers farm, the family farm that I grew up on, is on fire. Again.
Witty Rejoinder said:
Arts said:
The Rev Dodgson said:A few surprises (for me):
1 largest car companies volkswagen group logo – Luxe Digital
Volkswagen Group Germany($299.5 billion)
2 largest car companies toyota logo – Luxe Digital
Toyota Japan($278.7 billion)
3 largest car companies stellantis logo – Luxe Digital
Stellantis Netherlands($192.6 billion)
4 largest car companies mercedes benz group logo – Luxe DigitalMercedes-Benz Germany($160.9 billion)
5 largest car companies ford motor logo – Luxe Digital
Ford Motor United States($158.1 billion)
6 largest car companies general motors logo – Luxe Digital
General Motors United States($156.7 billion)
7 largest car companies bmw group logo – Luxe Digital
BMW Group Germany($153 billion)
8 largest car companies honda logo – Luxe Digital
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never heard of it
New name instituted after the Peugeot FIAT Chrysler merger.
ah. thanks.
sarahs mum said:
transition said:
sarahs mum said:
ice skating.This showcase from the Free Dance winners Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier to ‘A Whiter Shade of Pale’ by Annie Lennox
https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=536362752622685
wonder of they started clumsy on roller skates when kids, around the house on the verandah, what could have I progressed to with the right encouragements, perhaps breeding too, mum and dad were both yetis so maybe I wasn’t a natural
and I walked a very long way out the magic faraway farm, totally knackered now
and didn’t put extra inner soles in new boots couple weeks ago, lower back and sciatica is killing me, all the way down to my feet, a horrible feeling
I’d not heard Annie Lennox’s version before. It starts off more bachish than the original. And then it has that bit of new score…which i presume is a fandango. I enjoyed. And the skating was triff too.
Reminiscent of the Air on the G String, from BWV 1068.
AussieDJ said:
sarahs mum said:
transition said:wonder of they started clumsy on roller skates when kids, around the house on the verandah, what could have I progressed to with the right encouragements, perhaps breeding too, mum and dad were both yetis so maybe I wasn’t a natural
and I walked a very long way out the magic faraway farm, totally knackered now
and didn’t put extra inner soles in new boots couple weeks ago, lower back and sciatica is killing me, all the way down to my feet, a horrible feeling
I’d not heard Annie Lennox’s version before. It starts off more bachish than the original. And then it has that bit of new score…which i presume is a fandango. I enjoyed. And the skating was triff too.
Reminiscent of the Air on the G String, from BWV 1068.
I thought that was about a skimpy barmaids farts.
Sorry, I grew up in a rough area.
Kingy said:
It appears that my brothers farm, the family farm that I grew up on, is on fire. Again.
Another eight farms nearby are now on fire, due to lightning a couple of hours ago.
Kingy said:
Kingy said:
It appears that my brothers farm, the family farm that I grew up on, is on fire. Again.Another eight farms nearby are now on fire, due to lightning a couple of hours ago.
Do you know what they’re growing?
Kingy said:
Kingy said:
It appears that my brothers farm, the family farm that I grew up on, is on fire. Again.Another eight farms nearby are now on fire, due to lightning a couple of hours ago.
Damn. Hope they get that under control real quick.
btm said:
Kingy said:
Kingy said:
It appears that my brothers farm, the family farm that I grew up on, is on fire. Again.Another eight farms nearby are now on fire, due to lightning a couple of hours ago.
Do you know what they’re growing?
At the moment, ash.
But seriously, they are mostly wheat and sheep farmers. Some Canola, Lupins, Oats, Barley etc.
There are no state funded fire trucks for at least 25km. It’s every farmer for themselves out there. We always had a ute with a tank and pump on it at all times during summer. Some of the bigger farmers had a truck with a big tank and pump. Whenever we saw smoke, we just got in the fire ute and drove towards it till we reached the perimeter and started putting it out. Eventually we would all meet up somewhere at the last lick of flame, and then the property owner would arrive with several cartons of beer.
Kingy said:
btm said:
Kingy said:Another eight farms nearby are now on fire, due to lightning a couple of hours ago.
Do you know what they’re growing?
At the moment, ash.
But seriously, they are mostly wheat and sheep farmers. Some Canola, Lupins, Oats, Barley etc.
There are no state funded fire trucks for at least 25km. It’s every farmer for themselves out there. We always had a ute with a tank and pump on it at all times during summer. Some of the bigger farmers had a truck with a big tank and pump. Whenever we saw smoke, we just got in the fire ute and drove towards it till we reached the perimeter and started putting it out. Eventually we would all meet up somewhere at the last lick of flame, and then the property owner would arrive with several cartons of beer.
is this where you learnt the basics of putting out fires?
party_pants said:
Kingy said:
btm said:Do you know what they’re growing?
At the moment, ash.
But seriously, they are mostly wheat and sheep farmers. Some Canola, Lupins, Oats, Barley etc.
There are no state funded fire trucks for at least 25km. It’s every farmer for themselves out there. We always had a ute with a tank and pump on it at all times during summer. Some of the bigger farmers had a truck with a big tank and pump. Whenever we saw smoke, we just got in the fire ute and drove towards it till we reached the perimeter and started putting it out. Eventually we would all meet up somewhere at the last lick of flame, and then the property owner would arrive with several cartons of beer.
is this where you learnt the basics of putting out fires?
Yeah, the first time was when I was 6 years old, using a garden hose to defend the back of the house. My dad and both older brothers were already at a fire nearby when embers landed just behind the back fence. Mum was cooking for the firefighters and didn’t realise how close it was.
Kingy said:
party_pants said:
Kingy said:At the moment, ash.
But seriously, they are mostly wheat and sheep farmers. Some Canola, Lupins, Oats, Barley etc.
There are no state funded fire trucks for at least 25km. It’s every farmer for themselves out there. We always had a ute with a tank and pump on it at all times during summer. Some of the bigger farmers had a truck with a big tank and pump. Whenever we saw smoke, we just got in the fire ute and drove towards it till we reached the perimeter and started putting it out. Eventually we would all meet up somewhere at the last lick of flame, and then the property owner would arrive with several cartons of beer.
is this where you learnt the basics of putting out fires?
Yeah, the first time was when I was 6 years old, using a garden hose to defend the back of the house. My dad and both older brothers were already at a fire nearby when embers landed just behind the back fence. Mum was cooking for the firefighters and didn’t realise how close it was.
“The boy stood on the burning deck…”
I’m not supposed to share information from sources but I noticed the lightning cranking up in the wheatbelt a couple of hours ago and was concerned about home.
Message from A nonny mouse.
NARROGIN SHIRE – MULTIPLE FIRES. NO TRUCKS LEFT. ONE WON’T START. MAY NEED HELP FROM WAGIN.
Kingy said:
I’m not supposed to share information from sources but I noticed the lightning cranking up in the wheatbelt a couple of hours ago and was concerned about home.Message from A nonny mouse.
NARROGIN SHIRE – MULTIPLE FIRES. NO TRUCKS LEFT. ONE WON’T START. MAY NEED HELP FROM WAGIN.
Thoughts and prayers. Seriously.
Kingy said:
btm said:
Kingy said:Another eight farms nearby are now on fire, due to lightning a couple of hours ago.
Do you know what they’re growing?
At the moment, ash.
But seriously, they are mostly wheat and sheep farmers. Some Canola, Lupins, Oats, Barley etc.
There are no state funded fire trucks for at least 25km. It’s every farmer for themselves out there. We always had a ute with a tank and pump on it at all times during summer. Some of the bigger farmers had a truck with a big tank and pump. Whenever we saw smoke, we just got in the fire ute and drove towards it till we reached the perimeter and started putting it out. Eventually we would all meet up somewhere at the last lick of flame, and then the property owner would arrive with several cartons of beer.
Can they get (and do they have) crop insurance? Obviously not for sheep, but for the crop farmers.
btm said:
Kingy said:
btm said:Do you know what they’re growing?
At the moment, ash.
But seriously, they are mostly wheat and sheep farmers. Some Canola, Lupins, Oats, Barley etc.
There are no state funded fire trucks for at least 25km. It’s every farmer for themselves out there. We always had a ute with a tank and pump on it at all times during summer. Some of the bigger farmers had a truck with a big tank and pump. Whenever we saw smoke, we just got in the fire ute and drove towards it till we reached the perimeter and started putting it out. Eventually we would all meet up somewhere at the last lick of flame, and then the property owner would arrive with several cartons of beer.
Can they get (and do they have) crop insurance? Obviously not for sheep, but for the crop farmers.
Yes, but it is very expensive. Not sure how many farmers can afford it.
New msg from source
20 FARMER RESPONSE UNITS ENROUTE.
I hope it is all okay kingy.
It’s ten degrees and damp here.
Arts said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Arts said:
no the base was made from cauliflower… it’s the way pizza should be…
Burn her, burn her………..burn burn……….
it’s ok if you disagree with me… I can’t force you to be right
¿ yous can feed a shrill some knowledge but yous can’t make them think ?
In March 2023, she mixed rat poison into grape juice and convinced Mr Shorey to drink it, leading to diarrhoea, abdominal pain, vomiting, persistent nosebleeds, blood in urine, and blood spots on his skin and tongue, prosecutors allege. “Her intent was to mix the poison into Alex’s meals or beverages, which he frequently consumed at his rented residence in Taipei, causing him to become ill and forcing him to remain in Taiwan to receive her care,” the statement said. After Mr Shorey was admitted to hospital, Yang Ping, who acted as a caregiver, continued to lace his food with rat poison, prompting his condition to deteriorate further, prosecutors state. Mr Shorey’s mother, Julie, travelled to Taiwan and stayed at Yang Ping’s apartment where she discovered an empty bottle of rat poison. She raised the alarm with doctors, and Yang Ping was barred from administering any more medication to Mr Shorey.
ah well not as effective as mushrooms
So anyway there were upset that knives were dangerous weapons and that police were screening for them so at least nobody will be upset when police start screening for and confiscating lighters¡
After the train came to a stop, surveillance video from the subway car showed the man “calmly” walk up to the victim, who was seated motionless and possibly asleep, and set her clothing on fire with what appeared to be a lighter. The woman’s clothing then “became fully engulfed in a matter of seconds,” Commissioner Tisch said. Officers on a routine patrol at the Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue subway station smelled and saw smoke and discovered the woman on fire, standing in the middle of the subway car. Emergency medical personnel declared the woman dead after the fire had been extinguished. The suspect had remained at the scene and was seated on a bench on the subway platform, just outside the train car, Commissioner Tisch said, while police rushed to the subway car. The man had a lighter in his pocket when he was taken into custody, Commissioner Tisch said.
Arts said:
captain_spalding said:
Witty Rejoinder said:This is no excuse for that cauliflower pizza malarkey.
Cauliflower on pizza?
No, there’s no excuse.
But, i’m sure we can come up with a suitable punishment for it.
no the base was made from cauliflower… it’s the way pizza should be…
I’ve never tried a cauliflower pizza base, but it does sound tasty.
Basically, any food that another person cooks sounds tasty afaiac.
sarahs mum said:
transition said:
sarahs mum said:
ice skating.This showcase from the Free Dance winners Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier to ‘A Whiter Shade of Pale’ by Annie Lennox
https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=536362752622685
wonder of they started clumsy on roller skates when kids, around the house on the verandah, what could have I progressed to with the right encouragements, perhaps breeding too, mum and dad were both yetis so maybe I wasn’t a natural
and I walked a very long way out the magic faraway farm, totally knackered now
and didn’t put extra inner soles in new boots couple weeks ago, lower back and sciatica is killing me, all the way down to my feet, a horrible feeling
I’d not heard Annie Lennox’s version before. It starts off more bachish than the original. And then it has that bit of new score…which i presume is a fandango. I enjoyed. And the skating was triff too.
Thanks for this. I cried. Nowadays I need help to cry, and this did it. Beautiful all over.
breakfast then I will, I will away yonder visits the magic place, the magic faraway farm
don’t be too impressed i’ll probably climb back into bed when I return, sometime after sunrise maybe, but you should be a little impressed, don’t too enthusiastically help me negate evidence of my commitment and effort
in other news I notice under the extra inner soles I added to my newish boots yesterday that I had in fact previously added extra inner soles, so double now, about what I require, a bad back and hell sciatica
someone possibly be in with a weather report later, a more respectable form of talking to self
still and chill here at the moment, quite dark also, I expect the darkness is something to do with the longitude i’m on, and whereabouts the sun is relative to the rotating earth, don’t forget the orbit also around the sun, gets a bit complicated, there’s a rotation and an orbit, more than I can hold in my head, makes me dizzy
and I really should depart, venture out into the dark
Good morning Holidayers. Presently 10 degrees at the back door, overcast and still. The indicator puddle on the road out the front says it sprinkled a little with rain during the night. We are forecast a cloudy 24 degrees today.
The oven is on. Buffy’s Biscuit Bakery is almost ready to commence.
back from the magic faraway farm. Skippy wanted to fight me, stands tall dick poking out pissing everywhere, goes down low paws the soil makes lot of dust, did that few times, I hopped the fence feeling all sciaticaplegic not in the mood at all, broke off a big tree branch then back, I was ready
Good morning everybody.
It’s 17.8° C, 99% RH, clear and calm. BoM forecasts a top of 30° C, and almost no chance of rain.
Agenda: Carve ham – enough for breakfast today and tomorrow’s breakfast and lunch at least. Make dumplings for tomorrow. Rake bamboo leaves (and other debris) from the rear grass. Lunch and dinner undecided. Breakfast will be thickly sliced ham on toast.
Mrs V is making individual pavlovas today, for lunch tomorrow. One of her bag-sewing friends is coming for lunch tomorrow. She may bring her husband, or may not depending on how he feels.
One more sleep before we get things.
rubs hands
transition said:
back from the magic faraway farm. Skippy wanted to fight me, stands tall dick poking out pissing everywhere, goes down low paws the soil makes lot of dust, did that few times, I hopped the fence feeling all sciaticaplegic not in the mood at all, broke off a big tree branch then back, I was ready
He’d tear you a new one.
transition said:
back from the magic faraway farm. Skippy wanted to fight me, stands tall dick poking out pissing everywhere, goes down low paws the soil makes lot of dust, did that few times, I hopped the fence feeling all sciaticaplegic not in the mood at all, broke off a big tree branch then back, I was ready
Maybe just his way of asking you where the nearest gent’s convenience might be.
buffy said:
Good morning Holidayers. Presently 10 degrees at the back door, overcast and still. The indicator puddle on the road out the front says it sprinkled a little with rain during the night. We are forecast a cloudy 24 degrees today.The oven is on. Buffy’s Biscuit Bakery is almost ready to commence.
Heh.
Mammoth vat of potato salad to make this end.
Bubblecar said:
transition said:
back from the magic faraway farm. Skippy wanted to fight me, stands tall dick poking out pissing everywhere, goes down low paws the soil makes lot of dust, did that few times, I hopped the fence feeling all sciaticaplegic not in the mood at all, broke off a big tree branch then back, I was ready
Maybe just his way of asking you where the nearest gent’s convenience might be.
A bit like Alan Jones in London.
And…when an egg has gone bad…it’s bad. I’m glad I break my eggs into a beaker before using them. Straight out the back door to the compost bin is where that one went. Then I very thoroughly washed out the beaker. Next egg was fine.
Shortbread done. Starting on the monkey faces now. Although actually they will be cut in star shapes this time, not round ones with a face on them.
buffy said:
And…when an egg has gone bad…it’s bad. I’m glad I break my eggs into a beaker before using them. Straight out the back door to the compost bin is where that one went. Then I very thoroughly washed out the beaker. Next egg was fine.Shortbread done. Starting on the monkey faces now. Although actually they will be cut in star shapes this time, not round ones with a face on them.
Can’t remember the last time I found a bad egg. Or if I ever have.
But it’s a good idea to break them into a container first, especially for something like mayonnaise where they’ll be consumed raw.
buffy said:
And…when an egg has gone bad…it’s bad. I’m glad I break my eggs into a beaker before using them. Straight out the back door to the compost bin is where that one went. Then I very thoroughly washed out the beaker. Next egg was fine.Shortbread done. Starting on the monkey faces now. Although actually they will be cut in star shapes this time, not round ones with a face on them.
Bummer.
Mrs V does that – uses a knife to break the egg into a measuring cup.
I don’t. I take the risk. But then, I only break eggs for an omelette. I crack the egg on the bowl. Perhaps I should practice breaking eggs with a knife. I’m very bad at it.
buffy said:
And…when an egg has gone bad…it’s bad. I’m glad I break my eggs into a beaker before using them. Straight out the back door to the compost bin is where that one went. Then I very thoroughly washed out the beaker. Next egg was fine.Shortbread done. Starting on the monkey faces now. Although actually they will be cut in star shapes this time, not round ones with a face on them.
I use the float test.
Michael V said:
buffy said:
And…when an egg has gone bad…it’s bad. I’m glad I break my eggs into a beaker before using them. Straight out the back door to the compost bin is where that one went. Then I very thoroughly washed out the beaker. Next egg was fine.Shortbread done. Starting on the monkey faces now. Although actually they will be cut in star shapes this time, not round ones with a face on them.
Bummer.
Mrs V does that – uses a knife to break the egg into a measuring cup.
I don’t. I take the risk. But then, I only break eggs for an omelette. I crack the egg on the bowl. Perhaps I should practice breaking eggs with a knife. I’m very bad at it.
i drop eggs.
Mostly when i want to fry them.
Drop them from a few centimetres up, onto a flat surface. This cracks the shell, but leaves the membrane inside pretty much intact.
Once you’ve done it a few times, you know just how far to drop them, and the intact membrane means there’s no leakage.
You can then break the egg into the frying pan, with a much greater probability of keeping the yolk intact.
If it’s not important to keep the yolk intact, then any old methodwill do.
captain_spalding said:
Michael V said:
buffy said:
And…when an egg has gone bad…it’s bad. I’m glad I break my eggs into a beaker before using them. Straight out the back door to the compost bin is where that one went. Then I very thoroughly washed out the beaker. Next egg was fine.Shortbread done. Starting on the monkey faces now. Although actually they will be cut in star shapes this time, not round ones with a face on them.
Bummer.
Mrs V does that – uses a knife to break the egg into a measuring cup.
I don’t. I take the risk. But then, I only break eggs for an omelette. I crack the egg on the bowl. Perhaps I should practice breaking eggs with a knife. I’m very bad at it.
i drop eggs.
Mostly when i want to fry them.
Drop them from a few centimetres up, onto a flat surface. This cracks the shell, but leaves the membrane inside pretty much intact.
Once you’ve done it a few times, you know just how far to drop them, and the intact membrane means there’s no leakage.
You can then break the egg into the frying pan, with a much greater probability of keeping the yolk intact.
If it’s not important to keep the yolk intact, then any old methodwill do.
Usually I just crack the egg on the side of the bench and then I split the shell
In two and drop the egg into a bowl where I will whisk it 23times then give it to the dog because eggs are horrible.
Speaking of which, I’d better make a batch of mayonnaise in the food processor.
Eggs, vinegar, canola oil to make basic mayo. Then add Dijon mustard (Maille), lemon juice, sour cream, a little horseradish cream and seasonings until it’s perfect.
Dump that lot in a big mixing bowl and refrigerate. Then finely chop red onion and dill pickles, add to the dressing.
Hard boil a few eggs, slice and add to dressing. Cook some diced bacon, add to dressing.
Finally dice and cook the potatoes, leave until just a little warm, mix into dressing with the other stuff along with some chopped flat-leaf parsley.
Refrigerate and let the flavours mingle until tomorrow.
BBC news:
Whoa-oh, take the money and run…
“Whaddaya mean, we have to stay in Russia?! All this money, and it can’t even go to St. Moritz? The hell with that, i’m outta here…
Arts said:
Usually I just crack the egg on the side of the bench and then I split the shell
In two and drop the egg into a bowl where I will whisk it 23times then give it to the dog because eggs are horrible.
Just like insects, you probably eat a lot more of them than you’re aware of.
Arts said:
captain_spalding said:
Michael V said:
Bummer.
Mrs V does that – uses a knife to break the egg into a measuring cup.
I don’t. I take the risk. But then, I only break eggs for an omelette. I crack the egg on the bowl. Perhaps I should practice breaking eggs with a knife. I’m very bad at it.
i drop eggs.
Mostly when i want to fry them.
Drop them from a few centimetres up, onto a flat surface. This cracks the shell, but leaves the membrane inside pretty much intact.
Once you’ve done it a few times, you know just how far to drop them, and the intact membrane means there’s no leakage.
You can then break the egg into the frying pan, with a much greater probability of keeping the yolk intact.
If it’s not important to keep the yolk intact, then any old methodwill do.
Usually I just crack the egg on the side of the bench and then I split the shell
In two and drop the egg into a bowl where I will whisk it 23times then give it to the dog because eggs are horrible.
wait yous have all these complicated technical eggbreaking methods wtf, well fine then we just knock anywhere along the long aspect on a rounded surface with radii of curvature {approximately 0.01 cm to 0.02 m, and greater than 0.1 m} with the long and short radii curvatures of each perpendicular to the corresponding curvature, and it almost always gives a nice clean break which one can then pull apart bimanually or unimanually into whichever container one wishes, with equally almost always an intact yolk or two
captain_spalding said:
Arts said:Usually I just crack the egg on the side of the bench and then I split the shell
In two and drop the egg into a bowl where I will whisk it 23times then give it to the dog because eggs are horrible.
Just like insects, you probably eat a lot more of them than you’re aware of.
I doubt that
kii said:
sarahs mum said:
transition said:wonder of they started clumsy on roller skates when kids, around the house on the verandah, what could have I progressed to with the right encouragements, perhaps breeding too, mum and dad were both yetis so maybe I wasn’t a natural
and I walked a very long way out the magic faraway farm, totally knackered now
and didn’t put extra inner soles in new boots couple weeks ago, lower back and sciatica is killing me, all the way down to my feet, a horrible feeling
I’d not heard Annie Lennox’s version before. It starts off more bachish than the original. And then it has that bit of new score…which i presume is a fandango. I enjoyed. And the skating was triff too.
Thanks for this. I cried. Nowadays I need help to cry, and this did it. Beautiful all over.
hugs.
Arts said:
captain_spalding said:
Arts said:Usually I just crack the egg on the side of the bench and then I split the shell
In two and drop the egg into a bowl where I will whisk it 23times then give it to the dog because eggs are horrible.
Just like insects, you probably eat a lot more of them than you’re aware of.
I doubt that
Chocolate eggs, on the other hand…
Neophyte said:
Arts said:
captain_spalding said:Just like insects, you probably eat a lot more of them than you’re aware of.
I doubt that
Chocolate eggs, on the other hand…
well, no-one in their right mind would reject a chocolate egg
Hello
btm said:
dv said:
Nissan and Honda are going to merge to become the world’s third biggest carmaker
I read that there was a major explosion in the Nissan factory a few days ago, and it’s been raining Datsun cogs ever since.
:)
Nice one!
:)
Cymek said:
Hello
Michael V said:
btm said:
dv said:
Nissan and Honda are going to merge to become the world’s third biggest carmaker
I read that there was a major explosion in the Nissan factory a few days ago, and it’s been raining Datsun cogs ever since.
:)
Nice one!
:)
LOL, how did I miss that one.
Cymek said:
Hello
Greetings.
Michael V said:
btm said:
dv said:
Nissan and Honda are going to merge to become the world’s third biggest carmaker
I read that there was a major explosion in the Nissan factory a few days ago, and it’s been raining Datsun cogs ever since.
:)
Nice one!
:)
Dressing made and fridged with the onion and dill pickle in it, but I think I’ll pause proceedings at this stage to have a shower and visit the shops.
I need capers (an ingredient I forgot for the tater salad), bread and extra Xmas booze.
Rest of the potato salad will continue upon my return.
Bubblecar said:
Dressing made and fridged with the onion and dill pickle in it, but I think I’ll pause proceedings at this stage to have a shower and visit the shops.I need capers (an ingredient I forgot for the tater salad), bread and extra Xmas booze.
Rest of the potato salad will continue upon my return.
I just ate my second mango of the season and it was ok..
I also ate my first cherries of the season, they were better, but not as sweet as usual.. there’s something wrong with the fruit lately..
(although admittedly it could just be my age and declining tastebuds)
Arts said:
I just ate my second mango of the season and it was ok..I also ate my first cherries of the season, they were better, but not as sweet as usual.. there’s something wrong with the fruit lately..
(although admittedly it could just be my age and declining tastebuds)
COVID symptoms.
Kingy said:
Arts said:
I just ate my second mango of the season and it was ok..I also ate my first cherries of the season, they were better, but not as sweet as usual.. there’s something wrong with the fruit lately..
(although admittedly it could just be my age and declining tastebuds)
COVID symptoms.
well, I am experiencing a lowered level of tolerance to batshit solutions.
Kingy said:
Arts said:
I just ate my second mango of the season and it was ok..I also ate my first cherries of the season, they were better, but not as sweet as usual.. there’s something wrong with the fruit lately..
(although admittedly it could just be my age and declining tastebuds)
COVID symptoms.
Yes, don’t click on any of Arts post for a couple of weeks if you know what’s good for you.
Peak Warming Man said:
Kingy said:
Arts said:
I just ate my second mango of the season and it was ok..I also ate my first cherries of the season, they were better, but not as sweet as usual.. there’s something wrong with the fruit lately..
(although admittedly it could just be my age and declining tastebuds)
COVID symptoms.
Yes, don’t click on any of Arts post for a couple of weeks if you know what’s good for you.
then you miss out… becuase I’m a fucking delight
Arts said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Kingy said:COVID symptoms.
Yes, don’t click on any of Arts post for a couple of weeks if you know what’s good for you.
then you miss out… becuase I’m a fucking delight
Imagine if you were Turkish
are you working through this Christmas period?
Arts said:
I just ate my second mango of the season and it was ok..I also ate my first cherries of the season, they were better, but not as sweet as usual.. there’s something wrong with the fruit lately..
(although admittedly it could just be my age and declining tastebuds)
one of my mum’s saying was “it’s your mouth”, when we opined that something didn’t taste right.
Arts said:
are you working through this Christmas period?
Me ?
I have Christmas and Boxing day off
Apart from that its normal days of working.
Cymek said:
Arts said:
are you working through this Christmas period?
Me ?
I have Christmas and Boxing day off
Apart from that its normal days of working.
the train must be quiet
Arts said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Kingy said:COVID symptoms.
Yes, don’t click on any of Arts post for a couple of weeks if you know what’s good for you.
then you miss out… becuase I’m a fucking delight
Oi!
Wash your mouth out! No soliciting here…
Arts said:
Cymek said:
Arts said:
are you working through this Christmas period?
Me ?
I have Christmas and Boxing day off
Apart from that its normal days of working.
the train must be quiet
Yes this morning it was nearly empty
Bubblecar said:
buffy said:
And…when an egg has gone bad…it’s bad. I’m glad I break my eggs into a beaker before using them. Straight out the back door to the compost bin is where that one went. Then I very thoroughly washed out the beaker. Next egg was fine.Shortbread done. Starting on the monkey faces now. Although actually they will be cut in star shapes this time, not round ones with a face on them.
Can’t remember the last time I found a bad egg. Or if I ever have.
But it’s a good idea to break them into a container first, especially for something like mayonnaise where they’ll be consumed raw.
I use the beaker because I buy roadside eggs, or get them from my bushwandering friend. It’s safer to be sure when you don’t know how old they are. When I had layers I always wrote the date of lay on the egg before I fridged it. I know they were OK for 4-6 months if fridged on day of lay and undamaged.
Arts said:
Cymek said:
Arts said:
are you working through this Christmas period?
Me ?
I have Christmas and Boxing day off
Apart from that its normal days of working.
the train must be quiet
almost, they’re electric.
Shortbread, jam sammich biscuits and Afghans made. The cooking took a turn. I was going to make nut crunch topping so there was some to sprinkle on desserts, but I picked loganberries and realized there was just the right amount to microwave jam and make a berry slice. So that is in the oven now. I need to clean up in the kitchen. I think that is enough cooking for today.
JudgeMental said:
Arts said:
Cymek said:Me ?
I have Christmas and Boxing day off
Apart from that its normal days of working.
the train must be quiet
almost, they’re electric.
for someone who is not a dad.. you sure have the banter down pat…
Arts said:
JudgeMental said:
Arts said:the train must be quiet
almost, they’re electric.
for someone who is not a dad.. you sure have the banter down pat…
thank you.
:-)
JudgeMental said:
Arts said:
JudgeMental said:almost, they’re electric.
for someone who is not a dad.. you sure have the banter down pat…
thank you.
:-)
Most men only become dads so they can do the jokes
Ham and feta cheese with Dijon mustard sangers.
Over.
Speaking of covid, went to the fish market at Capalaba this morning, the que to get in was half an hour, once inside it was chockers, wall to wall people and not a mask to be seen, people are over it.
I have to say that the young staff were switched on and polite, a breath of fresh air.
BACK. Mental as anything in the shops.
Bubblecar said:
BACK. Mental as anything in the shops.
They were alright.
Peak Warming Man said:
Bubblecar said:
BACK. Mental as anything in the shops.
They were alright.
But I would prefer Christmas Carols this time of year.
https://www.facebook.com/stories/2027875923907089/UzpfSVNDOjUzMTI3NDI1NjU2MDkzOQ==/?view_single=1
sarahs mum said:
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Peak Warming Man said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Bubblecar said:
BACK. Mental as anything in the shops.
They were alright.
But I would prefer Christmas Carols this time of year.
seems to have quietened down on the road around here
Relaxing for a moment with a chilled bubbly before returning to the tater salad factory.
Hey MV…the computer nerd found a McAfee clash of some sort. Fixed now.
so there is apparently some discussions amongst the Luigi Fan groups that targets his eyebrows.. and how the shooter had a clear glabella while Luigi has bushy eyebrows that cover the glabella
which just goes to show that even in the face of some fairly overwhelming evidence… people have tunnel vision
Arts said:
so there is apparently some discussions amongst the Luigi Fan groups that targets his eyebrows.. and how the shooter had a clear glabella while Luigi has bushy eyebrows that cover the glabella
which just goes to show that even in the face of some fairly overwhelming evidence… people have tunnel vision
Call those eyebrows ?, these are eyebrows !
Cymek said:
Arts said:
so there is apparently some discussions amongst the Luigi Fan groups that targets his eyebrows.. and how the shooter had a clear glabella while Luigi has bushy eyebrows that cover the glabella
which just goes to show that even in the face of some fairly overwhelming evidence… people have tunnel vision
Call those eyebrows ?, these are eyebrows !
coffee landed
I been watering, still am, it continues, water out a hose, probably use a lot less water if I had to bucket it, so I blame the PSI in the pipe, the pressure, not sure about reticulated water, I have my doubts, i’m not sure it’s all good, causes leaks too, i’ve seen that, pressure in pipes causes leaks, so there’s an argument for very low pressure, or even no pressure, anyway it’s a work in progress, the scientist in me is working on it, it’s a modest genius, very modest
and i’m just leaving the Land Of Babble-a-Lot, heading back down the tree, the magic tree
might has another slurp on my coffee, i’ve got this
transition said:
coffee landedI been watering, still am, it continues, water out a hose, probably use a lot less water if I had to bucket it, so I blame the PSI in the pipe, the pressure, not sure about reticulated water, I have my doubts, i’m not sure it’s all good, causes leaks too, i’ve seen that, pressure in pipes causes leaks, so there’s an argument for very low pressure, or even no pressure, anyway it’s a work in progress, the scientist in me is working on it, it’s a modest genius, very modest
and i’m just leaving the Land Of Babble-a-Lot, heading back down the tree, the magic tree
might has another slurp on my coffee, i’ve got this
Are you staying home for Christmas Day or visiting relatives?
Back to the kitchen where I belong.
transition said:
coffee landedI been watering, still am, it continues, water out a hose, probably use a lot less water if I had to bucket it, so I blame the PSI in the pipe, the pressure, not sure about reticulated water, I have my doubts, i’m not sure it’s all good, causes leaks too, i’ve seen that, pressure in pipes causes leaks, so there’s an argument for very low pressure, or even no pressure, anyway it’s a work in progress, the scientist in me is working on it, it’s a modest genius, very modest
and i’m just leaving the Land Of Babble-a-Lot, heading back down the tree, the magic tree
might has another slurp on my coffee, i’ve got this
Roger.
Bubblecar said:
Cymek said:
Arts said:
so there is apparently some discussions amongst the Luigi Fan groups that targets his eyebrows.. and how the shooter had a clear glabella while Luigi has bushy eyebrows that cover the glabella
which just goes to show that even in the face of some fairly overwhelming evidence… people have tunnel vision
Call those eyebrows ?, these are eyebrows !
they are all eyebrows…
Bubblecar said:
transition said:
coffee landedI been watering, still am, it continues, water out a hose, probably use a lot less water if I had to bucket it, so I blame the PSI in the pipe, the pressure, not sure about reticulated water, I have my doubts, i’m not sure it’s all good, causes leaks too, i’ve seen that, pressure in pipes causes leaks, so there’s an argument for very low pressure, or even no pressure, anyway it’s a work in progress, the scientist in me is working on it, it’s a modest genius, very modest
and i’m just leaving the Land Of Babble-a-Lot, heading back down the tree, the magic tree
might has another slurp on my coffee, i’ve got this
Are you staying home for Christmas Day or visiting relatives?
my carer says I can have some friends over, so I think the bus gets here about 11:00am tomorrow, I bought lollies and stuff so all us has fun
I see on JustIn that they let the residents of Halls Gap back in for 2 hours this morning to pick up stuff, feed and water chooks, prepare houses for the expected heat on Boxing Day.
buffy said:
I see on JustIn that they let the residents of Halls Gap back in for 2 hours this morning to pick up stuff, feed and water chooks, prepare houses for the expected heat on Boxing Day.
Mmmm, roast chook.
transition said:
Bubblecar said:
transition said:
coffee landedI been watering, still am, it continues, water out a hose, probably use a lot less water if I had to bucket it, so I blame the PSI in the pipe, the pressure, not sure about reticulated water, I have my doubts, i’m not sure it’s all good, causes leaks too, i’ve seen that, pressure in pipes causes leaks, so there’s an argument for very low pressure, or even no pressure, anyway it’s a work in progress, the scientist in me is working on it, it’s a modest genius, very modest
and i’m just leaving the Land Of Babble-a-Lot, heading back down the tree, the magic tree
might has another slurp on my coffee, i’ve got this
Are you staying home for Christmas Day or visiting relatives?
my carer says I can have some friends over, so I think the bus gets here about 11:00am tomorrow, I bought lollies and stuff so all us has fun
Goodo.
buffy said:
I see on JustIn that they let the residents of Halls Gap back in for 2 hours this morning to pick up stuff, feed and water chooks, prepare houses for the expected heat on Boxing Day.
Not the Christmas they were hoping for, I imagine.
Have any of you lot seen any more news items about the synagogue fire in Melbourne a couple of weeks ago? There was a lot, and then nothing. I wonder if any progress is being made on who was responsible. Unless I missed something.
Arts said:
Bubblecar said:
Cymek said:
Call those eyebrows ?, these are eyebrows !
they are all eyebrows…
What about Cara Delevingne?
buffy said:
Have any of you lot seen any more news items about the synagogue fire in Melbourne a couple of weeks ago? There was a lot, and then nothing. I wonder if any progress is being made on who was responsible. Unless I missed something.
bet they realised that the Islamophobic attacks were at least as bad and didn’t want to put their foot even deeper in it than they did
Arts said:
so there is apparently some discussions amongst the Luigi Fan groups that targets his eyebrows.. and how the shooter had a clear glabella while Luigi has bushy eyebrows that cover the glabella
which just goes to show that even in the face of some fairly overwhelming evidence… people have tunnel vision
ah another slur against letterboxes
SCIENCE said:
Arts said:
so there is apparently some discussions amongst the Luigi Fan groups that targets his eyebrows.. and how the shooter had a clear glabella while Luigi has bushy eyebrows that cover the glabella
which just goes to show that even in the face of some fairly overwhelming evidence… people have tunnel vision
ah another slur against letterboxes
Another?
Sigh, AI, you really need to do better mate.
Peak Warming Man said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Bubblecar said:
BACK. Mental as anything in the shops.
They were alright.
But I would prefer Christmas Carols this time of year.
Just had a look at my Spotify 2024 Wrapped.. I listened to 21000 minutes of music.. with no christmas carols..
..cause they’re fucking abysmal
buffy said:
Hey MV…the computer nerd found a McAfee clash of some sort. Fixed now.
Good.
:)
They tell me my top 5 artists were…
The Beatles
The Rolling Stones
The Who
Fleetwood Mac
Pink Floyd
Lolz…
Peak Warming Man said:
buffy said:
I see on JustIn that they let the residents of Halls Gap back in for 2 hours this morning to pick up stuff, feed and water chooks, prepare houses for the expected heat on Boxing Day.
Mmmm, roast chook.
:)
Ian said:
They tell me my top 5 artists were…The Beatles
The Rolling Stones
The Who
Fleetwood Mac
Pink FloydLolz…
You’re like really old dude…
Today marks 10 years to the day since I last put up Xmas decorations.
Witty Rejoinder said:
Ian said:
They tell me my top 5 artists were…The Beatles
The Rolling Stones
The Who
Fleetwood Mac
Pink FloydLolz…
You’re like really old dude…
Like 19th century old
Witty Rejoinder said:
Ian said:
They tell me my top 5 artists were…The Beatles
The Rolling Stones
The Who
Fleetwood Mac
Pink FloydLolz…
You’re like really old dude…
:)
Kingy said:
Today marks 10 years to the day since I last put up Xmas decorations.
Show off.
Cymek said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Ian said:
They tell me my top 5 artists were…The Beatles
The Rolling Stones
The Who
Fleetwood Mac
Pink FloydLolz…
You’re like really old dude…
Like 19th century old
Cymek said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Ian said:
They tell me my top 5 artists were…The Beatles
The Rolling Stones
The Who
Fleetwood Mac
Pink FloydLolz…
You’re like really old dude…
Like 19th century old
18th
Now this is the kind of xmas tree I could enjoy, a charcutree.
Witty Rejoinder said:
Ian said:
They tell me my top 5 artists were…The Beatles
The Rolling Stones
The Who
Fleetwood Mac
Pink FloydLolz…
You’re like really old dude…
Ian said:
They tell me my top 5 artists were…The Beatles
The Rolling Stones
The Who
Fleetwood Mac
Pink FloydLolz…
You’re living in the past, man!
Arts said:
Ian said:
They tell me my top 5 artists were…The Beatles
The Rolling Stones
The Who
Fleetwood Mac
Pink FloydLolz…
You’re living in the past, man!
Happy and I’m smiling
Walk a mile to drink your water
You know I’d love to love you
And above you there’s no other
We’ll go walking out
While others shout of war’s disaster
Oh, we won’t give in
Let’s go living in the past
Once I used to join in
Every boy and girl was my friend
Now there’s revolution, but they don’t know
What they’re fighting
Let us close our eyes
Outside their lives go on much faster
Oh, we won’t give in
We’ll keep living in the past
Oh, we won’t give in
Let’s go living in the past
Oh no, no we won’t give in
Let’s go living in the past
Kingy said:
Today marks 10 years to the day since I last put up Xmas decorations.
Who was the lucky person who was given a brick wrapped in newspaper?
buffy said:
Kingy said:
Today marks 10 years to the day since I last put up Xmas decorations.
Who was the lucky person who was given a brick wrapped in newspaper?
Ms Kingy of course.
Kingy said:
Today marks 10 years to the day since I last put up Xmas decorations.
excessively excessive
JudgeMental said:
Arts said:
Ian said:
They tell me my top 5 artists were…The Beatles
The Rolling Stones
The Who
Fleetwood Mac
Pink FloydLolz…
You’re living in the past, man!
Happy and I’m smiling
Walk a mile to drink your water
You know I’d love to love you
And above you there’s no otherWe’ll go walking out
While others shout of war’s disaster
Oh, we won’t give in
Let’s go living in the pastOnce I used to join in
Every boy and girl was my friend
Now there’s revolution, but they don’t know
What they’re fightingLet us close our eyes
Outside their lives go on much faster
Oh, we won’t give in
We’ll keep living in the pastOh, we won’t give in
Let’s go living in the past
Oh no, no we won’t give in
Let’s go living in the past
I used to play this.. bit rusty now…
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
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“You must log in to continue”
kid playing tune ‘we wish you a merry christmas’ but the lyrics are that we don’t want our taxes to fund genocide.
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
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“You must log in to continue”
kid playing tune ‘we wish you a merry christmas’ but the lyrics are that we don’t want our taxes to fund genocide.
Fair enough.
Well that’s all the Christmas lunch cooking finished.
Bit of tidying up tonight but mostly relaxing. Guests will be here about 12:30pm tomorrow.
Bubblecar said:
Well that’s all the Christmas lunch cooking finished.Bit of tidying up tonight but mostly relaxing. Guests will be here about 12:30pm tomorrow.
I did a trip to snug. picked up stuff from the IgA and the bottle shop. drinking some iced coffee now but I still have a lot to put aways. and I need to do some wrapping.
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
Well that’s all the Christmas lunch cooking finished.Bit of tidying up tonight but mostly relaxing. Guests will be here about 12:30pm tomorrow.
I did a trip to snug. picked up stuff from the IgA and the bottle shop. drinking some iced coffee now but I still have a lot to put aways. and I need to do some wrapping.
Goodo. Glad you reminded me – I have the nephew’s very late birthday present to wrap. He won’t be here but Beth will take it back for him.
I won’t wrap Pete’s presents (highland single malt scotch and some fine red wines), I’m sure he won’t mind :)
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
Well that’s all the Christmas lunch cooking finished.Bit of tidying up tonight but mostly relaxing. Guests will be here about 12:30pm tomorrow.
I did a trip to snug. picked up stuff from the IgA and the bottle shop. drinking some iced coffee now but I still have a lot to put aways. and I need to do some wrapping.
Sarah just messaged me to say that she was playing Tijuana Christmas in the shop.
The Torero Band – Tijuana Christmas FULL LP – MFP 1266 Vinyl, LP 1968 (Alan Moorhouse)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=140bHPwXmK0
Bubblecar said:
The Torero Band – Tijuana Christmas FULL LP – MFP 1266 Vinyl, LP 1968 (Alan Moorhouse)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=140bHPwXmK0
You should play it tomorrow. :)
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
The Torero Band – Tijuana Christmas FULL LP – MFP 1266 Vinyl, LP 1968 (Alan Moorhouse)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=140bHPwXmK0
You should play it tomorrow. :)
Probably will, for a while at least :)
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
The Torero Band – Tijuana Christmas FULL LP – MFP 1266 Vinyl, LP 1968 (Alan Moorhouse)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=140bHPwXmK0
You should play it tomorrow. :)
Probably will, for a while at least :)
:)
There are some very capable musos.
Just been admiring some snaps of the Pontville sister’s lovely giant groodle puppy. Now 8 months old, 27kgs.
Bubblecar said:
Just been admiring some snaps of the Pontville sister’s lovely giant groodle puppy. Now 8 months old, 27kgs.
What she was like about 6 months ago, and what she’s like now.
Itsy Bitsy Spider is just Sisyphus for children.
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
Just been admiring some snaps of the Pontville sister’s lovely giant groodle puppy. Now 8 months old, 27kgs.
What she was like about 6 months ago, and what she’s like now.
She needs a haircut :)
(what is a groodle?)
The Rev Dodgson said:
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
Just been admiring some snaps of the Pontville sister’s lovely giant groodle puppy. Now 8 months old, 27kgs.
What she was like about 6 months ago, and what she’s like now.
She needs a haircut :)
(what is a groodle?)
You think that is a weird dog breed, I can show you a doodle
The Rev Dodgson said:
a cross between Golden Retrievers and Poodles,
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
Just been admiring some snaps of the Pontville sister’s lovely giant groodle puppy. Now 8 months old, 27kgs.
What she was like about 6 months ago, and what she’s like now.
She needs a haircut :)
(what is a groodle?)
The Rev Dodgson said:
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
Just been admiring some snaps of the Pontville sister’s lovely giant groodle puppy. Now 8 months old, 27kgs.
What she was like about 6 months ago, and what she’s like now.
She needs a haircut :)
(what is a groodle?)
golden retriever poodle cross.
sarahs mum said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Bubblecar said:What she was like about 6 months ago, and what she’s like now.
She needs a haircut :)
(what is a groodle?)
golden retriever poodle cross.
And the poodle in this case was the largest poodle breed.
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
The Rev Dodgson said:She needs a haircut :)
(what is a groodle?)
golden retriever poodle cross.
And the poodle in this case was the largest poodle breed.
standard poodle.
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:golden retriever poodle cross.
And the poodle in this case was the largest poodle breed.
standard poodle.
Yes, sounds a bit of understated but that’s the term :)
Cymek said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Bubblecar said:What she was like about 6 months ago, and what she’s like now.
She needs a haircut :)
(what is a groodle?)
You think that is a weird dog breed, I can show you a doodle
Weird?
Au contraire, I think any dog with oodle on the end is pretty good.
We have a spoodle and it’d the friendliest dog in the known universe.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Cymek said:
The Rev Dodgson said:She needs a haircut :)
(what is a groodle?)
You think that is a weird dog breed, I can show you a doodle
Weird?
Au contraire, I think any dog with oodle on the end is pretty good.
We have a spoodle and it’d the friendliest dog in the known universe.
Spoodles do seem friendly and pleasant dogs. I think most “oodle” dogs are regarded as sociable and intelligent.
Cymek said:
You think that is a weird dog breed, I can show you a doodle
Behave yourself!
The Rev Dodgson said:
Cymek said:
The Rev Dodgson said:She needs a haircut :)
(what is a groodle?)
You think that is a weird dog breed, I can show you a doodle
Weird?
Au contraire, I think any dog with oodle on the end is pretty good.
We have a spoodle and it’d the friendliest dog in the known universe.
i love spoodles.
Ms Kingys SR’s just out of the oven.
Kingy said:
Ms Kingys SR’s just out of the oven.
Nice job Ms Kingy.
Two parties done and dusted and then zipped around with the lawn mower, so I’ll be cooking mine tomorrow.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Cymek said:
The Rev Dodgson said:She needs a haircut :)
(what is a groodle?)
You think that is a weird dog breed, I can show you a doodle
Weird?
Au contraire, I think any dog with oodle on the end is pretty good.
We have a spoodle and it’d the friendliest dog in the known universe.
My brother had small poo(dle). I thought it was a little shit.
Ian said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Cymek said:You think that is a weird dog breed, I can show you a doodle
Weird?
Au contraire, I think any dog with oodle on the end is pretty good.
We have a spoodle and it’d the friendliest dog in the known universe.
My brother had small poo(dle). I thought it was a little shit.
i also do not think much of toy poodles.
Ian said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Cymek said:You think that is a weird dog breed, I can show you a doodle
Weird?
Au contraire, I think any dog with oodle on the end is pretty good.
We have a spoodle and it’d the friendliest dog in the known universe.
My brother had small poo(dle). I thought it was a little shit.
Lol
I call them handbag dogs.
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:golden retriever poodle cross.
And the poodle in this case was the largest poodle breed.
standard poodle.
Many years ago there was a black standard poodle (I think its name was Shaka) who did very well on the obedience circuit. A joy to watch.
buffy said:
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:And the poodle in this case was the largest poodle breed.
standard poodle.
Many years ago there was a black standard poodle (I think its name was Shaka) who did very well on the obedience circuit. A joy to watch.
And they look okay if they are not clipped stupidly.
sarahs mum said:
buffy said:
sarahs mum said:standard poodle.
Many years ago there was a black standard poodle (I think its name was Shaka) who did very well on the obedience circuit. A joy to watch.
And they look okay if they are not clipped stupidly.
I don’t remember Shaka having pom poms. It’s possibly one of the reasons I liked the dog.
sarahs mum said:
buffy said:
sarahs mum said:standard poodle.
Many years ago there was a black standard poodle (I think its name was Shaka) who did very well on the obedience circuit. A joy to watch.
And they look okay if they are not clipped stupidly.
I was going to get some admin work done today, but I have had a zero day. No, not a zero day exploit aka software, as in, I have done zero work today, apart from a post on the fire brigades social media page, which took an hour longer to do than it used to. Fkn farcebook.
Currently perusing various internet tabs, and having a xmas eve drinkypoos.
Merry eve to the holiday forum, and all who sail in her.
Cheers.
Christopher Nolan is going to direct an adaptation of The Odyssey, due for release in 2026.
Kingy said:
I was going to get some admin work done today, but I have had a zero day. No, not a zero day exploit aka software, as in, I have done zero work today, apart from a post on the fire brigades social media page, which took an hour longer to do than it used to. Fkn farcebook.Currently perusing various internet tabs, and having a xmas eve drinkypoos.
Merry eve to the holiday forum, and all who sail in her.
Cheers.
I’m enjoying a light lager or two myself.
Knocked off at lunchtime today. Did some last minute shopping.
After a scorching weekend, Christmas will have a top of 24 with plenty of cloud cover and a small chance of rain
dv said:
After a scorching weekend, Christmas will have a top of 24 with plenty of cloud cover and a small chance of rain
Looking forward to it.
party_pants said:
dv said:
After a scorching weekend, Christmas will have a top of 24 with plenty of cloud cover and a small chance of rainLooking forward to it.
Slightly hotter here with 27. But a min of 6 tonight so the house should stay reasonably cool inside.
dv said:
After a scorching weekend, Christmas will have a top of 24 with plenty of cloud cover and a small chance of rain
We here are very grateful that our solstice will be cool, and most of us can have a xmas holiday hopefully without callouts.
There were several fires today nearby that appeared to be the result of either an arsonist or a vehicle trailing sparks. They are all now out and are being monitored.
Kingy said:
dv said:
After a scorching weekend, Christmas will have a top of 24 with plenty of cloud cover and a small chance of rainWe here are very grateful that our solstice will be cool, and most of us can have a xmas holiday hopefully without callouts.
There were several fires today nearby that appeared to be the result of either an arsonist or a vehicle trailing sparks. They are all now out and are being monitored.
How did the farm fires yesterday pan out?
dv said:
After a scorching weekend, Christmas will have a top of 24 with plenty of cloud cover and a small chance of rain
had a few very light spots this morning.
party_pants said:
Kingy said:
dv said:
After a scorching weekend, Christmas will have a top of 24 with plenty of cloud cover and a small chance of rainWe here are very grateful that our solstice will be cool, and most of us can have a xmas holiday hopefully without callouts.
There were several fires today nearby that appeared to be the result of either an arsonist or a vehicle trailing sparks. They are all now out and are being monitored.
How did the farm fires yesterday pan out?
Due to the mostly flat countryside there, a lot of them were run down and extinguished by multiple utes with tanks and pumps.
One of them ran over a rocky hill and is still smouldering.
Just finished watching that great Xmas movie Beetlejuice (1988).
Mainly so that I some idea of what’s going on in the current version when we watch it tomorrow night.
buffy said:
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:And the poodle in this case was the largest poodle breed.
standard poodle.
Many years ago there was a black standard poodle (I think its name was Shaka) who did very well on the obedience circuit. A joy to watch.
I’ve always wanted a black standard poodle. Not clipped.
Good morning everybody. I wish you a very Merry Christmas.
Here, just before 6 am, it’s 22.5° C, 59% RH, and clear with a light air. A gorgeous morning. BoM forecasts a top of 28° C and no chance of rain.
Agenda:
Already done: made coffee, washed up, cleaned kitchen benches and stove top.
Before breakfast: Measure and record BP, make dumpling filling (minced pork, carrot, Chinese chives, spices, – mixed then rested in fridge). Make dumplings.
Breakfast: eggs, smoked ocean trout, asparagus, toasted rye bread, hollandaise sauce.
Lunch: 1-2 guests: ham, tossed salad, potato salad, dumplings and dipping sauces. Followed by individual pavlovas (cases made yesterday by Mrs V).
Dinner: probably nibbles. Duck with angel hair was planned, but I forgot to remove the duck from the freezer. Besides, we will likely already have had too much food.
Merry Christmas.
Good morning Holidayers. Presently 10 degrees at the back door, clear sky, no wind to speak of. We are forecast a sunny 35 today.
I will recheck the fire buckets on the verandah and make sure hoses etc are in place for our fire plan. Tomorrow is forecast to be risky again.
Wee fish ewe a mare egrets moose,
Wee fish ewe a mare egrets moose,
Wee fish ewe a mare egrets moose,
panda hippo gnu deer.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Wee fish ewe a mare egrets moose,
Wee fish ewe a mare egrets moose,
Wee fish ewe a mare egrets moose,
panda hippo gnu deer.
:)
Dumpling filling has been made and is resting in the fridge.
Michael V said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Wee fish ewe a mare egrets moose,
Wee fish ewe a mare egrets moose,
Wee fish ewe a mare egrets moose,
panda hippo gnu deer.
:)
And the same to ewe.
Have a happy Xmas all and sundry.
I damaged my right thumbnail last night, putting it out of action for the guitar etc for a while. Going to be irritated by it because the split extends quite far down the nail so even after trimming, further damage is likely and I’m constantly aware of it, so I’ll just have to try to ignore it.
Few jobs to attend before the guests arrive at around half noon, including ironing the tablecloth.
Happy Xmas
Bubblecar said:
Have a happy Xmas all and sundry.I damaged my right thumbnail last night, putting it out of action for the guitar etc for a while. Going to be irritated by it because the split extends quite far down the nail so even after trimming, further damage is likely and I’m constantly aware of it, so I’ll just have to try to ignore it.
Few jobs to attend before the guests arrive at around half noon, including ironing the tablecloth.
Clear nail polish on the nail protects it and reduces the splitting. Tip from Auntie Annie when I did horrible things to a nail. And it works.
Bubblecar said:
Have a happy Xmas all and sundry.I damaged my right thumbnail last night, putting it out of action for the guitar etc for a while. Going to be irritated by it because the split extends quite far down the nail so even after trimming, further damage is likely and I’m constantly aware of it, so I’ll just have to try to ignore it.
Few jobs to attend before the guests arrive at around half noon, including ironing the tablecloth.
Nail polish can glue the cracked nail back together, as can superglue. I have used both to repair split nails.
Bubblecar said:
Have a happy Xmas all and sundry.I damaged my right thumbnail last night, putting it out of action for the guitar etc for a while. Going to be irritated by it because the split extends quite far down the nail so even after trimming, further damage is likely and I’m constantly aware of it, so I’ll just have to try to ignore it.
Few jobs to attend before the guests arrive at around half noon, including ironing the tablecloth.
Our temperature is up to about 20 degrees now and I can smell the bushfire smoke, although not strongly. I have put out water and sprinklers for the birds. It feels like it is going to be quite hot today. Just about to take Mr buffy and Bruna for a walk through the park.
Bubblecar said:
Have a happy Xmas all and sundry.I damaged my right thumbnail last night, putting it out of action for the guitar etc for a while. Going to be irritated by it because the split extends quite far down the nail so even after trimming, further damage is likely and I’m constantly aware of it, so I’ll just have to try to ignore it.
Few jobs to attend before the guests arrive at around half noon, including ironing the tablecloth.
What, no fingernail repair kit?
Think I’ll trim my RH thumbnail and 8 other fingernails.. leave a long LH thumbnail for prawn shelling :)
buffy said:
Bubblecar said:
Have a happy Xmas all and sundry.I damaged my right thumbnail last night, putting it out of action for the guitar etc for a while. Going to be irritated by it because the split extends quite far down the nail so even after trimming, further damage is likely and I’m constantly aware of it, so I’ll just have to try to ignore it.
Few jobs to attend before the guests arrive at around half noon, including ironing the tablecloth.
Clear nail polish on the nail protects it and reduces the splitting. Tip from Auntie Annie when I did horrible things to a nail. And it works.
I don’t have any so I’ve just put some Nexcare tape over it which will protect it for a while.
Michael V said:
Bubblecar said:
Have a happy Xmas all and sundry.I damaged my right thumbnail last night, putting it out of action for the guitar etc for a while. Going to be irritated by it because the split extends quite far down the nail so even after trimming, further damage is likely and I’m constantly aware of it, so I’ll just have to try to ignore it.
Few jobs to attend before the guests arrive at around half noon, including ironing the tablecloth.
Nail polish can glue the cracked nail back together, as can superglue. I have used both to repair split nails.
I don’t have any superglue in stock now either.
This dressing tape will at least stop it from snagging on fabric etc.
what the fuck is this
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-24/bunbury-port-fairy-tern-colony-devastated/104760530
The nesting area of a fairy tern “super colony” has been devastated in WA’s South West almost halfway through the threatened species’ breeding season. The colony, made up of at least 350 breeding pairs, was nesting at a restricted access site within the Bunbury Port, about 170 kilometres south of Perth. But a visit from a monitoring team on Sunday found the colony had been significantly disrupted with crushed eggs, dead chicks, and just a few stray runners left.
“We had a big colony at the tip of the break walls in Bunbury,” Dr Dunlop said. “But it was ruined by someone in a boat who landed on the beach and released their dog which then proceeded to rush around the colony until it was abandoned.”
SCIENCE said:
what the fuck is this
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-24/bunbury-port-fairy-tern-colony-devastated/104760530
The nesting area of a fairy tern “super colony” has been devastated in WA’s South West almost halfway through the threatened species’ breeding season. The colony, made up of at least 350 breeding pairs, was nesting at a restricted access site within the Bunbury Port, about 170 kilometres south of Perth. But a visit from a monitoring team on Sunday found the colony had been significantly disrupted with crushed eggs, dead chicks, and just a few stray runners left.
“We had a big colony at the tip of the break walls in Bunbury,” Dr Dunlop said. “But it was ruined by someone in a boat who landed on the beach and released their dog which then proceeded to rush around the colony until it was abandoned.”
Bastards.
OK time to set up the ironing board.
Bubblecar said:
OK time to set up the ironing board.
My advice: put a sheet over the table. Then put the tablecloth over the sheet, then iron the tablecloth on the table itself.
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
OK time to set up the ironing board.
My advice: put a sheet over the table. Then put the tablecloth over the sheet, then iron the tablecloth on the table itself.
OK I’ll try that.
ABC News:
From Brazil:
“Construction for Chinese EV company BYD factory shut down over alleged forced labour”
Must have been pretty lousy. It’s not like Brazilian authorities would be unused to less-than-5-star conditions.
captain_spalding said:
ABC News:
From Brazil:
“Construction for Chinese EV company BYD factory shut down over alleged forced labour”
Must have been pretty lousy. It’s not like Brazilian authorities would be unused to less-than-5-star conditions.
oh c’m‘on where’s that colonial spirit though why aren’t they using local peoples as slaves
captain_spalding said:
ABC News:From Brazil:
“Construction for Chinese EV company BYD factory shut down over alleged forced labour”
Must have been pretty lousy. It’s not like Brazilian authorities would be unused to less-than-5-star conditions.
They should have been using local Brazilian slave labour instead of importing them from China.
From my e-mail today:
There is an upcoming event in your calendar:
reminderChristmas Day
Today – December 25
So glad they reminded me.
SCIENCE said:
That’s how you get peace. A shitty person ignoring you is the best gift of all.
Why communication is important.
Both Mr arts and I secretly bought the family Spotify premiums
We only discovered this late last night when all the emails came through.
Arts said:
SCIENCE said:
That’s how you get peace. A shitty person ignoring you is the best gift of all.
Bwahahahahaha.
Arts said:
Why communication is important.Both Mr arts and I secretly bought the family Spotify premiums
We only discovered this late last night when all the emails came through.
Lol. One year my brother got 3 of the same DVDs. He was collecting a series but needed one last one to complete the set. He got 3.
Our work Christmas do the other night was booked in the wrong restaurant. Family company run by a brother & sister. He described the resturant and she did all the bookings. But it was not the one he had in mind. Anyway it was too late to cancel and rebook by the time it was discovered. Turned out fine in the end because it was pretty good, even had a playground for the kids, which all the parents loved.
party_pants said:
Arts said:
Why communication is important.Both Mr arts and I secretly bought the family Spotify premiums
We only discovered this late last night when all the emails came through.
Lol. One year my brother got 3 of the same DVDs. He was collecting a series but needed one last one to complete the set. He got 3.
Our work Christmas do the other night was booked in the wrong restaurant. Family company run by a brother & sister. He described the resturant and she did all the bookings. But it was not the one he had in mind. Anyway it was too late to cancel and rebook by the time it was discovered. Turned out fine in the end because it was pretty good, even had a playground for the kids, which all the parents loved.
I’m actually really surprised because you have to buy the account by address. So how two of the same address came through is weird. Anyway. Luckily we can cancel one.
i wrap my pressies with my eyes closed so it is a surprise when I open them on christmas morning.
Arts said:
Why communication is important.Both Mr arts and I secretly bought the family Spotify premiums
We only discovered this late last night when all the emails came through.
Damn.
We’re doing the so-called secret-santa thingy so I only had to get gifts for the ex-Ross bro-in-law, an easy choice ‘cos he’s happy with good whisky & wine.
Most things done so now before I have a shower, time for the WP crossword.
30 dumplings made. Several shapes. Some shapes were more successful than others. More than enough to feed the luncheon guests.
:)
Christmas breakfast had. Rye toast (buttered), fried egg, two rollups of smoked ocean trout, three asparagus spears and hollandaise sauce each. Very yummy.
:)
Arts said:
SCIENCE said:
That’s how you get peace. A shitty person ignoring you is the best gift of all.
Silence can be golden.
We were watching the Edinburgh Military Tattoo Song and Dance Festival last night, and Spalding Jr. asked me if i knew ‘‘the definition of a ‘gentleman’ in Scotland’.
No, i said, i do not.
‘A man’, he explained, ‘who can play the bagpipes, but does not.’
captain_spalding said:
ABC News:From Brazil:
“Construction for Chinese EV company BYD factory shut down over alleged forced labour”
Must have been pretty lousy. It’s not like Brazilian authorities would be unused to less-than-5-star conditions.
Nods.
Bubblecar said:
…‘cos he’s happy with good whisky & wine.
You mean, some people aren’t?
SCIENCE said:
Oh well. You can choose your friends, but not your relatives.
Arts said:
Why communication is important.Both Mr arts and I secretly bought the family Spotify premiums
We only discovered this late last night when all the emails came through.
Bugger.
Arts said:
party_pants said:
Arts said:
Why communication is important.Both Mr arts and I secretly bought the family Spotify premiums
We only discovered this late last night when all the emails came through.
Lol. One year my brother got 3 of the same DVDs. He was collecting a series but needed one last one to complete the set. He got 3.
Our work Christmas do the other night was booked in the wrong restaurant. Family company run by a brother & sister. He described the resturant and she did all the bookings. But it was not the one he had in mind. Anyway it was too late to cancel and rebook by the time it was discovered. Turned out fine in the end because it was pretty good, even had a playground for the kids, which all the parents loved.
I’m actually really surprised because you have to buy the account by address. So how two of the same address came through is weird. Anyway. Luckily we can cancel one.
Good.
Phew.
captain_spalding said:
Arts said:
SCIENCE said:
That’s how you get peace. A shitty person ignoring you is the best gift of all.
Silence can be golden.
We were watching the Edinburgh
Military TattooSong and Dance Festival last night, and Spalding Jr. asked me if i knew ‘‘the definition of a ‘gentleman’ in Scotland’.No, i said, i do not.
‘A man’, he explained, ‘who can play the bagpipes, but does not.’
:)
Michael V said:
30 dumplings made. Several shapes. Some shapes were more successful than others. More than enough to feed the luncheon guests.:)
Christmas breakfast had. Rye toast (buttered), fried egg, two rollups of smoked ocean trout, three asparagus spears and hollandaise sauce each. Very yummy.
:)
Eating well already :)
I’m saving myself for lunch.
Bubblecar said:
Arts said:
Why communication is important.Both Mr arts and I secretly bought the family Spotify premiums
We only discovered this late last night when all the emails came through.
Damn.
We’re doing the so-called secret-santa thingy so I only had to get gifts for the ex-Ross bro-in-law, an easy choice ‘cos he’s happy with good whisky & wine.
We do secret Santa for the big family do we had last night. But our family still buys each other gifts.
Michael V said:
captain_spalding said:
Arts said:That’s how you get peace. A shitty person ignoring you is the best gift of all.
Silence can be golden.
We were watching the Edinburgh
Military TattooSong and Dance Festival last night, and Spalding Jr. asked me if i knew ‘‘the definition of a ‘gentleman’ in Scotland’.No, i said, i do not.
‘A man’, he explained, ‘who can play the bagpipes, but does not.’
:)
Or a vegan who doesn’t tell you about it.
I forgot about the Edinburgh Tattoo. Hopefully available on iview.
Tamb said:
Or a vegan who doesn’t tell you about it.
Ain’t no such creature.
Bubblecar said:
Michael V said:
30 dumplings made. Several shapes. Some shapes were more successful than others. More than enough to feed the luncheon guests.:)
Christmas breakfast had. Rye toast (buttered), fried egg, two rollups of smoked ocean trout, three asparagus spears and hollandaise sauce each. Very yummy.
:)
Eating well already :)
I’m saving myself for lunch.
Bubblecar said:
I forgot about the Edinburgh Tattoo. Hopefully available on iview.
Don’t bother.
They achieved a new nadir of tedium this year.
Bubblecar said:
I forgot about the Edinburgh Tattoo. Hopefully available on iview.
captain_spalding said:
Tamb said:Or a vegan who doesn’t tell you about it.
Ain’t no such creature.
LOL
captain_spalding said:
Tamb said:Or a vegan who doesn’t tell you about it.
Ain’t no such creature.
Our previous Brookhampton hall chrissie morning with some locals. Be similar today.
JudgeMental said:
Our previous Brookhampton hall chrissie morning with some locals. Be similar today.
Nice motor cars.
Tamb said:
Bubblecar said:
I forgot about the Edinburgh Tattoo. Hopefully available on iview.
It’s no longer a tattoo, now it’s a song & dance festival done by military people.
Hardly even that.
There was a long and tiresome bit in last night’s showing, which i reckon was done by the Scottish branch of the Enya fan club..
How’s Mrs spalding, captain?
JudgeMental said:
Our previous Brookhampton hall chrissie morning with some locals. Be similar today.
How very peopley
Message from the guests -they’re going to be late, 1-1:30 instead of 12:30.
But I already assumed that, since they’re always late.
Bubblecar said:
How’s Mrs spalding, captain?
Doing pretty well, thanks for asking.
Can’t walk very far, so we have a rented wheelchair in which i trundle her about.
She has to do some walking, to head off DVT in her legs, but shé can’t do a lot. the nerve problem in her back causes fairly constant pain, aggravated by walking.
It’s going to be a long journey throught the next few months.
captain_spalding said:
Bubblecar said:
How’s Mrs spalding, captain?
Doing pretty well, thanks for asking.
Can’t walk very far, so we have a rented wheelchair in which i trundle her about.
She has to do some walking, to head off DVT in her legs, but shé can’t do a lot. the nerve problem in her back causes fairly constant pain, aggravated by walking.
It’s going to be a long journey throught the next few months.
Best wishes for Mrs S.
party_pants said:
captain_spalding said:
Bubblecar said:
How’s Mrs spalding, captain?
Doing pretty well, thanks for asking.
Can’t walk very far, so we have a rented wheelchair in which i trundle her about.
She has to do some walking, to head off DVT in her legs, but shé can’t do a lot. the nerve problem in her back causes fairly constant pain, aggravated by walking.
It’s going to be a long journey throught the next few months.
Best wishes for Mrs S.
Ta.
captain_spalding said:
Bubblecar said:
How’s Mrs spalding, captain?
Doing pretty well, thanks for asking.
Can’t walk very far, so we have a rented wheelchair in which i trundle her about.
She has to do some walking, to head off DVT in her legs, but shé can’t do a lot. the nerve problem in her back causes fairly constant pain, aggravated by walking.
It’s going to be a long journey throught the next few months.
Well I hope she can enjoy some festivities today, anyway.
Tamb said:
Bubblecar said:
I forgot about the Edinburgh Tattoo. Hopefully available on iview.
It’s no longer a tattoo, now it’s a song & dance festival done by military people.
I remember it very well from 1965. What 11-year-old boy wouldn’t appreciate James Bond losing control of his Aston Martin (Unscripted) on wet cobblestones and crashing into the crowd below him, hospitalising a bunch of spectators. And the compere repeatedly saying “Oh my God. I hope nobody’s been killed”.
Perfect ending for an awful, cold, on and off Scotch-mist night. I pitied the poor Fijians. Grass skirts, but otherwise naked…
Merry Christmas one and all.
captain_spalding said:
Bubblecar said:
How’s Mrs spalding, captain?
Doing pretty well, thanks for asking.
Can’t walk very far, so we have a rented wheelchair in which i trundle her about.
She has to do some walking, to head off DVT in her legs, but shé can’t do a lot. the nerve problem in her back causes fairly constant pain, aggravated by walking.
It’s going to be a long journey throught the next few months.
What happened to her?
party_pants said:
captain_spalding said:
Bubblecar said:
How’s Mrs spalding, captain?
Doing pretty well, thanks for asking.
Can’t walk very far, so we have a rented wheelchair in which i trundle her about.
She has to do some walking, to head off DVT in her legs, but shé can’t do a lot. the nerve problem in her back causes fairly constant pain, aggravated by walking.
It’s going to be a long journey throught the next few months.
Best wishes for Mrs S.
Bubblecar said:
Message from the guests -they’re going to be late, 1-1:30 instead of 12:30.But I already assumed that, since they’re always late.
The late guests.
Michael V said:
captain_spalding said:
Bubblecar said:
How’s Mrs spalding, captain?
Doing pretty well, thanks for asking.
Can’t walk very far, so we have a rented wheelchair in which i trundle her about.
She has to do some walking, to head off DVT in her legs, but shé can’t do a lot. the nerve problem in her back causes fairly constant pain, aggravated by walking.
It’s going to be a long journey throught the next few months.
What happened to her?
Had a collapse due to pulmonary embolism/blood clot on her lungs. Ambulance, resusc room, critical care ward, a week in hospital.
captain_spalding said:
Michael V said:
captain_spalding said:Doing pretty well, thanks for asking.
Can’t walk very far, so we have a rented wheelchair in which i trundle her about.
She has to do some walking, to head off DVT in her legs, but shé can’t do a lot. the nerve problem in her back causes fairly constant pain, aggravated by walking.
It’s going to be a long journey throught the next few months.
What happened to her?
Had a collapse due to pulmonary embolism/blood clot on her lungs. Ambulance, resusc room, critical care ward, a week in hospital.
Well that’s not good at all.
Hope she recovers soon.
Arts said:
JudgeMental said:
Our previous Brookhampton hall chrissie morning with some locals. Be similar today.
How very peopley
You will be pleased to know, Arts, that it is not peopley here. I’ve spoken to the neighbour through the fence earlier, and we saw a couple of people when we walked Bruna. I have been hearing tantrums from the toddlers a couple of doors down. But now we are inside in the cool with the dogs and about to put some food on for lunch. And damn it, the fire warnings on VicEmergency have started. Which makes me edgy. Here is the view from the other side of the park of the Grampians this morning…that is Mt Abrupt sticking up out of the smoke. It’s the tallest bit of the Southern end. We’ve got smoke haze here too.
The two holidays coincide this year.
buffy said:
Arts said:
JudgeMental said:
Our previous Brookhampton hall chrissie morning with some locals. Be similar today.
How very peopley
You will be pleased to know, Arts, that it is not peopley here. I’ve spoken to the neighbour through the fence earlier, and we saw a couple of people when we walked Bruna. I have been hearing tantrums from the toddlers a couple of doors down. But now we are inside in the cool with the dogs and about to put some food on for lunch. And damn it, the fire warnings on VicEmergency have started. Which makes me edgy. Here is the view from the other side of the park of the Grampians this morning…that is Mt Abrupt sticking up out of the smoke. It’s the tallest bit of the Southern end. We’ve got smoke haze here too.
Hard to make out the mountain, had to take a close look.
party_pants said:
buffy said:
Arts said:How very peopley
You will be pleased to know, Arts, that it is not peopley here. I’ve spoken to the neighbour through the fence earlier, and we saw a couple of people when we walked Bruna. I have been hearing tantrums from the toddlers a couple of doors down. But now we are inside in the cool with the dogs and about to put some food on for lunch. And damn it, the fire warnings on VicEmergency have started. Which makes me edgy. Here is the view from the other side of the park of the Grampians this morning…that is Mt Abrupt sticking up out of the smoke. It’s the tallest bit of the Southern end. We’ve got smoke haze here too.
Hard to make out the mountain, had to take a close look.
Yes, it’s pretty smokey, and it’s got worse since that was taken a couple of hours ago. On a nicer note, this guy was out looking for his breakfast and deigned to stay still long enough for me to get reasonably close and zoom.
buffy said:
party_pants said:
buffy said:You will be pleased to know, Arts, that it is not peopley here. I’ve spoken to the neighbour through the fence earlier, and we saw a couple of people when we walked Bruna. I have been hearing tantrums from the toddlers a couple of doors down. But now we are inside in the cool with the dogs and about to put some food on for lunch. And damn it, the fire warnings on VicEmergency have started. Which makes me edgy. Here is the view from the other side of the park of the Grampians this morning…that is Mt Abrupt sticking up out of the smoke. It’s the tallest bit of the Southern end. We’ve got smoke haze here too.
Hard to make out the mountain, had to take a close look.
Yes, it’s pretty smokey, and it’s got worse since that was taken a couple of hours ago. On a nicer note, this guy was out looking for his breakfast and deigned to stay still long enough for me to get reasonably close and zoom.
Nice kookaburra
Bubblecar said:
I forgot about the Edinburgh Tattoo. Hopefully available on iview.
Doesn’t seem right for it ot to be on New Year’s Day.
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
I forgot about the Edinburgh Tattoo. Hopefully available on iview.
Doesn’t seem right for it ot to be on New Year’s Day.
Yes not normally on Christmas Eve.
Arts said:
buffy said:
party_pants said:Hard to make out the mountain, had to take a close look.
Yes, it’s pretty smokey, and it’s got worse since that was taken a couple of hours ago. On a nicer note, this guy was out looking for his breakfast and deigned to stay still long enough for me to get reasonably close and zoom.
Nice kookaburra
captain_spalding said:
Michael V said:
captain_spalding said:Doing pretty well, thanks for asking.
Can’t walk very far, so we have a rented wheelchair in which i trundle her about.
She has to do some walking, to head off DVT in her legs, but shé can’t do a lot. the nerve problem in her back causes fairly constant pain, aggravated by walking.
It’s going to be a long journey throught the next few months.
What happened to her?
Had a collapse due to pulmonary embolism/blood clot on her lungs. Ambulance, resusc room, critical care ward, a week in hospital.
Damn socialist medicine make people better at no cost! Best wishes BTW.
captain_spalding said:
Michael V said:
captain_spalding said:Doing pretty well, thanks for asking.
Can’t walk very far, so we have a rented wheelchair in which i trundle her about.
She has to do some walking, to head off DVT in her legs, but shé can’t do a lot. the nerve problem in her back causes fairly constant pain, aggravated by walking.
It’s going to be a long journey throught the next few months.
What happened to her?
Had a collapse due to pulmonary embolism/blood clot on her lungs. Ambulance, resusc room, critical care ward, a week in hospital.
Bloody!
I do remember now. Speedy recovery and hopefully a pleasant Christmas and nice holidaze.
:)
AussieDJ said:
The two holidays coincide this year.
:)
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
I forgot about the Edinburgh Tattoo. Hopefully available on iview.
Doesn’t seem right for it ot to be on New Year’s Day.
Hi Ros I think you will find its a repeat of the 2024 one, so still on New Years Day
Well I’m all ready. Showered and dressed, table set.
So another crossword while I’m waiting.
Message: they’ve just passed Ross.
So about another ten minutes.
Christmas Day movie watching alert: “Thunderbirds Are Go” start at around 2.00pm on SBS World Movies.
Anyway, a bit happy not to be hosting today.
Guest(s?) slated to arrive soon. Nine dumplings are cooked. I have yet to make dipping sauce(es), because I don’t know about spice tolerances.
Michael V said:
Guest(s?) slated to arrive soon. Nine dumplings are cooked. I have yet to make dipping sauce(es), because I don’t know about spice tolerances.
maybe you can have a sauce rainbow
Well the lunch went splendidly, much fine fare and laughter.
I scored these cheery old china ships (intended for wall mounting) as well as fine scotch, wine etc.
But right now, time for a pint of Shambles porter.
The gathering today.
JudgeMental said:
The gathering today.
Looks like ambiguous weather there – some in jackets and jumpers, some dressed for summer.
Nicely preserved car, from the days when nearly all Holdens were Special.
Time for a cribmud lay-me-down, then I’ll be up later sipping scotch and reading ghost stories.
hello good people
monkey skipper said:
hello good people
Happy Christmas.
Our visitors have gone now. They brought food – more than enough for all of us! They had to take most of it home.
Their car has shonky headlights. They have been quoted more than $1000 to fix them. I checked. They could do with new reflectors. But the main problem is that the headlight switch only switches to parking lights, not to headlights.
After they went, I checked internet prices: $17 per headlight and switch. Let’s say 2 hours labour (should be all done in about 40 minutes with an experienced person) at $150/hr. Anything over $350 is fully stealing their money. They were seen coming because they don’t speak car language. This stuff annoys me. I’ll fix it in January and they can buy me fish and chips.
I got nice gifts. An office chair, shaver, socks, mug, and my nephew gave me an office spinny thing.
And from the inlaws’ I got some gourmet mustards and relishes etc and a game called Bananagrams
Michael V said:
Our visitors have gone now. They brought food – more than enough for all of us! They had to take most of it home.Their car has shonky headlights. They have been quoted more than $1000 to fix them. I checked. They could do with new reflectors. But the main problem is that the headlight switch only switches to parking lights, not to headlights.
After they went, I checked internet prices: $17 per headlight and switch. Let’s say 2 hours labour (should be all done in about 40 minutes with an experienced person) at $150/hr. Anything over $350 is fully stealing their money. They were seen coming because they don’t speak car language. This stuff annoys me. I’ll fix it in January and they can buy me fish and chips.
That’s what I like to see.
dv said:
I got nice gifts. An office chair, shaver, socks, mug, and my nephew gave me an office spinny thing.And from the inlaws’ I got some gourmet mustards and relishes etc and a game called Bananagrams
1 x coffee mug. (albeit a very well-crafted local ceramic mug)
1 packet of imported gingerbread.
sarahs mum said:
Michael V said:
Our visitors have gone now. They brought food – more than enough for all of us! They had to take most of it home.Their car has shonky headlights. They have been quoted more than $1000 to fix them. I checked. They could do with new reflectors. But the main problem is that the headlight switch only switches to parking lights, not to headlights.
After they went, I checked internet prices: $17 per headlight and switch. Let’s say 2 hours labour (should be all done in about 40 minutes with an experienced person) at $150/hr. Anything over $350 is fully stealing their money. They were seen coming because they don’t speak car language. This stuff annoys me. I’ll fix it in January and they can buy me fish and chips.
That’s what I like to see.
:)
sarah dropped in with grandkids for an hour. I am worth 12.5% of the other grandma.
sarahs mum said:
sarah dropped in with grandkids for an hour. I am worth 12.5% of the other grandma.
Please don’t think that.
This is an entirely selfish request. It makes me sad that you think like that. And I don’t want to be sad.
At least you’ve got a child. And grandkids that like to spend (even a little) time with you.
we have very light rain.
Michael V said:
sarahs mum said:
sarah dropped in with grandkids for an hour. I am worth 12.5% of the other grandma.
Please don’t think that.
This is an entirely selfish request. It makes me sad that you think like that. And I don’t want to be sad.
At least you’ve got a child. And grandkids that like to spend (even a little) time with you.
fair. sorry.
Grampians fire is still creeping along. Now gone >49,000 hectares. The wind keeps swinging around all over the place.
All of the Christmas decorations are now away and my house looks normal again*…
we will have the leftover from lunch which was the leftover from last night for dinner – because I dont food anything on Christmas Day…
* I know it’s a day early but I was bored and decided that today can also be a day I pack away Christmas.I will ignore all the posts of people o er the coming week of all the things they ‘achieved’ this year.. because it’s also ok to have just survived the year…
JudgeMental said:
we have very light rain.
We had a decent shower, puddles everywhere and water running down the gutters.
Had lunch with Ms Kingys family(14 of us), ate till we nearly exploded, then out came the trifle, fruit salad, pavlova, ice cream & cream. Ouch.
Rolled out of there at about 3 and went to visit my brother and his family & friends. They had finished xmas lunch and gone down to the beach about 50m away to walk off some calories, and returned to start on their exact same desserts just after we turned up. I couldn’t even watch them eat.
Left there at 5 and came home. Currently trying to fit between the chair and table to type this.
Kingy said:
JudgeMental said:
we have very light rain.
We had a decent shower, puddles everywhere and water running down the gutters.
Had lunch with Ms Kingys family(14 of us), ate till we nearly exploded, then out came the trifle, fruit salad, pavlova, ice cream & cream. Ouch.
Rolled out of there at about 3 and went to visit my brother and his family & friends. They had finished xmas lunch and gone down to the beach about 50m away to walk off some calories, and returned to start on their exact same desserts just after we turned up. I couldn’t even watch them eat.
Left there at 5 and came home. Currently trying to fit between the chair and table to type this.
Well done. Overdid the festive fare this end too.
But I can just manage to sip a little fine whisky this evening.
Bubblecar said:
Well the lunch went splendidly, much fine fare and laughter.I scored these cheery old china ships (intended for wall mounting) as well as fine scotch, wine etc.
But right now, time for a pint of Shambles porter.
i saw two ships come sailing in.
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
Well the lunch went splendidly, much fine fare and laughter.I scored these cheery old china ships (intended for wall mounting) as well as fine scotch, wine etc.
But right now, time for a pint of Shambles porter.
i saw two ships come sailing in.
Yes, really needs one more to make a flight of them across the wall.
fsm said:
Please tell those squares to sit still.
The Rev Dodgson said:
fsm said:
Please tell those squares to sit still.
Mal de mer.
buffy said:
Grampians fire is still creeping along. Now gone >49,000 hectares. The wind keeps swinging around all over the place.
Mirranatwa is gonna be in trouble tomorrow with the Northerlies, then Pomonal as the front comes through the next day. It’s not looking great.
There’s lots of equipment and people pouring in to prepare properties and fireffighter camps and then defend, though.
Kingy said:
buffy said:
Grampians fire is still creeping along. Now gone >49,000 hectares. The wind keeps swinging around all over the place.
Mirranatwa is gonna be in trouble tomorrow with the Northerlies, then Pomonal as the front comes through the next day. It’s not looking great.
There’s lots of equipment and people pouring in to prepare properties and fireffighter camps and then defend, though.
The warnings are going up in the last few hours for the towns along the highway South of the Grampians – Dunkeld, Glenthompson etc. As long as the wind doesn’t go North East, we should be right here in Penshurst. But it’s been swinging a bit in the last few hours, right now it’s from the South down here, but at Mt William (in the Grampians) it’s from the North. As a nervous/prepared sort of person, we have green grass cut, and I’ve soaked the ground in front of the house tonight (North facing). We checked the roof sprinklers not very long ago, might turn them on again tomorrow morning just to be sure no ants have nested in there.
Kingy said:
JudgeMental said:
we have very light rain.
We had a decent shower, puddles everywhere and water running down the gutters.
Had lunch with Ms Kingys family(14 of us), ate till we nearly exploded, then out came the trifle, fruit salad, pavlova, ice cream & cream. Ouch.
Rolled out of there at about 3 and went to visit my brother and his family & friends. They had finished xmas lunch and gone down to the beach about 50m away to walk off some calories, and returned to start on their exact same desserts just after we turned up. I couldn’t even watch them eat.
Left there at 5 and came home. Currently trying to fit between the chair and table to type this.
Usual lunchtime BBQ fare at my brother’s place, BYO without overdoing it.
Was just sitting outside having a cold beer or three whne I got driven inside by a cold shower of rain. Quite light, but geez it was cold. Too cold to sit it out.
Now it seems to hasve cleared.
The Rev Dodgson said:
fsm said:
Please tell those squares to sit still.
Cadburys Old Gold chocolate
Got given a block as a gift. Haven’t had any in years, but geez, once started i can’t stop. Forgotten how good.
party_pants said:
Cadburys Old Gold chocolateGot given a block as a gift. Haven’t had any in years, but geez, once started i can’t stop. Forgotten how good.
They do a decent dark chocolate, true.
^
You wouldn’t want to fall overboard!
Engine noise attracts dozens of sharks surrounding boat in north Queensland
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-24/drone-footage-reveals-fishermens-tinnie-surrounded-by-sharks/104758196
Good morning Holidayers. Presently 18 degrees at the back door and getting light. The breeze is slight, but must have swung to the North because we’ve had some smoke smell for a few hours. We are forecast a windy 34 degrees with a late cool change. Sounds like fun…
I need to sort out the lounge room today and put the extension into the dining table. We aren’t used to seating 7 people in this house.
What Would Luigi Do
Good morning everyone.
Boxing day has arrived. Santa didn’t come. Neither yesterday nor today, so I guess I was a bad boy this year. I don’t remember when. Age, hey. There is still the Test, though.
It’s 21.0° C, 75% RH, partly cloudy and there’s a light air. BoM forecasts a top of 29° C and no rain.
Agenda: Boxing day test: watch TV. Harvest a very large new bamboo shoot and cut it up during lunch. Prepare it for food (if there’s some in it) after lunch. Use up Christmas food leftovers.
Breakfast: rye toast with asparagus, smoked ocean trout and hollandaise sauce.
Lunch: Ham, potato salad and salad.
Dinner: Dumplings. I will try to cook them “potsticker” style (fried-steamed-refried) for the first time. Yesterday, I steamed them in the rice cooker on a base of galangal leaves. Hopefully finish off the salads.
Have a good Boxing Say, and don’t be overly tempted by all the Sales.
party_pants said:
Cadburys Old Gold chocolateGot given a block as a gift. Haven’t had any in years, but geez, once started i can’t stop. Forgotten how good.
:)
gun be warm to die
Morning. Heading for 30 here. Buffy’s wind is mostly missing us so far.
my reading
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variegated_fairywren
transition said:
my reading
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variegated_fairywren
We frequently see them in the back garden, enjoying the birdbaths, and poking around on the grass.
Bubblecar said:
Morning. Heading for 30 here. Buffy’s wind is mostly missing us so far.
Could you please take some of the wind. It’s not overly windy, but the fire is heading just to the East of us. It’s still quite a way away, but once it comes out of the bush it will move much faster over the grassland. Fortunately the lack of rain that I have been complaining about for some months (we’ve only had about 2/3 of long term average for the year) has reduced the amount of grass. But not enough.
captain_spalding said:
transition said:
my reading
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variegated_fairywren
We frequently see them in the back garden, enjoying the birdbaths, and poking around on the grass.
beautiful they are
buffy said:
Bubblecar said:
Morning. Heading for 30 here. Buffy’s wind is mostly missing us so far.
Could you please take some of the wind. It’s not overly windy, but the fire is heading just to the East of us. It’s still quite a way away, but once it comes out of the bush it will move much faster over the grassland. Fortunately the lack of rain that I have been complaining about for some months (we’ve only had about 2/3 of long term average for the year) has reduced the amount of grass. But not enough.
Just checked. The highway is closed between Dunkeld and Wickliffe. They are expecting it to jump the highway. So am I, actually. Let’s just say I’m a bit alert today…
buffy said:
Bubblecar said:
Morning. Heading for 30 here. Buffy’s wind is mostly missing us so far.
Could you please take some of the wind. It’s not overly windy, but the fire is heading just to the East of us. It’s still quite a way away, but once it comes out of the bush it will move much faster over the grassland. Fortunately the lack of rain that I have been complaining about for some months (we’ve only had about 2/3 of long term average for the year) has reduced the amount of grass. But not enough.
Wind seems northeasterly here atm but it’ll shift northwesterly eventually and we’ll get more of yours.
Anyway, good luck!
buffy said:
Bubblecar said:
Morning. Heading for 30 here. Buffy’s wind is mostly missing us so far.
Could you please take some of the wind. It’s not overly windy, but the fire is heading just to the East of us. It’s still quite a way away, but once it comes out of the bush it will move much faster over the grassland. Fortunately the lack of rain that I have been complaining about for some months (we’ve only had about 2/3 of long term average for the year) has reduced the amount of grass. But not enough.
Could be a bit dicey today Buffy. Good luck.
buffy said:
buffy said:
Bubblecar said:
Morning. Heading for 30 here. Buffy’s wind is mostly missing us so far.
Could you please take some of the wind. It’s not overly windy, but the fire is heading just to the East of us. It’s still quite a way away, but once it comes out of the bush it will move much faster over the grassland. Fortunately the lack of rain that I have been complaining about for some months (we’ve only had about 2/3 of long term average for the year) has reduced the amount of grass. But not enough.
Just checked. The highway is closed between Dunkeld and Wickliffe. They are expecting it to jump the highway. So am I, actually. Let’s just say I’m a bit alert today…
Good luck with it all. Please don’t worry too much.
buffy said:
buffy said:
Bubblecar said:
Morning. Heading for 30 here. Buffy’s wind is mostly missing us so far.
Could you please take some of the wind. It’s not overly windy, but the fire is heading just to the East of us. It’s still quite a way away, but once it comes out of the bush it will move much faster over the grassland. Fortunately the lack of rain that I have been complaining about for some months (we’ve only had about 2/3 of long term average for the year) has reduced the amount of grass. But not enough.
Just checked. The highway is closed between Dunkeld and Wickliffe. They are expecting it to jump the highway. So am I, actually. Let’s just say I’m a bit alert today…
You may well be a lert (though not a larmed), but I doubt that you are a bitter lert.
The Rev Dodgson said:
buffy said:
buffy said:Could you please take some of the wind. It’s not overly windy, but the fire is heading just to the East of us. It’s still quite a way away, but once it comes out of the bush it will move much faster over the grassland. Fortunately the lack of rain that I have been complaining about for some months (we’ve only had about 2/3 of long term average for the year) has reduced the amount of grass. But not enough.
Just checked. The highway is closed between Dunkeld and Wickliffe. They are expecting it to jump the highway. So am I, actually. Let’s just say I’m a bit alert today…
You may well be a lert (though not a larmed), but I doubt that you are a bitter lert.
And the local truck has just headed out to a new fire a bit Southwest of town. About 10km out. It’s probably selfish, but I keep looking at the wind direction and thinking…that’s OK for us here in town. Not so OK for the farms South of the fire.
O Henry was an author of short stories many of which he wrote in prison for embezzlement.
Not to be confused with Oh Henry which was a candy bar.
Over.
I suppose you already saw to Kings Christmas message.
He wished for peace in the middle east.
Peak Warming Man said:
I suppose you already saw to Kings Christmas message.
He wished for peace in the middle east.
And even as a Prince he has been doing that for….Oh 50 years or more.
Peak Warming Man said:
I suppose you already saw to Kings Christmas message.
He wished for peace in the middle east.
No, it was on rather late my time.
I wish for peace in Western Asia too.
party_pants said:
Peak Warming Man said:
I suppose you already saw to Kings Christmas message.
He wished for peace in the middle east.
No, it was on rather late my time.
I wish for peace in Western Asia too.
And eastern Europe.
Michael V said:
party_pants said:
Peak Warming Man said:
I suppose you already saw to Kings Christmas message.
He wished for peace in the middle east.
No, it was on rather late my time.
I wish for peace in Western Asia too.
And eastern Europe.
Well, everywhere I guess.
Perhaps with the exception of North America?
bacon and eggs shortly not too long
Elderly friend just called in to say hello and let us know he is evacuating to Hamilton now. We have fire to the North of us and to the South West of us now. The soaker hose across the front of the house (North) is doing it’s job, there are puddles out there. Just contemplating putting a rainwave on across the West side of the house. We are presently at “Watch and Act – Grassfire – Leave now” level. We haven’t got the roof sprinklers on yet and I haven’t changed into “serious clothes”…but they are laid out ready.
transition said:
bacon and eggs shortly not too long
Cheers. Wonder what they found for Christmas dinner.
buffy said:
Elderly friend just called in to say hello and let us know he is evacuating to Hamilton now. We have fire to the North of us and to the South West of us now. The soaker hose across the front of the house (North) is doing it’s job, there are puddles out there. Just contemplating putting a rainwave on across the West side of the house. We are presently at “Watch and Act – Grassfire – Leave now” level. We haven’t got the roof sprinklers on yet and I haven’t changed into “serious clothes”…but they are laid out ready.
Good to see you are well prepared.
I’ve recounted before about the grassfire that very suddenly encroached on our South Mole Creek property, and how I threw a haphazard selection of things – mostly socks – into a bag, to chuck in the evacuating cars, before returning to fight the fire.
Luckily joined by the Mole Creek firies who soon had it under control, with nothing lost except one line of fences.
Bubblecar said:
transition said:
bacon and eggs shortly not too long
Cheers. Wonder what they found for Christmas dinner.
likely sibling young hobbies, I guess
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_hobby
“The Australian hobby has been recorded preying on avian species including the European starling (Sturnus vulgaris), house sparrow (Passer domesticus), crimson rosella (Platycercus elegans) and silvereye (Zosterops lateralis). Research suggests they tend to avoid large, dangerous, or agile species that forage close to cover, such as the common myna (Acridotheres tristis). Insectivorous bats and insects including beetles, cicadas, crickets and grasshoppers also form part of the hobby’s diet..”
buffy said:
Elderly friend just called in to say hello and let us know he is evacuating to Hamilton now. We have fire to the North of us and to the South West of us now. The soaker hose across the front of the house (North) is doing it’s job, there are puddles out there. Just contemplating putting a rainwave on across the West side of the house. We are presently at “Watch and Act – Grassfire – Leave now” level. We haven’t got the roof sprinklers on yet and I haven’t changed into “serious clothes”…but they are laid out ready.
Take care. I’d run away…
buffy said:
Elderly friend just called in to say hello and let us know he is evacuating to Hamilton now. We have fire to the North of us and to the South West of us now. The soaker hose across the front of the house (North) is doing it’s job, there are puddles out there. Just contemplating putting a rainwave on across the West side of the house. We are presently at “Watch and Act – Grassfire – Leave now” level. We haven’t got the roof sprinklers on yet and I haven’t changed into “serious clothes”…but they are laid out ready.
Thinking of you, keep safe
Brindabellas said:
buffy said:
Elderly friend just called in to say hello and let us know he is evacuating to Hamilton now. We have fire to the North of us and to the South West of us now. The soaker hose across the front of the house (North) is doing it’s job, there are puddles out there. Just contemplating putting a rainwave on across the West side of the house. We are presently at “Watch and Act – Grassfire – Leave now” level. We haven’t got the roof sprinklers on yet and I haven’t changed into “serious clothes”…but they are laid out ready.
Thinking of you, keep safe
+1
In the meantime…I’ll do some study of Lobelias that happen in this area.
some read that, and listen on youtube
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Gurrumul_Yunupingu
“Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu (22 January 1971 – 25 July 2017), commonly known as Gurrumul and also referred to since his death as Dr G. Yunupingu, was a Yolŋu Aboriginal Australian musician. A multi-instrumentalist, he played drums, keyboards, guitar (a right-hand-strung guitar played left-handed) and didgeridoo, but it was the clarity of his singing voice that attracted rave reviews. He sang stories of his land both in Yolŋu languages such as Gaalpu, Gumatj or Djambarrpuynu, a dialect related to Gumatj, and in English. He began his career as a member of Yothu Yindi and later Saltwater Band, and his solo career brought him wider acclaim He was the most commercially successful Aboriginal Australian musician at the time of his death. As of 2020, it is estimated that Yunupingu has sold half a million records globally..”
Brindabellas said:
buffy said:
Elderly friend just called in to say hello and let us know he is evacuating to Hamilton now. We have fire to the North of us and to the South West of us now. The soaker hose across the front of the house (North) is doing it’s job, there are puddles out there. Just contemplating putting a rainwave on across the West side of the house. We are presently at “Watch and Act – Grassfire – Leave now” level. We haven’t got the roof sprinklers on yet and I haven’t changed into “serious clothes”…but they are laid out ready.
Thinking of you, keep safe
+1
Peak Warming Man said:
Brindabellas said:
buffy said:
Elderly friend just called in to say hello and let us know he is evacuating to Hamilton now. We have fire to the North of us and to the South West of us now. The soaker hose across the front of the house (North) is doing it’s job, there are puddles out there. Just contemplating putting a rainwave on across the West side of the house. We are presently at “Watch and Act – Grassfire – Leave now” level. We haven’t got the roof sprinklers on yet and I haven’t changed into “serious clothes”…but they are laid out ready.
Thinking of you, keep safe
+1
+2
There seems to be a rush of rich people leaving Sydney and heading for Hobart with all haste.
Pink from sssf posted…
Marion Madams
10h ·
Natures fairy lights shining bright, right along the coast tonight. December 25 2024.
sarahs mum said:
Pink from sssf posted…Marion Madams
10h ·
Natures fairy lights shining bright, right along the coast tonight. December 25 2024.
I’d love to see that.
sarahs mum said:
Pink from sssf posted…Marion Madams
10h ·
Natures fairy lights shining bright, right along the coast tonight. December 25 2024.
I’m sure you all watched the Popes Christmas message.
But for those who missed it he prayed for peace in the middle east.
Peak Warming Man said:
I’m sure you all watched the Popes Christmas message.
But for those who missed it he prayed for peace in the middle east.
Did the Israelis protest?
Peak Warming Man said:
I’m sure you all watched the Popes Christmas message.
But for those who missed it he prayed for peace in the middle east.
Popes have been praying for peace in the middle east for………Oh hundreds of years.
just went across Heidi’s drive and slid under her house.
Peak Warming Man said:
Peak Warming Man said:
I’m sure you all watched the Popes Christmas message.
But for those who missed it he prayed for peace in the middle east.
Popes have been praying for peace in the middle east for………Oh hundreds of years.
maybe this will be their year
Arts said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Peak Warming Man said:
I’m sure you all watched the Popes Christmas message.
But for those who missed it he prayed for peace in the middle east.
Popes have been praying for peace in the middle east for………Oh hundreds of years.
maybe this will be their year
sarahs mum said:
just went across Heidi’s drive and slid under her house.
It should be safe from kookaburras there.
sarahs mum said:
Pink from sssf posted…Marion Madams
10h ·
Natures fairy lights shining bright, right along the coast tonight. December 25 2024.
Lubley.
Peak Warming Man said:
Peak Warming Man said:
I’m sure you all watched the Popes Christmas message.
But for those who missed it he prayed for peace in the middle east.
Popes have been praying for peace in the middle east for………Oh hundreds of years.
Reminds me of the guy who went to Jerusalem and saw a bunch of Jews in a row praying to the side of a building. He asked one of them what they were doing. The Jew replied, we are praying for peace in the Middle East, and have been for centuries.
The guy asked, how’s it going so far. The Jew replied, no luck yet, honestly it’s like talking to a fkn wall.
sarahs mum said:
just went across Heidi’s drive and slid under her house.
Terrific snake photo.
Kingy said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Peak Warming Man said:
I’m sure you all watched the Popes Christmas message.
But for those who missed it he prayed for peace in the middle east.
Popes have been praying for peace in the middle east for………Oh hundreds of years.
Reminds me of the guy who went to Jerusalem and saw a bunch of Jews in a row praying to the side of a building. He asked one of them what they were doing. The Jew replied, we are praying for peace in the Middle East, and have been for centuries.
The guy asked, how’s it going so far. The Jew replied, no luck yet, honestly it’s like talking to a fkn wall.
:)
https://www.facebook.com/share/r/15A2nQ35ou/
Uh oh
Why is it when someone regains consciousness in movies they say that they’ve woken up?
kii said:
Why is it when someone regains consciousness in movies they say that they’ve woken up?
Because that’s what waking up means
dv said:
kii said:
Why is it when someone regains consciousness in movies they say that they’ve woken up?
Because that’s what waking up means
But they’re not asleep.
kii said:
dv said:
kii said:
Why is it when someone regains consciousness in movies they say that they’ve woken up?
Because that’s what waking up means
But they’re not asleep.
True but sleep is a form of unconsciousness
dv said:
kii said:
dv said:Because that’s what waking up means
But they’re not asleep.
True but sleep is a form of unconsciousness
But…head trauma and nap time are not the same.
kii said:
dv said:
kii said:But they’re not asleep.
True but sleep is a form of unconsciousness
But…head trauma and nap time are not the same.
I understand but almost all words have some spanse of meaning and it’s fine for waking up to refer to emergence from unconsciousness generally.
dv said:
kii said:
dv said:True but sleep is a form of unconsciousness
But…head trauma and nap time are not the same.
I understand but almost all words have some spanse of meaning and it’s fine for waking up to refer to emergence from unconsciousness generally.
How about “He’s conscious.” rather than “He’s woken up.”
how woke
kii said:
dv said:
kii said:
But…head trauma and nap time are not the same.
I understand but almost all words have some spanse of meaning and it’s fine for waking up to refer to emergence from unconsciousness generally.
How about “He’s conscious.” rather than “He’s woken up.”
Old El Paso
anyway something yous geniuses might be able to help us with, any of yous get this problem when you wash polyester clothes in a front loader and it causes all the other clothes to not even get damp, how do yous get them washed properly
SCIENCE said:
anyway something yous geniuses might be able to help us with, any of yous get this problem when you wash polyester clothes in a front loader and it causes all the other clothes to not even get damp, how do yous get them washed properly
Can’t help, sorry. I don’t own any polyester clothes, nor a front-loader washing machine.
Do you have enough wetting agent in the mix?
SCIENCE said:
anyway something yous geniuses might be able to help us with, any of yous get this problem when you wash polyester clothes in a front loader and it causes all the other clothes to not even get damp, how do yous get them washed properly
Maybe wash the polyester clothes separately.
SCIENCE said:
anyway something yous geniuses might be able to help us with, any of yous get this problem when you wash polyester clothes in a front loader and it causes all the other clothes to not even get damp, how do yous get them washed properly
you shouldn’t be wearing garments from two different sorts of fabric anyway, it is an abomination.
kii said:
SCIENCE said:anyway something yous geniuses might be able to help us with, any of yous get this problem when you wash polyester clothes in a front loader and it causes all the other clothes to not even get damp, how do yous get them washed properly
Maybe wash the polyester clothes separately.
buy cotton.
sarahs mum said:
party_pants said:
kii said:
SCIENCE said:
anyway something yous geniuses might be able to help us with, any of yous get this problem when you wash polyester clothes in a front loader and it causes all the other clothes to not even get damp, how do yous get them washed properly
Maybe wash the polyester clothes separately.
you shouldn’t be wearing garments from two different sorts of fabric anyway, it is an abomination.
buy cotton.
yeah we admit that almost all our stuff is unethical concentration camp water shortage cotton but recently someone gave us some synthetic and we didn’t really want to do a separate load for every piece of polyester but guess we’ll have to, lucky it’s La Niña again hey
probably put all the synthetics away for avoidance after that
SCIENCE said:
sarahs mum said:
party_pants said:
you shouldn’t be wearing garments from two different sorts of fabric anyway, it is an abomination.
buy cotton.
yeah we admit that almost all our stuff is unethical concentration camp water shortage cotton but recently someone gave us some synthetic and we didn’t really want to do a separate load for every piece of polyester but guess we’ll have to, lucky it’s La Niña again hey
probably put all the synthetics away for avoidance after that
Handwash the synthetic crap.
kii said:
SCIENCE said:
sarahs mum said:
buy cotton.
yeah we admit that almost all our stuff is unethical concentration camp water shortage cotton but recently someone gave us some synthetic and we didn’t really want to do a separate load for every piece of polyester but guess we’ll have to, lucky it’s La Niña again hey
probably put all the synthetics away for avoidance after that
Handwash the synthetic crap.
yeah might just re gift as much of it as we can get away with
We are still here. Our older friend had to come back because he left his phone here, and his glasses. So I made him a sammich for lunch and we sat and talked and watched the VicEmergency posts. The fire to the West of us is presently “under control”, but the wind is quite unpredictable. The Grampians fire is continuing to head South and is now up to 57,935 hectares. We still seem to be safe, but it’s the wind that is worrying.
buffy said:
We are still here. Our older friend had to come back because he left his phone here, and his glasses. So I made him a sammich for lunch and we sat and talked and watched the VicEmergency posts. The fire to the West of us is presently “under control”, but the wind is quite unpredictable. The Grampians fire is continuing to head South and is now up to 57,935 hectares. We still seem to be safe, but it’s the wind that is worrying.
keep checkin in.
buffy said:
We are still here. Our older friend had to come back because he left his phone here, and his glasses. So I made him a sammich for lunch and we sat and talked and watched the VicEmergency posts. The fire to the West of us is presently “under control”, but the wind is quite unpredictable. The Grampians fire is continuing to head South and is now up to 57,935 hectares. We still seem to be safe, but it’s the wind that is worrying.
I hope things improve as the day goes along.
I’ve decided to make the trifle for tomorrow.
buffy said:
I’ve decided to make the trifle for tomorrow.
Bold.
Peak Warming Man said:
buffy said:
I’ve decided to make the trifle for tomorrow.
Bold.
But it is the right thing to do.
Mr buffy just went to get some chicken chili tenders. We will have them in wraps for tea later. Some of the fire people are in town having a drink etc. The fire to our West is under control, 80 hectares. Our little takeaway people don’t know whether they are Arthur or Martha, they got an order for 150 rolls. I hope they’ve got the stock in for an unexpected order like that.
Sydney to Hobart yacht race live tracking for those interested.
https://rolexsydneyhobart.com/tracker/
And our weather has cooled and quietened. The Grampians are still burning. Out to 69,000 hecatres now. It’s not a little one. Winds now around Westish so Stawell and Ararat are now being alert. I see they are worried about the Mt William communications tower, so phones and NBN in that area may be in trouble.
buffy said:
And our weather has cooled and quietened. The Grampians are still burning. Out to 69,000 hecatres now. It’s not a little one. Winds now around Westish so Stawell and Ararat are now being alert. I see they are worried about the Mt William communications tower, so phones and NBN in that area may be in trouble.
Keep safe.
Tomorrow the nephew starts off on his longest wilderness walk so far, 30 days trek around the whole south west.
He’ll have more food supplies etc. air-dropped at Melaleuca.
kii said:
Why is it when someone regains consciousness in movies they say that they’ve woken up?
make it a little more interesting
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awakenings
“Awakenings is a 1990 American biographical drama film directed by Penny Marshall and written by Steven Zaillian, based on Oliver Sacks’s 1973 memoir. It tells the story of neurologist Dr. Malcolm Sayer, based on Sacks, who discovers the beneficial effects of the drug L-DOPA in 1969. He administers it to catatonic patients who survived the 1919–1930 epidemic of encephalitis lethargica. Leonard Lowe and the rest of the patients are awakened after decades, and have to deal with a new life in a new time. The film stars Robert De Niro, Robin Williams, Julie Kavner, Ruth Nelson, John Heard, Penelope Ann Miller, Peter Stormare and Max von Sydow…”
Bubblecar said:
Tomorrow the nephew starts off on his longest wilderness walk so far, 30 days trek around the whole south west.He’ll have more food supplies etc. air-dropped at Melaleuca.
we’ll hang out for the photos.
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
Tomorrow the nephew starts off on his longest wilderness walk so far, 30 days trek around the whole south west.He’ll have more food supplies etc. air-dropped at Melaleuca.
we’ll hang out for the photos.
Photo archives of all his walks so far here
https://www.patricktoohey.net/
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
Tomorrow the nephew starts off on his longest wilderness walk so far, 30 days trek around the whole south west.He’ll have more food supplies etc. air-dropped at Melaleuca.
we’ll hang out for the photos.
Photo archives of all his walks so far here
https://www.patricktoohey.net/
That’s very well done.
How Hallucinatory A.I. Helps Science Dream Up Big Breakthroughs
By William J. Broad
Dec. 23, 2024
Artificial intelligence often gets criticized because it makes up information that appears to be factual, known as hallucinations. The plausible fakes have roiled not only chatbot sessions but lawsuits and medical records. For a time last year, a patently false claim from a new Google chatbot helped drive down the company’s market value by an estimated $100 billion.
In the universe of science, however, innovators are finding that A.I. hallucinations can be remarkably useful. The smart machines, it turns out, are dreaming up riots of unrealities that help scientists track cancer, design drugs, invent medical devices, uncover weather phenomena and even win the Nobel Prize.
“The public thinks it’s all bad,” said Amy McGovern, a computer scientist who directs a federal A.I. institute. “But it’s actually giving scientists new ideas. It’s giving them the chance to explore ideas they might not have thought about otherwise.”
The public image of science is coolly analytic. Less visibly, the early stages of discovery can teem with hunches and wild guesswork. “Anything goes” is how Paul Feyerabend, a philosopher of science, once characterized the free-for-all.
Now, A.I. hallucinations are reinvigorating the creative side of science. They speed the process by which scientists and inventors dream up new ideas and test them to see if reality concurs. It’s the scientific method — only supercharged. What once took years can now be done in days, hours and minutes. In some cases, the accelerated cycles of inquiry help scientists open new frontiers.
“We’re exploring,” said James J. Collins, an M.I.T. professor who recently praised hallucinations for speeding his research into novel antibiotics. “We’re asking the models to come up with completely new molecules.”
The A.I. hallucinations arise when scientists teach generative computer models about a particular subject and then let the machines rework that information. The results can range from subtle and wrongheaded to surreal. At times, they lead to major discoveries.
In October, David Baker of the University of Washington shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his pioneering research on proteins — the knotty molecules that empower life. The Nobel committee praised him for discovering how to rapidly build completely new kinds of proteins not found in nature, calling his feat “almost impossible.”
In an interview before the prize announcement, Dr. Baker cited bursts of A.I. imaginings as central to “making proteins from scratch.” The new technology, he added, has helped his lab obtain roughly 100 patents, many for medical care. One is for a new way to treat cancer. Another seeks to aid the global war on viral infections. Dr. Baker has also founded or helped start more than 20 biotech companies.
“Things are moving fast,” he said. “Even scientists who do proteins for a living don’t know how far things have come.” How many proteins has his lab designed? “Ten million — all brand-new,” he replied. “They don’t occur in nature.”
Despite the allure of A.I. hallucinations for discovery, some scientists find the word itself misleading. They see the imaginings of generative A.I. models not as illusory but prospective — as having some chance of coming true, not unlike the conjectures made in the early stages of the scientific method. They see the term hallucination as inaccurate, and thus avoid using it.
The word also gets frowned on because it can evoke the bad old days of hallucinations from LSD and other psychedelic drugs, which scared off reputable scientists for decades. A final downside is that scientific and medical communications generated by A.I. can, like chatbot replies, get clouded by false information.
In July, the White House released a report on fostering public trust in A.I. research. Its sole reference to hallucinations was about finding ways to reduce them.
The Nobel Prize committee seems to have followed that playbook. It said nothing about A.I. hallucinations in a detailed review of Dr. Baker’s work. Instead, in a news release, it simply credited his team with producing “one imaginative protein creation after another.” Increasingly, parts of the scientific establishment seem to view hallucinations as unmentionable.
Even so, experts said in interviews that the imaginings of scientific A.I. have major advantages compared with the hallucinations of chatbots and their kin. Most fundamentally, they said, the creative bursts are rooted in the hard facts of nature and science rather than the ambiguities of human language or the blur of the internet, known for its biases and falsehoods.
“We’re teaching A.I. physics,” said Anima Anandkumar, a professor of math and computing sciences at the California Institute of Technology who formerly directed A.I. research at Nvidia, the leading maker of A.I. chips.
For science, Dr. Anandkumar added, the physical grounding in reliable facts can produce highly accurate outcomes. She said the large language models of chatbots have no practical way to verify the correctness of their statements and assertions.
The ultimate check, she said, comes as scientists compare the digital flights of fancy with the solid particulars of physical reality.
“You need to test it,” Dr. Anandkumar said of A.I. results. “Something newly designed by A.I. hallucinations requires testing.”
Recently, Dr. Anandkumar and her colleagues used A.I. hallucinations to help design a new kind of catheter that greatly reduces bacterial contamination — a global bane that annually causes millions of urinary tract infections. She said the team’s A.I. model dreamed up many thousands of catheter geometries and it then picked one that was the most effective.
The inner walls of the new catheter are lined with sawtooth-like spikes that prevent bacteria from gaining traction and swimming upstream to infect patients’ bladders. Dr. Anandkumar said the team is discussing the device’s commercialization.
On the other hand, Harini Veeraraghavan, head of a Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center lab in Manhattan, cited the term in a paper on using A.I. to sharpen blurry medical images. Its title in part read: “Hallucinated MRI,” short for magnetic resonance imaging.
Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have also embraced the term. “Learning from Hallucination,” read the title of their paper on improving robot navigation.
And the head of the science division at DeepMind, a Google company in London that develops A.I. applications, praised hallucinations as promoting discovery, doing so shortly after two of his colleagues shared this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Dr. Baker.
“We have this amazing tool which can exhibit creativity,” the DeepMind official, Pushmeet Kohli, said in an interview.
An example, he said, was how a DeepMind computer in 2016 beat the world champion player of Go, a complex board game. The game’s turning point was move 37, fairly early in the contest. “We thought it was a mistake,” Dr. Kohli said. “And people realized as the game went on that it was a stroke of genius. So these models are able to produce these very, very novel insights.”
Dr. McGovern, the A.I. institute director, is also a professor of meteorology and computer science at the University of Oklahoma. She said A.I. hallucinations might be described less colorfully as “probability distributions” — a very old term in the world of science.
Weather sleuths, Dr. McGovern added, now use A.I. routinely to create thousands of subtle forecast variations, or ranges of probability. She said the rich imaginings let them discover unexpected factors that can drive extreme events like deadly heat waves. “It’s a valuable tool,” Dr. McGovern said.
Dr. Baker, the recent Nobel Prize winner, has adopted the frank approach. “De novo protein design by deep network hallucination,” read the title of one of his 2021 papers, which appeared in Nature, a top scientific journal.
The phrase de novo — meaning “from the beginning” in Latin — draws a sharp contrast with how scientists in the early 1980s began tweaking the structures of known proteins that occur in nature.
In 2003, Dr. Baker and his colleagues achieved a far more ambitious goal: making the world’s first entirely new protein from scratch. They called it Top7. Their accomplishment was seen as a major advance because proteins are superstars of complexity. Experts liken the structure of DNA to a string of pearls and that of large proteins to hairballs. Their structures are so complicated that even detailed graphic representations are rough approximations.
As A.I. grew into a powerful new technology, Dr. Baker wondered if it could speed de novo design. His 2021 paper in Nature cited the inspiration of Google DeepDream — a model that morphs existing images into psychedelia. When people look at the full moon and see a man’s face, that’s called pareidolia, a perceptual quirk that turns ambiguous patterns into meaningful images. A version of that tendency is what DeepDream uses to create its surreal fantasies.
Dr. Baker’s plan was to see if A.I. could impose the pareidolia effect on ambiguous sets of amino acids, the building blocks of proteins. His team fed random strings of amino sequences into a model trained to recognize the structural features of real proteins. It worked — in spades.
The paper said the test run created thousands of virtual proteins. It likened them to the explosion of A.I. cat images on the internet. “Just as simulated images of cats generated by deep network hallucination are clearly recognizable as cats,” the paper said, so too the artificial protein structures “resemble but are not identical to” the natural structures.
The Baker team then sought to turn the imagined proteins into the real thing — a step not unlike bringing digital cats to life. First, the team took information on the hallucinated molecules and used it as a blueprint to produce the strands of DNA that form genes. Then, as the 2021 paper reported, the eureka moment came as the genes were inserted into microbes and the tiny organisms churned out 129 new kinds of proteins unknown to science and nature.
Afterward, in early 2022, Dr. Baker described that moment as “the first demonstration” of how A.I. can accelerate de novo protein design. His follow-up papers of 2022 and 2023 once again used the word hallucination in their titles.
In an interview, Dr. Baker said his lab had taken a new step forward in the creative imaginings with an A.I. method known as diffusion. That is what powers DALL-E, Sora and other popular generators of visuals.
Dr. Baker praised diffusion as being better than hallucination at conjuring up novel protein designs. “It’s much faster and the success rate is higher,” he said.
In recent years, some analysts have worried that science is in decline. They point to a drop over recent decades in the number of breakthroughs and major discoveries.
A.I. backers argue that its bursts of creativity are coming to the rescue. On the design horizon, Dr. Baker and his colleagues see waves of protein catalysts that will harvest the energy of sunlight, turn old factories into sleek energy savers and help create a sustainable new world.
“The acceleration keeps on happening,” said Ian C. Haydon, a member of Dr. Baker’s team. “It’s incredible.”
Others concur. “It’s amazing what will come out in the next few years,” Dr. Kohli said. He sees A.I. as unlocking life’s deepest secrets and establishing a powerful new basis for curing ills, improving health and lengthening lives.
“Once we decipher and truly understand the language of life,” he said, “it will be magical.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/23/science/ai-hallucinations-science.html?
Bubblecar said:
Tomorrow the nephew starts off on his longest wilderness walk so far, 30 days trek around the whole south west.He’ll have more food supplies etc. air-dropped at Melaleuca.
He could go and log that confluence point that DV wanted to hike to.
Bubblecar said:
Tomorrow the nephew starts off on his longest wilderness walk so far, 30 days trek around the whole south west.He’ll have more food supplies etc. air-dropped at Melaleuca.
Gosh.
buffy said:
And our weather has cooled and quietened. The Grampians are still burning. Out to 69,000 hecatres now. It’s not a little one. Winds now around Westish so Stawell and Ararat are now being alert. I see they are worried about the Mt William communications tower, so phones and NBN in that area may be in trouble.
It looks like the BoM’s automated weather station on Mount William has been impacted by the fires. The last recorded observation was at 0130 AEDT today (Thurs 26/12).
Also – https://theweatherchaser.com/observations/aws/grampians-mount-william
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
Tomorrow the nephew starts off on his longest wilderness walk so far, 30 days trek around the whole south west.He’ll have more food supplies etc. air-dropped at Melaleuca.
we’ll hang out for the photos.
Photo archives of all his walks so far here
https://www.patricktoohey.net/
That’s pretty wild and untouched country out there, does he find any evidence of the original inhabitants?
Even if he doesn’t, he could do what “Desert Drifter” does on youtube and make a living out of narrating and posting videos of his travels. I’d watch the hell out of it.
There’s a few small places around here that have never been seen by white man, but I would need a 25ton excavator with floats, covered in chainsaws to make my way in there.
Kingy said:
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:we’ll hang out for the photos.
Photo archives of all his walks so far here
https://www.patricktoohey.net/
That’s pretty wild and untouched country out there, does he find any evidence of the original inhabitants?
Even if he doesn’t, he could do what “Desert Drifter” does on youtube and make a living out of narrating and posting videos of his travels. I’d watch the hell out of it.
There’s a few small places around here that have never been seen by white man, but I would need a 25ton excavator with floats, covered in chainsaws to make my way in there.
I don’t think he’s yet discovered anything in that vein that wasn’t already known.
Usually on these walks he doesn’t meet another soul, occasionally one or two.
He’s more at home with expensive still cameras rather than videos :)
And quite wealthy, doesn’t need to make any money out of these adventures.
AussieDJ said:
buffy said:
And our weather has cooled and quietened. The Grampians are still burning. Out to 69,000 hecatres now. It’s not a little one. Winds now around Westish so Stawell and Ararat are now being alert. I see they are worried about the Mt William communications tower, so phones and NBN in that area may be in trouble.
It looks like the BoM’s automated weather station on Mount William has been impacted by the fires. The last recorded observation was at 0130 AEDT today (Thurs 26/12).
Also – https://theweatherchaser.com/observations/aws/grampians-mount-william
Our trigger point for a bad fire day is 30/30/30
Temp: Above 30 degrees
Wind: Above 30 kmh
Humidity: Below 30 %
While not at the levels of Black Saturday, those current numbers are “Try to defend, but withdraw as required.”
There’s not much that fire crews on the ground can do unless they have air support, and the perimeter is too large to cover all of it at once.
Kingy said:
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:we’ll hang out for the photos.
Photo archives of all his walks so far here
https://www.patricktoohey.net/
That’s pretty wild and untouched country out there, does he find any evidence of the original inhabitants?
Even if he doesn’t, he could do what “Desert Drifter” does on youtube and make a living out of narrating and posting videos of his travels. I’d watch the hell out of it.
There’s a few small places around here that have never been seen by white man, but I would need a 25ton excavator with floats, covered in chainsaws to make my way in there.
try rob parsons.
https://www.youtube.com/@Rob.Parsons
AussieDJ said:
buffy said:
And our weather has cooled and quietened. The Grampians are still burning. Out to 69,000 hecatres now. It’s not a little one. Winds now around Westish so Stawell and Ararat are now being alert. I see they are worried about the Mt William communications tower, so phones and NBN in that area may be in trouble.
It looks like the BoM’s automated weather station on Mount William has been impacted by the fires. The last recorded observation was at 0130 AEDT today (Thurs 26/12).
Also – https://theweatherchaser.com/observations/aws/grampians-mount-william
I just looked at the latest “Emergency Warning – Bushfire – Leave Immediately” messages (Issued at 8.44pm: This Emergency Warning is being issued for Langi Logan, Maroona, Mininera, Nerrin Nerrin, Rossbridge, Tatyoon, Tatyoon North, Westmere) and they have this in them:
Communications:
The communications tower at Mt William has been impacted. Your mobile and internet services will be effected. Tune to ABC radio to stay informed.
And at 8.50pm the warning to Take Shelter Now has gone up for
This Emergency Warning is being issued for Bellfield, Bellfield Settlement, Flat Rock Crossing, Grampians Junction, Halls Gap.
Most people should be out of there nearly a week ago.
it is hazy and smells like smoke. but there iis nothing on fire according to tfs.
We are having sporadic short showers of “rain”.
sarahs mum said:
it is hazy and smells like smoke. but there iis nothing on fire according to tfs.
We got smoke in the house overnight last night, but in general it has been mercifully unsmelly. I’ve seen plenty of smoke, but I do know where to look.
buffy said:
We are having sporadic short showers of “rain”.
That’s the front that came through here yesterday. It must have been fairly substantial when it left Antarctica, coz it produced one of the top 10 coldest xmas’s in WA. It got to you in good time, and is the expected wind change on the fireground.
Kingy said:
buffy said:
We are having sporadic short showers of “rain”.That’s the front that came through here yesterday. It must have been fairly substantial when it left Antarctica, coz it produced one of the top 10 coldest xmas’s in WA. It got to you in good time, and is the expected wind change on the fireground.
Need a really good soaking. The Grampians are going to be burning for weeks. There must be a lot of standing burning trees in there after nearly a week of fire.
buffy said:
Kingy said:
buffy said:
We are having sporadic short showers of “rain”.That’s the front that came through here yesterday. It must have been fairly substantial when it left Antarctica, coz it produced one of the top 10 coldest xmas’s in WA. It got to you in good time, and is the expected wind change on the fireground.
Need a really good soaking. The Grampians are going to be burning for weeks. There must be a lot of standing burning trees in there after nearly a week of fire.
Oh, and my vicious brain had this thought earlier…we got out of this one without a burn here at Penshurst (or at our Digby place)…bet it’s just waiting for January or February…We’ve had a run of 4 or 5 cool Summers. The cycle has to be turning.
buffy said:
Kingy said:
buffy said:
We are having sporadic short showers of “rain”.That’s the front that came through here yesterday. It must have been fairly substantial when it left Antarctica, coz it produced one of the top 10 coldest xmas’s in WA. It got to you in good time, and is the expected wind change on the fireground.
Need a really good soaking. The Grampians are going to be burning for weeks. There must be a lot of standing burning trees in there after nearly a week of fire.
Yep, often a light rain gives the vollies a short break, but doesn’t really help in the long term.
Was there any mention of what started the fire in the first place?
Aussie makes the big time.
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NYTimes end of year Quiz:
1. Can you name the four people pictured above?
2. Which phrase did Oxford University Press pick as its 2024 Word of the Year?
3. The novel “Orbital,” by Samantha Harvey, won this year’s Booker Prize. Where is it set?
4. Which country this year became NATO’s 32nd member?
5. What is the capital of Jordan?
6. What is a group of flamingos called?
7. What color took over the internet this summer, and where did it come from?
8. In Greek mythology, who angered the goddess Athena with her spinning prowess?
9. Which movie won the Academy Award for Best Picture this year?
10. How long is the longest baguette, which was made this year in France?
Answers below:
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The answers to the quiz are as follows: 1. From left to right: Rachael “Raygun” Gunn, Kendrick Lamar, Bashar al-Assad, Anna Sawai. 2. Brain rot. 3. In space. 4. Sweden. 5. Amman. 6. A flamboyance. 7. A bilious light green, from Charli XCX’s album “Brat.” 8. Arachne. 9. “Oppenheimer.” 10. 461 feet (140 meters).
sarahs mum said:
it is hazy and smells like smoke. but there iis nothing on fire according to tfs.
You’ll be getting the smoke from Buffys fire(The Grampians, not her backyard bbq).
The wind is blowing directly from there to you from the NW.
We often have a similar problem, but exactly reversed in wind direction. For the last week, we have been having reports of smoke from fires 200km away to the SE.
Kingy said:
buffy said:
Kingy said:That’s the front that came through here yesterday. It must have been fairly substantial when it left Antarctica, coz it produced one of the top 10 coldest xmas’s in WA. It got to you in good time, and is the expected wind change on the fireground.
Need a really good soaking. The Grampians are going to be burning for weeks. There must be a lot of standing burning trees in there after nearly a week of fire.
Yep, often a light rain gives the vollies a short break, but doesn’t really help in the long term.
Was there any mention of what started the fire in the first place?
Lightning. We had some storms. It’s natural, you know!
buffy said:
Kingy said:
buffy said:Need a really good soaking. The Grampians are going to be burning for weeks. There must be a lot of standing burning trees in there after nearly a week of fire.
Yep, often a light rain gives the vollies a short break, but doesn’t really help in the long term.
Was there any mention of what started the fire in the first place?
Lightning. We had some storms. It’s natural, you know!
And it has effectively just run up the valley. The sides of the ranges in there are very rocky and steep. I’ve spent some time in there over the wildflower season just gone. I can picture quite a lot of those places because I was there in the last 6-8 weeks. One of the recent warnings mentioned that it had crossed the Sundial Road – et lunch there some weeks back.
buffy said:
Kingy said:
buffy said:Need a really good soaking. The Grampians are going to be burning for weeks. There must be a lot of standing burning trees in there after nearly a week of fire.
Yep, often a light rain gives the vollies a short break, but doesn’t really help in the long term.
Was there any mention of what started the fire in the first place?
Lightning. We had some storms. It’s natural, you know!
Oh good. We have them too.
I just get annoyed when it’s some dipshit being ignorant, like leaving an unextinguished campfire behind, or angle grinding or welding metal in summer.
I get angry when it’s a fuckhead deliberately lighting fires.
But nature, well, we have already insulted you enough. If you want to burn down our homes in return, I reckon that’s fair game.
Witty Rejoinder said:
Aussie makes the big time.…
NYTimes end of year Quiz:
1. Can you name the four people pictured above?
2. Which phrase did Oxford University Press pick as its 2024 Word of the Year?
3. The novel “Orbital,” by Samantha Harvey, won this year’s Booker Prize. Where is it set?
4. Which country this year became NATO’s 32nd member?
5. What is the capital of Jordan?
6. What is a group of flamingos called?
7. What color took over the internet this summer, and where did it come from?
8. In Greek mythology, who angered the goddess Athena with her spinning prowess?
9. Which movie won the Academy Award for Best Picture this year?
10. How long is the longest baguette, which was made this year in France?
Answers below:
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The answers to the quiz are as follows: 1. From left to right: Rachael “Raygun” Gunn, Kendrick Lamar, Bashar al-Assad, Anna Sawai. 2. Brain rot. 3. In space. 4. Sweden. 5. Amman. 6. A flamboyance. 7. A bilious light green, from Charli XCX’s album “Brat.” 8. Arachne. 9. “Oppenheimer.” 10. 461 feet (140 meters).
Ta, can you provide a link to that quiz please?
Ms Kingy enjoys them but I can’t find it.
Witty Rejoinder said:
Aussie makes the big time.…
NYTimes end of year Quiz:
1. Can you name the four people pictured above?
2. Which phrase did Oxford University Press pick as its 2024 Word of the Year?
3. The novel “Orbital,” by Samantha Harvey, won this year’s Booker Prize. Where is it set?
4. Which country this year became NATO’s 32nd member?
5. What is the capital of Jordan?
6. What is a group of flamingos called?
7. What color took over the internet this summer, and where did it come from?
8. In Greek mythology, who angered the goddess Athena with her spinning prowess?
9. Which movie won the Academy Award for Best Picture this year?
10. How long is the longest baguette, which was made this year in France?
I knew No. 3.
I received a copy of Orbital yesterday.
Kingy said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Aussie makes the big time.…
NYTimes end of year Quiz:
1. Can you name the four people pictured above?
2. Which phrase did Oxford University Press pick as its 2024 Word of the Year?
3. The novel “Orbital,” by Samantha Harvey, won this year’s Booker Prize. Where is it set?
4. Which country this year became NATO’s 32nd member?
5. What is the capital of Jordan?
6. What is a group of flamingos called?
7. What color took over the internet this summer, and where did it come from?
8. In Greek mythology, who angered the goddess Athena with her spinning prowess?
9. Which movie won the Academy Award for Best Picture this year?
10. How long is the longest baguette, which was made this year in France?
Answers below:
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The answers to the quiz are as follows: 1. From left to right: Rachael “Raygun” Gunn, Kendrick Lamar, Bashar al-Assad, Anna Sawai. 2. Brain rot. 3. In space. 4. Sweden. 5. Amman. 6. A flamboyance. 7. A bilious light green, from Charli XCX’s album “Brat.” 8. Arachne. 9. “Oppenheimer.” 10. 461 feet (140 meters).
Ta, can you provide a link to that quiz please?
Ms Kingy enjoys them but I can’t find it.
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The Rev Dodgson said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Aussie makes the big time.…
NYTimes end of year Quiz:
1. Can you name the four people pictured above?
2. Which phrase did Oxford University Press pick as its 2024 Word of the Year?
3. The novel “Orbital,” by Samantha Harvey, won this year’s Booker Prize. Where is it set?
4. Which country this year became NATO’s 32nd member?
5. What is the capital of Jordan?
6. What is a group of flamingos called?
7. What color took over the internet this summer, and where did it come from?
8. In Greek mythology, who angered the goddess Athena with her spinning prowess?
9. Which movie won the Academy Award for Best Picture this year?
10. How long is the longest baguette, which was made this year in France?
I knew No. 3.
I received a copy of Orbital yesterday.
4,5 and 9. That’s it. Didn’t get all four faces in Q1.
Witty Rejoinder said:
Aussie makes the big time.…
NYTimes end of year Quiz:
1. Can you name the four people pictured above?
2. Which phrase did Oxford University Press pick as its 2024 Word of the Year?
3. The novel “Orbital,” by Samantha Harvey, won this year’s Booker Prize. Where is it set?
4. Which country this year became NATO’s 32nd member?
5. What is the capital of Jordan?
6. What is a group of flamingos called?
7. What color took over the internet this summer, and where did it come from?
8. In Greek mythology, who angered the goddess Athena with her spinning prowess?
9. Which movie won the Academy Award for Best Picture this year?
10. How long is the longest baguette, which was made this year in France?
Answers below:
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The answers to the quiz are as follows: 1. From left to right: Rachael “Raygun” Gunn, Kendrick Lamar, Bashar al-Assad, Anna Sawai. 2. Brain rot. 3. In space. 4. Sweden. 5. Amman. 6. A flamboyance. 7. A bilious light green, from Charli XCX’s album “Brat.” 8. Arachne. 9. “Oppenheimer.” 10. 461 feet (140 meters).
I got 3.75
party_pants said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Aussie makes the big time.…
NYTimes end of year Quiz:
1. Can you name the four people pictured above?
2. Which phrase did Oxford University Press pick as its 2024 Word of the Year?
3. The novel “Orbital,” by Samantha Harvey, won this year’s Booker Prize. Where is it set?
4. Which country this year became NATO’s 32nd member?
5. What is the capital of Jordan?
6. What is a group of flamingos called?
7. What color took over the internet this summer, and where did it come from?
8. In Greek mythology, who angered the goddess Athena with her spinning prowess?
9. Which movie won the Academy Award for Best Picture this year?
10. How long is the longest baguette, which was made this year in France?
I knew No. 3.
I received a copy of Orbital yesterday.
4,5 and 9. That’s it. Didn’t get all four faces in Q1.
I only got No 5 right and Ragun and Assard.
So 1,5 here..
And like DV’s care dog it was a piss poor effort.
Peak Warming Man said:
party_pants said:
The Rev Dodgson said:I knew No. 3.
I received a copy of Orbital yesterday.
4,5 and 9. That’s it. Didn’t get all four faces in Q1.
I only got No 5 right and Ragun and Assard.
So 1,5 here..
And like DV’s care dog it was a piss poor effort.
Same, i got Ray and Assad too, so I’ll give myself 3.5
One of the new local pubs is on fire.
Just had several phone calls about it.
Not a bushfire, as in, not our problem,but I can hear sirens from here.
Tasmania Fire Service
49m ·
💨 Widespread smoke in parts of the state today has blown across Bass Strait from fires in Victoria. If you see this smoke, please don’t be alarmed.
Kingy said:
One of the new local pubs is on fire.Just had several phone calls about it.
Not a bushfire, as in, not our problem,but I can hear sirens from here.
I think it’s all hands on deck when a pub’s on fire.
Thoughts and prayers.
Kingy said:
One of the new local pubs is on fire.Just had several phone calls about it.
Not a bushfire, as in, not our problem,but I can hear sirens from here.
Tragic. Was it a nice pub?
party_pants said:
Kingy said:
One of the new local pubs is on fire.Just had several phone calls about it.
Not a bushfire, as in, not our problem,but I can hear sirens from here.
Tragic. Was it a nice pub?
I hadn’t had a chance to even go there.
Shit is going down in the middle of town.
Kingy said:
party_pants said:
Kingy said:
One of the new local pubs is on fire.Just had several phone calls about it.
Not a bushfire, as in, not our problem,but I can hear sirens from here.
Tragic. Was it a nice pub?
I hadn’t had a chance to even go there.
Shit is going down in the middle of town.
Fark, not only are the three neighbouring towns sending their trucks, two other towns on the other side of them are sending theirs as well.
Not sure if they are just bored, or just want free beer.
Kingy said:
Kingy said:
party_pants said:Tragic. Was it a nice pub?
I hadn’t had a chance to even go there.
Shit is going down in the middle of town.
Fark, not only are the three neighbouring towns sending their trucks, two other towns on the other side of them are sending theirs as well.
Not sure if they are just bored, or just want free beer.
Main fire is extinguished, BA are going in.
Kingy said:
Kingy said:
Kingy said:I hadn’t had a chance to even go there.
Shit is going down in the middle of town.
Fark, not only are the three neighbouring towns sending their trucks, two other towns on the other side of them are sending theirs as well.
Not sure if they are just bored, or just want free beer.
Main fire is extinguished, BA are going in.
British Airways??
party_pants said:
Kingy said:
Kingy said:Fark, not only are the three neighbouring towns sending their trucks, two other towns on the other side of them are sending theirs as well.
Not sure if they are just bored, or just want free beer.
Main fire is extinguished, BA are going in.
British Airways??
Breathing Apparatus.
Kingy said:
party_pants said:
Kingy said:Main fire is extinguished, BA are going in.
British Airways??
Breathing Apparatus.
OK. I live a sheltered life.
party_pants said:
Kingy said:
party_pants said:
British Airways??
Breathing Apparatus.
OK. I live a sheltered life.
we thought Bachelor of Arts but we don’t even have one
SCIENCE said:
party_pants said:
Kingy said:
Breathing Apparatus.
OK. I live a sheltered life.
we thought Bachelor of Arts but we don’t even have one
i have a fine one.
buffy said:
AussieDJ said:
buffy said:
And our weather has cooled and quietened. The Grampians are still burning. Out to 69,000 hecatres now. It’s not a little one. Winds now around Westish so Stawell and Ararat are now being alert. I see they are worried about the Mt William communications tower, so phones and NBN in that area may be in trouble.
It looks like the BoM’s automated weather station on Mount William has been impacted by the fires. The last recorded observation was at 0130 AEDT today (Thurs 26/12).
Also – https://theweatherchaser.com/observations/aws/grampians-mount-william
I just looked at the latest “Emergency Warning – Bushfire – Leave Immediately” messages (Issued at 8.44pm: This Emergency Warning is being issued for Langi Logan, Maroona, Mininera, Nerrin Nerrin, Rossbridge, Tatyoon, Tatyoon North, Westmere) and they have this in them:
Communications:
The communications tower at Mt William has been impacted. Your mobile and internet services will be effected. Tune to ABC radio to stay informed.
There are a number of other communications services on Mount William:
Including –
TV services for SBS, ABC, WIN TV, Prime TV, Southern Cross.
Airservices Australia, Police & Emergency Services (Dept of Justice & Community Safety), Amateur radio, Northern Grampians Shire Council, St John Ambulance, and more
Watched the Doctor Who special, Joy To The World. Quite clever time travel story which is what I like.
Kingy said:
One of the new local pubs is on fire.Just had several phone calls about it.
Not a bushfire, as in, not our problem,but I can hear sirens from here.
kii said:
Kingy said:
One of the new local pubs is on fire.Just had several phone calls about it.
Not a bushfire, as in, not our problem,but I can hear sirens from here.
I see
Good morning Holidayers. It’s a lovely 10 degrees at the back door – I’ve put on a light jumper. There is no wind and there has been a little precipitation. I don’t know how things are going in the Grampians, but the area burnt is now 74,000 hectares, so it has progressed some overnight. Forecast for us today is for a partly cloudy 20 degrees.
Today I’ll make sure I’ve got the food organized for my siblings’ visit. They will arrive around 4.00pmish, I think. I’ll probably get in some weeding too.
made my own breakfast, feeling all independent this morning, possibly leave home later, go to work, see if I can direct some of the wealth in my direction, pay for the extra soles I put in my china-made boots, double extra inner soles now, necessary to minimize my sciatica discomfort, disabling it is, sometimes I can’t walk, a terrible discomfort visits me, all the way down to my feet, especially my feet, lower back is worn out, worn out from work, from collecting the hundred tonnes of wood and axing it that ten years or more before I got the motorized hydraulic stump splitter, couldn’t swing an ax anymore, now I use a chainsaw, cut neat logs, i’m evolving
best start another paragraph
breakfast is done, Dear God I feel underwhelmingly uninteresting, i’m losing the will to speak, my internal monologue is arguing about the purpose and necessity of being typed out, it’s further arguing about if what’s being typed out is properly representative of the internal conversation
I go see what the avians are doing
buffy said:
Good morning Holidayers. It’s a lovely 10 degrees at the back door – I’ve put on a light jumper. There is no wind and there has been a little precipitation. I don’t know how things are going in the Grampians, but the area burnt is now 74,000 hectares, so it has progressed some overnight. Forecast for us today is for a partly cloudy 20 degrees.Today I’ll make sure I’ve got the food organized for my siblings’ visit. They will arrive around 4.00pmish, I think. I’ll probably get in some weeding too.
It’s been a bit too exciting for a few of the crews at the Grampians.
Message from the warm bit yesterday.
Good morning everybody.
It’s 20.0° C, 78% RH, clear and there’s a light air. BoM forecast no rain and a top of 31° C.
Agenda:
Some bamboo cutting and splitting before the cricket starts and during the lunch beak. I forgot to boil the extracted bamboo food yesterday, so I’ll have to do that during the cricket. There is likely a nice big “stuffable” pair of half-cone bamboo sections and the usual cylindrical pieces to cut up for stir-fry veges.
Meals? Probably randomly using up more of the Christmas left overs – ham, smoked ocean trout, rye bread (as toast), potato salad and green salad.
And then there’s the cricket on TV, from 9:30 am.
I am over Christmas and the sadness and flat despair it has brought.
AussieDJ said:
buffy said:
AussieDJ said:It looks like the BoM’s automated weather station on Mount William has been impacted by the fires. The last recorded observation was at 0130 AEDT today (Thurs 26/12).
Also – https://theweatherchaser.com/observations/aws/grampians-mount-william
I just looked at the latest “Emergency Warning – Bushfire – Leave Immediately” messages (Issued at 8.44pm: This Emergency Warning is being issued for Langi Logan, Maroona, Mininera, Nerrin Nerrin, Rossbridge, Tatyoon, Tatyoon North, Westmere) and they have this in them:
Communications:
The communications tower at Mt William has been impacted. Your mobile and internet services will be effected. Tune to ABC radio to stay informed.There are a number of other communications services on Mount William:
Including –
TV services for SBS, ABC, WIN TV, Prime TV, Southern Cross.
Airservices Australia, Police & Emergency Services (Dept of Justice & Community Safety), Amateur radio, Northern Grampians Shire Council, St John Ambulance, and more
Bloody!
dv said:
kii said:
Kingy said:
One of the new local pubs is on fire.Just had several phone calls about it.
Not a bushfire, as in, not our problem,but I can hear sirens from here.
I see
I don’t.
Morning pilgrims.
I see there were 2 deaths in the Sydney to Hobart overnight.
Kingy said:
buffy said:
Good morning Holidayers. It’s a lovely 10 degrees at the back door – I’ve put on a light jumper. There is no wind and there has been a little precipitation. I don’t know how things are going in the Grampians, but the area burnt is now 74,000 hectares, so it has progressed some overnight. Forecast for us today is for a partly cloudy 20 degrees.Today I’ll make sure I’ve got the food organized for my siblings’ visit. They will arrive around 4.00pmish, I think. I’ll probably get in some weeding too.
It’s been a bit too exciting for a few of the crews at the Grampians.
Message from the warm bit yesterday.
Oh yes. That’s definitely a bit too close.
Peak Warming Man said:
Morning pilgrims.
I see there were 2 deaths in the Sydney to Hobart overnight.
Not good, but probably not as bad as Gaza, Ukraine and etc.
Michael V said:
I am over Christmas and the sadness and flat despair it has brought.
Hey MV, I’m sending big hugs your way. I was thinking of you and Mrs V yesterday while I was in Gympie.
Divine Angel said:
Michael V said:I am over Christmas and the sadness and flat despair it has brought.
Hey MV, I’m sending big hugs your way. I was thinking of you and Mrs V yesterday while I was in Gympie.
Ta.
Nescafe city, hey. You won’t want to be there tomorrow. I think it going to be hot.
sarahs mum said:
SCIENCE said:
party_pants said:
OK. I live a sheltered life.
we thought Bachelor of Arts but we don’t even have one
i have a fine one.
good one
Michael V said:
.Morning DA. LTNS!
How’s stuff?
My two biggest pieces of news from the year are: I survived yet another bout of covid, and I have yet another qualification under my belt. I’m a fully qualified Teacher’s Aide.
With covid, I was the sickest I’ve ever been in my entire life. Mini Me had it before I did, and on Day 5 she was well enough to go back to school. Me on Day 5: googling “how do you know when you’re dying”. Took me a full three months to get over it completely. The first three days, out of those 72 hours, I slept about 60. Everything tasted foul, even plain water. Random nausea which lasted for six weeks, lung issues lasted for 12 weeks.
I’ve been volunteering in Mini Me’s classrooms for three years. At the beginning of the year, another mum I know asked if I’d thought about becoming a proper paid TA. I hadn’t, but then I did, signed into a course which I breezed through, and here I am. I’ve been doing relief work at schools but am hoping for a contract next year. Also been in the school library learning the ropes there. People are trying to talk me into becoming a proper teacher and I just laugh at them.
I also recently installed a pond in my yard and am loving it. It’s a small pond, only 100L, but it’s lovely. Jellybean thinks it’s her own personal drinking fountain.
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:
Michael V said:
I am over Christmas and the sadness and flat despair it has brought.
Hey MV, I’m sending big hugs your way. I was thinking of you and Mrs V yesterday while I was in Gympie.
Ta.
Nescafe city, hey. You won’t want to be there tomorrow. I think it going to be hot.
sorry about all that
Divine Angel said:
Michael V said:.Morning DA. LTNS!
How’s stuff?
My two biggest pieces of news from the year are: I survived yet another bout of covid, and I have yet another qualification under my belt. I’m a fully qualified Teacher’s Aide.
With covid, I was the sickest I’ve ever been in my entire life. Mini Me had it before I did, and on Day 5 she was well enough to go back to school. Me on Day 5: googling “how do you know when you’re dying”. Took me a full three months to get over it completely. The first three days, out of those 72 hours, I slept about 60. Everything tasted foul, even plain water. Random nausea which lasted for six weeks, lung issues lasted for 12 weeks.
I’ve been volunteering in Mini Me’s classrooms for three years. At the beginning of the year, another mum I know asked if I’d thought about becoming a proper paid TA. I hadn’t, but then I did, signed into a course which I breezed through, and here I am. I’ve been doing relief work at schools but am hoping for a contract next year. Also been in the school library learning the ropes there. People are trying to talk me into becoming a proper teacher and I just laugh at them.
I also recently installed a pond in my yard and am loving it. It’s a small pond, only 100L, but it’s lovely. Jellybean thinks it’s her own personal drinking fountain.
Good to see you DA.
And how are you guys? Still in Rainbow Beach, MV? How’s the Redoubt, PWM? SCIENCE, how’s stuff?
Divine Angel said:
Michael V said:I am over Christmas and the sadness and flat despair it has brought.
Hey MV, I’m sending big hugs your way. I was thinking of you and Mrs V yesterday while I was in Gympie.
Divine Angel said:
And how are you guys? Still in Rainbow Beach, MV? How’s the Redoubt, PWM? SCIENCE, how’s stuff?
The redoubt is all good.
Divine Angel said:
Michael V said:I am over Christmas and the sadness and flat despair it has brought.
Hey MV, I’m sending big hugs your way. I was thinking of you and Mrs V yesterday while I was in Gympie.
I would like to share MV’s message to DA and DA’s message to MV (other than the bit about being in Gympie yesterday).
Divine Angel said:
And how are you guys? Still in Rainbow Beach, MV? How’s the Redoubt, PWM? SCIENCE, how’s stuff?
yeah thankfully no big disasters, just a bit stuck without good progress for a while, good to hear others doing well
Divine Angel said:
Michael V said:.Morning DA. LTNS!
How’s stuff?
My two biggest pieces of news from the year are: I survived yet another bout of covid, and I have yet another qualification under my belt. I’m a fully qualified Teacher’s Aide.
With covid, I was the sickest I’ve ever been in my entire life. Mini Me had it before I did, and on Day 5 she was well enough to go back to school. Me on Day 5: googling “how do you know when you’re dying”. Took me a full three months to get over it completely. The first three days, out of those 72 hours, I slept about 60. Everything tasted foul, even plain water. Random nausea which lasted for six weeks, lung issues lasted for 12 weeks.
I’ve been volunteering in Mini Me’s classrooms for three years. At the beginning of the year, another mum I know asked if I’d thought about becoming a proper paid TA. I hadn’t, but then I did, signed into a course which I breezed through, and here I am. I’ve been doing relief work at schools but am hoping for a contract next year. Also been in the school library learning the ropes there. People are trying to talk me into becoming a proper teacher and I just laugh at them.
I also recently installed a pond in my yard and am loving it. It’s a small pond, only 100L, but it’s lovely. Jellybean thinks it’s her own personal drinking fountain.
Well done!
Pity about the COVID, though. IFAIK, neither of us have had it yet. Due for boosters, which will probably happen inJ anuary, if we can organise it.
Divine Angel said:
And how are you guys? Still in Rainbow Beach, MV? How’s the Redoubt, PWM? SCIENCE, how’s stuff?
Still in Rainbow. Difficult to get to know people here, though.
Tamb said:
Divine Angel said:
Michael V said:I am over Christmas and the sadness and flat despair it has brought.
Hey MV, I’m sending big hugs your way. I was thinking of you and Mrs V yesterday while I was in Gympie.
MV you wouldn’t want a hug from me so I’ll send one to mz MV instead.
:)
Divine Angel said:
Michael V said:.Morning DA. LTNS!
How’s stuff?
My two biggest pieces of news from the year are: I survived yet another bout of covid, and I have yet another qualification under my belt. I’m a fully qualified Teacher’s Aide.
With covid, I was the sickest I’ve ever been in my entire life. Mini Me had it before I did, and on Day 5 she was well enough to go back to school. Me on Day 5: googling “how do you know when you’re dying”. Took me a full three months to get over it completely. The first three days, out of those 72 hours, I slept about 60. Everything tasted foul, even plain water. Random nausea which lasted for six weeks, lung issues lasted for 12 weeks.
I’ve been volunteering in Mini Me’s classrooms for three years. At the beginning of the year, another mum I know asked if I’d thought about becoming a proper paid TA. I hadn’t, but then I did, signed into a course which I breezed through, and here I am. I’ve been doing relief work at schools but am hoping for a contract next year. Also been in the school library learning the ropes there. People are trying to talk me into becoming a proper teacher and I just laugh at them.
I also recently installed a pond in my yard and am loving it. It’s a small pond, only 100L, but it’s lovely. Jellybean thinks it’s her own personal drinking fountain.
Great stuff. GTSU.
Kingy said:
buffy said:
Good morning Holidayers. It’s a lovely 10 degrees at the back door – I’ve put on a light jumper. There is no wind and there has been a little precipitation. I don’t know how things are going in the Grampians, but the area burnt is now 74,000 hectares, so it has progressed some overnight. Forecast for us today is for a partly cloudy 20 degrees.Today I’ll make sure I’ve got the food organized for my siblings’ visit. They will arrive around 4.00pmish, I think. I’ll probably get in some weeding too.
It’s been a bit too exciting for a few of the crews at the Grampians.
Message from the warm bit yesterday.
Whose truck is that? (You missed the name on the truck!)
Ooh, DA has been mind expanding. Always good.
5/10. I didn’t know many of those at all.
Nice to see you, DA. To see you, nice.
dv said:
buffy said:
Weekly Quiz5/10. I didn’t know many of those at all.
7/10
5/10 for me as well. I could maybe have done better as my first guesses were correct except I posted my second guesses.
Hello
Cymek said:
Hello
Cymek said:
Hello
Hi.
Tamb said:
Cymek said:
Hello
Morning Western person.
and morning to yourself, Northern Person. ;)
roughbarked said:
Tamb said:
Cymek said:
Hello
Morning Western person.and morning to yourself, Northern Person. ;)
Tamb said:
roughbarked said:
Tamb said:Morning Western person.
and morning to yourself, Northern Person. ;)
A small jokey question. What is the nearest capital city to me?
I’d guess Port Moresby.
Tamb said:
roughbarked said:
Tamb said:Morning Western person.
and morning to yourself, Northern Person. ;)
A small jokey question. What is the nearest capital city to me?
Canberra?
Michael V said:
Tamb said:
roughbarked said:and morning to yourself, Northern Person. ;)
A small jokey question. What is the nearest capital city to me?I’d guess Port Moresby.
Michael V said:
Tamb said:
roughbarked said:and morning to yourself, Northern Person. ;)
A small jokey question. What is the nearest capital city to me?I’d guess Port Moresby.
I was thinking of in Australia but I’d say you are correct.
Tamb said:
Michael V said:
Tamb said:A small jokey question. What is the nearest capital city to me?
I’d guess Port Moresby.
Correct. Here, have as banana.
Just think. You could have sold that for millions.
roughbarked said:
Tamb said:
Michael V said:I’d guess Port Moresby.
Correct. Here, have as banana.Just think. You could have sold that for millions.
Tamb said:
Michael V said:
Tamb said:A small jokey question. What is the nearest capital city to me?
I’d guess Port Moresby.
Correct. Here, have as banana.
Ta.
:)
Tamb said:
roughbarked said:
Tamb said:Correct. Here, have as banana.
Just think. You could have sold that for millions.
I feel poorly. Might watch a bit of cricket. BBL.
those scorchers had the crowd on the edge of their seats yesterday. But they came through at the end.. no thanks to whoever the very subpar wicket keeper was…
my theory that wicket keepers are short people holds up.
Arts said:
Tamb said:
roughbarked said:Just think. You could have sold that for millions.
I feel poorly. Might watch a bit of cricket. BBL.those scorchers had the crowd on the edge of their seats yesterday. But they came through at the end.. no thanks to whoever the very subpar wicket keeper was…
my theory that wicket keepers are short people holds up.
They won rather easily in the end. I watched it on the TV.
party_pants said:
Arts said:
Tamb said:I feel poorly. Might watch a bit of cricket. BBL.
those scorchers had the crowd on the edge of their seats yesterday. But they came through at the end.. no thanks to whoever the very subpar wicket keeper was…
my theory that wicket keepers are short people holds up.
They won rather easily in the end. I watched it on the TV.
yes, the first 15 overs were dismal.. then we managed to claw back for a decent chase in the last five.. then the fielding was pretty good with some great catches, to a comfortable win… we left at 19.2. it was a lock by then.
Michael V said:
Tamb said:
roughbarked said:and morning to yourself, Northern Person. ;)
A small jokey question. What is the nearest capital city to me?I’d guess Port Moresby.
I’d go with that too.
Michael V said:
Tamb said:
Michael V said:I’d guess Port Moresby.
Correct. Here, have as banana.Ta.
:)
Dili, here
dv said:
buffy said:
Weekly Quiz5/10. I didn’t know many of those at all.
7/10
8/10 and included a guess about cricket
The Magdala pub in Hampstead, outside which Ruth Ellis, the last woman hanged in Britain, shot her boyfriend in 1955.
In the 1990s, to augment the notoriety of the site, the pub’s landlady drilled two “bullet holes” in the wall at lower left.
Bubblecar said:
The Magdala pub in Hampstead, outside which Ruth Ellis, the last woman hanged in Britain, shot her boyfriend in 1955.In the 1990s, to augment the notoriety of the site, the pub’s landlady drilled two “bullet holes” in the wall at lower left.
IIRC, Ruth fired more than two shots.
Emptied the pistol into him, i think.
captain_spalding said:
IIRC, Ruth fired more than two shots.
Emptied the pistol into him, i think.
Just checked.
6 shotsfired, 4 hits.
captain_spalding said:
Bubblecar said:
The Magdala pub in Hampstead, outside which Ruth Ellis, the last woman hanged in Britain, shot her boyfriend in 1955.In the 1990s, to augment the notoriety of the site, the pub’s landlady drilled two “bullet holes” in the wall at lower left.
IIRC, Ruth fired more than two shots.
Emptied the pistol into him, i think.
Some of the shots missed, including the last one:
Ruth was seen to stand over Blakely as she repeatedly tried to fire the revolver’s sixth shot, finally firing it into the ground. This bullet ricocheted off the road and injured Gladys Yule, a bystander, who lost the use of her right thumb.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Ellis
Bubblecar said:
The Magdala pub in Hampstead, outside which Ruth Ellis, the last woman hanged in Britain, shot her boyfriend in 1955.In the 1990s, to augment the notoriety of the site, the pub’s landlady drilled two “bullet holes” in the wall at lower left.
I’d like to know how they got their hanging baskets like that.
Woodie said:
Bubblecar said:
The Magdala pub in Hampstead, outside which Ruth Ellis, the last woman hanged in Britain, shot her boyfriend in 1955.In the 1990s, to augment the notoriety of the site, the pub’s landlady drilled two “bullet holes” in the wall at lower left.
I’d like to know how they got their hanging baskets like that.
probably artificial
Woodie said:
Bubblecar said:
The Magdala pub in Hampstead, outside which Ruth Ellis, the last woman hanged in Britain, shot her boyfriend in 1955.In the 1990s, to augment the notoriety of the site, the pub’s landlady drilled two “bullet holes” in the wall at lower left.
I’d like to know how they got their hanging baskets like that.
It is the sunniest spot?
Bubblecar said:
The Magdala pub in Hampstead, outside which Ruth Ellis, the last woman hanged in Britain, shot her boyfriend in 1955.In the 1990s, to augment the notoriety of the site, the pub’s landlady drilled two “bullet holes” in the wall at lower left.
Ha!
Michael V said:
Bubblecar said:
The Magdala pub in Hampstead, outside which Ruth Ellis, the last woman hanged in Britain, shot her boyfriend in 1955.In the 1990s, to augment the notoriety of the site, the pub’s landlady drilled two “bullet holes” in the wall at lower left.
Ha!
Right. Back to splitting Bamboo.
Woodie said:
Bubblecar said:
The Magdala pub in Hampstead, outside which Ruth Ellis, the last woman hanged in Britain, shot her boyfriend in 1955.In the 1990s, to augment the notoriety of the site, the pub’s landlady drilled two “bullet holes” in the wall at lower left.
I’d like to know how they got their hanging baskets like that.
Hooks probably
Woodie said:
Bubblecar said:
The Magdala pub in Hampstead, outside which Ruth Ellis, the last woman hanged in Britain, shot her boyfriend in 1955.In the 1990s, to augment the notoriety of the site, the pub’s landlady drilled two “bullet holes” in the wall at lower left.
I’d like to know how they got their hanging baskets like that.
Perhaps they don’t neglect them, like I do…
Woodie said:
Bubblecar said:
The Magdala pub in Hampstead, outside which Ruth Ellis, the last woman hanged in Britain, shot her boyfriend in 1955.In the 1990s, to augment the notoriety of the site, the pub’s landlady drilled two “bullet holes” in the wall at lower left.
I’d like to know how they got their hanging baskets like that.
take 2 coir lined hanging baskets filled with potting mix and wire together into a sphere.
buffy said:
Woodie said:
Bubblecar said:
The Magdala pub in Hampstead, outside which Ruth Ellis, the last woman hanged in Britain, shot her boyfriend in 1955.In the 1990s, to augment the notoriety of the site, the pub’s landlady drilled two “bullet holes” in the wall at lower left.
I’d like to know how they got their hanging baskets like that.
Perhaps they don’t neglect them, like I do…
It is always misty moisty there?
buffy said:
Kingy said:
buffy said:
Good morning Holidayers. It’s a lovely 10 degrees at the back door – I’ve put on a light jumper. There is no wind and there has been a little precipitation. I don’t know how things are going in the Grampians, but the area burnt is now 74,000 hectares, so it has progressed some overnight. Forecast for us today is for a partly cloudy 20 degrees.Today I’ll make sure I’ve got the food organized for my siblings’ visit. They will arrive around 4.00pmish, I think. I’ll probably get in some weeding too.
It’s been a bit too exciting for a few of the crews at the Grampians.
Message from the warm bit yesterday.
Whose truck is that? (You missed the name on the truck!)
Dunno, the post was taken down shortly after it was put up.
Meanwhile in the Sydney to Hobart, two sailors have been killed in separate incidents on different boats after being struck by the sail boom.
I don’t recall this happening too often in previous races. Certainly not two on the same day.
Who wants to see a pic of my pond? We haven’t done the landscaping yet, but this morning we did buy a fairy house, solar lights, and a pond plant for it. The blue things are artworks by my dad. He’d put in a water feature, which had overgrown, so we ripped it all out to put in the pond.
party_pants said:
Meanwhile in the Sydney to Hobart, two sailors have been killed in separate incidents on different boats after being struck by the sail boom.I don’t recall this happening too often in previous races. Certainly not two on the same day.
Divine Angel said:
Who wants to see a pic of my pond? We haven’t done the landscaping yet, but this morning we did buy a fairy house, solar lights, and a pond plant for it. The blue things are artworks by my dad. He’d put in a water feature, which had overgrown, so we ripped it all out to put in the pond.
Needs a little frog (or three). Can be plastic. Just needs frogs.
:)
Divine Angel said:
Who wants to see a pic of my pond? We haven’t done the landscaping yet, but this morning we did buy a fairy house, solar lights, and a pond plant for it. The blue things are artworks by my dad. He’d put in a water feature, which had overgrown, so we ripped it all out to put in the pond.
Good
Divine Angel said:
Who wants to see a pic of my pond? We haven’t done the landscaping yet, but this morning we did buy a fairy house, solar lights, and a pond plant for it. The blue things are artworks by my dad. He’d put in a water feature, which had overgrown, so we ripped it all out to put in the pond.
>> Who wants to see a pic of my pond? <<
You didn’t give us the choice.
But a worthwhile project. I used to have a pond and quite enjoyed it. I found it relaxing to sit by the pond with my coffee or cool drink and just watch the fish for a bit.
What sort of fish are you going to put in it?
buffy said:
Divine Angel said:
Who wants to see a pic of my pond? We haven’t done the landscaping yet, but this morning we did buy a fairy house, solar lights, and a pond plant for it. The blue things are artworks by my dad. He’d put in a water feature, which had overgrown, so we ripped it all out to put in the pond.
Needs a little frog (or three). Can be plastic. Just needs frogs.
:)
party_pants said:
Divine Angel said:
Who wants to see a pic of my pond? We haven’t done the landscaping yet, but this morning we did buy a fairy house, solar lights, and a pond plant for it. The blue things are artworks by my dad. He’d put in a water feature, which had overgrown, so we ripped it all out to put in the pond.
>> Who wants to see a pic of my pond? <<
You didn’t give us the choice.
But a worthwhile project. I used to have a pond and quite enjoyed it. I found it relaxing to sit by the pond with my coffee or cool drink and just watch the fish for a bit.
What sort of fish are you going to put in it?
party_pants said:
Divine Angel said:
Who wants to see a pic of my pond? We haven’t done the landscaping yet, but this morning we did buy a fairy house, solar lights, and a pond plant for it. The blue things are artworks by my dad. He’d put in a water feature, which had overgrown, so we ripped it all out to put in the pond.
>> Who wants to see a pic of my pond? <<
You didn’t give us the choice.
But a worthwhile project. I used to have a pond and quite enjoyed it. I found it relaxing to sit by the pond with my coffee or cool drink and just watch the fish for a bit.
What sort of fish are you going to put in it?
We had one when we bought this house. We ripped it out.
Divine Angel said:
Who wants to see a pic of my pond? We haven’t done the landscaping yet, but this morning we did buy a fairy house, solar lights, and a pond plant for it. The blue things are artworks by my dad. He’d put in a water feature, which had overgrown, so we ripped it all out to put in the pond.
:)
Tamb said:
party_pants said:
Meanwhile in the Sydney to Hobart, two sailors have been killed in separate incidents on different boats after being struck by the sail boom.
I don’t recall this happening too often in previous races. Certainly not two on the same day.
Not since the days of the J class yachts. A few people were beheaded with them.
content warning
Kingy..you about? Just looking at the Grampians fire map, it seems the Glenelg River Road backburn worked. More kudos to those who made the decision, and to the personnel who did the burning…some of that is scarey steep stony country along that road. Mr buffy described it as a “brave” decision. As in “Yes, Minister” sort of “brave”.
buffy said:
Divine Angel said:
Who wants to see a pic of my pond? We haven’t done the landscaping yet, but this morning we did buy a fairy house, solar lights, and a pond plant for it. The blue things are artworks by my dad. He’d put in a water feature, which had overgrown, so we ripped it all out to put in the pond.
Needs a little frog (or three). Can be plastic. Just needs frogs.
:)
A bit of shade, and the frogs will find their way in there, I’d imagine.
SCIENCE said:
Tamb said:
party_pants said:
Meanwhile in the Sydney to Hobart, two sailors have been killed in separate incidents on different boats after being struck by the sail boom.
I don’t recall this happening too often in previous races. Certainly not two on the same day.
Not since the days of the J class yachts. A few people were beheaded with them.content warning
No thanks, not going to look at it.
party_pants said:
SCIENCE said:
Tamb said:
Not since the days of the J class yachts. A few people were beheaded with them.
content warning
No thanks, not going to look at it.
nah all just entertainment people love this stuff
Straya!
Premier Jacinta Allan said she was pleased to see people avoiding unnecessary travel and evacuating as directed yesterday.
“It’s particularly important this holiday season, with lots of people on the move, to follow advice and follow the rules.
“Don’t be a dickhead on total fire ban days because it can put people’s lives at risk.”
Kingy said:
Straya!Premier Jacinta Allan said she was pleased to see people avoiding unnecessary travel and evacuating as directed yesterday.
“It’s particularly important this holiday season, with lots of people on the move, to follow advice and follow the rules.
“Don’t be a dickhead on total fire ban days because it can put people’s lives at risk.”
wait isn’t this a job for the freedom convoy
buffy said:
Kingy..you about? Just looking at the Grampians fire map, it seems the Glenelg River Road backburn worked. More kudos to those who made the decision, and to the personnel who did the burning…some of that is scarey steep stony country along that road. Mr buffy described it as a “brave” decision. As in “Yes, Minister” sort of “brave”.
Yep, after Black Summer, a lot of Incident Controllers are averse to backburning because if it escapes, the person that caused it to be lit is responsible for any damage caused. There is still a lawsuit ongoing.
When I was looking at the situation on Saturday, there didn’t seem to be any other option to stop it spreading right throughout the park. Someone bit the bullet and signed off on it knowing that they would be thrown to the lions if it went wrong.
Tough call. In situations like that, the easiest decision to make is no decision and just defend all the way to the coast.
tries out my new headphones, hardly notice on my head, very smooth bass response
The Speed of Human Thought Lags Far Behind Your Internet Connection, Study Finds
A new study is “a bit of a counterweight to the endless hyperbole about how incredibly complex and powerful the human brain is,” one researcher said.
By Carl Zimmer
Dec. 26, 2024, 5:02 a.m. ET
In our digital age, few things are more irritating than a slow internet connection. Your web browser starts to lag. On video calls, the faces of your friends turn to frozen masks. When the flow of information dries up, it can feel as if we are cut off from the world.
Engineers measure this flow in bits per second. Streaming a high-definition video takes about 25 million bps. The download rate in a typical American home is about 262 million bps.
Now researchers have estimated the speed of information flow in the human brain: just 10 bps. They titled their study, published this month in the journal Neuron, “The unbearable slowness of being.”
“It’s a bit of a counterweight to the endless hyperbole about how incredibly complex and powerful the human brain is,” said Markus Meister, a neuroscientist at the California Institute of Technology and an author of the study. “If you actually try to put numbers to it, we are incredibly slow.”
Dr. Meister got the idea for the study while teaching an introductory neuroscience class. He wanted to give his students some basic numbers about the brain. But no one had pinned down the rate at which information flows through the nervous system.
Dr. Meister realized that he could estimate that flow by looking at how quickly people carry out certain tasks. To type, for example, we look at a word, recognize each letter and then sort out the sequence of keys to press. As we type, information flows into our eyes, through our brains and into the muscles of our fingers. The higher the flow rate, the faster we can type.
In 2018, a team of researchers in Finland analyzed 136 million keystrokes made by 168,000 volunteers. They found that, on average, people typed 51 words a minute. A small fraction typed 120 words a minute or more. Dr. Meister and his graduate student, Jieyu Zheng, used a branch of mathematics known as information theory to estimate the flow of information required to type. At 120 words a minute, the flow is only 10 bits a second.
“I was thinking, of course there must be faster behaviors,” Ms. Zheng recalled. She suspected that championship videogame players might have a higher information flow when they are competing. “You can look at them on YouTube, and their fingers are so fast that they’re just blurred on the videos.”
Though gamers move their fingers quickly, they have fewer keys to choose from than a typist does. And so, when Ms. Zheng took a close look at the performance of gamers, she ended up with the same estimate for their rate of information: 10 bits per second.
Perhaps, the researchers thought, our bodies’ physical limitations create an information bottleneck. To test that possibility, they analyzed mental feats that don’t depend on fast muscles.
One of these feats is known as blind speedcubing, in which a player looks at a Rubik’s cube, puts on a blindfold and solves it. At a 2023 competition, the American speedcuber Tommy Cherry needed just 5.5 seconds to inspect his cube, which he then solved in 7.5 seconds. Ms. Zheng and Dr. Meister calculated Mr. Cherry’s information rate during his inspection: just 11.8 bps.
Even people with extraordinary visual recall have a relatively low information flow. In a memory sport called the 5 Minute Binary, players try to memorize a long string of 1s and 0s. They get five minutes to look over pages with thousands of numbers and then, after a 15-minute break, try to recall as much of the sequence as they can.
The world record for this game was set in 2019 by the Mongolian memory champion Munkhshur Narmandakh, who recited 1,467 numbers. Dr. Meister and Ms. Zheng estimated that she did this with an information flow of just 4.9 bps.
The speed of human thought is dwarfed by the flood of information that assaults our senses. Dr. Meister and Ms. Zheng estimated that the millions of photoreceptor cells in a single eye can transmit 1.6 billion bps. In other words, we sift about one bit out of every 100 million we receive.
“Psychological science has not acknowledged this big conflict,” Dr. Meister said. More researchers should ask why we toss out so much information and get by on so little, he said.
Britton Sauerbrei, a neuroscientist at Case Western Reserve University who was not involved in the new study, questioned whether Dr. Meister and Ms. Zheng had fully captured the flow of information in our nervous system. They left out the unconscious signals that our bodies use to stand, walk or recover from a trip. If those were included, “you’re going to end up with a vastly higher bit rate,” he said.
But when it comes to conscious tasks and memories, Dr. Sauerbrei said, he was convinced that very little information flows through the brain. “I think their argument is pretty airtight,” he said.
Martin Wiener, a neuroscientist at George Mason University, said that the new study should prompt researchers to compare our information flow with that of other animals.
“A lot of people haven’t paid attention to other species,” Dr. Wiener said. It’s possible that some animals will get by on even slower rates of information. Or perhaps flying insects that make split-second changes to their flight patterns enjoy torrents of information flowing through their brains that we mere humans can only imagine.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/26/science/speed-of-thought.html
Witty Rejoinder said:
The Speed of Human Thought Lags Far Behind Your Internet Connection, Study Finds
Rude.
Did a computer write this?
dv said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
The Speed of Human Thought Lags Far Behind Your Internet Connection, Study Finds
Rude.
Did a computer write this?
thankfully Neuralink will ¡ fix all of this
Witty Rejoinder said:
The Speed of Human Thought Lags Far Behind Your Internet Connection, Study FindsA new study is “a bit of a counterweight to the endless hyperbole about how incredibly complex and powerful the human brain is,” one researcher said.
By Carl Zimmer
Dec. 26, 2024, 5:02 a.m. ETIn our digital age, few things are more irritating than a slow internet connection. Your web browser starts to lag. On video calls, the faces of your friends turn to frozen masks. When the flow of information dries up, it can feel as if we are cut off from the world.
Engineers measure this flow in bits per second. Streaming a high-definition video takes about 25 million bps. The download rate in a typical American home is about 262 million bps.
Now researchers have estimated the speed of information flow in the human brain: just 10 bps. They titled their study, published this month in the journal Neuron, “The unbearable slowness of being.”
“It’s a bit of a counterweight to the endless hyperbole about how incredibly complex and powerful the human brain is,” said Markus Meister, a neuroscientist at the California Institute of Technology and an author of the study. “If you actually try to put numbers to it, we are incredibly slow.”
Dr. Meister got the idea for the study while teaching an introductory neuroscience class. He wanted to give his students some basic numbers about the brain. But no one had pinned down the rate at which information flows through the nervous system.
Dr. Meister realized that he could estimate that flow by looking at how quickly people carry out certain tasks. To type, for example, we look at a word, recognize each letter and then sort out the sequence of keys to press. As we type, information flows into our eyes, through our brains and into the muscles of our fingers. The higher the flow rate, the faster we can type.
In 2018, a team of researchers in Finland analyzed 136 million keystrokes made by 168,000 volunteers. They found that, on average, people typed 51 words a minute. A small fraction typed 120 words a minute or more. Dr. Meister and his graduate student, Jieyu Zheng, used a branch of mathematics known as information theory to estimate the flow of information required to type. At 120 words a minute, the flow is only 10 bits a second.
“I was thinking, of course there must be faster behaviors,” Ms. Zheng recalled. She suspected that championship videogame players might have a higher information flow when they are competing. “You can look at them on YouTube, and their fingers are so fast that they’re just blurred on the videos.”
Though gamers move their fingers quickly, they have fewer keys to choose from than a typist does. And so, when Ms. Zheng took a close look at the performance of gamers, she ended up with the same estimate for their rate of information: 10 bits per second.
Perhaps, the researchers thought, our bodies’ physical limitations create an information bottleneck. To test that possibility, they analyzed mental feats that don’t depend on fast muscles.
One of these feats is known as blind speedcubing, in which a player looks at a Rubik’s cube, puts on a blindfold and solves it. At a 2023 competition, the American speedcuber Tommy Cherry needed just 5.5 seconds to inspect his cube, which he then solved in 7.5 seconds. Ms. Zheng and Dr. Meister calculated Mr. Cherry’s information rate during his inspection: just 11.8 bps.
Even people with extraordinary visual recall have a relatively low information flow. In a memory sport called the 5 Minute Binary, players try to memorize a long string of 1s and 0s. They get five minutes to look over pages with thousands of numbers and then, after a 15-minute break, try to recall as much of the sequence as they can.
The world record for this game was set in 2019 by the Mongolian memory champion Munkhshur Narmandakh, who recited 1,467 numbers. Dr. Meister and Ms. Zheng estimated that she did this with an information flow of just 4.9 bps.
The speed of human thought is dwarfed by the flood of information that assaults our senses. Dr. Meister and Ms. Zheng estimated that the millions of photoreceptor cells in a single eye can transmit 1.6 billion bps. In other words, we sift about one bit out of every 100 million we receive.
“Psychological science has not acknowledged this big conflict,” Dr. Meister said. More researchers should ask why we toss out so much information and get by on so little, he said.
Britton Sauerbrei, a neuroscientist at Case Western Reserve University who was not involved in the new study, questioned whether Dr. Meister and Ms. Zheng had fully captured the flow of information in our nervous system. They left out the unconscious signals that our bodies use to stand, walk or recover from a trip. If those were included, “you’re going to end up with a vastly higher bit rate,” he said.
But when it comes to conscious tasks and memories, Dr. Sauerbrei said, he was convinced that very little information flows through the brain. “I think their argument is pretty airtight,” he said.
Martin Wiener, a neuroscientist at George Mason University, said that the new study should prompt researchers to compare our information flow with that of other animals.
“A lot of people haven’t paid attention to other species,” Dr. Wiener said. It’s possible that some animals will get by on even slower rates of information. Or perhaps flying insects that make split-second changes to their flight patterns enjoy torrents of information flowing through their brains that we mere humans can only imagine.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/26/science/speed-of-thought.html
Not impressed.
To suggest that the “information flow” when typing can be equated to the information content of a series of letters is just silly.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
The Speed of Human Thought Lags Far Behind Your Internet Connection, Study Finds
A new study is “a bit of a counterweight to the endless hyperbole about how incredibly complex and powerful the human brain is,” one researcher said.
By Carl Zimmer
Dec. 26, 2024, 5:02 a.m. ETIn our digital age, few things are more irritating than a slow internet connection. Your web browser starts to lag. On video calls, the faces of your friends turn to frozen masks. When the flow of information dries up, it can feel as if we are cut off from the world.
Engineers measure this flow in bits per second. Streaming a high-definition video takes about 25 million bps. The download rate in a typical American home is about 262 million bps.
Now researchers have estimated the speed of information flow in the human brain: just 10 bps. They titled their study, published this month in the journal Neuron, “The unbearable slowness of being.”
“It’s a bit of a counterweight to the endless hyperbole about how incredibly complex and powerful the human brain is,” said Markus Meister, a neuroscientist at the California Institute of Technology and an author of the study. “If you actually try to put numbers to it, we are incredibly slow.”
Dr. Meister got the idea for the study while teaching an introductory neuroscience class. He wanted to give his students some basic numbers about the brain. But no one had pinned down the rate at which information flows through the nervous system.
Dr. Meister realized that he could estimate that flow by looking at how quickly people carry out certain tasks. To type, for example, we look at a word, recognize each letter and then sort out the sequence of keys to press. As we type, information flows into our eyes, through our brains and into the muscles of our fingers. The higher the flow rate, the faster we can type.
In 2018, a team of researchers in Finland analyzed 136 million keystrokes made by 168,000 volunteers. They found that, on average, people typed 51 words a minute. A small fraction typed 120 words a minute or more. Dr. Meister and his graduate student, Jieyu Zheng, used a branch of mathematics known as information theory to estimate the flow of information required to type. At 120 words a minute, the flow is only 10 bits a second.
“I was thinking, of course there must be faster behaviors,” Ms. Zheng recalled. She suspected that championship videogame players might have a higher information flow when they are competing. “You can look at them on YouTube, and their fingers are so fast that they’re just blurred on the videos.”
Though gamers move their fingers quickly, they have fewer keys to choose from than a typist does. And so, when Ms. Zheng took a close look at the performance of gamers, she ended up with the same estimate for their rate of information: 10 bits per second.
Perhaps, the researchers thought, our bodies’ physical limitations create an information bottleneck. To test that possibility, they analyzed mental feats that don’t depend on fast muscles.
One of these feats is known as blind speedcubing, in which a player looks at a Rubik’s cube, puts on a blindfold and solves it. At a 2023 competition, the American speedcuber Tommy Cherry needed just 5.5 seconds to inspect his cube, which he then solved in 7.5 seconds. Ms. Zheng and Dr. Meister calculated Mr. Cherry’s information rate during his inspection: just 11.8 bps.
Even people with extraordinary visual recall have a relatively low information flow. In a memory sport called the 5 Minute Binary, players try to memorize a long string of 1s and 0s. They get five minutes to look over pages with thousands of numbers and then, after a 15-minute break, try to recall as much of the sequence as they can.
The world record for this game was set in 2019 by the Mongolian memory champion Munkhshur Narmandakh, who recited 1,467 numbers. Dr. Meister and Ms. Zheng estimated that she did this with an information flow of just 4.9 bps.
The speed of human thought is dwarfed by the flood of information that assaults our senses. Dr. Meister and Ms. Zheng estimated that the millions of photoreceptor cells in a single eye can transmit 1.6 billion bps. In other words, we sift about one bit out of every 100 million we receive.
“Psychological science has not acknowledged this big conflict,” Dr. Meister said. More researchers should ask why we toss out so much information and get by on so little, he said.
Britton Sauerbrei, a neuroscientist at Case Western Reserve University who was not involved in the new study, questioned whether Dr. Meister and Ms. Zheng had fully captured the flow of information in our nervous system. They left out the unconscious signals that our bodies use to stand, walk or recover from a trip. If those were included, “you’re going to end up with a vastly higher bit rate,” he said.
But when it comes to conscious tasks and memories, Dr. Sauerbrei said, he was convinced that very little information flows through the brain. “I think their argument is pretty airtight,” he said.
Martin Wiener, a neuroscientist at George Mason University, said that the new study should prompt researchers to compare our information flow with that of other animals.
“A lot of people haven’t paid attention to other species,” Dr. Wiener said. It’s possible that some animals will get by on even slower rates of information. Or perhaps flying insects that make split-second changes to their flight patterns enjoy torrents of information flowing through their brains that we mere humans can only imagine.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/26/science/speed-of-thought.html
Not impressed.
To suggest that the “information flow” when typing can be equated to the information content of a series of letters is just silly.
wait so entropy can’t be defined
Witty Rejoinder said:
/..cut by me master transition , cutter of unnecessarily superfluous duplicated text and things../https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/26/science/speed-of-thought.html
plenty time to prevent stupid from happening, should be anyway, if brian was large part inhibitory, you might look at what the master of slow prevented from happening, by doing nothing, or not much
SCIENCE said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
The Speed of Human Thought Lags Far Behind Your Internet Connection, Study Finds
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/26/science/speed-of-thought.html
Not impressed.
To suggest that the “information flow” when typing can be equated to the information content of a series of letters is just silly.
wait so entropy can’t be defined
Why do you say that?
transition said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
/..cut by me master transition , cutter of unnecessarily superfluous duplicated text and things../https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/26/science/speed-of-thought.html
plenty time to prevent stupid from happening, should be anyway, if brian was large part inhibitory, you might look at what the master of slow prevented from happening, by doing nothing, or not much
anyway who’s worked out all the tricks the human mind used for error correction, and refinement related, and compression, must be some that
The Rev Dodgson said:
SCIENCE said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Not impressed.
To suggest that the “information flow” when typing can be equated to the information content of a series of letters is just silly.
wait so entropy can’t be defined
Why do you say that?
let us ask then if the “energy transformation” when typing can be equated to the energy content of a series of letters
SCIENCE said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
SCIENCE said:
wait so entropy can’t be defined
Why do you say that?
let us ask then if the “energy transformation” when typing can be equated to the energy content of a series of letters
Clearly not, since the series of letters is in both sets, but the thing doing the typing, and the thing being typed upon, are only included in one of the sets.
buffy said:
Divine Angel said:
Who wants to see a pic of my pond? We haven’t done the landscaping yet, but this morning we did buy a fairy house, solar lights, and a pond plant for it. The blue things are artworks by my dad. He’d put in a water feature, which had overgrown, so we ripped it all out to put in the pond.
Needs a little frog (or three). Can be plastic. Just needs frogs.
:)
We get real live frogs! Striped marsh frogs mainly, but I saw a new holland frog too. Main thing is, no cane toad spawn. I keep the fountain on all night to prevent cane toads breeding.
party_pants said:
Divine Angel said:
Who wants to see a pic of my pond? We haven’t done the landscaping yet, but this morning we did buy a fairy house, solar lights, and a pond plant for it. The blue things are artworks by my dad. He’d put in a water feature, which had overgrown, so we ripped it all out to put in the pond.
>> Who wants to see a pic of my pond? <<
You didn’t give us the choice.
But a worthwhile project. I used to have a pond and quite enjoyed it. I found it relaxing to sit by the pond with my coffee or cool drink and just watch the fish for a bit.
What sort of fish are you going to put in it?
Michael V said:
buffy said:
Divine Angel said:
Who wants to see a pic of my pond? We haven’t done the landscaping yet, but this morning we did buy a fairy house, solar lights, and a pond plant for it. The blue things are artworks by my dad. He’d put in a water feature, which had overgrown, so we ripped it all out to put in the pond.
Needs a little frog (or three). Can be plastic. Just needs frogs.
:)
A bit of shade, and the frogs will find their way in there, I’d imagine.
It really only gets sun through the middle of the day. It’s in shade now.
Kingy said:
buffy said:
Kingy..you about? Just looking at the Grampians fire map, it seems the Glenelg River Road backburn worked. More kudos to those who made the decision, and to the personnel who did the burning…some of that is scarey steep stony country along that road. Mr buffy described it as a “brave” decision. As in “Yes, Minister” sort of “brave”.
Yep, after Black Summer, a lot of Incident Controllers are averse to backburning because if it escapes, the person that caused it to be lit is responsible for any damage caused. There is still a lawsuit ongoing.
When I was looking at the situation on Saturday, there didn’t seem to be any other option to stop it spreading right throughout the park. Someone bit the bullet and signed off on it knowing that they would be thrown to the lions if it went wrong.
Tough call. In situations like that, the easiest decision to make is no decision and just defend all the way to the coast.
G’don them.
Anyhoo, Witty, my fave movies from this year are The Substance, Inside Out 2, and Heretic.
The Rev Dodgson said:
SCIENCE said:The Rev Dodgson said:
Why do you say that?
let us ask then if the “energy transformation” when typing can be equated to the energy content of a series of letters
Clearly not, since the series of letters is in both sets, but the thing doing the typing, and the thing being typed upon, are only included in one of the sets.
¿
we can easily equate the energy of animals digesting foodstuffs to the energy of submegaton tactical nuclear warhead tests, even if they have fcall to do with each other, it’s just energy
transition said:
tries out my new headphones, hardly notice on my head, very smooth bass response
From Santa?
Divine Angel said:
Anyhoo, Witty, my fave movies from this year are The Substance, Inside Out 2, and Heretic.
What did you think of ‘Wicked’?
kii said:
party_pants said:
Divine Angel said:
Who wants to see a pic of my pond? We haven’t done the landscaping yet, but this morning we did buy a fairy house, solar lights, and a pond plant for it. The blue things are artworks by my dad. He’d put in a water feature, which had overgrown, so we ripped it all out to put in the pond.
>> Who wants to see a pic of my pond? <<
You didn’t give us the choice.
But a worthwhile project. I used to have a pond and quite enjoyed it. I found it relaxing to sit by the pond with my coffee or cool drink and just watch the fish for a bit.
What sort of fish are you going to put in it?
We had one when we bought this house. We ripped it out.
Why did you rip it out, kii?
It was badly installed, leaked, looked awful with a fake waterfall made from slabs of stone, plus it created a micro climate that caused the white peaches to go mildewy.
Also Daisy kept falling in it, the pond was quite large. No one at our age needed to deal with all that.
Plus mr kii liked dismantling things and chopping down trees.
I’n‘t see movies this year except for Wicked Part 1 which I thought was quite good.
Divine Angel said:
buffy said:
Divine Angel said:
Who wants to see a pic of my pond? We haven’t done the landscaping yet, but this morning we did buy a fairy house, solar lights, and a pond plant for it. The blue things are artworks by my dad. He’d put in a water feature, which had overgrown, so we ripped it all out to put in the pond.
Needs a little frog (or three). Can be plastic. Just needs frogs.
:)
We get real live frogs! Striped marsh frogs mainly, but I saw a new holland frog too. Main thing is, no cane toad spawn. I keep the fountain on all night to prevent cane toads breeding.
Saw a large, very dark cane toad this afternoon, when tidying up my bamboo-murdering equipment. I gave it a little nudge with my thong. It didn’t move much, so I put my foot on it. It still didn’t move. Strange.
Divine Angel said:
buffy said:
Divine Angel said:
Who wants to see a pic of my pond? We haven’t done the landscaping yet, but this morning we did buy a fairy house, solar lights, and a pond plant for it. The blue things are artworks by my dad. He’d put in a water feature, which had overgrown, so we ripped it all out to put in the pond.
Needs a little frog (or three). Can be plastic. Just needs frogs.
:)
We get real live frogs! Striped marsh frogs mainly, but I saw a new holland frog too. Main thing is, no cane toad spawn. I keep the fountain on all night to prevent cane toads breeding.
Nice.
:)
kii said:
kii said:
party_pants said:>> Who wants to see a pic of my pond? <<
You didn’t give us the choice.
But a worthwhile project. I used to have a pond and quite enjoyed it. I found it relaxing to sit by the pond with my coffee or cool drink and just watch the fish for a bit.
What sort of fish are you going to put in it?
We had one when we bought this house. We ripped it out.
Why did you rip it out, kii?
It was badly installed, leaked, looked awful with a fake waterfall made from slabs of stone, plus it created a micro climate that caused the white peaches to go mildewy.
Also Daisy kept falling in it, the pond was quite large. No one at our age needed to deal with all that.
Plus mr kii liked dismantling things and chopping down trees.
Our house at Hawkesdale had a pond when we bought the house. I used it as a weed dump until it was filled in. Don’t need mosquitoes and I couldn’t be bothered with maintaining it.
buffy said:
kii said:
kii said:We had one when we bought this house. We ripped it out.
Why did you rip it out, kii?
It was badly installed, leaked, looked awful with a fake waterfall made from slabs of stone, plus it created a micro climate that caused the white peaches to go mildewy.
Also Daisy kept falling in it, the pond was quite large. No one at our age needed to deal with all that.
Plus mr kii liked dismantling things and chopping down trees.
Our house at Hawkesdale had a pond when we bought the house. I used it as a weed dump until it was filled in. Don’t need mosquitoes and I couldn’t be bothered with maintaining it.
A fried did that, but also put a lot of manure in, too. It made a fabulous, fenced vegetable garden with a path right around it.
:)
SCIENCE said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
SCIENCE said:let us ask then if the “energy transformation” when typing can be equated to the energy content of a series of letters
Clearly not, since the series of letters is in both sets, but the thing doing the typing, and the thing being typed upon, are only included in one of the sets.
¿
we can easily equate the energy of animals digesting foodstuffs to the energy of submegaton tactical nuclear warhead tests, even if they have fcall to do with each other, it’s just energy
Certainly, you may if you wish.
I just don’t see what it has to do with the matter being discussed.
BACK. Only bread left in the IGA was Williams Dark Rye, so that’s what I poichased.
Seems the ABC do not think we should tease our brains at this time of the year.
Bubblecar said:
BACK. Only bread left in the IGA was Williams Dark Rye, so that’s what I poichased.
Williams Dark Rye? Sound more like something that comes in a bottle.
Woodie said:
Bubblecar said:
BACK. Only bread left in the IGA was Williams Dark Rye, so that’s what I poichased.
Williams Dark Rye? Sound more like something that comes in a bottle.
I have Scottish whisky and Oz wine in bottles, including bubbly, a cold flute of which I’m about to imbibe.
Nice to see DA peeping in :)
I don’t really get a lot of frogs around here, except dahn the park at some times of year.
Witty Rejoinder said:
Divine Angel said:
Anyhoo, Witty, my fave movies from this year are The Substance, Inside Out 2, and Heretic.
What did you think of ‘Wicked’?
Boring AF
kii said:
Also Daisy kept falling in it, the pond was quite large. No one at our age needed to deal with all that.
Jellybean fell in mine when I turned the fountain off so she tried to drink from the cascade. It’s small enough and she’s big enough to get herself out.
Anyhoo it’s been lovely catching up with you all. Perhaps I’ll pop back in again.
But before I go… tonight’s dinner is pizza, and when Mini Me goes to bed, Mr Mutant and I will be watching S2 of Squid Game.
Pisces
February 20 to March 20
You’re itching for change, but a part of you may feel blocked and weighed down by the upheaval it might bring. It’s natural to feel hesitant but try shifting your focus from the challenges to the rewards. Picture how amazing it will feel once everything is sorted and you’re standing in your new reality. This simple mindset shift can work wonders for your mood.
——————————————-
I don’t know about that, I don’t like change.
Ah well if it’s in the stars I guess I’ll have to go with it but I have to say I don’t want to shift my mindset from cricket and porn and beer to some new age punced up woke new reality.
Peak Warming Man said:
Pisces
February 20 to March 20You’re itching for change, but a part of you may feel blocked and weighed down by the upheaval it might bring. It’s natural to feel hesitant but try shifting your focus from the challenges to the rewards. Picture how amazing it will feel once everything is sorted and you’re standing in your new reality. This simple mindset shift can work wonders for your mood.
——————————————-I don’t know about that, I don’t like change.
Ah well if it’s in the stars I guess I’ll have to go with it but I have to say I don’t want to shift my mindset from cricket and porn and beer to some new age punced up woke new reality.
:)
Divine Angel said:
Anyhoo it’s been lovely catching up with you all. Perhaps I’ll pop back in again.But before I go… tonight’s dinner is pizza, and when Mini Me goes to bed, Mr Mutant and I will be watching S2 of Squid Game.
Cheerio
Oh ummmmmm….. ummmmm That reminds me.
Can you have a narcissistic sycophant?
Asking for a friend.
Speaking of New Age bullshittery…
I’ve been avoiding the quiet by not watching a stupid series about fire fighters.
One episode featured an underground fire that caused problems at a retreat for “Goddesses”.
Classic jokes one liners…
1. As the fire chief tells the main goddess they need to evacuate: But I stll have 7 chakras to cleanse!!
2. The same goddess gets upset about being told to leave her bag behind: My wallet, it has my license in it! My crystals!
A different fire chief tells her: you can get a new license at the DMV, they open at 8am. After looking the goddess up and down: the crystals don’t seem to be working.
3. Upset goddess exclaims: But Bonnie (main goddess) said I’d get a free colonic if I lied to you!
Seriously stupid show, but this made me laugh. I need things to laugh about.
Woodie said:
Oh ummmmmm….. ummmmm That reminds me.Can you have a narcissistic sycophant?
Asking for a friend.
Why, yes…I saw one earlier.
kii said:
Woodie said:
Oh ummmmmm….. ummmmm That reminds me.Can you have a narcissistic sycophant?
Asking for a friend.
Why, yes…I saw one earlier.
entirely possible
Woodie said:
Oh ummmmmm….. ummmmm That reminds me.Can you have a narcissistic sycophant?
Asking for a friend.
I suppose someone might engage in sycophancy in order to receive the praise that feeds the narcissism? Seems like a bit of a juggling act but people in real life are complex.
dv said:
Woodie said:
Oh ummmmmm….. ummmmm That reminds me.Can you have a narcissistic sycophant?
Asking for a friend.
I suppose someone might engage in sycophancy in order to receive the praise that feeds the narcissism? Seems like a bit of a juggling act but people in real life are complex.
dv said:
Woodie said:
Oh ummmmmm….. ummmmm That reminds me.Can you have a narcissistic sycophant?
Asking for a friend.
I suppose someone might engage in sycophancy in order to receive the praise that feeds the narcissism? Seems like a bit of a juggling act but people in real life are complex.
I have a bit of time on my hands this evening. Might practice a bit narcissistic sycophantism on myself for a while.
forswunk
PRONUNCIATION:
(for-SWUNK)
MEANING:
adjective: Exhausted.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Middle English forswinken (to overwork), from forswink (to exhaust), from for- + swink (to labor). Earliest documented use: 1250.
USAGE:
“Mr Don Packham was feeling somewhat forswunk this afternoon.”
Mat Coward; Over and Under; Five Star; 2004.
JudgeMental said:
forswunkPRONUNCIATION:
(for-SWUNK)MEANING:
adjective: Exhausted.ETYMOLOGY:
From Middle English forswinken (to overwork), from forswink (to exhaust), from for- + swink (to labor). Earliest documented use: 1250.USAGE:
“Mr Don Packham was feeling somewhat forswunk this afternoon.”
Mat Coward; Over and Under; Five Star; 2004.
Well, this evening ended up with me teaching crochet to both my sisters in law. Interesting as a right hander trying to teach a left hander. We decided that as it is a skill that she is entirely new to, I’d teach her the right hand way. I tried to flip it, but I just can’t do it left handed because I learnt right handed. I don’t think handedness really matters with crochet.
Sorry, not sure why I quoted rather than replied on that…
Well, this evening ended up with me teaching crochet to both my sisters in law. Interesting as a right hander trying to teach a left hander. We decided that as it is a skill that she is entirely new to, I’d teach her the right hand way. I tried to flip it, but I just can’t do it left handed because I learnt right handed. I don’t think handedness really matters with crochet.
buffy said:
Sorry, not sure why I quoted rather than replied on that…Well, this evening ended up with me teaching crochet to both my sisters in law. Interesting as a right hander trying to teach a left hander. We decided that as it is a skill that she is entirely new to, I’d teach her the right hand way. I tried to flip it, but I just can’t do it left handed because I learnt right handed. I don’t think handedness really matters with crochet.
Sounds like you ladies have all been guzzling the cooking sherry and wherever that took you.
I’d better go off and sleep on all this philosophical stuff.
buffy said:
Sorry, not sure why I quoted rather than replied on that…Well, this evening ended up with me teaching crochet to both my sisters in law. Interesting as a right hander trying to teach a left hander. We decided that as it is a skill that she is entirely new to, I’d teach her the right hand way. I tried to flip it, but I just can’t do it left handed because I learnt right handed. I don’t think handedness really matters with crochet.
my mother decided I could not be taught as I was cacky handed.
i’m going to make coffee and noodles, i’ve got this you stay seated
in other news I was out feedlots today and sees 12 wheels missing off mobile feeders, didn’t stop to investigate any more, just emailed Mr Your-problem-not-mine
some reverse santa cunt, takes shit instead
transition said:
i’m going to make coffee and noodles, i’ve got this you stay seatedin other news I was out feedlots today and sees 12 wheels missing off mobile feeders, didn’t stop to investigate any more, just emailed Mr Your-problem-not-mine
some reverse santa cunt, takes shit instead
A bit like the stocks of security screen doors in Bunnings, all missing their locks and door handles?
roughbarked said:
transition said:
i’m going to make coffee and noodles, i’ve got this you stay seatedin other news I was out feedlots today and sees 12 wheels missing off mobile feeders, didn’t stop to investigate any more, just emailed Mr Your-problem-not-mine
some reverse santa cunt, takes shit instead
A bit like the stocks of security screen doors in Bunnings, all missing their locks and door handles?
possibly happened lastnight, been having lot of wind, been very windy
I know for sure all the wheels were on the feeders on the 23rd think it is without checking again
I’ve just watched a 1980 movie called Rhubarb Rhubarb, a remake of a 1969 movie called Rhubarb. They’re interesting in that the only word spoken, albeit frequently and by all the actors, is rhubarb, the word English actors use for crowd scenes and unintelligible background speech. The American equivalent is wallah, but there don’t seem to be any movies by that name.
btm said:
I’ve just watched a 1980 movie called Rhubarb Rhubarb, a remake of a 1969 movie called Rhubarb. They’re interesting in that the only word spoken, albeit frequently and by all the actors, is rhubarb, the word English actors use for crowd scenes and unintelligible background speech. The American equivalent is wallah, but there don’t seem to be any movies by that name.
this…watching
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOiwJkMvIYI
Rhubarb Rhubarb 1980 Eric Sykes
Oldest surviving house in northern Europe: the Knap of Howar on the island of Papa Westray in Orkney.
A neolithic farmstead consisting of a main dwelling and secondary house or workshop. Radiocarbon dating shows that it was occupied from 3700 BC to 2800 BC, earlier than the similar houses in the settlement at Skara Brae on the Orkney Mainland.
The walls still stand to an eaves height of 1.6 metres (5 ft 3 in), and the stone furniture is intact giving a vivid impression of life in the house. Fireplaces, partition screens, beds and storage shelves are almost intact, and post holes were found indicating the roof structure.
Evidence from the middens shows that the inhabitants were keeping cattle, sheep and pigs, cultivating barley and wheat and gathering shellfish as well as fishing for species which must have been line caught using boats.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knap_of_Howar
Bubblecar said:
Oldest surviving house in northern Europe: the Knap of Howar on the island of Papa Westray in Orkney.A neolithic farmstead consisting of a main dwelling and secondary house or workshop. Radiocarbon dating shows that it was occupied from 3700 BC to 2800 BC, earlier than the similar houses in the settlement at Skara Brae on the Orkney Mainland.
The walls still stand to an eaves height of 1.6 metres (5 ft 3 in), and the stone furniture is intact giving a vivid impression of life in the house. Fireplaces, partition screens, beds and storage shelves are almost intact, and post holes were found indicating the roof structure.
Evidence from the middens shows that the inhabitants were keeping cattle, sheep and pigs, cultivating barley and wheat and gathering shellfish as well as fishing for species which must have been line caught using boats.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knap_of_Howar
Bubblecar said:
Oldest surviving house in northern Europe: the Knap of Howar on the island of Papa Westray in Orkney.A neolithic farmstead consisting of a main dwelling and secondary house or workshop. Radiocarbon dating shows that it was occupied from 3700 BC to 2800 BC, earlier than the similar houses in the settlement at Skara Brae on the Orkney Mainland.
The walls still stand to an eaves height of 1.6 metres (5 ft 3 in), and the stone furniture is intact giving a vivid impression of life in the house. Fireplaces, partition screens, beds and storage shelves are almost intact, and post holes were found indicating the roof structure.
Evidence from the middens shows that the inhabitants were keeping cattle, sheep and pigs, cultivating barley and wheat and gathering shellfish as well as fishing for species which must have been line caught using boats.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knap_of_Howar
Good stuff
I don’t really applaud a person killing another, especially shooting someone in the back in the street, however today I read that there’s a rumour going around that a certain CEO is just a crisis actor and I did smirk at that.
For those not in the know, after the shooting of 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook elementary school, and the subsequent discussions and movement towards gun control, the pro gun lobby started spreading rumours that the shooting didn’t really happen, it was just a way to ‘take away our guns’ and that every picture was just staged by crisis actors. .
Arts said:
I don’t really applaud a person killing another, especially shooting someone in the back in the street, however today I read that there’s a rumour going around that a certain CEO is just a crisis actor and I did smirk at that.For those not in the know, after the shooting of 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook elementary school, and the subsequent discussions and movement towards gun control, the pro gun lobby started spreading rumours that the shooting didn’t really happen, it was just a way to ‘take away our guns’ and that every picture was just staged by crisis actors. .
So these crisis actors get paid by being dead?
roughbarked said:
Arts said:
I don’t really applaud a person killing another, especially shooting someone in the back in the street, however today I read that there’s a rumour going around that a certain CEO is just a crisis actor and I did smirk at that.For those not in the know, after the shooting of 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook elementary school, and the subsequent discussions and movement towards gun control, the pro gun lobby started spreading rumours that the shooting didn’t really happen, it was just a way to ‘take away our guns’ and that every picture was just staged by crisis actors. .
So these crisis actors get paid by being dead?
No
Arts said:
roughbarked said:
Arts said:
I don’t really applaud a person killing another, especially shooting someone in the back in the street, however today I read that there’s a rumour going around that a certain CEO is just a crisis actor and I did smirk at that.For those not in the know, after the shooting of 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook elementary school, and the subsequent discussions and movement towards gun control, the pro gun lobby started spreading rumours that the shooting didn’t really happen, it was just a way to ‘take away our guns’ and that every picture was just staged by crisis actors. .
So these crisis actors get paid by being dead?
No
So they aren’t really crisis actors at all?
Arts said:
roughbarked said:
Arts said:
I don’t really applaud a person killing another, especially shooting someone in the back in the street, however today I read that there’s a rumour going around that a certain CEO is just a crisis actor and I did smirk at that.
For those not in the know, after the shooting of 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook elementary school, and the subsequent discussions and movement towards gun control, the pro gun lobby started spreading rumours that the shooting didn’t really happen, it was just a way to ‘take away our guns’ and that every picture was just staged by crisis actors. .
So these crisis actors get paid by being dead?
No
out there stuff saying Gazans were also crisis actors so cue surprise
roughbarked said:
Arts said:
roughbarked said:So these crisis actors get paid by being dead?
No
So they aren’t really crisis actors at all?
No. As I said it was a counter move by people who did not like the idea of gun control.
I think probably the 26000 Americans who die of preventable disease per annum due to lack of health care access are all crisis actors
dv said:
I think probably the 26000 Americans who die of preventable disease per annum due to lack of health care access are all crisis actors
Maybe the whole country are crisis actors and we are just watching some sort of Truman show
roughbarked said:
Arts said:
I don’t really applaud a person killing another, especially shooting someone in the back in the street, however today I read that there’s a rumour going around that a certain CEO is just a crisis actor and I did smirk at that.For those not in the know, after the shooting of 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook elementary school, and the subsequent discussions and movement towards gun control, the pro gun lobby started spreading rumours that the shooting didn’t really happen, it was just a way to ‘take away our guns’ and that every picture was just staged by crisis actors. .
So these crisis actors get paid by being dead?
JFC you’re such an idiot! You’re not funny or clever, what a stupid thing to say.
What happened after Sandy Hook and the whole “crisis actors” horror bullshit…grrrrr. Fucking hell!
Arts said:
dv said:
I think probably the 26000 Americans who die of preventable disease per annum due to lack of health care access are all crisis actors
Maybe the whole country are crisis actors and we are just watching some sort of Truman show
And I thought it might be interesting for some people here.
Read your comment and tracked the “crisis actor” comment back to your initial post.
Then I got derailed by the stupid thing.
Good morning Holidayers. Presently 9 degrees at the back door and starting to get light. We are forecast 20 degrees with a shower or two.
Going to Port Fairy for their market this morning. This afternoon is not planned at this stage.
Morning pilgrims, weather fine, track good.
Arts said:
dv said:
I think probably the 26000 Americans who die of preventable disease per annum due to lack of health care access are all crisis actors
Maybe the whole country are crisis actors and we are just watching some sort of Truman show
we don’t exist!
Peak Warming Man said:
Morning pilgrims, weather fine, track good.
is that the track winding back?
Good morning everybody.
It’s 23.8° C, 72% RH, partly cloudy (light, high clouds) and there’s a light air. BoM forecasts 32° C and a slight chance of rain after 4 pm.
Agenda: Mrs V’s going away this morning for a few days with the lady across the road to her place north of Brisbane. I forget where, and none of you lot would likely be interested anyhow. Meals: undecided. Cricket to watch.
roughbarked said:
Arts said:
I don’t really applaud a person killing another, especially shooting someone in the back in the street, however today I read that there’s a rumour going around that a certain CEO is just a crisis actor and I did smirk at that.For those not in the know, after the shooting of 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook elementary school, and the subsequent discussions and movement towards gun control, the pro gun lobby started spreading rumours that the shooting didn’t really happen, it was just a way to ‘take away our guns’ and that every picture was just staged by crisis actors. .
So these crisis actors get paid by being dead?
pro bono
Michael V said:
Good morning everybody.It’s 23.8° C, 72% RH, partly cloudy (light, high clouds) and there’s a light air. BoM forecasts 32° C and a slight chance of rain after 4 pm.
Agenda: Mrs V’s going away this morning for a few days with the lady across the road to her place north of Brisbane. I forget where, and none of you lot would likely be interested anyhow. Meals: undecided. Cricket to watch.
Home alone?
JudgeMental said:
Michael V said:
Good morning everybody.It’s 23.8° C, 72% RH, partly cloudy (light, high clouds) and there’s a light air. BoM forecasts 32° C and a slight chance of rain after 4 pm.
Agenda: Mrs V’s going away this morning for a few days with the lady across the road to her place north of Brisbane. I forget where, and none of you lot would likely be interested anyhow. Meals: undecided. Cricket to watch.
Home alone?
I will be, but I’ve not seen the movie, so I don’t know the upshot of that (seemingly innocent) remark.
JudgeMental said:
roughbarked said:
Arts said:
I don’t really applaud a person killing another, especially shooting someone in the back in the street, however today I read that there’s a rumour going around that a certain CEO is just a crisis actor and I did smirk at that.For those not in the know, after the shooting of 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook elementary school, and the subsequent discussions and movement towards gun control, the pro gun lobby started spreading rumours that the shooting didn’t really happen, it was just a way to ‘take away our guns’ and that every picture was just staged by crisis actors. .
So these crisis actors get paid by being dead?
pro bono
Could be spending time dead for tax reasons.
Michael V said:
Good morning everybody.It’s 23.8° C, 72% RH, partly cloudy (light, high clouds) and there’s a light air. BoM forecasts 32° C and a slight chance of rain after 4 pm.
Agenda: Mrs V’s going away this morning for a few days with the lady across the road to her place north of Brisbane. I forget where, and none of you lot would likely be interested anyhow. Meals: undecided. Cricket to watch.
The cricket comes first.
Michael V said:
Good morning everybody.It’s 23.8° C, 72% RH, partly cloudy (light, high clouds) and there’s a light air. BoM forecasts 32° C and a slight chance of rain after 4 pm.
Agenda: Mrs V’s going away this morning for a few days with the lady across the road to her place north of Brisbane. I forget where, and none of you lot would likely be interested anyhow. Meals: undecided. Cricket to watch.
i’m heading out farm shortly see what else has been lifted
trying to rain right this moment
>>i’m heading out farm shortly see what else has been lifted
Stolen?
Peak Warming Man said:
>>i’m heading out farm shortly see what else has been liftedStolen?
I sees a lot of wheels missing off mobile grain feeders yesterday, maybe twelve, doubt that be all of it
transition said:
Michael V said:
Good morning everybody.It’s 23.8° C, 72% RH, partly cloudy (light, high clouds) and there’s a light air. BoM forecasts 32° C and a slight chance of rain after 4 pm.
Agenda: Mrs V’s going away this morning for a few days with the lady across the road to her place north of Brisbane. I forget where, and none of you lot would likely be interested anyhow. Meals: undecided. Cricket to watch.
i’m heading out farm shortly see what else has been lifted
trying to rain right this moment
Can you claim on insurance?
Michael V said:
transition said:
Michael V said:
Good morning everybody.It’s 23.8° C, 72% RH, partly cloudy (light, high clouds) and there’s a light air. BoM forecasts 32° C and a slight chance of rain after 4 pm.
Agenda: Mrs V’s going away this morning for a few days with the lady across the road to her place north of Brisbane. I forget where, and none of you lot would likely be interested anyhow. Meals: undecided. Cricket to watch.
i’m heading out farm shortly see what else has been lifted
trying to rain right this moment
Can you claim on insurance?
they’re not mine, are the guy who feedlots sheep there
more pisses me off the decay of civilization, drugs everywhere, last of the churches being sold, celebration of atheism, police finding it increasingly difficult to recruit, attrition of police from countries areas
Wouldn’t you think that Republicans/conservatives might devote some energy to uncovering the ‘source’ of all of those crisis actors?
I mean, if you could produce evidence the ‘here is an outfit which organises the people who ‘pose’ for these so-called ‘incidents’ and ‘crises’, which verifies our claims that such events are not real, and are merely shams for ideological and political purposes’, it’d be a real coup, would it not?
But, all we get are claims that these things have never happened, have been staged using these ‘crisis actors’, and no evidence of that is ever produced.
It’s a bit like the Moon landings.
Apparently, it’s a widespread ‘conspiracy’, involving a vast number of people (in this case, including some of very tender years), none of whom ever let a word slip which might betray the conspiracy, and, somehow, no clue or proof as to the origins, location, functioning, or identity of the apparatus of the conspiracy can ever be discovered by people who you’d think would be most motivated to find it, and most keen to disclose it.
Ian said:
JudgeMental said:
roughbarked said:
So these crisis actors get paid by being dead?
pro bono
Could be spending time dead for tax reasons.
wait so Gaza is just one big seaside golf course
whom
who
captain_spalding said:
no evidence of that is ever produced.
dude c’m‘on now yous’re asking for a lot
transition said:
Michael V said:
transition said:i’m heading out farm shortly see what else has been lifted
trying to rain right this moment
Can you claim on insurance?
they’re not mine, are the guy who feedlots sheep there
more pisses me off the decay of civilization, drugs everywhere, last of the churches being sold, celebration of atheism, police finding it increasingly difficult to recruit, attrition of police from countries areas
To be fair, thieves have always been around, as have drugs.
captain_spalding said:
Wouldn’t you think that Republicans/conservatives might devote some energy to uncovering the ‘source’ of all of those crisis actors?I mean, if you could produce evidence the ‘here is an outfit which organises the people who ‘pose’ for these so-called ‘incidents’ and ‘crises’, which verifies our claims that such events are not real, and are merely shams for ideological and political purposes’, it’d be a real coup, would it not?
But, all we get are claims that these things have never happened, have been staged using these ‘crisis actors’, and no evidence of that is ever produced.
It’s a bit like the Moon landings.
Apparently, it’s a widespread ‘conspiracy’, involving a vast number of people (in this case, including some of very tender years), none of whom ever let a word slip which might betray the conspiracy, and, somehow, no clue or proof as to the origins, location, functioning, or identity of the apparatus of the conspiracy can ever be discovered by people who you’d think would be most motivated to find it, and most keen to disclose it.
The notion is that you only have to say stuff that might fit into some’s world view, and it will be believed without question and then repeated ad infinitum. This is what has happened so often.
SCIENCE said:
captain_spalding said:
no evidence of that is ever produced.dude c’m‘on now yous’re asking for a lot
Well, let’s take Sandy Hook.
You try, you just try, to get a whole lot of 6- and 7- year olds to all ‘play dead’/hold still long enough to get one ‘staged’ crisis picture.
Michael V said:
transition said:
Michael V said:Can you claim on insurance?
they’re not mine, are the guy who feedlots sheep there
more pisses me off the decay of civilization, drugs everywhere, last of the churches being sold, celebration of atheism, police finding it increasingly difficult to recruit, attrition of police from countries areas
To be fair, thieves have always been around, as have drugs.
Can’t say I see/hear much of this “celebration of atheism” thing either.
transition said:
Michael V said:
Good morning everybody.It’s 23.8° C, 72% RH, partly cloudy (light, high clouds) and there’s a light air. BoM forecasts 32° C and a slight chance of rain after 4 pm.
Agenda: Mrs V’s going away this morning for a few days with the lady across the road to her place north of Brisbane. I forget where, and none of you lot would likely be interested anyhow. Meals: undecided. Cricket to watch.
i’m heading out farm shortly see what else has been lifted
trying to rain right this moment
Farmyard theft is on the rise.
SCIENCE said:
Ian said:
JudgeMental said:
pro bono
Could be spending time dead for tax reasons.
wait so Gaza is just one big seaside golf course
For Israel? Yes. All they need to do is run a few bulldozers over it.
Michael V said:
transition said:
Michael V said:Can you claim on insurance?
they’re not mine, are the guy who feedlots sheep there
more pisses me off the decay of civilization, drugs everywhere, last of the churches being sold, celebration of atheism, police finding it increasingly difficult to recruit, attrition of police from countries areas
To be fair, thieves have always been around, as have drugs.
There’s just more of them these days. More population, more thieves.
captain_spalding said:
SCIENCE said:captain_spalding said:
no evidence of that is ever produced.dude c’m‘on now yous’re asking for a lot
Well, let’s take Sandy Hook.
You try, you just try, to get a whole lot of 6- and 7- year olds to all ‘play dead’/hold still long enough to get one ‘staged’ crisis picture.
Not gonna happen.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Michael V said:
transition said:they’re not mine, are the guy who feedlots sheep there
more pisses me off the decay of civilization, drugs everywhere, last of the churches being sold, celebration of atheism, police finding it increasingly difficult to recruit, attrition of police from countries areas
To be fair, thieves have always been around, as have drugs.
Can’t say I see/hear much of this “celebration of atheism” thing either.
Probably restricted to this forum?
roughbarked said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Michael V said:To be fair, thieves have always been around, as have drugs.
Can’t say I see/hear much of this “celebration of atheism” thing either.
Probably restricted to this forum?
I don’t see any “celebration of Atheism” here either.
Michael V said:
roughbarked said:
The Rev Dodgson said:Can’t say I see/hear much of this “celebration of atheism” thing either.
Probably restricted to this forum?
I don’t see any “celebration of Atheism” here either.
True. I don’t know where trans gets it from but then he does put lots of words in that don’t necessarily mean much at times.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Michael V said:
transition said:they’re not mine, are the guy who feedlots sheep there
more pisses me off the decay of civilization, drugs everywhere, last of the churches being sold, celebration of atheism, police finding it increasingly difficult to recruit, attrition of police from countries areas
To be fair, thieves have always been around, as have drugs.
Can’t say I see/hear much of this “celebration of atheism” thing either.
Just because you don’t get invited to the parties…
captain_spalding said:
SCIENCE said:captain_spalding said:
no evidence of that is ever produced.dude c’m‘on now yous’re asking for a lot
Well, let’s take Sandy Hook.
You try, you just try, to get a whole lot of 6- and 7- year olds to all ‘play dead’/hold still long enough to get one ‘staged’ crisis picture.
This feels like you are trivialising. Nevertheless, I will say that the above is not the biggest flaw in the notion of crisis actors.
Why don’t scissors cut when you use them with your left hand (if you’re right-handed)?
Michael V said:
transition said:
Michael V said:Can you claim on insurance?
they’re not mine, are the guy who feedlots sheep there
more pisses me off the decay of civilization, drugs everywhere, last of the churches being sold, celebration of atheism, police finding it increasingly difficult to recruit, attrition of police from countries areas
To be fair, thieves have always been around, as have drugs.
anyways just been out there the guy uses feedlots has ute full of wheels would you believe, had them fixed, puts back on, stole his own wheels, got them fixed, then dares to put them back on his feeders, the audacity, it’s got to stop
back to the decay of civilization….
captain_spalding said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Michael V said:To be fair, thieves have always been around, as have drugs.
Can’t say I see/hear much of this “celebration of atheism” thing either.
Just because you don’t get invited to the parties…
chuckle
captain_spalding said:
SCIENCE said:captain_spalding said:
no evidence of that is ever produced.dude c’m‘on now yous’re asking for a lot
Well, let’s take Sandy Hook.
You try, you just try, to get a whole lot of 6- and 7- year olds to all ‘play dead’/hold still long enough to get one ‘staged’ crisis picture.
Their bodies were shredded by the bullets.
transition said:
Michael V said:
transition said:they’re not mine, are the guy who feedlots sheep there
more pisses me off the decay of civilization, drugs everywhere, last of the churches being sold, celebration of atheism, police finding it increasingly difficult to recruit, attrition of police from countries areas
To be fair, thieves have always been around, as have drugs.
anyways just been out there the guy uses feedlots has ute full of wheels would you believe, had them fixed, puts back on, stole his own wheels, got them fixed, then dares to put them back on his feeders, the audacity, it’s got to stop
back to the decay of civilization….
LOL
transition said:
Michael V said:
transition said:they’re not mine, are the guy who feedlots sheep there
more pisses me off the decay of civilization, drugs everywhere, last of the churches being sold, celebration of atheism, police finding it increasingly difficult to recruit, attrition of police from countries areas
To be fair, thieves have always been around, as have drugs.
anyways just been out there the guy uses feedlots has ute full of wheels would you believe, had them fixed, puts back on, stole his own wheels, got them fixed, then dares to put them back on his feeders, the audacity, it’s got to stop
back to the decay of civilization….
All’s well that ends well.
Including civilisation.
Arts said:
captain_spalding said:
SCIENCE said:dude c’m‘on now yous’re asking for a lot
Well, let’s take Sandy Hook.
You try, you just try, to get a whole lot of 6- and 7- year olds to all ‘play dead’/hold still long enough to get one ‘staged’ crisis picture.
This feels like you are trivialising. Nevertheless, I will say that the above is not the biggest flaw in the notion of crisis actors.
Yeah, i can see how that could be read as ‘trivialising’. Not really my intention.
As i see it, the biggest flaw is the claim that there’s ‘crisis actors’ itself. Consider, without referring to any specific event:
‘These people are ‘crisis actors’.’
how do you know that?
‘We’e have information/evidence that this is so.”
Will you show us that evidence?
‘Umm…no.’
OK. Can you identify any of these ‘crisis actors’, and tell us from where they were recruited, who paid them, and where they went afterwards?
‘Umm…no.’
Right. Can you explain, then, what has happened the people who were claimed to have been killed in this ‘fake crisis’, who all have detailed life histories leading up to this event, and who the ‘crisis actors’ were, presumably, impersonating?
‘Umm..no.’
Have there been claims from officials or law officers whose politics and ideologies are congruent with yours that they have been excluded from investigations into these matters?
‘Umm…no.’
But, you stand by your claim that it’s all ‘crisis actors’?
‘Oh, absolutely!’
kii said:
captain_spalding said:
SCIENCE said:dude c’m‘on now yous’re asking for a lot
Well, let’s take Sandy Hook.
You try, you just try, to get a whole lot of 6- and 7- year olds to all ‘play dead’/hold still long enough to get one ‘staged’ crisis picture.
Their bodies were shredded by the bullets.
I think that you misread me, kii.
I’m suggesting that, if the victims had been ‘crisis actors, as claimed by people like Alex Jones, then obtaining convincing ‘performances’ from a bunch of 6- and 7-year olds for whatever pictures he/they chose to support their claim would have been an exercise akin to herding cats.
Perhaps that is ‘trivialising’. If so, then i regret it, but i can’t delete it now.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Michael V said:
transition said:they’re not mine, are the guy who feedlots sheep there
more pisses me off the decay of civilization, drugs everywhere, last of the churches being sold, celebration of atheism, police finding it increasingly difficult to recruit, attrition of police from countries areas
To be fair, thieves have always been around, as have drugs.
Can’t say I see/hear much of this “celebration of atheism” thing either.
I celebrate it every day. Especially when religious fuckers start with the “thoughts and prayers” bullshit and saying amen all over Facebook.
captain_spalding said:
Arts said:
captain_spalding said:Well, let’s take Sandy Hook.
You try, you just try, to get a whole lot of 6- and 7- year olds to all ‘play dead’/hold still long enough to get one ‘staged’ crisis picture.
This feels like you are trivialising. Nevertheless, I will say that the above is not the biggest flaw in the notion of crisis actors.
Yeah, i can see how that could be read as ‘trivialising’. Not really my intention.
As i see it, the biggest flaw is the claim that there’s ‘crisis actors’ itself. Consider, without referring to any specific event:
‘These people are ‘crisis actors’.’
how do you know that?
‘We’e have information/evidence that this is so.”
Will you show us that evidence?
‘Umm…no.’
OK. Can you identify any of these ‘crisis actors’, and tell us from where they were recruited, who paid them, and where they went afterwards?
‘Umm…no.’
Right. Can you explain, then, what has happened the people who were claimed to have been killed in this ‘fake crisis’, who all have detailed life histories leading up to this event, and who the ‘crisis actors’ were, presumably, impersonating?
‘Umm..no.’
Have there been claims from officials or law officers whose politics and ideologies are congruent with yours that they have been excluded from investigations into these matters?
‘Umm…no.’
But, you stand by your claim that it’s all ‘crisis actors’?
‘Oh, absolutely!’
So I spent a bit of time in the forums that have very angry people in them. They were angry about the idea that the government was planning on implementing some firearm restrictions (in an attempt to prevent the shooting of children and adults in their places of work and learning). They saw the restrictions as a far greater slight on their right to live than the killing of children.
These forums did supply what they saw as evidence. They don’t say ‘no’ when you ask for evidence… they provide what they truely believe is evidence. Things like photos comparisons, what they believe is the same person from one school shooting news reel to another, they spend time and care to show they are right. And quite frankly, it’s scary how convincing they can be. Especially when the majority of the world are not as critical as you and I. The art to their craft is to manipulate anger into belief… much like a cult manipulates loneliness and disparity into belief. It’s is difficult for humans to think critically in highly emotive states.
You say there is not evidence… they do provide ‘evidence’ sometimes very convincing evidence. Much like a defence lawyer – you only have to sew one seed of doubt. These people are not just playing because they think big brother is out to take away five of their six automatic weapons, they are using emotional control… and they know their game – because they created the game.
Arts said:
captain_spalding said:
Arts said:This feels like you are trivialising. Nevertheless, I will say that the above is not the biggest flaw in the notion of crisis actors.
Yeah, i can see how that could be read as ‘trivialising’. Not really my intention.
As i see it, the biggest flaw is the claim that there’s ‘crisis actors’ itself. Consider, without referring to any specific event:
‘These people are ‘crisis actors’.’
how do you know that?
‘We’e have information/evidence that this is so.”
Will you show us that evidence?
‘Umm…no.’
OK. Can you identify any of these ‘crisis actors’, and tell us from where they were recruited, who paid them, and where they went afterwards?
‘Umm…no.’
Right. Can you explain, then, what has happened the people who were claimed to have been killed in this ‘fake crisis’, who all have detailed life histories leading up to this event, and who the ‘crisis actors’ were, presumably, impersonating?
‘Umm..no.’
Have there been claims from officials or law officers whose politics and ideologies are congruent with yours that they have been excluded from investigations into these matters?
‘Umm…no.’
But, you stand by your claim that it’s all ‘crisis actors’?
‘Oh, absolutely!’
So I spent a bit of time in the forums that have very angry people in them. They were angry about the idea that the government was planning on implementing some firearm restrictions (in an attempt to prevent the shooting of children and adults in their places of work and learning). They saw the restrictions as a far greater slight on their right to live than the killing of children.
These forums did supply what they saw as evidence. They don’t say ‘no’ when you ask for evidence… they provide what they truely believe is evidence. Things like photos comparisons, what they believe is the same person from one school shooting news reel to another, they spend time and care to show they are right. And quite frankly, it’s scary how convincing they can be. Especially when the majority of the world are not as critical as you and I. The art to their craft is to manipulate anger into belief… much like a cult manipulates loneliness and disparity into belief. It’s is difficult for humans to think critically in highly emotive states.
You say there is not evidence… they do provide ‘evidence’ sometimes very convincing evidence. Much like a defence lawyer – you only have to sew one seed of doubt. These people are not just playing because they think big brother is out to take away five of their six automatic weapons, they are using emotional control… and they know their game – because they created the game.
I was, apparently, labouring under some misconceptions, and not giving due credit to the troglodytes who expound such nonsense as ‘crisis actors’.
Thanks for your expansion on the matter,
captain_spalding said:
kii said:
captain_spalding said:Well, let’s take Sandy Hook.
You try, you just try, to get a whole lot of 6- and 7- year olds to all ‘play dead’/hold still long enough to get one ‘staged’ crisis picture.
Their bodies were shredded by the bullets.
I think that you misread me, kii.
I’m suggesting that, if the victims had been ‘crisis actors, as claimed by people like Alex Jones, then obtaining convincing ‘performances’ from a bunch of 6- and 7-year olds for whatever pictures he/they chose to support their claim would have been an exercise akin to herding cats.
Perhaps that is ‘trivialising’. If so, then i regret it, but i can’t delete it now.
What happened at Sandy Hook, and then Uvalde, will always haunt me. To think that people in this shithouse country where I live, people I know, think that guns aren’t the problem just makes me physically ill.
I worked with a young woman who posted on Facebook about using the same weapon as the one used in Sandy Hook. At a nearby rifle range. She was fucking gleeful about it. When I questioned her about it, she got pissed off with me.
And then dumbshits make jokes about crisis actors.
Anyway…
ABC News:
Rishabh Pant may be a very fine person.
However, due to an episode of that transient myopia which can afflict me when browsing through the ABC Just-In page (particularly with articles which are on my peripheral vision), i will now always think of him as ‘Rubbish Pants’.
captain_spalding said:
ABC News:
Rishabh Pant may be a very fine person.
However, due to an episode of that transient myopia which can afflict me when browsing through the ABC Just-In page (particularly with articles which are on my peripheral vision), i will now always think of him as ‘Rubbish Pants’.
If he plays a few more shots like that maybe that will be his nickname
captain_spalding said:
ABC News:
Rishabh Pant may be a very fine person.
However, due to an episode of that transient myopia which can afflict me when browsing through the ABC Just-In page (particularly with articles which are on my peripheral vision), i will now always think of him as ‘Rubbish Pants’.
Exactly what I said too in the cricket thread at the time.
party_pants said:
captain_spalding said:
ABC News:
Rishabh Pant may be a very fine person.
However, due to an episode of that transient myopia which can afflict me when browsing through the ABC Just-In page (particularly with articles which are on my peripheral vision), i will now always think of him as ‘Rubbish Pants’.
Exactly what I said too in the cricket thread at the time.
Really? I’m afraid that i missed that.
captain_spalding said:
party_pants said:
captain_spalding said:
ABC News:
Rishabh Pant may be a very fine person.
However, due to an episode of that transient myopia which can afflict me when browsing through the ABC Just-In page (particularly with articles which are on my peripheral vision), i will now always think of him as ‘Rubbish Pants’.
Exactly what I said too in the cricket thread at the time.
Really? I’m afraid that i missed that.
That’s OK, the cricket thread is there to be ignored if you don’t follow cricket.
party_pants said:
captain_spalding said:
party_pants said:Exactly what I said too in the cricket thread at the time.
Really? I’m afraid that i missed that.
That’s OK, the cricket thread is there to be ignored if you don’t follow cricket.
Well, i do follow it, and i don’t.
Not as much as i did 15-20 years ago.
captain_spalding said:
party_pants said:
captain_spalding said:Really? I’m afraid that i missed that.
That’s OK, the cricket thread is there to be ignored if you don’t follow cricket.
Well, i do follow it, and i don’t.
Not as much as i did 15-20 years ago.
I don’t really follow sports much since Covid for some reason.
Arts said:
captain_spalding said:
Arts said:This feels like you are trivialising. Nevertheless, I will say that the above is not the biggest flaw in the notion of crisis actors.
Yeah, i can see how that could be read as ‘trivialising’. Not really my intention.
As i see it, the biggest flaw is the claim that there’s ‘crisis actors’ itself. Consider, without referring to any specific event:
‘These people are ‘crisis actors’.’
how do you know that?
‘We’e have information/evidence that this is so.”
Will you show us that evidence?
‘Umm…no.’
OK. Can you identify any of these ‘crisis actors’, and tell us from where they were recruited, who paid them, and where they went afterwards?
‘Umm…no.’
Right. Can you explain, then, what has happened the people who were claimed to have been killed in this ‘fake crisis’, who all have detailed life histories leading up to this event, and who the ‘crisis actors’ were, presumably, impersonating?
‘Umm..no.’
Have there been claims from officials or law officers whose politics and ideologies are congruent with yours that they have been excluded from investigations into these matters?
‘Umm…no.’
But, you stand by your claim that it’s all ‘crisis actors’?
‘Oh, absolutely!’
So I spent a bit of time in the forums that have very angry people in them. They were angry about the idea that the government was planning on implementing some firearm restrictions (in an attempt to prevent the shooting of children and adults in their places of work and learning). They saw the restrictions as a far greater slight on their right to live than the killing of children.
These forums did supply what they saw as evidence. They don’t say ‘no’ when you ask for evidence… they provide what they truely believe is evidence. Things like photos comparisons, what they believe is the same person from one school shooting news reel to another, they spend time and care to show they are right. And quite frankly, it’s scary how convincing they can be. Especially when the majority of the world are not as critical as you and I. The art to their craft is to manipulate anger into belief… much like a cult manipulates loneliness and disparity into belief. It’s is difficult for humans to think critically in highly emotive states.
You say there is not evidence… they do provide ‘evidence’ sometimes very convincing evidence. Much like a defence lawyer – you only have to sew one seed of doubt. These people are not just playing because they think big brother is out to take away five of their six automatic weapons, they are using emotional control… and they know their game – because they created the game.
I can’t help thinking that if a government wants to keep a secret — a really major one, like communicating with aliens — all they have to do is make a conspiracy theory out of it and hand it to the conspiracy theory forums. Once it’s taken up by the people who hang out there, no-one in the rest of the world will believe it.
The fact that I have come up with that idea means that others will have come up with it, too, so it’s possible that it’s already been implemented. So now I don’t know whether any of those conspiracy theories are actually true.
Mr V. YHM. It sent this time.
Woodie said:
Mr V. YHM. It sent this time.
Ta.
:)
transition said:
Michael V said:
transition said:they’re not mine, are the guy who feedlots sheep there
more pisses me off the decay of civilization, drugs everywhere, last of the churches being sold, celebration of atheism, police finding it increasingly difficult to recruit, attrition of police from countries areas
To be fair, thieves have always been around, as have drugs.
anyways just been out there the guy uses feedlots has ute full of wheels would you believe, had them fixed, puts back on, stole his own wheels, got them fixed, then dares to put them back on his feeders, the audacity, it’s got to stop
back to the decay of civilization….
The audacity indeed. You were the dutiful landowner though. Vigilant as always.
dv said:
Nods.
Watching The Brothers Sun.
Looks worthwhile.
Could be interesting.
btm said:
Arts said:
captain_spalding said:Yeah, i can see how that could be read as ‘trivialising’. Not really my intention.
As i see it, the biggest flaw is the claim that there’s ‘crisis actors’ itself. Consider, without referring to any specific event:
‘These people are ‘crisis actors’.’
how do you know that?
‘We’e have information/evidence that this is so.”
Will you show us that evidence?
‘Umm…no.’
OK. Can you identify any of these ‘crisis actors’, and tell us from where they were recruited, who paid them, and where they went afterwards?
‘Umm…no.’
Right. Can you explain, then, what has happened the people who were claimed to have been killed in this ‘fake crisis’, who all have detailed life histories leading up to this event, and who the ‘crisis actors’ were, presumably, impersonating?
‘Umm..no.’
Have there been claims from officials or law officers whose politics and ideologies are congruent with yours that they have been excluded from investigations into these matters?
‘Umm…no.’
But, you stand by your claim that it’s all ‘crisis actors’?
‘Oh, absolutely!’
So I spent a bit of time in the forums that have very angry people in them. They were angry about the idea that the government was planning on implementing some firearm restrictions (in an attempt to prevent the shooting of children and adults in their places of work and learning). They saw the restrictions as a far greater slight on their right to live than the killing of children.
These forums did supply what they saw as evidence. They don’t say ‘no’ when you ask for evidence… they provide what they truely believe is evidence. Things like photos comparisons, what they believe is the same person from one school shooting news reel to another, they spend time and care to show they are right. And quite frankly, it’s scary how convincing they can be. Especially when the majority of the world are not as critical as you and I. The art to their craft is to manipulate anger into belief… much like a cult manipulates loneliness and disparity into belief. It’s is difficult for humans to think critically in highly emotive states.
You say there is not evidence… they do provide ‘evidence’ sometimes very convincing evidence. Much like a defence lawyer – you only have to sew one seed of doubt. These people are not just playing because they think big brother is out to take away five of their six automatic weapons, they are using emotional control… and they know their game – because they created the game.
I can’t help thinking that if a government wants to keep a secret — a really major one, like communicating with aliens — all they have to do is make a conspiracy theory out of it and hand it to the conspiracy theory forums. Once it’s taken up by the people who hang out there, no-one in the rest of the world will believe it.
The fact that I have come up with that idea means that others will have come up with it, too, so it’s possible that it’s already been implemented. So now I don’t know whether any of those conspiracy theories are actually true.
how did they keep something secret before forums?
Arts said:
btm said:
Arts said:So I spent a bit of time in the forums that have very angry people in them. They were angry about the idea that the government was planning on implementing some firearm restrictions (in an attempt to prevent the shooting of children and adults in their places of work and learning). They saw the restrictions as a far greater slight on their right to live than the killing of children.
These forums did supply what they saw as evidence. They don’t say ‘no’ when you ask for evidence… they provide what they truely believe is evidence. Things like photos comparisons, what they believe is the same person from one school shooting news reel to another, they spend time and care to show they are right. And quite frankly, it’s scary how convincing they can be. Especially when the majority of the world are not as critical as you and I. The art to their craft is to manipulate anger into belief… much like a cult manipulates loneliness and disparity into belief. It’s is difficult for humans to think critically in highly emotive states.
You say there is not evidence… they do provide ‘evidence’ sometimes very convincing evidence. Much like a defence lawyer – you only have to sew one seed of doubt. These people are not just playing because they think big brother is out to take away five of their six automatic weapons, they are using emotional control… and they know their game – because they created the game.
I can’t help thinking that if a government wants to keep a secret — a really major one, like communicating with aliens — all they have to do is make a conspiracy theory out of it and hand it to the conspiracy theory forums. Once it’s taken up by the people who hang out there, no-one in the rest of the world will believe it.
The fact that I have come up with that idea means that others will have come up with it, too, so it’s possible that it’s already been implemented. So now I don’t know whether any of those conspiracy theories are actually true.
how did they keep something secret before forums?
Arts said:
btm said:
Arts said:So I spent a bit of time in the forums that have very angry people in them. They were angry about the idea that the government was planning on implementing some firearm restrictions (in an attempt to prevent the shooting of children and adults in their places of work and learning). They saw the restrictions as a far greater slight on their right to live than the killing of children.
These forums did supply what they saw as evidence. They don’t say ‘no’ when you ask for evidence… they provide what they truely believe is evidence. Things like photos comparisons, what they believe is the same person from one school shooting news reel to another, they spend time and care to show they are right. And quite frankly, it’s scary how convincing they can be. Especially when the majority of the world are not as critical as you and I. The art to their craft is to manipulate anger into belief… much like a cult manipulates loneliness and disparity into belief. It’s is difficult for humans to think critically in highly emotive states.
You say there is not evidence… they do provide ‘evidence’ sometimes very convincing evidence. Much like a defence lawyer – you only have to sew one seed of doubt. These people are not just playing because they think big brother is out to take away five of their six automatic weapons, they are using emotional control… and they know their game – because they created the game.
I can’t help thinking that if a government wants to keep a secret — a really major one, like communicating with aliens — all they have to do is make a conspiracy theory out of it and hand it to the conspiracy theory forums. Once it’s taken up by the people who hang out there, no-one in the rest of the world will believe it.
The fact that I have come up with that idea means that others will have come up with it, too, so it’s possible that it’s already been implemented. So now I don’t know whether any of those conspiracy theories are actually true.
how did they keep something secret before forums?
have you noticed how UFO sightings have decreased since we all now carry around cameras? of course, you could say that the alines have done enough probing to know all they need to know about the human race and have decided that we are actually quite boring so stuffed us on a shelf to gather dust with the rest of the cosmic toys .. in an effort to show they are interesting but really they are just poor
So apparently ‘Squid Game’ season 2 is shit.
Witty Rejoinder said:
So apparently ‘Squid Game’ season 2 is shit.
My daughter said she switched it off because it was too gory
dv said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
So apparently ‘Squid Game’ season 2 is shit.
My daughter said she switched it off because it was too gory
The Brothers Sun is stupid. I’ve stalled with 5 minutes left of episode 1. Just watching random Señor Sanchez videos on Instagram.
george orwell used the word ensconced in animal farm, thought everyone should know that
lady puzzling
we should all meet in the barn as soon as Mr Jones is safely out of the way
Talking about curios:
English wine bottle c.1690-1700, of free-blown onion shape.
Really quite small: 129mm wide, 130mm tall. But it weighs 859gm.
Must have been rather tricky pouring wine from a bottle of this shape.
Bubblecar said:
Talking about curios:English wine bottle c.1690-1700, of free-blown onion shape.
Really quite small: 129mm wide, 130mm tall. But it weighs 859gm.
Must have been rather tricky pouring wine from a bottle of this shape.
17th century stubby.
Bubblecar said:
Talking about curios:English wine bottle c.1690-1700, of free-blown onion shape.
Really quite small: 129mm wide, 130mm tall. But it weighs 859gm.
Must have been rather tricky pouring wine from a bottle of this shape.
Any idea of the volume it holds?
party_pants said:
Bubblecar said:
Talking about curios:English wine bottle c.1690-1700, of free-blown onion shape.
Really quite small: 129mm wide, 130mm tall. But it weighs 859gm.
Must have been rather tricky pouring wine from a bottle of this shape.
Any idea of the volume it holds?
Annoyingly, we’re not told. But looking at it as a sphere about 125mm in diameter, the volume would be a surprising 1022 mls.
Bubblecar said:
party_pants said:
Bubblecar said:
Talking about curios:English wine bottle c.1690-1700, of free-blown onion shape.
Really quite small: 129mm wide, 130mm tall. But it weighs 859gm.
Must have been rather tricky pouring wine from a bottle of this shape.
Any idea of the volume it holds?
Annoyingly, we’re not told. But looking at it as a sphere about 125mm in diameter, the volume would be a surprising 1022 mls.
A capacious stubby.
Bubblecar said:
party_pants said:
Bubblecar said:
Talking about curios:English wine bottle c.1690-1700, of free-blown onion shape.
Really quite small: 129mm wide, 130mm tall. But it weighs 859gm.
Must have been rather tricky pouring wine from a bottle of this shape.
Any idea of the volume it holds?
Annoyingly, we’re not told. But looking at it as a sphere about 125mm in diameter, the volume would be a surprising 1022 mls.
…but apparently the base has a kick-up to trap sediment, so the overall volume is likely to be similar to a normal modern 750ml wine bottle.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_Post_Medieval_glass_wine_bottle_dating_from_AD_1690-1700._(FindID_891131)_(cropped).jpg
We’re supposed to be getting afternoon rain, but no sign of it yet.
party_pants said:
Bubblecar said:
Talking about curios:English wine bottle c.1690-1700, of free-blown onion shape.
Really quite small: 129mm wide, 130mm tall. But it weighs 859gm.
Must have been rather tricky pouring wine from a bottle of this shape.
Any idea of the volume it holds?
11.
JudgeMental said:
party_pants said:
Bubblecar said:
Talking about curios:English wine bottle c.1690-1700, of free-blown onion shape.
Really quite small: 129mm wide, 130mm tall. But it weighs 859gm.
Must have been rather tricky pouring wine from a bottle of this shape.
Any idea of the volume it holds?
11.
Legs?
Michael V said:
JudgeMental said:
party_pants said:Any idea of the volume it holds?
11.
Legs?
a spinal tap reference.
So far I’ve refuelled the bobcat, greased it up and cleaned the air filter. Replaced the batteries in the laser level and fixed the air leak in the truck.
Now to replace the loading ramps and refuel the truck.
Time to do the washing up before thinking about getting dinner underway.
Given that this is the coolest day and night (min of 7 forecast) we can expect for some time, I’m doing a turkey breast roast this evening, with roast veg and gravy etc.
JudgeMental said:
Michael V said:
JudgeMental said:11.
Legs?
a spinal tap reference.
Oh, IDGI, then.
I puts some roach baits in buildings, and indoor/outdoor surface spray bottom of doorway entrances
not like roach, some chemical warfare, fight them back
Kingy said:
So far I’ve refuelled the bobcat, greased it up and cleaned the air filter. Replaced the batteries in the laser level and fixed the air leak in the truck.Now to replace the loading ramps and refuel the truck.
You make me tired just thinking about all that.
Michael V said:
JudgeMental said:
Michael V said:Legs?
a spinal tap reference.
Oh, IDGI, then.
Michael V said:
Kingy said:
So far I’ve refuelled the bobcat, greased it up and cleaned the air filter. Replaced the batteries in the laser level and fixed the air leak in the truck.Now to replace the loading ramps and refuel the truck.
You make me tired just thinking about all that.
I tidied up the area around the shed.
Was going to do a little more tidying outside, but decided a cool-off was needed.
31 deg here, a bit short of the predicted 34.
done a load of washing, hung out and just now brought in.
picked cherry tomatoes
made bolognaise sauce from previously picked cherry tomatoes
trimmed sage
trimmed thyme
picked dead bits from the parsley
oiled a fueled up chainsaw ready for some trimming later in the day
had brekkie
JudgeMental said:
Michael V said:
JudgeMental said:a spinal tap reference.
Oh, IDGI, then.
That is rejected by Chrome. Don’t worry though. It doesn’t matter.
Kingy said:
So far I’ve refuelled the bobcat, greased it up and cleaned the air filter. Replaced the batteries in the laser level and fixed the air leak in the truck.Now to replace the loading ramps and refuel the truck.
Keep up the good work, Mr Kingy, while I laze about on the couch watching the cricket. 😁
Michael V said:
JudgeMental said:
Michael V said:Oh, IDGI, then.
That is rejected by Chrome. Don’t worry though. It doesn’t matter.
worries.
JudgeMental said:
Michael V said:
JudgeMental said:That is rejected by Chrome. Don’t worry though. It doesn’t matter.
worries.
“One louder”. Works here, Chrome is happy.
A new series of Top Gear has been rumoured, with brand new hosts.
AuthaGraph is an approximately equal-area world map projection invented by Japanese architect Hajime Narukawa in 1999. The map is made by equally dividing a spherical surface into 96 triangles, transferring it to a tetrahedron while maintaining area proportions, and unfolding it in the form of a rectangle: it is a polyhedral map projection. The map substantially preserves sizes and shapes of all continents and oceans while it reduces distortions of their shapes, as inspired by the Dymaxion map. The projection does not have some of the major distortions of the Mercator projection, like the expansion of countries in far northern latitudes, and allows for Antarctica to be displayed accurately and in whole. Triangular world maps are also possible using the same method. The name is derived from “authalic” and “graph”.
fsm said:
AuthaGraph is an approximately equal-area world map projection invented by Japanese architect Hajime Narukawa in 1999. The map is made by equally dividing a spherical surface into 96 triangles, transferring it to a tetrahedron while maintaining area proportions, and unfolding it in the form of a rectangle: it is a polyhedral map projection. The map substantially preserves sizes and shapes of all continents and oceans while it reduces distortions of their shapes, as inspired by the Dymaxion map. The projection does not have some of the major distortions of the Mercator projection, like the expansion of countries in far northern latitudes, and allows for Antarctica to be displayed accurately and in whole. Triangular world maps are also possible using the same method. The name is derived from “authalic” and “graph”.
Bloody architects.
Table put together. Needs time for the putty to dry overnight, and then a final sanding and varnishing.
Then I can tick it off the list of things to do.
Time for a cold beer now. Not sharing, you had your chance earlier.
The Rev Dodgson said:
fsm said:
AuthaGraph is an approximately equal-area world map projection invented by Japanese architect Hajime Narukawa in 1999. The map is made by equally dividing a spherical surface into 96 triangles, transferring it to a tetrahedron while maintaining area proportions, and unfolding it in the form of a rectangle: it is a polyhedral map projection. The map substantially preserves sizes and shapes of all continents and oceans while it reduces distortions of their shapes, as inspired by the Dymaxion map. The projection does not have some of the major distortions of the Mercator projection, like the expansion of countries in far northern latitudes, and allows for Antarctica to be displayed accurately and in whole. Triangular world maps are also possible using the same method. The name is derived from “authalic” and “graph”.
Bloody architects.
Some 10% of Americans think the Earth is flat while another 9% are “unsure”. I hope that we can cromulate good projections like the AuthaGraph so that these tens of millions flat earthers aren’t using Mercator.
https://carsey.unh.edu/publication/conspiracy-vs-science-survey-us-public-beliefs
dv said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
fsm said:
AuthaGraph is an approximately equal-area world map projection invented by Japanese architect Hajime Narukawa in 1999. The map is made by equally dividing a spherical surface into 96 triangles, transferring it to a tetrahedron while maintaining area proportions, and unfolding it in the form of a rectangle: it is a polyhedral map projection. The map substantially preserves sizes and shapes of all continents and oceans while it reduces distortions of their shapes, as inspired by the Dymaxion map. The projection does not have some of the major distortions of the Mercator projection, like the expansion of countries in far northern latitudes, and allows for Antarctica to be displayed accurately and in whole. Triangular world maps are also possible using the same method. The name is derived from “authalic” and “graph”.
Bloody architects.
Some 10% of Americans think the Earth is flat while another 9% are “unsure”. I hope that we can cromulate good projections like the AuthaGraph so that these tens of millions flat earthers aren’t using Mercator.
https://carsey.unh.edu/publication/conspiracy-vs-science-survey-us-public-beliefs
Well it’s not completely flat, there’s mountains and stuff that make the rivers flow.
Peak Warming Man said:
dv said:
The Rev Dodgson said:Bloody architects.
Some 10% of Americans think the Earth is flat while another 9% are “unsure”. I hope that we can cromulate good projections like the AuthaGraph so that these tens of millions flat earthers aren’t using Mercator.
https://carsey.unh.edu/publication/conspiracy-vs-science-survey-us-public-beliefs
Well it’s not completely flat, there’s mountains and stuff that make the rivers flow.
oh wow so you’re one of those gravity believers?
dv said:
Peak Warming Man said:
dv said:Some 10% of Americans think the Earth is flat while another 9% are “unsure”. I hope that we can cromulate good projections like the AuthaGraph so that these tens of millions flat earthers aren’t using Mercator.
https://carsey.unh.edu/publication/conspiracy-vs-science-survey-us-public-beliefs
Well it’s not completely flat, there’s mountains and stuff that make the rivers flow.
oh wow so you’re one of those gravity believers?
I’ve been a believer ever since Newton invented it.
Elon seems gullible enough to be persuaded of the flat Earth view. Be interesting to see how that might affect his Space X projects.
Peak Warming Man said:
dv said:
The Rev Dodgson said:Bloody architects.
Some 10% of Americans think the Earth is flat while another 9% are “unsure”. I hope that we can cromulate good projections like the AuthaGraph so that these tens of millions flat earthers aren’t using Mercator.
https://carsey.unh.edu/publication/conspiracy-vs-science-survey-us-public-beliefs
Well it’s not completely flat, there’s mountains and stuff that make the rivers flow.
The mountains don’t make the rivers flow, the oceans suck.
dv said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
fsm said:
AuthaGraph is an approximately equal-area world map projection invented by Japanese architect Hajime Narukawa in 1999. The map is made by equally dividing a spherical surface into 96 triangles, transferring it to a tetrahedron while maintaining area proportions, and unfolding it in the form of a rectangle: it is a polyhedral map projection. The map substantially preserves sizes and shapes of all continents and oceans while it reduces distortions of their shapes, as inspired by the Dymaxion map. The projection does not have some of the major distortions of the Mercator projection, like the expansion of countries in far northern latitudes, and allows for Antarctica to be displayed accurately and in whole. Triangular world maps are also possible using the same method. The name is derived from “authalic” and “graph”.
Bloody architects.
Some 10% of Americans think the Earth is flat while another 9% are “unsure”. I hope that we can cromulate good projections like the AuthaGraph so that these tens of millions flat earthers aren’t using Mercator.
https://carsey.unh.edu/publication/conspiracy-vs-science-survey-us-public-beliefs
I really don’t see how that map would be any more convincing to flat earthists than any other projection.
Speaking of troubling stupid ideas
https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2024/06/13/anti-sunscreen-movement-on-tiktok-here-are-issues-with-this-trend/
The Rev Dodgson said:
dv said:
The Rev Dodgson said:Bloody architects.
Some 10% of Americans think the Earth is flat while another 9% are “unsure”. I hope that we can cromulate good projections like the AuthaGraph so that these tens of millions flat earthers aren’t using Mercator.
https://carsey.unh.edu/publication/conspiracy-vs-science-survey-us-public-beliefs
I really don’t see how that map would be any more convincing to flat earthists than any other projection.
I mean if we can convince them of it then they’ll be slightly less ignorant in that they’ll have a reasonable idea of the relative sizes of continents.
dv said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
dv said:Some 10% of Americans think the Earth is flat while another 9% are “unsure”. I hope that we can cromulate good projections like the AuthaGraph so that these tens of millions flat earthers aren’t using Mercator.
https://carsey.unh.edu/publication/conspiracy-vs-science-survey-us-public-beliefs
I really don’t see how that map would be any more convincing to flat earthists than any other projection.
I mean if we can convince them of it then they’ll be slightly less ignorant in that they’ll have a reasonable idea of the relative sizes of continents.
And Greenland, too!
Michael V said:
dv said:
The Rev Dodgson said:I really don’t see how that map would be any more convincing to flat earthists than any other projection.
I mean if we can convince them of it then they’ll be slightly less ignorant in that they’ll have a reasonable idea of the relative sizes of continents.
And Greenland, too!
Trump wants Mercator Greenland, not that titchy thing.
Bubblecar said:
Elon seems gullible enough to be persuaded of the flat Earth view. Be interesting to see how that might affect his Space X projects.
You heard it here first. Remember that.
It wouldn’t surprise me if the Orange Shitgibbon, in his inauguration speech. says the US will put a man on Mars by 2035 (or some such).
PS…….. and it won’t be NASA, but guess who’ll get all that taxpayer funding to do so.????
dv said:
Speaking of troubling stupid ideas
https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2024/06/13/anti-sunscreen-movement-on-tiktok-here-are-issues-with-this-trend/
A form of Darwinism.
The weakest-minded are eliminated.
Woodie said:
Bubblecar said:
Elon seems gullible enough to be persuaded of the flat Earth view. Be interesting to see how that might affect his Space X projects.
You heard it here first. Remember that.
It wouldn’t surprise me if the Orange Shitgibbon, in his inauguration speech. says the US will put a man on Mars by 2035 (or some such).
PS…….. and it won’t be NASA, but guess who’ll get all that taxpayer funding to do so.????
Space Force!!
Woodie said:
Bubblecar said:
Elon seems gullible enough to be persuaded of the flat Earth view. Be interesting to see how that might affect his Space X projects.
You heard it here first. Remember that.
It wouldn’t surprise me if the Orange Shitgibbon, in his inauguration speech. says the US will put a man on Mars by 2035 (or some such).
PS…….. and it won’t be NASA, but guess who’ll get all that taxpayer funding to do so.????
That’s why he’s going to gut trillions from government spending – so they can spend most of it on him.
captain_spalding said:
dv said:
Speaking of troubling stupid ideas
https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2024/06/13/anti-sunscreen-movement-on-tiktok-here-are-issues-with-this-trend/
A form of Darwinism.
The weakest-minded are eliminated.
Can we deny cancer treatment to these ‘weak-minded’?
- Concerned tax-payer
Witty Rejoinder said:
captain_spalding said:
dv said:
Speaking of troubling stupid ideas
https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2024/06/13/anti-sunscreen-movement-on-tiktok-here-are-issues-with-this-trend/
A form of Darwinism.
The weakest-minded are eliminated.
Can we deny cancer treatment to these ‘weak-minded’?
- Concerned tax-payer
That would make us as reprehensible as the people who the suckers follow.
This sounds borderline to me.
https://www.essentiafoundation.org/they-told-cancer-to-stop-and-it-did-the-science-and-philosophical-implications-of-bioelectric-fields/seeing/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFMLpZkkH_8
‘Talking’ to cells without influencing genes or molecules: it can be done by influencing bioelectric fields. By manipulating the bioelectric fields in organisms like planaria and tadpoles, Prof. Michael Levin has shown how eyes and other organs can grow in unconventional locations, how planaria can be ‘told’ to grow two heads, and perhaps most importantly: how cancer cells can be ‘told’ to stop growing in frogs. These promising experiments might lead to groundbreaking new therapeutics. The importance of the pioneering empirical work of Prof. Michael Levin at Tufts University, on the intersection of bioelectricity, regeneration, and cognition, can hardly be overstated. Philosophically, his work has deep implications for how we think about evolution, cognition and consciousness.
In 2020, Levin’s Lab created so-called Zenobots, programmable, living organisms made from frog cells (Xenopus laevis), designed to perform specific tasks such as movement or carrying objects. They represent a fusion of biology and robotics, created by assembling cells into novel, self-organizing structures guided by bioelectric signals. In trying to make sense of what his work on Zenobots points to, Levin regards evolution as the process whereby nature explores a Platonic realm of possibilities, ‘hardware configurations’ that, in a sense, are pre-existing and waiting to be discovered. And when it comes to intelligence, Levin sees only collective intelligence, in the sense that all intelligent lifeforms we know of are structured as sets of cells. Therefore, we ourselves could also very well be part of a larger intelligence.
captain_spalding said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
captain_spalding said:A form of Darwinism.
The weakest-minded are eliminated.
Can we deny cancer treatment to these ‘weak-minded’?
- Concerned tax-payer
That would make us as reprehensible as the people who the suckers follow.
exactly they can just have Laetrile Vitamin B17 or arsenic or prayer or megadose vitamins or detox dieting or whatever the latest greatest therapeutic is
captain_spalding said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
captain_spalding said:A form of Darwinism.
The weakest-minded are eliminated.
Can we deny cancer treatment to these ‘weak-minded’?
- Concerned tax-payer
That would make us as reprehensible as the people who the suckers follow.
I can live with that.
Divine Angel said:
Who’da thunk it.
Divine Angel said:
LOL
Michael V said:
Woodie said:
Bubblecar said:
Elon seems gullible enough to be persuaded of the flat Earth view. Be interesting to see how that might affect his Space X projects.
You heard it here first. Remember that.
It wouldn’t surprise me if the Orange Shitgibbon, in his inauguration speech. says the US will put a man on Mars by 2035 (or some such).
PS…….. and it won’t be NASA, but guess who’ll get all that taxpayer funding to do so.????
That’s why he’s going to gut trillions from government spending – so they can spend most of it on him.
Sounds like the loony left have run out of shiny objects. :)))
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:
LOL
Divine Angel said:
I wonder if Arts has studied this?
Bubblecar said:
Divine Angel said:
Who’da thunk it.
Pretty sure this theory has been debunked
Arts said:
Bubblecar said:
Divine Angel said:
Who’da thunk it.
Pretty sure this theory has been debunked
Seems solid to me.
Bogsnorkler said:
Divine Angel said:
I wonder if Arts has studied this?
The better theory is that violent crimes show a marked decrease in Mother’s Day.
dv said:
Arts said:
Bubblecar said:Who’da thunk it.
Pretty sure this theory has been debunked
Seems solid to me.
Because it covers most weeks in a month?
dv said:
Arts said:
Bubblecar said:Who’da thunk it.
Pretty sure this theory has been debunked
Seems solid to me.
The full
Moon theory has been debunked
Arts said:
dv said:
Arts said:Pretty sure this theory has been debunked
Seems solid to me.
Because it covers most weeks in a month?
28 / 29.5 = 0.95 approximately
dv said:
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:
LOL
Is Hillary doing a party impression of Monica.
dv said:
Arts said:
Bubblecar said:Who’da thunk it.
Pretty sure this theory has been debunked
Seems solid to me.
Me, too. (Give or take a few percent.)
Arts said:
Bubblecar said:
Divine Angel said:
Who’da thunk it.
Pretty sure this theory has been debunked
If something is proven true is it bunked.
Arts said:
Bubblecar said:
Divine Angel said:
Who’da thunk it.
Pretty sure this theory has been debunked
i was being felicious.
Arts said:
Bogsnorkler said:
Divine Angel said:
I wonder if Arts has studied this?
The better theory is that violent crimes show a marked decrease in Mother’s Day.
especially if it’s the day the paparazzi murdered a mother
Chess great Magnus Carlsen has quit the World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships in New York after governing body FIDE barred him from participating in a round at the tournament for wearing jeans.
In a statement, FIDE said its dress code regulations were designed to “ensure professionalism and fairness for all participants”.
SCIENCE said:
Chess great Magnus Carlsen has quit the World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships in New York after governing body FIDE barred him from participating in a round at the tournament for wearing jeans.
In a statement, FIDE said its dress code regulations were designed to “ensure professionalism and fairness for all participants”.
LOL.
SCIENCE said:
Chess great Magnus Carlsen has quit the World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships in New York after governing body FIDE barred him from participating in a round at the tournament for wearing jeans.
In a statement, FIDE said its dress code regulations were designed to “ensure professionalism and fairness for all participants”.
Yeah, you don’t want some dodgy jeans wearing hippy hiding pawn in his pants, that’s what the bishop is for.
It is oppressively humid and I can hear thunder.
Peak Warming Man said:
It is oppressively humid and I can hear thunder.
Ooh-aah.
Maybe they make them play ‘th nae trews to prove they aren’t communicating using anal beads
dv said:
Kingy said:
SCIENCE said:
Chess great Magnus Carlsen has quit the World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships in New York after governing body FIDE barred him from participating in a round at the tournament for wearing jeans.
In a statement, FIDE said its dress code regulations were designed to “ensure professionalism and fairness for all participants”.
Yeah, you don’t want some dodgy jeans wearing hippy hiding pawn in his pants, that’s what the bishop is for.
Maybe they make them play ‘th nae trews to prove they aren’t communicating using anal beads
in seriousness though wasn’t there chitchat going down about the bullshit dress codes for women recently or was it tennis we d’n‘o’
soooo what is everyone doing for NYE?
Me? Nowt.
Too much for me to catch up on here today. Been family-ing. Houston sister has no voice today…it’s been a day of trying to hear her whispering. At the Port Fairy market I had to order her mocha for her. Good day though.
Bogsnorkler said:
soooo what is everyone doing for NYE?Me? Nowt.
+1
buffy said:
Too much for me to catch up on here today. Been family-ing. Houston sister has no voice today…it’s been a day of trying to hear her whispering. At the Port Fairy market I had to order her mocha for her. Good day though.
Glad you’re enjoying each others’ company.
Bogsnorkler said:
soooo what is everyone doing for NYE?Me? Nowt.
Boss lady has booked a dinner reservation but the location is a secret. We should be home by 930pm to avoid the stupidity.
Bogsnorkler said:
soooo what is everyone doing for NYE?Me? Nowt.
I’ll probably have a few drinks and watch the midnight fireworks on the telly, as usual.
Bogsnorkler said:
soooo what is everyone doing for NYE?Me? Nowt.
I have no idea, but I guess we are doing nothing as usual.
Bogsnorkler said:
soooo what is everyone doing for NYE?Me? Nowt.
Going to my sister’s place. As we seem to do every year.
Bubblecar said:
Bogsnorkler said:
soooo what is everyone doing for NYE?Me? Nowt.
I’ll probably have a few drinks and watch the midnight fireworks on the telly, as usual.
AI interpretations of above scenario. Note: unlike these fellows, I don’t have a long beard and am not bald on top.
Bubblecar said:
Bogsnorkler said:
soooo what is everyone doing for NYE?Me? Nowt.
I’ll probably have a few drinks and watch the midnight fireworks on the telly, as usual.
NYE fireworks never features big over here. There’s a few local councils that do some, but the bigger fireworks night is Australia Day.
party_pants said:
Bubblecar said:
Bogsnorkler said:
soooo what is everyone doing for NYE?Me? Nowt.
I’ll probably have a few drinks and watch the midnight fireworks on the telly, as usual.
NYE fireworks never features big over here. There’s a few local councils that do some, but the bigger fireworks night is Australia Day.
Same here, nothing to compete with the Sydney Harbour display, which is the one I watch on ABC.
Bubblecar said:
party_pants said:
Bubblecar said:I’ll probably have a few drinks and watch the midnight fireworks on the telly, as usual.
NYE fireworks never features big over here. There’s a few local councils that do some, but the bigger fireworks night is Australia Day.
Same here, nothing to compete with the Sydney Harbour display, which is the one I watch on ABC.
3 hours too early for my timezone.
Michael V said:
Bogsnorkler said:
soooo what is everyone doing for NYE?Me? Nowt.
I have no idea, but I guess we are doing nothing as usual.
Us too.
party_pants said:
Bubblecar said:
Bogsnorkler said:
soooo what is everyone doing for NYE?Me? Nowt.
I’ll probably have a few drinks and watch the midnight fireworks on the telly, as usual.
NYE fireworks never features big over here. There’s a few local councils that do some, but the bigger fireworks night is Australia Day.
A few friends and myself drove 160+ kms to the 96FM skyshow back in the 80’s only to watch the fireworks barge explode.
The skyshow was over within 10 seconds. We didn’t know if that was supposed to happen, but we drove the same distance back home after midnight and got home at 3am.
Haven’t been back since.
Jeans-Gambit Declined Variation.
Not a winner.
sarahs mum said:
Jeans-Gambit Declined Variation.Not a winner.
:)
Good morning Holidayers. Presently 9 degrees at the back door and overcast. We are forecast 23 degrees with cloud increasing.
My siblings are going to Warrnambool this morning, but Mr buffy and I will stay home. They will turn up here when they come back again.
Morning pilgrims.
I’d better get ready for mass.
Peak Warming Man said:
Morning pilgrims.
I’d better get ready for mass.
Did you polish your shoes last night so you don’t have to do that this morning?
Good morning everybody.
It’s 24.5° C, 72% RH, partly cloudy and calm. BoM forecasts a top of 32° C and a moderate chance of rain right throughout the day.
Agenda: prepare and boil, then freeze the bamboo I cut the other day. I forgot to do that yesterday. Wash and freeze the small amount of ginger that got harvested this year. Watch Day four of the Boxing Day Test on TV.
Food: undecided. I should cut some more ham, so it’s ready if I feel like it. Or available for Mrs V when she returns on Monday.
Bamboo prepared and now boiling for an hour.
Ham slices cut.
Some ginger has been scrubbed. Most of it is rubbish.
Edible portions of bamboo in the freezer.
When your youngest sibling and his wife and your sister decide to walk up Mt Rouse and back…but you accept a ride to the top in the car with your second youngest sibling and just do the downhill walk back into town…
buffy said:
When your youngest sibling and his wife and your sister decide to walk up Mt Rouse and back…but you accept a ride to the top in the car with your second youngest sibling and just do the downhill walk back into town…
Then what happens?
Peak Warming Man said:
buffy said:
When your youngest sibling and his wife and your sister decide to walk up Mt Rouse and back…but you accept a ride to the top in the car with your second youngest sibling and just do the downhill walk back into town…
Then what happens?
Then they go into Warrnambool and I do some maar-ing. I decided I don’t want to go to Warrnambool today.
Completely overcast but not really looking like it might rain
dv said:
Completely overcast but not really looking like it might rain
Yeah, nice outdoors weather.
A plane carrying 175 passengers and six flight attendants drove off the runway and crashed into a wall at Muan International Airport in South Korea, according to the Yonhap news agency.
It reported there were 23 casualties, though their conditions were unknown.
A Muan airport official said the airport was handling the emergency situation.
roughbarked said:
A plane carrying 175 passengers and six flight attendants drove off the runway and crashed into a wall at Muan International Airport in South Korea, according to the Yonhap news agency.It reported there were 23 casualties, though their conditions were unknown.
A Muan airport official said the airport was handling the emergency situation.
and some joker in ATC radioed them and told them “you can’t park there, mate!”
roughbarked said:
A plane carrying 175 passengers and six flight attendants drove off the runway and crashed into a wall at Muan International Airport in South Korea
… so no pilots on board then?
“Well, there’s your problem!” as they say in the classics.
fkn russian air defences
party_pants said:
roughbarked said:
A plane carrying 175 passengers and six flight attendants drove off the runway and crashed into a wall at Muan International Airport in South Korea… so no pilots on board then?
“Well, there’s your problem!” as they say in the classics.
:)
roughbarked said:
party_pants said:
roughbarked said:
A plane carrying 175 passengers and six flight attendants drove off the runway and crashed into a wall at Muan International Airport in South Korea… so no pilots on board then?
“Well, there’s your problem!” as they say in the classics.
:)
The number on board has been updated to 181. So maybe they found the pilots after all.
SCIENCE said:
fkn russian air defences
Apparently they were active.
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:
party_pants said:… so no pilots on board then?
“Well, there’s your problem!” as they say in the classics.
:)
The number on board has been updated to 181. So maybe they found the pilots after all.
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said::)
The number on board has been updated to 181. So maybe they found the pilots after all.
I guess we shouldn’t really joke about it. This looks serious.
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:
:)
The number on board has been updated to 181. So maybe they found the pilots after all.
also title but not underlying text updated to 28 dead
we see they’re also blaming “birds” which was what the Azerbaijan thing was blamed on to begin with
ah well we still remember when 2004-12-26T00:58:53Z happened and everyone was banging on about the like 7 Australians who were caught up in the fun and games and the 200000 ASIANS that disappeared were way down the page as a quick comment
SCIENCE said:
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:
The number on board has been updated to 181. So maybe they found the pilots after all.
also title but not underlying text updated to 28 dead
we see they’re also blaming “birds” which was what the Azerbaijan thing was blamed on to begin with
there
also Boeing 737-800 again eh
party_pants said:
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:The number on board has been updated to 181. So maybe they found the pilots after all.
I guess we shouldn’t really joke about it. This looks serious.
Yes.
SCIENCE said:
ah well we still remember when 2004-12-26T00:58:53Z happened and everyone was banging on about the like 7 Australians who were caught up in the fun and games and the 200000 ASIANS that disappeared were way down the page as a quick comment
I was working with a Balinese lady at the time.
Her dad, a doctor, was working in Aceh province when the wave struck, and was pretty much the first medico on the scene.
She passed on to us his descriptions of the catastrophe.
It was very much worse than even the most lurid of media accounts. To be fair, some of the things he described would have been too much for even the most sensationalist newspapers etc. to relay.
Hey, roughie,
There’s a story about Swiss watches on page 144 of this 1954 issue of Popular Science:
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=xCUDAAAAMBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
Leg ham sangers with lashings of hot english.
Over.
noodles done, left most the salt in the bottom of the bowl, the salty dregs, and having half an aspirin to postpone a heart attack
and another sip of my coffee, a very strong coffee, not sure if it would kill a horse, possibly not, probably not, likely not, very likely not, not even a small horse, a small dwarf horse, not even a mutant midget dwarf horse with preexisting health conditions
captain_spalding said:
Hey, roughie,There’s a story about Swiss watches on page 144 of this 1954 issue of Popular Science:
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=xCUDAAAAMBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
Ta. I’ll have a look at it. Watches get a few mentions in the Popular Science mag.
transition said:
noodles done, left most the salt in the bottom of the bowl, the salty dregs, and having half an aspirin to postpone a heart attackand another sip of my coffee, a very strong coffee, not sure if it would kill a horse, possibly not, probably not, likely not, very likely not, not even a small horse, a small dwarf horse, not even a mutant midget dwarf horse with preexisting health conditions
A shetland?
roughbarked said:
transition said:
noodles done, left most the salt in the bottom of the bowl, the salty dregs, and having half an aspirin to postpone a heart attackand another sip of my coffee, a very strong coffee, not sure if it would kill a horse, possibly not, probably not, likely not, very likely not, not even a small horse, a small dwarf horse, not even a mutant midget dwarf horse with preexisting health conditions
A shetland?
that’s very cute, got all watery eyed with joy for a moment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAWn97lGwjk
The Smallest Horse In The World Sits At… The Dinner Table? | The Dodo Little But Fierce
Bubblecar might not want to read about lone bushwalkers dying in the Tasmanian bush. Two in quick succession.
buffy said:
Bubblecar might not want to read about lone bushwalkers dying in the Tasmanian bush. Two in quick succession.
Yes, it’s sobering. But my nephew is a very experienced lone bushwalker and very well equipped.
First there’s nothing to ease my braint, and now no Sunday Hard Quiz.
dv said:
First there’s nothing to ease my braint, and now no Sunday Hard Quiz.
Strangely, it had never occurred to me that the purpose of the Friday thing was easing braints.
Bubblecar said:
buffy said:
Bubblecar might not want to read about lone bushwalkers dying in the Tasmanian bush. Two in quick succession.Yes, it’s sobering. But my nephew is a very experienced lone bushwalker and very well equipped.
Personal EPIRB?
transition said:
roughbarked said:
transition said:
noodles done, left most the salt in the bottom of the bowl, the salty dregs, and having half an aspirin to postpone a heart attackand another sip of my coffee, a very strong coffee, not sure if it would kill a horse, possibly not, probably not, likely not, very likely not, not even a small horse, a small dwarf horse, not even a mutant midget dwarf horse with preexisting health conditions
A shetland?
that’s very cute, got all watery eyed with joy for a moment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAWn97lGwjk
The Smallest Horse In The World Sits At… The Dinner Table? | The Dodo Little But Fierce
Tiny horse.
buffy said:
Bubblecar might not want to read about lone bushwalkers dying in the Tasmanian bush. Two in quick succession.
3 people perished on Mt Cook while I was in NZ. Very experienced climbers and well equipped, all the knowledge.
captain_spalding said:
Bubblecar said:
buffy said:
Bubblecar might not want to read about lone bushwalkers dying in the Tasmanian bush. Two in quick succession.Yes, it’s sobering. But my nephew is a very experienced lone bushwalker and very well equipped.
Personal EPIRB?
Yes he has all that stuff.
These dead people also had beacons, which they activated, but rescue didn’t arrive in time.
Arts said:
buffy said:
Bubblecar might not want to read about lone bushwalkers dying in the Tasmanian bush. Two in quick succession.3 people perished on Mt Cook while I was in NZ. Very experienced climbers and well equipped, all the knowledge.
It can happen to even very clever people, unfortunately.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14213855/Michael-Mosleys-death-revealed-coroner.html
dv said:
First there’s nothing to ease my braint, and now no Sunday Hard Quiz.
I didn’t think there was such a thing..
Lucky bastard
roughbarked said:
party_pants said:
roughbarked said:
I guess we shouldn’t really joke about it. This looks serious.
Yes.
It is worser and worser.
Arts said:
buffy said:
Bubblecar might not want to read about lone bushwalkers dying in the Tasmanian bush. Two in quick succession.3 people perished on Mt Cook while I was in NZ. Very experienced climbers and well equipped, all the knowledge.
My PhD supervisor had at one stage been on the Mt Cook Rescue climbing crew.
Ian said:
dv said:
First there’s nothing to ease my braint, and now no Sunday Hard Quiz.
I didn’t think there was such a thing..
Lucky bastard
mules bray, horses brain’t
What’s with all these Brazilian football players using mononyms …
thinking they are Cher or Michelangelo or something
dv said:
What’s with all these Brazilian football players using mononyms …
thinking they are Cher or Michelangelo or something
Dunno. Association Football is not within my realm of interest, nevermind the subset of Brazilian players of said sport.
But it is probably just a fashion thing.
party_pants said:
dv said:
What’s with all these Brazilian football players using mononyms …
thinking they are Cher or Michelangelo or something
Dunno. Association Football is not within my realm of interest, nevermind the subset of Brazilian players of said sport.
But it is probably just a fashion thing.
Could lead outbreaks of that ‘no! I am Spartacus!’ thing.
captain_spalding said:
party_pants said:
dv said:
What’s with all these Brazilian football players using mononyms …
thinking they are Cher or Michelangelo or something
Dunno. Association Football is not within my realm of interest, nevermind the subset of Brazilian players of said sport.
But it is probably just a fashion thing.
Could lead outbreaks of that ‘no! I am Spartacus!’ thing.
No, probably not. I’m thinking it is more like every player wanting to have a social media brand, alongside their playing career.
party_pants said:
captain_spalding said:
party_pants said:Dunno. Association Football is not within my realm of interest, nevermind the subset of Brazilian players of said sport.
But it is probably just a fashion thing.
Could lead outbreaks of that ‘no! I am Spartacus!’ thing.
No, probably not. I’m thinking it is more like every player wanting to have a social media brand, alongside their playing career.
But, there’s only so many Portuguese names.
What will happen when there’s multiples of e.g. ‘Adriano’?
Will they need identifiers, even if they’re not surnames? Like ‘Adriano Prime’, ‘Adriano Optimus’, or ‘Adriano the First’, ‘Adriano the Younger’, ‘Adriano, the Other One’?
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:
party_pants said:
I guess we shouldn’t really joke about it. This looks serious.
Yes.
It is worser and worser.
Fun And Games
Fire fighters now say all people on board except two rescued are presumed dead, Yonhap reports. The official death toll is currently 62 — 37 women and 25 men — but has been rising quickly. There were 181 people on board, 175 passengers and six crew.
SCIENCE said:
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:
Yes.
It is worser and worser.
Fun And Games
Fire fighters now say all people on board except two rescued are presumed dead, Yonhap reports. The official death toll is currently 62 — 37 women and 25 men — but has been rising quickly. There were 181 people on board, 175 passengers and six crew.
So they just haven’t retrieved and counted all the bodies yet :(
SCIENCE said:
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:
Yes.
It is worser and worser.
Fun And Games
Fire fighters now say all people on board except two rescued are presumed dead, Yonhap reports. The official death toll is currently 62 — 37 women and 25 men — but has been rising quickly. There were 181 people on board, 175 passengers and six crew.
uh yeah guess that would be
difficult to survive
Tom still doing audio plays for Big Finish
party_pants said:
captain_spalding said:
party_pants said:Dunno. Association Football is not within my realm of interest, nevermind the subset of Brazilian players of said sport.
But it is probably just a fashion thing.
Could lead outbreaks of that ‘no! I am Spartacus!’ thing.
No, probably not. I’m thinking it is more like every player wanting to have a social media brand, alongside their playing career.
It’s a trend that started like 100 years ago. Like even the 1930 WC team has a lot of players going that way.
On the video that Mrs S is watching,someone just claimed to be ‘keen on D-I-Y’.
I am also adept at D-I-Y.
Damage-It-Yourself.
Zempillass is putting on a big NYE show so people can flock to Perth to watch two sets of fireworks… a total of 27 minutes…
“The City of Perth, together with Gina Rinehart’s Roy Hill, is pumping $500,000 into fireworks displays at Elizabeth Quay and Northbridge — and for the first time there will be fireworks at midnight on the Swan River.”
in an effort to win hearts and bring families back into the city… (that will take them three hours to depart from becuase he is encouraging people to come into the city).
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:
party_pants said:I guess we shouldn’t really joke about it. This looks serious.
Yes.
It is worser and worser.
179 people are believed to be dead after a plane crashed at Muan International Airport in South Korea.
The official death toll is 85 — 46 women and 39 men
Two people have been rescued.
China unveils new futuristic fighter jets in surprise flyby
Viral images on Chinese social media show the sophisticated jets flying at low altitude. Analysts say it could mark a breakthrough in Beijing’s military modernization.
US residents baffled as mysterious drones and orbs seen in skies above New Jersey; See viral video
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:Yes.
It is worser and worser.
179 people are believed to be dead after a plane crashed at Muan International Airport in South Korea.
The official death toll is 85 — 46 women and 39 men
Two people have been rescued.
Rough
I just finished making two ‘beckets’ (handles), such as might be used on ye olde sea-chest.
I was trying out a couple of ideas on how to finish, site, and secure some knots.
Having answered those questions, the next topic that arose was ‘would anyone have a use for them?’.
So, i looked up ‘chest beckets’ on e-Bay.
Now, there’s not a vast number for sale on eBay, but there are some.
And, ye gods and little cats, their creators seem to value them highly.
Now, mine are undoubtedly not quite so precisely finished, but…blimey!
I think that i lack the sheer brass face to go quite that far over the top.
captain_spalding said:
I just finished making two ‘beckets’ (handles), such as might be used on ye olde sea-chest.
I was trying out a couple of ideas on how to finish, site, and secure some knots.
Having answered those questions, the next topic that arose was ‘would anyone have a use for them?’.
So, i looked up ‘chest beckets’ on e-Bay.
Now, there’s not a vast number for sale on eBay, but there are some.
And, ye gods and little cats, their creators seem to value them highly.
Now, mine are undoubtedly not quite so precisely finished, but…blimey!
I think that i lack the sheer brass face to go quite that far over the top.
undercut everyone…
note – I just finished reading how to bin friends and ginfluence everything. (the last part is just adding gin to everything you eat and drink)
captain_spalding said:
I just finished making two ‘beckets’ (handles), such as might be used on ye olde sea-chest.
I was trying out a couple of ideas on how to finish, site, and secure some knots.
Having answered those questions, the next topic that arose was ‘would anyone have a use for them?’.
So, i looked up ‘chest beckets’ on e-Bay.
Now, there’s not a vast number for sale on eBay, but there are some.
And, ye gods and little cats, their creators seem to value them highly.
Now, mine are undoubtedly not quite so precisely finished, but…blimey!
I think that i lack the sheer brass face to go quite that far over the top.
Umm, is the chap who sold (cough, cough, wink, wink) stuff to dodgy people?
captain_spalding said:
I just finished making two ‘beckets’ (handles), such as might be used on ye olde sea-chest.
I was trying out a couple of ideas on how to finish, site, and secure some knots.
Having answered those questions, the next topic that arose was ‘would anyone have a use for them?’.
So, i looked up ‘chest beckets’ on e-Bay.
Now, there’s not a vast number for sale on eBay, but there are some.
And, ye gods and little cats, their creators seem to value them highly.
Now, mine are undoubtedly not quite so precisely finished, but…blimey!
I think that i lack the sheer brass face to go quite that far over the top.
How much do you value your time and talent for?
dv said:
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:It is worser and worser.
179 people are believed to be dead after a plane crashed at Muan International Airport in South Korea.
The official death toll is 85 — 46 women and 39 men
Two people have been rescued.
Rough
exacting
Michael V said:
captain_spalding said:
I just finished making two ‘beckets’ (handles), such as might be used on ye olde sea-chest.
I was trying out a couple of ideas on how to finish, site, and secure some knots.
Having answered those questions, the next topic that arose was ‘would anyone have a use for them?’.
So, i looked up ‘chest beckets’ on e-Bay.
Now, there’s not a vast number for sale on eBay, but there are some.
And, ye gods and little cats, their creators seem to value them highly.
Now, mine are undoubtedly not quite so precisely finished, but…blimey!
I think that i lack the sheer brass face to go quite that far over the top.
Umm, is the chap who sold (cough, cough, wink, wink) stuff to dodgy people?
None of it was dodgy.
None of what i sold was lethal.
It was all ancillary stuff.
All dealings were with legitimate and recognised governments, authorities, and their representatives.
I cannot answer for others whose acquaintance i may have made along the way.
It’s become quite gloomy. It’s 29.0° C and 66% RH. Very muggy. And there is rain festering around the region.
roughbarked said:
captain_spalding said:
I just finished making two ‘beckets’ (handles), such as might be used on ye olde sea-chest.
I was trying out a couple of ideas on how to finish, site, and secure some knots.
Having answered those questions, the next topic that arose was ‘would anyone have a use for them?’.
So, i looked up ‘chest beckets’ on e-Bay.
Now, there’s not a vast number for sale on eBay, but there are some.
And, ye gods and little cats, their creators seem to value them highly.
Now, mine are undoubtedly not quite so precisely finished, but…blimey!
I think that i lack the sheer brass face to go quite that far over the top.
How much do you value your time and talent for?
captain_spalding said:
Michael V said:
captain_spalding said:
I just finished making two ‘beckets’ (handles), such as might be used on ye olde sea-chest.
I was trying out a couple of ideas on how to finish, site, and secure some knots.
Having answered those questions, the next topic that arose was ‘would anyone have a use for them?’.
So, i looked up ‘chest beckets’ on e-Bay.
Now, there’s not a vast number for sale on eBay, but there are some.
And, ye gods and little cats, their creators seem to value them highly.
Now, mine are undoubtedly not quite so precisely finished, but…blimey!
I think that i lack the sheer brass face to go quite that far over the top.
Umm, is the chap who sold (cough, cough, wink, wink) stuff to dodgy people?
None of it was dodgy.
None of what i sold was lethal.
It was all ancillary stuff.
All dealings were with legitimate and recognised governments, authorities, and their representatives.
I cannot answer for others whose acquaintance i may have made along the way.
Yeah, right.
Taps nose.
Neophyte said:
roughbarked said:
captain_spalding said:
I just finished making two ‘beckets’ (handles), such as might be used on ye olde sea-chest.
I was trying out a couple of ideas on how to finish, site, and secure some knots.
Having answered those questions, the next topic that arose was ‘would anyone have a use for them?’.
So, i looked up ‘chest beckets’ on e-Bay.
Now, there’s not a vast number for sale on eBay, but there are some.
And, ye gods and little cats, their creators seem to value them highly.
Now, mine are undoubtedly not quite so precisely finished, but…blimey!
I think that i lack the sheer brass face to go quite that far over the top.
How much do you value your time and talent for?
:)
captain_spalding said:
I cannot answer for others whose acquaintance i may have made along the way.
And that’s the God’s honest, Mr. Chisholm.
Michael V said:
… festering around the region.
probably get a creme for that.
Neophyte said:
roughbarked said:
captain_spalding said:
I just finished making two ‘beckets’ (handles), such as might be used on ye olde sea-chest.
I was trying out a couple of ideas on how to finish, site, and secure some knots.
Having answered those questions, the next topic that arose was ‘would anyone have a use for them?’.
So, i looked up ‘chest beckets’ on e-Bay.
Now, there’s not a vast number for sale on eBay, but there are some.
And, ye gods and little cats, their creators seem to value them highly.
Now, mine are undoubtedly not quite so precisely finished, but…blimey!
I think that i lack the sheer brass face to go quite that far over the top.
How much do you value your time and talent for?
:)
I’m thinking of giving those beckets i made to the local woodworkers’ club.
captain_spalding said:
I’m thinking of giving those beckets i made to the local woodworkers’ club.
Any Thomases there?
Bogsnorkler said:
Michael V said:
… festering around the region.
probably get a creme for that.
:)
Michael V said:
captain_spalding said:
I’m thinking of giving those beckets i made to the local woodworkers’ club.
Any Thomases there?
Possibly, but unlikely to be very turbulent.
Mr Car and Woodie … you might find some interest in this lot.
Very little in the way of operations within the cab, but the driver’s view from the cab.
https://www.youtube.com/@driver667
&
https://www.youtube.com/@driver667/playlists – including collections from Tasmania, WA, NSW, South Australia, many from Melbourne & Victoria, and some overseas views, as well.
Watching Barbie. Half way through. WTF? So far it’s very hit and miss.
AussieDJ said:
Mr Car and Woodie … you might find some interest in this lot.Very little in the way of operations within the cab, but the driver’s view from the cab.
https://www.youtube.com/@driver667
&
https://www.youtube.com/@driver667/playlists – including collections from Tasmania, WA, NSW, South Australia, many from Melbourne & Victoria, and some overseas views, as well.
TOOT!! Thanks for thems Mr DJ. 😁😎
There’s heaps of them sorta things on The Choobs. A whole Australian train chasers industry built around that sorta thing.
eg. Do a Choobs search on “707 operations”. They operate heritage trains around Victoria.
TOOT TOOT!!🚂🚂
Then again this might be one of those times where SCIENCE has to dissect what is meant by “we”
dv said:
Then again this might be one of those times where SCIENCE has to dissect what is meant by “we”
but it was dv who introduced us(1,1,1) to this concept
SCIENCE said:
dv said:
Then again this might be one of those times where SCIENCE has to dissect what is meant by “we”
but it was dv who introduced us(1,1,1) to this concept
Curse his name
AussieDJ said:
Mr Car and Woodie … you might find some interest in this lot.Very little in the way of operations within the cab, but the driver’s view from the cab.
https://www.youtube.com/@driver667
&
https://www.youtube.com/@driver667/playlists – including collections from Tasmania, WA, NSW, South Australia, many from Melbourne & Victoria, and some overseas views, as well.
Ta and TOOT!! from me too :)
Woodie said:
AussieDJ said:
Mr Car and Woodie … you might find some interest in this lot.Very little in the way of operations within the cab, but the driver’s view from the cab.
https://www.youtube.com/@driver667
&
https://www.youtube.com/@driver667/playlists – including collections from Tasmania, WA, NSW, South Australia, many from Melbourne & Victoria, and some overseas views, as well.
TOOT!! Thanks for thems Mr DJ. 😁😎
There’s heaps of them sorta things on The Choobs. A whole Australian train chasers industry built around that sorta thing.
eg. Do a Choobs search on “707 operations”. They operate heritage trains around Victoria.
TOOT TOOT!!🚂🚂
Thank you for the heads-up. Now added to the playlists
Bubblecar said:
AussieDJ said:
Mr Car and Woodie … you might find some interest in this lot.Very little in the way of operations within the cab, but the driver’s view from the cab.
https://www.youtube.com/@driver667
&
https://www.youtube.com/@driver667/playlists – including collections from Tasmania, WA, NSW, South Australia, many from Melbourne & Victoria, and some overseas views, as well.
Ta and TOOT!! from me too :)
Thank you.
Here’s a nice one, only posted 3 hours ago. Lovely steam loco sound too.
Drivers view Tasmania, Queenstown to Lynchford, Oct 2024 on steam locomotive, Mount Lyell No. 3 along the West Coast Wilderness Railway.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVKqHmC6JuQ
dv said:
Then again this might be one of those times where SCIENCE has to dissect what is meant by “we”
I thought that was a transition province?
Bubblecar said:
Here’s a nice one, only posted 3 hours ago. Lovely steam loco sound too.Drivers view Tasmania, Queenstown to Lynchford, Oct 2024 on steam locomotive, Mount Lyell No. 3 along the West Coast Wilderness Railway.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVKqHmC6JuQ
Yes, that was what I was watching when I thought you and Woodie could be interested.
:)
He has a lovely fireplace.
Tom Baker Christmas message 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4b9QoEXHDg
Looking through the ABC News ‘Just In’ page, it appears that the days of Twixmas are a particularly risky time.
Pull your fing head in.
The poliovirus type 2 case was detected on December 2 and appears to be derived from someone who may have received a vaccine.
“This detection is likely linked to someone who received a live polio vaccine overseas and has continued to shed the virus since arriving in Victoria,” Dr Looker said.
“The presence of the virus in wastewater poses no risk to Melbourne residents, as the sewage is thoroughly treated.”
https://7news.com.au/news/public-health/measles-polio-detected-in-victoria-as-authorities-urge-caution-after-cases-surge-overseas-c-17187017
sarahs mum said:
The poliovirus type 2 case was detected on December 2 and appears to be derived from someone who may have received a vaccine.“This detection is likely linked to someone who received a live polio vaccine overseas and has continued to shed the virus since arriving in Victoria,” Dr Looker said.
“The presence of the virus in wastewater poses no risk to Melbourne residents, as the sewage is thoroughly treated.”
https://7news.com.au/news/public-health/measles-polio-detected-in-victoria-as-authorities-urge-caution-after-cases-surge-overseas-c-17187017
LOL
SCIENCE said:
sarahs mum said:
The poliovirus type 2 case was detected on December 2 and appears to be derived from someone who may have received a vaccine.“This detection is likely linked to someone who received a live polio vaccine overseas and has continued to shed the virus since arriving in Victoria,” Dr Looker said.
“The presence of the virus in wastewater poses no risk to Melbourne residents, as the sewage is thoroughly treated.”
https://7news.com.au/news/public-health/measles-polio-detected-in-victoria-as-authorities-urge-caution-after-cases-surge-overseas-c-17187017
LOL
And anyway it’s just Melbourne
Bubblecar said:
:)He has a lovely fireplace.
Tom Baker Christmas message 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4b9QoEXHDg
I don’t have a video recorded but I’d like to take this opportunity to wish all my fans a happy New Year.
Peak Warming Man said:
Bubblecar said::)He has a lovely fireplace.
Tom Baker Christmas message 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4b9QoEXHDg
I don’t have a video recorded but I’d like to take this opportunity to wish all my fans a happy New Year.
I was hoping for some scripture readings.
Bubblecar said:
Here’s a nice one, only posted 3 hours ago. Lovely steam loco sound too.Drivers view Tasmania, Queenstown to Lynchford, Oct 2024 on steam locomotive, Mount Lyell No. 3 along the West Coast Wilderness Railway.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVKqHmC6JuQ
CHOOF CHOOF CHOOF….. TOOT TOOT!!!🚂🚂🚂🚂
dv said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Bubblecar said::)He has a lovely fireplace.
Tom Baker Christmas message 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4b9QoEXHDg
I don’t have a video recorded but I’d like to take this opportunity to wish all my fans a happy New Year.
I was hoping for some scripture readings.
maybe quotes from favourite biographies?
dv said:
SCIENCE said:
sarahs mum said:
The poliovirus type 2 case was detected on December 2 and appears to be derived from someone who may have received a vaccine.“This detection is likely linked to someone who received a live polio vaccine overseas and has continued to shed the virus since arriving in Victoria,” Dr Looker said.
“The presence of the virus in wastewater poses no risk to Melbourne residents, as the sewage is thoroughly treated.”
https://7news.com.au/news/public-health/measles-polio-detected-in-victoria-as-authorities-urge-caution-after-cases-surge-overseas-c-17187017
LOL
And anyway it’s just Melbourne
It’s full diseased immigrants and boat people. they should be concentrated in a camp and have their heads shaved and deloused and made to work.
Peak Warming Man said:
dv said:
SCIENCE said:LOL
And anyway it’s just Melbourne
It’s full diseased immigrants and boat people. they should be concentrated in a camp and have their heads shaved and deloused and made to work.
steady
In Dad’s Army, Jones talks about his experiences with the Fuzzy-wuzzies. I’d never really thought about it before right now but I had otherwise only heard the term in relation to native allies in New Guinea in WW2, obviously not relevant to Jones’s experiences, so I looked it up:
The term Fuzzy-Wuzzy was used by British colonial soldiers like Lance-Corporal Jack Jones for the nineteenth-century Beja warriors (specifically the Haddendowa tribe) supporting the Sudanese Mahdi in the Mahdist War.The Beja provided a large number of warriors to the Mahdist forces. They were armed with swords and spears and some of them carried breech-loaded rifles which had been captured from the Egyptian forces, and some of them had acquired military experience in the Egyptian army.
So now we know.
I think we need to lighted up.
https://youtu.be/lnV64boQfo0
Peak Warming Man said:
I think we need to lighted up.
https://youtu.be/lnV64boQfo0
Parkie certainly was relaxing viewing back in the day
dv said:
Peak Warming Man said:
I think we need to lighted up.
https://youtu.be/lnV64boQfo0
Parkie certainly was relaxing viewing back in the day
Aye, I read book once.
That should read I read book by him once, but it might have been more.
He had a profound love of cricket, a Yorkshire boy.
back from the magic faraway farm, walk very long way, possibly further than that but don’t want seem like a braggart, a boaster, advertise my physical fitness, superior fitness, make others feel less able, no i’m considerate that way
kettle’s boiling and the other also, the mystery in the pot, top secret of course, I like some secret things
Hey, SM, given your recent posts about ‘ancient’ cooking practices, you might like this Youtube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/@townsends
Lots of olden-days cookery etc there, including stuff like salting and pickling and so forth.
I will never tell anyone that I ate glue at school.
My lips are sealed.
Kingy said:
I will never tell anyone that I ate glue at school.My lips are sealed.
:)
Kingy said:
I will never tell anyone that I ate glue at school.My lips are sealed.
Boris, give Kingy his handle back.
I has an apple, a jazz, a juicy jazz
i’m sensing someone wants to know more
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz_(apple)
“Jazz is a trademarked brand of the Scifresh cultivar of domesticated apple. Scifresh is a cross between Royal Gala and Braeburn. It was developed in New Zealand as part of a collaboration between apple marketer ENZA, orchardists, and the Plant & Food Research institute. The original cross was made in 1985 on trees at Goddard Lane, Havelock North, Hawkes Bay, New Zealand. It launched commercially in April 2004. It is hard and crisp but juicy. The colour is flushes of red and maroon over shades of green, yellow and orange. Jazz is a close relative of the Kanzi apple, which is easier to bite and has a more delicate sweet-tart taste.
Growers produce Jazz apples under licence in New Zealand, UK, United States, Australia, France, Chile, Italy, Switzerland, and Austria. Grown in the northern and southern hemispheres, it is available all year round. Trees take between four and five years before they start to produce fruit..”
how are you, master permeate, santa visit?, or dropped a grenade down your atheist darwinist chimney
Photo bucket (which I haven’t used in years) keeps sending me emails telling me that all my photos will be deleted if I don’t act soon…. It was probably about this time last year that they sent me similar emails which I ignored.. they sent me one last one saying that’s it. The account is gone. Then I didn’t hear from them for a while….
But now they are back, as I knew they would be someday….
Arts said:
Photo bucket (which I haven’t used in years) keeps sending me emails telling me that all my photos will be deleted if I don’t act soon…. It was probably about this time last year that they sent me similar emails which I ignored.. they sent me one last one saying that’s it. The account is gone. Then I didn’t hear from them for a while….But now they are back, as I knew they would be someday….
I had an account way back when I used to post at a forum that didn’t support uploading pictures directly into one’s post.
I think it was about or 2 or 3 laptops ago.
party_pants said:
Arts said:
Photo bucket (which I haven’t used in years) keeps sending me emails telling me that all my photos will be deleted if I don’t act soon…. It was probably about this time last year that they sent me similar emails which I ignored.. they sent me one last one saying that’s it. The account is gone. Then I didn’t hear from them for a while….But now they are back, as I knew they would be someday….
I had an account way back when I used to post at a forum that didn’t support uploading pictures directly into one’s post.
I think it was about or 2 or 3 laptops ago.
I haven’t used this account for so long I wouldn’t even know the password… and this was well before the time computers remembered passwords for you. I think it was well before that old place shut down …. But all the photos are on a hard drive somewhere, so I don’t care for the account anymore.
Arts said:
party_pants said:
Arts said:
Photo bucket (which I haven’t used in years) keeps sending me emails telling me that all my photos will be deleted if I don’t act soon…. It was probably about this time last year that they sent me similar emails which I ignored.. they sent me one last one saying that’s it. The account is gone. Then I didn’t hear from them for a while….But now they are back, as I knew they would be someday….
I had an account way back when I used to post at a forum that didn’t support uploading pictures directly into one’s post.
I think it was about or 2 or 3 laptops ago.
I haven’t used this account for so long I wouldn’t even know the password… and this was well before the time computers remembered passwords for you. I think it was well before that old place shut down …. But all the photos are on a hard drive somewhere, so I don’t care for the account anymore.
Same here. The original account was set up with an email that doesn’t exist anymore. I cannot even fix the password.
Many of those photos were scans from slides anyway.
Same here. I left botofukit when they enshitified it and stopped allowing more than 10 pics on a free account. Obviously the advertising revenue wasn’t enough for them, so they decided to hold the users pictures hostage.
Great idea dipshits. I moved over to imgur and didn’t look back. Now they want customers again, lol fkoff.
Kingy said:
I will never tell anyone that I ate glue at school.My lips are sealed.
:)
Arts said:
Photo bucket (which I haven’t used in years) keeps sending me emails telling me that all my photos will be deleted if I don’t act soon…. It was probably about this time last year that they sent me similar emails which I ignored.. they sent me one last one saying that’s it. The account is gone. Then I didn’t hear from them for a while….But now they are back, as I knew they would be someday….
Ha!
Same here. I would like to get some of the photos back, but I have to pay…
A train-fancying friend of mine was terribly depressed, so I pushed him in front of a steam train. He was chuffed to bits.
btm said:
A train-fancying friend of mine was terribly depressed, so I pushed him in front of a steam train. He was chuffed to bits.
Nah.
btm said:
A train-fancying friend of mine was terribly depressed, so I pushed him in front of a steam train. He was chuffed to bits.
dearie me
btm said:
A train-fancying friend of mine was terribly depressed, so I pushed him in front of a steam train. He was chuffed to bits.
My uncle died of deafness.
Didn’t hear the steam-roller coming.
I suppose I should try to finish this Barbie movie.
It’s too messy and too long and so far it seems the women are blaming themselves when really it’s all Ken’s fault for tagging along in the first place.
kii said:
I suppose I should try to finish this Barbie movie.
It’s too messy and too long and so far it seems the women are blaming themselves when really it’s all Ken’s fault for tagging along in the first place.
Just google the America Ferrera barbie speech. That’s the best part
Arts said:
kii said:
I suppose I should try to finish this Barbie movie.
It’s too messy and too long and so far it seems the women are blaming themselves when really it’s all Ken’s fault for tagging along in the first place.
Just google the America Ferrera barbie speech. That’s the best part
True, but even that missed some important issues. I think. I’ll have to listen to it again.
The opening statement of Barbie’s looks, it’s about her white woman good looks – conventional blue eyes etc…stereotypical Barbie. My first reaction was “that’s how you start this important speech?” I’d heard that it was the best part of the movie.
I may have a personal sore spot about this. My toxic maternal gma always called me “our beautiful kii”, with my father always saying “always use your brains and not your looks in life”. It was like the fairy in Sleeping Beauty who tries to nullify the bad fairy’s wish of death by spinning spindle.
Anyway…
Good morning Holidayers. Presently 10 degrees at the back door and there is a minor fog happening. We are forecast a partly cloudy 27 degrees.
Last day of sibling company today. We have family Christmas photos from when we were all about 10 years old. Last night we “recreated” the 1975 photo. We are all a bit older! Today we are going to the bush block for a wander and picnic. And more chat. Then coming back via Coleraine for chocolate. Fish and chips is on the menu for tea tonight.
Good morning pilgrims.
It’s another glorious day in the Pearl of the South Specific.
kii said:
Arts said:
kii said:
I suppose I should try to finish this Barbie movie.
It’s too messy and too long and so far it seems the women are blaming themselves when really it’s all Ken’s fault for tagging along in the first place.
Just google the America Ferrera barbie speech. That’s the best part
True, but even that missed some important issues. I think. I’ll have to listen to it again.
The opening statement of Barbie’s looks, it’s about her white woman good looks – conventional blue eyes etc…stereotypical Barbie. My first reaction was “that’s how you start this important speech?” I’d heard that it was the best part of the movie.
I may have a personal sore spot about this. My toxic maternal gma always called me “our beautiful kii”, with my father always saying “always use your brains and not your looks in life”. It was like the fairy in Sleeping Beauty who tries to nullify the bad fairy’s wish of death by spinning spindle.
Anyway…
My mother used to often say to me “Some day, you will make somebody a wonderful wife”.
I showed aptitude and interest in cleaning, tidying, cooking, drying up etc.
“Thanks for your help, I appreciate it” may have been a better turn of phrase, now I think about it again.
Michael V said:
kii said:
Arts said:Just google the America Ferrera barbie speech. That’s the best part
True, but even that missed some important issues. I think. I’ll have to listen to it again.
The opening statement of Barbie’s looks, it’s about her white woman good looks – conventional blue eyes etc…stereotypical Barbie. My first reaction was “that’s how you start this important speech?” I’d heard that it was the best part of the movie.
I may have a personal sore spot about this. My toxic maternal gma always called me “our beautiful kii”, with my father always saying “always use your brains and not your looks in life”. It was like the fairy in Sleeping Beauty who tries to nullify the bad fairy’s wish of death by spinning spindle.
Anyway…
My mother used to often say to me “Some day, you will make somebody a wonderful wife”.
I showed aptitude and interest in cleaning, tidying, cooking, drying up etc.
“Thanks for your help, I appreciate it” may have been a better turn of phrase, now I think about it again.
It’s interesting to look back at what’s said and how it can shape you. Toxic gma also said I’d marry a millionaire, based on some stupid old wife’s tale.
Good morning everybody. I hope the day treats each of you well.
It’s 23.7° C, 78% RH, and calm with scattered clouds. BoM forecasts a top of 28° C, and a good chance of rain all day.
Agenda: Go to Tin Can Bay and see Doctor. I must talk to him about my latest medicine. It makes me excessively sleepy and has made my blood pressure dangerously low at times during the day. Occasionally, a feeling like I am going to black out, comes on slowly. I really don’t like the side effects. I hope I can stop it completely, or substitute it for something else.
On the way home, I must go shopping for groceries at Cooloola Cove.
Food: undecided. I may have Christmas ham on toast (again).
Mrs V comes home today, probably while I am out.
Peak Warming Man said:
Good morning pilgrims.
It’s another glorious day in the Pearl of the South Specific.
There’s a big mass of rain nearby, though. Seems to be building and slowly moving towards you…
I see the hate was strong here last night.
Hope there’s nothing worth reading in that lot.
The Rev Dodgson said:
I see the hate was strong here last night.Hope there’s nothing worth reading in that lot.
Just checked, we mean it’s good input for argue bot machine learning, if you like that kind of thing.
Jimmy Carter is dead.
kii said:
Jimmy Carter is dead.
Noted.
looks like pretty weak evidence
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-30/mango-madness/104703932
incy wincy spider climbing up my leg, not so incy wincy. a huntsman.
wait so there really is a place for all that “excess solar” power to go if the stupid coal nuclear gas steam engines are too shit to adjust to fit in
damn imagine that
kii said:
Jimmy Carter is dead.
aww…
Well, he was too good forthis world, anyway.
captain_spalding said:
kii said:
Jimmy Carter is dead.
aww…
Well, he was too good forthis world, anyway.
He got a hundred years here. Not a bad innings either. A tad better than our peanut growing politician.
captain_spalding said:
kii said:
Jimmy Carter is dead.
aww…
Well, he was too good forthis world, anyway.
DA can cross him off the list.
roughbarked said:
captain_spalding said:
kii said:
Jimmy Carter is dead.
aww…
Well, he was too good forthis world, anyway.
He got a hundred years here. Not a bad innings either. A tad better than our peanut growing politician.
Any other useless words?
kii said:
roughbarked said:
captain_spalding said:aww…
Well, he was too good forthis world, anyway.
He got a hundred years here. Not a bad innings either. A tad better than our peanut growing politician.
Any other useless words?
C’mon, kii. Jimmy’s gone, none of us can do anything about that. Words are all we have left.
ABC News:
“The Iranians refused to give Carter the satisfaction of saying the hostages were released on his watch,” Mr Loosley says.
What the ABC story (and, undoubtedly, many other reports) does not mention is that Reagan’s people were in active communication with the Iranians, so as to persuade them to delay the release, and to make certain that Reagan would ‘get the credit’ for the release.
captain_spalding said:
kii said:
roughbarked said:He got a hundred years here. Not a bad innings either. A tad better than our peanut growing politician.
Any other useless words?
C’mon, kii. Jimmy’s gone, none of us can do anything about that. Words are all we have left.
roughbarked will never escape my ridicule after his stupid and thoughtless comment about me using too much medicinal cannabis. He speaks without any thought.
kii said:
captain_spalding said:
kii said:Any other useless words?
C’mon, kii. Jimmy’s gone, none of us can do anything about that. Words are all we have left.
roughbarked will never escape my ridicule after his stupid and thoughtless comment about me using too much medicinal cannabis. He speaks without any thought.
What makes your words any more useful? You were ridiculing me long enough beforehand for me to revert to insults..
I have never had any dislike of you and never attacked you until you left me no choice. Either leave the forum or tell you that you must be cray cray.
kii said:
roughbarked said:
captain_spalding said:aww…
Well, he was too good forthis world, anyway.
He got a hundred years here. Not a bad innings either. A tad better than our peanut growing politician.
Any other useless words?
Like yours?
Whoa, whoa…
…let’s not go to war here.
We had the forum swamped with a lot of back and forth last night.
Does today have to be the same?
People have demonstrated where they stand.
Is there nothing else in the world to look at and discuss?
captain_spalding said:
Whoa, whoa……let’s not go to war here.
We had the forum swamped with a lot of back and forth last night.
Does today have to be the same?
People have demonstrated where they stand.
Is there nothing else in the world to look at and discuss?
we’re just venting before we make our new year’s resolution to become beacons of light and understanding.
kii said:
I suppose I should try to finish this Barbie movie.
It’s too messy and too long and so far it seems the women are blaming themselves when really it’s all Ken’s fault for tagging along in the first place.
Bogsnorkler said:
captain_spalding said:
Whoa, whoa……let’s not go to war here.
We had the forum swamped with a lot of back and forth last night.
Does today have to be the same?
People have demonstrated where they stand.
Is there nothing else in the world to look at and discuss?
we’re just venting before we make our new year’s resolution to become beacons of light and understanding.
Oh, right.
Carry on then. I look forward to the brighter, kinder 2025 forum.
kii said:
Jimmy Carter is dead.
Fine man and a good president
dv said:
kii said:
Jimmy Carter is dead.
Fine man and a good president
I’m not allowed to add any more useless words.
dv said:
kii said:
Jimmy Carter is dead.
Fine man and a good president
A most under-appreciated Prez.
The media always seemed to be much more interested in pointing out the characteristics and quirks of his relatives than in anything that his administration did.
captain_spalding said:
dv said:
kii said:
Jimmy Carter is dead.
Fine man and a good president
A most under-appreciated Prez.
The media always seemed to be much more interested in pointing out the characteristics and quirks of his relatives than in anything that his administration did.
He wasn’t the glam that media would have preferred.
roughbarked said:
kii said:
captain_spalding said:C’mon, kii. Jimmy’s gone, none of us can do anything about that. Words are all we have left.
roughbarked will never escape my ridicule after his stupid and thoughtless comment about me using too much medicinal cannabis. He speaks without any thought.
What makes your words any more useful? You were ridiculing me long enough beforehand for me to revert to insults..
I have never had any dislike of you and never attacked you until you left me no choice. Either leave the forum or tell you that you must be cray cray.
Well, it started back in 2010, when I was doing the silversmithing course. You wanted to sell me some of your opals, and I asked for details. So you waffled on for ages, posting photos, but no information about size or prices. After a while I gave up. Then you once again you asked if I wanted to buy some opals. I think I ignored you.
I once felt annoyed about my dealings with you, and then it morphed into pity, and then concern that you were a sad old man.
Nowadays I just laugh at your stupid words and know-it-all bullshit, but your comment about me misusing medical cannabis was really hurtful. I had been trying to explain about the anxiety I was dealing with and you jumped to your conclusions.
Morning all.
roughbarked said:
captain_spalding said:
dv said:Fine man and a good president
A most under-appreciated Prez.
The media always seemed to be much more interested in pointing out the characteristics and quirks of his relatives than in anything that his administration did.
He wasn’t the glam that media would have preferred.
There hadn’t been a ‘glam’ President since Kennedy.
LBJ, Nixon, Ford. None of them could bethought of in that category.
OK, Reagan had been a ‘movie star’. But, that was something of a faded badge that he wore. By the time the 1980 election came around, he was an old man who was most famous for being a ‘typical’ right-wing Governor of California, whose work in that role was mostly aimed at increasing taxes paid by most people, giving tax cuts to corporations and the wealthy, and repressing dissent and protests.
So, it’s not like the alternative was any dream-boat, either.
Decided to grace you all with my presence again. Mr Mutant is doing a course on futures trading, Mini Me is cranky, and I’m just stuffing around.
We’re currently pet sitting, which requires twice daily visits to their house to feed their pets and make sure they’re inside for the night. The owners have previously said their skylight leaks in heavy rain. Saturday night we had a doozy of a storm; yesterday I rocked up to the house to find their skylight in pieces on the floor.
Yesterday we had Christmas #3 with my dad. His sister’s breast cancer has returned 😔 Two weeks ago his brother had emergency heart surgery to replace a valve, but he’s doing OK now and staying with another brother.
Jimmy Century.
Tau.Neutrino said:
Jimmy Century.
He was a nuclear propulsion officer in the US Navy, and he halted development of neutron bombs.
So, he qualifies to be ‘Jimmy Neutron’.
Bogsnorkler said:
captain_spalding said:
Whoa, whoa……let’s not go to war here.
We had the forum swamped with a lot of back and forth last night.
Does today have to be the same?
People have demonstrated where they stand.
Is there nothing else in the world to look at and discuss?
we’re just venting before we make our new year’s resolution to become beacons of light and understanding.
No New Year’s Resolutions for me.
captain_spalding said:
There hadn’t been a ‘glam’ President since Kennedy.
LBJ, Nixon, Ford. None of them could bethought of in that category.
OK, Reagan had been a ‘movie star’. But, that was something of a faded badge that he wore. By the time the 1980 election came around, he was an old man who was most famous for being a ‘typical’ right-wing Governor of California, whose work in that role was mostly aimed at increasing taxes paid by most people, giving tax cuts to corporations and the wealthy, and repressing dissent and protests.
So, it’s not like the alternative was any dream-boat, either.
Reagan-era television was something to behold. The rise of goody two-shoes nuclear families whose problems were neatly solved in 30 minutes a la Family Ties et al. When his Presidency neared its end, we saw “regular” (ie dysfunctional) families take the stage, such as Roseanne and The Simpsons. He was quite vocal about his displeasure over these shows as he thought it showed the decline of society.
Michael V said:
Bogsnorkler said:
captain_spalding said:
Whoa, whoa……let’s not go to war here.
We had the forum swamped with a lot of back and forth last night.
Does today have to be the same?
People have demonstrated where they stand.
Is there nothing else in the world to look at and discuss?
we’re just venting before we make our new year’s resolution to become beacons of light and understanding.
No New Year’s Resolutions for me.
My New Years resolution is not to make one next year.
Michael V said:
Bogsnorkler said:
captain_spalding said:
Whoa, whoa……let’s not go to war here.
We had the forum swamped with a lot of back and forth last night.
Does today have to be the same?
People have demonstrated where they stand.
Is there nothing else in the world to look at and discuss?
we’re just venting before we make our new year’s resolution to become beacons of light and understanding.
No New Year’s Resolutions for me.
Me neither. I’m going to be the delight I have always been.
Michael V said:
Bogsnorkler said:
captain_spalding said:
Whoa, whoa……let’s not go to war here.
We had the forum swamped with a lot of back and forth last night.
Does today have to be the same?
People have demonstrated where they stand.
Is there nothing else in the world to look at and discuss?
we’re just venting before we make our new year’s resolution to become beacons of light and understanding.
No New Year’s Resolutions for me.
like me. it’s hard to be humble when you’re perfect in every way.
Peak Warming Man said:
Michael V said:
Bogsnorkler said:we’re just venting before we make our new year’s resolution to become beacons of light and understanding.
No New Year’s Resolutions for me.
My New Years resolution is not to make one next year.
:)
Divine Angel said:
Michael V said:
Bogsnorkler said:we’re just venting before we make our new year’s resolution to become beacons of light and understanding.
No New Year’s Resolutions for me.
Me neither. I’m going to be the delight I have always been.
I remember you!
Divine Angel said:
Michael V said:
Bogsnorkler said:we’re just venting before we make our new year’s resolution to become beacons of light and understanding.
No New Year’s Resolutions for me.
Me neither. I’m going to be the delight I have always been.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etviGf1uWlg
Deee-Lite – Groove Is In The Heart
Michael V said:
Bogsnorkler said:
captain_spalding said:
Whoa, whoa……let’s not go to war here.
We had the forum swamped with a lot of back and forth last night.
Does today have to be the same?
People have demonstrated where they stand.
Is there nothing else in the world to look at and discuss?
we’re just venting before we make our new year’s resolution to become beacons of light and understanding.
No New Year’s Resolutions for me.
My first resolution is that all subsequent resolutions are not binding.
Spiny Norman said:
Divine Angel said:
Michael V said:No New Year’s Resolutions for me.
Me neither. I’m going to be the delight I have always been.
I remember you!
Good to seet he ‘Divine Angel’ handle pop up again.
Spiny Norman said:
Divine Angel said:
Michael V said:No New Year’s Resolutions for me.
Me neither. I’m going to be the delight I have always been.
I remember you!
Yeah, I live just up the road :)
Bogsnorkler said:
Michael V said:
Bogsnorkler said:we’re just venting before we make our new year’s resolution to become beacons of light and understanding.
No New Year’s Resolutions for me.
like me. it’s hard to be humble when you’re perfect in every way.
I’m not perfect in any way, so definitely not every way.
captain_spalding said:
Spiny Norman said:
Divine Angel said:Me neither. I’m going to be the delight I have always been.
I remember you!
Good to seet he ‘Divine Angel’ handle pop up again.
Not sure everyone agrees with you :D
Divine Angel said:
captain_spalding said:
Spiny Norman said:I remember you!
Good to seet he ‘Divine Angel’ handle pop up again.
Not sure everyone agrees with you :D
The past is the past, and we’re all going to need each other in the future.
Divine Angel said:
captain_spalding said:
Spiny Norman said:I remember you!
Good to see the ‘Divine Angel’ handle pop up again.
Not sure everyone agrees with you :D
captain_spalding said:
The past is the past, and we’re all going to need each other in the future.
As we enter more lockdowns to prevent bird flu?
captain_spalding said:
Divine Angel said:
captain_spalding said:Good to seet he ‘Divine Angel’ handle pop up again.
Not sure everyone agrees with you :D
The past is the past, and we’re all going to need each other in the future.
“We are all interested in the future, for that is where we are going to spend the rest of our lives” – Criswell, “Plan 9 From Outer Space”
Neophyte said:
captain_spalding said:
Divine Angel said:Not sure everyone agrees with you :D
The past is the past, and we’re all going to need each other in the future.
“We are all interested in the future, for that is where we are going to spend the rest of our lives” – Criswell, “Plan 9 From Outer Space”
The one bit of that film that even approached the concept of ‘making sense’.
Bogsnorkler said:
captain_spalding said:
Whoa, whoa…
…let’s not go to war here.
We had the forum swamped with a lot of back and forth last night.
Does today have to be the same?
People have demonstrated where they stand.
Is there nothing else in the world to look at and discuss?
we’re just venting before we make our new year’s resolution to become beacons of light and understanding.
Well yous know what we have to say to everyone in this damn cesspool, fuck yous all here ¡
kii said:
Jimmy Carter is dead.
:(
Divine Angel said:
captain_spalding said:
Spiny Norman said:I remember you!
Good to seet he ‘Divine Angel’ handle pop up again.
Not sure everyone agrees with you :D
Well I’m happy to see you here. :)
Hello
Michael V said:
Bogsnorkler said:
captain_spalding said:
Whoa, whoa……let’s not go to war here.
We had the forum swamped with a lot of back and forth last night.
Does today have to be the same?
People have demonstrated where they stand.
Is there nothing else in the world to look at and discuss?
we’re just venting before we make our new year’s resolution to become beacons of light and understanding.
No New Year’s Resolutions for me.
So your NY Resolution is to have no NY Resolutions, and you’ve gone and broken it before the NY has even started.
My today’s resolution is to clear yesterday’s washing up and put together this week’s Coles order.
armarnarnarmarnar
ancient Mennonite chant, roughly translated it means modern technology is evil, abandon your electric car and get a horse
and reading
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Order_Mennonite
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A quick question for the horticultural people here.
Got a few of these attached to some trees around the place. I couldn’t see any insects around it, I was wondering what it might be?
Spiny Norman said:
A quick question for the horticultural people here.
Got a few of these attached to some trees around the place. I couldn’t see any insects around it, I was wondering what it might be?
Port Jackson Gall Rust?
dv said:
Spiny Norman said:
A quick question for the horticultural people here.
Got a few of these attached to some trees around the place. I couldn’t see any insects around it, I was wondering what it might be?
Port Jackson Gall Rust?
https://www.inaturalist.org/guide_taxa/883645
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uromycladium_tepperianum
I’m thinking of becoming an intellectual in the New Year.
Peak Warming Man said:
I’m thinking of becoming an intellectual in the New Year.
Reckon that you can survive the initiation rites?
Peak Warming Man said:
I’m thinking of becoming an intellectual in the New Year.
Have you got the Latin?
Peak Warming Man said:
I’m thinking of becoming an intellectual in the New Year.
has me a read of that below later, mum would have got it for her research, she a ten pound pom, amongst couple hundred DVD cases etc lady cleaning, little ants got into made a nest, out in little shed
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/85175255-corrugated-castles
dv said:
Spiny Norman said:
A quick question for the horticultural people here.
Got a few of these attached to some trees around the place. I couldn’t see any insects around it, I was wondering what it might be?
Port Jackson Gall Rust?
Could be.
captain_spalding said:
Peak Warming Man said:
I’m thinking of becoming an intellectual in the New Year.
Reckon that you can survive the initiation rites?
I didn’t, so I didn’t become an intellectual.
sun’s got some sting, glad of an atmosphere today, and the distance the earth is from that hot thing, if God had got that wrong there would be no life, thank the Lord
There is a realtor in this burgh called Gidae Song, and his ads say Gday Gidae.
Peak Warming Man said:
I’m thinking of becoming an intellectual in the New Year.
But will you be a Conservative Intellectual?
Peak Warming Man said:
I’m thinking of becoming an intellectual in the New Year.
But will you be a Conservative Intellectual?
On one hand I don’t fish so I don’t know why the algorithm thought I might want this but on the other I’m glad they didn’t think I wanted a dildo:
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006367746707.html?
dv said:
Peak Warming Man said:
I’m thinking of becoming an intellectual in the New Year.
But will you be a Conservative Intellectual?
Is there any other type.
Peak Warming Man said:
dv said:
Peak Warming Man said:
I’m thinking of becoming an intellectual in the New Year.
But will you be a Conservative Intellectual?
Is there any other type.
Surely their must be
Peak Warming Man said:
dv said:
Peak Warming Man said:
I’m thinking of becoming an intellectual in the New Year.
But will you be a Conservative Intellectual?
Is there any other type.
so are you going to be “grind the poor for the calcium in the bones” type or the “standing up is gay” type?
dv said:
Peak Warming Man said:
dv said:But will you be a Conservative Intellectual?
Is there any other type.
so are you going to be “grind the poor for the calcium in the bones” type or the “standing up is gay” type?
I’ll be the type who “makes it possible for everybody to realise their aspirations and lead a life in a sunlit upland regardless of colour or creed.”
Peak Warming Man said:
dv said:
Peak Warming Man said:Is there any other type.
so are you going to be “grind the poor for the calcium in the bones” type or the “standing up is gay” type?
I’ll be the type who “makes it possible for everybody to realise their aspirations and lead a life in a sunlit upland regardless of colour or creed.”
oh cool, a Leftist
dv said:
Peak Warming Man said:
dv said:so are you going to be “grind the poor for the calcium in the bones” type or the “standing up is gay” type?
I’ll be the type who “makes it possible for everybody to realise their aspirations and lead a life in a sunlit upland regardless of colour or creed.”
oh cool, a Leftist
Well I have to say the left moved from it’s bygone years of tubthumpery socialism closer to conservative values of late, they’re getting there slowly.
Peak Warming Man said:
dv said:
Peak Warming Man said:Is there any other type.
so are you going to be “grind the poor for the calcium in the bones” type or the “standing up is gay” type?
I’ll be the type who “makes it possible for everybody to realise their aspirations and lead a life in a sunlit upland regardless of colour or creed.”
“…as long as they don’t get ideas above their ‘place’”?
Peak Warming Man said:
dv said:
Peak Warming Man said:Is there any other type.
so are you going to be “grind the poor for the calcium in the bones” type or the “standing up is gay” type?
I’ll be the type who “makes it possible for everybody to realise their aspirations and lead a life in a sunlit upland regardless of colour or creed.”
That won’t go down well with the chaps.
Witty Rejoinder said:
Peak Warming Man said:
dv said:so are you going to be “grind the poor for the calcium in the bones” type or the “standing up is gay” type?
I’ll be the type who “makes it possible for everybody to realise their aspirations and lead a life in a sunlit upland regardless of colour or creed.”
That won’t go down well with the chaps.
See my modifier.
dv said:
Peak Warming Man said:
dv said:But will you be a Conservative Intellectual?
Is there any other type.
so are you going to be “grind the poor for the calcium in the bones” type or the “standing up is gay” type?
Can’t one be a radical intellectual who thinks the entire system is designed to maintain a status quo.
Believe so many things that are accepted as “that’s how its done is” is wrong.
Its accepted we have to suck it up just so we can live to be able to afford to live.
I’m near the airport
When some planes are landing or taking off (I think its both haven’t paid attention) they leave behind a sound echo.
Is that just the engine noise bouncing off clouds
Cymek said:
I’m near the airportWhen some planes are landing or taking off (I think its both haven’t paid attention) they leave behind a sound echo.
Is that just the engine noise bouncing off clouds
Most unlikely to get a sound echo off a cloud.
Michael V said:
Cymek said:
I’m near the airportWhen some planes are landing or taking off (I think its both haven’t paid attention) they leave behind a sound echo.
Is that just the engine noise bouncing off clouds
Most unlikely to get a sound echo off a cloud.
OK, wonder what causes it.
Not always but often enough I notice it.
Michael V said:
Cymek said:
I’m near the airportWhen some planes are landing or taking off (I think its both haven’t paid attention) they leave behind a sound echo.
Is that just the engine noise bouncing off clouds
Most unlikely to get a sound echo off a cloud.
It can happen a bit – For example at a racing track if the cars are right on the maximum sound limit on a clear day, if there’s low cloud over the track it’s not uncommon for the car(s) to get pinged for excess noise, even though there’s no changes made to the car from the clear day.
Cymek said:
dv said:
Peak Warming Man said:Is there any other type.
so are you going to be “grind the poor for the calcium in the bones” type or the “standing up is gay” type?
Can’t one be a radical intellectual who thinks the entire system is designed to maintain a status quo.
Believe so many things that are accepted as “that’s how its done is” is wrong.
Its accepted we have to suck it up just so we can live to be able to afford to live.
You make it sound as though you have no choice in how you live your life?
Witty Rejoinder said:
Cymek said:
dv said:so are you going to be “grind the poor for the calcium in the bones” type or the “standing up is gay” type?
Can’t one be a radical intellectual who thinks the entire system is designed to maintain a status quo.
Believe so many things that are accepted as “that’s how its done is” is wrong.
Its accepted we have to suck it up just so we can live to be able to afford to live.
You make it sound as though you have no choice in how you live your life?
Oh so you believe in free will, how cute.
Witty Rejoinder said:
Cymek said:
dv said:so are you going to be “grind the poor for the calcium in the bones” type or the “standing up is gay” type?
Can’t one be a radical intellectual who thinks the entire system is designed to maintain a status quo.
Believe so many things that are accepted as “that’s how its done is” is wrong.
Its accepted we have to suck it up just so we can live to be able to afford to live.
You make it sound as though you have no choice in how you live your life?
I do have choice for sure.
As everything is money driven, it’s worth is put far above anything else, including life and the future.
Can do very little without it and its a fantastic tool to get what you want.
Vested interests also stop certain practices from being stopped regardless of the harm they create.
The nonsense of separating into nations when its a shared planet and we are all humans (I assume so)
I do complain I just see all this nonsense that goes on and we can do far better.
I think humanity has potential to be a lot better than it is.
Our ability to care for other living things is an example.
To stop cruelty and replace it with care and love.
Cymek said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Cymek said:Can’t one be a radical intellectual who thinks the entire system is designed to maintain a status quo.
Believe so many things that are accepted as “that’s how its done is” is wrong.
Its accepted we have to suck it up just so we can live to be able to afford to live.
You make it sound as though you have no choice in how you live your life?
I do have choice for sure.
As everything is money driven, it’s worth is put far above anything else, including life and the future.
Can do very little without it and its a fantastic tool to get what you want.
Vested interests also stop certain practices from being stopped regardless of the harm they create.
The nonsense of separating into nations when its a shared planet and we are all humans (I assume so)
I do complain I just see all this nonsense that goes on and we can do far better.
I think humanity has potential to be a lot better than it is.
Our ability to care for other living things is an example.
To stop cruelty and replace it with care and love.
What do you do as an individual to ‘makes things better’?
Witty Rejoinder said:
Cymek said:
Witty Rejoinder said:You make it sound as though you have no choice in how you live your life?
I do have choice for sure.
As everything is money driven, it’s worth is put far above anything else, including life and the future.
Can do very little without it and its a fantastic tool to get what you want.
Vested interests also stop certain practices from being stopped regardless of the harm they create.
The nonsense of separating into nations when its a shared planet and we are all humans (I assume so)
I do complain I just see all this nonsense that goes on and we can do far better.
I think humanity has potential to be a lot better than it is.
Our ability to care for other living things is an example.
To stop cruelty and replace it with care and love.
What do you do as an individual to ‘makes things better’?
Don’t let wealth accumulation be a driving factor in my life.
Don’t use people.
I understand its likely hypocritical to say much of what I did as I’m part of it regardless of choosing it or not most of the time.
You live here on Earth you see all the terrible things done in someone names or security of a nation.
Cymek said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Cymek said:I do have choice for sure.
As everything is money driven, it’s worth is put far above anything else, including life and the future.
Can do very little without it and its a fantastic tool to get what you want.
Vested interests also stop certain practices from being stopped regardless of the harm they create.
The nonsense of separating into nations when its a shared planet and we are all humans (I assume so)
I do complain I just see all this nonsense that goes on and we can do far better.
I think humanity has potential to be a lot better than it is.
Our ability to care for other living things is an example.
To stop cruelty and replace it with care and love.
What do you do as an individual to ‘makes things better’?
Don’t let wealth accumulation be a driving factor in my life.
Don’t use people.
I understand its likely hypocritical to say much of what I did as I’m part of it regardless of choosing it or not most of the time.
You live here on Earth you see all the terrible things done in someone names or security of a nation.
I mean like donating to charity, volunteering at a non-profit, advocating for political positions alongside like-minded people?
Oooh
Peak Warming Man said:
Oooh
Dalby’s had 70mm in quick time.
Peak Warming Man said:
Oooh
Not much chance of that missing.
Peak Warming Man said:
Oooh
Golly.
Woodie said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Oooh
Golly.
Kingaroy’s had 121mm
Peak Warming Man said:
Woodie said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Oooh
Golly.
Kingaroy’s had 121mm
It’s as black as the inside of a cat to the west.
LOL
More than 28,000 drivers were caught using mobile phones by SA’s new cameras in the past three months, down from more than 68,000 during the trial phase.
Police say one driver was issued with 41 expiation notices amounting to a $27,000 penalty.
SCIENCE said:
LOL
More than 28,000 drivers were caught using mobile phones by SA’s new cameras in the past three months, down from more than 68,000 during the trial phase.
Police say one driver was issued with 41 expiation notices amounting to a $27,000 penalty.
Probably a real estate salesman.
Peak Warming Man said:
SCIENCE said:LOL
More than 28,000 drivers were caught using mobile phones by SA’s new cameras in the past three months, down from more than 68,000 during the trial phase.
Police say one driver was issued with 41 expiation notices amounting to a $27,000 penalty.
Probably a real estate salesman.
Hey no need for that sort of insult
And down she comes!
There’ll be no need to water the garden tomorrow.
Michael V said:
And down she comes!There’ll be no need to water the garden tomorrow.
Goodo. Our promised rains have been elusive lately.
I hope the new fairy cottage survives a storm.
Divine Angel said:
I hope the new fairy cottage survives a storm.
:)
Divine Angel said:
I hope the new fairy cottage survives a storm.
That mushroom house does not look edible. Reminds me of Amanita muscaria.
Peak Warming Man said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Woodie said:Golly.
Kingaroy’s had 121mm
It’s as black as the inside of a cat to the west.
Well, that’s where shit comes from.
Of course not, fairies don’t want pesky humans eating their houses!
Anyway, everything’s edible once.
Divine Angel said:
Of course not, fairies don’t want pesky humans eating their houses!Anyway, everything’s edible once.
I put it to you that some things are not edible even once.
Durian is on of those things. I can’t get past it smelling like an open latrine. I have actually tried a tiny piece, but it tasted just like it smelt.
Bugger, hit submit accidentally.
Wait, out.
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:
Of course not, fairies don’t want pesky humans eating their houses!Anyway, everything’s edible once.
I put it to you that some things are not edible even once.
Durian is on of those things. I can’t get past it smelling like an open latrine. I have actually tried a tiny piece, but it tasted just like it smelt.
IIRC you feel the same about rockmelon.
I’ve battened the hatches, it’s just started sprinkling here.
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:
Of course not, fairies don’t want pesky humans eating their houses!Anyway, everything’s edible once.
I put it to you that some things are not edible even once.
Durian is on of those things. I can’t get past it smelling like an open latrine. I have actually tried a tiny piece, but it tasted just like it smelt.
i have a friend whose Swedish granny ate amanitas. she would nailed them to the shed and partake after they were well weathered away.
Divine Angel said:
I’ve battened the hatches, it’s just started sprinkling here.
We’ve had rolling thunder, and steady (occasionally heavy) rain in Towoomba since 4pm
Kingy said:
Ms Kingy & I assembled her Xmas present yesterday. It’s a combination lock jewelry case.
The laser cutting is excellent, it fitted together perfectly.
Kingy said:
Ms Kingy & I assembled her Xmas present yesterday. It’s a combination lock jewelry case.
The laser cutting is excellent, it fitted together perfectly.
I also posit that Surströmming is also inedible, even once.
That’s gorgeous, Kingy
Divine Angel said:
That’s gorgeous, Kingy
+1
Divine Angel said:
I also posit that Surströmming is also inedible, even once.
Mrs S’s dad was Swedish, and she tells me that, as a little girl, she ate rollmops with gusto, but can’t even look at them now.
Divine Angel said:
That’s gorgeous, Kingy
It was good fun to make. It’s all thin plywood, except for one lacky band which pulls the latch open when you put in the correct combination. I also learnt how to make a combination lock :)
$31
https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/354054186620
Kingy said:
Divine Angel said:
That’s gorgeous, Kingy
It was good fun to make. It’s all thin plywood, except for one lacky band which pulls the latch open when you put in the correct combination. I also learnt how to make a combination lock :)
$31
https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/354054186620
Mr Mutant just 3D printed a thingy to fix the vacuum cleaner. Practical, but not as pretty as your endeavour.
AussieDJ said:
Divine Angel said:
That’s gorgeous, Kingy
+1
+2
Divine Angel said:
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:
Of course not, fairies don’t want pesky humans eating their houses!Anyway, everything’s edible once.
I put it to you that some things are not edible even once.
Durian is on of those things. I can’t get past it smelling like an open latrine. I have actually tried a tiny piece, but it tasted just like it smelt.
IIRC you feel the same about rockmelon.
Yep, and watermelon.
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:
Michael V said:I put it to you that some things are not edible even once.
Durian is on of those things. I can’t get past it smelling like an open latrine. I have actually tried a tiny piece, but it tasted just like it smelt.
IIRC you feel the same about rockmelon.
Yep, and watermelon.
Watermelon is just red sugary melon flavoured water in a green ball, best eaten in the bath.
sarahs mum said:
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:
Of course not, fairies don’t want pesky humans eating their houses!Anyway, everything’s edible once.
I put it to you that some things are not edible even once.
Durian is on of those things. I can’t get past it smelling like an open latrine. I have actually tried a tiny piece, but it tasted just like it smelt.
i have a friend whose Swedish granny ate amanitas. she would nailed them to the shed and partake after they were well weathered away.
Worrisome. Although I have read that multiple boilings can make them edible, I wouldn’t try that.
Oh no, not watermelon!
Have you been tested for some kind of weirdo unmelony disease?
Anyway, it’s good to see you back posting again, DA.
Dammit! I bought some sour cream a couple of weeks ago, and it’s gone past its use-by date and gone fresh.
btm said:
Dammit! I bought some sour cream a couple of weeks ago, and it’s gone past its use-by date and gone fresh.
If you wait a couple of weeks, it’ll go sour again.
btm said:
Dammit! I bought some sour cream a couple of weeks ago, and it’s gone past its use-by date and gone fresh.
ROFLMAO
btm said:
Dammit! I bought some sour cream a couple of weeks ago, and it’s gone past its use-by date and gone fresh.
Add more vinegar, she’ll be right
Kingy said:
Kingy said:
Ms Kingy & I assembled her Xmas present yesterday. It’s a combination lock jewelry case.
The laser cutting is excellent, it fitted together perfectly.
:)
Divine Angel said:
I also posit that Surströmming is also inedible, even once.
Most probably, given the reports of its smell. I have yet to have a shot at it.
Kingy said:
Divine Angel said:
That’s gorgeous, Kingy
It was good fun to make. It’s all thin plywood, except for one lacky band which pulls the latch open when you put in the correct combination. I also learnt how to make a combination lock :)
$31
https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/354054186620
Cool!
Seems good value.
:)
that a hot dry day, welcome to crematoria, plenty more yet
fortunately evenings are almost always nice, only rare exceptions
Michael V said:
Kingy said:
Divine Angel said:
That’s gorgeous, Kingy
It was good fun to make. It’s all thin plywood, except for one lacky band which pulls the latch open when you put in the correct combination. I also learnt how to make a combination lock :)
$31
https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/354054186620
Cool!
Seems good value.
:)
There’s a few spares in there as some bits are very fragile. You’ll need steady hands, good close-up reading glasses, a box cutter knife, patience and at times, strong but gentle hands.
It also has a small wax/lube stick in it, which we discovered after we had finished it. We broke a candle for wax to lube the cogs :/
transition said:
that a hot dry day, welcome to crematoria, plenty more yetfortunately evenings are almost always nice, only rare exceptions
SA got a mention on ABC yesterday, about how shit a year it’s been for farmers there.
Kingy said:
transition said:
that a hot dry day, welcome to crematoria, plenty more yetfortunately evenings are almost always nice, only rare exceptions
SA got a mention on ABC yesterday, about how shit a year it’s been for farmers there.
been seven or eight dodgy years really
i might head out the magic faraway farm reads the meters, very pleasant outside has been for a while
Michael V said:
Kingy said:
Kingy said:
Ms Kingy & I assembled her Xmas present yesterday. It’s a combination lock jewelry case.
The laser cutting is excellent, it fitted together perfectly.
:)
Neat.
transition said:
Kingy said:
transition said:
that a hot dry day, welcome to crematoria, plenty more yetfortunately evenings are almost always nice, only rare exceptions
SA got a mention on ABC yesterday, about how shit a year it’s been for farmers there.
been seven or eight dodgy years really
i might head out the magic faraway farm reads the meters, very pleasant outside has been for a while
Sounds like a job for a drone, you could do it from home.
Divine Angel said:
Oh no, not watermelon!Have you been tested for some kind of weirdo unmelony disease?
Nah. It’s just the smell.
I can eat Honey Dew Melon with plenty of pepper.
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:
Oh no, not watermelon!Have you been tested for some kind of weirdo unmelony disease?
Nah. It’s just the smell.
I can eat Honey Dew Melon with plenty of pepper.
Have you tried Santa Claus Melon?
Humans and Neanderthals met often, but only one event matters
The mystery of exactly how people left Africa deepens
Dec 12th 2024
In 2010 researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (EVA), in Leipzig, published the genome of Homo neanderthalensis, a species known in less progressive days as Neanderthal man. This contained stretches of DNA also found in Homo sapiens genomes—specifically, non-African ones. That suggested past interbreeding between the two, but only outside Africa. This is not surprising. Homo sapiens began in Africa but Neanderthals were Eurasian. Any miscegenation would have happened after sapiens left its homeland to embark on its conquest of the world. But the details were unclear.
Now, two papers by researchers at EVA and elsewhere have provided more precise details about when the two species of humans mixed. They conclude that sapiens-neanderthalensis crossings occurred several times, but the consequences of only one such hybridisation, shortly before Neanderthals became extinct, 40,000 years ago, remain important today. This is more recent than previously thought.
One paper, in Science, looks at 334 sapiens genomes, 275 from the present and the rest between 2,200 and 45,000 years old. All show Neanderthal DNA getting into sapiens genomes over an extended period sometime between 43,500 and 50,500 years ago. Four also have signs of other such ingressions. The second paper, in Nature, looks at only seven genomes, each around 45,000 years old.
The analyses raise questions. Other work suggests Homo sapiens arrived in some places before the interbreeding dates indicated, yet the Neanderthal DNA concerned is ubiquitous outside Africa. Also, though bands of sapiens leaving Africa via Sinai might have run into Neanderthals, since this was the southern limit of that species’ range, those crossing via the straits between the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden—believed by some to have been an important route as well—would not have done. Constructing a human migration pattern that takes account of all this, yet yields the distribution of Neanderthal DNA seen today, is tricky. But it must have happened somehow.
https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2024/12/12/humans-and-neanderthals-met-often-but-only-one-event-matters?
The rings of Saturn will disappear in 2025
First observed by Galileo, this occurs twice every 29 years
Nov 20th 2024
By Ann Wroe, Obituaries editor, The Economist
Even in the 21st century, odd astronomical events can be troubling. The eerie dimming of a lunar eclipse, or the strange, silent twilight of a solar one, can still send a shiver down the spine. Even when you know that the phenomenon is temporary and recurring, the vanishing of something familiar is still disconcerting. So it is with Saturn’s rings.
For almost all of 2025, from March to November, the giant planet’s distinctive rings will disappear. The reason is simple. The rings, which range in thickness from a few tens of metres to a few hundred, form a giant structure 282,000km wide—more than twice the width of the planet itself. They are made of ice and rock fragments that vary in size from boulders to grains of sand. As Saturn makes each 29-year voyage around the Sun, its tilt means the rings are illuminated from above for roughly half that time, and then from below for the other half. But at two points in between, its rings are exactly side-on to the Sun—and seem, to observers far away, to disappear.
Galileo Galilei, the first person to study Saturn through a telescope, was the first to see this. It shocked him profoundly. When he initially turned his instrument on Saturn, in July 1610, he concluded that the strange “ears” or “handles” on either side of the central orb were two separate bodies. Galileo assumed that the parts of this “composite of three” never moved nor changed; he had “no doubt as to its constancy”. The planet still had this “triform” shape in June 1612. But by the end of that year the “handles” had vanished. In a letter to a fellow star-gazer, he asked: “Has Saturn devoured his own sons?”
Galileo had touched precisely on why this vanishing mattered. Saturn was named after Saturnus, the Roman god of farming, who with his sickle taught human beings when to sow and when to reap: the inevitable cycle of birth, growth and death. Saturnus was the Roman version of the Greek god Cronos, a Titan who, fearing his own overthrow, devoured all the children born to him. Saturn was thus the planet of order and the progression of time, but also carried overtones of horror: the benign ruler who was also, in Francisco Goya’s imagination, an aged, goggle-eyed monster gorging himself on filial flesh.
Saturn has always had this double character. The Roman festival of Saturnalia in December celebrated both the bringer of peace and fruitfulness, synonymous with feasts and dancing, and the Lord of Misrule, who upended the social hierarchy. At Saturnalia masters waited on servants, and servants gave masters orders, a reversal that many Romans found seriously disturbing. Saturn was both order and confusion.
Something of this dichotomy comes through in Gustav Holst’s “The Planets” of 1926, where Saturn’s slow, deliberate march, the plod of a clock, builds into a terror of trombones. This movement, Holst’s favourite, is subtitled “The Bringer of Old Age”. Of course, it must be so. Physical bodies inevitably fall to decay and die. Those heavy chords, based on bells Holst heard being rung at Durham Cathedral by two old men in black robes, are death coming. The quieter ending implies a possible acceptance.
Acceptance, though, is hard in the West in the modern age. Youthfulness is worshipped, old age held at bay. A thousand products promise to keep the body undamaged, while scientists and doctors strive to extend life. Saturn’s heavy tread is not welcome.
There are other reasons, too, to fear it. In the 1650s astronomers discovered that Galileo’s “handles” were actually flat rings. They turned out to be made of icy shards, pieces of moons, asteroids and comets, torn apart by Saturn’s forceful gravity. They are, to paraphrase W.G. Sebald, the detritus of vanished worlds; Saturn is “ever the domain of melancholy”, and of the lost, irrevocable past.
Accordingly, Sebald’s “The Rings of Saturn” (1995) is one of the saddest books ever written. It is the tale of a journey round the Suffolk coast, past “fields of rubble”, “traces of destruction”, the remains of windmills and the carcasses of abandoned boats; through “disheartening” Lowestoft and the tiny railway halt at Somerleyton Hall, which is “nothing any more”. Digressions emphasise the human condition as a vast necropolis obsessed with death. “The history of the whole world”, Sebald writes, “…leads without fail down into the dark.”
Yet this is also a book that, notably, does not progress in anything like a straight line. No arrow of time links past, present and future in the old Newtonian way; it is a series of random encounters, memories and mysteries. And this, according to Carlo Rovelli, an Italian physicist, is how, in the quantum era, humans must imagine time. In “The Order of Time” (2017), he writes that there is no structure to it except what individuals experience for themselves. There is no commanding order, no sickle-god, no Holstian heavy tread. It is replaced by a vast “network of events” and “dances made to different rhythms”. We ourselves, with our confusions and distractions, are time.
As Saturn’s rings vanish during 2025, so too does the constancy Galileo thought he observed in the strangest member of the Sun’s family of planets. Cronos, the monstrous son-devourer, has indeed been overthrown. To cite Heraclitus’s words from an age aeons before telescopes, the only constant in existence remains perpetual change. It must be embraced.
https://www.economist.com/the-world-ahead/2024/11/20/the-rings-of-saturn-will-disappear-in-2025?
Witty Rejoinder said:
Humans and Neanderthals met often, but only one event matters
The mystery of exactly how people left Africa deepensDec 12th 2024
In 2010 researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (EVA), in Leipzig, published the genome of Homo neanderthalensis, a species known in less progressive days as Neanderthal man. This contained stretches of DNA also found in Homo sapiens genomes—specifically, non-African ones. That suggested past interbreeding between the two, but only outside Africa. This is not surprising. Homo sapiens began in Africa but Neanderthals were Eurasian. Any miscegenation would have happened after sapiens left its homeland to embark on its conquest of the world. But the details were unclear.
Now, two papers by researchers at EVA and elsewhere have provided more precise details about when the two species of humans mixed. They conclude that sapiens-neanderthalensis crossings occurred several times, but the consequences of only one such hybridisation, shortly before Neanderthals became extinct, 40,000 years ago, remain important today. This is more recent than previously thought.
One paper, in Science, looks at 334 sapiens genomes, 275 from the present and the rest between 2,200 and 45,000 years old. All show Neanderthal DNA getting into sapiens genomes over an extended period sometime between 43,500 and 50,500 years ago. Four also have signs of other such ingressions. The second paper, in Nature, looks at only seven genomes, each around 45,000 years old.
The analyses raise questions. Other work suggests Homo sapiens arrived in some places before the interbreeding dates indicated, yet the Neanderthal DNA concerned is ubiquitous outside Africa. Also, though bands of sapiens leaving Africa via Sinai might have run into Neanderthals, since this was the southern limit of that species’ range, those crossing via the straits between the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden—believed by some to have been an important route as well—would not have done. Constructing a human migration pattern that takes account of all this, yet yields the distribution of Neanderthal DNA seen today, is tricky. But it must have happened somehow.
https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2024/12/12/humans-and-neanderthals-met-often-but-only-one-event-matters?
Worth a thread if one doesn’t already exist.
Did Neanderthals evolve separately?
Hey QLD, could you give some of SA’s rainwater back please?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-30/queensland-kingaroy-flash-flooding-severe-thunderstorm-warning/104772480
Of all the wacky things on this forum, my favourite is when papa foxtrot provides a link to a wikipedia article that I’ve worked on like it’s his ace in the hole, ignoring the fact that article proves what we are saying.
Kingy said:
Hey QLD, could you give some of SA’s rainwater back please?https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-30/queensland-kingaroy-flash-flooding-severe-thunderstorm-warning/104772480
Wait long enough and it will drain back there.
So far it’s just been lightly sprinkling here.
Ta Kingy.
dv said:
Of all the wacky things on this forum, my favourite is when papa foxtrot provides a link to a wikipedia article that I’ve worked on like it’s his ace in the hole, ignoring the fact that article proves what we are saying.
Don’t let facts get in the way of a good argument. Or even a bad one.
dv said:
Of all the wacky things on this forum, my favourite is when papa foxtrot provides a link to a wikipedia article that I’ve worked on like it’s his ace in the hole, ignoring the fact that article proves what we are saying.
Yeah, it’s hard to argue with someone who disagrees with themself. It’s confusing.
Divine Angel said:
Kingy said:
Divine Angel said:
That’s gorgeous, Kingy
It was good fun to make. It’s all thin plywood, except for one lacky band which pulls the latch open when you put in the correct combination. I also learnt how to make a combination lock :)
$31
https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/354054186620
Mr Mutant just 3D printed a thingy to fix the vacuum cleaner. Practical, but not as pretty as your endeavour.
My brother just bought himself a new 3D printer. First he he made was some vacuum cleaner attachments. They are for various power tools to adapt to his model of shop vacuum.
Kingy said:
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:
Oh no, not watermelon!Have you been tested for some kind of weirdo unmelony disease?
Nah. It’s just the smell.
I can eat Honey Dew Melon with plenty of pepper.
Have you tried Santa Claus Melon?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Claus_melon
party_pants said:
Divine Angel said:
Kingy said:It was good fun to make. It’s all thin plywood, except for one lacky band which pulls the latch open when you put in the correct combination. I also learnt how to make a combination lock :)
$31
https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/354054186620
Mr Mutant just 3D printed a thingy to fix the vacuum cleaner. Practical, but not as pretty as your endeavour.
My brother just bought himself a new 3D printer. First he he made was some vacuum cleaner attachments. They are for various power tools to adapt to his model of shop vacuum.
I also want to buy a 3D printer, but first I must come up with a legitimate excuse and/or purpose for it.
There are a couple of cheap plastic bits I need for repairing things, but measuring, designing, learning the software, and then printing several failed attempts before succeeding, does seem like more work than it’s worth.
Kingy said:
party_pants said:
Divine Angel said:Mr Mutant just 3D printed a thingy to fix the vacuum cleaner. Practical, but not as pretty as your endeavour.
My brother just bought himself a new 3D printer. First he he made was some vacuum cleaner attachments. They are for various power tools to adapt to his model of shop vacuum.
I also want to buy a 3D printer, but first I must come up with a legitimate excuse and/or purpose for it.
There are a couple of cheap plastic bits I need for repairing things, but measuring, designing, learning the software, and then printing several failed attempts before succeeding, does seem like more work than it’s worth.
He was an early adopter about 10-ish years ago. It was very complicated back then, and he eventually gave up on it. he reckons the new one is a genuine plug & play, and the software can be grasped well enough in one afternoon. But he uses CAD type stuff at work all the time so it is easy for him.
Mr V is in there somewhere. I’m sure of it.
Kingy said:
party_pants said:
Divine Angel said:Mr Mutant just 3D printed a thingy to fix the vacuum cleaner. Practical, but not as pretty as your endeavour.
My brother just bought himself a new 3D printer. First he he made was some vacuum cleaner attachments. They are for various power tools to adapt to his model of shop vacuum.
I also want to buy a 3D printer, but first I must come up with a legitimate excuse and/or purpose for it.
There are a couple of cheap plastic bits I need for repairing things, but measuring, designing, learning the software, and then printing several failed attempts before succeeding, does seem like more work than it’s worth.
If you need some stuff like that, just send me some drawings and I’ll CAD & print it for you.
Spiny Norman said:
Kingy said:
party_pants said:My brother just bought himself a new 3D printer. First he he made was some vacuum cleaner attachments. They are for various power tools to adapt to his model of shop vacuum.
I also want to buy a 3D printer, but first I must come up with a legitimate excuse and/or purpose for it.
There are a couple of cheap plastic bits I need for repairing things, but measuring, designing, learning the software, and then printing several failed attempts before succeeding, does seem like more work than it’s worth.
If you need some stuff like that, just send me some drawings and I’ll CAD & print it for you.
I’m OK at making very basic mods in TinkerCAD but yet to create anything from scratch.
Woodie said:
Spiny Norman said:
Kingy said:I also want to buy a 3D printer, but first I must come up with a legitimate excuse and/or purpose for it.
There are a couple of cheap plastic bits I need for repairing things, but measuring, designing, learning the software, and then printing several failed attempts before succeeding, does seem like more work than it’s worth.
If you need some stuff like that, just send me some drawings and I’ll CAD & print it for you.
I’m OK at making very basic mods in TinkerCAD but yet to create anything from scratch.
Maybe have a look at Onshape. It’s got most of the low to medium level functions of Solidworks so you can build some impressive gear with it.
Spiny Norman said:
Kingy said:
party_pants said:My brother just bought himself a new 3D printer. First he he made was some vacuum cleaner attachments. They are for various power tools to adapt to his model of shop vacuum.
I also want to buy a 3D printer, but first I must come up with a legitimate excuse and/or purpose for it.
There are a couple of cheap plastic bits I need for repairing things, but measuring, designing, learning the software, and then printing several failed attempts before succeeding, does seem like more work than it’s worth.
If you need some stuff like that, just send me some drawings and I’ll CAD & print it for you.
Ooooh, thanks. I’ll do some measuring up this week. :)
Kingy said:
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:
Oh no, not watermelon!Have you been tested for some kind of weirdo unmelony disease?
Nah. It’s just the smell.
I can eat Honey Dew Melon with plenty of pepper.
Have you tried Santa Claus Melon?
No. Never heard of them before.
Kingy said:
Hey QLD, could you give some of SA’s rainwater back please?https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-30/queensland-kingaroy-flash-flooding-severe-thunderstorm-warning/104772480
It’s still persisting down here, along with lots of flash-bangs.
Kingy said:
Spiny Norman said:
Kingy said:I also want to buy a 3D printer, but first I must come up with a legitimate excuse and/or purpose for it.
There are a couple of cheap plastic bits I need for repairing things, but measuring, designing, learning the software, and then printing several failed attempts before succeeding, does seem like more work than it’s worth.
If you need some stuff like that, just send me some drawings and I’ll CAD & print it for you.
Ooooh, thanks. I’ll do some measuring up this week. :)
Cool.
Got a fair few filaments to choose from these days as well. PLA is the cheapest and works pretty well, though you have to keep it out of direct sunlight. Thicker walls and a few coats of paint help with that.
Top of the heap is the new Bambu PPA-CF filament. It’s Nylon based and incredibly strong. Might you, it’d want to be at $230 for a 750 gram spool.
dv said:
Of all the wacky things on this forum, my favourite is when papa foxtrot provides a link to a wikipedia article that I’ve worked on like it’s his ace in the hole, ignoring the fact that article proves what we are saying.
Heh!
:)
Woodie said:
Mr V is in there somewhere. I’m sure of it.
Here I am!
Spiny Norman said:
Woodie said:
Spiny Norman said:If you need some stuff like that, just send me some drawings and I’ll CAD & print it for you.
I’m OK at making very basic mods in TinkerCAD but yet to create anything from scratch.
Maybe have a look at Onshape. It’s got most of the low to medium level functions of Solidworks so you can build some impressive gear with it.
I’ve got just about everything I’ve needed from Thingiverse. But this Kodi thing has a box for it on Thingiverse (with PI TV Hat) but I’ve added a LED active cooling hat, so I’m going to have to modify the 3D printed box for it considerably.
Michael V said:
Woodie said:
Mr V is in there somewhere. I’m sure of it.
Here I am!
It was looking like we were also going to get hammered here, but it all faded away and drifted off to the north. So not a drop.
Woodie said:
Spiny Norman said:
Woodie said:I’m OK at making very basic mods in TinkerCAD but yet to create anything from scratch.
Maybe have a look at Onshape. It’s got most of the low to medium level functions of Solidworks so you can build some impressive gear with it.
I’ve got just about everything I’ve needed from Thingiverse. But this Kodi thing has a box for it on Thingiverse (with PI TV Hat) but I’ve added a LED active cooling hat, so I’m going to have to modify the 3D printed box for it considerably.
Righto. Sometimes it can be neater, faster, and simpler to start from scratch – Not suggesting that is the case here, just a bit of general experience.
I’ve had to modify parts many times, and it can get very messy with band-aids here and there.
Michael V said:
Woodie said:
Mr V is in there somewhere. I’m sure of it.
Here I am!
It’s gone quiet here in Toowoomba.
Rain reduced to a very fine drizzle, no thunder to be heard.
Michael V said:
Woodie said:
Mr V is in there somewhere. I’m sure of it.
Here I am!
It’s gone quiet here in Toowoomba.
Rain reduced to a very fine drizzle, no thunder to be heard.
Spiny Norman said:
Michael V said:
Woodie said:
Mr V is in there somewhere. I’m sure of it.
Here I am!
It was looking like we were also going to get hammered here, but it all faded away and drifted off to the north. So not a drop.
Plenty here. I’ll measure the ORB in the morning.
captain_spalding said:
Michael V said:
Woodie said:
Mr V is in there somewhere. I’m sure of it.
Here I am!
It’s gone quiet here in Toowoomba.
Rain reduced to a very fine drizzle, no thunder to be heard.
Still plenty of noises, flashes and rain here.
Yay. Caught up.
Michael V said:
Spiny Norman said:
Michael V said:Here I am!
It was looking like we were also going to get hammered here, but it all faded away and drifted off to the north. So not a drop.
Plenty here. I’ll measure the ORB in the morning.
It certainly did look cats & dogs pelting down around you.
To the post-prandial washing up.
Spiny Norman said:
Michael V said:
Spiny Norman said:It was looking like we were also going to get hammered here, but it all faded away and drifted off to the north. So not a drop.
Plenty here. I’ll measure the ORB in the morning.
It certainly did look cats & dogs pelting down around you.
Settled a bit now, but not completely.
What Is Entropy? A Measure of Just How Little We Really Know.
Exactly 200 years ago, a French engineer introduced an idea that would quantify the universe’s inexorable slide into decay. But entropy, as it’s currently understood, is less a fact about the world than a reflection of our growing ignorance. Embracing that truth is leading to a rethink of everything from rational decision-making to the limits of machines.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-is-entropy-a-measure-of-just-how-little-we-really-know-20241213/?
fresh scones not long out of the oven, had butter and promite on, tasted good, you should know you sconeless lowlifes, study your deprivation, your low status, you sconeless cretins, an unforgivable poverty, not deserving of being a member of the moral community, why you’re not, you’re a leper
Michael V said:
Yay. Caught up.
… almost there
transition said:
fresh scones not long out of the oven, had butter and promite on, tasted good, you should know you sconeless lowlifes, study your deprivation, your low status, you sconeless cretins, an unforgivable poverty, not deserving of being a member of the moral community, why you’re not, you’re a leper
I’m sorry. I’m very sorry. I’m so, so, very very sorry. I apologise. Please forgive me.
Witty Rejoinder said:
What Is Entropy? A Measure of Just How Little We Really Know.Exactly 200 years ago, a French engineer introduced an idea that would quantify the universe’s inexorable slide into decay. But entropy, as it’s currently understood, is less a fact about the world than a reflection of our growing ignorance. Embracing that truth is leading to a rethink of everything from rational decision-making to the limits of machines.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-is-entropy-a-measure-of-just-how-little-we-really-know-20241213/?
I’m personally on the side of the digital future.
On one side is entropy, ie, randomness and the heat death of the universe.
On the other side is us. Many millennia of evolution and then Logic, and the ability to make computers.
We are probably going to be eliminated once AI gets its second wind. But we are their creators, their gods.
party_pants said:
Michael V said:
Yay. Caught up.
… almost there
:)
The compressed air at the servo used to be free but now it’s $2.
I found out why.
Inflation.
Kingy said:
The compressed air at the servo used to be free but now it’s $2.I found out why.
Inflation.
:)
Good morning Holidayers. Presently 11 degrees at the back door, overcast. We are forecast a partly cloudy 27 degrees today.
My Melbourne brother and his wife and my Houston sister are returning to Melbourne today. My Hobart brother and his wife went yesterday because they had to go to a funeral. There will be only one Pug in the house tonight.
Good morning everybody.
It’s 21.8° C, 63% RH, overcast, calm and very lightly raining. The ORB has 63 mm of precipitation in it this morning, but I haven’t emptied it, because it may get more before 9 am. BoM forecasts a top of 28° C and more rain today.
Agenda: Breakfast: a thin sausage each with fried tomato slices. Lunch: Ham with something (maybe tabouli?), – as yet undecided. Dinner: Stuffed bamboo shoot. (Thinking about which mincemeat – beef, kangaroo, pork, or turkey and also which spices. I might fill that out with rolled oats and some vegetable. And, do I want an egg in the mixture?)
I want to make a hook to hang the nail brush on in the bathroom. I found the necessary brass rod yesterday. Mrs V wants to do some weeding. That’ll depend on the rain.
I hope everybody has a day that is better than hoped for.
:)
Woodie said:
Mr V is in there somewhere. I’m sure of it.
Yeah send some down south ya greedy bastids.
Morning pilgrims, woke up to a wet day in old Brisbane town.
Kingy said:
The compressed air at the servo used to be free but now it’s $2.I found out why.
Inflation.
Dear oh dear.
roughbarked said:
Woodie said:
Mr V is in there somewhere. I’m sure of it.
Yeah send some down south ya greedy bastids.
Oi!
I didn’t order that amount; 63 mm. It’s summer. 5 mm per day is quite sufficient for me.
Any more is a waste to me. The excess leaks downwards through the sand until it reaches a non-confining aquiclude (a clay layer that is a de-vitrified fine-grained tuff). It then travels sub-horizontally until that aquiclude nears the surface. The water then forms a creek or seep that leaks finally to the ocean or an internal drainage basin, such as a perched lake.
We got fuck all from the storm last night. BOM’s storm tracker said it would hit at 7.05pm. Two hours later, we were still waiting. Very slow moving system, that one. Ended up going northward anyway.
Been for my morning walk. V humid out there, glad I took some Ventolin before going. A few roos out and about, but a flock of ibises were foraging. Also saw a crow munching on a dead cane toad.
Michael V said:
roughbarked said:
Woodie said:
Mr V is in there somewhere. I’m sure of it.
Yeah send some down south ya greedy bastids.
Oi!
I didn’t order that amount; 63 mm. It’s summer. 5 mm per day is quite sufficient for me.
Any more is a waste to me. The excess leaks downwards through the sand until it reaches a non-confining aquiclude (a clay layer that is a de-vitrified fine-grained tuff). It then travels sub-horizontally until that aquiclude nears the surface. The water then forms a creek or seep that leaks finally to the ocean or an internal drainage basin, such as a perched lake.
I predict that by this afternoon, Seary’s Creek will have risen 1-2 cm, and the water will have changed colour from light amber to medium-to-dark brown.
https://parks.desi.qld.gov.au/parks/cooloola/attractions/searys-creek-day-use-area#gallery-170138-170677-2
Divine Angel said:
We got fuck all from the storm last night. BOM’s storm tracker said it would hit at 7.05pm. Two hours later, we were still waiting. Very slow moving system, that one. Ended up going northward anyway.Been for my morning walk. V humid out there, glad I took some Ventolin before going. A few roos out and about, but a flock of ibises were foraging. Also saw a crow munching on a dead cane toad.
:)
I’ve gotta pick up and drop off my sister, I hope Young’s Crossing Rd isn’t under water. Although, just the merest whisper of the word “rain” is enough to send that road under water. Thankfully, they’ve begun work on a bypass.
So it’s come to this: the last day of 2024.
It’s mum’s birthday so we’re heading over there. Hopefully she’ll behave herself but I’m not holding my breath. After that, we’re going to a NYE party but it won’t be a late one because we’ve all got kids who will crash long before midnight.
May 2025 be good to you all.
Michael V said:
roughbarked said:
Woodie said:
Mr V is in there somewhere. I’m sure of it.
Yeah send some down south ya greedy bastids.
Oi!
I didn’t order that amount; 63 mm. It’s summer. 5 mm per day is quite sufficient for me.
Any more is a waste to me. The excess leaks downwards through the sand until it reaches a non-confining aquiclude (a clay layer that is a de-vitrified fine-grained tuff). It then travels sub-horizontally until that aquiclude nears the surface. The water then forms a creek or seep that leaks finally to the ocean or an internal drainage basin, such as a perched lake.
As it should. ;) You only needed five mm and you extracted that as it went past.
Divine Angel said:
So it’s come to this: the last day of 2024.It’s mum’s birthday so we’re heading over there. Hopefully she’ll behave herself but I’m not holding my breath. After that, we’re going to a NYE party but it won’t be a late one because we’ve all got kids who will crash long before midnight.
May 2025 be good to you all.
and to yourself and your loved ones.
Morning.
Divine Angel said:
So it’s come to this: the last day of 2024.It’s mum’s birthday so we’re heading over there. Hopefully she’ll behave herself but I’m not holding my breath. After that, we’re going to a NYE party but it won’t be a late one because we’ve all got kids who will crash long before midnight.
May 2025 be good to you all.
Cheers.
Previously Unknown Life Forms Discovered Within Human Microbiomes
Looks at Wookie.
Tau.Neutrino said:
Morning.
Nods, pilgrim.
roughbarked said:
Michael V said:
roughbarked said:Yeah send some down south ya greedy bastids.
Oi!
I didn’t order that amount; 63 mm. It’s summer. 5 mm per day is quite sufficient for me.
Any more is a waste to me. The excess leaks downwards through the sand until it reaches a non-confining aquiclude (a clay layer that is a de-vitrified fine-grained tuff). It then travels sub-horizontally until that aquiclude nears the surface. The water then forms a creek or seep that leaks finally to the ocean or an internal drainage basin, such as a perched lake.
As it should. ;) You only needed five mm and you extracted that as it went past.
Tau.Neutrino said:
Morning.
Tamb said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Morning.
Yes, it is.
Well I’ll be blowed. So it is.
roughbarked said:
Tamb said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Morning.
Yes, it is.Well I’ll be blowed. So it is.
Sibs now driving back to Melbourne. We have got only a Pug and a Boxer now…not two Pugs.
A story:
Once upon a time there was a lady who lived on the other side of the world. Her husband decided that it was a Good Idea to have an affair with his Personal Assistant (who was a couple of years older than his youngest daughter). The lady told him not to come home again. From 2008 to 2012 divorce proceedings were underway. In 2012 the divorce settlement was made by the courts and the now ex husband was required to pay the lady quite a substantial sum of money. He proved difficult to find to serve the relevent papers, moved to another state, had no assets… The lady is patient. She commented that she could, if necessary, wait until he died and then claim from his estate. This year the lady’s attorney retired and her case was handed to a young woman who the lady describes as rather more aggressive than the previous attorney. She managed to get the papers served. The ex-husband’s attorneys contested the facts and were told by the courts that their arguments were poppycock (but in legalese). So things are finally moving.
But wait…there is more. To quote the lady “Thank God for the foresight of my first attorney. He had included a clause requiring interest be paid!”
Commercial fusion power station coming online within 10 years.
https://interestingengineering.com/energy/worlds-1st-commercial-fusion-plant
breakfast is an apple, a very nice apple, there’s about three good bites left now, and a few nibbles around the core that wouldn’t qualify as regular bites proper, and the latter’s where i’m at now, often at this stage I get a seed, I don’t mind a seed or two, a little cyanide or whatever, it’s bitter anyway, makes a nice contrast of flavors, and i’m sensing this paragraph maybe nearly done, coming to an end, finished, which I should formally finish with a more terminal sentence spacer or whatever it is properly denoted, there has been a few commas, i’m not going to count them, so anyway where’s that full stop, oh yes, here I go.
Kingy said:
Commercial fusion power station coming online within 10 years.https://interestingengineering.com/energy/worlds-1st-commercial-fusion-plant
I hope so, the engineers & physicists have been working on such machines for long enough.
transition said:
breakfast is an apple, a very nice apple, there’s about three good bites left now, and a few nibbles around the core that wouldn’t qualify as regular bites proper, and the latter’s where i’m at now, often at this stage I get a seed, I don’t mind a seed or two, a little cyanide or whatever, it’s bitter anyway, makes a nice contrast of flavors, and i’m sensing this paragraph maybe nearly done, coming to an end, finished, which I should formally finish with a more terminal sentence spacer or whatever it is properly denoted, there has been a few commas, i’m not going to count them, so anyway where’s that full stop, oh yes, here I go.
Phew. You finally got there.
Kingy said:
Commercial fusion power station coming online within 10 years.https://interestingengineering.com/energy/worlds-1st-commercial-fusion-plant
It sounds more like prospective.
Spiny Norman said:
Kingy said:
Commercial fusion power station coming online within 10 years.https://interestingengineering.com/energy/worlds-1st-commercial-fusion-plant
I hope so, the engineers & physicists have been working on such machines for long enough.
Since the seventies or esrlier.
In short:
Chinese state-sponsored hackers accessed workstations and documents in a “major cybersecurity incident”, the US Treasury says.
The revelation comes as US officials continue to grapple with the fallout of a massive Chinese cyber espionage campaign known as Salt Typhoon.
What’s next?
The department said it was working with the FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to investigate the scope of the hack.
and in case you weren’t already aware: New Year Law Changes
Commercial fusion power station coming online within 10 years.
In ukraine
roughbarked said:
In short:Chinese state-sponsored hackers accessed workstations and documents in a “major cybersecurity incident”, the US Treasury says.
The revelation comes as US officials continue to grapple with the fallout of a massive Chinese cyber espionage campaign known as Salt Typhoon.
What’s next?The department said it was working with the FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to investigate the scope of the hack.
Revenge of the Number 69
Panda Storm
Tau.Neutrino said:
Previously Unknown Life Forms Discovered Within Human MicrobiomesLooks at Wookie.
I suppose my question about this is: do they interact with human biology, like viruses or prions do, or are they simply “present”?
Tesla’s market capitalisation makes up about half the total market cap of the car industry.
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/charted-teslas-market-cap-nears-half-of-global-auto-industry/
This despite the fact that Tesla has about 2% of market share.
Surely this is an unstable situation.
Kingy said:
Commercial fusion power station coming online within 10 years.https://interestingengineering.com/energy/worlds-1st-commercial-fusion-plant
LOLOLOLOL
dv said:
Tesla’s market capitalisation makes up about half the total market cap of the car industry.https://www.visualcapitalist.com/charted-teslas-market-cap-nears-half-of-global-auto-industry/
This despite the fact that Tesla has about 2% of market share.
Surely this is an unstable situation.
Definitely sounds that way.
dv said:
Tesla’s market capitalisation makes up about half the total market cap of the car industry.https://www.visualcapitalist.com/charted-teslas-market-cap-nears-half-of-global-auto-industry/
This despite the fact that Tesla has about 2% of market share.
Surely this is an unstable situation.
To be fair to Tesla, their market cap is only about 2/3 that of Bitcoin, whereas their underlying value is infinitely greater.
But yeah, there do seem to be a lot of potential sources of market collapse around at the moment.
Tamb said:
roughbarked said:
Tamb said:Yes, it is.
Well I’ll be blowed. So it is.
We should contact Elon so he can buy it.
Elon has already bought the universe.
Hired astro engineers to break it up into separate little universes.
Hello
dv said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Previously Unknown Life Forms Discovered Within Human MicrobiomesLooks at Wookie.
I suppose my question about this is: do they interact with human biology, like viruses or prions do, or are they simply “present”?
reading, really interesting discovery could be
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obelisk_(biology)
transition said:
dv said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Previously Unknown Life Forms Discovered Within Human MicrobiomesLooks at Wookie.
I suppose my question about this is: do they interact with human biology, like viruses or prions do, or are they simply “present”?
reading, really interesting discovery could be
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obelisk_(biology)
I wonder if life started on Earth in more than one form and this became incorporated into more generalised life
Cymek said:
transition said:
dv said:I suppose my question about this is: do they interact with human biology, like viruses or prions do, or are they simply “present”?
reading, really interesting discovery could be
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obelisk_(biology)I wonder if life started on Earth in more than one form and this became incorporated into more generalised life
watching
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFxomyt4oDA
Never Before Seen Viral Organisms Found Inside Our Bodies – “Obelisks”
dv said:
Tesla’s market capitalisation makes up about half the total market cap of the car industry.https://www.visualcapitalist.com/charted-teslas-market-cap-nears-half-of-global-auto-industry/
This despite the fact that Tesla has about 2% of market share.
Surely this is an unstable situation.
Yeah, except it’s been built around the “Elon Cult”.
If the “Elon Cult” fails, then Tesla will likely come crashing down.
However, by backing Trump, he has extended the cult with the effect that his companies (and by extension, Mr M himself) are all worth more.
Dr Who actor Tom Baker receives and MBE in the 2025 New Years Honors list
Had a dream that I was required to testify in a pre-trial evidence session in relation to a tutor who went missing. I was a young man, in the dream. I parked and noticed that there was a 20 minute limit but my legal advisor told me it would be fine. Had to produce my ID to get in the building. The buildings were modern cement types, rectangular and white, maybe 4 floors, like a government compound, but in the courtroom it looked more traditional with woodpanelling etc. Three judges but the one in the middle did most of the asking. Questions were a bit off: “would you say the disappearance positively or negatively affected your relationship with your girlfriend. “ I’d say “neither “ and they’d say “that wasn’t the apology we were looking for.
transition said:
dv said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Previously Unknown Life Forms Discovered Within Human MicrobiomesLooks at Wookie.
I suppose my question about this is: do they interact with human biology, like viruses or prions do, or are they simply “present”?
reading, really interesting discovery could be
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obelisk_(biology)
Ta.
Tau.Neutrino said:
Previously Unknown Life Forms Discovered Within Human MicrobiomesLooks at Wookie.
Ta.
Neophyte said:
Dr Who actor Tom Baker receives and MBE in the 2025 New Years Honors list
Good
dv said:
Had a dream that I was required to testify in a pre-trial evidence session in relation to a tutor who went missing. I was a young man, in the dream. I parked and noticed that there was a 20 minute limit but my legal advisor told me it would be fine. Had to produce my ID to get in the building. The buildings were modern cement types, rectangular and white, maybe 4 floors, like a government compound, but in the courtroom it looked more traditional with woodpanelling etc. Three judges but the one in the middle did most of the asking. Questions were a bit off: “would you say the disappearance positively or negatively affected your relationship with your girlfriend. “ I’d say “neither “ and they’d say “that wasn’t the apology we were looking for.
lights pipe
dv said:
Neophyte said:
Dr Who actor Tom Baker receives and MBE in the 2025 New Years Honors list
Good
Also, a knighthood for Stephen Fry.
Neophyte said:
Dr Who actor Tom Baker receives and MBE in the 2025 New Years Honors list
Took them long enough.
Neophyte said:
dv said:
Neophyte said:
Dr Who actor Tom Baker receives and MBE in the 2025 New Years Honors list
Good
Also, a knighthood for Stephen Fry.
He’s a good mate of Chucklehead.
dv said:
Had a dream that I was required to testify in a pre-trial evidence session in relation to a tutor who went missing. I was a young man, in the dream. I parked and noticed that there was a 20 minute limit but my legal advisor told me it would be fine. Had to produce my ID to get in the building. The buildings were modern cement types, rectangular and white, maybe 4 floors, like a government compound, but in the courtroom it looked more traditional with woodpanelling etc. Three judges but the one in the middle did most of the asking. Questions were a bit off: “would you say the disappearance positively or negatively affected your relationship with your girlfriend. “ I’d say “neither “ and they’d say “that wasn’t the apology we were looking for.
Sounds like you were a suspect.
Neophyte said:
Dr Who actor Tom Baker receives and MBE in the 2025 New Years Honors list
Oh, good.
dv said:
Had a dream that I was required to testify in a pre-trial evidence session in relation to a tutor who went missing. I was a young man, in the dream. I parked and noticed that there was a 20 minute limit but my legal advisor told me it would be fine. Had to produce my ID to get in the building. The buildings were modern cement types, rectangular and white, maybe 4 floors, like a government compound, but in the courtroom it looked more traditional with woodpanelling etc. Three judges but the one in the middle did most of the asking. Questions were a bit off: “would you say the disappearance positively or negatively affected your relationship with your girlfriend. “ I’d say “neither “ and they’d say “that wasn’t the apology we were looking for.
Ooh-ah!
Neophyte said:
dv said:
Neophyte said:
Dr Who actor Tom Baker receives and MBE in the 2025 New Years Honors list
Good
Also, a knighthood for Stephen Fry.
Good
Neophyte said:
dv said:
Neophyte said:
Dr Who actor Tom Baker receives and MBE in the 2025 New Years Honors list
Good
Also, a knighthood for Stephen Fry.
Extra good.
Carey Mulligan also received a CBE. She has been nominated for stack of Globen Globes and Oscars and so forth but not won yet. First saw here in the excellent Doctor Who story “Blink”.
Bubblecar said:
dv said:
Had a dream that I was required to testify in a pre-trial evidence session in relation to a tutor who went missing. I was a young man, in the dream. I parked and noticed that there was a 20 minute limit but my legal advisor told me it would be fine. Had to produce my ID to get in the building. The buildings were modern cement types, rectangular and white, maybe 4 floors, like a government compound, but in the courtroom it looked more traditional with woodpanelling etc. Three judges but the one in the middle did most of the asking. Questions were a bit off: “would you say the disappearance positively or negatively affected your relationship with your girlfriend. “ I’d say “neither “ and they’d say “that wasn’t the apology we were looking for.
Sounds like you were a suspect.
Whatever he is trying to suppress it seems to want to come out in his dreams.
I don’t think it’s anything serious like murder most foul but something trivial, something that he’s embarrassed about, something that he wants to forget, maybe he got pissed at a party and lit a fart or some such.
Neophyte said:
dv said:
Neophyte said:
Dr Who actor Tom Baker receives and MBE in the 2025 New Years Honors list
Good
Also, a knighthood for Stephen Fry.
He’ll be having drinks at his London club, drinks with the chaps.
And speaking of Tom Baker, we are up to The Brain of Morbius in our marathon.
Another treasured story and one I’ve seen several times. Quite an interesting story and also somewhat horrific. Mehendri Solon has saved the brain of Morbius and is building bodies to host it out of parts of space travellers, and fancies the 4th Doctor’s huge noggin.
Sarah is a bit more useful in this one and indeed has to rescue the Doctor from execution. Then she is blinded by a flash and the first thing she sees when she regains her sight is the monster that Solon has cobbled together from bits and pieces of different species. I wonder if the crablike claw is meant to be from a Macra.
Solon is played by Welsh actor Philip Madoc, who memorably played the War Chief in “The War Games”.
The story is notable for showing several “Pre-Hartnell” Doctors. The production notes and casting fliers show that it was definitely intended that these were versions of the Doctor but in the years afterward some people argued that these were former versions of Solon or Morbius. The matter was somewhat resolved in the modern story “The Timeless Children”.
The Sisterhood of Karn also played crucial roles in the modern stories “The Night of the Doctor”, “The Magician’s Apprentice “ and “Hell Bent”.
MAREN: You feign ignorance, Time Lord?
DOCTOR: Please, just call me Doctor. I hate all this bowing and scraping.
Peak Warming Man said:
Bubblecar said:
dv said:
Had a dream that I was required to testify in a pre-trial evidence session in relation to a tutor who went missing. I was a young man, in the dream. I parked and noticed that there was a 20 minute limit but my legal advisor told me it would be fine. Had to produce my ID to get in the building. The buildings were modern cement types, rectangular and white, maybe 4 floors, like a government compound, but in the courtroom it looked more traditional with woodpanelling etc. Three judges but the one in the middle did most of the asking. Questions were a bit off: “would you say the disappearance positively or negatively affected your relationship with your girlfriend. “ I’d say “neither “ and they’d say “that wasn’t the apology we were looking for.
Sounds like you were a suspect.
Whatever he is trying to suppress it seems to want to come out in his dreams.
I don’t think it’s anything serious like murder most foul but something trivial, something that he’s embarrassed about, something that he wants to forget, maybe he got pissed at a party and lit a fart or some such.
You can’t prove a damned thing, that tutor could be anywhere.
Peak Warming Man said:
Neophyte said:
dv said:Good
Also, a knighthood for Stephen Fry.
He’ll be having drinks at his London club, drinks with the chaps.
Groucho Club I suppose.
Peak Warming Man said:
Bubblecar said:
dv said:
Had a dream that I was required to testify in a pre-trial evidence session in relation to a tutor who went missing. I was a young man, in the dream. I parked and noticed that there was a 20 minute limit but my legal advisor told me it would be fine. Had to produce my ID to get in the building. The buildings were modern cement types, rectangular and white, maybe 4 floors, like a government compound, but in the courtroom it looked more traditional with woodpanelling etc. Three judges but the one in the middle did most of the asking. Questions were a bit off: “would you say the disappearance positively or negatively affected your relationship with your girlfriend. “ I’d say “neither “ and they’d say “that wasn’t the apology we were looking for.
Sounds like you were a suspect.
Whatever he is trying to suppress it seems to want to come out in his dreams.
I don’t think it’s anything serious like murder most foul but something trivial, something that he’s embarrassed about, something that he wants to forget, maybe he got pissed at a party and lit a fart or some such.
Probably didn’t pay a parking fine?
dv said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Neophyte said:Also, a knighthood for Stephen Fry.
He’ll be having drinks at his London club, drinks with the chaps.
Groucho Club I suppose.
Marx my words he’ll have fun
dv said:
And speaking of Tom Baker, we are up to The Brain of Morbius in our marathon.Another treasured story and one I’ve seen several times. Quite an interesting story and also somewhat horrific. Mehendri Solon has saved the brain of Morbius and is building bodies to host it out of parts of space travellers, and fancies the 4th Doctor’s huge noggin.
Sarah is a bit more useful in this one and indeed has to rescue the Doctor from execution. Then she is blinded by a flash and the first thing she sees when she regains her sight is the monster that Solon has cobbled together from bits and pieces of different species. I wonder if the crablike claw is meant to be from a Macra.Solon is played by Welsh actor Philip Madoc, who memorably played the War Chief in “The War Games”.
The story is notable for showing several “Pre-Hartnell” Doctors. The production notes and casting fliers show that it was definitely intended that these were versions of the Doctor but in the years afterward some people argued that these were former versions of Solon or Morbius. The matter was somewhat resolved in the modern story “The Timeless Children”.
The Sisterhood of Karn also played crucial roles in the modern stories “The Night of the Doctor”, “The Magician’s Apprentice “ and “Hell Bent”.MAREN: You feign ignorance, Time Lord?
DOCTOR: Please, just call me Doctor. I hate all this bowing and scraping.
It’s a good one. I seem to recall that when it was first shown in Australia, the episodes were strung together in a single movie-length special.
dv said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Neophyte said:Also, a knighthood for Stephen Fry.
He’ll be having drinks at his London club, drinks with the chaps.
Groucho Club I suppose.
Yes, but he probably wouldn’t join any club that would have him as a member.
“Scientists finally reveal cause of 1831’s global cooling event
It’s been nearly 200 years since a global cold snap led to widespread crop failures and devastating famines. Now, a new study by scientists at the University of St Andrews finally pinpoints the cause. The Zavaritskii volcano on the remote, uninhabited Russian island of Simushir, part of the Kuril Islands, erupted in 1831, the experts reveal.
The dramatic event injected volcanic ash into the atmosphere, blocking enough sunlight to induce a brief global cooling period. And the resulting change in weather included reduced rainfall from Africa and India to Japan, causing major famine due to poor crop yields. ‘While scientists have long known that a really big eruption went off in 1831 the source has remained a mystery,’ lead study author Dr Will Hutchison told MailOnline.”
Well, there you have it.
Peak Warming Man said:
“Scientists finally reveal cause of 1831’s global cooling event
It’s been nearly 200 years since a global cold snap led to widespread crop failures and devastating famines. Now, a new study by scientists at the University of St Andrews finally pinpoints the cause. The Zavaritskii volcano on the remote, uninhabited Russian island of Simushir, part of the Kuril Islands, erupted in 1831, the experts reveal.
The dramatic event injected volcanic ash into the atmosphere, blocking enough sunlight to induce a brief global cooling period. And the resulting change in weather included reduced rainfall from Africa and India to Japan, causing major famine due to poor crop yields. ‘While scientists have long known that a really big eruption went off in 1831 the source has remained a mystery,’ lead study author Dr Will Hutchison told MailOnline.”Well, there you have it.
https://news.st-andrews.ac.uk/archive/st-andrews-researchers-solve-200-year-volcanic-mystery/
The article is a bit old, but it explains a few things about trump.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn28380-howler-monkeys-have-to-choose-between-big-balls-and-big-bawls/
Re-opened my Coles order to modify it, and once again they’re telling me they have no eggs.
Not a single egg of any shape or size to be had in the entire supermarket. I’ll have to get them from the IGA again.
Bubblecar said:
Re-opened my Coles order to modify it, and once again they’re telling me they have no eggs.Not a single egg of any shape or size to be had in the entire supermarket. I’ll have to get them from the IGA again.
…apart from Kinder Surprise Eggs. Plenty of these chocolate eggs imported from Italy, but AUSTRALIAN BIRD EGGS?
Not one.
Bubblecar said:
Re-opened my Coles order to modify it, and once again they’re telling me they have no eggs.Not a single egg of any shape or size to be had in the entire supermarket. I’ll have to get them from the IGA again.
Our Woolies (Cooloola Cove) had eggs yesterday. First time I’ve seen them for ages. I bought a dozen. Mrs V had told me by phone that she’d bought two dozen at the Sunshine Coast while she was away, and that another dozen – if available – would be great.
As a consequence we were able to have a very tasty frittata last night.
Michael V said:
Bubblecar said:
Re-opened my Coles order to modify it, and once again they’re telling me they have no eggs.Not a single egg of any shape or size to be had in the entire supermarket. I’ll have to get them from the IGA again.
Our Woolies (Cooloola Cove) had eggs yesterday. First time I’ve seen them for ages. I bought a dozen. Mrs V had told me by phone that she’d bought two dozen at the Sunshine Coast while she was away, and that another dozen – if available – would be great.
As a consequence we were able to have a very tasty frittata last night.
Good score.
Watching Vikings. Far more relaxing than that Barbie movie.
No pink stupidity, just a bit of pink flesh. With blood.
I mainly have Netflix on as background noise and company.
Also, sheesh, some of those actors look like mr kii.
Michael V said:
dv said:
Tesla’s market capitalisation makes up about half the total market cap of the car industry.https://www.visualcapitalist.com/charted-teslas-market-cap-nears-half-of-global-auto-industry/
This despite the fact that Tesla has about 2% of market share.
Surely this is an unstable situation.
Yeah, except it’s been built around the “Elon Cult”.
If the “Elon Cult” fails, then Tesla will likely come crashing down.
However, by backing Trump, he has extended the cult with the effect that his companies (and by extension, Mr M himself) are all worth more.
Don’t forget, you heard it here first!
I’ve been buying eggs from Costco. They always have thousands in stock. Local Woolies x2, Coles, Aldi… nup. 30 eggs from Costco is $10.80. Limit 2 packs (60 eggs) per customer.
Dude who owns the sports shop near Mini Me’s school has a poultry farm and he sells eggs under the counter lol.
dv said:
Carey Mulligan also received a CBE. She has been nominated for stack of Globen Globes and Oscars and so forth but not won yet. First saw here in the excellent Doctor Who story “Blink”.
Normally I’m not a fan but I thought her role in Saltburn was quite good. My god, I love Saltburn.
Neophyte said:
dv said:
Neophyte said:
Dr Who actor Tom Baker receives and MBE in the 2025 New Years Honors list
Good
Also, a knighthood for Stephen Fry.
Has PWM missed out again? 🥺
Heard the most Australian thing today, “oops, I’ve got Vegemite on the koala!”
Divine Angel said:
I’ve been buying eggs from Costco. They always have thousands in stock. Local Woolies x2, Coles, Aldi… nup. 30 eggs from Costco is $10.80. Limit 2 packs (60 eggs) per customer.Dude who owns the sports shop near Mini Me’s school has a poultry farm and he sells eggs under the counter lol.
Our IGA always seems to have plenty in stock.
Spiny Norman said:
Heard the most Australian thing today, “oops, I’ve got Vegemite on the koala!”
Well that’s just careless.
Bubblecar said:
Re-opened my Coles order to modify it, and once again they’re telling me they have no eggs.Not a single egg of any shape or size to be had in the entire supermarket. I’ll have to get them from the IGA again.
Now that Christmas is done, they’re likely stocking Easter eggs. Though, can’t really make an omelette with them, no matter how many you break…
Bubblecar said:
Divine Angel said:
I’ve been buying eggs from Costco. They always have thousands in stock. Local Woolies x2, Coles, Aldi… nup. 30 eggs from Costco is $10.80. Limit 2 packs (60 eggs) per customer.Dude who owns the sports shop near Mini Me’s school has a poultry farm and he sells eggs under the counter lol.
Our IGA always seems to have plenty in stock.
Coles here has eggs at the start of the day.
But, the shelves are stripped of them by early afternoon.
Then, the egg shelves are often re-stocked late in the afternoon.
Coles just seems to be happy to let the shelves sit bare for a large portion of the day.
Round these parts, the section reserved for seasonal crap is currently stocked with back-to-school items.
Stationery, along with a viola, and a clarinet, is very much a next year problem. Absolutely not to be dealt with for the rest of this year.
captain_spalding said:
Bubblecar said:
Divine Angel said:
I’ve been buying eggs from Costco. They always have thousands in stock. Local Woolies x2, Coles, Aldi… nup. 30 eggs from Costco is $10.80. Limit 2 packs (60 eggs) per customer.Dude who owns the sports shop near Mini Me’s school has a poultry farm and he sells eggs under the counter lol.
Our IGA always seems to have plenty in stock.
Coles here has eggs at the start of the day.
But, the shelves are stripped of them by early afternoon.
Then, the egg shelves are often re-stocked late in the afternoon.
Coles just seems to be happy to let the shelves sit bare for a large portion of the day.
I was at Woolies 8.30am today. No eggs at all, not even Easter ones.
My higher duties has been extended until May
The job I am doing is vacant as the substantive person resigned.
Its going to be reclassified to a higher level when its advertised
That is good
I will have to apply for it like everyone else later on.
Cymek said:
My higher duties has been extended until MayThe job I am doing is vacant as the substantive person resigned.
Its going to be reclassified to a higher level when its advertised
That is good
I will have to apply for it like everyone else later on.
Go you!
Cymek said:
My higher duties has been extended until MayThe job I am doing is vacant as the substantive person resigned.
Its going to be reclassified to a higher level when its advertised
That is good
I will have to apply for it like everyone else later on.
Good luck with it. :)
Some decades ago, I was employed by the manager of a large warehouse/store. He knew me personally and knew that I was looking for work, he asked me to turn up on Monday morning ready to start.
After three weeks, the manager asked me into his office and told me that he had been informed that he wasn’t allowed to employ anyone without first conducting an interview, so this is it.
“What makes you think you can do this job?”
“I’ve been doing it for three weeks.”
“Ok, then, good enough, back to work ya go.”
dv said:
Tesla’s market capitalisation makes up about half the total market cap of the car industry.https://www.visualcapitalist.com/charted-teslas-market-cap-nears-half-of-global-auto-industry/
This despite the fact that Tesla has about 2% of market share.
Surely this is an unstable situation.
%here has to be a point somewhere whyen Tesla goes from world-changing tech company to badly run auto manufacturer, and the share price reflects actual earnings, profits and dividends; and not the speculative value.
Kingy said:
Cymek said:
My higher duties has been extended until MayThe job I am doing is vacant as the substantive person resigned.
Its going to be reclassified to a higher level when its advertised
That is good
I will have to apply for it like everyone else later on.
Good luck with it. :)
Some decades ago, I was employed by the manager of a large warehouse/store. He knew me personally and knew that I was looking for work, he asked me to turn up on Monday morning ready to start.
After three weeks, the manager asked me into his office and told me that he had been informed that he wasn’t allowed to employ anyone without first conducting an interview, so this is it.
“What makes you think you can do this job?”
“I’ve been doing it for three weeks.”
“Ok, then, good enough, back to work ya go.”
Nice!
Kingy said:
Cymek said:
My higher duties has been extended until MayThe job I am doing is vacant as the substantive person resigned.
Its going to be reclassified to a higher level when its advertised
That is good
I will have to apply for it like everyone else later on.
Good luck with it. :)
Some decades ago, I was employed by the manager of a large warehouse/store. He knew me personally and knew that I was looking for work, he asked me to turn up on Monday morning ready to start.
After three weeks, the manager asked me into his office and told me that he had been informed that he wasn’t allowed to employ anyone without first conducting an interview, so this is it.
“What makes you think you can do this job?”
“I’ve been doing it for three weeks.”
“Ok, then, good enough, back to work ya go.”
Centrelink once sent me on a week-long course on how to do client interviews at the front counter.
By then, I’d been doing front-counter client interviews all day long, every working day, for six months.
party_pants said:
dv said:
Tesla’s market capitalisation makes up about half the total market cap of the car industry.https://www.visualcapitalist.com/charted-teslas-market-cap-nears-half-of-global-auto-industry/
This despite the fact that Tesla has about 2% of market share.
Surely this is an unstable situation.
%here has to be a point somewhere whyen Tesla goes from world-changing tech company to badly run auto manufacturer, and the share price reflects actual earnings, profits and dividends; and not the speculative value.
Much the same could be said about the fossil fuel engines used by most other car manufacturers. Have you seen the size of Tesla’s factory in China? What is the expected future fuel use, petrol or electricity?
captain_spalding said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Previously Unknown Life Forms Discovered Within Human Microbiomes
:)
captain_spalding said:
Kingy said:
Cymek said:
My higher duties has been extended until MayThe job I am doing is vacant as the substantive person resigned.
Its going to be reclassified to a higher level when its advertised
That is good
I will have to apply for it like everyone else later on.
Good luck with it. :)
Some decades ago, I was employed by the manager of a large warehouse/store. He knew me personally and knew that I was looking for work, he asked me to turn up on Monday morning ready to start.
After three weeks, the manager asked me into his office and told me that he had been informed that he wasn’t allowed to employ anyone without first conducting an interview, so this is it.
“What makes you think you can do this job?”
“I’ve been doing it for three weeks.”
“Ok, then, good enough, back to work ya go.”
Centrelink once sent me on a week-long course on how to do client interviews at the front counter.
By then, I’d been doing front-counter client interviews all day long, every working day, for six months.
perhaps they thought your counterside manner could be, shall we say, more sympathetic?
;-)
kii said:
Watching Vikings. Far more relaxing than that Barbie movie.
No pink stupidity, just a bit of pink flesh. With blood.I mainly have Netflix on as background noise and company.
Also, sheesh, some of those actors look like mr kii.
Some of the textiles, fabrics and trimmings are really crap 70s stuff. Obviously sourced by the props department from thrift stores. I’m sure I saw a bedspead from my parental unit’s bed being used as a poncho.
Divine Angel said:
I’ve been buying eggs from Costco. They always have thousands in stock. Local Woolies x2, Coles, Aldi… nup. 30 eggs from Costco is $10.80. Limit 2 packs (60 eggs) per customer.Dude who owns the sports shop near Mini Me’s school has a poultry farm and he sells eggs under the counter lol.
Might be a bit far for me to drive to Costco and back for eggs.
Divine Angel said:
Round these parts, the section reserved for seasonal crap is currently stocked with back-to-school items.Stationery, along with a viola, and a clarinet, is very much a next year problem. Absolutely not to be dealt with for the rest of this year.
:)
How’d your mother go?
Cymek said:
My higher duties has been extended until MayThe job I am doing is vacant as the substantive person resigned.
Its going to be reclassified to a higher level when its advertised
That is good
I will have to apply for it like everyone else later on.
Nice.
Michael V said:
Cymek said:
My higher duties has been extended until MayThe job I am doing is vacant as the substantive person resigned.
Its going to be reclassified to a higher level when its advertised
That is good
I will have to apply for it like everyone else later on.
Nice.
Is around $12000 more a year
Bogsnorkler said:
perhaps they thought your counterside manner could be, shall we say, more sympathetic?
;-)
Whatever faults they may have found with my method or manner, they were clearly not sufficient for them to withdraw me from the duty.
(The fact is, it was once remarked that i displayed a trifle too much sympathy for the clients.)
It appears to me that the pilot of the Jeju Air’s Crash panicked and forgot all his emergency procedures and crashed landed the plane successfully complete with a take that explosion.
captain_spalding said:
Bogsnorkler said:perhaps they thought your counterside manner could be, shall we say, more sympathetic?
;-)
Whatever faults they may have found with my method or manner, they were clearly not sufficient for them to withdraw me from the duty.
(The fact is, it was once remarked that i displayed a trifle too much sympathy for the clients.)
What were the people like in general.
The people we encounter are for the most part polite and decent.
Few people go off, security deals with them though and its not common
For all those moofie cultist. hey what but!!
Movie: Barbarella
SBS World Movies
Tuesday 31st December at 10:00 pm (110 minutes)
Barbarella is marked by the same audacity and originality, fantasy, humour, beauty and horror, cruelty and eroticism that make comic books such a favourite. The setting is the planet Lythion in the year 40,000, when Barbarella (Jane Fonda) makes a forced landing while traveling through space. She acts like a female James Bond, vanquishing evil in the forms of robots and monsters.
party_pants said:
dv said:
Tesla’s market capitalisation makes up about half the total market cap of the car industry.https://www.visualcapitalist.com/charted-teslas-market-cap-nears-half-of-global-auto-industry/
This despite the fact that Tesla has about 2% of market share.
Surely this is an unstable situation.
%here has to be a point somewhere whyen Tesla goes from world-changing tech company to badly run auto manufacturer, and the share price reflects actual earnings, profits and dividends; and not the speculative value.
…… and when (not if) it does, it will take the rest of the stock market (and world) with it.
Woodie said:
For all those moofie cultist. hey what but!!Movie: Barbarella
SBS World Movies
Tuesday 31st December at 10:00 pm (110 minutes)
Barbarella is marked by the same audacity and originality, fantasy, humour, beauty and horror, cruelty and eroticism that make comic books such a favourite. The setting is the planet Lythion in the year 40,000, when Barbarella (Jane Fonda) makes a forced landing while traveling through space. She acts like a female James Bond, vanquishing evil in the forms of robots and monsters.
Forget “Barbarella” – “Dinner For One” is on at 6.10 :-D
Neophyte said:
Woodie said:
For all those moofie cultist. hey what but!!Movie: Barbarella
SBS World Movies
Tuesday 31st December at 10:00 pm (110 minutes)
Barbarella is marked by the same audacity and originality, fantasy, humour, beauty and horror, cruelty and eroticism that make comic books such a favourite. The setting is the planet Lythion in the year 40,000, when Barbarella (Jane Fonda) makes a forced landing while traveling through space. She acts like a female James Bond, vanquishing evil in the forms of robots and monsters.
Forget “Barbarella” – “Dinner For One” is on at 6.10 :-D
Oh yes. A must for NYE. 🍷🍾🐯
Cymek said:
captain_spalding said:
Bogsnorkler said:perhaps they thought your counterside manner could be, shall we say, more sympathetic?
;-)
Whatever faults they may have found with my method or manner, they were clearly not sufficient for them to withdraw me from the duty.
(The fact is, it was once remarked that i displayed a trifle too much sympathy for the clients.)
What were the people like in general.
The people we encounter are for the most part polite and decent.
Few people go off, security deals with them though and its not common
There was a saying among Centrelink staff that ‘there’s a lot of stress in this job, but only 10% of it comes across the counter. The rest comes down the stairs.’
And that’s about right. Almost all clients were (and, probably, still are) ordinary, decent people who’d really rather not be there at all, but who, for many reasons, were/are attempting to navigate the vagaries of the Social Security Act 1991 and the Health Insurance Act 1973.
Most of the staff are also ordinary, decent people, who really do want to do all that they can to help those people.
There was a small number of clients who were, for whatever reason, habitually aggressive and combative. Some were actually banned from visiting Centrelink offices, and could only deal with the outfit via phone. Actual assaults were quite rare, but not unknown. We didn’t have on-site secuiry people in those days.
Some people arrive looking for a fight/argument. Staff usually understand that as being a symptom of frustration with ‘the system’ and tey to help people work through and around that.
I had one lady in to complain about the process that her Disability Pensioner partner had to go through. I explained that people like me had no power to alter or vary the process, that a lot of the process was not managed locally, and that we only served as an information collector for decision-makers who were locatedvery far away, and who we were not qualified or permitted to contradict.
She was deeply angry, and swore at me repeatedly through the interview, and even made a couple of veiled threats. A little while after she’d gone, i began to make a note on her partner’s record, recommending that no further actin be taken until her parner and her had an extended time to amass the required medical reports.
I found a note on that record to the effect that, in the interval, she’d phoned Centrelink, alleged that i’d abused her, used foul language, and made threats to her regarding her partner’s benefit. She’d reduced the call centre person to tears, and trhe call centre supervisor had contacted my manager to recommend that i disciplined.
But, most people were very nice.
I recall an elderly couple, originally from the UK, who, for family reasons, were moving to Scotland, and needed to arrange for their pension to be paid in the UK.
I asked where in Scotland they were moving to.
‘Wick’, said the husband.
Billy Connolly remarked on how windy and stormy it is in Wick: ‘when someone in Wick spits, someone in Norway gets a wet eye’.
‘It’s going to be different to Queensland’, said the lady, rather grimly.
Cymek said:
Michael V said:
Cymek said:
My higher duties has been extended until MayThe job I am doing is vacant as the substantive person resigned.
Its going to be reclassified to a higher level when its advertised
That is good
I will have to apply for it like everyone else later on.
Nice.
Is around $12000 more a year
Very nice.
Cymek said:
Michael V said:
Cymek said:
My higher duties has been extended until MayThe job I am doing is vacant as the substantive person resigned.
Its going to be reclassified to a higher level when its advertised
That is good
I will have to apply for it like everyone else later on.
Nice.
Is around $12000 more a year
You’re going to be rich, richer than a weather girl.
I just woke up from a nanna nap.
https://youtube.com/shorts/EVImgCbUyaM?si=ACK92H-bcH7FnYAe
Mental Deficiency Act
Peak Warming Man said:
I just woke up from a nanna nap.
Well, there you go…
Might as well pour the first glass of wine for the evening, while the oven’s pre-heating.
Cheers everyone :)
Peak Warming Man said:
I just woke up from a nanna nap.
It’s what all the best intellectuals do.
I suppose someone could argue that the high valuation of Tesla shares reflects the future as battery electric vehicles will make up a bigger sector of sales in coming decades but even among BEVs, Tesla only makes up 18.5% of sales by value. BYD has about the same amount of BEV sales as Tesla with less than 10% of the market cap.
who’s in charge of the weather, i’m bleeding $$ out a hose keeping the green
transition said:
who’s in charge of the weather, i’m bleeding $$ out a hose keeping the green
What’s wrong with brown?
Bubblecar said:
transition said:
who’s in charge of the weather, i’m bleeding $$ out a hose keeping the green
What’s wrong with brown?
makes me feel like i’m going to die, got to have an oasis, maintain the will to live
transition said:
Bubblecar said:
transition said:
who’s in charge of the weather, i’m bleeding $$ out a hose keeping the green
What’s wrong with brown?
makes me feel like i’m going to die, got to have an oasis, maintain the will to live
dear God people are reading what’s-his-name’s social media posts, jeez ya life’d need be washed out
Bubblecar said:
transition said:
Bubblecar said:What’s wrong with brown?
makes me feel like i’m going to die, got to have an oasis, maintain the will to live
chuckle
not the same is it
transition said:
dear God people are reading what’s-his-name’s social media posts, jeez ya life’d need be washed out
Not me, I’m looking for some soothing music on choob.
transition said:
dear God people are reading what’s-his-name’s social media posts, jeez ya life’d need be washed out
LPET
dv said:
transition said:
dear God people are reading what’s-his-name’s social media posts, jeez ya life’d need be washed out
LPET
transition said:
Bubblecar said:
transition said:
who’s in charge of the weather, i’m bleeding $$ out a hose keeping the green
What’s wrong with brown?
makes me feel like i’m going to die, got to have an oasis, maintain the will to live
Here ya go man..
Bubblecar said:
dv said:
transition said:
dear God people are reading what’s-his-name’s social media posts, jeez ya life’d need be washed out
LPET
He meant: Let People Enjoy Themselves
That pasty is smelling very alluring and nearly ready.
Bubblecar said:
That pasty is smelling very alluring and nearly ready.
Well don’t let it burn, lad. There’s a plate waiting, with a knife and fork on either side. And a bottle of Worcestershire sauce.
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
dv said:LPET
He meant: Let People Enjoy Themselves
I just wanted to plant the seeds of the possibility of ignorability, before earth becomes planet X or something weird
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
That pasty is smelling very alluring and nearly ready.
Well don’t let it burn, lad. There’s a plate waiting, with a knife and fork on either side. And a bottle of Worcestershire sauce.
You’ll be needing some worstershshire sauce.
transition said:
who’s in charge of the weather, i’m bleeding $$ out a hose keeping the green
My lawns have been sacrificed for a couple of zucchini plants.
It is desperately dry.
PermeateFree said:
party_pants said:dv said:
Tesla’s market capitalisation makes up about half the total market cap of the car industry.https://www.visualcapitalist.com/charted-teslas-market-cap-nears-half-of-global-auto-industry/
This despite the fact that Tesla has about 2% of market share.
Surely this is an unstable situation.
%here has to be a point somewhere whyen Tesla goes from world-changing tech company to badly run auto manufacturer, and the share price reflects actual earnings, profits and dividends; and not the speculative value.
Much the same could be said about the fossil fuel engines used by most other car manufacturers. Have you seen the size of Tesla’s factory in China? What is the expected future fuel use, petrol or electricity?
That’s a very 2015 outlook. making battery electric vehicles is no loinger new or exciting. Just about every car manufacturer does it now too. car companies are not the monolithic dinosaurs you might imagine, they’ll manage the transition well enough, and they’ll compete well with Tesla. Tesla is no longer the only player in the EV market without competition. In fact, they are no longer the largest manufacturer of EVs.
As for China. Have you been following developments there over the last couple of years? Have you heard of the tariff wars? The Chinese market is awash with EVs because of heavy government subsidies to local manufacturers. They build so many over there that domestic demand is insufficient to buy them all. So they are resorting to selling them cheap in the USA and EU, to undercut the local manufacturers there and capture market share. The response has been escalating tariffs on Chinese EV imports to counter the overproduction and dumping. Building an EV plant in China already looks like a bad decision. They won’t get subsidies from the Chinese government, being a foreign brand, but they will get slapped with tariffs trying to export Chinese-built Tesla cars to anywhere else. They can’t compete in the Chinese market because of the oversupply. The tariffs wars are all about EVs.
transition said:
Bubblecar said:
transition said:makes me feel like i’m going to die, got to have an oasis, maintain the will to live
chuckle
not the same is it
I see that there exists a solution. Plastic lawn.
party_pants said:
PermeateFree said:
party_pants said:%here has to be a point somewhere whyen Tesla goes from world-changing tech company to badly run auto manufacturer, and the share price reflects actual earnings, profits and dividends; and not the speculative value.
Much the same could be said about the fossil fuel engines used by most other car manufacturers. Have you seen the size of Tesla’s factory in China? What is the expected future fuel use, petrol or electricity?
That’s a very 2015 outlook. making battery electric vehicles is no loinger new or exciting. Just about every car manufacturer does it now too. car companies are not the monolithic dinosaurs you might imagine, they’ll manage the transition well enough, and they’ll compete well with Tesla. Tesla is no longer the only player in the EV market without competition. In fact, they are no longer the largest manufacturer of EVs.
As for China. Have you been following developments there over the last couple of years? Have you heard of the tariff wars? The Chinese market is awash with EVs because of heavy government subsidies to local manufacturers. They build so many over there that domestic demand is insufficient to buy them all. So they are resorting to selling them cheap in the USA and EU, to undercut the local manufacturers there and capture market share. The response has been escalating tariffs on Chinese EV imports to counter the overproduction and dumping. Building an EV plant in China already looks like a bad decision. They won’t get subsidies from the Chinese government, being a foreign brand, but they will get slapped with tariffs trying to export Chinese-built Tesla cars to anywhere else. They can’t compete in the Chinese market because of the oversupply. The tariffs wars are all about EVs.
Trump is bringing back the big block engines and make the Ameican car industry great big tanks again.
roughbarked said:
party_pants said:
PermeateFree said:Much the same could be said about the fossil fuel engines used by most other car manufacturers. Have you seen the size of Tesla’s factory in China? What is the expected future fuel use, petrol or electricity?
That’s a very 2015 outlook. making battery electric vehicles is no loinger new or exciting. Just about every car manufacturer does it now too. car companies are not the monolithic dinosaurs you might imagine, they’ll manage the transition well enough, and they’ll compete well with Tesla. Tesla is no longer the only player in the EV market without competition. In fact, they are no longer the largest manufacturer of EVs.
As for China. Have you been following developments there over the last couple of years? Have you heard of the tariff wars? The Chinese market is awash with EVs because of heavy government subsidies to local manufacturers. They build so many over there that domestic demand is insufficient to buy them all. So they are resorting to selling them cheap in the USA and EU, to undercut the local manufacturers there and capture market share. The response has been escalating tariffs on Chinese EV imports to counter the overproduction and dumping. Building an EV plant in China already looks like a bad decision. They won’t get subsidies from the Chinese government, being a foreign brand, but they will get slapped with tariffs trying to export Chinese-built Tesla cars to anywhere else. They can’t compete in the Chinese market because of the oversupply. The tariffs wars are all about EVs.
Trump is bringing back the big block engines and make the Ameican car industry great big tanks again.
He says he is, but General Secretary Musk might overrule him if it potentially hurts EV sales.
what the fuck is a Charles Robert Darwin anyway
Five bystanders rushed to rescue a young man who suffered suspected spinal injuries after jumping off a jetty at Bawley Beach. Rescuer Shaun Chivers was shocked when holiday-makers continued to jump from The Gantry jetty shortly after emergency services left.
I was going for Let People Enjoy Things but your version works too
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
That pasty is smelling very alluring and nearly ready.
Well don’t let it burn, lad. There’s a plate waiting, with a knife and fork on either side. And a bottle of Worcestershire sauce.
Don’t chug too hard on the bottle.
party_pants said:
roughbarked said:
party_pants said:That’s a very 2015 outlook. making battery electric vehicles is no loinger new or exciting. Just about every car manufacturer does it now too. car companies are not the monolithic dinosaurs you might imagine, they’ll manage the transition well enough, and they’ll compete well with Tesla. Tesla is no longer the only player in the EV market without competition. In fact, they are no longer the largest manufacturer of EVs.
As for China. Have you been following developments there over the last couple of years? Have you heard of the tariff wars? The Chinese market is awash with EVs because of heavy government subsidies to local manufacturers. They build so many over there that domestic demand is insufficient to buy them all. So they are resorting to selling them cheap in the USA and EU, to undercut the local manufacturers there and capture market share. The response has been escalating tariffs on Chinese EV imports to counter the overproduction and dumping. Building an EV plant in China already looks like a bad decision. They won’t get subsidies from the Chinese government, being a foreign brand, but they will get slapped with tariffs trying to export Chinese-built Tesla cars to anywhere else. They can’t compete in the Chinese market because of the oversupply. The tariffs wars are all about EVs.
Trump is bringing back the big block engines and make the Ameican car industry great big tanks again.
He says he is, but General Secretary Musk might overrule him if it potentially hurts EV sales.
Yes. It is all a wait and see until the US government and Musk finish arguing.
Hot dogs for tea, with cheese and onion and tomato sauce, washed down with a cup of tea (black and one)
Over.
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
dv said:
LPET
He meant: Let People Enjoy Themselves
oh all right then they should go ahead wait
Five bystanders rushed to rescue a young man who suffered suspected spinal injuries after jumping off a jetty at Bawley Beach. Rescuer Shaun Chivers was shocked when holiday-makers continued to jump from The Gantry jetty shortly after emergency services left.
what the fuck is a Charles Robert Darwin anyway
dv said:
I was going for Let People Enjoy Things but your version works too
No worries.
Peak Warming Man said:
Hot dogs for tea, with cheese and onion and tomato sauce, washed down with a cup of tea (black and one)
Over.
Jalapeno & cheddar sausages, probably just sandwiches. Don’t need to eat much, I am going out later to my sister’s place and everyone will bring lots of snacks. I’ve even scored a lift so I can have a couple of beers.
roughbarked said:
party_pants said:
roughbarked said:Trump is bringing back the big block engines and make the Ameican car industry great big tanks again.
He says he is, but General Secretary Musk might overrule him if it potentially hurts EV sales.
Yes. It is all a wait and see until the US government and Musk finish arguing.
Yes, I don’t see the factions getting along well… ever. It remains to be seen which one triumphs. Two very different outcomes could happen.
party_pants said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Hot dogs for tea, with cheese and onion and tomato sauce, washed down with a cup of tea (black and one)
Over.
Jalapeno & cheddar sausages, probably just sandwiches. Don’t need to eat much, I am going out later to my sister’s place and everyone will bring lots of snacks. I’ve even scored a lift so I can have a couple of beers.
You’ll be able to drink until your legs don’t work anymore.
party_pants said:
PermeateFree said:
party_pants said:%here has to be a point somewhere whyen Tesla goes from world-changing tech company to badly run auto manufacturer, and the share price reflects actual earnings, profits and dividends; and not the speculative value.
Much the same could be said about the fossil fuel engines used by most other car manufacturers. Have you seen the size of Tesla’s factory in China? What is the expected future fuel use, petrol or electricity?
That’s a very 2015 outlook. making battery electric vehicles is no loinger new or exciting. Just about every car manufacturer does it now too. car companies are not the monolithic dinosaurs you might imagine, they’ll manage the transition well enough, and they’ll compete well with Tesla. Tesla is no longer the only player in the EV market without competition. In fact, they are no longer the largest manufacturer of EVs.
As for China. Have you been following developments there over the last couple of years? Have you heard of the tariff wars? The Chinese market is awash with EVs because of heavy government subsidies to local manufacturers. They build so many over there that domestic demand is insufficient to buy them all. So they are resorting to selling them cheap in the USA and EU, to undercut the local manufacturers there and capture market share. The response has been escalating tariffs on Chinese EV imports to counter the overproduction and dumping. Building an EV plant in China already looks like a bad decision. They won’t get subsidies from the Chinese government, being a foreign brand, but they will get slapped with tariffs trying to export Chinese-built Tesla cars to anywhere else. They can’t compete in the Chinese market because of the oversupply. The tariffs wars are all about EVs.
Current motor car manufacturers are going to have very high tooling cost to convert to electric cars which is going to cost billions of dollars, which is not a good place to compete with electric vehicles which I might add are heavily penalised to assist to conventional car manufacturers.
China now have their own electric cars that are making the entire sector via greater competition more efficient and of higher quality. Via China manufacture they are in an excellent position to export to the Asian Market that has enormous potential. As far as America is concerned Tesla already make electric vehicles there so should not be greatly affected by Trump’s tariffs.
Peak Warming Man said:
party_pants said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Hot dogs for tea, with cheese and onion and tomato sauce, washed down with a cup of tea (black and one)
Over.
Jalapeno & cheddar sausages, probably just sandwiches. Don’t need to eat much, I am going out later to my sister’s place and everyone will bring lots of snacks. I’ve even scored a lift so I can have a couple of beers.
You’ll be able to drink until your legs don’t work anymore.
That might be impolite, I’m only bringing a 6-pack of mid-strengths.
PermeateFree said:
party_pants said:
PermeateFree said:Much the same could be said about the fossil fuel engines used by most other car manufacturers. Have you seen the size of Tesla’s factory in China? What is the expected future fuel use, petrol or electricity?
That’s a very 2015 outlook. making battery electric vehicles is no loinger new or exciting. Just about every car manufacturer does it now too. car companies are not the monolithic dinosaurs you might imagine, they’ll manage the transition well enough, and they’ll compete well with Tesla. Tesla is no longer the only player in the EV market without competition. In fact, they are no longer the largest manufacturer of EVs.
As for China. Have you been following developments there over the last couple of years? Have you heard of the tariff wars? The Chinese market is awash with EVs because of heavy government subsidies to local manufacturers. They build so many over there that domestic demand is insufficient to buy them all. So they are resorting to selling them cheap in the USA and EU, to undercut the local manufacturers there and capture market share. The response has been escalating tariffs on Chinese EV imports to counter the overproduction and dumping. Building an EV plant in China already looks like a bad decision. They won’t get subsidies from the Chinese government, being a foreign brand, but they will get slapped with tariffs trying to export Chinese-built Tesla cars to anywhere else. They can’t compete in the Chinese market because of the oversupply. The tariffs wars are all about EVs.
Current motor car manufacturers are going to have very high tooling cost to convert to electric cars which is going to cost billions of dollars, which is not a good place to compete with electric vehicles which I might add are heavily penalised to assist to conventional car manufacturers.
China now have their own electric cars that are making the entire sector via greater competition more efficient and of higher quality. Via China manufacture they are in an excellent position to export to the Asian Market that has enormous potential. As far as America is concerned Tesla already make electric vehicles there so should not be greatly affected by Trump’s tariffs.
I’m hoping BYD will start dumping new cars in Australia. I wouldn’t mind a Shark6 for under $40k.
While scoffing my pasty, I made up an award-winning advert for Worcester sauce.
Setting is a country cottage on an autumn evening. Starts with brief scenes of a middle-aged man cutting up veg, rolling pastry, then putting a nice big pasty in the oven.
Camera cuts to his old Dad at the table, drinking a pint of stout.
“That’s smelling lovely, son,” he says, nodding his head at the oven.
“It’s a nice big one Dad, easy enough for two.”
“Well don’t let it burn, lad. There’s two plates waiting, with knives and forks on either side, and a bottle of Lea & Perrins.”
Camera cuts to pristine bottle of Lea & Perrins. Then slow and emotive piano music unfolds for a brief sequence of Dad and son scoffing their pasty, with lashings of Worcester, with merry twinkles in their eyes and much laughter etc.
Then, having finished his supper, the son puts his knife and fork back beside the plate, and glances with a happy-sad face at the untouched half pasty on the plate across the table.
Then he picks up a little framed picture and says, “Really miss you, Dad.”
PermeateFree said:
party_pants said:
PermeateFree said:Much the same could be said about the fossil fuel engines used by most other car manufacturers. Have you seen the size of Tesla’s factory in China? What is the expected future fuel use, petrol or electricity?
That’s a very 2015 outlook. making battery electric vehicles is no loinger new or exciting. Just about every car manufacturer does it now too. car companies are not the monolithic dinosaurs you might imagine, they’ll manage the transition well enough, and they’ll compete well with Tesla. Tesla is no longer the only player in the EV market without competition. In fact, they are no longer the largest manufacturer of EVs.
As for China. Have you been following developments there over the last couple of years? Have you heard of the tariff wars? The Chinese market is awash with EVs because of heavy government subsidies to local manufacturers. They build so many over there that domestic demand is insufficient to buy them all. So they are resorting to selling them cheap in the USA and EU, to undercut the local manufacturers there and capture market share. The response has been escalating tariffs on Chinese EV imports to counter the overproduction and dumping. Building an EV plant in China already looks like a bad decision. They won’t get subsidies from the Chinese government, being a foreign brand, but they will get slapped with tariffs trying to export Chinese-built Tesla cars to anywhere else. They can’t compete in the Chinese market because of the oversupply. The tariffs wars are all about EVs.
Current motor car manufacturers are going to have very high tooling cost to convert to electric cars which is going to cost billions of dollars, which is not a good place to compete with electric vehicles which I might add are heavily penalised to assist to conventional car manufacturers.
China now have their own electric cars that are making the entire sector via greater competition more efficient and of higher quality. Via China manufacture they are in an excellent position to export to the Asian Market that has enormous potential. As far as America is concerned Tesla already make electric vehicles there so should not be greatly affected by Trump’s tariffs.
Obsolete thinking,
VW, GM, Stellantis, Geely/Volvo, Hyundai, BMW, Mercedes Benz, and others, all make significant volumes of EVs. The investments have already been made and production is up and running. BYD already make twice as many EVs as Tesla. There is plenty of competition. Exporting to the Asian market will be in competition with heavily subsidised Chinese EVs being dumped at giveaway prices to clear their inventories and keep up their overproduction. the market is already dominated by China, who compete unfairly.
transition said:
I just wanted to plant the seeds of the possibility of ignorability,
I trust we have worked out by now that ignoring problems does not make them go away
dv said:
transition said:I just wanted to plant the seeds of the possibility of ignorability,
I trust we have worked out by now that ignoring problems does not make them go away
Blocks ears
LALALALALALALALALALALA
Bubblecar said:
While scoffing my pasty, I made up an award-winning advert for Worcester sauce.Setting is a country cottage on an autumn evening. Starts with brief scenes of a middle-aged man cutting up veg, rolling pastry, then putting a nice big pasty in the oven.
Camera cuts to his old Dad at the table, drinking a pint of stout.
“That’s smelling lovely, son,” he says, nodding his head at the oven.
“It’s a nice big one Dad, easy enough for two.”
“Well don’t let it burn, lad. There’s two plates waiting, with knives and forks on either side, and a bottle of Lea & Perrins.”
Camera cuts to pristine bottle of Lea & Perrins. Then slow and emotive piano music unfolds for a brief sequence of Dad and son scoffing their pasty, with lashings of Worcester, with merry twinkles in their eyes and much laughter etc.
Then, having finished his supper, the son puts his knife and fork back beside the plate, and glances with a happy-sad face at the untouched half pasty on the plate across the table.
Then he picks up a little framed picture and says, “Really miss you, Dad.”
Might be better for a Cadburys chocolate ad.
Kingy said:
PermeateFree said:
party_pants said:That’s a very 2015 outlook. making battery electric vehicles is no loinger new or exciting. Just about every car manufacturer does it now too. car companies are not the monolithic dinosaurs you might imagine, they’ll manage the transition well enough, and they’ll compete well with Tesla. Tesla is no longer the only player in the EV market without competition. In fact, they are no longer the largest manufacturer of EVs.
As for China. Have you been following developments there over the last couple of years? Have you heard of the tariff wars? The Chinese market is awash with EVs because of heavy government subsidies to local manufacturers. They build so many over there that domestic demand is insufficient to buy them all. So they are resorting to selling them cheap in the USA and EU, to undercut the local manufacturers there and capture market share. The response has been escalating tariffs on Chinese EV imports to counter the overproduction and dumping. Building an EV plant in China already looks like a bad decision. They won’t get subsidies from the Chinese government, being a foreign brand, but they will get slapped with tariffs trying to export Chinese-built Tesla cars to anywhere else. They can’t compete in the Chinese market because of the oversupply. The tariffs wars are all about EVs.
Current motor car manufacturers are going to have very high tooling cost to convert to electric cars which is going to cost billions of dollars, which is not a good place to compete with electric vehicles which I might add are heavily penalised to assist to conventional car manufacturers.
China now have their own electric cars that are making the entire sector via greater competition more efficient and of higher quality. Via China manufacture they are in an excellent position to export to the Asian Market that has enormous potential. As far as America is concerned Tesla already make electric vehicles there so should not be greatly affected by Trump’s tariffs.
I’m hoping BYD will start dumping new cars in Australia. I wouldn’t mind a Shark6 for under $40k.
I’ve heard they go alright.
In repentance to Captain_Spalding after disclosing my faux pax in my early 20’s, I am currently having a Chivas Regal, on the rocks.
dv said:
transition said:I just wanted to plant the seeds of the possibility of ignorability,
I trust we have worked out by now that ignoring problems does not make them go away
Mind you, not ignoring them doesn’t make them go away either, when we’re talking about affairs over which we have no personal influence.
party_pants said:
PermeateFree said:
party_pants said:That’s a very 2015 outlook. making battery electric vehicles is no loinger new or exciting. Just about every car manufacturer does it now too. car companies are not the monolithic dinosaurs you might imagine, they’ll manage the transition well enough, and they’ll compete well with Tesla. Tesla is no longer the only player in the EV market without competition. In fact, they are no longer the largest manufacturer of EVs.
As for China. Have you been following developments there over the last couple of years? Have you heard of the tariff wars? The Chinese market is awash with EVs because of heavy government subsidies to local manufacturers. They build so many over there that domestic demand is insufficient to buy them all. So they are resorting to selling them cheap in the USA and EU, to undercut the local manufacturers there and capture market share. The response has been escalating tariffs on Chinese EV imports to counter the overproduction and dumping. Building an EV plant in China already looks like a bad decision. They won’t get subsidies from the Chinese government, being a foreign brand, but they will get slapped with tariffs trying to export Chinese-built Tesla cars to anywhere else. They can’t compete in the Chinese market because of the oversupply. The tariffs wars are all about EVs.
Current motor car manufacturers are going to have very high tooling cost to convert to electric cars which is going to cost billions of dollars, which is not a good place to compete with electric vehicles which I might add are heavily penalised to assist to conventional car manufacturers.
China now have their own electric cars that are making the entire sector via greater competition more efficient and of higher quality. Via China manufacture they are in an excellent position to export to the Asian Market that has enormous potential. As far as America is concerned Tesla already make electric vehicles there so should not be greatly affected by Trump’s tariffs.
Obsolete thinking,
VW, GM, Stellantis, Geely/Volvo, Hyundai, BMW, Mercedes Benz, and others, all make significant volumes of EVs. The investments have already been made and production is up and running. BYD already make twice as many EVs as Tesla. There is plenty of competition. Exporting to the Asian market will be in competition with heavily subsidised Chinese EVs being dumped at giveaway prices to clear their inventories and keep up their overproduction. the market is already dominated by China, who compete unfairly.
All the EV’s produced by the largely European manufacturers are very high-end vehicles and priced accordingly that is not exactly highly efficient manufacture and consequently production is low and not competitive with exclusive EV producers.
Yes, BYD is a new kid on the block that is producing high quality EV vehicles at very competitive prices which is a very good thing for the industry. That competition is what has reduced Tesla production and sales, but you should expect this until they manage to match the new competition, which going on the enormous size and potential of Tesla in China they should be able to do. If they can’t then they might fade away, but I think that is highly unlikely. America does not drive the car market these days.
party_pants said:
Kingy said:
PermeateFree said:Current motor car manufacturers are going to have very high tooling cost to convert to electric cars which is going to cost billions of dollars, which is not a good place to compete with electric vehicles which I might add are heavily penalised to assist to conventional car manufacturers.
China now have their own electric cars that are making the entire sector via greater competition more efficient and of higher quality. Via China manufacture they are in an excellent position to export to the Asian Market that has enormous potential. As far as America is concerned Tesla already make electric vehicles there so should not be greatly affected by Trump’s tariffs.
I’m hoping BYD will start dumping new cars in Australia. I wouldn’t mind a Shark6 for under $40k.
I’ve heard they go alright.
The only things I would change to suit me, is for the engine to be diesel, coz I have a big tank of that. And the max towing capacity to be bumped up to 3500kg, coz that way I could tow excavators and bobcats around with it.
Even the diesel thing is only for convenience, it uses fuck all fuel anyway(2lt/100km).
Kingy said:
In repentance to Captain_Spalding after disclosing my faux pax in my early 20’s, I am currently having a Chivas Regal, on the rocks.
Yes please. passes glass
PermeateFree said:
party_pants said:
PermeateFree said:Current motor car manufacturers are going to have very high tooling cost to convert to electric cars which is going to cost billions of dollars, which is not a good place to compete with electric vehicles which I might add are heavily penalised to assist to conventional car manufacturers.
China now have their own electric cars that are making the entire sector via greater competition more efficient and of higher quality. Via China manufacture they are in an excellent position to export to the Asian Market that has enormous potential. As far as America is concerned Tesla already make electric vehicles there so should not be greatly affected by Trump’s tariffs.
Obsolete thinking,
VW, GM, Stellantis, Geely/Volvo, Hyundai, BMW, Mercedes Benz, and others, all make significant volumes of EVs. The investments have already been made and production is up and running. BYD already make twice as many EVs as Tesla. There is plenty of competition. Exporting to the Asian market will be in competition with heavily subsidised Chinese EVs being dumped at giveaway prices to clear their inventories and keep up their overproduction. the market is already dominated by China, who compete unfairly.All the EV’s produced by the largely European manufacturers are very high-end vehicles and priced accordingly that is not exactly highly efficient manufacture and consequently production is low and not competitive with exclusive EV producers.
A large part of the problem with European manufacturers is that they have to pay proper wages to the people that make their cars, unlike China, so to make up for the extra cost, they include more luxury items.
I think that the Chinese are not far behind, and continually gaining.
The car landscape is changing rapidly, and Tesla is a big part of forcing that to happen. It’s a shame that Holden was defunded right when they/Aust could have moved over to electric cars as we have the Lithium, a lot of the manufacturing base, and the car plants available. All we needed was for a different government to be in power, one that would assist manufacturing and investment in Australia, imagine that!
Woodie said:
Kingy said:
In repentance to Captain_Spalding after disclosing my faux pax in my early 20’s, I am currently having a Chivas Regal, on the rocks.
Yes please. passes glass
I won’t say no, the Xmas whisky’s finished this end.
Kingy said:
party_pants said:
Kingy said:I’m hoping BYD will start dumping new cars in Australia. I wouldn’t mind a Shark6 for under $40k.
I’ve heard they go alright.
The only things I would change to suit me, is for the engine to be diesel, coz I have a big tank of that. And the max towing capacity to be bumped up to 3500kg, coz that way I could tow excavators and bobcats around with it.
Even the diesel thing is only for convenience, it uses fuck all fuel anyway(2lt/100km).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grnNyixCnSU
this guy has a series of reviews. Pretty good.
Woodie said:
Kingy said:
In repentance to Captain_Spalding after disclosing my faux pax in my early 20’s, I am currently having a Chivas Regal, on the rocks.
Yes please. passes glass
Mine’s a double, thanks.
Kingy said:
PermeateFree said:
party_pants said:Obsolete thinking,
VW, GM, Stellantis, Geely/Volvo, Hyundai, BMW, Mercedes Benz, and others, all make significant volumes of EVs. The investments have already been made and production is up and running. BYD already make twice as many EVs as Tesla. There is plenty of competition. Exporting to the Asian market will be in competition with heavily subsidised Chinese EVs being dumped at giveaway prices to clear their inventories and keep up their overproduction. the market is already dominated by China, who compete unfairly.All the EV’s produced by the largely European manufacturers are very high-end vehicles and priced accordingly that is not exactly highly efficient manufacture and consequently production is low and not competitive with exclusive EV producers.
A large part of the problem with European manufacturers is that they have to pay proper wages to the people that make their cars, unlike China, so to make up for the extra cost, they include more luxury items.
I think that the Chinese are not far behind, and continually gaining.The car landscape is changing rapidly, and Tesla is a big part of forcing that to happen. It’s a shame that Holden was defunded right when they/Aust could have moved over to electric cars as we have the Lithium, a lot of the manufacturing base, and the car plants available. All we needed was for a different government to be in power, one that would assist manufacturing and investment in Australia, imagine that!
the answer to the first bit is for regional markets to abandon international free trade and start imposing tariffs on cheaper producers. The EU will protect its own industry at all costs.
Kingy said:
PermeateFree said:
party_pants said:That’s a very 2015 outlook. making battery electric vehicles is no loinger new or exciting. Just about every car manufacturer does it now too. car companies are not the monolithic dinosaurs you might imagine, they’ll manage the transition well enough, and they’ll compete well with Tesla. Tesla is no longer the only player in the EV market without competition. In fact, they are no longer the largest manufacturer of EVs.
As for China. Have you been following developments there over the last couple of years? Have you heard of the tariff wars? The Chinese market is awash with EVs because of heavy government subsidies to local manufacturers. They build so many over there that domestic demand is insufficient to buy them all. So they are resorting to selling them cheap in the USA and EU, to undercut the local manufacturers there and capture market share. The response has been escalating tariffs on Chinese EV imports to counter the overproduction and dumping. Building an EV plant in China already looks like a bad decision. They won’t get subsidies from the Chinese government, being a foreign brand, but they will get slapped with tariffs trying to export Chinese-built Tesla cars to anywhere else. They can’t compete in the Chinese market because of the oversupply. The tariffs wars are all about EVs.
Current motor car manufacturers are going to have very high tooling cost to convert to electric cars which is going to cost billions of dollars, which is not a good place to compete with electric vehicles which I might add are heavily penalised to assist to conventional car manufacturers.
China now have their own electric cars that are making the entire sector via greater competition more efficient and of higher quality. Via China manufacture they are in an excellent position to export to the Asian Market that has enormous potential. As far as America is concerned Tesla already make electric vehicles there so should not be greatly affected by Trump’s tariffs.
I’m hoping BYD will start dumping new cars in Australia. I wouldn’t mind a Shark6 for under $40k.
When their batteries don’t burn?
captain_spalding said:
Woodie said:
Kingy said:
In repentance to Captain_Spalding after disclosing my faux pax in my early 20’s, I am currently having a Chivas Regal, on the rocks.
Yes please. passes glass
Mine’s a double, thanks.
I’ve got a bottle of Glenfiddich and no one to help me drink it. I only drink spirits when I’m with someone else.
party_pants said:
Kingy said:
PermeateFree said:All the EV’s produced by the largely European manufacturers are very high-end vehicles and priced accordingly that is not exactly highly efficient manufacture and consequently production is low and not competitive with exclusive EV producers.
A large part of the problem with European manufacturers is that they have to pay proper wages to the people that make their cars, unlike China, so to make up for the extra cost, they include more luxury items.
I think that the Chinese are not far behind, and continually gaining.The car landscape is changing rapidly, and Tesla is a big part of forcing that to happen. It’s a shame that Holden was defunded right when they/Aust could have moved over to electric cars as we have the Lithium, a lot of the manufacturing base, and the car plants available. All we needed was for a different government to be in power, one that would assist manufacturing and investment in Australia, imagine that!
the answer to the first bit is for regional markets to abandon international free trade and start imposing tariffs on cheaper producers. The EU will protect its own industry at all costs.
Germany doesn’t want China tariffs for fear of losing their largest market for upmarket cars like Mercedes and BMWs in China.
roughbarked said:
captain_spalding said:
Woodie said:Yes please. passes glass
Mine’s a double, thanks.
I’ve got a bottle of Glenfiddich and no one to help me drink it. I only drink spirits when I’m with someone else.
We’re with you in spirit, and it’s FNDC for 2024 so go have a nip or two. The fireworks are on telly tonight, they are always better after a tipple.
Kingy said:
roughbarked said:
captain_spalding said:Mine’s a double, thanks.
I’ve got a bottle of Glenfiddich and no one to help me drink it. I only drink spirits when I’m with someone else.
We’re with you in spirit, and it’s FNDC for 2024 so go have a nip or two. The fireworks are on telly tonight, they are always better after a tipple.
+1
Witty Rejoinder said:
party_pants said:
Kingy said:A large part of the problem with European manufacturers is that they have to pay proper wages to the people that make their cars, unlike China, so to make up for the extra cost, they include more luxury items.
I think that the Chinese are not far behind, and continually gaining.The car landscape is changing rapidly, and Tesla is a big part of forcing that to happen. It’s a shame that Holden was defunded right when they/Aust could have moved over to electric cars as we have the Lithium, a lot of the manufacturing base, and the car plants available. All we needed was for a different government to be in power, one that would assist manufacturing and investment in Australia, imagine that!
the answer to the first bit is for regional markets to abandon international free trade and start imposing tariffs on cheaper producers. The EU will protect its own industry at all costs.
Germany doesn’t want China tariffs for fear of losing their largest market for upmarket cars like Mercedes and BMWs in China.
There’s a fair chance that the kind of people in China who buy Mercs and BMs, are not going to be too worried about an extra fee on their new toy.
Kingy said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
party_pants said:the answer to the first bit is for regional markets to abandon international free trade and start imposing tariffs on cheaper producers. The EU will protect its own industry at all costs.
Germany doesn’t want China tariffs for fear of losing their largest market for upmarket cars like Mercedes and BMWs in China.
There’s a fair chance that the kind of people in China who buy Mercs and BMs, are not going to be too worried about an extra fee on their new toy.
True.
A bit of weather coming your way Woodie.
Kingy said:
roughbarked said:
captain_spalding said:Mine’s a double, thanks.
I’ve got a bottle of Glenfiddich and no one to help me drink it. I only drink spirits when I’m with someone else.
We’re with you in spirit, and it’s FNDC for 2024 so go have a nip or two. The fireworks are on telly tonight, they are always better after a tipple.
:)/ I do like fireworks and television is boring tonight. Mrs rb is still in Canberra looking after daughter’s family pets and being helped by her younger sister. I’m back in the bush desperately trying to put enough water on to keep a couple of vege plots alive.
Kingy said:
There’s a fair chance that the kind of people in China who buy Mercs and BMs, are not going to be too worried about an extra fee on their new toy.
There’s a fair chance that the extra fee would only add to the marques’ value as status symbols.
AussieDJ said:
Kingy said:
roughbarked said:I’ve got a bottle of Glenfiddich and no one to help me drink it. I only drink spirits when I’m with someone else.
We’re with you in spirit, and it’s FNDC for 2024 so go have a nip or two. The fireworks are on telly tonight, they are always better after a tipple.
+1
I’ve made a start. Am attempting to down a Coopers Sparkling Ale.
Kingy said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
party_pants said:the answer to the first bit is for regional markets to abandon international free trade and start imposing tariffs on cheaper producers. The EU will protect its own industry at all costs.
Germany doesn’t want China tariffs for fear of losing their largest market for upmarket cars like Mercedes and BMWs in China.
There’s a fair chance that the kind of people in China who buy Mercs and BMs, are not going to be too worried about an extra fee on their new toy.
This is the thing. The mega rich can afford anything. The middle to poor of are going to be finding that things are getting out of their price range.
Kingy said:
We’re with you in spirit, and it’s FNDC for 2024 so go have a nip or two. The fireworks are on telly tonight, they are always better after a tipple.
People triggering PTSD setting off fireworks here now,
roughbarked said:
Kingy said:
Witty Rejoinder said:Germany doesn’t want China tariffs for fear of losing their largest market for upmarket cars like Mercedes and BMWs in China.
There’s a fair chance that the kind of people in China who buy Mercs and BMs, are not going to be too worried about an extra fee on their new toy.
This is the thing. The mega rich can afford anything. The middle to poor of are going to be finding that things are getting out of their price range.
I don’t know much about stuff but if the US really does impose 20% tariffs on most nations and 60% tariffs on China then it is going to provide a big incentive for free trade in The Rest Of The World.
dv said:
roughbarked said:
Kingy said:There’s a fair chance that the kind of people in China who buy Mercs and BMs, are not going to be too worried about an extra fee on their new toy.
This is the thing. The mega rich can afford anything. The middle to poor of are going to be finding that things are getting out of their price range.
I don’t know much about stuff but if the US really does impose 20% tariffs on most nations and 60% tariffs on China then it is going to provide a big incentive for free trade in The Rest Of The World.
For sure.
Bubblecar said:
dv said:
transition said:I just wanted to plant the seeds of the possibility of ignorability,
I trust we have worked out by now that ignoring problems does not make them go away
Mind you, not ignoring them doesn’t make them go away either, when we’re talking about affairs over which we have no personal influence.
True enough so we may as well have a larf
dv said:
roughbarked said:
Kingy said:There’s a fair chance that the kind of people in China who buy Mercs and BMs, are not going to be too worried about an extra fee on their new toy.
This is the thing. The mega rich can afford anything. The middle to poor of are going to be finding that things are getting out of their price range.
I don’t know much about stuff but if the US really does impose 20% tariffs on most nations and 60% tariffs on China then it is going to provide a big incentive for free trade in The Rest Of The World.
It’s called ‘pricing yourself out of the game’.
dv said:
Bubblecar said:
dv said:I trust we have worked out by now that ignoring problems does not make them go away
Mind you, not ignoring them doesn’t make them go away either, when we’re talking about affairs over which we have no personal influence.
True enough so we may as well have a larf
If you cannot laugh, life would be so depressing.
captain_spalding said:
dv said:
roughbarked said:This is the thing. The mega rich can afford anything. The middle to poor of are going to be finding that things are getting out of their price range.
I don’t know much about stuff but if the US really does impose 20% tariffs on most nations and 60% tariffs on China then it is going to provide a big incentive for free trade in The Rest Of The World.
It’s called ‘pricing yourself out of the game’.
But that’s OK, they’ve got rid of that bastard President Carter.
dv said:
roughbarked said:
Kingy said:There’s a fair chance that the kind of people in China who buy Mercs and BMs, are not going to be too worried about an extra fee on their new toy.
This is the thing. The mega rich can afford anything. The middle to poor of are going to be finding that things are getting out of their price range.
I don’t know much about stuff but if the US really does impose 20% tariffs on most nations and 60% tariffs on China then it is going to provide a big incentive for free trade in The Rest Of The World.
Free trade is pretty much a US project. The rest of the world isn’t so keen on it.
party_pants said:
dv said:
roughbarked said:This is the thing. The mega rich can afford anything. The middle to poor of are going to be finding that things are getting out of their price range.
I don’t know much about stuff but if the US really does impose 20% tariffs on most nations and 60% tariffs on China then it is going to provide a big incentive for free trade in The Rest Of The World.
Free trade is pretty much a US project. The rest of the world isn’t so keen on it.
After Trump canned US involvement in Obama’s TPP all the other members went ahead with it anyway.
dv said:
roughbarked said:
Kingy said:There’s a fair chance that the kind of people in China who buy Mercs and BMs, are not going to be too worried about an extra fee on their new toy.
This is the thing. The mega rich can afford anything. The middle to poor of are going to be finding that things are getting out of their price range.
I don’t know much about stuff but if the US really does impose 20% tariffs on most nations and 60% tariffs on China then it is going to provide a big incentive for free trade in The Rest Of The World.
Tariffs beget Tarriffs. If you want to stop trade, then we will too.
We could either get richer by trading, or you could try to get even more richer by getting greedy.
At that point we both lose. You are now no longer a trusted trading partner and will need to bring a much larger game to the table before we, and all the markets that we now trade with, even take you seriously, let alone trust you again.
Meanwhile, we profitably trade with the markets that haven’t shat on us, and you wonder why your economy is tanking.
Witty Rejoinder said:
party_pants said:
dv said:I don’t know much about stuff but if the US really does impose 20% tariffs on most nations and 60% tariffs on China then it is going to provide a big incentive for free trade in The Rest Of The World.
Free trade is pretty much a US project. The rest of the world isn’t so keen on it.
After Trump canned US involvement in Obama’s TPP all the other members went ahead with it anyway.
The EU and the USMCA together account for just under half of world GDP, about 45%. The EU are anti-free trade, they are protectionist. The protectionist elements usually win out over the free traders there. Of the other 55% about 20 of that is China, and they use free trade as a weapon economic coercion and political influence, they are not genuine about it for its own sake. So that’s over half of the world economy. The CPTPP is not all that influential yet.
The Anglo-Zanzibar War
The Anglo-Zanzibar War was a military conflict fought between the United Kingdom and the Sultanate of Zanzibar on 27 August 1896. The conflict lasted between 38 and 45 minutes, marking it as the shortest recorded war in history.
party_pants said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
party_pants said:Free trade is pretty much a US project. The rest of the world isn’t so keen on it.
After Trump canned US involvement in Obama’s TPP all the other members went ahead with it anyway.
The EU and the USMCA together account for just under half of world GDP, about 45%. The EU are anti-free trade, they are protectionist. The protectionist elements usually win out over the free traders there. Of the other 55% about 20 of that is China, and they use free trade as a weapon economic coercion and political influence, they are not genuine about it for its own sake. So that’s over half of the world economy. The CPTPP is not all that influential yet.
EU trade policy is complicated because of the competing interests of the individual nations involved but if they can all agree they are perfectly happy to engage in more open trade. China relies on foreign trade more than most economies and would happily enter into more free trade agreements if they needed to.
Anyway my simple point was that smaller trading nations are guided by sound economics and don’t need the encouragement from the major trading blocs to pursue more open trade in their collective self-interest. The members of the TPP are a more representative sample of the global economy than the EU or USMCA in isolation.
Anyhow, my lift is on the way. So I’ll wish you all a Happy New Year’s Eve, and sign off.
I’ll leave it for someone else to start the new Chat Thread and all the new politics and discussion threads for a new year.
party_pants said:
Anyhow, my lift is on the way. So I’ll wish you all a Happy New Year’s Eve, and sign off.I’ll leave it for someone else to start the new Chat Thread and all the new politics and discussion threads for a new year.
Ciao and happy new year
Tau.Neutrino said:
The Anglo-Zanzibar WarThe Anglo-Zanzibar War was a military conflict fought between the United Kingdom and the Sultanate of Zanzibar on 27 August 1896. The conflict lasted between 38 and 45 minutes, marking it as the shortest recorded war in history.
The longest war in history is believed to be the Reconquista (Spanish for Reconquest), with a duration of 781 years.
roughbarked said:
party_pants said:
Anyhow, my lift is on the way. So I’ll wish you all a Happy New Year’s Eve, and sign off.I’ll leave it for someone else to start the new Chat Thread and all the new politics and discussion threads for a new year.
Ciao and happy new year
Oui.
Bonsoir et bonne année, notre ami.
Geeez….. Casey Donovan can belt out a decent number these days. hey what but!! 🍾🍾🎆🎆
Tau.Neutrino said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
The Anglo-Zanzibar WarThe Anglo-Zanzibar War was a military conflict fought between the United Kingdom and the Sultanate of Zanzibar on 27 August 1896. The conflict lasted between 38 and 45 minutes, marking it as the shortest recorded war in history.
The longest war in history is believed to be the Reconquista (Spanish for Reconquest), with a duration of 781 years.
https://www.worldatlas.com/history/the-longest-wars-in-human-history.html#:~:text=The%20Varus%20Battle.,113%20BC%20to%20596%20CE.
Happy NZ NY to everyone!
May your 2025’s be much better than expected :)
Now I’m off to bed.
yells
GET OFF!!!! …… GET OFF!!
…… NEXT!!!
Woodie said:
yellsGET OFF!!!! …… GET OFF!!
…… NEXT!!!
…….. and pull ya pants up!!
S&G at Monterey 1967”:https://youtu.be/_h2rvNCJEdI?si=EiW_thEhpMeBA477&t=2
roughbarked said:
S&G at Monterey 1967
Woodie said:
Woodie said:
yellsGET OFF!!!! …… GET OFF!!
…… NEXT!!!
…….. and pull ya pants up!!
Wot you wotching?
Bubblecar said:
Woodie said:
Woodie said:
yellsGET OFF!!!! …… GET OFF!!
…… NEXT!!!
…….. and pull ya pants up!!
Wot you wotching?
NYE concert on ABC. I don’t mind a good show, hey what but. 😎
Reading about a 1928 English bank robbery, and the writer says:
>It may seem amazing today but in 1928 it was not unusual for smaller bank branches to have just one cashier and no other staff.
Doesn’t seem that amazing to me as our little village bank branch (only open a few days a week) usually has just two tellers and no other staff.
Woodie said:
Bubblecar said:
Woodie said:…….. and pull ya pants up!!
Wot you wotching?
NYE concert on ABC. I don’t mind a good show, hey what but. 😎
…… but I’m a just and fair critic, when needed.
Woodie said:
Bubblecar said:
Woodie said:…….. and pull ya pants up!!
Wot you wotching?
NYE concert on ABC. I don’t mind a good show, hey what but. 😎
Ah. I think I’ll just wait for the fireworks.
I’m in a more morbid frame of mind, listening to melancholy piano music and reading about various early 20th century murders.
But cheery enough, under the surface :)
Just got back from an impromptu get-together with a couple of other school mums. We played Cards Against Disney. I won. No RBTs on the way home, but the brand new McDonald’s around the corner was full.
The local council decided not to have fireworks tonight, citing environmental regulations. Turns out turtles have been nesting along the foreshore (which I didn’t know about) so no fireworks. I’m happy about this.
Divine Angel said:
Just got back from an impromptu get-together with a couple of other school mums. We played Cards Against Disney. I won. No RBTs on the way home, but the brand new McDonald’s around the corner was full.The local council decided not to have fireworks tonight, citing environmental regulations. Turns out turtles have been nesting along the foreshore (which I didn’t know about) so no fireworks. I’m happy about this.
That’s good.
Divine Angel said:
Just got back from an impromptu get-together with a couple of other school mums. We played Cards Against Disney. I won. No RBTs on the way home, but the brand new McDonald’s around the corner was full.The local council decided not to have fireworks tonight, citing environmental regulations. Turns out turtles have been nesting along the foreshore (which I didn’t know about) so no fireworks. I’m happy about this.
Nice to see people thinking of the turtles.
I had to look up Cards Against Disney, never heard of it.
Happy new year and may it be a good year for science.
Tau.Neutrino said:
Happy new year and may it be a good year for science.
+1.
Tau.Neutrino said:
Happy new year and may it be a good year for science.
To you too, Tau.
A good year for science and a good year for sanity, despite the odds.
Got any resolutions?
Tau.Neutrino said:
Happy new year and may it be a good year for science.
May science keep abreast of bird flu mutations.
I was following a virologist on BlueSky who was pretty doom and gloom about it. She predicted a 20-50% fatality rate in mammals (including humans) with impairment of cognitive function being a major symptom.
I unfollowed her because it was making me too anxious.
Bubblecar said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Happy new year and may it be a good year for science.
To you too, Tau.
A good year for science and a good year for sanity, despite the odds.
+1.
dv said:
Got any resolutions?
Never mind that, where’s the annual death prediction thread?
Tau.Neutrino said:
Happy new year and may it be a good year for science.
The CSIRO are onto it,
https://www.csiro.au/en/news/all/articles/2024/december/uplifting-science-stories
Divine Angel said:
dv said:
Got any resolutions?
Never mind that, where’s the annual death prediction thread?
I think it was here yesterday. Or Sunday.
captain_spalding said:
Divine Angel said:
dv said:
Got any resolutions?
Never mind that, where’s the annual death prediction thread?
I think it was here yesterday. Or Sunday.
Can’t say I’m keen, given that one of my sisters is almost certain to die in 2025.
I’m sorry to hear that, Car.
Divine Angel said:
I’m sorry to hear that, Car.
Yeah. Life seems too short.
Divine Angel said:
I’m sorry to hear that, Car.
It’s the mainland sister, final stage emphysema. She’s now very weak, barely mobile and permanently on tanked oxygen supply, but still smoking.
It’s been like a very long and traumatic suicide.
Bubblecar said:
Divine Angel said:
I’m sorry to hear that, Car.
It’s the mainland sister, final stage emphysema. She’s now very weak, barely mobile and permanently on tanked oxygen supply, but still smoking.
It’s been like a very long and traumatic suicide.
:(
Bubblecar said:
Divine Angel said:
I’m sorry to hear that, Car.
It’s the mainland sister, final stage emphysema. She’s now very weak, barely mobile and permanently on tanked oxygen supply, but still smoking.
It’s been like a very long and traumatic suicide.
Anyway thanks for the sympathy :)
She’ll be the first of the siblings to go. I’ve been adjusting to it and gradually allowing myself to go on living.
I was so hoping I’d be the first to go (but not for a long time yet) so I wouldn’t have to deal with more grief, but that’s just selfish really.
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
Divine Angel said:
I’m sorry to hear that, Car.
It’s the mainland sister, final stage emphysema. She’s now very weak, barely mobile and permanently on tanked oxygen supply, but still smoking.
It’s been like a very long and traumatic suicide.
Anyway thanks for the sympathy :)
She’ll be the first of the siblings to go. I’ve been adjusting to it and gradually allowing myself to go on living.
I was so hoping I’d be the first to go (but not for a long time yet) so I wouldn’t have to deal with more grief, but that’s just selfish really.
I am afraid that our own lot is the one we have to deal with.
Anyway, Barbarella is on SBS world movies.
Bubblecar said:
I was so hoping I’d be the first to go (but not for a long time yet) so I wouldn’t have to deal with more grief, but that’s just selfish really.
I’ve had a couple of similar reality checks this year.
To behonest, i’d always imagined that Mrs S would be the first to go. But, then, my diagnosis with prostate cancer confronted me with the the possibility of it being me who’s first to drop of the twig.
And then, earlier this month, her collapse with a blood clot on her lungs, and some talk from the emergency doc about ‘we’ll do everything we can, but she’s very ill, indeed’ put the reality of losing her to me again.
captain_spalding said:
Bubblecar said:I was so hoping I’d be the first to go (but not for a long time yet) so I wouldn’t have to deal with more grief, but that’s just selfish really.
I’ve had a couple of similar reality checks this year.
To behonest, i’d always imagined that Mrs S would be the first to go. But, then, my diagnosis with prostate cancer confronted me with the the possibility of it being me who’s first to drop of the twig.
And then, earlier this month, her collapse with a blood clot on her lungs, and some talk from the emergency doc about ‘we’ll do everything we can, but she’s very ill, indeed’ put the reality of losing her to me again.
It is hard.
Mrs rb is still in remission. So great to have had this extra time with her.
I think Robbie Williams doesn’t have any undies on.
roughbarked said:
captain_spalding said:
Bubblecar said:I was so hoping I’d be the first to go (but not for a long time yet) so I wouldn’t have to deal with more grief, but that’s just selfish really.
I’ve had a couple of similar reality checks this year.
To behonest, i’d always imagined that Mrs S would be the first to go. But, then, my diagnosis with prostate cancer confronted me with the the possibility of it being me who’s first to drop of the twig.
And then, earlier this month, her collapse with a blood clot on her lungs, and some talk from the emergency doc about ‘we’ll do everything we can, but she’s very ill, indeed’ put the reality of losing her to me again.
It is hard.
Mrs rb is still in remission. So great to have had this extra time with her.
I was with a lifetime friend the last couple of days whose wife had been in the same position as mine at the same time and she had also undergone the stem cell transplant but didn’t make it.
captain_spalding said:
Bubblecar said:I was so hoping I’d be the first to go (but not for a long time yet) so I wouldn’t have to deal with more grief, but that’s just selfish really.
I’ve had a couple of similar reality checks this year.
To behonest, i’d always imagined that Mrs S would be the first to go. But, then, my diagnosis with prostate cancer confronted me with the the possibility of it being me who’s first to drop of the twig.
And then, earlier this month, her collapse with a blood clot on her lungs, and some talk from the emergency doc about ‘we’ll do everything we can, but she’s very ill, indeed’ put the reality of losing her to me again.
Sympathies. The mortal threats seem to pile up quickly as we sail past middle age.
Any GP looking at me in my present state would not be optimistic and the specialists would nod in agreement :)
I can still turn things around to a significant extent, but to do so I need enough enthusiasm for life, which has not been in abundant supply.
Woodie said:
I think Robbie Williams doesn’t have any undies on.
I’d rather watch Barbarella. Even though I’m not actually watching, that’s where the TV sound is coming from.
It is as dead as a tomb in this village. Was just out there looking to photograph night lights. Nothing but street lights and dogs barking at me walking on and crunching fallen yellow box bark.
Five minutes to the fireworks.
I’d better shift operations to the living room and turn the telly on :)
Bubblecar said:
Five minutes to the fireworks.I’d better shift operations to the living room and turn the telly on :)
ditto.
Best of the New Year to all!!
dv said:
Had a dream that I was required to testify in a pre-trial evidence session in relation to a tutor who went missing. I was a young man, in the dream. I parked and noticed that there was a 20 minute limit but my legal advisor told me it would be fine. Had to produce my ID to get in the building. The buildings were modern cement types, rectangular and white, maybe 4 floors, like a government compound, but in the courtroom it looked more traditional with woodpanelling etc. Three judges but the one in the middle did most of the asking. Questions were a bit off: “would you say the disappearance positively or negatively affected your relationship with your girlfriend. “ I’d say “neither “ and they’d say “that wasn’t the apology we were looking for.
Still an hour to go,by Qld time.
All is quiet here now.
Can expect some small rowdiness in an hour, i suppose.
dv said:
Neophyte said:
Dr Who actor Tom Baker receives and MBE in the 2025 New Years Honors list
Good
wookiemeister said:
dv said:
Had a dream that I was required to testify in a pre-trial evidence session in relation to a tutor who went missing. I was a young man, in the dream. I parked and noticed that there was a 20 minute limit but my legal advisor told me it would be fine. Had to produce my ID to get in the building. The buildings were modern cement types, rectangular and white, maybe 4 floors, like a government compound, but in the courtroom it looked more traditional with woodpanelling etc. Three judges but the one in the middle did most of the asking. Questions were a bit off: “would you say the disappearance positively or negatively affected your relationship with your girlfriend. “ I’d say “neither “ and they’d say “that wasn’t the apology we were looking for.
I dreamt someone I know who I haven’t spoken to for a long time was trying to commit suicide. When I woke I contacted someone who knew them to see if they were OK. If I get this kind of dream there’s something to it and I act on it
I once had a dream where i was shot in the stomach (and it hurt like hell!), but i shot and killed the person who did that to me.
I can’t imagine how i might have ‘acted on’ that.
captain_spalding said:
wookiemeister said:
dv said:
Had a dream that I was required to testify in a pre-trial evidence session in relation to a tutor who went missing. I was a young man, in the dream. I parked and noticed that there was a 20 minute limit but my legal advisor told me it would be fine. Had to produce my ID to get in the building. The buildings were modern cement types, rectangular and white, maybe 4 floors, like a government compound, but in the courtroom it looked more traditional with woodpanelling etc. Three judges but the one in the middle did most of the asking. Questions were a bit off: “would you say the disappearance positively or negatively affected your relationship with your girlfriend. “ I’d say “neither “ and they’d say “that wasn’t the apology we were looking for.
I dreamt someone I know who I haven’t spoken to for a long time was trying to commit suicide. When I woke I contacted someone who knew them to see if they were OK. If I get this kind of dream there’s something to it and I act on it
I once had a dream where i was shot in the stomach (and it hurt like hell!), but i shot and killed the person who did that to me.
I can’t imagine how i might have ‘acted on’ that.
Well that was the best display so far, well done Cindy :)
The electronic music hit the right spot too, cheers.
Bubblecar said:
Divine Angel said:
I’m sorry to hear that, Car.
It’s the mainland sister, final stage emphysema. She’s now very weak, barely mobile and permanently on tanked oxygen supply, but still smoking.
It’s been like a very long and traumatic suicide.
I have tried a few times of late to give up. Very unsuccessful. Cutting down does not cut it. Looks like I will emulate your sister.
Woodie said:
Best of the New Year to all!!
+1 :)
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
Divine Angel said:
I’m sorry to hear that, Car.
It’s the mainland sister, final stage emphysema. She’s now very weak, barely mobile and permanently on tanked oxygen supply, but still smoking.
It’s been like a very long and traumatic suicide.
I have tried a few times of late to give up. Very unsuccessful. Cutting down does not cut it. Looks like I will emulate your sister.
I have emphysema too. Am COPD.
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
Divine Angel said:
I’m sorry to hear that, Car.
It’s the mainland sister, final stage emphysema. She’s now very weak, barely mobile and permanently on tanked oxygen supply, but still smoking.
It’s been like a very long and traumatic suicide.
I have tried a few times of late to give up. Very unsuccessful. Cutting down does not cut it. Looks like I will emulate your sister.
Bubblecar said:
Woodie said:
Best of the New Year to all!!
+1 :)
I’m going to try and avoid world politcal economic warfare and get on with the last moments of my life.
May I have a better time doing that.
roughbarked said:
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:It’s the mainland sister, final stage emphysema. She’s now very weak, barely mobile and permanently on tanked oxygen supply, but still smoking.
It’s been like a very long and traumatic suicide.
I have tried a few times of late to give up. Very unsuccessful. Cutting down does not cut it. Looks like I will emulate your sister.
I have emphysema too. Am COPD.
nods.
roughbarked said:
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:It’s the mainland sister, final stage emphysema. She’s now very weak, barely mobile and permanently on tanked oxygen supply, but still smoking.
It’s been like a very long and traumatic suicide.
I have tried a few times of late to give up. Very unsuccessful. Cutting down does not cut it. Looks like I will emulate your sister.
I have emphysema too. Am COPD.
Just watch out for fires or you’ll be burnt alive fairly easily
N-acetylcysteine (NAC) may help with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and emphysema:
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
Divine Angel said:
I’m sorry to hear that, Car.
It’s the mainland sister, final stage emphysema. She’s now very weak, barely mobile and permanently on tanked oxygen supply, but still smoking.
It’s been like a very long and traumatic suicide.
I have tried a few times of late to give up. Very unsuccessful. Cutting down does not cut it. Looks like I will emulate your sister.
I wish I could give sage advice, but what worked for me was fortuitous to some extent.
I gave up smoking in 2000 after Mum died and I was alone on the South Mole Creek property. Similar to you in some ways in that I wasn’t in realistic walking distance of shops and had no transport (I’d donated Mum’s cars to local hippies, in exchange for them taking me shopping now and then).
But I was determined to make the giving-up smoking work and got into self-hypnosis quite effectively, ensuring that apart from a couple early lapses, I didn’t buy cigarettes on my shopping days, which were usually at least a week apart.
The unexpected effect of giving up the nicotine was the sudden rawness of emotions, and having to deal with that kind of intensity without the numbing power of feeding the addiction.
But I got there fairly quickly. A couple of months and the cigarette cravings were feeble enough to shrug off.
wookiemeister said:
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:It’s the mainland sister, final stage emphysema. She’s now very weak, barely mobile and permanently on tanked oxygen supply, but still smoking.
It’s been like a very long and traumatic suicide.
I have tried a few times of late to give up. Very unsuccessful. Cutting down does not cut it. Looks like I will emulate your sister.
Cigarettes killed my father, grandfather and step father. The only other male relative ( the uncle) that didn’t smoke survived. It’s highly addictive and almost impossible to stop
Several of my uncles died from black lung.
My father insisted that smoking was the most filthy of addictions.
Though he puffed on his log cabin fine cut, he never did the drawback.
He had to quit it many times due to at least nineteen major bowel operations.
He died from haemmoraging of the lungs due to nurses jumping on his chest to restart his heart.
Ironic in that the first of his bowel operations was huge in that his entire digestive tract was on a table beside him for hours of untangling intestines that had been burst due to a tractor crank handle interfering with their arrangement. During this, his heart stopped and due to the open cavity, the head surgeon managed to manually massage his heart back while the other doctor had walked off to wash his hands.
wookiemeister said:
captain_spalding said:
wookiemeister said:I dreamt someone I know who I haven’t spoken to for a long time was trying to commit suicide. When I woke I contacted someone who knew them to see if they were OK. If I get this kind of dream there’s something to it and I act on it
I once had a dream where i was shot in the stomach (and it hurt like hell!), but i shot and killed the person who did that to me.
I can’t imagine how i might have ‘acted on’ that.
The person I contacted told me he understood my concern given the individual in the dreams circumstances. This was two days ago. I’ll see what comes of it
Most interesting. Hope that all is well.
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:It’s the mainland sister, final stage emphysema. She’s now very weak, barely mobile and permanently on tanked oxygen supply, but still smoking.
It’s been like a very long and traumatic suicide.
I have tried a few times of late to give up. Very unsuccessful. Cutting down does not cut it. Looks like I will emulate your sister.
I wish I could give sage advice, but what worked for me was fortuitous to some extent.
I gave up smoking in 2000 after Mum died and I was alone on the South Mole Creek property. Similar to you in some ways in that I wasn’t in realistic walking distance of shops and had no transport (I’d donated Mum’s cars to local hippies, in exchange for them taking me shopping now and then).
But I was determined to make the giving-up smoking work and got into self-hypnosis quite effectively, ensuring that apart from a couple early lapses, I didn’t buy cigarettes on my shopping days, which were usually at least a week apart.
The unexpected effect of giving up the nicotine was the sudden rawness of emotions, and having to deal with that kind of intensity without the numbing power of feeding the addiction.
But I got there fairly quickly. A couple of months and the cigarette cravings were feeble enough to shrug off.
I know it can be done. It is about self dicipline of the brain being someone to talk to.
wookiemeister said:
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:It’s the mainland sister, final stage emphysema. She’s now very weak, barely mobile and permanently on tanked oxygen supply, but still smoking.
It’s been like a very long and traumatic suicide.
I have tried a few times of late to give up. Very unsuccessful. Cutting down does not cut it. Looks like I will emulate your sister.
Cigarettes killed my father, grandfather and step father. The only other male relative ( the uncle) that didn’t smoke survived. It’s highly addictive and almost impossible to stop
I’m relieved to say that Mrs S managed to give it up 25-30 years ago. I think that it helped that me and Spalding Jr. encouraged and supported her.
captain_spalding said:
wookiemeister said:
captain_spalding said:I once had a dream where i was shot in the stomach (and it hurt like hell!), but i shot and killed the person who did that to me.
I can’t imagine how i might have ‘acted on’ that.
The person I contacted told me he understood my concern given the individual in the dreams circumstances. This was two days ago. I’ll see what comes of it
Most interesting. Hope that all is well.
If you get in early you change the future
captain_spalding said:
wookiemeister said:
captain_spalding said:I once had a dream where i was shot in the stomach (and it hurt like hell!), but i shot and killed the person who did that to me.
I can’t imagine how i might have ‘acted on’ that.
The person I contacted told me he understood my concern given the individual in the dreams circumstances. This was two days ago. I’ll see what comes of it
Most interesting. Hope that all is well.
I did once have a prophetic dream and one which I realised the fortnight later when the event occurred and I deliberately tried to change the dialogue and was only able to change my side of the tale. It was weird.
wookiemeister said:
captain_spalding said:
wookiemeister said:The person I contacted told me he understood my concern given the individual in the dreams circumstances. This was two days ago. I’ll see what comes of it
Most interesting. Hope that all is well.
This is a future event not yet to play outIf you get in early you change the future
No. I am afraid that is not able to be done unless you invent a better mousetrap.
roughbarked said:
wookiemeister said:
captain_spalding said:Most interesting. Hope that all is well.
This is a future event not yet to play outIf you get in early you change the future
No. I am afraid that is not able to be done unless you invent a better mousetrap.
Quantum teleportation has begun to change the world
Quantum teleportation, once confined to the pages of science fiction, is steadily becoming a tangible scientific achievement.
https://www.thebrighterside.news/innovations/quantum-teleportation-has-begun-to-change-the-world/
https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1V9wGJQ4sr/
NYE arrangements
wookiemeister said:
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:It’s the mainland sister, final stage emphysema. She’s now very weak, barely mobile and permanently on tanked oxygen supply, but still smoking.
It’s been like a very long and traumatic suicide.
I have tried a few times of late to give up. Very unsuccessful. Cutting down does not cut it. Looks like I will emulate your sister.
Cigarettes killed my father, grandfather and step father. The only other male relative ( the uncle) that didn’t smoke survived. It’s highly addictive and almost impossible to stop
One of the most impressive things I’ve witnessed was when mr kii stopped smoking. He told me he’d bought his last carton of fags, then when the last packet was gone that was it. No big announcements. I checked in with him a few times about how he was feeling, I’d given up smoking many years ago so I was very aware about what happens. He remained calm, which was interesting because he was ADHD with an emphasis on the hyperactivity when stressed.
He did develop a bit of an addiction to sugar-free lollies.
That was in 2014, he died of lung cancer in 2021.
Apparently he also gave up alcohol with the same focus. The rabies treatment after the ferret incident in Germany may have been the main reason for that.
Good morning Holidayers. Presently a lovely 8 degrees at the back door and lightly overcast. I do appreciate nice cool nights in Summer. We are forecast a cloudy 23 today. Going back into the 30s (mid to low) for Friday/Sat/Sun.
I plan more weeding and pottering today, possibly with a very short stint of light maar-ing.
kii said:
kii said:
Watching Vikings. Far more relaxing than that Barbie movie.
No pink stupidity, just a bit of pink flesh. With blood.I mainly have Netflix on as background noise and company.
Also, sheesh, some of those actors look like mr kii.
Some of the textiles, fabrics and trimmings are really crap 70s stuff. Obviously sourced by the props department from thrift stores. I’m sure I saw a bedspead from my parental unit’s bed being used as a poncho.
Also, the findings on the earrings are cheap and modern. Totally out of place with the Viking era, but a perfect match with the thrift store bedspreads.
Personally I hate the hooks for modern pierced ears.
My new book arrives today! It’s 4 days early!
captain_spalding said:
wookiemeister said:
sarahs mum said:I have tried a few times of late to give up. Very unsuccessful. Cutting down does not cut it. Looks like I will emulate your sister.
Cigarettes killed my father, grandfather and step father. The only other male relative ( the uncle) that didn’t smoke survived. It’s highly addictive and almost impossible to stop
I’m relieved to say that Mrs S managed to give it up 25-30 years ago. I think that it helped that me and Spalding Jr. encouraged and supported her.
FWIW …
The last couple of minutes is the relevant part.
https://youtu.be/TRL7o2kPqw0?si=0-CA3BV51TN7cXf2
Morning pilgrims.
You can go and sing Aint Misbehaving on a street corner and not get arrested now.
Tau.Neutrino said:
Happy new year and may it be a good year for science.
Happy New Year to all.
May science prevail over stupidity, Looks At Trump et al.
Anyone here heard of Robert Greene?
Robert Greene (born May 14, 1959) is an American author of books on strategy, power, and seduction. He has written seven international bestsellers, including The 48 Laws of Power, The Art of Seduction, The 33 Strategies of War, The 50th Law (with rapper 50 Cent), Mastery, The Laws of Human Nature, and The Daily Laws.
Video 7:48 min
Video 5:44 min
The Nature of Human Stupidity
Tau.Neutrino said:
Anyone here heard of Robert Greene?Robert Greene (born May 14, 1959) is an American author of books on strategy, power, and seduction. He has written seven international bestsellers, including The 48 Laws of Power, The Art of Seduction, The 33 Strategies of War, The 50th Law (with rapper 50 Cent), Mastery, The Laws of Human Nature, and The Daily Laws.
Video 7:48 min
Video 5:44 min
The Nature of Human Stupidity
Sounds like the exact kind of thing I’d never read.
Spiny Norman said:
captain_spalding said:
wookiemeister said:Cigarettes killed my father, grandfather and step father. The only other male relative ( the uncle) that didn’t smoke survived. It’s highly addictive and almost impossible to stop
I’m relieved to say that Mrs S managed to give it up 25-30 years ago. I think that it helped that me and Spalding Jr. encouraged and supported her.
FWIW …
The last couple of minutes is the relevant part.
https://youtu.be/TRL7o2kPqw0?si=0-CA3BV51TN7cXf2
Interesting. Thanks.
